Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, May 01, 1919, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 TIIE 3IORNIXG OREGOXIAX, TIItJItSDAY, MAY 1, 1919. " Ittomtntji (Sregmttmt ESTABLISHED BI IIEMBT L. PITTOCK. TubliBhed by The Orepontan Publishing Co.. 1.15 Sixth Etreet. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOKDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. iiditor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for republica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or . not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription rates Invariably in advance: (By Mail.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ...... .S8.O0 . Eally, Sunday Included, six months ..... 4.25 Tially, Sunday included, three months ... 2.2- XJaily, Sunday Included, one month ...... -Jp . iJally, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, six months ...... 3-- Iatiy, without Sunday, one month ...... Weekly, on year fcunday, one year .................... 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Bidwelt perhaps, it, too, might fail, is the! other Americans -who have asserted deepest folly of the blackest pessimism. I that the negro music of the south. is The balance of power brought world- 'he only folic music in the United wide war; the league could do no States, and Taderewskl, who recog- worse. There is a good prospect that it would do much better. Even looked at in this cold light, which excludes all enthusiasm or idealism, it is well worth trying. PESSIMISM ABOCI THE LEAGUE. TliBro 1st a snpries of nnnosition to the league of nations which scorns J political ruin he has created will be GETTING KID OF BCRLESOX. Somewhere it is said the hurly-burly Burleson made the noble declaration. "I would rather be right than be popu- I lar." Let us forego the temptation to respond with the famous bon mot of T. B. Reed "You'll never be either" and suggest that it is possible for a president or' a cabinet officer- to be both right and popular; and that a postmaster - general who deliberate cultivates unpopularity is a bad asset for any national administration. A postmaster-general is usually the political go-between of a president with his party and to a less extent with the people. An astute politician can serve his chief well in that capacity; a mischief-maker can do great harm. Frank Hitchcock was chairman of the national republican committee, and he was postmaster-general for Taft, and he was faithless to his president. It is not hard to recall the consternation he created in the Whit House by de claring for public ownership of the telegraph, and the Instant repudiation of his action by the president. Burleson is, of course, not faithless. merely witless. He must go, or the nixpd Its possibilities many years ago, probably would agree with him. Yet Jazz music does not appear to be so deeply rooted that there is no hope that we shall some day hear the last of it. Its present vogue has continued four of five years, which is less than half the time that ragtime, the imme diate predecessor of jazz, was the popular rage. We are fickle in our taste for entertainment. It is safe to predict that the jazz band will last only until some daring originator suc ceeds in devising another novelty to take its place. and scoffs at any 3uch attempt to or ganize the nations in the cause of peace founded on justice. The perfect expression of this opinion is found in the New York Tribune, which pro claims that "the league of nations is irreparable. But how is lie to be made to go? Will the president fire him? If so, he will establish a precedent, for he has dismissed no cabinet official, howevei J much he deserved it and however illy dead" and then exults over the fiction, j he deserved of his country. True, he The Tribune says: The revised covenant may or may not survive as a Hague tribunal and a well meant gesture of internationalism and be adopted by the nations. The league as a means of enforcing peace has perished. It never possessed any sufriclent authority to halt a war: and whatever vestige of au thority it once had has been removed. There follow some jeers at the at tempt to "create a vast political ma chine from the sheer stuff of theory," to "set up suddenly a Utopia co-extensive with mankind." Two pretended signs of failure are cited the failure to make the league collect reparation from Germany and the guaranties of safety which the United States and Great Britain are to give to France. These prove that the league is with out power to collect even from the sultan of Morocco and that its last teeth have been drawn, according to the gloomy view taken by the Tribune. Nothing is left but a. new triple alliance. This still-born league, over which our neighbor mourns, begins life with thirty-two members and with a num ber of promising candidates for admis sion. About all the nations that are excluded are the criminal nations which were responsible for the war, and the anarchic nations like Russia and Mexico. The league will desire them as members as soon as they qualify, and there is good reason to expect that they will be anxious to come in. But the league will be impotent, we are told. If any nation should refuse to abide by an award, or should wan tonly attack another nation, all the other nations would stop, intercourse with it, would treat it as a common enemy and would concert military measures. Would such a league have no restraining