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Newspaper Page Text8 the -morninc? oregoniax, Thursday, ArniL 29, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I PITTOCK. Published by The Oresrohlan Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. E. B. TIPf-tl. Manager. Editor. member ol me .tvmu- The Orejronian Is J r i I .-J I ) .... ft... exclusively entitled to the use lor publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thi paper and alKO the local news published herein. Ail rights of republication of special dlspatcnes herein are also reBenved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year J J? Dally. Sunday included, six months . .. ltiv Kunrtav included, three months. . H-aiiy, Sunday included, one month . . Bally, without Sunday, one year . ... Dally, without Sunday, six months . . . Daily, without Sunday, one month. .. . Weekly, one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) rai:y, Sunday included, one year ... 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The countenance given to American participation in the bank ers' consortium for a loan to China implies a reversal of the policy ad verse to dollar diplomacy. Thomas R. Lamont, who has gone to the orient in the interest of the con sortium, is reported to have encoun tered obstacles in Japan. Mr. Crane's mission, closely following: that re- VI F.WIN G WITH ALARM. The convention at Belllngham heard from Senator Poindexter a ringing exhortation to beware of the dangers of internationalism or of a "governmental union with Europe" and an equally eloquent plea to "Americanize the American govern ment." We take it that the senator still views with alarm a league of notinna nf anv ltind. shape or form. The convention also viewed with alarm, after a fashion. It went on record as being "opposed to the ratification of the league of nations covenant, unless reservations and declarations are included which will fully protect American sovereignty, indeDendence and ideals." Viewing with alarm, it also applauded with out alarm a league with reserva- lieve, will prevent many kinds of from the base. Until 1834 this f rag plants from ever reaching the stage ment stood in the village square. The of flowering or fruiting. Use of the base settled back in the" gravel and crescograph, however, would make it ooze of the ocean, and as time went possible to determine' in each in- on served ignoble purposes once as stance the precise effect of light and the stepping stone to a blacksmith to ascertain when the point of tol- shop, when the land had beaten back erance has been reached, without j the sea, and again as a portion of resorting to the series of season-long I highway. It is now so worn away experiments that would be necessary that the top portion no longer fits, under present practice. ' I and restoration of the complete rock The crescograph, if reports of Sir S. I is impossible. C. Bose's discovery have not exasrsrer-1 The to Dortion of the rock, now in port, suggests mat a settlement oi ated it, is destined to illustrate anew I three Dieces. is sheltered bv a canopy. oriental affairs is to be sought. Port-1 the fact that research in the realm I Were it to be placed in its original lano, in common with the rest or I of pure science is likelv often to I site the action of wave and weather the Pacific coast, is so deeply in-1 lead to practical results of high eco"-1 would speedily disintegrate it. For terested in Chinese and Japanese I nomic value. This was conspicu-1 its final resting place it will, there trade that it will keep close watch 1 ously true of Liebig. It requires no fore, be shrined just beyond the on developments in that quarter. particular strain on the Imagination. I reach of the ocean. however, to visualize the effect on I Creation of a national shrine about TWO PHASES line luiure ot agriculture, as well I riymouia hock win strive a respon The loss of New Jersey would I as on many other industries, of I Rive chord in the romantic patriotism have been a hard blow for Leonard r:"" - . . "tZZ"Z .. v . Wood, just as it is a hard blow for the East IndUln promises to be. rtlram Johnson. It does not alter the significance of the result that Wood has beaten Johnson by a' pal- instrument such as the invention of I cherish its historic, heritages, when they are veritable cradles of its be ing, is of poor stuff and ripe for de- Stars and Starmakers. By Ltose Cass Bser. Those Who Come and Go. cadence. Plymouth Rock should be such a shrine as is the tomb of Washington, and his home at Mount Vernon. Our ideals and national character stepped ashore there. WAKTOX WASTE. Waste of anv food nroduct in a try few hundred votes. Hughes lost time jike tne present is not ren- California by a ..few thousand in I dered less criminal bv the fact that 1916, but it elected Wilson presi- there is a temporary suner-abun- dent. I dance of the nrodnct a. thnnirrit triat Wood loses in OJiio, but by a nar- wm have occurred to many who row margin. It may be said that have participated recently in' the here, too, the important fact is that I harvest of smelt from the Kandv he lost, and that he lost by only a I river, near Portland, and -who haveltlred" who paused to admire the col little has no real bearing. Tet it observed that not a f fi.h. I lection: of magnificent bird plumage Is true that It was a remarkable I men are so unaonreciative of the I then on exhibit, was a simple one showing to make in Ohio against an bounties of nature, so negligent of and, like many simple truths, it was Ohioan, a senator of distinction and their duties to their fellow" men and sharpened by cruelty. For the plumes a presidential candidate whom the bo altogether unsnortamanllke were seizures made by government THE TROOF OF FATAL FAVOR. The lesson taught recently at Cen tral library, at least for the bun- country at large regards seriously. Here and there, In many states. Wood gets votes. He has had his