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8 THE 310RMXG OREGOMAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE ' 29, 1921 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I- PITTOCK. Published by The Oreionlan Publishing Co, W Bixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDE.V. E. B. PIPER. Miunr. Kditoe. The Oregonlan Is a mwnbtr of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Prses Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all oewi dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. AU rixnts of publication of special dispatch ea herein re also reserved. . 4.2S e on 3.23 .60 1.00 2.50 EnbscriDtion Bates Invariably In Advance. (By MalL) laly. Sunday Included, one year lally. tunday included, six months . .. Ially. Sunday included, three months. latly. Sunday included, one month. . . . ai:y. without Sunday, one year. . . . Daily, without Sunday, six months. ... Daily, without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year ..; Sunday, one year (Bv Carrier.) Dally. Sunday incfuded. one year $! 00 Dally. 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It is known to most of us that an academic discus sion of the Tudor period would play to empty chairs and we are not yet In a position to demand the ab solute divorce of commercialism and art. ' HISTORY ON THE FILM. The tendency to detect insidious propaganda in every argument with which one does not happen to agree Is perhaps the natural product of a period in which the term propa panda not only is overworked but the value of the thing Itself overesti mated. To the philosopher there fore who takes into account the license employed by romancers gen erally, and who reflects that the so called historical motion picture is no more likely than the historical novel to be "history," It will seem that it is quite possible for a film play to depart widely from the truth without meriting the accusation that playwright, scenario writer, director and all the rest are parties to a deep-laid plot to discredit this or that, or to put a halo of romance upon that which in real life is but wickedness and vice. , The most that need be said, there fore, concerning a picture play por traying certain episodes in the life of Henry VIII of England, and which has stimulated a spirit o controversy out of proportion to the importance of the Issue involved, is that it relies on no great measure of historical probability for its plot while it creates, more or less out of whole cloth, an interesting story. As to ethics, they constitute another question. The art of the motion pic ture is exceedingly young, and it will be borne in mind that a vastly older form of literature is not yet sinless enough in this regard to have earned the right to cast a stone. A good deal is said with the hyperbole of enthusiasm as to the "educational value" of the film play which we are no more warranted in accepting as gospel than we would be in read ing Scott or Muhlbach as serious history. For the contemplation of history in its broader aspects and relationships is one thing and the reading of novelized episodes in vented, or contorted, or isolated from their contexts purely for our entertainment, is quite another. No one looks for historical authenticity in tne Historical novel, ana tne ex pectations are as vain of those who hold that the ticket of admission to the motion picture entitles one to both entertainment and instruction at the same time. The superficiality of it all, rather than any diabolical propaganda of misrepresentation, is apt to impress the student, who will need to pre serve his sense of proportion in or der to resist temptation to start a bootless crusade for accuracy. At least the character of Henry VIII has furnished more than one plot for a drama that gave us nothirrg recognizable but the name, and we are disinclined to deny any play wright the small satisfaction of de picting Anne Boleyn as a flawless being. Due allowance will be made for the public appetite for romance, no less than for the limitations of the screen. "A weak, giddy woman of no stability of character, her suc cess turned her head and caused her to behave with insolence and im propriety, in strong contrast with Catherine's quiet dignity under her misfortunes," the estimate of no less a British authority than the Kncy clopedia Britannica, is emphatically not the material for a modern film drama. It is the woman who pays in the movies, if not always in real life and it is necessary that every heroine shall be immaculate. So it is permissible, in the license of the drama, as of the novel, to bend his tory to our purpose, if only we make virtue triumphant in the end. "The sordid Incidents of her rise, and the insolence with which she used her power," had they been ever so well attested, might be history, but they would not be art. The task of the conscientious his torian is otherwise, but history is notably dull. And history has, on the whole, done justice to the career of Henry VIII, though the atrocity ,of a good many of his acts has been admitted by those who are able to appraise calmly the net result of his performances. The task of the writer of history and that of the romanelst are still quite opposite. The "merrie England" so necessary to the continuity of film production, must have been vastly unlike the genuine, and it was the reality with which Henry VIII had to deal. That in all these circumstances there was a monarch in the sixteenth century who could contrive, against influ ential opposition and without the support of an army worthy of the name, to abolish the remnant of feudal privilege is a fact worth not ing by lovers of democracy; and the observer of events as a whole will be apt to give less consideration to royal table manners than to the substantial extension of the powers and prerogatives of parliament that was recorded under Henry's fateful reign. Nor will it be forgotten how much Great Britain, and perhaps the Anglo-Saxon world, owes to the foundation then laid for the British colonial and naval policy; while it is peculiarly interesting in any period of threatened intolerance