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A JOHNSON rLKDGE.
The Oregonian the other day said
that the candidacy for the presi
dency of Senator 'Johnson carries
with it the threat that if he shall
not be nominated at Chicago he will
boll; but it invited any sponsor for
the senator to correct it, if assur
ance could be given that, he would
not follow his customary practice of
political outlawry. Now .The Ore
Ionian receives from the Johnson-for-President
headquarters at Port
land a copy of a speech made by
the senator at Brooklyn. New York,
January 13, 1920. with the following
paragraph, duly marked:
I greatly appreciate the opportunity you
have accorded mo this evening. . - . .
Events of the past tew years have fnade
this a republican year. The work and the
results of the republican national conven
tlon will be by all of us acclaimed and
ratified, and whatever these results will
bo together we will go forward to trium
phant victory.
A fair interpretation of this dec
laration is that it is a pledge to sup
port the nominee and platform of
the republican party at Chicago. It
will be well to stick a pin there.
Mr. Johnson will find no embar
rassment, of course, if he shall be
the nominee and if he shall write
the platform. But if he shall be the
nominee and others shall write the
platform he will necessarily be
obliged to repudiate his record in
the senate and the main" text of
this identical Brooklyn speech, for
It is devoted largely to a character
istic assault on the league of na
tions. It is not thinkable that any
republican convention will fail to in
dorse the attitude of the senate ma
jority for the league with reserva
tions. Senator Johnson was and is
'apposed to the league with or with
out its reservations.
In the envelope, containing the
Brooklyn address is aN large-typed
poster announcing the indorsement
of Senator Johnson by organized la
bor. Declares the article:
If the convention whhrh meets at
Chicago in June were composed of union
building; artisans, laborers and mechanics,
Hiram W. Johnson would be tendered the
nomination for the presidency of the
Vniied States of North America by a
unanimous vote borne on an ovation that
would reach from coast to coast, and re
vrrborate from the Sierras over the Rockies
- tlnto smallest dell of fir in the north to
; the pine-clad hills of the south.
This is both emphatic and en
thusiastic. Union labor is unn.nl
mously for Hiram Johnson. There
' are many evidences that it supports
him. But how can we account for
ho attitude of Samuel Gompers,
president, of the American Federa
tion of Labor? The Associated
Press carries a dispatch from Wash
, lngton, printed in The Oregonian
' yesterday, wherein Mr. Gompers bit
terly arraigns congress for Its fail
ures,' particularly mentioning the
peace treaty. Says Mr. Gompers:
The blind and the bigoted action of
congress in refusing to deal intelligently
" with the peace treaty has made it lmpoa
ible for the United States to manifest
. proper concern in these., affairs of the
world.
Senator Johnson must accept
' great share of responsibility for
, failure of the peace : treaty. - Evi-
" dently Mr. Gompers is' for Mr
Johnson (if he is for him) for rea
sons foreign to the peace treaty. As-
Burning that union labor generally Is
; in accord with Mr. Gompers on that
r - subject. It is obvious that it cares
little where Mr. Johnson sfands on
1 ? the treaty. Yet the senator is mak
! ing the treaty and its defeat the
j great issue of his campaign. Why.
then, is union labor for him? Is it
I because of his stand for government
: ownership of public utilities?
""""' Perhaps the Johnson-for-Presi-
" dent committee will oblige us by
forwarding the most recent outgiv
rj ing of the senator on government
'. Ttf ; ownership. " ' .
;' Perhaps, too, the committee will
II" f enlighten us as to the reasons why
j " ; the forces of radicalism and hyphen-
; ism are everywhere rallying to the
Johnson support.
THE LATEST ARMY SCHEME.
An alternative to. universal mili
tary training as a means of provid
ing a body of framed citizens for
service in emergencies has been oro-
! l-jj posed by Senator Nelson, a veteran
" ' of the civil war, and is regarded
j ,.wlth favor by the Army and Navy
! i. Journal. It Is that one-third of the
Jt army should be enlisted for one in
; neaa of three years, thus "adding
! 3 00,000 men a year to the trained
J force of the country. In one -year
; men would be fully trained as sol-
riiers and would have an educational
or vocational course to prepare them
for a ctvil occupation. The cost
-would be little, if any, greater than1
' If all served three years, and at the
''. end of five years there would be
V" 600.000 men In reserve In addition
t' to the national guard.
t; Recent difficulty in obtaining re
"' cruits may raise doubt whether
100.000 men yearly could be se
l cured, but It is expected that army
5 service will become more popular
. - when it is realized that men devote
only half of (Mr time to military
J flpty and speifw the other half in
sstudy or vocational training, which
; will turn them out equipped for
some trade or profession, while the
government gives them their living
and full arny pay. The educational
teature of the new army has already I taken from killed birds. It is also
caused business men and labor! stated that egrets. are "farmed" in
unions to recommend young men
enlist in order to get the benefit
of it, and enlistment Is likely to be
! come more popular as people, dis
abuse their minds of the old idea of
army life.
I the strongest recommendations of
the draft law. If war should come
the government would be Impelled
to call on the trained men to volun
teer and., to put them in the ranks
regardless of their civil occu nation
miirht Mum malrA a nrivato nf a
mignt thus maKe a private 01 a
man who would be worth a thou-
sand privates in some industry es-
sentlal to the war. Military organ-
ization includes use -of each man's
special aptitudes, either in the array
or in producing the many articles
which the army uses. The voluntary
system is haphazard, puts round men
In square holes and wastes high skill
of one kind to . use low skill of an
other kind.
NO FNCREASE OF TAXES.
The Tillamook Headlight throws
its illuminating rays on the road
situation and discovers that Tilla
mook county will bej In a "deuce of
a fix" if the constitutional amend
ment raising the state bond limit
to 4 per cent for permanent roads
shall fall to pass';-" Says the Head
light: - . . .
The county . court .has prepared about
fifteen miles of roadbed for hard-surfacing.
with the understanding; that the commis
sion 'would go fifty-fifty. The county is
prepared with money to pay Its share,
iMrt the" commission rs not, unless this con
stitutional measure carries. If It fails to
carry, it will leave the county in a bad
fix. and the only way out will be to spend
money In having; these roads graveled,
which will bo a serious waste of money,
but absolutely necessary, for the roads
will have to have some kind of surfacimr.
Here is an illustration of the plight
of the entire state if the road pro
gram m is to be suspended with the
current year. The situation Is that
the state has undertaken to build a
complete system of good roads
with paving for trunk lines and
that there is not money enough- in
sight No one says, and probably
few think, that the state and the
counties have gone far enough. They
have indeed gone far enough to prove
that all that has been said for good
roads is correct, and to show that
it is desirable to go farther.
The automobile has brought paved
and other roads. It is doing more.
It is paying for them. Under the
present plan the license tax on the
motor car pays for interest on the
bonds and leaves a considerable an
nual surplus: and it will take care
of the sinking fund for the prin
cipal, so that every dollar of de"bt
will be paid as it falls due. It is
the same under the enlarged scheme.
The taxpayer goes free, except as
he pays through bis motor car.
A STl'DT.
Mayor Baker has said that he
would not be a candidate for re
election. But from many directions
come echoes of approval of the sug
gestion that he should be persuaded
to reconsider. Perhaps he will; we
do not know. He says he -likes the
job, but he cannot live on the sal
ary. If he runs again, and is re
elected, it will be at a considerable
financial sacrifice. Whether he
should, or can, make it is a ques
tion which the mayor himself must
decide.
Mr. Baker has learned 'something
as a public officer which, smaller
and weaker men have not the vision
to see nor the courage to challenge.
It is that a mayor may do his duty
without thought of the eonsequences
to himself and acquire thereby a
greater, and not a lesser, measure
of public confidence and respect.
First and last. Mayor Baker has op
posed the wishes and interests of
many citizens. Taken altogether.
they are probably a majority of the
people of Portland. He has at no
time catered to this class or that,
nor watched the weather gauge, nor
schemed to bring about his re-election.
Now neaf the end of his
administration, he is admittedly
stronger than -at its beginning.
We commend the experience of
Mayor Baker as a study for the
politicians.
THK BIRD OX THE HAT.
It Is good news to bird lovers thai
the plumage bill which was dropped
in Great Britain because of the out
break of the war has been revived.
with the approval of the government
In both houses of parliament, and
that outlook for its passage Is prom
ising. So much progress toward
education of public sentiment had
been made In 1914 that the' bill, then
pending in the house of commons.
was passed to second reading by a
vote'of 297 to 15. a plain promise, of
victory on the final poll. Krlends of
the measure, however, are not In
clined to . relax their vigilance, in
view of the activitiy of the interests
opposing thefn. -
The" London Times notes that the
arguments against the bill which
were threshed out seven years ago
are now being revived as If they were
new, notwithstanding they have been
repeatedly refuted. Importance of
the measure to the world at large, as
the Times explains. Is due to the cir
cumstances that London is now the
great central market for the spoils
of the feather hunters of many lands,
Acting as a kind of "fence" for coii
traband 'plumage, export of which Is
prohibited by the countries of its
origin, it accepts a stigma of which
most Britons, it is believed, would
like to rid themselves. Governments
of the dominions, which have taken
a more advanced stand than has the
mother country, have petitioned re
peatedly for help In their efforts to
preserve the bird life of the globe.
"In this toleration of a wasteful.
cruel and barbarous industry," the
Times says, frankly, "we have' too
long lagged behind both the United
States and our own dominions."
Vast numbers of the" scarcer and
more beautiful bird species, from, al
batrosses to humming birds, have
been slaughtered for the so-called
adornment of women's hats, but the
egret, whose plumes are known In
trade circles as "osprey," still fur
nishes the classical example of bar
barity because the great majority of
plumes are taken from birds while
nesting, so that multitudes of nest
lings die of starvation. Absence of
sportsmanship and the inhumanity
involved in this form of pot-hunting
are - intensified by rank ingratitude
since the egret is largely insectivor
ous and has been shown to be o
high value in destroying pests which
threaten crops. Now the contention
which is being revived on behalf of
the feather trade is that egret plumes
are picked up when moulted and not
to I Venezuela, and that tire plumes are
taken without harming either the
- 1 parent birds or their young. But
friends of the bill find that It is true j clothing for the survivors, but these
of "only a small and shabby percent- i gifts will go for naught If the Ar
age" of plumes that they are picked menians are after all to be left at
up after the birds have moulted, the mercy of their lmplacabIevfoee.
while as to the other contention: ' Many resolutions and memorials
The British minister at Caracas declared I have been sent to the allies on behalf
som time ago that the vast majority of of these people, but the allies lack
tne plumes exported to Europe are1 ob- . . , . , , -
tained by the slaughter of the birds dur- ! tne means to do what Is asked. Men,
ing the breeding season: and we have yet I arms and money are needed to lift
seep no explanation of how tha difficulty ) UD niB strlrVnn nennla n1 tn mnlr
has been overcome of "farming mirrs- up 11,18 StTlCKen people and to maKe
tory water birds which nest" in
tree tops !
in forests.
