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10 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1022 L JTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK Published by The Oregonian Fob. Co., 135 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. - C. A. MORDES, E. B. PIPER. Manager, Editor. The Orepronian is a member of the As-, aociated Press. The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dus-r-atches herein ara also reserved. J gone astray but who were en deavoring to go straight. Many po licemen have proved good friends of such men, but some can find no better way of making a record than to hound an ex-convict and arrest him on suspicion when a crime is committed. 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Give postoffice address in full, including county and state. Postage Rate 1 to IB pages, 1 cent: IS to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 50 to K4 pages, 4 cents: 66 to 80 , pages, a cents; S2 to 96 pages, 6 cents. Eastern Business Offices Verree & Conkiin. 300 Madison avenue. New York: Verree & Conkiin, Steger Building. Chi cago; Verree & Conkiin, Free press punn ing, Detroit, Mich.; Verree & Conkiin. Monadnock building, San Francisco. Cal. UNCLE SAM NO HYPOCRITE. ' The opinion of the attorney-gen-'. eral of the United States, who holds I that United States vessels are ; United States soil for the purposes ; of law enforcement, rescues the ; federal government from the ig nominious position in which it had ' heen nlaced hv the attorney for the '. United States shipping board. It is ; difficult to conceive a less admir ; able figure than an Uncle Sam re ; sorting to a palpable subterfuge to - nrnmnte the salR nf linuor in nlain violation of his own laws, in order, '"' as cfimo nf tho nrnnnnAtltH of wet ships have put it, that the shipping business may derive needed reve - nue therefrom. The counsel of ex- pedieney is a chicken that always --comes home to roost. To permit, Z or even to connive at, nullification of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act on ships under our . f lag, on the plea that the govern- ment needs the money would be no - more tolerable in practice than it would be for the government be "r, cause the treasury needs the money ' to grant permits, for a pecuniary consideration, to distilleries, brew eries and saloons to sell intoxicat- ing liquor on land in violation of T. law. Hypocrisy and an ignoble motive T united, under the practice by which vessels under the American flag ;; were permitted to flout the prohi- bition statutes, to bring not pnly '-the prohibition law itself but all law into contempt. The spectacle T, of Uncle Sam, tongue in cheek, " winking at the ignoring of the -spirit of ,a constitutional amend ment was calculated to inspire rev erenee neither in the citizen at home nor the visitor to our shores. X' It invited levity on a subject that ought to be regarded as solemnly X as the very flag, which, if it stands "- for anything, is the symbol of or- - derly evolution through obedience -. to the expressed will of the people. , The relatively small amount of X.' liquor that may have been con ; eumed on board American ships at sea was a fact of minor conse- - quence beside the fundamental proprieties that were offended by - the ruling of the shipping board. once more tne aeck or a snip X flying the American flag is Ameri can soil, as indeed it has always been regarded in every other re - spect. Our departure from the principle has been but for a brief time and will soon be forgotten. , Being "born under the American 'n flag,'' whether ashore or afloat, is once more a fact to warrant pride in a higher degree than it would . . have been if the government had ntiiiiai,pn in inn Tiiimi, t n o r r, r l legging is not a crime when prac- ticed by Uncle Sam himself. ELECTION LOTTERY. The Portland voter may well be bewildered by the variety of the issues confronting him in the pres ent campaign. There is the city ticket to be con sidered on which a dozen or so men are seeking two places as commis sioner, and will be voted for under a preferential system strikingly dif ferent from that under which state officers and county officers are to be voted for in the same election. On the city ballot also will, be seven charter amendments, some of them technical in character, while among them is the important exposition tax measure. There is a state ticket, calling for choice of men for governor and lesser offices, for decision on drastic income tax amendment, on single tax, and on a measure that, more than any other influence, has brought out the largest registration in the history of the community- the anti-parochial and private school measure. There will be a representative in congress to elect, and, on the coun ty, ticket, two commissioners and county measures authorizing bond issues for construction of two bridges. The campaign over two or three measures and candidates is en grossing virtually all the attention the average voter gives to politics. He will endeavor to inform himself on the major matters and will vote his impressions on the others. A WORLD POLICE SYSTEM. "ItlJ C(tlJLIUU5 ClOC, Will") has become international, and it is proposed to counter by organizing what may become an international police bureau. This promises to be the outgrowth of a recent confer ence in New York which was at- tended by representatives of 700 cities in the United States, Canada, cuba and Mexico and high police officials of Europe. Plans . were adopted for standard methods of detection and for general co-operation in war on criminals. A law was suggested by which small arms could be manufactured only for government and official use. Sena tor Calder has introduced in con gress a bill establishing a national police bureau, so that their escape police bureau, where records of criminals and their movements would be kept, so that their escape from the law would he imnnssirtle Modern means of communication Jlttvo given lllllUCU lamiiuQH lu criminals, as we have seen from thoif f rpnnpnt iiqo of tO, otifrtmn. hue. riv their travel rrom continent to continent and by their plying their trade on ocean steamers. ri-1. . . . . i. . 