THE 3IORXING OREGONIAX, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919.
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fragists no longer doubt their ultimate
success in France.
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land now have woman suffrage and
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disabilities of women for membership
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SET THE CHirBl II.DERS FREE.
Prompt action of the senate com
merce committee In reporting favor
ably Senator Jones' bill taking from
the shipping board all authority over
private shipbuilding contracts gives
promise that the blighting reign of
Hurley will soon be ended. Indeed
the amount of democratic support
which the bill received raises hope
that it will be passed by so large a
majority as to lead President Wilson
not to ward off with a veto this blow
at a policy which is peculiarly his own.
The question is not one of party,
although such faithful mouthpieces of
the administration as Senators Sim
mons and Kirby come to Hurley's de
fense. The south lines up with the
Taciflc coast, and both are joined by
the disinterested middle west, while
the chief opponent is Senator Harding
of Ohio, who has been a constant
champion of the Atlantic coast and a
foe to the Pacific coast, and especially
of wood ships.
The damage done by Hurleyism to
the industry on the Pacific coast will
not be fully repaired unless the ship
ping board is compelled to redistribute
the remaining contracts for govern
ment ships in such a manner that the
Pacific coast yards will be employed
until they can begin work on private
contracts. Mr. Hurley uses an offer
of an eastern company to build ships
at a government-owned yard at $149
a ton as a pretext for refusing con
tracts to privately owned Pacific coast
jards at a higher price. In so doing
ho omits from the calculation any
charge for depreciation of the govern
ment yard, though owners of private
yards must Include that charge In
order to avoid loss. The effect is that
public funds are used to foster the
industry on the Atlantic coast and to
destroy It on t",e Pacific coast.
Faithful, efficient service to the na
tion in war entitles the Pacific coast
shipbuilders to square deal at the
very least, and that is all they ask. A
aqua re. deal requires that depreciation
charges be added to the price quoted
by operators of government yards in
order to make fair comparison with
private yards. It also requires that
Pacific yards have facilities to trans
port steel at the lowest coat. Some of
the many wood ships which are now
earning railroad ties east should be
put in intcrcoastal service and carry
steel west. Pacific yards would thus
escape the exorbitant freight rates
which the railroad administration ex
acts in the vain effort to avoid bank
ruptcy. Sound reasons of national policy,
which appeal to all sections of the
country and which transcend the pri
vate Interests of the shipbuilders, dic
tate that the entire shipbuilding in
dustry be fostered, and that neither
the greed of Atlantic shipbuilders nor
the shipping board's desire for politi
cal vindication be permitted to inter
fere. The United States is now the
chief shipbuilding nation of the world,
having passed Great Britain. Lloyds'
report shows that at the end of March
:.:54.S4S gross tons were under con
struction in the United Kingdom,
4.. 15. 523 gross tons in the United
States and 1.355. $98 gross tons in all
other countries. The world's total be
ing 10.051.106 gross tons, the United
States was building more than 40 per
cent of the whole.
The American people want to hold
the lead which they have gained. They
cannot do so if the part of the industry
on the Pacific coast, which produced
more than half of the war tonnage
should be temporarily idle through
creation of a gap between completion
of the last government ship and the
beginning of work on the first private
ship. That hiatus might prove fatal
to tL3 aticcess in competition with for
eijm yards and with Mr. Hurley's pam
Tered pets on the Atlantic coast. Con
tinoous operation is essential to eco
nomical production in an industry
which has such heavy overhead costs
acd which must maintain so large an
organization of highly skilled men
The Jones bill Is an excellent begin
ning, but it should be quickly followed
by other legislation to break the
clutch of the shipping board, to keep
the entire indu.-rtry in full operation
ana to set n iree 10 compete ireeiy
with other nations. In this competi
tion the Pacific coast asks no favors;
it a-"ks only that it be subjected to no
tandicaps by laws or bureaucrats.
TCRN- OCT.
Portland approaches the school eloc
tion apparently with a degree o
apathy equivalent to or lesser than
that with which it approached the
recent state and city special elections
It requires some resolution to inter
est oneself in other than a spirited
political campaign, but the duty exists
and government functions indifferently
and often recklessly when Issues are
left to settlement by a small minority.
In tomorrow's election, unless there
shall be an arousing, voting will be
done by more or less especially Inter
ested elements. The neighborhoods
that are to be benefited by construe
tion of new buildings if the bonds
shall carry will be fairly well repre
sented: probably the teachers to whom
all questions pertaining to the schools
appeal, will turn out; the friends of
the candidates for director will par
ticipate and the fairly numerous tax
payers who are constitutionally op
posed to any increase of taxes will
do their share. .Yet school matters
should be close to the heart of every
one. There is no public enterprise
th.it more intimately affects the family
than the school system. Its conduct
ought not to be left to the few.
lr TRACE IN 1 RAM E.
