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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JULY 5, 19S0
j supported the Lodge reservations,
; can speedily bring peace and can as
i soclate this republic, with safety to
establish Kit BY iiKNKV l IITTOCK. . itself, in the work of making peace
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leg-Mayor Bigelow. It was the in
adequacy, of the explanation that
called for comment and that brought
it to executive attention. If the in
crease is justifiable the milk pro
ducers need feel no apprehension.
But in any event they erred, and
were unfair to the patrons, in not
treating the advance with perfect
candor when it was made.
There are numerous commodities
that are undeniably influenced by
the seasons. ' Milk is of this classifi
cation. Customarily the price does
was first brought to attention when I BY-PRODUCTS OK THE TIMES.
PEACE
IMPOSSIBLE
ltOAJK.
BY WILSON'S
EXPEDIENT THAT'S ALL,
It is often successfully practical
politics to demand of a convention or
law-making body more than you
want or expect to get and thereby
force a wholly satisfactory compro
mise. We would not accuse Mr.
Bryan of so practical a course at San react favorably to the consumer dur
Francisco. Indeed we do not ques- ing the prevalence of pasturage. It
tion that he was quite in earnest is idle and presumptious" argument
in his expressed desire to have the to maintain that milk should cost as
democratic national convention adopt much in the spring and early sum.
a prohibition plank. What an mer as it does in winter, viewed from
achievement for oratory, what a vie- the standpoint of forage, or that it
tory for the man it would have been I should have a fixed and stable price.
had his fervent address accomplished I Once in a while, it should be ad mi t
its purpose! ted, the consumer has the right to
Yet Bryan attained a half-victory, 1 expect that the fluctuation will bene
a compromise which he no doubt fit him
wiy accept as satisfactory I The
.najurtty ot msoeiega, we are xoia MEN OR WILD ANIMALS. WHICH?
hv n. prirrptsnnnriAnr rT T" n a flroorin ia n I
are moist. At heart they desire that xno&e veovie "o a- cu.iSi
thl. llnmnrratir nlalfnrm ohall '"e large areas III lilm ill ui
rlarR for n mnriifir-ntinr, fv, rhf. west as national playgrounds or to
bition law that will ncrmil th.. man- prcncivc uien occult uco-uiy
nfartnrp nnrl sal., nf . ar,H lir,r range for Wild game without re-
wines. Rut t.h mninriiv rtiri nnt d to the people's need of what
dare. It was afraid of Bryan. It is tbose "eas can produce ran on a
hardly to be doubted but that for sna wnen a bnl to add a million
Kn-an', r,rn ot a,, Fn.M acres to Roosevelt national park.
By placing the league of nations
among the subjects on which the
platform defines Its policy, the demo
cratic convention followed President
Wilson's desire for a referendum
vote of the American people. It in
dorses the president's record
throughout, with the possible excep
tion of the Walsh amendment,
though that may be reconciled with
the president's statement that he
does not object to interpretative res
ervations. The Issue is thus Wilson's
league and his recorod on the subject
as against the league with reserva
tions or any other league or plan for
peace.
If the people should indorse this
polity by election of a democratic
president, it could not bring ratifica
tion of the treaty and, with that, of
the covenant. A two-thirds majority
of the senate is necessary and it is
not possible for the democrats to
gain such a majority. Of the seven
teen democratic senators whose
terms expire next March, nine voted
for the Lodge reservations and it
would be necessary to win them over
or to replace them with others who
will follow Wilson's instruction in
order to line up the party solidly for
the Wilson policy. At least two of
that number Smith of Georgia and
Thomas of Colorado are as firm in
opposition to the Wilson league as
any republican. Twelve other demo
crats voted for the Lodge reserva
tions, some of them being as strong
ly opposed to the Wilson policy as
the two named, and it would be
necessary to bring them also into
line, as well as the few democrats
who paired in favor of reservations.
Then the only prospect of peace
and membership in the league thai
Is offered by the democrats is a posi
tively overwhelming vote of confi
dence in the Wilson administration,
such as would give it the unswerv
ing support of two-thirds of the sen
ate a majority such as no party
has yet had. The democratic con
vention practically commits the
party to undertake this unpreced
ented achievement. It does so on
behalf of an administration that is
thoroughly discredited in spite of a
remarkable run of luck, that has
lamentably failed since luck deserted
it and that seeks this popular in
dorsement on the very issue on
which it has divided its party in the
eenate into two almost equal parts.
The action of the convention as
seen in the light of these facts and
these requisites to put its policy in
effect cannot be explained by sound
reasoning. It can be explained only
by the convention's servile submis
sion to Mr. Wilson, who formulated
this policy and who imposed it on his
party. It is a policy that would post
pone indefinitely the conclusion of
peace and membership in the league.
for it cannot become effective with
out fulfilment of an impossible con
dition ratification of the treaty as
Mr. Wilson demands. Rather than
confess that its leader has led it
astray, the democratic party persists
in following the road which he has
chosen and which cannot lead where
the American people wish to go.
