. i ' r- - , - ' . --. A. . 1 . i 10t TIIE MORNING OREGOMAX, 1 THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1920 K!TBI.1Smn-BT HENRY I- PITTOCK. published by The Oregonian Publishing- Co, luO Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. . C. A. JIORDEX, E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. T!ie Orcgonlan Is a member of the Asso ciated l'ress. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tho use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to tt or rot otherwise credited in this paper and :o- tho local news published herein. An rishts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. bubscriptiou Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mul!.) rl'-T. Punday included, ono year fS.OO Xaily. ."-unday Included, six months . . . 4. .'J T;!lv, Sunday Included, three months. 2.25 pnily. Pumiay included, one month 7 Dally, without Sunday, ono year fl.00 liaiiy, without Sunday, six months .... 3. '-'5 jailv. without Sunday, one niontli .... ."50 Wefkly. ono year 1.O0 Sunday, one year 0.00 By Carrier.) 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Sport is a relative matter. One who has never fished for tuna or tarpon knows, with complacent in stinct, that these giants of the blue wave are not the peers of the big trout of the west. It takes longer to land them, but their bulk is mas sive; longer to tire them, but their muscles are mammoth. Set against them in this rivalry is a fish of fif teen pounds, let us say, who rights presidential candidacy had been fos for a half-hour, every moment mem- tered and financed by an uncouth oraoie, ana wnose snarpiy coecneu valuation of real property was raised country in the war of 1812, came from $2,440,000 to $6,618,000, while 1 here primarily to trap game, and the assessed valuation of personal J like other trappers probably con- property was increased from $666,- 250 to $1,220,000. It was the pa ternal answer of Townleyism to a distressed district. DR. BLTLKR'S APOLOGT. Who was it charged General Wood with losing his temper? It was none other than Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia uni versity, whose charge that the Wood .$0.00 7.80 1.05 .Go rush would-snap a twenty-pound line like tow. Had the prize fighters of the ocean but half the agile energy that is the birthright of this fish, were they at all his equal, the sea anglers would cast for them with derricks. Leave others to their tarpon and tuna, for those vacatlonal delights are much too distant. There is a lusty trout off Tillamook head, his blunt nose turned toward the living causeway of the Columbia. i "A LAW AGAINST IT." Tho New York Evening Post and other eastern newspapers, following tho disclosures of extravagant use cf money in the presidential pri- ! jnaries, express a wish for enactment .of a federal corrupt practices act ; limiting campaign expenditures. ,.: Wo offer the Oregon law as a - model. It is not that it is successful ' In its application but because it - : ought to bo fully satisfying to all : who, when they discover something i iobjeclionablc, immediately asseverate i that there ought to be a law "'s iiinst it. I The Oregon corrupt practices act y In without question "a law against 1 ii." It Is against almost anything . that a candidate would likely do if . he could do it without the opposi tiort finding it out. Also it strictly ". limits expenditures. It does not go ' ko far us the English statute, which restricts expenditures by friends and '.) admirers in behalf of a candidate. - but it closely approaches it To illustrate, tho candidate for a nomination may expend in his own '- tehalf no more than 15 per cent of an amount equivalent to ono year's . 1 salary of tho office he seks. But Jn computing tho amount that a can didute may expend, the contributions : of a descendant, ascendant, brother, .. 6ister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, - . wife, partner, employer, employe . fellow official or fellow employe of . , a corporation, are deemed to be those of tho candidate himself. In addi tion, no corporation, either by itself or through a majority stockholder. which carries on the business of a , r bank, trust, trustee, surety, indem " nity, safe deposit, insurance, rail- " road, street railway, telegraph, tele 7 " phone, gas, electric light, heat v ' power, canal, aqueduct, water, cem- etery, or crematory company may ; contribute at all. Moreover, candl ; " dates may not be solicited for con - tributions to charitable or religious . organizations, or to any organization ! created for the public good, or for '-- ' political advertisements in any sort ' ' 'of publication. On the face of things, a candidate -J in Oregon is in the hands of his friends and his friends must be those ' t not attached to the "interests" or 'j "big business?' For violation of '- t'i these provisions the consequences are ' dire. That is to say, the law de- ; Clares the consequences to be dire. - These are but a few of the fea ' i turea of a law that has many de- tails as to what a candidate shall or shall not do, and also as to what others may or may not do. In many respects it is interesting and instruct ive. But it does not affect the amount of money actually expended to attain the desirable and hotly i contested offices. We ha-e "a law asralnst it" and are satisfied. Vio lating the corrupt practices act is very much like violating the aato mobile speed law or the prohibition ltw. It entails no disgrace unless j ou are caught and convicted. But ,1 unlike the latter laws, nobody is evpr caught transgressing it. The statute is so sweeping and so intri cate thnt the only witnesses are also ticcoinplices. They never tell. HOSTESS TO A MCITITCDK. There were hurry and worry when Portland prepared to receive her guests of the Mystic Shrine, Where to put all the prospective company the good dame didn't know, for they were coming by platoons and regi ments as though all the cities of America were suddenly decanting their convivial citizenry upon the focal Mecca in Oregon. Portland, whose pride is in her