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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1923 Jttorni wj (Orniantait ESTABLISHED BY HENRI L. P1TTOCK Published by The Oregonian Pub- Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDEX, E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oreaonian is a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local newa published herein. Ail rights of publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail ) ' Daily, Sunday included, one year B 00 Iiaily, Sunday included, six months .- 4.-3 Daily, Sunday included, three months 2 Daily, Sunday included, one month .. Daily, without Sunday, one year BOO Daily, without Sunday, six months .. - Daily, without Sunday, one month ... -J?" Sunday one year . 2.S0 (Bj Carrier.) Daily, Sunday included, one year . . . .$9.00 Daily. 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Clark, for he covered the name of the state with honor when he commanded the battleship that bore that name on its memor able voyage around the Horn and in the battle of Santiago. Such great events have filled the twenty. four years since those achieve ments that they seem like a chap ter from old history, but the whole nation watched for news of Clark's success in his race against time. With his little squadron he had to coal at some South American ports where the spirit was decid edly hostile to the United States in its war with Spain; to watch for torpedo-boats possibly lying in wait for him, and for a possible encoun ter with the entire Spanish fleet. He had to get high speed out of en gines through an unprecedentedly long continuous run, yet to nurse them in order to avoid a break down that might have proved fatal to his great enterprise. He in fused his officers and crews with his own determination, courage and caution, and with their patriotic co-operation he brought his ship into Jupiter Inlet, Fla., on the sixty-seventh day after sailing from San Francisco, ready for the battle in which the Oregon had a leading part. i Clark won a place on that roll of naval heroes that inspires the navy of today to emulate their deeds. It begins with John Paul Jones and bears the names of Lawrence, Perry, Decatur, Farragut, Dewey, Sampson, Schley and the com manders of destroyers and cruisers that fought the submarine in the world war. With his name that of Oregon will be ever coupled. Clark's voyage was a dramatic demonstration of the necessity of the Panama canal to the defense of the country. From the day of its completion dates the persistent ef fort which ended in opening of the canal in August, 1914. Its value both to defense and commerce is shown by the fact that the Oregon could now pass from San Francisco to Florida in twenty instead of sixty-seven days and by the great, yearly increasing tonnage of ships that passes through it. Admiral Clark's death should re vive Interest in the project to have the Oregon permanently stationed in Oregon waters, and should stimu late action to that end. The old battleship should become both a shrine at which each new gener ation may pay tribute to the men who sailed and fought on her and a training ship for the naval re serve. No better memorial to Clark could be found. SELFISHNESS AGAINST THE GEN ERAL GOOD. Canada not being in a position to do its share in building the Lakes St. Lawrence waterway, we may consider legislation by congress postponed, but the subject has so stirred the west and the Atlantic coast that it win provoke contro versy until it comes to decision. It is a great sectional issue between . the region of the great lakes and the upper Mississippi valley on one side and the North Atlantic ports on the other. The nature of the arguments ad vanced for and against the scheme shows the conflict to be between the desire of producers in the great interior basin for cheaper trans portation to foreign markets and the desire of New York and other ports to prevent diversion' from them of a large part of the carry ing business. The west wants the best route, though it runs partly through Canada. New York wants foreign traffic to pass over its docks, therefore appeals to na tional prejudice by saying that the improvement is to be made almost entirely in Canadian waters and that Canadian farmers would profit far more than those of the United States. The wheat of the two coun tries is assumed to compete in for eign markets, and an attempt ' is made to scare Americans with the prospect of a flood of Canadian wheat pourirrg through the new waterway to beat down the price of American wheat. Against the unani mous opinion of the engineers Who examined the scheme that it is practicable. New York quotes the opinion of General Goethals, though he admits not having read the report of the international commission, and much is made of the fact that the St. Lawrence is closed by ice for five months, as though that destroyed its value during the seven open months. This is a case of local, provincial selfishness arrayed against an en terprise that is for the common good of both nations. Certainly there would.be economy in loading a ship at Duluth or Superior, and sending it on a through voyage to Liverpool without breaking bulk, and the producer, whether Ameri can or Canadian, would profit through a higher price on the farm. His greater purchasing power would bring profit to the eastern manufacturer whose goods he buys, but the east cannot see that any better than it can see the -great markets created hy reclamation of arid land. Every enterprise of this kind gives New York, the shivers, for it feels its trip on commercial and nancial supremacy to be slipping. Jc is, no lonr the almost exclusive banking center, for the federal re serve system has made it one of a dozen centers. It is no longer the only center for floating the securi ties of new enterprises, for other cities find capital for work of con siderable magnitude without its