THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. JULY 22, 1920
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traffic more evenly among: all the
ports of the country. Full develop
ment of the commercial possibilities
of Portland would accord with that
policy and would relieve. the rail
roads. Once more the jealousy of
Seattle is served at the sacrifice not
only of Portland's rights but of the
national interest.
ENEMIES OF THE FRISIARY. .
A great problem confronts the
non-partisan league, which is flower
ing in the state of Washington until
it is now a flourishing political
entity. It has been holding a state
convention at Yakima and nominat
ing a ticket, which is no crime in the
neighbor state, though it Is an of
fense In Oregon only a little less
he:nous than black felony. .
It is not enough for delegates in
a convention to select candidates for
office. They must get them elected.
Two plans are presented. One is to
form a new third party in conjunc
tion with the so-called "triple al
liance," the committee of forty-eight,
the railway men's welfare league
and other organizations which are
devoting themselves to "advanced"
political thought and action. The
other is to enter the republican pri
mary. The latter idea gives better
promise of ultimate victory in No
vember, providing there shall be an
initial success in September, and it
is In high favor.
The intrinsic dishonesty of the
plan is no obstacle, in the minds of
your non-partisans. They are not
republicans. They owe no allegiance
to the. republican party. 'They ac
knowledge no obligation to support
its candidates. They would use its
machinery to accomplish its defeat.
as they have done in North Dakota
and have attempted to do elsewhere.
but appear to have carried a theory
evolved in Germany during the war
to a higher point of practicality than
the Germans succeeded in doing. A
fact in their favor is that if they
make good their present claims they
will not need to go far either for raw
material or for a market for the
finished product. Next to cheaper
food for ourselves, we are most in
terested in any ration for cattle
which by ' indirection promises" to
bring about the former result.
SECRET WAR ON PORTLAND.
Thoutrh the Columbia is the sec-
ond greatest river in the United
States, the navy department knows
so little about it that a squadron
taking midshipmen on a practice
cruise steams right past it as if it
did not exist. The shipping board is
so ill informed about the volume of
commerce flowing in and out of the
Columbia that It treats Portland as T ij-v. arfre.x th.
a minor port and places shipping In- cratlc primary and scuttled the dem-
terests or inis port in mo ocratlc party. The result was that the
an official with neaaquarters republicans and democrats got to
fcealtie. gether and scuttled the direct nri
These things are cone Dy no at,- marv. it mav barmen in Washing.
cident or oversight. The directing ton. It may even happen in Oregon
hearts or xne navy aeiiaiuucui jvc;i
nnvni officers who have the ar-
-.nmonr of cruises and who com- DEPENDING ON BOOZE
mnnri trip fleet in such ignorance oi .vu,""" '? "re iuuuium wmciton
mana tne neei in . Th league of nations? No. Booze? Yes.
changes in navigation conuiuuus uiai Booze and nothing else. From The Ore
thev use charts fifty years old and Qo '
not know of the work done by the To say that Cox is the champion of
, in imnrnvlm thrtA " c ttnu uuuah ttiuue is nonsense.
government itself in improving those u ,g Rn inBUlt totne great con)mon.
conditions. The shipping board built wealth of Ohio, which has thrice
eo manv vessels on the Columbia elected him governor. Cox is no more
j ,,,,,,,, j, i,. war and Ior Dooze than Harding is for booze
and Willamette during the war ana Hardi who voted ag.alnat prohibi
has operated so many vessels or deep tion in the District of Columbia and
Hroft nut nf these, rivers since the M8 accused of having owned brewery
,. ,.. i,D y. .mtrlen th 5.tbck' Aa a matter of fact, ne-ither
war that it knows by experience tne Cox nor Harding is for booze. Booze
great volume or ocean xramc oone is a aeaa issue. Weston Leader.
at 1'ortiana ana lower oiuu.uia Then let it sliv dpsd. H.,r it will
river ports, u a.io mu.i not stay dead. The nomination of
Portland and Seattle are keen com- Co3Ef procured by a wet Tammany
retitors and that Seattle has for and b th bosses of various
.years circulated falsehoods for the
purpose of diverting traffic from the
Columbia. Yet by including Portland
In one district with headquarters at
Seattle it treats as one unit two dis
tricts which are distinct units in
close competition.
The facts about the navigability
of the Columbia river have been re
cently ascertained and verified by
turh hisrh naval authority that the
- heads of the navy department cannot
rtrvKsiniv ne ennrani or mem. neir
lgnuruut'e la asauuieu, nut aciueu
1-ate in 1919 the special board of in
' spectlon of naval bases visited the
Columbia and, in recommending the
sfiaolishment of a naval base 'at
Tongue Point, said:
It is the opinion of the board that the
problem of the Columbia river bar has
been satisfactorily solved, there now De-
wet constituencies, has revived the
hopes and thoughts of the wets
everywhere. On the surface, it will
be a league of nations campaign
Underground, in states like New
Yoik, Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland,
Missouri. Kentucky, Indiana and Illi
nois, it will be a wet campaign.
When did The Oregonian say that
Cox is the champion of booze and
bocze alone? What it said, and re
peats, was that the democrats are
depending on booze and booze alone
to elect Cox. On the league, or on
tho Wilson record, he has no show
whatever. On the wet issue, he has
a chance in certain great states.
They know it. They will make a
whispering campaign there.
If Cox is elected it will be by booze
and the appetite for booze. Every
THE RAILROAD LABOR AWARD.
