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Newspaper Page Text10 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 1. 1920 ' JOSTAm.lxnKD BY HKNRY I.. PITTOC'K. liublishcc by The Oreponian Publibhirn Co., ' 135 Sixth street, I'urlland, Ort-Kon. i C. A. AIOKDKN, K. B. riPER. . Manager. Editor. Th Oregnntan la a member of the Aso- elated Press. The Associated Press is , exclusively entitled to the use lor publicr.- tinn of all news dispatches rrecHted to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and - nlso the local news published herein. All riRhts of republication "I special dispatches herein are also reserved. .$8.00 . 4-" . 2.3 . ."5 . tvoi; . 3.r. . .60 . J.oo . 5.00 . 0.00 . .-o . .75 . 7.80 . l.3 . .65 (Subscription Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) rially. Sunday Included, one year .... 1 ally, Sunday Included, six months .. liaily. Sunday included, three months. Jiaily, Sunday included, one month ... llaily, without Sunday, olis year ..... 1'aily, without Sunday, six months ... laily. without Sunday, one month . 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While the American people dis I CU.--S the question of league with ) or without reservations or no league, they would do well not to overlook the fact that the league is already in existence and is functioning. It lias been joined by all the invited ' nations, not excepting Switzerland, the oldest republic in the world. r By popular referendum the majority ; of the twenty-two cantons have voted for membership on the spe- cial terms laid down by the league council. The members have as '. sessed themselves for its expenses, 1 and the league has performed sev- eral of the duties imposed on It by the Versailles treaty and has ap- pointed a committee, including " Klihu Root, to prepare a plan for . organization of a world court. By the time the United States de- ' cides whether and on what terms it shall become a member, the - league may be well established, ad ministering justice between nations, performing the various duties con nected with the treaty with Gef- ; many and backed by the military and financial power of all its mem bers. Already it has been suggested that the supreme council of the allies should soon entrust to it further en- forcement of the treaty on Germany and then pass out of existence. This I course is recommended in order to permit the allied premiers to give exclusive attention to domestic af ' fairs and to strengthen the authority " of the league by removing from the "' field which tends to overshadow it. ;' Reports that the British govern ; ment opposes this policy have drawn - fire on it. There is a possibility that, when 1 the United States Is ready to become - a member, the league may not be ! as eager to receive it as was the case T. a year ago. The great powers now represented on its council may find that they can get along without us and may be less willing to share - their authority with us. Important ' questions may arise which they would rather settle without our par- 'f ticipation, but in settling which we should much like to have a hand. With the whole civilized world thus combined to make and enforce '' the law of nations, even Senator Johnson may realize that the advan-.i- tages of being on the inside out " weigh those of being isolated, on the outside looking in, or on. That :v position would be the more un ; pleasant, as the only other outsiders would be our late enemies and a few scattered, semi-barbarous states. :-f"TTn fact the more we consider the -effect of the Johnson policy, the more impracticable it seems. Con- "gratulations on this Johnsonian in- dependence would com? only from -"Germany and the bolshevists, for .. ..they have denounced the league be T cause it blackballed them. upon the homes of all America an additional burden of anxiety and grief, and made countless mothers sad with longing for their dear lads overseas. By her purpose, had it been achieved, many thousands who returned might have fed the weeds on the ghastly terrain of battle. We knew It, all of us, when they were uttered. Has the swift and prosper ous passage of a few months less ened the crime and nullified the need for punishment? Whoever cries out against clem ency to such as Kate O'Hare will stand convicted, by certain blatant, demagogic tongues, of the un-Chris- tian and inhumane error of venge ance. They miscall the sentiment. It is not vengeance, but justice, that requires condign punishment for all who helped place in thousands of cotton service flags the pitifully proud little gold stars. America will be forgetting the war, indeed, if so soon she turns her attention to the freeing of those who sought to make her lose it. Freedom for Kate O'Hare is an individual matter, perhaps, and at any rate it Is past recall. But the citizens of the nation have the right, and should maintain it, to inquire through their representatives in the congress, through every of ficial channel, even directly of the president himself, if this leniency forecasts the wholesale release of every ugly propagandist who taught and practiced sedition when the en ergy of America was bent upon keeping the flag above the swirl of conflict. For there were those at home who, so far as intent was con cerned, might well have worn the actual livery of the death's-head hussars when they spoke from plaza soapbox and public rostrum. ciian;e the method. Fourteen candidates for represent ative in the legislature submitted themselves to the sovereign decision of the primary in Marion county on May 21. They came from all parts of the county. Marion has more than 13,000 registered republican voters, the greater part of them perhaps two-thirds coming from elsewhere than Salem. In the county are such thriving and important towns as Silverton, Stayton, Jeffer son, Woodburn, Marion, Gervais, Mount Angel, Turner and others, Some of them had presented the names of honored citizens, in the confident hope that they would re ccive the favorable consideration of a discriminating electorate. It was a discriminating electorate, It