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6. THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN. MOXDAT. AUGUST 9. 1920 "tvSTABLISHED BY HENRI PITTOCK. places "in contrast -with the exercise by the president of his own beat final judgment," and he makes this posi tive statement: Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co., " 13i 81x1 h Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOB DEN. K. B. flPBB, Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan Is a member of the sso- exclusively entitled to the use for publics- be elected, we should be condemned - r ti -; ... i . credited to it'. . - . lilo It Is the conception of the presidency to which, in cafe of success of the demo-, cratic party in the coming election, my own beat efforta shall be dedicated. In other words, if Mr. Cox should lion ui an nea uitjr"""B ,. , - j or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo.al news puoiisneu rights of republication of special dispatches ' herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) ra7.7 Riinlv included, one year ?-0 iJally. 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New York; Verre & Conklin, Kteger building, Chicago, er- ree & Conklin, Free Press building. De ' trolt. Mlrh. San Francisco representative, - R. J. Bidwell. ' , 4.25 2.25 .75 6.00 8.25 .60 1.00 5.00 80 cents. California. It ships Its products to San Francisco and, beqause its only transportation lines lead that way, it buys supplies there. That trade could be diverted to Portland if this port became a market for products of the coast. GOVERNOR COX' PLEDGES. ' Governor Cox pays the price for the support of the Wilson forces in ' the democratic party, which have just shown their strength in Missouri and Oklahoma. In his speech of - ' acceptance he attempts to make the Wilson league with none but inter pretative reservations the chief issue . of his campaign, the main point of attack on the republicans. He ac- cepts the Wilson theory that the president is absolute in foreign af fairs, thus following the -president's '"" lead in setting aside a plain provision . of the constitution. ie says the time "calls for straight thinking, straight --talking and straight acting," that --"'this is no time for wobbling." 'Therefore he wobbles between op--posing views on questions which fill V? at least as large a place as the league "'tn the public mind. He clothes his t!, plea for votes in an inordinately long but skillfully framed structure of : words, which must be taken apart in order to discover his meaning. He attacks Senator Harding's plan "Vfor peace with Germany and for as sociation of the United States with :'other nations as a plan deserving the - denunciation which Senator Lodge -' aimed at a proposal for separate peace white the war was still on. Tm- Aside from the league covenant, -the only provisions of the "Versailles "'treaty from which republican sena """tors dissented were those relating to Shantung. They offered and the sen ate adopted reservations of the power of congress to authorize and of the senate to confirm American members on the various commissions "-created by the treaty, also requiring assent of congress to restrictions on trade with Germany that might be adopted by the reparations commis- -sion. With these very minor changes .and with the omission of the cove nant the republican administration could, and probably would, adopt the Versailles treaty as a separate treaty with Germany and would then join the power of the United States to that of the allies for its enforcement. There is no danger of a German- 'American alliance in the election of Senator Harding: that danger would be present in the event of election of Mr. Cox, who excused the Lusitania massacre and whose newspaper was pro-German to the eve of our declar ation- of war. Yet this man talks of "the perfidious hand that dealt with Germany," and he says that "with the Versailles instrument discarded. the whole subject of partitions and divisions of territory on new lines would be re-opened." No prospect of membership in any kind of a league is held out by the - democratic candidate's adoption of the Wilson policy. He stands pat on article 10 and betrays his ignorance of American foreign policy by calling the Monroe doctrine "the very es- S sence" of that article. Article 10 is a pledge of all nations in the league to defend each other from aggression; Z the Monroe Doctrine is a declaration that the United States alone will re- ' sist European aggression on any na- i..; tion in the American hemisphere, " whether the nation concerned wishes it or not, and it binds no other na tion to such action. He would con- "T fine reservations to the clarifying of the covenant, which is a synonym for .; Mr. Wilson's interpretative reserva tions," adding one declaratory of the purpose of the league, which signi- " fies nothing, and another saying that American action must he in accord- TZ, ance with the constitution. The lat- ter would have no force in the light ? of Judge Gray's opinion that a treaty is a binding contract and that any branch of the government can refuse ; to execute it only at the cost of na tional repudiation. , There is no prospect that there will '. be a democratic victory, much less a victory so sweeping that enough ;; democratic senators will be elected to secure a two-thirds majority. ' Therefore no hope of a league rests '.' In Mr. Cox's election pledges to the Wilson policy. He evidently had in mind those democratic senators who voted for the Lodge reservations when he spoke- of those who "acted I under duress in that a politically bigoted minority was exercising the "t arbitrary power of its position to en " force drastic conditions" but it is known that many of these senators were of one mind with the repub licans and voted for the Lodge res ervations from conviction, not under tt duress. Mr. Cox tries to build a verbal bridge by which they may get U in line with him, but they may re- fuse to cross it. On the other hand, many of the., democratic senators who voted against ratification with the Lodge reservations did so under ' .duress of arbitrary power exercised ... jy ,.a politically bigoted minority" of one, resident in the White House, and they might not yield to Mr. Cox. The way to peace and a league is not the way chosen by Mr. Cox. Of even greater