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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. JUNE . 3, 1920
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them so exacting a task as the pick
ins of a probable president.
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tel men are aghast at prospective lack
of baggage space for the trunks of
personal adornment that feminine
delegates will bring. Undoubtedly
this is persiflage, and but a wan at
tempt to keep up the old fire of
badinage that once bombarded "votes
for women." And they say, too, that
leaders of the enfranchised sister
hood have talked of a distinctive
political organization for the future,
with membership restrictive to their
sex. If anyone believes this, and
carries the fear of sex alignment
along with him, paresis will claim
him before he witnesses fulfillment.
The bald truth is that women are
in politics, as signified by the two
conventions, and that fact is signifi
cant enough without extraneous the
orizing.
There is to be held, in the near
future, a campaign fOF funds to de
fray the natural expenses of the state
chamber in its expansion work, of
which the .city of Portland is to bear
two-fifths of the burden of a three
year programme. Doubtless the eco
nomic soundness of the argument
will afford the drive, even in these
reluctant times, assurance of its goal.
management and men" is held essen
tial, but "such relations are not made
by legislation; they are a human
growth and not a manufacture," it
is asserted. Freedom to bargain
individually or collectively, without
respect to membership in any or
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Can Baer.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Young of
Boston are in Portland. Mr. Toung,
ganization. is claimed, and the public who Ior 15 dramatic critic
obligation of both parties is thus a "n newspaper, m now nu
recoenized' I or Louis Mann in Friendly Enemies,
A great step forward will b. the general "hlch Cmes "eiH OD JUn
realization ana acceptance - ty employer i v. tt mio in roruana jjar. iouns
It would be paltry proof of Port-1 'SSZlJT1 repon"ibilUy of B'hP Sumner have been renewing
land's sincerity of interest were the
city campaign to fail of capturing
its objective, to the last dollar.
WHY Sl'GAR IS DEAR.
When the people pay 27 cents a
pound for sugar, they have the com
forting knowledge that, if President
Wilson had accepted the offer .of
the Cuban planters last summer,
they could have bought it for 13 or
14 cents a pound retail. That is the
fact drawn out by a New York legis
lative committee from the planters
themselves, whose statements are
corroborated from other sources.
A committee appointed by Presi
dent Menocal, of Cuba, and acting
for the Cuban government, made
the offer on July 29, 1919, to the
United States sugar equalization
board to sell the entire crop at 6
cents a pound. That price "looked
rretty good for the planter," accord
ing to Henry W. Wiltnot, vice-president
of the Cuban-American Sugar
company: it looked good to the
equalization board also, for it
recommended acceptance. Herbert
Hoover in a cablegram from Europe
on July 23, six days before the offer
was made, recommended such an
arrangement, saying that purchase of
the Cuban crop by the United States
and the allies in 1918 gave this coun
try liberal supplies at a saving of
4 cents a pound on the world price.
The president withheld approval of
the purchase after the matter had
hung fire from July to September,,
when the Cuban committee had to
withdraw its offer.
The reasons for this withdrawal
are most illuminating and reflect
further discredit on the administra
tion. The Cuban farmers "got a
notion of the value of their product.
Of the world situation" and "got so
excited we could not do anything
with them," said Mr. Wilmot. An
important factor was the fixing of
a. price of 17 Ms cents for the small
Louisiana crop. The effect was a
break-up of the Cuban market until
no actual sales were made, the brok
ers being unable to agree on . a
price. In January President Menocal
brought about an agreement on 10
cents and since then, with a single
break to 9 cents, the price has gone
steadily upward. Before Menocal
acted 600,000 tons had been sold at
6 Vz cents and have since been put
on the market by brokers and spec
ulators, who got prices around 30
cents, making profits of anywhere
from 100 per cent up.
The letter of the Cuban committee
offering to sell the entire crop at
6 cents contains predictions which
events have proved to be remarkably
accurate. The committee said that,
"while acting directly for the Cuban
producer," it spoke "scarcely less for
the American consumer" and for
foreign consumers. The great bulk
of production required by the im
porting countries was provided by
Cuba, which through its government,
co-operating with the American gov
ernment, offered its crop at "a stab
ilized market price a price mod
erate but compensating to the pro
ducer and well within the economic
reach of the consumer."
"The outlook is prophetic for high
anu mgner prices. - saia the com
mittee, but the Cubans "wish sta
bility for our ndustry." They fore
saw violent fluctuations in an open
market, which "in the end would be
controlled by speculative influences,
nue me producer and consumer
would be the victims of its manipu
lation." The committee said:
The prosneetlve demand from Europe.
Asia and Pan-America will produce an
r" oi speculation without experience,
without precedent. In the history of sugar.
CONTROL BY ONE-FIFTH.
In the Oregon primary election,
more than 108,000 republican voters
did not go to the polls. They entrusted
to the 120,000 who did go to the
polls the duty of expressing the party
choice for presidential nominee.
Of the 120,066 (a few scattering
votes are not herein recorded) on
whom this duty fell, 46,163 voted
for Hiram Johnson. Mr. Johnson
thereby obtained a plurality over the
highest of three other candidates, but
73,903 voters expressed a preference
for other aspirants. The combined
majority against Mr. Johnson was
27,760.
Mr. Johnson received 38 per cent
of the polled vote, but he received
only 20 per cent of the registered
vote of the party.
There is no effort herein to cloud
the result of the primary election.
