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TITE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1919. II iftotnincicDtrmttim ESTaBLISHM BT BISBT L- riTTtXK- sabtthed b? Tfc e jref7nlaa Publishing Co la sixth street. J'orutfO. unsoo. C A. MOBDSX, Xaasger. bailor. The Or - s ') n la n la a member of tho ajw elated Fra.s. Tho Associated rrese ts ex clusively entitled to tho uao fur publico tlon or all nwa dispatches credited to It or rot othererlae credited Is, tflia paper, and also IQ local news published hsreia. All runts of republication o special dispatches herein aro aieo reserved. ffcubocrtptloa : mm Invartablr la advance: I 11. J.,1 rl'T. Snndar Included, ona rear. JO ljelir. Bandar Included, ail months Ljaity. Sunday included, thrso months.... ;3 lastly. Sunday Included, ona month.. Ietlr. without Sunday, ona year. ........ -00 Xeltr. wttnout Sunday, six months S--3 l.at.y. without Sunday, ona moal'l Mwklr, ono year J-WJ Sunday, ooo vear. ---"V Sunday and weekly . . .... -. ..... .... 1 t r.nla. r!!T. 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If It does, presumably the senator will stay, and die heroic political death by going down with the hip. So sad an end 'will be, no novelty to the senator.. He has martyrized himself before. Once upon a time, we recall, he left the republican party because- It would not commit suicide by declaring for free silver. The sena tor dedicated his life, liberty and for tunes to the noble cause of silver, and rolled up a grand total of J3S4 votes as the candidate for congress In Idaho of the silver republican party. The successful candidate, a democrat and a populist, got 13.4S7 votes, and was elected. What became of. the stiver republican party In Idaho belongs to that, obscure realm of history which no man recalls easily. But what be came of Mr. Borah the world knows. He was elected to . the United States senate In 1407 as a republican, and has been there ever since as a republican No exception Is to be made even of those parlous times in 1913 when Sena tor Borah wad for Roosevelt, but not for the progressive party. It was i difficult role, but Mr. Borah triura phantly played It Who else but Borah In Idaho could have been for a party's candidate, but against the party? To be sure, he was himself a candidate for re-election, and no small finesse was required to compass the split that rent republicans everywhere, but Sena tor Borah managed. In 1(18, too, he emerged not only from the republican primary with a unanimous nomination, but with a nonpartisan Indorsement as well. Lest anyone should forget, let it be repeated that the nonpartisans are the personally conducted political or cranixation of A- C Townley. The Oregonlan does not recite all these Interesting details In reproach of Senator Borah. It understands quite well that, with aU his little political idlosyncracies, he is Idaho's special rlory. He has brilliant Intellectual qualities, and amiable personal quail ties. He is as stable In his convictions as the uncertain and volatile temper of his constituency will permit him to be. His dramatic threat to abandon the republican party makes good read ing at many a peaceful and admiring Idaho fireside. It will do him no harm there. In the republican party or out of it. THE MABTtL. AT OCR DOOR. It Is less than fifteen years since the Wright brothers made their first long-distance flight In an airplane and less than twenty since they succeeded in rising from the ground. The inter vening years have been crowded with events momentous to the science of air navigation. Withia a month the Atlantic ocean has been belittled by men in flying machines, and only a little more than a week ago a French man attained an altitude of 33,136 feet, more than six and a quarter miles. We no longer measure progress by decades. Months and weeks have become the measure of the epochal. It is not appreciated as keenly as It ought to be that the Pacific coast is playing an Important part In avia tion history- The full distance be tween San Diego and Seattle was covered recently by mail plane, and it la safe to say that not one ruan in a thousand has more than a dim recollection of the event. More re cently a great flock of army planes has flown from Mather field at Sacra mento and back again without. an accident. The governor of Oregon was a passenger over some hundreds of miles, and in anticipation of his arrival in the southern capital ' an army colonel at San Francisco suni a moned his airplane, quite casually, as ' one would call a taxicab. and flew to meet him. Milton R. Keppler, who Is a high priest of aeronautics, and who also made the trip south, men tions that flying Is so common in the Sacramento valley that people no longer look up when they hear the droning of an engine. Lieutenant Fetter and Sergeant Kissell ara now flying somewhere in the Intermoun taln country on their way from Port land to the Yellowstone, all a part of their day's work. No one Is par ticularly struck by their daring or apprehensive as to their safety. Yet taking a fleet of aircraft from Sacramento to Portland and safely back again la. technically.