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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1922
Qonnn0iHvpnum
ESTABLISHED BV HENRY L. PITTOCK.
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WHY ROOSEVELT IS HONORED.
Patriotic observance of Theodore
Roosevelt's birthday is an instinc
tive tribute of the people, to the
payment of which they need no
urging by proclamation of presi
dent or governor. After having
been the center of as intense politi
cal strife as any man in our his
tory, he won recognition by all ex
cept those who would not see or
hear as the typical American of his
day. He had alienated many
friends, had been denounced by
many who had passionately trusted
him, but when the world war came
and when the people were called
upon to practice a neutrality that
they did not feel, when efforts were
then made to confuse them as to
which force contended for the
right, he spoke out in clear tones
on the side to which the strength
of America gave final victory.
Every true American has cause to
rejoice that in the period between
the outbreak of war and our inter
vention, we had Roosevelt with us
to point out the straight path of
safety far America and of duty, to
mankind. Thus it was that when
the day for action came we were
mentally and spiritually, though
not materially, ready.
Roosevelt has often been charged
with extreme egotism and selfish
ness in causing the split of 1912,
but he displayed the very opposite
qualities in 1916. He might have
accepted the nomination offered by
the progressive convention and
might have provoked conflict in the
republican convention which would
have revived the passions that had
flamed in 1912 by seeking and ob
taining the republican nomination
also. He saw that the critical situ.
ation of the nation .demanded that
the party should be united and he
sacrificed h i s ambition to his
country. It was not his fault that
the reunion was not complete or
that political blunders led to defeat.
He did his part to win victory for
the party which had not trusted to
notes for defense of the -nation's
rights.
It is fitting that Roosevelt's
birthday should be chosen for an
effort to arouse public interest in
the na,vy, for his name is insepar
ably associated with one of its
greatest victories and with the high
degree of efficiency that it attained
before it fell under the blight of
democratic, pacifist rule. He -sent
the order to Admiral Dewey in response-
to whjch Dewey destroyed
the Spanish fleet at Manila on May
1, 1898. He brought marksman
ship in the navy to a high standard.
He sent the battle fleet around the
world as a demonstration of the
American people's power to uphold
their rights.
Roosevelt's great work for naval
efficiency and his demand for pre
paredness when he foresaw that his
country could not avoid becoming
involved in the war have been
made the occasion for his being
called a militarist by those who
glory in the shameful fact that they
sent their country into war unpre
pared. Nothing could be farther
from the truth if the term "mili
tarist" is properly construed. It
signifies one who favors armament
for aggression on peaceful nations,
not one who favors adequate pre
paration for defense against ag
gression and who consistently
strives to maintain peace while
maintaining his country's rights.
Roosevelt was as earnest' in his ef
forts for peace as in his advocacy
of readiness for defense. Twice did
his mediation work successfully for
peace once at the Algeciras con
ference, when he induced Germany
to compromise with France: as-ain
when he cut short the Russo-Japanese
-jar by bringing about the
treaty of Portsmouth. One if rm-
the main, reason for the voyage of
tne iieet was mat agitation for war
with the United States prevailed in
Japan and that the sight of Ameri
can naval power might so impress
the Japanese people that they
would keep peace.
By his policy he restored peace
where was war, he preserved peace
wljere' war threatened, he main
tained American rights and inter
ests unimpaired, and he made the
v American republic more highly re
spected by all nations than at any
time in a generation. If this be
militarism, we cannot have too
much of it.
The report of the representatives
of the commission on Russian relief
concerning the outlook for the
coming winter constitutes, in the
facts it presents, the most efficient
possible demonstration of the inef
ficiency of the soviet system. Cli
matic conditions during the past
season account only in minor par
ticulars for the collapse of effort
to produce sufficient food for the
people. For miles the commission
traveled without seeing a plowed
or planted field. In some districts
only 50 'per cent of the arable land
is cultivated; in many the propor
tion is as low as 25 per cent. De
prived of a principal incentive for
enterprise, growers have widely
neglected the crops on which the
life of the nation depends. Famine
again threatens, not because na
ture has frowned on agriculture,
but because in their fear lest one
individual should prosper more
greatly than another, becoming
' . y
thereby a "capitalist" of sorts,
leaders have created conditions
which have equalized all by reduc
ing all to the lowest stratum of
poverty and woe.
CHEAP BAIT FOR SUCKERS.
Some person who professes to be
anxious to put some new com
modity on the market advertises an
offer to "give for a limited time to
any person who will mail us $1,
the cost of a liberal sized package,
absolutely free, 50,000 rubles." The
advertisement says further:
The Russian ruble recently was 'worth
55 cents a ruble, giving the above a
value of $27,500.
The "recently" in question was
before the war. The present-day
Russian ruble is worth about 10,
000,000 for a dollar. At that rate
the "gift" would be worth half a
cent. Rubles are the cheapest
money in the world, cheaper even
than German marks, and a German
S-mark note is used to wrap candy
and other things.
