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10 THE MOKMNG OKEliOMAX, TUESDAY, 3IAI' 3, 1921 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co., C A. JIORDEN. EL B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. pally. Sunday lnc?uded'one year J8.00 Iaily. Sunday Included, six months... 4.2S Ually, Sunday included, three months. 2.25 Daily, Sunday Included, one month... 75 uaily, without Sunday, one year.... Daily, without Sunday, six months. L'aily. without Sunday, one month. . weekly, one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) Dally. 8unrla.V .nfl.iri.ri n VMf Dally. KunriflV innlitaH IhrM mAfltha. 2.2i Daily, Sunday included, one month 75 Dally, without Sunday, one year T.80 Dally, without Sunday, three months. 1.95 Dally, without Sunday, one month 65 How to Remit Send pos-torrice money order, express or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owner's risk. Give poatoffice address in full. Including county and state. Postage Rate 1 to IS pages. 1 cent; IS to 22 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages. 3 6.00 S.25 .60 1.00 2.50 .$$.00 port herself. On the whole the modern economic system has inten sified the problem for the prospec- tive husband. More Is expected of him than formerly; less is left to chance in the establishment of the prospective home. Higher cost of living is due no doubt in part to a higher standard of living. Couples who formerly began married life with the most meager equipment think it necessary to keep up with the Joneses of their respec tive sets. Fifty years ago the Joneses were in existence, but they set a more moderate pace. Young folks as individuals are in nowise to blame; they are only accepting life as they find it, as young people have always done. But the issue of mo ment is whether the tendency to postponement is going to be progres sive. It is quite easy to see that at some point an average marrying age may be reached that will seriously threaten the future of the race. The three-year increase is in itself not particularly alarming; it is the whither-are-we-drifting aspect of the problem that perplexes. The value of the New York sta tistics lies chiefly in the possibility cents; 50 to 64 nazes. 4 cents: 66 to 80 pages. 5 cents: 82 to 98 psges. 6 cents. I that tney wju pr0voke serious in B;.LV.OU,nv.rre.Conk- Quiry. By themselves, they prove lin. Brunswick buildlnz New York: Verree I nothing. It may be that the IOSt . 1' "V- nV, tttel, builln- " cago; ver- three years are atoned for in some troit. Mich.; Verree & Conklin, selling way though recent divorce statistics building. Portland: San Francisco recra- tact ftnnht nn thp snnnnKition and .it oiaweu. t;Kl fv, o ototo of ennili hrin m already has been reached. Yet one THE Newberry decision. cannot help thinking that part of th At 'one stroke the United States zest and purpose of married life is supreme court sweeps away not only being lost by those who thus sacrifice the conviction of Senator Newberrv the experience of beginning togetne but the federal corrupt practices act at the foot of the hill and making the and with it the authority of congress upward climb a venture in co-oper- to regulate the manner of nominat- ation. Here also, however, we are ing candidates for federal offices. I handicapped by want of authentic Although Senator Newberry's family j data. Figures alone are unillumina and friends spent money lavishly on 1 tive of a problem involving so many his behalf in the belief that the law human considerationa applied only to expenditures by the ..u.uttie jiimaeii. ne noias nis seat BANXER-CLOID-THAT'S ALL. uui veaitu in congress. horizontally from the summit of a moun Tho of for. V a Jn.un. .TnnB I tain Sometimes it is uroduced by snov -' v iuc uctiaiuu vu uiaua i ------ . . , - . , - . , r- i - i I carried rrom ine suriace 01 me iiiuuhiuki for a federal primary law to g-overn hv the wind: at other times it is due to nominations for president and vice- 1 the expansion of the moist air which flows president as well as those for sen- !",?Kihr.?St'n,u? ..Tn mv ators and representatives far Iran, also be a thin laver of haze caused by the ecends its effect on the corrupt prac- mi"1 o( .'"? ir wlth the urface of tices act and on the Michigan elec- reason that the world market is stagnant for this product. rK decline In the retail price of the canned article will come, as one result of this condition, and the enforced clos ing down of many small Alaska canneries will curtail production un til supply and demand again strike a balance. Yet economic analysis-is lost on the Willamette valley resi dent who somehow feels that, from geographical location alone, he Is entitled to cheaper salmon shall say that he is wrong? might ask the courts to direct them which authority they should obey, with the same result. Possibly the Northern Pacific might incline to obey the Washing ton commission or to leave others to question its effectiveness, but other railroads have an interest in uphold ing the interstate commission's de cision. All are not a solid phalanx, as they were in opposing Portland's claim. The Union Pacific and North Who I Bank roads will win much traffic under the decision and may not be willing to have it snatched away, DOUBLE-EDGED LAW ENFORCEMENT. The Un'on Pacific gains much in the , division or rates on Astoria traiiic. Revival of activity by revolution- There no innP th mmnnirv of Ists, though in milder form than two 1 interest which seemed to exist when years ago, should renew the interest ali tne roads lined up with Puget congress in duis to prevent ana sound and Astoria, punish sedition. Former efforts in if the Was.htn.rtnn commission in that direction have failed through j jta zea for pUg-et sound ports and in excess of fear lest the rights of free its indifference to the riehts of other speech, free press and' free assembly parts of lts state should expose it should be destroyed or unduly re- Kef to rehnff from the Interstate stricted. Yet the constitutional dec- commission, the contest would be be- laration of those rights no more pre- I tween the two commissions over the vents legislation to prevent or punish head of tho rail marls md Portland their use for