hospitality, was fully as fussed as any housewife who expects more company than the cot tage can comfortably contain. Even as the fretting hostess of the suburbs she lived to learn that the capacity of good will accomplishes all that is desired, and that true hospitality is never at loss when put to the test. The happiest memories of "down n the farm" days are those of epic times when all the family gathered in reunion, even to the fourth cous ins, and the miracle of accommoda tion was commonplace. So It will bo with Portland when she recalls the present convention. The provi dent preparations made by the hous ing committee, and the genuine ge niality with which citizens met the emergency, are but parallels of the open-house idealism that long has characterized American home life. There are, so the estimate asserts, more than 75,000 members of the Mystic Shrine now tarrying in town To these must be added, if the cen sus of transient guests is complete, the many who have sped to Port land to witness the glowing pag eantry of Shrlnedom, and to cele brate the Rose Festival. In totality an estimate of 100,000 visitors would not fall far from the target. Where are our worries now? The postcard philosopher, puffing a retrospective corncob, once observed that most of our troubles never happen. Port land spread her arms wide and with matronly welcome caught the gold and glitter, silk and samite, of that tremendous caravan to her ample bosom. And she tucked those thou sands of nobles away in best rooms, told them where the key was, and said that she didn't care what time they came home from revel. As an instance of hospitable as similation the 1920 Shrine conven tion is remarkable. One of the larg est public assemblies eve. held in th nation has been given hostel in so thorough a fashion that, save when the gay parades go down the ban nered streets, there is but little evi dence of congestion. Perhaps Allah ordered it so. At any rate it is well 1 ceived no more than a sentiment of convenience toward the soil. "He was," as Colonel Nesmlth has truly said, "in 1843 the only settler on the river below the falls; an English sailor. . . . He used to exhibit an ugly scar on his head made in that memorable action by a British cutlass, and attributed - his escape from death to the fact that he had a couple or pieces or hoop iron crossed in Stars and Starmakers By Leone Caaa Baer. assembly of stock gamblers drew a pirited return fire from the harassed general. Then said Dr. Butler, with pedagogic finality, "Gracious! lie loses his temper!" When the Jovian thunders of Columbia's prexy are loosed, the target Is convicted forth with of ungentlemanly spleen if ne presumes to retort. Perhaps General Wood did lose his temper. He is a man of broad experience among men, of unques tioned integrity, and the canard that e was but a cat's-paw for disso lute interests aroused his ire. He called Nicholas Murray by the short nd ugly term. It was not dignified, that thrust In defense, but neither was the attack that provoked it. General Wood proved' his human quality in resenting personal aspersions. There was a champion of the Wood candidacy known as Colonel William Cooper Procter. He makes soap. His soap is synonomous with clean liness. His personal record is in accord. The broadcast charges of Dr. Butler impugned his honesty as they assailed the general's intelli gence. Colonel Procter protested to such effect, and with what insistency ne may only surmise, that Dr. But ler was moved to instant apology. He made public assertion that his charges against the Wood candidacy were "both unbecoming and unwar Dr. Butler is not without honor in the nation. He has contributed much to the clearer understanding of economic and political perplexities. He is, ordinarily speaking, an asset and not a liability. But the measure of public- confidence that this assur ance yields him does not Justify him in intemperate, unwise and unwar ranted attacks upon other public men. He charged General Wood with loss of temper. It is to the credit of Dr. Butler that he reme died his unfounded diatribe, to the best of his ability, by an open ad mission that it was he who first felt the promptings of irrational choler. and that he uttered his baseless charges under the promptings of that spirit. The Mrs. Pfeifer, who seconded the nomination of Governor Coolidge at the republican convention, is Alex andra Carlisle, the English actress, who became an American when she was married to Dr. Pfeifer of Boston. Some reports say that Miss Carlisle outshone all other women talkers in appearance and delivery, though some his cap, which arrested of the reporters made light of her the cutlass and saved his life." -But material. although mentioned by Indirection Arthur Brisbane complimented her as among the. "early builders of the figure and William Jennings Bryan city," Johnson does not seem to de- said: "Best speech of all from stand serve place as the first home builder point of oratory; from all other stand- in the actual sense, or as, a settler 1 points, nun and void. on the ground covered by the orig inal townsite. Historical accuracy requires that this honor be bestowed elsewhere. Miss Carlisle was in Portland "The Country Cousin." in Edna Goodrich, who was the third wife of the late Nat Goodwin, will produce a three-act comedy drama called "Shadows" and use it as a star- Urinsc vehicle. Roy Octavius Cohen t n am a n m l ti i 2Ta r l nn t- t t- r r o - r iivctHi THE CASK AGAINST MEXICO. Every protest against neglect by worte the play. James K. Hackett and Mrs. Hackett, who is Beatrice Beckley, an English woman, are visiting in London and 1 It TAR POX, TO'A AND TROUT. Tuna, and tarpon are acrobatic ! Hval for the heart of the sports 1 man who fishes the sea. For the first lie trolls the lazy sapphire i swells off the southern California roast, and for the latter he puts out from the white sands of the Florida lienches. The one a mighty mack ere!, tho other a tremendous herring --so they may roughly be described -and, both go desperately valiant hcn liooked, so given to sudden , ,1 Bilvcry leaps and savage determina j tion to escape the cruel hook, that " " anglers quarrel respecting their rel T: 1 Hive gameness. '' Gameness is not to be confused . ith strength by the tyro. It ia ' -v' "1 lle Quality of the brave heart and -s the quick, resourceful wit, in a , blend that compels admiration and -'. s Bets no mean task for the conqueror. "3 The small-mouth black bass, in '. - I "whose praise volumes have been ' '.