reverses, but he remains the lead ing candlaate. It , is now likely to be so in the convention. But whether the leading candidate will be nominated is yet to be seen. not only to take fish In quantities I state game wardens in the south OLD TEES . WITH BOSTON RENEWED. By : starting a' steamship line be tween Portland, and Boston this port' revives a; direct commercial connec tion which began with- the dlscpv- largely in excess of their ability to carry them home, but also to en gage in a kind of orgy of wasteful ness that would be pitiful If it were not so nearly tragic. It is an an nual occurrence. Apparently it is the result of a combination ofl thoughtlessness and hoodlumism. ' It seems that some people have still to learn the rudiments of thrift. It probably has escaped the notice where the feather hunters have made the bayous and everglades lonely for the proud bird beauties of other days. There were the cascading white nuptial plumes of the lesser white heron and the great two birds of the marshland that came near to extinction in Louisiana and Florida because the millinery markets of fered money . for their commercial murder. THey were christened egret of these wasters that if admnniilnn is not sufficient to restrain thm - the argot of the plume plunderer ery of khe Columbia river and was there is an Oregon law that covers corruption of aigrette, or continue tnr-h tT,..,iv W- the subject. It is found in sf banter Plun- When plume hunting was trading and pioneer days. All neces- 188 of the session laws of 1916nd lu height, ere state and federal saries of life were then brought from 11 reads as follows: the Atlantic coast, exceot. nerhans. I Section 15. It shall be unlawful fnr n Seeming to say one thing it. meat, fish and building material, and ,r17A,C0X0lnlLL' fish taken or caurht in any of the waters of the state of Oretcon, or ever which the state of Oreros has concursot Juris diction, and no person engaged -fff the- .can ning, preserving or curing ot food fish shall purchase or engage a-greater quan tity of ruth than he ia abrfe to can. pre serve, curt or artificially chill within sixty hours after the same are taken from tne water. tions. was careful also to indicate that it j utile was exported from Oregon ex meant something else. I cept the rawest of raw products. We shall not attempt to reconcile 1 Commercial ties by water have long the varying views of the Benator I been broken, but thev are now r- and the convention. . Quite clearly newed (under conditions which Insure it was not his convention, and was a little restive under the more or leas gentle compulsion of a Poin dexter candidacy. The republicans of Washington are not in accord with the attitude full cargoes, of a great variety of products from Portland. In a commercial sense Oregon and New England are the comple-1 ment of each other, for each wants; what tie other has to sell. ' New j law ,made penalties commensurate with the criminal practice, the ever glades heron nurseries were scenes of ruthless slaughter, almost to the point of extermination. For the mothers were slain while the young were fledglings, and the nests held death that drew the circling buzzards down to the meal. In the'-'pllght of the white heron of the senator on the league, ana I England is negligible 'as a strain do not believe either in the xeality 1 growing , country, but Oregon -can or the practicability of bis candl- supply grain and flour in abundance. dacy. They are nearly as badly of f I New England forests are a thing of as the republicans of Oregon who the past, but Oregon can supply un- four years ago sent to cmcago a limited lumber. Oregon . can ship HoI.d-j tinn nlofle'Ari t n an unknown I i , ; nd ridiculous charlatan for the UTw -J. iT ZZ.rlT ".f! generations that fish not so grain land and the snort of a mm- " - - -. . . . . .. U. .WOLUU "11.11 illustrative of the finis that has Be There is nothing in the law that 1 fallen many birds which man ad- restricts taking for legitimate use I mired with fatal favors there runs all the smelt that one can catch, I the old tragedy of utility versus with dip net or line' or otherwise. I beauty. It broadens, so the .bird The fisherman is hampered Xf . no I lovers say, to include such matters requirement that he shall provide I as reclamation projects. There are himself with a license. The fish are I folk who would not trade the de his for the taking provided only lighted chatter of brant, the swift that they shall be honestly Intended I whistle of t.he widgeon, .stooping for use as food. It is only fair to I down to a fat marsh, for acres of Marion Barney, who is appearing with Margaret Anglin in "The Woman of Bronze" at the Hellig is a former Baker leading woman. J.-M. Barrie has written a new play called "Mary Rose." David Belasco ' is returning from London with a new play called "Call the Doctor," for which he has received the American rights. He has also se cured a new drama by Edward Knob loch, and has made plane to present Ina Claire, Frances Starr and possibly David Warfleld in London. Dainty Marie has been doing her gymnastic whirl act on a rope with j the Sells-Floto circus and the work Is wearing her out. she says so she has given up the circus engagement and is returning to vaudeville. More about Guesle Appel, who is the picture star Lila Lee. Her case against Mrs. Gus Edwards, her guardian, in which "Cuddles" seeks to have Mrs. Edwards dismissed and her mother appointed to guide her, was called be fore Judge McGoorty last week. Mrs. Edwards appeared in person and denied all charges of mismanage ment, said that she had never made a cent off the child's contract and would willingly waive the matter if Miss Lee would tell her In person that she wished to change guardians. Mrs. Ed wards intimated that she believed ulterior influences had been brought to bear on the girl. Judge McGoorty ordered that the young star be telegraphed to come from Los Angeles to Chicago