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10 JtlorttinijOrjfiroitiiirt ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Publisher by The Oregonian Pub. Co., 13o Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. J C. A. MORDEN, E. B. PIPER. Manager, Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled to the use for publi . cation of all news dispatches credited to it or pot 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 Rates Invariably in Advance. By Mail.) ' ' Pally, Sunday Included, one vear $8.00 tally, Sunday included, six months ... 4.25 . Dallyv Sunday Included, three months 2.25 Iaily, Sunday included, one month . . 75 Iaily. without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six mon-ths .. 3.-5 Daily, without Sunday, one -month.. .60 Sunday, one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) 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The issues have heen closed, the candidates have made their final appeals, and it is up to the electorate. It will be decided today whether a clear record of faithful and ef ficient performance of duty by a governor who asks re-election counts for anything, or nothing. Or do windy promises of what he will do as governor, made by one who by his record contradicts all he now says, count for everything? Will the public make the grave error of retiring from congress a representative who has the great quality of courage and who has worked hard to deserve the public confidence? Or will it displace him with an untried man, who is de pending for his election solely on an issue that has no place whatever in the campaign viz: the religious fSsue? Will the voters go once more to the defense of a minority whose constitutional rights are threatened by the so-called compulsory school bill? Will they decide the fortunes of the general lot of candidates on the basis of religious feeling and de nominational prejudice? Or will they properly say that they have no part in a political campaign? There are other questions, but the entire campaign and every phase of it, have been involved and colored by extraneous matters. The people can wish for nothing so much as freedom to settle their problems without needless distrac tions. It has not been a pleasant campaign. It is well over. JUVENILE COriiT BECOMES OF AGE. It will be news to many persons that the juvenile court as an insti tution recognized by law attained its majority only during the pres ent week. Prior to twenty-one years ago youthful offenders were com monly grouped at th j so-called bar of justice with h -vened criminals and disposed of .Shout much re gard for age. Th tl t method was enormously wasteful, As well as in humane, is now seen clearly enough. One of its results was that the young misdemeanant was cast into the company of elders who wel comed the opportunity thus given them to drag him down. It used to be said by the proponents of the juvenile court idea that the chances were small that a boy would come out of the ordeal unscathed, even though he escaped punishment for the,offense with which he happened to De charged. Association, even for a brief period, with the kind of men who make up the major popu lation of our jails and penitentiaries nearly always produced bad results. The idea of studying youth in connection with its surroundings, its temptations, its opportunities or the lack of them, was a long time gaining ground. The United States department of labor in a re port called forth by the twenty first anniversary of the opening of the Chicago court for boys and girls reminds us that prior to 1901 little thought was given to the pos sibility of reformation. Children were .arrested, detained, tried and sentenced on the whole just as adults were. Perhaps no more striking example of awakening hu mane consciousness can be found than the contrast between that pe riod and the present. No commun ity laying the slightest claim to advancement now jumbles its old criminals and its juveniles indis criminately. But states and cities still vary in the degree in which the work is carried on. In some local ities it is still perfunctory, and in others it is nullified by want of pro vision for the care of youngsters who, while they seem to stand in need of correction, give promise of becoming useful citizens if they can be kept out of bad company. There is further need of segregation according to the degree of probabil ity that at Pt at reformation is worth wr er - The de..tment points out that since we are practically in the be . ginning of the movement of which the juvenile court is the symbol it is but natural to expect that there should be imperfections. Among these are lack of unity in courts of ; many of the states and also insuffi - cient numbers of workers who un derstand the problem of the r-biM Co-ordination has not been fully estaDiisnea Detween the various tri bunals likely to be involved. It is often necessary, as the result of dis closures made in juvenile courts, to proceea against adults in a dif ferent court. The denartmnnt ia " right, however, in its assumption mat tne cnier obstacle was sur mounted when the right of the youth to grow up in uncontam inated surroundings was first rec OEnized. The reasons which dictate the separation of youns anrl olrl nf fenders are in a large measure a recognition of the existence of a criminal type, one of the attributes of which is that it glories in rime- srinc others down to its own l level. At the same time that every care is beine: exercised to e-ivf tb youth and the first offender his cnance, evidence accumulates that those who disregard that chance are enemies of the law-abiding to a greater extent than is measured by the Immediate depredations that they commit. Segregation of the irreclaimable', humanely but firmly, is suggested by the same logic as that which called into existence the first childen's