Yet the platform quotes against
Senator Lodge the words that he
used in opposition to peace, '"except
in company with our allies." Peace
in company with our allies, to be fol
lowed closely by formation of a
league, is precisely the policy recom
menced by Mr. Lodge and his repub
lican colleagues in the round robin
Mr. Wilson rejected that policy and
coupled peace with a league cove
nant which the conscience of the sen
ate majority rejects. For so doing
it is accused of violating one of the
fourteen points which form the basis
of the armistice the pledge to form
a league though formation of
league after and apart from the
peace treaty would have been hon
orable fulfilment of those terms. Be
cause Mr. Wilson would permit
American membership in the league
on his terms alone and would permit
peace only on condition that those
terms were accepted. Mr. Lodge is
declared guilty of that "blackest
crime" to which he referred and of
inviting "everlasting dishonor" by
seeking peace independent of th
league and of the treatay with which
it was inseparably bound up. Words
were never more perniciously dis.
tortea from their true meaning..1
but that for the leadership of Bryan
over a great element in the demo
cratic party there would have been
a wet plank in the platform.
But notwithstanding the silence of
the platform, the hope of the wets
rests in the democratic party. Among
formerly Sequoia national park, in
California, was before the house.
The land is in a national forest, and
a letter from the secretary of agri
culture stated that the bill would
exclude about 6500 cattle which
graze under permits given to a num-
ifcr. leaders are the most open of ber of small ranchers who have made
JlUHiea 111 IJI3 lUULillll &.
Representative Johnson remarked
liquor advocates. It has its Tarn-
party" vetoed the Volstead act and beinS n a national forest, the
a republican congress passed it over
the veto. It may yet name a liberal
candidate. That the party is not
frank enough to make an open issue !
of prohibition Js due to political ex
pediency an expediency in which
Bryan is the menacing figure.
land was already sufficiently pro.
tected from destruction of its natural
beauty, but that "some of the great
beauty spots of the west should be
left so that a man may bait a fish
hook or shoot a gun without violating
some park regulation." Representa
tive French urged that the addition
to the park should not preclude
i.ur,rt.ijt,.i t. uai, economic use of the water or grant
Yet another Fourth of July has of right of way for diversion of water
passed, in the long procession of na- for irrigation of land outside the
tai Holidays that commemorate the I park.
origin of the republic. The American The same questions arose in an
experiment, an adventure in govern- other way in connection with a bill
ment wnen it was launched, has not to permit the use of about 8000 acres
only proved a triumph of democracy I near the center of a swamp cover-
out has, Dy its effulgent radiations, ing 100,000 acres in the southwestern
lighted the world on the way to corner of Yellowstone national park
brotherhood. Who among the sign- as a reservoir site for irrigation of
ers or that portentious document, 200,000 acres of adjoining land in
the .Declaration of Independence, Idaho. For lack of water the 30,000
dreamed that In this stroke at tyr- people in that section of Idaho lost
anny the shackles of many peoples, I about $10,000,000 by crop failure in
m distant lands, would fall? By the 1919. There are no roads or trails
progress of the race the old concep- to that corner of the park and it is
tions of government would in time never visited by tourists, for whom a
have been passed, but unquestionably swamp has no scenic charms. The
it was the birth of the United States farmers offered at their own expense
that gave impetus to the movement not only to build the reservoir and
for freedom and gained the goal canal, but to build a road, telephone
without tarrying for evoliilion. When and telegraph lines for public use
l nomas jerrerson, drafting the de- and to do the work in such a manner
claration, set down the truth that as not to mar the attractiveness of
governments are instituted 'among the scene.. The plan was approved
men, deriving their just powers from by the interior department, Director
the consent of the governed," he Davis of the reclamation service say
kindled the deathless torch. ing that the land to be submerged
Each Independence Day is fraught "Is mostly of a swampy nature and
with meaning, the portent of that is unsightly and without any scenic
first one. The rolling years have not! or economic value that l. comparable
obliterated the fearless truth, the un-I with its value as a reservoir."
impeachable logic, of the document I Nevertheless the American Civic
to which representatives of the thlr- association wrote to Representative
teen colonies affixed their signatures. Tinkham of Massachusetts protest-
lne little, carping, captious critics ing that the bill was "a very unfor
have yelped on the streets and in the I tunate and Improper attempt to ex
halls of congress, war has lifted its ploit for the benefit of a compara-
Danners ana gone into battle, the evil tively few persons the precious and
days have come as have the good, yet I unreplaceable property of the whole
the march of the republic has not nation," referring to the swamp. The
tauered. it has gained the heights, particular objection was that the
an honored power for humanity, but section in question "is the haunt of
always there beckons a more distant certain sadly diminished wild ani
eminence, a more lofty goal. mals, which of course will perish if
To those who on Independence the design to maintain Yellowstone
Day, or any other, have said that national park in its original primi
American government is a failure, tive wildness is interfered with bt
et the patriot point to the wreckage those who feel that losiner one eron
ot tnrones and dynasties, turning in six is too much of a risk.
thence to the unselfish, indomitable That discussion raises the ques-
aavance or tne united States. May tion: Which is the superior us
providence be most devoutly praised preservation of wild animals or Dres
ioi sucn a raiiure tor a govern- ervation of human beings and nro-
nient mat rules Dy tne consent of the duction or more food in a period of
gnernea, ana mat calls boys from worldwide scarcity? Which is the
me ui.iiuuu, ironi common coun-i more pleasing to the eye a swamp
try iarms, to seat ijiem as executives "in its original primitive wildness'
ot tne nation, isot even government, or a reservoir? If the wild animals
sage and benign and democratic, can had been given the preference, the
utterly eradicate the fundamental whole broad belt of Drairie states
error that wakens at times in human I between the Missouri river and the
souls and brains but we of America Rocky mountains. whr.manv mil.
