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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1921
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK.
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This work of the Near East Relief
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ping millions to solve their future
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THE DEVIL QUOTES SCRIPTURE.
Professors in the University of
.Berlin have found a new indictment
. of America. It is becoming a femi
nine nation. For proof the professors,
it is told by the correspondent Von
Wlegand, point to American news
papers. "
Women and sex life dominate news In
America, ft is declared. Women, sex.
divorces, killing of men by women who
assert they were wronged, their diaries
and the trials, salacious testimony, are
chief features of the news columns of
American metropolitan newspapers which
reach us.
One. would think from New York news
papers that there are no other problems,
certainly no greater problems. In the
world today than the relations between
men and women relations as old as cre
ation itself.
So comments one of them.
It is not a difficult undertaking to
indict a nation or its newspapers on
the score of that which appears in
the press provided one selects one's
own material and discards all that
counterbalances the evidence in sup
port of whatever one attempts to
prove. Out of the mass of mate
rial that the' newspaper handles in
the course of a few days or weeks,
one, by this interesting process, could
prove anything under the sun
Nor is it a novel practice. Upton
Sinclair in the Brass Check sifts out
just what he wants and nothing
else and convicts the American press
of strong capitalistic leanings and
other crimes. But the practice is
far, far older than the day of Sinclair
or the Berlin professor as a prac-
tice, but as regards other than newspapers:
"Mark you this, Hassamo, quotn
.. Antonio, "The devil can cite scrip
ture for his purpose."
xy coincidence mere appears al
most concurrently with the Von Wel
gand dispatch, a short survey of
newspapers In confers weeKiy. lis
. finiiintrj 1lllAW?
" Four good typical American newspapers,
neither sensational nor staid, are the New
lorK sun, tne .New lora urm, me ivaii
sas City Star and The Portland Oregonian.
We have put a printer's rule on the inches
of space these four papers gave, on three
-'- consecutive days last week, to the various
"-kinds of news. Here Is the daily average,
all four papers:
Sports and fun 321
' Women's pages (fashions, cooking, chil
dren) 135
Government: Federal, state and city.. 1-5
Business lift
Foreiern affairs 104
Crime SO
Germany and later between Russia
and Poland. When the bolshevists
had crushed Denikin, they made a
dash for Baku, the metropolis of the
Caspian field.
In this race the United States and
Britain are the chief contestants, for
they have ;the greatest merchant
marines, navies, railroad systems (if
the British empire be taken as a
whole) and the greatest industrial
systems, but France is a good third.
The British are already operating in
the United States and, if this country
should adopt a policy of exclusion, it
would hit them hardest. They have
great undeveloped areas in their
colonies, have found good prospects
in New Guinea and may strike it
rich in Africa- Th rare will be
long and keen, for the nation with I
abundant reserves of oil will be su
preme in war and commerce.
Music and drama 44
Bis-amv and divorce - 40
Prohibition -
Society 1
Labor and wages 10
Newspapers print what the public likes
to read. How does your own newspaper
balance ?
The figures given by Colliers are
doubtless a fair average as to quan-
title's of the different classes of news
furnished day by day. At particular
times the figures would vary. .Big
amy and divorce," with a Stillman
ana a ctoKes case on trial at uie
same time, would show a greater
number of inches. A present survey
of New York newspapers would re
veal a greater amount tf space de
voted to "prohibition," for a wide
spread campaign of law enforcement
is under way and is productive of an
" unusual quantity of news of a kind
the public demands.
The newspaper selects its news not
wholly on the basis of what the
public wants. News is not made by
the newspaper. -The newspaper is a
dispenser of news. The availability
or the non-existence of the various
kinds of news on a given day pre
vents a uniform feat of balancing.
But the plain conclusion from Col
liers' is that the German devil is
quoting scripture for his purpose.
-" "If the stranger in your country,'
'runs' on the professor aforemen
tioned, "is to judge by your news
papers he can come to no other
conclusion than that the chief
thought of American men and wom
en is about the relations between
the sexes and that American edi
tors consider that of paramount Im
portance In public thought."
Yes, indeed, Bassanio. Whatever
one desires to believe about us fce
nan Tirnvp in a nnantitativa wflv hv
amnlnvlnv a rlinninir hiircnn in sorirl
him all the supporting material it
can find in the press on the subject
and nothing else.
POLITICAL, INDEED! N
It is of course that newspaper
which most often lectures others on
the evils of hide-bound partisanship
which discovers politics in the New
berry decision of the United States
supreme court. This from the demo
cratic Eugene Guard:
The supreme court has reversed the con
viction of Senator Newberry of Michigan.
found guilty by a Jury of bribery and cor
ruption in the senatorial elections. How
ever, this Is no surprise, since Newberry
is very much richer than Henry Albers
and the administration "is under greater
obligations to him for his help .In organiz
ing the . senate to defeat the Versailles
peace treaty.
To just what administration does
the supreme court belong? The jus
tices are appointed for life. They
are not removable by the president.
The supreme court is now the iden
tical supreme court which sat dur
ing all of Woodrow Wilson's second
term. Three of the associate jus
tices were appointed by Woodrow
Wilson and all three of these Wilson
appointees agreed that the Newberry
case should be reversed. They were
joined by Chief Justice White, who
is a democrat, and by every other
member. While the court divided
on the constitutionality of that por
tion of the law which attempts to
regulate congressional primaries, the
court was unanimous in holding that
the case should be reversed.
It is also heard from democratic
newspapers, big and little, that Attorney-General
Daugherty was the
arch villain in Albers' case and
there are hints that political pres
sure gained the confession of error
from the department of justice.
