TIIE MORNING OKEGONUX. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919.
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SMOKELESS DAYS.
The Coquille Valley Sentinel leads
Its Interesting editorial page -with a
paragraph which will raise In the
anxious minds of the tobacco-users
dark forebodings as to the tloomy
course of a smokeless and spitlcss
future:
The Noelh F-nd. Myrtle Tolnt and Coejullla
rhools have adopted the rule which eatlrely
vrohibtta all atudonts who use tobacco from
entering- any huh school athletic contest,
and also forbids the schools to enitajte in any
contest with schoois that do pot auul't a
similar rule. tnd-r this rule North Bend
recently refused to play a samo ot basketball
with the Bcndan school tx causa the lal.er
haa not adopted tb anU-tobacco rule.
The anti-tobacco crusade has clearly
made headway the classic shores
of Coos bay. It is easy to imagine
that It is not laid solely on a moral
foundation. What aspiring and per
eplnns young athlete, for example,
has not heard front the wise lips of
the experienced coach all about the
dangers of the tobacco heart? How
many glorious careers on the track,
or In the gymnasium, have not been
cut off because of over-indulgence in
nicotine? What sad thoughts must
arise before the 'beaten hero, when he
is able to trace his fall to- use ot the
weed? The path of glory is strewn
with many wrecks which might have
been avoided but for tobacco.
It is no answer that nearly all pro
fessional athletes baseball players,
for example use tobacco. The balance
between them is maintained, of course,
because the vice is common to all.
Hut what a different result it some
great manager should have the bril
liant idea of gathering together a
tobaccoless team. Why has it not oc
curred to Manager McCredie? We pass
it on to him. lie needs good advice.
Of course, these are the more or
less playful remarks of an addict, pen
ning his satirical words in the odorous
vicinage of a well-located cuspidors
and In the midst of clouds of encircling
moke. But he is cot moved from his
stern purpose to Jeer at the fanatical
reformers who would change his
habits through force. He may be re
minded, to be sure, that tobacco Is not
for the young. The law. ot course,
prevents the sale of cigars, fine-cut
and the like to minors, but not to
adults. Presumably the pupils in the
Coos bay schools are all less than II.
and presumably the law is enforced.
Why is it necessary to make a rule
that tobacco shall be forbidden? Why
not another rule that the law be
obeyed? Or is It futile to fortify any
statute with a regulation that it is
valid as to any particular group in
any community? Don't the authorities
there attend to business? They are
hard enough on bootlegtrers down in
that part of Oregon. Why are the
tobacconists exempt?
Let us not Intimate that the sheriff
and the police smoke or chew, or both.
It would make no difference. The law
against liquor is being enforced, but
not by practicing prohibitionists not
in all cases.
It is a curious and significant fact
that no parent who uses tobacco de
sires that his children smoke neither
boys nor girls. Why is it? Habit, he
will say, is a bad thing and tobacco is,
besides, hurtful to the growing young.
Why, then, do boys smoke? Mostly,
we should say, because their fathers
do, and all the wise admonitions from
that source fallen deaf ears when not
fortified by example. One good way
to have a smokeless and chewless
family is for its head to swear off,
and stay there. Physician, heal thy
self. It is a heroic remedy, but what
other will suffice, unless it be through
the schools and the churches?
The affrighted addict has not ob
served without benefit the history of
prohibition in Amerira. and the great
part the public schools have had in it.
Kducation in the physiological effects
of liquor-drinking has been going on
for years, and it has borne fruit. Now
the schools have turned their batteries
on tobacco. Holy smoke, what is going
to happen to all of us novitiates and
incurables alike?
DRIFTING IMTO JOB.
The new British educational act
takes a long step In the direction of
aolvtng the problem of unrest due to
the habit of constantly changing Jobs.
Jt provides for putting the Juvenile
department ot the labor exchanges
under control of officials also charged
with enforcement of the compulsory
education act. The reason often given
by parents for withdrawing their
children from school at the earliest
date the law allows is pressure of
economic necessity. The child's in
come is wanted to help support the
family. But if presently the child Is
out of work, it does not return to
school. The British law proposes that
ail periods of Idleness shall be spent
in school. This ought to minimise
loafing in bad company, and also dis
courage acceptance of Jobs of doubt
ful permanency.
Educators' are not yet prepared to
Insist that the so-called higher edu
cation is desirable for all pupils, re
gardless ot their own inclinations.
The primary purpose of compulsory
education Is to furnish the funda
mentals for making a living, but this
advantage is frequently tost when the
pupil on leaving school accepts first
one Job ami then another, which lead
nowhere, and finds himself in his
twenties without skill In anthlng.
He Is pruductivels worth no more
than he was as a boy: yet with the
appetites and aspirations of an adult
he finds It increasingly difficult to
make ends meet. If when he left the
schoolroom he had learned a trade or
stuck to a busines for which he was
fitted, he would have a different story
to tell.
