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During- the war just ended i attitude of state and municipal fov the classics of every period were ' ernments and of individual Ameri placed before readers in the Ameri- J cans. The advances toward citizen carr . expeditionary forces without ship should not be altogether on the cost. All except the thrill of ex- part of the aspirant. Plain Smith elusive ownership of a volume that , ana Jones, and all the rest of us. should meet with the hand of friend ship and the word of encouragement the chap who is ambitious to become one of us. Projects for this purpose are varied and illimitable, they are both personal and civic, but the key note of each must be friendly and comprehending encouragement. The Chicago Association of Com merce, for example, has issued a simplified textbook in common Eng lish for the guidance of the Immi grant. Its opening page is an object lesson In language, its closing para graphs, or rather verses, are those of the national hymn. It contains fifty-two lessons and the pledge to the flag is among them. BELIEF AND PRACTICE. . "We believe." says the platform of the New York democratic party in conference (not convention) as sembled, "in direct nominations." As an evidence of their fidelity to the principle "of the direct primary. they have "suggested" a full state ticket for consideration of the sov ereign voters. The republicans were a little less ingenuous. They had a convention and they called it a convention. They nominated a complete set of candi dates, from governor to state engi neer, adopted a platform, and sub mitted their selections to the deci sion of the primary. Against this appalling usurpation by both parties of the right of the electorate to choose candidates for office without the advice or consent CONCILIATION- IN INDUSTRY. Either there must be some tem perate, equitable ground of discus sion and award for the settlement of Industrial disputes or inflamed par tisanship will go to extremes. Ore eon has passed the experimental of any boss or organization, or ma- I stage in the functioning of the state chine on earth, no one in New York I board of conciliation, now. in exist- nas raised any effective protest. The ence for a year. The first annual observant farmers have warmed the BXjj PRODUCTS OK THE TIMES suspicion that we have heaped too! - great contumely on the crow. There H""" th,e J Mae" nas been growing doubt of the de- be ET sirabllitv of his extinction, and talk Macbeth was a general, but no one of bounties on his glossy pate has 1 held that against him. He was right met with unexpected and positive opposition. Tet the cas for the crow never was taken up and pur sued with thorough inquiry until the department of agriculture, unbiased and open-minded, slw 2100 of these birds at varying Reasons in a given range, for the purpose of conduct ing post mortems on the stomach contents. The report of that inquisition pre sents the crow In an altogether dif ferent light. If It does not hand him a halo, nor declare his song to excel that of the hermit thrush at evening, in the thick of things, and even the sergeants and lieutenants who had stood inspection under him had a good word for him. When the arrow barrages began to come over, then Macbeth, they said, was a regular Bellona's bridegroom and all kinds of a hell raiser, so says a writer in the Stars and Stripes. When the Norwegians and some rebels raided Scotland, Macbeth led hie "ladles from hell" in a counter attack. Macbeth, himself, worked on a hostile general until he had the at least it advises us something to ; enemy's head for a souvenir. In those THE SURPRISE THAT NEVER CAME. Governor Cox has left the people In an agony of ungratified curiosity as to the nature of that insert in his speech of acceptance which was to have been telegraphed to the news papers at the last moment, but which was never sent. It would have been bad enough to arouse pub lic expectation and then to make some declaration that would not cause the slightest quiver of. excite ment beyond the disgusted com ment: "Is that all?" But to inti mate that he has a secret to tell that will raise one's hair aiid then not to tell it sets everybody speculating about what it is and why he did not tell it. It might have been a message from President Wilson endorsing Mr. Cox's definition of the demo cratic position on the league of na tions and metaphorically folding the mantle of Elijah Wilson about the shoulders of Elisha Cox. To have ' sent a message of that kind a week in advance of delivery of the speech would have been to risk premature publication followed by discussion which might have made the message a dud when delivered at Dayton. Be sides, Mr. Wilson is not handing over any mantles of leadership. Mr. Lansing borrowed one and as soon as the president felt strong enough he booted the offender out of the state department. Mr. Wilson is keeping those mantles in his own possession until 12 o'clock noon on March 4, 1921. Perhaps Mr. Cox intended to in gratiate himself with the Irish by making some startling declaration In favor of Irish independence, but sober second thought may have led him to refrain. The San Francisco convention declared for mere self government with three cheers, which brought no answer from the green isle. If Mr. Cox were to go farther, he would go far beyond his platform and would lay up diplomatic trou ble for himself In the Improbable event of his election. Conflict would also arise between his promise to the Irish republicans and his unquali fied endorsement of i-rticle 10 in the covenant. Though Mr. Cox holds out ' to all men bright prospects of relief from all their woes through demo cratic victory, he avoids such con flicts by keeping safely in the mid dle of the road, lest his triumphal chariot be ditched. I Did Mr. Cox contemplate some as-' surance to the drys which would al lay their suspicion tltat he would favor laws increasing the lawful al coholic content of beer and wine or that he would be indulgent in en- forcing the Volstead law? There ; would have been good cause for - secrecy about such a