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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY MAY 26, 1919 Jttox'mn 5 (Srmttait ESTABLISHED BY HEXBT L. FITTOXK. Fubllslied bv The Oregonian Publishing Co.. loo Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDBN. K. B. PIPER. .Manager. . Editor. The Ortsfnlan is a member nf the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex cluslvelv entitled to tlie use for publica tion, ol all news dispatches credited to it or ,not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription rates Invariably in advance: (By Mail.) PaOv, Pundpy included, one year. . . . . naily. Sunday included, six monlhs. . Iai!y, Sunday included, three months Ijaily, Sunday include one month Daily, w ithout Sunoay. one year raily, without Sunday, six months. -. l:ally. without Sunday, one month. .. "Weekly, one year Sunday, one year - feunday and weekly . J( 8.00 . 4.2.- . . 2.25 ! '. a'.ol . - o.2- . . .60 .. 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In addition to the nine state meas ures involving large bond issues and millage taxes, the voters of Portland are asked to pass on ten city measures on June 3. These measures authorize bond issues aggregating $1,657,000 and a permanent increase in taxation in addition thereto of $610,000 annually. It should be said in qualification of the statement as to taxation that as compared with present taxes the in crease is only $305,000 annually. This is due to the fact that a temporary war-time increase of one mill was authorized by the people in the last city election. That increase will soon expire by limitation. All that this combination of city and state measures means to those who supply the public funds should be known by the voters of Portland. The state measures authorize in bond issues a total of $7,500,000. and give the further authority to an officially constituted commission to incur in debtedness up to approximately $18, 000,000 to guarantee the interest for five years on approved irrigation and drainage district bonds. While but a grant of authority, and one which may or may not be used at all, the last is a matter for due contemplation in con sidering the several state and clty mcasures. There is on the state ballot also a market roads tax bill, the adop tion of which would cost Portland $305,000 yearly, and another tax bill for education of soldiers, sailors and marines which would cost the Port land taxpayers $61,000 annually. The Oregonian has "given its ap proval to all of the bonding and taxa tion bills on the state ballot with one exception the educational tax bill on which it offers no recommendation. It may seem to some that there is no great distinction between the state money bills and those offered by the city, yet there are some differences, The state measures have the charac ter of investments. The prospective land reclamation and land settlement connected with two of them promise to increase assessed values and pro mote a greater prosperity and a greater ability to pay taxes. The same thing may be said of the two highway meas ures. They are' equivalent to the ex penditure of money for the purchase of income property. The reconstruc tion bonding bill which authorizes nu merous institutional buildings, and construction of several armories, is " contingent as to all buildings upon existence of an emergency. The state has not gone so extensively into debt as has the city. In housing its insti tutions it is far behind almost any city in Oregon that may be named considering the needs and demands of each. On the contrary the city bonding measures for most part provide for embellishing existing facilities or in stitutions. They offer additional con veniences of various kinds, with pos sibly one exception none is offered to meet a possible unemployment emer gency and none is proposed as an in come-producing investment. It may also be said that not one of them pro poses a real extravagance. They offer ' municipal improvements that would te a credit to the city in the minds of its own people and visiting observers. Two of them probably deal with actual necessities. As for the others it is proper to point out that they are nice things to have and that their approval is wholly a matter of whether the city can afford them at this time. On two of the city bond issues The Oregonian will make no recommenda tion. If they were presented at an other time, and not in company with state measures calling for very large expenditures, it might deem it proper to encourage their approval, but in the present circumstances it feels that its duty goes no farther than to inform the voters lreely of all that is asked of the taxpayers in this election. As to the first measure on the city ballot no recommendation will be made. This amendment authorizes a bond issue of $527,000 for improve ment of existing parks and boulevards. The improvements are part of the gen ' ersl plan of park and boulevard facili ties, but have been postponed because of war conditions. It is also offered in part as a means of providing employ ment, but expenditure of the money is not contingent upon an unemployment crisis. The second amendment in order on the ballot proposes to take into the city a mill property on the peninsula. This mill has city conveniences but does not pay city taxes. It seems to be a worthy measure. The third amendment proposes to raise by issuance of bonds $80,000 to construct and equip a police telephone system. The plan is to provide a means of checking the movements of patrol men and to facilitate communication with them on their beats. The system would be a convenience, but there is probably no greater need for it now than there has been during the last ten years, during which time the de partment has managed to exist and do fairly creditable work. No 4 authorizes a bond issue of $100,000 to provide two police stations cast of the river. It is, as indicated. a proposal to enlarge facilities and. if adopted, would make necessary a sub stantial increase in the cost of main taining the police department. While substations will be required in time, an emergent need for them is not now apparent. Fifth in the list is an amendment authorizing a bond issue of $200,000 for . construction, reconstruction and repair of existing fire stations. There is an actual and present need for these improvements. Several fire buildings are old, delapidated, unsafe and in sanitary. It is an injustice to the fire men to expect them to occupy some of the stations now in use. A bond issue of $250,000 to raise money for remodeling the city hall is the sixth amendment. While some city departments are inconvenienced by cramped quarters, the situation is not serious or the need for enlargement vital. The seventh measure is another, on which no recommendation will be made. This amendment authorizes a bond issue of $500,000 for the acquisi tion of parks and playgrounds. It was submitted at the solicitation of various community organizations. The plan is to provide parks and playgrounds for about ten of the poorer or more con gested districts of the city. Some of the districts to be benefited incor porate the homes of persons- of very moderate means but are in no sense congested. Other districts to be bene fited are thickly built. The eighth amendment authorizes neither bonds nor taxes, but is de signed to save litigation in the open ing of new streets and to prevent the permanent blocking of extensions de sired by a large majority of the prop erty owners. In a previous election The Oregonian opposed this measure, but solely on the ground that it at tempted to instruct and restrict a state court in methods of procedure on ap peals. This fault has been corrected and adoption of the amendment is now advised. The ninth measure is designed to correct an error in the present police pension system. It .involves no expen diture of funds, is purely corrective of a technical imperfection and should pass. The last amendment is the two-mill tax for maintaining an enlarged police force, the two-platoon system in the fire departmentand to pay for the increased cost of labor and service in general. Assurance is given that in large part the money derived from the additional tax will go to employes and laborers at present underpaid. Many are men who have been in city service a long time. Because of the inability of the city to meet the advancing scale of wages in private employment these men are hard pressed in caring for their families. The amendment should be approved as a matter of simple justice. THE CASE OF ECCEXE TCCK. The verdict of the citizens' jury on the death of Eugene Tuck will have Eerved all the purposes of the inquiry if it should quicken all of the cen sured police and health officials to a more exact and prompt care of the health of prisoners who come under their charge. Tuck himself is a mere incident of the case, and may have deserved little sympathy. Yet he was only accused, and until he was con victed he was presumed to be innocent, and was entitled to care, of his health on the plea of both law and humanity. But the same thing might happen to any other prisoner, a slight offender or an innocent man. No proper precautions seem to have been taken that, when a prisoner ar rived at either the city or county jail, he should have such an examination as would discover whether he needed medical aid; or that when he needed it, he should have it. If a prisoner is deemed in serious condition he should be thoroughly examined and sent to the emergency hospital. It should be possible to attend him there without risk of escape. Nor is any physician excusable who delays in order to finish his breakfast before going to a dying man. A thorough medical ex amination of each person committed would be both unnecessary and im possible, for it would require a staff beyond the capacity of the building. But a jailer of vigilance and good judgment should know whether a pris oner needed medical aid, should sum mon a physician in such a case, and the doctor should respond as promptly and serve as faithfully as in any other case. One can easily understand how the negligence which has Wrought such a tragic result came about. Men in the police service constantly deal with drunkards, drug addicts, diseased per sons and all kinds of degenerates and thus become indifferent. They are apt to assume that a man in poor physical condition falls within one of these categories and to pass him on with slight attention, and the city physician and health officers fall into the same habit. Only once in a while does a man in the condition of Tuck turn up, and they are apt to overlook him. Their experience with him should spur them to look out for the exceptional case and to establish a system by which it will not become a case for the coroner BOCLVLISM IN ACTION. . Here are a few effects of socialism in operation under the name of bol shevisin, as given by a number of British representatives in Russia: A textile mill employing 6500 men before the revolution is run by com mittees, one of which decides all com plaints of workmen in their favor, another controls all buying and selling and, having no idea of the quality of an article, very often buys inferior goods at higher prices than would be paid by an expert, another travels all over the country seeking food but is very unsuccessful. These committees are practically self-elected, as the workmen are tirejl of the whole system and few of them attend meetings. The output has de creased to less than half of the pre revolution total. In the Donets basin the number of coal mines normally in operation is 390. In November, 1918. it was thirty,! and the larger mines had been flooded by the bolshevists. Production in January, 1918, was 491,000 poods com pared with 1,358,000 in September, 1917. In the Krivoi Rog iron district in the - south, which formerly produced 3,000,000 tons a year, two large iron works have been at a standstill since May, 1918. and at a third the number of workmen has decreased from 6000 to 2500. There is plenty of food in Russia, but complete breakdown in transport and distrust between town and coun try leave the peasants an abundance while the factory workers starve. There is famine in agricultural implements and clothing owing to the laziness and disorganization of the factory workers. Food could be bought at low prices in exchange for textile products. Many thousands of people have been shot In Moscow, but lately the con demned have been hanged by Mon golian soldiers, because "shooting was too noisy and not sure enough." Executions continue in the prisons and, while they are in progress, a regimental band plays lively tunes. Hands and feet are tied so that the bctlics will fiill into tho ii-a-.e. CnonsjLf waited. fur the promptings of O; occasion after the grave had been closed a musician saw it moving and he fainted with horror. The bolshe vists seized him, accused him of sym pathy with the prisoners and were about to kill him, but let him off when his comrades explained that he was really ill. A strike at the Petrograd factories in March was accompanied by cries of "Bread" and "Down with Lenihe." Bolshevism has lost it hold in the factories, and the committees are re garded as spies. At a meeting of 10,000 workmen at the Putiloff iron works a resolution "was passed with only twenty-two dissentients, denounc- ing the bolshevist government for hav-I Ing "betrayed the high ideals of the I October revolution and deceived the with, and have put nothing else in its in time th6 dauKhter8 of st. Maw'e8 be workmen and peasants" and as a "die- place, and have succeeded only in Ean a consistent campat&n of reco'rd tatorship." This clause might have being formless and grotesque where smashing. The breeder realized, related been copied verbatim from resolutions I denouncing the czar's government: I w. .h- , ,! , w-orkmen to remain t IflCMricfi :mri n-nrk, 1 an? the attempt to deprive them of all elementary' rirhts. freedom of the nress. peecn. meetings, invioiaouuy 01 persons, etc i The resolution was adopted wth cries of "Down with dictatorship," "Down wrote, but the V hitman cult has price?" asked "Ed" Carey, almost tear with the commissars," "To the courts grown. There will always be Amerl- ! fully. "Three cents a pound." came the with the bolshevist hangmen and mur- derers," and these lines were placarded 'on the walls of Petrograd: Down with I.enlne and horseflesh. Give us the czar and pork. Bolshevist leaders visited the works and tried to pacify the workmen with promises of more food, but they were hooted down and summoned to resign. Finally, regiments of the red army, Letts and Germans, were sent to the ctiy, arrested 300 men in the work shops, shot leaders by wholesale and drove men back to work by threats. That is the most advanced form of democracy which has been hailed with . , , . I joy by Hearst and which Oswald Gar- risen Villard would adopt In America. JOBS FOR THE DISABLED. Promise of co-operation between the federal civil servico commission and the board for vocational re-education Is welcome at a time when co-ordina- tlon of all the agencies of relief for nanaicappea soldiers is particularly desirable. The civil service commis sion in recommending to the presi dent the abatement of certain physical requirements in the cases of applicants for civil service jobs has promised that it will work with the vocational board before rejecting any soldier or sailor applicant on grounds of physical dis- ability, and also that it will go further tv,or, k - vv.-i, i. -,t , .. than that. Where it Is clear that the appiiLdiii. uy reason oi nis Qissoiwneni is. uuut iur me puaiLiun boubul, ouier pusmuns win us considered ana sug- gestea to mm. rue civil service body proposes io mane iueu, insieaa or a . , , . . , . . classification machine, a human foster I father to thosp who hpralldc of fhpirllne "'"l"1"1' experience oi sttomptinK w iatner to tnose wno, Decause or tneir dilnc5 on tn! side of , mountain. Knr those services ana tneir Handicaps, deserve especial aid. The keynote of the new order Is that the bars shall not be let down on merely charitable grounds to appli cants whose physical condition is an obstacle to their doing the work in a manner satisfactory to their own sense of self-respect. The vocational board will train applicants physically wher ever possible for the positions which they seek and for which they are