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TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1920
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BALAAM TO THE SHRINE.
Life is too drab, take it by and
large. Sunsets and song birds still
cling to the flaming, gorgeous, col
orful motif in their expression of
living. Only mortals have grown
staid and lusterless. That is why. if
there weren't four-score and more
excellent reasons besides, that Port
land will find refreshing tonic for
herself In the. welcome to the Im
perial Council of the Ancient Arabic
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
For they some, these pilgrims, from
all the cities of the land, in the silk
and satin splendor of strange, ro
mantic courts, riding down upon the
city like some cavalcade in a caliph's
dream. Dawn in the tropics or a
desert evening cannot vie with them
for radiant disregard of conventional
attire. Temple by temple they tilt
at the hum-drum, until it topples to
the turf, and life takes on the colors
that were given to gladden the heart,
and there is music to step to, and
the drear commonplace is forgotten.
Salaam! And with the obeisance
Ot a proud city to her honored guests
let all remember that the hospitality
of Portland is tested by the welcome
given and sustained. No light trib
ute . was paid to Oregon and its
metropolis when Shrinedom chose
the city for its gala week. With the
individual citizen and business man
rests the pledge that no untoward
conduct, no violation of the- desert
creed of hospitality, free-handed and
open-hearted, shall mar a moment's
pleasure or give cause for an in
stant's regret. Portland has ever
"been the graceful hostess, loveliest
" In June, and would have the cara
vans bear with them, outward bound,
some word that Portland's fame has
' not been idly celebrated, but that
reality transcends the rumor. '
Masonry itself, ancient of orders,
rises as some rugged, loyal monolith
from the sands of antiquity, gigan
tic, impressive, and fraught with tre
mendous capabilities for service. It
Is fraternalism at the zenith, and its
records are graven on stone which
felt the chisel so many centuries ago
that antiquarians quarrel concerning
the era of those most venerable in
scriptions. Hence one is not sur
prised, but touched with the vanity
of redeemed assurance, to discover
that the festal auxiliary order of the
Mystic Shrine is no mere conception
of merry modernity, but that it, too,
had its origin in days as remote as
Mohammed, and that the order, even
as Masonry, recedes in the dim per
spective of the past, with tradition
supplanting- the inadequacy of his
torical narration.
The advent of the original . order.
according to authorities, swings back
ward to the flight of Mohammed
from Mecca to Medina, that time the
prophet found it to his advantage
to be absent when dissenting rell
gionists thought to call upon him
with whetted scimetars and new
pointed javelins. The flight of the
Moslem prophet became the birth of
the Mohammedan era, corresponding
to the year 622 in the Christian cal
endar, and known as the Hejira. In
Mecca, toward whose unseen min
arets the Moslem bows to pray, in
the year of the Hejira 25, the Arabic
Order of the Mystic Shrine was
founded, or in the Christian calendar
year of 647.
The origin of the modern order In
America, however, seems to bear no
direct relation to this period of the
organization, which was revived some
222 years ago in Arabia, as an auxil
iary to law-enforcement and the
suppression of banditry. Caravans
laden with treasure and commerce
were lures for the lawless, and the.
wild riders of the desert swooped
down upon the camel trains with
consequent fatalities and disruption
, of trade. Then arose again the An
cient Arabic Order of the Mystic
Shrine, its members pledged to keep
the trade lanes open through the
expeditious removal of ever so many
picturesque plunderers an oriental
version of the vigilantes of our own
rough west half a lifetime since
In 1871 there journeyed to Mecca
' a pilgrim from distant America. Wil
, Ham J. Florence, whom all the boys
called "Billy," a 33d degree Mason
.; It was at Aleppo, historic Syrian
city, where the crusaders camped
when they essayed the conquest of
. the Holy Land, that the enterpris
ing Mr. Florence gained entrance to
..a session of the Mystic Shrine,
wherewith he was manifestly de
lighted. He returned to America
and New York with the notion that
a good-fellow burlesque of the some
. what serious eastern order might
- yield to American Masonry an hour
. or so Of playtime. So in New York
on September 26, 1872, Mecca Tern
pie No. 1, of the American order,
was rounded. The novelty and
freshness of the idea lacked not fo
converts, for in the notable assembly
tnat gathers in Portland today there
are 147 temples represented with a
membership exceeding 300,000. And
in Arabia they are still doing busi
ness at the old- stand.
The popularity of the order arises
from two distinct sources, chief of
which is the exacting nature of the
requirements for membership. To
be numbered among the faithful
. phrases from the Koran and Arabian
Nights are ever apropos the can
didate must not only be a tested
Mason of high degree, but he must
rua the gauntlet of a very critical
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inspection by the auxiliary order,
Trt iovo nttotnarl Vi o stiHnn 1 t r, hfl .
knighted in the lists of good-fellow- I
ship, In the broadest application of
tne DhrasG The second source of
popularity is the frank and undenie!
intention of the nobles to wrest from
,
life its store of gaiety and mirth a
project at which the membership
v -
may be Bald, without a trace Of
exaggeration, to be exceptionally
successful
All the foregoing is by way of
introducing to Portland the guests
within our gates, affording their
hosts, the public,- a more definite
conception of the order which hon
ors the city with its pitched tents
and grazing dromedaries. When you
perceive, th.s afternoon, some jolly
fellow with his fez at a jaunty angle,
resplendent in gorgeous zouave cos
tuming, you will not only be con
templating the incarnation of car
nival but you may, at the same
time, be gazing at the governor of
a state. For the Mystic Shrine, and
here is the condensed clue to its
being, affords men the opportunity
to lay dignity and care aside, and
to give life the glad hand with the
exuberance of youth.
