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THE MORNING- OREGOMAX. FRIDAY. AUGUST 6, 1920
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THE CKNSt'S OF OREGON.
In rate of increase, the population
of Oregon, as Just revealed by the
census bureau, more than keeps pace
with that of the nation as a whole.
It is a subject for pride, and also
for reflection. That it constitutes
the smallest increase in a decade
recorded since the first census was
taken, in I860,-is less significant as
to Oregon in particular than it is in
its relation to the nation as a whole;
it indicates, perhaps, that the Amer
ican spirit of adventure has been
diverted into new channels, that peo
ple now seek new lines of enterprise
where formerly they moved to new
homes, that ceasing to be a wilder
ness Oregon has lost its attraction
for those who want to begin life all
over again. But the figures show
more than that. They indicate a
disquieting continuance of the drift
toward the cities by comparison with
the rural regions. Folks are no
longer, in the larger sense, seeking
locations in the great outdoor spaces:
when they want to move they hunt
up a town. The westward movement
has been stayed by the drift city
ward. Thus, In Oregon itself, while the
state has grown in population some
16.4 per cent, Multnomah county, of
which Portland Is the county seat,
has increased 21.9 per cent, but Port
land, the chief city of the state, in
the same period has increased from
207.214 to 258,288, or 24.6 per cent.
Nearly half of the total increase for
the entire state is accounted for by
the growth of Portland alone. Other
towns in Oregon meanwhile have
been growing, also in disproportion
ate ratio to the state increase. Not
even our widely advertised resources
Of farm and orchard have served to
check the trend. The motives that
inspire people who come west are
evidently far different from those
behind the immigrant movement that
began about three-quarters of a cen
tury ago.
The whole state had a population
of 52,465 in 1860. Population in
creased by leaps and bounds in the
three succeeding decades, by 90 per
cent as shown by the census of 1870,
93 per cent in 1880, and 80 per cent
in 1890. It was about this time that
students of economics began to ob
serve a decline In agricultural popu
lation in excess of that which could
be accounted for by larger use of
machinery on the farms. The state
gained only 32 per cent between
1890 and 1900, while in the same
decade the increase for Portland was
98 per cent.- In the decade between
1900 and 1910 the state made a gain
of only 38 per cent, while the city of
Portland advanced 129 per cent.
Now- the disnrnnnrtlnn frr ti.
1910-1920 period, while not so
striking as in either of the
two preceding decades, must be
studied in connection with the same
drift that is further emphasized by
the prediction of census officials
that the center of population of the
entire United States will be shown
to have moved In an easterly direc
tion for the first time since the
United States became a nation.
We frankly wish that it might be
otherwise. If instead of an increase
of 16.4 per cent for the state and of
24.6 per cent for the city there had
been an Increase of 24.6 per cent for
the city and. say, 40 per cent for the
state, a more satisfactory situation
would be revealed. For it cannot
have escaped attention that the out-of-town
resources of Oregon are
highly alluring, that farms and or
chards and berry patches, actual and
potential, are among our most profit
able and otherwise pleasing attrac
tions, and that along with our urban
industries we have warrant for our
ambition to become an important
factor in the feeding of the world.
: But it is necessary, as has been sug
gested, to consider the figures in a
.,...ui,i.i ocusc, sua it is impressed
on us that the evil ig not merely
local, but has a national application;
. and also that we shall look in vain
' for a change until there has been a
transformation of the spirit of ftie
people of the whole country.
PONZI'S JOKE ON THE Bl'REAlCRATS
Charles Ponzi has been guilty of
the unpardonable sin in the eyes of
oureaucrats ne has exposed them to
ridicule before the whole world. The
world has needed a good laugh in
these late tragic years, and Ponzi has
given it. He is a financial freak, for
he has made millions, yet nobody
can say that anybody is poorer for
his having made them, nor can any
one say whence they came. They
might as well have come out of the
sky.
He has simply taken advantage of
the difference between normal and
present rates of exchange and of the
arrangements of the international
postal union for conversion of dollars
into tne currency of European coun
tries. European currencies have
fallen far below normal, but the
postal union has kept its rates rigid
instead of following the market. By
juggling funds to and fro between
America and Europe he has given
bureaucrats a lesson in the danger
'- of not following the rules of busi
. ness. He found a great flaw in its
Infallible system and he has pulled
millions through that hole.
That enraged Postmaster-General
. Burleson, and he began a search for
fraud. It aroused the suspicion of
Massachusetts, and that state sus
pected fraud, because it could not
understand how Ponzi could keep his
promises. He obtained money for
his operations by fromising 50 per
cent profit at the end of ninety days.
But Ponzi has disposed of suspicion
of fraud by paying all notes on de
mand, with profit on those which
had matured. He throws his books
open to investigators, who so far
have found nothing against him, and
the only secret that he keeps is the
manner in which he manipulates
postal union coupons.
The result of the efforts to prove
Ponzi a fraud is so far to inspire
confidence in him and to give him
an amount of advertising which his
entire fortune probably could not
buy. He is still free to operate for
some time, for the international
postal union will not meet till some
time in October to cure the flaw in
its system. During the interval Mr.
Burleson and all the postmasters
general of all the countries may rack
their brains to discover who loses
the money that Ponzi makes.
AX AMBIGIOIS ASSURANCE.
What might be styled an ambigu
ous assurance was that given by
Governor Cox to the , democratic
picnickers at Dayton the other day.
A clever man is the governor, wholly
aside from mere astuteness in eco
nomic discussions, for who but the
cleverest of them all would have
thought of warily emptying the
promise ere it was pledged? "I will
bring hack ' the standard to you as
clean as it was given me," he as
sured the applauding faithful; When
it was given to him in San Francisco.
.' as all the world knows, it stank most
redolently of lager . beer and sour
wine.
It is among the possibilities that
the democratic nominee's speech of
acceptance tomorrow will clear away
this fog of incertitude, of rhetorical
play, that hovers now about his can
didacy like the mlasmic breathings
of a brewery. It may be that some
where in the trenchant ten columns
of that epic address he will wring
the standard dry and persuade us
that liquor is not an issue the issue
of his campaign. Even though he
attains this rhetorical objective, to
the satisfaction of himself and his
more gullible partisans, the public
will not forget that the rejuvenated
liquor interests have pledged them
selves to the loyal support of his
cause, and that many a thirsty throat
is titillating in anticipatory delight.
Joseph H. Buckridge, secretary of
the New Jersey federation of liquor
interests, has made it known that
the combined strength of that opti
mistic organization will be rallied
beneath the "clean standard" that
Cox captured at the San Francisco
convention. If this were not suf
ficient evidence, there is the gov
ernor's own happy vein of chatter,
wherein he refers to his adherents
as "the boys." Almost any day we
may expect to discover that a lofty
enthusiasm has forced upon Gov
ernor Cox and his cause the fine
old campaign song of "Hail, Hail,
the Gang's All Here!"
WITH THE BAD BOYS OF POLITICS.
Why this dour and doleful sur
prise on the part of dissatisfied lead
ers of the farmer-labor party, when
they stumble upon the discovery
that their paragon of political child
hood has been playing with the
I. W. W. bad boys? Everyone else
knew it long ago, and though the
resignation of the two party leaders
in Utah reflects credit upon their
sound and sane Americanism they
are not at all entitled to plume them
selves for perspicacity. They have
charged that the I. W. W. seek con
trol of the infantile political entity,
that the hidden hand of desperate
radicalism guides its destinies, and
they are bitter in their upbraidings
of the deceit which cloaks this pur
pose. It would seem that such notable
deflections from the banner of the
new crusade, by men who unques
tionably acted upon reliable and
alarming information, must have its
influence upon the miscellaneous
membership. Though the virus of
violent and anti-patriotic principles
poisons the spring at its source,
there are many misled but consci
entious idealists among the thirsty.
These, knowingly, should not drink
contamination.
"We want to take the laborer, the
man who works every day and
crawls home every night with no in
terest in life, and inspire him with
the spirit of adventure," orated
Perley P. Christenson, presidential
candidate of the farmer-labor party
in a recent New York interview.
What spirit of adventure is this
of which Perley prates? The spirit
of adventure so malignly manifest
at Everett and in Centralia? The
pervasive lust for a class war with
bullets rather than ballots? What
touching solicitude is his for the
weary workingman,' that it should
move him to depict a cheerless en
trance to a dreary cottage? It is
the old melodrama of rant, without
thought or logic, or aught save an
appeal to prejudice and hate.- The
individual members of labor, if such '
demagogic promptings do not move
them to spurious self pity, know
better than all others that the
farmer-labor candidate has falsified
conditions. They are far more ac
customed to ride to their own homes
in their own cars, at the close of a
well-paid short-hour day, than to
make the lugubrious exit he provides
for them.
The dissenting leaders of the party,
who have published their opinions
and their desertion, charge that
Christenson "has sacrificed his in
tegrity to the labor unions and the
I. W. W.." and that the furtive, vul
pine plotting of the 'revolutionists is
the impulse of the. organization. De
cidedly they relegate the unions to
evil company, but in so heterogeneous
a collection of political scamps one
might have known that he would rub
elbows with treason. It may be that
the deserting brethren will illumi
nate their accusations with the facts
they have assembled. These will
serve merely to confirm- belief, for
Christenson himself is talking from
the plane of the soap-box.
The estimate that :.crease ln ex
cess baggage rates provided for in
the new railroad rate schedules will
cost the public $1,400,000 a year is
no doubt made without reference to
possibilities in the way of cutting
down excess baggage transportation.
The charge is almost as much a pen
alty designed to discourage the prac
tice as a means of adding to revenue.
and there will be no great sorrow if
the increase stimulates travelers to
get along with less impedimenta.
Present allowance of free baggage on
railroads in the United States
greatly in excess of that in other
countries, and is sufficient for the
needs of most of us, and experts are
agreed that a good proportion of ex
cess baggage carried by ordinary
travelers could be dispensed with.
The burden will be felt, however,
by traveling salesmen and purveyors
of amusement, who presumably, even
under former rates, are not exceed
ing the free limit merely for the fun
of the thing.
PASSENGER STEAMSHIPS TO HOLLAND
The steamship line from Holland
to Portland marks a great step in the
shipping of this port, because it Is
not only the first foreign line to
northern Europe established since
the war but It -is our first passenger
line established to any foreign ports.
It is the beginning of direct travel
between Europe and Portland
through the Panama canal, it will
open trade with Belgium, Germany
and Luxemburg as well as Holland,
and many immigrants from those
countries may be expected to come
to the Pacific coast.