1 1 ., graph, probably use the radio and .may yet use the airplane. But the ,ame facilities are used by their pursuers, and the radio may catch h man who boards a steamer on - the other side of an ocean, as the recent capture of a Portland fugi tive in China proved. Modern means of identification, especially the finger-print and the chart of a man's body, have given the law the advantage. Lack of machinery for -rapid exchange of information is "the one deficiency which often en ables a criminal to keep one lap a'tetid of the law in going from place to place or from country to country. If this gap were filled, a net wtjuld be spread that would ultimately enmesn tne most cun ning. The new system would be par ticularly useful in catching revolu- . tionary agitators and desperadoes. The third international at Moscow ' has scattered such men all over the world, and they change their names to suit the country they work in. Thev are skilled lineuists and soma n s v-u t, Hicaf-iiisA A n v i i ' n ii.-.ml "But if their accurate description could be quickly obtained, they couia oe laenimea wimout aouoi and could be put where they would throw no more bombs. A universal police system would need to be administered with re straint lest it become the means of persecuting men who bad once LENIN IN ACTION AGAIN. Contrary to many predictions that his illness would prove fatal, Lenin has come back and is again the master before whom all bolshe- vism bows. One of his-first acta was to veto the contract by which the vast property of the Russo-Asi-atic corporation would be given back to its British owners for re vival of industry in the Ural re gion. So Russia is to halt the abandonment of communism, which means abandonment of graft levied on those who are licensed to violate communist laws. Another act of Lenin was to send a note to .the former allies protest ing against what he terms the blockade of the Dardanelles as "a threat against restoration of the peaceful economic life of the Black sea countries." His protest is ac tually against the closing of the straits to ships carrying arms and munitions to the Turks, for possible use in driving out the allied troops. The allies contend for freedom of the straits, which would not exist if they were under the joint control of nationalist Turkey and bolshevist Russia. More will doubtless be heard from Lenin when the conference meets to arrange a final treaty of peace with Turkey. Then he will probably demand that Russia ' be a party to any arrangement to keep the straits open, and will use that demand as a means to secure rec ognition for the soviet government. Then we may find Britain and France in disagreement again, the former aligned with Russia and Turkey, the latter opposed to Rus sia but against that country's ally, Turkey, which France has -so effec tively befriended. Such is the tangled web of European politics. than one occasion; but they are I of the hand. It followed this course until it ran on a snag in the absurd section 28 of the Jones law, when it sought information from the public and learned some things which opened its eyes. If the mem bers would recognize that they are but 'prentice hands at the business, they would learn more and make fewer mistakes. The board found that before the war American ships carried .less than 10 per cent of our foreign traffic. Its 'job is to increase this proportion to 50 per cent or more of a greatly Increased volume. It has gone to work with the appar ent purpose of enabling the few companies that carried that 10 per cent to increase their business to 50 per cent wbile still keeping- the entire foreign-going merchant ma rine in their own hands. If the board imagines that the American people will tolerate the concen tration "of so immense a business in the hands of those few com panies and that they will continue to subsidize those few, it is wo fully deceived. It may jam through congress the bill which gives it power to pursue that course, but if it should attempt to act accordingly, it will lay up much grief for itself and the country. That such is its intention may be more than that by the candor with which they were published they become an admission that the laws of tle road are not regarded as being meant to be obeyed. The driver of the car on the journey in question so we are told by the advertisement "is not a professional driver." He is but a merchant. "HtS trip was not an endurance run or a test of speed." It "was just a vacation." Right there, we think, the whole case of the speed maniacs is betrayed. The professional racers we know how to handle, and they are compara tively few. But the "vacationists" their name is as the autumn leaves and the seashore sands; and they are bidden to regard as a feat for emulation a speed achievement that would not have been possible without setting at naught the legal authority of a dozen states. IN THE YEAR 1927. The decision to postpone the proposed exposition from 1925 to 1927 was undoubtedly wise. A series of events have served to handicap and delay the progress of the enterprise. For example, there is the vital matter of finance. Port land a year ago voted $2,000,000; and now there must in November be another vftte. ' Wtiat has happened meanwhile need not be recited in detail; but It has been a-plenty. A million dol lars in private subscriptions must be raised, and it will take time. If it cannot be secured, the exposition will not, and should not, be held Meanwhile, if the people of Port land shall vote in November $3, 000,000 by taxation, not a dollar of it will be available for use until the l, 000, 000 in stock shall also be put down in black and white. That will be next year. The true test as to whether Portland wants an ex position comes then. It cannot go forward if sentiment is divided. purses are not open, and the neces. sary leadership is not to be had. No conclusions hurtful to Port land or to Oregon are to be drawn from the postponement. The Chi cago exposition planned' for 1892 (anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492) was put off until 18 93; and the St. Louis exposition (celebrating the 'one' hundredth anniversary of the Lou isiana Purchase in 1803) was held 1904. There were several his torical events affecting the great Oregon country, dated at or about 1825, among them the founding of Fort Vancouver. ' We can't think of any outstand ing historical event for 1827; but it makes no great difference. The year 192 7, it is now obvious, will be more convenient than 1925. The public will have until next year to think it all over and to compose all differences. Enthusiasm based on calm consideration and judi cious purpose is more wholesome, and likely to be more beneficial than any other kind. INCITING THE SPEED MANIACS. How far beneath the surface lies the blame for the condition which moved the president of the Safety Institute of America recently to predict that the number of deaths from highway accidents in 1922 'will be closer to 15,000 than to 12,000," the total for 1921, it is not easy to determine with precision. There is agreement on the point that a good many causes are at work. Disregard for SDeed and safety laws is more than a sporadic manifestation of individual reck lessness, and more than an assump tion that people are inherently lawless is needed to explain the in crease in fatalities from a single cause and the practical failure of all our "safety first" campaigns, In a score of ways we" more than tolerate the speed mania that is at the bottom of. most highway acci dents, especially those in which au tomobiles are involved. Behind an elaborate system for traffic regu lation, whose failure adequately to regulate baffles lawmakers and calls forth such gatherings of traf fic officials as that now in session in Portland, there is a psychology that we must solve if we hope to obtain permanent results. Tha manufacturers of automobiles, who if they were far-sighted would be in the van of the safety movement, cannot escape their share of the responsibility. For example: In a recent maga zine of national circulation the ex ploiters of a motor car present a summary of the log of an auto mobile journey from an eastern city to the Pacific coast, from which it appears that the distance of 3011 miles was traveled in seven days, a daily average of 430 miles, and an average for actual driving time of 34.9 miles an hour. We do no violence to the known probabilities in assuming that a J considerable part of the distance must have entailed speeds almost double the average set down. It must, if common experience is a reliable guide, have often exceeded forty miles an hour and it probably on occasions ran to more than fifty, and even touched on sixty miles. The figures, printed boast fully without apology or explana tion, plainly constitute a challenge to the establishment of new records for fast driving on the public roads by owners of other makes. We know of no state in, which a rate of speed obviously dangerous to life and limb is lawful and of no conditions under which fifty or sixty miles an hour would be justi fied by any common motive, more particularly the mere desire of a manufacturer of motor vehicles to demonstrate the gasoline and oil consuming propensities of his ma chines on the people's highways. The stated facts are nevertheless a confession that the law was ig-1 nored in all probability, on mora, ESSENTIALS OP SHIPPING SUCCESS. In an address delivered at Coun cil Bluffs, Ja., Commissioner Plum mer of the shipping board dwelt at some length on efforts of British ship-owners to bring about defeat of the ship subsidy bill in congress. It is to bo expected that the British will do their utmost to prevent es tablishment of an American mer chant marine. They have held the field since the American civil war, the German threat to their supre macy has been removed for some time to come, and the -American threat is far more serious. Foreign trade is the lifeblood of the British people, and the merchant marine is the system of arteries through which that lifeblood flows. The American people have entered into competition with a rival whose hold on the shipping business of the world is long established, strong, and supported by long ex perience, and who will feel that his fortune depends on the issue. To cope with so doughty an an tagonist the American people have a merchant fleet that is greater in nominal tonnage than in actual useful tonnage, vast available capi tal to draw on provided there is reasonable assurance of profit, and a readily adaptable population. We have to overcome higher cost of construction and operation, the limited number of people experi enced lit the business, the lack of experience on the part of the great body of our population and the lack of the complete organization for foreign trade that is necessary to secure full cargoes for our ships. The subsidy plan is designed to overcome the obstacle of higher cost, but capital and brains can be attracted only if assurance of equal treatment for all is given by proper administration of that plan. The people will not be content to hind over the entire emergency fleet and the subsidy that it will receive' to the - comparatively few Americans that are now engaged, but will want to make the merchant marine a great national enterprise, in which many more people in all our ports and in the