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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1919.
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PORTLAND WANTS MORE SHIPS.
Allocation to one Pacific coast firm
f twenty shipping board vessels, of
which Portland can have as many as
it can load, taken in conjunction with
the success already attained in finding
cargoes for the orient and northern
Europe, goes to prove that extension
of Portland's foreign trade Is mainly
a question of securing cargo. The
goods are here in abundance, the world
is full of hungry buyers, and it re
mains for Portland merchants and
manufacturers to bring buyers and
goods together. That, however, is true
only within the limits established by
the shipping board's policy.
The doubters did not believe that
the Pacific Steamship company's line
to the orient could get enough cargo
to maintain it, but it has grown to a
regular service every thirty-six days
with full cargoes outward and enough
return cargo to make the round trip
pay. It will soon have a twenty-eight
day service if the shipping board will
allocate another steamer.
Direct sailings will begin between
Portland and London and Liverpool
by some of the twenty steamers which
the shipping board has allocated to
Williams, IJimond & Co. as often as
cargoes can be secured. The goods
available for export are all kinds o
foodstuff exclusive of wheat and flour.
tallow, rice flour, box shooks, sash,
doors, spruce lumber, wool, hops, hides,
machinery. .Though wheat and flour
are the chief export products of Port
land and could be sold in unlimited
quantities, they are now shipped by
the United States grain corporation in
full cargoes by its own ships, and that
corporation does not allow ' private
parties to export them. It might help
the commercial lines much by using
a large part of their space.
.Establishment of a direct line to
bcandinavia by the same company
through the agency of the Columbia
Pacific company will quickly follow
as soon as the government gives ex
port licenses, for several cargoes
bought by the delegation of Scandi
navian merchants are already avail
able, and more could have been sold
but for the interdict on private exports
. pf wheat and flour.
A foreign steamship company is also
negotiating for a line to Australia and
New Zealand, asking assurance of 200Q
to 3000 tons of cargo each way. There
will be no difficulty about supplying
outbound cargo, but there is some
question about inbound cargo, because
. of the similarity of products at each
end of the route. However, the anti
podes can ship wool, mutton and dairy
products at the season which is their
tummer and our winter, and can
etabilize the market. '
The shipping board's control of ton
nage is an obstacle to establishment
of a coast-to-coast line, for it holds
charter rates so high as to discourage
competition with the transcontinental
railroads and shows indisposition to
allocate vessels for this service. If
rates were reduced to a reasonable
figure and if ships were available, an
enormous volume of traffic would be
carried, but there seems to be an
understanding not to take business
Jaway from the railroads.
Experience has proved that the dif
ficulty is no longer to get cargoes; it
Is to get vessels. The shipping board
lias loaded scores of wooden vessels
with ties for the Atlantic coast and
Europe and has not sent them back,
endeavoring to sell them in eastern or
European ports. Steel vessels go out
loaded with flour and do not come
back. This port has just cause to
complain of as unjust treatment In
assigning vessels as in allotting ship
building contracts. In common with
the rest of the Pacific coast. It has
contributed a liberal share to the new
merchant marine, but its fair share
is not put in the service of its com
merce. It needs vessels to carry un
finished lumber, which is everywhere
in demand, but the shipping board
permits its vessels to carry only fin
ished lumber. It could build up a
great direct trade in flour, but the
grain corporation stands in the way.
The telegram from Secretary JJodson
of the chamber of commerce to the
conference now meeting at San Fran
cisco stated the case well by compar
ing the number of ships which Port
land has built and the traffic which
the port could supply with the num
ber of vessels allotted to its service
As tonnage is released from trans
port service on the Atlantic and from
Mr. Hoover's food distribution service
much more of it should be assigried
to Pacific coast and coast-to-coast
service. Restrictions on goods that
may be shipped should be removed
and charter rates should be reduced,
but the greatest desideratum of all Is
that the government get out of
chip-owning business and set private
enterprise free. The shipping board's
only justification for engaging in that
business was the war. With return of
peace ttytt justification passed away,
and the board daily becomes a more
Indefensible obstruction.
Although there has been a com
mendable awakening, many Portland
merchants and manufacturers still
have such narrow vision that they
cannot see the opportunity to extend
their business to foreign countries. It
is to bo hoped that the traffic manager
whom the Port of Portland is about
to appoint will succeed In opening
their eyes: if not, that he will induce
other firms to open business here that
will seize the chance which they
reject. There are other firms, among
them some of the largest in the city,
which cling to their connections with
lines running to other ports, though
their profits are derived from the
people of Portland. They need to be
made to realize that loyalty requires
them to patronize the steamship lines
of their own port if they expect to
deserve the patronage of its citizens.
THE COMING EDITORS.
The National Editorial association
is to meet in Portland on August 8-10.
