Morning Oregonian., July 21, 1921, Page 8, Image 8

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LARGE AND SMALL COLLEGES.
The mere suggestion of a merger
of the small colleges of a state, or of
educational interests In general, will
serve to stimulate thought if it does
nothing else. It will not be con
tended that a disservice would be
done to the Interests of education by
interchange of ideas, such as would
result from reasonable co-operation,
but it -is beginning to be seriously
questioned whether the struggle to
attain mere bigness has not already
carried us too far. So, too, although
' It is agreed that the public has a
deep interest in the education of its
citizens, it is open to debate whether
paternalism in education ought to be
carried much beyond the point that
it already has attained. The grow,
ing tendency to commit the execu
tion of private duties to public agen
cies is nowhere better illustrated
than in the manner in which well
meaning institutions of every sort
progress from the stage of private
benevolence to that of demanding
that they be sustained by state
funds because they are a public ne
cessity. Yet notwithstanding the great
growth of state educational institu
tions and of the billa for main
taining them there is still a field
for those which are independently
conducted, and privately supported,
which ought not to be ignored. It
is the least of all of the aims of any
system of education that it shall
make citizens of one mold, and it is
peculiarly desirable in a time like
the present that individuality, re
sourcefulness and initiative shall be
encouraged. It is true that the pub
lic grade and intermediate schools
now meet in a large way the re
quirements imposed on them, but
there is a point at which standard
isation might well cease, when the
demands of the scientific and the
devotional spirit can be best met by
a variety of alternatives, and when
the research worker, for example, or
the specialist in some particular
field, or parents holding their own
opinions of the influence of a cer
tain kind of educational atmosphere
upon character shall have the
widest possible range of choice. For
these the smaller colleges will al
ways have an especial mission. State
subsidy in the financial sense is in
separable from a measure of state
direction in other ways, and there
are occasions when Independence is
to be desired above all other things.
Two factors in education which
are apt to be overlooked by those
who think they have done their full
duty when they have paid their
taxes for the support of a school, or
schools, are the benefits obtained by
those who take an active interest in
educational institutions, without nec
essarily being enrolled as students,
and the local influence of the so
called smaller colleges upon the
communities in which they happen
to be situated. A high educational
authority not long ago rejected a
plan to establish a "model" public
school system by means of a subsidy
which its putative founders could
have well enough afforded, 'on the
ground that the community would
suffer In the long run by having the
responsibility of maintaining the
system taken off their hands- For
it is not alone by teaching the three
It's, and other matters, to more or
less receptive pupils that schools
are made valuable, but also by re
quiring the interest, and the active
participation, and the occasional
self-denial of whole communities or
groups of people that schools justify
themselves. The public grade" schools
are a lesson In government to adult
citizens, while at the same time they
educate the young, and the private
college, supported as it often is by
the mites of thousands. Implies
something more than walls and
halls, and small bodies of students
poring over lessons under the direc
tion of professors dreaming of the
advantages of state support. It la
well that the spirit of voluntary giv
ing for worthy causes should be en
couraged, and it is sometimes cap
able of proof that the "drive" for
funds is as beneficial to those who
give as to those who receive.
In the other respect to which al
lusion has been made, the great
local benefit of the. small college
ought not to be disregarded. This
is that it is apt to exercise a pro
found influence for good upon an
important, even if restricted, neigh
borhood. To present only two ex
amples, there are Albany college and
Paclfio university, which would
have fully warranted all the pains
that have been expended on them if
by nothing else than the atmosphere
which they have created in the
region thereabout. Not only have
they furnished opportunities for
education to young men and young
women who preferred not to go far
from home, or could not afford to
do po. but they have made Albany
and Forest Grove better towns to
live in than they might otherwise
have been. Occasionally a com
munity so blessed does not apprecl
ato its advantages, but they exist
nevertheless, and they are over
looKod only on the principle that
familiarity breeds disregard, teut
no town that ever became such a
ieat of learning has ever willingly
surrendered its distinction, if the
thoughtful people fit the community
had their way. The ancient enmities
betwfon town and gown which il
luminate the history of the medieval
period in education and which sur
vive only as picturesque remnants of
a more or less romantic past, are
not reflected in our modern life, and
the spiritual and cultural value of
many a small eollege has been ex
hibited in a better type of local cit
izenry and a eosier and more satis
fying community life.
It will be a bad day for education
if the passion for- standardization,
for merging, for state paternalism,
reaches the small colleges of the
country; a bad day ia more ways
than one. Kot the least among those
to suffer will be the ones who now
support those excellent schools and
the neighborhoods which will cease
to regard them with intimate, per
sonal concern when they become
mere units in some vast scheme of
centralized control.
, BRCMFirXI) OR KVSSKIJ.T
The publio interest in the dread
ful Roseburg tragedy is greatly en
hanced by its inexplicable and fas
cinating mystery. Is the charred
and grewsoms body found in the
burned automobile Br. Brumfield's
or Dennis Russell's? If it is Brum
field's, what has beeome of Russell?
If it is Russell's, what has become
of Brumfield? Why should Brum
fleld . or Russell disappear at the
time of the death of the other, ex
cept for the reason that he had fled
because he was the murderer?