interior will en gage as apprentices and will ac quire experience by practice. Our foreign trade organization, of which ships form a part, must be completed by establishment of branch mercantile houses and branch banks and by investment of American capital in all the coun tries to which our ships run. tserore going into a contest a wise man takes the true measure of his antagonist. There has been too much cocksureness about the methods of the shipping board, too much deciding of questions without thorough mastery of relevant facts. If we go about the business in a wild hurrah, we-can-lick-the-world spirit, we are in for a few severe jolts, for John Bull is an old hand. knows all the tricks and is a wily old boy, though reputed to be rather slow. The board is leading the nation in a comparatively new venture and before it takes a step should invite from the people all the information and advice obtain- able. By so doing it would avoid many errors of judgment and would arouse public interest and enlist public support that general spirit of instinctive, general co-op eration that was. admirably dis played in the war. The board has pursued the. precisely opposite course. It has taken information and advice from a selected few and from interested parties who wormed themselves into its confi dence. It has desented criticism as a species of lese majeste and so far has it been from welcoming general co-operation in doing its big job that it has waved aside suggestions with, a lordly,, leave-it-to-me wave The Listening Post. j . i I By DeWirt Harry. I rpHAT the course of true love never X runs smooth is a predominant idea, and many romances prove this so. Bu teven love has its limita tions. Few persona would care to go int oexlle for the sake of love; few would care to relinquish com parative comfort and prosperity in a land of peace and plenty to live in straitened sircumstances- in a land of turmoil and want. Pansy Is a dainty. Innocent ori ental blossom, or was in the esti mation of the federal Immigration officials until a few months ago. Then it was learned that Pansy, American educated and a fluent speaker of English, had- secretly married Charlie Hong, reputed, gun man. It is said he killed for his tong and then he turned on his own brothers in the lodge. Money was all he sought and he was always ready to kill when he could get his price. Hong was ostracized by his coun trymen, for the oriental mind, while sinuous in some of its ramifications, cannot condone treachery. After a inferred from its persistent habit recent killing in The Dalles Hong of secrecy and of suppression and was arrested and tried for man- resentment of any adverse com- slaughter. The Chinese code of honor ment. I Hoes not sanction airing any dis- Since it is desired to multiply by Dutes. no matter how important, more than five times, under subsi- ln the courts. seldom, if ever, do dlzed private ownership, the amount of foreign trade carried on Ameri can ships, not only, should at least five times as much capital be in vested, but five times as many companies should be engaged in it and five times as many men should be engaged in independent man agement of lines. That, requires that each port and its trade terri tory raise capital for lines to be managed by their own people, not you hear of a Chinese lawsuit. They try to settle their own differences, even if it be necessary to resort to murder to even the score. So Hong was released when the crime could not be proved. .It was at this time that Pansy blossomed forth as his wife. She pleaded for his release on ball and when he was freed and arrested by the immigration agents and held Those Who Come an,d Go. Tales of Polka at the Hotel. that capital be subscribed for some 'or deportation, again managed to huge company to be managed from get his liberty on bond. Now Hong New York. In that manner a di- is to be sent back t China. But rect interest in shipping would be Pansy has reached the limit of sac created throughout the country, rifice for him. She refuses to ac- and all the people would pull to- company him back to the land of gether for success. No doubt there their fathers. She might suffer pub would be some failures, but from lie condemnation for her husband, them we should learn how to sue- but exile from the land of their eeed. Let the board take its mind adoption never! off New York and turn attention to all the ports on the whole long Some returning fisherman, his stretch of our three coasts. There creel filled with dandy big trout, it will find many men willing to had a misfortune last week while stake their money and their energy passing through Irvington when the on ships provided they are sure of basket dropped from the automo- an equal chance. Through such bile. However the catch was found men the American people can be and the following letter received by made shipminded and, when all set this department: their minds on shipping, JohrBull will have cause to fear for his su premacy. To the Unknown Fisherman. It may comfort the fisherman who lost his fish in the Irvington district Saturday night to know that the 'early bird caught the worm" and HELP THE TUBES' VICTIMS. Though the government of the shared his splendid breakfast with some, neighbors. It was a line catch." congratulations and thanks awfully. A CONSUMER, A CEREAL. United States stands aloof from the war in Turkey, the people of this country will not stand aloof from the helpless, innocent victims. Hu manitv ca.Ha na tn feed dnthn And heal the hundreds of thousands of He ate shredded wheat biscuit, they Greek and Armenians who have I .8ay:, . . . . .. " everv day: are huddled on the quays of Smyr- And they found, when he died. na or on me mainland ana isianas i That his stomach, Inside, of Greece. Winter is at hand, and Contained but a bale of hay. this fugitive host must be