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STILL FREEDOM'S LODESTONK.
Across the economic sky, where
the clouds are yet tumbled in tur
moil, interested observers behold the
silver rift that portends a return to
normal conditions. It is the resur
gence of immigration to American
shores. Those who are watching it,
with an intentness that comments
upon previous anxiety, predict that
the restoration of the influx, which
ceased abruptly as Europe entered
the war, will insure to this country
the labor balance essential to the
demands of production and the con
tinuation of progress. Not that
America Is crying an urgent call for
cheap foreign labor, but that there
Is work to be done and these are the
hands to accomplish it. With the
return of the immigrant the observ
ers foretell a willingness to toil.
During the first five months of the
present year there debarked at Ellis
Island, the national quay for a large
proportion of our foreign arrivals
and future citizens-, more than 150.
000 immigrants, streaming downthe
gangplanks and into the province of
freedom at the rate of 1000 each
day. Ellis island cares for 80 per
cent of the nation's immigration,
and the stock whose sons become the
builders and statesmen of a genera
tion hence have made that port of
entry synonymous with acceptance
of American obligations of citizen
ship. In 1919, as contrasted with
the existing inward set of the cur
rent, the total number of arrivals at
all ports was a meager minimum of
141,132. During the present month
the officials of immigration at Ellis
island calculate that more than
50,000 citizens of foregin lands will
seek sanctuary, via that port, in free
America.
It is noted that fully one-half of
those who now are landing at Ellis
Island are widows and children the
flotsam of fierce tides of conflict and
star'vYtion in Europe. Presumably
they have kinsmen in this country
ho, for all the scathing batteries
of radical criticism directed against
the land and its methods, conclude
that the United States is a fair haven
for them and theirs. Emma Gold
man the Irreconcilable, the raging,
the rebellious, wept in soviet Russia
when she suffered banishment her
tears impelled by longing for the
breadth and freedom she had
spurned. Theory and the truth of
Russia were as alien as oil and water.
War widows, of course, are not pro
ducers in any calculable degree, but
their coming to America is an omen
of imperishable trust.
The remaining 50 per cent of im
migrants Is comprised of the finest
type of laborer and artisan, it is said.
Many are returned reservists of our
allies, already familiar with the
country and their niche in its needs.
Here, too, is an expression of com
mendation beyond price the return
of men whose faith in our national
institutions and opportunities has not
been extinguished nor dimmed by
the strong winds of war. With
Europe and its experiments spread
before them they chose the first and
speediest course back to the land of
heart's desire. As an aside in com
ment, and fraught with singular im
portance, it is observed that national
prohibition is not serving as a deter
rent to renewed and virile immigra
tion though earlier prophets said
that it would. Quite evidently the
foreign-born are entering this coun
iry m quest oi lortier and more
.'genuine liberties than the privilege
of thrusting their wages into the
hands of bartenders.
Faith in America, such is the read
lng of the immigration chart. Not in
a single year, perhaps, will we attain
the previous volume of entrance, for
the established record is that of
1914, when the gates swung inward
for 1,218,480 immigrants. What
dunnage of human iuspiration, of
will to achieve, of ze.t for honest
toil, so vast a concourse of humanity
must have opened in the new home
land! .That there entered with these
virtues many of the plagues of Pan
dora's ancient chest of evil, that
alien faces rose to mow and gibber
at the land that gave them homes
and offered happiness, was the in
escapable result of too lenient and
genial interpretations of the immi
gration requirements. Not that Amer
ica did not profit by the influx as
t i . . . ,
noi mat immigration was
then undesirable, or has ceased to
be, but that a careful winnowing of
me cnan wouia nave attained more
felicitous results. Scholarly, self
assured, glib-tongued entrants, loom
ing above the mass of peasantry,
were orten the perverted Intellects
of foreign sociological cults that list
destruction and disruption as way
millions on me march to Utopia.
; The literacy test, now In effect
should be applied with rare diserim.
ination to the renewed current of
mood ana brawn and brain that
i seeKs transfusion to the body of our
imiiuu. x-iti- ueuer it were to r-
; celve a host of plastic candidates for
citizenship, to whom the principle of
j Americanism might be taught with
trust in its assimilation, of candi
dates lacking the sparkle and finish
of foreign education, than that one
crafty, cultured, university-bred hy
ena of unhappiness and unrest should
THE KEPT PRESS.
The "kept" press, as Senator John
son calls newspapers which do not
admire him, is not kept by the in
fluence of purposeful ownership or
otherwise, from giving Senator John
son a great deal of publicity pub
licity of a kind and extent which his
competitors for the nomination do
not obtain.
Daily there is an interview with
Senator Johnson or a statement
emanating from him on platform.
organization, duty of delegates or
something else. There is little or
nothing from Wood or Lowden or
Hoover or any dark horse on similar
subjects.
A kept press or an unkept press
knows that the surest way to smother
the political ambitions of an indi
vidual Is to Ignore him. Yet Senator
Johnson is not ignored. It is the
other way round. Shall we say that
the kept press which thus benefits
the aspirations of Senator Johnson
is poorly kept?
Senator Johnson is a prime con
vention news source. He has the
Rooseveltian faculty of saying and
doing things that attract attention.
