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8 TIIE 3I0SNIXO OREGOXIAJi, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. cvTiiuMiE bi ui u rmocK PuBI.a-.rd it Te 0trrrlii PoVtohtei C. li ixtt Simi. a-ortiaad. Oreoo. C. A. -MUIU.KN. t- H. IPBI. XnaMIT. iJUor. The C'rx mian la a mambar o tha Aa" rkalad praaa. The Aja.wtat- PTaaa to ciuanaly er.titled ti tn ua for umk tloo af a'l cess diapatcnaa cr-ducd ' "J m.l olArti willed m ! pPr. ? a;.o ta lo-aj nawa patil!il orcein. Ail ruso-.a of rapuklica-.ton ot apaclai auapatcnaa lia.'vla rr a.ao rarvd. iDWiabl; Is adancau . . . $J.OO Subacripuoa rmi By Mall. TaliT. Saudi Inr! on Tar. ' Liatiy. guailay includwl. alx moiitl.... Im-iy. Sanrtav included, tnrea month. . I'ai.v. iun-l.y inrttjiled. ont nwain..... iM.i'y, wl'.hout 'iinliy. in ye.ir. li- i.y. wit!vul un-lay. i m-cta. .... I il v. wltnoot ucoay. o Weicry, ona year. ............ Si.-r.-lay. OH yAr. hunuajf ud waejsly ....... i Br farrier. ) Th. v Vnnar Included, one year. . . lut:y. s-iodae lncluo J. one 31JU1-;" Jmi r. SuaJ-ay In. lu led. ::iree tr.3a:a. Iial'y. without Sunday, one year - - - -Daly. w:thoul Sunrtiiy. three moBIM Ti . viihnuf Sunday, one roonto How la Remit Send poatofflce money or d." wpreaTor peraonl ctt on your local bin. Sta-tipa. com "r curTr ; li r-. rtik. i.v. p.-:off.re adureaa In lull. In- - u.m 12 to IS par. 1 rent: H . . i . i n . . ,. a rents "'. . ...... a een-a to 7 PH'- ren-.a. T ts 1 paces. eanta. rorelm Pat .. ree I ..tern BotiaeM Offlre V.rre. Conlr. :ir.. .lrun:. a ouiMir. ew ork: erre -t.eer b-iriinr. Chlcaro: erree at . .n" vree Preaa juil lina. Detroit, Mirny sn Fran--iaro repreni.Hive. K. J. Pidwell. . 7 1.91 .Se THE TRKATT WITH IHANCE. The propo.td treaty by which the T-nit.ri s;.iies guarantees France against attack by Germany promises to be a irraver subject rf controversy in this country than the lea true cov enant. Not-ithandmir its strict lim itations of time and occasion, it differs from the covenant in the luct that it is a special agreement with one na twn. while the covenant is a general tirreement wfth all civilized nations. It i aLo directed ajrainst one nation ith a direct implication th'at that nation Is likely again to attack Trance, whllo the covenant estab lishes certain principles of law and international justice which the United States. In common with all other na tions adhering to it. agrees to defend ac-ainst any nation which defies those unnciDtes. The line cf argument by which President Wilson and the British del egates were led to siini the treaties imiing their two countries to come t:rst to defense of France appeals to ine's sympathy rather than to ones iason. The position of France was that it had borne the brunt of Ger- tit. ny's attack on all free nations, and l-..i.t suffered more than Its share of the consenuences becuuse with its l.ody It barred the way to attack on the other nations which Germany also wished to subdue. Almost 1.4UO.0OO of its best men are dead, more than that number are crippled, the great manufacturing and mlnins; district of France has ben wracked and a great broad scar of barren land across the country has been left where the battle line was. France, with resources thus depleted, has Incurred a debt almost equal to Its pre-war national wealth France cannot and ought not to be expected to withstand alone another such shock as came in 1914. Its fron tier Is indefensible, presenting no natural obstacle to an invader. No e'ich obstacle exists west of the Rhine, therefore, said Marshal Foch. its fron tier -should be moved to the Rhine by annexation of all German territory west of that river. The objection to this argument was that U would violate tho first prin ciples for which the allies, the I'nited States in particular, had been fight ing that no people should be handed ovr against their will from one coun try to another. Just such violence to national sentiment had been done by annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Ger many In 1ST1. hnd perpetuated enmity between Franco and Germany, and French annexation of tho Rhine provinces would create another sim ilar situation. In order to avoid such a situation and at the same time to guard Franco against the danger of sudden Invasion, before other nations could come to its help. Germany is required by the peace treaty to de nude all territory between its western frontier and a lino fifty kilometers east of the Khine cf armed forces and fortifications and to conductMio mili tary maneuvers there. That area is . bo occupied by the allies for fifteen ears or until tlermany has observed i s obligations under the treaty and, if it refuses to perform any of thcn, t;io allies may immediately re-occupy i'.ny part that has been evacuated.' To tt'is security is added that of article in of the covenant, whereby all mom Ins of the league, agree to defend aoli one from external aggression. That article precisely meets the case cf France. It places the entire mili tary power of the Icaguo behind that country In cusp of unprovoked attack. Hut that dnl not satisfy Marshal VcH-h. whosv military mind demanded the line nf the Khine as a natural strategic frontier, where an enemy could be held In check by France until other nations sent their armies, lie objected that at the moment of attack the Amrrirrtn army would be in America, the Ir!t'h army scattered Ihrouch the world-wide empire and that, if France were called upon to M.ind the first shock on the present lefenscless frontier, the agonizing Mcry of 1014 would be repeated, lie maintained il'at if was the moral duty f the other