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FINISH THE JOB THIS TIME.
Carranza's demand for withdrawal
of the American troops who are pur
suing the captors of American air
men threatens a repetition of the
fiasco of 1916. In that year Pershing's
army- advanced more than a hundred
miles Into Mexico on Villa's hot trail,
then stopped and caught nothing-.
Alter the treacherous attacks by Car
ranza's troops at Parral and Carrizal
the state department wrote some
fierce notes which pointed clearly to
war. the national guard was sent to
the border, but it all ended In futile
negotiation and the return of Persh
lng'a army empty-handed.
The burst of energy Indicated by
execution of seven bandits who robbed
the Cheyenne's sailors at Tampico
should not deceive the administration.
One swallow does not make a summer.
and capture of one cans of robbers
does not make American life and
property secure In Mexico. It does not
atone for the murders of American
In the Interior of Mexico, some of
them quite recent and the total run
nine; Into the hundreds since the revo
lutlon be (rnn. Robbery and murde
are still the most active Industries,
and no effort is made to run down the
outlaws until appearance of American
troops spurs the Carranza forces into
action. If all the bands such as those
who kidnaped the airmen were dis
posed of. the fact would remain that
Carranxa's government Is a bandit
trust which seeks to put all rompcti
tors out of business. Its confiscatory
laws are simply banditry organized
under the forms of law.
Detachments sent on a hot trail
after small bands are a futile way of
dealing with the business; indeed, they
only touch Its fringe. Some day such
a detachment is likely to be cut off
and exterminated by a sudden con
centration of troops. Then will come
a call for a stronger force to avenge,
and to rescue, if there should be any
survivors. In such event the Ameri
can people would not tolerate a repe
tition of the history of 1916. They are
In a very different mood. In that
year they were so averse to war that
they endured many wrongs which
they are now ready to resent. They
have learned that patience is only
taken by some people as an Invitation
to fresh insult, and they are rather In
the humor to strike forcibly and de
cisively and make an end of Mexican
anarchy, since it rcrsists in taking
American lives and in overflowing on
American soil.
We also have duties to other na
tions. Having insisted on recognition
of the Monroe doctrine by the league
backbone of the covenant. The main
purpose of the league is to prevent or
combat wars of aggression, and an at
tempt on the part of any nation would
meet strong opposition, though limi
tation to a fixed number of years
might be accepted.
Preparation of a series of reserva
tions which would meet the objections
of all- except the irreconcilable sens
tors without provoking counter objec
tions of other nations should be with!
the capacity of senators who sincerely
desire to bring about agreement on
adoption of the treaty. The worst
hindrance is the men who set ad'
herence to their own opinion above
the early conclusion of peace.
of nations and having obtained it, wi
are morally bound to art up to ou
responsibilities as fully as we have as
serted our rights. In deference to us.
other nations have abstained from In
terventlon, though their citizens also
have been robbed and murdered. They
look to us to exact redress and to
bring Carranza to a sense of his duty
We have no right to use the Monroe
doctrine as a license to convert the
western hemisphere Into a great pre
serve wnere anarcny snail reign un
restrained. If we guard Mexico from
punishment, we are in no position to
condemn the powers of Europe for
having prolonged the rule of the In
famous "Turk, for be is no more In
famous than those who have ravaged
Mexico.
A POOB ALIBI,
The Eugene Guard is emboldened
by an Intense and unthinking, parti
sanship to offer a defense of the na
tional administration for its share of
responsibility for the present carnival
of profiteering, with its unpleasant
concomitant, an epidemic of strikes.
It offers the entirely original theory
that "most of the complaints are the
outgrowths of a military system built
up by the republican party during
peace time, and which the democrats
have not had time to change."
Not had time? Well, they had time
to decline to change, as witness their
consistent and defiant refusal to do
anything for preparedness between
1914 and 1917. and the almost univer
sal characterization of far-seeing men
and newspapers that wanted to be
ready for war as militarists and munition-makers.
The unique plea is entered by the
Guard that the "war department is
not responsible for the brutalities to
soldiers, neither is it responsible for
the courts-martial trials that have
been miscarriages of Justice." Why
not? The war department has been
administering the army. It could pay
sufficient attention to details to give
several hundred fake conscientious ob
jectors honorable discharge, with full
pay, new clothes and an apology.
Why could it not see also that other
soldiers, who at least went to the
front, though they committed offenses
there, were not beaten Insensible by
"Hardboilod Smith" and his gang of
ruffians? The war department could
give enough attention to the military
laws to have them brought up to date
as to phraseology only and codified by
Ueneral Crowder. then passed by con
gress, but it could not cut out the bru
talities .which have come down from
the Romans and which have been re
pealed by the British but rot by the
American government.
terial power, as well as on the sound
ness of its logic, to carry its point.
An interpretation accepted in advance
by all signatories would be far prefer
able and worth the brief delay in
volved in an exchange of notes.
