TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, .'WEDXESDAT, TTJXE It, 1919.
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weather simultaneously at the head
waters of trje Columbia itself and also
of the Snake and its minor tributaries.
The spring of 1918 followed a winter
of exceptionally heavy snow, but the
high water stage was inconsequential.
Spring suns did not co-operate with
the snowman to jrroduce flood condi
tions later on.
Nor does it appear to be reasonable
to suppose that flood probabilities have
been decreased by the works of man
such as irrigation works in the upper
valleys or the improvement of the
channel nearer the river's mouthy Im
portant as are these human enter
prises, they are dwarfed to compara
tive insignificance by the tremendous
forces of nature itself. The high water
of 1894 taught us, if it taught anything.
how mighty these forces are. The
veritable ocean which the Columbia
became would have required an in
finity of irrigation canals and artificial
channels for its disposal. There are
minor rivers which conceivably -can
be so regulated; the Columbia, how
ever, which is one of the few great
rivers of the world, is unlikely to be
so brought under control in the life
time of any person now living. The
residents along its banks will not be
deprived of the pleasing pastime of
forecasting the June high water stages
for many years to come.
NEEDED: A LAW.
The public confidence in the ability
of the courts to interpret any law that
the people cannot themselves under
stand will be sadly shattered by the
i -hnneless division of the su
preme court on the tenure of office of
Governor Olcott. Courts are expected
to be a little more than human, ine
sad fact intrudes that sometimes they
are not. Even, in this case, the oft
repeated charge that courts in the
absence of law sometimes make a little
fii in find a confirmation.
The trouble with the constitution is
t, ir, h nnrticular of the guberna
torial succession it lacks detail. It
provides that when tne governui
or resigns or becomes unable to dis
charge the duties of the office "the
same shall devolve upon the secretary
of state." It is indefinite as to whether
the secretary of state only performs
the duties of governor or becomes gov
ernor in fact-
Probably the court would have been
able to agree upon what the law ought
to be in the circumstances, but it was
wholly unable to agree upon what it is,
if anything, as to some of the phases
of the situation that now confronts us.
The only agreement is upon whaV had
already been decided by the supreme
court that the secretary of state is
governor in fact and that he may draw
both salaries while holding both offices.
We have our own ideas upon what
v.o law niierht to be and they are ideas
not influenced by incumbencies past
or present. A. governor is chosen by
the people, and it would seem that the
people should be permitted to choose
T.is successor, in event of a vacancy,
at the first opportunity. Provision for
the interregnum between the death of
a governor and the succeding general
election is essential. To have the suc
cession fall upon the secretary of state
is not impolitic or improper. But the
Antics of the two offices are far dif
ferent. The secrtary of state is elected
to be secretary of state; the governor
is elected to be governor.
It is possible that an opinion may yet
be obtained from the court. The length
of time that Mr. Olcott shall serve as
governor is left in doubt. In tne next
primary election somebody will offer
his candidacy and the question will
r then arise as to his right to have his
' name appear on the ballot. The direct
1 issue having thus been raised the two
; judges who decline to pass upon the
case on the ground that it is not prop
erly before them will find that objec
tion removed. Whether they will be
able to find law where none appears
definitely to exist is another matter.
So, too. the question of the right of
Mr. Olcott to resign, as secretary of
state, appoint his successor, and con
'" tinue to hold the office of governor,
- can be determined possibly by his
', taking the bull by the horns and re
; signing. But it is not an inviUng
chance that is offered him.
V The moral seems to be that a plainly
" written section of the constitution on
this subject is greatly needed.
TH E FOLLY OF 6ECRECV.
Presentation of the text of the draft
treaty to the senate through an unof
ficial source is a humiliating proof
that the methods of pitiless secrecy
followed by President Wilson are im
potent to keep such a document from
the public. Necessarily many copies
must have been printed and dis
tributed mong numerous persons con
nected with the peace conference. In
evitably some person violated confi
dence, or perhaps left a copy conspic
uously on his desk and turned his back
while a correspondent picked it up.
The effect of such, futile attempts
at secrecy is precisely the reverse of
that which is intended. An impression
is created that something of stupen
dous importance is being concealed
and, when the secret paper is pro
cured, it is perused in ravenous search
for the awful secret. Hence every
thing in it assumes exaggerated im
portance. In the present case the au
thorized synopsis is found to have
omitted some features of the clauses
relating to the Saar basin andjabor, of
small consequence in themselves but
pounced upon with avidity to make a
sensation.