qreat powers to make Vance absolutely tecure against repetition. To meet that argument, to prevent a deadlock in tho conferrnco and to prevent wreck of the league, which might hae resulted from withdrawal of France, the I'nited States and :rcat Urttain each made a treaty with l-'rtnce by whlrh they agree that, in r.is! tlermany shall violate the pro iMons iu regard to the llhirie prov inces and in case the treaty stipula tions "should nt assure immediately to France .ppnpriat security and vrotcction. the Fluted States shall be bound to come immediately to her aid in case of any unprovoked act of regression atrainst her by Germany." The treaty must be recognized by the council of tho league "as an agree ment in conformity with tho cov enant" and "will remain in force until, upon demand of one of the parties to the treaty, the council finds that the society (league) Itself assures sufficient protection." It Is not effective until ratified by tha United States senate and the French parlia ment. Fully as Americans enter into the feelings which prompted France to ak for this security, their reason can hardly approve it. By n overwhelm ing majority they approve the league covenant, although they are not of one mind on some of its conditions. Be cause the covenant is to Include all nations which arc able and willing to comply with its obligations, they draw a sharp dividing line between The war has forced them out of their Isolation to take their part la estab lishing tha law of nations and in; defending the peace ot the world, and they are ready to do it. That will be a recognition of the changes whfch have come about since they were warned against entangling alliances, but a special treaty with one nation to defend it against another is contrary to the spirit of that warning. It binds us indefinitely to a special friendship with France and singles out Germany as a permanent, potential enemy. The treaty assumes that the league does not give France adequate seen rtty against aggression, otherwise the reason gtven for it would not exist.. It is an expression of lack of con fidence in the league at its very incep tion and by its principal proponents. at the very Juncture when all other nations are invited to put their faith in the league as a reason for reducing their armaments and for abandoning special alliances. The treaty assumes that at some future time the league will gain enough strength to justify France in dispensing with this special security, but the way to make France secure is to make the league strong at the outset. A large part of its strength will consist In -confidence that it can and will do the things which it sets out to do. That confi dence will be impaired if the three leading members band together for the defense of one among them instead of relying on the league, their example will be followed by other groups of members, the old system of alliances will be revived, and the league will consist of a number of allied groups of nations, not of un trammeled, individual nations, aa Is contemplated. The duty devolves on the United States, however, to prove the league strong enough to protect France without a special treaty by being ready to act with our full allotted force the instant a call for help comes to the league. France was sacrificed because the forces of its allies came straggling Into the field, when all should have been ready to answer the first summons. The United States was last, was slow in preparing and was almost too late. Our army and navy will be limited by agreement with the other league members, but they should be ready to embark as promptly as was the small British expedition which fought at Mons. Our readineas would do much to drive from tha German mind any lingering dreams of militarism and to assure France of safety without special in Franca. The statistical chapters of the report ara incidentally interesting as showing the vast amount of work that has been done, such, for Ulustra tion. as the distribution of 1.115, 70S pieces of educational printed matter throughout the whole of France, but the most interesting revelation is that the present great need is not money but personnel. The afflicted coun tries have lost a large proportion of their physicians and nurses from war, typhus and influenza, and America's contribution in the near future must consist largely of 'doctors, public health experts, nurses and trained social workers. On these will depend largely the success of the fight abroad, and consequently in some measure that of the campaign at home. It is the belief of scientists that if the disease is not brought un der control in Europe it will develop into a pestilential wave that will imperil the whole world. treaties. BOSU.VCE Or TIIK AIR. Of the three trans-Atlantic air flights that of the British dirigible probably appeals most to the popular imagination. The average person, consciously or sub-consciously, puts himself in the place of those making the flight. To some youthful and intrepid souls the known strain and hardship of one Jump in an airplane from Newfoundland to Ireland are not dismaying. But so far that form of passage does not invoke thoughts of its utility to those who wish a little freedom of movement and some of the creature comforts while Journey ing from place to place. One reads that on the dirigible they shut the windows of the compart ments against the storm; the naviga tors were not confined to a narrow cockpit nor strapped in to prevent them falling out if the craft turns upside down; they were not set down next to a roaring, throbbing engine. but could