But the suckers are not all dead
yet, and some of them will be
found to pay a dollar for 50,000
bolshevist rubles worth half a cent
and for a 5-cent cake of soap. The
srfme kind of people kept the Ber
lin presses busy printing marks.
THE rAIXLESS PLt'CKERS.
"If extravagance is the trouble,"
remarks the Pendleton East Ore
gonian, how are we to correct that
fault by re-erecting the governor
under whom this extravagance has
prevailed?"
The paper quoted, is one of the
democratic lily-whites. It is one of
the newspapers that have- been
talking - about "mud-squads" and
the like but are blushingly conscious
of their own purity. It is perfectly
willing, on its own account, to be
the medium for spreading the false
innuendo that the governor is re
sponsible for taxation voted by the
people or imposed by city and other
lesser units.
The Oregonian here says again
what it has already twice said: If
there has been extravagance in ap
propriations or tax levies under
Governor Olcott, for which Gov
ernor Olcott " was responsible or
which he could have prevented, the
wrong done the people is not cor
rected by merely turning him out
of office.
The unjustified public ventures,
the unwanted state activities, the
undesired tax levies for which the
governor is responsible or which he
could have prevented, should to
kicked out with him.
Yet not a single democratic
newspaper, nor the candidate him-
self, has specifically pointed out an
appropriation or tax given birth or
continuance during the Olcott ad- i
ministration and declared a pur
pose to kick it out along with the
governor. Noisy, friends of the
people, they are going to be content
with the job only. Thus is the pub
lic fed on hokum. With mock
seriousness the big hokumites and
the little hokumites promise to cure
the high fever of taxitis by induc
ing Uncle Sam to give us back the
revenues from the land grants and
the forest preserves which they in
sisted a few years ago Uncle Sam
should take away from us.
Also they are going to have the
people pay their taxes out of the
left pants pocket instead of the
right pants - pocket. Take, away
public service property as a source
of tax revenue to the counties,
cities, school districts and other
local units and make it the sole
source of state taxes. They are go
ing to relieve the farmer, or home
owner of state taxes but are going
to make him pay correspondingly
more in local taxes to make up for
the local taxes no longer collected
from the public service corpora
tions. They are going to have just
as much money to spend but they
are going to collect it from the
same public in a different way.
That is the way California does
it. And, remarks the same Pendle
ton East Oregonian that is quoted
at the beginning of this article,
"the state tax in California isborne
by people who do not even know
they are paying it."
As was also remarked by' Jean
Baptist Colbert, famous French fi
nance minister, 250 yeass ago:
"The act of taxation consists in
so plucking the goose (i. e. the peo
ple) as to procure the largest quan
tity of feathers with the least pos
sible amount of squealing."
TREATY NAVY, NOT BIG NAVT.
Because - Representative Mc
Arthur . voted for the nuifiber of
men that the navy department held
necessary to keep our treaty navy
ready for service, he is called a big
navy man by the little navy men
who glory in being unready when
another nation attacks us
There cannot be a big navy. The
Washington treaty has abolished it.
Under that treaty we have a navy
adequate to defend this country
against any other single navy or
against any probable combination
of navies, so' there is no militarism
in President Harding's naval policy,
militarism implying attack. We
are assured equality with the great
est other navy in the world, su
periority over all others. We gain
this position and are assured of
holding it without further expense
in, building ships, but at an actual
saving by scrapping them.
In order to maintain the treaty
navy, equal to Britain's and ade
quate for defense, it must be main
tained at full strength in every par
ticular. A navy does not consist
only of ships, guns, engines and
ammunition. An equally essential
part is men. The combination of
men with fully equipped ships con
stitutes thcr navy. Without enough
men- to run her and fight her, a
warship is no better than Cole
ridge's "painted ship upon a
painted ocean." We learned that
in 1917, when our navy, run by a
little navy government, was only 50
per cent ready and was not ready
for six months after the call to
action came. ' By so much as the
navy is short of its. full comple
ment of men it falls short of being
a "5" navy and sinks toward the
rank of a "3" navy, like that of
Japan, or of a 1.75 navy, like that
of France or Italy,
In voting for 86,000 instead of
67,000 men the ' majority of the
h o u 8 e provided the minimum
strength considered -necessary by
the" men who know the sea and who
would, if occasion arose, have to
fight and win. The judgment of
such men was preferred to that of
Representative Mondell, who in
Wyoming looks out on a sea of
bunchgrass, or of Representative
Kelly, who looks out on a Michigan
lake where warships are forbidden,
or of Representative Madden, who
looks out on a similar prospect. It
is safe for a dweller on the great
lakes to be a pacifist, for there can
be no sea-fighting there. But if
our navy should be beaten and if
an enemy should occupy one of our
coasts, the dwellers on the lakes
would have to contribute "to a stun
ning indemnity. Then they would
cease to be pacifists and would be
come raging militarists, but it
would be too late.
