Morning Oregonian., May 13, 1920, Page 8, Image 8

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i WILU.UI DEAN HOWELLS.
"William Dean Howells came fairly
' by the title by common consent be
,1: stowed on him of dean of American
'.letters. Not only the fullness of his
T' years, to the end of which he labored
.intelligently and assiduously, but the
exceptional quality of his service to
literature, marked him for distinc
X tion in the field of his choice. He
'..was our apostle of realism in fiction.
It is said of him that he came early
- under the influence of the Russian
' school, that he was impressed by the
novelist's duty to depict life as it is,
- rather than as it ought to be, or as
,., it is conceived by romantic misses
".and unlaundered intellectuals. Lilte
- the Russians, he aimed to reveal the
commonplaceness of life without
-idealism, but he never confused the
- commonplace with the sordid, or ac--'
cepted the view that the seamy side
is all, or even the principal, interest
in living. It is impossible to over
' estimate the debt that Americans
.Cowe to Howells for the sane, non
'." erotic quality that he infused into his
T pictures. He was no panderer to, un
. -".healthy emotions. Notwithstanding
that there is not a line, or a phrase,
-or a word in all that he ever wrote
that might not with' propriety be
-'read aloud to a group of girls in a
Voung ladies' seminary, he was not
?, flaccid, or colorless, or anemic. His
"method was wholly objective, but it
.was efficient and graphic, and it
gave a true impression of the kind
of lives people lead in America.
Professor William Lyons Phelps
most happily of all his reviewers
summed up the gift of Howells in
the phrase, "reticent realism." Mr.
Howells was a moralist with sound
respect for expediencies; he wrote no
labored "novels of purpose," and he
refrained from preaching, although
.. he never quite ceased to be a publi
,' Mist and an editor. So far as the charge
J. J;! that he was moulded by foreign in
; ; "fluen.ee was justified, it was also
;;-true that he never lost his character
-of Anglo-Saxon, and he was to the
ti last predominantly American. Real
'...ist that he was, and fpr all that he
,." ,. mercilessly "ridiculed "romantic rot,"
J C ; .he never was betrayed into extremes
J ". of realism as it is known on the other
; :. continent. We think that we have
I " ,ost nothing worth while through
i 4lr. Howells' respect and that of
'.V- -cther American authors who were
i"' under his influence for. that which
J. we call in this country the "decen-
cies." He left certain phases of life
' to the medical books, where they
' V; belong, but this did not detract from
I ... the fidelity of his picture, as, for
". example, in his development of the j
characters in the truly great novel,)
J "A Modern Instance," . in which ho
rpproaches as near as he ever does
to the psychological in his study
of jealousy; and in '.'The Rise of Silas
Lapham," which might have been a
satire on the American money-get -
. ting classes, but was saved from being
' ' that by the completeness of Mr.
Howells' sense of .humor, and be--:
- came just a convincing, judicial and
objective portrayal of the self-made
-."i V man of a broadly national type. Al
" though critics are inclined to regard
"A Modern Instance" as the finer
bit of craftsmanship, "Silas Lapham"
is perhaps the best character study
""ever written by an- American. It,
.and "Their Wedding Journey," and
"Indian Summer," and "The Min
w. ister's Charge," stand' out among the
" books that prove that an author can
be wholesome without being dull.
Always 'Mr. Howells wrote super
1,'excellent English, with unquestion
able taste. The marvel of his life's
"-achievement was no less the quality
than the quantity of his work. Critic
poet, editor, novelist, it is not easy
to estimate the mere volume of that
. which he did; but ,it is even more
amazing that he was self-taught.
jLike Abraham Lincoln, he was non
i----eollege-bred, and like that great
.American he atoned for ,the lack of
formal educational opportunity , by
.... .-.unflagging industry. Of so-called
advantages he had practically none,
except that there was in the house
in which he was reared a small
- bookcase full of books chosen by a
discriminating father, and that this
same father was a man of positive
5,;;.criaracter with original ideas as to
paternal discipline. As to these, there
Vis nothing more illuminating than
his own words, given twenty years
ago in an interview with Orison
. ., Swett Marden, who thus quotes him:
NThe printing office was my school from
a ;ry eaily date. My father thoroughl'
believed in it, and he had his belief as to
work, which he illustrated as soon as we
were old enough to learn the trade he fol- 1
lowed. We could go to school and study,
or we could go to the printing office and
work, with perhaps an equal chance of
"".learning, but we could not be idle.
With a parent so uncommonly en
dowed with common sense, and with
an exceptionally industrious bent,
Mr. Howells overcame his disadvan
tages. Like all the really great
stylists, he strove constantly for fit
ness of expression and disdained no
method and no cost of time and
labor to qualify himself for the pro
fession toward which he early per-
ceived himself to be drifting. His
"four years of uninterrupted leisure"
' as consul at Venice' at $1500 a year
proved to be an excellent investment
..for tlie American people, for they
w ere years of study and continued
self-education which found fruition
in his later work.
Mr. Howells found time to write a
great number of discursive essays,
and for most of the years of his
life was occupied with the duties of
magazine editor, in the course of
which he made himself universally
known to the American reading pub
lic. He wrote in all two volumes of
verse, in some of which the realistic
novelist Is not easy to trace, as, for
illustration. "The Bewildered Guest":
I was not asked if I should like to come.
I have not seen my host here since I came.
Or had a word of welcome in his name.
Some say that 'we shall never see him. and
some
That we shall see him elsewhere, and then
I know
Why we are bid. How long I am to stay
I have not the least notioo. None, the)
say.