The voto of the French chamber of
deputies, S44 to 97. in favor of en
franchisement of women, marks a re
markable and unexpected unanimity of
opinion In thit country upon an Issue
that never was as acute as it has been
in the United States and in Kngland.
In some respects the Idea of partner
ship between hu:band and wife, as It
is recognised by French law. has left
less ground for specific complaint of
discrimination ag.itnst women. Tct
the broad reasons for woman suffrage
existed there as elsewhere, and there
was when the war broke out a svffrage
party of respectable dimensions and
efficient organisation. It did not rress
Jta claims vigorously during the war.
The union Francaise pour le suffrage
ties femmes contented itself in 191s
THE XIXIS INCIDENT.
Detention of Dr. Ellis, special cor
respondent of the New York Herald
and The Oregonian. by the British
authorities in Kgypt, is an example
of that blundering which often char
acterizes the subordinate British of
ficial at home or abroad, and is a
product of that censorship which is
one of the vicious products of war.
The man who was originally respons
ible for Dr. Ellis' practical Imprison
ment found his match in the American
consul-general, who should have as
serted his fellow-citizen's rights.
Dr. Ellis" sole offense appears to
have been that he told the truth about
the cause and course of the Egyptian
Insurrection. The attempt at sup
pression raises suspicion that there
was something very terrible to hide.
when in fact there was nothing worse
than conscription of labor battalions
to do work of great military urgency,
for which they were paid. There was
military rule during the war by men
who do not understand the oriental
mind and who treat alien races with
that assumption of superiority that is
peculiar to small and snobbish in
tellect, and that fills a proud race like
the Arabs with smoldering resent
ment. Given these materials, there
was needed only a mixture of pro
Turkish propaganda and excitement of
vague hopes by circulation of Presi
dent Wilson's talk about self-determination
in order to start a conflagra
tion. The match was set when the na
tionals were forbidden to go to Paris.
This in substance is what Dr. Ellis
has told, and his criticism of. British
policy has been accompanied by much
praise of British rule. Yet the smaller
bureaucrats try to silence him and
they aroused suspicion that there is
much worse to tell about Syria by
forbidding him to go there.
There should be no hesitation on J
the part of the American peace dele
gates at Farls or of the state depart
ment in demanding the liberation of
Dr. Ellis with unrestricted right to go
where he pleases and to tell what he
sees and hears. He will tell only
the truth as a trained, conscientious
observer sees it, and the world Is en
titled to know that, whether it re
flects credit on the officials in control
of the country or exposes them to
censure.
This outrage on an American should
cause immediate abolition of censor
ship by the allies at the demand of
the United States, and this govern
ment should begin by removing all
restrictions except those against down
right sedition and treason. The Amer
ican consul-general to Egypt appears
to be such a hnman jellyfish that he
should be recalled and supplanted by
a man with enough backbone to de
fend the rights of American citizens.
The British government might profit
by the incident to remove the offi
cials who try to hide crass stupidity
behind an air of arrogant superiority.
It is such men who undo the great
work of Lord Cromer, General Allen'
by and their like.
acquitted themselves creditably. When
thev are riven a "white man's chance,
the -Indian Rights association x con
cludes, they will do as well in peace as
in war.
The "white man's chance" includes,
of course, schools. White men in
America get schools or know the reason
why. It may be that the time is not
ripe for granting full citizenship to all
the tribesmen: but it is at least expe
dient that educational provision should
be made for all, against the day of
political assimilation which sooner or
later is bound to come.
NOVELS X A NUTSHELL.
It may serve the purpose of those
who like to maintain the false ap
pearance of being well-informed on
literary matters to condense the great
novels of history into a few hundred
or a few thousand words, but it is
seriously to be questioned whether any
other purpose will be served. An
nouncement, therefore, that the plan
is to be tried on an ambitious scale
will arouse interest because of its nov
elty rather than by any inherent merit.
The novel and the short story oc
cupy different places in the literary
scheme. It is not possible to convert
'Les Miserables" or a "Three Mus
keteers" into a short story by any
process. A still-remembered attempt
to rewrite "Ten Thousand a Year."
one of the conspicuously tedious three
deckers of the first half of the last
century, was a failure which must
have given pain to Dr. Warren's ex
ecutors. The "Tales from Shakes
peare," which Charles Lamb and his
sister wrought on so faithfully wore a
poor placebo for the Shakespeare
lover. Robinson Crusoe has been re
peatedly condensed in the effort to
Dring it witnm the time limits of
busy boy. and even "Uncle Tom'
Cabin" has not escaped the sacrilege.
but present demand is for the original
works. The condensations have been
financial as well as-artistic failures.
