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AST INDICTMENT BACKED BY CRIME.
In its effort to Justify the peace
policy of President Wilson the. reso
lutions committee of the democratic
convention changed rftho date of an
article by Senator Lodge in the
Forum, tore certain passages away
from their context for the purpose of
concealing the change of date,
omitted an Inconvenient phrase and
thus made it appear that after the
war was won and after the president
had gone to Paris . the senator re
jected the idea of a separate peace.
All this is done for the purpose of
ccndemnlng the senator out of his
own mouth for having voted for the
Knox peace resolution on May 15,
1920.
The passage In the democratic
platform in question reads:
By every accepted standard of Interna
tional morality the president is justified
In asserting that the honor of the country
is involved In this business; and we point
to the accusing fact that before it was
determined to'inltlate political antagonism
to the treaty, the new republican chairman
of the foreign relations committee himself
publicly proclaimed that any proposition
for a -separate peace with Germany, such
as he and his party associates thereafter
reported to the senate, would make us
guilty of te blackest crime."
On May l. last the Knox substitute for
the Versailles treaty was passed by the
republican senate; and this convention
can contrive no more fitting characterisa
tion of its obloquy than that made in the
Forum magazine of December, JiUS, by
Henry Cabot Lodge, when he said:
"If we send our armies and young men
abroad to be killed and wounded in north
ern Krance and Flanders with no result
but this, our entrance into war with such
an intention was a crime which nothing
can Justify. The intent of congress and
the intent of the president was that there
could be no peace until we could create a
situation where no such war as this could
recur. We cannot make peace except in
company with our-allies. It would brand
us with everlasting dishonor and bring
ruin to us also If we undertook to make a
separate peace."
The foregoing words were quoted
from an article written by Mr. Lodge
for the Forum of June, not Decem
ber, 1918. If the context also had
been quoted it would plainly have
revealed that they did not fit the cir
cumstances of December, 1918, the
date which the platform falsely at
tributes to them. Evidently for that
reason they were cut away from that
which went before and after. The
article which included them was a
survey of the war work of congress
during the first year of the war. It
shows no tinge of partisanship and
defends congress, which was demo
cratic in both houses, from charges
of inactivity and obstruction. After
making this survey Mr. Lodge wrote
a passage headed: "There must be
ro peace on the status quo ante
bellum," from which the democratic
platform quoted excerpts.
The senator said that the president
and congress meant "to carry the
war through," but the newspapers
were "filled with talk about peace"
which came "directly or indirectly
frcm the enemy." There had been a
note from the pope, resolutions in
congress and "a good deal of general
irresponsible talk about peace," all
"with slight variations on the basis
of the status quo ante bellum." This
prompted Mr. Lodge to write:
To my mind and I know this is the
view of the administration every man,
the president who delivered the war mes
aapre and congress who voted for war.
would be guilty of the blackest crimes if
they were willing to make a peace on the
status quo ante bellum and recreate the
situation which existed before the war.
Then followed the first two sen
tences quoted by the democrats, be
ginning "If we send" and ending
"recur," plainly applying to peace
on the. basis of the status quo ante.
The senator went on to explain that
the consequence of such a peace
would be "that Germany will have a
breathing space and the whole hor
ror will come over again": therefore
'we must have peace with victory.
complete victory." He approved the
president's reply to the pope "that
we have no one now we can nego
tiate with" and said
W cannot negotiate with a government
which has declared that treaties are scraps
of paper, to be torn up when it feels like
It. e cannot make peace in the ordinary
way.
Then followed the rest of the
passage quoted by the democrats,
but the sentence beginning "It would
brand lis" was preceded by the
words. "There may be no written
conventions or treaties but" which
the platform-builders omitted as not
suiting their purpose. The senator
went on to say that we "must bring
Germany to her knees" and that until
the war was won any discussion of
peae "is little short of hostility to
tho United States and is distinctly
helpful to Germany."
The entire passage of the article
relating to peace was most appro
priate-to the time at which it was
published. In June, 1918, Germany
had just made the final successful
drive to the Marne and seemed to be
winning the war. The French were
struggling to prevent the Germans
from extending their lines westward
from the Marne salient preparatory
to a final drive for Paris. The first
American troops had come Into the
ficnt line, had won Cantigny and
were fighting doggedly to stay the
ertmy advance, at Belleau wood.
America was the one hope of vic
tory, but the quality of our troops
was jet unproved in a big battle,
especially in an offensive battle.
Glcom spread over tho allies and
some, not knowing how near Ger
many was to exhaustion, proposed
peace by negotiation, which would
have meant a drawn war, and their
words were echoed by the weak
kneed and disloyal in this country.
It was against this movement for a
drawn war that Mr. Lodge wrote.
The senator's article as it was
wr.'tten, not as it was mangled and
misquoted, would hav been Inap
propriate to the conditions which ex
isted in December, 1918. Germany
and all her allies had surrendered
and there was no longer need to say,
W e must win the war" and "We
must not make peace on the basis of
the status quo ante," for everything
had changed beyond possibility of
restoration and the president had
gone to Paris to make peace in com
pany with the allies. He had arro
gated to himself alone the treaty
making power and he had made
known his Intent to join the league
covenant inseparably with the peace
treaty. If quoted correctly as of the
date at which it was published the
article would not have answered the
purpose of his m aligners. In De
cember there was no occasion to say
what he had said in June. The
senate in adopting the peace resolu
tion on May 15, 1920, was dealing
with a situation totally different
from that which Mr. Lodge had dis
cussed in June, 1918 a situation
which the president himself had
created by his assumption of dicta
torial power, by his combining the
covenant with the peace terms and
by his demand . for its ratification
without change. The senate acted
In the light of the circumstances
which then existed and which Mr.
