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1'OK AN OPEN-DOOR SIIITTINO POLICY
A principle is at stake in the
choice of the new shipping board es
tablished by the Jones merchant ma
rine law on the enforcement of which
depends the future of the American
merchant marine, of our foreign
trade and of our ports. It is the
principle of an open door and equal
opportunity for all shipping men and
for all ports as opposed to a combi
nation of a few great companies
which seek to gather the entire gov
ernment fleet under their control and
to operute it in the interest of a few
great ports. The interest of Port
land, like that of the nation, is to
mountain the open door, but that in
terest will be sacrificed unless Port
land fights shoulder to shoulder with
other ports and sections of the coun
trj which are threatened by the mo-
' ncpoly.
The great shipping companies have
concentrated ocean traffic mainly at
New York and a few other ports on
the Atlantic coast and at San Fran-
, Cisco and Seattle on the Pacific coast.
Their aim is to control the policy of
the new shipping board so that it
will hand over the emergency fleet
to them and will permit them to con
tinue concentration of foreign trade
at their favored ports, excluding all
other shipping companies from the
field or condemning them to an in-
- - feiior position and relegating other
ports to the rank of subsidiaries or
; ports of call for lines which make
their homes at the favored ports. A
persistent fight has been made
against this policy before the pres
ent shipping board by the ports
against which it was designed to dis
criminate. Portland took a leading
part in this fight through the secre
tary of its Chamber of Commerce,
---- V. D. B. Dodson, and it made a
breach In the ring of the big compa-
.. nies by securing allocation of ships
T-T " tor 8- direct line to North China
Z-T'. Ports.
That success has caused the big
conlPanies to exert themselves the
more for appointment on the new
shipping board of men who will
f . cater to their interests. Against
them are arrayed the shipping and
S!7. commercial interests and ports of
the south Atlantic states, the gulf
,T', coast, southern California, Oregon
and the interior, of which the ports
have been neglected, while their
home-controlled shipping companies
J;" have either-suffered from lack of
'"".. 'onnago or from need '-of harbor fa-
.... so- cutties or are non-existent. If by
ZZ" combining their forces these sections
can secure tho appointment on the
board of four members who will
adept and maintain the . open-door
policy, they will be enabled to build
up independent lines and to attract
T,',.. to their ports their fair share of the
Z-'-".. traffic which the big companies
gather into their chosen ports.
- In order to insure adoption of this
policy it is important that one of the
two members of the new board who
must be appointed from the I'acific
coast should be taken from Oregon.
It may be taken for granted that one
member will be appointed from San
- - Francisco and will favor the com
bination. As no two members may!
X . be from the same state, the other Pa- '
cific coast member must come from
y cither Oregon or Washington.- If a
Washington man should be chosen
; he would be apt to Join the San
Francisco man in supporting the
combination of big companies. In
order that the open-door policy may
; be adopted it is necessary that the
second member from this coast hail
from Oregon.
For this reason all the influence
of the Portland Chamber of Com
merce, the Port of Portland commis-
4 sion, the city dock commission and
the civic bodies of the Oregon sena
tors is exerted in favor of the ap
pointment of W. 13. B. Dodson. No
better selection could have been
made, not solely In the Interest of
Portland or of Oregon, but of the
Pacific coast in general and of the
shipping business and commerce of
tho country at large. Mr. Dodson is
familiar with commercial affairs of
the orient through a long tour of
. that region. For years he has
made a special study of shipping and
foreign commerce. His presentation
of Portland's claims for ships for an
,t independent oriental line proved his
complete mastery of the subject and
- ' so impressed the shipping board that
it granted his request against power
ful opposition. This was the first
victory for the open-door policy, the
first breach in the ring with which
the big companies had girdled the
coasts. Those interests now strive
for a majority Sn order to close that
breach.
The Issue on which -the lines are
thus drawn is plainly between the in
, terests of the nation at large and spe-
cial interests. The government has
Invested billions of dollars in a great
merchant marine fleet, which the
Jones law requires the new board to
allocate and as soon as reasonably
- -. possible to sell to American operat
" inr companies. If undue preference
- should be shown for the few big
companies, bidding would be re
stricted, collusion would be possibl
' ,;" and the government would not real
ize the full value of the fleet. Open
' competition among many companies
; serving many ports would, realize
' higher prices and would thua in
crease the sum available for reduc
' - tion of the national debt, conse
quently of taxation. Thafthere may
be such competition ships should
allocated to companies which would f word for England when he delivers
establish lines and build up traffic tho Fourth of July oration. The
frcm all ports, not from any favored Briton tweaks the eagle's tail-feath-few.
These companies would then I ers. the Yankee twists the lion's tail,
be in a position to buy the ships, if j Between these extremities of view
the terms were made moderate, but (point it is most refreshing to dis-
exacting terms could be met only by
the few companies which are finan
cially strong.
Diffusion of the shipping business
among many ports would go far to
relieve the railroad congestion from
which the country suffers. This con
gestion arises as much from crowd
ing traffic on a few railroads leading
to a few ports as from deficiency of
cars and terminals. A very large
measure of relief can be gained by
redistribution of traffic, so that it
would reach the seaboard by many
lines stretching fanwise to many
ports on all three coasts.
For these reasons there exists a
community of interest between Ore
gon and southern California, the gulf
coast, the south . Atlantic coast and
the farmers and manufacturers of
the vast interior, and their interest
coincides with that of the whole na
tion. It can be served by the policy
of the open door and equal opportu
nity for all shipping men and all
ports, which is the traditional Amer
ican policy. The American people
did not build a great merchant ma
rine to be delivered into the hands of
a monopoly.
