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8 TITE 3IORXTXG O R EG OXI AN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1920 FSTABLISIIED BV HENRI' I P1TTOCK. Published by The oregonian Publishing -. li (Sixth Btrou .forlland. Oregon. . Manager. tailor. The Oregonlan ! a member of the cl.ited Pres.. The Associated ' exclusively entitled to the ua I or pu uli ca tion ot all new. dispatches credited to It or not oiherwm crulted in this paper ana also the local -new. jmblished herein. Ail rights of republication of spclal dispatches herein are alo reserved. Ml bTiytiuu Bute. Invariably in Advance. By Mall.) Daily. Suhilay ir.cludt-0. one year Daily, Sunday included, six months ... J--J laily, Sunday Incmded. three -months. Xai!y, Sunday lnclud-d. one month - - Uuily, without Hunday, six months . . l)aily. without Hunday, one month . . "Weekly, one year teunday. one year " (By Carrier.) Daily, Runday included, one year ... Daily, Sunday included, three months Dally, Sunday Included, one month . . 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Mr. Debs insists on staying? in i on, he should be oDiigea. no ild stay, whether he insists or Meanwhile the propaganda to that Debs is an innocent man, Ltly punished by a wicked gov- J-nt, will be permitted to go on. heip the disloyal Debs to his of martyrdom to permit the to view him through prison I A. pardoned convict is no Debs did was to obstruct, or obstruct, the necessary .ef his country in war time. If id succeeded, Germany would was found guilty, in the 'States court, at Cleveland, eptember 12, 1918, of "at- lt to cause insubordination, ;y, mutiny or refusal of duty nilitary or naval forces, of ting to obstruct the recruit- enlistment service of the .States" and of "uttering! lan- endlng to incite, provoke and tge resistance to the United and to promote the cause of lemy." a speech delivered in June, the present candidate of the list party applauded its plat- of 1917, which called for con ius action and public opposition" ist our conduct of the war; de d that the war was caused by carried on for the sake of "capi and exhorted wage earners not submit to the draft or in any y aid their country. Speaking of e government and the courts, he id: "With every drop in my veins despise their law and defy them!" All this ha admitted under oath in court and has never recanted a word of it. If Debs is not guilty of dis loyalty, there is no such crime. character, they gain confidence in his promises ind in his ability to keep them. Promises of the demo crats will be judged by their per formance in the last eight years. As the promises made at Baltimore and St. Louis have been broken, those made at San Francisco will be held of small value. After all, campaign issues are not made by the tricks and schemes of politicians; they are made by the people. Elections are decided ac cording to the opinion of the people on the subjects that are uppermost in the public mind. These subjects now are the failure of the "Wilson administration to prepare for war. to bring peace, to make this -nation a member of a league which would keep peace without unwarranted ob ligations, to bring order and economy out of the governmental chaos and extravagance which the war- left be hind. The party which has failed so utterly cannot be expected to suc ceed when its best hope is a gumshoe hunt for wet votes and when its suc cess would mean domination of the government by the league of all the Tammanies. COX SEEKS A NEW ISSUE. Governor Cox has been feeling for solid ground on which to stand. He has been groping for the kind of ap peal to the people which will win votes in one quarter without losing as many in another. He would like to make the issue of the campaign, 'but will the people accept the issue that he chooses or in the form which lie gives it? He does not know, therefore he offers them such plati tudes as this: My campaign will be dedicated to the task of bringing peace with honor, of re adjusting the affairs of civilization nnd of creating a new day out of which we will xuake the bast of the lessons of the past. Everybody Is for peace with honor. Can Mr. L'px, who defended the Lu sltania massacre and truckled to the Germans m 1915 and 1916, give a hetter defftiitlon from that of men who refusal to be neutral in thought after the fjill meaning of Germany's attack on flvlllzation became appar ent? Everybody favors "readjusting the affairs! of civilization," but what does he reah by that? The kaiser tried to readjust them; Lenine is try in,? to do sii.v.There is wide scope for variety of inn'lnion between the two. What is" ofex' opinion? His statiment that he will "dedi cate" himiacHfVto these purposes does not agree Wfth his campaign man aprer's sloh:". "Peace, progress and prosperity? -Which has not called forth the taiutest echo of approval. He appea fr jo make an attempt to c onciliate YV llson element which lie defeated .-at Kan Francisco, but that eiemjtftV'HiiU bo content with nothing ldMif-.ttuin "solemn referen dum" on ,m(iL,"Wjlson league and the THE FACTS POLITEIi". STATED. Let us for mere politeness' sake accept as correct the statement of a democratic woman correspondent, in a letter today, that the sixty-fifth congress might .have submitted the suffrage amendment to the states, and thus given all eligible women the vote in time for the 1920 election. But neither politeness nor any other consideration will permit us to over look the gross misstatement that the republicans in the Sixty-fifth con gress prevented submission and are therefore responsible for the present suffrage impasse. The Sixty-fifth congress was democratic in both houses. They controlled the com mittees and the entire organization, and made its record. The amend ment did not see the light of day until the sixty-fifth, congress . passed away, and the sixty-sixth, republican In house and senate, took prompt and favorable action. . It is dificult to write in moderate terms of the scheme of democratic propaganda on suffrage. Twenty nine republican states have ratified and six democratic, leaving the total one short of the necessary thirty-six. Yet there are persons who have the audacity to say that the republican party is purposely withholding the thirty-sixth state. There .are two or three