ONE OF THOSE POOR BILKS.-
The law is often mysterious in its
workings.
In 1914 the voters of Oregon abol
ished capital punishment.- On the
day of election two murderers were
held at Salem under sentence of
death. Nobody disputed that if the
amendment carried their necks would
be saved. The only issue was whether
its adoption would not actually set
them free. They had been convicted
of a crime the only legal punishment
for which was death by hanging.
Prohibition of hanging would remove
the only legal penalty, unless mean
while the governor commuted their
sentences to life imprisonment.. This
he did before the amendment became
effective. . -.
Now capital punishment has been
restored. But before the amendment
was proclaimed a brutal and pre
meditated murder was committed
near Oregon City. One young man
has confessed that he and another
slew the driver of a for-hire car 1n
cold blood. The two men have not
been tried- nor . have they been
legally proved guilty. But it is as
sumed by all lawyers that have been
interviewed that the amendment will
not be retroactive in their case. In
asmuch as the crime was committed
before capital punishment was for
mally restored they can be given no
worse punishment than life Impris
onment. As we said before the law is often
mysterious in its workings. Abolish
ment of capital punishment is retro
active. Restoration of capital pun
ishment is not. It's a queer propo
sition but doubtless any lawyer can
xplain it so that all the other law,
ers, but nobody else, can under
stand it.
GREAT INDIGNATION. j
What's the primary between friends
-rf the friends are democrats?
Here is Mr. Schuyleman, not only
a seer and a prophet, but entitled
by the' unwritten law of politics to
appointment to a place on the Ore
gon delegation to the national demo-
ratlc convention made vacant by the
death of one of the elected candi
dates. He had the most votes among
the remaining candidates.
Does he get it? He does not. The
trifling excuse that he was once a
socialist is used against him. Be
sides, something like Senator John
son, he is the choice of the plain
people, and the plain people are not
n control. It's the old guard the
old guard whose members ' almost
without exception were by the same
plain people turned down when they
ran for delegates in the recent dem
ocratic primary.
In democratic eyes the defeat of
Senator Johnson for the nomination
for president by the republicans was
a high crime and misdemeanor. Yet
Johnson had been a progressive just
as Schuyleman had been a socialist.
Yes, the primary is undermined, the
people are betrayed and a member
of the old guard' is chosen by the
old guard to fill a democratic va
cancy.
This sounds like indignation, does
it not? It is quite as sincere as that
which has been choking the demo
cratic brethren since the Chicago
exhibit of "prussianism" and "politi
cal skullduggery."
SIX-LEGGED HEIFERS
It is the bizarre that oDtrudes and
becomes claimant to headlines. A
six-legged heifer calf is always more
conducive to interest than are her
normal sisters of the same farm
yard. Her fame or notoriety, rather,
gathers embellishments on : every
tongue. Albinos, with their pale,
pinkish eyes and their wisps of col
orless hair,' are interesting despite
their unattractiveness. But like the
lonely swallow, who does not consti
tute a summer or -a drink, for that
matter the freak Is no criterion of
the normal. Do you recall the blind
men and the elephant? Their opin
ions differed, and trie chap who
seized upon the beast's trunk asserted
that the ponderous pachyderm was
nothing if not a rope. " In England
they are calling the Fannie Hurst
marriage, with typical British per
spicacity, "the American experiment."
To an amazed public this prominent
magazine contributor recently dis
closed the fact of her marriage,
which caught the popular fancy as
something eccentric and outre, like
the six-legged calf. It was the mu
tual agreement, not the marriage,
that roused t?ie jaded public interest.
"We decided that seven break
fasts a week opposite one another
might prove irksome," smirked the
bride. . "Our average is two."
With this announcement the freak
ish element entered, and nuptials
that a paragraph had sufficed to
narrate became the subject of .col
umns. The serious-minded British
journalists charged in gallant, thick
headed mass formation, in defense
of marriage and the home. Theirs
was the valor and concern of Sir
Kay, the seneschal, rather than that
of Sir Launcelot, for in America the
revelations of the bride were the
source only of comic comment
Miss Hurst's, way is neither the
American way nor "the American
experiment." It is the affectedly
wearied and blase choice of a woman
who ought to know better, if ever
she truly interprets life as an author,
and is but another six-legged heifer
ln the rarmyard of American man
ners and morals. Any creator of
magazine fiction, gifted with but a
trace of discernment, should be able
to perceive that such a custom, had
it been generally inaugurated a few
generations ago, must have surely f
r P-s 1 1 1 1 p rl in the pHminatinn of a. ereat 1
many magazine contributors. Do
you follow us? The invincible, dearly
desirable ego that is ourselves came
to. being because of an old-fashioned
belief in actual marriages, not in oc
casional breakfast jousts of literary
wit-
In triving to retain her romance.
., . ,
by means so unique. Miss Hurst lead3
casual critics to the belief that she
hasn't any romance worth retaining.
It is another six-legged belfer, and
its home is the sideshow.
LIFE BLOOD OF the LAND.
A total of . 263 permits have been
issued from the state engineer's of- portation" and of liberal appropria- 'mo3t anywhere you wanted. Spread
fice for the appropriation of water tion for highways, eagled colonels had to stand in line
from-Oregon streams for the pur- Aid b iriven most effectively wlth the newest of 90-lay lieutenants
pose of irrigation and the develop-
ment of power. More than 40,000
acres of land are to be watered un
der the grants, and 9300 horsepower
is to be developed.