-a marvelous bit Of work, such as has not often been approached in aviation. The Siskiyou mountains present a double problem of altitude and absence of landing places In the event of acci dent. Colonel Milton F. Davis, who will be remembered by Oregonians ai having been appointed to West Point from Polk county, who is high in the aviation service and to whom credit is due for the making of the trip for the occasion of the Rose Festival, is authority for the estimate that the achievement, scientifically considered, Is one of the best bits of flying work ever done in America. We are wit nessing the making of history. Mount Shasta no longer is a terror to flyers; aa aviator loses his way In the Blue mountains, but he promptly gets his bearings again and is only a little late at dinner at the Walla Walla Com mercial club. The governor of Oregon is converted to aviation by the utter safety and the Irresistible charm of the game. It Is only a matter of a few years, perhaps months, before we too, shall see in flying nothing to make us gaza skyward as planes pass to and fro on their regular route. i?niy pro- vision for a few landing fields in the mountain region Is needed to make the "hop" from Portland to San Francisco the most casual or every-day affairs. Rose Festival time in Portland this year Is a memorable date in history. As has been said, the voyage of a whole fleet of planes over the terrain in question ' without an accident, not to mention the circus stunts to which people were treated, was a noteworthy performance. Yet it is to be doubted whether It will be long remembered. It will be crowded out by still more wonderful events long before our boys in the primary grades have been graduated into long pants. ALLOPATHIC GOVERNMENT. From Corvallisv Or, a place widely known as a seat of investigation, ex perimentation and learning, comes this grave inquiry: For the enlightenment of myself and a number of friends, soma of whom are demo crats, with a bora I have rocontly talked, pleas si ua In plain every-day English your Idea aa to whather tho league of natlona covenant which Woodrow Wilson Is endeavoring to force upon the people of the United States, ts In Its amended form to be a monarchical, democratic Imperialistic or an autoeratle form of government, and at the same time give us Information as to the particular article and section of that amended constitution from which you ar rive at your conclusion. This la a question It seems to me upon which the people should be fully and satisfactorily advised. On the strength of that which Is contained in article 8 of the league covenant. It may be said that the league provides for neither a mon archical, democratic imperialistic nor autocratic, but for an allopathio form of government. Article 8 is the one that treats of disarmament. In the past nations have held the interesting theory that great armaments, which produce some of the symptoms of war such as burden some taxes, personal inconvenience and martial spirit, would cure war. Similia stmillbus curantur may be good medi cal doctrine, and we would not for the world discourage homeopathic treatment in that field of science, but in relation to wars it has proved a dismal failure. It in now the plan to combat the war disease by use of a remedy that produces an effect different from the disease itself. Therefore may it be said that the league of nations coven ant insofar as it Is a government at all is allopathio in form without ques tion. BACK IX KANSAS. When one hears of long hot days and longer hot nights in Kansas, he wonders why any sane person stays there. But when he reads the crop reports, ha wonders why anyone ever leaves Kansas. It is said that the wheat crop In Kansas this year will reach tho staggering total of 220,000. 000 bushels. A beneficent government has guaranteed the price of wheat for the year 1919, and the value of the crop will be around $480,000,000.--If the population of Kansas is 2,000,000 and it is nearly that It will thus be seen that from wheat alone there will be $24 for" every living man. woman and child in that happy com monwealthor there would be. If the gross receipts were to be distributed on a per capita basis. Just to show that they are not so apportioned, it is said that one fortunate farmer will realize $1,200,000 for 30,000 acres. The Topeka Capital estimates that other crops will pay all operating and living expenses, and that wheat will be velvet It expects to see the $4 80 000,000 used in buying 30,000 new homes, 50,000 motor cars, 20.000 motor trucks, 30,000 tractors, 30,000 pianos. 50.000 furnaces, 50,000 silos, 60,000 kitchen cabinets, 50,000 power wash ing machines, 50,000 oil stoves. 25,000 sets of furs, $10,000,000 worth of Jewelry and $50,000,000 worth of farm machinery. The Capital Is silent on the question, but the inquiry is Justi fied, in view of their great prosperity, whether a Kansas farmer may not here and there be moved to get for his wife a hired girl. Kansas is nothing if not a breaker of precedent as well as a breaker of farmers wives' backs. The grasshopper era is gone In Kan sas, and the blight of populism as well. It may even mellow toward Wall street, although the suggestion Is made with out confidence. But the Kansas of 0,000,000a bushels of wheat, at more than $2 per bushel, is not the Kansas of Peffer, or Jerry Simpson, or Mary Ellen Lease, or even the Kansas of the old border days and John Brown. It Is not bleeding Kansas, but prohibi tion Kansas: and it belongs in the van of progressive states. It will be hard for Broadway to concede it, for Broad way has long made a joke of Kansas. The great and everlasting Kansas Joke on New York will make its advent July 1. 