The theory of the Douglas county
authorities that Dr. Brumfield killed
Dennis Russell, and mutilated his
body beyond recognition by blowing
off his head with dynamite, and
then by incineration, and disap
peared, after staging the whole
scene with such circumstances as
would make it appear that the body
was Brumfield's, not Russell's all
to collect the Brumfield life insur
ance is plausible but not conclusive.
It will be only a plausible theory un
til Brumfield Is apprehended, or un
til some other proof that it is Brum
field who is dead is furnished.
If Brumfield Is alive, as the au
thorities believe, and as mast others
probably will believe until an
equally plausible counter theory that
Russell killed the dentist Is fur
nished, with its motives, it will be
extraordinary if he escapes. It is
natural enough that it should be re
ported from many places that
Brumfield, or some one looking like
him, had been seen. The Brumfield
picture has appeared In the papers,
and every reader, every absorbed
follower of the developments of the
puzzling affair, becomes a watcher
or a detective. If Brumfield lives,
and gets away, it will either be be-,
cause he is more adroit than most
fugitives who are rarely adroit
or because he Is not at large, but in
hiding. How can he elude the vig
ilance of thousands of people ex
cept by keeping out of sight?
CASCAKA BAY OR CRATER LAKE?
To the San Francisco -Examiner
should go all credit for one of the
most unusual geographic coinci
dences ever revealed the strange
similarity, between Cascara bay, Co
cos island, and our own Crater Lake.
It is true that the Examiner mod
estly refrains from any pretense to
reward, though its photographic, il
lustration of the bay, used in con
junction with a story of pirate
treasure. Is obviously the close coun
terpart of the lake. Which makes i
the discovery all the more extraor
dinary. It appears that Cascara bay has a
rock Island known as "the phantom
ship." So has Crater lake. Off the
coast of Panama the tough old
pirates used the ship-like island as
a lure to mariners. At Crater lake
the phantom ship Is a lure to tour
ists. The coincidence is the more
striking for that. But it passes the
bounds of belief when one compares
actual photographs of Crater lake
and its peculiar Island with that
purporting to be the olden ocean
rendezvous of freebooters. For the
two phantom ships are amazingly
alike, as is the contour of the coun
try about the lake and bay. Allow
ing for the artistic embellishments
of camouflage, the Cocos island re
treat might very easily have been
modeled from an authentic view of
Crater lake as it undoubtedly was.
Such slight discrepancies as have
crept into the latest depiction of
Cocos island and Cascara bay. by the
Examiner will not. worry the old
sea adventurers a whit. They have
been dead a century or so. But not
all the pirates are dead.
THE WAYFARER.
History does not record a time
when the Impulses of humanity
were more chaotic and aimless, or
more fraught with futile rebellion,
than they are in the present. Per
haps the passion pageant. "The
Wayfarer," soon to be portrayed in
the University of Washington sta
dium, speaks with the voice of in
spiration for the return to faith. -It
records in allegory, through a blend
of drama, oratorio, opera and
pageantry, the spiritual wanderings
of one who seeks solution to the ad
versities of life and finds it in the
teachings of Christ. Certainly the
time Is ripe for such a lesson, not
through the vision of orthodox in
tolerance, but through. the, broader
conception of our common cause-"
the moral welfare of the race.
John Bunyan in prison wrote his
"Pilgrim's Progress," an allegory
that unquestionably Impressed, and
for the better, the moral standards
of that day. Handel, for the sake
of charify, composed that great ora
torio, "The Messiah," which has
been termed the musical counter
part of Milton's "Paradise Lost." In
almost two centuries it has suffered
ho loss of appreciation. The alle
gorical spectacle. "Everyman," was
a stage sermon that roused ita wit
nesses to thought regarding the ob
ligations of life. In each of these
the design was to quicken the spirit
of morality and brotherhood. They
were sermons in pageantry. None
will deny that, from the very nature
of the lessons so insplringly taught,
these artistic endeavors at moral up
lift made for a happier world.
The author of "The Wayfarer"
declares his debt of Inspiration to
the oratorio of "The Messiah," yet
in the allegory itself there are, with
out paraphrase or plagiarism, the
spiritual elements of all the great
Christian allegories of the past.
Presented at the Methodist centen
ary at Columbus, and again in New
York, its third presentation will be
that now announced for Seattle. By
the practical tests to which it has
been subjected, and in which it won
great popular approval, the pageant
would seem to justify the hope of its
sponsors that it shall become the
passion play of America. It does
not portray the Christ, but the striv
ing of a common mortal to under-
stand and follow the leadership of
Christ. Surely the world can and
will find time, even in the press of
its pleasures and anxieties, to listen
to truths that have ever been recog
nized, though often disregarded.
But "The Wayfarer" must prove
i'.self not thrice, but many times, be
fore we shall know its lasting effect
upon our spiritual life as a nation.
The project is fraught with mighty
possibilities. In it, perhaps, is the
solution of the modern question of
why we turn from religion and faith
to wild music and strange codes of
ethics. It may be that the better
ment of mankind is to be achieved
through the medium of spiritual ap
peal in music and the drama. Yet,
though it prove to be of light avail
against the unconcern of humanity,
such a pageant cannot fail to leave
its impress for the better. Its pre
sentation is a sign, of hope, of faith,
to a world that stands sorely in need
of signs.