and con tinued the matter pending her reply. Virgil James Montani is the real name of Jack Clifford, his divorce suit shows. He is suing Evelyn Nesbit Thaw for absolute divorce, naming as co-respondent an actor, Eugene Strong, who is playing in Valeska Su- ratt's company. Evelyn has filed a counter-suit. She told reporters that Mr. Clifford's ac tlon was not a surprise to her, for they had been separated more than three years and that her list ot co respondents would include the names of five women, one of them a promt nent motion picture star. "I have checks to show I have given Mr. Clif ford .over 120,000 since we were mar ried in 1916." said Evelyn, "and I also intend to recover real estate consist ing of 260 acres and a lodge in the Adirondack, built with money earned on the stage and which Mr. Clifford had put in his own name when he had the deeds transferred. "I etUl get letters from 'em." said Dan Cloud, editor of the Montesano (Wash.) Vidette. as he chatted with friends yesterday in the lobby of the Multnomah hotel, en route home from a business trip to Riddle. "Yes. indeed. I am well remembered by the 'wob blies.' and every now and. again some one of 'em writes to tell me that both I and my paper should be suppressed." Time was, when the Centralia murders were causing caustic comment in the Washington press and later during the I. YV- W. trial at Montesano. that the radical missives to Dan Cloud threatened complete suppression, such as death .in unpleasant ways. Where upon, having perused such a com munication always unsigned Dan used to fill up his briar again and writa ansther editorial to flay tn hick hide of the enemy. Some oi vice-presidency. Senato,r Poindexter any other section .producing those is a man of force and parts, and he foods. Portland is the great wool has pursued his course in congress market of the Pacific coast and can on the league with a persistence ship .raw material for the woolen worthy of a better cause. But his Industry of New England, compared candidacy in the circumstances is a with which that of Oregon is but an needed shall be permitted to fulfill I bling tractor. Though, of course the destiny that draws them inland, I there is a great deal more to be said that they may multiply and con-1 for bread than there is for feathers. tinue the supply. Our experience 1 HH.IU1UU iu me past ougm to Now comes a scientist and says have taught us that merely because each atom,- heretofore supposed to contradiction and an impossibility, infant, thouarh nMvtr, . 1 "me.no vai-1 De the smallest particle of matter, is i . . kc " i itseir divided into two parts. in is fully destroyed. - Drofessor no doubt was enabled to and the republicans of Washington growing infant, Oregon Jso has a know it. Yet tney accept lor tnem- I surplus of cheese and butter to make selves tne pretense that tney nave a up the deficiencies of the. decaved auty to support a mvorne son, woo agricultural industries of the old is not a lavorite son. Does anyone I states. dare to. say tnat benator roinoexter I For return cargoes New England make this important discovery from PRESERVATION OF PLIMOl'lU ROCK. I the habit of looking for veVy small could carry a republican primary in I Washington in a popular vote? can ship the varied products of its marry factories commodities which Oregon does not yet make for itself. MR. CRANE'S MISSION TO CHINA I until tne woolen industry of this President Wilson' sv appointment of state has grown to its full stature, Charles R. Crane as minister to 11 oan draw cloth and clothing Plymouth Rock is familiar to every American as a gray boulder. dashed by angry' seas, whereon perched the first arrivals of the Pil grim refugees. The "stern and rock- bound coast" effect Is admirably things, engendered from trying to find his bank balance after paying the rent. - There is hope for a community big or little that has an occasional caught in the widely circulated Hth-1 spelling match, and efforts of the ograph from which this concept en-I women of a popular .fraternity . to Northern California is to be given forest air patrol this summer, but Oregon and Washington forests, where real timber grows, must be neglected because of "depleted per hina gives rise to speculation as tnence. All its cotton goods must 'ereo lne l"o"c memory. mat tne nom an auair neat wee are corn to his policy in the orient, for the be brought from other states. So actual rock, remains, and that con- mendable. The time has gone when that Air Crane's rernrd fn I also witn cutlery, silverware and r,: 10 "ww cuuteruea wim tne pro- i puur diums uuuiu lc uinguiseu in that oonner-tion nointj, tn a v.rv f. tools. posed expenditure of 1400.000 to bad penmanship. inite direction. He was appointed A31 the conditions exist that favor shelter " from the rude New Eng- to the same office by President Taft a mutually advantageous sea-borne land weather, ought to be of at least In 1909. but a speech in which he trade between the northeast, of momentary interest to the nation attacked Japanese diplomacy and an which Boston is the chief port, and that owes lts origin, broadly speak- interview in which he said that the lne nonnwest, where Portland holds lu lwu u""rJCai events tne ais- I that position. This is une of th di- covery of the New World, by Colum- against Japanese violation of the I rect benefits which we derive from I bua and the landing at Plymouth, by I sonnel." Any excuse is good enough open-door policy in Manchuria I construction of the Panama canal the fllgrims. I for a state not in the doubtful .col- caused the Japanese minister to Dro-1 and from construction of the new The resolution for the appropria-1 umn. test, and he was recalled when about I American merchant marine. " All I t,on of that sum. in observance of to sail for China. He twr-Ama n 1 Parts of the country are drawn closer tne un anniversary of the landing 1 The national industrial conferpnee strone: sunnorter of Mr. Wilson