may say with pleasurable truth that lions of prosperous people have their
in no land nas government gone I homes, would still hnv hepn i-ane-o
turtner t.owara saieguaraing society for buffalo.
ii om me wnims or power. I Western people appreciate the
When the tongue of malice is dust, beauties of the west as fullv as rlo
and the isms and tangled creeds are eastern people, but they believe that
junx ror tne nistorian in many, I jealousy for preservation of the na-
many centuries that stretch away to-1 tional parks should not exclude
ward the attainment of human per- beneficial use of any part of them
fection the land upon whose prin- and that, when it comes to a choice
clples those colonies of 1776 staked between men and wild animals, men
Liittr lives, tneir lortunes, and their should have the preference
most sacred honor, will still be mov-
a juniper tract was segregated for
irrigation under the Deschutes proj
ect. A contest was instituted to de
termine whether the lands were in
fact agricultural or timber lands. The
irrigationists won the case.
But soon thereafter the govern
ment became doubtful as to the ex
act nature of the juniper. A stock
man near Burns who was in need ot
fence posts, filed on a quarter sec
tion of juniper land at the base of
Buck mountain. It was an agricul
tural filing. A discerning govern
ment department rejected the appli
cation on the ground that the land
was more valuable for timber than
for agriculture. So the stockman
thereupon filed a timber claim on it.
Another discerning government de-
pa rtmtnt, or perhaps the same one,
ruled that juniper was not timber
and the second application was re
jected. What the stockman did for
fence posts is not historically re
corded.
But the government has, neverthe
less, been firm in the conviction that
Juniper, while not timber, is at least
wood. An enterprising citizen of
Oregon conceived the idea of drain
ing a great swamp and of using the
waters thereof to irrigate a tract ol
dry land, in all about 100,000 acres.
At that time trie nearest railroad was
150 miles away. To operate the
dredger fuel was required and coal
or wood was out of the question. So
he sent his men far up on the slopes
of Steins mountain to cut juniper.
which was little more than brush.
He was Indicted for stealing wood
from government land. He got out
of it by paying for the "wood." It
did not matter that he was the only
possible user of the wood, that unless
the lands he was working on were
reclaimed there would be no set
tlers, and that without settlers the
juniper would forever grace the
sides of a mountain known only to
sheep herders. He had to pay a
round price for it.
In the same year in Lake county
times were hard. Two men, in need
of bread and butter, applied to a
stockman for work. He agreed to
buy juniper fence posts from the
men. They went out on a lava bed
and began to cut. Thereupon the
stockman was also indicted.
Such incidents marked the change
from a free and open juniper range
to a valuable asset of the govern
ment. With this history before us
we may well doubt whether lack of
men willing to cut is the whole
trouble in failure to supply the pen
cil manufacturers. Where would
they cut? It is no doubt possible to
buy juniper from the government as
wood. But there are formalities to
be observed and. there is money to
pay. The man who works at day
labor does not have the means to buy
nor can he await the tedious proc
esses of the governftient. His wants
are Immediate. Presumably logging
companies, adequately financed, must
attack the problem. But they would
better proceed quietly and speak
softly. For capital to attack a na
tural resource is risky. These are
days of conservation. What differ
ence if the present-day pencil user
be required to unroll astrip of paper
to find the point of his pencil if fu
ture generations are assured the sat
isfaction of whittling for it? If the
history of timber lands is repeated
one day we shall gaze with awe upon
a great leadpencil reserve comprising
most of central Oregon.
Along comes science, her eye on a
bird, and demonstrates that two
plane surfaces, correctly pitched, will
mount the ether when driven by a
powerful motor. And close upon ber
heels comes romance. "This," laughs
the delighted jade, "is Just what I've
been wishing for!" One of the many
sequels was the recent elopement via
airplane, when a Goldendale, Wash.,
girl was carried off to the altar on
the wings of the wind. Shade of Sir
Walter Scott! You who wrote so
thrillingly, vso rythmically, of the
auntless wight, young Lochinvar,
and his dashing ride with a bride
from Netherby hall, what could you
have done with the modernized ver
sion. They say that, with the engine
humming smoothly and the air strata
undisturbed, the skilled pjlot doesn't
ht;ve to pay unremitting attention to
the steering gear. Science is a won
drous necromancer, and quite fre
quently she is in the lists for love.
uecllnlaz; -Mink Rate la France
Caasea Taxing; of Celibate.
Made Justifiably apprehensive by
the declining birth rate in France,
the government of that country is
utilizing several devices, and contem
plating others, to bring about a
change in the situation in this re
spect. Celibates, both men and wo
men, are to pay a special tax, while
with each child in a family there are
to go exemptions from taxation pro
portioned to the number in the fam
ily. For mothers, too, there la to be
grateful recognition in the form of
medals, with acknowledgment that
they are, as well earned as are the
crosses given to soldiers for gallantry
and devotion.
With . the good sense that Is a
French characteristic, it is not the
mere bearing of many children that
is thus to be rewarded. The children
must be reared, and well reared, be
fore the mother gets her medal, and
no child counts toward the award
until it has attained the age of five
years and so is beyond the "danger
ous age" of infancy. That is, obvious
ly, a judicious provision, for it is
only the children who live that will
save France from declining among
the nations or keep her prepared for
meeting again, if .occasion should
arise, the ever dangerous neighbor
beyond her eastern frontier.