IS. Xuil text of. the ErlUili law is
not yet available, but published sum
maries Indicate that it represents an
effort to encourage youths to Inquire
when they seek work whether it is
likely to be permanent or not If it is
permanent, it is likely to teacri some
thing. The number of young men who
know how to do nothing in particular
is appailin?. They have neither book
learning nor manual skilL Registra
tion in the army disclosed a vast num
ber of physically sturdy youths whose
actual experience had fitted them for
nothing.
The hard school of experience has
turned out some shining successes,
but the process Is exceedingly waste
ful. The human derelicts of the world
are also products of the school of ex
perience, who flunked but unfortu
nately 'cannot live their lives over
again. Any movement which will
stimulate exercise of greater care In
choosing the Initial Job, and promote
permanency of early employment de
serves looking into.
A PORTRAIT.
A reader of The Oregonian sends in
the following excerpt from the writ
ings of Woodrow Wilson an appraisal
of the character of Jefferson Davis
and requests that it bo printed with
appropriate comment:
Ha had tha pride, the spirit of Initiation,
ths rapacity In business which qualify men
for leadership, and lacked nothln of in
domitable will and Imperious purpose, to
make his leadership eirective. w hat he aid
lack was wisdom In dealing with men. will
incnesa to take the Judgment of others in
critical mattera of business, tha instinct
which recogniaea ability In others and trusts
It to the utmost to play Its Independent part.
He too much loved to rule, had too over
weening a confidence In himself, and took
leave to act as If be understood better than
those did who were In actual command
what should be done In the f!c,ld.
He sought to control too many things with
too feminine a Jealousy of any rivalry in
authority. '
Interesting, quite interesting1 in
deed. Nothing could be more inter
esting, except possibly an assessment
of President Wilson by Jefferson
Davis.
BCRLKSON AGAIN.
The New York World submits to
the two telegraph companies the out
lines of a press dispatch on Postmas
ter-General Burleson and the post-
office department, and It Is refused
on the ground that it is libelous."
The pvstmas:er-general now seeks
to relieve his department from the
odium of on action so autocratic, dis
criminatory and indefensible by di
recting the "management of all tele
graph systems to suspend, insofar as
messages referring to the postmaster-
general are concerned, their rules pro
hibiting transmission of messages con
taining libelous matter."
The order is at once a flippant chal
lenge to the world, or any paper, to
say what it pleases about the post
master-general, under his Imperial per
mission, and an insolent assertion of
his right to censor all newspaper
messages.
If the postmaster-general may say
what may go over the telegraph wires,
why may he not also say what may go
through the mails?
The mails and the telegraph ana
telephone are indispensable media for
all newspapers. Without them they
cannot exist.
Burlesontsm is an evil which a free
country cannot and will not long
tolerate.
TWO GLADIATORS.
Rarely, if ever, has a personal con
troversy between the responsible head
of a great government and the pub
lisher of a great newspaper become
an outstanding feature of interna
tional politics, but that is the result
of Lord Northcliffe's strictures on
Premier Lloyd George In the London
Times and of the premier's retort In
parliament. The two men stand forth
as gladiators, the one using the pen,
the other the tongue, as his weapon,
and the contest attracts the eye of the
world because the two together have
been the most potent individual forces
in developing the power of the Brit
ish empire to the point where it be
came, with that of the t'nlted States,
the chief means of carrying the allies
to victory.
The Times has long been a political
force in Britain, making and unmak
ing cabinets. By exposing the blun
ders of Lord Aberdeen In the Crimean
war it drove him from office and put
Lord Palmerston in his place to bring
Czar Nicholas to terms. During the
years before the war it had been a
violent opponent of the Asquith cabi
net, of which Lloyd George was a
leading member, and of him in par
ticular. It supported Asquith at the
beginning of the war. but it soon rec
ognized that he lacked the force, de
cision, power of organization and
quick insight which were necessary to
victory. At that early stage Lloyd
George proved to be the driving force
and the Inspiring genius which called
the martial spirit of the British peo
ple into action. Thus the imperative
necessities of war. as both men viewed
them, brought these political opposites
Into unconscious alliance. The Times
was the defender of old institutions,
of the land owners and of vested in
terests: Lloyd George was the radical
assailant of those interests, the man
who heaped obloquy on the dukes, but
In face of a foreign enemy they came
to work together. The logical conclu
sion was that they together pulled
down the incompetent Asquith, and
the Times once more set up a premier
to win a war.
But the Times continued to play
the part of independent critic, even
while its owner held office under the
government. It said that the new gov
ernment was loaded with many dis
credited ministers, who wa-e held in
place for reasons of political expedi
ency, and when victory removed the
check imposed by patriotism Its criti
cism became less restrained. It broke
out when the premier called an elec
tion on the morrow of the armistice
and became the head of a coalition
three-fourths of which were drawn
from his former political opponents
in order to carry out a radical pro
gramme of reconstruction directly af
fecting the dearest interests of those
opponents.
Lloyd George's part in the peace
conference brought the quarrel to a
head by forcing him Into the open.