The intent is to emphasize the ab
surdity of a law which pledges to
any candidate for president the ten
delegates from Oregon on the
strength of how one republican In
five feels about it. The law is what
it is. It offers by means of a plu
rality choice the opportunity to a
minority to control the Oregon dele
gates. That is what is now done.
except that one delegate refuses to
be so bound.
By coincidence Mr. Roosevelt ob
tained the Oregon preference in 1912
by the will of 38 per cent of the
polled republican vote. Some of the
delegates refused to be guided by
him in all things in the. convention.
Bitterness toward and excoriation of
them followed. In 1916 Mr. Hughes
obtained a clear majority of the re
publican vote in the primaries. No
charges of bad faith or other criti
cism pursued the delegates.
A change in the law Is needed. It
is too much to hope that the entire
party vote can be drawn to the polls
in a primary election, but it is clear
that there would be more harmony
and better satisfaction if delegates
were to be considered uninstructed
unless there was an expression by a
clear majority of those . voting in
favor of a particular candidate.
I 8KKING THE SHOW.
It is a matter of history that par
ticipation in national convention de
liberations by alternates is not wholly
dependent upon the incapacity or
absence of regular delegates.
In the lurid proceedings of the
1912 republican convention, after
Theodore Roosevelt had charged that
he had been deprived of eighty or
ninety delegates by fraud and re
quested his followers not to vote,
the Roosevelt men in the Massachu
setts delegation obeyed his request.
though present.
Elihu Root thereupon called for
the Massachusetts alternates and
though protest was made and an
appeal to the chair was taken, they
were polled and Taft gained two
votes.
The Oregon law does not provide
for the election of alternates, but
the successful efforts of National
Committeeman Williams to have the
ten next highest candidates seated
takes care of the omission. But par
ticipation even in view of the prece
dent established eight years ago is
faint hope. Alternates can count on
seeing the show at close range. That
is about all.
their business or job
These frank admissions of equal
rights and of public obligation indi
cate a decided advance from the
days when the right of labor to
combine was denied, but the unions
have taken more advanced ground
in the interval, and the parties are
still wide apart. In many great in
dustries, however, employers and
workmen are getting together on the
single platform of community of
interest. vWhen both act on that
principle, it will matter little whether
the workmen are members of a
union or not; there will be small
need of tribunals to arbitrate dis
putes or of police to suppress dis
order, and the membership of the
I. W. W. and the communist party
will be sadly depleted.
an acquaintance begun in boyhood,
when they attended the same school
Mr. and Mrs. Young have been dinner
guests of Bishop and Mrev Sumner and
were taken for a day's visit along the
Columbia highway. This is their
first visit to the Pacific coast and
they have joined the long liat of its
admirers.
Another guest on Portland's Rlalto
is D. W. Haynes, who is ahead of
Booth Tarkington's comedy, "Clar
nce, coming June 16.
May Robson has ended her tour in
"Tlsh" and has gone to her home,
half hour's ride "out from New York,
Her young leading woman, Katherine
Graham, a Portland girl, has been re
In their opinions on taxation and engaged for next season and will open
finance. transDortation. immieration. m September to tour again in tne
the merchant marine, foreign trade Play- In the meantime. Miss Graham
and the war bonus, the manufac- I ' visiting in New York, from where
turers are fully abreast of the sane she write of happy activities, seeing
progressive thought of the time. For I plays and meeting Interesting people
example, in dealing with the tariff I in the theatrical world.
they give first place to the need of
fostering foreign trade and to "re-
Answer to A. B. Alice Fleming is
vival and stabilization of European fading woman in Cleveland in stock.
FOUR PARAGRAPHS IN THE NEWS.
While we are speaking of pieces
of eight, buried treasure and Stan
ley's dive into darkest Africa, as
though these integrals of sprightly
romance are with the days that come
no more, let's focus intelligent analy
sis upon the daily offering of the
news columns, in quest of the missing
spice of our old favorite raconteurs.
There was once a wight so luckless.
ran an old nursery verse, that he
traversed the globe in his search for
a four-leaved clover, only to dis
cover a perfect specimen close to his
front stoop. The truism one should
cling to, Illuminating it with the lamp
of fancy, is that fact always tran
scends fiction, and that fiction is but
garbled fact.
feAs for Stanley and Livingstone, all
the gloomy, weird interior of the
dark continent did not present them
with an adventure more thrilline
than that related by an American
explorer who returned, just a day or
so since, from South America and
the wild jungle of the upper Orinoco
river. Strange white cannibals, their
lips pierced with the claws of car-
nlvora less fierce than they, poured
in upon his voyagers vindictive and
sanguinary volleys cf spears and ar
rows, to which the erack of the des
perate rifles replied. Four nara-
A TIP FROM ATHENIAN SPEED LAWS, graphs dispense with the ar-r-ount in
Athens, ancient capital of culture, I the news dispatches. Each for him-
has risen again to greatness in the I self the readers, swaying homeward
efficient simplicity of its police meth- I in trolley cars or meditative in an
ods for the correction of automobile OIIlt;e aDove. tne canyon of the street.
speeding. There is a primitive di- '""f visualize tne tropic strangeness
rectness about the measure that rec- P" " 'e upper unnoco
st ir.ctor.tiv in v, r,Ho. tne glint and thud of venomed
trlan who has dodged the impetuous shas. the momentary gleam of liv
advances of all manners and makes ,mg targets in the tangle of the shore-
of motor cars. Doubtless it afforded "ue lo realize tnat the world is wide
,v, A.,-,r,ior. r, t!ii f and various and that storv writers.
in trreater . detrre'e than mere r.er !e theV ever so adept, cannot trans-
sonal safetv calls for. And it has ,ate lts trove of adventure into fic
the additional advantage to the tax-1'"" ""l "d'""'f"a8 tne iact.
payer of reducing the police force
production," while in former years
they would have dwelt more on pro
tection of "American industry.
