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THE MOUSING OKEGONIAN. "WEDNESDAY. MAY 26, 1920 10, I per cent, from this total and still the I should share. American exporters ity. His father -was a wealthy busi- government has suffered no priva-1 will be placed at a great disadvan-1 ness man of the type who believed tion. For the fiscal year 1921 the ESTABLISHED BV HESBI I plTTOCK. I administration asked for $4,865,410.' Fubilnlied by The Oreeonlan Fnbllsriins Co., 032, but congress will cut $1,250,- '" bixttl btreet. iJPruana- I 000 nnn off thia anA Ktill ViVB an in- n . . . . . . , - V W , ' 1 I" t . 1 I ' Ths Orcsanlan Is a. member ot the A- 1 for 1916. After making this cut and etatcd pre. The Associates resa deducting permanent obligations the tion of all nrws disoatches credited or not otherwise credited in this paper an" also the local news published nr.e,n-,A" riirhts of republication of special dispatcnes herein are also reserved. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (By Mali.) Xlty. fiunday Included, one year .. . Daily. .Sunday included, sir months . Daily. Sunday Included, three months Dally, Sunday included, one month . Dally, without Sunday, one year Dally, without fcunday. si months . . Daily, without Sunday, one month. ... . Weekly, one year ...........--- bunday, one year ......... (By Carrier.) JS .00 6M) 3 .1)0 1.00 5.00 total is still two and a half times that for 1916. ' Daily, Sunday Included, one year . ... ' Daily. Sunday Included, three month. ..Daily, Sunday included, one month . Daily, without Sunday, one year ..... ' Daily, without Sunday, three months . - Mow., to Kmlt-send Po-toffice money gon republicans have elected dele - I . - f c i U on your 1 U.H a-.t.cua1 o Trnforonnn 1 n : Stamps, coin or cui-vuy.".: . jcst stppose.' The primary election in 1918 was held on May 17. It was not until June 15. that the official' canvass of votes was completed at Salem. If an equivalent time elapses be tween election and official canvass this year the official count will not be announced until June 19. Mean while the republican national con vention will have been held. It is set for June 8. Here is a subject that' calls for Ore- . 9.00 .75 . 7.80 n or. 65 dow speculation ana warning, local U il II IV. ouiuiia. " 1 ' " .1 ,J ..i.i? .,,. llive oostoffice address In lull. Including county and state. Postage Kates 1 to 16 pajn. 1 . . .. -i -n n 4S paces, u r,ni,i no trt 4 niisea. 4 cents; 6b to feu . n r. oentj,: n- to 06 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. . ir ; rirfW-r Verree & Conlc- ii. 1.1,., k 1,,,1'lHlnc. New York: Verree ., v...-....- . hiiiirlinif c-liiemro: ver- p- inni,nn kiva Press buildinc. De- ' troit, Mich. San Francisco representative. R J. Bidwell. gates and expressed a preference for the presidential candidate. Nobody knows the personnel of the elected delegation or who has been endorsed for president except by hearsay. The hearsay comes from the newspapers, which in turn have obtained the in formation from thirty-five corres pondents located in as many county seats and from compilations made by their own employes in the 36th county Multnomah county. The information thus made avail able before the official count is for- THE DEMOCRATIC BREACH. T7" . ..uan.a rf "President Wil- ivcl j """""" . . mally announced will doubtless be son and- W. J. Bryan on the chief fajrly accurate but lt not be of , subjects of controversy in the coming ficial A delegate's credentials do ';; campaign shows them to be drifting not consist of newspaper reports that ; farther apart. That is especially true he has been elected. If the presi- of their position on the league of na- dential contest is very close pros- tions, but it is also true of their views pective delegates may feel justified on prohibition. in demanding official information as :' Unmoved by Bryan's Jackson day to their instructions. sneech in favor of accepting the I The delay in making the official Lodge reservations, Wilson replied to canvass is generally ascribable to all suggestions of compromise by failure in various counties promptly saying that any reservations which to receive tally sheets from remote " changed the meaning of the covenant precincts. Sometimes county boards . ' -n.mil ri nullifv it. and that he could are dilatory about canvassing re- ; ,' see no distinction between strict nul- turns and reporting to the secretary ' ' lifiers and mild nullif iers. When of state. The situation this year calls ' a direct question was put to him by for special effort to obtain the com- Chairman Hamaker, he in effect plete count and for prompt action in made support of his position on the making county and state canvasses. ; league a test of fidelity to the aemo- .. CrailC party, oy miiiutttuuu u ,..x-a ti wv nmrvicllill Senator Chamberlain out of the prjce decHne having begun, is : ; party by condemning the Lodge res- bound to continue, for all influences tage unless they operate under I that the end justified the means, but American law, so that they may con-1 who, when his ventures collapsed, trol the capital which they invest I went to pieces with them. The in China business. j woman whom he afterward married There is also great need that! came from similarly unspiritual American consuls in China should stock. She was an invalid, suffering be lodged in buildings adapted to the from a spinal complaint. Booth hlm purpose, owned by their government self was a confirmed dyspeptic The and of a character to uphold the I theories of eugenists sutler some lm dignity of the republic in the eyes pairment from the fact that this pe- of orientals,, who are much impressed I culiarly assorted couple succeeded in by outward appearances. British rearing a large and healthy family and German consulates in the chief in circumstances that were never Chinese cities are lodged in solid, I free from material embarrassments. handsome" buildings erected by their I Yet both triumphed over their physi- go vera merits, while American con-leal handicaps, and the dynamic suls occupy cheap, rented structures I energy of William Booth in particu- on back streets from which they may lar would have been amazing it he be ejected by greedy landlords. The had been a man in perfect health. American consulate-general at Tien- The military trappings of