After he had pledged himself to pun
ish the kaiser, to, obtain the last dol
lar of indemnity from Germany, to
restore Poland in full power, to stand
by Russia against the bolshevists and
by France in the demand for protec
tion against future invasion. he
showed signs of weakening. Then
came a warning telegram from 4 00 of
his supporters, and he stiffened up,
went to parliament to make his de
fense and for the first time struck
back at Northclif te. That retort gave
the Times its chance to sum up the
case, and it recalled the failure to
help Russia, the I'rinkipo fiasco, the
plan to deny Tcschen and Danzig to
Poland, the opposition to France's
claims as signs of the premior's weak
ness In defending the allies' right
and of ignorant of the, merits &t eali
case. It called attention to "the en
tire absence of any determination on
his part to deal promptly and vigor
ously with the enemy in case the peace
terms be rejected." It suggested
some interesting disclosures to come
by saying:
Some points In his war record may require
to be more fully known when a public service
can be rendered by making them known
and by showing that, if the allied peoples
are now within sight of a tolerable peace,
it la in part at least because I.loyd George
has had at some critical moment a "bad
press."
This controversy has a direct inter
est for Americans, for it indirectly In
fluences the course of President Wil
son at the peace -conference. Lloyd
George and he seem to have decided
at the outset on co-operation, and the
premier's action on "every point w here
he is accused of weakness may be
traced to Mr. Wilson's lead. Political
necessity, which became apparent
when the premier received the tele
gram from the 400, may explain his
taking a firmer stand beside France
and Poland and in favor of some pos
itive action toward Russia. To carry
his fourteen points and to continue
co-operation with the British delega
tion to that end, the president may
have found it advisable to acquiesce
in the new proposals, especially as he
needed support in so amending the
Paris" covenant as to make it accept
able to the senate. Thus do the do
mestic politics of Britain affect those
of the United States, and we may ex
pect that those of other European
countries will have like effect. As a
quarrel between a British premier and
a London publisher have changed the
course of our delegates at Paris, other
events in other foreign capitals will
yet swing: votes in congress.
NEWS AS A PEACE FACTOR.
The speeches at the annual meeting
of the Associated Press bring into
prominence the fact that knowledge is
the greatest factor in establishing
peace. Exchange of news enables
peoples to know one another and what
other peoples think, do and say, and
that knowledge dissipates error and
falsehood and propagates truth.
Nine-tenths of the wars between na
tions, like nine-tenths of the, quarrels
between men, have arisen from mis
understanding founded in Ignorance
and often deliberately created by de
signing men, as by the kaiser and his
tools. In the presence of such an or
ganization as the Associated Press,
with its instantaneous and world-wide
dissemination of news, such schemes
cannot long succeed.
While the victims of the Lusitania
were still struggling in the water, that
organization sent the news around the
world, causing a thrill of horror which
condemned Germany to ultimate de
feat. -
CENTENARY OF ODD FELLOWSHIP.
The Independent Order of Oddfel
lows, commemorating its one hun
dredth anniversary thla week, takes
comfort in statistics which show a
truly marvelous growth in member
ship, in expenditures for relief and in
tangible assets of one. kind and an
other, but its vast usefulness has been
of an imponderable kind. The spirit
of brotherhood which is cultivated by
Odd Fellowship, and which feeds upon
itself and grows by practice, is only
symbolized by the statement, for illus
tration, that 16,509.000 was expended
for relief work in 1918, or that the
present membership of the order in
the United States is 2.230,231.
The great number of benefit-paying
fraternities of which the Independent
Order of Oddfellows is a pioneer type.
give eloquent testimony to the power
of an idea.- In a perfect state of
society, perhaps,, there would be no
need for men to organize, with friend
ship, love and truth as their motto,
and formally to declare their purpose
to visit the sick, relieve distress, bury
the dead and educate the orphan. But
men need the stimulus both of precept
and example to preserve them in a
proper relationship to duty, and these
are furnished by the Oddfellows and
kindred fraternities. Practice in well
doing serves to demonstrate that it is.
indeed, more blessed to give than to
receive.
The great sums expended for relief
of the brethren, their widows and
orphans, the homes for the aged, or
phanages for the care and education
of the young, are in themselves worth
while, as their immediate beneficiaries
can testify, but it is pertinent to con
sider that the greatest benefit of all is
conferred upon those who are per
mitted to share in' these benevolent
and unselfish enterprises. - "A brother
to relieve how exquisite the bliss,"
sang Robert Burns, giving voice to this
idea. The Independent Order of Odd
fellows, conceived in America by five
men familiar with the spirit of a simi
lar adventure in England, has grown
to its present proportions because un
selfishness is contagious, and because.
in their innermost hearts, men want
to help their fellows and need only to
be shown the way.
WATCHFUL WAITING FOR WILSON.
That was a gloomy prospect which
J. R. Bowles held out at the shipbuild
ers' conference with Mayor Baker. All
present contracts to be completed by
the middle of October, and no further
contracts in sight. From 80,000 to
50.000 men thrown out of employment.
and public work holding out the only
prospect of re-employment. A. great
industry, in which both the govern
ment and private enterprise nave in
vested millions, reduced to paralysis.
Such' is the prospect which Mr. Bowles
sets before" us.