converse with their fellows or listen to the music of a phono graph; they could walk along a nar row deck for 600 feet or climb to the top of the ship. Visits to the various compartments were possible and hot meals cooked on board wore enjoyed. These details by no means encom pass the comforts and luxuries of a modern steamship but they do em brace most of the convenienes of rail way travel. We may admire the daring of Al- cock and the calculating science of Commander Reed, but we envy the fortunate beings who sa'l the air in the British dirigible TEAM WORK FOR HEALTH. The third instalment of the report of the Rockefeller Foundation, which deals with tho foundation's work in fighting tuberculosis, particularly In France, is interesting because of the light it throws on the importance of co-ordination ia efforts of this kind. French scientists and the French government have been liberal in their praise of the work of Americans; yet tho Americans did not go to France to reveal medical secrets. French men, from the time of Fasteur to the present, have been keeping up with tho scientific procession. When the Americans in 1917 reached Paris, "they found already in existence ex amples of almost every kind of agency known to modern medicine and public health administration as effective in combating consumption." The American contribution, however, wan highly valued. It consisted of a "demonstration of the value of organ ized team play." The modern agencies employed In the fight . are exceedingly complex. They include sanatoria, hospitals, dis pensaries, home supervision by visit ing nurses, open air schools, extra food and widely distributed educa tional campaigns. But only when these are fitted into a co-operative and unified system can effentivo re sults bo obtained. It is titis fesson which Americans with their recog nized genius for organization are teaching. Where statistics nave been obtain able, it has been shown that less tu berculosis was caused among soldiers than was at one time thought likely, due to perfection of modern methods of disclosing existence of disease in unsuspected instances and to efficacy of early treatment, but there lias been a greater increase among civilians than was thought probable at the out set. This is now believed to be inti mately associated with diminution, of the food supply, which Illustrates again the community nature of the problem. In Italy before tfle war the tuberculosis death rate had been decreasing steadily. The war stopped this decrease and almost immediately an increase was noted. Conditions in Greece are described by Colonel Ho mer Folks, who has just returned from a tour of Europe, as shocking, tuberculosis being charged with caus ing one-sixth of the total number of deaths in that country. Serbia was hardest hit of all the countries of Europe, but all the Balkan states suf fered, seemingly in proportion to famine conditions which prevailed there. The tuberculosis death rate in Belgrade in 1917 was 145J per 100, 000, or about eight times that of an ordinary American city. The Rockefeller Foundation and SELF-DENIAL REQUIRED. The decision of a New York surro gate, which denies to a nineteen-year-old heiress an increase in her allow ance of $13,500 a year, which- she finds Insufficient for her needs, will call for some self-denial on the part of the young woman, who, despite her social position, will be compelled to get along as best she may on a paltry $50 or thereabouts a day. Her problem obviously is less dif ficult than would be that of an ordin ary family possessing an Income, say, of $2000 a year, or one-tenth of the sum which the heiress discloses in her itemized expense account to be the Irreducible minimum which she requires. This account shows that last year she spent $2000 as her share of the rent of her home, $4000 for household expenses, $2000 for educa tion and contributions to the church, $1000 for physicians, dentists, opti cians, etc.; $3000 for sport clothes, evening dresses. Jewelry, toilet articles. hair dressing, etc; $3000 for theaters, travel and various forms of enter tainment, and $5000 for automobiles and chauffeur. It is an axiom that as tha income of the individual in creases, the proportion which neces sities bear to the whole decreases in accelerating proportion. There Is a minimum below which it is not safe to go In' expenditure for such items as food, clothing, medical care and edu cation. This safety line having been passed, the individual begins to exer cise his privilege of choice. Now the family with a $2000 in come, would spend much more than one-tenth of the sum for rent and more than one-fifth for "household expenses." Probably more than one tenth would go for education and the church, although the church might not get a great deal. It might, how ever, try to squeeze in as much as one-fourth ot the whole for an auto mobile, but without the chauffeur, probably the item "sport clothes; evening dresses, etc.," would be cut rather deeply. There would be less for the theaters, and the travel item would be largely Included in the charge against the automobile. But the young heiress must econ omize, since the surrogate has de creed it so. It is a pleasant occupa tion for a summer day to speculate upon what she will find herself best able to do without. Shall she dismiss the chauffeur and learn to drive and repair the car herself? Shall pact of the jewelry and furs (especially summer furs be sacrificed? Would It be possible to' move to a cheaper house? Or reduce the grocery bills? As has been said, those who like to dream in the day time will find