For the mother to get a bronze
medal she must have five children,
eight bring one of silver and for ten
the reward mounts to gold. And
many French mothers, it seems, al
ready are presenting valid claims for
one or another of the medals, so evi
dently not all French families are
small. New York Times.
Auda Abu Tayi is a handsome old
chieftain, a true desert type. He is
tall, straight and powerful, and al
though 60 years of age, as active and
sinewy as a panther.
The name Auda means "Father of
Flying," which recalls the days on
which he made his first aeroplane
flight. Instead of showing any fear,
he urged the pilot. Captain Furnesf
Williams, of the Royal Air Force, to
take him higher and higher. When
he came down to earth he said his
only regret was that he did not have
his rifle with him so he could shoot
everybody in Akaba.
Auda's home is on a mud flat 80
miles east of Akaba. During his as
sociatlon with Colonel Lawrence in
the Arabian campaign, he picked up
many interesting details of life in
Europe. His eyes sparkled at tales
of hotels and cabarets and 'palaces.
and he was suddenly fired with the
determination to abandon his tent for
house as splendid as any "Sidi
Lawrence had known In London. The
first problem that confronted him
was the question of labor. This was
solved by raiding a Turkish garrison
and taking fifty prisoners, whom he
put to work digging wells. After
they finished that job, he promised
them their liberty if they would
build him a beautiful house. They
constructed one with forty rooms, but
owing to the scarcity of timber in
the desert, no one could figure out
how to roof such an enormous build
ing. Auda, keen as a steel trap, im
mediately worked out a. plan. Sum
moning his warriors, he started ou
across the sands to the Pilgrim's rail
way, overpowered the passing Turk
ish patrol and carried off thirty tele
eraoli Doles, which now form the
framework of his desert palace.
From King Hussein and His Arabian
Knights, by Lowell Thomas in Asia.
Those Who Come and Go.
ing with uplifted head along the
course of destiny.
NOW FOB A JXJNIPEB RESERVE.
Interest is renewed in the omni
present juniper tree of central Ore.
gon by the statement that leadpencil
MORE ABOUT MILK.
While producers of all sorts of manufacturers have at last become
commodities, from sugar and shoe- aware of its virtue as a provider of
strings to cabbages and coupes, are pencil slats. The manufacturers of
busied at vociferous assertion of Pencils, we are told, have sent more
their rights to a fair return on the orders than can be filled not that
investment, adopting arguments both Juniper is not plentiful but that men
plaintive and persuasive, little has cannot be found who will cut the
Deen said or the equal and undis- belts.
puted right of the purchaser to live I Possibly it is not whollv a short.
and thrive in the simple style he was age of labor that is the present
accustomed to before the era of in- trouble. And it is a mistake to desig
nated prices. i ne lonely peep of this nate tne juniper as "long despised
long-suffering Atlas, who bears the as a contemporary does. The juniper
burden of these conglomerate rights is one of the most prized possessions
to pront, is all but silenced by the of your Uncle Samuel. He owns a
loud ana assertive logic of the pro- vast area of land in central Oreron.
ducers. J land that Is not particularly attrac-
i Be Oregonian Is upbraided by a tive to the settler because of its dry.
creameryman correspondent for its ness, or its rocky or hilly charafter,
"-'itorial speculations regarding the but it is dotted with juniper. The
When Mr. Lodge used them, in, De-j recent increase in the retail cost of I juniper is not particular about mols
cember, 1918, he did not contemplate milk. In the communication of this ture or quality of soil. Like the sage
as possible that the peace terms
rild be coupled with a league
which the necessary majority 'of the
senate would refuse to ratify, nor
that the entire, course of the presi
dent with regard to the treaty would
be such that the senate must choose
whether it would abdicate its func
tions as a co-ordinate branch of the
treaty-making power and must sanc
tion the practice of ratifying without
change or reservation any agreement
with a foreign power which the pres
ident laid before it.
No peace, no part in the league is
possible by democratic victory, for
the convention stands with Mr. Wil
' son in blocking the road thither and
in pointing the nation to a road by
which it has failed to reach the goal
in eighteen months and cannot reach
it In the future. .The republican
platform, as construed by Herbert
Hoover, points out a practicable road
by which the republican party, aided
by those democratic senators who
disputant, appearing in another brush. It will grow to larger oronor.
column, the dairying industry is as- tions in fertile soil, but also like the
sorted to be in peril Itself, because of sage brush It will struggle success-
aavanced costs of production. The fully for existence in lava beds or in
attention of the correspondent, and a sprinkling of dust on the bed-rock,
of his companions in the industrv is I Time was when the Junirjer he.
invited to the fact that The Orego- longed to anybody and everybody
nian did not deny a certain legitimate wh wanted it. By the stockmen of
increase in the cost of milk produc- central Oregon it was never despised
tion, but insisted, rather, that the re-1 It provided them with fence posts
tail price had reached such alarming that never rotted, and it gave them a
altitude that the mihlln wa &ntitiAsi
o a concise, unassailable statement
of why this should be. It was said,
and is repeated, that the use of milk
Is so intimately linked with necessity
that any price advance should be
thoroughly justified in a public
statement by the producers.