otherwise qualified. The civil service commission will do its part by desig- nating other positions where the latter! are found desirable. The end sought is that the applicant shall be placed in employment which will be congenial to mm Decause ne is Iittea ror it. ai- though disabled, he will be placed on an eaual footincr with his associates. I Th s-narnntee thus crivon hv two important government organizations is I significant of progress. It tardily gives promise oi ine nine wnen every ue- Dartment which is concerned with the I rHc9hl(.d RnMlpr-tli nrmv and naw I the war risk insurance bureau, the medical departments the various em. ployment bureaus, the public lands officials and all the rest of them will so co-operate through a central agency that the soldier who has been wounded will not lose their fostering ,i -j re until ia has Vionn onmnlafalv va . .. t""'J habilitated. This In theory the various governnient bodies now seek to do. But there is need that theory shall be translated into practice with the smallest possible delay. THE PROVOCATIVE GIFT OF WHITMAN The centenarv of the birth of Walt Whitman, which will be celebrated by an ever-widening cult on May 31 next, mill r. mnra rtocorvt or.n- mlum than that of the admirer of his who, quoting from the New Testamerft, "Provoke one another to cood works." said that the provocative gift undoubt- officer cannot be discharged without tfrank H. Sherwood of Rainier, fur edly was Whitman's in high degree. I a lot of trouble, and then ho may get nlture dealer and undertaker, spent yes- And here is a point upon which all, whether Whitman worshipers or con temners, will agree. Tho influence of Whitman was far-reaching, both in the spirit and the form of his writings. He was, as his friend John Burroughs has said of him, the first American poet of any considerable renown born outside of New England, and "the first to ehow a larger, bolder, freer spirit man tnat or tne .ew England poets." He has been called the father of the American language, the first to recognize the richness and vigor of tne casual wora, tne indigenous beauty of our vulgarisms." Ho is, at any rate, fairly entitled to be considered as the orisrinator of free verse. All except a few of the hair-splitting critics will reject the counter claims rtf stirh relatlvelv uninsnlrlnsr nnnts as ; . - r- - . , - the boy marvel, Arthur Rimbaud, to whom Ezra Pound has pointed as the pioneer. It is Whitman and no others. whether they know it or not who has inspired such vers librists as Frost, and Masters, and Sandburg, and Op- penhelm, and perhaps even Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound himself. As to the merit of the achievement. let the critics quarrel. But Rimbaud died, as is known, in 1892, being then 37 years old. while Whitman on June 14. 1850, had printed in the New York Tribune this verse, which he entitled "Vaunters of the Free": Why do you strain your luncs off south' ward? Why be going to Alabama? Sweep first before your own door: Stop this squalling and this scorn Over the mote there In the distance. Look well to your own eye. Massachusetts Yours. New York and Pennsylvania; I wou'd say yours, too. Michigan, But all the naive, all the surgery Of tha great wide world were powerless there. This probably was the first "free verse" ever published. It was not, however, the first that Whitman wrote Another, New Year Day, 1848, was found in an album after his death. It . . . ,. . , . . . . ; . , . , iurtner serves 10 esiaonsn ms line, for whatever that may bo worth, to having created tne unconventional ... , , . i Torm wnicn nas in more recent oavs i been so generally misused, and which! finds its most asreeable exDresslon to most readers in parodies made upon it. - - - It would be judging Whitman super. ficially to say that he deliberately sought to be grotesque as a means of attaining notoriety. The man was essentially sincere. No one more than real man within him. The Holland Dutch in his heredity made him un usually sane. The artificial is in no sense suggested by anything that he has done. Yet there is the testimony of a friend and devout admirer thatlMawes. is sufficient to make misty the once, when he was praised for the beauty of a passage he had penciled. he replied: "Do you know that I have been trying to work the pretty out of that?" He was not to be persuaded that "to work the rhyme out of a stanza that just naturally rhymed was as ois ii piece oi a necia won 10 iiunt tor jingles at tne ena or a prosy para- BKtpil. HMiiaiurs Jiave ureil un- 1 able to "work the. pretty out of" their verses with the same skill because they have not been poets to begin Whitman, if he separated himself from 1 the modern poets, did link himself with the Kreatest of the ancient Hahroura Ua ,i -i u ir.nt 9 erronta. armv . - - . . , . . , v.i. , explaining me larger truing oenina nis words than any other poet who ever cans who will agree with the extravu- 6"ant estimate that he was the first American poet, an nonor wnicn ne himself in all sincerity would have been first to disclaim. Whitman did have the provocative gift. It is unnecessary to take sides in the controversy over the relativo i. - . . . 