Yet the brief in the Albers case
was read by Solicitor-General Frier
son, it was the solicitor-general who
expressed the belief that Albers
should not have been convicted and
it was he who confessed error and
submitted to reversal without a,
fight.
Solicitor-General Frlerson is a
southern democrat and is a hold
over appointee of the democratic
administration.
LANDING OF THE PILGRIM BOT.
Of course, when the Mayflower
sailed she carried among other Items,
certain little folk boys and girls
who accompanied their parents to
the New England snore, and who
have been somewhat slighted in his
tory. The Pilgrim fathers1 there's
the old familiar phrase of the school
books but never a word of the Pil
grim mothers, or the Pilgrim kiddies.
So when we have a thought of the
latter, invariably we perceive demure
little maidens, as gray as doves, toil
Developments of the 1830's, viewed
in the perspective of almost a cen
tury, warrant the conclusion that if
it had not been for the missionary
spirit Oregon would not. now be a
state in the United States. The
gradual modification and subsequent
enlargement of the primary mission
ary scheme, which began with a
movement to carry the gospel to the
Indians, developed into a plan to
prepare the natives for the inevitable
competitive struggle with the new
forces of civilization, and at length
was transformed into the nucleus
of an American state, with American
civic, moral and educational 'ideals,
is one of the most romantic episodes
in statecraft in the history of the
world.
It is now understood that these
missionaries had an early glimpse
of the new era for which they had,
tnougn perhaps unwittingly, pre
pared the way, and their foresight
The Listening Post.
W hat la Burled Under City
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capacity, in the larger sense, for
their historic task. That in every
material particular . the missionary
scheme failed to accomplish Its first
chimerical purpose does not detract
from its enormous significance- The
beginnings of education, the first
practices in democratic government
and the foundation of civil order
were 'coincident with the early youth
of Cyrus Walker, whose privilege
it was to have lived to experience
lng at mottoed samplers: or studious. . , . h , V ""nonwealtu
li.Hs, minintur nt ir 1 than faI1 to the 1' t the vast ma-
and practical adaptability attest their4lectric cmPny purchased the hy
SAVING A MILLION LIVES.
The report of the Near East Relief
for the year ended December SI,
19C0, makes an amazing showing for
the organized benevolence of Ameri
cans. The region in which its work
was conducted was one only vaguely
known until recently by yousg stu
dents of geography. Prior to the
war, it is safe to say that the name
Anatolia would have awakened no
mental image in the mind of the
average American. That there was
a Georgia in Asia was unknown to
most of us. Yet in these countries,
and In Turkey, Persia, Syria, Pales
tine, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia and
the Trans-Caucasus, the American
committee has saved in all probabil
ity more than a million lives of
people who had no means of helping
themselves.
The cost, according to the report,
was a little more than 155,000,000,
f f ahmit fnw A-lnh 1 i f r. ...... .J D.
v. uwuuv crawl IIIG M JlfcC-
lief payments in cash for the year
amounted to $39,856,588. Flour
worth ,12,800,000, furnished by the
jioover reitet administration, was
distributed. Medical and other sup
plies contributed by the American
Red Cross were valued at $2,600,000.
JThese were employed in the estab
lishment of sixty-three hospitals, 128
clinics, 229 orphanages, and eleven
rescue homes. The number of chil-
THE WORLD RACE FOR OIL.
The note which Minister Phillips
sent to the Dutch government in
regard to oil concessions in the
Dutch East Indies has an Importance
far beyond that immediate field. It
sets out a policy which the admin
istration may pursue regarding oil
both .at home and in all foreign
countries. The state department ex
presses mild resentment that a con
cession was granted to a Dutch sub
sidiary of the Shell company, to the.
exclusion of any American company.
It is intimated that, if Americans
are to be shut out of foreign oil
fields, the United States may exclude
foreign interests from its public land
and may go even far.tlier a hint
that foreign ownership of private
American oil land and refineries may
be extinguished if the American
policy of equal opportunity should
be rejected by other nations.
Equal opportunity an enlarge
ment of the open door principle
which John Hay established for
China-is the policy for which the
Wilson administration declared in
Mesopotamia. The Harding admin
istration seeks to secure entrance for
Americans to the oil field of Co
lombia by effecting a reconciliation
with that country. Oil is the most
important subject of discussion with
Mexico. Americans aim to develop
the oil fields of Venezuela. No ex
clusive rights for this nation are
claimed, but watch is kept against
monopoly by any other nation, espe
cially on the American hemisphere.
The justice of the American claim
is founded on the fact that this coun
try produces four-fifths of the
world's oil supply and that its re
pources show signs of falling short,
largely in consequence of our meet
ing the needs of other countries,
while our own wants increase with
growing use of oil as fuel. While
the United States is still the greatest
oil producer, it is also the grea'st
oil consumer and with a shrinking
domestic supply our wants Increase.
This is much more than a matter
of securing equal opportunity for
American investors In search of prof
itable investment abroad. Oil has
become a necessary of national life
for this and other civilized nations.
All new warships burn oil. . Return
to coal as fuel for thern is out of
the qvestion, for a coal-burning fleet
would be hopelessly outclassed by
an oil-ourning rivai. wii-Duruuig
engines and motors are fast sup
planting coal burners on merchant
ships, and without oil our merchant
marine would soon be crippled. Mo
tor transport is essential in both war
and peace it . saved verdun for
France and gasoline is indispensa
ble to it until a new fuel is provided
in sufficient quantity. Hence all
nations are in a race for oil.
