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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1920
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY X. PITTOCK.
Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co..
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ing current at various altitudes, the work. Malaria and yellow fever, the
airplane will be able to bend them scourges of. the tropics and semi
to its purpose instead of being at tropics only a few years ago, have
the mercy of their whims. been robbed of their terrors only in
It may seem extravagant to pre- part as the result of the scientific re
did that the journey from Portland, search: community action has been
Or., to Portland, Me., will soon be a mighty factor in accomplishment,
made in less time than it takes the Since the Rockefeller Foundation
world to make a single revolution, report was prepared the government
Yet on second thought it may seem has shown how effectively the same
to require more daring to venture principle has been applied in control
the assertion that it will not be done, of bubonic plague In the Philippines.
One need only reflect that a bare The facts already reported are ger
decade ago the airplane was a curl- mane to the campaignaaguinst tuber-
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foundation of scientific prophecy In
times like these.
FOB A GRAND ELIMINATION.
No way has yet been found, under
Weekly, one year . . . .' l.oo the direct primary, by which a man
Sunday, one year
(By Carrier.)
rally. Sunday Included, one year . ....$9.00
Dally, Sunday Included, three months..
Daily. Sunday Included, one month. .... .10
Dally, without Sunday, ona year T.bO
Daily, without Sunday, three months. . l.uo
IikIIv. wit hnut Sunday, one IDOlllll .... .o
who has no possible show of success
may be convinced that the voters are
not for him, but -for some one else,
except by the actual returns. Here
are six or seven candidates running
for governor in Washington state.
How to Remit. Send postofflce money and oniv onH f them can be nomi-
eriier. express or personal cuecK on your I " t . .
local bantu stamps, coin or currency are I nated; and everybody but the candi
dates Knows now that the winner is
certain to be taken from the two or
three known to be the leaders. The
Yakima Republic wants the contest
ended now by the voluntary action
at owner's rlwk. Give oostOMlce auuress
In full, lncludins county and state.
rostacs Kates. 1 to 16 pages. 1 cent;
18 to pages, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, 3
cents; SO to 04 pages, 4 cents; 6H to SO
pages, 6 cents; to 08 pages, tt cents.
foreign postage, double rates
stricken areas of France. Here the
work, entered on as a war measure
in 1917, has developed on a scale not
contemplated in the beginning. It
was not meant, as the Foundation
explains, "as an impertinent impor
tation of scientific knowledge into
the land of Louis Pasteur," but as a
systematization of the many agencies
needed for success in the task. Grad
ual transfer of responsibility to
French institutions is already under
way. It will surprise a good many
Americans to be informed:
One of the most serious obstacles en
countered in France Is the almost super
stitious popular dread of tuberculosis.
The word Itself has been avoided. The
disease . has been regarded as Incurable.
Disrace and despair have been asso
ciated with It. People have been reluc
Kaatrrn Business Office. Verree & Conk- of the candidates. Says the Repub- tant to go to dispensaries lest they might
lln. Brunswick building. New York; Verree be declared tuberculous or suspected of
& ConkliD Sieger building, Chicago; Ver- "c- . , harboring the dread infection. This mm-
ree & Conklin, Free Prtss building, De- Coman. Gellatly, Lamping and Stringer ?i"i10J.H0. trdltional d andn
troit.
It. J.
Midi. San Jj'ranclsco representative,
Bidwell.
are four candidates for .the Kepubiican
nomfnation' for governor who would do
ranee had to be attacked boldly and with
every resource.
;ir "kZS.S'IJZ I?i'r ',1s "i I" America no less than In other
race. Neither of them lunus any snow I , . . , - ,
whatever of success at the polls, and it is countries ine measure oi neaitn may
not impossible that py continuing their er- be determined by the price that peo
forts for themselves they may force the I , ,m. t. i .
nominat on of a man on the reDUblican wimus w yaj a b
ticket whom the party does not want and I part Of that price, as the report of
,heseVhgenatle'rnen"resn,.t we'th.nkf some1 - the Rockefeller organization clearly
THE HOME-COMING OF hIoVEB.
The home-coming of Herbert
Hoover had its entertaining side in
SHIPPING GRAIN TO THE PACIFIC.
Suggestion of Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Aitchison that
some of the gram which cannot find
-rit thi-nuB-Vi the choked eastern
,.. be sent west for export from I sponslbllity for party success this fan. demonstrates, is payable, not in cash
. . MA , . , v, I The best way they can show their appre- I hut In wilHncme5; tn rn.nnpr:itp fnr
the Pacific coast must come with clatlon ol that Iact ia to retlI.e from a con. Du ?n willingness to co-operate tor
somewhat of a shock to the middle I test m which they are hopelessly beaten I puuni; aim iiumie buuu
. , ..hmrurs I at the start. . I
west gra.iiigi uw ci a f nu , . . -. . .
They have always had their faces For five or six persons the result
turned eastward as the direction in of the gubernatorial contest is bound
- hirh tv boat should eo. and they re- to be discomfiture and even humilia-
gard the Pacific coast as so distant tion. They should be spared; they that few recognized him as the lad
that to ship In that direction seems would be spared if they would listen cf 30 years ago. Any old-timer can
out Of the question, especially as the to candid, counsel or had solicited tau of a Doy who has eone out mt0
wheat troes to Europe, which is east and taken it before entering the race, the world and "does not amount to
of them, while the Pacific is west of As it is they are spending time, mUch," coming back for a visit after
them. 1 money mu enejey iruHieiy, umy a generation to be just an ordinary
But it is capaDle or demonstration t" ouuci a. 1 uuo h.v animus m me wonder in his success. But that a
that in this,, as in other cases, the end. man known and talked of on two
longest way around is the shortest yThe primary will never be perfect continents should drop in for a day
way home, and is cheaper also. Rail- until It is provided with a grand anri ramble where he trod a score
road congestion is greatest on the automatic advance eliminator, op- and a half years before and not be
eastern lines, is serious in the middle erative on candidates who have no recognized is amusing. Yet Salem
west, but Is least west of the Rocky show. cannot be blamed. Herbert Hoover
mountains. Port congestion also is 1 was not expected and he Is not adept
greatest on the Atlantic coast, slight, ox j;OT going ALONG WITH WILSON. Id. personal publicity. If he were
if any exists, on the Pacific, bo much Being a democratic newspaper, b"t that's another affair altogether,
time 13 lost in moving a car from the the sjew York Times is much per- It is pleasing to know he found
middle west to New York and in I ....v. j v,v Th firomninii's mnnnri I traces of a previous existence, thoueh
loading a shly there by comparison I of the republican ticket in view of tne changes are great. Next time he
with the westward movement ui mo 1 its support of the league of nations comes the ditterence will be slighter,
America. Athens, 1906, 23 recorded
events, 11 first awards to America.
London, 1908, 27 recorded events, 16
first awards to America. Stockholm,
1912, 31 recorded events, 14 awards
to America.
If past performance is an augury
the American team now at Antwerp
cannot fail to add lustre to this
record of successive supremacy. But
that, as no doubt the ancient Greeks
were wont to say, is on the knees of
the gods. Hitherto the American
team of Olympic candidates, set
against the picked talent of Kurope,
meeting that talent in five instances
on its own continent, has reached
home with the jauntiest of wreaths.
Is the St. Louis record indicative of
the probability that many of our fin
est athletes never realize the longed
for voyage to Olympia? Does It tend
to prove that our European triumphs
were won despite this heavy handi
cap? This without disparagement
of European athletic teams that en
tered the St. Louis Olympiad, for the
rule works both ways.
As for that classic of classics, the
Marathon race, where speed and
stamina almost superhuman are de
manded, America has claimed more
than her proportion of awards. In
1904 and again in 1908 Americans
carried away this coveted distinction.
Greece, France, Canada and South
Africa have hailed their own vic
torious runners in the remaining
Tour Marathons of the new Olympic
games. Again the book of fact gives
place to the. dim pages of splendid
tradition ior it was fneidippldes,
lithe, clean-limbed athlete of Athens,
who ran the first Marathon, setting
both pace and distance.
Miltiades had routed the hosts of
Darius the Persian on the field of
Marathon. In Athens an anxious
populace awaited word of battle. De
feat meant slavery under the Per
sian yoke. The victorious Athenian
general bade Pheidippides bear word
to the city that the Persian army
was shattered and in flight. Fired
by patriotism and his high mission
the youth leaped into the stride of
the long-distance runner and carried
tidings to the capital. "Victory!"
As the elders pressed about him the
spent courier died.
From the field of Marathon to
Athens, as men measure it today, the
distance is 26 miles 385 yards. The
Marathon race of the new Olympiad
is that distance to a foot.
BY -PRODUCTS OF T11K TIMES
car ana tne loading ol a. amy .i
Portland that it is quite conceivable
for the wheat to arrive at Liverpool
earlier via Portland than via New
York. For this reason the cost may
be less via Portland, for the time of
a. car and a ship is worth money,
and says that some enforced think- and Newberg and Salem and all Ore-
Ing was done to arrive at this de
cision, both on the part of The Ore
gonian and of some republican can
didates for office.
jsot much new thinking was
needed to reach the decision to sup-
gon for that, will be watching and
waiting for him. His world is yet
young and he cannot outgrow it.
The line dividing territory wiicucc port Hardin& and Coolidge. It was
It is more economical to ship grain ,, T,0.a5-ov. . inoir .nt .t t,
for export to the Pacific from that g.reat emergency which President
Whence It is more economical m
hip to the Atlantic has been moved
THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
Study of the six Olympiads held
since the revival of the ancient Gre
cian athletic contests, in 1896, lends
to Americans assurance that their
Wilson faced and at the great re- national team, now vipine- with the,
sponsibility that it placed upon him chosen of other countries in the in-
and men to survey now utterly he ternational stadium at Antwerp, can
na.s laneo. xo meet mem. w nen xne hardly fail to voyage homeward with
war fn rl pfr i Yi a n ppH wn a pq r 1 v ruan - ii j a. i -r- .
- i i 'J i iiuuiiuiiiiL liiureis. vpn rrparpr n r
S-rt? Z around Cane Horn '"HfS.A4 ?2 timism TOay whisper,-for Tn previous
tU'Ul UUJL16 ttULlUll Ul II colUCII t CtllU
a. considerable distance eastward by
the Panama canal. Shipments from
Pacific ports were confined to the
to Europe. Distance and. time are
now less than half as much by the
canal, therefore cost must have been
oroDortionately reduced. Hence it
should be economical to ship to the
Pacific from points much farther
east than formerly, even if there
were no congestion on eastern rail
roads and ports. As railroad rates
new Olympic meets American ath
letes won, save in two instances.
more events than all other compet
ing nations combined, and in each of
thA Rix classics rrmrIptlv
Whichever way we turned to point individual teams of any other na
out ways by which the goal might be tion. Five of the six previous Olym
won, we found Mr. Wilson and his niarls tr chnuM . hnrn in min
senate with the allies. We did not
approve of Mr. Wilson's way of go
ing about the work, but we tried to
make the best of what he did.
autocratic will an obstruction. The
only way is to remove that obstacle.
As a greater democrat than Mr,
were held in distant Europe, even as
the seventh is held, rendering as
sembly of American athletic repre
sentation comparatively difficult.
Mighty Hercules left a rich be
quest to humanity if, as Grecian
mythology and tradition assert, he
are going up and ship rates are go
ing down, uus nne win move tanner wnSon said: "A condition, not a
- east. I theory, confronts us." The net re
Transcontinental roads can proilt RI,lr. of Mr .Wilson's wnrk is nn Tiaa,.e
Dy getting loaas or. grain tor tne cara America outside the league, the
which they win naui west empty to domestic affairs of the country in a
carry lumber east. They can raise confusion of waste int-omnptpnr-o V "j
,f.. t tn mirtrtin wst ?5n.."f'? I.-ase' incompetence, bring to the modern world some-
r.TX. , ' 7 .n- .iw. TV- naust"al ..true smoiaering revoiu- thing of the glory that was Greec
L. - 7 rr v. Z P in a state or appreciation of physical fitness,
fC:- h V, v Zr Ia w,ln . 'snevism sweeping cleanlv strength and skill. Whether
empties and charg
per cent increase on tne eastward i mg. abie to stay its progress.
What wonder that he should re
solve that the time had come to end
the power of the party which chooses
and follows such a leader or that we
haul. They would have more cars I
available for lumber and would be I
ablo to move much of the lumber
which Is not shipped for lack of cars.
mestic.
Their operating expenses and fixed sn0uld put our trust in the repub-
charges per ton or trainc would De Ucan party, which at its worst never
reduced Dy tne larger yoiume. iney brought affairs to such a pass.
wouia realize mat rauroaas, mane i ...Tne issue of the campaign is not
most prom as ieeders to tne ocean the league with or without reserva-
lines. . tions. It is the general incompetence
When waterways are fully lm- c( the democratic party, abundantly
proved and modern water lines are demonstrated, to conduct the affairs
established, we may expect to see cf the country, either foreign or do-
tne mio-continent line netween east
bound and westbound traffic moved
still farther east. With through navi
gation from the lakes at the source
of the Columbia to Portland and
from far up the Snake into Idaho, it
should be economical to haul grain
from Manitoba and Alberta, the
western part of the Dakotas, Ne
braska and Kansas to Pacific ports
The revolution in transportation
conditions due to' the Panama canal
has iust begun, and that which will
PURCHASABLE HEALTH.
The annual report of the Rocke
feller Foundation shows that there
has been at least one compensation
for the ravages of hookworm disease.
and that has been that it has Tur
ing from his chore in the Augean
stables, or Oenomaus conceived the
classic meets, matters little. My
thology says of the latter that he was
to die when his daughter became a
bride, that he sought to forfend fate
by challenging all suitors to a char
iot race the first of the Olympiads
and perished with a curse on his
lips when Pelops bested him by
strategy and won both race and
daughter.
Strange origin for modern sport.
indeed, is this renaissance of an ath
letic festival that merges with myth
and is .lost to ken in prehistoric
Greece. Of the first games of the
old Olympiads there Is neither record
nor trace. ,Tne list of recorded vic
tors, however, has been delved from
the archives of 7tf B. C, when
fleet Corebus distanced tho field in
a footrace. Antiquarians have spaded
the dust and litter of centuries from
nlshed convincing argument in sup
port of the proposition that health lne stadium wnere tnis event was
is to an important extent a "purchas- held where each fourth year the
able" thing. As to hookworm disease Grecian people and many barbarians
be caused by inland waterways has ltse!f- Mch was found to be widely witnessed foot and chariot racing,
yet to begin. I P,CYdil:llL m uuiJicai anu seuu-tropi- I "
t.-ti Liie iineciion rate in i .....
some localities being as high as 90 At zenith four or five centuries be
per cent, the Foundation early dis- ire tne Dirtn or unrist, tne Ulym
pic games declined gradually, though
TROGRKSS IN FLYING.
Two recent inventions pertaining covered that cure Is no great mob
to aviation remind ua how rapidly lem, but that health camDaiens are their celebration was observed until
we nave progressed in tne seventeen of no permanent value "unless 334 A- u- when the last record at-
years since the Wright brothers first I proper sanitation is introduced to tests that varastad of Armenia won
succeeded in getting off the ground protect the soil from pollution and honors. In their inception and
in a neavier-tnan-air macnine. xiiey I the population from reinfection." tnrougnout tneir course the Olym
are the super-charger and the vari- I For this reason the board has de- P'a-dsi were a fusion of religious horn-able-pitch
propeller, the first-named dined to undertake control measures I aS" to Zeus, the Grecian Jupiter and
being a device which compresses the until governments have actually seen athletic prowess. Theodosius, or
raretieo air or tne nigner levels to fit to enforce the necessary sanitary tnooox unristian emperor, professed
sea-level density before feeding the I provisions. I to see peril to the faith in their con-
Clearly, private health is a matter tinuance. By his fiat the games were
I of public concern. The communal discontinued, grass grew in the sta
phases of the problem are often the I dium and men forgot the splendid
important ones. Hookworm control I records or their sires.
measures undertaken in 1919 in 25 Yet the games were not utterly
vices may receive a try-out in the states and counties, for illustration, forgotten, else there would have
next transcontinental ingnt is a mat- showed a consistent tendency toward I "een no revival. i or centuries civil!
ter oi more man passing interest to reduction of the prevalence and in- zation moved onward intent on pres.
tensity of the infection, as the result ent and future. , When it turned to
of more efficient and widespread tne Past for counsel the Olympic
sanitation. It is admitted that there I games were an inspiration to physi
has been a large increase in the fi- I cal achievement, to idealized athlet
locity at a distance of several miles I nancial burden assumed by govern- ica for the glory and good that come
AN ARMENIAN OPINION.
Those who are deeply and sincerely
moved often voice their feeling in
extravagant phrase. We are told
that an Armenian immigrant, re
cently arrived in Portland, declares
that America transcends his previous
notion of heaven. Folk who have
witnessed the Turk at his trade, who
have rubbed elbows with famine and
beheld unspeakable things, have un
questioned right to hyperbolic ex
pression when they enter a haven
where such things cannot be. Their
sense of appreciation is active and
keen. To such as these the com
monplace conveniences and comfort
of everyday life are dispensations.
We are of the disillusioned. Amer-
.ica is remote from heavenly resem
blance. The quick delight of the Ar
menian immigrant is refreshing to
observe so simple, so unexacting,
so unreigned, like the wonder o
children round a Christmas tree
Among us there are those who vilify
this land that the immigrant finds
heavenly. Security and plenty, the
sovereign ballot, tho right to walk
with head up and to fear no man nor
any combination of men, are paltry
properties to the discontented. For
the most part the- rest of us are
scarcely more than apathetic. So
does possession dull appreciation.
We have not heard of any immi
gration to Russia. Nor of an exodus
from other lands to Germany. No
even to France and Britain and Italy.
Who has booked passage for th
Balkans or desperate, bedratrsrled
heroic Poland? The immigrant does
not list them among new homelands,
He comes to America. Forgive th
hyperbole before all other nations
stands America, whatever her faults.
ure haven of the friendless.
There are pecuniary advantages to
being an outlaw's son. Jesse James
the younger is an attorney, but he is
also the biographer of his storied
sire whose wild career made his
name the synonym -for daring ban
aitry a couple of decades ago, an
to whose abrupt demise the news
papers of that day gave the snare
mat is mostly reserved for presi
oents. it is to bo fancied that th
son found his literary labors more
profitable than were his' cases in
court, and it was to be hoped that
With their biographical termination
the questionable glory of the elder
James would wane to rise no more.
Vain hope it was, for the eon is now
announced to appear in film dramas
depicting the lively adventures of
his outlaw parent, at a salary of
siuu.uuu ror a three-year contract,
with a mere $1000 a week for per
sonal appearances where the films
are being exhibited. Timo and the
ticket - windows will demonstrate
whether the publio'ls still as fond of
lurid "mellerdrama" as it was when
the renowned Hector was in his
puppyhood.
air into the carburetor, and the lat
ter making it possible to adjust the
propeller to give the greatest climb
ing motion as the plane mounts from
denser to lighter air. That these de-
all who are interested - in - aerial
transportation.
Belief of meteorologists that there
are air currents of tremendous ve-
above the earth was partly confirmed ments, but results were worth all
by the exploit not long ago of Cap- I they cost. It might be said almost
tain Rudolph W. hchroeder, of the with truth that it was worth somp-
army air service, when he broke the thing to have had hookworm by
wuna uimuae recoru anu came I means or which to demonstrate, tn
enr losing his life in the exploit. I communities the absolute value of
Traveling at iuu miles an nour, he co-operative action.
was actually blown backward at the j The community health movement
rate of 120 miles an hour, showing grows, showing that education is a
tnat tne wind must nave Deen blow- fine thing. Lee county. Mississinnl
lag 220 miles an hour. It is this
current, if it is shown to be constant,
that aviators hope to employ in
crossing the continent in a single
day. Without the super-charger al
ready mentioned it would be impos
sible to run tho airplane engin at
the altitude sought.
We. who were freed by the inven
tion of steam from dependence on
the wind in navigation, will revert
through the latest of all develop
ments in the science of travel to the
employment of air currents again,
but with an important difference.
If experiments now planned indicate
the presence, of constant but differ-
expanded its hookworm control proj
ect into a health programme that is
arousing the enthusiasm of the en
tire population. "The county. De Soto
was seeking" proved a winning
slogan; even Mississipplans may not
ignore the- advantages of perpetual
youth. "Clew your food, you have
no gizzard," won a prize in a chll
aren a slogan competition. It is said
that they have health slogans as
highway mile posts in Lee county.
Mississippi, now. And there isn't any
hookworm any more, and a fine
showing has been made in reduction
of disease rate from other causes.
of finer bodies and more responsiv
muscles. It was In this spirit that
tne new Olympic games were de
termined on, at the international
athletic convention called by Baron
Pierre de Coubertin, held at Paris In
1895. With the exception of the war
period the Olympiad has been regu
larly observed since then.
Only a hasty and incomplete study
of previous Olympiads may be made,
unless one dedicated a volume to
that purpose, but this suffices to
show that American teams have uni
formly dominated the stadium and
taken more first awards than th
assembled athletes of any other na
tion. Comment on this supremacy
is superfluous. The fact stands stur
dily on its own feet, and a summary
of new Olympic games and Amerl
can awards is illustrative
Athens, 1896, 14 recorded events
nine first awards to America. Paris,
1900, 23 recorded events, 17 first
Boys in Fiction All One Kind, Authors
Mainly Autobiographical.
Usually the. writers who portray
boys in fiction can portray each his
ne kind of boy. However often a
volume appears devoted to boyish
character, it is the same boy. Natur
ally, for the novelist is tellinc about
himself with exaggerations here and
reticences there but essentially his
own youthful personality as he re
members it, writes F. H. Collier In
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Dickens is thus autobiographical;
and Mark Twain. There has never
been any doubt who "Tom Sawyer"
was. We may not' be so sure of Booth
Tarklngton's boys, who vary some-
hat, but "Willie Baxter" and "Ram
sey Mulholland" are of the same fab
le.
In all these authors' boys there is
differentiation and originality. But
there is one variety of boy who is
ften neglected of fame. It Is the
sort that is not eternally bent on
mischief and who is occasionally
deeply and philosophically thought
ful. These seem to be regarded as
poor material for stories, though
there are multitudes of them. We
wonder if our literary tradition or
the boy" isn't inherited from Eng
lish fiction, where juvenility was re
lentlessly and ceaselessly pounding
up each other's noses and playing
tricks on "the head master." The boy
who cared for books and who exhib-
ted signs of developing adolescent
intelligence seems to be Ignored. All
the popularity Is for the hobbledehoy
outh, full of squawks and kicks "and
elfish notions."
