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THE 3IORXIXG OTIEG OXIAN, THURSDAY. MAT 29, 1919.
KSTAUL1SUED BI HENRT J PITTOCK.
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WILL THE GERMANS SIGN?
Interest in the peace conference
now centers on the question: "Will
the Germans sign?" The peace dele
gates and the German cabinet make
all the demonstrations customary
with one who is being dragged or
driven to a repulsive task. Such a
one knows that his master has the
physical power to compel obedience,
but hopes by alternate pleadings and
bluster to weaken his will and make
him relent, at least so far as to lighten
the task. Yet the German delegates
and cabinet, with the independent so
cialists clamoring for pjace at any
price, with great demonstrations mak
ing the same demand and with the
allied armies preparing for an ad
vance eastward from the Rhine,
fear the consequences of a refusal to
sign. From the consequence of driv
ing unwilling America into war, they
have learned to "beware the wrath
of a patient man."
Weighing all considerations as the
Germans must weigh them, which in
volves the almost impossible feat of
thinking German thoughts with an
American mind, one is led to the con
clusion that the Germans indulge a
forlorn hope of dividing the allies
and of at least obtaining some mod
ification of the terms. That hope is
encouraged by the long delay of the
allies to agree among themselves, by
their dallying with bolshevisra in Rus
sia and Hungary, by their refusal to
sacrifice the secret treaties to the
fourteen points, by their surrender to
Japan on the Shantung affair, by their
weak yielding in regard to Danzig, by
the Kiufne dispute. Throughout the
war Germany nourished the hope
that it might divide and conquer; it
now hopes to divide and sava some
thing out of the wreck.
The chief reliance of Germany now
teems to be that America will at the
last hour give counsels of mercy to
the allies. From the first it has
counted American idealism as a Ger
man asset, which would prevent
America from taking up arms, or at
the worst would make this country
merciful in victory. Prussian arro
gance and moral . obtuseness fail to
recognize that idealism, when over
taxed, becomes a heavy liability. A
righteous man reasons and pleads with
a scoundrel until he becomes con
vinced that the fellow is an irredeem
able scoundrel, then knocks him down
and does not afterward relent. That
is now the position of the United
States, and there is good reason to be
lieve that what President Wilson has
seen and heard in France has hard
ened his heart against any pleadings
and sophistries to which Germany may
resort. If that be his disposition, he
truly interprets American opinion
That opinion was formed by too grad
ual a process of conviction to be
t-haken by anything which emanates
from Germany.
Whatever reasonable doubt exists as
to whether Germany will accept the
terms can be traced back to the begin
ning of the armistice negotiations,
Though two weeks' more of fighting
would almost certainly have reduced
the German army to a routed rabble,
President Wilson was too much elated
by the fact that Germany had donned
the outer garments of democracy. He
did not realize that leaders so ruthless
and arrogant as the militarists, or a
people so deluded as the German
masses could not bo quickly change,
that they could not be made to realize
and accept defeat until the allied
armies were in the midst of Germany.
The Germans were not, as they should
have been, given to understand that
the fourteen points were adopted as
the basis of peace as the allies, not as !
Germany, construed them. Dallying
about surrender of the German ships
and practical yielding on the point of
sending the Polish troops to Danzig,
paltering with Russian bolshevism,
secret sessions which bred a host of
rumors about allied dissensions all
encouraged the Germans to attempt
the policy they have adopted. Rapid
return of the American army and de
mobilization by the allies had the same
effect.
The German demand for a popular
vote on detachment of the territory
which Germany is to lose and for im
mediate admission to the league of
nations proves that Germany clings to
false ideals and does not consider Itself
guilty of crimes which unfit it for
association with other nations. De
mand for a popular vote in Polish
Prussia is, in fact, a demand that, hav
ing stolen that country, colonized it
with Germans and crowded out Poles
for 150 years, Germany shall be per
mitted to profit by the crime. The
demand as to the league ignores any
distinction between a criminal and the
injured party. It is as though a mur
derer demanded an invitation to dinner
from the wife of his victim. Such
arrogance assumes that Germany's only
crime has been failure. It is an argu
ment for an allied march across the
empire they still call it so to join
hands with isolated Poland and Rou
; mania.
But there is small reason to appre-
jiena mat tno uermans win carry
' defiance to the point where tho allies
would have to advance into tho heart
of Germany and occupy the whole
' country. From what they know that
they did to France and Belgium, and
that the allied airmen did to the Rhine
cities, the Germans have a wholesome
lread Of invasion. They are power
loss for successful resistance and,
therefore, would probably offer none
At all in order to save their cities from
ombardment, or would make only a
fchow of it. - The enraged workingmen.
I ready for any kind of peace, . might
drive out the Ebert .government and
install an extreme socialist govern
ment to accept any terms which the
allies dictated. All added indemnity
to pay for armed occupation would be
exacted.