The race is the keener because the
European nations have recently dis
covered that oil is a necessary of
life and that our extensive develop
ment has left them far behind. They
have not found appreciable quanti
ties in their home territory, therefore
they roam the world in search of it
and their governments grasp af con
trol of companies operating in
foreign fields. Thus the British gov
erntment owns control of the Anglo
Persian, has agreed to divide the
Mesopotamian field with France and
plans a pipe line from Basra to some
port in Palestine. Britain has large
interests in Roumania also and dur
ing the German invasion wrecked
the wells to deprive Germany of the
solemn sires, intent on learning the
text. And the background is that of
6anctlty.
Y'et before we have a gusty sigh
for the pious plight of the Pilgrim
children, we should turn to the jour
nal of William Bradford he who
was second governor of Plymouth
colony and Edward Wlnslow, to
whom the same dignity was given,
for an incident which occurred
while the Mayflower was prowling
along the bleak New England coast
in quest of Plymouth rock. Therein
they wrote:
The fifth day (of December, 1820) we
through God's mercy escaped a great
danger by the foolishness of a boy, one of
Francis Billington's sons, who in his
father's absence had got gunpowder and
had shot off a piece or two and made
squibbs, and there being a fowling piece
charged in his father's cabin shot her off
in the cabin, there being a little barrel of
powder half full scattered in and about
the cabin, the fire being within four feet
or the bed between the decks, and many
flints and iron things about the cabin, and
many people about the fire,, and yet, by
Ood s mercy, no harm done.
Thus the first American boy was
spared to land at Plymouth rock,
with tough and limber hazel switches
growing profusely at hand. And so
no more for that day.
jority of men.
it
output. -The Galician field was the
prize of battle between Russia and , were sent from the United States,
DEATH OF CYRUS H. WALKER.
Cyrus H. Walker, who died at Al
bany yesterday, was the first male
white child born in the Oregon
country between the Cascades and
the Rocky mountarhs, the fifth boy
born In the entire region, and the
second born in that region who grew
to manhood. The first white boy
born west of the Rocky mountains
was Jason Lee White, son of the
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah White, the
date of whose birth was July 10,
1837. Joseph Beers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alanson Beers, members of
the establishment of Jason Lee, the
pioneer missionary enterprise in this
country, was- the second male child
born here and the first to grow to
manhood. The young son of Jason
Lee, born June 26, 1838, died soon
afterward and his mother's death at
about the same time is also a re
minder of the sacrifices by which the
west was won. Henry Johnson Per
kins, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. W,
Perkins, born November 1, 1838, was
the fourth boy, and Cyrus Walker,
born on December 7, 1838, the fifth.
Cyrus Walker was the eighth white
child born in the entire territory and
the third of either sex born east of
the Cascades. His two predecessors
for the latter distinction were Alice
Clarissa Whitman, born at the
Whitman mission on March 14, 1837
the first white child born in the
entire territory who was drowned
in infancy, and Eliza Spalding, later
Mrs. Eliza Spalding Warren, born
November 15, 1837, who died only
recently in eastern Washington.
The - passing of Cyrus Walker
severs another link in the tenuous
chain connecting the present era of
high development of the west with
the first organized effort of Ameri
cans to establish their Institutions in
this region. For the Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Elkanah Walker, parents of
Cyrus Walker, were members of the
only reinforcement sent to Dr. Mar
cus Whitman by the American board
of commissioners for foreign mis
sions, and Mr. Walker's birthplace
the Whitman mission, then known
as Waiilatpu, is rich in historic
memories. The missionary period
antedated by some years that of
pioneer settlement by homebuilders.
but it was Important for its bearing
on the latter, movement as well as
for other reasons. The Walkers
established the branch mission at
Tsimlkain, or Chemekane, near the
present site 'of Spokane, soon after
their arrival and for a number of
years were leaders in a futile en
deavor to bring the benefits of
civilization to the natives of the re
gion now comprised In northeastern
Washington, northern . Idaho and
northwestern Montana.
Some of Cyrus" Walker's school
days were passed at 'the Vhitman
mission, where none who partici
pated in its routine could have failed
to absorb some of the spirit of sacri
fice by which education was made
possible in the west. The Walkers
were among the last to leave the
Spokane district, from which they
withdrew after the Whitman massa
cre, and the ensuing widespread
unrest among the Indians of the en
tire inter-mountain region put an end
to missionary prospects there. But
befween 1838, the year of his birth,
and 1848, when the Walkers re
moved to the more peaceful Willam
ette valley, young Cyrus saw life In
an aspect that can hardly be real
ized by twentieth century boys. The
difficulties of existence were almost
incredible. Modern luxuries were
unknown. The missionaries, inade
quately sustained by those who sent
them to their distant posts, fought
a long and losing battle, the futility
of which only ennobles their mem
ories. The third decade of the nineteenth
century, which is symbolized by men
like Cyrus Walker and women like
Eliza . Spalding Warren, was second
in chronological order of the chap
ters in the story of the wresting of
the west from the aborigines, the
first being the fur trade period Im
mediately preceding it. From the
American viewpoint the second is the
more significant of the two because
the fur trade was largely British in
its trend, while all the missionaries
TRYING TO ESCAPE WORK.
There is, says a recent consular re
port, a rush of emigration to the
south seas. The exodus, we take it.
Wtssumea Importance not as a threat
ened depopulation of the United
States but as an invasion of a region
hardly calculated to support much
more than Its present population.