republican states which have rejected suffrage, or have not acted, and half a dozen or more democratic states. Yet if all the remaining thir teen were republican, .how is it pos sible to dispute the record, so credit able to the republican party? It is queer democratic doctrine that a governor of a state must yield to the demands of a nominee for president. It proposes on its face an open perversion and invasion of state's rights. Yet it would seem that the republican party is to be rebuked and chastised for its failure to con trol from Marion, or Washington, or somewhere else outside, the action of Vermont and Connecticut, while the democratic party is to go blameless for the rejection by Mississippi or any of the others in the dark belt which don't want suffrage, and will never agree to it except under compulsion. The contribution of the democratic party to the cause of national suf frage is six states; of the republican party twenty-nine. All the dodging. quibbling, badgering, complaining, fault-finding and fussing around in the world will not change the plain facts. Such things are indeed an ac knowledgment that the women have. and have had, no hope of suffrage nationally, except through the repub lican party. achieve mechanical perfection. Color and speaking voices, clarity and utter elimination of grayness and shadow, will combine to render the marvel" all the more natural. But the im portant conclusion is that as the mere mechanics of the craft progresses there will be an attendant elevation of the art itself. Comedy and prob lem play alike will beat- the hall marks of enduring worth and death less films will follow. A GOOD INVESTMENT. We at home do not fully realize the effectiveness of the work of the Pacific Northwest Tourist associa tion. To be sure, all have noted the great number of summer tourists. Thus we have observed the results but not the wor'; that produced them. That has been done else where. Moreover, the attractions of the Northwest as a summer recrea tion ground have been so long real ized by tl.a folk ot the northwest that it seems but natural that others should come to partake of the joys of our scenery and climate. Little thought is given to the means by which these attractions have been made known elsewhere. But in the localities where the work of selling the Pacific northwest as a summer resort has been per formed the genius of the selling campaign is attracting attention and genuine interest. Illustrative of this are two editorials from widely sep arated newspapers re-published in another column - of The Oregonian today. The plan of co-operation by which Oregon, WashiRston and Brit ish Columbia pool thoir funds in a venture in which each is represented as fully us the other and community of interest is given full recognition is now presented elsewhere as a plan that is worth copying widely. The Pacific Northwest Tourist as sociation is financed by appropria tions of public money. The money has been returned many times over, and everybody has directly or indi rectly profited. It has been a wise investment money well spent. to retain it for use in making himself the Napoleon of Russia. Peace would bring revival of for eign trade. Foreign business men would flock t Russia and demand the same rights and security as they enjoy in other ; countries. Russian business men would go abroad and would learn how they have been de ceived about the worldwide spread of bolshevism. Private trade would interfere with the prodigious graft of the extraordinary commission and with the soviet monopoly. Hence the difficulties which Krassin encoun tered in negotiating for trade rela tions. Peace is fraught with many dangers to the soviet, both from the army and from foreign intercourse. Trotsky seems to be ths man of the future. An ex-Russian officer says In an article to the London Times which reveals intimata knowledge of present conditions: Whereas Lenin is a dreamer, for whom Karl Marx stands as a Christ and his doc trine as a gospel, Trotsky is essentially a man of action, unswayed by any. socialistic shibboleths and prompted only by insati able personal ambition. Lenin Is fanatically devoted to his soviet system; Trotsky is only waiting till the time Is ripe to fling the Soviets aside and himself seize sole dictatorship. Lenin's star is now on the decline, that of Trbtsky Is rising. Destruction of all that had been built by imperial Russia has been completed by Lenin, but he utterly fails in building a communist state on the ruins. Tha dreamer's day seems to be done; the time for the man of action Is come or at hand On Trotsky's decision hangs the question whether he shall use his army to overturn the system of cor ruption and incompetence by which Lenin attempted to establish the dic tatorship of the proletariat and shall make himself a dictator to restore Russia, or whether' he shall lead that army in new campaigns to conquer Europe as Napoleon led the grand army of France. A FEW DISCREPANCIES. In his letter accepting the socialist nomination for vice-president Sey mour Stedman says: Freedom of speech has become a by word, the 'liberty of the press Is a tst liberty. " r Then how comes it that he writes his tirade against capital and his eulogy of the socialist heaven? Ana how comes it to be published? It appears in the newspapers that he says are controlled by capital. He writes of "thousands of spies" employed "by a "capitalist despotism" but he says nothing of the other thousands of spies sent out by the bolshevist despotism. He talks of a "capitalist oligarchy," but nobody -prevents him from seek ing votes, or men and women from voting for him. The socialist heaven Is revealed in his demand for "control of govern ment for the producers by the producers,"- no doubt meaning the pro letariat. The proletariat is supposed to control the government of Russia, but so far is it from being composed of producers that the whole country is starving because it has ceased to produce. Like all of hia kind, Mr." Stedman Is not opposed to tyranny but to gov ernment by any others than his own party, for he wants to establish class tyranny similar to that which has wrecked Russia. Mr. Cox knows he ''?.B(rWjjj- T-n, that issue, for his hSt-"i rti-'Pvril' up with the wet ele tia Jft'.feaSt, which cares noth- lir.