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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY. JULY 2, 1920
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and the pictures to America. But
Gaumont the artist had not familiar
ized himself with the fatuous Ameri
can temperament. He had not
filmed the fair daughters of distant
lands. They were included neither
in the colorful flora nor the grace
ful fauna of his achievements. And
New York said to him: "It's pretty
enough but. where are the girls!"
Moa dieu, indeed!
WATER-POWER AGE AT HAND.
President "Wilson's eleventh-hour
approval of tle water-power bill will
naturally raise expectation of actual
development, the more extensive be
cause practically nothing has been
ilone in the west since the inaugura
tion of President Taft in 1909. Since
then demand has accumulated to
such a degree that initial consumers
sufficient to justify construction of
many plants should be readily found.
It may prove that corporations wish
ing to establish industries will urge
construction of power plants on in
vestors, thus taking the initiative in
stead of leaving it to the power men.
Little outward evidence of activity
may be expected for some time. The
Water-power commission must first
adopt rules under which power sites
shall be leased and under which
plants shall be constructed and op
erated, with due regard to the regu
lative powers of the states. The pub
lic and the power companies will be
heard in regard to these rules before
they are finally adopted. Applica
tions for lease will then be received,
and some time will be consumed in
considering and deciding on them.
Before a company can finance its
project it must not only make sur
veys and estimates of cost, but must
know that the rates which state
commissions will permit it to charge
will yield the percentage of Interest
that it must pay. Power securities
cannot be sold at less interest than
& per cent at present, and the com
missions will be asked to adopt that
rate as a basis -until capital can be
borrowed at lower rates. Then it will
be necessary to sell bonds before
actual construction can begin.
A year may elapse before that
stage is reached, but there are many
reasons to believe that great things
will then begin to happen. Though
the cost of construction has more
than doubled in six years, the price
Of other sources of power coal and
oil has risen in the same propor
tion. The supply of coal is not equal
to the demand and railroad conges
tion is so serious that delivery is
delayed in the east and some New
England factories have barely
scaped shutdowns. The price of
Crude oil has risen in proportion to
that of gasoline, and the demand for
the latter fuel promises soon to ab
sorb so much of the oil output that
little crude will be available for fuel
except on ships. All of these condi-
tiows. lead men who contemplate
establishment of manufacturing in
dustries to come west, where railroad
congestion is less serious, and to use
water power, which is not diminished
by use and which employs no cars
In transportation. The Atlantic states
now have all the industries that they
can supply with fuel and for which
their railroads can supply transpor
tation, and future industrial expan
- sion will naturally be in the west.
which has abundant room and
. abundant power. The Panama canal
has brought the Pacific coast so near
to eastern and European markets
that the factor of transportation
cost has been greatly reduced in im
portance. . .. The Columbia river basin is pe
culiarly situated to attract' a large
t number of industries, for it has about
one-third of the undeveloped water
- power of the United States, and it
produces many of the raw materials
', to be used in manufacture minerals
of all kinds, phosphate rock, lumber,
wool, grain, fruit, dairy products,
livestock, fish. The great power of
. the Columbia river itself at The
-Dalles, Celilo, Priest rapids, in the
..-canyon of the .big bend, at Kettle
falls and at points as far as the Ca
nadian boundary can be developed
bv-dams which will also improve
-; navigation. Manufacturers who use
that power would also have the ben-
efit of cheap water transportation
far into the interior to assemble ma
terials and to distributb their prod
ucts, thus suffering a minimum of
Inconvenience from shortage of cars.
They would also be near Portland
" for the purpose of export and ship-'
xuent to the gulf and Atlantic coasts.
Water-power development, to
t her with that of increased foreign
..trade and of direct immigration
"from Europe, warrants confidence
that the west is at last about to
come into its own. It will become
-i tjs densely dotted with industries as
- are the Atlantic states, but in con
---- trfcst with their smoke, grime, dirt,
impurejair and polluted streams, it
will have light and cleanliness, pure
: air and pure water. Thanks to water
power, the Pacific coast can be made
a hive of industry without defiling
iUelf or marring its natural beauties.
Some day, when all our ships
..- tome.in, the girl on the magazine
" cover will occasionally give place to
other inspiration a landscape or a
Jersey cow knee-deep in June or a
' bowl of strawberries and cream. But
are fain to confess that the craze,
tne exaltation, ine stuooorn insis
tence on featuring feminine loveli
ness, has not yet begun to wane.
IfJMLeon Gaumont pondered and toiled
foi years at the problem of perfect
--..ing motion pictures in the natural
color tones of the original. Voila!
-at' length he had achieved! He had
caught the shimmering, multiplex
color-tracery of the butterfly's wing.
the hues of variegated flowers, the
composite color landscapes. Like
every other European who has
good thing and wishes to reap where
he has sown, he brought the device
THE RELUCTANT McADOO.
Perhaps Mr. McAdoo has been led
into his determination to seek riches
rather than the honor of the presi
dency by study of a book written by
his father-in-law in 1908.
The volume is entitled "The Presi
dent of the United States." Therein
Mr. WilSon remarks:
Men of ordinary physique and discre
tion cannot be presidents and live, if -the
strain be not somehow relieved. We shall
be obliged always to be picking our chief
magistrates from the wise and prudent
athletes a small class.
Nice encouragement to an ambi
tious young-old man, not athletic,
with a growing family!
