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THE MORNING OltEG ONI AN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1920
tfTABLISIIKD BY HENRY I P1TTOCK.
Published by Tht Oresonlan Publishing Co..
13i Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon.
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Russia." ' Then let American dollars
do their work in China.
MISSIXO A GREAT CHANCE,
Governor Cox is for ths league; Senator
Harding against it. The chief fight will
le over this subject. The Issue was de
liberately chosen by the republican sena
tors when they blocked a great treaty for
the sole reason it was negotiated by a
democratic president. Had Wilson been a
republican, Lodge and his followers would
Lave fought tooth and nail for ratification
of the treaty as it stood. Will the Ameri
can people tolerate the conduct of that
senate coterio and their chosen spokesman,
Harding? Do they think that party should
take precedence over the national Interest
and over the welfare of humanity? Pen
dleton East Oregoniaa.
All right. Let it be understood
that Harding is against THE league
snd that Cox is for THE league. But
let it be understood also that Harding
voted forVthe league, with the Lodge
reservations, and now declares that
he is for an association or league of
nations to guarantee peace and order
In the world. Will any one point to
anything that Mr. Harding has said
Indicating that he is against a
league, or THE league, with appro
priate reservations?
It may be conceded that Mr.
Harding has clearly declared what
he is against (viz., THE league) and
rot so clearly indicated what kind
of a league he is for. - But it is well
to remember that President Wilson
himself proposed a "solemn refer
endum" over THE league, not any
league. Mr. Cor has taken up the
league cause and will stand or fall
by the Wilson record. The issue, de
fined by Wilson and ratified by the
democratic convention and by the
democratic candidate, is accepted
by the republican party and by the
republican candidate.
Thus the real issue is now THE
league, as against any other league
or no league at all. The democrats
themselves have made it easy for
the no-league element and the anti-Wilson-league
element of the repub
lican party to Join hands in the campaign.
t'Oli DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA.
Ko more promising field for prac
tlcal help by the United States to a
nation in distress can be found than
exists in China. The article by
Thomas W. Lamont which has been
published in The Oregonian reveals
a plan of giving this help which will
commend itself as eminently practi
cal and effective to all clear-thinking
Americans. It is to combine a
group of bankers of each of the four
principal powers the United States,
Great Britain, France and Japan in
rendering financial aid to China to
Improve transportation and basic in
dustries and to bring the monetary
system into order. Most significant
Is it that necessary accompaniments
and effects of this aid are relief from
the curse of militarism and from ex
clusive foreign spheres ot influence,
formation of a strong central govern-'
merit, and actual establishment of
the open door policy for foreign en
terprise. The Pacific coast is most inter
ested in success of this undertaking,
and Portland along with other Pa
cific ports, for China is the greatest
field of trade open to this coast. Rec
ognition of that fact is marked by
the membership of two leading Port
land banks in the American group.
China hits a vast population, indus
trious, thrifty and having a high
standard of business ability and in
tegrity, but with most primitive
menus of transportation and methods
of agriculture and industry, the
principal reason being that, it has a
corrupt, incompetent government
that is robbed by bands of brigands
in the guise of an army and of mili
tary governors. Unable to obtain the
capital necessary to the first begin
nings of national prosperity and well
being, this government muddles
along Into bankruptcy and subjection
to a foreign nation, and its people
can produce only enough for bare
subsistence, and consequently can
buy little. Given railroads, canals,
highways, a modern currency, an
orderly, representative government,
China would attract private Ameri
can capital independent of the bank
ors' consortium to development of its
wealth and extension of its indus
tries. The earnings . of its people
would increase and with them the
standard of living and the purchasing
power. The volume of trade with this
rountry would then multiply many
times, and that v.hlch inured to the
benefit of China would inure to the
good of America also.
The method of operation outlined
by Mr. 1-umont will do away with
practically every, danger ot conflict
ai'iong the powers in the far east. By
Kt inning together the American,
French and British groups have led
the Japanese government to abandon
the policy of aggression and of re
served spheres in Manchuria and
Mongolia which was pursued by the
military party and to join in equal
partnership to work for the welfare
of China. By agreeing that no one
nation shall have one section in
w hich it shall operate to the exclu
sion of all others, the consortium
guards against rivalry and interna
tional intrigue and insures an open
field for all to the greatest advantage
of China,
But for the foolish prejudice
gainst what was called dollar diplo
macy the policy embodied in the
consortium would have been in full
effect with America co-operating in
1913. American bankers withdrew
from the consortium of "that year be
cause Secretary of State Bryan with
drew the support of the government
and before the banks of the other
powers had made much progress the
war stopped their operations. The
logic of events drove President Wil-
foa back in 1510 to the policy which
THE CASE OF GARFIELD.
An inquirer wants to know if The
Oregonian is not wrong when it says
that no member of the United States
senate was ever elected president,
and the case of James A. Garfield is
cited. The Oregonian is not in error.
James, A. Garfield, then a repre
sentative in congress, was elected
senator by the Ohio legislature in
January, 18S0, for the six-year term
beginning March 4, 1881. But in
June, 1880, Garfield was nominated
for president and was elected in
November, and was inaugurated on
March 4, 1881, the same day he
would have become senator. In the
circumstances, Garfield never took
the senatorial oath, nor occupied the
senatorial seat.
