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TnE MORXIXG OREGONTAN, FRIDAY, SEPTE3IBER 29, 1922
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A MOUNTAIN OCT OF A MOTJEmi-L.
Portland's o u p r e m a o y as the
great wheat port of the Pacific
coast and as the second In the
United States has made Seattle so
touchy that, when the railroads re
fused to bill nine cars to that port,
they were accused of discrimina
tion and a story was published to
the effect that Portland was so
congested as to compel diversion of
a Japanese ship to Seattle. Those
nine carloads of wheat caused Se
attle to appeal to the Washington
department of public works, where
upon that department appealed to
the interstate commerce commis
sion. Portland was depicted as a
greedy monster trying to shut Se
attle out of the business and gath
ering more wheat into its elevators
and warehouses than it could
handle.
The North Bank and Union Pa
cific roads are not trying to divert
wheat from Seattle; they are simply
trying to keep their cars on their
own lines, so that they may load
them, again with their own traffic.
Cars are at a premium and when
one railroad gets possession of an
other's cars, it loads them again
without being too particular to
start them on the straight road
homeward. The North Bank and
Union Pacific refuse to let their
cars go over the Northern Pacific
track because they could not guess
how many days or weeks- would
elapse before those cars came
home.
Some ships destined for Port
land have been diverted to Seattle,
but the reason was iiot that Port
land docks were unable to handle
. wheat as fast as it arrived, for they
handled without delay twice as
much last year as arrives this year.
The reason is that wheat is more
smutty this year than last. Ar
rivals by rail at Seattle are so much
smaller than at Portland that the
smutting machines on the Seattle
docks have been able not only to
keep up with them but to accumu-,
late a supply of clean wheat, while
the smutting machines at Portland
have not been able to keep up.
Therefore ships were sent where
they could get cleaned wheat. But
the Portland dock commission has
ordered more machines, which will
soon be installed and will smut
wheat as fast as it arrives. Then
there will be no further cause to
divert ships, and the insignificant
basis for Seattle's cry of congestion
Will disappear.
ALAS, IT'S TOO MUCH MONEY !
A free giver at Ashland who de
scribes himself as "an Eastern man
who has come to Oregon to live"
has had the temerity to forward his
check for $5000 to the "Walter M.
Pierce campaign fund. Our weep
ing Walter will,' of course, decline
it. No anti-Newberry democrat
could possibly thus put himself in
the hands of the wicked money
power. As for ourselves we im
plicitly believe the enthusiastic
donor when he says that he was
"profoundly impressed" by
speech made by Walter "your
sound reasoning, your common
sense views, your proposals for the
equalization and reduction of .taxes,
and your general policies."
But, of course, Walter, being a
friend of the people, and having
been long in the business of telling
them so, is deeply suspicious of
large campaign contributions. Can
anyone give $5000 to any candidate
without a fair implication that he
expects something for his money
something he shouldn't have? Also,
can any man honestly earn $5000
all by himself? Walter has his
doubts, to be sure. It is too bad
that the money must be sent back
for there are sundry people who
really think that it is Jo the interest
of the state that Mr. Pierce be
elected governor, and $5000 would
help a lot. That's also what New
berry and his friends thought.
Undoubtedly Walter made a fine
proved that present-day airplanes
are capable of maintaining the do
sired altitude, and though the pas.
senger-carrying capacity of
trade-wind plane would be largely
diminished by the necessity for
taking along an oxygen supply the
forecast is no doubt warranted that
once the eight-hour flight has been
demonstrated by a daring pioneer,
both the means of carrying pas
sengers and the passengers them.
selves will be forthcoming.
The coming direction of airplane
flying, if aviators hope to continue
to thrill us, will be from the west
toward the east. But so rapidly
are we losing our capacity for won
der at anything that an eight-hour
cross-continent flight, if it were
performed tomorrow would be an
cient history by next week.
speech at Ashland, worth all of
$5000. Undoubtedly, he promised
to equalize and reduce taxes. That
speech should have greater cur
rency, if it proposed a concrete
plan. What was it?
Will Mr. Pierce, or somebody for
him, tel precisely how and where
he will reduce taxes? The first
proposal so far made by Walter in
that direction is to add from 12,000
to 20,000 children to the public
school rolls. All very fine; but how
will it reduce taxes?
DANGER IX DESPOTIC POWER.
The Wall Street Journal quotes
"an authority on shipping condi
tions" as condemning the ship
subsidy bill both on the ground
that the proposed ten-year subsidy
contracts would tie the hands of
congress for that period and that
the bill "gives despotic and un
precedented powers to the shipping
board." This authority says:
It does not require the board to re
port or account to the president, to the
congress or to anybody else at any time.
There is no finer example of the creation
of that bureaucratic control toward
which our whole governmental system
seems to be tending. The board is to
ihave absolute control over sale of the
ships owned by the government, which
are expected to bring $200,000,000; the
loaning of $125,000,000 to ship owners
to bs used for reconditioning and addi
tional building; and the making of the
subsidy contracts. The whole scheme
Is tantamount to our giving the ships
away, and the payment of. over $500,
000,000 to operate them In the next ten
years.
Any congressional action will lje futile
after the contracts are once made. A
repeal of the subsidy law would be use.
less, because it is hardly conceivable that
the government would undertake to force
canoeuatlon of the ten-year subsidy con
tracts, and even if it did the shipping
companies could enforce their contracts
In the courts.