- i "written, with codes of caution and tones of sound advice, is not a fish j cf weight, as are the tarpon and the - '.. i tuna. -But he owns the soul of a I (cavalier, and his fight is to the last . I eunce of strength, the last flickering - J resource of the brain that is replete with expedient and strategy. It is v great pity that the small-mouth lias not been generally distributed in Oregon lakes, a fit companion for j the land-locked steelhead and the cutthroat trout, fighters of the same 4 mettle. In his stead we have the I fcig-mouth bass, a fiery striker and ik personage of girth and substance, but one who wearies over-soon in combat, as though some fat pisca torial alderman had taken the lure. To return to tuna and tarpon, for 1 the purpose of no. vain regret, the I Insular angler knows very well that the thrill of taking these fish finds duplication, or a near approach, in the rivers of home which is Ore Eon. Indeed, it is .with confidence 1 that one may assert that tarpon and tuna fishermen, however exhilarat- ing they may find their sport, have ioy before them if they have never hooked and captured on light tackle .' the steelhead, or sea-run rainbow, 'i cf western waters. If the tarpon leaps, so does this lesser fish. If I lie shakes the jangling lure as he A STRIKE AGAIXST TIPPING. It is a good sign that among the demands made on their employers by the union waiters of New Tork is one that tipping be abolished and that there be substituted for it fixed charge which will enable pro pnetors to pay higher wages. It will not be presumed that acquies cence in this demand will do away instantly with that practice, but as much has been accomplished as ca be reasonably expected when the waiter himself has been induced to take a stand against it. Realizatio that the tip is an indignity Is the most important step possible in the direction of making it unpopular i quarters where unpopularity count The public, taken in the mass, is probably ready for the innovation. There are some other demands, we believe, in the ultimatum submitted by the waiters, but they are unin teresting by comparison with the one stated. There looms among the pos sibilities a prospect that the tipless service will be an improvement over that of the present, because it will attract a class which has heretofore resented its implications of inferior ity. We cannot escape the conclu sion that the species of fawning which makes a gratuity the basis of good work is not far removed from begging. But the arguments against tipping are pretty generally under stood. The important point is that after the public has tried futilely to abolish the practice, waiters them selves have decided to take a hand. No doubt if the demand is granted the proprietors will proceed to pass the cost along to their customers. It is the consumer, of course, who pays. But he will, we think, pay more cheerfully under the new dis pensation than he has been doing under the old. In any event he will know precisely what is expected of him, , and he will be at liberty to pay or stay away. This is true only in theory under the tipping system. So many factors were involved in the growth of a harmless expression of good will into an evil of large pro portions that it was difficult to an alyze them. Even more important than the cost to people who dine out will be the Influence of the new order on the self-respect of the waiter and on tne spirit or democracy that ought to pervade every social level if anything resembling true equality is ever to be obtained. and property of Americans In Mex ico is met by defenders of anarchy and by" pacifists with the charge that the Americans concerned have 1 . T 1 1 1 i people and that they ask the govern- ""i1 ,m"'" 7 i c Vk ment to make war on Mexico in or- Marlowe and her husband, E. H. Soth- der to recover what they have stolen rn. ro a,so in London and are and what the Mexican people have negotiating Shakespearean tour In reclaimed. Comment of the kind is njiana mnrlA n n trtft rnnrlp ii-i n n M r, r nf trtA nresirlnnt'K Mnlran nnlifvln tho rw-1 Guy Standing has been decorated publican platform. We need go no by the king and elevated to knight- farther than an article written for hood. He Is now bir ouy oianutus, the Saturday Evening Post a year K. B., having been named in the last ac-o bv Gnore-o CVppI for refiit-atinn of I list Of honors issued. this charge. He has such radical Standing at the time tnat lngianu tendencies that he cannot be accused declared war on Germany was play of partiality to capitalists? and he so ing in, America, and immediately recently held office under Mr. Wil- I sailed for home and offered nis serv- son that nothing except overwhelm- j ices to the crown. He was in tne ing evidence could have led him to I royal naval reserve as a neutenani publish facts which reflect severely I commander and later as a commander, on the president's policy. I At one time he went into the German He pronounces "false and unfair" I lines on secret work. the reply of Carranza that in pro-1 He has retired from the stage ana testing against his confiscatory laws is now interested in several llnanciai "we are playing the game of the oil ventures. concessionaires and lending our- selves to greedy schemes of annexa- The three Doners, Kitty, Rose and tion." He gives the whole story of Tod, are fixing up a vaudeville act the attempt to deprive oil men of I of their own. their rights, to confiscate their hold ing3 or their product. He admits To none of the innumerable devoted having formerly believed implicitly I admirers of Mme. Rejane did the news that these