It is an important body of newspaper
editors, representing for the mpst part
what is usually called the country
press. They come from all over the
United States, and pay their way. The
days of the free pass are over, and
there are no more junkets for editors
at railroad expense; and the result is
for the better all around.
It is true that the editors will go
through Canada as guests of the Cana
dian Pacific road and the government;
butrthat Is only a small part of their
itinerary. It shows, however, the great
interest Canada has in them and their
movements. Canada wants to show
the American editors some of its at
tractions, and purpose to do it gener
ously and completely.
The programme for the meeting of
the editors in Portland is complete.
But Portland purposes also to take
them to Crater lake. A special train
will be chartered for the excursion,
and the editors will be the guests of
Portland. The Chamber of Commerce,
impressed with its duty to represent
Portland as a host, will take a guiding
hand in the Crater lake enterprise. It
is a community affair, and the funds
will be raised here.
When it is known that every one of
the editors is the special commissioner
of his community to see Oregon, and
that he will report what he observes.
the desirability of making his recep
tion in Oregon adequate and interest
ing will be obvious.
BUSINESS PARTNERS AND OFFICIALS.
The Oregonian hopes, and it hopes
that the public hopes, that Former
County Purchasing Agent Nelson will
be able to explain satisfactorily the
little financial irregularity over the
purchase of that celebrated fifth tire.
There is a suggestion, too, of a mys
terious sixth tire; but the plot has. not
so far been unraveled, and it 'may
develop that the sixth tire, bought by
the purchasing agent with the gener
ous idea of providing a "spare" for
Commissioner Holman's much - used
machine the idea was Mr. Nelson's,,
not the commissioner's, it seems, for
he had four tires, and was content
and the fifth tire are one and the same.
Enters here Mr. Davis, business
partner of Commissioner Holman, and
he gets a tire, obviously the fifth tire.
So Davi3 got a tire, and paid for it,
with a check for the regular price,
but minus the discount usually given
the county as a wholesale purchaser.
The county paid for the tire, and Mr.
Davis paid Nelson. Don't overlook the
discount. That is the point or was
with Mr. Davis. The point with Mr.
Nelson is to account properly for the
money he was paid by Davis for a tire,
bought ostensibly as a county tire, but
actually for the private car of the
business partner of a county commis
sioner. After Mr. Nelson has explained what
became of the Davis check, it will be
well also to explain why he bought a
tire, or anything, for Mr. Davis as a
county purchase. Was it because Mr.
Davis is a partner of a county com
missioner? If so, or if not, how many
other partners or associates or friends
of other public officials was the county
purchasing agent making purchases
for, on tho false pretense that they
were county supplies?
The whole transaction requires not
only explanation but investigation. The
conduct of the purchasing agent's
office under Nelson will stand inves
tigation. At the best, the agent had
oose ideas of his duties. Nelson had
a trust of great responsibility, and it
could not be discharged by showing
favois to the business partners of
public officials, not even when he was
the special appointee of a public offi
cial with a partner seeking favors.
RASPBERRIES: AN OPPORTUNITY.
In the local wholesale market re
cently red raspberries one of the
commoji fruits and one whose produc
tion requires practically no skill or
experience sold at $3.50 a crate.
Berries that will all but raise them
selves if given half a chance; berries
that any tyro of a gardener can pro
duce successfully; berries that present
no greater difficulties than a potato
patch, sold at $3.50 a crate and the
demand was far from satisfied.
In and about Portland there ar
thousands of idle acres that with even
moderate care could be made to pro
duce raspberries at the rate of 300
crates to the acre. The skilled grower
can without difficulty make it 500
crates to the acre, and there are rec
ords of even better production. Tet,
with no end of land suitable for the
crop available and the price offered
for the fruit the best ever known here,
Portland, as usual, goes berry hungry,
and for a mere taste of the fruit pays
a price that seems exorbitant.
So it has been for years except that
the city's berry supply this year has
been scantier than ever beforehand
so it will be until the people take note
of the fact that opportunity has all but
broken the front door down.
Last year red raspberries at the
opening of the season sold at $S to
$3.25 a crate. The market later
dropped somewhat, but there was jio
disastrous break. The season finished
with buyers ready to pay good prices
for the fruit. And last year there was
not much in the way of a cannery de
mand for the fruit here. This year
there is the usual consumptive demand,
and on top of this a cannery demand
for berries that is simply insatiable,
and it is the prices that the canners
are ready to pay for the fruit that
have raised the market price and kept
it up to the finish.
This week practically ends the red
raspberry season in these parts. The
crop is in; the few growers hereabouts
have made good: others who last year
and the year before thought some of
the-LpJanting raspberries, but did not. are
thinking about what might have been.
It would seem as if by this time the
lesson should have gone home.