In order to effect its purpose of
establishing an American mer
chant marine, a subsidy should be
assured to shipowners for a defi
nite term, and in most cases ten
years would not be too long, but
the fact that the government would
be tied up for that period is the
more reason for ' not giving the
shipping board "despotic and un
precedented power." It is an ex
cellent reason for open methods
in selling ships and for public
hearings of all interested before
granting subsidies or loans on
building or establishing lines. Prac
tically the government would em
bark on a new enterprise, actually
it would inaugurate a new policy
which has caused sharp differences
of opinion. That no fatal mistakes
may be made, that no suspicion of
special favor may attach to the ad
ministration of the law, it is im
perative that no step be taken until
all facts have been learned, all ex
pert opinion digested. That policy
would have the further advantage
of educating the board in its work
as it went along and, if it gave heed
to what it learned, of carrying pub
lic opinion along with the board.
If the board should plunge along
in its old, star-chamber, bureaucra
tic way, it would be very likely
gradually to provoke such a storm
of opposition as would sweep away
shipping board, subsidy and mer
chant marine, all together.
It is' generally agreed among
those who have considered the sub
ject without prejudice that our
merchant marine cannot be firmly
established without subsidy,, at
least at the beginning. Success re
quires that the subsidy be con
tinued until that end is attained,
therefore that it be administered in
Araj: to wia continued public ap-j
BACK TO UNPREPARED -NX8S.
The plain intimation from the
war department that the present
army of 125,000 men and 12,000 of
ficers is insufficient to train the
organized reserve is subject for
thought by those who have not for
gotten in what state the declaration
of war in April, 1917, found our
army. By its provision of enough
officers and men to train the or
ganized reserve the national de
fense act of 1920 made the one
most definite provision for perma
nent preparedness that remains
from our great military effort in
the war. If that should be aban
doned, we should be back where
we stood when the regular army
and the national guard were our
only military forces, when re
serves had to be organized much as
Bryan's million men would have
been no officers, no arms, no
training, no quarters, no transport.
no medical or engineer corps just
a mass of human raw material.
The national defense act pro
vided the very least that can ra
tionally be called an organized re
serve the training of officers and
the laying up of a store of equip
ment, these to constitute the skele
ton of a reserve, which should be
built up with men drawn from the
civil population. When the attempt
was made "during the war to sup
ply officers by intensive training
for sixty days, it was but a make
shift to which years of unprepared
ness compelled us to resort. Of
ficers thus trained, though excel
lent material, had but a smattering
of what they should have known
and their lack of thorough training
cost us the life of many a good man
on the Marne, the Argonna and the
Meuse, as e-service men can tes
tify. Privates and non-commis-sioned
officers may in case of
necessity be put in the battle-line
after brief training provided they
are led by , well trained officers.
Lacking such officers, they are ex
posed to massacre or demoraliza
tion by the consequent lack of
morale which trained officers, and
the confidence in them which that
training inspires among their men,
are best able to impart.
It is no exaggeration to say that
the money saved by the efforts of
pacifists at economy represents a
corresponding loss of men in our
next war. Constructively pacifists
are accessories before the fact to
the needless killing of our best
men.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT IN A DAT.
The promise of postofflce of
ficials that mail service will soon
be established that will cross the
continent, from New York to San
Francisco, in a trifle more than a
day does not seem unreasonable in
view of recent performances by
army aviators. - It is quite within
the bounds of scientific probability,
however, that the voyage in the op
posite direction will be made in a
much shorter period. A third of
twenty-four hours is indeed more
than the vagrant fancy of a twen
tieth century Jules Verne.
Major Schroeder's experience in
the flight on which he made a new
record for altitude has recently
formed the basis for important de
ductions concerning the existence
of trade winds in the unexplored
higher levels which the Scientific
American regards as having a
bearing on the future of air travel.
Schroeder rose to a height of six
miles, headed his plane due west
and flew an hour and a half at a
speed of 100 miles an hour and
landed 200 miles due east from his
starting point. His flight, which
may prove to be the most signifi
cant in the recent history of ex
perimental flying, appears to con
firm previous theories that at cer
tain distance aloft there is a con
stant air current moving from west
to east, and to fill the need ex
pressed by meteorologists for anti
trade winds to maintain a balance
with the trade winds which prevail
at the surface of the earth.
More depends, therefore, on the
development of the oxygen tank,
which Major Schroeder utilized on
his memorable venture but which
did not always serve the purposes
of the Himalayan explorers, than
on early changes in the mechanism
of flying machines, Schroeder
ANOTHER KING GOES TO KXJT.E.
Fall of King Constantino is the
penalty of that perfidy which he
practiced toward the allies during
the first half of the war and of the
mad ambition to become ruler of
great country which led him to un
dertake with the forces of ex
hausted Greece, to overpower th
Turks when they made their last
stand in their homeland. If he had
been true to the interests of his
people, he would have escaped
deposition on demand of the allies
and could now have been ruler of a
greater Greece. But he was dazzled
by the glamor of greatness which
his imperial brother-in-law, the
kaiser, offered him; he became
inoculated with the divine right
delusion, and therefore cast out the
great popular leader, Venizelos.