men won possession ot I of the death in Paris of that notea vast tracts by some corrupt agree- actress cause more sincere grief than ment with Porfirlo Diaz, and that all to Madame Bertha Kalich, between of them hold and develop by virtue whom and the brilliant French artist of concessions." Heated debate on there existed a friendship that had the subject with Edward L. Doheny begun even before the talented women led him to make a new investiga-1 had ever met. Mme. Rejane in Paris tion with these results: had heard of Kalich, the young girl Not a single American comDanv or in-l who had risen to stardom at the dividual In Mexico holds any concession I TJur-Ka i-oot Nntinnnl theater and be- BY - PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES Only Woman Candidate for V. S. Sen ator Not a "Naaalna; 8nf f." When Ann Martin, the only woman candidate in sight thus far for the United States senate, starts her cam paign in Nevada nobody will disturb her by asking: How old is Ann? writes Labert St. Clair, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star. Miss Martin tells her age in Who's Who and other places very frankly. She la 45 years old and if she lives until next September she will be 46. In those 45 years Miss Martin has led an active life and made a world of friends. Many folks do not agree with her, and a great many in Nevada doubtless will not. vote for her be cause she Is a woman, but none ever will oppose her on the ground that she is tiresome or "one of those nag ging suffs." She has been in Wash ington many years working for the suffrage cause,-. and prior 40 her com ing here she helped carry Nevada for suffrage. In that time many of her co-workers have heckled and infuri ated public men and many of them have gone on, but Miss Martin has smiled her way through, talked sense, never intruded her presence when she was not wanted, and thus has estab lished a high standing with the pub lic men with whom she has come in contact. To her credit it must be said that even the bitterest anti-suf fragists usually are glad to see her. Those Who Come and Go. In Other Days. Golden Valley county. North- Da kota. may be known in political his tory as the field whereon the Non partisan league received its first de cisive defeat, as the forerunner of complete dissolution. ' It is there that the Townley experiment has fallen with a hand so heavy that taxpayers are in revolt, asserting that the 1919 levy is confiscatory and that ruin must follow its enforcement. Golden Valley, misnamed save when both showers and sun create the shimmer of heavy, ripening fields, has suf fered drought and crop failure. Its farmers felt that some consideration for these mishaps should be reflected in the assessment for 1919. And this is what happened to the county with the auriferous name: The assessed ON ACCCBACT IN HISTORY. The valued correspondent who calls attention to the desirability that history shall be set down accurately does not impair the value of his con tention by the circumstance that he .has misread the statement which was attempted to be made by The Oregonian concerning the early set tlement of Portland.. The name of Thomas Smith was introduced, not in connection with an effort to show that he was "the first man who lo- cated -here," as. the. correspondent has read it, but with a tradition that he was first to make 'an approxi mate survey of metes and bounds. The language of The Oregonian was A survey was made In 1845, but this may not have been the first 'effort delineate the metes and boundn of the pioneer claim. There is a tradition that one . Thomas Smith had previously been employed, either by William Overton, the first squatter to set foot on the original site 01 the city wltn a view to possession, or by Pettygrove, who succeeded to tho Overton interest. In all probability it was tne latter. The allusion here, of course, is to employment of Smith to make the survey. The original settler was Overton. The issue of priority as between Overton and William John son turns on what is implied in the term "settler." and on what consti tuted the "original site" of the city. Curator Himes of the Oregon His torical society is authority for the statement that Robert Valentine Short, who prepared the first plat, said that a preliminary survey had been made by one Thomas Smith prior to the survey made early in the summer of 1845 by Thomas A. Brown. Smith, according to this ver sion, had picked up a little knowl edge of surveying, or at least of mathematics and the use of simple instruments, perhaps while sailing the seas. In any even,t it appears that his work was unconvincing, and that Brown's survey was not suffi ciently complete for the purpose of a plat. The more accurate drawing subsequently known as the "Brady plat" was taken to San Francisco to be lithographed. This probably was in 1850. None of the data ob tained by either Smith or Brown appear to have been utilized in its I preparation. The fact seems to be that the Smith survey was highly informal, and probably designed only to furnish the persen who employed him, whoever this may have been, with an approximate idea of the out lines of his possessions. Smith as a surveyor drops back into the twi light of tradition, but the Overton settlement, with the consequences which emerged from it, remains, be ing clarified from time to time as government of the territory became mor stable. - "When Portland was laid off, . in 1845," as an early historian has said, "the ownership not only of her site but of the entire territory was in hot dispute between the United States and Great Britain. Nobody knew whether the Union Jack or the Stars and Stripes ought to be run up at the gable peak of the old hewed log store and at the little wharf on the river bank." As these matters of political interest be came crystallized, litigation over titles followed. In connection with an early suit involving the claim of Benjamin Stark, it is saijl by the same writer that Stark purchased Love joy's interest "in the 640 acres which then constituted Portland." priority 01 