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TIIE MOItXIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1922
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in European civilization extend the
hand of fellowship to the perpe
trator of that monstrous crime.
Chief responsibility for this In
famous surrender of civilization to
barbarism rests with Prance.
Bound to make peace Jointly with
its allies, that country secretly
made separate terms under which
it won rich concessions and sup
plied the war material with which
the Turks overthrew Greece, and
envious Italy followed the exam
pie. Lloyd George endeavored to
lead Britain in making a last stand
for freedom of the straits, but the
labor party. In sympathy with Tur
key's ally, the Russian soviet,
threatened a strike, and the war
weary, tax-bjurdened business men
exclaimed "no more war." When
the Turks are the only people who
want to fight, they get what they
want.
If the allies had held together,
had occupied Turkey in force and
had promptly made peace, they
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BTJRKENDEB TO 11 LE TURKS.
Surrender of the powers of Eu-
rope to the Turks Is a disgrace to for superior force.
civilization. No fine diplomatic
phrases, no pledges or guaranties
from the faithless Turk, can hide
the fact that it is proposed to hand
back to these murderous barbar
ians the straits, the great city of
Constantinople and the rich prov
ince of Thrace, including Adrian-
ople. Turkey would .then have
practically the. same territory in Turkey pay with their blood and
ceeded and there would have been
no threat of war at this time. If
after the defeat of Greece, France
and Italy had stood by Britain in
armed defense of the straits, there
need have been no war, for the
Turks have a wholesome respect
though for
nothing else. They though the
stake worth fighting for .and
wanted to fight for it, while tfye
western powers did not. When
such is the case, wrong prevails
and all pacifist sophistry is proved
to be idle words. France and Italy
get their shameful reward in con
cessions, Britain saves men and
money, and the subject peoples of
law at a time of strikes would im
prove public estimation of them
and would enlist on their side the
support of the public in bringing
to justice those who violate the
law on the employers' side of labor
disputes. There are black sheep
on both sides, and the people want
them all punished.
Europe mai it neiu wiieii ilUUu. the commerca of the world facea
eause it cast its lot with Germany, the conEtant threat that one of the
thereby adding two years to the great sea highways will be closed
length of the war and causing the tQ lt civilization bows before
ruin or Russia ana Koumania. me fe iq.OOO.OOO . barbarians
Drlgnt nope men raiaeu uia.i aui-i ss
Key's defiance or tne nations wnicn
then foueiit the battle for civiliza
tion meant the end of Turkish rule ANSWER TO A FRENZIED QUESTION.
In Europe, over the straits and
over any except a corner of Asia,
has been dashed.
No promise that the Turks may
give to neutralize the straits will
be kept, for they have never re
spected a treaty and never will un
it has often been noted that that
somewhat meek appearing . indi
vidual, Mr. Common Citizen, never
employs lobbyists to appear before
congress or legislature, no matter
how vitally proposed legislation
may affect his interests. It is Mr.
less superior force is at hand, nor Uncommon citizen, he of large
men mess ui imn girth and ponderous pocketbook,
mar. u wm De useu. ui who thug guarda affairs of state,
OI tne xurKisn causa oy riiiic go Jt is in a way with direct
and Italy and surrender of Great whon a trrn.m r
Britain to Mustapha Kemal are Grange leaders in Oregon get their
aounaani evidence mat it t.ie lu. heads together on a graduated in
Bhould close the straits, force c0me tax meaeure that would save
would not be used. Power to stop much taxes to the mUe foik but
commerce between tne isiacK sea
THE OREGON STATE FAIR.
In the beginning the main idea of
an Oregon state fair was for a sea
son of reunion of the makers of
the state. Settlement mostly was
west of the Cascades ana nearly all
were, if not kith and kin, at least
acquainted by meeting1 on the long
trail or in the shuffle for location
or in trading; if not personally
known, they knew of each other,
which amounted to the same thing
in the camaraderie of the day. At
the appointed spot they assembled
and to make it interesting brought
samples of the best they had grown
that season and started the rivalry
that has given Oregon products
fame. Local "rich" men put on
display their four-footed importa
tions and progeny, the descendants
of which are today making na
tional records. Thus began, what
has developed into an institution.
Now the gates swing open for
the Oregon State Fair of 1922.
Everything is in place and the
glory of the past is eclipsed. The
best from field, pen and bin is on
display and so, too, is the handi
work of the women of Oregon who
have not lost the old arts in ac
quiring the new. ' The progress of
the state is spread like upon the
pages of an open book, telling of
control of natural forces by mam.
This is the age 'of production by
machinery and there Will be visit
ors who recall the first mower and
reaper and ; who marvel not now,
because their years have paralleled
inventions. Every piece of wood
and every bar of iron has a story
to tell.
Paved highways from almost
everywhere lead to the fair
grounds; the railways offer a rea
sonable rate to Salem; the weather
"promises" to, be good though
what is weather to an Oregonian
going to the fair? Every citizen of
the state owes one visit as a civic
duty and fulfills a domestic obli
gation by taking the family.
to yield to the rule of reason.
Some of us. are Impatient at hla
delay in giving aid in adjusting the
disordered economic affairs of Eu
rope, but he may be waiting till
events teach the people that this
action is essential to the welfare
of this country, till public opinion
so ripens that he may act with the
support of an intelligent publje
opinion and therefore may act
effectively. . He has time to do
much and to complete a good rec
ord . Before the conventions meet
in 1924. The passions aroused by
the war and by its aftermath are
cooling and will continue to cool.