Decision was reached to send the
ships to this port after the agents
had canvassed the opportunities of
other Pacific ports, where they no j
doubt heard all that c 3uld be said in
disparagement of Portland. There
are no cooler business men than the
Dutch, and their verdict is strong
testimony to the merits of this port
from the strictly business viewpoint
of traffic opportunities. The position
of Portland as the natural outlet for
all products of the Columbia river
basin had much influence, for Holland-
imports phosphates and this
port was found to be the export point
for the phosphate mines of Paris,
Idaho. The new line is thus in part
the result of successful efforts to se
cure just freight rates on phosphates
and to provide facilities for shipping
them.
The fact that the Dutch steamers
will carry passengers directly be
tween this port and Europe is also a
defeat for the hostile combination
which has done its utmost to prevent
us from securing passenger service.
When it finds that a foreign company
is carrying passengers, the shipping
board may show greater disposition
to allocate American passenger ships
to Portland. If the board should
continue to hold off, its hesitation
may be overcome by other lines,
which are likely to compete with the
Holland-American.
Ships have come to Portland be
cause we have the traffic and the
facilities to handle it. This year we
only see the beginning, for more will
come every year if we make more
business for them and if we keep the
facilities at least one step ahead of
the needs.
CHTKCH tJNION AND MISSIONARIES.
It Is perplexing, of course, to an
alien who professes another religion
than' our own, and whom we are
seeking to proselyte, to discover that
we couch our religious philosophy
in more than a hundred tongues. The
petition which has been circulated
recently among Protestant mission'
aries in China, asking for "one Pro
testant church" in that country,
makes vocal the puzzlement that
long has existed in the Orient over
that which has ceased to attract at
tention in this country only because
it is so common. We know that most
of the differences between creeds are
minor ones, which do not affect the
vital teachings of Christianity, but
we do not make allowance for the
bewilderment of the .stranger, who is
asked to choose between them but
who does not have guidance of fam
ily associations and other considera
tiens familiar to us in determining
his doctrinal preferences.
This much, and a good deal more,
was sound in the ambitious plan of
the Interchurch World Federation,
which collapsed the other day but
which has some prospect of being
revived on a more enduring founda
tion. Whatever may be said of the
error of assuming that anything
could be accomplished so long as
funds were contributed generously
enough, there was a great deal to
commend the scheme to discover the
elements in common to all the de
nominations and to put them to the
fore, although at the same time re
serving the individual initiative of j
organizations already in existence j
and fostering the spirit of emulation
such as is helpful to any cause. The
great misfortune of the setback
which the movement has received is
that it is likely to be regarded as a
blow to the larger principles sought
to be advanced, whereas it probably
was due chiefly to executive mis
management and to undue emphasis
on the money end of the campaign.
The petition of the Chinese mis
sionaries contains a larger moral for
those who care to seek for lt In
their attitude toward the church and
toward religion, large numbers of
people in our own country are as
much heathen as any oriental. They
have, in other words, failed to accept
the truths which the churches have
to offer them, and their reasons for
holding aloof are very much the
same as those of the Chinese. How
shall the open-minded stranger de
cide among them, when they are not
able to agree among themselves?
Because the missionary field Is
relatively a new field, the denomi
nations have an opportunity to get
together in it, which may not be
humanly practical In the domestic
situation. It seems to be conceded
that the country is not ready to ac
cept the "one big church," even were
this desirable; but it also Is admitted
that overchurched communities are
a menace to advancement at home as
well as abroad, and If union, of
foreign missionary endeavor is ac
complished, it ought to point the way
to some practical scheme of avoiding
the excessive duplication and redu
plication with which we are con
stantly disadvantaged at home.
Stranger things have happened than
that the ultra-denominationalists
should go abroad to find out the
truth about themselves.
-IS PROGRESS A DELUSION f
Dean Inge of St. Paul's, London,
who recently delivered the Romanes
lecture at Oxford, set forth the
popular belief that progress is not
a task for humanity but a law of na
ture. He declared that the deepest
thought in antiquity was that
"progress and retrogression are only
the incoming and outgoing tides in
an unchanging sea." In the middle
ages there was little talk of progress
and the belief was not encouraged
that the world is steadily improving,
or even capable of being improved..
Western Europe began in the eigh
teenth century to dream of a mil
lennium ushered in by reason, and the
nineteenth century regarded progress
as "that kind of improvement which
cj.n be measured by statistics."
The facts assembled by the dean
in support of his pessimistic philoso
phy have the familiar ring. Physi
cally, the race has made no progress
in thousands of years. Mentally it
could not be shown that we of the
present are the equals" of the Athe
nians or the superiors of the Romans.
Moral improvement is more diffi
cult to gauge, but the dean rings
familiar bell with the introduction'
of the late war as proof that we are:
not less brutal or more humane
than were the ancients. Astronomy
holds that our. planet must come to
an end and .that the life of the hu
man race is a "brief episode even In
the brief life of a planet," while it is
"no more than an assumption that
the domination of earth by men is a
desirable thing."
It is possible so to "reason for the
sake of a doubt," as judges say when
instructing juries in the law of evi
dence, that nothing but doubt re
mains as the result of reasoning. . It
reminds us of those philosophical
hair-splitters who begin by contend
ing that there is no such thing as
knowledge, or if there is such a thing
it is impossible for us to know of it,
and upon this flimsy structure build
a science which they call by the im
posing name of epistemology. The j
dean himself would admit that the
accumulated experience of mankind
is of great value, but he would deny
that this constitutes real progress In
human nature ' itself. . For the idea
that there may be an infinite number
of finite purposes In the scheme of
the universe one of which might be
that mankind should perform a con
scious function in the working out
or its own evolution he would sub
stitute the notion that we are only
beguiling ourselves when we suppose
that men are rewarded, here or here
after, according to their deserts and
in proportion to development of
character. . .
