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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1920
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It Is true that they rifle a bird's nest
occasionally, but a gopher, rat or
mouse are the staples of their diet,
while the garter snake is an insatiate
gourmand when he finds a field re
plete with grasshoppers. Far from
being pests themselves, they are en
listed in nature's campaign of sup
pression against the pests.
"Snakes are extremely useful in
controlling the number of rodents,"
says David E. Lantz, assistant biolo
gist in the. Department of Agricul
ture. "That very few snakes are
venomous is too often forgotten and
all species are wantonly destroyed.
People throughout the country
should acquaint themselves with the
habits of snakes and learn the folly
of killing them."
HIS DILEMMA.
The democrats of Oklahoma re
pudiate Senator Gore, who is anti-
Wilson, and the democrats of Mis
souri, by nominating a Wilson demo
crat for senator, in effect repudiate
Senator Reed. Evidently the hold of
President Wilson on the democratic
party is not broken, though greatly
diminished. The nomination of Gov
ernor Cox was in itself a delivery of
the party to other hands; but the de
liverance will not be complete until
Cox is elected. He cannot be elected
without the effective support of
President Wilson.
The Missouri and Oklahoma re
sults will be gratifying to the White
House. But they may or may not be
so pleasing to Columbus. What can
didate Cox will see in Missouri and
Oklahoma Is that the democracy of
those two great Western states takes
the league of nations seriously. What
be will also see is that prohibition
has a firm bold on the party in Mis
souri and 'doubtless in Oklahoma.-
The dilemma of Governor Cox as
to the league and as to prohibition
will be increased by the verdict of
Missouri and Oklahoma. He will
know where the democracy there
stands. But he knows also where
stands the democratic party in New
York, New Jersey, and the other
eastern states. It is indifferent about
the league and hostile to prohibition.
It is at the same time, so far as its
sentiment is reflected through the
party management the bosses and
the organization hostile to Wilson.
The bossed democracy of New
Tork, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Indiana, Pennsylvania, and other
states, procured the nomination of
Mr. Cox, The bossed democracy of
Virginia , Texas, Georgia, Missouri,
. Tennessee and many other states
all bossed from the White House
was not for Cox, and is for him now,
only as he is acceptable to Mr. Wil
son. The White House is suspicious of
Mr. Cox. So are all its satellites
everywhere. He must convince the
president that he will as a candidate
favor, and as president promote the
Wilson policies. But in pleasing the
president he takes the risk not only
of displeasing Tammany and its al
lies, but of offending the country
besides.
Mr. Cox has said that he and the
president are in accord on the league
of nations. But it is not enough. He
must say it again in his letter of ac
ceptance. It will not then be enough.
He must say it again and again in
the campaign, and must make it his
treat issue. Otherwise the sensitive
and uneasy mind in the White House
will not track along with his mind.
Next Saturday will be a critical
day for Candidate Cox. He will then
officially define himself to the coun
try as a candidate. The democracy
will learn then in what direction he
purposes to travel. The White House
will know. Tammany will also know.
Ana .Bryan too.
ENDING AN OLD FEUD,
Since the dread fiat of banishment
fell on Adam and his consort in their
wondrous garden it has been the
habit of mankind to hate the ser.
pent. Whether this feud arose from
the original temptation and its pun
ishment, or from the fear of poi-
euneu langs, must be left to theolo
gians for settlement. At any rate
it is written that the voice spoke to
the serpent, saying: "And I will put
enmity oetween tnee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her sped'
It shall bruise thy head, and thou
Shalt bruise his heel." Even so has
It been.
Nowadays there are champions of
the snake who, setting aside the
scriptural contretemps of ever so
long ago, make bold to say a word
or so for him and to maintain that
the traditional enemy of man has,
with the exception of the venomous
species, been his constant friend and
servant since the first plowshare
turned up a virgin sod. These well
wishers of the snake are observant
agriculturists, men of practical
science, who have noted the inces
sant warfare of many harmless va.
rietics against thievish rodents.
Through a more intelligent under
standing of the role the snake occu
pies in economic affairs much of his
former disrepute has been dissipated.
mere are certain rich agricultural
sections of Oregon where the kill
ing of one particular species, locally
known as the king snake, is fully'as
unpopular as raiding a hen roost.
The king snake is not loved for his
beauty, though his markings are so
brilliant that he gleams like a living
necklace in the young grain, but for
his gastronomic fondness for the
gray ground squirrel, or digger, the
most harmful rodent of the west.
Ranchers count the king snake
among their assets, and defend him
from all possible harm, declaring
that an adult of the species with a
fully developed appetite is easily
worth 110 to the place" a most
conservative estimate. To bruise the
head of one of these, in fulfillment
of the prophecy in Genesis, and to
boast of the achievement, never fails
to bring upon the stranger a torrent
of reproach. Only the stranger slays
them, for the residents number the
king snakes among their friends.
There are others as beneficial, as
willing to carry on the work of as
sistant to the farmer, and possess
ing neither the dental equipment nor
the desire to bruise anybody's heel.
The pine snake and the common gar
ter snake are anamg the number.
DID IT DETER . LYNCHING f
The Oregonian is not surprised to
find that the atrocious Pendleton
murder has given opportunity for
comment of this kind from Hie
Prineville Journal, a paper opposed
to capital punishment.
Four or five grown men at Pendleton
last Sunday seemingly conspired and
actually did commit coldblooded murder.
What about the effect of the capital pun
ishment law? In this instance did it act
as a deterrent? Will It do so to others?