He also has Roosevelt's emphasis of
expression, yet he lacks Roosevelt's
originality. . It is hard to imagine
Roosevelt applying to newspapers an
epithet so greatly overworked in
street-corner oratory, no matter how
severely he wished to trounce them.
It would have been something
original and memorable.
kept on strike for three months,
losing $800,000 in wages, but "while
they had asked repeatedly for a
statement of the grievance upon
which the strike was called, they had
never been told by their union presi
dent why they were striking." It In
volved less than $2000 and its essence
was a personal grievance of the pres
ident against the operators.
The industrial court is gaining
favor. Mr. Allen says that "ten state
legislatures and two constitutional
conveAtions have already considered
the Kansas plan." The idea is tak
ing hold that an industrial dispute
which cuts oft the supply of a neces
sary commodity or public service is
as truly an offense against the state
as is any crime which the law re
gards in that light.
all that they actually earn beyond
chance of question. If America were
to start the process by starting the
machinery, by relieving friction and
by an example of industrial justice
founded on individualism in contrast
to socialism, it could not only save
Europe but gain a rich reward.
AN APPLE ORCHARD .MENACE.
The appeal of the Applegrowers
association at Hood River for "co
operation in the drive against the
apple tree disease which Oregon hor
ticulturists call anthracnose is timely,
and will be heeded without waiting
for official compulsion in other dis
tricts In which the menace exists.
By whatever name it is known, apple
tree anthracnose Is a threat against
orchard existence; yet the method
of combating it is so standardized
BOYCOTTING SUGAR. that It is distinctly possible to keep
We could get along with less sugar I It under control if it Is not probable
than we are using, as a correspond- I that it will be entirely eradicated.
ent suggests. In theory we need only j The principle is that of prevention.
to remember that sugar was prac-1 Without going into too technical de-
tically unknown in Europe prior to tails, it can be said that the sole
the fourteenth century in order to I purpose of spraying is to make the
be content to give up entirely this host, which is the bark of the tree,
form of sweets. That which has I Inhospitable to the propagation of a
been done can be done again. But new generation of the pest. The lat-
there is a gap between theory and ter is propagated by spores after the
practice. Having grown accustomed death of the old generation, and
to our sugar, and being practiced in after the spores have found root in
self-indulgence, it is a grave question the bark there are no measures in
whether any attempt to organize a the light of present knowledge that
sugar boycott would win. Its sue- are practicable for its eradication.
cess would presuppose a higher form There Is theoretically a period in
of social organization and a higher I which the older generation has died
degree of self-sacrifice than are likely out and in which its progeny are
to be available. I seeking only favorable ground In
The early history of sugar in Euro- which to establish themselves. But
pean countries is synchronous with in practice it is not possible to de-
BT - PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES
A PRIMARY SAFETY VALVE.
The Scio Tribune and the Myrtle
Point American find grievous defects
in the nominating primary. The ob
servant Tribune complains that the
free-for-all phase permits too many
self-selected and unfit aspirants to
acquire nominations. The observant
American finds fault because the pri
mary is too exclusive it is confined
to party members. The Myrtle Point
newspaper would permit voters of
any party or no party to participate
in any party's affairs.
The Scio newspaper proposes an
advisory assembly, which is, of
course, out of the question, as the
republicans who once had one in
Oregon learned to their sorrow. The
Myrtle Point method of retrieving a
system from failure is not altogether
novel so far as primaries go, but it
has not yet been suggested that Mr.
Bryan, Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Wilson
and their followers ought to be per
mitted a voice in the present Chicago
convention.
But it is refreshing to witness the
growth of interesting discussion of
the primary's deficiencies. Admit
tedly it provides no better candidates
and no better officials than the con
vention system, and when it does
produce a conspicuously unfit candi
date, alack and aday, there is no one
we can denounce but ourselves.
We offer as compromise for pri
mary worshipers and convention re
piners the proposition that a new
public office be established that of
political whipping boy, who will take
the after-convention place of the
boss, the ringster, the steering com
mittee chairman, the trader and the
member of the old guard. We pro
pose, in short, ar paid officer for each
party who shall be held responsible
for all the missfires, misdirections and
unsatisfactory results of tfre direct
primary and be the objects of denun
ciation, execration and oratorical ex
plosion.
The primary is too polite. Who
wants to be confined forever to de
nouncing an impersonal and unre
sponsive system? Who dares to de
nounce the public for its errors? Tet
there ought to be a- safety valve.
the age of discovery. It was ex-1
ploited by the Portuguese and then
by the Spaniards, who introduced
its planting into America. The first
canes set out in Santo Domingo were
termine this with absolute accuracy.
wherefore precautionary measures
should allow for a margin of safety.