There are opinions which, while
we may not assent to them, are
worth dissecting as a mental and
moral exercise. Few, unless they
are congenitally pessimistic, will, be
lieve that the human- race ought to
be hastily condemned even on the
evidence of a world war, unless the
conflict be judged in all its phases,
or that moderns can be justly com
pared with ancients by an inade
quate measure which takes account
only of the evil and ignores the good.
It would not be Impossible for i
morehopeful and ingenious philoso
pner than the dean to make out a
case for moral progress from the
war in question. It will not have es
caped the attention of the dean, to
suggest an obvious instance, that it
was the first great war in history in
which the chief belligerents regarded
it as worth while to try to justify
tnemseives before the moral con
science of the world. That the ef
forts of some of them were pitifully
inadequate is unimportant beside the
facv that moral support was admitted
to be necessary to the success of a
cause In arms.
To deny all human progress Is to
deny that hope was implanted in the
breasts of men as the distinguishing
characteristic of the race. That hope
itself, which the ancients dismissed
as a fraud, should be esteemed by
moderns as a virtue will be regarded
by the more optimistic as a sign of
progress in itself. But in particular
we would commend to the philo
sophically inclined the thesis that
progress can be proved on. the basis
of a myriad of facta
December 21 has been proclaimed
a quasi holiday to honor the landing
of the Pilgrims. As descendants of
those who came on the Mayflower
are not numerous enough to make a
showing, those who can run a lino
to the wheelbarrow limited will be
allowed to join.
D. E. Burley, who died in Salt
Lake Monday, for years general pas
senger agent of the Oregon Short
Line, probably was the best-known
man in the inter-mountain country.
He did a lot for his territory, espe
cially Idaho, in the way of general
improvement.
The newly organized "Camels" are
to hold their first meeting in Port
land. We' trust they will not neglect
to honor the man who testified be
fore the city council Wednesday that
ne drank as many as 100 glasses of
hard cider in a day.
The bolshevikl have regained the
river Bug, which they lost to the
Poles last spring. Premier Pilsudski
might have known no bolshevik
could rest easy so long as a stream
of such significant name was in en
emy hands.
The .stranger who accepts Invita
tion to a hotel room to have a drink
and is robbed is particeps criminis.
caveat emptor and all the rest of the
Latin phrases in the back of the die
tionary and has no-"ktck" coming.
Another case in court again shows
an aged person should hold the lines
on. property and not deed it to chil
dren In a mistaken notion. There
are "exceptions, to be sure, but they
prove the soundness of the advice.
Wilson's condition is hinted In
the news. The later Roosevelt took
tea with Mrs. Wilson, but could
not see the president. The man who
should be acting president is with
us today and his name is Marshall,
The town marshal at Dallas has
arrested a man on a charge of insan
ity for saying that, with the high cost
of living what it is, one has to eat
grasses and dandelions to exist. What
do they mean, insane?
The navy skipper who, as governor
of Guam, prohibited whistling under
penalty of $5 fine, has been relieved
of his command. - Now and then
Prussian gets into the service in spite
of everything.
s
Ponzi continues business at the old
stand and some new ones, despite
efforts of the minions of the law to
put him out. His case is remarka
ble in that he can have no imitators.
The fellow who speculated in
street-car tickets a month or more
ago should be uneasy while the big
roads settle the unsold ticket matter,
pending the rise.
A woman would be governor of
Washington and seeks the republican
nomination. Women know where to
turn for recognition.
One would think that some of
these governments would try to get
Ponzi to help them pay off their war
debts.
"Wilson is worry to both parties,"
says a headline. To say nothing of
the country and the world.
See that highway, Mr. Marshall?
That's typical of Oregon safe, sound,
solid and certain.
The drop of 80 cents in flour ought
to shade the loaf at least a cent.
- j Oregon, 783,285. and it's time some
a j people speeded up.
BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES
Lutheran Pnnor Finds All an da nee; of
Hamor la the Bible.
Answering the question "Is there
any humor In the Bible?" Dr. George
W. Englar, pastor of the Bethany
Lutheran church in Pittsburg. Pa
writes in the Pittsburg Dispatch:
The Bible has between Its covers
the finest strains of poetry, the most
memorable deeds of history, the pro
foundest teachings of philosophy, the
most impressive experiences of per
sonal biography, Ihe loftiest princi
ples of morality.
And so far as I know, I never stand
anywhere in my daily experience but
I see where the feet of men mentioned
In the Bible have stood there before
me. There are coffins and cradles in
the Bible. There are glories and
glooms Ln the Bible. There are far
ascents and deep descents ln the Bi
ble. And when I put my ear to it I
hear universal man as he sobs and
sings and sighs and swears and sup
plicates. It is man's book.
There is mystery and comedy and
tragedy in that book. There is noth
ing happened in your life but it is in
that book. There is nothing you ever
did or thought but it is there in the
book. And it is not only a record of
yesterday, but a description of today
and a prophecy of tomorrow.
And there is humor In It, too. Who
can read, for instance, the forty-sixth
chapter of Isaiah without seeing .the
irony there? It is the description of
the making of an Idol. "The people
lavish their gold and hire a goldsmith
who maketh it into a god. They bear
It upon their shoulders. They carry
it and set it in its place and it stand
eth. From its place it shall not re
move. They cry unto It, but It cannot
answer."