court. ROORBACKS. Pronouncing a solemn warning against campaign roorbacks, ex ploded on the last day before elec tion, the Portland Journal tells the following pathetic tale: Some years ago, when William Daly was a candidate for mayor of Portland, a Portland newspaper printed on its first page, under big headlines, that Mr. Daly was a socialist. It was not true. Mr. Daly was then and had always been a registered republican. The statement was printed on the morning of election day. ' . . . There are many who still believe that this roor back, printed on the morning of the elec tion, when it was too late for a correc tion to be made through the newspapers, resulted in the defeat of Mr. Daly. The Journal's memory is at fault, as usual. The offending newspaper, which it is charged was so con scienceless as to print a last-day campaign fable, was doubtless The Oregonian. The Journal's state ment in its essential particular is false. The city election of 1917 was held on Monday, June 4. On Sunday, June 3, The Oregonian printed on page 4 (not page 1) a facsimile of an application by William H. Daly to join the socialist party (dated December 14, 1910). The repro duction was from the original ap plication blank, signed by Mr. Daly, and was authentic. There was ample opportunity for him to explain or deny in The Oregonian on the fol lowing day. He neither- explained nor denied, for there was nothing to explain or deny. It was legitimate campaign matter, and its publica tion was legitimate. If it served to elect Baker, The Oregonian can have no regrets. It makes this state ment now with no purpose to re flect on Mr. Daly. Beware of roorbacks, of course. But they usually take care of them selves, so far as newspaper publica tions are concerned.- The paper which would deliberately take ad vantage of a candidate for office by printing a statement derogatory of him when it cannot be met for lack of time or opportunity, is not worthy of the public confidence. TO TILLAMOOK, COOS AND CTRRY. What are Tillamook, Coos, Curry, Lincoln and the other coast coun ties interested in the Roosevelt highway going to do about election today? The democratic candidate for governor and the democratic press have opened fire on the highway commission. The democratic can didate has violently opposed the road bonding plan under which state highways are constructed in Oregon without cost to the taxpay ers; he opposes the use of modern equipment; he opposes the employ ment" of efficient engineers; he has twisted facts and misrepresented figures to arouse suspicion against honorable men who are working without any reward except the sat isfaction of pulling Oregon out of the mud. Mr. Pierce has heretofore pro posed to cheapen the highway com mission by paying the commission ers a salary. He is out now, if signs speak truly, to throw highway work into polities' and upset the well ordered programme that has given this state first rank among all the states for economical, high class road construction. . The state highways whose con struction was first undertaken are almost completed. The present highway commission has seen its way clear to proceed with the Roosevelt coast highway. It has done so. The work will continue unless the main highway pro gramme be upset in behalf of polit ical partisanship. If the highway wreckers and raiders get into power the coast counties can bid goodbye to the Roosevelt highway for years to come. TRIMMINGS FOR THE FARM. A farm bureau in Iowa has etarted a "name your farm" move ment, in Minnesota they are dis cussing "better architecture for the farm," a newspaper printed in rural New York says that the farmer never has appreciated as he ought to do the importance of a landscape setting in the scheme of life, a Missouri school district is teaching floriculture along with the three R's and the proper manage ment of corn, cabbages and so forth. Tardily, it may be, but none the less certainly the husbandman is beginning to achieve the- finer things of life. The proposal that every farm shall have a name is not founded wholly on utilitarian considera tions. It is true that the nan.e car ries a certain weight of authority. of responsibility, and that, attached to the produce that the farm yields, it constitutes a kind of guarantee, like the sign over the merchant's door, such as anonymity could not do. But it means more than that, conveying, as it were, a sense of in dividuality most satisfying to the soul. The name-your-farm idea is commendable and should be pushed along. We of the west were not to blame if our first farm buildings were to put it euphemistically "unarchitectural." It was a large job when the pioneers came here just to whipsaw timber enough to make an oblong frame building, hip-roofed, dingy in aspect, usually innocent of paint. The barn that followed if it did not precede the family shelter, was even more for bidding: when silos came they were built for utility alone. The site of the farmstead was chosen with reference to its proximity to wood and water and not for its scenic setting. The farm mothers grew flowers when they had time. But only the soul may feed on roses, forget-me-nots and mignonette and the body requifes butter, eggs, po tatoes and a multitude of things. The first steps toward the taming of the wilderness have been taken. Farm life is still not all beer and skittles but it has lost many of the asperities of the older time. De velopment of its esthetic aspect comes very properly after the rough edges have been smoothed down. The responses which the new movements are meeting indi cate that the farm beautiful is now but a matter of time. Farmhouses are no longer constructed with the rectangular severity that stern economic necessity formerly im posed, the barn is likely to be a thing of moderate grace if not of j utter beauty, the silo points a thrifty but not ungracefulfinger toward