it not uninteresting to put themselves for the moment in this young girl's place. On first thought, it will seem quite simple. Struggling along as best one may on a mere $3000, one will find no difficulty in wielding the blue pen cil of thrift on a $20,000 budget. Yet only when (or if) the $2000 individual has attained to the $20,000 income will he be able to appreciate this young girl's desperate situation. It is well known that the'luxuries of yes terday have become the necessities of today. We do not doubt that the heiress in all sincerity is puzzled over the way to turn. We would not make light of her problem. We ourselves may some day be confronted with a similar one. Meanwhile, the most perplexing question of all to our minds is why the surrogate denied her request. It is conceded that within two years she will come into the residue of her estate, which will amount to some $1,300,000, with no one to say her nay. Did the judge wish to instill a belated . lesson in economy? Just what was running in" his mind, any way? Probably he has succeeded in doing nothing except make a young heiress, who of course is beautiful, exceedingly unhappy for perhaps a year and a half. thorship la the explanation. But this does not always solve the author's problem. Sometimes the many threads which are intended to confuse the reader also confuse the writer. We have read detective stories which Il lustrate the point. Budding authors should remember also that the destiny of the detective story publication in installments each with an ending that will send the reader to the news stand a week before the next installment is out. This calls for a dramatic crisis at least once a month. The young au thor, however, will be quite confident of his. ability to furnish the needed thrills. There is also a law of com- Ki n ti n n . final n,ontaw la, ol ways an anti-climax. It is, as MrsT Rinehart admits, the weakness of the whole structure. But It saves work. Colonel Roosevelt once said that when he had reached the last chapter of a certain story nothing but a superna tural explanation would have satis fied him. Perhaps there is another hint here. Why may there not be a detective story with a real climax? There is a fortune waiting for the writer who can point the way. It is an absorbing theory that in terest in crime will increase as it be comes more reminiscent and his torical. We find no difficulty in hop ing that it may bo so and by the same token we hope that everyone will be reading detective stories year from now. But human nature is perverse. The American Library as sociation finds that people are turn ing to more serious reading. The most noteworthy increase of the sea son has been in books of poetry. Can it be that the analogy of the wild west will fall? Or will crime persist, even after the last bootlegger has been suppressed? Those Who Come and Go. People have tried for" years to tame" the blueberry and huckleberry without success. This is a wild fruit that most likely would lose its flavor under cultivation. Present effort by the department of agriculture may succeed; but one would think Luther Burbank or other enthusiasts might have made it years ago if it were possible. The huckleberry and the aboriginal have common traits that cannot be eradicated and a connection that cinches the belief. Because he wouldn't prevent the fight, it Is stated Governor Cox has lost standing as a presidential candi date; but bear in mind that no demo crat can lose standing for anything if the wheels happen to turn in his favor by a miracle. A democrat can hedge out of anything. Buff tad bv storm of' snow and sleet, a party of 14 from the Mult nomah had all the sensations in moun tain climbing that one would crave when they scaled Mount Hood last Saturday. The wind was so strong at one time that twof the young women could not hold their footing on tha hog's back, above crater rock. In .the party were Paul K. Carlson, general superintendent of the Grant Smith Porter shipyard, and Mrs. Carlson; George Teufel, superintendent, and Mrs. Teufel; Miss Minnie Smith, the Misses Winn If red and Marian Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. William. Kaiser, Mrs. Kaiser Sr.. Miss Mildred Hoadly of Spokane. Miss Went of Spokane and M. M. Lanahan. Returning to Port land Su'nday the party found a machine overturned on the Columbia nignway near Crown Point, and Mr. Lanahan took a woman who was injured in the accident and rushed "her to a. hospital in Portland. One of the leading sheepmen of Wheeler countv. who has the best range In the' county, is Robert Wright. Among other things Mr. Wright is a county commissioner and he wants to see the state highway commission get under contract the SDray section of the John Day highway. Mr. Wright is equally interested in the McKenzie road, which cuts across the state and runs through Wheeler county. Contractors have said that to handle the John Day job it would be necessary to accumu late large stores of supplies, as notn ing can get into that county during the winter. Mr. Wright asserts that from April to November the route is open for anything and that there is a regu lar visitation from the mail stage be tween November and April. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Jfontague Everyone calls him "Togo" in Gil liam. Wheeler and adjacent counties, but his regular name is James Collins. Having served in the British and Amer ican navies, Togo felt the urge to scrap when the big war Involved the United States. Leaving his wife and three children, he came to Portland and was promptly rejected on account of age. 