-jiPjSVefson s league Dy compan- jariuv.beer that has "a kick." fj.iHt. Xf. Cot .does not venture to t.ilk rt things jwhifh will please the v;ed& tor he remembers that the west i:t bona dry aid that without the ete-.torai :' votes of some western yfastra iecajijrhjt win. He will, there f6re :ibe(jtitv'eA to profess an inten tion Jjmfffe prohibition in order ic5rfui the west while his henchmen h i lima, ai 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 the east the differ tm liiilweeii enforcement of the law th;it is and enforcement of the law they expact to get.' The stalwart frii mTSf prohibition will not be de teived by his assurances, for they know Cox by bis friends. The bosses of Tammany and other machines rissuiinated him because he is wet, it ad that fact will keep dry suspicion alive. Harding is pledged to enforce the law, and his pledge will be valued by tha fact that he does not owe his nomination to the wets; that makes it worth par. Try as he may to get away from tha Iraptie, Cox will be dragged back to. Itr ; Wilson democrats will persist in talking about it. keeping it to the front and demanding that Cox make rood on his declaration that he is of :ae mind with the president. The one de.ire of Wilson and of all tha members ot his administration is to get a popular vindication, which they can get by no other means than a favorable verdict in an election that has been fought on the main issue that they have created. If Cox should resist efforts to keep the league to the front, the repub licans would compel him to do so, With them the issues are Wilson's league, Wilson's "inefficiency, VH on's whole record. Against these will be set Harding's practical plans for peace and a league such as the American people are disposed to join Harding's programme of reconstruc tion of the government on tha lines of efficiency and reduced taxation. As the people lcurn more of Harding's THE FUTURE OF THE FILMS. One used to hear a great deal about elevating the stage. That was in the pre-cinema days, before folk took their choice of histrionic nutri ment ffom the menus of a dozen varying motion picture programmes. It needed it then and its need had not waned with the years. But it is increasingly true that the attention df that vast conglomeration known as the general public has been with drawn, to considerable extent, from the real stage to the offerings of the screen. So that the old plea for im provement, for less suggestive frivol and empty pranking, for more merit and educational morality, has prop erly shifted to the motion picture. Right-thinking producers who are compelled to serve both art and the dollar, have made numerous at tempts to achieve in the motion pic ture that happy blend of art and un- pragmatic altitude of thought that will improve the public appetite and the public mind. Yet of these endeavors, with but few exceptions, it may be said that the depicted results were at best but bunglesome, fantastic and preachy, and doomed to the upbraidings of disappointment ror fluent press agencies had ranted of master strokes and brought forth tho poor proof in dark, dank melodramatics. There is soil here for the suspicion that the motion picture mechanics, as they constructed the plots and the stage piay, nad ever an eye to the effects that would best be calculated to stab the emotional centers of their audi ences and evoke tears and hysteria rather than definite impressions and subsequent thought. The motion picture," for all its comparative new ness and novelty, finds itself in these gropings for altruism stalled before the same barriers that balked the stage-enacted drama. It must serve the dollars first of all, and Instruct as Incidental circumstances will per mit. Yet none save the most grumov of critics would deny that the field of the cinema in the future is bright with most roseate prospects, nor that it is dedicated, wittingly or otherwise. to an educational service only secon dary to the schools and the press. Booth Tarkington, who has written cleanly, and lovably, for the refresh ment of a folk grown weary of nau seous novels and salacious short stories, beholds the motion pictures as advanced no further than the pre- primitive stage ot development, and predicts for it an unclaimed kingdom of artistic supremacy. Let the touch be deft enough, says Tarkington, and the public will not rebell at the les Bon, the uplift, of the films. "I think that nowadays we are pretty crudely struggling to get a little upward in the new expression." ventures the creator of Penrod. speaking of the pictures. "In the na ture of the business the quality is still kept under; the necessity of en tertainmg the stupidest parts of audiences tends toward timidity, People hate tdthink,' it is said. But that isn't true. They do not hate anything they catch trying to make them think." A day will come, cf course, when the motion picture will well-nijh BY-PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES Intimate Insists).. Into Personal Habits of Poet Tennyson Tennyson was a great smoker and liked to have someone to talk with after working hours. Pipes would be lighted as soon as the visitor was seated, the visitor being permitted to choose from the large collection of smoking paraphernalia, including ev erything from the long church war den to the Turkish narghile, which tha poet possessed. Tennyson pre ferred a white clay pipe.