It may be Interesting to recall that
Garfield's nomination was procured
after a protracted deadlock between
the forces of Grant, Blaine and
Sherman, and that he was in a real
sense a dark horse. He had made
the nominating speech for John
Sherman a brilliant effort, equalled
only by the masterly address of
Roscoe Conkling for Grant and
was the floor leader for the Sherman
forces. There was a disposition
among the friends of Sherman to
find fault with Garfield for the re
sult, but the facts doubtless are that
it was brought about by no maneuver
or intrigue of himself or his imme
diate friends, but was the spontane
ous expression of the convention's
desire for a compromise candidate.
Yet the episode was not forgotten
in Ohio politics and was doubtless
in the mind of William McKinley
when in 1888 he refused to permit
the use of his name as a candidate,
for he was pledged to Sherman.
Again in 1892, when McKinley was
chairman of the Minneapolis con
vention, a stampede for him began.
and accumulated 182 votes; but Mc
Kinley took the floor and demanded
the renomination of Harrison.
There can be no doubt that Gar
field was wholly blameless of any
lack of fidelity to Sherman in 1880;
and there can be no doubt also about
both the propriety and duty of any
public man to take a presidential
nomination offered by his party.
A CAUSE FOB PROTEST.
By establishing one district of the
division of operations to Include both
Oregoto and Washington and locat
ing its office at Seattle, the United
States shipping board has yielded to
political influence without regard to
fair dealing between ports or to good
business. Portland and Seattle are
keen competitors for shipping busi
ness, the shipping board knows it,
and for -that reason it should not
have subordinated the interest of one
port to that of the other. The fact
that it has done so is plain evidence
that it favors Seattle at the expense
of Portland. It has been fully in
formed of the facts by the protests
which have come from Portland.
Politics Is the only explanation.
That is a summons to the Oregon
senators and representatives to get
into action and to remain active,
even to the neglect of their political
campaigns. They cannot do better
work for their re-election than by
making a stiff, relentless fight for
Oregon a shipping business. When
t political work is afoot, Vie best way
10 meet it is witn Detter political
work. It is time also for the people
of Portland to speak out with one
voice in protest, and to make known
that indignation at this wrong is not
confined to the men directly engaged
in the shipping business but extends
to the whole city, and through the
city to the state.
The Portunnd cKamber of com
merca has been unremittingly at
work, especially during the last
year, in endeavors to impress on the
shipping board this port's claims to
ships and to the facilities due to one
of the great ports of the Pacific
coast. Its manager, Mr. Dodson,
has been and is now again at Wash
ington on that mission and he got
solid results in allocation of vessels
which could not otherwise have beeii
secured. Its efforts should be backed
by those of the entire Oregon dele
gation in congress and by the united
voice of the people of Portland
With grain exports exceeding those
of Seattle and with total exports
grown to imposing proportions,
Portland will not accept an inferior
position.
CHAPLIN, THE SOCIALIST.
Among the disquieting disclosures
made by Mildred Harris Chaplin in
her divorce suit against the favorite
comedian of the films is her asser
tion that Charlie has joined the par
lor socialists. Such information
altogether more alarming, from the
public point of view, than that which
apprises us of a canny regard for
coin that would do credit to Harry
Lauder. We are informed by the
neglected wife that Chaplin spent
much of his leisure time in expound
ing the doctrines of dissatisfaction,
and that frequently he passed th
night in lonely amblings about the
streets, pleading that- he must hav
solitude in which "to think." Here
is a picture of Charlie that never has
been screened.
Mrs. Chaplin further complains
that her husband voiced the belief
that Christmas trees and presents
are frivolous and silly, a sentiment
that would do signal honor to the
late Mr. Scrooge but that somehow
or- otner ians to accord with our
film memories of Charlie, however
socialistic and revolutionary it may
De. Decidedly this fellow is no co
median in private life. He is an icon
oclast against some highly prized
fallacies of ours, other than our sat
isfaction with the America in which
we dwell. Why, if Mrs. Chaplin is
correctly quoted, he does not care
the snap of his well-kept fingers for
the spirit of Santa. Claus!
It's funny about Charlie. That Is
to say, there's nothing funnv about
the situation at all. He reads with
avid interest and approval, so says
his wife, the publications of the rad
icals. He chooses for his friends and
familiars the elite of unrest. He
would remodel the state. He yearns
to revise the proved system of suc
cessful government by democracy.
Charlie has out-grown custard pie
conflict and with his ego refreshed
by theory would sally forth to re
form the universe.
Ah, these parlor socialists! Here
is one whose hands and pockets have
been joyfully burdened with the sil
ver of the public, whose income has
been that of kings. By far the
major portion of the huge bulk of
coin that he has caught for a smile,
a stare, an absurdity of locomotion,
was the tribute of working people.
Next we shall hear that he is giving
it back, this idealist who does not
believe in Christmas.
REACTION FROM IDEALISM:.
The sixth anniversary of the out
break of the world war suggests re
flections as different from those of
former anniversaries as are the cir
cumstances. Since hostilities ceased
there has been a reaction from the
intensity of feeling which prevailed
during actual warfare and the minds
of this and other nations have be
come' sobered to the point of disil
lusionment. Many ideals have been
shattered by encounter with human
nature as it is.
For years before the war many
high-minded people in this and other
countries had cherished the idea that
war between civilized nations was a
thing of the past, that they could be
bound together in a league which
should preserve peace.
