THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1923
oIABLI!UEO BY HlENEY L. FITTOCK
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THE COST OF RUNNING FOB OFFICE.
A Seattle newspaper that has
had a lot to say about the New
berry political expenditures, re
cently published and sanctioned the
views of a "farmer-labor corre
spondent," to the effect that
numerous "little .NewDerrys- are
iust now at large in the state of
.Washington.
These small Ne wberrys, . aa ed
itorially defined by the newspaper.
are candidates who spend more
money in running for public office
than the law will allow them as
salary if they are elected. Both
correspondent and newspaper are
particularly suspicious of legis
lative candidates.
"How can a candidate expend
more money in securing his elec
tion than the salary of the office
for which he is elected?" demands
the newspaper. "Is his patriotism
of such high grade that he is will
ing to serve his district free of
charge?"
"The expenditure of such sums,"
says the farmer-labor correspond
ent, "renders any candidate liable
to either of two suspicions, or both.
First, is he financed by outside
parties and 'interested' friends?
Second, does he expect to get it
back, with interest, if elected?"
And to this the newspaper adds:
"No man who spends more than
his prospective salary in gaining an
election can escape the criticism and
suspicion of his fellow-citizens."
The brand of corruption is thus
neatly placed on virtually every
man who is now a candidate for
- the legislature in a contested dis
trict, or ever was a candidate since
the direct primary law was put into
effect in the state, of Washington.
The newspaper and the farmer
labor party, to which its corre
spondent is credited, are strong
supporters .of the direct primary
system, not merely as a means of
nominating party candidates, but
as a wide-open opportunity in
which everybody may participate
without regard to party affiliations.
At the same time they hold that the
candidate for the legislature who
tries to make a decent showing fpr
himself under the terms of the
primary law can escape the criti-
cism and suspicion of his fellow
citizens.
The direct primary law compels
every candidate for the legislature
who has a fight on his hands to
spend some money in seeking the
nomination. Country legislative
districts are of wide-spread area,
all of which must be covered. City
legislative districts are filled with
people, every one of whom must be
reached. Aside from actual cash
expended, the time a candidate
gives to his campaign is of some
possible value. Legislators are al
lowed $5 a day for each day of
actual attendance in the sixty-day
session a maximum of $300 for
the session.
According to the newspaper and
its farmer-labor correspondent, a
legislative candidate may therefore
spend up to $299 and keep within
bounds of honest purpose; but
should he spend $301 he becomes
a potential crook.
In this line of argument there is
no thought that any man may be
animated by sincere desire to give
public service, to work for the ben
efit of his district, his county, his
state. No credit is given even for
the less unselfish desire for per
sonal prestige, .for a place in the
public eye, for the joy of winning
or the honor of leadership. All
legislative service, all effort for
nomination and election, is put on
the cash and carry basis. If a man
cannot show that he will make an
honest profit out of his compensa
tion as a legislator, he must be
planning for dishonest gains.
There is also missing from this
argument the thpugrht that a man
who can figure himself a livelihood
out of $5 a day for sixty days once
every two years might not be the
most desirable type of lawmaker.
CONGESTED DOCKETS.
The state of congestion of the
calendar of the supreme court of
the United States is indicated by
the announcement that at the be
ginning of the fall term, only the
other day. there were 437 cases
which had been carried over from
the previous term, while new ones
have been added which make the
tetal 630. No new cases can be
argued, unless advanced for espe
cial cause, within two sears. Thus
litigation involving at least 426
nominal litigants and probably af
fecting the interests of an enor
mously greater number of indi
viduals has no prospect of adjust
ment for at least twenty-four
rmonths. Allowing for time usually
elapsing between argument and
final decision, and for cases which
will be still further postponed, the
outlook for these litigants is unfor
tunately far from bright.
The situation in this court, the
highest in the nation, gives point to
the efforts of leaders in the Ameri
can Bar association to speed up the
administration of justice by reduc
ing the number of appealable cases,
but the remedy is not as simple
as to the layman it is likely to
seem. The undoubted importance
of celerity as a factor in justice is
offset in appreciable degree by the
need of finality in the evolutionary
! process by which the real law of
the country is made. A consider
able body of litigation in which
states themselves are involved and
a large number of major issues in
which it is desirable that uniform
ity shall prevail indicate that there
will always be plenty of work for
justices of the United States su
preme court to do.
State courts no less than federal
tribunals of . high and low degree
present conditions similar to that
at Washington. This crowding of
dockets is the product both of nor
mal growth of population and of
increasing complexity of modern
business relations undreamed of by
the founders of the republic and
incessantly demanding reinterpre-
tation of laws and their adaptation
to situations that probably could
not have been foreseen. It is not
as true as it was a century ago that
litigation in its larger aspects is a
sign of acrimony and contentious
ness; much of it is based on desire
to achieve stability in matters too
intricate to be solved by legislators:
and it is to this constructive spirit
that we must ultimately look for
reform. .
Willingness to acquiesce in the
judgment of the highest courts, now
an important bulwark against an
archy and disorder, must be guided
rather than flouted in any con
structive and permanent pro
gramme of reform, and the task is
one to be approached in the spirit
of scientific inquiry, without rancor
and without undue haste.
DANGERS WITHOUT AND WITHIN.