The fact that the differences be
tween the president and the senate
have been narrowed to so fine a point
as this is the result of the meeting to
talk it over. Such meetings are what I
me average man understands bv
common counsel." It is doubtless
what -the builders of the constitution
meant when they wrote: "By and
with the advice and consent of the
senate." " But if the intent of the
constitution-makers had been fol
lowed, the president would have
taken counsel with the senate, or at
least with its foreign relations com
mittee, last November, when he dic
tated the bases of peace to Germanv.
and again when he framed his draft
covenant and his. own outline of the
peace terms. Again, in order lo have
the benefit of the advice which the
constitution prescribes, he would have
taken some senators with him to Paris
as delegates and he would have con
ferred with them as well as with
Colonel House. In that event he
would have prepared the way for rati
fication with the minimum of friction.
Of course the oratorical explosions of
Senators Reed, Borah, Johnson. Lodge
nd a few others could not have been
avoided, but many words would have
been saved, also many hard feelings.
na the great body of senators would
ave been predisposed to ratify the
treaty as the best that could be done
where so many Interests h.-id to be
reconciled.
In short, what the president now
seems Inclined to do should have been
done nine months ago and, if it had
been done then, the treaty would
probably have been out of the way
now.
AS TO KESEBVATIOXS.
Discussion of the league of nations
has turned to the question whether the
renate can make reservations as a con
riition of ratification without throwing
me wnoie treaty back Into conference.
It shows some confusion of thought
as to the right of a signatory to make
reservations, and as to the effect of
making them.
If the senate should embody In its
resolution of ratification a declaration
that certain provisions have certain
meanings or would have certain effects,
if the president should send the treaty
bearing that resolution to the other
signatories for exchange of ratifica
tion and if the other signatories, with
out making objection, should send
their ratifications in exchange,' the
reservations should stand as limiting
the obligations of this country. That
course was followed with The Hague
treaties, some of which bore reserva
tions of several nations to different
glauses.
Iifficulty might arise if the reser
vations partooK of the nature of
amendments substantially changing the
terms of the covenant. In that event
the president might withhold his ap
proval and pigeonhole the treaty.
which would necessitate negotiation
of a new treaty, or he might invite
nxaent of the other powers to the
amendments. If the other powers
should accept ratification on the con
ditions offered, that fact might be
taken as assent.
A reservation defining the Monroe
doctrine should not raise any obstacle
to putting the treaty in operation. If
the senate should objoct to the defini
tion contained in the covenant and
should substitute its own definition,
the declaration in the covenant that it
hr.Il not be affected would still stand
unimpaired. It is recognized as an
American policy, therefore we have
the best right to define it. Reserva
tions of the same kind have been made
on former occasions, notably to The
Hague and Algectras treaties, and have
not affected the validity of those ln
stru ments.
Most danger of controversy would
arise from a reservation withholding
ficat to article 10, for that is the
SLACKERS.
The slacker has found his way Into
American life, but not into any Amer
ican dictionary not the slacker who
is defined In terms of American con
tempt as the shirker that sneaked out
of his duty during the war. The
slacker is a new breed. True, one or
two lexicons of American words have
admitted him to their columns, de
scribing him as. one who "shirks
work."
Work! ' Duty is the slacker's pet
aversion, and faar is his controlling
Impulse. The flag which protects
him he would raise no hand to keep
afloat, and the country which gives
him asylum and an opportunity for
livelihood awakens no echo of grati
tude In his craven heart.
Down at Astoria, the Loyal Legion
devoting some time to slackers.
There is a buneh of foreigners there
who had taken out first citizenship
papers, but cancelled them at war's
first alarms. The slacker, a thing es
sentially or alien birth, stayed behind
and took the Jobs tho boys quit when
hey Joined the colors.
They did more. Some of them
sought, in various channels of a sul-
en sedition, to undermine faith in
America's cause, and to make the
winning of the war difficult. Others
of them merely added their weight to
he burden an overwrought nation was
carrying, clogging the wheels, block-
the road, postponing the final
victory. All of them repudiated the
obligations of citizenship and for.
feited the right to stay and work in a
country they would not serve.
The American public have sought
to mike the boon of citizenship easy
for all who deserve it and who would
achieve it. But they are no longer
tolerant of those who claim all of Its
privileges and would evade its chief
responsibilities.
Just what contribution to America
and Americanism is the foreign lan
guago paper at Astoria, the Toverl.
now making? What has it made?
The editor and business manager have
been convicted of violating the espion
age act, and sentenced to prison, and
re at liberty on bonds. No wonder
further offensive exhibitions of hos
tility to American ideals and Ameri
can institutions are resented by the
men who fought, while slackers
shirked. '
ed, imbecile or epileptic and under
the age of 45, and the marriage of
any man ro afflicted with any woman
under the same age. Some states re
strict remarriage of divorced persons
within specified periods and their
legislatures from time to time by spe
cial statute validate marriages en
tered into in violation of this pro
vision. And so on. In the forty.
eight states and Alaska one can find
a marriage or divorce statute to suit
every taste.