There are other things black rasp
berries, for example. To win with
blackcaps requires a little better land.
a little more skill and a little better
care than in the case of reds. But
blackcaps this year sold at $2.75 to
$3.50 a crate, and the grower who
knows his business can produce as
many crates to the acre of blacks as
of reds. A further point in their favor
is that they are more easily picked.
Another Is that they stand shipment
better.
On the whole there is probably as
much money In raising blackcaps as
in raising reds- provided they are
properly handled. In the local market
blacks are not quite so ready sellers
as reds, and there Is a reason for this
that ought to be brought out. For the
most part the black raspberries sold
here are merely little clusters of seeds,
short on flavor and the real fruit ele
ment. This should not be. The black
raspberry, properly grown, is one of
the most delicious of fruits, with a
flavor all its own, and a fruit to many
second only to the strawberry. The
real blackcap the genuine artlclo is
all but unknown here. Some day, it is
to be hoped, the local market "will be
well supplied with the best of black
caps, and then in all probability the
Cuthbert, the standard among the red
sorts, will have to take second place.
There is no place in the country where
finer blackcaps can be grown than in
and about Portland. A few growers
now are producing that sort of fruit,
but generally this field, like the others,
is neglected.
The cannery demand for raspberries,
as well as for strawberries, is here to
stay. The canners now are paying
prices for the fruit that mean profit
for the producer, and they are plead
ing for heavier production, with con
tracts as an argument in favor of the
industry. In some cases they have
gone so far as to say, "Plant and pro-
duce the berries in some way if you ied by the war to enlist are clamoring
can. and well come and not only pay for discharge, and opinion of naval
you for the crop but pick it." Yetl0ffiCers is that it would be better to
from Dan to Philadelphia there is lam
entation about the cost of living and
men are looking vainly toward far-off
promises of opportunity. We are a
perverse lot.
McNARY'8 DEFENSE OF THE LEAGUE.
Senator McNary stated with great
force the case against any attempt to
amend the league covenant and in
favor of its ratification as presented
to the senate, though this course does
not preclude adoption of resolutions
explaining or construing some of its
provisions as Americans understand
them. He was particularly happy in
his defense of article 10, which he well
named "the pillar section."
The immediate purpose of the league
is to maintain peace as established by
the treaties of Versailles, and the
guaranty against aggression is essen
tial to that purpose. It is essential
to another purpose reduction of the
armaments with which the world is
and has been burdened for no nation
can safely disarm if it must rely on
its own resources for its defense, but
all san reduce their armaments if
each is assured that all will come to
Its defense against attack and that
aggressive nations have been compelled
to cut down their armies to the requi
sites of defense only.
The objection that this guaranty
would bind the United States to help
in perpetuating injustice in some cases
is met by other articles of the cov
enant, which provide means for peace
ful redress of wrongs and which place
the whole power of the league behind
any decision of the permanent court
or any unanimous recommendation of
the league council. Those articles are
means to remedy the wrong of Shan
tung which now disturbs the senate.
The United States would not be bound
by article 10 to help any country to
suppress rebellion. The statement that
it would Is false, doing violence to the
plain sense of the words.
Almost all the criticism of the cov
enant is founded on misconstruction
of its text, on reading into it words
or meanings which are not there, on
fear of contingencies against which it
plainly affords safeguards, or on dis
trust of the nations which so lately
were our comrades in war and of the
men who will represent us on the
league council. They also underrate
the power and influence of this nation
and overrate the power and Influence
of the nations with which we shall be
associated.
The troubled condition of the world
demands that the treaty be ratified
with the smallest reasonable delay. If
some sections require definitions of
the meaning which we place upon
them, the senate is free to adopt
them. But nothing should be done
which would throw the whole treaty
back into conference for revision. The
United States is only one among many
nations which are parties to the treaty;
each one may want to change some
provision; German intrigue would be
come active to divide her enemies and
all the fruits of . victory might be
frittered away. The ailments from
which the world is suffering are too
serious to permit such delay of the
cure. Delay means disaster to the
world, and the United States would
suffer in common with other nations.
, A STERLING AMERICAN.
One of the healthy signs of this
time, when many tentative candidates
for the republican nomination for
president are being offered for con
sideration, is the high quality jot the
material that is presented. An ex
ample is Governor Frank O. Lowden
of Illinois, whose friends put him for
ward as a man who has made good
in congress and as governor, and,
therefore, as one who has proved him
self qualified for president.
His career is typical of the middle
west. Son of a village blacksmith, he
followed his father's prairie schooner
from Minnesota to Iowa in the '60s,
helped on the farm, got his early edu
cation as best he could but so woll
that he became a teacher at 15. He
taught and saved that he might learn
more, went to college while he worked
as a law clerk and graduated at the
head of his class. Then he practiced
law in Chicago and won success, as
such preparation leads one to expect.
married Miss Florence M. Pullman
daughter of George M. Pullman, and
entered upon the political career for
which his gifts evidently fitted him.