The kaiser struck a severe blow at
that ideal by his declaration of war
for the purpose of realizing his own
ideal of world-empire. Devotees of
the league had set their estimation
of human nature too high, but the
determination with which the allies
fought p.roved that William had es
timated it too low by assuming that
it would ever be so base and craven
as to submit to his rule.
The allies fell short of their ideal
by agreeing secretely to bring alien
peoples under their government.
When the United States intervened
they were lifted to a higher ideal by
President Wilson's declaration that
the American people fought to make
the world safe for democracy, and
to destroy military autocracy, to es
tablish the principle of self-determi
nation of peoples and to establish a
league.
Instead of bringing peace self-de
termination has brought more wars
and the idealist has- learned that
more than race is involved, but that
such prosaic affairs as railroads, coal
and food must be considered.
Though the American people were
prepared to join the allies in estab
lishing peace and forming a league,
they desired to limit their obligations
and to have the treaty made as the
constitution requires. President Wil
son, carried away with bia-ideal, set
at naught the constitution, formed a
league which the senate disapproved,
and thus missed his aim, shattered
his Ideal and delayed realization of
that which the people entertained.
He too, misjudged human nature, not
reading correctly the minds of his
wn countrymen.
From 'the,, war sprang another
ideal Lenin's communist Utopia.
Seizing by the throat the Russian
people, he imposed the soviet system
by red terror and famine. He de
stroyed the entire social and indus
trial system with the intention to
build his communist state in its place.
He finds that he has destroyed the
materials with which he must build
and that the people will not work
for him because he has destroyed the
incentive to work. Lenin's ideal is
failing because he too misjudged hu
man nature.
Many lives were sacrificed during
and since the war to impracticable
ideals whose sponsors had too little
regard for facts ior for human na
ture. But the ideal of American de
mocracy still lives, and the American
people still cherish the ideal of a
league of nations, though their sober
second thought would make it dif
ferent from the Wilson league. The
conclusion is that the man who puts
forth the most lofty ideals in the
most polished language is not the
man to put them in effect or to ac
cept as a guide. In order to be real
ized, ideals must be practical.
TOWNLEYISM IV WASHINGTON.
To "view with alarm" does not aid
in an understanding of the problem
so regarded, and not infrequently re
sults In optical illusions that create
unworthy fear ' in the public mind.
What is required is a calm, judicial
scrutiny of the problem and the pres
entation of an opinion unburdened
by bias. The spread of the non
partisan league, for example, loses
much of Its terror when common
sense perceives that Americanism
already stands pledged to progressive
and unremittent reform in economic
affairs, and is consistently redeem
ing its pledges as rapidly as the vot
ers themselves speak for correction
and indicate the error. One per
ceives the non-partisan league, on
such scrutiny, not only to be set
against the principles of a repre
sentatlve government, but actually
to be absurd and unnecessary as an
agency of reform. It is an attempt
at group rule, the exact opposite of
democratic reform.
This conclusion is reached by
Frank M. Dallam Jr. in the series
of articles on the non-partisan
league In Washington, just com
pleted in .The Oregonian. There
may be those who will quarrelwith
Mr. Dallam for the restraint with
which ha discusses the league, as a
socialistic phantasm, but throughout
the series he has made it clear that
he does not hold with those who
would defeat Townleyism by bitter
attack. His is the judicial attitude
He convicts the non-partisans of in
tent inimical to the orderly proc
esses of American government. If
we deprive other commentators of
the privilege of hectic adjectives, we
find that such also is their opinion
He calls it, after the submission of
proof, a "false philosophy." In other
words it is an economic lie.
In analyzing the growth of senti
ment for the non-partisan league in
the state of Washington, Mr. Dallam
blames both the radicals and the
politicians for inflaming the rural
districts to an issue that otherwise
would claim scant attention. He
finds that the farmers of Washington
are as a majority apathetic toward
non-partisan pleas and content with
unprecedented prosperity. But in
districts where crop failures have
wrought agricultural hardship th
soil of discontent has been stirred
and planted by the agents of the
league, and there its membership is
apparent and active. . That is to say,
the acts of providence have been
seized on by the radicals and turned
tp the purposes of propaganda. Lack
of rain and prevalence of flood alike
have been charged against the gov
ernment. Of other causes for agricultural
discontent in Washington but two
are worthy of discussion, declares
Mr. Dallam, as contributory to the
minority sentiment for the non-par
tisan league. These are complaint
against spread of cost between the
farmer and the consumer the mid
dleman muddle again and diffi
culty of securing credits to finance
crops and farms. It is obvious that
legislation for the removal of both
causes for complaint can be obtained
in orderly process without the inter
vention of Townleyism.
Mr. Dallam has conducted an ex
haustive survey of sentiment and
conditions. It is well for the alarm
ists to note that he finds the farmers
of Washington, as a body, not at all
inclined to radical affiliation. They
are sound in Americanism and con
tent with the steady progress of
their affairs. Far from being for
gotten by their state, he points out
that the last Washington legislature
appropriated more than $11,000,000
for projects and improvements
largely or exclusively beneficial to
the farmer an appreciative recogni
tion of agricultural importance,
wholly uninspired by the non-partisan
league.
Indeed, Mr. Dallam discovers scant
reason for the presence of the
league in Washington, and asserts
that many of its members joined the
body to show their sympathy for the
farmers of North Dakota, where the
movement originated. These men
will not follow the league into its
field of undisguised socialism, de
clares the analyst, but will remain
passive or desert Its ranks as the
hand of Townley in Washington be
comes apparent. Nor does the fact
that Townley Is discredited and con
victed for his war-time attitude
justify the declaration that all mem
bers of the league are "anarchists"
or "bolshevists," adds Mr. Dallam.
