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TIIE MORNING OREGOXIANv FRIDAY, JUNE
18, 1920
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are proved failures.
"Unless property owners have
proper safeguards of constituted au
thority," declared Governor Coolidge,
"transportation would cease, indus
try would shrivel up, all property be
destroyed, and all incentive to effort
perish. All our freedom comes from
the support of the constituted au
thorities." He took his text from Russia,
whence conies the virus of a strange
reform. There, in fact, the destruc
tion of property carried constructive
incentive over the abyss, and men
feed upon words while their bellies
are void of food. Only that system
of government Is stable which recog
nizes the dual rights of labor and
capital, and which denies all pref
erence or priority as it extends op
portunity to the least of its citizens.
NOBIIJTT IN AMERICA.
Tho accolade of nobility is divinely
bestowed. When kings touch the
shoulder with the royal sword, or
issue patents conferring knighthood,
they intrude upon a higher authority
and the social privileges and distinc
tion thus received are transient
things. Manhood in its broad and
unalterable sense is the true nobility,
and trite though, this reflection may
be. It is a basic truth for snobs to
hold in mind. America, as a nation,
la the exemplar of this fundamental
fact. Her government and her fu
ture are pledged to maintain it.
When Governor Coolidge, vice-presidential
nominee, reiterated this con
ception of the inherent dignity of
our citizenship he voiced a thought
that is near and dear to millions of
true hearts. With the words of his
address to the graduates of Holy
Cross college he slashed away the
twisted vines of theoretical contro
versy and revealed the national
temple as it is today, and as it must
stand for all time.
"Our constitution forbids nobility,"
said Governor Coolidge, "because
that great document recognizes the
truer and finer and higher nobility
of American citizenship."
Were words pearls of great price,
won with daring toil from the depths.
no more magnificent tribute than
this could be found for our citizen
ship. Simple and sane, it does not
glow with the furbishing of forensic
effect, but with the intrinsic truth
that needs no polishing. Nobility is
the birthright of all, and in a land
that bears the arms of liberty only
personal error or deficiency prevents
Us attainment by all. It does not
necessarily connote marked or spec
tacular success. To succeed in man
' hood and citizenship is to receive
the patent. At no time are the treas
ure chests of opportunity denied to
the man who is without scorn for
toil and application. American in
dustrial life, the national archives
of art and letters, of professional ca
T- r t; ahnimrl with ovnmnlcta rt man
and women who have risen from
humble places to walk at length- in
the sunshine of achievement and
service. So many tasks await, so
rife are the fruits of endeavor, that
the measures of success are never
emptied. They never will be.
Governor Coolidge touched again
upon a truth that many have forgot
ten, and that others have distorted
. and dofilp.d. when hfl irl tnnt Ihn
nation, born in revolution, held for
its goal In those historic days the
attainment of constructive personal
liberty, and that that goal had beeu
gained. The ragged men who
marched with Washington did not
fight as Russia has fought, in a
blinded fury of revolt that brought
an empty victory, but with a clear,
unclouded vision and toward a defi
nite objective. Their victorious arms
were hallowed by the immediate cre
ation of a self-governing democracy,
which has not ceased to function.
' The theory of the revolting colonist
. was no complex dogma of Utopian
socialism. It embraced the right of
self-determination, and the construc
tion of a government structured on
law and order and opportunity for
the individual. The success of that
- growth of America. The claimants
Liiieiisiiip, wno leu meir Euro
pean homelands for the new west-
- v mi iiu uintr rea
son than that the liberty of this
country was more than an empty
boast.
; They vovaeed to 0111- slinru tiu
uiuiiiLuucn in imn pmnre i, a
- O " - b Lll 11,
. aistence of opportunity and the as
surance that common men, untitled.
uiik.il una nere me right to have
and to hold the fruits of their Indus
' - try. Americans of the older stock
" have lost the perspective of the im-'-,
migrant, perhaps, and it is timely to
- remind them that their immediate
- ancestors were not a whit different.
4 .. A .
in iaui ana purpose, rrom the im
migrants of today. Through their
, xou a stout and splendid nation
stepped into the councils of the
. world, speaking the freee speech of
, democracy. An integer of that phe
nomenal progress was the rie-ht in
win and hold property, a right de
nied on other shores, or circum
scribed by restraints that bowed the
Shoulders to enforced peasantry.
Around the demagogues who prate
of destruction to property rights, of
the will-o -wisp lure of communism
Is gathered a circle of intemperate
never fails to raise wild whoops of
y approval when he tilts against the
juicui ui aitsu economic servants wno
are in the hire of the country. He
wouia socialize mem to the last cor-
- - , v - u , u i,usz.lo ill c
rights of propertv and set the self
in n n k man in i n nirnn . t. . -
Glad cheers arise from the shovelers.
. " - - " ii".i ouugui au
egress from his ditch. Well. Russia
socialized the state and confiscated
' all property. And with the abrupt
ness of a wrecked machine the state
ceased to function. Factories and
iiiii i f. i m 1 1 1 r i i in k uni nniiniv rT
; idleness, and plague and famine
; walked the land to prove its bar
barism. Keeking trade with the
world, it has been truly said of Rus
.". pia that she has nought to barter
NEEDS OF THE PORTLAND SCHOOLS.
The building programme to meet
the barest needs of the Portland
schools, which the taxpayers of the
district are called on tomorrow to
authorize, contemplates, as has been
explained heretofore, less expansion
than would be required to atone for
Inaction in recent years, and falls
somewhat short of providing for
normal growth of school population
alone. As much as we may desire
to do away with the sorry make
shifts adopted in an emergency,
superannuated structures and port
ables will remain with us a while
longer. But there are certain mini
mum requirements that in decency
cannot indefinitely be evaded, and
these will be met if the voting tax
payers give assent to them.
