THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY. SEPTE3IBER 6, 1919.
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. CETT1XU BACK TO REASON.
There are signs of growing reason
ableness in the ranks of that element
of labor both in America and Europe,
which has been inclined to go to ex
tremes without being irreconcilably
red. Unions order their mutinous
members back to work and await the
effect of the campaign against high
prices. The I'lumD ranroaa pian is
not so aggressively in eviaence as a
.i. .1,. ...,r furore soisio leave.
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much in the day's news. The mod
erate socialists, with thinned ranks,
bid their erring communist brethren
farewell, and the latter are rendered
less harmful by being forced to flock
by themselves under the bolshevist
banner.
Most effective In cooling men's
minds has been the conclusive proof
that all the general strike movements
In this country, in Canada and in
Britain sprang from one source Kus
sia and were part of a general plan
conceived by limine to cause a world
revolution. The intent was to over
turn real democratic government and
establtsh Soviets, which would raise
the blockade of soviet Russia, join the
bolshevist forces in destroying the
armies which ring them in and are
steadily breaking them down, per
manently establish the soviet in Rus
sia and make communism supreme all
over the world. Lenine and his satel
lites saw that the only possible hope of
survival for their hideous tyranny was
to extend it to other countries. The
governments of the several democratic j
countries saw mat iaDor aisiuruamcs
were incited to that end. and they
struck hard, and promised to use all
their power in striking harder, if
necessary.
The outcome is seen in a subsidence
of radicalism in this country and In a
decision of the British labor party to
"postpone" the threatened direct ac
tion strike. Robert Smillie. the leader
of the British coal miners, still threat
ens to force the government's hands
to secure nationalization of the mines,
but J. R. Clynes, a level-headed labor
member of parliament, condemns di
rect action as "the most indirect and
roundabout way of getting anything
done," and one which "would always
insure a very good row." He re
minded his hearers that in the rows of
the past most of the heads that had
been cracked were workingmen's
heads and most of the blood spilt was
working class blood, therefore he ad
vised constitutional action. He gave
warning that workmen who deliber
ately restricted output or who failed
to accept any form of industrial de
velopment which could make labor
more productive were .punishing
themselves and their class without
knowing It.
When the sober common sense of
such men gets the upper hand, as is
evidently happening, we shall have an
end of talk about Soviets, direct ac
tion and the one big union, and men
will settle down to work." The great
trouble of Europe in particular is un
der-production, which limits the
amount of goods available to pay for
the food and raw materials which
must be imported from this and other
countries. Europe is tired. Its nerves
are unstrung, its political and indus
trial organization is badly shaken. It
rhows signs of bracing up. When it
does. It will go to work and will have
no time to listen to the red agitator.
nr.HTixa WITH fiAS.
As the history of the war is un
folded we are led more and more to
realize the greatness of the achieve
ments of our men. One may confess
to being thrilled by the story of the
work of one branch of the service
without deprecation of the value of
any other. And the account of the
things that our "gas and flame" serv
ice did in France, as told by the Rev.
James Thayer Addison, chaplain of the
Thirtieth regiment of engineers, be
longs in the category of historical ac
counts that Inspire us with confidence
in ourselves and in our future as a
nation.
Gas warfare was entirely new to us
when we went to Kurope. We were
horrified when the Germans employed
It. but properly reached the conclusion
that the devil can be fought success
fully only with fire. We had neither
the advantages of research in the
science of killing possessed by our
enemy, nor stomach for this particular
variety of murder; yet. because there
was no- other way, we accepted the
weapons of the. enemy and turned
them against himself. Before we had
finished the men who invented gas
warfare must have wished that they
had kept their devilment to theru
eelves. The fact that stands out is our
ready adaptability to utterly strange
conditions. The regiment was ordered
to be organized on August IS, 1917.
Trained in the beginning .near Wash
ington, IX C, it entrained for France
on Christmas day of the same year,
fully equipped, and disembarked at
Brest on January 18, 1918. There
fllnu'.l a n r-i ml nf i r 11 c- i train.
; lng in France, and the first battalion
'of the regiment was actually engaged
on the front line in less than three
months from the time that its organ
ization was completed. The command
ing British general was outspoken in
his praise of the "show" that the
Americans gave. Nineteen platoons
went Into action on March 19. There
after there were engagements at
Chateau-Thierry, in the operation at
St. Mihiel and in the greater one on
the Argonne. When the regiment was
demobilized in March, 1319, it had a
T record of 13S engagements, a record
certainly unique in military history.