Or witness that contest on Mount
Carmel: "And Elijah said unto the
prophets of Baal, "Choose you one bul
lock for yourselves and dress it and
call' on the name of your god.' And
they took the bullock and dressed it
and called on the name of Baal from
morning until noon, saying, "Oh, Baal,
hear us.' And it came to pass at noon
that Elijah said, 'Cry aloud; maybe
he is musing or peradventure he
sleepeth. " Think you there is no hu
mor in these lines?
. Or come to the New Testament. Two
men are wending their way to the
temple. The one Is a Pharisee and
the other is a Publican. "The Phari
see stands and prays thus with him
self. . . ." "Part of him is praying
and part Is listening." I have an idea
that God in the heavens laughs-at the
preposterous absurdity "Man meas
uring himself against the infinite!"
The wonder is not that I find humor
in the book that is Intended for uni
versal man, but the wonder, in, my
ind, is that so few read and know of
such a wonderful book.
It charms me like the dawn, like
the singing of birds in the spring
time, like the blossom of the trillium
in the shady places in the woods, like
the laugh of a child, like the sons of
women. Above all, as Coleridge said,
It finds me" in all the moods and ex
periences of life.
Everybody Worships the rose. If
man or woman has anything at all
growing out of the ground, he or she
is pretty Bure to have begun with a
rose bush. The walk to the multi
millionaire's palace is lined with
roses, and the poor negro squatter's
shack is embowered in them. The
noblest of flowers Is also the most
democratic. The rose Is the emblem
of the most sacred thing in the world
which is womanhood. The Irish peas,
ant, yearning toward his peasant
sweetheart, sings, "Rose o' the world.
I love ye!" and the poet says, "Love
like a lovely rose, the world s de
light." The budding rose Is the type
and embodiment, too, of life, of youth,
of hope; yet when the loved one is
dead, what then?
Strew on her roses, roses.
And never a spray of yew!
That we are companioned from
birth to death by the rose, and by it
followed .to the grave, is after all the
finest proof . that we have that the
world is good. In bereavement the
white rose of weary leaf" comforts
us, and in joy the red rose is the
spirit of a blessed infinity made flesh
and laid upon our cheek. There is a
rose for every sorrow, every joy,
every mood, every passion known to
the human soul. Boston Transcript.
He was lust a dog, a black and tan
eurwlth tattered ears and no pedigree.
He didn't even have a regular name.
answering to the general appellation
of "Pup." But he died as a hero when
his master's car was burned on a road
seven miles from the city. Pup was
left In the car while his master went
awav on an errand, and admonished
to- remain In the machine. Pup re
mained. Even when the flames start
ed by a leaking gasoline tank In the
battered Ford began to scorch his
paws and singe his hair, he- stuck to
his post.
When the smoke fumes blinded his
eyes and choked his yelps for assist
ance he hung grimfy on. He met the
most glorious death that can come to
a dog that of making the supreme
sacrifice in the service of a b,eloved
master. A charred and stiffened fig
ure surmounting the ruined car was
all that met the master's gaaft when
he returned. He was only a dog.
black and tan cuv with tattered ears
and no pedigree. Richmond (Va.)
Evening News.
turned up in the shape of a letter of
Instructions sent in the pony express
days by a merchant in St. Louis to his
agent in San Francisco. This letter
has reference to the disposal of a lot
of goods that were shipped by way of
Cape Horn and. although it con
tained several thousand words and a
copy of an invoice, it was written on
just two sheets of paper.
The paper itself is a sort of tough,
opaque tissue, very thin and slight.
When folded the latter slips easily
into an envelope three Inches wide.
The reason why this communica
tion was prepared in such a peculiar
way lies in the stamp attached, one
of the old "pony express" series, with
a design of a man on horseback spur
ring at a gallop across the plains.
We all know, of course, that the Pa
cific mall of that period was carried
by relay riders, but few of the presr
ent generation have any idea of the
great pains that were taken to reduce
its weight to a minimum. The letters
were stored in little flat pouches un
der the flaps of the saddle and they
were usually written on a specially
prepared tissue. The one referred to
must have occupied an expert clerk
several days, for the penmanship is
minute. It is, however, beautifully
executed, clear and legible. Indian
apolis News. ' : . .
Those Who Come and Go.
"Some claim that whisky keeps you
young, while others put their faith
in tobacco, but I've managed to hold
my own pretty well in spite of the
fact that X never used the former
and gave up the latter after using
it for 20 years," declares G. W. Bar
rows, who is spending a couple of
months in Portland taking it easy,
after the strenuous work of manag
ing the Barrows Furniture company
at Phoenix, Ariz. Barrows looks about
W years old from the front view and
a little less from the side, but he has
passed his 72d milestone, is a vet
eran of the Civil war. and can re
member when there wasn't a railroad
west of the Mississippi and when
Chicago didn't have a paved street
to its name. "Several dozen years
ago I used to be greatly interested
in flying, and I am glad I have lived
to see it a reality," he said. "T
haven't taken a trip in an airplane
yet, but I expect I shall one of these
days. I am getting a trifle more cau
tious now that I am getting along
toward middle age, however, than 1
used to be when I was young."