By that time the people may be
very well content to. entrust the
government to a man who, though
he makes no brilliant epigrams
and performs no sudden, sensation
al feats, yet moves firmly, deliber
ately and with courage on a well
considered course.
TWO RAILROADS ARE POSSIBLES
Short Route' From Portland to
Yakima Possible, Says Writer.
GOLDENDALE, Wash., Sept. 23.
(To- the Editor.) A shorter route
for & Tailroad between Portland and
Yakima has been agitated for many
years. Forty years ago a survey
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Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folk at the Hotels.
and all other seas is to be restored
to the Turk and will be used when
it suits his policy.
Talk of the allies that they will
take steps "to assure effectively
under the league of nations main
tenance of the freedom of the Dar-
put large industry on the rocks,
somebody who is about to be hurt
thereby employs lawyers, and the
lawyers discover fraud and knock
the bill off the ballot.
But when another group of law
givers devises a competing meas
ure, a sort of back fire, a scheme
danelles, the sea of Marmora and to relieve the hlg eiiow and sock
me jjospnorus may wen cause it tr ,;ttlB fel,nw
satamc laugnier at Angura. oucu nimj nQ lawyers appear at Salem
language assumes that the three in hehalf of the rolnrtlon eoor. anA
powers are dictating terms when the measuro remain3 on the ballot.
unaer mreai oi torce DacKeu Dy Nw an evrcitahle. wntpmnnrarv
two of them the third is submitting ,H skini, nver ani, OVHr whv
to the terms dictated by Mustapha
somebody does not do something
Kemal because its people refuse to about Jt The Grange billjias been
fight. What could the league do
to restrain the faithless Turks? It
has no army, no treasury, no source
of revenue except what its mem
bers may provide, and its principal
members give the Turk all that he
demands when he shows his teeth.
He would brush aside a pledge to
kept off the ballot on the ground
of fraud, and there is every indi
cation that similar fraud was per
petrated in initiating the other in
come tax measure. Yet nobody
seeks to preyent its submission to
the voters. Why?
Thfi answer is nlflin p.nntie-h. "The
the league with the same contempt lndividuai common citizen has not
that he has shown for all former tne flnanclal means to carry on a
treaties, pledges, and guaranties. ,, h9t,, tT irr,,-
The only real guaranty for the
freedom of the straits is armed
occupation by a superior force that
would shoot the instant the TUrk
moved to violate neutrality.
Restoration of Thrace to Turkey
would be restoration of Turkish
tion, and he and his fellows are
not organized. They can be preyed
upon in this wise by any interest
that has the money to pay for the
service of petition-hawkers. They
are the intended victims of the
nonnlar thenrv that the nnlv wav
tyranny over Greeks whom Turkey to reduce taxes is to make the
has reduced to a minority by mas- oth. ffillow rmv them. Thev have
eacre and deportation. It would
give Turkey the entire European
shore of .. the - straits and sea of
Marmora. At the Paris conference j
last March the allies offered the'
eastern half of the shore, with
eastern Thrace, awarding the west-
no power of resistance except common-sense
use of the ballot.
Now that we have obligingly
answered our neighbor's frenzied
question, perhaps he will answer
oxirs. Why does he raise such an
infernal racket about the income
tern half, western Thrace and the tax alone when single tax is on
Gallipoli peninsula to Greece, but the ballot under equally suspicious
-iviusLayiia ueiu uut igr tiie circumstances?
wnoie, ana ne gets it. xne pro
posed demilitarized frontier zones.
designed to prevent friction be- vindicating THE LAW AT HERRIN.
tween Greeks and Turks and Williamson county, Illinois, is
Greeks and Bulgarians and to pre- vindicating itself, the more deci
vent Bulgarian and Turkish bands sively because it had been aban-
from combining against Greece, donedto the forces of outlawry by
would be as ineffective as the plan the governor who should have re
for neutrality of. the straits. The stored supremacy of the law and
zone would become a no man's I who is, well named Small. Indict
land, where irregulars of all three ment by a grand jury of farmers
unless it was occupied by neutral were implicated in the Herrin mas
forces. Who 'is to supply such sacre is a triumph for public peace
forces? None of the three powers and civilization which demon
would, and certainly no other na- strates that a democratic people
tion would. Thrace would become
tleground until one or more of the
states of that peninsula became
strong enough to throw the Turks
"bag and baggage out of Europe,"
as Gladstone proposed more than
forty years ago.
has within itself tle forces that
work for its self-preservation.
Against the loud pleas of inno
cence and charges of a capitalist
conspiracy to fasten the crime on
the miners' union is to be set the
finding of this body of farmers
that the massacre was the result
Equally futile is the proposal to of a conspiracy which originated
entrust the league of nations with among the miners' union officials,
"protection of religious and racial one of whom guaranteed that the
minorities." Armenia, Pontus. union would pay for stolen guns
Thrace itself, finally Smyrna are and ammunition. As President
examples of the way Turks deal Lewis, of the United Mine Work
with minorities except when re- ers, telegraphed that the workers
strained by superior force.' When in the southern Illinois mine should
we recall that less than half the be treated as "common strike
population of the great city of Con- breakers," he cannot be held guilt
Btantinople is Turkish and that a less of suggesting action which he
fundamental article of -the Turkish left the heated passions of . the
political creed is to make their strikers to define,
population all Turkish by extermi- The best thing that could happen
nating all other races, the whole for labor unions would be that any'
civilized world should shudder at officers and .members of the min
the thought of what may happen ers' union who were implicated in
when the allied troops hand over
the city to the blood-sated army of
Mustapha Kemal. The 'horrors of
Smyrna may be repeated and may
be extended throughout Thrace.