bud- I REMLIK. ported until new homes can be pro vided for them, where they can I Ivan Poulsen, the lumberman, is a support themselves. tall, serious-looking man and in Those who find these subject variably wears a long Prince Al- races of Turkey unattractive on Dert coat. As he was about to de- ciose acquaintance ana not or a ,t from the Columbia Gorge ho character to evoke sympathy tel wnere ne haa been recreating, snouia rememDer mat mey are i , v, , i n--nnnr largely what Turkish tyranny has made them. The Armenians were on the main road from central Asia to Europe,' and every Invading horde for centuries trampled on them in its march. The Greeks of Asia Minor were the first to be sub- be said: 'This is different from what I experienced after a stay at the Hotel Coronado in California. When I was about to leave there the clerk handed me my bill and as I looked dued when the Turks advanced to- " 11 1 was "urprisea note inai ward the Mediterranean. They 11 was mucn less tnan th Published have remained industrious under rates. I was about to ask for an ex- e-rinrllnff. exaction, and have heen planation when I glanced at the true to their race and creed when name on the bill and saw it wa they might have won riches and addressed to Rev. I. Poulsen, and high station by apostasy. If they the fact dawned upon me that 1 have taken bloody reprisals on had been taken for a minister of their oppressors when opportunity the gospel and had been given cler offered, wnat wonder? ineir prog- ical rates, a discount of 50 per ress in civilization has been ar- cent, rested for five centuries or more by the rule of barbarians, and they make a repulsive picture in rags, hunger and disease as they plead The human body is coming to have a certain market value. People can dispose of elements therein for for help, but the advancement which thev feel thev can disnensa made Dy inose or ineir race wno in ca8e of emergency. Gland oDera have been emancipated proves their tjong ave opened up a field un capacity wnen ireeaom gives mem suspected a few yearsgo, blood opportunity. transfusion yet another. An ad in 1 ii a name America nas Decome synonymous with humanity. No motives of national policy restrain us from rescuing the human wreck age of war, planting it in new homes .under free institutions in Greece and giving it a new start in life. That is the work undertaken Episcopal convention was a dismal by the American Red Cross and the I failure. One bellhop complained that the classified columns published last week says: Nurse will give blood for trans fusion. $100. Pure." Just like buying a quart of milk. To some ways of thinking the J. Marsh, druggist of Wasco. Or., is in Portland attending- the grand lodge. Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Marsh joined him here after a month pent at the beach. Around Wco. the people are anxious to see the section of the Sherman highway completed between that town and Biggs, where connection will be made with the Columbia river high way. The route goes through Span ish Gulch, and is mostly rock work. Much of the grade in the gulch wis built several years ago and In those days was referred to as "a road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere." but now it is to be a regular road. The gulch section was built aa a sort of experiment long before the rjresent highway commission and road svstem was evolved. The con tractors on the wasco-Biggs section are having trouble holding their men. and this is causing delay in the work. Somehow or other, every man who comes from Malheur county, talks about potatoes; if from Hood River they talk apples; if from Umatilla they talk wheat: If Irom maepena ence they talk hops, and from Med ford they talk pears. "We've got enough potatoes in Malheur county to feed the rest of Oregon." asserts R. r. Lytle of Vale, Or., discussing the UDDermost topic. "The problem tn J arrived is one of distribution. If anyone knows how to distribute mil. nnn- the other 35 counties win not have to starve for this tooth some tuber." Mr. Lyle is not a po tato farmer, notwithstanding his re, mark for he is the prosecuting at- tnrnev for Malheur district. He is here to attend the intertate confer ence on traffic laws and regulations. When C. L. Ireland, editor of the Sherman County Observer, registered at the Perkins yesterday afternoon the mailman entered and tossed on the desk the latest copy of the Ob server. Mr. Ireland's eyes stuck out a. foot. "Why that copy," ne oe clared to George I. Thompson, the clerk, "was mailed from my off'ce last Friday arid it's just getting to Portland now." Mr. Ireland says that money is somewhat tight in his section because the farmers, wnen the saw the price of wheat drop ping, declined to sell and instead they held on and the price Is getting no better. Had the growers sold, at first, xplains the edUor, they could have paid up their obligations and been in pretty good shape now. About $50,000,000 passes through his hands every year, for O. K. Ale shire Is the head banker of the Mod ern Woodmen of America. Mr. Ale shire arrived in Portland yesterday morning from Denver, where he at tended a meeting of the state depu ties of the organization. This is the first visit Mr. Aleshlre has made to Portland in 15 years and, naturally, he didn't recognize the town when he started out to look at It. Local momhor of the order took him for a spin over the Columbia river high way in the afternoon and Mr. Ale shire declared that he has never seen a highway to equal 1U Two dozen years on the briney have satisfied W. C. Mllligan and he has decided to make Portland his snug harbor hereafter. Mr. Mllli gan is a native of Portland, but has been at sea since 1898. In the past 24 years he has seen service on every ocean and in almost every ca pacity. He sailed -out of this part as an apprentice boy in a square rigged grain ship and ended in com mand of the submarine tender Alert in 1921. For 18 years he was in the naval service. Having knocked around the globe. Mr.'Milllgan con tends that Portland has the best climate on earth and this Is where he wants to drop permanent anchor. - "Portlanders haven't commenced to realize what the Toky conven tion will mean here next year." statea Edison I. Ballagh of St. Hel ens. "This is the playground of the Knights of Pythias. Just aa the Shrine is to the Masonic order. It Is expected that there will be about 60 bands at the convention next Burroughs Nature Club. CosTTtskt. Hova-ktoawHItflta Co C'aa 1'o Aaawrr Thew Qsnthaif 1. Is wooly aphis a very danger ous disease on apple trees? 