There is, of course, a difference be
tween a kind of review which aims to
tell what the novel is about, and
purported capsulated novel itself. On
may read a" recipe for pumpkin pi
and acquire thereby an appetite for
the real thing, but no one wants to
take his pumpkin pie in the form of
pill. Even James B. Connolly, though
he is a writer of sea tales, is not going
to be able to do anything resembling
justice to "Captains Courageous'
to "Robinson Crusoe," and we look on
the rewriting of "David Copperfield'
and "Last Days of Pompeii" as lit
erary murder in the first degree. Even
a suitable excuse is lacking. The idea
of the publishers is that people will
read the new versions who would not
read the old. But why should they
read them? Minus description and
character study and philosophy and
thrill what can there be left? And it
will hardly be contended that the re
quirements of a polite education are to
be furthered by the subterfuge o:
reading something less valuable than
the outline in a bookseller's catalogue,
Better a single chapter from one of
the greater novels than a purported
condensation occupy ing equivalent
space. Dead authors have som
rights. They ought to be protected
by sentiments of justice and rever
ence. even if the copyright laws do
not extend to them. Yet we shall not
take this violation of the proprieties
too seriously. Time has a way of get'
ting even. Who now knows where he
can lay his hands on a ptst capsule
edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which
in its original form is still one of the
best sellers in the world?
EDCC-ITING TILE DiDIAX.
Education and citizenship are de
manded for the Indian in a statement
made by the Indian Rights association
after a conference of friends of the
Indians held in Philadelphia. The two
demands are placed in the order of
their importance. Education ought to
be a condition precedent for citizen
ship, as in principle it is a condition
for admission of aliens to the Lnited
States under the immigration laws. It
is commonly supposed that this Is being
fully attended to by the federal gov
ernment. Therefore the statement will
come as a surprise that there arc 22.972
Indian children eligible for education
for whom no provision has been made,
notwithstanding the" fact that nearly
all the treaties made with our Indians
promised "a schoolhouse and a teacher
for every thirty children
Now, 21.971 children constitute more
than t per cent of the whole Indiap
population 335.753 in 191S of the
United States. If a similar situation
existed with regard to the entire popu
lation, there would be some 6.200,000
children "el'gible for education," yet
with no provision made for their
schooling. Whatever may have been
done by the government for Indian
education, it plainly is not enough, so
long as a large percentage of young
Indians nre growing up without the
preparation for life under new condi
tions- which Is absolutely necessary if
they are to thrive, and ti develop, as
every people have a fundamental right
to do.
There are Indians who would not
intelligent citizens, and 'who
with urging the country to remember)
the service cf women, and thereafter! make
was silent until the armistice w as I probably have no desire for citizenship
signed.
The undercurrents have been run
ning deep, as is evidenced by the vote.
Woman auffrage had never received
anything even approaching this sup
port in that body before. The bill re
quires the sanction of the French sen
ate, but a point has been glncj. Suf-
l et the younger generation has re
cently justified Its desire for a place
beside the whiiss by its record in the
war. There were 10.000 of these in
the army and navy, of whom ?5 per
cent were volunteers, those not citizens
beln; exempt. In personal bravery
and in anicuabUlty to discipline they
TIME FOR PEACE.
It may be admitted that The Ore
gonian might have been more explicit
in the illustration it gave of the opera
tions of the league of nations covenant
ith respect to Shantung, which illus
tration Professor Powers criticises in
letter published today.
The "rape of China" referred to by
Senator Johnson and which called
forth the statement that if the Chinese
of Shantung should drive but the Jap
anese the league would not interfere,
is the transfer of a ninety-nine-year
lease of a walled city and some sur
rounding territory constituting in all
an area about twice that of Portland.
It also includes control of a railway
line extending into Shantung and some
mining concessions in the province.
This lease was forced from China by
Germany in 1898 and is to be trans
ferred to Japan by the terms of the
treaty completed at Versailles and now
ready for signatures. The lease trans
fer is in a section of the treaty en
tirely separated from that which deals
exclusively with the covenant of the
league of nations. The treaty will be
signed by China, Japan, the United
States and the other powers.
It is purely hypothetical to conceive
of an uprising in the infinitesimal
part of China involved in this lease
against the Japanese protectorate, but
if the people of Kiao-Chau should at
tempt so impossible an enterprise as
the forced establishment of a govern
ment of their own. It would be, as
The Oregonian stated, an internal dis
turbance about which the league of
nations would not concern itself.
It- is more conceivable that differ
ences might arise between China and
Japan over Japanese operations in
connection with the railroad and min
ing concessions. If such differences
arose both nations would be bound by
the covenant of the league to sub
mit the dispute either to arbitration
or to the league council for adjust
ment. If Japan indeed attempted a
"rape of China" the league would
interfere to prevent it, upon conclusive
representations from China. It would
as fully guarantee China against en
croachment as it would guarantee
Japan in its? proper enjoyment of its
concessions. And if the league of
nations covenant were eliminated from
the peace treaty, as that document now
stands, the United States would still
give formal acquiescence to the trans
fer of the lease to Japan and would
be bound morally to support its terms.