For the expectant arrival in the So
ciety Islands, or thei.Marquesas or the
Tongas soon discovers that it is no
Eden for bim, and If he has not pro
vided himself w,ith passage home he
soon becomes a beach-comber that
most unhappy of all parasites.
The cause of this invasion,
seems. Is a widely circulated report
that the natives of Oceanica are able
to live without work. It turns out
that this is not literally true; al
though the average Kanaka is not as
busy as a typical American. But if
he works rather less than his white
brother, so also he is perforce con
tent with less. The thought seems
to have escaped these seekers of an
Idlers' paradise that even If they
were able to escape the hurly-burly
of modern existence, they would
necessarily also abandon the con
veniences that go with . it. To be
content with a diet of raw fish rather
than perform the labor of cooking, to
go naked rather than to spin and
weave these may embody a new
philosophy -of contentment or some
thing or other, but to use it seems
like an effort to gloss over plain,
everyday laziness. -And the lazy
man isn't getting much for his pains
nowadavs.
. There Is no escaping he dictum
that we must eat our bread in the
sweat of our faces. No sweat, no
bread in the south seas or anyrf
wliere else. It seems a little strange
that in this day and age even a few
thousand people could be found so
childishly ignorant of this great
principle as to set out on a wild-
goose chase to the tropic seas.
HERE are many strange things
burled under the city of Port
land. A cross-section of one of the
streets would contain an array of
pipes, mains, conduits, sewers and
wires that would astound the layman,
says Carl Shoemaker, ' master fish
warden.
Many year's ago, when Portland
first began to show signs of becom
ing a city, a progressive firm in
stalled a set of hydraulic pressure
mains for elevators. The old elevator
in the Labbe building- was the first
passenger lift In the city to be so
equipped..
With the next progressive epoch
came the electric motor, and the
draulic system and disconnected it, so
that it would be possible to sell elec
tric power to the big building own
ers. The hydraulic mains, built to
w'thstand tremendous pressure by the
Morris Hydraulic company, are yet
under the business section of the city.
This recalls the project that David
Campbell had when ,chief of the Port
land fire department. The immortal
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folk at th Hotels.
Dave had an eye for the future, wasl n the di8trlct tributary to Bristol suits that may 'be otherwise obtained.
endowed with vision and knew that
Portland was destined to be a great
city. He tried to induce the council
to buy the old hydraulic mains and
make them a part of the' city's de
fense against fires. Campbell wanted
the mains extended to the water
front with valves there so that the
flreboats could couple onto them and
reach blazes away from the river,
thus Increasing efficiency. Other
cities even then had the scneme in
"The reindeer industry Is bound to
be an important factor in the develop
ment of Alaska," said H. E.'' Revell.
registered at the Multnomah from
Alaska. "The people of Alaska take
the raising of reindeer for meat and
hides seriously and go about it in a
business-like manner, which is bound
to be productive of results. I can
see no difference between the domes
tic reindeer and the caribou, except
that the reindeer are tame while the
caribou are wild. I saw the first herd
of reindeer brought into Alaska by
the government for experimental pur
poses. Laps were brought into the
country to teach the Indians to raise
reindeer and the Indians took to it
like ducks to water and are now
competent to take care of large herds.
The reindeer is prolific and easy to
manage. -The expense attached to
taking care of a very large herd is
insignificant. The meat is as fine as
any deer meat ana is now being
shipped out of Alaska. In time to
come a very large portion of the meat
supply of the world will be shipped
from Alaska, which was once thought
INLAND ROUTE IS QUESTIONED
Mr. Frlcde Believes Better Local lo
Caa Be Had to Bead.
PORTLAND, May 6.-(To the Edl
tor.) The Oregonian' Sunday sec
tion showing the definite location of
the Inland route 'to California Is ex
ceedingly interesting to one who
has gone over th proposed road. I
believe the people of the state of
Oregon are heartily In favor of the
development of our road systems, and
have undoubted confidence in the In
tegrity of our state Yiighway com
mission. Nevertheless, with the vol
ume of work they have set out to
supervise, divisions of opinion will
arise as to whether they have given
enough consideration always to 'di
rect as to the best route or the
economical outlays that may be saved.
I have before me the sketch of the
planned road from The Dalles to
Madras. It traverses a contour of
country very expensive for road
building, and this statement is sus
tained by the estimate of $1,600,000
for construction, of which Waaco
county proposes bonding itself for
JS.00,000. After this enormous expen
diture the greatest claim that can
be made for this road is the probable
saving of two hours' automobile time
an unproductive waste. The reindeer between Bend and The Dallew.
thrive on a kind of moss which ft I If we expend these large sums with
forages for itself. I believe the big an eye only for tourist travel our
seat of the reindeer industry win be outlays are disproportionate to re
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br James J. Moslsiit,
Bay. which seems to be a naturally While the road is to be built osten
adapted country for raising the ani- sibly for tourist travel, we should not
mals. When the peaple get it out of lose sight of its local importance and
their heads.tbat Alalka is essentially the convenience and interest of local
not an agricultural country hut a residents. I do not wish to be under
mineral country primarily, with rein- stood as saylna- DeoDle alonar the
deer and fishing industries and some present road are not entitled to good
timber, then Alaska win torce aneaa roads, but 1 do declare they can have
-with far more rapid strides than she good roads with a much less expen-
has heretofore made." I diture than 1, 600.000. Then if we
wish to have a road that can serve
I used to be somewhat suspicious the tourist for the best interest of
of a etate senator or a representative the state, as well as a greater num
i i i 1.1 . . , j
. ... '.-J v j .-t r,r u.i that a mpmher I ' iinai. resiucnuj, auuin. iu roau
operation, and now most oi tne ois ." ,.. ,i. already completed from The Dalles
seaports have high, pressure systems "'" ' -" '' "'. via Biggs and Sherman county to
designed so that the boats can be " f"r . -.i-..Ti -.W.V.h Shaniko and Madras.