He counsels temperance in epithet
where sincerity may prevail.
As for North Dakota, birthplace
of the fantastic faith, the investi
gator finds that the league fulfilled
its original programme of worthy re
forms, correcting old abuses against
the farmer, only to be seized on by
the opportunists of radicalism and
continued and perverted for the for
mation of a theoretical socialistic
government. Its methods In North
Dakota were far from representa
tive. It gained power and holds it
by a system of dictatorial bossism
that is equal to the deposed gang
rule of McKenzie. The secret caucus
was its legislative method. In effect
it is a distorted reform, which has
served its purpose only to be cap
tured by the foes of good govern
ment. '
Those farmers of the Pacific slope
who turn from their well-tilled
fields toward Townleyism, in the
hope of tax reform, must never have
heard of Golden Valley, the little
southwestern district of North Da
kota, where the entire community
rebelled against the imposition of
appalling and confiscatory taxes by
Townley. Yet the hope of tax re
form, of retrenchment in state and
federal expenditures, is a prime fac
tor in the recruiting of league mem
bers," says the investigator. Of the
legislative members of the league in
North Dakota, Mr. Dallam says:
The methods adopted by the lead
ers of the movement to gain control
of the state cannot be defended as
honest, and if persisted in there and
elsewhere will in time come back to
damn all sincere believers in the
integrity of election laws." He de
scribes the men who achieved this
result as "a host of opportunists
more bent on revolutionary experi
ment than on effective specific
reforms."
Mr. Dallam sees no peril in the
situation. The league has served its
purpose in North Dakota, and though
the real reforms it achieved will
never be relinquished, he predicts
that its strength will wane because
farmers generally will decline to
accept the "radical and socialistic
proposals" that have been grafted
upon it. As for Washington there
exists no need for the presence of the
league in any capacity. The wrongs
against which the North Dakota
farmers revolted are not present.
The-political machinery for progress
is functioning perfectly. Townley
ism cannot hope to gain a foothold
in prosperous agricultural communi
ties that operate under beneficial
laws.
Mr. Dallam's survey and conclu
sions are important not to Wash
ington alone, though it Is there that
the league is striving for its entrance
to the Pacific slope. Conditions
alike disadvantageous to Townleyism
exist in Oregon.
BV-PRODCCT9 OP THE TIMES
Remarkable Instance of Printing; by
Lightning During Storms.
There have been more marvelous
cases of lightning photography than
that which befell the unfortunate
soldier at Chertsey during a recent
storm when branches of the elm tree
beneath which Ji was sheltering
were reproduced in pattern on his
body when he was struck dead.
In the department of Selne-et-Marne
some years ago a peasant girl
had a picture of a cow she was herd
ing printed on her breast by a flash
of lightning. The cow was killed,
but the girl recovered. An Italian
sailor, killed by lightning as he sat
sear the mast, had upon his back a
print of a horseshoe that was nailed
to the mast.
But perhaps the most remarkable
case of the kind was that related by
John Still, the famous Bishop of Wells.
A storm broke over Wells cathedral
during a service. Afterward the bish
op, his wife and many members of
the congregation found themselves
marked with a cross on various parts
of the body. Not a soul was injured
by the lightning.
Mr. Parvenue-Smith was refurnish
ing his library, which occupation was
causing him considerable anxiety.
says the . Victoria Colonist. In de
spair he called in an expert bookseller
and, after many suggestions and
final order for a complete library, he
turned to his adviser and said:
And what is the name of the fel
low who writes such a lot Shake-
shift, or something like that, isn't
it?"
"Shakespeare, sir," answered the
tradesman. '
"Yes, that's it. Get me all he's
written and make a note to order
anything new he may write."
Concealing a smile, the bookseller
suggested: "And may I suggest that
you have them bound in morocco?"
"Bound in Morocco?" roared the
newly-made Croesus. "No. Certainly
not. I want the confounded things
at once."
A monograph in the London Fi
nancial Times on the history of the
old Citizens' bank of Louisiana, at
New Orleans, reveals the origin of the
name "Dixie Land" the term applied
now to all the southern states and
preserved in the famous southern war
song "Dixie." Prior to the civil war
the Citizens bank, having the power
to issue paper notes. Issued several
millions of bills in denominations of
$10 and $20. but most $10. The $10
bills were engraved in French with
the French word Dlx featured on their
backs. The bills became known
"Dixies," and this money becoming
popular, Louisiana was referred to
as the "Land of Dixies," or "Dixie
Land." Eventually the term was so
broadened as to apply to all the
southern states. This seems a very
acceptable explanation of the origin
of the term, which has been the sub
ject of so much discussion. Cleve
land Press.
Those Who Come and Go.
He buys and develops farms and
then sells them,' but running a hard
ware store in Ontario is his meal
ticket. His name is D. M. Taggart
and he is a cousin of Tom Taggart,
the democratic boss of Indiana. Mr.
Taggart. who is at the Imperial, is
taking advantage of buyers' week to
get away from Ontario, where it is
so warm that the thermometer showed
116 degrees under the awning of the
Argus office a few days ago. Mr.
Taggart likes alfalfa for his farms
for it grows well in that section.
Alfala, by the way, waa brought to
the new world by the Spanish ad
venturers, and the history of it runs
back into Persia, the Persians taking
the forage plant to Greece with them.
