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lO THE MORNING OKECJ ONIAN, FRIDAY. .T17I,Y ?r. 11II. ESTABLISHED BI HEKBY L. P1TTOCK. JPoblinhed by The Oreeonian Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. m. A. MORDEN. E. B. . Manner. editor. The Oreeonian is A member of the Asso Htd Press. The Associated Press l ex es uslvely entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also he local news published herein. All rign" of republication of special dispatci.es Herein sire also reserved. Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance Xal1y, Sunday Included, one year tally. Sunday included, six months..... ially. Sunday Included, three montns.. ZXtlly. Sunday included, one month.... Ts.ily, without Sunday, one year Iaily, without Sunday, 6 months...... raily. without Sunday, one month. .... "Weekly, one year Sunday, one year. .............- Sunday and weekly ..........-. 23 fi!nb .2S .60 l.oo 2. SO 3.60 (By Carrier.) ally. Sunday Included, one year 9 29 laily. Sunday Included, one month -3 Dally, Sunday included, three months.. -- Jally, without Sunday, one year J"- Jaily, without Sunday, three months... Zaily, without Sunday, one month Go How to Remit Send postoftlce money or Cer, express or personal cheaa on your Iocr.I bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at own era risk. Give postoffice address in full, in cluding county and state. Postage Rates 12 to 18 pages. 1 cent: 18 to 3- pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 cents: SO to 60 pages, 4 cents; 62 to "6 pages. cents: 78 to f2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Kastern Business Office Verre & Conk tm, Brunswick building. New York; Verree A Conklin, Steger building. Chicago; Verree & Conklin, Free Press building, Detroit. Mich. Can Krancipco representative. It. J. Bidwell. MR- TAFT AND MB. WILSON. Mr. Taft has two main ideas in proposing interpretations of the league covenant. They are (1) to secure its ratification and (2) to re lieve the republican party of the onus cf its defeat. Mr. Taft makes it clear that he is for ratification with or without interpretations or reserva tions; but in any case for ratification. It is obvious that the senate will de feat the covenant if concessions are not made,' and he advises -a course which would save the league and sat isfy the scruples of these opponents who in good faith are making ob jection to some of its clauses. Mr. Taft has performed a service both to President Wilson and his sup porters in the senate, mostly mem bers of his party, and to the senate opposition, mostly members of the republican party, by his scheme of compromise. Undoubtedly, President Wilson desires above all things to Bee the fruit of his labors properly matured in an achievement that will be an everlasting monument to him and a permanent service to the world. It is inconceivable, as has been at times suggested, that he would wel come rejection by the senate as a challenge to go before the country again as u candidate for president. Probably it would happen, if the treaty should fail; but it is quite an other thing to provoke a situation -wherein it is arranged that it should happen. The president has had two terms and he can hardly hope to add lu ma maiuic ny .i iiiiiu It'i ill. Jll tn rfintrarv th. ril-j li vvoiilrl Tiin in another eaniAdacy are great, and "not the least of them is defeat; or, if not defeat, an anti-climax of per formance and a recession of prestige which would lower rather than ele vate his place in history. These practical considerations should militate heavily against any thought of a further appearance as a principal in a campaign. They ignore 41ia f n,. ..,1.1 Vin.A,. 4.V. I.. .1.,.. President Wilson is not weighing his future in any political way. He has more than once said that the league of nations is not a partisan issue and he is to be credited with fidelity to his attitude when he asks for ratifi cation on its merits. Mr. Taft has given, throughout the whole period of discussion of the league of nations, a high example of disinterested devotion to an Id en I and to a great design without regard to eelf or party. He has been the chief sponsor in the United States of a league of nations; and he has seen his plan taken by others, and revised, and presented to the world as the cre ation of another; and yet he has not faltered in his pursuit of his original aim a compact between the nations to keep the peace of the world. ' Mr. Tat't has been made aware of the fact that by his support of the president he has antagonized power ful influences in his own party, and he has made improbable, if not im possible, his nomination for the presi dency if he had any such idea, which is doubtful. In this fashion he has acquired a place of great author ity with the American people not rivaled by any other private citizen. , For that reason any suggestion from ' him as to the proper policy to be taken with regard to the league by . the senate deserves consideration; and the outlook is that it will receive, both from the senate and from the ; people, such consideration, Mr. Taft's scheme of interpreta tions is along the same general line , as other proposals; but it differs in ; detail. He makes a great point when I he shows how it will be possible for ' a mother country (England, for ex- ample) to sit in judgment in a con troversy involving a colony (Canada), i But he reduces the validity of his own objection by his declaration that the framers of the covenant had no such intention and that in practice it would not and could not occur. It could not occur without criticism and resentment by other nations, whether , or not parties to any dispute, and it 1 is not likely that Great Britain or any otner nation wouia jeopardize lis standing in the league, or the sta bility of the league itself, by any such procedure: yet the possibility exists and it can do no harm to correct it now. Yet. as Mr. Taft says, such de . fects of method and organization it is within the power of the league itself to correct; and he expects them to be . corrected. What Mr. Taft wants, and what he iiiMius me luuuu v witins. is raiuicu tion. If the senate insists on interpre- tations and definitions, well and good. , 00 lUIlt c, o 11 CI C IT 11U U11L11K1I1 U.lllt?UU- " me nt or alteration which will call for objection from other nations, and a reassembly of the Paris conference, - "with the certainty of long postpone . went both of the peace treaty and the league and the probability of failure t of the league. ' The opinion and proposal of Mr. Taft arc in accord with the desire 'and eniightened judgment of the "country. It will regard defeat of the "league of nations as a disaster to America and the world; and it de--mands ratification by the senate. The most rigorous quarantine seems Inadequate to prevent introduction of plant pests and diseases into the country, a fact that makes it more 1 than ever necessary to keep up with ' the procession in discovering meth ods of combating them sifter they have entered. The ' report of the bureau of entomology of the depart ment of agriculture shows that all our ports were guarded as carefully as possible, yet two new insects have found their way here within a. few months the Argentine ant and a corn borer which makes holes in the stalks and leaves and consumes the growing plant. Idaho has recently abandoned effort to prevent the alfalfa weevil from spreading: from one county to another, and we long: ago realized that if the San Jose scale was to be rendered inocuous we would have to fight it on our ground.' In view of these facts congress probably will be liberally inclined toward the request of the secretary of agriculture for an additional appropriation. But the people will insist that real scien tists be employed. It is a matter of too great concern to permit waste. The cost of living problem Is bound up in the eradication of plant disease. - HOW- TRAGEDIES HAPPEN. Next to carrying a pistol ready for action, leaving a loaded weapon about the house is a grave mistake. The deplorable tragedy to little Frank Mc- Cauley would not have occurred if a' revolver had not been handy. Deadly weapons have an irresistible attraction for a child. They have the same fascination for many adults, too. The fool who does not know the gun is loaded does his fatal work every day or two. The boy who does not know it is loaded, and who would play with it if he did, is equally dan gerousy The man of the house, familiar with the use of weapons, will probably say that he keeps a pistol ready for use when it is needed. Who knows when a burglar may visit one's house? But when he comes, he in ready for mur der and, if he is met at the point of a revolver, blood will bo shed. We would not advise complete non-resist ance to any outlaw, of course, unless the outlaw has the drop, as he usually has. Then acquiescence is advisable. But advice against the too ready em Bloyment of pistols in any emergency is certainly good; and for their being kept always in a safe place is also good. A pistol is safe only when it is un loaded, or is in the hands of an ex perienced user. There are few safe places in any house, free from the enterprise of prying children. If deadly weapon must be kept at hand to cope with indignant prowlers, why not an ax, or a club? THE DOOM OF THE CABARET. Gotham complains that war-time prohibition has sounded the knell of the cabaret. The extravagant revue and the slapstick entertainment that have been assisting the tired business man to forget his troubles fail to .at tract the same tired business man with nothing more to excite his imagi nation and blunt his judgment than lemonade and 2.75 per cent beer. The latter commodity is still being sold in New York, but it seems to be a fizzle. It doesn't make the consumer "loosen up" as he used to do. As for getting 60 cents a glass for lemonade, as the restaurant proprietors tried to do. why, it wasn't in the cards. New York is surprised at the way a man holds fastato his money when not un der the influence of alcohol. The difference between soft drinks and others is that when the customer has had enough of the former he knows it. No cabaret proprietor or other dispenser of stimulant.' who was wholly candid ever pretended to profit by selling a man only as much , as was good for him, or as he really desired. The psychology of John Barleycorn's salesmanship con sisted in removal of what scientists are wont to call the "inhibitions." Mostly they were the inhibitions of business thrift and critical judgment and common sense. At the point at which they vanished the cabaret and the revue began to pay. But the things that seemed jolly enough to the patron with a cargo of wine safely stowed away where- it would do the most inhibiting failed to satisfy the sober individual who just couldn't find room for another soda lemonade. N'o one ever bough a soft drink to fill a slipper with, or under the influ ence of a loganberry flip laughed gleefully when a dancer kicked off his tall silk hat. Stripped of its trappings, the form of entertainment with which Gotham and its imitators have been wont to cajole dollars from the pockets of the temporarily carefree stands exposed as the naked skeleton it always was. There is mourning among those who subscribe to the doctrine that outside money keeps up the camp, but there is reason to suppose that it will be offset in the long run by the pleasure of the visitors who still have money in their pockets when they get back home. Getting men drunk to induce them to spend their money isn't much of a business, anyway. We doubt if New York profited much by it in the long run. Other cities have found out that sound trade is .built on a dif ferent foundation. There will be few tears for the snuffing out of an insti tution that perished the instant it had to depend on the sober for its support. MISSIXti IN .ACTION. The list of American -casualties dur ing the war. originally containing 322.000 names but reduced by elimi nation of duplications and .other errors to 308. 