Was ever told when he should come or go.
But every now and then there bursts upon
The song and mirth a lamentable noise.
A sound of shrieks and sobs, that strikes
our Joys
Dumb in our breasts; and then, some one
is gone.
They say we meet him. None knows where
or when.
We know we shall normeet him here again.
Mr. Howells' pictures of America
we're none the less profound because
they were so largely taken. up with
the seeming'.y trivial details of daily
existence. His, as Professor Phelps
has said, was not only the wisdom
of the head but the deeper wisdom
of the heart. Out debt to him is
increased by the circumstance that
he not only wrote with fidelity and
sanity and wholesomeness, but that
he so Influenced American taste
that those who wrote otherwise
were discouraged from persisting in
their attempts.
DIVISION', OB CONCENTRATION?
A contemporary has a dispatch
from New York containing a para
graph or two with interesting and
significant commentary on Oregon,
to wit: - "
Reports fromi the strongly pro-league
state of Oregon, where statewide primaries
are to- be held May 21, on Johnson, Wood
and Hoover, have proved somewhat dis
quieting to the Johnson camp. It was
stated the senator might take a flying
trip to Oregon. The fight there is ad
mittedly running rather strongly In favor
of Hoover or Wood, rather than Johnson.
With the president making the lsue on
the league a sharp one In Oregon, just be
fore the primaries there, Johnson's sup
porters are increasingly anxious that he
win the contest. To lose it. under the cir
cumstances, might be regarded with con
siderable significance by the uarty leaders,
they admit
The Oregonian Is not bo sanguine
that the pro-league sentiment in
Oregon, divided among three Candi
dates, will prevail ' against Johnson
and no league. '
If it is desirable to defeat John
son and The Oregonian thinks it
is it can .be done, only by concen
trating on the strongest man against
him. .
TELL. IT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
The Oregonian is inclined to be
sympathetic with the heroic effort
of its peace-loving neighbor, the
Kvening Journal, to compose the
difference's between President Wil
son and Senator Chamberlain. It is
a laudable, not to say humanitarian
and patriotic endeavor.
The Journal's process is simple,
quite simple. It would settle the
quarrel between the two great demo
crats by denying that there is a
quarrel.
Mr. Wilson's letter to Mr. Ham
aker, according to the Journal, is a
"noble utterance." Mr. Chamber
lain, on the other hand, over
whelmed by pressure of events, or
overpersuaded by the powerful ar
guments of Mr. Bryan, or something
like that, voted, for the treaty with
the Lodge reservations. Mr". Wilson
was justified in writing the Ham
aker letter. Mr. Chamberlain can
not be blamed for yielding to neces
sity. "Mr. Wilson, in standing stoutly
by his treaty without reservations,
and denouncing all who insisted on
reservations, mentioned no names.
Therefore he did not mean Cham
berlain. Quite logical, and satisfac
tory to some partisan minds.
Everything would be all right ex
cept for Robert Stanfield, who has
a desire to inherit Senator Chamber
Iain's shoes. The evil design of mat
ing it appear that Wilson and Cham
berlain do not love one another
originated in the evil and too re
sourceful mind of Stanfield, accord
ing to the discerning and impartial
Journal. It may not be exactly clear
how Stanfield got the president to
write the Hamaker letter or how
Stanfield can be held responsible
for what President Wilson said, even
if he did set in motion the forces
to get a rise out of the White House
Wilson said it; Stanfield did not.
But, after all, the people of Ore
gon need no special education as to
the reasons why Senator Chamber
lain started out with Mr. Wilson on
the treaty and .landed somewhere
else. The Journal says they are
perfectly valid reasons.
That is enough. Let us suggest
that a copy of the article justifying
the president for taking one posi
ti-on and Senator Chamberlain for
taking another be marked and sent
to the White House.
SOLUTION OF SHirrtNG PROBLEM.
The senate shipping bill which
Senator McNary was largely instru
mental in preparing is well designed
to effect the desire of the American
people that the great merchant fleet
built during the war be sold to pri
vate owners but that it remain in the"
hands of Americans under the Amer
ican flag to carry the greater part
of American commerce. By fixing
no time within which the fleet shall
be sold, it protects the government
from the loss which accompanies a
forced sale, and it lays down con
siderations to govern sales which
conform to sound business. It names
terms of sale which will facilitate
purchase of ships by a number of
companies of moderate size, organ
ized to serve the. individual ports in
which they are interested.
.Wise provision is made for opera
tion of the fleet from American ports
until it is sold in such manner that
it; will develop American commerce.
Shipping lilies will thus be estab
lished that can be sold as going con
cerns, and sale of ships will be
hastened. Companies operating ships
for the shipping board or under
charter should without difficulty be
come owners, and thus by an easy
process of transition private owner
ship will take the place, of that by
the government. Liifes of communi
cation with all parts -of the world
may be laid and all nations will be
drawn into the web-of American
commerce.
Of the highest importance both in
our shipping policy and our railroad
policy are the provisions for remov
ing the causes of congestion at some
ports and for developing ports in
I general. ' The war gave the Ameri-
jean people a lesson in the wisdom
' of symmetrical development of the
nation's whole body. Congestion Is
in a large degree the result of un
equal and artificial distribution of
industry and commerce. The busi
ness health of the nation will be ini-
proved by more even distribution,
and muc.i economy may bo effected
by avoiding railroad and harbor imf
provements at congested centers. .