Alfalfa started in Asia along with
the human race and mankind has
been utilizing it ever since.
There are 15.575.040 acres In the
circuit of which Dalton Biggs is
judge. Judge Bigg's circuit con
sists of Harney, Grant and Malheur
counties. It is a violation of no con
fidence to state that Judge Biggs
studied law in the office of Champ
Clark, and that he is a native of Pike
county. Missouri. Once upon a time.
Pike county was nearly everything
west of the Mississippi river and the
natives Were long, lean and lanky
and .they were great travelers. They
came west to the gold fields in such
numbers that they became known as
"a Pike," being an abbreviation of
"a man from Pike county." Bret
Harte was the first to use the word
in vers'S. All of which has nothing
to do with the fact that Judge Biggs
and Mrs. Biggs are in Portland for
a few days.
Maurise Post, formerly teacher or
biology at the Stadium high school.
Tacoma, was among those who both
came and went in Portland last night.
Post spent an hour here on his way
Berkeley where he is to be head
of the science department at the
Berkeley high school. The Tacoman
came nearly casting his lot with Port
land, when he was offered the posi
tion as athletic coach at the Lincoln
high school. He accepted the Port
land job but later, when he received
an attractive offer by telegraph from
Berkeley, decided to go to the Cali
fornia school.
Edward K Earle informed Clerk
Doyle, of the Hotel Oregon, that he
Was arriving from . Honolulu. Years
ago Mr. Karle used to be a "psychic"
in Portland and he declares that he is
more psychical now than ever,, "and
there's no - wires, nor mechanical
trickery about it," he gives assurance.
Before Mr. Karle he is now called
doctor, and sometimes reverend got
into the psychic business the beat
fair Oliver Lodge to it by a quarter
or a century), he was a newsDaoer
reporter. His duaghter Edna, who
used to appear at Cordray's theater.
is now at Johannesburg. South Africa.
and cabled her father bilthday con
gratulations last week.
A dollar or two reduction in sugar
is worth while to the large con
sumer; to the average family it is a
trifle. Nothing less than 25 per cent
will figure to advantage in house
hold bills. Tfhat may come this year
or next.
General Wood is rig"ht about the
armed strike-breaker. He is a men
ace and should be sent back. Labor
troubles can be settled without rifles
anywhere, even in Denver. '
Toledo, O., voted $11,000,000 for
school purposes, but turned down the
$7,000,000 to buy street railways.
Toledo is famous for more than
Petroleum V. Nasby.
We will believe the story of a well
at Tulsa, Okla., that yields 60-grav-
ity gasoline when someone out here
can produce a well yielding 100-
proof moonshine.
Consider the cook, who toils over
the fire on a hot afternoon, getting
dinner and if she be a wife, con
sider her twice and eat cold food.
Not long ago an old fellow died out
in Kansas, leaving a. barrel of money,
says the Boston Transcript. He had
a houseful of children ten or
dozen. It cost considerable to feed
them. . The old man evolved a scheme.
He would say to his children in the
evening, "Now, how many of you will
take a dime and go to bed without
supper?" '
They all took dimes and went to
bed hungry.
Next morning the old man would
say, "Now, children, now many oi you
will give me a dime for a nice, warm
breakfast?"
And. of course, they would all
cough up their dimes.
The old man thus saved the cost of
the children's supper. This was just
one of his sehemes; he had others.
That's why he died rich.
The energetic press service of the
United States marine corps sends out
bulletin from Ann Arbor, Mich.
with the following curious, if not im
portant, information:
'A nice piece of beef cooked in 1805
is still being carefully preserved in
little silver pitcher by Edward B.
Manwaring of this city. This is no
being; kept in anticipation of a fur
ther increase in the cost of beef, bu
is a genuine helrloom.
"Sergeant Joseph Hobbins of the
British Royal marines saved the piece
of beef which ha was eating when
assaulted with an ax by a cook on
French " vessel which had been cap
tured by Lord Nelson at Trafalgar.
The cook missed his aim, but the
sergeant got the beef. Sergeant Hob
bins was the great-great-grandfathe
of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward B. Man
war in c of the United States mar in
corps."
m m m
Is it worth while, when money is
needed for legitimate objects, to an
swer the appeal to save from sale the
cottage in which Thomas Parr lived
His claim to fame is that he lived
to be 152 and that he did penance fo
immorality at 100. Careful Inquiry
last century discredited the tradition
Believers in luck will start some
thing today, which is Friday, the
13th, despite" tradition. That kind
of people are unconquerable.
Mr. Wells, the forecaster, is off on
an inspection tour of the state, but
he cannot find a better brand of
weather than here at home.
Many of these complaints in suits
for divorce seem humorous until a
fellow recalls what he hears when
he is late for dinner.
Parole breakers make it hard for
judges disposed to be merciful. Per
haps Judge Stapleton is right. Cases
almost daily show it.
Trotsky predicts a bolshevik Eu
rope within a year. His mistake In
geography. He means Hades.
Keep the dampers closed and the
sparks off the roof these warm days.
The shingles are like tinder.
Yes, it was hotter in one or two
places, but none of us is going those
ways if we -can help it.
Salt Lake county gained 21.2 per
cent, which Is very good, considering
the law.
Cut out the heavy foods,
are salad and berry days.
These
. Poland takes Wilson Seriously and
we cannot sidestep.