No loyal Amerfcan despairs of
the republic and its future; but it
is well, in a world of constant up
heaval, to be reminded that change
is the rule of life and of govern
ment, ancient and modern.
Tou can count on one hand the
Important governments that have
been in continuous existence for
150 years, the life of the American"
republic. People live, nations go
on, but governments die; and in
their dying there may be a newer
and better epoch or there may not
be. Too often there is not, and in
the agony of change, or revolution,
or re-birth, or whatever it is, there
is vast net loss, not gain.
It will be an interesting thing Tor,
the American citizen to become for
the moment a student of history
and look up what has happened to
the world in 160 years since the
Declaration of Independence and
particularly in ten short years a
trembling decade in which the
foundations of the American re
public were not shaken. It is ob
vious that they can never be suc
cessfully attacked from without:
what may happen from within is
another matter.
Let the citizen reflect on what
has happened to Russia, Germany,
Austria, France, Italy, China,
Greece, Turkey to say nothing of
Mexico and a host of others pn the
American continent in a few short
years and thank God that he lives i
in the United States.
But he should do more than give
thanks. He should jealously guard
and preserve the heritage of lib
erty, civil and religious, which is
his and he should deny the same
liberty, civil and religious, to no
other under the free flag of Amer
ica. When he does deny it, and
makes his denial effective, chaos
will be our portion as it has been
the lot of others.
JUST HOW WILL HE DO IT?
The Oregonian is well aware that
there is nothing in the record of
the Pendleton East Oregonian to
justify any expectation that it will
make an accurate statement as to
itself (The Oregonian); yet it will
not permit the following from the
Pendleton paper to pass without
challenge and without exposition
of its falsity:
The Portland Oregonian says Waiter
pierce is mistaken In his view that tax
ation is the important issue of the Ore
gon campaign this year. The Portland
paper is wrong. Figures from an unques
tionable source show that state taxes
have increased 268 per cent in Oregon
since 1916. The situation has become
critical, particularly with farmers, and
everyone admits It. There is need of
relief ana it can best be earnestly com
mitted to such a course. The record of
Walter Pierce indicates he would be such
a governor. The record- of Governor
Olcott is one of acquiescence in tax in
creases even to the point of calling an
extra session of the legislature to vote
a new tax of $3,000,000 for the Portland
fair.
There are three distinct mis
statements in the foregoing. The
facts are":
1. The Oregonian has not said
that taxation is not too "high, or
that the situation is not critical.
It has said that Mr. Pierce is wrong
in his assumption of exclusive pa
ternity of the taxation issue. Every
body is for lower taxes, particularly
the candidates. The sole issue is
how to reduce them. Mr. Pierce
refuses to say, but he talks incon
sequential generalities and trifling
particularities, and weeps copiously.
Well, taxes are enough to make one
weep. But what is Mr. Pierce go
ing to do to lower them? What
will he abolish? What will he cut
down ? What 7 He never tells us.
2. The record of -Walter Pierce
does not indicate that he will be
"such a governor." It indicates
exactly the contrary. As a state
senator his record was one con
tinuous succession of votes for tax-
levying bills, particularly salary
grabs.
3. The special legislative session
of December, 1921, was not asked
to vote $3,000,000 nor any other
sum to the-1925 exposition. It was
asked to submit to the people of
the state a measure which would
permit them to decide for or
against a $3,000,000 appropriation.
That is all; and it refused. The
session was called by the governor
partly at the request of the people
of Portland who had voted four to
one for an exposition. It was a
reasonable request and it was acted
on by the governor in strict com
pliance with his duty. But an im
pelling probably the impelling
reason for calling the session was
to enable the legislature to enact
legislation to save the highways
from destruction. This it did; and
it has paid its cost many times
over.
Mr. Pierce will not tell us how
he would lower taxes. Will the
East Oregonian- do It for him?
Nine lynchings in less than sixty
days in Georgia, the latest for a re.
puted attempt at crime which did
not succeed and for which the pris
oner in the custody of the sheriff
admittedly faced the prospect of
speedy trial in a community that
never has failed to punish offenses
of that kind, would seem to give
new force to the arguments in
favor . of . a federal anti-lynching
law, The sheriff and his deputies j
admit that they had warning of
the attempted lynching but pleaded
that they were nevertheless taken
by surprise and that "there was
nothing we could do but surrender
our man or get killed." From
which' it is fair assumption that
Georgia is unable under normal
conditions to prevent lynching and
that its confession debars it from
pleading that it "needs no outside
help." There is a single glimmer
of light on the horizon; a grand
jury has been summoned to look
into the occurrence; and upon the
outcome of its labors depends more
than the fate of the lynchers the
very issue of federal interference
may be at stake.
JIB. PIERCE'S SUSPENDERS.
The imagination is captured by
Mr. Pierce's plain and forthright
declaration that he wears sus
penders. It capitulates, horse and
foot. AH Oregon awaited, agog and
agape, that sterling and intensely
democratic pronouncement which,
wholly unadvised of the. nature or
portent, it had the right to expect.
Each vibrant voter knew that Mr.
Pierce had a message a message
withheld for the reason that, at the
psychological moment, it would
burst like a bomb on the stricken
field and end the fray. Nor was
Oregon to suffer disappointment.
The moment and the - message
came. Mr. Pierce wears sus
penders.