Or perhaps it was this from the
same volume that made Mr. McAdoo
morose and retiring:
The party that expects to win may be
counted on to make a much more con
servative and thoughtful selection of a
candidate than the party that merely hopes
to win.
The democratic party this year Is
the party of hope. Its nomination
will not be altogether complimentary
to the recipient, according to the
great soothsayer of the party. But
if perchance its nominee does win he
is likely to be overworked to an un-
timely'end.
Yet there are quite a number of
democrats who are willing to be the
haphazard selection and to take a
chance on continued existence. But
the convention wants the reluctant
McAdoo. Strange that it has not
thought of winning him over with
a platform declaration for less work
and a million-dollar salary.
them to occur In an American com
monwealth. The purpose of public education
13 more than to Impart a smattering
of knowledge of reading, writing and
arithmetic. Nations have recognized
ever since education began to be
popularized that It is the duty of the
state to inculcate the moralities, in
cluding civic duty and patriotism,
and that it is necessary that this
shall be done for the state's own pro
tection. The federation of women's
clubs has shown moderation. It
might with reason,have urged enact
ment of laws debarring any but
American citizens from teaching in
the common schools, and it would
have found much support for a tie
claration agairtst teaching foreign
languages, even as pure language
studies, in the lower grades. That it
did neither may have been due to
desire to give greater emphasis to
the fundamental proposition that
American schools must be made
schools for Americanization, and that
not a vestige of opportunity be per
mitted for' converting them into in
struments of alien propaganda..
LETTING IN THE SUSPECTS.
Everyone is familiar with the
mathematical fable of the frog, deep
down in a well, who leaped thvee
inches and slipped back two and a
half, let us say. Given the depth of
the well, the problem was to discover
how far that luckless amphibian
must leap before he made an escape
from durance. Baffling as this com
putation was to the youthful- class
In arithmetic, it is plain addition
beside the enigma of current immi
gration to America, though the puzzle
is much the same in structure. If
in a single week we deport forty
undesirable aliens, under banishment
to their native shores, and in the
same interval admit' thrice as many
who are suspected tt radical tenden
cies, how far distant is the day when
perilous propaganda will no longer
be the favorite fiction of economic
unrest? When will the frog scale
the well?.
Immigration authorities thus' far
the present year have detained 500
foreign entrants at Ellis island on
the charge of being dangerous rad
icals. A majority of the cases were
appealed to Washington by the aliens
thus halted at the threshold, with
the startling result that all but
twenty-three were admitted. It is
quite evident that higher official
opinion holds itself superior to the
judgment of the trained inspectors
who pass upon the merits of the en
trants. These men are too near their
duty to have the proper perspective
perhaps. They have seen too
many radicals, going and coming, to
be impartial and competent judges
of what constitutes radicalism per
haps. Yet if their version of the
situation is correct there are more
potential and actual "reds" entering
America each month than are beius
deported by due process of law.
PRICES IN PIONEER DAYS.
Most of the Oregon pioneers could
tell stories of high prices for. neces
sities of life that would completely
overshadow present experience.
When the gold rush to California
was undef way butter produced in
the Willamette valley brought $2 a
pound, beef a dollar a pound; wheat,
potatoes and vegetables were corre
spondingly dear. There was a large
export trade from the Columbia and
lower Willamette rivers in lumber
that regularly sold for $500 a thou
sand feet In San Francisco and the
freight on which from Oregon mills
was $100 a thousand feet.
Those moderns who date the high
priced apple from the development
of the incomparable orchards of
Hood River in a relatively recent
time have disregarded Oregon his
tory. Oregon apples brought a dol
lar apiece in those glad days and five
dollars for a "big one" was not called
profiteering. The first important
shipment from Oregon to San Fran
Cisco, made from the nursery of
Luelling & Meek of Milwaukie in
18f.3, weighed 200 pounds and netted
$500. We exported 1500 boxes of
apples in 1855 and sold them at fifty
cents to a dollar a pound. Five
thousand boxes shipped south in the
following year brought almost as
high a price.
Then as now a large proportion of
the people were unattracted by op
portunity to make money in agricul
ture. The ignus fatuus of the gold
diggings, the pursuit of the fabulous
lured so many away that more than
cne industry was in straits for want
of help. Yet of those who remained
a larger proportion found substantial
prosperity than of the army that
sought fortune and adventure in an
other land.
The sound foundation of many an
Oregon fortune was laid in that time
by those who were content to plod
The Willamette valley was first of all
sections on the Pacific coast to realize
on a broad scale that agriculture was
the true basis of a people's pros
perity.
not always be said of. other sun-
faiths, and which Is easy of explana
tion when one realizes that in devo
tion to the sacred flame they were
but celebrating the goodness of God.
Him they called Ormazl, and fire
was but his manifestation.
Apollo of Greece was the sun-god.
with festivals set to mark his au
tumnal departure and his vernal re
crudescence with the spring. Helios,
of even earlier Grecian worship, was
also the deity of the sun, his name
being that of the orb itself. In fact,
the translation of Helios to Apollo
Was 'a politic move in good taste, to
suit the opinion of fastidious "wor
shipers. Striving toward deification.
they declared that their god must be
endowed with personality, and to
Apollo they gave the custody of the
sun. Long before Cleopatra
vamped" the noble Antony there
reigned in Egyptian temples the
great god Ra, deity of the sun. It
is curious to discover' an analogy
between the myths of Ra and the
biblical narrative of creation, as told
in Genesis. "And darkness was upon
the face of the deep," relates the
Hebrew chronicle. In the belief of
the Egyptians the earth brooded In
silence and darkness, a vast and sun
less sea, without life or motion, until
Ra rose in effulgent splendor and
swept away the mists.