for I together, and the ties which vera ot tne, llgrlms at Provincetown and board might keen its findine-s to it nomination and election, and at last broken with the extinction of the Plymouth, has been reported favor- self. rWhat comfort to the house- gets his reward. cupper snip are renewed. Sailings B"ly lo lne nou8e y lne iiorary com- wife to be told the cost of living These antecedents are taken by the 1 Enoula become steadily more fre- mie. " expected win pass. I has increased 21 per cent in the past Far Eastern Republic, a Chinese lient until arrival and departure of AQese are aays wnen tne scalpel of year? She knows it. and. incident publication in the United States, to I the Boston steamer may become as I retrenchment should be ruthlessly ally, so does the head of the family. indicate an active pro-Chinese and quinary an occurrence as that ot "re'ucu wl" De a venture- anti-Japanese policy, a desire "to the transcontinental trains. undo some of the mischief which had been done at the peace con ference at Paris," and it says that Mr. Crane still holds the opinions which he expressed in 1909. The appointment of a business man with such understanding as Mr. Crane has of the Chinese trade situation is taken to mean that "the United States is not at all oblivious of the importance of far-eastern trade,1 and that China is to have Ameri can support at Pekin In resisting Japanese demands. If these inferences be correct, Mr. Wilson has made a decided change in his oriental policy since 1913. In that year he withdrew government .support from the American bankers who had been induced by President Taft to participate in the proposed some extremist who suggests that Plymouth Rock should wait for rec ognition. The storied heights of Plymouth I and Provincetown, the ancient graves. the cherished landmarks, the Rock itself, belongs to all the American people," said Representative Luce of Massachusetts, who reported the resolution from the committee. His declaration assays more genuine metal than may be found in the A man was taken to McNeil's island yesterday to spend 13 months for bringing his 16-year-old sister-in-law from California for immoral purpose, and the inadequacies of the law for proper punishment seem obvious.' SCPPLKMJEMTCVO LIEBIG'S WORK. It may be, judging from fuller information now coming to hand re garding the crescograph, the ma chine invented by Sir S. C. Bose, the Hindu scientist, that this new discovery will mar a stage In our knowledge of plant "life as im portant as that of Baron Justus von Liebig, who something more than ordinary oratory of the house. De natr a century ago laid the founda- I spite the machinations of anarchists, tion for bis title of "father of ag-I the smirched intris-ua r fnr.icn ricultural ' chemistry" by his re-1 n "" -ue manner in wnicn toward "world brotherhood" and the piants receive nourishment, and by I submersion of national identity, Am esiaDiisning tne principle that the I erica stills holds such memories very M l pnysicai ano cnemicai dear, such nrecincts" verv saoreH. ""tK wme same in me organized I and thev are hers to honor. as in tne mineral world. This was I Massachusetts &lrarlv ha rive.nn inon r-,i- j i . line iourraauon or tne. modern svs- 1 trihntoH and miniiH o.o . .v "U 11B r5-l , . . . ., 1 . ' 0 . -nman lnlnl in f lit . .1 n n,i.... n .J 1 1 Ji-1 ... tclu .ucuiJll IVrilllZatlOn. Wltn- I uroi-si rrt 1m nrnvomant .. ....... . ... . . i'l.iouc; uunai uiuiuniitcy. lie . . . , I ... . " u j.. . ni- i , . . . , .v. j , m . i out wnicn. as everv farmer bnn I i i i tun vum """u 10 mo i"a.r ior japan and i - -1 "-" - - ,u. . Ha.t , r,l VnrnnA a Ta.h . i I "-fc -wi -- vrvuiu 11 U W UH m ft- SIT. I nr f h A annpnnriat nn sAiio-kt V I " " " w. ww. m.H T," r" rjr1" tion va.Uy different from that in " , o oi wm' dent. No doubt she has the kissing M " - - -0"-s,v, WULrt v.. .. XX Ul 11JK I . . , a, . .. . I O ' "Mav w and since the war. An ultimatum " " " ijnas itself today. I penned at Provincetown, and 1 exacted the 21 demands from China ,? ' ose 8 instrument is herald- j 000 upon and about the rock". .fcVetf-. in 1915; Shantung was seized and c T 5 ior motion that In its present suxroundingji'ireGc advantages were taken of the allies' militarv necessitip tr ctspi o ntM .. . ' 7 " - i lh;n ,v,ii, .. : : . ' v-- tnat .lanan shnnlrl boon it- i " o siowiy tnat I far removed fromiae waveHMhrmfrn allies were held to that pledge at impossible to detect movement I the filling-in processes oT cinimrce the peace conference. The Russian wl ordinary instruments are in a and time. The credulity (Jf'.' te revolution gave Japan a great op- mannor of speaking "accelerated" modern pilgrim is sadly taxd it is portunity to extend its power on the tneir Denavior. under vary- said, when he stands by the immor- Temptation is great to use kero sene to hurry a sulky fire, but it should be resisted. Better to rake out the charred sticks for a fresh start. It is the unexpected that hap pens and brings disaster. What really surprises us is that at least three men. Colonel Houpe, Augustus Busch Jr. and Jim .Ham Lewis, have not said they would ac cept the presidency ' if called to take it. bee confused with the presidential bee. People who find that city actlvi ties prevent sleep should develop one deaf ear. Good idea, too, for the head of a family with a crying baby in the house. Reading of the Poles' advance or With "Sinbad" closed, Al Jolson ia through playing until next season. Late last week he went to Atlantic City and next month intends taking a trip, perhaps going to the orient Sophie Tucker made her . debut at Far Rockaway last Friday night as a star in the "legitimate" too-called, in the re-written "Tick Tack Toe," the musical show first out with Herman Timberg. Arthur Klein is presenting Mies Tucker and the show is unde his management, ownership remaining with Garr Herrmann, the Cincinnati baseball man and Sol Gilsey. In the cast