And that's the end of Ponzl.
'Don't worry if you haven't re
ceived your license to drive an auto-
moDiie, said bam Kozer, secretary
or state, who was in Portland yester
day. "The office is sending the cards
out Dy the thousand every day and
just as soon as possible everyone who
has applied for a license will have the
necessary card. .1 don't Imaerine that
the police will arrest anyone for not
carrying his license card for a little
while longer, as the police know how
we have been swamped with applica
tions, ine license is a small card
about the size of the one given by the
draft boards when the youth of
America waa registered. The license
costs 25 cents.
What County Judge Hare of Tilla
mook would like to 'know is whv
Tillamook county should have to elve
Dona to the state for the faithful
performance of a road Job which the
county was awarded by the highway
commission, saia work to be per
rormed in Tillamook county. This is
the first time that a county court
has been asked to put Mo a bond and
Judge Hare considers the ruling, made
by the Attorney-General, as somewhat
unusual and unnecessary. What the
Judge intends doing when he returns
home is to get a bunch of citizens to-
getner and ask them to eo through
the formality of signing a personal
Dona. -
It took Oregon City years to realize
that adequate fire apparatus was
needed to conserve property and ac
cording to A. A. Price, who cham
pioned the fight to provide new fire
fighting facilities for the city by the
falls, it may take a vear for the city
fathers of Oregon City to decide on
the location of a home for the new
fire apparatus. Mr. Price motored to
Portland yesterday to participate in
the Buyers' week programme.
There's oil along the Santa Fe. ac
cording to W. D. Barman, who ar
rived at the Perkins from Victoria.
B. C. Mr. Barman, who has been in
the lumber business in British Co
lumbia, is ready, to take a whirl at
oil and will wait in Portland two or
three weeks until the necessary ma
chinery is assembled so that wells
can be driven for oil in tlif. Santa Fe
country. Having prospected for gold
in Alaska, Mr. Barman ia now pinning
his faith on the oil sands of New
Mexico.
This has been a trying week for
the hotel clerks and the bellboys.
The clerk have been worried about
the large number of visitors whq
want accommodations and the bell
boys have been running their legs
off toting ice water. The sudden in
crease in temperature created a re
markable demand for the click of the
Ice in the pitcher and the taste of the
kick that is gone.
f NO DEFENSE FOR TOWNLEYISM '
' Writer Challenges Statement There
t Are Patriots Among Nonpartisans. -
YAKIMA. Wash., Aug. 11. (To the
I Editor.) What benefit is anticipated
from the publication of the series of
articles by Frank M. Dallam Jr. re
lating to alleged unrest among the
farmers of the state of Washington,
etc.? Mr. Dallum may be and prob
ably is a very estimable gentleman,
but at first blush I should regard his
article a a somewhat clever defense
of radicalts'm and of the non-partisan
league in particular. There is nothing
to indicate such an intimate knowl
edge of the subject as one must have
who contributes anything of value to
the literature dealing with the non
partisan league, and I challenge siren
statements as that "the membership
in this state includes a number of the
more intelligent and substantial
farmers, men who are not mere dupes,
and whose record of service to their
country during the test of war proves
their unalloyed patriotism." All is
not gold that glistens, and it is not
every man who says "Lord, Lord"
that enters the kingdom. Patriotism
under the various definitions enun
ciated by the intellectuals who sur
rounded our illustrious president dur
ing the war period came to be re
garded as something very different
from what most of us believed it to be
and still believe it to be. We re
serve the right of passing on the in
telligence and the patriotism of those
to whom Mr. Dallam refers in the
paragraph quoted.
He follows that statement by ex
pressing the opinion that "no means
could be more skillfully or more ef
fectively devised for strengthening
these men in allegiance to the
league or for winning sympathetic
support from others for the league
than the false (?) and asinine policy
adopted in eome quarters and among
supposedly intelligent interests of at
tempting to fight- the league move
ment by branding it as anarchistic.
and its members as traitors and
bolshevists." Townley. the organizer
and head of this league, has been
convicted in the courts of Minnesota
on charges of sedition and disloyalty
to his government in time of war.
So has Gilbert, the vice-president and
manager. During the trial in the
federal court in Kansas City of 32
I. W. W. on the charge of violating
the espionage act, secret correspond
ence between the non-partisan league
and the I. W. W. in 1917 was brought
to light In which the "league" was
seeking an agreement with the agri
cultural branch of the I. W. . re
garding the hiring of farm labor in
connection with the attempt of the
I. W. W. to gain control of the food
and fuel supplies in Kansas and Oklahoma.
It is idle to discuss this phase of
the matter. Examples without num
ber can be given to prove the connec
tion or alliance with socialism, com
munism, bolshevism and I. W. W.-ism.
I have known intimately some of
those prominent in the councils of the
league and I have no patience with
the hair-splitting and academic rea
soning of its defenders. It has been
defeated in Minnesota, partially de
feated in Dakota and is anything but
a menace in Washington or Oregon if
we have the sand to fight it. and one
way of fighting it is to "call a spade
a spade." READER.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Montague.
and crooning
SIR. ROBIN.
When Mr. Robin came to town
The year was young, the flowers,
were springing.
And, gayly hopping up and down
He spent the golden hours singing.
And when he'd wooed and won a wifs
And looked up in the oak tree a
attic
He still proclaimed the joy of life
In vocal melodies ecstatic.
But by and by the babies came.