When Turkey has been pacified
by this surrender of millions to its
sanguinary lust, it is to be received
as a member of the league, of na
tions a league formed to bind na
tions to observance of treaties,
when Turkey makes treaties only
to break them; to adjust disputes
by peaceful means in accordance
with the principles of justice, when
the Turk knows no argument but
that of the sword and the torch, no
justice but that of might; to ad
vancement of the cause of human
ity, which the Turk holds in con-
tempt. With the spectacle of
Smyrna before their eyes, the na-
the Herrin affair should be con
victed and punished as the law re
quires. - Frequent acts of violence
have led the public to regard them
as ' the inevitable accompaniment
of strikes and to hold striking
unions responsible for them.
Doubtless in many instances these
crimes are committed by persons
who have no part in the strike,
but who use it as a cloak under
which they may escape. Often,
leaders in good faith restrain their
followers from lawless acts. But
many such acts are committed by
union men, as the Williamson
county grand jury report indi
cates, and they have led the public
to hold the union responsible in all
like cases. .
Positive action bythe unions to
bring to justice every man, union
flop wPPStaBi&b. oremosymenUes-f. ot, 35?ift slolato gi
FORMING THE IJNES FOR 1934.
Issues are formed and lines
drawn for the election that will
determine the political complexion
of the congress which is to share
wit.h the executive department the
making of the record for the sec
ond half of President Harding's
term. Material reduction of the
republican majority is accepted as
a foregone conclusion and, if it
should leave the party with a goo.d
working majority in each house,
would be regarded as a blessing by
those republicans who look beyond
superficial to ultimate results.
Such a reduction would cull out
many members who were t swept
into office on the crest of the wave
of popular determination to make
an end of Wilsonism and who have
proved a source of weakness to the
party. It would solidify the party
by infusing its members with a
deeper sense of individual respon-:
sibility for its acts. The condi
tions that produced the tidal wave
of 1920 are so generally recognized
as abnormal that considerable
trimming of the present majority
could not be construed as popular
repudiation; that construction could j
only be jnaceci on election or a
democratic majority or of a re
publican majority sp small that it
could not be relied on to give effect
to party policy.
Upon the result hinges the ques
tion whether President Harding
will be renominated in 1924. Mr.
Harding may have n love for
power and may desire to retire at
the end of his 'present term, but
the decision does not rest with him.
Those leaders who mold party sen
timent,' or think they do, may de
sire the-nomination of others, but
the decision does not rest with
them. Political conditions have so
shaped themselves that the party
in power is morally compelled to
renominate its president or place
itaelf ' on the defensive by a prac
tical confession that he has failed.
A president is under obligation to
the many friends whom he has put
in office to make an effort at re
election in order, that he may not
be open to the accusation , of de
serting them after they have staked
their fortunes on him, often by
severing business . or professional
ties or by resigning other offices
in order to help in making his ad
ministration a success. After a
man has placed himself under these
obligations, he is. no longer a free
I agent morally, especially a man so
well known to be loyal to his party
and his friends as Mr. Harding.
Hence, since the civil war a
president has refused to seek re
nomination, and a party has re
fused to give it, only under excep
tional circumstances. Hayes was
an exception, but the electoral con
test with Tilden had clouded his
title and, being a compromise can
didate, he did not achieve the suc
cess that would have won him a
following on his merits. Arthur
became president by succession and
rested under the shadow of the
feud that caused Garfield's assassi
nation. . Cleveland was renomi
nated in 1888 and beaten, again in
1892 and won. Harrison was re
nominated in 1892 in spite of his
knowji . unpopularity and of the
rising populist vote. McKinley was
renominated and re-elected in 1900
and Roosevelt, though he became
president by succession, achieved
such success that his renomination
in 1904 was a foregone conclusion.
Though the schism of 1912 made
Taft's defeat certain; , the repub
licans renominatfidhim when -the
alternative was to repudiate their
record with him. Wilson so tied
the party to his fortunes that no
rival to him appealed at the demo
cratic convention of 1916.
True as it may be that Mr.
Harding has lost ground since his
conspicuous success with the Wash
ington conference, he has certain
qualities that' give him staying
power , and power to regain what
he has lost. Courage, patience and
firmness are the chief of these.
We have been impatient with what
seemed his excess of patience with
the strikes, but as the unrest calms
flown, as the turbulent and angry
show return of reason, and as in
dustry resumes its normal course,
confidence in him may return with
the thought that here is a man who
cannot be stampeded and who is
bo eminently just that by his ex-
ample, lie morally forces the unjust i
A VICTORY FOR HYGIENE.
The report of the National Tu
berculous association that the
death rate from all forms of tu
berculosis for 1921 was but 90.7
per 100,000 of population in forty
five reporting states represents a
victory for hygiene as distin
guished from specific treatment
and medication. Not a great deal
has been learned concerning the
efficacy of drugs in this association
during the period for which com
parisons are made, but much has
been due to widespread education
In the principles underlying com
municable disease, to improved fa
cilities for . early diagnosis and
above all to realization by victims
and their relatives of the impor
tance of sanitation.
