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Newspaper Page Text8 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922 ESTAJiJUSHEO BY HEXBY I.. PIXTOCK Published by The Oregonian Pub. Co.. Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDEX, E. B. PIPER, .Manager, Editor. The Oreponian is a member ot the As Eociated Press. The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otnerwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dis paccnes herein are also reserved. Stlbicrlptlon Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year . . . . JS 00 laiiy. Sunday included, six months . 4.25 Jailv, .-r&nday included, three months 2.25 -Iaiiy, Sunday included, one month .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months 3-2o Daily, without Sunday, one month ... .60 Sunday one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday included, one year . . . .$9.00 Daily, Sunday incluued. three months 2.25 Dally, Sunday included, one month .. -J5 Daily, without Sunday, one year . 7. SO Daily, without Sunday, three months 1.95 Daily, without Sunday, one month . . . -05 How to Remit Send postoffice money order, express or personal check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency are at owner's risk. Give postoffice address in run, including: county and state. Postage Rates 1 to 16 pages, 1 cent: 18 to pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 50 to 64 pages, 4 cents: 66 to 80 pages, & cents; 82 to 06 pages, 6 cents. . Eastern Business Offices Verree & Coklin. 300 .Madison avenue. New York Verree Sf Conklln. Steger Building, Chi cago; verree ee. uonKun, ree -tress- duiiu ing. Detroit, Mich.; Verree & Conklin. 2tionadnock building, San Francisco. Cal. f -- i I HIKE AT THE SOURCES Or WAR. Vmericans see across the Atlan ' ocean a scene resembling that which they looked out in the jinaitr of 1914 a military power whose only law is ruthless force at-tari-ing peoples which, however, i erfectly, put in practice the I;: imiples of popular, free govern mf . That is the basis of conflict in .urkey today, just as it was w Germany's confederation of an racies launched its armies at th 'ree nations of Europe eight ye...- ago, though there are many po s of difference. Maternal in ter cs and national rivalries and am :ttons are involved and tend to bef . g the issue, but Americans, with mental vision unclouded by the prejudices of the old world, should see behind them the con flict between, autocracy and democ racy, in which, as in 1914, their eyn pathy is instinctively enlisted on the side of freedom. The bar barities committed in Belgium, France, Poland and Serbia are in the same class with the massacre at Smyrna and have the same mo tive to establish the supremacy of brute force, in the one case by terrorizing, in the other by exter minating, those who resist. But circumstances in 1922 differ greatly from those of 1914. Then the great free nations of Great Britain, France and Italy were united; now they are divided, the two latter being partial to the Turk pnd inclined to outward neutrality. Russia, formerly the hereditary foe of the Turks, is now their ally, ready to come to their aid with a red army thait has beeff armed, trained and officered by Germans and, Magyars. Germany is in a secret . alliance with the Russian soviet, which it has vainly at tempted to conceal, and has already shipped, to Russia cargoes of guns, airplanes and other war material that had been hidden from th'e allies, but the republican element would mat permit war on behalf of Turkey, though it cannot restrain discharged officers from entering the Russian service or supply of munitions. Roumanaa and Jugo slavia are ready to join forces with Britain, the former in order to keep the. straits open to its commerce, ;he latter in order to prevent a new Turkish invasdoni of Europe which might make its former op pressor again its neighbor and might close the road to Salonica. Though Britain has been unfriend ly to PoteJid, th latter might join it in order to avoid being crushed between Germany and Russia. As France is allied with Poland for mutual protection against Germany and is intensely hostile to the Rus sian soviet, it. might eventually join hands wiith Britain in saving the straits from Turkey in order not to bring about an extension of Rus sian and revival of German power by leaving Britain and a few small states to contend against a new confederacy of Turkey, Russia and Germany. ' . Thus the lines are forming for a new gemeiral war, yet the threat does not send such a thrill through America as was felt in July, 1914. We have witnessed so many tre mendous events in the last eight years that our senses have become dulled, that our capacity for horror and surprise has been exhausted. We should have learned that we cannot remain indifferent to war in Europe, for our last effort at neu trality failed and, though we. may have no interest in particular auar- rels, it is to- our vital interest that there shall be. no war in Europe and that the causes of war shall be extinguished. When advocates of isolation and indifference repeat that the affairs of Europe are none of our business, cur many dead, our many more bereaved and our huge debt give them th lie. We fought with the purpose to make the world war a war to end war, but we have been turned from that purpose by its premature end, by our internal dissensions and by the demand that we leave Europe to stew in its Own juice. Retrieval of the cause of old world wars demands that the Turk ish question be finally settled by mancipation of one of the world's sea highways from Turkish control, by liberation of all subject peoples from Turkish oppression and by connnetnent or the Turks in their homela-rd, which is the interior of Asia Minor. What President Wil-. eon called "the obscure causes" of the war are Turkish power over tlie straits and over non-Turkish peoples, the Turkish predatory na ture, and the ambition of Germany to bring Turkey under its power and to edvance through that coun try to the. conquest of Asia and Africa. Refusal to be guided by tho tacts inspired President Wil son to refuse his consent to a declaration of war against Turkey when yr?: were fighting Germany. The present crisis proves that we left the pources of war untouched and that, Europe is powerless through its divisions to dam these eources. A new war threatens be cause our statesmen would not view the last war as a whole, would .not see that its origin was the intrusion of a barbarous, fanatic, Asiatic power into the flank of the civilized western world, and would not strike to destroy that power. .One great need of. tdio Amrica people is statesmen who 'will in struct them in the relation of their country to -world affairs, and the education which such men would impart. We need men who will not embark us on crusades of quixotic knight-errantry, nor call for sudden transition from im possible, neutrality to emotional idealism, nor lead us into wars of sordid aggression. Our states men should understand and should make the people understand that, as the greatest free nation in the world, we fortify our freedom by promoting the spread of free institutions and by helping to beat back the forces of barbarism and military autocracy; also that, as the wealthiest nation in the world and as a bidder for commercial su premacy. we have an interest in driving the barbarians from the 1 highways of commerce. When the nations which should be first to unite in, defense of freedom and free commerce at the point of at tack are rendered powerless by division, our statesmen should use our great moral influence to unite them and, in an extreme emer gency such as arose in 1914 and such as may soon arise, should place our material resources on their side. rtBi, ISNT IT? Funny how The Oregonian looks upon the direct primary as a blessing when its results happen to go its -way of thinking. Poindexter of Washington and Townsend of Michigan were nominated by the republicans in spite of their New berry votes and The Oregonian Is might' ily pleased to think that these repre sentatives of big business and little poll' tics are so thoroughly vindicated by the rank and file of the party. It is notice able, however, that The Oregonian does not call attention to the fact that both these candidates are the choice of mi norities. Eugene Guard. - , The Oregonian did not nominate Poindexter or Townsend. The. di rect primary did and Lodge as well, all in one day. The criticism of the displeased Guard lies prop erly against the primary and not against The .Oregonian. The Guard is for the primary, of course, so long as its results are pleasing. Lately it has had cause to repent its early support of the nominating device which too often selects the wrong man, or fails to select the best man. Following its little outburst on Townsend and Poindexter, the Guard had occasion to say some thing about a political happening at home. Evidently its headache was worse than ever, for here is the next-day view: The unexpected flop of Walter M. Pierce from a democratic platform fea turing reduction of taxes to advocacy of the measures sponsored by the Ku Klux Kian and the more or less unexpected entrance of Charles Hall into the Tace for governor as an Independent Klan- repubnean candidate has made & real mess of politics in Oregon. It seems, however, the logical outcome of a wide open primary where anybody may run for office on any kind of a platform. He may. Pierce makes his own platform, after nomination. He has taken advantage of one of the grave faults of the primary. In the old days, he would not have dared thus to inject a new issue into his campaign. THE VETO OF THE BONUS BILL It is impossible not to admire the courage of President Harding in vetoing the soldiers' bonus bill. He recognized it as a political de vice to promise the veterans a bonus, but to give it to them iji the shape of several unsatisfactory alternatives in order to dodge the unpopular necessity of levying a tax with which to pay, when th only honest, straightforward course is to impose the tax and pay the bonus in cash or in an equivalent bought with cash. Congress lacks the. courage which the president displays. It knows that a real bonus can be paid only with cash, yet it dares not provide the cash by taxation or by a bond issue. It pretends to believe that the people want to. give the. bonus, but do not want to provide the money. It does not give the people credit for sincerity. The people are not Indian givers. If they want to give the bonus, they are willing to supply the money; if not, the fact that present payments are made small in order to postpone taxation for the purpose to a future year will not commend the bill to them. They will finish perusal of th veto message with increased respect for the president and with greatly diminished respect for congress. Unlike congress, Mr. Harding looks all the relevant facts square ly in the face and bases his judg ment on them. The relatively small amounts of cash which would have been paid directly from the treas ury during the next few years do not reconcile him to the bill when a deficit of $650,000,000 already looms before him and when, the bill Imposes indefinitely large new obligations to be met in the near future.' Congress has already ap propriated much more money than is in prospect. If it wants to spend yet more, let it provide more mon ey.' Political expediency does not justify it in spending money which the treasury has neither in its pos session ndr im prospect. The bill is a fraud on both the veterans and the taxpayers, to which the president declines to be a party. AN AID TO TRADE WITH CI UNA. One good piece of work which must be credited to the present congress is the China trade act, under which Americans and Chi nese may form corporations under the laws of the District of Columbia for trade in China, and the part of their profits derived from that trade is exempt from income tax. This bill relieves Americans from the necessity of incorporating un der British law in order to compete on equal terms with foreign com panies which, enjoy that exemption. When Americans Invested under British law, they were required to elect British directors and man agers, who worked in the