In making the platform of both
great parties, weight should be given
to the Judgment of every element
in the nation upon current problems.
The chiefs of industry and the work
men and every other interest should
have a voice, for statesmanship con
sists In reconciling all interests and
in effecting a compromise which
shall represent the combined will ol
the nation.
THE FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS.
A new tale comes from the rumor
mongers of Europe, who are said
to get it from secret sources in Rus
sia, that Nicholas Romanoff is not
dead, but that with his family he
succeeded In escaping first to Siberia
and then to Japan, where he is now
living incognito. Here the story be
gins to have variations. One version
Is that he Is plotting for the restora
tion of the autocracy; another that
he is glad to have escaped with his
life and that he wants only "to be
permitted to pass the remainder of
his days in poverty and peace.
So long as the world turns on its
axis, there will be people in it to
Glad ye TJnger, novelist, playwright
and Californian, was married last
week in London to her Persian
collaborator, whose name is Kal
Ardascher.
Doris .Keane has returned to Lon
don after making a film version
"Romance" In America. She an
nounces that she is bo tired she'
going to rest until fall, before ehe
makes her reappearance on the Lon
don stage.
Lady Forbes-Robertson, Gertrud
Elliott, is appearing in London In
"Come Out of the Kitchen," which is
making a big success.
Daphne Pollard Is back in Londo
as the featured artist In the Hippo
drome .revue, call Jig Saw, a sue
cesser to "Joy Bells" of last season,
In which the little Pollard starred.
Those Who Come and Go.
TOO MUCH TO PAT FOB. CHTVALBY
Before a referee sitting at Mine
ola. L. I., the matter of ownership o
Marie Nordstrom's house at Plandome
L. I., again came up. The suit re
fleets the matrimonial troubles of
Miss Nordstrom and her husband,
Henry E. Dixey. The latter has been
living in the house for the past two
Judge R. M. Sawyer of Bend put
up a considerable programme to the
tate highway commission yesterday.
The judge asked that a survey be
made from the Allen ranch to the
Klamath county line on The Dalles-
California highway as soon as the
crew now surveying between Sisters
and Redmond finish that work. Also
he wants a eurvey from Horse ridge
to the Lake county line.. Further, the
udce asked that bide be called lor
graveling the Tumalo - bisters sec
tion of The Dalles-California high
way. This would, he explains, con
nect with the road now being fcrougnt
across the Cascade mountains via
McKenzle pass by the forest service.
The grading, estimates the Judge, can
be done for 75,000, and of this eum
the county Is willing to pay jzo.uuo.
For grading the Redmond-Sieters
road, now being surveyed, the county
offers $20,000. Then, in conclusion.
the ludcre asks that the central Ore
gon road to Bend be Improved 17 miles
east of Bend. Judge Sawyer is at the
Hotel Portland.
Wearing a very expensive summer
suit. James S. Stewart was at the
Perkins yesterday. The suit didn't
cost Mr. Stewart a cent. Last fall
when a contract was let on the John
Day highway he bet the contractor
that the work would not do com
pleted by a certain date. The con
tractor took up the proposition and
the wager was a suit of clothes. If
the road was completed In time It
would be a great benefit to the com'
munlty. ao the local county commls
sloners and some of the most inter
ested citizens underwrote Mr. Stew
art's bet in case he should lose, for
they would be making money by the
transaction. The wager spurred the
contractor out of a spirit of sports
manship, but the contractor lost and
Mr. Stewart ordered a tailor-made
euit. He regrets now that he did
not include a hat and pair of shoes in
the original wager.
W. R. Smith of Myrtle Point is In
town on business. Myrtle Point gets
its name from the thousands of myr
tle trees there. . each looking as
though trimmed by a landecape gar
dener. There has been so much slash
ing of these trees of recent years, as
the country has been put under culti
vation, that within a few years more
the trees will have completely disap
peared. It is difficult to transplant
the myrtle, although Charles Albrecht
of Coos Bay says that if a chunk
about four feet long is taken from
a trunk in the fall and burled about
six lnchee deep, new shoots will come
up in the spring and by lopping pff
the weakest willows, a good myrtle
tree will be the result.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamea J. Montague.
Some Men Expect Wonri te A emit
. Inferiority in Return for Courtesy.
PORTLAND. June 3. (To the Ed
itor.) A man signing himself "Ei
Soldier," In writing to The Oregonian,
says in effect that no wot .an who
claims equality with man has a right
to expect courtesy from man, and es
pecially if she holds a position ror-
merly held by a man.
what positions belong exclusively
to man's domain, please, and wno
makes the ruling? It woman occupies
positions once held by man and rius
same positions efficiently, does not
that prove that she is not do'ng work
which can be done exclusively oy man
and which therefore is not a man s
work? A man's work Is work which
woman cannot do, and there Is one
field where nature made man su
perior, at least in quantity the rieio
of physical labor where muscular
power is required. Let him do that
kind of work and he will not be
troubled by woman's competition.