The public as well as the pri
vate nature of maladies of this
kind has been clearly understood
only within comparatively recent
years. No health movement since
the day when the empress of Rus
sia permitted" herself to be vacci
nated against smallpox as an ex
ample to her subjects has , been
fraught with greater consequences
than that which has been organ
ized to make war. on the white
plague. Its effectiveness has been
manifested in two ways. Through
prevention of the spread of infec
tion a large number of cases have
been forestalled, and many others
have been saved by early action.
The national association's esti
mate that about 18,000 lives were
spared in this manner in 1921 by
comparison with 1920 is even less
graphic than t it might have been
made. If the 1905 rate had pre
vailed in 1921 there would have
been about 92,000 more deaths
from tuberculosis than the records
show to have occurred.
O. O. Devaughn of Pittsburg, who
19 interested in Oregon development
projects, has- a pocket-piece with a
was made from the Columbia river I history and a narrative. It links its
up the Klickitat canyon to xaklma. I fortunate possessor with luck and
When Portland capital constructed I the vanished Azteo civilization, for
the Columbia River & Northern from I it Is a silver token eaid to have been
Lyle to Goldendale the Northern Pa- I minted at the command of one of
cific surveyed a route from tne Ya- I the last of the sun cod's orifests.
kima valley through the Satua Pass "A ragged old Mexican begged me
to iiolaenaafe ana aown tne j.in.ie for alms one day, a few years ago,'
Klickitat and Klickitat rivers to
Lyl-e.
The Columbia River & Northern
officials had a survey made from
Goldendalo down Luna gulch through
the Rock creek canyon and up
Squaw creek to eastern Klickitat.
related Mr. Devaughn. "That was
down Juarea way, about two days'
haul In. Beggars in rags are com
mon "enough, but this fellow got
under my hide. You know what
mean. I gave him cinco pesos gold.
Mucha graclaa, senor!' with a bow,
Demand that an international
conference of maritime nations be
called to consider measures to pre
vent the further pollution of the
seas is another reminder that there
are penalties as well as advantages
in our modern ways. Discharge of
refuse from oil-burning, ships al
ready threatens the existence of
shell fish, while 'deep swimming
fishes are being driven from the
shores where they formerly bred
and where the animalculae on
which the young fed are being
slowly but certainly poisoned by
oil. These casualties of the sea,
and the further reported destruc
tion of seafowl which a British
contemporary reports, present a
problem that no one nation can
solve by itself. That it calls for
action without undue delay is in
dicated, however, by the report
that the shortage of fish is already
felt in some of the principal mar
kets of the world.
The road was never built farther Away he went and came back pres-
tnan ooiaenaaie, as tne xorinrn ently with this. 'Take the thing,
Pacific officials threatened to build said a friend of mine, 'or rou'U of-
through from lawmt ir suctt were fend him.' Well, I've refused U500
oone. - I for it since. Collectors h&va. dofeered
There has also been a connecting I mo for ...vi inat tn rr rhmi-a
route surveyed from Whits Swan in I at jt. BUt the old chap said It would
me laKima vaiiey 10 uoraeuaare uy ( bring me luck, and it's not for sale.
way of Cedar valley. The worse one fac of the token, whioh ap-
iieaven irrigation canai proximates a dollar in size, la in
COmeS OUt Ot tne JtUlOKltat canyon, RrihA? -arith fceirrwrlvhli-a irim.
passes through Cedar valley, tunnels abiy Atee, the elgnlficance yet to
through the Simcoe- range and turns be determined. The reverse bears
easterly toward the Horse Heaven tn6 countenance of an amiable god.
country auout xour mixes uuii." grinning broadly, and the date 1625.
Uoldendale. KaHroad otnciais ana Ml. revauehn who ha (haen at the
engineers have been through this
section several times this summer
and it is rumored that this connect
ing link through Cedar valley Is to
be constructed in the near future
The line will serve to haul materials
and supplies in during construction
Imperial for some days, took train
last night for New Tork, to report to
his principals that Portland Is the
future Industrial center of the coast.
It Is high time to spread the nets
and furbish up the lures. Eastern
of the canal and also as an outlet I money ie looking toward Oregon for
to the east over the Northern Pa- I investment toward Oregon and the
cific for shipments of lumber when I entire northwest. "I have just re-r
the Eastern & Western Lumber com. I turned from a New York and east
pany begins operations. Then, too, I ern trip," said L. Y. Keady of Seattle
it would give lower freight rates be- I at the Imperial, "and found there
-tween Yakima and Portland by way I that .money is more plentiful and to
of Goldendale. . I be had at a lower rate than in
There is now a branch railroad I many years. Much of it will be of-
runninir north from Klickitat station I fered for western develoDment. and
on the JLyle-Crpldendaie branch to- i everywhere there is a keen interest
in this section. New York bond
dealers are complaining because
they cannot get enous-i to satisfy
their market. Everyone is talking
prosperity. A -short time ago Swift
& Co., placed an issue yielding
trifle over 5 per cent and the Chi
cago dealers were annoyed- because
the demand was greater than the
supply. I learned, in a general way,
that from now son an approximate
sum of $2,0OO,OOO,0,OO wlil be spent
nn filpAm rallrnnrljr st-nA thnt an
equal amount is to furnished for
electrical development. But the
most significant fact, to the west.