But there are boys who can sit qui
etly in a chair and read and iney
sometimes grow up to be great bank
presidents and United States senators.
m w
Few people are so constituted as to
be able to see anything funny in an
earthquake, yet the Los Angeles Times
has not the slightest difficulty. Here
ia one lucubration:
Everybody out our way Is joining
the Quakers. They are all so easily
hocked. When the plump matron dar-
ngly essayed the shimmy company
fancied that the earth was having Its
usual tremble. Also there was the
an who shook five sixes in a dice
game. Then tnere was a snoun. uu
they called it an earthquake. Some
body said that Jack Johnson had just
got off the train from San Diego and
the ground rocked from his weight.
Jack doesn't mind the notoriety, but
did anybody ever see a coalblack
earthquake with a white straw haf!
They paid off the mortgage on the
Mercantile block and the building
shook with glea. They said that every
body was shaking with indignation
over the gasoline famine and this
ade the world wiggle."
Those Who Come and Go.
The tourist-trade is booming these
"MODERN" CHURCH CRITICIZED
Attempt to Compete With Amusement
rorrtiora BInmed for Fnllure,
McEWEN. Or.. Autr. 16. (To the
days, according to reports from the Editor.) An item 1s now going the
various hotels. Hunareos or sigm- rounds of the liberal religious press
seers reDresentinc? all sections of the I to the effect that within a certain
United States paas through tnis city I radius of a city In a certain state
every day, most of them on tours I (.here are 50 abandoned rural churches
niaDued out by eastern. DooninE where were formerly 50 happy, con-
aeents. but a large percentage aro i tented rural congregation, though
traveling by automoDUe. An aver- i not expressed, it 1 interred tnat
aere of 100 tourists a day have been this loss was caused by orthodox
staving at the Multnoman notel, in 1 preaching and that the remedy is to
parties of five to 50. The tourists abandon the old-fashioned gospel
are becoming very canny in the mat- I and adopt the "modern system
ter of advance reservations, some or rill these churches by appealing to
them wlrine for reservations three the entertainment side of human
and four stoDS ahead on tneir itiner- i nature.
arv. Hotel managers predict a fall- I Whether this will be the better way
ine off in tourist traffic as soon as to restore these empty cnurcnes or
the advanced passenger rates necome not aepen.as entirely upon tne view
effective as many of the travelers l point oi tne one wno l experiment
are neonle of moderate means to I ing with this problem. If this life
whose pocketbooks the new rates i m an mere is tor tne numan iamny
would be fatal. ' I and while death may not end all
it pronaDiy does, and wmie tne uiDie
"Our thriving little city has been I may have some truth within its
building up so fast one can hardly I lids it probably does not and what
keep track of the number of im- I we ever have or get out of our ex-
nmvpmpnta in this line. Whole new istence wa, get in this present life
tracts have been platted and built which seems to be the teaching of the
up in the past three years. It is con- so-canea new tneoiogy, men it win
ervatlve to say that 500 new resir I oe open 10 investigation wnetner tne
rlpncM have been built in this time world had not better go in on the
This i nrt of the boost given therry. "let us eat, drink and be
Nampa. Idaho, "the fastest growing merrj, ior tomorrow we die. out
nf tho riam stat." hv Vrank Li. 1 lct iciuciauer iiiai. nen 111c unu
Stephens, who conducts an extensive, accepts the theories of the so-called
farm loan business in the Boise val- ,"w """'"5. " """"""
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague,
lev and sits in at the directors' meet
ings of the First National bank of
Nampa. With Mrs. Stephens he Is
in Portland on a business and recrea
tion trip, having Just returned from
a vacation In California and at Sea
view, Wash. The Nampans are par
tial to Portland and usually make
this city their headquarters for the
summer's respite from business ajid
Boise valley temperatures.
F. E. ("Cap") Dodge of Tillamook
declared a vacation the other day
and took a run down to see how the
only other city in the state outside
of Tillamook was getting along.
"Cap" has operated a boat for the
tourist trade between Bay City and
Tillamook for 15 years and is con
sidered ciuite a landmark in that lo
cality, althouch he spends most of
his time on the water. He has an
swered more foolish questions in the
past few years perhaps than -any
other man in the state, outside of
the weather man. People ask him
about methods of clam hunting ana
the habits of sealions and the Satanic
qualities of devil-fish, but he answers
teachings of the Bible and is not
Interested in its contents no matter
what they teach.
However, the Bible is not aban
doned and millions of people never
will abandon it and will endeavor to
live by its teachings and if its teach
ings are followed no uch results as
the abandonment of churches, espe
cially when the population has not
changed, will ever occur. And the
Bible lays down a definite pro
gramme, that if followed will fill
these churches and all others in a
similar plight. The Bible programme
is a very simple matter and con
sists of Just six words: "Preach the
gospel to every creature." If thiis
direction is faithfully followed it
will solve all the problems of life
if worked out Into our dealings with
our reilow man.
One great trouble with the so
called modern" church Is that It
Imagines that It Is in competition
with the modern theater, playhouse,
etc., and tnat it must "entertain'
the people, or they will not come to
its house of worship. Nothing could
be farther from the truth. The two
are not in competition at .all. One
ABOUT RABBITS.
The rabbit's burdens are severe;
His days are fuil of trouble;
He has five families a year
And often that goes double.
Each month or so another brood
He has to love and cherish.
And rurnish them with proper food
Lest they fall 111 and perish.
He has to teach them tricks and
games.
He has to educate them.
He has to think up given names
By which to designate them.
And when one family is grown
He cannot roll in clover.
But goes back, with a hollow moan
And does the same thing over.
Old Home Week in a rabbit hutch.
Where gather in communion
A rabbit family is much
Too much of a reunion.
For every rabbit child must track
Through hundreds of relations,
A lineage that wanders back
For many generations.
wo hundred uncles ho may meet.
And aunts by scores of dozens.
And in a fleeting: hour trreet
Perhaps four thousand cousins.
And it's so hard to keen them
straight:
For instance, such a bother
To recognize, one's great, great, great.
ureal, great, great, great grand
father! .
Canadian Club May be.
The fact that Canada Is coins to
challenge for the cup makes us sus-
ect she has something she wants
to sell us.
"You Oncht to Hear Em Holler.
The rail-rate advance has taken the
mute out of the commuters.
The Modern lovf Sonic.
"Shoot at me only with thine eyes.
And I will stab with mine."
Walt Till There Are Offices to
Dispense.
The crowds that go to see the
andidates now are nothing to those
hat will visit the one who is elei-ted.
(Copyright. 1920, Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
them all with equal cheerfulness. He was invpntrl. nrn,(. r,rf
is registered at the New Perkins and carried on with one object in view
. . . .. . rrninMAAV la "hum m I n p-" I , .. . . . ..
ays that TinamooK is -numming
as usual, but that taxes are getting
retty high lately.
Warden Henry Drum of the Wash
ngton state penitentiary, at wai-ia
Walla, and Mrs. Drum arrived
In Pnrtland vesterdav for a visit
ere with their daughter, Mrs.
H.. W. Lyman, and Mr. Lyman.
The young fellow of 24 who com
mits suicide because the girl he loves
does not respond is to be congratu
lated rather than pitied. Thin
world is too f trenuous for a chap of
tnat Kind, and he gets out of it
easily.
Perhaps the Japanese cannot as
similate, but he can do a good imi
tation, as did the Japanese in south
ern Oregon, who held a picnic, hon
orable American fashion, the other
day.
On reading a current news item
this thought, for which we plead
potic license, claims us as its own:
The thief that steals a stole doesn't
care much for his soul.
The ordinance requiring reports of
removals by draymen and the like is
needed to check the dead beats. The
time when it is cheaper to move than
pay rent has passed.
awards to America. St. Louis, 1904,
Tkus-the- health pioneera are at 26 recorded events, 24 first awards to
The fellow who drinks essence of
ginger to stay a thirst can graduate
into -wood alcohol without serious
damage.
There are 12,000,000 orphans and
half orphans in Europe and they are
a charge the world outside cannot
evatie.
. Middle western men are dally pay
ing in the five figures for Oregon
farms. It's their last move, too.
Keep .the barge's clean and let
them dance. The way is easy. Just
watch them.
Rates, go up in a week. Now is
the time to travel.
In exploring a mound in Licking
county, Ohio, recently there was un
covered a stone wall. It was three
feet high and inclosed an area of
16 feet square.
The wall was made of blocks of
flint laid upon each other without
cement of any kind and was pretty
well constructed.
This is the second piece of prehis
toric masonry discovered in this
county.
In another mound was found a bit
of paving a number of flat stones
ha vine: been laid to form a sort of
floor or hearth.
This wall and the small area of
stone pavement ia all the masonry
the Mound Builders or Indians ever
did, so far as present discoveries indi
cate.
And this la a country where loose
rocks were to be found In abundance.
or where the labor of quarrylnsr was
slight; indeed, flat rocks may be had
In many regions on top of the earth
without quarrying at all. Columbus
(Ohio) Dispatch.
"Foch will keep us waiting 15 or 20
minutes," said the sentry at the Gare
du Nordi recently, while the special
train that was to bear the French
delegation, to Spa was being switched
on the elding.
An -elderly little man wearing the
undress uniform of a general of di
vision, military medal, war cross and
legion of honor sauntered up and
quietly said:
"You might at least call him 'Mar
shal Foch." "
The soldier took one glance at the
speaker, then standing rigid at atten
tion, responded:
Ons never says Marshal Caesar or
Marshal Napoleon, M. le Marechal."
Smiling" broadly. Marshal Foch en
tered the special train.
He had just come from college to
take his place In the political life of
his native town and could not speak
ten consecutive words without etam
merlng ana tiounaering reeDiy. tsu
"ho applause, when he sat down, the
hand-clapping and the f oot-staniping
filled him with pride and he sought
out the pressmen's table and ad
dressed himself to a man who was
making sketches there.
"You aw have taken a picture o
me. I suppose?" he inquired, with af
fectefl unconcern.
"Yes," answered the artist, shutting
the book.
"Intend aw printing?"
"I thought of doing eo."
"You'd better, I think. Might give
you a lift, you know. By the way
he added, as the artist made for th
door, "what is the name of the aw
paper you represent?"
"I don't represent a paper," was the
reply. "I design comic postcards.'
Christopher Morley points out I
the New York Evening Post that there
Is literary precedent for Senator Hard
lng'a use of the word "involvement."
"I am too well aware that when, i
the inscrutable decrees of Fate, you
were reserved for me, it is possibl
you may have been reserved for one,
destined, after a protracted struggle,
at length to fall a victim to pecuniary
involvements of a complicated na
ture." These words were uttered by no
less a person than Mr. Micawber. in
chapter XXVIII of "David Copper-field."
Mr. and Mrs. Drum made. tne the other there are trouble and fail
riD down by automobile, from Olym- Ure. If the first shr,,iri r, ,
pia yesterday, where the warden was I strictly moral programme, eschewing
in conierence vm.ii v,uvci,u. i everytning immoral or near immoral.
There will , De no more uaacuin si u would not liv mnnth tr h.
he Washington institution, declared latter enters the field of the former
Mr. Drum yesterday. ai me msi i wen. those abandoned churches tel
game several weeas Kg u ms la-mina-i i me wnoie story,
cry of "kill the umpire' was orama- it 50 men were sent to those 50
tically carried out when one of the I churches, each man filled with the
players hit the umpire, anotner in- 1 spirit of God. determined "to know
ate, over the head witn a oaseean notning among them but Jesus
bat because he didn't agree witn 1 Christ and him crucified," and eschew
the umpires decision, and caved in an outside attractions, consigning
his brains witlf the blow. movies and baseball activities and
social functions (all oroDer in thorn
Anvone who thinks that the con-I selves) to people whose business i
raotinsr business is an easy "gratt lis- to 100K after them and attend
and that much money can be amassed 1 strictly to the one business that God
th a line or worn is reierrca w uiku ij supposed to nave e-ivnn
Walter N. Bees from Hermiston, who I them, then these churches and all
Is registered at the Imperial. ir. 1 oiner ones dead from tho same
Rees is engaged in bridge construe- cause would De immediately filled
tion work on the highway west 01 1 nn worsmppers and these ministers
H.rmitnn. and savs that the steel would discover that if they did thei
shortage, material shortage, concrete "en iney would nave time
shortage and labor shortage all cob- , numing e.se ana tney would see
spire to' make life the reverse of easy 1 tneir woric prosper beyond their fond
v,,,-H-TM-Aairl contractor. BU I "l dreams.
Mr. Rees is proud of his work and
the territory in which he is wonting
Hermiston Is an oasis in a desert, .ne
ays, and he ought to know wnereot
he speaks, as ne nas worKca in
around Hermiston for the last six
furnishing entertainment 'to the nub
lie ror so much comnensation. When
thia object is accomplished the end
or its existence is justified.
The object of the other Is the
moral and religious education of the
people and to persuade as manv as
possible to forsake sin and live a
righteous life. Whenever either of
tnese encroachs upon the domain of
nenever tne churfTi fall. h
leaders have failed first and som
one or all have forsaken God an
failed to follow his programme. An
.1 juui tnrcn is Iaillnar. Kunno
you try God's programme before you
oMwciucr 10 tne amusements of th
worm ior neip.
D. N. B. ANDERSON.
WARX PEOPLE OK THEIR. PERIL,
Writer Suggests Posting Notices a
All Dangerous Places.
PORTLAND, Aug. IS. (To the Kdi
tor.) The effort that is being pu
forth just now to fix the rnnnsi
bility for a recent fatal fire in a loca
hotel Is commendable, but If the
deal only with events of the past i
is not enough. Prevention nf future
lataiitics in similar buildinsrs is
years.
A colonial mystery was m tun
swing yesterday around the desk at
the Multnomah hotel- irom oanu,
Alberta, came a telegram reserving
rooms for one "Colonial" William
Heyward and party. Then came an
other wire cancelling the reservation
fnr "t'olonlal" Heyward and party.
With the coming of the second wire
the manaeer decided that -Loioniai
wan a name and not a military line
This imDression was crystallized by
the arrival of a third wire declaring
that the cancellation was an error
and ordered the reservations for the
I'nlnnlal" dIus a triu over tne nign-iuai importance to the pcoDle.
way. - 1 iua insiory 01 tne struggle fo
saiety devices on railroads and th
O. Kuiru of Helsingfors, riniano, elimination of dangerous practices i
and Mr. and Mrs. Lapoiie of kanka- I our great industries is enouch to con
k. 111., am registered at the Port- vlnce us that anv effort m rnrr,
land. Out-of-town Oregonlans at the hazardous conditions in nuhlio Vx.ud.
Portland yesterday were Mrs. uciavia 1 tn?s will be opposed by their owners.
O. Hoppes cf Salem, M. J. Donnell of j The proper procedure to improve
The Dalles, John W. Iloyt of Ashland, I conditions In hotels and safeguard
B. J. Hecker of Albany and B. A. I the lives of guests without inflicting
liUDDe, arnest vv . th.h.u- . 1 a neavy financial loss on their own
Williams, all of T.ne uaues. I ers is a problem that must be worked
out by the city officials entrusted
The fallacy that women are unable 1 with the duty of safeguarding life
to hold their own in the business and property. May I suggest that one
world is exploded Dy tne sucuess 01 Qf the first things to do Is to warn
Mrs. It. tsarrett 01 ureal r ana, the public of dangerous places. It
Mont., who Is registered at tho Mult- matters not whether it be a dancor-
In Other Days.
Tnrnty.fhe Tears Ago.
From The Oretionian of Aucuat 10, 1803.
Denver. The Gumry hotel, a five-
story brick building, was wrecked by
an explosion this morning and many
are known to be dead, among them
Peter Gumry and R. C. Grenier, the
proprietors. 1
New York. The Valkyrie III.
which is to represent Great Britain
in the coming yacht races, arrived
here yesterday.
Commission men dispatched three
cars of pears to Chicago and a car
of plums and pears to Winnipeg Sat
urday. The fruit crop of the state
is unusually good.
Charles Cull, 28. fell 40 feet from
th Burnside bridge to the ground
last night and escaped without ap
parent injury.
FUtr Years Ago.
From The Oresonian of AuKust 10. JST0.
Saarbrucken. King William has
appointed governor-generals over Al
sace and Lorraine.
The new spire of the Taylor-street
Methodist church was completed yes
terday and workmen took down most
of the staging.
There will be a trotting race at the
White House track tomorrow between
John Ladd h Mohawk, James Welch's
Humboldt and B. B. Acker's Mac.
nomah. Mrs. Barrett has done so well
ous curve on a public boulevard, a
in mo teat cnisi. v... ....... ... rauroaa crossing, a lire trap of a
Falls that she Is Intending to open hotel, an unsafe office building or
two more offices in Oregon, one in theater sound the warning.
The foreman complained to Cassldy
about not taking a full load of bricks
up the ladder very trip. One morn
ing the supply of bricks ran out. and
Cassldy, after gathering every one in
sight, found he was still short of the
proper number.
He yelled to a workman on the fifth
floor.
"What do you want?" asked the
man.
"Throw me down one brick," shout
ed Cassldy, "to make good me Ioad-'V-Edinburgh
Scotsman.