000 had at the time of the signing o the -armistice the names of 19,804 listed as -"missing 'in action. The number, of missing had been re duced 'in February to less than 7500 and another list was published. Sub sequent lists, each with a diminishing number. of names, have been sent out from time to time from the central records bureau at Bourges, France!, until all but a .few hundred of the Americans who crossed the Atlantic have been accounted for. Some of these lie in graves marked "unknown." In a fiv instances the fate of the sol dier never will be known. But in a far greater number than might have been expected all doubt has been cleared away. The number of missing listed by the French is 265,000; by the British 121,000. By comparison with the civil war. our own records bureau in this war has made a singular record for effi ciency. The list of those whose fate is still a mystery is shorter than that of many single battles of the war be tween the states. Chancellorsville had the greatest number of missing 5919. There were 5434 unaccounted for after Gettysburg. 4774 after Chicfcamauga. 4 263 after Manassas. In these four great battles of that time, and at the Wilderness and at Stone river, 27,490 were on the "missing in action" list, an aggregate considerably exceeding the list of the identified dead. In spite of all the precautions the government took, soldiers themselves were to blame in some instances for confusion as to the "missing" list. A few bestowed their aluminum identifi cation tags on French madamoiselles as souvenirs. Some used them a poker chips. One squad of men went swimming and hung their tags on a limb, where they were found and the entire party were reported missing. In one French hospital tags for all the men were hung on a peg and when on) died hospital attendants took off the first tag and buried it with him. Of the entire number of missing, only twenty-one were prisoners in Germany. Of 4651 prisoners captured by the Germans all have been accounted for except these. The list of those whoso fate is un known is, perhaps, more tragic than that of the known dead. That this has been reduced to terms so low is one of the minor marvels of the great war. 'It will be still further clarified by the work of the lied Cross, !n co operation with the war department. Few relatives at home will be denied the melancholy satisfaction of cer tainty as to the fate of those who have not returned. filll.TY ON M sritlOS. Like much of the aftermath of the trial of Thomas J. Mooney, the Pens niore statement to a congressional committee invites more to prejudice than to calm or intelligent consid eration of the fairness of the trial. We are offered by Mr. Densmore an analysis of a record which has never been given the light of pub licity. It is a record of espionage by dictaphone over the office of the dis trict attorney of San Francisco don: long after the Mooney case had beer closed. The man who obtained i. passes on it and tells what he think it implies, but he gives not one sen tence of the reported co" ersation- to enable anybody else to judge as to the accuracy of his deductions. On the basis of evidence not pro duced to the public, the district at torney is accused of being incapable of having conducted a fair and im partial trial. He was'elected by thj worst political elements and ho hair consorted with jury fixers and witness franiers. so Iensmore reports. On the sole basis of associations, so far u, any disclosure is made, the district attorney is found guilty by this in vestigator of having attempted to rail road a man to the gallows and of suc ceeding in railroading him to the pen itentiary. If we take associations alone a conclusive of guilt or innocence, then Mooney can as reasonably be found guilty guilty without the slightest direct or circumstantial evidence in addition. He had consorted with an archists and dynamiters and had him self previously stood trial on a charge of having dynamite unlawfully In hit possession: he was an advocate of direct action and associated with men of similar mind; he was an associate of those who opposed preparedness, and he had himself written an in flammatory protest: he was a member of the I. W. W. and a kindred Ger man organization. Yet Mooney was not convicted on the ground of his associations. In stead, an effoit by the prosecution to draw admissions from him concern ing his past life was objected to by the defense and the objection was sustained by the trial judge. The prosecution was thus confined to the direct issue. That line of inquiry was held prejudicial as to Mooney. So v.