Is that we are entering an era of
cheap money." Mr. Keady is an
ex-resident of Portland, where he
conducted a real estate business,
leaving this city six years ago.
ward Camas Prairie. Surveys have
already been made and the line will
be extended to Camas Prairie in the
near future.
If a line independent of the North
Bank railroad interests is to be con
structed then connections would
probably be made by boat on the Co.
lumbus river. In building such
line reasonable grades would be
sought for as well as local traffic.
To meet these conditions tha sur
vey would probably begin at the
White Salmon station on the Spo
kane, Portland & Seattle railroad,
run westerly past the wharf and
swing north up the White Salmon
river to the Trout Lake valley.
thence1 easterly to the Camas Prairie
country and northeasterly to Yak
ima. This would give the shortest
practicable route as well as con
siderable local freight and passen
ger traffic.
About 35 years ago a survey was
made by the Hunt interests, coming
up Rock creek .to Coldendale from
Auto-suggestion is not ecorned by
a certain genial and efficient hotel-
man, of a Portland inn, who shall
otherwise be nameless. He believes
that if one says, repeatedly, "I am
the Columbia river and then by way I growing better, in all respects,
of Camas Prairie, Trout lake and
the Cispus river to Tacoma. There
has also been a survey made from
White Salmon through Camas
Prairie to Yakima. Thus it is seen
that the route above outlined run
ning up the White Salmon river
and through the Trout Lake and
Camas Prairie valleys to Yakima
is entirely feasiole.
The construction of this latter
route by others than the Northern
Pacific and Great Northern inter
ests would mean two railroads
through Klickitat county to Yakima
ne up the White Salmon river
and through Camas Prairie and the
other by the North Bank railroad in
terests connecting at Goldendale.
W. F. BYARS.
Lloyd George's enemies say he is
losing his grip, but that is what
they have been saying for four
years, and every time they have
said it his grip has become tighter.
The British people look around for
the man to fill his place and then
decide to let well enough alone.
Some ex-Confederates-' are as
slow to admit the truth about who
started the civil war as the Ger
mans are to admit that they started
the world war. Fifty years hence
German historians will be saying
that the innocent, peace-loving
boches were forced into war.
We eagerly await a statement
from Henry that he will send a
peace ship to Constantinople to
get the Turks out of the Darda
nelles by Christmas.
Bill Hohenzolleirn- is going to
marry a widow with five children
and after the family moves in and
gets settled he may wish the allies
had hanged him after all.
The senate appears to have neg
lected to put Scotch whisky in the
new tariff bill. Well, never mind,
the bootleggers will philanthropic
ally collect it anyway.
The victim of a hold-up the other
night says the rojiber carried "a
blue revolver." Cosing watch and
money no doubt made everything
look blue. l
Government, if it has authority,
should ban the "flying circus."
Too many valuable lives are en
dangered, even if not lost.
Sensible Spokane -high school
girls are attempting to regulate
school attire from the start in the
morning. Grand idea.
The ex-kaiser has mbre than a
month left to run with the boys;
then, having married a widow, his
troubles begin anew.
There was India to consider, and
France in Persia, but "little old
Lloydie" knows the political poker
game.
0LY WAY TO REDTJCE TAXES
Let Public Determine to Spend I,esa
In Service.
Yakima Republic.
The Oregonian, discussing tax re
duction in its own state, says that
"the ramifications of the tax sys
tem are not to be successfully at
tacked with a cleaver; mere denun
ciations by politicians do not affect
them. There is only one way to at
tain genuine reform in taxation, and
that is by -adoption of a compre
hensive programme determined upon
through intelligent, systematic sur
vey of tax methods, tax inequalities
and tax extravagances.
That is just as true here as it is
is Oregon. We demand that public
officials spend less, and sometimes
pull off political revolutions to show
the strength of our feeling on the
subject, but we do not seem to un
derstand how very little public offi
cials have to say about spending.
The cost of the business we put in
the hands of our elected representa
tives is more
we scatter the work among more
than 7000 individuals and hoards and
we allow very few of them aiiy con
siderable discretion in What is to
be done. They all act under the
laws we make for them. Many
of them have no discretion even in
spending, for we often vote great
expenditures or authorize costly en
terprises at the polls, and by far
the larger part of the -public ex
penditures are made necessary by
legislation we have caused to be
enacted and would, not conceivably
permit to be repealed. ,
We complain often about large
appropriations by "the: legislature,
but as a matter of fact the legisla
ture does not appropriate one-fifth
of the money raised by taxation, and
probably four-fifths of the appro
priations made by each legislature
are merely formal and could not be
avoided under any possible circum
stances. Tax reduction to any great extent
is not something we should ever
expect to get from the public offi
cials. It Is something that goes en
tirely beyond them and their func
tions. It goes to the question of
what we determine among ourselves
we are to have in the way of gov
ernment and to the further ques
tion of administration of public af
fairs. In spite of our continuing
demands for economy we persist in
retaining the most clumsy and cost
ly systems of spending public
moneys in this country that the
mind of man has yet devised.
day by day," presently a powerful
genie of the spirit will be enlisted in
one's cau,se. "It really works," he
said, as he laid down a pamphlet by
the eminent French psychologist,
Coue, "though, you shouldn't expect
marvels. Like all other benefits it
has Its limitations. Years of study
and application have convinced me
that the mental attitude is little
short of magic. -t the desk it will
soothe an. irate patron, and send him
away laughing and friendly. In, your
own life it will simplify your prob
lems and arrange your concepts to
meet them. The plan- is so simple,
in Its truth, that it wears to many
an air of absurdity. But it is a fact
in. life, and the sooner we recognize
it the happier we'll be. Yes, and the
more successful."