The preferential treatment to be
given to shipping-should effect firm
establishment of the American mer
chant marine. By annulling the
treaty clauses which permit discrim
inative duties the United States will
regain freedom to return to the pol
icy which was abandoned in 1828
and under which about nine-tenths
of our commerce was carried in our
own ships. Exemption of ships from
excess profits taxes for ten years
on condition that an equal amount
is invested in new vessels will help
to maintain and enlarge the mer
chant marine. Continuance for five
years of government aid to construc
tion will enable us to secure a well
balanced fleet, composed of various
types of vessels in the right pro
portion. So rational and well thought out
are the' several features of the bill
that It excites surprise a the degree
of turmoil and friction which pre
ceded its introduction. Its passage,
prospects of which are bright, will
be one of the noteworthy achieve
ments of the sixty-sixth congress.
I,ET EM BOLT.
Senator Borah is quoted as de
claring that "nothing short of abso
lute condemnation of the league of
nations and treaty will satisfy the
wfng of the party to which he be
longs,'' and there are intimations of
a bolt,.
Let him bolt. But he will not.
Borah's bolting days are over. He
bolted in the old silver days, and
got on his political feet again only by
going back to the party which he
sought to defeat and dstroy. He
was for Roosevelt in 1912, but he
did not bolt when Taft was nomin
ated. Not Borah. He had enough.
. But the Chicago convention will
hear from Borah, Johnson and the
other lrreconcilables, who will de
mand that the republican party
stand by the fourteen bitterrenders
and thus repudiate, the thirty-four
republican senators who stood by
Senator Lodge. The very air will
be electric with threats of a bolt;
but it will not occur, so far as Borah
is concerned. But Johnson is used
to bolting, and he may da it. The
way to bolt is to bolt; the way to
convert others to your way of think
ing Is to talk about it. Both John
son and Borah understand the psy
chology of the bolt.
But we fancy that this is not the
year when the republican party may
be turned inside out and upside down
and delivered to the; tail-enders, by
a mere bluff.
ABOU BEN' HOFER,
Abou Ben Adhem; so the poem
runs, attained first place ' on the
angel's book of gold by proclaiming
a love for his fellowmen. 'Let us
pause for a moment to examine the
evident purpose of Colonel Hofer to
acquire the same distinction in al
most the same way.
Colonel Hofer loves his fellow tax
payers, and indeed are they not al
most the same as one's fellowmen?
To him the "millage tax for higher
education and elementary schools
would be a mere bag of shells. He
modestly confessed at the high
school auditorium meeting that his
income was $60,000 last year and
that his family maintains four auto
mobiles. But the colonel's heart
bleeds for his fellow taxpayers who
have not $60,000 Income or four
automobiles.
So the cry about salaries for
school teachers and college profes
sors distresses the colonel. Such
persons, not interested enough to for
get ftbout salary, he remarks, are
no ornament to the profession, and
besides, if we may venture a mental
reservation, higher salaries will have
to be paid by the beloved fellow tax
payers.
. .Withal, the colonel's remarks put
an angle on the issue that we had not
observed before. It was a general
impression' that the teachers' and
college folk were not thinking so
much of salary in dollars and cents
as what salary would buy, and we
had never guessed that the things
they wished were automobiles, movie
tickets and admissions to jitney
dances, which, according to" the col
onel, are undermining our moral
structure. It was the commoner
problem of proper food and raiment
and comfortable housing that we
thought was disturbing these worthy
persons.
So letTs now have a show-down.
If any 75 - dollar - a-month .- for-six-months
country school teachers, or
any $1500-a-year cpllege professors
are having their morals under
mined by automobiles, movies
and jitney dances,.-our sympathies,
like the colonel's, will go out to the
"poor deluded taxpayers who are be
ing bled . white." It hardly seems
possible.' Still a person with a $60,
000 income and four automobiles can
travel around and find out a lot of
surprising things. ' . . '. :
The angel who records the. stand
ing of worthy men" wfll please keep
the first page open for entries a few
days longer.
THK REPUBLICAN SPOKESMAN
In selecting Senator Lodge for
temporary chairman of the repub
iican national committee, - the na
tional committee'has chosen the man
who is most qualified to express the
opinions and sentiments of the great
body of republican voters. Mr.
Lodge is neither a standpatter nor a
radical but is an exponent of thai
progressive spirit which has marked
the party throughout its history and
which found its most forcible expres
sion during the terms of Roosevelt
arid Taft as president. While Roose
velt was in office, Lodge was his
mouthpiece in the senate and en
gineered the passage of the epoch
making laws which marked that era
as progressive. '
. The seaator stands out prominent
ly before the people at this time as
the leader of the republican forces
in the senate which strove for ratifi
cation of the treaty of .Versailles
with such reservations as would se
cure American rights and Indepen
dence, w"hile securing peace on just
terms and American membership
in the league of nations. He is
as earnest an advocate of a league
which would secure the ends (sought
by the covenant as is President Wil
son, and he struggled for months to
bring the covenant into conformity
wim American interests. j-le eon-
) tended against two forces which
Combined to defeat him from
di-
rectly opposing motives, one deter
mined to kill the treaty outright, the
other to hold out for ratification
without change, though at the cost of
its rejection. Any concession to one
lot these parties caused defection
from his own ranks to the other
without winning enough new sup
port to carry his point. Yet amid a
tangle of cross-purposes he held
more than seven-tenths of the repub
lican party .firm to the purpose with
which it set out, and he caused the
democratic party to divide almost
equally on the final vote, almost half
of Its members voting with him. If
seven more had come over, he would
have won.