supporting Miss Tucke are Indole, Foley, .Margaret Haney Peggy Coudray, Charles M. Marsh, William Bence, James Gilfoyle an Ed FrankeL The book was done ove by Arthur M. Swanstrom and staged by Edw. T. Emory. The piece is aimed for a summer ru in Chicago, the house to be decided on this week. Cleo Gascoigne, who was here with Julian Eltinge, married Dave Basaeet the saxophonist of the Eltinge or chestra the other day in Hongkong, where the Eltinge show is playing to big business. Practically every vaudeville theate in the United States anl most of th circuses have set Wednesday. May as benefit day for the National Vaude ville . Artists, an organization whic'.i includes all the big vaudeville artist and 99 per cent of the smaller vaude ville artists on the American stage. All the proceeds of the matinee staged by the Orpheum, Hippodrome and Pantages theaters next Wednes day will be turned over to the Na tional Vaudeville Artists, and for th occasion tickets for those matinees will be exempt from war tax. Thi benefit idea is fathered by the Vaude ville Managers' Protective association, hich Includes more than 400 theaters in the United States, and the benefi next Wednesday will be the first. years to follow, the N. V. A. benefit day will be the second Wednesday in May. That the benefit will be of great aid to the vaudeville artists is indicated by the announcement by the V. M. r. x. that the funds raised by the all-America matinees will be used to provide a J1000 life insurance pol icy for every member of the National Vaudeville Artists and also help to maintain the vaudeville artists' mag nificent clubrooms in New York. Thi benefit is the first enterprise of the kind ever undertaken by the combined vaudeville industry of the United States. mainland, both in Siberia and China. ing cJrcumstances can be observed, tal fragment and sees the surf break-' Ve situation in' Ruhr and other for The Japanese army now controls all ol P,anls we know that of . eastern Siberia and by loans has tney grrow' or lncrease in size, though won controlling influence over the military party which rules at Pe- kin. At Japan's instigation the Chi, nese have ousted the Russians from direction of the Chinese Eastern railroad, and Japan is reported to tney are not seen to grow. But under the crescograph every move ment is detectable. Thus will be disclosed, through experiment, the nature and extent of all the influ ences that promote or retard plant be reaching down along that rail- develoment. It already has been road to bring all north China under found for example, that a slight its power. Japan has promised to Plnch is enough to slow down the withdraw its army from Siberia as Srwth of some p!ants. rough treat- soon as the Czech troops have gone ment causes prolonged retardation: home and as soon as settled condi- resPonse to water, to various forms tions are established, but qualifies of nSht. to chemicals or drugs, can this promise with the condition that De fccualea leisure of the op- 1 . . : . . . I unlnp TllA Mlalinn V... .. . . us territory must De secured from uciween ilgnt bolshevism. The Chinese peonle are embittered against Japan because of Shantung, the students maintain the boycott 6f Japanese goods and there is steady opposition to Japanese in fluence at Pekin. , When this is the situation, the sending to Pekin of an American minister who holds decided opinions and heat in their effect on jrrowth there is reason to believe, has been greatly misunderstood. Onlv re cently two scientists of the United btates Dureau of plant industry di covered that it is possible fr plants to have too much daylight. Too long a day as well as too short a day, the government scientists be ina- in the distance. Th. nnmn.. eign news, one needs a comprehen- the Dresent Plan, in Dart, would be I ""' to uay s to let the Atlantic again lave thedoings base of the ancient boulder. The identitv of Plymouth Rock is I It s a Drainy old Portland this established beyond dispute. Though week with the heavy consumption of the Massachusetts coast line Is rocky, this particular outcropping stood al most alone at that point. Tradition marked it as the actual rock on which the Pilgrims steDDed ashore. at iournev's end in their otiA.ot trr I ways d ' - - - liberty. Ere he passed away.. John Holland, last of the Pilgrims, took a lad of 20 to the rock and told him of that bleak December landing. Elder Faunce, who was that lad, saw to it that those of his generation did not forget. In 1774 some ingenious patriot, I lar a year, who would have been chairman of a modern special feature committee, I This is fish, and the run of smelt is not ended, either. "Candidates approve farmers' de mands," reads a headline.. They al before election. Somehow we doubt if A. Mitchell Palmer could even win a straw vote in the president's cabinet.' Dan's editorials achieved unexpected irculation during the I. Y . . trial hen the attorney for the defense read them into the record during the lamination of veniremen. Monte sano's friendly and capable editor is former citv newspaperman wno ought health and relaxation in. country town. The first whistle on the John Day was blown by A B. Anderson, then minor at Canyon City, but now banker in Idaho. Mr. Anderson, wno rossed the plains to California in tne 60s. arrived at Canyon City in is nd mined until 1869. Then he went to Susanville and was an owner in a iscovery claim near there. Later he went to Boise Basin and mined when, white laborers were paid 5 ay and Chinese 2.50. There were bout 7000 Chinese In the basin at hat time. Mr. Anderson, who is familiarly known as "A B.". was' at he Imperial yesterday talking over Id times with some tillicums in tne lobby. Mr.. Anderson was one of the three men who built the first irrlga- Ion ditch at Payette. The estimated cost of the ditch was 7umi. out it cost $18,000. The land was bought for 2.60 an acre. Later Mr. Anderson sold out his third interest to his