The decision of the railroad labor
board on the wage claims of all
classes of railroad employes is so
liberal ' that it should be accepted
without hesitation- by the employes.
as it must be by the companies. It
will be accepted by 4the people,
though they must pay the higher
wages in the shape of higher rates.
Naturally the outlaw unions will re
ject it, for it gives them nothing, but
they put themselves out of court by
striking in defiance of the contracts
of the unions against which they
rebelled.
This is the first labor award in
which the general public has been
treated as a direct party to the ques
tion under discussion, having equal
representation on the board with the
employers and employes. A princi
ple as thus recognized which has al
ways been sound, but which had
been lost to sight until the intolera
ble injury' suffered by the public
forced it to the front. - Hitherto the
public has been represented on ar
bitration boards as umpire only. It
now figures as a third party, having
an equal interest with the other two.
This is as it should be, for the public
pays in the end.
But the public is just. It is always
ready to act on the principle that the
laborer is worthy of his hire. But it
will not permit the other two parties
to the bargain to combine on extor
tionate wages or rates, and it expects
good, continuous service. Practical
assurance that the board's decision
will be accepted is a tribute to the
moral power of such a tribunal, for
the law does not make acceptance
compulsory. The employes are le
gally free to strike, but with the
public practically united in belief
that the award is just they could not
win.
This should make an end to rail
road strikes in this country. While
the labor board is guided by justice
and sound judgment, there can be
no excuse for a strike, and opposi
tion of public opinion would render
one impossible because it cannot win.
This will continue while the board
acts both promptly and justly on ex
act knowledge of facts, and while
action is not too long delayed. At
last the fact is accepted in effect
that railroads are not to be treated
as the absolute property of either
the companies or the employes, but
as a public trust for the service of
the people. Men will accept employ
ment on them with knowledge of this
condition, which excludes any sus
pension of work which interrupts
continuous service.
lng a depth of 42 feet over the bar. and little paper in Oregon, and everv
the board is also of the opinion that it .Ho j l
will be only a short time until a minimum were, that supports Cox is a part
ed 50 feet will be obtained, thus making iier, wining or unwilling, in the great
this a practicable port in any weather. scheme for an under-surface appeal
That authoritative statement bears to the wet instincts, habits and pur-
eo directly on the duties of . every poses of Tammany, its wet allies and
navigating officer in the navy that all the other wets. Fighting for Cox
it should have been conveyed to all they are fighting with the forces that
of them and should have had weight are fighting for booze; and to that
in the decisions of the department. extent are themselves fighting for
x lie unitea states army engineer I Dooze
in charge of tne Portland district has In New York it is the hand of
reported the existence in the Colum- Tammany; in Illinois of Boss Bren-
bia and lower Willamette rivers of a nan; in New Jersey of Boss Nueent
channel 30 feet deep at low water in Indiana of Boss Taggart; and
ana mucn deeper at this season. e m Oregon- it is the voice of dem
has surely reported , the dredging ocratlc partisanship, one hundred per
pians wnicn win matte mat aeptn cent genuine, but hypocritically pos
permanent, will widen the. channel ing always as champions of the uplift
to 500 feet, and will prepare for a that would elect Cox, friend of light
oeptn oi so ieet. Aitnougn tne army wines ana real beer
engineers are under the war depart
OLD-FASHIONED WEATHER.
The weather, remarks the unob
servant and unremenibering citizen.
is not what it used to be. "The
climate is changing." is the corn-
mint and the government is run in
airtight compartments, the navy de
partment should have had this in
formation. It certainly keeps in
formed on improvements in the
channel of New York harbor and the
Delaware river. Rut it. vol nnta rilv monest comment heard on the street,
remains officially ignorant about the The Protracted dry spell, the late
Columbia river. spring, the deep snow and more re-
Political Tiartisanshin la n pt. I cently a thunder storm or two. stim
planation, but it is reinforced by u,ae recollection but do not foster
commercial partisanship. The great accuracy.
railroad and shlonine interests be- The number of those who write to
hind Seattle have e-rear nnlttir-al in. The Oregonian suggesting that thun
fluenee at Washington, and thev der and lightning are innovations in
ert themselves to keep the navy de- western Oregon meteorology invites
partment in the dark or, if it be well rePlv that it is their recollection
informed, to prevent its action on and not the weather of Oregon that
.facts favorable tn Portland Thev 13 at fault. Jove functioned here-
; are aided by the prejudiceof naval abouts in the good old days, just
" oil'.cers asrainst navle-atincr shins in " " uouie recently. in
- narrow waters, lest they run a ship nearIy forty-nine years for which
agiound and. have to face a court- weatner records have been kept at
martial. tnis station, there have been on the
This is in SDite of the fact that average three thunder storms a year.
the navy exists to defend the coast home have been peculiarly violent,
and ports of the United States and There were thirteen in 1905 and
that, in order to do so, it must often twelve in !912. Only four years
enter rivers. The officers should have escaped scot free. They were
learn to navigate such channels. ' ana 18S3. In 1905
should be familiar with them and" there were six in the month of May,
should instruct the midshipmen in by comparison with only one in May
t a .. v. . i . i .. I this vear. No rtnuht to.A
l;avo up-to-date knowledge of the tilk in 1905. as there is now, about
entrances to our imoortant nnrts nnd tne cnangmg climate of Oree-on
couiu, in time of war, send in their uuuc.uumrvauon ana careful
warships without mishap. It would recrd-kpeping, taking the place of
be a grim jest if a hostile fleet nhnnld fallible memories, have demonstrated
: ' eteam up the Columbia to Portland Prettv conclusively that climate does
in safety while an American fleet 1101 chanfe appreciably in any period
cared not enter in the false belief witn which human history is con
that the channel was not deeri cerned- Great changes are measured
enough. In that event the govern- ,n eons not in generations. There
ment would be rudely awakened to are clilatic cycles,, but the average
the importance of Portland as a nort of them Will be found jiot to differ
and as a strategic point of defense, lrom one another in essential partic
for an enemy would use this port as ulars-
a base in piercing the barrier of the Old-fashioned weather is a myth.
