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THE 3IOKNINI OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920
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formed the people's trust. Though
the democratic party handed over
the trust to Mr. Wilson, the people
gave it to the party and -will hold the
party to strict account for the man
ner lh -which It has been administered.
THE IS9CE. ;
President Wilson's attempt to es
tablish autocracy In the United State
and its disastrous consequences -were
unerringly defined as the one Issue
of the campaign in the speech of
Senator Lodge to the republican con
vention. All other questions at Issue
between tho parties are subordinate
to that one, for all grow out of It.
The senator, his memory crowded
with the events of the last eighteen
months in which he has been the
chief contender against the president,
his opinion and purpose strengthened
by the strife, struck straight at the
heart of the dangers from which the
people look to. the republican party
for deliverance. It has become a
trite saying that there is no real dif
ference in principle between the re
publican and democratic parties.
That saying was never true, but the
whole course of the president has
made it more than ever false. The
question which the people will de
cide next November is fundamental.
It is:
Whether the government of the United
Plates shall be a government of laws and
not of men. whsthr it shall be a free,
representative government or that of a
dictatorship resting on a plebiscite car
ried by repellent methods.
The great unpardonable offense of
Mr. Wilson has been, as the senator
showed, that ho. has set his personal
will above the constitution and the
laws. Autocracy has marked every
Important act of his reign for his
double term of office, has been a
reign, his party yielding slavish sub
mission to him or being scourged
with harsh phrases if they rebelled.
Not even success could have excused
it. but its steps have been dogged by
failure, disastrous to the nation and
fatal to Mr. Wilson's fame as a
statesman.
By his sole will our entrance Into
the war was delayed almost two
years beyond the time when the sink
ing of the Lusitania gave us just
cause to intervene, and throughout
that period he opposed effective pre
paration for ultimate participation
His determination that he and his
personally chosen lieutenants should
conduct the war without other par
ticipation by the opposition party
than obedient voting of the money
and passing of the laws which he de
manded fastened upon him the re
sponsibility for the delays, blunders
and waste which came perilously-
near to giving victory to Germany in
the first six months of 1918. He dis
torted the aims for which we fought
and thereby supplied the enemy with
material for destructive propaganda
which still disturbs the world.
His most arbitrary act was the ne
gotiation of peace alone and his
coupling of the league covenant with
it, and from it have flowed the bitter
controversies and the many disorders
which followed. He had fair warn
lng from the senate that a sufficient
majority would not ratify these twin
Instruments, but he went on his im
perious way, trampling on the pre
rogatives of the senate and endeav
oring to bind the nation to ill-de
fined obligations which would revo
lutionize our relations with every
other nation. Thus, after having
kept us out of war till long after we
should have begun to fight, he has
kept us out of peace, as Mr. Lodge
said, long after fighting ceased.
The record of legislation accom
plished in face of his inveterate hos
tility to a republican congress is one
of which it has good cause to be
proud, but the measures which the
senator enumerated as having met
Mr. Wilsons disapproval were no
less essential to after-war recon
struction. The budget bill, which
would have brought our chaotic fi
nances into order, was vetoed be
cause of a suspected technical in
vasion of his prerogative which he
has exceeded more than any former
president, and the waterpower bill,
which would have liberated the im
prisoned wealth of the west, was suf
fered to die because, as the work of
a republican congress, It was suspect.
If there had been no record of
failure in the war for the soldiers
and sailors won the war in spite of,
not with the aid of the administra
tion or of failure to make peace,
the. action of Mr. Wilson toward
Mexico would alone have been suf
ficient to condemn him. There too
his will was supreme. He intervened
by force twice and failed twice of his
ostensible aim, though at Vera Cruz
he attained his true but covert aim
deposition of Huerta and elevation
or - Carranza to power. Caj-ranza
showed his gratitude by murdering
our citizens, confiscating their prop,
erty. ambushing our soldiers, insult
ing our government and harboring
our enemies and those disloyal citi
zens who fled to escape the draft.
yet ivir. wusons resentment was
confined to notes. His treacherous
favorite having met a typically Mex
lean end, it will remain for a repub
lican president to begin the work of
pacification as it should have been
begun in 1913.
Mr. Lodge pointed truly to the one
subject on which the people have
to pass judgment, and which includes
all others. It is Wilson and his au
tocracy. Wilson and his dynasty.
Wilson is the paramount issue of the
campaign. No matter if the demo
cratic . convention should repudiate
him and his unchanged league cove
nant, it cannot escape responsibility
tor manner in which he has per-
AS HONORED RETl'RN.
Not all of the boys who crossed
with the old Third Oregon came
back with the scattered units to
which they were assigrfed in France.
When disloyalty, grown bold again,
prates of the right of free speech and
assails the nation for which the
state's, sons bore arms, it were well
if every listener remembered this.
For some are just returning. The
first of these reached Portland yes
terday, his body in a leaden casket,
his soul with the proud fellowship of
those who fell in every righteous
war. Portland has outstripped her
memories, else there had been, to
greet the sacrificial return, such
throngs as banked deep the streets
when the regiment left for training
and the front.
This particular comrade, so his
buddies say, was "a great pal of his
mother." To her it was that destiny
presented a future barren of his
filial affection. Not his young life
alone, but all the rich fruitage of
love and endeavor, were dispensed
with in an hour of peril to America.