Thus secreey defeats its own ends,
It arouses interest in wiat would or
dinarily be uninteresting. It stirs up
a row about small matters. It inspires
some men who have the secret with a
burning desire to give it away or to
sell it, and it inspires many who have
it not with a desire to have it. It sets
everybody guessing what it is, and
these guesses often do more harm than
would publication of the truth. Often
the best way to divert attention' from
a thing is to tell everybody all about
it; then few will take any interest in it.
mit the burial of the dead only by per
mission of the strike leaders; they took
over the machinery of milk distribu
tion so that none might be had, even
for an invalid or a sick baby, without
the countersign of some of their offi-
als; they asserted their right to police
the city and commissioned a thousand
r more men to usurp the function of
keeping public order (their kind of
order); they kept certain newspapers
from sale on the streets; they took
hand in industrial activities and
processes of every kind, union or non
union, public or private, and declared
their right- to regulate and control
them; and they placarded their head
quarters with I. W. W. stickers, with
soviet posters and with frank ' and
unabashed avowal of their sympathy
with' and support of Lenin e and
Trotzky. What they did was to at
tempt to set aside by their fiat and by
their action constituted authority. . If
it was not attempted revolution, we
should like to have Rabbi Wise's deft
nition of revolution. Yet -we have it
through his strange notion of what it
is not.
The strike at Seattle was engineered
by a small and very bold cabal of labor
leaders, one-half of whom were aliens.
They appear to be able to command
the sympathy and encouragement of
Dr. Wise. They have not the sym
pathy and will not have the encourage
ment of The Oregonian nor of the
great American public. ,
garia reduced to obedience in order
that the same policy might be pursued
with the Danube. The Oder would
have been all-German, and the Vistula
would have flowed through a vassal
Poland and through Prussia. Germany
and Austria could then have ruled a
self-contained central Europe. They
could have transferred cargo from sea
going to river vessels at Hamburg,
Rotterdam or Antwerp for transit by
the Scheldt, Rhine and Danube and
their connecting canals to Black sea
ports, to be transferred again to sea
going vessels for shipment to other
countries. This would have effected
economy in freight and time over the
long, circuitous sea route. They could
Those Who Come and Go.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br James J. Montague.
"We've voted 1500.000 bonds for
roads and expect to set 200 miles of
road out of that um. We have 4000
miles of county roads and as soon as
the market-road tax becomes effective
we're going after our share and im
prove the local roads." said W. K.
Meacbam. secretary of the Commercial
SFARIXC THB rod.
(Copyright by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
lir children were spanked as fre
quently an they were in the early days
there would be fewer criminals among
mem. a. isew lorK .District Attorney.)
have transferred submarines and other put money on 75 miles of road from
.iv, ,-o-i. nnrthern Baker to Cornucopia and on 23 miles
to southern waters by these routes
with speed and safety. .This waterway
system, in conjunction with the Ham
burg to Bagdad railroad, would have
put all of central Europe and western
Asia under the German yoke, and
would have helped to build up the
great empire, entirely separating the
eastern and western worlds, which they
planned.
The same plan, greatly modified,
bids fair to be executed under direc
tion of the league of nations. Inter
national rivers are. to be improved,
connected and thrown open to all na
tions, and are to serve all alike. While
helping to build up Germany, they will
also help to build up a ring of inde
club, at Baker. "Huntington cast 17'v'hen Captain Kldd was ten years old,
instead or monitory chldings.
His parents gave him manifold
And very comprehensive hidinsrs. .
This 'urts -us more than 'm." said they.
rne little darling knows we love
him.
But beatln' is the only way
'That we can make a model of him."
But licking only made Bill irate
pirate.
votes for the county bond bill and not
one vote against it. That appears to
me rather remarkable. Huntington is
on the Old Oregon trr.il, and part of
our bond money will be spent co-op
erating on 72 miles of that road from
North Powder to Olds Ferry. We will
from Baker to Medical Springs and on I And so he went and w
the Baker-Burnt River post road
project. Baker county wants good
roads and ia determined to have them."
HIGH WATER.
Flood history in the valley of the
lower Columbia dates from the "high
water of ninety-four." ' It was just
twenty-five years ago last Saturday
that the crest of that famous freshet
-was reached, and a quarter or a cen
tury ago today the water front and
the entire business section contiguous
thereto in Portland presented a strange
snprtarle of disorder. It was a city
of improvised bridges and rude gon
tiolas. The moving waters in the main
channel of the Columbia and back
water in the Willamette had upset
affairs generally. Far upriver the
changes wrought on the face of nature
were tremendous. The observant trav
eler still may note the evidences of
this high up on mountain sides along
the water course.
The crest of the flood of 1S94, as
has been said, was attained on June 7.
But in other respects it was an out-of-the-ordinary
year along the river. Ex
cept for 1904. the river remained above
the "flood stage" of fifteen feet in
1S94 for a longer period than the
records show for any other year. The
flood stage in IS 94 was reached on
April 27; it continued until July 23
eighty-eight days in all. In 1904 flood
mark was passed on April 15- twelve
days earlier than in 1S94 and con
tinued until July 16 seven days earlier
a total of ninety-three days. It was
what the weather office would call a
long, flat flood. But its crest was only
20.8 feet, which is not particularly re
- markable and does not cause much
inconvenience. ' There was an eighty
x six-day high water period in. 1916, with
' a crest of 23.9 feet, and in 18S0 high
; water lasted eigbty-one days, with a
" maximum of 27.3 feet. The crest was
'.' reached in 18S8 on July 1.-in 1916 on
;". July 4-5, in 1904 on May 27-28.