The milk distributors did offer a
statement in explanation of the cur
rent advance, but it was more argu
mentative than conclusive. Had this
statement proved its case there
would have existed no need for the
official inquiry now ordered by Act-
firewood that was the envy of distant
neighbors who on wintry days and
nights had only the flashy sage brush
to keep them warm and were altera
ately too hot or too cold, depending
on the industry with which they
stoked the alr-tlght heater. Farmers
and stockmen went out and cut th
juniper without hindrance. It sup
plied the trading centers with fuel,
Prineville for years ran its electric
lighting plant with Juniper cut from
open and unappropriated government
land. ,
, The esteem, in which it was held
It will be noted the report says
women spectators rode on the shoul
ders of men neither delegates or al
ternates in the McAdoo riot toward
midnight, which is very good news.
as it clears the Oregon delegation of
a possible charge of perfectly scan
dalous conduct.
The defeat of Representative Vol
stead for renomination loses its value
as a horrible example for the drys
when it appears that his successful
opponent is a clergyman and a re
nowned prohibitionist.
Union county must be the health
iest division of Oregon, for there is
an old fellow, more than 80, who
called in the doctor last week for the
first time in his life.
What's the use of printing news
about Improved crop prospects when
the prospect of getting the harvest
under cover is admittedly so poor?
The man who was going fifty-five
miles an hour when he hit a street
car died following operation for a
fractured skull. Any lesson in it?
Recall when the Elks were here
eight years ago? They are in Chi
cago this week, but it cannot be done
a whit better than we did it-
Joe Mielke probably' is the most-
arrested young man in Portland
Police gathered him in again Satur
day on another minor charge.
Women may control the next
Idaho convention and prospective
state candidates are stepping around
on the sides of their feet.
Yesterday, 144 years ago, our an
cestors threw off the English yoke
Wonder when Ireland can say that.
Wilson denies the rumor he had
expressed a preference. Really,
modesty forbids.
One day when Robert Lansing was
secretary of state an old negro'woman
made her way into his office and
asked him to use his influence to
obtain a pardon for her husband, who
was in jail.
"What's he in for?" asked Mr.
Lansing.
"Fo" nothin' but stealin' a ham."
explained his wife.
"You don't want him pardoned,"
argued Mr. Lansing. "If he got out
he would very likely only make
trouble for you again.
"Deed I does want him out of dat
place," she objected. I need dat
man. ,
Why do you need him?" inquired
Mr. Lansing.
Me an' de children," she said,
"needs -another ham!" Los Angeles
Times.
Restoration of the famous Louvain
library has been begun by the Ger
man government at a cost of more
than $1,000,000 in gold, says the Na
tional Zeitung, In execution of the
agreement wifTT Belgium. Restora
tion of paintings carried off during
the war is also proceeding.
According to the same authority
Germany has restored to France up
to April 1, 8.000.000,000 marks in cash
and securities (normally $1,840,000
000), and large quantities of art
works, documents and archives, and
to Belgium about the same. amount.
The Mexican city of Guanajuato,
built near the oldest gold mines in
the country, were originally con
structed of abodes made of the ref
use of these mines. As the early
processes of extraction were very
imperfect, the walls and floors of
these buildings were thus full of
gold. Things would have continued
thus for an indefinite time and the
inhabitants would have been living
yet in these valuable buildings, if
the passage of a railway line nearby
had not necessitated the demolition
of about 100 houses. New York Sun
Alone In, the '90s Kansas was sup
posed to hold the world's long-whisker
record. But it is doubtful if the
state as a whole could compete with
Zachariah Wilcox of Carson City, Nev.
Wilcox is a carpenter and when he
goes to work he wraps his 8-foot-6-lnch
beard around his chest to keep
from stepping on it. He has never
had a razor on his face, and now at
57 his beard is still growing, although
the top of his head is getting balder
all the time. The man with a long
beard nearly always is bald, says
Capper's Weekly, which is published
In Kansas.
Secretary of the Lewistown, Mont,
chamber of commerce, T. L. Stanley,
who is stopping at the Benson while
visiting friends in Portland, is rated ;
as one of the livest wires ever elec
trified by the "good roads" slogan,
west of the Rocky mountains. Due to
the efforts of Mr. Stanley the Custer
Battlefield highway, 1700 miles in
length and stretching from Omaha,
Neb., to Glacier National park, is now
becoming a reality. Towns of central
Montana, when they heard of the pro
posed construction, banded together
to keep Lewistown from becoming
one of the points of the highway.
Citizens of Lewistown, jealous of
their secretary and faint hearted be
cause of tne opposition were little
help at the first. But gradually,
through the force of his own enthusi
asm, Mr. Stanley marshaled Lewis
town's forces, sent representative
delegations to cttlos heading the
Custer highway movement and finally
succeeded in getting Lewistown
placed as a permanent highway point.
It is whispered in Montana that Stan
ley is a comer and he is known to be
commercial club secretary par
excellence.
Oregon and Washington timber 1
attracting the attention of outside
concerns which are aware of the fact
that one of these days the supply of
other formerly dependable states may
be depleted. One such firm is the
Long-Bell Lumber company which
operates 100 retail yards and 13 mills
in states located south of the Mason
and Dixon line. Four representatives
of the company are now stopping at
he Imperial and are making investi
gations into the lumber situation in
the northwest. They are C. H. Huff
man, constructing engineer; L. L.
Chipman, manager of exports; W. F.
Ryder, timber expert, and Wesley
Vandercook, civil engineer.