and unrest to be reminded that this guzzling ruler, for all his unloveliness, in all probability did save his country from the horrors of that most de plorable of ail social upheavals, a ruJigious civil war. But we are reminded- again that the function cf the drama, either si'ent or spoken, is not yet to sift and winnow, or to delve .into archives dry as dust for facts' still 1 FACTS. COMICS AND FICTION. A subscriber over at Stevenson, Washington, shames us by pointing out that in the Cicero Sap comic th versatile boy stops a leak in th drain pipe of the kitchen sink by shutting off the water In the cellar. So he does. We noticed that incon gruity just as we have noticed others in the comics. The Professor has often been sent up for ten years but never fails to return each week to be foiled in his desperate ventures by the capable Hawkshaw. Polly defies time and nature by remaining young and winsome. The Katzen- jantmer kids, middle-aged men in point of service In the comics, con tinue to perform such impossible .pranks as sending up pigs and cats attached to toy balloons that in fact would hardly lift a couple of tooth nicks. The appeal of comics is to the sense of humor, not to the intelii gence. Their reform is nopeiess. Yet they are not much more given to incongruities than are some of our entertainments which strive for more serious consideration. A short while ago. in a film shown throughout the country, the plot hinged on what the author assumed would have been an invalid mar riage. The rich villain "tricks an Innocent girl by having his gar dener, disguised as a clergyman, nnite them in marriage. Yet inca pacity of a person to perform a mar riage ceremony does not invalidate marriage entered into m gooa faith by one of the parties.- me nerson officiating commits a crime but the marriage stands. This has heen the law of Oregon for. ruty years and probably is the law of every enlightened state. In the current number of a popu lar magazine the frustrating of a stage robbery depends on the inge nuity of the driver who disconnects the starter of the automobile and thus prevents the robbers' escape in it. Yet the stage driver accom plishes his sly work at the top Of a mountain grade with the automobile pointing down hill. The highway men know all about running an au tomobile and even coast to the foot of the grade. In such circum stances, as every automobile driver knows, disconnecting the starter is about as effective a way to put the engine out of business as to remove the tail light or to open the wind shield. In a less recent story a negro character catches with his bare havis smelt in the Columbia river at a point miles above tne tannest, run of these fish. Nearly every day one may read romance that takes.no account of facts, laws or mechanics. The au thors do not attempt to depict the ridiculous. They are serious-minded. And so long as our more serious en tertainers are sloppy in technique we shall not grieve if the artist who draws the comics railKs.tne cow on the left side, makes the cat talk, or bounces a rifle-bullet off some one's cranium. artificial conditions produced by high war wages and more Jobs than men. It spread the delusion that a man can take more out of an article in wages than he puts into it in work. The employer who attempts to do business on that principle quickly, goes bankrupt or shuts down, and the result to the work man is no wages at all. The lesson is of universal application, in Amer ica as everywhere else. The source of. high wages is efficiency, and wages can go no higher than effi ciency carries them, for they are paid out of the price received for what labor, in conjunction with cap ital and brains, produces. SOUTH DAKOTA'S DESIRfV That one's own name may become odious, when dragged into disrepute by another who bears it, is attested by the strong sentiment in South Dakota for a change of cognomen.' The southern province of the land of the Dacotahs desires none of the unpleasirtg notoriety that clusters about her northern sister, the coy prairie maiden who flirts with the non-partisan league and was dread fully talked about. In the socialistic scheme of this liaison there was to be much happiness, no matter what the gossips said, yet it is well remem bered that the affair ended dismally in scandalous bank failures and general discouragement. To the shocked appraisal of South Dakota the delinquency of her sister state is comparable to that of the village girl who eloped with the traveling man. We have no quarrel with her," remarked one South Dakota news paper, apropos of the agitation. but we do say that we are entitled to a reputation of our own." All fair-minded citizens and com monwealths will agree with this sentiment. South Dakota, who re jected non-partisanism by an em phatic majority, and who in addition has agricultural laOrels of the fair est, is subjected to some embarrass ment by the vague but prevalent opinion that somehow or other the sisters are one and the same and that the family was always a little flighty not exactly wayward, per haps, but certainly born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Apd a reputation of that sort is difficult to live down, however a sister may strive. What would South Dakota be called? Why, Roosevelt, of course! The exact antithesis of non-parti-sanism, the personification of the American ideal. Why shouldn't South Dakota be privileged to change her name for one more de scriptive of her purpose, her belief? Not only would she honor, in so do ing, the memory of a beloved Ameri can, but when she walked abroad mistaken gossips could never whis per shrilly "That's her, the Dakota girl who, etc., etc., etc. Labor. Incidentally it may be re marked that the references of both gentlemen were not complimentary. But this was not exceptional. Com plimentary allusions to Mr. Hearst are not often to be found oustide the Hearst newspapers. Thus are many newspapers betrayed into outright injustice . to a great publisher and eminent citizen, under the artificial compulsion of journalistic rivalry. Too bad. Withal, the public will be not a little puzzled to 'know