; Cascade mountains by way of the Tne forces f nature are too mighty
Columbia gorge and would conquer to be Ewerved from their ordained
and levy contributions on the inland t-ourse3 by the puny works of man.
empire. The naval officers of the "
future are prevented from learning The once-popular vaudevillian
' how to defeat an attack on this pun, "Eat sawdust; it's a fine board,"
gateway to the richest region of the ceases to be a joke in the light of
Pacific coast for no better reason University of Wisconsin experiments
f than Seattle's jealousy of a rival and tending to show that it is practical
a naval officer's fear of losing his tc convert wood waste into nutritious
"ticket." food for cattle. Sawdust has been
1 here are as good reasons of policy I treated with acid and by fermenta
whv the shiDDincr business rf Pnrt. tinn of the Ktari-h rr h i,. ;i
" land bhould not be Bubject to the ad- has been converted Into sugar. Five
verse influence of Seattle and of the cows which were fed a ration com-
rj.llroads and shipping companies posed of 25 per cent of this product
that back that port. A potent cause and 75 per cent natural food pro-
. oi ine present railroad blockade is duced more milk and beef than five
congestion of ocean traffic at a few others fed a 100. per cent natural
pcrts. The declared policy of the ration. The Wisconsin professors
new shipping law is to diffuse that claim no originality for their meUioil.
TlfE POPULARITY OF' YACHTING.
If public interest in the contest for
the America's cup, now somewhat
heightened by the victory qt Reso
lute yesterday, does not become as
Intense as, say, that betrayed in an
international tennis match or, better
yet, a sporting event like the Olym
pic games, there must be a reason
for it, to find which we must look
beneath the surface. In theory at
least Britain and America are sea
faring nations. The tincture of sail.
or ought to be in the blood of
both of us. We still contrive a thrill
or two over contests of other sorts
between representatives of the two
nations. Yet the race between the
two yachts, the matching of the skill
of designers and the strategy of
crews, leaves us relatively cold.
A possible explanation will be
found in the technical and, to the
landlubber, highly complicated meth
od of handicapping the contestants.
The average sportsman likes to see
the result determined at the finish
mark. We realize the necessity for
balancing advantages and disad
vantages in the interests of true
sport, but we prefer that this shall
be done in such a way that when we
see a man, or a horse, or a boat come
first over the line we shall know
that he is the winner. We would like
to time our cheers accordingly.
Spontaneity suffers while we are
waiting for the mathematicians to
do their calculating. We do the
thing better In a horse race, when we
conceal the handicap in a saddle pad.
First under the tape, to the approv
ing howls of enthusiastic spectators,
the winning horse gets the acclaim
while the acclaiming is good.
Some day, perhaps, the experts
will find a way to eliminate the
highly intricate time allowance from
the otherwise excellent sport of
yachting. One critic rises to suggest
that the yacht that carries sail in
aasprcporuon to her allowance, or
that holds the advantage of a longer
waterllne, or that otherwise throws
the technical niceties out of kilter
should be required to carry a ton
or two of pig iron in her hold to even
up matters, and that thereafter there
shall be a free fairway with no other
favors. A mere landsman will not
pretend to pass on this suggestion.
But it is pertinent to observe that
Hesolute, slipping home as she did
yes-terday by an actual second ahead
of her rival, would be a much more
interesting sporting spectacle than
Resolute one second, plus seven min
utes and one second, ahead in, the
game by corrected time."
We like our sport hot off the bat.
And with some amendments it would
seem that as manly and as brainy
ana as historic a game as sailing
boats against each other ought to
take hold of the popular fancy.
" ONE MAN'S JUDGMENT.
-- President Wilson having insisted
and Governor Cox having agreed that
Mr. Wilson's foreign policy shall be
the chief issue of the campaign, the
light which Colonel House has
thrown on the development of that
policy from the date of the armistice
is valuable in placing responsibility
for the labyrinth of trouble in which
both the United States and Europe
have been involved.
in a dispatch from London to the
Philadelphia Ledger, CoJonel House
says:
A suggestion was made in Paris Just
after the armistice to proceed at once in
the making of a preliminary treaty of
peace with Germany alone.
One group insisted that a careful sur
vey be made of Germany's resources and
ability to pay, giving assurance to Ger
many that her loss of territory would not
be greater than indicated. Such a treaty
could have been made by Christmas, 1918.
That was what everybody expected,
both in this country and Europe. It
was what everybody except Mr.
Wilson wanted. But he abandoned
his duty at home and went to the
peace conference, which he caused
to wait until he made a triumphal
tour.
The one need of the allies was
early conclusion of definite peace,
that they might reduce their military
expenses, might know what repara
tion payments they could expect and
what responsibilities they must as
sume, and might set their domestic
affairs in order. Germany, too,
reeded prompt disarmament and set.
tiement of its liabilities and its new
frontiers, and above all it was neces
sary that the blockade should be
raised, in order that Its people might
bt well fed and put to work. That
was to the allies' interest also, for
they must look to the products of
Germany for reparation. A prelimi
nary treaty could have been made
before Christmas, 1918.
But Mr. Wilson insisted that the
league covenant be adopted first and
that it be made a part of the treaty.