gravity than Mr. T . Cox' adoption of the Wilson policy '..'ton the league is his adoption of the -"Wilson principle of autocratic gov eminent. This is intimated by his T ; statement that in the treaty eontro ' versy "no artifice for Interfering ' with our constitutional peace-making - authority was rejected." The "con stitutional peace-making authority" is the president and senate, and the ; only interference was with the presl--dent's assumption that his authority "- over foreign relations is absolute. Mr. . . Cox, who betrays his lack of inf or mation on foreign affairs, proposes, if elected, to act on the same as-"- sumption. That purpose is plainly expressed in his remarks condemn- Ing Mr. Harding's declaration in " favor of party government, which he to four years more of autocracy like that of Mr. Wilson, denunciation of which holds a high place in the re publican platform. In this connection it is significant that Mr. Cox holds up to public obloquy as a 'senatorial cabal" those senators who opposed Mr. Wilson, though they are repre sentatives of the people elected by direct vote of their states and have definite duties under the constitution. The purpose is plain to break down the power of the senate and to mag nify that of the president the very course by which the affairs of the nation have been brought to their present confusion.. In place of the "senatorial cabal" Mr. Cox -would doubtless take counsel with the league of all the Tammanies, though It reeks with the corruption against which he grows eloquent. Mr. Cox shows himself adept at throwing a sop of consolation to one element, while apparently pledging himself to the principles held by an opposing element. He cunningly in serts these words of hope to the wets: "Morals cannot easily be produced by statute," after assuring the drys that "the public official who fails to enforce the law is an enemy both to the constitution and to the American principle. of majority rule." If out of regard for his wet friends he should not strictly observe this pledge, the difficulty of producing . morals by statute may be pleaded as an ex cuse. There is a suggestion of readiness to go beyond his platform in his re ference to ex-soldiers. He seems to deal with the wounded and disabled only in his reference to rehabilitation and compensation, but he suggests much more by saying that war breaks into the' plans of young men" and that "we must realize that con siderable compensation is due those also who lost much by the break in their material hopes and aspira tions." , i Most unfortunate were the stric tures on the republican congress for not releasing the excess profits tax, for they bring to the front the fact that that tax was imposed by a demo cratic congress-in the face of criti cism by Secretary McAdoo and that protests against its immediate repeal were made by two successive secre taries of the treasury, Glass and Houston. By his declaration for a budget system Mr. Cox only Invited atten tion to the bill which the republican congress passed and the president vetoed lest his autocratic power be diminished by one iota. The fate of that bill was a good reason for con gress to defer new tax laws until it would - not have to deal with Mr. Wilson or with a president who held his viewB of executive power. For the rest, Mr. Cox offers noth ing new or materially different from that which the republican platform contains about labor, the farmers, re-organization of the government, railroads or waterways. In judging the value of his promises, the people will take the performance of Mr. Wilson as a measure and will deduct a heavy discount. WHAT? NOT, ONE? It is Governor Cox' estimate of the proceedings of the present re publican congress that "not a con structive law can be cited." The democratic candidate for president scraps quite a volume of legislation, in a very few words. Pos-sibly-when he has more time he will elucidate at length the wrongs of the railway law, the shipping law, the water power law and others, includ ing the bill which would have put into effect the budget system which he so much admires but which a president jealous of the smallest pre rogative vetoed. May we not also have an exposi tion of the points wherein the prohi bition enforcement law," passed by the present congress, Is not construc tive? We fear we may not at least from Governor Cox. The democratic candidate in this hour must be del phic . on the prohibition question. Please the wets, but lr possible do not alarm the drys. "Morals cannot easily be produced by statute" and that sort of thing. But let us not despair. Maybe somebody else can tell why and wherein the prohibition law is not constructive. Will the bellhop please page Oswald West? That Oregon au thority on both prohibition and democracy ought to be able to tell us what is the matter, if anything, with the Volstead law. Is it or is It not constructive of morality and decency and thrift and productive capacity? There it lies In the scrap heap along with the other beams f nd girders of republican legislation, shattered by the hammer of the democratic can didate. What Is the matter with it? Why does Governor Cox say it is not constructive? Is it because it is de structive also destructive of capital invested in breweries and distilleries? Destructive of those prime assets of Tammany, the saloon and the brothel? v We are eager to know whether the dry democrats have any reservations to submit to Governor Cox' inclusive indictment of the republican con gress. Any amendatory reservations? Any clarifying reservations? Or is it accepted without the dotting of an "i" or the crossing of a "t"? for the fast pace. It wrought star tling effects in th'e garb of foolish women, it gave to youth the brassy Insouciance of flippant ignorance, it encouraged dissolute vaudeville en tertainers to crude suggest! veness. and it relegated modest decency to the limbo of obsolete virtues. To jazz up" a social event came to mean the introduction of street stories and offensively personal pleasantries that would have evoked fistic chastisement in a less sophisti cated day. The songs and dances of the day were similarly "'jazzed." Undoubtedly there is profit in the service of "jazz." There is profit in the brothel, and profit in booze there is always money to be made in tutoring youth toward a graduation in indecency. But