This record of generalship in hold
ing firm for an affirmative policy
qualifies Mr. Lodge) to sound the key
note of republican foreign policy at
the convention; .He may be trusted
to reject the lrreconcilables' plan to
make this a hermit nation and to
speak the purpose of the republican
party that this republic shall do its
duty both to itself and to other na
tions, and shall reconcile the one with
the other.
WHY SUGAR IS DEAR.
Rise In the price of sugar to 25
cents and more a pound Is the direct
consequence of President Wilson's
neglect to accept the offer of the
Cuban crop at G 1-2 cents a pound
last July. That is the charge made
by Herbert Hoover in his telegram
to Senator Capper, though he does
not mention the president. The sugar
equalization board, of which Mr.
Hoover was chairman, recommended
acceptance, but the president took
no action,, and the Cubans sold at
far higher prices to European na
tions and American refiners.
According to Mr. Hoover's - estl
mate, the president's negligence cost
the American people a billion dol
lars,-each family about $50. That
is an indirect consequence of the
president's absorption in the- treaty
controversy last summer. It is the
penalty which the people pay for
having a president whose mind is
so filled with one idea that he has
no room for other affairs which de
mand prompt action.
The direct loss by the high price
of sugar may be exceeded by the in
direct loss. Cost of preserving fruit
and fruit juices may become pro
hibitive. It may deter not only
commercial but domestic preserving.
Much fruit may in consequence go to
waste or be sold at a low price
The fruit-grower will lose, and the
people will be deprived of many
kinds of fruit as food when they are
cot in season.
It is a warning that when other
governments take control of neces
saries of life, the United States may
have to do the same in self-defense
until the domestic supply becomes
sufficient for our needs.
There are many points in which
this port's participation in foreign
commerce can be enlarged by the
exchange of ideas which will be
made among the business leaders of
the nation at the national Foreign
Trade council. Relations can be es
tablished with ship-owners, shippers,
importers and exporters from other
American ports and from other
countries which may lead to estab
lishment of new shipping lines, new
mercantile houses or new industries.
Direct information as to thebusiness
opportunities of .Portland and its
trade territory may be conveyed to
men whom it is most desirable to in
fluence in favor of the port. In many
ways full representation of Portland
at San Francisco brings into prom
inence the position of the port as one
of the chief commercial centers of
the Pacific coast.
There's an old chap 106, he ad
mits in California who says he has
smoked cigarettes a hundred years,
and he Is an old prevaricator. The
coffin-nail was not made in those
days. It may be he alludes to the
smoke made of sweet fern, dried on
the woodshed roof and burned be
hind the fence when two or more
gathered: lui those were not cigar
ettes. They were home-made "ci
gars," and the acme of dissipation In
that time.
Men from the country, and some
city fellows as well, complain of be
ing robbed by negro women in the
'bad lands" and get small sympathy.
official and otherwise. The white
man who falls that way" deserves
worse than he gets.
Tumulty hastens to say, rubbing
his hands, no doubt, that the presi
dent didn t mean a thing, not a thins
In the world, against Senator Cham
berlain. If he' didn't mean it, the
president should be arrested for
reckless driving.
A Seattle bride of two months in a
quarrel shot at her husband "to
frighten him," she naively says. She
succeeded. -In fact, she scared him
off the earth and she, poor thing, is
in . jail. Some Seattle brides are
corkers. .
Rather late come Daniels' revel
ations of what Wilson told the navy
to do. .The American navy since the
day of John Paul Jones has been
"doing-things audacious" and in 1917
hardly needed suggestion from a man
who kept them out of war so long.
"Children are to be barred from playing
In halls, stairways and entrances" New
rule of the Portland Apartment House
Owners' association.
The landlords generously leave
them the coal chute and the street.
Just when it is announced that re
ligion will cost more, it's discourag
ing, to say the least, to read In a
shipping news headline that a
"cargo of sulphur in bulk is coming."
With collars at half a dollar, it
Is time to start a business decol
letage for men and young men. A
whole lot of beautiful necks are hid
den by the modern collar.
The Fuller act has become law
and by it the United States shows
how it cares for pensioners. There
can be no charge of ingratitude on
the part of this republic.
Bluebeard Watson now threatens
to write his memoirs. But for a
lenient judge he would be better oc
cupied in writing his will.
Watson says he will write a book
and no doubt it will find many buy
ers. Thanks to a wise law, it pro
bably cannot be filmed.
Along with potatoes arrd other
things, the cost of religion Is re
ported to be going up. But salvation
always has come high.
Stars and Starmakers.
Br Leone Cats User.
THIS is not theatrical news hut it
Is a funny little incident about a
very young person who says she Is
going to be a "swimmer In a theater"
some day, so if It needs an excuse,
that is It. Her name Is Bertha
Grover, and she Is 9 or 10 or 11, It
doesn't make much difference. She
lives in South Portland and Is a water
nymph- a protege of Millie Schloth,
who teaches the children of the public
schools how to swim. Miss Schloth,
along with teaching: Bertha how to
dive and swim, has looked after her
morals and manners, habits and gen
eral welfare, and last Monday she
asked Bertha how she had spent the
preceding Sunday. "I didn't go no
where. Miss Schloth," said Bertha, "I
rwas good and busy all afternoon."
"That is fine. Bertha," said her friend
and counselor; "how did you occupy
your timer' "Well," said Bertha,
"me and another girl had some pen
nies with holes in 'em, an' we Etayed
in an" plugged 'em all nice, so we
could pass 'em on the storekeeper."
