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THE ? OREGON' SUNPAYf OURNAlXtPORtLANb SUNDAYMORNING, i OCTOBER 2i: 4 t a C. JACKSON . . . ,. M': (Be calm, aw confident, be cheerful and " antv others w wo would have Ow do unto yog. I , PubUahed every wk dy and Sunday ssormns. t TW Junl BatldlM. hHler,-oTtid. Own. - i ttnterad t the poatpffies t Portland. Oregon, tor trnmtaalou through the nsils ' elsss nsttsr. f At VsXKi'Ha.NES Main tl7$. Automatic BeO-Sl.-AU aVpartnraU reached by tlx numbers. - rOKEIOST ADtESTlSlJ. 'JWEMKUmi Benjsmin 4 Ktntnor Co.. BraMWk BaiWini. , 825 rift. iwiiHi'iNn "Torsi BOO Mailer Building. Cbicn. ' ' TUB OBJCUON JOUBNAL retrvss the right to , reject advertising eop which it ( ob jectionable. - It alo will not Print nny tool tbst in any way simulates readies matter or that caDDot readily b recognised aa adver tising 80B8CBIFTION BATES By Uarrtar, City and Country DAILY AND SUNDAY boo was .16Ono month. ..... DAILY BUWPAt fs week f .10 I 0n week .08 On month. 45 .... A. MX MAIL. 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NOT SOUND POLICY ITA MAY well be questioned whether it is advisable to elect to the United States senate from Oregon a man who has been very closely identified In a very intimate business relation with one of the Big Five packers in the beef trust. Mr. Stanfield has long had such a relation. It is common knowledge that the business connection between Mr. Stanfield and the Swift Packing company has been very intimate and very confidential. Out of these rela tions there must naturally come a strong desire J y the Swifts for Mr Stanfield's election, if for no other reason than that as soon as he took his. seat they would feel that they had'onc more friend in the senate. On j Mr. 'Stanfield's part, whatever his In- ! tentions. there would always he in j his mind a feeling of gratitude to the Swifts that would inevitably and per i haps unconsciously exercise more or less influence in his attitude toward the packers. It Is not good policy for great cor ! poratlons to have trustedS friends in the United States senate."4 there has already been too much of tnat"sort of thing. It was because of the power ful friends of the Big Five packers in the senate that thfl Kenyon bill. which proposed wholesome restric tions and safeguards over the pack ing busjness was killed at the last Bcsslon of congress. In the struggle over that bill, the power of the pack ers ha the senate was very clearly demonstrated. That power should not now be increased by the election of Mr. Stanfield. In admissions made before the sen ate agricultural committee January 26, 1919, by J. Ogden Armour of Ar mour & Co., we have a (glimpse at the program and purposes of the Big Five packers. Under questioning, Mr. Armour admitted: 1 That he attempted to form a na tion-wlde packing monopoly when the old Veeder pool was broken up. 2 That branch houses of the big packers worked together, 3 That there Is a tacit agreement among the Big Five, packers to main tain established percentages In the di vision of business. When asked 1. he had consulted New York bankers fcr the purpose of form ing a huge corporation to Include aU the Important packing plants of the United States, Mr. Armour replied In these words: "Yes, I assume that the figures are right; It is correct in prin clple." "Then you were going to get prac tically the. entire packing business of the country Into one corporation T" he was asked. ' g "Yes," was Mr. Armour' reply. "My Idea was that It would be u good thing to get all , the packing business into , a monopoly? "Is that still .70ur Idea of the solu tlon?" MrrArjnour was asked. His reply id Wt M i "We could have saved niany millions In duplication of :, buslness.' ' v JDo you t&Itk the five big. packers could 101a la tn4 stflf idva the same serrlc&S In, saving iHIs answer was ' v?a Salem correspondent has the -Hemerlty to atk why the Portland : Railway, L.lght A Power company i' sells "briquets In the . capital city tt $11.25 a, ton In two-ton lots while the Gas company In Portland lnqlst HERE is a legislative record that Is probably Without parallel. ' ' It Is a reccrd that is tremendous In gtvlng a view of the inner convic tions of a man. It is a remarkable record in its unvarying fidelity to what it known as "big business." Whenever choice was to be made between the In terests of the big man and the average man, the vote and influence of this legislator went invariably on the side of the big man. Never once in this legislative record was a vote thrown on the side of the great mass who make up the mudsills and solid foundations of American life. It is Senator Harding's record at Washington. He may well be styled the very rich mar& candidate. When you read ' the record of his votes and speeches, you will readily understand why very, very rich men are support ing him and why all the propaganda that lavish' campaign contributions can buy is flooding this country. When they go down Into their consciences, it is impossible to see how bread winners, wage earners, salaried men, small and large business men, farmers and the other great working masses of people can support Mr. Harding. When the revenue act of 1917 was pending, an act proposed to raise funds for carrying on the war, an amendment was proposed providing that a 73 per cent lax be levied on war profits. SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST IT. An amendment was proposed providing that a "70 per cent tax be levied on war profits. SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST IT. An amendment was proposed providing that a 65 per cent tax Le levied on war profits. SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST IT. An amendment was proposed providing that a 60 per ceqt tax be levied on war profits. SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST IT. An amendment was proposed providing that a 50 per cent tax be levied on war profits. SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST IT. It was proposed to raise income taxes to 50 per cent on incomes in excess of 11,000,000. SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST IT. He voted against raising the income tax of corporations. On the other hand, when an amendment was proposed decreasing the con sumption taxes, the taxes on clothing, shoes, food, and other things that the man and woman of moderate means must buy and pay taxes on, SENATOR HARDING VOTED AGAINST DECREASING THAT TAX. Senator Harding thought the people who made money out of the war should not pay the taxes incurred by the war. He voted against the million aires and war manufacturers paying the he salaried man and the man of small His viewpoint on who should be taxed is clearly .depicted in a speech he made in the senate on February 26, 1917: I for one am Makiat la oppltloa to two nanarca ana tweiiy.au miuioai er a ior ciass tax npoa uo great eo ran ratio as He wanted to remove the $226,000,000 land" and put it on the people of small Senator Harding didn't want to collect an excess profits tax from war manufacturers during the war. He said I want to put into the record, Mr. President, that this tax In the first olace is not necessary; that It Is revolutionary: acter; It is distinctly class legislation and not designed but well Inclined to dis courage success ; and then, in the last analysis, it is utterly impracticable to collect it along- lines 01 just application. During the war. Secretary Daniels made charges that the armor Dlate d lan Is were robbing the government for armor plate manufactured. It was pro posed that the government establish its Senator Harding voted against the government plant He. voted to let the armor plate plants continue to rob the And he voted to apportion the manufacture of armor plate among existing plants so that all could get a hand in the big grab. And on top of that, he voted for the biggest navy anybody had ever cared to propose. Each one of the big- ships had to be equipped with the private plants to manufacture-it. In line with his votes in behalf of who profited heavily from the war. Senator Harding has a record on secret government. The big corporations do not work in the daylight They pull trings from behind the scenes. Harding ing profiteering public. He voted against making income returns public. He voted against making the profits of corporations public. He much the corporations made, nor about He voted for secret diplomacy and senate. When a senator is tied hand and foot ers. The more the prices of growers' products are beaten down, the more the manufacturing corporation is enabled to make. As between the corporations and the farmers. Senator Harding was far more consistent than he has been on questions of reat Import during the He opposed the farm loan act, proposed to give farmers financial aid on long time at low Interest. I will not assume to say that conditions In Ohio are altorether like those In other states In the Union, but I believe I tnat there is no more neea lor a measure or tnis Kind ror tne agriculturists of the state of Ohio than for the government to try to step In and take charge of all our industrial and productive affairs In the state. He Introduced a statement of a mortgage banker friend declaring that the farm loan act was an attempt to use the credit of the United States for a special class the special class, of course, meaning farmersj He charged farmers with profiteering I venture to say that if the corporation vrndaeta for adTaaeed prices, aa doaa the oatery from oae end of the eoaatry to the Senator Harding opposed a war time guarantee of the wheat price. He said : In this latter day farmlnr has become an occupation for profit : and I hannen to know that under normal, conditions, occupation. He now wants to return to "normalcy." He went on in the senate: I share the anxiety to strike at greed. I shoald like to strike at freed for power. I woald be agreeable to strike at raltaral sections of the TJalted States. I abont the desired resalt, bat I re n tire to American patriots are snrn tnai we nm faarantee ine American farmer a price for his wheat la a world famine,, thsa there is not patriotism enoach la the eoaa try to win the war. In its devotion to powerful financial average men, the record of Senator Harding is without parallel in America. it must have 913 a ton for briquets delivered to lta Portland customers. The question should never have been asked. It may cost Salem residents an extra $1.75 a ton for briquets. JASON J.EE A PORTRAIT of the Revehend Jason Lee is to be formally presented to the state of Oregon next Tuesday at Salem. Nearly one hundred years ago as civilization dawned upon the Cascade mountains, there came an appeal from the Indian of the West for the white man's book. Jason Lee, who had come out of Stanstead, Canada, was selected by the Methodist Episcopal church organization to be the bearer of the book to the red brother of forest and plain. Although it was at a period when the missionary tide ran strong and re ligious zeal burned high in the breasts of men, it was a mission to be under taken only by a man