wiiiiam Johnson as a settler on the land constituting the original site of the city is excluded, if it is considered that the original site was a considerable distance north of the situation in block 137, on which the William Johnson domi cile was built. Undoubtedly William Johnson came earlier than did William Overton to the present site of the city. It is not so certain, however, that Johnson attached . himself to the land witn a view to posses sion." Johnson, the former British sailor, who had abandoned his alle giance to the Union Jack and had taken service on the frigate Consti tution, with all his fine record for bravery in battle for his adopted rrom the government of Mexico and not a Blngle American company or individual in .Mexico la developing oil or has developed oil on any land but that acquired from private owners by stralghtout purchase or fair lease. tween the two there passed many letters, but it was not until Rejane visited this country in 1904 that the long distance friendship was ce- He told the story of the discovery mented by a visit to the Thalia the- and development of the Mexican oil ater, where the still young Roumanian field by Doheny and his paxtner, C. actress was winning new laurels as A. Canfield a story of dogged de- a star in the Yiddish drama. It was termination to overcome all the nat- during that visit that Rejane pre- ural obstacles encountered In wrest- sented at the Lyric theater under ing fortune from a wilderness, which George Tyler's management "The Red is fit to rank with the most roman- Robe," and on her return to Paris tic stories of the western pioneers she laboriously copied out with pen and he says: and ink every line of dialogue and This record. I am willlne tc admit, con- staere direction of Brieux's famous Ktitutes fair purchase as distinguished from unfair concession; development, not I exploitation; empire building, not empire snatcning. Thus the American "exploiters" of the Mexican, oil fields won their holdings by the same qualities as marked the men who settled the west play, translated into German and sent it as a bound volume to the Jewish star with a letter urging her to add the rolo of the peasant girl to her rapid I) -srowlng repertoire. Kalich was then perfecting herself in Eng lish and an arrangement was made what constitutes a dark horse, as the term is used In politics? What relation, if any, must a man have held to a contest out of which he had emerged as the nominee to make such a designation appropriate? These questions are put at this time for the double reason that a dark horse is suggested as a possible re suit at San Francisco, and because in some current observations about past conventions Rutherford B. - Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt are thus described. Mr. Hayes was not among the giants at Cincinnati , in 1876, but as eminent a man as General Sherman had a year before suggested hlra for the republican nomination for presi dent. He had been a member of con grss and was now governor of Ohio. His record was excellent and-widely known. in lass General Harrison had a n tional reputation from his leadership in Indiana, which was then a pivotal state and every presidential year real battle ground. Next . to Mr. Blaine, who did not desire the nomi nation that year, General Harrison was easily the best bet at the repub lican convention. Theodore Roosevelt was not a dark horse in 1900 when nominated fo vice-president, and certainly not in 904. when nominated for president. In fact, he was never a dark horse a ny time after entering public life. Franklin Pierce is probably th arkest horse in our political history So little known was he to the genera ublic and his own party that whe ominated for president the inquiry ent up from all sections but his own. Who is Franklin Pierce?" He soon nswered it at the polls by defeating General Scott, one of the most fa mous Americans of the day. Wash ington Star. "Pawnee Bill" Is at the Hotel Port land. "Pawnee Bill" is Known in pri vate life as Major Lillie, and he has a big ranch near Pawnee City. Just at present this celebra'ted character is in Portland arranging for holding a great Shrine ceremonial on his ranch next October, the ceremonial to be given under the auspices of Akdar temnle of Tulsa. Okla. The ceremonial was to have been staged last spring, but It was impossible to secure enough rolling stock to carry people to the ranch. "Pote" Ken drlck will be Invited and "Pote" Gar retson ot Tacoma. Stacey Matlock. Pawnee Indian, one of the moot wealthy In that nation, will have charge of part of the programme. which will consist of a stomp dance by Indians. "Pawnee Bill." who is ccompanled by Mrs. Pawnee, alia Mrs. Lillie, has not visited Portland ince he was here with "Buffalo Bill. the season the "Two Bills" show played the City of Roses. With his dignity completely cam ouflaged under a costume of scream ing yellows and reds and greens. Judge G. A. Gardner of Jackson county is attending the, convention of cheeseknlfe wearers. The Judge is a member of the patrol of Hillah emple. and that he was displaying the true carnival spirit was attested by a beauty spot of sword and cres cent, cut from court plaster, which was pasted on the tip of his nose. we ve voted JoOO.000 road bonds to co-operate with the state and fed eral government for work in our county," the judge stopped to remark. after doing some drill rehearsing with the Hillah outfit, "and this year we expect to see a considerable amount of work under way. Part of our road bonds will go on the im provement of the highway to Crater and hold them by as good title as 1 with Klaw & Erlanger by which she that by which any man in this coun- was to star in "The Red Robe" on try holds his homestead or his mine. I Broadway. At the last moment exist- They are therefore entitled to that ing conditions made this inadvisable run ana adequate protection to life, and "The Red Robe" was not again UDerty and property" which the re-I presented until Lionel Barry more gave publican platform claims for them it at the Criterion