2. I saw a bird perking at the trunk of a tree not bonne In but 1 rould not see that there was anything to perk no catrrpillers. hat could It find? 1. How do oysters reproduce? Answers In tomorrow's Nature Notes. Aaawrrs to Prvoao Qoeatloas. 1. Are coyotes wholly carniv orous? Not wholly, though mainly so. They are troublesome In the farm or ranching regions not merely l"t taking small stock, but for attack ing small fruit, melons, etc.: and In the wilder districts for eating many birds. But they do some good In keeping down rabbits of many sorts, various rats, and other small rodents that also pester the agri culturist. o S. How can moths bo collected, since they fly at night? Tou may get some specimens by daylight If you can find sleeping ones, i hanging with wings folded flat, to tha trunk of trees, old clap boards, etc. At night use a dark lantern or electric flash among sweet - smelling blossoms. Some specimens can bs attracted by swab bing molasses onto tree trunks, old board fences and similar places. A white sheet spread on the crass and lighted by a lantern may bs visited by moths. o S. Do English rparrows have an natural enemies? Obviously not to any extent. though a few may be killed by cer tain hawks, and at least one record In in print of a shrike that killed English sparrows. The trouble with such birds as do kill these spar rowa Is that they also kill any small bird, and do not confine themselves to preying on the pest. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jaaaoe J. Moofoaa Near Cast Relief fund, and the great heart of America should prompt us to give to them gener ously. ' A juror in a murder case In Illi nois declared he had not read a newspaper in ten years. Tet he helped find a man guilty for killingj one oi. a snivaree party. A man "rolled" while drunk, if he has any standing at all, natur ally wiU object to complain, fearing I (n dani,er c( beins OVerrun by me puDiicity. xnai manes it naraer I Czecho-Slovaks. all during the month or more he did not have a single call from one of the delegates for a pitcher of ice water, ginger ale or White rock. CANDIDATE'S SLUR RESENTED Sob of Csecao-Siovak Pareats Re plies to Walter M. Fierce. SCIO, Or, Oct. 9(To the Ed itor.) Walter Pierce surely did not reason fast enough when at Hood River he declared that Oregon was to prosecute. I am an American-born Czecho slovak. My parents are natives of Czecho-Slovakia. My parents surely do their level best to keep in the bounds of an American citizen s rights, both being full-fledged That 70-year-old scion of royalty arrested in London for mashing simply got away from his keeper. that's all. There are many that I American citizens. way. f As for the statement made by Walter Pierce, 1 can show him and V. . . . Ul.t7 , V. U.K. lUStfe IUQ , I V. running over a nose is an Of- 1 u,t,o ,r. ,.t ,r.ino- h im.r. fense that should be aa far out of lean people out of the country into date as mailing a letter ln a fire- the city. I know that the Czecbo alarm box. Tet it is done. Slovaks are buying farms, and many times run-down farms, and -even n . . , . n . ... l trj cwv. V - - , . ' wno or mar. rrencn doctors pa- .. f,m whv no nnt thev neiiLs can jump up lour steps at a keep them instead of flocking into time, wmcn is some jumping lor a I the cities? It s because the ma g lander. Last week of local ball and the fans should rally for ' a good wind-up. Voting for many things the same day clouds the issue, but is cheaper. Making it four in a row lessens the "agony" as well as the "gate. The Hon. Tom's ' a dollar of Walter! 'slocum" Buy jority of American- citizens did not have the opportunity of being able to see the way soil was built up by fertilising and keeping it. at that stage, as did my parents and many immigrated usecno-wiovaas. But let us hope as time passes our state agricultural schools will make this subject more impressive to our Americans so tbey can retain their farms. As for mentioning only the Czecho-Slovaks and orientals, I am sure there are more numerous im migrated nationalities than only the two mentioned. GEORGE J. PATR.YT. John J. McGraw had the only dope worth while. After the cucumber comes the giant squash, , Making; a "Crack" at It. Myrtle Point American. We shall hardly correct all of the wrongs of the state or in the earth this year, but that is no reason for I not correcting tout of them. degree teams from all parts of th United States." Mr. ttallagn, wno i mayor of St. Helens, says that he was awakoned at midnight Satur day by a delegation which informed him he had been elected presiaen of the local Gump-for-Congress club, Ever hear of the California & Oregon Coast railroad? It is a line extending from Grants Pass to Water Creek, and Water Creek Is 15 miles from Grants Pass. There is an undying -hope in Grants Pass that some day this road will be ex tended to Crescent City. Cal., which will make Crescent City the seaport for southern Oregon, thereby mak ing the section more or less inde pendent of the Southern Pacific rail road. E. A. Murphy, manager of the California & Oregon Coast railroad Is registered at the Hotel Portland. Two