unlawful purposes than might for the time be a deeply kn it forbids laws against traveling the terested but vigilant SDectator. ready streets and highways for an unlaw- t0 caIt for actjon if any of the other The Listening Post. Dickie Yields to Fair Woman. ful purpose. A man's right to travel the streets may not be used to ob struct them. A man has a right openly to carry arms, but he may not bear arms as a member of a mob parties should be indolent. tion. Congress, it seems, has no jur isdiction over any of the prelim inaries to an election. Its authority is limited to control over the manner of casting and counting the ballots and announcing the result. Away goes all hope of a federal law pro- viding for direct election of delegates to national conventions in all states on one day, whereby an intense but brief primary campaign would pre cede each national convention. The " primaries in the several states will continue to string through two 01 more months, to be held under di verse laws and to tempt candidates to expend great sums of money and to tour the country developing such Intense rivalry as to kill each other off and hand the nomination to a dark horse. . Annulment of the federal corrupt practices act is no great loss, for it was no more effective than any state . law In checking excessive use of money. In Michigan the money was a stream of cold air. The foregoing definition from the Century dictionary and cyclopedia ought to be reassuring to those who thought they saw Mt. Hood in erup tion the other day and also instruc tive to the contemporary which ex presses the belief that the phenome non is peculiar to Mount Hood. Banner-clouds are known wher ever there is the coincidence of high mountains and warm moist winds. In our school days the physical geogra phy had a picture of a mountain range each peak of which had hoisted its banner. Generally the banner-cloud is what its name signifies a banner like cloud without much undulation. Occasionally if the wind is gusty the air pocket shifts and the clouds roll up from the summit and drift away like smoke. If the slant of the sun's ray? is such as to darken the color of the cloud to the observer a good re plica of a volcano in action is given. A banner-cloud of the latter type. t i 1 contributed by Newberry's relatives startling m us appearance, Over 1UUU11L XJti-tvl . iaomii6wui and friends and was spent by them or by men of their selection while Newberry himself was absent in war service, but this seems to have been their lawful right. We have pro gressed beyond the stage where a "free and independent elector" was paid so much cash down for his vote Halls, brass bands, billposters and election workers are hired and much advertising space in newspapers is bought. The word goes around that lots of "easy money" is afloat and that Jinks is all right. How is that to be stopped? Jinks may spend only a cerftun percentage of his pros- some years ago. Peaks in the bisters range, also within view from Ueliing ham, had banners at the same time. Probably Mount Hood "erupts every year in this manner perhaps several times yearly. The pnenome non is not witnessed oftener because intervening clouds generally obscure the mountain when conditions are -ight for the peak to display its banner. ALMOST any day yields interesting occurrences to one strolling about the city. You blithely start from home, and by the time you have reached the site of the day's battle have been immeasurably cheered by the spectacle of a plump blonde chas ing a canary as yellow as her hair. This happens at the corner of Broad way and Alder and is not on terra firma, for the bird's owner is gingerly stepping out on a narrow ledge sev eral stories from the street. It ap pears that Dickie wanted to Play with the chippy sparrows and flew out the window, but he finally succumbs to the blandishments of the woman and submits to captivity once more short lived liberty. And as you go on down the street a trio of gorgeously dressed gentle men, their heads wrapped in rags in oriental style, their faces daubed with brown paint, meander past. Possibly another advertising scheme, but they attract little attention. In the middle of the next block the dapper little pianist, Santaella, meets you and pauses a moment making neat by-play with his walking stick, in the handling of which he is Those Who Come and Go. Talea of Folk at tha Hotel. CLOSE -I.V SITE IS ADVOCATED MOVEMENT FOR FEWER CHURCHES. The renewed effort of the pastors' bent on murder or arson. It is surely I union of New Haven, Conn., to get within the capacity of congress to together on a programme of reduc- draft laws against improper use of tion of the number of church or- the rights in Question without re- ganizations is but the echo of a striding their proper-use. I movement begun about a decade ago master. Joe Gorman, the prizefighter. Much of the sentiment against se- to discover if possible a basis of in- I strolls past with a couple of friends, dition laws arises from abuses of terdenominational co-operation, but his head .graced by a neat "Christie power by officials entrusted with en- It is significant as showing that not- stiff," of the model now affected in forcement of the law. It is not con- withstanding repeated failures the New York. Thesay that he cleared fined to enemies of the law but ex- issue is still alive. Hope of increas- nearly $20,000 in the ring last year tends to those who are' convinced Ing efficiency by eliminating waste and ne looks more like a banker than that laws should be observed by their is evmenuy not aeaa at least, in a bruiser. own servants even more rigidly than I New Haven ana one more serious by the people in general. Acts that experiment will give it additional are contrarv to law have inspired the manna to feed upon. opinion that some law officers ex- Announcement of the selection of ceed their lawful powers in pursuit a committee to formulate a pro and prosecution of criminals. Such I gramme places the issue squarely be practices as the "third degree," fore the church members of tne Search without warrant and holding I community. There is to be also, it prisoners incommunicado, which I is" said, a standing committee repre- v.n.