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' The Wilson-Cox un derstanding- closes the door to that way of escape from the deadlock; it will be opened by Harding's election. loose" on the w"rld," Serbia's In ternal feuds sent the Georgevich and Obrenovich dynasties alternately into exile, and Portugal drove King Manuel to seek refuge in England. Tha war has nrnrturfrd n whole CORRKCT analysis. flock of crownless kings and homeless The nomination of Cox and the defeat nrinns tm cov-ol Hanchnri-q Pun. of MeAdfio were well understood to be , t fl , ci,nH r.,l triumphant war dance of President Wll- i Man tine of Greece, Ferdinand of Bul on's enemies within the democratic party. , garia, all the numerous sovereigns of txermany and the few surviving Romanoffs who are scattered in Switzerland, Italy and England. They are a pitiful host, too proud, per haps too igorant, for honest work, but mooning away their days over lost glory, in vain plots for restora tion or in frivolous dissipation. v THE WILSON-COX COMBINE. After having been nominated by President Wilson's enemies. Gover nor Cox has now surrendered to him so completely as to accept the issue which he dictates as the leading is sue of the campaign. Mr. Cox gave Mr. Wilson's friends a good trounc ing in the convention, and now makes his peace with the president by underwriting the latter's league policy in every particular. The "splendid accord" which so moved Franklin Roosevelt implies that Cox undertakes to defend the whole Wil eon record. For thus becoming the champion of all that Mr. Wilson stands for, Mr. Cox is rewarded with Mr. Wilson's blessing as a good and true democrat, as a man after his own heart. The fact that the governor owes his nom ination to Mr. Wilson's relentless enemies is conveniently forgotten, but the policy for which his sponsors stand will not be forgotten by them and cannot have been forgotten by the president. The new quadruple alliance of Murphy, Brennan, Nugent and Taggart will not forget that they want the prohibition law nullified They know that the faithful in the states wTiere they rule sigh for their lost beer and wine and can only be held in line by definite assurances that the country will become wet if Cox shall be elected. The four know that their followers do not care a hoot for the league, and that there is nothing in it for them. While Mr Cox waxes eloquent about the league and the heart of the world, they will set a corps of whisperers to work. spreading the good news that Cox is wet. Mr. Wilson may close his eyes nd ears to this whispering cam paten, but he cannot remain ignorant that it is going on. That great ex ponent of moral Issues has won ac ceptance of his chosen issue at the cost of being on the wrong side of the one moral issue which will ap peal to American women. What mean the words of Mr. Wil eon? Mr. Cox and he are., absolutely at one with regard to the great issue 1 of the league of nations, and that he is ready to champion in every re spect the honor of the nation and the secure peace of the world: or the words of Mr. Cox? "We agreed as to the meaning and sufficiency of the democratic platform and the duty of the party In the face of threatened bad faith to the world in the name of America." The heart of the league plank in the democratic platform is contained in these words: We advocate the Immediate ratification without reservation which would impair essential integrity, but do not oppose the acceptance . of any reservations making clearer or more specific the obligation of the United States to the league of asso ciates. That means in plain English that the only reservation which Mr. Cox would accept would stiffen, not les sen, the obligations of - the United States. The republican majority of the senate has been joined by twenty-one democrats in adopting reser vations which limit our obligations. The prospect is that the republican majority will be Increased and that tho.se pro-reservation democrats who will be re-elected will be confirmed in their opinion by that expression of popular approval. There is small prospect then that the' United States would be placed in a position to se cure the peace of the world, to say nothing of peace for the United States an unimportant detail which the president persistently overlooks by the election of Mr. Cox. Senator Harding has most appro priately called attention to the impli cations of the understanding by which Mr. Cox adopts as a perfect whole the foreign policy of Mr. Wil son. The statements of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Cox answer in the affirma tive the first three of the senator's questions, which relate to unquali fied acceptance of the president's league programme, ratification of the treaty without essential modifica tions and acceptance of article 10. Mr. Cox's complete agreement with Mr. Wilson, also commits him to the mandate for Armenia, which the senate rejected by a most decisive majority; to the Wilson Adriatic pol Icy, which has caused a near-war and has brought Italy to the verge of ruvolution: to the championship of Bulgaria's claim to western Thrace, - contrary to the decision of the allies who fought Turkey while Mr. Wilson kept us out of war with that country. By refusing to recognize the sen ate as part of the treaty-making power and by refusing to yield a point to it, the president has kept us out of peace for more than a year after the signing of the treaty. There Is no probability that the majority adverse to his policy will be changed to a two-thirds majority in its favor; It is more likely to be increased. As Mr. Cox has adopted the Wilson pol Icy and is pledged to adhere to it, his election would keep us out of peace for four years more. The way to peace and to member e.hip in the league in accord with the principles defined in the republican platform is open and easy. The cove rant can be revised to agree with those principles. Lord Grey's letter end