Terrible as gas war must have been,
it is significant that the one note of
protest in the book is the chapter in
which conditions' in Brest on the way
home are treated. We read with in
dignation such a quotation as this:
In the course of ten months at the front.
In every variety of position and circumstance
Irom Vprea to the Swiss border, our men
never had to submit to living conditions
worse than those which surrounded them
during their first week at' Brest and this.
too. In
camp which had been under con-
struction for over a year and which had
been in constant use by our debarking
troops. Conditions there wera chronic,
which would not have been permitted by
any of our commanders for more than
singla day. even under shell fire. But the
story of needless and arrogant mismanage
ment later remedied through influence out
side the army Is loo familiar both to us
and to the public to require repetition in
detail
It is good to read of the achieve
ments of individual units, such as the
gas and flame division, and the tank
service, and every other branch that
called for both bravery and Initiative,
if for no other reason than that it
helps to get the Brest affair off our
minds.
A WARM WELCOME.
Portland welcomes the United States
navy to its harbor. Only a part of the
Pacific fleet is here, to be sure; but if
one little old gunboat flying the stars
and stripes was to anchor In a foreign
port, she would be the United States
navy, and that is the way Portland
takes it. Her welcome Is not based on
numbers it's matter of quality, and
is of the best. Better still, it's so
great it will go around and lap over.
Portland could not be more pleased if
Dewey in the heyday of fame were
here. She is glad to see the rear-admiral
and every man who salutes him,
down to the youngest powder monkey,
If that useful individual is yet in the
- - -V V
, - -
We will not call them
"gobs." for that hasn't the right
sound; but if a word more to their
hearts and ours will do, here it is:
Come on, fellows, and take the town!
WISDOM FROM THE PAST.
When the delegates of thirteen
states, after long discussion, had pre
pared the great document which as
the constitution of the United States
has stood the test of 130 years, and
has served as a model for other peo
ples striving to formulate a chaTter of
liberties. Benjamin Franklin, then 80
years of age, arose and said:
"I confess that there are several
parts of this constitution which I do
not at present approve. But having
lived long, I have experienced many
instances of being obliged, by better
information or fuller consideration, to
change opinions even on . important
subjects, which I once thought right,
but foundto be otherwise. It is there
fore that the older I grow the more
apt I am to doubt my own judgment
and to pay more respect to the judg
ment of others.
"I doubt too whether any other con
vention we can obtain may be able
to make a better constitution. For
when you assemble a number of men
to have the advantage of their joint
wisdom, you Inevitably assemble with
those men all their prejudices, their
passions, their errors of opinion, their
local interests, and their selfish views.
From such an assembly can a perfect
production be expected? It therefore
astonishes me, sir, to find this sys
tem approaching so near to perfection
as it does, and I think it will astonish
our enemies who are waiting with
confidence to hear that our councils
are confounded. like those of the
builders of Babel, and that our states
are on the point of separation, only
to meet hereafter for the purpose of
cutting one another's throats. Thus
I consent, sir, to this constitution be
cause I expect no better, and because
I am not sure that it is not the best.
The opinions I have had of its errors
I sacrifice to the public good. I have
never whispered a syllable of them
abroad. Within these walls they were
born, and here they shall die. If
every one of us in returning to our
constituents were to report the objec
tions he has had to it and endeavor to
gain partisans in support of them, we
might prevent its being generally re
ceived and thereby lose all the salu
tary effects and great advantages re
sulting naturally in our favor among
foreign nations as well as among our
selves from our real or apparent
unanimity. . . .
"On the whole, sir, I cannot help
expressing a wish that every member
of the convention who may still have
objections, to it would with 'me, on this
occasion, doubt a little his own in
fallibility, and to make manifest our
unanimity, put his name to this in
strument." It may be asked if there is no ap
plication of the lessons of this im
pressive and memorable incident to
the attitude of some American citi
zens, in and out of the United States
senate, toward the league of nations.
If America rejects the Paris cove
nant of the league of nations there
will be no league of nations.
rEACH CROP MANAGEMENT.
The enormous peach crop' with
which the trees of the northwest are
now laden, and the lack of success
of many growers in finding a market
at prices that will pay a return on
labor for picking, packing and fur
nishing containers at double the cost
of a few years ago, furnish once more
a text for a little sermon on orchard
management. The number of grow
ers who, notwithstanding all the edu
cational propaganda of the recent
past, continue to ignore the patent
difference between ordinary and high
grade fruit is still larger than it ought
to be.