interest of British trade. Though news of civil war and of changes of government aA Pekin creates the impression that all China is in such turmoil that trade is im possible, several great provinces are under the orderly rule of their gov ernors without regard to who is supreme at Pekin, and brigandage is mercilessly suppressed. Some of these governors and their subordi nates were educated in the United States, are friendly to Americana and introduce American ideas and inventions. Notwithstanding the disorder which prevails in some provinces, the opportunity to extend trade in Gti is good, and the new law permits our corporations to control their capital and to do business on equal terms in competition with those of other countries. - DISGRACEFUL AND SCANDALOUS; The disgraceful facts about the initiation of the so-called hold-up fish bill and the fake 6 per cent interest bill are quite thoroughly exposed by Circuit Judges Bingham and Kelly. The measures are thrown off the ballot, because the procedure to put them on was tainted throughout with fraud. It may be expected that the grange income tax bill, which was also in the hands of professional petition. hawkers and name-grabbers, will share the same fate. The essence of the crime perpe trated against the initiative and the people of Oregon lies in the gross and deliberate violation, of law by men and women who had qualified for their jobs by becoming notaries public and therefore officers of the state. The law requires that all signers of initiative petitions must be legal voters and there must be a certification by a county clerk, from the records, or a notary pub lic, through personal acquaintance. to that effect. For the interest bill there were evidently nearly four thousand signatures fraudulently certified as legal voters by certain notaries public. For the fish bill one Newman was held to have cer tified to the voting qualifications of 1847 signers, none of whom he knew personally. Green, sponsor of the measure, is declared- by the court to have "falsely and fraudu lently" and "without the consent and against her will" written fifty- five names secured by another cir culator into a petition bearing the seal of a notary public. These are not all the specifica tions of irregularity and criminal ity. But they illustrate the whole rotten business of petition shoving as conduced by certain persons iaving their own ends in view. It is a crime, having the dimensions of a conspiracy against the public welfare. It should be dealt with accordingly. An examination of the laws of Oregon (sections 4098 and sections 3189-3190) will give the district attorney abundant authority to proceed. The findings of the court are a sufficient indication of his duty.- THE COST OF GOLD. Forty-seven fatalities in a single gold mine in California loom large in the annals of the moment, but they constitute a very small frac tion, of the price that has been paid for all the gold jthat has been dug out of the ground. Immediate ini diustrial perils may increase from time to time as shafts find greater depths, as use of machinery in creases and as men dare larger ventures into the unknown. But Oiese, on the other hand, have a tendency te be offset by the greater security afforded by modern appli ances, by the fact that society ..will demand for the wage-earner a larger measure of protection than lt would insist on for the private adventurer or than the latter would ask for himself, and by the cir cumstance that gold mining now employs but scores by comparison with thousands who were engaged n it when it was envefoped in ro mance and when the industry was young. The real casualties or tne quest of gold occurred in the two decades immediately following the epochal discovery on Sutter creek, in California, less than three-quar ters of a century ago. Thousands of lives were sacri ficed in mining camps and in the long journey across the plains. Ini- dian massacres accounted for num. bers of them, private feuda for others, and still more were paid as toll to the spirit of outlawry that prevailed in the period between the first rush and the organization of government on, a stable foundation. The social outlook fostered by self ishness and greed militated against establishment of authority at first, though Anglo-Saxon capacity for discipline, for compromise and for order measurably triumphed in the end. The estimate of ten. thousand casualties is likely not to be far from the mark, but the precise number will never -be. known.. The graves of the victims of the mad rush dotted every hillside and gulch and it but accentuates the tragedy that a vast number were unnamed. Men lost their identities no less than their lives in that period of turmoil, in which few appeared at their best. Dr. J. Tyrwhdtt Brooks, an English physician who went to California from Oregon, contributed a profound commentary on. human nature when, in his account of the expedition of which -he was a mem ber, he told how during the time that men were united by poverty and common peril they were loyal and unselfish, but as soon as prosperity overtook them tfley be came prey to envy, suspicion; un rest and all the vices engendered by too sudden success. Casualties to character may have been more extensive than actual loss of life. The era of deep mining, sug gested by the Argonaut disaster, is the latest of four epochs in the hJstory of precious metal mining in the west. The first was that of the gold pan, when each individual la bored for himself, employing a primitive method of extracting gold from gravel that permitted opera tion of only the richest of bars. This was followed within a year, however, .by adoption of the "cradle," which was being widely utilized by the time that the greater influx of treasure-seekers from the Atlantic states set - in. This was a phenomenon of some sociological importance because it required co-operation and marked a step forward from the primitive state to which the community had reverted in its first days. Sluice mining. Including river-bed mining, the third step, introduced a larger factor of organization and foresight and contributed