The Oregonian has condemned this
transfer to Japan, against China't
protest, though the sovereignty of
China is expressly recognized and
though Japan is pledged to return the
territory to China, yet it is not a
great grab of territory and assurance
is actually given that it will not be
extended into a grab of territory by
the guarantees of the covenant of
the league of nations.
No doubt many Americans like
Professor Powers, would like to see
a more specific endorsement of the
Monroe doctrine contained in the cove
nant, but endorsement is clearly im
plied when the Monroe doctrine is
coupled with arbitration treaties. The
later conception of the Monroe doc
trines that nations of the western
hemisphere shall be free from Euro
pean aggrandizement is carried into
the league covenant to the end that
all nations are guaranteed their in
tegrity against interference from any
exterior source. The effect of the
disclaimer of intent to affect the valid-1
ity of the Monroe doctrine is that it
shall stand, no nation - calling It in
question. So far from no other na
tion than the United States having
ratified it. Great Britain supported it
from the first, and a common argu.
ment for a great navy has been that
the British navy was the chief support
of the Monroe doctrine. It was only
a probable cause of war so long- as
such nations as Germany retained
military power. No democratic nation
of Europe has sought territorial ex
pansion in the western hemisphere
or is likely to seek it in the-future,
hence recognition of the Monroe doc
trine as a means for maintenance of
peace simply recognizes an established
fact.
No man who thinks independently
can pretend that the league covenant
is perfect. It bears internal evidence
of President Wilson's faults and of
compromise between diverse views.
But it is a good beginning, a vast im
provement on no league at all, and can
be improved with lapse of time and
with experience of its working. The
Oregonian expressed the opinion when
the peace conference began that the
allies should first agree on terms of
peace and dictate them to Germany,
and should afterward plan and organ
ize the league, but the league is now
so Interwoven with the peace terras
that they cannot be separated unless
the treaty is entirely rewritten and
some other authority entrusted with
the functions now assigned to the
league. That would take much time,
of which too much has already been
expended on the peace conference.
The world should not be called upon
to endure further delay, for every
day's delay aggravates the suffering of
the war-torn nations and works in
favor of Germany. Misery and idle
ness are. breeding anarchy, and they
can be ended most quickly and ef
fectually by concluding peace and
putting the people to work. Europe
lives in a no man's land between peace
and war, and still bears the financial
burden of war' without many of the
blessings of peace. That condition
should be ended with the least prac
ticable delay, and sounder objections
to the covenant than have yet been
raised can alone justify proloriglng it.
President Wilson is a balky horse,
but that is no excuse for balking by
the senate.
The bond between east and west
has been further cemented by the un
veiling at Worcester, Mass., of ' a por
trait of Eli Thayer, whose present
ment also appears on the badges of
the Oregon Pioneer association at its
forty-seventh annual reunion. Thayer
was not only famous for his champion
ship of Oregon's admission to state
hood, but he was also a foremost
citizen of his own community, which
we may now suppose to be more than
a little regretful for its cavalier treat
ment of-him politically following his
stand on the Oregon issue. Worces
ter in now paying honor to him on
the centenary of his birth, recalls that
he was a leading educator, a true
pioneer in that field, and that in
running counter to the opinions of
his own constituents h manifested
real statesmanship. Events have
proved the justice of his stand in the
Oregon matter, and have shown that
New England's fears that admission
of this commonwealth to statehood
would "add another slave state" and
also result in election of a pro-slavery
president were almost amusingly ill-
founded.
Those Who Come and Go.
"Spray from the ocean waves will be
dashed over the road when we con
struct the six miles of coast highway
in Curry county, predicts Newton
Moon, a Marshfieid contractor, known
to his familiars as "New Moon." The
contract for this Curry county job
went to Moon & Co., and other contrac
tors admit that it will be some job.
It will cost about $50,000 just to get
machinery into ths place and about as
much more to get it out. Mr. Moon,
who is at the Benson viTiile preparing
for the work, says that construction
will start as soon as possible, and when
completed the six miles will probably
be the greatest scenic road in Oregon,
as well as a commercial roai long
needed. There will be little trouble
arettlnar rid of the dirt and rock from
eradlne all the workmen will have
to do is to toss the material over the
cliff into the Pacific ocean and watch
it splash.
For 73 years William Merchant has
lived on the same farm, on the banks
of the Yamhill river, near Carlton. Mr.
and Mrs. Merchant are at the Imperial,
visitinK with other pioneers. Mr. Mer
chant's father came to Oregon City in
1847. and then took up land on tne
Yamhill, where the family has resided
since. Mr. iMerchant and his father
cleared 450 acres of timber and brush,
and anyone who has tried to clear Ore
gon land of stumps can appreciate what
the Merchants went through. Mrs.
