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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY,. JUNE 2, 1921
nh3 ?rtgonl"!l u a me,mber of the am- n lingered and
elated Press. The Associated 1TW u - .
, Ciuaively entitled to the use lor publication with minor COncess
who did not conform? For the
clothes of yesteryear were all the
iVflca In their own Hnv nnri thprfl wa
ESTABLISHED BY IIE.NKY 1- I'lTTOCK. -bout tnem a certainty honesty of
PublijAed by TheOregonlan Publwhlng Co.. work manship and fabric that com-
Jo bixth street. Portland. Oregon. , . . ,
C a. .MUKDEN. E. B. piper, 'mended them to the purchaser. We
.Manager. reel mat most or tne styles couia
remained popular.
concessions to taste from
.Of all nWM HinarrhM r.,l 1 -,1 tO It OT DOt I . 1 . i . TT.i.D ninnaaHlnff
T f ,.,... crealTed Tn thi paper d als. ""l"!
Tne local news published nerein. aii i ja-i u"m " .
or publication of special dispatcher nerem jce 0j aerviceable garments, pur
are alo reserved. . ,,,, ,, K th rr,wloii
EubscrlDtiun Rate
Invariably In Advance, Kaster. and any amount of money
anu energy wumu oc ojdicu
Dally. Sunday Included! one v.ar IS Other channels. The fact is that
laiiy. Sunday included, iix months - :' the law of fashionable evolution, or
RliZSXftllSffl&STZZrr. revolution, is the old ordinance of
laiiy. without Sunday, one year -J mortal vanity, which- the tailors and
;:r:.: dressmakers, the shoemakers and
Weekly, one year 1" hatters, have turned to such profit-
Bundsy. one year 2-30 abIe acc0unt.
. By Carrier.) Secretary Hoover's committee has,
STi'!?: "2SS:; jSSd: a?A5 -onYii::'!:!? we repeat, made the belated official
Xiaiiy. Sunday included, one month . discovery that a considerable por-
S-ifc.nn. tion of our economic burden is the
Ial:y. without Sunday, one month high cost of changing styles. The
,?2B3r3S!3?' P"blic finds 4tselr in the position of
. local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are the listener Who fails to perceive
at owner's risk. Give postoffl'ce address in Ih t riointlessi ntorv has terminated.
untv and state. I , . , v . ,,
DISTURBING.
The city council, sitting as the
budget committee, allowed the bu
reau of fire $854,285 for personal
Potaae Ku.tr 1 to 18 pares. 1 cent: IS ana cries
to paxes. cents: 34 to 48 pages, a
rents: .",0 to 04 paxes. 4 cents: 6 to So
paires. . cents: m to Pn pases, o cents.
l-'ureljrn DiuvtaKe double rate
extern KiiMin Offl,- Verree A Conk-
lin. :iii:i Madison avenue. New York: Verree
Conklln. Steeer buildlner. Chicago: Ver
ree A Conklln. Free Press buildins-. De-
r..lt fl.-t. . i.nnblln 5ll,nv
bulldina Portland: San Francisco repre- service ior tne Ilscal year or XVii.
Sentat.ve. R.J. Bldweil. I J (tlQi;!9 lio ar,A ma.
terials. No money was requested
the terminal question. for new equipment, but an item of
voters or Portland will be asked I $20,932.72 was carried over on the
at the election on June 7 to ratify books of the auditor from last year,
the agreement between the city coun-I to pay for a new fire truck costing
cil nnd the railroad companies by I $17,480, contracted for on November
which the way is cleared for exten- 19, 1920, and to pay for a small
sion of the freight terminals to the I vehicle, costing $3,452.72. The city
new site on Guilds lake. . This agree- I spent $76,000 in 1920 for new fire
ment has developed from the re- 1 equipment.
quest of the city that the union pas- 1 We are raising this year nearly
senger station become a union sta- ) $1,000,000 for protection from fire.
tion in fact as well as in name I With such a fund the fire depart
-through its use by all railroads. Com- ment ought to be a going concern.
pliance with this request required I Yet there is asked of the voters their
that ground now used for freight I approval of a bond Issue of $200,000
trains be surrendered to passenger to buy more equipment.
trains. As the freight yard was al- I The Oregonian repeats the state
ready too small, that made a Targe ( ment that replacements in fire ap
addition, to the freight terminal an paratus and additions due to normal
imperative necessity. The rai'roads I growth of the city ought to be pro
came together on an agreement to vided for in the budget. They are
" use the existing terminals Jointly and I current needs as distinguished from
to construct new freight terminals permanent improvements. It is a
on land owned by some of them in serious and disturbing confession
OlliM !akf which WOlllrl he annlieil I ikal ,a law irhnaa ciA nnri nnn.
to joint uie. provided that the city I stant growth cause so much com-
,umu cu'uueniie. xieiiue uie uiiliu- i niaint. is not. sutncient. despite me
-live came from the city, ana tne pro- generous slice given the fire depart-
posed settlement is des'gned to meet I ment. to keep the department on its
-the growing needs or both passenser I feet
and freight traffic.
In order that the new terminal"
may be constructed, it is proposed
that a number of sections of streets
be vacated for use by the railroad.'?.
These streets intersect railroad prop
erty and are used little, if at all, as
(streets, so that actually they are so
only in name. The railroads are to
provide crossings of street.? over
their tracks to the water front at
several points, are to share th cost
of overhead crossings at any time in
GOVERNOR BONE.