To every man his place In the
sun. To children, also, when the
"shadowed livery" of tan will ban
ish anemia and enrich the blood.. To
flowers and fields and all living
things an easement in perpetuity,
tho right to sunshine. We are still
sun-worshipers, realizing that,, while
mortal comprehension may not cope
with infinity, God himself abides be
hind the marvel.
ENGLISH IN TUB SCHOOLS.
The General Federation of Wom
en's clubs will have the support of
right-thinking Americans in its cam
paign to exclude every language ex
cept English as the "language of in
struction" from the public schools.
Holding their national conference in
Des Moines, the women are on
ground favorable to inculcation of
the thought that legislation of the
kind is needed, for it was brought
out early in the war that in certain
parts of Iowa, as well as in Nebraska,
Wisconsin, and in an earlier day in
Indiana, local option existed in
school districts as to the language in
which the common branches should
be taught, and this not Infrequently
was not English. The coincidence
that it was chiefly German that was
demanded by petition made the fact
impressive wniie we were at war
with Germany, but the principle
would have been the same if any
other non-English language had been
chosen. Germans happened to have
settled in these states and to have
preserved a strong sense of nation
ality; but it is not possible to fore
tell when another people future so
journers from Bolshevist Russia, for
example will take the same notion
into their heads.
The entire reasonableness of the
demand is manifest In the proposi
tion that no attempt is made or con
templated to exclude teaching of
languages as such, although this was
seriously proposed during the war.
There is between the two proposi
tions a gulf as wido as the oceans
that separate the continents. It is
demanded by the women's clubs only
that children attending schools in the
United States shall have it borne in
upon them that they are living in
America and that they owe their first
duty to the Stars and Stripes. It is
in harmony with the oath of alle
giance required of applicants for citi
zenship and with the planks in the
republican platform which insist
that "the immigration policy of the
United States should be such as to
insure that the number of foreigners
ia the country at any time shall not
exceed that which can be assimilated
with reasonable rapidity," and that
"no alien should become a citizen
until he has become genuinely Amer:
lean."
Plans for Americanization of the
alien " population already . in the
United States, to which the war gave
a decided stimulus, should not be
permitted to languish now. The Ne
braska branch of the American Se
curity league revealed soon after the
war began that there were schools in
that presumably .American state in
which the opening and closing exer
cises included the singing of German,
but not American songs and that
children were punished by unnatur
alized teachers for speaking English
In the classroom. It can be conceded
that these were extreme instances
SUNSHINE ANT) LIFE.
With the increasing ardor of the
summer sun -the burning question
becomes Is it hot enough for you?"
On Baffin's bay the seal are sport
ing, and off Tierra del Fuego the
preposterous penguins plop comfort
ably about in the berg-blessed sea.
Visions of these delights arise to
plague the citizen who sips his soda
in the artificial breeze of an electric
fan, with the pavement turning semi
liquid under the solar rays. Pro
fanity may escape him as his collar
wilts, yet as he curses he blasphemes
the. very fount of life, fiery and intolerable-
as it may seem. When
summer sunlight is poured upon the
fields ' and forests the tremendous
chemistry of nature is finally tri
umphant. Not one of the marvels of
human science may compete with
the , transformation of seed and
water, soil and sun, to a burst of
colorful blossoms or an undulating
expanse of grain. Sunlight is the
eternal principle of life, and when,
unmeasured millions of years away,
the great orb cools and contracts to
immobility "there will be an end of
harvests and of tenure, of the earth.
Life persists and even flourishes
at a temperature a trifle above the
freezing point or a trifle below boil
ing heat. Man has driven his out
posts to. the extremes of climatic
conditions. But always has he been
subject to the sun. Nor need he fret
about the future and its immutable
decrees. They are too distant, their
doom too vague, to perplex him in
the tiny cycle of his rule. Theorists
believe that the sun generates heat
by contraction and not by combus
Hjon, and so imperceptible is this
shrinkage in the solar body that con
stant observance of the most delicate
recording instruments would render
it but .faintly apparent in 10,000
years. There are many tomorrows
in so vast an assortment of seasons,
yet these pale to insignificance be
fore the scientific computation that
17,000,000 years ago the earth
basked in substantially the same al
lotment of sunshine as it does today.
It is an accepted principle that
living things will not reproduce un
less they receive their quota of light
and heat, and the pallid sprouts of
the vegetable cellar are evidence that
color and vigor are the gifts of the
sun, while the length of striving stalk
is but an expression of the impulse
toward the rays that revivify all life.
Tho blind fishes and dwarf fungi of
subterranean caverns are far from
proving that sunlight is not always
required for the promotion of ex
istence. Their habitat is not from
choice, but from necessity. They
are prisoners of hope, indeed, and
have suffered structural debasement
in their banishment from sunshine.
Y'et as truly as though they throve
on the surface they are children of
the sun, for its transmitted warmth
alone makes possible their endurance
under conditions both unnatural and
unkind.