Merchant was born near Scholls Ferry,
and is a daughter of pioneers. While
the Merchants have a couple of boys.
one at Los Angeles and the other at
San Diego, the parents prefer the old
home. No money can buy the Merchant
farm, Mr. Merchant declaring that the
land, to him, is priceless. There are
probably few other people in the state
who have lived on one farm for 72
years.
There are 21 returned soldiers
taking the rehabilitation work under
federal auspices at the Oregon Agri
cultural college," explained Frank H.
fcnepnera, wno nas caarge oi uiai ape-
cialty at the college. "We are teaching
the men what they want to Know ana
what they want to do. One soldier,
who lost a leg, iB being taught to op
erate a tractor. A couple are learning
poultry raising, and they are all seek
ing practical information. They do not
want to become graduates, or try ior
a degree, but they are determined to
get down to brass tacks in the lines
which they wish to follow. During the
summer vacation we are nnaing era
ployment for them. For instance, one
man who is studying dairy products
will be employed in a creamery in
Portland, horticulturists will be in the
orchards. The plan appears to work
out well."
A double-distilled pioneer is William
M. Blakesley, registered at the Imperial
from Pendleton. Mr. Blakesley was
with his father at Brownsville in 1848,
making him an Oregon pioneer in th
Willamette valley, and he became a
pioneer of eastern Oregon by going
there in 1868. Eastern Oregon pioneers
mostly went there from the Willamette
valley. Eastern Oregon did not get a
start in population until after gold was
discovered in the '60s in Baker, and par
ticularly in the Boise basin. Gold
tempted pioneers and sons of pioneers
in the valley and they left the green
country to go into the sagebrush and
sand of eastern Oregon, which, in time,
they converted into an empire of wheat
fields.
More Truth Than Poetry.'
By James J. Montague.
Am Application.
(Copyright by Bell Syndicate. Inc.!
(Two hundred and seventy-eight
persons of royal strain loet their Jobs
on account of the war. Cable dis
patch.) Wanted A job as a king
By a bright and experienced hand.
None is adepter at handling a sceptre,
Or giving a royal command.
With never a bat of an eye, '
And an arrogance simply sublime.
I hear delegations, respond to ovations
And knight twenty lords at a time.
I have sisters sjid brothers-in-law,
I have uncles and cousins and aunts.
Who all are descended from potentates
splendid.
Who once ruled in Kngland and
France.
My forefathers all have been reared
In the strictest monarchical school.
As infants they caught 'em and
thoroughly taught 'em
The wisest and best ways to rule. .
When issuing writs and decrees
I always look stern and severe,
But fen my initials when learned
officials ;
Remark in a whisper: "Sign here:"
And if the state's business goes wrong.
As often it does in this game.
No murmur or mutter of protest I utter
But cheerfully take all the blame.
If any one cares for a king.
Who knows all the tricks of the
trade.
Who'll dance with civilians at local
cotillions
Or march in a swagger parade,
I am willing to work by the day
With a princess and queen or alone.
For moderate wages supply my own
pages,
And even to furnish the throne!
...
Heroes and Rinc Heroes. ,
After reading the story of Corporal
York, we somehow can't get ready to
enthuse very much over the winner
of the coming quarrel at Toledo.
e
And It's Already Overcrowded.
Now that the senate has passed the
suffrage amendment there seems to be
no place for the militants to go Dut
the prize-ring..
One's About as Quick am the Other.
Some people are born rioh, and some
establish summer camps for boys.
In Other Days.
Twenty-live Years Ace.
From. The Oregonian of Juna 20. 1 S!4 .
The rose fete, which this year takes
the place of the annual flower show,
opened auspiciously yesterday after
noon in the A. O. U. W. hall.
Mi Ki, one of the oldest and best
known members of the Chinese colony
In Portland, died Monday arter a resi
dence here extending over 39 yeaxa,
George Morey, the convicted mur
derer of Gus Barry, was in happy mood
yesterday morning when told the new.iw
that his death sentence had been com
muted to imprisonment for life.
The most unhappy men in the
world today are probably the German
ministers. If they sign, they will be
driven from olfice by the militarists.
If they refuse to sign, their country
will be occupied and forced to pay
the cost and they will pronaoiy oe
driven out from office by the pacifiiU.
They will be the goats whichever way
they turn.
Senator Knox' advice to go cautiously
in the matter of the league of nations
is all very well, but the United States
should not be so cautious as to balk
and stand still when the rest of the
world is ready to go ahead". It is the
way of Americans to lead, not follow,
in the movements of world progress.
The husband of a woman who can
initiate proceedings anal secure her
decree, all in an afternoon, did no
know when he was well off. That
kind of hustling wife could elect the
right husband president of the world
in no time.
The senate judiciary committee, con
iidering a working plan for prohibition
approves a section that defines as in
toxicating a beverage with more than
ono-half of 1 per cent alcohol. 1 hat
ought to settle it. Anything with that
lack of strength Is a wash, not a annK.