-hy is a similar line of inquiry not prejudicial as to the district attorney? Railroading of men to the peniten tiary is an uncommon occurrence most uncommon. We do not now recall ever having heard of an au thenticated instance. It is read about in fiction occasionally and is some times seen in the movies, but in real ife the obstacles that do not bother romancers present themselves. One obstacle is the peremptory jury chal lenges the defense may exercise. In California 'the defense may excuse thout assigning any reason twenty talesmen who have been examined and passed for cause. The trial judge. too, is an obstacle, for he may exert a powerful influence on results by his rulings on admission of challenged testimony. But after fixing witnesses and framing jurors and court if all that be possible there is still the supreme court. If that be "fixed" there is yet the governor, who may be expected to pardon a man shown to have been convicted through cor ruption. Railroading, men away from the gallows or penitentiary is a much easier process. Once acquitted by jury the case against the accused is ended for all time. There is no higher court or executive that, may Intervene. Mooney's case has had the close scrutiny of the highest court and of the governor of California without avail to him except a commutation of sentence. In spite of the obvious im possibility of railroading a man in real life his case has become a na tional even international incident. Much of its prominence is due to agi tat ion of the Densmore type, which builds its foundation by elevating Mooney to a position of moral stand ing and great prominence in the labor world a place the very reverse of which he held and adds an 'impos sible structure of conspiracy to dis credit through him the organized forces of labor. Y'et the fact remains, however it has come about, that the reputation of American justice would be im proved by wiping clean the Mooney slate and by writing a new trial rec-. ord thereon. To accomplish that end further inquiries and reports by poli ticians and prejudiced persons and class agitators are not the best things in the world. LIVE IS MORE MONEY. ' "Give us this day our wage in crease-" is the prayer that Is going up from the workers in every industry in the land. "Give us more money for the product of our machinery and our toilers hands is the invocation, or demand, that rises from the other ide the employer contingent. And with the two pleas goes forever, the oid familiar emergency clause, "We must have bread." Of course, we must have bread. The world must have bread, and a good part of the world for some years has been on short rations and today is hungry. Also it is true that bread and everything else that humans eat in recent years have gone to cost heights hitherto unknown and are likely to stay there a while. But will cash get bread? Will more cash con Vert scarcity into plenty, and where hunger is create satisfaction? There is an elemental matter for the con sumer to mull over for a time, and the sooner the better. There is no magic in money, and the day of miracles is long gone by. For years every articulate anthro pos in town and out of it has t)een yelling himself hoarse over the ever increasing cost of living: and this same cost of living was a problem for some millions of people prior to 1914, so it can't be laid altogether nt the d'jor of the great world war. The war merely accentuated, intensified it. pressed it a little nearer home. And now. in the perverse innocence at which coming generations will smile. we plead with the obstreperous gods ef our humanly-contrived heaven for more money, ever more money, with which to buy. The cry smacks of the bolshevism of Russia and Hungary. whero the misled millions. Intent on "getting" instead of "creating." now are starving. ' For a good many years the Ameri can people have assumed that bread somehow would bo produced; and it was produced, for the pioneers who took this once wild continent over from the Indians and held it because in the providential order of things they could make better use of it tsjan the redskins, inherited from nature they didn't create it the makings of the most magnificent agricultural dot main to be found on the planet, and up to a decado or two ago it was a relatively easy thing for the farmer element to find provender for the population. It was especially easy a quarter of a century ago to find the needed food. when there were unlimited fresh new acres waiting for the plow, and when half the population or thereabouts were tillers of the soil. But times have changed. Whether the city dwellers see It or not. times have changed. Today we are fretting and fussing and fuming because two farmers cannot do what three were doing a few years ago. Today we arc belaboring one an other, "cussing" the middleman, de claiming about depreciated currency, demanding relief legislation - and fighting windmills on every hand from rosy-jnorn till dewy eve. In the J belief that bread thereby w ill be made cheaper. While the perverse and clamorous city contingent Is yelling Itself black In the face for the "price" of bread and actually bringing the terrors of bolshevism nearer dally ho philosophic farmer is wondering 'why in thunder some of the city guys don't come out Into the country und help produce the stuff." Have the people of the city become so absorbed with the little elegancies of the town, the little niceties of urban life, the little problems of the street, the little shams und humbugs hat encompass them and the little philosophy of keeping up appearances hat they actually have forgotten thut before bread Is bought or eaten It somehow has to bo produced? It seems so. If so, the war, for them. didn't last long enough, School was dismissed before the all important esson was learned. America's pressing- need today l more farmers. There are too many farms in the country and too muny farmers in the city. The farmers now