Here's another one about another
youngster, little King Mitchell, the
small son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Mitchell. He was cast for a role as
train bearer to the May day queen at
his school and when the teachers re
hearsed him In the role he couldn't
quite reconcile it with his own ideas
of what the role called on him to do.
He wanted to walk on all fours and
growl. The teacher eaid: "Why,
train bearers are to carry trains,"
and you can imagine her amusement
when the little fellow said he thought
they wanted him to be a "trained
bear."
Gladys Clarke, who has been out
here in vaudeville in the team of
Bergman and Clark, has brought suit
for ? 15,0 00 in the supreme court
against Dr. W. Augustus Pratt, facial
specialist. Mrs. Bergman alleges she
engaged the defendant July 23, 1917,
to remove some, superflous fat and
wrinkles for which she paid $300 in
advance and was subsequently treated
by the defendant's assistants; ' that
her face became diseased, and af
fected, causing mental and physical
pain following the formation of an
abcess, making it impossible for her
to pursue her professional duties.
Daphne Pollard has the leading role
in a new revue called "Jig Saw," run
ning at the Hippodrome in London
The Dolly sisters are featured in the
show.
Details of divorce proceedings In
stituted by Mrs. Annie T. Morosco
against her husband, Oliver Morosco,
the theatrical producer, are just com
ing to light in her orders of attach
ment to tie up all of Morosco's funds.
She mentioning with other things
beautiful woman named belma
Paley as co-respondent and the sum
of $60,000 which Mr. Morosco owes
Mrs. Morosco.
'
Sappho 13 a victim of back-capping.
The gossips of the centuries have lost
her her reputation, according to Dr.
David M. Robinson, professor of clas
sical archaeology arid Greek litera
ture in Johns Hopkins University. She
was not bad, but merely up-to-date.
and instead of following the "profes
sion" which Gfcorge Bernard Shaw
has dramatized, she was a school
teacher.
Perhaps she won the enmity of her
contemporaries by demanding higher
pay. Who knows? ,
She conducted a select school of
high-grade poetry for girls and music
for girls, accordingrto Dr. Robinson
and as a poetess her mastery of the
are even equaled that of Tennyson.
"The ancient poetess," the professor
concludes, "was a modern twentieth
century woman who had the fortune.
or misfortune, to live In the sixth
century. B. C, and not the black
character painted by our presenf day
novelists, playwrights and actresses.
"To many," said Dr. Robinson,
"Sappho is today but a name, a name
connected with sapphism (a sort of
free love doctrine), but to the lover
of lyrics she is a living, illustrious
literary personality."
Flo Ziegfeld Jr. is to star his pres
ent wife Billie Burke in a revival of
"The School for Scandal." The pres
entation will be made about the midi
die of September, the plans for an
earlier production having been de
ferred until that time, owing to the
difficulty in procuring a perfect sup
porting cast.
Miss Burke will have In her support
Thomas Wise and Norman Trevor. The
remaining members of the company
are yet to be selected. The play will
be offered for a short period in New
York and then will go on tour of the
iarcer cities. Following this. tour Mis
Burke will appear In a new comedy
one of three which Mr. Ziegfeld has
procured for her.
-
Ossrip Gabrilovitch, pianist and son-in-law
of the late Mark Twain, on the
verge of boarding the steamship
Kroonland for Europe received a mes
sage that his wife was seriously il
at their home in Detroit and imme
diately left New York for his home.
George Cohan has announced that
he will present his daughter Georg
ette in a comedy named "The Cabaret
Girl," written by himself. The firs
night of "The Cabaret Girl" will be
Miss Cohan's debut before an Amer
ican audience.
The show is scheduled to have its
showing in Atlantic City, Washing
ton and Asbury Park. The company
will then disband until September
when Georgette and company will
open at the George ti. uonan, new
York.
'w
Mischa Elman, the violinist, will
leave the concert platform for one
year giving himself up to the exclu
sive work of composing in that time.
He will sail on the Imperator fo
Belgium August 14.
Maude Fulton will complete he
stock engagements at her Oaklan
Cal.) theater the last week of thi
month, after which she will go east
with her two plays, "The Humming
Bird" and "Tomorrow."
"The Humming Bird" may-go Into
rehearsal early in summer with the
author-actress in the stellar role.
Rumor has it Marie Lloyd is at last
wearying of her husband. Benny Dil
lon. She has inserted in the London
papers an announcement she is not
responsible for any of her husband's
debts.
Those Vho Ccme and Go.
Not all the cheese in Oregon Is
manufactured m the Tillamook coun
try, asserts Ben W. Johnson, a Des
chutes county cattle man, who has
just returned by automobile from an
extended fVisit through California.
"Coming up through Josephine coun
ty some hick, constable tried to con
fiscate a demijohn of Shasta mineral
water that'we had got at the famous
springs," said the eastern Oregon
stock grower. "I tried to tell the
fellow it was mineral water, but after
taking a sip of it he insisted it was
booze. Fact is, if I thought the min
eral water did have a kick I'd spend
most of my summers there. 1 was
compelled to wait over near Merlin
for more than two hours while 1 con
vinced this fellow I wasn't a boot
legger. As 1 remarked before, this
'bird' ought to win a blue ribbon for
the finest example of honest-to-good-ness
made-in Oregon cheese."