It is a favorite diversion of goose-
- bone prophets and' "the v6catlon' of
more scientific forecasters a little be-
- fore this time of year to make predic-
f tions as to how high the river will rise
' ;-nd how long the flood will continue.
Where scientists! isagree, who is there
to call the genre prophots to account?
Complete data are lacking on which to
base mathematical conclusions, and
memory is notoriously inexact. The
notion that a heavy winter snowfall
increases likelihood of high water is
matched among more scientific ob
servers by tho theory that there is
enough residual snow in the recesses
of the mountains in any year to create
a "ninety-four high water" in any sea
son when weather coincidences in the
spring are favorable to it. In 1894
there was a combination of winter
t-nowfall, a rainy spring and warm
i WHAT IS REVOLUTION?
The public may or may not be sur
prised at the statement of Rabbi Wise
that the Seattle general strike was
legitimate labor demonstration and
that it was in no sense an attempted
revolution. The newspapers may or
may not be surprised that Rabbi Wise
should accuse them of misrepresenting
the facts about that amazing affair
But they may be frankly surprised that
the rabbi, whatever his sources of pri
vate information, should have based
his allegations in part upon an episod
wholly unrelated to the strike. It was
the incident of the deportation of
large number of aliens, which occurred
about the time of the Seattle upset.
The ringleaders so Rabbi Wise is re
ported to have said charged with
being undesirable aliens, were released
after being taken to New York, and
acquitted after being taken back to
Seattle.
The immigration authorities of the
United States had rounded tip at Seat
tle a large number of alien enemies.
slackers and disloyal citizens, and
about the time of the Seattle strike
sent many of them to New York for
deportation. At that point habeas
corpus and other proceedings were
brought in behalf of some of them,
and'a few were released, while others
were duly deported. So far as The
Oregonian has been able to ascertain
and it thinks it knows the facts
none of them was returned by the
government to Seattle, and none of
them tried there; certainly none tried
there or anywhere for his participa
tion in the strike, or deported because
of it- The offenses of a few may have
been made manifest during the prog
ress of the strike; but it is to be
remembered that the deportations were
made, or attempted to be made, by the
federal government and the grounds
for them were violation of the federal
laws, not of the state or municipal
laws. Tho Seattle strike was a demon
stration against local authority and
was handled, and mastered, by Mayor
Hanson and his associates.
The confusion of mind of Rabbi Wise
may have arisen from the fact that a
large number of I. ,W. W.'s were ar
rested in Washington in 1917 nearly
two years before the strike and many
of them were subsequently released
without a trial. But if any ringleaders
of the strike were arrested and tried
or arrested and not tried, because of
action in promoting the strike, we have
never heard of it; and we invite Rabbi
Wise to furnish the details.
The gravamen ot Rabbi Wise's
charge is that the newspapers distorted
a peaceable and lawful demonstration
at Seattle into an attempted revolution.
Is that so?
The shipyard workers of Seattle had
on January 21, 1919, struck. They had
signed a wage agreement with the
im md States government, and it was
noT to expire until March 31, 1919.
Yet t'ney struck. Is that the rabbi's
idea of a legitimate labor demonstra
tiona deliberate violation of the
terms of an arbitration agreement
under which they had been working
lor a year and a half, a concerted
repudiation of a contract to which they
had assented both by their signatures
and by their voluntary employment
and under which they had drawn fair
pay? It is not our idea of a legitimate
labor demonstration.
The federal government and the
Seattle employers refused to yield to
the demands of the shipworkers and
a sympathetic strike was called, and
undertaken. It involved union labor
generally ot Seattle, from the stereo
typers on the newspapers and bakers
in the shops and carmen in the street
railways' to the longshoremen and elec
trical workers and many ojher organi
zations, including directly the drivers
of hearses for funerals and tb dis
pensers of milk to the homes and the
hospitals. It was proposed to shut up
the restaurants and set up community
kitchens, and it was done: it was pro
posed to shut, off all public lighting
even in the hospitals; they would per-
Hl'RLEY CONTRADICTS HCKLET.
Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board now cites facts In favor of an
other shipbuilding appropriation which
knock the pins from under his reason
for refusing to reinstate contracts with
Pacific coast shipyards. . That reason
was that the builders asked $199 a
ton, and that ships builj at that cost
could be sold only at considerable loss.
Now that he wants an appropriation,
he tells of such ships being sold at
$200 and $210 a ton. and of a Seattle
firm's offer to buy at cost four ships
which it is building for the govern
ment. These vessels, too, were of
what Mr. Hurley calls abandoned types.