the opinions expressed by French statesmen and semi-official news papers have clearly indicated that the principal members are willing, Mr. Harding is opposed to a policy of Isolation; he has declared for co-op ration with other nations In estab lishing peace and the reign of law It w-as In almost equal degree a triumph of the "wet" Interests and an act of re venge against Wilson, McAdoo and every one else connected with Wilson. The lead ers who were "wst" were identified with the leaders who hated Wilson and McAdoo and in both capacities they satisfied their emotions by naming Cox. From Mark Sullivan's letter. The Oregonian, July 18. It will not be said by anyone that the bias of Mr. Sullivan's mind is for the republican party. It la, we sus pect, if it exists at all, rather against the party which he, as editor of Col lier's, so continuously criticized and anathematized ' thrnuarri manv vears. tTet Mr. Sullivan U seeking to find and state - the truth, undoubtedly.. Because he - represents an indepen dent and Informed viewpoint, the Sullivan letters are printed in The Oregonian. Yet it is now pretended by parti san journals, and by Mr. Wilson himself, that the nomination of Mr. Cox is satisfactory to the president. It is, because it has to be. Mr. Wil son has shown singular and unex pected powers of adaptability to a situation he could not control. Tam many and the bosses gave him the platform a scrap of paper but took the candidate. Mr. Wilson will get the league, or the shell of it, perhaps, but Tammany, and the poli ticians who hate him will get the of fices. They have through him also the hope of a wet future. There are newspapers in Oregon that have the audacity to say that Mr. Cox is a, dry and was nominated by the drys. Evidently they would have it that Bryan is a liar. It' has been demonstrated scientifi cally that a .ton. of coniferous .saw dust .will yield fifteen to twenty gal lons cf alcohol, while the raw ma terial is worth almost nothing and in many erases is an item of loss. Man ufacture, however, has not been put on a commercial basts. - Here, there fore,: we reach" the same kind of im passe; and until mechanical details have been worked out motorists are not warranted in making prodigal in roads on present supplies. Economy in the use of gasoline must for the present continue to be the watchword. BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES NOT THE INTENTION. An up-state paper the other day had an article commending the gov ernor for dismissing three members of the child welfare commission and suggesting that the places be left vacant so as to "wipe out some of the theoretical nonsense that is making government cumbersome and im practical." The paper further took the surprising view that "there is more crime among the youth of the country than there ever was before we had welfare commissions, . juve nile courts, probation officers, public health commissions and all the other expensive foolishness that the tax payers are putting up money for now." ' .. , Somehow the editorial mind harked back to these astonishing and untruthful words when the papers printed the story a day or two ago about the rejection by several child- welfare Institutions of the unhappy and miserable children who had been rescued from the home of a baby farmer, all sadly mistreated and one of them shockingly bruised. What THREE CHEERS. ' "I venture the prediction here and new," wrote Senator Chamberlain in a letter published just before the democratic national convention "that the convention will not declare for unqualified ratification of the treaty and league of nations, and if it does, the cause of those who want a treaty and a league of nations and who covet peace with nations is lost." There was other interesting com ment in the Senator's letter. He failed to see material difference be tween the administration's reserva tiens and the Lodge reservations; he expressed the belief that "parti san bias, false pride and stubborn ness on both sides" had more to do with the treaty deadlock than any real difference between those who subscribed to the two sets of reserva tions. ' Now we have the democratic na tional platform. It commends the president for his firm stand on treaty ratification and condemns the Lodge reservations. But the platform suits Senator Chamberlain. He has said so, perhaps hastily, but nevertheless publicly and cheerfully. Mow also we have a meeting of minds in Washington. Senator Cox finds that his mind runs along the same single track as the president's as regards the treaty and the presi dent finds that his mind runs along the same track as Senator Cox' mind in that important particular. The. president finds the platform admir able and the candidate delightful. The candidate promises that if elect ed he will carry out with all his strength the foreign policy of the president. They are "absolutely at one" on the issue. What ought a democratic senator to do in the circumstances a demo cratic senator who voted for the treaty with the despicable Lodge res ervations and became the target of the Hamaker letter for so doing? What ought a good democrat to do whose counsel has been rejected, whose direful predictions have been ignored,. who sees the candidate of his party in fond embrace with the executive who had once publicly charged the. aforesaid good democrat with falsifying? What, would any good democrat do in- the same circumstances? Why, give three cheers for the ticket and the custodian of tha little wanted was temporary care food, clothing, shelter, cleansing until permanent arrangements for them could be made. What the matrons of the institutions did was to say that they could not be taken in without official authority, or a court order. They were doubtless acting within the letter of their duty. It is not at all the purpose of The Oregonian to find fault, with the homes or their management. They are doing noble work. A civilization without such