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THE MORXTXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, JTJXE 26, 1919. 10 KsTABLHHE BY HE5BT U PITTOtK- Fubllshed by The oregonlaa Publishing Co 1 .J sixth street. orii.na. uttjuu. C. A MOROKV. E. H- PIPER. Manager, editor. The Oregonlan hi member of the Ao- rlaled Press. The Associated rrm is l. uatv.lv anllflMl to tho UM for publica tion or all ns dtspsfebes credited to It or net otnerwiM credited in tnta paper, wiu a,? the local new. nubllahed herein. All rif.v.s of republication oi special dispatch herein are also reserved. 4. .A A no 3. l.tNl .... s.;a .... S.M subscription rati Invariably In advance; fBr Mau i Ee!?y. Funds? rnclud.d. one rear. Pally. Sunday Included, six montba. . . Iai!y. Fundav included, three montha. I'aily. Sunday Included, one month.-.. Daily, without 8unday. one year. . . .. . Iaily. without Sunday, alx months.... ftairr, without Sunday. -ins aoaii.... "U'evkly. one year Sunday, one year. .............--. Sunday and weekly (By earner.) Tally. 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President Wilson will follow his participation In the signing of the peace treaty with an appeal to the American people on behalf of its rati fication, which will prove one of the most momentous event in American history. He will appear as the cham Dion of the league of nations covenant. which Is Included in the treaty ana is so woven into It that separation of ' the two is well nigh impossible. At . ? best, separation of the covenant from C the peace terms would involve waste ' of a large part of the work that has : been done at Paris, wholesale revision - of the treaty, and serious delay in full I' restoration of peace. C The president will therefore have " the great advantage of a predlsposi ? tion in the public mind to approve the - results of seven months' labor on the part of all the allied statesmen. The peoplo want complete restoration of peace conditions as early as possible, and they will not receive with patience ) anyopposition that is not founded on j very grave oojecuuiiD iu mj viv.c.,i.. Probably nine-tenths of the people favor a league of nations, and are in clined to consider favorably the first concrete scheme of the kind which has ever been offered to them. Thus the president will have everything In liia favor when he makes his tour of ine country. no uoo oumu-uiu .-,.. ity and felicity of expression in so lay ing his case before his audience as to win its svmoathy and capture its heart, though its reason may be un convinced. On this occasion he is In a strong position to win both the " heart and the head. The necessity of making such -a tour Is a reflection on the president, for it arises from errors on his part. Uis . partisan appeal for election of a dera ocratic congress at a time when he had said politics was adjourned pro voked equal partisanship among re publicans and inclined them to view with a a-r-ltlf-Ai nnrti-utn evs acts of his which they might otherwise have ap proved. Knowing that ratification by the senate was required, he ostenta tiously neglected to consult and openly flouted that body. By this course he put the senate in tho frame of mind to seek faults in his work, to be used as cause for its rejection or for de Ktructive amendments. He has dis played utter Incapacity to bring about V. -.. nnllnn nf nlhn- vninrla With FllK " own In free discussion which Is essen tial to agreement among men of strong intellect and character, and which he termed "open counsel." If he had not reconvened politics and if he had made the senate a party to the negotiations as McKlnley did. he could almost certainly have brought home a treaty ' that would have been acceptable to two-thirds of the senate. Then there would have been no occasion for a ..,,-,, Iha vlprla P"i"a -. i u u While the president is responsible for the prevailing antagonism in the senate, the senators who oppose him are equally culpable for permitting their outraged feelings to overcome their sense of duty or to sway their Judgment as to what the national in terests demand. They are as parti san as he, and by engaging In a po litical controversy with him in a mat ter wherein both he and they should rise above party they Incline the people all the more to forget the political aspects of the case and to form their conclusions on the merits of the covenant. There the president has everything on his side. Added to the prestige of a long series of politi cal victories, he has that of a most arduous achievement at the peace con ference, and the strong public sent! ment in favor of the league. Possibly the president counted on these influ ences to whip the senate into line and npaferrad aimciuui in anitai of the senate to success with Its co-operation, for this would be more of a personal triumph. He has shown wonderful facility at reading the trend of public opinion and at setting his course to catch its favoring currents. He may reckon on the strong current in favor of the league to sweep away opposi tion, winning acclamation wherever he speaks and making his tour a tri umphal progress. Then he would divide honors with no man or set of men. By choosing this exclusively per sonal triumph at the risk of the im mense interest at stake the president falls far short of the measure of greatness which he might have at tained. He risks the restoration of present