the Sal- tsin was recently sold to a Japanese I vation Army were an afterthought firm, which gave notice to vacate. I and an Incident. Booth probably un- Prestige is injured by shabby quar- derstood the psychology of bis peo- ters in a country where it oounts for Pie, and though he was an idealist he much and where the greatest op-1 was always practical. His biographer portunity for trade expansion is. I denies that he was out to "champion heterodox doctrines or to found a new religion, and reminds us that he openly hoped to see the day when Salvation services might be held in the established church. This did not oftma n noes in Via lif,tim, V.., i t f tti. trie approving reterencB inerem at(J a sociaj consclence in the n. 1, churches and outside of them as any cei sou iu.il ill aurau mar, nf th nerinH In wV,ioh . of Leslie Jefferson Aker bone dry lived NJt his schemes succeeded. cauumaic, tor ueiegaie to tne na. M, f3i,, i, mnm-t tional democratic convention.- I ii.,f i V x-hi rOUTICAI. TOREADORS, A, hopeful democrat of the old school sends us from eastern Oregon pre-election advertisement of Will M. It strikes us that otherwise the ad vertisement of Mr. Peterson is an unusual work of political art just now when political art is popular and slnce Salvation Army was found garners the votes. It reads: I believe that President Wilson Is the greatest, grandest oresid-ent in the history or America; that tieorire J. Chamberlain Is the greatest, grandest senator In the history of Oregon: that Mr. Starkweather is a good man: that all democrats, like 'old sparkling- wine, are Kood and useful. They may fall out, quarrel and even some- :mes Iisht. but are cood lellows never tne- le will work in that direction with growing force and will be joined by new ones as time passes. The pres ent structure of prices is an artificial product of abnormal conditions, and it will crumble as normal conditions are approached. 'Most powerful among the influ Iences in question is a spontaneous strike by the people against paving iigh prices. The present level . of ervations. for which the - senator . voted, as "utterly inconsistent with ' the nation's honor and destructive ot :She world leadership which it had establishes," by saying that we "can- not in honor whittle it the cove 'narit) down or weaken it, as the re- I publican leaders of the senate have I proposed to do." He did so more 'I plainly when he wrote l,et us prove to our late associates in r ifitvnartv of the nation by w hich term prices is in large part psychological be erroneously describes the democratic I Irresistible forces set in motion by S:'.1."':";,? Li iknewafralth WiUl ,n the war justified a material rise and mi,., .1, TOr,ir.v, thp nmsent were recognized by consumers :i.- riPHinnrati ariv takes. 'easns expecting to pay more. '. The view of the man who led the Advantage has been taken of this - party before him, who procured his ftate of the public mind by specu " domination for president and who lators and profiteers to push prices nntnH with him for leader- l" icc, . : .. ( ,1 ..nn nnnflliit witVl it AftOT -saying that he heartily supported People have realized this fact, and it Wilson in the struggle for ratilica- tion without reservations, Mr. Bryan writes in the Commoner No matter whether the senate acted wisely or unwisoly in the adoption of reservations, it acted upon a constitutional authority as complete as the authority which the- same constitution confers upon the president. The senate endorsed reser- l ottr.os hv n ni ioritv of IS. and the . senators 34 republicans, and 23 demo crats who agreed upon reservations con stituted more than two-thirds of the 77 . senators who favored ratification, but dir f.rrl unon reservations. ti. lusnn miw in wliether the demo cratic party believes in the fundamental principle of democracy; namely, the risht ,.f th ma lorltv to rule. The president asks the party to maken campaign on the theory that the presumption of wisdom is with twenty democratic senators, plus the president, instead ot witn tne majority even ilii 1110 ,njvij has put them in a new .frame of mind in which they refuse to buy and they demand lower prices. Psy chology is thus at work to give prices a downward trend. The speculators and those in legitimate business who have loaded up with goods are ask ing less in order to unload before prices fall to a still lower level. The consumers have done most to brin about this change by their determi nation to do without things rather than pay the prices asked, and others have done without from ne cessity, because they had not the price. Increased production, not only in this country but in others, has con of tho democrats of the senate. He asks I tributed as the people recover from the pa-ty to make ti.is fiKht tna1? their attack of war nerves and settle demand immediate attention. down to work. They find work u. i' m-ipn ihpse other ereat sedative to the nerves and the problems and widens the breach by more they work the less inclined they ,...., mi0n..o tn thp attempt to are lo "iierrupr. proauction. As rail nullifv the nrohibition amendment," roads and shipping lines get into for at former stages of the liquor controversy the president showed a decided inclination for such moisture as light wine and beer would impart. normal operation, the processes of distribution are resumed and the sur plus of one country makes good th deficiencies of another, so that local 1 Tni-n vau 1. o vo f Vi o i a vm 1 rt 0 Horn. ocratic faculty of looking upon all rul tha road w,ul Preven democratic rows as purely Pickwick- f61 slmmers down tte end LU ,11Q niUglQ Jll U(11J.311.1V111 1 1 1 1, li driver must proceed precisely as if the other one had never heard of rules. Standing on one's rights is apt to be disastrous in the pinch. oroHen Dones menu just, as sioniy whether the man one meets had the right of way or not. Halifax, Nova Scotia, has launched lan. If one democrat charges mat another democrat has completely fal len down as an official and the sec ond democrat retorts that the first democrat is an intentional falsifier, both are right. All democrats are good fellows, ding it! and ought to hang together. H'ill. mi, iAfaAmMA In XT PalaMftn alone but to some other democrats "rs C.ampa,,P n! foatur.8 and some republicans, it may be re marked that success achieved through political wiles may be but transitory. The ways of politics are not very different in the long run from the ways of other things. There was, you recall, in the news the other day the story of the Spanish toreador who made $500,000 throwing the bull. But at last the bull threw him. BV-PHODICTS OP THE TIMES Flowera Given Place In Sfcaiteapeare Mow im Stratford Garden. American and Dominion visitors to Stratford-on-Avon will find a now In terest there this summer in the Eliza bethan garden, stocked with flowers and other - plants mentioned by Shakespeare or Bacon, or otherwise known to have flourished In England in Tudor times, says the London Landmark. Here will be found pinks and streaked Silly-flowers, spike lav ender and mint, eavory and marjoram. the marigold "that goes to bed with the sun," daffodils "that come before the swallows dare," bold oxlips, and the crown imperial, the flower-de-luce, and other lilies, damask roses, sweetbriar, rue, thrift, and thyme. pansies and -violets, tulips and peo nies, bugloss and columbine, not to mention shrubs such as box and bay and yew. In spite ef Bacon's dictum that fig ure-patterns are but toys ("you may see as good sights many times in tarts), a wonderful little knot-pat tern enclosure has been constructed, in which every line of the maze has been laid out in a different plant. Contributions to this national garden are pouring In from all parts of Eng land; and one wonders whether lt might not some day form another link with America by furnishing Eng lish cuttings to cluster round the foot of the memorial trees planted in America on Arbor day. The gallant "boys" og America will sleep none the less soundly if Eng lish rosemary comes to keep them in remembrance .along with the native maples, eucalyptus and locust trees. Here are two gems of sarcasm that recently appeared in Grays Harbor papers NOTICE My wife, Martha Anne, having left my bed and board and having left nothing else- because she took everything else away, this la to announce that 1 will not be responsible tor any debts sbe may raise. With times hard and prices high, 1 can't pay my own debts, so 1 am not going to worry about hers. You are out of luck If you trust her 1 never did. Marvin Z. Pengiuy. This is written by a well-known resident of Hoauiam: WILL, the party that stole the cabbage plants from 720 Lincoln street Friday night kindly call and get soinemore If you have not got enough, and have not the money to buy more? Kindly ask for some more, out oou t steal mem, as 11 ehowa poor principle. K. Win trip. Adv, For about an hour Aunt Mlrandy"a three dusky offspring had been "pes terlng" her to take them to the circus, other driver is a born idiot." There 1" lg 1" Jusl Deen pitcnea Ib another rulfi like it- "Driv if three or four blocKS away, ana mere all children and most pedestrians " sreat excitement in me netgn ar bent on Kliiririn unripr th wliels DOmooo. conspicuous exception, but the fact stands out that churches have given more attention to practical problems ed. It is not easily conceivable that a religious organization would have seriously entertained a proposal to meet the housing issue before Booth by his initiative showed the way. KEEPING ON THE SAFE SIDE. The effort to promulgate a set of of which is that it calls on every au tomobile owner to "drive as if every GROWTH OF A HCMASTtlSO MOVEMENT. Now you all go on away, com manded Aunt Mirandy. "I gotta work to buy yo' grub an' yo clo s. I ain got no time to taka yo nowheres." Den ask pappy to take us," pleaded one of the youngsters. "Huh! Yo' pa ain't got no intrus in Those Who Come and Go. LODGE GHOCP AND ITS CRITICS Scientific Researck on One Side Cas ual InTeatlgatlon on Other. PORTLANT5. May IS. (To the Edi tor.) Since reading with much inter est the eeries of articles for and against spiritualism in The Oregonlan in October I have further read a To taka a cinratti. toss it up to the ceiling and make it stick is the favorite indoor pastime of H. W. Mc nnhh of SMtile. Tor seven months some of this inetrior decorating of I dozen or more volumes by other noted ni nrpTMhh r. riianlaved on trie 1 writers unnn tha same suoject. witn- ceiling of a section of tho Benson, I out bias for or against. Just as l where he returned and registered yes-j would read a treatise on the latest terday. How many thousands of cig-1 scientific or historical subjects. A arettes Mr. McCrabbe has lit ana I matter that especially attractea my tossed to permanency on ceilings he I attention was that the writers, ad- does not know, but the numDer is owing to me tsir Oliver tnso cou considerabla. Someone has suggested viction, were men of very broad schol- that It would he a nlftv thing for Mr. I arahlrt and scientific attainments. McCrabbe to construct an immense I who arrived at their conclusions after heese knife in the Benson lobby from I a quarter of a century or more oi these snipes with the motto, "Wei-1 most careful and sincere study or tne onm Khrinr" w nen not enKasea i su ojecu wntie me critics ui wc in wasting perfectly good coffin nails, I views made no claim of any broad Mr. Mrinhha i n dealer in hides. I a-eneral fitness or of having made any extensive study ot the suDject. Glen Terrill has deserted ancient I The Sir Oliver class have entered Jacksonville, Or, for a few days while I the borders of the field and, after he visits Portland. He is registered I spending 25 years studying every at the Seward. Jacksonville was .once I available phenomenon and conscien- the leading community In that part I tiouslv examining: every noon ana of southern Oregon, but the South-j cranny, have corns to us stating very ern Faclfio railroad ignores the town, conservatively their convictions ana When the railroad was being built a reasons for the same. Their critics proposition was made to build the seem to have taken an auto drive road into Jacksonville if $100,000 were past the field one pleasant afternoon contributed toward the expense of I and. upon the basis of this knowi- constructlon. The money was- re-1 edxe. flout the conclusions of these fused, for the wise -men of tho town I quarter centuries of painstaking set- figured that the railroad eimply had I entific study. People who have to go to Jacksonville. The railroad I reached middle age or past will well was