This is provided for in the Hood
River injunction to include copper
carried there by adventurers. But it sulphate in the July and August
was some centuries before the people sprays. Copper sulphate is an an
knew or cared much about it. Its thracnose repellant. There are an
price was enormous and it was re- encouraging number of instances in
garded as a cross between a medicine which thorough and persistent spray
and a curiosity. Queen Elizabeth lng has resulted in virtual eradica
used to munch an occasional stick of tion in a single season,
raw sugar cane, but she knew noth- The social duty of the orchardist
ing of the many uses to which the is emphasized by the eternal corn
finished product is now put. At the bat against fungus? and other ene
equivalent of about ten dollars a mies. The 'safety of all is literally
pound, even .royalty was not likely to the concern of each in horticulture,
keep an open sugar bowl. Not until The single neglected orohard may
coffee and tea entered commerce did undo all the work of the most con
sugar become widely popular. Beet scientious . caretaker. The highly
sugar was unknown until Napoleon's organized fruitgrowing community at
suDsiay made It possible. There is Hood River has shown how much
an interesting print still In existence can be done by united action, but
in which Napoleon is depicted as there are other localities which ought
offering a beet to his infant son, the to prof it by Hood River's example,
king of Rome, with the command: Those who have seen anthracnose at
Eat it; your father assures you it work need not be warned of the
is sugar. Imnftrative nfirpssirv of thnrmip-h and
All me sugarless centuries prior to intelligent SDravinsr: others should
about 1300 are proof that white men be educated, and the few who do
can live without sugar. But to try not absorb the SDirit of co-ODeration
to do so now or even greatly to curtail voluntarily should be compelled to
consumption, would involve revolu- take such measures an are necessary
lion in our wnole dietary scheme, for the safety of the industry.
reopie aenied- tnemselves more or
"cc.iu.., mn me wa.r was on. Records do not stand long now-
tut it seems improbable that they Udays. The Calro-to-Cape long-dis
win ue persuaaea to no so on a tance flight already has been put in
nationwide scale in time of peace. second place by the arrival in Japan
Our, annual consumption of eighty- of the aviators sent from Italy under
nine pounas per capita. Dy compart- tne auspices of their government
son wnn less man ten pounds a cen- Thcv crossed Asia Minor, northern
s"' '"' io a naDit too nrmiy India, Siam. Anam, China and Corea
u"u LU oe auanaonea on tne issue and over some of the route were in
of a few cents a pound in the price.
SELFISH REASONS 1 OR HELPING
EUROPE.
Sir Auckland Geddes warns us that.
try as we may to keep clear of
country whose inhabitants have
never seen a European. Together
with the recent French air expedi
tion from Algiers to Timbuktu the
voyage promises to solve a number
of problems as to the behavior of
THE KANSAS PLAN CATCHES ON.
Hostility of union-labor leaders to
the Kansas industrial court is domi
nant at the convention of the Ameri
can federation or La.Dor, dui tne
court goes on from success to suc
cess, has practically stopped indus
trial strife in Kansas and has won
respect and obedience from employ
ers, workmen and public alike. Op
position of labor-union leaders can
be explained by the fact, that it takes
away much of their personal power
and tends to change the whole char
acter of their organizations. They
are now militant, existing to fight by
means of the strike or threats to
strike. With the strike eliminated
by the court, radical leaders the
militarists of the labor movement
are deprived of their occupation and
unions may become what Governor
Allen calls "a more benevolent type
of organization."
These effects, not prohibition of
strikes, probably cause enmity of
labor leaders to the industrial court.
Policy forbids them'to admit that to
be the truth, hence their diatribes
about involuntary servitude and
about the sanctity of a man's right
to quit. Their power is undermined
by the intervention of the public in
labor disputes as a third and para
mount party, on tne ancient prin
ciple, as stated by Governor Allen in
an article in the Review of Reviews,
that the state has "the inherent
right to protect itself and its mem
bers against anything that is preju
dicial to the common welfare." The
phrase about "a man's right to quit"
does not truly describe the effect of
the law, for it does not affect any
individual's right to quit unless he
does so in' concert with a number of
others for the purpose of paralyzing
industry until their demands are
granted. Kansas holds that the in
jury done to the public gives it the
right to forbid the strike and to
adjust the dispute.
Most alarming to Alexander Howat,
president of the Kansas miners'
union, is the readiness of miners to
take their grievances into court vol
untarily in defiance of a decree of his
"war council," as Mr. Allen terms it,
to fine them $50. Any union or
officer of a union who appeals to the
court is to be fined $5000, but several
unions have incurred this penalty.
They do so the more readily because
they find that the court promptly
relieves them of wrongs which
Howat's organization has failed or
neglected to have redressed. Thus
miners have been relieved of a dis
count of 10 per cent If they draw
their wages before payday, the court
having ordered that only a small fee,
sumcient to pay the cost of extra
bookkeeping, be charged. . Opera
tors had been ordered to sell powder
at cost, but did not state the price.
The court fixed a price based on cost.
Miners can no longer be compelled
to strike in order to satisfy some
personal grievance of their union
officers. Those at one mine Ua.d been.
European entanglements, we cannot planes under varying conditions, and
keep clear of European disentan- it will not only give us- greater
glements which are the legacy, of the knowledge of the world but will
war, for they are already roiling 1 bring perceptibly nearer the day
the waters on our social beaches." when flying will be purely a matter
l ine swen oi tne jt,uropean storm I of routine. The t rench flight also
has caused the strikes and revolu- proved, as its promoters designed It
tionary conspiracies of the last two should, that airplanes will be of
years. If the total disaster which he practical assistance in the economic
pictures should destroy European development of the desert regions
civilization, the collapse w o u 1 d of Africa, as the other African expe
strain all the many cords, spiritual, dition paved the way to opening the
intellectual, sentimental, material, jungles to civilization by discovering
which connect America with Europe, that they are spotted with natural
and the falling structure would en- airdromes, which will make future
danger that which we have built on I trips comparatively easy.
this continent. ,
The situation on a grand scale is
similar to that which exists at the
beginning of a financial panic. In
order to save themselves, banks are
driven to support other banks and
This not from a Nick Carter
thriller, but out of a news dispatch
by the ordinarily sedate Associated
Press: "Bloodhounds were put on
the track of thieves who stole Ca-
great business institutions, for if each ruso's cash and jewels.- The dogs
were to care for itself alone, all picked up a scent." And, we doubt
would be dragged down in common not, they were very hot doss when
Philadelphia Newspaper Figure) Out
Reason for Delayed Letter.