4. . - merits of his poems and that of those whom his ultra-ad mlrers belittle as having "chosen village blacksmiths and chambered nautili for their inspl- ration." For those who are irrevocably committed to Whitman there can be no choice between the cadence of I Build thee more stately mansions. O my soul. As the swift waters roll! j Leave thy low-vaulted past! And what of Whitman's, for illustra- tlon: Thouih I come Into my own In thousand I or a, million years. I can take it now or with equal cheerful ness I can wait. But it is still to be doubted whether the message which fired Whitman, and which now inspires his follower and kindles new enthusiasms in sue cessive minds, might not have beep conveyed to an enormously greater audience, and kindled vastly more new enthusiasms if he had not so deeply despised the "conventional forms." I Whitman has been widely translated. French. German. Danish. Italian and odition of his books show tho universality of his appeal and his universality ot nis appeal, ana nis understanding of the great glory of the commonplace. But of free verse aa a form. Dr. Patterson comprehended ajj w),cn jje said un inB wnois. nowevcr. ins messaKo win always b blunted for those "timers'' who feel. In reading or hearinr those productions, who find this task exhliaratinc, vers librs, I I aa a form, is without a rival. The claims of the form of verse of I which Whitman's was the prototype may be disposed of in the words at- tributed to Lincoln, that for those who like that kind of thing, it is the kind of thing they will like. The substance Rude of pendleto'n. Or.; Dr. E. R. Fiack of Walt Whitman it is no longer the of Enterprise. Or.; F. J. Boyce of Nam fashion to decry. Both in numbers pa, Idaho, and A. L. Demarls of Milton, and In quality the Whitman following Or. is too Impressive to be treated lightly. I Those who are ear-minded and music ally inclined may wish that he had chosen a different vehicle, but all will agree that the Whitman worshipers are entitled to their Idol. But all will wish that there were fewer imitators eemua wmi a. piuiuuuu ijuchc instinct could hope to overcome, as he has done, tne monstrous Handicap or an Utterly chaotic form. At least it is a sign of sanity that tienry f oro considers it a noei to De rallH n n nnnrrhlst. Tt show that he. .nn n... . , 1 1 f r .- I v f ,,-m : for anarchy among the American people. Next thing Secretary Baker will accuse somebody of libeling him by calling him a pacifist. The author of "J'accuse" proved by his terrible arraignment of militarist I t .. . I- . 1. 1 . ... ... 1 I vjoi uidiij jic ftntw it uiuiuusui). Therefore his statement that the mill- tary oligarchy till controls should be credited and should warn the peace conference against leniency. The longer the railroads remain in the hands of the government, the more money they lose. That is the best rea son for handing them back to the companies before the deficit is larger than the war debt. Civil service, negatively, keeps Port- land in the wicked column. A bad back in a year or two, collecting full nav for the Interim pay for the interim. t : . . - . TnV. , 1 rnty pc-r unit, uiuie xxcuchajia iuaii I Oddfellows attended the sessions in I Salem last week, which is explainable, I Somebody (accent on the first syllable) 1 had to stay at home I Primrose is such a ruthless desperado that it is to be hoped that memory of his crime will not become so dim that I he will ever be released Hoos River, beins: on a cood road and appreciative, is said to be solid ,. .k. nnnMVeit hiehwav. Thai' the, I .,.. i. Ludendorfrs cmpIalnt that the . . , . . T , ., . I treaty is too na.ru win nave an me effcct of a lndorsement in the eyes of the allies. With women going into men's atlv letics, according to the big store ads. It's frills and baby ribbon for the men folk. Somebody's paying too much for the whistle. Hines needs $1,200,000,000 to run the railroads another year. Every little city that boasts a park should fix up a corner for a tourist .amyms s,uu.,u. " v.. With children in the family. It's a question of a used piano or a used car and nobody for umpire. In the ruckus over democratic na tional committeeman, just remember Morrow "is the doctor." The trans-Atlantic flying competition would not be complete without a Frenchman in it. 'dry" world, but!1 planted a rose In my garden I Ty r v. nlrna 11 Mt T , . ' T.. cryan nas oeeu p.s.....ub uuU6. u.., i ie ''" With Colonel Dan Moore gone from Seaside the old ocean is left, and that j ... I Is something. The Germans want bread and peace, I and bread more than peace. , 1 The manner of Tuck's death will J benefit oilier unfortunates. Those Who Come and Go. The tragedy of the Jersey sire, St. eyes of all stockmen. Frofessor E. B. Fitts, of Oregon Agricultural college, grown reminiscent, told it to a bunch of stock-breeders during the Jersey jaunt last week. The Jersey herd owned by "Ed" Carey of Carlton Is famed for lt8 demure-eyed bossies with superl; tlvo butter-fat records. St. Mawes was tneir daddythe eire of -Poppy" and ,," .,! Mh.r. wh wn renown. Ed" Carey bought him in his youth. held him lightly, and sold him to an T ,-1 . , . I. - . . , Professor Fitts. that a treasure beyond price had slipped. through his herd and was gone, tie sought tnrougn laano oum xi i 111 id cmitn. ana amun to i noinu tears has sold that august animal to the butcher for beef. "What was the answer. There were a dozen or more warriors in the A. E. F. who won the sobriquet of "the fightlne parson." One of them is In Portland. He is pastor of the "j"" cnurcn oi can oose. ai.. he admltt no conscientious ob- jectlons when the call came to hustle the Huu from France A ..Bi.. sud. g.er, the Rev. William L. Stldger became a truck driver with the expeditionary