He helped to elect McKinley in 196
made a strenuous campaign against
Keneen for the republican nomination
for governor in 1903, lost and then
helped to elect Deneen. Then he
bought a farm in the Rock river val
ley, near Oregon. 111., made It his hom
and retired to it. making Its improve
ment his delight. But in 190S he was
called back to politics and was elected
to the house of representatives. He
retired after a second term only to re
cover his health and to develop hir
farm, but he was held on the nationa'
republican committee from 1908 tc
1916. In congress he voted for ever
progressive labor measure, the postal
savinffs bank and the Income tax.
It was as governor that Mr. Lowdep
proved his executive ability in public
affairs. Elected in 1916 by a great
majority, he brought about thorough
reorganization of the state government
and finances with the result that taxes
were reduced In war-time. He built
good roads, organized the state for the
war, brought about a popular vote for
a constitutional convention and in
duced the'legislature to ratify the pro
hibition amendment. He rallied the
people to support of the president In
the war, sent his son to the front and
sent troops to Chicago to disperse the
pro-Gertnan People's Council for De
mocracy and Terms of Peace.
One of the cheering signs of the
times Is that no man is even men
tioned as a possible candidate for a
nomination for president in whom
there Is the least taint of pro-Germanism,
pacifism, hyphenism, bol
shevism or any other ism than straight
out Americanism. There has been a
wonderful clearing" of the air from
such poisons, and those who think to
use other un-American isms for po
litical ends would 'do well to take
warning. If Mr. Lowden should be
chosen, he will represent the most
sterling Americanism of the middle
west. If any other should be chosen,
he must measure up to the Lowden
standard as a first requisite. No
preacher of the flabby sentiments of
the period from 114 to 1917 will
survive the test of 1920.
THE NAVY WANTS MEN.
When the Pacific fleet comes to the
Pacific coast, every ship will be a
recruiting office, for the navy is sadly
in need of men. Demobilization has
reduced the enlisted strength from
624.000 to 240.000 enlisted men. Only
78.000 of these are In the regular navy
and only about half of the 78,000 are
experienced men. Reserve men and
thnfiA of thn recolnf nav-i.- ti- V, r wcrA
let them go and fill the ranks again
with men who are prepared to stay for
four years.
The shortage of men has been aggra
vated by a joker which Senator La
Follette caused to be inserted in the
appropriation bill for the sole purpose
of releasing a friend from service. It
provided that on application the navy
should discharge any man who en
listed between February S, 1917, and
November 11, 1918, and it means that
in order that the senator's friend may
escape" the full four years' service,
12,400 men must be discharged. That
is an act typical of a professional
reformer and pacifist.
Life on the Pacific fleet will be
interesting, if it should have no war
thrills. The whole ocean will be its
field, from Bering sea to Cape Horn
and from the American coast to China
and Malay. The tars will have an
opportunity to become acquainted with
Central and South America, with
Honolulu and the Pacific Islands, with
tho Philippines, Japan, China and the
great tropic Islands. Time will not
hang heavy on the hands, for every
ship is a school where the men follow
up their studies and learn a trade at
which they will be able to earn a good
living when they return to civil life.
Vegetables have increased in price
from 100 to 900 per cent since 1914.
The fact is attested by statisticians of
the federal government and is made
the basis of an appeal by the bureau
of education of trie department of the
interior for continued enthusiasm in
connection with the home garden
movement. Pledges are asked from
the children of the country that they
will not suffer any food crop that has
been planted to go unharvested. if
they can prevent this, and that they
will plant wherever possible such late
crops as are still suitable to the sea
son. Approximately 50.000 garden
teachers have directed the work of
crop planting by 3.000,000 children
during the recent season, and the
bureau's message does not great ly
overstate the case when It says. "To
fail to bring to harvest that which
has been planted is immoral." The
garden must be tended until the last
vegetable has been gathered and
either eaten or safely put away.
When a little chap of 8 or 9 stays
out playing until long after dark and
is afraid to go home for the "licking"
he expects and runs away all you
grown-up dads know all about It
what kind of a way is that to bring up
a boy? The best reforms begin at
home.
Clemenceau. the grand old Tiger
successfully defying his enemies, forms
a good companion picture to Foch
idolized by the osculatory English
women. The two greatest outstanding
figures of the war are Frenchmen
with King Albert a close third.
About the last place one would ex
pect a strike is in the disciplinary
barracks at Fort Leavenworth, yet the
third in six months has Just ended in
the men not getting what they de
manded. They wanted better food
than the army ration.