If the allies show no sign of weak
ness or division, but sternly insist on
the terms which they have offered, it
is a safe prediction that the Germans
will sign. The Germans are coldly
calculating players and they well know
that they have played their last card
and lost.
ONLY GCESSIJfG.
So exalted a political personage as
the chairman of the democratic na
tional committee frankly admits that
he has "no information" about Presi
dent Wilson's intentions as to a third
term. But he intimates, with attrac
tive naivette, that it all depends on the
fate of the league of nations.
What the candid Cummings says he
doesn't know is what everybody else
doesn't know, but guesses. It is that
the president may be a candidate. Or
may not be.
If not Wilson, who? Whomsoever
the president names, of course if he
cares to name him. The unenlightened
Cummings doubtless doesn't even know
who it will be, or whether he will even
designate the sacrificial lamb. But he
knows that the democratic party ma
chine cannot turn a wheel until the
driver gives the word.
Was ever a political party so com
pletely in the hands of a sole pro
prietor? Were ever the nominal man
agers of the party ever so completely
out of the confidence of its master?
A PROTEST,
The Oregonian haa received from
the Grand Army of the Republic,
Department of Oregon, the following
letter, which it prints for its succinct
and sufficient statement of the pur
poses of Memorial day:
To the surviving union soldiers of the
civil war the observance of Memorial day
haa a peculiarly Impressive, significance and
we are In hearty and grateful sympathy
with any rational attempt to discourage
frivolity, and encourage contemplation of
our duty to remember the fallen ones whose
experiences in the hour of our nation's peril
were a portion of the sacrifices And suffer
ing Involved in perpetuating our national
unity.
This day has been specially set apart for
that purpose, and feeling assured of your
Interest and desire to have the nnth of
May properly observed, wo respectfully In
vite your co-operation and participation In
such exercises as may appeal to you, and
especially request you to appear in parade
and to be seated on the platform In the
City Auditorium during the patriotic me
morial exercises of the afternoon.
With our desire for assisting you as we
may be able to do so, in your efforts to pro
mote physical. Intellectual and moral wel
fare in municipal government, we are, etc.
On this sacred day (May 30) the
public schools are closed that the
younger generation may understand
the sacrifices, and hear proclaimed
the worth, of the patriotic dead who
lost their lives that the nation might
live, or -who have passed on in the
maturity of their years after heroic
service for their country. All public
business is suspended, all trade, all
secular activities which may be given
over to another day. It is a day of
remembrance and recognition, of flow
ers and music, of eulogy and mourning.
It is the day on which we are reminded
of the things which we .should never
forget.
Memorial day is not, in Us general
conception, for celebration by the
Grand Army alone. It has come to
be a day dedicated to observance by
all who have ties that lead them to
the grave; and none are free from
them. It is not necessarily a day of
sadness, but of solemn pride in the
achievements of those who have
struggled and gone on, of orderly en
thusiasm for the Institutions which
they preserved and gave to those who
followed. It is a day of rejoicing
that they did not die inr vain.
The Grand Army protests against
frivolity on such a day. It is a sen
timent with which all right-thinking
people should, and will sympathize.
THEY MIST MAKE GOOI TO WIN,
Disgusted with the incompetence,
partisanship and inefficiency in man
agement of business of which it has
seized control, the people are turning
from the democratic party and fasten
ing' their hopes on the republican party.
That is the substance of the conclu
sions reached by David Ijiwrenfe, for
merly the spokesman of the adminis
tration, on a tour of the country. He
reminds republicans that there is yet
time for the democrats to prevent the
election of 1920 from being a walk
away for the republican candidates.
and that their (republicans') popu
larity is not yet based on any perform
ance or demonstration of inherent vir
tues but upon a deep dissatisfaction
with the democratic party's past." This;
dissatisfaction is "as pronounced in the
south as in the west and east" to the
degree 'that President Wilson's "own
friends doubt that he could be elected
for a third term.
The republicans can win in 1920 If
by their conduct In the "present and
succeeding sessions of congress they
earn the confidence which the people
are willing to give them. They cannot
win solely or-mainly on their oppo
nents' record of poor performance;
they must make a record of their own
and it must, compare favorably with
that which the democrats may yet
make and in Mr. Wilson the latter
have a resourceful leader who is cap
able of offering a. new political bill of
fare to tickle the popular palate. Leg
islation must be in the direction of
genuine progress, for the democrats
will waste no excuse to pin the reac.
tionary label on the majority in con
gress. If the republicans should not
make good and If the democrats should
not regain favor, there is a possibility
that a radical third party may spring
up and, in these restless times, may
stampede many votes.
