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Mich. San Francisco representative. It. J. Bldwell. liens, there is little difference of opinion, between him ana t eaerai Judge Anderson of Boston, who holds that party to be a lawful or ganization. If an oath to promote its objects, which are frankly revo lutionary, does not make a man a conspirator against the government, then the organization Itself cannot logically be held unlawful. By ap pealing against the decision, the sec retary of. labor risks a decision by the supreme court reversing his own ruling. If an overt-act is the sole cause for deportation, as Mr. "Wil son's semi-bolshevlst assistant, Mr. Post, maintains, we must await an actual revolutionary outbreak and its accompanying. reign of terror be fore we may ship the reds to the land of red terror and famine. HOW LIBKRTY may be lost. If the democratic convention should approve President Wilson's policy in regard to the treaty of Ver sailles it would by implication ap prove the manner in which it was made. It would approve the action of Mr. Wilson in appointing peace delegates without consultation' with or representation of the senate, and In neglecting to take the advice of the senate on terms of a treaty which i he intended should open a new epoch in our foreign relations and which must profoundly influence domestic policy. The convention would also , approve his course in demanding .that the senate ratify the treaty just as he presented it. By thus indorsing the president's entire course with regard to the treaty, the convention would sacri fice one of the essential provisions of the constitution in order to pre serve the integrity of the democratic party. Treaties are the supreme law of the land, and the power, to make them without being accountable to any representative body is one of the most cherished prerogatives of auto crats. A ruler who holds this pre rogative may bind a nation to main tain great armies and navies, to make war, to grant trade conces sions, to incur obligations for rule over distant countries, all of which influence the course of domestic legislation and administration, the amount and character of taxation "and consequently the freedom, pros perity and happiness of every citi Ken. Hence they may restrict our liberty at every point. Though the - house of representatives initiates all ... public expenditures . and enacts all i'."tax laws, treaty obligations limit its discretion in this regard by morally compelling their observance. In - fact, the power to make treaties is in effect power to shape all laws. r ' A basic principle of governmen V.' by the people is that laws must be ;made and taxes levied by their elect ed representatives. In order that this principle may be observed in making treaties, it is essential that some representative body have pow er to ratify, amend or reject them though the conditions under which they are made require negotiation by the executive department through its delegates. This function is en trusted to the senate, which now directly represents the people, and for greater security negotiations must be conducted with its advice and consent and a two-thirds ma. jority is necessary to ratify. If the r senate should adopt the invariable practice of ratifying without chan any treaty which the president might make without prior advice and con "'.sent it would in effect abandon its -"powers, would fail in Us duty as representative body and would be come an accomplice with the presi dent in violation of the constitution The president would then have auto- . cratic control over foreign relations which would closely approach that formerly held by the ex-kaiser. By exercise of that control the kaiser began the war and brought on Ger- r many and the world the calamities " which have followed. Loss of popular liberty often "has come through surrender of power to one man by representative bodies to which it has been entrusted, or by V . failure firmly to resist attempted en IV croachment. Men are misled into .-, these surrenders by blind devotion to a party or to a leader. Each accretion of power makes easier the grasp for more and creates appetite , Tor more, while each surrender re ;. duces the will and capacity for re . , sistance on the part of those who -' should defend liberty. In such man ner the Roman senate shrank before "'- the usurpations of the Caesars until It became a sycophantic shadow of '"Its former self, and proved the in struraent of Rome's transition from r - republic to empire. Doubtless Ed- mund Burke, the champion of Amer lean liberty before the British par liament, had this in mind when he I said: enrolled scouts among 15,000 eligible boys. The Boy Scout organization of each annual registration would be subject to reductions for proficiency in reading and writing English, for Portland, in common with those of I a general knowledge of our civil gov- other cities, is insistent In its request for adidtional scoutleaders. The post is one of honor and service, of almost incalculable opportunity for that first of all constructive enterprises the training of citizens. To fill it capably the scoutleader must be somewhat of a boy himself, merely grown older, with a clear and unsis sified understanding of Booth Tark ington's "Penrod," and with faith in the flag. MORE - TREASON. Following the course of treatment that has been so popular in the Mc Camant case, let us turn to the vot ers' pamphlet to ascertain what "Will E. Purdy promised to do if elected a delegate" to the democratic national convention. 