small -boys with cowboy hats almost as large as themselves, came to the Hotel Oregon yesterday and then, after registering, they headed out for the nearest motion picture show. The youngsters are Joseph and Donald Miller of Miller, Or. Their father, J. J., arrived later, as he had to go to the yards with load of cattle. The boys were more self-possessed than most of the cat tlemen who arrive la Portland from the range country. There are no crop failures in Til lamook county and the demand for Tillamook cheese so exceeds the supply that the makers are unable to hold the cheese until it can ac quire age. Things are a little quiet ln Tillamook town and along the beaches at present owing to the decline in the motor tourist travel Charles T. Pankow, garage man of Tillamook, is an arrival at the Hotel Oregon Pendleton has one of the oldest Knights of Pythias lodges in Ore gon. James Uwlnn, who is a su preme representative to the grand lodge. Is here for the gathering. Mr. Gwinn was a candidate in the republican primaries for the nomin ation of representative of the sec ond congressional district against N. J. Sinnott, incumbent. Mr. Gwlnn carried his own county. James Maloney, in the banking business at Pendleton, is here to attend the Knights of Pythias gath ering. He is grandmaster of the exchecquer, a position he has held down for about IS years. Bert Brown, who has a stock ranch three miles out from Fossil, Or., brought a carload of cattle to Portland yesterday. H. J. Miller, president of the lum ber company which bears his name, is at the Hotel Portland from Se attle, Wash. J. L. Cooper, vice-president and manager of the Spokane Savings & Loan society, is at the Hotel Port land. R. I. France, purchasing agent for the Southern Pacific railroad. Is at the Hotel Portland from San Fran cisco. M. E. Sinclair, cashier of .the Southwestern Washington bank at Ilwaco, Wash. is at the Hotel Port land, .. . i OTHER CLAIMS COMB FIRST Right of Ge mm Parents to ChIM Take rreeearneo Ovrr State, COLLEGE PLACE. Wash, Oct. I (To the Editor.) It is becoming a favorite doctrine with some pr-opl that all children belong to the stat and should be educated by the Mat without reference to the wishes o their parents or the claims of (lod This Is a false philosophy. Th child belongs first ta !od then t the parents, and last of all to th state. Anybody who Is trying to reverse this arrangement la under taking to throw God overboard. little over a century ago this wa done In France; today It Is being done In Russia. V a hear that aom people fn Oregon and Oklahoma are anxious to make the experiment. the state may build Incubators It may erect orphanages; but It cannot produce children wlthou parents. The state has no right to take control of a child until thi parents have failed. It la the ditty of the state to educate the chill when tha parents have failed. Jus as It is the duty of the stats to furnish food, clothing and shelter to the child when the parents have failed; but it Is not the duty of thj state either to support or to con trol the child as long as the par ents are able and willing, and anxious to do so. There are man? cases, we admit, where the parent have failed, but we already have laws to cover such casea. It is a splendid thing fnr the staM to furnish free schools for all chil dren whose parents do not choos to educate them elsewhere. It woul.i be a splendid thing for the stata to furnish public baths for all who wish to use them. But to compel every may by law to use the public bath w-hen he had one aa good or better at home would he tyrannical and foolish, and would bring- tha public bath Into contempt. Our nation was founded try me-i who were educated In Christian nchools. It began In Christianity. Shall It end In atheism? It cer summer and there will be uniformed tainiy wm 1f tg children must pas through their most Impressionable period without religious Instruction and a religious atmosphere. The state has no more right to assume control of all children at the beginning of school age against the wishes of the parents than It has to assume control of them at birth. Think of a stata taking all the children away from their par ents as soon as they are born and bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the state Let us pray and vote for tha Washington - Jeferson-Madlaon-LIn coin brand of Americanism. But If anyone is dissatisfied and wanta the new-fashioned brand, let him go where the blooming thing is found in all its glory Russia. A DELOS WESTCOTT. Coat of Caravanaw PORTLAND. Oct. . (To tho Ed itor.) Please advice who la putting up the money to defray expense of Mayor Baker's boosting trips for the 1935 fair. 2. What right have voters out side of Portland to vote a tax on th people of Portland to finance th proposed exposition? TAXPAYER. I. Each member of tho caravan pays his own expenses. 2. Voters outside of Portland ar not to vote on the tax Itself The constitutional amendment submit ted to state-wide vote Is merely a grant to Portland of the right to spend S3.000.000 of its own tax money for exposition purposes. Tha legality of such a tax Is question able ln the absence of constitutional authority. Park or Dark Farsar PORTLAND. Oct t. (To th Ed itor.) Now that the fair has been postponed and the compulsory school bill has been decided pro and con. et us take up another Important matter for discussion, namely, shall Laureihurst park be ronilurted In th future, as It has been thia year. aa a duck preaerve? What's th big Idea of having a thousand or more ducka parking all over the grass where little children want to roll and play? Is tha city In need of ducks? Then let us get a durk farm somewher else and grow plenty of ducks. Laurelhurst park Is rather too ex pensive a tract tor duck culture. A few water fowl In a park la all right., but to make a durk preserv of any of our pretty parks seems to roe to be out of taste. W, S. B. Canals ana Tolls. PARKDALE. Or.. Oct. I. (To the Editor.) 