NULLIFICATION. ,
The prohibition amendment being
conceded to be the law of the land,
the unreconstructed wets, harbored
by the- democratic party, have aban
doned the frontal attack and pro
pose to accomplish by indirection
that which they know they could not
hope otherwise to do. It is a fami
liar trick, having been defeated as to
adoption of a policy, to seek to pro
cure its interpretation by its ene
mies. Nothing can disguise the fact that
those who propose to increase the
permissible alcoholic content of
"non-intoxicating" beverages are try
ing to restore the "kick" to the
drink. One might argue until the
day of doom that 2.75 per cent beer or
4.5 per cent wine exercises no "au
thority," but the camouflage is imme
diately swept aside by the patent cir
cumstance that if it were not capable
of accelerating the pulse and enliv
ening the spirit no one would think
it worth fighting for.
Proposals to widen the liberties of
soft-drink manufacturers constitute
the entering wedge to nullification,
whatever candidate Cox or others
may say about the "workingman's
mug of beer." Those, who believe
that the eighteenth amendment was
meant to forbid "the manufacture,
sale or -transportation of intoxicat
ing liquors" will not be taken in by
cny specious attempt to give a new
definition to the word "intoxicating."
THIRTY-FOOT CHANNEL ASSURED.
Any anxiety lest congress should
not appropriate enough, money to
permit completion of the contem
plated improvement of the Columbia
river channel this year has been dis
pelled by the announcement that
under the river and harbor act $432,
000 is available. This will be suffi
cient to keep the two government
dredges at work constantly until
winter and the Port of Portland has
enough to keep its three dredges em
ployed. By August 1 all five boats
will be cutting down the bars below
the mouth of the Willamette. In
December or January they will all
go to work in the Willamette and in
a few months will complete the
channel below the city and will clean
out the harbor.
This means that "Portland will
hereafter have a permanent depth of
thirty feet at low water, with the ad
ditional depth given by high water
anu tide for eight months of the year
and a permanent width of at least
500 feet. This wijl give sufficient
depth and width for not only the
largest cargo vessels but for passen
ger liners. It assures us enough
water for all the vessels which the
shipping board will assign to the
poit and will silence the croakers.
Progress by degrees to thirty-five
feet depth and more will gradually
follow, as larger ships come and as
general increase in traffic on the
channel induces further expenditure
by th government and the port. A
necessary first step is increase of
width to 500 feet, for ty making, the
slope or the sides more gradual it
reduces the amount of shoaling and
clears the way for a deeper cut.
When a great tonnage of ships in
the harbor results from this expendi
ture addition of a few feet of depth
from time to time will be regarded
as a matter of course, all in the
year's work.
LONDON SENDS A SWORD,
Jeweled swords, such as General
Pershing was tendered by Sir Auck
land GecJ.des on behalf of the city of
London, have been the gifts of mag
nificence since martial cutlery was
first hammered out by skilled crafts
men. Some gifts of themselves mean
nothing, as witness the honors that
Germany's emperor bestowed upon
distinguished Americans, while the
secret war plans of Prussia contem
plated the conquest of the United
States. It is tritely true that the
gift without the giver is bare and
that a shimmering fortune in gems
does not enhance it if the heart of
the donor is false. But this gift from
the British capital is of true metal
as leal and tried as were the words
of the British ambassador when he
made the presentation. It is a sword
of significance, of presage for fur
ther comradeship.
Sir Auckland Geddes has the rare
endowment or iencitous ana sineere
expression. Not even the most rabid
Anglophobe may quarrel with the
correctness of his view concerning
the relations of Great Britain and the
United States, both in the past and
in the future. It is well to be re
minded, occasionally, that the strife
of the thirteen colonies with, the
mother country was not the dear de
sire of all England, but the project
of a king who spoke the English
tongue with the accent of a Milwau
kee brewer though Wisconsin was
wilderness then. William Pitt,
Charles Fox and Edmund Burke
lifted fearless challenge to the policy
of English oppression of the colonies
and repeatedly -warned George III
that intolerable taxation and tyranny
wouia not only result in fratricidal
war but in loss of the American col
onies. While it is true that the average
Englishman, stubborn and dogmatic,
will not yield in controversy respect
ing this momentous squabble of a
century and a half ago, it is equally
true that the average American,
chauvinistic and voluble, speaks no
be
cover a son of Albion who will assert,
as does the British ambassador, that
American independence was "wrung
from an autocratic government by
the spirit of individual freedom."
And he does well to recall Runny
mede to us, for Magna Charta was
the precursor of our own clarion
clear Declaration of Independence.
History is valuable only when It is
understood, those times that it is
taken down and dusted for inspec
tion in the light of modern instances.
fiuviTiiii inuvvnv TV I ivp - I
oii.iitat.ou ot uuveruoi u w
president, by the democrats removed
the last bit of hesitation on the parti
of Senator Johnson as to whether I
he should support the republican I
ticket. As the destroyer of a cor-
rupt machine in California, he could
not have been expected to back a
ticket that was forced on the democ- I
racy by the machines of Tammany,
Chicago, Indiana and New Jersey.