Proposal to meet the situation with
a federal divorce law is not as simple
a solution as it seems. Shall we aban
don our whole theory of state govern
ment? The precedent thus created
might work to our discomfort in other
ways. Even the advocates of a federal
divorce law of half a generation ago
are not so insistent nowadays. But
they meanwhile are not making much
progress toward inducing the forty-
eight legislatures to enact "model
laws." The difficulty is inherent in
human nature. Forty-eight groups of
people, all given very much to think
ing for themselves, are not likely to
agree upon every detail of a question
so momentous.
There are perhaps some other is
sues upon which quest for a model
law will not seem so hopeless. We
ought to be able to agree, for example.
that whatever may be the rights and
privileges of individuals in regulating
their own domestic affairs, children
ought not to be made to suffer. "There
are," said a humanitarian and a
philosopher, "no illegitimate children;
only parents can be illegitimate." But
there are numerous communities in
which the "illegitimate child" ana
chronism still persists. Perhaps Dr.
Davis' conference will be able to do
something about this. The civilized
world surely is of one mind on that
subject. But it is not so well prepared
to come to agreement upon the citi
zenship of children. Just now a
French group of women are advocat
ing that the child take its nationality
from its mother. This will arouse op
position in the United States in view
of the fact that some 20,000 or 25,000
of our soldiers have brought French
wives home With them. But if we in
sist that citizenship shall be derived
from the father in every instance, we
shall encounter other cases in which
hardship will be wrought from the
point of View of Americans. The
view that will be taken as to the
status of children born of American
fathers and French mothers in France
Those Who Come and Go.
GEN'ICS MISUNDERSTOOD.
The death of Ralph Blakelock, the
artist whose genius was not found to
possess commercial value until he had
been immured for some years In a
hospital for the insane, is being em
ployed to point a moral for many
tales. Each observer according to his
fancy is inclined to discover a special
hidden meaning in It all. "Commer
cialism," says one, "drove Blakelock
Insane." Blakelock, observes another,
failed to succeed because he lacked
ability to advertise himself. Buyers.
we are told, invariably know the true -on, in. . k , a l
mo- ciouics w,el ODlala at wants more flexible laws with rela-
. . T L ""Known geniuses tion to the righta of unmarried moth
and that is the way they get rich. But c-i,,i u . t :
, . , ... 1 "Jv-tmuiim iauo ai c sain, iu VJZ agi-
it seems that Blakelock suffered from tatinir for rrenter lihorlit In Hivorco-
l v : J. v 5 , Wn,Cn tl" a burning issue in England may be the
early hardships had little to do; and deceased-husband's-brother law; sev
while he was not a self-advertiser, -! cn..niri, a n..,i,0nin,
neither have been many other paint- need of laws to prevent spread of
ers, except as they attracted atten- transmissible diseases; "eugenics" is
-'"' mj wieii eujjva, uuu 1L la U11UOUUI I , 1. .. . i ,
Hi,. .V..,. .., ut ia
udicia uu utno naas m fully understood
et indiscriminately it is now We shall look for no sudden unl
mat nut an ot ciaxeiocKs versal law making humanity vastly
"CIO UlWlCIUlCtCB, HO U1U IlUt I mCA VFh,AHB V, ft a.
u.)J UH! IweiVd. lnt.T-nnHnr.nl nnnfoen. r,f
It would, of course, be Ideal if every nhvsir-inns cc.i,i hnn tn nnr-nmniiv,
great man were a salesman as well as that rrn ih. nh nn,i tv, ,in,.n
a genius, but it does not happen to of judiciai mind will not belittle the
"a " " nara lo sa-y Just w movement. Much good may be done
can be done about It. It is one of the Dy reopening discussion. A great deal
Unu VII tumms imo llie-inai mm, thnt 1.1 nnrmnnnnt -arill ho on
"'"i " "fi"'""- ,s compllshed by education of the Indi
i-nri ot me oatue oi mo not only to vidual conscience than by all the laws,
"'7. " compel uniform or otherwise, that it is pos-
.tv.s..... "'. lecoBiiiuoa slble for legislatures to enact.
I'uijui uiui, .oiajteiocK. prooamy wouia
P , v y Dr- Edward T. Devine's suggestion
shouting his wares from the house- of representation by vocations instead
tops, or long postponed the day of his of by distrlcts, which he borrows from
commitment. His genius was indeed tne bolshevists, is not new. It was
i ' , J , , " " - lenaeresi practiced in the middle ages, when
kI, V " daJ'S d ?0t Cla'm the trade K"11 ere represented in
for h.m hat he was a normal man the government of the cities. The
muiiuij suwees 10 mainly lor me
There are three beauty spots around
Oregon that ought to achieve interna
tional fame, according to Rollin Laird,
district attorney for Del Norte county,
Cal., who is a visitor from Crescent
City at the Imperial. Mr. Laird is en
deavoring to Interest commercial or
ganizations in protecting the northern
California redwoods and Is spreading
far and wide the gospel of the newly
organized "save the redwood" league.
