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12 THE aiORNING OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY,. JUNE 23, 1920 KSTABI.TSHED BY MEXItl I- PITTOCK. jubl!rifd by The Oregontan Publishing Co., . 1U5 Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Orpg-onian la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Presa la exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and siso the local newa published herein. All Tlshts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) pnv, Pnnrtay Included, on year 48.00 rally, funnay inciunen, six monttll ... pally. Sunday included, threw months. 2.25 Iaiiy. Sunday Included, one month TB Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months .... 3.2 Dally, without Sunday, one month , ... .60 Weekly, one year 1.00 tunday, one year . . 6.00 (By Carrier.) Dally. 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Having asked for a direct mandate from the people when the time to negotiate peace was evidently near, he was given a pop ular vote of "no-confidence" by the election of a republican congress. In spite-of this rebuff he set at naught the constitutional power of the sen ate and violated all precedent by un dertaking himself to negotiate peace. Though forewarned of opposition by the senate, he combined the peace terms and the league covenant in one treaty, and has insisted that- it be ratified without change. The con troversy between him and the senate has thus been not solely in regard to the terms of the treaty, but has developed into a struggle to decide whether the senate's co-ordinate au thority in treaty-making shall . be nullified, whether the president shall have exclusive power in the fast widening field of our foreign rela tions. This question is of vastly deeper import to the American, peo ple than even the question whether the Wilson league is good or bad. should be amended or rejected or adopted without change. Mr. Wilson cannot offer the cus Further than this Harvey, the scien tist, did not commit himself. Facts are stubborn things. As communities perfect their systems of record-keeping they furnish the means of testing their fables and traditions.' ' The fact stands out that in all the history of life insurance no single insured person or annui tant has been known to have lived beyond the age of 106. It will be assumed that these contracts are rea sonably accurate, since the appli cants' memories would be -fairly sound at the time they were made, boom In copper mining In the neigh boring state of Arizona and oil in the California hinterland. The same climate which favored production of oranges, lemons and grapefruit fortu nately also was attractive to eastern millionaires, who had become mil lionaires largely through knowing opportunity when they saw it, and who fitted with precision into Fate's mysterious plans. " The combination was happy and irresistible. If the statistical pre-eminence of Los An geles is due in any measure to the misfortune of others, it is due not Those Who Come and Go. while others are basing their state-1 much less to the rigorous climate BY-PRODUCTS OK THE TIMES Uhm of Brightness ) Joy Found In Old Geraslam Plant. I HroffnT. nennrat. annlett ar-rt Used The old geranium plant had grown t bl,ni. th rhmnsme of France. tired. Many summers It bloomed in I according to Fred A. Kurtz of Salem, the garden, many winters supplied I wbo came to Portland on business beauty In the house". Cuttings from it yesterday and threw up his hands and supplied the neighbors with plant and pOB8e88ion of the tow rt year Mr. blossom. The, stalk had grown stout, Kutrz. piant at Salem handled 6000 was gnarled and scarred. or years i tons of apples and they were sent to it had persisted, then it grew weary. I Japan. France and England, as well It put out less new growth, its bloom ? having an American market Mr. all of the dried prunes which he can ments on memory that In the nature of events would Justify skepticism. Eastern Bnalnesa Offloik. Verree A Conk. Jin. Bnmswl building;. New Tork: Verres tomary plea of autocrats that their Cenklln, Steger buildlnir. Chicano: Ver- exercj,e -f 9rWtrarv nnwet- wa tM & Oonklln. Free Press building. De- "ercises or aroitrary power was trolt. Mich. Saa Francisco representative, necessary to the national safety or I welfare and has been justified by results. His assumntinn of such BACK TO THB CONSTITUTION. I power has been the direct cause of Nomination of Senator Harding fori economic disturbance, of social un- ' president" was brought about by the rest bordering on open revolt, of in- determination of the. republican con- efficiency in administration . and of venlion to unite on a man In whose lavish waste of public funds when purport all republicans and all others the people are already overburdened who hold restoration of constitutional with taxes. The Wilson autocracy . government to bo the supreme issue cannot be justified by success, for it - of the election would combine, has lamentably failed. Conviction that the first con- This is the chief alternative to re- sideration should bo and Is to publican success that is offered to get rid of the Wilson autocracy and the American people. It is incon- cf democratic Inefficiency, and that ceivable that Oregon, ever loyal to an unbroken front Is necessary to the republic, ever first to answer ' achieve that end, led the convention every call for men and money for . to cast aside the leading candidates its defense, will hesitate to do its . on whom it found that It could not full part in ridding the country of unite and to choose Harding, both a dictatorship which is a plain viola- 1 because it could unite on him and tion of the constitution and which because he fairly represents the pur- Is further condemned by its disas ' poe on which all elements in the trous failure. And this year, as goes - party agree. To reach an agreement Oregon, so will go the west. The . it was unavoidable that the conven- second alternative is even worse than -' tion should swing farther in the di- the first It Is a third party which tectlon of conservatism than the sup- promises to gather Into its fold all - porters of Wood and Johnson liked the elements of wild radicalism and to iro. but for that reason their Teady disloyalty. When these are the al- Vcceptance of Harding Is the stronger I ternative, not only all republicans ' ax.. n il.nl. mi n.le trtA TvfilntS I hilt nil f.loDi..tlilnl,inM i . I piDOL mat. i .......... m . vtMi-kuiuAiiig miu alauncniy r,n which they agree with the con- American independents will trust the servative wing far outweigh those republican party to steer the country - -which would incline them to reject I into the safe haven of constitutional 1. 