Here are slaves of the lamp, in
deed. A state so providentially dow
ered that she has but to press lightly
upon her natural resources and set
the wheels of industry turning with
exhaustless energy, to turn the spisrot
of her many streams and cause the
soil to bring forth abundantly, and
then some. The natural conjecture
is that the future of Oregon is one
of industrial magnitude, as well as
agricultural. There is an abundance
of water for such fertile soil as needa
it. and an abundance to manufacture
the electrical energy that draws fac
tories and enterprise as to a magnet.
In the development of the state
these factors scarcely have begun to
count. They have been tapped with
a pin-prick. But years soon to come
will see them moving prosperously
through the veins of economic en
terprise, when Oregon, already great
and prosperous, will stand among the
foremost as a self-sustaining, export
producing commonwealth, asking for
little from eastern shelves.
HOW TO HELP THE FARMER.
Senator Harding's conference with
editors of farm papers evidences his
interest in and extensjve information
on agriculture and his realization of
its importance in the whole economic
structure of the country. Having
spent his life in a country town
which has grown up into an indus
trial center, he has seen manufac
tures and cities develop out of pro
portion to agriculture and rural pop
ulation. Solid prosperity and economic in
dependence of the country can be
secured only by symmetrical growth
of agriculture in step with manu
factures, -mining and other urban
industries. Farming has fallen be
hind, and the whole nation pays in
higher prices for everything that it
buys. It is necessary that farming
be put on an equality with other
lines of production in the amount
and stability of prices, in credit, mar
keting and transportation facilities
and in supply of labor. When that
is done, the profits of the farmer
will be increased, yet the price paid
by the consumer for his products
will be decreased, farm production
will inqrea.se, and the general level
of prices will fall. There should fol
low a larger surplus of farm prod
ucts for export and greater ability
of manufacturers to compete in for
eign traded Thus the prosperity of
all other industries is closely bound
up with that-of agriculture.
The requisites for greater strength
in the farming industry are plainly
indicated in the report of Senator
Capper of Kansas to the advisory
committee on platform, which is
condensed In the platform plank on
that subject. The first cause of the
farmer's troubles is the wide differ
ence between the price which he re
ceives and that which the consumer
pays for his products. Wholesale
prices of farm products have kept
pace with those of all commodities.
but between 1910 and 1917 the in
come of the . farmer increased 112
per cent, while that of manufactur
ing, light and power, companies in
creased 208 per cent. That discrep
ancy was due in the main to inter
vention of too many middlemen be
tween farmer and consumer and to
excessive cost of transportation. It
Is also due lnTart to fluctuations in
price which afford speculators op
portunity to make p.-ofit at the ex
pense of the consumer, no part of
which goes to the producer.
The readiest means of securing a
large share of this margin for the
farmer and of saving another large
share to the.corjsumer is co-operative
marketing extension to every prod
uct in every district of the system
which, is successfully followed by
fruitgrowers and .other producers.
Another means is more liberal credit
at moderate interest to carry -the
farmer over the period from seed-
time to Harvest lhese means can
uc piuviutsa oy legislation wnicn will
enable the farmers to help them
selves laws to facilitate formation
of marketing associations which
would not fall foul of anti-trust laws
but could be prevented from becom
ing injurious to the public; also laws
to facilitate co-operative loan asso
ciations on the pattern of the farm
loan associations of the rural credit
system. Federal reserve banks might
also be permitted to give more lib
eral discount privileges to farm pa
per, especially for purchase of fer
tilizer and seed and to carry crops
until they are marketed.
The best remedy for speculation.
aside .from such credit as relieves
the farmer from the necessity of
selling to the speculator, is informa
tion as to world conditions of supply.
demand and price, which is furnished
by the market bureau. This infor
mation would naturally be studied
by officers of marketing associations,
which could thus advise their mem
bers what to plant and how much
of it, and by direct sales on a large
scale would take away the specu
lator's occupation. Wide dissemina
tion of Information which influences
production and prices would limit
fluctuations, which make the specu
lator's opportunity and would go far
to ' eliminate him. 1
These means would enable the
farmer to pay higher wages and
would thus help to overcome the
labor difficulty. This arises from
his inability to keep pace with ad
vances in wages paid in cities, mines
and lumbering, also from the sea
sonal nature of farm work. An em
ployment bureau in the labor de
partment working in conjunction
with the immigration bureau could
assist by directing immigrants away
from the already congested cities to
the farming states, as is suggested
by the platform in its recommenda
tion of provision "for better economic
distribution of our alien population."
Transportation means much more
to the farmer than railroads, for it
begins at his own gate.- : Mud roads j
nrit a. ta on "him which can be re- l
moved by modern highways. High
rail rates and congested railroads l
are another tax which can be re-
moved both by motor highways and
by improved' waterways, and by co-
ordination of these with each other
and with railroads. Lower cost of
transportation will raise the price
paid to the farmer, and good roads tha brldgo of boats wasn't going to
right to his farm will bring him into Iet anybody get over to Ehrenbreit
touch with the world, relieve farm 8tein or vice verBat lf ha could help
me irom jts isolation,
tractive ana neip to tura lut u .
ot population Dacn troixi w
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to agriculture by the government by
decentralization of its activities. TJo
bureau official at Washington is as
well qualified to decide a question show the proper authority when rid
as a man on the ground, but tooling in O. D. motor. cars. But generals
many men on the ground have no I
power to act and must convince a
man two or three thousand miles
away in order to get a decision. Lo- I
cal officials should have power to
decide in accord with a general pol
icy. One of the farm editors dem
onstrated . the absurdity of- requiring
the farmer to go to the agricultural
department. It is to be hoped that
one result of the promised reorgan
ization of the government will be I
that the' department will go to the
farmer.