The Warm Springs project people
are asking a state guarantee, and any
thing that will put water on parched
Oregon soil and make it produce
should harve the guarantee it needs.
A greater menace than "unrest" Is
the selfish determination of the man
who wants what he wants when he
wants it and will make no allowance
for the wants of anyone else.
Lightning never strikes twice in the
same place in a forest reservation. Nor
can you ever tell where to look for
the next careless camper who is al
most as destructive as lightning.
That young Chinese who fell a hun
dred feet and smastied his plane the
other night will be an aviator In time
If he does not break his neck. He has
the persistence that wins.
China cannot drive Japan from
Shantung by force, but It can focus
the attention of the world on Japan's
presence there, to the latter's great
discomfort.
The greatest summer resort is the
front steps of your best girl's house
in the evening, and If that "best girl'
happens to be your wife, all the better.
A hen sharp down in California says
you can tell a good one by the color
of her legs, but this experting
bipeds would better stop right there
A memory that lingers Induces the
hope that George Primrose Is doing th
dance celestial before admirers a
warm as were those terrestrial.
The most thriftless individual can
still save daylight, and that Is about
all that anyone can save nowadays.
"Hard Boiled" Smith is In a fal
way to be softened by adversity by the
time his victims finish with him.
One can almost make the metal
trades council of Tacoma strike by
stepping on a wire.
The skies that were turning a bit
smoky are blue again where they are
not cloudy.
Whoever it was that called rain
"blessed" ages ago knew how tc talk.
You'll never miss the water "til Bull
Run runs dry.
Thunder nnd lightning! How do you
like them?
Stan and St&rmaker.
By Least Cass Bur.
JOHN L.
PELTRET. In advance of
Bates Post In "The
!J our
Masquerader," is in Portland, accom
panied by Mra Peltrst. They are liv
ing at the Portland when they art not
out on the Columbia highway. Mr.
Peltret Is a" former Chicago newspaper
man. Mr. Post's engagement at the
Hellig begins August I.
Little Miss Arllne Edtl. a Portland
child pianist, who appeared a week
ago on the Strand bill, is preparing
to go to New York, where she will
pursue her piano studlea Miss Edtl
appeared on the same act with Frank
Holton, a youthful cnrnettlst.
This isn't particularly theatrical, for
by no stretch of Imagination could
you call anything Queen Mary does ex
actly theatrical, but It is interesting
to learn that she has taken to smok
ing in her old days. Not a pipe, of
course, but clgsrettea Since nearly all
the women of the stage imoki, the
news might as well go In this col
umn as elsewhere. A New York the
atrical exchange commenting says
that "a letter from London contains
the important Information that Queen
Mary of England has ths 'cigarette
habit.' and - smokes one of the small
white paper cylinders containing
tobacco each day. One cigarette a day
can hardly be called a habit; but as
far as it goes It Is all right: and It
will mean that smoking by women will
become fashionable. Britons love to do
things that the king or queen do, and
if her majesty puffs tobacco then all
the ladles In the kingdom will do so.
Thus does the good work go on and
thus Is seen how a little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump, or some
thing like It. Women have a right to
smoke if they wish to, and doubtless
tobacco is good for their nerves and
ids In making smokers more com
osed. Tobacco is an antidote for the
idgets, something to which women
frequently are subject."
Further along the exchange observes
that Queen Mary does not smoke
nough, saying: "One cigarette is
antallser; about half a dosen at one
time after a good -meal will aid diges
tlon and make one good natured. In
tead of one cigarette, 20 should be the
dally ration. And persons In good
health can smoke twice that number
In 24 hours and profit by It. As a rule
cigarettes are mild, and many men take
the pipe and cigars. All tobacco,
however, is good, and. if not taken In
extremely large quantities, is bene
flcial. Women will do well at the start.
however, to stick to the cigarette. The
good and wholesome pipe may come
later on, and cigars, too, may be In
dulged In. But for the woman who
wishes to use tobacco we suggest at
the start clgsrettea They are easy to
smoke and handle."
Baird Leonard, who writes quips, ob
serves, under the heading "Songs They
Do Not Sing." thusly:
Darling. I am growing- old
Sliver threads among the cold:
Lo you think that it would do
It I put in my shampoo
Henna or peroxide, dear?
None will know It never fear!
Tell me, darling, do you care
If 1 tint my golden hair?
Anna Held Junior Is the way Liana
Carerra. daughter of the late Miss Held
la known. She has Just bought 100
acres of land on the Moses Knapp es
tate, Yorktown Heights. N. Y.. which
she Intends to cultivate for farming
purposes. The price Is reported as
$75,000.
Llnd, a female Impersonator, who
often has appeared here, has Inherited
fortune from a relative on his moth
er's side In Sweden snd sailed for that
country July 8.