purpose, for Trails End would have been literally besieged by angry, tearful wets and there would have been forceful pro- . tests from the league of democratic " bosses. Did he propose to say some thing more encouraging to the wets - 'than was his assertion that morals - cannot be produced by statute? Fear 1 of what W. J. Bryan might do may have led him to abandon that pur pose. Whatever may have been in his mind, Mr. Cox should not have promised a surprise, then not given it. The people do not like to be lifted to their toe-tips for nothing. They are led to critical analysis of Mr. Cox. They find that instead of bid ding bold defiance to the powers of evil, regardless of the votes and campaign funds he may lose, he 4ias avoided hitting at anybody of the kind and has made much the kind of speech that he might have been ex pected to make. So far is it from ; giving the promised surprise, from revealing the expected secret, that there is not a thrill in it. , general opinion is apparently that it is all right. The average voter there wants information about can didates, and he does not resent the fact that leaders of his party are seeking to help him make a selec tion. The New York World, Dem, approves the pre-primary conven tion, saying: On the whole, these pubfic meetings, by whatever name they are called, are preferable to back-room meetings which govern In the dark, and they give the minority a chance to express Its opin ions, if nothing else. . . . There is no reason why the democrats should make a pretense of horror at the unblushing frankness of the republican leaders In getting together and recommending a ticket. They might much better devote their time and attention to the choice of candidates who will have a reasonable chance of beating the republicans, and they should not underrate their task. Evidently they have not heard in New York of the perfect working of the untrammeled Oregon primary, where the right men . are always chosen, and the wrong men left at home. Among the men left at home in the recent presidential primary were certain deserving democrats who have given to the party about all the leadership It has had In re cent years. THE COUNT OF MONTE CBISTO. The death of James O'Ne'il inevit ably recalls the Count of Monte Cristo, with which '. is fame as an actor was intimately associated for considerably more than a third of a I rels of those who are in its service. risio in turn reminds us or tne report of the board is convincing testimony to its efficacy In promot ing industrial peace through justice to disputants. It is regrettable that the terse record of conciliation, suc cessful in almost every instance, is not accompanied by statistical spec ulation on what as many strikes would have cost In wasted wages and retarded production, to say nothing of intensified prejudice and misunderstanding. The state board of conciliation Is not armed with the power of com pelling acceptance of its services, but it has the not insignificant weapon of popular disapp-cval to draw against the parties who decline to co-operate in settlement of their in dustrial difficulties. It is far from an extreme measure, as is the Indus trial court of Kansas, but thus earl;' it has proved conclusively that an impartial light on industrial quar rels is a powerful inducement to just and satisfactory solution. Literally, though it is a tribunal representing the employer, the employe and the public all otherwise disinterested in the issue it is the voice of the public and its word carries weight. In economic history the present will be known as a. period in which the public, the huge majority served by Industry, and which insures the financial success of both capital and labor, at length found voice and spoke for its rights, declining to suf ! fer longer from the irrational quar vitality of vengeance as a theme in romance. At some time in our lives most of us have cherished the rfo tion that revenge is sweet. The car toonist who pictured Johnny Jones' youthful ambition to grow up speed ily for the express purpose of thrash ing the daylights out of dad caught the idea that furnishes the thrill in the Dumas tale. Ignoble it may e, but it is fact. Dumas himself borrowed the thought from Penchet's "A Diamond and a Vengeance." Dumas' hero, Edmond Dantes, furnishes the clas sical theme of unjust imprisonment and old testament justice on one's enemies. The Chateau d'lf, noted in history as the place of confinement of sundry French notables, includ ing Mirabeau and Louis Egalite, owes its popular fame to the novelist rather than to any historian. A "for bidden castle, a dungeon impreg nable, a hero victimized by unjust ANOTHER KENTUCKY SHATTERED. TRADITION Laws against carrying concealed weapons, and more .particularly the revolver or pistol, may have lessened the daily drama of American affairs but have unquestionably preserved tne integrity ot the census. To tote a pistol is to anticipate the sanguin ary moment when its bearer will feel impelled to use the weapon. Yet in Kentucky, sir, such laws have ever been honored more in the breach than the observance and pardons have almost invariably beep handed down with neatness and dispatch to those typically southern gentlemen who had been convicted of carrying pocket hardware. Now the pistol must go to the bourne of the mint julep. "Pistol carrying promotes homl cide," declares Governor Morrow, of the blue grass state. "It makes mur derers in their minds and hearts be this effect: "The crow is an over grown blackbird with an insatiable appetite for a most varied menu, whereon many of the items are weeds, seeds, plants, bugs, beetles, worms and rodents Inimical to the happiness and prosperity of man. He Is also a rogue and a thief without scruple, but for the most part his valuable services to agriculture more than counterbalance his depreda tions." Though the post-mortem commit tee discovered and identified 625 specifically different substances" in the cosmopolitan tummy of the crow, and though some or these were beyond doubt the tender salad blades of newly-sprouted wheat, of corn and barley, and the seeds thereof, the