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Newspaper Page Text8 TIIE MORNING OliEGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 13. 1921 ESTABLISHED BY IIEN'KT L. PITTOCK- Publlshed by The Oresonlan Publishing Co.. sixtn street. rortlana, Oregon. C A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan i a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use lor publication or ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights ot publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Bate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 18 00 Iaily, Sunday included, six months... 4.25 Dally. Sunday Included, three months. 2.25 Daily. Sunday included, one month... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6 00 Daily, without Sunday, six months... t 25 Dally. Without Snnriav An mnnth - .60 Weekly, one year 100 bunday. one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) pally. Sunday Included, one year. ... .1900 Dally. 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BiawelL profusely illustrated article by Pey ton Warrington, entitled "Discover ing the Great Northwest," which is devoted to the Columbia River high way, Crater lake and the Rogue river with most laudatory descriptions of the country. Other articles deal with Lake Chelan and other scenic beau ties of Washington and with the Canadian Rockies. Oregon, Wash ington and British Columbia cer tainly offer a tour which should sat isfy the most exacting appetite for mountain, lake, river and forest scenery and sport. Such articles do much to make the Pacific north west the playground and breathing place of the country. SCHOOL TANKS AND SWIMMING HOLES. There are two definitely opposed views among members of the school board as to the proper extent of the forthcoming building programme. It is not disputed in any quarter that permanent building has not kept pace with community needs or that the housing of pupils is now a serious problem. On the one hand it is proposed that an attempt be made to meet the emergency by continuing the present three-mill building tax; on the other that the tax be Increased to five mills or that a building bond issue be authorized. There came in an address the other day by Director Shull an out line of a conservative building plan. Air. Shull had carefully estimated the amount of permanent building that could be accomplished with a three-mill tax and demonstrated that by carefully planned expendi ture a certain number of portables would be retired or made available for use elsewhere and that by a sys tematic following up of the pro gramme outlined and by use of re THE KETl'BN OF EDWIX MAKKHAM. Edwin Markham's return to Ore gon, though on a brief visit to his native state, reiterates for us the truth that the east holds no letters patent on literary excellence. We are sufficiently loyal to western soil to find in his achievements proof that there is resident here a strength quite characteristic, and that finds one of its phases of expression in literature and art. It is true that the distinguished author, of "The Man With the Hoe" did not tarry through boyhood in his birthplace at Oregon City, but launched his poetical career in California. Never theless, he is of Oregon and the west even as Joaquin Miller was. Millet's great painting, "The Man With the Hoe," inspired the poet to so powerful an appreciation that the lines themselves must outlive the most treasured canvas. It is for this poem, a sonorous, overwhelming least several who had learned through dire experience this second axiom of poker1 "He wins who stays away. They, too, have known that sickening moment when a king-full falls before fours. It is inevitable, if we accept this hypothesis, that they should eye the defendant with great solicitude lest he somehow escape. Taking an impartial view of the case, it would appear that general opinion is not qualified to discuss the merits of Mr. Swire's lien against the body of Mr. Mozorosky. Neither is "The Drifter" qualified, though he may. quote Hoyle from cover to cover. Lacking particulars of the games in which-Lady Luck conspic uously flirted with Joseph, to the chagrin and financial embarrass- ship lines for such traffic. In order that railroad earnings may be fully protected, he says, tolls on the Pan ama canal should . be raised to point where they will make the canal a self-supporting investment, and, of course, no exemption should be given to American ships. In mak ing that suggestion the railroad spokesman goes back to the days before the canal law was passed. when railroads throttled or con trolled transportation by the isth mian route in order to prevent com petition. He would have the gov ernment abandon one of the two great purposes for which the canal was built stimulation of cheaper transportation between the two coasts in active competition with the railroads. Merely to state his prop as Colonel Starbottle would say, is a science. Sometimes it is more than that. It is a cinch. And when.it becomes a cinch the Sol Swires gam bol blithely to the shearing, with as much chance of profiting as they have of the presidency. That they should bleat afterward is only natural. When all is said, the law which Sol invoked was devised for such a purpose the double repayment of poker losses and the consequent sor row of the scientist. It is both soothing unguent and scarifying blis ter. Clearly it adds yet another rule to the game, and lends it a sort of legal dignity. Under this proviso not only does he laugh best who laughs last, but two pair actually will beat three of a kind. We ask "The Drifter" if such a discovery, arraignment of all that makes peas- ,on& and lQDg the win.0..wlsp of the green table, isn't distinctly worth while? antry possible, that Edwin Markham is famed his other contributions to American poetry, though marked by the same clear truth and mastery, have been generally overshadowed THE KRCTTSCHNITT idea by the grandeur of that first epic ef- I If the five