two partners, one of whom was the gov- rnor of Idaho. Among other aaven- ures. Mr. Anderson once went on a search for the lost Blue Bucket mine and devoted a month to a fruitless search which extended to Stelna mountains. Extending an invitation to be at the blossom festival in Hood River. A. W. Peters is at the Hotel Portland. Blossom time is the big event in the Hood River valley and is comparable with the cherry blossom time in Japan. For miles the landscape la covered with the colorful apple bloa soma and the effect is of a beautiful picture. About next year when there will be a hard-surfaced road not only to Hood River but up into the valley itself a new era will start, for there after each year Portlanders will make pilgrimage to Hood River to Bee the blossoms. Of course, that means that the visitors will be property taken care of In the way of being provided with restaurants, and some day the blossom season in Hood River vallev mav rival tne nose resnvai in Portland. " -It Is the desire of Ed Wright, aec retarv of the public service commls slon. to penetrate the wilds of Curry county. Mr. Wright visitea oos county for the first time last week and heard so much about little-known Curry that he wants to go there on a trio of exploration. Mr. w rigm, who has resigned from his pest with the commission and will return to Union county, says that the country along the Oregon shore is so differ ent to the eastern Oreson country. In which he was raised, that ne wants to- know more about it. Of course, he contends that the part of Oregon t of the Blue mountains is the finest part of the state. Sometime in the next few weeks John Crow expects to open his new hotel at Condon. He is figuring on headliner and thinks that possibly Senator Hiram W. Johnson may oe made- available, as Johnson la ex pected to do some campaigning in that neck of the woods. Mr. Crow isn't certain when the hotel will be ready, as the unions haven t notified him. . Anyway, ne says m once n la completed he will be ready to take rare or an tne trail ic iiiai over the John Day highway, which ha asserts will be one ot tne greatest hirnwava in the state when It Is finally completed. "With the passage of the $500,000 bond issue at North Bend, a new start will be made on Coos Bay." predicts E-roH Moll inter- who is at the Hotel Portland. The money la to be used for development of the inner harbor, with industrial sites and all that. Mr. Hol Uster was once candidate for congress on the democratic ticket and although there was a republican majority of 60,000 agalntit him, he was defeated by only about 10.000 otes. Mr. Holllster'a grandfather was governor of Florida for about 17 years. PRKSK.NT AHMY - JtVSTKM ROILS. Plea lor Adotloa of Freecli Syatem la Esroorsfe Kliataee. ELM A Wash.. April 28. (To tha Editor.) I would appreciate it if you would permit apace for the following, being a reply to the article by Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. S. Stevens, United States army: ' My Dear Colonel and Comrade Permit me to say our regular army establishment is wrong: too prussian like for liberty-loving Ameritans. It is distasteful. Tht court-martial sys tem is ancient: it is brutal, unlalr. un-American, discriminating ana un just. The system has ruined many men who would have made good cmaeno. A system is needed, but not the pres ent: it is far too drastic .Those wno have served know why the regular establishment is distasteful; it Is the regular army officer and Mis iron bound code! "Master and slave" are the unwritten mottos of the regular establishment. Why should American men serve with fear in their hearts. Why this "tin -foiled ' superiority T Why do they call you "tin gods?" You are all the nation s aervants and not the nation and its men your servants. as some would like to have it. v ny don't we oattern after tne French system? Then we would not nave to beg young American manhood to "serve hl9 country," either in peace or In war. They would come without colicitation if it In the real men this great nation needs. 1 favor a stand ing army, well disciplined and trained I am, however, against the present system. Senitjr Chamberlain and others are heroes for their continuous fifth t and demand that the court-mar tial systsm be changed. In speaking of the regular army officer. I apeak of two distinct classes, trentlemen and "bad actors.' Why were not tho ons who proved "bad" during the war discharged from the military ustsblithment? Prison conditions :n France were the result of the regular establishment's teachings and its tutors. Why have not thoe regular officers responsible been Dunished.' Why should not generals ana pri vates be punished alike? Hardly the rule? Show me a general tnat is any tetter than a good "buck' private There are none! Today those who enlist are either out of funds, work, home or are loots ina- for adventure. About 15 per cen seek adventure, 10 per cent enlist for patriotic purposes and the other 5 per cent enlist I'or the reawns I have stated. The reguiar estaunsnmen looks eood from posters, literature f-onvincinar talks, etc.. but like th fellow who said thst "If he had looked n the opposite side of the poster, they would never have hooked mm. In war don t boost regular army siock t the hiRh positions and rank, unless they demonstrate ability. Don t con fine distinguished service medals t cenerala and colonels. Thousamrs o enlisted men also did distinguishe work in the great war. What now have they to show for It? Nothing In most cases even their discharge are incomplete. Colonel, as a .nilltarv man you per haps have the following historica note written down: "The palladium of national confi dence will ever be maintained by plac ing the nation in the army and th army in the nation, thereby furnifh ing an Inexhaustible resource for de fense." As your long-taught system has not built up tins resource, the system l wrong. "To be shot to death by musketry or other such punishment a a court martial may direct" bean testtmon that the" present system is very an cient. So we must wait unvll con gress, guided by the American Le sion, makes drastic changes in our regular establishment. EARL HARK1XS. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamea J. Montague. IT'S AX ILL MIND. If you trust all your cash to a broker Who hastens away to the south. Leaving never a con of your bank- " roll to you. Why moan, or get down in tha mouth? ome friend who has never' had money. And envied the luck that you had. But who sounded your praise In your prosperous days. Will hear of your fate and ba glad. If the firm that you happen to work for. Goes broke and you're out of a job. Do not worry or fret, stifle back your regret. With never a sigh or a sob. Some friend that you used to buy drinks for. Although he is down with the blues. Will unbuckle his pelf and buy one for himself. We will get so much Joy from the news. the play or the book you have written Should make a most thundering bust. Why tear out your hair in a burst of despair; Why even get nettled or fussed? Some friend who has owed you a hun dred. Which he never has mentioned for years. When he learns of your fliv will be certain to give Three ringing and echoing cheers. Whenever yon fall in your fortunes. Although you are saddened a while. Some friend that yru had will be sure to be glad And welcome the news with aermile. Though ruin and bankruptcy round you Loom ugly and evil and grim. It would gratify you, oh. so much. If you knew. That it gave so much pleasure to him. He'll Keep on Trying Aeyway. : If we learn to live for 19 centuries. as scientists say we may. what a lot of practice at running for president Mr. Bryan will get. a Positively Plcaynee. Delaware voted against suffrage. but then Delaware is the second smallest etaie in the union. (Copyright, lS:o. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Tears) Ago. From The Oreitonian of April 29. 1S95. An attempt will be made to popu larize cricket in the Pacific northwest this season and to have it placed in the front rank of amateur sport. Dr. Arthur J. Brown yesterday closed his pastorate of the First Pres byterian church, preaching his fare well sermon at the evening service. Charles Uton, captain of the Port land Amateur Athletic club bicycle team. wa seriously Injured yesterday when thrown from his wheel while leading the taam down a steep hill. John E. Searles of Brooklyn. X. Y, president of the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic railroad and one of the receivers of the Northern Pacific, ar rived here yesterday in his private Some of the dollar-a-year men seem to have been worth only a dol- for baseball this week suggested that the rock be moved to I place at the top of the table. the town square In Plymouth. Twenty yoke of oxen tugged at the. great! Watch for the-first fly and swat boulder, . breaking . the upper tBird her. A correspondent in a New Tork the. atrical paper, writing" from Berlin, says that In the occupied territory of Germany all the theaters are doing a tremendous business. The show cen ter of Germany at present la Cologne, where a music hall tarn can play from four to six months. The bills of the Apollo and Wlntergarten. Berlin, are very bad, and cannot be compared favorably to anything offered there in pre-war days. Every theater ia packed to the doors, and people do not believe In holding money, .as they have no confidence In the future value of the mark. Thla accounta In a con siderabie degree for the madness or freniy with which everybody who has money throws It away on amusement of all aorta. Mabel Ford, one of the two dancing Ford sisters recently hera at tha Or pheum. had a J2000 fur coat -stolen from her room at the St. Charles hotel In New Orleana and la going to sue the management unless she la re imbursed. The hotel management dis claims responsibility. "Wedding Bells. now running at the Harris in New York, will jump direct to this coast the latter part of June. Margaret Lawrence and Wal lace Eddinger will head the ehow, Conditions in New Zealand did not appeal to Mr. and M-ra. W. F. DeTeler, so after looking around that country they returned to the United Statea and are at the Hotel Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Debeler went to New Zealand with a view to engaging in business. but the high coat of living naa nit New Zealand even harder than it has the land of Uncle Sam so they con cluded to come home. Soma one In the valley learning that there was a denim erase In Portland, sent Harry Hamilton of the Imperial a pair of denim trousers. Tha trousers are all right except tnat tney wouia fit only a boy about three years old. Mr. Hamilton has had them in the lob by for two daye. hoping that someone would take them away, but the gar ment U still on display. Two honeymoon couplea landed at the Imperial yesterday. One was Mr. and Mrs. Jamea McNamee, who is clerk at the Foley hotel at La urande, and the other Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Easterlln of Atlanta, Oa. The Easter-line- wera married In Seattle Tuesday and ware accompanied to Portland by the brother of the bridegroom.- W. F. Dowd. who has been operat ing the big milk condenser at Che halis. Wash., passed through Port land yesterday on his way to San Joaquin valley to open another fac tory Monday. C. t. McDaniel. cashier of a btink st Wallowa. Or, Is in the city on business. Mr. McDaniel was" formerly ona of tha leading Bull Moose poll- ticiana of that section of the state. Mrs. J. Frederick Thome of Seattle1 is registered at the Hotel Washington Mrs. Thorne was formerly at Eugene and took a trip to the university yes terday. . . F. M. French, who auppliea Albany people with -jewelry. Is at the Multno mah. Another Jeweler in town is W. H. Laraway of Hood River, who is at the Perkins. t Frank A. Howe, who ia a banker at Low-all. Mass.. is at 'the Multnomah with Mrs. Howe while on a tour of tha Pacific northwest. J. M. HastlngB. who gets lumber from Oregon for his concern at Pitts burg. Pa., ia at the Multnomah while hera on a business trip. F. S. Harmon, a furniture manufac turer of Tacoma, Wash., ia at the Benson. I'N SELFISHNESS! Can you take the smallest apple on the plate? Go to get your mail and wait and wait? See your neighbor catch the fiali while you cut bait? Can you have a fellow hate you and not hate? You have it! Would you let a fellow come and stay all night? And be glad to see him. too, and treat him white? Do you always give a hungry gink a bite? Can you take a lot of kicking and not fight? You have It Can you see the other fellow get the trade? Know he's bragging through the town how much he's made? Know he's telling how he'll lay you In the shade? And not want to smash his block? Don't be afraid Tou have it! Can you like a woman prettier than you ? Who Is brighter and can beat you singing too? Who. while you wear hodden gray comes out in blue? Who can do a lot of things that you can't do? You have it! Can you see the other fellow take the 7 chair In- the lodge or in the church board and not care? Aejd not want to call him names nor null hla hair? Though you wanted it yourself? Then "put ir there: You have it! GUY FITCH PHKLPS. Home Prosoets Week Suggestion. PORTLAND, April 27. (To the Ed itor.) I notice that "Home Products week" will be simultaneous with Shrlner week. May I make a suggesttonT Our home products are most Inter esting and should assuredly be showa to our visitors, dui let us ni mv to their display all the windows ol the shops. Our store wlndowa cam vie witn those of any other city, but not when displaying home products, as we did last year. Our stores at tnat time gave the city a very small-town ap pearance. If our home products could be dis played in a building oftheir own, and our store wlndowa be dressed as they were at the spring opening, it would I am sure, greatly enhance the charm and beauty of Portland. L-B.lv. Attachment ef Corporation. YAMHILL. Or.. April 26. (To the Editor.) In case of failure could the emnloves of a corporation demand wages from incorporators in case the money amounted to more than the company was Incorporated fnr? Could they attachathe property of persons from whom the company received con tracts? O. C. The property belonging to the cor poration could be taken for wages by tha employe, but the personal prop erty of the individual incorporators could not be attached. namaare tKne by Stray Cattle. GRESHAM. Or., April 2. (To the Editor.) If stray cattle get on un fenced land has the la.nd owner any recourse? KARL J. HAGBKRG. The owner of stray cattle is re sponsible for any damage done prop erty by the cattle. Fifty Yearn Ago. From The Orezonian of April 29. 1S70. Chicago. A special from Lawrence. Kansas, says the long expected trou ble between the settlers ana tne tjsags Indians broke out when tne maians attacked the settlers, wounding two. A. S. Mercer and party, who Jately started on a coasting visit to Tilla mook, returned last evening and re port an enjoyable trip. Ship carpenters are employed at the O. . N. company s shipyard. iain-; down the keelson for the r.ew wnari boat for the Cascades. There are at least 20 houses in process of construction at the extreme northwest limit of the city. WOMEN I'HUKD TO USE IllGIITS Good Heaulta of Ballot Could Be Doubled by Lively Interest. PORTLAND. April 2S. (To the Ed itor.) Recently I have had occasion to note the part taken in politica by the women'e clubs of our city. Since the war club work is a llye issue among women there is hardly a woman who is not an active mem ber of one or several organisations, and most of these organiaations are aiming to work for and uphold civic betterment. Yet very few, if any. of these clubs will take an open interest in poli tics. One club president says: "We indprse our women candidates, but do not like to bring politics into tho club." However, this same club takes a strong stand in civic affairs throughout the city, and state. I wish to make a suggestion to all women's organisations. It ia this: Let there be a good, strong commit tee appointed to investigate thor oughly and suggest a judicious bal lot to the members of their club or organization. Said committee shall look up the records of nominee t r aspirants and select those who have the cleanest slate: also shall note If those seeking renomination have been in line and favorable to "women's work. If possible have committees interview office-seekers and get a clear statement of their intentions; get it In writing it possiDie. tnat there may be something definite to refer to when we need their as sistance. Occasionally I hear a woman say: "I have never yet registered or voted." To me this statement sounds as coldly indifferent as though she had said during war times, "I am not interested and shall do nothing." The idea of letting one's favorite newspaper suggest a ballot and vot ing it without question should be laid on the pre-historic shelf. Newspapers do not claim to be the fountain of truth. If they did It would be a great Joke, for they, like the indi vidual, may have a political ax to grind. Women have tne ballot, whether they wish it or not. and a wonderful atnourt of good has already resulted These good results could ' easily be doubled If all women would take a live interest and try to vote con scientiously and intelligently. JANETTE MARTIN. "Smearing In" Unregistered Voter. RAINIER. Or.. April 26. (To th Editor.) (1) Can one not registered in the past two years be "sworn in" at the primaries on May' 21? (2) Can a person born in this coun try, whose father had only his first papers, vote? - (1) Yes. on the attestation of six freeholders who are qualified voters. (2) Yes. l-eader Gtta Eres." Boston Transcript. "Well. 1 heat Borrowly out of $4 just now." "How in the world did ou do it?" "Oh, he struck me for five and I lent him one."