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10 ' TTIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAJf, FEIDxVT, OCTOBER 20, 1922 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK Published by The Oregonian Pub. Co., U5 e ith Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDBN. B. B. PIPER. Manager, Editor. The Oregonian Is a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publi e&tiun or 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 dis patches herein are also reserved. (subscription Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) Daily, Sunday included, one year . . . .$8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months .. 4.-5 Daily, Sunday Included, three months 2.25 Daily, Sunday included, one month .. .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months ,. 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month ... .60 Sunday one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) 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By changing its published aims it tries to creep just within the law. A pamphlet en titled "The Immediate Demands of the I. W. W.", which was distrib uted at the meeting at Labor Tem ple on Tuesday, has as preface the preamble of the organization. This declaration does not preach direct action, sabotage and revolution; it is a new, denatured' preamble, pro claiming no openly revolutionary methods but it announces a revolu tionary purpose. It lays down these premises:. The working class and the employing class have nothing In common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take pos session of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. Labor unions are cast aside as worse than useless, for they are "unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class," "allow one set of workers to be pitted against another" and "aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers." , The disintegrating, destructive aim is set forth in the following words: Tt is the historic mission of the work ing class to do away with capitalism The army of production must be organ- ' (9!d. nnt nnlv trr lh avorvriair alrnrvlo , with capitalists, .but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing indus trially we are foiming the structure, of the new society wdthin the shell of the old. That plan is construed to mean Immediate demaiflds in first place. ' Ultimate demands in second place.' Capitalism, whilch is the term ap plied to the imtiviclualist system as opposed to th-s socialist system, is said to be "breaking down in one country after another" and without regard to facts Kussia, Germany and Austria are cited as examples, though the I. W. W.'s twin, bolshe vism, has broken down in Russia, Germany has been ruined by de fiance of economic '.principles, and the socialist party is the chief ob stacle to reconstruction of Austria. The United States is styled "the last important' stronghold of. capital ism," but recent strikes "are all in dications of a progressive collapse even here," though sadly it is con fessed that "the organism of world capitalism is dying by inches." But such progress has beeai made in "forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old" that already the second function ultimate demands "overshadows the first function" immediate de mands yet: Such a gigantic establishment as the world's economic mechanism cannot be revolutionized in a. day. a month or in a year. Not for a day should the workers for get the everyday battle with the em p'oyers. On the vigorous carrying on of that battle rests our hope of ultimate success in our undertaking to abolish wage slavery. Thus the two functions of the I. W. W. the immediate and ultimate go hand in hand. They supplement each other and are equally necessary. Immediate demands are to be for higher wages', better hours and better working conditions. Great success is claimed in bettering the condition of migratory workers in several lines, and it is argued: , It is by proving to the workers that they can "make good" through their organized power and enforce such Im mediate demands that the influence of the I. W. W. is deepening and broaden ing from year to year. The I. W. W. has from the beginning followed the law of economic necessity. The immediate demands are the tangible etression of this law. In nine out of ten cases the worker's mind is too untrained to grasp a plan for a worldwide and revolutionary re construction of society. Ho will gradu ally wake up to that later on. But the first appeal to hla flense of solidarity is apt to be most successful If it is made to th stomach Instead of the intelli gence. The workers can drive away the - sPiirkers and take real possession and control of the world's resources only by beginning at the bottom, that la, by organising on the Job, by making one immediate demand on top of another avd thus gradually growing into con trol of the industries and throwing off the control of the shirkers. The road to our emancipation Is paved with "immediate demands" successfully fought for, and not with revolutionary phrases or political dogmas. ; IJo after the employers with an end less string of immediate demands. Up and at them. The I. W. W. is "up and at" the shipping business of Portland with the longshoremen's strike. A dodger distributed at the strike meeting describes the terrible lot of the marine transport workers exploited by "the masters." It claims everything for "the work ers" in these words: We claim that since labor produces all ; the wealth, labor Is entitled to all wealth. ' In our estimation, robbers have no rights: producers have all rights. We produce all the wealth that -- duoed in transportation. Without us huiwuuu .uu,u nui do carried on. The ultimate purpose of the strike is made known by this ap peal: We then are the only ones that count. But , we count no more than we our selves think. If we think as ' slaves, . .ilaves we are and should be. If we think as men, then let us act as men. Let