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TIIE 3IORNING ORECOXIAX, MONDAY, JULY 2t. 1019. IN EYES OF MOSLEMS Mohammed, Conqueror, Gave Monastery Protection. MOSES HELD TRUE PROPHET Wonderful Treasures "Within Fort ress Beside Mountain Where i 1 0 Commandments Given. 'CopyriM. ir15. by th New York Herald Company Ail Rights Keser ed.) (Copyright, Canada, by the Now York Herald Company. (Concluded.) ST. CATHARINE'S MONASTERY, Mt Sinai, June 15. From ever new angles one confronts the unique place value of Mount Sinai and the antiquity of the monastery. This church citadel wh k more than half a century old when Mohammed, whose home was in Mecca, across the gulf of Akaba, trav eled these ways as a poor camel driver. He received the hospitality of the monks, and it may have been from them that he learned of Christianity. At any rate, after he became the con quering prophet, he gave the monastery a letter of protection which later was acquired by a Constantinople sultan eager for every relic of the founder of ! plain, who left the monks a copy and a firman of imperial protection. Dur in the present war the monks had to show these marks of Islamic favor and immunity in order .to keep their ser vants from being drafted into the Turkish army and possibly also their own sanctuary from being violated. Mount Sinai is sacred in the eyes of Moslems because Moses is accepted by t fie Koran as a prophet and because aIpo Mohammed himself journeyed ftmong these impressive mountains. In "his famous legendary "night journey" his camel is supposed to have rested one foot on Mount Sinai, one at Mecca, one at Jerusalem and one at Ararat and in proof of it there is the print of his camel's foot in the solid red rock of one of the heights of Jebel Musa! Moiique "Within a Monastery. "Safety first" seems to have been a lifnlung motto of the monastery, for when Mohammedanism was sweeping ovfir all of western Asia and eastern Kuropc in the 15th century the pru dent monks built a mosque inside the c itadel! The mosque is now never used a rid its gQ.ua re minaret serves as a chicken roost! What the early martyrs would have Fa id to this may be surmised. The mon astery servants all became Moslems and are such to this day. The monks do no missionary work. They distribute bread daily, five loaves apiece to members of the Jebi Icyah tribe, which consist of monastery .servants, and three loaves to other Arabs. This bread is the size of a base ball and the color and hardness of a mud brick. Jt cannot be eaten except after it has been soaked in liquid. A modern charitable organization would gnash its teeth over the pauperization and ignorance of the Bedouins about the monastery; nothing is required of them in return for bread except loyalty to the monks and their establishment. lAKc almost everything and every body else about the monastery of St. Catherine, the Jebileyah Arabs have a romantic story. Anybody can see that they are of different stock from the ti'ighboring Bedouins. Their features show it. The explanation is simple. These people are the descendants of 20 Roman and Kgyptian slaves, with their families, whom Justinian gave to the monastery when he erected the cit adel. To this day their number is only about 500. They live as do the Bedouin, although despised by the latter as poor Moslems, or really Christians. Which is rather a rase of the pot calling, the kett le black, for none of these Sinai Arabs are intelligently religious; they , know the declaration and the fast, but j ihey do not even know the prayers. Holy Bonf by the Stack. Originally called the Church of the Tianpfiguration, this shrine later took the name of a popular saint. Catherine was a beautiful and cultivated Alex- andrian lady of the early Christian centuries who was martyred for her ! faith. In a dream it was revealed to one of the monks that her body had been borne by angels to the neighbor ing mountain which now bears her name. Investigation proved the correct ness of the vision, say the monks, and now they have St. Catherine's head and hand in a marble sarcophagus in the apse of the church to be shown to favored visitors! A beautiful enamelled portrait of the tii int. done within recent centuries, Is on the cover of a jewelled silver re liqiuyy in the same place. Within are kept the magnificent vestments of the church, some of them encrusted with jewels as well as with gold and em broidery. Kelies are abundant, naturally, in an old institution such as this. Most grue some of them