remedies proposed by fort It was given to him to catch I Julius Kruttschnitt for the troubles the thought that moved Millet, the of the railroads are the best that peasant painter and unsoftened por- I they can offer and if Mr. Krutt- trayer of peasant life, when the mas- I schnitt is the best spokesman they .erful canvas was conceived both can find, congress will get little help charge and judgment against the I from railroad, executives in finding social order of continental Europe. a solution for the railroad problem, How win it be with kingdom! and with pit must look elsewhere,, among men kings I who do not think along the single With those who shaped him to the thing be i track that the railroad mind travels, When thla dumb Terror shall reply to God, I among men who regard the railroad After the silence of the centuries? I problem as a part of the far broader It Is probable that this single I problem of providing the country poem, so graphic in its portraiture. 1 with an adequate, economical sys- so unanswerable in its logic, has ac- tem of transportation. The Krutt ' complished more in the correction schnitt idea indicates that railroad , of human selfishness and greed than I executives have learned nothing from many pretentious agencies of reform. I the agitation, discussion, legislation serve funds the permanent building I Its author is president of the Poetry I and experience of the last twenty shortage could in time be overcome. I Societye of America,' his name is I years. Their minds are just where yesterday Director Woodward was I among the foremost in American let- I thev were when con cress becan Jieara from. Mr. woodward believes I ters, but by this token. If for no otner, I legislating to make public reguiatio that larger improvements are im-1 will the world remember him when of common carriers effective, perative. He would retire the port- I vers libre and modern novels are im- I congress is to make the railroad ables more rapidly and he designates palpable dust. a playground here and another there and still other improvements else where that ought to be provided at once. Here in brief are the two op posing proposals. One is for mod eration, the other is for a larger generosity in school facilities. THE BERGDOLL SCANDAL. The investigation of the escape of Bergdoil is a pitiful exhibition of of ficial laxity in dealing with a con temptible slacker whose only claim But to one who has been out of to leniency was his money which - i n rpa iiv was a rcn inn t nr pirra scnooi lor a score oi years examina- ",,"""" tnirt a pock competition of railroads with other tion of either proposal brines uo verity. He no sooner told a cock T thoughts of th facilities that- wAr and bull story about a buried pot of accorded him in his day. There is old tnan hls lawyers became very the shocked observation by Mr. ,cu,t lu uu icmyumi, j,u- Woodward that in one school the as- erty in order that he might dig H up sernblv hall is Hrtiiallv MKrl for and distribute it. . . I Titt man vhn ilitftvr0(l w llann eiuay purpurea. .. T. . ZZ J -- reenlatinn of rates and service to ni . . i b . - . ids tti oiopifi rnr rnunrnnr ii n n r-t r in k - j.ne assemDiy nan came into Deing D r. camn rt0nf oe tfc roiiHo h.tt . x t. i . : ... I in iica ha nflnonoo with Iho rA. ""v vwufc .v .b-.uw, in tne pucmc scnooi twenty-live or JwTys loved a tn "remedy" is so expressed as to perhaps thirty years ago. Our first tary of war, who always loved a . DUrDose be siacKer. me com man a ant vl nia i - - - - prison gladly accommodated the restrain sucn competition ior uie onH wniri not hr of honrt. protection of the railroads. In Ore- cuffing so distinguished a prisoner. &on nd oter B,tates ?lr vehicles ment of SoL all critical Dartisans ' osition in these rilain terms is to should hold their tongues. Poker, j prove its absurdity. ine central mougnt oi Jr. .rutt schnitt's five remedies is that the government should look to the rail roads alone "to carry all the traffic of the country and should protect them from competition by water and motor lines. Attempt of the rail roads to monopolize the carrying business is one of the chief causes of our transportation troubles. They had the field to themselves till they became gorged with traffic to reple tion. . Only in periods of abnormal depression like the present were they able to carry promptly and in safety all that was offered. Their breakdown during the war was due as much to the fact that they had made themselves our sole reliance as to any other cause. If the Krutt schnitt plan were followed, healthy revival of business would be fol lowed by another blockade. The public mind has turned to the demand for a transportation system which shall include railroads, water ways, highways and ocean as parts of a well co-ordinated whole. It is quite practicable to co-ordinate these various means so that the railroads will prosper and at the same time give far more efficient service than they have ever given. The correct policy seems to be public improve ment of the natural highways ocean, rivers and lakes and their maximum use by private enterprise according to most modern methods, and construction of artificial high ways, rail and road, to connect the water highways and In sections which have no navigable water. That policy would reduce rates to the minimum consistent with an ade quate return, would enlarge the vol ume -of traffic by stimulating devel opment. Industry and foreign com merce, and would give the railroads all the traffic that they could handle economically and promptly. Freed from a glut of traffic, they should be able to haul a freight train from coast to coast in ten days, which is double the passenger train time, and thus compete in speed with a ship which takes twenty days for the voy age. Local traffic being far more profitable than through traffic in competition with water lines, the railroads should earn larger net in come on comparatively short hauls o and from river and coast ports than on