Mr. Hurley always has a set of facts
ready to hand for any emergency. It
Is of no consequence to him that one
set contradicts another. He has a
patent adaptable memory, which for
gets a fact as soon as it ceases to be
usef ul and becomes troublesome. When
he wishes to take contracts from the
Pacific coast, but not from the At
lantic coast, cost of construction on
the Pacific coast is so high as to
cause loss. When he wants money to
build more ships, ships can be sold at
a profit, even those built on the Pacific
coast-
Mr. Hurley's evasion, shuffling and
discrimination, as proved by his own
statements, are the best reason why
all shipbuilding should be taken out
of his hands. Future government work
of this kind should be entrusted to men
who will eo manage it as to build up
tne shipbuilding industry of the whole
country, not to build it up on one
coast at the expense of the other. But
the time has come for the government
to get out of the shipping business
and leave it to private initiative and
enterprise.
Ons of the most enthusiastic advo
cates of the Columbia river for trans
portation purposes is Judge W. J. Mar
iner of Blalock. who is In the city,
The judge is secretary of the Open-
River association, which built the port
age road and sold it and still has about
$5000 to make ports along the upper
river. Judge Mariner declares that
with the building of hard-surfaced
roads the grain of the Interior will be
rolled to .the Columbia river on auto
trucks and there placed on boats to
float down to Portland. He says that
a boat is now almost completed in Port-
and which is intended to handle traf-
pendent states on the three land sides 1 1 ic between this city and Lewlston
of Germany, which have good cause to
distrust that country and will hold it
in check.
This waterway system of Europe has
more than a passing interest for Amer
icans. It will tend to reduce cost of
transportation, which is often a de
cisive factor in commercial competi
tion. Europe has as complete a net
work of waterways as the United States
has of railroads. It may on that ac
count outdo this country in the contest
for commerce which Is opening. It will
become this country to pay early at
tention to its own waterways. They are
many and penetrate large sections of
the. country, but they are only partly
improved and are little used. They
-may prove necessary to success in for
eign trade.
Idaho. When a member of the legis
lature, years ago, the judge talked open
river to very good purpose.
"My boy has been driving, a car since
he was 7 years old, but they wam't let
him drive on the west side of the river
in Portland." says John Putnam of
Fossil. "He isn't 16 years old yet, but
he drove me down from Fossil in ten
hours, without even a puncture. I
have been in the town of Fossil for"24
years, but before that I ran stock
around that county and at one time 1
ran 12,000 head of cattle along Willow
creek. There were plenty of wild
horses and wilder men in those days.
which ended in the early '903. The
stockmen with the big herds sold out.
and sold when meat was the cheapest.
American labor as organized in the
American federation knows its own
interests too well to extend a welcome
to the destructive methods Imported
from Russia, and American employers
will be wise to encourage that disposi
tion by adopting the practice of collec
tive bargaining. Then the impudent
attempt of ignorant, benighted Russia
to teach America will have no chance
of success.
If Lovejoy, Pettygrove,' Ixwnsdale
and the other' boys who picked Port
land as the one best city had had an
Idea of the automobile, they would
have made the streets 150 feet wide.
but they had not, and three-score and
more years later we must make the
best of it.
Popular opinion is that woman
yearns to be kissed, hungers for it.
cannot exist without osculation wives
are meant, of course; yet here comes
a man in court alleging his wife resents
it. There is a whole lot In knowing
how.
In Jesse James' early youth
His father wondered what could all
him
He was so sassy and uncouth
And as a cure he used to whale him.
I'll lick him as I'd lick a mule."
Old James observed, of his descend
ant.
And some day of a Sunday school
My child will be the superintendent
But fate quite otherwise had planned It
The much licked kid became a bandit.
When William Hohenzollern's dad
Observed his offspring? act erratic.
The youth's misconduct made him sad.
And so he spanked him, most em
phatic.
"Dot poy von meln." the old man said,
Is qvite a lot too temperamental.
'I've got to get It In his head
"Dot princes should be kindt und
chentle."
But spanking made the kid no wiser
He was a blackguard of a kaiser!
Easy Fame. This Time.
Lisbon hasn't had much celebrity
since tne eartbquaJce.
Prohibition Was Hard Knoujrh
It becomes increasing! v more dlffi
cult to light up. Now there is a petro
icum limine.
Donbly Valuable.
In Paris they are eoincr to shoot bi
Berthas 50 miles in the air in order t
test the density of the atmosphere.
Twentr-lve Years Ago.
From Ths Oregonian of June 11.
Untontown, Pa. One striking mint r
was killed and two seriously wounded
in a clash between strikers and depu
ties at L&mont today.
The river is receding less rapidly
han it rose, having gone down but
ight-tenths of a foot in two days.
Friends of Ous Morey. who is-to b
executed on June 22 for the murde-r of
Gus Barry, are circulating a petition
seeking to have. Governor Pennojwr
commute his sentence to life imprison
ment-
Work on the various reservoiiw f ru
ne city water works has been going
forward rapidly except for slight delay
due to the heavy rains.