Such is war. It is too terrible in
price, too exacting in its decreed toll,
for men ever to forget that the priv
ileges of freedom were contracted
and paid for by such as this silent
clay from overseas. Those who now
imperil the national safety within, by
utterances and acts un-American,
desecrate the knightly dead.
ernment from the red embers of war
and civil murder and declared the
national dominance of bolshevism,
the I. W. W. in Portland, in Seattle,
in New York, in Chicago by voice
and press laughed heartily at the
claims of Lenlne that he had sired
a new doctrine of human relations.
Strenuously supporting the Russian
designs, and exhorting all radicals to
the same stand, the I. W. W. said, in
effect: ''Russia has but beaten us to
it the fundamental principles are
ours."
In Mexico today there is a shrewdly
organized- propaganda against Amer
ica. It has taken as its toll scores of
American. lives, without other cause
than licentious hatred. Much of it
was created and is still brought to
birth by the deliberate treason of
certain countrymen of our own who
fled the flag. One of these most cul
pable criminals is said to be Linn A.
Gale, formerly of New York, who
now is issuing an I. W. W.-bolshevist
magazine in Mexico. Hundreds of
lesser rogues are with him, body and
spirit, in his design to defeat Ameri
canism through infecting the conti
nent via Mexico. General Obregon
has been sounded upon his views re
garding the deportation of the draft
dodgers and has responded in
friendly but noncommittal manner.
The time may come when Mexico,
most of all, will wish with Latin fer
vor that her boundaries had never
fenced the crew of radicals who have
established themselves south of the
Rio Grande.
AN IjN'IMPORTANT DETAIL.
James Ogle, one of the men con
victed of the murder of J. N. Burgess
and George E. Peringer at the Clare-
mont tavern, near Portland, has been
moved to confess that it was he and
not one David Smith who fired the 1
shots that killed the two men. Inci
dentally there seems to be some at
tempt at justification on Ogle's part,
on the ground that his life seemed
to be in danger when his victim
showed resistance.
Any pretense of self-defense, of
course, will be dismissed immediately
as the absurdity it is, but there may
be in some quarters a disposition to
regard Ogle's confession as an ex
culpation of his fellow-miIrderer.
Smith. But it is unimportant, either
in morals or in law, whether Smith
or Ogle fired the shot. The men.
with another, conducted the holdup
together. They are lucky to have
escaped with only life imprisonment,
which it is unlikely they would have
done if capital punishment had then
been the lawful penalty of murder.
Both are responsible for the re
sults flowing from their premedi
tated felony, itself a crime of the
higher class. If Smith had never en
tered the building, but had only
stood watch outside while his com
panion did the shooting, he would
be guilty. Criminals of the kind that
Ogle and Smith and Banaster are
Know the possible consequences of
the holdup game. All were potential
murderers when they planned a deed
wnicn they knew mitrht include
murder if any of them met resist
ance.
The confession of Ogle may be in
teresting to prison psychologists, but
it striK.es us as an unimportant detail
or the crime itself. If its purpose
was to obtain lenity for either of the
pair, it ought to fail.
WASHING THE CIVIC FACE.
It's no secret that folks always tidy
up the house, and wash the chil
dren's faces, and otherwise salaam
to the gods of social custom when
company is expected. Cities, con
glomerations of folks, are not a whit
different. Now it appears that the.
hospitality of Portland to the Shrin
ers' convention and other mid-summer
assemblies of note is blessed by
the same providence that moves the
Jones family to call upon the Smiths.
Not that Portland ever displays the
drab monotone of Seattle, city
seeming ever to be alien to soap
through its architectural errors but
that even Spotless Town was kept so
by the ministrations t an exacting
cleanliness.
For example, the approach of the
convention caravans stimulated the
project which has removed forever
the huddle of frowsy frame struc
tures that fronted Union station. And
it. actuated the owners of business
blocks, as well, to apply cleansing
agents to the smoky grime that had
gathered upon the flanks of down
town structures, on facade and cor
nice. The building washer, away up
there at his hazardous duty, and
showering water on - the upturned
faces of the curious, was significant
of the civic pride that sustains cities.
The fact to, be grasped is that con
ventions of national character, to
ward whose members it is desirable
that Portland turn a smiling morning
face, are dwarfed to inconsequence
by the steady tide of strangers which
pours into the city without cessation
throughout the entire year.
tempt to segregate the mentally tin-'
fit from other offenders. There are
grades of intelligence to which even !
t cmmnn1 1 1 I . l I
made in vain, and these are not per- I
mitted to cast discredit on thevwhole
plan if they can be discovered in
time. The instinct of altruism, prob
ably extends lower In the scale than
many have supposed, and there Is
verily honor among thieves- among
some of them. Conceding the grain
of truth in the adage, the problem
has been to make the most of it.
Study of individuals, ' rather than
blind acceptance of the Lombrosian
theory that criminals constitute a
definite type, or the contrary and
also untenable theory that every
criminal is a potential good citizen
regardless of his psychology, is more
aitd more permitting the system to
be expanded. There is reason to be
lieve that, in time, and if the matter
is not pressed with undue impatience,
it can be applied to individuals In the
subsidiary strata. That it pays to
be honorable may be made patent
by a series of examples. Perhaps it
is not a high motive for honor, but
it is a beginning.
