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TIIE MORNING OREGOMAX, 1 THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1920
K!TBI.1Smn-BT HENRY I- PITTOCK.
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heaves his bulk from the sea, so does
the steelhead "when he feels the stab
and bounds from the welter of wa
ters in his burst for freedom.
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
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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.
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"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.
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