The third birthday of Alice Lloyd's
youngest daughter. "Tommy," was ob
served one day last week at the Lloyd
McNaughton home at Beechhurst. L. L
Alice Is to reopen In vaudeville the
latter part of August, first playing the
Princess, Montreal, and about six weeks
outside New York before appearing a
one of the Broadway vaudeville houses.
probably the Palace.
a
Cordelia Haager is going to make
her debut in vaudeville as a single
turn, and has engaged George Hsrcourt
to do one dance with her In It. Be
sides there will be a piano accompanls
and special properties.
Miss Haager formerly appeared with
George Austin Moore, her husband. Be
sides her own single number. Miss
Hasger Is overlooking the production
of a couple of other new vaudeville
turns.
Jack Norworth and William Fried
ander have agreed upon a show tha
the latter will write for Norworth.
.Nothing else has been set, excepting
that ths time of production will be
early next season and Harry Watson
Is to be a member of the company.
Billle Burke will return to the speak
ing stage early In the new season In
the stellar role of "Caesar's Wire," the
comedy drama by Somerset Maugham.
which has just passed Its 135th per
formance, at the Royalty theater. Lon
don. C. B. .Dillingham secured the Ameri
can rights tJs) the Maugham comedy
after spirited bidding and It Is by ar
rangement with him that F. Zlegfeld
Jr. has secured the piece for Miss
Burke's reappearance at the head of
her own company In a role calling for
the highest comedy and dramatlo Work.
Miss Fay Compton Is playing the
part In London end the British critics
snd pub.lc are enthusiastic over the
play, which, while topically of the mo
ment. Is written with exquisite finish.
It Is tho vehicle In which Miss Burke's
admirers would wish her to renew her
work as a comedienne.
Curiously enough, when Miss Burke
a few years ago announced her en.
gagement for the screen her then man
ager. Charles Frohmsn. and his organ
isation objected vigorously to her debut
in the silent drama. Now the Famous
flayers, for which Miss Burke Is star
ring In the studios, has taken over the
Charles Frohmsn Interests, slid the
general manager, ah Hayman, who
protested against the drafting of Miss
Burke by the motion picture manager.
Is connected with the great picture or
ganization headed by Adolph Zukor.
Miss Burke Is happy over the near
prospect of acting in person before
audiences. "Ths applause and liking
of the folks out front buoy one up aa
the warm southern sea lifts the swim
mer at Talm Beach. I am very glad to
have found so good a play with so at
tractive a role In w-htch to come once
more In direct personal contact with
my public," said Miss BJik.
Those Who Come and Go.
Oregon food products have made
plenty of friends In Chicago, according-
to Mrs. Florence J. Chapman, V
has betn in the east a year demon
strating for the Wlttenberg-KIng com
pany and who returned yesterday. Mrs.
Chapman, who la at the Oregdn. ri
be In the city a month befon
turning to Illinois. She used to .:e
in Corvallls and when aha wanted a
little excitement would go down to the
stats fair to dish out loganberry juice
and Appleju to the general public and
help the Phes people enlarge their
trade a bit. Mrs. Chapman, who boosts
exclusively for the products of her
home state, says the Oregon fruit juices
now rank among the most popular bev
erages In Chicago. She left two weeks
after ths city went (alcoholically
peaklng) dry.
You could tell he was a tourist be
cause he had a kodak In plain sight
when be registered. Likewise he knows
11 about hotels, for he has been e.im-
llng them ever since he started out
from Beaumont, Tex., and went to Den
ver and Seattle with his grandmother.
To look at him you'd hardly suppose
e knew so much about It. for Joe Hee-
bert, Jr.. couldn't possibly be more
han 13 years old. He Is taking his
grandmother, Mrs. C. Jackson, on a
our In the west and will escort her
to California nrxt. They were at the
Oregon last night and will go up the
Columbia highway this morning be
fore boarding the southbound train.
Not many young women would at-
empt to drive a car from San Fran-
Isco to Boston, but Mrs. Irglni.i
Soberer of the former place has a dif
ferent brand of nerve. She reached the
Multnomah hotel Wednesday on the
first lap of her Journey, which had been
without mishap. She Is going on to
Seattle. Mrs. Scherer is traveling alone.
I'm a fiend for loganberry punch.
That's why I'm going to live In Tort-
land some dsy." declared B. Fielding
Shepherd yesterday when he put In an
appearance at the Oregon. Mr. Shep
herd represents a Chicago out-of-doors
advertising firm, which erects bill-
hoards along highways as road guides.
He strenuously denies he Is responsible
for any decorated barns In this vicinity.
If the mayor of Seattle should hap
pen to call a special meeting of the
city council within the next few days.
there is one member who surely won t
answer the roll and that Is R. II.