- He kept a box of them beside him. from which he would choose one as he talked, fill and light it, and when he had smoked it out would break the pipe in two and cast it aside. He never smoked his pipe more than one time. The poet also liked his glass of wine, and a story is told ot him which il lustrates, not only his lilting for the vintage of the grape, but his tendency to absorption and absentmindedness. A friend visited him once and as they talked they drank from a bottle of port wine. The friend's glass was emptied," but the fact did not pene trate to Tennyson's attention, who went on talking and drinking and pouring for himself glass after glass. The bottle was finished and the poet said: "Shall we have another? It is a very good bottle, don't you think?" - A second bottle was brought and from it the visitor had ona glass and Tennyson consumed tha remain der in the fashion in which the first had disappeared. Early next morning the guest awoke to find Tennyson standing by his bed regarding him with friendly solicitude. "How are you this morning?" was his query. "All right, thanks," replied the guest. "Sure you're all right?" persisted tha poet. "Yes, quite sure." "Ah, hut pray, my dear friend," said Tennyson seriously, "do you always drink two bottles of port after dinner?" r Those Who Come anct Go. MENACE OF THE RED ARMY. Ludendorffs summons to the world to unite for defense of civili sation against bolshevism is no doubt colored with German motives and must be discounted accordingly. Since the war with Germany ended In fact, the game 01 the militarists has been to hold up bolshevism as a bogey to frighten the allies, to cause them to moderate their demands and not to push enforcement of the treaty. But the facts on wfiich Ludendorff bases his alarm cannot be disputed, for his assertions are corroborated from other sources. The soviet has organized an army of 1,750,000 men, which independent observers declare to be well com manded by officers of the imperial regime and to be well disciplined. Aided by propaganda at which the bolshevlsts have ' shown themselves to excel all others, this army has crushed all the forces of the white Russians except Wrangel's remnant of Denikin's army in the Crimea and hap overpowered the Poles. Trotsky, the war minister, has proved himself an organizing genius equal to Carnot of the first French revolution, has taken direct command and has proved himself daring, resourceful and al ways victorious. The people are so dis gusted with the reactionary tenden cies of the whites and with the wa vering of the allies that they now support the soviet against foreign in tervention. "Forgetting internation alism 'for he time, the soviet has appealed successfully to patriotism against the Poles, who are Russia's hereditary enemies. The allies' aid to Poland, being limited to supply of arms and ammunition and of a few officers, has proved ineffective, and victorious bolshevism was threaten ing to overwhelm that republic and to sweep on into Germany when the armistice was arranged. The red army is now the greatest in the world and resembles those hordes which in -ancient times poured out of Asia to overrun Europe. As the ancient tribes were driven by hunger to seek new homes for their growing numbers, the red army after wrecking Russia seeks new lands to ravage. Russian industry has been ruined and could not keep such an army supplied with war material through an extended campaign. It has been fighting with what material remained from the imperial govern ment, what was captured Jrom the whites and probably with what has been surreptitiously sold by Germany. If the western powers could apply their energy and industry to an Unin terrupted campaign, the reds must be defeated by exhaustion of mate rial which they could not replace. But the western powers neither Germany nor the allies are not united. Their working people have Deen deeply infected with bolshevism, and those who are not ready to em brace it oppose war on it, but favor recognition of the soviet. With such division among its enemies, the red army might c.onquer Europe but for its dependence on a ruined country. The most serious obstacle to peace is this gTeat army. It would not willingly be converted into a labor army, as Trotsky decreed before the Polish campaign. It might refuse to be demobilized and, if it were, it would aggravate enmity to tho soviet, which is general and was merely suspended during war on Russia's enemies. It is a powerful instrument m Trotsky's hand, and he may wish THE NATURE OF EPIDEMICS. The more complete the statistics of the great influenza epidemic are made, the mora baffled we are In our efforts to arrive at the cause. The report of the British registrar-gen eral of statistics, reviewed in the London Times, for example, confirms first impressions as to the catas trophic nature of the visitation, but leaves us as bewildered as ever. It shows that there was a "sudden and complete change," to use the words of the report, in the summer of 1918 Prior to this time a relatively small proportion of victims had been un der tha age of thirty-five. Over fifty five, deaths were most frequent. In the subsequent course of the disease, it was the young men, in the very prime of physical life, who suffered most. Merely to say that a change must have taken place in the infec ting organism, which students regard as obvious, is to throw no new light, on causation. The theory ihat an entirely new organism was to blame, 1 and that the later stages of the epi demic were in reality a separate plague, however; is rejected by scien tific men on the basis of the evi dence. "All the weight of the testimony," says the report, "goes to show that the influenza of 1918 was the same as that", of former years." If this proves to be true, it is most import ant because of its possible bearing on other maladies. If, after we have succeeded measureably in abating the violence of the onslaught of a certain type of germ, it still retains capacity for sudden access of vio lence, we have no guarantee except constant and unceasing vigilance against the changing of one of our "common" diseases ' into. a tragic plague. We are discovering again how very little we really know about causation' and development of germ diseases, though it Is not strange that we have not mastered them, consid ering how relatively short has been the time since investigation into this branch of science began. As the whole lymotlc theory was developed in the first instance, mak ing possible the advancement that we have made in sanitary science, so now the world awaits another genius who shall tell it how these peculiarly virulent types of bacteria have a way of appearing suddenly, as if created from nowhere out of nothing, and then as unaccountably disappear. This is one of the new tasks for scientists to set themselves to work at. There is, meanwhile, more than usual call for education in the right way of living, with due regard to the simple principles of nutrition for the young, and of diet and exercise for everybody. Even the well-born and well-reared did not always escape the influenza scourge, but