The appointment of Mr. Scott
Bone to be governor of Alaska will
give satisfaction wherever Mr. Bone
is known and that is throughout the
United States and should give sat
isfaction in Alaska. It is a position,
of peculiar difficulty. The rancors
of politics are deep and all but in
curable in Alaska and it was not ex
pedient to select as governor a leader
gent need for regulation cannot be
denied. Recreational censorship is
not so dreadful on close acquaint'
ance, if . we make doubly certain
that it will be judiciously adminis
tered. It serves to insure to us
those privileges, such as dancing,
that have fallen in evil ways and
that, if unchecked, will create either
moral riot or a strong reaction
against all forms of joyance.
Surely the sane and wholesome
regulation of public dances cannot
be so difficult as to leave no option
save that of suppression. We do
not require the opinion of libertine
or prude to speak for or against the
various forms of dancing. Old-fashioned
morality and common sense
indicate the objectionable ones, and
the obliteration of any vicious dance
resolves itself to a mere matter of
enacting ordinances and enforcing
them. To the contention that en
forcement is difficult, that there is
constant revolt, the obvious reply Is
that suppression of all public danc
ing would be thrice as difficult ana
far more productive of disregard
for law and morality. All laws are
comparatively difficult to enforce. If
they were not we would have no
need for laws, nor for enforcement
officers. An ordinance regulating
public dances requires only official
purpose and attention to attain ei-
fectiveness, and infractions of such
a law would be evidential.
To McMinnville the choice is
clearly defined. It may turn to tie
left or the right, at the option of the
voters. It may frown upon the nat
ural expression of joy and social
pleasantry found in dancing, because
error has entered the temple, or it
may admit the indispensability of
the dance and resolve to correct its
faults. Whichever turn it takes the
eventual result will be awaited with
interest, for McMinnville's problem
is not peculiar to itself alone.
the future when the city deems them of of Kthe factio"s-
neccessary and will widen certain
parts of Front and Hoyt streets nnd
Sherlock avenue by donating strlpj
of land or removing tracks. The
' first unit of the new terminal will
be constructed immeditely a: a cost
of $500,000 and further units will be
added as traffic demands until th
The problems of the territory are
serious and not speedily soluble; so
that a chief executive should under
stand them and be prepared to in
terpret them both to the nation
which does not understand them, and
to congress, which has been too
ready to listen to the amateur con-
whole is completed at a cost of about servationists and professional ideal
12.000.000. Whpn th nrnr nporl ists who have offered their imprac-
of more freight tracks has been met
tical panaceas during the past
decade or more. As a result Alaska
languishes, its resources are un-
and when passenger traffic demands.
. This arrangement is as much to touched, its industries are idle, and
the advantage of the city as of the lls People are in uespuu.
i-ailrnoria Ttn terms K hun I MF. JSOne, as ttU BU11UI 1W
thnrnnc-hiv threhH nut hv th r-itv dent of Seattle, gave for several
" commissioners, by committees rep- years special attention to Alaska and
resenting civic bodies and by the anairs. ne is in .npa.m
railroads. All objections have been the effort to develop Alaska along
heard at public sessions of the city the lines of rational ana neipiiu poi
commissioners and thos which had icies, and he combines a tactful tern
any merit have been met by modifi- perament with a firm will, so that
cation of the terms. The traffic of he should be able to bring together
the city is growing and will continue a" factions within the territory, unit
to grow as its ocean commerce grows, ing them in common aims. The out
provided room is provided for han- look for Alaska improves with the
dling it speedily and economically, announcement ul vruvemu. .
Provision is made for this growth appointment,
for a number of years that is con
tingent on its rapidity and volume.
A strong point in favor of this plan
Is that it conforms to the natural
course of progress. Public conven
lence requires that the railroad ter
minals be adjacent to the business
section of the city, as they will be.
"The general interest demands that
the city expand by stages down the
Willamette river without jumping
TO DANCE OR NOT TO DANCE.
McMinnville stands at Wie parting
of the ways. The fomentation that
is evident over all the country, and
that demands a revised definition of
recreational pleasure within leglti
mate bounds, has hardened In the
Oreeon town to an Ikkiia that win hp
determiifbd by special election. So
i . i . i . . ...
.nvnimnnid .,r Fil !i " "ecuiiie!. a matter oi puonc con
ftiiiirla lalco alto will fro fal- to cern. of individual interest, this en-
one of those gaps. It is essential eavor to regulate public dances, as
that railroad terminals be near the "vleu motion, or to aooi-
harbor with spurs to the docks. That ish tt'em' as urffed bjr another. The
will be practicable when the channel ProbIem that i accentuated in Mc-
near the terminal Is improved and MmnviUe. and that has divided the
when docks are built along its front cltlzens in hostile camps, is also the
In fart the rnnrw of rnilronrl im. 1'iumcui t'i u oucr americia Clues,
nrovement will harmonizo with the STeat or small
obviously wise course of channel and Should the voters of McMinnville
dock improvement. Filling of the by thelr baots decree that public
remainder of Guilds lake will nat- dances must cease, as unlawful gath-
urally accompany or follow that of erings, we cannot but feel that theirs
thP railroad trround. Th r-itv win would be a hollow victory. For the
then have a large area of admirable suppression of this recreation in
industrial sites easily accessible from open aance halls could not serve to
the railroads, the docks and the stamP out tnose vogues of indecent
business center. dancing that have been argeted,
As to the absolute necessity of en- could not prohibit them in private
large d terminals, the growihg vol
ume of the city's business leaves no
doubt. Ocean commerce, even in this
period of depression, is about $5,000,-
O 0 0 a month nnri whpn Iho nev
homes, if quietly conducted, and
must inevitably incite the recalci
trant young folk to tread the forbid
den measures. The dance cannot be
reformed by suppression, for danc-
Columbia basin rates become ef- I lnff is an expression of buoyancy and
lective. will be largely increased. A g'aaness mat is iuuy as oia as song,
large proportion of our commerce and as fundamentally proper. It will
will come in and to out hv rail and continue, reformed or unreformed.
ample yard trackage will be needed Though The Oregonian disclaims any
for its quick transfer between car color ul uarusansuip, ana sincerely
and ship. The new terminal will be so- u fee,s that regulation and not
a material part of the city's eauiD- suppression is the sensible remedy
ment not only as a railroad center
but as a port. The, measure on the
ballot should be approved.