aid. . THE DISAGREEABLE FACTS. The strictly disinterested and highly non-partisan information is vouchsafed by a democratic con temporary that "taxes in Oregon have increased more than BOO per cent in nine years" and the sighful hope is expressed for a return to the golden era of moderate taxes when Ir. West was governor. The les son thus gently sought to be im parted is that another democratic governor means lower taxes. It 'does not. We shall have lower taxes when we have state county, city and school govern ments which find ways and means to get along on less income not before. We shall have such econ- omizing governments when we have a public determined to en force economy upon its disbursers of taxes not before. We shall have a public determined to en force economy only when it refuses to heed the appeal of this or that or the other group for this, or that, or the other improvement or inno vation or service or necessity or whatever it is that the public Is persuaded it must have. The state tax is the cheapest tax or it was until the people took a hand and Voted special levies for elementary schools, for higher edu cation, for the soldiers' bonus, and the like. The governor can do al most nothing by any exercise of executive power to decrease taxes. Governor West's administration was not noteworthy for its econo mies. Indeed, the state tax for 1913 was the highest in years; and the other levies reflected generally the increasing cost of government. The beginning of tax extrava gance in Oregon was in 1905, when the total for all purposes in Multnomah county was 14.8 mills. Now the average is more than 40 mills, an increase of 200, not 500, per cent. It may be well to note that the rising tide of taxes in Oregon began with the institution of Oregon's radical and revolutionary political reforms. It is not a pleasant fact, but it is a fact; and its significance cannot be escaped. BOLSHEVIST POWER WANING. Though still retaining supremacy or the Communist. party, the soviet government of Russia has gone so far in restoring the hated capital ism that it leaves little of com munism except the name. It has just granted a long lease to the great .British corporation headed by Leslie Urquhart on its great metal industries of the Ural district which formerly employed about 250,000 men and which were de veloped under the czars. It has withdrawn all the labor restrictions which caused former negotiations to break down, and thousands of skilled' workmen are being re cruited in Great Britain to set the industries in operation. While the soviet is liberating the mining and manufacturing indus tries, the peasants are throwing off its yoke by forming local govern ments of their own in all parts of Russia. When the soviet sends commissars to re-establish its au thority, they simply disappear, nd the movement is so general that there are not enough troops in the red army to garrison every district. The nation seems to dissolve into a number of little republics, over which the soviet claims but cannot exercise supreme power. A process of transformation is in progress, which destroys bolshe vism at its extremities, though its leaders are still supreme at the center. They prey off the country more mercilessly than did the grand dukes of the days of auto cracy, but a new power is growing among the peasant millions. "SERVICE" OR "SARVICE." Sticklers for the name "service" for the berry and buyh which used to occur in luxurious profusion all over the Pacific northwest and is still found in a good many locali ties, have the undoubted support of scientific nomenclature, not withstanding the also undoubted circumstance that the pronunci ation "sarvice" is practically uni versal. In this respect it would seem that the word has followed the Briticism which gives to the syllable "er" the pronunciation ar" in words like "clerk" and in Bishop Berkeley's name. The latter, however, preserve the orig- j inal spelling "er, as the service berry has done. There are numerous allusions to the service berry in the journals of Lewis and Clark, which Lewis, who was the scholar of the expedition, nearly always spells "service," while Clark, who was a rough and ready woodsman whose literary education had been neglected, sets it down in various ways. "There are a great abundance of . ser vice berries now ripe and in great perfection," said Lewis in his entry of July 17, 1805, when the party were in the upper Missouri valley, though he goes on to say perhaps by a slip of the pen: "The survice berry differs somewhat from that of the U. States. The bushes are more than 2 feet high and sel dom exceed 8 and are propor tionately small in their stems, growing very thickly ascosiated in clumps. The fruit is the same form but for the most part larger and more lucious and of so deep a purple that on first sight you would think them black." Oregonians know that in these fertile regions the bush attains much greater size. The description leaves no doubt as to the authenticity of the berry to which Captain Lewis here al ludes. Clark mentions it on July 16. 