peace and the security of fu ture peace for the whole world on the result of a political campaign wherein he would win prestige. He will doubt less win his fight for the league, us he should, regardless of the effect on his personal fortunes, and he will win fUeting glory, but It will be at the cost of a blemish on his enduring fame. soldier is relatively more In the public eye. but when the extent of the civilian need. Is understood it ought not to be difficult to make provision for similar rehabilitation of all Injured men. whether their Injuries were received in the course of their daily labor or on the field. A IW STAR IV THE IXAG. Tha Ore son Voter is agitated because the Prlneville commercial club, as a punishment to' Marlon county for votinc down -the en tire reconstruction measures of the state, suggests that the stste capital be moved to Portland. Edltorv Chapman sees In it a calamity which would divide the state even more than It is today. Eastern Oregon does not much rare where the capital of the state la located, for there la some talk of Just forgetting the entire kit and kapoodle on the west side of the mountain and form ing a new stste esst of the Cascades. Then what? Bend Preea. An interesting and fruitful subject. to be sure. We are mildly curious as to how the new state would settle the question of the capital. The long bat tle over the capital of the territory of Oregon is a painful memory, as it was controversy of profound and lasting bitterness. The seat of government was shifted around from one' place to another and apparently was moving toward both Eugene and Corvallis be fore it finally landed at Salem, there to stay unless the people now make a belated decision to do something else. If a new state is to be created east of the Cascade mountains, it will com prise two-thirds of the present terri tory of Oregon, with a third of the population. It is enough, both of peo ple and of area, to start a state on. But if The Oregonian were to be asked where the new capital should be it would have a hard time to answer. What is the Idea at Bend? Is there any place ' in eastern Oregon con venient of access from all sections? Should it be a railroad center? If so, what center? Or should it be located in the heart of the vast domain?? If so. It would be at some approximate point between Canyon City and Prine- vtlle. A lovely .oasis could be built there in the desert, at once the pride and glory of the new state, worth travel- ng a long way to see. People would. of course, have to travel a long way to see it, by automobile, or on horse back, or afoot. New states have often been created out of old states in the newspapers. Only one, we believe, was ever actually so organized. The controversies, legal. political and other, which arose over the separation of West Virginia from Virginia, in the '60s, are yet but barely concluded. If a new state isj to be made out oi eastern Oregon just how would our Bend neighbor go about it? baseball. Perusal of the current lit-1 doctor our eyes, that we may no longer erary output hardly justifies the state- see ships and docks where they can- rrient that they are now doing this. It not possibly be. But vwe must go would seem that the thing needed is a farther, and correct Portland's status committee to increase the production as a city. If what Tacoma says be of interesting books and to -improve true, Portland is not a port, but an literary standards. Ty Cobb won his I inland city, and its relation to other place in the news by devoting himself cities should be adjusted to that fact. to perfecting his fielding capacity and I .Railroad rates from the Columbia his ability to make the willow count. I river basin to Portland, Tacoma and The literary equal of Ty Cobb is not Seattle have been made equal on the likely to need a press agent to make I assumption that all are ports, . com- him news. WHAT IS A DAY'S WORK? The ideal of the American Federa tion of Labor is now a 44-hour week which, being apportioned among six working days, means eight hours each for Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and four hours on Saturday. One-half of Saturday and all of Sunday are thus left for rest, reflection, entertainment, recre atlon and worship, or either or all of them. - - . Some day, it is intimated, there will be a six-hour day for the. American workman, and he will have e,ven more time for rest and all the other things that go with his hours of leisure. The Idea behind the six-hour day is that there is now too little work and there peting for the traffic between the Interior and the outer world. If Port land is not a port, the cause for this equality, disappears. Then the rates to Puget sound have nothing to do with the rates to Portland, and should not be considered in connection with them. It, according to the Tacoma theory, Portland is an-inland city, its rates should be fixed by distance and-cost of -transportation. As Astoria makes the same allegation as Tacoma as to Portland's channelless and dockless plight, that city can have no objection to the suggested arrangement. Adjust ment of rates would then be greatly simplified a mere matter of measur ing miles and calculating cost of trans portation. A bright high school boy could do it. But, of course, if after this adjust Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. Those Who Come and Go. Svery cloud has its