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10 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1G, 1919. ESTABLISHED BI HE.NHT lu PITTOCK. Published by The oreeonjun Publishing Co.. -1 - 'i ' i r - . " . v m. - - - - - - Manager. Editor. The Oresonlali is a. member of the Asso ciated Prewi. The Associated 1'resa is ex clusively entitled to tlie use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwi-m credited in this paper and also ihe local news published herein. All riKhts of republication of special disnatcj.3 herein are also reserved. Sulmcriptlon Kates Invarlabll in Advance By Mall.) 1 iJaily, Sunday included, one year.... Iiailv. Sunday incluilcd. dx months.. Uaily. Sunday included, three cionths. . lly, Sunday im-ludt-d. me month... TJaily, without Sunday, one year....... Jaily, without Sunday, tt months laily, without Sunday, one month "Weekly, one year .... Sunday, one year Sunday and weekly (By Carrier.) iJaily, Sunday included, one year JJaily. Sunday im lud-d, one month.... 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Probably three-fourths of the criti cism -of the league of nations cove nant is founded on things which the covenant does not say, but which the critics merely assume it to say. In fact much of the adverse comment emanates from men who appear not to have read the covenant, for it is general declamation 'aimed at what the covenant does not say and the league would not do. A frequent objection is that the United States would be involved in every little quarrel in Europe, al though the operations of the league would be such that there would be only the remotest possible chance of our being drawn into little .neighbor hood quarrels. In the first place the parties to the quarrel would be bound by artioie 12 to refer it to arbitration or to inquiry by the council and by article 13 to refer it to arbitration if they should "recognize - It to be suit able for submission to arbitration," to abide by the award, and the mem bers of the league are pledged not p make war on a member which complies with an award. If the dispute be not arbitrable or submitted to arbitration, the parties agree to submit it to the league coun- I cil, which will endeavor to effect al settlement. If the council succeeds, the facts and the terms of settlement are to be made public. If it fails, a statement of the facts and the coun cil's recommendations will be pub lished. If the council, excluding the parties to the dispute, should be unanimous, all members of the league Hgree not to go to war with any party which complies with Its recommenda tions. If it should not be unanimous, all members of the league are free to take their own course. If a nation should reject an arbitra tion award or a recommendation of me council, it is pieagea not to re sort to war until three months after the award or recommendation has been made. War by the ' league at large does not become imminent unless a mem ber disregards its agreement to' do as described. It then is deemed to have committed an act of war on all mem bers of the league, bnt they are not al! obliged to go to war. Their obliga tion is to sever "all trade or financial relations," to prohibit all intercourse between their citizens and those of the offender, to prevent "all financial. commercial or personal intercourse" between any other nation and the of fender. The words which apparently relate to war are: They will mutually support one another In restraining any special measures aimed at one of their number by the covenant breaking state, and they will take ttie neces sary steps to afford passage I'irouKh their territory to the forces of any of the nicm 1'Crs of the league which are co-operating to protect the covenants of the, league. That clearly implies that warlike measures will be taken not by all members of the league, but by those members which are nearest to the tcene of disturbance and have suffi cient forces for the purpose. Hence it is highly improbable that Ameri can forces would be sent to interfere in the neighborhood quarrels of Kurope. We should co-operate in the commercial boycott, we should prob ably contribute financial and material aid, but we should not be required to . send troops unless the war was of such magnitude as to envelop all Kurope. Then we ought to intervene with all our strength. But is only necessaiy to review the several steps which would be taken to nrc-venl war in order to recognize how rrmote a contingency it would be. It is said that by article 10 we should be pledged to guarantee the status iuo in Kurope. That section is evi dently designed to prevent imperial ist aggression, and wouul not become effective until all means of peaceful settlement of disputes had been ox- luiusted. An act of aggression would - then be outright robbery, such as the league is formed especially to pre vent. The league is said by persons .of bolshovist proclivities to be a body of . imperialist powers banded together to suppress revolution .of the suffering masses. They deliberately misrepre sent the words and intent of article 10, for it pledges the members only to mutirnl defense against "external aggression." There might bo rebel lion in Fiance, Britain. Italy or Japan, but the Fnited States would not be bound to interfere, in fact must not interfere lest it be accused of aggres sion. The revolutionists and their government would be left to fight it out. The objection of the bolshevists to this arrangement is that they wish lo go from country