Other arguments against suppres
sion of the traffic are even more
easily disposed of. - There are two
answers to the contention that it
would disturb employment: One that
the employment does not deserve to
survive and that there is plenty of
productive work waiting to be done,
and the other that the quantity of
such employment is negligible, since
it affects only about 700 part-time
workers in the entire British mil
linery and brokerage trade. Sug
gestion that prohibition would not
suppress the business but onlf drive
it to the continent of Europe is met
by the protests of French dealers
that unfavorable "repercussion" on
the trade of their own country was
to be expected if Great Britain en
acted the bill into law.
The purposes of the migratory
bird treaty entered into between the
United States and Great Britain, the
latter acting on behalf of Canada,
and which it is hoped will be ex
tended to the entire hemisphere, will
be further served by suppression of
the practically illicit trade In plum
age now fostered In London, and
still further by the "repercussion"
which continental dealers undoubt
edly have reason to fear. The pros
pect is bright that wearers of plumed
millinery all over the world -will soon
be compelled to bedeck themselves
only with the feathers of birds, like
the ostrich, which are obtainable
without violation of the canons of
humanity or the dictates of economic
need.
1VRKCKINU IJBERTT TEMPLE,
. Liberty temple, at Sixth and Yam
hill streets, gazing down the lane
that echoed the tread 'of departing
and returning troops. Is to be torn
down. The city council has awarded
the contract, or the : privilege, or
whatever the permission may be, to
a firm . of . wreckers, whose business
it is to -demolish old and unservice
able buildings. With bar and ax and
hammer the temple will tumble
the tempi? that -was reared In a
day. " . . .
Liberty temple Is lath and plaster.
around a few sturdy Joists and string
firs, dressed up In paint. 'Facing
Morrison street it perches above Its
portals a little balcony, scarcely
larger than a packing case. In
side the temple the floors are, rough
and the walla unfinished.. Obvious
ly the structure Is not worth the
moving, and quite as certainly it is
blockading traffic. No one will
quarrel with the city council or the
contractors regarding the matter -of
sensible expediency.
But from the absurd little bal
cony the city heard messages from
famous patriots of America and war'
heroes of her allies and heard her
citizen patriots and leaders plead. for
union in a single cause, for loyalty,,
self-abnegation and victory! in the
bare rough rooms was once the
tempestuously ocdered riot of - the
big war work drives wherein the
city bore herself as her sons did
overseas. VA dozen and more cam
paigns with the colors sponsoring
each. Liberty temple Is not another
frigate Constitution, either structur
ally or-from the character of serv
ice performed ut Portland will al
ways remember' the lath and plaster
structure as one of the components
Of victory. -
A MANDATE FOR ARMENIA.
' Once more the allies ask th
American people to do their part In
rebuilding the wrecked old world by
undertaking the guardianship of tlte
on ii-ivcu ai iieiiiau iidiiun, protect
ing It from Its enemies and helping
it to build up an independent state
The allies frankly confess that the
obligation is greater than they can
assume in addition to the heavy bur
dens which they already carry, and
they are deliberating how they can
limit those burdens consistently with
the peace of the world and with-the
safety of the nations which they have
rescued from tyranny. In content
plation of what it would involve
they have considered such limits on
the area of Armenia as would enable
It to stand alone -with the smallest
amount of outside aid, though this
would' consign large bodies of Ar
menian population to the rule of the
Infamous Turk. l""or a year they
have delayed the Turkish settlement
n the hope that- the .American peo
pie would accept a mandate for a
great Armenia, which would include
all the Armenians and all of their
historic territory. They now issue a
ast summons to us to do our share
In the work of redemption.
Armenia has established a claim
to protection of the great free na
tions of the world that is even
stronger than that of Belgium, for It
has given a million martyrs to the
cause for which they fought. When
Turkey began war on the allies It
offered Armenia security and privi
leges in return for military aid. Rus
sia made a like offer. The Arme
nians could not place faith in Turk
ish promises, but they could expect
terrible vengeance if they fought
against Turkey and ' If the allies
should lose. Russia had oppressed
them also, though In less de
gree, but they, put trust In France
and Britain, ' though those coun
tries were too far away to come I
to their relief. ' They Joined Russia
and fought the battle which enabled
the Russians to wipe out a whole
Turkish corps, to drive the Turks
from Transcaucasia and to defeat
Knver Pasha s scheme for a Pan-
TUranlan empire. In revenue En
voi" ordered the massacres and de
portations of 1915 and' succeeding
years. Yet Armenian foreee keot
the field and blocked the plans of
the Turks until the war ended. They
are still an obstacle to the junction
of the Turkish nationalist' army in
Asia Minor with the Mohammedan
Tartars of Azerbaijan. Unless they
are reinforced by one or the western
r.ations, they are in danger of bain
exterminated py tneir enemies on the
east, west and south.
To save this remnant of a gallant,
persecuted people, the United States
Is IskdQ to undertake their rflllitary
protection and their training In self-
government. American- missions
have taken the lead in their educa
tion, in care for their sick and in
providing for the hundreds! of thou
sands of orphans left bv the m
' 8acres- The American people have
Riven liberally to supply food and
it strong enough to stand alone.
j. Shall the American people hang
back on receiving this summons, say
ing that it is an affair of the old
world with wMch we have no con
cern except to express our pious sen
timents? For more than two and a
half years we held that position with
regard to the war and had come to
be regarded as a slacker nation
when the kaiser clubbed us Into the
ranks of his enemies. Htiall we again
play the part of the slacker when it
comes to dividing among the free
nations the work resulting from the
war? The task on which we entered
in 1917 will not be finished until the
work has" been done which the war
made necessary the work of set
tlirrg up the nations that have been
liberated at national housekeeping
lor themselves. If we- should shirk
our share of this task, we should
merit the reproach of being slackers.