charities would revert to a heartless barbarism. But It is our purpose to Indicate to the public and to the authorities the tenor of criticism made against such institu tions, and to say that such incidents merely feed the flame of antagonism to them and their methods. No doubt rigid rules are necessary, and a cer tain amount of red tape is not to be avoided. But it is clear that a con siderable discretion should be placed with persons directly in charge of the homes, so that their real mission may be fully performed. It is not the Intention of a state which allows $20 per month to support every orphaned and homeless child, or of the private supporters of any of these fine philanthropies, that the doors be closed upon any one asking help for a child in the name oZ humanity. ones the platform, of course. We can lmost hear Senator cheering, now. Chamberlain A PRINCE WITHOUT AN OCCUPATION. When Joachim Hohenzollern lost his occupation as a prince, he dis covered how utterly useless is a man who has been educated merely for such a position. Trained In the arti ficial atmosphere of royalty, he could not adapt himself to the na tural conditions of democracy. . He easily became the center of a coterie of reactionaries, led them in drunken brawl, insulted some French officers and was fined by a police judge like a common hoodlum. He lost his wife by divorce, was so In- capable of adapting his expenditures to his income that he became loaded with debt, and he committed suicide as the only way out. The wonder is that any of the Hohenzollerns remained in Germany after the kaiser was deposed. Life for them would be & daily Viortifi cation, for they must have been con stantly irritated by absence of signs of respect to which they had been accustomed and by frequent insults of the triumphant socialists. They remained doubtless in order to plot with the military officers, aristocrats and capitalists for restoration of the monarchy, for a deposed dynasty imagines that democracy is but passing madness and cannot conceive that its people will be glad to get on without it. In no other way is It possible to explain why Prince Henry remained to endure the abuse of a mob, or why Prince Joachim re mained as a mere loafer at Berlin I restaurants. They waited and schemed for something to turn up in favor or monarchy, but the failure of the Kapp uprising killed their hopes. They would better have joined the colony of royal exiles in Switzerland. For more than two centuries the history of Europe has been full of the misfortunes and escapades of ex iled kings and princes. During his years of exile Charles II of England learned the vices which made his court the most dissolute in Europe. James Stuart, the old pretender, was religiously melancholy, but his son- the Prince Charlie of Jacobite song ended his lire as a drunken sot, wan dering about Italy and the Nether lands. The first French revolution sent the Bourbons to England for refuge, and their restoration sent the Bonaparte family abroad as wander ers, to change places with the Bour bons again upon the accession of Na poleon III, but the final revolution in 1870 disposed of both dynasties. THE GASOLINE CRISIS. The gasoline famine presents no acadeinlc problem. Statistics which nave not- been - successfully refuted ncicate that demand is actually overtaking supply. Despite increased production .of gasoline, by compari son with a few years ago. there is. a shortage because mileage traveled .by a constantly growjng number of au tomobiles has more than kept pace wlch Increased fuel production. The statement, for example, that in 1915 there were 239,000 motor vehicles in the Pacific coast states, while in 1920 there are more than 780,000, is capable of verification from official records, and it explains a good deal. There-were 3000 tractors in 1916: in 1920 there are more than - 25,000. This statement Is also eloquent. Commercial and industrial needs are growing rapidly and in the minds of most of us they are paramount. They go immediately to the problem of production and distribution of necessities, to the harvesting of crops, thV catching of fish, the transporta tion of food and clothing. If some must go without, the essential indus tries ought ' not to be the ones to suffer.- And the owners and drivers of cars not indispensable to them in their dally vocations will sooner or later, while there is a real shortage of fuel, be compelled to face some kind of rationing as a permanent institution. A condition cannot in definitely exist in which gasoline is obtained only by scrambling for it. and in which the most vociferous, or the most gluttonous, get all the gas they need, while others go without. It will be a matter of interest for those who like to speculate on the tuture to know that inventors are' still busy In thelrvefforts to find gas oline substitutes, but judging from the recent past we are not warranted in hoping for immediate or substan tial help from this source. Profes sor Charles E. Lucke, head of the department of engineering of Colum bia university, who fifteen years ago proved that industrial alcohol could be vised as a substitute for gasoline, is in a position now to remind us that there is a wide gap between theory and practice. The famous denatured alcohol bill, vigorously championed by the late Senator Harry Lane of Oregon, has never produced de natured alcohol at a lower price than 50 cents a gallon in fifty-barrel lots. Dr. Lucke now sees possible relief in introduction of new devices to permit utilization of kersosene, or in de velopment of engines to run on any oil, or in large-scale production of new fuels, such as benzol. But ben zol production, as has been shown by other scientists, has definite quan tity limitations as a by-product, and when manufactured for its own sake alone would be expensive. This in deed is one of the difficulties attend ing motor fuel .research. Any prac tical substitute for gasoline would need