He knows a. bit about timber himself.
having in the early days walked from
the straits of Juan de Fuca to Aber
deen studying the forests of Washing
ton. Mr. Laird's conclusion is that the
redwoods are far more valuable from
a scenic standpoint than for commer
cial uses and that they rank with the
Columbia highway and Josephine
county caves as attractions for tourist
travel. Within a short time 1400,000
is to be spent on the stretch of roads
through the redwoods between Grants
Pass and Crescent City so as to make
them better for travel. "Oregon as a
whole should boost for this," he de
clares, "for Its own interests' are close
ly allied with the project."
From the ancestral home of the fa
mous Indian chief comes F. H. Gaulke
of Joseph, now at the Imperial. Mr.
Gaulke is a banker and incidentally
does a little farming, but as he puts
it, he cultivates more with a pencil
than with a hoe. "Crops are very good
on the irrigated land this year," he
said yesterday. "This, however, isn't
true on the dry soil, because Wallowa
county hasn't had a good rain since
April 1 and the lake is down rather
low, as water has been waBted and
there was no heavy snowfall in the
last few years. The dam is being im
proved just now and the channel will
be dredged, giving three or four more
feet of water." Mr. Gaulke says the
tourist travel to Wallowa lake has
increased greatly' and Joseph needs a
hotel. Good roads are making a big
difference, and realizing this the coun
ty has voted ample funds to carry on
this year's work. Crews are now
working on the Union county stretch
between La Grande and Joseph.
Though Mr. Gaulke does.t say much
about it, he was largely responsible
for the farmers bringing cattle and
hogs into his section. .
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br James J. Montagruc.
PROVERBS.
You'll gain success at home alone.
W ho seeks strange seas to cross.
Discovers that a rolling stone
Don't gather any moss.
And that is odd, because, forsooth
The wise bird soonest flits.
And furthermore, home keeping youth
Have ever homely wlte.
Don't fall to look before you leap,
Remember, haste makes waste,
Be sure, when cliffs are high and steep
Tour ladders safely placed.
And that is etrange, because thin Ice
With swiftness must be crossed.
It is not wise to try things twice.
Who hesitates is lost.
By taking chances Is attained
Both fame and goodly pelf.
For nothing ventured, nothing gained
la true as truth itself.
And that is queer, for learned rhymes
Have long Informed us all
That anyone who never climbs .
Can surely never fall.
Help other people up the hill;
For you will always find
One prospers best who bears good will
To all of human kind.
And that is funny, for but few
Great things are ever done
Except by prudent persons, who
Look, out for Number One!
What Have We Done?
United States threatens to cut off
food supply from Roumania if she
doesn't behave. The average American
citizen will begin to wonder what
naughty prank he's played to have his
own supply cut off.
The Audience Might TTnlonlze, Too.
After sitting through some of the
plays In New York, we wonder why the
actors man t strike sooner.
In Other Days.
Tweaty-tlve Years Ago.
From Tha Oresonian of August 22, 1S04.
Washington. A Btrong report favor
ing the rigid exclusion and deportation
of alien anarchists- has been made by
the house Judiciary committee.
The' first official report of the phe
nomenal display of the aurora boreaUs
last Sunday night was received yester
day at the weather office from W. L.
Langille, volunteer observer, now sta
tioned at Cloud Cap Inn, on Mount
Hood.
In the school report just issued by
Superintendent I. W. Pratt the total
of school children as shown by the cen
sus is 19,819. ...
H. J. Kennedy, a waiter at a Ross
island resort, was drowned off the east
bank of the river opposite the resort
yesterday morning.
'Superhuman" Strength.
By Grace E. Hall,
"average" man. Those who live in
the cloudland of another plane must
expect to be misunderstood. It Is true
In literature, in art, in commerce and
form survives to this day in the city
of London, where the "worshipful
company of fishmongers," etc., take
part in the election of the lord mayor
and aldermen, but tho companies now
business that those who, all things ,, ' tl ,.w j
Luiiaiuuieu, urai in. imo tneir environ
ment reap the rewards. It is a little
hard on genius, but it seems to be the
Inexorable rule. It is one of the pen
alties of a certain kind of greatness.
The everyday affairs of this earth
must continue to be conducted on the
basis of the understanding of the nor
mal man.
after which they are named and they
elect distinguished men to member
ship at big dinners. Representation
by trades would be apt to give rise to
an even worse degree of log-rolling
than that by districts, which at least
sends a composite of each district to
congress.
IMFORM MARRIAGE LAB'S,
It Is a rather big contract that Dr.
Katherine Bcment Davis, of the
Viscount Grey will be welcome as
British ambassador, for he has long
been a champion of the league of na
tions, has been the great conciliator
DirrERE.VCES NARROVTKD DOWN.