Astoria and one la Seaside
J. a. BJorge, who fluctuates be
tween Altoona. Wash., and Astoria,
Or., where canneries , owned by the
Northern Packing company are op
erated, Ja registered at the Oregon
for a day or two. BJorge Is manager
of the company and has a busy time
of it keeping abreast of western pro
duction in the cannery line.
Oregonlans registered at the Ore
gon yesterday were William Wilker
son of Bridal Veil; Mr. and Mrs.
N. Huls of The Dalles; A. N. Moores
of Salem and M. A- Rlckard of Cor
vallis. I F. Pridmore came down from
the clouds yesterday and registered
at the Oregon. Pridmore is manager
of the Government camp resort in
the Cascades.
Mrs. II. S. McKenzie, wife of Dr.
McKenzie, a prominent Pendleton
physician who has been in Portland
since last week, arrived yesterday to
join her husband and is registered
at the Imperial.
Mrs. N. G. Davis of Prineville, Olga
and Selma Olsen of Monitor, G. R.
Shipley of McMinnville and Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Jones from Silverton are
registered at the New Perkins.-
A. R. Colson, large glassware manu
facturer from New lork City, is reg
istered at the Multnomah.
E. C. Simmons of Eugene and Mr.
and Mrs. G. Stolz of Salem are reg
istered at the Benson.
Lost Chance Pointed Out.
London Passing Show.
Dost Opportunity The ex-kaiser
has been cutting out his own clothes
and is said to show remarkable skill
as a tailor. If he had only devoted
his talent to making himself a strait
jacket a few years ago, there might
have oeen no war.
PLEASURES WITHHELD.
I watched my laughing baby as he
played upon the floor.
A shaft of sunshine streamed across
him through the open door;
It fell upon the scissors I was hold
ing, and it made
Bright spots of living brilliance where
all around was shade.
He stared with wonder as they
skipped so gayly round tho
place,
Till suddenly they danced across his
little dimpled face.
'Twas then he realized the source of
what had caused his pleasure,
And crawled to me and coaxed to gain
this strange and wondrous
treasure.
With chubby little arms upstretched
he cooed so cunningly
That to refuse him what he asked was
was very hard for me.
I wished I could explain to him why
I withheld the toy.
But he'd not understand a word my
foolish little boy!
I simply laid them out of sight, al
though I could have cried
When, tearfully resentful, he turned
and left my side.
Then all at onco I thought of how
God frequently holds back
The things that we entreat him for
and think 'tis sad we lack.
We've not the power to understand
why he should thus withhold
The things wo priae, and bitterly 6
leave his sheltering fold.
Perhaps if I were given the things
that now so much I crave
'Twould injure me and warp my soul
and bind me. like a slave.
How like my baby boy I ami How
patient I should be,
With his unreasonable whims, for
I'm as blind as he!
JULIA REESE OSBOKN.
The Portland city ordinances mav
be such that the fire marshal or other
authorities may not have the pdwer
to compel the owners of fire traps
built before a certain date to remodel
their houses, but they can "post"
such places. If at the elevators and
stairways on all floors of such ho
tels there were posted for the Infor
mation of the traveling public a
notice in substance like this: "This
hotel pronourfced unsafe by the fire
marshal of the city of Portland be
cause of open stairways and elevator
shafts." Provide a penalty for the
removal of said notices before con
ditions were remedied. How long do
you supposs It would be before every
hotel would take steps to remedy the
defects and get in the safe column?
ARTHUR CHASE.
WHO W ILL, DO DE-MILLIOXAIRINGf
Duties ef Eugenics Board.
EUGENE. Or.. Aug. 17. (To the
Editor.) According to a statement
In The Oregonian recently. Governor
Olcott can put the question of ster
ilizing a criminal up to the eugenics
board. When was the eugenics board
authorized by the people? Was a
measure to authorize the steriliza
tion of crimina-ls and other undesir
ables defeated by popular vote about
four years ago? SUBSCRIBER.
In chapter 279 of the session laws
of 1917 the duties of the state board
of eugenics are defined as follows:
"To examine into the innate traits
of the mental and physical conditions,
the personal records and the family
traits and histories of all feeble
minded, insane, epileptic, habitual
criminals, moral degenerates and
sexual perverts reported to it who
will probably become a social men
ace or the ward of the state, and di
rect the superintendent of the In
stitution in which the inmate is con
fined to perform or cause to be per
formed such type of sterilization as
may be deemed best by said board,"
Another Cogent Renson Advanced for
Change of Administration.
PORTLAND, Aug. 18. (To the Ed
itor.) I never took much stock in
the ancient and oft-repeated story
that women have no logic. But after
reading in the local democratic or
gan Dr. Lovejoy's statement as to
why she should be sent to congress
to remedy evils, I am afraid I shall
have to change my opinion, so far
as one woman is concerned. She asks:
Does It promote the general wr!ifars to
make C2,OCH new millionaires durinjr the
war wihllo the other boys went overseas
at the rltk of their lives and fought, and
those that returned as cripples axe still
waiting for assistance? Th genera! wel
fare -would be promoted, I believe, by dVe
millionalrizing some of our millionaires.
Now it would seem that if it is a
fact that during a period of auto
cratic democratic rule in which the
president has had powers never be
fore bestowed upon any president
such new millionaires have been
made, there should certainly be a
change of parties in the presidential
chair. What reason have we to be
lieve that Cox, who is declared to be
Wilson's echo, will de-millionaire tie
men that Wilson lias permitted to be
come millionaires? It would cer
tainly appear to me that what we
need to do the de-millionalring is a
republican congress beth houses good
and strong and a republican presi
dent who will not veto the good
measures they may pass.
R. M. TUTTLE.
Different Kind of Spectacles.
American Legion Weekly.
"Lottarox was telling me that he
has been trying for six months with
out success to get a passage to see
the hattlcfields of France." .
"Evidently the wind has changed.
He spent two years trying not to se
them, with success."
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