Yet deftly as the thing was done.
neatly as the coup was delivered,
the critical, wishing to serve both
the situation and its gifted creator,
might add here and there a sug
gestion for the strengthening of
this Jacksonian episode. Mr. Pierce
might have referred to his suspend
ers as galluses. There's effect and
local color for you! There's sim
plicity and homespun plainness.
Further, he might, with a broad
and sweeping gesture, have tossed
his coat to a convenient chair and
shown, for all to see, that not only
does he wear the aforementioned
suspenders, or galluses, but that
actually he wears but one. It is
traditional, in this America that the
man, with one gallus is a hardy,
vigorous son of the people, scorn
ing the effete refinements of dress.
Mr. Pierce may yet find these sug
gestions available.
There are those who in politics,
posed before the sovereign people.
affect the habiliments of your ante
bellum Kentucky colonel, the pic
turesque attire of the distinguished
medical scientist who purveys a
complete line of Kickapoo Indian
remedies nature's gift to a grate
ful world. It is even of record that
a certain public favorite won his
niche in the hall of fame by
eschewing socks. As "Sockless
Jerry" Simpson his name rever
berates down the long corridors.
These eccentricities were well be
thought, yet they lost caste before
the entirely unaffected wearing of
suspenders. Therein is an issue of
moment revealed. Galluses versus
the belt Jacksonian simplicity
arrayed against an intolerable van
ity of the present.
Mr. Pierce wears suspenders, and
no man's collar. Excellent. Yet it
were shirking a plain duty not to
remind him, as he hitches his gear
into place and snaps one long
elastic inssheer buoyancy of spirit,
that suspenders have been known
to break. Their time comes, the
threads wear thin, an excess of
energy swells and surges within
the wearer, and the suspenders
quit. Simply quit. At such an
instant, we are confidentially in
formed, the chagrin and embarras
ment of the luckless suspenderite
is pitiful to see. He. is a man dis
traught the target of ribald jibes
and open laughter. Mr. Pierce
should look well to his suspenders.
AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH BRAZIL
An article from the Rio de Ja
neiro correspondent of the London
Times is a cause for congratulation
to Americans, for it bears testi
mony to the growing influence of
the United States in Brazil while
bewailing the decline of British
prestige in that country. The send
ing of an American naval mission
to Rio is described as "to some ex
tent the logical outcome of the po
litical rapprochement of the last
few years" and as foreshadowing
"the eclipse of the ancient British
prestige and influence in the Bra
zilian navy." British preoccupa
tion with other affairs during and
since the war has left Americans
"practically a free field" and it
is added:
The infiltration of American ideas
amongst the younger Brazilian naval
officers has been steady and progressive,
and has been aided by the American
aviation and" staff instructors contracted
during the latter part of the war. as well
as by proper naval representation at
tached to the American embassy.
Refitting the Brazilian dread
naughts Minas Geraes and Sao
Paulo and their equipment with the
American system of fire control at
the Brooklyn navy yard are re
garded as "a shock to British naval
prestige," for' these ships and. the
Brazilian destroyers were built in
Britain and the Brazilian navy was
organized by British officers on
British lines. An unsportsmanlike
chagrin is displayed by the remark
that "some measure of disappoint
ment certainly exists" and it is
doubtful if the vessels at the mo
ment can be regarded as very effi
cient units." But it is admitted
that personal identification of the
United States navy with the Bra
zilian navy "has borne golden
fruit."
This little incident is an example
of the cultivation of close relations
with the greatest South American
republic especially and with all
others whioh is an important but
unobtrusive part of President
Harding's policy. Brazil has al
ways shown strong friendship for
the United States, has heartily sec
onded our efforts to draw all the
American repvfblics together for a
common policy of peace, independ
ence of Europe and co-operation in
development and trade and in war
with Germany. Circumstances for
merly led Brazil to look to Britain
and Germany for capital, conse
quently to favor them in trade, but
the war has changed all that. The
United States has become the great
reservoir of capital on which Brazil
and its neighbors -must draw; di
rect steamship lines between the
two countries have made the cir
cuitous voyage by way of Europe
unnecessary, they carry cargoes so
nearly full aa to be profitable and
have increased intercourse, and
exchange of products has been fos
tered.
There are good reasons for con
struction of the United States and
Brazilian navies and organization
of both their navies and armies on
the same lines. If serious aggres
sion on any American republic
should be attempted by any old
world power, the two republics
would probably become allies in
war, and similar development of
their armed forces would facilitate
their co-operation. Each republic
could supply the other with the
war materials that it lacked, the
tropical products of Brazil being
exchanged for the temperate-zone
products of the United States. The
ideas of these republics are more
closely akin to each other than to
those of any European natron, and
they should form a great team.
While the contingency of war for
defense against a European power
seems remote so long as Europe
prostrate. Secretary Hughes prob
ably had it" in mind when he made
his recent visit to Rio. The same
purpose of drawing closer the
bonds of friendship with the re
publics of the southern continent
can be seen in the settlement of our
old quarrel with Colombia and in
the efforts to adjust the long
standing dispute between Chile and
Peru. Mr. Hughes seeks to prevent
this hemisphere from becoming the
scene of International feuds such as
have well nigh wrecked Europe,
and so to unite it in spirit and pur
pose that its peoples will stand to
gether against outside aggression
thus forcing any nation that may
harbor evil designs to abandon
them as hopeless of success. A
league of American nations, though
bound by no formal covenant,
would be impregnable.