lining. The soar ing price of shoes is proving an effect ive silencer of the activities of the "Liquor Is becoming scarce In San Francisco," says a Portland man who has just returned. . "Prices are going up and the dealers are clearing out their stock as fast as posamie, tor tney In Other Day. time-honored idiot who threw old shoes haye n) expectatl0n o( the president's after the "happy couple. r a a a Talk about being a staunch and per severing advocate of liberty! Just read of .an actress who is following her hus band into the heart of Africa to ob tain her final decree of divorce. a a a Could you say that the greatest hero of the late war, Mr. York of Tennessee, had met his match when he married t'other day? Walter Began is playing Juvenile roles at the Albee theater In Provl- holding up the prohibition wave due for July 1. People who are in position to do so are laying in supplies for the future and It is surprising the num ber of Portland residents who have bought many cases and have stored them with friends so that there will be refreshments available when they visit the south hereafter." For 100 days there has not been a drop of rain in my section," reports S. C. Dodson of Clem. Or. "At thai, however, the grain looks fairly good. Clem is in Gilliam county and Condon is our trading point. We will be near the John Day highway when it is built. dence, K. I. Walter used to be a Baker One route proposed brings it through nAn. wttm m o A a arnmA a ah a:i i n fQ n. ! 1 imK-n.rj!erS tDd iVHifJ!? tain should occasionally bring his ves- unemployment abolished and an ap proximate Utopia realised MriM k. A 1..... t--. u , the' United Su7es."w,ih "aUthe re of J ?L "VL V?.l sel to Portland and should load a phantom cargo at a phantom dock. Tacoma would have nothing to say. the world performing its labors in the same old way? The hours in Japan, for example, are regulated by the sun tncmsei ve. auu iiul ujr tut t:itn.& 11 la uui mc modern way, nor the civilized way, as America sees it, but it is the Japanese way. For example, here is a signifi cant paragraph from .an article by Mr. W. D. Wheelwright, Just returned from the orient: A Calcutta merchant said to me: "The Japanese uy our cotton, freight it to Japan, make It into a better article of cloth than we can produce and undersell us, Man achieves his best material des tiny through the sweat of his face Let us not say that six hours are not that it cannot be .done, therefore it would not be done, and the deluded Portland people would only be fooling There will be regret, both on esthetic and economic grounds, if the oppo nents to continuation of yeowomen in the navy" prevail in the naval affairs committee of the house, where they have concentrated their fight. There are 8000 of these young women -in the service, and it is conceded that they have done their work well. They do all the clerical work that men can do and do it capably, according to the ft-ii af nf tha. hiiraan nf nflvi o-n f i nn who enousn. cut win u oe enougn in a OUght to know, and who urges that world of facts and not of desires, with Japan and its ten-lfour and twelve hour day and Germany with the same, and Great Britain and France nearly the same? ONE THTXO AT A TIME. Objectiors have been raised to the Lane land reclamation bill from sev eral points of view, from none of when they are gone. they be kept on duty for at least another year. The mystery is where the opposition originates. One would suppose that the men of the navy would yearn for active duty and be glad to turn the land jobs over to their sisters. The yeowomen at the ..same time have given a picturesque variety to the service which we shall miss With so many The progress made by army sur geons in returning wounded men to duty will do something toward atoning for war's suffering if. as has been sug gested by a colonel in the medical corps, the lesson is learned in civil life. The annual number of industrial casualties is about SO. 000. which, is nearly as many as were caused by war. and 1000 of these became permanent charges on society, while a large num ber were made dependent In consider aWe degree. Until the reconstruction hospitals war organised in connec tion with the European war no syste matic effort bad been made to train convalescents, but the success of the new movement plainly points to its usefulness In Industrial cases. Devel opment is delayed by the fact that tha WINNIPEG 1.EARNS ITS LESSON. No sooner did the Canadian govern ment begin to deal firmly with the Winnipeg strike than it broke down. It needed only the arrest of the alien agitators, the calling out of troops, the dispersal of a strikers parade and the proclamation of martial law to depose the men who had usurped the govern ment of the city. Toleration of the condition which has prevailed at Winnipeg for so long a peripd as six weeks is cause for sur prise, especially as Canada prides It self on devotion to British law and order. The authorities of Winnipeg lacked the quick perception of the meaning of the strike which Mayor Hanson of Seattle displayed in a simi lar crisis, or they lacked his prompt ness and courage in coping with it. They seem to have gone to the British extreme of respecting every man's right to do or say what he pleases without regard to the effect of the same things done by masses of men. The experience of Winnipeg, as of Seattle, proves that a general