forces, and learned a lot about shell craters, high explosives, shrapnel, and tha mutability of life at the front. Ha w" rood truck driver, so they say. The bova eallert him "ti f irlit nr nn r. son" after he had doffed his tunic and , . . , . . soundly whipped one of the company L"f?" - C1kn" - 'j VL erend Stidser. who is in the field for the Methodist centenary drive, will ad dress the Lpworth league rallly at Cen tenary church tomorrow night. Did you ever go calling with a floun der In one hand and a section of redo lent kippered salmon in the other? F. Klevenhusen. salmon packer of Altoona. Wash., did just that very same thing yesterday, when he registered t the Oregon and went forth to take Sunday dinner with friends. "Xot that they won't have plenty to re Bale the Inner mEn'" eP'ained Mr. Klevenhusen, wav- !"E the fish, "but it's sel k"!pfr.M salmon as this iaom ins.1 sucti comes to the i ?S . flounder 8jr ne was floundering around on th floor of the Pacific not 24 hours aco.' uninltiate. And as for this flounder. Mr. Klevenhusen has packing interests at Dotn Altoona and Astoria, Ho may wear his pants in his boots. but the cautious will reserve judgment when he drifts up to the Imperial reg ister and signs for a room. The chances are a thousand to one that ha is lord f manv ,nri . t-im, from the ranges of Idaho' and Orejron. in for the week-end with a shipment of rlno critters. Among the stockmen "s'""oa ",tlno imperial yesterday were iuorrui iowper ot weiser. jaano; vc uuimica snu cigniy-iive ncaa oi choice sheep, from their range on the Applegate. in Jackson county, arrived in t-ortiand yesterday for presentation at the stockyards. Their owner is Ches ter j. Kubll of Medford, now at tho Im perial, accompanied by Mrs. Kubli, wnose rancn is a score or miles from Murphy, a little rural postoffice dumped "uw " m srrcen nun ot tne Apple "V "."on ooys came iron sentativa from Multnomah county in the state legislature. I 1 Dr. L. F. Griffith, assistant sunertn- 1 "J 1 l", ""ttution for the yVyco and their small daughters, Margaret and Ruth. They returned last night, after spending tho day at the Imperial as .tne guests of Mrs. Griffith's father, Jlclacna" ar- p jy Sumner chief of th .irn.r iron works Tat Everett. Wash regis- tered at the Oregon yesterday when he arrived for a brief business visit in Portland. Mr. Sumner's plant has shared largely in the business of furnishing Cific coast. equipment tor vessels built on the P. Every arterial road-In Clatsop coun- ty is being hard-surfaced and paved," exulted S. W. Lovell. who keeps an auto r " -' w " ' L mo m perial for a few days. "We need the roads, and we've got the business," he added. .erdy at,tne Cornelius. "The furniture business is good." commented Mr. Sher- wood b j am h y other department Is almost nrhnllv I ... . .. 1 wiinoui patronage. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Cruikshank of Hood River motored to Portland yes- teraay ana were guests at the Cor nelius. Mr. Cruikshank. whoso 10-and 15-cont store Is thriving, declares thst I business conditions In Hood River wera never better. Ho trains the speedy sprinters, and the lonsr-distanco marathon men, at the University of Oregon, doea W. Hayward, ir.rk r..rh who r.i.r. . i-,. perlal yesterday, I I Mrs. J. E. Montgomery and little son of Pendleton are spending a few days 'of" the "F..TTsto.1' gra?n . M,: o umuii sraiu agency at Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Granville of New York City are spending a few days at the Benson while on tour of the Pa cific northwest. E. A. Schlffler. retired merchant o Pendleton, accompanied by Mrs. Schif fler, is registered at the Oregon. Samuel M. P. Dolan. of the Oregon Agricultural collece faculty. Is regis tered at tha Seward. I Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Dahl of Tygh Val- I ley are recent arrivals at tne toe ward I Tj., r..nr. H R,.(, .f C.. I, registered at the Imperial. Winifred Clancey of Medford is reris tered at the Portland. Phil Cohn, merchant, of Heppner, la I at the Imperial.. I PLANTED A ROSE IN MY GARDEN, I planted a rose In my garden A rose without a tnorn. And I arose and watched it growing At the earliest break of morn. I As KOlden as the day And I tenderly nurtured the blossoms. And thought they would bloom alway, The rose called iove. I planted I The rose without a thorn: I 'rose one morning and found it- Withered and blighted and torn. planted a rose in my garden without a tnorn, i swear. And yet when It's blighted and faded 1 find a sharp thorn there. WilA HEEVBS CROFT. Gleanings From State Press. Observations of st Kan Albany HeraH. Also, it is a marvelous display of the triumph of man over matter. The low throw from catcher to second base, as swift as an arrow, and accurately aimed as a bullet, has an incomparable beauty. The qulck-thlnking of the player, who in the merest instant of times sees a situation which the ordi nary man would need ten minutes to think out. also arouses keenest ad miration. It's a wonderful game. Pass ing years will Increase, rather than di minish, its hold. Dear Steak for Kdltors, Baker Herald. Carl Parker and- some friends bapged a fine black bear in the Sanger country yesterday, near Medical SprinRS. The bear was a beauty and well worth their week of hiking. Mr. Parker made the remark to Mr. Hazeltine that he would have bear meat for the National Edi torial association that is to meet in Portland August 8. Good for What Alls; II im. Junction City