1 During all my life I have been a democrat." said Mr. Purdy in the mphlet, "and if elected I will act as such and obey the electors' in structions, to the letter." The democratic party of Oregon instructed Mr. Purdy to use his best efforts to secure the nomination of W. G. McAdoo for' president, but Mr. Purdy no sooner arrives in San Fran cisco than he publicly expresses his dislike for McAdoo, declares that he will vote for him only because in structed to do so and announces that at the first opportunity he will nomi nate Senator Chamberlain for presi dent. In such manner Mr. Purdy carries out the "electors' instructions to the letter." Mr. Purdy also had a campaign slogan which appeared on the official ballot. It was: "I believe in -the peace treaty and the league .of na tions.". Now that he is a delegate in fact, he reveals to the great gathering of democracy that he admired Presi dent Wilson only until the president brought back the peace treaty from Versailles; that he cannot approve the president's stand on the league of nations and that he has no hesitancy in saying so. The most shocked of anybody over the McCamant revolt was the demo cratic press. But now comes Purdy, a life-long democrat, and commits treason against the rule of the peo ple. And according to his own state nient he acts as a democrat. The direct primary is undermined, again. We wonder how much more under mining it will stand. WHY TAXES CONTINUE HIGH. In his telegram to the railroad brotherhoods President Wilson laid the blame for the high cost of living on congress because it did not revise the tax laws. Representative Good gave a good and sufficient reason why taxes had not been reduced when he gave a summary of appro priations at the close of the session. Before taxes can be reduced, ex penses must be reduced until they are exceeded by revenue. Then with lower taxes, something can be done toward lowering prices.. Congress nade a good beginning- by appropri ating for the year ending June 30 1920, $1,685,867,893 less than the ad ministration had asked. For the year which begins July 1 the administra tion -asked for $6,334,312,929, but congress appropriated $1,474,422,602 less than that amount. But there were payments to be made on the public debt to the amount of $4,904, 104,490 during the year ending June 30, 1920. Even the total net saving on the estimates for two years, amounting to $2,710,000,000, which was made by congress, was no enough to pay those obligations. Mr. Wilson also reproached con gress for not having provided fund for inquiries necessary to force down prices. Mr.- Good said that congress voted the $1,000,000 for the depart ment of justice, to be used for the detection and prosecution of crime but did not make the appropriation asked or the departments of agri culture, commerce and labor, be cause the committee came to the conclusion that much of the money would be' wasted In employment of useless officers and clerks, and that much of it was to carry on a dupli cation of work." The federal trade commission asked for $500,000 and was given $150,000, because, as its chairman said, "we could do what work we could do beneficially on the high cost of living within our regular appropriation." Congress provided all the money that was asked in or der to send profiteers and hoarders to prison, but prices have continued to rise. . Taxation cannot be reduced when economy is practiced only in the branch of the government which provides the money; there must be economy also in the spending branch. We ' cannot expect the maximum economy until the two branches are in the hands of the republican party, and are working hand in hand to work out a common policy. Then we may look for such reduction in pub lic expenditures as will enable the government to pay its way and re duce debt, yet to reduce taxation. THE MERCURIAL HAM SANDWICH. The casual urban belief that a ham sandwich just happens is being shattered by two-bit assessments for this staple viand over the lunch counter. Back of the ham sandwich. coy and almost inconspicuous on the china, is a lineage of labor and land and livestock. A great many toilers, who earn their bread in the sweat of their faces Including the porker who grubbed and grunted most as siduously for his contributed to the fabrication of that sandwich. While it cost a nickel or a dime it might be consumed without reflection, but its present status with exclusive French pastries brings to the biter the conviction that he has been bit ten, and is conducive to thought upon the transitory nature of both sand wiches and silver. The almost prohibitive assessment on ham sandwiches may be due only in part to the impulse of the restaur anteur toward a twin-six and a cot tage at Ocean View. There may lurk in the mysterious being of that re flection the pernicious element of profiteering. But it is, this being conceded, of more involved origin that the mercenary motive of the ham sandwich merchant. His haste to tag the sandwich as valuable col lateral is but a symptom of actuating eccnomic disorders. The lean vis age of the law of supply and demand peers into the situation with the searching scrutiny of a seer. The fact probably is that the tariff on ham sandwiches increased in ratio proportionate to the desertion of the farm J?y rural toilers who honed for the bright lights and the latest motion picture - releases. A bulging growth in the crafts of me chanical industry, nurtured by war- inuueed prosperity, made possible the wages that lured them from the land. It is the old cycle, and, as the orientals say, it swerves not a hair bieadth from its ordained course. Lessened production on the farm, fiom lack of labor, with an increased number of Absentee toilers to feed, sent the ham sandwich soaring with other comestibles. And the. ham sandwich scoffs at high wages as it trims them down. When all the world is sane again, and folk get properly hungry for a meal of real vittles," the back to the farm move ment will be an actuality. ernment and for other proofs that the applicant is deservedly striving for admission to the family. Failure in the probationary tests would have but one finale deportation. From youth to voting age the native-born American passes through the constructive