the always pleasing .sky. Even the occasional windmill tower lends an air of medieval romance to the scene. The farmer raises a good many things besides wheat and flax and mangel vurzels nowa days. The city man who doubts it need only venture a little way into the country, over any road. There is the sharpest of possible contrasts between the present and the olden time. Yet it will not be forgotten that those other prime essentials necessarily came first. When we were grubbing stumps and splitting fence rails and erecting the rudest of shelters for man and beast we were laying the foundation for the enjoyment of art. Beauty would be apt to be more than half wasted on a man with an empty stomach and no roof over his head. CEXSCRED 'FOR RIGHT ACTION. An Illuminating example of the stupid arrogance that characterizes a bureaucrat has been given by J. Barstow Smull,' president of the Emergency Fleet corporation. When the steamship City of Honolulu took fire, the news was broadcast by wireless all over the world. When the West Farallon rescued the hundreds of passengers and crew from the boats, the first thought of Captain Walk was to re lieve the anxiety of their relatives and friends, therefore he Wirelessed the fact to the newspapers. For this act of instinctive humanity, he has been censured by Mr. Smull on the ground that he violated "one of the ironclad rules of steamship com panies that a ship captain should not talk to the press, particularly on a disaster at sea." If that . be an ironclad rule, it should be reduced to scrap iron with all possible dispatch, and the Emergency Fleet corporation, as an agency of the government, should strike the first blow. The ships operated by that corporation are the property of the American peo ple, who therefore have an unques tionable right to know when dis aster' befalls them. Many Ameri can citizens are on board those ships as passengers or members of the crew, and their relatives have the first right to know when they are in imminent danger and when they have been rescued. The latter statement is true of all ships, and any ship-owner who imposes silence on his captains weakens confidence in his management. The unwarranted censure which Mr. Smull visits on Captain Walk is an example of the arbitrary methods of the shipping board, of which the Emergency Fleet cor poration is merely an alias. The board manages the ships as though it owned them, whereas it is simply the agent of the people for their management aed sale. Its powers should be severely limited by the bill now before congress. On the contrary, that bill was drawn by its own attorneys at the board's dicta tion and would, if not amended, vest the board with more arbitrary power than has been possessed by any branch of the government, ex cept in wartime just such power as the board has misused on fre quent occasions. LET US ALL GET INTO THE FIGHT. In a speech to the American Manufacturers' Export association at New York, Commissioner Ed ward C. Plummer, of the shipping board, quoted from several British publications to show the alarm among British ship owners at the ship subsidy bill and the opposition to its enactment that is being stirred up from the other side of the Atlantic. He said that our foreign competitors in their war against the effort to restore the American merchant marine follow the Napoleonic rule of "divide and conquer," by instigating division among Americans on shipping legis lation. He spoke of "foreign clubs which certain people in this coun try have been throwing at this par ticular tree of shipping legislation." He quoted from a speech of Sir Frederick Lewis, president of the chamber of shipping of the United Kingdom, a denial that there is any propaganda against the growth of our merchant marine and an as surance that "we have watched with sympathetic interest the dif ficulties with which they (the United States) are confronted." He then quoted a number of incite ments to the British to fight, and he cited a number of examples of their discrimination in favor of their own ships. Of course the British will fight for their shipping business, and their interest in our efforts is not "sympathetic" but jealous and in spired by apprehension of what we may do to them. Why should they not fight? If the positions of the two nations in the shipping busi ness .were reversed and. if we were threatened with loss of a suprem acy that had long been maintained, would we not fight with everj weapon we could lay our hands to? The thing for Americans to do is not to condemn the British for fighting but to marshal all our forces and to make it a good fight and a winning one for our side. The Oregonian's criticism of the subsidy bill has been directed to that end. We fully approve the general policy of the bill and our purpose in pointing out its defects is to strengthen it and to shape it into a' more powerful weapon with which to fight. The bill is gravely defective in endowing the shipping board with arbitrary, autocratic power, which may bo exercised secretly and with out due hearing and consideration of all interests affected by the board's decisions. That power con trasts with the openness and im partiality that characterize the interstate commerce commission. Members of the board complain that it is unpopular tnd does not enlist popular support. The reason is plain: its methods do not keep it in touch with the people. The interstate commission keeps in touch with the people by giving public hearings on every question of any importance, and it is a most highly respected, influential branch of the government. Yet the board asks congress to perpetuate the very methods which have alienated the people and which are a survival of war administration. Let the board do business in the open, and it will soon have the people work ing with it. They cannot work with it unless they know what it