By way of contrast Chairman Hurley
of the shipping board predicts a very
bright future. With a deficiency of
at least 14,320,000 gross tons of ship-
Ding to be made up in order to place
the merchant tonnage of the world
where it would have been if there had
been no war, the United States is in
the best position to supply the need,
according to him. We have a greater
shipbuilding capacity than Great Brit
ain, which can produce 3,000,000 grosi
tons a year, and during the war we
added almost S.000,000 gross tons Of
steam seagoing ships to our merchant
fleet. All nations want ships, and we
are in the best position to supply them,
but Mr. Hurley is not yet able to give
comparative costs in this and other
countries. As between our two coasts
he places the cost per deadweight ton
of steel ocean freight vessote delivered
n 1918 at J138.05 on the Atlantic, and
$159.06 on the Pacific. He predicts
that the British advantage in cost on
account of lower wages will be "over
come by advantages gained in other
cost elements, and particularly in cm-
ploying our well-paid ship workers.
As workmen gain skill he expects their
efficiency to increase at least 50 per
cent.
But that information does not cheer
the shipbuilders when the shipping
board has canceled many contracts,
lets no more except a few to areplace
some of those canceled, has forbidden
acceptance of foreign" contracts for
tea fiiiis anil 1104 ivcn Uie jVOQtl
ship a bad name which deters owners
from giving contracts. His facts are
highly flattering to the shipbuilder,
but they do not, show him how to
keep his plant running after October.
If the shipbuilder and his men-are so
highly competent, why are they not
permitted to sell their work after the
government ceases to want it?
We must go to Paris for the answer.
In putting an embargo, on foreign con
tracts the shipping board followed or
ders from President Wilson. For some
reason of international policy which
may be ample for him but is totally
unknown to the other one hundred odd
millions of the American people, he
says that no steel ships shall be built
except for the shipping board or with
an option to the board, and the board
wantb no more. Eut we are also-informed
that when he returns he will
unfold a most attraotive programme of
domestic legislation. Being constitu
tionally optimistic, we naturally infer
that this programmo will include some
thing particularly good for the ship
building industry.
There is no doubt that Portland, in
common with other Pacific coast cities,
can build ships and that the rest of
the -vforld is willing to buy them or
charter them or sail on them, various
lugubrious prophets of disaster to the
contrary notwithstanding. Even the
despised wood' ships are in demand,
five built in. Portland having been
bought at a loss of only $35 a to'n on
their war cost. All that is needed to
keep the Portland yards running ir
more co-operation and encouragement
and less obstruction from the govern
merit. There is a difference of $21 a
ton against the Pacific on steel ships,
but freight rates on steel have been
raised 96 per cent in the last two years,
and that item alone is more than
double the difference, being at least
$50,000 on an 8800-ton ship. Mr. Wil
son might instruct Mr. Hurley to pre
vail on Mr. Hines to cut off half of
that increase. Then the mild winter
climate of the Pacific coast gives it
an advantage over the blizzardly At
lantic coast which is estimated to be
worth $20 a ton in severe winters. The
labor unions might help by ceasing to
insist on higher wages than the east
coast pays, on the fictitious 'ground
that cost of living is higher. Wood
ship yards also might be active if the
shipping board would stop forcing its
own plans on the builders and if steel
shipbuilders and senators would stop
talking about the faults of the board's
ships as characteristic of wood ships
in general. There is ample field for
the wood ship, and it will be filled if
the board will get out of the way.
There are new devices in construction
and there are methods in efficiency
which can reduce the cost of both
types of vessels to meet foreign cost.
Shipbuilders and their workmen
must wait till they hear from Mr.
Wilson in order to learn whether they
are to have Jobs after next October.
No doubt he has them in mind, for
he has the election of 1920 in prospect.
and ship workers out of a job are not
a political asset. But if his plan in
cludes government ownership or oper
ation, he would do well to revise it,
for congress will view it with a critical
eye and with knowledge that the pub
lie is rather fed up on that sort of
thing. He would better try setting
industry free from government inter
ference and obstruction as more likely
to meet with the approval of congress
and to set the wheels moving.
In the meantime it would be well to
set our minds to attracting additional
industries to Portland, not as a substi
tute for but in addition to shipbuild
ing. We want to keep that industry
going, but there is plenty of room for
more.
Announcement by the United States
employment service that cotncidentally
with a reported surplus of labor in
many cities there Is an actual shortage
on the" farms will not surprise the
most ordinary observer whose business
has taken him into the agricultural
districts. The tendency to remain in
the centers of population after being
disbanded has been manifested by sol
diers in other wars, and it is observ
able in other countries in connection
with this war.. The gregarious spirit
has been fostered by army life and
discipline, and it requires for the
young man who for two years or so
has been accustomed to plenty of com
panionship to adjust himself to the
idea of comparative solitude on the
farm. But the farmers' needs are
exceedingly real, and it may yet be
come advisable to offer inducements
In the way of early discharge to sol
diers who want farm work. It will
be a service to the country as well as
to the man to speed up the farm labor
supply.
