6 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX,. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HORY L. F1TTOCK. Published bv The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. JIORDEX, E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregoman la a member of the Asso r!ui..j Td . Aicunciated Prete la ex clusively entitled to the use ior publication I all news dispatches creaiteu. w it. w, otherwise credited in this paper and a,so the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. . 2.25 . .7S . 6.00 . 8.1"5 . .60 . 1.00 . 5.00 Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Daily. Sunday included, one year 8 00 ni!v siin(i;v included, six months ... Ia!Iy, Sunday included, three months Daily. Sunday included, one month .. Dally, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, six months . . Daily, without Sunday, one month - Weekly, one year Sunday, one yar (By Carrier.) Dally, f-unday Included, one year . . . - ?Q Daily. 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In the effort to turn the public mind away from the unyielding ob stinacv by which President Wilson has prevented the United States from becoming a member of the league of nations and from being at peace. Governor Cox and all his backers harp on the string that Sen ator Harding is opposed to the league. They draw the unwarranted inference that he is opposed to any league and. in the words of the New York World, has "nothing to offer except a continuation of interna tional chaos." If that were all that Mr. Harding had to offer, we might well shudder at the prospect, but it is not. The platform on which he stands declares for "agreement among the . . . . v. naqa rT t ll nations to uiehcrvc mo w. world" and it continues: We believe that such an International association must be based upon interna tional Justice and must provide methods which shall maintain the rule of public right by development of law and the decision of Impartial courts, and which shall secure instant and general interna tional conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, so that the nations pledged to do and Insiet upon what Is Just and fair may exercise their Influence and power for the prevention of wur. Pledging himself to co-operation "to attain and ' preserve peace through justice rather than force," Mr. Harding in his speech of accept ance told how he would set about the work: With a senate advising as the constitu tion contemplates. I would hopefully ap proach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a willing participant In the con secration or nations to a new icnnuinm.,-, to commit the moral forces of the world, American Included, to peace and Interna tional Justice. That is republican policy appnea to the conditions of 1920. The sena tor could not have been more specific without risk of pledging himself to a course which might prove unwise or impracticable at a time when con ditions are changing rapidly. He may propose such changes in the ex isting league as are indicated by the Lodge reservations and as the great powers have intimated willingness to accept, or he may propose its com plete reconstruction, but whatever move he makes will be after advis ing with and with consent of the senate. Knowing that a two-thirds majority is necessary to consumma tion of his plans and that this ma jority must include a number . of democrats, he will doubtless shape his course to win approval from a large proportion of his political op ponent There Is no intention there to rele gate the world to "international chaos." There Is the conception of a league that was given by Kllhu Root in his criticism of the Paris covenant, the conception around which the republican party had been building long before President Wil son appeared in politics. Beginning with arbitration for individual dis putes, that conception grew to gen eral arbitration treaties between par ticular nations, finally to establish ment of the Hague arbitration tribu nal to which nations may resort by agreement. The next step is to estab lish a world court to which all na tions agree t6 refer all disputes cap able of being settled by judicial de cision. To settle other disputes which may lead to war, it is proposed to organize the nations for conference whenever war threatens. Such a league would be built upon foundations already laid by a sue cession of republican presidents. It would correspond with what Mr, Root has proposed by making the world court the cornerstone of the structure. It would also correspond with the plan of Mr. Taft's league to enforce peace, ior mat ooay aavo- .. catea Dotn a court or justice ana s conference which, as a last resort, idea of force is conveyed by the pro posal of the platform that the na- L tions exercise their influence and power "for the prevention of war." This policy does not preclude con tinuance of the existing league, but It does imply considerable changes. It will be incumbent on the new president and senate to examine the materials at hand for formation of such an association as they contem plate' and to agree on the manner in which they will propose to other na tions that these materials be used. The present covenant will be an im portant part of those materials and may be simply amended or entirely recast to form a new structure. Ar ticle 10, which Mr. Wilson calls the heart of the covenant, may be elimi nated or may be so changed as to leave the United States free to decide wnether to intervene on each occa sion when a war of aggression comes. In either event we have Mr. Taft's opinion that so much good would re main that it should not be sacrificed to preserve this part NOT ALL DRAFT DODGERS. The number of draft dodgers whom the government properly enough has set out to bring to trial in order not only that there shall be less temptation to shirking In a fu ture emergency but also that the records of those who did their .duty may stand out all the more gloriously by contrast, is given in the official records as 173,911. There are, how ever, two aspects of the case which the bare figures do not disclose," and both are creditable to the patriotism of Americans. In the first place, we are apt to