And feeding them cut down his
leisure
hile life became a troubled ram a
With little time to voice one's
pleasure :
But still we sometimes hmril tmm
him.
He d chant a soft
number.
Perched high upon the oak trA limn
Where rocked tus little onea to
slumber.
But now a broken empty nest
Deserted in the tree is swinging.
The sunset still lights up the west
But Mr. Robin isn't singing.
He flies about from bought to bough.
To wait the waning of the season.
He has no heart for music now.
And I I think I know the reason.:
Competition.
One reason for the high price of
tires is the great consumption of
rubber In manufacturing feet for
ouija boards.
Ontdoins Cook, and Peary.
Nearly a million bolsheviks are now
engaged in making dashes for the
poles.
If Yon Didn't Yon'd Better Conanlt
An Anriat.
"Dinna ye hear the slogans?"
(Copyright by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Honestly.
By Grace E. HalL
Would you take it, would-you live It
As it's given day by day.
With the fret and care and worry
That beset the smoothest way?
Would you meet the pain and Tosses.
wouid you take the sting and
smarts
That are measured in the giving
Of each day, in equal parts?
You declare the game a sad hoax.
You have sa'id 'tis mostly ill.
That the best it has to offer now
Is minus charm and thrill;
You have suffered you are saddened.
So have others so am I
But no heart was ever strengthened
By a whimper or a eigh.
In Other Days.
as to the number of his years. I AccomDanied by his family TP-mi
Hia age was attested only by vil
lage gossip and byquacks, who sold
what they falsely called "Parr's Life
Pills." '
Brought to court In what was al
leged to be his 153d year. Parr died
in the course of a few months, killed
by excessive diet.
A Japanese baron visited the Uni
versity of California, and on leaving
was put aboard a partly filled s local
car
At a junction the party transferred
to a much crowded through car.
Japanese courtesy weathered the test
so far as manners went, but the baron
could not resist the question, "Why
did we leave the comfortable car'for
this one, which is so crowded?"
He was told, "Oh, we luve two min
utes getting into San Francisco."
"Ah," said he, "and what will "we
do with the two minutes?" Detroit
Free Press.
This story was told long ago on
John Barrett, director of the Bureau
of American Republics, and an am
bassador from a South American re
public, the bcene beinr a New York
City subway train.
The little girl had questioned her
grandfather many tirrn'.s . during the
evening and now, with the nurse
Jugging at her arm to remove her to
bed. he could see that she had still
another question to ask. "Granddad,"
she said, "were you in the ark?" "Why,
no." he exclaimed smilingly. "Then,"
said she, innocently, "why weren't
you drowned?" London Siorning Post.
Pollman of Baker is at the Imperial.
Mr. Pollman is in the banking busi
ness at Baker and he is in the elec
tric light and power business at
rtoseDurg. it was while examining
the Roseburg plant last winter that
he contracted pneumonia that nearly
caused a vacancy in bank circles.
James S. Stewart, who claims to
have the finest farm in Corvallts
the city line runs through said farm
Is at the Perkins. Mr. Stewart was
attracted to Portland by the meet
ing of the state highway commission
to see what he could do about push
ing the Improvement of the John Day
highway, in which he has a sort of
paternal Interest.
Wearing a hat as big as a wash
tub and all of the trappings of a
movie cowboy, "Smokey" Moore
clanked his spurs on the tiles of the
Perkins lobby -yesterday and wrote
his fist on the register. Miles City,
Mont., is where he came from and
Miles City has been some cow town
tn its day.
E. G. Rourk, -who is the man who
outfits fishing parties when they
head for the lake country, is at the
Imperial from 'Crescent. It is so
warm around Crescent at this time
that Mr. Rourk thought he would
come to the cooling clime of the Rose
City.
W. G. Bell, who was the oldest en
gineer" on the Northern Pacific in
point 5f years of service, is registered
at the Perkins. He is now with the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle.
Guy McAdams, night clerk at the
Hotel Oregon, is receiving condol
ences on account of the death of his
mother.
CHANCE FOR MILK EXPERIMENT
Let DIatribntora Install Herd and
Give Real Cost Demonstration.
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) Quite frequently- a perfectly
simple solution is found for what
seems a difficult and complicated
problem, whether ft be economic
mechanical.
I believe such a solution has been
found for the vexing and much dis
cussed problem of the price -of milk;
fair alike to the producer, distributor
and consumer. For fear some of my
friends may be at a loss to under
stand how I can speak with any
show of authority on the subject of
milk, I hasten to assure them that I
waa a leading stockholder in one of
the largest milk-producing com
panies in the northwest. It would
be pleasant to add that it was lucra
tive as well as large, but unfor
tunately it was not. However, the
purpose of the distributors in those
days waa not philanthropic' as I
gather from their advertisements it
now is. In fact their motto then
seemed to be. "Get the money; to
h 1 with the producer."
I wonder if this motto has been
permanently discarded or only put in
cold storage to be resumed when
the dairymen's league has been dis
rupted by the very- clever advertis
ing campaign the association has been
conducting?
But now for rhe solution: We have
within 15 miles of Portland on one
of the paved highways a modern
dairy barn, fully equipped and sec
ond to none in the. fitate. capable
of accommodating a larger herd of
milch cows than any now in exist
ence in this vicinity, and immediately
surrounding it several hundred acres
of the finest grazing land in Mult
nomah county, all under the same
ownership and only waiting to be
leased on the most favorable terms.