1 I ErovernmAnr ii in. i For the convention Itself decided . en the nomination. xn i -good morning, neighbor:1 deal made by the bosses is not borne A Qy Ant nv ine iacis. xu ut;n 10 "u the effect that Senator Penrose die- men r hunters, they met the .v. v,; r TJuT-rtino- when I Stranger with suspicion. anA ar- xaiea liic inv v. ...... .- , ' it is notorious that he wanted either J proached him warily. He consti Sproule or Knox. He could almost tuted a personal proDlem. Friend- have given Harding a majority on ship might characterize his greeting, ' the ninth ballot by swinging Penn- and a shop talk on the relative mer- Bylvania over, but his state stood jta of flint and obsidian might ensue. .' out for its own man till the tenth Or his mood might be dark and san- . in1 final hallnt. Kansas, led by GOV- eilinarv iiiiH lil, .f i. , 1.1 " . - t - j , u...u xJ0 Dfcjlc Ul IUUUUUCUUU i arnnr Allen, turned from Wood to 1 a. whonnln? ""hnmioiHol t i . HtiMinf nn the ninth ballot, and any I mnm tVion nrAhski. , - j ,' .. .... , . - , vuuw lALCLb LliB UTOUU man who says that this was done morning" and "Hello" of the present ' at the dictation of a boss does not are the survivals of a custom orig- ; i know Allen and does not know Kan- inating- when greetings were the av eas. ' pledge against hostility. It is an -: When a state like Kansas, which interesting snecula tinn tr r,n was in the forefront of the revolt of and it is enhanced when una roaris - 1912, swings to xiaraing, uie tact. 10 that the city of New Tork. metrono- Bignificant of the temper of all the ns cf the world, recently appointed ; progressive states of the west. They a day on which its denizen tdi- - hold Harding to represent those revive the locally obsolete courtesy principles on which republicans of 0f friendly salutation to the folk " east and west unite, and they hold next door. The Manhattanese were ' union for tne iriumpn or tnose pnn- to be taught to say "Hello, neis-rir.ni-1 ciples paramount over that inter- As the revivalists used to say of prctation of them in which the west the town sot, none sink so deep but V ; is disposed to go farther and faster that they may retrieve the good -j than the east. Thus the line which opinion of the world and their own . aiviaea tne pany . . "elf-respect. Other American cities, t was oniy paruy umn.erai.eu ui "" perhaps a triHe provincial to the $ Is now completely wiped out by com- mind of the New Xorkel have neveP . J tiucouuuo i xorgotten the- niceties and the re i , e lo iresnment or neighborliness. They 2 ernment and to the foundation have not forgotten how to say "Good 1 "",",", 7 "t : morning." Their citizens think noth- j out this year. The west sees that lng at allf you kno 6 dIspensing . the convention has adopted a pro- with introductions in the promotion . 1 gresslve platform, which pledges the of friendships, or of sharing a catch J party to all that was of lasting value ot fish withPtho family next door I" thtt.PrgreSTe P lat ??k , Gotham has much that is calcu- , teyond those things which have al- lated t0 incite a cu .-.rcaay oeeu accompi.sa, ami uai sisterhood, but she has grown as the character of iu candidate is a urban as colony of deaf-iSSrpr" . guaranty of fidelity to that platform. rie dojrSi poppinln and out of ?he r w ; For Hardingis notthe kind of man wmeM nev friend - - to rip plank after plank out of the for the feow. acr(Jss r PeP . .platform as Wilson has done with larynx of friendshi has become , that which the democrats adopted atrochied. She Ktan - - . at Baltimore. With such a candidate foot of the clas9j 8hapln her " " " : : sianaing on sucn a pianorm. mere to the strans;e svll. hlps CX)I.ONEI- HOUSE IN A NEW PART. Announcement that Colonel E. M. House has .Joined the staff of the Philadelphia Ledger Is of more than passing interest, both because he must have embarked on a career of journalism from taste and from a de sire to tell the. people what he thinks and knows, and . because of the, pe culiarly confidential relation which he once held to President Wilson. His intimacy with the president was especially concerned with foreign affairs, and, as he is to tour Europe and write a series of articles from there, we may expect the Wilson House view of international affairs to be expressed by him. . Colonel House was the confiden tial agent of Mr. Wilson on missions to Europe while the president strove to maintain neutrality in the war and sought to play the part of medi ator in ending it. He must have had a part in deciding the sudden change from a policy of non-intervention to one of active intervention in old- world affairs, a startling reversal of policy such as has rarely been made by the head of a nation. It will be interesting to observe whether his estrangement from the president was connected with a revision of his own opinions In that connection. " Colonel House's adventure in jour nalism follows that of other men in public life, both of this and European countries. Ex-President Taft has preceded him, regularly discussing political affairs in the Ledger. Both men follow the custom of French politicians. Clemenceau became a political power through his newspa per, and his criticism of French war policy led to his selection as the pre mier who led France to victory. Ex President Poincare no sooner re turned to private life than he became a newspaper writer, demanding rigid execution of the treaty of Versailles. Others may follow their example in both countries. of the Atlantic seaboard that repels its people when they have made their pile than to the event in San Francisco's history whicij is still alluded to only as "the fire of 1906." One might moralize