It Is because of this san.e physical
nrowess that the obligation of chiv
alry rests on him, but does not add I In vain his keenly whetted claw.
one wnit or privilege or prerugaini j xi vam uis craiiy eye.
to man. r or even it man uxci (
every ounce of his muscle power j
backed by human Intelligence, tne re-
suit would be no more Important than
the result of woman's labor within her
natural limitations, which do not In
clude the arbitrary ones established
by convention.
Strangely and perversely, however.
It is in this field of physical labor
where man objects least to the com
petition of woman. Indeed, some
would willingly leave her the whole
field so long as she did not dispute
man's divine right to a revolving
chair, a fat cigar and a desk to put
his feet on. According to some men's
reasoning, if woman admits Inferior
ity and dependence on man, then chiv
alry Is due her; If she claims Intel
lectual equality and a right to de
termine her own destiny why chiv
alry? Why, indeed, if there is noth
ing to be stained by it for man?
If women have to admit inferiority
and dependence to be shown common
decency, then I for one am willing to
disoenae with any chivalry which may
be coming my way without naving
my individual rights violated even
to the extent of giving man my Beat
n a street car and hold the baby while
hanging to a strap.
MRS. M. A. ALB IN.
and eliminating entirely the motor
cycle patrolman.
When the Athenian traffic police
perceive the approach of a car that
i Z
That is precisely what is happen
lng. Speculation is rampant, and
planters, refiners and brokers each
pass on responsibility to the other.
but the consumer always pays. Sugar
Is controlled by the governments in
Europe and is cheaper than in the
United States, though in 1918 the
reverse was the case.
Opportunity to prevent this orgy
of speculation was lost during August
and September, 1919, when President
Wilson was so preoccupied with the
Versailles treaty that he gave little
attention to other subjects. In Au
gust ne endeavored to line up the
senate for a league without reserva
tlons and failed. In September
lie stumped the country to arouse
the people against the senate, and
wrecked his health. The exorbitant
price whk the people now pay for
sugar is one of the consequences of
his obsession. It is,- in fact, only
one of the consequences, for the
other troubles which beset the nation
can be traced in large part to that
preoccupation. We pay dearly for
his attempt to serve the world, yet
the world is not served.
believe the most widely improbable years' durlnK which tlm0 tha couple
A PLATFORM FOR INDUSTRY.
Activity of labor unions in seeking
endorsement of their claims by the
parties in national platforms is
tales. To these Lord Kitchener is
not yet dead, but still languishing in
a remote German prison. The Au
dacious was never sunk. Napoleon
did not die at St. Helena. The assas
sin of Abraham Lincoln was not exe
cuted, but was secretly spirited away
to another country. Charley Ross
was not killed by his captors. The
emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
did not die a natural death, but
hanged himself in his own bedroom,
in a frenzy of worry over an attempt
made on the life of the kaiser by
the Archduchess Zita at a banquet
on the occasion of the kaiser's last
visit to Vienna.
One of the signs of a disorganized Westbrook. and his son. Wallace
society is its growing capacity for I Heid, the Paramount picture star. Of
absorbing rumor. The last-mentioned 1 later yeirs the deceased devoted his
tale is now beiner told In Ttnmo nn I time to scenario writing. He was
the pretended authority of dispatches I about 60 years old.
irom Vienna, with incrpasiniriv eir.
more suits May 20 in the supreme
court, one against her husband, suing
for 614 shares of the F. P.-L., which
she says she owns and which are
withheld by her husband, and the
have been outwardly estranged.
Their marital differences, however,
date back four years.
Some time ago in Chicago Miss
Nordstrom attempted to secure a
separation from Dixey, but the im
passioned plea of former 'Governor
Dunne, representing Dixey, won the
contest for the latter.
m
Hal Reld, a well-known actor and
playwright of a generation ago.
whose most successful play, "Human
Hearts," ran for many seasons, died
May 22 at his home at Red Bank,
N. J. He Is survived by his widow.
known on the stage as Bertha Belle
OSCAR ORIOLE.
When old man Tom-Cat strolls along.
His eyes with greed alight.
The robins cease their happy song
And shiver in affright.
But little Oscar Oriole
,Sits calmly on his limb;
No tom-cat living evejr stole
A single egg from him.
When old man Tom-Cat cocks his eye
Among the orchard trees.
The blackbirds raise a troubled cry.
The wrens are ill at ease.
But Oscar Oriole has swung
His nest In yonder beech.
Where he can keep his eggs and
young
Beyond the monster's reach.
Suspended from a slender bough
it dances In the air.
Which makes old Mister Tom-Cat
meow
In impotent despair.
In vain his appetite because
He don t know how to fly"!
In this old world, where craft and
greed
Contrive and scheme and plot.
The frail and fragile creatures need
To know an awful lot.
When Tom-Cats' hearts are base and
bad.
And sharp and keen their eyes.
All little children should be glad
mat orioles are wise.
PirparediMi.
Chicago doesn't expect any trouble
at the Coliseum, but she la drilling
the police reserves. Just the e&me.
The Greater Need.'
A shortage of bale wire is threat
ened. The farmers are using all
theirs to keep the flivvers repaired.
...
Re Was n Good AngeL
The democratic dark horse is prob
ably house hunting.
(Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndicate.