We contemplate with dismay the
size of our national debt and our
natlonal expenditures, but these are
small by comparison with otir wealth
and with the load which the allies
have assumed.
The Armenian mandate would not
commit this nation to adherence to
the league of nations. It Is a trust
offered by the allies, that they may
leave no subject nation under Turk
ish rule or In danger of suffering
from Turkish savagery. ' By accept
ing it we should do again what we
did in, 1898, when we refused to
abandon the Philippines as a dere
lict people, to fall a ready prey to
some conqueror. We should also give
practical proof that the delay in
ratifying the covenant Is Jue- not to
refusal to do our share of the work
which the war entailed on the civil
ized world, but to a domestic con
troversy as to the terms on which
we shall do that share.
BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY.
The "books for everybody" cam
paign of the American Library as
sociation has already served the pur
pose of bringing- out some Interest
ing statistics on the subject of books
and reading in trre United States.
Although we are regarded as a read
ing people, it Is "not commonly
known, for example, that " about
sixty millions of us have no library
facilities, that, 73 per cent of the
counties In the United States have
no libraries, that 6,000,000 foreign-
born inhabitants cannot sjeak or
reaa EjngiiHn ana that there are
75,000 blind who are Insufficient
ly supplied with books in raised
type. There Is at this time an es
pecial shortage of books in the mer
chant marine, a recruiting campaign
ror which Is being made, and this
need will be among the first to be
supplied.
The plea In behalf of the book
comes as part of the general move
ment for wider educational oppor
tunities now growing In favor every
where. It supplements provision for
better common schools and for bet
ter colleges and universities by sup
plying the means, if not for complete
self-education, at least for the In
spirational basis of education. There
is reason to believe that one of the
reasons why so many returned-, serv
ice men are clamoring at the doors
of colleges is that the seeds of am
bition were sown when the Ameri
can Library association put books in !
V. - 1 J - 1 1 , . I
mc HB.IIU9 ui soiaiers in me cantonments-at
home-and in the trenches
Overseas.
The library may well be regarded
as an antidote for bolshevism, even
though It may be true that an oc
casional bolshevlst is well read.
There are. nevertheless, few or no
bolshevlsts among the competent.
Lawless radicalism does not exist
among men of normal psychology
who are measurably qualified by
education to take their proper places
in the world. The "books for every
body" campaign would be Justified,
if for no other reason, by its asso
ciation with the broader educational
scheme.
--"Motor Land" for April contains
a good descriptive article by Sydney
B. Vincent, publicity manager of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, on
Crater lake and the Josephine county
caves. Illustrated by unusually fine
halftones. He tells of the attrac
tions .of these Oregon wonders for
motorists, and how to reach them.
An organization of Chicago men
propose a "collar and shirt" strike
against the laundries by having the
washing done at home. Will they
get, out in the kitchen and boil the
clothes themselves, or do they ex
pect their wives to do it?
A former aviator forgot himself
the other day and motored down
Union avenue at 60 miles an hour.
Nothing was hurt but the dignity of
the law, but that, of course, must
be considered.
Newa comes by way of New Tork
from a woman's political organiza
tion mat inamp uiarK win be a
candidate at the San Francisco con
vention. Use your own salt shaker
on that.
' Recall the pleasant hysteria that
bought and presented a home to
Admiral Dewey more than 20 years
ago? The place is being converted
into a store. Tet it had Its use.
Bright prospect. Isn't -it, with
glowers declining 15 cents for straw
berries and wanting 20 cents? Alas.
the poor housewife with a basement
full of Jars! -
A man got away from ' McNeil's
Island the other night and his .way
of escape is called "unknown." No
body guesses tunnel or airplane.
Austria is suffering from a stamp
famine. If' it were only from a
deficit,- Burleson could show 'em
how to cover It up.
k. If the worst comes to. the worst
in doming prices thefre are still
plenty of fig leaves at'the same old
rate. .
Local burglary Is getting down to
business when the burglars take two
sacks of sugar.
Clean up the Oregon apples by
c.nuS o.io s uo-j ivit mo uerneu
begin arriving.
BY-PRODUCTS OK THE TIM25 j
Air Travel Beeesies Mick Cheaper ob ;
I-oaaoa - Paris Llae.
With the establishment of commu
tation rates, air travel has become
much cheaper on the London-Paris
line. It has been arranged that
business man in London wno goes
often to Paris can buy a season ticket
for, $600. This Is good for 12 trips,
saving f 12 a trip over the old rate.
American planes will be used in
aerial transportation lines which are
to be established in Japan, China and
Corea. According to advices re
ceived by the Aero Club of America,
a number of the machines which will
be first put into service are to be
shipped to China by a New York
banker.
A dash to tha sout.i pole by air
plane will be the big feature of the
British Imperial Antarctic expedi
tion which will set out next summer
under the direction of, Dr. John L
Cope. The airplane to, be used will
be so designed that it can land on i any container they could secure, with
the ice by means of skids. Three men smelt. At home Mr. Ward is an un
wlll make the dash lor the pole from ' dertaker. and with his wife he is at
the top of the liveat ice barrier at
the Bay of Whales. This ice baxrier I
has peaks 11.000 feet high. The ma-'
chine will be fitted with a patented '
sledge attachment which will be used
to carry provisions and equipment if
anything happens "to prevent the
Journey being completed in the air.
