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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN TUESDAY, JUL.Y 22, 1919. iftormng w$tmvxxt tSTABLI&HED Bt HENRI l riTTOCK. . Published by The Oregontan Publishing Co- l.l.VSv.-th Street. Portland. Oceson. C. A. MOSPEN, K. B. PIPER. Manager. " Edito"-. The Oregonian Is a member of the A o- riated Fre-. The Associated Prsu Is ex clusively enritled to the u for publica tion of all news dirpatrhes credited to It or not othern-i-. credited in this P4Pr and also the locn! new-s punched herein. All rights J of republication of special dispatches heroin are rtlso reserved. Subscription Hater Invariably In Advance; (By Mall.) Bally, Ftmdiy Included, one year ?'2? riailv, Sunday included. ilx months - tJaily, Sunday included, three months 2-25 Dlly, Sunday included, one month Eaily, without Sunday, one year "? Daily, without Sunday. 8 month? 3,-s lai;y. without Sunday, out month -J tVeekiy. one year J Sunday, one vear. Sunday and weekly (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday included, one year 9'2? 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The league is -a- good thing because it does not curtail American sovereignty and does not impose any obligations. That is precisely equivalent to saying that we should support the league because it is going to be ineffective and worthless, and can't possibly count for anything In the world's arrairs of the future. North Yakima Republic. The Oregonian thinks there is no good reason for anyone to misunder stand or misstate what it has said about the league of nations. It has nowhere said that the league imposes no obligations. It has distinctly said, and said many times, that it imposes obligations. Whether or not the league curtails sovereignty may depend on one's defi nition or understanding of sovereignty. Sovereignty is the supreme power of government to control its own affairs, yielding to no superior authority. But is it a surrender of sovereignty for the sovereign power to agree in certain conditions to do, or not to do. certain things? If it is. the United States and every other civilized government sur render their soveretgn freedom of ac tion whenever they make a treaty with any other nation. Does our North Yakima friend think that no treaties or covenants should be made with other nations, but that we should reserve the sovereign privi lege of doing whatever it pleases us to do whenever we please to do it, without the consent or authority, or counsel, of any other nation whatso ever? If we do as much, we shall be within our sovereign rights, exercising without limit or restraint our sovereign rights as a sovereign nation. If we do less, it may be plausibly argued that our American sovereignty is thereby curtailed. But if. in the sovereign in terest, the sovereign chooses to lay down certain rules ror the sovereign guidance, is it not then the highest demonstration and fulfillment of sov- ereignty ? Sixty years ago there were thirty odd sovereign s'-ates in the union. Now there is one soveerign government. We do not at all seek a parallel with the league of nations by showing that ultimately there will be but one sov ereign league: only to show that a fetich may be made of sovereignty, as it was made, and great wrongs may be done in its name. The United States is now the sovereign, and the states are the indissoluble links of an indissoluble . federal chain. But the way out of the league is provided for America; it cannot be held against its sovereign will. Nor in the great affairs of the league, where other nations are concerned, can America be compelled to do what it does not desire o do. But it prom ises to do whatever it should do, and it has a controlling voice in determin ing what It should do. The oft-repeated statement, that America can be out voted in the league, and coerced by Great Britain or any other power, is buncombe. It may not vote, indeed, when it is the principal in a contro versy to be adjudicated by the league. Xoes North Yakima think it should sit in judgment in its own case? If so, it repudiates the whole principle and scheme of arbitration, and proclaims the infallible and sovereign Isolation of America against all others. The Oregonian thinks the league will be just as 'Strong as the good faith of the nations comprising it the stronger nations. It is an experi ment, and it is worth making. The Oregonian has not been wholly sure that it will succeed no one'ean be and has regarded as fallacious and even absurd and Utopian some of the claims made for it. But its doubts it has felt obliged to resolve in favor of a trial, in concert with other nations, of a common method to keep the peace among them. If it shall be the means of keeping the peace even for a few years, it will be a gain. The Oregonian is not greatly dis turbed because it finds itself in har mony with a democratic president and with the democratic minority in con gress on the league of nations. They have said it is not a partisan issue. But it is much disturbed that many republican newspapers are opposed to the league and would commit the party to opposition. To what end? If the league is defeated through the repub lican party it will, in our opinion, be disastrous, first, to the world, and, fecond. to the republican party. The Oregonian would avoid both disasters. But it would avoid the first in any case. THE MAZAM.AS. The Mazamas. who celebrated on Sunday the quarter-centennial of the formation of the prototype of their present organization, have in their lifetime conferred lasting benefits np cn a good many individuals. The mountain climber is a high type of pedestrian and nature lover combined. By furnishing the supreme incentive for outdoor adventure, he leads others into ways that are good for them and for all with whom they come in contact. The lesser trails clubs, the hikins societies and even the Boy Scouts themselves are the outgrowth of this growing sentiment in favor of sane exercise. To be a full-fledged Mazama one Is required to have performed certain specified feats, which nevertheless need not deter the less hardy and ad venturous. There is a great deal to be said in favor of pedestrianisni in ceneral, and in behalf of lesser ex plorations. It is not as well known as it ought to be that the immediate vicinity of Portland is singularly set apart in this regard. Both sides of the Columbia river, and two great mountain ranges teem with scenery made accessible by excellent trails. Private enterprise has done much to open thse to the public. Beacon rock, on the Washington side of the river, and the trail to Hamilton moun tain are -examples of these. And the federal government has extended a blanket invitation to all to enjoy its forest reserves. - Owners of automobiles are not al together to be envied. Not all of them have the knack, which John Burroughs has acquired,, of driving slowly enough to enjoy "themselves. The chronic traveler misses much of the beauties of nature which the pedestrian could not escape if he would. Hiking is not only a healthful but an exceedingly economical diver sion, of which a good deal more misrht be made. One need not have scaled a. perpetual snow mountain to be eligible to the great society of those who love the big outdoors. OREGOVb forgotten wonders. The wonders of Clear lake, in the Santiam Pass, were described in The Oregonian the other day. There is quite an assortment of Clear lakes in Oregon and elsewhere; but only one Clear lake worthy the name. Clear lake has fish and pn icy cold ness, and a steel-blue stillness and' a picturesque and reposeful setting that give it distinction enough for any lake: but it has something more. It has at its bottom the standing survivors of an ancient forest, all perfectly visible through the transparent waters, with monument-like trees and prostrate logs apparently as they were in re mote ages before some glacial con vulsion deposited a crystal cascade upon them and left it there. Clear lake was the wonder of a past generation, who traveled long distances over mountain trails to see it and cast a hook and line in it. Once the main current of travel from the Willamette valley to central Oregon the Ochoco country was over the Santiam pass; but in late years other routes have been preferred. The ter rors of Sand mountain are in part responsible. The faithful horse could negotiate it; but the automobile stalls, its wheels turning futilely in the fly ing sand. Some day there will be a good road through the pass, and then Clear lake will eomc into its own. For it is one of nature's marvels, and it is worth going a long way to see. STILL FAR TO GO. Oregon has a sympathetic interest in ratification of the national equal suffrage amendment, but it is- a de tached interest when practical results are considered. The women of Oregon will gain nothing by ratification before the next presidential election. They will have full franchise rights in any event. Ratification by Oregon is certain. Early action by it would have no moral effect on wavering states for its position is known and conceded. The only sound reason, therefore, for sum moning a special session of the legis lature to ratify the amendment would exist in a reasonable showing that Oregon's action was needed to com plete the roll of thirty-six states prior to the 1920 election. If that showing can be made and assurance given that the members will bear their own ex penses a special session will- be jus tified. Otherwise it will not. There is much to achieve to make equal suffrage universal before the next presidential election. Only eleven states have thus far ratified. They are Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas. New York, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa and Mis souri. Two states, Georgia and Alabama, have rejected the amendment. The following states have granted the right to women to vote either in full or in some, particular, and are relied upon to ratify: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colo rado, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Minne sota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming 19. . Three states, at present non-suffrage, are counted on to ratify on the ground of polls of members of their legislatures. They are Maryland, New Hampshire and Vermont. If all the states aforementioned which have not yet acted shall ratify, the amendment will still require rati fication by three states out of the following thirteen: Virginia, Kentucky. Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina. Florida, Dela ware, Connecticut, New Mexico, North Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee. This is in general the "off year" of legislatures. In a few states annual sessions are held, but customarily the law-making body meets biennially in the odd year. Out of this general un certainty, coupled with the necessity for numerous special sessions to com plete ratification, it seems hardly likely that Oregon's support of the amendment will be needed before the regular legislative session convenes in 1921. DEFENDERS Or THE CLASSICS. Dean Andrew F. West of Princeton university, ardent champion of the classics In education, returned to the lists the other day at Milwaukee, when in opening the national classical conference of the National Education association he declared that study of the classics must be maintained "be cause they are vitally important to your own national language." He continued: We are forming this American Classical league, therefore, to invigorate our entire high school and college education, to Insist that there is no education worth the name unless it Involves training. the mind, not for the sake of money, place or power, hut in order to develop our boys and girls to their highest mental and tnral excellence, to make them masters in thought and expres sion, and thus to send them out equipped for lives of the highest utefulness. He received support from various sources. The commissioner of educa tion of Pennsylvania, Thomas F. Fin negan, representing, as he reminded the conference, or of the greatest industrial states of the union, pleaded for continuance of the classical studies. "I do not," he said, "interpret the action of school administrators, in developing modern and industrial courses, to mean that our love of culture and the humanities is to be debauched by material and commercial affairs." He would not. he said, divert any American boy or girl from oppor tunity to study the traditional academic courses. If times as are perilous for the classics as the volume of protest against .neglecting them would indl cate, it is worth while to inquire whether methods of instruction are not at least partly to blame. It is prob ably not an accident that Latin, and even English, are commonly classed as "dry", studies. Dean West has on previous occasions pointed out the possibilities of humanising the so called humanities, but not a great deal of progress has been made in this direction. But it is not a new experi ence to find students complaining that the dead languages have failed to fire their active imaginations. Benjamin Franklin more than a century and a half ago gave up the attempt to study Latin, until he had made some prog ress in French and Italian, through which he was led to discover hidden beauties in classical instruction. There would seem to be a hint here for pedagogues. Coupling of at least one modern language with the ancient ones possesses certain advantages from the point of view of the progressive schoolmaster. To the large new body of students who are seeking education from the primary motive of equipping them selves to make a better living, the classics will appeal only aa they keep pace with modern desire to know the underlying reason for everything. Claims in behalf of classical branches which appeal to the mature mind have a different ordeal to pass through when they are placed In competition with the bread-winning studies of fered to pupils whose cardinal prin ciple is action. The new classical league will do well if it bears this in mind, and begins by addressing it propaganda, not to prospective stu dents, but to teachers who have failed to keep their methods up to the times. LIVING IX THE PAST. A few days ago The Oregonian began a canvas of the newspapers of Oregon to ascertain both newspaper choice and community preference for repub lican candidate for president of the United States. The results of this caivass will be reported in full in due time. Mention Is made of the enter prise at this time to remark that In more than thirty replies so far re ceived, fourteen republicans are men tioned as either first, second or third choice, but the name of Senator Potn dcxter of Washington is not among them. An exception to the old adage that the prophet is not without honor save in his own country thus seems to exist in favorite-son campaigns. If Oregon sentiment reflects that of states other than that which sent Mr. Poindexter to the senate, shen the campaign started in his behalf has a long, hard row to hoe. Even over in Washington we find this expression of admiration for Mr. Poindexter In the Camas Post qualified by the statement that the Post is far from being for Poindexter for president. Mr. Poindexter stands right where Presi dent Washington did with regard to "en tangling alliances" with Europe. And we may add that the . "stand' taken by Mr. Poindexter on the league Is making him some new friends without losing any of his old ones. For the sake of exactness it may be said that the term "entangling alliances" did not originate with Wash ington. The popular slogan of Ameri can isolation "Honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" was coined more than two years after Washington's death by Thomas Jefferson, whom present-day democrats revere as their political an cestor. Washington, who had passed through the trying experience of keep ing his country out of a European war into which our great obligations to France seemed to many to summon us. did counsel in his farewell message against particular national friendships and particular national enmities; against political attachments to for eign countries, and he recorded an admonition against "permanent alli ance" with any "portion" of Europe. How he would have viewed a world wide league to enforce arbitration of international