'They don't want fighting men," com plained Jimmy, and then he went to Canada, where they were taking any one who offered. irrespective of whether they had the full compliment of eyes or arms. Before Jimmy knew what was happening he was in the 72d Seaforth Highlanders and was wearing kilts. Having been in 37 engagements Jimmy Collins and his kilts are now on their way back to Wheeler county. Mandates for Constantinople, Ar menia, Syria, Palestine and Albania have been or are to be offered to Uncle Sam, as though he were a uni versal provider of good government, yet all the time we talk about how in efficient Is our own government. Those eastern countries at least re mind us how much worse it might be. The one big union has been driven from Canada and bobs up in Butte. Its bigness is measured by the extent of the area in which it can start a general strike, but it is migratory and revolves in a circle. It appears often in Butte, for that city has many so cialists, and the state has a governor who is reluctant to offend them. It is all very well for the Italian mobs to seize food and sell it at half price, but the trouble will come when the available supply is used up. Will the producers continue to produce on those terms? And if they don't, what will the mobs do next? the Red Cross have been working in it and a treaty with a single nation, j harmony in conducting; the campaign j IETECT1VE STORIES. Ambitious authors, in a world that is turning to prohibition, will profit by study of the recipe of Mary Rob erts Rinehart for the detective story which she predicts will come into its own with the dawning of the new era. The logic of her forecast is perfect. With prohibition, she says, wo are told that crime will end, and with tho end of crime it will assume a his toric interest. No one cared for the wild west so long as it lasted, but today a wilder west than ever existed is being put on paper and thrown on the screen, and we count that day lost which does not see a gentleman leajing on the bar of a western saloon on horseback and clearing out the building with his gun." So with crime. Tho greatest crim inals are due for reform. There are (or soon will be) no drunkards to fall back on. 'Fictionally, our criminal instincts can only find a vicarious outlet in fiction." But be that as it may. The fact stands out that there is going to lie a demand for detective stories. Let the publishers prepare, From some scores of correspondence schools and other institutions where the art of writing .is taught, some thousands of young authors are being graduated every summer. For them the only question is, "What shall I write about?" The answer is fur nished by Mrs. Rinehart. Anybody ought to be able to write a detective story- A few simple rules. however, may not come amiss. There are "ethics," to begin with. Even as criminals have their jcode of honor, so there are things which no self-respecting writer about crime will not do. Mrs. Rinehart explains that it is en tirely inadmissible to use random bul lets, ghostly figures, . mysterious anonymous letters, closed taxicabs and kidnaped children unless they can be properly explained in the final chapter. But the author has all the advantage over the reader, and over other authors, in constructing crime fiction. Mrs. Rinehart explains that the detective story is written back ward. The one thing essential to au- A horoscope Just now says the rising position of Neptune conjoined with Venus threatens the moral wel fare of married people, meaning the flirtatious. To put it on the stars is as good excuse as any that divorcees seem to have overlooked. If the ex-crown prince should carry out his threat to commit suicide, he would relieve the allies of the embar rassment of deciding what to do with him after he has been convicted, but has he the nerve? Once let Wilson annul war tim prohibition by proclamation and all those assistant democrats known po litically as prohibitionists will helte skelter home into republican ranks. Dare he do it? The Colorado supreme court decides that cities of that state solely hav the power to regulate the utilities and it is not vested in a commission. This will work two ways, and not always for the better. All except four of the members of the California legislature are ladies men in the twentieth century sense of the words, for they waive salary and mileage to ratify the suffrage amend ment. Dynamite is an article of euch corn mon use in Butte that the inhabitants turn to it when people of any other place would just throw a rock. If it is possible to bring the presl dent of Ireland to Portland, he should be persuaded to make the visit. Port land must not miss any celebrity. John Hays Hammond says a policy of high wages. is of inestimable value. and certainly every fellow who works fttr a living will agree with him. The most optimistic report of con ditions comes from Hood River and Is explained in a short sentence: "Plenty of irrigating water." The "spirit" it the army was shown by the lieutenant-colonel at Fort Sill who lost his life in trying to save a private from drowning. "Red" Rupert must return to serve his full number of days. He is an other object lesson to the man con templating a risk. Hog prices In the local yards reached a new record for the Pacific coast yesterday. Portland is the place to ship hogs to. The habit of "coming down town" on Saturday evening is a good one to cultivate. The impression on a stranger is good. The wrathy woman who holds the phone to her ear and waits and waits does not call it telephone "service." Young New, who killed the girl