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AT THE END OF IT.
This is election day another
one. They roll around with the
regularity of the equinoxes or the
winter rains. 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.
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