The vote for a navy of 86,000
men was a vote for the treaty navy,
not for a big navy. It was a vote
for economy with safety. A. vote
for economy without regard to
safety is not a vote for economy but
for waste. A national debt of a lit
tle matter of about twenty-three
billion dollars 1s a constant re
minder of that truth.
SHIFTIXG THE TAX BURDEN.
There is discontent in the small
cities and rural districts of Wash
ington with the withdrawal from
the tax rolls of large masses of
property that have become exempt
from taxation by municipal pur--chase
of public utilities. When the
large cities buy street railways and
electric plants, that property ceases
to pay not only city and other local
taxes; it also becomes exempt from
state taxes. Hence the contribu
tion of the property remaining in
private hands to the expenses of
government is increased in propor
tion, not only for the cities whicll
gain the supposed blessings of pub
lic ownership, but for the whole
state.
It necessarily follows that, when
the amount of property subject "to
tax is diminished and when the
state must raise the same or a
larger amount of revenue, taxes
must be higher on what remains.
That may help to explain the high
tax levies, not only in the large
cities of Washington, but in the
state at large. s
Not only the property acquired
by the cities that buy their public
utilities is exempt from all taxa
tion; the income therefrom, if any,
is also exempt. That opens a
bright prospect if Dr. Pierce's
scheme for a tax on the gross earn
ings of public service corporations
as the sole source of state revenue
should be adopted and if the muni
cipal ownership craze should seize
Oregon. Each city, on buying its
utilities, woufti render Hheir gross
earnings exempt and would cut a
slice from the state revenue. If the
grand scheme for federal or state
development of waterpower should
be carried out, the vast property
values thus created would be free
from taxation, though they 'would
establish communities over which
the state would have to extend its
activities. How is the state to ob
tain any revenue, if it relies solely
on gross earnings of corporations
when one after another of these
corporations sells its property to
the public?
Whether resort was then had to
the property tax or to an income
tax, the result would be the same.
The amount of either property or
income that was subject to taxation
would be vastly reduced, and the
tax rate would be proportionally
higher. That is how it works out
in Washington, and it would work
the same way in Oregon. While
the cities would shift local taxation
from their utilities to their other
property that remained taxable, the
burden of state taxes which they
cast off would be distributed atf
over the state. Small towns and
farmers do not like it in Washing
ton; they would not like it any
better in Oregon.
THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE.
The physical standards of the
army in time of "peace rather than
the much more widely published
statistics of the draft for the world
war are apt to give a true pioture
of health conditions which thought
ful leaders cf .the public hygiene
movement desire to improve. The
annual report of the war depart
ment ior late snowed that ap
proximately 133,000 men of mili
tary age were examined for enlist
ment, of whom about 22,000' were
accepted for service and 111,000 re
jected. Results of medical inspec- j
tion in all parts of the country
under the direction of a leading
foundation indicated that more
than 50 per cent of all the children
enrolled in the schools were below
normal and desirable physical
standards. -"
In- the recent war, though the
rigid requirements of peace times
were relaxed, a large proportion of
young men were rejected for dis
abilities of various kinds and many
thousands were not admitted to
service until they had received
treatment and in many instances
had undergone operations to cure
defects jfrom which they were suf
fering. 'The enormous draft on in
dustry caused by preventable dis
abilities, the social effect of epi
demics, the influence of health on
the capacity of children to learn as
well as on that of adults-to work,
combine to make the problem of
private health a matter of public
concern.
There is, as a commissioner of
education for New York has
pointed out, no subject which af
fects more directly and more vitally
the happiness, the social welfare,
the industrial productivity and the
moral fibre of the nation than the
health of its people. The problem
has been attended by many em
barrassments, but undoubtedly the
increasing tendency to recognize its
gravity Is a hopeful sign. This year
marks only the thirtieth anniver
sary of the beginning of health
education in the United States, but
much has been accomplished in the
comparatively brief period since
then. The movement whicft has
placed preventive measures on an
equal basis with cure, has dignified
the science of hygiene, and . has
shown the necessity for widespread
co-operation in both, has grown
amazingly.
It has to its credit the reduction
by more than one-half of the death
rate from tuberculosis, the virtual
stamping out of typhoid, the abate
ment of yellow fever and malaria,
an enormous and highly significant
reduction ff infant mortality, prac
tical abolishment of smallpox
through preventive vaccination of
the well and segregation of the ill,
and a marked increase in the aver,
age span of life. It is not dis
paraging to the science of curative
medicine to say that a large part of
the result has been due to develop
ment of the preventive theory, and
in particular to public education in
respect to the relation of commu-
i-nity co-operation to health.