to country starting tlieir worldwide revolution, and they would be blocked at the first frontier which they attempted to cross by be ing treated as external aggressors. The league would leave, each mem ber free to have a revolution, and would shut out outside intervention. By adherence to the league the 1'nited States is said to surrender its sovereignty to an international legis lative body, when in fact the league has none of the elements of sover ignty. It ca:; levy no taxes, raise no army or navy has no territory, makes no laws. It is an organized body of sovereign states which exist for the purpose of agreement to exercise their sovereign power in certain contin gencies in certain ways. It will es tablish a court, but will not be able to hale any, state before that court; states must resort thither of their own accord, but they are bound in honor to resort thither on certain occasions before they fight, under penalty of be ing outlawed. That Involves no more surrender of sovereignty than any two states make when they agree by treay ty to do certain things. The league is said to violate the con stitution by taking out of the hands of congress the power of decision on peace and war and other questions. It does not. The league will recom mend to the members certain action which their legislatures will be free to take or not. We are told that the United States is being rushed Into- action from which it cannot withdraw, though- it is ex pressly prpvided that any member may- withdraw on two years' notice after having fulfilled its obligations. If any member should try to hold us under this latter proviso. Its conduct might react against itself, and little benefit would be derived from a mem ber held in the league against its will. Conditions of labor in the United States are said to be dictated by the league, when in fact the members promise to bring their labor condi tions up to the standard named in the treaty. The standards of the United States being as high as, or higher than that named, the effect will be to bring the conditions In other countries up. not to bring American conditions down. The statement that the United States may be called upon against its will to take charge of a backward people in a remote part of the world is false. The covenant says that man dates will be given to nations "who are willing to accept." Objection is made that the league makes the United States guarantee Japan's possession of Shantung. The objectors omit to say that China is free to set the machinery of the league in motion to obtain redress for any wrong done through Japan's pos session of Shantung. If an arbitra tion court or a unanimous decision of the league council should favor China, the entire power of the league would be exerted to make Japan submit. The United States is said to be in volved in a net of secret treaties by joining the league. The exact reverse is the truth. The league will recog nize no treaty which is not registered with it and published. It sweeps may the whole pernicious system of secret treaties. Then we have our old friend, the argument that the league in some way impairs the Monroe doctrine. Wre and the allies have just destroyed the military power of the only serious enemy of the Monroe doctrine, none of the allies ever questioned It, and Its validity is confirmed by the covenant. What more could we ask? All Kurope is well nigh exhausted, and welcomed American aid in settling its troubles, yet the scaremongers fear that It will cross the Atlantic and meddle in American affairs. The danger is a chimera. Kurope will be only too glad to let the United States settle any American troubles. Its hands are full. able to make a complete report on their availability, the cost of develop ing them and the routes of necessary railroads Into the country. . Formerly the work which will be done in about six weeks by these men would have required many years, and Its diffi culties would have been so great that it might not have been done at all. It does not require much vision to see the same principle extended to ex ploration of all the great northland. in which the chief obstacles hereto fore have been remoteness from a base and short season in which to work. RATIFICATION". Ratification with reservations is the order now for the republican senators. All well, if ratification with reser vations is ratification and not rejec tion, or vital amendment leading to r-joction by other nations. If the senate ratifies, but at the same time defines and interprets America's position in the league, not out of it, the American people may have reason in time to be grateful to the senate. But the senate should know that tb.3 American people are for a league and in the circumstances for the league as against no league. The senate cannot take the responsibility of defeat or of emasculation of the covenant under pretense of ratifica tion. Let there be a declaration of Amer ican purpose and policy. But let it supplement, not handicap nor sub vert, the ratification. But let the -senate raitfy. TRY IT Oi:T IX ORKnON, The Walla Walla Bulletin, which describes itself as an "independent! newspaper,", and which lives up to Its j motto with a reasonable degree of i consistency, has joined the grand parade of Washington newspapers and politicians under the banner of "Poindexter for President." The Bul letin touches the high lights of Its candidate's senatorial career, and lauds his courage and competency, and his "intimate knowledge of state, national