built into Medford instead and 1 remember that only a few years ago was the making of that town. There- I most any offhand speaker or writer after Jacksonville sort of went to I would take a fling at Professor lar seed,' although several years ago lt win's theory of evolution and origin spruced up and built some concrete I of the species, although this subject sidewalks. I had been his almost lifelong study and is now cenerallv accented as the To look after business In New Tork I centemole about which nearly all sci- and also to look in on the republican entific study revolves, national convention in Chicago, Den- As eighth-grade pupils we learned ton G. Burdick of Redmond left last what a time Professor Morse had to night from the Imperial. As soon as convince congress that his telegraph the election -results were Known mr. I could be anything worth the expense Burdick came to Portland to start on I of a trial; how Stevenson bad to More Truth Tlian Poetry. By J a rife a t. Montagne. STS 'KMX. to wWt. prose. nr little rhv he his transcontinental trip. He has been renominated for the legislature by a substantial ' vote and will represent the largest single district in the lower house. James Overturf of Bend will be his colleague for the district. Mr. I Burdick says that he made no cam- plead with parliament to give him help to test his first railroad; that Columbus was ridiculed by the wise ones at court and had to beg for seven years to get a chance to dis cover the continent upon which we live; yet few of us would now be WHAT GI When Socrates besan aian't care for But scribbled trifli and jokes for muti nbw But when he tried to shine in nrlnt-X U1S DUDllSn.T KB ft -ViT) ine stuff that pays big royalties, is stun mat gets the hicks." So Socrates wrote maxim , tym mind and soul inH v-tii Aid though he wrote 'em years ago. "irosa are Belling still. Young Euclid always had a taste for ucari-rnroDs and romance. But when he had one written and u. plied for an advance. His publisher informed him that the public had ennna-h Of love that what they wanted was nve, mathematics stuff. So Euclid wrote on planes and arcs, and parallels and spheres. And what he wrote was sold and read for many thousand years. In Dante's youth he fancied that h'd like to take a hack At prophecy, and so he wrote a far mer's almanac. But not a soul would publish it-Ma fact his printer said. "It's poetry they're gasping for good verse will V i- -m So Dante wrote some verses which paid off his load of debt. And left his heirs a large estate in fact they're celling yet. When Noah Webster was a boy. his soul was all a-throb To write real sippy humor la tha style of Irvin Cobb. But, when he told his nnhlih. latter knit his imw "Don't do It. Web." h Want a dictionary nrtw ' Young Mr. Webster luckilyj was easy to convince And went awav and wnt vtr that's prospered ever since. Too Low Visibility. The trouble with most of the po litical dark horses is that thev are so dark tha delegates can't see them. paign personally outside of his own I willing to set back where we would county. Accompanying Mr. Burdick I be had not the men faced critics and of your car." "Drive as if every hill had a chasm at the bottom of it," is another. Few of the Increasing number of automobile casualties are the result of deliberate intent. No sober man, we suppose, wants to run the risk of a term in th hnsnitnl r a. hnrllvlno circus a-tall. a-tall. No. suh!' Decision of the Salvation Army in dama(,A ca as vindir-atinn Then, after a pause, she added con New York to erect tents on the 0f his dignity. There is. neverthe- temptuously, "he ain't got de sllghtes' grounds or its training college in an iess everv driver knows, a e-ond ambition for no circus since he done eriorr. to coiuuai rent prunteeriiig la jeai too much trusting to the other hab the delirious trembles.' reminiscent oi me social comimous fellow to do the right thing in the ,' out of which the balvation Army was emergency. Street crossing misun- Last fall C A. Bingham, secretary born. Harold Begble s recently com-1 derstandinsrs are the mosfc fruitful I of the Michigan state farm bureau, pleted lire or the army's rounder, sjnEie cause of accident in citips. In was makincr a talk In a northern General William Booth, tells how In nearly everv instance both drivers I Mlchic-an community. After he fin- Nottingham. England, where Booth are at. fault, regardless of the pro-lished a Polish farmer came up and was Dorn, mere was an orgy ot ma- visions of the ordinance. We are in- besran relating his experiences. I terialism characterized by excesses ciined to overestimate the value of heard Mr. Bingham tell the story at a before which those of the present speed. As a rule, a good deal of cau- I meeting of the Illinois Agricultural paie into lnsignmcance. introauc- tioa Can be infused into a drive down association in January, tion or machinery into tne iace-maK- town at a cost of not more than two "I know not how we going to get ing trade had brought about a boom. or three minutes' prolongation of the along here much longer." said the xne tow ii was given over tu uruintu- journey. hrni.r. "T hu three bova. All three ness, violence and irreligion. There The Halifax automobilists address of them work for me. Then two of was a butcher, according to Begbie, their cautionary suggestions to the those boys go to city to get a Job. who slaughtered a trained pig, a ce- average driver. Tne deliberate tv, it f.u tv.. vw and mo rt leuriiy m-iucdi laus, uetauae lie jiau speeder IS in a different Cass Hnd I 1, Th.- km- ho in uniniiiumi, lu u.o.n.c aiuiic, snouiri De dealt with accordingly, to me. -Dad. there i no much work uy reuuus 11.0 iy mi . u w emus j jut as the automobile comes in house. In these surroundings Booth creasingly into use it is seen that all was reared, being educated in a concerned must make safntv i mat ter of- individual conscience. The alibi is poor comfort after the acci dent has come to pass. . is O. B. Hardy, also of Redmond, con nected with the Burdick Mortgag company. "Strange how few people - know about Kent or where it is," commented J. H. Wilson, of Kent, Or., at the Im perial. "It is in Sherman county in the midst of one of the firmest wheat belts in the state." Mr. Wilson, like scores of other Oregonians, abandoned Mountain City, Tenn., to its fate some T5 years ago and settled In Sherman county. Now he has 1550 acres of wheat land, which he bought for 20 an acre and which is now worth at least $50 an, acre. The year the war started he had a crop which would have paid for the ranch, but he sold left us without telegraph, railroad or even knowledge of the existence of this continent. When Sir Oliver after 20 years of research wrote out the language, "I tell you with all the strength and conviction I can utter that we do persist, that people over there know far more about things than we do, and are able from time to time to communicate with us," and when we find him fully supported in these views by Sic William Crookes, Wil liam T. Stead, Sir Co can Doyle, Dr. B. D. Babbitt, Dr. James H. Hyslop and many other psychic scientists of about the same note, we must won der If even the present generation may not prove that with ;ur grow his wheat too soon; since then he has I tng knowledge of the fine forces of not bit at the first offer for his crop. "I'll tell the world we're for good roads," announced Mayor J. W. Don nelly of Arlington at the Benson. "We voted five to one for the road measure on the state ballot. The. boys under stand that development of the road system means everything to Oregon and to us, so they Just got out and voted as strong as they could." Dr. Donnelly is still plugging along wait ing for the state highway commis sion to locate the John Day highway connection with the Columbia high way at Arlington. A decision on this matter is due now almost any time. The dentist said it was a sin to xtract my teeth, but I told him it as a sin the way they were acting toward me and so out with "em," mumbled W. C." Grace, banker and ruggist of Astoria, who" is registered at the Benson. Since having the in fluenza a year ago Mr. Grace has had arious and sundry aches and as ex tracting teeth is now popular for everything from rheumatism to en croaching baldness, he ordered his ining room set removed and will in stall p'ainless crockery. ether, electricity, etc., these men may not Be opening to us a field of much more profound importance than that of evolution. EMMETT HUDSON. school for the poor, which at that time represented the extent of Brit ish progress toward public education and it was there that he conceived the idea of entering the ministry. The social character of the great movement which he initiated later was not then, however, formed in his mind. The modern conception of the the Irish people the real Irish, of course can do is emigrate to "the land of the free and the home of the hravp." whr aniiimllalinn is u. - np.h'fi Traiti(iil onrial nkl i ivTV I . . - ;"" " " I ana Drier. owes a gooa aeai to vvmiam jtsootn here; and I o to city and get a Job and next spring come back.' 'But in spring I get letter from the boy and he say, 'Dad, I make fifty dollars a week. What I do?" I say to him, 'You make fifty dollars a week." you stay there. We. all to- Poor old Ireland! A British "army"! cether. cannot make fifty dollars a is to be sent into it. Tho best thing month nr. here." Last week I ret an other letter from that boy and he say. Bryan returns to his old love war "j .UUSCi sustains artiticiai on big business and private monopoly Prices. As the volume of the world s and hp wants the treaty ratified with production swells it brings a down- reservations immediately that he io Dear. jaca one l9, lead the democracy to battle can add t0 this pressure by doing a with these foes. When the president s""" uu worK everv aay. advises acceptance of a mandate for Armenia, he says in substance: No, I HOV TO aid china trade. we should enter the league ot na- There is urtrent neer! nf law fr tions as the friend of all little conn- federal incorporation of companies tries. engaged in foreign trade. It is neces- There Is no room for compromise sary in order that Americans mav here. The man who dominated every compete abroad on equal terms with uemocrauc national convention im uritons and may retain control of one exception trom isyt to lai- in- the products of their own capital. elusive, and who on the one occasion Having no federal incornoration when he did not rule abandoned the Iaw or state law. which wnniri party to suro defeat, will rally his them the same rights as British law oia toiiowing jo oame at oun c ran- gives, many Americans having mil Cisco unaer me uiu i.iaS w "" lions of capital have incorporated the predatory ricn. in oroer to ciear for CUina trade under the British the field for this battle, he will de- Hongkong ordinance. Three years maud that the enemy's terms be ac- aeo their richt tn cnnVroi nr h.u , cepted on the question whereon his I companies was restricted by an or- nvai aemanus a- suienni icitim- der that all directors of British cor- aom. mis point jib win nut imvo porattons must be British subjects. me support ui xkw i urn., Kuitu mns was followed agrees with him on nothing else, or Massachusetts, Georgia and probably other states. Each of the two lead ers is so determined that nothing short of the total repudiation of the policy put forward by the other will satisfy him. The days of democratic harmony which began in 1912 and which made Wilson absolute master of the convention of 1916 are ended. Whichever faction wins, the party - will go into the campaign as a di vided host. BORROWING TO TAT DEBTS. A beautiful cxampleif tho manner tn which the administration effected reduction in the national debt, of which it boasted at the beginning of . April, was given to the house of rep resentatives by Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee. The treasury department said that it had reduced the debt in March by J7 05,660,000, but in fact it did so by applying the cash balance in the " treasury to redemption of treasury certificates. Since July 1. 1919. it reduced the cash balance by $1,000 141, "89. but it reduced the debt by only $755,934,576. Hence its expenses exceeded its revenue by $214,207, '71S. It promptly had to issue more ; certificates in order to raite money for current obligations. The administration came out of the war with no plan for getting its finances down to a peace basis, and could do no better than guess at its needs for the fiscal year 1920. It ..asked for $11,218,191,670. but con- Krcaa fcl ashed. .