1919. DIE HONOR TO T1IK REGIXARS. Not much has been heard of what the regular army did In the war, by comparison with the many articles which have been written about the deeds of the national guard and na tional army divisions and the marines. yet the fact Is that the first division of the regular army was. In the words of General Tillman, commandant of West Point, "the first division to leave this country, the first on the other side, the first in the trenches, the first to occupy a sector by Itself, the first to fire a hostile shot into the enemy, the first to capture a German prisoner. the first to have a casualty, the first to recapture a town which had been taken by the enemy, and the first to hold it against six times its numbers.1 That division under command of Lieutenant-General Bullard, the man who said his troops would not under stand an order to delay a counter attack, was not composed of old, sea soned regular army men. as some may suppftse; It was like the rest' of the regular army at that time, about three-fourths volunteers newly re cruited since the declaration of war. General Bullard made a speech at West Point, the third In his military career of thirty-eight years. In which he said that when the units of the division arrived in France "they had never had any organization" and It was "a division of paper." The first time he tried to use it, he found that out, and he "started to make a ma chine." That machine was tried for the first time at Cantigny "and found to be in working order," a very modest way of describing a most clean-cut victory on a small scale. In which the programme was carried out to the minute. Of the significance of that victory. General Bullard said: For three months after that action I could not understand Its significance. Why, ae had had other flints bar ore. and the fight ing was no mora difficult at Cantigny, and I did not see why it made such an Impres sion on British and French officers. Thee I saw that It was because the machine had proved tteelf. It bnd done Its work and stuck, which those English and Trench of ficers were afraid it would not do. That was really the turning point of the campaign, for it was necessary that the Americans should nt only arrive but should prove themselves in battle in order that the shaken morale of the French and British might be restored. They proved themselves abundantly at Chateau Thierry and Soissons in line with the allies and In a separate action at St. Mihiel. When they showed that nothing could stop them by their gruelling drive through the Argonne and across th Meuse, the allies were staggered by casualties two to four times their own In similar work and urged steps to reduce the losses, but General Bullard said these losses were not due to lack of training but to the disposition of the American soldier to fight whenever and wherever he could in order to speed up completion of his task. He explained this to a French officer as "the spirit of self-sacrifice," and he said to the cadets: This spirit of lelf-sacrlflee do yon know anything better, can you think of anything better t it ssved the world and It saved this war. Nothing was able ever to with stand It, when once these men started ariaht. That spirit filled the regulars In common with the guardsmen and th national army, for three-fourths of the regulars were new volunteers who had responded to the summons to beat the Huns. Because they had among them a richer leaven of trained men, they were first iu line and they, with th marines, bore the brunt of the early fighting. As they were drawn from all parts of the country, they were composite, representative of the whole nation, and they splendidly unheld Its honor. But because no one city or state had a special Interest In them, their deeds have not been exploited as fully as those of other divisions which, while equally brave, were no braver. DRIA'K SOFTLY AND HOLD TOTJR BREATH. "The provision of the prohibitlo enforcement bill permitting search of private homes for contraband liquor when the warrant was sworn to 'by at least two creditable persons' was stricken out today by the house judi clary committee. The system of search as provided in the espionage act was substituted." says a dispatch from Washington. Having no personal Interest or appre henslon in the matter, but divining that others may have, let us inquire into the measure of safety of basement stocks under the system of search and seizure prescribed in the espionage act. That act provides mat a search war rant cannot be issued but upon prob able cause, supported by naming or describing the person and particularly describing the property and place to be searched. The judge or comnSs, sioner must, before Issuing the war rant, examine on oath the complainant and any witness he may produce. If the Judge or commissioner Is there' upon satisfied of the existence of the grounds of the application, or that there is probable cause to believe their existence, he must issue the search warrant. The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house or anything therein, to execute the war rant if. after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance. The judge or commossioner must di rect that the warrant be served in the daytime unless the affidavits are positive that the property is on the person or in the place to be searched. It thus appears that there Is not to be promiscuous federal search Instituted automatically