to be available in Immense quantities. Otherwise it would ad vance ra'pidly in price as demand ex hausted supply, and motorists would be no better off than they are at present. Professor Lucke points out that the world could get all . the motor fuel it wanted "by cultivating in the tropic jungles the sugar cane or any other crop producing large quantities of sugar or starch without using any present food crops." But this, motor, ists need-' hardly be reminded,' In volves large problems of organiza tion and does not offer the' slightest outlook for relief in 1920,. or even 1921. The National Lumber Manufactur ers' association, which is conducting propaganda for manufacture of ethyl The Italian war . of liberation cast alcohol from sawdust, professes to a swarm of petty princes and dukes see a ray of hope in this direction. PORTLAND'S TRADE 8UPREMACT. Indisputable proof of Portland's supremacy as the chief trade and manufacturing center of the Pacific coast is given by the constant widen ing of the territory from which mer chants come during Buyers" Week and by their fast growing numbers. Each successive year of the eight years since Buyers' Week was insti tuted the number of persons who ac cepted the invitation has been larger until in 1919 it exceeded 1500. and thi year at least 1800 and probably 2000, will attend between August 9 and 14. Other cities on the Pacific coast have imitated Portland, but have 'secured so small an attendance as only to confirm the primacy of Portland. The area from which buyers come hasr widened until it extends from western Alaska to the Mexican line and eastward beyond the Rocky mountains. They come from all towns on the Alaskan coast; from all the cities of British Columbia as far as Nelson in the Kootenai country from all parts of Washington, not ex ceptlng the Puget sound, country; from every corner of Idaho; from all western Montana,, including Butte and Helena, and as far east in that state as Livingston, where?' Portland invades St. Paul's trade territory from Wyoming as far as the Rocky mountains, where St. Paul also meets competition; from every city and town of Utah and Nevada; from not only northern but extreme southern California, for Los Angeles and San Diego are on the list together with San Francisco and Oakland. This wide reach of Portland trade and industry is due to the variety of products of Oregon soil which are manufactured in the state's me tropoli3. The city is the center on the coast for manufacture of fur niture, woolen goods, flour and cereals, logging machinery, packing house products, physicians' andden tists' furniture, paper bags, .soft drinks, waterproof clothing, and Portland factory ships ice cream cones all over the country. These goods are manufactured and sold here in successful competition with those 'of the east, and no other coast city excels the city in quantity and variety of home products. Here also is the center for production of canned goods and - fruit essences needed to make a complete line with those of California. It is no idle boast, to say that, with the exception of certain tropical imports, Oregon contains within Itself the materials to ' feed, clothe, house, light and warm its people and to furnish their houses' without calling on any other state. More, it has a great surplus to supply its less favored neighbors. Under the title, "Do Tou Know That" the publicity department of the Portland "Chamber of Commerce has published 50,000 copies of a leaflet giving -a number of useful and inter esting facts about the city. Facts which are particularly pertinent at the present time are that the en trance to the Columbia river Is 4 2 feet deep at low water; that there is less fog by half at that point than at any -other large Pacific port; and that Portland has 27 miles of harbor front. It is safe, and easy for ships to come in, and there is plenty of room for the port to grow. A woman who leaped from a bus as -it started downhill is in a hospital with a fractured ankle. The bus stopped within five feet of the edge. There is an even chance for safety in those affairs and in catastrophe some escape. To stay with the "boat" is not a bad plan. Chinese Medicinal Theories Interfere . With Search for Fossil Ancestors. Fossil bones and teeth of extinct animals are called dragons' bones and dragons' teeth In China, and are a regular- stock medicine in the Chi nese pharmacopeia. Those who have kept In touch with the work of the American museum of natural history may recall that some years ago this Institution obtained a small collection of fossil teeth and bones which had been purchased by German treveler in ChUiese drug shops, and their use as medicine was noted. They are in fact quite regu larly and extensively used and are said to be administered in four ways: 1. Crushed to a powder and swal lowed raw. 2. Crushed and mixed with sour wine and the mixture drunk off. S. The came mixture Is left over night, decanted and the liquid is drunk clear. 4. Powdered and frld. They are said to be a spclflc espe cially for diseases of the liver and for nervous disorders. All of which sounds rather absurd but perhaps it Is not more worthless than a good many of the patent medl cines and household remedies that. we use so widely in the western world. Probably its chief value Is as a "faith cure." the assimilating of portions of dragons inspiring the) patient with Some of their vigorous and energetic qualities. But also it is to be noted that the teeth and bones of animals, whether fossil or not, are (chiefly composed of phosphate of lime, insol uble in their natural condition, but by steeping In a weak acid they can be partly converted into a soluble acid phosphate. In this form they would have the, same tonic effect as the acid phosphates sometimes prescribed by physicians and more often taken at the soda fountain without any pre scription. It would seem then that taken In sour vine the dragons' teeth may really have some medicinal value. Why fossil bones should be used in stead of fresh ones is not so obvious, unless it be that as they have all the gelatin and organic matter removed, they may be more easily crushed and dissolved. However much or little this use of fossils has served to reduce theprev alenca of insanity or liver complaint among the Chinese It interferes seri ously with the scientific researches of Dr. J. O. Anderson of the Chinese geological survey. For as a conse quence the fossils have a very con siderable commercial value, and those who know where to find them are very secretive about it. Not only Is it almost impossible to trace the local Ities from which the material in the markets has come, but any promising localities or prospects are likely to be claimed by the owner of the land or raided by inquisitive natives, with the result of ruining the specimens for .scientific purposes by breaking up the skulls to extract the more val uable teeth. Dr. Anderson has had to start a campaign of education to teach the Chinese that good fossil skulls are worth more to the foreign geolo gist than their shattered fragments will bring at the local drug store. The story of his research and difficulties are published in a pamphlet entitled "Dragon Hunting in China." Scientists have come to believe in recent years that the part, of the world where if anywhere man real ly evolved out of the animal world and acquired those qualities of mind and body which have set him apart in a higher plane of existence was somewhere in central Asia. So far as this view Is correct it la evidently useless to look for the fos sil ancestors of man, the earlier stages in his evolution from the apes, In America, or even in Europe. The most promising field for such finds will be in the regions nearest to his center of evolution arid dispersal, that is to say. in China and the great In terior of the Chinese empire and west ward through Thibet and Turkestan to the shores of the Caspian sea. All this part of Asia is practically unex plored for fossils. Those Who Come and Go. There ought to be little alluring to the highest-paid , men in the brotherhoods who are hinted to be or. the verge of a walkout for a dif ference of 5 per cent in expected award. A few days off the payroll will cause more loss than the few, dollars they would not get. A man at Napavine testifies that Harding was honest as a boy, and if somebody will certify that Cox stole watermelons the issue will be made up, and the result no longer be in doubt- Traffic rules 'In Portland are not the same as those in Heppner, ana Sam Van Vector, prominent lawyer of HenDner. now knows it. Mr. an Vactor decided that he would not drive his car Into the congested dis trict on the west side, nor even cross the river, but before he knew it he was on the Broadway bridge, ana there was nothing to do but go aneaa. he decided to go to the Imperial, but being In strange surroundings he drove several miles In the thicKest or tna traffic trying to see the hotel, ana when he did see It he had to drive around the block twice before ne was sure of It. Sam stopped near a white mark. "Get away from that rone." ordered a traffic cop, and the Heppner lawyer started again, isexi h was called down at an intersec tion because he didn't notice the stnn" aie-n. At last he came to in front of the Imperial and was crawl ing out from under the wneei wnen a policeman showed up. "You can't park in front of a basement entrance; move on," ordered the limb o' the law, and wearily Mr.- Van Vactor got un der the wheel once more. After cir cling the block again he managed to park about right. From fish butcher to salmon packer is the record of Charles Ruckles, one of the eelf-made men of the salmon Industry. Mr. Ruckles, who is with the Doty Packing company at Kalama, Wash., started fishlng'on the Sacra mento river about 20 yaers ago. and when he moved to the Columbia ho worked for about every cannery on th stream. Bv saving his wages he was eventually able to get Into the employing end of the game. "There have been many changes in the eal- mon business since I started, ne ex plained at the Imperial yesterday, and one of tire cnanges is in wo weighing of fish. The use of taise scales is no longer toieraiea. ana there Is no guessing at tne weigni of a fish. And also the canneries are more sanitary than they were years ago. rd like to see longshoremen get the benefits of the compensation act," aid E. I. Ballagh o St- tieiens. We've got several longshoremen laid ip in our town through accident- Washington, I understand, permits th lnne-.-shnremen to come under the provisions of the compensation act, and the same courtesy should be ex tended to the men of that trade in Oregon." Mr. Ballagh. who is in the fish business, says tr.ai mo ..v, rains in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington are now muddying the Columbia river and when the river Is muddy there is no iisninsj. o. taking advantage of the situation, he came to Portland yesterday to see what could be done about the longshoremen. . . j New girls were at trie switcnooaru of the Imperial yesterday and substi tues were sitting in for Mrs. Murphy snd Mrs. Luke. The telephone girls, with their husbands, were at Colum bia beach Sunday and were walking for a streetcar when an automobile came dashing out of the brush. The girls climbed a fence and then looked back to see iwr. Aiurpny uiiu. ...., wheels of the machine and Mr. Luke draped over the fender. The men were taken to a hospital. Mr. Murphy's spine, it is believed, is injured and his extremities paralyzed. And over at the Hotel Oregon the night clerk is Indisposed, the day clerk has rheu matism and the telephone girl has the toothache. A party of 16 people arrived at the Benson yesterday In three machines. In which they traveled to Portland from Kansas City. The party was headed by J. D. Tennant. and the personnel consisted of men interested in the lumber industry, some