discriminated entirely in favor of Salem, the largest urban center, for all five of the nominees are what the Silverton Tribune calls the Salem candidates. All, or nearly all, of them reside there. The Tribune suggests that the county be divided into four legisla tive districts, giving Salem two and the county at largo three representatives. The recommendation is sound. we have no national interests there. Mexico is our immediate neighbor, we have interests there in the shape of the rights of our citizens, which have been flagrantly violated, and we have in effect assumed a man date hy telling all other nations capable of exercising it to keep hands off this hemisphere. Just as soon as the government of De la Huerta gave us cause or as civil war again broke put, we should In tervene. We have as valid cause there as we had in Cuba that when a neighbor maintains a public nui sance at ourdoor, we have a right to abate it, - THE SOCIAL- BREATH. One of the more serious stum bling-blocks in the lane of dry law enforcement, says Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har vard university, is the tendency of the higher social stratum to smile waggishly at the alcoholic respira tions of its gay young favorites. It has become the debonaire, the devil ish thing to appear in so-called good society slightly "spiffed." Presi dent Eliot refers to this inebriate condition as "whoozy," a term that suits the . savant's tongue. But all will appreciate that the good old proxy means "illuminated," or tanked," or "slightly soused," though there are gradations of defi nition to suit the individual instance. "These people, a part of our so cial organization that we are pleased to call good society, are causing a great deal of trouble all over the country, principally in teaching law lessness to the young," declared President Eliot in a recent' public address. "I know whereof I speak by reason of my knowledge of the undergraduate body of Harvard uni versity.' He is correct in his open assump tion that what is unlawful for the corner poolroom is equally pro scribed for the gilded ballroom or the exclusive soiree, and equally cor rect in the charge that certain ele ments of society, secure from the pertinent probings of the dry squad, have made it the fad to defeat the purpose and intent of the prohibi tory act. The fault in Dr. Presi dent Eliot's attack is that he does not suggest a remedy, other than an appeal to conscious decency. The "vag" before some municipal judge is no more derelict than, nor as much as, the young man about town who tippled at private stock last night, while his social inferiors were guz zling raisin "moonshine" or cock tails of denatured alcohol and red soda. Yet we must have more than a moralistic object lesson to stay the thing of which President Eliot complains, ir tne courts are cor rective of the one, why not of the other? PREPARE 1'OR IMMIGRANTS. Opening of sea communication through the Panama canal with the Atlantic coast, the gulf coast, the many men to quick, embarrassing changes of front. Senator Mitchell had voted for free silver and caused a free silver plank to be adopted by the Oregon convention, which met before the national convention, but Oregon republicans had to make a campaign for the gold standard, and they made it the only state west of the Rockies which went repub lican. , Interest attaches to the campaign of 1896 at this time mainly because of the moral which it ; invites, us to apply to the present situation. On account of the strong superficial showing made by Senator Johnson on a no-league platform, also of his established reputation as a bolter, there is a disposition to evade the league issue with a straddling plank and to subordinate it to other ques tions, such as general democratic incompetence and extravagance. But the league cannot be pushed into the background, as free silver could not be thus treated in 1896. Indecisive as the primary vote was as between candidates, it was most decisive as between the league with reservations and no league. That has been the chief subject of discussion, it has been kept to the front by Mr. John son, his rivals have been put on record, and it was uppermost In people's minds when they voted at the primaries. In arriving at their opinion, we should compare the total vote against Johnson with the John son vote. The majority would be found, so overwhelmingly for the league that the platform should ex press its opinion. As Senator Teller and his free silver faction bolted the convention of 1896, so might Senator Johnson and some of his supporters in 1920, but the bolt did not defeat the re publican .party twenty-four years ago and there is as little ground to believe that a bolt on the league ssue would defeat it this year, pro vided the candidate and platform satisfy the progressive element of the party in other respects. The stand for sound money attracted hundreds of thousands of democrats to the republican ticket, and led many more to vote the gold democratic ticket. As decided a stand for the eague with reasonable reservations would probably win as many demo cratic votes as it would alienate among the Johnsonites. The experience of 1896 shows that an attempt to push into the back ground the question about which everybody is thinking and which will decide practically every vote cannot succeed. That campaign was begun on protection, but public opinion forced free silver to the front. Be cause the republican party had adopted an explicit declaration on that question, it successfully upheld its position. When everybody is tak ng one side or the other on a certain question, it is impossible success fully to defend a straddle. It alien ates both sides, and it attracts only the few whose vote is decided by subordinate issues. BY - rnODCCTS OF" TIIE TIMES Crowded Caravansary Solve Prob lem By ''Pullman" Bedrooms. We have with us today the Pull man bedroom. It exists not as a vague and horrific premonition of something evil that is likely to happen in the future of days of congestion worse congested, but it actually is, it has its being, it