or sym pathetic strike so completely paralyzes every activity of a community and in flicts such hardship on persons who have not the remotest connection with the original dispute that it is in fact a rebellion, setting up a rival to the established government. Sympathy with men on strike is no good reason why others should strike. There is no more reason for such a strike than for a man to suspend work because he thinks a friend has been unjustly worsted in a lawsuit. It does not arouse sympathy, but -provokes an tipathy to the strikers among all who suffer loss or inconvenience, and only a species of terrorism can hold sym pathetic strikers in line. The Winnipeg uprising was so plainly an attempt to wrest control of the city from the lawful authorities that the original cause has almost been forgotten. It is alleged to have been a demand for collective bargain ing. but that is a mere pretext, for few employers oppose that custom. It seems to have been rather to enforce collective bargaining on behalf of all workmen with all employers by the "one big union." alias the I. W. W., which prides itself on not making binding agreements and on breaking up separate unions. The result would have been a species of tyrannical oligarchy akin to a Russian soviet. Certainly Canada would not go to Russia for Instruction in the art of government, and it will do well to de port the followers of Lenine. BOOKS AS NEWS. The Authors' League of America having received the report of a com mittee which recommends that the league take steps to obtain greater newspaper publicity for boks. mag azines and writers, the reading public will watch with interest to see bow it is done. It has been supposed by some that the book itself is its own press agent, but the authors apparently do not agree with this.. They wish to win for literature a place in the news by the side of baseball, for illustration. Ellis Parker Butler, chairman of the committee, says that "at the present time baseball receives more mention than the literary product of America, and the sudden death of eighty-six of the foremost American writers would receive less attention than the loss of one of Ty Cobb's little fingers." Hyperbole is an aVcepted literary figure of speech, so we are able to grasp the truth that Mr. Butler "puts over" in extravagant phrase. In sub stance, he means that more people like to read news about baseball than turn to the book review page. It amounts to precisely that, for the news editors are in the main good Judges of what their public demands. But the negative is not news. Base ball, to mention only one of the many activities that receive more space than books, has succeeded in claiming pop. ular attention. When as many people read books as go to ball games, the author will no more need a press agent than Ty Cobb does. The committee recommends "the appointment of a committee to develop an increased in terest in literature and improve lit erary criticism." But the first duty lies with the writ ers themselves. They must first giv the public something as gripping asf which have thev murh merit. The things for men and women to do. It scheme was first proposed as a means would seem that places could be found of giving employment to discharged tor tne gins wno nave proved mem soldiers and at the same time of mak- selves so capable ing productive large areas of rich, wasteland. It naturally followed that Far back in 1842, seventy-seven soldiers should be given preference I years ago, there was a man in Forest for purchase of the land, and that the Grove whoso name snouid De pre practice of the sural credit law should served. He set out a cherry tree that be applie3 to them. I this year produced more than fifty Representative Morcan of Oklahoma I dollars' worth of fruit sold to a can objects that this plan would provide nery and a hundred pounds given homes for soldiers who live on farms away. It was a little thing to do, just but not for those who live in the city, I planting a tree, but consider the good and proposes that the government lend that has resulted lor nearly tnree 14000 to any soldier for purchase of a I fourths of a century. homestead, either on a farm or In a city. That Is an entirely distinct prop- That is an eminently wise bill of osition and constitutes no valid reason Representative May's, providing for for rejecting the reclamation scheme, removal to the west of several bureaus The latter Is good policy in itself, for of the interior department which deal nobody will deny that it is a good with western affairs. Aside from the thing to make waste land productive I economy and convenience of proxim, or to. sell farms to soldiers who wish ity to the land which they administer, to farm. Nor will anybody deny that the move will clear many bureaucratic it is"i good thing for soldiers living in cobwebs from the brains of the or cities to own their homes. But that ficials. should be taken up separately, and failure to-include both in one bill is I Lumbermen who specialize in cut no argument against it. ting spruce are getting the benefit of A strange argument against the bill the advertising given this wood when is made by a granger who does not the government was cutting it for air- appear to speak for the grange He planes. Liberal orders come from the says that the government should not east, but spruce men should not be reclaim sucn great areas ot land be- content until they have brought the cause it will stimulate competition airplane industry to the source of sup with the farmers. He makes this piy by building planes on the Pacific statement at a time wnen tne wnole coast. world is looking to America for food, when Russia, which normally pro duces a surplus, is starving and crying! for American food, when Koumania, usually a wheat exporter, has not enough for seed. Even In ordinary times the world never produces tool player. Baker Moore, who played juveniles at the Baker five years ago, is playing In Milwaukee in stock. a a Still another Baker player of a few years ago, Eileen Wilson, who later was married to William Powell, has been engaged to play, the Ina Claire role in a revival of "Folly With a Past," -to be nresented in Washington, X. C. Also In the cast Is Mary Newcombe Edeson (the new Mrs. Robert Edeson). A' symposium has started in .Phila delphia to discover - from statistics which makes the better wife, a college girl or a chorus girl. Henry Coate at I nezt year. the Alcazar, asked to express his opin ion, said "Both," but Oscar Figman off set It with his verdict, "Neither, nei ther." Clem, although I suppose they won't locate It there." Mr. Dodson drove down In a machine and says he does not like the hill road between The Dalles and Mosler. nor the route from Mosier to Hood River. He is on his way to the Willamette valley, which is his old illihee. C. M. Thomas, of Medford, arrived at the Imperial yesterday on a. busi ness trip. Mr. Thomas, in his official capacity, Is state senator for JacKson county and he is a republican, although the county is more or less democratic. Incidentally, it was bruited around during the recent session of tne leg islature that Mr. Thomas has his eye on the nomination for representative of the first congressional district and may take a flier at it in the primaries Twenty-fire; Year Ago. Prom Tha Mornlns Orrsonlan, June 26, 1S84 Washington. President Cleveland commended the patriotism of New Tork bankers who offered to replace from their vaults the gold withdrawn from the United States treasury for shipment abroad. Chicago. At noon the American Rail way union will begin its strike against the Pullman Palace Car company. Settlers In Polk county are annoyed by bears destroying hogs. The Milton strawberry crop will net $25,000 according to estimates by the growers. One man who will bet on Wlllard is E. F. McDaniel, of Salt Lake, who is registered at the Multnomah. Mr. Mc Daniel is going to' attend the Willard Dempsey contest. "I never bet on a Florence Moore is to star also, her I fight in my life except once," explains first season at it. Heretofore she has tne man irom man. "Tnat was wnen been featured, but never starred. Her M a straignt tip to oet on lJempsey. . IT rilrl aH want Aiit tn a Vi i m rlo-ht play is "Breakfast In Bed, a farce but -. jugt jn t,me t 8ee Jim' comedy which Willard Mack and Hil- Deina; carried out of the ring, walloped Hard Booth wrote. to a frazzle." r..,.Ui,. tw ho. received an in- unere is still plenty oi nig gamo in .. I Drfnn if nna want in Inn lr fnr it. vitation to be one of a party who will nr.ham h .rHv.rt t tha be guests of Enid Markey for a month Multnomah yesterday from his home in the White Mountain? In New Hamp- at Nehalem, says that last week, while shire. Miss Markey has a summer over near Saddleback mountain, he lodge and will go there for a vacation came on a herd of 14 elk. all nice and following the close of her season Jn t?j"f'! man. It was the largest herd that Mr. Graham has seen in years. "Up In Mabel's Room." She and Miss Dare have been good friends for sev eral years, first becoming acquainted when they appeared in .pictures to gether In Lob Angeles. Miss Markey When pictures of the Columbia river highway were shown at Boston last year the eastern delegates to the I Fifty Tears Ace. From The Mornlnf Oraronten, June SS, 19QD. The Carrie recently made the trip between Pumphrey'a Landing and Mon ticello, 25 miles, in two hours, being the quickest time yet made on that route. Columbus, O. Governor Rutherford B. Hayes was renominated for gov ernor by the republican state conven tion. John Sherman was chairman. Oregon City. The Indians are hav ing a "medicine dance" on one of the islands above town. '. Salem. Governor Woods has accept ed The Dalles military road, running from Dalles City via Canyon t,... , :nake river, near Boise. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montaajue. The American people have good cause to welcome resident-eiect Pessoa of Brazil, for the great southern republic was first to follow the lead of the United States by declaring war nn flormnnv has always seconded the much food, and products of the soil efforts of this country for pan aro so varied that land can be turned American peaxe and has extended a to n crop of which there is a shortage. most hospUaDle welcome to visiting auiy nave iouna GLijer worn ion fore operations under tho reclamation bill can begin, it will still do good The greatest act of self-abnegation liivlner Y, a lua i is PrAmipp PlPtTlPri. !efV,le ;u?Z1S"J the ,aes;esate ceau's neglect of the opportunity to wealth and the world's supply of food. There cannot be an over-supply of that so long as anybody is hungry, and millions are hungry these days, stage a dramatic scene of triumph in the hall where Kaiser William I