disputes, such as the league of nations, had the United States in his day been a world power, nobody need profess to say. It is plain, however, that some of our statesmen take no cognizance of progress of transportation and its elimination of the Atlantic ocean as the- barrier which once gave us a "detached and distant situation." The world in its forward movement has left them behind.' They stand on the issues of 122 years ago. As for political friendships lost or acquired by one's attitude on the league covenant, the canvass of Oregon newspapers and communities promises to provide further revelation for our journalistic friend across the Columbia. WHY JELLICOE DID NOT PVBStE. As the populai imagination yearns for a dramatic finish to a battle, there is a lingering feeling of regret that the British fleet did not follow up the German fleet at Jutland and dispose of it as completely as Nelson anni hilated the French at Aboukir and Trafalgar. From the outbreak of the war the British people had looked forward to another Trafalgar, and had been encouraged by Winston Churchill's oratorical flourish about hunting the German ships like rats out of their holes. Admiral Jellicoe has even been twitted with overcau tion in not pursuing the German fleet through the minefields to its bases. though this was precisely what the Germans wanted. In his book on the grand fleet Jel licoe brings out one of several funda mental differences between the situa tions at Jutland and Trafalgar which show on how narrow a margin of su periority the British were working to maintain command of the sea. In number of capital ships the grand fleet was vastly superior, but in sev eral important respects the individual ships were inferior, and to that fact was chiefly due the heavy British loss at Jutland. Most Impressive of all the facts brought is that the British had concentrated practically all their strength in the grand fleet, for In ad dition they had in home waters and the Mediterranean "only thirteen cap ital ships (all of pre-dreadnought typc3 and therefore obsolescent) and five light cruisers." By contrast Nel son had at Trafalgar twenty-six capi tal ships and nineteen frigates op posed to the. French and Spanish thirty-three capital ships, but the British navy at that time had in com mission forty-seven capital ships and fifty frigates In addition. If Jellicoe' s fleet had been destroyed or so weakened as to be reduced to inferiority to that of Germany. Britain would have lost command of the sea. the British coasts would have been blockaded, movement of troops and supplies to all of the allies by sea would have stepped, the blockade of Germany would have been raised, that country would have been free te draw supplies from neutral countries and could probably have starved and invaded Britain. The inevitable con sequence would have beeu subjuga tion of the allies. Jellicoe would not have been justified in running such awful risks in the bare hope of win ning a crushing victory. If all of Nelson's fleet had been lost, a more numerous fleet would have continued the war. That Jellicoe would have run eucb risks is evident from the circum stances. He would have had "to pur sue the Germans through extensive mine fields, in laying which they were superior to the British, to face torpedo attack by submarines superior to his own both in number and char- ; cter, and to fight powerful land bat- j teries protecting the tierman bases after It had been proved that ships are not effective against such artil lery. The British harbor were ill defended and exposed to attack, and he ascribes the neglect of the Ger mans to make serious attacks to their ignorance of this fact. The justification of Jellicoe') strat egy at Jutland is to be found in the events which followed. The German government dared not admit the truth that its fleet had been hopelessly crippled, for it feared the disastrous effect on German morale. The high fleet never again came out to fight, and its morale was destroyed by In action, which was a confession of in- lertonty. The gamblers at Berlin j the sea by resort to unrestricted sub marine warfare, which brought the United States into the war. That fact insured Germany's defeat, both on land and under the sea. The at tempt to make a final bid for victory on October 31. 1918. revealed the ut ter demoralization of the German sea men by provoking them to mutiny in tho belief that they were to be sacri ficed. Then followed In logical se quence the armistice and the sur render of half the German fleet for Internment, with the certainty that it meant absolute surrender. On that day the victory of Jutland was com plete, and the world realized how complete it was. It crushed German sea power no less surely and com pletely because it crushed slowly. In fact we can measure the qual ity of the naval strategy of the war, and of the courage, endurance, genius and patience of every man concerned, only when we view the naval war as a whole. In the large sense one con tinuous battle was fought In the North sea from the day when the grand fleet disappeared Into the northern mists: through the days when it swept the stormy waters In search of an enemy who hid. in port or under the waves, when it encountered the foe on the Doggerbank and sent him scur rying to his hole wHh a ship lost and another In flames; through the titanic battle near Horn reef, from which the lamed German fleet skulked in the darkness to the shelter of its