upon warrants sworn out by two or more nosey persons, but that "probable cause" is to be deter mined by the judge or commissioner upon affidavits or depositions. Whether a laden breath, sounds of hilarity or purchase of hops and malt extract will be considered probable cause we wot not. But in wotting not, the sug. gestion is perhaps pertinent that after the law takes effect the tippler do .his tippling In the deepest seclusion of his own home and with no garrulous wit nesses present. ' The state law applies there even if federal makes no inhi bition of use in the home. The inestimable boon of a guaranty against unreasonable search and seizure is in the constitution of the United States, but a safer one will be to drink softly, if it has a big stick in it, or not at all. BLUFFING TO THE END. Germany's game of bluff is at last played out and is shown up as what It is. The new government, lormea for the purpose of accepting the peace terms, makes an eleventh-hour appeal for withdrawal of certain conditions, then agrees to sign under protest, de claring that it acts under coercion, that the peace is a "peace of violence" and that Its terms cannot be fulfilled. The allies have fair notice If any thing German can be fair what to expect. Although Germany signs the treaty, that act will be meaningless. Germany will do nothing willingly to execute the contract,. on the contrary will place every obstacle of force and trickery In the way of its execution by the allies. Thus in the very act of signing Germany reduces the treaty to another scrap of paper, ending, as it began, the war In dishonor, yet all the while prating of Germany a honor. Consideration of a few elementary truths will demonstrate the absurdity of this denunciation of the peace as a peace by violence. Germany began the war in order to Impose a peace by violence on the allies. Violence is force, and by force the allies defeated this purpose and came into position to impose their terms on Germany. Necessarily, then. It is a peace by vio lence, for by no other means could the allies enforce their terms since no other means could compel Ger many to submit. The Huns sought a decision by force between world power and downfall. The decision was down fall, but they squeal. Apparently what they mean Is that the treaty does not accord with the principles of justice between nations which are defined by President Wil son's fourteen points. Having seen that the decision by force was going against them, they transferred the case to the court of justice and they, the criminals at the bar, demand that the court allow them to construe and apply the law. The allies properly refuse ancf insist that their construc tion of their own principles shall gov ern. The peace is in the main a peace of justice, but the conduct of Germany compels use of force to carry out the sentence. But the peace is not a peace of vio lence in a very real sense, or in the sense in which Germany, if victorious, would have dictated terms. In mak ing a peace of violence the victor is not restrained by any altruist prin ciples, but strips the vanquished bare. If the allies had made such a peace they would have done many things which they refrained from doing. They would have shown no scruples about giving the Rhine provinces to France, or all of East and West Prus sia, Posen and Upper Silesia to Poland, or all of Schleswig-Holstein to Den mark, or stripping German factories of machinery to replace that which. was destroyed or stolen In the invaded countries, or exacting an indemnity sufficient to pay at least part of the allies' war expenses in addition to reparation. When we compare what the allies have done with what they might have done we can conceive what President Wilson meant by that much-criticized phrase, "Peace with out victory." He meant a peace in dictating which the victor is guided by the principles which he has fought to establish, not by the power to take from the vanquished anything which he desires, or by vengeance. Though necessity has compelled some conces sions to expediency, the treaty on the whole establishes such a peace a peace which should endure, not one which contains the germ of another war. The conduct of the Germans proves them morally incapable of appreciat ing the moderation of the terms. It proves their every act, beginning with their peace overtures, to have been inspired by fraud. 'They made a show of establishing a constitutional monarchy under Chancellor Max, then pretended to accept the fourteen points. . When Mr. Wilson called that bluff and refused to accept anything but unconditional surrender if the military masters" remained in power, free rein was given to the socialists who demanded the kaiser's abdication, and by the advice of the military lead ers and the militarist politicians he abdicated. Within less than a month twenty-seven hereditary rulers abdi cated or were deposed without show of resistance. A nation like the Ger mans does riot thus suddenly re nounce monarchy, nor do rulers so willingly give up their thrones. The new government, though demo cratic in form, was under the guiding hand of such men as Hlndenburg, Bernstorff, Brockdorff-Rantzau and Scheidemann all miltarists and the Bolshevist revolts were suppressed by Prussian junkers and their .retainers. The hand of the militarists was shown in the resistance to occupation of Posen by the Poles and In the opera tions of the German