of whom are Identified with the Long-Bell company. The lumbermen are here on a trip of business and pleasure, and they have visited the national parks to the northward ana mtena vieumb Crater lake before leaving Oregon. JEWS IN WAR OP REVOLUTION i .i i I Both Personal Service and Money i Freely Given to Patriots' Cause. PORTLAND, July 19. (To the Ed itor.) What part, if any, did Jews take in the war for American inde pendence? Z says that none took part in that war; I think that he Is mistaken. OLD SUBSCRIBER. More Truth Than Poetry. By James) J. Montague. Tou are right and Z is wrong. Although, according to estimates by historians, there were only about 2000 Jews in the colonies when the war broke out, relatively few of them were tories, or loyalists, and a con siderable proportion distinguished themselves in the service of the patriot army. The names of more than 40 who served in the Continental sequence of the fact that all Jewish Xo. ?!f ?1rawn, Jrom the wood- " ........ 0 ' - 1 .I ,T unuiQ fir t-'nr- ROUGH SHTF. I used to wonder what was done With all the TNT They used before the war was won To free democracy. But row. no longer deep in doubt upon this thing I muse. For I have recently found out They put it in the booze. ln other da's when men got lit By drinking ree and deep. They always carried on a bit And then they wer.t to sleep. But on the stuff bootleggers sell Nice men. unverst-u in crime. Will wake the town up raising Ned I-or fortnights at a time. Rates for plain, common drinking water have increased 72 per cent in F.oseburg. One of these days a drink of water will cost as much, as we used to pay for beer. Governor Cox announces that President Wilson's stand on the treaty will be his stand, too. The old rubber stamp factory still in good working order. The attorney-general of Kansas has ruled that women voters in regis tering needn't tell their exact ages after all. He must have political am bitions. ' Kipling made the Oregon salmon famous thirty years ago and Irv Cobb will put Oregon's furry game on the roll this summer. . Hang a sign of "This way in" on the cherry trees for the robins, for the high-up price of the fruit has dropped way down. The federal law that sends auto mobile thieves to McNeil's island is ono good piece of legislation. It gets the right men. The fellow who tried twice to com mit suicide with strychnine and ether is commended to "bootleg" fqr re sults. Joe Cannon has filed again. It's a habit with him and a habit of the voters to elect him. x The suicide of Prince Joachim will not affect his father. He is proof against anything. Wonder if Debs campaign song will be, "I'm Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage"? After a woman reaches the age of 101, she doesn't mind telling how old she is. Perhaps this wheexe Is old In the motley of vaudeville, but at any rate the Houston Post's paragrapher Is responsible for galvanizing the Jest nd setting it again on the high road of mirth. During the recent epidemic for re naming old-established spots after the new heroes brought Into being by the great war,. says the Post, Charles M- Schwab was called upon to speak at one of the rechristening exercises. He mentioned how appropriate the new name was and then said: "This o'ecasioa reminds me of an other I attended several years ago. It: was on the frontier and the citi sons had gathered to give their little town a nice big name. Suddenly a voice boomed from the back of the crowd: "Gentlemen, I move we rame this here burg Old Glory.' " "Whyn't tarnation do yuh wanter caller that?" demanded the chairman, reaching for his gun. 'Wall.' answered the man with the hunch, 'she ain't never goin' to be nothin' but a flag station.' " ' a One meets the origin of the sylla bles. Do, Re, Me, Fa, Sol. La and Si as names for the seven notes of the music scale, relates the Detroit News In the tale of the histories of music which goes back to Guldo d'Arezzo or Guido Aretinus, a Benedictine monk of Pomposa, not far from Ferrera and Ravenna. His period was in the first half of the 11th century, and a great many Inventions and improvements were as cribed to him. As a monk of the Pomposa monas tery, compelled by the imperfection of the existing teaching of music, he was credited with the production of a method which, according to him, gave immediate results In singing which formerly could scarcely be at tained In ten years. The practical merit of this method awakened the jealousy of the abbot and his brother monks, so that he had to leave the cloister. D'Arezzo was called by the pope at that time to Rome to explain this method. Hi Journey was a complete success. In the first lesson the. pope wa able to find the tone of an antiphon and to sing it. There is a portra of Guido In the refectory of the mon sstery at Avellana bearing "Beatu Guido Inventor musicae" as an in scription. His system, which wa called solmlsation. consisted, in part, the use of six syllables: Ut, re, mi, fa, sol. la. . " To gather data for "The Story of the Fir Industry," jamea vmiara Schultz is on his way to Glacier park. with Mrs. Schultz. altnougn mere is more fir industry In Oregon than Glacier park will ever have if it lives n hf. twice as old as it is. jir. ocnuitz writes stories about Indians for boys, which have been published serially in a popular weekly 'for boys and girls. Mr. Schultz, wno naa namau many mountains in the national for- . . J .k ...n-U rn ests OI Arizona, Jja-aaci uuuubu m land yesterday. Vnr the first time since Oregon went dry H. G. Pfaeffle Is visiting Portland. Before trie oays oi ariaity Mr. Pfaeffle was on the road for a wins house in .Napa, ;ai., ana vuum Portland orice a month. When it was decided that wines were no longer rnnii for the constitution or tne resi ri.ni. of the JJeaver state. Mr. Pfaef fle ceased spending money for rail- roH fares and hotel Dills m uregon. He came to the Perkins yesterday In the capacity of a wholesale Duicner. .Tohn