SEIZE THE L.TOER OPPORTTJSTITY.
The bearing of external relations
of the United States upon our In
ternal prosperity was the subject of
an address delivered by James S.
Alexander, president of the Nation
al Bank of Commerce of New York,
before the American Bankers' as
sociation. Substantial improve-
ment of business has already come,
and American business men may
confine their outlook to their own
country and accept modest profits
in a restricted market or they may
take full advantage of America's
new pre-eminence in world finance
and production, and may attain old
time American progress and pros
perity. He added:
If we content ourselves with a modest
recovery we shall take a position which
shall constitute a signal retreat from the
spirit- of enterprise that has animated
this country throughout a hundred years;
and that has made- of America a great,
progressive nation. We Americans, up
to the last few months, have never been
satisfied with mediocre results. We
have been willing to take great risks;
and, if necessary, to suffer great losse.?;
but we have been determined to enter
upon great undertakings and to hope
for great accomplishments.
But in order to grasp the opportunities
before us the rest of the world must be
started upon a normal course. If we
Americans are to take advantage of our
new position in world affairs and if we
are to have conditions in which we can
make the moat of our new international
capital position. It is essential that we
play our part in ths . readjustment of
world conditions.
American business had . already
reached out beyond our borders
for several years before the war.
That convulsion gave it great ex
pansion in productive capacity and
in foreign markets, and put this
country in possession of a volume
of capital far exceeding the needs
of our own territory. Full employ
ment for our industries, new in
vestment for our surplus capital,
can , be found abroad. We are
equipped with a new merchant
marine and are about to adopt a
plan to keep it on the seas under
our own flag and to expand it. In
order to complete our foreign trade
organization, we need mercantile
houses abroad to sell our goods and
we need banks abroad to finance
our sales and our investments.
Success in foreign trade requires
that national policy open the way
by helping to establish favorable
conditions. These are peace, ami
cable relations, thriving industry
and sound finance among the na
tions with which we wish to trade
the same conditions which our
policy has always promoted. We
cannot sell much to people who are
constantly at war or preparing for
war, who are burdened with taxes
and whose currency is depreciated
and fluctuating in value, nor can
we safely invest capital in their
enterprises. Then national self
interest should lead us to help
other nations to settle their feuds,
reduce their armies, put their
finances on a sound basis and put
their people at work. This may be
dollar diplomacy, but it is also the
diplomacy of freedom, civilization
and humanity.
This week is sacred to the mem
ory of the Widow O'Leary and her
cow that kicked the lamp and
started the Chicago fire. "Archae
ologists" say there was no widow
and no cow; but men old enough
have a distinct recollection of both.
One reason why the president of
Dartmouth's proposal to close the
colleges to students without brains
cannot possibly be popular is that
we never will be able to find
youth of college age who doesn't
think he has them to spare.
While these safe and sane move
ments are all the rage, why
wouldn't it be a good idea to start
a propaganda for an orderly Hal
lowe'en? In the old days a man could get
drunk and drive a horse hitched to
a buggy; the horse had sense. That
cannot be said of the automobile.
It is only giving the redman his
due to suggest that on the whole it
is an excellent brand of weather
that got Itself named after him.
The name Mudania somehow
suggests a place of bad roads, and
it is a safe guess that they have
them there, too.
. Those convicts who escaped from
state prison are still loose, and that
is bad for the morale of the insti
tution. Judging by the way reports of
signing up by shop crafts are com
ing in, the strike must be over.
Wonder i? Bill Hohenzollern
will take that long-deferred trip to
Paris as his honeymoon tour.
The wife in Baker who .com
plained of her husband for moon
shining has a masterful way.
Honduras, where another revolu
tion is brewing, ought to try evolu
tion for a change.
All set, Mr. Wells; let her rain,
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leoae Cam Baer.
The Marchioness of Headfort, at
one time known as Rosie Boote, a
Gaiety theater girl, whose marriage
to Lord Headfort was one of the
first weddings of the nobility and
the stage, is coming to America
next month with her son, the Earl
of Bective.
Since the marchioness long ago
expressed her belief In foreign mar
riages, it is rumored the trip will
be for the purpose of making a
match for her son, who comes of
age next year.
That the match of Lord Headfort
and the Gaiety girl has been suc
cessful is attested by the great
popularity of the marchioness, who
has become one of England's
greatest ladles. Her husband's title
ranks second in the English peerage.
Alexander, the "man who knows,
made a spirit painting of Sam Kozer
last Monday night. Sara was sitting
in a box with a half dozen other
men who are attending the traffic
convention here and someone in the
audience asked Alexander to paint
a picture of the secretary of state.
Alexander said nothing was easier
and proceeded to make a picture of
Sam Kozer grow where a minute
previously tnere had been only
blank canvas. Later in the evening
Sam retrieved the picture from the
audience, where Alexander had
given it for an examination, and
enlisting the Influence of Manager
Johnson of Pantages, he got Alex
ander to autograph the life-like
study.
In Pasadena Harland Tucker, a
young Portlander, Is playing leads
with Nancy Fair, a clever girl who
appeared this last season' on Pan
tages circuit in a series of smart
Impersonations.