With a full load and crew the plane
will weigh 12,600 pounds, and will
average speed Of 93 miles an hour.
One of the latest creations in the
flyinsT world is America's smallest
flying craft, the "Butterfly," which
recently made a successful flight at
College l'oint, . Lunu Island. The
Butterfly" weighs 05 po
nds. and I
two strong men can lift it 'Ironi thti
ground. It is only 2 feet and S inches
wide and 19 feet long. The motor is
smaller and weighs less than the
motors in even the lowest powered
automobiles, yet it develops 68 to 70
horsepower. The maximum carrying
capacity Is 383 pounds.
Tho eldest sons of British peers
bear what are known as "courtesy
titles." when the head of the house
has two or three and can spare an
inferior one to his son.
Karl Winterton, a young English
politician, has a keen sense of humor
and can enjoy a Joke on himself, as
Is evidenced by his recounting of this
one:
Before succeeding to the earldom he
was known as Lord Tumour, under
which name he figured In some noisy
scenes in the house. A few months
after his father's death he was thus
addressed at dinner by a fellow
guest:
'"I ought to know you, but I can't
recall your name."
"Oh. I am Karl Winterton," was the
reply, i
"Of course, of course," said the
other. "Why, I have been confound
ing you all the evening with that ass
Tumour!" London Tit-Bits.
Representative Frear was praising
standard ixation.
"The opponents of standardization,"
he said, "are like old Uncle Kb."
"Uncle Kb was whitewashing his
barn one morning with a brush that
contained very few bristles. The
sqtito-e happened along and said;
"Uncle Kb, why don't you get a
brush with more bristles in i.t?"
"What for, squire?': asked, the old
man.
" 'What for?" shouted the squire.
"Why, man. if you had a brush with
more bristles in it you could do twice
as much work.'
" 'Mebbo so, squire; mebbe so,' said
Uncle Kb; 'only, ye see. I ain't got
twice as much work to do.' " Wash
ington Post.
Daniel Chester French, who cele
brated his 70th birthday April -20, is
regarded as one of the most distin
guished of living American sculptors,.
His Gallaudet group, in Washington;
his "Alma Mater," at Columbia uni
versity, New York, and his statue of
Washington In Paris are among the
most notable works In sculpture
which have been produced in America.
Mr. French comes of an old New
England family, connected with those
of Daniel Webster and Johr G. Whit
tier. His first important' work as a
sculptor was the "Minute, Man," un
veiled at Concord, Mass., in 1S75.
During the next few years the sculp
tor resided in Italy. Between the
years 177 and lSa he modeled monu
mental figures and groups for public
buildings in Philadelphia, St. Louis.
Boston and other cities. Another of
his works Is the statue of General
CasB of Michigan, which stands in
atatuary ball In Washingto-. In-1915
Mr. French was chosen to execute the
statue of Lincoln to be placed in the
Lincoln memorial now nearing com
pletion In Washington.
The unhappy observations of Blan
co Ibanex about the use of the rolling
pin. were widely read because
they represent a general conviction,
says the New York Times. In Europe.
where a husband generally Is more
honored in all directions but one than
In this country, the legend of tha
abject submlssiveness of the Amerl
can male and unchecked dominance
of the "fierce." athletic girl" is unl
versally believed; and we are a race
inclined to believe anything that
foreigners say about us. Our novel
Ists and playwrights have helped the
cause along by portraying not neces
sarily what they regarded as charac
teristic of American life, but what
they knew their audiences had been
educated to 'regard aa characteristic
of American life.
Now comes a voice crying in the
wilderness, and to none other than
those very persons who had been pic
tured as autocraatlc empresses of the
American home. President WUliain
Allen Neilson of Smith college, ob
serving that "one main defect of our
education today is the too exclusive
cultivation of the receptive attitude,"
goes on to apply hts observations to
the fair sex: "In a woman's college
especially it Is necessary to guard
against excessive deciiity; to avoid
ex cathedra pronouncements; to seek
to arouse doubt, objection, resist
ance." Into the American household, hith
erto more or less quiescent. Dr. Neil
son brings not peace but a sword.
Those whom foreigners regard as
tyrannical rulers of the household
are to avoid "excessive docility."
Doubt, objection, resistance must be
encouraged. It may be a good thing
for the race.j but it is hard, on- tbe
husband. With the arrival of prohi
bition many persons have begun to
spend at home those evenings which
1 once were dissipated In ardent con-
versation down at the corner rum
I palace. ,
Those Who Ccme and Go.
When A. N. Ward gets back to the i
Hot Stove club at Maiden. Mass.. to!
will have a fish story to tell that !
his fellow townsmen will probably
not believe and will stamp it as a
traveler's tale. When Mr. Ward re
counts that he saw a river so filled
with fish that the stream was Yir-
tually one solid mass of fish for
miles, and contained millions of smelt,
the Maldenites will sniff with sus
picion. When he says that In five
minutes he. or anyone, could gather
enough fish from the Sandy river
with his coat, or auto robe, or any
old thing, to fill a car to overflow
ing, they'll be certain that he is
drawing the long bow. And yet,
those were things which Mr. Ward
saw when he toured the Columbia t
river highway yesterday. He saw
the great smelt run and saw miles
upon miles of parked cars, while
their drivers were filling gunny
sacks, cans, buckets, tubs, boxes and
the Multnomah, returning from the
profiteer belt of California.