Lodge could not have foreseen two
years earlier.
Yet Senator Glass, who as chair
man of the committee on resolutions
Is credited with authorship of the
league plank, says that"I gave the
date of publication as it was given
to me." His impression is that hie
authority was the Congressional Rec
ord, "but I am not sure of it and
can't look it up." He dismissed the
subject with these words:-
As a matter of fact. It does not make
any difference when Senator Lodge made
the statement. It was as true in Decem
ber as it was In June, and it Is as true to
day as It was on either of those dates.
This Is a mere technicality. That Is all I
have to say.
His action has the essential ele
ments of forgery, but "it does not
make any difference." That is the
measure of Mr. Glass standard of
political morals.
HARD-BOILED.
Before the nomination of Cox at
San Francisco the Astoria Budget, an
"independent" newspaper, risked the
necessity of subsequent explanation
and retraction by making the fol
lowing observation:
The editor of The Oregonlan writes from
the San Francisco convention that Charles
Murphy, Tom Taggart and other old guard
democratic bosses do not want MCAdoo
for the nominee. This is one reason why
he is -iso popular with the rank and file.
Once all the so-called "indepen
dent" papers of Oregon that is to
say, those independent papers whose
independence is and always was a
fraud were actually or inferentially
against Cox. Now they are, or will
be, for him, every man jack of them.
They are lor Cox because he is a
democrat. And they are democratic.
The Portland Journal, the Salem
Journal, the Eugene Guard, the As
toria Budget, the Pendleton East
Oregonian and all their kind will be
for Cox. They will hypocritically
and brazenly continue their pretense
of an independence they never had.
Now they must show their colors.
The dilemma is a hard one; but they
will solve it in the way that hard
boiled partisanship could be expected
to solve it.
Boss Murphy, Boss Brennan, Boss
Moore, Boss Nugent and the lesser
bosses of their stripe did not want
McAdoo. They wanted Cox. They
got Cox. He is the nominee of the
bosses and he is wet. They are wet.
It was the most signal victory Tam
many and its allies have won in any
convention in a generation. Every
little democratic paper in Oregon
professing a great and holy abhor
rence for the machine in politics will
swallow it and look pleasant or as
pleasant as it can.
SHOWING OREGOX TO CONGRESS.
Much good should accrue to Ore
gon from the tour of reclamation
projects and national parks by the
appropriations committee of the
house of representatives. No amount
of testimony or reports can give the
knowledge which is acquired by ac
tually seeing the land that is to be
reclaimed or the park that Is to be
improved. Lack of ocular demon
stration is the chief reason for the
difficulty in getting congress to do
things for the west. When congress
men have seen for themselves, diffi
culties pass away.
The time is propitious for Oregon
to get its due in the shape of reclama
tion work. The state's contributions
to the reclamation fund have been
mainly expended in other states
ur.til their most attractive projects
have been carried out, but meanwhile
private and state enterprise have
oone much to show of what the
state is capable. The mineral land-
leasing law should soon begin pour
ing royalties into the reclamation
fund, especially from coal and oil
land, and this state should secure a
good proportion of this money to
compensate for that of which it has
been deprived.
The high price of food and the
world-wide cry for more of it have
turned attention to the necessity for
increased production, while the cry
for more men on the farms has im
pressed everybody with the wisdom
of making country life attractive.
Arid land is the nation's great re
serve which can be used to enlarge
the food supply. It is adapted for
small farms, which build up rural
communities as against isolated
homes. Eastern Oregon affords room
for millions to prosper without
crowding, and it can afid much to
the national food supply. Irrigation
will bring them.
In accordance with a promise
made four years ago by the president
ot a large shipbuilding corporation,
that he would distribute a million
dollars in the company's stock among
tho employes who remained four
years in its employ, the company the
other day turned over its shares of
a market value of $1,650,000 to 727
men and women. The point of the
incident is largely lost, however, un
less it is understood that the com
pany maintains a force of about
15,000 hands, showing that even a
definite and substantial reward was
regarded as an inducement by less
than one in twenty of those em
ployed at the beginning of the period.
The official reoort of the rlistrih
' tion does not go into further details
as to the labor turnover during that
time, but we are justified in assum
ing that it was very much greater
than twenty to one. It would be
worth a good deal to know whether
those who passed on to other em
ployment Improved their condition
and to what extent. It is already
certain that lack of continuity in
holding jobs is responsible for not a
little of the high cost of production
iij all lines.
THE SEW A I) U I.I. AM.
If they can agree on a name and a
candidate the grand aggregation of
radicals, protesters and dissenters,
now talking it over at Chicago, will
form a new party. There are the
Forty-Eighters (one from every
state count 'em), the labor party,
the single-taxers, the non-partisans
and Mr. Hearst (or some representa
tive of the great publisher who is
willing to take the risk of being
seen), all assembled under one tent.
Victor Berger is there as a "friendly
spectator." Jim Duncan is there
also, from Seattle, with the latest
novelty In applied bolshevism. Amos
Pinchot, George L. Record and all
the tried and true stand-bys of dis
content and apostles of the new
American soviet. Russianized or
adapted, have answered roll-call.