tilling the soli are doing their best In some millions of cases they are wrestling with worn-out or half worn-out land and it won't do to expect the impossible of them. The population of the country too largely has gone to town, swelling the rapu- cious multitude whose eternal cry Is for "more money with which to buy " What are you going to do about it? Let us pray. Is there a destiny that shapes our ends? Is It ordained that a little boy is to be killed and another little boy is to be his killer? Or is it lack of precaution that leaves a loaded re volver where a child can get It? Why the need of the gun In the household,? This Is a civilized community. Out side of fiction, a pistol. Is the cow ard's weapon, except In the case of a lone woman, when its mission simply Is dangerous. All other means failing, we may yet need to appeal to the altruistic in stinct vto keep our supply of cooks. The New York Sun tells about a cook who was asked if she did not regard It as her duty to serve humanity- and who replied: "Not If there are more than two in the family." There Is room for a new chair in our schools of domestic science. The federal shipping board is to build two liners of 1000 feet length for possible auxiliary uses. To realize the immense size, compare with, the distance from Second to Sixth street, a few feet less than a thousand feet. Many can recall the Great Kastern, used to lay the first cable, then the largest afloat. These proposed vessels could "mother" her. When a woman Is compelled in her suit for a decree to allege the hus band sits as if ashamed of her and all that, the probability Is that she made him all he is by her loving sacrifices. Now suppose Mr. McMurray, who came near immortalizing the Portland rose, tunes up the mill and gives us something on "slabwood, slabwood everywhere." We may sympathize, with the im provident soldier who pawns his serv ice medal, but who has a good word for the man who buys and wears one? The making of aviation records never ceases. Flying around the "rim of the country" may be only the fore runner of a trip around the world. A contest over blood money Is un seemly and the sooner the award for Liard is paid the better the affair will sound In profound silence. The time is here to knock down the man who points an air hose at an other. This Is becoming as danger ous as the "unloaded" gun. Cheap restaurants in Paris are said to be serving food bought in the United States. Americans will be glad to learn how it is done. "You need not be a farmer to attend the field meet at Gresham tomorrow, but you ought to be the better to en- Joy the affair. - The sum and substance of the new citizenship regulations Is that appli cants must completely dehyphenate themselves. Henry Ford's recollection of Bene diet Arnold as a "writer" is a kind of left-handed compliment for Arnold Bennett. Portland was the greatest hog mar ket In the world yesterday. Figure the differentials and you are con vinced. The Japanese have the right idea in one respect. They will conquer the world with large families. State banks show slight losses in deposits, but wait until the farmers begin selling. "AH quiet along the Potomac" agairi Those Who Come and Go. Presidency of a concern spending $160. 000.000 is a responsible Jan. Charles Straus, who was president of the water board of New York from 111 to l?i. is at the Multnomah. It was while he was president of the board that the big expenditure was made to supply wster to the thirsty people of Brooklyn. Rich mond, the Bronx. L'ueens and Manhat tan. Hie five districts of New York City. This is known as the Catskill squeduct. which brings water for ISO miles from the Aihokin reservoir, at the rate of 150.000.000 gallons a day. Tart of this project is the Pressure tunnel, cut for 1 miles through solid rock from 20 to 7o feet beneath the surface. Seven teen thousand men worked on this tun nel. The Grant tmith company, a Port land concern, handled the big Job. so there wss quite a reunion when Mr. Strauss and his family came to town yesterday and - became the personal guests of Krlc V. Manser. Mr. Strauss will examine the Bull Run system while here. Full advantages of the Catskill squeduct were not appreciated In Now York until prohibition came this month. "I am legally dead, so I am not re sponsible If I pass bad checks." an nounced J. W. Ross, a business man of Kolse. Idaho, when he arrived at the Multnomah and discovered that his friends and relatives supposed him killed In an automobile wreck near White Salmon. Wash. Mr. Ross drove down from Hoise to Portland. Near While Salmon a couple of machines went off the grade. Friends of Mr. Ross heard of the accident und telephoned the ferryman si White Salmon, inquir ing If Mr. Ross had crossed the folum- bla. The ferryman on the shift reported that Mr. Ross had not arrived and this caused the friends to believe that Mr. Ross whs in one of the cars that were wrecked, and acting on this supposition they telegraphed relatives. At tbe Muitnomuh the Boise busines man dis covered the commotion that had been caused snd proceeded to reassure his intimates tht he is still alive ana kicking. Proflteerlna In Washington, nlstrict of Columbia, will make that town suf fer." predicts Stanley Myers, who re signed as a deputy city attorney to go to WaehliiKton to do his bit in war work. Mr. Myers says that his fi penaes were greater than his income. This can be understood when It Is ex plained that round steak costs 65 rents a pound and a small, soft, wilted head of lettuce, not enouch for one person. costs 10 crnts. A bit of laundry which a Portland waHherv would collect .'