Mr. Johnson has come before the 1
people as the chief and most extreme
antagonist of the Wilson league,
For that reason he naturally bases
his decision on the contrast between
the declarations of the two platforms
on that subject, he emphasizes that
part of the republican plank which
most nearly agrees with his own po
sition and he passes over the indorse
ment of the senate's action which
cannot mean anything but approval
of the Lodge reservations. There is
no occasion to argue that point, for
the election of Senator Harding, sup
ported by a republican senate, will
clear the boards of. the controversy.
The league is already a fact and will
still be a fact next March, but is so
conscious of its weakness and of its
need for American help that it will
doubtless accept this nation as a
member on virtually its own terms.
It will remain for the new adminis
tration to define those terms in ac
cord with the republican platform.
This should satisfy all Mr. Johnson's
scruples.
But the league will not be the issue
of the campaign. Cox's nomination
has brought to the front the question
whether the government shall be
Tammanyized and alcoholized by a
man who owes his election to the
quadruple alliance of spoilsmongers.
The demand of the people is for
economy and efficiency in the ad
ministration and for impartial en
forcement of all laws. Tammany and
Cox are the negation of those princi
ples. THE ROSE WAT PROJECT.
A queen must live up to her crown
else she is unworthy of the diadem
And Portland, known to sweet fame
as "the Rose City," will never don
the crown as she should until each
plot Of available soil, not Otherwise
utilized or needed, blushes in season
with the bloom of the most perfect
flower. So it is that all true citizens,
by acclamation, will vote the latest
project of the Ad club to be the es
sence of good taste and good sense
For the clubmen propose to trans
form Sandy boulevard, as It thrusts
through the city toward the Colum
bia highway, into a three-mile lane
of roses, to be known as "Rose Way.
Inasmuch as these civic workmen
have the confirmed habit of achiev
lng that which they undertake, it is
with confidence that one may pre
diet the realization of this splendid
project.
Something more than spontaneous
public indorsement is required, how
ever, if the citizens who have under
taken this transformation are to feel
assured that Portland stands with
them. The comparatively trifling
financial assistance should be forth
coming, with the suggestions, active
assistance and general good-will that
render civic improvement a pleas
urable duty. When rose-growers
prune their bushes this fall the re
sultant slips may well be turned over
to the Ad club for the decoration of
Rose Way that is to be. There are
scores of opportunities for public aid
in the beautification of Randv boule
vard ana narrow community views
should not interfere with responsive
and generous motives. Success on
the. one street, with its 6000 rose
bushes in bloom, almost certainly
will bring about the similar trans
formation of other thoroughfares.
AN EXAMPLE OF" HEROISM.
The trustees of the Carnegie Hero
Fund would have their duties a good
deal, more than doubled if the con
ditions laid down by its founder were
as broad as those defined by the ere
atcr of a hero fund in France, M,
Henry Fortin. In accordance with
the latter there has just been called
to public attention the case of Louise
Depuis, recipient of this year's prize
of 500 francs, together with the In-
cldental public commendation that tion is a federal and not a state mat
attends the annual award. Although ter not only removed the framework
little Mademoiselle Depuis deserves from under the Tennessee contention
every sou of the 500 francs that will
be hers, and doubtless cares less than
nothing for the publicity involved,
she and M. Fortin and all others con-
cerned will serve as the text for
many a sermon on what constitutes and gave Governor Clement a plausi
true heroism. ble reason for reconsidering his re-
The little girl was only a little
more than seven when she and her
five brothers and sisters were half
orphaned by one of the shells from
the German big Bertha, which fell
on their home in a Paris suburb. The
father was not wounded, but it was
necessary that ha should work at his
trade all day and there was talk
among the neighbors of distributing
the children among various institu
tions for the care of orphans. In this
crisis Mademoiselle Louise put her
tiny foot down with exceeding posi
tiveness. She was sure that her
mother would have wished the fam
ily, kept together and she assumed
the duties of a little mother with so
much determination and with suc
cess so striking as to win the com
mendation .of all in a position to ob
serve and to judge. And opportuni
ties fop both, it is fair to assume,
must have been plentiful in a French
suburb.
The award, ceremoniously made at
the Trocadero by a committee of
statesmen, to the accompaniment of
speeches that Louise probably only
dimly understood, being still of the
age in which actions speak much
more loudly than words, derives its
philosophic value from the reflection
that it insnires, that in the world at
large there must be a vast number of
equally deserving cases. No statis
tics, in the nature of things, ever will
be competent to give us accurate in-r
iurmation oa tais subject, but one
needs only to run down the list of in-
cidents which he has observed cas-
ually to convince himself that it is j
so. ivor is me spirit ul aacruice it
it is sacrifice or the rising to re
sponsibility by the very young a
matter of nationality chiefly, or of
residence in a crowded city, or of any
other peculiar environment or cirT
cumstance. We have seen its mani
festations almost innumerable times
in some form and degree, in town
and country. The annals of the In
dian fighting days on the frontier
are replete with incidents of the
kind. So are the stories of the slums
oi cities. Seven, it is true, is very
young, but it would not take much
research, we think, to duplicate the
performance just commemorated
Trith ni m i ,i . 1 n a i- o m m r 'i ti rl TX.' i I
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We would like to know more about
what kind of woman the mother of
Louise Depuis and the five little
brothers and sisters was. Here might
be found, if not the secret of the
precocity of Louise, at least the
genius of solidarity of the Depuis
family. Behind the curtain there
stands the personality of a remark
able mother, if we accept the doc
trine of parental responsibility in the
moulding of character. To have left
the impress of it on only one of her
little ones was for the"mother not
to have lived in vain
aV DHTEREXCE OF TEMPERAMENT.