All but Bill Haywood. Why do they
exclude Bill? Or perhaps he is in
jail. Debs, too, is there in spirit, be
ing unfortunately detained physi
cally' in prison at Atlanta.
But let us not jeer at the new
party. Let 'em organize. It is the
great American privilege of any
man or group of men with an idea,
or 'what he thinks is one, to form a
party. Now it is proposed to get all
the one-idea agitators together in
ono magnificent union of all possess
ors and protagonists of ideas not
heretofore accepted by any going po-
itical concern. It Is In itself a grand
idea. Those of the new party who
can vote can by union make peaceful
revolution effective. Those who
cannot vote can still stick by their
soaprboxes and tell American citi
zens how to run their government.
There should be no lasting differ
ences about a candidate. Why not
W.'R. Hearst or Robert La Follette?
The democratic party will be glad to
spare the one and the republican
party the other. Or Henry Ford?
None of the existing parties is good
enough for him. A new one should
surely, be formed about the glowing
personality and brilliant intellect of
the man who said that "history Is
all bunk." The name, too. should be
easy. In view of the tumultuous
cheers given the Russian soviet at
Chicago, why not call it the "Great
American Soviet"?
ADVICE FROM BEHIND THE BARS.
Not often is the counsel of a crim
inal worth the time it takes to read
it. The habit of going to the down-
and-outs for advice on how to regu
late our affairs springs from a kind of
romantic emotionalism that likes to
dwell on the sad fate, of the under
dog but has no commendation for
tho dog that fights his own way, in
accoraance with the rules of th
game, from the bottom of the yowl
ing heap. It may be that we see in
the failures in life some reflection of'
our own disappointments and seek
there some palliation for our own
shortcomings. But the fact remains
that the homilies we get from such
sources seldom justify the pains of
setting them down.
The other day it was Hamby, mur
derer and bank robber, who was be
ing requested to moralize for the
benefit of youth. Now It is Wan
derer, who murdered his wife and a
man he had employed as a tool,. for
whom the reporter sharpens his
fabet and from whom he extracts
this bit of wisdom:
Don't lie.-" If I hadn't lied about the
gun, the police wouldn t have had me.
Wanderer at least has the merit
that he does not pretend to be a
Rollo boy. The two words of sound
counsel, "Don't lie," are spoiled by
the reason he gives for it. Still, it
averages well with most of the mor
alizings that issue from behind the
bars.
The Ineptitudes that made Hamby
and Wanderer what they were and
are incapacitate them to outline a
course of conduct for anybody. Yet
we are less inclined to be over-seri
ous about it when we reflect that
"Don't lie: the police will get you,"
is perhaps as sound ethics as -the
"Honesty Is the best policy" that
graced every schoolboy's copybook
until a very few years ago.
EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE.
The late ex-Empress Eugenie held
a commanding place in the history
of a troubled time. As the semi-centennial
of the battle of Sedan, which
ended the Franco-Prussian war, ap
proaches, conflicting thoughts crowd
themselves on those who like to
speculate on what might have been
if a tingle link in the chain of fate
had been forged differently. There
used to be a popular notion, for ex
ample, that Eugenie's hatred of the
race beyond the Rhine was notably
influential in precipitating the war
that ended so disastrously for France.
This view, though it is not accepted
unreservedly by later historians,
gives us a glimpse of the power that
she wielded. If not directly, still in
devious ways she controlled the des
tiny of her imperial husband. The
political effect of her marriage was
both contradictory and widespread.
Though it be conceded that Louis
Napoleon In his own person wanted
no excuse for the conflict, it will be
admitted also that Eugenie brought
to theimperial regime certain ele
ments of weakness which intensified
the motive of self-interest on the
part of the imperialists in desiring
a foreign war as a means of fortify
ing their cause in the hearts of the
people at home.
If Napoleon III had not wedded
the foreign countess," as she was
dubbed by her enemies, if he had not
risked so much on what was gener
ally regarded at that time as a mes
alliance, it is interesting to speculate
on what would have been the future
of France -of Europe. When Louis
Napoleon, merging his presidency
into the emperorship, bega1 to con
cern himself with the perpetuation
of hi3 dynasty, when he sought to
canvass the question of his marriage,
ft is more than an open secret that
he permitted negotiations to be en
tered into with respect to a princess
of the Hohenzollerns for the French
throne. Possibly it was the Prus
sians who balked this politico-matrimonial
game: it is certain that Ber
lin was less inclined than other capi
tals to look with favor on his aspira
tions: but in any event we are not
inclined to overlook the possibilities
of this one of the many might-have-
beens. The House of Sweden, whose
influence would have given a might
ily different turn to the' course of
events, was similarly inhospitable to
the thought. These circumstances
have their bearing on our acceptance
of the version that Napoleon was a
romantic soul, desiring only a. mar
riage of love, defying conventions
solelv that Cupid might rule from a
throne. ."I have preferred," said this
august philosopher, "'a woman whomj
I love and respect, to a "woman un
known to me, with whom an alliance
would have had advantages mixed
with sacrifices." But there Is an
other side.