all, though, are the heaps of holy bones in the crypt under the """chapel of St. Stephan in the garden. All the monks who have died in the monastery have their bones stacked in this place. First the bodies are in terred in the earth for three years to get rid of the flesh and then they are dug up, and if not mummified, as ia sometimes the case, they are stacked in orderly piles skulls in one heap count them, more than 1000! leg bones and arm bones in another and miscellane ous bones in still another. Pride has moved in to this place, for now arch bishops and bursars are given each a f-lecial crypt in the wall. Sitting on g ua rd at t he en t ranee, fantastically i lad in si i Ken robes given by im pressed pilgrims, is the figure of St. Stephan, he who had a lion for a bed leiluw, and who departed this life in i he year only to have his bones made a holy show throughout the cen turics! lgh! Monks Oner Men of Letters. A phrenologist would be quick to say, after a glance at the top layers of the heap of skulls, that of late centuries the Sinai monastery lias not been an al'Ode of scholars. In the early part of the Christian era the monks were men of letters. That is how there have been gathered within the strong walls of the citadel what was. and perhaps still is, the most remarkable collection of ancient manuscript books and parchments in tne world. Later monks so lit tile knew the value of these that they are re ported to have used them for fuel. These old writings, some of them gorgeously illuminated, are in Greek, and Syrian, and Latin, and Persian, and Abyssinian, and Arabic, and Sla vonic, and Georgian, and Coptic tongues. Of late years European scholars have catalogued them all and translated many. This was in the hope that another such find as that of Tischendorf might result. In 1 67 Professor C. Tischen dorf, a German on the staff of the litissian university in Moscow, found here a complete Greek manuscript, dating back to the year 400. This made it the oldest, or next to oldest, copy of the Christian scriptures in existence, the other being the Codex Vaticanus. i n Rome. The importance of such a discovery is obvious, for all the Chris tian world is eager to compare the Bible of today with the translation nearest the life of the original writers and to learn that the inspired word has come uncorrupted through the cen turies. A Hun trick was played upon the un suspecting' monks by the German pro fessor. His spirit was that of the ravagers of the PeKin astronomical ob servatory and of the library of Lou- ! vain. For on the pretext that the library was too cold for his work, he borrowed the priceless manuscript to copy, giving his word of honor and a written receipt, which I have seen, that he would return the book. Both pledges were equally valueless, for he carried the treasure off to St. Peters burg, where I have seen it as the cen tral prize of the library. Later the emperor of Russia made a substantial gift to the monastery, which was help less to recover the manuscript. Now, however, they wonder whether, if the precious pages have survived bolshevik depredations, they may not hope for their return? The oldest Syrian version of the New Testament still remains at Sinai. Oth ers, palimpsest parchments, ancient manuscript lives of the saints and martyrs and doctrinal writings, are in great number. If the library were more accessible they would all be translated. It is interesting to note the remarks of scholars upon certain ponderous and "beautiful volumes; a common one is "very recent," meaning thereby some time after the tenth cen tury. Sweet Bella Jangled Oat of Tone. At the cost of infinite labor and m&ny camels a great chime of bells was brought to Sina.i in the last cen tury. (It is to ".:e remembered that this community of 20 monks and their dependents are as remote from sources of supply as if they were on a desert island. Every pound of flour, every nail, every pinch of salt, has to be borne from Ecrypt on camels or don keys across the mountains. ) These bells sound twice daily for prayers at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and at 2:30 o'clock in the morning. They are not piayed as chimes, but rung ail to gether, most unmusically "sweet bells jangled out of tune." When they sound the monks repair to the church for service. That in the afternoon lasts for only an hour; the early morning service continues from half-past two until half-past five. There are no seats in a Greek church, and in this case no worshipers