F. J. Kiesel of Ogden, who died
Tuesday at the age of 78, was a pioneer
in commercial activities following the
building of the Oregon Short Line into
this state, though merchandising was
more of a side issue. He believed in
"the ditch" as an empire builder. One
of his- early efforts resulted in the
"K., S. & D. ranch" in Malheur county
thirty years ago, proving large affairs
as successful as smaller demonstra
tions by individuals. He was a man
who did the big things, leaving details
to associates, and always was suc
cessful. The Germans proposed to send a
large delegation to Versailles under
the impression that they were to nego
tiate a peace treaty. They will simply
be handed a document and be told to
"sign here." A clerk and a couple of
witnesses would be enough, but the
game of saving the Germans' face must
be kept up to the last.
The grand chief baker of the United
States says that "no matter how low
the price of flour falls, the price of
bread cannot go to- the old figure."
Then we shall have to take the advice
of that French queen and eat cake.
The trend toward the tractor is
shown by the presence of thousands
of farmers at the Walla Walla demon
stration. All are prospective buyers.
That Leadville miners' strike is set
tled after all, and the company which
pulled out its pumps acted too soon
or was it only a bluff?
California continued in a legal way
yesterday, to "view with alarm" the
appVoach of prohibition. Vain hope!
Whatever Orville Billings of Tacoma
was doing with a loaded pistol at the
dinner table, the weapon did its best.
If Italy has accomplished nothing
more at the peace conference, it has
made Fiunie famous.
"West Point" Is grudgingly willing
) allow the national guard to organize.
Verilv. the climate is changing. No
rain on opening day.
Xbxce dam in wkicii to ut Iter over!
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leeae Caaa Baer.
MARJORIE RAMBEAU Is to play an
eight-week stock engagement, two
weeks in Denver, three in Salt Lake
City and three in San Francisco. She
says she is to be paid 11650 a week. 1
think they got the decimal point in the
wrong place. Probably $16.50 or maybe
$165.0 is what it should have read,
a a a
Quite appropriately the name of the
man ahead of "Going Up" is Hier. Mr.
Hler's other name la Bert and he was
here last ahead of "It Pays to Adver
tise." He has been with Cohan & Har
ris several years and now Is bringing
their unusual play, "Going Up," to the
Heilig next week. Arthur Cunningham
is in the company.
a a
Two former Baker players will be
seen tonight when "The Man Who Came
Back" opens at the Heilig. Besides
Dorothy Bernard, who is the leading
woman, there is another player, Irving
Southard, .who used to be here in stock,
a a a
Folk who like Henry Miller and
Blanch Bates and Ruth Chatterton will
be interested in Mr. Miller's announce
ment that in August he and Miss Bates
will appear at the Heilig in "Mollere,"
a play of the period of Louis XIV which
has created a sensation in New York,
where it is now being played at the
Liberty theater with Mr. Miller as the
actor-dramatist and Miss Bates as
Madame de Montespan. The period of
the play is during the reign of Louis
XIV, toward the close of the seven
teenth century. About a week before
Mr. Miller and Miss Bates came north
Ruth Chatterton will be seen here in
her new comedy, "The Merrie Month
of May," i which she Is appearing at
Powers' theater in Chicago, where the
comedy is called "Moonlight and Hon
eysuckle." It has been decided to re
vert to "The Merrie Month of May,"
Lthe original and more expressive title.
The scenes of the comedy are laid in
Washington, D. C, today and Miss
Chatterton appears as Judith Baldwin,
the debutante daughter of Senator
Baldwin of Arizona. New York will
not see "The Merrie Month ot May"
until September, when It begins an
engagement at Henry Miller's theater,
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Paul Gilmore, who played Old Bill in
"Tha Better 'Ole" at the Heilig last
week, will leave the company in San
Francisco. Mr. Gilmore has not been
on the Pacific coast for a half dozen
years, although formerly he was an
annual visitor, heading his own dra
matic and musical comedy productions.
Until his splendid Interpretation of
roaring Old Bill appeared bis "Mummy
and the Humming Bird" undoubtedly
was his best effort in the dramatic
field and bis "Boys of Company B"
hla most noteworthy production in
musical comedy. Mr. Gllmore's Old
Bill was a noteworthy characterization
and reviewers agree that it, with Mr,
Cob'urn's, was the best of several sent
on tourt and the folks who saw his
study are gainers for his having de
cided to defer his withdrawal from the
company until he reached San Fran
cisco.
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John Drew, who still draws in spite
of his years and rheumatic joints, will
be under the management of Arthur
Hopkins next season to star in a nets
show now known as "The Ugly Fer
enti," which starts rehearsals next
week for a spring tryout, but not to
appear on Broadway until ' the f all.
The play is adapted, having first
been presented in Vienna just prior
to the war. At that time Leo Ditrlch
stein, Morris Gest and Lee Shubert
saw It and all sought the American
rights. Lee Shubert eventually secured
the piece, negotiations having been
held up until the end of hostilities.
It will; be produced, however, under
the sole direction of Mr. Hopkins, with
Mr. Shubert financially interested.