Undoubtedly the existence of cap
ital punishment in Oregon did not
prevent the assassination of Sheriff
Taylor. But we have an idea that
it bad its influence in preventing the
lynching of the murderers of the la
mented sheriff. What does the
Journal think about it?
but were the personal Integrity of
the silent Britisher to be attacked
one fancies, you know, that he would
find speech, even as others have
found it.
To be shy and maiden-modest in
the presence of possible publicity Is
quite as foolish, when publicity Is re
quired, as to seek renown in the
press. Interviewers are agreed that
there Is quite as much distaste in the
process of meeting a avid publicity
ferret as there is joy In talking with
big men who are willing, without
condescension, to spare some mo
ments from the day's demands. In
fact, the interviewers would vote, If
a tally of sentiment were to be called.
that the manner in which an inter
view is met and given is a true test of
worth. They would cast this ballot
with unanimous enthusiasm and
mixed recollection.
PORTLAND'S CROWING COMMERCE.
Totals of Portland exports and im
ports for July are eloquent evidence
of the rapid growth of the port's
commerce, and they justify all the
expenditure in clearing the way for
vessels to come here and in con
structing docks and warehouses.
They prove that ships and cargoes
can be had by going after them, and
that when ship-owners, importers
and exporters learn of the traffic and
facilities that Portland offers, they
are quick to take advantage.
Exports for the month exceeded
$8,000,000 in value, an amount
greater than that for a whole year
not long ago. Fourteen steamships
and three sailing vessels leaving for
Europe, the orient, Egypt, Australia
and South Africa and thirty-four
vessels for coastwise ports compose a
great merchant fleet in itself, and
almost all are American vessels.
This swelling volume of commerce
is the fruit of persistent work ex
tending back through a long period
of years, of -large expenditures of
public money made in abiding faith
that, when the way was open by re
moval of obstacles and when the
port was properly equipped, com
merce would flow through Portland1
in response to the unanswerable logic
of its geographical position. This re
sult has been promoted materially by
the action of the Port of Portland
commission in establishing a traffic
department and in locating an agent
In the orient. That which has been
accomplished should lead the people
to go on as they have begun by mak
ing more improvements in channel
and harbor, by building more docks
and by establishing more shipping
lines.
The success so far gained has led
the rivals of the port to redouble
their efforts to prevent it from se
curing ships for more lines on direct
routes to other countries, from hav
ing representation on the shipping
board in common with other ports
not favored by the shipping mo
nopoly. That fact, coupled with the
substantial results shown," is good
cause for the people to stand behind
the Chamber of Commerce in the
struggle to overcome discrimination.
CLOUDING THIS ISSUE.
The news account of the "milk
hearing," held at the Instance of the
Oregon Taxpayers' league contains
the significant statement that "con
structive suggestions for the most
part were lacking." It is plain that
hearings of the sort at which charges
and countercharges, recriminations
and partisan arguments take the
place of statements of fact such as
consumers want to hear, and in
which alone they are interested, will
always be unproductive of results:
One might read a transcript of all
that was said at the meeting in the
green room of the Chamber of Com
merce on Tuesday without adding a
single fact worth while to his store of
knowledge of the Portland milk sit
uation. The recommendation of the com
mittee, that the mayor appoint a
commission to conduct a thorough
Investigation, holds out a faint prob-
republican platform which he Is
credited with having written. In
the letter mentioned he showed that ;
consistently for fifty years repub.
lican presidents had been "urging I
upon all the world the settlement of
all such (justiciable) questions by
arbitration,' had made arbitration
treaties, had arbitrated disputes, had
finally made obligatory arbitration
treaties, and joined in formation of
The Hague arbitral court. He pointed
out that the league to enforce peace
in this country and a similar group
in Britain during the war urged a
league which should make arbitra
tion before the Hague court obliga
tory. He then made this criticism
of the Wilson covenant:
"The scheme practically abandons
all effort to promote or maintain
anything like a system of Interna
tional law, or a system of arbitration
or of judicial settlement through
which a nation can assert Its legal
rights in lieu of war. It is true that
article 13 mentions arbitration and
makes the parties agree that, when
ever a dispute arises "which they
recognize to be suitable for submis
sion to arbitration," they will submit
it to a court "agreed upon by. the
parties." That, Zc-ver, is merely
an agreement to arbitrate when the
parties choose to arbitrate, and It is
therefore no agreement at all. It puts
the whole subject of arbitration back
where It was twenty-five years ago.
Instead of perfecting and putting
teeth into the system of arbitration
provided for by the Hague conven
tions, it throws those conventions
upon the scrap heap. By covering
the ground of arbitration and pre
scribing a new test of obligation. It
apparently by virtue of the provis
ions of article 25 abrogates all the
200 treaties by which the nations of
the world have bound themselves
with each other to submit to arbitra
tion all questions arising under in
Stars and Starmakers.
By Irfflne Casta Baer.
ability, however, of getting some
where if the mayor can enlist un- ternational law or upon the lnterpre-
oiasea ana expert investigators ior tation of treaties.
the important task. Surely there are The Chicago platform proposes to
many who are still open-minded to- amend these defects by forming an
ward the controversy between rival association of nations, which shall
interests, so that the first condition
ought not to be hard to meet. Nor.
in a state like Oregon, in which the
dairy interest has long been growing
in importance, should it be impos
sible to discover some who are com.
bind themselves to settle justiciable
questions in the manner that Mr.