the moral blister Is more than superficial. It is scored to the very souls of many who have contracted the mania. To hold the rapid pace when youth should be at its lessons, when valuable characters and careers should be in the founda tional stage, necessitates a sacrifice of ambition and worthy energy to the pleasurable requirements of the mo ment, and bespeaks a well-dressed vagrancy. Divorce and crime are the by-products of "jazz," for to fol low its standards the recruit must cast the moral conventions aside and elevate a guidon of thorough selfish ness. The brutal, degenerate murder of a Portland chauffeur some weeks ago, . its motive the desire of two young men to possess an automobile Vi herewith to entertain their girl friends, was but one instance of the obliquity induced by the -spirit of "jazz." Both of the" accused are types of its converts, and the moral abandon of the crime the trivial motive that impelled their madness finds its precept and its parallel in the moral abandon of the music and art -which are the cultural offerings of this queer cult of unlimited license A strange physician for the aching reactions of world strife, surely, is this leering, rouged, evil-eyed and fantastic creature of degenerate car nival a false prophet in music and a renegade in morality. If "jazz" continues to thrive the day will come wnen our own sedate senate will dis cuss the national peril involved, even as the senators of France discuss the dangerous decadence of the Parisian stage. That which is apt perma nently to affect our national life can not long pass officially unnoticed, and none can successfully deny that jazz" has become the term for a marked decline in the public morals. BY-PRODUCTS . OK THE TIMES First Ton of Anthracite Delivered la Philadelphia lOO Years Al. An even hundred years have elapsed since one William Wurts. a Philadel phia merchant, mules with the Those Who Come and Go. He's one of those two-fisted, fightin' upholders of the law of eastern Ore- I t TIT ,'todl'M T cl.ai.lff nf drove his team of ,Gm;am cou' who t Rt the first ton of anthra- ! Im.,i , wv,r. ih. w of th. rrmr- cite through the spring freshets and I der o( fn xavlor was flashed from banks of the Deia- H COULDN'T BEAR THE THOUGHT. To command confidence in his lofty and altruistic sincerity the con scientious objector, who declined most firmly to follow the flag into carnage, should not relax his pose when peril is past. Above all,- he should be consistent. In, an absent minded moment Olaf Anderson, of Astoria, forgot both his caution and his scruples and thrust his wife over the gunwale into the deep, impassive current of the Columbia river. When the nation called for able-bodied men to halt the rape of civilization this temperamental idealist listed himself among the conscientious ob jectors, and made that plea to the draft board. A tender-hearted man is Olaf An derson, the conscientious objector. His disinclination to take human life in fair fight for his country did not impress the callous, cynical crabs of the draft board. No, indeed. But Olaf was spared for higher things by the convenient possession of a wife and child, and it was this that won exemption for him. What blend of Hyde and Jekyll moved in the mind of the Astoria fisherman who shrank from the butt end of a loaded rifle, and an honorable and urgent -duty, only to tumble his helpmeet into the dark water a score of months after ward and leave her to drown before the eyes of her own child? Fie on this Olaf Anderson fellow, that he should bring upon the cult of conscientious objectors even the suspicion of a doubt: How. long will it be, think you, before Astoria folk forget that many moralizing idealists, individual expressionists, may be no more sincere In their prattle-than was this unnatural monster of the waterfront? Why, at one shove for scarcely more than that sufficed to still Mrs. Anderson's terror with rank river water he has wrought irre parable injury to the entire business of conscientious objecting, and ought to be quite frankly ashamed of him self for his breach of good manners and betrayal of the brotherhood of bunk. , Oregon passed a law by popular voice at the last election. It is a statute significant for the fact that conscientious objection to the proper punishment of wife murderers has Xieen entirely deleted. RIOTOUS DENVER. Without regard to the question whether the company or the em ployes are right in the Denver street car strike, the suspension of service and the fatal riots which have re sulted are good ground for the as sertion that in such a case the pub lic interest is paramount and forbids strikes on public utilities. To deny that a just settlement could have been made without a strike, a riot and tying up the cars is an indictment of the American form of government. Disputes can be settled by arbitral or judicial means, and employes who strike or employers who lock out when these means are available make virtual confession that they want what is unjust. Both congress and the state legis latures should establish tribunals for such cases, and should provide for their prompt action, for exact justice in their decisions and for en forcement of decisions when made. There is no reason why a city should be deprived of car service because two sets of obstinate men cannot agree. If either party to a dispute refuses to accept a verdict reached in the manner described, it should be displaced. But there should be no such intolerable delays as marked the action on the railroad men's claims to higher wages. So long as such disorders as have occurred at Denver are permitted, the American people are in poor po sition to make adverse remarks on similar disorders in other countries. Americans profess to set an example of ordered democracy to other na tions, and they should live up to their professions. It is a matter for congratulation that there is to be some salvage-from the enormous preliminary work don by the Interchurch Woriu Mjvcn.e..L. A number of surveys were conducted at considerable expense and on a scale that had something to do with the collapse of the campaign. The home missions council after study of the situation has made modest appropri ations to extend the rural survey and another to meet the expenses of the committee on migrant groups in lumber camps, while the survey of foreign language literature