Therefore the treaty proper waited,
the whole world waited for peace
and Germany waited for the raising
of the blockade. After the first
draft of the league covenant was
adopted on February 14, 1919, the
president hastened home with it and
discussed it with the senate. Thirty
nine senators, that is, more than
enough to defeat ratification, signed
the round robin declaring for the
treaty first, the league atterward.
While the president was in Washing
ton his fellow - delegates, Colonel
House and Secretary Lansing, agreed
with the allied delegates on this
precise course, and the conference
set to work on the separation of the
two document. Mr. Wilson declared
before returning to Paris that they
should not be separated, and on ar
rival there he swept aside the work
of his colleagues and led the allies
to accept his plan. He set his judg
ment above that of the other Ameri
can delegates, of the senators with
out whose approval his work would
go for naught and of the allies.
In order to overcome the objec
tions of the allies to acceptance of
the nascent league as a substitute
for those territorial guarantees of se
curity which they required from Ger
many, the president caused insertion
of article 10. France being not yet
satisfied, he made the special de
fensive treaty together with Great
Britain. Having accepted at its face
value his assumption that he was
the unembarrassed spokesman of the
American people, the allies find that
they are without the guarantees for
which the league was to have been
a substitute; that they are without
the aid of the United States in en
forcing the treaty; that the league
without the United States is power
less to help them; that the distressed
condition of Europe continues, and
that continent is thrown on its own
resources.
Having been fairly warned of the
attitude of the senate, Mr. Wilson is
responsible to the American people
for the consequences of not having
taken its advice. These are continued
economic disturbance, unrest of
labor, delay in passage of urgent
laws, estrangement from the nations
which were our comrades in arms
two years ago, and injection into a
political campaign of an issue which
should never have arisen.
These are the consequences of the
determination of one man to set his
judgment above that of -all others
and to force his decision on the
senate which is itihiJer the constitu
tion an equal party with him in
treaty-making, and on his associates
at the peace conference. There
could not be a more forceful exam
ple of the evils of autocratic power.
Mr. Cox is pledged to defend Mr.
Wilson's policy, and therefore pre
sumably to continue it.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Caaa Baer,
My favorite author is Baird. Leon
ard, a "colyumnist" in the New York
Morning Telegraph. She is doing a
Those Who Come and Go.
Bit VAN'S WORDS HAKSH BIT Til L" IS
"It's like this," explained E. P. Ma
haffey, banker of Bend. "We've sim
ply got to put Dr. Rosenberg across
.i. i"n T- V. n cma11;t
series of Manhattan Monotypes nJ "ea T ,,7 hV i
t,t. ,, v,, o viov lodge in the country, has the biSfresi
idea, we've started tne Dan roiiuis
this is her last one, which has a kick
in its last lines.
In playina; around New Tork
You meet a lot of peculiar people.
There is the Man Whose Wife Baa Gone
to the Country.
He keeps calling ou her unattached women
friends
To do service as dinner companions
And to occupy G-4 at the snappy summer
review.
He wouldn't thlnK of taking his stenog
rapher. Because he doesn't go in for that sort of
thins.
He Is all right, of course.
And means perfectly welt,
So did Brutus.
The difficulty, as far as the ladles are
concerned.
Is the uncertainty as to just "where his
wile's friendship ceases.
In playing around New York
You meet a lot of peculiar people.
Miss Leonard further observes that
"if the prodigal son story had been
staged in these days, there wouldn't
be any fatted calf figuring in the
cast. Father would go to tne saie
and get out the last bottle of eealed
Scotch."
Marie Nordstrom is suing her hus
band, Henry Pixey, for separation
and the custody of their 11-year-old
daughter.
m m m
Eugene Walter is writing a play
on the Irish question. It la to be
called "Sinn Fein" and the cast is
to be made up of Irish actors.
a
Tennyson's well-known brook was
piker to Denman Thompson's "Old
Homestead," which Is about to go
blithesomely out on its 34th annual
tour of the country. William Law
rence will appear in his old" part of
Uncle Josh, having played the same
role more than 3000 times.
Nance O'Neill Is going to Spain to
confer with Jacinto Benvento. the
author, about a new torrid play for
next year.
Frances Underwood, who is Mrs.
Franklin Underwood and used to be
known professionally out here as
Frances Slosson. Is playing leads
with William Courtenay in, Thomp
son Buchanan's comedy, "Civilian
Clothes."
Frederick Warde. who recently
celebrated his 60th anniversary on
the 6tage, is now resting up at his
Sullivan county home preparatory to
a season of lectures on "Fifty Years
of Make-Believe." Mr. Warde Is ap
pearing each eeason in "The Mission
Play" at Los Angeles, which has be
come an established institution dur
ing the California tourist season, and
will terminate hie lecture tour in
December to return to the coast to
resume his role in that pageant.
Martha Hedman is to appear in a
new play with Arthur Byron for her
leading man. It is called "Trans
planting Jean" and has had a Paris
presentation. '
Frances White is elated for her
premiere In what is characterized as
a musicomedy called "Jimmy" at a
local theater on September 20. Miss
White, who is under contract te
Hammerstein for a period of five
years, will have as assistants in the
piece two recruits from -burlesque,
Ben Welch and Roger Imhotf.
."Dan McAllen is dead." The word
passed with sadness yesterday. A
quarter-century ago Daniel McAllen
was one of the retail merchants who
did not confine the best in him to
his. store. He was for Portland all
the wakeful day. Optimistic, every
inch of him, for he was born in the
land where the sun shines behind
the cloud and streaks through, he
had the vision of a greater Portland
and he worked to that end. He live'd
to see it, too, in his three score and
ten years. Failing health made him
missed for the few years last passed,
but the memory of him will linger
long.