L. Rand, who was chairman of the Oregon delegation at tne Chicago convention, is at the Hotel Pnrtland with Mrs. Kana. Jt is saia ih.i Mr. Rand is responsible for OrpHnn nresentlng the name of Cool idge for vice-president, for during the convention ne was always tam ing Coolidge and after Henry Cabot Lodge asked the Oregon delegation not to present his name for vice president. Mr. Rand aaid. "Well, why not name tooiiage: Fred W. Falconer, who recently bought the Cunningham Shee,p com pany holdings of aDout su.uuu acres In Umatilla county, is registered at the Imperial. Mr. Falconer operates In Wallowa county as wen as Uma tilla. The Umatilla holdings he pur chased were part of the estate ot tne late J. N. Burgess, state nignway commissioner, who was assassinated by highwaymen. For sixteen years George McCoy has been serving in tne legislature of the state of Washington, and he is willing to keep on serving LiarKe county. Mr. McCoy was in Portland yesterday, carrying in his pocket some campaign cards, for he didn't know but that he might find some Clarke county republicans rambling along Broadway. Cy Bingham, wao has bee:, nomi nated for sheriff in Grant county, is i-n Portland for a few days. He Is a brother of the late Senator I. H Bingham. Cy has been looking after the John Day forest reserve for many years. O. R. Coulter, an attorney of Welser, Idaho, and H. C. Eastham, also an attorney, of Ontario, Or., ar rived in Portland yesterday to appear in the federal court. Mrs. Isaac Guggenheim of New York is at the Benson with Mrs. M. Geis. Mrs. Guggenheim is the wife of the president of the American Smelting company, who has a scan dalous income. been avid for education, the number of officers in proportion to the whole number in the mi'itary service is relatively large. Names of four lieutenant-colonels, three majors and half a dozen captains are preserved in the records. The non-importation reeolutions of 1765. which first crystallized senti ment for separation from the mother country, wre signed by the following Jews, among others: Joseph Grats. Hay man Levy Jr., David Franks. Matthias Bush, Michael Gratz, Ber nard Gratz, Moses Mordecai and Ben jamin Levy. Among the first signers of bills of credit for the continental congress (at a time when prospect of repayment was highly dubious) there were four Jews. Isaac Moses was a co-worker with Robert Morris, and contributed $15,000 of his personal funds to the colonial treasury. This sum was relatively vastly larger than it would be today. Herman Levy and others made substantial advances for the support of patriot troops. Manuel Mordecai Noah of South Carolina served in the army, part of the time on the staff of George Washington, and gave up wards of $100,000 to further the cause. Perhaps the real financier of the American revolution, next to Robert Morris was Haym Salomon of Phila delphia, a Polish Immigrant, to whom President Taft paid a high tribute In an address delivered at Washing ton, D. C, while Mr. Taft was presi dent. Salomon's total advances to the patriot government are believed to have amounted to $655,007, an enormous eum for that period, and of this nothing has ever been re paid, either to Salomon or his heirs. Many of the voucners were destroyed at the time of the British inva5io" and sacking of Washington in 1814, but the substantial accuracy of these claims has been "verified from other sources and at least once passed on favorably by a committee of congress. Dying, Salomon, as one historian re lates, ,"left a wife and four children to hazard and neglect." James Madi son, writing to his state for funds to meet current personal expenses in 1782. described how he had been aided by advances from Haym Salomon, and added: "I never resort' to it without great mortification, as he obstinately rejects all recompense. The price of money is so usurious that he thinks it ought to be extorted from none but those who aim "at profitable speculation." The names of a number of Jewish patriots of the revolution have been set down by historians. A lecture by the Rev. Madison C. Peters, a Christian minister, published under the title "The Jews Who Stood by Washington," covers much of the ground In detail. Consult also Peter Wiemik's "History of the Jews in America" for other particulars. could -Mane men half so wild It must lib that the souses who Lay in the modern load. Inside burn red. white and blue And aftar that explode. Though drunks are not so common now Oe cannot out confess That thoitEth It don't seem right, somehov. There's far more drunkenness. For on the liquor that's been brewed Since we BOt out of -a. a r uno rum nound, can stewsd As twenty did before. get Just as Jnat for the Xovelty- Pempsey May Box In English Ring. Newspaper headline. Well, it's nice to know he's going to box somewhere, anyhow. Proaprrts of Travel. Villa is reported to have signed an armistice with the present Mexican government. Probably he was influ enced by the remarkable opportuni ties for travel jtfforded to peace dele gates. (Copyright, 1920. by the Bell Syndl ca!e. Inc.) Cloud Men. By Grace K. Hall. west, beside the ocean's hold carnival and Far In the rim. Where winds frolic free. There must be mammoth caves deep, dark and dim. Where giants dwell and labor tire lessly; For their's the task of rolling out tho clouds. Into formations that shall please the eye. Or hanging them aloft, like ashen shrouds. That force the tears from mournful, bending sky. These giants, too, are artists, for their skill Is seen in marvelous draperies pearl-gray. That clothe the mountain-top and rugped hill. With variegated haze at close of day; Across the miles of quivering, trem bling sea. They sail with phantom ships out toward the blue. Unload a carpro of gold clouds, maybe. With ptrea-ks of bronze and purple showing through. And sometimes when the earth has 'roused their wrath. These giant-folk load ships with clouds wf black. Sailing away across