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1 T11K MOK-MJiG OKEGOMAX, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920 iltormuniOrmtimx KSTABLI8HED BY II EN BY L. PITTOCK. I-ublnhed by The Oregonian Publishing Co., 130 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MCKDEN, B. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oreironlan la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Pre" " xclusio!y entitled to the use tor publica tion or all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper ana also the local news published herein. Ail rishts of republication of special dispatches , herein are also reserved. ' Bnbccrlption Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Ia!1v. Sunday Included, one year 8y Ially, Sunday Included, six month . . Dally, Sunday Included, three months Iai!y, Sunday Included, one month ... Liaiiy, mithout Sunday, one year Iially. without Sunday, six months Dally, without Sunday, one month ... W eekly, one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) ally. Sunday Included, one year iJ'S? Dally, Sunday included, three months.. Dally. 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Ho .CO 1.00 5.00 CCARD OUR HIGHWAY SCENERY, Few, -we think, -who read the de scription in The Oregonian recently of an automobile trip from Portland to Astoria over the Inland highway, or who have traveled over some of the most beautiful wooded sections of the Columbia highway, will fail to sympathize with the hope that a way will be found to preserve for all time these essential adjuncts to our native Bcenery. The "tunnels through the trees" of which a writer speaks do more than bestow a grateful shade, and there Is much significance In his discovery that the scenery observable along a certain detour Is worth more than the additional hour and a half consumed In tak ing the longer route. No motor- is-t with the slightest appreciation of the esthetic, or with any Imagin ation at all, will have any feeling other than regret as he visualizes the prospect of a drive, a few years hence, through a desolate, stump dotted waste of logged-off lands. Kir, spruce and cedar, with here and there a redwood as one travels the coastline to the southward, have been centuries in the making and only perhaps in part that they should exclusively serve the utilitarian pur poses of men. It will not be con tended that everything should be sac rificed to scenery, but the latter also h-.s its claims. That certain tracts should be preserved is both a reason able and a patriotic expectation, not without its utilitarian aspect, either, If cne will consider that the beauties of our Oregon drives have been no small factor in attracting favorable attention to our material resources. We doubt that many private owners would be entirely callous to this phase of the work of destruction that Is now going 'on destruction, be cause the rewards are so pitifully small by comparison with the perma nent advantages to be derived from a sane and moderate policy of pres ervation of the wonders of the state. The view .that one obtains in the vicinity of the "figure eight" on the Columbia highway, for example, ought to be preserved at all hazards That the splendid vista will be for ever preserved in private ownership is probably too much to expect, yet we would so much rather see those noble forests remain intact than to have them felled while other excel lent timber is accessible for indus trial use that it is difficult to forego the suggestion that something ought to be done about it now, before it is everlastingly too late. Similar con ditions prevail elsewhere. The thing is being managed in California, where strips of forest have been preserved to roadways, and it ought not to be regarded as impossible in Oregon.- Our automobile drives are reach lng out. Presently and almost be fore we realize it, if all goes well, the Roosevelt highway will be a thing of being. Means of communication will be something of a calamity and not an unmixed blessing if they Invite the unregulated ax. At least a gen erous allowance of untouched forest should be suffered to remain on either side of every highway that is constructed through our magnificent woods. Obviously, a movement such as the situation calls for will not initiate itself. What are the road associations and the motor associations doing about it? Here is offered an op portunity for state-wide service, for leadership of a distinctive kind. Not much time is left. Leadership, in all probability, is all that is needed. For there will be practically universal as sent to the proposition that the scenic values of our chief driveways ought to be preserved. nority which thus seized power and the junker oligarchy which formerly ruled Germany or the bolshevist oli garchy which rules Russia by red terror? The one unfailing security for the liberty and rights of every citizen is observance of the constitution. It permits no personal rule, for it sets law above men and it divides power in such manner that decision can be reached only by meeting of minds. It makes the will of the majority su preme, and division of power among three branches of government la a (safeguard against minority rule, for if one branch yields to minority dic tation, the others are trusted to re sist. The worst danger of submis sion by congress to executive dicta tion is that it destroys this safeguard. as has been the case since Mr. Wilson became president. Until the repub licans won control of congress, his was the only will that counted and he has become so accustomed to ar bitrary power that since he lost con trol he has proved incapable of proper co-operation with congress because he chafes at exercise of in dependent judgment by other men. Despots and red revolutionists rage furiously against American demo cracy because it is the strongest bul wark of freedom and because they are alike in the desire to set up minority rule founded on force. The way is open to them to win a major ity by reason, but