The man who asserts he cannot
support his family because be pays
alimony was foolish to take on the
new before he was off the old; but
anybody can marry these times.
The San Francisco papers all play
up, under the largest available head
lines, news of the earthquake in I.os
Angeles. Just getting even for 14
years ago.
Too many "portables" on a school
block give it an open-front poultry
house look. The portable is a make
shift at best, though a necessity just
uow.
It may be only a coincidence that
A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney-general
has not been so hard boiled against
tho profiteers since San Francisco.
If a co-ed would smoke and uses
the pipe, well and good, for that will
finish her; hut if she burns the
cigarette she must be suppressed.
Neither Bryan nor Sunday is avail
able to head the prohibition ticket,
but H. Ford may be receptive, as it
will be a flivver affair anyway.
Wallace Munro, who used to live
here, and who married one or the
three Tittell sisters, has severed his
connection with John L Golden as
press representative for the latter's
theatrical enterprises. The parting
of the ways was entirely amicable, it
was announced. Mr. Munro has signed
a contract with Edgar McGregor.
The last dark spot in Oregon
Curry county has electric light now.
Some day she will have a railway
and all the trouble It brings.
That two-pound baby at Pendleton
has as much chance to grow big
enough to play fullback as any baby.
Much depends on the feed.
Passenger fare has been three
cents a .mile through all the expan
sion period, and if it is increased
what a howl will arise!
The ultimate customer is in fair
way to get cheap fruit as fast as it
ripens, though it's an ill wind that
blows it to him.
We suppose it is inevitable that
PaUerewki should represent Poland
in any concert of the powers.
.. Sir Thomas will be forgiven, pro
vided he doesn't call some of his tea
the Shamrock brand.
Who wouldn't be an Elk and be in
Saiein!
Ethel Grey Terry, once ' a Baker
player, is appearing in "Going Some
a Rex Beach picture.
The Jones, Smiths and Browns may
have the greatest numerical showing
In the directories of the country, but
the Duncan family was given quite
an Impetus recently by Judge Richard
P. Lydon when he granted the peti
tion of the young girls known as the
Isadora Duncan Dancers authorizing
them to change their names to Dun
can.
The petitions were filed on May 10
last, but were withheld by Judge Ly
don pending the receipt of the affi
davit and consent of Isadora Duncan,
who is now in Paris. This consent
was duly verified before the American
consul in Paris and now Anna. The
resa, Irma, Lisa and Margaret, the
same being the five dancing pupils of
Miss Duncan, are privileged to lay
claim to membership in the clan
without the .formality of displaying
marks of identification and family
heirlooms.
With the duke of Rutland's obsti
nate refusal to allow her to take a
stage career. Lady Diana Cooper,
known before her marriage as Lady
Diana Manners, this week again re
fused an offer of 2500 to appear in
the west end. She is the duke's daugh
ter and has been famous for her
beauty In Mayfalr society.
Some time ago It was announced
she would appear in America in pic
tures undVr the management of D. W.
Griffith. This, too, fell through due
to the opposition of the father of the
court beauty. .Queen Mary is also said
to have taken a hand In preventing
Lady Diana from taking up a career.
Anna Pavlowa, the Russian dancer,
following a four years' absence from
America. Is to return to this country
In October for a limited tour, accord
ing to a cable message received yes
terday by Fortune Gallo", grand opera
Impresario. Mile. Pavlowa. with her
ballet Russe, has been on tour through
South America, the West Indies and
Europe.
Mr. Gallo is arranging to present
Mile. Pavlowa, her ballet Russe and
orchestra in a series of new ballets
and divertissements for a week in
Nevy York before taking them on tour.
The metropolitan engagement will
probably be placed at the Manhattan
opera-house following the season of
grand opera which Mr. Gallo's San
Carlo company will give rfhere in the
fall. Chiefly the ballets and diver
tissements produced for the first time
in'the present London season will be
presented in the New York engage
ment, but several of Mile. Pavlowa's
more popular creations will also be
revived, such as "The Swan," "The
Dragon Fly." "The Bacchanale." "Cop
pelia." "Puppen-Fee," "Chopiniana"
and others.
to have a national hunting lodge for
Elks on the Metolius river. The Bend
lodge sent three of us to Chicago to
start things going, and we've started
em. The next Btep is to get state of
ficers who will put a lot of jazz into
Elkdom. organize Washington an,d
California for the purpose of devel
oping our idea. There's every reason
to believe that a 1150.000 hunting
lodge will materialize if we go at it
right. Even if only 1 per cent of the
members of the order know anything
about hunting game, the other broth
ers can at least sit on the porch of
the lodge and enjoy the scenery. And
remember, every Elk who goes to that
hunting lodge will pass through Port
land. Bend doesn't want to fall down
on this id-ea after making sucn a good
start." "You said a mouthful. Pat."
corroborated Denton Burdlck. at the
Imperial.
"Cox will carry New York, rest as
sured of that," predicted Thomas F.
Heffernan of the second district in
New York City. Being a Tammany
man, Mr. Heffernan who looks like
a Russian or a Spaniard, with fierce
mustachios and spade beard is am
bling homeward from the democratic
convention. Yesterday he devoted his
time to counting the noeea of all the
democrats in the customs house, and
admitted there were so many there
that it made him feel as though he
was in his own district, where no re
publican has been able to hold office
for i0 years. In addition to Cox car
rying New York, Mr. Heffernan also
predicts that Governor Smith will be
elected United States senator from
the Umpire state. "Mr. Heffernan ad
mits that Cox will probably lose
Pennsylvania and that he may also
lose Vermont, but, aside from those
states the democratic ticket will
make a clean sweep of the eastern
country.