long hauls in competition with water lines. The true solution is to link rail and water lines in one system, not to drive water lines out of existence in order that railroads may live. The Listening Post. Hew Con Game Saceeeoa. Those Who Come and Co. Talea of Folk at the Hotels, rjIMPLJCITY of operation is the key kj note for the success of many op erations bordering on the criminal. Witness the experience of a Portland merchant, as related to a PInkerton operative. Confidence games move in cycles and many brains strive in perfecting plans that have for their object the mulcting of the unsuspicious. A clerk in a store waited on a young woman unknown to him. A few minutes after she had made a small purchase she re turned and called his attention to a mistake he had made In the change, the customer insisting that she had "The Columbia river highway will eventually be the great transcontl nental highway of the United State." predicts George D. Beveridge of Big Payette Lake, Idaho, registered at the Multnomah. "There is a concerted ef fort on the part of the citizens of Idaho to have the Columbia river highway, which now is mapped to Baker, Or., continue east on as near a straight line as possible, instead of going in a round-about way. The proposed route, which seems to u to be the most feasible, would fro from Baker to New Meadows, to Big Fay ette Lake, through Resort, thence to Warren and from there to the head waters of Big Creek Pasa, following the pass to Edwardsburg and from there to Salmon City. From Salmon given him a ten-dollar bill and had t IZ'L ""I'," "7: If solvent, efficient, economical serv ants of the people, it must find met. of broader vision who think in term of transportation in general, not of railroads in particular. The purpose running all through the Kruttschnitt remedies is to re strain competition with the rail roads but to put no restraint on the means of transportation. It Is just that motor vehicles using the public highways as common carriers should contribute their full proportion of the cost of construction and main tenance and should be subject to The guard was placed under the are taxed heavily for highway con- recollection oi one was in a new high school building erected in a middle west city. It was then the last word in school building con- ZSSXZ san' ordTt Bergdos lawyer on the section and maintenance, and that convenient in its appointments. But id-hunting expedition and was re- P "'r"" cii ,v.A , . v, t ; u i auired to let me prisoner arive nis - --- - sembly hall for s udy. The boys automobile on a long ride at Phila- ommend that motor truck and bu, f v."r L,tZ. ,. tr. D0?? H.inhi, tn the. rm. of which visits lines should be brought under pub- toTvacI'nt loT wh" n The" w " were plid to a burlesque show and "c regulation. .not- to prevent .their i . -- . ,i. i i .l. i i rnmnpnimn nut to comoei I'oiiiueii- to swim they gathered at a favored " ergaou - vrl!" tion on eaual terms as to regularity pool in the river a mile or two away, oner slipped away to his waiting car tion on equal terms as to regularity And the pupils were as contented as a uie guard was quieted Dy as- J rC 'Zi" if!..?" -hi uiIs an? rTi ' " S of advent of the automobi.e has stimu nuiitj its ueaimy mm quite as moral -- n as the modern product. Governors island was Drougnt - to thl In Mr. Shulls tentative list of trial oetore a court-martiai oi ms -"I" 'Z"ZiZ. needed Improvements is a swimming ". ac:a rZ of inroads Tn7 develop pool. The other day the president ot a. syrapatneuc fpe" l" :"7" , hv hactenin dBvei- r n c rn a trr mrpni rKtruici oi liih ixt.:- i - - cused, did not believe he connived opment of the country. If the rail swimming hole He had been on at the escape ana called tne oriense " .. m' l 6 Aad . een one tnlal violation of militarv done their part in promoting high meaning of the two Forked fmgers rlaUon-7 the inevitable verdict way building, they would have prof- meaning oi tne two xorked lingers whitewash 'ted greatly in Increased traffic, of a companion and of the delights eing a wh"ew proapect of ob They seemed content to let the rural d'vinD5' the ?id lntthe JJt . of it S L h v. districts wallow in mud. If auto- ubc uchl waters to nri n sr m m nn " m i , i - . , " h wav fnr th slacker I moDlie lines snouia ue siiujeuiea 10 IT U is"aTr,dgeueloi8thartTn Lawyers' werl Lafou, lneving the same regulation as other public t?fKl?i! r.lu...toA tna5 ln. oh.tLie and officials were com- utilities, full justice would be done unya ixts never near a or I . ... . 1 ,, -ati-nax0 i i ,.. i n a Danr ni. tiarinir TfiAir Dieas on w 1 U14U . euuwi iwoemuiy nau or auditorium, i - . T" , that he played ball on a hark behalf of such a much-abused young and that h wnnM hv inr-. man. whose only offense was aver- utn ji . . I arin r fltnnnln? th bullets Of his uirocior as one wno in- he a.d t0 8nooting from coast to coast Since revival of terfered unwarrantably with the brother com rmti tion the interstate personal liberties of American boy- American ouueis imu " " ia hood. comrades. ",u"""1' We should lik. to ho m Why should It not have been so " a roll of successful men of today when the head of the war de part- "- Vater llnes who have any tender memories of ment was- releasing other slackers roads to compete witn water lines chool cement swimmin- noi bv the hundred with full pay, new on sucn trainc. ,...;. " T.. ninth,c or. honomale discharcre and The most Important or the rive r To: k is: "srr there Is not. It is as true of child- to tne oisioyai upreau num w.o u.u -- ' ;-- ' . . h. hood as of maturity that the things through' the whole department and They are that tolls should be charged ' n?L.n 7r,f.ien the armv itself, if we on inland waterways sufficient to have been striven for. The child are to judge by the proceedings at pay interest-or . cost and to pay for that i f,..l fvornnra IslRTlfl. 