Why Mr. Perry, owner of the Post-Intel! igen cer, is so wrought up over any sug gestion or inference that the paper belongs to Mr. Hearst. It does not, of course; but the opinion may be ventured that it is not libelous to say that it does. Why libelous? Mr. Hearst Is owner of many suc cessful newspapers and his name carries great prestige. It is diffi cult to understand, in face of the record, how the fact of his owner ship would be damaging. Mr. Perry will say, to be sure, that it is not the fact, but the fiction or falsehood. Certainly. That is the way it is. But how much has he contributed to the fiction? When we look over the pages of the rehabilitated Post-Intelligencer we cannot entirely exonerate Mr. Perry from responsibility for the embarrassment of the public and other newspapers in grasping the true situation, even after Mr. Perry's solemn, and, to us, very satisfactory assertions that he is the owner. If it is not a Hearst paper, it is a Hearstized paper. It bears from first column to the last the peculiar and unmistakable earmarks of the Hearst method. There are the Hearst features, the Hearst make up, the Hearst style, the Hearst headings, the Hearst pictures, the Hearst combinations, the Hearst Aars, even the Hearst Sunday mag Mine. But it is a Hearstized journal without Hearst. Yet no newspaper r-ader familiar with Hearst and Hearstism can pick up and read the Post-Intelligencer without being struck by its complete similarity to the genuine variety. It looks like Hearst, it sounds like Hearst, but it is not Hearst. Not at all. It is BY-PRODUCTS OF THE! PRESS How to Pronounce Name of Fistic Challenger. A fight fan writes in and asks ua how we pronounce Carpentier's name. For several years we have pro nounced it as follows: Carpen-YAY, Car-PENT-yay, Car-painter, Carpen-ter, Carpenter, Car-PONG-yay. Cah-pong-teer, Carpentier. We believe the concensus of opinion is in favor of pronouncing it Car pentier. Xew York MaiL The discovery of two tons of food securely cached and buried deep in a canyon near here caused an investi gation by Sheriff C. E. Jackson of Santa Ana, Cal. The food was dis covered by a Mexican, who reported to his employer, W. T. Wallop of Anaheim. '.. When the sheriff began investiga tion, he found that the cache had been made by a Santa Ana minister and two oil workers, members of his congregation, who explained to him that they had acted on a biblical passage that they believed foretold a time of famine and had purchased and hidden the food to be on the safe side. They produced receipts and the supplies were returned to them. The sheriff declined to give their names, saying that he was sure they acted in good faith and he did not wish to expose them to possible ridicule. There are all sorts of ways of ex pressing affection. The Mainichi, a Japanese journal, reports the case of a policeman at Hiroshima, who fell in love with a restaurant maid, and when she seemed cold endeavored to convince her of his passion, and may hap light an answering flame by thrusting her in the calf of her leg with his official sword. He might go further and issue a manual on how to make love, suggests our contem porary. The case of the policeman in Those Who Come and Go. Tales or Folk at the Hotels. J COMMERCIALISATION OK FAMrjf h Hero Worshiper Vlad Hiss Adams Never Indorsed Punk's Liver nils. J PORTLAND. June 28 (To the Edi tor.) I am one of the throng. I am a hero worshiper. I like to stand on the curb with my fellows when a famous person ridea by behind a blaring brass band. I like to feel exulted and wave my hat and cheer. I believe that it is good for us common citizens to be inspired by the presence of a notable to the extent of loud acclamation. It sometimes tll'tlr.na lha ,1 ....... i n , BnBPL- f ,a the government should be collecting a, ,n som6 ou, and ne becomt8 what he aspires to be, Prohibition isn't worrying the thirsty In the middle west, according to Fred J. Brady, who returned to Portland from a trip to the south. Mr. Brady says that from what he gathered, there should be some big man willing to get up in congress and insist that if liquor is to be sold tax. In Chicago, for instance, can be found saloons with brass rails and everything, where the patrons line up 60 at a time and where four bartend ers are kept busy drawing beer. The beer registers, or is supposed to reg ister, per cent, which is the good old beer of B. P. days. A stein costs 25 cents, which is about what the price used io be In Portland, accord ing to the "Do you KemcmberT' column. Then in St. Louis instead of a barroom the thirsty pilgrim is escorted to a room in a hotel, where he can order what he wants and no charge made for the room. The price of drinks fs high enough to make the transient rental of the room highly profitable. In Louisville. Ky., you call for a "spike" and receive a cone-shaped glass, containing what would normally be three drinks, and the price is 60 cents. In another town the thirst parlor looks like a We all believe that h4dden some where within us Is that God-given genius for something, if we could but find It and have It developed. Inspiring music, drama, oratory and art fill us with emotion and fired ambition which we sometimes ego tistically believe is our own subcon scious genius and we resolve to do greater things. This Is good for us. The things which cause a child to love Its earthly heaven and to mis trust the conception of life are the same things, differently applied, which cause the man's visions to be come aeh.es and empty dreams. The child learns that fairy tales and Santa Claus are myths and distrusts often times the inspiration of a flower. The man inspired by the loftiness he hus made himself believe of some favorite sours and curdles when he learns of cheap and tawdry commercialism. I am wondering, and there are others wondering, too. what she gains. More Truth Than Poetry. II y James J. Montsgse, somebody else. I Question is aouDiiess a survival 01 Mr. Perry was rather severe. with l atavism, being a relic or tne good old the Vidette. It may have acted m I days in the paleolithic age when the cood faith. Probably he