For example, there Is the also ro
mantic and highly colorable version
that the mother of Eugenie, daugh-
tei of the American consul, William
Kirkpatrick, deserves credit, or
blame, for the event so pregnant
with consequences for the peace of
Europe. That this scheming dow
ager of mixed ancestry might have
foreseen in the prince-president the
future emperor and have contrived,
as mothers with marriageable daugh
ters have done in all times, to plot
a brilliant match for her offspring
is not beyond probability. Certain
it is that as the second republic
drew to its close the young countess
was much in the limelight, and that
in the series of fetes that followed
formal proclamation of the empire it
befel that the emperor became more
and more fascinated. What a web of
intrigue is suggested by the situation
through which it came to pass that
the countess had justification for her
complaint that she had been slighted
by the wife of an official personage,
so that the emperor, perhaps swept
off his imperial feet, should have ex
claimed with ardor, "I will avenge
you!" and have proceeded to make
gcod his word by announcing his
engagement a. few weeks later!
How much Eugenie contributed
to the pomp of the imperial regime
we are able to judge from the annals
of her time. How greatly this im
paired the hold of the empire on the
minds and hearts of the people re
mains an open question. Excess of
extravagance must have reacted not
only on the life of Paris but on that
of the world. We know enough of
the intrigue of French courts and of
the power of feminine gossip to war
rant us in supposing that Louis Na
poleon did nop escape all the disad
vantages of sacrifice which he sur
mised would have attended a love
less marriage. It has been charged
that the impress of the empress' fair
hand was soon seen in international
politics. She was blamed for the
policy of the empire toward Italy
and for the fiasco of Maximilian.
Where her husband was inclined
toward vacillation, it was her coun
sel that impelled him toward the
bolder policy. - She was dominated
by the spirit of action. In her sev
eral regencies during the absence of
the emperor she was no mere figure
head, but impressed her personality
on her government. Though she
might decide wrongly, as events were
to prove afterward, she was no
coward.
The later years of her life showed
that character can be ennobled by
misfortune. The collapse of all her
schemes of empire with the debacle
at Sedan, her flight in disguise
through streets filled with people
mad with blood lust, the death of
her husband in 187S, followed only
three years later by the tragic fate
of the prince imperial in Zululand,
worked in her what seems to have
been a complete transformation. In
her retirement, lasting nearly half
a century, she won only friendship
and excited only sympathy. Abstain
ing in the spirit as well as the letter
from .participation in French poll
tics, devoting herself to private be
nevolences and to her books, long
retaining the mental vigor and the
physical beauty that were hers In
youth, she almost made good the.
prophecy of the Sibyl who predicted
that she would live to be a hundred.
With respect to the events In which
she participated and the world
changes that she had seen and in
fluenced, she was one of the most re
markable figures in history.
Uruguay will be "dry" in eight
years and Mr. Johnson gives England
ten. The United States is "dry" now,
and if those in foreign parts do not
P'suffer" any more than those here
there will be small grief among the
"wets."
Stephens staked all and lost. If he
had ridden Niagara to safety he
would have been a great freak at
traction, drawing good money.
We'll see it all in the movies but the
grief of the widow and eleven chil
dren. Strange 'that President Deschanel
of France should be having such a
hard time of it when he only fell off
a train. Our own president is com
ing along fairly well, yet he fell off
the band wagon.
That poor man Wanderer who
killed his - wife and is so sorry is
ready to pay the penalty and should
be accommodated. It will be noted
his sorrow did not sprout until he
was arrested.
The allies are warming up at last.
Germany has until 3 this afternoon
to come across with 3,000,000 tons of
coal monthly. That's the kind of
talk that gets results.
Yesterday was a great day for
straw hats and Pa'm Beach suits and
many of the womenfolk discarded
their furs on account of the cool
weather.
- Really, the third party might as
well nominate someone else than
Henry Ford for vice-president. The
campaign is sure to be a flivver
anyway.
Another man who did not believe
In banks is out his savings of a few
thousand dollars; but none of the
banks reports a dollar missing.
"Normal temperature," is It?
What those forecasters in Washing
ton know about Pacific coast weather
is the least of their knowledge.
Now President Deschanel of France
is reported to be in bad health.
Seems to be an awful year for presi
dents. "Discovery" of the head of the ex
kaiser on the current "nickel" Is all
right. He's a "dead injun."
The third party is well named,
will finish third.
It
When a big bus goes off grade the
flivver chortles.
BY-PRODUCTS OF THIS TIMES
Confming ReaDlta Predicted From At
tempt to Charge for Printing; Poetry.
Without waiting for the aid or con
sent of any other newspaper, the
Florence Bulletin has announced that
all poetry printed In Its columns will
be charged for at the rate of 5 cents
a line, comments the Kansas City
Star.
This bold stroke, by which poetry is
raised to the level of advertising,
probably will produce some protests.
Nor Is It easy to say that the rate
is a just one applied indiscriminately
to all poetry. It seems enough for
some poetry that, on the face of It,
manifestly hasn't the strength to bear
more. But there is other poetry that,
on the cheek of it, calls for all the
traffic will bear.
If we take the Bulletin's announce
ment literally, its plain meaning is
that no free verse will be printed at
all. This, in our opinion, is wrong.
We think that free verse ought to be
printed, but charged for at a higher
rate than any other. But in this some
modification of the general rule may
be necessary. The lines of free verse
are very Irregular, some consisting of
only two or three words. Now, the
writers of verse might try to avoid
payment by the subterfuge of filling
out all their lines to the maximum,
the result of which would be to make
their free verse prose, and therefore
free. The fact that this would im
prove-their poetry would not, in our
opinion, justify the evasion. Our no
tion of this is that on all such forms
of poetry the rate ought to be puni
tive, as well as compensatory. If
publishers were less free in printing
free verse the writers would be less
free with it. In justice It ought to be
the most expensive to them. That, in
deed. Is our understanding of the
term, poetic justice.