indefinitely on the rise of the little puebla of 1610 souls at the time of California's ad mission to the union to the most bod- ilou8 city on the Pacific coast, and one of the foremost in the nation. The issue of rivalry does not. enter conspicuously Into one's reflections on the subject. The people of both cities have been drawn largely from every part of the union. Many of them were successful before they reached this coast. The enterprise which led them to seek the land Of opportunity was the fortunate ac quisition of the community of which they became a part. The whole west shares in this peculiar advantage over other sections of the country. Neither climate nor immunity from earthquake, we suppose, would have availed much in the absence of the personal equation by which every city is best entitled to be judged smaller. Last winter it quit. The stalk looked to be dry and anemic It was kept in the house, given atten tion, but made no response.. When the warmth and glory of the And until New Tork . is aDunaani reason xor every mau i neighbor, ' ana Toman who noioii last to repoo- lMrns to ,vm f - lican principles to sink differences thft firBt 1t nf " ' 3r ri o, th.ir .riinMian M lr t ?"? of the nation cannot - i lay ciaim to Deing truly American ..J e. t .,l..tl.? FEW REAL CENTENARIANS. -' The least Ivll is four more years of! Centenarians do not bear scrutiny "democratic misrule. Whether the wen. mere are indications that A MODERN HEALTH CRUSADE, J The magnitude of the work now being done In the United States to combat tuberculosis can be judged in part from the figures presented at the recent annual convention of the National Tuberculosis association at St. Louis. The modern health crusade, of which the well-known Christmas seals are a visible symbol, has become nation-wide. The total budgets of all the local associations in the past year amounted to more than $2,500,000, and 6,000,000 chil dren' are enrolled and a large pro portion of them are doing some active work. In a large number of coun ties and school districts and in two states anti-tuberculosis hygiene is recognized as part of the course of study in the public schools. The task simplifies itself in cer tain particulars as organization be comes perfected. In the respect that the remedy lies in education, the mere fact of enrollment of millions of youngsters is an aid to solution of the problem. We are able in any event to catch a glimpse of another generation whose children will be saved from the more obvious pitfalls of the past. . The crusade is worth while from every point of view, and no doubt will be continued until, as has occurred in the case of smallpox and the anti-vaccinationists, relative immunity begins to breed contempt. the bourbons first forget and then deny the steps by which progress was made, and the finishing touches needed to stamp out the disease en tirely are thereby delayed indefi nitely. Further scientific research, In this as in similar matters, will depend on how much time can be spared by some busy professor from, his other work, but the social phases of tu berculosis prevention are meanwhile duly emphasized by the action of the national association in fostering state and local organizations. In the last analysis it is the communities them selves which will have to face the Issue. A great deal Has been ac complished within five or ten years by demonstrating that prevention is highly practicable in a large number of cases and that individuals af flicted, if they recognize their malady m time, nave a good chance of re covery without resort to expensive formulas or to long and -costly trips aDroaa. A NEW BREED OP HIKERS. Must the game codes of the future contain sections defining the genus hiker, localities frequented, size and coloration, range and general habits. and declaring seasons when It shall be 'lawful to shoot on sight, or run with dogs, or trap in deadfalls; or harry after sundown? San Fran cisco is mulling such a problem, as she considers the complaint of Marin county residents, who assert that the habit of running at large, common to all species of hiker, is conducive to the destruction of scenic beauty and fraught with peril to the public morals. When the Saturday half- holiday unfolds, say the complain ants, there ensues an exodus from San Francisco, via ferry across the Golden Gate, of youthful . hikers whose subsequent vagaries and frivolity In the picturesque nooks of Marin county lead to suspicion that they are not seeking "tongues In trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." There Is much ado about the matter, with meetings of civic organizations and educational bodies, and the voice of opinion declares that something must be done to curb the too festive vacationists. Here enters the game code sug gestion, naturally enough, bowing its egislative way to the fore. Either Marin county must become pro scribed territory for the hiker for all h fleers, there can be no tribunal of discrimination or else the sturdy peasantry of that pleasant land must be privileged to declare open season on the khaki-clad trampers who bring unseemly revel to its sylvan retreats. . . It Is a California problem, and concerns Oregon merely in an aca demic way, for, the hiker as Marin county describes the breed Is un known to this state. There are hik ers here, of course, as 'there must be where the open . road, and the snow-capped hill, and the purling s tyring, and the aisles of forest, and all that sort of thing continue to allure. Tou meet them, miles from settlement, trudging forward on shank's original mare bare-headed. friendly eyed enthusiasts of the un spoiled places, who read the sermon of nature as they walk. None has complained of them, and doubtless none ever will, and the pity is that their fraternity is not larger. democratic convention shall renoml- their number will decrease in ratio ' jiiate Wilson or shall name some to improvement in collection of vital ;Xi other, election of such a man would 1 statistics. Thomas Parr, the world's i i-e cunbirueu vy iuc ucmuvi .nv. jjm tjr aaa tLii eauy ; jss popular approval and sanction of been discredited. A psychologist who -4all the policies and methods of the