process. And behind the citizen is the quiet and sacred as surance of precept and tradition, since first the free ballot was cast on the continent. It has taken more than a century to perfect the' stan dard of our citizenship. Obviously it is far from unfair to require that aliens spend at least four years in establishing their good faith and eligibility. BY - PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Custom recC-n-;oilcs us to everything. There can be few greater delusions than to trust presidents, governors and law officers with, any dis cretion beyond what can not be avoided, or to clothe them with largo powers, and then make it Incumbent on them to de cide when and how or whether those powers shall be exercised. Soon a cua- torn la built up, and custom reconcilea- ua j. to everything. " ' The American people need to be ware lest under the delusion of serv ice to mankind they be led to build up a custom which will destroy their own liberty. They could not do a greater disservice to mankind, for . the American republic is the great est and most successful example of -true democracy in the world and is a living denial of all spurious imita tions of democracy which have shak en the reason of other nations. There, rule of a class, of a commit , , - teo or of one man masquerades as ' ".ilbrty among some peoples which natRfiw not the meaning of the word. . Here liberty rests on the supremacy " of no class, no few men, no one man, Kbut on the rights of all the people .' secured to them by the constitution. """"Herein rests the connection between the senate's resistance to executive dictation on the treaty and the pre , servation of the constitution. ,- In view of the ruling of Secretary of Labor Wilson that membership in the communist party does not con stitute cause for deportation of POSTS OF HONOR. In the Boy Scout organization the citizen sees something that evokes the wish, that it might have "hap pened in his own youth. He is wit ness to the building of sturdy char acter, to training in manly self-reliance, and to a fundamentally simple course in practical patriotism. He knows that the future of Amer ica forgive the old phrase is in the hands of these youngsters, and he realizes that Boy Scouts are neces sarily --better boys, and ' that better boys must - infallibly result in a higher type of citizenship. These deductions are so matter-of-fact that he does not trouble to array them for inspection. He knows that the Boy Scout movement is "all right," and he will so inform the world without urging. The . chief fault of the Boy Scout organization, so its sponsors declare, is not in the functioning of the unit itself,-for it is achieving- its ends under a happy system of play and discipline, but in the fact that it does not 'sufficiently cover the field. It fails in this particular through no reluctance of the boys themselves, but through lack of opportu-nity for membership. The dearth of scout leaders,-or of qualified men who of fer themselves for this important service, has restricted the movement in Portland until there are but 2000 PROBATION FOR ALIENS. Within the coming century, serts a widely known sociologist, the United States will be enabled to maintain, and probably will, a popu lation of 250,000,000. It is assumed that he has linked both birthrate and immigration in. his estimate. His cal culations will meet with little dispute. They are undoubtedly scientific and approximate. The concern of the country is not so deeply involved in prospective growth of its populace as it is in the riddle of what manner of citizens will comprise that growth. Native or foreign-born, from Bangor, Maine, or the Balkans, the events of recent years have demonstrated that all sorts of citizens are subject to in oculation by the virus of ideals and ideas that are essentially foreign, and that have no legitimate place in America. Much of this evil fluid came with the immigrant and its in jection into national affairs created the demand for an antidote, or rather a preventive. . . The belief took form that there must be instituted a more thorough winnowing of immigration, not with the design to prevent any worthy ap plicant for citizenship from entering the country, but with the express purpose of separating the" wheat from the tares. If Rubinsky, of Russia, newly landed at Ellis island, was of the character that meets the national requirements, it was argued that he should be made to prove his desirability, rather than that the government should set itself- the al most hopeless task of proving the contrary. It was and is felt that those who are manifestly unworthy of citizenship, whatever their intel lectual attainments, should be thrust through the door of deportation. Un der existing immigration laws the most barefaced ill-wishers of the United States are coddled and pro tected, and such is our zeal for the fetish of freedom that we hazard our very institutions of freedom to pre serve it. If America is to contain a population of one-quarter, billion within the century just ahead, and if the hallowed principles of the nation are to be preserved from peril. It is certain that scrutiny of the immi grant cannot be too searching or prolonged. There is a paragraph in the Re publican platform, adopted at the recent Chicago convention, which is replete with meaning on the matter of immigration and which constitutes practical endorsement of the John sen bill, now pending before con gress, relating to prohibition for aliens. This is the paragraph: "To facilitate government supervision,all aliens should be required to register annually until they become natural ized. Opponents of the Johnson measure contend that it establishes a tyranni cai surveillance over the candidate for citizenship. The argument against tne bill is shallow and poorly sus tained, but, granting that there is a touch of the firmer federal hand in this