is doing, especially why, and secret, arbitrary action naturally and prop, erly arouses their suspicion. The fact that this would reveal our business to our competitors is no valid objection to publicity. They make it their business to learn what is done; only the. American people are kept in the dark. All the American people should be taken into the fight, not merely as contributors to the subsidy and to the' earnings of ships, but as active' participants in the shipping business, so far as they wish. The board has failed to win hosts of friends that it might have won, be cause it has acted on the assump tion that the only companies and ports that can be expected, or even permitted, to engage in the ship ping business of the future are those that have engaged In it in the past. Former subsidy bills were wrecked by the prospect that the beneficiaries would have been a little group of high financiers cen tered in New York or a few other ports, fiy its policy the board has fostered the impression that it would operate the subsidy system in favor of the same group and its selected ports, and leave all others out in the cold or let them eat at the second table as it were. That impression has been strength ened by the board's avoidance of publicity for its action and the motives therefor. It has decided questions of vital importance to great communities after hearing from an interested group of con gressmen and shipping men, and is greatly aggrieved when those whose rights and interests were ignored protest and claim consideration. They protest not only against what is done but against the manner of doing it as utterly un-American. This is not the way to unite the American people for a fight with John Bull for the larger part of our shipping business. It is in ef fect a refusal to enlist for the fight large forces that are anxious to do their part. By creating the im pression that the board intends to reserve the subsidy as the "good thing" of those whom it has hitherto favored, it inspires distrust and incipient hostility among many who would help a different policy. If the board would extend to its proceedings the publicity that it uses in propaganda for its bill, if it would accept the limits of Its power that are involved in a pro vision for public hearings and de-' cisions on every matter of public interest, it would win to its active support hosts of people who are now openly or covertly hostile and would put them in the mood to buy many of the ships that it has for sale. The board would be amply compensated for loss of part of its cherished power by the great amount of knowledge that it would acquire, by the public interest, in its work that would be aroused and by the popular support that it would rally. These criticisms and suggestions are offered in sincere desire that the subsidy bill, amended in ac cordance with them, be passed and that the work of the board in building up a successful American merchant marine succeed. Port land has no ambition to play the part of a "chronic kicker" against the board. Its complaint is that the board has denied it the full opportunity to take the part in the fight for shipping business that the natural advantages of this port equip it to take. If given an even chance with other ports, Portland will deal as lusty blows as they, but it will accept no subordinate part. Earle Richardson has sold his in terest in the Clatskanie Chief and purchased the Elgin Recorder. The latter has had a somewhat stormy career of late years, lacking proper control every way. With Mr. Rich ardson at the helm, it will steer clear of the shoals. In all good faith, the story comes from Tacoma that a young man was dragged out. of his boat by a jiant devilfish and lost his life. One supposed those things happened only in fiction. Did any of you voters ever try driving through Pass Creek canyon and Cow Creek canyon on the al leged Pacific highway of four years ago before the highway commission took hold? Northern Pacific employes who refused to go out in tfie shopmen's strike have received bonuses rang ing from $500 to $800 direct from headquarters. This is indeed "in famous." It strikes us as oeculiar that Conan Doyle, in all his search for the truth about spiritualism, has not once delegated the infallible Sherlock Holmes to find out. Why not make a date with the wife to get dinner at the stock show and end a perfect day after both have voted ? Congratulations to Mr. John B. Coffey that he is out of all this turmoil today "by the skin of his teeth." The allies should have known better than to set the Turkish peace conference for November 13. The woman vote is said to be a puzzle, but don't, anybody believe it. Woman votes right. The new Madame Hohenzollern will be lucky if shp is queen of her own household.' The latest mine explosion in Pennsylvania well matches the Ar gonaut disaster. Bonar Law may fool those Turks, who would not try that on Lloyd George. Ever notice that those who eat the most potatoes have the best health? Election wrangles are soon for gotten, but this time -well, maybe. Remember, you are advertising Oregon today. Do it right. A day like this does not come often, thank you. , "Voting is like shopping do it in the morning. Why cannot these weatherfolk have a heart? The lawnmower thief is an orig inal genius. This is a hectic week in Oregon. Andy Gump, step lively. ADVICE GIVEN IX OWN COLUMNS The Oregonian Sponsors No Ticket; Recommendations Repeated. The Oregonian has not sponsored any printed ticket or slate for dis tribution among the voters. . The Oregonian disclaims partici pation in the preparation or dis tribution of the Gump ticket and all of the other 67 varieties. The only recommendations made by The -Oregonian appear in these columns. The Oregonian's advice on meas ures follows: GENERAL BALLOT. Amendment permitting Linn county tax levy to pay outstanding warrants, 300 yes; SOI no. Vote 300 yes. Amendment' permitting Linn and Ben ton counties to pay outstanding war rants. 