who wouldn't marry him, is another case of good blood'run out. No matter how many they will hurt, soaking rains just now will help more people, Fred Rader. who lives at an altitude of 3875 feet; Carl Ballard, who lives at an elevation of 2500 feet, and Harley Sprouls, who lives at an elevation of 1900 feet, were all at the Imperial yes terday. All come from Grant county. which is particularly mountainous probably the most up-and-down county in Oregon and while their respective towns are not very far apart, th&e are great differences in the altitudes. Mr. Rader is from Long Creek, whose near est railroad point is Austin, 42 miles away; Mr. Ballard is from RItter, 60 miles from Pilot Rock, the nearest rail road point, and Mr. Sprouls is from Monument, SO miles from Heppner, the nearest railroad depot. All these towns are stock-raising centers. Mike Dukek and his brother, George B., are in town from Condon. Mike is a county commissioner, a otrong re publican and an ardent advocate of good roads. Years ago he was one of the star players on the baseball nine at Mayville, but now he is a large, portly, gentlemanly farmer who looks as though he could knock a ball over the far fence,' but even then couldn't run fast enough for a homer. His county has a bunch of money available to co-operate with the state and gov ernment on the John Day highway and Mr. Dukek is here to see what the prospects are for putting the coin in circulation. Comine from a town that changed the lives of millions of Americans and affected the people of the civilized na tions of the world, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Chisholm are at the Multnomah. The Chisholms are from Sutter Creek, Cal and Sutter Creek was where the gold was discovered which caused the inter national stampede for the west in 1843. Little old Sutter Creek did more to put California on the map and populate the Pacific coast states than any other factor, and it gave material for dime novels which in these latter days are being visualized on the screen. "People when traveling should write their names plain enough for hotel peo nle to read," commented Clerk Farmer at the Perkins, after he had puzzled to make out the name of Smith on the register. "Sometimes mail or tele grams come for people in the house and the clerks cannot deliver them because the person for whom these messages are intended have written their name so illegibly that it can't be interpreted. When a patron has written his name particularly bad, one way to get the necessary information is to leave a card in the box with the key asking him to give the name." Bringing deed's for the new Masonic home which is to be erected near Forest Grove, L. M. Graham was In town yes terday, registered at the Multnomah. There will bo 30 acres for the home, explains Mr. Graham, 15 having been donated and 15 acres purchased. There are roads on three sides of the property and one of these roads is the paved Pacific highway. Mr. Graham, who represented Washington county in the recent legislature a"nd who lives in Forest Grove, declares that the location for the homo near his town is ideal. ART AND THE H. C. OF L. I used to he mad about still-life; A picture entitled "String Beans" Or "Fried Liver and Book" I would buy if it took Whatever remained of my means. A scene called "Two Prunes and a Cab bage" Would stir the far depths of my heart. A painting of "Ham and a Jar of Grape jam To me was the noblest of art. I often dropped into the auctions And purchased these things for a song; My artistic sense was extremely In tense My taste -never led me far wrong; And soon I amassed a collection Of portraits of onions and fish And pickles in brine and stewed turnips, as fine As any collector could wish. Then suddenly up went the market; I found "Three Tomatoes" one day And "Two Flounders on Ice" were com manding a price I was simply unable to pay. A study of "Cucumber Salad" Was up seven hundred per cent, 'YJreen Corn on the Ear" cost the toil of a year Of a humble poetical gent. One day a great painter of still-life Whom I had invited to sup Explained to me why art like his was so high The cost of the models was up! He told me: "Whenever I buy 'em And up to my studio fetch 'em. They cost such a lot, that more likely than not I will eat 'em before I can sketch 'em!" Gone Forever. It is Idle to hoDe. even in these dv of wholesale restoration, that the gov ernment will ever restore the income taxes to their owners. a a a It May Be for Yean and It May Be Forever It will be a long, lone tima before. they take down the sign "Liberty Ly ceum over tne place that used to be caned "Turner Halle." a a Tight. The treaty is signed and sealed and tied with a may-I-noL In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Am. Chicago General Nelson A. -Miles issued orders this afternoon detailing federal troops to assist the United States marshals in preventing obstruc tion to the movement of mail and inter state commerce trains. The invasion of Mount Hood's Icy realm now being planned and soon to be attempted, will be unique In the history of mountain climbing, as will also be the "MazamasV in the world of fraternal or social organizations. The board of police commissioners last night appointed Charles Gritz macher captain of police. Harvey O'Brien will leave tomo rrow on a bicycle trip to Bak-ir City. 36S miles distant. His mission is to carry important papers to the Balsley-Elk-horn mine. Fifty Years Ago. Washington A nartv from the novoi observatory left Monday for the vicinity --Moines, lowa, to observe the coming solar eclipse. The Emersly mine, at White Pine, has been sold to parties In the east for JS0.000. Chicago The Irish national repub lican convention adjourned last night after a two-days session, having adopt ed a declaration of principles. Virginia City One hundred and thirty miners are working in the S00 and 900-foot levels of the Yellow Jacket turning out SO tons of ore daily. For the fiscal year ending June 30. 