Inc.)
appears to De violating tne speed matched this year by manufacturers.
provisions or tne city ordinance, tney a committee of their national asso
do not take Its number and dash Nation having adopted a "platform
maaiy iu recmess pursuit. i ney an- ror American industry." It conflicts
ticipate. they do, those sagacious wlth the demands of labor uniops on
Greeks and they cast upon the bou- those points which directly concern
levara airectiy in tne patn or tne the latter, but is far from beinsr the
suspect a substantial plank studded I reactionary declaration which the
witn Keen and capable spikes. It foes of "capitalism" would lead us
is all very simple. If the Joy-rider, to expect, and it founds its principles
or the physician hastening to a bed- on the constitution and on the su-
side, or the man catching a train, or perior rljrht of the nation to the
any or tne varieties or motor maniac, I service of its industries
tails to halt his car before it impales Denying that the United States is
us tires upon tne pertinent plank, "a socialist democracy," the plat
he is thereby automatically convicted form savs it is "a renresentntivn r
of speeding and assessed both by public, founded upon the recognition
court and garage man. of tne moral worth and nraetloul
So drastic a means of capturing value of the. individual " Ktrs i
and convicting speeders probably laid on "his Initiative and self-rell-
never win una enactment in Port- ance and his opportunity for self
land. Whereupon there arises a development and self-expression,'
cnoius, a saaoenea sympnony, of re- and protection and nreservation of
grenui signs. ror it is undeniable these are held to be the main func
mai musiara in Ainens must be the tion of government. Oenvin that
same condiment In Oregon, and that the government Khnniri r.wr. r.
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.uo mUlu,lal 6ieelul mxes me erate industry, the manufacturers
..o.iu Ul euiuinwng an aged or concede that "the regulation of free
tardy pedestrian will be properly enterprise Is Justified by necessity
.U..UU; auuuueu w ne ii ne ap- when for the commnn nn " K,,
proaches punctures and repair bills, they condemn compelled competition
under the Sherman law. They want
PORTLAND AND THE STATE I to Know in advance what is per-
c ii amber, I mitted and what forbidden, but thev
cumstantial detail. Versions of tha
last days of the Russian royal famils
multiply in ratio to the lack of poisa
oi tne people telling them.
Not the least of our after-the-war
tasks will be the siftine of fact frnm
fable concerning the ereat confiint other against Mrs. Selma Paley, an
it is part of the function of the his- actre8S' Ior an accounting or an girts
tcrrian to assist in restoring confl- made to hcr b Mr. Morosco, which
dence. History is not always, though Mrs. Morosco says exceeded $250,000
an eminent cynic said it,' fiction ln va-lue and represent in part the
agreed upon. But there is enough Plaintiffs interest in certain proper
truth in the suggestion to make the t,ea- She alleges that the cash and
most painstaking and earliest nm. I gifts which her husband gave Mrs.
sible research worth while. I Paley were taken from the receipts
and prof'ts of "Peg o' My Heart."
It Is bad enough to have a lot of I Mrs- Morosco also asked for a court
men "going crazy" at the Chicago rder stipulating that Mrs. Paley be
convention, but the prospect of a I restrained from disposing of the
lot or women in like frame of mind property,
Is paralyzing.
WOMEN AND THE NATIONAL
CONVENTIONS.
No sign of the times is quite so
obtrusive as is the naming of many
women, from various states, to rep
resent their respective political par-
Whether they will it or not, .cities I say that the federal trade commis
do not live for themselves alone. I sion, proposed "as a guide to honest
They exist and prosper, or wane and enterprise," "is multiplying its per
retrogress, chiefly by virtue of the plexity, is persistently inquisitorial"
contiguous territory that feeds them, and "represents government by men
and without which they would have I and not by law."
no cause for being. Recognition of I The right of combination, "wheth
this truth is often delayed in arrival, I er by employer or employer corpora
to the injury both of the city, ab- n or union," Is declared to be "rel
sorbed with its purely selfish and atlve and not absolute; it ends where
individual designs, and of the neg- Injury to the public interest begins."
lected and undeveloped territory be- That principle, it is said, has been
yond. In the organization of the I applied to business combinations, but
Oregon state, chamber of commerce, should be "equally applied to all
wherein Portland took an actively I combinations" an evident allusion
efficient part more than a-ear ago, to labor unions. The right to strike
and In which the city is yet con-i I r lock out is held to be subject
cerned with unabated interest, tha to tne community's paramount
metropolis of this state gave en. right or self-preservation." There
couraglng proof that its days of self- fore nation and states should "con
sufficient insulation are dead and trl combinations operating in pro
done with. : ductlon and transportation essential
Quite candidly Portland will admit to the life of the community"; "every
self-interest in ,the accomplishments combination, whether of employers or
and projects of the state chamber, employes, must be equally subject to
But it is the interest of one partnef public authority and legally answer
among others, of a stockholder in able"; public employes should have
a community corporation that em- "adequate hearing and Just and gen
braces every county within the state, erous treatment," but have not "the
From the North Fork of the San
tiam, up ln the mountains, comes
F. E. Westerberg. to the Imperial.
His postoffice is Detroit, the last
town on the railroad. There Is a good
pack trail from Detroit up to Marion
Lake and Mount Jefferson. fc.. xi-
Harriman, when he was at Pelican
bay, once, decided to hit civilization
by crossing the mountains and taking
a train at Detroit. Fortunately for
the state, he motored through central
Oregon and got down through the
Deschutes and this Is what started
him building the railroad up the
canvon. However. Mr. Harriman
didn't start building until James J. j
Hill began first.