As In every bumper-crop season
there is a large proportion of small
fruit. Excellent though this is, in
flavor and color, the fact remains
that it not only entails additional labor
in handling but encounters a reluctant
buying public. ' A homily might be
written on the insistence of buyers
on what is not a major virtue in the
peach, or any other good fruit, but we
shall be content to record that It
exists. The point is that a little labor
devoted to thinning along about last
June would have converted many a
totally unmarketable crop into a mar
ketable one. The difference is ob
vious. And so long as buyers con
tinue to pay. as they do, as much as
50 cents a dozen at retail for impos
ing looking peaches and decline to
buy little peaches, even at less than
the cost of getting them to town, it
would seem that the time given to this
detail early in the season was almost
as good an investment as the original
amount expended in bringing the or
chard into bearing.
The same is measureably true of
fruits in general. People have been
trained to insist on "quality"; noth
ing but the best suits any buyer any
more; Ve can talk of the food value
of the lower grades until we are weary,
without convincing the people who are
buying this season's goods. There Is
no prospect of an early change. The
orchardist who realizes that it is as
important to sell fruit as it is to pro
duce it will adapt his management to
human nature as it is revealed in the
market place.
CHANGES IN THE CABINET.
Secretary Redfield is not the first
man to retire from the Wilson cabinet
with wounded pride. There was Gar
rison, whose continental army scheme
was regarded favorably by the presi
dent until he had stumped the middle
west for preparedness and had
thought it lukewarm, erroneously as
things turned out. There was Bryan,
who was reduced to a mere- cipher
when he disapproved even the little
vigor which was put in the Lusitania
notes. There has been a succession of
attorneys general, but McReynolds
was made a supreme judge and
Gregory says he wanted to attend to
his own business. There was McAdoo,
but he wanted to get rid of the rail
roads before the real trouble began,
and he also wanted to make money.
Mr. Redfield has had a very irksome
job during the war for a man who
takes pride in his work and in the
record he makes. Between the muni
tions board, the war trade board and
the enlarged activities of the depart
ments, his department was shorn of
much of its importance and was
merely keeping alive until peace
should permit it to start at full speed
again. After the armistice he thought
he saw his opportunity to get busy
again by reducing steel prices, but
again he was blocked by the war
power in the person of Director-Gen
eral Hines of the railroads. The
president sustained Mr. Hines, and
that was the last straw on Mr. Red
field's back.
Holding a cabinet job under Presi
dent Wilson is no easy matter for a
man who refuses to be a cipher or a
clerk, but others held on well, some of
them tod well. That is especially
true of Postmaster-General Burleson,
whose retirement would cause regret
to no one except the Western Union
Bell telephone interests and those
postmasters who owe the security of
their jobs to him. But he holds all
the strings which will direct the pre
liminaries to the democratic conven
tion next year, so perforce he must be
carried, heavy load though he is.
THE APPEAL OF THE PEOPLE,
The controversy between President
Wilson and the senate about the Ger
man treaty has culminated in genuine
American style in an appeal to the
people for a verdict. No former peace
treaty has been the subject of such an
appeal, for on no other was there oc
casion for it. Former wars have re
lated to quarrels with single nations
and were ended by treaties with those
nations. The war not yet formally
ended was fought by this nation in al
liance with other nations in defense of
elementary national and human rights,
and must be ended by a treaty affirm
ing and establishing those rights and
rendering them secure against attack
in the future. Because this Is so and
because It Is the subject of acute con
troversy it is proper that the people
should decide whether they approve
the method by which the treaty seeks
to attain these ends and whether they
are ready to assume the responsibil
ities which it imposes.
. The president has an advantage in
presenting his case to great audiences
in the fact that he can appeal to their
hearts and can expound the broad
principles on which the treaty is
founded, and he has great powers of
persuasion. He scores heavily when
he points out that criticism has been
centered chiefly on three articles, par
ticularly article 10 of the covenant,
on the assumption that it would cause
war, and that little attention has been
given to the effect of that and many
other provisions of the league cove
nant in preventing war. If the league
had existed in 1914, there could have
been no war because Austria would
have been bound to submit its quarrel
with Serbia to arbitration or media
tion, and because Austria would have
known that if it invaded Serbia and
Germany if it invaded Belgium, the
whole world would fall upon them.
Before they could have made war
without incurring this penalty, they
would -have been compelled 'to go
through all the processes of peaceful
adjustment provided by the covenant,
which would have consumed nine
months. Yet Senator Lodge calls the
obligation assumed under article 10
"everlasting meddling and muddling
in every quarrel, great and small,
which afflicts the world."
To every American who has ex
amined the causes of the war suf
ficiently to know that these were the
suppression of nations under alien
yoke, or the tearing of nations apart.