investigated the case of "Uncle" John n,:, j - - .1 a 1 . $3111 r f lvAntllAlrw 1 . - ! v l son aammisirdiiDU auu La insiruv - hhub mat tn Uion to continue them. The effect ota Benueman must be - somewhat V . . ., , . .. . . I Incc tVi., n . .. . . .... -."nouia De.to exunguisn tnat aivision w.w, uuuuieu jears oia instead ' .'1 ft powers among the three branches ot 135 unless we are willing to ac- vf .Jrf the government -which has pre- cept the possibility that his youngest A served our liberties through fierce offspring was born when he was 85 - .1 rtnlif l-nl pnnlrnviirRV. fvan throiiE-h I years .Old. JNOW Thomaa HTm-flc ! .rn. rA wfelf-h ibb AnahlaH i who died the OthAF Hav at K ...... I the republic to bear the strain of posed age of 117, has been subjected inmost a century ana a nair or pne- ov..c..miv, muirv, . witn tne usual nomenal national growth. That di- result. vision of power has kept us safe Arthur Hunter, chief actuary of a from usurpation of supremacy over nationally known Insurance corn ice others of either the executive, Panv. took the trouble recently to the legislative or the judicial branch, trace the life of Morris through the The most ominous fact about Mr. records of the United States census. Wilson's administration is his con- These show that Morris in 1900 gave temptuous disregard of the func- tne year oi nis Dirth as 1825 and his j tions of congress, especially the sen- I S"e s 7B- lri 1910, ten years later, ale, and his steady, persistent en-1 he said that he was 116 years old. I croachment on its powers, and his an increase or rorty-one years in undermining of its Independence. He the short period of a decade. A fur- bpgan in the first year of his admin- tner puzzling ract Is that he declared istration by dictating the Panama! himself in 1920 to be only 117, or i canal tolls law for reasons the exact sain of only one year in the ensu- nature of which he never disclosed. 'S oecennium. . it Is a plausible Kncouraged by this success, he and conclusion that as he advanced in his heads of departments acquired years his memory became untrust the habit of drafting bills, sending worthy. It would seem to be estab t them to congress and resorting to llshed that claims to extreme longev all the arts known to politicians in ity based only on .the recollections of order literally to enforce their pass- tne maiviauais themselves must "be 1 agn without amendment. He has I accepted wun reserve. withheld from congress information Mr. Hunter points out that Thomas about the operations of the govern-1 rarr s reputation for having lived to ment to a degree never practiced be l&z rests entirely on his own nn. by any of his predecessors. " He has I supported assertions. There Is an 'denounced in most unmeasured often-repeated claim that Harvuv. . ' terms members of either house who who discovered the circulation of the ! ventured to cri.lcize him or any of I Diooa, certified to Parr's ajre. but tlio mediocrities with which he filled this is not true. All that Dr. Harvey hia cabinet or to propose measures I said was tnat Parr undoubtedly ar- of which he disapproved. On the plea I peared to be very old, but that his of. military necessity he has obtained! arteries were in excellent condition. SPEEDiG: MANIA CRIME CAUSE Dublnaky Murder Dae to Desire for Luxury Without Earnlnsr It. CARSON. Wash.. June 21. (To the Editor.) The Dubinsky tragedy is of significance. We have two young men, who seem to be rather intelli gent, commit a crime, thereby ruining their golden future. This alone, when given a little thought, makes one wonder about the ambitions of some of our offspring. Their victim, while doing an honest day's work, meets with calamity. It almost looks as if In Other Days. send them. The father of Mr. Kurtz planted the first orchard in the-Willamette valley and his sons have studied the dried fruit game until they have evolved machinery es early sun came the plant was put on pecially adapted for the purpose. Now the back porch. . It had been a real I apples can be shoveled from the rail- friend. In summer. Its rich bloom, In road car right into conveyors and the . , j , i rruit never stoDS moving until n is winter . irean D - packed and Koe8 out the-dooP. Belts Drlgnt spot on many weary aays. i carry th. fruit UDtaIrs and down, into it was to die it was deserving of rooms and out again, the whole ar- klndly attention. The end ehould I rangement being a great labor-saving come In the light, with the spring wind and sun whispering-the message of growth and glory near at 'hand. It seemed to enjoy the fresh air, it drank in the warm sun, a little tinge of green seemed to show In the dry coverinr of the stalk. It was seeking plant. Mr. Kurtz has bis own system of advertising. When a dealer in the east sells 10 carloads $1000 is spent for newspaper advertising. H. G. Wilson, now Indian agent near Glacier nark, is in town wearing fez. Until a few years ago he was In dian a cent, locator at Roseburir. It to make response to the quickening I may not be known by many Orego of sprihg. It had not quit, it was nians that the agency at Roseburg .i... j a m ,fr I looked after the affairs of four tribes: gave'special .timulus. A bud began f? .11 to form on tne stalK, low aown. ine .,, dwintllert and the agent's office urging of the summer sun had I at Roseburg has been closed. The last brought resp6nse. Now a new growth I of the Callapooias died a few months has started, the old plant is going ago. without leaving a written mora ahead. The persistence of nature has been shown again, the potency of the summer sun given new proof. Proud of that gnarled geranium? Certainly. It cheered many a gloomy hour. Hurt of the tribal legions, although a few old-timers are more or less familiar with some of the legends of this van ished race. Tweuty-flve Years Ago. From Th Oreronlan of Juna 23. IMS .London. There seems no lonzer anr doubt here that at the five-hour ses sion of the cabinet council the Rose- bery government ended in a decision tq, resign. Portland's Fourth of Jnlv celebra tion is now almost completely plan ned as tne result of a meeting of the executive committer held last night. Governor Lord and staff will some of our people