We are informed by a local con
temporary that Lieutenant-Commander
John A. Beckwith met dis
aster in a recent spelling match
when he insisted on spelling "pogey,
either a salt-water fish or fishing
boat, in a manner that did not con
tent Patrick Kneeland, arbiter of
the contest. The naval officer, whose
sea lore ought to count for some
thing, insisted on "pogie." He was
ruled out as having failed on the
word. Whether Mr. Kneeland's ver
sion of the word is that of the
printed account we have not been
informed. But the fact is that three
standard dictionaries insist on spell
ing it "pogy," and one admits that
it may be spelled pogie at the
pleasure of the user. It would appear
that a grave injustice has been done
the commander, not only as a sea
going salt, but as an accomplished
lexicographer. ,
Dr. Crafts adds to the hilarity of
the nation in his own way- by the
effort to regulate this patch of the
universe. Meanwhile people will go
on, living and dying, occasionally
detaining the stork for a brief visit.
some being good and some very
bad and the rest just middlin .
Multnomah commissioners find
they can dispense with the services
of half -a dozen janitors around the
courthouse, retaining quite a number
to do the work. This is commend
able economy, but "tough" on the
half dozen janitors.
A Nisqually Indian says Mount
Rainier should be called Mount Ta
coma because the latter is an Indian
word meaning, "water, my dear."
In that case Rainier must mean
"more water yet, my dear," so why
change?
coupled in. Here was a system made ' : . woula be a gooi thing i"' road at this time Is a splendid
to order, but for some, unexplained "man ana woman, Oregon J" " "'thlri. ot ?
reason Portland did not purchase the tTgo J Salem for 40 day.nd see " o 'Tattolt would Vole ""bet"
ln at hat time. Doubtless it is ' how the legislature works." said T. T. ?pf " "ou ld. Pr0 a "A1!
are uacijr n
too late now they
rotted away. . ,
Women admire the clean-appearing
man. he who is well groomed. Two
young women last week escorted a
boy, about 6- years of age, to the bar-
Rennett. renresen tat Ive of Coos coun
ty, registered at the Imperial. "I
found the members of the legislature
high-minded men, with a sincere wish
to accomplish good for the state. Few,
if any. had a selfish motive. They
were industrious, hard-working, serl-
ous men of unquestioned iniesruy
and they were of a high order of in-
ber shon in the Northwestern Bank ' tellie-ence. I would be perfectly will
building. In the shop at the same ' lng to be tried with the legislature as
time was a, little girl, about the same
age as the boy, waiting for her daddy,
The grown-up women watched with
interest the skillful barbers as they
slipped their keen razors over the
lathered faces, and threw many ap
preciative glances at the handsome
males as they left the chairs, fresh
and clean. The young man got his
turn, stepped into the' chair for his
haircut, and the young lady, not to be
outdone by the older ones of her sex
present, kept cfoBe watch on the
transformation. When the job was
completed she did not try to restrain
her admiration and the boy was fully
aware of ner glances mi au
changed from the covert to the open
The youngsters exchanged smiles, and
he left tne shop with the two women,
turning at the door to throw one last
rogui&u look at his fair charmer.
All three girls apparently had a
good time. Six. 16 and Zb are not so
far apart, after all.
proposed to be located over Tygh
valley and practically paralleling the
proposed road. The Sherman county
read has sufficient merit to have re
ceived the state highway commission
ers' promise to accept the present
road through Sherman county and
make a highway of it. Why build
two roads of such Importance par
alleling each other 20 miles apart,
wtth probably at the most two hours'
longer drive by automobile? What
traveler In search of the charms of
the state will complain of a driveway
TIIKRK ARE rKOI'I.K ASD PKOrLK.
There was a certain manager
Whose shows were mostly glrla.
And. girls who were hut little more
Than brown and iroidrn
He brought the show to old New York
Ana. simple truth to tell.
Though criilea panned It out of hand
It really did uulte well.
For though the somewhat human race
e ao not like to knock.
It's really true that quite a few
Are fond of shows that shock.
There wag another manager
Who chuckled when he got
A play that had a very bad
Or wholly vicious niot.
He brought (he show to old New Tork,
Ana tnougn ioiks more or less
Were scandalised, as he surmised.
It made a big success.
We hate to paste the human race
Which we belong to. but.
There's quite a lot who like a plot
That'i very largely smut.
Another manager put on '
A play of elmp'.e life.
The sort of show to which you'd go
And take your kids and wife.
And now there're crowds around th
door
Who clamor and entreat.
And think they've struck a run of luck
If they can get a seat.
For though some members of our race
Are low and base and mean.
There's more you know, who like a I
snow
That's absolutely clean.
s
Aay Rate Tkcy Make Tbesaaelvra.
The railroads are willing to accept I
Business at any rate.
s
Frartlrally Notalna.
Hotel prices In the big cilies havs
dropped so far that the average clerk
can buy a dinner for himself and wife
lor less than two weeks' wage.
'
Obsolete.
since tne booze raiders went to I
work the express-Ion, "You can search
me!" has disappeared from our lan-1
guage.