It must be an inspiring thought that
the treaty unites the sundered na
tions, sets the suppressed nations free
and guarantees their freedom against
assault by any other nation which may
desire to conquer them. That thought
is inspiring Decause free men in
stinctively rejoice at the spread of
freedom-and because liberation of the
oppressed is itself security for the
world s peace.
The president scored again when he
showed that the league gives to na
tions which complain of oppression
and which were not formerly subject
to the central powers the right to en
list the league in their cause. The
league does not close the door on Ire
land, Egypt, India, Corea and other
nations which have appealed fo the
senate. It opens the door by giving
any member the right td bring up the
case for consideration.
Every good American whose judg
ment has not been warped by parti
sanship shares Mr. Wilson's opinion
that consideration of the settlement
growing out of the war should exclude
all thought of party, but should be
broadened to embrace the relations of
the United States to all other nations,
and the extent tg which our national
interests impose an obligation to pro
tect those of other nations. The presi
dent's solemn declaration that he has
forgotten party is likely to provoke a
smile, accompanied by a fervent wish
that he had forgotten party sooner.
If he had forgotten in April, 19i7,
and had called to his aid in conducting
the war the ablest and most patriotic
men of both parties; if he had for
gotten party even as recently as last
October, when he wrote a certain let
ter, and had summoned the senate to
aid him in negotiating peace, there
can be no doubt that a more brilliant
record would have been made in the
war and there would have been slight
controversy over ratification of the
treaty. He missed the opportunity to
rise to the loftiest heights of greatness
because at those critical junctures "he
permitted party to narrow his vision.
. No less lamentable a failure on the
part of the majority in the foreign ro-
lations committee of the senate to rise
above party is indicated by the reser-
vations which it offers to the treaty
more particularly by the terms in
which the reservations are couched.
It is fit and proper that the United
States should make reservations more
clearly defining its obligations and its
rights, but these should be so phrased
as to be a complement to the treaty,
constructive and therefore strengthen
ing. The committee's reservations
emphatically have not this character.
The word "decline" is so prominent
that it gives the whole series the ap
pearance of an angry "I won't." It
reads like an ultimatum to an enemy,
whereas it should be a proposed modi
fication or clearer definition of terms
to the allies for presentation to the
common enemy. Reservations should
be so framed as to incline the allies to
accept; their present form Is provoca
tion to reject them. If they should be
rejected, the United States must make
a separate treaty with Germany. It
would then cut a sorry figure before
the world and posterity as a great na
tion which, having suffered least in a
world-struggle, had flung away the
opportunity, neglected the moral duty,
to take the lead in redeeming the
world from anguish.
Weakest and clumsiest is the reser
vation against articles 10 and 22. It
seems to declare that the United
States will not do any of the things
which this nation would be bound to
do by those articles, but in the last
lines It avows readiness to do them
"by action of congress." As this pro
viso does not modify the other ar
ticles providing that American dele
gates shall participate in proceedings
of the league, it leaves the delegates
powerless to act on the most vital of
all matters. If it is intended to re
serve to congress final authority to
decide on the questions named it is
superfluous, for all obligations of the
treaty are subject to the constitutional
restrictions of the several countries.
As authority of congress is required
for war, so is that of parliament in
Britain, France, Italy and practically
every other country. - That reservation
is useless except to limit the authority
of American delegates to the league,
for it adds nothing to nor takes any
thing from the articles in question.
It is a weak, puny thing to bring forth
after all the fire that has raged
around article 10.
By proposing thirty-five amend
ments which refuse participation of
Americans in a number of commis
sions, the committee majority de
scends to petty selfishness and scorns
an honor which Europe seeks to pay.
These commissions are to define
boundaries, conduct elections to de
cide the fate of disputed territory, to
regulate international waterways, and
perform similar functions. The United
States has been welcomed to such
work as the most disinterested of the
nations and therefore as the most
trusted, also as the one which, having
done least in proportion to its re
sources in the war, should do most in
the after-war settlement. Senators
would in effect answer the summons
by saying: "We don't want to be
bothered with your little affairs. Set
tle them your own way."
It devolves on the United States to
do its full part in reorganizing the
world for peace and democracy, be
cause we came late into the struggle
and have not expended In blood and
wealth and energy a tithe as much as
other nations. We in effect acknow
ledged when we went in that the al
lies had been fighting our battle from
the first, and we profited by what
they had expended before we lifted a
finger. Then it is our bounden duty,
unless we wish to brand ourselves as
a slacker nation, to take upon our
selves more than our proportionate
share of the labor and trouble which
has been caused by the war. AH our
talk about service to humanity and
democracy is a sham unless we trans
late it into action, and the treaty
which the senators seek to mangle
points the way.