Root describes and which shall "se
cure Instant and general interna
tional conference whenever peace
shall be threatened." Those are the
petent to delve to the very bottom. two pomts on which Mr. Root laid
It is admitted that some phases of
the problem are highly technical,
and this only emphasizes the need
for employing investigators who un
derstand them.
The public, as Mayor Baker sug
gested the other day, does not "ex
pect to receive products at a price
less than the cost of production plus
a reasonable profit," but it does ex
pect, to be enlightened as to what
stress. His 'selection by the league
council as a member of the commis
sion on the world court indicates
that the statement of the great pow-
ers highly value his judgment on
league problems and are disposed to
follow it In revising the covenant.
Acceptance by the republican con
vention of the league plank which he
wrote suggests the probability that
he will be chosen to act forthe
cost of production plus a reasonable United States in the work of revision
prom is. mat is tne thing which when finally adopted, the covenant
tne mayor s commission will be wlu probably be a Root, not a Wil
w-ciiieu on to ascertain, noining eiseiSOI1 covenant.
is xor me present worm considering.
Japan is less likely to yield to the
THE BASEBALL BANISHMENTS. I American suggestion that it with
The banishment of three baseball I draw from eastern Siberia, especially
players from the Pacific Coast league, I Saghalien, since Its government has
after an inquiry instituted by Presi- become the oDject oi puDiic wratn
dent McCarthv. will serve to annrlsn Ion account or tne massacre at. jnico-
fans and folk generally of the riirid laievsk. Premier Hara has been de
code of honor prevailing in the na
tional sport and the summary fash
ion in which breaches of that code
are punished. The dismissals were
for alleged crookedness of the ac
cused players', ordered when league
officials became convinced that the
evidence against the men was con
clusive. Keeping the taint of trick.
ery and double-dealing out of ath
letics is an unremitting charge on the
management, which sensibly enough
realizes that each contest must be
genuine if the confidence of the pub
nounced for not sending a strong
force to that city before ice made it
inaccessible or not withdrawing all
Japanese residents. The govern
ment is therefore reluctant to expose
more Japanese settlements to mas
sacre by withdrawing before Siberia
is reduced to order, and this policy
coincides with the wishes of the mil
itarists, who would like to postpone
withdrawal indefinitely. " The future
of eastern Siberia will have to be
decided along with that of other
oriental countries in concert with
TALKING FOR PUBLICATION.
The newspaper interview Is the
commonly employed instrument of
inquiry whereby the motives of men
targeted for public attention are
drawn out and considered some
willingly, some with all the stub
born drama of a dental struggle.
Though the subject may seek to
dissemble, and the actual objective
of the conversation may not be
gained by the interviewer, it is suf
ficient that he speak, for to be
guarded against a topic is frequently
to betray one's hidden attitude
toward it. There are men of promi
nence who profess distaste and bore
dom toward the newspaper inter
view. These in their own esteem
have scaled the alpine heights of
greatness and are far removed from
the vexations of the climbers below.
Yet it is with introspective philoso
phy, analytical of the human ego,
that the interviewer listens to their
loosened speech and ready reply
when providence casts a brick or two
toward them.
England has a millionaire news
paper publisher. Viscount Rother
mere. whose recent gift to Oxford
university for the endowment of a
professorship of United States his
tory has set the reporters a task
that thus far records failure. Why,
indeed, should Lord Rothermere so
memorialize his eldest son, an officer
of the Irish Guards, who was slain
in the late war? Here is rro element
of malignant mystery, no possible
suspicion of motive, but rather a fine
though commonplace tribute to love,
extraordinary only in the choice of
the endowment. Assuming that the
British newspaper man fels a cer
tain reticence to discuss the dearly
intimate nature of his largess, and
despite that, it is quite an anomalous
position he has taken. Were it cur
rently patterned after it would fill
the columns of his own publications
with stale, unprofitable news. Re
porters, and particularly American
reporters, obviously have the right
and duty to seek the solution of his
unusual endowment to Oxford. A
score of possibilities leap to the
mind, each of intriguing and inter
esting aspect. One of the finest
episodes of the war may lie locked
in the memory that declines to ex
plain.
Certainly Lord Rothermere is with
in the bounds of his own discre
tion when he declines to be inter
viewed. Quite as clearly his case is
not illustrative of the braggart in
tolerance of certain public men who
refuse, in their conceit, to speak for
publication. But as an instance of
the difficult interview, and of the
mexpiicaDie refusal, the case pre
sents a perfect type. From the
viewpoint of other publishers and
the public, the reticent Lord Rother
mere is remiss, is not playing the
game, when he ventures an act that
piques the curiosity of two nations
and preserves the stolid Impassivity
of Miss sphinx of Egypt-
They say that the subject of these
reflections is a talented but taciturn
genius, and that he has never been
known to talk for publication. Which
has been said of other men, wno
talked fluently when destiny caught
them in her coils. The Oxford en
dowment may remain in mystery, in
deed. It may be no mystery, at all.
lie is to be retained. Perhaps the the principal European powers and
most sorry knave of those who oper- Japan.
ate just within the law is the dis
honest athlete. Mrs. Charlie Chaplin complains
The declared motive in the present that the estimable comedian was
case Is that of serving a gambling tremely cruel to her in leaving home
clique which hankered for the cer- at tinles and not returning for two
tainty of a "sure thing" wager. For months. We should think the cruelty
systematized vice overlooks no field in this case might be that he re
so lertue in popular interest as that turned at all.
or tne Dan park. Men will bet. They
Those Who Come and Go.