were trying to loe present. outao rea itnssia, i Ti,. ,, . Here we have the results the vie- ?Good Samaritan hoanital will ha a-r&.i. um is aeaa, tne wrongdoers are jauea i uateo tomorrow night. and await justice. Suppose the jury draws a verdict that will demand the utmost penalty of the law and capi tal punishment shall be their fatal though deserved lot? What Influence would It have on the remainder of people belonging to this type? One will admit that fear of losing their heads would Drobablv make them hes itate, out whether it would totauy eradicate the evil desires from their hearts is doubtful, for the past has Julius Thielsen. sunertntendent of the Portland Consolidated Street Rail way company, had his foot severely injured last night while helping to move a car tnat had left tha rails. Fifty Years Asro. from The Oresonlan of Juaa 88, 1ST. Washington. A memorial asking congress to appropriate $500,000 a year to assist the Ocean Telegraph company maintain a cable from San proved that fear is but a temporary i Francisco to Japan and China has cueca ana win restrain omy bd iuhb i Deen presented. as some otner iactor. is actually ug- lng the watching. I M. S. Hart, who has been at work But be this as it may, the Important I on the McMlnnville ditch, has taken thing is to find the cause. After giv- a contract for work on the railroad lng tne tragedy a thorough once over i m Marion county. co we not piainiy see tne worn oi those things of which both editors I r. r. Thompson and family re and educators have been warning us I turned Tncsdav mft.r- n ever since and even before the signing months touring in Europe and eastern of the armistice, viz.: Wasteful I states. spending and too much greed lor Henry is in our midst. About 60.000 i. a . i C: . . , . .11 him many times when cuttings were tak- ,i,hou-h hiH ,uli .me is Hen- en, It harbors no grudge. Neglected I ry Lansburs ani ne B the "pote" of at times, it has-no complaint. its I AJmas, Washington, JJ. J. if or a mission in life is to produce beauty I couple of years, whenever anyone has ki ,., th. .nriH with been introduced to him he has always Z , " ' , ... , ., TT asked:. "Call me Henry," and people brightness, make it,more joyful. Un- of aU waka Jn life have taken h,m selfishly it is giving Its life to the at hIlS word. The Almas chanters verdant gladness of the world. There have a song entitled "Call Me Henry" is a lesson In its untirinsr effort to de- and the nobles from the capitar wear velop beauty and joy for the morrow Ohio State Journal. There is a pair of ' scales on the sidewalk of a cross street where one a button with the same request. It can hardly be said that Mr. Lansburg stands on dignity. John H. Stevenson, former munici pal judge, is a body guard for a bunch can weigh himself free, says The New Judg.0 Stevenson, who is a delegate York Mail. Everybody stops to as- to the democratic convention in San certain his own avoirdupois and then Francisco, thought he might as well . -a - - ... ha th. trni.it 1 start a little early and he was en- , , , . ... .,., rolled as a guard to assist In conduct driver, the merchant, the "tenogra- , the un8iraoie aliens to the Mex pher weighs, registering mental bets lcan Dorder. From the border he will meanwhile and comparing notes with hurry back to San Francisco to vote his neighbors. , for William Gibbs McAdoo and sup- The windows of this newspaper port a league of nations, command a vacant lot where base- "Although he recently lost the nomi- ball games are played during the nation by two votes. Sheriff Quine of noon hour by coal heavers, clerks and Douglas county, has not let that in- office misses; everybody stops to see terfere with a visit to Portland to sea husky youths lam the) ball and circle the excitement. Sheriff Quine is the the bases sometimes with extinct lLTVn rners smokes between their teeth. wno get through his territory can There are building excavations go- consider themselves as exceptionally ing on In various parts of town where I lucky. having a good time? Had Brake and Moore kept their noses on the grind stone and tried to earn a car, instead of planning. how to get one for noth lng, I am sure that they -would have realized that a car for their purposes was not necessary and I am also sur that both would tell you that the former would be by far the cheaper. As it is three young men have lost their chances in the world's-fair lot tery. But why throw all the blame on the individuals? Why not give a little consideration to their education and Charles Engles. on of the pris oners who escaped from jail Mon day, was captured Tuesday 16 miles out on the Springville road by John laaa. JOHNSO.V SUPPORTER IADIGNAXT Implication a Petitions That C-allfor- miss Is Bolter Is Condemned. McMINNVILLE, Or., June 21. (To the Editor.) I notice that certain al leged friends of Hiram Johnson are to what they might have -been had I circulating petitions urging him to they used the means which are within boit tne) Chicago convention and be- L ne grasp ui any biiiuiliuub uunt I nj(j,. , wh iii. hw faithful cone the candidate of a new and un- these youngsters were toward their party tor tne presidency, xney parents and toward themselves? or I aira to nave secured oooo namos in has the day where "the child is father to the man" passed? It is these insignificant things that inten sify the case 'and make a reasonable conclusion the harder. One thing is a half day In Portland, and that In New York City. they had secured 100, 000 signatures to a similar petition. Such brazen allegations brand them certain, viz.: The monotonv of blam- I as cneap political lakirs. l have no Inar "booM-' and Inaanltv is at a loss I doubt that Tammany can furnish here; a little credit may be given to them with a hundred thousand signa- that element which the learned term tures even if they have to copy them "war psychosis" but the outstanding from the city directory or from the factor in my mind is an unrestrained grave stones in the cemeteries. I have spending mania fostered perhaps by I no doubt but what the Portland fakirs a little Romeo and Juliet affair. JULIUS SERVATIUS. the diggers go far below previous strata of occupation down into