He has gone the way of all divine
right kings. These are bad days
for the king business, as the swarm
of exiled and deposed monarchs
testifies.
Restoration of Constantino to the
throne in December, 192t), is one of
those events which are inexplicable
to Americans until they study the
mind of Europe. The great powers
compelled Turkey to recognize
Greek independence almost a cen-
tury ago, and they promptly busied
themselves to furnish Greece with
a king. The reaction irom tne
French- revolution was in full
swing, and to them it was unthink
able that the Greek people should
be permitted to choose their own
form of government or that a re
public should be desired or even
permitted. Their first choice of a
dynasty ended unfortunately, for
the Bavarian, King Otho, ruled as
a despot and was deposed, ana
George of Denmark was .chosen,
again no thought being given to a
republic. The idea that monarchy
is the only form of government to
be tolerated had been so firmly in-
culcated in the mind of the people
that they took it as a matter of
course.
Yet democratic ideas are strong
in them and their history down to
the accession rot Constantino has
been a succession of party etrug.
gles under a constitutional mon
arch. Their affairs fell into such
confusion from this cause that
Venizelos, leader of the Cretans in
their conflict . with Turkey for
union with Greece, was called to
reorganize the government, and by
his genius put the nation in post
tion to fight Turkey and formed
the Balkan alliance which almost
drove the Turks out of Europe in
1912-13. He was regarded by the
people as the maker of a greater
Greece, but, republican by instinct
and insisting that, as a constitu
tional monarch, the king should
rule but not govern, he earned the
enmity of the court.
When the murder of George on
March 18, 1913, made Constantino
king, the contest between king and
popular tribune began. Constan
tino had married the kaiser's sis
ter, Sophia, and his brother,
Nicholas, had married Grand
Duchess Helen, a cousin of the
czar, and both these scions of auto
cracy hated Venizelos and urged
Constantino to be a real king. The
court swarmed with royalist syco
phants and with army officers edu
cated in Germany, where they had
imbibed Prussian militarism. Con
stantino paid a visit to the kaiser,
saw the army maneuvers, the evi
dence of Germany's tremendous
military power, was made honorary
colonel of a regiment, and the
kaiser laid before him plans for the
aggrandizement of Greece which
should enthrone dear "Tino" as
ruler of a new eastern empire, al
lied with a Germany that would,
have reduced Austria and all other
Balkan states to feudatories,
crushed France, humbled Britain,
taken Turkey under its protection
and advanced through that country
to the conquest of India. His mind
filled with such visions, Constan
tino returned to Athens to find
Venizelos the great obstacle to
their realization. By his victories
in the Balkan wars Constantino had
wiped out the memory of tho dis
aster to which he had led the army
in the war of 1897 and by his
agreeable personality had won the
hearts of the people, but the able
statesmanship of Venizelos and his
devotion to popular rule had won
him a greater following.
Thus the forces were arrayed
when the world war broke out all
tho instincts of the people turning
them, with Venizelos as their
leader, to the side of the allies;
the royalist, militarist, pro-German
party covertly working for Ger
many, proclaiming German victory
as certain and advocating neu
trality while ostensibly falling in
with the popular desire. At the
outset Venizelos informed the al
lies that Greece was ready to join
them when they called for its help,
provided it was secured against a
flank attack from Bulgaria. The
allies blunderingly played into the
hands of their enemies. When
Venizelos- in February, 1915, pro
posed to send 50,000 men to attack
the Dardanelles, which were then
held by only 5000 Turks, the genr
eral staff opposed, and the king
refused consent. Venizelos reduced
the force to 15,000 men and the
crown council approved, but Con
stantino again refused assent. Rus
sia at tho same time informed
Greece that it -did not favor the
participation of a Greek army in
taking Constantinople or in any
movements in European Turkey.
Britain and Franco chased the mir
age of a revived Balkan alliance to
include Bulgaria, and when Veni
zelos resigned in the spring of 1915
on the issue of joining the allies,
his successor, Gounaris, continued
his pro-ally policy by offering the
aid of the Greek fleet to the allies
provided they would guarantee the
integrity of Greece. They refused
to give the guaranty, as it might
discourage Bulgaria. They even
proposed to buy that country's aid
with slices of Greek and Serbian
territory.
The diplomacy of tho allies thus
aided the intrigues of the pro-Ger
mans at Athens and when Bulgaria
declared war and Venizelos invited
the allies to land troops at Salonica,
the nation was so divided that Con
stantine was able to drive Venizelos
from office and to proclaim neu
trality in violation of the treaty
binding Greece to defend Serbia-
He promised to be neutral benevo
lently toward the allies, but fla
grantly favored Germany, kept, up
secret correspondence with th
kaiser, surrendered forts and towns
to the Bulgars, and sent irregular
bands to .harass the allied army'
rear. Russian and Italian hostility
to Venizelos caused the allies to de
fer drastic action against Con
stantine, though they angered tho
people by blockading the coasts.
After surrender of the forts to Bui
garia, Venizelos led the islands and
Macedonia in forming a provisional
government at Salonica and in or
ganizing an army to join the allies,
The Russian revolution ended
Russian opposition to Venizelos
and the American declaration of
war brought the United States to
his support. Italy had to yield, and
the allies compelled Constantine to
withdraw in June, 1917, but neg
lected to obtain his formal abdica-
tion. Venizelos again became su
preme with Alexander as a puppet
king, and Greece became united on
the side of the allies, aiding ma.
terially in the campaign that forced
Bulgaria to surrender. Venizelos
was the most influential among the
statesmen of the small allies at the
peace conference and was given al
most all that he asked under the
treaty of Sevres.