SEASIDE AND WAT POINTS, Aug
3. Bertha Grover says that people at
the beach are divided into two kinds,
"the stuck up and the commons." Ber
tha is the 9-year-old protege of Mille
Schloth, who comes to Gearhart to
teach children to swim just as aoon
as the public schools are out in Port
land. Miss Schloth teaches swimming
In the Portland schools and takes her
vacation by teaching more swimmers.
Bertha is her prize pupil and every
one the length of the Clatsop beach
knows her. She does the best all
round work, diving, swimming and
under water achievements. Her am
bition is to be a movie queen and
make Annette Kellerman look to her
estates. Bertha looks like Nazlmova
and acts like Mister Chaplin. She la
a product of the Shattcuk school and
has a philosophy gained from rub
bing elbows with life. Her mother
has seven children and Bertha's in
troduction of herself three years ago
to Miss Schloth is memorable. Bertha
rattled: "I'm Bertha Grover, I'm Yid
dish, I'm 6 years old and twins and
the other half of me died." Her mother
has practically turned Bertha over to
Miss Schloth, and, like Mary's lamb,
everywhere that Mille goes Bertha's
sure to go." She scorns to work with
children her own age, preferring to
compete with grownups in the tank.
and it is this spirit of competition
that has sent her so far ahead of her
competitors.
The little band of sisters who run
the oulja board are hard at it, on the
sands, on porches of the cottages and
In little get-together groups by a bon-
Ore at night or in front of a fireplace.
Psychic research is really being over
done. "Have you a little ouija In your
home?" they ask each other, and then
exchange experiences, with much
lowering of voices and pity for the
unbelievers. Invariably they preface
their remarks with something like
My dear, I'm very mental and I don't
go in for that sort of thing at all
you just couldn't make me believe
departed spirit would talk through a
piece of wood, and I always laughed
at the idea. But the other night 1
had the queerest experience; I just
must tell you," and then she uses an
hour of perfectly good time telling
how she asked ouija if skirts were
going to be tight or full this fall and
ouija spelled y-e-s right away. Poor
old psychic research, like charity, it
uncovers a multitude of sins, and my
poor weak sex heads the band of sin
ners. Omar penned the correct dope
many years ago, but it apparently
means nothing In the lives of the
ouija cult:
Strange is It not that of the thousands
who
Have passed the Inner door of darkness
through.
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too?
Verily, Omar slung a prophetic pencil.
Portland pays one cent more a
gallon for gasoline than any other
city on the Pacific coast. But that
extra cent goes into the state high
way building fund, which puts a dif
ferent light on it.
will wager huge sums on all sorts of
contests, even as Mark Twain nar
rated in "The Jumping Frog of Cala
veras." The reader will recall that
duplicity triumphed in that instance.
While it may be accepted as inevit
able that the betting impulse of cer
tain tVTJftS Of TtlPTI wilt nulflran , a
ball rami, trio cnnr i r.c,.t,nc i I No more real whisky for New
nrovocativo n immhiino- ,., Yorkers, announces the federal pro
I . I WV.1, I. .
tner of the vigorous amusements "lul""" " -
which claim the attention of th 8aY. we suppose, mat now tne gov-
American people. The fan does not eminent proposes to give the moon
rely in the least upon a wager for sniners a cnance.
his enjoyment of a closelv contested
game. Sufficient to him is his keen I The federal prohibition commis-
appreciation of the plays, his under- sioner has gone to New York to see
standing of the opposed strategy and I whether liquor can be bought as
nis almost Boswellian familiarity I easily as reportea. n ne nas tne
with the records of the individual I price he will be accommodated.
athletes.
In baseball there are no white- I Ten thousand New Yorkers turned
whiskered old gentry, with southern out for the funeral of a pet canary,
accents and breaths, no red-nosed, Presume both the alienists and the
diamond-studded individuals of birdseed makers will now Increase
horsey savor, to make hypocritical I their prices.
declaration that it is "the sport of
Kings. These were common enough That old cobbler in New York who
about the betting booths of the race I gave his canary a swell funeral is
track, not so long ago. They bat
tened on the sport they professed to
admire. Horseracing descended into
merited disrepute until anti-betting
laws purged the track. American
sport has no use whatever for ath
letes and fans who would discredit
baseball for the sake of easy money.
not so bad. Think of how he could
bury a wife!
No use starting that story of forty-
foot sharks coming out of the Arctic.
Bathers at the Oregon beaches will
not scare.
In Denver, where the sun shines
364 days in the year, the tramway
strike is producing pleased pedes
trians.
It Is no trick at all for the Beavers
to beat a nine of the first division;
they are on their toes to win, and do
Make a mental picture of a Greek
chasing a Turk and you will under
tand why the Greeks are winning.
Thrifty people will do their travel
ing during the next three weeks; that
is, if thrifty folk indulge that way.
An ad writer suggests buying furs
in August and the coal man talks the
same way. Both are right.
A ROOT COVENANT FINALLY.
While President Wilson has been
vainly trying to force the unchanged
covenant through the senate in face
of the demand of all the republicans
and half of the democrats for reser
vations, ex-Senator Root, the fore
most authority on international law
and the foremost advocate of
league before Mr. Wilson came to the
front, has taken the leading part in
forming the machinery of the
league that has been organized. As
the American member of the com
mission appointed by the league
council to devise a plan for a world
court of justice, he took an import
ant part in preparing the scheme
which will most probably be adopted
by the council.