Thomson. In private life Mr. Thom
son, who is at the Oregon, is a civil
engineer. Before he was elected to his
present position he was city englneeer
for the Washington metropolis.
It took Clarke Pilklngton lust five
and a half hours to drive his car from
Portland to Seaside, according to a let
ter he has Just written from the beach
to his cronies around the Multnomah.
Young Pilklngton claims to have also
broken a record drivinK a Ford car over
a mountain trail In Alaska. lie doesn't
mention how many speed cons he
passed on his latest trip. I
After he got throuch running one of
ths national playcrounds of the north
west O. I.. Reaburn of Tacoma went
Into business for himself snd he has
been at it ever since. Mr. Reaburn
will be remembered ss superintendent
of Rainier national pnrk. He made a
trip to Portland yesterday with Mrs.
Reaburn and Is to be found at thf
Imperial.
Twenty years ago when V. Hendrlck-
son of Blooming Prairie, Minn., last
saw Bsn Olcott he didn't suppose he
would ever be coming west to call on
his boyhood chum at the state capital.
Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson came In from
Salem yesterday to the Seward, after
stopping on their way north to say
hello to the governor.
Nobody around the Imperial lobby
n remember when J. V. Slnyden of
Tacoma wasn't holding a public office
or mixing In politics In his home town.
After he had spent two years In the
Wsshlngton legislature Pierce county
deckled to give him a Job as one of
the commissioners and he is now serv
ing his second term.
"Lead me to a shower bath" was the
first thing E. C. Chance said when he
entered the Seward hotel Wednesday j
night after his Journey by automobile
from his home la Twin Falls. Both he
and Mra. Chance, who accompanied him.
were covered with dust, having en
countered many Inches of it on the
route west.
Dr. W. I". McNary is the onlv man
In Oregon who runs an Institution rival
ing the big cream-colored state hospital
In Salem. He is superintendent of the
eastern Oregon hospital for the Insane
snd with Mra McNary has come from
Pendleton to pass a few days at the
Imperial.
Oscar Hayter Is one of Polk county's
attorneys, but while the war was on
he was most of the patriotic campaigns
combined in one. 1' there is any ac
tivity In Dallas that Mr. Hayter gets
left out of. Its generally through an
accident. He Is at the Portland while
here on legal business.
O. C. Sether. who Is In the furniture
business In Clendale and who always
hss a good word to say for the Pa
cific hlEhway, Is at the Oregon to con
fer with B. F. McKesson, wholesale
daler from San Franrlsco. Mrs. Mc
Kesson Is with the latter, who is call
ing on the compsny's representatives
In this territory.
Somehow, all of Dr. B C. Burgen's
patients in Providence. R I., are get
ting along without him this summer,
while he and Mrs. Burgen tour the
west. They passed Ihe night at the
Multnomah when they stopped over on
their way to California
Allan Cameron, superintendent of the
natural resources department of the
Canadian Pacific railroad. Is here from
Calgary studying Oregon conditions.
v hlle In Portland he Is making the
Multnomah his headquarters.
Two tourists from a great distance
are Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Chausen of Ber
gen, Norway, who are passing part of
the week at the Benson, sightseeing
around Portland.
A good many of the nice. Julry fish
that come down the river past Altoona.
Wash., end up In a tin can from the
packing plant there. F. K'evenhusen.
who operates the cannery. Is at the
Oregon.
Msybe It was the rattle that brought
A T. Robinson in from Bend; anyhow,
he came with them, and so did Mrs.
Robinson. 'They art passing a few days
at the Perkins until the ranchman has
disposed of his stork.
Although she has just come back
from France. Miss Bessie Q. Kalber Is
still traveling. She registered at the
Multnomah from , Fort Forter. X. Y.
Miss Raiber Is a Red Cross nurse.
J. Mattey, who has owned a big fsrm
over nesr Lafayette ever since Yamhill
county started to boom, is at the Per
kins. He registers from McMlnnville.
Mr. and Mra Walter I. Tooze Jr. are
at the Multnomah visiting tho former's
mother. Mr. Toose was a captain sla
tlcned with the training corps at Ore
gon Agricultural college.
Mrs. R S Dlson of Prtnvi;le stopped
at the Imperial yesterday on her way
to tha bearh. She Is passing the sum
nier at Nswporu
In Other Days.
Tmsly-e Years Aa-n.
Praia Tho Oregonlan of July 5. lf4.
A falsa report that the Mount Hood
slag was held up and the driver killed
gained currency here yesterday, even
appearing in an evening paper.
C W. Tracy, vice-president of ths
Pacific Coast K.levator company, has
just completed a tour of eastern Ore
gon and Washington and reports that
tnose Motions will have a very large
wheat crop.