forces in Livonia. When Admiral von Reuter sank the German ships at Scapa, Flow he cited the kaiser's orders as his authority and he hoisted the imperial flag. The points on which the Germans based their final protest weref their respon sibility for the war and the surrender of the kaiser. All of these facta re veal that militarism is still the ruling spirit and that autocracy Is not dead but sleeping, to be recalled to life at a convenient Juncture together with all the petty kings and princes. No relaxation of vigilance over such nation is permissible. It announces that it has yielded only to force, and force alone can hold it to its contract. The military supremacy of the allies must be preserved without question as the means to enforce observance of the treaty, and no faith must be placed in a German's word, written or spoken, until a complete change has come over the nation's view of the sanctity of treaties and over its attitude toward its neighbors. This is an added rea son for prompt ratification of the treaty by the United States and for establishment of the league of nations as an active force for maintenance of peace. The American people will not tolerate being left in a no man's land between peace and war while the sen ate talks, splits hairs and wrangles, The adventures of the aviators who went all around Robin Hood's barn to go from Pendleton . to . Walla Walla illustrate one of the disadvantages of flying. There are no landmarks, so that one cannot judge one's nearness to home by identifying Jones's wood shed or Smith's baldfaced cow In the pasture. There Is much sameness about the air, and there Is unlimited room to get lost. Heretofore the man who went from home to celebrate the Fourth was "a villain and a traitor to the state," but this year it's different for the Portland man. No particular place is recom mended. All are to be of the best. Britain may have to raise those Ger man ships in order to satisfy France and Italy, but might compromise by handing over the crews to France with the privilege of doing as it pleases with them. Relatives of a man charged with bigamy are trying to have his sanity tested. Any old cynic of many years' training in standing around will assert the facts are enough proof. Merely to revive an almost forgotten topic, suppose next time we have a parade of men in bathing suits. Old eggs may be cheap enough by that time to stimulate hilarity. If there be three Oregon boys who believe they are qualified for the naval academy, they can get the chance of entrance by applying at once to Sena tor McNary. . Perhaps Klamath Falls will be the dryest spot in Oregon, and perhaps the suitcase trade will be brisk down there for a few days. The Turks put as free construction on an armistice as the Germans, the rule being to violate it whenever they can get away with it- How would you like to be a French man and have something to celebrate after forty-nine years? Some "day," isn't it? e If 500 liquor cars recently came into Oregon in five days, as is rumored near the border, somebody was blink ing.. The way to beat the coffee specu lators is not to drink coffee, but the list of beverap-es grows sadly less. The general strike in Omaha is progressing in a startling way. The stenographers' union joins today. Despite the mystery of his arrival. the president of the Irish republic did not come over in the steerage. A Judge who reduces the verdict for plaintiff in a breach of promise case is a mean old thing." 'Come across, come across, with a dollar for the cause." Set that to music and pungle.- Absurd as it may sound, if Dietz should be proved white, he would also be proved yellow. If C. W. Post were alive he would be burning money, with coffee going to a dollar. Keep out of the river, "kids." pools will be open In a few days. The This year's fashionable tan can be acquired in the berry fields, '' Those Who Come and Go. N. J. Judah, who used to be in the newspaper business in Salem and As- ' toria, but who is now in the customs , BArvica at AfxtrtriA- was in town vester- 1 day. Once upon a time he was even police Judge In the capital city. "We have office records." erays Mr. Judah, "going 'way back to the '506, for the customs-house at Astoria was the first one established In the Pacific north west. In the early days a great amount of business came into the, Columbia from Russia and the Hawaiian Island. The Russian trade consisted almost ex clusively of furs, but In these days most of the furs came from Alaska. From the islands came tropical fruits. such as pineapples, sugar cane and the like." From the number of motoring parties that were assembled at the Multnomah yesterday it looked as though the Seat tie Auto club had moved Its heaaquar. ters to Portland. Among the arrivals were Edson Bigger, J. W. Townsend, Paul Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Brown, L. L. Mtddelkamp. Mra M. Mad dlfc, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Green, Mra. E. A. Green, Master John Green, Hiss Lillian Green, F. L. Green and daughter, Mr. and Mra R. L. Holmes, Rev. M. J. O'Cal laghan. Rev. M. P. O'Dwyer and Rev. James Dunne of Seattle and Rev. Michael Mackey of Tacoma, "A pint of liquor niaket an- Indian want to fight. An Indian can fight on less whisky than any other person,1 declares Price Recob of the Indian service, who has been down around the Klamath reservation of lata "The amount of liquor that has been seized