intended I caveman wras wont to demonstrate his definite threat of legal action to his affection for his affinity by occa be warning to others to make no I eional raps on the damsel's head with similar errors. His action may De a bludgeon. efficacious, but to guarantee that it I Tha sub-magistrate of Chowghat in BRITAIN'S LESSON IN EFFICIENCY. British coal miners have spent al most three months In learning that such a staple commodity as coal cannot he sold for more than it is worth in the world market. Having taken control of the mines during the war, the government raised wages and provided money to do so bv raising the export price of coal. That plan worked so long as Britain controlled the foreign market. But other countries Increased production. ocean freight fell to a point where American coal could compete In Europe, and Britain lost control. The export price fell so far that the British government last March was losing money at the rate of 66,000, 000 pounds a year. This was vir tnallv a stibsidv to the miners paid out of the pockets of the whole na- 1 and attorney of Mr. Hearst On June tion. The government refused to I 16, Mr. Perry wired the president of the vidette company tne loiiowmg unequivocal message; Am In receipt of clipping- from Monte sano Vidette, story of Poit-lntellirencer ownership. Story is a libel from beginning to end. Will you please notify paper that unless an immediate retraction of equal space and display is made forthwith I shall institute such actions for redress and damages as the law affords me. Unless 1 have immediate assurance of full and complete, retraction will order procedure forthwith. bear the drain and handed back the mines to their owners. The latter nronosed a reduction of wages, of fered to forego profits for several .months and to give the miners $8 out of each 10 profit above a cer tain minimum thereafter. The miners struck for a national pool o profits to equalize wages in all dis tricts. and they are still strtKing. The root error of the miners' posi tion has been exposed in a letter to the London Times by Lord Weir. He assumes that an examiner in bank ruDtcy is investigating the industry, and after adding to the wage scale of. 1913 enough to meet the in creased cost of living and a further 20 per cent to Improve the miners standard of living he finds J2 in the labor cost of a ton of coal that la not accounted for. Miners and own ers both offer explanations which bring out the fact that the average output per man per annum In 1913 was 260 tons, but In iszu was oniy 190 tons. He points out that if both parties "co-operate honestly and frankly to secure at least as great efficiency in production as in iia they can wipe out this dettcit witn nut anv change whatever in miners' wagea" The miners protest that this would Involve return to the eight hour and giving up the great ad vantage thev have won. To this the coldly logical examiner replies: Yes. you have won It. but today you .r. evneriencinK some of the results of having won lu You have between you anrt the owners and the government sue reeled In producing a set of conditions wherein vou cannot sell your coal and get your wages. However reluctant you may be to recognise It. you cannot din regard the ultimate fact that Improved conditions can only come from Improved efficiency of production, and until both of you agree to work together to achieve this there can be no improvement In con ditions or a better standard or living. They have not yet agreed, and the result is ruin of many mines, mil lions of other workmen thrown into idleness, industry at half speed, ex ports decreased almost one-half, cities half lighted, train sen-ice cut to the limit and foreign markets lost, to be won back, if at all. only after fierce competition. When the miners resume work it is not certain that they can even recover the do mestic market, for many locomo tives and the power plants of many public utilities and industries are being converted Into oil burners. Onco accustomed to oil they may never give it up, and others may follow their example. The .miners may wake up to find that they have wrecked the industry on which their living depends, or, at best, must struggle hard in co-operation with the owners to restore its prosperity. NOT A HEARST NEWSPAPER. Mr. John H. Perry, of New York and Seattle, informs the world through the medium of the public prints that he, and not William Ran dolph Hearst, is owner of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. To be exact, Mr. Perry repudiates in distinct and highly indignant terms a statement in a state newspaper, the Montesano Vidette. that Mr. Hearst had bought the Post-Intelligencer. Mr. Perry is president of the Post-Intel ligencer company, which owns and operates the Post-Intelligencer, and, of course, he knows who owns the Post-Intelligencer. '- He says Mr, Hearst does not. It Is well known that the property was acquired sev eral months since through purchase of the controlling stock Interest by Mr. iPerry. Mr. Perry therefore owns the Post-Intelligencer. Na turally he is much annoyed by per sistent reports that Mr. Hearst owns Mr. Perry, or the Post-Intelligencer through Mr. Perry. To tell the story of the latest cal umny about our sensitive contem porary in greater detail: On May 13, 1921, the Montesano . Vidette printed an article attributing owner ship of the Post-Intelligencer to Mr. Hearst and declaring that Mr. Perry had bought the property as agent Naturally, the Vidette was thrown into a fever of consternation by con templation of the consequences of its grievous error, and in due time it offered a complete retraction under the heading "Perry-Hearst-P.