Mr. Putnam still has a ranch or so, but I The.se experiments will also prove use
mi in testing tne density of the skull
"i any one wno nappens to be aroun
wnen tne shells come back.
operates a store in Fossil.
'Got any rooms?" was the first
question that everyone asked the hotel
clerks yesterday and the answer was
almost invariably the same. People
who have been particular as ti the
location of tnelr rooms on former trips
to Portland found that they had to
take what they could get if they could
get anything at all. One woman re
served a second floor room, and then
said Bhe didn't want it. Half an hour
later she returned and complained be
cause the hotel refused to hold it for
her. Clerks are rapidly accumulating
a collection of grey- hairs.
J. C. Scott, of the Jones-Scott com
pany, of Walla Walla, is at the Port
land this week. He reports excellent
crop prospects in the southeastern
Washington wheat belt. and says
weather conditions this year have been
altogether favorable. Great building
activity is promised for Walla Walla
CORPORAL OFFERS OBSERVATIONS.
French Olrla Lark SaapsT Qualitl
Found In Americas Maldo.
fcALEM, Or.. June 10. (To 'the Ed
ltor.) We have- heard considerable
about the shortcomings of the Ameri
can girl from the sergeant and th
major, who have both made unfavora
ble mninarknn, with , P.nh ,1,
terf While I reached only the modes
height of corporal in the A. E. F..
rise in behalf of the American girl. Her
virtues and good qualities require
space to enumerate:
1. She is modern. She cares nothing
for traditions or antiquated customs.
Her motto is "Keen uo with the
times." She often wonders how the
In Other Days.
Fifty Ytara Asro.
From The Oregronlan of June 11.
Philadelphia. The newly organised
society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals began operations today by
arresting several street car drivers for
overloading their cars.
Boston. The prohibitory liquor bill.
except the cidar clause, passed the
house today by a vote of 152 to
The commission of Wilson Bowlby as
collector of internal revenue has been
received and he will assume the office
next week.
Funds for the Fourth of July cele
bration have nearly all been obtained.
The strength of the big choir which
will do the sinsrinsr is to be 150 voice.
The Rain.
Br (-rare 1" Hall.
A iiTCXECS.
Of a total of 10,000.000 boys of scout
age in the United States, some 375,000
were members of the Boy Scouts or
ganization at the beginning of the
present week, when the drive for a
million members was inaugurated. If
as will be hoped by every lover of a
good boy the goal is attained, there
will be a nucleus of 10 per cent of the
boys of the country, welded together
not only for the good of the members
themselves but also the good of all
boyhood. It is impossible to escape
the conclusion that the example of the
10 per cent will be contagious.
But a feature of the drive this week
which is more likely to escape atten
tion is that it seeks also to gain the
support and interest of another million
associate members. Thesff are to be
adults, capable of the leadership of
boys, willing to give unselfishly of their
time and moderately of their money
(tne associate members dues are "$1
or more a year") to a good cause. The
associate membership is important for
two reasons. The boys need the coun
sei ot their bigger brothers; the big
brothers will derive profit also from
the companionship and from the fact
of their association in an unselfish
movement.
Each locality ought to fill its auota.
The Boy Scout movement has passed
the experimental stage. It makes boys
strong ana self-reliant and competent;
ii. empnasizes cnaracter and service; it
Is a splendid antidote for un-Ameri-canism.
It is sincerely to be honed
that in both classes of membership it
win speeauy reach the mark set for it.
during 1919, a number of large business girls of mother's day ever escaped
blocks being contemplated or in prog- dying of sheer ennui. Goodness
knows she is bored badly enough now,
and there is absolutely "nothing to
do," and it must have been dreadful
for the old-fashioned girl.
2. She is experienced. The American
girl has tried everything. There is
nothing new under the sun, as she has
done everything, seen everything, heard
The rain is drear and mirthless, like a
grimace on dead lips.
Tho dreary drizzle chills the soul as
ceaselessly it drips:
There is a hint of awful gloom, m'
graves all sodden-wet.
Where the drops are seeping, creeping
'round the forms we can't forget :
And the mud all thick and clammy set
tles heavier than before.
While the rain keeps up a whimper at
the awful grave-house door!
The rains like the weeping of a soul
that has no hope.
Its deadly pall goes creeping like a
grisly thing a-grope:
The sullen drip forever beats a tattoo
on the brain,
'Till the nerves a-quake. a-quiver.
shrink as from a burning pain;
And our thoughts steal out, affrighted.
to a night when we shall sleep
In a narrow bed among the dead, where
the raindrops seep and creep!
So muse those morbid minds, alas! who
vision but today.
Who, hopeless, see their loved onea
pass and think of them as clay
Clay that shall filter back again to
mingle with the dust.
As In the cold they lie and mold where
deep their form was thrust:
But oh. the happiness of faith which
looks beyond the hour.
And trusts to God who made the sod
and lifts it by his power!
ress.