A DIAGNOSIS WTTHOl'T A REMEDY.
to administer,
No American community is so hard
pressed by moral peril that It must
emulate the civic code of Zion,
where Voliva would make both joy
and beauty offenses against munici-
. The very sagacious deduction of a pal law. When the typical Ameri
committee on waste, appointed to in- can town is placed in the stocks of
vestigate the routine expenditures of too drastic reform the liberty -that
the public, is that arbitrary and en- we prize so dearly will no longer
tirely unnecessary changes in style exist. And liberty is not license it
contrive to keep us poor. Mr. is the right to pursue happiness. To
Hoover, as secretary of .commerce, those who would abolish the public
appointed the investigators, and to dance this question may be perti-
hlm and his committee a debt of
gratitude is due. Not for any start
ling and novel disclosure, but for
official recognition of the filching
propensity of fashion. Like a great
many other committees of inquiry,
when they have reached their find
ings. Secretary Hoover's economic
sleuths must be puzzled far a solu
tion. It is this that a burdened peo
ple will joyfully anticipate but what
is it?
The fashions of yesteryear seem
odd when they appear today, not on
the streets, but in the attic's store of
magazines. By what law of modish
evolution have we set with each sea
son a new standard of styles, and
held that person to be roorlj; dressed
"HE PRAYETH WELL WHO LOVETH
WE1X."
An odd semi - theological cult has
arisen in New York, whence spring
so many isms, that is at least com
mended by simple kindliness. It is
called the Church of All Animals
and its purpose is to teach forbear
ance and sympathy toward those
lesser forms of creation that man
has made the creatures of his will.
There is a field for remedial thought
here, beyond question, though the
propriety of exalting it to a religious
Diane is debatable. The Droaa,
transfiguring quality of mercy is in
herent in all religions, or should be,
and we need not exalt the dumb
beasts to worship in order, to attain
a sense of our duty toward them,
The prayers of . that man whose
breast is untouched by a divine sym
rathv are as paltry as they must be
unacceptable and his dealings with
his own kind will be fraught witn
the same inconsiderate cruelty that
he manifests toward his dog or horse,
Cowper testified to the repugnance
which a disregard for lowly rights
awakens when he said:
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners
and line sense.
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon-a worm
And the Ancient Mariner, when
Coleridge had led him through the
ways of penance for the killing of
the albatross, came to the inescapa
ble conclusion that needs no formula
of religion to drive home the truth
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast . .
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small.
Down on the waterfront Hugh
Brady sits and watches the gulls of
the Willamette, curving their white
wings in the graceful foray that begs
for bread and peanuts. Many years
ago, says Hugh, he broughi one down
with a piece of driftwood a broken
winged, fluttering sea bird that
never again would coast above the
harbor and meet the ships. A loung
ing Indian, witness to the thought
less cruelty, turned upon the slayer
and gave him grave reproof. . Why
do you kill that bird?" he asked,
"His life Is his own. Can you eat
him now? An Indian would not kill
in this manner."
The indictment of vain and cruel
slaughter is a heavy one. The
roseate spoonbill and the egret died
because they were beautiful be
cause man admired them. The buf
falo vanished from the plains for no
other reason than that his hide
brought a few dimes to the hunters.
Upon bird and beast the plague of
human cruelty, of disregard for the
right of life, has levied terrible toll,
It Is true that-man Is carnivorous of
appetite and that natural law bids
him prey upon the lower animals for
his own sustenance and industrial
designs. But nowhere in printed
word or in conscience is there a text
that upholds him in wanton destruc
tion.
The Church of All Animals cannot
lay additional stress upon these
trutha Already we perceive them
and even now some measure of sym
pathetic protection is given to our
wild life, to our animal servants and
to our pets. We are not in need of
a queer, outlandish creed that can
only furnish us with a mawkish sen
timentality, a deification of beasts
bound by the natural law, as we are
bound, to replace sensible sentiment
and humane forbearance. The ethics
of Cowper and the moral standard of
Coleridge furnish religion enough,
for instinctively we feel their funda
mental truth.
In his compact with the United
Farmers' association of Alberta, to
cause the clouds to shake their gar
nered fullness down for two addi
tional inches, or $8000 worth in all.
The area to be benefited is a giant
circle of drought - stricken wheat
lands, 100 miles in radius. Not only
has it rained already, a heavier fall
than the district has felt for months,
but the buoyant rainmaker promises
that he will not conclude his efforts
at the stipulated -amount, but will
bring to Alberta the thorough,
epochal soaking so manifestly
needed.
Bizarre as these efforts must be,
wholly without sound scientific rec
ognition, distant critics should not
hasten to upbraid and ridicule the
credulous farmers of Alberta. They
differ not at all from their agricul
tural brethren In districts blessed
with rain, but an imperturbable sky
has withered their disbelief in necro
mancy and made them willing to
resort to any device that extends the
vestige of promise. If rain falls
Star and Starmakers. Those Who Come and Go. j Burroughs Nature Club.
By Leone Cmmu Baer. Talea of Folk at the Hotel. Copyright. Houck ton-Miff Ha Co.
' l I 1
Nazimova is a feminist who puts
her theories into practice. She is
planning an all-woman production.
Xo men are to be connected with the
making of the picture except the
technical staff.
None but women are to be in the
cast or connected with the writing or
direction.