Again allied disunion and bung
ling played into the hands of Con.
stantine. Greece was given
mandate to occupy the Smyrna dis
trict and, when Mustapha Kemal's
army threatened the straits, to
drive it back, which was done with
great ease in the summer of 1920
But the Greeks were forbidden to
advance beyond a certain line,
though they could doubtless at that
time have destroyed tho Turkish
army, which was ill-organized and
ill-armed. Forced inaction caused
discontent among the troops and
the people at home, who were im
poverished and weary with eight
years of almost continuous war
They were in a receptive mood for
royalist propaganda, and the death
of King Alexander from the bite
of a monkey in November, 1920
gave them opportunity. An elec
tion was called on tho issue of Con
stantino's recall and was won by
the royalists. Tho king refused to
return except in response to a
popular vote, which was given by
98 per cent of those voting, the
liberals abstaining. The n Vent
zelos left the country and Con
stantine returned.
The king followed up tho war
policy of Venizelos, designed to
hold Smyrna by right of possession
and to deliver the Greeks of Asia
Minor from Turkish tyranny, but
in face of opposition from the al
lies. But the allies, who had been
friendly to Venizelos, were frankly
hostile to Constantine,- for they
could not forgive his treachery, and
they were divided in policy.
Though Britain was half won
over, France and Italy became pro-
Turkish, all proclaimed neutrality
n a war between their ally and
their enemy, but Britain supplied
arms to the Greeks, France and
Italy to the Turks, and they re
fused Greece belligerent "rights at
sea. In defiance of them Greece
renewed the war in 1921, with such
success that the army advanced to
within twenty miles of Angora.
There a long, stubborn battle was
fought and the Greeks retired. For
almost a year inactivity has eaten
away their morale while France
and Russia armed the Turks.
Hence the rout which ended with
the massacre at Smyrna, and the
enraged soldiers return to depose
Constantine as "the author of
Greece's misery."
Venizelos has once again been
hailed as the hope of his country's
regeneration. This time the revo
lution may not stop short of. a re
public, for Prince George, being a
pro-German, is as unpopular as his
father, and Greece should have had
enough of kings. Another chapter
the involved story of Balkan
politics opens as a new recruit is
added to the company of rejected
monarchs.
A four-inch tooth found near
Bend has been identified as that
of a horse fifty or sixty hands high
of prehistoric days. Now some
body must find a shinbone of the
man big enough to ride that animal.
DebS" sorrows because the loco
motive firemen rejected a proposal
to invite him to address them in
convention. Ingratitude is linked
with wisdom.
Constantine deserves less sym
pathy than almost any other de
posed monarch, for he had two
chances and. couldn't make good
either time.
The Listening Post.
By DeWltt Harry.
HAT'S in a name?". Well.
VV what is? Take it from us
there Is quite a lot concealed in
some names. Just to introduce
new amusement, run over the list
of those you know and see what
their initials spell.
Initials are important, especially
on a railroad. The autocrat of the
lines is the chief dispatcher and his
initialed dispatches are law.. Perf
of the men along the line know him
by name. Take EMR, for example,
otherwise B. M. Ringer of the U. P.
The whole system knows EMR, but
few of them know him In person.
But to get to our new game
herewith a list of notables, their
initials bared to publicity.
Charles A. Bigeiow . . y.h
v.. a. uaococK ........... cab
Milton O. Williams .'.."."mow
J. O. Barr , .-- ib
W. A. Dal j
Charles O. Devora C. O. D
H. A. Green . ... hag
Arthur C. Emmons "..".".ace
W. A. Goodman wag
H. E. Lounsbury , nei
George A. Schmidt .".gas
M. A. M. Ashlev ,.,
Watson Eastman we
K.UDU KKK
Ben E. Ttitus bet
Parry O. Powell ... . .
G. A. Francis , gaf
Beryl A. Green bag
Mary Emily Newman men
B.E.Davis bed
Fred E. Davis ...'.fed
a. E. Noble ......hen
H. A. Maddox' i ham
H. A. Metschan ham
M. A. Manning- .ham
T. A. Reynolds t-ar
U. E. Murphy em
Mrs. E. T. Colwell etc
Rev. J. A. Gearhart jag
George A. Bleak man .....gab
Judge G. A. Gardner gag
Fay A. Gridley fag
Louts O. Gerber log
R. A. Matson ram
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales at Polks at the Hotels-
Chief Jenkins has ordered a ban
on dice games and punch boards.
If kept up it means Christmas
money for the shakers and
punchers.
Canada proposes to luro Ameri
cans across the border. The United
States always has taken bright
Canadians and made much of them.
Perhaps Canada will reciprocate. .
The aim of the "reds" in tho
United States seems to be to make
up in vividness of color that which
lacking in numerical strength, ,
Even if! Kipling said what he is
said to have said, it makes no dif
ference. The standing of poets as
statesmen always has been low.
Greece has shipped $25,000,000
gold to New York. "Markos Boz
zaris" does not intend staying
broke in any event.