of strength. Sbch a man was Jason Lee. At the time of his appointment to a mission which was destined to be the cradle of American settlement on the Pacific coast, he was about thirty yearl of age, in the flower of his physical de velopment He has been described as a man of light complexion, tall and powerfully built with a slight stoop and rather slow and awkward in movemeiit ; With blue eyes and high retreating forehead, there went a prominent nose and heavy jaws. He wore his hair rather long and brushed back from his forehead. This gave to his strong features an aspect slightly puritan. Open and affable In his Intercourse with men, he knew when to speak and when to be client By some he was thought lacking in certain refine ments. He had not the cant of the cleric , or the (loa of the sectarian He chafed against the restraints of a taxes, but voted to keep the tax on means. the Midlia reveaia bill btesaio of tha fair, aajast, aareatoaabi ana aaeaucd- or tae laid. from the "great corporations of the means. in the senate : that It la unfair: It Is sectional In char own plant to save the people's money. government of the people's money. armor plate. And Harding voted for the big corporations, and the people voted against making facts concern didn't want the people to know how profiteering during the war. against abolishing secret sessions of the to the corporations he opposes farm present campaign. can state an absolute truth when I say in war time. . He said In the senate : of this eoaatry were holdlnr back fond Americas farmer, there woald bj aa other. dollar wheat makes it a very profitable the -manifest arced la some nf the aarri. do not think It (tt.tt wheat) will brine- say, Mr. President, that if the qs all ties of institutions and in its opposition to ritualism which was formal and con ventional. His personality was well adapted to the free life of the frontier where just Judgments of men are made. When Lee left New York early in March, 1834, for the Oregon country, it was the Intention to establish a mission among the Flathead Indians on the upper reaches of the Columbia river, but after he had proceeded the desire to see 'the Willamette valley became so strong that he uecided to visit it before making a permanent choice of location. The result was that the mission was set up in the Willamette aetr the spot which in the fullness of time was to become the capital of Oregon. - There has been much controversy as to what determined Lee to change the, original plan. The chief reasons must have been the softer climate and the vision of a greater field of usefulness. It took but a few years to realize the wisdom of his choice. With the founding of the mission and the effort to educate and Chris tianize the Indian there came another change of policy. From missionary Lee advanced to colonizer. At this time the entire region was virtually under the control of the Hudson's Bay company, whose chief interest was the fur industry. Lee and his coworkers of the Methodist mission realized that here' was i.n empire in the rough which should be brought under tho American flair. To enenuraa-A Ameri can settlement and secure confirma tion of American title to the country became the controlling purpose of the mission. Incidental to this pol icy, It must be admitted, was the material interests of the mission and members. In building up this ma terial interest seeds were sowtf frorq wnica grew up animosities and preju dices which, burned through the yeara.; .Even at this, dale, the smoke Is just passing away, and . the i ashes growing cold. . There w&a the mission element, the Hudson's Bay interest, the mountain men and the Indepen dent settler with his individual views. Not only did the Methodist mission sustain . assault from without but within dissension came. The student of Oregon history wm never fall to. accord to Jason Lee full credit as one of the founders of the Oregon commonwealth. His effort in the cause of education will never be Overlooked. It is well that his mem ory is recalled. It is especially fitting that a portrait of Lee adorn the state house In company with the likeness ' of Dr. John McLoughlin, who repre sents another element' in state growth and with whom Jason Lee often came in contact, sometimes in friendly co operation and sometimes in rivalry of interest The idea of William Howard Taft, ex-president of the United States and active and current president of the League of Nations News Bureau! of the Leayu j to Enforce Peace, campaigning for Senator Harding, who has "scrapped" the league, and working shoulder to shoulder with Senators Borah and Johnson, both of whom are opposed to a peace league of any Wnd, is too absurd and ridiculous to need comment. A BILL, ON CRUTCHES THE Swan island port measure is a faulty bill. It is a defective bill. It hobbles on, a crutch and a cane, with its head bandaged and a mask on its face. It violates the principle of home rule in that it calls upon the people of the state as a whole to vote a gigantic bond issue which the people of Portland will pay. Its propagandists admit that the bill contains this un-American clause. But they say that if the majority vote of the port district is against it they will ask the legislature for means to submit the $16,500,000 bond issue the bill proposes later to the electorate of Portland direct. What they do not reveal is that the bill, if voted, will contain the authority to bond the Port of Port land without further vote and that the port commission will not be legally bound to keep any pre-election