1869. 250 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 105,401 tons, departed from Portland in coasting trade. Foreign trade in American vessels: Departures 68, 21,213 tons; in foreign vessels. 21, 215 tons. FFSDAMESTAL CAUSE IS LOW PAY "Three men were hanging to tele phone poles. That was the first thing I saw in Seattle the first time I went there." says A. C. Carter, at the Mult nomah. "It appears that a sheritr nao been killed the day before and a com- mltten of Indienant citizens organized. captured the offenders and decorated the poles with them. I went to visit my son in Seattle July 4th. and found it decidedly different in tone than on the occasion of my initial trip tnere. Mountain City. Tcnn., is just a small burg, but former residents of Mountain City, who jumped Into one another yes i.rJiv in the Imperial lobby were Judge R. R. Butler of The Dalles. Rob ert Wright of Spray and I. A. Johnson of Fossil. Dr. J. W. Donnelly, mayor of Arlington, who is expected in Port land today, is another native son oi Mountain City. R. T. Roark of Sedro Woolley is at the Hotel Oregon. It is a queer name for any man's town. Originally there were two towns, Sedro and Woolley, which were settled in 1890. Nine years later they consolidated and the two- n-one town now has two nospitaia, two churches, two weekly papers, two telenhone companies, two express com panies and two telegraph companies. Tn buv one of those knock-down bun galows, where all you need to be you own arcnitect is a nammer a. iial ful of nails, I. A. Johnson, one of the leading merchants of Fossil, is at the Imnerial. There is such a scarcity of building material and labor is so high that Mr. Johnson decided he would try one of these ready-to-wear portable homes, such as can be sent by mail. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Coward of Nyssa are at the Perkins for a few days on business and pleasure. Nyssa is spread along the bank of the Snake river, which separates it from Idaho. It is at Nyssa that one of the main cross state highways will terminate, ending at the interstate- bridge across the Snake, -; - . . ; ;- : Telephone Strikes Due to Failnre to At tract Permanent, Satisfied Employes. PORTLAND, July 7. (To the Edi tor.) Regarding the present telephone strike, may I speak to the public as a telephone operator of nine years' ex perience can? I chose this work, or perhaps found myself in this work shortly after leaving school. I do not wish to criticise the tele phone company, as it is not entirely "unfair" and in some matters I will admit that it is perfectly willing to do me square tnmg. During former strikes, I have re mained with the company, but having recently joined the union I went out with the strikers on this occasion. I have tried to cultivate a fair and im partial attitude toward the company and also toward the union, and 'from my experience with both, I believe I am qualified to speak. I feci thf.t if tho company would give t'.ie gi' Is a fairer wage it would attract a different class of employes who would remain with the company permanently. As the work is often very trying an the hours sometimes unsatisfactory- many girls prefer to go where they are paid better. Therefore the company often compelled to accept the services of inexperienced, uneducated and unre liable help and girls whose appear ance, dress and manners lower the standard of this kind of employment. I am sure that every dignified tele phone operator hates to be called "hello girl" and spoken of as a gum chewing, Joy-riding class whose only interest in life is getting the work don in some sort of hap-hazard fashion, 60 she may get to the nearest public dance or movie. I want it known that there are two distinct types of employes in the em ploy of the telephone company, and 1 is up to the company itself to raise o lower the standard of this kind of em ployment. If it would Insist upon adoption a modest style of dress, such as is gen erally worn by the better class business girls, the telephone office would very soon seem a more desirable place for young women seeking work but unfortunately the girls of the high French heels, cob-web waists and shor tight skirts, have done a great deal undesirable advertising for the tele phone company. To summarize, let me add, that if th company desires to 'give high-class service (and I am sure it does) it mus obtain the services of girls who wil do full duty to their work, remaining from year to year. Instead of a few weeks or months. Of course, they must be paid accordingly. In my past experience I have found the telephone company fair, courteous and considerate of its employes many ways, but I, as a union member, am fully' convinced that its telephone operators are underpaid and that thi the fundamental reason for these frequent uprisings. GEivTltlJI'I-; M. I'lLdjfcBUKY, 999 East Salmon street. The Bassinet. By Grace E. Hall. SALARY ADJUSTMKJiTS HAPHAZARD One City Department Should Supervise Payroll, Says Writer. PORTLAND. July 7. (To the Edi tor.) Business keeping me in attend ance at the council meeting last Wednesday I had the opportunity of being edified and informed while lis tening to the disposition of the salary question. From