it is shown by reports on this and Other epidem ics that a vigorous, disease-resisting physique and a good eugenic history are not to be sneezed at as a form of life assurance. I hold by the advice of the Divine Master who told his discipljs to go a-fishing, and said to them when they were weary, "Come ya your selves apart Into a desert place and rest awhile." I remember the un conquerable French poilus whom I saw in their dugouts playing cards, and in the citadel of Verdun enjoy ing merry vaudeville shows. I re call the soldiers whom I saw delib erately fishing on tha banks of the Marne and the Meuse while the guns roared round us-' I remember Theodore Roosevelt (no slacker), who whenever the chance came rejoiced to go a-hunting, the most serious men are not the most solemn. I believe that a normal human being needs relaxation and pleasure to keep him from strained nerves and a temper of. fanatical insanity. I believe that the New Social State, whatever it may be, will not endure, nor be worth preserving, unless it has room with in it for simple play, and pure fun and uncommercial joy and free, happy. wholesome recreation. Henry Van Dyke in the July Scribner. A. E. Gipson of Caldwell, Idaho, editor of the Idaho Farmer, passi through Portland on his way to Rose burg to attend the funeral of his brother. Captain J. C. Gipson, who died in the Soldiers" home. Captain Gipson lived in Portland before go ing to Roseburg and was a member o George Wright post. Grand Army of the Republic. He was a naval of ficer during the civil war and served under Admirals Foote ana rarragut At one time he commanded tha gun boat Carondelet, which was the first boat to run the batteries at Island No. 10, on the Mississippi river. This exploit is given considerable prom inence in the history of naval opera tions on the Mississippi during the war. Captain Gipson commanded othr war vessels during the sixties and was twice promoted for gallant and meritorious conduct. we was quiet and unassuming and spoke little of his own exploits or any service he may have rendered. Captain Gip son was a native of Wisconsin and later lived in South Dakota, where he held several important county of fices. Tha captain was about 83 years old. "We believe in personal liberty, and we are opposing the anti-tobacco fight being carried on in some parts of tha country and we want congress to amend the Volstead act eo that light wines and beer can be had in the homes." declared J. C. Merwln. who is organizing a caravan of Camels In Portland. "There are 400 caravans In the United States,. Cali fornia having more than a score. We expect about" a dozen in Oregon. Wa are not a political organisation, but we agree to support candidates for tha legislature and for congress who believe in lersonal liberty. The Camels have coma into being as a sort of protest against prohibition. We don't want the saloon reinstated. but we do believe in the personal liberty granted us under the federal constitution and we want light wines and beer without becoming law breakers." Members of the organl zation wear a cute little sky-blue camel, rampant, as their insignia. He is a stockholder In the United States National bank; he owns the Columbia theater building; he. owns other property in Portland and he owns vast tracts of virgin timber in Lincoln and other counties in Ore- eron. and he has timber holdings else where. He is a multi-millionaire and his name is John W. Blodgett. Mr. Blodgett arrived at the Benson yes terdav from Grand Rapids. Mich, with a party, and will remain here several days. With Mr. and Mrs. Blodgett -are Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hadley of jncw Haven, Conn., and Mr. and Mrs. Norman E. Ditman of New York City. Immediately alter registering at the Benson yesterday, all hands chartered sight-seeing cars and put in two hours - looking over some of the local points of interest. Mr. .Blodgett is on a pleasure trip. PLAJf GETS OTHERS' ATTENTION Co-operatloa la Making; Northwest Ton r 1st Resort Worth Copying:. San Francisco Chronicle. Perhaps California may draw a use ful lesson from the example of tha Pacific northwest tourist assoclaion and its snccess in drawing tha atten tion of the United States to tha region It represents. Note, first of all. that tha title of this association names no city, county, state or even country. Its activities are as impartial as its title. Its fun damental idea is that the interest of every part of the Pacific northwest is the interest of every other part. irrespective of boundary lines, even though they be international. Therefore we find British Columbia a partner with Oregon and Washing ton in the association. The govern ments of these three states, one Cana dlan and two of our union, find the i money for this co-operaive bureau." and it advertises them all together as one region. The first advantage of j this is obvious in that a single over head pays for the administration of the three funds:-the second, and the chlefest, is that whatever ona state has to offer is made to serve as an added attraction to tha resources of the others. This co-operation is doing things. It is calculated that it has raised the amount spent by tourists in the Pa cific northwest from . 000. 000 unoer the old competitive plan to $35,009, 000 a year and by increasing tha number of visitors bus ir-so facto added to the number who 0ecid.e to stay. Tha association carries on its campaign throughout the United States and Canada, with newspaper advertising as the backbone of its publicity. . But no method is neglected, and no people. Give ear to the directors' con fossion of the insidious manner in which they aie picking off our r.wn tourists and even spreading tl.eir More Truth Than Poetry- By James J Mostsgao. THE LOST TRAIIj. I know a little fellow who has been to magic lands. Where forests, built of cobweb trees, are filled with goblin bands. With-tiny folk that dance at nigat beneath the sailing1 moon. To weird unearthy music which tha dreamy crickets croon. While beetles hurry to and fro with. trays of things to taJ. That quite refresh the dancers when they pause to rest their feet.. But though I want to go there, it la all of no avail. For he says that he's forgotten where one goes to take the trail. And he has been