is to be appraised and preserved. The few hundreds of dollars appropriated for the purpose seem pitifully small by comparison with the sums originally expended, but the material undoubt edly is worth the money, even if it is held only as the foundation of fu ture inquiries conducted by accred ited agencies which hereafter inter est themselves in the subjects cov ered in the original surveys. It will also be useful in the .event that the Interchurch World Alovement, as is generally hoped, is rehabilitated on a permanent, if less ambitious, scale. bog land to the ware river and floated the new fuel down the river to Philadelphia oh a pine log raft. But he experienced no little diffi culty in that first anthracite year of 1820 in overcoming the popular ob jection that the coal was "extremely ldw of lighting." Pine log rafts floated only 365 tons of anthracite that year. But it fetched a price of $12 a ton and could be delivered freight on raft Philadelphia at $3 a, fact that was freely advertised to attract additional capital, for, of course', there was no profiteering In those days. . Spring freshets and bog land and slow inflammability no longer worry operators. Silk shirts for miners are a bigger nuisance. But production in a hundred years has jumped to 86,200,000 tons, and should this year surpass the 100 million ton mark, which was almost reached In 1917. Reading, Wilkes Barre, Lehigh. Mauch Chunk these names are spok en one thousand times hourly in the industrial world today, simply be cause there lay up in the hills of Pennsylvania a hard, black substance, one ton of which sly -old William Wurts steered on a raft down the Delaware to Philadelphia, just 100 years ago. Wall Street Journal. "We have no quarrel with the fellow who writes headlines. We have to write them ourselves, and we know the difficulties of sense and space that confront the man who would put the essence of an article in large type and small area. But will headliners please hereafter let "Enoch Arden" alone. Every time a wanderer returns to find that his wife has construed his absence to be one due to demise, and has secured another husband on the theory that she ought to have a man about the place, the headliner sobs forth some thing about another "Enoch Arden We are writing this In behalf of the memory of the late "Enoch Arden," and we protest against these divorce court lizards being permitted to take a place beside the old mariner in the niche which Tennyson, with the assistance of millions of readers. carved out for him. After his return from far off lands, Enoch stood for the moment on the outside looking in at his wife and Philip. Then he walked away and kept his secret, until just before he died. There was no case of Arden against Arden. And there were no .headlines. That's the reason there was a poem by the laureate. Cincinnati Times-Star. Pendleton to Condon two weeks ago yesterday. Bill Lillie hopped Into his machine, shoved on the gas and made the wild ride over mountain roads to Pendleton to assist in -the man hunt. For two days and two nights, without rest or sleep, he tracked through the mountains on the hunt for the slay ers who killed his close friend and fellow officer. He wanted to stay longer, but Important business, in his own county called him home. He is now In Portland visiting his wife who is ill at a local hospital. Also, he is resting up from the tense days and nights of a week ago when he was roughing it with other man hunters through the heart of the-Bluer mountains. Portland is very favorably known in the middle west and always lives up to her reputation as a clean, sub stantial city of business and homes, according to W. A. Forsythe, promi nent banker and lumberman of Lin coln, Neb., who said he could not re sist the desire to stop over in the city Saturday, while returning home from a visit in Los Angeles with a brother. "Portland is just as J expectea to find it." he said. "I visited here dur ing the exposition and was very favorably impressed with Portland. Now I find that the city is living up to that impression and to the reputa tion it has all through our section of the country as a most inviting place to visit a wholesome, substantial city in a business and commercial way. When we read something favorable about your city we know we are read- ng facts and not hot air." After en joying a trip over the highway and visiting' friends Mr. Forsythe de parted Saturday night for Gardner, Mont., where he was to be joined by Mrs. Forsythe for a trip through the Yellowstone National park. Ul'ARRELS TAKEN OUT OF OREGON State Declared te Suffer from Ckm berlafa Rons with Administration. PORTLAND. Aug. 7. CTb the Edi tor.) It has been the cause of a good deal of comment In the press and on the street why Oregon his not been &ble, with a so-called democratic sen ate, to secure an even break from the federal government with the state ri Washington, where senators and congressmen are ail republicans. Sev eral departments of th2 Kovrnment have been taken out of Portland and moved bodily to Seattle. Is not the trouble with Senator Chamberlain himself and his arrogant attitude to ward members of the cabinet, tne president and department heads? He is known as the one man whon President Wilson despises. He has repeatedly Insulted Secretary of War Baker and in recent public speeches has grossly reflected on Secretary Daniels and Secretary of the Interior J. Burton Payne. A few days ago Senator Chamber lain, in a speech before the chamber of commerce, stated that the charts of the Columbia river used by the war department are 50 years old. his misstatement by the senator was read by every member of the cabinet who would naturally resent it. Just a few days after this Senator Chamber lain requested of the secretary of the Interior his aid in having Portland considered, on a par with Seattle by the shipping board. He received no reply to his wire, which shows how low his influence has fallen. Senator Chamberlain stumbled again in the insulting language used In his wire to Admiral W. S. Benson, chair man of the shipping board, when he requested of him that Portland oe not included under the Seattle envision of operations. In his wire to Admiral Kenson air. Chamberlain says: "I beg of you to pay attention to this protest. uio Mr Chamberlain think he was talk- Ins to a colored waiter or bell hop? Senator Chamberlain is a dead one at Washington and after November 2 he will be as dead in Oregon. ROY N. JOHNSON. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Alt. From The Oregonlan of August B. 18S5. Hong Kong. The American and British missions at Fat Shan Cgnan. near Canton, were attacked yestej-day afternoon by a large mob. The hos pitals were demolished. The Butteville district is in need of 4000 hop pickers. The rate for pick ing has been fixed at 30 cents -a box. but other associations having nude the rate 35 cents, a meeting of Butte ville growers has been called to con sider increasing the price to the same rate. Judge Bellinger yesterday 'ordered the mortgage on the Oregn Railroad and Navigation company foreclosed. This win cause a complete reorgani sation of the property. The mortgage is for $12,583,000. Tuesday. August 6. the minimum temperature for the S4 hours up to 5 V. M. of that day was registered by the thermometer as "0.2 degrees. This is the highest minimum recorded bv the local weather bureau. The next i'if"t was aiay is. 1895, when at midnight the temperature was 69.5 degrees. (and 4000 THE BRAZEN IMAGE OF JAZZ. France i3 thundering in the senate against indecency on the Parisian stage. Berlin and other major cities of Germany are reported to be steeped in saturnalian revel. Russia is pros trate beneath the cruel and clumsy boot of a militaristic soviet a tyr anny as dread and terrible as the old rule of the czars. In England the labor unions are drinking the cup of revolutionary discoAent. These are the aftermath of the war, the back wash of a giant storm, say the stu dents of humanity, and will endure until Industrious sanity is resumed. It is true that, srrim or ernlpiviiiA fn. natical or frivolus, these various ex pressions of destroyed poise blend and harmonize in the mask of Mo- mus. What is America's contrlbu tion to the insanity of the day? At a glance one might reply that our species of madness like that 'of England finds vent in labor disor ders, but the strike and the lockout are old custom in the United States and the strife of labor and capital is scarcely more strenuous in the pres ent than it has been in the past. While the tendencies of such dis putes are dangerous from an eco nomic viewpoint, while the blood of the disputants mounts and heats and occasionally flows, there is no moral odium, no degenerate tendency, no threat against the racial stock itself, in the quarrels of the economic bat tleground. - But America has vied with Paris and Berlin in furnishing folly of an obscene and ugly character as a tonic for fhe weariness of a war worn people. Behold, w have "jazz!" It permeates" our music, our stories, our fashion shops and the daily lives of millions, this negroid spirit of hectic-abandon direct from the jungles of the Congo and the voodoo groves of Haiti. Word sleuths have sought to trace the origin of the term, and many and in genious have been the accounts of its birth. But these are immaterial be side the fact that the noxious bastard noun is found in the argot of filth and thieves, and that the spirit of this brazen god of revel has the eye of a roue, the lips of a libertine and tne cultural endowment of a moron. " 'Jazz' is the retrogression of our moral standards into the degraded slums or puinaom, declares one prominent musical critic, "and the abandonment of self-respect into the pitfalls of obscenity, where when once lost it cannot be relieved." Originating before the public as a term for an unintelligible offering of barbaric music, which violated all the canons of art and reverted to the elemental ecstacy of the ourang, pounding his feeding pan with a shinbone. the term "jazz" swiftly ar- southern part of the Oregon coast ! rogated to itself a broader signifi has been commercially annexed to cance and became the current idiom Friend and mentor of many strug gling young authors, and a peer in the fellowship of American letters, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, has written his last paragraph and joined the great ma jority. The death of Reedy is not the snuffing of a great literary light, in the accepted sense of greatness but many to whom fame has been given will realize in sorrow that a master of their own craft is gone. Reedy was of the new, unconven tional school of letters, and it was to his sanctum and his solace that fol lowers of the cult thronged. He was the discoverer of Edgar Lee Masters, and "Spoon River Anthology" ap peared originally in the carefully se lected columns of the Mirror. Reedy's taste for the novel and unique genius of Spoon River was indicative of his wayfarings in unconventional prose and poetry. Though he approved the unshackeled form, he did insist that merit must accompany it. Nine tenths of the free verse now clutter ing the market would have found kindly and amused rejection in the sanctum of the Mirror. Enthusiasts in eastern Washington are going after sheriffs and attorneys seeking re-election whom they sus pect of laxity in enforcing prohibi tion. They are disposed to be un reasonable. Any -officer will proceed on evidence,' but not everybody will swear to a complaint. Mr. Fairfax telephoned to his wife at 5 o'clock that he was bringing a party of six to dinner. An inventory of the larder showed short rations. So Bridget, the cook, was instructed to order certain sup plies over the telephone. Wishing to supplement the order, Bridget's mistress followed her to the telephone and heard: "Oi wahnt yez to slnd along a leg o' mutton and ask the grocer nixt door to let your boy bring two jillies and a tin of pears, an' if OI don't get them quick Oi'U be along in the marnlng and paralyze ye all!" A brief pause, then: "Who's shpakin'? Sure, an' it's Mrs. Fairfax of the Cedars." "Bridget." cried the astonished and outraged mistress. "What do you mean? How dare you say such things?" "Shure, ma'am," returned the cook unconcernedly, "that's all right. I talks to 'em like that for you all the toime." New York Globe. The London" Punch publishes this Cornish Lullaby," first printed, it is said, in 1760: Sleep, my little ugling. Daddy's gone a smuggling, Daddy's gone to Roscoff in the Meva- gissey Maid. A sloop of ninety tons With ten brass carriage guns. To teach the king's ships manners and respect for honest trade. Hush, my Joy and sorrow, Daddy"ll come tomorrow. Bringing baccy, tea ad snuff and brandy home from France; And he'll run the goods ashore While the old collectors snore And the wicked troopers gamble in the dens of Penzance. Rock-a-bye, my honey. Daddy's making money; You shall be a gentleman and sail with privateers. With a silver cup for sack And a blue coat on your back. With diamonds on your finger-bones and gold rings in your ears. It is the nature of the young to want to dance and they should be accommodated; but when they dance in roadhouses or other resorts the affair should be watched and other wise policed, for a big sorrow can start in a little time. A FEEDER TO PORTLAND COMMERCE. Establishment of a steamer line between Portland and all Oregon coast ports should add materially both to the foreign commerce of this port and to the trade of its mer chants. It should also contribute to the development of the coast coun ties. The mosquito fleet which trad ed to all the small towns of Puget sound laid the foundation for the commerce of the great ports. With Portland the foundation is already laid, but there is need of transporta tion and trade connections. Big shipping business requires as sembling of cargoes totaling thous ands of tons. Small shipments from minor ports to the principal port, for trans-shipment to the ocean steamers can contribute as much as the towns strung along the railroads. These feeder lines thus give .small com munities an opening to foreign mar kets, enabling them to increase pro duction. " Butter and cheese from the coast cities might thus be gathered for shipment from Portland to the east and all parts of the world, as the same products of Denmark are assembled at Copenhagen. For lack of this feeder service the A door leading to a fire escape in the Elton Court building was locked when exit was sought, not purposely, of course, but locked. Just the same, How many doors df like character in this city were locked last night? The bulk of the male sex is satis fied with shaves and haircuts. Men who whisk the whtskers and indulge in other hirsute adornment, must meet the advance in the barber's scale, and all is well. Mr. . Yeon has discovered more days of sunshine at The Dalles than at Los Angeles. That is just one of the God-given things Oregonians know of but neglect to tell the world. This is a mint region and mint is due to be the next agricultural product to be boomed. Already pio neers in the industry are getting good returns Why waste time on the fellow who threw his wife out of the boat and drowned her? He is sorry, of course, but cannot be any sorrier after he is hanged. The suffragists will have the thirty-sixth state when they get it. As to Tennessee, a few days will tell, with the uncertainty against ratification. The fanatical "dry" is hard to suit. Harding's stand be considers "unsat isfactory," nd Cox' worse- London has just seen three new operas by Puccini, "II Tabarro," "Suor Angelica" and "Gianni Schiochi." Though the London Journals write of the opening performance as if it were the -first presentation of the operas beyond Italian shores, the present writer is haunted by a notion that the tragedy has had its premiere in America.- The three operas have al most nothing in common save the name of Puccini on the title page of the scores. "II Tabarro" (The Cloak), Is a gristly little story of passion and revenge; "Suor Angelica." like the "Jongleur .de Notre Dame," is an opera for women's voices; "Gianni Schiochi is a first-rate farce. Liv ing Age. Sparrows have lived to be 40 years old. A horse doei not live much more than 27 years. Cats get to be about 13 years old. The tortoise is supposed to live to be between 300 and 400 years old. Some persons say toads can live forever, but, of course, that has not been .proved, though certainly they live to an exceedingly great age Both an eagle and crow have been known to live to be 100. but the wren lives only about three years. An ele phant's lifetime is about 100 years. ! but ne isn't regaroeo -as grown up until he is about 25 years old. Mem phis Commercial-Appeal. There was not even standing room in the crowded electric car, but one more passenger, a young woman, wedged her way along just inside the doorway. Each time the car took sudden lurch forward she fell help lessly .back,- and three times she landed In the arms of a large, com fortable man. The third time it hap pened he said, quietly: "Hadn't you better stay here?" ! Chicago Herald. "The game warden will get you if you don't watch out," is the popular refrain in the mountains of central Oregon where H.. McDonald, who reg istered at the Imperial over the week end, happens to be district deputy warden. Mr. McDonald has four en tire counties and half of four others in his territory and to go 150 miles from his headquarters In Bend after some illegal hunter is just a part of the routine work. Last month he went out after a beaver trapper on the upper Ochoco river. The trapper wasn't home, but his wife promised to send him right in to court in a few days. A week passed and the gentle man with the fondness for beaver failed to show up. The warden called again. The trapper wasn't home. After wasting a whole day on the range looking for his man McDonald supposedly departed from town. Night came and back with it the game warden, to camp in the lot back of the trapper's house. Home came the beaver man to an unexpected recep tion, which ended up with a slumber party in Prinevilie, where the county jail is located. The vanguard of merchants and buyers and others who will be in Portland this week for the annual buyers' week began arriving In Port land yesterday and the lobbies of all the down-town hotels - were crowded with men and women who are here to stock up their stores for the coming year. More than that, the hotel clerks say they notice that he wives of the merchants are coming more than ever before, which only goes to' prove that before the final' word is said and the last item written on the order blank it Is the "becler half" generally who has something to say. Practically every hotel in the city will be filled throughout the week with buyers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and the casual tourist will find himself hard put to obtain accommo dations, unless, perchance, he mi xea reservations a few days in advance. Before th war they called him "Dutch" up