The ship Riverside has J-ust left Lon
don for Portland, making lore vesssls
that are now on that run.
rr. Kdwln A. Schell. geaexal secre
tary of the Kpworth league, is expecsed
to arrive In Portland today.
Fifty Years Ace.
l-'rom The Oregonlan of Julr 2 1.
Washington. Commodore S. s. 1.x.
brother of Oeneral Robert K. Lee, d
at his home in Stafford county, r
ginia, today.
Flans are all complete for ths regatta
to be started at 4 P. M. tomorrow from
the commodore's boat, anchored oppo
site tho foot of Yamhill street.
We learn from parties who hare Just
crossed the mountains that there are
extensive I'.res In the dead timber along
tne oauay river.
The Hebrew Relief society of this
city has enRaged Habbt Julien Bckman
of San Francisco aa their teacher and
reader.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moalaiar.
T1IK MOVIK JI DSTITITE.
(His Plaint.)
You have robbed when the heroine lady
Said "Bah!" witn a touch of disdain.
As the villain ttbe cur) bound a rope
around her
And tied her in front of a train.
The debacle likely to happen
You dreaded extremely to see.
But there wasn't a Jane there in front
of the train.
That'a the job they pass out to me!
You have wept when you gazed at the
hero
As be leaped from the top of the
cliff.
"Ah me." you have said, "when he
lights he'll be dead.
That viilaiu'a a murderoua atiff."
But the hero, at that exact moment.
Was at home and in bed and asleep.
Those leading part chumps are not caet
for the jumps.
I'm paged wlivii the boss wants a
leap.
And when
house
t here's
general rough
And someone has got to get hit
With a beor keg or rock good and hard
on Ins bluck.
The real movie actor all quit.
And when they're a little bit carelea.
As they frequently happen to be.
And u man's :ut to bed with a hole in
his head.
I'm the boy that the doc comes to see.
They put me in cages with lions.
Who think it's a nice little Jest
To paw me around as 1 lie on ths
ground
And practice new bites on my chest.
Whenever In caso of a mixup
Some gent may get hurt pretty baJ.
The actors aren't there they're too
easy to scare
And too valuable I am the lad!
A TrlBe Late.
If the allies had begun watching the
kaiser five years sgo instead of today,
perhaps so many things wouldn't have
happened.
Merely Kalliag In Llae.
Alaska Wants Cooks Headline. YT on
der u she thinks she has anything ou
any of the rest of us?
Imataar.
A Jersey Central conductor was left
$15,000 for being polite to an old gen
tleman. Th re seems to be no chance
that the average railroad employe wrll
be similarly enriched.
Ghosts.
fly firae K- Halt.
At midnight, when the jangling clock
proclaims
The hour in voite so raucous th&t 1
shrink.
When sleep escapes and unleashed
fancy maims
So flen. !-.! the thoughts I try to
think.
There creeps from out the vault of by
rone years
The tlmsu or all my Joys and hope
and fears.
Kach in the garb that I. unwitting,
wove
Within mv yojthful brain, as hard I
strove
To make my own desires ths motive
force
That should control my life throughout
its course. '
My unscsrred Hope that I so freely
gave
Returns a mere dwarfed shsdow
from the grave:
My happy Love how sadly It stesls by.
With look more sorrowful than moan
or cry
Ambition steps more briskly than the
rest.
Flaunting a tiny flame upon its
breast :
While charity, a ghost thst Is always
blue.
Slips p.it in raiment that Is fairly
new;
Maternal love retains its first white
dress
And aue with a silent, swift ca
ress. They pass en file when bells of mid
night ring.
These cho.ts of old emotions; some
but bring
A brood t.c sadness: others tantalise..
And one forever mocks me, with its
lies:
I could sire up each dream with less
re k ret
It I that sneering phantom could for
get. But all the others cower before this
wraith.
Whleh i ths giant ghost of shattered
Faith!
I'd rehabilitate, with cloth-of-gold.
This scoffing myth, but he Is strong
and bold.
And when I strive to clssp again his
hand.
He points to man snd I I under
stand! Information Abont (Voat-Ralslag.
PAVY. W. Va.. July 14. (To the Edi
tor.) In your issue of July 6 you have
an article on "Oregon's Coat Assets'
lr. J. W. Morrow is mentioned as n
leading breeder in the Vnltsd States,
please give the address of Dr. Morrow,
also the office address of the Nstlonal
Mohair Orowers' association. TV want
information about pure-bred goats and
where we can get them.
A. C. BROCK.
The address of Dr. J. W. Morrow Is
room 212 Oregonian building. Port
land. F. O. Umlrum of Laiuna. T Is
secretary of the National Mohair Grow
ers' associat;on and handles all of Its
buslnesa The organisation has ware
houses lu Houston, Tsv., and at lt-37
Summer street. Button.