mines, to claim a victory which it had not won and which it had abandoned hope of winning: through the death struggle with the submarine, in which the American fleet gave welcome aid and which ended in confessed defeat when the North sea barrage penned the U-boats in a trap, to tha final, unprecedented shame of the mutiny and surrender. Jutland battle was actually finished then, at May Island, though thirty months divided its be ginning from its end. "The patient watch, the vigil long." was the task of Jellicoe and his men. They kept it bravely and faithfully and they won the reward. Henry Ford's feelings on being called an- anarchist probably resem bled those of Dr. Johnson's landlady when the enraged philosopher finished a tirade by calling her an isosceles triangle. She did not know what he meant, but she knew from his tone that It must be something awful, so she wept and said she didn't know what she'd done to be called a name like that. To avoid libel suits by Henry it will be advisable to use words of one syllable. Every now and thenthe man tired of civilization and longing for exist ence on one of the South Sea island, "where every prospect pleases," has the heart scared out of him by the report of a tidal wave that skimmed everything off the very spot of hi! dreams.. It is up to everybody to brush up his knowledge of nautical terms in readiness to talk the language which the "gobs" understand, and it will be useless to hunt up the old sea stories, for the terms of the sailing ships are obsolete. ' Suppose the Beavers do stay In the second division. They're our team and one sees good ball in spots. Perhaps a bit of loyalty will hearten thein. Suppose we try it when they come home. Senators may well speak of "a war sick world." but It is slso an oratory sick world, and some college may soon debate the question: "Which is the greater evil war or senatorial ora tory?" Just watch Forest Grove rebuild Of concrete and profit from her disaster. Fire cannot down a rood Oregon town. Heppner shows that, and so will "the Grove." We need a "new policy In Mexico. When our troops go after bandits who kill Americans, they need not be par ticular. Any old bandit will do for the lesson. There may be 30.000 horses on the Oregon ranges only fit for food, but a fellow is not going o eat horsemaat if be knows it and can get anything else. It would be well before accepting Germany's offer of the biggest Zep to innir tha thine- in the mouth, as It were. German generosity is suspicious. The victim of collision with a fire chief learns in one lesson to pick a better collider next time. About "thirty bucks" is the price. Ever try a ride on the river for relief of mind trouble, or aejaunt of a day to the ocean to see the waves do all the work? , If hogs go much higher the fellows who raise them msy be Inclined to provide better boudoirs for the animals. Venus, the sun and Jupiter were In evil aspect yesterday. Perhaps that's why dinner went wrong last night It was not expected that Bryan was missing much on his Oregon trip until he missed a train at Reseburg. There are no strings now on General Ansell and he is in position to make a few bureaucrats hop lively. The sole way a senator can remain firm is by keeping away from the White House. 'Dry enforcement is drastic. Is it? We Oregonians should worry. Foch got what was coming when the women in London kissed him. Those Who Come and Go. Lumber mill owners around Portland are trwi busy to stop their plants long enough to put in much-needed dry kilns and nuke other repairs. This Is the discovery made by E. F. Tindolph of Seattle. h passed the night at the Benson. Mr. Tindolph makes periodical visits here for hi company and thor oughly canvasses the lumber business. "For the first time In many ieare," he declared, "things are moving! and the tlmbermen themselves are willing to acknowledge that thev are risking money." Many Improvements, he paid, are to be put in local plants, and two of them have already contracted for new kilns. When the National Credit Men's asso ciation went to Detroit last June Sidney C. Miller, one of the Chicago delegates, met the Portland bunch and let them fill him so full of enthusiasm over this city that he doffed his own badge and borrowed one of the Oregon ones, which he wore through the session. Mr. Mil ler is at the Congress hotel and is looking around for a location In Port land, aa he has decided he would like to stay In order to be iIom to his two daughters at Hood fllver. Mrs. K. W. Sinclair and Mr. Monte K.eers- He spent a year In Oregon In 1301. The time was 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. The place was room 32a In the Oregon hotel. and the girl was MiHS Charlotte Wade of Tillamook. It nilscht be adaed at thts poit In the narrative that the man was W. S. An derson of the cheese metropolis, who came clear to Portland to have the hy meneal knot tied, where hia friends would have no chance to dispose of tlielr spare rice and old shoes by placing them in his suitcase. The wedding waa fol lowed by a dinner party In the grill, at tended by a number of acquaintances of the couple, who happened to be in town at the time. The Illihee Country club, down south of Salem, couldn't net along without J. W. Harbison, who In audition to lo inK one of Its staunchest members, pro vides the golfers with their clnba and halls. He likewise is a friend of the fisherman and. in fact, any sportsman. for he helps to run a very