1805, as the "sarvis" berry, on July 21 as the "sarvice" berry, and on July 10, 1806, on the return journey,'' as "sarviss," with refer ence to the name of a creek which Thwaite, editor of a scholarly edi tion of the journals, observes in a footnote is an "allusion to the quantity of 'service berries' which were found in this valley." Private Joseph Whitehouse, one of the nine Kentuckians recruited by the ex pedition, and the only other mem ber of the party to comment on this particular phenomenon, men tions the "servis berry" as grow ! it ing profusely in the region trav ersed. It is the "Amelanchier alnifolia of the botanies and is so classified by David Douglas, whose name is intimately associated with the nat ural history of the Oregon country. Thomas Howell's "Flora of North west America" mentions the "ser vice berry" as a "shrub or small tree with . . . black or pur plish edible fruit," common along streams and swales from British Columbia to California and the Rocky mountains. The berry, always spelled ser vice" by those who seem to have given thought to the matter, as in a number of amended drafts of Lewis' writings on the few occa sions when he departs from the practice in the first draft, and even, on occasion, in the entries of Clark, once had a much wider economic value than it now possesses, and like the camass and wappatoo, was important in the life of the abo rigines. Lewis on the outward jour- ney tells how service berries were supplied by the Indians as a kind of cake made from the ground and dried fruit, which was eaten in cir cumstances which would have made food of any kind most accep table. The authority of Lewis, who was book-learned, will be gener ally accepted for the spelling of the name, descriptive of a plant be longing to an order not confined to our western country, while it will appear from the spelling most often used by Clark, who set things down as he heard them, that as long ago as 1805 the pronunciation "sarvice," which is still common, prevailed. DOfLBLE RESTRICTION ON IMMI GRATION. In conjunction with the strong return tide of people from the liberated nations, restriction of im migration works even more effec tively than the 3 per cent limit con templated. In the year ending June 30 it brought a net increase of only 8 7,121, and there was a net de crease of 11,687 males. The net decrease occurred among the peo ples of southern and eastern Eu rope who have proved hardest to assimilate, while the net increases are: Hebrew 53,437; German 23,729; Mexican 22,796; Scotch 15,609; English 15,530; Irish 13,704; Nor wegian, Danish and Swedish, 11,- 555; French 9138; African blacks 4136; Slovak 2334; Armenian 2025 Welsh 1025. There should be small difficulty about absorbing these new arrivals, except the Mexicans and African blacks, and the latter are so few that they may be lost among the millions of native negroes. In creased Mexican immigration is doubtless due to growing shortage of common, labor and is of the migratory class. The restriction law following close upon the war has done much toward facilitating the work of Americanization. Hundreds of thousands of unnaturalized aliens went home to fight, and many more have gone to build up inde pendent countries .formed by the break-up of the Hapsburg and Romanoff empires, leaving those who wish to stay. Some may have returned to America before restric tion was adopted, but the new law has certainly forced a- far larger number to remain in Europe. Hence we have probably lost not only the normal increase of popu lation through immigration for the war years but a large part of that for several years , preceding the war. These immigrants rurmshed most of the supply of floating com mon labor, and the need of it is felt as industry resumes full oper ation and as new construction is undertaken. REPAIRING WAR'S RAVAGES. The report of the registrar-gen eral of England on the state of the nation's health probably contains nothing authentic to support the theory that nature, left to her own devices, has a . way of repairing artificial ravages, as, for example, the destruction caused by war, but figures are given which are inter esting, regarded only as coinci dences. For illustration, more children were born in 1921 than in any previous year in the nation's history, while the death rate, 12.4 per 1000 of the population, was the lowest ever recorded. We. are at liberty to make our own deductions as to the reason for these phe nomena, which the- registrar-general but sets down. . There was, as is well enough known, a noteworthy reduction of the marriage rate after the first flush of the so-called "war mar riage" period, and on the signing of the armistice there were entirely normal reasons why men shouTd have deferred marriage for a while longer, until the balance had been more nearly restored. This would account for the low marriage rates in 1918 and 1919, and for a slowly rising rate in 1920, with which the statistics for 1921 are compared. A higher birth rate for 1921 would be accounted for by the various circumstances related, and prob ably by others which would find no place in a .formal government document. "There was a striking increase of marriages of boys less than 20 years old," appears in a recent commentary on the report. This may have been, due to conditions modified in various ways by the fact of a recent war, but probably in no sense by biological consider ations, as would be a fair inference from the assumption of some re viewers that "nature" is working to atone for the damage done. The tremendous mortality among men of maturer years may have affected what some are pleased to term the "marriage market," which, how ever we may view the ethics of the matter, is nevertheless in some of its aspects more or less competi tive; and this appears to be borne out, by the further statement that a previously unheard-of number of widowers and ancient bachelors are listed as new benedicks. War, as has been suggested, may account for economic conditions which have brought about this state of af fairs, but there is distinctly lacking any evidence of a transcending plan of "nature" to solve a bio logical problem by bending man to her own designs regardless of his will. It seems quite "natural," al though not in the sense that it is the work of nature, that divorce should have increased in 1921 by 100 per cent over the previous year, and by nearly 200 per cent over any year previous to 1919. The war period itself sufficiently explains a falling off during the years of conflict; the increase of hasty marriages at the beginning of the war may now be reaching its logical sequel in the divorce courts, and as there seems to have been a greater number of unsuitable mar riages as the product of an "easier market" it would be only logical to