-A -afnt in tVin frtn t i t li t i nn I sentine various denominations to di or the statutes, cause distrust. The I rect such public enterprises as ine '" - .... wo v word "incommunicado" is repug- sale of old church buildings and the owners to get their cars out of the nant to the instincts of an American, location of new plants. A general danger zone. However, their fears are for it describes one of the practices I exchange of pulpits on given Sun- quieted when a clerk comes out of of the butcher Weyler in Cuba and I days is contemplated, and appoint- I the store with a toy-like extinguisher was adopted into our language from I ments are to be made, not as an I in his hand, sprays the names with a there I experiment, but as a demonstration, I tiny jet ana tne maze subsides. Severe legislation against those of the spirit and will of the pastors." But every day the city streets dis- who pervert their constitutional 1 There is taiK or greater participation close some, spicy gossip. ritrhts to the destruction of the con- oy tne pastors or cnurcnes in puduc stitution by which those rights are weuare worn, aunougn it cannot be Personal columns have- a fascina guaranteed should be accompanied successfully maintained as to many . f . . Ukl by equally strict legislation against communities that modern pastors are 'lon 'or man-01 US aj"n t0 tne "llln8 those officers who break the law in consciously lax in this regard. The ,or strong, drinK a few years back, the name ot the law. The pretense policy of the New Haven pastors' Some like their personals strong and that their lawless practices are nec- union seems to have been summed raw, others full-flavored. . To the essary to capture and conviction of I up in an address by one of its mem- firat kind we would recommend the criminals is too hollow to be consid- I oers, wno sajo.. i renVer Post, but to those who care to ered. It is a confession of incom- One of the glaring- wrongs ot present day I indulge In speculation there is no cnurcn lire ana metnoas is ine multiplicity ..... iL . of churches. Every little group ot people I agony column that can surpass that must have their own church around the in the London Times. Romance, overworked word, lurks On you go, passing a lunchroom on Fourth street where the sight of the girlish cashier tenderly holding the hand of a customer serves fo accen tuate the feeling that spring has ar rived. The interest Is not gone from the day for as you pass Woodard Clarke's drug store a rivulet of fire comes tearing down the gutter and petence, for the really skilled detec tive and prosecutor is the man who can succeed as the law directs. In the safe at the Imperial M. Nor den has a catsup bottle filled with gold, and on the back of his neck Mr. Norden has a boil. Just now he is more concerned about the boil than he is about the treasure. Mr. Nor den registers from the Boswell mine in Josephine county, about seven miles from the California line. Mr. Norden is manager of the mine, which was bough't, sight unseen, a couple of months ago, and has developed into the greatest gold property found on the coast in years. The object of Mr. Norden s mission to Portland Is said to be a consolidation of the Bos well mine and the Anderson mine adjoining it. The latter mine pro-H duced about 1250,000. the material be ing, presumably, the stuff sloughed off from the Boswell mine. W hen Anderson Btaked his claim he could also have staked the Boswell mine, but the latter property was consid ered worthless until Boswell came along and found the ore within 20 feet of the Anderooa line. VP TO THE RAILROADS. If the Puget sound ports are de termined to put to the test the ques tion whether the Interstate Com merce commission had authority in the Columbia basin case to order I AN OREGON CrTT SrGGESTION ON SALMON. If the Banner-Courier correctly in pective salarv. but others mav SDend terprets opinion at Oregon City the unlimited sums in supporting him. I salmon poachers or tne w luametie When the generous donor is rich, he are outlawed from sympatny in tneir mav be credited with snendine his own home town. In a semi-editorial own money, but when he is poor sus- news account of the river. rioting ana picion arises whether it came se- I defiance of wardens tnat lea to agi- cretly from the candidate himself. tation for closing the W Ulamette to Recent experience suggests that I all commercial fishing, and also l Dublicltv is the best safeguard an editorial, the Oregon city papei against improper squandering of indicates that it would not De averse monev in elections, for it leads to to such a solution providing certair nubile condemnation of the SDender. I restrictions regarding hook-and-line Pouring of money into Missouri in I angling were lifted. These relate to particular as well as other states so I the disposition or salmon lawiuny turned public opinion against Gov- I taken by the fisherman. ernor Lowden as to destroy hip Public sentiment is justified in its chance of nomination, though no demands that the river be forever corrupt intent was brought home to closed to commercial fishermen, and him. Nothing unlawful was even the employment or nets, ana tor mis charsred arainst General Wood, but opinion the lawless poachers have . the unwise generosity of his friends only themselves to blame. But there caused him to be joined in the same is merit in tne Banner-Courier s con-Havlne- before them these tention that the commercial advan examples of the very spending of tages of the run should not entirely money defeating its own purpose. I be sacrificed, wnen tne river teems future candidates will doubtless hold I with a food supply ot unusual pai hnth themselves and their friends in atability and value. Hence the sug- check lest they empty their pocke'ts gestion from Oregon City that all to the injury of their political pros- hook-and-line anglers be permitted ne-fs to disDose of their legal catches as The Newberry decision brings us I they see fit, selling the salmon, if back to normalcy In the conduct of they choose, direct to tne pu"c elections just when we are regaining Otherwise, it is argued, the bulk of that state of mental sobriety in other the splendid run will be without