A COMMON RIGHT. .
One of the fundamental truths oil
our economic system is that capital, I
no less than labor, has the right to r
a fair return upon its investment,
Dollars or toil, it is all one, there-
turn must be adequate or the service
ceases. Applications are common
enough. There is, lor example, tne I
current decision or tne uurtiss Air-
piane company to cease tne com-1
merciai manuiacture ot jib macnines,
oecause tne government nas per-
mlttea salvaged war planes, or iung-
lish manufacture, to invade the home I
market. Exercising its privilege, the!
Curtiss firm has announced that it I
will suspend the industry, rathe
than -continue in competition at a
ruinous disparity. The action of this
firm illustrates, to the fullest extent,
the freedom of invested capital to
decline an unprofitable venture.
The same effect ,may be produced
throughout the industrial field, in
some degree, if organized labor in
the. flush of recent wage victories,
presses too strongly upon the em-
ployer. Beyond such a mishap none
can predict what lies difficult times,
certainly, with unemployment and
bread lines. Wholly aside from all
rodomontade In behalf of either em
ployer or employe, it is plain' that
confiscatory wage exactions will
compel the cessation . of industry,
For two years and more the weight
of wage increases has been passed I
along to the public, through the me-1
dium of increased costs. Manufac-1
turers realize, and the public is reso-I
lutely confident, that the limit of
the consumer's endurance has been I
reached. Further exactions in that
direction mean such .forced economy
as; will' lessen production, or invoke
openly rebellious measures. --y
In certain New Kngland textile
mills a recent wage demand for. 15 . William' D. Howells said not long
per cent increase was forced from the before his death that he never had the
employers. They answered through least fear for the literary future of
the only means left to them, -in a this country,- and added, after men
decision to curtail operations to four tionlng some of the early celebrities
days a week. Other textile' manu- I
facturers have given notice that the
situation has reached an impasse, I
ana tnat further wage demands must I
of necessity be met by. the shutting
down of the plants. The only evl-
dence of self interest in such a situ-I
anon is tne natural aesire to escape
bankruptcy. Employers have made
so many concessions to labor within
the last few years that most of them
" w"8"r can e ciassea as unrea-
nerflnu-s to nuti
now, when they assert they can yield j
no more.
We have e-rown .n'nrhis ln
75 vears or so since n-rmon w,irrl
a clear space for the future city, that
.001 wiin me timDerea
J,ua- ue lDO -own "ie idea
ruu.,eMt mere are natural monument has been discov
deer there, of course, and jackrab- ered on Green mountain, several miles
.a"d. Tyt"? r or Canon City. Colo. It is be-
i . A 7ZLZr
hamlet nf Sanv f ntfl m
an- hour's motoring tH tV ,J
city limits farms and ranches all
the-way and yet in the most casual
fashion possible a big. hunrv couirar
comes meanderihe out of the
The dogs take up his trail and a
welt-sped bullet brings him smash-
ing down from a fir-top. The wil-
dernesa is nn trie Inh a if u
the. time of the pioneer. Maine is
an elder state, and her hills are still
the sanctuaries of wild life that lures
the sportsman ' frpm distant places,
something of the sort is in the fu-
ture of Oregon, for the Sandy dis-
trlct cougar is but proof that the
state is so ordered that survival of
game ts not only assured, but Is
inevitable.
Numerous major-generals and brie-
adiers have been reduced to ore-war
rank wnile the board is making a
new deal. Pleasant diversion will
be found in watching the politics in it.
Tnvn rlohW s ..-
invariably a man s wife can select
his best picture, for she is an im
partial critic, odd as that may seem.
Harding is lucky.
Grants Pass votes $400,000 offhand
for irriiration. for tb v,
r irrigation, for the city by th
Rogue knows what water will do.
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Give the red fez the right of way
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cnr " ou"- youi
vuuw. luc utiier iiuy-one weeas.
The news atorv tmvm h RiIvm.
ton special is complete in every de-
tall." Is it possible! .
Portland owes something to the
local Shrine "for keeping the fakers guese gunboat worked all night, f ir
off the streets. ing the astonishing total of 189 shells
Shrine weather all the week. See
the crescent in the western sky?
McAdoo is a good fellow to get out
of the way of "dad."
May be Solomon wore Clothes like
some of these. .
There isn't a grouch in all this big
UU4"
"Joe Singer of Oregon" was there.)
Ready! " , -. . .
BV' - PRODl'CTS OF"
THE TIMES
Doughboy Tell General Star Mean.
"Son in the Service.'
In the early days of the army of
occupation, says the Home Sector, It
was not such a simple matter to get
permission to cross the Rhine as it
later became. And the M, P. who had
been stationed at the Ccblens end of
It, unless the party in question had
. - ironclad seven-times-stamped
Now one of the privileges of being a
general is that you can-or could-go
not to mention the bucks when a
train puiiea into an a. m. r. center.
Similarly, those same colonels had to
oh, just a salute that was a little
better than usual.
So -when a car bearing the single
star of a brigadier on its windshield
rolled easily up toward the bridge of
boats, its driver merely glanced at the
M. P. to be sure he was out of harm's
way and bounced up on the bridge.