We have made progress in the
direction of overcoming mental in- f
ertia and a tendency to dislike and 1
disregard positive and material I
facts which happen to be unpleas- i
ant when we are able to show that
increasing numbers of people are
willing to look realities in the face.
The fact that some measure of
preventable physical incapacity
handicaps an extremely large num
ber of people is a challenge to
positive action, such as is mani
fested in health expositions, in
better baby clinics, in widespread
propaganda of adult education and
in mandatory instruction in hy
giene and sanitation in the schools
of three-fourths of the states.
The preventability of a large pro
portion of the maladies which for
merly were regarded as inescapable
and the importance of a good start
for the young are lessons that are
being rapidly learned- The foun
dation of the education and conse
quently of the social usefulness and
personal happiness of the future
citizen is likely to be laid in the
ea rller years. . "The physical 'and
mental powers of the individual,"
declared the supreme court of Wis
consin a few years ago, are so in
terdependent that no system of
education, although designed solely
to develop mentality, would be
complete which ignored bodily
health. Education of a child means
more than merely communicating
the contents of text books." The
principle that knowledge of the
laws of health is essential to com
plete education, thus confirmed in
a decision upholding the right of
school a u t h o r i t i e s in requiring
health measures, is extended by
voluntary co-operation to adults in
all walks of life by the new meth
ods of a modern age.
The cities have solved their
health problems ""better ' on the
whole than the rural districts have
done. "It is apparent," said a
leading research worker in hygiene,
"that within the last decade the
vaulted physical superiority of
country people and children over
those living in cities has been re
versed and it is now confidently
affirmed that for the entire popu
lation, city dwellers are more
healthy than those who dwell in
rural districts; city life is more
healthy than that in the country.
It is just as true, however, and
startlingly significant, in View of
the preceding statements, that most
of our best human material for the
cities and the nation as well must
still come from the country. If
rural America is still to be a,satis
factory nursery for human life, it
must be made healthful." But the
essence of the problem here as in
the cities is education for health.
That the city man has overtaken
his rural brother in this respect is
a testimonial to the efficacy of
the propaganda of health educa
tion. The city is not in itself a
more healthful place to live in than
the country; any advantage it may
have gained is the direct result of
better opportunity for learning the
facts and for. co-operation in giving
them practical application.
The only safe course for a cor
poration in these days is to divide
profits quickly before Uncle Sam
gets his hands on them. That
would have roused Harriman's in
dignation, for he kept a big surplus
in the Union Pacific treasury to
buy any other railroads that lay
around loose.
It having been scientifically de
termined that the sense of warmth
produced by alcohol is quite ephem
eral and almost wholly fictitious,
nothing after all is a perfect sub
stitute for vigorous exercise and
wood and coal.
The fancy turkey is on the mar
ket, mince pie -is on the restaurant
bill of fare, the crop of nuts is
large, and the Thanksgiving procla
mations will be out as soon as
president and governor get the re
turns. There is such a surplus of pota
toes in the land that Httle care of
them will be taken in the general
disgust. The man who has them in
good condition late in the spring
may get a fair price.
General Dawes having given as
surance that "Hell-Maria," not
"Hell-and-Maria," is the way, he
says it, the class in correct English
will pass on to other and more
important matters.
There is enough good land in
Oregon without swindling people
into taking that which is worthless;
and there are enough reliable real
tors to handle it without listening
to' fake promoters.
Government ought to place a
minimum on size of letters. It is
just as easy to mail a Christmas
card in an ordinary-sized envelope
as it is in one a fourth of it, and it
"handles" better. .
Now we are told by astronomers
that there is another universe 90,
000,000.000,000,000,000 miles away.
If those miles were rubles and a
Russian had them he could buy a
square meal.
The Blue Nose got two official
decisions over the Henry Ford and
is international champion schooner.
Every "cap'n" down Gloucesterway
will have something to say about
this. .
The per capita cost" of the navy
is said to be $3 for each of us, and
we get our money's worth when the
bluejackets march in one Rose "Fes
tival parade.
Another reason why modern
wives might keep their maiden
names with advantage is the
trouble it saves in the event of di.
vorce. -
The local market is swamped
with the orchard run of apples.
These are not fancy grades, but
good. Everybody buy a box.
There was no storm around the
weather bureau ofice, so look for
something "fair and warmer."
It will not hurt this land to go
on a potato and buttermilk diet
awhile. .-
"Donder und blitzen" in the orig
ihal package happen here occasion
ally. '
The rector murder case in New
Jersey is coming to a focus at last.
The rain helps put out the I. W.
W. lire and fervor, '
AMERICA IDEALS UNCHANGED
""
Denial of Freedom Not One of Conn.
try's Fundamental Doctrines
OAK GROVE, Or., Oct. 26. (To
the Editor.) In repiy to Mr. Kirch
ner's letter I w-ish to say that I
finished the eishth grade here In
Oregon, received my diplomas and
went east, where Iattended a Cath
olic academy conducted by the Vis
itation, nuns. I was placed in the
eighth grade there. So not all pri
vate schools would come under his
classification.