and international affairs." The fact that Senator Poindexter was once a resident of Walla Walla doubt less gave the residents of that ob servent and discriminating city close opportunity to appraise this intimate knowledge of state, national and inter national - affairs. So they pronounce him fit. If they do not know, who does know? Let us not dispute their judgment; but let us also note that the Bulletin hits upon a sufficient reason why Mr. Poindexter should not be the candidate of the republican party for president; nor Mr. Uorah. nor Mr. Johnson, nor any of the clamorous and mistaken senators who by their opposition to the league of nations have made themselves Impossible as presidential candidates if the repub lican party has a gleam of sanity left. The Bulletin says it "does not agree with the senator's position on the lcngue of nations." Then why does the fiulletin support him for president? Surely it cannot be because he once lived in Walla Walla. Nor can it be that the Bul letin has a mischievous design to load down the republican party with a candidate who cannot be elected. It is Inevitable that the league is sue will be injected Into the national campaign next year, if perchance any senator or any other, who lias made war on the covenant and Indicated that he will vote against ratifica tion, shall be nominated. What then would happen, even if Mr. Polndextei should carry the great state of Wash ington? It may be hoped that the disin terested and self-sacrificing repub licans over in Washington, who are for Poindexter for president, but who have never heretofore been for him for anything else, will see fit to test the strength of their candidate else where. Let them come over into Ore gon and- put his name before the presidential primary next May, undei the significant and accurate slogan "Down with the league. If you want somebody else to win, vote for Poindexter." to them. Pioneer hardships bore fruit J In - patriotism and loyalty not often surpassed In our history. Historically, Grays Harbor has an especial claim on our sentiment. Cap tain Gray discovered the bay some four days before he sailed Into the Co lumbia river, anchoring In what he has described in his log as "a goodly harbor" on May 7, 1782. He named It Bullfinch harbor, but everyone is glad that the name of the discoverer him. self was given to it later. This dis covery played Its part in saving the Oregon country to the United States. Now the immediate occasion of the special edition which the World has printed Is the Imminence of an "oil boom." The list of natural resources has not been exhausted with enumera tion of timber and Its products, and agriculture, and whales, and fish, and cranberries, and so forth. The magic drill has pierced the earth and the geologists and other experts have passed Judgment on the work of the prospector. One thing Is sure to come to pass, and that Is that if diligent de velopment can compass results, Grays Harbor Is already a land of destiny. A people who have made the present Grays Harbor out of the chas that ex isted in the eighties are not going to let any resource escape them. The imagination is unequal to the task of picturing the Grays Harbor of a few years hence If only a small part of Its dreams are realized. Those Who Come and Go. Gleaning From the Press. In Other Days. n.WLIGMT SAVINO SAVED. President Wilson's veto of the agri cultural appropriation . bill because of its rider repealing the daylight saving clause of the existing- law, and the subsequent refusal of the house of representatives to pass tho bill over the veto give us at least another season In which to enjoy tho social Two hundred thousand acres of old land in Texas. Wyoming and Louisiana are what give E. J. Kellv of Chicago. L. D. Welch and C L. Woods of Denver claim to the title of second largest oil producers in the United States. The three men. accompanied by Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Welch, arrived In this city yesterday and will remain at ths Port land hotel the remainder of the week. They are Interested in a company to be formed in Portland which will be sup plied from their wells and refineries. Mr. Kelly. In addition to his connection with the business, is also a banker. "The folks over In Antelope ought to start running regular excursion parties out from Portland." said Hugh McUreer of that town yesterday as he stood in the Imperial lobby. "They'd be a great drawing card. Kvery Friday night two c.irloads come in and the town han a dance. About IS o'clock a reneral free-for-all fight begins. That's happened twice now and I don't see what's to prevent It from conllntrlng as a regular attraction." Mr. MeGroer Is passing three or four cays here disposing of a carload of calves and sheep he brought in from Shanlko. M.tybe Milton S. Florshelm or Chi cago doesn't l.tjf claim to the title of shoe king." but his name certainly gets enough mention in magaalne ad vert Wine. Mr. Florshelm stayed at the .Mention over night In company with Mra. Florsheim. Harold M. Florehelm. Mr. and Mrs. W. I.owenbach and Harry Lowenbach of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. H. Hyman. Miss Hyman and Har ris Hyman of Nw Orleans, with whom he has been touring Canada. The party are headed south. Kram Tmrk to Trench. Amity Standard. Leonard Wood returned the last of the week from France, where bo has been for a good many months. Having joined the Id Oregon at the very out break of the war. he soon saw service and was privileged