"Hey," called the M. P.
The chauffeur stopped. There might
have been a silent blowout or some-
thins
'Got your pass?" queried the M. P
sticking his head inside the door and
Baluting as many times as space per
mitted.
"Pass?" repeated the occupant of the
car with reasonable irritation.
"Yessir pass." insisted the M
politely, saluating some more.
"Don't you know what that star
means?" inquired the general with
some acidity, pointing to the wind
shield
xhe M. p. grinned witn a well-how-
did-you-think-up-that-one air.
"Sure," he said. "Msans you got a
so in tha servirn
George Bernard Shaw declares that
the old cottages of England sbould.be
destroyed wholesale.
"After living in one of these "liter
ary and artistic' houses with an ex-
alted sense of doing the right thing,
he told the Society of Arts recently,
-0ne realizes that all the time one
ag been living in a ort of. architec-
turai neil.
-m ao fa modern that t have
come to tno conc,UBlon that what is
wanted is a law that every building
8hould be knocked down at the end
of 20 years, and a new one erected.
That would get rid of old cottages.
We have got into tho incorrigible
habit of sponging on the past.
Hvery generation ought to be able
to Produce its own art and. all this
worship of the past can only be got
rld of bv wholesale destruction ot
a11 tne monuments of the past." He
added
If we could avoid the wholesale
destruction of human beings involved
by a great war, I should be glad to
have half a dozen great wars in Eu
rope, so that all the old buildings
might be knocked down, thus forcing
us by a sort of starvation to make
our own architectural efforts.
he had known
"I am not dismayed by the num
bers who have taken to literature in
these days and found a living 'in it.
When there are o many new readers.
why should not the new writers have
their innings? The old ones have had
theirs, and even the old readers do
ot want ,h(im .iw.v. nlrhli we
oId writers, who are confronting a
new llfe elsewhere at 8UCh cloae
'range I
"texture here? I myself am going to
cultivate an affection fcr it from this
on. The great men I have named
could not do .just the fine things, the
brave things, the true things that are
don no""r tne men 1 wl n- name
lesl A mlB BOme lnaa ;onS count.
Gently . swaying to and fro. a huge
granite monolith forming a unique
lleved to be tb only. ".winging monu
"""- L" worm.
The shaft is more than 100 feet high
and ln the COUT8e of many ya haa
beco"lt' tree tro a surrounding
"arln aormawon except at tne Dase,
wnicn is aoout iz teet wide. In the
center tne granite column Is about 50
leel ,n ""caneas ana tapers orf. to a
wld't& at the summit practically the
same as at the base
The "tire shaft moves probably
from two to three feet at the apex,
n tl swing is constant under the
pressure of light winds. The base
of the shaft rests in a small hollow
about three feet in depth., and the
I continguous granite formation has
been entirely disconnected. Detroit
News,
an tne mountains oi Scotland a
Highlander and an American were
I walking. In due course they came to
ullo'u ,u nuis irom wnicn a
I wonaeriua ecno couia De obtained.
I Having explained matters to his
companion, the Scotsman proceeded to
I uojuuii.ii aio. no eilllll'JU a, anout, ana
after neariy three minutes the echo
returned as per programme
"Mon," said the Scot, "ye can't show
anything like that in your country."
"I guess we can," replied the other,
"Why, in my camp in the Rocky
u lo Dea Jusl
po my neaa or the tent and shout,
"Time to get up! Wake up there:'
iiiignt nours later that echo travels
back and wakens me!
Tire attacked a cargo of coal in an
I American concrete nhin. . lvlno- at
ancnor in tne harbor of Lisbon. Port-
I tugal. recently, and ln halt an hour
lt1.lad1 Salnea such headway that other
!hip? lnf wa" angered, and " be-
j vcqoci. I
this eeemlnelv slmDla tn.sk. rs va rnn.
ular Mechanics Magazine, a Portu-
into the 3000-ton stone hull before it
finally listed and went down In the!
deep water at the mouth of the Tagua
river. The glow of the burning ves
sel, and the warship's desperate bom-
I bardment made a spectacle that kept
I thousands or excited spectators in sus
pense kvr nours.
I The name New England was coined
1 by Captain John Smith, of Pocohontas
fame, and one of the founders of the
Virginia colony. In 1614 he explored
i aim inouiiiiu mo uur ui---n coast, tnen
r..U.i Vi r-t Vl Vii-vltil. j ...
V- w Rnarland Th. i)bh.. o--n.-
tne Mayflower Pilgrims adopted the
name as used in Smith s map several
I years before.
Those Who Come and Go.
"Just looking around," George L.
Haff of Gold Hill, Or., is sojourning
in the city during Shrine and Rose
Festival week, renewing old times
with Deputy District-Attorney Hara
mersly, "Joe" Beeman, of the Internal
revenue equad, "Bill" Carter, coun-selor-at-law,
and others; whose mem
ories hark back to earlier days in the
Jackson county town. George used to
be a barber, and was once city re
corder, but who could trim hair and
sign legal documents when the green
hills of . the Rogue river billowed
away In the distance? "There's gold
in them hills, pardner," has been the
motto of Mr. Haff s career, and. inci
dentally, he has proved the truth of
the old prospector's axiom by dis
covering a considerable quantity of
the same metal. . A prospector be
cause he is one. as all prospectors are.
George Hafrs countenance, lean.
good-humored and set with sun wrin
kles, is the sort that makes the kid
dies want to come to him and) induces
the friendless dog to wag a jolly tail
in greeting. Of late Mr. Haff has
been following some of the old trails
and blazing a few new .ones, in the
desert fields of the southwest.