There is nothing abstruse about
the issue. It Is a choice between
failing to provide for boys and girls
who ought to be our first concern
and making a beginning toward
restoring our quota of adequate
school buildings. "The war" no
longer exists as an excuse for
neglecting the chief, arts of peace.
In common with other patriotic
communities, we have fallen behind
In building schools. The question to
be decided Is whether we are to
permit a difficult situation to become
intolerable.
world growth, or having attained
such proportions It may never super
sede the need for a league of nations,
as its zealous sponsors predict. Yet
if it dies in the shell it will have
served an Important purpose in
leaving the impress of tolerant
broadness upon modern religion.
For in the league of religions
Christianity and Judaism would be
comrades enlisted in the cause of
humanity, while the quarreling
creeds of the Christian faith would
march in the same regiment of world
reform. This idea, though it be
balked of fulfillment, cannot fail to
serve for tolerance and a more com
prehensive understanding of the
intrinsic divinity of all religions. . .
"while just the art of being kind is
all this sad world needs."
COST Or THE GOVERNMENT,
If the appropriations made by
congress for the next fiscal year may
be taken as an indication, the cost
of running the government will be
almost J5, 000, 000, 000 a year, as com
pared with about $1,000,000,000 a
year before the war. Though some
expenses, aside from interest on
debt, are left over from the war and
will not be repeated In future years.
we must look elsewhere for oppor
tunities of permanent reduction.
There will remain wide scope for
economy. In which future adminis
trations may display their talents.
Almost half a billion dollars of the
above total was appropriated to meet
deficiencies of the present year,
which should be avoided or reduced
to a small sum by a good budget
system. The appropriation of $725,
000.000 for the railroads will not
recur after next year. Expenditures
for pensions, insurance and care of
war veterans may be expected to
increase from year to year. As
prices settle back to somewhere near
the pre-war level, the economy
effected in cost of material should
go far to meet that increase.
The great field for reduction will
lie in economy of administration.
One great aid will be the budget
system, which will subject each item
to inquiry before it is approved and
which may cause heads of depart
ments to strive for a record for i
saving money. . Another will be the !
civil service retirement law, which
should clear a great amount of dead
wood out of the departments and
should make room for employes who
do a full day's work. The greatest
opportunity will lie in the direction
of general reorganization of the
departments and elimination of over
lapping, duplication ana" lost motion.
In these ways enough money should
be saved to make a large annual
reduction In the national debt. As
that was done annual interest pay
ments would shrink until the direct
financial burden of the war would
become little more than a memory.
There is no prospect that annual
expenses of the government will ever
return to the pre-war level: in fact
we shall be fortunate if they should
remain double that amount. There
is great work ahead in systematic
improvement of waterways as the
Dest permanent relief from traffic
congestion, demand for reclamation
of waste land will become irresistible.
and the government is likely to spend
.more money yearly in construction
of highways, especially for strategic
purposes. With the growth of popu
lation and wealth there will be a
normal annual increase In cost of
government. The larger the total,
the larger and more numerous may
be the leaks, and the more reason
will there be for running the govern
ment as a big business.
MR. gBCLl AND MB. WOODWARD.
There are special reasons, we
think, why out of several estimable
persons who have offered themselves
for the position of school director.
Mr. Woodward and Mr. Shull should
be chosen.
The schools, like every other
public Institution, suffer from the
advanced cost of living or the depre
ciation of the dollar. The problem
that confront the district are not
wholly involved In the more or less
Intangible elements that in normal
times go to make public schools
what they should be. The concrete
needs are growing Into bounds dis
proportionate to the income of the
district. Matured business judgment
as well as Interest In and knowledge
of purely pedagogic essentials are
important qualities to be sought in
directors.
Mr. Woodward and Mr. Shull have
had long and successful business
experience in executive capacities.
They are men whose judgment will
be sound and whose advice will be
heeded whether that advice be to
the board itself or to the voters in
financial matters pertaining to ad
ministration or enlargement of the
school plant. They are also whole
heartedly and patriotically interested
in bettering the common schools.
They do not represent any special
class and they are beholden to no
particular element. These are the
reasons, and th.y are sound ones.
why they should be elected.
There are two places to fill on the
school board tomorrow. All regis
tered voters, whether taxpayers or
not, are entitled to vote for directors.
Only taxpayers -.nay vote on the
mlllage tax proposal.
AN ELASTIC EXrotlT.
While the war was changing the
well-known map of Europe, tumbling
thrones and creating empires, raising
hob with the law of supply and de
mand, and otherwise comporting it
self like a cataclysmic tornado. It
was serving the minor but Important
purpose of Introducing American
chewing gum to the elder nations
the .contemplative, elastic, reverber
ant chicle that is the solace 6f the
stenographer and the friendly quid
of the tired business man. It re
quired world strife to waken the
elder nations to the desirability of
this peculiarly American refresh
ment.
plied. In all truth, to the robin. There'
are real feathered foes to be fought
and put fo oblivion. If the zeal of the
crusader must have its target. This
Is not a brief for birds. But it finds
place for the observation that man
decrees extermination among the
birds and beasts when they presume
upon his selfish preserves. He has
wasted theirs, he has converted them
Into ragouts and potpies, and at
times he has grown sentimental. But
always, sentimental or not, he has
slain, slain, slain.