'tne DairiOUSIU I --, v-w v..v- c - - 6 - ' oci J aci-ess to I " , . . : . every sort of amusement or tov is of the people must Indeed have been less contented than th hnv with . staunch when it resisted the de. cart of his own contrivance or the moralizing influences that were at girl with a doll of her own making, work in tneir government. it is not a purpose herein to con THE STRANGE CASE OF JOE AND SOL. There is no cause for complaint on account of rigid enforcement of the long-and-short clause on traffic demn all recreational facilities in the public schools. There are dis tricts In a city the size of Portland where juvenile ingenuity is balked by congestion, surroundings or dis tance from suitable amusement should cease to operate Us ships from coast to coast In competition with railroads; and that tolls on the Panama canal should be sufficient to pay interest on cost, operating and maintenance expense. As to inland waterways Mr. Krutt The plight of Joseph Mozorosky, schnitt harks back to the good old who quite literally languishes in the I days when railroads paralleled the county jail, pending the payment of rivers and drove water lines out of a J1600 award to Sol Swire for losses I business by ruthless competition, at the great American game of There was then none of the live-and- The plea .that the Indians must have a drug like peyote because they were turned aside from the wild. free life of the chase and committed to an existence marked by squalor beyond description" will seem amus ing to those who knew the Indian in his pristine glory. Nothing that the white man has ever done has Inten sified the essential want of observ ance of hygienic principles that marked Lo's mode of living when the whites first found him. It is true, however, that he was first made acquainted with alcohol by the early traders, and that it was not taken from him before it had done almost Irreparable damage. This may ex plain his present craving for substi tute, but win not justify anything else than a repressive policy. Pey ote is undoubtedly a highly danger ous drug, and if use is permitted it will undo all the recent work of the Indian's friends and complete the tragedy begun more than a century ago when . liquor was introduced among the tribes. Just after Sam Gompers takes on the responsibility of married life, the disgruntled element in labor be gins its campaign to defeat him for re-election. Sam built the federa tion and is entitled to the job as long as he wants It. The Chamber of Commerce, asks for one-way traffic on congested downtown streets and restriction of for-hire cars. That's once when the views of the chamber and of the public exactly coincide. Two circus "niggers" in Centralia who opened with the time-honored razor but forsook it for guns are in jail and hospital. To dignify the scrap" it may be called a fracas. received change for but five. The clerk protested, said that he remem bered giving the change for five dol lars, but was certain that she had given him a five-dollar bill. "But you did make a mistake," the young woman countered. "I know that I gave you a ten-d-ollar bill and I hav the number written down here som place," and she began scramblin about in her reticule and emerged triumphant with a long set of nu merals, and the clerk, searching hi till, found a ten-dollar bill bearing the exact numbers and paid her th difference in change. That evenin the cash drawer was five dollars short, but let's allow James N. Riley head of the Pinkerton agency, to analyze the scheme of operation. "It the clerk had only known, a con federate of the young woman passed the larger note earlier in the day. She had the number and it was a simpl little dodge, one of the latest film flam games." According to the narrator of this tale a traveling man from an eastern city had a plentiful supply pf liquor at home and determined to bring some west with him on a trip. He did not want to carry It In glass on account of the danger ot breakage, so pur chased a copper can and placed th fluid therein. When he arrived in PdYtland and went to his hotel name of the hotel withheld he opened the can to have a little nip and was afraid to take a chance on- drinking any of It when be noticed that the liquor had a green ish tinge. He poured a pint bottle full, called the bell boy and told him to have the house physician analyze the contents. The owner of the booze was gone for the afternoon but soon after his return, about supper, he heard an un steady rapping at his door and called Come in." The bell-hop weaved his devious path into the room' and ex plained that he had tried to locate the house physician all afternoon but was unsuccessful. But zat stuffs alriV he assured the owner. "Hies' good. Don' need any testen by docurs." The -callous efficiency expert took a contemptous glance at the fait little Shetland ponies who were dragging the snake-charmers' chariot and drew the ire of the grown-up boy who was with him when he criticised people for watching a circus parade when there was so much else to be done. The efficiency expert was likened to a ma chine and his heart to a lump of mud. He was called down and well-panned by this big fellow who would never forget his childhood. Just as the call came, "Hold your horses, the elephants are coming." the calculating machine quit in disgust and went back to his desk. He was worried sick to see so much labor going to waste. All the time the chap who was w.ith him thought that none of the employers he knew would be grudge a moment that brought back some of the delights of childhood, that most of them would think it time well-wasted, and then along came the calliope, belching smoke and steam and assorted harmonious discords. and the big man who remembered his childhood heard real music, for he was back in the memories of a happy past east to Yellowstone National Park. What we are all pulling for is a high way from Seaside, Or clear through to the Yellowstone park. Such a pro gramme would make the Columbia river highway the most heavily traveled automobile 'highway in the I bat to develop wings? Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, IIouBhloa-Mlfflla C. Caa Yea Answer Three Qarslloc.r 1. I caught a land turtle last Aug ust. It hat been sleeping through the cold months. When will it wake up? 2. What elm has bunches of burrs or cones on the end of the branches? S. Do birds have memory? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Aaawrra to Previous Questions. 1. Why Is the woodbine called Vir ginia creeper? Both woodbine and Virginia creeper are local names for i'sedera quinque. folia or Xrthenocisaua quinquefolla The woodbine name 'is from an old word meaning a Vina that binds around, or clings to a wood, or tree. This vine Is common in th wild state on low rich ground, and doubtless acquired Virginia from be ing eeen in a given locality. It has five leaflets, a the Latin name indi What circumstance caused the More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. country and would be of vast benefrt to the Pacific northwest. In Idaho we are more handicapped by lack of transportation facilities than by any other large smele item. Our mines are in many Instances lying dormant on account of not being able to get out the ore at a price which will per mit of making money. The proposed highway in Idaho would go straight through the heart of the Idaho big game country and would draw many sports people from all over the coun try. All Idaho is now awake to the importance .of transportation." ."There Is a cheerful feeling in busi ness circles in the east." says Eugene Hartmus, who has returned from Washington, D. C. "When I was east In December the people were quite blue. Now they express the opinion that the worst is over and that thing will soon be better. They point to a resumption of activities in the auto mobile business. The manufacturing of automobiles means work in the foundries, in the hair factories, and in the multitude of Industrie which are all interwoven with the building of a car. The automobile factories were closed but they are preparing to resume work and this is giving re newed confidence. Business men re port that business is a little better this month than last and they feel more optimistic" Wearinr his finger In a sling. J. R. Linn of Salem passed through Port land yesterday on his way to central Oregon to look after some ranch property in that section. Mr. Linn explained that he has been operat ing a tractor on his farm in the Willamette alley and somehow or other -his finger got In the way of the machinery. Mr. Linn is a mem ber of the state fair board and is already predicting a great show next September. By that time the rough section between Canby and Aurora on the Pacific highway will be hard surfaced and there will be pavement from Portland to the gate of the fair grounds. This is one of the numerous case In nature where nobody know "why." The bat is a mammal and the bones of its wings correspond to the bones of the fore limbs of other mammals. For reasons impossible to cues, the creature adopted arboreal life, and was provided by nature with a mem brane to aid Ha atyle of locomotion. In a general way, the wing is like the membrane of the flying squirrel, but the powers of flight are much better developed. 1. After birds have arrived south from the north, do they have young during the northern winter? No. they do not have a double breeding season. The impulse for mi grating northward is supposed ta be connected somehow with the breeding impulse, leading birds thousands of miles from their winter homes where food supply continues abun dant to northern climates, to nest and rear the young. Of course, spe cies belonging south of the equator have their breeding time there- George Shima, the "potato king" of California, was at the Imperial yesterday. Mr. Shlma is interested in about 3000 acres near Redmond, Or., which he intends planting to spuds. Mr. Shlma says that there are no potatoes anywhere else that can compare with those grown In th vicinity of Redmond. Accom- nanvina- him is Henry E. Hansen, manager for Mr. Shima, and George L. Burtt, who is also associated with the "potato king." What particularly pleased the visitors here yesterday was some sea trout, which were really young steelheads, the gamest risn found in the waters of the Rogue river. One of the neatest looking towns in the state is Myrtle Point, Or., from which place Rev. Louis M. Anderson registers at the Seward. Myrtle Point has one of those clean appearances which make a favorable impression n the visitor, and although the main uildings of the town are old, they look well-kept. The town gets RICH LAD LIES UNDEVELOPED Resources Abound la Country ta W hich We Pay 15,000,000. Colombia, the country to which the United States has just engaged by treaty to pay 25.000,CtM. is the sub ject of the following bulletin issued from the Washington. D. C, head quarters of the National Geographic society: "Colombia, which occupies the northeastern corner of South Amer ica and forms the southern 'abut ment' of the Isthmus of Panama, Is typical of the entire northern and northeastern portion of the South American continent." says the bulle tin. "It is tremendously rich in all sorts of natural resources and almost wholly undeveloped. "It has an area of noarly half a million square miles, which mean that it is almost twice the size of Texas; yet it has less than one twentieth of the railroad mileage of that state. To put it differently, there is a mile of railway in the United States as a whole for every IS square miles of area, while in Colombia there is only a mile of railway for every 600 A WARMMi, West Virginia has passed law providing fines and imprisonment for ladle who (teal other ladles' hus bands. In Tennessee, New Mexico, Nebrahka or Wyoming, It's safe for braien va:;ipa to go With benedict a-roamlnit. In North Dakota, Michigan, New York or Colorado. A Jane may Vamp a married man With undismayed bravado. So vamps, you're free to make your dates With all the guile that's In ya, In forty-seven soverelen stuic But not in West