That which Blasco Ibanez, the
Spanish novelist, who has been com
menting on the republican national
convention for a New York news
paper, finds most impressive in
American politics is the capacity of
the people for high enthusiasm tem
pered by self-'control that Is nearly
incredible to a Latin. Things art
done differently in the Latin-Amer
ican republics that the Spanish au
thor has recently visited, and whose
political systems he compares with
that of tlje United States. In their
outward forms, these having been
patterned after our own, they are
similar. But the tempers of the peo
ples of the north and south are dif
ferent. Therein, as will appear from
the observations of Senor Blasco
Ibanez, lies the difference between
orderly government and chaotic tur
moil, between evolution and revolu
tion, between peace srnd strife.
In sustained enthusiasm and ebul
lience of spirit, the American polit
ical convention reminds the Spaniard
of nothing so much as a bull fight;
But it is nearly inconceivable to him
that there should be so much effer
vescence without some bloodshed.
People who vent their enthusiasm at
bull fights find a kind of psycholog
ical recompense in the suffering of
the goaded animal. In politics, where
personalities run high, as they do in
Anglo-Saxon countries also, there
must be a corresponding vent. It
is found in personal combat. As, for
example:
Frequently an orator forgets himself and
uses language which calls for explanation
on the field of honor. Once so often the
president-elect has to -wait until his term
oi omce expires to Dring one of h s
tarronists to account. This happened not
ion a;,'o ir. L'ruuay. Occasionally, how
ever, the president grows impatient and
resigns his high office to send his sec
onds to some intolerable opponent, both
to silence him and t'p prove to the -world
tnat ne, the president. Is a man of courage.
Once In a while these spirited and high-
tempered presidents are young blades -f
ti or su. in these republics of South
America tne youthful and debonair ex-
Senator Chauncey Depew might find it
necessary to cross swards or exchange a
pistol shot or two with another youth of
ms own ape.-'f-.-'d -r
Blasco Ibanez is to be congratu
lated on being one of the few foreign
observers of our institutions who has
been able to see in our political gath
erings more than a spectacle. Which
of course they are, but they are more
than that. The Spaniard puts his
finger on the essential point of con
trast when he says, alluding to the
temper of the same people after the
conventions are over and one of the
candidates has been declared elected:
Whoever tne man may he. general o
merchant, professor or captain of Indus
try, the 110,000.000 of human beings who
elect him to that high office will follow
his lean. And all the sovereigns of earth
for that reason will turn to the White
House for inspiration, as formerly they
turned to tho men who ruled at London- or
Paris or Berlin. , .
Only the convention noise is re
mindful of the bull fight. Here the
simile ends. The calculated clatter.
the organized enthusiasm have un
derlying them the motive that sup
plies the contrast. Reasoned enthu
siasm, Blasco Ibanez finds, generates
greater force than the every-man-
for-himself outbursts of the Latin
egoism. Our critic is not only frank
In indicating the faults of his own
countrymen but he sets a. standard
that all Americans will do well to
keep before them.
Promise that Governor Clement
of Vermont will call an extra ses
sion of the legislature of his state to
ratify the nineteenth amendment to
the federal constitution is another of
the indirect products of the supreme
I court's decision in the prohibition
cases. That tribunal in holding that
ameiidraent of the federal constitu-
that action was forbidden by state
law, but it also cleared the way for
a special, session In Florida, whose
state constitution contains a provi-
sion similar to that of Tennessee,
fusal, which was based on the feel-
lnS that Vermont prefers to change
the fundamental laws very deliber
ately," and on the fact that Vermont
car. change Its state constitution
only by one direct appeal to the
people and the favorable action of
two legislatures. Vermont cannot
complain that snap judgment is be
ing taken on the suffrage issue, with
wnicn every legislator and every
other citizen must be entirely fami
liar, and every Vermonter knows that
it is only begging the question to
rlead for further delay. Suffrage is
certain to come, in all probability
this year, and it is sound sense as
well as good sportsmanship to recog
nize its inevitableness.
Mr. McAdoo says he is "eternally
grateful to my friends for their sup
port." ' Sounds as if he wouldn't
have minded being the crown prince,
after all.
Even if he is only a cousin, it's
too bad that a member of the Roose
velt family should go wrong.
The Greek is not letting any Turk
lie dreaming, in his tent just now.
The little war is brisk.
Fred Grogg has been ained for
violating the prohibition laws. He's
a perpetual violation. -
Here's looking at you, Mr. Cox.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cass Baer.
Katherine Graham, Portland girl, is
to have a big role in Alan Dale's new
est play, which goes into rehearsal
immediately, and opens its season in
Stamford, Conn., on August 23. The
play is a comedy called "Nobody's
Fool," and will be May Robson's tour
ing vehicle for next season. She has
put "Tish" away. Miss Graham is
Miss Robson's young leading woman
and played in "Tish" last season after
the company played here. Some ex
cellent photographs of the young
Poi tlander, who looks like Elsie Fer
guson, have appeared in theatrical
publications. She Is the only daughter
of Captain and Mrs. A. B. Graham.
Tod Sloan, the jockey, the other day
married an actress, Betty Saxon Ma
lone, late of "Honeymoon Trail." Posj
sibly she prefers being leading lady in
a "Honeymoon Trail" of her own.
Theirs was one of love-at-f irst-sight
matches. They met one day in June
and were married ten days later.