Thousands of government airplanes
have been sold for a few hundred
dollars each, but a manufacturing
ccmDanv got them instead of individ
uals. That stabilizes the market ana
probably saves the lives ' of many
amateur, fliers.
Many wonder how "a young feller'
like Otto Klceman can be an Indian
war veteran. He is one by courtesy
and the "vets" could not get along
without him and his ability as adju
tant.
It's fine to have a 99 or 100 per
ent baby in the family, but most of
this old world was made and is being
run by "kids" who.wouldnt have
scored 75 under the circumstances.
Burleson has one desirable posses
sion a rhinoceros hide. Most men
would long ago have thrown up the
job and got out of sight. He s a uexan
all right.
Some day the state of Oregon will
be giving gold medals to its pioneer
people. Little things in tnemseives,
but no fakers will be, able lo get them.
Relative humidity, which means an
undesirable cousin this time of year,
is coming strong. She touched 49
yesterday.
Canada d.d not begin deporting aiien
agitators soon enough. The appropri
ate time was the second day of the
strike. "
New York liquor dealers are apply
ing for federal licenses, on a faint
chance, which is a fat chance, as
well.
With coffee at a dollar, people will
become familiar with something just
a good, and perhaps better for them.
Can a Minute Woman
under half anliour?
be ready
Make a date for tomorrow night at
the Auditorium,
The doctor instructed my wife to
give me two tablespoons of whisky
three times a day," explained an out-
of-town visitor. When I came to Port
land my wife measured out what she
thought woold be enough of the med
icine to last me during my trip. Since
coming to Portland I haven't been able
to get a spoon to measure out the
quantity, and so I've had to go by
guess. The original supply is exhaust
ed and I've had to buy a quart at out
rageous price. If I'm a bit unsteady
it a because I can t find a spoon.
At some of the kid football games
in Portland the-old man present would
be Judg T. H. Crawford of La Grande
for the judge loves football and foot
racing and all manner of sport. His
present visit to Portland is to assist i
straightening out the confusing and
embarrassing situation which has ex
Isted in the inner circles of the demo
cratic party for the past two months
As a democrat the judge stands ace
high.
The man who told you how to burn
wood and how to save on coal last win
ter when the well-known and lately
canceled war was the chief topic of
conversation, was Fred J. Holmes of
La Grande. Mr. Holmes, who was one
of the very few democrats in Oregon
wno were dollar a year men, has been
in Portland attending the democrati
state committee meeting.
Trap shooting has induced J. H.
Davis of Seattle to come to Portland
to enter the tournament. Mr. Davis
was formerly of the Washington hotel
annex and now derives an income from
one of the largest of Seattle s apart
ment houses. He is registered at the
Benson.
James Nelson, of the pioneer Nelson
family of Butter Creek, is at the Im
perial, registered from Pendleton. The
Nelsons are a well-known family in
Morrow and Umatilla counties and Mrs,
Nelson, who is also in the city, is the
daughter of Jerry Brosman, an old-
timer on willow creek, near Heppner.
Al Lundborg, who was manager of
tne Benson before going to San Fran
Cisco, where he is with the Belleville
hotel, is at the Hotel Portland with
his wife. Mr. Lundborg is here to at
tend the convention of Greeters, which
win oe neia next week.
The Eternal Rush.
By Grace E. Hall.
Turn back the clock of time tonight, I
would not hurry so,
There are, so many things to learn, so
much I want to know;
The urge of labor claims the moments
that I long to spend
In strolling dowt life's road, unhin
dered in my trend.
I'd like to pause and ask the frog why
croaking voice is his.
And why he dwells in marsh and bog,
not where the sunshine is;
I'd like to question that small mite
which vows that Katy-did;
And quizz the turtle why he wears
upon his back a lid.
Judge A. J. Derby of Hood River, one
of the quietest and most faithful demo
crats in Oregon, will collaborate on
the minutes of the meeting of the state
central committee held yesterday, be-
tore returning to nis home.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Sutton, pioneers,
who eettled in the Douglas country
wnen tne cmpqua river had better nsh
mg than it has today, are arrivals at
the Perkins. They are here attending
tne reunion oi oia-timers.
Walter S. Martin of San Francisco
is at the Benson. The Martin family
is especially well knorn in California
social circles and is the owner of ex
tensive ranches.
Donald Conn and A. G. T. Moore of
St. Paul, arrived yesterday at the Ben
son to attend the rate conference. Mr.
Conn is the traffic manager for the
Shevlin-Hicks company.
Good Deal of Territory!
Eugene Guard.
Democracy is not sectional but the
foundation upon which American cit
izenship is built. The democratic party
stands for progress and an American
nation a nation not dominated nor in
fluenced by any other nation or set of
men. It is representative of the peo
ple, and its achievements of the' past
two years, will when history is written,
stand for more than those of the re
publican party during 40 years of
power. It now boasts ot a leader tnat
has no equal iri diplomacy or states
manship. That is sufficient reason why
the democrats of Lane county are back
of the administration.