13 THE AVERAGE MOTORIST MAD?
The correspondent who says that
the average motorist does not "care
a whoop for speed regulations" is
himself pressing the speed limit.
Most of them care a great deal, and
others of them are constantly con
fronted by the vision of a motor
cycle officer drawing up on them
from the rear. But too many of
them are willing to take chances,
and too many others cannot be per
suaded, except by actual demonstra
tion, that they cannot control every
situation, and they drive heedlessly
on Into the danger that lurks be
hind every corner, every curve,
every approaching or passing car.
Every driver has had at some time
or other a hair-raising experience
that should warn him to be careful.
The result too often seems to be
that he thinks his luck will stay
with him or that nothing like It will
happen again. But it will.
Withal the average motorist is a
sentient and moderate being who
takes no unnecessary risks, and who
is aware that his danger lies chiefly
in the recklessness of others. It is
the others who should be restrained.
It is for them that the road laws are
devised. It is to these same others
that all the diligence of the flying
speed cops and all the sternness of
the eourts should be directed.
The average motorist desires to
obey the laws and observe all regu
lations; and he is entitled to know
what they are. Most complaints
about conflicting rules and excessive
and injudicious zeal by patrolmen
came from the Lower Columbia
River highway. The Oregonian has
once or twice Investigated these- re
ports, and has found them mostly
unfounded. But there was justifi
cation for them in part. It is pro
posed now to. hold a meeting In
Portland next week, and to ask the
authorities of the Lower Columbia,
country and town, to attend and to
discuss the situation. It is to be
hoped that all interests will be rep
resented, for the public safety. The
main purpose of the conference is,
or should be, to devise a uniform
plan of regulation.
The highways of the state were
not built for speed; they surely
should be maintained for safety. The
authorities should be encouraged,
not discouraged, in any rational plan
of law enforcement. But there
should be such a plan.
COST OF GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS
Though the announcement by
Chairman Lasker of the shipping
board that it has made a deficit of
$380,000,000 in the last fiscal year
is startling, it is no real cause for
surprise. In fact, the people were
prepared for it by the estimate of
J. N. Teal when he was a member
of the board that for the calendar
year 1921 congress would have to
make good a deficit of over $335,
000,000, Not until the board has been in
existence more than four years do
we learn how it stands financially.
That alone demonstrates the con
fusion that must have prevailed.
While-the war was on and the call
was for ships without limit at any
cost, no questions were asked, but
on armistice day the rush was over,
and it should have been possible for
the board to discover how it stood.
But one after another the big busi
ness men like C. M. Schwab, whose
services had been commandeered,
resigned. Chairman Hurley went to
Europe, and the board, still with
contracts on hand for hundreds of
unfinished ships, continued to
muddle along with what had become
the biggest single business in the
world. One by one members re
jigned, leaving only Admiral Ben
son, a retired naval officer,! and R.
L. Donald, a veteran shipping man
whose best working years were
gone, to carry on. They and other
stop-gaps continued in charge till
President Harding appointed the
present board.
What wonder is it that accounts
have fallen months, perhaps years,
in arrears? For the succession of
stop-gaps and caretakers to have re
duced affairs to order, to have as
certained how the vast enterprise
stood financially and to have placed
it on a business footing was a physi
cal impossibility. Grafters and
blunderers had such unequaled op
portunities to steal and waste that,
on discovering a deficit of only
$380,000,000, we should rather be
astonished at their moderation than
sorrow over the loss. The board has
taken hold so firmly and is acting
with such good judgment and
energy that we may fairly expect it
to salvage what cannot be used, to
stop the leaks and to put in service
the usable part of the fleet to the
best advantage as a preliminary to
sale. .
Though proper management of its
immense business would have
tasked men of far greater ability
than the members of the board, they
at least should have followed cer
tain fundamental principles of busi
ness and should have been guided by
market conditions. They would then
have sold ships in the year after the
armistice, when values had fallen
at their then value in the worjd
market and on terms with provision
for revaluation, as was recom
mended by commercial bodies. By
neglecting to unload at that time
they have ' suffered enormous loss
through further depreciation, and
are saddled with ships that they
cannot sell and can operate only at
a loss. They would not have recon
structed transports two or three
times until the vessels had cost sev
eral times as much as they were
worth. They would have overhauled
the ships that had been hastily and
badly constructed during the rush
of the war, and avoided many
wrecks and breakdowns. They
would not have continued the pres
ent agbney contracts for operation.
whieh are a form of the pernicious i
cost-plus system, a direct temptation !
to waste and graft. They would have
vested their district agents wltn
power to make charters in compe
tition with other owners, and would
have avoided having their vessels
idle while foreign vessels took car
goes under their noses. They would
have put their accounts in order and
keep them up-to-date, so that they
could know from month to month
how they stood financially and
whether each voyage showed profit
or loss.
One statement of Chairman Las
ker. implies that the board ia not
yet free from some influence that
prevents it from getting down to
business. "He says that the contracts
with operating agents cannot be dis
continued immediately and that "we
must grin and bear that system for
months to come." It certainly
should be possible to annul those
contracts without delay and to sub
stitute for them a plan of operation
which would offer every incentive to
economy.