This is a notable advance toward
international justice, for the 'agree
ment of this commission removes an
obstacle which has blocked the way
since the second Hague conference of
1907. That conference endeavored
to agree, but jealousy of each nation
for its sovereignty caused a dead
lock on the manner of selecting
judges. The war has drawn nations
closer together and has tempered
this jealousy, and the commission ac
complished in three weeks that
which many statesmen failed to do
in thirteen years.
This achievement of Mr. Root and
his associates is noteworthy because I breath.
it Is In pursuance of the line of ac
tion which, he said in his letter criti
cizing the Wilson covenant, should
be followed. It is also in line with
the policy of International co-oper- I Both sides in the milk fight pro
ation laid down In the plank of the test too much.
Wonder why Cox doesn't make the
race on the slogan, "A full stein of
beer for five cents."
Why -worry about the beaches
when Portland enjoys summer
weather like this?
Mrs. Chaplin alleges cruelty of a
mental nature, much worse than
beating her up.
Oregon's population will be an
nounced today. Do not hold your
Every year, along about May, the
constables at seashore resorts by
constables I mean one constable for
each resort) rush Into print through
the home paper to say that one-piece
bathing suits will not be allowed.
Along about May 2 or 4 two of the
village hoydens, with secret yearn
ings to go in the movies and put the
Sennet bathing beauties' noses out of
joint at least I suppose they have
noses, although I've never paid much
attention to their faces anyway a
couple of the home-grown bathing
beauties will romp out on the sands
and be arrested for violating the
rules.
All over the civilized world we read
of the episode and see pictures of the
girls wearing the banned suits. Then
along about the middle of May the
constable says that girls dassent
come on the beach in gents' box.
Promptly the next day some vaude
ville actress resting at the beach for
a day or so will promenade in box, get
herself arrested and into, print and
Into illustrations. All of this I reckon
as.a moral example. Then the first
of July the constabulary forces pounce
on the acutely short skirt and the
mandate goes forth that the "gels
must leave their short skirts to hum
and wear full-length skirts if pos
sible with trains on 'em. The next
yelp we hear from the moral squad at
the seashore is about thin blouses or
the stockingless legs, or dancing on
the beach. There is always some
thing to reform, especially at a beach
Heaven may protect us poor working
girls, but heaven does it only when
we are working. When we are at the
beach vacationing it's mostly up to
us and the constable.
If there is one thing more than sm
other that is an abomination to me It
Is a colored picture postal card bear
ing a flat, highly colored, exagger
ated study of some building, or Main
street, or bird's eye view of some place
I've never seen and hope never to see.
My abomination was Intensified yes
terday when I got one in the mail
from an old couple who are galloping
around in Europe. I didn't notice the
picture. The words inflicted enough
sadness. They were scribbled across
one side: "Here we are at a quaint
seaside resort out from London. The
BEER is simply wonderful. Wish you
were here."
Met a woman here who Is one of
those "See America first" hounds. Sb
aw Yellowstone park last summe
and tried for an hour to explain
geyser to a group around her. She
keeps the pamphlets and "lltteratoor
the trains people and agents give her
and, what is even more astonishing.
she looks at them.
It's easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song;
But th girl worth while
Is tha girl who can smile
When she gets all marcelled so that
her waves rival those of the ocean
and then a darned mist drizzles the
wave out of her hair.
Margaret Casey, who is In M. J.
Buckley's office in the O.-W. R. & N.
company, has a cottage here and she
said she overheard a married pair
quarreling so systematically one day
on the beach that now she under
stands what Is meant by the "moan
ing of . the tied."
"By the first of the year the new
dormitory for young women will be
ready for occupancy at the Univer
sity of Oregon," says A. C Dixon of
Eugene who for about nine years has
been a regent of tha university. "The
work is progressing and the new
structure cannot be finished too
soon. It will have about the same
capacity as Hendricks Hall, which
Ls now overcrowded. Two rest sta
tions will also be built." Mr. Dixon,
aside from his educational hobby, is
with h Rrmth-Kellv Lumber com
pany. He explains the presence of
so many lumbermen from tne east
i oroirnn this vear by saying that
they see the finish of the lumber
garni where they come from and are
anxious to buy standing timber or
irnSntr Bawmilla in this state and while
a number have been scouting mruum
and some big transactions have been
reported, others are also figuring on
coming to Oregon to operate.
-The English are taking a great
fancv to Port Orford cedar." said
Hewett Davenport of San Francisco
p r the Benson. "Japan Has oeen ouy
tng until recently, but owing to tne
rinnruiil crash due to the silk market.
nriiari for the celebrated cedar of
Or fir on were cancelled by the Japs.
And. by the way, I am toia mat Be
cause of the panic the Japanese haVe
cancelled orders for 25,000,000 of
goods In thia country. The English
men like the Port Orford cedar im
mensely. The wood is used for many
purposes and makes beautiful jewel
cases, as well as the more utilitarian
baUery boxes. Some Idea cf the value
of Port Orford cedar can be gained
from a remark I heo-rd at Coos Bay
recently. A man there was quoted
$90 a thousand feet for peeling
cedar cedar which can be thinly
shaved for a venler." Mr. Davenport
is in the lumber game and makes
four trips to Oregon a year from his
habitat on California street.
Crossing the continent In an auto
mobile. Mrs. M. McMurray arrived at
the Hotel Portland yesterday after
noon. Mrs. McMurray WM accom
panied on the journey by Miss M.