For the purpose of argument, and
because ihe evidence is in support,
let us admit that redbreast likes
strawberries, and that the first crim
son globule, of the season, glowing
seductively from the vines, irresist
ibly attracts his keen and covetous
eye. Why, there you are, he differs
not at all from us. But let that pass.
The clearly defined issue is whether
the robin, despite this failing, is an
agricultural asset, whose execution
would react in more harm than good.
It might be that the ornithologists
are right, with science set against
conjecture, when they champion the
robin by declaring him the friend
and guardian of the garden, with a
tithe of berries rightfully belonging
to him for services rendered. In the
stomach of one young robin, so an
authority recently stated In The Ore-
gonian, were discovered and identi
fied the mortal remains of 165 cut
worms. No need for introduction
here. Every gardener knows the
cutworm, the loathly green cater
pillar who fares forth at night and
ravages the tender truck, wasting far
more than he eats. He is but one of
the pests on the menu of the lnsec
tlvorous redbreast. Analysis of the
stomach of another robin, feeding
on- vegetable diet and insects,
evolved proof that the martyr to
science had tucked away scarcely
8 per cent of cultivated plant life,
with the remainder of his capacity
devoted to malicious bugs, grubs, in
sect elves and garden weeds.
bcience has long delivered this
preachment: The death or dearth of
insectivorous birds will directly re
suit In plagues of destroying insects.
One of nature's nicely adjusted
methods will have been jolted from
its pinion with disastrous results.
There is no cause to disbelieve. There
are abundant evidences that this is
so. Calculate the natural progeny
of 165 cutworms, the toll of one
robin for a single day calculate it,
for we haven't time, and down the
lane .of the future, but for this robin
and his fellows, you would perceive
the advance of a bolshevistic horde
in dirty green, interminably Increasing.
What's a strawberry or so between
friends? For if ever man owned an
unconscious fealty it is that of the
redbreast. Shoo him away, again
and once more, but don't shoot.
There are ways and means to protect
tne insensate strawberry from plun
aering, and to produce it by the
toothsome ton. But very wise men
confess that they have yet to dis
cover a means to call back from In
finity the birds and beasts that fall
before the march of man.
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES.
It's like reading a pace from the
ir tneir legislative bodies book of time to learn of the death
speedily enact ordinances against.the f of George W. Webb, who was state
parking or passe gum gobs under treasurer thirty years ago and then
cafe tables and theater seats, and in-I approaching the scriptural limit of
stitute. restrictions against discarding! age; but he was a remarkably young
spent cnews atong tne puoiic. ways, I man ror nis years and always good
me iiauii snouia re wjn received. 1 company. Alan dies in Oreeon when
Both Paris and London, so interna- his time comes and the day Is long
uonai gossip reports, have become coming to many. George Webb
converts to tne practice of gum- rounaert out a useful career with
chewing, something almost unheard more than a fullness of years and
or Derore the war when it was 1 many pleasant memorial.
solely attributed, with a shrug or a
Vice-President Marshall says he
doesn't believe President Wilson
wants a third term, but that he could
have it if he wanted it. What the
genial vice-president really means is
that Mr. Wilson could hav ih
nomination for a third term if he
wanted it.
stare, to "those crazy Americans.'
American exports of chicle have
risen sharply in the past year, show
ing an increase of 27 per cent and
totaling $2,164,290, while enthusias
tic estimates ot tne present vear s
trade in chewing gum reach far be
yond that figure. The American
doughboy, almost as ill at ease with
out his gum as when sans cigarettes
bore the habit overseas. Through mere is no joke in the suggestion
his gifts of gum to children and one I to carry lunches next week. The
can vision them flocking around the capacity of eating houses will belong
stranger he loosed the tide of pop- I to visitors and none must go hungry
ular demand and rendered notable or De Puc out OI Joint, Local peopl
service to the Industry and culture I are on honor in this.
of the homeland,
Someone, somewhere, must have I Tacoma policemen object to work
written a brochure on the psychology ing half a day overtime without pay
oi gum cnewing. The origin of the during these busy days, and they
naDii rests wnn our lorefathers, who, I are right. The pay of a policeman
shortly after their arrival from other Is not ' big enough to be called
c.u. uiouvci eu i.ii at trie pucn or I salary, ana is not so great as
Boas Said Bare Started Wsodrem
Wilson oai Political Career.
In connection with the snug half-million-dollar
(.contribution of Colonel
"William Cooper Proctor to the Wood
campaign fund one of the Washington
correspondents recalls that It wad
apother gift ti a like amount from
the same soap king that indirectly
speeded up Woodrow Wilson's entry
into politics. It was just ten years
ago that Colonel Proctor gar $500,000
toward the establishment of a. gradu
ate school at Princeton university, of
hich Professor Wilson was then the
head. But the donation was so
hedged about by conditions concern
ing the management and personnel
that the captious Dr. Wilson turned
it down. Ha declared that gifts to
the university should come without
having: strings attached. As a result
had something of a quarrel with
some of the leading alumni of the
university and members of hia boards
who believed that the stipulations
ere reasonable and proper. Because
of this difference Dr. Wilson decided
he more easily to resign the presl-
ency of the big college and accept
the nomination for the governorship
of New Jersey, which the democratic
leaders were eagerly offering him.
The rest Is familiar history. It might
hereby be said that the half-million
hich the professor peevishly - re
pulsed from the college treasury in
directly became the first substantial
contribution to the Wilson campaign
fund. At any rate, the incident start
ed Wilson In active politics, and leek
what he has done since! Colonel
Proctor's second venture in president
making may alse work at cross pur
poses. Los Angeles Times.