complete store for llicm in the capital city. He is staying at the Imperial with Mrs. Harbison, who la a live wire In parent- teacher circles and Is pushing the move ment for Junior high school gymnasi ums in Salem. Steep roads near While Salmon are treacherous, according to W. S. Bennett, who drove In from Boise yesterday with his family and who is to be found at the Portland. Mr. Bennett said lie passed a place where two machines were In a anch and two more were be ing; towed Into town. On man had beta seriously Injured In the smasnup and several others were badly bruised. "What's going on In town that all the hotels are crowded?" demanded H M. Wheeler of Loi Angeles when he registered at the Oregon yesterday. Mr. Vv neeler with 1. W ciueraan, M. Kurd in. Mrs. Kosa Burns aud Dr. and Mrs. Vt . t' Hoiman of lm Anfceics ana Mrs. Emma Biancn&rd ot Oakland and Mrs. annate Seymour ot Mill Valley is making an automobile tour in the northwest. Tug parly came to Portland in two cars. When Sherman Pruitt left San Fran cisco in his car a lew cays ago he thought it would come to Portland without being coaxed, but he discovered tils error wnen he siruck bad roaos iu southern Oregon. He is now Doping tor belter luck between here and Se attle, tor whlcn city he is bouno. Leo haruy, of the Muray Lumber company, came wtin nim, but will not attempt to complete the journey. The two men are at tne Benson. Mr. Pruilt is connected with a home manufacturing firm. To look at the Portland hotel register one might suppuse ail ot Aaioria a uusl uees had moved to this city and wonder how tne Columbia river port is getting; along without C. H. Waizek, C, i. Cal ender. C. I. Barr. Judge F. C. Fulton, B. Stone and E. le. Fabke. Last nierhi's train brought. In Georsa W. ean oorn. of me Binbra Canning; company, and K. It. Bariielt and Frank Paliou, two merchants, who came to attend the government rate hearing. Proud possessor ot a coat of tan that would do Justice to an army muie is B. K. La Due, publisher of tne v alia v alia Union, who haa been adorning the Ben son lobby. Mr. and Mrs. La Due have been passing two weeks at Cannon beaoh acQUirtng a genuiue sbnburn aud are now on tlitir way home. About the time H. L. Bown decided he didn't want to be sheriff of Lane county any longer, the voters handed him a job as county judge and he has been serving In thai capacity ever since. Judge Buwn is registered from Eugene at the Oregon. i Several years ago before the Mult nomah hotel changed hands Henry Bowers used to be manager. Since that time he has been occupying a similar position with the Donnelly of Tacorna. Mr. Bowers is again renewing ac quaintances at the former hostelry while here on bis way home from Sea side, where be passed a week. Yellowstone and Glacier national parka are places where Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Braaslg and their two daughters have chosen to spend the summer. They have been in San Francisco and spent the night at the Portland while on their way through. Mr. Brassig Is a Mew York clothing manufacturer. They didn't say what they were go ing to catch they simply went on a week's vacation. So the lobby of the Imperial must get along for a few days without Harry Hamilton, chief clerk, and H. A. Metchan. who are at Bright- wood, the former's summer home in the mountains. The name of Strauss has attached to It much distinction in connection with New York civic affairs. Charles Strauss, president of the board of water aupply of the country's greatest city, arrived last night at the Multnomah. He Is ac companied by Mrs. Strauss on his west ern trip About six years ago 'Gene Murphy was engaged in the hotel business in Portland, but forsook It for the sunny south. With Mrs. Murphy he drove in yesterday from Los Angeles and stopped at tha Multnomah to rest after his long, hot trip. Robert Parker of the United States shipping board office in San Francisco is at the Portland while visiting hia brother, John Parker, of the Siandl fer company at Vancouver. C. B. McCullough. who collects col lege boys to learn englnering In the state highway department, was at the Steward yesterday. He slopped on his way from Salem to look over road work. Although he Is in the automobile business. J. N. Boss of Walla Walls didn't care to tackle the rough roads when he came to Portland yesterday with his wife. They are among the arivals at the Imperial. Because his cattle couldn't get to the stock yards very well without his aid. J. J. Price came in from Prineville this week and is spending a few oay at the Imperial. G. H- Harvey and family of Boise are enjoying what they term a "won derful trip" They are touring Oregon by automobile and passed the night at the hotel by the same name. John T. Vaughn, who helps provide bread for the world is a Heppner vis itor at the Imperial. Mr. Vaughn is owner of a big wheat ranch. Gleanings From State Press. Fear of m Kiael V las. Heppner Gasette-Times. There will he at least four substan tial buslnet. structures under way In ITenpner within the next 30 days. P-e- itnn to look like we are coming back strong. Ottt ef the anple Cae. F'Ugeue Register. Hot weather in Oregon lasts Just long enough t. let us know h'-V' un pleanant it would be if we had to put up wtth It reeularly. bog Ml Fereaplae 1 is. Cottage Grove Sentinel. Several dogs belonging to Leslie Groat are said to have come oft second best in a contest with a porcupine, one of the animals d mg from the wound and