It is unfortunate that the Chicago
educational institution was not able
to find a way less drastic than total
abolition. It is not contended that
more than a small minority of stu
dents offended and the honor of a
school ought not to be permitted to
suffer for the sins of the few. Per
haps it will be found that there was
fault in the method of administra
tion, that not enough confidence was
reposed in the capacity of students
themselves to remedy the evil. With
incomplete data at command, we
shall not attempt to generalize. But
it will seem strange that the author
ities of a great university have failed.
wnere a number of eminent penolo
gists assert that they have succeeded
with far less promising material.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cass Baer.
Those Who Come and Go.
CLGAs-lP VKKUS POINTED OUT
Lor a Rogers has arrived in Port
land and is domiciled at the Multno
mah hotel, to stay during the Shrine
convention. With a farsightedness
that Is worth mentioning Miss Rogers
wrote over six months ago to the
Hotel Multnomah where she made her
home for the two years she played
Several I naightly Places la Portland j
Kiameralrd by Writer.
Oil has been struck in commercial PORTLAND. June 9. (To the Edl-
quantitles in Wlnnett and Roundup, J tor.) It Is indeed refreshing to note
Mont., and they are drilling at Har- tdy process of cleaning up our
din and Havre." says C. W. Hay- j mnr ,,. ,., K
hurst, who returned yesterday after j rorc the advent of our guests
a six weeks trip In Montana, Idaho May our school board not be pre
and eastern Oregon to study business : vailed upon to paint tho old high
conditions, "Oil is a new proposition . school building at Fourteenth and
In Montana," he continued. "The Morrison streets? As It now stands.
here in stock and made reservations frlke, r" lhe c5nt,i:f i luTZL I'X,
are on opposite edges, the latter , Unless It is to be razed very soon it
about 40 miles from the British Co-surely should be clad in a new coat.
In Other Days. v
for Shrine week. Miss Rogers has
been playing in Spokane this past
season, and has made a list of friends
and aMmirers in that city just as she
did In Portland. An interesting bit
of information, perhaps premature
but worth springing, is- that Miss
Rogers has been engaged to play
character leads with the Baker stock
next season. She will be here for
the Shriners' festivities and will be
joined by her sister and brother-in-
law. Mr. and Mrs. Len C. Baldwin,
the latter of whom is of Yaarab
temple, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Rogers wtll
accompany the Georgia Shriners part
way home 'and with sister Mr. and
Mrs. Baldwin will tour Yellowstone
park and later go to Kansas City
for a family reunion with other mem
bers of her family.
MEXICO AXD THE DRAFT EVADERS
A land distraught with dissension,
where disturbed political and eco
nomic conditions prevail, and where
the ardor of outlaw bravos replaces
patriotism. Is worthy soil for the
seeds of bolshevism. Mexico is such
a country. Her pitiable plight, as
has been frequently pointed out, is
one of the hazards of our own na
tional welfare. Because of this as
sumption and the fertility of the
Mexican field for harvests of disas
ter, American draft evaders cow
ards, criminals and ruddy revolution
ists fled beyond the Rio Grande
when the battle flags were rippling
over a just cause. These renegade
cravens and catspaws of the soviet
are there today, blithely busied at
brewing future sorrow for the land
of their nativity. They did not
choose Canada for refuge, sanely
euuuKii. r or -our lady of snows,"
that time the Prussian boast spoke of
the fall of Paris and an end to civil
ization, held no hostel open, offered
no speoious solace to such as fled
their own flag to escape the badge of
mannood.
It is indicated that the United
States may ask of Mexico, nation to
nation, the deportation and return of
the wartime renegades, that they
may in some measure oav the nn
alty for desecrated citizenshin. That
Liiey snouia De deported and tried for
tneir aesertion of America is a sen
iimeni nnaing wide endorsement.
Nowhere will it be condemned, save
in the grimy halls where irrational
ana restless class agitators seek con
verts to the creed of complete chaos.
..uove tne sniffles of crocodilian
compassion and the denunciation of
oesperatism the voice of the nation
win continue to commend the pun-
i&uuiem or tne draft evader pol
troon or propagandist, either srooio
Even were Mexico to consent, how
ever, the problem of apprehension
remains ana the same dosoric or.
hills of mesquite and chaparral that
nave given sanctuary to Villa and hi
men would provide effectual retreats
ior tne outlawed Americans Tt i
plain that only stabilized conditions
in iue iana or our southern neigh
, vv.iiFirjic L-u-anprar nn -r
the part of the Mexican government
wnen sucn conditions prevail will
"'eorranng of the criminals.
nnwpvpr va r ni . . . i . .
' - u 11 1 mnarianna
lo pring mem Back, the day of retrl
uuliou must wait for tho rr,a
though the capture of a comparative
few doubtless could be accomplished
.t tLiiy lime.
How many Americans know that
me inousinai workers of r, td-ii
self-styled originators of the theory
pwnce or bolshevism, have
iuub regaraea Mexico as a logical
oC l iteration on the northern
continent, and that the dream t
time approached the semblance of
an mapirea revolution, with the di
recting genius of the I. W. W. care
iuuy cioaitea.' n the word of th
radicals themselves is to be taken
on subjects that do not incite them
to falsify, such plans. were at one
time near to perfection. Under the
guise of a new republic, carved out-by
revolution, tne first soviet state of th
world was to be created in Mexico,
When Russia evolved her present gov-
NO MORE PIVOTAL STATES.
II the republican convention
should pick Governor Sproul as the
dark horse,, he will be the first Penn-
syivanian who has had a chance at
the presidency since Buchanan left
the White House. His selection
would be an evidence that the con
vention considers the once doubtful
states no longer doubtful or that tt
believes the party can win without
them.