Copyright. 11)21, by the Bell Syndicate,
inc.i
Burroughs Nature Club.
a Jury, for they would give me a fair
and Impartial hearing. The legisla
ture, mav make some mistakes in
: , ..... v. .. . te ihftsa mistakes
a?e not Jntenonai, hut are due to th. " '"Jo " thta rout. InvolvW. only
liability of human nature to err. tw hours longer time?
1 "11. k.,no. m.mher of the le-gr-T Th8n- 'rm standpoint to
. ih T r-annot Interest the traveler let us give him
.1 J", .""-" " the best we can, and what could be
more advantageous to spread the
1 eerreo -
gVrnTrevine""! nevef dmflnd th? south and having seen the mar-
? 5..1V.i...tj oii m,r motor velous mountain scenery to be
such a name." observed J. n.. wnson
of Prineville at the Imperial. Then
up stepped an overseas veteran with
an axDlanatlon. "In France," said the
former servioe men, "there was
little jerkwater road near Bordeaux,
which had a most peculiar looking
locomotive, with a low, short body
and a very long eUick, with a bulge
on top. The Yanks calu?d the outfit
the galloping goose because tne
It's the season for engagement
ringa, say the clerks in Portland jew
elry stores. Hundreds of prospective
husbands have been examining soli
taires in the last week. One type, ac
cording tc dealers, is the chap who
is not so sure the girl win accept
him. He buys a diamona to ctincn
the affair.
Sometimes the men bring their
prospective brides to the store, and
often this produces an awkwara situ
ation, as the women then are per
mitted to make their own selections.
Aa there are many grades of dia
monds, the selection is difficult. The
more usual engagement diamond is
ahnnf seven-eighths of a karat in
size. Pricea range from 75 to 14000,
and platinum is the most popular
setting.
The diamonds are cut in all sorts
r,r n-haoes sauares. diamonds, ovais
and other designs but one veteran
tradesman declared that the old
fashioned round stone will never
grow unpopular. Engagement rings.
clerks said, are seldom exchanged.
Next month will be wedding-ring
month. The modern vogue is to nave
the engagement and wedding ring
match in color and engraving. In
this trade the old styles are yet hold
ing their own. the plain gold band
being used the most. A novelty in
wedding: rings is to nave, tnem in
pairs, one given to the bride and one
to the groom. Of late years women
have held that man should have some
ign to show that he is taken. How-
ever, tne ooudio rmi
proved very popular.
The chief of the blue law reform
ers, now in Portland, says in effect
that everythirrg that gives pleasure
must be censored. That ought to
bar him automatically from applying
the censorship.
James W. Staten, described as "an
all-round crook." has four years In
the federal penitentiary to think, it
over. He ought to get all-round the
subject in that , length of time.
Now comes another theatrical star
and has her bow legs broken "to
surprise my husband." Her husband
may surprise her, too, when he hears
about it.
A former stool pigeon is being
held on a charge of attempted bur
glary. The profession of stool-pigeon
ing trains a man for all kinds of
crime.
It's one thing to design a 26-man
airplane and another one to ride in
it on its first cruise. Does that Port
land Inventor volunteer for the test?
Thirty-five hundred war depart
ment clerks vcill be out of jobs In
July. That's the time when the
cherries need to be picked. .
"Bond Intoxication" Is the v new
term to let down easy one who steals
securities. Jail Is the best cure.
- What, those Poles seem to need
is a good -telephone company to dig
a lot of holes and. put Uieia in, .
Disgust with the modern tendency
of women to overdecorate themselves
called forth a pertinent remark by an
observant old gentleman recently,
who said: "We used to think we could
tell chorus girls by their devotion to
nalnt and powder, and we can yet
distinguish the stage woman from
the home type, but in an inverse ratio
of paint, for it is the stage girl who
uses the least nowadays.
- This brings us to speak out about
the ushers at the Orpheura. It is
difficult to recall any one group of
girls in Portland who make a more
wholesome appearance. ranK aic-
Qettigan and The Scout talked about
them in the foyer before the show
the other evening, and Frank be
trayed the apparent they do not
paint. "None of my girls use rouge,
1 am certain, and they never present
that daubed' appearance. Of course
every girl has to powder her nose,
and we have no shiny ones here, but
that is all. If they look nice It is
because they are naturally so," And
no one could blame him for his pride
In them.
Diplomacy and tact are attributes
of great men, and there must be
some of tnat breed in Portland if the
following Is any criterion. The story
Is told by E. E. Penn of the Canadian
Pacific. He was walking down
Washington street and not an Inten
tional eavesdropper. A couple were
ahead of him. The woman spoke:
Hubby, did you notice that woman
we Just passed?"
Do I ever notice another woman?"
responded hubby, with an oblique
glance at his better half.
Penn would like to get that man on
his staff. "Til bet he could produce
results: he's an artist," was the trib
ute of an appreciative soul.
. .. THE SCOUT. I
switched in the spring time to the
almost boundless fields of green, and
a little later the golden harvest a
harvest thereafter to be exported to
the markets ot the world? And after
completing this wonderful view of a
section producing such a volume, of
valuable products, as charming a view
as one can imagine can be had by
dropping down to the Columbia and
purring along the highway with the
- , , . I .UUl Ui 1 1 t O UL UUI laitlUUO V.U1UI1IU1H
locomotive gave the mpression of a r,ver companlonB. . thlnk lf not
goose." "There may nave oeen aome t00 ,ate ,hu lrnportant matter ghould
such suggestion about the ocomotive be revlewed, and the ot Wac0
In Franc." replied Mr. Wilson, "but , K.j i. j
our equipment doesn't look anything to be foIlowed by a better road and
lino a ion.. .. .. petter route for the state of Oregon
Copyright. IIoaghtoa-Mlfflla Co.