Duncan, A. Duble being the pilot for
the party. For ten weeks the party
have been on the. road and the journey
was made without accident, major
or minor. The route selected after
arriving at Denver was northward,
the New Yorkers coming into Ore-
eron over the Old Oregon trail and
the Columbia river highway. The
only place on the entire trip where
there was any difficulty in securing
gasoline was a small town east of
The Dalles. From Portland Mrs. Mc-
Murray's party will drive to Puget
Sound and Brftlsh Columbia and then
back east by the northern route.
Thirty-one tourists arrived over the
Columbia highway last evening and
registered at the Multnomah for the
night. The visitors are making the
our from the east Dy automooue,
which is a novelty from the tradi
tional train tourist parties. They have
been through the Yellowstone park
and, after leaving Portland, they wUl
visit the Canadian Rockies. Members
of the party are from a score of dif
ferent mid-western cities. At tne
Benson there Is a group of tourists
under another agency and at the Im
perial still another large party.
It was with no little satisfaction
that C. W. McCullagh of Hood River
stood on one foot and then another as
he watched the last batch of hot
stuff" spread and rolled on tne Co
lumbia highway. With the rolling ot
this batch the pavement between
Hood River, where M. McCullagh is
president of the Commercial club, and
Portland, -was Iinisnea ana tne con
tractors ''pulled the bin." yawned and
paid off the rakers. Mr. ana jurs.
McCullagh arrived at tne jsenson yesterday.
i LAW OF MOSES STILL SOUND
Consulting; Dead One of Sims That
Canned Downfall of Nation.
RIDGEFJELD. Wash.. Aug. 3. (To
the Editor.) In your editorial. "The
Return to Normal." you say. "better
the old faiths that made men strong
than queer superstition clung to
without reason." True! We of to
day cannot live- by the things which
were proved lies in the past. Had
Sir Oliver Lodge had faith in the
truth of the Bible he would not be a
spiritualist. Consulting the dead was
one of the sins for which the seven
nations in the land of Canaan were
cast cfttt, and one that Moses warned
his people against, that they should
not likewise perish. On divine justice.
God relating himself to man, Moses
is yet for universal mankind the
highest authority. His writings
stand to teach all generations of our
race the laws of causes and effects
in moral principles and relationship
of life, our blessings or curses, here
and now, being conditioned on our
obedience or disobedience to them
Christ did not abolish the law of
divine justice, but revealed divine
love to pardon our sins.
A revival of ancient heathen dolus
Ions will not bless us, though all the
most eminent scientists and actors
of the world may promulgate them.
Isaiah warned his people against
false heathen teachers: "When they
shall say unto you, seek unto them
that have familiar spirits, and unto
wizaraa that chirp and mutter; should
not a people seek unto their God? on
behalf of the living should they seek
unto tha dead? he asks. He
swers: 'To the law and to the testi
mony, if they speak not according
to this word, surely there is no
morning, for them." No hope of life,
no morning light of eternal day fo
people who follow such teachers. The
sun of righteousness arises to shine
for those only who heed the testl
mony of the one universal law and
gospel for all. In a revival
ancient heathenism we may look fo
the consequences to follow a peopl
In their own land.
"They shall pass through it hard
plagued and hungry, they shall fret
themselves and curse by their king
and their God and turn their face
upwards and they shall look unto
the earth, and behold distress, th
gloom of any wish, and into thick
darkness they shall be driven away.
Do we see something of this on earth
today 7
The trail of delusions leads to
A word to the upstate buyer com
ing next week: Bring your wife.
spiritual derogation, mental derange
ment, hopeless despair and deprave
departure. "They that lead thl
people cause them to err and the
that are led of them are destroyed.'
Isaiah lx:10. N. M. HANSEN.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moatsgae,
W. R. Hoean was quite elated at
the Perkins yesterday when he read
the census report of his home town.
Mr. Hogan is from Sandy and the cen-
9 people officially acknowledge
that there are 242 people in the town,
although they carefully refrain from
entioning how many people were at
Sandy ten years ago. Anyway, jar.
Hogan and his fellow Sandyites are
willing to bet that sanay win in
crease more than 100 per cent by the
time Uncle Sam counts noses in 1930.
When a soldier wants to have a
good time he patronizes a shooting
gallery; when tne ice man taxes a
day off he rides over his route with
his substitute, ana wnen a raiiroaa
conductor gets a vacation he rides
trains. Mr. and Mrs. J. JB. Hanks or
Elmlra, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Gramwell of Davenport. Ia. landed
at the Perkins yesterday. Both Mr.
Banks and Mr. Oram well are raiiroaa
conductors.
Jamt Embarrassment, That's AIL
Stray Stories.
"That young fellow looks furtive,
remarked the customer. "Isn't he apt
to try to pinch something?"
"No," said the experienced Jeweler.
"He wants to buy an engagement
I ring."
To bury himself in the woods for
two weeks, fishing and hunting, a.
F. Chanev has arrived from Detroit-
Mr. Cbaney, formerly with the C. A.
Smith Lumber company at coos nay,
left orders at the Benson to hold all
mail and telegrams until his return,
and then he sneaked off for the for
ests and streams without announcing
his destination.
The tourist fever germ has attacked
Richard Childs, manager of the Hotel
Portland. He withstood the action
of the bug as long as he could, but
finally surrendered and has gone to
Seaside to listen to the sad sea waves
and eive the once over to the new
hotel there. j
Weather warming up in Walla Wal
la, Wash., Mrs. Frank W. Tierney.
wife of a well-known Implement man
of that place, is at the Hotel Wash
ington on her way to the coast. Ac
companying her are her daughter and
Miss Anna M. Fitzgerald.