us organize In the transport workers' union with the object and for the pur pose of taking possession of the means f of trarsportation and carrying it on for our own benefit Instead of for the bene ' fit of overfed parasites. . . Such being the purpose behind the strike, it would be folly for the employers to parley with the I. W. W. By boring from within it has captured the longshoremen's union and led it to strike for the I. W. W.'s "ultimate demands," which are boldly proclaimed as ap plied to the Portland shipping business. Though this organization no longer openly advocates unlaw ful methods and keeps revolution in the background, it does not hide its "purpose of taking possession of the means of transportation," which in plain language means stealing the ships, the docks and all things connected with them. Portland is the "weak point," chosen for the first attack, and an I. W. W. army is summoned to make it. Portland is equal to the occasion and will rout-the "wob blies." f DOC. PIERCE'S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION. . Everybody who has given the subject-any study or investigation knows that the increase in taxation has been gradual and all along the I line. It has affected school taxes, j road district taxes, county taxes, town taxes, port taxes, city taxes, state taxes. The increase has been insidious. ! It has crept upon us from so many directions and In such small in dividual accretions that a total has been created which is not subject to reckless hacking. The only way to reduce a tax total so built up is to reverse the process by which it was created. Each of its elements must be reduced to make the re duction material, and safeguard government. These facts with further details, explain why Candidate Pierce is incapable of presenting a concrete programme for tax reduction. Governor Olcott is a business man. Having had experience in state affairs for a long time, he saw the condition thai nad arisen and set out to prepare a definite pro gramme as any other businessman would do. He recommended to the legislature the creation of a com mission to make a survey of taxa tion, and the legislature responded. The governor in appointing his commission, selected as one of its members Mr. Pierce. Why he did so we do not know. It may be that he thought success for the pro gramme would be aided by demo cratic co-operation. It may be he decided, from the tax spending rec ord of Mr. Pierce, that he needed to study the situation more than any other prominent citizen in the state. Anyway he appointed Mr. Pierce and Mr. Pierce went on the commission. The commission thus conceived and appointed by Governor Olcott undertook as one of its duties to sound public sentiment. It held public meetings in some of the larger communities and towns of the state. The populace descended upon it. They came gasping for re lief from high taxes. Mr. Pierce, formally and of ficially a participant in these meet ings, got his tip and his lesson from the ruckus that Ben Olcott had started. He learned what the people wanted above all things, and he learned it by having it dinned into his ears by the people themselves on an expedition whose expenses were paid out of the public treas ury. He learned at first hand what Governor Olcott had learned with out fuss or oratory that the high state of taxation which Mr. Pierce had so signally helped to create? was the private and public griev ance of every owner of property in Oregon. Now if there is anything to which the public objects Mr. Pierce is always ready to remedy it by running for office himself. That is his solution of every public ill. It is his panacea, his nostrum. Old Doc. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. bo he is running for governor on a promise to reduce taxes. He does not say how he is going to do it. It is apparent he. does not know how to do it. He did not stay ac tively with the tax investigating commission long enough to find out how it might really be done. A VILLAIN OF PACIFIST ROMANCE. One of the tricks of pacifists and socialists is to depict some shad owy figure in the background of war who Intrigues with politicians to make nations fight in order that munitions may be sold, and who amass enormous fortunes by their plots. According to this theorv. the rights, interests and passions of the nations concerned have nothing to do with the case, and the people have no voice in the decision. Al most every country in Europe is governed by universal suffrage the outstanding exception is the Russian "workinemen's" republic but, according to this theory, the people are deluded by politicians, munition-makers and a "capitalist" Dress into hating one another and fighting about things of no con sequence, in order that profit may be made on munitions. This theory is more plausible if there is a villain in the play. The villian selected for the Graco Turkish war is Sir Basil Zaharoff. A radical writer in the Tindnn Labor Monthly describes him as the Paris representative of Vickers, the British gunmaker, but also as "a great magnate, a great entrepre neur, emerging mysteriously out of nowhere in particular" and as hav ing "all-powerful influence" in "the world of high finance and high politics." He is said to be by birfh either a Russian or an Armenian, but by citizenship a Greek with an English title, and to onersts with the immense fortune of a Greek family. He is said to have re ceived rich favors from King Con stantino and to be one -of the Greek bourgeois who seek to domi nate the ne.ar east. The article in question was published before the rout of the Greeks and the fall of Constantine, so Sir Basil's nose must be somewhat out of joint, but according to our pacifist romancer that will bring the. French arma ment firm of Schneider-Creuzot into the ascendant. When the New York Herald sought refutation of the charge that Zaharoff pulled the strings for war in the near east, its corre spondent was informed by em ployes at his Paris residence that