proposal, granting that it sug gests restrictions that will make citizenship more difficult to attain wno is there that would have it otherwise? We have folded the adder to our heart, and it has repaid us after the fashion of serpents. Now we are growing cautious in pain and self reproach, and all the tin-plate chivalry, quixotic champions of ab BLract ireeaom, cannot rec.oncile us to the role of complaisant host to reptilian immigration. Under the provisions of the John son bill, drafted by Albert- Johnson representative from the state of Washington, all immigrant aliens would be registered upon arrival and the burden of proof of eligibility would be placed upon the alien. For a period of four years the alien regis trant would be required annually to renew registration and reoort prog- KRANCE IK FT IX LURCH. The greatest loser by lack of Amer ican co-operation with the allies in enforcing the treaty of Versailles is France. That country depends on the aid of Britain alone to compel Germany to pay the reparation in demnity and to disarm, for Italy was in favor of revision before Premier Nitti fell, and his successor, Giolitti, is pro-German, while Belgium can give little but moral support. Though Lloyd George is pledged to the hilt to stand by France to the limit in enforcing the treaty, he has been so shifty that, he is suspected of in clination to .the views of those Brit ons who accept at face value - Ger many's plea that it cannot pay and who care .more to renew business relations with the enemy than to exact full redress for the terrible wrongs done to their ally. France is able to carry on the work of reparation v by no" other means than going deeper in debt and taxing the people to the last, pos sible dollar. Tet it is reproached with not having paid as large a pro portion of the war cost out of cur rent revenue as its allies did. Those who make this taunt ignore the ter rible degree to which the war re duced the taxpaying capacity of France and the great increase in taxation which has been made not withstanding that fact. French rev enue last year was double that of the year before the war, and this year is four times as great. France has lost 1,600,000 ablebodied men killed and as many more disabled in the war, and of the 8,000,000 people in the devastated region not 2,000,000 are able to pay taxes. Its taxpaying population is thus reduced to about SO, 000, 000, and one-fifth, of its agri culture and one-fourth of its indus try are in the region that is crippled for revenue purposes, but taxes last year were $72 per head. If the American people had been taxed at the same rate, they would have paid $2,000,000,000 more than they actu ally paid. Further serious loss of revenue producing wealth has been due to loss of interest on the immense in vestments which the B'rench people had made in Russian and Turkish bonds. Nor have the industries of the uninvaded regions, which were diverted to munition-making for Britain and the United States as well as for France, returned to nor mal production. Alsace and Lor raine have been recovered and will add to the industrial and revenue producing power of the nation, but so far their taxes are spent on, them selves" and do not help the country at large. . .. A most regrettable consequence of the treaty controversy in his coun try has been that our force was not added to the allies in exacting from Germany strict and prompt execu tion of the treaty in the interest of France. The senate was driven to resist President Wilson's demands in order to save a vital part of the con stitution, and France is the sufferer, though none of the provisions con cerning that country were criticized. By provoking the deadlock Mr. Wil- Second Most Important Office la V. S. Has Many: Claimants. To a friend who congratulated him on the nomination for vice-president Governor Cool id ge said: "I don't know about that. The governorship of Massachusetts has always been considered the second most Important office in the United States." Well, we don't know about that. Here abouts the governorship of New York has always been considered the second most important office in the United States. We have heard ru mors from Champ Clark's state that in that region the governorship of Missouri was considered the second most important, etc There used to be a pretty healthy tradition that the second most important office in the country was the speakership. Other candidates for the honor of holding this position are: Premier pitcher in the National league. Ditto in the American league. Drum major of the circus band. Bearer of the longest string of fish. Boy with the most marbles. Old - fashioned Fourth of July orator. But ill. one part of his statement Governor Coolidge is undeniably cor rect. The one office that is obviously not the second is that of vice presi dent. As for his intention to "finish his job" on Beacon hill rather than to resign in order to devote himself wholly to the campaign, it may ba remarked that there have been gov ernors who were elected, not vice president but senator, and held bo '-'a offices until they had settled mat ters to their satisfaction in their state capital. LaFollette was one, and Hoke Smith was another. They were the objects of bitter criticism from those whose plans they thus thwart ed, but they simply asked, "What an you going to do about It?" and resigned when they got good and ready. New York Evening Post. This tribute to The Old Home is Those Who Come and Go. "Choisey City." said Joseph F. Riley,. lapsing into his native tongue. "Choisey City is far behind Portland in sanitation I speak as an author ity, of course." " ' Mr. Riley, who is affiliated with the city health bureau, returned yes terday from a five-day sojourn in New York and his home town, Jersey City. "I met the. principal of my old school, who is still the principal. which shows I m not so old as tne color of my hair