Because this column is
"Those Who Come and Go."
headed
the fol-
owing yarn a truthful bit of adven-
ure ought to get by. For if a fel
low was ever caught coming and go
ing. Hall W. White, secretary to
Mayor Baker, is the man. Here's the
"lay": Mr. White etarted to move
Tuesday evening from the Hawthorne
district to Fulton. He crated up a
dozen of his finest specimens of
Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth
Rocks, and started to lift Uiem into
he truck. The crate broke and the
hicks, literally and every other way.
flew the coop- Although he had a
few engagements at his office for the
evening and had other official busi
ness to attend to. he forgot every
thing in his wild. chase for his chick
ens. He ran over gardens, lawns and
streets until after midnight before he
recovered possession of his prized
fowls.
Joe, the porter at the Benson, has
bought an automobile. This is not a
tip that the traveling public is loos
ening up any. "Well, Joe is devoting
his off-shift hours to studying the
thing and he cannot savvy how he
can go from "high" into 'reverse.
Yesterday it took bim 25 minutes to
back the car out of the garage and
one wheel after another would get
off the runways until Joe struggled
harder to keep all wheels on the con
crete paths than he does to get
lower berth for a patron of the hotel.
To. add to Joe's troubles, he thinks he
bought , the car Too soon, because of
the gasoline shortage, for without
gasoline what's the use of a car. As
the gasoline is being rationed only for
pleasure cars, Joe figures that he may
manage to get his tank filled, for the
littre riding he has done thus far he
hasn't found a pleasure.
In 90 minutes M. Z. Donnell of The
Dalles rode from that town to Port
land. Mr. Donnell, who is one of the
hundred or two druggists now mobil
ized in Portland, decided that the best
way to taice a sight-seeing trip was
by airplane, so he chartered a sky
boat at The Dalfes. The pilot fol
lowed the Columbia river to Van
couver and then cut a-cross the Penin
sula, which accounts for the long time
consumed by the voyage. Some day
the pilots will take a straight shoot
from The Dalles to Portland and will
cut down their present mileage about
60 per cent. While registered at tne
Hotel Portland. Mr. Donnell has not
confided to a soul that he is a candi
date for delegate to the republican na
tional convention from the -1 con
gressional district.
'While I am in P'ortland," said an
out-of-town woman at one of the ho
tels, "I want to engage a maid. I've
got several of them when they were
young and have reared them and paid
them well, but as soon as they Decome
acquainted with the rudiments of be
ing a good maid, they leave and come
to Portland to work. And lr you
don't pay them well when you are
bringing them up. they won t stay.
It's got me guessing." A hotel man
from central Oregon has been in Port
land several days trying to hire a
dining room staff, but with 'indif
ferent success. T',to best he could ao
was to engage r. fry cook. The help
problem among the hotel men of the
state is becoming their greatest
worry. ,'
With a brand new hat and a whit
collar, M. G. W. Perkins of .Myrtle
Point Is at the Benson with his fam
ily. Mr. Perkins has long been a
resident of Myrtle Point and in the
drug business he has accumulated a
fair share of worldly treasure, jviyr.tie
Point is one of the cleanest and most
attractive Jttle towns in the state.
The brick buildings are not new, hut
hey look attractive. The people are
friendly and believe in comfort and
the soft shirt is quite popular.
The bis r.ews at the Benson yester
day was the arrival of a seven-pound
daughter to Harry Carroll who sits
at the cashier's desk. Mr. Carroll's
name Is John Henry and this name
was considered good enough .to use
with a junior attachment, but owing
to circumstances over which Mr. Car
roll had no control, the new arrival
will be Henrietta.
J. L. Calvert, who has a contract
putting a section of the Pacific hlgh
wa into shape in the southern part
of the state. Is registered' at the
Hotel Oregon from Grants Pass. One
of Mr. Calvert's contracts is the pav
ing from Grants Pass to the Jackson
county line, which is completed, and
he is also interested in a contract
further south.
Orvllle C. Johnson, who hasn't been
in Portland in six years, is at the
Imperial from Aurora. 111..-where he
manufactures halters for. horses. He
declares that his sales are constantly
increasing. notwithstanding that
horses are apparently not as numer
ous now as they were before automo
biles were Invented.
Dr. Graves Glen C, not Phil who,
with his brother, operates a drug
store at Condon. Or., is at the Multno
mah. Another druggist at the same
establishment is M. Clemens of Grants
Pass. While on the subject, it may
be noted that Mr. and Mrs. Mayfield
of Enterprise, also engaged in the
drug business, are at the Multnomah.
R. V. Skellerand, who operates a
department store in Astoria, is among
the Hotel Portland arrivals. By the
way. there is quite an Astorian con
tingent at this hotel, people who came
to hear the concert.
He manufactures pill boxes and bot
tles for druggists, does Owen Roberts,
who is at the Perkins from Chicago;
so he is quite at home these days
among the pill-pounders who are
holding a convention.
As Madame Galli-Curci will not go
to II waco. Wash., to sing. Mrs. John
D. McGowan came to the Rose City to
hear the warbler. Mrs. McGowan is
registered at the Hotel Portland.
1 o. Stoeckman of Med ford is at
the Hotel Portland. Mr. Stoeckman
Is a mining engineer and Is Interested
at present in some property in Crook
county.
V. L. Hamilton, a doctor of Coquille.
arrived" in Portland to Join the Ad
club on its pilgrimage to California
Mrs. George W. Kiger. wife of a Til
lamook banker, is at the Multnomah,
accompanied by Mrs. S. J. Sturgeon of
Estacada.
rilOBLEH OF EDUCATION GRAVIS
Importance ol Adeqniite School I' cjui p. I
mcnt KmpkaitUrd by LUlltor.
McMinnville Telephone Register.