For a general overhauling and go
ing into drydock for minor operations,
C E. Reynolds is in Portland from
Salem, where he is in the seed busi
ness. Mr. Reynolds is registered at
the Hotel Washington.
W. L. Thompson, former member of
the state highway commission and
now vice-president of the First Na
tional bank in Portland, left last
night for Pendleton, where he is still
president of a bank.
Henry J. Schulderman, former state
corporation commissioner, landed in
town yesterday from Salem and left
last night for California, Mr. scnuia
erman is now specializing in corpora
tion law.
Portland's summer climate suits
Manley Chaplan exactly, so he refuses
to go elsewhere. Mr. Chaplan. who
is a business man of Boise, is at the
Hotel Washington with Mrs. Chaplan.
To talk over matters of interest to
the state and to some of his constitu
ents, C. L. McNary, United States
senator, was In Portland yesterday
from Salem.
D. J. Griffin, who registered at the
Benson yesterday from Chicago,
really belongs to the American Medi
cal society of Vienna.
Veterinarians from all over will
talk horse sense at a conference to be
held today in the Imperial.
C. C. Hamilton and his brother, T.
J., are at the Hotel Washington from
Trcut Lake, Wash., where there are
stockmen.
L. C Hammond, who Is a son of A.
B. Hammjnd, lumberman. Is at the
Benson with his bride.
MOTORIST NEEDS CAMP OUTFIT
Fallore of Lights on Some Roads
Makes All-Mght Stop Wise.
NEWBERG. Or.. Aug. 1". (To th
Editor.) Should business or pleasure
require one to be out after dark on
the highways between Portland an
Forest Grove or Newberg it is advi
able not to depend upon the spotlight
If one front light should happen to
become useless. The wise and con
venlent thing to do will" be to stop
and make camp in order to be spare
the embarrassment of being stoppe
and ordered to report 40 or 50 mile
from one's place of business by som
parasitic, not to mention bard-boiled.
road agent for disobeying the law.
Hence the equipment of the suc
cessful Washington county motorist
should necessarily include the fol
lowing items: 1. A permit to carry
weapons; 2. A serviceable tent suit-,
able for camping out over night
should the way become dim; 3. Other
camping paraphernalia. The latter
articles may be purchased at any reli
able Bporting goods store.
Of course, the wise reader will not
be misled by the altruistic caption of
this bumble appeal. For let it be here
proclaimed if not heretofore guessed
that the writer was actually caught
in the act of proceeding along said
highway Insufficiently lighted, on a
brilliant moonlight nisht,, a night
manifestly more suited to kind words
than to harsh action. Furthermore
be was fined in the customary man
ner at the justice court, situate, lying
and being on the main street of
Hlllsboro. before which court he was
duly summoned through the efforts
of a zealous and efficient deputy who
skillfully guards the way and who. it
Is rumored, receives of this world's
goods in proportion to the delays he
causes. Truly, they shall not pass.
Now if Justice cannot be tempered
with merov. let alone reason, we
should adhere strictly to the letter of
the law. The same reads (General
laws of Oretcon. 1919, p. 710): Every
motor vehicle shall outplay at least
two white lamps on the front and
one red light on the rear. The light
of the front 'lamps shall be visible at
least 200 feet in the direction in which
the vehicle is proceeding." It will
be seen that no mention Is made as
to the position of the lights In front.
YAMHILL CO. ROADS SCHOLAR.
TO THE NEWEST ROMANOFF
In PariS last WAAlc VMM hrn - RnnaartAtr
who might have been ths heir to the 2u
Oh! little lucky Romanoff. wea
wrinkled, blinkinar mite-
No cannon thundered to the skies
when first vou saw the lie-ht:
Lake any other fledgling soul you
fluttered to the earth.
And only your indignant wail an
nounced your royal birth.
About your little dingy bed. no noble
men gased down
Upon the funny fuzzy head that
might have worn a crown.
That might have worn a golden crown
through routrh and bitter years.
A crown for which a nation paid with
suffering and tears.
While you sat on a golden throne In
high majestic state
The target of your people's jeers
the object of their hate.
A furtive, cringing, shuddering thing
unloved, remote, alone.
Who feared the very men who stood
on guard about your throne.
Oh! lucky little Romanoff today
you laugh and coo
And try to bite your shell-pink toes.
like other babies do.
And sleep serenely all night long w'th
quiet, baby breath.
For there are none about yon now to
wish or plan your death.
For happiness. In days to come you
need but stretch your hand.
Nor find that hatred bars the way
tnrougnout an ev'.l land.
For vanished is the golden crown
predestined for your brow:
The throne on which you might have
reigned is dust and ashea now.
And you may walk about the world
ana never know the fears
That crushed and tortured royalty
tor many oarrowinsr years.
So coo amid the shadows thero, wee
wrinaied blinking thing.
And thank the God who banished
czars you were not born a king!
One Born Erery Minute.
What's the use of Insisting that
nobody reads party platforms when
we know that there are people who
even buy phonograph records of po
litical speeches?
They SeU It for 6 a Qonrt.
Canada is prosperous, and she will
be still more prosperous as soon as
she discovers what Scotch whisky is
worth nowadays.
Little Room Left.
Between Japanese and Iowans the
Native Son bids fair to be completely
crowded out of California.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate.) ;
A Name.