The whole story corroborates
what was said a year or more be
fore the war in opposition to gov
ernment ejmbarkation in the ship
ping business. It was then proposed
to invest a modest $50,000,000, but
that was suspected to be only a be
ginning, and the war provided the
opportunity ta disregard all limits.
It proved the utter incapacity of a
government department to handle a
big business in a businesslike way,
Can anyone imagine a private cor
poration leaving a going property of
such vast proportions in the hands
of temporary managers for more
than a year? How long would the
steel corporation or the Standard
Oil company have survived under
such conditions? Responsibility
may be placed on President Wilson
for having abandoned this and all
the other vast labors of post-war re
construction while he went to Paris
to form a league of nations. But
suFely the fact that a government
business may be sacrificed to such a
misconception of duty on the part of
the man who is primarily account
able is an additional reason for the
government to keep out of business.
The best thing that the govern
ment can do is ta get the emergency
fleet Into private hands as soon as
posible consistently with its policy
of retaining the fleet as an Ameri
can merchant marine, and to keep
out of business. If the loss that has
been suffered should lead the people
firmly to resolve to leave business
to private enterprise hereafter, the
lesson will have been worth its cost.
When Sam Browne made the first
St.m Browne belt It probably cost
him a shilling or so for the straps
and buckles. When our overseas
officers were given permission to
adopt the nifty harness the belts re
tailed at $2.50, The A. E. F. de
mand advanced this price to $5. But
the end of the war, with Sam
Brownes forbidden at home, saw the
belts go begging at that figure. Ac
cording to the law of supply and
demand they would speedily have
reverted to vails fittings. Yet
when General Pershing ordered
their adoption a miracle occurred.
The price soared to $15. That, again,
is the immutable law of supply and
demand. Yet the war department
proposes to furnish the belts here
after at $2. What has happened to
the well-known law? One cannot
but incline to belief that it is the
oddest of all economic rules. The
Sam Browne belt merely serves tq
illustrate its application in an emer
gency. From Honolulu comes the plaint
that a poi trust has cornered the
market and asks an exorbitant price
for the Island staple. Pol? A taro
root product that Is as essential
to a Hawaiian menu as potatoes to
a meal on the continent. The Ha
waiian addict- pronounces the word
as though he had a mouthful, and
close observers incline to the theory
that it is not the beach at Waikikl,
nor the tropical moon, nor the
plaintive spell of the native music,
that summons the wanderer back.
It is poi.
Once in a while we get sick of
this "high-strung southern blood"
stuff, as when Senator Tom Watson,
of Georgia, Bull, vindicates his repu
tation as a southern gentleman by
an impassioned defense of the mint
Julep: Senator Watson's views on the
mint julep cost money to print and
are not worth the printing, yet it in
flates his ego to expound them. If
the senator knows where there is a
mint julep, say we, let him designate
the spot or forever hold his peace.
The doctor who left a drain tube
In a La Grande girl's lungs, where
it remained for more than two years,
is in no special need of a memory
course. . If he intends to continue
his profession, what he really needs
is another drain tube.
If the advooates of a universal
fingerprint system had had their
way at least one murder "mystery"
might have been no mystery at all.
The National Democratic club in
New York wants to sell its million
dollar clubhouse In New York -probably
one effect of prohibition.
Lachrymatory Is the name of the
new gas that produces tears, but it
is not in it with the gas bill as a
grief producer.
Yesterday was woman's day In the
local divorce court; eleven won, or,
rather, got their decreea Who won
is debatable.
Now if General Dawes would only
do something to the price of gaso
line he would be sure of general
support.
Vancouver plumbers voluntarily
reduced their wage scale $1.50 a
day, but the plumber has a lot to
go on.
Texas may Improve the morals of
some individuals with tar and feath
ers, but the plan itself is immoral.
These Elks will take home pleas
ant recollections of Portland sum
mer temperature if nothing else.
The first assistant postmaster
general is at work; 3500 postmasters
will be earned within a month.
Trotsky goes on advising the pro
letariat, just as if his advice was lis
tened to by anyone but himself.
The Elks convention in 1924
sounds good.
Stars and Star-makers.
By Leone Cams Baer.
Mary Hampton's press agent is
sending' this story out, and of course
mentioning that Mary Is playing the
role of the distressed wife In "John
Ferguson." it seems that Miss
Hampton has a colored maid and the
maid recently returned from a trip
down south, where she spent her va
cation. Miss Hampton was naturally
surprised when the maid asked for
another week off.
"You have just had your vacation,"
the actress protested1. "What do you
want witn another one?"
"I wants to git married." she an
swered. "Why didn't you get married while
you were on vacation?" Miss Hamp
ton asked in surprise.
"I didn't want to spoil it." was the
answer.
The death of Baroness de Rahden
in Paris recently recalls that 39 years
ago ehe was a famous circus rider.
She was considered a beautiful wom
an and a leader in society. Her hus
band) was the victim of a tragic quar
rel between rivals te a PariB circus,
being shot during a show by a soci
ety gentleman. Soon after, while at
Nice, the baroness was suddenly
struck blind. She refused to reveal
the calamity to her friends and in
sisted en giving her performance
that night in Hie qlrotss, hoping she
would be killed by her horse, a rest
less animal. She was thrown and
badly hurt, but survived, and) she has
since lived a retired life, ia humble
circumstances, in Paris.
Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfleld are
to be starred by the Shuberts in the
fall in a piece that has been twice
tried. It was first a farce, under the
name of "The Third Party." Later
Edward Clarke rewrote the book and
Gitz Rice added a musical score, and
it was launched as "The Girl in a
Private Room."
It will undergo another operation
before being produced again.
Next season will not find Leo DIt.
rlohstein nearer Broadway than the
subway eireuit, where he will appear
in "Toto." His itinerary calls for a
run In Chicago and then a trip to
the Pacific eoast In a repertory of
three plays.
The star will appear In Chicago
first In "Toto," holding in reserve
"Face Value," a new play.
For the coast invasion Mr. Ditrich
steiti will use the two plays and will
also appear in "The Purple Mask,"
whieh ran successfully at the Booth
last season.
a
Frank Keenari, who opened In San
Francisco under the auspices of Tom
Wilkes In "Rip Van Winkle" two
weeks ago, closed at the Columbia
Saturday, cutting the run from four
weeks to two.
The play, advertised for the road,
has been canceled by Wilkes.
Scenery and equipment will be
shipped to Salt Lake City for use at
Wilkes' stock theater in that city.
Having a three weeks" vacation in
San Francisco because of the summer
season closings In the Orpheum cir
cuit, Trixle Friganza. will tour the
state with Delro and others In a
Thlxie Friganza road show.
Ralph Her died at a hospital in
Atlantic City on July 13. An Eng
lishman by nativity, he was born on
the continent and came to America
In 1902 with Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
He married Lucy GLaser In 1906.
Several years later they were di.
vorced. His present widow was
Frances Logan of New York, a non
professional. Besides his widow, his
mother and four sisters survive him.
Mr. Herz'a latest professional en
gageffient was In "Blossom Time."
He enjoyed nearly a score of star
ring and featured engagements In
musical comedy, besides being head
lined at various times In vaudeville.
He appeared here on the Orpheum
about three years ago.
a
Edith Kelly Gould. former wife of
George Jay Gould, denies that Shirley
Kellogg s to sue Albert de Courvflle,
London producer, for divorce. Press
dispatches said Mrs. Gould would be
named as co-respondent, but Mrs.
Gould pointed out the couple were
now together on the continent en
joying a holiday.
"
May Robson has a new play E
which she starts rehearsals next
month. The play Is "It Pays to Smile,''
made from a Saturday Eevening Post
story.
Close on the heels of the announce
ment that "Wait Till We're Married,"
a rural comedy by Hutcheson Boyd
and Rudolf Bonner, would be the first
Oliver Morosco production in the
autumn, comes the engagement of
Wanda tiyons for a leading role In
the play.
The place, which was tried out at
the Morosco theater, Los Angelee,
last spring. . will shortly go Into re
hearsal. Immediately following the presen
tation of "Wait Till We're Married."
Charlotte Greenwood's new musical
play, "Poer Letty," will be produced,
and then "Love Time" and "The
Copy" will be added In that order to
the Morosco offerings in New York.
Mrs. Oliver Morosco Mitchell, wife
of the theatrical producer, who lives
in Los Angeles, was much surprised
by the action taken by her husband
to secure a divorce In Detroit. She
said that she had not received a copy
of the papers in the case, but that
she had been informed by wire that
the action had been startedv and that
she intended to contest it.
Mrs. Morosco started proceedings
in Los Angeles about a year 'ago
against her husband, and named
Selma Paley," stating In open court
her husband was unduly friendly
with the actress, who was a member
of the Morosco forces. Before the
trial was concluded, however, Mrs.
Moroseo announced she and her hus
band had effected a property settle
ment and: the suit was withdrawn.
Annie Hughes, who sailed recently
to join James K. Hackett in Paris,
where he is presenting a series of
Shakespearean Plays, will be seen In
"Mary Stuart" in London when the
star makes the production there late
in July.
Miss Hughes plans to return to this
country la the autumn.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folk at the Hotels.
"Americans crossing the line to
British Columbia," explained a Wil
lamette valley business man who
passed through Portland yesterday
on his way home, "can get a permit to
buy liquor for S5 a month. There Is a
cheaper method, however, for the
American who ia only In the province
a couple of days. The officers issue
what they call a temporary permit
which they sell for four bits and the
permit is good for one day only. On
this temporary permit the visitor Is
entitled to buy a case of beer pints
tor j or a couple of quarts of liquor.
The price of liquor depends on the
brand and the size of the bottle, the
imperial quarts costing the most. 1
was only in British Columbia for one
day and I couldn't get .over" a guilty
feeling as I walked down the street,
perfectly safe, with half a tloien bot
tles of beer wrapped up in paper.
The paper fell off so I carried the
bottles' naked and no one even gave
me a second look." .
When Dr. W. C. Hawk, covered with
dust accumulated on the detour be
tween McMinville and Newberg, ar
rived at the Perkins yesterday, George
Thompson, dean of clerks, did not rec
ognize him. It wasn't the dust that
gave the doctor an altered appearance,
but the absence of his celebrated wal
rus mustache, which has distinguished
him from all other members of his
profession and residents of Tillamook
county for years and years. Dr. Hawk,
who has the hospital at Bay City,
motored to Portland with Mrs. Hawk
and Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Gillen, also
of Bay City. Instead of coming to
Portland the doctor could have gone
to Rockaway, Tillamook county,
where for the past three years he has
been gradually building a summer
bungalow about 50 feet from the de.
pot. If the bungalow Is ever finished
and painted it will be the swellest
place in that resort.