Times. Let the young men about town out of a job try a year on the farm. Plowing will give him a new constitution, take the kinks out of his head, the frog out of his throat, the gas off his stomach, the weariness out of his legs, the corns off his toes, and give him a good ap petite, an honest living and a sight of heaven. Weed-Cottlng; Time. Forest Grove News Times. Why not have the Commercial club cut the weeds about the business dis trict? It would be a mighty fine thing, and now Is the time to do It. Let some body get busy with a scythe while they are young and tender the weeds, we mean. An Karly Start. Myrtle Point American. Myrtle Point takes a back seat for no section of the state when it comes to brides, or grooms, either, for that mat ter. We have a bride ot 14 and groom 18. and a happier pair nsver was seen. Keeping house by themselves, too. and the house would make many an older ousekeeper blush for her own could he see it. More Lambs Than bsri. Joseph Item In La Grande Ohserver. W Ullam Beaudoln came In Saturday from his father's ranch on Bljr Sheep reeve and reports that tho season's amblng Is completed, and that the verago per cent wss 108. Weston Good Cnsatk for Him. Weston Leader. Having tired of outet vlllaco life at Portland, where ho was connected with ho street railway system in the canac- ty of conductor. Ole Westfall has re- urned to tho bustle and excitement of his metropolis. Whose Lack of Bralnsf Aurora Observer. There Is no reason (eictct lack of brains) why wo should despise the tourist crop, which can bo made more profitable than our combined present rop oi an rruits. all our hops, all our root crops, with our whole "dairy crop" nrown in tor good measure. The Superior flex. Corvallis Gazette-Times. We call Dr. Boyd's attention to a fur her fact to demonstrate man's supe riority over women a man can scratch his own back. Boy, Fetch a Fine-Toothed Comb. Roseburg News. They may try the kaiser, all rierht. but where are they going to find the 12 men who haven't any opinion as to his guilt or innocence? Jnstlee Scandalised. Estacada News. Tho frequency with which deliberate urderers escape the nrooer oer.altv for tneir crimes on the plea of insanity and temporary brainstorms, is getting to be a ecanaai, ana an incentive to murder. Good Roads Items. Barlow Items in Canby News. Mr. Baney has a new Chevrolet car. R. E. Irwin has a new Grant six car. Will Jesse has purchased a Ford runabout. Farmers Feeling Good. Bandon Western World. When one looks Into the beam ins- faces of those "down-coast" or "up-the-rlver" farmers, he Is sure to ask the reason. And the answer Is always the same: "The rain was Just what my crops were needing, everything Is sure to ao rine as a result of It. And tho wind has stopped blowing: so stronsrlv. and the sun Is shining In true summer style. . Thoughts. By Grace K. Hall. million thoughts go speeding forth when the dawn besrins to break. Like mystic things on spirit wings their eartniy course they take: A few ascend to the arching blue like incense, pure and sweet. But the greater part too oft depart to sordid roan s retreat. This spirit army takes Its flight In the gray or the wakinsr morn. And powers that slumbered over night wun aaaeo. torce seem born: And every day as they drift away in tne atmospheric realm. Some greater thought seems ever brought to take the mental helm. This stronger spirit soon la found at tracting myriad others. Along Its course it gathers force and urges on Its brothers; None quits ignore tho thoughts that soar to hlKher altitude. Oh. would we all might heed their call and lower ones preclude! Thought rules the destinies of men; it wins through love or bate; Wo heed each hour no other power Its force none estimate; Then pause and deeply ponder thls the change in mortal plan. If every thought could but be taught to work for fellow-man! I'xtra Mileage Provision. PORTLAND. May 14. (To tho Edi tor.) Please inform me as to the truth of a report that a soldier, upon pre sentation of his discharge papers, or copy thereof, to the proper authorities will be allowed mileasre to his bona fide residence. I enlisted in Oakland, Cal., In 1918 and was discharged at the Presidio in March 1919. receiving no transportation to. my home In Portland. Am I entitled to it under a new ruling? ANXIOUS CORPORAL. PORTLAND. May 24. (To the Ed! tor.) Please Inform me what steps I can take to obtain the additional 1 i cents mileage for transportation ex penses due service men discharged be tween November 11. ISIS and February 2S. 1919. Can a claim be filed through some Portland office or must it go di rect to Washington? EX-SOLDIER AND SUBSCRIBER. Every soldier honorably discharged since November 11 Is entitled to 5 cents mileage to his bona fide residence, ac cording to army recruiting officers, and application should be made through their office in the Worcester building. Portland, whether for the full amount or for amount above what was received. wor.ia.V'j girl. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Tears Asa. From Ths Oregonian of May S6. 