Savage and ancient savants, at va
rying periods In the world's history,
have so confidently turned toward
the sun as the life-giver, and hence,
as deity itself, that modern science
smiles tolerantly at these children of
the past, admitting that they, too,
were on the trail of truth. For of
all things universal that proclaim
the certainty of omniscience, the sun
rises as the first and irrefutable ar
gument. Thus to Iran, or ancient
Persia, long centuries before the
dawn of Christianity, came the
prophet Zoroaster of. the Parsee
faith. The Parsees were and are
nre-worsnipers. ineir creed was
' BEADLES OF SMUGNESS.
Smugness received a merited re
buke recently in the New York
supreme court, when a Jury awarded
$5500 damages to a youth who had
been depicted as "the toughest kid
In Hell's Kitchen." It was slumming
fervor that sent agents of the Russell
Sage foundation, collecting ostensible
social data, to the somewhat notor
ious district. There they snapped
a photograph of the boy, misrepre
senting their purpose, and later
published it in the book entitled
"Boyhood and Lawlessness," where
in they applied the libelous caption.
How were these social purists to
know, in their blinded zeal and their
haste to accept appearances, that
the Hell's kitchen youngster, for all
his swagger insouciance and seeming
sophistication, was an altar boy in
the Church of St. Ambrose ?-
It is the smug who are continually
in the turmoil of their error, who
order sandwiches and cigars from
the guest of the evening, who are
lefty or patronizing in the presence
of overalls, and who regard garb as
the infallible criterion of social
position. To be smug, according to
Noah Webster and other lexico
graphers, is to qualify as "a self
complacent and ostentatiously proper
person." It is a great pity that
social reform summons so many, of
these. The current idiom for the
sort is "bonehead.". So and by such
was the altar boy of Hell's Kitchen
smugly maligned.
"There is not a scintilla of evi
dence that he was tough at all," said
the court. "It is a wicked libel.
That is the great trouble with these
movements. They think that where
there is poverty there must be
criminality. These people from their
great heights of self-conscious right
eousness and superior excellence
peer down on and discuss these
humbler beings as though they were
the cobblestones in the street."
Do you recall how extremely.
tremendously abandoned and wicked.
very wicked," Oliver Twist was
declared to be by the beadle the
beadle who carried his head very
erect, as a beaale always should"?
"You shall not crown this nation
witn a keg of beer; you shall not
crucify its . people on a barrel of
booze," is not what Mr. Bryan said
put the convention tumbled. How
dry he am!
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES
One Man's Experience in Baaineu
' Told for Benefit of Others.
Mr. Nimble talked for years of go
ing into business for himself before
he did it, and he would not have made
the change at all if he hadn't re
ceived so much encouragement from
his wife and children. Mrs. Nimble
said that if there was a chance to do
something to get a real start in life,
she was willing to go without clothes
or anything for the house. "I am will
ing to do without things," she said,
"when I can see that we are accom
plishing something by It. We have
reached an age now where we must
make a success of something if we
ever are going to, and by staying at
home and there is no place I want
to go -I can make the clothes I have
do me for a year. Of course, I may
need a little house dress, or some
thing of that kind, but nothing to
amount to anything." And the chil
dren were just as reasonable as their
mother. Kate, who had just bought a
dress and a hat, said she wouldn't
want a thing, and all that the younger
children asked was the privilege of
working in their papa's store for
nothing. After Mr. Nimble had been
in business a month, he went home
Saturday evening and told his family
he had taken in $100 that week. The
children wanted to know if he had
brought the money home with him,
and Mrs. Nimble said it was fine to be
earning $100 a week. Mr. Nimble
told them it was not all profit, but
bis wife and children couldn't see
much difference. They pretended they
could. but, really, every one of them
figured that Mr. Nimble had made
$100 that week.
A few days later Mrs. Nimble said
she would have to buy a suit for her
self.. Her husband reminded her of
her promise not to buy anything, and
she said: "Well, I didn't suppose you
wanted me to go without clothes. If
I must do without a rag t6 wear in
order to keep you in business I think
you had better let the business go.
We did better than this when you
were working for wages." A day or
two after Mrs. Kimble bought the
suit she said Kate would have to get
some new clothes or quit going with
the crowd she had been running with.
The boys soon tired of working in the
store and Mrs. Nimble said it wasn't
right to tie them down in a place
like that when they ought to be out
running around and having a good
time. When Mr. Nimble finally closed
out the little business, Mrs. Nimble
drew a sigh of relief. "I haven't
bought a thing since that store was
opened," she said, "without feeling
hat I was doing something dishon
orable."
A question in domesticity is raised
by a woman writer, who says: "To
me, housekeeping is the woman's end
of a fifty-flfty partnership, and one
of the most important rules to be ob
served by the man who thinks he can
make me happy is, "Please keep out
of my kitchen." I'll probably be able
to find many masculine tasks about
he house to appease him for the lost
pleasure of dishwashing and dishwip-
ing. Remember, that as men are dif
ferent, sov all women are not alike
and there are a goodly few of us
who would never wish feminine duties
upon the men. So please don't think
that every woman is chasing you
with a dish towel..
The predilection of happy husbands
for helping with the dishes consid
ered the most execrable of all the
household duties is undoubtedly be
cause dishwiping Is the only function
in housework in which he can be
come expert. All the rest lie musses
and mars. And, boiling over with the
spirit of Helpfulness, he can't a-bear
to sit in the parlor and read his news
paper or on the portico and smoke
while his helpmeet is moiling in the
kitchen; besides, perhaps he can't en
dure tne separation. Mow can one
know but that wiping the dishes is
mere camouflage to enable him to
enjoy the light of his beloved's coun
tenance? Men ARE different. T. H
Collier in St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Those Who Come and Go.