Morris Ges: has announced that he
had engaged Michel Fokine to staffe
the ballet In his forthcoming produc
tion of "Mecca." Gest brought the
Russian dancing master to this coun
try to produce the ballet in "Aphro
dite." and he has stayed here since.
Fokine and his wife will spend the
summer here at a New Jersey resort
Frank Bacon has taken a home at
Bayside, X.ong Island, for the sum
mer.
Carlotta Monterey is rapidly climb
ing the heights from an obscure lit
tle stock actress to Luana in "The
Bird of Paradise." one of the first
Luanas before they got to sending
us just anyone in the role. Miss Mon
terey Is Danish and Spanish and took
her name Monterey for the California
county, where her family lives. She
is playing the leading role In one of
the A. H. Woods productions, "The
Winged God," at Atlantic City this
week.
May Dressier is planning to buy a
summer home on the St. Lawrence
river near the big estate of May Ir
win. The two comediennes are grea
friends.
Mina Crollus Gleason Is playing
character roles with the Cormican
Players at Hartford, Conn. Her son
James Gleason, is playing second
business. He was here last as lead
ing man in "The Prince Chap."
Theda Bara's sister, Lor a Bara, ha
announced her engagement to Frank
W. Getty of the London staff of th
New York Times. This is the termin
ation of a brief romance. They me
on shipboard when Mr. Getty was re
turning to London from a vacation at
his home in Winchester, Mass. Mis
Bara was going abroad with her vam
pire sister Theda to viBit in London
Harriet Rempel, who comes once
year to the Orpheum, is suing Arthu
R. Lewis, a silk merchant, for 125,000
Miss Rempel claims that while riding
in a machine with Lewis she was hurt
when the machine was damaged, and
the suit for damages is the result. Sh
was playing, at a Harlem theater
the time.
Advices from London say that Mara
Klaw has procured eeveral plays fo
production here next season. He ha
obtained the rights to Jerome K.
Jerome's musical comedy, "The Littl
Dutch Girl," with music by Emmerlc
Kallman, and a comedy called "Sonla,
Marjorie Rambeau and her husband
Hugh Dillwan, have gone to Europe
for the summer.
'
A Paris dispatch tells of the safe
arrival In that city of Mrs. Richard
Mansfield, widow of the famous actor,
and Colin Clements, the poet and
playwright. They have been in Ar
menia for the past year doing relief
work, and were held prisoners by the
Turks at Urfa, Mesopotamia, for three
months. They escaped to Jerusalem,
and came from there to Paris, via
Aleppo.
Kitty Gordon, who is playing at
the Palace theater in a vaudeville act,
"The Surprise." accidentally shot Joe
A. Hack, of Page, Hack and Mack,
acrobats, who was standing; in the
wings when Miss Gordon's act was
On. Mr. Hack is now in a hospital
with a serious bullet wound in the
right arm and shoulder. The police
are quoted as believing the shooting
was entirely accidental, although they
say there is a possibility that it may
have been part of a plot, aimed at an
other, with Miss Gordon as the inno
cent principal. She denied knowing
anything about the loaded cartridge
being in the revolver, and her hus
band and partner. Jack Wilson, said
he knew positively that he had loaded
the revolver only with blanks. Miss
Gordon in the act is supposed to fire
the gun at Frank Griffin. the
"villain" of the piece.
Kitty Gordon is the widow of Hon,
Henry William Walter Horsley Beres-
ford. He was killed in the war and
she subsequently married Wilson, her
vaudeville partner.
Her late husband. Captain Beres
ford, was a brother of Lord Decles,
who married Vivian Gould.
Lillian Rhodes, once a Baker Play
er, has joined the Bryant Showboat
company, anchored at Constance, Ky.,
near Cincinnati.
Mme. Olga Petrova, actress of the
speaking stage, screen and vaudeville,
composer of songs, writer of short
stories and poems one of the most
versatile women appearing before the
public tp'day has returned to New
York from Denver, after a forty
weeks' tour In vaudeville. During
the summer months Madame Petrova
will devote her time to resting and
writing for the magazines at her
home at -Great Neck, L. I., having re
fused all offers to headline in
Brighton, Atlantic City and other
summer resorts. A well known pub
lisher is also negotiating for a book
of her poems. She has many offerB
for next fail, including a play on
Broadway, a return to motion pic
tures, or another vaudeville tour, but
Petrova refuses to give out her defi.
nite plans until next August.
nobby Makes Confession.
London Tit-Bits.
Mother Now, Bobby, was it you
who picked all the white meat off
this chicken?
Bobby Well, mother,' to make
clean breast of it, I dii.
1BY - rHODtCTS OF THIS TIMES
"Cloae-tp" Picture Presented of Fa-
moua Slamrsc Twins,
William P. Buell was a lieutenant
nder General "Jeb" Stuart, knew
Generals Jackson and Lee well and
as wounded several times during the
war between the states.
But. Mr. Buell, who is a lecturer and
missionary under the auspices of the
Christian Endeavor, did not boast
these as the greatest marks in his life
when seen at his home in Louisville.
Instead the veteran .traveler and
missionary pointed to these distinc
tions: He was the first American born in
iam, where his parents were mis-
lonanej.
He lived two squares from the home
of the "Siamese Twins" in Bangkok
r.d knew them well.
He was born on St. Patrick's day.
He saw old John Brown hanged at
Harper's Ferry, and
He discovered that warm weather
affects old wounds more than the
cold.
"Eng and Chang were the names of
the twins." said Mr. Buell reminis-
cently. "Enff was religious, Chang
was profane.