When J. O. Adams, high priest of
the Spring, came aboard the ferry
boat Berkeley everything juet nat
urally came to a stop. He was as
startling as a copy of La Vive Part
sienna in a minister's library, for
from spats to cravat he was the epi
tomized essence . of sartorial delica
tessen to a degree seldom if ever seen
within the purlleux of Commuter
alley.
While all the world stared. J. G.
sat down beside a woman and her
child. It was quite a pretty child, was
the little girl, quite all child. She
stared solemnly at J. G.. radiant
Illy In his correctly tailored Saturday
Evening Post habiliments. And then,
without warning without a whistle,
bell er a look ahead the child
burst Into tears.
"Aw-oo-ow!" she walled.
Mother tried to soothe the little
thing. But her great grief refused to
be appeased. She sobbed on and on.
nor could anyone fathom the cause
of her abysmal sorrow. Finally her
mother managed to break through the
barrage of tears. N
"Tell mother, dearie," she cooed;
what is wrong."
The little thing pointed a finger at
J. G. sitting haughtily aloof from pro
letariat sorrow.
He he he's sittin' on my sum!"
she wailed. San Francisco Bulletin.
Those Who Come and Go-
"I offered to bet a suit of clothes
last night that wheat will be selling
for $3 a bushel before the en,d of the
year," says John Estes of Pendleton,
who is registered at the Perkins.
"Some of our farmers have contracted
at $2.60 and I've heard that some have
been offered $3.6. We have to feed
Europe and that is what will make
the demand. It will be two years
more, at least, before the price of
wheat returns to normal. There will
probably be about $15,000,000 In wheat
raised in Umatilla county this year. I
remember about 20 years ago. be
tween Echo and Pendleton, when the
farmers didn't know much about grow
ing wheat, that they took the wire
fences doim and you could have
bought thousands of. acres for $3 an
acre. Now that land is worth $100 and
even as high as $110 an acre. They
understand wheat farming now. Why,
right now. they are running tractors
t rugbt keening down the. weeds In
the summer fallow and so long as this
sort of care Is given to the sround,
the wheat will not wear out the soil
of Umatilla." Mr. Estes went tv the
county 40 years ago when only 3
acres in the county were piowe-a.
As a result of coming to attend the
k'iwirli anil KhrlnA meetings In Pert-
land. Max Bars-man Intends remaining I try to the combat area.
t-onsiaer tne lnerncient
IMMENSE TASK .ACCOMPLISHED
Overseas Man Tells ef Problems That
Confronted General Pershing;.
PORTLAND, June 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Having served In the engineer
branch of the A. E. F. for consider
ably over a year, 1 want to commend
The Or son Ian' s editorial concerning
Ueneral Pershing.
For the. benefit of a few dis
gruntled 'persons who were fighting
the war ever here I want to give
them a few lines to consider, namely:
Consider 'irst the landing of an
army into a foreign country under a
foreign language and under condi
tions thit were appalling as far as
transportation was concerned.
Consider seriously that all men had
to be landed at a point several hun
dred miles from the line of battle.
Consider that the country In which
he landed troops was drained of all
able-bodied men. ' some of its best
being already killed.
Consider landing an army in a
country where the morale was
whipped -at heart and a good many
thought we had other purposes In
view Instead of UDhoidinar a reDublic
and to help maintain the standard of
civilisation against a barbarous
horde.
Consider the Conditions of the rail
roads, shortage of cars, locomotives
and of efficient men to man machine
shops: no efficient system of han
dling cars and trains across the coun-
-' - k. Hll V J f
By Jsrnea J. Mostsgue. V,
-1
The
NAMES,
the thing If
I shos -;
name's
sign
The name of Bobble Burns
To these sweet, simple lines of m ;
And wait for the returns.
Perhaps, by virtue of the name
They'd scintillate and shine.
And soon achieve the mighty fame
That came to "Auld Ung Syne."
More likely, though, you'd say, '
times
The best of poets miss;
w ny even Burns wrote rots
rhymo
For Instance, look at this!
It's
count
suppose
names that
wrote
The name of old John E.
Upon a million dollar note,
Made payable to me.
Perhaps some kindly bank cashier
The paper would behold.
And in an awe-struck tone say, "H
fiease take away this gold
inc spruce or ramaracK made an
agreeable tidbit when munched. Then
came the substitution of the factory
brands, created from the raw gum
of the naseberry tree of Central and
wages.
Some optimist In Hungary pro
poses to punish profiteers by spank-
in tr tnom tivuntv.flva tfmAc, ah y&
South America a distant cousin of Mies of their feet. Why not follow
w.c . Duv me nrm aa- the American, example
.din.,, mo, "uii UMII IS rOOieaithom rn ttio mrUI t
ueepKr in an enner tree ana is far
more enduriner than the vnriorf fia
vors. Even- as the nastiird The assurance of his state mar.
spends her moments of relaxation, of I aeer tn.at Hiraln Johnson is not a
A LEACI E OF RELIGIONS.
It was the most natural thing in
the world that a proposal so spirit
ually significant as the league of
nations should have, from the out
set, the approval of the churches.