GOD WORKS FOR BETTERME
iT J
Millions have been stung by bees
and survived. In the case of the
little girl in Puyallup who died in
ten minutes there must have been a
contributing cause of chronic order.
Why doesn't Burleson devote even
half the energy to improving the
mails he has displayed in behalf of a
wet plank in the democratic plat
form ?
The democratic platform makes
what is termed a "blanket declara
tion" for higher salaries for postal
employes. Wet blanket, no doubt.
Judges and clerks at the late
primary elections who have to wait
forty-seven days for their pay will
be hot for the jobs next time.
If ever Chicago is erected into a
sovereign state the country will build
a high board fence around the odor
iferous commonwealth.
The "tight-money" measure was
filed in Salem yesterday. Otherwise
this is known as the 4 per cent inter
est bill.
"June brides fewer in 1920 than
1919, despite leapyear,'.' says a head
line. Must be afraid to make the
leap.
without vitiating the principle that
it ought not to have been possible fori high in moral standards, which may
If McAdoo had a different father
in-law he would be running. Or,
perhaps, a different stepmother-in
law.
The Tammany crowd returning
through this city will all be tigers,
but not in cages by any means.
"T saw something in Harney county
the other day that I never before saw
in my life," announced Dr. Lytle, state
veterinarian, at the Imperial. "It was
a hay hoarder. There is a man living
about 10 miles north of Juntura who
holds his hay and refuses to sell for
less than - $20 a ton. I counted 75
stacks on 160 acres and some of the
hay was 10 years old. In the Snake
river country. I was informed, the
price of hay will not be so high this
year as it was last. This is because
so many cattle have been shipped to
Montana. That state has plenty '
grass and. no cattle. Also there are
thousands of sheep being sent from
Oregon to Montana, w rjere .grass and
water are close together and abun
dant. There is a scarcity of water in
parts of Oregon and, while the dis
tance is not too great for cattle and
horses to go, the sheep cannot be
moved to advantage. This accounts for
the movement to Montana. May is
selling in Pendleton for $28 a'ton and
at Stanfleld for $25, but as yet there
is no special market for hay."
"There goes the champion bulldog
ger of Pendleton," said a man in the
Imperial lobby, indicating a long, lean
chap wearing a yellow plush vest,
a Stetson and high-heeled boots.
"You mean the champion fender
buster of Umatilla county," snorted
his companion. The tall chap was Ray
McCarroll, who went to Pendleton as
a wrestler and then specialized in
bulldogging steers at the Roundup.
A few weeks ago he drove his auto
mobile around a corner at about SO
miles an hour and couldn't make the
urve very well. In Pendleton ma
chines are parked in the center of
he street and the on-rushing McCar
roll car just shaved oft fender after
fender as he grazed the parked cars.
lso he pretty near shaved oft tne
oattails of a prominent citizen, and
s said when the citizen went to
McCarroll for an apology, the wild
fender buster pulled a gun. thus add
ing insult to injury. McCarroll passed
through Portland on his way to one
f the smaller towns of Washing
ton to do some buckarooing.
This is the most critical period for
fall wheat." explained Tom Thompson
of Pendleton. "The wheat is begin
nng to fill and in two weeks it will
pass the clanger point, n everyimiiK
goes riKht. Hot winds, or a coin
northeast wind for two or three days
would work great damage at this
particular stage of the wheat s
growth. When I left Pendleton
Wednesday night the weather was
cool and the forecast was favorable
for the next few days." Mr. Thomp-
on says the farmers had no distillate
for their tractors prior to the gaso-
ine shortage, and then the farmers
got together and succeeded in having
carloads of distillate shipped in until
now they have enough to carry them
through the harvest. As fast as a
car of distillate arrived it was quickly
vided among the farmers. Mr.
Thompson says that for a while con-
racts were offered for wheat at $2.50.
but of late, for some reason, the price
is around $2.35. Those who refused
o contract at the first figure ex
pected that the price would go
higher.
Whether a debutante should 'wear
a bouquet on her arm, at her corsage
or in her marcelled locks are matters
concerning which Ella Clark Wilson
s an authority. Miss Wilson has
come to Portland to see the roses.
It was her programme to be here
during the festival, but she became ill
at Yellowstone park and missed Port
land's great a'nnual event. However,
yesterday she saw the test gardens
at Peninsula park and toured the city
observing the rose gardens of the
residence districts. Miss Wilson is
from Cleveland and is a syndicate
writer. She is acting as special cor
respondent for the Florist Exchange
at New York and Chicago, the Detroit
Free Press. the Cleveland Plain
Dealer and the St. Lcuis Democrat.
If a certain law was enforced, that
convention might get through at
once and adjourn.
The police bureau is doing great
work in cleaning out the "fences"
that breed crimes.
Those one-man cars will need
shotgun guards if the lone holdup
continues his work.
Clean the slate and name William
Jennings Bryan!
Doctor Takes Unique Vacation.
A unique vacation was that of Dr.