The White House conference has re
duced tho difference of opinion be
tween President Wilson and the senate
majority in regard to the German
treaty to such small proportions that
there should be no difficulty and little
delay in reaching an agreement, given
reasonable, conciliatory spirit on
both sides. The president concedes
hat interpretations of certain clauses
of the covenant, as we understand and
are prepared to be bound by them, are
permissible; though he maintains that
they are unnecessary because the men
who drew the covenant understood
the clauses in question to mean what
the reservationist senators say they
mean. Yet he objects to Inclusion of
the proposed reservations in the reso
lution of ratification on the ground
that it would cause delay by making
occasion to obtain assent of all the
other signatories.
In view of the president's admission
the delay should be slight. If all other
league members understand the con
troverted articles to mean what the
senate majority says they should
mean, an exchange of notes would suf
fice. Difference of opinion alone
could excuse delay, and the president
says there is none.
There are objections to adoption of
Interpretations entirely apart from the
act of ratification. They would not
be binding on any other country, ex
cept by lapse of time without protest,
I'ending that lapse of time, a question
mitrht arise under one of the articles
In question. The United States alone
would stand behind the American in
terpretation as adopted by the senate.
The other party to the dispute might
find another version better suited to
its rase, and other nations might co
incide with it." The opinion held by
the commission which drafted the
league covenant would have no more
weight than a statement in the de
bate? of congress has on the supreme
court when it construes a law. This
country would have to rely on its in
fluence, arising from moral and ma-
bureau of social hygiene of the Rocke- I among the nations of Europe prior to
feller Foundation, has undertaken on the war and would have prevented the
her return from a six months' tour of I war if any human power could have
Inspection of social conditions in Eu- I done so. His most disastrous failure
rope under the auspices of the Foun- was in the attempt to revive the Bal-
dation. She has Invited a conference I kan league, for the obstacles to be
of leading women of the principal overcome were insuperable and he
countries of the world to discuss should have known It. To that fail
needed reforms In marriage and dl- I ure were due the devastation of Serbia
vorce laws. Her desire is to bring and the fact that it is a land of or
about uniformity of laws throughout I Phans. But the Balkans are a hornets'
the civilized world. I nest which stings any diplomat who
But, first of all, will it not be de- touches them.
sirable and even essential that there
shall be a nearer approach to unl- Greater frequency of use of the
The help! situation In Chico, Cal., is
In such a state that the large growers
find the logical thing to do is to rent
tracts to men with families large enough
to take care of the crops. This is the
word brought by 13. C. Gage, who, with
Mrs. Gage, is spending a few days
at the Multnomah. He Is owner of a
large prune ranch, but is stealing away
a little time to tour Oregon by auto
mobile. While in Portland he will go
up the highway. The return trip is
to be made through Bend, Crater lake
and Klamath Falls, Mr. Gage stopping
to fish and hunt on the way. "This is
a very profitable year In the fruit in
dustry in California, he said yester
day. "Rice Is also making great head
way."
Just 60 years ago when Justice
Charles A. Johns of the supreme court
and his brother, Cato, now manager
of the flour mills at Albany, were little
tikes they went from their home in
Scio camping with their father up the
Santtam. Judge Johns is back again
from a similar trip and Is at the Im
perial visiting friends before returning
to Salem. 'With his brother he went
hunting the old camp and found it cov
ered over with brush. Then they tried
fishing, but the stream evidently len't
what It used to be and the judge left
it firmly convinced that the game com'
mission ought to turn a few million
fish into the Santlam yearly.
D. B. Cropsey and his nephew C. C.
Caldwell of Lincoln, Neb., are at the
Multnomah. Mr. Cropsey is treasurer
of the state of Nebraska and is making
his first visit to Oregon. The scenic
and natural resources of the northwest
have Just won new admirers In these
two men who are calling upon friends
in Portland and other points on the Pa
cific. coast. In Nebraska, they said, the
corn crop will be large this year, but
wheat is. only fair, owing to much rain
and extreme heat Immediately follow
ing it. This had a tendency to cook
the grain.
We Are Public Spirited.
correspondent says ?2 bills are
hoodoos and ought to be suppressed.
Pending suppression we volunteer to
act as a repository for hoodooism.
There are stories oft told of the
strength that is shown
When 'tis needed in moments of
stress:
How the brain grasps a fact though
but instantly shown
And 'tis marvelous the power we
possess:
The incentive removed, to the same
even plane
The mind settles down, and we show
No great mental speed 'til again we
may need
"Super strength" for a moment or so.
We tell with great zest how men often
perform
Wondrous feats when a tragedy
falls,
How they lift a great weight with the
strength that is born
Of excitement when agony calls;
'Tis a wonderful study, this thing we
call brain,
Its limitless depths none explore,
And each marvelous feat it oould often
repeat
If urged to the task more and more.
There Is scarcely a height that the
brain cannot scale -If
aroused to the need and directed:
Oregonian Publisher I And we well may dispense with the Idle
word "fail"
When the depths of mind are detected;
A1J the forces so called "super-human"
Like an army that's lackin In skill.
But ready each hour to lend us their
power.
If we but command them to drill!