inquest also developed the fact that fully 20 per cent of the diet consisted of insect life. - His meats included wire-worms, cut worms, white grubs and grasshop pers, whose names are anathema in the agricultural districts. What was more Important for the croi if he is to strut warily into the good opinion of men, they found that from May to the cIose of Sep tember, or through the entire grow ing season, the crow derived a full third of his provender from, the in sect world. ' It was true that the in quest in the case f '-he People ver sus Crow brought forth partially di gested evidence that the scamp is fond of eggs, of fledglings and even of downy little chicks, but the re port asserts that this propensity has been greatly exaggerated by alarm ists and that the crime is only occa sional. In Its recommendations the report of the department of agriculture ad vises that war against the crow be restricted to localities where damage is prevalent and positive, and that in all ether instances the bird be as sured, of protection under a truce contingent on good behavior for its duration. - More dr stic measures than these, observed the investiga tors, would not only be unjust to the crow, but would bring economic mis fortune to the farmer. days they were not content with Just a helmet as a memento. On the way back to G. H. Q. to re port, Macbeth met three old women who, after hitting him for cigar ettes all around, started telling bis fortune. They prophesied he would rank a couple of thanes who had been ordering him around.. They hinted that he might even rise to be commander-in-chief. That's how the trouble started. Lady Macbeth, who had a grudge against the government because she bad never received her allotment. persuaded Macbeth to kill King Dun can. - Why wait for promotion by seniority, she suggested, when it's so much faster by selection? So Macbeth put the king away and several others, and everything would have been all set if ghosts hadn't started trying to swipe Macbeth's place in the mess line. Finally loyal Scots combined with the English and started a drive on Macbeth's chateau. On the march they pulled off one of the neatest little camouflage stunts of all times. When the outfit came to Birnam wood every buck private took a tree and slung it over his shoulder, higher ranks carried branches, while staff officers wore bouquets of wild flow ers in their buttonholes. Thus the wood seemed' to move as the army hiked on. Macbeth's signal corps went crazy trying to correct their maps to date, while everybody accused the forward observer, who reported the mobile forest, of having too much cognac on the hip There was some hard hand-to-hand fighting. However. It soon was all over but the armistice. Macbeth was listed as missing until Macduff walked In carrying his head and re ported him as a casualty. Those Who Come and Go. humdinger of a in our county predicted Judge There will be a political campaign for state senator." Thomas H. Crawford of LaGrande. as he chewed a cigar in the Imperial lobby yesterday. "There are two can didates for the senate Walter M. Pierce, who Is. of course, as everyone knows, a democrat: and Bruce Den nis, who is. as everyone knows, a re publican. Both Walter and Bruce are pretty handy speakers on tne stump and as I get the story, they have agreed to travel together and do their talking. To see and hear the two ot them on the platform will certainly be worth the price of admission, lou see, Walter knows all about Bruce and Bruce knows Walter's history from the cradle, and with such a situation there are unlimited possi bilities for entertainment. Judge Crawford was a delegate to the democratic convention in San Fran cisco and was on the platform com mittee where the real fireworks were set off. Charles V. Brown of Astoria came to Portland yesterday to have a little argument with .the state highway commission. Mr. Brown is .on the highway committee of the Astoria chamber of commerce and the cham ber wants the Columbia highway paved between Seaside and Astoria this year. There is no prospect of any such speed, but the highway peo ple are in favor of putting the Job under contract this winter and having it start the first thing in the spring. The commission, with assistance from the government and Clatsop county, is already building- a bridge across Young's bay, which will be part ot the highway to Seaside. J. S. Del linger, newspaper publisher, also ap peared from Astoria to boost for the pavement. He said he promised a year ago that he -vouldn't return to the commission until the Seaside Astoria road was finished, but he couldn't keep his word because the commission was so slow. A NOTEWORTHY BOOK COLLECTOR. Henry E. Huntington's decision to remove his famous private library from New York to his home in San Mareno, Cal., suggests that he may be a book collector who derives en joyment from something more than mere possession of a rare volume. While it is true that the modern editions of the works of which he owns the originals are more con venient for the purposes of the student, he also has performed a real service for bibliophily in as sembling what in all probability is the finest private collection of books in the world. Mr. Huntington's representatives have put book collecting on a new plane In the past few years. His purchase of the Gutenberg Bible for $50,000 some years ago was a record price for a single volume. As the owner of the original manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiogra phy" alone he would be the envy of any collector, but his Americana in their aggregate are probably the most complete In the country. The whole cost of the volumes now being transported across tne continent runs Into many millions. fate, fabulous wealth and the power tore they carry the deed into execu tion, me pistol carrier is not a good citizen, is not desirable, and on the contrary is a menace to good order and to public safety. The Kentucky law prescribes jail sentences upon conviction of carry ing a pistol and in addition imposes a sentence of disfranchisement for two years.