$.3,50-1,435,2116, or 34.36. Dy an order in council in 1919 requiring that no person other than a British subject should bo manager, managing direc tor of or should exercise substantial control over a British corporation. The effect was removal of all Amer ican managers of China companies, including that of a large Portland export company. Simply because it is invested under British law, a large amount of American capital is prac tically conscripted to promote Brit ish trade when the United States has become the chief commercial com petitor of Great Britain. The simple way to meet this ac tion is to do likewise. A suitable plan is that of the bill drafted by the American Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai in August, 1918, and ap proved by the recent foreign trade convention at i-an Francisco. This bill: provides for incorporation to carry on foreign business exclusively and exempts such companies fromj icuerai taxes in order to put them on an equal footing with British companies in the orient, which are exempt. Such a law would serve the same ends as the Webb law, per nutting combinations for foreiga trade, and tho Ldge law, authorizing formation of American banks abroad to finance foreign trade by issue of securities for sale in the United States. Final agreement of the four pow era on tho bankers' consortium for loans to China opens the way to ex tensive development in that country, and therefore gives promise of much txadCt ia wluiib. liic. U jilted. Elates The story of the life of the Salvation Army's first head is a story of the time in which he lived. The persecu tions that attended the first efforts of his devoted followers had had no parallel since the days of the Lol lards. In a single year -within the recollection of many persons still liv ingmore than 600 Salvationists, of whom 250 were women, were bru tally assaulted, ffty-six buildings were stormed and some of them de molished, and eighty members of the army, of whom fifteen were women, were imprisoned on various pretexts. none of which, however, are now jus tified by thoughtful citizens. Magis trates were condemnatory, and the police, taking their cue from the courts, were cruel. Booth was first a Methodist circuit preacher, and his former denomination turned against him. Professor Huxley, the scientist, abetted by Tyndall. led the intellec tuals in attacks on the movement, which Huxley excoriated as "cory bantic Christianity," and as tending to degrade the intellects of men. Charles Bradlaugh was among his traducers. The good faith of the Sal vation leaders was impugned, the methods of the army assailed from every conceivable angle, and secular hostility continued with growing in tensity for years. Booth went on fighting the battles of the poor. He obtained financial support from a few people of means and with evangelistic sympathies, but he depended most largely on the support given by his helpers from their own earnings. Never in all the history of tithing, perhaps, did so many devoted followers give so largely in proportion to their capacity to give. This finally disarmed oppo s i 1 1 o n. Materialistic philosophers were ready, to credit with sincerity those who were ready to prove their faith by parting with their money. The vow of poverty was not a defi nite part of Salvationism, but the early enthusiasts were of the con tributing kind. A crown commis sions report that, although there were no legal safeguards against mis appropriation of funds, those collect ed had always been honestly applied placed tho seal of official approval on the entire movement. From that time forward the social plans of the organization wero left free to de velop. It is a matter of common in formation that they have since ex panded until they cover almost the whole world. , The biography Is stimulative of philosophical reflection. W illlam Booth, like Saint Francis of Assisi seems to have owed nothing of his intense num.uiilai tan gpixit tg. itcred- Bryan should take kindly to Ed wards. The latter's campaign man ager says his principal has not had a drink' of anything with alcohol in it for thirty years. What a lot of humbug is peddled! Where do the men arrested for being drunk and disorderly get their liquor? Not that the addresses will be published, for they would lead to temptation: but where do they get it? The downtrodden and underfoot of the lowest paid federal employes of Chicago the scrubwomen contem plate striking, and here's hoping they wring the increase out of somebody. Just a suggestion to the gentlemen who will address the school children Friday. Tell them a little story and make the rest brief. A sharp impres sion is lasting in the memory A Canadian road resumed traffic yesterday, after a fifty-six days' tie 'Father, I get seventy-five dollars a week.' " Here the old fellow reached over and slapped Mr. Bingham on the back. 'Who the hell going to work this land when I done? How them city fellows going to eat then?" he ex claimed. Harry R. O'Brien, in - Sat urday Evening Post. For years Dr. Aldrich has been a leading citizen of Anoka and one of the prominent physicians also. She has been Identified with the many up lifting organizations of the city and is a talented, intellectual woman with majestic presence that especially fits her for exalted positions. She lives in a palatial home, surrounded with luxury; yet, sad to relate, that home has never resounded to chil dren's voices, and perhaps therein is the doctor's only failing to do her part In the great onward march as ordained by God. Possibly sbe is not alone to blame for this seeming neg lect of ordained duty. 'Anoka (Minn.) Herald. The feat of the New York man who recently won $1600 by walking up the up. The damage by flood must have I siuo " 'h"" """"'"s been tremendous, for such delay isnlne minutes, reminds us of a wager not like Canadian railroading. I unce maue oeiwetu two uuiusumea One, an athlete, Det tnat ne couia nop Another Montana cattleman has up a long flight of steps two at a time. bought a central Oregon ranch tolut it turned out that there were 41 stock with registered cattle. Three I steps, and so when he made 20 hops years of burning up is sending them I he found that he had lost- He paid to Oregon. I up, but he accused his opponent of sharp practice. Gardens put in now, with warm! "Sharp practice!" said the other in days in sight, will make almost asl dignantiy. "Well, I'll make the same much progress as those planted ' a I wager with you that I can do it" month ago. 1 The other, expecting to win his money back, assented, and his oppo The sorriest man in all this broad) nent then hopped up 40 steps, hopped country will be young Bergdoll, the back one, and finished in the pre- draft dodger, alter he is caught next I scribed manner. He won the bet, be time. ' I ca.uae. while he had hopped back one, I the wordinr of the wager was that he Marion county voted against the should "hop up" two at a time, which millage tax. but it is safe to say few can be found there who are proud of it. he did.--Boston Transcript. A man wno ran down the same woman twice has been arrested on the charge of reckless driving. Really It has. been found that every part of the sunflower plant may be utilized for some economic purpose. Th leaves form a cattle food and the stems contain fiber which may be nspd successfully in making paper. P.ew lorK law legalizing Z.75 beer Th. !,, ot the sunflower stalk is th ana aiannattanese must. De stout to lightest substance known: its spe carry a toara oi mat iuri. i ,fi gravity is 0.028. while that nd of cork 0.24. elder is 0.09. The Toung Wood and young Johnson I discovery of the extreme lightness of are real .chummy In Chicago, audi the pith of the stalk has essentially that s the proper caper. I incrCa.Sed the commercial value of the plant. This light cellular substance i Itoseburg is running a strawberry I now carefully removed from the carnival, something on the plan of a I stalks and applied to many important rose festival, this year. I uses. One of its chief uses is th making of life-saving appliances. Xhis. is gtrajK toit yccaUiCE Si last! JadiauAMolisNtwa. . "My family drove to California, toured that state and returned with- ut ever touching the top; without changing a tire or even having a tincture. The tires look as though they hadn't been used very much at that, " says J. C. Appell at the Hotel Oregon. Now Mr. Appell and family re headed for Seaside, where they will remain until October, or some uch matter, and where. Mr. Appell ought a quarter block 12 years ago tor $400. J. T. Hinkle, who is city attorney of Hermiston and another town or two, s among the arrivals at the Imperial. large delegation from Hermiston intends going to Boardman next week to attend the festivities, when Port landers and others will be shown what can be done with raw sagebrush land when water is put on It. E. J. Phelan comes from Dyle, Wash., where anglers have been In their element recently. At Lyle there Is a stream flowing into the Columbia which has been alive with Chinook salmon. One angler from The Dalles caught nearly a dozen in one day and one of these was heavier than the av erage 12 -year-old child. D. Barber of St. Paul, Or., is at the Imperial. This is one of the oldest towns in Oregon, having been settled by missionaries, and was at one time the headquarters for French Prairie. It is only a few miles from Champoeg, where the meeting was held which voted that the Oregon country should be under American rather than Brit ish rule. BUT ONE RESERVATION" EJVOUGH Right tm Withdraw Would Make America Safe in the League. PORTLAND, May 23. (To the EdI itor.) In an editorial The Oregonlan says . that events have proved that without our aid neither the league nor the allies are able to do the work. I believe that one sentence contains the gist of the whole prob lem. I have contended from the commencement of the fight in thi senate that there was. perhaps, ex cuse for one reservation, and only one. Reserve the right to sever our relations in two years or at any other time without prejudice or undue ex pense. This, it seems to me, would give us a club by which we could compel respect and fair treatment in our relations with the other allied nations. I think this one reserva tion would prove to be a big stick all sufficient. Question: If not all that is really needed, why not? Please enlighten me; if I am not correct in my conclu sions, I want to know it. I fear ignor ance. I believe, with the brilliant Ingersoll, that ignorance is the only devil. WIIjLIAM FRANKLIN PRUDEN. Some People Are Xever Satisfied. We have littlA bv n,th. .. Americans who complain that they are being fleeced by French prof iteers. Why aren't they satisfied with v-w vuo juo is cLone ax Home? am Preidenta Donf Wear Then More. Carranza sliould thoso whiskers would stamp him as ",ivn.on oemng me times. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. Prom Tha Orejronlan of May 28, 1895. Astoria. X. W. Raymond, a sur veyor of '.his city, is missing anri grave fears are felt for bis safety. The twenty-third anniversary of the formation of Battery A, O. N G was celebrated Thursday by the members and ex-members and their friends. The Dalles. J. N. Cradlebaugh has retired from the position of editor of the Chronicle and F. W. Wilson is his successor. The premium list for the annual rose show, to be held in Parsons' hall June 6, 7 and 8, has been completed. I-'ifty Years Ago. From The Oregonlan ot Way IS. 1870. Washington. Cyrus W. Field ar 1 gued before the senate eysterday in favor of the China telegraph. Lewis Hale, a farmer of Powell Val ley, was dangerous injured yesterday in East Portland when he fell down an embankment a distance of 50 feet. A large concourse of people were at the wharf yesterday to welcome Gen eral Salomon on his arrival from Olympia. In consequence of the unreliable cable at this point, connecting with the telegraph lines for the east, the S. I... company has ordered Doles so the lines may be carried over the river on masts 175 feet high. Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Stevens of San Francisco are at the Multnomah. Mr. Stevens was once upon a time a mem ber of the Portland fire department and by using his liead he developed into a fire marshal and he was such a 1 league would imply tuua lira uinrsnai lime ecYCittl towns tried to steal him away. The league covenant permits any member nation to withdraw after two years' notice, "provided that all Its International obligations and all its obligations under this covenant shall have been fulfilled. The first Lodge reservation requires that "the United States shall be the sole judge" as to whether its obligations have been fulfilled, and that notice of with drawal may be given by a concurrent resolution of congress, such a reso lution not needing the approval of the president. Semi - official statements from Britain and France h.