influence on an aggres sor, or would its members break their pledge at the first call to fulfill it? In order to chastise an offender, all the league members would contribute an armed contingent or one or more members would execute the mandate. When the world was so organized, a nation which acted as did Austria in 1914 would surely be condemned by unanimous vote of all disinterested nations and would be forcibly re strained. This is called "sheer stuff of theory." So was steam power when Watt dis covered it, and he doubtless spent many weary days in making the first engine, but that theory has been re duced to splendid fact, as many an-1 other achievement in the world's prog ress has been. All were scoffed at by the skeptics of their day, as is the league of today. There have been many failures to make ideals real, but such ideals have usually proved false under the test, have been premature, have been the prey of insincere or ambitious leaders or have ignored in eradicable traits of human nature. Is there not good ground to hope for - success of the present attempt, when it is made by the picked men of thirty- : two states, which include the most en lightened and most free in the world? To answer in the negative is to pro nounce the representatives of those states incompetent rainbow-chasers The proposed guaranty of defense for France by the United States and " Britain is held to be a sign that the league has failed before it has begun, and that its chief sponsors have no faith in it. That guaranty can be rea sonably explained, consistently with full faith in the league and with its success. France has suffered more than any other of the allies, and if Germany should break loose again. would receive the first blow. Germany is still united, has a homogeneous population and after a few years may - again be more than a match for France. It implies no serious lack of " faith in the efficacy of the league that France dreads lest the league's forces should be too slow in motion to ward - off the first onslaught. After the ex perience of the last century France Jias good cause to feel nervous. That country wishes the two great English speaking nations to rush instantly to the defense in case the league should be called upon for military action. They would be the vanguard of its ' forces, under a special obligation be cause of their superior power and in recognition of what they owe to France. In place of . the league we are of fered no substitute except an alliance of these nations. That would be a reversion to the discredited methods of the past. All of the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth century was occupied in attempts by war to main tain the balance of power, for the 1 greater weight constantly shifted. In the last quarter of the nineteenth cen tury an attempt was made to substi tute the concert of Europe, but this accomplished no more than to post, pone decision of questions which were , over-ripe for decision, like those of the Balkans and Armenia. Within that concert grew up the two great alliances which were pitted against each other in the war. In the future, as in the past, formation of one alii ance would be a direct incitement to that of a rival alliance. Against its will the United States would be drawn into one of them, and the world would be apt to enter upon a period of com petitive armamen: ending in war, which might surpass recent experience. When so poor, an alternative is ot- - fcrcd, rejection of the league because, froze out Garrison as secretary of war, and he gave Bryan his hat when he made a faint motion in direction of the door. But Burleson will need more than a hint. Probably, as usual, the Burleson retirement will be achieved by kicking him upstairs into another job. for $3,000,000, NOT $10,000,000. Two reconstruction measures $5,000,000 on the state ballot, at the June special election, do not aggregate $10,000,000, but $5,000,000. It cannot be made too clear that the two meas ures are the same one a constitu tional amendment to authorize the bonds, and the other a statute to carry out its provisions. The public, unless it is properly and adequately enlightened, is likely to fall Into the same error that The Orego nian committed yesterday, when, in a news article, it described the two as separate bills,' which they are, but as distinct in their proposed appropria tions, which they are not. The plan is to empower the state board of control to issue bonds for the following purposes: A new state penitentiary in Marion county, $500,000. Reconstruction hospital at Portland $350,000. New buildings at Oregon Agricul tural college, $500,000. New .buildings at State university. $500,000. New buildings at State Normal school, $100,000. New bulldlng3 for State Hospital for the Insane at Pendleton, $150,000. Five armories, one each at Astoria, Baker, Bend, La Grande and Medford, $37,500 each, or a total of $187,500 provided that each city or county shall duplicate the amounts, respectively. New building at Soldiers home $25,000. Completion of armory at Marshfield, $20,000. Hospital for State Institute for Feeble Minded, $20,000. . For land settlement, $647,500 For reclamation of arid, swamp and logged-off lands, $2,000,000, provided the federal government contributes an equivalent amount. Total, $5,000,000. It is not the purpose of The Ore gonian at this time to approve or dis approve the proposed $5,000,000 bond issue, but only to make an explicit statement