Mr. Drew appeared under Frohman
management until last season when
presented By John Williams. His sea
son was understood notto have been
satisfactory.
, The next appearance of Nan Halperin
Cwho .recently retired from vaudeville
through illness), will be in a musical
production. Joe Weber is reading tha
manuscript of "The Blue Mouse" this
week, to determine upon its possibili
ties and acceptance. He is her man
ager. ,
The Halperin show is expected to
start about Labor day.
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In connection with her proposed trip
to Paris, where she is under engage
ment to the Folies Bergere, Anna Held,
Jr., will attend to several matters re
quiring her attention concerning the
estate of her mother in France. She
expects to sail rn June.
Miss Held may go on the road over
here next, season at the head of a pro
duction written for her. She recently
discussed, in. an interview, the feasi
bility of adopting hereafter the name
of Anna Held, for herself, without add
ing the "Jr." The friends are said to
have discouraged that plan, saying that
Anna Held's name is held in such fond
memory over here, in and out of the
profession, that to restore it to the
stage (if that would be permitted by
managers by even her daughter), might
beJ looked upon by professionals and
the non-professionals as an affront,
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''Two women are named as equal bene
ficiaries in the will of Adam Forepaugh
Jr., the veteran circus manager and
elephant trainer, who died March 29.
One is Lily Forepaugh, from whom he
b.ad been separated for many years.
The other is Helen Smith, who lived at
the circus man's home, 627 North Fif
teenth street, this city. She was known
as Mrst Forepaugh.
The latter survived Mr. Forepaugh
only a few days. It is supposed the
shock of his death aggravated her ill
ness. Forepaugh exceeded his wealth In
making dispositions in his will. The
estate, according to the petition filed
with the will, is valued at only $5000,
and in his will he directed that a
mausoleum be constructed at a cost
of $10,000. He specified the residue be
held in trust for the benefit or the
two women named and also selected
the various charities to receive the
money at the death of the two women.
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The Slay Irwin ehow closed, tempor
arily, last week, at Oswego, N. Y. iliss
Irwin was suffering with neuritis. Her
physicians ordered her to Mount Clem
ens at once.
While there fs a possibility of reor
ganization before the summer, it de
pends much upon Misa Irwin's Improve
uicnt. The chances are the star will
co to her Thousand lalantj home over
the hot weather, resuming the tour la
tho fail.
Those Who Come and Co.
Inspecting the facilities of Portland
for handling grain In tiulk, the state
grain elevator commission of Montana
passed through Portland Tuesday and
went to Astoria yesterday. In the
party were Adam Simpert of Great
Falls, C. E. Foster of Coffee Creek,
Clark Bumgarner of Fife, W. S. McCor
mack of Kalispell and F. S. Putnam of
Joliet. The commission has $250,000
with which to build a grain elevator,
and is on a tour to gather informa
tion. The Montana grain men are dis
satisfied with the treatment they have
received from eastern dealers and fa
vor shipping their wheat to the Pacific
seaboard and thence to Liverpool. One i
ot the objects in visiting Portland and
Astoria was to survey the situation
and ascertain if the Montana grain
can be suitably handled out of here.
The commission will also inspect the
facilities on Puget sound:
Politicians are gossiping that if there
is a vacancy in the job of secretary ef
state, Louis E. Bean of Eugene will
be appointed. There may be nothing
in it, but, anyway, that Is the rumor.
Mr. Bean is In the city to show the
state fish and game commission why
the commission should buy a couple of
farms to raise Chinesev pheasants and
release the birds in the spring, so that
the state will be replenished with
Chinas. As a member of the legisla
ture for many sessions, Mr. Bean is
one of the best-known men in the state.
One of his measures in the 1919 session
was to direct the state highway com
mission to lay 15 miles of experimental
pavement, five miles each of wood
blocks, concrete and asphaltic concrete.
The highway commission decided this
month to do the experimenting in Lane
county, which is where Mr. Bean comes
from.
"War has had an effect on the pop
ulation of the state hospital," said Dr.
R. E. Lee Steiner, who manages the
big institution at Salem. "The stress
of war particularly affected mothers
who had boys irt the service. The pres
ent population of the institution is 1152,
which Is more than we had expected.
Next Saturday a carload of inmates,
foreigners, will be shipped to their na
tive land. Among them are Mexicans,
Chinese and European aliens. There
will be 30 deported under the direction
of the immigration service. These un
fortunates are sent away to eliminate
the cost of keeping them in this coun
try when they can be supported by
their own governments."
Ho is interested in the Natron cut
off: h" is a director in a bank; he is
a lawyers he is a republican, and he" Is
a member of the state fish and game
commission, is Charley Stone of Kla
math. He signs himself C. F. Stone,
but because he is a regular fellow they
call him "Charley." Yesterday he was
at the Imperial to attend a meeting of
the fish and game commission, and
whenever the opportunity presented it
self he insisted on discussing the road
situation in Klamath and the prospect
or a highway running north and south
through the county and another road
from Klamath Falls to Lakeview.
The occupant of a room in the Mult
nomah took his departure yesterday
and took about everything else In the
room with him, except the-furniture.