The European custom of planting
fruit trees along the roadsides, now
urged upon us by some enthusiasts as
part of the good roads movement, is
beset with obstacles of a practical
nature. The small communities of the
older countries are more highly or
ganized and. above all units are small
er and distances shorter, so that pro
vision for the care of the trees and
their crops is possible in a manner
hardly conceivable along the projected
great highways of the United States.
It would be worse than useless to
plant fruit trees without tending them,
for this would only invite the spread
of plant pests. Besides, the difference
between the situations here and
abroad is the difference between a
garden and a forest. The larger
scheme of adornment seems more
fitted for our landscape, and probably
in the end will prevail. Yet tree
planting is worth considering and its
beginning ought not to be too long
delayed.
l here must be something wrong
with the Western Union Employes' -association
or it would not have black
balled Postmaster-General Burleson.
It was organized by the managers as
an antidote to the union and was pre
sumed to ba friendly to the company's
friends. The company has no better
friend than Mr. Burleson. Then why
this ingratitude?
Here's a nice question of. responsi
bility: A policeman stopped a car
insufficiently lighted and a street car,
booming along at a twenty-mile gait,
knocked it sixty feet, with customary
consequences. Who pays?"
There is absolutely no affinity be
tween the Chinese and the Irish, but
the Chinese adopted an Irish weapon
the boycott to fight Japan and
they have certainly made an impres
sion. Dr. Parrish must be supported in
his- determination to stop spread of
influenza by quarantine. Portland
does not want repetition of last win
ter's experience.
Governor Hart will not seek the
president and it is unlikely the presi
dent will go to Olympia. How sad!
Something like that happened in Ore
gon long ago.
Little need there will be for guards
during the president's visit. Portland
is law abiding. Only danger will be
in crowding by people curious to see
him.
When the weatherman says "prob
ably" this time of year, take your um
brella, for always he gives good meas
ure. The hodcarriers want more money
seven dollars a day and it is not
everybody who can carry the hod.
Kcdlield has had enough.
Those Who Come and Go.
"After you get out of the sand and j
onto a good gravel road, you bless the
good roads campaign in Oregon," ob
served Cyril Brownell of Umatilla,
member of the legislature. "The gravel
road, the Columbia River highway, up
our way, is a fine piece of work, and
everyone is satisfied with it. Accord
ing to the law adopted by the people
in 1917 the road is to be hard surfaced,
but the gravel will do for the present,
and we'll never have to say a word
about pavement, because the traffic
will take care of that. After a while
the traffic will demand hard surface.
Meanwhile I am now more Interested
in developing the side roads, the feed
ers to the main line, for the side roads
will develop the country. With the one
mill market road tax next year and
the county share of the automobile tax,
counties will have enough funds avail
able to do a vast amount of construc
tion of farmer roads."
Wood pulp forms part of the raiment
of almost every woman, and a great
many men. Fiber silk is made of pulp
from a tree which grows in Austria
Hungary, according to H. L. Silverman,
who is at the Benson. The fiber silk
has a woven edge, because it cannot
stand cutting, and if cut will unravel.
The material is kept in oil until it is
ready for dying, and once dyed it is
immediately made up and disposed of.
instead of being put away, for the fiber
will not retain the colors like genuine
silk! the colors fading in time. Ac
cording to Mr. Silverman, the fiber silk
is in the hands of a British company,
which has a monopoly on the business,
and all the fiber silk used has to come
through this one concern. Like every
thing else, fiber silk is experiencing a
shortage, and, like everything else, is
expected to soar in price.
At Riddle the populace is hostile over
the plan of the state highway commis
sion to eliminate that town from the
Pacific highway. The town has insti
tuted letjal proceedings to compel the
commission to build the highway to
Riddle. The contention of the commis
sion is that Riddle forms the apex of a
triangle, and that three miles can be
saved by using the base as a direct
route and leaving out Riddle. The ex
planation is entirely unsatisfactory to
the residents of Riddle. Mr. and Mrs.
P. A. Wilson of the rebellious town are
at the Hotel Oregon.
Two of the members of the executive
committee of the Fire Fighters' associ
ation are Sid Johnson of East St. Louis
and John F. Kirwin of Little Rock.
They arrived at the Multnomah yester
dav and had a long conference with
officials of the Portland branch of the
association. The fire fighters are
smoke eaters who intend to have a
big convention here. It is not to be
confused with the fire chiefs' conven
tion, which will also be held in Port
land. In these piping days of peace Frank
H. Shepherd is no lonper saluted and
addressed as major. During the war
Mr. Shepherd, who is connected with
the Oregon Agricultural college, had
much to do with having boys trained as
automobile mechanics at the Benson
polytechnic and at other institutions in
the Pncific northwest. Mr. Shepherd
is registered at the Imperial.