the primordial rock. everybody who passes stops to see the creaking der ricks .and the ant-like workmen re producing the spectacle of a Klmber ley diamond mine far below the street level. The genial curiosity and prolonged tarrying of passersby are often cited as evidence that people in this busy town are not half as busy as they think they are. "Mind your own busi ness" is the metropolitan maxim, but not the human way. "Please," telephoned a woman in one of the hotels to the clerk, "please fix up a smallpox sign for me." '"Smatter?" gasped the clerk. "Shall I send for a physician V "No," replied the woman, "but there are so many Shriner friends of my husband com ing in our room day and night that I'm not getting any sleep. I thought that such a sign might scare then away." JOURNEY PROMISES EXCITEMENT Major I'arton Still Ashore But Deter mined to Make River Trls. Major H. W. Patton, Hoquiam's en tertaining writer and traveler, who was all set for a journey up the Co lumbia and Snake rivers last Friday, is still ashore. Major Patton his I at the present primary In Oregon I engaged to write a series of letters I cted for him for president, and lined on his adventures in tne toiumoia m,c an my friends for him. All ths gorge, but has to wait till the boat friends of Johnson in this section are as enthusiastic for Harding as they EARTHQUAKES AND POPL'LATION, By a queer trick of fate, natur cnose tne moment in which T.os Angeles was pluming itself on hav ing passed Its sister city, San Fran cisco, in the population rice, to treat the former city with a gentle re minder that security is not always just what it seems. If it be con ceded that the earthquake, at San rancisco and the fire that resulted from it were a powerful handicap in the contest of the ensuing decade, then-Los Angeles will take warning. In a more impressionable age we would be told that it was the Al mighty's way of teaching the lesson that pride goes before a fall. Perhaps, however, the tragedy of 1906 played a relatively minor part in tne result, and perhaps, too.. San Francisco will derive some comfort from the circumstance that its nor, ulatiohas been diffused rather than rendered proportionately non-exist ent. Around the beautiful bay of &an rancisco are many towns which 4 nil 1 1 . . v an 1U1.CUU1 aim purposes are a part of ban Francisco's commercial and industrial structure. Oakland. Alameda and Berkeley are "some of them, census rules are more rigid than the laws that govern municipal territorial expansion, a fact that is Illustrated by the perennial difficult ties we encounter in trying to subdue the rivalry between New York and London. Socially and politically the confines of growing cities are seldom the same. . v Los Angeles meanwhile has had a good many factors in her favor that have not depended on ' the misfor tunes of a neighbor. A climate per fectly adapted to cultivation of citrus fruits is one of them. . Southern Cal ifornia has been favored in other ways, notably by an amazing de velopment of irrigation and by a The fire boys have a call out for hoses that should be heeded today. This is a little matter individually. and easy of doing. The boys need the flowers for tomorrow. - y If the republicans wouldn't nomi nate Hughes, what chance has Jim Ham Lewis to get the democratic nomination? This is an off year for whiskers. The earthquake . in Los Angeles cracked the walls of the city jail but at last accounts all the bonded warehouses were still intact. McAdoo has sent another wire In sisting that the democrats must not nominate him. He certainly has a lucky hunch. statistics say Portland food cost has increased 17 per cent in the past year; nevertheless everybody appears wen ted. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Stone, who are registered at the Imperial, are quite well satisfied to be in Portland just at present. Their home is at Long Something f eacn, ai.. wn cn naa auoaemy I 4 t J . Inl a rka llmalliyh Vv ho vino- starved in city human nature is min- , , auak. Tbe ghlke, wero Istered unto, when people stop and ot centered at Long Beach, but that see; for . the moment the gossip I famous resort is within the belt of the emerges. chance. and neighborliness has The outpouring of good American dollars into the petroleum Industry is colossal. During last November 141 companies were organized with a capital in excess of 150,000 each, the aggregate authorized capitalisation being $490,760,000. October put this record in the shade, when companies whose authorized capital totaled more than J613.610.000 were floated. That is to say, the Indicated Invest ment in the oil industry for only two months of 1919 amounted to (1.104, disturbances. Ned Baldwin, private secretary for Congressman Nick Sinnott, has ar rived with Almas temple, from Wash ington, D. C. This is the first time that Mr. Baldwin has been in Portland since the campaign, four years ago. He plans to remain in the state for several weeks and will arrange for the coming of Mr. Sinnott. who will go over the 2d district within a short time. When the Shrine conclave adjourns Instead of returning to Shelton, Neb., Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Weaver intend go ing on a fishing trip for trout in the North Umpqua and then will motor to Crater lake to see one of the real 370,000, and in this compilation the I wonders of the world a volcano hundreds and hundreds of lesser en terprises organized and financed by Individuals or small groups of per- whlch blew its head off and the crater filled with a lake miles in extent. Pendleton is on parole for the pres sons living close to the oil fields are ent A. A Roberts, the town mar , , . . T . I shal, has locked up the callaboose and has come to the Perkins to keep not taken into account. I wonder how much new capital found its way an eye on nis fellow citizens who are Into our railroads during this period? I riding rubber-shod horses with the Plans were under way to float so I Shriners.'Marshal Roberts thinks that m.nv now romnanies in the earlv Dart the streets or Portland are almost as of this year that they threatened to swamp the market. Then money tightened; the Federal Reserve bank clamped down on loans for specula tive purposes, and it may be that the drop in the stock market and a gen eral reaction toward caution and con servatism will nip a lot of these am bitious projects. According to my way of thinking. can secure 5000 signers provided they ci.n find that many mugwumps, half breeds and dishonest democrats in the state. But to claim or intimate that the real friends of Senator John son would sign such a petition is a base libel on the noble men and women who voted for him in the re cent primary. I lived in California before coming to Oregon and I voted for Hiram W. Johnson twice for governor, once for vice-president, once for senator, and lively as those of Pendleton are when the annual round-up is being held. James R. Linn, member of the state fair board, was in town from Salem yesterday looking for Shrine rela tives from the east. Mr. Linn is the owner of extensive farms and takes a personal interest In the agricultural features of the fair. "Meet me in your stocking feet," Is the legend on the card which IX E. Nobles, the Arabic dictionary be ing mislaid, here it is in the best at hand: "Kloshe tumtum mlka chako!" hope is at the bottom of nine-tenths Lagassee of Astoria has been handing of the expansion In the oil industry out to his fellow nobles 4n Portland, and nine-tenths of the speculators in Tbe explanation is that Mr. Lagassee Will San Francisco refer to Los Angeles' disaster as a "fire"? Nay, nay, Angy! The biggest city of California was too cocky altogether and had to be jarred. Catching that smile of the im perial potentate, do you wonder? The boss kind to the hands yesterday, all along the line. Londonderry is misnamed, ought to be a "kill" in it- There oil will end up without even that. George Fattullo In Saturday Evening Post. Ford Harvey, head of the house operated under the style of Fred Har- ia a shoe dealer in the city by the sea. Among Astorians who were on the sidelines yesterday were Jack H. Shaver, who is a Jeweler; Jt. A. Car uthers. a hardware merchant, and William Kaupi, manager of the gro cery department of Fisher Bros. And goes. Here is aiajor ratton s ac count of his first attempt to venture forth on the packet Northwestern, the only steamer plying the Port- land-Lewiston route: Friday evening, after spending some hours lOOKing over tne attract ive Shrine decorations. I returned aboard my ship to find the steward :n charge. He mournfully informed mr. that the sailing had .Deen canceieu nd the boat would not leave for Lewiston until June 23. Can you beat it? Discouraged. I took to my bod, but not before an hour of interesting con versation with the steward, who has been on the river run for a ion; time. He was not very optimistic over the prospects of river traffic: said it took $7.00 worth of coal, a crew of 21 high -priced men and a million dol lars worth of grub to make tne round trip. - "The freight returns are small. Lewiston promised all sorts of help when the boat was put on tno run, but she fell down. Passenger accom modations are very limited and there is no money in that traffic, anyway. The way towns supply very little freisrht and I can-see where I may have to cet some other means of transportation than the Northwest ern. "On the last trip up the river the boat passed the junction of the bnake and went a couple oi miles iartn to the town of, Kennewlck. where there is a bridge across the river. The draw had not been swung for ovr a year and the coming of the boat had the same effect upon the ocoDle as the arrival of a circus. Women came from all directions drag srinsr their children- to view the most unusual sight of the bridge opening to let a boat through. Rust had ac cumulated and it took all night to accomplish the task. The bridge tenders were so flushed with succe-sh that they swung the draw back too soon and the boat got an awful spank on the stern end. "The Snake, my steward said, is a treacherous and swift stream. The swirling waters take big rocks into mid-stream and make the hazard of wreck very Kreat. On one trip th boat struck a big rock and was in the hoFDital for some days. "So what is a poor girl to do? The trio is off for a week and I am go ing home. But I'll make that voy age yet if it takes a leg would have been for the California senator had he been nominated. I have watched Senator Johnson's career closely during the last ten years. Hn has been absolutely on the square. He is not only a frreat states man, but as a campaign orator he has few rivals and no equal. By putting Woodrow Wilson and his infamous league of nations in tho discard Sen- tor Johnson has rendered himself a ublic benefactor. Johnson never bolted an honest re- ubllcan nomination In his life and it s a base libel to suggest that he will so now. If the parties who are circulating the petition alluded to hould send it by mail they ought to be prosecuted for ustns-r the mails for raudulcnt purposes. Should they pre sent it personilly they will need something more than a lightning rod to protect them from the wrath of an offended God: also from the wrath of a California senator. The past record of Senator Hardincr s absolutely clean. Ha is a man of pure and lofty ideals and an orator and a statesman of pre-eminent abil- ty. His nomination was made bv fair and square methods. I know of no reason why every honest, patriotic citizen, regardless of party, faction or creed, should not vote and work tor his election. A. J. BASYE. vey, the biggest hotel and restaurant I among those present waa Senator A system of the world, which you may I W. Norblad, know from your travels on The Atchi son, Topeka & Santa Fe and some other middle west and western rail roads, always comes in to say "how- lsrosie and Surtaxes. HERMISTON, Or., June 20. (To the Editor.) Myself and others are some what in the dark as to the meaning dy" and chat when he is in Phlia-1 and application of the different taxfs. Income tax. surtax, excess profit tax. 1. Please publish what the different taxes apply to. 2. If one should make In any fiscal year $100 or $500,000 net profit in any line of business, how much would Uncle Sam demand in the way of taxes? A SUBSCRIBER. Don't tefi them to come back here to live. Make 'cm stay. Tonight's parade will be in G," so to speak. 'way up "All the Pullmans in the world" are down there. delphia, writes Richard Splllene in the Public Ledger. This time he was accompanied by one of his staff. "He had not taken a vacation in six years, although we urged him and urged him,". said Mr. Harvey, "so at last I called him in. and I said: 'Now, I'm going to issue an order and orders must be .obeyed. -You take a vacation. Make it 60 days. No, make 1. The nominal income tax is the tax applied to an income not exceed it 90 days, or longer.' And he's obey- M" 5000: the 8Urtax u the tax aD Yesterday was first day only the beginning. McAdoo will be forced into an 'also ran." The shades of night stay up late here. Great marching weather Portland makes'. More today and more tomorrow. Just tell the world! ing the order. I'm seeing that he does. So here we are." The greatest fun in the world Is work, but six years without a vaca-1 tion is what Artemus Ward called 2 mutch. ' The Colorado state ' museum has a new exhibit that is being viewed wltb longing eyes and watery lips. It is a bottle of champagne of an cient vintage. Along with relics of Colorado cave dwellers and pagan collections from plied in addition to the foregoing on that portion of an income which ex ceeds $5000; the excess profits tax is the tax applied to profits of corpora tions. 2. The head of a family or a mar ried person living with husband or wife and with no other dependents whose personal income was . $100,000 would pay for the-year 1919 in nomi nal taxes $7680 and in surtaxes $23,510 or a total of $51,190. The war profits and excess profits taxes are complicated in their appli- the old world, the bottle of sparkling cation. For 1919 a corporation with beverage is carefully guarded. The champagne is a souvenir of1 pioneer days, having been brought across the plains in a prairie schooner for a banquet given by Denver citi zens to members of the 18tt8 territo? rial legislature. an invested capital of $1,000,000 and a net income of $400,000 would pay a total tax of $132,860, of whicli" $103, 400 would be war profits and excess profits tax. and $29,460 income tax. The foregoing is a general applica tion. There are some exceptions. MANY WOULDN'T MISS CLASSIC'S Scant Attratloa Paid o Best Writers of Past Deplored. ESTACADA, Or., June 21. (To the Editor.) The relegation of the study of literature to the background would indeed be a lamentable proceeding. And yet there are very many people of today who would be most indiffer ent were all the classics of the world to be destroyed at a blow. The in- Kniration. lofty ideals and the impetus to achieve which the classics have sought to inculcate into the lives of each rising generation would be lost were the great masters of poetry and prose to become neglected or for irotten. It Is certainly a lact. now ever, that the bet writers of the past receive but scant attention today from the majority of the readinff pub 11c. Yet there are those, even amids the busv scenes of this progressive age, who have an abiding faith in the value of good literature; and tor tnes neoole at least one need hold no one in defense of the great masters "who have left streaks of light athwart their ages." In considering the list of writers o nast time it strikes one at the outse that they are. Indeed, a majestic ar ray of "kings and queens." a wojider ful society of royal and brillian minds, "wide as the world, multitudi nous as its days the chosen and th mlsrhty of every place and time. An yet they are more often passed by fo the DOOKS OI tne nour. ina, many w the ephemeral works of today fin rreatpr preference, it would seem than the pooks ot an time, nowevci for some readers, at least, the grea writers, of past time still maintai their interest and their fascination thev still imbue us with inspiration still place before us examples a characters and sentiments worthy ths closest study and emulation. PHIL MARQL'AM OREGON. The Homing Place. Thou land of the rolling rivers. Kissed by swells of billowy sea. The place ot the winter fireside. Art the long-sought home for me. Thou home of the mountain snow- caps: Crown of wood and valley broad. The realm of the falling waters. Art the lov'liest gift of God. Thou sweep of the wide-flung prairies I'romised life for huntrrv clan. The range of the wand'ring cattle Art the dreams made real for man. Thou vale of tho cabin'd hunter: Challenge heard by pioneers Where white and the red were friendly. empire sought tor many years. Thou land of the rose-bow'red home steads. Cloud-flecked sunrise, summer skim. The place of the land-locked seaside. Art the land delights my eye. Thou land of tho tree-felled hill- slope. Fields so broad with wavlnsr era In. The place of the 3ummer songbird. Art the place where I remain. God bless thee, thou land of promise! Go. ships, sunward to the west. Let mountains, too. invite our eyes. Tow rd the day that is the best. God bless thee, thou chosen people! bail thou forth to golden wet. Make vision como true by toiling. tnat morrow shall be the best. OLIVER PERRY AVERY. No "Dumb Animals' in Nature. Francis "Pitt in the National Review (England). 'That phrase, "dumb animals," be trays more ignorance of the life around us than any other ever In vented by our race, for, though no species save man has an . articulate language, no one who has watched and attended to the ways of birds and beasts can doubt that they very thor oughly manage to convey to each other their wishes and intentions. Each in its own way. communicates with its fellows, and if the languaga Is not our language it at any rate serves their purpose exceedingly well. Certainly the amount of individuality that there is among the different specimens of the same species can only be realized by those who have had much to do with wild creatures. No one mammal or bird is ever in character and behavior the exact duplicate of the next; each differs in some way from Its nelghbor.so you can never depend on any two animals doinsr exactly the same thing- under the same circumstances in fact, we find that individuality reigns as su preme throughout nature as it does throughout man, but then, after all. man is a part of natural