is a fact. And a very stuffy fact it Is withal. A hotel keeper In Hartford, Ct., Under the primary the candidate Caribbean sea and Europe has made living in the most populous place has the best chance. But the primary cannot be held alone responsible for uneven results. The state at large should be divided into legislative a fact the dream which we cherished before the canal was built, but the realization has been so long defer l red by the war that it comes much like a warmed-over dinner. Yet the districts giving every such unit at influence on the future of the Pa least one member of the lower cific coast will be no less profound house. I In effect this coast is sliced off and Here in Multnomah, twelve renre- swung around so as to face eastward sentatives are chosen at large. It toward Europe. We are as near is wrontr. Its effect is to denv in Asia as we ever were, but we are important territory the right of lo- now as near Europe. The first re cal representation. In the twelve sult is a BTea quickening of our chosen by the republicans this year not one comes from the country. All are from Portland. A better and fairer system of ap portionment is to give every county at least one member of the house, and to distribute the remainder ac cording to population. If it shall appear that by this method Multno mah is denied proportionate repre sentation, the balance can be approx imately restored by increasing the house .membership. The larger counties should be divided into leg commerce, both with that continent and with our own eastern coast. Revival of immigration from Eu rope brings to mind again the pre dictions of a dirtct flood of immi grants to this coast which were made while the canal was building. No long time can pass before that prediction is fulfilled by passenger steamship lines from both northern and southern Europe to Portland Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Slavs and Greeks may land by thousands at Portland docks to scatter through islative districts. The result will be Oregon. It would be well to resume that the principle of local represen tation in the popular branch of the legislature will be restored. rtEMEXCY IOR KATE O'HARE. Were we too meticulous, during -the late war, concerning freedom of speech that translated to license "- -and outright treason? Opinions dif- fer, but the distinction rests between ' Americans, who supported the war with their sons and their silver, and 1he I. W. W., who sought to give the victory to Germany. The ques tion naturally arises with the recent - commutation of sentence for Kate Richards O'Hare, who uttered the prurient blasphemy against Ameri can motherhood, that "women who would raise soldiers were little bet- ' ter than brood sows." Pressure of wan and bloodless sentimentalism for those who were Incarcerated for "" offenses against the honor and cause of their nation wrought the release of Mrs. O'Hare. While it is true that the president's clemency did - not compass a. complete pardon, the inference lis obvious-that such out- ageous and indecent violations of ?Z Tree speech will now find partial' 7 J'ondonemcnt, in the casual opinion. For Kate O'Hare, freed from federal U-'" prison, after"- srnrcely more than a '(year of expiation, will be held to .C'.have paid in full.. By such leniency ; ;ir, the tongue of license limbered for - -renewed attack upon the shrine and service of patriotism. The truth is that, aside and apart J'" .i'from the stark obscenity of Mrs. "Tl'ilare's notorious simile, this fem ; inine firebrand of the radicals ut- tered it in the desire that her words ' would stay the mustering of an . . American army through the selective ; ' ...draft. Had she been a male in Uniform, somewhere on the fighting ' -. line, and sought to serve the enemy "by means as obvious and intended i hot five years in prison would have ij been her punishment, but the glint of rifles in the avenging hands of ,..a firing squad, and the thud of bul- lets that sealed her lips with death in the original sentence clemency j beyond her deserts was given to Mrs. O'Hare. Through no fault of .hers or of her "fellow workers" did Germany taste the deep and bitter . ;-"draught of defeat, and the lordly '- ' kaiser becomo the lonely man of i Doom. It is said that the commutation of ! ST ?Mrs. O'J fare's sentence was fur- 1 thered by anxiety of her husband J - and children lest prison air and fare ' ,V undermine her health. This repre- ; ' .sentation moved kindly hearts to her " service and unlocked her cell. Yet .when the woman mocked her sister f. " "hood in their sacrif igct glie Jieaged MILITARISM THE CXRSE OF MEXICO. If the opinion of V. Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, who has been touring Mexico, is correct, the down- I as they have been in the east fall and death of Carranza hold out need to insure that those who settle no nrosnect of peace in that countrv. in Portland shall not form foreign the preparations to receive them which were under way in 1913 and 1914, and to provide for their dis persion in the farming, lumber and mining sections. Much is to be done in order to make the newcomers an element of strength to the state in stead of a source of disturbance. We He was overthrown by a combina tion of militarists because he hated militarism and regarded it as the curse of his country, .and . tried to name a civilian as his successor. Having disposed of him, the mili tarists have already begun to quar rel for the vacant presidency, and another civil war may ensue. colonies and build tenements, but that they shall mix and scatter in the suburbs, where each may ac quire a home and garden. We want no compact settlements In the in terior of the state by single nation alities. We need to teach all new arrivals our language, the nature of our government and the opportun- A good reason for a distinct service is that it may provide that reservoir of men and aircraft o which the Journal writes. Aviation in the civil service and in commerce is destined to provide a far greater supply of men and material than army and navy will maintain