- In effect it publishes with the punishment a declaration that the pistol toter is unworthy of citizen ship. It is this law that Governor Morrow asserts he will uphold with out fear or favor, adding that the last pardon has been lisued. From any number of sources we have gleaned the impression that southern gentlemen, sir, are choleric and hasty, painfully touchy upon superficial points of personal dignity. and addicted to goatees, slim black cigars, and frosty drinks compound ed by faithful black servitors. - The code of the duellist,' personal satis faction for insult or injury, was al most as dear a heritage as the family recipe for juleps. Now that both pistol and potation are shorn from these belligerent swashbucklers they should, If popular accounts of char acter are true, be hopping mad. These impressions may be quite wrong. If so, let us blame literature that boasts of local color. But the tradition that every gentleman must be prepared for hostile eventualities must subside, and the last survival of medievalism be laid to rest with the musty old notion that manhood is best tested by the drinking bout. to bring confusion to the foe these were the convenient media out of which the most celebrated romance of the first half of the nineteenth century was created, and from which came the play that, achieved the re markable record of more than 6000 performances by a single actor. That O'Neil found his forte in ro mantic c'rama there is no question. He early made the discovery that his public liked him best in his stand ard role. Those who have seen and heard him will remember that he was capable of rising to great heights of dramatic fervor; it Was an experience to have shared the en thusiasm of his declaration that "the world Is mine." The attempt . to dramatize riugo s Jean valjean, a character also sinned against, but a thousand times more lovable than Edmond Dantes, has been a failure, measured by the standard of the success of "Monte Cristo." Forgive ness is for philosophers and philan thropists; the gallery gods want their realism straight and the justice of revenge is the stuff they crave. There is but one indispensable In dustry, when all is said and done It is the economic bulwark, farm ing. Were all else to fall, and civil ization go crashing down in indus trial chaos, human survival would seek refuge in the soil from whence the race sprang and on which it has been nurtured. Of course, this is not going to happen, but it is com fortable to feel that the kindly old bosom of earth is still fruitful and eager to serve. At a time when strikes and lockouts are the freely brandished weapons of industrial strife there is refreshing assurance in the fact that the soil and sun never walk out or decline duty. Something of this trend of logic is between the lines of the latest" re port of the federal reserve board, which declares that the car shortage and the labor situation have wrought a slump in industry, and that the sit uation is redeemed only by a prodi gality of crop returns, actual and prospective. The "more confident tone in business," says this author ity, is Induced by agricultural suc cesses and not by Industrial activity. In business correspondence, says the Columbus Dispatch, we frequently find the word "same" used as In the following examples: "We have re ceived your letter of the 20th and note what you say In same;" "your order for 200 barrels received and we shall give prompt attention to same." This use of the word "same" is condemned by all authorities on Eng lish grammar. The two sentences quoted would be worded In much bet ter English If they read as follows: "We have received your letter of the 20th and note what you say in it; "your order for 200 barrels has been received and we shall give prompt attention to the matter." Of course, men and women in bus iness are not charged especially with the duty of helping to keep the Eng lish language free from error. But it is really amazing to note how many business houses that are careful about the quality of the goods in which they deal and about the stationery which they use permit their letter to go out filled with grammatical errors and errors in punctuation. R. W. Jones, who is the mayor of Ontario, is at the Imperial and dis covers there are so many more things to see in Portland than there are in Ontario that he will remain here a few days. Aside from the oo or being mayor. Mr. Jones is also in the laundry business and says without fear of successful contradiction mat he is giving a clean administration. Ontario is determined to be right on the map with both feet and therefore I PARTIES FACE NEW ALIGNMENT I I I Luric Without Safeguards Too Muck for Many Democrats to Swallow. McMINNVILLE. Or.. Aug. 10. (To the Editor.) President Wilson, quite a while ago, suggested that the league of nations be submitted to a solemn referendum of the voters ot the United States, and through his influence and the action of Candidate Cox this referendum will be had, the republican party and its candidate. Senator Harding, having accepted the challenge. But it seems to me that making Wilsonism and this league of nations the dominant issue at the ensuing election will make a new aliKnment of parties necessary. If one will search the platform of the democratic party from the days of Thomas Jefferson down to this year one will iau to una wnere that party has ever favored anything like this leaaue or its principles. In fact the traditions of that party and the republican party have always been opposed to at tempting to dominate the nations of the world. Both parties have stood for attending to our own business and letting Europe attend to its own affairs. ut Wilson and Candidate Cox want to enter this league of nations with out the adoption of any substantial reservations thereto that would safe guard and protect our rights and limit our obligations; and they, with the approval of the republican party and Its candidate, make this league the dominating question upon which the people will be asked to vote at the November election Wilson and Candidate Cox Insist oo ratifying the treaty with the league or nations without