Heppner is in the midst of a
rodeo and Ford carnival. It must
be edifying to see those things buck
and sunfish.
The dead bank robbers at the
Arkansas town went there from
Crookstown, Okla. That was a bad
starting point.
Home Town Stuff.
The telephone Is an instrument of tor
ture connected by a wire with a arirl who
chews gum in a. place called central.
There- are two kinds of telephones those
you do not wish to use, and those that
are out of order. When a telephone is
out of order it is as helpless as a one-
legged man at a kicking match. Some
people, however, construe Its importance
a stubbornness and resort to violence in
an effort to oonnuer its rebellious spirit.
They jiggle the receiver hook frantically,
hit the transmitter on the ear with a
paper weight and, at length, in despera
tion, massage the Instrument with
swivel chair. Nothing avails, however,
except fasting and prayer.
In the o d days the telephone user
crawled under his desk and cranked a
coffee mill arrangement to attract cen
trial's atention. Now he merely removes
the receiver and -barks. Barking at cen
tral ie a sport greatly enjoyed by men
who wear 16 collars.
There is a beautiful story aDout
man who barked at central. He was
Kalnes and wished to talk to a man in
La Grande. Central told him the charge
would be 80 cents.
What!" barked the man. why, say,
in La Grands I could telephone to hell
for a Quarter."
And central said: I know; but that
is inside the city limits.'
Public phones are ke-pt tn Tireless
cookers called booths. The patron en
ters, drops a coin in the little hole and
begins to understand wny tne jtmusn
never forgot tne siacK oie ot uaicucca.
Telephones are very userm to people
who wish to know what time it Is and
where the fire is, and also to people who
wish to address uncomplimentary re
marks to a hard-boiled egg, but they
discourage leg work arid thus increase
the national expenditure for anti-fat
nostrums and digestion tablets. Haines
Record.
Whoever originated the "grab-
bag," that great American institu
tion? We don't seem to change our
characteristics a great deal from
generation to generation, but who
would .have thought that an old-
fashioned stunt like that would
prove popular these days?
The loud-talking hallyhoo expert
stood on a platform in a 6-10-15
cent store and coaxed the crowds
up. "Take a chance, plenty of
prizes, no blanks, never know what
you get, until you open them. Just a
dime and you may get a quarter's
worth, take a chance, make a grab,
plenty for all." -
On and on he went and the crowd
urged about and literally grabbed
the .place bare. As fast as the stock
of parcels would be replenished
they would disappear. They were
wrapped in all sorts of odd shapes,
and some of them, though light,
were bulky. The crowd literally
fought for a chance, and the stunt
was reaping a harvest. No matter
how trifling or useless were the re
sults of their gabbing they seemed
to come back for more.
What a country! What a people!
One persistent woman paid her thin
dime and snatched a huge bundle
right out of another's arms, only to
find when she opened it that it con
tained a penwiper. She dug up
another dime and got a thin pie
plate, and yet another yielded a
bunch of paper flowers. What in
the world could she do with the
collection of impossible junk she
had piled in front of her? But she
earned in the grip of a gambling
mania and Dougnt ana Dougnt.
What a jag and what a headache!
IT'S THE VIEWPOINT, .
A fly sat upon an auto wheel
And said: "See the dust I make."
The innocent insect did not know
That he was merely a fake,
For his little inside
Was swollen with pride,
And we all make the same mis
take. REMXJK.
Portland visitors took some good
weather with them to Salem.
The free-for-all is on for city
commissioner.
She was well worth an extra
glance, but her .expert use of a
toothpick destroyed the ensemble.
As you turn youi head and step off
the curb on your noonday stroll a
woman driving a Ford with a mono
gram on the side nearly nips off a
foot. As usual, on the wrong side
of the street. Too much to look at
these days. A girl living a gold
fish existence in a show window.
One of the best bootleggers in the
city, red carnation in buttonhole.
much interested in the act.
Here comes a man with a cellu
loid collar. Behind him a limping
young chap with" a silver badge in
his lapel. Dapper Dan Collins taking
tickets at a movie door always as
sures you the show is the best yet.
A dignified old gentleman comes
along, looks like a successful pro
fessional man, but he is only a
bridge .lawyer. A country cousin
fresh from the fields, with real red
in her cheeks. Her swain displays
a comb and a fountain pen in his
vest pocket.
The pigeons circle about overhead
and settle down to coax . tidbits
from their friends. Spots of sun
shine fleck the glistening pave
ments. Summer is going out in a
blaze of glory.
-According
to mere man's view
point, one of the greatest domestic
inventions of all time is the electric
toaster. i
There are probably more boosters
to the square mile in Malheur coun
ty than in any other county of Ore
gon. It appears to be in the air.
No man from Malheur can come to
Portland without telling what a
wonderful country Malheur is and
what bountiful crops are grown
there and what an ideal climate can
be found and much more to the
same effect. A real sporting event
would bo to start a citizen of Mal
heur and one from southern Cali
fornia each telling tho other about
the advantages of his respective
section. The super-booster of Mal
heur, however, is now In Portland.
He is W. H. Doolittle, who is not
only secretary of the chamber of
commerce. of Ontario, Or., but he is
also mayor of that lively city on the
bank of the Snake river. No day
is perfect and complete in the life
of Mayor Doolittle if he falls to
take some visitor preferably a
business man from Portland out to
see what is being done in the way
of irrigation in the vicinity of On
tario. He will; on the shortest no
tice, show where a score or more
of people are making a living on a
single acre of irrigated land.