1?S4. Tacoma. When a lartro cave-in oc curred near the bluff side of the wharf Major W. T. Gillespie and Arnold Berrenberg were killed and two men were badly Injured. Cripple Creek. Seven men killed, with strong probability that the num ber is larsrer. Is the record of the first day of trouble here between strikers and officers. Exercises appropriate to Memorial day were held in all the public schools of Portland yesterday. William H. Sherwood, the pianist who played at the World's fair and with the BoBton Symphony orchestra, will Rive a recital at the Marquam this evening. Fifty Tears A so. From The Oresonian of May 1560. Memphis. A body of armed and dis guised men stopped a train and unsuc cessfully sought to murder an internal revenue officer by the name of Hahn. who had in charge a man arrested for moonshining. Stock In the Oregon Linen Factory company in Polk county is paid to be. subscribed in full and machinery will soon be brought from the cast. If the weather proves favorable the Washington guard's annual picnic will be held tomorrow at Pleasant Grove. Quite a batch of army contracts were let yesterday in pursuance of General Saxton's call for bids. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. (Copyright. 1(19. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) When Jones was a pedestrian He used to slink along the byways And curse the motorists who ran Their devil-wagons down the high ways. He wrote the papers every week (He signed his letters Constant Reader"). And warmly urged the law to wreak Whorrid vengeance on the tpeeder. 'Our law enforcement is too lax." Wrote Jones, "a vigilance committee Will have to hang there maniacs Or they will devastate the city. The cops should confiscate all cars As fast as they can overtake "cm. And place behind the prison bars Whoever dares to own or make 'era." Now Jones has changed his point of view. He smiles to see tho people shiver When he shoots down tho avenue And ducks through traffic in his flivver. "What awful saps these people are," Says Jones. "By jing! I'd like to soak "em: They walk right underneath your car. And you're arrested if you croak 'em." And. if the papers you will scan You'll see that lawless mischief breeder The criminal pedestrian Is roundly scored by Constant Reader. "It seems to me." he writes, with heat. "Pedestrians have lost their sentes. If they will run across the street. Why let 'tni take the consequences.!" Out of the Frying Pan. Etc. Although the absence of saloons may drive men to the libraries while Mtss Klinor Glyn's novels are still in circu lation it is difficult to discern how the change will be of any benefit. Find Km First. Maximilllan Harden says that Ger many can be rescued by openness and honesty, but there is a fearful short age of both commodities over there. Past Finding. Nobody has heard from Billy Sunday for so Ions that we bearin to suspect he must have gone off somewheres wltb William Jennings Bryan. FREAK HAILS FROM SUCKER STATE Veracious Writer Telia of Turning Loose First Two-Headed Snake. HOOD RIVER, Or., May 24. (To the Editor.) Having read with much in terest the discussions relative to his snakeship, both hoop, joint and the double-header in The Oregonian, may I not shed a few beams of light across the darkened horizon as to how, in my opinion, the two-headed make orig inated. Realising that there are al ways ' doubting Thomases In evidence when fish or snake stories are In sea son, and also that these stories are not as elastic as the truth. I will try to keep within the bounds of reason, at the same time I hope my readers will realize that truth is stranger than fic tion. It all happened back in Peoria coun ty. Illinois, where the writer was a boy and that was a good country for Joint snakes and snake joints. My brother and I had finished laying by corn (plowing the last time) and. the day being warm, wo decided to bo down to Brinker's Bottom at Three Forks to the old swimming hole and wash our stains away. We had heard of joint snakes, but up to this time had not seen any. On our way down we ran across two specimens of this specie as they later proved to be. We sur mised they were fabricated snakes and decided to capture them after first rendering them harmless by getting them to sever their several connec tions. By surrounding them and assuming a threatening attitude and by yelling wo persuaded them to scatter their anatomy over tho landscape. After the shower was over we viewed their wreck with sorrow and misgivings as Wr how the dead yet liveth. So we de cided to prove it out and gathered up tho fragments and put them In our fish basket to take home on our re turn. This we placed in an empty rain barrel north of the woodshed. It being late when we arrived home, and there were chores to do. we thought no more of the matter until next morning, when, behold, instead of pieces or two snakes, there was one with two heads. Tou see. we hadn't fotir.d tho tails. We felt so conscience stricken that we turned It loose. The last we saw of it It had closed Its muffler, thrown her In hish and was joy riding toward Brinker's Bottom singing "Where Is My Wandering Tail Tonight?" Thus originated the two-headed snake. L. E. CLARK. Bonus for All Soldiers. VANCOUVER. Wash-. May 24. (To the Editor.) Please state how a man can get this $60 and where? He was taken by the local board and snt to camp and turned down there. Can he get the bonus? A SUBSCRIBER. CRAWFORD. Wash.. May 23. (To the Editor.) Kindly let me know whether or no an alien enemy, drafted at the first call, serving five ir.onUis and honorably discharged. Is entitled to the $60 bonus which the government has recently granted. H. F.REUDKNTHAL. Eoth inquirers are entitled to the bonus. Make application through the Portland recruiting office, Worcester building, or write direct to the zone finance office. Lemon building. Wasli Ing'.ci.. V. C.