they scorn such methods or are too impatient to await the slow operation of constitutional moans and prefer the short cut of revolution. Governor Coolidge has proved himself th type of man to resist them successfully, to lead in constitutional progress, and Senator Harding is wise in deciding that Mr. Coolidge, as vice-president, shall take an active part in the administration. million men from the general mass of the population the army should take some who not only are devoid of of its future citizens. It How, by statute in most states, holds parents responsible for the material welfare sense of duty or patriotism, but are I of their children. Is it not entitled not amenable to discipline and have to expect them to exercise some pre,- criminal instincts. Such men after cautions against filling its jails with medieval wars roamed about the criminals? It may be that it would country and spread terror by murder be difficult sometimes to trace the and looting until they were hunted offending to its source, but in the out and exterminated. The number Aliinson case responsibility is made or the American outlaws is so small clear by the parents own confession by comparison with the two millions The number of Thaws and Berg- who crossed the ocean that it is in dolls and Allinsons that the country itself a testimony to the general high wculd have been spared by early NOT TOO GAY. The. newest Burlesonism is that all "postmasters and employes are warned to refrain carefully from en gaging in pernicious political activ ity during the campaign." Any other time will, no doubt, call for no re buke from Washington. Pernicious activity is no new in vention of a postmaster-general blind to every consideration but the politi cal welfare of a democratic admin istration. The dictionary says that pernicious means "injurious; hurt ful; destructive; wicked; malicious; evil-hearted." It may be suspected that any activity injurious or hurtful to the success of the democratic party will be pernicious. Any other will not be pernicious. Four cabinet officers, including the astute Burleson, were at San Francisco trying to nominate a can didate for president. A great host of lesser federal officials was there. No one will ever hear that Burleson, or any one else, will bring any one of them on the carpet for their activi ties there. Evidently they were not pernicious. What the Burleson order means is that no postal employe disposed to ward a change in president, cabinet and congress should get gay. quality of the American soldiers. NEEDS OF THE FARMERS. When farmers read of Governor Cox' promise to appoint a "real dirt farmer" to be secretary of agricul ture and when they read the glitter ing promises of the San Francisco platform, they will recall what the democratic party did for them. It passed a law fixing -the prices of wheat and meat, but it firmly refused to fix the price of cotton when the war sent It booming. It refused to buy Cuban sugar at 6 cents, which could have been retailed at 11 cents, but permitted the good' bourbon democrats of Louisiana to sell their and appropriate treatment within the sacred precincts of the home is per haps quite beyond estimation. ORDER COMING IN MEXICO. The best evidence given by Presi dent De la Huerta of his ability to establish a real government in Mex ico is the fact, if it be a fact, that Francisco "Villa has been induced to retire from the field as a bandit chief. Since the beginning of the Madero revolution Villa has been the terror of the northern states, as Zapata was in the south. He was beaten in open war with Carranza after the latter with his aid had driven out Huerta, but Carranza never Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. Those Who Come and Go. en aaaa in A -lif!n -r Vl ! m from Vl t Zlrl'oVLl'T itHarinffHhad e,hi mountain haunts and runnlnThTm years of opportunity to show what I , fh lar win yZ x Z ,1. --I! i"" rt . President's weakness. will be judged by its performance, not by its promises. The republican party recognizes that the prosperity of the farmer can best be promoted by securing for him the largest possible proportion of the price that the consumer pays for his products. It would do this by en couraging co-operation in buying, One of the features of the rule of Diaz which inspired confidence in"its orderliness and permanence was his suppression of brigandage. He ac complished it by taking the brigands into his pay and organizing them as rural police. Knowing the ways and the hiding places of brigands, they hunted down bands with great suc cess and made brigandage a very un- marketing and credit, that there may h -.. , imnrJ-. v"- a y safe and unprofitable business, One of the most important measures If the new government continues as it has begun and if the generals promised by the Chicago platform is who drove Qut Carran2a do not quar. a national inquiry on the co-ordina tion of rail, water and motor trans portation." That inquiry, followed by action on a general policy, would lower freight cost, would reduce loss caused by delay and would benefit all other industries. Senator Harding's speech of ac rel. President Wilson may feel justi fied in recognizing it. But Mexico should first be required to annul the decrees which practically confiscate the property of American and to give evidence that American life and property will hereafter be as safe as in any civilized state.' There will v .,uweu iwm to oe m neany then be a long bill to settle for loss sympathy with the party policy on and injury suffered by Americans from his having for many years pub lished a newspaper in the center of a farming community. He understands the- farmers' needs and will appoint a man to head the agricultural department- who has the same under BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION. Governor Coolidge pointed to the greatest need of the country when he said in his speech of acceptance that the republican party stands for "re storation of constitutional govern