"Blossoms are on the trees and
everything looks fine, but -the pesal-
misle say: 'Just wait, the fruit will
be small and will fall off and we
won't have much of anything for a
crop.' However, I'm willing to be
lieve .that we'll have a good crop
and won't change my belief until the
predicted dropping comes," declares
W. H. Gore of Medford, who Is at
the Imperial. In his opinion, the
severe storms of the winter will not
materially curtail the fruit output
of I'.oguo River valley. Mr. Gore is
representative In the legislature for
j Jackson and Douglas counties and he
Is a" candidate for re-election. Dis
cussing the proposed county bond Is
sue of JiOO.000 for the Crater lake
and other roads in Jackson county,
Mr. Gore predicts that the bonds will
carry in the coming election, for the
people realize the immense benefits
to be derived from having a good
highway to the trreatest scenic won
der in the world.
"There is a movement of stock out
of Malheur county." states George K.
Akin, editor of the Ontario Argus,
who Is in the city. "In one week
5000 head of cattle were sold to cat
tlemen of Billings, Mont., who wish
to replenish the range up there, and
by May 1 there will probably be 10.0U0
head gone from the Malheur range.
There are three reasons for this dis
posal of cattle. The first was a pros
pect of a dry range, although the
prospects are better now than they
were three weeks ago. The second
reason Is that the open range is
being curtailed the Eastern Oregon
Land company, for Instance, is fenc
ing 160 miles in Cow valley; and the
third reason is that feed is high.
Some of the stockmen are holding
their calves to build up their herds,
but there is also a movement among
some to veal their calves." Mr. Aiken
is in Portland to confer with the
state highway commission.
"Here I am wearing heavy under
wear," sighed Thomss J. Patterson,
as the sun beat down on Broadway.
"When I left Montana two days ago
there was a couple of inches' of
snow, and in Denver there was such
cold and snow that neither bread nor
milk was delivered for three days"
Mr. PatterBon, who formerly lived In
Portland, Is now established in Den
ver as vice-president of the Harlesty
Manufacturing company. He left Port,
land tn 1913 and says he finds Port
land has developed pep, but criticises
the automobile traffic for being so
-slow. '"Eighteen miles an hour in
the downtown section is the limit in
Denver," says Mr. Patterson, "and if
a machine doesn t hustle a police
man diverts it to a side street. The
people can only cross- the street with
the movement of vehicular traffic
and there Is now an agitation to in
stall a one-way traffic In the busi
ness zone."
About .1000 acfes are being Irri
gated with water pumped from the
Snake river and these units range
from 100 acres to a section. The
projects are the undertakings of
farmers, who have done their own
financing, and no bonds have been
issued. County Judge E. H. Test of
Malheur also reports that about 75
new farms have been started under
the Warm Springs projects between
Vale and Ontario and northward.
The judge, who is here to attend the
highway meeting, says that the coun
ty Intended doing a great deal of
grading on the John Day highway,
but the bids received were so high
that the county decided to await
developments. "The prices may have
been right," explains Judge Test,
"but they looked so high that they
scared, us."
When E. V. Carter was speaker of
the house, in the '908, J. K Blackaby
was a representative, ant his. main
grief was the county seat fight then
waging between Vale and Ontario
and which raged for years afterward.
Mr. Blackaby. who la now a banker
at Ontario, la the county chairman
of the democratic committee. Ac
companied by Mrs. Blackaby, he is
at the Imperial, while appearing as
part of a delegation from home to
have a heart-to-heart talk with the
highway commission today. Origin
ally Mr. Blackaby came from one
Uof the little-known spots In Oregon.
Jordan Valley, which transacts most
of its business with Idaho because
it has no suitable road to Oregon
markets.
If the, section of the McKenzie
highway between Prlneville and
Jones' mill, in Crook county, can be
built, there will be a first-class high
way from Mitchell to Prlneville. To
ask for a survey of this 19-mlle sec
tion is the object of N. G. Wallace's
mission to Portland. Mr. Wallace be
ing the county Judge. "Beyond Jones'
mill." explains the Judge, "there
is a forest road being surfaced with
gravel, to the Wheeler county line,
and from the Wheeler county line
to Mitchell there is a forest road un
der construction, and if we can have
the 19-mile strip fixed up it will mean
a good surfaced road all tbe distance."
Dan Bass is a product of the Waldo
hills, and whenever he feels that th4
Seattle spirit needs chastening, he
leaves his Hotel Frey and returns
to the scenes of hts childhood and
ambles over the hills where he
played In the days when Seattle con
sisted chiefly of tidelands. Mr. Bass
breesed Into the Imperial yesterday
on his way to Marion county.
A hard winter In Grant county is
the report of A. D. Leedy of Canyon
City, who Is registered at the Mult
nomah. There has been a great deal
of rain of late and there Is plenty
of enow In the mountains and now the
prospects are good fdr a prosperous
seaeon in that section.
F. H. Porter, who succeeded Samuel
Garland as state senator for Linn
county, was in Portland yesterday.
Senator Porter probably made fewer
speeches tluin any other member of
the senate, with the possible excep
tion of John Nickelsen of Hood River
and Wasco counties.
Vive le prohibition, is the slogan
of M. H. Church, for he Is the maker
of grape juice and has hts plant at
Kennewlck. Wash. Mr. Church is at
the Perkins. Mr. Church discovered
the advantages of grape Juice long
before William Jennings Bryan.
DEFt.XSli OK CHLRCII SLACK KB
Soula May Weary of rrvible l eedian
ana Seek Relief la laaclUity.
PfiRTF-AXn. tnril 27. (To the Ed-
tor ) Kver and 'anon we are faced
with the unanswered question of the
why and the wherefore, of the sucies
known as the "church slacker.