forget that registration under the draft Attained the enormous total of 24,234,021. If a fraction of 1 per cent of these should have proved re calcitrant It would not be surprising. It figures- somewhat less than one to 130 of those who either served their country or held themselves in readi ness to do so. But the official total, relatively small as it is, far exceeds the actual number of slackers. It still includes a rather large number of -young men who by no stretching of the intent of the. law can be designated as draft evaders. It is only that their names do not appear on- the' books as hav ing registered themselves at the time when the law said that they should do so. It now appears that some were serving with the colors, having chafed at delay at being drafted. A not inconsiderable number, also im patient, sought and found foreign service under the flags of our allies. As to these, of course, the charge is purely technical. Only the simple showing that they were doing their duty will be needed to set them free, corporally and in every other sense of the word. By the time we have sifted the slacker list, it will have been discov ered that as a people we have noth ing to be ashamed of. zig. It was a German city, but in 1455 joined West Prussia in rebellion against the tyranny of the order of Teutonic Knights and called on Poland for help. The Teutonic order was defeated in war and ceded the city to Poland in 1466. It was given virtual independence under Polish sovereignty, and remained loyal to Poland until it was forcibly handed over to Prussia under the partition In 1793. Since then the German ele ment has been increased and Prus sianized and because the robbers have' been able to effect this change the stolen city is not to be restored to Poland, though it is that country's only outlet to the sea. Such arrangements reduce the theory of self-determination to an absurdity. They set the seal of jus- " j tice on ancient wrongs and by sup porting them with the power of the league they may destroy all hope of redress on the bart of the wroneed. The much-boasted principle becomes a cause of future war rather than the foundation of peace, for it Is not to be expected that Poland will long endure being half throttled by being deprived of full control of Its only port. CATCHY CAMPAIGN STUFF. The essence of any slogan is its spontaneity, and there have been slogans that stirred political cam paigns and ewn deeper national feeling to fine ferver. Who does not redall "Remember the Maine"? But the more modern way is to manufac ture 'em wholesale, like patent breakfast foods, demanding only that they contain that coal-tar imi tation of enthusiasm known as "pep." In an eastern city one of the daily papers is seeking to enliven current politics by offering awands for suit able campaign rallying cries. The results are pitiable. . . Whatever one's political affilia tions may be there is little choice, from the standpoint of good taste. mass of wreckage. From the plates of the ram the concentrated fire of her wooden antagonists bounced into the sea. The ships of the Union scattered for flight, but the Cumber land, her flag at the masthead. awaited the onslaught of the Vir- , ginia. Though she fought valiantly and made a few fortunate hits through the open ports of the Vir ginia, fhe victorious Confederate rammed and sunk her. The triumph bf the Virginia as an ironclad was numbered in hours, for the following day saw the arrival of the Monitor in Hampton Roads, an absurd little shell-proof turret on a low barren deck. The conflict of the Monitor and the Virginia, or the Merrimac, was the original meeting of two armored ships of war. Though the engagement was indecisive In it self, the Virginia being merely forced to retire, the fight in Hamp ton Roads drew the critical atten tion of all naval powers and ren dered obsolete the finest fighting craft of the period. John Kricsson passed in the full ness of years admittedly on'e of the most brilliant Inventors of the cen tury. His pet failure was an attempt to construct a solar engine, and it was this dream that occupied the later work of his industrious career. He died in 1889, in the house that stood where the brick garage now vends Its service, and his body was taken back to Swedish soil in the United States cruiser Baltimore. Here was a man whose life and its labors, like those of many who followed him from foreign shores, were to attain honor and success through .the encouragement of America. Sweden and Great Britain, the latter more particularly, made sport of the vision that impelled him. America met him with kindly understanding, and he more than repaid. BY-PRODCCTS OP THE TIMES Our Own Melting; Pot Has Prototype In That of Early Iberia. What happened several centuries a;o in the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula is still happening in the United States and it bids fair to con tinue for two or three score years longer, if not for two or three cen turies.. The successive invaders of Great Britain were most of them sci ons of the same stock; but the races that overran Spain one after another were as different ethnically as the later Immigrants to America are from the earlier Pilgrims and Cavaliers. Truly we are now a diversity of Those Who Come and Go. . BABE RL'TII. There were mighty swatters, in the old days, and Casey of the baseball ballad merely typified their prowess. At the impact of their bats the horsehide sphere rose far above the swallows and disappeared from the yearning gaze of the fielders. They knocked out at. most a score of homeruns in their triumphal sea sons, did these paladins of yore, and glory was theirs. All that was be fore the time of Babe Ruth, super slugger, who was destined to cast the loftiest records down and establish new ones for the reverential tribute of fandom. When the unforeseen enters the game, as it did with the advent of Ruth, there lifts the cry for amend ment to the rules. No longer is the strategy of pitchers approved as they yield a base on balls to some doughty batsman the fans have paid to wit ness drama, not tactics, and their disapproval is beyond mistake. Yet the prowess of Ruth should not be permitted