BETTER METHOD THAN PRUNING
lesson or h. l. prrrocics life
How the Late
Worked, Saved and Throve.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
Appraisal of the estate of the lat.
Henry-L. Pittock of Portland shows
mat tne pioneer publisher amassed
property to the value of nearly 17,000,
000. Yet Mr. Pittock began life a very
poor boy in a very poor oioneer com
munity. He had no opportunities of
law, business or social relationship that
w e nut just as ireeiy open to all other
members af thA cnmmnnitp
Over a long period he had many dis- PInchl,18T Tips of Rnapberry Bushes
iicm ienmg oostacies. For at least a I inves Btrengrn to lanra.
nnaiier oi a century the printers he PORTLAND. Aug. 21. (To the Edl
c,Trnanc.re" ef.sler nanciI - tor.)-R.f erring to Mr. Woodward's
housed than the ;,7.r, Jl "Client letter on berry culture I want
them wore better clothes and none nf to make a suggestion as to the matter
them worked quite as hard as he " Pruning raspberries. He advises
worked. They had more amusement, against pruning the new shoots at this
more reereatlon and always less care season as being injurious to them be-
Qn:T;.'Z; , . caus not yet fully matured, etc. But
VL a.a,. A illUUR S PmniOVe WAT t . L .
as good or better nrint.c. i "tLLBr 18 "ol lo Prune lnam at
speakinsr from the noint nf ri,, ' all, the desired result being reached
ship. He employed scores of men who by PinchinS off the tips of the canes
were oetter writers. But no man came wnen they have arrived at the proper
Upon The Oresronian in its lnnw Ufa I hplirht. Thfa nrsvinli fhtt linnnr.ii
starting in the '50s, who had his man- growth that is lost by pruning and
agerial ability, his foresight, his re- makes stockier canes, stronger to
. power of patient self-denial, withstand the wintry storms and to
inese were the qualities that sep- bear the weight o fruit the succeed
aiaieu neury i. Jflttock from tho ranlr lna- vear.
ana rue and enabled him to develon a This process can be followed with
great newspaper and incidentally to out loss of time by pinching the tips
ajuiaing nana on a number of of canes off while picking the berries,
constructive entemrises for tho no. the nroiicr height hnvlnir hpn rmrhprt
.cmpmem or uregon s natural re
sources, xney are qualities which bol
anevists, raaical socialists and their
miieianie sympathizers sniff at and
wouia appraise at zero. None h i
tney are qualities which the wnrlrt still
needs and would soon go in search of
ii, in an nour ot bolshevik dementia, it
mignt go cnasing communistic wlll-of
me-wisps.
formity here in our own United States? I word "compromise" gives promise that
In forty-eight states we run the gamut the senate will act soon on the treaty.
from one extreme to the other in both I Just when the people begin to show-
marriage and divorce. We make no lack of interest and signs of being
provision at all for divorce, as in bored, the senate gets down to busi-
South Carolina, and we permit di- ness, which shows that statesmen are
vorce on almost any conceivable I much like other performers.
ground in a number of states. Where
a dozen specified reasons for divorce I There ought to be a medal or other
are not enough, we construe "cruelty" token for the man who catches
or "extreme cruelty" so loosely that it I burglar in action and lands him, as
means anything we may want It to 1 did Fireman Billings yesterday, but
mean. The husband who does not like as there is not, the most we can do is
his wife's cooking and the wife who to say: "Bully for Billings
doesn't like to be reminded of her
snortconnngs may find a complaisant Shoes are due for another rise,
judge to agree that life under such cir- I caused by scarcity of hides, it is ex-
cumstances may be intolerable. Massa- I plained. That leads to wonder where
chusetts requires residence of three I all the beef being eaten comes from
to five years before instituting action; land what is done with the hides.
Nevada lets them off with six months
and invites tourists to tarry in her I Pennsylvania miners who profess to
midst with such liberal constructions I believe they can produce as much coal
The "Maxwell Desert Rat Crew" is
the name that goes with Colonel King
.Stanley and O. R. Moon, who arrived at
the Imperial Wednesday after a 16,000
mile journey by automobile. On the
way they were wined and dined by
plenty of celebrities and accumulated
a collection of pictures of out-of-the-
way spots. Colonel Stanley is a path
finder and chooses only the sparsely
iraveiea roaas.
All the bumps and holes In the roads
across the high deseft in Deschutes and
Harney counties are thoroughly fa
miliar to A. K. Richardson of Burns,
who, with his wife, may be found at
the Oregon hotel. Mr. Richardson has
garage and drives his own car the
year round, often takiner tourists with
him. He has a huge fur coat which
will defy any kind of weather in win
ter and knows all the ins and outs of
thawing radiators and water canteens.
Tillamook has the largest single
floor garage in the state, according to
tne claim maae Dy r. J. worrall, hotel
man from that town, who is to be
found at the Imperial. The garage he
mentionea is iut Dy 147 feet in size
and has no posts on the floor. Mr.