to be in France as one of the flrst guard contingents. Upon his return to Amity he joined the men i Tnentr-flte Iran Am. From The oregonlan. Ju'y IS. ISM. Aberdeen. The tus Traveler arrived yesterday from Astoria, where she had been sent after a cargo of beer, a famine of thxt article belnir feared. SevcraJ of the merchants availed them selves of tho opportunity to secure needed good. Oreson city. For the first time since the strike blockade. "Portland looked good to me and so I came back." remarked It. W. Clark, day clerk at the Multnomah, as he , . . . , ,. . . ., snooK nanus wnn 1 1 1 a mumiun oi unci eeunuuut; uriivius ui uiioifiui e , . : , . . , ...,ii .v.... friends who Just two weeks sgo bid him a fond farewell. Mr. Clark heeded A 8TIDV IN CONTRASTS, Adequately to visualize the progress made by the rich region which we know as the "Grays Harbor country, one must not be content with statis tics but must have seen the place in pioneer times. The contrast Is amaz ing. The Rev. Charles McDermott, pioneer pastor, describes it vividly in one of the articles which make an In teresting symposium in the mammoth edition which the Aberdeen Dally World issued recently. The Rev. Mr. McDermott tells how when he un packed his belongings there In the presence of one of the earlier settlers a sidesaddle was disclosed. It was, he explained to the curious bystander, for the use of Mrs. McDermott, who was I serious economic loss.' very fond of riding. "Mister," said the habitant, "the only animal you'll ride in these parts Is a sturgeon, and don't you forget that." This was almost literally true. The incident serves to distinguish that part of the virgin wilderness ' from those other parts of the Pacific Northwest which responded sooner to the impulse of early pioneer settlement, but which have not exceeded Grays harbor In magnitude of subsequent achievement. Perhaps It was the very vastness of their Isolation that made these settlers what they were, that prepared them for the fight to overcome the obstacles that nature had placed in their way. Certainly the thriving cities around the harbor and in the near back-country have little resemblance to the rude groups of hastily constructed shacks in which community life was begun. It is not a long while (it was only in 18S2) since the first sawmill was built on the Hoquiam river. The pioneer mill at Aberdeen went up In 18S4. Folks traveled in boats then, because it was the only way. The wharves were prlmtive affairs. Commonly THINK OF THE COOL NIGHTS! Xot much can. be said in excuse or explanation of hot weather in Portland and western Oregon. Kasl of the mountains, they arc more or less used to it. and give welcome to a reasonable measure of it, for its effect on th; crops and the general temper. But on the west side, it is not desired nor needed, except ir. harvest time; and then alas! there is jio great certainty that the skies will not let loose sundry bucketfuls of rain. There are two seasons in the Willamette valley and coast coun try, the wet season (with variations) and the dry season (with exceptions). The infallible thermometer recorded the almost record-breaking figure of 100 degrees Monday. It was the first instance of such appalling eleva tion since 1915: and previous to that time it is said that there was a sim ilar meteorological crisis in 1907. It is raid that in that same caloric year, the apex of torridity in Portland was readied 102 degrees. Let us also one-board sidewalk led to the priuci -ay sorrowfully though with satis-! pal street, .which was not much of a thoroughfare, as we judge streets now. It rained a good deal around the bay Ing. .There Is hopo meanwhile that opponents of the change will In time grow so accustomed to it that they will withdraw their opposition. Protests against daylight saving were made by so-culled representa tives of the farmers. It is undeniable that some farmers were put to Incon venience; these were chiefly those en gaged in producing milk for urban consumption, who wero compelled to get up an hour earlier to meet trains. To some extent truck gardeners were similarly affected. There are cer tain seasons when the general farmer gains nothing by tho "saving" of day light, of which he already uses as much as there is. It is argued with force, for example, that the duttlng of tho hay crop is best done after the morning dew Is off. But the dairy and truck men do not represent the majority of farmers, and haying does not last all summer. The contention that farm laborers demand their share in daylight saving and that they want to enjoy the long evenings of leisure, as do their city brethren, is likely to operate in the end in favor of keeping the law on the books. It resolves itself into an issue of the greatest good for the greatest number. Frequently in a society such as ours it becomes necessary for a minority to make certain read justments for the good of others. Recent denial of intoxicants to those who never have misused them Is an illustration of this principle. The rural vote was quite generally cast in favor of prohibition, on the theory that it was good for the country, even if the cities did not like it. Now the farmers are reminded that turn about is fair play. Laylight saving is by no means a measure of retaliation the two issues are widely separated but they show how the spirit of mutual forebearance needs occasion ally to be Invoked. After a fair trial, daylight saving has commended Itself to a large body of the people, not