any reservations that will materially change the mean ing of any provision of the learue. They are not opposed to "interpreta tions." but they will not accept any reservations that materially modify the meanings of any clause of the league . Mere "interpretations" would not effect any change in the league but reservations, adopted by our senate, would, so far as this country is concerned, modify the provisions of the league so as -to make them ac cord with the reservations. Of course the other nations that have gone into the league might refuse to assent to our reservations. If we should adopt any, and then we should not be member of the league, but If they should expressly or impliedly assen to our reservations, then we I should be a member of the league and our rights and obligations would b More Truth Than Poetry. . By J imn J. Montague. LOOKS. Ermyntrude knows how to pull The broadest kind of A's; Ethelinda's mind is full Of Lord Dusany's plays; All of Mr. Bergson's books Amaryllis reads. But Mary Ann has got the looks. And that is all he need. She can wax enthusiastic over movie "realistic": She can say, "You tell 'em, Bryan. 1" ain't got the parts of speech!" But her cruelty to grammar doesn't even dim the glamour That irradiates her beauty like the bloom uoon a nearh. . You may think that woman's mission is to load in erudition; You may think a mental auro round a maiden is sublime: But you never will be troubled when ner negatives are doubled. For you'll tumble for a looker, every time. Phyllis finds In plays by Shaw A quiet cultured thrill; A girl who murmurs "I have saw Would make her rather ill. Araminta likes to dip In Mr. Strindberg's stuff. But little Mamie la a pip. And that well, that's enough! Though she has yoi staring mutely wnen sne ripples: "Fosilutely! Though it Jars you to the marrow when she R-ureles "I have went. Cast your eyes In the direction of hei appie-olow complexion And you'll sit and lister to her In state of soft content. And, although you'll often shiver, yon wiii tesaiiy xorgive ner When you find she's never looked Inside of maz-azine books. For it's not their brains that win yoi mere is something deep with in you That inevitably tumble's for thell looks! Worth Money. With cabbages at half a dollar a head, you needn't feel insulted whet you are ottered a campaign cigar. We're Getting- Lethargic. How can you expect a country thai refused to get worked up over the in ternational yacht race to get excltei over a mere presidential campaign? Now we get word that only a few weeks after having been divorced, Harold Bell Wright, "moral uplift" novelist, has married another woman. Probably his next novel will be a ringing indictment of the immorality of staying married to the same person too long. TEACHING OCR NATIONAL TRUTHS, It was In the test of war that this nation discovered with what vola tile, explosive and unknown human chemicals we had filled the melting pot. It is true that an honorable majority of these adopted sons took up our tasks as their own, looted their savings to buy liberty bonds, toiled at the multiplied Industrial duties of the era, and in countless instances laid their bodies beneath the wooden crosses of France. But for the unamalgamated minority, restless and imbued with the dubious doctrines that sprout behind the bat tle lines, we were forced to create laws Jhat might serve to curb the menace of their open hostility and Ill-will. There me to the consciousness of Americans, as the result of these phenomena wherein the hand that fed was most ungraciously bitten the deliberate conviction that we of the .soil had not been altogether blameless in the perverse and evil course that certain of our Immi grants had chosen. Not only had we admitted them without discrim ination, but we had forgotten them upon admittance and left the fu ture citizen to such tutoring as chance- might bring his way. With a half - digested concept of liberty. and with a thoroughly functioning bent for envy, such men were the instant prey of those who overlook no opportunity to create disorder and disloyalty. Realizing that we have been remiss in our duty to the immigrant, we A "country" editor- across the river is candidate for the legislature. A better office for a "country" edi tor would be coroner, in which po sition he could arrest the sheriff and otherwise regulate the patronage. Governor Cox, speaking at Dayton, predicted that democratic victory is "as certain as the setting of the sun in the western skies." Yes, but sometimes the sunset in the western skies Is hidden by clouds. Cattle rustlers in Saskatchewan have Introduced something new by using motor cars In their rustling operations instead of horses. A gas oline shortage has its advantages, after all. Collecting originals and rare edi tions is in the nature of the quest a 'are seeking to blaze a course for the sport for only the very rich. Yet there is merit in the suggestion of an eastern reviewer that it is al together a harmless hobby. In the days since the Gutenberg Bible first came off the press, the art of print ing has developed so mazlngly.that there probably is not in the entire Huntington library a single worth while volume a textual reproduction of which in all Its essentials could not be obtained by any man at the outside cost of a few dollars. Edi tions Of the Bible much more serv iceable to the student than the Gut- future Congressional legislation has been advanced to the end that qualifica tions for citizenship shall -be more discriminating, the process of assimi lation hastened, and the candi date kept under official surveillance throughout the period of his noviti ate. Inevitably we must so proceed, and shall, that the nation will in fact as in letter become a country of one people. But the desirable result will be expedited indeed, it may never be otherwise achieved If the power and purpose of the fed- THE CELEBRATED CROW CASE. It Js not long since robin red breast levied on the strawberries and hopped to the forefront of con troversial scrutiny. He was named both rogue and saint, according to the views of the disputants and the varying