"We made the drive from Olympla,
Wash., to Portland in seven hours,"
reported J. J. Donovan as he regis,
tered at the Hotel Portland with Mrs.
Donovan yesterday. "We found the
roads in good condition all the way,
with the exception of five miles which
were pretty rouKh. I have never
found the road between these points
an irnnil ' ' IT . 1 . . i , .
c ' - - iunu.aii, WHO IS l
business man of Bellingham, says that
the Pacific highway is being paved
from his town to the British Columbia
line and that it will be finished within
a few weeks. There is now a tre
mendous travel on the' road to the line,
more than ever before. Of course,
motor parties are inspected by cus.
toms officials going in and coming
out, but outward bound the inspec.
tors look only for liquor.
i
There are only about 3000 bales of
last year's hop cron still on hanri
said Louis Lachmund. former mayor
of Salem, and state senator for
Marin. ........... . .
- " " wnu came to r ori-
land with Mrs Lachmund yesterday to
attend a matinee of a musical show,
"There will be about 53,000 bales of
hops grown in Oreeon this vfir
Prices range from 25 cents to 60 cents
a pound. Pickers cannot throw vines
ana leaves Into the box when pick
ing, for it will have to be a clean pick
if the grower wants a fair market.
The hops are not looking as well now
as they did a month ago, but we will
produce a quality crop at that."
"Mining is picking up In Baker
county," says George A. Herbert,
sheriff of that county. "There is
prooaDiy tne biggest copper mine in
the world in Baker county. This is
the Irondyke. It isn't working at
present, because the price of copper
has dropped so low. This particular
mining property consists of a' moun
tain of copper ore. Several hundred
men, who were idle, are now em
ployed In the mining Industry In
Baker county." Sheriff Herbert, reg
istered at the Imperial, left last
nignt lor t'uget sound on business.
"I believe that I travel by auto
mobile more' than any other sales
man In America," said H. P. Wilson
as he cheeked out of the Hotel Port
land, after receiving directions as to
the Pacific highway and detours to
California. "I have used up three
machines In traveling and haven't
had any trouble with the cars yet. I
lost one of my license plates, issued
in Illinois, and I have sent for a du
plicate, because nearly every traffic
officer I meet stops me and asks
questions."
Before the days of good roads and
gasoline buggies. Captain Skinner
used to operate a boat between East
Independence and Independence. The
road development mads the boat busi
ness unprofitable and obsolete, so
Captain Skinner adapted himself to
changing conditions by going into
the automobile business. The fresh
water skipper attended the confer
ence of motor dealers at the Imperial
yesterday.
There will be a big hay crop In
Lake county this year, according to
Thomas La Brie of Silver Lake, reg
istered at the Imperial. Practically
a-11 of the other range co-unties report
a good grass year. It is said that
some sections of range, which were
supposed to be practically down and
out, have been reseeded by nature
this year, insuring another lease of
life.
His honor, the mayor of Salem
George Halverson, was looking over
Portland yesterday and much prefers
the 100-foot streets of his city to the
more narrow thoroughfares of Port
land. "If Broadway or Washington
streets," observed his honor, "were
the width of State or Commercial
streets, traffic conditions would be
simplified."
Boyd Mendendall, manager for a
department store at Tillamook, is
registered at the Hotel Oregon. Mr.
Mendenhall Is on a vacation trip
and has decided that he should be
come better acquainted with the busi.
ness conditions at Victoria and Van
couver, B. C.
Mayor Erlckson of Beaverton visited
Portland for a few hours yesterday.
It used to consume hours to travel
the distance' between Beaverton and
Portland, but now the trip is a mat
ter of minutes, thanks to the paved
highways and automobiles.
Secretary of State Kozer. as guard
ian angel of the motor code of Ore
gon, and collector of automobile
license fees, was a speaker at the
meeting of motorists in Portland yes
terday and gave a history tf the good
roads movement In Oregon,
Among the Salem automobile deal
ers who came to town to participate
in the conference over motor matters
yesterday were Otto J. Wilson, Lee
Gilbert and H. F. Bonesteel.
From The Dalles, attending the
automobile conference yesterday were
William Johnson and son, Charles
Panco, M. W. Ross, Charles Darnell
and A B. Shelby.
6lr George C. Marks and Lady
Marks of London. England, are reg
istered at the Benson. They are
making a tour of the Pacific coast.
W. C. Dewey, hotel man of Nam pa,
Idaho, Is at the Hotel Portland with
Mrs. Dewey. It Is eeoler in Portland
than at Nampa.
S. G. Thompson. dealer in real
estate at Eugene, is registered at the
Perkins.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. Honghton-Mif tUm Co.
Can Yen Answer These Questions?
1. What do you know about sweet
knots? I have found aromatic knots
on pin and white oaks.
2. When do deer shed their antlers,
and how soon do they grow again?
3. Is the wing action of the swift
understood? I believe it to be alter
nate and rotary. Is not the fl'sht of
the humming-bird, a relative of the
swift, also alternate?