unless there are other excellent and extraneous reasons to modify the code of baseball. The rules were made for players of aver age excellence, and not for the first super-hitter that has risen in the en tire history of major league base ball. The great Ty Cobb himself, from 1906 to 1919, had batted but 67 home runs. In three years less Frank Baker had made the record of 77 and from 1903 to 1917 the official tally shows that Sam Crawford con fused the pitching craft by 70 hom ers. These records did not impell critics to call for a change of rules, prohibiting the premeditated passing of batters by the pitcher. It was only with the rise of Ruth that this plea was to be voiced that fans might not be cheated of witnessing the lofty, sustained flight of his drives. For in five years of major league prior to 1920 playing Ruth batted 49 home- runs, breaking the world's record for the majors when he totaled 29 in the single season of 1919. Thus far the present season his record is 43, as all the world knows, and his total in but a few years surpasses all previous totals. Some questing writer of sports has exhumed the fact that a minor league player bears a minor league record of 45 homeruns in a single season. It is not required that stars of the major leagues shall pit them selves against the humble records of the minors, -but Ruth himself must feel that here is a goal to be passed before his own pride tells him that the thing is done. The phenomenal achievements of Babe Ruth are relatively unimpor tant to baseball. They will not be duplicated, safe to say, in a lifetime. It would be the height of folly to permit this burst of batting genius to amend the rules of the game. Aside from the permanent luster he will shed on the pages of sporting guides, Ruth has one genuinely vital message to pass on to fans and folks alike. It is probable that he answers the searchers who seek the secret of his success, and It is certain that it applies to the major league game of life no less than to the minor league game of athletic endeavor. It Is this: "Keep your eye on the ball." A CRIME OF SELF-DETERMINATION x One of the grave defects in the treaty of Versailles has been brought into prominence by the Russo-Polish war. Danzig and the adjoining ter ritory were in Poland at the time of the partition, but Lloyd George made such determined objection to their being restored that Danzig and a W shaped area to the south were made into a free city with a representative government headed by a high com missioner appointed by the league Poland was given free use of the harbor facilities with right to buy or lease, also control and adminis tratio;i of the Vistula and railroads. and is to have enough territory along the Vistula, in Cast Prussia to make its control complete. Sir Reginald Tower, a Briton, was appointed high commissioner. In effect Poland has not secured the benefits contemplated by the Undercurrents in the news from France indicate that President Des- between such Inane inspirations as I Chanel's disability is more serious these a brace of offerings in the than was at first supposed, and an contest: "Sam's rotten cotton britches interesting political situation is pre- needs Doctor Harding stitches. sented by the circumstance that We want Cox and our hops." Once there is no vice-president in France, in a while the psychiatrists preach while the constitution makes no pro- learnedly on their favorite assump- vision for succession. It was 5ne of tion that most of us are endowed the pledges of M. Clemenceau while with the intellects of children, and a candidate that if elected he would that the average business man, apart seek to bring about a change by from his own affairs, is almost eli gible for kindergarten instruction. At such times we quarrel with the men of science and their pedantic which the president would be elected by popular vote and a vice-president would be provided for, but Descha nel's spectacular upsetting of the views, which seem to teach that all I Clemenceau plans caused this issue men are simpletons with the excep tion of themselves, and that occa sionally they have doubts of one an other. But how about these slo gans? . Are they proof to the contrary? If the presidential campaign of 1920, in either camp, requires a slogan the fitting sentiment will be spontaneously framed by no one to revert to obscurity. Deschanel is admitted not to have been quite him seir since the time when he was found wandering in night attire along a railway track, and he has not since then exercised any of the duties of his office. Nevertheless he has given no Indication that he will resign and the issue presented is one that may well puzzle Freich If he could be assured that Oregon roads are a little better than those encountered Saturday through Wash ington. Robert MacDonald, an auto mobile tourist from Cumberland, Mi., would' motor from Portland to Cali fornia. But after weathering rough highways on the Washington side he is determined first to get a little unthentle Information about the high way through southern Oregon. With his, wife, Mr. MacDonald has been on automobile tour of the west since early In July, mcj rwnllv visited Yellowstone creatures; and yet we are Imposing Glacier national parks and contem the dominant Anglo-Saxon Ideals of I plate a trip to Crater Lake park if liberty under the law upon men and I they make the trip southward Dy women who do not care greatly for machine. They are now at the Ben" scn wniie aeiiDerauriB on . . .v.