Salmon are not entering the river
Because they are being scared by the
purse seines, according to Astorlans
in Portland. About 140 boats with
purse seines are operating outside
of the three-mile limit and they are
making catches which are ruinous to
the commercial fishing Industry, be
cause the purses catch everythln
from crabs and salmon weighing
pound or t -o up to the largest size
salmon. One boat caught four and
a half tons of fish, which means 9000
pounds. There is a law against purse
seines, but the law does not extend
beyond the fhree-mile limit. The
fish in the river have fallen off and
comparatively few are being caught
because of the operations of the
purse seines off the mouth of th
Columbia. As one Astorian put it, the
purse seines are killing the goose
that lays, the golden egg.
For 16 years E. J. Kelly has been
coming to Portland and he is one of
the veterans among the press agents,
although he doesn't like the idea of
being referred to as a veteran, be
cause he still wears his own hair,
and it isn't white. Mr. Kelly, who
is now piloting "Linger Longer, Let
tie." says that the show business is
good, even if it is summer, and
points to $80,000 receipts in San
Francisco in the engagement there
"The main spenders for theatrical
amusement today," declared Mr. Kelly
at the Hotel Portland, "are people
who in the past rarely went to shows
because they could not afford to,
They patronized motion pictures and
now they, want something more ex
pensive, and the price of a ticket is
no object."
"There's nothing to it." declare
Fred Stanley of Deschutes, discuss
ing the recent damage suit filed by
the government against the Grand
Ronde Lumber company for som
$600,000. In the complaint filed I
the federal court Mr. Stanley is men
tioned as one of a group of allege
conspirators who took up land and
turned it in to the lumber company.
"I sold out of the lumber company in
1902," explained Mr. .Stanley. "The
company started with a nucleus o
6000 acres and had about 20,000 acre
when the property was disposed of 1
1902. I took land, paid for it, and
later sold it to the company, which
was all regular and customary. This
was 'way back in 1887 or there
abouts." Big capital is crowd'.ng out the
smaller merchants in London and if
you want to go in business there the
only way to get by is to have entree
to a "few bank vaults and gold mines,
says "Jlmraie" Dunn, Portland cloth
ier, who has just returned from a
visit of four months in London and
other parts of his homeland. Polit
ically, Great Britain is talking of
nothing but the Irish question, he
says. English morals are not Just
what they ought to be, but this is due
to post-war conditions, which will
right themselves in time.
"Machines are using McKenzie pass,
for the road is open and there is
plenty of travel," said R. S. Watts,
as he registered at the Multnomah
yesterday. Mr. Watts ts an engineer
on some, road construction on the
McKenzie and his headquarters are
at Blue river. The forestry people
intends letting a contract in a few
weeks for graveling many miles of
the highway from Blue river and
arading the worst part of Dead
Horse hill.
"Every cottage from Tillamook to
Wheeler Is occup'ed and the Tills
mook beach has developed into the
most popular resort in the north
west," declares George W. Kiger, who
registered at the Hotel Portland from
the cheese metropolis. 'There are
not enough cottages to accommodate
all who want to go to the beach In
our county, although a number of
small cottages and bungalows have
been built this eprlng and some are
even now in course of construction."
Married ln Astoria Wednesday
night, Mr. and Mrs. Glover Utzinger
came to the Hotel Portland yesterday
and will take a wedding trip to
Alaska. The reservation at the Hotel
Portland was made many weeks ago.
and the trip to Alaska was all care
fully planned out with system, be
cause the bridegroom is assistant
cashier in the Astoria National bank.
Malln Just escapes being ln Califor
nia, it is so near the line in
Klamath county, Oregon. Andrew
Johnson landed at the Perkins from
Malin yesterday. The town isn't very
big. for by a stretch of the imagina
tion about SO people can be counted
as the population, and a sawmill is
one of the main industries fit the set
tlement. prosaic Job. He is Ralph Waldo Em
erson of Washington, D. C and he's
assistant director of the war risk
in&urance department of the federal
government. Mr. Emerson, a descend
ant of the noted American poet, is in
Portland on government business.
Frank S. Grant has left for the
east to attend the national meeting of
the Knights of Pythias, and when he
is through with that gathering he
will proceed to Chicago to attend the
congress of fraternal societies.
O. L. Mitchell, of Echo, is at the
Imperial with W. W. Howell, of Rock
Island, 111., and Mr. Howell is being
given a liberal education in the irri
gation problem of the west, by Mr.
Mitchell.
Otto C. TJlrich, a merchant of Cou
ncil, Wash., is registered at the Per
kins. Mr. Ulrich is a buyer and is
here to give orders, and decided not
to wait until buyers' week, which
starts next Monday.
M. A. Kelly, who lives ln Duluth
Minn., but who is interested In Ore
gon timber lands, is registered at the
Hctel Portland. Mr. Kelly Is here
to attend to routine business.
Professor G. E. Barnett. who spe
cir.lizes in economics at the Johns
Hopkins university, is in town for a
few days and is registered at the
Multnomah.
- W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian. Is
registered at the Imperial. He is at
tending the meeting of veterinarians
of Oregon and Washington.
SAYETH THE OREGON EDITOR
Dallas Will Clint; t Its Name Against
' All Opposition.
Polk County Itemlxer.
The Itemiser is unalterably opposed
to the change of the name of Dallas,
no matter from what source or for
what.jurpose the suggestion origin
ates. Admitting that something
should be done to eliminate the con
fusion that results from the similarity
ot the names Dallas and The Dalles.
and the resulting inconvenience to
citizens of both towns, we contend
that there Is just as much historical
reason why the name of our city shall
re preserved as that of the city up
the Columbia. The whole matter
could be settled, and no historical
sentiment lost, if the other town
would revert- to its original name.