only In Amer ica but abroad. Its repeal, as Presi dent Wilson says, "would Involve a The great economies of fuel and the substan tial economy of energy to which the president alludes in his veto mes sage have been proved by expert In vestigation. It may or may not be true that lighting companies have interested themselves in tho spread of repeal propaganda. It is well enough in the common interest to dis regard all special pleading. The fact seems to stand out that more Amer icans want daylight saving than op pose it, and that the plan gains in favor by experience, so that it is more than possible that by the time a new congress convenes the country will have settled down to the new routine, mutually satisfied with a system that brings advantage to the many and in convenience to the comparative few. people here were reasonably satisfied with the amount of mall received, and Well they inuihl he. nre''r receipt .of paper mall for the day . v ir t -. i lull 1.H St. Petersburg. There were reported In this city yesterday 21 $ new c of cholera ard ; deaths. The manufacturers' committee of the chamber of commerce has secured in other manufacturlnc plant In the shape of a condense I milk company. A most encouragiiiir feature of strike situation In Ihm cltv vexl.-r-.l-.v I wait the rcstiiiint 4.., f rr.-t.-i,. traffic on the Northern I'aciflc , tram oonnlwt ini5 el 1 : loaded car mejmect into the yards this morning digging the ditch for the sewers here. Guess digging trenches Is sort of in his blood, although he claims that It lot easier when you are not under or when the "sem squirrels" are not bothering you. But anyway, e are all mighty glad to see him bsck again. Mere Trouble for fat. Dufur Dispatch. Poor Fat. It seems that they m ill all take a whack at him. lie had to knock out A. W. Laffsrty about four times and various other would-be congress men hare contested Pat's seat. And now he lias to enter th ring aaa'net a female aptrant. Well, anyway., h saw the futility of maklna the race agalnat N. J. Slnnott and thought shs would seek greener fields. Jaat a Matter of t triori. Kugene Register. Competitive porta on ihe Pnctne coant " say that Oregon's chief port al Port land has no future because It lies miles up the Columbia. It Is s silly Kx-PreMdent Johnson had great d f argumcnt and for refutation of it oncjf,)ul!v ,,, b,.. r,ji,vc,, lo r,:;Mer at " l1""" " tirecTivlliC- Tcnn. lie was Pronounced "d!lo al" by a hlch-mmded Officer oT Fifty tears Abo. J From Ths Oregcnlan. July la. 1 FN. . ! ItruiifW lok. Me. Al the commence ment encrclsen of llowtloin collcae to- i day the giaduatitii; rl3 numbered 31. factinn Ibnt it u-ns vn Innn n irntlmf once before, in 1891, the same aston ishing apex was attained. If any one is inclined to be rest less and critical of the weather under the too successful assaults of the merciless sun. let him reflect on the sad plight of the middle west and south. Two or three yerfrs ago, in Kansas, it is recalled that for 100 days in succession the terrible ther mometer registered 100 in the shade or what they call shade in Kansas: and there was almost no relief dur ing the nights. In the great law of compensation, doubtless it is provided that there are,eitain pleasures about life in Kansas; but we have never heard what they are, ' it wo except the proverbial opulence of the Kan sas farmers. But it would be "diffi cult to persuade an Oregonian to live in Kansas for any consideration, un less he could be guaranteed at least cool nights. Let us assure our sweltering peo ple, who havo been saying with characteristic loyalty to Oregon, that hot weather here is uncommon, that their interpretation of the dis agreeable phenomenon is entirely correct. Let them stay with it, against the sneers of all the small army of faultfinders. They will be justified by the outcome. Sometimes, indeed, we have hot days a few to be sure: but ah! the cool nights. They can always be depended on. however warm the day, except when they fail, which, thank heaven, ii merely the exception that proves the rule. then, as it still docs, and It took good while to dig out of the mud. But tills has been done. The section of the World which describes the many beautiful automobile drives in the vicinity will be, to those who saw the place in the olden times, one of its most interesting studies in contrasts. A land which was either a tideflat or a primeval wilderness of giant trees, with little neutral ground, furnished the beginnings of the enterprising community that exists there today. It must be borne in mind that although the first settler went there in about 1S50, there was no settlement worth mentioning until about 1873 and that active industry did not begin until the early eighties. Development of the harbor country- has been compressed Into considerably less than forty years. In that time prodigies of work have been done. The very roads themselves called for enormous endeavor. Only the most hardy, and the most hopeful would have seen- In those forests the niakincrs of an sgrlculture. We read now that dairying Is a prosperous In dustry, and a growing one. Lumber ing has grown exceedingly, and is con ducted in the most modern way. The manufacturing industries allied with lumbering are there on a great scale. The essentials of a self-contained com munity, so far as these are made pos sible by the nature of the surround ings, have grown out of the spirit of independence which early separation from tiie rest of the world fostered. It is no