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8 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, MAT 2T, 1921 ESTABLISHED BY HEX BY U PITTOCK. . Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. iiij Sixth Street. Foreland. OreKon. i G A. ilORDEX. E. B. PIPER. Jtanaser. Editor. The Oregoniaa ii a member of the Aso r tUted Press. The Associated Press is ex . clusively entitled to the- use for publication ' " news dispatches credited to it or noi i """jse weujted in this paper ano aiao ' the local new published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein - iivo reservoa. never respected. Secretary of the In extravagantly for mail-order Navy Denby welcomes any inquiry clothes, red suspenders and celluloid that congress cares to make, and i collars. The Fijian women are Syl says of the memoir: I via Pankhursting . . . you don't 11 the ame old rot and 1 am sick of I find much of the primitive loveliness . . - ....u ..mi, w uu)injeu mu I Rnv mnre Upon this testimony it is likely Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (By Mail ! TteV.T. 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New York: Verree : Conklm. Steger builnlne. Chlcaeo: V er- re & ronklin. Free Press bntldlng. De- . tro-t Mlrh : Verree & ronklin. Selling ouunirg. Portland: Fan Francisco repre . rentatlve k. J, Bldwell. ' A FKEAK MARRIAGE BILL.' Anions the measures on the spe rial election ballot is one designed ' to prevent the propagation of men- . tally or physically defective chil ; dren. It aims at this happy condi tion by requiring that both appli car.ts for a marriage license shall submit to a physical and mental examination and by providing that, if they fail to pass, they shall not J be permitted to marry unless one or " both shall be rendered sterile. Whatever may be said of the prin " cinle seemingly declared by this measure, a study of it discloses that , in its provisions it is absurd and bound to be ineffectual. Marriageable mentality is not de ; fined in the act. The test is left to the individual idea of the examining physician. The examining physician ; must be "competent to examine such applicants," his educational quali l fications must be stated in his cer- tificate, and the county clerk must not issue the license unless the ex ; amination has been made by a com-' petent physician. In short the mentality of the ap plicant is left to the judgment of the physician, and the competency of the physician to judge of the appli cant's mentality is lefit to the deci i sion of the county clerk. . Presumably if one physician de , cides that a high grade moron is not competent to marry, the high grade moron will toe able to find another physician who will not be so par ticular. There are. all grades of physicians. He or she may then ' secure a license unless the county clerk, in his superior wisdom, draws the line against physicians who think that high grade morons may fcafely marry. rot only Is there no test pre scribed by the measure, but there is no penalty imposed upon the physi cian who passes a mentally deficient rterson. There is not. and orobablv thArft rnnin not prrrrrtvpiv ne. nnv provision in the law prohibiting per sons denied licenses in this state from going to another state to wed. Moreover, it is sad but true that the feeble minded are generally un moral sexually. Feeble-minded chil- .-- dren of feeble-minded parents are often born out of wedlock. To catch .the few who would desire legally to marry and bring children into the world, the bill is insufficient, but it imposes upon every normal, healthy man and every normal, healthy woman about to wed it imposes upon the great mass of the marry ing public the indelicacy, the incon venience and the expense of a physi cal and mental examination. Oregon now has an unfavorable place in divorce statistics. It is an undeserved ignomony caused by an existing so-called eugenics law which drives couples about to wed to another state in large numbers. Oregon's number of divorces is con sequently greatly out of proportion -to the number of marriages con tracted within the state. This situa tion is not due to the laxity of di vorce laws but to the imposition of T the present pre-marrlage examina tion applying only to males. Now it is proposed that the physi cal examination be required of worn en also, and that . both men and women submit to a mental test of - an undefined sort. The plain effect of this measure, if adopted, will be to drive still greater numbers to si other states to wed, put a still worse " light on the normal number of di vorces granted and yet have virtually no effect as a. prevention of mar riages among those who ought not Eugenic marriage laws can be, ef " fective only if nation-wide in scope, and plainly definitive of feeble . mindedness and physical ineligibility. recur again. The matter with Haiti Is that It has real government for the first time since it became independent, and its "patroits," who have never experienced It, do not like it, for it means an end to free graft, free 1 murder and free revolution, and 1 these are the only elements of free dom that they understand. that the yearning for yams and white shadows to eat them under will desert many a breast. It is as though a dream garden, where all was or dered with the innocence and delight of childhood, flowers, shells, laugh- and construction of dry docks and other improvements to cost $36,307, 000. It proposed to use Alameda for docking and repairing larger vessels and as a main fleet base, and that construction of the plant ex tend over six years. Then started a storm. Vallejo scented a scheme to abandon Mare Island gradually In favor of Ala meda, and began to fight. San Francisco began to talk of aban doning Mare Island .nd concentrat- A CLEAR 1ELD FOR THE FAIR. Elimination of Boston as a pos sible rival of this city, in the presen tation of a 1925 world's exposition removes toe last vestige of anxiety regarding the huge project. It is destined to success, and, holding the field alone,- will suffer no division of national interest Wherever there is discussion of the next great .ex position, an exposition in celebration of western American development and of our national highways, the question of locality will not' be raised. All will know that the fair of 1925 is to be held in Portland Oregon, and that it is without com-petitors. Primarily the purpose of the ex position will be to acquaint our sister states and the world with Oregon and the Pacific northwest, and at the same time to further the inter ests of all. To present the exposi tion in a manner befitting its significance and the dignity of the state a great deal of money will be required. So it is that from the practical viewpoint the question of investment arises. Yet it is safe to say that the men who have spon sored the exposition are well pre pared to see that its attractive pos- siDUities ratner certainties are so set forth as to render financing merely a matter of a brief, decisive campaign. Portland and Oregon may now consider, the 1925 fair as on the ways, and under such careful, mas terly construction as will guarantee its successful launching as a pros perous argosy. ter, music 'and supper, had been ing at Alameda all facilities on the t HAITIAN PATRIOTS PROTEST. A delegation from Haiti is circu lating in the United States a ''Memoir on the political, economic and financial conditions existing in i i rannhllr nf T-f a i ti unrler trie ments were true, the American diplomatic and naval officers would have outdone the Germans in arbi trary overthrow of an independent government and the American ma brines would have equalled the bar ' barlties of the German troops. But the charges against the marines have been investigated and dis proved, and on the contrary It has 'been proved that marines have been captured and subjected to barbarous cruelty, including cannmausm, Dy Haitian bandits. In the interior of the island they Have to deal with a relapse to African savagery, and elsewhere they have pacified com munities that have not known peace lor a century. Haitian politicians call for the rieht fff self-determination, which, judging from the past history of the country, seems to mean the right of public plunder by gangs which alternately win supremacy by civil war. The Haitians are supposed to have had this right for ever a cen tury and have done no more than to . make a mockery of the republican form of government by continuing chronic civil war. Haiti had become a scandal to the world and a stand ing invitation to some European creditor nation to intervene in American affairs. The nuisance had to be abated, and the United States abated It. The Haitians now want congress to investigate violation ' of a constitution, which, they, themselves . THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE. Xo legislature, immediately fol lowing adoption of the referendum system in Oregon, would have dared to add an emergency clause to any measure, except for reasons obvi ously justifiable.- Now the legisla ture is not so scrupulous or wary. The emergency clause to any bill. t should be explained for the benefit ef many persons who are not expert in legislative procedure, id the device by which any measure is put into Immediate effect. It is liable to abuse, and at times it is abused. For xample, if the legislature claps the emergency clause on any measure, it serves to prevent a referendum to the people. There are often good reasons why there should be io Lreferendunt, or the possibility of it; and the constitution recognizes the fact, and authorizes a legislature to put any measure into immediate ef fect "for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety." The legislature, it may be added, is the sole judge of the demands or re quirements of the public health peace, or safety, and no court, or any other authority whatsoever, may say it nay. . If, therefore, the legislature decides that it is essential to the public health, peace or safety that a bill be passed to raise the salary of the assessor of Gilliam county from $800 to $850 per year, or to increase the length of legal bed sheets from nine to ten feet or to define the seasons when blue-jays may be exterminated, that is the legislature's sole business. Now it is proposed, under a meas ure to be submitted to the people June 7, to authorize the governor to veto separately any emergency clause, thus permitting the measure to become law in the usual coursi ninety days after final adjournment of the legislature. It conveys extra large powers upon the executive and will enable him to have new influ ence over legislation. But the veto power itself is a mighty instrument of coercion or persuasion over a legislature, and the effect of the amendment will be to make that power more flexible, and to insure its exercise more discriminatingly. If the governor is dissatisfied now with any bill carrying an emergency clause, he has the option of sign ing or disapproving the entire meas ure. It may often be an unpleasant and unfortunate alternative. It is a predicament which the executive should never be called on to face. It may be escaped, and the cause of sound legislation be advanced, by adoption of the amendment .con ferring upon the governor the right to veto an emergency clause. The legislature in its turn may carry it over his head by a two-thirds vote. trampled by feet profane, had been i invaded by the minions of night mare. One does not like to dwell . upon the thought that the uncouth gambolings of Charles Chaplin are The Listening Post. Ships That Chansre Identity. nHAMELEON-LIKE ships that V changed their Identity at will were known on the Oregon coast 3 years or so aso and such things might possibly be toda.y. O. R. Chamberlai lived for many years Just below Cap Lookout, south of Tillamook, on the Oregon coast. He tells of mysteriou vessels that put into the shelter of th "ye. were repainted, their super structures changed and even their sails and masts altered, and then sailed as different ships. They left port and were likely never heard of again, arriving at their secret des bay, thus giving cause for Vallejo's suspicions. The naval committee of the senate seems to have attempted both to allay these suspicions and to meet the demand for economy by all the rage in Tahitian circles that I proposing an appropriation of $1, yesterday were the last refuge of 500,000 to fill 500 acres on which an unspoiled darling simplicity. We storehouses would be later erected do not thank Mr. Bovce for unde- at a cost of $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. ceivine- us. . I It drew a distinction between me unaxion totally uillerent ships. And yet, may it not be that he naval base wnicn wouia tnus De namoenain now lives Ip Clarke who seeks will always find, if he used to supply ships and as a place county, Washington, and delights in seeks truly and with unhampered of recreation and rest for crews, .and spinning tales of the lonesome Ore- the navy yarn, where snips wouia oe i gon coast. r Many Portland residents Duur. ana repairea. i nave spent nappy vacations roaming But the joint naval committee of I about the coast near the old family congress which investigated the sub- I borne and marveled at the two hucre order finery. Doubtless the poetic ject last, winter reported in iavor anchors lying in the barnyard. Celt saw none of these, or only of both a navy yara ana a navai There is a story connected with dimly, and so was taken to the very base at Alameda. Admiral Rodman these anchors of the Norwegian ship heart of the South Seas to rest I declared against Mare Island on the j struan. Captain Skoglund, wrecked in vision? Perhaps the publisher, in capable of escaping the prosaic. peered keenly about for Chaplin films and red suspenders and mail a while. ETound that it is "prohibitive to our capital ships, andwe are build ing larger ones"; that "every capi tal ship we have must go to Bremer ton today"; and that "we are way. AN ANTHOLOGY OF DOG POEMS. Anthologies are apt to become monotonous uecause j.nere aic luu i , , , . , l " many of them. Even in literature lwayehlnl' was picked up by a the cove Christmas morning, 189 She loaded at Point Discovery for Mel bourne and was dismasted in a ter rific southwester when two days out, drifting to near the California coast. THE QUEST FOR WHITE SHADOWS. To those fortunate ones who fol lowed Frederick O'Brien through the hauntingly delightful pages of "White Shadows of the South Seas," smiling and smiled upon, there is dread news to tell. For the white shadows and all that sort of thing have been driven away by the sun shine of civilization, and corsets and culture have superseded the charm and naivete of the nut-brown native maiden. If one pauses by some sylvan bower of palm and fern, whence girlish laughter floats, hJ Is more apt to hear the latest jaza song lifted than- to be held by the sweetly sad simplicity of some South Sea lyric. Ah, better far it were that none save Frederick himself should have voyaged to those delect able lands! It seems that W. D. Boyce, wealthy Chicago ' publisher, enam oured of the glamor of O'Brien's epic yarn, sought passage when he closed the book - and sailed away to see for himself. A man 'well along in years is Mr. Boyce, & father and tax payer, but he held it no harm at all to go adventuring and be crowned with garlands of exotic bloom, and loll beneath the palms occasionally while some dark-eyed enchantress narrated the simple annals of the islands. The white surf sighing on a coral beach, bright birds gleaming through an emerald verdure, and, mayhap who could say 7 a thrill ing encounter with that ardent Amazon,' the hill woman, Mr. Boyce returned the other day, a dis illusioned, middle-aged business man. Presumably ne cast u anen s book into the wake of the boat that bore him back. "It's sad," said he, "this change of the South Sea Islanders frqn singers of love lyrics and Malekulan idol dancers into movie fans and ragtime whistlers. They have sold their pearl-shell necklaces and waist scarfs to the rag man and have gone we like variety and though an occa sional compilation of kindred poems, essays or stories, is not amiss, these gems when assembled do not gleam so brightly as when chance met. But- now and again there is found a joyous exception such,- for instance, as Robert Frothingham's admirable anthology, "Songs of Dogs." It can not be gainsaid that lovers of dogs never tire or tne suDject. xne stories that others tell of canine sa gacity and affection but match their own and confirm the faith that be tween man and the dog there is a fellowship of the finest. And when one considers that such a relation ship is old as the race and that dogs and folks have shared the joy and sorrow of ten thousand years to gether a mere hazard at the actual compact this sense of comrade ship is not In the least strange. The reader will remark that Mr. Frothingham's anthology of dog songs is frequently constrained to sign some of the verses Anony mous." In such instances, there can be no doubt, the gift of versified ex pression descended upon the writer as a direct manifestation of his re gard for dogs. He sang a single song worthy of preservation worthy because he sang truly, from the heart outward. Clothed in such anonym ity is the authorship of a poem that sings the yellow dog tnat sym. bol of the canine outcast and cur. For your true lover of dogs knows that the hue of the hair and the length of the pedigree have nothing at all to do with the spirit and wisdom of his pet. It Isn't what a doc can do, or what a do ca n be. tenance, upkeep and docKlng, De- cause we haven't the facilities here;' That statemmt coincided with that ! of the Helm commission that Mare Island could care for 90 per cent of our ships, for the other 10 per cent are the largest and we are building larger ones. Champions of ' Mare Island said these statements : "let the cat out of the bag," fori they betrayed the innocent-looking scheme to build storehouses at Ala- steamer and her crew saved. She broke looBe from the tow In another gale and again appeared off the Lit tle Nestucca, where she was spied just outside the breakers. The settlers there prepared to har vest a fortune in salvage and brought axes and tools down to the shore to work on the wreck when she drifted n, hut their hopes were dashed when the South Coast, a steam schooner meda as the thin end of the wedge from Tillamook, got a line aboard and which was to abolish Mare Island, pulled her to safety. Chamberlain They quoted Captains Knox and says that one beach-comber was so Beach of the navy as declaring in angry that he threw his axe at the favor of Mare Island, and they con- I rescuing vessel. demned an expenditure at Aiameaa However, the Struan was water which they estimated at $60,000,000 logged and again broke loose and to $100,000,000, while the $26,000,- chamberlain spied- her Christmas 000 already spent at Mare Island morning as she drifted in. The shin would be thrown away. struck about 10 A. M. She was loaded Tne net result or xne controversy wit vooo.000 feet of huee timbers is that the navy gets no increase of facilities on San Francisco bay, where it urgently needs them, and that the only first-class yard on the coast is at Bremerton. until an agreement is reached in accordance with the judgment of naval officers and until the clamor of rival towns is silenced or ignored, no money can be obtained either to improve Mare Island to meet the needs of the fleet or to construct a new yard at Ala meda. The navy will be without the facilities that it must have on the Pacific coast, and the only persons that will be satisfied will be the little navy men Men who desire to supply the needs of the navy, whether it is fur ther enlarged or not, should get to gether jn congress to force decision in the and the sea was soon solid with them and Chamberlain could walk over the breakers to the ship on the huge beans. The dry timbers as they ex panded with the water from the leak ing ship burst, her decks and tumbled out and the noise as the breakers ground them together and broke them up was so terrific, it was impossible fo hear. Afterwards the Chamberlain family erected a small sawmill on the beach and managed to salvage much of the lumber which was used in building many homes. The copper salvaged was shipped out by way of Sheridan, but the two anchors are yet near where the proud vessel struck. A falling out in the underworld controversy and to secure generally results in betrayal in a That hits a man; it's simply this does h funds to carry it out. A navy with- spirit of revenge of closely guarded believe in me? out snore facilities is helpless. The secrets. The most prolific source of And bL'h"LtL5K.h.e.re'' DOt 1-ocical sequel to the folly of not Information for the police comes from Of that plain little yellow dor that never I providing them is to scrap the navy, those who are sore at associates for Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folk at the Hotels. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Uonshton-Mlrrlin Co. "The gentleman from Malheur," as the speaker has been addressing him since 1919, alias P. J. Gallagher, Is registered at the Hotel Portland. Representative Gallagher is one of the lawyers who have expressed a willingness to accept appointment as United States attorney for Oregon, providing Senators McNary and Stan field are also willing. Meanwhile, pending the time the senators are ready to take the public into their confidence and say whom thev have recommended for this and other fed- 1 erai Jobs, Mr. Gallagher is trying to t,alk the state highway commission into spending a few hundred thou sand dollars In Malheur eounfv. M Gallagher says that there is a pros pect oi commercial natural eas i his part of the world and that ar rangements are being made to sin test wells. The eeolojrlsts are not promising much in the way of oil, but del say that there is an ahnn dance of gas, which can be tapped, piped and marketed to advantage The proposition looks so srood that considerable stock has been sold to noat tne enterprise. "For two years someone has bee writing vicious letters to the highe Fimtsaiunai class in rendleton am this week the identity of the write nas Deen definitely established states E. L. Crockett, manager of the automobile club at Pendleton. "Hand writing experts have been working on the case for several weeks and nave tested the writimr of variou peorie. it Is now known that th writer of the letters is a promlnen young married woman. The motive DacK or the letters annpara to he. jealousy. Letters have been sent the mayor and various other officials and prominent citizens. Most of th letters gave warning against on particular law firm. The letters have been a sensation in the community tor a long time and tftey caused con siaeraoie worry and trouble. Th identity of the writer, while known will not be disclosed and there will be no prosecution provided no more letters are written. The woman i the wife of an official. took a prisee. AH manners of songs of dogs there are. 1 But, best of all, for that it calls to the rover in all of us and in our dog friends as well is the lilting camaraderie of Dana Burnet's "Road to Vagabondia." And on that road, as everyone should know, he is most lonely who is unattended by that same friend our ancient for bears knew, when the tribes moved by pleasant, perilous ways to strange continents. There is a strain of the vagabond in every dog, as there is in every man, and none will have the least difficulty in keeping step vrith this song: He was sitting by a doorstep as I went strolllne by. lonely little beggar, with a wistfuL homesick eye And he wasn't what you'd borrow. And hs wasn't what you'd steal But I guessed his heart w-as breaking, So I whistled him to heel. A number of poets have written of dogs, it appears, from Byron to Ber- ton Braley. The anthology reminds us of what we have always known, but given little thought that of the many friendships man is heir to, the friendship of the dog Is not the least. So it was that Byron felt when he wrote the epitaph to "Boatswain, reflecting bitterly upon the compar ative value of friendships: Ye! who perchance behold this simple urn. Pass on it honors none you wish to mourn. To mark a friend's remains these stones arjsa, never knew but one &nd here he lies. We have pointed jziany a gibe at sanctimonious Zion, the city founded by Dowie and continued by Voliva. A recent news paragraph dwells upon new blue law restrictions to be enforced there. There shall be no low-necked gowns, no silk stock ings, no transparent attire. Many other prohibitions along kindred lines testify to the rigidity of the moral code in Zion. A lunatic city, hoping to harden its citizens for the storming -of heaven by denying all charm and beauty. And yet, in an other column, a headline smites us. It is to be the fashion for women to rouge their knees. Not that the knees are intended for parade in spection, but merely to be prepared for any eventuality In these days of half-hose and abbreviated tsKirts. Shade of the first powder-puff! Who would have dreamed that vanity some reason. In their business or sifting out' the culls from those who come to America the immigration in spectors meet with many queer cases Stringent laws are desired to, pro tect the republic from objectionable citizens. Mental children with adult bodies are refused admission and re turned to their native lands at the ermen who report .meeting rattlers get expense of the ship that brought I off the train at the Junction and try The seventh an nual cnnVAnrlnn rt the Supreme temple of the Daughters of the Nile is beiner hplrl in PnrtlnnH witn Headquarters at the Multnomah hotel, where a large delegation of members from northwestern and Canadian cities are registered. From Seattle are registered the folowin&r oupreme yueen Kdith E. Gatt s. Su preme I'rlncess Royal Anna Larson Mrs. Mabel R. Krows, junior past su preme queen; Mrs. Levelia K. West, supreme recorder; Mrs. Laura A. Schubert, supreme princess Zalrlma, Mrs. tmma Farnham of Butte, Mont., is supreme princess Badoura. From Tacoma, Wash., are registered: Mrs Elizabeth McCormack. supreme mar shal; Mrs. i.mma Love, supreme Zora, ana airs, nugene iierkey, supremo chaplain. Mrs. Elizabeth Berkey, su preme Zenobia, and Alice McVey, upreme lady of the keys, are regis tered from Spokane. Supreme Prin cess Tirzah Anna M. Brown and Mrs, Frances M. Hobs, attendant, are from Victoria, B. C. There are no rattlesnakes in Des chutes .county, declares Judge Saw yer, registered at the Hotel Portland. A few weeks ago a resident of Madras gave a statement in this column to the ffect that it would soon be rattle- nake time in Deschutes county. Judge Sawyer, who owns and edits a newspaper at Bend, as well as serves as county judge, devoted half a col umn of editorial space denying the allegation about the snakes. Now that he is in the city he reiterates his denial. "There may be some rattle snakes in Deschutes canyon, down near Tumalo," says Judge Sawyer, but not In the county proper. Fish them over. However, jnany manage to get through the cordon of guards and are found later by vigilant in spectors. In Oregon they have a rec ord that is exceptionally clean, nearly nopfpft nr-nrA In rletertinn. Thousands of dollars are saved each "" "i-"",ueiu.n 1kp """p I Aarria At f tha main otacr T'Vi n - ls year to the taxpayers through de- , d t t , th ; . . portation of persons liable to become the citizens are getting disguested at public charges who are taken from trying to keep it spick and span so their luck in the canyon and never get into Deschutes county. Just bear in mind that there are no rattlers in our county, and we don't want any. Jay Bowerman is drawing an ordi nance to be introduced in the city the insane asylums and penitentiaries and sent homfl. Many even pose as criminals or mental dependants when they get discouraged so as to be could so eclipse itself? We waver given a free trip back. between Zion with its self-righteous citizenry and the streets of the un godly. Surely there is another choice? Must we be called upon to choose between the code of the Recently a Swede was deported who admitted that he was an anarchist, one who advocated the overthrow of the government by violence. A Rus- as to make a favorable Impression on visitors. The reason is that as soon the street is swept clean along come three or four bands of sheep or herd of livestock. Mayor Donnelly cannot discuss the subject with calm ness, as it hurts his civic pride and he came to Portland yesterday for the purpose of having Mr. Bowerman fix up an ordinance which will make work light hereafter for the street Can You Answer These Questions f 1. What Is meant by a cold-blooded crature? 2. How fd the Arbor day Idea get started? 3. How does nature plan so that birds are not crippled by moulUag? Answers in tomorrow's nature note. Answers to Previous Quest Ions. 1. Does sap .come from the too of a tree, or the roots? - Sap is made in the leaves. In the summer, and stored in the roots dur ing winter. Sap is the life-blood of trees. It must be renewed by food just as blood must. Leaves do the digesting of plant food by a process that depends directly on the sun. In- autumn, this food, called elaborated sap, passes down through the bark to the roots. In spring it rises, forms new leaves, and these in turn form new food. In this way the tree grows. 2. About what time do animals be gin and stop moulting? Moulting of fur depends on climate and weather conditions rather than on calendar. The approach of warm weather makes a lighter coat desir able, and the hide reacts by dropping some of the hairs. As cold weather comes on, and the body is usually fat from fall feeding, the coat feels the stimulus, and new hairs sprout till the coat Is warm enough to be a good protection.. 3. Kindly send some reasons why sparrows should not be killed. If English aparrows are meant there is.no really good argument why they should not be killed. They are an Introduced bird that has thrived here at the expense of more desirable native birds. Anything that can be .said in the sparrow's defense Is given in the United States Farmers' Bulle tin No. 493. They do occasionally fight the army worm and a few other insect pests, but do more harm than good in most circumstances. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Mnntaaue. REAL IblA. OR JIST SPOOFERf sian. was proved a skilled bomb maker I cleaning department of Arlington puritanand the folly of decadence? who had been connected with ex- Any sheepman or cattleman wh Perhaps this report of the rouged tremlst red societies and who had knees was a figment We shall see, served time in Siberia. He is now in We snail see. I fh. nre-nn state, nenltentlarv and will leave for home as soon as his term Is wants to drive through Arlington will have to go around the back way. "Business In the central part tho country is rotten." is the way A. Most Of our popular songs are com Dieted. A Finnish newspaper man C. Adams of Joliet, 111., expressed hi sentiments regaraing conditions in finance and industry. Mr. Adams Is ,aloiai.J with kl vlfA at thfl Mult. for a felony Just prior to coming- to nomah. "Of course, everyone is more TRIFLING WITH THE NAVT'S NEEDS, Between the politicians and real estate men the most important part 0f the song publishers leaves little made in New York. Tin Pan alley and its cigarette inspired young song writers to prepare for us those singular sentiments and crazed tunes that soothe our hours of ease It is said that the commercial greed has gone back to his native land for It was found that he had served time of the programme for shore facili ties for the navy on the Pacific coast is in danger of defeat. These facili ties are a necessity both to the whole Pacific coast and to the whole coun try, for without them our defenses would be in a bad way in case of war. But in California discussion of them has degenerated into a local quarrel between Vallejo, where the Mare Island yard is situated, and Alameda. In the senate the little navy men have taken advantage of the quarrel to defeat provision of that without which the Pacinc rieet would be handicaped in its work of defense Frequent criticism of Mare Island as ill adapted to be a first-class, navy yard and base came to a head in the report of the Helm commis sion, composed of naval officers who presumably viewed the matter from a cold, scientific standpoint without regard to local interests. They thought of meeting the needs of the navy, not of the greatness of Vallejo or Alameda. rney decided tnat Mare Island cannot be developed as a navy yard suitable for the largest vessels" with either 40 or 35-foot depth in Its approach chan nels, but has many advantages. Therefore its retention and use for shipbuilding and the repair and maintenance of the fleet within the limitations of its 30-foot channel were recommended, also mainte nance of the channel at 30 feet, addi tional berthing facilities, shop and storehouse facilities for building and repair, work. It was also proposed to make Mare Island "a repair and home base for submarines and an aviation operating and repair base." But it was proposed to establish "an additional navy yard on San Francisco bay," avoiding . unneces sary duplication and making "the two establishments complementary to each other and in no sense inde pendent or competitive." California offered free of cost 3000 acres of tide land at Alameda, and the com mission recommended acceptance and Uie filling of., about 600 acres, for these toilers of Jazz, and that they contemplate a strike. They will be in on the big profits, or the great American public must hum and whistle last year's tunes. It is an ill wind, indeed, that doesn't blow away something undesirable. We could embrace the opportunity, hop ing tjie strike would endure until and its individual members sought lucrative and fitting employment as wafflrf turners or book agents. The vacuum so created might lure a few genuine poes from their attics and give us real songs again, songs that would endure durable, darling, de lightful songs, without suggestive ness, without mockery 6f virtue. without cheap tributes to booze, without gooey sentiment, without any of those Ingredients that are commonly employed by the musical chefs of Tin Pan alley, Now comes a -manufacturer of grape juice and complains to con gress that home brew is cutting into the grape juice trade. Come to think of it, William Jennings Bryan hasn't come through with a testi monial for quite a -while. In granting the second class mail ing privilege to a radical magazine denied U by Burleson, Postmaster- General Hays declares lor tne free dom of the press. At last the post- office department is back, to nor malcy. It must be admitted that Seattle has one geographical advantage. after all. Not being at the foot of a water level grade across the moun tains, she can't suffer from a flood. . We can take this disarmament alk more seriously when the Japs voluntarily dismantle the battleship part of their navy. 'Luzon ciubwomen ask independ ence, says a headline. We thought ail club women were independent, Oregon. A tired and dispirited fisherman prepared himself for a long wait for his car after a hard day's toil with only a lean basket to show. Came a lad 'who proposed fishing until the car came. The adult .was none too eager but the boy promised him a full basket a few yards aWay. Mystery this there were no streams in sight But the boy led the way to a tiny rivulet that trickled through a series els of wheat growing?" asks R. E, of Japanese truck gardens. ."Use Bean of Freewater. "Well, that is . . .... . ., - , the view spread before the people worms,- he advised, 'they do not wh) go to CabDag.e hlll( ,n Umatilla Know saimuu ess, county. From this point titers are hook, went to where the ditch came wheat fields spreading away Into the through a culvert In the road, and distance in all directions, and these or less hopeful, and there seems lit ! tie question that business is reviving, although slowly. The east will notice better business nrst and tne wave will sweep to the Pacific coast, for thhs coast is slower to receive lm pressions than the east. On the other hand, the Pacific coast does not have the depth of commercial slumps that the Atlantic and mid-west portions of the country do. "What sight could be more mag nlficent than a view of 9.000.000 bush fields are yielding 9.000,000 bushels of wheat. I maintain tnat sucn view is better than mountain scenery or waterfalls." i Mr. Bean is a county commissioner, who Is here to meet cast in a tiny pool. Wham! He got a strike, a whopper. The space for play was limited but it was a dandy 12-Inch cut-throat he landed, and the man did not hesitate I the highway commission, bmv lino-A. XT k.ita kin hiuik WAnt I a k..J fh. f nMn n Everyone in the eastern part of , . , , , " the state knows J. R. Blackaby, who where the foot-wide stream trickled ia reg;istered at the Imperial. Tears under a cross-road in an 18-inch pipe, ago he was a school teacher in Jordan and had only started to pay out his Valley. He built up the Blackaby line when he got that real thrill Trading company and then had the bank at Jordan Valley. Later he branched out and now he also has the bank at Ontario and is interested in stock, irrigation and other re sources of that section. .Mr. Blackaby is one of the few men In the banking business in -Oregon who is a con firmed democrat and proud of it. 'There win be a road down the Tillamook beach as far as Manhattan this year," reports H. V. Alley of Nehalem, Or one of the commission ers of Tillamook county. The com mission is not willing to stop at Man hattan, but plans to keep pushing ahead and eventually get the road into Brighton. G. L. Dunning, commissioner of Umatilla county, is registered at the Hotel Oregon. He is here with the lice force. The usual'plea is to stata I county court to discuss Toad matters the number of successive meals missed with the state nignway commission. invasion has been made of certain utered at the Multnomah. Mr. Gus- apartment houses. The daring hobe I tafson is here to submit a bid for possibly figures that here is a sure I highway work. thine if he can RtrilcA thA Rvmnnrhetln woman, for there is little likelihood ; AVr'T"?),8!-- f of finding any work. orea-on. is registered at tha Hotel THE SCOUT. I Portland. M which comes only from a regular fisb who lurked way down that dark drain, and after a few minutes brought a K-ihch beauty to light. It was a happy two hours they spent, among the onions and cabbages and they never failed to get a dandy from any dark pool or culvert where the six-inch stream went its way. The fisherman caught th car with a limit string. Weary Willie has a code- for fence posts and doors in cities and towns to guard against the necessity to work for his food. In big cities there is a rich field but the hobo mustf be brave to dare the dangers of a vigilant po- War Dcpnrtment Pussled Over Yakima Letter From Charlie Steplnlhemudd. They very much fear in the office of the quartermaster-general at Wash ington that some western wag has oeon trying to have a little fnn with the army. If he is poofinjr the war department, Charley Stepintbemudd certainly has succeeded, for half a dozen veteran clerks of the quarter master corps have be-en methodically searching files of the last hundred years in tho hope of finding sonic record that Charley served as an Indian scout from 1812 almost to date. Charley wants some compensation for his century of servlre, now that he is retired at the age of 130, and he plaintively asks f he must "wairht another 100 years?" which rather in dicates that his financial difficulties are not very pressing. And, poor Lo u story runs thus: "Thorp, Wash. First you will haf to excuse my Kiting as I onley learned to like after I was 100 years old. I am now 130. I am a Onida and Senica Indian the Reason ov me rltlng to you s this. I Have folowed the American Army near on too 85 years az an In dian Scout, scouting and spying for the Army and I have never drawn any Pay for my services On account ov some of them army officers not turn- ng in my name for my services. 'My first service was with General Jackson at New Orlens. Fltlng the British Redcoats then scouting in Middle West after Bad Indians. I was with General Scott in the Old Mex ican War than scouting on the Plains, was with A. J. Smith thra the sivil warr then Back West on the Plains and Rocky mountains after Bad In dians. I went to Cuba with Coloi Rosefent as a .scout with them Ruff Riders and done my Part to help whip the spanyards. Rosefelt did not get me my trans portation home soe I Had to goe and work in cane fields and1 suggar mill untill I could get enough to build me good tight canue In whicth I came back to the Missloia River and ud to St. Louis and on up the Misurie River to great Falls Montana where I Pro ured too Horses and came on over t this Place to my old time whit Firends House where I stay most ov the time his great grandfather and I were boys togeather. Can you not Bring It. to Pass soe I can gett Just Recompence for my serv ices to this out Belovld country for 11 the years ov toil and Hardships 1 have passed through In my countrys service? or must 1 walght another 10 years? Respectively. "CHARLEY STEPINTHEMUDD, "Thorp, Wash." An ethnological expert with a side line of etymological training might gather from Internal evidence that this letter was possibly written by a Caucasian of considerable education. riK. The Bakers of America htv decided to standardize pie fillings and print the formulae so that the world may know what pies contain. How often, at our mid-day lunch. We used to watch the world go by As we would sit and gently munch Our rlrh and roggy wedge of pie. We rather sensed than tasted It; We neither knew nor cared to know What It contained, as bit by bit. It went the way all pie should go. One does not seek to rend apart. Or do a canvas violence Jo learn what makes a work of art. So pleasing to the finer sense. One neyer asked the chemist's aid To analyze a rare old wine Or to discover Just what made A dry Martini so divine. And so with pie, we had no thought To ask what lay beneath the crust As our Incisors deftly wrought. We took the contents quite on trust. Though apple, prune or apricot; Though mince-meat, fresh, or extra dry Rhubarb or quince. It mattered not. Enough for us that It was pie. And that enoiifh for us Is still. We have an Instinct that forbids Our ever knowing how they fill The space tt)nt lies between Its lids. Though in the papers day by day A list of formula we find. Our e"-es we'll quickly turn away And eat It, as we have done, blind, Wrong. Mr. Hughes says Russia Is an eco nomic vacuum, but there can he no vacuum where there Is so -much hot air. May Lead to War, Most of the border states will re gard Ontario's going dry as an un friendly act. s Ge-oeron. Mr. Bryan Is liberal minded. He doesn't object to peoplo drinking so long as they don't drink within a hun dred miles of one of Ills homes, and he has homes In six or seven stales. (Civpyrlsht by th Hell Synillonte. lno.1 Roads. Ity Graoa K. HnlL To one, the dusty winding road That passes by the fnrm, Ends In a citified abode, With all of culture's charm; Ends ever in a city goal That calls forever to the souL To one the road that slips away From noisome city street. Is like a ribbon fringed and gsy. That leads to some retreat Where murmuring streams and whis pering trees Tell soothing stories to the breeze. But oh! to all each wandering trail. Wherever It may wend. Lends bni-k at. last o'er hill and dal To those we've christened "friend"; Leads back, whorever we may roam And ends forever In a home. In Other Days. Twenty. five Years Asro, From Ths Oreironlan of My 27, JM. Vancouver, ii. C Fifty person were killed and a number Injured when the middle span of th Point Elllca bridge, about 100 feet high, tav way. , Moscow. Emperor Nicholas Ale sndrovltch and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna war solemnly crowned today with th utmost ceremony and In accordance with all th anolent ' ' and religious rites. To first of th diploma and med als awarded at the Columbian expo sition were received her yesterday by Dr. J. R. Cardwell for his exhibit of Italian and silver prunes. A great amount of snow has faTTrn In the Blue mountains this month, insuring a long season for ths placsr miners. Fifty Years A go. From Ths Oreironlnn of May 27, 171. Th new state penitentiary at Bois City Is now ready tor use. A number of new dismond drill. said to represent the best In the mar ket, have been received and will b used to hasten th work on th Wil lamette locks and canal. It will require th removal of 0O0 cubic yard of dirt to Improve Q street In East Portland. Accounts from all parts ef th Wil lamette valley Indicate that prospects or strain never before ware Aqualod. TAFT5 QUALIFICATIONS PLAIN Caatlon and Judicial Mind Would Be Taken to Bench. UNIVERSITY PARK. May 26. (To the Editor.) The words spoken by The Oregonian, editorially, urging the naming of Mr. Taft to succeed the late Chief Justice White, are sane and worthy of acceptance. 1 Mr. Taft in the afternoon of life would take caution to the bnch, which is helped by that quality a younger man might not have. Judg ment is tempered by age. The need of a Judge is more th judicial temper than a technical knowledge of the law which the tern per discovers and properly Interprets. That Mr. Taft has the judicial mind Is evident from his exceedingly wise direction of affairs at the Philippines in 'a very critical period, his nomlna tion of Mr. Hughes 'for the Dost of associate Justice and Mr. White to be curable Id its early stage. Any Care of Cancer. PORTLAND, May 16 (To th Edi tor.) What Is tha earliest as at which cancer manifests Itself? Does It com from a bruise or aa abscess, and Is It accompanied by se vere pain or not? Do you believe tt can b cored rf taken In time, and ar radium and electric treatment a cure? Is there any doctcr in Portland who really can cure It, or Is It a wast of money to try to do anything for tt? k. a. a. Cancer is rare In persons nnder M years of age. Some types of cancr may be caused! by a bruise, but knowl edge as to the primary causes of eaa- cor la generauy Imperfect. Pain usually is not present until th growth Is well advanced Can chief Justice, whose career for years has been worthy to be compared with that of Marshall, another fcreat gift of the south to the nation to keep alive nationality. It does not follow that a man who has occupied the presidential chair reputable surgeon advise you. will operant of Rand In Crlhbsge. PORTLAND, May 28. (To ths Ed. tor.) Kindly settle a dispute by cannot glorify another place assigned I counting the following playjng of a him in interest of Dublic welfare, band In crlbage: John uincy Adams was greater In A plays first card, ; B plays second the house of representatives than he card, 9; A plays third card. 2; B plays was as president, and those years In fourth card. 1; A plays fifth card, 2; congress almost obliterated the fact B plays sixth card, 1; A plays seventh he had been president. card. Z; u plays u csra. I. Mr. Taft as ex-presldent has voiced I A contends be nas two runs, ootmo. his level-beadedness to a whole world. and the spirit which be has man! tested in defeat has been that of a patriot and Christian. IS. J. nUAULCil. On Announcing Sermon Subjects. PORTLAND, May 26. (To the Edi tor.) Is the habit some ministers have of announcing beforehand the subject of their sermons, the better way? lOf course there may be exceptional Instances, but If a preacher adver- ties something worth hearing people are liable to take It for granted that when he does not announce the theme In the papers, the preaching will be a shebang. Wouldn t it be a better plan to keep the congregation In an atmos- Ing three each, and B has only tVe points for pair of nines. B contends he is also entitled to six points for two runs after playing the second and third ace. A SUBSCRIBER. A has a run of 2, 1, I and a second run of , 1, 2. B has no runs. When he played his second ace, th cards ran 1, 2, 1 and tha first blocked In. elusion of the 2. When be played his third ace, the cards ran 1, 2, 1 and ths second ace blocked Inclusion of the 1. One Omitted. Yakima Republic. The best newspapers In the United States for a library, reading room or club are said by a competent Judge to be the New York World, the New York: phere of expectancy; and when a bad Times, tha New York Evening Post- day comes of stormy weather preach the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the better than any other, if it breaks Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Jour your neck? nai, the Springfield Republican, the Moreover: isever repeat a sermon. Kansas City Star, The Portland Ore preacher always feels flattered gonian. the Washington Post, the St. when asked to repeat a sermon; but Louis Globe-Democrat, the Louisville by doing so he cuts the sand from un- I Courier-Journal, the Boston Tran. er himself. I script and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Better have It understood, if they The list does not Include the Re. get the sugar sticks, they must be I public, but we should say that other there all th tim. C. E. CLINE. ' wis it I approximately correct.