To those who do not believe in
hither educational institutions there
is no hope in discussion. Hut if you
do believe in an education hisher than
that given ty the high school, there
is a serious question confronting Ore
gon as a state and each citix.en as a
voter and supporter of the state in
stitutions. Important to WorVern,
The Labor Bender, Bend.
No question is so important to the
membership of organized labor as the
question of education, particularly in
asmuch as the labor movement has
been one of the pioneers in the estab
lishment of education in this country.
It Is necessary for us to do every
thing within our power to assist in
the uassage of this measure, and in
order to do this it will be necessary
for every member of organized labor,
and his or her family, to register and
vote when the time comes.
Good Tools Must Be at Hand.
Eastern Clackamas News.
It is just as important for schools
to have adequate and proper equip
ment as it is for an expert workman
to have proper tools in order to do
good work. That he may under stress
put forth good work with poor tools,
is no argument for not providing him
with better if possible.
It la Up to the Parent.
Wheeler Reporter".
If the citizens of Oregon wish to
give their sons and daughters an op
portunity to attend either the O. A. C,
U. of O. or state normal school, more
funds will have to be provided.
Coats One Good Clear.
Monmouth Herald:
The proposed millage tax for the
university, agricultural college and
normal makes a tax per year of $1.26
on every thousand assessed valuation.
Of this, the tax for the normal is ti
cents for each thousand dollars of
assessed valuation. A good cigar
costs more than that.
Only $1.2a on the Thousand.
Amity Standard.
Financially to the taxpayer it means
just this: If he is paying $10 on the
thousand dollars of taxable property
now, he will be paying $41.26 on the
thousand after the measure passes.
The imperative need of this small in
crease to keep the colleges going is
widely known.
Strange They Get Along at All.
Gresham Outlook.
It is not surprising that the col
leges need Increased revenue to pro
vide for their needs. The wonder is
that they have been able to keep up
as well as they have.
PUBLICITY 1'OR CRIME IS URGED
Sound Reason Why People Are Bene
fited by So-Called -GoHslp."
NAHCOTTA, Wash.. May 10. (To
the Editor.) No doubt it would be
helpful to many if there were more
editorials similar to yours on "Pub
licity for Crime." I have often heard
reiglous people denounce the news
paper because it publishes crime.
Why can't some people learn that
the Bible published crime? Its pun
ishment often was death to the
wrongdoer under every dispensation.
One reason given for this course was
"that others might fear to do evil."
No doubt one of the causes for our
tardy preparation for war was that
there had been too much preaching
'that "the world was getting better;
that we were too good to fight." etc.
The sooner we learn that human
nature remains the same, whether it
is a jealous Cain or a falsifying
Ananias, the chances to eliminate
these evil tendencies will become
greater and more progress attained.
I have heard preachers consume time
explaining that the reason some peo
ple could not have a deep religious
experience was that they were at
ready good. It is dangerous to prac
tice false philosophies.
If Jesus plainly taught that it was
one's duty to furnish information
when a church member wronged an
other, why isn't it righ and bene
ficial for the secular press to pub
lish crimes? Newspapers do publish
"the fine things of American life."
It would be better to express ap
preciation of their good work than
to be criticising an imaginary fault.
It has been said that the word
gossip originated in the days of the
Pilgrims and it then signified "God
speed." Neighbors recognized the
benefits of friendly chats about their
new gowtis and the coming "Sabbath
service." If these thing's are true,
we have cpoiled the meaning of the
word. However, one should be com
mended rather than reproached for
enjoying current events or newspaper
"gossip." A. B. M.
EDUCATION IS ASSET TO STATE
Home Product Students Should Take
Place in Our Expanding Life.
PORTLAND. May 12. (To the Edi
tor.) The article in The Sunday Ore
gonian relative to the Marion County
Taxpayers' league opposing tax meas
ures is interesting as it indicates that
the Salem hog has lifted its head from
the trough long enough to see that
no other is coming in. Not being a
member of the Portland Taxpayers'
league mentioned by Colonel Hofer
as a steam roller. I can defend the
league in its endorsements of the edu
cational tax measures. It would be
interesting to know the facts about
the kind of schools P. H. D'Arcy would
nave wt-ie lie iu nave 1115 matting;
but it appears to me that the way
to- get such voters as the Marion
County Taxpayers league to vote for
higher education would be to move
the institutions to Salem.
If the Portland Taxpayers' league
has endorsed the millage tax for high
er education, it has shown its worth
to the state and ha? shown that the
league has the future welfare of
America in view. With the graduates
and students from these institutions
taking their places in the life of the
state beside the graduates of the
high-priced, endowed institutions, it
is well to continue and expand and
maintain at a full capacity the State
university and Oregon Agricultural
college, making them second to none
as and for the finishing point of our
public system. The amount asked for
the normal is too small.
The higher educational tax act. No.
310 on the ba'4pt at the special elec
tion May 21. should receive the votes
of all who believe in home products
in education D'Arcy and Hofer not
withstanding. JAMES N. DAVIS.
Destruetlveneas of Crop Pests.
BROWNSVILLE, Or., May 11. (To
the Editor.) I have a campaign on
here against pests and would be much
pleased if you could give me some
idea what the following are quoted
at: Mouse, digger squirrel, rat, crow,
hawk, as to the amount of damage
saved by catching them.
SUBSCRIBER.'
We are not aware that any official
estimate has been made of the rela
tive destructive capacity of any of
these. One would be quite safe in
proceeding against any or all of them.
It Is a Matter of Choice.