Mrs. Hattie Beeman, wife of Josiah
Horton Beeman, that indefatigable
sleuth of the internal revenue squad
id convalescing at an east side home
after a fortnight in the Portland Sur
gical hospital, where she underwent
an operation for the removal. of vari
cose veins in her marching equipment.
Every autumn, with her eon Horton
Jr., now a student at Oregon univer
sity, Mrs. Beeman takes a long trek
into the headwaters timber of Evans
creek. In Jackson county, camping at
Willow springs. There, because she
Is a ranger and dead shot. Mrs. Bee
man takes annual toll of the deer, to
the limit prescribed by law. Most of
all, just at present, ehe is worrying
over this trip and petitioning provi
dence that she will be sufficiently re
covered to stand a strenuous day or
so clambering the hills and gullies of
of upper Evans creek.
Miss Jessie. Levy of . Indianapolis.
who came to America from Rusela
when 6 years of age and knows from
personal experience what the advan
tages of America, mean, arrived in
Portland yesterday to spend a week
here giving talks upon the subject of
"Americanism." Miss Levy is accom
panied by Miss'Esther Goldberg. Both
young women are studying law snd
expect to make sufficient funds
through the' sale of a brochure which
Miss Levy has written on the sub
ject, "Americanism, What It Has Done
For Me," to take them through the
law school next year. Miss Levy is
secretary to Judge Willis C. McMahan
of Indianapolis and Miss Goldberg is
secretary to Judge A. L. Nichols of
the same city. Following a visit of
week here the women will go to San
Francisco.
"These Portland people certainly
have the spirit of hospitality." was
the remark of C. L Faust of Los An
geles, who was consorting with two
young men who were proudly wear
ing the fez of Hillah temple, Ashland
in rambles about the business district
Saturday afternoon. "Having a eel
lulpid badge bearing my name 1 find
It convenient to wear it while here
and wanted to connect it with the oc
casion so I stepped into a jewelry
store and asked where I could have
fez put on. The man behind the
counter did It In a jiffy, and when I
offered to pay, he Just said, "Oh. that's
all right, Noble! we are glad you are
here. So I feel glad to be where peo
pie have the spirit that is met here
Any time the people down in Mari
on and Linn counties dlagree to such
an extent that they resort to the
courts, they generally put their dif
ferences before Percy R. Kelly for
adjudication. The fact that the port
ly circuit judge ts becoming a fixture
in the circuit bench of that district
indicates that his decisions and rul
ings are according to all the well
regulated rules of law acid equity.
Judge Kelly Is stopping at .the Oregon
while here for the general festivities.
Scott H. Wells, son of Dr. and Mrs.
J. Hunter Wells of Portland, returned
home yesterday from Boston where
he has just graduated from the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Wells was an active participant
in all student activities at the Boston
institution and was prominent in fra
ternity circles.
Hotel clerks are trying to decide
among themselves whether or not the
present week Is to be a soft one or
lf It is to b efllled with grief. For one
thing, there will not be the usual
trouble of reassigning rooms from
day to day for the guests at all local
hotels this week are wearing the red
fez of Shrinedom, and there isn't a
chance for an outsider to edge in on
a room. Some few of them tried it
yesterday but soon found that they'd
have to stay on the outside looking
in.
.Dr. John C. Merrlam. president-elect
of the Carnegie institution of Wash
ington. D. C, is in Portland on a
brief visit and was the guest of honor
at a dinner at the University club last
night. Dr. Merrlam formerly was dean
of the faculties of the University of
California. Mr. Merrlam is en route
to his home at the national capital.
" J. T. Hinkle who, as city attorney,
takes care of the legal troubles of the
city of Hermiston, is here for the fun
of the fezzers and is stopping at the
Imperial. '
Dewey Bali, who was so anxious to
get to France at the outset of the
recent war that he fibbed about his
age. la visiting with relatives from his
home at Eugene. Mr. Ball got into
the army all right, and got to France
where he served for nearly a year in
a field artillery outfit. He's here
looking on at the Shrine festivities
and Rose Festival.
Mr. and Mrs. Gale Anderton stopped
off in Portland for a brief visit while
en route home. to San Francisco from
Seattle. Mr. Anderton attended a
banker's meeting at Seattle last week.
He is 'a prominent financier of the
Golden Gate.
Life of Eleetornl System. .
KERRY. Or., June 20. fTo the
Editor.) 1. Please tell me when the
present system vof electoral voting
started? 2. Was there ever a presi
dent elected by the house of repre
sentatives, and If so who was he?
DALLAS WILD PITTENGER-
1. The electoral system was estab
lished by the constitution as origin
ally" adopted. The principal change
made since then . concerns the elec
tion of vice-president, who was not
voted for separately but became vlce
prsldent by virtue of having received
the second highest number of votes
for president. The twelfth amend
ment changing the system was
adopted in 1804.
2. Thomas Jefferson was chosen
by the house in 1S01 as result of a
tie vote with Aaron Burr. John
Qulncy Adams was chosen by the
house in 1825. the electoral college
having failed to give Adams, Andrew
Jackson, Henry Clay or William H.
Crosford a, majority.
SAVETU ORECOV SEWSPAPCRS.
Some Criticise. orae Approve Nomi
nation. Depending on Polltlca.
Grants Pass Courier.