in peace, yet in war there would be need of rapid expansion of the fight ing air force to many times its peace strength. By aiding development of a civilian air corps, requiring from it a certain degree of military train fng and retaining a certain control over it, the government would se cure a great reserve at slight ex pense, for in peace this reserve would be usefully employed. Woman's time-honored habit dressing before a mirror enabled Jersey woman to see a peeper gazing at her through a transom and a sure shot dropped him. There's vindica tion for what man has scoffed at since the mirror stood upright. Editor Dugger of the Scio Tribune on whom two years ago was wishe the office of justice of the peace by admiring townsmen, pleaded th time to be released, but his request was disregarded. Scio knows a good man when she has him. The cost of living in Sing Sin prison is only 28 cents a day for ach inmate, and the state pavs that. Yet we were always taught to believe there was nothing sure in this world than the high cost o crime. Fort ninety years Mexico has been Hies which America offers that any the prey of a succession of military dictators, and one no sooner made himself supreme than another arose to tear him down. The orfly in terval of real peace was during the long reign of one military dictator, Diaz, and the great tide of prosper ity that the country enjoyed during his reign conveyed a hint Of the wealth of resources that anarchy keeps undeveloped. The people are living in poverty amid this plenty, because a succession of military dic tators plunders them. Their fate is no better than that Of Cuba un der Weyler. Until a government is established revolutionary ideas may be driven from their minds. . Oregon may profit by the experi ence or the eastern states to make immigration a blessing both to the state and the immigrants. The troubles which .hey have caused arose from neglect to qualify them for citizenship. Wisely handled, they can be made as good citizens as were those who came before them. It devolves on the people of Oregon to make then- Americans. Democratic national conventions are not bothered by recurrent con tests between "lily white" and black and tans" that infest the republican gatherings. The coro ners attend to these affairs at the tart. A PARALLEL. AVITI1 1898. An admirer of Levi P. Morton, in a desire to magnify his public that rests on free popular choice services, writes to the New York and no military force, there is no Tribune that he permitted use of hope of. a government so civilized his name as candidate against and stable as to warrant recognition McKinley for the republican nomina by the United States. Materials do tion for president in 1896 in order not exist in Mexico to establish such to help Senator Piatt in forcing a a government, ine most promising gold standard plank into the plat attempt was maae Dy juaaero, and form. The Tribune most properly it failed when he was murdered. I corrects its correspondent's history Those men who honestly desire such by recalling that Piatt was more a government and who may have I interested in forcing recognition of the ability to conduct it cannot his leadership than in a gold plank, gather around them the popular and that Hanna championed Mc support necessary to stamp out thelKinlev as a protectionist rather than habit of revolution. The initiative on the money issue and did not be- must come trom outside. It can come convinced until some time after be given in the manner In which it the convention that silver must be was given to, Cuba and to the Philip pines. The terms which the senate com mittee proposes that the United the leading issue. Decision to put a gold standard plank in the plat form was forced by the middle west, not by nan ana fiatt was in a States dictate to the new govern- receptive mood." The Tribune truly ment are sucn as snouta be de-1 says that "public opinion and the manded of any government in any I republican party's previous record country as a conaition of recogni- really determined the St. Louis dec tion and friendly relations, but their I laration." acceptance and performance by the I In fact all the circumstances in government now being established I clined the politicians to favor would not remove the conditions straddle on free silver. The Atlantic which would soon cause their viola-1 states favored the gold standard tion by some new military chieftain. 1 the far west free silver, but the trend Those conditions can be removed only by giving Mexico a start In genuine democratic government. The American people shrink from of opinion in the middle west was in doubt until the convention met McKinley had not considered th subject a major issue, and had assuming a manaaie ior Armenia voted for free silver In congress because it la distant anil because lilio St. Louis declaration, forced Those Who Come and Go. was first seized with the inspiration to construct this ingenious torment for his guests, and now a. widely known hotel In Detroit has converted 2 of its large sample rooms into Pull man bedrooms, providing 72 berths in all, for each of which it gets $2 a day. The theory, as explained by the man ger, is that the potential guest will nd the Pullman bedroom mora in iting than the prospect of spending hours in search of rooms elsewhere in the city. Doubtless the theory is sound. Men sometimes will do any thing. Community baths to each six pa trons, pasteboard doors and olfl-fash oned visits by the bellboy to arouse the sleeping guest in, the morning are features of this new service- One cannot help thinking how this arrangement could be Improved by utting a flat wheel under one cor- er of the cot in the Pullman bed room; and if live steam could be piped beneath the cots to alternate with a refrigeration plant and the whole nshrouded with the panoply of real Pullman curtains, how nice and home like it would seem. Kansas City Star. A literary curiosity, owned by a Fhiladelphian, is the hotel bill of Oscar Wilde at the Hotel Voltaire in Paris, April, 1883, when he was writ ing "The Duchess of Padua." The