PORTLAND. May 5. (To the Edi
tor.) If a man is a widower, are his
late wife's relatives still related to
him? Can he cay' that he still has a
mother-in-law, brother-in-law. nieces
and nephews? SUBSCRIBER.
It is a. matter1 of personal inclina-
! tion. .
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamn J. Montacve.
. MOIIK TRUTH THAN I'OKTIIY,
By James J. Montague.
The Book of Promise.
WiCh bout a-thrill and eyes a-gog.
Whenever I've a leisure minute,
I read the seed man's catalogue
And gaze upon the pictures in it.
With many loud, ecstatic "Gee's:"
And many large astonished
"Goshes!"
I view the plates of giant peas
And cuts of Brobdignagian
squashes.
I see depicted, row on row
Of lettuce heads, in sunny valleys;
Enormous lettuce heads that grow
As big as balls in bowling allei.-
And corn whose tassels loom so taU
tBlaok Mexican and Golden Ban
tam )
They overtop the garden wall
Along which- seedsmen always
plant 'cm.
I know that when I eow the seeds,
No matter how I watch and "tend
'em.
My harvest will b6 only weeds
Yet I shall have the seedsman send
'em.
I know that not upon this earth
Can men raise plants, for love or
wages.
Or such an equatorial girth
As those displayed upon thoaa
pages.
And yet I thrill each passing year
When I behold the pleasing pic
tures. With alternating hope and fear
I scatter seeds and growing mix
tures; No garden truck my labors brfng,
But why should hope be base or
- sordid?
For faith Is a delightful thing.
Although it seldom is rewarded.
Especially at Hldnisht.
The saloons may be dead, but their
spirits are etill abroad in the land.
Inconsistence.
Funny Wall street is so opposed to
Mr. Bryan when he is doing so much
to defend water.
Rnoogh la Plenty.
The first message we ought to send
to Mars is a warning that we are not
going to mix up in her affairs.
Ships That Sail.
By Grace hi. Hall.
Each morning I rig a wonderful shir
And set it a-sail on the ecething
sea.
Though no one observes when it leaves
the slip
Nor guesses the port where it finds
a quay;
And I hoist a flag on my ship a-sail
That shall never come down in the
wildest gale,
And sometimes in passing a friendly
shore
I m given a signal and ask
more.
ns
Oh, I sail my ship with a whispered "
prayer.
As it leaves the port for a foreign
strand,
A plea that its cargo, here and there.
May reach eomeone who will under
stand; ,
It is not with laces nor silks nor gold
That my ship is laden a'nd sails the
streams, .
Yet I hold as treasure and wealth
untold
Its wonderful caskets of golden
dreams!
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of llav 13. 1S95.
Jacob Kamm yesterday sent W. P.
Gray and a crew to Huntington to
bring down the . steamer Norma,
which was built to ply between
Huntington and the Seven Devils
country, but made only two trips.
Suit to enjoin Sheriff Sears from
collecting the two-mill tax levied by
the council to provide for the bonded
indebtedness of the city of Portland
was filed in circuit court yesterday
by H. W. Corbett, J. W. Cook and
others.
Two parties of Mazamas. one sta
tioned on Mount Tabor and the other
on the tower of The Oregonian build
ing, carried on a lively conversation
yesterday by means of regulation
army signal heliographs.
Scott Swetland of Vancouver, chair
man of the republican state central
committee of Washington, was in
Portland yesterday.
Fifty Years Aao.
From The Orcsronian of May lo, 1S70.
Corvallis. Faculty members of
Corvallis college propose to give an
entertainment Friday for the purpose,
of raising funds to buy apparatus for
the school.
The new club rooms of the repub
lican party of this city have been
attractvely fitted up in Harker's
store, where there is an assembly
room that seats 300 on the lower floor
and reading room on the second floor.
The Oregon & California railroad
company has bought a tract of 30
acres near Milwaukie and will soon
erect thereon a large steam sawmill.
CAUSE OF HIGH SUGAR PRICE
Neglect to Accept Offer of Cuban Crop
at Low Price Blamed.
Senator Capper's speech on the high
price of sugar caused Herbert Hoover
to send him a telegram explaining
the cause, from which the following
is an extract:
"The present sugar position is due
simply to bad business administration
last September. The administration
could have bought the Cuban sugar
crop at 66 cents per pound for raw
sugar. This would have given 12-cent
sugar to our consumers and, together
with our domestic production, would
have furnished supplies in excess of
our demands. As the result of the fail
ure to act in this matter we are par
ticipating In the world shortage of
sugar, to unparalleled speculation
and profiteering.
"The use of sugar Is an absolute
essential in our households and the
present situation discriminates ter
ribly against the poor. The increase
in price is imposing an additional
tax on our people of about $50 per
family per annum, since on the 8,000.
000,000 pounds of sugar we consume
per annum the present price will cost
our consumers over 11,000.000.000
more than last year. As at least one
half of our sugar must come (rota
foreign sources, our merchants art
bidding against European govern
ments for ,its purchase. The profi
teering is international.
"The second thing that could be
I done to break this gigantic bubble of
speculation would be to reduce con
sumption through immediate ration
ing of the non-essential consumers.
"The impending situation was an
ticipated by the board and myself last
July. The continuation or control
and insurance of our supplies through
the purchase of Cuban crop, as in the
two previous years, was recommended.
W:hen this proposal failed, the board
recommended the alternative and less
efficient method outlined above. If it
were put in action even now it would '
frighten speculators out of this mar
ket and 'would quickly moderate the
price."