Republicans have always passed
by the Keystone state in selecting a
candidate because it was considered
absolutely safe, and democrats have
slighted it because they had no hope
of carrying it even if they should
omlnate one of its citizens. Elec-
ions were so close, and New York,
ndiana and Ohio had such a habit
f see-sawing between the parties
that it was considered necessary to
pander to state pride in order to
have a chance of victory. In 1916
republicans learned that they could
ose all of the far west except Ore-'
gon. with Ohio and New Hampshire
n addition, and still come within 23
electoral votes of winning. That dis
covery reduces the importance of the
once pivotal states, and the party
i;oams over the entire field in search
of the- right man.
Of the three leading candidates
two come f 50m states which were not
considered doubtful prior to" 1912,
which was a freak political year, and
men are put forward as favorite sons
without regard to whether it is ad
visable to nomina e them in order to
carry their states. Either the party
has outgrown its old tradition or the
democratic party .is considered so
hopelessly In eclipse that any good
man can beat it, regardless of his
geography.
RENTALS BT THE SQUARE KOOT.
Apartment and business rentals by
the square foot, with the rate to be
established through an adequate re
turn upon the investment, plus oper
ating expense, is the substance of a
suggestion received during a recent
session of the national association of
realty boards at Kansas City. Thl;
somewhat singular method of estab
hshing rentals places space on the
commercial status of the ordinary
commodities of life, and is said to
have been enthusiastically commend
ed by the realtors who discussed it.
In practice it would divide the esti
mated investment return by the to
tal number of rentable square feet of
floor area, thus establishing a pri
mary rate of rental per foot. To
this primary rate would be added a
secondary rate, determined by the
maintenance cost per square foot,
and the combined costs would, consti
tute the fair rental value, the tenant
paying at that rate for the area oc
cupied. If there is to be a reform in ren
tals and the prevalent charge of
profiteering effectually stilled, the
proposed plan appears to meet the
requirements of both landlord and
tenant. It is apparent that choice
locations would still command a
higher rental, and it is to be pre
sumed that the plan has not over
looked this point. The simplicity of
the reform, and the ease and cer
tainty with which its operation may
be observed, is its chief attribute.
Not only would the landlord be as
sured a fair return, but the interests
of the tenant would be protected, in
asmuch as the cards would lie face
up for both. Rental profiteering
would be impossible under such a
plan, apparently, when the basis of
. rents rested upon an exact computa
liou ui me cost ana earning capabil
ity of the building, directly retrieved
in square foot space charges.
The New York home of Caruso
next season is to be at the Hotel
Biltmore. The tenor has lived at the
Knickerbocker since that hotel was
opened, but with the passing of the
establishment was forced to seek new
quarters. The manager of the Bilt
more made a special trip to Cuba,
where Caruso was appearing, and
signed him for the 18th floor of the
Biltmore for next fall. During the
summer Caruso will live at Southamp
ton, L. I., where he has taken one
of the show places.
George Jean Nathan In Smart Set
voices much more ably than most -of
us could do it, an opinion on Maurice
Maeterlinck, who. he says, is the
"latest mystic to blow up and bust."
"For 20 years," says Mr. Nathan, "by
the crafty hocus pocus of living In
a remote ruined castle, consorting
with the birds, the bees and the but
terflies, sending out photographs of
a sad-eyed, ascetic and beautified
patriarch, and writing pieces about
the After Life and the Stars upon
birch bark, the Rev. Dr. contrived to
have himself viewed by the thither
ward yokelry as'a saintlsh and eerie
creature. For 20 years. But mystic
ism is a hard job, and It grows tire
some. So one day tne Kev ur. ae
ided to take a little time off among
the mortals."
So, continues Mr. Nathan, the Rev. 1 Stone and George
Mr. Maeterlinck picked on America
nd when he came to us, "In the wake
f a great white dazzling celestial
light, the lowly peoples bethought
them that it was but meet they bend
he knee in awe, in veneration and
In self-abasement. But before bend
ing the knee for good, the lowly
jakes thought that for once they'd
take a look at one of their beloved
mystics."
The president has appointed Wal
ker J. Hlnes, late railroad director-
general, to arbitrate certain Euro
ica.u umerences. Better send some
section boss foreman of a wrecking
crew.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, mil
Iionaire fugitive draft dodger, is re
ported to have reached Mexico. A
little of the same that Carranza got
woum De about right for Grover.
Old Calamity got off another howl
yesterday in telling the wheat crop
will be 160.000.000 bushels short
That will make the chickens worry.
Have the picture houses the suc
cessful man screened, ready to show?
Of course. There is nothing slow
about Portland picture houses.
Convict Ogle perhaps would not
have confessed so readily if the capi
tal punishment law were retroactive
The greater pity that it isn't.
HONOR SYSTEMS.
It will give a shock to those who
have been trained in the belief that
higher ethical standard is' one ot
the products of education to read
that about the time that the national
committee on prisons and prison
labor was reaffirming its faith in the
honor system for convicts, the fac
ulty of Northwestern University at
Chicago was announcing the aban
donment of the honor system in ex
aminations, on the ground, according
to the dean of the college of liberal
arts, that "cheating in examinations
had increased" in the five years dur
ing which the system had been on
trial.