of its principal provisions, so far as the appropriation of the funds is concerned. The Oregonian however, regards the act as being per missive, and not mandatory, in its in tent, inasmuch as discretion is given to the board of control as to when the bonds may be sold. Doubtless the board would devise a scheme of recon struction which would extend it over a considerable period of time. Again, it should be emphasized that the two bills (constitutional amend ment and statute) are companion measures, and provide for an aggre gate bond issue of $5,000,000, not $10,000,000. brought with him. has failed in the final test of quality and adaptability. The same is true of most of the pears he chose, particularly the Bartlctt. which is one of our most profitable staples for canning,' and the Winter Nelis, which in its new environment has become superior to the original. The oldest cherry tree in the entire northwest, according to the records, is probably that on the David J. Cham bers farm near Olympla, Wash. It is a Blackheart, a variety of which we do not hear much nowadays, but which has proved to possess singular vitality. It was first planted at Mllwaukie in 1S47, and was removed in 1849 to Thurston county. Those who now Stars and Star-makers. by Leone Cass Baer. BEKT LEVY, cartoonist, who takes a fling at vaudeville occasionally and who is now engaged at the Hippodrome in New York, has arranged for the pub lication of his first book. Edgar Sel den. literary agent, haa given him a check in advance for $1000 for the pub lication rights, to his stories that have appeared in the Herald, the Morning Telegraph and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Selden will publish the stories and Mr. Levy's drawings in book Those Who Come and Go. XOBODV, ALAS! FOR PROHIBITION. The agonies of New York or that part of New York which regards per sonal liberty as an inherent human right to travel the high-ball route ad ibitum over prohibition are elo quently expressed by the " 'Round the Town" contributor of the New York Globe: The "antl" notions on the prohibition plan grow. Nothing is so much talked of. Nothi ng. Everywhere. And we hear no one for prohibition. No one. Is It because they think It and do not say It? Is it because we meet lowbrows? yesterday we met a minister, a doctor, a lawyer, and a pub lisher of books. All four, including the min ister, airainst prohibition. The minister said. "I'm for temperance, not prohibition." And from another source we hear that hun dreds of Italians are preparing to return to Italy. And still another asXed: "What will happen If Italy. France and England, who send us $3,000,000 worth of liquor each year, decide to refuse to agree to be part of the eague of nations if the cnited btates in sists upon prohibition?" Outside interest in the dreadful alarm of New York over the impend ing drought is purely scientific . and philosophical. The patient knows he will be very sick; the onlooker, who has viewed the same spectacle else where, knows he will get well. The epidemic of prohibition has its thou sands of victims, even Its tens of thou sands; but it does not kill. New York's only danger is heart-failure through Its panic of apprehension. The Globe writer hears no one for prohibition, not even a clergyman. It is a wicked thought, but it obtrudes it self on one's mind, that the newspaper man must have met that preacher in a barroom or a cabaret. He is for temperance, not prohibition." Old stuff. It is an argument, made always by the I - can - drink-or-leave-lt-alone army, that has at last made its way from ten thousand local option and prohibition campaigns, in every state in the union, to the benighted pre cincts of New York. The answer of a hundred thousand preachers, made a billion or more times to the same kind of talk, is that they are for temper ance through prohibition. Let the 'Round the Towner of the Globe extend his orbit. If, however, he cannot persuade himself to leave the cocktail route long enough to make a real inquiry into the subject. let him wait a year or so. He will surely then find somebody for prohi bition, even . in the wreckage of New York appetites and glassware. complain of the high cost of orchard form thr"K" " of Crosset-Dun- Mr. Levy has had running in the planting will be interested in knowing that this tree originally was sold for $5. The peach, which has been re-P-""Bt,an science .Monitor curing me garded as a short-lived tree, is not al- la" lew WMK stones gleaned during ways so in the benign climate of Ore- nls eis arouna me world, iney gon. There is a peach tree on the ' " ",us""ll:u D lno writer. uo Peter Eritt place in Jacksonville which '"tie siory, cauea ' wna ana joe, is probably fifty-five years old. Onelwhlcn appeared originally in the Morn of our pioneer peach growers used to I 'ne Telegraph, has been sold aa a say that the life of the peach depended screen scenario. lartrelv unon the care which it re ceived. This is so true of all varieties xoutn ana Deauiy characterize the of tree fruit that there is reason to modes ror the 'mer hats,' gurgles a believe that Oregon eventually will "'le propagandist. possess much older commercial or-1 ut even a style propagandist must 1 financier oi me cartoons, dui r.ugene "I don't know why It is. but tlf newspapers rarely print my name cor rectly. Most of the time they spell it Thomas, but it ia just plain Thorns. The printers want to stick an 'a' in it." complained D. C. Thorns, who