this year under and for all in like position. Mr. Wil- 1 the title of "The Letter of the Law.' son has not given this protection, and has not obtained it for them from any Mexican government. That is all there is to the Mexican issue in the campaign. Mme. Kalich leaves soon to join Mme. Duse in Florence. She and Re jane were to have met in Paris, but instead Kalich will make a sorrowful pilgrimage to tho grave of her friend. Nicholas Murray Butler would bet-I . Prank Tinnev boueht Foxhurst. the ter forget what he said of Wood's estate of Senator John Fox at Bald campaign. Only those who wished win 1 I., recentlv. The nroDertv is to believed him. and the anolosrv I . aA ri,,F t,.m was $74,000. - Tinney will continue to live at Freeport, having bought Foxhurst a an investment. falls flat on ancient history. Since Portland is going to be a convention city, wouldn't it be a good idea to build the sidewalks slanting up from the curb so we could all see the parades? . Representative Volstead has been defeated for renomination to ' con gress. Must have failed to get more than one-half of one per cent ginger into his campaign. t . ... ' Emma Trentini has gone to Italy for the summer, and on her return to America in October will be a fea tured member of the Gallo opera company. Maude Hannaford, who played the lead with John Barrymore in "Tli Jest," has replaced Ann Davis in the Bryan has begun classifvinc the foremost feminine role or lomor candidates. McAdoo is handicapped row's Price." the A. H. Woods-Ship-and Palmer is unfortunate. HoDe man-Wilde play, at the Woods in he continues to the end of the list, r Chicago. Mies Hannaford is a Pacific coast eirl. and once played a rort By all means renominate Wilson I night's engagement with the Bake and give the men who lost hats on I here. Hughes the sure thing of winning tnem dack. Los Angeles has had another. The Angeles will be staying up until after daylight if these faults continue. The United States now has a trade balance of $17,000,000,000. Looks. just a trifle over-balanced. The railroaders, baggage men and all. did great work, and it was a labor of love. This is Portland's day and the Shriners are the lookers on. Fine, aren't we ? - Morris Green and Al Jones hav secured the musical rights to "Ro ma nee" and will produce the piece as a three-act operatta in August. - Henry W. Savage has accepted a unnamed three-act musical show fo Mitzi Hajos for next season, the book of which was written by Zelda Sears and the music by Harold Levy. Bert Williams will return to Broadway in a revue early in the fall, having signed with Rufus an George Le Maire to appear In "Broad way Brevities." Williams is to have several scenes with Le Maire, who, in addition to being co-producer of Perhaps Mr. McAdoo is impressed I the attraction, will be featured along: by what happened to the crown with William and several feminine prince. I "names." Williams finished a five year . contract with Ziegfeld several La Follette refuses to talk on poll-1 weeks aeo. The colored comedian tics, adding another wonder to the is the first to have appeared In list. 1 Rrnuiwav offerings. J. S. McCuIlough, husband of th Trety-f!Te Years Ago. Frem The Oregonian of June 24. IMS. In the first match of cricket of tho championship series yesterday, the Multnomahs defeated the Portlands 173 to 57. London Earl Rosebery, K. C. first lord of the treasury and lord presi dent of the council, tendered his res ignation to her majesty, the queen, and it waa accepted. The three yountr women nominated to act as the goddess of liberty in the Fourth' of July parade are. Miss Cora Baker, Miss Florence Thomas and Miss Annie Downing. The American Society of Engineers publication has a 14-page article de scribing the feat of laying the big water mains across the Willamette in rortiano. Fifty Tear Aro. From The Oregonian of June 24, 1870. San Francisco After July 1 the North Pacific Transportation com pany will dispatch a steamer for Portland every Saturday morning. Patrick Gass, the only survivor of the Lewis and Clarke expedition that came to Oregon in 1804, died recently in West Virginia at the age of 88. M"ss Mattie Fields, who r hr for some time as an actress in the Bates company, is coming from Cali fornia to lecture on suffrage. C. Beal, crand W. C T nf th. RnnH Templars, will start today on a tour of the Willamette valley. SPlniT IS WORTH F.MILATIXO Shrine Daily Entranced By Portland nd Ita Hospitality. El Mairia T1iti- I-Mo.... t. ake. for the sooner that is completed of the onI shrine dailv in the world, the quicker it can be made an asset u ia published by El Maida temple of to Oregon. ki Paso. Texas nH v ',. is its editor. In its edition published Tuesday in Portland it has the fol lowing editorial on the "Spirit of' Portland": "Portland is the prettiest city El Pasoans have ever seen. Its rose hedges and highway are wonderful and the climate is something to waltz to In the middle of summer. "But. back of all the natural heautv of the City of Roses there Is something that makes Portland different. It is the Portland spirit, nobles of El Maida, and you will do well to Imbibe some of it along with your Zum-Zum water to take back to the Oasis on tho banks of the Rio Grande. "Portland's natural bcautv was the gift of nature; but the spirit of Port land must have been created and there is always an institution in ev ery city which is largely responsible for the existence ot a civic spirit. In Portland that institution is The Ore gonian. Each morning it tells of ths neauties of .Portland and urges Port- Millionaires are common in Tulsa Okla., sa,ys C. M. Barde of the Tulsa Tribune, who is attending the Shrine conclave with Mrs. Barde and daugh ter. He is with Akdar temple. "The Indians down our way make money hand over fist, . because the oil is found on their lands. They spend it for aeroplanes, automobiles and' fin ery and they are always broke. The oil will not last forever, but when that is gone we will have coal mines. which are now untouched and ig nored, and Tulsa will also be a great wholesale