"Our peach crop "has been destroyed
by frost," state W. H. Sullivan of
Pasco. Wash., who Is at the Perkins.
Peaches are one of the assets of
Pasco and have contributed largely to
the wealth of the community. The
report from Pasco simply duplicates
the word brought from other fruit
raising sections that there will be a
very short crop of peaches, cherries
and apples owing to the severe
storm last winter and the late frosts
this year.
Lakeside. Or., isn't on the ordinary
map, but it is down on the coast and
from that remote region comes Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. McEachren and Mrs.
L. Gray to the Imperial. The forestry
service has an agreement to build a
road throueh Lakeside, from iteeos
port, southward, in exchange for the
mileage the state highway commission
Is doing in Curry county, and some
day the forestry service intends mak
ing good on its promise.
Homes.
By Gra.ce E. HalL
The smaller, the more spunky. The
Delaware legislature adjourned with
out ratifying the suffrage amend
ment and the womenfolk must seek
farther.
t
Are we going to send Joe Dav to
Chicago to help protect the inno
cents from the bold "dip" from the
Pacific northwest, and if not. why
not?
Bert Savoy, who played the mani
cure girl with Raymond Hitchcock's
show, "Hitchy-Koo." announces he
will marry Hazel Royden, non-professional
of Los Angeles, in August.
Miss Royden and her mother were
visitors here during the show's en
gagement, which ended at the Heilig
last week.
Mr. Savoy was recently divorced
from his wife and JuBt the other day,
after the announcement of his new
engagement had been given out, came
news that his divorce had been an-
There are several towns ln Oregon
over which the natives and the out-
iriers differ when it comes to pronun
iation. Philomath is one. outsiders
call It Phtl-o-math. but the natives
refer Philo-muth. Mr. and Mrs. n.ari
Brown are Portland visitors rrom tne
Benton county town and. speaking of
the town, it has a couple of rival
schools and a couple of rival churches.
r did.
The road between Rowena and Mo.
ier will be finished about September,"
tates W. H. Sherrln, resident high
way engineer on The Dalles section
f the hlchway. who is registered ai
the Multnomah. The old railroad grade
from Rowena to The Dalles Is being
used and this stretch is expected .to
be finished, so far as the grade is
concerned, by the middle of July.
There's always a shortaa-e of
thing besides money, in fact there's nulled- An amended petition on be-
never aplenty this side of the crave nair or Mrs. savoy twno is airs. n.v-
and few contemplate the other side. erett Lv McKenzie) charges that he
used, caveman methods, and asks
and it is without ulterior intent.
ties at the Chicago, and San Fran- Portland is sensible of the advantages
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Cisco conventions. Beyond mere 1
dabbling and desultory excursions
into the meadows of politics, the sex
' is finally and inflexibly committed
to a share in the task of shaping ma
jor political destinies and, through
these, the course of the nation itself.
Suffrage is not only an accomplished
fact, but it is finally concerned in
dealing with facts, and by the results
of its maiden effort it will be judged.
Unquestionably these are exceptional
women, peers in intelligence and
grasp of public events to any of their
to be derived from prosperous and
progressive conditions' throughout
Oregon, but there is an essence of
altruism as well as practicality in
its tardy determination to locate in
dustries elsewhere than within its
own boundaries and to sit In counsel
as an equal advisor, no more, upon
the matter of making the most of
the state's abundant wealth of oppor
tunity. The prldeful challenge of
Dumas' three guardsmen,.. "One for
all, and all for each!" might well
be the motto of the state chamber,
right to combine to stop or obstruct
the operation of government"; gov
ernment should control all combina
tions to paralyze or obstruct public
utilities and should require submis
sion of disputes to. impartial adjudi
cation without depriving the com
munity of service; and the law shauld
not make it lawful for one class of
citizens to do that which is unlawful
or criminal for another class. That
last declaration is aimed at exemp
tions from prosecution under the
anti-trust law.
. As to private employment rela
tions, "successful co-operation of
The navy may be short on battle I that tne divorce be set aside on
cruisers, but the senate hearings I charges of "threats and fraud." His
brought out the fact that it certainly I wife charges he lured her to the
has enough admirals. I Hotel Sherman and that he treated
her roughly and forced her to sign
Tou would better lay in that fuel I away her rights. She further alleges
for the winter. The change from I he told her the hearing would come
oil to grate burning will make a up in April, but that it came up ln
demand and shortage. March without her knowledge.
The court has now given her leave
There is a law against open ex- I to file a bill for separate maintenance.
hausts on motorcycles, but why does I the divorce having been canceled. So
an officer just smile when asked I mebbe that will put a crimp in Bert's
aDout an offender? new plans.
. ' ...
We have a suspicion that the un- I Tne route of "The Passion Flower,'
usual prevalence of moonshine may I with Nance O'Neil, has been entirely
have something to do with the short- I changed through the completion of a
age in gasoline. I deal this week to film the show in
South America with the original cast.
Some young chemist, if he is not Richard Ilerndon, who produced the
blown up in an experiment, will solve I Spanish drama, booked the show for
the car fuel problem one of these I four-weeks near New York prior to
days. I the sailing of the company. Tha
brings the "Flower" into Brooklyn
Brazil has voted money to increase next week, after which It plays At
its navy. It's great to be the big lantic City and then shows in two
rrog in tne small puddle. I subway circuit nouses.