ex cept the occasional visitors, of whom we were the first for five months. Down the center aisle are double rows of stalls, facing the center, with arm pieces at the height of a man's shoul ders, and on these the monks rest while going through the formal service. There is something impressive about the thought of this daily worship in the full ritual of the eastern church, so suggestive of that prescribed for the Israelites, far off in those remote fastnesses, without congregations, "the world forgetting, by the world for got." We attended mass at half-past five one morning and again at an af ternoon service. At stated periods service is held in the various chapels that surround the central shrine. Once a month mass is said in the rude chapel on the top of Mount Sinai. The archbishop, who had been absent for the entire period of the war, was at Tor. en route, at the time of our visit, and he told me that he meant to go to the top of Mount Sinai to celebrate a sunrise mass for the peace of the world which he charac terized as "very poetic, very religious, very beautiful to pray on Mount Sinai at sunrise for the peace of the world." Monastery Hospitality Shown. Wherever in the world I have visited monasteries, orthodox, Roman Catho lic, Confucian or Buddhist, I have found hospitality, which seems to rate high among monastic virtues. Never, though, has it been so overwh aiming as at Mount Sinai. The visitor is given the impression that he is a godsend to these starved lives. If armed with the right letters and otherwise into this citadel of many treasures there is no admit tance visitors are met at the portal by smiling monks and conducted to the reception room, where coffee, cigar ettes and arak, or date wine, are of fered. We were put up in the archbishop's own apartments, having a chamber apiece, besides a dining room and a kitchen; and, what is best, of all, a wonderful view of the gardens, down past the hill of the goiden calf, to the plain of Raha, where the children of Israel encamped while awaiting Moses. To find carpeted floors, beds, mat tresses, couches, desks and even a rocking chair, here in the heart of the Mountain of the Law, seemed incon gruous indeed. One cannot get away from America. A horny-handed, gray-bearded old monk who brought fragrant roses man- aged to tell me In most fragmentary English and French that he had once been in Pensacola, fr la., for a year. ong. long ago. Another monk. Deacon Nilus. who is shortly to be made a priest, a young man with luxurious hair and beatific face, could speak in English phrases If given time to pre pare them. Lsuaiiy we tainea Aranic, through Professor C. P. Russell, who accompanied the two Herald representa tives. Fruits Are Plentiful. Flowers, oranges, lemons, almonds. artichokes, vegetables, and yet more flowers were sent to us day by day oy the monks. They also gave us bunches of hyssop and leaves from the legend ary tree from which was cut Aaron's rod that budded, and curious geological specimens ana little noxes oi manna from the tamarisk tree, anu loveiy shells from the Gulf of Akaba and beautiful gilt prints of St. Catherine. Bv monastic rule meat may not De eaten by the monks in the monastery (though there is a house in tne garaen to which the meat-hungry sometime repair for a meal from the flesh pots), unless the monks are invited to share with guests. So when a lamb and oc casional chickens were sent up to us we made sure that the heads of the monas tery were our dinner guests. Indeed, Mohammed, our cook, delighted to serve from our stores meals of seven or eight courses, from hors d'oeuvres to dessert ; and the American newspaper men will be remembered at the monas tery for one of Mohammed's desserts, which so pleased the head of the com munity that he sent his cook up to learn how to make it. Mohammed quickly became a digni tary in the monastery, with two of the Jebeleyeh to assist him. He was our "back stairs" means of communication with the establishment. When dinner was not ready one evening at the time appointed, he simply sent word to the monks by his assistants that they should t Mrtin until he called for them! They would praise him much, tnougn, tor nis soups and desserts. Their end may be the bone heap under St. Stephen' chapel, but while they live they see no need to mortity tne nesn unuuij. World Politics at Sinai. Sometimes table talk was of religion and the monks showed a comprehen sive hospitality toward all religious movements except when the Roman catholir church or "the Latins." as they call it. was mentioned, when their 11th eenturv rivalry flared forth. An Amer ican marvels at mis perBiaiemze ui me ecclesiastical controversies which raged about the shores of the Mediterranean aees aero. The "great ideal" of these Greek churchmen is the return of the Cross to St. Sophia in Constantinople. They re turned to it -again and again, and it clearly interests them more than any fact about their own monastery. They see in the present world situation the opportunity for the realization of this dream of ages. As the archbishop said at Tor: "If I could once celebrate mass in St. Sophia I would die happy." AH the reasons that prompt Great Britain and France to support, as is reported, the retention of St- Sophia by the Turks were astutely surmised and possible consequences thereof predicted. SENATE TO RESUME TREATY CONTROVERSY Flood of Speech-Making Scheduled for Today. Is SENATOR McNARY TO TALK Continued Contest Expected in House of Representatives Over Measure for Prohibition Enforcement. WASHINGTON, July 20. Continued contents on the peace treaty in the senate and on prohibition enforcement in the house are the outstanding: fea tures of this week's congressional pro gramme. A flood of speech-making on the treaty and league of nations Is to be loosed tomorrow in the senate. x or every day but Saturday addresses have been announced. Conferences between republican sen ators and President Wilson, inaugu rated last week throusrh invitation from the White House, will bo resumed tomorrow. The names of the senators who will go to the White House have not been announced. Shantung; Reply Kxprctrd. The senate foreign relations com mittee tomorrow will renew its study of the treaty. Reply from the presi dent and state department to reso lutions requesting information on the Shantung clause are expected during? the week. Three addresses on treaty subjects have been announced. Senator Mc Nary, republican, Oregon, a league supporter, has announced he would speak Tuesday. Senator Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, plans to speak Thursday and Senator Pittman, demo crat, Friday. Controversy to Resume. House controversy over the prohibi tion enforcement bill will be resumed tomorrow with the time of passage of the bill uncertain. The senate judiciary subcommittee hopes to report out trss senate enforcement bill before the end of the week. A flurry in the senate over the day light saving repeal controversy is ex pected early this week with the calling up of the 934,000,000 agricultural bill. minus the rider for repeal of the day- lght law. The senate agriculture committee will take up the House measure tomorrow. Advocates of the daylight repeal rider are said to con template dropping of their fight in view of the two house votes last week sustaining President Wilson's veto of the repeal plan. Hearings to Be Resumed. The house elections committee plans to resume hearings tomorrow on the contest of Victor Berger. socialist of Wisconsin, for a seat in the house. The house public lands committee plans this week to report out the sol diers and sailors' land bill fostered by Secretary Lane. House inquiries into many matters, including war de partment affairs, also will continue this week, with investigation planned of alleged cruelty to soldiers and into ordnance and construction questions. Further inquiry into dyestuf f and chemical questions is planned this week by the house ways and means com mittee. Members also are urging action to repeal the luxury taxes on soda foun tain and other soft drinks. Further inquiry is planned this week by senate committees into objections to t-cnate confirmation of nominations of A. Mitchell Palmer as attorney-general and John Skelton Williams as control ler of the currency. AUSTRIA GETS FULL TERMS fCnnttnufi From Mrst Paif.. army to be retained being; under the obligation to serve until 40 year old: those nwly appointed acreeinp at least to 20 consecutive years of active service. Xon-commissloned officers and privates must enlist for not less than 12 consecutive years. Including at least six years with the colors. War r'aciorlrn to Re Converted. Within three months the armament of the Austrian army must be reduced accordingly to detailed schedules, and all surplus surrendered. The manu facture of all materials shall be con fined to one single factory under the control of this state, and other such establishments shall be closed down or converted. Importation and exporta