It devolves on the republicans not to
stop at exposing the failures and vices
of the administration, but to go on
with reorganization of the government
for better service, especially to set the
nation's finances in order by adopting
a budget system. It will not suffice to
expose the democratic spoils system if
tho door is left open for a republican
spoils system. Business can be released
from shackles and given opportunity
to expand by opening the public do
main to development and foreign fields
to trade. Labor needs security for full
payment for what it produces, for its
right to bargain collectively, to health
and safety. All of these policies are
republican, and imply no break in the
party's history. The conditions of the
time demand longer strides along the
same road as the party has traveled
The main difference between the so
called progressive and conservative
groups consists in a difference of opin
ion as to the .length of these strides,
except that some self-styled progres.
slves remain republicans in name only,
as they propose policies which would
make a clean break with the first prin
clples of the party.
r The republican artj- wcrjxjd. insure,
its own defeat if It were, as a party, to
oppose the league of nations. All ob
servers agree that, without regard to
party, American opinion favors Ameri
can membership in the league. The
league is necessary to world peace, to
American security and to performance
of our national duty. If the repub
lican party should defeat ratification
of tho covenant, it would strike a blow
at the nation's interests, would en
danger the peace of the world and
would bring upon Itself deserved de
feat. Let the few republicans of lim
ited vision go their own way, but the
party as a whole should prove itself
to be what it always has been, the
party which stands for America's play
ing a great nation's part in tho world.
HUNTING FROM AIRPLANES.
A proposal that Canada increase its
meat supply by using airplanes to
drive the great herds of caribou from
the barrens of the northern provinces
into corrals on the shore of Hudson
bay for slaughter, has called forth loud
protests from the big game hunters of
Africa. They foresee an extension of
the practice to the wholesale slaughter
of elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes and
various kinds of deer which abound in
the no-longer-dark continent.
The average man regards any means
of slaying predatory animals as justi
fiable, but the sportsman's idea is to
match his skill, cunning and strength
against those of his prey and to come
off victor, even if the animal he hunts
be a beast of prey. But if a host of
market-hunters in airplanes should be
free to kill elephants for their ivory
and deer and caribou for their meat,
these Valuable animals would soon be
come extinct. Genuine sportsmen would
turn from such a sure-thing game with
disgust, regarding it in the same light
as killing trout with dynamite or
trapping a fox. One can imagine how
much sooner the buffalo would have
become a curiosity for the zoo if
hunters in airplanes had swarmed over
the plains fifty years ago.
The upshot may be adoption by the
eague of nations of strict game laws
to restrict hunting with aircraft in the
wild parts of the earth. If the supply
of natural ivory is to be maintained,
it may be necessary to establish a great
elephant preserve in the heart of
Africa, where animals will be selected
for slaughter as carefully as the United
States limits slaughter of seals on the
Pribiloff islands.
We are coming to the point where
there may be world game laws. We
are already coming to world wireless
laws, world aviation laws are in imme
diate prospect, and world shipping laws
are not far in the future. What next?
DEPORTATION AND IMMIGRATION.
The number of bills on immigration
and on deportation of enemy and ui
desirable aliens which has been intro
duced arouses expectation of action at
this session. Representative Johnson
of Washington takes the lead with a
bill under which aliens who renounced
citizenship In order to evade the draft
would be deported. Aliens who stir up
industrial strife for revolutionary pur
poses should go the samo way. So
should those who were interned as
enemy aliens.
Sifting of the alien population which
we already have is as necessary as that
of new immigrants. The work of
building a nation still continues, and
the war brought to light much bad
material. It should be thrown out, and
no more should be admitted. There
will still be plenty of work In shaping
to our purpose what we already have
and what will be received, that is. In
Americanizing the alien population.
Due-protection against undesirables
may require suspension of immigration
until new laws can bo brought into
operation, but the period of four years
which has been proposed is too long.
New laws should be ready far short
of that time, and the country is likely
to need immigrant labor in another
year. Many of those who came before
the war are eager to flock homeward
to visit relatives, to enjoy the new
freedom which has come to their na
tive lands and to invest their rich war
earnings. Without a westward flow of
new immigrants, this movement may
leave us short of labor. But precau
tions are needed more than ever that
the newcomers will be a welcome ac
quisition as citizens as well as workers.
Revision of the laws in regard to
exclusion of Asiatics is also needed In
order that they may still be shut out
without any suggestion of racial infe
riority, which they take as a national
insult. This is practicable by limiting
the number of immigrants from each
nation to a fixed percentage of the
number from that nation already nat
uralized, including children of immi
grants. By putting Asiatic nations on
the same footing as all others, this
plan would remove the stigma of In
feriority and would accomplish the
purpose of the exclusion laws as effec
tively. It would also regulate iraml
gration from each country according
to Its quality.