Over In Seattle they have an asso
ciated Industries organization that
has been a big factor in crystallizing
public sentiment In the support of
payrolls and activities that build up
the community. Major E. S. Gill,
who was assistant to tne president
of the organization since his return
from eervice in the army, recently
resigned in order to become a candi
date for the republican nomination
for congress from the first Washing
ton district. He was formerly adju
tant-general of Arizona, was once
upon a time a student at w est r-oint
but obliged to give up the school
because of failing health. Major. Gill
is at the Multnomah, and will deliver
the oration today at the celebration
of the national holiday at Vancouver.
Hood River is noted all over the
civilized world for two things be
cause of the excellency of its fruits
and because It Is the home of Billy
Sunday. Billy stopped over in Port
land a few hours yesterday at the
Benson, to break the monotony of
the journey from his valley farm to
Tacoma, where he was scheduled to
tell the clam diggers of the glories
of the future life. According to
friends Billy Is looking exceedingly
well and sports quite a coat of tan,
in addition to being as energetic as
ever despite yesterday s humidity.
Admiring friends simply designate
him as "Doc" but he receives his mail
when it is addressed to the manager
of the Pendleton Flour Mills. Pendle
ton, Or., does R. M. Crommelin, who
registered yesterday at the Benson
A bachelor at the present time it is
rumored that this visit to the city is
in the way of an event which will
cast its'shadow before another month
rolls around.
State supreme court justices are
thought by laymen to be more or less
Inclined to pore over musty old
volumes of Blackstone, Chitty and
Greenleaf when tribunal Is not being
held. However, such a presumption
apparently hasn't a foundation in fact
for witness the arrival in the city
yesterday of Justice H. L. Benson
and wife who registered at the Im
perial and Justice Charles A. Johns
who stopped at the Oregon. Both
disciples of Solomon were in Portland
principally to enjoy the Fourth.
Medford decreased 34.9 per cent?
Somebody ejaculate "Rats!"
Today may show whether
spent yesterday in prayer.
they
Noah had the first sane fourth, due
to wet grounds.
This is Portland's sane Fourth-
Bill Hayward, athletic director of
the University of Oregon, passed
through Portland yesierday on his
way to the races at Tacoma. Bill, at
the present time. Is vastly interested
in the Olympic games which will take
place in Belgium. He asserted that
he Is soon taking three Oregon men
back to Boston for the final tryouts
and If they are unsuccessful he will
go to the games alone. Just "out of
curiosity. W hile In Portland the
Oregon mentor stopped at the Im
perial.
The fact that Astoria is recognized
as one of the coming cities of the
state is due to several things but
principally to the wisdom and energy
of its merchants. Mr. and Mrs. C A.
Smith of the city at the mouth of the
Columbia were in Portland yesterday
at the Benson, the trip being made
to purchase stock.
Out of town folks took advantage
of the double holiday which began
yesterday, to come to town and re
new old acquaintances as well as
admire the city which made the
Shrine famous. Among the visitors
of the fairer sex were Edna Mills and
Laura Bays, daughters of prominent
business men of Tillamook, who reg
istered yesterday at the Oregon.
George R. Hyslop, member of the
Oregon Agricultural college faculty,
registered yesterday at the Mult
nomah hotel, staying in the city only
a few hours. He passed on to Seattle
where he visited friends.
TROUBLES OF1 DAIRYMAN MANY
Loag Honrs, Labor Shortage, Hlica
Feed Prices Are Some of Them.
HUBBARD, Or., July 3. While we
are not directly interested in the milk
supply for the city of Portland, we
feel that The Oregonian's editorial en
titled. "Over the Moon Again," is an
unfair representation of the facts as
they concern the dairy industry as a
whole. You say "The pastures are
green as ever, and the herds are fully
as placid and content in their outdoor
realm," which does not correspond
with the facta With the exception
of some river bottoms the pastures
are fast drying up, and everywhere
the cows are annoyed by flies who
contribute a lot to a decrease in the
flow of milk. We wish the people In
Portland had time to make some trips
out into the country and see the
actual conditions, had to buy feed at
the present prices, work 14 hours a
day the year around, contend with
the weather and hired help problems,
for'lf they did there would be a dif
ferent attitude assumed towards the
man who produces the foodstuffs of
this nation.
Kindly explain to us why millrun
for instance that during the war at
practically the same wheat prices as
now. sold for $32 per ton. Is now sell
ing for over $50 per ton. Why was
It that the day government control
ceased it started to advance in price?
The government allowed all mills a
fair profit. If that was true, are
they not more to blame for being
profiteers and the advance In milk
than the farmer? You know that the
last two years have been abnormally
short crop years for the Willamette
valley, and this year, though much
better, has been a poor one for corn.
Many of our farmers depend on corn
for ensilage and the prospects are
anything but bright right now.
If you look at the government re
ports you will notice that all over the
United States there is a great short
age on butter. According to the last
report New York, Chicago and Phila
delphia showed a shortage of over
28 million pounds over last year.
Portland and Seattle together show a
decrease of about one million pounds.
San Francisco is almost the same and
strange to say the price of butter
there has been higher and is higher
today than in any other Pacific coast
market. The eastern market on but
ter has been and is higher than in
Portland and Seattle. Why are not
our farmers entitled to the same
prices for their butter as these other
points?
You say "with the approach of
spring the frugal housewife looked
forward to a responsive decline in the
price of dairy products." Please tell
us just why should this be the case.
Do people in town get less wages in
the spring that they should need
reduction in their expenses? Do they
have to pay less rent in the spring?