nature of the evidence. If so he is a very human fellow, as all must agree. It is a far cry from robins to crows, those maurauders accursed by the farmer, but the ornithological field might as well De weeaea oi error now as any other time. In the semblance of congenital depravity the crow has the bulge on cock robin, who is a seemly, mild-mannered old bug- hunter. There is about his crow ship a singular air of dissolute de pravity, prankish mischief, of wisdom that challenges and ridicules ours. An ominous mra, indeed. It was a crow, though specifically his family was the storied line of the raven, that croaked so dismally to Poe. There are In the United States nine varieties of corvine birds. Six are. crows ana three are ravens. They are kin in feather and craft and the eye of the uninitiate may not discriminate between them. All are crows and in consequence be long to the clan of feathered out laws. It is too much to ask the irate farmer, as he surveys a field that must be re-seed d, to bear in mind that the biped crow is not unlike the biped man in character istics that the shrewd brain be hind those twinkling, satirical eyes is fraught with fear and boldness, hatred and affection, loyalty and revenge, perseverance and careless ness, with a strong tincture of the acquisitive. For some time both scientists and The Hohenzollern horses, harness and carriages are reported in news dispatches to have been advertised for sale. Funny that nothing is said about the Hohenzollern goat. When a sign bearing the legend "Big Sale Going Out of Business Immediately" has .been up so long that it is worn out, it begins to lose its effect. Fame does not always bring hap piness, but the Rev. Harold Bell Wright, who can tell of It in books. Is willing to make a second trial. The boy missing this afternoon will be found hanging around the speedway hoping an "angel" will come along to help him In. The photograph of the present Roosevelt lacks something. The briar pipe should be a cob to be truly democratic. The latest seizure of liquor in Se attle had a value of only $8000. The leading city in the line in dabbling in job lots. That sturdy body known as the women who vote must see to it that Mrs. Coolidge selects her gowns after election. Sir Oliver Lodge has stated that the energy of a gram - of radium, if capable of being utilized, would lift the whole British navy as high as the summit of Mont Blanc, writes Hereward Carrington in Leslie's. Un fortunately or perhaps fortunately -we are as yet unable to control this tremendous energy: we can only ob serve it The tiniest particle of ra dium no bigger than a pin-point will give off heat and energy for years. The activity o1t radium is due to the fact that It constantly gives off tiny particles or streams of energy. These are known as alpha. beta and gamma rays, and were first detected or distinguished -by their varying sensitiveness to magnetic fields of attraction. Some of the latest applications of radium products are the following. The motorist can apply it to his gas oline gauge: for the motorcyclist. there is a luminous speedometer; for the sickroom, a thermos bottle, on the top of which Is placed a dab of "undark" an American product of radium emanations which will en able the invalid to find it In the dark. A dab on the top of the glass will also serve to locate it. In the same way, special radium luminous markings have been devised for poison bottles to cut down the frightful toll which accidental poisonings take every year. Illuminated graduating glasses will insure the proper "dose" being mixed, even in a dark room; and radium watches are, of course, relatively plentiful. "Undark" has also been em ployed on airplane instruments, ships' telegraph dials, bouse numbers and electric flashlight locators. The Slater (Mo.) Rustler Is no sub scriber to the Jokes on the mothers-in-law. In fact the editor speaks of the son-in-law and to him. "If ever there was a set of fellows who are coddled, spoiled and humored It is sons-in-law. The mother-in-law stands up for you when you want to go fishing. She tempers wife's wrath when you are late from lodge. When you are temporarily short she puts up a tenspot to tide you over. In the sick room she shoulders the bulk of the work and prepares many tempting dainties for the waning ap petite. Should you "go west' she gives the best of her Ufa to see that your fatherless children have protection and care, and are started out proper ly equipped to fight life's battlea Don't cast a fling at the best on earth. Take off your hat and thank the Lord for the greatest of all blessings good mother-in-law." Is paying a considerable portion ot its' measured by the terms of the league area. One of the rieasant features oi Mayor Jones' visit was when the state highway commission decided yester day that Ontario will be the terminus, of the old Oregon trail. The com mission made the decision in order to prevent P. J. Gallagher from talking them to death on the subject. E H. Smith of Lakevlew Is the president of the County Judges' and County Commissioners' association of Oregon. Not only that, but Judge Smith offered to lend money to the state highway commission yesterday, because Lake county sold its road bonds before the market dropped and is now in position to ive the merry ha-ha to less fortunate counties. The judge goes home with the Information that a bridge will be built across the Chewaucan at Paisley and that any where from two to ten miles of road will be constructed In the county dur ing the winter. There Isn't enough excitement about being county judge in Harney county to tempt William Farre to seek votes for it. Judge Farre was recently ap pointed as county Judge to fill the unexpired term of his predecessor, but the Judge lin t maKing any enort m hold the place. For 14 years Judge Farre was in the land office at Burns. The Judge was in Portland yesterday to see about having the highway com mission let a contract for improving the road between Crane and La wen. He got action, too. How is it possible for a carload of paper to be snipped to tne t-acmc coast from the east, get