Again and aitair. tner-i come to us
the lamantations of the "faithful"
over the perverseness o( tho:-e who
no longer find pleasure in church
work. More especially, it is said, does
this spirit of perveraeness possess
those persons who. like the wise men
of old, came out of the east.
A story is ioia oi a nine sin w no
aptlv. thouarh unconsciously, euitom-
ized the situation as it is regarded by i
the church. This little siri. with her
parents, was moving from her old
home in the east to her new home in
the west and as the train mounted
higher and higher upon the Rocky
mountains, she was told that soon the
summit would be reached, and that
then the train would drop rapidly
down into the land of her dreams.
Stretching out her little arms toward
the land of her birth she indulged in
one last farewell and thse arc tl.e
words she said: "Good bye. dod.
we're going to California."
It Is said that in San Francisco.
alone, during a recent survey, 10,000
such "slackers were found.
The very greatness of the number I
who thus dissociate themselves from
the church Is food for thought. Can
It be that so many one-time active
Christians become, as it were, over
night, traitors to a noble cause? Or.
rather, is it not that the move to a
new environment affords a desired
opportunity to escape from that
which has long been irksome?
If the latter is the true explana
tion of 90 out of 100 cases and the
writer believes that It is the ques
tion of the why and the wherefore of
the so-called church slacker reverts
back to the church Itself.
The modern requisites of righteous
ness are attendance at Sunday school
at 9:30 o'clock in the morninir. church
at 11 o'clock. Christian F.udeavor or
Epworth league at 6:30 o'clock In the
evening, church again at S o'clock on
Sundays; board meeting or. Tuesday
revening. Sunday school council meet
ing monthly, or semi-monthly, and
for the ladies of the, church there are.
In addition to those services which
have been, mentioned, the ladies' aid.
the missionary society, the class so
cial, the silver tea. while sandwiched
in among all these are committee
meetings, paeeants. and children's
day. choir practice, and chicken pie
suppers, to say nothing of bazaars
and other money making affairs.
In addition to the above are union
meetings of various kinds and inter
denominational meetings, normal
study classes, schools of missions,
county, state and national conven
tions. That one grow not laggard In
well doing, there is the even more
frequent "every member canvass."
Surely in the present day the
Church refutes, by its manifold ac
tivities, the statement of the good
book where It says: "God was not in
the whirlwind." .
Doubtless these present-day parti
sans) of animated righteousness would
have held up their hands in holy hor
ror at the 40 yeans of religious idle
ness or "slackerism" spent by Moses
In the wilderness, or would ha be
wailed as lost, from a short ministry,
those hours in which Jesus went
apart to pray. Perhaps some, at
least, of the so-called slackers of to
day are emulating Moses and Jesus
and are attempting to find themselves
toward !od and man.
Many, doubtless, rebelling against
so much urgency of action, would say
with Emerson:
Nor can you. If I am true, excite me
to the least uneasiness by saytne. "He
acted, and thou fittest stiH." t se nction
to be good, when tlie net-d Is. and sitting
still to be also -rood. W'hy should we be
busy-bodies and super-serviceable? Ac
tion and Inaction are alike to the true.
One piece of the true is cut for a westher
eock. -and one for the sleeper of a brldpe:
the virtue of the wood is apparent in
both.
The sustenance of the physical
body requires that we shall partake.
of food, and it also requires that we
shall cease to partake and give sfiine
to assimilation.
Is the soul sustained by means fess
In keeping with reason and with law?
Must one always be gorging upon
spiritual food and giving no heed to
assimilation? Again with Emerson
let us say: "I destre not to disgrace
the soul."
More than all else the Christian
world Is spiritually undernourished.
and that from forced feeding and
non-asslmulation of spiritual food.
Mayhap in God's great scheme of life
even the despised slacker has his
place. And to the disciples of ani
mated righteousness let us say: "They
also aerve who only stand, and wait."
B. L.
MAKE DIVORCE MORE DIFKICl'LT,
Example Regarded as Salutary to
Roth City mm State.
PORTLAND. April 26. ITo the Edi
tor.) The ease with which divorces
are obtained in our land has become a
national pestilence, and the example
of one of our judges In making It dif
ficult to procure divorces before him
is most salutary to the city and state.
A great authoPity on ethics said:
"What, therefore. God hath joined to
gether let not man put asunder."
"Whosoever shall divorce his wife in
order to marry another, commits
adultery against her." "And If she
divorces her husband In order to
marry another she commits adultery."
The passage, "except for fornina
tion." the most critical New Testa
ment students regard as an addition
to Matthew, at a later timi than
Matthew wrote. The prophet Hosea
In an unwearied effort to rescue his
adulterous wife, Gomer. is worthy of
remembrance by modern times.
What la society without a whole
some family life? Most generally it
is sheer selfishness that walks Into
court, and unblushingly asks to be
released from a sacred vow. Hus
bands forget the burdens their wives
carry, and" wives fail to remember
that their husbands often cannot see
the way to go through every-day dif
ficulties. Many women are unsatisfied
with the incomes of, their husbands,
and many husbands fail properly to
share their income with their wivis.
Many a man may well keep in mind
that the woman he married was as
attractive, and more so, than her he
would welcome into his home. Love
settles all. ' Love is more than
million dollars, yet a million need not
quench it. Love more than abstains
from poisonous sweets of the flesh,
by consideration, sacrifice and honor
able behavior. ianjr a wife has gone
astray because her husband has set
the example. There are no nearer
nei"bors than husbands and wives,
and these neighbors may so love each
other that the nearness never thinks
of apartness-. , B. F. HOADLET.