Creed, was an immaterial matter
wnen confronted with the common
advancement of conditions for which
religion has worked and striven,
But churchmen have grown weary
waiting ror tne league a leagu
any league. They see, in the bicker
ings of statesmen, the threat that
no league may be the inevitable
result of dissension concerning its
character. On this premise they
have acted in proposing a world
movement, a crusade of allied
churches irrespective of creed or
denomination, that shall be known
as a league of religions. Its sponsors
may be over-optlmlstlc in their hopes
for the creedless alliance, but none
will gainsay that,, since the first dim
murmurings of tribute to deity rose
from, the lips of man, this is the
freest stride ever taken by religion
Jt nope that the league of rell
gions will have an easier and happier
Dirtn tnan tne league of nations.'
commented Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
formerly of Portland and now of the
Free synagogue of New Tork
nope mat no national convention
will, after a year or two, pronounce
tne iunerai rites over its remains
The league of religions, launched
in America by the Rt. Rev. Herbert
tsury, Episcopal bishop for northern
and central Europe, may not be said
to have progressed further than th
shadow of an embryo. It is still in
the phase of the idea, of the ideal
rumination, with her perennial cud,
so folk became thralls of the pleas
ant. harmless practice of gum chew
ing, it was conducive to thought,
or no thought at all, and it served in I 11 ls too bad that conservative old
milder degree that sense of reflective Dartmouth must have a murder
occupation that the smoker knows
so well.
and slap
bolter is not necessary In a state
that gave him such support In the
primary election.
A Babylonian buying grain In the
first miilenium B. C. paid for it on
delivery In bricks or money if he
had either lying around handy. If
he could not do business on a cash
basis, then he gave the temple his
note and paid 33 1-3 per cent interest
on the debt. Erech has yielded Yale
a clay note for five months at that
rate.
Borrowing money was a painful op
eration. Twenty-five per cent was a
usual impost; higher rates appear,
Heaven knows how high call money
went on occasion on the Sumerian and
Babylonian stock exchange as Incor
porated In the temple.
Many men of this time lived care
fully and Intelligently, as the finding
of what were undoubtedly small 11
braries attests. Receipts were given
when bills were paid and these were
filed away with household records of
expenses, business correspondence,
etc. At least one man in Babylon
lived, or tried to live, by a budget
system. No. 3680 was found to be
the balanced household accounts ot
an Individual apparently .the father
of a family and the head of his own
menage. His marginal notes point in
,disputably to a high cost of living
proDiem in ancient saoyion. ne
York Times.
Anyone seeing a "bleached blonde
with the Lord s prayer tattooed on
her back is asked to communicate
with Harry Buchanan, Reading, Pa
In a pathetic letter to the local po
lice Buchanan asks aid in locating
his wife. The letter gives many de
tails of her appearance and is ac
companied - by a - rude pencil sketch
of the missing wife.
After calling her "a sort of bleached
blonde" and telling of the prayer tat
tooed on her back Buchanan says
sbe wore a dark dress at the time of
her disappearance and a "black hat
with blue flowers."
in Oregon a month. Mr. Bergman is
n the produce business at rort Worth,
Tex., and for years has been buying
Oregon apples. Now that he Is In the
state he intends visiting every section
from which he has been buying sup
plies In order that he may know the
growers and see me orcnaraa rrom
which the fruit comes. He will visit
the Rogue River valley, the Hood
River valley and the Willamette val
ley and when he completes his tour.
he expects to have first-hand Informa
tion about the fruits or tne state.
Some day, he says, be hopes to be able
to handle Oregon strawberries. Fort
Worth, declares Mr. Bergman, has 17
oil refineries', to which oil is piped
from all parts of Texas and these re
fineries ari bringing $1,000,000 a day
Into Fort Worth. At one time there
were more than 600 oil companies.
many of them wildcats, but the list
has been weeded out to about 150
legitimate producing companies.
C. B. McCuHough of the state high
way bridge department and Attorney
Devers who looks after the legal odds
and ends ' for the department, are
at the Imperial. Mr. Devers is here
to make an answer to the suit started
In the local courts by Polk county
by which the Polkians want the high
way commission to build the high
way -where the commission thinks
it shouldn't go. As everything in town
is reserved at the hotels next week,
Mr. Devers is trying to negotiate with
some one for some place to go while
here on business. "Maybe," he says
hopefully. "I can find some one who
will 1-t me use the doghouse and put
the dog on the porch."
Having a town named after one is
becoming quite common. James J. Car
ey of Carney, '.. is registered st
he Hotel Oregon while attending the
P. A. convention. W. G. McDonald Is
rearistered at the Imperial from Mc
Donald. Or., and I. K. Cusnman or
Cushman, Or., is also at the Imperial.
Cushman isn't much of a place, but
here Is plenty of good fishing at that
point. They tell a story of a fisher
man at Cushman who decided to go
Into the dairy business, so he bought
a blooded cow. The cow gave so much
milk that the fisherman got tired ot
milking, and so. to save himself the
trouble, he stopped feeding the crit
ter.
case induced by drinking of liquor,
but, somehow, the worst get into
best places.
SIR ROBIN REDBREAST,
Ah, tabby, you are not alone in
possession of the primal instinct to
Palmer nas fixed 70 as the limit
of age of federal employes. Seventy
Slav. The tle-er still ntnlVo in sounds oiaer man it looks. Some
souls of men happy, good-humored Ume Palmer wi bo and hate to
folk Who Wouldn't tra linnn on BTU-
eartliworm. That Is why. perhaos.
they wish to kill off all the robins. xne tnira party is debating, a
though the specified reason is that I name, to cnoose oetween "American
redbreast, with an eye . for bright and "Peoples." Those fellows might
color and a palate for delicacies, et Py witn tne urecK for, "yellow
hops around the strawberry bed s-
choosing tne ripest fruit. But a few
days ago the state game warden, I Mentality Is represented by the
besieged and besought by complaints I color yellow, according o a famous
against tne reamerea culprit, gave I New York doctor. We always bus-
partial suspension to' the protective I pected this was true in certain cases.
law and decreed that all robins
caught in the act, when their mis-
uouieiuora tnreatenea large areas
of fruit, might die the felon's death.