all of the does suffering severely from Injuries inflicted by the quills of the ""porky. " The porcupine is a rare animal In this section and the oldest inhabitants can remember of but two or three ever being found. Bill Goes Bark e ilarr. V Pendleton Tribune. Bill Sloan, salesman at tho Hub. has resigned his position and leaves today for leing Creek, where he will attempt to regain his health on the end of a hay fork. Keep the nosra a-Relllng Harrisburg Bulletin. We've got to keep business going. If we w ant to -keep the good times rolling we must not be too anxious about hoarding. Buy the necessities, TKn't cinch a nickel until you make every body around you red In the face. That kind of saving will bring back the uollar-a-day wage. The ,ertlre Maa Prrlerre Pendleton East Oregonian. Because he is a luu per cent man he will give 100 per cent service. Effi ciency will be the greatest asset In our coming industrial life. Every man and every machine will have to work at 10U per cent capacity. Two hundred mil lion days a year are lost to our Indus tries through sickness alone. If your factory Is to run to Its full capacity you must employ healthy workers. The returning soldiers are the cream ot the health of our nation. I'aalah (he l-leetioa Slacker. Blue Mountain Eagle." The Eagle Is going to advocate for the next two years the disfranchise ment of all voters who fair-to vote for three consecutive elections. When a man or a woman haa no more Interest in public affairs than to miss three elections their right of suffrage is of no value en- interest to them and It should be taken away from them. Such people should not be allowed to vote. At the election In June only 20 per cent of the registered vote voted. Something will have to be done to cure such In difference. Welcosse the New Citiaeaa. Oregon City Enterprise. Let us extend the hand of welcome to those who have cast away all foreign tiea and become one of us for the honor and glory of our land. Mast Bay a Log mm Ball. Baker Democrat. America is no longer a pleasure re sort for the rehabiliation of European paupers. We still have room fur earnest men, who accept our govern ment and who destre lo become a loyal part of it so long as they do live: but those who come from over the seas from now on must understand that this Is a place to stay and grow up in. not merely a tenting place for a night. All Right New. Albany Democrat. The majority of the public seems to be in sympathy with the strikers. Then the public must be willing to pay the increases in salaries that the girls ask. for the difference will eventually be added lo rentals and tolls. The senti ment among the businesa men is pretty well divided. Some claim that the girls cannot earn all that they are ask ing. That may be, but we are living in a different age times are different than they were but a few short months ago. We are becoming accustomed to higher prices and the whole standard is changed. Col am a Killers. Sclo Tribune. The Tribune family is obligated to Dr. A. G. Prill for sonic large and lus cious Blng cherries: also to George Merdlan for Royal Annes and to Mrs. Ellwood Iwr new potatoes and peas. Pardoaahle Pub. Bend Press. It is to be sincerely hoped that the preliminary work of the city council in the maiter of Improving the streets of Bend will soon take some concrete form. . Doa't Forget reeone! Syllable. Malheur Enterprise, Vale. Portland is mads up of two syllables, namely "port" and "land." They put the emphasis on the first syllable, yet it wouldn't be worth a whoop if it was not for the second backing it up. It I possible to Increase the Oregon crop production 1 1.000. 000. OOu annually. Let's look to ourselves and the world will look for us. The Eejattable Tax. Hillsboro Independent It is probable that while the Income tax has never been received with en thusiasm, the people will favor It as the lesser of two evils and It will be adopted. And when you come to think t over, it should be adopted, for the burden of taxation can be more evenly distributed if applied to what a roan earns than if applied to what be earns it with. Ita Great LlahUltr. Jefferson Review. This sdmintstration hag done every. thing possible te put the newspapers out of business, a fact that will be re membered In 120. Flae ClrL The Dalles Chronicle. The county fair Is the handmaiden of prosperity. Hos rirkrra r-hal Get 3 teats. PORTLAND. July II fTo the Ed itor.) It looks like the hop growers ought to pay at least Z cents a pound for picking this season, considering the good prices they are retttng and the high cost of living for the pickers. It's a sure thing pickers cannot work If they cannot eat. It's hard work and It ta hard on clothes, which have more than doubled in price In the last four years. Any conscientious man will consider these things and will pay what he should to make it worth while or at least so a person can live- A HOP PICKER. Oaly I'sed Ma LsBgnsge. Charleston Mall. Ephum Johnson was up before Judee Shimmerplate on a cruelty to animals charge. 'Deed. Ah wahn't abusing that mule, judge.'' the eld man demurred. "Did you not strike It repeatedly with a elubT" "Yasesh." "And do you not knew thst yii can sceompllsh more with animals by speiklng to them . "Yassah: but this critter am differ- ent. He sm so deef he csn't hear me when Ah speaks to him In de usual way. so Ah has o communicate wld him in de sign language," In Other Days. Twmty-lie Years As. From The "'re soman or Juljr 33. 