"Wheat sacks cost about 22 cents
this year," complained a wheat grow
er at one of the Portland hotels yes
terday. "The grower has to put this
suit of clothes on the wheat and give
it away, and not only that, but the
weight of the sack is deducted. Then
wages are high, some of the men
being paid from 6 to 8 a day. with
board included. The expense of har
vesting this year is heavy and the
growers won't make such a great
profit with these things considered,
and wheat, which was being con
tracted for at $2.00, hasn't been bring
ing that price ot late. In Sherman
county there is a gradual movement
to do away with sacking wheat and
handle the grain In bulk. A number
of wheat elevators are now being
put up in that section."
Driving over the Mackenzie pass
is quite possible, but it certainly is
rough, admits T. H. Foley of Bend,
who arrived in Portland yesterday
and headed back home yesterday aft
ernoon via the Columbia highway.
Charl&s A. Brown of Chicago, presi
dent of the Bend Water & Power
company, and Mrs. Brown accom
panied Mr. Foley on the trip through
central Oregon and over the pass.
Mrs. Brown, who has been a moun
tain climber In Europe, declared that
the scenery she saw In Oregon, and
particularly Crater lake, excels any
thing In the old country. Travel
over Mackenzie pass Is bumpy, but
Mr. Foley managed to get through
vithout breaking a spring or any
bones. The Browns left last night
for Chicago.
"A Britisher came to America to
see the country," began Gerald Grif
fin, at the Hotel Portland, and
while in the south hi met and unr
uled a southern girl in the land of
the magnolias. This Britisher went
into the manufacture of babbit metal
which, by the way. is an American
discovery and, having a streak of
romance in him, he called his com
pany the Magnolia, as a compliment
to his wife, and every piece of babbitt
which is sent out from the many fac
tories in this country and in Ens
land bear the magnolia blossom as
a trademark. All of which goes to
prove that there is sentiment and
romance in business." Of course, Mr.
Griffin was too modest to add th
he is a western salesman for babbit
of romance.
R. A. Long, of the Long-Bell com
pany, which owns timber in Oregon
and Washington worth a core of
millions, arrived at the Benson last
evening from Kansas City. He is
here to attend a conference of asso
ciates, the purpose being to deter
mine, if possible, where the company
will erect one or more sawmills to
manufacture their fir trees into lum
ber. The conferences, which begin
today, will probably extend over
period of a week.
Sydney Green of Mount ' Vernon
Or., and W. S. CaverhlU of the set
tiement of Caverhill. also In Oregon
and both of the commissioners of
Grant county left for home last niicht
after having attended meetings of
tne state nignway commission. As
result of their trip, the commission
Intends rushing forward to eomnle
tlon about half a dozen bridges in
mat county.
F. M. Bold of Bonanza Is at the Im
perlal and is an interested visitor.
Bonanza residents rarely wander so
far a-field, for it Is a long way from
Bonanza. in Klamath county, to
roruana, ana mere are not many
peopie at Bonanza even when Mr.
tsoid is there. The town, which is
smuil but completely Incorporated, is
a trading point and has a postoffice
; Flaying of Wilson if Done by Repnb-
ltcan Would Caaae Outburst.
PORTLAND. July 21. (To the
Editor.) William Jennings Bryan, in
his capacity as a syndicate newspaper
correspondent, sends a dispatch re
viewing the work of the democratic
national convention at San Fran
cisco. The following excerpts from
that dispatch make mighty interest
ing reading and they are well worth
space In the columns of The Ore
gonian. He says:
The real issue presented is whther the
president Is infallible, and the democratic
party is asked to take the affirmative of
the proposition.
While professing- a willingness to accept
reservations of a certain kind within cer
tain limitations the platform does not in
dicate the kind of limitations or the limi
tations. Our ship is sent to sea with
sealed instructions; It is not strange that
the convention finally became so exasper
ated that it decided to choose, a pilot
without consulting the dictator.
If the president were willing- to concede
to the senate the riRht to exercise its
constitutional authority, If he were wilting
to act in the spirit that permeates a co
operative Government, if he were half as
willing: to compromise with a co-ordinate
body of his own government as he was
to make concessions to every foreign na
tion, if he were as willing to consent
to a little freedom on land as he was tu
abandon the freedom of the seas, the
treaty would have been ratified months
ago.
Just a little recognition of the right ot
other officials to exercise authority con
ferred upon them by the same constitution
that gives him all the authority he has
would have put the treaty out of the
campaign and thus enabled us to deal
with domestic problems as well as do
uur duty to the world.
But having reached the hiphest pin
nacle of fame to which a human being
was ever lifted, he has rewarded the con
fidence of his nation and the generosity
of his party by an exhibition of egotism
which would be pathetic if it were not
tragic. No large party in a democracy
can hope to appeal to the conscience and
Judgment of a nation unless it has. a high
er purpose than sycophantic service to one
autocratic individual.
When the United Statea aided in at
tacking the arbitrary idea of government
in Germany, it was with the hope of ban
ishing it from the world, not for the pur
pose of transplanting it to American soil.