On the older forms of poetry
proper rate is harder to fix. stand
ards are illusive. We cannot all be
like Mr. Chesterton, who, without
hesitation, pronounced one of Swin
burne's couplets the worst In the
world. Nor is that judgment strength
ened by the fact that he said the
same thing about others. If the
Bulletin charges the same for the
worst poetry that it does for best,
how shall Its readers know good from
bad? They know -when a good pic
ture show appears, because the man
agers double the price. They know
that the first strawberries of the sea
son are the worst because they are
the highest. It is confusing at" best:
it is bound to be utterly confusing in
determining the value of poetry
which never has had even the ad
vantage of government regulation.
m
The sale of selections from the
librarjr'of Eustace Conway, including
books and manuscrips of the late
Moncure D. Conway, brought $7545.90
at the Anderson galleries in New
York City recently.
T. J. Gannon paid 14000 for the
original manuscript of the first story
in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle
Book." It contains the author's In
scriDtlon on the first page, "Susan
Bishop from Rudyard Kipling. Febru
ary, 1893." It is said to be the mos
Important KJpling manuscript ever
offered at auction. This version dif
fers from "Mowgh's Brothers, as
published In "The Jungle Book," to
such an extent that it is practically
a different story. It was evidently
Kipling's first conception, which he
afterward condensed and changed
throughout.
P. Sawyer gave J825 for the orig
Inal manuscript of Mark Twain's
English edition of "Tom Sawyer.
Moncure D. Conway represented
"Mark Twain" In the publication In
Entrland of "Tom Sawyer." The
American edition was issued about
year later.
W. W. Cohen obtained for J135 a
collection of autograph letters, por
traits, etc., of Concord celebrities, in
.lurtincr uir ten-and-ink sketches of
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Old Manse.
G. A. Baker & Co. paid 690 for th
first issue of the first edition of Walt
Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," with
letter of Whitman to Moncure D.
Conway, inclosing his copy of Ralph
W. Emerson's letter to him highly
commending the book.
Captain Jaggard, the Shakespear
ean scholar, who is well remembere
Irr Liverpool, was during the war on
of the officers In charge of the army
record office, says the London Post
This was the office to which women
had to reply respecting separatio
allowances, and Mr. Jaggard, 1
"Army Records Human and Humor
ous," has compiled a selection of let
ters received at the office. Some o
these are extraordinarily funny. Here
are a few:
"Sir This is to inform you my hus
band received his calling-up papers
three weeks ago, and I can't get rid
of him."
"Sir You have changed my littl
boy into a little girl. Will it mak
any difference to my allowance?
"Sir My husband has been away
at the Krystal Palisa and got fou
days furlong. He has now gone away
to Mind sweeping."
"Sir In accordance with your In
structions on my paper I have give
birth to a daughter on the 21st
April."
"Sir In answer to your letter
have given birth to twins. Hopin
this will be satisfactory."
"Sir Just a few lines to say owin
to your delay in sending money w
have not a morsel of food in the
house. Hoping you are the same
A boy's employer can be a val
uable friend. The average boy craves
good, strong friendships, and partic
ularly does he appreciate the friendly
interest of a man whom he admires
and respects. Boys like to be noticed.
Naturally affable and warm-hearted,
they are quick to sense the lack of
friendly feeling on the part of any
one with whom they come in contact.
Too often a boy and his boss are per
fect strangers. The boss is too busy
to take notice of the boy. He issues
orders In a cold-blooded manner and
expects perfect obedience. He does not
try to encourage the boy; he does not
try to gain his confidence.
There is no excuse for such a re
lationship. The employer is not only
failing to do his duty, but he is show
ing poor business judgment. Only
when he becomes the friend and
counselor of the boy docs he really
get the boy's best efforts. Not until
the boy looks upon his employer as a
friend will he work with that aban
don and enthusiasm which is always
prompted by love and respect Wil
liam Jackson In Fortes' Magazine.
Those Who Come and Go.
"About a 70 per cent pear crop is
expected in the Rogue River valley."
says Guy W. Connor of Medford. Mr.
onnor is managing an orchard of 250
acres, most of which is in pears, and
which costs about $25,000 a year to
Derate at this time. "The soil in our
country is called 'sticky,' " explained
Mr. Connor, "and some people call it
dobe." This sort of soil, when it is
the right kind, will grow anything,
and that is why the orchards around
Medford are so fruitful and every
thing grown there is plentiful. The
evere winter did not damage our
trees nor the quality of the fruit, but
bout 30 per cent of the fruit
dropped, this being fruit on the tips
f the trees."
Nestling ' between Hunchback and
Huckleberry mountains, each about
000 feet high, is Welch's, situated on
Salmon river, in Clackamas county.
ome dozen miles from the base or
Mount Hood. .Salmon river has swung
many miles around one side of the
mountain before tumbling past
Welch's, and it has a drop of one
foot in every 100 feet. From the
lder-bordered banks of balmon river
comes Jack Fahie to the Imperial,
motoring over the rough and moun-
ainous road whicn extends irom
Wemme's to Sandy postottlce. In
tnwn Mr. Fahie is Identified with box-
ng, but at Welch s he forms one oi
he colony of Portlanuers wno moist
n living there Irom tne time mo
now departs in the spring until it
returns in the early fall.