indicates. .This prin cipal says that the western ideas are just beginning to take root and the schools are just commencing to in troduce swimming tanks in the schools, and things of that sort. Some of the people who were teaching in that school when I was a boy are still on the Job, and people I knew 40 years ago are still living in the fame rented houses. People stick back in Choisey City and don't move around." Mr. Riley says that a tre mendous number of people are try ing to come west, either as prospec tive residents or as tourists, and sleeper accommodations are sold out several weeks in advance. The great est exhibition of iron nerve that Mr. Riley found in the east were the ho tel clerks in New York. Without bat ting an eye. says Joe, they think nothing of charging: $5 or $10 a day for a dinky room. "And then, con eluded the health officer, "after tell ing you the rate, they turn away and say 'next From the base of Black Butte springs Metolius river. It bursts from the ground, ice cold, and rages onward until it joins another stream a few miles distant. Right where the Metolius has its birth, the Bend lodge of Elks want to establish a hunting lodge for members of the order, and the plans call for about $100,000. To finance this project, one cigar from every member of the order will be sufficient. To put this project be fore the grand lodge is the purpose of "Pat" Mahaffey, of Bend, who is the representative of the youngest lodge of Elks in Oregon. Bend lodge, by the way, takes in everything for 150 miles in every direction, and thinks nothing of initiating men in Burns, or Paisley, or even in Mitchell. The Bend Elks have raised about xzooo to launch the enterprise, at CAMJ1DATES AMD SLOGAN'. TOO Boatonlan Sucjceata Hoover and Han son aa-J "Here'a How." BOSTON". Mass. June 23. (To the Editor.) It sesmis as if the old G. O. P. was to be hoodooed by those fateful letters "H. C. L." Lake Banquo s ghost, it will not down. We have had Henry uaDoi ioagc with us in politics now for nearly a generation, coming and going, one of the party leaders who made the mis take of passing the Payne tariff bill as they did and wrecking his party. Then comes the war and H. ij. SDells something different, something we would all like to shake if we couio but we can't. And now. the Chicago convention frtves us Harding and Cool idge, and if we add the chairman, Lodge, we get it again "H. C. L." Perhaps one way to get rid of this H. C. L." ghost is to meet it head on with letters that have a different meanirg. And that is why I present this legend: "Here'a How." H. and H. Hoover and Hanson. Herbert Hoover, the trained en gineer, a man who has handled men and affairs not only successfully, but to bring honor to himself and to his If I were born More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamea J. Montasrne. A CHAPTER OF NATURAL HISTORY The turtle has no nerves; In statuesque repose. He solemnly observes The way the river flows. A pleasant life, forsooth, j Yet in a year or two. He's cut off in his youth For stew. The cow is cool and calm. She never has-the blues; Without fear or qualm Her placid cud she chews. No wound from pen or tongue. Her placid heart can break. But she will perish young For steak. The lordly crocodile Is a phlegmatic beast; No raging on the Nile Disturbs him in the least. Yet many years before His life is at full tide They shoot and skin him for His hide. a brute country. One who knows the prob lems f acinar this country and the world today and for the next four yt:ars as well as. and perhaps better, than any other American. Ole Hanson, the ex-Mayor of Seat tle, who in this riot game is ahead of our own Governor Coolidge, for Han son in a most forceful way anticipated the mob. and they did not have the riot in Seattle. His action pointed the way for Governor Coolidge to have acted, but the latter let the mob ct first, and we had a riot. I suppose they will not consider it. but if the democratic convention at San Francisco would put these two men in nomination; and this third party which we hear about, if it also would indorse thess two men in their Chicago convention next month, there would be. in my opinion, a tremendous following. If, as some anticipate, the democrats should put a paragraph in heir plank dealing with liberaliza tion of the Volstead act. they will put kick ' into the "Here 8 How" that would be irresistible from a political point of view. HOWDKI I AM. from the autobiography of Charles I Ch,c.a-o and if the idea isn't adopted uj iho fa auu iguse, jena win, any Frances Adams: I left Quincy and gave up my winter residence in Bos- ! ton. ... In both cases, at the time of making it a wrench and a severe one, each proved a blessing In the end. The worst wrench, and by far the most painful one, was in the case of Quincy. That was awful! Quincy was bone of my bone, flesh of the Adams flesh. ... I felt about it exactly as Hawthorne felt about. Salem. In his inimitable in troductory chapter to the scarlet let- Lter he says: "This old town my na tive place, though 1 have dwelt much away from it, both in boyhood and mature years -possesses of did pos sess, a hold on my affections the force of which I have never realized during the seasons of actual residence ihere. ... In part the attach ment which I speak of is mere sen suous sympathy of dust for dust." So it has been in my case. I felt it almost as a destiny to make Salem my home. ... Nevertheless, this very sentiment is evidence that the connection has become an unhealthy one, should at least be severed. Hu man nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. To accommodate the building of a highway between two eastern cities, a telephone company recently per formed the remarkable fe"at of mov lng its entire pole line of 430 poles, ten feet to one side, without shutting circuit or interrupting service on any of the wires. The work was