302 yes; 303 no. ' Vote 302 yes. Single tax amendment. 304 yes; 305 no. Vote 303 no Exposition tax amendment. 308 yes; 309 no. Vote 308 yes Income, tax amendment. 310 yes; 311 no. .Vote 311 no. Compulsory education bill. 314 yes: 315 no. Vote S15 no CITY BALLOT. Charter amendment authorizing a three-year tax aggregating J3, 000, 000 for the 1927 exposition. 500 yes; 501 no. No recommendation. Charter amendment authorizing the council to appoint an additional munic ipal judge. 502 yes; 503 no. No recommendation. Amendment permitting the rebondlng of 50 per cent of local improvement as sessments made .prior to July 1, 191w. 504 yes; 505 no. Vote 504 yes. Amendment revising the method of es tablishing and changing street grades. 506 yes; 507 no. Vote 50 yes. Amendment authorizing a 3-mill tax levy ia 1922 and 1023 in addition to the limit fixed by charter. 508 yes; 509 no. Vote 508 yes. Amendment granting dock commission authority to lease its unused industrial lands for not longer than 30 years. 510 yes; 511 no. Vote 510 yes. Amendment authorizing refunding of $2,200,000 in water bonds, and provid ing for sinking fund. 512 yes; 513 no. Vote 512 yes. SEPARATE COUNTY BALLOT. TCurnflirle bridee bond issue of $3,000,000, 12 for the bridge; 13 agalnBt the bridge. Vote 12 for the bridge. Ross island bridge bonds of $1,600,000. 14 for the bridge; 13 against the bridge. No recommendation. PROMINENT OPPONENTS NAMED Mr. Moores Lists Noted Pastors and Others Opposing School Bill. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Ed itor.) In a recent letter to The Or egonian I made the statement that proponents of the school bill are franklv declaring that the pending bill is but "the first step" looking; toward the elimination, as a logical sequence, of the higher denamina tional schools. This statement was based on correspondence in the pub lic press favoring the school bill, in which that specific declaration was made. No particular group of pro ponents of the bill was referred to This morniner mv statement is "un equivocally denounced as false in every syllable. In my letter I also said that "the most representative ministers and laymen of the Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational ana other churches were opposing the bill." This statement is also de nounced as "a bald misstatement of facts." In reply to this I have only to re fer to Bishop Sumner of the Epis copal church, to Dr. Edward L. Mills the editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate, the official organ 'of the Methodist church; to Dr. Pence, pas tor of Westminster church; to the Rev. .Ward McHenry of the Mount Tabor church and a score of other Presbyterian ministers; to Dr. W. G. Eliot of the Unitarian church, to Dr. McElween of the Congregational church and others, all of whom have declared against the bill. Among the laymen and others I may mention the following repre sentative group who have published an argument against the bill in the state pamphlet, viz.: W. M. Ladd, J. C. Ainsworth, C. D. Bruun, F. L. Shull, Charles H. Carey, E. C. Sam- mons. E. C. Shevlin, Charles J.Gray, William D. Wheelwright, Richard W. Montague, C. F. Adams. W. B. Ay.er and James B. Kerr. To these might be added the names of scores of others of the best-known men in Portland who have given public expression to their disapproval of the bill. Why has not a single Protestant church organization in dorsed the bill? I am entirely will ing to leave to the people of Port land the question of veracity that has been raised, and as to whether or not my letter was not in every way more temperate and truthful tnan was the recent printed circu lar issued by my critics and scat tered broadcast throughout the city. CHARLES B. MOORES. CASE FOB GOVERNOR OLCOTT Why the People of Oregon Should Re-elect Hiin. . Medford Mail-Tribune. The Mail-Tribune likes Governor Olcott for the very reason that some other people don't like" him he is a poor politician. He has neither the gift of gab, nor the arts of pleasing everyone by insincere promises and flattery. He is essentially a modest, efficient, honest business man, doing his best all the time for what he believes to be the best interests of this state. This paper is eternally tired of the fluent-tongued professional poli ticians, who promise the world be fore election and do nothing but work for their political profit after. The election of Ben Olcott will show that the people of Oregon have the capacity to look through the camouflage of political bunk, and can be loyal to a man who hag al ways been loyal to them. Colored Masonic Order. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 4. (To the Editor.) Please state whether the colored Masonic lodgo is a bona fide lodge. M. M. It is bona fide in that it has the reputation of being an honorably conducted secret order of high ideals. It is not, however, recog nized fraternally by the regular Masonic lodges. The grand lodge of Washington many years ago recognized the regularity of the origin of negro Masonry, but before its official re port could be published, the news papers broadcast a report that it had recognized negro Masonry, which was taken to mean that it recognized the negro Mason in a fraternal manner. This caused eo much trouble and embarrassment the resolution was practically rescinded. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at the Hotels. So rapid has been the develop ment of the moving picture industry that few people realize how much experience a person must have and how resourceful a person must be to get results that will please the pop ular fancy," remarked F. E. Slyde of the Burlington railroad who, with Mr. Cress, his camera man, is taking views of the northwest for the film library of the Burlington. 