Mr. Tucker is the son of Judge
and Mrs. Robert Tucker and visited
here this summer with his wife.
Marie Walcamp. The stock com
pany which Mr. Tucker Is heading
is the Smith-King players.
Irene Watson, a young Portland
girl with a talent for music and
dance, is appearing in Chicago this
week on tour In the vaudeville act
with Harry CarrelL, The act will
play here later.
Frank Conroy, formerly of the
vaudeville team, Conroy and
Le Maire. has been engaged . for
Booth Tarklngton's new play, "Rose
Briar," which has been written for
Billle Burke. F. Ziegfleld Jr. Is to
produce it. Rehearsals have started.
Unless some day she acquires the
famous Searles "Ghost Castle" at
Methuen, Mass., Geraldlna Farrar
111 have no other home in this
country than her private car. New
York. Of course she will stop on
occasion at hotels and perhaps take
an apartment, but as for a home
no, never again in the east.
In earnest of her Intention just
before starting on her present tour
Miss Farrar sent the last of the
furniture which furnished the Far-rar-Lou
Tellegen love nest in West
Seventy-fourth street to the auc
tioneers for sale. With all the fur
niture and fittings which couldn't
help causing unpleasant reminders,
went costumes worn in 12 operas.
fans, wigs, buckles, slippers and
other mementos which will make
the Gerryflappers overdraw their
allowances for many months if they
would have a souvenir of their Idol.
Martha Mansfield, a Ziegfeld
beauty, who has been appearing in
pictures, is having a fling in vaude
ville. That is, she wants to flin.
but from reports her act was not
a hilarious success. The newspapers
of St. Louis, where Martha tried it
out, said the act was a frost, and
suggested "amateur night." Said
one critic:
"Allowing for the late arrival or
any other conceivable excuse, there
is not one for its existence. The
name, Martha Mansfield, given much
publicity, failed to draw.
"The hoirse seats 2800 persons, all
on one floor, and was lees than half
full. Many were -children, admitted
for 10 cents.
"Miss Mansfield came on in 'one'
and mumbled something about her
pictures, then a recitation ( that
could not be heard and walked off.
Full stage for the four girls that
are supposed to be dancers. They
did not show as such at this per
formance. Miss Mansfield came on
for a solo dance, which is the beat
thing in the act. She got small re
turns. The act was a real flop."
After 4 years of striving to ef
fect his parents' release from Odessa,
Morris Gest of Comstock & Ges.
theatrical firm, has received word
from the American relief that his
efforts nad finally been snccessful.
Th soviet government has given
permission for his father and mother
to leave the country and they will
start on their long Journey to their
son immediately.
e
Dorothy Dickson, who went to
London several montns ago to ap
pear in the title role of "Sally."
has just been presented in another
new musica comedy in the BritisB
capital, and if the accounts of the
reviewers bear any weight, both
she and her vehicle are pronounced
successes. The musical comedy Is
"The Cabaret Girl," and It Is the
work of George Grossmith and P. G
Wodehouse, who returned to this
country only last week. Jerome
Kern, who is still in Europe, ac
counted for the music.
Florenx Ziegfeld will start re
hearsals next week for "Rose
Briar." In which Billie Burke will
be starred. Booth, Tarkington, who
wrote the comedy, is in New York
consulting with the manager as to
the supporting cast.
The play for Miss Burke will be
the first of several productions
scheduled for this fall by Ziegfeld.
A musical show headed by Fannie
Brice Is due in November.
Martha Hedman has succeeded
Carlotta Monterey in the leading
role of "The Star Sapphire,'" Robert
Housam's new play. Claude King
will have the leading male role op
posite her. The rest of the com
pany Includes Hugh Huntley. Aver
ell Harris, Bertram ilarbur;b. and
Percy. Carf, ; j
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
Feeding corn from the middle west
to the sheep of Oregon is a some
what new development. There has
been a short hay crop in the Fossil
country, and so the sheepmen have
been reaching out for a substitute.
This they have found in the corn
belt, where the producers have
plenty of corn and almost no mar
ket. L. L. Steiwer. banker, sheep
man and land owner of Fossil, who
is in the city with a shipment of
stock, has bought a carload of corn
for his flock. The corn coBt $31
laid down in sacks within reach -jf
trucks, and considering truckage
and similar incidentals, a ton stands
Mr. Steiwer $40 whan he gets it put
away at home. This is considered as
equivalent to $10-hay in food valus,
as the corn has four times the food
value of hay. Sandy Robertson, the
warehouse man, has imported sev
eral carloads, and these are being
disposed of. The prospects are that
a trainload of middle west corn
will find Its way to the ranches of
Wheeler county for winter food.
"It's a strange country, central
Oregon," explained Lynn Coovert of
Alfalfa, Or., who arrived In Portland
yesterday. "There are many fresk
things. For instance, there Is a
hole in the ground where the wind
comes out in a breeze. Twenty
miles away is the other end of the
hole. The wind Is blowing one way
or' the other all the time, being
almost as regular as the tides. No
one has ever investigated the wan
derings of the cave through which
the wind blows, but it is probably
an old lava river tunnel, which is
not uncommon in central Oregon.
This particular wind tunnel of which
I speak Is near the Ice caves." Mr.