the element of relative permanency to the whole movement. The water of streams obtained value which it did not have in the period of the rocker and pan; lumber was required) for the construction of aqueducts; great numbers were engaged in other branches of mining -than the actual recovery of gold. Restora tion of order came slowly, but was accelerated by the growing neces sity for laws on the basis of which men might build for the future. The need for stability of enterprise, for security of property, for guar antees that painstaking foresight wouJd not go for naught, was a more potent force in, ax resting, the spirit of lawlessness than was re gard for the sanctity of human life. General lawlessness, highway robbery and a multitude of crimes of violence account for a consider able proportion of the casualties which go to make up the cost of the most speota,cular gold mining boom in. the history of the world, But another very large number died from tbfe effects of hardships to which the newcomers were not accustomed, and from disease which was widely epidemic and which they were not equipped to combat. The winters of 1851 and 1852 in the gold camps were de vastating in their effects on men two-thirds of whom in. some locali ties were disabled by fevers, by scurvy and by other grave maladies and for whom the most meager provision for. shelter had been made. The output of gold was en ormous probably exceeding $1, 180,000,000 in the third of a cen tury immediately following 1848 but luck, the outstanding charac teristic of early, mining, frowned on a vastly larger number of in dividuals than were favored by the smiles of fortune. The great ma jority of those who sought wealth in sandbars and hills received lit tle or no reward for their labor and thousands wasted their lives. These and other Imponderables make it impracticable to estimate the total cost, but they give color to the assertion that a greater wealth was put into the ground than ever was taken out. WAR OX FOOD-CROP ENEMIES. , The enormous economic impor tance of organized war on plant parasites is graphically illustrated by the statement of the department of agriculture that the damage done by the cotton boll weevil in 1921 was far greater than in any previous year, fatally affecting 79 I per cent of the cotton grown in the United States and actually pre venting the production of 6,277,000 bales. . This was a 21 per cent greater loss than that of the year immediately preceding, and it means that but for the ravages of the weevil the whole crop of 1921 could have been produced on 57 per cent of the land that was planted to cotton, leaving the re mainder for the growing of other essentia! staples. Our ancestors did not number among, their many Troubles the plant pests that have been lately superimposed on the usual uncer tainties of climate and weather to make agriculture and husbandry the gamble that they are. Un doubtedly, one of the chief reasons why our parasite enemies have gained the foothold that they have is that their destructive possibili ties were not realized in time. In pointing out that its early warn ings were not heeded, and that planters are now suffering the con sequences of failure to adopt re pressive measures some time ago, the department also conveys a les son widely applicable to every crop that is now menaced by a destruc tive insect of any kind. ' Probably it is too gloomy a fore cast that paints the complete de struction of cotton growing in the United States, but fruit growers, for example, who have seen entire districts in the older states aban doned to the ravages of borer, moth and scale will be too wise to dis parage, as they used to do, the value of scientific research and united action for pest suppression. Scarcely a standard commodity. is now immune. The corn borer. smut and rust in wheat, the alfalfa weevil and a myriad, of other in sidious workers threaten our food supply at its source. The isolation which was the pioneer farmer's protection against spread of plant disease has given way to conditions which demand co-operative meas ures of the highest type. Yale undergraduates are to be permitted to operate automobiles only by special permission of the college authorities. Viewing the automobile either as a distracting diversion or a means of escape, the rule seems reasonable enough. Belgium's demand on Germany for a hundred million' marks would be easy enough to meet if Belgium hadn't been so mindful of her experience with scraps of paper, and specified gold. A fellow sent up from Clackamas county Is trying to spoil everything by escaping from the penitentiary. His punishment, when recaptured. might be determined by has fellows. On this date the day and night are theoretically equal, but not in this latitude. Old Sol finds it hard to break from the habit, of shining down this way from Alaska. About now the thrifty house holder who. cultivated a backyard garden begins to notice that there has been a reduction in the' size of the grocery bills. Our bet is that with- this Turkish fuss coming up, these European nations are all going to forget that they are supposed to scrap their battleships. What a world of trouble would have been saved if nature, in sepa rating the water from . the land, had not made the Dardanelles! What most people would like to know isn't so much when the next war will be fought as when, the next peace will occur.- The arts that are said to be de clining in the middle European countries do not include, of course, the art preservative. Any of the county fairs within running distance should be at tended. People appreciate Port land visitors. ' , - A Seattle man is reported missing .with $11,500 a powerful lot of money for one Seattle man to have. ' The Turks have a way of over coming a majority vote that should recommend itself to politicians."" The candidate who talks politics at a county fair needs to be given the razzle dazzle raspberry. The man who reads the tariff bill from beginning to end will outdo Job in patience. The bright fellows who will sell Oregon to travelers are here. Give 'em both ha.ndq. GREECE NOT YET DEFEATED Fate of Near East Depends on Com mon Sense of People. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 20. (To the Editor.) What is the matter with the world today? The matter with the world is lack of common senBe, sincerity, honesty and mutual con fidenca. It is selfishness, ambition and desire for revenge. Even the most narrow-minded person should have expected the present cataclysm in the near east I for one am not at all surprised at what is happening in that part of the globe. I had foreseen it. I had predicted it. But the sorcalled statesmen of western Europe not only shut their ears to the cries of men well versed in the -affairs of the near east, but even denounced them as traitors to their cause. They sup plied Mustapna Kemal with guns and ammunition which he is using against them today. In spite of their ipromises", they made treaties with the Turkish rebel by virtue or which he was recognized as the backbone of the Turkish empire. They instructed the bloodhound how to resist and how to defeat the Greek army that had fought and conquered the Turks and the Bui gars in Macedonia and Thrace and Asia Minor! Why all this? First, because of selfishness and mutual jealousy and mistrust among the allies; and, sec ond, because of the attitude of the Greeks themselves, the main figures in this drama. Prior to the elections of November, 1920, the prophetic Cre tan told the Greek people. One vote cast against me is one bullet fired against our country." But the un fortunate Greek people, deceived and misled by a band of cowards and traitors (what else could I call them?), who posed as Armodius and Aristogifcon, voted against Venizelos and thus opened tneir own grave! The governments that succeeded that of- Venizelos did everything possible to briiig about the present crisis. Disregarding the warnings of the allied governments that if the king were restored to the throne of Athens Greece would lose the confi dence and: support of the allied na tions, the Greek politicians held a plebiscite, recalled the king and- al lowed the Athenian mob to threaten and to dutr-age the French legation at Athens. They forbade the teach ing of French in Greek public schools and introduced German in stead. They withheld the truh from the Greek people. They allowed the press to speak most childishly and vulgarly against the allies, especially against France. They identified the fate of the'nation with that of the king; they cared more for tjie safety of the king than for the salvation of the Hellenic youth that was fight ng on the battlefields - of Asia Minor! . The constitutional national assem bly, instead of maintaining its dig nity and remaining faithful to the mandate of the people, allowed it self to be influenced and even to be commanded by the king. Party strife and personal interests over shadowed reason and blocked the care for- public safety. We heard Mr. Mitsopulos, deputy from Attica, propose massacre of all the Veni zelists throughout Greece. We heard another deputy, Mr. Klnias, denounc ing his Thracian colleagues as trai tors, worthy of Mustapha Kemal s dagger, simply because they were Venizelist liberals. We saw Mr. Gounaris, majority leader in the na tional assembly, use a vulgar and bitter language in addressing his colleagues. We heard Mr. Stratos, leader of the conservative party, de nounce all the phil-Hellenes Take Jonescu, Andre Tardieu, Raymond Poincare simply because they hap pened to be personal friends of Mr. Venizelos. We saw the whole national as sembly, minus the liberal party, vote 400,000 golden drachmas as dowry to Princess Helen, eldest daughter of the king, while the Greek soldiers were -starving in the trenches in Asia Minor and their families were helpless at homer Yet the members of this august body claimed to rep resent the wiH of the Greek people. The opinion prevails in this coun try and abroad that the disaster of the Greek army is due to lack of unity in Greece. Nothing could be more absurd than this opinion. The Greek nation was more than ever united for execution of the treaty of Sevres. It Is thought that the Venizelists refused to fight under Constantine for the execution of the treaty signed by Venizelos. Exactly the opposite is true. The Venizelists have been the protagonists in trying to carry out the treaty ot Sevres With these facts In view the ques tion arises: If the Greek nation was united, why should the Greek army suffer defeat at the hands of Mus tapha Kemal? The answer is very simple: Because the Greek army was unably commanded and inade quately supplied and because it lacked the moral support of the al lied and friendly nations. At the present moment it Is com monly believed that the Greek army is completely defeated and disor ganized and that it is unable to face the enemy again. I state without hesitation that the Greek army may be disorganized, but It Is not de feated. 1 was forced to leave Asia Minor, not by Mustapha Kemal's hordes, but by the inefficiency of its commanding officers. Should a strong man. such as Venizelos, head a new government the Greek army would be reorganized and prepared to take the field within two or three weeks. General Par'askevopulos ano other Greek officers, who fought heroically In the battlefields of Macedonia during the world war. would be in command of the army, while the glorious Admiral Coun turiotes would be in charge of the navy. Then with the moral and material support of America and England first and of France after ward they would Impose the treaty of -Sevres. ' - Unfortunately, It seems impossible for Greece to win the confidence of the allied and friendly nations so long as Constantine remains on the throne -of Athens. The king would rather seeGreece destroyed and dis membered than give up the throne. Foreign nations cannot force him to abdicate. It depends on the Greek people. Unfortunately, the Greek people do not seem inclined to do so. Tired of war and disgusted with politics, they find themselves be tween two evils and they do not know which one to choose. The Venizelists blame the king and his advisers as being mainly responsi ble for the present catastrophe. The royalists, on the other hand, blame France and the Venezllists, while the moderates blame the allies (France) and the king. What will be the result of this un certainty? It remains to be seen. If the king is really the cause of this catastrophe it depends on the good sense of the Greek people. If it is France, it depends on the sense ot honor and self-respect of the rest of Europe and America. TIMOLEON. Date of Wright's First Flight. CARSON, Wash., Sept. 19. (To the Editor.) Please publish the date of the Wright brothers' first successful flight with heaiiier-than-air machine, motor propelled. PETE OSTLUND. December 17, 1903. On this date the Wrights made four flights of from 12 to 52 seconds' duration at Kittyhawk, N. C. Their first long distance flight wan made near Day ton, O, la 1805. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at tho Hotels. France has the lily: England the rose, but Douglas county has the prune. This year there will be a yield of about 15,000,000 pounds of prunes in Douglas county, accord ing to J. M. Throne of Roseburg, registered at the Imperial. "This means that the prunes will bring into the county about 11,250,000," says Mr. Throne, "which gives some idea of the importance of the crop. Many of the producers sold their prunes at 10 cents a pound. How ever, I am optimistic and haven't Bold yet. I am interested in an or chard of 30 acres. The trees in our bottom lands are more produc tive than those in the Willamette valley. There is one tree on our land which last year produced 27 bushels of prunes, or a matter of 1740 pounds. This makes the tree's yield about J174. This year I ex pect this same trraji to give about 33 bushels, for the tree looks even more heavily loaded than last year. I told ono of the leading nursery men in the state that the tree pro duoed 29 bushels of prunes and he frankly deolared that he didn t be lieve me, . but it is a fact." Mr. Throne has been busy building a new drier so that H will be ready when the picking starts. Aside from being a prunarian, Mr. Throne is the republican nominee for the house of representatives from Douglas county. Think of having a veranda and sun parlor for your exclusive use on board ship. Hot dog! Well, some of the private suites on the Empress of Austria, which same Is a steamer, have not only a ver anda, but a private baggage room and bedroom for the maid, and a bathroom. - The suites have every thing that a swell apartment on shore has except a kitchenette. The steamer has a first-class dining room, 75 by 100 feet, which can seat 300 people, this being as many as any hotel dining room in Portland can take care of at a banquet. There are eating accommodations for 160 at the second-class table. Captain S. Robinson, his wife and Mrs. Nichols are at the Multnomah for a quick look at the town. Captain Robinson is the "old man" of the Empress of Austria and has 600 people to help him run the boat, which is 615 feet long. This steamer was built by the Germans to be used in the South American line with the intention of catering espe cially to multi-millionaires. During the war, (however, the British seized the steamer and It ia now being used on the run between Vancouver, B. C, and Hongkong. In the redwood grove outside of Crescent City, Cal., there are four trees dedicated, respectively, to Ben W. Olcott, governor of Oregon; Robert A. Booth, John B. Teon and W. B. Barratt, the three OregofH highway commissioners. These tow ering redwoods, with soft, green limbs almost sweeping the ground, were dedicated to the officials as a token of appreciation of their hav ing attended the interstate good roads meeting at Crescent City last July. The trees bearing the names of the highway commissioners were dedicated by Judge J. L. Childs of Crescent City, Cal., who is regis tered at the Imperial. One of the jokes of the whole affair is that the trees dedicated to the governor and members of the highway com mission are the property of a big lumber company and not the prop erty of the road boosters of Cal ifornia, so Judge Childs was mak ing a present of trees which be longed to someone else. So far as the lumber company is concerned, however, it doesn't object to the labels on the trees, and there is no intention, for years to come, to log off the redwoods. Had a job getting some fried clams in Portland restaurants to day," began a man in a hotel lobby yesterday. "I didn't know that clams are protected by law the same as deer and other wild game. I hadn't supposed that the clam had friend on earth, but it appears that several legislatures have sprung to the defense of the clam with greater earnestness than they have in coming to the aid of children. was told that Washington has fixed it so that clams are protected for the next couple of years, which will give the clammers of Oregon a monopoly and the quotations will soar. One restaurant man told me that he had to pay 40 cents a dozen for clam on the hoof, yet only a few years atro peddlers were glad to get a dime a dozen." uiJN m- A noticeable feature in the Mult nomah lobby of late is the predom- nance of pipes instead of cigars. The bishops and other clergymen who ore at the hotel while attend- j ing the Episcopal convention appear addicted to emoking, and by pref erence they uBe a pipe to cigars or cigarettes. More pipes are now In use in the lobby of this establish ment than normally would be seen in SI jL Jliujiuia. xauLei men nio a. i unit in declaring that they never) had to handle delegates to a con vention who gave as little trouble as those here for the church confer ence. Bound for the round-up at Ten- dleton, Mrs. F. E. Butcher of As torla arrived at the Benson yester day. iThe wild west show at Pen dleton drew scores of people from Portland last night. One Portlander received a long-distance message from Pendleton relatives saying that for Friday and Saturday the seats are almost all sold out and that Pendleton is confronted with the -problem of accommodating its visitors and is determined to do it. It doesn't sound reasonable, but is vouched for: The manager of a Portland hotel remained up all night long a few evenings ago so that he would be on hand in the morning early enough to fire the cook. J. E. Tappan. secretary of the In vestors' syndicate of Minneapolis, is in Portland for a few days looking after the Interests of the company. He is accompanied by his sister, Mrs. C, T. Guthrie. Mrs. H. M. Farmer, wife of the county commissioner of Tillamook, is registered at the Hotel Oregon from Cloverdale, Mrs. Farmer is accompanied by Mrs. W. J. Gilbert of Beaver. J. L. Sprinkle, registering from Chinook, Mont., .in which state he owns several ranches. Is at the Benson. In Oregon he owns a sort of one-horse railroad. George G. Brown, clerk of the state land board, was In Portland yesterday on business. ' Redress for Private Grievance. WOODBURN. Or.. Sept. 20. (To the Editor.) Does the United States government have a department of justice before which one might lay a gr'evance, where there has been unfair dealing In mining or oil stock? Does the government, look into these matters without charge to complainant? If not, what charge is made? BUBSCKliiiiiu. The government will not interest itself in a controversy over the merits of a financial transaction or recover money In, a civil liability. Tntoart .ni-nmnrern iifie the mails to defraud it will take action against! them. I Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Homrhton-Mlfflln to. (Copyrlrht, 1922. by Houghton Mifflin ' Company.) Can Yon Answer These Questions? 1. Have blue Jays any natural enemies? 2. I have sprayed my orchard faithfully for apple scab, but can't seem to get rid of it. Can you sug gest anything? 3. What can I do for a dog that is poisoned from eating salmon left dead after spawning? I have been recommended to use oil and salts. Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. If parrots are naturally Imi tative, do they imitate the notes of other birds? Not in the sense that mocking birds do, or various other passerine birds that sometimes seem to copy their neighbor's notes. It is be lieved that parrots Imitate only when taught so to do by repeated effort on the part of human teachers. 2. Why did my little seedlings that cams up all right dwindle off after a few days? Possibly the very damp season was to blame. Seedlings that have too much shade and moisture are aften attacked by a parasitic fungus, pythium debaryanum, which lodges on the wet surfaces of the tiny plants, draining their vitality. Com mon greenhouse name for this la "damping off." 3. Can you tell me anything of the life history of the codfish? Its life history was first fully ob served by the Norwegian - scientist Sars. Cod spawn In fairly deep sea, dropping quantities of minute, transparent, globular eggs which float. The New York aquarium esti mates that a 75-lb. cod may pro duce 9,000,000 eggs. The tiny fishes when hatched first feed near the surface of the vaater, but as they grow, seek shelter among rocks and sea weed near the ooast. I,ater, take to deep sea. Very predaceoiw. eating a variety of fishes, shell fishes, clams, etc. WHY SHOILD THEY NOT MEET? If Renubllcana Want to Get To. a-ether. It's Their BuHlnrsa. La Grande Observer. Just why anyone can consistent ly object to a political party In a state holding a meeting for the purpose of announcing party prin ciples is not quite understood. Yet we notice a few newspapers have almost gone Into hysterica because a number of republicans Intend to meet In Portland soon for that pur pose. Our present loose-end condition of political affairs is to a great extent due to lack of party prin ciples. As Sam Bly the said In the Saturday Evening Post, "everyone goes gunning and shoots at ran dom." But it in refreshing to note that all the complaint thus far regard ing holding a platform convention of the republicans has come from the democratic newspapers or "In dependents" with strong democratic leanings. . The expressed fear that the di rect primary law will be quartered and its bones be left to bleach on the sands of the Columbia river seems to us entirely unfoundoij, and doubtless the newspapers printiug such waitings know there is no Jus tifiable ground for them to stand on. We do not believe anyone wants to do away with the primary law, but the defects in it should lie cor rected and the voter and citizen who denies that statement lacks courage and common honesty of purpone. Republicans will meet and when they do the very best Interests of the entire state of Oregon will be uppermost in their minds. When the platform of principles I made doubtless It will come from delibcra tlon on the part of those in attend ance. Everyone will not get all they want from the platform, prob ably, and It Is possible the commit tee may not be of one mind on everf issue mentioned. We have nevi.i known of a platform of either ot the old parties that had unanimous approval on every point. But out of the deliberation, where every member will speak hln mind, should come a declaration of prin ciples that will mean something to the voters of this state. lDER TIIE CLOU). "All our fathers were under the cloud." -1 Cor. 10-1. Under the cloud, low-lying, gray; Whose silver crest yet feeds In light Of tender grief and gentle cares. Some oT Ood's children reach the night . That folds them in a deathless shroud, Umler the cloud. Under the cloud, afloat in dreams. Or pillowed on the ocean mist Of wavering doubt and feeble faith; Of love that failed and deeds that missed, His children pass, with shame deep bowed. Under the cloud. Under the cloud, whose leaden weight Hides all the careless Joy of earth; Brooding upon a moaning sea Of pain, that waits each day's new birth. Brave souls march on, in triumph proud. Under the cloud. Under the cloud, from whose deep gloom The lightning leaps of man's dark hate; Around whose base the thunders roar Of sins that leave him desolate, He falters on, with footsteps cowed. Under the cloud. Beyond the cloud, aflame with light. And erlowlng with the royal red Of blood that stained a soldier's spear, ' Once on the slopes of Calvary shed, Stands one by men long disavowed; Beyond the cloud! Mary Alethea Woodward. An Opportunist's Way. Medford Mail-Tribune. Mr. Pierce