I'd like to ask in accents sweet of coo
ing turtle-dove;
If one may find a joy complete in mur
muring of love;
I'd query of the restless sea that knows
not pause nor sleep.
Who made the coral lacery that trims
the currents, deep.
The clock of time runs all too fast
why this unseemly haste?
The days like speeding things dart past
and beauties go to waste,
Because we spend our strength and
. thought on what may wealth ad
vance. And to the marvels God hath wrought
give but a passing glance.
SCHOOL. BO.D COST IS SOT HIGH
Writer Figures Net Interest for Ten
Years at 96S1.250.
PORTLAND, June 19. (To the Ed
itor.) What are apparently injudicious
statements as to the ultimate cost of
the school bond issue, when interest
is included, are being made in the cam
paign. The following table presupposes that
the school board is going to handle the
school funds with ordinary business
acumen. The board is composed or
business men of a type of which that
sort of action is to be expected.
It is therefore supposed that the
school bond issue of J2,500,000 will be
sold for a premium amounting to at
least one-quarter of 1 per cent. That
would automatically reduce the inter
est rn the hnnris from fi to 43I Tier cent. I
The interest, then, for 10 years would j
be $1,187,500.
It is then to be supposed that the
board will levy at least J250.000 per
annum for a sinking fund to redeem
the bonds. This sinking fund would be
placed at interest, by investment in
some sort of bonds earning at least 4i
per cent. In nine years the first $250,
000 of the sinking fund would earn
$101,250. In nine years, by adding a
sum of $250,000 each year to the sink
ing fund and placing it at interest, the
total earnings of interest on the sink
ing fund would equal $506,250.
Subtract $506,250 from $1, 187,500 ana
we have a remainder of $681,250 as the
actual cost of carrying the bonds and
the bonds have been paid off.
We take it for granted that the man
ager of Morris Bros. Inc. knows what
he is talking about when he says that
with such a little debt now existing the
bonds will sell for a premium. M. W.
Room for Improvement.
Judge.
Mama." said Edith, "when the first
man started to spell 'psalm' with a .'p'
why didn't he scratch it out and start
ovcr7"
BERRIES ARE OFFERED OX VINES
Housewife Finds Some Growers Will-
Ins to Make Concessions.
PORTLAND, June 19. (To the Ed
itor.) "Business Woman's" lletter in
answer to my modest one on tne straw
berry situation has again made me
thoughtful.
I am sorry she became so agitated
over my letter and I question wno is
the "grouch." I fear "business woman"
may be the kind who lives alone in a
one-room apartment and knows not the
need of pleasure of preserving fruit for
a family. I thank God for this priv-i
lege as well as for "Oregon's -knee
deen June."
As for being "entertained In tne
country the day I went in quest of
berries, I did not dreain of it. Neither
did I set my own price. I thought if
t were true that no pickers were to De
had. I mieht act in that capacity and
get some berries and go home and can
them. Having picked berries on my
father's farm, I know better than to
trample the vines."
Through the courtesy of Tne Orego
nian some letters reached me (in re
sponse to mine) from country people
who have berries and garden stuff to
dispose of, urging me to come and help
pick same at a reduced price, so I feel
that my appeal was not in vain.
There is something radically wrong
somewhere when fruit goes to waste
for lack of pickers, and it seems ac
tually wicked in these times of need.
I would suggest that some enterpris
ing merchant try to sell "business wom
an" some crates oi Derries ac double
the present prices, since she says they
are worth it. were is a cnance to boost
the prices still higher. HOCSli WIFE. .
Children's Jokes Borrowed.
Washington (D. C.) Slar.
"Is Bliggins kind to bis family?"
"He means to be. but he has a cruel
habit of thinking up things he consid
ers funny and then pretending his chil
dren said 'em.
MOVROK DOCTRINE NOT AFFIRMED
Leagae Provision Concerning; It Couched
In "Weasel Wards."
PORTLAND. June 19. (To the Ed
itor.) As a sojourner In Oregon I am
enjoying greatly the privilege of read
ing The Oregonian. In particular I am
following with interest your contro
versy with certain readers over the
league of nations and your defense of
that project. You are fair-minded
that is plain and the absence of par
tisanship is sufficiently attested by the
fact that you are supporting th pet
measure of an administration that you
disapprove and distrust.
It is because you mean to be fair that
venture to call your attention to
certain cases in which I think you have
not been so.