There are restrictions about th j. per
mission, or course, and the state
warden made it clear that the back
lot gardeners could not avail them
selves of it. .
At any rate, whatever the defini
tion of urgency, there you are the
feathered friend . of our childish
days, that most companionable old
That big Tammany special will
stop here on its return and, alas,
every bottle will have a broken neck
before that time!
Ralph Williams, back from the
whirlwind of politics, seta the pace
lor Oregonlans and it s a good gait.
Ten feet of water over even a part
of the city "made famous" Is rubbing
duffer whs. hunts worms on the front ln Prohibition with a vengeance.
The allies have decided to let Con-
We
lawn in the spring showers, has be
come a proscribed outlaw. Hi
crime Is an affection for the berry I stantinople have its own flag.
mat is ceieDratea in shortcake and suggest ior tne coior.
. 1. . M.n1rna 1 .. . . . ..I
111CLI uio. c o ociacjr I. I Cct 111 WOrtXl I
wnue. it was iKe waiton, as we re. Twenty tnousana gallons
will
It's gaso-
member the credit, who said that! arrive in Portland today.
God might have made a better fruit line, however.
nut tne proposal ls startingly effec- f than the strawberry, . but doubtless
live in us soua aemocracy and denial never aia. An exact paraphise of J "The old spinster" is becoming a
u imvi.iiou,. ii iimy never attain, u" n 'u ija couia d ap- good looker in her June togs.
Mr. Tarzan Jones was sitting down
to breakfast one morning when he
was astounded to see in the paper an
announcement of his own death.
- He rang up friend Howard Smith
at once. "HalloSmith!" he asked.
"Have you seen the announcement o
my death in the paperf
"Yes." replied Smith. "Where art
you speaking from?" London Weekly
Telegraph.
,
Judge Ben B. Llndaey was lunch
lng one vary hot day when a police
man paused beside his table. "Judge.
said he, "I see you're drinking cof
fee. That's a heating drink. Did you
ever try gin and ginger ale?"
"Ho." said the judge, "but I have
tried several fellows who have.
Christian Intelligencer.'
When a Syracuse paper publishes
horoscope that says "this la a fortu
nate day" and a Rochester paper, a
the sime hour, publishes one whic
reads "this la an unfortunate day,'
there seems to be nothing left for th
true believers except to dust off th
euiJa board, comments the Water
town, N. Y Standard.
But the Syracuse Post-Standard
comes right back with this: "Just
one of those days when Syracuse beat
the Rochester team."
i
' Joe Scott of Atchison, Kansas, de
poses through the Globe: "Boy came
home from school with a certificate
from the teacher explaining that he
had defective teeth. . I took the boy
to the dentist. The dentist examined
the boy's teeth, and said there was
nothing wrong with them, and
charged me a dollar for the Informa
tion. What Is your favorite spring
song?"
system.
ncient you may say, of handling ma
terial at base ports in France.
Consider their set ideas that all
things could be done by hand no
modern equipment to handle heavy
commodities so necessary in war. .
Consider their ancient Ideas of do
ing everything, like their language,
just reversed to our own.
The profiteers were there as well
as here, and the war was a business
to them; winning meant only shut
ting off huge profits.
Consider that France was drained
of almost everything but wine and
cognac, and under these conditions
discipline had to be maintained.
Consider that France could give us
no aid on food or clothing and our
base of supplies was 5000 miles away
across a submarine-infested water.
Consider the lack ot liaison between
the fighting allies against the single
unit.
Consider th Inefficient system at
home on furnishing him his wants.
Well, he put a system into effect
that overcame all these obstacles
and now some few politicians have
made statements and raised a howl
because he was not in the front-line
trenches all the time.
War ls a business, and a big one
and who would look after the busi
ness if he was in a trench on the
head end all the time?
He was America's representative
and manager over there and he ful
filled this misBon. and God knows he
worried more and stayed awake more
nights than all those individuals who
are now kicking about him.
Consider last, but not least, that
he did a lot of wonderful work
against great odds and is saying
nothing about it. About all ha says
is "I was assigned to a position that
was more or less important, and I
did it."
So do not pick at him because
someone else was not assigned to the
task. F. D. M.
a cd
More likely, though, he'd call
A locust club would swlnir:
And for a. year or more I'd stdn
In lovely Osalning.
Names do th trick were I to be
feome eveninar nlaced bfrr
An audience that came to se-
Jonn Drew or Barrrmore.
Perhaps I'd worry through the roles-"
vna sveryDoay would I
Exclaim aloud. "T-iOTd. bless our soul
j.ne renew sure Is aood."
I might win reputation, fame
Ana neaps of money bv t.
I mlsjht, I say, but. Just the asm
uo not uunk ru try Itl
The Candidate's Plea.
"Say It with baliots.-
Peranaseat In-vestaaem.
Colonel Proetor has diarovrrxl Mi
wnen a man puts money Into polul
it stays mere.
v S
A Sare Bet.
wo qon z Know how Bryan get t
title of Doc. but it's a etneh It was
ror writing booze prescriptions. N
tCopyright. 1U0. by the Bell 5y
cat. Inc.
In Other Days.
"About 800.000 pounds of wool have
been shipped to Portland recently,"
states O. B. Robertson of Condon, who
has engaged an apartment for a
month in order that his family .will
be sure of accommodations during the
convention period. "Very little wool
has been sold because the market is
off. The movement of wool to Port
land ls part of the general desire to
make this a big wool market, where
the wools can be graded and. conse
quently, command a better price."