items cover four pages, each 16 inches long and 6'i inches wide. The first item is for "account al ready rendered, 218 francs 36 cen- imes." Eggs, coffee, tea and salad figure most frequently. For the two weeks, March 15-28, in clusive, the charge is for two persons 352 francs 20 centimes, for every thing except the room. That would be about 17 a week for each person scarcely exorbitant when we consider that the bill includes roast fowl, newspapers, postage, petty trades men's accounts discharged, lights, laundry, wines, medicines, firewood and service. It is a disappointing matter-of-fact bill, but it goes to show that the ec centric and ill-starred writer was not throwing his money away. The present scale of prices, writes F. L. AV. in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, is nothing new under the sun. Washington once a3ked his steward how much was paid for a fine shad brought to the table." Two dollars." Two dollars!" was Washington's indignant rejoinder. "I never can en courage tnis extravagance at my wuic Take it away. I will not touch it." At about that time, in paper money, butter cost $2 and $3 a pound; a pair of shoes cost S125; a suit of clothes, $1600. The fish dealer could have told Washington that fish hooks (when used) cost 60 cents. entral Point-Gold Hill section oi ne , ouj. ,c schocJs on 6uch , highway last year with the exception ,ane as u render whol, unl ?.f ,th J.lf I"? ? l" over.hefa f sary the un-Anv-rican private, I'olo. This Job will be completed In ochla, or gectarlin elementary s WOODW.1RD OlTtlXES VIEWS. Candidate for Srhool Director Im pressed by Responsibility of Office. PORTLAND, Or., May 29. (To the Editor.) The writer, a parent, clti sen and taxpayer, for the past 39 years a resident of Portland and actively engaged in business, believ ing that he can helpfully serve mis community as school director, asks public support at the election to De held June 19. This office, though non-salaried and without perquisites or reward other than consciousness of service well done, embraces a responsibility task than which none is more important or sacred to our nation the right education of our children through the medium "of our public schools. It is well Indeed that you should know the views of a candidate for this important office. The writer firmly believes in and will work for needed improvements in our public schools. in all material things, grounds, buildings, equipment and the like, in the higher and more im portant phases a conscientious, efn cient teaching force, bringing to their Important task the fullest mea sure of service and consecration plac ing our public schools on such a high ncces- par- school. for he holds that these private Some Idea of how fast paved sec tions of the Pacific highway are be-Ino- pnTnnUinl ta riven by George Hi Clark, who registered at the Hotel Portland yesterday. Mr. ClarK is in terested in a number or jods on mis highway. "We shall have the 12V4 miles'between Junction City and Eu gene finished next Monday." says Mr. Clark, "and a couple or weeics more will be needed to put in the shoulders and dress up. Today we started lavlne- hot stuff on our Oak land-Voncalla iob. tour mues 01 this work was completed last year, leaving six for us to do this year. and if we are not interfered with too much by car shortage, we should have the section between the two towns all paved by the end of August. In two weeks we shall begin laying not stun on the Oakland-Wilbur Job, which is seven and a half miles. -The preliml narTes on this Job, meaning the grad ing, rocking and bridges, are finisnea, The rocking is also finished on the six miles yet to be paved on the Oak- land-Yoncalla work. We paved the Central Point-Gold Hill section of the h 01 T couDle of weeks. Mr. Clark says . , . . i I v no 1IUIUI nis cnier worry now is in sr-honls fn of ih nnrn whirh lies cars to move material and tho early I . . .. .. i,s.wi I. . ... . . . , P. t CI V UAaiS UL VU1 . 1 I J. I II.',..,... completion of the contracts he has They tend 't divido our children into uciicimtui " """J I olflflu anH oust Out- nilhlir- schools cars from the railroad. "The biggest diking proposition in the west is planned for the doors of Portland," says A. L. Morris of War ren, Or. "It will embrace from Hcap poose slough, near SU Helens, almost to the Multnomah county line, a dis tance of about seven and a half miles. When completed it will be a wonder fully fertile section, like the delta lands near Clatskanic, where 22 tons of rutabagas are raised to the acre. Mr. Morris, who is fruit inspector for Columbia county, says that while Co lumbia county has been a great pro duccr of potatoes, only about 60 per cent of the former acreage will be used for spuds and the rest will go into berries, as the growers think there la more money in berries. Mr. Morris, who is interested in swine husbandry, doesn't hold out much hope for the price of pork dropping. should make of our nation one fain ily. wherein differences of. creed are lost in the common purposes of cltizenshlrj. Our teachers nnd all who have to uo with our public schools should be so compensated that this most Im portant of all vocations will attract and hold those who by training and inspiration are bc.t qualified to per form their imooriant tasks. The Bible was thrust from our public schools at the behest of tbose who feared its effect upon their own doctrinal views. Yet there should he as a part of ttie daily life and instruction of the child such recogni tion in simplest form of the Creator as will give to the child that true concept of our reliance upon the Divine Being Inseparable from the highest ideals of life. A city is not built alone because More Trulh Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. We used to get 11 cents for hogs of r y reason oi its industries, its and paid $18 a ton for mill run; now we get 15'x cents for hogs on the hoof and pay 856 a ton for mill run," he added. After trying for three days to buy secondV-hand Pord with which to tour the United States, a party of Australians left the Hotel Portland yesterday, deciding to travel by train. The party consisted of J. J. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. K. Tollard and H. Will lams. They advertised for a second hand: car and a hundred or more were offered, of all vintages from 1912 to 190, but the Australians re fused every offer, complaining that they can buy a second-hand car at home for less mnnev than tho nrlrcs peared at the polls to cast their vote Quoted them in Portland. The Aus-I and over halt of these declared tralians dronnori "h's" all over the 1 against the issue pending. lobby like an American does cigar I And 't is for these reasons that ashes. I the writer makes this appeal for the fullest measure of support at the "I am one of the few people who polls, if his platform, as expressed have seen Mount Shasta from Mount above, meets your approval. commerce; these are necessary in deed. But our nation must depend for Its very life and future saiety upon the proper education of our children. Our elementary public schools are the power house from which must come the citizenship which will in fullest degree measure up to the standards and ideals of those who created the form of gov ernment under which we iive. There can be no finer service rendered by any citizen than that which aids in the fulfillment of this task. As a people we are apathetic upon many vital questions. At the last school election, out of 110,000 poten tial voters, less than 5 per cent p- LOVELV WOMAN. She knows the parson thinks her clothes expose too much of sil ken hose. That he declares the waists she wears Are dreadfully Imoroner: She frequently has heard him say that it ne only had bis way. He'd straightway draw and pass a law Whose aim would be to ston 'er. She smiles an acquiescing smile. But dresses in the same raw style. She knows about her doctor's views on tilted heels and pinching shoes. She also knows that narrow toes Are painful and unsightly. She's heard him say with scathing scorn that silly corsets that are worn Straight up and down beneath the gown Compress the ribs too tightly. These facts she's ready to admit. But that don't change her style a bit. She knows that scientists profound say eating candy by the pound. By subtle stealth breaks down the health. And ruins the complexion. She knows they say that's tho way t bring on premature decay. That even teeth break down be neath The onslaught of confections. And yet she frequonts, as before. The smart confectionery store. At twenty-two or twenty-three these female ways affected me Beyond control; they filled my soul With bitter melancholy. In lilting verse and ringing prose, I . scolded them about their clothes. And by and by 1 hoped that I Might wean them from their folly. But now I'm older. I confess I rather like the way they dress. Give Him His Does. Tou've got to hand it to the Kal?r for solving the cost of living prob lem. He paid a year's board fdr-him-self. family and suite with a bust of himself, worth, at the most flattering valuation, about 15 pfennings. C;ood Training. In Mexico a man needs all the prac tice he can get running for president when he has to run for his life afterward. Too I.nte. Prices broke, at last, but not until the consumer bad. (OopyriKht. 1920. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) WILLIAM F. WOODWARD. PKOPLK NEGLECT OW.V RIGHTS Crumbling Takes Plsce of Petitions for Redress of Grievances. KELSO, Wash., May 30. (To the Editor.) rAs politics Is the principal issue of the day and w e hear men of all a number of years ago designed the parties grumbling about the reds and indirect lighting system of a number I bolsheviki, and profiteers, and I. W. Hood, the intervening distance being 400 miles," said Hal Lawritzen of San r rancisco at the Benson yesterday, "Some people say Shasta cannot be seen from the top of Mount Hood, but it can. I wouldn't make the trip to the summit of Hood again for 11000 and I wouldn't take $1000 for my experience on the climb." Mr. Law ritzen is an expert in lighting and Suspicion. By Grace I - Hall. Decoration day was changed to Memorial day as more fitting, but another Is needed to describe the combination of .sacred memory and exhilarating sport. The old reliable game of bunco still flourishes in this city with an up-state man now and then the victim. Advice to let the other man's game alone goes for naught. The Northern Pacific announces that the great big baked potato is to come back on its dining cars, Once more we arise to call private control of the railroads blessed. The church and the home of the pastor are all the buildings spared by the fire that razed the town of St. Quentin, N. B., Sunday, and can you see any "sign" in it? Torkship village, near Camden, N. J., financed by the Emergency Fleet cor poration, is perhaps, the finest ex ample of mushroom war-growth towns. Ground wa3 first broken April 19, 1918, and to create this village, which will house 7500 people, meant an average of one house completed every 2 hours to November, 1919, when it was finished. The cost was about $12,000,000. t Elm trees a foot thick were brought for the central square. Paved streets, water and sewer systems, electric lights, stores, schools, apartment houses, a hotel, a church, all these rose as if by magic. How the pioneers of Philadelphia who toilfully dug caves in the river bank would have gasped and rubbed their eyes at this 20th century feat of engineering and architecture. , v .We notice, writes Will Sabin in the Honolulu Advertiser in his column, "Next to Pure Reading Matter." that several family men have taken to wearing vests waistcoats, pronounced wescuts. "O why," we asked of one, "O why wearest thou a wescut in this balmy clime?" Whereupon he answered, say ing, "I find it so much of a convenl- nce In, taking home the marketing. There are four vest pockets in a wes- ut. In one I put 25 cents worth of ugar; in another, the half of a potato for the evening meal; in tne tnira, the makings of a liberty fry. formerly known to fame as hamburger steak; and in the fourth, such little luxuries as we are able to afford one day it