-I.. Story a Lie," as follows: The Vidette cheerfully repudiates the story referred to. which was headed. "The True P. -I. Story," published in the Issue of May 13. From the fact that the Post-Intelligencer on last Sunday reprinted the correspondence between its owner, Mr. Perry, and the Vidette, it is to be assumed that the threat ened libel suit is a closed incident. But it is regrettable to observe that other papers In Washington are not Inclined to terminate the discus sion about ownership of the Post-Intelligencer. TJjere, for illustration, is the Tacoma News-Tribune rush ing in where outsiders may well fear to tread, with ribald comment like the following: It Is of course nothing more than a co incidence that the very day on which the Montesano Vidette publishes tnis telegram, Mr. Perry's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, printing Mr. Hearst's- comic strips, Mr. Hearst's features. Mr. Hearst's wire ser vices and Mr. Hearst's own Mr. Brisbane's editorials on its first page, forgets en tirely to mention in its story on the Amer ican Federation of Labor convention at Denver Mr. uompers stinging expose and arraignment of William Randolph Hearst which was featured on the first page of every other newspaper in the United States except the Hearst newspapers and the Se attle y ost-inteiugencer. Mr. Perry will doubtless be able to explain, if he notices at all the unkind sneer of his Incredulous con temporary, that the deletion oc curred la the normal process of editing a too voluminous report bf an event not of vital interest to Se attle. Why should the people of Seattle, in Washington, a thousand miles from Denver, have any con cern about what Mr. Gompers says about Mr. Hearst, who does not own the Post-Intelligencer, or have any other known Investment in Seattle? The same explanation will suffice, too. unless the readers of the Post Intelligencer are needlessly sus picious, for the occurrence last Sun day, when a similar apparent tender cess was shown for Mr. Hearst by the omission from the Associated Press report of other expressions as to Mr. Hearst by both Mr. Gompers and Mr. Lewis, his antagonist for will be. we offer, in the most help ful spirit," the suggestion that he spread across the first page ot tne Hearstized Post - Intelligencer the instructive and convincing banner- line India has just disposed of an un usually interesting case in which two Nair women of Guruvuyur, mother and daughter, charged three Nair youths with having removed a por ,r A.I rA,i iinV whn " v-""i"niiiIILB vou look at it. this is NOT a Hearst house and dropped the carcass of a newspaper." ' crocodile through the aperture into the room in which the vouneer A Chicago funeral was stopped woman sIeDt- Th ve alleged was nearly an hour Saturday while a "-"" "" overtures ot tne non-union band was removed ana u n rejectea. An occl- union music substituted. Casualties ""'i"' wouia nave taken laudanum or nnt mentioned. It is rather ab- or a Japanese swain would have com- surd, but one is led to wonder at the I mitted harakiri. The Indian, how- status of the choir celestial in mat ever, snowed an originality of con- case, ucpi.un wormy or a better object. Just imagine your feelings were you Berries should not be allowed to lo see tne dainty form of a hippo- rot on the vines. Somebody wants p tamus issuing from your ceiling! those berries. Nobody ever proms i oimnsnai umes. by wastage. Even last year's prunes, m ho ort worth ess. are I " maeternncK wan In u"" ' : ..: v, v i. v . , . . nt rnw feed, and the small truiisi'"" "e as Desieged by mov e might improve the quality of chicken producers to write for the films. He phonograph shop and a phonograph what a theater gains, wht a news instrument being opened up reveals a narer trains, when 6taring in bold completely stocked buffet, with all I black type from every page of a me standard Brands ot hootch. Ameri- 1 newspaper it tells: "Sara Kildall um can rye and not the Scotch familiar I indorses Black s shoe polish." Then on the Pacifio coast is served in the I follows a personally signed letter middle west The supply appears to I stating clearly how she harPened to be so generous that Mr. Brady sua-I notice her shoes needed polishing- and pects that the distilleries must be I when the bootblack polished them he working nights. was so Impressed with their luster she asked him the brand of polish. "We shall have the pavement from she always ends the letter with the Oakland south on the Pacific high- statement that hereafter she will way laid in a few weeks after our always ua Black's. plant Is set up." said A. J. Welton of For her effort, I wonder, will she the United Construction company, be given a few cans of polish gratis. The company was awarded the job or does the firm pay her for her in recently and the plant to be used dorsement? The newspaper boys de has been taken from Camas, Wash., serve some credit. It increases the and shipped to southern Oregon. Also column inches of advertising, ilaybe dust has been shipped from Morrow that is the reason? for the other county to the job. It may sound column of publicity, strange that dust, to be used in the However, the most of ua are glad "mix," should have to be brought we have never seen Maud Adorns and from anywhere at all, but there is a a score of others' pictures plastered dust in Morrow county which is sup- across a newspaper advising that they posed to be particularly good for I always use Dr. I'unk's liver pills making pavements and that is why gondolas of the dust are shipped to pavement jobs in this state. Speak ing of shipments, next to lumber products, road material provides greater amount of tonnage for rail roads in Oregon than any other conv modity. Judging from the way W. C. Stone Is whanging away on the Old Ore gon trail, that state highway will be opened up in less time than most people think. Mr. Stone received a contract for 14.6 miles from Ontario to Weiser on April 6. On April 20 the work had started and now the entire 14 miles has been Graded Twenty-five per cent of the culverts have been put in and 85 per cent of the drain pipes. There are about lVa mues ot pipe to be laid. PLAIN CITIZEN. VOSEMITE PARK ROADS ARE BAD Only Shox-k Ahaorbrrs and F.spert Driving- Make Trip Kndurablr. PORTLAND, June 2S. (To the Edi tor.) Havlij just made a journey Into ths Y-mite valley via Merced, vawona ad Glacier Point. I bee you will grant me space to warn all pros pective travelers that the roads, with the exception of the nine miles In the bottom of the valley, are as bad as bad can be. They are steep