But the convention has adjudged, and its
work is submitted for ratification or re
jection to millions of citizens who will
act without the restraints imposed upon
hand-picked committees and partisau dele
gates. Having read the recent eulogistic
editorials of the Portland Journal on
WMHiam J. Brjan, there is widespread
public disappointment over its fail
ure to publish this and others of his
syndicate letters. A republican who
would write such a series of letters
would hear from the Journal that he
was a "wrecker," a "treaty ripper,"
a "bandit," a "reactionary," a "stand
patter," and a "Penrose republican."
Woodrow Wilson would denounce him
as "a pigmy-minded and contemptible
quitter" whose "head was nothing
but a knot.to keep his torso and his
bodily extremities from raveling
out.
For many months the radicals on
he soap boxes and the parlor bol
sheviks" from the platform and the
pulpit have been yelping at the heels
of the American senate. For what?
For exercising its constitutional pre
rogative of passing on the league
covenant and the treaty. It is lese
majeste and treason not to accept a
lot of altruistic phraseology as a per
manent antidote for war and a sure
precursor of an immediate millen
nium. The "consent and advice of
he senate, guaranteed by the consti
tution, are not to be considered un-
ess they run along with the mind of
Woodrow Wilson.
Complaint Is made that the senate
has spent six months in discussing
the treaty. ,Jt would be time well
spent if sixty months were devoted to
giving the world final notice that the
autocracy of Kaiser Bill is just as
offensive and intolerable In the
American AVhite House as it was on
the throne of Germany. We are told
that. we are breaking faith with the
allies in not accepting the Wilson
treaty. Who commissioned Woodrow
Wilson to speak for America? W hen
the American electorate turned down
his appeal for a democratic congress
by over a million majority he had his
notice that he was no longer
America's spokesman. Such an ex
pression of lack of confidence In any
government In Europe means a resig
nation, and the formation or a new
ministry, and the deposed minister
goes Into retirement. But when the
armistice is signed, Woodrow Wilson,
Ignoring his notice, appoints htniselt
and four supposedly pliable associates
as a peace commission that is to
formulate a treaty that Is to send the
name of Woodrow Wilson thundering
down the ages.
Where does he come out? The
allies take what they want and give
him what is left. His four American
associates disagree with him and are
sent Into exile. They don't care a
rap what becomes of the treaty. The
democrats of the senate desert htm.
A ragged and dejected contingent of
only- nineteen democratic senators
stay with him and they are straining
at the leash. Count them, nineteen
out of ninety-six.
Lord Grey and other representatives
of the allies in Europe are willing to
accept the Lodge reservations. Presi
dent Taft and President Lowell of
Harvard and Herbert Hoover and
other American friends of a league
are willing. Only nineteen Eenators
are Wilson standpatters and they are
onlv awaiting- the pleasure cr tne
kaiser. Who is blocking the league
of nations?
The words of William J. Bryan are
well spoken. He did not bolt the
democratic ticket in 1904. but his
silence In that campaign was abso
lutely vociferous and it helped might
ily in piling up that adverse majority
of 2.500.000 tnal Dunea Alton o.
Parker. Bryan's heart may be buried
in the grave but his voice and his
oen are still doing business at the
old stand. CHARLES B. MOORES.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Sloslaguc.
A SONG OF CHEER.
Cheer up. if you never have had any
luck
At plumbing or lugging the hod.
If fate, for a Joke, leaves you ruined
or broke
At sixty or seventy odd:
You only need study up pleadings and
torts.
And embark on a legal career.
And succeed, like as not, by the time
you have got
To your hundred and twentieth
year.
At a hundred and five you will prob
ably think
Your career is a tough one to carve
Young lawyers like you very often
get oiue
When they fancy they're destined
to starve.
But you may get a start at a hundred
and ten.
If the wolf only lets you alone.
And be ready to delve, at a hundred
and twelve
Into cases and suits of your own.
And then you may possibly go on
the bench
And sit with a scowl on your brow.
And look just as dumb and decrepit aa
some
Of the gentlemen sitting there now.
And when you go back to your prac
tice once more.
You'll be quite amazed at the ease
And freedom with which you can
shake down the rich,
And gather retainers and fees.
the
So don't be concerned though
years oow you down.
Your step may be halting and slow;
Your eye-sight may flag and your
faculties lag
And your hair be a few shreds of
snow ;
But the older you get, all the more
you will find
That the people regard you with
awe.
For the refuge of age in its utter
most stage
Is always the practice of law!
They'll Meet Tliclr Waterloo.
It must be a legislature composed
wholly of bachelors that recently pro
posed to regulate women's clothes.
Back to Leather.
i ne man wnose new shoes fall
apart the first time they get wet canV
uuurisiana wny tne newspapers find
it difficult to obtain paper.
(Copyright luO by the Bell Syndicate. Inc
Change.
By Grace 1'-. Hall.
I wonder oft what life had been if you
and I had wed,
As I recall the vows we gave in fool
ish days gone by;
What it had been when time had
proved the empty things we
said.
And left our real selves plainly shown
g eacn to tne other s eye.
For Tyou are quite another self and
so indeed am 1!
You have no more traits I love than
someone quite unknown.
Who greets me only casually in un-
romantic tone,
I study you with curious look; my
heart's unhurried beat
Proclaims the past a long-closed book,
a serial complete.
And strangely, too. there's no regret
that In this mood we meet.
Why, I endowed you In my thought
with wondrous dignity.
With high ideals and noble soul and
rare sagacity:
You seemed a little less than god
a good deal more than man.
A prince who in life's pathways trod
oecause or mortal plan.
But ah! one's vision broadens when
they pass youth's dreamy span!
My woman's soul Is sadder now than
1 thought 'twould hR
When years had sketched upon my
brow time's tell-tale traacrv
You oft disliked the things I praised.
and sometimes turned away.