and destroyed in Klamath in .the past year would float a yacht. A large amount of liquor has been run in and entire wagon loads have been cap tured." T a y Carter, northwest division exec. utive secretary of the war camp com munity service, leaves today for Seattle, having registered yesterday at the Hotel Portland. He organized a soldier and sailor club at Tacoma and super vised similar clubs in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and Aberdeen. Once upon a time Mr. Carter was a minister, but it didn't take. . The heaviest. Greeter in town is at the Hotel Oregon and he Is G. C. Del lenbach from Pittsburg, a town best known for its smoke, stogies and mil lionaivies who are wlUing to spend their money. Mr. Dellenbach looms up among his fellow delegates like the hill that is in the center of his dear Pittsburg. "It Is almost Impossible to get booked on the oriental liners, and 1 doubt if passage can be secured for several months," said Chat S. Caplinger, a Greeter from Seattle. "The passenger list for China, Japan, the Philippines and other points across the Pacific is cluttered with commercial men going after trade." "Two miles of paving have already been completed, and the section be tween Corvallis and the Polk county line will be finished in a few months, says Sam Elliott, the smoke angel of the college town. "Work is also un der way from Monroe toward Corvallis, and - this stretch, while it does not reach to Corvallis, will also be finished this year." Loaded down with .golf sticks, party of Otis elevator people landed at the Benson yesterday and lmme diately started looking for the link. The party consisted of F. C. Furlow of New York, George H. Bensom ot Toronto, G. B. Grosvenor of Chicago and S. W. Bowker of Chicago. To try to goax congress into match ing Oregon's $2.5O0.Oi0 for the Roose velt highway, Charles Hall, president of the state chamber of commerce; Ben F. Jones, secretary of the Roose velt Highway association, and Louis J. Simpson, president of the defense com mittee, are now on their, way to Wash ington. They departed Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Krebs, pioneers of Rockaway and Elmore Parle, on the Tillamook coast, are registered at the Hotel Oregon. They recently built the Hotel Elmore and have been in Port land buying a complete outfit of furni ture. They report that several new cottages are being erected at the beach resort. The police force at Klamath Falls is shot to pieces at present, for the chief of police and one of the patrol men are in Portland as witnesses be fore the federal grand jury. Chief H. S. Wilson and Patrolman J.' W. Hilton are registered at the Imperial. Stockmen at the Perkins yesterday, all of whom brought shipments enough to cause a reduction In the price of meat but which didn t were G. C, Jones of Mitchell, C. D. Buckman of Emmett, Idaho, antf R. wiggs of Mc Coy. L. V. Gentry piloted a shipment of stock from Heppner to Portland yester day eind then went to the Imperial. Be fore becoming one of the prominent stockmen of Morrow county he was in the barber business. Eastern representative of the Wil lamette Iron & Steel Works H. T. Hum pbrey arrived at the Benson yesterday trom Philadelphia tor a consultation at headquarters. LOT OF MARRIED FARM LABORER Worse Than That of Single Men Who Complain of Accommodations. HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 23. (To the Editor.) I have read with much inter est the letters in regard to single men's wages and conditions on the farm. Being a married man and a farm em ploye for 30 years I wish to write a few lines in behalf of the married man. The single man is getting from $70 to (85, with room and board. That is not" too much, with clothing and other essentials at such high prices. But Wow about the married man who has a family to keep on wages from $60 to (75 per month? On the average the most the farmer offers with above stated wages is a house, potatoes, and milk, when they have enough. The house proves in most cases to be a two-room shack boarded up and down with plenty of ventilation. One can see daylight through the cracks in the walls. Then the cow doesn't give as much milk as expected, so the tenant must buy canned milk or go without. Then there wasn't much of a yield of potatoes, so the tenant buys them rather than be told "it costs so -much to buy them and you folks eat an many again as we do." So really all that is furnished is the shack, which if in Portland would not rent for more than $5 per month, and furthermore the shack would not be built in a barnyard where one gets all the odor from hogs, chickens and cows. I am speaking of the fruit belts especially. A man must get up at 5! in the morning-, put in ten or more hours in the field or orchards (which is still harder), then do the chores, which will be about 8 o'clock when done. What privileges does he have? So way to go any plaoe, no time ex cept Sundays if one had a way. Tour employer has a fine car and goes as he likes. But if the tenant wishes to go some time they mak6 some excuse. I wish to ask how a married man with a family can live and clothe them selves on from $60 to $75. Ranchers want good steady men. Then let them pay wages so the working class can live, A MARRIED MAX, More Truth Than Poetry. By Jan, rs J. Montacne. EASY MONEY. Why worry along till you're bent and Cray At futile and needless toil When-the veriest hick can get rich ' quick On a flyer or two In oil? Tou don't need derricks, you don't need wells, A limitless greed will serve If it's just combined with a criminal mind And an utterly boundless nerve. Tou'll need a printer to print your stocks (They all of 'em look alike) And a glowing book by an able crook Describing your latest strike. Then peddle around some thrilling yarns Of wealth made over night. By way of bait, and sit and wait For the public to come and bite. McGouge had garnered a million, clean. The day that the market fell. He made his haul on Broad and Wall (He never had seen a well) Bilkem founded a national bank With his, but he's since resigned And was seen last week down in Mo zambique, With the sheriff a mile behind). Of course they may get you now and then (In fact, they are likely to). And you'll tell your tale at the court room rail To twelve good men and true. And long you will yield a twelve-pound sledge On rock that is hard to break. But that is a chance in the new finance That a crook must always take! e e News Indeed. Telephone Strike Imminent Head line. We had supposed, after trying to use the telephone now and then, that it bad been going since last summer! sea Teat, mt Least. ' The oil stock craze makes It appear that the statement that there's one born every minute is an amazing un derestimate. s e Too Coaaplewotta. Most pedestrians oppose the motor ist's Idea that they ought to wear bells on the ground that it would only make It easier for the motorists to find them. copyri;ht, 1919. by Bell Syndlcste, Inc.) Gleanings From State Press. Dont We Have te Have a Goatf Bandon Western World. And now If some kind government will raise the "consumer's pay" life will be one grand sweet jingle. Hearsay News Unreliable. Eugene Guard. As the chief medium through which the public ts Informed of the events that take place In its midst, the news paper expects and has a right to de mand a chance to obtain an unbiased and truthful report on all matters that concern the public in general. Attempts to exclude the press from meetings of public interest and efforts to surpress news which affects the community at large often result in the spreading of incorrect and harmful Impressions. Ab solutely reliable reports of any event of importance cannot be made unless a representative of the press is on hand to gather the facts himself. The Call ef the Stomach. Scio Tribune. Perry Bilyeu, who escapes from home control two or three times a year, was in town yesterday. His wife told him he'd have to- go to mill or do without bread. Perry says crops look well out his way, near Crabtree. Hitched for Life. Roseburg News. Advice to June brides: Makehim take you on a wedding trip. It may be the last one you 11 ever take. Grasshopper- Jam. Weston Loader. William Warfield killed literally mil lions of young grasshoppers after they had taken five acres of crop at h!s place in the uplands. He adopted the simple device of rolling them at dusk with a heavy log roller, after they had gone to what a grasshopper fondly im agines is his bed. , Rich and Indifferent. Baker Democrat. Plenty of roses this year for Port land's rose show, but It seems that the dollars were scarce and that the com mittees having it in charge were handi capped for funds. All of which shows that Portland people are making so much money they do not want to be bothered with rose shows or any thing else. The Moat Valued Pubacriber. Woodburn Independent. J. B. Hunt was over, from Broad acres Friday and renewed his subscrip tion to this paper. He was the first subscriber to the Independent when it was started by L. H. McMabon over 30 years ago. Know Yost Spouse. Scio Tribune. The law should prohibit a marriage without at least one year of acquaint ance, and the couple should be rigidly questioned about knowledge of tne Ha bits, temperament, etc., of each other. It Is far better to submit to such ex amination privately before marriage than -in the divorce court publicly after marriage. . . We Ought to Be Snrc Woodburn Independent Salem slipped one over on Portland when the adjutant-general's office was moved to the former city from tne metropolis. "I'M LONESOME FOB MY KHAKI UNIFORM." Sometimes I find my thoughts go drifting backward To memories of the days that used to be; I see again the sturdy boys In khaki In training for their battles 'oer the sea: The hoarse commands, the tramp of feet are mingled With bugle calls and military airs: I wish that I was baek again In train ing. Away from civil life and all Its cares. I wish that I was back with Uncle Samniy; Back in the ranks with all Its joy and strife: I'd rather- do a guard or stand inspec tion. Than work for any boss In civil life. I'd love to hear the cook call, "Come and ret it." I'd gladly drill In sunshine or in storm If I could only work for Lncie Sammy. I'm lonesome for my khaki uniform. The boys I used to march beside are scattered . Through out the north and south, the east and west; While many Of the lads I knew are lying Neath poppies In a foreign land at rest The world has learned a lesson by their striving; They've cleared a way for freedom and . the right. The sturdy lads that wore the honored khaki. The boys that stuck until they won the fight GEORGE R. WHITE. ISt Glisan street In Other Days. Tweaty-flve Years Are. From The Morning Oregonlan. June 2.1, IIP 4. Lyons, France. President Carnot was assaaeinated last evening by an Italian anarchist. The