Wilson was considering an offer to and tourists in general.
sell some real estate he has In the I
city.
For more than 80 years Leon M.
Brown has been a resident of Harney
county. He is now cashier of the
Harney County National bank and ar
rived at the Imperial yesterday from
Spokane, having been looking at some
land he owns In the Nez Perce coun
try. "We have plenty of rain and
plenty of grass, but no market for
the products of the county," ex
plained Mr. Brown. "In this respect
Harney county has a great deal of
company, but- everything will work
out all right."
"It was a draw," commented
George McKay, cattleman, as he
limped into the Perkins and asked for
his room key. Mr. McKay was cross
ing the street when a motorcycle ran
into him and sent the retired cow
man to the pavement. The rider of
the gasoline demon, however, cata-
paulted through the air and 'was
sprawled over the landscape.
LEO FR1EDE.
MORE LORE FROM 8 AKEOLOGIST
Forest Grove Authority Tells of Rat
tler Which Acted as JVurse Maid.
FOREST GROVE, May 4. (To the
Editor.) I wondsr lf any of your
many readers, and there are many,
remember Q. K. Philander Doesticks.
P. B., and his companion, Samuel P.
Burnham, D. P. ,
Sam became a civil war veteran
through a call from President Lin
coln for 75,000 volunteers. While on
duty In Washington, D. C, I became
acquainted with Sam who was fa
mous for story telling, most of his
stories being true. We enjoyed Sam
very much. Snakes were his long
lilt.
Sam says: "Home on a vacation
from school I witnessed a fight be
tween a five-foot blue racer and a
rattler. I was not able to determine
the length of the rattler. The blue
racer won the fight.. The ground
Can Yun Assurer These Questional!
1. How did birds begin to flv?
2. Is the Balm of Ciilead (l'opulinl
carwioans Alt.) a natlvo of Canada?
8. How long do butterflies live?
Answers in tomorrow's nature note. I
Asuwers to Previous Questions.
1. What do you know about trac
ing rats? They seem to be peculiar t j I
the mining districts of Montana and I
( mlng.
llils is the mountain rat. called I
also Pack rat from us habit of carry
ing off any portable articles, edible or I
otherwise. It can lay claws on. Itsl
scientific name cornea from Latin I
worst' meaning ashy, mountain, thief. I
It is-also common in Colorado mining I
district. The "trade" name come I
irom an alleged habit this rat has of I
leaving "some articles It has already I
stolen, when tnklng off somethlngl
nsw, or iraaing- iiu mens.
2. What general bodily character
istic have ground warblers, In con
trast to tree-warblers? ,
The ground warblers all h on I
notable feature very beautiful lega l
as white, and delicate as if they had I
always worn silk stockings and satlnl
suppers. High tree Warblers havol
dark brown or black legs and morel
brilliant plumage, but they have lessl
iniislcul ability. I
8. What can you tell me about!
vanilla.'
Vanilla extract, used as a flavor.
log, and also In perfumery, la taken!
from the pod or seed case of an orchldl
whose native home is Mexico. The
Plant is grown for commerce In Flor
ida and the near-tropics. It is a tai:
climbing herb whlcn grows by air
roots clinging to trsea. The leave.nl
are thick, and the llly-ilke blossom
yellow. The fruit, a long, slender
pod 16-80 cm. long, ripens la two
years. The actual essence taken from
the pod Is vanillin. This can also be
extracted from sugar-beet root, and I
an artificial product resembltnar It!
can be made from oil of cloves, and!
from pine wood. Used medicinally.
vanilla has a mildly stimulant effcuil
like valerian.
In Other Days.
thev foue-ht over was ahnut 20 feet
it "would; cost more to nave tne gouare and was swent nerfectlv clean
contending iactions ana tneir wit-Every moment of the engagement
nesses Journey to Coos Bay than It was fast and furloue. The blue racer
would be to have the Judge come gained the advantage at the start bv
irom -Coos Bay to Portland, so the f seizing the rattler by the neck (jlose
cvuuumibai plan wna w rou. rfuini o
Coke, circuit Judge, is is Portland to
hear a case in equity, thereby saving
the travel and other expenses of the
litigants.
James J. Donegan, than whom
against. the jaws and never relaxing
his hold until the rattler ceased
fighting. While viewing the remains
of the rattler I cut off 21 rattles and
a button and counted six little snakes
not over ten inches long which came
out of the brush. I killed five and
there is no. better known resident captured one and carried it home and
in tne iu.uiw square mueg or Harney learned that I had now In my pos-
county, arrived in Portland yester- session the only living rattle snak
day from Burns. Mr. Donegan is an i captivity In the state of New York,
aspirant for appointment . in the ''That rattler lived to be about two
United States land office at Burns feet long- and like a clown in the
and the supposition is that he has I circus wag always on the Job. He
mo msiuH u-a.es on mo joo. never acknowledged a master except
lng once. That was when father
The name of Captain John Groat, I crushed his head with a crow bar.
navigator of Tillamook bay and vi-1 When onlv 10 or 12 inches lone- he
vinlty, is entered on the Multnomah would coil and stick'up three-quart-register.
At one time the captain was era of an inch of tall and shake It
part owner in a lot of the land which vigorously but no music always
is uw ocooiuo Acovih. nucu i"c i qu te reaay lor a rignt.
captain anu mo auswinitii uuugm me une ot your correspondents says
land it was the Idea to turn it Into a that the rattlesnake gives the little
cranberry marsn. i ones protection by swallowing them.