Do shoes, meat and clothing cost less?
If not why should not the dairy in
dustry be put on a non-speculative
basis, the same as any other indus
try? It is the uncertainty of a rea
sonable return for money and labor
Invested that today is playing havoc
with our farm Industry. Tne laborer
is assured of his wages, the manu
facturer bases his selling price on
the cost plus a reasonable profit
You base your advertising rates on
certain fixed figures. But the farmer
who first of all has to gamble on the
weather and the seasons, has no as
surance even that after he raises a
crop he will get producing cost, leave
alone a reasonable profit on his in
vestment and labor. He has prac
tically nothing to say what the goods
he produces should be worth; it has
been a matter of "take what I offer
or go without." The time, however,
is coming when we. the producers and
toilers of long hours, will have some- i
thing to say what our goods are
worth. We do not ask any unreason
able prices, but we do ask fair treat
ment the same as any other industry.
May we not have your cooperation in
this, the most vital issue of the day?
What good is gold if the people have
an empty stomach? What benefit
are riches when the pangs of hunger
are driving men to desperation?
OCTAV OGKT.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague-
THE TASK.
Slim little maid with the grim little
frown.
Toiling over problems till late in
the night.
Rubbing out numbers and writing
them down.
Always despairing of getting them
right:
Lay down the book till the morning
Is here.
Put on a dimple instead of a pout;
Never a problem was solved by a tear.
Maybe tomorrow we'll figure then
out.
Problems and problems, they come to
us all.
To vex us, perplex us and tangle our
brains;
Hard ones and easy ones, great ones
and small.
And little reward do we get for
our pains.
We solve one today and tomorrow we
find
A bigger one still that remains to
be done.
And oh. but the world seems supreme
ly unkind
With plenty of trouble and little
of fun.
But what can we do but keep pegging
away
On all of the tasks that are set us
to do.
And hope for the time when there's
leisure to play
Before we must bend to our labors
anew.
To play for a while, and to sleep and
to rest.
Then back to the problems, the
same as before.
For most of our answers are till t
be guessed.
And all of the future is still held
in store.
And when the Great Problem at last
shall appear.
To call for the answer that men
cannot find.
We'll stick to the task, and for year
after year.
We'll toil till our brows are all fur
rowed and lined.
Through doubt and through fear well
keep pegging away.
Till reams of solutions are scat
tered about.
We'll toil till we're beaten, and
broken and gray
But none of us ever will figure It
out!
Bat We'll Never Get One.
What the country would like to see
Is a one-piece party platform.
Watch Him.
If the Kaiser is permitted to go
into the tailoring trade, he'll soon
have enough money to start another
war. ,
Caatlon vs. Curiosity
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick
ford are going to visit the American
battlegrounds in France. Curiosity
to see battlefields didn't overcome
Douglas while several million Ameri
can doughboys were touring Europe
en route for Berlin.
In Other Days.
Ray Coleman was fishing In the
dredge ditch Monday. His dog treed
a coon in an old snag. The old coon
came out and Ray and the dog killed
her, then Ray climbed the snag and
caught five little ones. While he
was after the coons a fish got his
hook and cane and went down the
ditch. Ray got another pole, raked
his cane out to the bank and got aj
Cine catfish. Newport CGa.) Citizen.
ERADICATE! THUM, SATS FARMER
Loss of Every Raspberry and Straw
berry Makes liim Robin's Enemy.
VANCOUVER. Wash., July 3. (To
the Kditor.) I read in The Oregonian
where one C. J. Howard refers to the
robin's eating slugs and aphis. I
don't think Mr. Howard has good eye
sight when he says the robin eats
aphis. The ones that have been
with me all summer eat only fish
worms and fruit.
I set out 400 strawberry plants two
years ago, and I have not got a berry
They are now eating all my red rasp
berries and I will not get a berry-
So what's the use to grow fruit for
this class of birds? The proper thing
to do is bait some fish worms and
poison them. There should be a
bounty paid for the robin to get rid
of him. If the people will not make
a law. kill them any way. They're all
the same as a mole or gopher, which
is also a curse to the farmer. The
bird lovers have the wrong idea when
they call the robin a song bird.
. G. S. HOAGLIN.
WHK.V OM3 UKL1KS OV GOSPEL
Strange Thlnitsi Other Than Woman's
Inferiority Proclaimed.
HILLSBORO. Or., July 3. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian, I find a
letter by "Mr. G. M." in which he
calls to his aid dark age philosophy
and quotations from the Bible in an
heroic effort to prove the inferiority
of his -mother. Now the same argu
ment (or lack of argument), backed
by the same proof (?) can be used in
depict man as an utterly depraved
creature and I might clutter my let
ter with Bible quotations galore, such
as: "All men are liars"; "The poison
of asps is under his tongue"; "There
is no good in him" ad infinitum, but
would such quotations prove any
thing? Does the Bible's allusion to
the "four corners of the earth" dis
turb the popular belief in the earth's
rotundity? Is the Bible, with Us
description of the firmament which
was made to separate the "waters
below from the waters above" and in
which the stars were set "to give
light upon the earth." the accepted
text book of astronomy? Does biology
accept the creation story of the Bible
to account for our presence here?
G. M. says woman is hopelessly
inferior from a scientific standpoint
and then shows hi utter ignorance
ot and disregard for everything scien
tific, by his remarks: "We have
proved it through the Bible" and
"anything contrary to God's word
amounts to nothing."