Offered 2.500,000 francs to wed a
French heiress. Major . ri. Barnes
of Chicago declined. The major, who
was with Colonel George H. Kelly
overseas, is at the Imperial. After
the war the fortune or 2,ouu,uuu
francs dwindled considerably, which
ay have made some difference, out,
on the other hand, the former service
an says tnat tne vaiire m maju.o
also greatly depreciated. ' major
Barnes' Is here looking over timber
tracts and spent Sunday at the base
of Mount Hood, and he is still raving
over the gorgeousness of the scenery.
but is not mentioning-tne oumps-in
the road, there being one good chuck
hole for about every yard of the dis
tance. T -T "Millpi of Miller, Or., and A.
F Berrian of Berrian, Wash., are in
trie city, Mr. Miller registering at the
Imperial and Mr. Berrian at the Ho
tel Oregon, The town, or ramci
et. of Miller ie on Basin cree. i"
Malheur county and it is 45 miles
northwesterly from Vale. Berrian Is
in Benton county, wasnington, anu
40 miles southeast of grosser nu
20 miles south of KennewitK.
Rrim ho broueht a carload of
stock to the North Portland yards.
is the'Postmaster of Berrian, ana u
else that is.
E. V. Carter, who will be a repre
sentative in the legislature in i-t
from Jackson county, was at the Im
perial yesterday. Two subjects al
ways Interest wr. warier. uhj
banking and the other sport. In a
few weeks he will be out on the edge
of a lake in the mountains, miles and
miles from Ashland, paddling his own
canoe. He is in Portland as chair-
an of the joint state fish and game
commission, in which capacity ne
will never have an opportunity to
cast a vote unless the' other, members
disagree and there is a tie vote.
B. B. Bullwrlnkle is In town from
Riddle. Or., and the prospects are
that he will be here for some time.
Yesterday the -job of being foreman
of the federal grand Jury was wished
on Mr. Bullwrinkle. which will give
the citizena of Riddle almost as much
satisfaction as the decision of Judge
Skipworth to the effect that the state
highway commission has no right to
build the Pacific highway without
running the road int6 and out of
Riddle.
Granite isn't the town it used to
be, for the population has frittered
away until there are now about 50,
whereas years ago Granite was some
mining town. Granite is still a
camp," but its glories have largely
departed, although there are half a
dozen mine companies having Granite
as their postoffice address. ' Sumpter
is 14 miles distant and Kumpter. too,
is a town that was. W. G. Noskans
of Granite is tarrying at the Imperial
for a few days.
Forty-five years ago -Mitchell was
settled on the banks of John Day
creek. The census this year will not
show a very large population, for the
growth has been slow. Mitchell Is
In the stock country, and towns In
places like that rarely become cities.
W. L. Blann and R. R. Hanking ar
rived at the Imperial yesterday from
Mitchell.
One of the foremost lumbermen Of
Texas is Robert Weir of Houston,
who is at the Benson. He Is out in
Oregon just looking around and, ap
parently, with no special Intention of
Investing. While here he has been
associating with some of the local
timber barons.
J. H. Driscoll of Klamath Farls is
at the Imperial. Officially, Mr. Dris
coll is a member of the state game
commission, being the successor of
Charles Stone, also of Klamath Falls
who resigned a few weeks ago.
John Jones of Dallas. Texas, regis
tered at the Benson, is in town to see
how the lumber company is doing at
Silverton. or., Mr. Jones being one
of the hundred or so stockholders in
that institution.
Mrs. A. F. Hazelrigg of Medford is
at the Imperial. The Hazelriggs wan
dered into Medford years ago as part
of a grand opera company and liked
the place so well that they remained
Archibald Chrisman is one of the
stockmen housed at the Perkins tern
porarlly. He registers from Monu
ment, which is between Long Creek
and Spray. ,
E. C. Wattis, president of the Utah
Construction company which is work
ing on contracts in Oregon and Cali
fornia, arrived yesterday at the Hotel
Oregon.
P. F. Chandler, who Is interested
In the Blue Vountain Eagle and has
served as United States commissioner,
is at the Imperial from Canyon City.
He Is also recorder of Canyon City.
1 H. C. White of Olympia, Wash.,
came to Portland for the week-end
for the purpose of meeting Charles
Timberlake, who Is a representative
in congress from Colorado.
Edward F. Tucker, formerly of
Portland, now located In Seattle, is
at the Benson while attending to
business.
Will Hebenton, who Is In the news
paper game, at Fossil, Is among the
arrivals at the Perkins.
- 1.1XA.
Above the shudl'ring wakeful earth
she lies
White, icy. motionless. perfected
death.
The tossing clouds are gone and bare
the sky's "
Unfathomel recesses, her ghostly
light
Lost in its depths. Cold with the
awful chill
Of emptiness; that desolated space
She seems a corpse, forever doomed
to lie
In solitude, through death's eterni
ties. LOIS SMITH.
HOW PRESS VIEWS NOMINATIONS.
Republican and Democratic Papers
Comment on Prospects.
" Hillsboro Independent.
We violate no confidence when we
say that William J. Bryan is consid
ered something of a democrat by
those who know, and there appears
to be nothing lacking in the full esti
mate he -as given ot Candidate. Cox.
In fact, his views are so full and free
as to remind one of the proverbial
love of the devil for holy water. This
being so, in the crude language of
the day "we should worry." Bryan,
the democrat, knows and we only sus
pect. We'll let Bryan have his way,
and let it go at that.
Platform la Straddle.
Cottage Grove Sentinel.