to frost land where . the pixies come and go In funny mantles made of 'gleaming crystal snow; Where skaters sail serenely over. Ice that s paper thin. And now and then a fat one is tripped up and tumbles in. The fireflies on the beaches keep tha baby pixies warm And no one ever stays at home, de spite the ecldest storm. I'd like to watch them with vim; we would hurry off today. But it's ages since he's bn there, and he doesn't know the way. And timetlmes of an evening, when I look across the years, A dim and distant country filled with fairy folk appears. And faintly I remember seeing all the curious sights. That he has seen so lately all the pixies, all the rights. All tha gay nocturnal dancing, all the fireflies by the shore And the troops ot little skaters scud' ding o'er the forest floor. And I long to hasten back there, for another pleasant view You up-state people, come to Port land next week. Flock in. There's lots of welcome and lots of room. The eating is great, the water for in ternal and external use is fine, and Portland knows how to entertain. Come on! The sub-committee on immigra tion finds there is an "underground railway" for bringing in Japanese, something everybody knows but can hot prove. That is the work cut out for the sub-committee. There's an idea for the movies in the case of the burglar in Phila delphia who had tha hug bug so bad that he tried to embrace all the womenfolk he robbed. That screen would be a "scream." Flirtation with a blonde whom he met in a movie house cost a man $40 when she lifted his purse. Then he hollered to tne police. The wise "gink," if such there be, picks his risk. The man who catches Grover Cleveland Bergdoll around here will get his name in all the papers in the land, and also $500 reward from the Ame rlcan Legion. All tha Denver carmen are on strike for an increase Of 1? cents an hour. The service commission in Colorado is not a resourceful body, it would seem. Forerunner of all the automobile road books of today was "A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America.'" published by Christopher Colles in 1789. This was tha first road .book printed in the United States. It is a quaint and rare old volume, only five copfs being known. The maps have special signs to in dicate the Presbyterian and Episco palian churches, the town houses. grist mills, blacksmith shops, bridges. taverns and jails. The symbol for the last named is a gibbet. The au thor notes also the names of the prop erty owners along the way. In tell ing of the advantages of his survey or road book Colles wrote: "A traveler will find here so plain and circumstantial a description of the road that whilst he has the draft with him it will be impossible for him to miss his way; he will have the sat isfaction of knowing the names ot many persons on the road: If his horse should want a shoe, or his car riage be broke, he will, by the bare inspection of the draft, be also to de termine whether he must go back ward or forward to a blacksmith's shop." Oakland Enquirer. mm' The word "depot" generally spelled In the French style, with the cir cumflex accent over' the "o"- should not be Used id the sense ot "station," meaning a stopping place for railroad or other trains. A depot Is a place or warehouse for the storage of goods awaiting transfer or use, and the word cornea from the same Latin word as. does our word "deposit." Its introduction into the English lan guage arose from a mistaken idea that the French used it to mean rail way station:- the French word for railway station is not "depot," how- aver, but "gare." In recent years the men who name the railroad stations of the United States have recognized the error that is, the grammatical error in volved in calling a station a depot. and they have avoided it in many cases. Thus, the great stopping place of tha Pennsylvania railroad In New York city is known as the Pennsyl vania station. The other large sta tion in New York city is the end of two lines and Is therefore known of ficially not as the Grand Central sta tion, but as the Grand Central ter minal. Columbus Dispatch. - In a certain Sunday school on a Sunday afternoon ona of the teach ers became somewhat faint, and was placed upon a form while tha usual restoratives were applied. Suddenly a little girl stood up and persistently called "Teacher! teach er!" inorder to attract the attention of one of those who were attending to the unfortunate Invalid. At last the little one was heard, and the teacher, turning around, asked in a somewhat hasty manner: "Well, what is it?" "Please, teacher." replied the child, "my father makes coffins." Pear son's Weekly. Jasse WlM returned from a vaca tion at Rockaway yesterday with a most vivid impression of Tillamook bay. With W. B. Alderman, council man of Tillamook, and others, he went clamming on the bay. A wind came up, the tide began running, there was only one pair of oars In the heavy boat, and Councilman Alderman was tho onlv man who Knew tne gentle are of propelling-an Armstrong launch. The party was finally rescuea Dy u power boat. That special train of gasoline for Portland from Oklahoma should be placarded and bannered to tell the world the tourist can be supplied here. It will be observed the anti-hanging crowd is making a loud noise saying nothing since the week's hap penings in Umatilla .county. A bigger man than most folks are aware will be in Portland Friday, his job is vice-presidentlng this nation- Cattle raisers, disgusted with their losses, are slowly quitting the busi ness, on account of the low prices the packers consent to pay for live beef. The-consumers, who are equal ly disgusted with the prices the pack ers make them pay, are beginning to make threats of quitting the beef con suming business, and between tha consumers and the stocKmen, the packers must be scared half to death. Kansas City Star. ... Wonder what has become of that flock of assistants to Attorney-General Palmer wh'o were traveling about tha country at government expense boosting the candidacy of A. Mitchell Palmer for president and working on the high-cost-of-living campaign? They were a wonderful outfit- Los Angeles was afflicted with several or the kidney. Los Angles Times. "We're building a $35,000 city hall a. Rainier. Look at it when