An example is your rejoinder to Sen
ator Jolivison. He raises the oft-re
peated objection that the league would
make us guarantee "the rape of China."
etc. You reply that "If the Chinese of
Shantung should drive out the Jap
anese or if the Germans of Posen should
rise against the Poles, the league would
not interfere" since it guarantees its
members only against "outside aggres
sion." That is both doubtful Interpre
tation and .cold comfort. If the league
wants to skulk behind a technicality,
it could witness the hopeless struggla
of 50.000.000 unequipped Chinese in
Shantung against the trained armies of
Japan without interference, though as
an organization for the preservation of
peace such an event ought to be dis
turbing to its equanimity. But if China
should come to the aid of its nationals
in Shantung the league would and must
interfere. Inasmuch as there is not the
slightest chance that the Chinese of
Shantung could "drive out the Jap
anese" without such aid, would not the
league be the guarantor of Japanese
possession exactly as Senator Johnson
says? Admitting the good faith of
your argument, I am forced to con
clude that you are "driven to misrep
resentation" by the necessity of defend
ing one of the most indefensible pro
posals ever made to the American peo
ple. Such a guarantee would be doubt
ful at any time. It becomes monstrous
it) connection with such territorial ar
rangements as the present treaty pre
scribes.
You assert, repeatedly that the league
recognizes the Monroe doctrine. I hate
to take such a statement seriously, but
I fear your readers may do so. The re
vised text of the covenant mentions the
Monroe doctrine and in that sense
recognizes it, i. e., it recognizes that
such a doctrine exists. But it does not
validate that doctrine. The words are:
"Nothing in this covenant shall be
deemed to affect the validity of . . .
regional understandings like the Mon
roe doctrine for securing the main
tenance of peace." The Monroe doc
trine is not an "understanding" and
never was. It is an assertion of the
American people that has never been
ratified by any other people and that
has been directly challenged by at least
two great powers England and Ger
many. Its purpose is not the "main
tenance of peace," but (in its later form
at least) the restriction of European
influence in the western hemisphere, a
purpose that might very' well involve
war. And this doctrine that has never
attained the slightest International va
lidity, is to have its "validity" unaf
fected by the league with the farther
plain implication that it is to be lim
ited to "the maintenance of peace." The
Monroe doctrine is not "recognized" or
validated by the league. It simply has
its teeth drawn.
We are credibly Informed that a pro
posal to definitely validate tho Monroe
doctrine was emphatically voted down
in the peace conference, nearly every
nation opposing it for reasons of Its
own, the Latin-American nations, of
course, most of all. Mr. Wilson is
known to have no sympathy with it.
Hence the substitution, perhaps at his
suggestion, of these "weasel words" for
no other purpose than to deceive the
American people into thinking that
their cherished doctrine was affirmed f
when it was in fact repudiated. Roose
velt would have had the essence of the
Monroe doctrine written into the cove
nant as a "mandate" to the American
people and he would have put it over
and would have found means to recon
cile Europe and Latin-America to its
eminently sensible provisions. But in
stead of his practical statesmanship we
have a specialist in "points." If we
are ready to surrender the Monroe doc
trine, let us do it, but let us know what
we are doing. And if the interpreta
tion of this clause which I and some
millions of others are making is not
the only or the right interpretation, let
us have a clause of which no such
honest misinterpretation is possible.
This whole project isn't half baked.
It bristles with "points" of this same
nebulous, not to say Bimster sort. We
are being hoodwinked and bullied Into
its acceptance In this premature form.
Don't say that we must take it now or
we never shall get it. If it is a pro
posal that will not bear thinking over,
if it can be passed only as a rider on a
necessary measure, those facts alone
would guarantee its ultimate failure.
But they are not facts. The world does
want a league of nations and can be
trusted to work out a successful schema
for it. Mr. Wilson, in jamming it
through, is consulting neither our will
nor the necessities of the case, but his
own imperious temper.
And don t say that the world cn
suffer no further delay. It has suf
fered great and perilous delay already
by reason of this measure, but the mis
chief has been wrought. Meanwhile we
know that France is against the league
its present form and England not
for it. The precautions taken by Italy
and Japan sufficiently .show their faith
in it. A demand that the two measures
be separated would find these nations
ready to acquiesce and the delay in
volved would be little more than the
time required for redrafting unless
Wilson balks.
H. H. POWERS.
Return of 8th Infantry.
ASTOrtfA, Or., June 18. (To the Ed
itor.) When will company C, 8th
United States infantry, A. E. F., return
home? REV. F. T. LUCAS.
No units of the 8th division, which
embraces the 8th regiment, have bean
assigned for convoy during June and
this is as far as definite listings have
been made.
Husband Is Army Deserter.
BRIDAL VEIL, Or.. June 18. (To ths
Editor.) Mv husband was drafted and
after two months deserted, but was
caught, courtmartialed and sentenced
to 25 years at Alcatraz. wnat steps
must I take to get entirely tree rrom
him? DISAPPOINTED WIFE.
Engage a lawyer to bring suit for
divorce.
The Renl Reason Is Found.
Boston Transcript.
Husband lat dinner) "By George, th is
is a regular banquet. Finest spread I've
sat down to in an age. What's up? Do
you expect company?"
Wife "No, but I think the cook
dOCS." . . ; .