around Helena. Mont., where he was born and reared, but when this country got into the fray across the waters and the young men of America were answering the call to khaki and cantonment, somehow or other his intimates dropped the Teutonic appellation and changed it gladly to Art. Because he stands sonething over six feet and when he said, "Lay off that Dutch stuff' both these whe knew him and those who didn't were ready to respect his wishes. It was as Arthur Adrian that he donned the khaki and served for a year in France. In fact, he'd al most forgotten the old nickname "Dutch" until he arrived in Portland and met some of his former Montana friends. He was at the Multnomah last week, en route to Mill City where he has decided to locate. - Carl T. Seely of Missoula passed through Portland yesterday en route home after an extended visit to Los Angeles. One of the Los Angeles quakes started him to packing his grip and the second temblor caused him to buy a ticket on the first train north. Mr. Seely is an old-time news paper man and recently observed his 50th anniversary in the business. He has been connected with the Missou lan and Missoula, Mont., for 25 years. He wasn't wearing a Palm Beach suit but he looked cool and com fortable without it. But of course, it's all in the weather. His name is George W. Lainbart and he is regis tered at the Multnomah from Palm Beach. Fla. Mrs. Lainbart is with him, and they are finding keen en Joyment in their visit to the Pacific northwest from the most noted win ter resort of America. Fifty Years Abo. From The Oregonlan of August 9. 187o. Berlin. Saarhruck c. Aull!i'- 6. The French retreated anrt in severe fighting at Hagenon were defeated. The losses were heavy on both sides and the position was ieu oy tne Prussians at the point of the bayonet. Many guns prisoners were captured. VANADA AU DENMARK AT OUTS Danlah Eskimos PeraUt in KUlIni MttKk Ox In Dominion. Toronto Globe. These not belnr Bays of open di plomacy in Canada, few Canadians are aware that a tiay tut n uecu taking place between Canada and Denmark. It concerns depredations made by Danish Eklmos from the nnrthurn end of Greenland on the musk oxen of Ellesmere Island, a posseselon of Canada, about which many Canadians know nothing, but which la in territory larger than the British Isles. Some time ago Canada declared a permanent closed season on musk oxen living in Canadian territory. On this island, so far north that it does not appear on most maps of the domin ion, the musk ox hae his habitat. Danish Eskimos cross the intervening waters and, according to ' evidence given before the musk ox commis sion, kill it for its hide. .Leaving tne dead bodies strewn about, the valu able Turs are taken to Greenland and thence exported. The Canadian government, though It keeps tight Hps on the matter, is believed to have drawn the matter to the attention of the Danish gov ernment. What the answer was could not be officially learned. It was un derstood, however, that the Danish official who replied gave no satisfac tion, his reply virtually being to the effect that the matter was none of Canada's business. He evidently thinks the land in question so far north that it is outside of civilized reckoning. Meanwhile the next step is Canada, so far as the musk concerned. t up ox LET CONGRESSMEN BE QUIZZED. Campaign Too Much Concerned Over W hat Presidential Candidates Say. ALGOMA. Or.. Aug. 7. (To the Ed itor.) Each unit of a political organ ization has the right to approve or criticise the management of a-campaign. The one upon whose threshold we are savors too much of the Wilson dynasty. Too many are requiring ex pressions from the candidates of the major parties. - These candidates represent the parties and the plat forms of the parties declare what the parties stand for. Both platforms are voluminous enough and it is not dif ficult to ascertain what is expected of the candidates. No matter what views the candi dates entertain, it requires an act of congress to make public law. The candidates for congress should be tho inquisitorial goats. It is none of our concern what the unterrlfied do. but so far this campaign has been a talk ing match between Harding and Cox. Both talk too much. To make "a bad matter worse" the democratic chair man is now butting In. All should De muzzled. W. O. BINNS. New York. Fifty-nine American jachts competed in the race yester day, which was won by the Magic. The steamship George S. Wright arrived at 3 P. M. yesterday, having made the round trip to Sitka. Alaska. The steamer sailed from Portland July 9. Three sacks of Alaska mail were brought from Alaska points. Another section of the Boone's eerry road, about a mile in length, from the county line toward this city, was opened for travel this week. ENOUGH IS JUST OXE STATEMENT Hardins's Promise to End Absolutism Not Empty Phrase. PORTLAND, Aug. 7. (To the Edi-tor.)--A few days ago "A Woman Voter" related her experience with another woman who made the state ment, "There is nothing in Mr. Hard ing's speech," afterward admitting that she had not read the speech just repeated what she had heard. As a rule, intelligent people do not take issue witn the loud talkers who make statements not supported by facts, or quote Darts of sentences, changing the meaning of the entire iii- to sun tneir political views, or just repeating what suits them or taking their views from publications making a practice of dispensing mis information by stating only part of a speech when stating the whole of it would be fatal to their argument. It behooves every right-thinking man or woman to combat such state ments not supported by facts, or sup ply the suppressed parts of sentences. Of course, it is oftentimes hard for anyone to refute an argument or sup ply a suppressed part instantlv because of the fact that any misstate ment comes suddenly aad unexpect edly to one relying on facts and truth, but he can fortify himself for the next attack by getting at the facts. The statement made to discomfit the opposition will surely be repeated and cannot be combated too often nor too persistently if trMh Bhall not perish from the earth. If there were nothing else in the speech of Mr. Hf,rding, there Is that. if elected president, there will be an end of absolutism, which has no place a democracy, but which would be triumphant it the representatives