It would be disturbing if the condi
tion which the dean depicts were
widely prevalent. Fortunately for
our faith in mankind, there is evi
dence that it is not. Against the ex
periences of Northwestern may be
placed many instances to the con
trary. In the University of Virginia
there has not been a violation of the
system since 1840, whi it was in
troduced. Princeton has known no
single case calling for so much as a
reprimand. Both Annapolis and West
Point employed the method with
noteworthy success in suppressing
hazing, after repressive measures
had failed. The honor system in
universities is not as new as it is in
prisons, but it has not on the whole
given rise to complaint. Northwest
ern is the only institution, so far as
present records show, which has dis
carded It after trial.
Meanwhile it is encouraging to
read the statistics presented to the
prison reform committee.. These
show that prison reform has been
advanced by substituting sanity for
emotionalism. The' appeal to the
honor of prisoners has been accom
panied by education in the truth of
the copy-book maxim that "honesty
Is the best policy." There is an at-
hince all Chinamen look alike,
Portland officers did very well in
capturing me ninaman who es
caped from a train Monday.
Any plain, unassuming citizen fil
ing for the presidential nomination
means the "dippy" house rather than
the White House. -
There are only so many cipher
"mats" in the magazine, so the value
of the rains to Oregon cannot be
stated.
If Portland goes on a gasoline jag
now it will be a sad morning after
when convention time comes.
A meteor dropped in Oklahoma
Monday and a few bombs are due to
fall at Chicago tomorrow.
Will the "also rans" stand up and
swear allegiance? That's the qircs
tlon for Borah & Co.
Six-figure deals for Oregon orch
ards continue. Some buyers know a
good investment.
Rainmaker Hatfield takes th
money at Ephrata. Men borti lucky
never complain.
Yesterday was visiting day in Chi
cago, and- today there will be a few
"fireworks."
Hope somebody tells the Shriners
to leave their umbrellas at home.
The showers have ceased and now
for a stretch of good weather.
If Sir Thomas does win the cup,
will he make it a tea cup?
Mr. Heinz, it seems,
make Hoover No. 58.
is bound to
Has the
discard ?
"June rise" gone into the
lumbia line and the former about the
same distance from the Wyoming
line. One well is bringing in 350
barrels a day. Conditions look good
In Montana and the prospect for a
big crop is excellent. ' Montana had
a hard .winter, however, and 40 per
cent of the stock perished. Carcasses
can be seen from the train. Montana
has spent 41.000,000 for feed and
seed for stock and farms in the past
year, this money going outside of the
state. I saw a man hauling hay in
Idaho who said he was paying $45
ton for It, and that he needs two
to3 a week. There is plenty of
moisture in the ground in Idaho, and
the mountains "are filled with snow.
This insures a favorable condition
for the dry farmer, and water for
the lrrigatlonist, the latter drawing
his supply from the snows. On the
whole, crop conditions are splendid
and the county needs It, for some
parts of Idaho and Montana have had
failures for the past three years and
another failure will cause many to
go broke."
No red fez will perch Jauntily on
the head of A. M. Pringle of Bend.
No cheese-knife emblem will ornate
hi coat, and when the Shriners are
parading he will have to be on the
outside of things instead of being
on the inside. An inconsiderate throt
tle on an asthmatic locomotive is to
blame. Mr. Pringle. who runs the
warehouse at Bend, left Tuesday
xne tank of the Portland Gas com
pany, at East Eleventh and Division
streets, also presents a deplorable, ap
pearance for the lack of paint, not
only to ourselves, but to our neigh
bors in Oregon City and vicinity, for
its stained walls may be seen for
miles.
The committee on arrangements
should pay their respects to every
merchant, business man or Junk
dealer in the city who displays a
shabby awning to the public gase.
There Is no establishment in town
which cannot afford a new one If
necessary, and many now "holding
sway" along the car lines on both
sides of the river should not be tol
erated another day.
We . have long had ordinances
against spitting on sidewalks and
throwing refuse and paper in the
streets, but for some unknown rea
son neither Is enforced. Let our city
fathers and police department wake
up, put garbage cans at convenient
corners and see. that all laws tending
toward health and neatness are
strictly enforced. From what I have
seen of coast cities and heard of
others, Portland leads in untidiness.
It is time that our officials realize
that if we are not to be known as a
"Jay town," it is up to them to keep
tne streets much cleaner than they
have ever done.
bouthern Oregon towns are. neatly
Kepi, out on my return from Can
rornia a short time ago. I noticed
Twenty-Five Yrsra Aio.
From The Ore iron Ian ot June 10. 1S5.
Omaha. A mass meeting of work
Ingmen of Omaha met tonight to take
action on the refusal of the supreme
court to grant a writ of habeas cor
pus in the case of Eugene V. Debs,
who is in jail.
Minneapolis. The northwest today
was visited by the worst hail-and
rain storm in years. It was accom
panied by heavy lightning and great
damage was done.
Work is progressing in a very sat
isfactory manner on the new union
depot building. The clockroom on the
tower is about completed.
At the last meeting of the council
an ordinance was passed prohiUiting
hawkers and other peddlers of fruits
and vegetables from standing thel'
wagons on the public streets.
F
night for Portland. The train should j roorn for many improvements In the
have landed him in Tortland early
yesterday morning, so that he would
have had time to take the Scottish
Rite degrees up to the 32d and be
certified for Shrlncdom Saturday. Mr.
Pringle yawned in his sleeper berth
at & A. M. yesterday morning and
figured he must be near Portland.
He looked out the window and in
stead of seeing the Columbia river
scenery, to his horror, he discovered
he was just a few miles out of Bend.