ment." With that will come "main tenance of law and order, relief of economic distress, encouragement of industry and agriculture" and all the other desirable things which he mentioned. The troubles which now beset us can all be traced to those departures from both the letter and spirit of the constitution which have culminated in personal government by President Wilson. From the beginning of his administration he has not merely recommended laws, as provided by the constitution, but has dictated them, and his party has become con stantly more subservient in obeying them. It was but a step from this practice to submission to dictation by an organized minority by the pas sage of ths Adamson law. Success of that minority encouraged other minorities to carry the practice still further by I. W. W. sabotage, by op position to the war, by resistance to the draft, by political strikes for revolutionary ends and by open ad vocacy of violent overthrow, of the government. If one minority may impose its will on the government, why not an other? If one may do so by threats of defeat at an election, why not an other by direct action? If a minority may thus coerce the government, why not overthrow those who prove too weak to resist dictation and take power directly into its own hands? What essential difference would there be between, the rule of a mi-i McNARY AND CHAMBERLAIN. A democratic newspaper at Pen dleton and a democratic newspaper at Astoria have collaborated in the production of an article showing that Senator McNary in 1919 was for the league of nations. He was, Probably we shall hear more of that undeniable fact during the presiden tial campaign. During the long pe riod of discussion over the league and peace treaty, The Oregonian lent itself energetically to the same cause. Probably we shall also hear more of that undisputed fact. Very well. The record being what it is, it may be more relevant and fruitful of results if the causes of divorce between an administration seeking "o achieve its ends by im possible ways and certain senators and newspapers trying faithfully to accomplish the impossible by work ing with an impossible administra tion be made known. We shall not do it now, but later the subject will be discussed as it appears worth while. The attack on Senator McNary has all the aspects of democratic propaganda. The long story of his earnest effort to find a common grcund on which the president and the republican senate could stand will, of course, be ignored. Through many months he and others who thought the league not a party ques tion, but a national question, sought to act as intermediaries between the White House and capitol hill only to find their motives impugned and their labors fruitless. The president would not move an inch. Moreover, he re- I buffed all who suggested that he make the smallest material conces sion. In his Portland speech he scornfully said he might accept res ervations, but certainly no reserva tions from the senatorial bunch who were demanding them. The senator found out, as others did, that - the only way to compromise with Wood row Wilson is to concede everything. It could not be done. Senator McNary finally quit. They didn't even hand him his hat and hint that he go. He never got near enough to the White House to take off his hat. The league is a party question be cause the president insisted on a solemn referendum." Senator Mc Nary had the option of going with tho president's party or staying with his own. He stayed. Not a single senator on either side even Reed of during ten years of civil war. That will probably be a subject for arbl tration. It is significant that the latest Mexican revolution followed soon af ter a war in which the United States raised a great army and fought a great war to victory. It also followed formation of the league of nations the BRitisii-JApanese treaty. I which classed Mexico among barbar By renewing their alliance for ous states by not inviting it to be- only one year Britian and Japan ac-i come a member. It shortly precedes knowledge that conditions have an election wnicn promises to install changed radically since it was orie- an administration that will not pur inally formed. It was aimed at Rus- sue the policy or watcmui waning, sia and Germany, but the latter is and it was marked by unusual re- out of the field for many years and, spect for the persons and property though the bolshevists have formed of Americans. Evidently the present a great military machine, their eco- leaders of Mexico are exerting them- ncmic resources are about exhausted selves to put their country In good and they could not transport and standing among nations. supply a large army in eastern Asia. But the alliance is held necessary to Tacoma police are investigating restore order and to prevent aggres- I the sanity of a youth who jumped sion by any other power in China! into a bathtub full of water when and Siberia. The allies hope that at J his apartment was burning. Evl- the end of a year, the league will be dently the police take the view that strong enough to perform the pur-1 he should have made a speech call poses of the alliance. ing on all good people to name it In advocating renewal of the al-1 Mount Tacoma, Hance the veteran statesman. Mar quis Okuma, denies that Japan A use has been found for the most wishes to use the treaty for terri-J useless thing known the knot hole tonal aggrandizement and he favors in a board. It is a desk convenience the open door and equal opportunity! for clips and pins. This is the acme ana says Japan will be satisfied with nf savine- wastn. Hitherto the ac economic profits. The United States tivities of the knothole have been has a vital interest in those principles limited to the fence around the ball and will need to watch the working 1 game. oi tne treaty closely, also to see that "l ,eatr adequately maintains By the way that army blanket iiC.,, , UUi country that was left in the auto when the ueuumes a. memoer. I . ,., ,(c,v,, U