Virginia: For If you pick ome likely chap in cnarieston or In Wheeling. Who haa a million, and abuts map la wimomely appealing, Unlen he I a bachelor Do not exert your powers. And. when you land him. nick him for Swell Jewelry or flower. Beware of vamping him by stealth. Which you've perhaps projected. For In that rock-ribbed common wealth A husband I protected. In Maine. Wisconsin, Illinois, Vermont and California. Are home It' legal to destroy. But olemn!y we wrn ya In West Virginia not to tempt A married man to falter. For In that state they're all exempt When led once to the altar. Else, in a dungeon dark and damp They'll clap you. for repentance. And there will be no chance to vamp While you erve out your aentencel The Old Orhrme. Apparently the German who were responsible for the war have put all their property In their wives' name. Kanw Ills Job. Obregon has don so -11 with Mexico that we suggest he be sent to the Ureco-Turklsh border. . What' the Difference Professor Einstein inaika onl German, but hi audiences couldn t understand him. anyway. (Copyrit-ht. llll'l, hy th Bell Syndicate. Jnr.) In Hades. By Grace K. Hall. I dreamed one night of hade, and Its men And women, too and strange the things dreamed! Asleep. and yet clear-vlsloncd, through til spare I walked, and entered then the earth; it seemed That narrow corridor led on In every way From one great door that opened to my touch. And figures lounged In carries disarray. And gazed upon mo paa.lng, and to such I put my question, enrer for reply: "How came you here? pry tell me true and plain?" And mllingly, with neither mirth nor kIkIi, They answered me, well knowing It were vain square mile To now evade the truth, since I at of area. Most of the Colombian rail- I last ways are of narrower gauge, by a ! The truth would know, my earth-days Some of the Portland sleuths have cousin in Paris who turned loose his hardware at a fleeing man. He astonished the natives, but, being an American, was not molested. places. In such places recreational poke,., has brought comparative re- let-live spirit which he now invokes facilities are a necessity. But in nown to both these commonplace I on behalf of the railroads. He can some sections of Portland they are citizens. In a current issue of the only remember that waterways are demanded not because of great need Nation a correspondent, styling him- improved and maintained with pub- uut because other districts have eif Tha llriftAr ' r m men ta lanrn. I n c- TTa frirmte t ri lavish them or out of local pride or senU- edly but gayly on Joe's unique pre- gifts of right-of-way and public At present the grave need is for Ti "rT,- ' . "V.""""". Brio,,,.,). k m i i- n w W 1 I " & ' wnj u- raiirOttUS, ftUU VU JJW-TUS VI WUU- adequate housing for the primary tried aa the law was whlch 8nareij demnation with which they are .purposes oi education. lnis need I ucVo if nmv.H mMt I .-j rn,t, ,, r jh. .nA is entitled to first consideration. to detain hiplt to conVince a jury grants has been squandered, some it is plainly a proper policy to re- tnat he nad wrongfully deprived Mr. ' roads derive rich revenue from the Iieve room congestion or insanita- SwIra of hts ,5, and to hold him coa ore and oi, tnat are pr0. m v.. ii.UuBn 10 uo Hmpris0r,ed until such time as he makes necessary the indefinite post- UVB , th ihiial,t ninintiff twi,.. ponement of swimming pools, play- the sum that wortny lost. grounds, athletic fields and even Tha Nation's informant is nartisan Plainly, too, I so much so that one is temDted to Chicago confidence men are re ported to be selling stock In the league of nations at S10 per share. Their idea may; be all right but isn't the price rather high? An insight into the railway situ ation is best given by Grand Chief Stone's statement that 20,000 loco motive engineers in this country are without situations. ncnool auditoriums. the taxpayer is not able to provide the desires of all school districts at ' once. Local taxes are higher then than ever. The people in addition are paying for the cost of a vastly expensive war. Youth is in no dan ger if the purely educational func tions of the schools are continued, even though it must for the time being devise Its own amusements or resort to recreational makeshifts. Oregon is gaining fame as a tour ist resort. The World Traveler of New York, a magazine devoted to Information for tourists, contains a I among those twelve true men sat at suspicion. He brands the jury as "morally obtuse," and the natural conclusion is that their critic is one who has himself been favored of for tune, who plays 'era close to his Vest, who wots right well the value ot two pair, the strategy of the raise, and who arises from the session with all the coin, currency and valu able gear in sight. His is the creed of the card room that all gambling debts are sacred. It is evident that the jurors did not trail along with this view, and again suspicion ob trudes; the fleeting thought that duced from their grants. He over looks the fact that the rivers are natural highways, which were used before many parts of the country had more than Indian trails for land traffic, and that their improvement as free highways was adopted as a government function when the rail road system was in its infancy. Does he imagine that this policy will be abandoned in order to protect the railroads from water competition? If he does, he is on the wrong track. The suggestion in regard to gov ernment operation of Its own ships in coast-to-coast traffic is in sub stance that the government should abandon use of the water route and should lay up its ships rather than take traffic from the railroads: that I it should not compete with private . straw hat weather now. Any woman with a record of more than -three husbands should be in vestigated as a measure of safety, The habit leads to demoralization. If Henry Ford should get the Edison "bug" of asking questions hard to answer his first may be about bounding Jerusalem. - "Mount Rainier