Aided by a crutch, A. W. Stone,
Hood River orchardist, limped into
the Portland yesterday and regis
tered for a few hours in the city. He
denied that his right foot had been
Incapacitated by a falling apple, and
attributed his misfortune to a
motoring Incident. "However I came
by It," smiled Mr. Stone, "it puts me
out of the game for a time. What
game? I am astonished at such a
question. Golf, sir. Presently 1
shall not find it necessary to jour
ney to Waverley course for a game
every week-end. Our Hood River
course: situates a-Dout tour mues
south of the city; Is beginning to
take shape, and by next yearwe will
have nine links ready for play. The
course comprises 150 acres, at least
we have acquired that much land,
and its fairways will bo irrigated.
That's uncommon, we thinK.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Hoashton-Mlfflln Co.
Can Yon Answer These Questions f
1. Does it weaken dandelions to
pluck their flowers immediately
after blooming?
2. Do female elephants have
tusks?
SL Please tell me how to rid my
garden from the white bugs com
monly called sow-bugs. Dun't tell
,me lime they (ove it.
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Have we many kinds of bats
in this country?
Yes; quite a variety, as brown.
California, hoary, long-eared, etc
You can find over a do2en varie
yes described in Warren-'a 'TMam
mais of Colorado."
2. t there has been a gas leak
und-e-rgrround can the place be re
planted with trees? I ara told not
for years.
The earth will be poisoned and
trees set In it will die, But experi
ment in a park in England proved
that if a good-sixed hole is dug and
the sides and bottom lined with wet
clay and new dirt then thrown In a
troe thus protected will do well In
its clay-walled pocket. 1
3. If birds wot artificially fd
all winter would they stay up north?
Probably some would, but it
hardly would be possible to feed
them no thoroughly that reliable ob
servations could be made on any
particular species. Indiiolng an In.
dividual to stay by feeding it does
not prove anything for the group,
and It would be overcoming a deeply
grooved Instinct to keep -migrating
birds north. It is thought that they
leave ndt only on account of food
supplier, but because the naked
trees and thickets in winter do not
offer the shelter small birds need,
if they are to avoid bmomlng food
for hawks, etc.
More Truth Than Poetry.
II r James J. Montagu.
John Strand of Montesano, Wash.
is registered at the Imperial. Scan
ning the roster of guests a breezy
natron puffed reflectively at his
than $100,000,000, but ciar as he ca? to the llne record"
l worfc ilTj mor Ing Mr. Strand's presence in our
midst. "Montesano, said ne.
That's un in the Grays HarDor
country one of the best bets in the
Pacific northwest. They have every
thing there, including aaf ideal Har
bor and oil. Yes, oil. They have
more oil than they've ever dreamed
of, right underfoot, and one of these
days that town; with Aberdeen and
Hoquiam.' will be. easy to find on the
map." He spoke as a prophet, but
the clerk yawned politely, as only a
clerk can yawn.
c iTati.i nf Cleveland, one of the
rioiecrHtea fo the Episcopal general
convention, returned yesterday from
tho Pendleton Round-up, wnre ne
relaxed from the long stress of par
l'amentary procedure. "I was much
pleased," said he, referring to the
buckaroos ana xne duuuubkiub. a.,
pilgrimage to the Mountain win
eomDlete Mr. Mather's excursion. I
Incidentally, the unassuming dele
gate and Round-up patron is rated
as one of the richest men in Amer
ica. ,
A. R. Bodmer of Seattle, wno leu
the road" to engage in a mercan
tile enterprise at josepn, ur., is
again registered at the Imperial
hotel as one of the legion of com-
ercial travelers. Contrary to nis
designs, the recreant kmgnt or tne
trrin srjeedily found that his old
calling was insistent and not to be
denied. "And at that," he said,
laughingly, "Joseph is a good town."
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Whitney of De
troit, Mich., accompanied by their
guest,. Mrs. McLachlin, are regis
tered at the Portland hotel as
IMPOSSIBLE POSITION" IS TAKPTV
Candidate Pierre for More Taxes
and for Less Taxes AIo.
PORTLAND. Sept. 23. (To the
Editor.) Your editorial on "Cam
nalirn Promises." whioh covers in
part the new compulsory school bill,
suggests many other matters in
connaction with the discussion or
that tneasure. You seem to deplore
the additional taxes which may
arise from elimination of private
schools, the chief purpose of which
appears from arguments of the op
position to be the teaching of re
lieion. Just why seven nignis i
week and all day Sunday should not
uffica to instill all the religion
required is not made clear, by you
or any other opponent.
Nor do you state whether wnai
date Pierce is for or agalnxt the
1925 exposition. What has that to
do with the school problem? Just
this: It would increase taxes con
iderably. In fact, the exposition
would add much more than the
comparatively insignificant amount
mentioned by you. viz., f4-'.(ivj,
which may be necessary to take
care of those now being educated
in private schools. And the educa
tion of children, I take it, means
more to the community at large
than any exposition, particularly
when that education is along the
line of 100 per cent Amerlranlsm.
which means, in short, education
unhampered by religious fanaticism
combined with snobbery.