Endeavor, Penn., is where N. P.
Wheeler Jr. registers from at the Hotel
Portland. He owns considerable tim
ber In Oregon and is here to give it
the once over. Rather than come by
steamer or rail, he drove a machine to
the Rose City from Pasadena and isn't
enthusiastic over the road between the
two points, owing to the large amount
of construction work in progress.
Grass pants is the way the old-timers
familiarly refer to Grants Pass in
Josephine county. The name was prob
ably twisted by some placer miner who
had been sluicing in the Kerhy dis
trict, and it stuck. J. D. MacViear of
Grants Pass, who is interested in road
contracts down that, way, is registered
at the Hotel Portland.
After waiting at the beach until they
saw the fleet steam past. Mrs. G. W.
Phelps and daughters. Margaret and
Genevieve, arrived at the Imperial yes
terday from the coast, where they were
passing their vacation. The family is
on the way home to eastern Oregon,
where the husband and father is a cir
cuit judge.
President of one of the leading tour
ist agencies of the country is I. Frank
of New York, who is at the Benson.
Mr. Frank's company routes a large
number of tourists to Portland during
the year and he is making a personal
tour to see about the character of ac
commodations his clients receive.
As a member of the board of gov
ernors of the Greeters,' Charles
Schreider, assistant manager of the
Hotel Portland, left last night for Chi
cago to attend a meeting of the board.
While in the east he plans to visit his
old home in an Illinois town.
Frederic T. Bowles of Chicago, who'
has been active in the shipping board
work, la at the Hotel Portland with
his family. When Portland was turn
ing out ships in one, two, three order
Mr. Bowles was a frequent visitor to
Portland and the yards in this dis
trict. H. W. Sheerin. one of the 23 or 30
inhabitants of Suver, Or., is at the
Multnomah. Suver occupies a small
space on the Luckiamute river in folk
county and the surrounding country
has walnuts, high-class stock and
plenty of small fruits.
Carl Wodecki. a commission man of
the The Dalles, is In Portland on busi- i
ness and is at the Imperial. Recently
The Dalles has been treated to one of
the niftiest electric storms in many
years. '
After two weeks at Beach Center, R.
E. Doyle, clerk at the Hotel Oregon, is
back again full of clams. Meanwhile
Manager Meyers is at Newport also
wrestling with the clam in his native
lair.
Alex Poison of Hoquiam and M. C.
Reed of Shelton, Wash., lumbermen, are
in the city, drawn here by the spruce
Investigation new being held at the
federal building. They are among ar
rivals at the Benson.
Having visited his brother, W. B.
Hauser at. San Francisco, who is ill,
E. V. Hauser, owner of the Multnomah,
arrived yesterday to find that another
brother, W. E. Hauser, had breezed in
from New York.
Cecil which is a small town in Mor
row county, through which the emi
grant road trickles, hag a representa
tive in Portland, Mrs. Hendriksen of
Cecil being at the Hotel Oregon.
W. E. Boyd, one of the new proprie
tors of the Benson, has arrived from
Fargo, North Dakota,' and is looking
around the establishment and familiar
izing himself with Portland.
Bismark. N. D., and Berlin. Wis.,
were on the Multnomah register yes
terday. F. N. Hunter came from the
North Dakota town and O. C. Irwin
from the Wisconsin Berlin.
Dr. O. A. Osborn, a well-known resi
dent of Salem, passed through Port
land yesterday on his way to Pendle
ton. He tarried at the Imperial for a
day.
W. G. Tait, one of the bankers of
Medford, that enterprising town hav
ing several, is at the Multnomah for a
few days.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By .James J. 31ontague.
BON VOYAGE.
(The United States shipping board is
soon to launch a vessel which will be
named the Casey, in honor of the fine
overseas service of the Knights of Co
lumbus.) Long may her smoke trail wreath over
.the ocean.
Long may the good Irish name of
her be
A symbol of service, and faith, and
devotion.
Three graces that follow the emblem
K. C.
Liner and merchantman, troopship and
tanker.
In Liverpool, Rio or Brest or Be
nares
Shall break out their flag as she
swings to her anchor.
In graceful salute to the name that
she bears.
The storm may break round her, but
never she'll fear it.
Though typhoon may smother and
tempest assail.
The Greatest of Captains shall guard
her in spirit,
And pilot her out of the teeth of the
gale.