was proclaimed. But his chance may come when William II is brought to trial, STARTLING TRCTHS FBOM TACOMA. The more congress pokes into that The people of Portland must go from Georgia rifle range, the louder it home to learn the sai truth that they smells. It was the last chance of the have no port at all. Seeing ships oft Bourbons to grab a piece of pork be 8000 to 10,000 tons come up the Wil lamette river, they have fondly imag ined that these ships came by water and were not brought overland on rollers. Worse still, we who have seen many steamers come in and go out fore they lost control of congress. Snell of New Tork has a bill to make the third Sunday in June "Father's day," but father is pretty well satisfied with any Sunday when heavily loaded and who have inferred I company does not come. tnat tney must nave unloaded or loaded their cargoes at some dock The traditional Boniface is always labor under a delusion, for there are round and fat. but some greeters are no adequate docRa or oertns for any long and thin. Still they are all genial and smiling. good cheer. All are disseminators of are mistaken; the capacity for sur prise at German treachery is exhausted. There may be a cat up at Hood River that catches crawfish, but the cat's antipathy to water will prevent an excess of that kind of fishing- Having selected a powerful fleet for the Pacific, the government must now find bases where it can repair and take fuel and supplies. such number of ships. Such must be the melancholy facts, for Tacoma alleges them through its commercial ciud. cnamDer or com- rri, ,.,,,, .av th.v hai' more merce, port commission and city coun- LrT,rispa in store for the allies. They 1 11- . c am, ci UCCU UllWCU 111,' I'nited States engineers Into the belief that there is a bopad. deep channel across the bar, and by the port com mission into confidence that the river channel is of ample depth for any vessel plying the Pacific and by the dock commission into the belief that It has been building docks and an elevator. The companies which oper ate steamships in and out of Portland and the people who saw the cruiser Minneapolis in Portland Tiarbor during the Rose Festival and the battleship Oregon during the victory loan drive. may doubt that any responsible per son would make such allegations, but here they are, as taken from the peti tion in intervention by the Tacoma public bodies in the Columbia basin rate case: Referring- to the complaint of complain ants herein, and particularly paragraph 9 thereof, these Interveners deny that there now. and long has been at all seasons of the year, wster of ample depth from the river channela of Portland to the ocean to permit the economical, efficient and ex pedltioua operation of deep draft ocean carriers, and deny that Portland harbor has ample existing berthing and docking facili ties for shipping of all kinds, and allege that If the complainants should bo granted differential in rates, so as to divert the shipping now passingbetween the so-called I Columbia river basin and the Puget Sound I Those squarehead Prussians believe they are putting something over the allies, and perhaps they are: but for a little while only. No doubt the Hun has more tricks up-his sleeve. The allies do not know the Hun, but will learn at the inquest of Germany. leit tne pictures aoout tne same, time Qreeters' convention were perfectly Miss Dare did a year ago, and went wiHing to vote for Portland as the at once to New York. She played last I convention city this year," said C. t . season In "Up in Mabel's Room" and Johnson of Boston, who is at the Mult- will open in Chicago this fall In the same play. Miss Dare, who has been playing second buslnes as well as in genue roles with the Baker stock, will close her season next wek in Merely Mary Ann," when everybody at the Baker goes on a vacation. She plans to Join Miss Markey for the month of August nomah. "The beautiful pictures of the highway are the finest kind of an ad vertisement which Oregon can offer as an inducement for tourist travel. "The road is filled with constables and sheriffs," declares J. Cummings at the Hotel Oregon, who has come over the Pacific highway from the Califor nia line. "The officers are exceedingly active in holding up machines and searching to see if liquor is being smuggled Into the state.' The man who v.on era. IttMnvl. n.l.U a hrx.tla na n aon wiM iiitiueiiaia, uao I consider himself lucky." Ruth Gates, who has -been 'ill in Lon- is now appearing at the Savoy in "Business Before Pleasure.' a , See where an actress has discovered that she has been divorced for 17 years and didn't know it. Guess she didn't miss her hubby much. Speaking of weddings, I just heard of a grouch who said that all these June steppings-off make him tired de claring that he long ago quit- attend ing weddings, and adds'that it he had missed his own wedding he'd be that much better off. Marjofie Rambeau is to star on tour next season in a new play called "The Unknown Woman," written by Marjone Blaine and Stanley Lewis. Her hus band. Hueh Dlllman, who is Willard Mack's successor, will - be Miss Ram- beau's leading man. In her company ill be Charles Dalton, who played characters three seasons ago with the Baker stock. "I left a strike of 500 people unset tled to come to see Portland and Seat tle," confessed Ben P. Branham, pub lisher of the Hotel Bulletin of Chicago, who