DEFENDING THE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
If the railroads and tjie Puget sound
cities should make in the Portland rate
case the contention stated in the Seattle
Times "that the Portland rates origin
ally were the basis for the whole rate
structure of the district," they would
find themselves embarrassed by their
own statement in application for re
hearing of the Astoria case that the
Portland rates were based on the Puget
sound rates. The basis seems to shift
as the necessities of Seattle and Its
mountain roads demand. A most ac
commodating basis. The records of
rate-making will show on what basi3
parity was actually established.
But, -we are told, if parity should be
abolished, Seattle rates would be raised.
Portland rates would not be lowered.
for "the commerce commission will not
favor any lowering of rates at this
time." All of that remains to be seen
The commission has leaned increas
ingly toward cost of service as the
basis of rates. One result of impend
Ing railroad legislation may be adop
tion of that basis. In any case, we
may expect wholesale revision of the
entire rate structure if the roads should
bo consolidated in the hands of fifteen
or twenty companies, as proposed by
Director-General Hines and Senator
Cummins, who will have charge of
railroad bill3 in the senate. So far as
parity is concerned, it would be im
material whether revision was upward
on ono route or downward on the other,
provided that It truly reflected the dif
ference in cost of service between the
river and mountain routes.
Then the ingenious argument is of
fered that, "because of the much
greater local traffic over the Seattle
roads, the cost of handling the indi
vidual car ... is relatively less
than on a road that does not have the
same great volume of business from
great tributary districts"; therefore
Portland s cost of service argument
would no hold good in application to
present traffic conditions." How was
that volume of traffic attracted to the
mountain roads? Very largely by the
joint ownership of the North. Bank
road by the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern, which use their power to
prevent traffic from following Its nat
ural route down the Columbia river to
Portland and to force it to the un
natural route over the mountains. The
result Is that overhead and mainte
nance costs are charged to a smaller
total number of cars and the cost of
service per car is artificially enhanced.
The situation would be reduced to an
absurdity if the Hill roads were to
send only one car a year down the
North Bank road and were to charge
the entire overhead and maintenance
costs to that car.
This situation furnishes a close par
allel to that which the supreme court
destroyed whenit broke up the North
ern Securities merger of all the Hill
and Harriman roads. The case Is
aggravated by the refusal of the north
ern roads to permit the North Bank to
build branches Into territory which
they serve. In fact, the North Bank
exists not to use but to prevent the
use of the Columbia river route. Its
control by competitors is matter for
further action aimed at clearing away
the artificial obstacles which obstruct
use of the Columbia river route.
Then we have-the old jeer that grain
does not come to Portland for ship
ment oversea because "Portland Is not
In reality a salt water port" and that
if it costs more to get grain over the
mountains to Seattle" than to take it
to Portland, then "It no doubt costs
less to get grain and other commodi
ties started on their Journey on the
high seas from Seattle than from Port
land." If that be true It is not then
Portland should be compensated by
Seattle for its misfortune in not being
a salt water port on the same principle
that Seattle claims compensation for
not being on a water grade. If there
is to be compensation, let us "have it
all around.
Of course, grain does go to sea from
Portland, and handling costs no more
from Portland's fresh water port than
from Seattle's salt water port. There
are many fresh water ports in the
world, some of them with several times
the population of Seattle and Portland
combined, and they are not pining
away for lack of salt water. If salt
water be such an unmixed blessing and
fresh water such a drawback, why did
Seattle never rest until it induced the
government to dig a canal from Its
splendid salt water harbor into the
fresh water harbor of Lake Washing-
toil? There must be some virtue in
fresh water, after all.
We are also regaled with the familiar
argument about the benefits of compet
ing markets to producers, merchants
and manufacturers and about the seri
ous disturbance which would re
sult from overturning an arrangement
which has existed for thirty years.
The interests of all are best served by
the largest use of the most economical
route at a fair margin over cost of
service, not by artificially fostering
competing routes and markets at
higher cost. Nor does the practice of
thirty years sanctify a vested wrong.
No matter how. long ago a wrong may
have been done, it is never too late to
undo that wrong.
Mr. Farrell, down on Front street.
advises producers to raise all the poul
try possible, predicting brisk demand
and high prices next winter. The talk
is good. While the late-hatched pullet
will not lay early and the cockerel, of
course, cannot, they will release from
the chopping block the old hen who
can lay a few more, and they will be
better 'eating. Set another hen.
Habitual neutrality proves a valu
able asset to Switzerland, but It waf
maintained by the means which Amer
ican paficists term militaristic. By its
neutrality Switzerland captures the
league of nations, while Belgium is
disqualified by having fought. But
Belgium wilt get reparation soma day.
If the senate will speed up with
holflover business as the house has
done, congress should be ready to
tackle new legislation by tho middle
of June and keep President Wilson
busy all Fummer. It's a new broom.
The townles are not drinking her
down to "good old Tale, so hearty and
so hale," since the college grounds are
blocked to the people. Kven the his
toric "ellums" must be bleeding tears.