Hobbling on crutches, Stoneca
Curtis Beach is in Portland, from
Los Angeles for a visit to relatives.
Mr. Beach intended remaining here
only a few days, but on the night
of his arrival he stepped off a side
walk into a shadow and his foot
was broken, so that accounts for
the crutches and tho factthat the
visit will have to be extended un
til he can move around more freely.
For years Mr. Beach played an ac
tive part in Oregon politics. Years
ago he operated a newspaper at
Lakeview, later coming to Portland.
He has been city superintendent of
streets, city license officer, repre
sentative in the legislature, state
senator and supervisor of tho census
for Oregon.' A number of years ago
he disposed of his printing plant In
Portland and moved to California.
For a time he made his headquarters
in San Francisco, but latterly he has
been located in Los Angeles.
"Rocking is proceeding north and
south from the quarry north of
Manhattan beach. The rock has
been spread to Jetty creek already,"
reports H. V. Alley, commissioner of
Tillamook county, registered at the
Imperial. "We have placed the rock
on the clay section first because
rocking clay In wet weather is Im
possible. By surfacing the clay first
we can proceed surfacing the Coast
highway where we strike the sand
and the rain will not be an interfer
ence. Work is also moving along
on the Neskowin section. Consider
ing that the county did not get
started until almost summer on the
road work this year, duo to long
and continuous rains from early
spring, a very good showing is be
ing made. The people of Tillamook
county are especially interested in
good roads and never hesitate to
bond themselves for highways. In
this respect they do not take sec
ond place to any other county in
Oregon."
Four deer were killed by the party
consisting of George H. Kelly, Phil
Metschan and Clyde G. Huntley, in
the Oakridge country. The hunters
returned satisfied with their trip
and Mr. Metschan Insists that he
killed one of the deer. He says he
shot at two others which he failed
to get. Throughout the trip, as a
safety measure, the hotelman wore
a red hat, the same one which he
used to beat off hornets last year
and which caused a steer to attack
him and an eagle to swoop do.wn to
take a bite at him. No such har
rowing adventures were recorded
on the present expedition.
Any old-timer in Pendleton knows
who is meant when a reference is
made to "Alex." For years R. Alex
ander was a merchant in the Round
up town but he has been living the
life of a retired capitalist of late.
Having seen that the recent Round
up was carried on with its custom
ary success and that Pendleton is
now returned to normalcy, Mr. Alex
ander has arrived in Portland to
rest up.
There is no slack In the automo
bile business, according to W. J.
Gray of Oakland, Cal., at the Mult
nomah. Mr. Gray is in the tire busi
ness and has been east visiting fac
tories. The constantly increasing
demand for tires, which is keeping
tie manufacturers busy, is an indi
cation of how cars are being used,
for the more cars kept busy the
greater the demand for tires.
whether the cars are new or old.
J. C. Penney, who has a string of
stores throughout the country, reg
istered at the Multnomah yesterday
from White Plains, N. T. Mr. Penney
is here to attend a conference of the
store managers who look after his
interests in the Pacific northwest.
Samuel Mather, who was said to
be the second richest man in Amer
ica before he went to Rainier a few
days ago, returned to the Multno
mah yesterday, where he was stay
ing during the recent Episcopal con
vention. Mr. Mather Is from Cleve
land, O. s
Blaine Hallock of Baker, member
of the state game commission,
passed through Portland yesterday
on his way to Salem to consult with
state officials relative to -condemnation
of alfalfa hay in that section.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br James J. Montagrua.
ISO VSE.
I read recently In the paper
Of a man of a hundred and ten,
Who still keeps the pace in the gru
elling race
Of vigorous, red-blooded men.
And I wrote him to ask how he
did it,
Though I don't want to lag on the
stage.
Till more dead than alive, but I'd
like to survive
To a happy and useful old age.
I hoped he would advocate resting
And taking occasional drinks.
Or spending week-ends with my
prosperous friends
Who live near the edge of the
links.
By lazily swinging a golf club
And cutting a bit off my score.
As day followed day seemed a rather
nice way
To eke out some sixty years more.
Alas! When I opened the letter
Tho old fellow sent In return,
I found that to park at the century
mark
Involves weary methods and stern.
He rises at four every morning. .
Feeds the horses and cattle -their
hay.
And harrows and sows and husks
pumpkins and mows
Till the end of a strenuous day.
No longer I nurse tho ambition
To live till a hundred and ten.
For I'm fain to recoil at long ses
sions of toll
Repeated again and again.
If one, to live long, must t busy
From the dawn until far into the
night.
And keep up the pace in the sweat
of his face.
A short life will suit me all right!
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Accounting; for It.
Maybe Mr. Kipling's books are
not selling in America as well as
they used to.
Hope.
The best peace prospect up to date
is the likelihood that all the nations
will soon have to get together to
lick Turkey.
Inexplicable.
We notice that all the New Eng
land hotels with the highest prices
this summer were those nearest the
Canadian line.
(Copyright. 1922. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Self.
By tirmre K. Hall.
However much your friends may do
They cannot win your gam.
For your success depends on you.
Whatever others claim;
And if at last aoneone declares:
"I made this man. you see."