as far west as Omaha, then be attached to an eastbound freight and finally land in a small town in northern New York and remain missing for weeks and weeks?" inquired C' trad f. Olson. Well, that is what happened to a carload of paper which was intended for the new code of Oregon laws which I have been compiling. When the lost car was finally found the paper was ruined and another carload had to be secured ana snippea. Three billion bushels of corn all fer eating and feeding purposes! "Corn juice" is a memory. If the country buyer wants to see how it is done or made show him the whole shop. "Poles Want Quick Peace," a headline. We should think would. says they Representative Hare of Washington county was looking around in Port land yesterday. Several times Mr. Hare has been a member of the lower house at Salem, but now he is the re publican nominee for state senator and is as good as elected. Mr. Hare says he hasn't tied himself up on the senate organization contest yet and has so notified. Senators Ritner and Eddy, who are aspirants for the pres ldency. Not far from where Ross Flnnlgan of the Benson desk staff is summer ing on the Clatsop beach a large and very dead sea lion came ashore the other day. At first the hotel man fig ured on securing the pelt and making himself one of those nifty arctic over coats, but before the hide could be removed Mr. Flnnigan concluded that cremation was the most important ceremony he could perform on the sea -lion. Mr. Finnigan will continue to wear a raincoat. If anything should happen to Ben W Olcott, W. T. Vinton of Yamhill county would be the governor. Sena tor Vinton, who visited Portland yes terday. is president of the state sen ate. and under the amendment to the constitution adopted by the people a the last special election the presiden of the senate becomes governor when the latter cannot act. Senator v lnton Is a holdover. "Nyssa is the prune center of the world." asserts E. C. Wilson of that Oregon town. Mr. Wilson, who Is here attending buyers' week, says that th Idanha Orchard is the largest prun concern in the country. There will be between 80 and 100 cars of thes winter strawberries produced in th orchard this year and they will all be evaporated. R. H. Bunnell, who is county judge for Klamath, and Asa Fordyce, who is one of the county commissioners. are registered at the Hotel Oregon. Highway stuff. Payment of Interest on Note. HERMISTON. Or.. Aug. 9. (To the Editor.) Please answer whether fol lowing collection of interest on note is legal: A borrows $250 from B, pay ing interest at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, the $250 to be repaid in s.ix montha At end of six months A repays the money. B demanding $25 Interest instead of $12.50, saying it is compulaory to pay for a full years' Interest on a six months note. A thinks he paid too high for the use of the money. Which is right? PUZZLED ONE. as modified by our reservations. If we ratify the league with mere interpretations, our rights and obliga tlona will be measured by the term of the articles of the league, and ou interpretations will be ignored if the do not accord with the articles of th league. We cannot change the mean Ing of any article of the league by mere interpretations, but we may, by reservations. As the league of nations is a new article of faith that has been put into the democratic creed by the in fluence of Wilson and Candidate Cox. many democrats, who do not believe in it, now that it is to be the domi nant issue, are likely to refuse to follow these "leaders," and they will be likely to vote for Senator Hard ing, unless a change shall occur be fore the election. A majority of the democratic .mem bers of the United States senate, in cluding Senator Chamberlain, showed, by their record In the tenate, that they are opposed to ratifying this league without substantial reserva tions, and. If they stand on principle, how can they vote for Governor Cox? Wilson and Cox have made it im possible for them to support Cox on this question, without stultifying themselves. The 18th amendment to the con stitution oftthe United States has been decided by the united states supreme court to be a valid part of our su- reme law. and. like all other laws. should be enforced, and congress passed an act for its enforcement, and this act also should be enforced. But seems certain that "wets" in the east have a scheme to get congress pass an act amending the exist- nc law so that beer or wine con taining enough alcohol to intoxicate may be sold, and many belreve that Candidate Cox is favorable to this scheme, and that he would approve such an act. if he should be elected. and such an act should be passed. Efforts have been made without suc cess to get htm to Declare nis post tion on prohibition. Voters who are "dry" will be slow to vote for him, unless he shall pub ish an explicit statement of his posl tion on this subject. Silence will not be satisfactory. The people want to know where he stands, and whether he favors "a pot of beer for the laboring man." A DOUBTFUL VOTER. Flfty-Flfty. Apparently Carpentler didn't warn to fight over here any more than Dempsey wanted to fight In France. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate) Inc. 1920.) it The usual crowd was gathered round the usual motor car and the usual goggled one was endeavoring to right matters in the usual way. "Hello!" suddenly cried the voice of a new arrival- "What's the matter, Hobbtns car turned turtle?" Hobblns smiled with expressive sweetness. "Oh. no: not at all, old chap!" he replied. "These kids here wanted to see bow the machinery worked, so I Emma Goldman and Berkman fit . had the car turned upside down just in in Russia. J to please them. New "lobe. Twenty-five Years Ago, From The Oregonlan of August It. 1S0S Philadelphia. James J. Corhett and Robert Fitzsimmons had an im- ron-ptu set-to tonight in a barroom. but neither man was injured. Corbett spat in Fitzsimmons' face. Fitzsim mons was taken tut by friends. The Multnomah Athletic club yes terday won the final game over the Portland club in the amateur baJnall contest by a sore of to 4. The decree of foreclosure wss en ered in the United States circuit couit yesterday in the case of the Farmers' Loan & Trust company vs. the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company, unless the amount due, $14. 