Judge Stapleton's manner of han
dling domestic quarrels suggests that
he is qualifying for judge of the do
mestic relations court, a job which re
quires a modern Solomon.
It is becoming more obvious that by
depriving General Wood of opportun
ity to win military fame, the demo
crats supplied the republicans with
presidential candidate.
The German mind is befogged when
it thinks to put over a claim of bil
lions for damages alleged on account
of a blockade. Refer it to Foch, with
power to act.
If the Germans cannot be forced to
accept the peace terms in any other
way, their captured cannon might be
used to shoot the terms Into them.
Why would not Mrs. Stocker's 71-
year-old charms prove irresistible to
Walter McGinley when they were en
hanced by a $10,000,000 fortune?
There will be speeding and speeding,
and even the most experienced driver
will know not when the time cometh
of disaster.
Did you ever observe that dried-pea
soup is pretty much the body and
bones and soul of the vegetable king'
dom?
Another ranch east of the moun
tains has been sold in the six figures.
Kastern Oregon Is the place of big
things.
Pretty much everything needed for
household consumption is made in
Oregon, but not every buyer knows it.
Secretary Daniels need not hesitate
to send the whole fleet to the Pacific
ocean. Tho ocean is large enough.
A sure sign that bolshevism Is on
its last legs is the statement that some
body has skipped with the funds.
If you dislike to burn your- money
you might buy cantaloupes with it,
pretty much the same thing.
What a lot of time Columbus would
have saved if he had waited till the
airplane was invented.
There's lots of strawberry shortcake
on Hood river. If you will only go there
and pick the makin's.
New-crop cherries are so high the
frugal housewife needs a recipe to con
serve) the pits,
Stars and Starmakers.
by Leaae Cui Br.
Florence Hart, who has been touring
In Booth Tarklngton'8 successful play,
"Seventeen." has arrived to spend her
vacation in Portland with her brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
L. Hart Of 107 North Twenty-first
street. Miss Hart ia one of the best
known of the younger leading women
in eastern stock and has appeared ex
tensively In traveling productions. Her
husband, Alfred Cross, who appeared
last season with Mrs. Flske, Is expected
In Portland later In the summer for his
vacation. Miss Hart Is considering a
motion picture debut this fall.
a
Raymond Hitchcock, "William Rock
and Frances White are winning Indi
vidual successes In "Hullo. America,"
now playing at the Palace in London.
Elsie Jsnis has finished her engage
ment at the London Palace and is
visiting the American camps before
sailing for America next week.
Alioe Lloyd and her husband, Tom
McNaughton, and their two daughters
will sail from Liverpool June 12 on the
Aqultanla for New York.
Frederick V. Bowers is writing a
new show for next season called "I'll
Say So," to open in August.
The' Julian Eltlnge road show, in
Buffalo this week, has started back to
the coast and will probably end Its
tour about July 16 at Oakland, Cal.
Harry Corson Clarke will try out a
new piece on the coast prior to his
starting on his world tour In a new
comedy entitled. "How About Father?"
'Buster." a bulldog employed In the
act of Jack Dudley and company, and
which has often appeared In Portland,
was shot and killed by someone un
known near the owner's home at New
Brunswick, N. J. last week.
George Arliss Is -Inquiring about a
production by George Anderson, said
to be In course of preparation a-nd due
to open shortly In Washington. Mr. '
Arliss' interest arises from the fact
the Anderson play Is called "There and
Back." A successful farce which Mr.
Arliss wrote 20 years ago has the same
title. Charlie Evans starred in it In
America. Mr. Arliss is still drawing
royalties from it. He has Just finished
his road tour in "The Mollusc" and
Barrle's "A Well-Remembered Voice,"
and June 10 sails for London for a six
weeks' visit. He has not been there In
five years. In the meantime, he will
call attention to the fact that Mr. An
derson, who Is Fritzl Scheff's husband.
has innocently called his rights into
question.
e
E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe,
who have not appeared together In
over five years, will return to the stage
In October under the direction of Lee
Shubert. It was in June, 1014, that.
owing to illness. Miss Marlowe was
compelled to retire, and an announce
ment was soon afterward made that
she would never act again. During
this interim, however, she has entirely
recovered, and It remained only a ques
tion of time before she returned to
the footlights. Eothern and Marlowe
have selected "Twelfth Night." "The
Taming of the Shrew" and "Hamlet"
for their bill. No other productions ars
to be undertaken for the reason that,
as Mr., Sothern explained, "these three
I lays embody the romantic, the comic
?nd the tragic, and the roles of Viola,
Katherlne and Ophelia give Miss Mar
lowe her greatest opportunities and
widest range." For the production
much Is promised in the way of modern
staging.
The action for a separation which
Lois Josephine instituted against her
husband, Wellington Cross, has been
discontinued. The differences between
the husband and wife were adjusted out
of court.