is at the Multnomah. "I had seen all the cities of consequence In the United States with the exception of Portland and Seattle, and when the time came to leave for the Greeters' convention and the strike in my place was still on I decided I would head for the west, and I did." "Stockmen have been dropping a lot of money lately because the market has gone down." says J. M. East of Ogden, Utah. "There has been quite a slump, although the consumers may not have discovered It." Mr. EaBt re ports that in Montana conditions are far from favorable, owing to the dry- weather, and there will be a short crop. Mr.' and Mrs. R. S. Davidson, of St. Paul, Or., are at the Hotel Oregon. The Davidsons belong to a pioneer family wnicn settled on French Prairie a great many years ago, along with the Cole mans, Kirks, Murphys, Gearins and other old-timers. Mr. and Mrs. Ed R. Greener, of Pine. are at the Imperial for a few days. The town was established half a cen tury ago and has about 200 people In it today. It received its name from D. C, in stock the rest I Pine creek, which flows through Pine vaiiey. in Rita Romilly, who was one of the lengthy Mne of Luanas to visit us in "The Bird of Paradise," and if rposslble the worst of the lot, is to play Washington of the summer, . . .,a a a Schell, who has the contract Carlotta Monterey has been engaged for naVine- a. aer-tinn e h. t)o.,i for next season for a new play by highway from Grants Pass, south, is Cosmos Hamilton. In her supporting in the city. Mr. Schell has a full crew cast will be Marie Curtis, who was and is pushing the work as rapidly second woman at the Alcazar stock last season. a a France may have plenty of theatri cal talent, but Raymond iiitcncocK says the best he could find came from the U. S. A. The comedian made this as possible. His contract will keep him busy all summer. Dot, Wash., is Just that on the man Ellis Mellinger, of Dot, is registered at the Imprial. The place, which is a postoffice. near Wood Creek, in Klickitat county, is 1 miles north- f T I 1 . , - , . .. -i,r.tion when he arrived the other wnicn isn i mucn wiser. day In lvewiora irom m- Mr. HitChCOCK saia mat, no iia-u ojjcui c W. Haldermnn nf A...l two montns in r ranco m tiv ""- private secretary to the late United THE DREAM. SPRITIS. Copyright, 101D. by the Bell Syndicate. Ine. Beyond the very topmost star in all tha velvet sky Where meteors come down like rain and comets hurry by, A brightly lighted window through the wall of heaven gleams. And there a busy little Sprite is sorting " out the dreams The dreams he sends to boys and girls he watches through the day When they are hard at lesson books or when they romp and play. He has all sorts of dreams up there he makes them up himself. And keeps them ready to his hand upon a. soiaen eneei. And every night he puts your dream upon a drop of dew The very dream you ought to have and sends it down to you. And when you get your special dream. you 11 Know the little Snrita Is very wise about your ways and al ways cnooses rigbt. For little boys- who stamp their feet when told to go to bed Are never given pleasant dreams but dreadful ones instead. And little girls who leave their dolls strewed all around the room Have horrid dreams, where savage mice come creeping through the gloom. And greedy children, overfond of things like pie and. cake. Have dreams that make them cry with fear and shiver when they wake. But children who refuse to do a thing they know is wrong Have very interesting dreams that last the whole night Iqng; In shady woods they Bwlra and fish and lark and romp and run The memories of dreams like that are always lots of fun. And while they all are fast asleep the busy little Sprite Is sorting out new sheafs of dreams, and always choosing right, a a a Careful. Inasmuch as food dealers do not want prices to break, they never allow them to tall. a a The Force of Habit. Since the kaiser went to Holland Via has cut' down more than a thousand trees. These Hohenzollerns are never contented unless they are destroying someimng. a a Everything; Has Its lees. The new skirts are uncomfortable. but they ought to make room for splen did proficiency in the sack races when the chowder season arrives. Pa' Got One, Too. By Grace E. Hall. Buying bonds of the Irish republic will be a gamble, but they will find buyers, even if taken for souvenirs. . If a telephone strike is called here, will its "Number, please," be '23" or "30" ? The powerful fleet to guard the district, including Tacoma, the docking and I pacific shore is a new kind of prepar- oilier faculties oi tne rorumn naroor ana vicinity would bo wholly inadequate and in sufficient to take care of such traffic, and could not be msde adequate for the caring ot such traffic. It's time to close the bathing suit incident. The real thing is about here, If these things be true, it is incum bent upon the people of Portland to Half the week is gone and who is do something about them. We must! trying to find how little he can give? call sternly to account the officials who have so grossly deceived us, and I Remember when you got a lot of must hire a larga corps of oculists to cherries for a nickel? forget it! material ana maao i '" " covcry that the best that was to be bad were citisens of the United States of America. Yankees art monopolls- 1ns: the feature parts of the bills in most of the Parisian playhouses, he