The other day a registered letter
was mailed in Philadelphia, addressed
to "Hotel Prince George, New York
City." The letter reached its destina
tion four days later.
No actual knowledge is had of the
route traveled by the letter. But here
is the probable procedure, says the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. An in
vestigator doubtless made a special
trip from Washington to Philadelphia
to consider the case. Marked merely
"New York City," without any state
being Indicated, the letter was, of
course, a source of bewilderment. All
the New York cities in this and every
country were looked up. At last the
investigator decided to take a long
chance and send the letter to a New
York city which appeared to be lo
cated In a New York state.
With his staff of postal detectives,
the Investigator followed the letter to
New York. Every "Hotel Prince" in
the city was looked into without
avail. Next, each person in the direc
tory answering to the name of George
was put through a grilling investiga
tion, but none claimed the mysterious
missive.
"But," objected a junior Investiga
tor, "the envelope distinctly says 14
East 28th St.'"
"Ah!" smiled the master mind, "but
that may be only a blind."
It was discovered that there had
been a hotel In Boston called the
Georgian. Detectives sent thither,
however, searched in vain and came
back discouraged.
Despairing of ever being able to
find the address or the addressee, the
master mind was about to consign the
letter to the waste basket, when' his
private secretary hurried in. "Sorry
to be late," said he, "but though I
left a call with the. clerk at the Prince
George hotel "
With a glad cry the master mind
snatched up the letter. "Here," he
said to one of the office boys, "if you
happen to be going downtown this
week you might drop in at the Prince
George hotel and leave this letter."
No trouble is too great for the post-
office department to take in order to
insure quick and efficient service.
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Representative Sanders of Indiana
went up into Pennsylvania recently to
make a speech, says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, and while he was in a
meeting one of the local oracles was
called upon to make an address. The
oracle unwound his beard from the
rungs of bis chair advanced to the
platform and with great hesitancy
said:
I don't know that I can make a
speech. (Pause.) There are many
questions before us, however, which
deserve consideration and extended
discussion. (Pause.) One of them is
prohibition. (Pause.) Some think it
is right and some think it wrong.
(An extended pause.) I'm not saying
whether I think it is right or wrong.
(Very long pause.) This I will say.
however, and I am sure you will all
agree with me: Prohibition has
caused a great emptiness in some
parts."
That final statement broke up the
meeting and the oracle escaped with
out going on record for or against
liquor.
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Out of a clear sky and mingled
with rejSbrts of the week's prices for
eggs, the Ivmgsbridge Gazette, Dev
onshire, England, has this to say
about the present status of religion
thereabouts:
"Easter services in the churches
were of the same character as in for
mer years. In many instances the
attendance at the services showed an
improvement, while in others there
was a slight falling off in numbers."
Could anything be fairer than that?
A royal decree orders the trans
formation of the residence in Toledo
of Cervantes, the famous author of
"Don Quixote" into a national mu
seum under the supervision of the
department of fine arts. Protests
have been voiced in every city in
Spain against modernization of Cer
vantes' house and many academies
and art organizations demanded that
its original character be preserved.
Those Who Come and Go.
ruin. Looking only at the material
side of the case, destruction of Eu
ropean civilization would mean loss
of the market, for the largest part of
our surplus products, and loss of the
supply of many manufactures which
we do not produce or cannot pro
duce in sufficient quantity or at
moderate cost. Trade between some
countries of Europe has already re
lapsed to the primitive system of
barter, and our trade with that con
tinent might return to that system
if general collapse of ordered gov
ernment came. That collapse would
the cologne played out.
We confess to a momentary thrill
at the news dispatch announcing the
appointment of John L. Considine
as supervising federal prohibition
agent for the Pacific department.
But no, there are still a few of the
old guard left. This Considine is
John L., not John W.
Those traveling men here next
week are not to be overshadowed by
what is coming later. They are the
hot stuff hnvs" in their linA nnH
sena a iiooa or retugees to our shores, like old Noah, he first excess-bag
"-crciy OI me communist revo- gage man, they, will not mind the
lunonary stamp Dut oi tne,. higher weather, either,
oraers aristocrats who know no
means of making a living, men of
learning, scientists, business men of
the highest ability, together with
One experience it might be well to
give young millionaire Van Buren
in his fantastic quest for freak jobs
is a session on the rockpile.
The Greenhorn district Is too
handy of access and the big gold
discovery will not start a stampede;
but the "stuff" is there.
Democratic conventions have "de
plored" and "condemned" from habit.
A republican convention "has the
goods."
Colonel House says his forthcom
ing trip to Europe is to be on "purely
T peple wno wonId Drtn8 feeling that the colonel is not exag
...... ..M iner oi crazy eco- gerating in the least.
uuuiiu mm puimcai ideas, 't ne strug
gle Detween the classes which would
have brought Europe to ruin would
be transferred to this hemisphere.