194. Charles Bullen. who went" up to Boise about four weeks ago and was detained there by the rfnke. arrived nome yesterday. He evs the Coxey Ifes w ho wFre corflned 1n a erral near the Snake river have a-11 been released. - - Rev. J. s. David preached at the A O. r. W. temple yesterday morning. He liein that all angels were once men, born on some planetary sphere. City Surveyor Hurlburt has sun com pleted for the board of fire commis sioners a man of the city. It shows tr. location of city water mains, fire plug-s. cisterns, engine houses and alarm boxes. Officer Flynn undertook to round up a lot of tramps In the brush near Eau Sixteenth and Oregon streets Saturday night, but the fellows escaped by scat tering In all directions. Fifty Year Age. li.ii The Oregontsn of Jut- TV N. Weiss, who so beautifullv gulfed some of our best citixens by getting possession of a numoer of valuable watches, we learn has been recently caught at Victoria attempting to prac tice the same trick. A. J. Diifur, who proposes to s;o east soon, informs us that while absent he will visit the principal dairy establish ments of the state's with a view of learning the best co-operative plans of dairying. We understand that from 50 to ins men will be set to work on the west side railroad next Monday and that the force will be Increased as soon as pos sible. Detroit. The 0ity authorities have decided to make no more contracts for stone pavement during the present sea son because of alleged col'uslon among contractors whereby they propose u obtain exorbitant prices for the wrk. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moatagae. A MISTAKE. Geiruffsky was a Bolshevik w ho fancied he was treated bad. And. in a passing fit of pique. oiew up a part or Fetrograd. Hia neighbors took it very well. tid they: "If we should make a fuse. Or seem offended, who csn teil But wnat the man will blow up us." So. finding no one was annoyed n hen palaces ha tumbled dawn Or seemed to care If he destroyed Such buildings aa were left In town Getruffsky sailed across the sea To devastate the l". S. A. "When 1 blow Tankeea up." said he. There's going to be the deuce to pay." His operations he begsn Bvhlnd a lonely alley wall. But Just as he had stuffed a can With tri-nitrate of toluol. A big policeman hove in sight And seised him by the head and hair. And soon this Bolshevistic wight Was bound for the electric chair. And from the death cell's cheerless gloom (A place that's neither bright nor nice) Getruffsky wrote the folks st home The following very good advice: "Dear Pa and Ma: I'm on my way. I'm due to leave here Friday week. P. S. I've found the V. S. A. Is no place for a Bolshevik." Safe, far the Pmeat. The flight or the British blimp was not auch a brilliant success as to give us much worry about future Zeppelins, see She'll Have te show. Germany's hope for Immediate admis sion into the league la vain. It will be a long time before she even gets Into the second division. e e It's aa III W lad. Etc. One good thing about the 3ry law is that it will totally abolish barber shop harmony on the streets after 1 P. M. The Family Album. Br Grace E. Hall. A sad thought haunts me when I pause and calmly speculate Upon the course of "natural laws" that e er control our fate: When, glancing far ahead I see the chil drenyet unborn Take down the family album with its ns lies so forlorn. Then in a manner most unkind point out with fiendish glee And merriment- tha thinrs they find tnote photos that were ME: They'll be the "younger set" and so we must forgive their fun. As through the album they shall go. dissecting everyone: It hurts s bit to know that I in time shall seem so "queer," As on the card I calmly lie and at them - blankly leer! My baby's babea! It's hard to think years hence to them I'll seem Much like the long-sought "-missing-link as from the page I beam! OX BIB VINO. THB HATCHET, ("When we finally bury the hatchet with Germany, it will be Just as well to note carefully where it is burled." Oregonian editorial. July 11.) You bet your life you've struck It right; You've made a good suggestion. The bloody thing we'll put from sight. Nor leave its whereabouts In ques tion. When treaties meet the common fate Of. simply, cheap eld scraps of psper: When leagues ef love are turned to hate. The hatchet only cures the caper. When tyrants rule upon the throne. And grind their subjects with the ratchet. Ton cannot force them te atene Unless you use the trusty hatchet. A nice, soft word or pleasant smile May palliate your senses. But. when mixed with gall ef foxy guile. .The hatchet only clears the trenches. So piant the hatchet good and deep; Be sure to ssve your rerollectlan; So when the powers would make as weep The blade shall have a resurrection. It may be badly nicked and rusted. The handle also broke or bent. But when repaired it may be trusted And on its ugly mission sent. w. T. KtGDOK. When the Wife le Away. Chicago News Feter Finlcy Dunae said the other day: "It's folly to sty thst two can't live ts cheap as one two can live-far, far charr than one "'Did yen send your wife to the shore last August?" I asked a married man. " 'No.' he answ ered. 1 can't afford It. It costs too much.' ."'But,' I said. your wife a tsstes sre simple. Surely the could sojourn at the shore without spending any great amount.' -I know that, all right." saie) he. 'but August of last year while she was st tha shore I spent more than ICOO a week.'.'