may be a red union; perchance a wal nut o ra coupla raisins; anon, ou nts' allowance of candy for the weeK end." m m m Pete Johnson, carpenter on the farm. was on the meadows of Hoboken look- no- for came. He walked around a If day. and, finding nothing, ne started for home, meeting a cow which he shot at and missed. It was his last shot, so Pete was out of luck when he met a bear, which chased him half-mile to a friendly oak tree The bear and Pete circled the tree until both were becoming exhausted. Then Pete grabbed the bear's paws and held them around the tree until the bear died of starvation. They bad bear meat at the farm and the skin f Bruno adornB the farm gates..Note The recent storm prevented us from verifying this item. We hope it is true. Unidentified. When a confessed nihilist makes a getaway trom state prison it might be just as well not to push the chase. Depend upon it, he will stay out of Oregon. Having covered the earth, Henry Ford will essay to conquer the air. Hope he produces something a fel low can kick bicycle fashion, and flee as' a bird. Nature helped the decorating with feathery flakes in Butte yesterday morning, a waft of love from the departed ones. There is reason to believe that at last the Germans really are becom ing democratized. They are throw ing mud in an election campaign Latest quotations show the value of the German mark has jumped to 3.15 cents. Another effect of the guper sliorlagOj , . W. and socialism, anarchism, autoc racy, plutocracy and all the other Isms and ocracys, I want to ask if incorruption can spring out of corrup tion? We hear a lot about the govern ment being corrupt, and what a mis erable administration we are having, and all that. Now I want to say that when the government was organized of Portland establishments. Hugh McLain. postmaster of Marsh field, is an arrival at the Hotel Port- land. Mr. McLain used to make periodic trips to Washington, D. G, to tell the department why the gov erhment should get busy and do some harbor development, and. sure enough Mr. McLain so wore out the patience it was clean, and it was not a case of of the officials that they finally dis-I let George do it. When our government covered that Coos Bay is a real har- 1 was-organized it was organized on a nor wortny or attention. uolng to system of a Dure democracy. There Washington isn t such a novelty for were no such things as political fac- Mr. Hicham, ior once, as democratic tions and Dolltical strife. It was elector, he carried Oregon's votes to government of the whole people, and the electoral college that being In would remain so if the great masses 191 of the neonle would only exercise their constitutional rights. Says the constitution of the United States: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of any religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a re dress of grievances. I would like to lay stress upon the last paragraph, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and pe tition the government for redress of f grievances. iow i nave oeen a voter or 30 years and I never yet had the pleasure of signing a petition asking the government for a redress ot grievance, nor asking any represen tative of the people of any state to recommend any legislation that would be of special interest to them or to the whole people of the United States. The trouble is, it has been a case of let George do It too long. The wolves have got among the sheep, and they are devouring their substance and drinking their blood, and the people have not petitioned the government for a redress of grievance. There is no law as yet on the statute books governing the price of commodities, or the amount of profit that can be exacted upon the sale of the same. A. M. JESS. Crook county is more than pleased over the recent election, reports Judge X. G. Wallace, because the voters of the state approved the meas ure which will permit Crook and Curry counties to refinance them selves. Judge Wallace says that bond issue for about $100,000 will be the next proposition up to the voters of Crook county in order to retire a similar amount of county warrants. The warrants are now being dis counted about 5 per cent and the bond proposition will prevent this depre ciation of the county obligations. The judge is at the Imperial awaiting to day's session of the state highway commission. Ed Budd, who looks after the des tinies of the dinky railroad at Ilwaco Wash., has been in town seeking section hands. "They're mighty hard to get," he complains. "The other day I landed four and they handed me their checks for their trunks. Think of it section hands traveling with trunks. The height of afflu ence." Mr. Budd . bethought himself of the days when a section hand car ried his worldly possessions wrapped in a blanket. C. A. Galloway of Elgin, W. J. Townley of Hot Lake and Judge Phy of La Grande, who constitute the county court and commission of Union county, are at the Imperia When sick suspicion, creeping from her cell. Out toward the open spaces, looks and winks And smiles a scornful smile at what folks tell. Wagging her head at what she merely thinks A slow and bitter poison fills the heart Of that one who must feel the sick ening doubt. For once well founded and 'twill not depart This fever that burns on till it burns out. Faith Is a tender plant that blooms alone Within the heart that loves and blindly clings. It suffers at the coldness of a tone. And quivers at a laugh that tears and stings; Yet does it live and tendrils thrive and grow, A wonder-flower to brighten each dark day. Until in agony at last one needs must know It has been trampled on and thrown away! No more its purest blossoms ever bloom. Though on the heights of sacrifice and prayer It may some beauty once again as sume But never will it be as eweet or fair; And when the whispers of a paeeing breeze , Recall the awful pain of vanished years. Suspicion shall crawl forth and add to these The anguish of Its mocking, poi soned sneers. In Other Days. Congress and President. MVnTI.E CREEK. Or.. Mav 29. Today tne nignway commission ' (To the Editor.) As an editor is sup open bids for grading ana graveling posad to know everything and unravel the nine-mile stretch between Elgin u Ir,ysteries, I wish to ask if the and Minam, and the officials want to ..resident had failed to carry out the be present. (authority and direction of congress to William Sloane, president of the I f the T-nitea Ktates against Germany W. & J. Sloane company of New .. hat Polirse wouid coneress have ta- I orK, IS registered at me uuuiioinan This company is one of the largest manufacturers of carpet in America. Mr Sloane, who is accompanied by Nilson S. Cook. Is being shown the beauties of the Columbia highway by Harry C. Moore, northwest rep resentative of Sloane & Co. Hotels were nearly broke for cash ken, and whether the same rule does not work both ways? Should con gress authorize and direct the presl dent to undo what he did or to let go, what would be the next step? JAMES HARMON. A resolution declaring war does not take effect unless approved by the The oldest drawings In the world are believed to have been made about 25,000 years ago by prehistoric man in the caves of the Pyrenees moun tains, says a writer in Boys' Life. Some of these pictures -show remark able skill in drawing, suggesting that civilization was comparatively well advanced at this period. From the relics of this period It is believed that these men had a religion of some kind, that they burled their dead, were governed by chiefs and made Instruments of flint. Examples of their painting and -ulpture have been found. As maft goes about the earth analyzing and dissecting every ob ject a great amount of scientific in formation is being gathered which will some day enable him to solve this great mystery of his early history. Mndy In Finance. Baltimore American. "What Is the best way of getting hard cash?" r-W.ork.ins some stilt thins." last night. The banks closed at noon president, or it aisapprovea, unless Saturday and everyone who wanted repassed by two-tnirds vote ot house to cash a check went to the hotels. and senate. If after congress had Some of the hotels were practically passed over the president's veto a Twenty-Five Tears Ago. From the Oreitonlan. June 1, 1835. New York. President Cleveland will officially attend the opening of the Harlem ship canal. June 17. McMinnville. John Hcndrick was arrested here on a telegram from Klamath county, where he is wanted for horse stealing. New Tork. Miss Lillia-n Russell, who is singing in "The Tzigane." broke down at the end of the first act. Hugh Wallace of Tacoma Is In the cltv. During the recent senatorial contest Mr. Wallace received the democratic voto lor United States senator. Fifty Years Aco. From the Oregonian. June 1. 1S70. Tho Y'anihill and Ocean Beach wagon road is now open for the ac commodation of the traveling public By this route the ocean beach can bo reached by wagon. Susan B. Anthony says the demo cracy of Illinois will put a woman suffrage plank in their next plat form. The ship Herttia. of Hamburg, dis charged her cargo of 303 Chinese ...r.er at the Estes & Stimson wharf yesterday forenoon. Of this number 32 are boys, all the rest be rng men. The Hcrtha left Hong Kong for this port April 19. SUPPOSE JOHNSOV SHOULD BOLT out of change by noon yesterday. " Guy Hauk of Grissley, Or., is a holi- dent obstructed war 'operations day visitor at the Perkins. Grissley dilatory tactics or wilful neglect, is between Hay Creek and Prineville, In Jefferson county and has a bounti ful supply of sawmills. L. L. Noonchester, who owned about three furniture stores in central Ore- iron and who specializes fn the buying of peltB, Is at the Hotel Orgon. His headquarters in the fur trade is at Burns. Snver must have been nearly de populated yesterday, for Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Jones aird T. C. Jcpson and Miss Minnie Jenson were registered at the Imperial. Normally Suver has a popu lation of -a. O C. Sether, a timbcrman of Glen- dale, Or., Is at the Hotel Oregon. Gien- Hule Is on t-ow Lieen, me otner side of the canyon and this side of Stage Road Pass on the i-acine nignway. W. G. Ayre has a garden in Baker that doesn't take a back seat for any resolution declaring war the presi- by he Sir. would be subject to Impeachment. The process and responsibilities are the same as regards a peace resolution. When. Deed Is Not Recorded. PORTLAND. May 31. (To the Edi tor.) It a man deeds to his wife a homestead and she (his wife) neglects to have It recorded until after his death, does the neglect invalidate the deed? tG. W. S. It the deed was delivered to the wife beyond recall before the death of the husband her failure to record it does not Invalidate It. Angling-Girl Is Wise. Buffalo, N. Y ., Express. Jessie Have you as yet mentioned leap year in the presence of your beau? Tessie Do I look foolish enough to garden in Portland. Mr. Ayre. who is pull a scare like that on a shy young , .he Hotel Portland, is a millionaire man and I not knowing where my 6Ue:p owner. .next steady is coming from? MeCamant Would naise Cain About It, Says Writer. ALBANY", Or.. May 30. (To the Ed- itor While Mr. Wood carried Linn county by a small vote, yet I would like to express the sentiment in re gard to Mr. MeCamant. Hiram Johnson carried the state, and the voters at large have taken it for irranted that tne aeiegaies win abide by their choice. But here comes Mr. MeCamant, a stana-pat, siuuourn politician, who absolutely refuses to consider the voters states that he will vote for an Amer ican, a republican and a statesman, so no doubt he will cast his voto for MeCamant. Jf Mr. Johnson should bolt the ticket The Oregonian and Mr. Me Camant would turn Oregon's atmos phere into hellfire and brimstone, yet if theirs were the power, we would have fifty McCamants at the Chicago convention. It s men like MeCamant that break parties and platforms, and not types of character such as Johnson and Roosevelt. If Mr. McCamant's lone vote should lose the nomination for Senator John sou I hope to God that Hiram bolts, and we will all be with him. L It. SCUULTZ.