Zaharoff "is just an old man over 70, who is very tired and wants to be let alone and not bothered over silly reports that he' is the power behind European thrones." But the correspondent added that "every diplomat In Europe assumes a grave look as soon as Zaharoff s name is brought up, as the French chancelleries are said to be full of secret reports of his connection with successive war clouds" and so forth. Of such stuff is the pacifist-socialist case made that munition makers plot with cabinets for wars which the people shall fight. Ac ceptance of that theory by the al lies would have given victory to Germany. Then indeed it would have proved true, for the German statesmen and munition makers would have mate the conquered fight for them. Incapable of dis tinguishing between peoples" ho are ruled by themselves and peo ples who are ruled by despots, these spinners of political and economic fiction cannot conceive that munition-makers sell their goods when war comes, but that almost all their profits are taken by taxation and that their normal business is disorganized by war demands. Unreasoning" opposition to war without regard to its cause and blind enmity to capital are the allies of militarism, for, if they prevailed, it would be supreme. THE CRIMINAL'S- LIMITATIONS. Another "arch-criminal,"' a kind of -super-offender against com munity morals and the human sense of decency, goes back to jail with the recapture of the Oregon bad man by Los Angeles officers. His quick capture illustrates the fatal weakness of the criminal mind, that it is incapable of imagi nation and nearly always moves in a groove. So patent was this pro cess in the case of Herbert Wilson and his pals that the sheriff needed only to know what his plans had been on the occasion of a previous jailbreak conspiracy; with this information to guide him he went straight to the spot where the convicts a little later appeared. It is too much to hope that Wil son, the discredited evangelist, will not be lionized by a certain class. The case of Roy Gardiner is too fresh in memory to warrant belief that this branch of the hero-worshipping cult has found a worthier object for its adulatory sentiment alism. But the fact as to Wilsbn, as it was as to Gardiner, is that here is a man capable of making an honest living by hard work who prefers to commit his destiny to Beelzebub, to let others labor that he, may steal their earnings, to banish himself to the companion ship of thugs and thieves when he might with reasonable effort enjoy the society of decent and repu table men. Give a man a dash of that which the reporter calls "sangfroid," an ingratiating smile, a superficially engaging personality and a good suit of clothes and you have the material for a downtrodden victim of stony-hearted society, a kind of twentieth-century Robin Hood. These men "get by," but as Wil son's experience has shown, they don't often go far. For the in dubitable fact of the matter is that, taking the life he has chosen at the criminal's own estimate of it, it has no rewards. It is just one prison term after another, with the briefest of periods of relaxation spent in surroundings not much sut perior to a prison cell. UNITE FOR OREGON DEVELOPMENT. Settlement of the state, on which a report was made by the state de velopment board to the Oregon ir rigation congress at Bend, was shown to be a practical question of getting the right kind of settlers and then putting them on the road to success. The old method of painting a glowing picture, which led a family to cut loose from its old home and plunge on the chances of success in a new state without help or counsel from those who painted the picture, has given place to efficiency methods in other states and in the British colonies. Oregon's greatest need is people who will make its rich but idle land produce, and in order to get them it must resort to efficiency meth ods. The state has made much idle land accessible by building high ways. It should now get a return on that investment by putting settlers on the land and adding it to the revenue-producing area. When the new settlers are .well estab lished, they w,ill contribute to the maintenance and further extension of the road system and will assume a share of the general expense of state and county government. This is a work that can best be done by voluntary effort of the cit izens; the state is doing its full part by guaranteeing interest on irriga tion bonds and by building high ways. It can be done better by vol untary effort than by official action, for it requires enthusiasm tempered by sound judgment, also individual initiative. It should command the active support of people in every , occupation, for all will gain in pocket and so cially by filling the vacant spaces with people. The merchant and manufacturer will have more cus tomers, the banker more depos itors, the professional man more clients, the railroad more traffic, the farmer more neighbors to share reclamation charges and the cost of schools, roads and taxes generally. The development board proposes a sound plan of sending out agents to select desirable settlers, of publicity for information as to what the state has to offer and as to what it is ready to do, of financ ing the settler for purchase of live stock and implements and erection of buildings, of instructing him as to methods of cultivation and kind of crops, of forming co-operative associations for packing and sale of crops, and of establishing in dustries immediately dependent on agriculture, such as creameries, cheese factories and canneries. All of these phases of the undertaking require work on the part of men in various branches of busniess, and expenditure of money which should he obtained through the united financial support of the people. While a return on this money can not be traced directly to it, good effects should be felt in general quickening of business and indus trial life and in lightening of the burden of taxation. While the work of development should cover all parts of the state and all classes of land, arid, wet, swamp or lpgged-off, the most im mediate need is in the arid areas of eastern Oregon. Projects have been organized for reclamation of more than sixty arid tracts and between thirty and forty wet tracts, the total being about 1,500,000 acres. Some tracts alueady re claimed have been under unjusti- fiable handicaps. Bonds have been sold at a discount of 15 to 18 per cent, and contracts have been let at excessive prices, a heavy addi tion being thus made to both the capital and interest charge to be met by the settler. Large parts of tracts that have been reclaimed are still unsettled. The interest, amor tization and maintenance charges for the entire tract are borne by the present settlers, who thus pay them for the vacant land as well as for their own, which is an added burden. The Ochoco project is an. example. It has 10,000 vacant acres, which could be divided among 150 settlers, who would pay their share of the charges . and thereby reduce that paid by the present settlers. There is no good reason why reclamation bonds should be sub ject to discount, or at least to heavy discount, when the interest for the first few years is guaranteed by the state. It is to the interest of all the people of Oregon that the cost of a farm on reclaimed land should not be enhanced by a price for con struction of irrigation or drainage plant that is any higher than neces sary to ensure good work and a fair profit to the contractor. An organization to sell all the land of a project should go to work as soon as construction begins in order that, as soon as it is ready for cul tivation and as soon as payments begin to fall due, the tract may be as nearly as possible fully occupied by men ready to make them. - The best advertisement for development of the state is a reclaimed tract fully settled by prosperous farmers who made their payments reg ularly. The worst possible adver tisement would be an irrigation district that had become bankrupt because the settlers', backs had been broken by the load they were trying to carry. If these weak spots are not fortified, the work of state development will start under a heavy handicap, for the bad news would travel and would be quoted to refute every argument in favor of investment in Oregon reclama tion bonds or in favor of settlement in this state. PROSPERITY COMING TO FARMERS. That is a great code of laws for the benefit of the farmers that Secretary Wallace laid before an Ohio audience, and its effect is al ready visible in the higher prices for farm products that have pre vailed since the slump of 1920 and in the present upward movement of grain prices. If prosperity has not yet returned in full tide to the farmers, it is on the threshold. Continuance of democratic admin istration could have brought no such results. The one remaining essential of agricultural prosperity is increase of the foreign demand and higher export prices, for which we must look to prosperity among our for eign customers. There are unmis takable signs of reviving industrial activity in Britain, France, Belgium and Italy, which should increace demand for American food prod ucts. , . This improvement of foreign markets would have come sooner if the farmers of the middle west had thrown their influence to American participation in the work of reconstruction in Europe instead of being misled to support the policy of isolation. Either their prices should have been up to the level of those for manufacturers or the cost of production and trans portation should -have been far lower, if our foreign customers had recovered sooner, as would have been the case if we had helped them. Adding to length of life by con quest of disease is another way to beat the falling birthrate, but twenty years more of longevity in every half century will not bring us up to Methuselah's record for sev eral thousand years. But there are objections to long life; it gives a person-so much more to remember and so many more reminiscences to tell. If Methuselah had been dying this year, he could have re membered dear back to the time when Lief Ericson first saw Ameri ca, when William the Norman con quered England, and when the crusades were in full swing. Then the children would not have needed to read history in books; they could just have got the local Methuselah to reel off a chapter, Apples pile up at Wenatchee prunes at Roseburg for want of cars, but Hood river can send its apples to Portland by boat or truck because the Columbia river is 'at its door. An open river would settle many of our troubles about car shortage. , In buying back his old home stead the president has the ad vantage of having lived in another generation. Chances are that the birthplace of the statesman of the future will be, an apartment house or maternity hospital ward. Now the doctors have started a campaign to prolong the average life expectancy by twenty years. Why couldn't they have waited un til the government could recoup a bit on inheritance taxes? . One- day's liberty" was hardly worth all the trouble taken by the Los Angeles jailbreakers. They were quick at getting out, but slow at the get-away. If Dr Reinsch has become in sane, it1 is no cause for wonder. Chinese politics are enough to un seat the most powerful intellect. When a fellow passes the age at which his grandfather died he au tomatically becomes a longevity statistic. Big hearted Walter's programme of tax reduction can't seem to get beyond the first five thousand dol lars. The water bureau has a cash bal ance of over $62,000. There is no dividend on water, however. The next legislature should be petitioned to provide a closed sea son on deer hunters. Most people will not know what a Health exposition is unless they attend one. Rainy season, to be sure; but Where's the rain? Lloyd George is about the last of the big men. FOR BIBLE STUDY IN SCHOOLS Writer Would Employ No Teachers J Unwilling; to Teach It. PORTLAND, Oct. Iff. (To the Editor.) The