driving the lower Columbia highway," says Fred Herman, city attorney of Rai nier. In bis town the people are hop ing that Long-Bell Lumber company will locaVe one of the four sawmills they plan building at Rainier. There are 2000 feet of waterfront property available, which the lumber concern could use. , E. M. Condit is at the Imperial from Tillamook, where the city is laying ronrrete navement. It is somewnat of a job to keep the men at the wheel barrows working. Men nave gone to the paving work from fortiana. wheeled Band a couple of hours and then quit, but despite little things like that, the concrete is steadily be- ng spread. Miss M. Fischer came from Spokane tn the Hotel rortlana sunaay. rt. Rinehart came from Oakland, Cal.. to the same hotel the same day. They secured a marriage license, had "bet ter or worse" pronounced on them, se cured reservations on a California train and departed just like that. It was 108 in the shade in the out skirts of Phoenix, Ariz. A dog was chasing a rabbit and both were walk ing. The weather was too hot for them to run. Under such conditions. Mr. and Mrs. Neail and Thomas Eng lish left there for the balmy climate of Oregon. From the oldest town in the United States comes Mrs. M. J. Deardorff to the Benson. Mrs. Deardorff lives at st AuiruBtine. Fla.. and while it 1 older than all others, it hasn't kept pace with some in tne way oi increas ing Its population Blistered from Bunburn and muscles achinc from hard work. A. B. Camp bell, manager of the Multnomah, re turned vertedday from his restful va cation. Mr. Campbell's hang-out is on the shore of Lake narrow, wasning ton. According to E. O. McCoy, banker of The Dalles, the Columbia river highway is now paved between Port land and Hood River with the excep tion of 300 yards. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Coy motored down and are at the Hotel Portland. Wearing one or tho first Harding campaign buttons seen in Hood Rjver, W. B. Dickinson arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Willis Peck and Grace Peck. ' Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dlskeback and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dlskeback Jr. of Cincinnati. O., arrived at the Hotel Oregon yesterday, where they met thoir relatives. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Dlskeback and Helen and Donald, of Salem. Chauncey D. Butler, formerly of Mountain City. Tenn., later a deputy In the office of the secretary of state at Salem and now permanently locat ed at The Dalles, is registered at the Imperial. Will H. Barrett of Albany, where he Is in the implement business, is at the Hotel Portland while doing some buying. propaganda among Calfornians. quote: "In the spring months before the tourists started from California for their eastern homes we have carried on an effective campaign in Califor nia, advising tourists to return via the Pacific nirthwest. This has had an excellent effect in the direction de sired, but it has, apart from that, suggested to these visitors that tneir next trip to the coast be to the Pacific northwest, and has also helpefi to educate the people of California to the fact that the Pacific .northwest is their logical summer playaroSid." We will have to admit that the Pa cific northwest tourist association is an enterprising organisation. But what we wish to emphasise for Cali fornians Is the value of such co-op eration as that by which Oregon, Washington and British Coumbia are so notably advancing their common Interest- Such co-operation may like wise be practiced to advantage within the limits of a single state. Indianapolis Star. We have an Infinite variety of nat ural attractions, many of which are Incomparably greater than anything Europe has to offer, and the people of this country are awakening to that truth. One of the most effective agen cies of enlightenment along that line is maintained by Oregon and Wash ington and the i rovince of British Co lumbia Those governments have joined In financings the Pacific north west tourist association, to supply free of charge reliable information as to the attractions and resources of the international Pacific northwest. That organization has performed invaluable service to the area it repre sents and to tre thousands of trav elers who have gone from the eastern parts of this country and Canada. It has educated tens of thousands of us stay-at-homes as to the wonders of the Pacific northwest and eroused an nterest that makes each of us pros pective visiters, or at least intelli-gc-r:tly appreciative admirers. The Pa cific northwest tourist association has set an eximple that should result in similar i.ndertaxings In other parts of the country that too long have neglected the assets they have In na ture's scenic marvels. We But the trail one takes to get there well. It s slipped my memory, too. Why He Refused. Mr. Bryan is like lots of other peo ple. He is - for prohibition but ha doesn't like to associate with prohi bitionists. a ' a Judging By What Yoa See. It looks as if somebody had been locking the bonded warehouse after the whisky had been stolen. Too Many of 'Em. , It would ba all right If only candi dates made porch campaisns, but burglars insist on doing it, too. Pity. By Grace E. Hall. I wonder what our lives would be if pity went away. And eyes were blind to what they saa around them every day; And if tha heart no sadnesa t;.ew when others' sorrows came. How cold tha world for all oa few encourage now that flamo. The pinched face of a little child tjs patnos ana its neea. A crippled man who bravely smiled and made your warm heart bleed; The women slaves who needs must go the weary round each day. To keep some humble hearth aglow - all these pass on -their way. The heart of human kinship lies in pity s sweet domain, It springs to meet tha pleading eyes that speak of grief or pain; A kindly pressure of the hand soma stumbling soul may guide O, what would make us understand, if pity really died? In Other Days. WHO IS TO BLAME ON SUFFRAGE'? Republican Party Herein Is Said to Be Responsible. PORTLAND, Aug. 2. (To the Edi tor.) Oregon women will ba interest. ed to know that Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt la in- Tennessee to confer with the Tennessee auxiliaries of the na tlonal