And HlJ wio looked down when the
caravels drifted
To seek a new world beneath heaven's
high dome,
Shall watch till the mists that enclose
her are lifted,
And safe from her journey the Casey
comes home.
High be the mission and honored the
name of her.
Whatever her course o'er the waters
may be.
Brave the behavior and glowing the
fame of her.
Worthy to carry the emblem Tv. C.
Safe be each journey and swift each
return of her.
Smooth he the seas she is destined
to plow
With the Red, White and Blue stream
ing out from the stern of her.
And her good Irish name on her
bluff, honest bowl
is
Always a Rungrlar.
Ludendorfrs admission that he lied
to bolster the courage of the German
army, proves, in the light of results,
that he was about as clumsy a liar as
he was a general.
The First Han Nerve Anyway.
If there is any choice, we prefer the
bolshevik who stays in Russia and
takes chances to the one who stays
over here and writes red editorials.
Just Watch.
We predict that $18 shoes will do
more than Isadora Duncan ever did
to popularize barefoot dancing.
DAY OF THE TO.VCIE IS IJOE
Thrift and Production Will Beat Bring
About Reconstruction.
PORTLAND. Sent. 5. (To the KdM
tor.) Otto H. Kahn's specific for re
construction as reproduced by The Or
egonian appears to be as good a solu
tion for correcting the unfavorable fea
tures of the times as has been pre
sented. There can be no doubt that the
primary factor in keeping things level
is the desire to produce and to save.
Neither over-production nor under
thrift is a happy medium, but saving
the waste is.
His reference to Kngland's salvage in
three years of one-half billion dollars'
worth of what otherwise would have
become "scrap" is but one of the many
pre-arranged details of England's re
construction plans. What could be
more desirable or effective than such a
commission or set of commissions as
he suggests to provide programmes
through the wisdom of the best ele
ments of farmers, merchants, profes
sional thinkers, financiers and labor
leaders to study and perfect practical
and feasible plans for gradual recon
struction in fact?
As we cannot create peace by com
pacts, neither can we create reconstruc
tion by a massage of words. Every in
dividual must help, within and without
his or her personal confines, in the
work. A ship doesn't sail Itself. Neith
er can a commander or a lack of team
work provide the achievement desired.
Produce, work, save, think, live, en
joy, in moderation. There's work to be
done and everybody must take a hand
in it. The tongue has had its day.
Business method must follow a well
seasoned programme covering every
thing needed to bring real peace of
mind, of home, of city, state and coun
try, and business and common sense de
mand the right of way. The real peace
patriot will sacrifice something pri
vately to assist in the grand scheme
publicly. Save all waste and the by
product will make for the peace we
must earn. J- M.
ISLHS OF MY DRKAMS.'
In illimitable vast of ocean blue.
Oh, iiles like gems, set in sapphire hue;
Through the mist of mem'ry you
hazily gleam.
The far-off. land of my lazy dream.
Oh,
unutterable
depths surrounding
you.
Breathe a myst'ry at night and when
morning is new
The senses are drugged with the
strange and the sweet
Of the trophic air, and the pulse of
the heat.
Oh, ineffable mem'ry of a day that Is
gone.
Of idle hours spent in love and In song;
Ever asain in my fancy you beam, .
Oh, far-off land of my lazy dream.
MIL,1KK,1J i.ltltlil"..M'.
Corvnllis. Or.
We Are Dwelling in the Night"
(t
Booth Tarkington, widely known novelist and humorist, is the con
tributor this Sunday in the gripping series of special articles by world
renowned writers on "Spiritualism and Psychic Phenomena." He
confesses frankly that he is not a student, but in that fascinating
manner of his he writes masterfully of the mystic death, and gives
' due credit to those who have made this subject a deep study. We
will not admit that the spiritualists have won their case, but agree
that they are doing a great work and should receive every encourage
ment. This story by Tarkington is the big feature in the magazine
section Sunday morning.
FAKING NATURE IS XOT NECESSARY IN OREGON So says
DeWitt Harry, who contributes an interesting story on what the
films have done to make Oregon ecenery attractive to the entire
world. He follows the camera man to various scenic points in
Oregon and tells what the motion pictures have done to advertise
this western state's outdoor attractions.
IS HE THE MASTER CRIMINAL? To look at his photograph, you
might think George F. Hamby an ordinary well-to-do business man,
but criminologists class him the most astonishing criminal in his
tory. His is an unusual interview which appears in The Sunday
Oregonian. He has puzzled the greatest criminologists of the
country.
STRIKES ARE IN THE AIR. And W. E. Hill, creator of the clever
cartoon series, "Among Us Mortals," depicts with his facile pen
how strikes affect the strikers, the employers and the public
generally.