public school should be supported by all, because the public cannot afford to let Its chil dren grow up in ignorance. " Good citizenship and good morals depend on education and religion. All ought to be religious, to know the Bible and live according to its precepts. God. who made the universe ana man, gave us his word the Bible and all should be taught the Bible if nothing else. It is universal and meets universal need. It ought to be in every school and taught there. Our wise forefathers, the pilgrims. started this nation on Bible prin ciples, and it is every child's right and duty to know the Bible, and to know it in his early, impressionable years. The reason so much moral collapse is all about us is that the Bible is neglected. Why was it ever taken out of the school? Not long since, I heard one of Portland's teachers say that it seemed as if many of the pupils had not the least idea of duty to God, or obedience to parents. "I didn't know the Bible said anything about that," they say. This teacher com piled a small book,, containing some of the most notable Bible recepts relating to character and conduct, adapted for children in the home and the schools. They are attrac tively arranged, easy to leam and would be of great benefit every where no matter what church the parents might favor. If this nation is going to last and know prosperity, it must get back to Christian principles. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." When spirituality is lowered, morals are lowered, then the physical man is doomed to go down and destruc tion follows. Other nations have gone down thus it is past history, and America is on the road to this eestiny if we do not change. Let us have our public schools, but let us put the Bible foremost. Abolish the amusements that lower the morals and aspirations of out young people. Education with out religion is a ship without chart or compass or rudder. Let us realize that religion is vital, and absolutely necessary to prevent national down fall. If the children miss early re ligious training, nothing' can atone for the great loss. Not all parents' are willing or cap able of giving their children proper home instruction, but the children should have it somewhere, 5f they are to become good citizens. As early training is foundational to character, no teachers should be em ployed to instruct the children who are not willing to teach the Bible. It is unsectarian it is for all the world, and no society, clique, clan or church has the right to withhold it from the children. , C. E. BRECK. ULTIMATUM IS SENT TO COUNCIL Property Protection Halloween De manded on Pain of City Liability. PORTLAND, Oct. 19. (To the Ed itor.) The writer has addressed a letter to the mayor and city council, in which other citizens and taxpay. ers are requested to take their own personal interest and serve like no tices upon the city. The letter is as follows: "To the Mayor and Council of the City of Portland. , "This city has made a sate ana sane Fourth of July, but has signal ly failed to make a safe and sane Halloween. ' For years past property has been destroyed or damaged by gangs or mobs of hoodlums, and human life often endangered. It is no defense to say that parents or police cannot control these mobs. The writer believes existing ordin ances relating to disorderly conduct are sufficient, but if not, a more drastic ordinance may be passed at once. "It is suggested that a police cor ral be provided in some dark base ment and all -roving, lawless Hal loween gangs and mobs be run into the same without waiting for dam ages to occr.r, and charges of dis orderly conduct preferred. "The undersigned, as a citizen and taxpayer, gives notice that full pro tection of his property is demanded of the city against such gangs and mobs, and if damages are caused by their acts, claim for indemnity will be made against the city." ROBERT C. WRIGHT. PROPOSED SPAN ARTERIAL LINK Rosa Inland Bridgre Would Connect With Powell Valley Road. PORTLAND, Oct. 19. (To the Edi tor.) The construction of the pro posed Ross island bridge will again bring into prominence our old Pow ell Valley road. In the early days this was a main artery of traffic far better known than Sandy boulevard, Lnion avenue and many other streets which since have become im portant. However, the early de velopment of the Powell Valley road has brought about the intersection of the leading north and south streets with the pioneer road. Not only Milwaukie street, serving the Sell wood district, but also East Twenty-eighth,j5treet feeding East moreland anrL,Reed college; Thirty ninth street-affording an outlet for Woodstock, and the Foster road, Fifty-second street Southeast and Eighty - second street Southeast. which open iip the Arleta, Lents and Mount Scott districts, unite at the Powell Valley road. Therefore, the Ross island bridge connects with what might be called a "natural11 traffic artery system which has been evolved as the city of Portland, and Multnomah and Clackamas counties have grown and developed. F. I. MARSHALL. AUTUMN PAINTS HER BANNERS When Autumn returns with pensive smile. She flings it far with a light . divine. Over the earth-span, mile on mile, Of the woodlands that are mine. K f i She decks a hill with a coronet Of banners that glimmer and glow. ' Where its mounting crest and blue are met; . And the languid hazes blow. She mingles the tints of topaz gems And red rubies of rarest worth, With rubicund chests of diadems, In the crucible-fires of earth. Then into the vat where the pig ments burn. ' With a rainbow brush in her hand. She dips, and paints them each in .turn. These banners of vesper-land. Then anew to October she flings them, Who mounts them aloft on the trees, Till winter a frosty shroud brings them And sifts them away on the breeze. HOWARD M. CORNING. Fame Doesn't Come Unaided. London Opinion. Once, at a dinner, a lady said to Lord Nortbcliffe: "Thackeray awoke one morning and found himself fa mous." When that morning dawned," Northcliffe answered, "Thackeray had been writing eight hours a day for 15 years. The man who wakes up and finds himself famous, madam, hasa't been asleep." Those Who Come and Go. Talea of Folks at the Hotela. "We've been a little slow in Montana about the road game," said E. B. Harrison in the lobby of the Hotel, Portland, "but we intend making up for lost time: Somehow, the possibilities of good roads have never been given serious considera tion by leading citizens. ' With other western states building and paving highways, much through traffic has come into, Montana and we have suffered by comparison. We knew that to build roads cost millions of dollars and we thought that the only way to pay for roads w,as to have higher taxes, and no one wants to pay more taxes than necessary. Only within the past few days has the Oregon idea been explained to Montana people. The Oregon system of issuing enough bonds to build roads and then pay ing the interest and principal from the motor vehicle licenses strikes us as an excellent solution and good stroke of financial genius. Some of the big men of our state are now getting behind a programme to talk good roads and submit the Oregon plan of financing to the legislature. It is now entirely a matter of edu cation and no time will be lost in explaining the proposition to the people." "Portland reminds me more of a New England city than any other town 1 have visited on the Pacific coast. Nor am I alone in this im pression. This is my first trip to Portland, but for years I have met people who told me that Portland seems like a town of New England. I can't exactly place my finger on the reason why there is this atmo sphere, but it exists." So said S. H. Martin of Boston, Mass., at the j Multnomah. Mr. Martin was a dele gate to the bankers' convention in California. He stopped off yester day to see the lumber mills, paper mills, woolen mills and the Columbia river highway. W. C. Wortman, registered at the Hotel Oregon, is proud of the ac tivities of Kelso, Wash. Just now more progress is being shown at Kelso and vicinity than in any other place west of the Rocky mountains. This is because of the Long-Bell Lumber company, which is prepar ing to have one of the largest saw mills on the coast. The company is building what virtually amounts to its own town; logging railroads are under way, land is being cleared for building purposes and in all these things Kelso is interested and derives some of the benefits. "There is a great future for Klamath Falls," predicts C. II. Knowles, better known as "Jack," probably because it isn't his name. "The Natron cut-off has been prom ised and it is only a matter of very few years before the Natron cut off is built and that will mean that Klamath Falls will be one of the principal beneficiaries. The town is good now, with its lumbering and other resources, and when the cut off is built Klamath Falls will be second only to Portland." Whether It is potatoes or fruit, Yakima, Wash., will not take a back seat for any other section of the northwest, a statement which Louis Day, at the Perkins, will readily confirm. The two subjects of most importance in Yakima just now are the need of a couple of thousand of refrigerator cars to ship fruit 'east and more railroad facilities. A del egation of Yakima men came to Portland earlier this week to see what can be done about the railroad question. Having visited the new power plant being constructed at Hood River at a cost of $1,250,000, Dr. Fred W. Vincent, of Pendleton, ex presses surprise at the camp pro vided for the hundreds of men employed. "No place could be more sanitary," declares Dr. Vincent. "The men are given clean sheets and pillowcases and they are pro vided with an up-to-date bathing place. And the meals that the cooks put up; make me hungry just to think of them." "The best way to go into Bend now." said J. B. Howland at the Multnomah, "is to leave the Colum bia river highway at Biggs and drive over the Sherman highway, Mr. Howland, who is manager of a hotel at Wasco, Or, says that the tourist season In his town was fairly good. A large increase in outside motor parties is looked for when the Sherman highway is fin ished. On the di.sk at the Multnomah are two apples, each weighing two pounds, ringside weight. These ap ples are part of a crop of 36, all virtually of the same weight, which were gathered from a 6-year-old tree at Underwood, Wash. They were presented to the hotel by Dr. Dave Raffety. perfectly good pass keys were ruined at the Multnomah. A maid was turning an electric switch when the keys touched a connection, caused a short circuit, extinguished every electric light in the hotel and fused the keys beyond repair. Mrs. Bert Moses of Ashland ar rived at the Benson yesterday to meet her husband, who is associated with Jesse Winburn in political work. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Phillips of Izee. accompanied by Mrs. Robert Lister, are at the Imperial. Mr. Phillips is a stockman. Henry Leach, son of the Tilla mook butcher and former council man, is registered at the Hotel Oregon. Lyman C RIce, member of. the state bonus commission, is regis tered at the Benson from Pendleton. W. G. Ward of Caldwell, Idaho is registered at the Perkins. Mr. Ward is engaged in the stock business. Harold J. Warter, who is city at torney for Pendleton, Or., is regis tered at the Benson. R. M. D. Childs, who is a bond broker at Boise, Idaho, is among the Multnomah arrivals. John Pickett, a stockman of the Paulina country, 1b at the Imperial for a few days, , Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Krebs of the Elmore hotel, at Rockaway, Or are at the Imperial. Sam E. Van Vactor, an attorney of The Dalles, is registered at the Im perial. Marriage After Divorce. SEASIDE, Or., Oct 18. (To the Editor.) If "A" secures a divorce in the state of Illinois from "B," liv ing in Oregon, does the Illinois law govern, "B's" marriage? Must' "B" wait the year required in Illinois! READER. The Illinois law controls. Needs Careful Study. Boston Transcript. She (banteringly) Didn't you swear that if Miss Brute rejected you you would cast yourself into the deepest part of the sa? He W-ell-er-you see, I'm still gather ing statistics. It's no easy matter to find out where the deepest part of the la. ' Burroughs Nature "Club. Copyright, Houghton-Hifflin Co. Can You Answer These Questions f 1. Is the Canada goose a brant? I thought the brant was a different bird. 2. How old do elephants live to be? 3. . Do the trees in sections where climate is mild all the year round lose their leaves in autumn the same as elsewhere? Answers in tomorrow Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Is there any choice in buying a Boston fern for the house? As house conditions are usually poor as to light, pure air, moisture, etc., the hardiest variety should be used for ordinary home culture. An experienced greenhouse man recom mends Harrisi. Roosevelt!, Scotti and Teddy Jr., giving the preference in the order these varieties are named, 2. At what age will foxes mate? They mate in late winter follow ing the seasons of their own first year, which began the previous April or May. The young are hidden in the nest or den until about 6 weeks old. when they commence experimental sorties prior to learning to hunt for themselves." The male mat as sists with feeding the family, until the pups can find their own food. 3. Please describe the blue winged warbler. Someone pointed out a bird as that, but it did not look blue at all. The blue-winged warbler, Vermi vora pinus, is chiefly olive and yel low, its crown, forehead and under- parts being bright yellow, the back of head and back olive; out tne wings are a bluish or perhaps slaty color, very different from the gen eral tones of the plumage. The winers have white bars. A narrow black stripe runs from the base of the bill backward, appearing to cross the eye. Female similar, but duller. CHARGES ARE BEWILDERING Slams at Jews Contradictory Ei- Nun's Statements Denied. PORTLAND, Oct. 19. (To the Edi tor.) I read with interest the ac count in The Oregonian of ex-Sister Lucretia's Dleasant little talk. Of course, no interview, lecture or ar tide is complete today without at least one siam at the Jews. I am of Jewish birth yet it remained for Henry Ford, General Luedendorff and now Sister L. to tell me things about myself and my race that I never would have known before. Each day orings me new informa tion. Just when I get ready to look upon myself as a member of a hopelessly bolshevik people, oe cause some one said so, along comes another speaker or writer who tells me that we are all hopelessly cap italtstic. Then when I try to search the history of my own life, as well as the lives of those Jews with whom I am acquainted, to find how they tally up to this capitalist stuff, I look in the paper and find, lo, we are all profiteers. We hold up prices and grind down the poor, etc. No sooner does this sink in and I de cide to reform than I read that I am on the wrong track our great fault lies not in holding up prices, but in putting them down in "cut-throat competition and price slashing.' Now most astounding of ail comes the accusation -of the ex-nun that the Jews and Catholics are in league. And I never knew it before. To any thinking person this state ment is too ridiculous to carry weight, but unfortunately today people are not thinking very much; they are too busy being swayed hither and yon by every antl who can find something to anti about. The Jews and Catholics can never be in league against anything or any one. It is impossible. The Jewish faith is founded on this one truth: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God." The com mandment: "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me," is the es sence of the Jewish faith; and the next commandment, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images. etc.." but makes the first command ment the more binding. Now it must be remembered that the Jewish faith is comprised of the Old Testa merit only and the great majority of Jews know nothing of the New Testament. To the Jew, Catholic ism has stood for image worship, because in all countries where the Jews have been most persecuted, the Roman or Greek Catholic faith has predominated, and in these coun tries the Jews have seen much bow ing down to statues of 'the saints, also the constant wearing, carry ing and praying to crucifixes and icons. To the Jewish mind, there fore, crucifixes and images have be cone symbols of persecution and op pression. How then could the Jew and Catholic unite ever? Yet in all justice I would like to say that certain statements made by the ex-nun regarding Catholic hospitals are not true of all Cath olic hospitals. Her statements may be true of Germany, but some years ago I was a patient in Mercy hos pital in Chicago, not once, but five different times. No hospital could be any cleaner than this institu tion. Also her statement about nuns not being allowed to look upon a woman's body is false as regards this hospital. One nun in particular was on duty in my corridor, and bathed and cared for me with ef ficiency and kindliness. The sisters certainly did understand their work and I never found any but kindly, considerate treatment. The meals were good, the rooms kept clean and the nursing excellent. Also as re gards the statement that the av erage life of a nun is but 10 years, I recall many very, very old sisters In that hospital who had been on duty for years and years. What is to be gained by all this s!ander, this digging up of evil, all this accusation and denial? What has become of the 10 command ments, the sermon on the mount, the golden rule? They seem to have become lost in the shuffle. A SUBSCRIBER. No Naturalization by Proclamation. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 18. (To the Editor.) At the end of the civil war didn't General Grant issue a procla mation granting the right of a franchise to every soldier who fought in the federal army during the war, bo that under his proclama tion every man who served his coun try in the civil war is a citizen of the United States and has a right to vote? R. H. CLOW. Naturalization of aliens cannot be accomplished by military proclama7 tion. The constitution vests in congress the sole power to enact laws on the subject and requires that they be uniform. The franchise, while not required by constitution to be founded on citizenship, cannot be extended by the commander of the army, but is a matter of state law, as restricted by the 15th amendment. In 1862, however, congress passed a law making it especially easy for aliens honorably discharged from the United States army to. become citizens. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montagrnc THE DIRGE OF THE ULTIMATE CONSUMER. Another shortage soon will come In something that I need In tooth paste, fountain pens, or gum Or stamps or chickeii feed. From worry I am never free; I'm troubled and perplexed; The question that is puzzling me Is: Who'll be striking next? I haven't got the funds to buy Big stocks of suits and shoes. Or purchase half a year's supply Of everything I use. Like others, I am short of coal And I am growing gray, For I can't guess, to save my soul, What strike is on the way! It may be bread that can't be had At any price at all; It may be ham, or pie or shad. That will run short this fall. If I but knew I'd stock myself completely In advance. But I cannot invest my pelf upon a flimsy chance! Oh! workingman, if in your heart You've made a solemn vow That you will presently depart The place you're filling now. Pray feel for me' one pitying throb. Before you rise and flit. And kindly tell me just what job It is you're going to quit! Vacant Honor. A Georgia woman was appointed a United States senator on condition that she didn't go near the senate. Unexpected Timidity. A post fason series game tied In the tenth inning was called on ac count of darkness. Evidently tho umpires thought the players would be afraid to run home in the dark. ' Dent. Senator Smoot said the other da-r that the tariff on wool ought not to increase the cost of clothing. Up to date none of the clothiers appear to have heard him. Goodbye, Little Girl. By Grace E. Hall. Good-bye, little girl! We'll miss you. dear, When the spring time comes once more. And the curlews, piping loud and. clear. Bring back the days of yore; We'll think of you 'mid the lovely flowers. Where the sunbeams goldly glow. We'll sense you near in our pleas ant hours With the smile we used to know. The way of life Is a winding road. With some trails smooth and good. And some hearts carry a tiny load Through a pleasant, sandy wood; But there are paths that are rough and steep. And hearts with a heavy cross. And many a dreary watch to keep And' many a bitter loss. So dear little girl, while tears must fall And our hearts with grief be sad. The winds shall bring us a. mystic call And your old-time laughter glad; For you are free from the hurt and pain, From the grief, the sting, the care. And we could not wish you back again Except for the pain we bear. In Other. Days. Fifty Years Ago, From The Oregonian, October 20, 1872. At a recent meeting of the com mon council of Seattle, an ordinance was passed for the summary punish ment of vagrants. We advise the people of this city to keep their doors lOcked, for there will no doubt be a rush of vagrants to this city, because of the above ordinance. Chicago. A proclamation by the mayor has been issued, directing the stringent enforcement of the Sunday liquor law, which has been practic ally a dead letter ever since Its pas sage. It is believed the results of this will mark a nation-wide prece dent. Tacoma. The great excitement about lands here is continuing with unabated vigor. Lands distant a mile or so from town are rated at fifty dollars per acre. The latest mode for the fashion able ladies of this city Is, Instead of wearing tasches at their waist belt, to carry a sort of Russian leathern cartridge box slung close to the belt. Twenty-flT Years Agro. From The Orejronlan, October 20, IStiT. ' A 14-inch water main at Salmon and Fourth burst yesterday, a tor rent of water deluging the street and overflowing the curb; consider able damage was done by flooding of cellars. 'Chicago. Everybody in the east is crazy on the subject of Klondike. Nothing elBe but Klondike la the continual topio of conversation. It is expected that more than 75,0011 people will leave parts of the east for Alaska during the early spring. Washington. The following dis patch from Guatemala was received today: "Revolution subdued; order restored all over the country." London. The largest diamond that was ever found is now offered for sale in London for (5,000,000. Tt Is known as the Jager-Fonteln diamond, is' bigger than the Regent, Kohinoor, Imperial and Orloff put together: was found in a deserted mine in South Africa. It is the size of a large potato. Oregon Pistol Law. RIDDLE. Or.. Oct. 18. (To the Editor.) What is the Oregon law in regards to retailing small arms? Does a customer have to have a permit to purchase same? Also, is merchant required to keep a record of all small arms sold? SUBSCRIBER. Dealers are -forbidden to sell pocket pistols or revolvers to any person (except a policeman, member of militia or peace officer) unless the purchaser has a permit signed by the municipal judge, city re corder, county judge or a justice of the peace of the county of the pur chaser's residence. Display for sale of such firearms is also forbidden. Record must be kept of the name of the purchaser and number of the weapon and a. list of purchasers transmitted to the sheriff bi monthly. Distribution of Estate. PORTLAND, Oct. 19. (To the Ed itor.) A man dies intestate, having father, mother, brothers and sisters. Who is his heir? INTERESTED. If he is not survived by a wife or lineal descendants tbe real prop erty would descend in equal propor tlon.tr his lather and mother, :