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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: