TTIE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAX, TIIURSD AT, AUGUST 12, 1920
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NEITHER HATRED NOR LOVE.
Cox got his nomination almost wholly,
from men who hate Wilson. In naming
fox one of the principal motives was the
feeling that they were getting even with
the Wilson administration for grievances
n hlch they felt the administration had
put upon them, grievances chiefly in the
nature of denial of patronage. -
So says Mark Sullivan In his let
ter printed by The Oregonian yes
terday. No one will accuse Mr.
Sullivan of partiality for the repub
lican party, or prejudice against
the democratic party. Yet It is as
impossible to accept his statement as
literal fact as it is to deny that it is
literal fact. Mr. Cox was nominated
for president largely through men
who are not, and have not been,
friendly to Wilson. Some of them
no doubt actually hate him.
But is hatred of Wilson the princi
pal Impulse behind the nomination
of Cox? Did the haters of Wilson,
merely because they hate him, seek
also to find and exalt some one to
tiike his place who also hates him?
If so, it is the most discreditable
event in American political history.
What Tammany and its Ohio, Illi
nois, New Jersey, Indiana and Iowa
allies all practical politicians with
a single thought of their own wel
fare sought touo was to nominate
line of their kind. Cox suited them.
He was not a Wilson man. He would
play the game. He was wet. He
would not forget his friends nor re
ward his enemies. He represented
a new deal, but by the old dealers.
Through him there would be more
cakes and ale for the boys.
Tammany doesn't hate Wilson. It
doesn't hate anybody. Kor does it
love its enemies. It is not good busi
ness either to hate or to love. Tam
many's business is politics, its capital
is patronage. It will do business
with anybody who will "do business
with it.
ing spirit in our young men and are
trying to build up an American
manned merchant marine would
seem to be appropriate for a return
to the days of the Puritan and Gen
esta type of seagoing boats. The
America itself, as a matter of fact,
was a doughty craft far more fit to
arouse enthusiasm than the skim
ming dishes toward which we have
been more and more tending. If the
New York Yacht club, which did
not hesitate In 1876 or again in 1881
to waive certain clauses of the first
deed of gift, should now determine
to revise the whole set of rules in the
interest of a wider national popular
ity. It would serve a patriotic pur-,
pose without detracting from any es
sential feature of the game. Merely
to seek to retain the cup by circum
scribing the field of " challenge, by
making yacht racing a game ex
clusively for millionaires or by limit
ing the contest to non-utility craft,
is not good sportsmanship. Possible
loss of the cup weighs as nothing
against the opportunity now offered
to create a new interest in matters
Pertaining to the sea.
FINANCIAL BOOTLEGGING.
A new set of initiative jugglers
from the legislative mill at Oregon
City have a grand scheme to make
money cheap by imposing low legal
rates of interest on all loans 4 per
cent for one kind, 5 per cent for an
other. Or are they from Oregon
City? Nobody knows much, about
them, or cares, except that their
scheme has the familiar flavor of
the old reform bunk that a few years
ago had the Oregon City trademark.
Under the new method there is to
be introduced into Oregon a new and
odious creature a financial boot
legger. You want to borrow, say,
$1000. How are you to get it if the
measure passesT , Th"e banks won't
lend it to you, nor any other institu
tion or person, at either 4 or B per
cent. You hunt up a broker. He
will arrange it. He fixes it all up by
having you sign a note for $1200 or
$1500. He gets , the money from
some bucket shop, or financial still,
run by a new style bootlegger. You
get the 1000, perhaps; but when
your note is due, you pay 1200 or
$1500.
Of course no reputable bank will
adopt any such practices. But what
will it do? It will either send its
money out of the state, or not lend
it at all. Either way spells trouble,
and even bankruptcy, for the bor
rower. But the bank must and will
itselt avoid bankruptcy by protecting
itself as it can.
If no money can be borrower! in
Oregon at normal rates all industry
w.ill be affected. You cannot main
the bank, or the individual who has
money, lend Jt: but the borrower
must nave it. Where will he get it,
either for primary loans or for re
newals ?
ing may loosely be termed the com
ponents that stamp certain efforts
of the artistic world as destined to
duration beyond the lives of man.
But the test of art is" in its capabil
ity to stir the emotions to visualize
distant landscapes, to catch the trick
of a smile and hold it for centuries,
to bring beauty and ugliness, love
and hatred, courage and fear before
the beholder.
Men are forever playing at the
games of divinity. And playing with
an intensity, a raptness of purpose
that has wrought wonders in the
spiritual development of the race.
We are all indebted to the dreamers
who caught their spark of fire and
bequeathed It to lighten the path of
the prosaic and practical. Ed Howe
of Kansas is as deeply indebted as
the rest of us. One may be a lover
of nature and of art without the be.
trayal of either. Indeed, apprecia
tion of the one should be conclusive
to appreciation of the other.
THE FOREST FIRE.
On a river road not far from Port
land, a road that wanders invitingly
through the ancient trees, the trav
eler turns one bend to come upon a
blackened prospect of charred
stumps and stark ruin. A fire thrust
through, and leaped the river, and
raged away to the crest of that dis
tant ridge not many years ago. The
dead firs stand like silver skeletons
in the clear distance. And one that
is by the roadside bears a 'forestry
service epigram: "This tree will
never earn wages."
No, nor give shade, nor add its
strength to the sloping watershed,
aiding in the retention of soil and
moisture. Its course is run, both for
pleasure and profit. With such ob
ject lessons before them those who
enter the Oregon woods "should need
no warning against the fire hazard.
The mute and pitiable evidences of
former lack of caution are only too
plentiful. It is at this season of
year, when for many days the sun
makes tinder of the old slashings,
the dead undergrowth, that a single
spark left unextinguished may rouse
to a titanic fury of destruction.
It would not be a pleasant thought
to know that one had slain a forest,
wholly aside from the economic loss
that accompanies such wastage.
CANADA CHALLENGES FOR THE CUP.
The challenge received by the New
York Yacht club from Canada for a
race for the America's cup is a re
minder that Canada has twice fig
ured in the tup contests, and that
the races which she contested . re
sulted in the most sweeping amend
ments to the rules that have 'been
made since the original deed of gift
was drawn. The first of these races,
in which in 1876 the Countess of
15ufferin, entered by the Royal Ca
nadian Yacht club, was the unsuc
cessful challenger against the Amer
ican schooner Madeline, brought
about the change by which the de
fending club agreed to name one boat
only as defender, instead of waiting
until the morning of each race day
and then choosing the boat best cal
culated to win in the weather then
prevailing. This was clearly in the in
terests of good sportsmanship, but a
more significant phase was the spirit
that it indicated of willingness to
waive the technical provisions of the
deed of gift. The Canadian commo
dore took the position that he had
to name one boat which had to take
all the chances of light or heavy
weather, and that it was only fair
that the defenders should do the
ea me.
That was amendment number one.
The second was the Institution of the
flying start Instead of the start from
anchor which had previously been
the rule. The Countess of Dufferin
was decisively beaten, nevertheless,
una it was five years before the Ca
nadians challenged again. Relations
between the yachtsmen of England
and the united States meanwhile
had suffered such impairment from
the squabbles growing out of James
Ashbury's futile attempts to lift the
cup in 1870 and 1871 that it then
seemed probable that there would
never be another contest between
tht-se two nations.
The Countess of Dufferin's de
signer was five years in obtainins
backing for a new yacht, which he
christened Atalanta and which re
presented the Bay of Quinte Yacht
club, a lake Ontario organization, in
the, race of 1881. Two features o
tnis corftest were that the challenger
had to be towed through the Erie
canal, which shocked the sensibilities
of the blue water yachtsmen of both
countries, and that for the first ti
in the history of cup racing the de
fending club built a boat especially
for the purpose. This yacht, the
Pocahontas, failed to make a show
Ing in the first trial races held to
pick a defender, however, and th
f;ite of the cup was entrusted to the
L.racle, an already-existent crack
sioop. ine cnauenger made a poor
snowing in Dotn races.
The outcome of this event was th
return of the trophy to the only
surviving member of the America'
syndicate, for the purpose of obtain
ing a new deed of gift. This deed in
ciuaea the famous clause under
which the Atalanta would have been
excluded, and which specified that
"vessels intending to compete for
this cup must proceed under sail on
their own bottoms to the port where
the contest is to take place." This
practically limited th field to clubs
In the Canadian maritime provinces
and may have been a reason for the
non-appearance of Canada in the
challenging lists of the past 29 years.
The circumstance that four princi
pal reforms that have been brought
about in the half century since the
first challenger was sent to these
waters ware the outcome of chal
lenges by Canadians is suggestive of
further possibilities. .The rules of
the race as they now stand are not
as conducive to popular interest as it
will seem that they ought to be. The
time when we are bending our ener
gies toward stimulating the seafar-
TRIKD AND TRUE MEN.'
Franklin d'Olier stated with much
force the reasons for his opinion
that "in a few years the service men
win De running the country." It will
nor. De Decause they are service men
The people have shown a disposition
to reouke with defeat the capitaliza
tion of that fact for political nrofit.
It is because the men who fought or
were reaay to light in the war
proved that they were Imbued with
the spirit of service, -that they -were
reaay to suDordinate self to the in
terest of the country, and that they
tne initiative, to step forward
when others hung back.
These are the prime Qualities
needed for a high quality of service
to the people, whether in army, navy,
or civilian affairs. . They are not all
by any means, but a man who lacks
them subjects to a heavv discount
such other qualifications as he has.
un tne otner hand, a man is the
more likely to develop those qualifi
cations if he has had the' training of
army or navy and has gone through
tin; urueai oi Datue. Given the men
tal capacity, the physical vigor, he is
not likely to flinch from the study
and application required to develop
ui natural powers to fin anv office.
even the highest. These special qual
ities added to those flinrlnmenml
ones which are Innate in a good
soldier will win public confidence
and will procure his election or ap
pointment to constantly higher of-
nce. wnen making their choice, the
people may not ask whether a man
has been in the military or naval
service, but they will find in a grow
ing uumuer or cases that the man
whom they consider fit is a service
man.
The people will feel confident thf
the man who has seen service will
set his face sternly against revolu
tionary attempts to overthrow the
constitution or to disturh nnhiin
order. They will also feel confident
mac a man who hasT rendered un
selfish service to his country will not
serve any private interest at the nuh.
m; expense, wnen they pick a man
as a tried and true man. thev win
judge ley his character, but they will
many irmes rind that the man nfth.
desired character has demonstrated
and developed it by answering the
can to arms.
NATURE AND ART.
The critic has held an important
place in progress. Particularly is
this true of progress in art Com
placent ivory-etchers of the neolithic
use .. uiiisi nave squirmed at the
pointeo. giDes or their fellow savages,
and resolved to scratch so truthfully
iimt iiuue uugnt complain or derid
uetween tne artist and the critic
mere nas been evolved an under
standing of what constitutes merit.
Each rs indispensable to the other
ana Dut for fearless, intelligent criti
cism art would degenerate.- Indeed
it might perish without a trace. a. it
has in the multicolored ravings of
tne cuoist and impressionist school..
But granting that art is a fair tar.
get for the bolts of criticism, there
is a conspicuous departure from the
critic s privilege in the recent state
ment of Ed Howe, the Kansan, who
wings a shaft in this wise: "Nature
interests me with its great pageants.
but the little daubs called Art do not
look much like the real thing to
.Lia.iui3 ia uut art, it is tne
unstudied accomplishment of om
nipotent perfection. There is nothing
unique in confessing a preference for
the realism of nature, but to array it
in direct contrast to the artistic ac
complishments of man is illogical
ana uniair. iz tne Kansas philoso
pher and iconoclast is entirelv sin
cere in his attack, he is self-convicted
or a certain sort of spiritual blind
ness which does not perceive the
divinity in man.
Moreover there is no warrant for
the Implied assumption that those
who are stirred by the strength o
beauty of a great poem, or who
stand in reverence before some can
vas whereon is traced man's dream
of beauty, are either dolts or hypo
crites. What constitutes art? Genius,
technique and inspired understand
A SHOT IN THE AIR.
An indisputable case for defense
of Poland, against any dealings
whatever with the soviet government
of Russia and, if possible, for open
war on that government is made by
Secretary Colby in his note to the
Italian ambassador. As an exposure
of the brutality, tyranny, total repu
diation of the first principles of good
faith between nations and of the re
lentless enmity to all non-communist
governments which guide the so
viet, the note is a great state paper.
It reduces to an absurdity the pre
tense that the soviet government is
a workingmen's republic, which has
deceived the working men of Britain
and Italy and many of those of
France to oppose war against it. By
Implication it exposes the shifts 'by
which Premier Lloyd George endeav
ors to buy off the bolshevists from
arousing the whole Moslem world
against Britain. It proves the bol
shevists to be the sworn enemies of
all freedom, honor between nations,
of humanity, of civilization itself.
, What is said in behalf of Poland
is the very least that could be said.
In saying that the boundaries of
Russia should include the "ethnic
boundaries of Poland, Mr. Colby evi-
ently alludes to the ethnographic
frontier as tentatively defined, by the
peace conference. Poland demands
the frontier of 1772, holding that all
changes made by and since the for
cible partition are void. Admittedly
the country between those two lines
is Russian by a large majority, but
it has become so as a result of con
quest. To award it to Russia, as the
peace conference proposes, would be
to sanction what President Wilson
condemns as international crime.
Poland has promised to let the peo
ple of this area choose their own
form of government, doubtless ex
pecting that, after their experience
with bolshevism, they would reject it
and choose either independence or
autonomy under Polish sovereignty.
n view of the crime by which
Poland was robbed of this territory
and of the certainty that the soviet
would use it as a base for intrigue
designed to undermine the Polish re
public and to bolshevize it, the Poles
have made a strong case.
Mr. Colby draws a distinction be
tween Poland and Finland on the
one hand and the other independent
republics formed out of the Russian
empire that is purely artificial. They
too were acquired by military con
quest, rendered more infamous by
breach of faith in some cases
Ckrainia, which for centuries had
been independent, in the middle of
the Seventeenth century formed a
confederation with Russia for pro
tection against Turkey and Poland
but was robbed of its Independence
by Russian military force. Georgia
had the same experience at the end
of the eighteenth century. Esthonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan had
been conquered by ene despot after
another and were parts of the Rus
sian empire against their will. To
insist, as Mr. Colby does, that when
these people regain their independ
ence, the United States should not
recognize it until the Russian people
have rid . themselves .of bolshevism
and have established democratic
rule and have decided whether these
formerly subject peoples shall re
main free is to reduce the president's
great principle of self-determination
to a mockery. It may be that, when
Russia itseir becomes free, these
peoples will choose to join a Russian
federation for reasons of trade and
common defense, but their right to
full recognition of their independ
ence is just as good as that of Fin
land and. Poland. Mr. Colby, doubt
less by direction "of the president.
goes to an extreme in technical re
gard for the rights of Russia when
he says that former parts of that
country should "form a part of the
Armenian state by agreement." Rus
sia acquired that territory by con
quest, oppressed the Armenians in
only a less degree than did the Turks
and for some years before the war
had been supplanting them with
Cossack settlers. The distinctions
which Mr. Colby draws are academic
and revolting to justice and common
sense.
Having proved to the hilt that the
bolshevists aim to subdue Poland,
mat any engagements they may
make to restore and respect Polish
independence would be worthless,
and that bolsbevjsm is an enemy to
all nations and to civilization itself,
Mr. Colby invites the question: What
is the United States to do about it?
The allies, which are most directly
interested, are so divided, so weary
of war, so exhausted in manpower
and finance that they confess their
inability to do more than blockade
Russia, stop all intercourse and
to send munitions and military ad
visers to Poland. That will not ac
complish, for it is what they have
done, and the reds have won in spite
of it. Military force alone can save
Poland, and no country but the
United States has the men, the
money and unity of purpose to sup
ply it. On the face of things there
is as good ground to go to the rescue
of Poland aa there was in 1P17 to go
to the aid of France. There is a
direct attack on our rights. While
the kaiser threatened to drive us
from the sea, the soviet threatens by
agitation to stir up revolution and
overthrow our government. The bol
shevist government, if possible, is
even more hateful and hostile to
freedom and civilization than was
that of the kaiser. Its overthrow ie
well within the resources of this I
country. Probably half a million j
men, added to the Polish army, well
equipped and kept up to that
strength, could rout the red army
before winter, although it has all the
trained officers of the czar's govern
ment and has enough material to
last five years in such a campaign as
the present.
But the president himself has pro
duced such a situation in this coun
try that he could not obtain author
ity to intervene. By his assumption
of arbitrary power to make peace
and to form a league, he has inspired
congress with determination to grant
him no more extraordinary power
and. to look with disfavor on any
recommendations he may make, es
pecially with regard to foreign af
fairs. By his bungling interference
with old world affairs he has intensi
fied the instinctive reluctance of
Americans to meddle with them. By
his obstinate dictation with regard to
the league he has hopelessly entan
gled questions of foreign policy with
that of saving the republic from un
restrained one-man power. Though
self-interest as well as freedom of a
gallant people and imperiled civili
zation combine, to summon us to de
fense of Poland and to exterminate
the worst gang of monsters that has
cursed the world since Tamerlane,
the American people seem destined
to let Polish independence fall sacri
fice to preservation of constitutional
rule in the United States.
Realizing these truths, the presi
dent proposes reciprocal withdrawal
of allied and Russian troops, in ex
pectation that the soviet, deprived of
the support of Russian nationalism,
would soon fall through its inherent
rottenness. He thus assumes that
men whom he has described as with
out honor would act honorably and
that the endurance of the Russian
people would await the downfall of
bolshevism. After having proved
that only physical force can be effec
tive, he proposes to leave the out
come to moral force. This is either
idealism run mad or it is the ex
pedient of a man who knows that he
will not again be trusted with phys
ical force.
Dor these reasons the rifjte on
Poland is a shot in the air. It points
to the conclusion that the United
States should save Poland and ex
terminate bolshevism in Russia, but
there is no prospect that the United
States will act on that conclusion
By his own acts the president has
thrown away the opportunity to fig
ure as the savior of mankind to
which position he aspired.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cass Baer.
Those Who Come and. Go.
have burst into apoplectic violence on
her beach hat and in her cheeks. Her
SEASIDE AND WAY POINTS. II
journeying around the beaches among
the summer colonists you meet a lot
of peculiar people. '
There is the bank president, who
puts on an old suit of clothes and a
cap and 'a soft shirt and spends a
fortnight roughing It, tramping the
beach for miles, fishing the stream:
and hiking in the woods. You arc
apt to mistake him for the express
man or the man who sold you a mess
of - clams. Then there is the. little
girl clerk who works'-' jn some de
partment of the banker's establish
ment and . ail the lilies of the field
are not arrayed like she. is- All the
roses that used to bloom in Picardy
sweaters are as a perpetual carnival.
Nothing matches. It ie alt supposed
to contrast, and it does. Her sport
skirts shine and from. a distance she
looks as if she were draped in alum
inum saucepans. In every way, but
conversationally she scintillates. Her
marcelle rivals the waves of the
ocean and her bathing costume is like
a roof garden all fixed up with flow
ers and singing birds. She takes her
dip in the sand and adheres to the
text and the letter of the warning
against going near the water. Her
girl chum" takes, ninety-seven kodak
snapshots of her and when she and
her boss pass neither recognizes the
otlrer under the vacation camouflage.
Then there are the women whose
complexions are public episodes, bo
fresh do they keep their coloring tht
they renew it at all times ana places,
Even the impressivenees of a sermon
and the smell of the incense will not
deter some of the girls from powder
ing their noses in church. No longer
there any mystery In a woman s
blush,- Her lip stick and chamois are
wielded on the highways and byways,
and. here at the oceanside it is over
done because as fast as milady puts
it on the ocean mist takes It off. , So
they brush on a fashionable flush in
the midst of a walk or a talk or at
table. I fully expect to see some girl
making the necessary restorations to
her face while she hurdles the break
ers way out in the surf.
CONFISCATION BY CARRANZA
A free clinic for the treatment of
morbidity, to lessen the number of
suicides, is contemplated by Cincin
nati physicians. If established 'the
clinic will attempt discovery of phys
ical and mental causes -for dlsheart
enment to the end that they may be
eliminated and the patient restored
to happiness and a useful place in
society. The project is highly human
ltarian and commendable, but it is
to be doubted if those unfortunates
whose thoughts dwell on self-de
struction will take the worthy med
ics into their confidence. The first
characteristic of most suicides is
secrecy. It is the introspective na
ture of the malady that bars out all
human companionship and counsel.
The causes of suicide are both moral
and physical and are well known.
It is against these that society must
concentrate its efforts.
The release of Charles Conner
from "the penitentiary to go home to
die of tuberculosis is not a strain on
executive clemency. His presence is
a menace to others in a place that is
prone to develop the disease.
If we were In a league of nations
without reservations Just now, we
might be contemplating an army of
a few hundred thousand for -Russian
service and a possible draft.'.
The Oregon huckleberry crop
promises to be big, if the bears do
not get them. Anybody going huckle
berrying should be prepared to get
the bears.
It is the old story with Ponzi. He
has records in two prisons. Yet his
Boston career shows how compara
tively poor people will bite on a new
scheme.
Placing a charge of manslaughter
against a driver who kills a pedes
trian may regulate the fatalities.
"Safety-first" is a two-way proposi
tion.
Kerosene spray is declared to be
a sure cure for the earwig pest. At
last somebody has found a use for
confiscated moonshine...
A discordant note in the baseball
scandal is the amount-of the slush
fund. Two thousand dollars is too
small to be divided.
Perhaps Mr. Parkhurst has been
doing his possible best at Crater
lake. His tavern cannot be a Waldorf-Astoria.
Then there is the agitator for the
double standard bathing suits. Usually
it is a woman, occasionally it's some
meddlesome old man. They advocate
a two-piece bathing garment and stip
ulate that it must be worn with mod
esty and for the most part in tne
ocean. Perhaps some reformers with
a bump of strategy and a genius for
supervising the morals and manners
of others will Invent a submarine
bathhouse where the bathers can
change garments before quitting the
water so as to save the neighbors
from even a remote possibility of
shock.
There Is the woman who uses her
beach outing to . catch up with al
the magazines. She begins with the
serious ones firsf, and gets so agog
about the world in general and what
is happening to it. The fact that
all the solvers of world problems hold
such very different views and beat so
painfully . about rhetorical bushes j
when pinned down does not In the I
least thwart the purposes of the
woman who is "getting caught . up"
with the magazines. ',';.
-There Is another woman here a
highbrow, who looks as if her daily
literary diet might be the "Areopa
gitica." She rates her acquaintances,
she savs. according to their opinion
I nr TTAnpv .Tames. She never reads the
newspapers, she says. Conversation
ally, she sparkles like a large lump
of lead and her 6ad-eyed husband is
her only audience. He looks as if
he despises Henry James and the
"Areopagitica."
-
There is a young thing of forty
here who is doing reams of vers
libre. She cornered me one evening
and read' me seven( before I could
protest. She says she is "chasing
beauty in the absolute." She seems
to think that if she mentions "mighty
deep," '"blue billows," and sunsets
mingled with an analysis of what she
calls her emotions she has done her
duty by the advanced reading public.
There's another who is afraid of
germs. She s atraia to go out on mc
beach and just as worried If she stays
indoors. She says its "so difficult
to know what to do about germs.'
She says she has read that every
one of us is- responsible ..for 33,000
pounds of atmospheric pressure and
that she doesn't want' to overdo, be
cause she might not be. able to ac
count for her 33,000 pounds. Truly
a little dab of knowledge is a danger
ous thing.
There is a teacher who has spent
twenty years -instructing sophomores
in the art of prosody and who h
managed "to keep her .sense of humor
and her complexion and a fair amount
of girlish laughter. ' She has been
playing around, with a successful
alumna and her. mind Is not entirely
on the circumstances surrounding the
composition of Chaucer's verses or
the achievements of Shakespeare or
the vagaries of Mrs. Browning's muse.
She got more kick yesterday out of
a fishing trip on the Necanicum than
she ever got out of "all the pens
that ever poets held."
Like Sheridan. 10 miles away,
George K. Aiken of Ontario was not
on hand when the highway commis
sion decided to make Ontario the ter
minal of the old Oregon trail. Mr.
Aiken did not arrive at the Benson
until yesterday, having missed con
nections, but on his arrival he learned
that everything was' "jake." "If the
highway commission had fallen for
the- game of the Idaho people. Mal
heur county would have applied for
a divorce from Oregon, that's what,"
declared Editor Aiken. "We need the
road on the Oregon side, and the way
the Idaho people were framing up
they would have diverted tramc to
their state which belongs to Oregon
and would have prevented the de
velopment of Oregon territory. Mr.
Aiken is on his way to Astoria to at
tend the editorial convention and he
is booked to make a speech, on the
non-partisan leas;jein Portland when
he returns. Mr. Aiken recently maae
survey of the non-partisan league
and four days after his return home
his printing plant burned, but mere
was no connection between the two.
Nothing would please W. N. Dennis
of Carlton more than to have the state
highway commission pave through
that Yamhill-county town. The com
mission promised to, and the town
was preparing to pay the cost of pav
ing the full width when a decision
upset the programme and the com
mission was informed that it could
not pave in a town save on a county
road. Mr. Dennis, who is at the Bert
son, suggests that Carlton's city coun
cil relinquish interest in the street
and let it revert to the county aa a
county road, so that the highway
commission can carry out the orig
inal programme. Mr. Dennis, who was
chairman of the house committee on
roads and highways In the 1919 and
1820 sessions of the legislature, is so
interested In road matters that he
says he intends hanging around the
legislature lobby next January.
The Laughlins are undecided where
they will locate. Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Laughlin of Waterman, Wheeler coun
ty, have been in the cattle business
so long that they can retire and live
at ease if an active cattleman can
ever rest. There is quite a settlement
of Fossil people at Medford, Or. Mrs.
Laughlin decided it would be a good
place to o, so they started, but never
arrived. When they reached Eugene
they stopped off to see a married
daughter, and Mrs. Laughlin an
nounced that Eugene suited her. Mr.
Laughlin felt somewhat lonesome. He
voted in favor of locating at The
Dalles, where he could still get the
scent of the sagebrush. While they are
debasing the matter they are at the
Perkins, and George McKay, for many
years postmaster at Waterman, is
showing them the sights.
How the Dictator Robbed Americana
. by Constitution and Decree.
COUVALLIS. Or.. Aug. 10. (To the
Editor.) In a recent editorial on
! "Order Coming In Mexico," you say:
-Mexico snouia iirst oe required 10
annul the decrees which practically
confiscate the property of Ameri
cans." Will you please explain just
what these decrees are and to what
extent they affect American prop
erty? SUBSCRIBER.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Montague
"Talk about blackberries." said Phil
Metschan. suiting the action to the
word, "I was at Cochran, the 'hump'
on the Tillamook railroad, the other
day and I never saw so many black
berries in my life. On the cuts of old
logging roads I saw streamers of ber
ries 20 feet long loaded with berries,
each an inch and a half long and
longer. I could send three pickers to
that section and in a week they could
gather enough wild blackberries to
supply every hotel in Portland for
the entire winter."
W. E. Anderson of Grande Ronde is
at the Hotel Oregon. For years the
road through Grande Ronde was the
bane of motorists, for It consisted ot
"washboard macadam," and where it
wasn't bumpy, it was gumbo, which
clung to wheels when wet with the
tenacity of an earwig. 'Now the road
is so much improved that machines
can spin along at 30 miles an hour
without the driver running the risk
f punching a hole in his top with his
head.
There were a number of decrees
and constitutional provisions. The
constitution of 1917 provides that com
mercial companies shall not hold
rural ' property. Those engaged in
manufacturing, m'ning or other In
dustry, except agriculture, may hold
an area of land only sufficient .for
their purposes. Aa many foreign
corporations had acquired large
tracts of land- under the constitution
of 1857, their ownership of much of
their holdings became illegal. The
executives undertook to decide what
land was absolutely necessary and
deprived them of all other land, and
there was no appeal. The Carranza
officials extorted large sums of
money under threat to exercise this
power.
Under the old law owners of land
owned all the minerals in and under
it. Under that law Americans bought
oil land from Individuals, -many of
whose titles ran back to the Spanish
conquest. It has been said that this
land was national property, corruptly
acquired from the Diaz government.
That is false. The American oil men
of. the Tampico field were prospec
tors, who discovered and developed
that mineral just as the argonauts of
California discovered and mined gold.
except that the oil men bought the
land, while the miners got free
claims. But the new constitution
contains this provison:
In the nation is vested direct ownership
ot the minerals or substances which in
veins, layers, masses or teds constitute
deposits whose nature is different from
the components of the land.
It then specifies various such sub
stances and among them names:
Solid mineral fuels, oetroieum and all
hydro-carbons, solid, liquid or. gaseous.
Thus at a stroke of the pen not
only oil wells but coal mines were
confiscated.
These are simply examples of con
fiscation which bears especially hard
on foreigners. More particulars of
Carranza's confiscatory decrees
against oil land can be found in an
article by George Creel published in
the Saturday Evening Post about a
year ago and in a book by Thomas
E. Gibbon entitled "Mexico Under
Carranza."
TO A MOSQ11TO.
If only you'd stabbed me in silence.
Aa struck the assassins of old.
Who practiced the cruellest vi'lence
For power, for place, or for gold.
You wouldn't so much have incensed
me.
But. to add to your dastardly wronr.
You brapKod of your malice against
me
With blackguardly sonas
Somewhere in the darkness you hov
ered
To land, with a soft-footed thud.
Aa soon as my head was uncovered
And drink of my innocent blood.
Whenever I essayed to swat you.
Away toward the ceiling you flew.
And tunefully boasted of what you
Intended to "do.
Although I am. hardly heroic.
Like Ajax, or Hercules, still
I think I'm sufficiently stoic
To stand any blow from vour bUl.
My natural pride would prevent me
from wincing the least at the Dane
I felt when you struck, but it sent me
-Halt mad. when you sang.
And so you lie crushed on the pillow.
untimely consigned to your doom.
And soon will your children chant
"Willow"
As they stand by the side of your
tomb.
Struck down as you fluttered and
hovered
Above me, so strong and so vounc.
Too late, little skeet you discovered
xou snoulun t rhave sung.
a -Copy
Cats.
The trouble with the cup racers
was that they blew whenever the
wind did. i
The Only Kind There I.
The limit in redundancy is the play
entitled 'Crooked Gamblers."
All the Rlhta of Citiaena.
There is nothing so remarkable
about the appointment of the dead
man to office by the governor of
Rhode Island. They've been voting
in New York for years and years.
(Copyright, 1920. by the Bell Syndi
cate, Inc.)
It Is devoutly to be hoped tffe fish
diet will be omitted when the editors
are in Astoria. They have enough
brains now.
Somebody seems to be pulling off
better boxing in the state prison
than we had under commission
auspices. -
Idaho is preparing to ask for a
western man in the next cabinet. No
preference stated; anybody's cabinet
will do.
Chief Jenkins should put the hand
some cops oft traffic duty. Portland
has a reputation to maintain.
Speaking of fire escapes, anybody
sleeping above a second floor should
keep a, knotted rope on hand. -
Lloyd George seems to' think
Poland needs a spanking about as
much as anything else.
General Wrangel is the new Rus
sian chief and it's sinful to make a
pun on so easy a name.
There is a man who has a card
index attitude toward life. He has
everything 'catalogued. He shivers
with ectasy at sunsets and wears
spats, and a little' cane. His sar
torial achievements are beyond re
proach.- I suspect him of writing the
fashion hints for some woman s page.
There is a woman who has been
bitten by the literary bug and say
that if someone only -would write
down the wonderful thoughts that
come to her ft . would make a for
tune for that someone. I wonder why
she doesn't do it herself. She seem
to have nothing on her mind and
hands but time and. a sweater she is
knitting. She says if her life were
put Into a book of readable style it
would run Into several editions i
set us all on her trail. She read
"Indian Love Lyrics," underscore
the warm lines, and quotes Ella
Wheeler Wilcox to illustrate her own
Ideas. The only difference, it seems,
In their philosophies is that Ella beat
this misunderstood one to it by sev
eral volumes in print.
In Other Days.
X. G. Wallace, who is county judge
for Crook county, has been in Port
land on his monthly mission of seek
ing assistance from the highway com
mission, crook county is a little
short of funds at present and there
are some important road contracts
under way. and in this emergency the
judge has been asking the commission
to afford some temporary aid in the
financial situation.
J. W. Peters of Toledo, Lincoln
county, wants to see a good road
built to the outside world. The state
highway commission has agreed to
make a start and will place a rock
surface for one and a half miles west
ot Toledo this winter. A large amount
of rocking was contemplated by the
commission, but the bid submitted for
the work was such that the commis
sion rejected it.
T. J. LaBrie and O. Osmundson.
who are Interested in seeing the
Silver Lake irrigation project ma
terialize, arrived at the Imperial yes
terday. This la their third or fourth
trip to Portland relative to the
project. There is a prospect of prob-
bly ten miles of road construction
being carried on In the Silver Lake
section this winter.
Judge J. F. Phy of Union county
has managed to dicker witn tne nign-
way commission to get road work
started in that county within a week
or two. The county was in position
to finance ita own share of the under
taking until the bond market took
tumble. The work which is to be
carried on will be on the Old Ore
gon trail. Judge Phy Is at the. Imperial.
It required four hours for J. J-
Carr to fly from LaGrande to Port
land. With him on the plane was
another passenger. Frank Hilt. The
train will be good enough for Mr.
Carr to return on for he is in the
furniture business and is looking
around for twin beds. Mr. Hilt will
fly back and in the seat which Mr,
Carr occupied will be Dave Stoddard.
Right in the middle of the day
yesterday Ed E. Kiddle of Island City
had to retire to bis room at the
Imperial and disrobe. Mr. Kiddle
was in the Berber"" shop and when
he removed hits collar, the rear .col
lar button went south despite all of
his efforts to retrieve it. Hence the
more thorough and minute search.
Chester Kubli registers at the Im
perial from Jacksonville, Or., but he
lives at Applegate. Mr. Kubli owns
the base, of the Siskiyou mountains
and ' also Squaw lake. He is in the
stock business and a shipment of
cattle was the reason for his trip
to Portland.
Paducah, Ky., where Mrs. Frank P.
Hill registers from at the Perkins,
is familiar to millions of people,
although they may not be familiar
with the name of the town. Paducah
is where Irving S. Cobb lived when
he was a youngster and many of his
stories are laid in the Kentucky
town.
ORIGIN OF NAME OF TOMBSTONE
Another Version of 1-'. piMil of Early
Adventure in Arizona.
NEW YORK, Aug- 6 (To the Edi
tor.) There appeared in the Sun and
New. York Herald of July 29 an arti
cle on the origin of Tombstone, re
printed from the Gold Hill correspond
ence of The Portland Oregonian.
Without in the least reflecting on
the gentleman who wrote it, I was
prompted to give the version of the
story as I know it, which 1 am here
with enclosing. The origin of -the
name Tombstone was even much de
bated in the Arizona and California
papers in the early '80s, when every
body was alive. The one I am en
closing you was always considered by
most people to be the correct one.
DONALD F. llcCARTHY.
I was in Arizona In those days and aft
erward, when the whole camp had be
come, so to speak, a tombstone within it
self to its former greatness. Tombstone
was discovered by M Schieffelln In the
summer of 1S77, and with the help of his
brother. Al Schieffelln, and Dick Ourii
it became an esta.bllsb.ed mining camp in
1878.
Some years prior to this the remains of
two prospectors who had been killed by
the Indians were found In a sulcb lu or 1 -miles
from there and several pieces of rich
silver ore were among the remains. There
were persistent rumors of rich sliver ore
somewhere in that section of the country.
Otheir men had followed those rumors long
before Ed Schdef felin did, but they never
came back.
Tombstone was In the heart'of the worst
Indian country in all of the southwest. It
was ctase to the Dragoon mountains, the
stronghold of th-e Chirlcahua Apache, who
at the time were led by Jun and ueronl
mo. noted Chlricahua chiefs. The Dragoon
mountains had always been the atrongnold
of the Chiricahuas, and under the leader
ship of the famous Mangus Colorado Red
Sleeve and the still more famous Cochite,
it was a desperate country to go into and
come out of again.
Still. Ed Schieffelin went in there alone
with a little pack mule and found the
Tombstone mines, but not,- however, with
out losing hope one day of ever getting
back. The Indians had discovered hi
tracks, but he had seen then In time ti
hide out among the rocks, where he lay
all day in the hot sun parched for water.
At times they were so close that he could
hear them chattering in their excitement
to find him.
He got away in the night, and now. sat
isfied that he had found the country
w-herein the legend of the Dragoons was
located, he struck out for his brother and
his friend iurd, who were up in the Huala-
nal country ot northern Arizona. They
started back south, and upon reaching
Tucson remained there several das out-,
fitting -for the country they .were going
into.
The friends to whom they: confided the
obiect of their trin told them they wou'.d
never come back, and advised them to take
a tombstone along and stick It up as soon
aa they got there, so that those in arte:
years who we-nt that way- would know
what had become of them. Hence the
name Tombstone.
Twenty-five Yenra Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 12. 180S.
When the Mazaraas climbed Mount
Hood last Monday they deposited a
new record book in the copper box at
the summit, in which future visitors
may inscribe their names. The book
first placed there in 1891, which con
tains more than 500 names with rec
ords of the climbs made, has been
placed in the records of the Mazamas.
The Oregon Road club Is to be or
ganized ty prominent business and
professional men to promote interest
in building good roads in the state.
It is expected that the Initial mem
bership will be more than 300.
Machinery has reached Philomath
for a new roller mill there. Alsea is
also to have a new mill, the machin
ery for which has bean shipped.
T Y. r first barge of castiron pipe for
extending the city water mains to
Sellwood Is moored at the foot of
Last Stark street.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 12. 170.
asnington. vviinam ri. sewara
left New York today for San Fran
cisco en route to China and India on
a trip that will occupy several -months.
. .
New York. Paris dispatches' state
that French troops in Lorraine now
number 340.000. . It is estimated that
in the next battle the French will
have 250,000 men and the Prussian
325,000.
The planking of Main street be
tween Third and Fourth has been laid.
Morrison street is to have the- Nicol-
son pavement between First and Sec
ond. r
The reports of the labor exchange
shows the .prevailing rates of wages
to be as follows: Bakers, $40 to i0
per month and board: blacksmiths.
J3.50 to $4.50 per day: bricklayers,- $5
per day: carpenters, $3.50 to $4 per
day: farmhands. $30 per month to
$1.50 per day and board; wood chop
pers, $1.25 per cord.
F. A. Lust, who Is at the Perkins,
is willing to prove to any democrat
that his liome town will be carried
by Warren G. Harding by a big ma
jority. Mr. Lust lives at Marlon,
which is also the home of the re
publican candidate for president.
Director of about 200 stores,
trickling across the face of the con
tinent, is S. S. Kresge of Detroit who
arrived at the Benson yesterday.
Bay Front the Advertiser.
Canby News.
The best protection against fraud
Is to buy of a reliable dealer. Par
ticularly of those who show bedrock
confidence in their goods by adver
tising them.
POVERTY VIEWED AS ADVANTAGE
Mr. Cllne Holds Powerful Stimulus Is
Required to Develop Character.
PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Your editorial on the Vander
bllts' wealth and the effect of it on
his posterity is written with fine dis
crimination. It is true and can be
demonstrated that of all'-the advan
tages which come to the young man.
poverty is the greatest.
The young man who is -saved from
the strenuous effort of making his
own' way, and establishing his own
standing, is deprived of the most
powerful stimulus to labor and de
velopment. The young man coming
out of college and starting into ac
tive life will rise to success or sink
into failure in proportion to his own
effort, by which' his education has
been acquired.
If he has been obliged to work un
til he knows the value of a dollar,
and how difficult it is to keep-it: and
that everything he hopes for must
be obtained by his own force and in
dustry, he begins with assuring ad
vantages. No amount of help given a young
fellow can give him the pluck, that
succeeds in life like that of poverty
which builds its own highway, and
then knows how to travel on It. - -
True, poverty ia uncomfortable, but
the best thing that can happen to a
young man is to be pitched over
board, and compelled to ' swim for
himself or sink. The roan who la
worth saving will not be drowned.
C K- CLINK.
DEMOCRAT CANT STOMACH . COX
Real Isnue Is Tammany Plot to Over
throw the Constitution.
PORTLAND, Aug. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) The nomination of Cox has
placed thousands of self-respecting
democrats under the necessity of op
posing their party's choice for the
presidency. Everyone understands
that Cox was elected governor of
Ohio by conniving with the wets on
the one hand and in a measure con
ciliating the arys on "the other hand.
By cunningly playing -to both sides
he was elected. But since his election
he has turned a cold shoulder to the
drys and given aid and comfort to
the wets. This record won him the
nomination at San Francisco.
The democrats there assembled and
led by Tammany deliberately nomi
nated him, believing a wet candidate
can win. In this action the party's
representatives got squarely behind
the movement to overthrow a portion
of our country's constitution. Deny
it if you dare. Mr. Wet Democrat!
How can a self-respecting democrat
who stands for the law of his coun
try and with whom the dry law is a
matter of principle, support a man
like Cox? ' The writer has been a
democrat for 30 years all the days
of hia mature life and has tasted
defeat in many battles for his party.
But his zeal for democracy has never
been lessened on Ahat account. He
will not, however, repudiate the
teachings of a good mother and the
promptings of his own conscience to
support a -man like Cox.
The two parties are having a sham
battle over the league of nations,
and the difference between them on
this issue is the difference between
tweedledee and tweedledum. The real
issue is the overturning of the dry
law. Ask any wet democrat and he
will tell you so. m
If King Alcohol Is to come back to
rule and ruin this country, the demo
cratic party, which has always stood
for the welfare of the masses, cannot
afford to do the dirty job. The writer
will not" aid It in such a nefarious
scheme. In taking this stand he Is a
better democrat than any man who
supports Cox.
The slogan of democracy Is 'th
greatest good to the greatest num- -ber."
The slogan of Cox and his In
gion is the greatest evil to all.
DOUGLAS HEWITT.
"The Old Reliable."
Banks Herald.
Various daily papers of the big
northwest may rave and add splendid
special features, and a few flying
machines, but The Oregonian remains
the big dependable, newsy paper,
and continues to be so recognized
over the land-
Pet Canary Is Ailing;.
PORTLAND, Aug. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) My pet canary has a scale
growing on his legs. I have a salve
lor him that I got at a local bird
store. It greases his feathers and
keeps him dirty. I have used it some
time and can see no improvement.
If this meets the eye of some birit
lover who knows of a successful
treatment, will he kindly reply?
SUBSCRIBER.
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