'There is a great deal more to it than just setting up a camera and turning the crank. For instance, on this trip when we went into Glacier national park to get our moving pic tures we had to have our cameras. films, supplies, guides, pack horses i and camping equipment, which, all together represented an outlay of 1 several thousand dollars. It is not i always possible to 'shoot' the picture from a nice, smooth, accessible place and a man sometimes risks his life to get a good -shot, and waits hours to get just the right light. While going along the trail this summer with our pack train, one of the horses stumbled and before we could get! to it it rolled over the embankment, j taking some of the equipment and a' J3000 camera and contents. There are thrills in the city work also, and taking pictures from tops of build ings, airplane and tops of water tanks helps to make life inter esting." Three young women of the John Day country are at the Imperial. They are Eulale J- Cummings, Lorna Kiehn and Lola Bailey and all regis ter from Mount Vernon, Or., which is their postoffice address. Miss Cummings lives on a ranch through which runs the John Day highway and this particular section was placed under contract and work started on it this year. Over the gate of the Cummings ranch is a weather-beaten sign which says "Roosevelt highway." The sign was nailed there by an enthusiastic mo torist who drove through that coun try years ago with the idea that he would father a "Roosevelt highway" across the United States. The young visitors from Mount Vernon are here to take in the livestock ex hibition. F. G. G. Schmidt of the University of Oregon faculty, is a visitor from Eugene and is at the Nortonia for a few days. The entire town of Eu gene, as well as the campus, is wait ing for the home-coming week which will be held next Friday and Saturday. The town on that oc casion will be filled with former students and erstwhile residents of Eugene. The home-coming week is even more important to many than the commencement exercises in June. Every sorority house and fra ternity house is prepared to take care of the sisters and brothers, even if the accommodations are taxed to the point where someone has to sleep on the floor. W. J. Townley of Union county is one of the visitors to the live stock show registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Townley is accom panied by his wife. For several years Mr. Townley was a member of the county commission of Union county and he has a noted stock farm near Hot Lake, a few miles out of La Grande. While a county com missioner Mr. Townley was active in working for the construction of the Old Oregon trail through that sec tion of the state. Louis' J. Simpson and wife of North Bend, Or., where he was for merly mayor and gave the munici pality a park which overlooks the bay, is at the Multnomah. Four years ago Mr. Simpson was very much interested in the gubernatorial contest, as he was a candidate in the primaries for the republican nomination. At present his mission to Portland Is to see the livestock show, as Mr. Simpson is particularly interested in blooded stock. On her way to China to be mar ried is Miss R. H. Ross of Pendle ton, Or. Miss Ross is a sister-in-law of R. H. Crommelhi, who is in the flouring industry at the Roun up town. Accompanying the bride-to-be at the Benson are Mrs. Thomas Campbell Jr. of Tien Tsin, China, and Mrs. Owen Davis of Seattle. The young woman of Pendleton is headed for Vancouver, B. C, to take passage across the Pacific. O, E. Sovereign of Bay City, Mich., has arrived at the Benson. He is one of the owners of the Aladdin company, makers of ready-to-wear houses. The company located its plant in Portland after making at survey of the west and selected this city because of the advantages of raw material and transportation, together with the availability of an export market. Judge R. R. Butler of The Dalles dropped into Portland yesterday and listened to the political gossip in the hotel lobbies and then gave his impressions. Judge Butler predicts that Olcott will carry eastern Ore gon, coming to Multnomah from that section with a majority to add to the majority which the republican has in this city. Sam E. Kramer, who used to con duct a riding academy in Portland and later moved the center of his activities to California, is at the Benson. Mr. Kramer is now living at Santa Barbara, Cal., where he has an academy. The livestock show has attracted him once more to Portland. ' One Thousand Springs farm is the mouth-filling title of the ranch of L. C. Miller, who, with his wife, is at the Benson. Thousand Springs farm Is near Wendall, Idaho, and Mr. and Mrs. Miller have left that delightful spot to attend the horse show. With 11 exhibition horses, Revell L. English has arrived in Portland from Pasadena. Cal- The mounts are to be shown at the International Livestock exposition. Mr. English is registered at the Benson. To look over the exhibits at the livestock exposition, William Head has left his home at Arlington, Or., and is registered at the Imperial. Mr. Head is a well-known farmer in Gilliam county. Thomas Mason, who has a riding academy at Santa Barbara, Cal., a town established in early days by the Franciscan friars, is at the Ben son. He is here for the horse show. G. P. Edwards is one of the Gill iam county delegation in Portland for the livestock show. Mr. Ed wards is registered at the Imperial from Condon. Herman Wise, former postmaster of Astoria, former mayor and all around prominent citizen of the city by the sea, was in Portland yester day. Helen McCormich and Donalds Mahan of Vancouver, B. C, regis tered at the Benson, are riders in the horse show at the livestock expo sition. E. S. Fortner, one of the best known physicians of Malheur county, Is at the Multnomah from Ontario. J. E. Reynolds, for several years connected with the state fair board, is at the Imperial from La Grande. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co. Can Yon Answer These Questions? 1. Is it true roses do not yield honey? I see beesjvorking on them often. " 2. Are birds' tails any use except for steering? 3. Can polar bears be kept com fortably in captivity? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. What is the most useful insect known? We hesitate to elect IT! The honeybee has been useful to man for centuries and is useful to vege tation in carrying pollen from one plant to another and thus fertilizing them. The iconeumon fly is useful in checking certain noxious insects, as its young are parasitic on their caterpillars. Lady bugs are scav engers of plant lice and scale in sects. Many beetles are scavengers of decaying organic matter. 2. How does poison ivy spread? Why should it come up suddenly in places that had been free from it? There is no mystery about this. The vine bears fruit, a smooth waxy berry, eaten by several birds, wood peckers, for instance. The pulp be ing sticky, a seed or eo is likely to adhere to the bird's bill, and may thus get transported some distance before it drops off. The wind may then carry it, still further from the parent plant, so that it germinates in new territory. 3. How can a crow's tongue be split to make it talk? What should it be fed? We don't know how to split a tongue, and would not tell it if we did! The purpose of these Nature Notes ia certainly not to encourage mutilating wild creatures. Crows will eat almost anything organic, snakes, toads, frogs, grasshoppers, crickets, borers, grain, tomatoes, melon, meat, fish, etc. If the meal ia chiefly vegetable, it must be big ger in bulk and weight than when animal. CHICAGO SCHEME DENOUNCED Effort to Entice Away Other Cities' Mechanics Held Inneighfoorly. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Ed itor.) It seems that during the re cent labor differences in the build ing construction camp in Chicago .TudcTB Landis was called in to set tle them by studying the whole field and working out a scale that in his judgment would be fair and enuitable. This award, it appears, was not satisfactory to some 13 crafts and they refused to abide by the decision on the ground that the cuts made were deeper than condi tions warranted. To enforce the Landis award a citizens' committee has been formed known as the committee to enforce the Landis award. At the meeting of this committee October 10 and "to keep the Landis award effective in the 13 'outlaw' trades during 192s," it was decided to "bring in as many skilled mechanics as possible from other cities during the slack period, so that each Landis award contrac tor is equipped with a picked crew when the 1923 building boom be gins." It is possible that Portland is too far removed for any attempt to be made to "bring in" any skilled mechanics from here, but it was not so long ago that Wichita, Kan., was advertising in The Oregonian for mechanics through a local office; nor so long before that that San Francisco maintained an office down on Sixth street for the same purpose and was also scouring the east for men. Only last week a man from an eastern city, we are told, took six carpenters away from Portland with him on his represen tations. We may be wrong in this, but it looks to the writer as considerably lower than stealing sheep for the citizens' committee of one city, be cause they cannot get along with the mechanics of their own town, to seek to induce the skilled mechanics of other cities during the slack sea son to flock to their city so that the builders there may Becure a picked crew for the next season. At any rate, we venture the opin ion that in case the activities of this Landis enforcement committee rach Portland, there will be a light response to the invitation to stock up the streets of Chicago or any other city with "skilled mechanics" during the "slack season" so the "Landis award" or any other con tractors may secure a "picked crew" for the hypothetical "building boom of 1923." O. G. HUGHSON. Faith and education of Convicts. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) Answering the claim con tained in article 3 of "Education and the State," published in The Ore gonian, that the parochial school instruction makes their pupils not bad, but good American citizens as good as the public schools turn out will you, kindly publish the statistics relative to the percentage of prison inmates in the United States who are graduates of our public schools? Also the percentage of inmates who are Roman Cath olic? Let these figures be the an swer to the above claim. GEO. A. ALEXANDER Diligent search by attendants at the public library fails to disclose any statistics on the origin of the education of prison inmates. Statis tics give the amount of their school ing, but not where it was obtained. Likewise, no data were to be found covering the prison population as a whole. Religious faith of the in mates of only a few scattered in stitutions has been recorded so far as can be ascertained at the public library. Proper Use of Possessive. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) (1) Is it proper to say, Any body else's or anybody's else? (2) It is considered proper to use the other person's name before one's own, but in case where some wrong was com mitted, shouldn't one's own name be( used first, as "I and Mary took those things"? MRS. JAMES H. TAYLOR. 1. Authorities differ. Some treat it as a substantive phrase and place the possessive inflection on else; as, "Somebody else's book." But others prefer to treat it as an el liptical expression; as, "The book is somebody's else" (i. e., the other than the person previously men tioned). 