Fort Dalles.
Tlllaaeok's Road Work.
Oregon City Enterprise.
Whenever a road commences to
show signs of going to pieces in Tilla
mook county, a crew is sent out, a
scarifier tears up the surface to a
depth of about - four inches, the
grader follows along and smooths the
highway, the ditcher takes care ot the
drainage and finally the roller packs
the surface down and the county has
new road, without the cost of
dollar for new material, and at an
expense of the wages of a few men
plus the investment in the machines.
As a result thousands of people tour
into and through that county, spend
ing their money for the necessaries
of life, leaving in Tillamook county
millions of dollars annually.
Law That Works Hardship.
Port Orford Tribune.
We believe that the settlers who
are undergoing the inconveniences,
and oftentimes hardships, of develop
ing a new country are entitled to the
benefit of its natural resources. Such
resources should, ot course, be con
served, but, for instance, there are
better ways of conserving our deer
than by convicting every settler who
provides meat for his family by kill
ing a buck out of season, and to call
all such settlers thieves is an unwar
ranted accusation that slurs many
men whose honesty and integrity are
above question.
Enough Trouble at Home..
L'nlon Republican.
The Republican doubts if any man
can be elected to the presidency of
the United States upon the league of
nations platform, no matter how good
a man he may be. The American peo
ple have had about all they desire of
foreign wars with the attendant sac
rifice of life and disorganised busi
ness conditions. There is a growing
belief that America will have about
all it can do to attend strictly to the
affairs of Its own country, without
going abroad after trouble.
Five Knt lean Cone.
Silver Lake Leader.
Work is still plentiful and wages
are ettll high, and anyone can save
if they desire. Five years as spend
ers has spoiled them as savers and
saving is the only thing that will
drive the wolf from the door when it
begins to howl. They are enjoying
life to the full today, but tomorrow
may witness the dead leaves of oppor
tunity falling around them.
Young Dos Tray.
Bend Press.
Because the editor of this paper
was appointed on the affirmative side
of a debate in which the Non-Partisan
league figured in a private club in
this city some time ago and In order
to secure material was compelled to
communicate with the headquarters
ot that organization his name is now
being listed with 57 other varieties
on a sheet sent out by the league as
parties interested in Non-Partisan
league ln the state of Oregon."
His Good Term Deserves Another.
La Grande Observer.
The Observer has no voice in the
affairs of the city of Portland, but
we arise to second the motion that
George Baker be drafted to serve an
other term as mayor of the metropo-
1s. Mr. Baker is 100 per cent mayor.
He has the qualifications and lately
he has had the support of Portland
as a city to put tnrougn nis plans ana
ideas, all of which are good.
The Cow's Joy Ride.
Harrisburg Bulletin.
While removing a cow from Row
land to his home place. J. M. Hoch
danner made a mess of the job. He
riggad up a trailer and loaded the
cow half on the trailer and half on
the auto. In rounding a corner the
rack toppled over and the poor cow
.went with it. When the ropes were
unwound the incident was termed
simply a good joke on the cow. She
wasn't hurt a bit. But she wouldn't
stand for any more joy rides.
Asleep at tke Wheel.
Scio Tribune.
Turning an auto into a sleeping
car is not exactly a new idea, but
to go to sleep at the wheel while on
the highway is unusual. Friday night
a car bearing license 36922 was seen
by passersby in the middle of the
road on the east side of Thomas
creek with the young woman occu
pant Bleeping so soundly that three
passing autos failed to disturb her
I slumbers, and she awoke only when s
joker in his Velie pulled up alongside
and made his horn squawk.
' Billy Sunday, Republican Spieler.
Baker Herald.
A few more speeches like he de
livered at Corvallis the other day and
Billy Sunday will be invited to enroll
himself as one of the campaign ora
tors by the republican national com
mittee. Flaures Do Not Tell All.
. Condon Globe-Times.
Figures announced for the 1920 cen
sus for Gilliam county, while not as
large regarding Condon as had buen
expected, are nevertheless very cred
itable to this section. Whether we
have 1127 people or 1500, the town re
mains the best business center of its
size in the country, and shows a
healthy growth.
No Sunshines Moonshine Not Wanted.
Gresham Outlook.
What's the matter with this old
world anyway? -We can't have all the
sugar we want; we can't have all the
gasoline we want; we can't have all
the money we want we can only
have patience, and we don't want
much of that
The Light-Weight Element.
Forest Grove News-Times.
The views of the chronic kicker and
fault finder have less weight than
those of any other adult element of
the human race. p
Good Old Northwest Oregon.
Banks Herald.
Los Angeles is rapidly gaining a
reputation as an earthquake city, but
we never had the desire to locate
there since we discovered this old
northwest Oregon where an earth
quake, cyclone, hail storm or blizzard
is never known.
No Grudge la Held.
Judge.
"I sorter wonder why Gabe Slack
married again, after the way them
other three wives of hisrn treated
him?" mused a neighbor. "Aw, I
reckon he wanted to show that he
didn't. hold no grudge against woman
kind in gener'l," replied Gap John
son of Rumpus Ridge. Arkansas.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamest J. Montague.
NOT WORD FOR WORD.