Worrall says his house is running to
capacity ana the business outlook In
the coast town is better than ever be
fore.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Batchelder. of
Mooa itiver, ana their son, George, have
been at the Portland several days. They
have gone to the beach to pass their
vacation. George Batchelder has been
in the army, having left a responsible
position in the east at the opening of
the war. He will return in the near
future to enter New York's financial
field.
of cruelty and desertion as make the
state a very haven for the mismated,
or those who think they are mismated.
But Nevada is unjustly accused of
being more easy-going than her
neighbors. Except for the six months'
residence clause, she Is no more so
than many other states. There are
many states in which those who are
willing to wait only a little longer can
be divorced practically at their hearts'
desires.
There is little or no uniformity in
the matter of marriage, although we
have made some progress In a gener
ation in this, regard. Only in Alaska
is there no marriage license require
ment. But several states establish no
age minimum. Miscegenation is pro--
hiblted as to whites and negroes in
twenty-five states, but only three pro
hibit intermarriage of whites and In
dians, and only five whites and Chi
nese. Marriage of first cousins is pro
hibited in seventeen states, but in only
part of these is the marriage void. It
is voidable in others, in varying cir-
cucstances. Marriage of step-relatives
is prohibited in all the states but
seven. Connecticut and Minnesota,
widely separated states, forbid mar
riage of women who are feeble-mind-,
in a shorter day as they now dig in
eight hours are not helping their
cause any by telling of it.
With wine grapes selling as well
for grape juice as for wine, the case
against prohibition is in a bad way
from the standpoint of economic
effect.
There's just enough smoke temper
ing the glare of the sun to put a
brunette blush on the golden skins of
the apples now ripening.
No pear grown can beat the Rogue
river article, and that Medford is get
ting better than $1 for them is no
cause for wonder.
Business is always booming with
Lee L. Gilbert, one of Salem's live
auto dealers. Mr. Gilbert was respon
sible for the first annual automobile
show inaugurated in the capital city
last spring and has the state agency
for the Elgin cars. He Is taking
brief vacation with his family and
stopped at the Seward yesterday on his
way to Seaside.
usually when the berries are ripe. All
the extra growth which Is permitted
and Is afterward pruned Is lost a
needless waste of nature's energy
nd it is too late to secure that
stocky condition that is of great value.
Within 48 hours after the tip of a cane
is pinched off a marked difference
the color of Its leaves In comparl-
wlth those not so treated will be
readily noticed a darker green which
Indicates added strength to the cans
and its branches. Try It. It Is the
only effective way.
Mr. Woodward s advice to city peo
ple to raise their own berries is mcst
HAECKEL DID NOT DENY SOUL
Herman 1-lilloaopbrr lipid in IT..--
"Made Darwinian! Thinkable."
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aue 21 (Tn excellent. For ten vears here In Port
the Editor.) Editorially, you hit one of land I have raised all the rhubarb,'
my heroes (Haeckel) hard. I feel It mv sooseberrles. currants. blackberrl
auty to come to his assistance. Haeckel loganberries, strawberries and rasp
was by far the most illustrious nhilnsn. berries mv familv has used and then
pner of the 19th oenturv. He took- nn I some -most of it has e-rown "on tha
and untangled an endless skein of varn edires" of the nlace. on or near the
with which the theologians had been- fences, leaving the lots themselves for
Piaying ior some iu,uou years. He ren- the production cf garden stuff. And
dered Darwinism thinkable.
His "Natural History of Creation'
and "The Riddle of the Universe" ex
piain evolutionary processes more
clearly than do any of the works of
Darwin or Huxley. Haeckel was
there is no country on earth more favdr-
ably provided with a combination OX
soil and climate for the production of
fruit and vegetables than the Willam
ette valley. Especially In the cities
where water can be had for supplying
'monist" what else can the erudite I the necesaarv moisture, and mora esua-
be? clnllv In Portland, whera the aunnlv of
Within the realms Of snace he sensed I a-att-r la n nhunriant. n rlrv Mpaacin la
but matter and energy. He realized that harmless to interfere with the success-
energy was a natural phenomenon of ful efforts of the gardener.
matter- therefore was matter. Hence Tf nil the vacant lots within tha
all was matter and why not? Haeckel city limits here were raising vegetables
never "banished God (nature) from his I i.n.lor tho Intensive avstem nf cultlva-
scientific universe." True, he. like tlnn emnloved bv .the Jananea and
many other scientists, banished ghosts Italian a-ardeners. would vou. or would
and superstitions from an intellec- anybody, dare to estimate the amount
mm .:t worm, tis never aenlea tne 0f food they would produce?
immortality of the soul (human char
acter). He realized that this so-called
'soul" Is a phenomenon of the material
physique, therefore is matter, hence
indestructible and eternal. Naturally
he denied "freedom of will." God (na
ture) is either all in all, elsewise noth
ing at all. Man acts physically and
mentally through compulsion, as moves
the sun, moon and stars. Man is not
free to will his birth nor yet his death,
T. T. GEER.
LAFAYETTE'S MEMORY REVERED
Obaervance of Day Set Apart by Gov
ernor Enjoined on Cltisens,
ALBANY. Or., Aug. 28. (To the Ed
itor.) Lafayette cay, September 6, Is.
worthy of observance, and the gov-
and durine the interval between these ernor's proclamation in that behalf I
ends" he is forced to act Just so consider nigniy commendable.
and so.