small boast that Grays Harbor now makes, that it was able to fur nish the first wooden ship for the emergency fleet, and that it produced airplane spruce on a cost-plus basis at a figure far less than the average cost of spruce to the government as a whole. The people, as has been said. Judge Van Valkcnburg errs in as suming that Germany sends women prisoners to a nice, clean jail and gives them good, nutritious food, as is the custom in America. Germany treated the Belgian and French women far worse than that, and tho woman whom he merely fined for helping her husband to evade the draft law aided the Germans in their deviltry. The first Bastile day came two years after tho adoption of the American constitution. Since then 130 years have passed and soldiers from the re public which France helped to estab lish march with the French to cele brate their joint triumph in saving the French republic. The bond thus formed, and strengthened cannot be broken. Most everybody around here came from some place where the hot day was a "weather breeder." How would you enjoy- a "ripping" thunderstorm at the end. of a hot afternoon, with volley after volley rattling and roll ing above and tho vivid flashes indi cating a strike almost as near as tho next block? A forernst rf the future of the air plane in exploration and prospecting can be made from the news that an expedition has been sent by air to as certain the value of the wood pulp re sources of Labrador. There is to be a party of forty men. equipped with j early learned how to labor together, four airplanes, who will take photo-, They showed this in other ways dur graphs of all the large forests of the ing the war. Work for the common i.etiinsula, from which experts will be J interest was a kind of second nature Henry Ford says wo were prepared enough in 1915, but a year litter every uninformed man we could scratch was needed to keep Villa and his bandits south of the Rio Grande. Henry's views on preparedness are unconscious humor. When the allies force Germany to ask Holland for the ex-kalser's ex tradition, we shall learn how anxious Germany really Is for Lis return. the call tf the sad sea maves and took up a position with the Seaside hotel, but now he's back and back to stay, lie says the Multnomah Is good enough for him. Mrs. Clark is still at the beach and will remain there until Sep tember L Only D"0 people work for B. C. Stone, who was at the Multncm.-li yesterday while In Portland on a brief business trip. The fact of the matter Is Mr. Stone provides a majority of the em ployment In Cosmopolls, Wash., like wise a majority of the wooden boxes manufactured on the Pacific coast. "The business is getting bigger every year," he declared. " e have a great demand for meat and fruit packages, as so much more canned goods of this nature arc being shipped to foreign lands. This Is rather a new sort of product for us tu be putting out." For the past 15 years few people have sojourned at Seaside without hearing of Ian Moore, who until a short time ago owned and operated the Moore hotel, now the Seaside. With Mrs. Moore he has been passing a few days at Multnomah, returning last ngiht to the coast where he wilt remain through the summer. He hasn't an nounced any plans for the future, but rather Intimates that he can't stay away from the hotel business very long. Whenever a person asks W. K. Mc Cormick of Bend what he Is doing there Is one annwer he can be sure of and that is: "Shipping sheep." Mr. McCor mick divides his time -o that hi-tf of It Is spent sitting around the lobby of the principal hotel In his home town cracking Jokes with Irish ranchers and the other half Is given over to pro viding veal and lamb stews for the general public. He has Just arrived In Portland with a shipment of wool-on-foot and Is at the Imperial "The outlook for the seed crop In the Willamette valley is very good, but the acreage Is small." Thla is the opinion of A. K. Bather of Minneapolis, who is here purchasing seed for the eastern company he Is connected with. Mr. Bather is to be found at the Oregon. Tou wouldn't think It to look at the thermometer, but Winter has Just ar rived. His initials are G. B. and he is connected with the Interstate commerce commission and he is stopping at the reward. Although Mr. Winter hails from Washington. L. C. he has re cently been In Tacoma and is now go ing through the northwest territory on government business. T. H. Foley of Bend Is a busy man In addition to diHch.irKinsr his duties as president of the Bend Water, l.iirht and Power company, he generally sees to It that the Irrigation projects of central Oregon get plenty of attention. He registered at the Imperial yesterday and is in Portland on matters con nected with the Tumalo svstem of ditches. Bridgeport, Conn., is a long way from Portland. Or., but distance doesn't seem to make much difference In the plans of a party of tourists who registered at the Benson yesterday. The group, who re traveling !ji the west, include Mrs. K. F. Bartraroi Miss Kleanor C Bartram. J. B, Bartram and J. W. Wheeler Jr. Charles H. Vlck of Salem, who spends most of his :iine traveling over the northwest telling the innocent and trusting farmer what a wonderful In vention the Fordson tractor Is. regis tered at the Seward yesterdav. Mr. Vlck directs all of t he agncies for the tractor in Idaho. Oregon and Wash ington. m Kvery farmer is giving to have a tractor within a few years, according to Barney Doran, San i-ranclsco trac tor manufacturer, who