has served three sessions of the legislature. Mr. Thorns was in town yesterday to attend a meeting of the Facific Millers' association. His mill is at Sclo, Linn county, and the mill is about all there is at Scio, but. adds Mr. Thoms. it'a a good town and a prosperous one Old Baron von Steuben Is responsible for the name Steubenville. O.. from which place Mrs. E. J. Clark is regis tered at the Multnomah. The red coats, officering a bunch of Indians, were holding a bend in the Ohio river and were defying the Colonials to come get em. The baron fixed up some barges at Fort Puquesne and floated down the river and with his troops made me Britishers and aborigines sick. There fore the encampment at the bend In the river has ever since been known as Steubenville. To look at him, he would never be suspected of having a bank roll that would choke a whale, for his whiskers are au naturel instead of trimmed a la In Other Days. Tnnlj-ltt Tears Ago. From The Oregonian ot May 1. 1804. Washington. This is the day an nounced by Commander Coxey for Vhe May day parade and demonstration of his army. If the army attempts to march into the capltol grounds It will be stopped and the leaders arrested. Kelly and KUlfether have opened joint headquarters in the Chamber of Commerce building and the democratic state headquarters will be established elsewhere in the city before tne week ends. B. M. Styles, first officer of the Towt land Lloyds, arrested Saturday on a charge of cruelty to a sailor. Is held to answer to the grand Jury under bond of $500, which was furnished. Collector Black expects to finish ex amination of the Ctitnese aboard the Islander tomorrow. Kilty-nve of those aboard have been landed and S3 rejected. chards than the districts of the east admit that the effect depends a bit on which are now confronted with the I what is under the summer hats. necessity for cuttir.tr down their trees and beginning over again. xw Jersey newspaper says that The new production centers of the "Dickens is doomed." One of its fair Cumberland region present a different citizenesses objects, in print, to the state of facts, but it is still to be re- author because his characters frequent membered that, as the denartrasnt of barrooms and alehouses. agriculture calls to our attention, the!, In an interview the New Jersey older districts until a very few years cltlzeness says: "America is through ago produced fully one-fourth of all with liquor forever and we want to the apples consumed in the United forget that it ever existed. How then States. They undoubtedly are "wear- can we do this if we continue to read ing out, and their disappearance, to- authors like Charles Dickens?" gether with the ill-advised destruction of younger orchards, may almost con- I While she's about it the good de stitute an offset for new permanent I zeness might as well exclude and plantations which have been created banish along with Dickens, the second within the past fifteen years. There chapter of St. John and the Proverbs, is, meanwhile, a healthy, growing sen- of Solomon and Shakespeare and Omar timcnt in favor of the use of fruit as I Khayara and a flock more. food. This is being intensified bv en forcement of anti-liquor laws. Orchard I Campbell Casad is in Portland ahead profits will be increased by better mar-1 of "Maytlme." a big play with music, a kets for the by-products of the Indus- I sort of "Milestones" idea embellished France is a decidedly substantial citi sen. Aberdeen thought so well of him once that It selected him aa mayor. Mr. France Is registered at the Perkins, having been inspecting his extensive holdings In Tillamook. J. S. Norvell of Helix Is at the Im perial. Helix has a claim to distinc tion. It is the home of the largest grain warehouse in the state. They produce about $2,500,000 worth of wheat in the territory contributory to Helix, ao it Is a pretty wealthy place, despite the fact that the population is only about 200. His grandfather was the first col lector of customs at the port of As toria. John Adair, who came to the j imperial yesterday, belongs to a fam ily long established at the mouth of the Columbia. Mr. Adair is a stockraiser on the delta down near Warrenton. He Is a son of Dr. Owens Adair. Fifty Years Ago. From Tha Oregonian of May 1. IS TO. New York. General Boyd of Ken tucky. General Armstrong of Iowa and Generals Comstock and Walbridge of New York, with one from Philadelphia not yet announced, compose the new commission to examine the Pacific rail road. The party given last night by the Emmet Guard at the armory was a very pleasant and successful affair. The steamer Ranger will make a May day excursion Sunday to the island grove eight miles above Vancouver. The crops of grain in eastern Oregon are Fald to bo in flourishing condition. The Cross Man. By Grace K. Ball. From henceforth I'm a red hot booster for the Columbia river high way," confided Harry E. Cornell, after ' nuiuuaiuuuugu uj. I " tusS"""" o I, mart i-e.tOT-Hov XI Pnrn.ll la production memoes in wnicn tne west- aiay it-u at tne Hemg. nected with the Orpheum circuit in ern states, notaoiy uregon, nave shown l California and is registered at the Ben tne way. I Auuinor aavanco agent visitor in I son If. aa the denrtmnr nf s e-i-l-i,lf 1 Portland Is . R. Roles, who is ahead I holievox lnri .lnIrU mm.,i,ilof "Mv Soldier GirL" and while, here I J. T. Zak. a traveling man. arrived at .13 uimum proaucuon, tne ouuook ."". oiwouu. telling him