body who have the ratification campaign in charge. - ' "For the republicana to bring tha federal suffrage amendment within one state of ratification and leave it there is nothing short' of betraying the women of the country," said Miss Catt. "It Is mere Up music to chant that of the 3 ratifying states 29 have re publican legislatures. Women the cctntry over are calling back the question, "Is it by preaf rangement that the republicans fall back on this so-called good record?' ' It is not enough to point to past performances the republican party must finish tha tatk." Every woman knows that neither Governors Clement nor Holcomb would dare take the stand they have taken unless they were sustained by a leadership superior to their own. They have repudiated Senator Hard ing's leadership. Whose leadership do they follow? Governor Clement- of Vermont ra fuses to be guided by either Harding or the republican party uovernor Holcomb likewise refuses. It is not the local politicians whom tho women voters of tha country hold responsible for the failure of the re publican party to complete the rati fication of "the federal amendment in time for the 18 unenfranchised states to take part in the 1920 elections. It Is not they who are Inviting tha votes of the women next November. It is true that the republicans were In the majority in the 66th congress which submitted the federal suffrage amendment, but the whole truth is that the republicans could have sub mitted the amendment in the 63th congress. Had it been submitted then it would have been ratified In 1919 and the Mates spared the costly ex perience of special sessions. It Is a significant fact that the group of senators who determined to push Mr. Harding forward as candi date, waft the Identical group which presented the submission of the feder al suffrage amendment and is now preventing the completion of ratifi cation. If the democrats lift tha amend ment into complete ratification then claims on the women voters will be greatly strengthened. MARIA L. T. HIDDEN. Twenty-five Years Abto. From The Oregonian of August S. 1S95. Columbus, u. The state populist convention met here yesterday and . J. S. Coxey, who is present, is an avowed candidate for the nomination as governor. Portland last night had its firBt view of bicycle races run at night by electric light, when contests were held on Portland field. George F. Ormsby, vice-president and attorney of the social reform league in New England, Is in Portland investigating opportunities the north west offers for colonization purposes. Calculations of the cannerymen are again upset by tha arrival of a big run of salmon in the river and big takes are reported as far up - as Kalama. Leon Cohn of Pendleton, where he manages the People's warehouse, was fn Portland shaking hands with bis fellow democrats yesteraay. John M. Williams, who served for a time as adjutant-general of the state, Is registered at tha Imperial from Eu gene. ' J. H. Melster, one of the department managers for the Shevlin-Hlcks saw mill at Bend, is registered at tha Ben son. W. G. Trill, a stockman of Fossil, has brought his family to Portland for a visit. They are at the Perkins. M. C. Churchill, who is interested in the timber business at Albany, la an arrival at the Perkins. E. E. Johnson, the mayor of Co. quille. Coos county, is registered at the Imperial. Dr. Cen- llnrlng Possibility Infolded, Slosson's "Creative Chemistry," tury Company.) "At last man has risen to the level of the worm and can spin threads to suit himself. He can rival the wasp in the making of paper. He is no longer dependent upon the flax and the cotton plant, but grinds up trees to get his cellulose. A New York newspaper uses up nearly 2000 acres of forest a year. Cellulose cannot serve as food although some of the vegetarian animals, notably the goat, have a digestive apparatus that can handle it. It is not likely that tho human stomach, even under the pres sure of famine, is able to get much nutriment out of sawdust. But by di gesting with acid, sawdust can ba transformed into sugars and these' by a process into alcohol so it would be posslbla for a man after ha had read his morning paper to get drunk on it." Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of August 3. 1S70 New York. A special caule tells of very extensive "war preparations be ing made at many points in Prussia, while the Rhine provinces are being strongly entrenched. A small field piece was brought over from Vancouver. Wash., yester day to be used on the occasion of tha reception to General Canby. T. M. Gatch, having accepted the presidency of Willametta university, has resigned as superintendent of schools ot Multnomah county and the place has not yet been filled. TO AN AEROPLANE. O winged giant of the' sky! O wonder of a wondrous age! That dares aerial fields to gage. Nor fears to pierce life cloud-fleeca high. . In cold sunlight you seeming lift As lightly as a lovers dream To where tho upper ether-stream Flows blue along the cloud-wall's rift. It matters naught, thougn Intervene Billows of sea; though mountains rise; Your onward path all level lies Above the changing, checkered scene. You thrill me as along you skim. Swift through the chill I watch your flight, , Till slowly fading from my sight You sink inu the distance dim. Tell me! what magic to you clings That humming birds from scented bow'rs Forsake sweet nectar-giving flow'rs To follow where the skylark wings? Is it they would rather sip The sweets from nightly-blooming stars Shim'ring In Silver eamovars? Or, haply, high in moonlight dip? Ah, wonder-winged, from this great glen My thoughts ascend and soar like you: Like you, their flight at end, they too Must needs return to earth again. E. J. P. Ejectment for Non-payment ot Heat. PORTLAND. Aug. 2. (To the Edi-- tor) If a enant's rent is due on the first of the month and he refuses to pay same on account of house being sold, how soon can I get possession ft- non-payment of rent. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. You can begin proceedings to eject him after he has been in default ten days. j 'Wilson's Sifr Will Know. Woodburn Independent. President Wilson does not seem to care whether news print paper goes higher. One of his successors may have a different opinion.