This contention that either sex is
Inferior Is at best a "tempest in a
teapot" that gets no oae anywhere
No doubt G. M. is a better man, with
all his foolishness, than I, and I am
positive that I am a better woman
than he can ever hope to be.
MRS. KATHARINE HUGHES.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of July 5, 1S95.
River tolls came to an end yester
day when the Morrison street bridge
and the Stark street ferry were
opened for free transportation
Portland enjoyed a wonderful cele
bration of the Fourth yesterday, the
only untoward feature being the fact
that rain fell continuously during the
greatest parade ever undertaken here.
The Mazamas are safely in camp at
Rankin's landing near the base of
Mount Adams preparing for the start
of the ascent, July 9.
The population ot the city is esti
mated at SO.000 and at this figure the
birth rate Is 11.87 per cent and the
death rate S.5(r per cent.
No Proof of Virtue.
PORTLAND, July 3. (To the Edi
tor.) William Jennings Bryan asserts
there are 20,000,000 church-goers sup
porting him In the prohibition tyran
ny.' Pray you, does the gentleman
mean to prove something by this
statement?
There are 50.000,000.000 cigarettes
manufactured in the United States.
"Some Mohammedan tribes consider
smoking the worst of offences, in
comparison with which murder and
adultery are trivial." (Quoted from
Michael Hendrick Fitch. Universal
Evolution; Ethics and Altruism, page
262.) Can you say 'whether the
groups espousing the anti-cigarette
measure are votaries of this cult?
JAMES HISLQP.
CLOD-THHOWIXG MOT IMAttTlt
Stralght-Hnrling Woman Bound to
Save Some Cherries From Robins.
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 3. (To
the Editor.) I have always heard
that robin redbreast is a friendly and
Inoffensive bird. Probably that is
true. I never made his acquaintance.
But I know that he red-breasted
thrush, that is called a robin in this
country, deserves all the mean
things that are said against him, and
then some.
I know of people who have dug out
their cUexry trees, because it did not
pay them to try to raise cherries, be
cause of the robins and cherry birds.
Others, who have large sums of mon
ey invested in cherry orchards, are
openly breaking the law in order to
protect their property. Some of our
neighbors pick their cherries half
green, to get enough for their own
use.
We have some cherry trees about
200 feet from the house from which
we never get any cherries and never
expect to. Birds get them all. Now,
we have a cherry tree growing close
by the house, and I'll have some cher
ries or know why. I can throw clods
straighter than any woman is sup
posed to do. For a wonder, no law
has been passed yet against throw
ing clodsaat the robins.
' But if the people in the cities are
willing to pay high prices for cher
ries, to protect destructive birds, that
Is their privilege, and they can blame
it all on "profiteers." E. M. B.
DRIVERS' LICENSE LAW LSJfST
Experienced Youths Are Denied Right
to Operate Automobile.
SILVERTON. Or..' July 3. (To the
Editor.) Kindly permit me a few
lines with reference to this new auto
mobile license fake.
Here Is about how it works out. On
the pheasant farm we have a boy
about 15 years of age who has drriven
a light delivery car for us for a year
and who is a fully competent, careful
and efficient driver and he has done
practically all of our delivering and
light hauls, saving us much time that
is very valuable and taking the place
of another man whose time is needed
badly elsewhere about our plant. Now
here comes a bunch of prize bone
heads better known as the Oregon
legislature and says this young man
can driv no longer. He is too young.
Fine business.
At the present time when help is
scarce and production should be
speeded up In every way possible this
is rotten legislation. It tends not only.
to retard production on the farm but
it will also in many cases cause an
increase In prices of food products.
These are higher now than they
should be.
I am aware that this measure was
nassed with a view of "safeguarding
the public." Such a measure would be
welcomed by, the entire public but
this law as it now stands is certainly
a shining example of the freak legis
lation for which the solons at Salem
are justly famous.
This new law says that in order
to secure the necessary papers to op
crate a car or motor vehicle one must
have had five days' experience. What
driver of five days' experience would
be apt to do the right thing In an
emergency? Yet many who are
younger than the stated age must be
barred from the highways even
though they may be skillful drivers.
The people of Oregon have respond
ed lovally to the call for good roads.
We are getting them. Now when
highways take on an aspect of safe
travel along come the prise aristo
crats with the bricks. If the people
of Oregon swallow this stuff, which I
doubt they will for long, I for one am
of the opinion that it Is high time to
pull stakes for some state where the
freaks are kept In asylums.
We hear a lot of talk about effi
ciency nowadays. That is just what
we need but are not getting it.
Strange that the learned members of
the legislature never thought of mak
ing this an efficiency test. More
than likely it would have hit some
of the higher ups and of course that
would not do at all.
CARL BENSOX.
AN OREGON SUNSET.
Over the western hilltop the ruddy
sun has set;
Amid a blaze of glory ft went down;
The red afterglow is gleaming.
Upon the gray clouds streaming
Across the twilit sky above the town.
The evening shadows are coming
silently from the west.
Where the purple mountains are
wreathed n misty gray.
The glistening dew is falling.
And the robin's mate Is calling.
To come unto the nest without delay.
The gentle wind is waving the tops
of yonder trees.
And the quarter-moon ts sailing
ever on;
Each little star is twinkling,
A distant brook is tinkling
This sunset melody of Oregon.
EARL FRANKLIN BANGERT.