He got away wtih four sheets, four
pillow cases and two pairs of blankets,
and an assortment of towels. The
cakes of soap were not disturbed, and
he. was considerate enough not to le
vant with the electric light globes.
The gentleman was dressed in a sol
dier's uniform, and the house manager
would like to meet him.
"Never again!" exclaimed IT, W.
Steinhauser of Parkdale, Or., as he
signed the Benson register. "I came
down in a jitney. We left at 7 A. M
and It is now 2:30 P. M. And we had
two punctures." The orchards in Park
dale, he explained, are doing nicely
and frosts have caused no damage.
Parkaale is at the upper end of Hood
river valley, next door to the lava
beds in the Oregon national forest.
Ages ago lava flowed all over the
present site of Parkdale.
To ad eclat to the opening game and
watch the state's chief executive put
the ball over the plate, Mrs. Dr. Steiner
and Mrs. Olcott were in the city yes
terday. Governor Olcott's party regis
tered at the Benson. Ball playing is
i.o novelty for the governor, as he
played for several years on the state
house team, of which Circuit Judge W.
N. Gatens was also a member.
Before you come to lone, in Morrow
county, you can follow a trail of tin
cans. A good description of lone can
be found in "The Virginian," although
the name of the town is disguised. All
of which serves to announce that Roy
W. Sperry of lone is at the Benson.
The town raises and ships more poultry
than any other in the county.
Marion Jacjc, who is a director in
Bill Thompson's bank at Pendleton-
tho bank may be chartered under some
other name, but people, refer to It as
Bill Thompson's was in Portland yes
terday attending the fish and game
commission meeting, he being the east
ern Oregon member of the commission.
G. J. Burke, in business at Lebanon,
is staying at the Perkins. Linn county
intends bonding itself to the limit for
good roads on June 3, and expects in
the course of a year or so to see a road
across the Cascades into central Ore
gon. Fish Lake :s quite excited at
the prospect.
Construction engineer for Charles C.
Moore & Co. of : San Francisco, David
P. Vail, arrived at the Benson yester
day. This is the company tv,hich was
given the Job of building the auxiliary
power plant of the Northwestern Elec
tric company.
A. H. Sylvester, of the forest service,
and located at Leavenworth, is at the
Multnomah. He is one of the pine
blister rust experts who have been con
sidering how to combat the disease in
the west.
Merchants from the thriving city of
Boise, Idaho, which drags all of the
business out of Harney and Malheur
counties in Oregon, are H. C: Shelf
worth and I. H. Nash. They are at the
Hotel Portland.
Having inspected the government war
plant at Fort Stevens, Colonel A. N.
Loeb returned to Portland yesterday
and registered at the Multnomah. He
is on his way to Puget sound.
E. P. Meinocke of Washington. D. C,
is at the Benson. He was connected
with the department which had to do
with the importation of nitrates from
Chili during the late unpleasantness.
Mrs. Newton D. Baker Sr., mother
of the secretary of war, was at the
Imperial for a few hours yesterday be
tween trains. She was accompanied by
Mrs. Charles M. Bainbridge, her niece.
Motoring to Winnipeg from Califor
nia, a party of four arrived at the Ben
son yesterday. They are Mrs. A. J.
Andrew, Miss Andrew. J. H. R. Cald
well and C. H. Enderton.
A. H. Tait arrived at the Benson yes
r,tav fmni A-ustralia. He is here to
consult with Balfour-Guthrie people re
garding the Australian wxicai DiLuauva,
J. C. Clarke, who manages the San
Francisco office of the Willamette Iron
& Steel works. Is at the Benson, being
hero to consult with the heme office.
"I owe Holman" is a first-of-the-mon-h
sigh at Clatskanie. Mr. I. Q.
Holman, himsslf. merchant, is among
the Perkins arrivals.
l-nt:s xi-. '" - .,.,.. ... v,..-
tilia, and therefore registers from Pen
dleUm, is At t'ae Perkins, i
In Other Day.
Fifty Years Ao.
From The Oregonian of April 14. 1S80.
New Orleans. A heavy suit has been
Instituted against the directors of the
Bank of Louisiana. Individually, for the
recovery of deposits lost by the removal
of the assets of the bank Into the con
federacy before tha capture of New
Orleans and for loans to the Confed
erate government.
London. The negotiations for a
counsel conference between France and
Belgium have, been suspended.
A gentleman who has Just come over
land states that the Union Pacitio Rail
road company has commenced grading
toward the Columbia river from the
neighborhood of Monument poirst.
Alexander Dumas has had to leave
Yarls to escape .his creditors, it is said.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregenlan of April 24,- 1S!4.
forced to close and water covers the
railroad tracks, so hlsh is the Missis
sippi river, which is at stage 12.6.
At present butter is selling in tho
market for 15 cents a pound.
Tn the citv oouiicll yesterday a fran
chise was granted for a road from
Twenty-first and Reed streets by a zig
zag path down to First street.
An official thermometer near the top
of the Oregonian building yesterday
afternoon registered 89 degrees at
o'clock.
