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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX,. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1920
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the treaty-making power and will
therefore command more respect
from other nations which are not
likely to forget their experience in
dealing- with the president alone.
HARDING'S rL.VN OF A LEAGUE.
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.