At one time Eng wanted to be bap
tized in the Baptist faith, but Chang
objected and it was called off. Under
the auspices of Barnum, the showman.
tl.ey came to the United States, and
after touring the country for a num-
ber of years settled in North Carolina.
Here they married two sisters and
bought two houses a mile apart. One
week they lived in Ens's house, the
next the two couples moved to
Chang's, so alternating. The twins
took the name of their wives, which
was Bunker, and one was the father
of nine . children, the other of ten
Early in 1S73 one of the twins con
tracted a fever and became deathly ill
Doctors of the world were Interested
in the case to find whether it was pos
sible that one might die, the other
live.
Specialists cared for them. One
night a crisis was expected. The nurse
attendant was instructed to adminls
t?r medicine every two hours. In the
early morning watch the nurse dozed
for a short time and waking found
that it was time to give the treat
ment Tne twins were dead. One had
been so for some time, but the other
retained, a small amount of warmth
All efforts to bring back life were
vain. So, at the age of 63 years, these
famous prodigies died," concluded Mr.
Buell. Louisville Courier-Journal.
Theophile Benoit, a French writer
and historian, whose accuracy could
hardly be Impugned, gives the follow
Ing description of a true lithophagus
or stone-eater, whom he encountered
in the northern part of France.
"This man," states Benoit, "who an
swered to the name of Brunda, no
only swallowed flints an inch and :
half long, a full inch broad and hal
an inch thick, but any stones like
marUlo which he could reduce to pow
der. I examined this man with all the
attention I possibly could, finding h
gullet very large, his teeth exceeding
ly strong, his saliva very corrosive
and his stomach lower than usual a
fact which I imputed to the vast num
ber of flints which he had swallowed.
"Upon interrogating pne of the
stone-eater's friends I was told that
Brunda had been found three years
before in a northern uninhabited isl
andby the crew of a Dutch ship. I
can make him eat raw flesh with the
stones,' said the man who was acting
as his keeper, but I could never in
duce him to swallow bread. He will
drink water, wine and brandy, and
appears to be very fond of the latter.
He sleeps 12 hovrs a day, but always
in a seated posture, with his chin
resting on his knees. He smokes al
most all the time that he Is not asleep
or eating.' "
Unfortunately, Benoit does not add
anything with respect to the fate of
Brunda, so we have no knowledge as
to whether he died a natural death or
was ossified.
Five religious denominations in
Los Angeles have united to conduct
0 summer vacation schools for chil
dren under 12 years of age. The
schools, held in church buildings, will
open July 6. Tho denominations
which united are the Baptists. Pres-
byteriane, Congregationalists, Chris
tions and Methodists.
J. D. Springston, who has charge
of the work for the Baptists, said
the schools were expected to decrease
juvenile misdemeanors during the
summer months when juvenile court
records, he said, show that youthful
offenses usually increase from 25 to
50 per cent.
All classes wil be oral. They will
include musical training, manua
work, and talks on habits and pa
triotism.
Sheep raising is perhaps the oldest
of all Industries, for it was prac
ticed even before agriculture. Wool
Is a product of cultivation or domes
tication, for there are no wild ani
mals which closely resemble the
wool-bearing sheep. Floyd W. Par
sons, In the Saturday evening i-ost,
says that with the discovery that
cloth could be made from wool came
an effort to improve the fleece by
selection and breeding. The early
Romans were most successful in this
pursuit, and their endeavors along
this line resulted in developing
fleece of great fineness. After the
conquest of the Iberian peninsula,
Roman sheep were introduced intq
Spain, where they so greatly Im
proved the native flocks that even
during Roman supremacy Spanish
wool led the world's markets, a press
tige held for many centuries.
He was one of those smart men
who like to show their cleverness.
"Watch me take a rise out of him
he said, as the tramp approached.
Then he listened solemnly to the tale
of hard luek
"That's the same old story you told
me the last Jme you accosted me." he
said, when the vagrant had finished.
"Is it?" was the answering ques
tion. ''When did I tell It to you?"
"Last week."
"Mebbe I did. mebbe I did," admitted
the tramp. "I'd., almost forgotten
meeting you. I was in prison all last
week." London Tit-Bits.
"You say you were held up by a
bandit with a revolver this morning.
At what time?"
"Five minutes to one."
"How can you fix the time so
precisely?"
"Because I could see the church
clock and I noticed the hands were
in the same position as mine." New
York Globe.
Those Who Come and Go.
Folks at Tiller will be elated when
H. W. Cochran gets back, there and
tells them that the trail is to be com
pleted, possibly this fall or by next
year, anyhow. Tiller is a email settle
ment in southern Oregon and the trail
is a cut-off between ltoseburg und
Crater lake. The state and govern
ment, not to mention the county, have
spent money opening the trail, but it
is still unfinished. There is a stretch
r several miles which one can nego-
iate only on horseback, althouuh a
log-climbing automobile or preferably
tank can get through. The state
ighway commission yesterday agreed
o chip in another J15.000 to the eum
necessary to open the trail. AN hen
his is finished it will enable traffic
rom Portland to get to the lake by a
route estimated roughly at about 100
miles shorter than over the I'acific
highway. The trail will also be used
s a detour road if the commission
ver puts a concrete pavement on the
canyon section of the Pacific high
way. Just as soon as they can get back
home and start things moving, the
Tillamook county commissioners will
begin grading operations on the high
way to the "outside." The commis
sion has been awarded a couple of
contracts for grading and as soon as
this became known they caught the
afternoon train for the coast yester
day. Judge A. M. Hare, 11. V. Alley
and H. M. Farmer were well satisfied
with the result of their bidding and.
as the county has steam shovels, it
will lose no time making the dirt fly.