tion of arms, munitions and war ma terials of all kinds are forbidden. Paragraph eight reparation: The allied and associated governments af firm and Austria accepts the responsi bility of Austria and her allies for causing loss and damage to which the allied and associated governments and their nationals have been subjected to as a consequence of the war Imposed upon them by the aggression of Aus tria and allies. Payment, to Laa SO Tears. V."'t1c recognizing that Austria's re sources will not be adequate to make complete reparation, the allied and associated governments request and Austria undertakes that she will make compensation for damage done to civilians and their p operty. in accord ance with the categories of damages similar to those provided in the treaty with Germany. The amount of damage is to be de termined by the reparations commis sion provided In the treaty with tier- any, which :s to have a special sec tion to handle the Austrian situation. The commission will notify Austria before May 1, 1921. of the ex ent of her liabilities and of the schedule of pay ments for the discharge thereof during a period of 30 years. As immediate reparation Austria shall pay during 1919. 1920 and the first four months of 1921 in such man ner as provided by the reparations committee 4-a reasonable sum which shall be determined by the commis sion." Three bond issues shall be made, the first before May 1, 1921, without in terest, the Eecond at 2 per cent In terest between 1921 and 1926. and thereafter at 5 per cent. Allies To Deride Amount. There is to be an additional 1 per cent for amortization, beginning in 1926, and a third of S per cent when the commission Is satisfied that Austria can meet the interest and sinking fund obligations. The amount shall be di vided by the allied and associated gov ernments in proportion determined upon in advance on a basis of general equity. The Austrian section of the repara tions commission shall include repre sentatives of the United States. Great Britain, France, Italy. Greece. Poland, Roumania. the Serbo-SIovene states and Czecho-Slovakia. Austria, recognizing the right of the allies to ton-for-ton for replacement of all ships lost or damaged In the war. cedes all merchant ships and fishing boats belonging to nationals of the former empire, agreeing to deliver them within two months to the reparations commission. "With a view to making good the losses in river tonnage, she agrees to deliver up 20 per cent of her river fleet. Anatrla to Deliver Animals. The allied and associated powers re quire and Austria undertakes, that In part reparation she will devote her economic resources to the physical restoration of the invaded areas. Witti ng 60 days of the coming Into force of the treaty, the governments con cerned shall file with the reparations commission lists of animals, machin ery, equipments and the like destroyed by Austria and which the governments desire replaced in kind, and lists of the materials which they desire produced in Austria for the work of construc tion. As an Immediate advance. Austria agrees to deliver within three months after ratification of the treaty. 4oi0 milch cows to. Italy and 1000 each to Serbia and Roumania: 1000 heifers to Italy. Son to Serbia and 500 to Rou mania: 50 bulls to Italy and 25 each to Serbia and Roumania: 1000 calves to each of the three nations: 1000 bullocks to Italy and 500 each to Serbia and Roumania: 2000 sows to Italy and 1000 draught horses and 1000 sheep to both Serbia and Roumania. Documents to Be Restored. Austria agrees also to give an option for five vears as to timber, iron and magnesite In amounts as nearly equal to the pre-war Importations as Aus tria's resources make possible. She renounces In favor of Italy all cables touching territories assigned to Italy and in favor of the allied and associ ated Dowers the others. Austria agrees to restore all records, documents, objects of antiquity and art and all scientific and bibliographies! material taken away from the invaded or ceded territories. She will also hand over without delay all official records of the ceded terri tories, and- all records, documents and historical material possessed by public institutions and having a direct bear ing on the history of the ceded terri tories which have been removed during the past ten years. Occupation Army Cost. Charged. Paragraph nine Financial: The firt charge upon all assets and revenues of Austria shall be the costs arising under the present treaty. Including in order of priority, the costs of the armies of occupation, reparations and oiner charges specifically agreed to. Austria ust pay the total cost of the armies of occupation from the armistice of November 3. 