promises by propagandists. Such promises are all too much like last year's birds' nests when the birds have flown. The Swan island scheme as first offered by the Committee of Fifteen carried a map showing the develop ment proposed. The committee made it perfectly clear that it proposed the transformation of Swan island. Guilds lake and Mocks bottom into a huge ocean terminal, with a score of great piers, with railroad yards having a storage of some 6000 freight cars and leaving some M0 acres of a total of 1552 acres for Industrial sites. When it was clearly shown that such a project would cost not the $10,000,000 first announced but $40,000- 000, the proponents of the plan make a whirling change of front Before the Progressive Business Men's club, Thursday, Frank M. War ren, chairman of the port commission and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, said that it was mistake ever to have suggested that more was intended than to dredge out the west channel around Swan Island, buying enough land to deposit thereon the spoil of dredging. In other words, no docks, no pisrs, no railroad yards, no prepared industrial sites only $10,000,000 worth of local channel dredging and land filling. Yet the advertisements being pub lished broadcast In the state press at the behest and at the expense of the propagandists of the Swan island scheme declare that the "primary pur pose" is to establish docks and dig a 30-foot channel to the sea. If the propaganda statements of yesterday about the Swan island measure are not true today can it be hoped that the statements of today will be true tomorrow? Yet despite defects ,of the bill and change of front on their own part the champions of the spotted port bill urge its passage. Why? What is the- motive lying behind the pressure to pass a faulty bill which must be amended as soon as passed even to make it fair? Why should the initiative be thus subverted and the intelligence of the people be thus challenged? The discovery of the camel fossil in Oregon proves that this state was also dry In prehistoric times. GOING TO NIGHT SCHOOL THERE are mothers In Portland who would like to become better mothers. There are motorists who would like to know how to take the squeaks and rattles out of their ma chines. There are mechanics who want to become better mechanics, and aliens who want to become good Americans. Many of the seekers after profi ciency do not know that Portland's night schools have prepared the ful fillment of their needs. But evidently a considerable number do know. When Supervisor Gray of the' night schools took count a few evenings ago he found that 1712 were in attendance at the various classes. Nearly all were adults. . At the polytechnic school for women on tipper Morrison street girls who during the day are apprentices use ' the evening hours to Increase their knowledge and speed promotion in sewing, dressmaking and millinery. Mothers learn the Intimate arts of true home making, the: fashioning of Uny garments and cooking. the jdishes that promote health. ftfiV' i At Benson polytechnic school during evenings they might otherwise spend in profitless loafing, men learn how to care for their motors and the popu larity of the course Is attested by the long lines of machines waiting outside. But in the same school men learn how to improve themselves in their trades, how to be better electri cians, and builders. At Lincoln high school a complete high school course is afforded the night school students and in Jeffer son High school commercial and and industrial study opportunities are utilized by crowded classes. The public schools in their relation to the children of new Americans are the greatest of all Americanizing in fluences. But in Portland the night schools this year are reaching out to the 5000 in this city who cannot speak or write English. An Americanization course which requires three years and graduates a student who thinks in English is being given in Ladd, Jef ferson high, Stephens and Buckman schools and also in Arleta and St Johns branch libraries. The school administration. In order to promote Americanization more effective ly, broadens its general offer which is to provide in any school on any subject a teacher for any class of f5 or more. But an Americanization class may have a teacher even if it meets outside a school and. in a lodge or clubroom which has light and heat Portland's night schools for adults. like Portland's day school for children, are -organized for the publlo, by the public, at publio expense. If they make good Americans out of aliens they should, and obviously are, making better Americans out of citi zens who grasp the exceptional op portunity afforded by the night schools. Senator Harding's Platitudes1 From the Toronto Saturday t&ght. Hon. Warren G. Harding:, Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, us a very estimable gen tleman by all accounts, and he seems to suffer from a tendency which frequently develops itself in respectable middle aged gentlemen who become political candidates. He likes to sermonize. Re cently he made the members of the Ohio State Bditortal association the vic tims of a plea "for a return to the old standards of honesty and the old lofty standards of fidelity." Mos of us will admit that there la, no surplus fund of honesty going to waste on this continent at the present time, and that an augmentation of it would be highly desirable ; but when Senator Harding suggests Jhat honesty is a lost treasure once possessed in abundance by his countrymen, he