Harry fox returns to vaudeville the
first week In June. Immediately follow
ing the closing of "Oh. Look." He will
offer his single with a piano player, the
salary having been settled at $1000 and
$1250 weekly, according to his publicity
agent.
John Drew was recently sought out
by an enterprising film man to star
In pictures, but declines to consider any
such proposition, on the ground he
might be accused of trading upon the
reputation of his late brother, Sydney.
He will probably" try out a new play
this spring and. if It Is successful, will
use It as his starring vehicle for next
season.
After four more weeks of eastern
vaudeville Singer's Midgets start over
the Pantages time next month, travel
ing as a road show on a percentage ar
rangement. About four mora acts will
make up the show.
Alexander Pantages. by the way. Is
increasing his territory all the time. He
was in Memphis. Tenn., last week and
signed a SO years' lease on the Halst
building on Main street. As soon as the
building can be torn down, work will
start on the erection of a new theater,
which will be completed by January 1.
The erection of the house will be the
start of Pantages' new circuit in the
south, east of the Mississippi.
The house will cost $500,000 and will
have a seating capacity o.f 1800 to
2000. It will cover an entire city lot.
Mr. Pantages is now planning to erect
theaters In Birmingham, Atlanta and
New Orleans.
' s
Eleanor Mantell. who played leads
for a while at the Baker theater three
seasons ago, is In the supporting cast
with Emily Stevens in "The Gentile
Wife."
A mighty wanderlust has taken pos
session of Mitzi, and about two minutes
after the close of her season she will
to use her own naive expression hot
foot it for a No. 16 H size vacation.
She will end her tour at Wilmington.
Del., tomorrow night, after a season of
exactly 62 weeks. Except for a fatigu
ing three weeks of rehearsals that pre
ceded the premiere of "Head Over
Heels," she had been on tour for a full
season In "Pom-Pom," that brought her
to the Pacific coast. Therefore, at this
moment a large, obese vacation means
more to Mitsi than an electric sign on
Broadway, or a promised Increase of
salary from Henry W. Savage.
Mr. Savage, with a native New Eng
land coyness, admits that Mitzl's season
has been profitable, and declares that
he does not object to her going to the
country and look face to face at vege
tables that are attached to the ground,
and not lying In front of stores. But,
Just to get even for her loafing, Henry
has booked her on another tour to the
coast next seaaon.
Those Who Come and Go.
Siam, Brazil. Japan. China, the Hotel
Perkins or any place he hangs his hat
is home, sweet home to Carey Ball.
Just as soon as his passport arrives,
Mr. Bali will hike back to Shanghai,
where he Is In the lumber business.
There Is a strong demand for American
goods In Slam and Braztl, according to
Mr. Ball. Brazil has plenty of "made
In Germany" stuff, but the natives pre
fer American articles as- they are more
durable. The same situation obtains in
61am, where an American trademark
vill sell any article. Mr. Ball found an
old catalogue of an American mail or
der house, ordered $175 worth of
watches, and sold them all at 100 per
cunt profit the day they arrived. Speak
ing of Japan. Mr. Ball says that no se
cret societies are permitted there, save
a Masonic lodge of foreigners which
meets In Yokohama, and which has a
special dispensation. Japanese police
go Into any gathering at any time, a
Practice which would be disconcerting
to a lodge about in the middle of the
third degree.
"Saw seven deer and all manner of
smaller game." attested County Judge
Marslers of Do iglas, explaining the
beauties of a short-cut to Crater lake
from Roseburg. "And scenery, oh,
boy!" A good many people who never
studied the map have no idea how close
Roseburg is to Crater lake on a straight
line, because by way of the Paciiic
highway it is a long, long trail. Judge
Marsters. however, declares that when
the Tllier Trail Is made serviceable for
automobiles, Roseburg will steal away
the Crater lake travel from places like
Medford. Judge Marsters is registered
at the Hotel Oregon.
Motoring from London. England, ex
cept across the Atlantic, John R. T.
Evans chugged up to the Benson yes
terday morning, registered, ate, filled
h!s pas tank and started for San Fran
cisco 55 fast as he could go. He crossed
the continent by way of the British
possessions and 13 moving as fast as
the old bus will travel when his toot is
stepping on her. Mr. Evans says the
road between Seattle and the Columbia
river is rough.
Ttnvlnir r . t inol f rU 1 etgnln. in t Vi
woods of Washinetrtn nml a furniture
factory at Grand Rapids, Mich.: J. W.
h er Jon is in Portland to look over his
timber and Is registered at the Ben
son. Grand Rapids is noted In vaude
ville chiefly for the joke which runs:
Did you ever sing in grand opera?
"No. but I'va Hliliir In irand rtunids."
(Loud applause.)
"Finest show yet." is what Judge C.