Coovert, formerly practicing law in
Portland, now straddles a horse an-J
rides the range. Alfalfa, his post
office, is near Powell Butte and
about 20 miles east of Bend.
"It's too dangerous being In the
brush hunting deer these days,'.'
declared Dee Wright, well-known
packer of Lane county, who came
to Portland yesterday. "Every day
you see about someone shooting
someone else, thinking the victim a
deer. The trouble is that there are
too many city sportsmen who go
into the woods to get a deer and
they are unfamiliar with woodcraft
and the first movement In the brush
they see they whang away at it
and probably shoot their hunting
companion. None of that for me.
I'll get my deer later. The last
two weeks of the season are best,
for the deer ere fatter then and the
rains have driven the city sports
men back home. That's the real
time to go hunting."
Alfred Nicolas, one of the few
people of Dairy, Or., is at the Hotel
Oregon. Dairy consists of .less th in
half a dozen buildings on the road
between Klamath Falls and Lake
view and it is at the end of the
good rocked surface road. There
are people who contend that In the
vicinity of Dairy can be found
some of the finest soil In Oregon.
In point of service. John O. Bo-
zarth of Bay City, Or., Is the oldest
past grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias attending the
present lodge meeting. Mr. Bozarth
has been at Bay City since that
place became a townsite and he has
as much confidence in Its future
now as he had then. He is regis
tered at the Hotel Oregon.
P. N Shown, one of the many,
many Showns of Wheeler county, is
at the Imperial. The Showns In
vaded Oregon years ago from Ten
nessee, coming from Showns Cor
ners, which indicates that there
were plenty of Showns in that part
of Tennessee. The Showns of
Wheeler county are all related In
various degrees of kinship.
A. E. Crosby of The Dalles Is In
town. He is a member of the re
publican state central committee.
representing Wasco county. Politics
in Wasco have been quiet, but are
now beginning to warm up. Not
only is state politics showing signs
of life, but the municipal campaign
at The Dalles promises a lively
time.
Among the upstate visitors In
Portland is L. M. Curl, who is the
republican candidate for state sens
tor for Linn county. He is one of
the numerous past grand chancel
lors of the Knights of Pythias now
in the city, and he Is also a past
supreme representative.
D. M. Lowe, whose place is be
tween Ashland and Medford. Is at
tending the Knights of Pythias
meeting. Mr. Lowe was the recall
candidate for sheriff in the recent
bitter contest in Jackson county.
He was defeated.
Frank T. Wrightman. former as
sistant attorney-general, is in the
city from Salem, and another
Wrightman, Dr. A. E., of Silverton,
is also here on fraternal business.
R. C. Lee Is a minister. He Is
representing the Sumpter, Or., lodge
at the Knights of Pythias meet
ing, although Mr. Lee is now en
gaged in gospel work at Weiser,
Idaho.
A retired merchant of Elgin, Or.,
is Albert Hallgarth. registered at
the Hotel Oregon. He is attending
the Knights of Pythias grand lodge.
Having: attended the irrigation
congress at Bend, P. J. Gallagher of
Ontario, Or., is at the riotei ron
land looking after legal matters.
Henry W. Collins, who. in addi
tion to being one of the active busi
ness men of Pendleton, is president
of the Round-up, is a Benson ar
rival. Miss Marie Sommers. secretary to
the manager of the Multnomah, has
left for a visit to relatives in In
dianapolis, Ind.
Emil Marx, engaged In the whole
sale mercantile business in Seattle,
is at the Hotel Oregon for a few
days.
Zoeth, Houser. sheriff of Umatilla
county, arrived in Portland last
evening on official business.
B. L. Burroughs of Pendleton,
where he is In the lumber business,
is among the arrivals at the Ben
son. Mr. and Mrs. D. Y. Popper of
Yacolt, Wash., are at the Perkins.
Mr. Popper 1 a millman.
Edgar McDaniel, newspaper ' pub
lisher of North Bend, Or., Is In the
city.
E. H. Dewey, hotelman of Nam pa,
Idaho, is at the Hotel Portland.
Death of Joha L. swlllvasj.
PORTLAND. Oct. 9. (To the Ed
itor.) Is John L. Sullivan still liv
ing? If so where and if not please
state date of his death. B. C.
John It.
2, 19H.
Sullivan died February
Portland la Valley.
McMINNVILLE, Or., Oct. t. To
the Editor.) I would be pleased If
you would tell me If Portland Is in
the Willamette valley or not.
KARL KOLB. -
Yeavat the outlet of the valley.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Hooghtoo-Mlf fllo Co.
Csi Tm Answer Three i west loos f
1. Have dolphins any commercial
value?
S. We had quantities of oven
birds on the lawn last spring, but
I haven't seen one all summer.
What became of them?
3. What makes potatoes winter
rot?
Answers In tomorrow's Nature
Notes,
Aaawers la Previous Qoeatlowa.
.1. Do gulls dive for their food?
Not usually. Terns do, but gulls
can generally grab a mouthful of
food from the surface. In fishing
communities which happen also to
be gull resorts. It Is a diversion to
throw waste fish to the Bulls for
the sake of seeing them swoop for
the prize almost before It touchS
water.
I. Do kangaroos show Intel
ligence? They sometimes do things thst
look Intelligent. In spit of the
statement of naturalists that mar
supials, or pouched animals, hav
small brains. They know enough
when pursued by doss to Jump Int
water, if It Is near, and to bold
the pursuer under till It drowns,
the kangaroo's own stature allow
ing them to stand head out while
the legs are busy under water.