Yes, let us make the schools ef
ficient, both private and public,
but don't let us deceive ourselves
Into thinking that abolishing the
religious schools will add efficiency
to the nublio schools, for it will
not. Oregon will only, be made
poorer, not only financially but mor
ally, by the proposed so-called com
pulsory bill. By destroying one good
tiling on8 doesn't add to the good
ness of other good things. It only
leaves the , state, the nation, the
world that much poorer..
Portland has the majority of pri
vate schools. They are efficient,
progressive and law-abiding, being
governed by the curriculum planned
by the state superintendent. Why
should they- be abolished by people
who claim to know what the "spirit
of America" is? If to be dominated
by a few, monopolized and curbed
in freedom, is the spirit of America,
it has been changed in 1922. Why
call it the spirit of America when
it isn't?
Too, Mr. Pittinger seems, worried
for fear the private schools will
engulf the public schools. There
isn't any danger of this being done.
However, it wouldn't be to the dis
advantage of the public schools to
adopt, the religious school ideal, for
America is certain to be made a
second Russia if respect for author- j
Ity, obedience and lack of confidence
in God are allowed to play "a one- ;
day-a-week" part. When- children
Bay the "Our Father" like some of
my boys said it in one rural school
"Our Father who art in the hay
stack" it is time for the public
schools to wake up, sit up and take
notice.
This thine of -centering attention
on private -schools and parochial
when our own rural school condi
tions are neglected is un-Christian
and surely not in keeping with the
"spirit of America." People in glass
houses should not throw stones,
might well be everyone's motto.
JTJST.
, HOW OREGON LOST 21,0O0,0OO
Forces That Helped Wipe It From
Taxrolla Now for Pierce.
PORTLAND, Oct. 27. (To the
Editor.) For many years the lands
embraced In the congressional
grant to the Oregon and California
Railroad company were assessed,
and state and county taxes were
annually levied upon them. About
a dozen years ago agitation, in
which the, Portland Journal was a
leader, arose in favor of revesting
these lands in the United States
government.
Litigation over the right and title
to the lands followed, and as the
state tax commission said in its
report to the legislature ' in 1917,
"has presented a serious problem,
affecting inter-county equalizations
and state tax apportionments during
the last three years."
In 1916 the state tax commission,
basing its action upon the act of
congress of June 9, 1916, revesting
practically all of the railroad lands
in the United States, ordered the
assessments of them stricken from
the county rolls. The elimination
of these lands reduced the assessed
value of the state by over 21,
000,000. By the passing of the Oregon and
California railroad lands from pri
vate to federal ownership, the state
of Oregon was made $21,000,000
poorer. But for the change in
statutes this property would have
been assessed tor state and local
taxes each year for the past seven
years.
It is from some of this land that
the United States government is
selling the timber upon which Dr.
Pierce now proposes to levy a sev
erance tax. And the Portland Jour
nal loudly applauds.
Fine business it was to let go
of $21,000,000 which was annually
yielding taxes to grasp at a shacrow
severance tax that the state of
Oregon cannot legally levy, Im
poverishing Oregon by diminishing
the tax base" is a favorite pastime
of Dr. Pierce and the Journal.
- OBSERVER.
THOSE SMALL INTRUSIVE GOBS
Health Show 'Held to Have Over.
looked Featuring One Menace.
PORTLAND, Oct. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) There is no mention of chew
ing gum made in the 28 features of
the Oregon health exposition that
are high-lighted. Fearful lest so
important and fruitful feature be
passed over without notice, and in
the hope of getting another hearty
laugh out of our friends, notably
F. E. Beach, the hydTO-electric sec
retary, we would like, if you please,
to call attention of the many health
experts who will be with us next
week to the little black blotches on
our sidewalks anopavements. They
are not asphalt roof paint spilled by
eareles roof painters but genuine
gobs of gum. Likewise we call
attention to the same g. g. of g. un
colored, stuck and sticking to the
under parts and the limbs of the
tables in restaurants and dining
rooms.
We venture the assertion that if
some competent healthologist prop
erly equipped with microscopes and
slides, witlJ reactives and acids.
would take up this matter of chewing-
gum germs he could make a
display that would give the public
something to chew on that would
last like fun.
It will be interesting to watch all
these health experts trackin-g
around in all these antique and dis
carded gum gobs that have fallen
foul of MacNaughton's doctrine of
absolescence. O. G. HUGHSON.
Requirements of Solicitors.
BORING, Or., ,Oct. 26. (To tho
Editor.) In taking subscriptions
for the American magazine in Port
land, that 13 going from one house
to the other, would a person be re
quired to have a license? (2) Also,
would a person be required to have
a license In smaller towns or in the
country? FRED HANSTEEN,
1. Credentials showing authority
from the publishing companies rep
resented are required, but no city
license.