StSKT.
Long the golden sunshine falls
'Cross the bridge and o'er the walls;
Falling, falling, ever falling:
Softly, softly sunlight calling.
'Cross the bridge aad o'er the wall
Thus the golden sunbeams fall.
Deep and shadowy sunse falls
O'er the old and crumbling walls;
Fading, fading, ever fading.
Clouds through golden glory wading;
Slowly, slowly, piling higher.
Dying out In crimson fire.
Long the crimson sunset fades
'Cross the hills and o'er the glades;
Creepy shades of evening calling;
Gold and crimson shadows falling
'Cross the bridge and o'er the walls.
Thus the golden sunset falls.
DORA REEVES CROFT.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Montucee.
The great Alexander regarded th
eartn
As wholly belonging to him:
He thought ho controlled ail tho
oceans that rolled
Clear out to its tit term ok i rim.
"The heavens will crash when I go to
my grave."
The conqueror often woulJ say;
And the world stood aghast, w'.-.eu he
perished at last:
But up came the sun the next day.
The Emperor Nero was swollen with
pride
In the power conferred by his crown.
His subjects went wiid with del:ht
when he smiled.
Ant fell in a faint at his frown.
He fancied that when he departed th's
life. '
His exit would shatter the map.
But when he was gone, the planet
rolled on.
Without ever missing a lap.
The haughty hotel cierk. the pompou.
old judge.
The ponderous head of a bank.
The man whose success makes, him
prone to impress
The world with his station ar.d
rank,
Believe their departure would leave
us all flat.
But when thoy are under the
ground.
Awaiting the call that will waken us
, all.
Th,e earth keeps on whirling around.
And . therefore, young man, with the
outswelling chest.
No matter what heights you have
scaled.
Quite in spite of your chest, you will
pass, like the rest.
Unnoticed, unwept and tinwalled.
If all of the persons we've 'mentioned
cnuld -go.
And not put the world on the blink.
You can surely deduce that you're not
so much use.
In the game we call life as you
think.
The Virions t li-eie.
Every time John D. boosts the price
of gas, the working-nan has to trik
for more money to keep his car in
commission.
Where Kiad Him.
General Pershing says he will be a
candidate if he is called by the peo
ple, and is now on duty in a listening
post.
(Copyright. 1920, by the Bcil Syndi
cate. Inc..)
There's Someone Who Cares
By (irare li. Hall.
Whoever you are and wherever you
be.
Be certain there's someone who's
caring. .
Though never a sign of affection
you see.
And Jv;ur way be too hard for their
sharing;
For a man seldom falls that some
soul is not wrung.
And vile Is the creature whose praise
is unsung.
What know ye of seeds that your life
may be sowing?
There are those who at heart are
your friends.
And a reeling unasked may be tender
ly growing.
Wherever your rough pathway
wends: ,
O. try to believe It and hold it as
true
That somewhere there's someone
who's caring for you! -
There are moments when tempters
are eager to speak.
When the heart may be empty and
aching.
For 'tis then, that a lonely soul
blindly will seek,
And those moments are tragedy
making: ,
So ere you give up to the urge of
despair.
Believe there is someone who's certain
to care.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years As.
From The Oreconian of April 27. 1!5.
The British barg Cupica was char
tered yesterday to load wheat for the
United Kingdom and makes the 100th
ship taken for wheat loadings In
Portland this season.
Harry A. Smith, ex-sheriff and
prominent democratic politician of
Clatsop county. disappeared from
Portland a fortnight ago and his
whereaboutr. are a complete mystery
to,his friends.
The seventy-sixth anniversary of
the founding of the Independent Or
der of Oddfellows was celebrated by
all Portland lodges last night at
Centenary church.
Edgar Wilson of Boise. Idaho, who
was elected last fall to .succeed Rep
resentative Willis Sweet in congress,
arrived in Portland last night from
the south'.
Fifty Years Ao.
From The Oreconian of April 27. 1H70.
Washington. Special dispatches say
there is almost sure to be an Indian
war. aa 20,000 Sioux are on the war
path. Messrs. Smit'j Dclaney- yester
day closed a contract with the Ore
gon & California Railroad company
for 20.000 t'es to be delivered alone
the line of the railroad above the
Molalla river.
Messrs. Cook & Hume shipped 100
cases of salmon last evening by the
steamer A'ax for the -epicures of
California.
C. E. B. Howe, past grand prophc.
of the Independent Order of Red Men,
arrived yesterday overland from Cali
fornia. Five tribes have been author
ized in Oregon-
MIST MAID.
Dainty mist-maid of the sky.
bky so dark moon so bright.
Do you wander fa-, on high
Cloud-robed maid of night
Do you meet the dawn of day
Misty-maid as you roam?
Do you treat the milky way,
Is the mofin your home?
Is the star-dust sifting fast.
Through the streets of the sky?
Whither, when the night is past.
Do you always fly?
Light as snow flake's crystal sheen.
Are you sad or content?
Gently fade, then no more seen
Till the day is spent.
Welcome, mist-maid of the night;
Float and dance full of grace.
Welcome always to our sight,
Fantorn queen of space!
LOIS SMITH.
ew Raby Criticised.
London Sketch.
"How old is your baby brother"
asked little Tommy of a playmate.
one year old." replied Johnny. "Ah:
exclaimed Tommy. "I've got a dog .
year old and he can . walk twice as
well as your brother." "Well, so he
ought to." replied . Johnny ; "he's goi
twice as many legs.