promulgates a the ory that must have made some of the elder generation among his hearers smile. Presumably they are acquainted with American history during the period between the death of Lincoln- and the election of Qrover Cleveland In 1884 the pelod of Senator Harding's boyhood. Seldom In modern times have the des tinies of a great nation been In the hands of men who possessed fewer busi ness and political scruples. Perhaps, however. Senator Harding meant to re fer, not to the days of his youth, but to the period at the close of the eighteenth century, when the American republic was in its infancy. He need, however, read only the lives of George Washing ton and Alexander Hamilton and of their Imperfectly successful struggle to make the nation they had created hon est, to learn that "the old lofty stand ards" of inegrity were very scarce com modities when knee breeches were the fashion. Business morality has remained about the same through the ages, and seldom rlsea beyond a certain level. Its best corrective is a sound, workable stand ard of political Idealism, and despite the troubles of the present epoch, there seems to be a larger fund of it available today than at most periods of the world's history. It is to be noted, however, that Sen ator Harding has a good deal of the wisdom of the country editor, whose motto used io be, "Be gentle with the local school board, but it doesn't mat ter what you say abeut the czar of Rus sia. The lack of honesty he most spe cifically alluded to was that of the di plomatists and governments of Europe. If they had been honest there would have been no war, and universal peace would have followed the armistice in 60 days and so on, and so on. Coming from the nominated chieftain of a po litical party which has done more than any organized body in the world to pre vent and delay the consummation of peace, this is rather rich. Letters From the People ( Commnnicatioaa eent to The Journal for publication in thia department ahould be written w only one aide of the paper; abould not exceed S00 word in leneth and must be aiened by the writer, whose mail addreaa ia fall miut accom pany the contribution. 1 COX-HARDING CANDIDACIES Salem, Sept. 14. To the Kditor of The Journal Please give the political careers of Senator Harding and Governor Cox in Ohio in reference to their being candi dates lor the same office, were they ever opponents, and If so what were the results of the elections? D, L. Shrode. Cox wa in eoncreaa, in "the lower home, from 1000 to 1913. Hardint ha never been In tne lower nonae. or a candidate for a m in It. llardlnc waa lieutenant (orernor of Ohio irom 1UU4 to lu. Uox ,u not a candidate. Cox waa governor of Ohio from 1913 to IBIS, failed of election in 1914. waa reelected in 1916 and aialn in ibis. Hardma- wa not tha nn. poaing candidate. Harding waa elected to the united Btatea aenat in 1914. Cox waa not lua opponent, tie waa elected tne -year Cox waa defeated for governor. Harding waa a candidate tor governor ot umo in iiu but waa defeated. uii waa wen in congreaa. j IN PARLIAMENT Portland, Oct. i4. To the Editor of The Journal Has Ireland Uie same representation in parliament sa Scot land, and if not wherein does it differ? J. S. Scott. Member of parliament are elected in England, Bcouacd and Ireland according to population. Boroughs with less than 60,000 inhabitants re turn one member; town of ever 100,000 are divided into aeparate eonatitiiencies and receive additional membera in proportion to their popo la&on. Tha. Greater London return OO mem ber. Liverpool 9, Ulaagow 7, Edinburgh, Dublin and Belfast each 4, and so on. j VICTORY MEDALS Portland. Oct. 17. To the Editor of The Journal I see in the papers very often where the ex-service 'men don t eeem ' to have .much interest in their medals. WelL I can't blame them, for they can't eat medals. Aa one who nerved, I think if congress would get busy next aeaaion and aire na a aauara deal and give us a bonus Instead, we ? .n'A! marching Jn Tor" i'S w l!wockU. -HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO TAKE SENATOR HARDING SERIOUSLY? By Anne Shannon Monroe By Anna Shannon Monro .' The entluisiaam of this country for Harding makes ma think of a bonfire on aa ice floe. It bumi brightly no long as you feed it, and it looks good, but It doesnt take hold, somehow, on tfce ice. And as tha days go on, he improves Ilk bad fish In July. Why? Because tha mora the light ia turned on the lass we see that gives confidence in him aa a steadying hand at the pilot's wheel. Like an old fashioned quadrUle. first he bows to this pair Borah and Johnson saluting on the right and then he bows to that T aft and Hoover saluting on the left. And It takes nothing from his grace as a bow-er and aaluter, that he la bowing to and saluting the opposite poles of his party x make-up. . He can aa readily wheel to one aa to the other, and all the way around without becoming dlssy. e e a What is the obvious explanation of this windmill atUtude? Simply this: Harding, does not know any better ; he is too simple a man to have sensed the greatness of our own country, the great ideals through which it was born. the ideals that have ever led It, the ideals that animated the patriots in tha world war. of all parties and creeda and colors. And the little group of wicked politicians picked him for just this reason that he was too simple to understand. They picked him as they would pick a dough man; they wanted one they could handle. To the ever. lasting glory of the remnant that is left of the once magnificent Republican party, the rank and file of Republicans did not want him. In the convention he never got a popular vote ; ha was a frame-up and a put-over. The little group of bankers down In Wall street who control the interest rates and loans of America, tha profiteers of the war whose profits he did his best to protect from taxation with his vote, and the oligarchy of senators who are hissing and rattling with venomous hatred for the great president, and wanted to pun Ish him by snatching away the world's Ufreatest achievement from his hands. even ,wnen in so aomg tney snaicnea from the whole American people the glory they had" won In coming out of the war with a League of Nations that would forever tend to prevent more bloodshed these are the people who choee Harding. e What Is the psychology of this man. who, every time he couldn't dodge, voted with the masters of finance and profi teering? What is -his mental and spir itual and physical make-up, that he, a rational human being, born in Amer ica, educated in her free institutions. 'benefiting by her ideals, truckles to big interests and turns his face away from every measure that will give actual, concrete, legislative help to the people who most' need It? He was not a rich man's son. and thus blighted in his chance to know the American's struggle to grow upward; he is not of foreign blood, with the foreigner's natural rev erence for lords and kings and things like these ; he is an American even as you and I. What has made him as he is? I have great sympathy for Harding; he Is as he is ajid he cannot help it. Everyone remembers a story popular in earlier times "Frankenstein." This man Frankenstein was a chemist;, he thought he could create human life ; he experimented till he nearly went mad. and he stole the secret from the uni verse. He created a man out of chem icals, as perfect as a human frame can be made perfect. But he could not give him a soul. And when the man was once created, and turned loose from the laboratory, he was a man recognised as a man and his creator had no con trol over him. He could create him and send him forth Into the world but he could not control his deeds ; and he could not reach out and draw him back, and so this man that he had cre ated went forth and committed all sorts of hideous acts, made all sorts of hor rible bungling blunders, made havoc wherever he went, and ended by ruining MORE OR LESS PERSONAL! Random Observations About Town Dean J. A. Bexell of the Oregon Agri cultural coUege school of commerce waa in Portland Saturday to confer with the architects who are designing the new commerce building for the state college campus. Plana are for the construction of the building this year. It la reported. Aa dean of the school of commerce, whose growth is held to be a remarkable manifestation of the general reception of the state school. Bexell ia known almost wherever commerce ifi taught, especially for his systematic application of business principles te the farm and farmer. From Calgary, Alberta, to Portland by automobile is no day's work : but. In spite of its trials at this season, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Belmont of Calgary seem to have survived its ordeals and are com fortably quartered at the Nortonia hotel during a visit in the city. e a Carl R- Gray, president of the Union Pacific railroad system, with headquar ters at Omaha, heads a party of prom inent railroad officials that arrived at the Portland hotel at midnight Friday, fresh from a visit in the Grays Harbor, Wash., country. The other visitors are all from Omaha and include: IL M. Adams. J. L. Haugh. R. R- Mitchell, Joseph L. Dugan, R. L. Huntley. Douglaa S. Smith and Glen V. Weldon. see Lawrence T. Harris, justice of the state supreme court, is down from Sa lem to spend the weekend. For the oc casion he is a guest at the Imperial hotel. John D. Porter, member of Porter Bros., railroad contractors, is a guest' at the Multnomah from Spokane. . F. M. French who, aince Albany was a little village, has been Linn county's official weather forecaster, la at the CATECHISM By Bertha 1. What does It mean to o n Ameri can? 2 Do you realize that your country has been revered and honored among na tions for her lofty ideals and beneficent Influence? J. Are you aware that aince this elec tion constitutes a solemn referendum upon the League of Nations your vote haa a direct bearing upon the destiny of humanity? 4 What Is your belief concerning the league? ' .'Have you good and sufficient reason for that belief? . Are you seeking Information? , 7. Do you read both aides of the ar argument? Are you thinking? ' , I. Do yon earnestly desire to be right? 10. Have, you east out , prejudice and paxty idolatry? ; r .