H. Marsh says the Round Up nt Pon
dlcton will bo this voar. The Judge Is
at the Seward. With many of th6
huckaroo stars returned from riding
hard on the Heinles and bull-doa-Ring
autocracy in Its native lair, there Is a
weolth of material available for a rip-
snorting rodeo.
A M. Andrews and H. Rollins of 1m-
b t r are at the Imperial. Imbler is a
town of S00 people In Union county
and Is the shipping point for about 50.
000 acres of farm land and 2000 acres
of fruit land. Entire trainloads of
grain and hogs and apples and spuds
arc shipped from Imbler in the course
of a year.
Meeting for the first time in 40 years,
A. G. Sicelhammer, a former black
smith of Silverton. and W. D. Myers
of rortland shook hands In the Perkins
yesterday. They had known each other
In Wisconsin and the meeting In the
Perkins was their first conclave since
each had left that state to settle in
Oregon.
Shoe prices are on the upward trend.
E. W. Barth, a shoe salesman from Co
lumbus. O., who is at the Seward, con
fides that there have been two ad
vances on his quotations since his last
mail, and Barth seems as much annoyed
s.t the advancing prices as the ultimate
wearer of the shoos.
Dorr E. Keasey and Mrs. Keasey.
who have just returned from the City
of Mexico, are registered at the Hotel
Oregon. Mr. Keasey was formerly a
real estater in Portland and has been
real estating In the land of raanana.
Mrs. A. Joloff arrived at the Pew-a.-d
yesterday from Astoria to meet
her husband, and with him rode back
home last night In a brand new auto
mobile capable of negotiating the dis
tance In almost train lime.
Something must be wrong with Penn
sylvania, the way people from that
Mate flocked to the Benson yesterday.
Fittsbu.g. Philadelphia, and all the
other main towns were represented by
men and women tourists.
Guy Manners, writer, has arrived in
the city with his daughter and sister.
Mr. Manners Is the author of "The Soul
of the Trenches," and Is working on a
scrips of articles for "Pacific Ports,"
of Seattle.
Mrs. T. W. Tandy, who run a dairy
at Marshland, on the lower Columbl
river. Is at the Imperial for a day or
so. Before going Into the milk trade
Mrs. Tandy was a resident of the Rose
City.
Frank Vaughan, recently of Camp
Kearny, formerly a dentist at Astoria.
and born In Heppner, registerd at the
Imperial yesterday with his wife.
Q. E. Wynne, a wheat rancher from
Klondike. Or., and A. F. TaJcott. a
fruit raiser of Caldwell. Idaho, are
among the arrivals at the Hotel Wash
ington. A. W. Reed, whose residence Is
South Bend, Wash., and who operates a
line of steamers between two points. Is
at the Imperial.
The Unsoiled.
Br Grace 1C Hall.
Each morning brings fresh faith, some
way. The promise of a better day;
The earth itself seema newly-born
Each morn.
The Springtime brings new Joy to all.
There Is no hint of gloom nor pall;
The soul with gladness seems to sing
Each spring.
On babyhood we look and smile.
Our very hearts they do beguile;
Sin has not touched nor left a ecar
So far.
Unsoiled! Tea, we must agree
Despite the creatures we may be.
We turn with rapture quite unspoiled
Towards the unsoiled.
There la a healing In the touch
Of purity; and inasmuch
As each soul needs such balm, do we
Love purity.
We may not pause perhaps to tell
How lnnoconcejdoth cast a spell;
But e'en the vilest wretch doth know
Tis so.
As to the H'laaa' of Sergeant Brown.
PORTLAND. May 28. (To the Ed
itor.) In answer to Sergeant Brown's
letter. I am not an American girl nor
a French girl either, but maybe It will
do some good to tell this flirt that it is
no loss to any American or FrencSi tsirl
to be minus his acquaintance.
A young man who boasts of going
out with "lots of girls" is no class and
clearly is not out with a view of mak
ing a wife of his companion, for men
do not require more than one for that
purpose.
Non-American and non-French girls
ysould let such men go out alone in
preference. ' CHARACTER.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Orexonlan of May l'f. ISOi
An effort is being made to separato
the Oregon Railway & Navigation com
pany from the Union Pacific, bringing
about a separate receivership. The
progrmame is to have this doue about
June 15.
A. N. Wright, jeweler. 305 Morrison
street, fired two shots at supposed,
burglars at 2 o'clock this morning
when they aroused him from his
slumbers.
Boston. At the Casino this evening
Peter Maher, Ireland's champion pugil
ist, knocked out George Godfrey. Bos
ton's colored heavyweight, in the tsixiti
round.
Front street from Washington north
Is now submerged and citizens fear a
flood like that of 187 or l&SO.
Fifty Tears Ago.
From The Oreeonian of May 'J9. 1 "...
Washington. The Northern Pacific
Railroad company Is proposing to send
an exploring expedition to pass over
the route from Lake Superior to Puget
sound and has asked General Sherman
for a military escort.