The throttle had gone on the bum
and a switch engine had to be sent
80 miles to haul the stalled train
When Mr. Pringle finally landed in
Portland his Masonic class had
started and he was unable to bust
Into it. Now he is at the Benson.
Mr. Nathan goes on to say that the
ear public took two iooks. nai
they beheld in the first once over was
vain old gent in a red tie and
pearl gray spats with a French cutle
n his arm." The second look showed
hem "the old gent one night clap
ping his hands for Kthel Barrymore
in the Empire theater and the next
keeping time with his foot to the
tunes of a musical comedy at tne
New Amsterdam."
Still more looks, says Mr. Nathan,
let us behold the mystic "passing the
assafras with Mary Garden in the
green room of the uexington-avenue
opera-house, and fighting with the
manager of a lecture bureau for a
bigger percentage of his box-office
haul, and stealing a look at the
comely chickens-on Fifth avenue, and
signing a contract with Sam Goldfish
o write scenarios out in Los Angeles
for the movies, and gazing up in rapt
wonder at the Singer building, and
sticking three slabs of butter into
the gizzard of a single basked potato.
And, beholding, the jakes said "Oh
Hell. Ambrose' . . . and turned
their devotions to Sir Oliver Lodge.'
D. W. Hayncs is in Portland ahead
of "Clarence." the Booth Tarklngton
play, which comes next week to the
Heilig.
Thda Basra has written 1 play. It
is to be produced by A. H. 5 oods.
Othen than that she has written it
and Woods will produce it, nothing
can be learned as to its nature, its
length or whether the eminent "vamp'
will star In it. The parties concerned
are silent on these points.
Astoria is like a graveyard since
the shortage of gasoline. A relief
expedition was dispatched to Port
land and arrived in at the Hotel
Portland yesterday. Members of the4
expedition are Frank Patton. A W.
V. Sanborn, and
they demand gas and plenty of it.
Astoria consumes about 10,000 gal
lons a day and there Isn't a smell in
the town. Autos are stalled all
around, where the engines died in
their tracks. The fishboats, which
are equipped with motors these days
instead of a strong back and a pair
of oars, are idly riding at anchor.
From a commercial standpoint, As
toria is suffering for the need of
gasoline. Just how Messrs. Patton,
Stone and Sanborn are going to save
the situation hasn't been made clear.
but they are hopeful.
, Vlttr Years) Aaro.
From The Oregonian of June 10. 1S70.
Washington. The senate foreign
committee has agreed to report a bill
rescinding the slave-trade treaty
made with England in 1862.
An amateur brass band is being or
ganized In East Portland under the
lead of Tom Parrott. a clever, fellow
who toots a horn as glibly as the next
man.
Every steamer brings great num
bers of people who are seeking homes
in Oregon and Washington.
The elevated railroad track across
the low ground in front of East Port
land begins .to show its dimensions to
great advantage. It is almost a hall
mile long.
appearance of all, our Willamette val
ley neighborhoods. Old railroad ties.
discarded wagons, ramshackle shacks
worn-out overalls, gunny sacks and
waste paper do not enhance the nat
ural scenery of our otherwise levely
land of promise, and it Is earnestly to
be hoped that the progressive citi
zens of Eugene, Albany. Jefferson and
other towns, up to and including our
own. will fall in line and remove all
unsightly rubbish from the view or
tourists.
Eastern Oregon cities not already
spic and span should set about Im
proving their limits at once so that
Oregon may come into her own. Only
then shall we have a stale worthy of
our guests and of ourselves.
MARY AGNES KELLY.
Dale Winter, the cabaret star, who
married "Big Jim" Colosimo, the
cabaret owner who was murdered a
few days later, voluntarily waived
all claln.s on his estate In favor of
two brothers to prove that she had
not married him for his money. She
will return to work.
Baby Desly's sister, Mrs. Fernan
Conlll of Syracuse. N. Y., has given
a theatrical publication an interview
in which she forever lays low the
story of Baby's gift of pearls from
once King Manuel recently of Por
tugal. Baby never wrote a diary.
says her sister, and was not so poor
in the beginning of her career that
he had ' to take to the theater to
support her family as has been pub
lished.
"The king of Portugual was so
poor that he could -not buy one
genuine pearl to - say nothing of a
long string," said Mrs. Conill.
"My sister purchased the string
with her own money as she was
very fond of good Jewels and they
also represented to her a good In
vestment. Gaby was exceedingly
thrifty. ' She was a hard worker and
this undermined her strength so that
when pleurisy and influenza attacked
her last winter she could not rally.
She did not suffer torments as re
ported." Mrs. Conlll says that It Is ex
pected that the late Gaby Desly's
estate outside of the jewels will net
about $200,000. "My sister never had
time to write a diary." Mrs. Conlll
stressed she hardly had time to write
necessary letters.
' Warda Howard is leading woman
with .the Dennison Players, a com
pany now in Hongkong, China. Their
next Btop is Singapore. The com
pany is an English speaking organi
zation, playing modern plays, and Is
i on a world tour.
W. K. Yantes came from Waterman
to the Perkins yesterday. Waterman
is the name of a postoffice on the
ranch formerly owned by George Mc
Kay, who spends his days at the base
ball games and his nights at the
Perkins. Watermon Is 40 miles from
Fossil.' at the end of the stage line.
Before the automobile was introduced.
it used to reauire a day to cover the
40 mifes in a buckboard, and it was
hard riding at that. Now the trip
can be made in less than three hours.