-ve indi cated their readiness to accept this reservation. It is probable that. If the league should atUmpt any serious infringe ment on the rights of the United States, a mere threat to withdraw would cause It to desist, for the power of this country, both military and economic, is 60 great that all the nations represented on the league council would not be ready to com bine against it, nor is it probable that this nation would assume so Irreconcilable an attitude as to pro voke such a combination. Most of the other reservations might prove unnecessary in the prac tical working of the league, but they are advisable if only to reassure those Americans who fear the consequences of such a fundamental change in for- io-n rvolicv as mcmDerenip in me With the prospect of big crops, the value of wheat land is advancing in the Big Bend country, according to A. B. Dorsey of Waterville, Wash. Mr. MIGHT MAKE IT DEPORTATION n. Blowers Suacests Alternative tor Hcary Albera' Sentence, HOOD RIVER. Or., May 25. (To the Dcrsey is manager for a company I v-.ditor.v, The astounding letter ap- which operates in real estate and so I nearina on the editorial page of The Keeps an eye on the situation. I nrnian. sicned by Mr. feneeny, will t- w nninion arouse the just ln- H. Thompson, who looks aftet I j:,t nr everv cood American cit- the profits and losses of the Bridal i ,-f ,n reads it. Mr. Sheehys aesincnc soul revolts Veil Lumber company, is at the Mult no man. Before the Columbia high way was constructed Bridal Veil seemed a long way off, but now It a matter of 90 minutes, or less, in an automobile. T. L. LaBrie. who is interested in the Silver Lake irrigation project, ar rived at the Imperial yesterday on businosfi connected with that enter prise. A. B. Schroeder. who has lived a long time at Silver Lake, Is also at the Imperial. County Commissioner Alley of Til lamook is registered at the Imperial. While his home is at Nehalem. he is as much interested in the improve ment of roads in oilier sections of his county as he is at home. H. E. Massey is hoping that the census will show a substantial in crease at Mecca. Or. He is the post master there and is down from the Deschutes country for a few days and is at the Multnomah. I. B. Cushman of Cushman is-the way it reads on the Imperial register and while it doesn't sound grammat ical it is perfectly corroct. CuehruaJl la a iioiXoIfice xa, I .ana county. at ihr i-rude display of patriotism as demonstrated by waving the flag from the housetops, but the average American will not be seriously of fended by a display of patriotism in any form. I atrree with Mr. Ganoe that trait ors who were stabbing this country in the back while American boys were dving in France should be pun iahed. but I never admired Shylock. So if Albers' health, which seems so much more precious than that of the 70.000 fine, young boys who died ove there, will be seriously impaired by serving a term in prison, why no send the gentleman to his beloved native land? Thoughtful citizens are concerned over the spread or socialism, I. w W.ism. etc., and to check these ten dencies it must be clearly demon strated that there is but one law this country for both rich and poor and that no man is above the law We must have no more Sorensen cases. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In. Flanders fields. L, N, ELCfiVJ-UvS. MR. llEKS HAT IS IX THE lIC, Independeat Candidate for President Khok- How to l'lx Things. PORTLANU. May 23. (To the Edi tor.) With the idea that there is always room for one more and as long as there is a will there is a way, I wish to express my desire to be pres ident of the United States commenc- ng with the time of expiration of the present oodrow vv llson. . If I am elected to dominate this good old U. S. A. I make the follow ing Tiledge to the people: iirst, and above all other things, am, as are all the other candidates. 100 per cent American. While I did not go over and fight the Germans, did things here at home that were considered just as honorable, such as buying liberty bonds and war savings stamps. - Now that the bolshevik! problem seems to be the most important of which we will have to deal with within the next few years, I have decided just what course I will take to rid the country of them. I have in mind a place known as southwest Texas. It has a big population com posed mostly of prairie dogs and rattlesnakes. The chief agriculture down there is raising hell and rob bing new comers. This place I have picked as a place to give the bol sheviki what he now claims that he must have, namely, his freedom. He should be happy down there, and at the same time we could be happy to know that he has at last found what his heart has so long desired. The next thing after getting rid of the bolshevikl I would go after the H. C. L.. That would be' easy under my plan. I would simply go to work and raise the wages of all the people to the amount of which I will receive -for my job; then I ould turn around and raise tne in come tax so mat me government would have plenty of money on hand in case it wished to run tne railroads. Yes, I am for the league ot nations. or any other turns mat tries to i" -vent war. . FinHintr all vacancies tinea in tne two main parties, 1 am forced to run on the independent ucaeu FRIENDSHIP. Like the sweet rain of summer. Which waters the earth; Like the epell of the wild When the birds are arairth Like the hush of the eve When tho twilight is fair. And the passing of wings Is half felt on the air; Like tlie music of stars -Which are notes in a song "vfliich in melody moves With the ages along: As the notes of the nightingale Plainting of love; As the fullness of faith In the voice of tho dove; As the strength of the sun In his fervency burning On the sail of the ship From far oceans returning; As the breast of a bride Who in anguish has waited. With the breast of her lord Has fondly been mated; Like the lisping of lutes, - . Like the moon on the river. Is the strength of a friend Who is with us forever. GUY FITCH PHELPftV