respects. But the experience through benefit to the residents oi tnis 10- which the Newberrys have gone will cality, and only those will profit who have a salutary effect on them also, are actual anglers and who have They will form a more modest esti- time to spare for their hobby, mate of the power of money and will ' There can be no fear that hook- be more discreet in its use. and-line angling in the Willamette ever would make serious inroads on the run. Always1 the majority of fish would scale the falls and pass on to the spawning riffles of the upper river. Where scores and hundreds of fish were taken by the gill-netters. only a comparative few would be captured by rod and line, natural rehabilitation of the run would be insured, owing to the increased num bers of salmon that would fulfill their purpose before death. Should the disposition or winara THE ADVANCING MARRIAGE AGE. The figures of the marriage license bureau of New York, which show that the average age of applicants has increased materially in thirteen years, are at the same time convinc ing and inconclusive. That is to say, they are undeniable as to the bare statement of the fact, while further data are required to determine just what is proved by them. In v 1908, the record shows, the t imnn. taken in angling, be average age of 300 men applying for made optional with the angler, many marriage licenses was years, wie inhlesa men would be provided witn corresponding age of the women opportunity to make wages during agreeing to share their lot being 22.8. tne run gut to call the stream a In 1921 the average for an equal .nnrtsman's river." and then permit number of couples is respectively tjjrifty anglers to sell their catch at ana " ' i top market price wouia naraiy oe practically three years in each in- falr dpaiine with the public The stance, ine average is lor tne popu- present cannery quotations, an latlon as a whole. It was long ago nounctTd at the opening of the Co shown that the age at which college- iumbia river season, is 9 cents a trained men and women marry is ad- pound for Chinook salmon. Let us vancing sieauny, anu ine luriuer con- nv that a Willamette river angler, dition may be but a reflection of the I intent on profit, caught his quota of latter. The process of education is tnree f jsh; of an average weight of more conipuc&ieu man u useu i uc, i 20 pounds. Kven at mat price ine and this is not confined to the col- I return to him would be J5.40 for the leges. In the crafts and in business, I day's pleasurable exertion. If this men do not regard themselves as I does not attract him, let him stay off established as early in lite as tney I lt,. river. It is the public s river. formerly did. Economic indepen- anyhow, and as the Banner-Courier dence of women is not a theory but p0int3 out, there should be some plan a fact, and doubtless accounts for devised whereby it would benefit the willingness on tne part or girls to 1 oubllc, postpone marriage. The old ques- I The priCe now paid by canneries tion whether a young man was quali- for choice Chinook salmon is indi- fied to support a wife in the style in which she had been accustomed to being supported has given place to a new one, whether he can support her as she has been accustomed to sup- cative of the condition of the in dustry. It is S cents lower than announced at the opening of last season. Vast quantities of canned salmon are held in storage, for the corner, burden themselves with unneces- anrv ,in,nw and wnrrv a minister with ln- adeauate Dav and petty strife. That is one in every issue, and if it might be cor ot the sins ot the Protestant church of our rect to say it, mystery is apparent. Id times. 1 k.-v. ... ... The rock on which the effort to tight little isle is material for a num- reduce the number of. churches has ber of mysteries in the messages almost. invariably been wrecked has printed where all may read. Some of been the Issue of property, it nas ,hem have a connection, witness thea k nninu in the state of been tne experience or a large num- - subseouent issues Washington raised 6 per cent, they er or small towns, aumiiteiiiy uver- check Cap. I could give you a half have that right. The Washington unurucu, i in spite of your ,pIug rour3.. and ta.. commission, which seems always to w"""- selle(1 garters. 10 Handicap. ... I f t f n nnca than r n niunrtcitinn nr thP I oblige them, may order the railroads ' riva, nntn.al 10 HandicapIf that is the case, to make lower rates within tnat state COmmittee on "sale of P" up and play marbles.-C. C mail tne mieraiaie tuiuiuiaoiuu iitxo I . . " , ., , . . ... . . I That nlnncr hot rrn fn a a moo.. . , i. v. i oia cnurcn Duuuins is lmeiy iu - - '"-"u- nnints In Washington and Oregon have more difficulties to overcome of cloaking communications is ap P0'"1 n.,.?Vi.n?' t " ,Ti rn than all the rest of the committees Parent from the following: rise: Which commission shall the Put together. Yet there" would be Tomato.-Boobl-Dream Song. ,onw,.,i. hev interstate or state? a certain economy in the long run it PIggle-Wiggie. You can go to some of these duplicated plants market. I shall bide at home. Telka. could be scrapped. If a New Eng- Pansy. Go into the garden and seu land town, with all of its inherent jf i'm there. White Rabbit New England conservatism, can find a way to solve the problem, railroads obey, interstate or state The sound ports will get an answer in no uncertain terms, which will add materially to their evidently de ficient knowledge of the interstate Obviously rates from the inland there will be hope for every church empire to Puget sound cannot be community in the I'niteaatates. . changed witnoui aiiecwiB " " v. ...to i ,v ri entire to Portland and Cherries from the Sacramento val- Vancouver. Some of those rates are ley graced the market yesterday at Interstate, some intrastate. The su- a dox. xney are xoou ior pe,, preme court of the United States in who can afford to dissolve pearls In deciding the Shreveport case held vinegar. More proteins and vita- .,,, federal and state au- mines will be found in a five-dollar thority entered the same field, fed- bill fried on both sides and eaten eral authority should dominate IO ....... -j-- the