William Goodwin, superintendent of
the General hospital at Staten Island,
who camped for one month in the
maple orchard of Frank Taylor at
Harwinton, -Conn. He combined busi
ness with pleasure, worked nights as
well as days and made 76 gallons of
Americans have spent $132,000 so
far to give China a Bible in its own
language, the Mandarin. And just
now they are agreeing to spend $31,-
000 more to put the Bible Into type
nrt plates and to print and bind an
edition. However, It is expected that
copies will be sold to sufficient value
to pay the printing bill, and it is
further explained that these sums for
expenditures are Mexican. which
money is the standard of China at
this time.
It has been found by American
scholars that the Chinese Mandarin
is a wonderfully flexible language,
capame or expressing almost every
shade of meaning. More than 25
years lias been the period of prep
aration, and foremost American and
Chinese scholars have had part. The
aim has been not only to give the
Chinese people a Bible, but to give
them one that is pure in language
and will set the standard for the re
public that English translations se
for the English-speaking world. ThI
new Bible is for people who numbe
more than a fourth of the world
population.
It was a little argument between
two women In Shoreditch High street
"There is one thing no one can
say about you," said one of the com
batants: "No one can ever call you
two-faced."
"No, they can't, neither," snapped
the other.
"No; if you had two faces you would
never be seen out with the one you're
.wearing now," was the rejoinder.
Then hostilities became more fu
rious. Tit Bits. -
The butcher grumbled angrily to
himself as he put up the 10-centmea
order. "Cheap skate." he muttered,
"if she ever let loose of s dollar-
Just then a email boy burst excit
edly in the door.
"Hey," he shouted. are you putting
up mama's order of cat meat"
"Yeah." replied the butcher, "and
all I gotta say is "
"Unwrap it right away, announce
the boy. "Kitty's caught a sparrow.'
New York Globe.
Admiral Sims aimed to have all the
men who were at sea under his direc
tion during the' war, act on their ow
initiative.
One day the Admiral got a wireless
from a captain, saying in substance
"Am lost in the fog. Shall I try to
proceed to destination or return to
port!"
And Sims wirelessed back: "Yes
The captain didn't get it, and re
posted his original message.
So Sims then wirelessed back; "No.
Saturday Evening Post.
Those old reliables from Astoria.
W. A Viggers and Thomas Bilyeu,
are again at the Hotel Portland. This
time they arrived with about a freight
car load of books, for they are here to
try to settle claims with the govern
ment for the work their company
did in the way of helping to build a
bridge of ships across the Atlantic.
Checking up with the government is
a slow process, as all the ship con
tractors can testify.
.mere win te no peach cron to
harvest at Stanfleld this year, reports
the mayor of tho town, James Kyle
j ne apples are normal and. as usual
tnere win bo plenty of alfalfa, but
the peaches simply ain't. This is th
ame sort of peach story that has
been brought to Portland from most
of the peach districts of Oregon and
wasnington. so mat there promises
to be an acute shortage of brandied
peaches. -
Anyone who farms 2500 to 3000
acres of wheat land in Umatilla
county . is pretty well fixed, and
that is the status of L. L. Rosrers.
who was at the Imperial yesterday
with his family. They left yesterday
afternoon for Salem, via Sllverton.
Mr. Rogers contributes largely to the
wheat crop of Umatilla county and is
what is known as a "good" farmer,
which means that he knows how to
exact the maximum yield from his
ground.
After spending a few weeks work
ing as a logger for the Whitney com
pany at Bay City, on Tillamook bay,
Thomas E. Deegan has returned to
Portland and resumed his regular job
as night clerk at the Hotel Oregon.
The breezes of Tillamook and the out
door life have made such a change In
his appearance that his fellow clerks
d,dn't recognize Mr. Deegan when he
waikea into tne lobby.
Not many Americans want to leave
Cuba these days, if they can collects
enough money for their transporta
tion and the wherewith to slake thirst
with expatriated American liquors.
but R. E. L. Greebles is of another
mind. Mr. and Mrs. Greebles have
left their home in Camaguey, in the
Cuban isle, and are at the Hotel
Portland.
"Before the hay burns up. we're
going to do haying for 16 hours a
day," announced C. H. Manners of
Underwood, Wash., who arrived at
the Hotel Portland yesterday with nis
wife. The Manners are fond of see
ing plays and inasmuch as Mrs. Min
nie Maddern Fiske wasn't booked to
appear at Underwood, the Manners
came to Portland.
Two of the directors of the Great
Western' Smelting & Refining Co. of
St. Louis are at the Multnomah. They
are Charles Mathes and Mr. Roths
child. The men. with their wives, are
making a trip over the Pacific north
west and yesterday viewed the high
way. Dried buttermilk is quite an in
dustry In New Zealand. In a search
for information O. D. Collins of Chi
cago has been to that country and
is now on his way home. With Mrs.
Collins he arrived at the Multnomah
yesterday. "
Dr. Paul Woerner. who attracted
some attention before the United
States got into war when he was
taken off a vessel because he wanted
to return to Germany to help the
cause, is registered at the Hotel Ore
gon. Ira Hutchings of Corvallis, who is
a manufacturer of jams and jellies,
is among the arrivals at the Multno
mah. 1 t
As He Made Woman Last It Is Log- 1
ical He Improved on Man, (
PORTLAND. July 1. (To the Ed
itor.) Some people live to learn and
some live to be amused. ard their at
titude on life and things is self-identifying
and makes it unnecessary for
them to state to which kind they be
long. However, I have no quarrel
with Mr. M. G. on that score so long
as he seems willing to contribute his
mite to the amusement of others.