of the people relinquish their constitu tional rigat closely to scrutinize any treaty or'pact involving the nation In paths teat are new and strange. tsreaxing tne neari oi tne worm s an empty phrase, but breaking the backbone of the constitution is a pres ent danger. M. K- While most folks have their thoughts turned toward the seacoast during these warm Augus days, H. B. Merriman is leaving the sad sea waves and all that sort of thing to come to Portland for a brief respite. He is registered at the Oregon from Sea side. L. F. Freitag. who sells Jewelry and alarm clocks and similar things at Baker, is registered at the Imperial. having arrived last night for the buy ers' week festivities. The Jewelry business is good up around Baker and Mr. Frietag plans to stock up plen tifully for the fall and winter trade. It was warm in Portland yesterday and J. Edward Larson doffe'd his coat In order to be comfortable and not to advertise the class of laundry work his laundry does for the folks of Bend. Mr. Larson is the owner of a laundry in the Deschutes county metropolis and is here on a business mission. He is registered at the Multnomah. The women folks of Ontario like to wear the latest millinery creations just as they do in Portland and any other town where headgear is used. That is why Nell O. Bedford, milliner of Ontario, came to Portland yester day to attend buyers' week. She signed the register at the Imperial. C. E. Conrad and wife of The Dalles are here to attend buyers' week. They are guests at the Oregon. Others here for the week are Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Perrine of Ashland. C. S. Funk, prominent railroad builder of Chicago, is registered at the Multnomah while on a visit to Oregon and other northwest points looking over possibilities in rajlroad construc tion work. How Cool id-e Wen His Wife. Fred John Splitstone. in Leslie's About 1904 Mr. Coolidge met Miss Grace A Goodhue, a teacher in the Clark school for the deaf in North ampton. He showed her the atten tione that a studious young man might be expected to pay to an at tractive young lady and no more. Vacation time came and Miss Goodhue went home to Burlington, Vt. Shortly afterward Coolidge appeared in Burl ington and called on the Goodhues. He called so industriously that the young lady's parent asked her what he meant. She couldn't enlighten them. Then Mr.- Goodhue addressed himself to the young man. "Are you In Burlington on business, Mr. Coo lidge?" he asked. "No," said the future governor. "Well, may I ask what you are here for?" demanded the elder. To marry Grace," was the calm answer. When Mr. Geedhue recovered his breath he managed to inquire. "Have you said anything to her about this?" "Not yet," was the response. Within a week they were married and a most happy union it has proved. Mrs. Coolidge is idolized by all who know her, and has been of the great est assistance to her husband in his career. They have a modest home in a good but qvriet street. The principal of the city schools occupies the other half of the double house. Their two sons. John ana Calvin jr., until re cently carried newspapers. They are being brought up to be just as sturoy and self-reliant as tneir latner ENDLESS POWER IN ATMOSPHERE Portland Man Asserts Ability to Put Static Electricity to Work. PORTLAND. Aug. 7. (To the Edi tor.) I am inclisied to think, that I have Invented one of the greatest in ventions of the age. and very shortly will be able to demonstrate what I call "static electricity" in action. Take a piece of amber and rub it with a piece of silk. We find that the amber has acquired the property of attracting very light objects. 'such as fragments of paper, cork, cotton wool or balls of pitch. But if these objects actually, touch the amber which is at tracting them, they are then repelled. These attractions and repulsions are due to a static charge of electricity which has been generated by the fric tion with the silk, and which is rest ing on the suriace or tne amoer. We now know that we have elec tricity on these two objects. Can we use this electricity? Yes, we can use it to the very best advantage, simply by transferring this static electricity into a specially constructed mechan ism which at once cuts off the static charge'. The electricity which is in great space around us is then set into action and gathered by this simple mechanism and will give an endless current of electricity of thousands of volts. I could tell a lot more on this sub ject but not at present time. was GOLDEN SUMMER. For summer is a time for simple liv ing. With azure' sky and kindly sun joy giving," days of keen delight in Deauty questing. hours when nature seems our ' spirits testing. moments rare when eyes see not so blindly. Of time for making friends by being kindly. And thus to know indeed a golden that fetter. nlay with care-free joy; to feel and love more; days that teach us how to live more sweetly, see the best and trust in God better, work - more joyously: our labor completely, free our spirits from the chains summer. . E.V1EEOI STACY. Of Of Of To Of To To To Vacation Time. Winfield S. Brooks. WLen the run on whites is over and the trade is slowin' down. When the yearly summer sale has come and gone. When the customers a-shoppin' are "just lookin' round the town," And the stock shelves of the grave yard stuff are shorn; When your fifty weeks of slavin' are behind you, and ahead You can glimpse two weeks of care-free-nesa and fun. Then your thoughts lose all their worry and your feet lose all t their lead. For your annual vacation nas Degun. But it doesn't matter, brother,, where you spend vacation time. Whether at the shore or on som'e lofty mount; Whether mappin' out a sellin plan or writin' ads that rhyme It's yourself that's reckoned in the final count. And it matters not a bit how Ion you plan-to stay away Nor the plans you make for ehoes upon the rack. For the only thing that really counts is when your sales-folk say "iu an honest tone, "We're glad te see you back'."' Shoe Retailor. The Home Owner. Forest Grove News-Times. The ownership of a bit of real es tate is a fine thing from every point of view. It gives the holder a stand ing and a self-respect he would not otherwise have. It promotes bosiness confidence in him and makes him one of the substantial upstanding pillars of the community. V