018.308. is paid within 20 days. Sportsmen were disappointed yes terday In a "bear-baiting" at the White House racetrack. A'2-year-old black bear was led around the track. after -hich does and hounds were placed on the trail. The bear cuffed one uosr to sleep and the hounds then made friends with bruin and seemed to er.joy playing with him. VARIETY .OF SCENERY IS GOOD Products and Industries Not Excluded In Qaeat of the Beautiful. BORING, Or.. Aug. 9. (To the Edl tor.) In, reply to Mr. Crissey s ap peal for the Bull Run route of the Mount 1000 loop roaa, 1 Deiieve tne members of the state highway com mission are level headed and will decide on the route that will In every wav further the best Interests of the state. The purpose ot constructing such a road is the upbuilding of ou state. Agricultural development 1 the backbone of this upbuilding, w want the kind of tourist travel tha ill result In bringing more peopl to settle on our land. Nowadays the average tourist does not belong to the "traveled and ais criminating class." who find travel through a farming community tedious. Man may not live Dy Dreaa aione, yet the homely statement by the ma satiated with too much scenery, wh said. "It is good for the eye. but srood for the stomach." will also hav its anneal at a time when the world need is more production. We want the tourist to go back home and tell of the wonderful climate and scenery and also of the products and industries only then will the impression he complete. It Is the variety of scenery within a short range that is making Oregon the mecca of the movie maker. And by no means Is the south rohte devoid of beauty indeed, it is in the variety of scenery that its charm lies. It offers the tourist more variation and attraction than the Bull Run route, because of its several . high class resorts, as well as the nunmer ous beautiful mountain streams pro viding ideal camping places that will accommodate - thousands of campers for several miles north and south of the main road. On the other hand. If the route went through the Bull Rn reserve It would take an army of officers to keep campers out. The south-side route makes a wmer loop, provides more variation, is the better grade and would, no doubt, serve the best interests f the state. MRS. ROBERT JONSRUD. In Other Days. Fifty Years Abo. From The Oregonlan of August 11. 1870. Paris. Marshal Bazaine of France has 130,000 man at Metz; McMahon 60,000 at Saverne, and Canrobert 50, 000 at Nancy. The Prussians are con centrated in front of Metz. Indianapolis. President Grant ar rived here today on his western tour, and his special train proceeded with out detention- Mr. Wilhoit. proprietor of the. min eral springs of Clackamas county, has engaged in bottling the waters of his springs for sale. Wheat and oats are nearly all cut on the Waldo hills. We hear of one Held, across the river from Salem. which has been cut and threshed and gave an average yield of 3SVi bushels of wheat per acre. There is no law to compel payment of interest for longer than the full term for which the note was made. On the other hand, if the note were for one year the lender, at his option, could Insist on payment for the entire period. Choice of Iwi Places. She "When I get to heaven I am going to ask Solomon why he had so many wives." He "What if he isn't there?" She "Then you ask him." . MARY'S CAR. Marv had a little car. Propelled by gasoline; Everywhere that Mary went She rode In the machine. The auto one day struck a stone. And from Its course deflected; Doctor says that Mary's doing As well as could be expected. SAFETY FIRST. FINALITY.' I walked with my soul In a valley That was rosler-swrfet than a dream; There was light that was brighter than beauty. Which wasted on forest and stream. And the bloom which no frost tver blasted Waved glad In the unfading beam. There were fruits which vere seven times gDiucn, And ever the lilt of a song. And the odor of musk and of myrrh Went rippling like laughter along. There was music unceasingly beating, A pulseful and passionate fire. The grass blades were violins playing. Each leaf was an exquisite lyre. Each tree was a symphony sighing. Each vine was an angelic choir. Each dew drop which ran from the mosses An orchestra full and entire. There were birds which had wings like the rainbow; There was glimmer and opal and sheen, - And groups of white beings slow passing s With wavering shadows between. While presence pervaded the glory caressingly cioae, mvuu uhbboh. No storms ever beat in mat valley. No tempests, no sleets ever Dipw; No frost-wounds are made on the foliage. And never comes drifting of snow. All things in that vale are Immortal: All spirits are perrectiy pure; The memory of death is forbidden: No sick thing is seeking a cure. No hate, no confusion, no folly. No thing that wouiu tasnion a tear. No forge for the making of sabers. No place for the trumpet or spear. But Joy and the rapture of loving Reign over that heavenly sphere. And I talked with my soul In that valley. Which God after making had blessed. And we knew that the curse had de parted As far as the eas from the west; And floating on billows ot rapture There came to ny travel-worn breast Juetest, and the sweetness of rest. GUY FITCH FHEJUP8. Will Net Stand Wltb Cox. Albany Herald. The Herald will never believe that American womanhood will ever stand on the same plane with Tammany hall and Tom Taggart and their kindred spirits. Rooster la In Luck. Exchange. A Maine farmer thinks so mucfh of a White Wyandotte rooster that he encourages him to roost nigh on the footboard of his bed and feeds him ...rv little while. This is because the farmer was awakened one night by the excited crowing ot tne roos which had somehow got into house, and found when he got up investigate that the house was on I fire. Anything that the rooster wants I hereafter be can have. sht . ter. the to A