1918. so long as main tained, and may export no gold before May 1. 1921. without consent of the reparations commission. Kach of the states to which Austrian terrltiory Is transferred and each of the states arising out of the dismem berment of Austria, including the re public of Austria, shall assume part of the Austrian pre-war debt specifically secured on railways, salt mines and other property, the amount ot be fixed by the reparations commission. The unsecured bonded pre-war debt of the former empire shall be distributed by the reparatons commission in the pro portion that the revenues for the three years before the war of separated terri tory bore to those of the empire, ex cluding Bosnia and Herzegovina. Iteaponslbillty Laid Pow. No territory formerly part of the empire, except the republic of Austria, shall carry with It any obligation in respect of the war debt of the former Austrian government, but neither me governments of thoe territories nor the nationals shall have recourse against any other state including Aus tria. In resoect of war debt bonds held within their respective territories by themselves or their nationals. The war debt held outside the for mer empire shall be a charge on the renublic of Austria alone. All war securities shall bo stamped within two months with the stamp of the state taking them "P. replaced hy certifi cates and settlement made to ine reparations commission. The currency notes of the former Austro-Ilungarian bank circulating In the separated territory shall be stamped within two months by the new govern ments of tho various territories with their own stamp, replaced with 12 months by a new currency and turned over within 14 months to the repara tion commission. The hank Itself shall be liquidated as from the day after the signature of the treaty by the repara tions commission. Rights to Re Renounced. States to which Austrian territory was transferred and states arising from tho dismemberment or Austria shall acquire all property within their territories of the old or new Austrian governments, including that of tho former royal family. Tho value Is to be assessed by the reparations commis sion and credited to Austria on the rep aration account. Austria renounces all rights as to all International, financial or commercial organizations in allied countries. Ger many. Hungary. Bulgaria, Turkey or the former Russian empire. She agrees to expropriate on demand of th repara tions commission any rights of her na tionals In any public utility or conces sion In these territories, in separated districts and in mandatory and to trans fer them to the commlsslou within six months and to hold herself responsible for Indemnifying her nationals so dis possessed. She agrees also to deliver within one month the gold deposited as security for the Ottoman debt; renounce any benefits accruing from th c-treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Lltovsk, and transfer to the allied and associate gov ernments all claims against ner iormcr allies. w. sa For Home or Camp This VICTROLA $25 This style may be easily carried in a large suit case or grip it is just the thing for the camp or country place. It is a home Vic trola, too the Cabinet is spe cially designed for it, holding 75 ten or twelve -inch records Cabinet $12 extra. Other Victrolas Up to $400 Convenient Terms on Any Victrola Sherman.play & Go. Sixth and Morrison Streets, Portland (Opposite Posloffice) SEATTLE TACOMA SPOKAN E mm SILVER BUTTONS COMING A It RIVAL IS EXPKCTKU TODAY AT RrXHI ITIXli STATION. ably will be piven out every two days. Kx-ervio men receive ballots to fill out at the time thry obtain their vic tory medal h. A separate otrtw vote s being: kept In which civilians can cast t heir ballots. J udfte Morrow of the circuit court wan one of those canting a vote on Saturday. terious about the old brit k chimney of the ilia pa hotel, now m t he process of being wrecked. Jack Urill wondered when the flue would fall. last week hi dufr bencat h it and it fell, covering him up- Ne ikIi horn rrncurd hi in from the debris, yet. found him unhurt. Marines anil Sailors Who l-'ought In A. K. h Can Have lironxc I ns.nla, I Decision. A bhipment of II30 silver Victory but tons. Issued by the government to those wounded in action, is expected at the