expect a, greater number seeking escape by legal means. . That the number of illegitimate children is below that of war times has no bearing whatever on "na ture's" efforts to make good. The "war babies" were a wholly ex plicable result of the hysteria bred by war and not a conscious effort of higher forces to stop a gap, and the diminution of the number and the proportion of illegitimates is but a sign of the return to a gen eral normalcy which cannot but be regarded with satisfaction as show ing that men are ordinarily "moral1 in the best sense of the term. The decreasing death rate from tuberculosis and the lower mor tality among infants require no draft on the supernatural for an explanation. Science has prog ressed in no other department of organization and discovery as it has in these. So, too, the increase in the rate of deaths attributed to cancer corresponds with the pretty generally accepted view that this may be more apparent than real and may be due to a larger number of accurate diagnoses than were made in the years with which com parisons are now made. A re ported increase in the death rate for malaria is not so easy to ac count for; but it certainly does not support the theory that nature is repairing waste. In a single particular the statis tics presented by the registrar-gen eral are germane to the "nature re pairs war waste" theory, and that is where they show a continuing preponderance of births of male over female babies. A certain ex cess is but normal. The highest pre-war ratio, however, was 1043 boys to each 1000 girls. This in creased to 1060 in 1919, and it was 1052 in 1920 and 1054 in 1921. It is the one fact in the report not easily accounted for by economic causes and the logic of events. ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODT. That is a doleful outlook that Mark Sullivan pictures for th American farmer. His wages measured by purchasing power, be ing below those of labor in the cities, he will be unable to hire labor and he will be tempted to swell the ranks of urban labor. Farm production will fall off and this bread-basket of the world may become an importer of staple food products. Diminished world pro duction may then send prices up. and urban workmen may demand higher wages, but rising wages would attract more farmers to the cities, causing less farm production and still higher prices, while the influx of farmers would cause in tense competition for jobs in the cities. If this should be the course of events, the United States might reach the condition of Italy under the Roman emperors, when pro duction by slave labor on the great estates decreased to the point where Rome imported grain from distant provinces. That tendency can be stopped and the tide turned back from city to farm ' by restor ing the proper relation between earnings on the farm and in the factory. Resistance, of wages to influence by the fall of prices has put these factors out of proportion to one another, and the falling off in foreign demand for our farm products has aggravated the situa tion by restricting the foreign mar ket and forcing prices down, while high cost of production and trans portation for what the farmer con sumes leaves him little or no profit. which for him is wages. The basic error is the habit of measuring wages by the number of dollars a man receives instead of by the pur chasing power of those dollars. Farmers learn the truth on this point by seeing what they can buy with the net price to them of a bushel of wheat or a head of cattle. but it does not seem to get home to the city worker. We may foresee that the evil will bring about its own remedy. As the purchasing power of the farmer declines, the home market for manufactures will shrink until there is not employment for all city workmen, whose ranks would be swelled by the influx of men from the farm. The unemployed would then be driven by necessity back to the land, in order to produce food for themselves. This movement would enable the remaining farm ers to hire men at wages that would leave a profit on crops, and" more land would be restored to cul tivation. Farmers may realize that shrinkage of exports and of world prices is due to the economic dis tress of the old world which is driven to a lower standard of liv ing and to live as nearly as possible on what it can grow on its own soil, and that their prosperity de pends on that of the nations to which they have been accustomed to sell. Demoralization of Europe limits its ability to buy American manufactures and raw materials. thereby reducing the ability of men employed in factory, mine and for est to buy farm products. Hence the truth may be borne .in on the farmer that .economic reconstruc tion of Europe is essential both to restoration of his foreign market and to preservation of his home market. 1 An infant just born in New York city is reported in dispatches to have twelve teeth. It's getting to be so that even a baby doesn't dare enter that city without some weapon of defense. A Vancouver bride of five days had her husband arrested for disorderly-conduct. All he- did was order her home! An international Thanksgiving day over a carved-up Turkey would make the world feel much better. Czar Nicholas, Emperor Carl, Tzar Ferdinand, King Constantine, the Sultan who's next? There is a world series beginning this week, but, somehow, it seems like a family matter. In this city of big things, the next is the Pacific International livestock show. A prediction, not a promise: Next year Connie Mack will be in it, " TAX INCREASE IS UNAVOIDABLE . People Moat Be Prepares to Tar " School Bill Passes. PORTLAND. Sept. 30. (To the Editor.) The report of the state superintendent of schools does not discriminate between grade and higher schools sufficiently to give an average of the number of pupils per school or per teacher in the ele mentary . grades. It shows 221.391 pupils, 2673 schools and 7695 teach ers in the entire