London. The Alabama claims form
the big theme of conversation and
newspaper comment.
A statistician reports that Oregon on
May 1 had 35 wholesale liquor dealers,
567 retail dealers, 5 breweries and no
distilleries.
J. H. Mitchell is quoted as saying
that at leaet 20 miles of railroad will
be built on the cast sido of the river
this year.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jniwi J. Moslssae.
(Copyricht, 1919. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.);
rilOOF.
John Burroughs, who's a shark on birds
(He classifies 'em by a, feather).
Avers that they're devoid of words
And simply cannot talk toeether.
He gives the nature-fakers fits
Who picture birds In conversation.
And tears their stor7 books to bits
In scientific indignation.
But there's a wren outside my door
That talks whenever I go near him.
And talks so glibly, furthermore.
That I Just wish that John could hear
him.
Of mornings, when I stroll about
The while he hymns his glad thanks
giving. He interrupts himself to shout:
"Hey! Ain't it glorious to be living?"
But if too near his nest I stray
Again he pauses in tnid-carrol.
Darts past my head, and chatters: "Say!
iou touch my nestlings at your
peril!
We're small, but we have dagger
beaks;
"Just try to climb that tree. I dare
you!"
And. when I turn away, he shrieks:
"You great big brute! I knew I'd
scare you!"
And when he's speaking to a cat
And lets his wrath flow forth un
stinted. I solemnly assure you that
1 he things he says cannot be
printed.
Perhaps John never happened by
When birds' emotions deeply stirred
"em.
For, though he's wiser far than I.
1 know that birds can talk. I've
heard "em!
With a CoiTratlaa Next Year.
Congress can be depended upon not
to take any action with more than
9? U per cent politics in It.
Way Doesn't He Read the Paperer
We shall not have another war for
20 years Henry Morgenthau.
What's the trouble, Henry? Don't you
know that there are 14 of them going
on right now?
Henry Clay Dead m Long Time.
There are no "I'd-rather-be-rlght-than-president"
Statesman now. All of
them are sure that they can be both.
onuno tl ii.'
IN KARLY DAYS
Memories of Feast Amakened by
Reading: of Pioneer Woelea Mills.
OLYMPIA, Wash., May 25. (To the
Editor.) I havo been reading with
much Interest the articles by Mr.
Addison Bennett regarding the estab
lishment of th woolen mills of Ore
gon those at The Dalles, Brownsville
and Oreuon City. When a small boy.
in 1867. 1 visited the Brownsville mills
in company with M. H. Abbott, my
father, and Rev. Mr. Spaulding (who
was with Marcus Whitman when he
was murdered near Walla Walla). It
was a great Kit-'ht to see this mill
operated by a huge overshot wheel
from a small creek.
That night we partook of the hos
pitality of Mr. and Mrs. Spaulding at
their farm, only a. short distance away.
I shall never forget the feast of quail
we had while there. Mr. Spaulding
.showed my father a large covey of
those little Oreeon quail I wonder If
any of these birds still exist?), and as
they raised from the grass they would
light on a limb of a tall fir tree. One
at a time they would fly to the same
limb and sit there, side by side; then
my father would take a pot-shot and
get practically all of them. It seems
to me thai these birds were whlte
treasted. while their backs were in
clined to be blue. When perched on
the limb of a tree they looked very
much like the little prairie owl of east
ern Oregon.
In 1S6S we made the trip from Port
land to Albany by boat.' making the
portage at Oregon City on a street car
drawn bv a mule. I do not know
whether the Oregon City woolen mills
had beei. built then or not. I know
that the steamer we were on stuck fast
on several sandbars between Oregon
City and Albany. In 1874 I lived In The
Dalles, and many a time I have visited
the old woolen mills building, which
was at that time being operated as a
Gouring mill by Ben Snipes.
M. D. ABBOTT.
WRITERS ON US VIEWED WONDEIIS
School Pupils. HstUk Deacrlbe Colum
bia Highway, Would Like to See It.
PORTLAND. May 28. (To the Ed
itor.) I am a pupil of Capitol Hill
school.
We have shown our patriotic arlrlt
in contributing to the numerous war
funds. In the Red Cross drives our
school has always been 100 per cent
We gave our pennies for the building
of the Vista House, and our parents,
tho taxpayers of Portland, helped to
pay for the building of the Columbia
highway, but many of the children have
never seen it because the trip is too ex
pensive. The civic societies of Portland have
asked the school children to write on
the wonders of Oregon the Columbia
highway In particular. We consulted
pictures and some won prixes praising
the wonders we ourselves had never
seen.
Is it fair that we should be deprived
of that great joy? We are all looking
anxlouslv to the day when we shall be
able to take that wonderful trip.
Could you suggest some plan where
by the children of our school can sec
the great highway at a modest cost?
, LUC1LK THOMAS.
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