exclusion of state authority, 'lhat principle has since been embodied in Deep stuff, can you fathom these: Towers. Prepare for prompt actioi and a big leap. H. Chatterbox. Gare de Lyon, 18th, noon. Bed Gauntlet. R. T. Groups of four;, then it is easily achieved. We'll say these four are very easily understood: Jack. Decidedly no! Cynthia, If It means me, you're wrong. Helena, S. Now we understand each T.tnn ronntv Pomona has adoDted ther: make yourself scarce: Nam .:.r.ZZ rRKnltlon favorm recall of tne "Will you walk into my parlor, STSSSS ides county court aegi a number of said The Spider to The Ply, U C. , ntA .nrnm acirtrt a laCIS IO BUSldlU avuuu. uc iwuii " ' r. in,...Htis of similar effort in Polk county a few And now for the wall of aching nrougnt in - montna ag0 should make these hearts, lovers in the first, a blasted I. ;r,b,.H hv the Grangers hesitate. affair possibly in the other liia.1 '. i .."c . " 1 I . j . , interstate commission "shall be ob- -uBuu. ku..u.xu. c.s, vu , the law of any state I Oregon democrats are in a terrible I we not meet again. I am greatly ji-i f onv etnte anthoritv I fret because they can t decide on a I interested. Jack O'Hearts. " ,., r.twHht!.ndinn-" candidate for governor. If they'll Mercia. "It might have" been." For to ine cuuw.j .w.. ........ .-,. Trn,,hle TWiltn A v , . The Section 13, subdivision 3, Of tne I F W"- - ever, umi win iri mjr mcniai lament. TTi-Cnmmtns case also gives rail- Adieu. casu. ,,t t onniv to the inter. I the issue their worries will be ended state commission for modification of quickly enough. rates or orders of state commissions . and authorizes the interstate com- That manln jail for winning an- mission to modify them. "- n""vi a r,titiitinn!,ntv of these nro- he 11 rot there before he pays the visions has been affirmed in advance judgment against him. The secret of 8easone(1 aKiers w,u assure you that this is not a far-fetched statemen and many of them may confess that they have silver and even golde trolling spoons in their tackle boxes. Manufacturing jewelers are frequent ly called on to'do jobs of this char- Apparently the English surpass us at this interesting game. 4 You hear of the children born with a silver spoon, but what of the salmon caught with a golden one? Properly by the supreme court in the Shreve- his poker success, quite plainly,; Is port case. The general advance in i tes ordered bv the inter- I :,ts remission last August was The controversy Detween judge challenged by Iowa and several other Rossman and the clergymen is not to states, the cases were taken to tne federal courts and in all of them the authority of the interstate commis sion was upheld as overriding that of the states. In view of the Shreveport decision and of the plain language or the subsequet enactment, there is no room for doubt as to how the su preme court will decide an appeal in those cases' or any that may be made in the Columbia basin case, If the Washington commission should make an order as desired by the sound ports, it would directly challenge the authority of the in terstate commission over intrastate rates. While the latter has made no formal order and has limited itself to recommendations that the rail roads revise rates on the lines that it Indicates, it implies readiness to go farther by saying that it will make no order "for the present." Nothing could more quickly arouse it to ac tion than a direct attack on its au thority, especially one nullifying the effect of its decision. In such an event the railroads to which the state's order would be di rected would be between two fires. If they r disobeyed the state, they would be liable to penalties. If they obeyed the state, the interstate com mission might be expected promptly to issue an order giving mandatory effect to its recommendations. Again the railroads would be subject to penalties. Their way of escape would be to appeal to the interstate com miminTi for Tirotection from the con sequences of obeying it rather han the state. That protection wotild surely be given and, , if the Washing ton commission and the sound ports should go into the federal court, the result would ba the same as in the passenger rate cases. The railroads ( be taken seriously. These excellent gentlemen desire the same result, but have different views as to-its attain- I acler. uniy last ween AiDert uiauss ment. j had a set of spoons belonging to John A Goltz of the police department in There is a story to the effect that his shop. Clauss plated them with Bill Haywood has been engaged by 1 gold. However some anglers assur Lenine and Trotsky to do propa- I us that the expert with the gold danda work, but it is a safe bet that I plated spoons and elaborate tackle he won't do any in the United States. I often has no better luck than the fellow with a spoon made from a The old Gambrlnus brewery build- I piece of tomato can. ing is to be converted into an apart ment house. Breaking up a big one into several small ones, eh? Electroliers do much towards making city streets attractive at nle-ht linn1 with Its WAAlth of tivrirn- LUOUWUCUK custullCM. Ot a lW PnrMonrt maVe.. .n permuting ouimij ua3eua.ll playing I ., ,!-. tj.. .v,, i ,. atones for a lot of "blue laws" passed downtown that l8 sedom Ilghted. Th in the early days. standards are all set, the lamps and globes in place and kept in repair. but the current is not turned on. The Portland bank clearings for about f V, eteentli month in a r-rvar are far ahead of Seattle's. -Now let's have "ock fems t0 ?ave ampIe "ehtfrom another rensus. the windows of a department store ana tne management must rigure tnat Some rains nredieted." sava lny wouia ratner spend tneir money headline. Weather bureau forecasts for "ht to be reflected from their windows and save the city. a bill than this season are singularly lacking in originality. If Mount Hood really is fuming there's some provocation for it, con sidering the lowly position of the Beavers. to "have any counter bright lights draw attention from their displays. THE SCOUT. ANXIOUS. Bonos in Eaatera States. BEND, Or., May 1. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me whether or not Newberrv and Ford one-ht to. he i Pennsylvania and Delaware have satisfied. There are no corrupt prac- Passe(l bonus billa, for ex-service men tires in n Michitrfln nenntorinl ele, I . tion. Cash compensation laws were pend The Beavers do not heed to win a I Ing In Pennsylvania and Delaware at l-to-0 game to show they can play I last reports received . by American good ball. I Legion headquarters here. For def inite information concerning their Naturally the discussion of the I fate write the secretary of state in terminal matter Eeems interminable. Pennsylvania and in Delaware. At the next meeting of the state highway ' commission bids will be called for grading a ten-mile section of The Dalles-California highway In Jefferson county. C. C. Kelley, regis tered at the Imperial, with Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer, se lected the section for improvement a few days ago. The highway engineer picked the mileage south from the Jefferson-Wasco county line. It will start somewhere on Cow creek can yon, will follow Trout creek and will go through the small opening known as Lyle Gap. This section, which now Lhas a heavy grade, will be reduced so that the steepest grade w.iu oe 6 per cent. The people of Madras wanted the work to start from that town and go north, but the engineers preferred improving the worst section, which was the mileage they elected for advertising. This highway has already been Improved south from Madras to the Deschutes county lin. 'The taxes In Umatilla county amount to about $1,500,000 this year. nd we have already collected more than ,(750,000," says 55oe Houser, sher iff and tax collector, who passed through Portland yesterday from Sa lem, where he brought a prisoner. I thought when tax-paying time ar rived we'd be doing pretty well if we collected only a portion of the first half of the taxes, but we have collected more than half the total mount. There is every indication of a great wheat crop this year, espe cially in the light land In the south ern end of the county. The wheat is now knee high and Is beginning to head. Wheat growers are readjust ing their operating expenses and men are being paid $40 on the farms, and there is an abundance of help avail able at that wage. With the way the price of wheat has slumped it has become absolutely necessary to readjust production costs.". Roads are good and no one is being lost or stuck in the mud be tween Portland and San Francisco." reports C. N. Moore of Billings, Mont., who arrived in his machine yester day from the south. Mr. Moore went to California with a view to locating, but Uecided he would return to Mon tana unless he locates in Portland. He is a livestock auctioneer. "When the Pacific highway is paved in Ore gon it will be a nice two-day auto mobile run from Portland to San Francisco," said he. "Even as the roads are now, with detours, I made it in two days and a half, which isn't bad. Oregon is the most beauti ful country I have seen and after looking around California for a fe months the verdure of Oregon cer talnly is magnificent. Five camps have been established by the contractors who have the jo of grading the Ochoco highway be tween Prlneville and the Ochoco for est, according to N. G. Wallace, judge of Crook county. Judge Wallace, wh Is at the Imperial, is in the city with respect to the north unit Irrigation project. The road contractors are getting under way as rapidly as pos sibie, and should have the grade built to the forest line this season Through the forest there is a road built by the government. On the other end is the town of Mitchell, which wants the road at that end improved so as to connect with th forest road and thence on to Prine vllle. 'When a fellow works steadily for a length of time he needs a rest, said B. W. Sawyer of Seattle, regis tered at the Multnomah. - "Complet relaxation will usually put a man in trim so that he can return to hi work with new vim and vigor, which Is impossible in the brain-worried person. Business Isn't mad with us, although, of course, we notice the depression. From all reports I can gather, the east has suffered much mom than the Pacific coast. The northwest is a particularly favored spot and will progress remarkably.' St. Paul, Minn., is the home of sev eral of the largest flour milling con cerns In the world. It is also the home of Mrs. L. Farrlngton, who is registered at the Multnomah. "I like Portland and its people and am al ways glad to be In the Rose City,' said Mrs. Farrlngton. "Portland 1 the adopted home of many prominent St. Paul people, so of course when I am in this city it isn't like being in a strange community. Nearly every time I come to Portland I meet peo ple I know in St. Paul." Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic manager for the Southern Pacific, with headquarters at San Francisco, reached the Portland hotel yesterday afternoon from Puget sound, accom panied by John M.-Scott, general pas senger agent for lines in Oregon, last week and went on to the north ward, presumably Interested in tour ist traffic for the summer season. He will remain In and about Portland this week. Mr. Scott will take him over the electric lines in the Willam ette valley and show him a good many square miles of orchard bloom One. of the most active residents of Prairie City, Or., is H. F. Kelley, who bobs into Portland every little while. Mr. Kelley, an arrival at the Impe rial, has about- 30,000 acres and is interested In the livestock industry. Recently he bought one of the big gest "outfits" in Montana; Perfectly satisfied with the present as well as the future Is R- H. Wood of Dayton, registered at the Hotel Ore gon. Mr. wood, who is a nop grower, has contracted his crops for the next few years at a price which is quite to his liking. Klamath Falls is a payroll town and the payrolls have been somewhat shy because of the closing of the mills, but notwithstanding that things are quiet, Klamath Falls is a mighty good and enterprising town," declares C. H. Underwood at the imperial. W. A. Smith of Glide, Or.. Is at the Imperial. Glide is a poatoffice about 18 miles northeast of KoseDurg, which is its nearest shipping point. There are about a score of people at Glide. Conveyance Method Eyed. Turin Numero. The Woman "Did