done by six men, in two gangs, with five pole packs for lifting the poles from their holes, says Popular Mechanics magazine. It was started by rais ing the first five poles one foot, then how. secure many thousands of dol- ars' worth of advertising. But there a pretty strong hope that the grand lodge will indorse the pro gramme, which is the only one of the kind ever sprung on that benev olent and protective order. Most newspaper reporters have an Itch to write a novel, but few of them really do it, because something gets tne way. lieorce Barr McCutcheon ad the same idea when he was a reporter, and it became more pro nounccd when he developed into J ty editor, but George .simply sat down and began grinding out his romances, no matter how late the hour was. Mr. McCutcheon Is thi father of the whole list of "Graus arK novels, which came into vogue bout the time of the "Prisoner of Zenda," when mythical kingdoms and principalities in Europe were the stamping ground of the fictionists Mr. McCutcheon. who arrived at the Hotel Portland with his wife yester day. hit the popular fancy and his novels were dramatized, so that this gave him an added source of revenue and the movies still remain. An other of Mr. McCutcheon's popular yarns is "Brewster's Millions." which s probably better known as a play than as a novel, son made the opportunity for Ger- I going back and raising the first three many to cause division among the I another, and then the first two allies and to escape its obligations. I total of four feet. Finally the firs Notwithstanding all his fine words pole was lifted clear of the ground, of sympathy for France, he has left and railroaded over to the new hoi prepared for it by sliding it on ten-foot oak plank. that country in the lurch. "U. S. authority to study filberts in Vancouver groves," says a head line. Why go to "Vancouver when jail the filberts -are in San Francisco this week? ' After all, there is only one plank in which, the democratic convention is really Interested. That is one to make government jobs safe for dem ocrats. In the manufacture of a bamboo phonograph needle, this little splinte of wood must be put through a num ber of delicate operations before it 1 ready for use. The hard point of th needle is formed from the enameled cortical surface of the cane. Th poles, 20 feet long and from two to three and one-half inches in diameter. carefully selected, are sawed int pieces about an inch long. To force out the sap and replace it with oil and wax in the myriad cells of th President Wilson is said to have several offers of good jobs after he quits the presidency. Barney Bamch cane the bits re Put ln driP kettles could probably use a first-class sec- ana lowered into vats laden with a retary. 1 oily mixture at 340 degrees fahren heit. where they remain 40 hours. The way the Bolsheviki are get-1 Then they go into tumbling barrel ting rid of prisoners by drowning jn containing hardwood sawdust, where lot& of a thousand or two foretells the supply soon will run out. This "crown" prince" talk is said to worry McAdoo. It doesn't worry him half fco much as the mere pos sibility worries the country. (As man may besoroe day) And had, unarmed and mute To make my worldly way. A tiger I would be. For everyone observes. Who's seen the beast, that he Has nerves. Good For the Campaign, Anyway Most political . platforms ought t be strong, considering the amount of concrete that enters into their manu facture. a Hardly Worth I. Most of the democratic presidential candidates who went to San Francisco must have been rather fond of travel. It Pat Him Oat of Job. Jonah was really disappointed when he succeeded in saving Nineveh from destruction, according to A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard. Not un like a Jot of modern reformers. To a Dear Old Lady. By Grace E. Halt. VISITOR SINGS OF PORTLAND Come, weep with me! The tender ties That bound your heart in youth are broken: The mist of time is in your eyes. The springtime words all spoken; Of tragedy of tears and years Your snowy hair gives token. Appreciation of City and Flowera la Cast Into Verse, DENVER. Colo.. June 25. (To the Editor.) I was in Portland and 1 saw the wonderful roses you had there, and want to express my ap- Come, weep with me! The silent tomb. preciation of the city and of her flowers and hospitality. I am send ing it in the following verse. ROBERT P. CARSON. Lecturer Radcllffe Chautauqua, Wash ington, D. The Roue. God made the wondrous mountains And the river which through them flows. The green fields and the fountains. And then he made a rose. The mountains for grandeur and beauty. The river, commerce shows. Green fields call men to duty. But fragrance is in the rose. I love the glorious mountains And the verdure that on them grows. The green fields and the fountains. But most I love the rose. The joys of days Ions past and ended. The flowers of hope that ceased to bloom. The lives with yours once blended Are in the souvenirs you hold. Within your palm all burnished gold. Come, weep with me! Let us remem ber. And through the chastening tears that flow Renew the flame of every ember. And feel the warmth of long ago; For retrospection shall repeat The pleasures that to you were sweet: O, reminiscent tears are rain That peace bestows to heal life's pain. In Other Days. AXKMOSiE. Nobody has as yet suggested John Barrett of Oregon for second place on the ticket. Perhaps Mr. Purdy does not know John. We get a new idea of the small- ness of . the country when we realize how close San Francisco is to Wash ington this week. All the delegation having been given some little honors, there was naught left for Mr. Schuyleman but Capricornus. Flights continue risky,, but the fa talities do not deter others. Try any thing once is American. they get cooled and polished. It is not an uncommon thing fo one to fail to catch the name of th lady one