state in both ele mentary and high schools. This means an average of 71 plus children per school, 28 plus per teacher. The same report gives the 'number of private schools as 74, the number of teachers as 642 and the number of pupils as 8477. This means an aver age of' 15 plus children per teacher, 114 plus per school. Taking into consideration that private schoois are not conducted in sparsely popu lated districts, while public schools are, the reason for the larger aver age of pupils per school is evident. The' City club of Portland has com piled the following data: Public schools in state 2825, with 160,924 pupils; private schools in state 92, with 12,031 pupils. Mr. Wilton, writing recently in The Oregonian. proposes to obviate the Increase of taxes necessary to provide new schools for the private school pupils (in case the bill passes) by sending four of them to each of the 2825 public schools ill the state. A glance at statistics of the city of Portland (compiled by the City club) will show this to be impossi ble. According, to this report there are 77 public, 11 private and 20 parochial school in Portland; 31.064 pupils in the purTlic.805 in the pri vate and 4057 in the parochial schools. Surely Mr. Wilto will not expect these 4862 children of the private schools to be distributed in groups of four all over the state Just to meet his misleading statement based on a false average. They must be provided for in the schools of Portland. To provide school accommodations tor these children, who are now be ing educated without cost to the taxpayer, would require buildings and grounds to the extent of $2,431, 000 and an expenditure of $642,659 per year at the present cost of edu cation per child, $132.18. The tax payers of Portland must be prepared to meet these additional taxes if the compulsory education bill becomes a law. The reasons given by Mr. Wilton for advocating this additional bur den upon the taxpayers certainly do not warrant any such legislation. American principles are taught just as effectively in the private as in the public schools. The English language is the only one taught in the elementary grades of the pri vate schools. The graduates of these schools have proved their patriotism and their Americanism throughout the history of the nation. Foreign ers have been Americanized quite as thoroughly in the private schools as in the public schools. We have gotten along peaceably with both the public and private schools in operation heretofore. Why all this clamor against the pri vate schools now? What have they done of late to warrant opposition? Nothing but hysterical agitation, un supported by facts, can account for the desire of a few to burden the many with unnecessary additional taxes to abolish schools against which the average American citizen has no complaint. w. P. SINOTT, 824 East Broadway VIEW OF VOTE.'ER.STHAIGHT" Democratic Paper Thinks It Unwise to Invoke Party Spirit. Eugene Guard-Democrat. The republicans of Oregon would better sing low on the "vote 'er straigth" stuff during the cam paign or they may get the licking of their lives this fall. Many old line democrats wauld like to vote the republican ticket, or most of It, because they have been abandoned on matters of party principles by their direct primary nominees, but there might be such a thing as in ducing them to vote a straight ticket after all, if republican lead ers harp too much onthe subject. oting straight is an absurd thing to advocate, anyway. The demo crat or republican who affiliates with his party because he has cer tain political convictions, will vote his ticket straight , without urging, as long as his party and its candi dates stand for the things he be lieves in; when he thinks his party or his candidate misrepresents es sential principles as he sees them any man who realizes the full re sponsibilities of citizenship is likely to vote with the opposition party in order to rebuke false leadership on nis own side, and no amount of party lashing will bring such a voter back into the fold. That is why all talk of voting straight tickets this year is entirely out of place, since both parties are almost hopelessly divided upon issues that their leaders are trying all the while to ignore, thus making themselves appear ridiculous in 'the eyes of their followers. Mr. Pierce, who claimed to be a democrat before he secured the party's nomination, says taxation is the" chief issue in the campaign, and as there has been no democratic dec laration otherwise, jt will have to go at that; the republican ojbnfer ence at Portland this week agreed with Mr. Pierce. This is an absurd situation, since Mr. Pierce knows that if he is elected it will be by the votes of those republicans who are opposed to Governor Olcott's stand on the side of religious and personal liberty, and Governor Olcott is well aware that he can only win with the aid of democrats who believe that Mr. Pierce's attitude against re ligious liberty is contrary to the fundamental teachings of their party. That is the real issue the leaders would ignore, while they chatter about taxation, which ought to be the real issue, but was side tracked in order that people might have an opportunity to fly at each other's throats by a revival of the ever alert spirit of intolerance, which even 150 years of American free institutions of learning and constitutional guarantee of free speech and free conscience have been unable completely to smother. WHAT I READ. When Mother took the paper and sat down to read today, I got me one and settled down not very far away. I studied it with greatest care, the way the grown folks do. But still it didn't take me long to read the whole thing through. I turned the sheets and rattled them; It was a lot of fun. I guess I've watched folks long enough to know how it is done. You first look all across the page. and then look up and down. You smile a little now and then. and sometimes even frown. When Mother finished reading she looked down at me and smiled, "And what have you been reading in the daily news, my child?" I 'spect she thought I didn't know a thing that I bad read. But I surprised her when I said. "George Washington is dead." -GRACE HAINES. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at (he Hotel- E. H. Belknap of Monroe. Bentoo county, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Belknap reports that the sheep men In his section are getting along cicely, but that there i some com plaint at the way the wool Is graded in the association of growers and several have pulled out of the as sociation and will handle their wool on their'own account. Much of the wool is coarse, there being many Lincoln and Cotswold sheep in the valley, and In the grading the coarse wool receives the lowest rating, much to the dissatisfaction of the growers. Mr. Belknap himself has registered Shropshires. Mr. Belknap is a member of the legislature from Benton county, holding until his successor is elected at the November election. Mr. Belknap is not seek ing a return to the house of rep resentatives. One of the features of the regular -session of 1921 was when Mr. Belknap and John Gill of Multnomah sang songs the closing night, the same songs that they sang together when both served in the house about 30 years before. "With the completion of our har bor work and the completion of the Roosevelt highway, we vrill at last be living in Oregon instead of feel ing that we live in California," says Archie Philip, former county com missioner of Coos county, who is registered at the Multnomah. "The $3,000,000 appropriation which ha been promised by the federal gov ernment will be sufficient to finish the improvements to the harbor and give Coos Bay what it has long wanted. Eten now the bay is en joying a rapidly growing export business. There are a couple ot Japanese steamers in the bay about twice a week, loading with lumber for the orient. When the harbor is developed, as the federal money as sures, we will have one of the finest harbors on the coast and there Is a world of timber which can be moved out of it In coastal and for eign bottoms. We also have re ceived assurances from the highway department at Salem that the Roose velt highway will be hurried along to completion as rapidly as funds are available. The people on the coast are much better satisfied now over the road programme than they were for they see that the Roosevelt highway is being constructed and the work that the commission has accomplished on this wonderful road is up to all expectations." After being associated for the past nine years with the Oregon Agri cultural college as professor of dairy extension, E. B. Fitts has resigned his position and has accepted the professorship of dairying at the Pennsylvania state college. He will leave Portland tomorrow for his new home, stopping at St. Paul to visit t?ie national dairy show. Pro fessor Fitts is registered at the Multnomah. "During the nine years I have been associated with tht Oregon Agricultural college I have seen a great advance made in breed ing and feeding . dairy cattle and Oregon has made an enviable record. I shall miss my many friends and coworkers throughout the state and shall keep in touch with what Ore gon is doing, though I am across the continent." Walter Edwin Dorland of Chi cago, one of the many scouts of de velopment who are trekking around in Oregon, forgot for the nonce both his data and his projects when he met, on Washington street, his comrade of old days. R. H. Thomas, ex-school clerk. They were room mates at Earlham academy, a Qua ker college at Richmond, Indiana, more years ago than either of them will confess. "Indiana Is the mother of great men, as witness both of us," said Mr. Dorland. The allure of Oregon is tugging at him more than ever, Mr. Dorland admitted, though he lost his heart to the state when first he saw it nine years ago. "I'm strong for the country," he as serted. "Oregon is handsomer than ever." Seth Tilmon Bailey, who used to edit "The Jitney," a temporary pub lication of some years ago in Port land, but who later attained a measure of literary fame as the creator of an overseas feature for The Stars and Stripes, is an auto mobile pilgrim in the city. More over, Mr. Bailey is not unattended. He is accompanied by Mrs. Bailey, who was Mary Marguerite Hahn of Oakland, Calif., until September 14. Their honeymoon tour has Included Lake Tahoe and Crater lake, and the taking of many festive trout aong the way. Mr. Bailey Is now editor of the radio department of the Oakland Tribune. Mrs. C. Porter, Cecil' and Arthur Porter are at the Perkins from Metolius, Or. The town takes its name from the MetoIJua river, one of the strangest streams In the state, if not in the union. The Metolius river springs from the ground. The supposition is that the water comes from some distant source and runs through porus lava, possibly through some ancient lava tunnel. So beau tiful is the country around the Metolius that the Eiks lodge at Bend I has started a movement to buy the ' land and make it a national lodge lor tne oraer. Although Seaside Is a pretty lively town, M. Murray believes that Bend offers better opportunities. Mr. Murray, who is a merchant ar t he- summer resort, is preparing to move his stock of goods to the central Oregon metropolis and grow up with the town. He is among the arrivals at the Hotel Oregon. Stockmen in the hotel lobbies de clared yesterday was the biggest day in the history of the local yards. "If it wasn't for the presence of Cali fornia buyers, who are taking stuff and shipping it south, it wouid be a case of giving away livestock in Portland right now," declared an eastern Oregon man. W. R. Putnam and wife of Boise arrived at the Hotel Portland yester day morning. Mr. Putnam is the vice-president and general manager of the Idaho Power company, which operates in southern Idaho. Some of the power of the company is de rived from the famous Arrow Rock dam. Being interested in dairy stock. Henry Gustafson of North Bend. Or., went to the state fair and looked around and then came to Portland and is at the Multnomah. He says that with the mills producing heav ily the business of the bay country Is noticeably improving. J. P. Hennessy of Bend, where be is connected with one -of the big sawmills, is at the Hotel Portland, accompanied by Mrs. Hennessy. Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Coffin ara at the Multnomah on their way home to Boise. Idaho, having been on a honeymoon trip. M. C. Mather and F. T. Boles, lum berman from Chicago, are registered at the Benson. V. A. Taylor, a merchant of Cor vallis. Or., is at the Hotel Oregon. O. C. Stether. timber dealer of Glendale, Or, la at th Parkin. - Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Ila.chta-Mltnia Ca. Can Van Answer Three ttneatlwnaf 1. Can you r.ecommend any books on wild flowers of the western re gions? 1. Does beaver make any not Inside its bouse? 3. We have so many of the pur plish blackbirds In flocks on our fields What Is the way to get rid of them? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers t Prevlons Js)ealon. 1. Will any bird attack the potsto bug? Yes. the handsome rose-breasted grosbeak is very fond of these, as well aa of June and grape-vine beetles. In some sections the farm ers call this bird the potato-bug bird. It is not a common bird and should be protected. Bobwhttee are also splendid hunters of this beetle- 2. What makes lumps of gum on peach and cherry trees? This gum is thickened sap, an unnatural condition dua to the tree's efforts to slough off Impuri ties In its wood, caused by boring of certain Insects. The moths whose larvae do the Injury belong to tha family Sesidae, and are small, bright-colored creatures that work in hot sunshine. 1. Please tell where sable fur comes from. Also if its fur is not longer than mink and what is th natural color. , Mink and sabla both come from the asms general order of animal. Mustelines; but minks are classed with weasels, I'utorla. while sables are grouped with martens, Mustela. Sable fur Is softer than mink, th overhalr longer and silkier, and the under fur more delicate. Mink overhairs are stiffer, and this fur wears splendidly. It varies In color from dull yellowish brown to rich blacklsh-brown. The darker skins are more valuable. Real Rus sian sable comes from Mustela libelllna, the best pelts coming from Yakutsk. Kamchatka and Russian Lapland. American sable Is ren'iy pine marten. SCHOOL IS BEST MELTING POT All should Attend In Order Tkat Nation May B Strong. PORTLAND. Oct. 1. (To the Edi tor.) In reply to the article from a George Reldell appearing in The Oregonian criticising the compul sory school bill: I am an American. My forefathers fought in Washington's army and were pioneers who helped to make this country what. It Is today. I cannot understand why t.iis strictly American measure should meet with such opposition except from aliens and the like. A good grammar school education for every boy and girl In the land i a blessing and most certainly not an evil. The common school Is the foundation of the nation destroy It and the nation is destroyed thereby which is the tendency at present. It is much better to havs one united nation than 57 varieties of private schools, thus creating various cliques and every kind of near-Americanism conceivable. The writer has been in nearly every state In the union and has learned from actual observation that the private school breeds anything that particular Institution teaches, whether Is be I. W. W.ism or some other Ism. In my trips over the country 1 have visited communities of aliens who maintain the Ideals of the fatherland and who educate their children as aliens and not as Amer icans. The melting pot of the good American grammar school is the only remedy. On one of my trips through California I came to a vil lage and bad to make signs to ob tain a drink of water. It is a fact that when this country entered" the late war there was a large percentage of American-born men who could not read or write. It is reasonable to believe that they wouid have liked to. There seems to be a deluge of prop aganda coming from private and anti-American sources to crush this bill and also the Towner-Sterling bill. Every true American who loves his country and wanta It to be of one people and not a multitude of warring factions should work and vote for these American meas ures as they stand for better Amer ica and nothing less. The grammar schools are the cre ators of true citizens by common education. which teaches those ideals and standards upon which our government rests. - "Let there be light." L'nlted we stand, divided we fall. I come of good old American stock and I am for "united wa stand." H. A. JONE& Pronunciation nf Service C'reek- NEWBERO, Or.. Oct. 1. (To toe Editor.) I see In The Oregonian an interview of one of your reporters with one of Oregon's solons who Is attending the republican conven tion, denouncing the powers that be at Washington for not putting Service creek on the map as "Sarvice" creek, which received Its name from the profusion of sarvice berries that grew In the region from which the delegate hailed. Probably the reason for putting it as ft is Is because Yhere is no such thing as sarvice berry, and consequently Sarvice creek would be a misnomer. I am afraid that our representa tive from the brush of "Sarvice" creek wilt have to be sent by the republicans sf Oregon to Washing ton, l. C. where he can give the postal authorities a round-up a la Pendleton. HOWARD WALTON. Building Seen Kram Highway. HILTON. Or.. Oct. 1. (To th Kdl tor.) Kindly Inform me of the pur. pose of the large gray stnne struc ture on the north bank of the Co lumbia river, visible from the Co lumbia highway. It is located just east of