Would The Oregonian. if It rould,
prevent the holding of the 1925 ex
position for the Bake of a paltry
J642.659? And which la the mora
important? H. J. KUK.VNA.
218 Consolidated Securities B!jf
What The Orogonian thinks about
the tax cost of the exposition has
nothing whatever to do with the
sincerity of Candidate Pierce. The
Oregonian is not running for office
nor making promises that It will
reduce taxation, Mr. Pierce Is. Tha
article referred to by the corre
spondent had solely to do wltlr Mr.
Pierce's campaign promises.
Mr. Pierce has declared that tax
ation is the great issue, the only
issue. In his statement ho belittled
by inferenco the comparative im
portance of tha education bill.
Yet Mr. Pierce, in one threat" de
claiming that lower taxes was the
great issue, before which all other
issues must give way, declared him
self in the next breath In favyr of
the education bill, which would In
crease taxes.
The point of the previous discus
sion, and the point of this discus
sion, ,1s not whether the merits of
the school bill justify increased
taxation. Every sincere advocate
of the school bill knows that it will
increase taxes, and he is doubtless
ready to submit to that increase.
Either the school bill or lower
taxes is the outstanding issue in
the campaign. It cannot be both.
Air. Pierce can conceivably believe
that the schooi bill is worth its cost
ui: u kait:h III! lit se n.
Who vas it made der Cherman raca
Per greadest peoplea any place.
L'ndt set tier vorld vun awful pscsl
Ii;h!
Who vas it boosted literehtire
Undt trledt to make der vorld se
cure By prcaUtinr everyvers' Kulturf
Mich! v
Who vas it never vllled no war.
As often he has sedt before.
But finally got goodt undl sora?
Melnself !
Who vas It sedt dot France must
pay.
I'ndt Knsrland also, right vy,
Undt toldt men Voik to toast "der
Day?"
I'm!
Who vas It sendt his sons to flcht.
Hut keep der battle out of slKht.
liecausu red allies ain't polite?
Me!
Who vas It gummed der army same.
Undt, ven va loee, gets all der
blame?
I hate to schpeak dot feliow'a nam.
Ludcmlorff 1
Who vas it vas too protidt to skip.
Hut ven lie seen der army aclulp.
Vent Into llnllnnd for a trip?
Ich!
Who vas It, now der vorld Is not
So full of nolfe undt shell undt shot.
Writes down exactly vat Is vat?
Villiain I k:
The hrinliark.
Mr. Lenin of course ha all ha
wants to eat and wear, but h miint
be dreadfully pestered by lif in
surance agent.
Jllt AhrXlt.'
Perhaps with all the mine work
ing Hll -winter we ll Ret enoush coal
to last till the next strike.
111 Kperlalty.
According to Mr. Klplinc, hi In
terviews as well as his writings are
f letien.
(fnnvngtit. ny., bv Hn RrrM :.(. Tri
In Other Day..
' I irtx Years A mo.
From Th On-aonlnn of Sopt. 2 jura.
Now York. A London sperla! any
that there Is no abatement In the
spread of cholera in KourmmU. Thfl
nature of the plaunn Im epidemic. In
the extreme, nnd It Is frared that It
will spread over the entire, country.
Ten thousand have already died.
Paris The French government
paid Germany to-iay r.7,oiMi.nn
franrs, complet Ing the flfih haif
nillli.ird of the war Indemnity.
We understand that a petition I
In rlrculatloii ssklnK that Mark
street be planked from the water's
edge to Front street.
The dredsep I rioli g nimd work
in the inlil-channel of the. Willam
ette at its confluence with tho Co
lumbia. It wjil remain there until
all ohntruetiuns at that point are
cleared away.
Twenty-five Yeara ..
From The (ireironliin nf J-;r. IfisiT.
Paris Flcaro warns the tovern
nient'that Germany Is earm-Miy rnn-
sldering whether the I lilted Stat
hould bo allowed to run Mmln out
of Cuba, nnd recalls that tho war
is lbln ari.do from tha mlMakr
made by French diplomacy In re
gard to Spain.
Washington The remiTim t ton of
Second Lieutenant Gordon Voorhles
has been accented by tho iciiMnt.
With Kitzirnmon on the Mump
and Sullivan with his eyes on the
mayoralty of Uoston, the "ring" be
comes an even mora pernicious far
tor In politic than It has been. If
that Is poasible.
William M. Iidd was re-elert..i1
president of the 1'ortland Young
Men's Christian asciatbn.
I'ltld'OMII IIM.)1 OF LAW.
low Kdueallnn Hill Differ I'roM
PreMent Matufe.
PORTLAND. .Sept. S3. (To the
Kditor. ) I. Can you explain brlelly
the. difference between the present
compulsory school law and the
school law that Is nn tho ballot?
2. I there anything In tne pro
poned law to prevent parent send-
ng their children ti private schools
in other states? VuTKIt.
The present coinpuUoi y school
law applie to children between and
Including tha sues of 9 and 15; the
proponed law charges these skc to
and 16.
The present law requires that par
ents or Ktiardians send children of
tne stated UKestoIhe public M-ho-ls.
except in certain case.