It will be the first time for a legiti
There will be no real reduction in mate cast to be used in entirety for a
the cost pf living until corned beef 1 picture feature and it is also the first
and cabbage come down. I time that an American company has
been taken in total to South America
In view of the srasolinn shnrtne-A for nlcture purposes. That location
we no longer wonder at this talk of I was selected with the idea of gettin
a dark horse. la Spanish background for the picture
version.
It's becoming as hard to buy a I "The Passion Flower" Jumped from
gallon of gasoline as a quart of New Tork to Montreal, the route call
moonshine, ing for the show to go westward
through Canada and down the Pacific
It seems that Wilson asked Dela- coast. The route now calls for the
ware to ratify, which maybe explains. "-t'of Bouti". and n lav
Save gas and give the street cars U,08 Angeles. The attraction is due to
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LEAGUE 19 BL'T MINOR ISSUE
Correspondent Names Several Matter.
He Considers More Important.
PORTLAND. June !. (To the Ecii
tor.) The Oregonian editorial. "Mr.
Johnson and Mr. Chamberlain." to my
mind does an injustice to those re
publicans who voted for Mr. Johnson.
Tou seem to think any one wno sup
norts Mr. Johnson is not a good citi
zen. and Is likely to taint the good
republican party by registering as a
republican and exercising the right
to voting in the primary ror a loyai
American citizen for the presidency
of the United States.
The issue to loyal American citi
zens is not the league of nations.
True, it should receive some thought.
but no candidate can be elected upon
that one issue, because those who are
the very backbone of this country
know there are other things far more
important to their welfare, and to
posterity than "league or no league."
The right of free speech, free assem
bly and to get back to living under
the constitution of this country are
far more important than any "league
or no league" issue. A reasonable,
sane foreign policy whereby our in
terests are protected in loreign coun
tries, a vigorousprosecution of those
who are profiteering daily are others.
Let all live under the same laws;
give no special privilege to. any one.
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1 ne primary law n i, n,u-i .nuiu, "
ereat many is interpreted to mean
that those who are chosen under it
are to represent the peopje not
themselves nor any other big"business
but the people of Oregon. 1 hose
who were elected at the primary have
no choice now, providing they are
honest citizens, but to vote for Mr.
Johnson as the people s choice Tor
Oregon. Any one who cannot abide
by the choice of all the people nas
no place in a representative govern
ment. His place under such a govern
ment is in the penitentiary.
The people have spoken. Let all of
use harken that we may understand.
Do not make little of the voice of
the people. Do not try to set your
selves above the law or to get others
to think they might do so. If we need
not obey the primary law why obey
any law? None are greater than it.
It was put upon the statute books by
the people. Let all of us live under all
of the laws. Even the least of them
we should obey. J.. K. R.
There are mansions within the
crowded town
Where the feet of the thousands
tread,
Tet lonely the dwellers beneath the
roofs.
And empty each gorgeous room;
The burdens of life are pressing down.
The shadows are deeply spread.
And many a heart In the crowded
mart
Is numb with a nameless gloom.
There are clumsy houses upon the hill
And out in the valleys wide.
Where the humble in spirit have cast
their lot.
And wealth comes not to snare;
But under each roof true hearts may
thrill
With affection that doth abide.
For contentment not shown gives the
beautiful glow
To real homes, everywhere.
So you who are out ln the valleys
broad.
Or high on the hills alone.
May paint the walls of your crude
abode
With a mafrlcal brush of gold:
May rest with a satisfied faith ln
God.
In a joy that is all your own.
While your heart beats true to the
best in you.
In peace thr.t is never told.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Tears Ago.
From The Orfconlan of June 3. 13!5.
North Yakima. The Ellensburg
baseball team defeated North" Yakimt
here today In a close and exciting
game, 24 to 21.
James J. Hill, president of the
Oreat Northern railway line, arrived
n Portland at 6 o'clock last evenint
n a special train.
By washing eediment which acc
umulated in the boilers while Wil
lamette river water was being used
the janitor at the Sherlock building
found that he could pan gold.
Over two tons of strawberries were
handled yesterday at the salesroom of
he Multnomah Fruit Growers' union
on Front street. The growers are all
highly satisfied.
Mrs. E. L. Crooker of Austin, Tex,
arrived at the Perkins yesterday to
join her husband. They will make
their home in Oregon, which they have
decided is far more attractive than
any other state they have visited.
Mrs. Crooker says that many Shriners
from Austin will be unable to visit
Portland because they cannot secure
sleeping cars for the Journey.
All but $100,000 of the 2, 000.000 ot
Junk that C. E. Farnsworth bought
when the erovernment sold a mountain
of disused material after the war nas
been disposed of. Mr. Farnsworth did
not lose any money on the transaction.
He registered at the tsenson yesterday
from Seattle.
S. S. Schell, who has a contract for
a chunk of tne racinc nignway, is
registered at the Imperial from Grants
Pass, and J. L. Calvert, wno also nas
a Pacific highway contract. Is reg
istered at the Hotel Oregon, likewise
from the Pass.
B. E. Stomm has some Job with the
Pennsylvania railroad system. He is
the purchasing agent and in these
days of Increasing prices, the pur
chasing agent's Job Is far from being
a happy one.
John McBride, vice-president and
general manager of the Montana-
Warrenton Development company, is
at the Multnomah. He is registered
from Great Falls, Mont.