V 13 T t,l u a,jna. J v a, Wliv 4iunu,j SOMEONE has observed that a wom an may be judged according to the type of masculine companions who at tend her, but it seems hardly fair to apply it to women at beach resor,ts, where men are so in the minority. Betty Earnicoat, who was one of the least Interesting of many uninterest ing actresses who have made brief stays at the Baker, is appearing in a minor role in Adolph Klauber's pro duction of "Scrambled Wives," which is playing at Atlantic City. Mr. Klauber is Jane Cowl's husband. Eileen Wilson, another former Baker player for a brief spell, is play ing the lead in an A. II. Woods play called "The Lady of the Lamp." Warda Howard, who used to play in Portland at the head of a stock com pany, is now touring at the head of a company in Singapore, where she ex pects to spend the rest of the summer. The company, called the American Stock, has completed engagements in Shanghai, Hongkong and Kobe. Although this column is not to be devoted entirely to news of former Baker players, another one, a leading woman for a part of a season two years ago, is playing a part in the new comedy, "Come Seven," which Octavus Roy Cohen made from his stories of southern negro life in the Saturday Evening Post. Eleanor Mon- tell is playing the role of Mrs.. Chew, the wife of the verbose Lawyer Ev ans Chew. The play is unique in that every member of the cast is in blackface. Among the characters are Vistar Goins, the dusky leader ,of the younger social set of the colored four- hundred; Florian Slappey. the ebon fashion plate; Urias Nesblt, the mournful result of wedded bliss; El ziver Nesblt, the ehrewish cause of his mournfulness; Lithia Blevins. a widow In search of a fourth husband; Mrs. Goins, mother of the social but terfly, Vistar; Semore Mashby, Prob able Huff and others. The role of Vistar Is played by Gail Kane, and Earl Fox la Florian. The play has come in for adverse criticism on the ground that the black-face portrayers do not hold the mirror up to actuality One reviewer says that Gail Kane's southern dialect is an absurd com mingling of Italian patois and north ern Massachusetts dialect. Hale Hamilton and Grace La Rue have signed a Joint five-year contract with George Ebey to produce one new play each summer at the Fulton Oakland, in which they shall both ap pear The first play to be produced under, this contract will be staged next June. It is entitled "Once Aboard the Lugger." In Chicago the chief of police has ordered all dry cabarets and restau rants furnishing music or dancing to cut all entertainment promptly at A. M.. This does not hit the leading resorts, as they have been shutting off at 1. But the "black-and-tan" all-night rounders' roosts, Ike Bloom's Mid dite Frolics. Corosimd's and othe places that flourished after the regu lar resorts went calm, are all but ruined. I don't care for California, al though everyone told me it was won-lthig year jS tne derful, and I wouldn't live in Los!a versed in 1 York, who is motoring around the continent, and arrived at the Beneon with his party from the south. The farther north I come the better I like the country. I like the green ness and the freshness of Oreg6n. The Willamette. Rogue and Umpqua valleys are delightful " Mr. Childs the father of the Childs restau rants, which speckle New York like a raeh. Everyone in the east knows of the Childs restaurants, for they are somewhat on the order of the western cafeteria or dairy lunch, in that service is easy and the prices are within reason. Mr. Childs con fided while here that the restaurant i business in the east is good, lor people insist on eating. He cast a professional eye over Portland eateries to see if Portland had anything on his establishments, but he said noth ing. Reformers complained that several of these places "made the nights hid eous," especially on Sunday morn lngs. Suggestions have been made that the United States should become a a month ago belongs to the govern ment, and a wallop at one's con- pilv to tne alliance, dui tney Science should not be needed to are not welcome. i nis country is tatten its return veie iu umaxices, ana neeas a nnai Settlement Of the Immlrratinn miM. tion, which can best be reached bv Mr- Burns' poor opinion of the an independent treatv in con iiinr-tlon government's wartime detective ser with all other questions. As to China vice may be justified by the increase and Siberia, the United States has Pf the number of "detectives" through made no secret of its policy but pre fers a free hand. politics; but he must admit the secret service the real thing has no su perior. A PATHETIC CASE. . An interesting study in parental responsibility is presented by the case of a young man named Aliinson, conscientious objector, serving a Ifirm in Tnrunwftrtli tyi 1 1 i t npienn for evading military service, related PePle in favor of Senator Harding. President Wilson, it's reported, is abcut to abdicate as head of the democratic party in favor of Gover nor Cox. Soon thereafter he will also abdicate as head of the American SAYETH OREGON SEWSPAFERS Sign of Hard Winter Noted Com ment on Many Subjects. Echo News. That there will be a hard winter e opinion of those who ocal weather lore. It is claimed that whenever th yellow jackets are more numerous than usual during the summer there is sure to be a hard winter following. C. R. Lisle is authority for the statement that yellow Jackets are mighty plen tiful this season, anil consequently the prospect is that there will be real winter this year. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Hoalsgae, in the Kansas City Star. Aliinson finds that the prison life disagrees The man who invented taffy candy with him most frightfully. The fare is reported 'to be in poverty in his is not that to which he has been ac- old age. ii.ven tauy can t maKe customed, and hard-hearted prison money stick to some men's fingers. officials impose numerous irksome rules on him to which he never was I On authority of the mayor of accustomed at home. Whenever he 1 Salem, the reports of drunkenness wants to do something, or doesn't last week were grossly exaggerated. want to do something, he finds a We'll tell the world it's so, tiresome regulation in the way. Ail mis nas Deen set forth by the We should like to see a couple of eiaer Ainnsons in a petition to the comoanies of doughboys armed with warden, in which they explain that nand grenades and machine guns tneir son is in no way at iault. As added to that posse a cniia tie always was indulged in Missouri, uncompromising foe of the league has abandoned his party. Twenty - one democratic senators voted for the Lodge reservations, only to find themselves repudiated In their party platform, but they are still democrats very still, most of them. Senator Chamberlain is one of them. If Senator McNary's record on the league is to be criticised by the little brothers of the democratic press, let them also consider Senator Cham berlain's record. Was Senator Chamberlain right or wrong when he attacked the admin istration for its war failures? , Is Senator Chamberlain right or wrong now when he holds the war department responsible for deplora ble miscarriages of justice in the court-martial system ? Is Senator Chamberlain right or wrong now when he says he is for universal military training? Was Senator Chamberlain right or wrong when he voted for ratification with the Lodge reservations? The last-named is exactly what Senator McNary did. The American deserters who in fest Paris are the human refuse which is left behind after the dis bandment of great armies. It is in evitable that in gathering several every whim. He was never taught to be obedient. His little tantrums were smiled on as mere pranks, and his larger offenses were overlooked in the notion that he would outgrow them. Solomon's advice to parents had no standing in that household. And as the twig was bent, so was the tree inclined-. If we might return to the ancient custom of a few isolated tribes, some thing might be done about it. Occa sionally, but only occasionally, there have been peoples who held parents personally responsible for the mis deeds of their offspring. By a simi lar rule the parents of young All in son might be invited to take his place behind the bars, as a punishment, but not a vicarious one, for their fail ure to do an obvious duty. But the laws of civilized peoples have seldom gone beyond the point of recogniz ing parental responsibility in civil matters. In English common law, however, the parent was responsible for the torts of his child only when their commission was incited or au thorized by him, and then his liabil ity was determined by the rule gov erning the relation of master and servant. Germanic law differed slightly in fixing responsibility when the parent could be shown to have neglected to exercise surveil lance or control. But here, as else where in the history of the law, the rule applied to damage cases only, The seemingly increasing tendency of parents to sjift the burden of character building in their children to the public school teacher, the po lice or other agencies of the state makes it pertinent to suggest, not too seriously, that something ought to be done about it. The community has a concern iu the moral quality "Greece sees war's end, says a headline. Then Greece is able to see more than the United States has seer, up to this time. Dan Kellaher is persona non grata with the city council meetings. Mean while Dan is honing his hatchet, ob Ject not known. Now Mr. Cox is to make his ac ceptance speech. But when is Mr. Bryan going to- make his speech ac cepting Cox? One of the best things we have heard yet for the bolshevik! is the fact that Ludendorff is afraid of them. When Portland's thousand grocers went to the picnic yesterday they left a sabbatical stillness on the corners. A Seattle man. has been making bogus labels for moonshine in bot tles. They are suicide bait at best. A French scientist has discovered that the brain is not the source of ac tivity, which explains a whole lot. We kept the . cup. Now if Sir Thomas will kindly lend us a little tea to fill it witli , Every day's delay adds to the cer tamty of results in the man hunt in Umatilla county. Los Angeles had another just be fore luncheon yesterday for an appe tizer. Villa has surrendered.. Jack John eoa started something in Mexico, Headline in a New York paper said "Mother of 76 Coming," and I fan cied it a maternity record until I read further and saw that it referred to the woman's age. Mrs. McXaughton is the aged traveler and she is com ing from England to visit her family. Tom McNaughton. who married Alice Floyd, is one son, Charles McNaughton is another and Eliz abeth McNaughton is a daughter. Three grandchildren are also here in New York, the two McNaughton-Lloyd girls and Harry McNaughton, son of Mrs. Elizabeth. The late Fred Mc Naughton, who, with his brother Tom composed the two McNaughtons, a leading English turn of their day, was another son of the aged treveler. A large homecoming time has ,been prepared for the parent at the sum mer home of the McNaughtons in Bay Shore, L. I. Charles and his nephew, Harry Mc Naughton, will shortly leave for the West Indies, engaged by Ralph Ince to appear in a picture that will be made there, Charles taking a leading role. It will be his first film appear ance. His best known success on this side was "The Better 'Ole." a Speaking of Alice Lloyd, her big sister Marie has divorced Bernard Dillon, the little Jockey, to whom she was married in Portland a few years ago at the request of the United States immigration board. A London account cays that Marie, Eng land's music-hall idol, summoned &r. Dillon into court, charging him with cruelty and causing her to go about in fear of her life, and was granted a separation The chairman stated that this lenient method of dealing with Dillon was solely the result of Mies Lloyd's pleading. Her lawyer said, though she still loved Dillon. he had