Let the distributors lease this
property, put in a herd of selected
cows and demonstrate beyond any
possible shadow of doubt just what
it actually does cost to produce milk.
What could be simpler? And the
time seems particularly propitious.
The active and energetic Mr. Greg
ory, whose advertising campaign has
been rudely cut short by the courts,
could be put in charge, with the
urbane Mr. Glass of San Francisco
as chief assistant. assuming, of
course, that the "gentlemen residing
in Switzerland," temporarily we hope,
will permit him to do so.
This will give these two champions
of the plain people a rare chance to
prove their many assertions, and I
can positively guarantee them active
and healthful exercise from earliest
morn till dewiest eve of every day
in the calendar year, the "weather
workinir day" being absolutely un
known in the dairy business and the
nights shorter than I have ever
known them to be in any other of
the many occupations in which I have
engaged.
Come on. boys; if the water is so
fine, why not get in?
I pause for a reply. And I most
earnestly advise the milk producers
also to pause before they do any
thing to disrupt the league, which
offers the only chance they have ever
had to get a fair price for their milk.
C. F. SWIGERT.
IN OTHER DAYS.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian or August 13. 1895.
Omaha It now looks as If a con
flict is inevitable between police and
the A. P. A. faction, which claims
authority to appoint a new force.
Mexico City A sharp earthquake
shock was felt here at 8 o'clock this
morning and a second one a short
time later. There was no damage.
Property owners along Burnside
street have presented a petition for
asphalt pavement.
Plans are under way to rebuild
the elevated roadway along East
Water street in order to put it out
of reach of the high water.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Orogeonlaa of August 13. 1870.
Helena, Mont. A hard fight be
tween the Crow and Sioux Indians be
tween the Big Horn and Little Horn
rivers was reported here today. Many
were killed in the fight.
. London The Times this morning
says the pride of France is wounded
and her prestige dimmed, Victorious
or uncrowned is Napoleon's alterna
tive on the next battle field.
Fires reported here yesterday indi
cate there are blazes in the mountains
on both sides of the Columbia river.
Hay of the new crop begins to ar
rive freely and is being sold from
the wagons at $10 to $12 a ton.
High Finance in Snits.
London Chamber of Commerce.
Large quantities of paper suits
made in Germany aVe teeing displayed
by a British firm of importers at their
shop in London. Tnese garments are
cut in English styles and are said to
be of the best class of paper texture.
They can be bought in lots of a thou
sand for a little over 58 cents each.
In one month the British importer
took 40.000 of these suits, a large
number being re-exported to India
and South Africa. The agents who
are dealing in these suits say that.
by buying under the present rate of
exchange, it is possiDie ior a man .o
purchase a new suit once a week and
that over a period of 12 months the
entire cost would be less than the
Drlce of a single woolen suit.
goor ptitcyymericaTHMARFTHMAR
Precinct Is Cleaned tp.
LouiBville Courier-Journal.
"Did the captain do anything I
clean up the precinct?"
' Some say he got $60,000 in
month."
MCSIC THAT MARS THE MOVIES
Inspiration and Recrention Both Sort-on!?-
Curbed by Jsu
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Ed-.
itor.) I wish to commend the article
published in The Oregonian, on "The
Brazen Image of Jazz." I wish that
other able writers would have the
courage to express what they believe,
in such honest and above-board criti
cism and in language as strong as that
ot this editorial. We may not have
the Parisian stage to flaunt inde
cency before our eyes, but the movies
come nearer doing so than many
people are willing to admit.
I am what many people would call
"movie fan" and do not hesitate to
say 1 enjoy the oeautnui scenic pic
tures and educational descriptions
thrown on the screen, beside- the well
written stories with wonderful set
tings and surroundings, played by good
actors and actresses.
Ask the gentlemanly ticket takers
or the courteous little head ushers
of some of our best movie theaters and.
they will remember the lady who asks
for a quiet seat In the back row or
the first balcony, where she may
be free from the annoyance of some
one kicking the back of her chair or
poking his knees in her back, and
also that exasperating rattle of candy
bags. If one goes for inspiration and
recreation, with the thought of get
ting the best in stories or plays,
scenic and educational pictures, he
will soon be able to select from the
best writers, played by truly fine art
ists, by reading the announcement of
the plays; and also the fine musical
accompaniment, which either mars or
makes the entertainment. Noise is not
music, however good the technique
may be.
If there were more articles writ
ten upon this subject, part of the
objectionable in our movie theaters
might be eliminated. E. E. B.
Warning the Building Code Revisers.
PORTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Ed
itor.) The tragic fire at Elton Court
on Saturday morning. Aug. 7, should
be a warning to those men who are
working for a liberalizing revision
of the building code. It is a terrible
disgrace to our city that such firs
traps are permitted to exist and to be
used as hotels with so little regard
for human life.
The people of Portland should be so
aroused by this event that they shall
itiBist upon building laws which shall
protect rather than endanger the
very lives of our citizens.
L. D. BOSLEY.
Watch Cobwebs in Trees.
PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 12. (To ths
Editor.) I have had some experience
in fruit raising and know full well
about the pests that fruit raisers have
to contend with. In passing through
different parts of our city and ad
joining county, I notice many cobwebs
in the trees, which seem to be un
noticed by the owners.
I consider it everyone's first duty to
rid his trees of these nests. If all that
I have seen are allowed to mature,
caterpillars will take a heavy toll this
i coming season. r AKiliK,