I Children now being taught In
private or parochial school for a
and therefore be In favor of If hut 1 period equal to the puhli.: school
Lottery News .Prohibited'.
LIBERTY BOND Wash., Sept. 23,
.To the Editor.) When in Port
land a few days ago I bought some guests of Russell Hawkins, resident
tickets for chances in a Pan-Amer- manager of the Whitney company,
Fire that damages or destroys a
church edifice can be charged to
the Evil One.
Construction makes little differ
ence when a storage garage begins
to burn.
The world series will be fought
out by John McGraw and one
other. :
Two more weeks for registration,
but attend to It this week.
Daylight saving having ended,
now for Christmas saving.
"Rain," prophesies the forecast
er. Humph! i
''0rtaIeaU.' it is.
lean car to be sold for the benefit
of the Labor temple, as I under
stood it. The winning number was
to be published in The Sunday Ore
gonian. I take the daily and Sun
day, but cannot find any mention of
the matter. Will you kindly publish
the winning number In The Orego
nian? G. O. HOLLENBECK.
Publication of such Information Is
a violation of postal regulations and
would disqualify The Oregonian for
ciroulation through the mails.
Pendleton Hounds Up Big; Cucumber.
PENDLETON, Or., "Sept. 23. (To
the Editor.) The question of the
size of cucumbers has been dis
cussed at various times in The Ore
gonian. Birch Creek, near Pendle
ton, Or., Is the home of the cucum
ber as well "as other fine vegetables.
I have, a cucumber that is 14 94
inches long, 12 inches in circum
ference and weighs 4 pounds.
If any other part of Oregon can
raise & larger one I will beat It In
X323. JULIUS GUDERT.A N.
of which Mr. Whitney is president
The timber holdings of the Whitney
company are located In the Tilla
mook district.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Northrup and
daughter, Mrs. John F. Wall, of
Boise, are at the Multnomah hotel
on their way home from a visit to
Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. Mrs.
Wall is the wife of Major Wall,
United States army, stationed at the
Idaho metropolis.
To football fans the name of
Brewer A. Billie, on the register at
the Multnomah, will conjure old
memories. A few years ago the
young Astoria business man of to
day was a star player of the O. A.
C. squad and the hero of many a
hard-fought field. .
Edgar Patrick, real estate dealer
of Walla Walla, is at the Oregon.
He reported realty transactions to
be brisk, with much building in
progress.
L. D. Drake of the Astoria Budget
is at .the Oregon for, vdajr or o.
he cannot conslstentlyussert at the
same time that lower taxation is
more important, and that ho stands
for that above everything else. Yet
that is exactly what he has said.
He Is trying to fool either the tax
reductionists or the school bill sup
porters, or both.
Illrth Confers Citizenship.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. Sopt. 23. (To
the Editor.) (X) Will an American-born
Japanese have the privi
lege of voting when he has reached
the age of 21? (2) Does the negro
vote in Oregon? Hasn't, there been
a law in Oregon that barred the
negro from voting?
SUBSCRIBER.
1. An American-born Japanese
has full rights of citizenship.
2. Negroes are entitled to vote.
The original Oregon constitution
denied the right of suffrage to ne-
grovs, mulattoes and Chinamen, bu!
the section was abrogated by the
14th and 16th amendments to the
constitution of the United States.
Vae of Beaver Skins.
INDEPENDENCE, Or., Se.pt. 23.
(To the Editor.) 1. Can one have
beaver hides made up in Oregon if
they are caught in another state?
2. If so, where?
3. Would It be against the law to
wear them? A SUBSCRIBER..
1. Yes, if they were caught
legally.
2. By any taxidermist.
8. Not if they were obtained
legally.
The Refugee.
Life.
Truth (as everybody had ex
pected) was in due course found
lying at the bottom of a well.
"You see," she apologized, "it was
the only way I could keep at a safe
distance from those dreadful oil
stock promoters."
term, and in such branches a are
usually tauKht in tlm fi r e t elaht
years In the public schools, are
erupt from compulsion to attend the
public schools. Thn proposed law
removes this exempt Ion.
Children who have completed the
eighth grade; thoe who are abnor
mal, subnormal or physically inca
pacitated, and children llvlnn cer
tain distances from school and witn
out transportation, are exempt from
compulsory public school atlvnd
anco under the provisions of both
bills.
A child who Is" being taught by
parent or private teacher under
written permission from the county
school superintendent, and who re
ports to th county superintendent
once every three months for exam
ination, is not compelled to attend
public school by the present liw.
The provision I retained In tlie juo.
posed law.
Tho- proposed law Inm-asi the
maximum fine imposed upon ir
ents for violation of the law from
t-0 to 10u and the maximum Jail
term from 10 to 30 days.
2. The law is directed at the par
ents or guardian, not at the child
cVe think a parent or guard, an,
within the Jurisdiction cf oren-n
autnorlties, who sent a child to a
urlvate or parochial school In im
otner btate would he subject to Hie
oenaltlcs of the proponed law.
Where to Get IHre-f orlea.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Sept. 24.
(To the Editor.) l'ie.tsc lot ma
know where I can find directories
of Denver, Colo,, and Ii Anueies.
suns:uini;i;.
R. L. Polk & Co. of Portland, pub
lisher of elty directories. h:;e .11
rectorlew of Denver aid l.o An
geles. Tre company is e.:-;:i','i ; ;
tha Artisans building, Broadway
and Oalc treeU.