(n thair moithliiR south by for law. And in so doing we have to boat or t) d a ..steve Brodle" on the depend mainly upon the unifying Oregon roads. power of the English language, writes Prof. Brander Matthews In Scrlbner's. J. L. Toung, who lives at Denver So long as our immigrants came to and travels out ot Chicago, says. ii us from Northern Europe, from the ? ?)ou?l l"lnK'"t " " " . ' . lizzie airplane if he can find one British Isles, from Scandinavia and for a hlpersonal,y conducted tours from Germany they could be absorbed about his home city during the few in the course of time as readily as he has at home now and then, their kindred had been assimilated I He was in Denver during the street in r.r.3i Kriiiin nsni,iri n' hut ills car riots and savs he narrowly es- process does not work so swiftly orUaped eln,e" on the receiving endofa . - . ., , 4. husky looking brick on one occasion. so satisfactorily now that they are "Heretofore," he added, "I have al- coming from southern and eastern way(( Deen willing to let the other Europe and even from Asia Minor. I fellow do the airplanlng but after Those who emigrated from these re moter -regions In the opening years of this country are truly "mongrel hordes" and the difficulty of making them into Americans is indisputable. This difficulty would be increased If tny recent experience in Denver 1 think the air boats are about the safest way to travel. .In fact, I took air trip down in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago Just to get ac climated and I'm now ready to become a regular -pilot of my own boat when we were still welcoming newcomers I they start manufacturing planes that of races ethnically unrelated to ours. the Japanese, for one, and the Chinese for another. Once upon a time the conversation of a little knot of artists gathered in a cosy corner of a New York club happened to turn on a man who had x Japanese woman for a mother and a German Jew for a father, and who was an American citizen, speaking and writing English. One of the group put the question as to what race this man of motley ancestry really be longed and the wit of the club promptly found the answer: "He must be a Mongrelian!" "Just imagine," said the tourist from Sandusky to F. H. Collier in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "some of the famous old boating sons sung in motorboat. It simply couldn't be done. It needs the measured dip of the oar.' "For song, yes; but how'about rag time?" "Well, I was thinking of Oh, give me a home by the sea. Phut-phut-phut-phut! knows whom and will attain instant statesmen and arouse deep interest popularity. There is frankness, to 1 In other countries. The French have be sure, in the thirsty peeve, "We I a way of getting political results, but want Cox and our hops," but even It is not quite clear how they will the most casual student of political I solve the present problem slogans will perceive that such perceive that such a battle cry Is utterly impossible, how ever apt. ONE SWEDISH IMMIGRANT OF OCBS John Ericsson is dust these many years, but for his gifts to sciep.ee and to the cause of the union during the civil war, his is no minor shrine He planned the Monitor, the first successful ironclad of this or any other navy, in an upper chamber of his home on Beach street. New York, The Monitor, the derided "cheese box on a raft," forthwith set out for Hampton Itoa'ds, where it defeated the Confederate ram, the Merrimac, in the initial clash of armored War ships. The fame of the Swedish In ventor, who came to America for recognition, rests solely on this epi sode so far as the public is con- 1 cerned. Episode though it be, it is too big to forget. Yet the historic house on Beach street, where the brain of Ericsson scrapped the wooden warship for -all time to come, tumbled beneath the sledges of a wrecking crew just a few days ago. . Rather an ironical commentary on effective appreciation is the fact that the engineering societies of America, bent on tardy bay-wreaths, hav long discussed the placing of a me morial tablet on the home of Erics son, let when they turned to the fine old residence, or rather to its site, on Beach street, the redolent portals of a new brick garage greeted them. The heritage of Ericsson's home and workshop has passed to the bargain piles of the house- wrecker. It may not be better so, but it is just as well. When one sees a dread What has become of the entente cordiale which held such a high place in European politics a few year ago? France wants to fight Russia and . quarrels with Britain because the latter wants no more than a blockade, and the only en tente is between France and the United States about Poland. The sure way to break up an alliance or an entente is to get it into a war. Where is the triple alliance, for example? Twenty years ago the most no torious man in Portland was August Erickson and "Erickson's" was known up and down the coast as the "bong tong" of the underworld. To day Erickson is a pauper, serving a federal sentence. Yet there is not a man who would make money as easily as did Erickson who would have any more than has Erickson today. Dr. Frank Crane maintains that Mary Elizabeth is the most inspiring of all feminine names, while the paragrapher of the St. Louis Globe Democrat stands out for Mary Jane. Still, something depends on the women who wear them, whether we like ttieir names or not. an average man can afford to buy.' 'It's about time the people of Ore gon begin to realize the value to tne state of the Oregon caves in Josephine county," says Ben M. Collins, auto mobile dealer of Urants Pass, who Is at the Imperial with his daughter. Miss Grace Collins. "People who have traveled throughout the world tell me that they never have seen the equal to our caves in Josephine coun ty," he said, "and yet we have never been able to get a road leading to them. It is impossible to make Uie trip by automobile, and until a good highway Is provided the state is bound to lose thousands of dollars from prospective tourists." Mr. Col lins .wants the highway commission to co-operate with the government and people of southern Oregon in building good automobile road from Grants Pass to the Oregon caves. Frank R. Bacon of Fargo. N. D.. is the sort of fellow who will see about everything worth seeing and have the time of his life doing it. He was bound Portlandward on a business mission and was anxious to get here after the dusty ride through Idaho and east of the mountains. But as Where wild waves are crested with foam, the train speeded along by the side of Andm-nT wl'nSsarol.ni, tree. ZtJXJt could Phut-phut-phut-phutl As o'er the blue watera they come, "And so on." "Or. we continued in the same vein; Do you recall that night In June, Upon the Danube river? Pop-pop-pop-poppoppop! We listened to the Jjandler tune, we Watched the moonbeams quiver: Pop-pop-poppoppop! "S'nough