Is at the Ore gon. Mr. Doran's firm Is putting, out a sprayer, with which he hopes soon to arm all of the small fruit growers of this section. I S. Lotran. Prlnevllle rancher, stopped at the Imperial yesterday on Ins way to Long Beach to Join bis wife. Mr. Lotran spends the winter In Port land, but in the warmer months trav els over to Crook county to raise hay and cattle. Mr. snd Mrs. H. P. Kennedy, who passed Monday night at the Imperial, left yesterday for Doe. where they will visit relatives. They motored to Port land from their home In Seattle. Mr. Kennedy Is engaged In the lumber business. Chicago Is sending vessel across the Atlantic. If Oregon furnishes the traf fic, ships In plenty will oome to Port land. Hon A boot Aato llanllf I .a Grande Observer. "It l strange." comments someone, "that In all these substitutes for the saloon nobody has sucVested the home." Happy thought! Ami the funny thing about It Is that the home habit can be acquired Just the same a the liquor habit, and there In nothing but th h c 1h t ion. The next steamer to China will In the Orcgonlrin. hlch will sail on Au gust 4. She Is a new ship and mill be utfd as a spate ship In Chinese waters. The Canion City Journal aa that some Indiana fiom tho I'lii.illlla reser vation have been at ttmt l-lace wild Molcn ten head of horses, which the l""K to Llk creek :lul pawned for 3.. New- York. It is stated that nix fats. More Truth Than Poetry. Ily Jaan J. Mootagoe. the movie nai.n tnat can nrea it up. ,. f .-holcra occurred In this city . . . I il.ii week. broiiKht from Cuba. TroWIe ( ooo t Kterrlkln. Hillsboro Independent. ' Portland's downtown tli?itrlt ha"' nothing that cannot be duplicated in I Htllnhoro on a Saturday night and the- congestion last week gave an idea of what conditions will be next year when the highway is built and Improvement of sldn roads will make an evening visit tothe county sent a pleasure and not an effort. Now Ten Wnlroff. Albany Herald. Sunday morning a boy born to Mi. and Mrs. C A. WalrufT of Albany round ed out the number of sons born to them and now living to nine and the number of children to ten. as they have one daughter. The oldest son will be rO years of age In October of this year. The mother Is Ss years of age and the father i. They live on Cleveland street. Where Ito Too tiet Itf Salem Journal. A glass or two of rich, unwatored buttermilk, the residue not of churned milk, but of churned cream, makes an excellent and sufficient lunch. It is really best without other food. Try it and be convinced. And pray that the price will not be doubled just as you are getting the habit, as Is the way of such things. I lr Mini C nrtla Making; tiood. Ashland Tidings. Miss Evelyn il'titi ) Curtis, former Portland newspsper woman, who Is ac tive In .the work of welcoming home the Oregon soldiers who arrive In New York, has developed into a rather suc cessful representatlve-at-large ex-offl-clo for the state of Oregon. Ready for Troobte. Cloverdale Knterprlse. C. Ray, our city mayor, returned from a business trip to Seattle last Tuesday. While there understand he Inter viewed Mayor Hanson of that city rel ative to the oncoming threatened strike of the Ironworkers and barbers of our city. Krieodleaa J. Barleycorn. Wheeler Reporter. Our fair state, having been dry for several years. Is just that much farther ahead of those states that became dry June 30, and if an election was held tomorrow to reinstate old John Barley corn in Oregon it would be defeated by a vote of 10 to 1. X hea It Ilurta to Kwk ootl. Junction City Times. Knocking is just as unfortunate a habit as a drug habit and the man In the clutches of such a habit Is greatly to be pilled. He hurts btmself even more than he hurts his town or his community. tiarden Party at stelahaeor'a. Greenleaf Item In Florence Mist. Steinhauer Ac Son are mourning the loss of their fine, garden. Tho cows, horses, pigs and goats all got in at once and spent the night, doing sev eral things. Terrortam la Suggested. Albany Democrat. Why keep an American army In Ger many to make the Huns behave. Just send over Sergeant York. Bo a Thraablos Maehlae. Myrtle Point American. Threnh your troubles out with your employers, but first thresh tho agitator who lives by creating trouble for you. Ihe olrlea IMoya. ighl In real rcd-bloodcd. rough- house movies. But 1 miss ttii iliain's wild, revenge ful shout. And tl.e maiden s shriek of horror when to- beans her fond adorer. In the k.iuiI old Knock-ciu-lown-iiiid- ra -'em -Out ! There la :lvns something lacking in a d ri hi, i When us wilder scenes are dcsiituie of noise. Absolute ;?mi utter silence alivaxs dampens acts of vi'lence. Those old ten-twent-lhirty thrillers were the boys ! - At the movies y our attention tnustn t w ander Or you'll never tee tho lovers when they kiss. And toe thrll.leM thrill missing when lliu ilium isn't hissing. What s a villain, when you never hear him hiss? When the hero takes a chair or kitchen table And comes down upon a gentleman ker-biam! Though he gives you lots of action. ytu would get more satisfaction. If you knew that you were going to hear the slam. And it always seems a little bit un canny When a man takes out the window and the sash As he's auddetily ejected that you don t as you expected. Hear that dear, delightful, funny, off stage crash. I Tou have also lost a lot of lovely hcail- throbs When the heroine Is tumbled off the boat. Disappears beneath a wavelet to a dark and watery- gravelct. While no vexttgu