While the teds would strive to apply
their theories of government and in
dustry, tne whites would call for
reconquest of Europe for civilization
America nas the power to avert
these possibilities by giving such help
iu nurupe .as is wen within our
power. If the war had continued
another year, we should not have
hesitated to draw far more heavily
on our resources than would be nec
essary in order to set industry in
motion, provide enough food and
clothing for the destitute to renew
their earning power, stamp out the
epidemics which are wrecking whole
nations ano restore sound finance
The call is not for armies and navies.
Dut on a large scale, for the same
kind of help which is given to stop
a business panic o.' to restore a city
that has been destroyed by confla
gration
If the resources of America should
be combined with those of Europe
for such purposes, those next fifty
or sixty years of which Sir A. Geddes
speaks might be made the most glo
nous instead of the most, disastrous
in the world's history. Imperfect
as will be the after-war settlement
In many respects, it will remove the
worst, causes oi war ano will nave c,.nr niinnlno It. In rfSv.
t.j i wi . . - . "
"""""rj vroveui tuiure thanks to Uncle Woodrow.
nio. w l. i. ui txi i BucaL auciai con
vulsions may evolve a system which I Short sessions and long hotel bills!
so cipseiy approaches ideal Justice Thrifty Chicago!
as to can iortn tne latent energies
of workmen by securing to them I "We need more rain" Just now,
It may be San Francisco will pay
attention to the "lunger" in this dec
ade. It paid Los Angeles.
The plot of the stolen war stamps
is reaching the mysterious stage that
conceals a thrill. .
The southern delegates are the
real dark horses at the -republican
convention.
Taft will be in Chicago today, but
not In evidence a, the Coliseum un
less wanted.
No use to look for. a dark horse
until all the other candidates are
stalled.
When, say, a porter runs a luggage
barrow against your pet corn, and
you bark out "Confound you!" do
you realize that you are consigning
him to the place of pedition hell, in
short? Those who are familiar with
the "Te Deum" may remember that
the last words are, "May I never be
confounded." So well, the moral Is
one of those obvious ones.
Again, you may be hunting for a
stud anything. You get cross, and:
Where the devil is it?" you demand.
Are you aware that what you are
reallv savins: is. "Where the devil
is it?" You are invoking, literally.
the aid of his satanic majesty! You
should be careful.
The old country dame who ejacu
lates "Lawks-a-mussy ! hardly real
lzes that she is Litanlslng. Her ejac
ulation is but "Lord, have mercy on
us!"
Our fighting men always swore
terribly in Flanders." and. to take a
mild example from a crop of unprlnt
able ones, how many men nave
"blasted" each other? If effect fol
lowed the Imprecation, then well.
you've seen a blasted tree?
"Oh, dear!" is quite respectable, but
it is really an Invocation of the deity.
'O dl mlo" (Oh, my God) ls,the origin
of "Oh, dear." London Answers.
While he was making his way
about his platoon one dark night a
sergeant heard the roar of a G. I.
Can" overhead and dived into a shell-
hole. It was already occupied by a
private, who was hit full In the wind
by the non-com's head. A moments
silence a long, deep breath, and
then
"Good Lord,' Is that you, Barge T
"That's me."
"Thank heavers, I was just waiting
for you to explode. A m e r i c a n
Legion Weekly.
.
A little girl walked into a confec
tionery, placed a nickel on the coun
ter and called for an Ice cream cone.
"Ice cream cones are 7 cents, little
girl." the fizz clerk announced.
"Well, then, gimme a "soda pop."
"Six cents."
"Got any root beer?"
"Yep. 6 cents, too."
The little girl sighed disappointedly
and started out, leaving her nickel on
the counter.
"Here, little girl, you're leaving
your nickel," the clerk called to her.
"Oh, that's all right," the - child
shouted back. "" "It's no good to me
lt won't buy anything!" Indianapolis
News.
"Following the Mountain Meadows
massacre, we marched into Salt Lake
City, and the town was absolutely
deserted, all the Inhabitants baying
been ordered to take refuge from the
American troops," says Charles
Becker, of Westfall. Or., who Is at the
Imperial. "The train that was mass
acred passed me on the road, travel
ing fast, as it had horses and mules.
This was in 1857, and the Mormons
were pretty active. Two other gov
ernment employes and I were cap
tured when one of General Johnstone's
suddIv trains was destroyed and we
were held prisoners until spring. I
was treated kindly enough and was
kept at the ranch of a man who mar
ried the eldest daughter of Brtgham
Young. Brigham came and had din
ner several times while I was there
and he was very democratic He
was anxious to know whether John
stone had enough supplies to get him
through the winter. The people were
told that the American army expedi
tion would be destroyed by heavy
snows, but the expedition wintered in
fine shape and in the spring he was
ready and organized five volunteer
companies among the bull-whackers.
From time to time it was suggested
that I leave and go to California, but
an Englishwoman, who was a house
maid, warned me to remain, saying
that I was safe, but if I left the
Destroying Angels' would murder me
and bury me. The Destroying Angels
were the fellows who did such jobs,
according to frontier report, and I
guess there was some foundation for
the rumors. Anyway, there were
Danites, and I met Rockwell; who
was supposed to be the toughest one
of the lot. He was a massive man.
with a beard and wore his hair in
little braids down to his shoulders.