and so narrow that pasing in places is dif ficult and sometimes impossible one car or the other must back up. This Is not always agroeable, with the mountain rising sharply on one side OVRHWORK, When Uncle Zeko wu forty-eight The neighbors used to say, "He's lookln' pretty bad, of late, lie ought to learn to play. A man toward fifty's past li is prime. He oughtn t to forgi't If he keeps at it all the time Hard work will kill him yet." When Uncle Zeke was sixty-two The parson shook his head. "Enckial has too much to do; He's all worn out." he said. "A man of family has no right His health to disregard; I fear he'll pass away some night, lies working far loo hard." When Uncle Zeke was eighty-four. Still tolling on his farm, The boys around the country store Were moved to gravo alarm. Said they: "He ought to drop th plow An' spend his time In bed. He's worked too long: already now, Next Jtur'll see him dead!" Now Uncle Zeke Is ninety-three And works from rise of sun Till dunk, then slays around to see The evening milking done. He's strong of limb and clear of eye. No Job he'll ever shirk. And still the neighbors prophesy He'll die of overwork! Doth Are lrartlraL j Operating on a criminal's throat to make him honest Is merely the reap-'j I plication of an old method. Obviously. It Is apparent that Grover Iters-dolt la the kind nt a mnn f hi I nnlv ' mother could love. ) (rnulne Diattnrtlon. Nowadays about the only way a. person can achieve fumo is by not being a witness in tho Stillinan case,1 (Copyrlaht by the Hrll syndicate, jnc ) Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, llo-jshtoaOllfflla to. n-r inr i vl-.. fmi.n.rf u -"- dropping down just as sharply wf J.?,a?-on !d S W6ek ago .r on tho other. The roads also are meat and pork. Under the rules about which the railway managers are now com plaining, a shop helper was not 1 lowed to use a monkey wrench. Not even to throw into the machinery, that being reserved for the dis closures about the rules themselves, hope you make good!" Indianapolis finally signed one contract and was induced to go to California to study screen technique. The head of ths film company is an enterprising fellow who was raised on the east side. He accon-manied ih. r,.! the train and shaking his hand said: weiU. good-by, Mr. Maeterlinck, I Oregonians, it appears, hold only 166 jobs at the national capital and are entitled to 224, according to the rules of the game. There is no re- News. They were talking of the dav the good old melodramas when the villain always -ore a mustache and lief, however, and those ambitious ""iib oreecnes, and the hero's hair that way can do better by cinching was invariably blonde and curly, re their jobs at home. 'ates O. O. Mclntyre in the Atlanta constitution. When the curtain went Dr. Warner of New York, who un the French maid runs in nrt ridicules the idea of a man dying izes the telephone. Then she t. at three score and ten, is only 72 to the audience and in her best and has many years to live Deiore i rencn accent declares: "Mon Doo he reaches the century mam. amen ue auxe iss coming back!" n. w i - ,A nn.. 1 A fallnw in th, I I Innnn. ,.n. - can imppe'i w i oi a neroine in an old years to come. i ten, twenty and thirty who traDo hV th Villain in 1 . ..... Becorra nr.T. sava If Trotsky had a neart ne wouia , jick Hathaway. I win mane a later uaio iui me i i "'" i jour wicKea wiles, but with tween the two -c.ngiisn-speah.ing na- your Kind permission I will give you the work loO teams were employed ana mere is jas.uilu worth of equip ment on tne job. The eradinr. some oi wnicn was neavy work, was rushed along at the rate of seven, miles a mourn, or utmost two miles a week, which is certainly making the dirt ny. Air. stone dropped into Portland yesterday to submit a bid for more worn "Terra del Fuego" is the best coun. try on the map for farmers," asserts D. J. Hadley, who has arrived at the Imperial from South America. "I spent considerable time in Terra del Fuego and found it a most delightful place. The country is very fertile and full of ruts and bumpo and "hairpin" turns. A long car often hus to stop and back in order to get around. It is a "grueling" Job, as one gen tleman expressed it, to drive a car over these exceedingly poor roads. He had done it. The Peck and Judah tourist cars are Pierce-Arrow, seven passenger, and are equipped with West inshouse shock absorbers that is tho only reason a tourist has any teeth left after the Journey. No, there is one other reason, and that is that the cars are admirably handled by expert and careful drivers. Where the blame rests for these IXEX. t:V'.d it "-'"'A ' C,eryrtdeoeshenorrrtarwithUnodui,r ....... . . . . i'... ..v.. nim oiuu cue n 1 1 1 - i mals, when slaughtered, to the United States. It is a simple matter to run sheep and cattle in that country, as there is plenty of grass and the cost of production is exceedingly low. The farmers obtain a good price for the wool and the animals and. taken all In all. they are in a prosperous condi- efficient park service. After plunging- and rearing for a couple of days over these abominable roads through beautiful woods and mountain scenes and taking in the sublime vista from Glacier Point, one arrives at last at the bottom of the i valley, somewhat tired and looKing forward to a rest In the room his Can Ton Answer Tars Uuratioasf I. How are young kangaroos nour ished whin first placed In th pouchT 2. Can earthworms nee? S. How far do nightingalea travel north? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Pre ions Questions, 1. Are monkeys vegetarian? Wild monkeys are not strictly vege tarians, as they eat some Insects, and egirs when they can find them. Krult is greatly liked, and where monkeys or apes live near cultivated lands they will often steal plantains, paw paws, buds from palm treea. etc. In captivity some specimens learn to eat a variety of foods, crackers, bread. ccoked meat, mushed potatoes, etc 2. Can fish live In a froxen pond? If the pond does not freeia solid but leaves at the bottom a shallow layer of mud and water, the fishes will go down into It and remain prac tically torpid, not needing to feed. Lven fishes In a scientific s'ltiarium, where tho tanks are replenished, fuel the influence of the incoming rold water In winter and are very quiet, eating little. S. What are the masculine and feminine terms for swans? 