Babyhood.
By Grace K- Hall,
Time has not laid its blighting brand
upon the little child;
How oft in clasping baby hand we sud
denly have smiled!
They seem to pull at stubborn strings
Within our heart, which quickly brings
A tenderness, a warmth and glow
That's good to know,
f
Life is a game they have not learned as
yet how to play;
It has unnumbered funny tricka they
- laugh at every day.
They coo of hours when life was new.
And everything seemed good and true.
When roses bloomed instead of rue,
For me and you.
Ah, well! for all that children rrow like
flowers, and we may share
The bubbling joy that seems to go with
rhlldhood everywhere.
One baby smile or gurgling shout
Can put an ugly frown to rout.
For none may quite escape tht wile
Of baby's smile!
WHAT IS MEMORIAL DAY FORf
Demand That It Be Dedicated to Its
Orlsjlnnl Purpose.
Extracts from sn article by Isabel 'Worrell
Ball in the National Tribune. Printed by
request of members of tha Grand Army
of the Republic.
Every newspaper you pick up these
days advertises some kind of sport that
:'will start May 30."
Why'May 30? What on earth makes
all the ballplayers, f istfighters, ten
nis champions and golf fiends want to
start on May 30?
Some fool women In New York have
a new fad. They want to have a parade
of broken-down work horses on May
30. A lot of these sporty gnat-brains
come right out and say "on Memorial
Day." We will be glad and don glad
rags and root for our favorite fad in
sports.
All this is deplorable. Not the sports
themselves, but the tendency to fasten
in the minds of the American People
the idea that Memorial Day, May SO,
which is a legal holiday in 40 states
in the union, is established for a Joyous
nlav and more eating.
We have about 20 joy days; I guess
more when you sum them all up:so
why seize upon the most sacred of all
our holidays to start the sporting sea
son? . , a i
May 30 has come to be recognized tn
every state but the eight really south
ern states as the national sabbath of
patriotism. A day when men, women
and children should pause and gather
in social centers to tell the tales of
heroism of the men who wore the blue,
and to reflect on what that heroism
means to us who are living today.
The day was established by the
Grand Army of the Republic, May 30,
1868 for the purpose of commemorat
ing the ideals of the dead of the union
army, a day that has been held in such
tender respect that 40 of the greatest
Etates of the union have gravely in
corporated !t into their laws, not fon
"sports." but that the people of the
state might pause for a day and think
of their mighty dead. ....
A veteran soldier said of Kansas:
"States are not great, except as men
may make them.
Men are net great, except they do and
dare."
But for the men who fought the
battles for the Union, and their sturdy
contention for right and justice for
many years after the battle-flags were
furled, tip United States would be only
a third-rate nation today. ...... .
But for the four years of awful fight.
Ins when the nation's life was In the
balance, there would be no nation to
day. We would be In the condition
of the waspish little nations controlled
by banditti overseas. The right won
at a cost in lives and money that stag
gered the nation. The United States
iovernment did mighty little for the
returning veterans compared with what
is being done today. There were no
triumphal arches in enduring marb e,
no pensions commensurate with tiit
perils endured, no waiting Jobs, no soft
berths for returning soldiers, ine re
turning armies passed in review In
"ragged regimentals," an army of
tramps, in appearance, and went home
in that plight. The fires were dead in
the forge, the farms nao ijrow.i i
weeds, the carpenter s toois won. auw.
and the boys were too old to take up
.i hnnl.bnnba they had
left in the knife-scarred desks. There
ere no "vocational
schools for blinded soldiers. mi
shell-shocked went on in that condition
or died in Insane asylums.
For these men, dead and living. Me
morial Day was established. Isn t it
the very least that any of us can dr.
to let the world slip out of sight for
a little while Just a day and rmem-i..-
,r. i..i one day all the honors.
all the material wealth if
that these 2,500,000 nave Druusm -
and ours?
Ah. but that isn t an:
The Spanish-American w;ar laid trib-
" L" ".lur, ,n.ron I saw one day 200
. - i r. a rp.unucu t,utin n .
flan-draped coffins beside 200 open
graves They were the dead of the
Maine, and I had the honor to be one of
five who held the first commemoration
exercises over the Maine dead.
We honor all the Spanish war vet
erans wherever we find the little
mAUnddthe dead of this war: They are
as blades ot grass for number, over
9 000.000 sleeping here and overseas
and 'neath the ocean's waves. Fully
100.000 of them sleep because America
bade them do or die.
And in spite of all these millions of
dead, whose names the people of the
country will honor In their hearts on
Memorial Lay, the miserable, short
sighted, unpatriotic, sport-drunk men
on.i women will "open the sport sta-
son" on Memorial Day. -
Memorial Field at Poppiea.
VANCOUVER. Wash., April 22. (To
the Editor.) I would Jike to BUggest
. . . . , i n narlr and SOW it
to poppies 'in honor and memory of the
boys wno are sieepins uimr,
, , i .. PnrlWnd WOUld
pies in rmiiu'-in i" . . - -be
the first city, to have such a park.