Also thy will Improve their own
chances of escape, when pursued,
and when carrying young In the
pouch, by flinging the babies out
of the pouch Into brush.
J. Are milkweed butterflies
sometimes smaller than usual? I
caught one that looks like a milk
weed, but so much smaller.
The chances are you have a
viceroy, very similar In mar' and
coloring to the monarch, or milk
weed, but smaller, and the front
wings have a blunter curve at the
outer tip. The viceroy's distinguish
ing mark is a narrow black stripe
crossing the veins of the black
wings. Its caterpillar feeds on wil
low, aspen, poplar and apple and
oak. whereas the monarch feeds on
milkweed.
VERY CLARIFYING IX TROTRLE
What Walter Wonld ne If This
Were Epidemic Instead ef Camsolso
PORTLAND. Oct. 11. (To ths
Editor.) "Forty years ago Walter
came to our state a wandering boy.
Very recently he has five times
touched the ocean and gone from
California to the river In Idaho three
times."
Some have wondered why expen
sive publicity is given to this and
like statements when his campaign
fund Is so short and the wasted
space could be utilised to so much
better advantage in telling us just
how to reduce taxes. But hold let
us give him credit for what he has
accomplished so far In his campaign.
When a candidate gets somewhere,
why not sdvertlse the fact?
Of course he really ' didn't touch
the ocean, as he claims. You can
not catch Walter touchingfanythlng
during a campaign; at any rate, not (
where it lives and has its being, lie
wouldn't even touch the children of
his own brain once they have left
his roof. He dresses them in more
or less flimsy stuff and he kisat-s
them a fond farewell at the door
step. They are his children and all
that, but he has so many that when
they are caught on the briers of a
cruel world of stubborn facts, he
Just naturally disowns them or
holds his tongue. I do not mean to
infer that Walter isn't touching at
times, as witness the $.'.000 contri
bution, all in one chunk, and the
wandering boy stuff and the other
great gobs of sentiment too numer
ous to mention.
Waiter Isn't a bad fellow at heart
You place him in tlie midt of a
great epidemic of smallpox, for ex
ample, and I would stake my last
dollar that he would do the best he
could. X can Imagine him no
standing among the afflicted, tears
streaming down his noble fare and
fairly choking his magnificant ut
tr-ranres of the great truth that
something ought to be done about
it. While he wouldn't touch any
thing or anybody atlll be would see
to it that every patient had a clear
understanding of the fact that he
or she was suffering from smallpox.
He is wonderfully clarifying in such
situations.
Reverting to his Intrastate
travels, there is something suggea-
tive in his poetic touch of the ocean.
It strikes me that the ship of state
is close to the rocks for other
reasons besides high taxation and it
seems that the rescue will prove to
be too big a Job for any one man.
If two heads are better than one
not to mention dozens, why not
carry out the principle of team
work along scientific lines as vl
dently contemplated by Governor
Olcott in his appointment of a tax
commission? The method is appli
cable In the determination of other
sound public polices. We suspect
that oracular candidates are obso
lete. The good Lord has blessed us with
a few clear-eyed pilots and they
propose to do their best, without
going Into convulsions, to bring our
grand old ship of state into a peace
ful harbor. Wouldn't it be grand to
have Walter meet us at the dock?
It wouldn't seem like Oregon unless
we heard his voice again even as in
the days of old "thirty long years
of public service." You would sure
give him The One Dollar if he would
then say In his Inimitable way: "Ah,
my'friends. you are safe In the har
bor at last! You are wet! A ter
rible storm! Did you notice it white
on the briny deep and coming- over
the bar? THIS THING MC'tiT UK
STOPPED! Boo. boo, hoo!"
Well we hope to stop It. W
really hope and expect to hold a
barbecue on election night with the
dead non-partisan bull on the plat
ter. You think differently. Walter?
Very well, and what then? Then
congratulations are In order and we
go back to our work in fields and
factories. Yes. we w'ill drop politi
cal issues. And we must all forgive.
too. But will some be able quite to
forget your association with certain
interests and Issues that pierce the
heart like a violated home? In ths
hour of your elevation. If It cornea.
Walter, you will understand what
it means to have pledged yourself
to the "doing of every proper thing
in your power." D. KOK.
Membership la Authors' leaa;e.
PORTLAND. Oct. 10. (To the Kd-
jtor.) Kindly Inform me what the
reaulrements are for membership
in the Oregon Authors' league. To
whom should one apply for member
ship? WHere and when are tee
meetings held? It. H. II.
Apply to Ann Shannon Monro.
president. Her address Is 6J0
Forty-second street Southeast.
Plnrwl Verb Required.
RirKRRAI.I. Or.. Oct. " (To the
F.dltor.) Which is correct: "s:x and
four are ten," or " and four la
ten"? A kCBSCKIBKK.
Th verb, having two subjects.
should be plural. Elx and tour "are"
tea.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jssirs J. Meatag-we.
THK :IET WAT.
(I won success by working; II
hours every day of try working IK
A leader cf Industry.)
It you r. weary of being aa iak-
'.Iniing clerk
For a bit more than nothing a lay
And yearn for a fortune, you ea:y
need work
For a scant eisMeen hours a day.