1 know the young are called cygnets. Only a few birds havo a different name for the sexes, us ducks, tho male of which Is called a drake. Th words cock and hen are sometimes used In connection with certain bird names, as cock robin, cock wren, or where an observer of a pair may speak of the female as the "hen." We speak of 'peacocks" when we mean "pe fowl," the female of which la "pea hen." ! fought engaged and Paid for ut . .uuiK.jr, out iiae i,vA p,.i, ,nw judah asencv ten days or more before. Does he get that been following the oil game In South America for several years. tions than just before "Portland, 1925." Somebody send him a but ton, that he may revise his predic tion chopping off banks and making new geography: an imitation, or Miss Edna Mav in n -Bene of New Tork!'" -. ......v.i t,aujr ASlOP rises n A u,es tne nouse of commons the mem Th xnnnlrv has one exeat reason utls "I'ect a nearty lautrh. nnd h for hoping the railroads will remain ladyship seldom disappoints them. under nrivate control. It obviates I ' ago wnne defendinc th -nr dantrer of a return to McAdoo's guardianship infants' bill Rh m- celebrated dollar meals. vulsed the usually, dignified body by ceciaring mat there are "men in nil I nartlAa nrhn t If the comet's tail is visible any- " "P service to where in Oregon, it will be at Bend, " ' , where a halo, day or night, is com- r5UC lnose wn suppose that Lady mon. The news from that lively burg Astor P'8"8 no greater role than that Is awaited. """""i jester Know very "lu ui present political condition It may' be of Interest to former In Great ,Br'aln- Tha is she Is residents to know that the Missouri " V.Z . la natlon- " Is reliably rise Is on in the lower reaches, "talea lnat wya George takes pains w consult, ner upon every question o importance concerning the govern ments Internal policies Nor is the reason far to seek, for she is the acknowledged leader of the women's movement and holds In He I 'he hollow of her hand enough votes to make Or- undo even the present strong government. The commons The navv department Is working laugh at her witty sallies, but at on a system of controlling subma- I heart they have a deep appreciation rines by wireless. It seems more in lot her ability and a still deeper re- need of a system to control admirals I spect for her power. by wire. It is a singular trick of fate which pas placed this American woman, Something wrong in the economic I woman so typical in many ways of world with sugar matching berries 1 the new world, in a position of such In dropping. However, those are the Influence in conservative Britain. goods the gods provide. I The sparkling Virginia girl of a few years ago has become a real factor in Disposal -of garbage always is a the affairs of the nation. As a leader problem as a city grows.- Portland s I and a power, she is not far from the problem is to Keep up witn ner i first woman of Great Britain. New- growth in all utilities, I York Sun. v ; - - The efforts of both sides to sub. y- "oDert, said a Park avenue due the fires in Ireland so far have wlfe to her husband, recently, "do consisted mainly in pouring gasoline 'ou think there could e a dead rat on them. ln one or our wans Tne smell Is very bad. I have hunted all over It's noticeable that none of these the Place- and 1 can;t Imagine what The prisoner who picked up a hymn book and walked out follow ing a jail service may be found shin ing in vaudeville somewhere has talent- comet's . tails have amounted to much since prohibition became ef fective. The hottest weather of the year approaches, a suggestion to lay in your coal. Make a noise this afternoon when the boys from Camp Lewis go by. And now how about a reduction in This Is the logical sequel , to the ' the presidency of the Federation of ' the price of Pullman berths? else it could be.' It Is possible." said the husband. And he went on out on the back porch. The odor seemed to be par ticularly strong tnere. Closer in spection revealed that the trouble could apparently be pinned down to an old eoat. Closer examinat!on of this old coat revealed a small fish in the last stages of decay. Then the husband remembered that when he was fishing he had put the fish in his pocket until he could wade to the bank and deposit it in his bucket. Indianapolis' News. ' room? Me does not. l nere is a mi of palaver at Camp Cuny to explain why you do not set it; dui tney are kind enouKh to give your money hacic snd If vou are lucky you may find a room at the little 1M l ortai inn down at the entrance to tne vai- ley, where you can rest for the night while wondering wny au tnis is per mitted. Fit KDKRlCK S. DKU-lbAHn, 226 West Seventy-eighth street. New York. STBJKCT TOUCHY. THAT IS ALL When it comes to seeklnc road benefits for his county, N. G. Wallace, county judge for Crook county, over- looKs no bets. He is now negotiat ing with the commission for assist ance on the Crooked river road, which ambles out toward Paulina., The commission may, possibly, decide to co-operate in building a road fro the mouth of Bear creek to a connec tion wltt the Central Oregon high way near Millican or Brothers. This matter is ln abeyance, however. One of the highway commissioners and the highway engineer examined the road system in Crook county last Writer Sees Neither Religion Nor Cer. vvcciv, niiivn is ueuiK aeveioued iarcre- I ly under the market-road money, and n,"n "opaganda ln Him tiiey were more than pleased with PORTLAND. June 2S. (To the wnac tne county court Is doing. Editor.) "Deception," a film now I showfns- at the Columbia theater, has mere IS nO DOOSter for Vnrrr,i avlrisnllu noiiROft pnniil.lnrahlA rr county iH the same class with W. B.I motion. It seems a certain body of uarratt, memoer or the highway com- people feel Insulted end have, conse mission. 