- '" . aj the Ufa of his creator and aU that he held most dear.. e e And no it is with Harding. His cre ator- have turned him looaa in the political world, and he knocks over something every time he makes a move. He la upsetting the beat Republican tra ditions, the traditions of Lincoln, but they cannot reach out and pull him back. He muddles the glorious acts of our boys In the recent war and our nation's honor In pursuing it, but they cannot stop him. He declares against the League of Nations, against the wis dom of (he leaders of his once great party the brains and soul of hta once great party but they cannot face him about and set him toward the light He shocks the brains and soul of his once great party by holding out the hand of conciliation to the pro-German vote the people who gave aid and com fort to the enemy In the so-recent war, and they cannot tie that hand behind his back. They relegate him to his front porch for safety's sake, but they cannot close his mouth. They have cre ated this man of Frankenstein, and sent him forth, and now they are suffering from the acts and words of their cre ation which they cannot control. Can they control him any better after he is president? Can the brains and soul of his party give him its impress for action at sunset and go to sleep with any assurance that the wicked party wlU not gain control at sunrise? Can he 'ever be controlled by the right thought, the right attitude, the American Ideal? He has not been In the past, and we can only judge the future by the past. What forces have created in America this strange dough-man? He pleads in the Southern and border states, where the race problem Is al ways sensitive, "for social equality for the negro." That meana marriage with the white race. The best negro thinkers and students do not want this. They know that a mixture of colored and white blood is not a good mixture that in a few generations tha blend dies out. Is no longer reproduced, and If followed this would be the end of both races. The Intelligent negro and 1 know many of them wants purity of blood. The strong, virulent, aggressive race of the Jews is with us by virtue of not mixing with other races. The negroes want and should have equal ity of opportunity, but they do not want intermarriage. Their own strength as a race forbids It. Will Senator Harding come to this coast and advocate "social equality" which means Intermarriage with the yellow men of the Orient? One is as intelligent a view as the other. The yellow men of the Orient must not Intermarry, must stay true to their race. If strength and continuance xn the earth are to be theirs. Can it be that Senator Harding is as ignorant on these matters of race mixture as he Is on matters of statesmanship and sound baste American ideals? see tn a recent senatorial election I cam paigned for a Republican to be -sent to congress from Oregon as fine a man as ever breathed in any party ; but ttols year I shall give all my time and energy to Insure the progressive principles and legislation of the past seven years a chance to live and operate, and be fol lowed up by more such legislation for all the people; and this chance is em bodied only In the Democratic platform, principles and candidates. e Said a traveler to an American they Btood viewing the rumbllnga. Bpoutings, hissings and destructive forces of Vesuvius, "That's one big thing you can't Bhow in America." "No. but we have a cataract In Amer lea that can put the darned thing out in two minutes." So of Harding and the hissings, spout legs, rumblings and destructive utter ances of those party-manipulators who created him : We have a cataract In America, the vote of the vast masses of thinking, working, unselfish, going ahead, progressive Americans, that will put the whole darned mesa out on the second of November. Multnomah for a brief rewplte from the task of ,fp retelling the weather. In his home town French is a jeweler and a prominent member of the business colony. e Mrs. Donald Sinclair and her daugh ter, residents of Wrangell, Alaska, are stopping at the Oregon. It Is reported from the frozen North that many fam ilies, especially those who live at a dis tance from centers of population, have been, forced to come to the States for the winter and thus escape the housing shortage that exists there. a Mr. and Mrs. John R. Walsh and M. G. Walsh of Jamaica, N. Y., are guests at the Imperial hotel. They are accom panied by Mrs. B. Kelly of Hempstead, N. Y. e a Billy Miske and Jack Dempsey re cently made Benton Harbor, Mich., prominent with their prizefight, but there are others tn that happy little community than prizefighters. Among the others are Mr. and Mrs. John R. Colvln, who are guests at the Hotel Portland. Charles J. Osten of Madras, where he is deeply concerned tn the publication of the Madras Pioneer, listed as Jeffer son county's official newspaper. Is stop ping at the Hotel Multnomah while In Portland to attend the funeral of his mother. a The broken derby prize awaits the per son who, without aid, can read the sig nature of S. C. Mumby on the Multno mah hotel register. Mumby Is down for a brief visit from his home at Olympla, Wash., from which place also come many of the famous brand of oysters that are said to be most deliclously edible in any month of the year, regardless of its spelling. FOR VOTERS Slater Smith The Oregon Country r Korthveat Bapprainca In Hrief roraa fe Uka Buaj Header -, " .- OREGON . There are eight inches of snow in the mountains south of Pilot Itock. Hops are moving freely In Lane coun V ty. Prices range from 3& to 40 centa. 5" The Jackson county farm bureau, with 700 members, has. the largest farm . bureau in the state. Paving of It blocks of Pendleton city ' Streets will start next week and bida have been made on four more bloaka. Because of a ncarcity of stock the Eianing mm oi tne Willamette VallX-aa' umber company at Dallas has closed aown. To reduce the working fores to the -basis of a year ago. 15 men in- the Southern PacfTic railroad shops at Al bany have been laid otf. Douglas, county la tha only pruna growlng district in the stake that has not reported losses of this year's crop rang ing from 25 to 65 per cent Mr. and Mi's. F. K. Allen drove an automobile 4700 miles from Woonsocket. R. L, to Corvams, where Mr. Allen takes a position as Instructor In the college. Commercial organlaatlona in conjunc tion with the county court have let a contract for 30,000 booklets to be used in advertising the resources if Coos county. , The body found recently on the beach near Fort Canby has been identified as that of Mayer Johansen. a f Inner mam who waa drowned at the mouth of the river on May last. A number of stock raluers at The Dalles are planning on entering thor oughbred stock at the International livestock exhibit which will be held tn Portland next month. WASHINGTON Ninety men and women enrolled on the first night of the cltltenrhtp classes at Aberdeen. Grays Harbor mill at Hoeulam has put on a night shift of 100 men, giving con tinuous activity in the mill for 14 hours. If favorable weather prevails, the con crete pavement between Walla Walla and Dixie will be completed within 10 days. Apple packers In Naches City. Yakima county, walked out when their demand for a rise from 7 to 8 cents a box was refused. A campaign has been launched, at Rverett to raise $150,000 for the remodel ing of the Columbia college building into a modernly equipped hospital. v Charles Phlllo Mumm. ured 18. son of Fred Mumm of Kverett, wan ahot ac cidentally and Instantly killed while hunting ducks on the SI an wood flats. Establishment of an overnight freight service between Honulam and Portland to accommodate Hoqulam merchants has been announced by railroad officials. Robbers carted the iafe or Matn Bros. from their garage at Kverett to a lonely place ana cracked tn noor witn a sledge hammer. The booty amounted ' to SI 75. After a quarrel between the two. John North, agcd.37. a logger. Hhol and killed Mrs. Olga Kantonen. aged 49, proprietor of an Aberdeen bathhouse, - an then killed himself. For the first time In yearn Cowllts county will raise enough money next year to an some permanent improve ment on the county roads. A 4 mill levy will raise $76,639. IDAHO So stringent sre the Idaho law that no alcohol can be shipped Into the stale for hospital use. The new bridge at Homedale has Just been dedicated with Impressive cere monies that lasted over an hour. Alfalfa seed amounting to 1H02 pounds from a two arre patch Is the yield re ceived by D. B. FlHnso on his farm two miles south of Taul. Georce Harris, a tlmberman In lh' Callahan min at IntcralKte. suffered serious Injuries hen a Umber fell upon him. breaking belli legs. The rains of 450 feet from the big North Star tunnel near Malley, over a mile. In lonjfth. to the RrtO level of tha Independence mine workings, has been completed. They Ds Not Sleep By Orn Vinge. They do not. lep in nnVr firlrU. Our ralUnt and hrw deiul Who lifeblond drenched filr Beleiura anil And painted ll the poipi red They do not ret- -their jnni dwell In that drear emtafj "f p'n Of marytred. unrequited amil Whose fleh and blnxi u ient in vaia. Thej held the torch of Freedom high Their not tha fult. but theirs the lalth To brely bare their brrt and die. They fmiaht the fight in-aimple tnwt Of plede that w made them when Tli'Y m re had away that nevermore Tha hell of war should coma again. Ameriral Amerirst Tlir head in shameful alienee bend; Thy color" trail in duml dimt. Shall thti b thy Inglorious endf Kalw pniplieta fill thy council hall: White-livered agea fret nd whine ' White croane call in far-off field: "Can you forget, O Mother mmaf" t Ariwr my country rlae and atriket Still glow tha aacrifimal flame Whereby the word of lUglit is forged. And in Jehovah' holy name Make real thl Brotherhood of I'saoe Fulfill thy gloriou daaUny: ind then thy on hll lep In peaiie. And all tha anguUhed world ba tree. Aberdeen. VYsau., Oct. 14. Uncle Jeff Snow Says: Bailey G. Meltsburger, reg lar candi date at the Corners fer Jest Ice. Is makln' a back porch campaign. When he ain't dlggln' hia crap of spuds he's a-makln' sorghum molasses, and any callers Is received on the back porch until Mrs. Mettsburger drives 'em off to git Bailey back to the spud dlggln'. Hailey's a promtein' all things to all men, pervlded the law and the evidence supports em, and he's told most everbuddy be Is agin nn,. r and sarin the League of Nations if it's true that It busts up and t romps on the constitution, ana is in isvor os women suffrage and the nlshaUve prop erly safeguarded. Electrical Sirrvcy Discloses Vast Field for Current Is Yet Unoccupied The search of the Society for Electrical Development shows that the use of electrical energy Is Just at Its beginning In this country; It' has found that there are 14.000,000. homes in the country unwired for electricity, and this, upon the usual estimate of five to the home, means that 70,000,000 people are deprived of electric lights, sweepers, toasters, irons and washing machines. There are said to be 7243 central electric stations in the United States, which during 1919 generated 9.M9, 000,000 kilowatt hours of energy, employed more than 100,000 men, and nerved with electricity in Its various usee 8,000.000 homes and 1,000,000 business places, employing in the service lines aggregating 87, 000 miles. Forty-five of the nation's 48 states have commissions possessing regu latory power over the service and rates of concerns supplying electric power, light and heat In technical laboratories hun dreds of the country's ablest sci entists are studying new means of employing electricity In ways that will be less costly, more flexible and more necessary even than at the present time. v r , Every discovery which broadens the use of electricity increases the potential value of the Northwest's undeveloped 21,000,000 horsepower of hydro-electric energy. - v i