While the prediction of The Senti
nel that the democrats would have to
adopt a platform In which many im
portant subjects would be straddled
has been fulfilled, yet we are not
constrained to offer any very serious
criticism. Political expediency made
It Impossible for the party to do
otherwise.
Odds Favor Republicans.
Clarke County Sun (Vancouver.)
It will be a battle royal with the
odds in favor of Harding. McAdoo
had a strong following that wifl not
attach to Cox. The railroad men and
workers in general were for McAdoo
as was the administration.
Choice Purely Geographical.
Raymond (Wash.) Herald.
The choice of Cox should augur well
for the success of Harding. Cox was
not the strongest nor the biggest
democrat in the field. He was chosen
solely for geographical reasons.
Harding Good aa Elected.
Columbia River Sun.
(Cathlamet, Wash.)
Mr. Harding has been elected presi
dent of the United States. Of course
there will be an election and Mr. Cox
will get some votes but the democrats
virtually elected Harding when they
nominated Cox as he will not even
get a full democratic vote, inasmuch
as the past record of Mr. Cox is one
that forbids the support of both
Bryan and Wilson and their followers.
Home Folks Like Him.
Scio Tribune.
The fact that Mr. Cox has been
honored by being three times elected
by his home state, once when Mr.
Harding was his opponent. shows
that the people who know him best
regard hiin highly. It may be set
down as a fact that In Ohio at least
the presidential contest will be a
veritable horse race.
Tired of Wilson.
St. Helens Mist.
The Mist believes that Cox's nomi
nation was not due to the "wet dele
gates'.' as some convention writers
have claimed, but more to the fact
that a great part of the democratic
party was tired of Wilson and his
autocratic rule and resented his
domination.
Best "Man Rejected.
Woodburn Independent.
While in a sense Cox is a strong
man, especially in Ohio, the conven
tion erred in not selecting McAdoo,
who would have been backed by the
railway men. Cox is considered a
wet man and it Is extremely doubt
ful if he can create the enthusiasm
necessary for election. In nominat
ing Cox the democrats have in all
probability defeated themselves.
Victory of Tammany.
Corvallis Gazette-Times.
Tammany is entitled to ail the
credit for nominating Cox. If Tam
many had not stood like a stone wall
against any but a wet candidate, had
it not consistently cast 74 ballots
for Cox from the seventh ballot, when
it gave up hope of its own candidate.
Governor Smith of New York, the
wets could not have won.
They Like the Namee.
Eugene Register.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the demo
cratic nominee for vice-president, is
a distant relative of the late Colonel
Roosevelt, and has been a lifelong
democrat. The party which heaped
anathema and vilification upon Col
onel Roosevelt while he was alive has
found his name useful.
Compromise All Around.
Forest Grove News-Times.
Much disappointment Is felt among
the railroiyj and other labor organi
zations at the collapse of the McAdoo
boom and the failure of the conven
tion to fully indorse the administra
tion measures. It seems to have been
a compromise all the way through.
Bosses and Wets Control.
Tillamook Headlight.
The Wilson administration, al
though apparently in control of the
democratic national convention, went
down to defeat, brought about by the
democratic bosses and wet element
in the convention. McAdoo, the heir
apparent to the Wilson throne, being
out-generaled, thus depriving the
democratic party of its strongest
candidate.
Approval Is Given.
Wheeler Reporter.
Governor Cox of Ohio is a big man,
has proved himself a great executive
in a great state, is the friend of labor,
and would make us a good president.
Roosevelt is a strong man, and a fit
running mate with Cox. Both the
democratic and republican platforms
are much the seme, but tho former
has at the head of their ticket the
stronger man.
Only Empty Cheers for Bryan.
Newberg Graphic.
Eight years ago W. J. Bryan by
his strong personality and by sheer
force dominated the national demo
cratic convention and made Wood
row Wilson the nominee and tho
president of the United States. Last
week at San Francisco the conven
tion gave Mr. Bryan a respectful
hearing and much cheering, but on
Monday night of this week handed
him a cold one by nominating Cox,
the wet candidate. Just what Mr.
Bryan will do in the campaign is a
matter for conjecture and his first
move will be watched for with in
terest. i
Another Great Prophet.
Polk County Itemizer (Dallas).
The Itemizer don't have to support
Cox merely because he Is the demo
cratic nominee. He has been our per
sonal choice for president and recent
ly we predicted his nomination. And
right now we predict his election next
November.
McAdoo the Stronger.
Hillsboro Argus.
The convention evidently took Mr.
McAdoo's word for it that ho was
not a candidate. But at that, in no
way discounting Cox' running
strength, the Argus thinks McAdoo.
Oregon's choice, was the stronger
candidate of the two.
Slap at Wilson.
The Dalles Chronicle.
However, there is more behind the
selection of Cox than the matter of
wet or dry. Benind the selection of
Ccx Is hatred for the Wilson regime
on the one hand and belief that Cox
would not inherit the enemies Wilson
has made on the other. These are two
very good reasons why McAdoo and
Palmer were defeated and Cox re
turned the victor.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Yearn Afro.
From The Oregonlan of July 13. 191.
Astoria. James Fish, a Clatskanl
farmer, was blown to fragments at
his home while moving a stock of
giant powder.
The new St. Vincent's hospital, near
Twenty-fourth and Hoyt streets,
will be dedicated Sunday with im
pressive ceremonies.
Fifteen persons reached the top of
Mount Adams, according to reports
received here, the climb being made
in the face of a terrific storm of
wind.