In the process of evolution God Im
proves on his own ideas, and the last
idea is more perfect than the one
preceding. There is no reason to
believe that God reversed his method
while he created woman, so if it is
true, as Moses tells it, that woman
was made after man, it is logical to
think that God found man wanting
and, improving on man. made woman.
Then, rather than being Inferior, she
would be superior, Moses and Peter
to the contrary not-withstanding.
Moses and Peter represented the best
intelligence and ideals each in his re
spective time and age, but as intelli
gence is also in constant process of
evoAjtion, it is probable that they
v.ould fall far short in the require
ments of our own age. It has been
sail, and in truth, that the constitu
tion of the United States is a greater
document than the ten command
ments. Each representes the intelli
gence of tho age iif which -it was
written. The Mosaic law is primor
dial and represents the dawning of
individual conscience in the human
race, the primitive discrimination be
tween right and wrong.
There is reason to think that the
positive and negative is or was sim
ultaneous, the attraction of which
constitutes affinity, on which the
constructive principle of creation is
based. If that is true today it was
true 6000 years ago, for Hod does not
change, but man's comprehension of
God docs. Then who shall say who
was created first, man or woman?
Man is not a finished product; he is
still in the throes of being created,
and the process of perfecting man
and woman goes on simultaneously.
Here are some of the equivalents
of Washington, Lincoln, Addison and
Marconi: Mary Baker Eddy, Carrie
Chapman Catt, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
and Mme. Curie. Oh, no. they did not
receive the same recognition, because
the standard measure of achievement
is a man's standard, but what these
women accomplished is of as much
value to the world (equal eeononvc
importance) as what those men
achfVived. Who can measure the
achievements of Florence Huntley.
and yet how many have even heard
her name mentioned? The greatest
courage is that which labors without
the reward of acclamation, and the
value of performance does not lie in
being acclaimed a hero or being wor-
hipped as a genius. The motive
of an act, tho ideal thought, counts
for more than the accomplishment of
the act itself, for the accomplishment
of an act may be frustrated, but the
thought lives on. The ultimate end
sought is the welfare of the human
race. Who has' worked most consist
ently for this purpose, man or woman?
Yes, a help to man is tho purpose
for which she was created, and a help
is all she asks to be a help, not
a toy or plaything tor man to amuse
himself with, use or abuse according
to his various perverted, degenerated
and evil tendencies: but to he of help
she must be free. One chained to a
stake can not go to the rescue of one
drowning. Her conscience, not man.
must dictate her duty, and her con
science is a much surer guide, it can
be trusted to ditate rightly, for con
science is divine and man has a long
way to go to achieve divinity. It is
in the achievement of man's divinity
that she can be and is of help in pro
portion as he will let her help. She
cannot however, albeit she may be
willing to do so (and 1 am here to
tell you that she is not) lie rc
SDOnsible for man's morals, for the
law of compensation is such as to hold
each individual man or woman re
sponsible lor his or her own self. So
to put the blame of man's lack of
morals on woman is a physical ab
surdity and a spiritual impossibility.
Women are free to choose between
a career and a home and children
within the limitations set by man on
her career and those limitations are
often so pressing as to force her to
choose the lesser evil of marrying, for
there is some satisfaction in satisfy
ing the maternal Instinct, though
she may or may not have met her
mate, but naturally if man limits her
Dossibilities of economic usefulness
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamra J. Montague.
THE OYSTER AND THE TROMBONE
Scientists have found that oysters
can be made to ring electric bells by
the movement of their shells when
feeding.
On being told that oysters
With cunning are imbued.
And with their shells can jingle bells,
When famishing for food.
We trapped and trained a bivalve,
And with a tingling chime.
The little cuss would signal us
When it was dinner time.
The creature's taste for music
Developed more and more:
We taught him soon a simple tune.
And then an opera score.
And the 'ere of summer
Without the least fatigue.
He learned to play from Massesct
And Handel. Bach and Grieg.
But there are limitations
Which every oyster has.
And one of these is grace and ca?
In syncopating jazz.
Though oysters may be masters
Of harmony and tone.
They're not, we find, at all designed
To blow a slide trombone.
Our oyster found the jazz-tuncs
Were quite beyond his art.
And so be sighed, and quit and died:
His failure broke his heart.
The. moral of this fable
A simple one and true
We now supply. It's do not try
A thing you cannot do.
Then Bnrk to the Shipyard.
Now Pempsry i"s free to resume
fighting till another war starts.
Spiteful.
Of course it is only backward-looking
men who have discovered how
Harding rapped T. R. in. 1912.
The Optimcenre of Optimism.
The man who puts strings up for
the sweet peas to grow on the same
time that he plants the seeds.
(CopyrlKht. The Bell syndicate. Inc.)
Anger.
By (.rare E. Hall.
If you were fash-
never fault nor
Forgive! Forcct
ioned true
In every detail.
blame
Discovered nor attributed to you
Then might you ask that others be
the same:
But with the demon temper uncon
trolled. With harshness, bitterness and
caustic fling
That you indulge Ah, then indeed
'twere bold
For you to ask of others one fair
thing!
Forgive! Forgot! And let your anger
die;
It is a poison with a devastating
power.
That brings a jaundiced blur across
the eye.