2. No. , . -
Qualifications for Governor.
GERVAIS. Or, Oct. 26. (To the
Editor.) Does Brigadier-General
George White hold any- govern
mental position which would pre
vent him from accepting office of
governor had he been nominated
and elected? AM. JONES.
No.
Mother of General Booth.
PORTLAND, Oct. 27. (To the
T!ritnr. Kindlv erive the name of
the mother of General Booth, com-
mander of the Salvation Army, and
(2) to which ichurch she belongs.
A SUBSCRIBER.,
Catherine Mumford.
The Methodist.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the . Hotel.
J. H. Reeder, of Reedsport, is
among the Imperial arriyals. The
heavy run of sllversides is slowing
up in the bay. Many carloads of
fish have been shipped outside to
canneries because there were insuf
ficient facilities for packing the
saimon and these fish have been
scld at two cents a pound. Before
the law prohibited the use of seine
nets there were thriving canneries
on the coast and about 100,000 cases
a year were packed, Tnese repre
sented about $500,000 a year placed
in circulation by the fishing indus
try. When the use of the Beines
was prohibited, the glU-netters had
everything their own way. The
fishermen told the packers at what
price they would supply fish and the
runners were at the mercy of the
gill-netters. A packer who had his
crew and tin on the ground had to
pay the price or close and he lost
money either way. Conditions be
came so unsatisfactory to the pack
ers that their plants were gradually
closed down and the buildings and
eouimnent permitted to depreciate.
Now, when there is a big run of
fish, there are not enough canneries
to pack them ' and the fishermen
have to take what they can get be
cause, the local markets are quickly
glutted.
Where the Rogue river cuts its
way across a sandbar and empties
into the Pacific ocean there is the
'historic town of Gold Beach, so
called because of the flour gold in
the black sands in that vicinity.
Gold Beach is the county seat ol
Curry county and it is also the home
of W. C. Wood, the county judge.
Under the administration of Judge
Wood the development of the Roose
velt highway in Curry county has
been launched. The highway com
mission has been anxious to aid in
opening up the coast road through
this county to the California line
and considerable progress has been
made. Between Port Orford and
Gold Beach there are many miles of
first-class highway, sections of it
being the most scenic in Oregon.
Less development has been done
south of Gold Beach, but a sub
stantial start has been made and in
time the road between the Rogue
river and the Chetco river will be
finished and offer an all-year route
into and from California. Judge
Wood is at the Imperial.
Hoes will come pouring out of
Wallowa county this winter," pre'
di!ts Daniel Boyd, attorney of En-
t.pnrtea At- "Tim wftfl When Wal-
Llnw, wia wed for the number of
hoes it produced, but a lull came
and the shipments dropped off. Now
there has been renewed attention
paid to the porkers and carloads will
find their way to market from Ore
gon's most northeasterly county."
Like all Wallowa county people,
Mr. Boyd overlooks iio opportunity
to do a little boosting for that sec
tion, and speaks glowingly of the
mountains, the many lakes, the
game and the fish fish, as hard as
rocks, they are so firm and tootn
some. "You can go into Wallowa
and change camp every night and
in the morning you will have a view
that can only be equalled by the
one of the day before," declares Mr.
Boyd, v "The trouble with Wallowa
is that the people outside do not
go in there to get acquainted with
its resources and , scenery. Mr.
Boyd checked out of the Hotel Port
land last night.
With his hands stained, despite
repeated washing in an effort to re
store their whiteness. W. W. Lunger
of Yamhill county is in Portland
disposing of his walnut crop. Mr.
Lunger, formerly a member of the
legislature, says that a year ago
he sold his walnuts t a Portland
grocer at about 7 cents a pound
more than he could get in the local
market. The Lunger walnuts were
so well liked that the Portland
grocer received an order last week
for five bags. Last Sunday the
dealer from Portland went out to
the Lunger orchard and bought up
this year's crop, something better
than a ton. Mr. Lunger has 65 trees,
12 years old. and is well satisfied
with the results. The walnut in
dustry in Yamhill county, he states,
is in a thriving condition. Walnut
trees are even used for shade pur
poses along the sidewalks of some
of the towns in old Yamhill. It has
been suggested that English walnut
trees be planted along the highways,
as they are rapid growers, are
adaptable to the Oregon climate
and,- iq time, would be valuable
both for the crop of nuts and the
wood.
'The best hotel in central Oregon
well, in eastern Oregon for that
matter is being erected in Prine-
ville," declares Dr. J. H. Rosenberg,
who is registered at the Benson
"The building is rapidly going up,
There will be an abundance of bath
rooms, a grill and dining room and
there will be attractive stores and a
motion picture theater, all in the
one structure. The theater is being
constructed especially for that pur
pose. Prineville is getting back on
its feet after the fire last spring
as quickly as possible and the great
est improvement growing out of the
reconstruction will be the notei.