made her life a hell on earth. He declared the defendant had thrown beer over her, pulled her out of bed, called her names and other wise abuBed her. Since their mar riage Dillon had never given her a cent or contributed to the support of the home. She had lost 15000 through him, and doctors testified to her frequent black eyes and other bruises. I'm told," began C. F- Fulton at the Imperial, "that a wheat ranch was sold a few days ago in Sherman county for J150 an acre. The con sideration was $90,000. That speaks well of Sherman county wheat lana. Dr. C. J. Smith of Portland, wno is in a company which is harvesting sooo serfs in Sherman county, says thev have five crews at work, and while the doctor isn't making any estimate, if the land yields 20 bushels tn th nrrt his company will nave a harvest of 160,000 busneis. wnicn Isn't bad when vou consider tne pres ent price of wheat. All this wheat is cut into sacks, which cost by the rarinad lot 18 centx each A Jigger man tamps the grain into tne sacKs tn fill thpm ss full as possible, ana a good tamper can save more than his pay in sacks. tr ik Ttsnham Falls reservoir Is hunt T mpnn when it IB built, cor rected Fred N. Wallace or lumaio, "for it will materialize there will be a lake extending from a few miles nf 'RcTirt slmost to La Fine. Mr. Wallace met the memoers or me congressional appropriations commit tee when they were in central Oregon recently, and Is of the opinion that the easterners were impreseeu. cui. .vniairaH th noted advocate of lr rigation, "when you taiR. nr'6"" to an easterner ho just closes up, be-irriB-ntion means nothing to him. The Villamette larmers uscu to be the same way, dui tney coming around to an understanding of the value of irrigation, even in the valley." Mr. Wallace ana a group of Tumalo irrigators have been to Salem discussing water rignts on iu Deschutes with the state omciaia. with a Mir rron of alfalfa, at Board man. Colonel Emmet Callahan feels prosperous. He arrived at tne noie. prtin i-pste.rdav to looK arouna and see what the national political situation is like. The colonel was one of the pioneer Bull Moosers of Oregon and took an active part in tne cuuu cils of that party before it disinti grated and returned to Its original component parts. One reason that the colonel came to town was that the men on his ranch said that they could handle more hay when he isn't around, so he is giving them a chance to make a demonstration. So long as the alfalfa fields yield as they are now doing. Colonel Callahan Isn t bothering about his law practice. "Tons of cherries in Marion county have been fed to the hogs." declared a man in the Imperial lobby yester day. "One canneryman told me that two trucks, each containing about five tons, went from cannery to can nery trying to dispose of the fruit, without takers, and finally asked the privilege of leaving the cherries on the sidewalk. There appears to be no record kept, but from what I gather in conversation, about 50 tons must have been used as feed. My im pression is that the crop turned out heavier than the canners calculated. and a lot of cherries were contracted at 13 cents a pound. The Hohenzollern Shame. Astoria Budget.. His high ambitions in ashes, his throne surrendered, the dynasty of the Hohenzollerns ended, his country defeated, humbled. Impoverished and near anarchy, uunself and his crown prince barred from their own land. his empress sick unto death, his name curse the world round, and now the tragic passing of a son. the sor row of which is merged with shame instead of with the pride which mingles with the grief for a soldier's death! What punishment could there be beyond the grave worse than that which William of Germany is suffer ing here on earth, with each succeed ing misfortune befalling him so pa tiently a consequence of his own ein- ful acts that he cannot escape tie torturing knowledge that he is the author of his own woes. The Three-Ounce Dress. Banks Herald. To entirely dress with three ounces of cloth the Parisian women and some American females have taken to open-work stockings as light as a veil. From the waist up, scarcely anything: djown, about the same. Any relative of ours coming out in such disgraceful apparel would get their shins kicked until it would take clothes to hide the scars. Style! The silly fools so dressing should re member: "It pays to advertise," and not get offended at "mashers" who expect advertisers to produce the goods. Decent, respectable women dress with real clothes. Responsibility i p to Driver. Albany Herald. But until that time comes, it is well for everyone to realize that the rail road tracks are laid for the purpose of running trains over them; and that there is not a minute of the day when it is not reasonable to suppose that some train will pass a given Doint. Therefore, prudence and re gard for one's own safety demand that one before attempting to cross should stop, look and listen. More Jonlsetw Needed. Silverton Tribune. Let's have more congressional jaunts, but let's have our congress men visit the west. Let s have them see with their own eyes that all the world could be cared for and all America made comfortable if we would spend the money we now waste on insignificant inland waterways in giving the west that which it most needs water. MAKING IT EASIER, King George has been forced to economize. Time was when I fondly Imaging l should like to recline on a throne. With a sceptre and crown and an ermine-trimmed gown And be boss of a kingdom, alone. I fancied that kings had no worries. Spending money in lavish amounts On parties and meals and red auto mobiles. With no one to check their ac counts. But now when a king spends a dollar For whisky or soda or such. It gets on his nerve when some kill joy observes, "Lay off that it's costing too much." He rides round his kingdom in fliv vers. Instead of in limousine cars. And wine is so dear that he has to drink beer. And smoke stogies instead of cigars. If he wants to go riding on