I did not understand always but oh,
I know today!
And it is well tha't Fate Etepped In
and had a word to say!
W. W. Gillies, editor of the Deer
rarit, v ash.. Union, is at the Imperial
with Mrs. Gillies. They have been in
California. Mr. Gillies "gets out" one
of the best "country" weeklies in
Washington, but Mrs. Gillies, who
stayed home while her husband went
to Los Angeles she joined him at San
francisco got out a better paper last
weeK.
Mayor J. A. Estes of Bend was i
Portland yesterday and was headed
for Salem. Mayor Estes1 is a democrat
and despite that handicap he is a
candidate for judge of Deschutes
county, rie takes pride in the fact
mat ne is tne mayor of the fastes
growing community in the entire
united fatatea. as shown by the censu
reports.
For the circuit consisting of Jeffer
son, Deschutes and Crook counties,
T. E. J. Duffey is the judge. He was
one of the Bend delegation of Elks
who breezed through Portland yester
day on their way to Salem to help
elect Dr. J. H. Rosenberg of Prine
ville as head of the Elks of Oregon.
A. A. Hall, who used to major with
the soldiers when there was more
war than there Is at present, is at
the Imperial with Mrs. Hall for a few
days. Mr. Hall is a new arrival in
Tillamook county. Coe D. Barnard,
stockman from Fossil, is another of
those on deck.
- W. D. Hardie, a stockman, of the
Condon country, is among the rather
large group of stockmen who have
come to market this week. He is at
the Imperial.
J. -M. Tracy, who lsln the banking
business at John Day town. Is in the
city on business.
J. H. Haner. county clerk for Des
chutes, was a Portland visitor yesterday.
HUMAN LIKE VALUED IV CANADA
Mounted Police Justified in Refusing
to Surrender Man Wanted Here.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. July 20. (To
the Editor.) In The Oregonian you
publish news of the capture of Scan-
Ion, accused or the murder oi two
cen in this country, by the Canadian
mounted police, who apprehended him
on a. third murder charge, but this
last crime was committed in Canada
The mounted police refuse to give
this man up to the United States au
thorities and very rightly so. If they
did, it would mean keeping their case
open for an indefinate period while
the courts down here went through
their usual routine of empaneling
and discharging juries, granting new
trials on trivialities and generally
making the cause of justice ridiculous
and all with the more than probable
result that he would be fotAid guilty
of second degree murder, paroled in
two or three years and then once
more be let loose on a long-suffering
public. If he put up a plea of self
defense in'the case of Scott and shell
shock in that of Cady he might even
be acquitted. He made a mistake in
going to Canada. Human life is val
uable up there.
- Let the mounted police have him. If
he is found guilty of murder (there
is no degree of it in Canadian law)
the United States won't have the op
portunity of bringing him back here
to play with unless they want to hold
a post mortem. If he ha3 killed one
man in Canada, he won't kill any
more. C. BUY DOES.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Aro.
From The Oregonian of July X'J, lSfi.Y
Reuben S. Stralian. ex-chief iusii.e
of the supreme court of Oregon, is a
victim of apoplexy. He was a mem
ber or the firm of Dolph. Mallorv.
Simon and Strahan and had practiced
in Oregon since lstfo.
Genoa. Italy. In the sinking of the
Italian steamer Maria P. in a collision
in the Gulf of Genoa 146 were
drowned.
Lee Hoffman. well-known con
tractor, accidentally shot himself
with a target rifle and was Instantly
killed. The accident occurred two
miles south of Riverview cemetery,
while he was picnicking.
The work of putting in the interior
finish of the new union passenger
station is progressing rapidly.
Fifty "Yeara Aaro.
From The Oregonian of July 22. 17.
Washington, D. C. Provost Para
dol, the new French minister, com
mitted suicide by shooting.
New York. A special to the New
York Times says it is positively as
serted In London on what Is regarded
as the highest authority that Austria
joins France against Prussia.
Berlin. The reiehstadt met and ve
hement cheering followed Bismarck's
announcement of war with Fiance.
The Prisoner Reflects.
Cleveland Leader.
Counsel I'm sorry I couldn't do
more for you. Convicted Client Don't
mention it, guv'nor; ain't five years
enough?
Groning Children Are Like Plants.
Luther Burbank in Association Men.
Put a boy horn of gentle white par
ents among Indians and he will grow
up like an Indian.
Let the child born of criminal par
ents have a setting of morality, in
tegrity and love and the chances are
that he will not grow up Into a crim
inal, but into an upright man.
If a child with a vicious temper be
placed In an environment of peace and
quiet the temper will change.
I am as certain of these great
truths as I am of great truths in the
plant world. Put a plant into close
quarters without sunshine and room
to grow normally and you'll get a
hoodlum plant!
The only place hoodlums grow is
In dark, dry, cramped surroundings.
Change those surroundings: put a
little love and care and sunshine into
their lives and you get opposite results.
Pronunciation of Town's Xante.
PORTLAND. July 21. (To the Ed
itor.) Have had an argument on the
correct pronounciation of a small
town in Idaho spelled "Welser."
Would appreciate very much havinsr
your opinion in regard to the correct
pronunciation of this town and also
please advise If it is a German name.
C. W. HASTINGS.
Gazeteers accept as authoritative
the pronunciation given a town's
name by the inhabitants. W'ciser Is
pronounced with the long sound of
the "e" as In "eve." The town was
named for an early-day trapper who'
operated In the vicinity. Ho is
thought to have been a German or of
I German descent.