.0 cents for "doing up" amounts to !.." In the national headquarters. Mr. My era rented a house for $70 a month. It waa located elsht mil-s from town and the fare was Ua cents each way. One of the recognized sporting au thorities In the country l Harry ii. Smith of San Francisco, mho la at the Hotel Oregon. Harry broke Into the newspaper came In San Joe and mhen he had "covered" the star gaxers at the observatory nearby and was on speaking terms with the earthquake recorder at the rolleBc, came to Port land. In thoe dN n pace of sports had to be prepared once a week and the Job waa wished on different mem bers of the staff. They all used to dodge the assignment except Harry and tnat Is how ha laid the foundation for being a tip-top expert on the baseball and fighting ends of sports. Considered one of the hottest spots In western Oregon, it is not surpris ing that F. M. Stall. W. J. Travia and G. W. Travia came to Portland from Grants Pass and are registered at the Oregon hotel. Grants Pass was named In honor of Grant capturing Vicksburg. The pass had been known as Holcomb pass, but just as it ws bein fixed up the n'i of Grant a victory was received and the people wanted to cele- I brate it. Rogue river flows throuah the town and these hot days the stream Is alive in the afternoon with bathers In the niftiest of rainbow suits. Hat ing lanced central Oregon men to the tune of $5000 for the Pacific Live stock building. O. M. Plummer has re turned from Crook and lieschutes county flllxd with praise for that sec tion. His chief impression Is the speed at which C. S. Hudson, president of the Bend First National bank, drove him over the roads. The speed Indicator generally registered at 65 milea an hour and Hudson assured Plummer that the Indicator was only 3Z per cent efficient. Andrew Carnegie arrived at the Hotel Portland last night from Puget Sound. He is not the original Andrew Carnegie who declared it a crime to die rich and tlven speckled the I'nlted States with libraries, but the hotel arrival Is a nephew of the ironmonger. He Is re ferred to as Andrew Carnegie 2d. Henry s. Graves. I'nited States forester. who approved of ttve Mount Hood loop and had things starting toward build ing it when the war broke out in de- ayeu pians, is at- tne .Muitnomarts lie mas here a few days ago and went north to attend a meeting of lumber men. Wearing his clerical garb. Rev. V. Karahalios. a priest of tUe Orthodox Greek church, arrived at the Multno mah yesterday and created quite a sen sation by his appearance. He is to be the new pastor of the church which serves the local Greek colony. George S. Long, a lumberman of Ta- conia, is at the Portland hotel. He Is connected, with the Weyerhausera, who control enough standing timber to re place with wooden ships all the ton nage that waa sunk in the war. and still hae enough trees left over to make a highly respectable forest reserve. H. J. Overturf, one of Bend's proml nent citizens. Is at the Portland hotel. Tre name of the town has been short ened of recent years. The first pio neers caned it Big Wend, and later plo neers. or rather the settlers In the '70s, rcierred to it as r art well Bend. Portlanders who complain of warm weather here snould think of El Cen tro. Cat. where the temperuture feels about l'C, or .worse. C. W. Eilee. who is at the Imperial from El Centro, is quite content to be In such a summer resort as the Roe City. George E. Brallier of the good ship toaxet is at tne Washington hotel. The g. s. Coaxet Is a made-in-Oregon boat. Intended to help make the world s;ife for democracy, but the "armistice changed its destiny and destination. One of the best-kr.own bond dealers In the west is George E. Keelcr of Denver, whose bids on Oregon mu- nicipal snd highway bonda are re ceived iom time to time. Mr. Keeler Is registered at the Portland. A party of 5 tourists from Cleve land. O. dropped in at the Multnumah yestetday and then chartered motors for an Inspection of the Columbia l-ighway. The crowd has been In Alaska and will leave tonight for Puget sound. An automobile party from Seattle, reporting god roads. Is at th"e Per kins. The group consists of Mr. and Mrs. F. M Totten, Mr. and Mrs. Jo seph P. Totten. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hed lund and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hooper. The Massachusetts Forestry associa tion, a riarty of 74 members, arrived at the Imperial last niaht and today will visit Portland lumbet-mills. Newly weds from Wllliamctte Falls. Mr. and Mrs. 1 C. Maddix are honey mooning at the rerklns. More Truth Th.m Poetry. H y JasBM J. Mntscse. OKT IN THK JITH.I.V MliHT. tDlstrict Attorney Soinn of Nem York complains that burglar alarms needlessly annoy polictmen and night watchmen.) A time there was. In New York town When burglars, bent on harmless pillage Could move, unnoticed up and down From Harlem Heights to Greenwich Village. From floor to floor, from street to Ktreet They had a way of lightly creeping. And. undisturbed upon his beat The weary cop continued sleeping. But science now has butted in. And when they ply their aly voca tiona The night Is hideous with the din Of clanging tlntlnabulations. A cop sits down, fagged out, poor thing. A grateful slumber overtakes him. He dreams delightful dreams, when Z-s-sing A raucoua-tongued alarm awakens him. Ann in this burglar's paradise. These ias when crookdom is in flower. This doesn't happen once or twice Kut six or seven time an hour. Night watchmen bitterly protest That bells and buxxers have upset them. They cannot get a moment's rest At night the lid alarms won't let them. Unless this midnight clamor stops It's very plain that every station Will be filled up with nervous cops Who suffer from complete prostra tion. I guess alarms will have to go. The copa can't atccp. 