In gay Paree. where Love holds swav.
tut Faithfulness is often phoney.
ciriu&en out tne word "obey"
1-rom the conjugal ceremony.
vreason beinS e are told.
anat .Mother Eves dark-eyed de
scendant!! Mo." firmly to their lords will hold
are granted Independence.
If sly Flirtation's pleasant sea
is not forbidden them to swim in.
ine best authorities agree
They will not want to being
women.
To know the law forbade her go
ith other gentlemen to dlnc-.
Affected Fifi like a blow
It woke profound rebellion in her.
But now that she can flirt with ease.
No matter if she's duly wedded.
And ogle any man she sees
Her nerves and heart are nicely
steadied.
There'll be no heartbreak now. nor
sighs.
i,Lr' " th Parls "women view it, '
If bursting from the nuptial ties
no mr wrong, then wherefore
do it?
v
W" Bt'n employ the word "obey
To bind fond hearts through etonn
and atri f tir.
And in this country Love hold
Ann ,k l" oftn laat"s a fe ti
And though we now and then h
s sway
me.
. - - iiitu nave
Of wives engaged In mild f'lirta-
lions.
We know that when they say the word
tney murmur it with reservations!
Something Gained.
Anywav. r-.-. m , . , . .
k-,, , , . hi me nana is
better than two in the hush
.
They'll Pay All Of It.
commuters t n p.w ci ,
... ..Baneauiilie.
mean a share?
What do you
Pnrely Academic.
teres! fjf , t0 about as mu In
terest in the yacht races aa they did
In who killed Mr. ElwelL
(Copyright. lOJO. by Be Syndica(e. Iae.1
In Other Days.
Twenty-fire Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 8. 1S93.
SALEM. The supreme court today
sustained the contention of J. B. Eddy
railroad commissioner, that he holds
over in that office, and that a vacancy
was not created by reason of the
failure of the legislature to elect a
successor at the 1S95 session. "
Rev. Arthur Lane, deacon of the Ro
man Catholic church, was raised to
the priesthood yesterday at the pro
cathedral. The priest is a grandson
of General Lane, the first governor of
Oregon and son of Lafayette Lane, of
Rose burg.
A new postoffice has been estab
lished IS miles from The Dalles on
Mill creek, called Matney, and Isaao
C Matney has been appointed post
master. Walla Walla's real and personal
property is valued by the assessor at
B,771,4H.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oresonian of August 6. 1S70.
PARIS. It is positively asserted
that Austria and Italy have entered
into an alliance with France.
The Salem millt are now making
anu shipping 1500 barrels of flour per
week, mostly from old wheat.
me uriiiarame Drought up a con
siderable quantity of California wool
for the Oregon City mills. The bark
V histler has just delivered a large
shipment of Oregon wool at San Fran
cisco. It is an exchange of grades.
Tho Oregon wool is fine and long
staple, while the California product
is short and coarse.
The river steamer Shoo Fly is en
gaged in pulling snags out of the
channel of the upper Wallamet, and
the pile driver is being used to im
prove the rapids.
ROl'TE SELECTION IS FACTOR
Highway Beauty Slay Be Insured by
Care In Location.
PORTLAND. Aug. 5. (To the Ed
itor.) I was much interested in an
editorial trppearing in The Ore
gonian a few days ago in which at
tention was called to the necessity of
making special efforts ti preserve the
natural beauty along the scenic high
ways. A very desirable thing, in
deed. The writer of that article men
tions, in particular, the beauty-destroying
effects of lumbering opera
tions. This is very evident, and in
many cases almost impossible to pre
vent. Another menace is th forest fire,
which leaves a blackened, unsightly
waste, which, on the rougher ground,
will remain so for many years. Should
not these possible conditions be taken
into account in the location of our
highways? When the soil and lay
of the land are suitable, logging oper
ations or forest fires are eventually
followed by the clearing of the ground
and the growing of crops. Thus the
unsightly effects are removed.
There is now pending the location
of the lower end ot the Mount Hood
loop. If it is located on the south
side of the Sandy river it will pass,
for the greater part of the portion in
controversy, through a section per
fectly adapted to agriculture. In case
any of its natural beauty is destroyed
by the lumberman or the more ruth
less forest fire, the acres adjacent to
the highway will surely, some day,
be made beautiful again.
It is very possible that within the,
next generation an appreciation of the
fruits of the soil will be so intense
that one taking a turn around tha
loop, even though Just seeking relief
from business cares and on pleasure
bent, may find real satisfaction in
that at least a small part of the de
lightful drive will be through fields
of waving grain, lowing herds and
laden fruit trees.
Any way you put It. "a sure thing
is a safe bet." The highway board
could not possibly make a mistake by
choosing the south side.
GEORGE B. COUPER.
New Capital Punishment Law.
PORTLAND, Aug." 5. (To the Edi
tor.) To settle a controversy- please
answer the following: If a person
convicted by the jury of murder in the
first degree; must the jury also state
In their verdict that the penalty is to
be hanging or otherwise they would
not lie hanged?
F. HENRY THIAS.
Tou state the reverse of the law.
The penalty for murder in the first
degree is death, unless the Jury
recommends life imprisonment.
Intermarriage Spells Doom
Albany Herald.
Intermarriage presupposes equality
of the contracting parties. The Her
ald is not ready to admit that the
yellow race is the equal of tho Cau
casian. Neither in physical, mental
nor moral attributes are the Japanese
equal to the inhabitants of the United
States. For the United States to per
mit such intermarriage would be to
write the doom of the white race ln
America.