2. It is never good form to men tion yourself first. "Mary and I" is correct. Treaty Ports Defined. PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) What is meant bv "treaty ports"? SUBSCRIBER. Foreigners are permitted to trade at only certain pflrts In China and as trade is- cerrled on by virtue of treaties with China, these particular ports are called "treaty ports." There are about 25 of them. Canton, noted for its silk, and Shanghai are the chief ports of American trade. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamrs J. Montague. THE BOOMERANG. Last year when Uncle Samuel Of ready cash was shy He hunted round until he found The fieople's hootch supply. And boldly seizing of it A large and goodly hoard Without ado he gave it to The U. S. shipping board. The gin and rum and whisky, Once toted on our hips Before the raid, the board conveyed To all its gallant ships. And liquor once belonging To folks like you and me. Was quickly sold for minted gold Upon the rolling sea. But lo. when Uncle Samuel Was raking in the cash. From sinful things like whisky slings And hand-made sour mash, Rose Daugherty in anger, And like a traffic cop. Held up his hand in stern command: "This thmg has got to stop!" And therefore Uncle Samuel, Who thought he'd found a way With rum and gin he'd gathered in The nation's debt to pay, Discovers he must strictly Despite his lack of pelf With humble awe observe the law He went and made himself! Mr. Harding is seldom bothered with politicians who want to be un official observers at Irish peace con ferences. A Dreadful Risk. A Turkish revolutionist has to pledge to his cause his wives, his fortune and his sacred honor. " This Will Interest Mr. Brynn. The Russians would consider tho 1S9B project for the free and un limited coinage of silver as an at tempt to create tight money. (Copyrlcht. 1022. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian, Nov. 7. 1.S07. Washington. Frldjof Nansen, Arctic explorer who attained the distinction of pushing nearer to the north pole than any other ex plorer, has returned and is address ing numerous Washington scientific bodies. Washington. No radical action will be taken by the president upon the Cuban question between now and the time congress will convene, and in his message Mr. McKinley will not urge congress to take any precipitate steps to end the war. A recent invention by an Oregon inventor is a cradle that rocks by means of clockwork and at the same time plays the baby tunes. Berlin. Emperor William is dp voting much of his time to tho study of Russian. The letter which he wrote to the czar during the lat ter's stay at Darmstadt was in ex cellent Russian. Fifty Years Ago. Prom The Oregonian, Nov. ?, 1-ST2. New York. Last minute election estimates give Grant 23 states and Greeley 8, or 203 electoral votes to 90 for Greeley. There is scarcely a parallel in the history of presi dential elections of such a complete rout and triumph. Paris. The evacuation of the de partment of the upper Marne by the Germans is completed and that of the department of the Marne is slowly progressing. Strasbourg. The German govern ment will re-establish the councils general in Alsace and Lorraine next year, in the same form in which they existed under the French do minion. Chicago will have to look to her laurels in divorce matters, as tho records of this city's court will show. There are 23 divorce cases to dispose of at the next term of the circuit court, which will convene next Monday. GOOD WORD IS BADLY APPLIED "Americanism" Overworked as Label Says School Bill Opponent. COLLEGE PLACE, Wash., Nov. E. (To the Editor.) If there is any thing in this country that has, during- the past few years, been over worked, it is tho word "American ism." No matter what kind of bunk a man wants to palm off on the in nocent public, he is sure to label it "Americanism." And he takes it for granted that he knows exactly what Americanism is. Why shouldn't he? Hasn't he saluted the flag? Hasn't he hurrahed whenever a ward po litical boss mentioned the name of Abraham Lincoln or of Thomas Jef ferson? To be sure, he hasn't read a book written by one of the founders of our government, nor even a letter, nor a speech. Yet he is sure he knows. He is certain that nobody could be a good American unless he was educated in tho public school. He doesn't know that tho men who wrote the declaration of independ ence and the United States constitu tion were educated in private re ligious schools. He doesn't know that Theodore Roosevelt and David Lloyd George were the product of private religious schools. Probably he doesn't know that John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth never attended any school at all except the famfly school. How unpatriotic! Still, they were fairly good people. Not very long ago some of our large cities had to establish soup kitchens and bread lines to feed the hungry people. Some did not pat ronize the public eating places. Were they unpatriotic and un American? Auto camping parks have been established for the. use of the public. Should a man's Amer icanism be doubted because he sleeps in a hotel instead of the auto park? Where is the proof that a man is unpatriotic or un-American who does not send his children to the public school? There isn't any, ex cept in the heads of. a few persons who are overloaded with paternal istic bunk. A. DELOS WESTCOTT. Terms of Relationship. McMJNNVIL-LE, Or., Nov. 4. (To tho Editor.) State where statistics can be had on family relationship. A little dispute came up in my pres ence a few days ago concerning the relation between a child and its mother's uncle. One person said the mother's uncle was a great uncle to the child, but the child was no relation to the uncle. SUBSCRIBER. Dictionaries define the various terms popularly employed to desig nated relationship by blood or mar riage. A great-uncle is the brother of one's grandfather or a grand mother. The daughter of one's nieco or nephew is a grandniece. T5