horse- oacK, Some bird says, "The trolley for you." If he calls for his yacht, that don't neip him a lot. He's lucky to have a. canne: And instead of thetheRter parties. v nere ne once played a sovereign's part. He now has to go to a photo-play show. And see Bara, or William a Hart. No longer I follow with envy The doings Of rillArs an lrlr,o Or sight the reflect that I cannot expect All those Jewels and castles and thinsrs. For if kings have to sit in the palace Thinking schemes up for saving their nelf. No reason I've got to be sore at my lot, I can always do that by myself. Not a Word, Not a Sound. It is extremely difficult for Mr. William Jennings Bryan to preserve silence, but he has managed to do it ever since Cox was nominated. Cheap. Almost any member of the cabinet will be glad to sell you a second-hand but absolutely uninjured lightning rod. No Cbanee. The French scientist who declares Jha,tn,Ihc blonde type will be extinct In 300 years must foresee a dreadful shortage of peroxide of hydrogen. (Copyright. 1020. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc. In Other Days. Evelyn Nesblt Is going in for the drama this autumn. She has been signed by Walter Hast for a produc tion for September and it will mark her first appearance in a strictly dra matic role on the stage. Hast has three plays In view for Miss Nesblt, including "A Daughter of Two Worlds," which In all probability will be the one selected for his new star. Mrs. Henrietta Jolson has secured her final divorce decree, setting at rest all rumors of reconciliation with Al Jolson. Ass Affects Marriage. London Tit Bits. No Corean couple would think of marrying without consulting the sage, who fixes the happy day for them. This he does simply by adding the bride's age to the bridegroom's, and, after determining which star rules the destiny of their united ages, h decrees that the wedding shall take place upon the day sacred to that star. ' "On nf our regular Datrons. who tuys fruit In Hood River, Yakima, the Willamette valley and California, came in here yesterday, "said Clerk Farmer at the Perkins. "He said that the heads ,f the big produce concern for which he buys, were preparing to leave New York and make their per manent home in Los Angeles. Their furniture and other goods were packed and ready to be shipped, but because of the serie3 of earthquakes they have been scared off and they have cancelled their plans." F. S. Elliott, general agent of the Union Pacific system lines at Van couver, B. C. spent yesterday in con ference with officials of the traffic department of the Oregon-Washington linos, took a drive over the highway, discussed the heavy travel that is nromised for the coming fall and win ter seasons and departed last night for the east. He will be absent for a month, visiting eastern, general agen cies of the companies and disseminat ing information about the .facitic northwest. John J. O'Brien, clerk at the Hotel Portland, has been taking his vaca tion at Rockaway, and L. A. Buell, clerk at the Hotel Oregon, has Just returned from his vacation at Twin Rocks, which is less than a mile from Rockaway. Both declare that the Til lamook beach is the finest coast re sort in Oregon, with the added at traction of bass and trout in the chain of small lakes which stretch north and south almost from Barview to Brighton. C. P. McFarlan is trying to put as much distance as possible between himself and Los Angeles. He arrived at the Benson Just long enough to register and kept heading north. Mr. McFarlan is a salmon broker, whose specialty is playing golf, and his trip in this section is for the purpose of dickering with the fish packers for he will not admit that the quakes in Los Angeles are spurring mm onwara. It Is a terrible blow to the pride of the metropolis of Eliot bay, but the fact must be recorded just the same, A British tourist. P. Dunkley of Bir mingham, England, leaned over the counter at the Hotel Portland yester day afternoon and inquired of Clerk Herman: "Is there a city at Seattle : Do any trains run there, and if so, when?" The Railroads' Needs. Gresham Outlook. The railroads must be made to function efficiently, and be put upon a paying basis; they must have ade auate eauipment. funds for expansion to meet the growing commercial needs of the country, and their se curities must be made attractive to the small Investor before we can even start on the road to economic re covery. A Hopeless Cane. Port Orford Tribune. One of our exchanges rather mourn fully admits that, with a dry con gress, it cannot see what the election of Cox can accomplish even thouch he Is as wet as the whole Pacific ocean. This is very true, but it is a safe bet the American people are not going to take any chances on the Influence of a wet president. The Albany Way. Albany Democrat. The visitor is greeted with a warm handclasp: he Is asked to stay as long as possible, to enjoy himself, investigate, invest if he wishes, and. above all, to come back again ana some day make his home with us. If he must go, Albany wishes him Godspeed, good luck and no punctures. Tvrenty-flve Years It (to. From The OrPonIan of July 20. 1S05. Washington. It is announced at army headquarters that troops will be dispatched to Jackson Hole, Wyo, the scene of the recent Indian trou bles. W. J. Abraham, a prominent manu facturer of Louisville. Ky., and chair man of the state democratic com mittee of Kentucky, arrived in the city last night. Bids for construction of a handsome new building to house the Portland academy were opened yesterday. The structure, to be erected by heirs of the Ladd estate, will be situated on the block bounded by Hall. Montgom ery. Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. The Van Horn's who own the coni cal hill .in the Hood River valley, from which a gorgeous cycloramic view can be obtained, arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday, traveling by ma chine. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Willis Van Horn. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Van Horn and Miss Kennedy. Frank J. Lonergan left last night for New York to attend the national council of the Knights of Columbus. HuKh McLain of Marshfield and J. H. Peare of La tirande, are other Ore gon delegates who will attend- the meeting, wnicn opens next juonaay. C. K. Brandenburg, merchant, ar dent republican, former postmaster and secretary of the Woodmen of the World, at Klamath Falls. Is among the arrivals at the Imperial and he predicts that Harding will carry Klamath county by a whale of a vote. C. ,C. Kelly, assistant state high way engineer. Is registered at tne im nerial with Mrs. Kelly. Dr. Herbert Eastland of Gardiner, Or., ia at the Imperial. "Where Infelicity Starts. The Dalles Chronicle. - When a woman ceases to be a pal to her husband, look out for the eternal triangle. For men do not consider that they were responsible for the wife becoming a mother or little children and the performer of many household duties. Men just realize that they have railed to get what they wanted a pal. They go out and find some girl who is a pal. As to Mayor Baker. Eugene Guard. There Is a movement on foot in Portland to get Mayor George L. Baker to run for mayor. It ought to h a coouiar movement because Baker has Droved a deservedly popu lar mayor. It is aouDtiui u Port land ever had an executive who has given the city a better administra tion, viewed from an angles. Political Perjnrera. Tillamook Headlight. Probably a large number of voters are not aware of it. but when they register as a republican or democrat they perjure themselves wnen tney vote for candidates of the opposite party. Hindsight. Grass Valley Journal. A woman whose stocking was her bank lost all her savings when her garter broke. That comes of banking in an Institution not unoer super vision of a bank examiner. Blind Man's Bloff. Weston Leader. The Great Only still insists that the democrats are dependvg on booze to elect Cox just though there were any booze nowadays that any body could depend on. Seen at the Reaches. Astoria Budget. A visit to the seashore convinces one that milady's bathing suit ot to dav Is fashioned for purposes of dis play, and the most notable thing that some wearers display is their ' nerve. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oreronlan of July 29. 1S70. Paris. The Prussians have evac uated Wersenberg and are concen trating at Mayenne, where King Wil liam arrived yesterday. Reading, Pa. The Lyman gun, made here for the French, has been tested and throws a ball ten miles, it is said. Governor Ballard and familv. late of Boise, Idaho, arrived in the city Wednesday en route to Linn county. Captain Kidder and party of North ern Pacific surveyors now here will start for Olympia tomorrow. SIPBEMACY OR MORNING PAPER Why It .Leads In the Field of Amer ican Journalism. Oregon City Enterprise. The loading newspaper of New York City is the Times. In Boston it is the Post. In Chicago it is the Tribune. In Portland it is The Oregonian. In Eugene it is the Register. In Astoria It is the Astorian. Of course there are some exceptions. There are bound to be, but these are certainly the ex ception and not the rule. The average person wants his newspaper when he or she comes downstairs in the morning. He wants to know what has happened over the world while he has been asleep. He knows, if he Is any sort of an analyst, that the morning paper has first call on 75 per cent of th-i news that breaks over the world, and 90 per cent of the news that happens locally. The aft ernoon paper must close its forms soon after noon and there is .'little that happens during the morning hours. The morning paper publishes first all of the news that comes from noon until after midnight and It is still news when it reaches the reader. This is evidenced by newspaper cir culations. The establishment of the rural route has worked to the ad vantage of the morning newspaper, which arrives at the farm house at the same time as the afternoon paper of the day before. The result has been that The Oregonian has the largest circulation of the Portland newspa pers and the Morning Enterprise has a circulation greater than that of the combined circulation in Clackamas county of the Portland afternoon papers. It Is not our desire to knock the afternoon daily. It has a field of its own, just as the morning paper has. The afternoon newspaper is for tho man who is in a hurry and is satis fied to glance at the headlines and absorb quickly the chief events re corded on the front page. Black Cat for lock. Castle Rock Advocate. That black cat that loafs around Loring drug store is the mother of five kittens, an unusual numDer even for a cat. Amblaraons Blessing;. Dallas Observer. There Is one great thing about this Oregon country. The drouth always comes when it Is expected and de sired. Japanese and Oregon. Bend Bulletin. The investigation of the Japanese question in California ought to bring results that will affect the Oregon situation as well. Low Cost of Brain Food. Silverton Tribune. There's at least one consolation left us they haven't raised the price of food for thought. Finds 179 Errors In Hymn Books. PORTLAND.. July 28. (To the Ed itor.) The past Sabbath forenoon I attended a church where tne minister read an excellent morai essay, in which there was little about sin or salvation. In the evening I attended another church where we heard an excellent extempore sermon, the primary part being on sinand salvation, the re mainder warning against any other substitute for the preaching of the gospel of Christ. The past two weeks I have ben reading one of our Portland hymn books, containing 128 hymns, and among these some most precious I found no fewer than 179 errors. Therefore, if it be right that all our ministers should follow the example of Christ and his apostles in preach ing about sin and salvation, is it not also right that the 179 errors should be taken out of one of our principal hymn books?. . M. M.