distributing center." Speaking of Portland, Mr. Barde de clares that "Portland beats anything he has seen," and he has visited most of the cities of the United States and Canada. There are a few ex-Port-landers In Tulsa and they all tell him that they intend returning here to live, as this is the only home spot in the world. Some people are mighty hard to satisfy. Most cities in America would I landers to strive harder for perfec Frank B. Lord, who formerly was secretary of the shipping board and now is trying to elevate A. Mitchell Palmer into the presidency, has voted ust once in his life, but he got $2 for that effort. Lord was called back to hi old home In New York state to help put over the democratic ticket, and after he had voted he fell in line with a bunch of foreigners who seemed to be headed toward a man who was handing out something. Lord even- ually came to a man who pressed a $3 bill into his hand. Here, what does this mean?" Lord asked, overcome with righteous in dignation. uo on,- you Dig hum, the payer said, "you can't get more than $2 out of me." ' There being no chance to return the money. Lord took it and, in those gay days of yore, bought himself a pair of yellow shoes. xears ago unamp Clark was in a little Missouri town when a farmer and his wife came in to see their first passenger train. Whllg. they were in specting it, the engineer and the fire man leaped into the cab, shoveled in some coal, pulled the throttle wide open and started at a rate of SO miles an hour. What do you think of it, Abner?" the farmer's wife inquired. Abner studied the situation careful ly for several minutes, saw the train whiz out of flight around a curve and then replied: "Mandy, they'll never stop 'er In the wide world." At Camp Cuater in the summer of 1918 a draft of 5000 Alabama negroes was received one day. All were checked in but one man, and for him the receiving officer could find papers. , He finally called the man over and said: "See nere. sam, 1 can t find any papers for - you. Where were you drafted from?" "Sho", Boss, Ah wan't drafted at all. nohow." "Well, how did you get here, then?" "Well, you see it was lak this. AU went down to the depo in Bummin ham to see mah fren's off. Jes' as de train was about to staht, a great big policeman grabbed me by the shoul dab. and said, 'Boy, hurry up.' Ah sex 'Ah ain't gwine on dat train.' He 'lows, 'Yes, you is.' So Ah got on and heah Ah is." American Legion Weekly. have been tickled pink with the knowledge that the census bureau accorded them the highest percentage of increase in the United States. Bend, however, isn't satisfied. "We are credited with only 5414 people." com plains R. A. Ward, vice-president ot the First National bank and secre tary of tho Bend Commercial club, who Is at the Hotel Portland. "We should have at least 6200. for the cen sus should give us the mills near the town. Bend handles the payroll and everything for these mills and the men in the mills belong to Bend i they belong anywhere. The census redlts us with 910 per cent increase, said to be the greatest gain made by any town, but we know that the per centage isn t right, for the women numerators didn't get all of the peu- le in Bend." Mills are springing up so thickly lone the Tillamook beach that cot tages for tho summer visitor will be scarce, according to Captain J. " M. Poorman, formerly Woodburn banker but now at- ease at Rockaway, Or. There is a lath mill near Watseco," says Captain Poorman. "which has a capacity of 100,000 laths every 12 hours. A new box factory Is going up near Rockaway and there are sev- ral other mills now in operation. The result of this industrial develop ment is that the beach has now a large and permanent population. Such new cottages as were built sinci last season have been snapped up. Then there are new dance pavilions and a motion picture theater added to the beach and the resorts look like young cities." Captain Poorman will return to the singing sandsof Tilla mook when his fellow Shriners leav Portland. lion in hosnitalitv. The Oretronian has been responsible for much of the fine spirit of Portland and you from the Mexican border should not miss an edition while here and should send back copies to the sheiks at home to Jet them know what a newspaper Is doing to ell a city up here in Oregon. The new imperial "pote" has the omtlA nil .3 I. I ' 0, ... " grow. late Myrtle Reed, novelist, has sold the picture rights to her novel, "Lavender and Old Lace," for $a0, 000 to the Renco Film company of The same company ob- The Master's Give the hand to the Red Coats from the Canadian northwest today. Let's grab their hats. They think taincd options on they begin leaving this evening. Any city can have it next, land has had it and rejoices. Port- Never mind; Sunday's coming day of rest. Shrine things date now from Portland. Really, they like Bull Run water. Tomorrow night will be "wild," Nobody tired yet. Violin." "The Master of the Vine yard." "At the Sign of the Jack o'Lanterns" and "Old Rose and Sil ver, six montns oeiore miss rteea died, about five years ago, George K. Spoor (Essanay) offered her $500 for the picture righto to all her books and she held out for $1500, which was refused. Nonette, violinist on the Orpheum circuit, is ill in a hospital in Hart- I ford. Conn.,' and physicians say It rill be six months before sho win be able to be about.. She is suffering I from after-effects of influenza. Vice-President Marshall, on a re cent trip through the west, landed in a little town along with former. Sen ator Joe Bailey of Texas. Bailey was feted with a band concert and a pa rade, but nobody recognized Marshall, so he Just stood around the depot and whittled goods boxes until his train came. The next day a few hundred miles up the line Marshall got a tele gram from the mayor apologizing fo the town's oversight. Town Haale4 to HaUroao. Youths' Companion. It is not unusual to move houses considerable distance, but the 300 in habitants of Ochiltree, Tex., showed originality and initiative when with tractors they hauled every