you hear that our local weather forecaster Is tryin' to get transferred?" "No, I didn't. So. What's the trouble?" "He says the climate doesn't agree with him." I It oss Island and Oak Park Vicinity Have Exposition Advantage. , PORTLAND, May t. (To the Edt itor.) Having had much experience for many years I. handling large crowds, I wish to offer a few sug gestions relative to the best location, in my judgment, for the 1925 exposi tion. In offering these suggestions I wish to state emphatically I have nothing to sell to the fair board and am not Interested In any real estate. nor is there any real estate In this location to be offered for sale. The suggestions herein made are from a civic standpoint only. In my opinion the best location would be Ross Island, Oaks park and the adjacent territory. The slough opposite the Oaks park contains 2u0 acres. This could easily be filled In by dredges from the Willamette river, which la close by. This property. 1 understand, could be easily acquired rrom the Portland Railway, Light & Powe.- company for the use of the fair without any. expense ex cop t the filling In. The space after filling in would be a mile and a half long by three-quarters of a mile at Its widest point, which would be ample room tor streets and floral gardens, lagoon and all kinds of exposition building. After ruling in the grounds would b above high water. This site offers many advantage". In the first place, traffic to and from the grounds Is one of the most Im portant features. In this respect we have east of this location the South ern Pacific railway, paved streets and the Sellwood broad-gauge double tracks. West of this we i.ave the troad-gauge double Intorurban tracks running to Oregon City through thes grounds, then comes the beautiful Willamette river, then the Fulton streetcar line. A few blocks from this streetcar line we have the Southern Paelflo interurban cars, then the Pacific highway. With the steamers on the river and the rail facilities which are now provided all the neces sary traffic could be take i care of with very little exptnse. The aviation field? could be Incorporated In this site whereby aviation could be made one of the features. Several hundred acres of vacant land just a few blocks east of this location could be used for parking automobiles. There Is space enjugh here to. park 25,000 or 50.000 cats, and service st-tions could be provided. After this slough opposite the Oak Park is filled In, beautiful lagoons could be made at small expense. An Inlet at the upper end of this loca tion could be made where water from the Willamette river would flow through for the benefit of the lagoons These lagoons could be electrified and, with gondolas and pleasure boats, a wonderful recreation space could ba had. . At the upper end of this space the. bank provides a natural ampnt theater where 60.000 to 100,000 people could he seated easily. All modern games could be staged there tease ball games, race tracks, livestock shows and other events could take place In this stadium. In the center of this ground miniature Eiffel tower could be erect ed. This tower could be Illuminated witn thousands of electric lights. Elevators could be installed carrying people to an observation tower 200 feet hleh. Kaleidoscope search lighta could be Installed here that could be thrown all over the city and a cap tive balUon could ascend and descend from this observation tower. This alectrlc tower would enable visitors to view the country for 100 miles, showing all the snow-capped moun tains. In mv opinion this would be a wonderful adJuni-t to thv fair. Power lines for electrifying the fair are al ready installed. This is another im portant item. Ross Island Is only a stone a tnrow from this location and could be In corporated also by building a rustic bridge. The Oaks park la anotner location that Is available that Is known from one end of the United States to the other as a famous amusement park. This would make. Including Eastmoreland, 1500 acres for the fair site which. In my judg ment, would be ample. This site is almost In the heart of the city and, from the traffic stand point, would be worth thousands of dol'ars to ihe fair board. They would have thousands of visitors that would come to the fair on account of th short distance that they would not get If they were seven or ten miles away. Another Important Item would be the expense of building railways to most of the locations suggested. I am Inclined to think that the Portland Railway, Light & Tower company at the present time, and for several j vea-i to come. Is In no position to build additional railroad lines. There fore, the money tnat woura nave m be expended by the fair committee for additional railroad -service wouia on set the cost of dredging the river an filling In the space of the Ross Islan .tie nn aneount of this ample space be Inir an central thousands of people could visit tne lair wiwmui unm atreetcars or the river. This item alone would bring in thousands t dollars of admissions to the fa board that could not be counted upo if th fair were held too lar away. Another Important Item Is th beauty of the location. It Is sur rounded with scenic environment that onnnot be urDaed and la fre r nMection&ble factories. There la not a single thing that would mar the sensibilities of the most aestnetic jvn.. i . More Truth Than Poetry. Or Jun J. Mo IN TIIR RA4K. He cultivates politeness And niak.s of It an art. He says, "Nice day!" in that bright way That simply wins your heart, lir a always glad to see you. lou read that in hta smile. Your visit there, you're aoon aware. Makes life well worth his while, He asks about your mother And all (our kith and kin. (We're speaking ot tha te.ler That takes your money in.) lie's stern and stiff and haughty. He's always runhed for time. He teems to think you're on the brink Of some atrocious crime. He views you with suspicion; Your soul, his searchutic look Goes through and through, aa if he knew That you were some smooth crook. And though you look quite honest You don't resolve his doubt. (We're speaking of the teller That paya the money out ) And much the tame thing happena In eveiy other game; tor you will find that human kind 'la pretty much the same. Ihey are pleasant; are the people That you give money to; But on their guard and boiled qulla hard .Are those who pay to you. . And when we think It over, Aa we hand out our pelf. Or take It In, we notice. We're much that way oursclf. It Can't lie Hone. Film regulating bills miRht he all right If there were any way to nut sense Into censorship. We Lite and I. ram. Wo confess that until Mr. Harding came to New York to dedicate that statue we had always supposed that ttoiivar was an elephant. Ton Kaay. The next time the allies permit the Oermans to retire In aood order they'll make 'em adopt a pay-as-you-go policy. (Copyright, mil, h the Bell syndicate, Inc Burroughs Nature Club. I j ropyrlckt, Hoaabton-Mlmin C. Can Tost Answer Tkeae (tnratlonaf 1. Do poison snakes strike with their tongues? 