to return at once to Chi lor tne newer aistricts would certainly ... " " . , 4 I cago as his mother is seriously ill. Mr. seem to De Drignt. we can plant a """'"a""-'" zalc took the first train out. new orchard in Oregon and count on land the rcst oI this week, renewing I a Tirofitahln rmrv.r in arwMif Voir ho acquaintances made in early days of I "J. Earhart. Medford." is the way she time it takes to carry an eastern or- Portland, when he used to come here "'SHea tne imperial register, i nen it chard to maturity. This gives us a light opera. Mr. Cunningham opens 'e? '.."k.! start which will not easily be over- tonight at the Heilig, where he is one 8erving overseas in the hospitals as a come, even if the growers of western I the principals In "Going Up." I nurse, and she is slipping back home isew iorK snouia decide to replace " " I without ostentation, thpir vaniahino- ninntotinn, a r, .i I An itemized bill presented In court I nf ill. nhi.r h..ti.. n .nwi.. ...i.. tir a dressmaker aeainst a woman, In I "Til Taylor, high sheriff of Vma- " I . . , - . .. I till, "m, n , I m n A , V...i. ....... in Oregon is that it permits one alson,cao cans tor suuo ana some email ,"'" - to live in Oregon. To one with a taste change . for garments purchased be- t.", " n"'' "V .,,, ."" '' for the outdoor life, the combination tween March and November. either knows "Til" nersonallv or has approaches very near to tne ideal. I men snows wnat me war aia ror heard of him. That's Just CITE US BACK OCR SHASTA LIMITED. The emergency which imposed the necessity of curtailing passenger train service on the Pacific coast has passed, but it still remains curtailed. This is not so with the transcontinental trains, which give the best accommodations at high speed. They continue to run, and they are well patronized by people who are able and willing to pay for their extra comforts and conveniences. Rut like accommodation is not ac corded to people who travel from Port land to Puget sound and San Fran cisco. There is still no Shasta Limited to extend the same class of service up and down the coast as is given across the continent. The man who has come here from the east in comfort and at high speed and who wishes to move on finds that he must use a slow train of inferior accommodation and always uncomfortably crowded. The Pacific coast wants more pas senger trains, faster trains and better trains, and it is entitled to have them. The war emergency is past, and the business emergency has begun, requir ing that the people move around to set things going at full speed. Give us back our Shasta Limited, and more trains besides. JAZZ. Etymologists, whether they are mu sically inclined- or not, will follow with interest a promising controversy over the origin of the word "jazz." As noun, verb and adjective it has found a place in the American language and may be expected to find its way into the dictionaries in due course. About the only issue upon which recent con tributors to the discussion seem to agree is that the word probably was born in or near New Orleans. Lieu tenant James Europe, a negro officer with our troops in France, says that the first "jazz band" of record was conducted by a Mr. Razz, whose name survives in altered form. But another historian has discovered that the name of the leader of the band was "Brown." And, according to an earlier authority, the verb "to jazz," In the sense of speeding up things," is older than jazz music itself. Lafcadio Hearn Is credited with having found it in a creole patois. The patient seeker after the ultimate roots of words will sup. pose that the quest at this point has only begun. Jazz musio. however. Is admittedly a recent product. The ancients prob ably would not claim credit for it if they could. We are willing to accept the explanation that it. owes its ex istence to pure love of the "peculiar," but it is difficult to follow Professor Louis Morrison Patterson, who de clares that "the laws that govern jazz rule in the rythms of great original prose, verse that sings itself and opera of ultra-modernity." One of the in teresting disclosures made by Lieu tenant Europe, who led a jazz band in Lurope, is that he found it neces sary to hold daily rehearsals in order to "prevent the musicians from adding to their music more than I wished them to." Jazz obeys no law, appar ently. Like vers llbre, it represents chiefly the quest of the "different." This is found in the character of the original orchestration, no less than in the little mechanical tricks to which it owed its further development. The colored musician Is convinced that negroes should write negro music. "We have our own racial feelings," he says, "and if we try to copy whites we make bad copies." McDowell and some women. wee bit r, i . . -l I mom than n ihnnanii a month rm I t lenger and family of Mlnne- peadtefto .hr. - how f wo r7 ll ence at 'Versailles. It may be advisable "hat e can do In the way of exercls. Tenger will be connected with Mux lor tne allies to fix a time limit beyond economy ana sen aeniai. I Housers staff. which food will not bo supplied or they may supply specially imported u.w.. luiiuuu. ' " I .