buildin in town across the prairie to a ne site beside tho railway. They first tried to bring the railway to th town, but having failed in that, the remembered Mohammed and took the town to the railroad. POHTLAMrS K.tRLY SI3TTI.KM ENT Mr. f.rrr In Krsnkly Puxzlrd By the Tradition" of Thomas. Smith. PORTLAND. June 22. (To the Edi tor.) In an editorial in The Sunday Oregonian, discussing the beginning of thinKs in Portland, it is etHted that according to a tradition the first man who located here was a sailor named Thomas Smith and that he soon after ward disappeared and nothing was ever heard of him, etc. The purpose of this communication Is to say that the writer has for many years read everything that waa ob tainable concerning the early history of Portland, but never before heard of the tradition of Thomas Smith. Gaston's history of Portland describes in detail that William Johnson, in 1S42, "took up a piece of land" Just south of the Pettigrove claim and "was the first man to actually locate within what now constitutes the city of Portland." Colonel J. W. Nesmith. who came to Oregon in 1S4S. states this to be a fact as to William John son, who was a native of England, but became an American citizen and was a sailor on the iamous "Consti tution" during its memorable contest In the war of 1812. He was here in 143 and was one of the patriotic 52 men who at Champoeg on May 3 of that year took a most important etep toward "saving Oregon." But what about the tradition of Thomas Smith? Could the writer of that interesting editorial have been mistaken or am I? I frequently have been. T. T. GEER. "I'm on the reception or the vice committee, or vice-chairman of the reception committee, 1 m not exactly sure which," grinned Louis Lachmund, former mayor of Salem, as he flitted around the Al Kader headquarters in the Hotel Port, ana. someone pinnea i SOMEWHEKK IV KKAVCE. a badge on me ana wnen a rcaa it x Godi How the guns keep their de- discovered that 1 was a vice-chair man and my main duty, appears to be handing out loganberry punch." The task wasn t difficult because Mr. Lachmund has been interested in the manufacture of loganberry juice and is quite willing to encourage the con sumption of the same. A most proper name for a chief of police is Law. Like other peace offi cers ot Oregon, Jj. a. w. .Mxon, tne chief of Bend, is in Portland. In the old days be used to ride a cayuse and wear a mustache, but he docsn t any more, for the peace otticers oi mo west no longer look like the chaps in the "movies." Another officer who has deserted his pos6 of duty is Til Taylor, perpetual sherirc of tmauua bate infernal By Vimy ridge and Arra's bloody line. While Gallic mortars storm with death the quarters Of Teuton trench and horror haunted mine. Loud shriek the shells in curtain fire descending. Full on the front of the dread dark advance. So what is it that one form reels and plunges Somewhere in France? And what is it that to the deep staro burning One face is lifted cold and calm and white. county, who is boosting his own show, That like a leaf one shape has been the Roundup, wnne iezzing on norse- i lorgotten. back. Lost in the terror or the shudder- I ing night r Members of the legislature were In I Wbile boom the tanks and stream tho evidence In the lobbies yesterday. Among those on hand were A. A. Smith of Baker, P. "J. Gallagher of Malheur, Denton Burdick of Des-1 chutes, Louis E. Bean of Lane and Ben Sheldon of Jackson, and Repre sentative-to-be H. J. Overturf of Bend. Mr. Smith is a democrat and is Just completely disgusted because he can not Ket away to attend tne national convention, particularly in view of livid heavens. In all the mania trance; They do not know how much perished with him Somewhere in France. of war's red has They will not know of trysts all sweet and tender. When summer moons on western vales were fair; the offer of Judge Thomas J. Craw- Nor of a breast to wait and sigh and ford to select Mr. Smith as his alter nate. Portland was too much of an at traction for J. B. Hills, for Oak Ridge. Or., could not compete for excitement with the Rose City this week. Mr. Hills somehow managed to smuggle himself into a room at the Hotel Portland when rooms are supposed o be as scarce as snowballs. wonder In the dread power of a wild despair. Nor how her white hands will bo lifted lifted. While tears shall dim her blue eyes' burning glance. Because a form lies still and unre- turning Somewhero in France. M. R. Biggs, rancher, lawyer and Tho guns ehall cease, the grass shall livestock fancier of Prineville, has closed his office and forgotten his ranch and critters to mill around with the fezzers in Portland. There isn't a Shriner left in Crook county, every noblo having hiked to the Portland mecca. and the of Peter the Great Made Prnaxla. Indianapolis News. St. Petersburg, the modern capital of Russia, now known as Petrograd, was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, who died 104 years ago. Peter first built a small hut for himself and a few wooden hovels. The ma jority of - nobles, however, preferred that Moscow should remain the seat of e-overnment. but Peter was deter mined to build a new capital, and in heal tho trenches With green forgiveness. winds shall sigh Eternal requiems for tho eons women. Who, cooled of hate, all close to gether 1. And there the twilight In pathetic pleading Shall touch the spot with kloses ail intense. Because a woman's broken heart is buried Somewhero in France. X FITCH PHELl'S. 100 Ynn'. Custom Brokra. London Telegraph. Of the five women who were per mitted to dine at a recent barrquet a t h inner temnle and middle tein- 1711 he laid, with his own hands, the I pie of the ancient Inns of court and' foundation of his palace, which was I chancery in London (thus breaking built of brick. Peter was an extraor dinary character and Russia's rise to a great power was largely due to his genius. custom of several hundred years). one. Miss Helen ivormanicn, was tne first woman to enter her name as a student at the middle templo. A ' '. A i " , ... i ir A