Mr. McKay was postmaster at Water
man for 27 years and held the job
under changing administrations, al
though he is a rock-ribbed republi
can. UI course, as tne posiotuce was
on his ranch, it sort of gave him the
edge on the P. M. job.
"If you ever get the opportunity to
ride in an airplane with one of those
army officers, take It, advises Gov
ernor Ben Olcott, who was a Portland
visitor yesterday. "Of course.
person may feci a little nervous at
first and remember all of the acci
dents he has read about, but one soon
forgets that. W hen I returned from
flying from San Francisco the other
day, a friend of mine, who is a mail
clerk on a fast train, came up and
shook my hand and said he was glad
to see that 1 was back unhurt, well,
now that particular friend likes to
ride a bicycle and I don t know now
many times he has fallen and sus
tained a fractured leg or something.'
When it cornes to efficiency along
business and commercial lines tho
good old United States has nothing on
the more progressive countries of
South America, according to John R.
Stanford, who Is in Portland from
Buenos Aires. Mr. Stanford is general
manager for a typewriter company in
Argentina and Brazil and directs the
activities of a staff of salesmen who
arc selling a large quantity of the
American company's products through
out his territory.
J. W. Blevins, buckaroo, is at the
Perkins from Fossil-way. Mr. Blevins
is pretty husky and when he throws
a leg over a horse the latter loses any
ambition to buck, so Mr. Blevins. al
beit a buckaroo, never has to do any
fancy riding. For years and years be
used to drive a stage between Canyon
City and Dayville, and, of course, from
Dayvllle to canyon city. .
Miss Ella Drews, who teaches physi
cal culture at the Bend -, schools
and organizes campfire girls, passed
through Portland yesteraay on ner
way to Eugene, where she will attend
the commencement exercises as a
former student. Miss Drews is now
planning organizing the girls in lum
ber camps, tnese gjris oeing me cnn-
dren of the camp.
Henry and Mat Halverson and S.
Johnson of lone, are at the Hotel
Washington. They brought a ship
ment of stock to tne rornana yaras
and. like all shippers, weren't exactly
satisfied with the market when they
unloaded.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Acason of De
troit, Mich., are registered at the Mult
nomah. Mr. Acason is neaa or a mo
tor truck factory. With him in Port
land are Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gilkey of
San Francisco.
M. C. Woodard. who is vice-president
of a lumber company at Silver
ton, Or., and Ben Alexander, who is
learning the lumber business at the
same mill, arrived at the Hotel Port
land yesterday.
Frank A. McMinamin, who does law
lng In Heppner and Is 'Interested In
running some sheep on the side, is
at the Multnomah, with - Mrs. McMinamin.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Underhill ot
Sfimmit, Or., are at the Hotel Wash
ington on their way home from at
tending a grange meeting at Bend.
A. E. Stewart, formerly a real es
tater of Fossil, but now a resident
of - SUverton, is an arrival at the
Perkins.
KF.IGHBORLV SPIRIT IS LACKING
Woman, Ont of Own Experience, Con
demns) Social Aloofsrvs.
PORTLAND. June 9. (To "the Edi
tor.) I have read something about
neighbors' day in the press and the
lines struck home with such earnest
ness that I am begging for a little
space believing my suggestions will
do their bit in this work, that they
iy save someone such heartaches as
I have suffered.
A few years ago my husband be
came well-to-do in a plebeian, but
honest calling. Looking about Port
land Tor a home we selected a beau
tiful. clean district and built for our
selves a home that was in keeping
with others of the neighborhood
Never had the idea of breaking into
"society" entered our heads, but there
was a very innate love of beautiful
surroundings.
xne years nave passed, but not a
neighbor has bid me a pleasant day
blckness and trouble have come to
our home, but the faces of my neigh
Dors are as adamant. Babies and
happiness have come tcour home, but
1 see no pleasant reflection in my
neighbors' faces. I sec we have made
an irreparable mistake inlocating our
home among people who call them
selves fashionable and who enioy
erecting social bars. They are very
charming among themselves, these
neighbors of mine, very sweet, very
lovable.
In talking with old friends I find
the habit endures in other parts o
the city east side, west side, aTmos
evory district finds its quota of sel
appointed social guardians.
ou women who act so, can vou
realize the heartburnings you cause
I low does a husband feel when he
sees his wife hedged in by unfriendli
ness? How it tears a mother's heart
to see her children left out of the
parties and pleasant happenings of
those about them!
Portland Is called the city of homes,
but its lack of social spirit Is also
known. Would not more of the latter
help to roll up our census ten years
hence? FROM OLD NEW YORK.
ASPIRATION.
Go up! Go up and find dwelling
In the piece which the raornins has
known!
Go up. though J'ou labor fclood-sweat-ing.
And walk your high station alone.
Go up from tho reek of the marshes,
Tho spume nd the muck and the
mist.
And stand with the sun swooning
round you
In the place which the mornin; has
kissed.
By tears and great labor achieve it.
The sum of all powers that play
In your soul, as tho life forces
fashion
The wild rose that blooms by the
way
Tho rose which springs burning with
beauty
afroni the law-quickened womb of da-
cay.
For there is no joy like endeavor.
To fashion, to form and aspire;
To walk with the gods of Olympus
Who bathe them in white Delphic fire.
And wake in the bowers of beauty
W ith exquisite passion the lvre.
ror gold and the shimmer of rubies
Will canker with many a. stain.