It is false wltneaa that he bear.
For such could never be.
Your game Is yours for you to play.
The strength you must supply.
And though applause may cheer th
way.
No victory can it buy:
A million may look on and shout.
Your name may loudly call;
But you alone must bring about
Tho triumph, after all.
We love applause the world around.
And plaudits yearn for, too.
But in ourselves alone Is found
The worth of what we do;
And when, sometimes, someone de
clares "I made this man, you see,"
It Is false witness that he bears
For such could never be.
In Other Days.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Hona-taton-Mlf aim Ca
R R. Crandall, who Is republican
candidate for representative for Mal
heur county, has checked out of the
Hotel Oregon for home. He at
tended the republican platform conference.
A. D. Anderson of Madras, who is
interested in irrigation, is at the
Hotel Oregon. There are a number
of irrigation advocates of that dls
trict now in the city on business.
Benjamin Brick, who was well
known in Portland several years
ago, when he was active in political
circles, arrived at the Hotel Oregon
yesterday from Seattle.
E. M. Reagan, of tho Herald at
Albany Is among the arrivals at
the Hotel Oregon. The Herald, of
which Mr. Reagan Is the editor.
was established In 1878.
Motoring from Spokane are Mrs.
August Paulsen, Mrs. Lulu Richard
son and Miss Frances Paulsen.
They are registered at the Hotei
Portland.
C. E. Gates, mayor of Medford,
is in town, either on business or
politics, or perhaps both.
C. - W. Parker, garage man of
Roseburg, is registered at the Im
perial, accompanied by his wife.
W. C.,Van Emon, an attorney of
Klamath Falls, Or., is at the Ben
son with Mrs. Van Emon and son.
City Attorney J. T. Brand
Marshfield, Or., is in tho city.
of
Mother's Break.
Boston Transcript.
Little girl (before statue in mu
seum) Mamma, who's this?
Attendant (after pause) That's
Mercury, the messenger of the gods.
You have read about him, no doubt.
Mother Of course she has. But,
do you know, my little girl has such
a very poor memory for scripture.
Can Toa Answer These Questional
1. How can we keep English
sparrows out of our bird houses?
2. Does the western woodchuck
follow the same habits as the
eastern?
3. Please identify this specimen
bug I found on a crate of oranges
from Florida.
Answers In tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
Answers to Previous Questions,
1. I have seen a queerly marked
bird unlike anything ever before ob
served. It has a yellow head, red
collar at back of neck, and the rest
of the body is odd patches or stripes
of red and yellowish green, except
the tall, which is black. The long
wing quills are also black. Bill
sharp but strong, not very long.
This must be a partly moulted
scarlet tanager, and it does look odd
at this season of the post-nuptial
moult. By the time he flies south,
his red stripes will all be lost, and
the coat a general olive tone, ex
cept where the quills are black. Ths
black marks last all year round.
2. Are all rats in stables and
warehouses and such places the
same kind?
They are likely to be specimens
of tho brown rat. Mus norveglcus,
as this is commonest and most wide
ly distributed. It goes also under
the name of gray, house, barn,
wharf and Norway rat. Body slight
ly over 9 inches, tail 7. Grizzled
coat, due to black tips to long hairs
on the back, showing above general
gray tone. The black rat Is not
common in the new world; but the
roof rat, Mus alexandrlnus, is likely
to be the species around South At
lantic seaports. Has very light feet
and abdomen..
3. What is the use of the long
snout or bill on the paddle-fish?
This upper Jaw, paddle-shaped and
sometimes 15 inches long, is used
to stir up the mud in river bottoms
where the fish lives, for the sake of
the minute forms of life found in
the mud. which serve for food. The
paddle is also thought to be a tactile
organ, very helpful to a fish whose
eyes are unusually small, and which
lives in muddy water, hard to see in.
Signers of Constitution.
PORTLAND, Sept. 28. (To the
Editor.) A little controversy came
u relating to the signers of tiie
constitution of the United States. A
claims that no Catholic signed thu
cons
was
Catholics
how many signed? F. G. M,
Two members of the convention
which framed tho constitution of
tho United States, both of whom
signed the completed constitution,
were Catholics Daniel Carroll of
Maryland and Thomas Fits-Simons
of Pennsylvania.
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Address of Hone Breeder.
PORTLAND. Sept. 28. (To the
Editor.) !ould you inform me as
to how to get an address oT a man
who raises fancy horses I know
his'name, but do not know his ad
dress. The state, I think, he lives
In is New Mexico. Do they adver
tise In any magazine?
OLD SUBSCRIBER.
It is only a chance, but you might
find his advertisement in some stock
journal. Try the Breeders' Gazette,
Chicago: Western Horseman. In
dianapolis, Ind.: Farm and Ranch,
Dallas, Tex., or Southwest Stockman-Farmer,
Phoenix, Arix.
No Ticket Scalpers.
ROSEBURG. Or.. Sept. 27. (To
the Editor.) Kindly give me the
names of some railway ticket bro
kers in Portland and their addresses.
E. W. W.
There are no railway ticket bro
kers In Portland. Agents of the
various railroads and other trans
portation lines sell tickets of their
respective companies, in which other
persons are forbidden by law to
deal.
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Bottling "t Grape Juice.