Get down to the Job at a quarter
past sti :
Take your lunch In the pi rab-
, er's line.
And suck at your desk, puttlrg la
good hard licks.
Till the clock reads lea mlnutts to
nine.
Then Jump for In trolley and hustle
for home;
Snatch a few hours good rerfni
sieep
And fart bark o ths shop la the
dun colored gloam
That heralds the morning's first
peep.
Don't think of your family; yea'f
out after fame!
Don t think about pleasure or
friend;
Get Into ths hurrying, worrying
game
And toll for ambition's hlh ns
In the days when a certain great
man was a boy,
A youngster vsa up wl'h th asw
And worked round th clock with
soul thrilling Joy
Till the hour of ten twenty-two.
H recked not o4 hasehsli. of golf
or of shows.
H cared not for sught bld prn't
II slighted his meals and he
amped his repose.
But he made a rich man of him
self. He wasted no tlrn on Ides and
things;
No high school or college h knew;
II never thought thinking would
lend his soul Inss.
Or figured what knowledge might
do.
A day-book and ledger was all thai
he had
In the culture or literature line:
They answered tha turn for his
hard-fisted dad.
Who throve upon both ef 'm.
fine!
This person has nothing but mony
of course
n hasn't a thought In his head.
And neither will you If you, work
like a horse
From ths day of your birth till
you'r dead.
Merely a rrvltaalaarr.
Albert Jemmlah Ilevsrldg has
been chopping; 'n In ( olorsdo
preliminary to Ms campaign for
senator. IICII Begin rolling m u
he s elected.
F.aally lllaswased
In Europe he mar well b re
garded as th sPrbl Turk.
Make Tear Owa lyedaeilaa.
Tn Kranc a colored man won lb
literature prli and snother rolored
man knocked out ("arpentler. Which
ona do you suppose was carried eut
of th hall on th shoulder of In
spectators?
rTvtitit tv -H 4l-se t
In Other Day.
Twraay-flte Inn Asa.
Tt-om The Oregonlsn. fV-toher IJ. IT.
New Orleans. From rcnt re
ports (her Is little hop In lh
yellow fever situation. No pas
senger trslns r being run la or
out of th city.
Reattl. I'al tliiiln, bonaasa
king of th Klondike, plsc-d ths
last year's vslu of gold output
from the Klond.k alone at
j0.0o0.0lt0.
Dublin. The firs! general con
vention of th Irish Independent
league organised by John Hd
nu-n-1. M. I'., th Parstllt leader,
opened here this afternoon. Th
delegates hlse. th nam of Glad
stone when Itedmond characterised
him as "th Knglishman mho be
trayed Inland. "
A low death rat snd an In
creased Mrth rat ar said to In
dicate the passing of hard times.
If this I true our rlt.nens mar
w-fll tak rourage. lnc thee ro-t
dltiona prevailed to a notabl -tent
In this city last month.
l-'lffy Ivsrs Ass.
From Ths nrcon!n. Oclnhr II. 1S7J
Washington The announcement
of the death of e -He,retary ewar4
was read with regret In all depart
ment today. Ths state building
will be draped in mourning in re.
s ret to th memory of th de
ceased.
Paris. The 8olr published a sen
sational report this afternoon that
a lionapartist movement was en
foot and that a roup d'etat would
be attempted In I'ana tonight.
Marriages don't so begging thl
month. There hav been lwlv
license Issut-d from th off!r of
th county clerk during October.
PI BI-IO IIOOI, t'OMM rillf
Requirement far r.rly Tralalng
Therela Held Wot I sressesskls.
PORTLAND. Oct. 1 1 (To th F.dl
tor.) Kducatmg a free-born chid
in this country seem to b too
touchy a question for much of th
public to participate in.
in my opinion, cias ru:e in inn
I'mted btates I un-American,
whether of aristocrat Ic, reliiou or
bol"hvik origin.
W want at least th first ft pr
cent of every American child to b
Indelibly American, and our beat
aasuranc of their getting tni Is t
th- public school and not th prl-
vsto school.
There Is plenty of time for thm
after they hav reached th eighth
grade to school themselves for
preochlng, fighting or nnosmg.
We ought to rear Americans la
this country If possible, and why
this opposing element undermining
the fundamental principles of our
government, insisting on a mhitsry.
religious, an aristocratic, an in
fidel, or some kind of fore gn trsla
Ing. Implanted first on th young
mind a of primary Import nr-e ?
Some short-sighted writer would
lead th voter lo think thai the
compulsory education bill would
rob th horn of th child from
birth until It we married. Itut not
so: -only half th days In a year foe
a few years aftor the child is I
yeare old. That doe not seem ask
ing too much for patriotism al thl
us of th storm-tossed wor?4. whej
ail Class ar (setting- supremacy.
bAKr-TY Fl KMT.
America f ltlseashl Regal.
CAHPiUA Wn , O f 10 (To
th r.t'tor I 1 there federal low
that restores rlt txenehin to a worr-a
horn in the tned !''. who h.
lost her Ani--rl-aii rlftsenaliip hv
reason of marriage w'fo i 'in"
KUI'bl KIlir.H.
In th vnt of divorce er death of
husband, wif automatically rais
Amsrkaa clllssnshlp.