to make 'em quiver." said the tourist from Sandusky. "No, it couldn't be done. There's no romance a friendly autoist. in a motorboat." ance business. scarcely sit still because he wanted to jump off the hot train and come down through the Columbia gorge by auto mobile. When the train stopped for a moment at Multnomah Falls he could stand it no longer. "Here," he plead ed with a fellow passencer. "take this grip of mine and have it sent up to the Multnomah hotel." Then he lumnerl off the train to give the falls a real once-over. Later, he stuck around and won his way into Portland from He's In the Insur- CAMPAIGN PONGS OK EARLY MOS. Invocation to Hard Cider Feature of Harrison Campaign. SALEM, Or., Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Noticing a suggestion that Chairman Day offer a prize of $50 for a suitable campaign song for the pur pose of arousing enthusiasm, reminds me of the campaign of 1840. I was but a small boy then, but I distinctly remember the en'thusiasm wrought by the singing of campaign songs at every political gathering and gath erings were many and often. Of course, I cannot remember the words of the songs of that memorable cam paign, but I am fortunate enough to possess a volume of the reminlscenses of Judge A. B. Norton, who as a young man belonged to a campaign glee club and traveled largely over the state of Ohio, attending the prin cipal places of interest with the club. In this volume are collated nearly all. if quite all, of the songs written and sung during the campaign. A prominent democratic paper in the east, in commenting upon the nomination, remarked as follows: Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle a pension of 52000 a year upon him. and our word for It, he will sit the re mainder of his days content in a log cabin. Those words proved an inspiration for the production of the famous "log cabin lyrics" and it was not long be fore dwellers in log cabins in the valleys and in the mountain tops and their families were singing: They say he lived In a lop; cabin And lived on hard cider, too; Well, what If he did? I'm certain He's the hero of Tippecanoe. He's the hero of Tippecanoe. But for the benefit of Chairman Day, I will suggest that a suitable paraphrase on the following very popular song of the '40s might be an enthusiasm raiser. It was sung to the air of "There's No Luck About the House": Come let us join with heart and voice And hail the people's friend. And send to Washington our- choice. The hero of North Bend. Chorus: For there's no luck about the White House, i nere win oe none at a . Till Martin and his myrmidons Are drlved far awa'. The -cabinet assembled there. While thousands in each state Have not wherewith to purchase food. They dine off golden plate. Then let us vote' for Harrison. And turn out scheming: Van: Capsize his kitchen cabinet. And rout the loco clan. It is extremely doubtful wtiettter the following sentiment would be openly indorsed by either parly, but it was the popular thing then: Come ye who, whatever betide her. lo freedom have sworn to be true. Prime up with a cup of hard cider. And drink to old Tippecanoe. On top I've a cask of as pood, sir. as man irom tne tan ever drew. No poison to cut up your blood, bir. uui miuor as pure as the dew. No foreign potation we puff, sir. in iree-land the apple tree crew: Its juice Is exactly the stuff, sir. xo quaJi to Drave Tippecanoe. D. WEBSTER. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. DIFFICULTIES. When baby has the stomach ache Or other childish ills. The doctor comes and makes him taka A powder or some pills; And when it is apparent that The urchin is at ease. He reaches for his coat and hat And says, "Three dollars, plcasst" But when It happens that the can Gets carbonized or stulifrt. We call the car-repairina: man To have it overhauled He keeps it at his shop until it nits Its old-time unit And then lie renders us a bill tor twenty sixty-eight. The baby's sound in wind and limb. Ana seldom out of ;ir We call the doctor in for him But once or twice a vcr The car, though given tender care. Ana lots ot time to rest. Will only run without repair a v. ten or two at best. To lose the baby we are loath: e nate to spare the ear In fact we want to keep them both. expensive as they are. We wish the family doctor knew The ailments of ihn r-j And wa could take thn h.hv t The car-rerairing man. He'o I d i. Whene'er the flaunting headlines read IUA. BUSTED O.V 1-u w. iiu,-i The baseball fan exclaims: "Indeed? juust tie Jawn JlcOraw'" Almost n CouslKntlonnl ltr,lr . Now the prohibitionists r nominate a man from Ohlr. r.- parently believinir other states are IneliB-ihi Am Well am Walk. The world will pay more attention to the Russian bear when Y, v,.,in. to talk like a man. (Copyright. 190. by by the Bell Syndicate. The following are some events pre dicted by a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle for the coming autumn: September 1. Commutation rates go up. When ho was a younsrster Georere uaerrington or balem had an inventive mind. He built the first home-made automobile in the Capital citv and also had some little success with air plane models during the days when an September 2. Commuters give up to- I airplane was mainly In the expert- Then thousand stills are dripping hard liquor in the state of Wash ington, say the prohibition officials. That explains where the 1400 per cent increase in raisin imports went Of moonshine, more than aught else, it may be truly said: There's a raisin. mental stage. He Just naturally gravitated toward electrical engineer ing ana has a number of useful small electrical inventions to his credit With his wife, Mr. Cherrlngton Is reg istered at the Oregon from Salem. Martin Moloney, pioneer railroad and hotel man of Colfax, Wash.. 1 registered at tne imperial while here renewing acquaintances with old friends. Mr. Moloney was a figure in the hotel business durinfr the davs when the stage coaches were about October 17. Department of justice tne on'y means of conveyance in many frowns darkly. " Tm":"c t"wVf- t "C3, r?s ' L w . -. . I jolitics and was soars. bacco and newspapers. September 3. Government heaves sympathetic