The most Important bicycye race
meet ever held in the state will be
held at Portland field this afternoon.
Fifty Yenra Abo.
From The Oresonlan of July 13. 1870.
San Francisco Four Japanese
princes have arrived from the east
and will sail for home by the wxt
steamer.
It is reported that a private hotel
for railroad hands will be built In
East Portland.
A petition is being circulated ask
ing the legislature to consolidate the
government of the city of Portland
and Multnomah county.
The ship Herman is being loaded
here with grain by Allen & Lewis
for shipment to Liverpool.
SALEM, OR, BURNS NO WITCHES
Vet It Grows Faster Than Ita Massa
chusetts Namesake.
New York World.
Salem, Or., chuckled for weeks, or
years, over the inarticulate rage of
Salem, Mass., when she was some
time ago politely and officially in
vited to change her name to avoid
postal and Other confusion with a
live and growing town.
The Invitation and the fury may be
repeated. Salem, Or., capital of a
great state, zenith city ot the Willam
ette, has increased Its population by
25.4 pr cent, reaching tho respecta
ble figure of 17.76P, while the Mas
sachusetts town that has not yet con
vinced the country that it never
burned a witch has decreased by 2.7
per cent to 42,516. A few more
decades like that and which Salem
will smile supreme?
Really, the suggestion is not so
preposterous. By the setting off of
the towns of Beverly and Danvers,
Salem, Mass.. has lost most of its ter
ritory, including the best witch sec
tion. It retains the "pleasant and
fruitful neck of land" on which the
city wa3 set. whose Indian name,
"Naumkcig," is, in the nasal intona
tion of the east, music's second self.
There is now no "Naumkeag": there
are 41 "Salems." besides a dozen de
rivative "Salem Centers" and the like,
and a hundred East, South. North and
West fatems. Distinction beckons
plain.
The 41 do not include Winston
Salem. X. C Southern courtesy may
forbid local stressing of the fact to
an elder Sale-n's distress, but observ
ers at a distance must note that the
wonder city of trie Yadkin has grown
US. 2 per cent In the decade and is
now, .with 4S.3P5 souls, the greatest
aggregation of human beings on the
globe bearing the ancient name ex
cept, of course, the original Salem of
Palestine, parent of them all.
CAMPAIGN IS Sir:, WET OR DRY t
What Will Democrats Who Voted for
Prohibition Do on Klertlon Day f
PORTLAND, July 12. (To tho Edi
tor.) Where will the thousands of
democrats who voted for prohibition
stand this year? Will It be with Tam
many and "light wines and beer." or
will it be with the same good women
and men they solidly stood with when
drink was abolished?
Which horn of a dilemma will they
choose? "Light wines and beer"
mean beverages for use as In former
days intoxicating. It could mean
nothing else. If it were not so. they
would not be wanted. It means, fur
thermore, the re-establishment of the
saloon or something in resemblance
to it. If we are to have "light wines
and beer," where are they to be sold
and who are the persons to be to sell
them? The democratic party were
too cowardly to outright declare for
booze this year, but by their auda
cious rejection of a dry resolution
they very conspicuously Invite the
voter to vote for it. They boldly have
put the question. The nation "wet
or dry" is the consequent Issue this
year. It Is the paramount political
theme of the approaching campaign.
Formerly the brewing and winery
business of our nation was owned and
industrialized by a great foreign ele
ment, which proved none too loyal
during the war. Shall we hand over
to this element again a business
which makes them rich and ourselves
poor?
Wilsonism temporarily killed the
treaty, and the democrats dared not
to make it their campaign defense.
Their noncommittal attitude on the
liquor question, together with their
rejection of a dry resolution, was the
subtlest piece of work they could
contrive in order to get it promi
nently again before the people. Their
platform is bulging with ambiguitiea.
Will the voters this year he misled
by them? J. W. CAWLSTON.
Use of Words.
PORTLAND, July 12. (To the Edi
tor.! Kindly advise me if the fol
lowing sentence' are incorrect, and
what the incorrect words. are: (1) "I
am going to get some shoes." Is
"some" incorrect? (2) "I am not a
stenographer or a typist either. I
am a bookkeeper." (3) Have either
and neither the same meaning? Have
or and nor? A SUBSCRIBER.
1. Use of "some" In this sentence
is correct If one desires to leave in
definite the- quantity of shoea or the
kind or style one intends to purchase.
2. Use of the word "either" in this
sentence is unnecessary, but may be
properly used to emphasize the al
ternative. 3. The meaning" of "neither" is
"not either."
4. "Or" is a co-ordinating particle
which marks an alternative. "Nor" is
a negative connective or particle.
"GOINU TO."
The "going-to" folks are going to do.
And do they accomplish? I leave it
to you;
They calmly exclaim (when your pa
tience is gone
And you have performed what they
should have done):
"I meant to do that. I was going to
wait,"
And ne'er seem to notice their effort
is late.
Opportunity, time and life slip away.
Do the folks who are "going to" no
tice it? Nay
They are going to sleep till Gab
blows his horn
And going to wake up in heaven soma
morn ;
They are ."going to" ever, but why
not arrive
And get some results while here and
alive?
JANETTE MARTIN.
Marrylns; After Divorce.
PORTLAND. July 12. (To the Ed
itor.) According to the laws of the
state of Washington, how much time
muFt elapse before one can remarry
after a divorce? J. T. PATTERSON.
Six months; and only then if no
appeal has been taken from the de
cree of the lower court.