- - , loud cries about starving the Huns into denature to a long-term contract nere iU bn a towTthere 5 submission. his appearance on the speaking stage. as tnere teen a town there. Under the terms of this contract, ac- Cantair. -William Karri. hn m.rri.n "Owing to the increa.sir1 tarp. on cording to official statement. Bushman Miss Norma Houser a few months aeo. movie receipts and films Art Kolstad w M1 recelv the highest salary yet paid I arrived at the Multnomah yesterday has decided to onen tin th olrl o-m to a stage star. I with his wife and Mrs. K. V. Houser. I always .write that line about "largest salary ever paid a stage star' Francis Ten Bushman, the "prettiest I F. W. Settlemeler of "Woodburn is at man on the stage," has attached his I the Hotel Portland. The Settlemeler has decided to open up the old Gem theater on Oak street," says the Hood River News. Art Kolstad is enough to takei away a man's breath and sa w"h a rubber stamp. It saves time are the Hood Riverites who encourage I and applies to all of them, anyway. Mm. I More aDout tne prettiest man: lie ..-111 l . : i. : , ah nM.H... ,hjj.. v . 1 " " "ct-" " unuer uintr of paying 1114 cents a pound for royal , ' , .k, w "'":"'u" Chinook salmon when they recall the " " " ' M ,B "ving Dr. and Mrs. G. S. Stockton of Grangeviile. Idaho, are at the Mult nomah with their son. A. B. Stockton. who has been serving in the United btates navy. For the next three weeks Mrs. W. T. Day and Mrs. J. V. Lamson of Spokane will visit Portland. They have taken apartments at the Benson. II. C. Waddell of Roseburg passed OLD ArPI.K TREES. The warning issued by the federal department of agriculture to western apple growers against uprooting their orchards is both timely and wise. It takes account of the great age of the large proportion of the trees in the formerly great apple-growing districts of the United States, and says, truly. that these trees cannot be expected Indefinitely to continue production. The apple boom in western New York came in the late sixties, after the close of the civil war. Trees planted then are more than fifty years old. There are some exceptional apple trees which have lived much longer than half a century, but they are not the rule, Fifty-year-old trees in Oregon, for ex ample, are so scarce as to win for themselves an especial place ira the annals of the state's progress. ' A few of the oldest apple trees in Oregon, perhaps the oldest survivors of the original stock brought across the plains by Henderson Luelllng in 1847, are now growing on the old McCarver place a short distance south of Oregon City. There is another on the Matthieu farm near Butteville. These apple trees must have been planted about 1850, and they are still functioning as nature intended that they should do, but it cannot bo said that they prove that apple trees as a rule are profitable much beyond half a century. There have been many orchard casualties since they were planted. There is no record of a large, profitable commercial orchard of great age in these parts, and there are other reasons, both here and in the eastern states, why the old-fashioned apple trees will cease sooner or later to figure in production. The familiar rule that each rung added to the or chard ladder increases cost of produc tion by at least a cent a box will oper ate against the aged orchards of the east during the comparatively few re maining years of their lives. But the original stock of fruit trees brought to Oregon by Mr. Luelllng has shown really amazing vitality. Not less significant is the manner in which time has vindicated his judgment of varieties. In the pioneer Milwaukte nursery were the Yellow Newtown, Northern Spy. Wlnesap, Baldwin, Spitz- enberg, Bellflower, Rambo, Rhode Island Greening, Gloria Mundl and Red Cheek Pippin, and a few others In at least three of these varieties the Oregon country sti!l excels. The Yel low Newtown and the Spltzenberg are among our staples. The. Rambo would be another one If consumers were not so greatly influenced by mere appear ance. The Bellflower probably owes its comparative retirement only to the competition of the California product. But no variety which Mr, Luelllng irood old davs whe-n thpv ,.PH t r,,,v written especially for him. After his i m , r. t..". I engagement in Chicago he will m tn . xv vcxiLa. dui '-- ' " .hrnnirh Pnrtl.nd vl.rnv hi. ... a man can still catch one himself if - Morosco will have. , ,h hom- w.rin birVof . limu he has a license, knows how and has I n n Mr- Morosco will have In the I luck and lots of time. I course oz construction during the en- After wintering in California. Mrs suing ou aays ana wnicn is planned to I K. O. selway la on her way back to Tha tiPMint nf CwttTorim,! win I Pea not later man January 1. .nuniana, wnere uer nuauana is a state next have an opportunity to make uunnff lne eSt years that Bush- -- himself as unpopular in Italy as the ""r on lne "Mn is I Mrs. B. L. Tone of Sisters, on the eart- president of the United States has sud- l-'cu'lc,i maao more pic- ern edge of the Cascades, is at the Ho- denly become. Genoa might postpone lures man any other film actor. He I tel Portland. renaming one of its streets until ho I nas "rectea many of his more lmpor- has decided the Flume dispute. I lanl pictures, such as "Romeo and PREPARE TO Juliet" and "Graustark." Somewhere the Cross Man labors cease lessly, making crosses to fit the New Lives that are constantly coming to earth: Some of these crosses are very small Indeed and very light, and appear to be easy to carry: And some are large and heavy and it would seem impossible to endure their weight: And some are prettily carved and dain tily ornamented and greatly at tract the passer-by: And others, oh, very many others, are coarse