H. L. Copeland, architect for the
Tumalum Lumber company, at Walla
Wal'.a, is in the city Uit week working
n plans for a new flouring mill to be
rectel at Pendleton this summer. Mr.
Copeland is conferring with machinery
By organization the fruit and nut
growers are going the right way about
putting Oregon on the world's map as
a fruit-growing state. California has
too long stolen Oregon's thunder by
selling Oregon fruit as its own product
It now appears that the only way
in which Americans can do business
with Europeans is to give them back
their gold. We have discovered draw
backs in having one-third of the world's
gold supply.
It is simple matter to bond a man
who handles other people's money and
it is an offense against the man not so
to do. The temptation is done away
with.
representatives in Portland relative to I everything worth while already. You
plans ofr the plant,
perial.
Referendum in many states on the
prohibition amendment may leave the
proposition a few short of the needed
two-thirds to ratify, but there is small
comfort to the afflicted (as they deem
themselves) in the prospect.
JV'ST A VICTIM OF WILD WOMEN
Major's Letter Indicates He Has Not
Associated With Real American Girls.
PORTIaAND, June 10. (To the Kdl- I pearance.
tor.) I request that you publish this
for the benefit of our belovea major,
whose article on French girls was pub
lislied in The Oregonian.
The major being In the early twenties
surely must have had vast experience
on the srirl question! The writer is in
the early fifties and will confess he is
A picture was needed to identify
James H. Richmon, the new grand
high priest of Oregon, as the man
known as "Harry'" for more than a
generation.
Who would not have his own rail
road, when he can buy one for less
than the price of the cheapest auto
mobile, if the Boise case is any guide?
There are watermelons in town, but
anybody who would eat watermelon in
this weather and at this time of year
deserves to need the doctor.
EUROPE'S WATERWAY SYSTEM.
Among the most important clauses
or the peace treaty, bearing on the
future development of tho commerce
of Europe, are those relating to navi
gable rivers and canals. All the great
rivers which cross or border on fron
tiers are to be controlled by interna
tional commissions, on which Germany
will have minority representation, the
majority to be composed of members
from the other states immediately In
terested and from the allies. By this
arrangement Germany and Austria will
lose control of the Rhine, Danube. Elbe.
Oder and Niemen, and those rivers will
become water highways for the com
merce of all interested nations on equal
terms.
Control over the Rhine is to be
shared with France, Switzerland, Hol
land, through whose' territory it also
flows, and Great Britian and Italy are
also to have a voice. Belgium is to
have the right to dig a deep-draft
canal connecting the Rhine and Meuse.
and both Belgium and France are to
have the right to dig another canal
joining those rivers at some other point.
czecno-blovakla and the chief allies
are to have power to outvote Germany
on a commission controlling the Elbe
and its tributaries, and the first-named
state is to have ninety-nine-year leases
on dock spaces at Hamburg and Stet
tin. That state and Poland are also
to share in control of the Oder. The
Danube is at last set free from Ger
man and Austrian domination and is
to serve all the states through which
it riows or on which it borders
Bavaria, Austria, Hungary. Jugo-Slavia
liulgaria and Roiimania.
This is one of tho most notable fruits
vi victory over uerraany. An Impor
tant part of the Pan-German plan was
to seize control of all these waterways
throughout their length, to connect
them by means of canals and to make
them Instruments of Teutonic political
military and commercial supremacy.
Holland was to have been quietly ab
sorbed and Switzerland forced to ac
cept German vassalage in order that
Germany might rule the Rhine from
source to mouth. Serbia was to have
been annexed, and Rouniania and Bul-
Hey, you weather folk, back up on
the rain. The visitors forgot their
umbrellas and can have ours, but why
need them? Back up!
That Winnipeg strike has about
struck out. It was too heavy to sue
ceed too many in it and too much
attempted.
There is no embargo on exporting
gold coin, though a considerable un
official one on getting hold of it.
It might be well for the country bank
to keep a man with a sawed-off shot
gun in the front office a while.
Despite variant judicial opinion. Gov
error Olcott knows "where he is at.'
He is at the Rose Festival.
By ones and twos the undesirables
are going into retreats. Hulitt Wells'
address is McNeil's Island.
He is at the Im-
can show her nothing new, so better
not try it. i
3. She Is liberal. She spends all her
money, and wants you to spend all of
yours; if you don't know how she'll
show you. No one could truthfully
call the American girl stingy.
4. sne takes pride in her personal an-
ine American srirl is un to
the minute in dress. She must have
good clothes to wear and keep up ap
pearances at all costs. She carries her
powder puff and sees that her nose does
not get shiny on the street car. She
has an eye for the details, has our
American girl.
o. sne is careiui or her companv
yet at sea on the American or any other I Sne always asks: "Is he good looking?