the discussion I gleaned first, that the recommendations for salaries are made entirely - by each commissioner for employes in his de partment; second, each is usually un informed as to conditions in other dc partments or the effect of action in one. upon other departments; third, tho auditor is unrepresented by a commis sioner and adds a sixth department for consideration; fourth, men doing like work in different departments are not paid like compensation; fifth, tho hori zontal rise was based wholly on cost of living, to help the "underdog"; sixth employes objected to one who came at the eleventh hour receiving as much as one who had borne the heat and burden of the day; seventh, the mayor stated that special ordinances may be later brought in to adjust salaries of tech nical men who can do better else where and whose services it appears the city should retain at going compensation Analyzing the whole matter as pre sented there, I reached a conclusion that the subject of salary adjustment and payrolls for all departments prop erly belongs in the department of finance. Each commissioner should oresent salary recommendations there. so all could be carefully scanned and co-ordinated, to eliminate disputes, in equalities and deficiency of co-related action heretofore taking place daily. Handled in one place recommendations could be synchronized and intelligently presented to the council. No duties are prescribed by the charter, but surely the finance department ought to have supervision of the sources of revenue and disbursement. I suggested the plan to three, commissioners and now suggest it -to other taxpayers, urging them to consult with the council in this regard, in order to help promote busi ness efficiency in city affairs. ROBERT C, WRIGHT. . i It stood upon a porch one day, a baby's bassinet. Made up of lace and ribbons and a mass of snowy net; Upon the downy pillow lay a head with curls adorned A model that no artist, once beholding, would have scorned; While o'er her darling treasure with a look of sweet content. With loving eyes and cunnjr smile, a happy mother bent. And then I saw a prison and a window framed a face. There was hint of gloom and sadness in the very air and nlaee. That countenance was sullen and wlthm the eyes was hate Of the atmosphere in general, which he oouatless blamed on "fate." And I turned away despondent though he spoke no single word. But the silent story hurt me more than any I have heard. It was but a step in fancy to a yard enclosed by walls. Where a ghastlyscaffold towered, with Its trap for sudden falls. And I saw a priestly figure in the dawning light within. As it took its sr.cred station in the cell room bleak and grim. Reading solemnly the last words to the one so soon to tread That corridor where final prayers to heaven oft so have sped. I awoke from gruesome nightmare of the fancy I have told, And upon the tossing ocean saw a ves sel riding bold; There were many forms in number but in color all were brown, ; As the gallant transport anchored and "the boys" came trooping down. And how proud was every mother on that happy gala-day, When she welcomed home her "baby" who had been so long away! Once again I saw that porch scene, as we see them now and then, And I thought of fluffy baskets that had yielded up such men, (For where one has pillowed criminal. thousands more have pillowed worth. And where thoughtful mothers hover noble Ideals have their birth); Some one's baby shall slip and stumble It was thus since time began, But the principles of youth-time make or mar the coming man. This, if future you are planning, fres of grief and vain regret, Put the best thought of your being in that ruffled bassinet! THK JEWELED TRAVELER. A soul is born, but we see it not: Enwrapt with clay from the common sod. Behind that veil of tho common clay Myriad visions in silence play. Where tongueless voices through thoughts enroll The mystic realms ot the unseen soul, And untold ages may hear the strain From an uncouth soil, that we now dis dain. A man Is born, but we hail him not: With scorns and laughter we sneer his part; Still up he goes in his onward flights To search for truths on tho starry heights. Behold him now! Behind guarded bars. With jeweled teardrops among the scars Oh, see him fall! Nay, its but his clay The Jeweled Trav'ler has gone home to stay. A Christ was born to be crucified Lo! Many a Christ for truth has died Oh! Chain him not in thy icy cells Nor scar with scorns, when his dreams ho tells A latent seed from beneath the bower May sprout and bloom, and become a flower; And you and I may become the heirs. If we pluck the flower from his golden stairs. P. K. ENEBO. MY SUNSHINE DAYS, keep the sunshine days I've lived. And stack them up from year to year, find it pays to live within, When days without are dark and drear. do not know the snow is deep; I do not know the air la cold; The meadow etill is green to roe. And dotted here and there with gold. The sky Is blue instead of gray; The earth is green instead of white. The rose that's weighted down with snow. Is bent by weight of blossoms bright. The birds that flutter 'round the door. And chirp heir thanks for crumbs ' that fall. Are but the bluebirds of the spring That build along my garden wall. And so while blizzards rage without, Within I do not hear the blasts; My eyes behold the changing year, - My soul lives in a nay mat lasts. LESTER C. MOOBERRY. Owes AH to Her., Boston Transcript. Wife "Everything you have you owe to me." Hub "That's what Dr. Brown sayE." Wife "Who's Dr. Brown?" Huh The stomach ana nerve specialist.