and crude and cruelly gall the ehoulders of the carrier. And every hour of the day the Cross Man places his wares beside the Highway, And the New Lives pass by in slow pro cession and look upon the crosses and select one to carry always: And ao often is this choice an error in judgment that the Cross Man gnashes his teeth In despair: But he may not speak his warning, be cause his language or bxpertenca would frighten the New Lives and they would fear to go on. But alas! the cross that seems lightest Is often made of lead or iron and weighs heavier than the one which looks coarse and crude; While the journeyman who is brave enough to choose the less invit ing one is. many times, blessed for this courage And his cross turns to sparkling gold and Is light as air; And the selfish traveler who thought only of escaping the burden and of securing the best for himself first, too often, at the end of his trip, curses his foolish and selllsa choice. But never, oh, never, can anyone re turn and choose over again! Anl never, never can anyone lay down the cross and refuse to carry it. And ever and ever the Cross Man builds the crosses, because ever and evei the New Lives pass by on the Highway. And there must be a cross ready for each one. since none may pass unincumbered. And ever and ever on this highway the Cross Man hears the lamentation: "If only I had selected the other one!" And he smiles sadly, knowing that no man has ever yet thought his own cross the right site or kind; And knowing also the error in this, since few, if any, knowing accu rately tho weight of another's burden, may justly complain. ENFORCE JUSTICE The state outside of Portland has "erore ne entered tne film field he f reopie tu subscribed in full, but the city is mil- naa a ,onB stage experience, having A " "r ". lions short. In a few months when I Playeu ln numerous stock companies. I ALGOMA, Or.. April 30. (To the Ed- you stir up the small town's dust at After hls training In stock he appeared I Itor.j v title the high contracting par- the speed limit perhaps you will recall ln a number of plays, such as "Going '" ln" some and "At lale." 1 .7 , . . .. T, , , , it I tional co-operation and secure peace, Mrs. Bushman is known on the screen ,hfi irni.e(, St. tP la busv huil.linir more That logger who fell eiehtv fept out 113 Beverly Bayne. She will doubtless than 400 units for Its navy. The latter of a tree near Kelso and escaped un- I aPPear with her husband on the stage I no doubt will be much more effective hurt might fall off the back porch and 1 as soon as her present motion picture securing peace than all the scraps this week's shame. break his neck. It's all in the alighting, contracts have been fulfilled. The 600 editors and newspaper pub lishers who were in New York for the The old trio must have dissolved. The butcher and baker lone since raised the rates, but the electric light annual Associated Press convention I tain 14 points or the covenant. It Is maker is slow. of paper filled with ambiguous phrases. which are more a display of rhetoric than anything else. A vast majority of the voters have not digested the document said to con- podrome one evening. The victory bond is a certificate of When the last scene, "The Hall of membership on the patriotic roll and Fame," was reached, the entire "March the blue button is its emblem. Where I ot the States" waa turned, for a single were treated to a surprise at the Hip- I 10-to-l shot a majority of the voters is yours?. performance. Into a "Newspaper Bal- have not read either document. The well-known words of Theodore Roosevelt cannot be published too often: Let this nation fear God and take Its own part. Let It exercise patience and char- let," with girls from the various states Uy toward all other peoples, and yet, at An old industry elsewhere seems to clothed ln one of the leading daily pa- w" ev" .""r T'i enaced b, be breaking in on this coast, that of I pers of the community she represented. I miitht which backs vranc. Let it further- The New York girls carried the Morn- I more remember that tho only way in which I iM..Mfiillv in nnno.a vronf which I. sence. ling Telegraph; Connecticut, the Hart- I h ., K i. . nv.r .i. i. ford Courant; Pennsylvania, the Pitts-1 right, which is backed by might. I-t us the Cleveland I prepare ourselves tor justice ana emciency he will develop a boom for the con- Plain Dealer; Louisiana, the New Or- jUMic, International relations, and for Burners' party nomination for presi-1 leans Picayune; California, the San I efficiency in war. Only thus shall we have dent. Francisco Bulletin: Oregon. The Orego- pe.ac" v"a..'"': i ""v,ce I Liincoin renuerru lu n i n cause ui permanent nian. and SO on throughout the entire I Deaee and to the greater cause of justice Munich seems to be in for scenes I list of States. land rlKhteousnes was rendered by him .) at I wnen WIIU unenaaen (iriiui... un aicepietl I four years of grinding warfare rather than "Willard Mack has returned to New 1 yield to the professional pacifist of his day York from California where he has the copperueaas. If Julius Barnes keeps up his lick, I burg Dispatch; Ohio, similar to those which marked sup-1 pression of the Paris commune in 1871.1 TEACHERS DESERVE BETTER PAY Advance Justified by Geaeral Increase la Coat of Living. PORTLAND, April 30. (To the Ed itor.) Every person who pays bills realizes the great advance in price in all the necessaries or life. The finan ciers and economists