says. when vou wish to correctly designate Vesta Tilley, known to vaudeville audi- nces in both England and the united States as an impersonator of male char acters, you must mention her aa iaay de Frece. for off the stage hat is her name. Vesta Tilley'e husband, Walter de Frece, is one of tne newiy-createo knights announced In the prime minis ter's list issued in celebration of King George's birthday. He was rewarded for services he rendered tne ministry of pensions. The new knight is a well- known theatrical manager and controls large number of vaudeville bouses In London. Miss Tilley first appeared in tnis country in 1906, when she played ,in Percy Williams' vaudeville theater! in Greater New York. She Is said to have received 5000 a week and was called the highest paid vaudeville artist of that time. Miss Tilley came to this country as the recognized idol of tha music halls of London and the prov inces. Later she appeared here in Weber & Fields' "The' Mldnjght Sons." The work of Vesta TUley as a male impersonator has been so successful that thousands of persons believe she is a man and a large part of her mall consists of note trom admiring school girls who think they have found an otheV matinea idol. During the war her services to the British troops was muoh tha eame as that of Elsie Janis to the American forces Hi France. .The title of her most popular war eong is "I Joined the Army Yesterday, So the Army of Today Is All Rifht." States Senator C. W. Fulton, is at the imperial. S. Harworth, a stockman from the LaGrande country, is at the Perkins having brought a shipment to town. James C. Bailey, of Champaign, HI., is at the Hotel Washington. After July 1, when the nation goes dry his home town may have to change its name. . i Durward Smith, of Vancouver, B. C, and W. V. Moran, of Seattle, are among the Greeter delegates domiciled at the Hotel Washington. NAME FOR SALOO.V IS REJECTED "Skookum Cbnckery" Denounced and KUeneMf or "Wetawhistle" Cited. ST. HELENS, Or., June 24. (To the Editor.) I notice a man from Gold Hill, Or., suggests "Skookum Chuck- ery'" as a substitute for the word "sa loon. It may be a good suggestion, but I am afraid it will not be jrenerallr acceptable, as the Siwaah population is so limited. It might go well in Seattle. Just imagine tripping down Broad way and seeing a sign something like this: "Private Entrance to Private Smith's Refreshit." Does not that sug gest a lot of things to a thirsty citizen? Mow would this look in our dic tionaries: "Quenchit: A place where checkers are played, Mellin's food sold, and pop and., other beverages dispensed." Bryan Tipple would sugeest a de- naturized saloon to many folks. "Weta- wniatie snouia command eome follow ing. "Skookum Chuckery" in an up-to-date place like St. Helens would soon be "Snookum Snuggery" and that would be almost as bad as the word to be tabooed. MAX MADISON. Pa's got an ottermobeel at last and ma s sne s honoln mad. Though some folks state they think it's great and that she should be glad: But somehow ma can't seem to sea tho tning as others do. And so she's sore at pa once more and manes a Dig to-do. Ma says the money ought to go on grocery bills and such. But pa says "Lord, don't worry now; tney aon t amount to much. Then ma says something 'bout the clothes that all of us are neerlln'. And pa says, "Say, I heard today Bill faykes was pinched for speedln'." Ma said the furnace was upset and that the pipes were sliDDin. But pa said, "Gosh, hand me that wrench, this, cylinder's a-skip-Pin'." Ma told pa more'n a month ago that tne outcner was a-roarin' About his pay, 'cause every day the prices was a-soarin. But pa said, "Tell him not to fret, there's shops down town a-plenty. And what he sells for twenty-one we'll get downtown for twenty." And when ma crowded on tha talk, about that dog-gone bill. Pa give the crank a sudden yank and whooped it up the hill. "It ain't no use," ma says at last, "your pa has lost his wits: These auto germs is worse than worms that in tbs garden flits, For auto bugs is healthy slugs that , laugh at Paris green, And pa won't stop until things pop for lack of gasoline." Cood Excnso Better Than None. - Philadelphia Ledger. "Why do you stay out lata every night. Blinks?" "My wife promised that on the first evening I'd come homa early I could help her with the spring cleaning,'.' Obtaining; m Pateat. PORTLAND. June 25. (To the Edi tor.) I have an idea for a small house hold convenience to be made of tin. (1) Could I have It made herer (2) Would it be necessary to patent It? (3) If so, how would I go about it? T. T. 1. Probably. Consult a competent tinsmith. 2. If the device should prove valuable it would be well to have the protection of a patent. .. . 3. The United States patent office, Washington, D. C, will send you a copy of its "Rules of Practice" on applica tion. Tha office. In a statement, says: "It is advisable, however. In every case that the service of a competent reg istered patent attorney be secured, as the value of a patent depends largely upon skillful preparation of the speci fications and claims." Farms for Soldiers. UNDERWOOD, Wash., June 23 (To the Editor.) Please advise ma in your column whether the government his made any provisions for the soldiers who served in Franca In regard to helping them buy farm homes. F. A. Tha legislation with this purpose In view is new pending in congren.