of a sound escapes her throat There are thrills, as I have mentioned, in the movies. But they never really serve to raiie your hair. Crimes committed on the quiet cannot ever Lo the riot When there isn't any screaming any where If the characters could talk while be ing murdered If the villains pulled the old-time villain lines Hissing. "Scoundrel. I shall kill you." then the photo plays would thrill y ou And you'd feel the good old chill run down your sptr.es. He Never awr the Inalde of a Uoelor'i Office. Only a very healthy man w-ondrrf what becomes of the old magazines Absolut el T, Some W'omen are born cooks, rii-iie achieve cooks, but none have cook thrust upon them. Nothing Hal. Wilson Leaves Chaos Behind Him Homau newspaper. And over here he lias found that life is just one cha5 after another. An Kngllshman can marry his sister-in-law, but an Kngllshwoman can not marry her brother-in-law. Now doesn't that sound Britishy? Soap prices continue ascending and there is no substitute for soap, nor anything nearly so good. Those longshoremen want a summer vacation. That's what's tho matter with them. Portland is getting along without the band concerts, but misses them. ' The wcatherfolk arc doing nicely. Paul R. Ring, who has the reputation of being both the largest and best known traveling man on the coast, la here from Seattle and Is making the Multnomah his headquarters. Roads are good between Portland and Monroe., according to W. Wllhelm, who with his wife and Mathisi Wll helm motored to the city yesterday. They were at the Seward over night. Mrs. WJlliam M. Porter and her daughter. Miss Ituth Porter, of Ku gene, are at the Seward while In Port land on a shopping trip. A. Sorenson. who Is captain of a merchant vessel which runs Into San Francisco. Is in Portland and passed Monday and Tuesday at the regon. G. C. Fulton, an attorney- from Asto ria. Is at the Portland while here at tending to legal matters. P. J. Worrell, proprietor of the prin cipal hotel In Tillamook, has been stop ping at Ihe Oregon- j. W. Toner, stock men from Wnlla Walla, is registered at the ltn-'Cilal. TILLAMOOK CHARMS K. I IMTOR City la Hoapltahle aod It la R oo f I n g for All Orrcoi, PORTLAND, July 13. (To the Kdi-tor.)--It was my great pleasure to bo one of the vlsting I. O. K. K.s to Tillamook on June SS. and I cannot help but speak In the very highest terms of the spirit of up-and-doiug that Tillamook People are showing. Of course, as Knights of Pythias we fully expected thst the people of Tillamook would give us a royal wel come and we really expected a grand time. However. 1 speak of the new spirit that seems to be a part of the Tillamook people as a body. They greet sll comers and are not afraid to Dhow vtsltora that the city of Tillamook Is on the map and forging ahead. When I spoke of this to several of the leading boosters, they railed my attention to Ihe fact that they were boosting for all Oregon. Oregon prod ucts and Oregon payrolls. 1 really believe that the caravan we made up on this trip must have ap peared to the coast folks as a starv ing delegation for sure. We had four meals served to us of the finest cheese and the most delicious salmon and crabs that man ever ate. And did we eat? 1 don't believe that a person who sat down lo those tables ever ate so much or . had so much .to eat at one time In sll his life. One reason for this was that the sal mon were caught fresh from salt water and the providers knew- how tw. cook them without losing the color or flavor. It took Tillamook men to arrange the feasts, and they surely know- how to handle affairs of this kind. I was requested by a number of those who made up the D. o. K. K. caravan to send in an expression of appreciation to Chancellor Commander Oathout who had charge of the' Tilla mook reception, to Toota" Cardiff who prepared and cooked such royal meals for us. and to the many other Tillamook hustlers who met us at every turn with a royal welcome. EDWARD G. BALGLU. Flattery. Ily t.race K. Hall. Oh. ' has I know a lovely lady who kifscd a blarney-stone, Thoui:h shf's iicvcr seen "ould Ire land" 1 know-; i-ut she has the smooth palaver thai had led her to tho throne. Had sho chanced to live in days long ago. You may bo an ugly duckling that ths w hole world passes by. You perhaps havo never heard of V'arney-stones, But she'll see your one good rating point and this she'll magnify 'Til she sends delicious tickles through your bones. Now. this lady Is much sought for by tiitt- foolish and the wise. Not an hour alone the'a ever forced to spend: They speak of her as "charming" and her "tact" they advertise As they hasten to enroll her as "dear friend." They provide her entertainment she. in turn, feeds their conceit Though not one has e'er suspected her of guile: But I wonder what she's thinking, a. they kow-tow at her feet. While she hands them llarneye-I phrases with a smile. Wants Trade School Llat. MARSHKIKI.P. Or.. Juiy 9. l To tho Kditor. ) 1 would be very grateful to you if you would send me a list of the sv hools or other places in Portland where thev teach mechanics. M. W. McLARRIN. The principal school for mechanical instruction in Portlsnd is Benson Poly technic, which Is solely a trade high school operated as part of the pub lic school system. The T. M. C. A. also has courses of this nature, information concerning which you will be supplied with by writing to the edu cational department. Two automobile ict.oo'.s Hemphill's and the Adcox are opvratcd by piivutv individuals.