What pleases the Tillamook county
court almost as much as these con
tractors is the fact that the highway-
commission appropriated JiO.OOO yes
terday to aid Clatsop county in rock
ing seven miles on the road leading
to the Tillamook line. Tillamook has
built a gravel road to the Clatsop line
and now Clatsop county is looking
after 12 miles on its side. This is the
opening wedge in a real coast high-j
way which may become the long-expected
Roosevelt highway.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury, decorated
by the queen of Belgium; for a quar
ter of a century one of the active spir
its in the theatrical world; orininator
of the "intimate" theater, and. last
but not least, member of the demo
cratic national executive committee,
was in Portland yesterday on her way-
back from San Francisco. Miss Mar
bury created somewhat of a sensation
by her fight for a moist plank in the
party platform. She is opposed to the
saloon and all that, but contends that
prohibition cannot be enforced and
that as the situation now stands it is
prohibition for the poor but license
for the rich. During the war Miss
Marbury was sent overseas by Secre
tary of the Interior Lane to talk the
pleasures of farm life to the soldiers,
her appearances being under the aus
pices of the Knights of Columbus,
from which order, as well as the G. A.
R., she received gold medals.
They are resourceful chaps, those
people of Jackson county. G. A. Gard
ner of Jacksonville, Thomas H. Simp
son of Ashland and James Owens of
Medford came to town prepared to
talk the highway commission into
starting work this year on the Crater
lake road out of Medford. They
talked of having $200,000 to apply to
the project. Then, just when every
thing looked "juke" for them, the su
preme court handed down a decision
which makes their $200,000 ot bonds
waste paper, because of some techni
cality raised by Clackamas county
ver its own bond issue. The decl-
lon came as a sort or nonpiusser to
he trio from Jackson county, but
when they left for home last night
hey were figuring that the people
own their way will evolve some sys-
em of financing tne - luKe project.
And the highway commission has an
idea that Jackson county will make
good.
Miss Laura Hastings, mail clerk at
he Benson, is in line for one of the
nifty Carnegie hero medals. ( . B.
Stout of Memphis, Tenn., wanted to
take a swim in the Willamette and
Miss Hastings consented to enow him
where the water was the wettest.
Instead of swimming in the usual
pool of an up-river resort, they struck
out for a float, anchored some dis
tance away. Miss Hastings had
reached the float, when she beard her
companion calling for help. Plunging
In again, Miss Hastings went to the
rescue and dragged the IVnnessean
o where the float was, placed his
hands on tho ed.e and then rustled
up a rope, by means of which she
uled him on the planus. '1 hen she
went back to the bathing resort and
had some men go after Mr. Stout with
rowboat.
"Labor
becoming more plentiful
n Coos county." says Engineer
Chandler of th highw ay fori e. who
was in the city yesterday. "One of
th two mills at Coquille has shut
down and there has been a sort of
easing up. But the labor situation
has been relieved chiefly through
men coming Into the county from
the outside. There are now so many
men available that wages on the big
road Job on the Rosebu rg-Coos Bay
highway have been reduced, whu-n,
to my mind, is the best indication
that the labor market is improving
for the contractors."
C. H. Miller, county commissioner
for Deschutes county, is on his way
back to Redmond, and going back
with him is County Judge Sawyer.
They came to Portland to have a
ittle talk with the highway com
mission anent the surveying of a
couple of routes from Sisters, because
the forestry people are getting the
McKenzie pass into usable shape so
rapidly that the Deschutes county
court wants to have the eastern con
nections ready- by the time the gov
ernment work has been finished.
Judge Sawyer is a newspaper man,
as well as a lawyer.
Big Jim Smith ' of Suplee. Or.,
landed at the Perkins yesterday. He
is called "Big Jim" because he
weighs about 350 pounds, which is
more than any mortal cares to swel
ter around in these days when Port
land is getting a touch of warm
weather. Mr. Smith is in the city
to ea what can be done to reduce
his ample girth. At home he is in
the sheep business, and he Is easily
the most substantial citizen to get
mail from the postoffice by at least
1C0 pounds.
', According to Ed Workman, who i
a't the Imperial. Twin Falls is the
finest town in Idaho, bar none. This
is because of the irrigation district,
which ereates tonnage for Twin Falls
and makes that town particularly
prosperous.. Not so many years ago.
instead of verdant fields, the land
around Twin Falls was a very good
sample of a regular desert country,
but a supply of water changed all
that.
Herbert A. Pratt isn't
beino- r.
neillg ta-
tioned with gasoline while in Port
land with his family, because lie is
a vice-president of the Standard Oil
company, and no service station i.-'
going to refuse to fill the tank of
any car in which Herb is a passen
ger. The Pratts arrived at the Hotel
Portland yesterday and were taken
in tow by local friends. Mr. Pratt
is interested In a Portland banking
house, so that his trip is a combina
tion of business and pleasure.
Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Parker of Pen
dleton are registered at the Multno
mah. While the doctor is kept pretty
busy In the round-up town, he has
a ranch as a side issue.
More Truth Than Poetry.
llj James J. Montague.
4
TIIM koi.i.ing stom:.
Ho'8 tackled almost every trade
But stuck at nothin' long.
An' we've benun to get afraid
He's hound to turn out wrong.