Everyone in the communitx is inter
ested in it and proud of it, for the
hotel will be an asset and do much
toward attracting tourist travel to
our town."
"The lumber business is booming
the mills are wording day and night
and the timber is moving, so that
Columbia county is doing nicely,
thank you," reported Sherman Miles,
farmer and banker of St. Helens, at
the Benson yesterday. Mr. Miles
brought quinces from his Columbia
county orchard to the Benson of
fice staff and then caught the
Shasta Limited for Eugene t,o look
over a farm he has in Lane county,
Mr. Miles is the democratic candi
date for representative In Columbia
county, a position he held in the
regular and special sessions of 1921,
and was one of the authors of the
logged-off land bill which became
a law.
- Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Livingston of
Fairbanks, Alaska, are registered at
the Perkins. Getting out of Fair
banks in winter was, before the
railroad was built, a difficult task,
but now, with a Pullman train, the
trip can be made in a day without
inconvenience. Not so many years
ago half a month would be required
to get into Fairbanks with a dog
team. Mining development in the
Interior is "now taking a spurt, as
the railroad is bringing in coal at
about one-third or. one-fourth of
what a ton costs in Portland.
Stephen A Lowell of Pendleton is
an arrival at the Hotel Portland.
In the spring Judge Lowell contem
plated entering the republican pri
maries as a candidate for the nom
ination for governor. After view
ing the situation he withdrew his
programme and announced in a pub
lic letter that he did not wish to
become involved in the religious
controversy which he discerned ap
proaching. Dell Case, a farmer of Napoleon,
i Mich., arrived at the . Perkins yes
terday. He is nere io iook around
Oregon and see if he likes it.
Gordon C. Corbaly, an official of
the chamber of commerce of Seattle,
Is registered at the. Multnom.aa.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamea J. Montague.
INSPIRATION.
The lazy summer days are gone
Farewell to loafing time! '
The hills and meadows, in the dawn
Are white wtih frosty rime.
The mornings have a zip and snap,
The air a tingling zest
A touch of chill that stirs a chap
To do his level best.
No more I loll by babbling brooks
My idle soul to feed
Upon the stuff of silly books
I never ought to read.
This autumn weather rouses me
To thoughts of nobler things.
It shows me what I ought to be
And lends ambition wings.
No more my days shall slip away
With next to nothing done.
A long good-by to futile play,
Now autumn has begun.
Toward stern hard work my steps
are set
And I have waked at last
To seek to make- up, even yet,
The folly of the past.
Whate'er the weather, rain or shine,
I do not care at all,
I'm out upon the stroke of nine
And teeing up my ball.
I'm filled with vim and dash and
force;
Tm virile and alive;
And I am going to make that course
In less than eighty-five.
.
Hard Lack.
Unfortunately barbers cannot take
advantage of the change of style
by unbobbing hair.
Conserving Their Pep.
The country's coal supply may be
exhausted soon, but If strikes con
tinue there is no danger that the
miners will.
- - -
An Illusion of Hope.
What the nation needs this year
Is atr open winter, openly arrived at.
Burroughs Nature. Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Can You Answer These Questions f
1. Which are our smallest birds?
2. Are there any albino snakes?
3. Kindly tell me how to take
care of baby night moths. What do
they feed on up to the time they
make their cocoons? I have about a
hundred eggs but do not. know how
to take care of them after they
hatch.
Answers in Monday's nature notes.
,
Answers to Previous Question.
1. How do bats multiply?
They are mammals, bringing fort a
live young. Two young are usually
born, in early summer, and are
cared for by" the mother just as are
other warm-blooded animal babies.
The period of Infancy is quite ex
tended.
2. Is the night-jar the rea) name
of this bird?
It is a nickname for the night
hawk, itself a nickname for Chor
deiles Virginianus, as it t is not
hawk-like at all in looks or habit.
Probably got the latter N from its
habit of hunting on the wing for
food flying insects. The "jar- re
fers to the noise sometimes made
when the bird plunges downward.
the wings vibrating against -the air.
This sound is heard as a sort of
"b-oo-o-1" in some sections and the
bird locally called "bull bat."
3. Do trees have both staminate
and pistillate flowers on the same
tree?
This point varies with the kind of
tree. All pines, tne oaKs, ana tne
chestnuts, have both kinds of flow
ers, but the staminate flowers are
on different sprays from those bear
ing pistillate flowers. Most trees
have more staminate, or male, or
pollen-producing blossoms than pis-
.tillate, or female, or seed-producing
blossoms. Certain trees, as ash pop
lar, and aiianthus, have only one
kind of flower on one tree, and the
opposite kind on a tree of different
sex. Tulip trees, basswood. and
elm have what are called "perfect"
flowers that is, only one style of
flower is borne, and it is capable of
self-fertilization and seed forming.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The OreRonlan, Oct. 28. 189T.
San Juan. The autonomists in
Porto Rico have issued a manifesto
in which they demand of Spain the
same radical reforms as those that
have been granted to Cuba by the
new liberal ministry.
Van Wert, O. Bryan, speaking
here, attributed the improved finan
cial conditions in the United States
to the discovery of gold in Alaska
and the famine in India.
Berlin. The Spanish influenza
has appeared here, and many per
sons have been attacked with it.
That Portland is anxious to have
established a bureau of information
under charge of a representative
commercial body is evident from a
great number of Interviews obtained
at random by Oregonian reporters
yesterday.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian. Oct. 28. 18T2.
New York The horse disease is
unabated, in fact it. is said to be
spreading at an alarming" rate.
Streetcars have all stopped. The
sight was common yesterday of men
drawing loaded wagons.
At the rate at which work is
progressing on Fourth street, it will
be graded, planked, the gutters,
sidewalks and crosswalks laid as far
as College street within a month.
Get ready to give your name, oc
cupation and Jace of residence.
Several persons are now engaged in
canvassing the city for McCormick's
directory.
Paris. Thiers received a con
gratulatory dispatch from President
Grant on the progress of repub
licanism in France, as shown by the
recent elections to fill vacanies in
the assembly.
Plea for Indian Nomenclature.
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 26. (To the
Editor.) The oft-repeated and in
teresting (?) discussion between Se
attle and Tacoma as to the correct
name of the celebrated mountain in
our sister state has again been
resurrected. Why not compromise
by returning to the original Indian
name "Ta-ho-ma," meaning "nour
ishing mother""?
No name could be more musical
or appropriate fo-r such a grand old
mountain. ADA B. MILLICAN.
RlRht-Hand side of Stream.
MILL CITY, Or., Oct. 26. (To the
Editor.) Please tell which is the
right-hand side of the Santian river
at Mill City, Or. EARL GOOOH.
The side on the right as you look
down the stream. . -
American
Dancer
Is Sensation
in Paris
Nina Payne delights the French
public, but folks from home are
shocked, says article illustrated
in color to be found in The Sun
day Oregonian.
Filipinos Said
to Be Well Off
Second of series of illustrated
articles on orient by Max
Enos to appear in tomorrow's
paper deals with Uncle Sam's
wards.
New York Music,
By Mrs. Burke
A new contributor to The
Sunday Oregonian is Frances
S. Burke (Mrs. Thomas Car
rick Burke) formerly of
Portland. She will interpret
New York musical events
from the viewpoint of a
western woman.
IN THE MAGAZINE
Age Comes
With Winter
It's mostly a question of
fresh air and sunlight, says
science, and explains just
how we do really wear out.
What's Under
City's Streets?
Illustrated article tells of
thousands of miles of con
duits, mains, sewers, cables
and reservoirs which go to
make up a big city.
Wealthy Scions
Go on Stage
This year's theater pro
grammes read like social reg
ister of America's first fam
ilies. Death Defied
for Conscience
"The Boss Bounty," fiction
feature by Will Payne, is
story with unusual plot.
Lithuanian Legation
Presents Credentials
Feature of illustrated section
"News of World as Seen by
Camera."
"The Only Child"
Is Sketch Topic
. People in intensely human
attitudes shown in page of
sketches by W. E. Hill,
Calling the
Big Bull Moose
. Thrilling hunt for rare game
, in wilds of Nova Scotia told
in illustrated article.
Trying Moments
of Young Lawyer
Veteran barrister declares
that many embarrassing mo
ments come in law practice.
OTHER FEATURES
Rich Wraps Are
Fashion's Decree
Theater and opera frocks de
signed in new silhouette, says
illustrated fashion depart
irient. Through Land
of Sequoias
Beauties of loop trip to Cres
cent City described by H. W.
Lyman, automobile editor, in
illustrated article.
A Jongleur Strayed
Is Clever Book
Verse which glows with
warmth of hearth fire is
product of Richard LeGal
lienne..
Week-day Religious
School Is Opened
Institution to offer non-sec
tarian instruction to public
school pupils who enroll for
courses.
Oregonian Studio
to. Be Perfect
Hisrh-nower station now be
ing installed in tower will
feature latest radio devices
Jefferson High
to Stage Play .
Franklin high forum active
Minute Men pins arrive at
Benson. James John gets
Roosevelt insignia.
World Events
in Cartoon
Current happenings pictori-
ally presented1 m page of car
toons by Darling.
Husband Shows
Lack of Sympathy
' 'Abother of those human in
cidents contained- in th se
ries, "The Married Life of
Helen and Warren."
"Ashur's" Name
Must Be "Mud."
The two horns of the dilem
ma is a small thing to the
situation this comic character
got into.
All the News of All the
World Found in
The
Sunday Oregonian
Just 5 Cents