By Grace E. Hall.
Somewhere, hidden in a crevice
Of the conscious, seething brain.
There's indenture deep and lasting
Made by finger-tips of pain;
And the snows of many a winter
Of those long-gone yester-years
Lie against sweet memory's doorway,
Crusted o'er with glistening tears.
But love's impress everlasting
Burns again beneath the flame
When perchance a passing stranger
Speaks a half-forgotten name; ,
And the memory snows are melted
By the blaze of swift r.e(rret,
When a stranger, all unheeding.
Speaks a name you can't forget.
In Other Days.
. T-wenty-flve Yearn Aco.
Prom The Oregonian of August fi, 1S95.
Sprsgue, Wash. Fire which de
stroyed th-3 business district of this
city yesterday caused a loss estimated
at J2.000.000. The Northern Pacific
lost in locomotives, cars, shops, office
and depot and other buildings $500.- .
000. The remainder of the total was
buildings and stocks of goods in the
business district, which was laid
waste.
The price of lumber will be ad
vanced by all the local mills today
an average of 20 to 25 per cent. The
new prices will be as follows: No. 1
stepping, S25; No. 1 flooring. SIS;
No. 2 flooring, (12; No. 1 rustic and
ceiling, ;il; No. 2 rustic and ceiling,
$10; common rough, $7; common
dressed, $8; lath. 1.50.
The office of the state board of
horticulture, located in Portland since
its organization, will be moved to
Salem tomorrow.
S. H. Friendly delivered the first
load of wheat to the new Eugene
flouring mill last Saturday.
SMALL FARMER'S LOT IS BARD
Poultry and Cows Eat Heads Off and
Crop Pests Get Surplus.
NORTH PLAINS. Or.. Aug. 1. (To
the Editor.) I wisn you would allow
me space in your paper to protest
against the United States letting any
more Japanese Into the country. There
are plenty of white Americans wno
would increase the food supply If
they could get a fair price to enable
them to make a living wage.
I know whereof I speak. We have
a small place and I have tried to
raise a few vegetables to sell. I had
more than I could take care of and
my husband laid off a few days to
help me, losing in wages $4.40 per
day by laying off. He lost more
than we will both earn from the
vegetables, counting our seed, plow
ing and labor.
Talking about raising chickens, we
can buy what eggs we want to use
and the chickens we eat. cheaper
than we can raise them. We pay 4
to 5 cents a pound for feed, besides
medicine to fight lice and mites all
the time and the work of taking care
of them and the months you feed
them without getting any returns.
As to the price of milk, if a farmer
keeps one or two cows for his own
use. he makes a fair return on his
money invested, but if he keeps more
he does not. because he has to buy
and teed mill feed and it takes so
long to care for them and the con
sumer pays three times what the
nroducer crets.
Still another thing. Logged-off
land is too high priced, for it takes
a man with lots of money to go on a
piece, clear It. put It in crop and
wait for It to grow, and build the
necessary buildings and there Is no
surety of crops, as there are always
lots of bugs, diseases ana contrary
weather to contend with and the
raiser has to take just what the
buyer offers. A poor man who has
nothing cannot make It and a man
with money can lend It out and live
oft of the interest without all that
hard work. MRS. RISA T. FAIR.
Wefaer in Sonar.
PORTLAND. Aug. 4. (To the Edl
tor.) A controversy seems to have
arisen Over the pronunciation of the
name of the Idaho town of Welser.
Perhaps the following may offer some
explanation:
Idaho has a town they call Weiser.
Twaa named by a Teutonic Oftezer,
Though he called his name Welser
Like kaiser that's why. sir.
The wiser say Weiaer. yon so, sir.
Fifty Tesrs Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 5. 1670.
Paris. A combat is repoi-ted to
have taken place on the Baltic in
which two Prussian gunboats were
captured. The French are advan
cing. Cheyenne. The Yale' college scien
tific expedition, with Professor Marsh,
left here today to make geological
surveys of the country between the
forks of the Platte river.
George H. Williams. United States
senator, and General Canby arrived
on the steamship California from San
Francisco. A reception commutes
with about 209 guests on board pro
ceeded down the river on tho starrrer
Cascade to a point near Rainier to
welcome the senator on his reMirn.
The Wallamet Baptist association
embraces 11 churches with S85 mem
ber. The largest congregation is at
Salem, which numbers 121 persons.
Old Quibble About "Sound,"
WHITE SALMON. Wash.. Aug. 8.
(To the Editor.) If a cannon went
off way out in a desert, and no ear
was there to hear it, would there be
a sound? BARBARA MAINE.
The question contains an ancient
quibble. The answer depends on
what you mean by "a sound." Un
doubtedly sound waves would be set
In motion. Some physicists contend
that there is no sound until the wava
has come in contact with a receiving
medium. But one definition of
"sound" accepted by the dictionaries
is:
"The physical cause of the sensa
tion produced through the organs of
hearing; waves of alternate conden
sation and rarefaction through an
elastic body, whether solid, liquid or
gaseous, but especially through the
atmosphere." This definition does
not require the presence of an ear
a create "a sound."
Half Brothers Share Equally.
PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 4. (To the
Editor.) To settle an argument, does
the Oregon law give half blood
brothers and sisters a share In In
testate estates? IGNORAMUS.
The provision (section 7353 of the
general laws of Oregon) reads: "The
degrees of kindred shall be computed
according to the civil law: and the
kindred of the half-blood shall In
herit or receive equally with the
whole bloo4 of the same degree.''