ARE YOU GOING TO MONTREAL? This big city above the Cana
dian border is the only "wet" spot between the Arctic circle and
the Canadian border. Every night in the week its bars hanp; out
the S. R. O. sign. This amusing story tells how the thirsty are
assuaged where wine, women and song can legally commingle.
Everybody's doin' it even the artists' models in New York are
out on strike. A Gotham writer tells of this most unusual walkout.
The story is brightly illustrated.
The Funnies Of course, the youngsters will insist on their comics
again this Sunday, as The Oregonian's new comic section is growing
in popularity week after week.
In Other Day.
Twenty-five Yrara Ait".
From The Jlornlns Orcgonlan, Sept. ft. ISM.
Elkins, W. Ya. Ex-President Harri-'
son delivered an address today at the
republican convention of the second
congressional district, which nominated
Alston Cordon Dayton to run against
W. L Wilson, chairman of the house
ways and means committee.
San Francisco The Tanama Railroad
company has made its rates applicable
from New York to Portland and other
north Taoific ports. The first-class
rate is $1.13, second $1.05. third SS
cents, fourth, 90 cents, fifth SS cents,
B. C. D. and K. 80 cents.
Chicago The celebrated Viking ship,
which crossed the Atlantic and was ex
hibited at the world's fair, sank in the
river during a storm Monday.
Xew Orleans "Nonpareil" Dempsey
and Australian McCarthy fouKht a 20
round battle here that was declared a
draw, in accordance with the articles
stipulating that if botli men remained
on their feet at the end of tho 20Ul
round it was to be so decided.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Morning Oregonian, Sept. 6. ISO.fl.
St. Louis Contracts have been let
on which construction is under way on
500 miles of the Kansas Pacific railroad
between the Missouri river and Denver,
to be completed by January 1.
The Siamese twins have come back
from Europe -and are still bound by
their bond of flesh. They are now 58
years of age and announce their de
termination to go down to death to
gether in a quiet way in .North Caro
lina, where their families reside.
Salem William H. Seward arrived
here this evening and was received
with proper honor. He goes to Albany
tomorrow, returning here the following
day.
Tho steamer Hanger was totally de
stroyed by fire Saturday nis.M at Sau
vies island. Only the machinery can
be salvaged.
Noises of the Town.
By Grace 10. Hall.
It is said of a noted writer in
record handed down,
"He found the key of living in
noises of the town;"
He loved to mingle ever wi,th
masses going by.
tbe
the
the
To catch tho touch of humor or
the
pathos of a sigh ;
And always he could fathom under
currents swift and strong,
That he wove in gripping stories that
have cheered the world along.
He "found the key of living" Have
you tried that key to find?
I have pondered well tho statement
that describes that master mind;
It is more than written volume often
tells, when sifted down.
Just to "find the key of living in the
noises of the town";
Every sound must tell a story If we
catch the major tone.
For the bedlam of the city is a history
never known.
Few there be who pause to listen or in
terpret what they hear.
Though the whistle, bell and clangor
tell their talcs so plain and clear;
And the pathos is unheeded and the
humor goes to waste,
While the human drove Is speeded on
its way in breathless haste;
Weary minds long ut tor surcease.
idle ones to Tony turn,
And the maelstrom seethe forever
where the human passions burn.
Workmen hurrying from the factory.
from the bench and shop and
tray.
Seek the homes that wait their coming
at the closing of the day;
Misses pert, with fearsome hairdress,
gaudy plumes and raucous voice;
Aged ones whose hours of labor are a
sentence not a choice;
Strutting ones whom fortune favored
through a circumstance, maybe.
Arrogance and servile boudago pass
one by eternally:
And each tells a vital story that is
never written down.
Save when some one grasps the mean
ing of "the noises of the town."
Al'Tl M.
Do you remember, sweetheart, how
along this woodland path,
We walked last June, when every
thing was green?
The flowers bloomed around us. and
our hearts with beauty thrilled.
For a glorious summer bounty filled
the scene.
But here today we wander midst a very
different world
We cannot recognize our p.tth at all;
The changing leaves, the stalks, the
pods, the fruit, the berries red
Our very souls with rupture view
the fall.
And where was all this glory when we
walked the ,ath last spring?
Deep hidden in the green and in the
flower.
And so in lives abiut us, people whom
we dally meet
Their souls arise to greatness for the
hour.
EMILY GRANGER.
Portland.
Can't Fool Art CrUI-.
London Opinion.
Art Dealer "Here we have a
fine
OH Master."
War Profiteer "Nonsense! Anyone
ran se it is meant to be n vounir cirl "