Harry Shoubert, who operates the
fruit-box factory ln Klickitat valley,
is an arrival at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Peters, from
Cherry Grove, Or., are shopping in
Portland and are at the Multnomah.
Chief Justice McBride and Attorney
General Brown were at the Seward
yesterday.
GOOD SLOGAN FOR EVERYBODY
"Consider the Other Fellow; Keep to
the Right" Has Broad Application.
PORTLAND, June 2. (To the Edi-
or.) Under the caption, "Keep to the
Risrht." The Oregonian has been en
abled to lay before the reading public
great truth. The result of M. o.
Wilkinson's trial trip of the "ship
by-truck" movement from Portland
to Eugene brought forth from one oi
the truck drivers a saying that is not
only of great value to all autoists but
Is truly fit to be placed on a level
with the great sociological doctrines
of Gotama. Jesus Christ and Con
fucius. You failed to give the truck
driver's name, but that name should
be emblasoned in gold letters.
'Consider the other fellow keep to
the right" is a slogan that far sur
passes any eaylng that ever was
shouted by the wild highlanders or
Persia and Scotland as they passed
the fiery cross from glen to mountain
ton. Unfortunately, the human race
in all lands has been sadly artncted
during the past 20 years with catch
words of all kinds, but here is
phrase that will stand the test of all
time. It is uttered in rustic Jingle
but It has the ring of pure, unalloyed
gold; never -was there a time in this
world that such a saying was more
needed. Never a time for a better
start to retrieve the lost ground since
the world war.
Consider the other fellow should be
the wild shout of the world. Let it
ring down the ages. It Is the only
thing that can save humanity.
UEOKliE fUflL..
Industrial Nnrse Is Estimated.
Indianapolis News.
That trained nurses are being em
ployed in increasing numbers show
I that employers generally are. recog
nizing their services. Previous to
1919 only 66 Industrial firms em
ployed trained nurses. Today- more
than 871 industries have nursing serv
ices. The industrial nurse has proved
to be a good Investment. She is
teacher of hygiene, and health educa
tien means prevention of accidents,
which in years gone by have cost In
dustry many thousands of dollars.
Kirty Years Ako.
From The Oreponlan of June 3, 1S70.
New York. The New York demo
crats have a nice way of swindling
he colored people out of their vote.
In one ward about 1000 negroes had
been registered, but when they went
to vote they found that their names
had already been voted by democratic
'repeaters."
The .steamer Astoria arrived in
Portland last evening in tow with a
load of rock for the Portland post-
office building.
We learn that the work of finish
ing up the Taylor street Methodist
Kplscopal church Is progressing rap-
Idly. The lathing has been finished
and the contract for plastering has
been let-
Historic Information to Be Had.
PORTLAND. June 2. (To the Edi
tor.) The article in The Oregonian
Sunday. May 30, was a very Interest
Ing article to me, born as I was in
Portland in the year ia2, and maoe
It my home all these years. There
are some slight errors in tne story
as told, yet generally speaking it
fairly correct, its -.historical nature
is such that it impresses me that
series of articles written by sucn
well-known descriptive writers as
George Law Curry Jr.. or Addison
Bennett, would not only prove or ex
tremely interesting nature, but would
get together many items that would
prove of historical value ln the fu
ture years of the city.
Tha re are many men yet living In
Portland who either came to Oregon
or were born here between the years
1850 and 1860. Among the rest I can
mention the following: Henry W.
Prettyman, I. Grundy Davidson. P. A.
Marquam Jr., Henry E. McGinn, Dr.
T. C. Humphrey, Penumbra Kelly, Dr.
Richmond Kelly, Wilbur 'G. Kerns,
Walter A. Graden, Newton L. Gilham,
Nathan D. Bird and Andrew J.
Wheeler.
There are many women and other
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, OLD TIMER. I full step
RESPECTS PAID TO JAY DRIVERS
Jay Walkers Not Entitled to All the
Mention, Says Writer.
PORTLAND. June 2. (To the Ed
itor.) While the Jay walker has been
favored with many write-ups, true or
otherwise, the jay drivers, and many
of the beauties, too, have been neg
lected. Just why, deponent knoweth
not. They do much more execution
than the favored jays do.
Coming in on a W. S. car near the
turn of a corner, with a clear open
view, and when perhaps 50 feet from
said corner, an automobile carrying
two middle-aged men and two women,
ran up so close around the corner
that the motorman had to exert him
self to his utmost to escape a collision.
The jay driver gently backed away,
and allowed the car to pass. In case
of a smashup, would that have been
an accident or an "unavoidable?"
The strip allowed for the pedes
trian to walk on seems to be from
9 to 15 feet wide, and a good hustler
Is supposed to go across the street in
safety, but In many instances the auto
stops across said strip and the foot
man has the choice of being a jay and
going around the auto and Into the.
preserves, or wait, and in due time the
machine moves on.
If the jay driver were summarily
dealt with as people who continually
jeopardize the lives of others, thoao
having to do business" on congested
streets would be in less danger.
A smal concise book, suited for the
pocket and containing all the require
ments of the different laws and or
dinances, should be in possession of
every person living in the city and
operates a machine of any kind on the
streets would help some. Many
drivers are not familiar with all the
rules and regulations. The jay driver
is certainly a menace.
There should also be an ordinance
forbidding the streets to women with
dress skirts tnat will not permit a
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