Will scar and will mangle the spirit.
And bind it with many a chain.
bo only the things which are worthy
Should woo the wild heart to attain.
Lest selfishness fasten its ulcers
On the fereed-spotted lobes of the
brain.
Walks Charity ever unmatcd!
Strays pity forever In tears!
ith Truth, her white bosom scarred
over
"rom the thrusts of the swords of all
years.
TUu-e is Sympathy straying with Ro
mance
In a kingdom of Feeling apart:
Invite them! Invite them to enter
And make a loud noise in your heart,
taks their white hands end caress
them!
jJrink deep of their wells and be v. ise:
And woo them and win and possess
them.
And dwell with them under their
skies.
And bask in thj heaven that beam
ing Flows full from the warmth of their
eyes.
For only the ono who desires
Great pla-'e in the angelic i.lan.
Can answer fair reason for living
Is worthy of God or of man.
GJ: FITCH PHELPS.
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FOOD WASTE NEIIDS ATTKTIOX
Complaint Made That Dalriea Kill
Calves to Cirt Them Ont of Way.
PORTLAND. June f. (To the Edi
tor.) Considering the high prices of
veal. why doesn't some one take up
the business of caring for the calves
which are put to death at birth, on
our dairy farms?
Isn't it a burning shame that what
the Lord has so bountifully provided
us with should be slaughtered to get
it out of the way. because it is too
great an expense to feed and market
and then the eternal question of
scarcity of food? Oh, that we. as a
people, might learn to conserve what
we have! We are wasteful, have
grown so the past quarter of a cen
tury, till it has become second nature
to us and the young people of today
know no other life.
Travelers to Europe are impressed
by the careful ways of living that
they see there and Europeans regard
all Americans as rich, from the care
less way they handle money when
traveling. Can't something be done
in this matter?
Seems to me it is a question for
our "legislators to act upon and pre
vent this wilful waste of food for
the people.
ONE OF THE NEEDY.
London and IV'rw York Populations.
PORTLAND. June 9. (To the Edi
tor.) The Journal reported last Sun
day that London has a million more
people than New York. The Orego
nian reported just the opposite. Could
you tell me which is correct?
JOY MAY DUNCAN.
Comparison of populations of tho
two cities is almost unpracticablc be
cause we in America enumerate as
the inhabitants of a city only those
persons within its political boun
daries. Whereas London has no po
litical boundaries in the same sense
that New York has. The ancient city
of London has an independent gov
ernment. Around it lies London
county divided into 29 boroughs each
with its own mayor, aldermen an3
common council and each having rep
resentation in the London county
council. But London county does not
include the outer circle of physically
joined municipalities which are com
monly counted into the population of
greater London. Political New York
has a larger population than London
county, but has not so large a popu
lation as physical London. Physical
New York, that is -New York, with the
addition of numerous large contiguous
suLurbs, not politically a part of
New York, has about the same popu
lation as physical London.
Time to Shop Needed.
PORTLAND. June 8. (To the Edi
tor.) City laborers and employes not
receiving a half holiday on Saturday
afternoons are justly entitled to It.
because at present they have no
chance to shop. A man really needs
one afternoon a week to shop or
trade. I find there are many things
I coUd and would, if I had the time,
buy here In the city, but after trying
once or twice and not getting down
town In time to get Into the stores,
have been forced to send to the mail
order houses. There are so many
things we cannot buy at our corner
store that we must purchase In the
big stores downtown or send away
for. For example, underwear. The
corner store did not have Just what I
wanted. I knew I could get it down
town, but being unable to get down
town In time was forced to take
what I did not want, go without or
send away to a mail order house at
Seattle. I sent away. Would you? I
prefer to boost my home town and
spend my money here, but I will not
go without what I need.
CITY EMPLOYE.
be
Husband I" Saving.
-v Life.
Briggs Clayton's wife must
back from her western trip.
Griggs How do you know?
Briggs I see Clayton driving out
to the golf club In a taxi.
Property In Wife's Name.
PORTLAND. Juno 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Since my marriage I have ac
cumulated considerable property. As
I would acquire a piece I would have
It deeded to my wife. Now I feel like
I would like to have a voice in dis
posing of said property. W hat in
terest do I have in it? W hat steps
shall I take to get it back?. If she
should die who would Inherit it?
A SUBSCRIBER.
On the death of your wife, if she
leaves no will, the property will go
to you provided you have no children.
If you have children the property will
descend to them subject to your
curtesy consisting of a life interest
In the income from one-half the
estate. As the record now stands the
property Is your wife's to do with as
she pleases, except that she cannot
by will deprive you of your curtesy
or execute an acceptable deed with
out your signature. Any present
division or conveyance of the property
depends on her willingness.
Dr. Eliot on Private Schools.
x PORTLAND, June 9. (To the Edi
tor.) I read In The Oregonian that
Mr. William F. Woodward wants to
eliminate all private schools on the
ground that they are un-American.
As an offset to this view I notice
that the venerable President Emeritus
Eliot of Harvard at the annual meet
ing of the Harvard Teachers' associa
tion the other day declared that the
elimination of private schools "would
strike a fatal blow at traditional
American liberty.'
If it were a question of compounds
ing pills I think we might defer to v
J .. Woodward s judgment with a
great deal of confidence, but in this
matter of Americanism it Is wiser to
follow the judgment of Dr. Eliot.
JOHN P. OMARA.
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