And eats into your brain-cells hour
by hour:
A flame that scars and sears and
leaves you blind.
That kills all sense of justice, right
eous thought.
And after ajl this ruin, you wjll find
That you have suffered niost by
what is wrought!
Forgive! Forget! Man's terrors should
be east
Into the discard; life holds much of
pain.
It is at best and worst so quickly
past.
That only kindly thoughts can
bring us gain:
Corrosion that feeds on a bitter heart
Must vitiate the blood that surges
t h rough.
And anecr. flaming with its endless
smart.
Gives dark, unnatural tones to
every view.
outside the home he will underrate
her Importance and emphasize her in
feriority itr the home. Mr. M. S. asks:
"Are they not free to choose?" and
In the next breath he says: "Positions
filled by women belong to men." It
is so much easier to dogmatize than
to think, and if the star of consistency
shines anywhere it is not in man's
heaven. If man chooses to respect in
feriority we women do not. We pity it.
We are not asking man for equality.
God gave us that. We are only point
ing out that it would be for man's
best interest to recognize it.
MRS. M. A. ALBIN.
ISSUE IS WILSOX AND LEAGUE
Independence or Snbjectinn Confronts
People. Snys 'Writer.
PORTLAND. July 1. (To the Edi-
tor.1 The issue of the campaign wil
be Wilson and the league. The
democratic party has not conscience
or Intelligence enough to throw him
out. accustomed as it has been to
take anything the administration or
rcrty leaders dope out to it. Rank
partisanship, as controlled and drilled
Into It by the old south has stifled all
its better instincts for many years, or
ever since the south was prematurely
restored to citizenship.
Te issue of 1860 was that of union
or disunion. It is now that of Inde
pendence or subjection. We cannot
believe that the people will be mis
led, but there is danger since the
interjection of so many foreign and
confusing issues, and the appeals of
class and personal interests. None
of these have a place or ever will
have in arepublic.
It is time for all who have at heart
the honored tradition of the country
to stand shoulder to shoulder, as of
yore and the country will be pre
served from the latest danger. The
compound of Idealism and demagogy
as ..doped out by Wilson and his co
horts should be exposed in all its
nakedness and hideousness. and its
consequences to the country shsvn
up from all the records of experience
past and present.
WILLIAM F. PARKS.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Vearsj Ago.
From The OrrRonia.il of July 1D.".
Grants Pass. The Southern Pacific
northbound overland was stopped
last night near Ridille by three, hicli
waynien, who obtained considerable
registered mail, but little money.
The final meeting of the Fourth of
July committee was held last night
and complete details of the big pro
gramme were made known.
Judge Stephens yesterflay upheld
the demurrer to the indictment
against Henry Failing for refusing
to give the assessor a list of de
positors of the First National bank,
with amounts to their credit, and the
law is invalid.
The city's liquor license receipts
for the first quarter amounted to
$28,831.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oreeonian of July 2. 170.
The 23d infantry hand will present
an interesting programme at the
Plaza this afternoon.
From Mr. Smith of Ochoco valley
we learn that that section of the
state is filling up very rapidly with
settlers.
There were eight ministers and 23
other delegates at the Willamette
Baptist association sessions, just con
cluded. The Washington guard will cele
brate the Fourth at home with the
usual parade and ball in the evening.
PARADE
ENDANGERS HEALTH
Apportionment ot Delegates.
CORVALLIS, Or., June 29. (To the
Editor.) I notice that the republican
convention was composed of 984 dele
gates and the democratic convention
of 1092. Can you tell me whether
this difference has resulted from the
same rule adopted by the republican
national committee for the conven
tion of 1916, which permitted only one
delegate from a congressional district
in which the republican vote was less
than 7500 in 1.908 or 1914?
F. A. MAGRUDER.
The same rule was in effect in 1920.
No congressional district was entitled
to more than one delegate unless the
vote, for any republican elector in th?
presidential election of 1916 or for
the republican nominee for congress
in the congressional election of 1918
had been 7500 or more.
Well-Uelncr of Children Too Precious
to Kxpone Them to Cold Rain.
PORTLAND. July 1. (To the Edi
tor.) If all mothers in Portland were
to register a protest against the pa
rading of insufficiently clad children
in a cold rain, something might be
done to prevent such an occurrence
at future Rose Festivals.
It seemed like criminal carelessness
to permit the children to remain in
the parade after the rain began, and
spoiled what might otherwise have
been very enjoyable in spite of the
rain. Apparently the terrible lessons
taught by pneumonia and flu the
past two winters are forgotten In
Forrland. Had those children been
shut in a room with a smallpox pa
tient the danger to their health would
not have been any greater. It seemed
particularly wrong to see children
from a home who are dependent on
the care of others.
Any pageant produced at the risk
of children's health is far better not
given. I do not believe any visitor
really enjoyed seeing those little ones
in the parade. -
ANNA LODGE MAI VEX.
A SEA SON G.
Before me curls the restless sea.
Enrobed in blue and gold.
It murmurs like a sleepy child
When bedtime tales are told.
The setting sun lights well each crest
Of billows, dashing high.
To touch with tender gayety
The dappling dark'ning sky.
The yellow beach-sand of the shore
Is smoothed by the spray
As mother soothes her tiny babe
Just at the close of day.
And over all is end'.ess peace,
As gently rolls iie sea:
The light is fading sleep must come.
And sweet tranquility.
-DOIS SMITH.
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