to stay,", says a headline. It's a relief to know that the good old. mountain isn't about to pack up and quit us. Hillsboro has just celebrated the erection of a radio-tower 625 feet In height. ,No wander talk by wire.less comes high. ' One-way traffic for pedestrians Is coming. There is more jaywalking on the sidewalks than in the streets. Sunday was Mothers' day but the florists were sold out the day before On the top of the bills behind Port land is a little peaceful cemetery where many mothers rest- Some of the headstones tell of women who left this world with their new-born babes in their arms, but few of the cold markers can begin to tell the real story of mothers. Their children know and many were up there on Mothers' day. One little couple were decorating their mothers' last resting place. They did not have any florists' blooms, but they did have armfuls of Scotch broom and haw tborne and dogwood that they had gathered in the nearby woods, flowers that meant more than the most elabo rate set pieces that might come from a floral shop. And they cared, oh. so tenderly, for that little plot, and no one of the many in the cemetery bothered them for all respected their feelings and drew a glow of warmth from the tots who came alone to be with their mother. . Sometimes a "man f exemplary (sic) habits is a "very devil" away from home. Now this feljow was well clothed but he had rather a unique occupation Sunday as he went along the street garnering bright yellow dandelion blossoms. He was not making them into a bouquet, did not seem "dotty.1 but would carefully select only the yellowest and largest of the blooms and after pulling them would place them in his pocket, and he seemed t have a plentiful supply, judging from the manner in which the pockets bulged. , In explanation of his prosperous ap pearance and his delightfully out-of the-ordinary occupation, a well quali fied observer advanced the proposi tion that he was possibly a boot legger or home-brew maker out after his supply for a mess of dandelion wine. Many have heard a great deal of this concoction but few admit that they know how to prepare It or how it tastes or what it does. Eight thousand acres of pink-tinged. scented blossoms delighted the eye of visitors to Hood River Sunday, for the Immense sea of apple bloom beau tified the valley as far as the eye could reach with the virgin white guardian of the region, Mount Hood. standing sentry over it all. It is likelj that the sight will last for several days but within two weeks the petals will carpet the ground and the tinj green fruit will be forming. THIS SCOUT. name from the profusion of vine yrtle which abounds in tnat section nd, peculiarly enougn, una ieti of myrtle is -said to grow nownere else in the United States, although a few samples can be found in Doug las county. A hole In a fence in France caused Ranrrn Madden, registered at the Benson, to lose hi rating as chief machinist mate In the navy aviation. Mr. Madden was out browsing around when his camp was closed on account of the "flu." A couple of guards were placed at the only hole in the fence and about 2 A M. as Mr. Mad den was crawling through he was nabbed by the sentries, taken before the captain and disrated, although k. .tin ha to do the work. Now Mr. Madden is selling tractors and giving demonstrations in the farming sections. James Allen, etate highway com n.L.inner for wasningion, auu 1 At road boosters of that state registered at tne noi their way to California. They were in Portland a week ago when they traversed the racmc mgnw.j. . iu..,inrinii with Governor Hart. Now they are going over the Pacific highway In Oregon ana " fornia. in tne pari, ... - - Clausen. E.-V. Kuyaenoau. . P. H. Canyon ana jeao v-nnrimnna In Astoria are bad on account of the strike of men," said w. a. isimim T-ti.r,i The fishermen lost the first week of the season by refusing to ac cept the price set by the packers, but a few days ago there was a compro . i.nthar Astoria packer at the Hotel Portland Is George W. Sanborn, who. with Mrs. Sanborn, will motor to San Francisco. Th,i Straub. who baa the reputaton of knowing every student who ever went to the university 01 v.Bu.., the names of most of their relatives, is registered at the Imperial. Once upon a time, because of this extensive and peculiar acquaintance. Deal Straub was almost a candidate for the republican nomination for governor. G M. Farr, stockman from Olex, Or, is at the Perkins, having chaper- a . .hinment to Portland. Olex I on Rock creek and five miles away is Mikkalo. where there is a railroad. It is in a wheat farming section- Three women, motoring from Seat- ti. to San Francisco, were at tne Hotel Portland yesterday. They were Mrs. J. E. Galbraith. Mrs. Charles R. Caatlend and .Mrs. Mildred nugnM, Mrs. Galbraith is doing tne driving. In town from Independence, Or., are C. W. Irvine, banker; Elmer Addison, furniture dealer: u. a. i.ramer, dom ing dealer, and D. E. tietcner, mem ber of the legislature. . 2. L. Kelly, former member of the legislature from wasco county, and also former municipal official of The Dalles, is registered at the Imperial. Citv of Hills" is the description given of Seattle by W. J. Stamper, on the register of the Hotel Oregon. Seattle is built on even more hill than Rome. E. J. Abbey, who has been one- of the landmarks at Newport for many years, is registered at the Hotel Ore-goo. foot or more, than those of the United States. They do not form a system but for the most part are in lengths of 25 to 140 miles, scattered about the country. Bogota, the capital of Colombia, is situated between ranges of the Andes on a plateau at an elevation of more than a mile and a half. It is approxi mately 450 miles from the Caribbean sea along the most accessible route. and 200 miles from the Pacific across the Andes. It has no rail connection with either sea. To reach it one must travel for more than 500 miles up the winding coiirse of the Magda lena river by boat, skirting rapids