local general army recruiting station some time today. There is no supply of bronze buttons. Riven to all those who were In the service, on hand, but a shipment of 5000 will arrive some time during the week. Marines and naval men who nerved with the American expeditionary forces in France will receive the Victory but tons, arcor4linu to the decision of Lieu-tent- .'oloii' Sloan, executive officer at t he recruit in Mat ion. The war de partment ord r reads that anyone who nerved with the army is entitled to the mark of distinction, and on the strength of that phrase, marines who were in the 2d dt vision, and naval men who were in the army artillery, can obtain the buttons at the recruiilnjr office. Third and ak streets. Charles I5. Wal lace of Milwnukie. a marine who was wounded on the Chanipapne front, wis the first to draw a siFver button. Many wacers are bifns made on the straw vol, now be inn conducted at the recruiting station. Two well-known Portland men yesterday bet on the pro hibition ballot, which at the end of last week's volitiR. stood three votes in the lavl for a national state of dryness. A not her waper which has been la id is on the disposition of the former kaiser. Ballots rajtt by the men who were in France and who suffered the real hard ships of war. in nine cases out of im have favored the death penalty for Wllhelm. As the count of the ballots mu.-t be made after the offices have closed for the day, recruiting officials say that It 1 will be Impossible to render a dally rnrt. in tne nnure ine resunw pmn. 8. 4fc H. rreea stamps for east. Holman Fuel Co.. Main 353. A B363. Block wood, short alabwood. Rock fiprin&rs and Utah coal; aawduaU Adf. Read The Orfennlun classified ads. PROJECT DATA COMPLETE Grants Fas Irrigation District to Be Inspoctc-d. SALKM. Or.. July SO. Special. ) At-torney-Ueneral Brown today Issued a Ktatrment to the effect that the data furnished the state Irricatlon securities commlKxion by the Uranta I'arn Irrita tion district, now in course of projec tion, were the most complete prepared hy any project of its kind in the state. The data were received by the commis sion from H. D. Norton of ttranta 1'ass. The Clrants Pass Irrigation district has asked for certification of 160.000 bonds. The mttorney-iceneral and su perintendent of bank will visit the property this week to make the neces sary appraisement. Wheal I'rot-pccts at Albany .oocl. ALBANY. Or.. July 20. (Ppec-ial.) t'onsiderable of the fall wheat of Linn county Is now cut and threshing will begin soon. In some sections the ma chines will begin work this week. The best yield in this section of the Ftat In a sreal many years is expected. Chimney Mystery Solved. SOUTH BEND, Wash.. July 10. Spe cial.! Like the hanging gardens of Hnbyln there was something mvs- MANY TAKE RIDE IN PLANE SMrt I - Popu la r in a lent a ml 1 - Driuinc l,rgc C rowd-. SALK.M. Or.. July . (Special.) Lieutenant K. Kransren of Portland and Harold L Cook f Salem, both umiir the plane owned by Lieutenant Floya U&owne. today rc.-umcd flichts here on a commercial ha Ms. Man Salem people have contracted to inakr flights and the aviators were kept busy durintr the t-ntire day. Other than beinjj a, commercial ad vantage to Salem the industry hah added considerably to the achieve ments of the Ureal Commercial club, which was teponMble for obtain. n the plane and MabltKhtn; Olcott fi :li. I,lnn' orn Out lmk looi! . ALBANY, Or.. July n. (Special.) More corn .- beinir crown In Linn coun ty this year than ever before. This is due to the incrcatc in number tf silo as the corn Is beincr crown for ensilaaxc A (Treat many farmers have devoted quite an acreape to corn this year and generally the pro-pects for a bic croi are good. The fir-t American supension bridce was erected in 1M1 by Jamri FinU across Jacobs creek. Westmoreland county. Pennsylvania. It had a pau of 7n feet and eo-i moo 3 1 LB ERT SAYS: "xou can i iane a va cation from music if you want to." The Language of The League of Nations Is Music There is .no harmony in a tin can. The most perfect musical instru ment is a good piano. PRICE THEM COMPARE THEM Anywhere and You Will BUY HERE More for your money. hardldsgilbert ! 1 PIANOS My economy is your economy. Only One The trlour! Yes, that's all ft takes to do a bit: wash ine In your own home with a Electric Washing Machine This wonderful mechanical wash woman Rets the clothes cleaner in halt the time it takes to do them by hand. 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