2. Can a chicken lay more than one egg a day.? For instance, can 70 eggs be laid in 60 days by one hen? 3. Why are apple trees usually raised from grafts Instead of from seed? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. a Answer to Previous Question. 1. How big will an alligator grow? Before alligator skin became fash ionable for bags, purses, etc. alli gators used to be found In Florida! rrom I to 15 feet long. The commer clal value of the hide brought abou a great reduction in the alllsato population, and an old specimen of at much as 13 feet la now a rarity. An other destructive Influence la th habit of tourists In taking baby alii gators home for curlosiilm. The seldom live. A newly hatched one is about eight Inches long. Wny Is alfalfa sometimes Brow to Improve a field? Plants get their food both from al and aoll. and soil becomes drained nf us nitrogen, a rich plant food, afle many crops have fed from It. Alfalfa and other plants of the legume type have a peculiar faculty of giving nitrogen to the soil Instead of taking u out. iney nave Irving on the! roots groups of minute oraanlam that somehow enable the nlant to aosoro a great deal or nitrogen from the air Instead of the aoll, and In these groups of organisms, oalled noouiea, the valuable nitrogen I stored and spread into the surround ing sou, enriching it. 3. What is the Quickest crovlni tree : This Is too general a question, as trees vary greatly In their rata of growtn in different locations. In the tropics growth Is like magic, but th same trees would gain very slowly If they lived at all in a cold climate. In North America the Lombard pon-r lar, an Introduced tree from abroad. is commonly reputed ona of ih. quickest growing trees, but it is usu ally snort lived. SOME FAULTS OF CHEST DKIV Writer Believes Betler Beanlls Could Be H T Cfcange of Method, PORTLAND. May 2. (To the Edi tor.) Now that the community ches drive Is over. I wlsn to voice aom criticism and make a euggestlo which I'm sure most- parties con cerned. including despised solicitors, will Indorse. Of course, in seeking am tor in needv wa always find those who have choked all natural pity out of their hearts by thelr-nabliuai seir- indulgence or who never give even a little unless they are sure of being nrnnerlv credited publicly, caring lit tie what the requested gift Is "for. But. aside from this abomtnabi class, I find the majority of people till have a wholesome conviction as to what Institutions tney snouia sup port. That religious and civic con viction plays a big part here is only natural. Several organizations were on tne charity chest list which I found In mv rounds have no-general reputa tion as being charitable, but rather the reverse. It is the opinion of good-hearted people who held back not only that the mayor substitutes presumption for reason but that every organization snouia solicit sup port on its own merit. No deserving organization should be made the tail of a kite or be compelled to share with those objected to by its pros pective donors lest it get no funds. Let the charitable institutions ar range themselves Into three groups, each of kindred spirit and mutual confidence, thus eliminating unde serving ones, and let each group have Its drive and tney win get more puo- lio "good will" next year. Meantime I urge those who held back, sincerely or not, to give now where they know or can ascertain its great need. "If one having this world's goods and seeing his brother in need hard eneth his heart, how dwelleth the love of God In him?" U A. -K&IUHAX. I Temptation. By Grace K. Hall. 'TIs long since I have prayed God. hear me now' I have not asked to have my will or way. Nor begged that laurel might entwine my nrow. Ivor wealth be mine. In truth, from day to day I have been patient, bearing what was sent, Striving as best I might to do my part. Have felt but passing impulse to re sent The stings of life that leave so keen a smart. But I have come at last upon a trail That leads to vistas that 1 fair. would know. The lure Is great my earthly strength may rail Hear then thy child who needs thee need thee so! I would Ignore this trail In every part. My eyes I fain would close and cease to see. But It begins, O God, in my own heart For blindness I must pray to th to thee! In Other Days. Fitly Tears Ago. From The Oreannlan of slay S. 17! Versailles. Negotiations for the surrender of Fort Isay failed, and the bombardment has recommenced It Is now very violent. The German papers declare It ab solutely necessary to obtain posses sion of Hellogoland. It in argued that If Germany owned the Inland she might reduce her naval forces one half. Superintendent Meacham has sent messengers to collect strolling In dlans throughout the state and place them on reservations. Twenty-five Years Ago. From Tha Oreaonlan of Mav 1. IM. San Francisco. Careful Inquiry has been completed as to how the Pacific tales will vote at the republican na tional convention In SL Louis. The canvass shows that McKlnley Is by one odds the favorite candidate for the- presidential nomination. New York. A Herald dispatch from London says: "Underground excite- ent and resentment here agalns' he German emperor Is very much ke the feeling which existed l:. ranee against Bismarck. Last Tuesday some expert thief raided the flumes of Helms A Co. on Louse creek In Josephine county and carried oft a pile of amalgam. 1