bhermsn, a small railroad Junction west of Arlington. , From the highway it appears to be a large residence, but from the peculiarity of Its location I doubted this. A SUBSCKIBKIl. The building Is Sam Hills resi dence at Maryhlll, Wash. Cbane; f Name Spelltnn. ASTORIA, Or, Oct. 1. (To th Editor.) "A" changed the spelling of his family name without l.gal process, while still In the grammar school. He spells It In the changed form now. whicn is the way he hsa spelled It for lour years. Is thu changed form legal? INTERESTED. It is not unlawful to change th spelling of your name. Date- of Rallroasl raastraetlss. BEAVERTOX. Or., Oct. iTo the Editor.) Kindly let me know when the Union Pacific railway was constructed through the stare of I Nebraska. SLBSCKIRKI:. The road was built across Ne braska in ! i More Truth Than Poetry. By Jmwrm . MmIsim. i ' roTi-itoti i'KitnHoni Whsnever th nations of Kurr-r K:t down 'or an trx of rcare; When th war Hags ar furled in that neck of th world. And th battles and butchery ce: When rv en a weary of fighting And of riot and discord and roar. And thinks In his heart that h's playrd his last part In th turbulent drama of war. Th continent's certain to waken. Horn evll-starrd morn, wlin a Jerk. And hurriedly run for th sword and th gun. To put down th troublom Turk. then all the old feuds ar forgotten. Th statesman who. only last week. With a clenching of fists or a alap- ping of wrists. Were yielding to spasms of pique. Shak hands and declar thry ar brothers. Retract th hard words they hav said And mutually plan to go af!r th rr. i. r. With th red little fxs Ms head. And soon all th armies of Kurop Have Joined In th popular work Of making a hash ot th reckless and rash And basely belligerent Turk They get him they're certain to gtt him; They jtret Mm down for a wMI. But a decads or two gets him going anew. In the asm old provocatlv styl Ones more does h bluster and threaten. With a scowl on bis battle-scarrad far; One mor must a war b arranges for before They ran battr him bark in his r-lac. H always seems thoroughly wal loped. As horn to th harem h creeps. Hut he s out by and by with th gam warlike cry, for they never quit lick Mm far keeps! In ike Air. The eclipse of the sun wss a few hour late, th delay being doubtless du to a sidereal shopman's trlk atnr Knte. In Main and th Adirondack mother deer ar teaching their fawna to look as llttl ilk guide as possibl. fttrfetl? llslsf s. Th man who. after passing you bv for ten years, suddenly i;ret youty your name hasn't been rad "ng an editorial on courtesy. II has Just been nominated for some trung. ropvriht tr nM vr.tirs. tne a Othr Days. Fifty Years A a a. From The prrgonlnn of O- Tiber 1. tT2 Strasbourg. Th t!m granted the Inhabitants of Atsar and Lor raln to choos between Oerman and Krench cltksenship haa expired and th exodus to Kranc ha been enormous. We ar Informed that th road bed for the O. A C. railroad has been completed through to Itos burg. Th Central schoolhous I rapid ly approaching completion. It la on of the largest and most hand aom schoolhousea In the stats. Information Is expected from th secretary of war within two week on approval of plan for the Wal lamet bridxe. Twrnty-Flv Tears Ann. From The Oreaonisn of ocioher s. IT Portland, M General Nl lw died at hi resldenr In this city at J:30 yesterday afternoon. Portland's theatrical season wa opened last night when Manager Helllg of the Mnrquam Grand pre sented "My Friend from India." "Fudd n H'-ad Wilson" will b th next attraction. Th Boston Bloomer girls will cross bats with the Portland All Stars this sfternoon. New York. A Madrid dispatch says Russia has suggested to other European powers that differences between Spain and th United States be submitted to arbitration when th situation reaches an acuta stage. Small Regard for III. ST. VINCKNT'8 HOSPITAU Port land. Oct. 5. (To th Kdltr ) Pleas grant me epar to enpreae the sentiment of im hundre.la of sick and wounded peopl within these walla regarding the nerve racking bugs, trucks snd other auto Insect that day and night hor-k and snort their way to snd fro beneath our very windows. Some of us who might stand a show to get well would appreciate greatly any effort on th part nf the traffic squad If they wnuld put an end to som of thia awful tiol. Think of a rerv-racked man c.r womsn. sfter long hours of suffer. Ing. relaxing Into sleep that. If un disturbed, would go far toward re covery, being startled nut of bed. almost, by om thoughtless truck or other car driver who come up th grade wlih cutout wide open: If meeting another Insect In front of our windows, he hnnks away with a horn that would awsken the dd W p'ead for less nols snd mor thoughtfulness on th part of drlv. erg generally. (INK Of TUB KLKFrrLKfiS n-Pnnlaaa Kean matters. Knseburg News-Hevlew. Th editor of the .News-ltevlrw today received a wire from Judg T. M. Crawford of I'ortlahd stat ing that Jesse Wlnburn cf AshUnd. Or., would glv a non-partisan din ner at Albany next Wednesday In honor of Walter M. Pierre., d mo rratlo candidal for governor st the November election. we nrr before have been grrtrd an op portunity to put our fert iimi't a non-partlaan table, we will, along with the other pencil pushers ot th slat, grasp the opportunity I" tuck a napkin und-r our rhm and get our teeth po.lahed fr the oc casion. At this event Mr. I'lerre will press his poll Ion on current tat issu.s that the entire pres' of the state might know hfe he stands. Tben A . "Thirty Tears AM"" in M Minnvlil Tele phone It -a s'r. Agent l.'i. ky 1, I it bottle ot whisky which h ot. tamed at the Warm Fprtnrs Intin reservation It wa found to contain fusel oil. ether and chloroform. It wouiil ktii th germs of any ilinie a was shown by the fact th:t th-ee In dians who rlrsnk rrt of It died soon afterward. Painting the I'tppln Hood River News. All w now need to glv our ap ple th right color Is a coup! of frosty nights. 4