tell us that prices will stay where they are permanently or if they decline at all it will be to a very small extent. Such being the case, it would seem that it is no more than just that the salaries of the teach ers in the Portland publto schools should be advanced to help in some measure to meet the increased cost ot living. There has been a great advance in wages of every class of labor, but the teachers, on whom so much depends for the future, are still being paid a very much smaller advance than it would seem they are entitled to. We pin our faith In a democracy very largely to the education that our citizens receive during their school days and if this theory is correct it is desirable that the best talent should be retained for the work of educating the young In your schools. The amount that it would add to the taxes of the individual, if the increase is given, is so small that there is ne comparison between it and the satis faction that one will feel In the assur ance that the teachers of the children of the community are receiving a fair wage for their services. R. M. TUTTLE. It's two-thirds over and three days I been in a sanitarium. Renorts say he I The above 150 words of ex-President to go. Hot work is being done these lis fit And fine and readv to nlaria en Roosevelt are easily understood, mean men whose civic pride is unbounded. We have just launched the most powerful battleship in the world to enforce the peace covenant. A boy of 19 who took an automobile has been charged with theft! Absurd, isn't it? Good thing a nation is not judged by the conditions revealed in its divorce courts. The poor man's luxury the baby is not on the new taxable list. A bread pudding used to be as cheap as it was good, but no more. When bce.d begins to climb, other foods find the way easy. Make the slice a shade thinner to meet the tilt. Who will be first to receive a bomb in Portland? Straw hats and summer and apple blossoms! . the stage another play , from his own what they say and say what they mean. f t,.,, nnni.ln m nr. tin ri hnrsn AnsA pen and with himself in the principal than all the Kntterlng generalities the part. A. H. Woods Is making the Pro-lnjKn contracting parties have offered ductlon. and in his absence abroad I the nubile One sure way for the Mack and Martin Herman are assem-1 American people to avoid future wars bllng the cast. is to keep the democratic party out of The title of the piece haa not yet I Pwer- been determined, but it is likely to be W. O. BINNS. "Not Over Here." It deals with one of the most timely subjects, but in a satirical and flippant vein. The cast which had its first re. hearsal on Monday, includes thus far, in addition to Mr. Mack, Effingham Pinto, Corlnne Barker. Alma Tell, Jobyna Howland and John Salmpolls. The latter was at one time a leading man with the Baker company, and Miss Barker Is a Portland girl who was recently here enroute to New York from San Francisco where she had been appearing In pictures. Eugenia Blair is to play in Walker Whiteside's newest production, The Little Brother." After July 1 flctionists and other writers will have no more use for the standby lines about "cakes and ale" or "wining and dining" and the other old beloved "beer and skittles" will go into ,tho literary discard. , Sermon on Wifely "Doi't," E. W. Howe's Monthly. I went riding the other day with a man who drives his own car. and a rainstorm came up. He naturally wanted to get home as soon as possible and drove rather rapidly, but always carefully. I sat on the front seat with him and noted that his wife, who was on the back seat, was always scream ing: "Daddy, don't drive so fast!" But daddy paid no attention; he stepped on the power apparatus steadily, except when turning corners, and got us home all right and dry. Afterwa-',. as we smoked a cigar, he said: "I t my wife loves me, but sometimes tne aggravates me saying so often, "Daddy, don't do that!' I am com pelled to do the best I can, and, as a matter of fact. I have done fairly welL But my wife is always saying, 'Daddy, don't do that" She has been a good wife to me. except that she always seems afraid I will go out and set fire to our own house. Playwrlsat'a Hair la Returned. Exchange. Laying down a harsh criticism of the work of a fellow novelist, Robert Chambers said: "We writers get a ter rible deal from the public Did you ever hear the story of the playwright? It's typical of what we all get. A playwright sat in tho front row for the premiere of his play. The first two acts went over splendidly and it looked as if the piay was a real hit. At the close of the sec ond act a little lady sitting directly be hind the dramatist reached In her handbag, took out a tiny pair of mani cure scissors, and reaching over, calmly snipped off a lock of the author's hair. Hut the last two acts went badly and in the end the applause ror me aumor became hisses. As the curtain fell on the finale the lady leaned over and tapped tho playwright on the shoulder Allow me to return mis, sne v&ia t.-vii temptuously, handing back the pun ioined lock." Japanese Property Right". PORTLAND, April SO. (To tho Ed itor.) Please answer through your columns whether or not a Japanese caa buy property in the United States and deed it to his children before the chil dren are 21 years ot ago. J. WAGENBLAST. That depends upon the law In partie-' ular states. In Oregon Japanese have the same rights as to ownership of property as any other person.