PORTLAND, Sept. 28. (To th
Editor.) Kindly inform me whether
the juice extracted from the grape
and then put in air-tight containers
will ferment or not?
ARGUMENT.
You will not succeed In keeping
grape juice sweet unless you pas
teurize or sterilize it. j
Fifty Years Ago
From Ths Oregonlan of Sept. 28. UTS.
Weshlneton. Commissioner ef
internal revenue has decided that
certificates of naturalization Issued
by the United States or stats courts
are not such certificates as require
stamps under the Internal revenue
law and are exempt from stamp tax.
Brownsville, Tex. It Is reliably
reported that Cortlnas has been
writing letters to friends in Texas,
calling them to assist him in an In
tended raid into the country In the
vicinity of Laredo. In these letters
he Impresses the Idea that the coun
try between Uneels and the Rio
Grande belongs to the Mexicans, and
consequently they have the right to
plunder it.
In a fight with a belligerent fly
yesterday a man gave himself a
bloody nose. The fly persisted In
attacking the man's proboscis (
suspect that It was sweetened- with
rum and sugar) when with murder,
ous Intent he aimed a fierce blow
at the annoying insect. Ths fly es
caped. The stret car track has reached
Alder street.
Twenty-five Years Ao.
Prom Ths Orsgonlsn of Htt. 39. 1!T.
Columbus, (). The first annual
conference of the mayors and couo
cllmen of the United Slates was
called to order this morning by
Mayor Bannock of this city. About
160 accredited delegates were pres
ent. Constantinople. Fix customs
f!cja!s have been arrested for cir
culating pamphlets of the young
Turk party.
Chris Nolan, who was an old resi
dent of Portland and the first toll
collector on the Stark-sireet ferry,
and the first man who drove a hack
in this city, died in the suburbs
Monday.
The ratification of the Hawaiian
annexation treaty will require a
two-thirds vote of the senate when
it meets next December.
ATTrTt'DK DISGRACE XATIO
Tolerance of Turk Reflects on
Krery Civilised Country.
PHILOMATH, Or. Sept. 27. (To
the Editor.) The Orea-onJan's edi
torial, entitled "Surrendering to ths
Turk," was splendid. It expresses
my sentiments better than I could
have done myself. It makes an
American blush with shame when to
think of any self-respecting nation
yielding anything to the murder
ous Turk.
The Turk lias outlived his day of
usefulnt-ss. As a nation Turkey has
forfeited all rights to exist. The
atrocious crimes of the Turk for
ever bar that nation from partici
pation in any conference of nations
If there is one corner in hell hotter
than another. It will surely be re
served for that nation that has butch
ered and outraged Innocent women
and children. 1 hate war, but there
are some things worse than war. U
la a disgrace to all civilised nations
that they have so Ions; stood by
and witnessed the slaughter of a
smaller nation by the Turk. It Is
cowardice on our part If we longer
tolerate such inhuman practice.
Let this country stand shoulder
to shoulder with England and wipe
the Turkish nation off the map. A
call for volunteers would enlist
thousands of red-blooded Ameri
cans in a war with the Turks. In
the name of justice let's have this
thing over with. The Turk respects
no argument but the cannon's roar;
his word is not as good as t h
kaiser's scrap of paper.
Yet notwithstanding all our
knowledge of this treacherous Turk,
there Is likelihood that he will be
Invited to a 't in the league of
nations. Thla villain, with his
hands dripping with the hearts'
""tut "on and B claims that there blood of his late victim, would be .
one. Can you advise us lf nice neighbor around the league of
olics were signer, and. if so. nations table. W hat s a '" '
nations for If not to protect the
weak nations like Armenia from
such fiends in human form? What
was our peace conference for If not
to rid the world of such cont'nual
trouble makers?
From every pulpit, from every
city council chamber, from every
lodgeroom there should go up to
Washington such a long nd loud
protest against the unchangeable
Turk that this nation would step in
and say In tones of thunder that
this thing shall forever sfon.
J. S. MrMfRTY.
TRnF.n iwKVTF.n poti.atcm
Cupidity of nndaon'n Bay Compsny
Declared Rack of Custom.
PASO, Wanh,, Sept I?. (Tn the
Editor.) The Oregonlan's editorial
"What the Potlatrh Was." quntlni
Chief Buffalo Child I.ong I-anoo. )
evidently a reverberation of the
Pendleton ttound-up Who ever
heard of a Buffalo child In Brlftxh
Columbia?
Having spent my life on the sea
board and rivers of the northwest.
I have known the plamdlggers or
saltwater, "slwashers" from Tlils
mook to Nome, the Inland Indians
from the Bannocks to the Moose
head tribe at Dawson. I have em
ployed Indians as canoe men, barge
men and deck hands on steamboats
on the Columbia. Kraser. SMrfceen
and Yukon rivers and never heard
of the potlatch except In British
Columbia, where If was Introduced
bv the Hudson's Bay company to
create a demand for their blankets
and other trade goods.
The wants and habits of ths In
dian were simple and easily sat
isfied. They are trustful and .there
fore gullible, and the Hudson's !! v
company worked on these trait
trade blankets for furs and th-
stirred the Inherent boastful prld
of the chiefs to squander their
wealth of blankets In a potlatch
The word "potlatch" l not of In
dian origin, but Is the Chinook jar
gon word for give. W. r. GRAY.