'Morrow county." declared quently. set out to have the produc er, uarratt, wno is registered at the tion suppressed. Imperial with his son, G. w., "never! I have both read the account of had such crops as this year. The their accusations and seen the picture wool crop has been fine, the grass is Viewing- the film from the standpoint gooa. ana tni wneat crop promises to of production I venture to say that be a bumper. If the producers can suppression of it would be unjust. To get a fair market I believe that they support my statement I will say that will be able to wipe out their obliga- "Deception" is a history product and lions. las such it must necessarily aeai witn facts a something which deviates A couple of sportsmen from Not-1 from the conceptions of fiction, ro- tingham, England, are J. T. Thomo- mance and the like. Unhappily, per son ana tt. layior, registered at the haps, the author chose a suoject Multnomah. They have been angling which is a little too touchy; ncver- at Sunset bay and have been sampling theless it Is an account of persons various trout streams. The British- who once lived and acted their lives ers are enthusiastic over their luck I on this globe. Roses. II y (.race K. Hall. Bring to me white roses, dear. When my heart la calm and still. Worshipful its evening mood, Touched by sunset on the hill; Quieted by softened grays, Ci.lmed by neutral mystic hase, Hanging to the mountain's rim In the twilight dim. Bring to me pink roses, dear. When my pulse has faster grown. Moved to sweet, expectant mood Thinking of your smile, your tone; amiiK ior your step, your voice, Thoughts awakened to rejoice Bring pink roses damp with dew When I wait for you. Bring to ma red roses, dear, When you come with ardent ye. " ii an mnurr la my moon. Sensing love's own paradise: When my heart is at Its flood Bring red roses, red as blood. Then shall each sweet bud betray What 1 dare not say! In Other Days. Henry VIII seems to be tho target Inasmuch as he la pictured as si-nsu- ous. To form a Just Judgment one must know history, which records him not exactly as an angel. True enough all species of the genus homo have their faults, nevertheless it Is and consider that America is not en tirely nopeiess as a place to live in while there is such good fishinir to De iouna. S. S. Shell, who is rapidly finish ing up his paving contract on the Pacific highway in the vicinity of ud to any honest person to draw a Gold Hill, Is in town for the high way I line, lest the existence of a moral meeting. ne is registered from would become extinct. Grants Pass. Thus far Mr. Shell has Inasmuch as "Deception" Is sup lald more pavement this vear than I nosed to be an attack on the church any otner outfit, out this is because or England. I am prone io upnoia he put in most of last year a-ettln a neKative. Movies, as such, are an ready and he started laying long be- industry, soliciting the support of fore paving operations usually begin. I everybody irrespective or religious beliefs. ir people want piciurea io While there are only a few hundred conform with their own Ideas on re people in Gearhart, still the place is ligion, such people better enter the big enough for a mayor, and C. F. field of movle-productlon. I am sure Walch occupies -the position. Mavor that it will be the best remedy Walch made a trip to Portland to find That a picture like "Deception" can. ut what it will cost his town to Day at this time, have any anti-American for part of the paving of the state influence Is not even probable. Such highway which runs along the edge a statement. In my mind, Is a lack of of it. The town will be notified later and it is likely to be charged any where between $800 and 11600. Tears ago E. E. Millard was a Front-street dealer. He made money and went to W'ilows, Cal., where he became interested ln the rice culture there. He bought and bought and bought until he is a regular rice mag- ate. Mr. Millard has returned to Portland for a spell and is registered at the Imperial. G. L. Dunning, county commission- r of Umatilla county, is registered at the Hotel Oregon from Stanfield. He Is here to confer with the high- ay commissioners. confidence in our heroes who shed their blood in France, and an igno rance of the potential patriotism of Americans, the greatest power on this globe. Personally I should say take "Deception" as a portrayal of an hia torio epoch and let it go at that. JULIUS SERVATIUS. Tvrenty-Klve Years Aa-n. From The Oresonlan of June l!Vl Wllkesbarre. Pa. While 90 miners were at work in the Hed Ash vein at Plttston the roof caved In and it is believed all of them are killed. A very large white crawfish was displayed in a Third-street market baturrlay labeled "Sacred Whit Crawfish." Jt came from the Yamhill river. I. N. Pay of the Ca-scsde Locks. r turned noma last evening after a business trip to this city. The clever capturo in Vancouver yesterday afternoon of three notorious profess. onal bank burglars fully armed was accomplished by Detec tive Joa Day. Nationality at SIneker. SKAMOKAWA, Wash., June 27. (To the Editor.) What nationality Is Grover Bergdoll draft evader who is now in Germany T' A SUBSCRIBER. He was born in America and was an American citizen. As an escaped convict, he has so citizenship. , Fifty -Years As.o From The Orrgonian of June Cn. 171. Berlin. hrnperor William nasi Issued a decree forming all Orman troops In France under the name of the army of occupation. Walter Moffett's bark Kdward James, Captain l'a'terson, has com" pleted a voyage to China and return. The customs Inspector yesterdav seized a considerable quantity of opium and other goods in tha hands of a Chinese passenger as he landed from a boat. The laying of the corner stone of the Masonic temple will take place this afternoon at b o clock. Itrslilrnee Qualification for Donna. PORTLAND, June IS. (To the Edi tor.) Does a resident of the tate of Oregon at time of enlistment, as I stated in the bonus requirements, mean that one must have lived six months In the state previous to en listment? SUBSCRIBER. The law does define "re.-Menre.' Those of doubtful status will prob ably have to await a ruling by ths attorney-general or the veterans' aid commission.