L. L. Breckenridge of Twin Falls,
Idaho, is a booster for his town. Twin
Falls is now tho shipping point for a
large irrigation section, and thou
sands of cars of produce are sent out
into the world from Twin Falls. En
tire tralnloads of produce have been
thrown on the market at good prices
and the entire community is on a
wave of prosperity, because of the Im
mense fertility of the soil, which is
back of the town. Mr. Breckenridge
is registered at the Hotel Portland.
Having driven from Hood River, W.
F. Larraway registered at the Per
kins yesterday and will resume his
journey via the gasoline route to eu
gene to see his son graduate. After
that event Mr. Larraway, who has
been a Jeweler at Hood River since
the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary, will return to Portland to
participate ln the deliberations of the
Knights Templar.
About two out of every three of the
visitors In town these days make a
bee-ltne for the city directory in the
hotel lobbies, in the hope that they
may find some long-lost relative or
friend. One of the Indoor sports of
a delegate ls to take the directory
and see how many people there are
Iq Portland of his name.
With a good range and fine crop
prospects. Baker is In for a prosper
ous yean. Is the prediction of Thomas
Montgomery of the Citisens National
bank ot Baker. Mr. Montgomery
dropped ln at the Imperial while on
his way home from attending the
convention of bankers in the Willam
ette valley.
Will Stephenson, accompanied by
his wife, has arrived from Butte.
Mont., and is visiting with friends.
Mr. Stephenson is an old-time, proof
reader on The Oregonian and is still
looking for errors In. proofs In the
Montana metropolis.
W. H. Flanagan, who Is a physician
when he Is at home in Grants Pass,
gave a banquet to past grand mas
ters of the Oregon grand lodge of
Masons yesterday. About a score at
tended the knife-and-fork degree.
Mayor A. B. Thompson of Echo Is
on one of lils periodic trips to Port
land and is at the Imperial. ' Since
his former visit the mayor helped
round up a farmer with the aid of a
shotgun. The mayor got the "drop."
Bankers at the Hotel Oregon were
as thick ' as bellhops yesterday.
Among the financiers entered on the
ledger were F. L. Meyers of La
Grande. A. K. Parker of Enterprise
and J. W. Bradley of Spokane, Wash.
Dr. S. D. Reed of Eugene Is in town
with the visitors. He declares that
Eugene is one of the finest towns in
the state In which to raise a family,
Lady Cynthia Colville and Hon.
Miss Brilton arrived at the Multno
mah yesterday, registering from Eng
land. E. D. Calkins, "who la in the real
estate business st Eugene, ls among
the Oregon people registered at the
Perkins. .
Henry Trowbridge, who Is a stock
man cf Grant county, with headquar
ters at Canyon City. Is at the Im
perial. W. E. Keyes. one of the former
mayors of Salem, is an arrival ln the
city and is registered, at the Imperial.
Twenty-five Year Age.
From The Ortnian of June 19, 18S5I
Washington. The government
said to have demanded that Spain iA
meoiateiy pay tne Mora claim of $1
ouu.uuu or severe measures will
enforced for Its collection.
At a meeting of the Portland wati .
viini in ii ivb yesterday tne issue I -tnn
nnn v j .. u . , , .
premium of -t.et)0.
r.luali Smith, ex-president of tl
Oregon Improvement company, wl
a victory yesterday over Preside!
W. H. Starbuck. in the long fight fl
control of the concern.
By a score of S to 4 In the 11th I
ning the Multnomah club nine d
feated the Tacomas ln the secoi
game of the P. N. A. championshf
contest.
VOTERS ARE ADVISED OK ERROR
Bad Judgment to Restore Death Pen
alty, Says Michigan Mm.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June 13.
(To the Editor.) It seems, judging
from newspaper accounts and from
other information, that during the re
cent campaign and subsequent elec
tion, when the matter of repealing
the Oregon anti-capital punishment
law of 1914 was being agitated and
opposed, - there arose certain mis
understandings regarding the Amer
ican league for the prevention of
legalized crime (known as the A. L.
P. L. C), and as to who was the ac
credited head of the league In the
state of Oregon. Inasmuch as this
league took a rather active part in
opposing the capital punishment leg
islation, it seems fitting that this mis
understanding be cleared up.
To that end, permit me, as the di
rector of the national publicity de
partment of the league, to say that
Mrs. Mary B. Morgan of Portland
(whose address Is in care of the
Morgan Razor works), is the duly
appointed and accredited executive
and state organizer of the American
league in Oregon. This league haa
organizations or state leagues in 36
states, with thousands of members
who are opposed to capital punish
ment, with membership growing .by
leaps and bounds. During the late
campaign ln Oregon Mrs. Morgan
demonstrated exceptional executive
ability and worked hard. For this
reason it is considered proper for na
tlonal headquarters publicly to an
nounce the league leadership in your
state. .
It must not be supposed that Ore
gon will retain the death penalty
very long. Lack of co-operation
spelled defeat in May. but the de
cision was notably close, and when It
has failed again as in the past, capi
tal punishment will once more be
junked, Maine reversed herself twice
but at last she ousted death penalties
years ago. Do you hear of many
Maine murders? No; and when the
war fever haa sufficiently cooled,
murders will be less frequent every
where save where the stats persists
in setting the example of killing
Walt and watch.
CHAS. B. MAGENNIS.
National Press Dept., A. L. P. L. C.
Fifty Tears Aaro.