Haeckel realized that "what is to be
will be," and the sooner we all real
ize that God (nature) knows more
than we do, the better it will be
for us. J. HAROLD.
PLEA FOR FULTON PLAYGROUND
In-
Slnce the actors refuse to act, there
is a chance for those who think they
can act, of whom there is always a
superabundance.
Because water is plentiful, appar
ently, it should not be wasted. Waste
of any kind has no place in the system.
Increased wages and increased car.
fare again are in the chase around the
wheel, . -
"Hello, governor," people were greet
ing w. T. Vinton, of McMinnville,
around the Imperial lobby yesterday.
Mr. Vinton, who Is president of the Ore
gon senate, is also enjoying the office
of the state's chief executive while
Governor Olcott is absent a few days.
The former Is in town with George
W. Hendershott, an attorney, and Wil
liam H. Loop, a farmer from Yamhill
county.
C. A, Watson, -superintendent of the
construction for T.he new Standard Oil
company plants on the coast, is at the
Imperial on his way from Astoria to his
headquarters in San Francisco. Mr.
Watson has been supervising the work
on the new dock and tank unit at the
Columbia river port.
W. D. Albright, district manager for
the Goodrich Rubber company, came in
yesterday from Seattle and is at the
Benson while in the city looking over
the territory. He is one man who lives
on Puget Sound, yet remaining faithful
to Portland.
"Sure Tm a brother of Bill," an
nounced Mike Hanley, who registered
from Medford at the Imperial yester
day. Mr. Hanley runs a big ranch near
the Southern Oregon town and is quite
as famous there as his Eastern Oregon
hrnth.r whnm ho n.in't rooomhlo In
appearance in the least, ' ' - , - j
Need of Protection Grows With
ereased Number of Factories.
PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) Why has Fulton no playground?
A populous community, long settledi
tributary to main, paved thoroughfare,
has never been provided with play
ground facilities.
The advantages to be derived from
having some well-situated location
where children can gather and play
In safety under competent supervision
are too well known and understood to
be enumerated here. In a playground
they are protected from streetcar and
auto traffic. This protection is be
coming more and more necessary be
cause of the rapid increase in the num
ber of factories in this location.
The nearest playground is Marquam
gulch, a mile and a half distant. It Is
needless to say that this playground
is too far away to serve Fulton.
On behalf of the mothers and children
of Fulton and adjacent portions of the
city, I would earnestly urge that con
sideration be given to the needs of this
district.
For years the taxpayers here have
been striving to secure playground
facilities for this long-suffering com
munity. Always have their efforts
failed, because of the short-sightedness
of the city officials.
Is there no way in which this com
munity, can gain recognftion? Is there
no city commission who will champion
our cause? TAXPAYER.
Experienced Aviator Talks.
Boston Transcript.
"Are you an experienced aviator?"
The
name of Lafayette will ever be en
twined with that of Washington. No
two names, down to the present day,
are more fresh in the love and grati
tude of the American people.
Lafayette, at the invitation of con
gress, and of President Monroe, visited
the United States in August, 1824. He
visited each of the then 21 states, and
was greeted by immense crowds, many
of whom traveled hundreds of miles on
horseback, and in all kinds of vehicles
then in vogue, and some even went
through hardships by foot. In order to
see once more one whom they loved
second only to Washington. Cities,
counties and colleges were named in
his honor.' The whole nation did him
homage, and the two houses of con
gress united to receive him in person,
at which time Henry Clay, as speaker
of the house, bade him welcome. At
that session there was voted to General
Lafayette, as an expression of love and
gratitude of the American people,
$200,000 and a whole township of land.
Among other cities visited by Lafay- .
ette, in 1824, was Nashville, Tenn. My
grandfather, who was present at the
Nashville meeting, related to me when
I was a small boy an incident which
occurred there which moved strong
men to sympathetic tears. Governor
Carroll presided at the meeting, and
many officers and soldiers of the revo
lution of nearly 50 years prior were
there. An aged man who had traveled
150 miles to see Lafayette, and who had
served under him, approached and
clasped the hand of General Lafayette
with affectionate warmth, the tears
rolling down his cheeks, and said, "I
have come many miles to see you. I
have had two happy days In my life,
one when I landed with you on the
American coast, nearly 60 years ago,
and today when I once more look on
your face. I am now ready to die. . I
have lived long enough."
Long live the memories of Lafayette
and Washington, and may the love of
Hhertv and crood government amona-
Well, I've been at it three months (men and women of America be ever
and I'm all here." ... Iheld eaci
eacred. GEORGE W. WRIGHT.