assassin sprang on the step of the landau in which the president was passing through the cheering multitude welcoming him to the city and fatally stabbeat the ex ecu tive. The Kig transfer boat Tacoma was yesterday replaced on its run between Kalama and Goble for the first time ince interruption of traffic by the flooda Joseph Day returned to Portland yes terday after having been for 13 month employed by the Pinkertons and served at the World's fair, Chicago, last year. The Salem flouring mills have started again on a big order for flour from China. Fifty Years Asa. From The Morning Oregontsn. June TS. istll. Schedule for tourist travel to the Pa cific coast, coming via California and returning via Idaho and Salt Lake City, allowed ten days for the trip to Omaha. The steamer Geo. S. Wright arrived yesterday morning, having brought coal to Astoria and mixed cargo to Fort land from Victoria. Seth Luelllng of Milwaukle shipped by the steamer Pacific a box of cher ries to be sent from San Francisco by the railroad to New York as an experi mental shipment. Virginia City. Nev. Shipments of bullion for the last six days amounted to $57,401.38. A Wonderful Thing. Br Grace E. nail, ' He loves mel Ah, the wonder of the thing! I see it in his eyes, his every act. It vibrates in the songs he loves to sing E'en bitter skeptic could not doubt the fact; His swift embrace perhaps a bit un couth Impassioned kisses that I shun in vain. His ardor, due no doubt to foolish youth. All serve as index to his higher strain. No other ever loved with greater fire He hangs upon r.iy words like oate entranced, Xo aspiration shows save one desire That he within my favor be en hanced . He loves me! Ah, the wonder of tea thought! (Though truly I know not when ha was "smitten"). But since to me devotion he has brought. An ingrate I to spurn that Persian kitten! LAA'D WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE. (The following poem, written by the late Col. John H Cradlebaugh of Salem, Is republished by request pf numerous pioneers. The poem was read at the 1911 annual meeting of the Pioneers' association and was recited by Mr. Du- fur at the annual meeting this year): They come of brave and hardy stock. Those Oregon pioneers. Their sires had braved the wilderness. The van of the wild frontiers, From where the fierce Atlantic waves Lashed the wooded coast of Maine, To where Missouri's yellow flood Poured, out of an unknown plain. .' Crusaders they, of the modern days. Who came 'with the ax and plow Their flags, the wagon's canvas tops. And "to win," their only vow. Dreamers and "seers," who, dreaming saw, And seeing, they dared to do . Turning their faces toward the west. And the land where dreams come true. Dreamers they were, those pioneers Of the "forties," three and four. Who braved the unknown of the plains in search of an untried shore. Brave of soul were the women folks, And the bearded men were strong; They counted not the trail was rough. Nor cared that the way was long. Week after week, month after month. Steadily, surely, but slow, They pressed on till they reached the stream Where the waters westward flow. And they could see the mountains where Night drew her curtain. of blue, Beyond which lay the land they sought. The land where the dreams come true. And from the lofty mountain tops The valley was wondrous fair. For billowed plains Of dimpling grars And winding streamlets were there. Land where the red man wandered free. Nor civilization trod; Rich as the fields of Eden were When fresh from the hand of God; An emerald world, a turquoise sky, , A hundred amethyst streams. Crown jewel of the continent. The land they had seen in dreams. Worth all the toil they had endured The hardships they had struggled through; Land of the elves and fairies' homes. And the land where dreams corns true. It was a dream, a vision fair, To the weary pioneer; A dream come true to you and me In the lapse of seventy years; Billowing fields of waving grain To set the jewels in gold; Miles upon miles of orchard bloom In place of forests old; The busy mart, the whirring wheels. And the things that man has made; Churches and schools and pleasant homes. The gift of the "Unafraid" Gift of the women, strong of soul. Of the men who dared to do Who dreaming, saw, and showed the way To the land where dreams come true. HOME-MADE COFFEE SUBSTITUTE High Coat of Beverage May Be Beaten With Parrked Rice. PORTLAND, June 24. (To the Edi tor.) Since the coffee crop this year Is short, and the price of coffee has taken wings, a satisfactory substitute may not be amiss. The writer has found a substitute that out-rivals coffee in flavor, simplicity and cost, minus the injurious effects of coffee. He has also demonstrated, by per sonal experience, that coffee is a deadly poison; that It acts directly upon the , nervous system, and will wreck a sensi tive nervous system In a short time. Coffee-drinking is the cause of most of the headaches and nervousness of women. So to discharge his obligation to his fellowman the writer submits this sub stitute to the public: ' Take rice and parch It nicely brown, grind it, and boll it welL A lump of butter added while boiling improves ths flavor. The flavor Is almost Identical with coffee except that it is richer and more delicious. It is far ahead of postum. The grounds also are edible, making fine deKsert or pudding, so there is nothing wasted. MELViLUS fliNBUSIOfl.