Before Johnstone went into winter
camp, the Danites burned the grass
and "prevented the advance of the
American troops. But. personally, I
was treated with consideration when
taken prisoner." (
"Labor is becoming more plentiful,"
says W. B. Dennis of Carlton. "A
year ago we had trouble trying to
find enough men for our sawmill,
which is about 12 miles from Carlton.
Now, however, we can keep a full
crew all the time. The price of labor
Is also dropping, and where it was $5
and $5.50, it is now $4.50 a day."
Even though the bond market is slug
gish. Mr. Dennis wants to see the
highway commission proceed with
finishing roads. He estimates that
a mile of paved road has an economic
value of $2500 a year and this en
hanced value overcomes the drop in
the price of road bonds. Oregon road
bonds, the last Issue, are selling for
about 5.50 per cent, as against more
than 6 per cent for liberties, and 7
and even 8 for Canadian securities,
so Mr. Dennis figures that Oregon is
getting its money comparatively
cheap.
"For 20 years I've been on the road
selling goods," began a traveling
salesman at the Benson. "I've come
to Portland, opened my line and in
vited the trade to inspect and give
orders, and I haven't received a sin
gle order. I've never seen business
so bad before. The only way I can
explain the situation is that mer
chants don't want to stock up I'll
admit the prices have advanced over
what they were last season because
they think that something is going
to happen and they don't know what
it will be, but they don t intend Deing
caught loaded up.
Leaving Salt Lake City Saturday,
H. A. Colohan of Seattle and George
F. Stannard of Kalispell arrived at
the Multnomah Wednesday, making
the trip by machine. "As a whole.
they report, "we found the roads very
good. Coming into Pendleton irom
the east over a mountain, the road
of which we didn't know, and at
night, we broke down and our lights
went back on us. Well, we had to
stay out in that wilderness all night
the rain and wind. It wasn t tne
most pleasant thing in the world, but
we survived, all right.
Mrs. Idah MoGlone Gibson, who is
on the publicity stall ior tne a.
Mitchell Palmer boom for the demo
cratic nomination for president,
passed through Portland yesterday.
Mrs. Gibson, who was one of the two
women who witnessed the signing of
the treaty at Versailles, contends that
Mr. Palmer is the logical man for
the democrats to nominate and the
only flv in the ointment would be
for the republicans to nominate Gov
ernor Sproul, from Mr. Palmer's state
of Pennsylvania.
"Sherman county will have a wheat
crop of about 3.5uo,ouo Dusneis tni:
vear. and at $2.50 a bushel. It will
bring about $S.700,000 into the coun
ty, declares R. H. Guthrie. "These
are merely approximate figures, but
they give some idea of the crop of
Sherman county, the smallest in the
state. The prospects are for a bumper
crop and when it rained a few days
ago the rain was worth $100,000 an
hour.
NAME -RHYMES WITH 'GAZELLE
Washington Town at Last Gets Rid
of Olfactory Spelling;, j
NASELLE (Nasel). Wash.. June 9. j
(To the Editor.) I want to tell some-:
thing to the world. This Is what I
want to tell: Our town is no longer
"Nasel," of doubtful pronunciation,
but "Naselle," thanks to Mr. Burleson,
who has granted permission to spell
our name so that he who runs may
read and pronounce with no hint
of a nasal twang.
So now let travelers, commercial
and otherwise put Naselle not Nasel
on their maps.
In case you are not acquainted with
the whereabouts of this spot, where,
nevertheless, "the hub of the universe
sticks out visibly." let me tell you
that Naselle is in the southwestern
corner of Pacific county. Washington,
and to reach It you take the steamer
General Washington at Astoria and
cross the Columbia - to Knappton,
where you will find an autobus that
will take you through a beautiful for
est over a road that boasts more turns
to the mile than any other road In
America. By the time you reach
Naselle (how I love to write the new
name!) you are so filled with admira
tion for your chauffeur that you
would willingly pay a dollar instead
of the half dollar which is his charge.
Perhaps I ought to say that Naselle
was named for an Indian chief who
had a camping ground on the river
which bears his name before the first
white men came here, which was in
the early '70s. Several Pacific county
towns are so fortunate as to have
names that preserve a bit of the old
Indian lore. Nahcotta and Ilwaco are
named for chiefs and Willapa -was the
name of a tribe for whom the harbor,
river and town were named.
But to come back to Naselle which
you will surely do if yqu have once
been here please tell the world that
the town and river formerly called
Nasel are now Naselle. To help you
to remember, please read my poem:
Sonar to the River Naselle.
O beautiful stream gently flowing for
aye.
Through banks of exuberant green.
Thou lovely Naselle.
Of thy praises I'll tell.
While thou'rt gliding through shad
ow and sheen.
Through virgin forests of hemlock
and spruce.
Thy waters move darkly and strong.
And the spotted trout leap.
Or all quietly sleep.
Where the silence is sweeter than
song.
Through thy fair glades, when the sea
breezes blow.
How sparkle thy silvery feet!
And the willows bend near
Thy low whishers to hear.
And fling thee their soft kisses
sweet.
river of beauty when moonbeams
fall down.
On thy bosom expansive and fair,
O river of dreams.