has to - take in to dlnne and how this may result in embar rassment is shown by the followin incident. An Englishman in this situation said to his partner, with reference to a dance that was to be given at Sir Lindsay Lindsay-Hogg's country house, "afe you going to the Piggeries tomorrow night?" Oh, yes," brightly replied Miss Lindsay-Hogg. "You see, I am one of the litter." Boston Transcript. Portland is too-tired for a big Fourth. The spirit is willing but the flesh is mighty weak. less in citizenship. A fee of $10 for stride for the last half. Going out 0t my office one day I met in the doorway a French friend, his face full of eagerness. "You tell me vat is a polar bear?" "A polar bear! Why he's a big bear that lives up ln the polar regious." "And vat does do ze polar bear?" "Nothing much of anything, X guess aits on the Ice and eats fish." "He sit on ze ice and eat fish?" "Yes, why not?" "Vy not? Because I have just been asked to be a polar bear at a funeral, and if I have to sit on ze ice and eat fish, I vill not go!" On the Bassans docks at Bordeaux, France, an old-time sergeant of a Depend upon Hon. Milt Miller to aegro regiment wa having trouble make his friend Bryan stop awhile with a detail of men of his own race. who seemed Inclined to loaf on their work of loading boxcars with pro visions for the army of occupation. Addressing one negro who was es pecially lazy, he exclaimed: "Come on, you. Git to work, dar. "Shucks, sergeant," replied the lazy one. Ah listed ron de wan. an ntt over." "To' 'listd foh de wah. Y-a-ss! An also foh de duration of de wah. Now, de wah. hit's over, but de duration, hit's jes' done begun." Judge. His hands are the size of small hams, and his fingers are large and calloused and when at home he is a horny-handed machinist, is Wilson George, who is at the Hotel Oregon tiut Wilson ueorge is a surprise. Those immense hands, which give n suggestion of artistry, are expert on the keyboard of a piano, and wit well-developed muscles, Wilson George can hammer out jazz on the piano until the instrument cries out for mercy. This entertaining talent is to be used at Chicago to help ad vertise Bend, and a popular subscrip tion among thirty-five Bend Elks is defraying the expenses of Wilson George and of Editor Whiznant, who is also being sent east to spear pub licity from the newspapers, all for the greater honor and glory of Bend during the session of Elks. "The wool market is decidedly sluggish," said Robert N. Stanfield. the foremost individual w-ool grower of America, who arrived in town yes terday from eastern Oregon and Idaho. "Much of the late crop has not been sold, largely on account of the lack of transportation. Wool which was sent to Boston in March has not yet arrived at its destination, and wool orders sold on sample have been cancelled because of the non arrival of the wool. It has cost the producer so much in the past two years that he could not get out even with less than sixty cents a pound. This has been due to increased costs for everything, from the herders to the feeding. This last winter was so long that it necessitated double feed ing, and the feed has been high. "Portland took the enthusiasm out of the Texans who were quartered in this house." commented Clerk Farmer at the Perkins. "The Hellah temple outfit came to Portland with a deter mination to put up a fight to get the Shrine conclave next year, but when they saw the decorations in Portland and the hospitality of the people and how the show was handled, they de cided that they didn't want next year's meeting. These Dallas, Tex people admitted that they couldn't stage the show as well as it was done in Portland, so they never let out a yip about wanting the 1921 meet after landing here. "The same thing hap pened with the Shriners from Itew Orleans. - "I found three Shriners who said they intended moving to Portland observed J. Munter, who travels out of Seattle. "One was a chap who is in the financial business in Chicago. He told me he i3 going home, stf-aighten out ' is affairs there and buy a one-way ticket'tc Portland. I met a stockman of Texas, who de clared he will sell out and come here to live, and I ran across another Texan who has a large acreage of onions. le, too. announced that Ore gon is the place for him and he will come back as soon as he can close out in Texas." . Bright Venus drawn by milk-white swans. To whom is due so much of woe And fancied pleasure, it was meet That thou our mortal pangs shouldst know; And, true to this wild mystery. Dark sorrow yields to earth and skies The choicest things as nymphs at sea Weep tears of amber from their eyes. In lonely love's hymeneal vale, Beneath the moon, beneath the morn. Adonis is lying spent and pale. Hie glowing side deep-hued and torn. Fast down the bending heaven falls Like snowflakes through a winter mist. The chariot with its opal walls And burning wheels of amethyst. Fond o'er the darkening purple pool Love's parent pours her big despair She vows, and with the oath appears A flower opening to the air. The goddess placed it in her hair; So pure the very dew might stain; So brief the very breeze that blow s I generals It leaves apart benolns them close. Alas', not so are teams and pain. GUY FITCH THE LPS. Twenty-five Yrara Asa. From The Orexonlan of June 29. 1395. Ashland. The notorious lone ban dit operating between Ager, Cai., and Klamath Falls, last night held ur both the eatbound and westbound stages, but obtained little plunder. H. G. Mathies, former newspaper man and editor or the fytnian Her ald. Seattle, died at his home in Port land yesterday. Forest Grove. H. O. Hyde. 81, of this place, and Mrs. Mcrarland, . of Seoggins Valley, were married on Monday by Justice S. Hughes. City Surveyor ' Hurlburt has just completed a survey and map or tne ten-acre tract in the southern part of the city, which was used as a pot ters' field, but which is now to be converted into a park. Fifty Years Abo. From The Orcgonlan of June L"9. 