There is nothinsr in the private or
rublic life of Warren G. Harding
that can give offense to the radi
cally progressive element of the
republican party; there is nothing
but admiration from the great
middle class of forward-looking
republicans, and there is nothing to
it but acquiescence from what is left
of the old ultra-conservative gang of
stand-patters, because they could
never elect a man anyway. So be
yond this, where there' is opposition
to the typically American figure of
Warren G. Harding, we must con
clude "they are democrats, and none
are so blind as tbey who will not
see."
Logical Car.didarte Cbraen. -
Pendleton Tribune.
The dignified, good natured char
acter of the campaign conducted by
Senator Harding has made a good
impression and he has incurred no
enmities. He occupied the most
logical, most strategic position off
the large field of candidates.
Likened to Garfield.
Tillamook Headlight.
As once was said ' of his chosen
predecessor. James A. Garfield. Mr.
Harding has "'a bushel of brains'
which he knows how to use to the
advantage of his country and his
party. Whatever public position he
may occupy will be well tilled.
Self Made Man.
St. Helens Mist.
The Mist Is pleased at the selection
of the candidates who will head the
national republican ticket. Harding
is a self-made man. He fought his
battles alone and fought them well.
His success in life is evidence of his
gieatness. No better man than
Coolidge could have been selected as
the running mate of Harding.
Man Worthy of Support.
Forest Grove News.
The republicans have nominated a
man whom every republican can con
sclentlously support. He Is classed as
a conservative, but he is not so con
servative but that he can see the
good of some of the things advanced
by his rivals. He may be conserva
tive but he is not retrogressive. He
floes not stand ln the way of progress.
He is practical. His record has been
one of constructive progressiveism.
Two Splendid Men.
Newberg Graphic.
In the nomination of Harding and
Coolidge the Graphic feels that the
party has two splendid men to head
tne ticket. If the San Francisco'
convention does as well in selecting:
standard bearers the country will be
assured of good leadership- for four
years, rouowlng March 4, 1921.
Tower of Strenath.
Heppner Gazette-Times.
Senator Harding is not known in
the west as he is In the east, and yet
every citizen who has followed the
trend of current events conld not help
but know that the senator is a tower
of strength, not only to the party but
to the nation. We firmly believe that
western people will' learn to know
better, ln the coming months, of the
man who has been chosen to the
leadership of the party, and let us
hope, the leadership of America.
From the Common People.
Lebanon Criterion.
Both Senator Harding and Gover
nor Coolidge are men of the common
people; what they are today they
have made themselves by their
energy, activity and efftctency. Born
in humble surroundings both have
advanced to the highest positions In
the gift of their native states, and
now tne call of the nation has
beckoned them to the highest places
in the gift of that nation.
Three Thlnica Prsved.
Hood River News.
The result of the convention at
Chicago offers three great conclu
sions for republicans. Firrt, that the
day of the prophet is done; second.
rat tne primary election is a useless
and expensive farce; and third, that
it is the duty of every republican,
disgruntled or otherwise, to Support
the nominee at the polls next fall.
Fellow Feellna- From Craft.
Monmouth Herald.
However the .average editor, and
printer may disagree with Candidate
Harding n matters political, he can
not but exhibit . fraternal feeling
for the nominee because he Ik a fol
low newspaper man. Not only is he an
editor and pu-blisher, but he is a
practical printer, being familiar with
the business from ordinary hand com
position to running the linotype and
the cylinder press.
Kot Strwnsreat or Weakest.
Post. Independence.
Mr. Harding is' neither the strong
est nor the weakest candidate the re
publican party could have nominated,
but he can go before the country po
litically and personally clean, which
may be sufficient to give him the
election.
Here la Hoping.
Bend Press.
One thing in his favor is that he la
a newspaper man. Perhaps he will
find some relief for the newsprint
shortage.
Teat of Great neaa.
Halfway Herald.
The aaying that greatness consists
in being in the right ' place at the
right time is proven in the case of
Senator Harding. Harding went into
the convention . without a following
but won his nomination because con
ditions were Just right.
Not Another Autocrat.
HiUsboro Independent.
Possessing ability and being of the
type his record proves him to be. he
can be safely considered on the basis
of things he will not do. Ills ad
ministration will not be of the one
man kind, but the best brains and
ability of the nation Will be sirm
moned to his assistance and to coun
sel with him ln his cabinet. That
cabinet will not be selected with an
eye to Its chief being an outstand
ing figure with marionettes to Jump
when he pulls the wires or accept
ignominious dismissal If they pre
sume to act without orders.
Where Fault Lies.
Athena Press.
" Harding, who is described as a lov
able mah of the McKinley .type, is not
an objectionable candidate. Beyond
doubt he is a good man if not a
great one. The objection lies in the
manner of his nomination through the
scheming of "old guard" senators who
paid not the slightest attention to the
result of the presidential primary.
Tiot a " One - Sinn " Mm.
Albany Herald.
It is refreshing to note that Mr.
Harding is getting away from the
"one-man" attlttrde of the person w"ho
will go down in history as his im
mediate predecessor in the presi
dency. For Mr. Harding has de
clared that even in his campaign the
"one-man" Idea will be taboo.
'ot Dark But Thoroughbred.
Harrisburg Bulletin.
Harding didn't win as a dark horse.
It might be proper, however, to class
him as a thorougn Drea. He made nis
way up as a printer and publisher
and it sure takes some horse to get
recognition at that game.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oreg-onian of June St. 1895.
BrumsbutteL Germany At 4 o'clock
today the Imperial Tacht Hohenzol
lern, with Emperor William and
princes aboard, severed the threads
across the Kiel canal and its formal
dedication was completed.