When each shining wave
gleams
With a star gently cradling there.
Dear river Naselle, I love thee full
well.
And I hail thee intrepid and free.
For with laughter and song
Thou art hasting along.
To bury thyself in the sea.
MRS. J. A. WHEALDON.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montsrne.
THE MOVIE HERO.
I regret to be recorded with the
knockers,
I would rather be both generous
and kind.
But I've witnessed fifteen-hundred
movie shockers.
Which have fixed but one Impres
sion on my mind.
Though the villains sometime use the
aid of reason
In the setting of a movie-drama
trap.
Or the plotting of their bloody
minded treason.
Every hero In the movies is a sap!
He will go to ruined buildings In the
night time.
When the " villain's trusty rough
necks lurk about.
And a simp would know that this
was not the right time -For
a man whose life was threa
tened to be out.
Do not think that he deserves a bit
of credit
For escaping from the villain's
flashing knife.
He is just a plain, pin-headed yes.
you've said it
It's the playwright who preserves
his worthless life.
He will go to make his fortune In
the city
Leaving lovely little Laura on the
farm.
Trusting blindly to the chivalry and
Pity
Of a villain who don't mean a thing
but harm.
She'd be kidnapped by this black
moustached I a go.
Who's devoted all his life te plan
ning crime.
And be on the seven-fifty to Chicago
But the playwright brings the hero
back in time.
He will hock the ancient homestead
of his parents.
He will put a chattel mortgage on
the horse.
Both of which the crafty villain's base
adherents
Seize, the minute that the law can
take its course.
All the prospects of reclaming them
diminish.
Till the brave and able playwright
comes to bat;
He makes everything grow rosy at
the finish.
But the hero is a simp, for all of
that!
Big Opportunities.
No wonder an office boy won't work
for $15 a week when so man;- Wall
street brokers will give him bonds to
carry. '
N o Need of a Peace Conference
Anyway the present political war
will be settled in November without
even an armistice.
Increasing? the Shortage.
Many solid-looking platform planks
will be nothing but scraps of paper
directly after the election.
(Copyright. 1920. by Bell Syndicate Inc.)
The Mountan Top.
Br Grace E. Hall.
SERVICE MAN'S VIEW OF CASE
Wealth and Success No Excuse for
Pardoning Henry Albera.
PORTLAND. June 10. (To the Edi
tor.) William Isensee in his letter
printed in The Oregonlan says:
"Henry Albers, an intelligent, ener
getic, successful business man, who In
a maudlin condition spit out some of
the poison he bad swallowed for some
time past!"
Albers may be all that Mr. Isensee
claims for him. I bave no doubt that
he built up interests that were bene
ficial, but was.it not done with Amer
ican money and on American soil, and
did not the Americans in this neck
of the woods make it possible for him
to accomplish what he did by their
co-operation? If so. why should he be
excused for voicing his German sentiments?
Admitting that he was "in a maud
lin condition," or in other words
just plain drunk, at the time, that
does not excuse the act. We were at
war with Germany and it was up to
every American to further the cause.
to do all that was possible to stop a
conflict that was menacing the liberty
and democracy of the whole civilized
world not to offer a fortune made in
America with the co-operation of
Americans for the defeat of the coun
try in which it was made. This. I
understand, -Albers did-
I was not in this country at the
time this happened. I had listened
to the call of my land the United
States and was on the other side of
the Atlantic assisting with all I had
(my brawn and brain) to defeat the
beloved kaiser of Albers.
I spent eighteen months in the serv
ice in France, fifteen months of it
where I .could see the operations of
Albers' chosen people, the Huns, as
they were trying lo defeat every ef
fort of tha lli"S in their struggle for
freedom from tyranny, while Albers
was over here among my people wax
ing fat from the profits of a business
established with the co-operation of
my countrymen, offering to use these
same profits to aid the enemy.
Today Albers is using his money to
gain freedom from a just sentence Im
posed on him for disloyalty to tne
country for which the American ex
peditionary forces fought, bled and
died thousands or them maimed in
battle or sick from exposure. In many
cases men have been forced to aban
don trades in which they were skilled
and start anew, not strong men as
thev were before the conflict, but men
broken In health and body. It Is these
men who would b-3 insulted were Al
bers not punished.
The least any American citizen of
Portland or any place can do is to use
every effort to bring Henry Albers
to Justice and pay no heed to the fact
that he Is a big business man. Let the
law be the same for the rich man and
the poor. ROBERT L MERRILL.
743 East Ftrty-ntnth street North.
Patches of golden sunshine.
Splashes of greenish shade.
Patterns of lace and filigree
Over the fresh sod laid;
Fanciful frescoes painted
On hillsides in bright array.
While over the blue a cloud or two
Drift leisurely on their way.
Odor of earth fresh sprinkled
With drops from the blue-rimmed
bowl.
Stirring of drowsy nature.
Like the 'wakening of a soul.
Murmur of pine and fir tree.
Air that is spiced and sweet,
0,,a wonderful thing is the pregnant
spring.
Where the mountain and skyline
meet.
Bill Lyons, who insists that he is
a former senator, and registers from
Denver. Colo., checked out of the Ho
tel Portland yesterday with the an
nouncement that he Is going to San
Francisco to see that McAdoo is not
only nominated but elected as welL
When not talking democratic poli
tics, he is a traveling salesman.