Oh. fit. T AltnnnSA hA fan ttim. n
mi tr--.j . v . . 1 " . . .
xne case wi namiuuim o. uue rum an s-TetiSA for mind nr . (hnsa tt u
National bank of Roseburg is the mo- -ne Into th. hrush M.w t .,,r..
tive for a large number of people t00i that Jt mKht have bee'n a male
along tne umpqua Deing in ronnna snake who wag enjoying an outing
Twenty-Five Year Ago.
From Ths Oregonlsn of Mar . 19
Cutworms are reported to be doln
considerable damage to crop Id Shtr-
man county.
Seattle has contracted lor the feed
ing or city prisoner at 1 cent a meal
A Clatskanle man Is building a new
sawmni at Chinook to have a capacity
ui ovuv icei oaiiy.
The city council has taken ction to
rename certain streets which are now
duplicated. ,
these days. The case Is on trial in the
federal court. Walter Reed of Reeds
port, A. N. Orcutt of Roseburg and a
score of others are here on the case.
'C. A. "Beehive" Smith of Astoria
is registered at the Benson. Mr. Smith
doesn't say so, but traveling salesmen
are authority for the Statement that
the way he orders big bills of goods
is a substantial testimonial to the
progressivenesa of the city by the tea.
Dexter Rice, former member of the
legislature from Douglas county. Is in
town on business. Rice hill, which was
formerly a bad spot on the Pacific
highway, was named after his family.
There is a f irst-clasa "blacktop" pave
ment on thlt; section of the highway
now.
C L. Ireland, newspaper man of
Moro, Sherman county, is registered
at the Perkins. Mr. Ireland is one of
the Oregon newspaper men who Is
not seeking an appointment in the
diplomatic service.
O. P. Coshow, former member of
the state senate and one of the lead
ing democrats of southern Oregon, Is
in the city on legal business from
Roseburg.
W. L. Campbell, who has been men
tioned a a candidate for appointment
as United States marshal for Oregon,
is at the Hotel Portland, registered
from Tillamook.
if. N. Blagen of Hoqulam, where
he is interested in the lumber Indus
try, is an arrival at the Benson.
with those little, ones, all the same
nurse. W. J. R. BEACH.
CHICKENS ARE EXASPERATING
Poet-Gardener Tired of Job of ' Scare
Crow for Neighbor's Flock.
PORTLAND. May 5. fTo the Edi
tor.) At 6 o'clock each blessed morn
across a vacant J t. comes Hansen'
chickens in a flock to frisk my garden
spot. And heralded by noisome note
they reach the hallowed patch, and
then they sacrellglously begin to dig
and scratch. There's one old hen par
ticularly that's mottled green and
pink, with tail of brief finality and
one eye on the blink, to right and
left (the prudish thing), she coyly
twists her head, and survey (retro
spectively) my cherished lettuce bed.
The rooster is a specimen one
doesn't often see, possessing such
peculiar traits of restless energy;
with toe nails of extended lengths ha
digs down to bed rock, the while
exerSeratingly encourages the flock
Assembling on my lot each day they
tirelessly combine, to ravage every
thing in sight that I've considered
mine: they specialize on cauliflower
In sprouted corn seeds, too. They're
on th Job from early morn and stick
to it like glue.
Tis quite exasperating sure It fills
my heart with woe, to be compelled
oft to enact the role of a scarecrow:
and standing sternly in Hhelr midst,
throw stones and shout: "Shoo! Shoo!"
And hear that same retretng form
so-oo-a oo-a oooo!
ORR O. SMITH. I
Fifty Tear Ago.
From Th Oregonian ot Mar . 1871,
Elklns brothers are erecting a large
now nuurini mill at iDnon.
A society composed of men whe
served in the war against the rebel
lion has been formed at Olympla.
A company Is being formed to bulli!
a plank road from East Portland t
the bank of the Columbia acros fron.
Vancouver.
Orlsrha of Fauat.
HILLSBORO, Or., May 4 (Ta th
Editor.) Please tell me who Is (orj
was) tne autnor Of "raust."
Is It a play or an opera? A say
is a play by Shakespeare. B say It
an opera by a German composer.
B.
Published legends concerning P
jonann faust first appeared In 15k
He was said to have lived near Wle
mar, Germany. Romance, poem
plays, a ballet and an opera hav
grown out of these legends. Th mom
noted Is the tragedy of John Wolf
gang von Goethe, a German. Goethe
"Faust" was adapted Into an Enrlls
play by W. G. Wills, a British dram
atlst, land was produced by Henry
Irving and by losser actor. Th
opera, which Is also founded
Ooethe's Faust, was composed by
Charles Francois Gounod, a French
man. Preceding Goethe, some o
the Fauat tradition were dramat
lzed by Christopher Marlows, Engllsl
poet and dramatist. After varlou
development Marlowe's work flnall
became a puppet play and is ami In
existence. "Faust" 1 also th name
of a symphony by Liszt, Hungarlar.
composer. Berlioz, French compor
composed a cantata, "The Damnation
of Faust."
Soldier Cllvra an Asiwer
American Legion Aveekly.
A mud-epsttered doughboy slouched
Ints th I hut where an entertain
ment m in progres and alumpec
Into a front seat
A firm, kindly and efficient offlrl
approached him BHying, "Sorry, buddy
but the entire front section It re
served for officer."
Wearily the youth rose.
"All right," ha drawled, "but the
on I just got back from n ain't.''
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