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Please tell me how to get rid of
doves that are building on our house.
If these doves are no one's prop
erty, try feeding them a few days to
accustom them to coming to a ceitain
spot, then give poisoned grail. Do
not leave any around, as other birds
will get it. If more peact:f-j means
are desired, try pushing off nests.
eggs and young with a pole, or with
hosing them, if you have pressure
enough to reach.
2. Can you tell me about the med
ical herb called Skullcap? When
does it come out? How can I recog
nize It?
There are several varieties of
Scutellaria, all belonging to the mint
family. Probably our correspondent
refers to the so-called mad-dog skull
cap, as in old times the herb was sup
posed to cure hydrophobia. It blooms
all summer, likes damp places.- has
no fragrance and is small, about quar
ter of an inch long.'light violet color.
The flowers grow on one side of fclen
der stems. Stem Is square and smooth.
Better eonsult wild-flower book for
a picture.
3. What Is the difference, if any,
between a moose and an elk?
An "elk" In North America Is really
a wapiti deer, with sharply branched
antlers. A "moose" is tha American
representative of the Old World elk,
and got its new name from an Indian
word meaning "wood yater." Moose
antlers are broad and flattened. Tha
moose is much heavier an i less grace
ful than the New World elk, or
wapiti.
Off READING TUB OLD STORIES
Tales, Themselves Are Interesting
But Pietures Should Be Avoided.
Brooklyn Standard Union.
When you go on your vacation and
take some books along, you may in
clude some stories written 20' or 30
years ago -perhaps an adventure or
detective yarn. You will pot have
read long before you find yourself
puzzled. Why didn't the disabled
ship in the Caribbean use its wire
less? Oh, of eourse -wireless had not
been invented. And as you turn over
the pages of the tale of New York
life, how quaint it seems. Why did
the suspect flee from the detective in
a Sixth-avenue elevated train? When
the beautiful heiress suddenly decides
to go to the country, the old family
eoachman drives her down to the
Thirty-fourth-street ferry. No sub
ways, no automobiles as a daily Inci.
dent of life; the characters in the
story do perhaps use telephones, but
they never seem "to have heard of the
game of golf, and they have "club
men" and "star reporters" and "cub
reporters" and other quaint-sounding
designations, and some utterly reck
less young spendthrift couple may
spend as much as $60 a month rent
for an apartment. You would almost
think you were reading an historical
romance of the period, of Governor
DeWitt Clinton.
No, It was only a quarter of a cen.
tury ago, when the horse-car bells
jingled and nobody would have had
the slightest comprehension what a
movie palace was and all the police,
men in stories had to talk with a
brogue, and there were "men about
town" and "Knickerbocker families"
and "the Pour Hundred" and "dudes";
when English noblemen used to come
over here and put up at the Brevoort
house and if a woman smoked a cig
arette you knew she was an adven
turess. Some of these old, old stories of the
forgotten, prehistorio life of Manhat
tan 20 years ago are still good read
ing, having been written with an in
stinct for a realistic style. But one
grave mistake the publishers make.
Even in a new edition they will use
the old illustrations. One look is suf
ficlent to destroy all the illusion the
author has so skilfully built up.
Those Incredible skirts bell-shaped
and touching the floor all around!
Those impossible sleeves, looking as
if they were stuffed with pillows!
Those curly-moustached men. nine
feet tall! Those Tammany district
leaders with silk hats and double-
breasted long eoats. Nobody, posi
tively nobody, ever could have looked
like that, even away back in A D.
1900! Read some of the old stories;
you may get the hang of the funny
way people lived n those days, but
don't look at tha pictures.
TRIBUTE TO THE REV. DR. CLIN E
Striking and Contrasting Personality
Recalled by Associate.
UND7ERSITY PARK. Or., July 17.
(To the Editor.) May the writer
bring an offering to the memory of
the late Rev. C. E. Cline, D. D. ? Hav
ing met him in all sorts of condi
tions, those of agreement and also of
disagreement, it -will be difficult to
keep within the space assigned a
communication.
Dr. Cline was at his best within his
own home, to which many, very many,
have ,been welcomed, and when a
guest could not tarry to partake of
the generous supplies of his table he
was grieved. The members of his
household were bound to him by
hooks of steel.
This man was a striking person
ality, yet in a moment after a stroke
that was felt he would often recall
the remark and humbly apologize.
Severity and gentleness were in his
bosom, and, while he could put on
the majesty of a lion, he could cry
like a child.
He loved the black people, whose
bonds he helped to drop Into tha
flame of perdition, and whenever he
met a black man he bowed his head
in shame because he remembered the
indignity his race had let fall upon
him.
He loved the things that have been.
It was Columbus who. keeping step
to tha traditions of other days, was
able to lift a new world above the
blue sea. Heaven cannot forget
earth, for it catches the drudgeries,
the defeats and the triumphs of time
into its shouts of gladness.
Dr. Cline, fond of new journeys into
tasks that brought him the joys of
conquest, will enjoy the new ad
ventures and discoveries that have
already welcomed him. The dear man
may be surprised that the writer has
entered heaven at last, but the writer
would not be surprised to meet him
over there. B. J. HOADLET.
Bonus Vnder Oregon Law,
WOODLAND, Wash., July 17. (To
the Editor.) Has the federal gov
ernment anyhlng to do with the Ore
gon bonus law, or Is the state the
only authority that has anything to
say about it? EX-SOLDIER.
The Oregon bonus law is a state
law solely. The commission ap
pointed under. Its provisions is now
formulating rules of procedure which
will be announced In the news col
umns as soon as completed.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
STRENGTHENING THE CASH
AGAINST THE HAT.
Our righteous rage against the rat
We've voiced both often and sin
cerely Since Mr. Hoover told ua that
He eats ten million dollars yearly.
He takes it from our pantry shelves.
From granaries,, where wheat's in
storage,
ThlB food we sadly need ourselves
Supplies this wicked brute with
forage.
Yet. If confronted with his crime.
And bade to tell what made him
do it.
He might have urged once on a
time
The plea that hunger drove him
to It.
Once on a time bear that in mind-
Had he made this asseveration.
An Injured world might be inclined
To hear it in extenuation.
But now the European news
Leaves one legitimate deduction;
His evil course the rat pursues.
Because he glories In destruction.
For, Wind to any inward gain.
Of nutritive conditions reckless,
A rat that dwelt beside the Seine
Purloined and ate a matched pearl
necklace.
If words could but exterminate
This wanton brute, we'd hate to
pen 'em.
He ate those pearls to prove his hate
And vent his vile and vicious
venom.
The envious rodent cannot plead
That It was hunger that provoked
him;
Sheer inal'ce moved him, more than
greed.
And new we hope the baubles
choked him.
Naturally.
Dempsey got In 10 or 15 minutes
more than Mr. Harding gets in four
years. No wonder he'd rather fight
than be president.
He Can Pacify Anybody.
Too bad they didn't put General
Smuts on the job at the outbreak of
the war. t
Economical Paradox.
Under the Volstead law It costs ten
times as much to keep a man from
getting a drink as it used to cost him
to get it.
(cvpyrlfrht by h Bell Ryntlaat. Tne.
Night.
By Grace E. Hall.
The mountains, folded ever "gainst
the blue, '
Lean to each other aa the shadows
fall;
The yellow sunshine winds a ribbon
through
The eyeleta made of boughs; the
cypress tall
Its lacy gown adjusts with quivering
sigh.
The cricket trills a melancholy
note.
And one by one the sounds of day
time die.
As song-tones mute to silence in
the throat.
Night slips along the curving canyon
bed
With mystic draperies of black and
gray;
A toga made of moonbeams on her
. head,
A single star to light her fearsome
way;
She flings a veil of silver o'er the
stream.
And bids the threnody of leaves to
hush.
Paints on each hill the outline of a
dream.
While Romance holds the palette
and the brush.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The Orejronian of July 21. 1806.
Chicago. Mark Hanna arrived In
Chicago today and national -republican
headquarters for McKinley's cam
paign are to be opened as soon as the
executive committee selects quarters.
The two-story brick building occu
pied by H. Wolf and brother, 30 Front
street, was completely gutted by fire
last evening with a loss of 60,000,
Application was made by the eounty
eourt to Mayor Pennoyer yesterday
to have the bridges swept. Several
weeks ago the sweeping of streets
and bridges was stopped by the city
for want of funds.
Ex-Sheriff Rears has made his final
payent of 1895 taxes to the county
treasurer, aggregating 179,689.34.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of July 91, 1871.
New York. At a meeting of Gideon
Loyal Lodge of Orangemen last night
a resolution was adopted thanking
Governor Hoffman, military and po
lice, for protection afforded them
during the parade last Wednesday.
Walla Walla proposes to apply to
the legislature for an extension of
her city limits so as to include all the
"additions."
The Salem Statesman speaks highly
of the address of Rev. T. L Eliot be
fore the literary society of Willam
ette university on Tuesday evening.
ASSOCIATION IS NOT POIITICAL
Republican Editors of Washington
Acted on Own Resnonslblllty.
CHEHALIS, Wash, July 19. (To
the Editor.) I wish to correct the
statement which leads to a serious
misapprehension, appearing in tha
July 19 issue of The Oregonian -in an
article written by H. B. Fultz, cap
tioned "Governor Urged to Slap
Critics."
It was erroneously stated in this
article that at the meeting of the
Washington State Press association,
held at Paradise last week. President '
Sifert of the Washington State Press
association had called a meeting of
the Republican Editorial association.
This is an error, as Mr. Sifert was
not president of the Washington State
Press association, and the meeting of
the Republican Editorial association
was called without any sanction on
the part of the Washington State
Press association.
The two organizations are distinct
ly different, and it ia giving a wrong
impression to Imply that the Wash
ington State Press association Is In
any way political; quite the contrary,
the state press association is abso
lutely non-political. The Republican
Editorial association meeting was
called by its officers, Messrs. Sifert of
Bellingham and Kaynor of Ellens
burg, apparently because the editors
would be together at the state press
meeting.
I am sure that every member of the
Washington State Press association
is anxious that the public will under
stand clearly that there Is no connec
tion between the two organizations.
and that the Washington State Press
asEociation Is determined to remain
non-political in its functions.
C. ELLINGTON.
Taet President, Washington Stats
Press Association,
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