sigh. September 15. Coal prices boosted. October 1. Householders abandon furnaces. October 7. Department of justice deprecates profiteering. October 9. Kerosene and wood leap in price. October 10. Public gives up motor- Ins and movies. one or the Dartv aooarci tne t ranwin D. Roosevelt sne October zz. i'udiic goes witnout ciai, wnicn was here Saturday night hats, shoes and gloves. October 30. Department of justice twits profiteers. November 1. Meat prices leap sky ward. George Christensen. secretary of the I democratic state committee in Wash ington, was one of the members of thj Franklin D. Jloosevelt special train here Saturday night. He Is at to In Other Days. Of cabbages and kings and slmi- naught steaming by in the full pride Iar Political gossip Franklin D. of naval strength, or a destroyer slic ing salt-water in ribbons of foam, or a liner or tramp about the business of the seas, he sees the dreams of John Ericsson in their fruition. -For Ericsson not only gave to the marl time world the mailed fighting craft or modern navies, but also the po Roosevelt was discursive in his Port land address. But on the hidden hand of the wets in the democratic campaign he was as silent as a painted clam beside a painted ocean. Emma Goldman Is reported to have obtained a job under the soviet. tent thrust of the propellers that We may expect a recantation of her drive them, and that replaced the statement that "Kussla is rotten" shimmer of distant sails with the almost any day now. A government appointment has a powerful influ-J ence on tne point or view. smoke or steam-driven craft. It is not at all probable that side and stern-wheel steamers could ever have developed to the elimination of can- Klamath Falls hus banned the vas. With these enduring evid ences wheel of fortune. Where are the of Ericsson's genius there is scant faro layouts of other-years? Gone need for .memorial plates or the hal- with Jack Hamlin and Black Bart lowed preservation of his home But a-nd the old west a3 Bret Harte knew it was a joke on the engineers never- I 't. Conditions that made for fine theless. I fiction could not endure in fact The Monitor, completed in Jan uary, 1862, was not the first venture Klamath Falls will not permit at sheathing war vessels in mail I bunco games in connection with a Many an iron rail had bolstered the I carnival and as the fair season is on stout timbers of combatant craft in the various managements might take the naval encounters of the civil I a- lesson from Klamath and prevent war. The Virginia, commonly known tne swindling of patrons. as tne jvierrimac from her former name as a Federal vessel, had been Great plan to equip cars with gov- retjonstructed by the rebels after ernors that will automatically stop capture, and was an ironclad in the I them when the speed limit is etx- full sense of the term. Against ceeded, but a way will be found to wooaen snips of war the ugly con- beat that. federate ram was more than effec tive. She was a deathknell. And I Those who perused the headline, but for the novel notions of Erics- "Man drops 20,900 feet," must have son, who designed and launched the breathed the Wish that prices might November 4. Consumers quit using the Imperial from Stevenson, Wash. butter and telephones. November 18. Department of justice hints it may. start probe. November 23. Bread takes big jump in price. November 24. Consumers give up electric lights and collars. November 30. Department of justice official raises warning finger slightly. When I was in Constantinople, says a writer In the Near- East, I made friends with several of the pariah dogs that roved the streets and though they had their drawbacks It always seemed to me that they were likable beasts and not so great a nuisance as one would suppose they must be. I was therefore genuinely sorry when I learned that the re morseless march to progress had led to the determination to get rid of them. You will remember that the poor dogs were shipped off to various Islands and there left to die, because the Turk would not transgress against lis religion by killing them outright. -That was five or six years ago and apparently the unhappy dogs all met their Inevitable fate. Today members of' Russian refugees are housed on the Islands whlclf were for. treaty; The population is asteres- Formation or a lasting league is a j sively German and has obstructed vorK of slow building through a long period of years. Mr. Harding is pre pared to continue this work. He can do only so much as the senate in the -first instance and other nations finally agree to. It would be better to build only 60 per cent now with all nations in accord than to attempt more with some disagreeing as the United States does. Whatever agree ment may be reached leaves the way open to build higher and broader. Mr. Wilson's worst mistake was his attempt to build the whole structure at once without co-operation of the senate. Mr. Harding's work will stand because It will be approved by the whole, not half, of every effort to "give Poland full use of the port, and Tower has concerned himself more with keeping peace In the city than with securing Poland its rights. Recently when a Dutch ship arrived with munitions, German stevedores refused to unload her and threatened a general strike if troops should do so. Tower then suggested that the ship 'discharge at some other port a total surrender to the Germans. He is now said to have forbidden unloading of munitions at Danzig, and as the French are send ing shiploads escorted by warships, serious friction with Britain may en sue. Poland has a good claim to Dan- have joined him In that epic descent. This is the good week to join the Harding and Coolldge club and get two buttons one for weekdays and the other for Sunday. Monitor, the lrginia might have lengthened distressfully the series of naval exploits she began in Hampton Roads, Va., on March 8. 1862 one day before the Monitor bobbed up to her and opened fire. Several Federal vessels, each of them valiant and effective by the accepted standards of wooden war ship construction, were at anchor in reverse that, but J. Rufus is purely Hampton Koaas when the Virginia American, you know. came driving in, her ports open for Dattie. 