.riri nn.iiinn and ha traveled, ten. Has he money? Is he married?" The
"si l v rtic esscniiais to a real steady.
even before tne Mai " was oorn. tn
manv more climes and countries than
the "Maj." The "Maj" asserts that he
has had sweethearts of eight clans,
and. like many other youths is probably
nfatuated, and not in love. If he lias
not married and lived with a rencrt
girl, how can he be an authority on
their ability and efficiency as wives
and mothers? If he is quoting others.
why not let us hear from them direct
or are they like the man who was
stuck with an old junk of an auto, and
who said to his neighbor with a smile
she sure is a great car ?
The "Maj" exclaims, "If we could
only return to France!" The boats will
probably continue to run across the
pond for a considerable period to come.
The last Is less important, a mere de
tail In fact. She doesn't object to hav
ing a husband, and someone's else is
sometimes preferable to having one ot
one s own. She is a creature of reason
and uses her brain on thintrs like this
In Jhe language of the classics, she
iigures me point. Love at first sirht
is quite out of stvie.
6. She does not worry. 'American
gills let the future take care of itself.
ana enjoy tne present. She does not
wear out the home furniture by stay
ing home nights.
'1 he t renclt demoiselles lack a creat
many of the qualities possessed by the
American girls. They nave to depend
to a large extent on natural charms.
. . . , . . . , . I Th.v hftVA nl f - ,hln. n 1 -J ..
r r-. r , M TflA nlUIIPn AITIPriCan Kin - " - ---- " . . .i.u.-.v,, V. 1 ' I luui
has enough honor to refrain from en- J1" Ideas abont always looking forward
couraging our hero to stay In a coun- i? a home and family of their own.
try whose fair women raisea nis silent i iiuuacMn-pcm ana
comrades against his wilL
No man gets the Idea that ne is
vamn" or a "bear" unless the girls
give him the impression. Any girl who
will confess to love a man who has
sampled girls of eight clans in a very
.. t , . i rir nk nu nor
the pride UBuallv associated with true Present-day American girl really are.
love at least our American love, which American girls are the best dance
t,j o. m,..h to do with the winning Partners in ine worm, but for life
never waste. No matter how well-to
no tney are. they are never extrava
gant, and consider thrift a great virtue.
One can judge from the above the
differences in the characters of the
American and the French' a-irls. and
how unjustifiable the attacks on the
of the war and the maKing ot tne
American home. To all appearances
she is desperate, and a desperate
woman of any nationality could make
a man believe she was everything
the world to him. It's natural for
young man to become infatuated with
these girls. If the major will only re
move the veil these dear neighbors
have so cleverly hung over his eyes, he
will come to earth with an apology and
a nrayer for forgiveness by the women
of the acknowledged greatest country
on earth. I summon tne gray-bearaea
partners both
mend them.
have much to recom
PETIT CAPORAL
Somehow, one recalls easiest and
quickest Mr. McMurray's jingle of the
roses rare.
TESTIMONY FOR AMERICAN GIRL
Great Majority of Soldiers Mho mscaas
Subject Favor Home Maidens,
PORTLAND, June 10. To the Edi
tor. You may say that I do not know
v iia.i a miii lamiiiK auuut ana 1 will
admit that I have never been to France
and that I do not know any French
girl personally. Nevertheless I have
married men of the country as wit- been quite interested in the subject of
neSSeS. AMCiK-ICA. um aiiiciicku anu ricnen gins ana nave
iua.ti o l n. iiuuii iu uiacuso mat SUDject
with nil American hnv t i I V. n ...
r.nganeer 1BTTBW oe-wiD-w-. I since they returned from France. No
ropuiar aiecoani one o them has had one word of
Nikalgin. the external anesthetic used I praise for the French srirl. that is. of
so successfully in army hospitals on I course. In a social and personal way.
the Verdun and Somme fronts and at I We all know that the French women
Paris, Is the invention or an American i were very brave and did their part
electrical engineer. ine inventor aiso i toward winning this war, but the dis
designed a jet for applying the solution cussinn does not lie there. It lies with
with suficient force -to penetrate gauze I the French girl and American girl as
dressings and pus-coated surfaces. The I sweethearts and wives, mainly as to
preparation Is reported to be composed which has the superior charms
of quinine, hydrochloric acid, and urea I Every American boy that I have dls
W. C. T. V. LAID DRV FOUNDATION
Claim Made That It Waa Orlsrinal Po
litical and Moral Force In Movement.
PORTLAND, June 10. (To the Ed
itor.) A writer In the current Every
body's on the great crusade which was
the origin of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union says:
'Those 70 women marched out that
day to make America 'dry' and they
have won at last."
We do not think this overstates the
case, for although many organisations
and the church have later joined tho
crusade against the liquor traffic, all
have built upon the foundations laid
by the W. C. T. V. in its educational
work. The W. C. T. U. conceived tho
dea and in spite of tremendous oppo
sition from the immensely wealthy
"liquor oligarchy," secured a scien
titic temperance instruction law in
every state and territory of the Cnion.
All now admit that has been thegrat
est factor in producing the recent pro
hibition victories.