Those who imagine that Eden is on
the Euphrates are mistaken. Eden
is in Wahkiakum county, Washing
ton, and is ten miles northeast of
Astoria, Or., but to go from Eden to
Astoria the Columbia river must be
crossed in a launch, records A. Solka,
at the Hotel Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Upton of Prine-
ville are registered at the Benson. Mr.
Upton was recently successful In his
quest for the republican nomination
for state senator in the largest sen
torial district in Oregon He has no
opposition.
George H. L. Sharp of Boston, Mass.
arrived at the Hotel Portland yester
day to go to Hood River to look after
his apple orchard. Mr. Sharp divides
his attention between buying wool
and raising apples.
F. S. Bramwell, who tried to pry
loose Dr. J. C. Smith of Grants Pass
from his old seat in the state senate,
at the Hotel Oregon. Dr. Smith
will continue to answer the senate I Henry Albers and Dr. Marie Equl, h
rolleall as per usual. I tries to show us that because , Henry
Albers was a prominent business man
F. W. Sumner, an Ironmonger or I he should be eet free.
Everett. Wash., is at the Hotel Ore-1 T say he should not be set free.
gon. In addition to owning the big I prominent business man or not. He
iron works at Everett. Mr. Sumner is I'violated the law and should be pun-
fond of shooting at and hitting clay I ished. We cannot have one law for
One Law for Rich and Poor.
PORTLAND. June 10. (To the Edi
tor.) In reply to the letter of Mr.
Issensee in The Oregonlan, I will say
that he has a very poor conception of
a violator of the laws. By comparing
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago,
From The Oregonlan, June 11. 1895.
Shanghai. The report of the total
destruction of the missions at Cheng
Tu. Kait Ting and Yoa Cho Pu in
the recent massacre has been confirmed.
Chicago. Eugene V. Debs and oth
er members of tne American rtaiiway
union will be sent to Woodstock jail
tomorrow.
A salmon canner says that the run
of salmon In the lower river so far
this season has been remarkable and
that more fish have been packed than
at this time in many years.
The third car of strawberries will
be shinned east from this city today.
Good prices are being received and
the market is firm.
pigeons. '
Ivan Anderson of Skamokawa.
Wash., arrived at the Perkins. . Miss
Clara Bjornsgard. also of Skamokawa,
registered at the. same place. Then
they invested in a marriage license
and joined the honeymooners.
George H. McMorran, one of the
gu,iding spirits of the state chamber
of commerce, is at tne imperial irom
Eugene to see how the drive is get
ting on.
Isaac Blann of Mitchell came to
town with a shipment of stock and
is registered at the Perkins prepara
tory to returning to the range.
Harry Wlgard and A. D. Anderson,
well-known residents of Madras, Or.,
are among the Multnomah arrivals.
the rich and one for the poor.
If I remember correctly, Mr. Will
iam Issensee was forced to buy liber
ty bonds during the liberty loan drive.
So we can easily see why the "holler"
I comes from him. L. R. BABB.
194 East Thirty-fifth Street.
Egss Now Used as Exchange.
Exchange.
Eggs, instead of coin, are used as
change in the small towns of east
Tennessee. One storekeeper from
I Powell station, Tenn., says all his
customers use eggs to make pur
chases. So great has been the supply
that in two days he gathered a total
of 16,000. Eggs are hauled to the
municipal market in wagons, as if
they were potatoes. Only the wagon
beds are well lined with straw and
sawdust.
Fifty Yeara Ago.
From The Oregonian, June 11. 1870.
San Francisco. A party of whites
lately on a pleasure trip to Yellow
stone Falls had their horses stolen by
a band of Indians who were pursued,
and while attempting to cross the
Yellowstone on a hastily constructed
raft were swept over the falls and
drowned.
The fire alarm yesterday was oc
casioned by sounding a Chinese gong
at the Joss house to call up a large
bunch of celestials to take the steam
er for the mines.
The musical treat and festival given
last evening by the ladies of the Con
gregational church was a decided suc
cess. New Oregon potatoes sold yester
day at 40 cents a bushel.
Four new books have been added to
the public library.
rtAMPLE SET BY EASTERN TOWN
Sneer Hoycott Started In Connecticut
L'rged on Others.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.. June i. (To
the Editor.) Ten thousand families in
the city of Bridgeport. Conn., are
pledged to use not more than one
pound of sugar a month for each in
dividual until the price is down to 8
cents a pound. Let 10.000.000 families
in the United States keep this pledge
for one year and we will have 8-cent
sugar.
Won't you all. rich and poor, seize
these earth - craven monsters and
throttle them now at this opportune
time? Press them all along the line
If you will, but I beg you for the
little children's Hke, hit the sugar
trust hard. You will find It no sacri
fice, but a benefit to your health.
I am sending this earnest plea to
one newspaper in every large city in
the United States today. Let every
one who reads It pass It along, to
gether with a pledge, and the good
work - Is soon done. Neither legisla
tion nor any other power except the
whole people can do it. The power i
theirs if they will use it.
JAMES D. FRASER.
1810 Stratford Ave. .
Employment on Vessel.
WEST TIMBER,' Or., June . (To
the Editor.) To where must a person
go to get employment on a ship go
ing to Australia?
Apply to sea service bureau. Con.
cord building, Portland.