1- Kindly tall mo what nations and what veaaeia ar re- quired to pay tolls through th Panama canal? 2. Who haa jurisdiction over th Sues canal and is toll charged for paaaag through It? o. an. IV r. IL1. u t. it. 1. All nations and all vessels pay tolls except that under th treaty with Panama vessels of that coun try have fre transportation. . 2. Great Britain controls tha Sues canaL Tolls r chargad. 1 thk Lotrraa oricio. From "mrliest youth 1 nla. ored. With an earnest and purposeful mind. To keep my artlvltlea severed From labor of averr hinil. t li,t ail th thlnas that a h"V did And what I most gladlr avoided Has work. No rolleg I aver attended. Heraune, If I did . I knew That I would ba deepiy offi-n1ed At tho work they would ask tn tn dik. At learning a trad or prtft,a I always was awlft to r-ni): I had not th least preposaton For toll. I seldom hav sought a position In office. In mart or In mill. Because of a lurking ausptrlort That It might not b easy tn fi!t When I v had paring Jobs 1 r alanrd 'em. For my prld la my wage wa marred By th fact I was certain to find 'era Too hard. I thought I was crafty and clever This Indolent roura to pursue. And to doda any aharo whatsoever In tho labor that other folks do. But now, my alstenc reviewing, I have lost my self-aatlaried smirk. For I find tbat tho thing I bee a doing Is work. A tlmr l ira, Thea long gap between strTlto" makes It difficult for Kamuel dim. pars to find anything to talk about. If tko Way Tfcla Is, An "aristocracy of brains wia h dealrabl at Ih colleges, bat a long aa football ta played It will never b quit mm aristocrat le on th campus as th aristocracy of brann. No W aor. Sir Thomas Linton says t hope he Is a good loser. With all Ih r hearsala h's had h ought to bo. ('""nrrtsht. hr H-H Nrn1l-l lee In Other Days. Fifty Year Ago. From Ta Or-snnlan ef fW. . tST. ChicagoThe results of tho eler. Hon yesterday may b summar. lied by staling that Ih r-ruhll-rana have carried Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and Nebraska. Greeley's defeat seems doubly as sured. Salt Lak Tho Mormon confer enco Is atlll In session. Th atten. danr la large. Iirlgham Young Jr. spoke. II predicted Ih growing tendencies nf young men would eventually result la their leaving th church. Th rover of th cistern at Ino Intersection of frirat mA Ki.,k streets has 'been taken un to al low th street car track to be laid across it. Th rival Chines rnmpsnle at Oregon t'liy ar reported at a swords point sad It la feared that Mongolian blood will flow befor the troubl la settled. TVrrafr-Mv Tear Ago. From The Oreennlan f Ort. 1l. I S9T San Ff sncisco Iteporta frnrn thm orient Indicate strongly that th relatione between Kuema and Japoo over Korea ar greatly strained. Th 17th annual Oregon atate fsir cloaed today. Th feature of tha programme on th race track waa th appearanr of th record-smashing hora Chehalls, who wa matched uniquely against fttaver. th blcrrl rider. Chehalls won easily In two straight heats. Washington. Oct. . Th yllow fever epidemic I pradnc danger ously, aocordlnc to 8urgeon-4 1en ral Wyman s bulletin. Town west of th Mississippi, hitherto un touched, hav now been stricken with th contagion. no cooo roisn i dahwixiix Dortrlae'ot Rarvlvnl of Fittest Hel4 to Knronrasa M ar. FCAPPOOSE. Or, Oct. I (To Editor.) "Evolution aa a Going Concern. " headed so artlrl In Th Sunday Oregonian. Peopla all over our land ar saying trios asm things In favor of avolutlnn and it no particular mark or lixtHratinn, of Intellect or of braveneaa to vol- such an opinion, rather a !!nd- folded method of following; son. on who I aadly misled. No Jok can bo bromMto onotagh fully to xprea th foollhno of If Charlea Darwin had don c ot h- ng ola bio work woult hav ba worth while for th spirit nf In. qulry which I otrmuJated and1 by which th doctrine of pmgraoa was mad a going conern " May I aok what wonderful lot of good ha all thia Inquiry concerning th kind of teeth and skull men had a few years ago don for our civilisation f Sciences along many line and In fact all tru aclencc hav fees wU worth while. Indeed. Ha tha polluting of million of men' rolnda with a auppositton that Iiarwln called only a hypothesis been of any valu other than to drag down our moral standard and spiritual life? will smneon an wer? What good ha It don ide preipar th people of Oarmany nd other countries for a ayatem of German culture or kulture? Might make right! Why? Bruo that the reason we ar bar wher w ar today. evolttuonUn aay. Th trong killed off in weaker onea. Ah! Any on or a hundred of once n th Biblo bao don mor or th advancement of real rivill aMon than all of Darwin works. io y Into all th world and preach he gospel" haa been th command hat caused thousanda of heathen o b ied to Christ and barom elvl. sed. Tet th old Hlbla l twin mor severely and universally criti cised than Darwin s work and I don't nolle any newspaper editor taking a aland for It a "a go.ng conrern." Why don't peopl barnrn lonely If necessary In standing for the right? Why not dar to be trust If our civilisation haa been reache4 by th strong unmercifully rrowding out th weak, Drwin woui.l tv us believe, is It not Inglral to si.p poa Wiat ahould w adopt Ih law of lov we chould turn backward toward th animal and, baaat? ! th filling of peoples antnd and especially student' n.lnd with en. a alimy rulUnneaa ben worth white? W. M. LL'likfc, Pension Rill kit fa a. MONMOI.'TIf Or.. Oct. I To th Editor.) Kindly Inform mm If th nat bill to Increaa th pen sion of civil war veteran, railed th fturaum bill, passed th bouae of representatives. . D. W. HAMPTON, Th bill passed th nst Rep. tember I and wa referred to hone commit on penaiona September U, wher It rtstad when conrea 4