by means of a short length of railroad, and finally cover the last 50 miles from the head of navigation by rail. The trip sometimes requires several weeks. Transportation of supplies throughout much of the Interior is by means of muleback along rough, nar row mountain paths. The few car riage roads are in the Magdalena delta near the coast and In the vicin ity of Bogota on the plateau. "More than half of the area of Colombia lies east of the three range of the Andes and consists of plains country sloping toward the center of the continent and drained by the headwaters of the great Amason and Orinoco river systems. Covered with succulent grasses, these plains form an unsurpassed stock-raising country. It is largely unutilized and is to be compared with th plains of Rhodesia, South Africa, as one of the richest unoccupied regions aultable for cattle raising remaining in the world. It Is estimated that more than 10.000,000 head of cattle could be pastured on tbeee 'llanos' of eastern Colombia. fairly past. I questioned them alone, and In s crowd. Heard stranger tale than fiction ever told; Some answered In defiance, fierce and proud. And others with a Badness deadly cold : Men told of paths that bore the scarlet stain, Of revels, wine and woman' cer tain lure: And women spoke of falsehoods and of shame. Of broken faith the years could never cure: But, urging one great answer frqm mem ail Why they were there, and when. their first distress There came reply why many mortal 1.111: "It wa a sin that grew from loneliness." In Other Day. Twraty.flve Tear A, From Th Oreronlan of My 13. lsim The fishermen' atrlko . ,. "Colombia's climatic conditions vary from the sub-tropical near the shores of the Caribbean, to Alpine in the higher Andes. Forest cover millions of acres, the deltas and river valleys yield cotton, tobacco, cacao, bananas, rubber and other tropical and sub tropical products, while on the hill sides coffee thrive. On the plateaus grain and other temperate sone prod ucts may be grown. The need for railroads In Colombia is indicated by the fact that, though considerable quantities of grain are produced on the Interior plateaus, it has- always been cheaper to buy grain from the United State In the Colombian coast citle after It has been shipped thou sands of miles, than to transport the domestic grain the few hundred mile from its place of production. "Gold has always been one of th Important products of Colombia. Since the coming of the Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century approximately J700.000.000 worth ot gold, it is estimated, has. been mined from, the country. Between 15,000.000 and 16,000,000 worth is produced an nually at present. Iron ore and nu merous other minerals are present in paying quantities. Perhaps most Im portant of all, there are Indications that large quantities of petroleum may be found. mouth of the Columbia has resulted in Astoria fish dealer obtaining- 11,. ,r salmon froai Portland. Public sentiment Is aroused for numerous street Improvement thla spring. The light house tender Columbine ha been assigned to Inspect buoy in Alaska water. Bids were sentto Washington yes terday for six new building at th Warm Spring Indian reservation How Do Yoa Attala Ideal f OREGON CITY. Or.. May 1J (To the Editor.) "Heart o' Cheer," a dear little poem In your Sunday Issue, by Mary Agnes Kelly, Impel me to ask: Why do so many poets and preachers keep telling us what to do. but sel dom tell ua how to do? Every Indi vidual comes short of attaining his ideals and many have little or no da sire to attain them. Who do not see, on every hand, the ripe and luclous fruit and know they have permission to freely eat thereof, but find the desire lacking or that It is Just beyond their reach? And ever berore tnera is tne rorbldlen fruit so near that even children may eat and must fight the desire to do so. She tells us "Have a heart, and keep it cheery." But 1 am an old man and nothing has come out as I planned it should, yet I would like to be cheerful and know that It Is best. "But how to perform that which is good I find not." I wonder some times If poets and preachers point to these ideals, but. like many of us, have not attained fc"d know not how. 1 W Fifty Vears A a. From Th Orrconlsn ef Hay 13, 17. Versailles, France The signing of the definite treaty of peace between France and Germany was announced In the assembly today. No allevia tions on the conditions demanded bv Bismarck could be obtained. Albany A Vermont man ha nurs chased l,8o0 acres of the Wlllnmetta Valley & Cacde Mountain Wagon road company' holding near hure. A San Francisco writer concede that most of the Pacific coast Im migration thla summer is favoring Oregon. Vancouver resident ar ronortcd to be in favor of the proposed plan road between east Cortland and the Columbia opposite Vancouver. W'MTEDl A ROOSTER. I will glv two hundred dollar For a rooster loud and bold. Which will crow and crow Ilk blase Whenever he Is told. For I have ome noisy neighbors. Who live a life nn gay. They raise the dev'.l all night long And sleep till noon next day. Now folks who have to work all day Should have sumo sk-ep at night. And racket such a these (oik m it U Don't seem exactly right. So I want a crowing rooster Which will crow with all his mialit. And keep the folks away all tiay Who keep me up all night. u. U. NAP. iV. PARKER,. ftnnolron and Wlthelm, . PORTLAND. May 12. (To the Edi tor.) Referring to Ths Oieuuiilnn'i editorial giving an Intel utiiif iara:i: between Napoleon I'onuparle an-1 William Hiihenitollern, it may he added that Napoleon was a aquare f.Khter and never hit below the 'oil, nur ever warred aaalnst women, chil dren and old men while the aanio can not be said of Kaiter Kill. Also Napoleon fought at th front with hi soldier until the lai.1 at Wa terloo. At the battle of Areola nls grenadiers had to carry tuiu inky from the fror,t row undi-r a rain of shrapnel while Kaiser Bill m vef ceded to te carried to the tear. X E.