THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1920
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one of us. Projects for this purpose
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grant. Its opening page is an object
lesson In language, its closing para
graphs, or rather verses, are those
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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.
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