'till we've de stroyed 'em: It might be Just as useful, tboueh. To teach the burglars to avoid 'em! W kick Wky He la a Critic. A dramatic critic Is a man who knows how to write a play but can't. They'll Stick the Bitter Fad. In five or six years we'll have all Americans hat-k in this country, even Including cabinet members and Colonel House. The lawalaable J-herlochs. The only reason we don't abolish bomb throwers is because tbe detectives can't find any of them. Bugaboos. By (.rare K. Hall. When the dusk descends o"er the city. the. hamlet and hill ar.d dale. The things that we see In the daytime are hidden beneath a veil. There in mygtery that la awesome In tbe grotesque forms that stand L.lke figures in black that may hurl us back if we dare but lift a hand! While the creaking gate hinge sends a chill from the collar to Icy heel. As we see In the dark assassins mark our back for the plunging steel! When the -Ight creeps over the land scape, spreading Its somber pall. We vision queer grinning monsters that are leering behind each wall; The pine trees that in the daytime are lovely and full of cheer Wave gaunt black arms that beckon alarms and freese up our souls with fear! And the boxea and barrels and gate pests that we see In the noontime Itsiht Turn Into strange freaks that force our shrieks in the dead black hours of night. No chinge Is wrought when tne dark ness descends o'er the scenes, we know. But we hasten to borrow strange fan cies and burden our minds with woe: As Truth, the Immaculate virgin, oft is hidden by loathsome disguise. So we wring out our tears, encourage. our fears and put horrid sights In our eyes! We dig deep trails In our foreheads. where the worry-imps love to Play. As we cower and shake o'er the phan toms we make of the trifles of every day! BLTTOM-KSS BOYS Lt'CKY STIFFS) Private Mho Save Paris hat Got No 1'hssks Cosselrs 8. A. T. C MARSH FI F.L.D. Or.. July !J. (To the F.ditor.) 1 have often suspected that Sherman was right, but now comes the final howl of nnguish that proves it bevond doubt. The S. A. T. C. and their .., . .... revised version of the old game of "Button, button; who's got the button?" have struck a new depth of bloodcurd ling horror In my bosom. But. oh. how they need a press agent- What won derful opportunities for making their terrible wrongs apparent to the whole world are being wasted. Why not a "hymn of hate" and then a regular "day of gloom" on which all of the members of the "also rans" could chant some terrible dirge aimed at their arch enemies In Wsshington and dress in some sombre garb commemorative of the occasion. The effect might be en hanced by chooslnc a winter day with lowering clouds and a general atmos phere of gloom. Then they might go on a' hunger strike. The "Buffs" did it and got lots of publicity. Added to this they might form an antl-smlle so ciety. Possibilities are limitless. The predicament of the S. A. T. C re minds me of my own army experiences. I was always getting left out. For instance. I was a patient In a hospital: next to me was a man who had been cited for a war cross and other decora tions for bringing in one wounded com rade under fire. He wasn't wounded very badly. Now there was I. a per fect wreck, who had unaided stopped a mule s hoof going at milea per sec ond straight for Paris, where it would have done damage Incalculable, and I didn't even get thanked by the guy who stood back of me, and who would have surely received what X got but for me. There you are. Isn't It true that Sherman possessed Infin ite wisdom. And I did so want to be a private first class. I always felt that I was a first class private, but that is not the same, and after It months In the army, during which I waa all over "and aroundabout." I failed absolutely. I'm still a buck or was before being discharged. For tlie benefit of the S. A. T. C. please print the suggestions contained In the first part of this letter. It may encourage them. From the tone of their letters I take It that they need en- couragement. And when the next war comes I'd suggest to the f. A. T. C. that they get In at the very first and then they'll know Just bow lucky they really are OXE WHO WAS THERE. ertaal School lustra see Resialressseata. MOXMOFTH. Or.. July 13 tTo the Editor.) I noticed lu the write-up of the Oregon normal school In The Ore- gonlan two great errors: One that we admitted students to the Oregon nor mal school with or.ly two years of high school work and the other that we are till offering the emergency course. The fact is we are not ailow!r.g any one to enter the oreeon normal school without four years of high school work and we have long since abandoned the emergency course, sou readily see that this will give ua a great deal of trouble In an administrative way. Trust that the error may be rlchtcd. J. H. ACKKRMAN. ' President. In Other Days. Tnmlj.atr tears Age. From The lirfgnnun ef Ju:y .. WM. t'ounty Srhool Superintendent W kw man has tusued notice for the teacher.-. annual in.