From The Oregonian of June 18. 1870
Washington. The president sent
the senate today the nomination
Amos Ackerman of Georgia to be a";
torney-general, vice E. R. Hoard. rJ .
signed. ; t'
Among the "living wonders" no',
being exhibited here are Mons. Jo
seph, the French giant, who is x
feet tall, and Anna Swan, Nova Scf:
tian giantess, almost as tall. ;
w im aiiacni-tj to m. ioao or ri c
tnn . .k- , I J l
" . i. iiva, vavneu i t iiic uriu&o
Kast Portland yesterday and was ref
cued with difficulty from 10 feet i.
water.
LACKING REVERENCE FOR FLAG
Colors Pass Throngs Who Remain
Covered. Says Parade Observer.
PORTLAND, June 17. (To the Edl
tor.)- At the time of the recent pa
rade of the T. P. A. delegates my at
tentlon was called very strikingly to
the utter and willful lack of patri
otism displayed by the citizens of
Portland.
As is quite customary in parades
of this general character, the na
tional colors precede the body of
marchers. We have always been
taught and many people have learned
through bitter experiences openly
and cheerfully fo demonstrate their
respect for our flag. The lndiffer
ence displayed, however, by the ob
servers on tne occasion to whicn
referred was nothing short of dis
gusting and disgraceful. As the col
ors passed before the throngs that
lined the sidewalks, It was my ob
servation that approximately only
one person, out of 10 was even aware
that the national colors were passing.
Can it be that we must again be
come involved in bloodshed in order
to create the wholesome respect for
the flag? In my estimation a man
who willfully, or through neglect,
fails to show the proper respect for
the national colors is not a fit citizen
for this city, and I should be glad to
see you once more invite public at
tention to this fact in your editorial
columns before our city shall have
been filled with many thousand visi
tors. Let us hope that the city shall
not be' stained by such disgraceful
exhibitions in the eyea of those who
come here expecting to see manifes
tations of patriotism and loyalty on
every proper occasion.
A. C. HOPKINS.
Elephant Is Vulnerable.
London Tit-Bits.
The elephant has such a tough hide
that hunters of big game have learned
to shoot It in the forehead for a fatal
wound. There la a soft bone about
the size of a saucer in the middle of
the. elephont's forehead that . is the
target of the experienced hunter.
ir-
J- -..
ORDER OF POOR LOSERS WAlf
1
Only Johnson'a Owm Word to E '
Heedrd as to Great Party Bolt. I
PORTLAND. June 17. (To the Ed!
tor.) Sanfield Macdonald, managa
of the Johnson campaign In Oregd
during the primaries, made the fol
lowing statement to a representatW
of The Oregonian: "The Johnson ol
ganizatlon will go down the line fij
the republican ticket. This is off!
cial." With all due respect for tli.
official position held by Mr. Maedoij.
aid ln the Johnson organization, arl
for his right to speak authorltivel!
we contend that he ls not a court
last resort.
No man knows what is seething
the great mind of Senator Johnson
this question. Until there is ma
public a telegram of congratulatio
from Senator Johnson to his success
ful opponent, or some public
nouncement from Senator Johnson
the American people, we shall cor
tinue to hope that he will enter tM -campaign
as an independent reputV "
lican. yV',
If Senator Johnson refuses toyrui
as an independent republican, our oil -
ganization will concentrate our effort
upon an attempt to bring about a cc
alition and consolidation of the delo
gates to the convention of the cotrl
mittee of 48, the delegates to the con
vention of the American Labor partj -and
the delegates to the conventiol
of the Non-I'artlsan league, all r "
wmcii meet in .nicMljo wiwnit tm
10th and 15th day of July, ln fur
therance ef this object, ss large
delegation as available funds
permit will be sent from this statJ
A great many years after the daatf .
ot John Wycliff, his remains wart
disinterred and hia -ashes throw!
into the river Avon. A poet of th! .
time penned the following:
The Avon to the Severn flews; the 8evar
to the sea:
The ashes of Wycliff will be berne as U
as waters be.
The Johnaon apirit . la rampar
throughout the land. It la an tdet
xuere is, nu friuwci 1 1 , umcn or Bsvrw.
. , . 1-11, 1 J V. . , I
will have expression. Hiram John)
son Is more than the greatest asae.
oi tne repuoiican party; ne is tni
fun.
wi?:
greatest asset of the American peoi
pie. w. r. ADAMS
KNOWLEDGE NOT GAINED IN DA
Visitors Whs Condemn Flllpiaoa la
Jure Relations With Islaads.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 15.-I
(To the Editor.) I have read with ln
terest a clipping from the Oregonla
containing a letter written by M
George A. Hartman giving lmpresj
alons of his visit to Manila.
The last two cararraohs of the let'
ter of Mr. Hartman contain atateT
menta that cannot remain unehali'
lenged. Mr.. Hartman a visit of
few hours ln Manila does not quait
him to pass judgment upon the eapacf
Hy of the r iupinos tor Belt-govern
ment. especially if during his visit h
was associated with the "jingo" ele
ment among the American population
of Manila. To compare the Filipino
with the American Indiana, aa '
dons by Mr. Hartman, Is utterly base
less and denotes a most ridiculoui
Ignorance aoout tne ruiptno people:
Nothing, in ray opinion. Is more det
rimental to the existing cordial rela
tionship between the Filipinoa am
the Americana as publicity, emanat
lng from half-baked critics whos
sole qualification for passing Jud-g
ment upon the Philippine Indenend
ence question is a sojourn of several
hours duration in Manila, aiXtds
local Americans whose greatest Ac
door sport" is to sktn the FilipinJ
and their aspirations for Independ
ence. M. J. DE LA RAMA.
Com. Agt. of the Philippine Govt-