From London comes news of the
death of Sir James M. Barrie's adopt
ed son, who was drowned while try
ing to save the life of a friend. The
friend was also drowned.
The boy was the son of Gerald Du
Maurier's sister. Barrie adopted the
whole family on the death of their
parents.
The children are said to have in
spired the writing of "Peter Pan,'
alwt '"PHa T (lit. li-k i , n l 3 ,, rn.UA
! .V U.Jl.,.. U J!.tt 1 - "" "Ull CIL U. illO
. .v.,, . j t, eldest boy was killed in war at al-
saving their imperiled crops, they
will pay Hatfield his $8000 with glad
most the same time as Du Maurier's
hparts. thoi.e-h nlu-avs thre will re- wrm Au r.nSiisnman a
, .v.T 7 7j . Home,
brought trip. wplromA showers.
At the exnpnsp, of our own eovern- 1 oue -reignton, the tiny little danc
ment. in 1891. a $10,000 experiment lnS mam, who replaced Kitty Doner
in rainmaking was conducted near I in the Sinbad show, was married four
Midland, Texas, where high explo- months ago to Eddie Lynn, one of the
sives'were hurled in a bombardment I two dancing team of Burns and Lynn.
of heaven. Balloons poised above I The two were secretly wed in Xew
the arid country and discharged I York and the news leaked out when
rainmaking munitions, creating a I the Al Jolson show played Oakland.
thunderous amount of noise and na
tional merriment. But it rained. Fannie Brice will join the new
At the third assault the sky became "Follies." The comedienne is under
overcast and a soaking downpour contract to Charles rii:inirham. who
drenched the exhilarated rainmakers intPnrlPn to .tr k in i,. n Aorn
and the parched fields. Rain had Hoffman ha, not been ab,e to get out
fallen there before, however, and the
coincidental storm that seemed to
respond to the efforts of science did
not yield proof of ingenious origin,
The rainmakers packed their para
phernalia and returned to Washing
ton, wrangling as they journeyed.
the book in time. Dillingham has
loaned Miss Brice to Ziegfeld until
the piece is ready. Miss Brice starts
rehearsals with the "Follies" this
week.
In private life Miss Brice is Mrs.
and from.their foray aeainst drought Nicky Arnstein and has recently pre
the country never was able to formu- ented her husband with their second
late a true opinion. The Texas cnua. Mr. Arnstein decorates the
shower had one marked effect. It front pages of the news frequently.
caused the mushroom growth of
dozens of rainmaking companies I
and no end of annoyance to the gov- I Eltinge has declined, since arriving
ernment that had given them their I oast to play vaudeville, an offer to ap
cue. I pear in- Ziegf eld's "Follies" this sum
We are compelled to a skeptical mer.
"Of all the ingredients used in
good varnishes, perhaps none has a
more romantic history than the-guma
which are collected from nearly every
continent and are used for brilliancy
said James Hioks, manager of a large
Chicago paint and varnish concern
registered at the Multnomah. "From
northern Africa, along the shores of
the Mediterranean and along the coast
of Italy comes a goodly supply of
gums. The African gums, as do all
originally, exude from the gum trees
in large tears, which are collected and
transported. The African gums are
used extensively for incense and the
gum which comes from the European
shores of the Mediterranean, when
fossilized, is known as amber and de
mands a very high price on the
market. There is very little pure
amber and what is now found gen.
erally comes in small pieces. Amber
was once thought to contain unusual
medicinal properties. Copal is the
name given to the Hindoo gums or
resins, which are supposed to be the
best on account of their extreme
hardness and extensive use commer
cially. Capal Imparts a luster to
varnish, but makes the varnish slower
to dry. Quite a commerce is now
had between the United States and
Mexico in the resin trade. The MexL
can gums are probably the softest of
all used, but on account of their
greater abundance and cheaper price
are much sought after in this coun
try. Some of the Mexican gums are
so soft as to change shape when in
contact with the heat of the hand.'
nently put: What have you to offer
in its place? For the advocate of
suppression, if he is in the least fa
miliar with the history of dancing.
If he realizes its spontaneous and ir
repressible nature, surely must have
some cultural substitute to offer.
What is it? Tatting? Or the lively
old game of authors? How will he
meet the demand for social frater
nity among those boys and girls
whose recreational privileges he has
undertaken to define?
Censorship itself is sufficiently
drastic. True lovers of personal lib
erty shrink at first from censorship
as from a creature that imperils
their rights. But they are con
strained to accept it, when the ur- ling, It is his business, as outlined
RAINMAKERS AND COIKCIXDESTAl.
MOSTtRE.
As a matter of convenience, it
would be great to control the clouds
and make our own weather, after
the manner of rainmakers when they
pretend to summon precipitation. A
fleeting glance at the late potatoes
on some sultry morning of August,
dejected foliage telling eloquently of
a consuming, fatal thirst, could be
followed by a few scientific incanta
tions in the backyard and the cool
vigor of a most refreshing shower.
So it -is that, whether we believe or
not, all will watch with hopeful in
terest the latest experiment in woo
ing rain, now being conducted at
Medicine Hat, Alberta, If the good
medicine of generous clouds cannot
be made at such a plaqe, so propi
tiously named, perhaps we shall for
ever lose interest in the professional
rainmaker. ,
At Cappice Lake, twenty miles from
Medicine Hat, centrally located in a
great wheat district that has been
insufficiently watered for the past
six years, Charles M. Hatfield, rain
maker, has erected hia mysterious
altar and contracted to deliver rain
fall by the inch during the early
summer months at the round figure
of $4000 for every inch over two.
With respect to the initial brace of
inches, Hatfield Is willing to con
cede that nature will do as much on
her own account without any wheed-
view of all claims that man may
make It rain at his bidding. Famine
could be driven from China within a
few months if rainmaking were pos
sible. But natural conditions altered
the skies to beaten brass and denied
the dew in that vast famine area
where multitudes starved and are
starving. A too intensive, too un
imaginative husbandry, decreed its
own doom. With fatal thrift the special matinees at tne seiwyn me
last tree was uprooted and the clean- I ater in New York, featuring (Miss)
shaven country effectually robbed I -Biiiie fanaw,
of its storage facilities. Erosion from
the un retarded drainage heaped the I Max Dill of Kolb and Dill has a
river beds above the territory they small musical comedy show touring
serve and brought flood as the sister this coast. He is not appearing in the
to drought and famine as the off- I company but is its sponsor and di-
spring of both. One wonders now rector.
Rainmaker Hatfield would begin his .
operations in the Chinese tamine I Maude Fulton opens in summer
area, where coincidence seems to stock at her theater, the Fulton, in
have been eliminated, or almost re- Oakland, on June 5. She will try out
moved. If he were an honest rain- I two plays she wrote during her recent
maker, bent upon proving his point viSit east.
to posterity, he would launch the
work of reforestation. William Rock, formerly of Rock and
Rainmaking as a real remedial Maude Fulton, and later in partner
measure would seem to be rain con- aniD with Frances White. Is ill at his
servation, Dy metnoas indicated in New York home at seventy-second
Talk about love's labor iost, Harry
Hamilton, of the Imperial, knows
what it means. Mr. Hamilton seeks
recreation from the turmoil of the
hotel lobby, by seeking the sylvan
shades of Brightwood, a little settle
ment in Clackamas county out Mount
Hood way. If there is one thing more
than another that the Brightwood in
habitants yearn for it is completion
of the Mount Hood loop. Anyone who
has ever driven over the present road
to Brightwood will fully understand
and appreciate the feelings of the
people there. Well, last week when
the state highway commission was in
session, bids were opened for grading
the loop road. Mr. Hamilton and
An authentic source says that Julian (Tony LaBranche cut a perfect dear of
a tree and with loving hands fashioned
it into a 40-foot flagpole. They
dragged it through the forest to
Brightwood and were all ready for a
great flag-raising and celebration
when news should come over the
long-distance phone that the con
tract was awarded. The bell of the
phone rang and a message hummed
over the wire saying that because
Multnomah county Commissioners had
not given the highway department
sufficient guarantee of co-operation,
the contract was not let. Whereupon
.Mr. Hamilton and the assembled
Brightwoodltes gave utterance to re
marks that made the atmosphere have
the odor of exploded fireworks. Any
one wanting the flagpole can have
it except the county commissioners.
The salary inducement was a large
one,- the report claims, but Mr. Eltinge
brushed it aside. He is returning to
his California home, and will prob
ably make a couple of pictures on the
coast during the summer, returning
to vaudeville, perhaps, in the fall.
Max Figmah is staging a series of
experience preserving the great
natural reservoirs of the watershed
Having exercised this caution, there
would remain merely the normal ex
pectancy of mixed weather at the
discretion of providence. Casually
considered, the providential system
appears to be best fitted to human
requirements, for who would care to
arbitrate the question of whether it
should or should not rain on any
certain day?
and Broadway. His physician reports
that Mr. Rock will be inactive for the
summer.
David Belasco has obtained the
rights to Sascha Guitry's latest play
"The Grand Duke," declared to be th
biggest success of the new season i
Paris.
It has been produced at the Theater
King Edward VII and is described as
'a fantasy of brilliant truths wittily
The nitv of the stagnation in the turned." The chief character is
film industry in Los Angeles is in Russian grand duke reduced by the
the dancer morally to shundreds of Doisnevists to tne position oi a pro
. . . , i . , .... ,
young women I urea Dy petty places lessor oi lansuasea, wuoo
in it and facing starvation. There is courtesy clears the difficulties of th
no place like home, be it ever so I tangled romance of a charming young
crowded and sordid. pair of lovers.
Lucien Guitry, the author's father,
The plan of giving every phone I plays the duke, while the two young
subscriber an automatic begins this sters are Sascha Guitry and Yvonn
week and when completed the gentle I Printemps, the latter being Mrs. Gui
voice that says Thur-r-ree with a try in private life.
roll will no more be heard. Then, Mr. Belasco's treatment of the au
too, an irate man can talk into his I thor's ultra-modern reconstructive
instrument without danger of arrest viewpoint, centered around the char
acter of the exiled grand duke, is
The paroled man who opened a likely to be new to the American
theatrical exchange for reasons not I stage,
to De discussed in poute circles has
been taken back to Salem to finish Harry Corson Clarke and his wife,
his sentence, mere are times when Margaret Dale Owen, are heading
a parole is a benefit; it lies with the thelr own company at the Empire
individual.
Stock theater at Long Beach, Call
fornia.
Robert Gleckler, a former leading
man with the Baker theater. Is play
ing in George M. Cohan's new play
"The Tavern." Norman Hackett has
the leading role..
Wlllard Mack and Pauline Frederick
may wed again. They bade each other
cutters to consent to the reduction I an affectionate adieu as Miss Fred
proposed, conditional on signing a I erick went aboard her train bound for
years agreement. That is the way the coast. Afterward Mack said: "We
harmony begins., - have discovered that we love each
other more than ever. But marriage
Minnesota courts have ruled that
offering of cigars at election polls
by candidates Is a violation of
the corrupt practices act. If they
are the usual candidates' brand it
ought also to be construed as a capi
tal crime.
If rllmor be true, the boss butchers
should grab the offer of the meat-
Mr. Bryan announces the transfer nP. i- the distant future, as Miss
"5" ,0""era lrura ivincoin, Frederick has two years to spend on
Neb. to Florida. Probably he fig- th, coast Defore her contract la fut
ures the opportunities for deserving flUed and tnat must be lnt0
ucuiutiau hi me uuim are auouL ex
hausted.
The best view of the river can be
obtained from an Astoria-bound
boat. As this stage of water hap
pens only four times in a century.
now is the chosen time for this gen-
eration.
consideration."
Frederick Warde Is going to make
a picture and has chosen for his first
selection Richard Walton Tully s play,
Omar the Tent Maker." Work will
begin next week at the Brunton
studios, Hollywood. Heretofore Mr.
Warde has confined his activities to
Seasonable words in the drugstore I Shakespearean role.
ads": "Bedbug Poison. Next to
something that will, take out the "Evelyn Nesblt Novelty Shop, in
kinks, this is the chemist's best -field gold lettering on the plate glass store
for inventive endeavor. window at 233 West Fifty-fifth street.
gave the first hint that the- famous
The relations between Great Brt- I dancer, storm center of so many do
tain and Angora are strained, accord- mestio and professional vicissitudes,
ing to late cable news. Those Brit- I has gone into trade.
ish seem determined to get Turkey's
goat.
The new Evelyn Nesbit "shop is
beins: beautifully decorated by Japa
nese Artists, its walls already nearly
When the black man stirs the ire rifi with those diaphanous painted
of the white man south of the line murals which suggest the oriental tea
he commits race .suicide, to say the I j
least. Sa!?fn: . ,.m,v
eV,1a nrnsmpnta will. It Is
Coast Jobs for coast men spells understood, oe placed for Inspection
and sale In the Fifty-first street
place, which is to be a tea room de
Tk. iot e h luxe, witn a omuij ""'" -
golfers is out of the British matches. attract an4 plea" the WOm?" tlkta
the doom of the carpetbagger, by
whatever title he is known.
Golf language Is tabooed.
Quality, rather than quantity, is to
be the motto of the Evelyn Thaw
The only time a Doliceman Is Iusti- shop, and the talented proprietress
fied in striking is when he does itlerpects to spend much of , her time
with a club, I there.
Five stitches have been taken over
the eye of Charles White of Browns
Vile, Or., registered at the Perkins.
Mr. White now knows the perils of
a great city and realizes some of the
dangers of men who go down to the
sea in ships. A few days ago Mr.
White arrived in Portland from
Brownsville, Intending to visit Japan
with a dentist friend. Tuesday Mr.
White and the dentist put their lug
gage aboard. Tuesday night about
11 o'clock Mr. White started for the
steamer, not knowing, on account of
strike conditions, just when -the ves
sel would leave port. As the man
from Brownsville reached a lonesome
corner near the waterfront, three men
accosted him. They said thev were
strikers and proceeded to strike vlo-
entiy. 'ine sluggers never eave Mr.
White an opportunity to explain that
he was a passenger for the steamer
and not a strike breaker. When the
hoodlums finished with Mr. White, th
latter lay unconscious on the Dave
ment, where he was later found and
g-ven surgical attention.
"People cannot afford to nav an
more for meat than thev are t rirs
ent," observed William Poilman of
Baker, president of the Cattlemen
association, and banker, who Is at
tr-e imperial. "At the cattlemen
meeting at Canyon City. Or., last wee
one of the speakers predicted that
prices would be better, hut I disarm
I think that people are now navln
all that they are In position to pay
for meat. The proposition resolves
Itself to this: The cattle must be
produced so that beef can be sold a
a margin or profit based on Dresent
prices. I believe the problem will be
wonted out successfully in the end.
mere is plenty of grasa and hay. an
wages are lower, stockmen have felt
discouraged with the slump that hit
mem aiong with the rest of the coun
try, out tney will clean ur anrl eet
on their feet. All the industry needs
jia-iience ana nara work. '
Can You Answer These Questions f
1. What harm do June bugs do?
2. On the eastern shore of Maryland
is found a mussel called "man-nose"
or "mammy-nose." 1 cannot find this
in the dictionary. Please "give me the
correct name and spelling?
3. How can the turkey buzzard and
the hawk sail against the wind with
out a propelling force?
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
s
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. How far can a skunk throw its
fluid?
This fluid is stored In two ducts
below the tail which serves when
lifted with a certain motion to con
tract the ducts automatically and
eject their contents, somewhat as a
rubber bulb will expel liquid under
pressure. The spray will go from 13
to 16 H feet. The tail 1 not soiled
by this process, it only acts as a
, screen to mask the skunk a battery.
2. How do small fish like minnows
get Into a small pool which only fills
up after rain or snow, and has no
running water to feed it
The only possibility Is where the
poo has been filled through the over
flow of a 'stream or brook which
might carry fish with it into a basin
that temporarily became a pool.
e
3. What is the average length of
the bob-white's life?
All wild birds run such chances of
tragic death that nobody can esti
mate an "average" life span. Local
conditions of weather, natural ene
mies, hunting laws, and food supply
all affect the birds. In a rigorously
protected region it might be possible
to use the aluminum anklets of the
American Bird Banding association,
and by keeping track of the individ
uals through a series of years, arrive
at some general conclusions on the
tpecies. '
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montaarue.
CARDINAL'S WORDS ARE UIOTEU.
Yankee Roman Catholic Resents
German Society's Resolutions.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 31. (To
the Editor.) Kindly allow a Yankee
Roman Catholic to express opinion
on these eo-called Roman Catholic
societies. As usual, with some Ger
man people, the "fatherland" comes
fir?t. Its "Me und Gott." with much
stress on the "me." How dare they
seek to misreoresent the splendid
teachings of the Catholic religion,
which teaches Its children to be God-
loving, country-loving, law-abiding
citizens?
Would our patriotic orders show
anything like patriotism if they did
not resent the unjust condition which
seems to surround the Albers case?
Albers has proved himself disloyal
to the country he adopted as his.' As
the late Cardinal Gibbons said: "If
they do not like our America, why
do they stay in America?"
It would be well for these "socie
ties" to leave out the Roman part of
it, and also the sympathy for the
Irish cause, as the loyal Irish citizen
is a true patriot and not in sympathy
with anything of the Albers type.
Why in the name of Justice cannot
these Germans become Americanized
enough to respect the laws of this
land they have chosen for their home,
or go back to the fatherland? We
have some very fine German citizens,
why not make these others good citi
zens or deport them? This society
will tread once too often upon the
toe of a Catholic Yankee. Ex-Major
E. D. Woodruff's letter In this morn
ing's Oregonian Is most commendable
YANKEE ROMAN CATHOLIC.
tKLKSS INDICATION.
A college professor suggest a de
partment of matrimony in th great
universities.)
When I was earning my twelve a
week
I wearied of single life.
So I made up my mind that I'd go
and seek
Some damsel to be my wife.
The girls 1 knew seemed a likely lot.
Yet I Bhuddered with horrid dread
For I couldn't be sure that the girl
I got
Was the one that I ought to wed.
I yearned for an ardor that wouldn't
Cuut,
And a wedlock no year could
blight.
So I took a course at a well-known
school
That taught you to pick "cm right.
I learned that the kind of a girl
for me
Was a mulden with auburn hair.
Who tipped the beam at a hundred
and three
And was known by the name of
Claire.
With uch a girl, so the prof averred,
I could wander In primrose ways
With never a mesn or peevish word
To the end of our wedded days.
She would save my money, and broil
my steak
And care for my clothe and health,
TiH I soon would find that for her
sweet sake
I had conquered both fame" and
wealth.
I hunted from Maine to Mexico
In quest of this model lass,
And after a couple of years or so
I found her In Squantum, Mass.
And our lives might have been on
long romance.
With never a stnitle lgh
If it hadn't been for the circumstance
That she'd married another guy.
And as her like there can never l
Any further quest is vain.
She's the only wife they prescribed
for me
So a bachelor I remain.
Out of Tselr l ine. ,
Why should 400 musical expert
condemn the Jazz? Doe anyone be
lieve that Jazz has any relation to
music?
Always on the Alert.
As soon as Greece hear about that
other Mrs. Leeds, she'll trot out an
other eligible prince.
We're Apprnarhlns; If.
This isn't quite the mellenlum. hut
the railroads are admitting that their
rates are too hljrh.
(Copyright hy the Bell Pvnnlonte, lnr )
In Other Days.
jonn H-amDshlre. who hunt th
grade in the canyon section of the
facinc highway, thus forever rlrt
ding tourists of Cow Creek canyon,
registerea at the Hotel Portland
air. riampenire also bu.i t the s-rari
for the Roseburg-Coos Bay highway
ueiween uamas valley and Remote.
and last week he submitted a bid
to rock It, the bid having since been
rererrea to tne state highway eniri
neer. After handing in the bid Mr.
Hampshire went to The Dalles to at
tend the celebration held there last
week, lor he is still loyal to his old
home town.
Everyone who has ever loitered In
the lobby of the Hotel Portland has
looked at the "Villard Ruins," a larire
oil painting on the east wall of the
lobby. The picture shows the foun
dation of the Hotel Portland when
the stonework lay exposed to the ele-
hents for several years and no one
in town ever thought anything would
be bunt on the' foundation. This nic
ture is the work of Mrs. Francesca
Reglna Chrlstena Grothjean. now of
Paris, but at present a visitor in the
city. Mrs. Grothjean, since she repro
duced the "ruins" on canvas, has be
come a famous marine artist.
F. S. Le Grew felt sick yesterday
wnen ne arrived in Portland, for
while at the union depot his arriD
disappeared. He didnt know whether
to suspect a pronmition agent or Just
a plain sneak thief. Eventually the
grip showed up with contents intact.
and Mr. Le Grew, who is a rancher
near Athena, Or., went to the Benson,
where B. B. Richards and Mr. and
Mrs. Homer I. Watts, also of Athena.
are registered.
H. S. Welcome of London, England,
is an arrival at the Benson. Mr.
Welcome is a member of a well-known
firm which manufactures drugs, and
is being entertained while in
Portland by some of the local drug
dealers.
Pat Welch, one of the best-known
of ' the colony of contractors who
make their headquarters in Spokane
and do work everywhere else, is reg
istered at the Benson.
The health officer of Bend Is J. C.
Vandervert. The doctor is among
those present at the Imperial.
W. K. Tsuruta and family of Tokio,
Japan, are at the Benson. Mr.
Tsuruta Is in the shipping business.
. L- Newell, a stockman of Madras,
on The Dalles-California highway, 1
an arrival at the Perkins. i
XAPOLEO. RKSPO.NS1VK TO KRA
Times Would Have Hade Him Dic
tator Despite Inclinations.
UNIVERSITY PARK. June 1 (To
the Editor.) The Napoleon centennial
has directed our attention to a re
markable figure in human history
History enables us to see men as they
were in the place of keeping alive
contemporary estimates of them and
their work.
The period out of which Napoleon
sprang cried for democracy, but the
cry was silenced by turmoil and roar,
and If Napoleon was favorably in
clined toward democracy all he had
to sustain that inclination was the
flow of human blood, and no studnt
of history wonders that he became a
dictator.
It was an uprising against oppres
sion, arbitrary taxation -and the privi
lege of the few, and the people tak
ing the place of tyrants made it pos
sible for Napoleon to ride upon them
to usurpation and Waterloo.
But Napoleon rid France of her as
sailants and overthrew the despotic
little kings of Germany. Since Na
poleon it has been possible for
Frenchmen to rise above the condi
tion in which they were born, and
France has done well in putting out
the fire of imperialism and in becom
ing a republic on safe foundations.
That France can fight as well as
make fashions and pictures is evident
from the 1917 war. in which Foch
was the captain Instead of the man
of straw in Louis Napoleon. If Na
poleon I had possessed the moral
character of Foch he would loom up
before us as the foremost man of
time, but after all who Napoleon was
can be seen in Paris and France.
The foolishness of Germany has put
France at the head on the continent,
and with new standards displacing
former grooves of action, old things
having had their day and new depar
tures at hand, France will hold her
own in the hot Intensity of the hour,
In all this Napoleon still rides hi
war horse. B. J. HOADLEY
Twrnty-Flrv Years Ago.
From The OrnronUn of June 2. IKm.
Indications from yesterday's elec
tion In Portland are tht th follow
ing will have plurality vote: Northup
for congress. Bean for supreme Judge.
L6rd for district attorney and Pen
noyer for mayor.
London In the international light
weight championship fight. "Kid"
Lavigne won over Dick Burge in IS
rounds.
It ia expected that fully S.flOO.OOO
pounds of wool, which would fill a
train of no cars, will be handled
from The Dall.-s. accordlnr to :n-
eral AKent William Harder of the
Great Northern.
Dr: Roland D. Grant, who recently
resigned as pastor of the Wbite
Temple Baptist church, departed to
day for Boston.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of June 1. 1871.
Paris Thirty-three communist,
Including several women, were hot
in a body yesterday on the plaza 111
front of the Hotel de Ville.
The city council committee on
streets and public property will to
day let the contract for construction
of the 135-foot bridge on Washington
street, acroxs King creek.
This evening the Philharmonic
association will give Its tenth annual
concert at the Oro Kino theater.
Keep to the Right.
ASTORIA, Or., May 31 (To the
Editor.) The Or?gonian gave us one
whole column this morning under
'Slow Down," which was good.
Now give us at least one-quarter
column under Keep to the right.
Keep to the right of the center all
the time-
Keep to the extreme r'ght on all
curves at all times.
If these rules can be enforced we
shall all be safe from all gogs, imbe
ciles, cranks and maniacs.
The-only driver on the highway that
fear is the one who take the center
and the one who comes on my side of
the center. I would fine him to the
limit, no difference what speed he is
making. He is on my right-of-way,
endangering the lives of every one he
meets. The right of th center be
longs to him. Make him keep it all
of the way and every minute of the
day. Yours truly, X, OSBURN.
Separation Does Not End Marriage,
PORTLAND, Or., June 1. (To the
Editor.) If a husband and wife do
ot live together for six years or
longer and he is no longer able to
communicate with her, Is there a
law which would make them no
longer wedded?
2. If the husband sold a parcel of
real estate with only his signature
to a warranty deed could the wife,
if alive, claim her dower rights in
such property?
AN OL.D SUBSCRIBER.
1. They would still be husband and
wife so long as both were alive abd
there had been no divorce.
2. She could. I
nouiv i'itoni,i:i tow at iiam
Writer on 1. oak-Out for Nrheme to
Save Half Ills Fruit.
IOI1TLAXP, June 1 (To the Edi
tor.) None will deny to our friend,
the robin, its inalienable right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of worm, but
when it isnore certain inalienable
rights of humans, the latter natural
ly resent It. For Instance, they do
not take kindly to cork robin' non
intermitttnt alarm clock, which he
never forgets to wind and which goes
off hour ahead of that of the general
public, rain or shine or, rather,
much earlier than shine, robbing the
sleepers of much-needed rest, and
suggesting the appropriateness of
the name rob-Jn.
We also resent hi proffered and
untrained assistance in gathering
small fruits. If capable of belnir
trained, an agreement on a 50-S0 basis.
share and share alike, would be a sat
isfactory arrangement when gather
ing the highest cherries. The Ideal
way, if feasible, would be to have a
cherry orchard expressly for the us
of the birds and a similar plan for
strawberries. The temptation to
rompare Robin Redbreast with Robin
Hood would then vanish
I have had some success with niece
of tin with opposite edge bent In
such a way as to revolve In the wind
when siuipended by etrlng In tho
cherry tree.
By the way, has any one In this
neck of the woods tried mulberry
trees In thf cherry orrhard? Robin
are said to have a greater affinity
for mulberries than for cherries.
If some one has a plan, even If It
Is not wholly successful. It will be
hailed with delight by every one who
has a garden patch of the most en
joyable of fruit, which stand to him
in the relation of a household pet.
I have a plan that I think worth
trying, though, for present purposes,
if some one has a birJ tn the hand
it will be worth my two In the bush.
W. B. EMERSON.
Boson Law Provisions.
HALL, Wash.. Mar Jl (To the
Editor.) 1. I wish to know if when
they vote on the bonus measure June
7 will I be supposed to vote also, a
I want the loan. 2. Can I get thn
$3000 loan on a $4000 place, and will
it make any difference if place I In
Washington. 3. What must I do to
get this loan? 4. Will I have to come
to Portland June 7, even If I am not
supposed to vote? EX-SAILOR.
1. If the measure is adopted It
will not be necessary for you to have
voted for It In order to obtain the
bonus if you were a resident of Ore
gon when you enlisted.
2. Three thousand dollar may be
borrowed on the security of real
estate worth $4000, but the property
must be in Oregon.
S. Application method and regu
lations will not be prepared until
after the law has passed and the
commission created thereunder la
teady to act.
t. No.