the ocean nath. To b'.iild a storm-bank ere they nhall .turn back: But even in 'their anger they must fill The clouds with drops of cooling crystal rain. So. when the tempest's past and all Is full. They see earth smile and know their wrath was vain! TWO MILLION A MONTH. It took a Briton's sturdy son To give the answer to the Hun In forceful words, Lloyd George. To call the bluff, and to demand the stuff "No bargains, bluff or concession Or we will march clear in to KsseiL Come, gentleman. Bring out your fountain pen. Your name to sign Right on this line. It reads, you know, each thirty days. Without a moment's grace. We. the German nation. For a specified duration. Promise one for all aryi all for one, Two million tons Of coal to mine While we. the Allies, keep der wacht on Rhine. Two million tons each month Or If you don't By gosh - Our Marshal Fosch. An expert In his line. May take an outing 'cross the P.hine." The Dutchman chose to be no fnl; He signed and now he coughs each month two million tons of coal. Gilbert Colgate, son and daughter. are at the Benson from New York. Mr. Colgate is connected with the soap family of that name. H. L. Gill, editor of the Woodburn Independent, established in 1889. is registered at the Hotel Oregon while serving on a federal jury. George Cove, who la superintendent for the BrOoks-Scanlon sawmill at Bend, Or., is in town. Foreclosure of Mortgage. PORTLAND. July 19. (To the Edi tor.) A holds first mortgage on real estate, B holds second mortgage on same. First mortgage matures first, neither mortgage has yet matured, but default in payment of interest and taxe-s subjects mortgages to lore closure. Who should foreclose. A or B? PIONEER SUBSCRIBER. Either may foreclose, but the first mortgage -is a prior lien and some vigilance is required of the holder of the second mortgage to protect his interests. It is probably wise for B to arrange with A. if he can do so. for B to institute the foreclosure pro ceedings with the plan in view of acquiring the owner's equity and of keeping alive or paying off the first mortgage. Bull Run Keaerve. GRESHAM Or., July 18. (To the Editor.) 1. What is ther area of the Bull Run water reserve? 2. What part Is in Multnomah county and how many acres in Clackamas county? 3. Does the city of Portland pay taxes to any county on this reserve? 4. Can the nublic go into this reserve to hunt or fish? Yours very truly, GEORGE NILSON. 1. There are 222 square miles in the watershed of the Bull Run forest re serve. 2. There are 116 square miles in Multnomah county and 106 square miles located in Clackamas county. 3. No. 4. No. Parts of Speech. ALTOONA, Wash., July 18. (To the Editor.) How many parts of speech are given in the English grammars used in the public schools at the present time? Have recent text books dropped one part? . L. S. MASON. Noun, verb, adverb, adjective, prep osition, conjunction, interjection, pro noun are classed as parts of speech. Participle and infinitive are classed as verbals. No others have been added or dropped in the recent texts) HARDING WILL SWEEP COUNTRY Victory In New York by 200,000 Pre-di.-lrd by Representative Hicks. PORTLAND. July 19. (To the Edi tor.) I am a member of congress, representing the First New York (Roosevelt) district, and as a mem ber of the naval committee had the pleasure of visiting Portland last April. I am also a member of the naval commission just appointed by con gress (five senators and five repre sentatives) to take under advisement and report to congress the whole matter of Pacific coast naval Im provements and establishments. I will therefore be out here again this fall. I am touring the national parks with Mrs. Hicks and my daughter, having already visited Rocky Moun tain park. Yellowstone and Glacier parks and I am now on the way to Crater lake and from there will go to Rainier pask, returning to- Wash ington via Canadian Pacific railroad. I came west from the Chicago con vention and permit me to say a word in reference to politics. Harding I know personally and officially. He is an American, a statesman and a man worthy of the support and confidence of the Amer ican people. I have heard nothing but praise of him in my travels snd whenever politics have been men tioned in the smoking rooms and lobbies there was a very decided ex pression of opinion that Harding would win. The enthusiasm (r Harding and for republican success has been . more pronounced than I anticipated and is most gratifying. Personally, I have every confidence that Harding will carry New York by at least 200.000 majority. Having known rather intimately Representatives McArthur, Hawlesr and Sinnott of Oregon, three men of proved ability and experience. I feel they should be returned to congress. Their records as efficient representa tives entitle them to support and their knowledge of governmental ac tivities is of vital importance to their districts and is an asset for the state, which should not be lost. Congress could ill afford to lose the services of any of these men and I sincerely hope the people of Oregon will re turn them by substantial majorities. F. C. HICKS. DAWN IN OREGON. Listen, dear reader; I shall try to relate The scene I beheld as the golden gate Of the easkern sky was flung open that morn Flooding the earth with tints heaven ly born. Lo. In' the far-flung mists of the west The colors reflect on a mountain's crest That is capped with a bit of last win ter's snow. Sparkling like diamonds to me below. The world eeems so large and I so small. As I stand alone amongst It all. But I feel greater love for my fellow men As I eet my hand to the plow again. CARL FRANKLIN BANGERT. Thrift Advice Taken to Task. Birmingham Age-HeraJd. "This thrift expert gives some good advice." "How's that?" "Ho says every time we earn a dollar we should save half of it." "Umph! What are you going to do if you've already spent one dollar and fifty cents by the time you've earned one dollar?"