The 25th annual commencement ex
ercises of Bishop Scott academy were
held yesterday, 10 young men receiv
ing diplomas. r
Fully 4000 persons attended the
opening yesterday of the big 15-day
race meeting at the Irvington track.
J. Frank Davis, chief deputy of In
ternal Revenue Collector Blackman.
will retire at the end of this month.
J. B. Mullay will succeed Mr. Davis.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oreronlan of June 21. 1870.
Washington Rogers Green is nom
inated for associate justice of the su
preme court of Washington territory.
St Louis General Canby arrived
here yesterday en route to the Pa
cific to take charge of the depart
ment of the Columbia.
In the city election yesterday the
successful alderman ic candidates
were: First ward. A. B. Hallock; sec
ond ward, J. B. Congle: third ward. L.
Besser long term. W. Lair Hill short
term.
Sheriff Zeiber" offers a reward of
$300 for the arrest and delivery of
the prisoners, Trainor, Engall and
Falk, who escaped from -jail yester
day. For We Must Grow.
By Grace K. Hall. '
Ah! Would 'twere always sunny
spring.
With singing birds in leafy boughs.
And yellow butterflies a-wing.
While on the hillside mottled cows
Browse in the tangled clover sweet.
And bees drone softly 'round their
' feet.
O wonder music of the trees!
An echo-song of by-gone years,
A wordless symphony of "leaves
That whispers of our hopeless tears;
Soft spirit-music of the glade.
Sweeter than harps by masters
played!
Ah! Would that we might ever thrill
With rapture that the springtime
brings.
When unasked flowers are on the hill.
And dawn arrives on feathered wings;
But hearts must gain .the autumn's,
glow.
And bear the chill of winter's snow.
TOO MUCH CODDLING OF ROBINS
They Will Neglect Bug Hon tins; If
Given Foil Access to Berries.
PORTLAND. June 20. (To the Ed
itor.) Once I. like The Oregonian, had
a sentimental attachment for Sir Rob
in Redbreast and I was also his de
fender because of his known prowess
against the pests of field and gar
den. That was before I owned a
strawberry patch. I do not now in
dict the whole tribe pt Robin the Red,
but I have arrived at the conclusion
that Sir Robin, like the industrious
bee or the human being, lf you please,
can be turned into a laiy lout and a
thief by too much coddling.
The bee, as we all know, is held up
as a model of industry, but his virtue
is not thrift alone, for he is a valua
ble aid in spreading the pollen of the
blossoming fruit trees. But set out
a pan of sugar and he will throw up
his job of pollenising at once, take all
the sugar and become lazy and discon
tented after the sugar is gone. Like
wise the most promising youth may
turn out a burden and a non-producer
if he is permitted all the lux
uries he desires without having to
exert himself to obtain them.
My strawberries are on the sun
ny side of the orchard and beyond
the orchard ln a grove of trees
maples, firs' cedars and others. The
robin colony is large and it is enter
prising in the matter of home mak
ing. This spring they dotted the lawn
working for worms and bugs. That
was before the strawberries began
to ripen. Now they do nothing but
raid the patch or sit in the trees bor
dering it and wait for the strawber
ries to ripen. And I notice that -they
quarrel among themselves most of
the time. In exchange for my straw
berries they have decided to permit
me to have the earth worms in the
lawns and the bugs ln the vegetable
garden. This self-arranged bargain
is being executed religiously. Where
as a week ago there was promise -of
an abundant crop and they were Just
beginning to turn red. now all that
remain each morning when I wander
out in faint hope of getting enough
for a breakfast dish are the clumps
of green ones too small and hard to
suit the exacting taste of either
robin Or myself. It is an actual fact
that I have had not one single straw
berry out of a patch large enough to
give a good-sised family all they
would care for for table use. And I
have, gone some distance from my
place to that of a friend who has but
a little larger patch than I, but is
more favorably situated as to bird
colonies, and have bought two crates
of fine berries for canning.
I amr told to let the robins have a
few strawberries because they will
destroy the garden bugs. They are
in truth taking all the berries and
it is now up to me to go out and buy
sprays and other bug poisons.
As I said before, I do not condemn
the whole tribe of Robin the Red, but
there is such a thing as being too
sentimental. Your bird lovers take
it for granted that birds are so much
superior to human beings that they
cannot be spoiled by ease and luxury.
POST-WAR GARDENER.
DREAMING.
Far away the rapids gleam
And the water, lit by glances
Of the setting suns rays, dances
To the music of the poplars by the
stream.
Gold and crimson the wave tips are
And the voice of the rapids comes
faint from afar
Like music heard in a dream.
Now the sun sinks ln the west
And the ' cloud-banks stately,
rolling.
Seem like sounds of great bells
tolling,.
.As the glowing day is drifting to
its rest.
Volumes of music they float high
in air.
Harmony echoed in tone-colors
. rare
On. the river's shimmering breast.
Oh. that I might, like the sun
Sink to slumber, 'mid the singing
Of the poplars and the ringing
Of great bells, life's long toilsome
Journey donel
Oh. for a rest of an aeon or two
Till the Master of Time shall have
formed me anew
And set me a pew course to run.
LOIS SMITH.
Wife Has Clever Idea.
Boston Transcript.
Mrs. A. "Does your husband ever
Torarei to sumi mo icucio jvu eivu
j him?"
Mrs. B. "No. I always see to it that,
fee puts them in his cigar case."