In view of this fact the writer of tho
above mentioned article made a grave
mistake when he gave the Anti-Saloon
league sole credit for the "political
part of the movement against the traf
fic and limited the work of the W. C. T.
U. to the "moral" phase. The W. C. T.
U. was in politics years before the
Anti-Saloon league was organized. The
firFt petitioning to congress against it
was done by this body, several of the
first states to win prohibition did so
through the initiative and assistance of
the W. C. T. V.. against the opposition
of the Anti-Saloon league, whose slo
gan at that time was local option.
When the w. c T. l. nrst went into
politics it encountered the active oppo
sition of the churches as well, which
closed their pulpits to the women be
cause the church was supposed to keep
entirely divorced from "politics."
Curiously enough, in the light of this
author's view of the situation, is the
fact that while the W. C. T. IT. repeat
edly at all of Its conventions pledged
Its support "to that party, by what
ever name called." which should make
prohibition an issue, the Anti-Saloon
league strenuously denied any connec
tion with the hated "politics" and
waged its war solely against the local
saloon. Later, when public sentiment,
through long years of education, had
become irresistible, it was forced into
line in favor of state-wide prohibition.
History sometimes makes strange
blunders.
ELLA BEECHER-G1TTINGS.
Oregon has reflected glory in pos
sessing relatives of Sergeant York.
The Methodist centenary drive suc
ceeded. That is a. Methodist trait.
Paraphrasing tho old joke:
can you tell an Adman?
How far
Dog days in San Francisco. Sausage
makers are on strike.
"Hello, country!
The town is yours!"
Enjoy yourself!
Things rosy and electrical begin
doing today.
Such temperatures! The June bride
needs furs.
If the confetti nuisance is restricted,
let it go.
Wear a rose.
but the manner of compounding it is not
disclosed. It was used In large quan
tities by the French and Italian armies.
F.rlqoette of the Flag.
BROWNSVILLE. Or.. June 9. (To
the Editor.) Kindly tell me how to
hang the flag correctly both in the
house and out of doors. ' S. C. H.
To cover the whole subject would
require a good deal of space. Vou will
ftnd the correct customs given In the
World Almanac In detail. The almanac
should be accessible at any public or
school library.
To Trare MlnainK Soldier.
CANYON CITY", Or.. June !. (To the
Editor.) Kindly inform me how to ob
tain information regarding a soldier
who ws reporte-J missing from E.
15Sth infantry. 40th division.
SUBSCRIBER.
There is probably no source to which
you can write now other than the adjutant-general's
office at Washington.
U. C.
cussed this with has said that the
French girls are not worth their fare
back to the states and anyone that
would take a French girl In preference
to an American girl ought to have his
head examined.
The boys have also mentioned them
as being loud, frivolous, unclean in
their dress and also say they smoke,
drink and paint to extreme. If that
is what Mr. Real American terms "sub
lime," I ant very glad that we Ameri
can girls are what he chooses to call
"old-fashioned."
He states that the old-fashioned
American girl micht do in a case of an
eniertrcney or in the case that he could
not get the money to return to France.
I state in behalf of the American girls,
and. I do not think I am taking too
much of a responsibility, that if there
are any so-called "Real American" boys
who are in danger of living a martyred
life with an American girl due to the
lack of funds to take them back to
France we will be willing to take up a
collection to send them back so that
they will be sura to have a product of
sunny France standing by their bedside
when they bid this earth goodbye.
AN AJU-UUCAN GJ-IO
Right Back At Him.
PORTLAND. Or.. June 10. (To the
Editor.-) Please print this reply to the
saucy major at Camp Lewis:
Say, kid. you s-ure are some hemale.
Zowie! Wow! If you can kid a she can
nibal as well as a chorus girl, you'd
better toddle right out of here.
Gee! it is a shame you are set on
leaving the country and all for a frog
gess across the pond.
Well, boy. those Vanity Fair Janes
are sure made for you, and if that
shoulder-hugging, hand-waving, snail
eating aboriginal has to hang around
your bedstead to make you happy,
when you're passing in your checks, go
right to it. Have a lot of little Frog
ettes if you want to.
It's old America and a good Boston
bean guy for me. PLAIN JANE.
Game of "Coaa Can."
PORTLAND. Juno 10. (To the Ed
itor.) I wish you would inform ine
how to play the game of cards called
"coon can." I used to play the game
very well, but have not played it for
quite a while and have forgotten the
game.
MRS. L. K
The name 4s a corruption of the
Spanish word conqulan. You can prob
ably get a description of it by consult
ing some work on card playing at the
public library.
Obtaining Travel Pay.
PORTLAND. June 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Please advise me as to the prop
er way for an ex-service roan, dis
charged December 11, liMS. and allowed
mileace of cents, to proceed In ob
taining the extra 1- cents, which I
understand has been allowed.
EX-SERGEANT.
Take up the matter with' the army
recruiting officers In the Worcester
building'.