To lots o' thinffs his hand he's turned
But never et went through.
For long before ho had 'em learned
He's switched to ioniethin' new.
He's kep' a store, an' been a cop,
A brake man on a train;
A while he run a plumbln" liop
Hut aive it up aaiii.
lie's been a captain of a ship
That sailed to Hiniiustan.
But left it on the second trip
To drive a movin" van.
lie got the bus for aeroplanes.
That busted quick, of course:
He come to earth to take the reins
Behind a trottin' horse.
And thoush, of course, he went to
war.
He didn't stick at that:
A few clays' fiphtin' pot him sore
An' so he left it flat.
He's just a shiftless rollin' stone,
A failure, we're ufraid:
Ain't no ambition of his own;
Won't slick at any trade.
An' yet we sort o hope that lie
tiome time will take a hold
An' get somewhere, because, you
see.
He's only six years old:
fiood In Kvrrjthins.
Anyway, this campaign Is going to
teach a lot of us how to pronounce
Gamaliel.
w
They Stay Thrrf.
Investments in campaign funds are
certainly permanent.
In Other Words, "Hoodie."
There appears to be no shortage
of
suftar in the political sense of
the word.
(Copyright. 1920, by
Bell Syndicate Inc.)
Otherselves.
Ily (irure K. Hall.
Where are those selves of yesterday
That passed with passing years?
Distinct and writh-iike mystery
F.ach took its toll of tears.
Each gave of joy at least a share.
And Home gave golden store,
I question self; They are not therss,
But gone forevermore.
Each in its day was loved ful! well,
A vital, treasured thing.
Each hail a glowing tale to tell.
A wonder-song to sing:
And each made promises, alas!
Of marvels that should be.
But these have never come to pass
Within this creuture ME.
They fade away upon life's screen
Those selves of long ago.
Each fitted in a special scene.
And oh, we loved them so!
But one by one, like garments plain.
Cast off and quite outgrown.
Those entities we all disclaim
In no uncertain tone.
So swiftly change on change la
wrought.
Within the mortal mind.
By changing process in the thought.
Old ideas left behind:
That man looks back o'er yearytlonj
sped.
And jests those selves of his,
Forgetting that those old-time folk
Ma.de this self what It is.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ae.
From The Oresonian of July 8. 180j.
Taeoma It is announced that the
Pacific National and the Citizens' Na
tional, two of the strongest banks of
the city, will be consolidated.
Rear Admiral John G. Walker of
the L'nited States navy, who arrived
in Portland Friday on the lighthouse,
tender Columbine, departed on this
boat for San Diego yesterday.
Colonel L. L. Hawkins of the Ma
zamas was much elated yesterday to
receive an answer to a heliographic
message from Mount Hood.
The hig auditorium for the Chau
tauqua at Gladstone park has jtist
been completed and all is in readi
ness for the opening programme.
Fifty 1 ears Ago.
Krnm The Oreponian of July 8. 1870.
Victoria The population of Victo
ria anil its district, exclusive
of ln-
riians, is now against
SOll in
1S67.
The merchants and business mrn
j ast niitlit organized a hoard of trario
with W. S. Ladd as president; t... n.
Lewis and John Mci'raken, vice
presidents, and John M. Drake, sec
retary. W. H. Martin ot the firm of Mar
tin & Co., builders of the Sacramento
railroad and wagon bridge, has ar
rived here to examine the matter of
constructing a bridge across the Wil
lamette. UOBINS GIIEATKST PEST I CITV
Urerr In X umber There
and Less
Fruit for Them to Steal.
PORTI.AND, July 7. (To the Edi
tor.) For several years past the
writer has attempted to raise berric.-i
ot" various kinds, cherries, grapes and
peaches on h Uj rear city lot and on,
account of the robins and only owinp:
to the fact that the fruit was either
covered by netting or so located on
the tree or bush out of reach di't
he ever succeed in harvesting the
mature fruit.
Some writer has said the robins
destroy certain kinds of pests. This
is true, but i find 1 can control the
pests with spray and pou-sons at a
small fraction of what the robin'a
toll is.
It is no easy matter to kill the
robins, especially in the city and peo
ple are not going to stop and kill
the birds, unless it is more profit
able to Jo so than to lose their fruit.
It has always been the American
ideal to attempt to find a just way
of taxation for any public benefit or
improvement. If it is a benefit to me
to have hundreds of robins in the
neighborhood, it is al.--o of some ad
vantage to my neighbors.
In our block there are about 20
families. One other neighbor in ad
dition to myself has about the same
amount of fruit and lias to put as
much time to it as I have. I put
hour after hour of labor to the care
of my fruit as does a ainglo neigh
bor. The robins in our block and
for several blocks around come to
the two fruit patches. The other IS
families get the same "benefit" of the
robins ami no taxation and so dp peo
ple living in other blocks get the
benefit. There is only one remedy
and that is to give people annoyed
I ... L-i'l t V. a rnKir...
permisMuii o o... ,
unln h. iHven nr.
mission to farmers and orchardists
to kill the robin red breast. If ary
one should have that right, it is the
backyard gardener. It takes about
three times as much labor on a
crowded city lot to rare for fruit (and
it is his all as it (tees out in the
country. The value to the city grower
is the highest retail price, while that
to a grower is only the wholesale
price and freshness id also worth a
good deal. Furthermore I believe
there are more robins around a city
lot than in the biggest orchard in
the county. As someone lias said
the robin is a "home' bird."
A READER,