1 o the seamen of the men- "Centhalls" starts the county fair of-war the long, squat superstruc- business for the season today, with ture or tne Tarn was provocative of I prospects good for a winner mirtn. rney laughed uoroariouslv Ponzi has one million and owes seven. J. kuius walllngrord would as they went to quarters, and likened the Ironclad to a. meeting-house, by some queer quirk of providence cast adrift- Never was mirth more inop portune. The Virginia steamed past the Congress with every port blazing. Secretary Lea is fixing to make his last year with the state fair some thing to talk about. jvi. a. jongnouse oi iacoma was an other member of the party to register I at the Imperial. Ray W. Benson Is at the Imperial while here to get men for a road crew for the highway department near The Dalles. Mr. Benson is a son of Henry L. Benson, associate justice of the state supreme court. Mrs. N. C. Kafoury, whose husband is a well-known merchant at Salem, is In Portland for a brief visit. She Is accompanied by her son and daugh ter. The gasoline shortage hasn't any terrors for H. R. Gallagher of San Francisco, because he's an official of the Shell Oil company, which fur nishes a part of the oil supply for this part of the country. He is registered at the Portland while here to confer with local officials of the corporation J. A. Mays of Prineville was amonn the advance guard to arrive at the stockyards yesterday with cattle shipments ' from eastern Oregon. Twenty-one carloads were received at the yards yesterday. He signed the register at the Imperial. Gordon C. Rose, a Chicago broker. who has timber interests in Oregon and other points of the northwest, is t'O.V HEt'OIlll DISTINCTLY ' M ET Straws in JVewapaner Career That Show Which Way Wind I!Iow. PORTLAND. Aug. 22. (To the Edi tor.) After reading an item from correspondent and your prompt reply regarding the "wetness ' of Governo t-ox, now a candidate for the presi dency of the United States. I have de cided to inform your corresponden what I, as an Ohioan, know of him with regard to his "wetness." At the beginning of his politica career, after owning the Dayton Dally News, he purchased the Springfield Daily News, a city 24 miles away, in order to promote a sent'ment in' his j favor for political positions. The wet and dry Issue had ju.st started and the wets had somewhat of a bulge on positions at that time, they being a great deal in the majority. In one of the fights in Clark county four of his office men were working for the diys, one working for the wets. He In formed the four dry advocates that they would have to leave the issue alone or get out but did not inform the office man favorable to the wets that he would have to do the same. Two of his office men continued with the drys and one joined the anti saloon forces as their advertising manager. This man is now in busi ness in Terre Haute and the other man came to Oregon four years ago. Now, Mr. Correspondent, can you see which side of the issue Mr. Cox took at that time? In regard to his enforcing law and order, I wish to cite an instance to you of why he enforced the Sunday closing law In Cincinnati. The senti ment for the drys was gaining strength everywhere and in order to get the strength of the dry democrats he closed the saloons on Sunday and at the same time he advocated the model license law for the liquor bunch. iis rirst political position was as representative from the third district of Ohio, which is known as the Miami valley district, consisting of Dayton, Franklin and Mlddietown. which has been pro-German in sentiment and the hotbed for the liquor element of Ohio. If you will refer to the con gressional records of his successor, Mr. Gard, you will find that he. too, voted against every dry act brought before congress and after the prohibi tion act had been' passed by congress he proposed that a new law go into effect that would gain the interest of the wets. We bel'eve that If you, Mr. Correspondent, wish for a verifi cation of the above statement, you can write to any respectable citizen in Springfield, O., and obtain a state ment with regard to his wet senti ment. GEORGE O. HAMILTON. Twenty-five Yearn Aco. From The Oreeonian of August 23, lg!.-.. Seattle. The bier unit nf i,o orn Pacific Kaliroad company, to oust ruans receiver began yesterdav oeiore Judge Hanford nf thin it o.i Judge Gilbert of Portland. Chicago. Joe Tatchen yesterdav won the great race from .Inhn i: Gentry, in straight heats, with 2:05"i as tne Dest time. The Mazamas nronosi In incr, a fight against the railroad that hnnon to build a line across the Yellowstone National rrark. Entries for the second annual bi cycle meet of the Multnomah Ama teur Athletic club closed last lyght. Fifty Year Am. From The Oregonlan of August 23, 1S70. London. The Prussian armv has begun the bombardment of Stras bourg. Pfalsburg In the Vosges was captured Saturday by the Wurttem berg army. The crown prince is re ported to have won another victory in front of Chalons, in a dispatch from Carlsruhe. London. The massacre of the French consul and members of the Roman Catholic establishment at Tientsin, China, is confirmed as hav ing occurred June 21. Four modern brick buildings are in cctirse of construction, the combined cost of which will exceed $130,000. The Corbett building on First street is an iron front from foundation to top. The others are Dr. Glisttn's build ing at Front and Pine, Captain An- keny'8 building at Front. Pine and b irst and Captain Plunder's steam ship landing. Early Crawford peaches grown on Sauvit-s island are coining into thu local market. tion of the state fish hatchery on th; Nehalem river. Mrs. Carl Seitz and son registered yesterday at the Portland from Shang hai, China. They are in the states for an extended visit to relatives and friends. leaving the Union ship a blazing other tomorrow. The two Idaho conventions will be within shouting distance of each meriv the doe-s' Drlson. and the Ameri-I at the Portland while here for an can Red Cross authorities who are inspection of some of his properties. caring for these particular refugees R E Clanton. master fish wnrden