-titute -a'sjch will be held i the hiRh school building Martini, August IT. Many of the Indians from other rem ervations who visited with the t nu. tillas on the Fourth have returned lu their homes. largely minus ttwlr bright-colored blankets and herds of cay uses, the I'matilla braves havloc won everything in sight at the ruts. The harness shop of Sharkey & Sn on I'uioii avenue and Kast Yamhill street was entered by burglars h means of a rear window Monday lujil a large safe being broken open and tn. money register, containing about $7 in silver, was robbril. OM-: YIKW OF SHU rK PW11K Likely to floral Claris Crran l Ad ministration. Says Newspaper. Aberdeen (Wish.) World. The spruce production division of thf army cannot escape investigation. In fact. General Disque, through hi never-satisfied love of self-advertlaiog displayed during every favorable ami unfavorable opportunity, invited U. !w man was more exploited than the 6U eral. Ho took good care or that. Such care, indeed, that one could almost ace him out in the woods producing t)w spruce. At least you were not allowed to see anyone else. What the spruce cost we do nor know, rrobably no one knows. But everyone here who knots anything at all about It knows that the spruce coat a great deal more than was necessarv r than it would have cost had loggers been allowed to produce it and mills to saw It in ihelr own way. But General I'isque had to have It done his war. He sent agents Into tha woods whoa, knowledsre of timber and forestry was purely theoretical. Ho involved pro duction In a mass of red tape. With finely equipped mills here and else where ready and willing to cut spruce as it needed to be cut for airplane uses, he was not satisfied to emplov them. but must needs build a new mill at Vancouver and haul his raw ma terial scores of unnecessary mile to teach it. Here was the raw material and the loggers and millmen who knew how to produce it and manufacture It. Hut that was not enough for Disque. Ha called In" a southern "expert." who instructed northwest mills to cut sprue logs In a weird, wonderful, wasteful way. and who won a decoration for hi wok. Tho government needed spruce. Th. practical thing to do was to call on the loggers and millmen of the nonhwtM to get It out, to supply them with such labor as they needed and to let then produce it by the modern methods they havo evolved, hold in g i hem for the out put. the quality and the workmanship. But that was too simple and It left lit tle or no room for self-exploitation; so It was not adopted. Besides It outraged red tape. The Investigation that Is In prospect will not resolve Itself it. to an investigation of northwest mills or loggers, but of Grleral risque and bis methods. That l Inescapable. He has some real accomplishments to his credit. He must stinorr. also, for some very glaring eYrors. the fundamental one of which was his refusal to entrust the work of spruce production to men who knew horn- to produce It. SEAVIKW, WASH, HAS A IIF.ROIM: Ilrrnes. Tbousfc. Were I'paaeertlve Klsherssiaa Mas la SVHt. SR.WIEW. Wash., July SJ ,To the Editor.) There ;s a heroine at Sea view. Washington a quiet, unassum ing heroine with a human heart. If there are any heroes here we do not know It: at least there were none to be found among the line-up of young men who stood on the beach and v.-atched the frantic struggles of a lone fisherman in the surf. In the heavy fog he lost his bear-Ins.- and his boat ran Into the breakers. Three times he bad been washed over board. 1 ut eacli time menaced to reach his boat acaln. Once he got her e-igine started and she weathered the s.irf tiU the an-.-hor rope got caught In her propeller, then R was all off. and tor the fourth time he was swept from his boat, but managed to cling to her with his rcinaininir strength, while the crowd on the shore calmly looked on and speculated on his fate. lnc!e Sam's navy was represented among the spectators, but no uniform of Uncle Sam cot wet that day. While "r """" showed no Inclination to enter the water themselves, they were at leasi courteous enough to step aside and let a woman pass who was not afraid to take a chance. She made straight for tho breakers and for the man. The man's strength failed htm and he re leased his hold on the boat and war about to release his grip on life ai the woman reached him. They came ashore together and the show was over. Later In the day I saw the fisher man sitting on the back steps of a lady'a home with hia face buried in hia hands. I touched him on the arm and asked htm how be felt. He looked up and said: "Pretty good now. but ry gosh, I come pretty near to lose my life. De woman here, she's give me some hot drink and some dry clothes, now I's feel pretty good." (Hf waa a Russian Finn.) In the open doorwav behind him. with a radiant smile on her face, stood the little wo man with the human heart JOB KXOWLES. ALONE. My love, thou llest allent within thy tomb. Alone. I atand In the depths of the gloom. Alone, alone. I vibrate to naught but life's tndertoBi Oh, were I to sink "neato the ocean's foam. Or hurl my frame from the highest dome. Would It bring me beside thee within thy tomb? Oh. I am alone, alone, alone. Am I never again to roam near the sea. With thee? Scatt'rlng love's blossoms over the sea. With thee, with thee? Oh. never more shall I find ecstacy. Till my body lies under the blossom ing lea. And my spirit has flown from the foam ing aea To thee, to thee, to thee. MHJ3RED SUTHERLAND. Corvallis. Or. Net Bible Passages RCFI'S. Or.. July SS. (To the Edi tor.) Are the following quotations in the Bible? If so where are they to be found? "Every tub must atand on. its own bottom." "Weep when one comes Into the world and rejoice when they co out." SUBSCRIBER Reference works credit the first Quo tation to Charlea Macklin. Neither one is found In the Bible. Bo sas for Wife. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. July 13. 1T0 the Editor.) Cpon discharge a soldle receive a bonus of $0. 1 have heajl that his wife receives a bonus of $1. Will ou plea.-c tcH me If this la cor rect? . A. H, m. There ha? been no provision for a bonus for the sllc.