is proud of bIng a practical dirt farmer. And yet as a practical politician, campaigning for votes, he proposes a most Im practical programme. There is no religious issue In the present campaign, he declares. And then he proceeds to endorse the so- called compulsory school bill, which everyone knows la the cornerstone of the anti-Caltholic campaign, and renders the religious issue inevit able. Mr. Pierce declares taxes the is sue, the only issue, ana promises if elected to reduce them. And yet he favors1 this compulsory school bill, which if passed, will saddle at least a million dollars a year more taxes on the people of the state. The only answer Is that when a man oecomes a praciicai poiuicnn he ceases to be a practical dirt farmer or a practical anything else. He becomes overnight, an op portunist, willing to promise any thing if it can be depended upon to bring - him votes, More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montagu. AST 1NKP1IU.YO K X A l 11. E. Sin Kir.it priaon was run at a b'C profit lat year. A place of small pretension Was Sing Sing, on a time; It seldom had a mention In histories of crime. None glimpsed its future glories. Its Iron-padded halLs. Its cells In towering stories. Its beetling granite walls. But its undaunted inmates, 1 In that far. distant day. Cried loudly; "Work and win, raatss. And make our prison pay I No kind protective tariff Will make us great or strong. But every county sheriff Will help us, right along' This lofty spirit paid them; It brought them fame galora. And presently to aid them Came convicts by the score. Hold by a common tether. Provided by the state. They all have worked together To make the prison great. And In this present century In every cllms and ion This once small penitentiary Is well and widely known. And thus can any prison Arise to wealth and fame As Sing Sing has arisen By doing Just the same! v ore Hurerai, A New. York man has invented a wave mdtor. If It will run on crime waves it will solve the perpetual motion problem. DUkrartenlma. There Is reason for fear that pea Is about to break out in Guatemala again. The Mirer Lining. Well, anyway we won't have much trouble with the furn.ire next winter. (Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) In Other Days. l-'lfly Years As. Kroin The Orcsonlan of S-pt. VI, 172. London. An immediate ric-tilne in the price of coal is confidently ex pected. Columbus. Greeley's train ?msslnK through stopped for a few minitt a and tiie candidate made a httef speech, reiterating his argument in favor of reconciliation. A large amount of material for the courthouse building urrlved on the last sUaraiT. The largest freight train that has ever come down the track puss'-d East Portland on Thursday evening. When the last car was on J street bridge the locomotive was more than half way to the depot. Tmrenty-tlve Inn Ao. From The nregnnlan of 8-pt. SI. HOT Washington. Tho ptislofflco de partment has Information that the Mississippi board of health has quarantined all malls from tho yel low fovor-lnfectcd district. Hamburg. Prince Rismnrrk has received tho grand cross of the Star of Ethiopia from King Alrnrllk of Abyssinia. Perhaps whisky is king In Alaska. because alcohol Is the only thing that will not freeze in that country. Meier & Frank will begin work soon on thulr nnw department s'or-. which is to occupy half a Mm-k betwon Alder and Morrison streets, fronting on Fifth. They have re cently docldod to ad. I anothrr story to it. making It flvo stories m height. di,k.m:ss iv ju. ! m:ri.oni--.t Fnrm for lonvlrtrd Trlaonrra. Ir- tvnllon House for Others, t red. BROOKLYN'. X. V., S.-pt. 10. (Ti the Editor.) The Oregonian prlnte l recently un article, entitled "Jail Addition Needed." This Jul I. we understand. Is used for the con finement of persons awaiting trial and for those servlnr ii'tilrnc" for nii-Kdciiieaiiors. This two-fold uso of county Jail has led to bad condi tions in practically every Jail .n the country- l'rlsoncrs awaiting trial cannot be forced to work clnr- ng this period, hut prisoners s-rv-ng sentence should work. As a rule, they are Idle becauso they are too few In number to be profitably employed anil liecaust. the keeper of the Jnll cannot nr exuected to be competent to super viso industrial work. The national committee on prisons and prison labor. 2 Hector strr-(i, New York city, Is guidlnc a nation wide movement for "stain control of all convicted persons." This Is radical when a farm colony Is s- abllshed by the stste to which are sent persons convicted or mis demeanors -from all the different counties of the state. Congrewi established the first -f these misdemeanant farm colonies at Occoquam for prisoners from tho District of Columbia. The elate of Indiana has since established oie at I'utnamvlllc and the movement Is well under way In New York ami Massachusetts. Thero is li" difficulty at theo colonies In providing ade quate work for all prisoners. ,A small honso of detention, is all that la needed for any county for persons awaiting trial, and with transportation fucllities available throuKh motor servlc there Is no reason why a numbur of rountira cannot combine In maintaining a house of detention. The taxpayers will benefit by h adoption of these plans. K. VAN IN:U.V. TWII.ItillT ME MOM IE. Those twIIlKht hours with one who understood. Whose heart and mind and soul were, :oilly ajood ; Whose love for fellow humans seemed to reach From frosen north to ynnmost coral beach ; One arctic-cold to any meanly thing. Yet tropic-warm to all ennohllng; Whoso pulses beat with such sweet sympathy. Who treated mankind with such charity A human partner In Ood'a plan of love. Whom height, nor depth, nor angels cou'.d not move; Whose noble faco before me e't-r I see And music-voice I hear wh.e can it be? E. a. Either la f orrn-t. PORTLAND. Sept. 20 (To th Editor.) Which Is correct, id. If both are, which I preferable: "I have one on 'each' side of me." nr "I have one ou 'either' !rf of me?" .stiisi -miiKi:. Both are- soocl Kncliah. "K.t' ci'" la preferable in Unit I' is mote definitive, holng numerically tt stricttd to two.