have set tneir proieeea lo wura at waa at the imperial yesterday e making buttons from tne dogs bones, i route to the Nehalem country fro I am not altogether surprised that the I Bonneville. He will make an inspec- Turks will not buy the buttons. After' alighting In a wheat field near White Swan, in the interior of the Yakima Indian reservation. Avi ator Erllchman of Yakima accosted an aged Indian cniei v no was one oi a crowd that gathered about the white man's stranee bird. "Fly?" asked Mr. Erlichman. "You go him up'heap high?" Then with an eye to starting business, he added: "Fly? No pay." "No, 1 think not," was the Indian's quiet rejoinder. "I don't think I care to go aloft today." However, Mr. Erlichman finally in duced the chieftain to "go aloft," and thereafter did a thriving business with the younger Indians as passengers. You may believe this one or not, as you please. It comes from Steamboat Springs, Colo.: John Martin, fisherman, pulled In a big jug on his line. Breaking the jug he found a two-pound trout which he believes crawled in when a flnser-ling. Couple Are Legally Married. PORTLAND. Or.. Aug. 19. (To the Editor.) A couple were married, man 22. girl not quite 16 years old. The girl's mother is dead. The girl's father gave her up in writing and her guardian died before this marriage took place. In getting the license, the father of the girl swore she was 17 years old and give full consent to the marriage. The couple have been married four years, have two children. Recently someone told them they were not legally married. Kindly let me know whether they are legally husband and wife. INQUIRER. The marriage is valid. By death of the girl's guardian his authority lapsed and there is now no one legally In a position to question the proceed- llng. - MAKING IIO.MC BREW LAWFULLY How t nil It Be Done Without Break ing FIrat Law ot the Land f PORTLAND. Aug. 22. (To the Ed itor.) On the front page of your good paper of this date I notice Rob ert C. Saunders, United States attor ney, of Seattle, Wash., has announced that he has Instructed federal prohi bition agents to make no further searches of private residences for liquor unless they had absolute proof thtt unlawful sales were being made, and also goes orr to say that home brew for consumption of family and friends Is safe from federal interven tion; also home-made beer and wines are exempt as well as any imported stocks intended for strictly social pur poses. The tatter item of imported stocks raises the question In my mind as to whether It Is possible to import stock for private consumption: alsc. does it mean the state and county agents will observe the first law of the land, namely the 18th amend ment and the Volstead act, and not employ local laws and interpret them at their will. From the above it is plain to see that I want to make some home brew but I do not want to make it unless I am positive that I am not breaking the first law of the land. - J. C. SAUNDERS. "IIOUROU" MAY HE OVEHDKAWX Mr. Cliue Sees IleasoD for Eslstenre of Two Methodism. PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (To the Ed itor.) The union possible and desir able among Christians is not ignoring the differences in dogma or in ritual. Uach theory of the philosophy of re ligion has its own accustomed dialect, which its believers may fittingly pre fer in Christian worship. Attachment to these is as real as home love in a well-regulated houstiioltl ; and, as the spiritual influences that come only from Christ have beyond question come through these very diverse mediums with manifest genuineness, adequate reasons for merging all into one are not as yet In evidence. Nor is the "horror" of two Metho disms as great as might be supposed. While ito better people exist here than Southern Methodists, yet their pro vincialisms, antecedents and "Dixie love" are such as to adapt them and the southern people. They fit each other like a man and his shoes. But their ministry, saying "boad" for board, "huse" for house, "noth" for north and "sooth" for south, though finely educated men as many of them are, and of genuine charac ter, they do not succeed as preachers in the north, as may be seen by their presence and endeavors in Oregon, where they have made little progress the last 5oyears and more. The same is equally true of our Yankee preachers in the south. In Atlanta, New Orleans and other cities of the south, the northern Methodist church has fine buildings and has sent to them some of our best preachers, among whom was, afterward bishop, John P. Newman, but none of these men have ever suc ceeded and our churches are well known failures, just as the church south, with one of the finest and best church buildings in our city, finds it In Portland at the present time. The situation is ingrain and not easily changed. The Methodist Church South, in its origin and history. Is set for the administration of spiritual comfort to the democratic party, which, the Lord knows, that organi zation greatly needs. Why not leave the situation alone? C.E.CLIN 15. More Data Aredcd. Edinburgh Statesman. Hea'd of Firm How long- do you want to be away on your wedding trip? Hinks (timidly) Well. sir er what would you say? Head of Firm How do I know? I haven't seen the. bride. Sandals and Shoes Contrasted. London Chronicle. Eve was reputedly barefoot, and Nausicaa played ball all the better because she was unshod. Helen of Troy at the most wore sandals, and the sandal is the compromise be tween the shoeless and the shod. It is easier to make sandals than to make boots. In Irelsind and Scotland the children have' run barefoot for many a day, and the wit of the one and the enterprise of the other show that there is nothing really demor alizing in going without shp.es and stockings. X'se of "Waste Marble. Indianapolis News. Concrete building blocks faced with marble were tested for strength, se curity of bond and resistance to the action of frost. The results of this work showed that blocks of this char acter are suitable for use in construc tion. They are of some importance in that they w ill permit of the utiliza tion of waste marble, at the same time affording a very attractive fac ing material.