1S70. Paris. The abdication of Queen Isabella took place today In the pres ence of all the royal family at Taris and several Spanish grandees and Aatrolosry and Aitronftmy. HOOD RIVER. Or., June U3. (To the Editor.) By the movement of certain heavenly bodies last fall and winter astronomers predicted the i severe freeze we experienced In those seasons. Can you tell us when this will occur again? J. B. LISTER. The correspondent may have con fused "astronomers" with "astrolo gers." Forecasting weather by ob serving the movements of-the heav enly bodies has not attained scientific repute and is not attempted seriously by men whose opinions possess any value. Meteorologists of standing say that it is not possible to make a weather . prediction for more than a few daye, and even these are subject to qualification. Birds Calm Amid Noise. Cleveland (Ohio) Press. One thinks of birds as shy and deli cate creatures easily frightened by a sudden sound. That's error. A bird is disturbed by noise only so long as the noise is associated with dan cer. The moment noise ceases to threaten them, birds seem to mind It not at all. The gentle, lisping phoebe chooses to neBt under bridges across which wagons and trucks pass fre auently with a deafening roar. If the bridge is under railroad tracks. where the racket is yet greater, it's all one to phoebe. The gravel roof of some high office building in the noisy center of the city is often the chosen nesting place of- Mrs. Night Hawk. The creature most harried by nerves and noise is the one that makes the most noise of all. That's man! Tammany is coming this way go ing home and it's likely to be "swearing train." in Portland. Here the year is nearly half over, and what have yo'u accomplished? Thank Heaven, nobody has yet started a boom for Burleson! Gasoline shortage is about over, but the price is stationary. The Beavers are getting into their Harvey E. Cross, formerly a mem ber of the Clackamas county delega tion in the legislature, is registered at the Multnomah from' Gladstone. Mr. Cross is now the republican nominee for county judge. He saved the Oswego end of Clackamas county from being taken away and given to Multnomah at the 1919 election by apologizing' for C. Schuebel, his col league, who had offended a large number of fellow representatives. Will Peare. secretary of the state board of optometry, left for Seattle yesterday and after looking over Puget sound he will return to his home in La Grande. Langley J. Goodman, of Pasadena, Cai.. who is responsible for the Pasa dena float in the Rose Festival pa rade, is at the Multnomah. ' Josephine Corliss Preston, superin tendent of public Instruction for the atate - of Washington, arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday. Rlae" or "Maine" f MONTESANO, Wash.. June 27. (To the Editor.) In .The Oregonian June 25 I saw the headline "2000 Work ers Get Rise." It appears at the bot tom of the seventh column on the first page and refers to an Increase in wages of the employes of the Bos ton Edison company. 1 have never seen the word "rise" used in this way before, but have always seen "raise" instead. There is no dictionary in camp and I have several dollars bet that "rise" is wrong. I should deeply appreciate an answer. C C. JREEN. "Rise" Is correct. The term "raUe of wages" is a colloquial expression. There will be a meeting of mer chants at the library room ini even ing- for the purpose of organizing a board of trade. Th. annual nxhibition of St. Mary's academv took place yesterday. There J was a lartre attendance of patrons i and tho exercises were gooo. Fresh Oregon eggs were selling yesterday at cents, ana ;in"'' fresh butter 'U quoiea i - - cents a roll. Potatoes weiw 40 cents a bushel. SO!G OK SPIDS ASD BACO.V. Oh! the song of spuds and bacon. 'Tis a song that s nam i is. And 'tis not sung by little birdies Nesting in the spring; Nor is it sung by poets From a dainty gilt-edged book. But by frantic housewives seeking Something cheap enough to cook. Oh! the price of spuds ana oacon. And of bread ana ouuer, The excruciating price Of just an ordinary stew. And the weary-looking weinies And tomatoes bent and old. Oh! 'tis starting prematurely Silver threads among the gold. And the sugar. O. you sugar! How I count each precious grain Makes a person feel like stealing, Makes one feel like raising cane. 'Tis enough to make a fellow Feci like doing something risky. Like butting into politics Or making moonshine whisky. So we cut out epuds and bacon And we left off steak and ham. And we bid farewell to luxuries Like berries, cake and jam. And this morning as we breakfasted I heard my hubby mutter, -For I merely just suggested That we cut out bread and butter. But even then unless one learns The graceful art of cheating. Then life's the all-engrossing task Of keeping both ends meeting. Oh! the song of spuds and bacon 'Tis a weary sort of sonnet. It has draped a dismal mourning veil Upon the summer bonnet. Then sing, you little silly birds. And cheerful echoes waken. You don't need to ponder on Such things as vpuds and bacon. MRS. E. C. PERRY. Heppner, Or. Checkers an Outdoor Sport. Youth's Companion. Oddly enough, checkers is an out door sport in Indianapolis. There by order of the park commissioners. herker boards are stenciled on both ends of the picnic tables in the public j Hair. o,t00; nose. l.i.iiou; eyes, ::n. parkM and nets or checker are pro- ' 000; broken heart. $250,000; arms, vided for those who wish to play. ' $S3,OO0; legs,- $S0,000. Woman ovtr "Worth1 400,000. Exchange. A jury has awarded a New York woman $40,000 damages for the frac ture of a leg by a careless motoris Taking . this award of $40,000 as basis for a general increase of . 33 per cent, a woman is now worth about $460,000, recent damage suits having established these amounts: