THE MORNING OREG ONI AN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1921
ESIABHSIIEl) BY HKXRY L. PITTOCK.
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TTLE KLAN COMES TO OREGON.
The secret and shrouded figure of
-the. Ku Klux Klan, an apparition
risen from the past, has waved a
lank and dreadful arm over Oregon.
In days to come, whisper its masked
prophets, the mysterious menace of
(tha night-rider will strike a chill to
the- very marrow of . the evil-doer.
By the beneficent and autocratic
terrorism of the klansmen the state
wiH be purged of its criminal ele
ment, of all that is not American
and upright, and an era of enforced
and apprehensive righteousness will
Te brought to pass. Risen from the
drast of years long sped, of necessi
ties long since eliminated, the
Bheeted riders would ride through
the north, like so'many bogey-men
from the shuddering narrative of a
negro mammy. Let the emissaries
of the klan kleagle or credulous
recruit bear with a. typical north
ern commonwealth and her terse
opinion. One word suffices. It is
"Bosh!"
Two aspects of the recrudescent
klan suffice to condemn, it in the
judgment of the serious. The first
of these is its arrogant assumption
that American law stands in need
of a prejudiced, inquisitorial, hidden
hand to hale its malefactors to jus
tice. - The second is its cheap and
Childish Venture at drama, beyond
the realm of the ridiculous, and the
consequent aim a superstitious awe
and majesty. It is this blend of
threat and Hallowe'en, of gravity
and gibberish, of solemnity and
cheesecloth graveclothes, that tickles
the tenderest rib of northern risibili
ties and evokes sane and healthful
laughter such laughter as has time
and again whisked away our fears
and proved that a clotheshorse in
the shadow can never be aught else.
Grown men in ghostly gabardines
and flopping hoods butchers and
bakers and candlestick-makers, cry
ing "Boo!" in the twilight!
Yet one perceives possibilities In
the klan that are not comic from
any view. All the potent seeds of
trouble and deadly strife are there:
the overthrow of law with the or
dered mob in the saddle, the fan
ning of old prejudices, and the open
ing of old wounds. Already in two
ptatea anti-khyi organizations, as
secret" and resolved as it proclaims
itself, ' are calling for neophytes.
Where the klan carries a "fiery
cross" doubtless these foemen will
bear a "blazing bludgeon," and.
though we laugh lightly at the con
trast, the time may come when the
Intemperate will meet up with the
Intolerant. What then? Bullets,
and headlines and horror. What
else? If we but add this prospect
to the certainty that the klan will
prove to be a meddlesome and dan
gerous element, brooking no con
trol, not even, of the grand wizard,
or most horrific thingumbob, we
have a futuristic fancy far from
pleasing.
The klan asserts its allegiance to
the law, its purpose to purify
thrbugh lawful means. In a Cali
fornia city it has instituted a suit
for libel because a newspaper linked
Its name and fame with recent tar-and-featherings
in Texas. Yet the
truth is that the outrages, by whom
ever conceived and perpetrated, were
committed by men in the guise and
habiliments public opinion identifies
with the klan, in defiance of the
dignity and process of the law .
shameful, repugnant, uncivilized
punishments without even a mock
ery of trial. In one instance the
national executive of the klan, sup
porting his unequivocal statement
that the organization does not and
(will not countenance such acts, re
voked the charter of an offending
klan. But by these acts, as by noth
ing else, the public is apprised of
the r-pirit that dominates the klan,
that cStsUs its candidates, whether
official sattoUon is given or denied
In truth, if tha'tiot so, what pur
pose does this cheesecloth mum
mery serve?
What citizen with respect for the
law, and the will to uphold it un
flinchingly and with zeal, need drape
himself in spook-like cerements and
prowl the night to prove it? There
is more than a suspicion that a spe
cies of cowardice joins with the flair
for mystic ritual in prompting the
neophyte to his Initiation. Within
the klan he is a peer, a judge, a
Sherlock, and a headsman instant
ly fitted to ferret out the evil that
his neighbor does and exact some
penalty arising in his own opinion.
We have, of course, the promise of
the klan that its dread mission will
be to apprise and support the law.
But we have as well its own com
placent statement that at times "it
can best remedy existing conditions
by taking up cases where the law
leaves off." By what authority,
pray: to what purpose, and to what
lengths?
it is an "all American" unit, and
yet: By its own arbitrary ruling it
bars from membership certain citi
zens millions of them upon whoso
patriotism it is a gross and unnat
ural insult to cast the vestige of sus
picion. Many a young fellow who
would, had he been spared, have
been disqualified for entrance to the
Ku Klux K!an, yielded up his life
on foreign fields for America. What
sinister, self-righteous chauvinists
are these who in the name of patri
otism would puff and blow at the
embers of irrational racial and re
ligious antipathies, long since out
grown by the republic? Not by the
yardstick of the klan do we of Amer
ica measure patriotism, or worth
to the nation, or the breadth of that
freedom guaranteed by our consti
tution. The Ku-Klux-KIan, with its night
riders and dank air of mysticism, its
renaissance of southern negro-bait-in?
methods, its grand wizards and
its king kleagles, its southern drawl,
its tar bucket, and its punctured pil
lowcase, is as alien to Oregon to
America as the rites of voodoo.
And while we are speaking of mat
ters and things un-American let it
be listed to the fore. The sound
sense of all good citizens should
and will condemn it as an absurd
and preposterous appeal to the dra
matic quantity in folk that ought to
know better.
THE DEATH OF CARUSO.
Kings might die without occa
sioning the interest, the sympathy,
with which the world hears of En
rico Caruso's passing. " To evaluate
Caruso's worth to the race, is to
grasp at intangible benefits con
ferred by him, the ephemeral gifts
of wonderful melody, yet which have
more worth than earthly treasure.
Let us say that he brought happi
ness into the world, and quickened
our perceptions of beauty. These
are things not to be weighed by ma
terialists. The son of a poor man. a me
chanic, this strange fledgling of
Naples rose to fame and fortune by
his voice. And speedily, as though
destiny had use for him. He. was
paid thousands of dollars for an eve
ning of song. When he caught a
cold the world paused, whatever the
excitement of the moment,, to re
gard quite gravely his indisposition.
It was ever apparent that folk re
garded the tenor as one in whom a
precious trust reposed. He gave to
them something that, though neces
sarily measured by monetary reward,
was nevertheless priceless.- A, fat
man, rather droll of ' countenance,
his was a voice from an -imagined
paradise. We pay for our-fancies.
Do we pay too much ? We pay,
for Instance, a brace of fortunes to
two atavistic contestants in the prize
ring. They pummel one another
until the conquered sinks into insen
sibility. It is over. Nothing is left
save a brutal memory, a spiritual
bad taste'. No. Judged by , our
standard of comparisons, however
richly rewarded the tenor may have
been, his patrons received the' full
value of their expenditures.
LAWYER VS. LAWTEB.
The nearest approach we have
to open-minded inquiry into a mur
der mystery is the proceedings of
the grand jury and sometimes the
grand jury does only that which the
district attorney advises it to do.
The grand jury finds an indictment.
In other words it makes a formal
accusation against a certain person.
That person employs a lawyer, and
the state, through its district attor
ney, conducts the prosecution. There
after the proceedings are largely a
pitting of the wit and strategy of
the defense attorneys against the
wit and strategy of the prosecutor.
One strives to acquit, the other
strives to convict, and the court acts
as umpire.
Evidence helpful to one side is
concealed if possible from the other
side and held for surprise, lest the
other side, forewarned, succeed in
breaking it down. ' Witnesses known
to have some knowledge of the cir
cumstances surrounding the crime
may not be called, because of un
certainty as to the effect of their
testimony. Co-operation between
defense and prosecution to get at
the exact facts, oome what may, is
almost unheard of.
It is. more of a game than a strife
for exact justice. It is a contest in
which one lawyer's ability is staked
against another lawyer's ability.
That is often its essence. Yet it is
all quite ethical. It is fully coun
tenanced by the system. Thus, as
in a present instance, time of
courts is consumed, the public is put
to large expense and the result
leaves the crime as much of a mys
tery as it was the day after it was
committed.
Probably the trouble is that our
system makes of the court hardly
more than an arbiter in matters of
procedure. He keeps the lawyers
in the straight path of precedent
and bars incompetent, irrelevant
and immaterial testimony. There
are countries in which the trial judge
makes an active, yet impartial, ef
fort to bring out suppressed truths
and promote exact justice. But it
is not the American way.
The Agee case, just concluded in
the circuit court, illustrated our pe
culiar form of criminal procedure
It need hardly be said that the evi
dence submitted was not sufficient
to ' convict the widow of the mur
dered man. This is not a criticism
of the jury's findings, nor essential
ly of prosecution, defense or court.
In an individual instance none or
all of them would be able to change
the system that has been made fact
by years of practice.
THE FIELD FOR POSTAL BANKS.
Deposits in postal savings banks
of the various cities suggest that
there is scope for a wide extension
of their usefulness, especially in
some cities. Standing tenth in rank,
Portland has deposits far out of
proportion to its population when
compared with other cities. So do
Seattle, which ranks next below
Portland, and Tacoma, which ranks
next above. Cities of far greater
population stand far down on the
list, San Francisco being fifteenth,
Cleveland sixteenth, Los Angeles
seventeenth, Washington thirty
fourth, Minneapolis thirty-fifth, Bal
timore fiftieth. New Orleans fifty
fourth, Birmingham, Ala., seventy
third, and Spokane ninety-seventh
among the leading 100 cities.
It has been expected that the pos
tal savings banks would attract the
hoarded savings of the foreign-born.
but the figures do not indicate that
this expectation has been realized.
New York and Brooklyn, which have
the largest proportion of foreign
born, stand at the head, but Chi
cago has less than half Brooklyn's
total, and the totals for Boston.
Pittsburg, Detroit and Cleveland do
not correspond with their size, while
the figures for the three north" Pa
cific coast cities, which have a far
smaller ratio of foreign-born, indi
cate that the native-born make
greater use of the postal banks than
the Immigrants. The small totals
for the southern cities may reflect
the proverbial improvidence of the
negroes.
There Is plenty of room for the
changes in the law designed to ex
pand the use of the postal savings
system that are proposed by Postmaster-General
Hays. Some influ
ence is working against that confi-
dence of Europeans in government I
banks which was expected to draw
out their hoards. Perhaps interest
is too low or the limit on the amount
that one person may deposit acts as
a check. Possibly red tape worries
men unfamiliar with the English
language or with government meth
ods. Probably the banks estab
lished by members of each race have
a strong hold, both through the tie
of language and through social and
other influences. Uncle Sam also
is not as skilful an advertiser as are
private bankers.
Whatever the cause, te total of
$153,000,000 for the United States,
while good as far as it goes, Is not
large enough. There are probably
several hundred million dollars in
hiding which could be drawn into
circulation by the right kind of ap
peal to varied human impulses. Mr.
Hays has. a good opportunity to
"sell" his postal savings bank to
those who use an old stocking, a
mattress or other place of conceal
ment as a bank.
CONVERTS TO HUNGER.
Hunger Is a powerful persuader.
It forced the soviet to accept the
terms of America and promise the
release of her imprisoned citizens.
What moral suasion could not ac
complish the pangs of starvation
brought to pass. But not without a
snarl. For the soviet leaders let the
world know that they disapprove of
the method employed to procure the
freedom of these wronged Ameri
cans. They call it taking an unfair
advantage of their extremity, and
bitterly upbraid this nation for mak
ing the relief conditional. It was
an. improper time, declares the
soviet, to speak of diplomatic mat
ters. In brief, it was dinner-time,
and half after.
Trotzky had said that, unless the
bolshevists and their peasant dupes
were fed without delay, he would
storm Europe for a crust of bread.
He threatened to move against
Poland, where American relief had
saved a nation from starving. This
fine theorist, amid the debris of his
dreams, went back uncounted cen
turies to- the elemental. The price
of his folly was the piteous plight ot
Russia, for which he perceived no
remedy save, the invasion and spoli
ation of other lands.
Europe will not come to our aid, he said.
Europe hates us. it would much rather
see our peasants starve than give us
bread. There is only one thing left for
us to do take forcibly what Europe will
not give us voluntarily.
Europe has gobd cause to hate the
Russian idea, if not the Russian
peasant. So has America. Yet it
would seem to the bystander that
the duty of saving Russia, from
starvation as from political peril,
devolves not on America but on
Europe. We do not quibble. The
world maligns us, but it brings its
woes to our feet, it shifts its bur
dens to our shoulders. We did not
seek the role of Samaritan to all and
sundry. It was forced upon us four
years ago, and America took it up
right gladly. Some time the world
will appreciate the spirit of an
unselfish democracy, that triumphs
over spite and contumely and yields
with generous hand a goodly por
tion of its loaf.
PUTTING THE FAR ME Kc0 N HIS FEET.
The present session of congress
was intended to be a peace and re
construction session, but has become
a farmers' session with peace and
reconstruction relegated to second
place. The severity with which de
flation of values struck the farmers
has awakened them to political ac
tivity to a greater degree and in a
more practical manner than ever
before, and their voting strength has
led to formation in congress of a
farmers bloc drawn from . both
parties. At the same time the teach
ing of the war that an adequate food
supply lies at the foundation of na
tional defense in war and of na
tional prosperity in peace has awak
ened the people of . the cities and
their representatives to their . inter
est in the prosperity of agriculture.
Census reports show the farm in
dustry to be in danger, small profits
driving farmers to abandon it, low
wages driving labor to . seek high
wages in the cities. All agree that
something must be done about it
and when the farmer calls on con
gress for help, he finds everybody
giving a ready ear to him.
Still loaded with loans on last
year's crop, which he marketed at
a loss, the farmer wants loans from
the government to market the crop
that he is now harvesting. Burdened
with short-term, high-interest mort
gages, he wants the government to
enable him to get long-term, low-interest
mortgages which he can pay
in yearly installments. Finding that
he receives only about one-third of
the price that the consumer pays for
his product, he inquires angrily
where the other two-thirds go. He
finds freight rates take a much
larger share than formerly and he
demands that they come down. A
string . of elevator men, dealers,
brokers, commission merchants, mil
lers, buyers and exporters Intervene
between him and the consumer,
some of them speculating in his
product without ever touching or
even seeing it, and he classes all of
them as middlemen and speculators,
and calls for laws to regulate pack
ers, to forbid dealing in futures and
to enable him to crowd out many
others by means of large-scale co
operation, or -to impose on Uncle
Sr.m the entire job of marketing his
crops.
While brooding over his troubles
and telling them to the world, the
farmer is painfully aware that he is
a workingman, and when the labor
union organizer hails' him as "fel
low-worker" and extends the glad
hand, he grasps it, believing that, if
the worker on the farm and the
worker . in the factory combine
forces, they will be invincible. That
has been done in the past, but the
farmer is rather more wary now. He
has discovered that the purpose of
the labor union is to raise wages in
the city, and this causes the farm
hand to demand more wages or go
to the city; that the cost of handling
hi product is increased, that the
consumer pays, no more tn tne
world market, but that he receives
less. He then realizes that by help
ing his fellow workman he has
taken money out of his pocket. It
then dawns o-n him that, though
workman, he works for himself;
that, as the owner of a farm he is a
capitalist and employer, and that, as
the sfcller of his crops he must be a
business man as well. Yet his time
Is so taken up -with the work and
management of his farm that he has
little time to attend to the business
end of his job, much less to- keep
books and study market conditions.
and that distance from town pre
vents that close business contact
which would keep him informed
It is precisely in the handling of
his business securing capital on
the .most advantageous terms to
raise crops and carry them, and
selling them to the best advantage
that the farmer has failed. He has
the best security in the world land
that produces an easily salable com
modity every year yet he has not
been able to borrow money on as
easy terms as' the manufacturer,
merchant or owner of city property.
He thinks banks have discriminated
against him, though the fact is that
he is usually out of touch with them,
while city men are constantly in
touch. Too generally he does not
know how to state his proposition
to the banker in a way to make it
acceptable, while the city man does.
Consequently the farmer pays
dearly, either to the banker or to
others to whom he must turn. Also
when the national bank act was
passed, it was a civil war measure,
there was no question of an abund
ant supply of food, therefore no
thought was given to the financial
needs of farmers, and banking fa
cilities were provided mainly for
city men.- His crops are of a kind
that is handled in larger quantities
than he alone produces, hence he
cannot deal directly with a miller
or with a Liverpool grain merchant
for a whole cargo of wheat. He
must sell through middlemen, who
watch the market . every minute,
profit by every turn and take their
toll of him.
What the farmer needs is help in
financing his business and selling
his crops. He needs something to
take the place of the third of him
which ought to be business, but Is
absorbed in the occupation of em
ployer, manager and workman, all
rolled into one. The rural credit
law has started him on a system for
borrowing on easy terms capital to
buy and improve land. Originally
capitalized by the government, it is
gradually to become a farmers' co
operative loan system, owned and
operated by the farmers themselves
with their own capital. Its oper
ation was halted by- the war and
lawsuits, and it needs to be set go
ing again full blast.
Then he needs loans to aid i
production and sale of his crops for
a term of at least six months, often
extending long enough beyond bar
vest to enable him to feed them to
the market through the next year.
A good beginning was made by the
federal reserve law, but the sudden
transition from war to peace prices
seems to have been too much for it.
Some additional help is needed to
carry the farmer over to next sea
son and to ease him down to the
permanent peace price level. That
help will be given by the McKary
bill, which provides for loans by the
War Finance corporation, is ap
proved by President Harding and is
virtually sure to pass. The federal
reserve law might well be liberalized
in favor of the farmer, in order to
provide working capital, but the
best permanent help would be ma
chinery for seasonal loans annexed
to the rural credit system.
To sell their crops farmers need a
business manager of equal ability
with the big business men who
handle their products for their own
profit. Such men can be secured
only by large associations, which
can be formed under the farmers'
co-operation bill now before con
gress, which would buy the crops of
many farmers and would sell direct
to millers and other food consumers
in this country or to merchants
abroad. Their managers would keep
a keen eye on the market and sell to
the best advantage. They would es
tablish federal storage warehouses,
enabling farmers to obtain loans on
warehouse receipts. They would
squeeze out many middlemen and
would secure for the farmer a large
share of the missing two-thirds of
the consumers' price.
Means are thus being provided to
restore the prosperity of agriculture.
Congress is doing what law can do.
but the most hopeful sign is that
the farmer is moving to help him
self by co-operation and is not be
ing taken in by the fake medicines
which have brought North Dakota
to bankruptcy. Further help will be
given by reduction in freight rates.
which will be possible wlren labor
adjustments are completed and when
the roads are provided with capital
to effect economy. No relief can be
derived from state banks, state ele
vators, state mills, state stores, for
they have been tried and have
failed. The president, congress,
and, above all, the farmers them
selves, are moving on the right lines,
and they will put the farmers
squarely on their feet.
The first slacker to be tried In
Brooklyn by courtmartial was sen
tenced, among other things, to for
feit all pay and allowances since
May, 1918. Inasmuch as he didn't
serve anyway, that sounds like sen
tencing the Beavers to forfeit all
ball games they haven't won this
season.
Portland will take Dr. Barton'i
word for it that the Rev. Mr. Hal-
lock named Council Crest. Portland
had a lot to do a score of years ago
and was neglecting nomenclature.
A Chicago boy has been born with
twelve fingers, which is no advan
tage beyond good for scratching pur
poses. Most people get a handful
as they are.
Nothing can be done with that
discovery of "petrified seafoam". on
the Bruneau in Idaho until they
make it into some kind of popular
drink.
Alaskans for federal jobs in
Alaska is right in theory, but is not
for harmony. If only the pie were
big enough to go 'round! N
It is a turn of the table to arrest
a man for wearing a scant bathing
6i:it, but the intimation is he is
crazy.
The autos are not al) that cut cor
ners. That is what the Canadian
Exporter was doing off Wlllapa.
That aviator who says he is going
to fly over the North Pole is prob
ably only crazy with the heat.
Evidently these Chinese tongmen
don't agree with Lloyd George that
world peace is near.
Portland is selling this great
weather to the tourists and they take
it In large quantities.
BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE PRESS
Chinese Import Their Ire C re ami
Japanese Scorn It.
Thousands of gallons of ice cream
are being shipped every month from
Vancouver, B. C, to China, the frozen
dainty being forwarded to specially
constructed containers holding S00
gallons
Although the Chinese are bow
showing a. great partiality tor Ice
cream, the Japanese do not regard it
with much favor and will not consider
soft drinks. But beer is getting a
strong hold In Kobe, Toklo. Yokohama
and other important Japanese cen
ters, according to Q. Reifel of Van
couver, who has been spending sev
eral months in the orient.
Sake, for centuries the national
drink of the Nipponese, is being more
and more forsaken by the Japanese,
who are encouraged by the govern
ment to drink beer in place of the
native liquor, which contains 15 per
cent alcohol and which, according to
some authorities, has had to do with
the Japanese being of small stature.
'
The Franco-Belgian frontier has
long been a happy hunting ground
of the smuggler, both amateur and
professional, according to the Mani
toba Free Press. In the customs mu
seum at Lille is a colleotlon of ex
hibits which give a vivid idea of the
tricks employed by smugglers.
There are chairs, brushes, pitch
forks, masons' hods, widows' mourn
ing bonnets, wheelbarrows, aawa and
boots, all hollowed out for stowing
away tobacco. There are stacks of
government papers concealing a sine
tobacco receptacle, hollow roulette
wheels in which coffee was smuggled,
and workmen's drinking cans with
only a few Inches of liquor in a little
vessel beneath the cork, the rest of
the can being intended for tobacco.
There 'are numerous examples of
spiked armor, spiked collars and har
ness furnished with a number of
sharp spears, worn by the dogs
trained to dash across from Belgium
at night, and thus protected against
the customs dogs trained to chase
them.
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"The Street of Many Fakirs" the
section of the Fredrlchstrasse In Ber
lin between Unter den Linden and
Koch streets may soon lose the right
to its exotic title, won by virtue of
the varied and questionable commerce
which thrives upon its sidewalks and
crossings, for an agitation has been
started to "clean it up."
Every article from jumplng-jacks
to fine oriental rugs may be pur
chased from the vendors who infest
the street, eternally crying their
wares.
The chief complaint against the
character of the street, however, is
that thieves use it continually as a
clearing place to market their "hauls.'
Not infrequently a ragged, unkempt
man will offer most expensive i
ported fabrics for suiting, in odd
bolt lots, at ridiculous figures. Much
of this stuff, the police feel certain
has been stolen, but it is difficult to
fix the crime on the street vendor.
Victims of the various drug habit
find their chief source of supply on
this street.
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The members of the Illuminating
Engineers' society of England recent
ly appointed a committee to invest!
gate the subject of eye-strain caused
by watching moving pictures, relates
the Vancouver Province. This com
mittee found that the chief strain
on the eyes comes from the pictures
being shown too high up, so that the
eyes of the spectators in the front
rows have to be raised.
It recommend3 that the height of a
picture on the screen Is such that the
angle formed by lines from the center
of the top and the center of the bot
tom to the eye of a spectator In the
front row be not greater than 35
degrees.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the British
ambassador, was talking at a lunch
eon about a knighthood, says the
Houston Post. "Knighthood is quite
a complicated subject. Very -Tew
people understand the various types
of knighthood, their significance, and
so forth. A young lady once said
to a gentleman: 'What are the
Knights of the Bath?' ''Why, the
young gentleman - answered, 'why,
Saturday nights, of course.' "
set
Bejrkesd.
Ah! then how sweetly closed those
crowded days!
The minutes parting one by one like
rays.
That fade upon a summer's eve.
But oh! what charm, or magic num
bers Can give me back the gentle slum
bers Those weary, happy days did leave?
When by my bed I saw my mother
kneel.
And with her blessing took her
nightly kiss;
Whatever Time destroys, he cannot
this
E'en now that nameless kiss I feel.
Washington Allston.
Willie making an excavation for a
gas pipe on Bridge street In Orovllle,
Cal.. laborers dropped into an old
mining tunnel, despite the fact that
no mining has been done In Orovllle
for many years.
Located directly under the street
and about the center of the road the
walls and roof of the tunnel were
found to be in good condition. Mud
and running water were found in the
tunnel about 20 feet below the sur
face. see
Two sweet young things sat in the
grandstand at the baseball game.
They were interested in almost every
thing but the game itself. Finally one
of them observed:
"I don't care a lot for baseball."
"Nor I either," the other one joined
In. "I'd rather read a book or a story
or go to the movies. But an old ball
game. You never know how It's going
to turn out." Kansas City. Star.
. .
The Detroit News says that the
real classic will come when the Amer
ican public hears Charlie Dawes' opin
ion of prickly heat.
Four girls, graduates of a girls'
school at Salt Lake City, are har
vesting the crops at the Isaac Wood
house ranch in Ruby valley, near Elko.
Nev., assisted only by the owner.
Clad In overalls the girls are doing
the work of regular ranch hands and
seem to be enjoying the work. Wood
house says the girls are about the
best help he etr had, and show an
enthusiasm that most male workers
lack. . ..
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folk at the Hotels.
Novelist, from choice; globe-trotter
from habit, and sugar planter in or
der to gratify his other desires, Julia
Jorrin of Madrid, Spain, was at the
Benson yesterday. He pronounces
Julia as Hulio. Although Mr. Jorrin
calls Madrid his home, his business
interests are in Cuba, where he had
two plantations, but recently sold
them to a syndicate, taking half cash
and the other half in stock. He ad
mits that he is rich. "This Is a great
country," said he. "I telephone here
and I immediately get the number.
If I telephone from a hotel on the
Rivera I may get a cow you can't
tell. Tour highway is beautiful, but
there is so much beautiful scenery In
the world which I have seen that I
decline to say that the Columbia
highway is unsurpassed. Take Lake
Louise, where I have just been: it
looks like it was faked a stage set
ting, but it is real. Sugar? Well, it
Is going to be higher, even though
there are a million tons surplus In
Cuba. Of the 197 factories in Cuba.
60 have gone out of business. They
couldn't reopen if they could sell
sugar at $60 a sack. The BUgar men
nd the banks were -alike hit, for
when the slump came it came like a
thief In the night before anyone was
in position to obtain protection." Aa
a boy Mr. Jorrin lived In Batavia and
to get there he either had to travel
one way around the world or the
other, so he has seen the globe sev
eral . times. Just now he has been
making a survey of the sugar situa
tion in the European countries and
betimes he writes his novels. Dart
serious and part humorous. "I will
admit that the best writing doesn't
pay. said he. "On the other hand.
look at my countryman, Belasco
Ibanez. He is considered a fourth
rate writer in Spain, but he is a great
advertiser and will make millions of
dollars. His best book, 'Blood and
Sand.' dealing with bll fighting. Is
not well known in America. Here
the people talk about the poor horses
in the bull ring. They see but one
little speck 'on the immense canvas.
I saw the Carpentier-Dempsey fierht
and in one of the preliminaries I saw
things worse than any bull fight. J
saw that vast crowd of spectators
forget their patriotism and wish for
the Frenchman to win; I saw the
American champion hissed."
Portland is one of the blestest fur
niture centers in tlt country a fact
not generally realized by the citizens
or tne Rose City. As a furniture
manufacturing town Portland is the
most important In the west. Among
the buyers attending Portland this
week are many visitors who are here
to order furniture. They come from
many states, and among others are
buyers from Berkeley and ban Fran
clsco, for they would rather buy here
than in Los Angeles, if Los Angeles
had anything to offer. Ben Burns
and T. J. Osmond, both buyers for
furniture stores in Nampa, Idaho, are
among the arrivals at the Multnomah.
H. J. McDonald, a furniture buyer
from Pocatello, Idaho, is also at the
Multnomah.
teiepnone users may find some
solace in their kicks against the
company in this: The telephones of
both Commissioners Williams and
Buchtel have, on occasion, been dis
connected because their bills were not
paid on the dot. These things hap
pened when the commissioners were
away attending hearings. It is violat
ing no confidence to whisper that the
commissioners were quite human, the
came as other telephone users, when
they found what had happened. Both
of the public service commissioners,
now holding a rehearing on telephone
rates, are registered at the Hotel
Oregon.
"I thought it was sweltering In
Chicago, but, believe me. the heat in
Sa.lt Lake City is terrific," declared
A. Buedel, who with his family has
registered at the Perkins. "One
thing about Portland is that the days
are not very hot and the nights, we
find, are cool and comfortable. In
Chicago no one want a blanket at
night, but here a blanket comes in
handy. The nights in the east are
insufferable, and it takes almost until
dawn for the temperature to lower
sufficiently to enable a person to go
to sleep." Yesterday Mr. Buedel .took
his fam:Iy for a trip over the Colum-
bia river highway.
Eagle creek, near which point there
is a sliding mountain on the Colum
bia river highway, was the objective
yesterday of a crowd of geological
students from the Chicago university.
Last month the boys interested them
selves in digging up fossils and every
youth had slung to his belt a geolo
gist's hammer, so new that the label
of the maker was still on the handle.
The sliding mountain on the Columbia
is something that has been attracting
the attention of engineers for a score
of years.
"We will have the best apple crop
in the history of the Rogue river val
ley, predicted C. M. speck or iieq
ford, registered at the Imperial.
"The crop will be exceptional, both
as to quantity and quality. Tlse price
is, of course, unknown, as tne mar
ket has not been established yet.
The frosts last spring simply thinned
out the pears, and the pear crop will
also be good.
On his way to revisit France after
many vears. Alex Gullbert of Seattle
was at the Imperial yesterday. Mr
Guilbert was in the Franco-Prusian
war and when that conflict was over
he moved over to the United states.
Mr. Guilbert is one of the men who
founded Seaside, down where the
Neacanicum, Neahcoxle and Wahanna
flow.
Six hours and 20 minutes was the
running time of Mr. and Mrs. G. P.
Halferty from Aberdeen. Wash., to
the Benson. . The couple said that the
trip was dusty, but this explanation
was unnecessary, as they sent clouds
of dust floating in the lobby at every
step after leaving the car.
After a few days at the ocean
shore, a party of Wasco residents
stopped over at the Perkins on their
way home. They are traveling by
the gasoline route. The visitors were
Charles A. McAllister and family.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson and Mrs.
H. E. Beers.
After being In the east on a busi
ness trip. Frank Mashburn of Grants
Pass arrived at the Hotel Portland
yesterday morning. Mrs. Mashburn
came up from the Pass to meet him.
Mr. Mashburn has the largest mer
cantile store in the Josephine county
metropolis.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Wllhelm of Mon
roe, Or., are at the Multnomah. The
Wllhelm establishment at Monroe la
one of the largest and most com
plete stores in the Willamette valley.
J. R. Browne, secretary of the port
of Umpqua commission. Is an arrival
at the Multnomah. There is a recall
out over the commission and the
election is to be held August 12.
R. J. Glnn. who served a couple of
years as county commissioner of
Sherman county, is an arrival at the
Perkins, registering from Moro.
In Klamath Falls. E. E. Magee Is
manager of a large drugstore. He
is in Portland on business and is reg
istered at the Imperial.
Mrs. Paul C. King, whose husband
Is a real estate operator at Bend, is
registered at .the Hotel Portland. ,
CAUSE OF CHILD DELINQUENCY
Mlsnsted Conslfs, Rather Than Dt
vsree, Held Fundamental Basin.
PORTLAND, Aug. 2. (To the Edi
tor.) Being a student of the mar
riage and divorce problem, both by
experience and observation. I wish to
thank you for the informative letter
from Mr. John H. Stovall, physical
director of the state training school.
The bpys in his charge as well s
tne stata at large are fortunate to
have some one so competently and
profoundly interested in the kind of
highly useful work being done there.
Nevertheless It does not follow that
because a man is an excellent .di
rector- In looking after the boys'
physical training he must also be an
accurate diagnostician of social ail
ments. I particularly differ from Mr.
Stovall In his opinion that many bys
are in the stale training school be
cause they are the "damaged goods"
of divorce. I regard that as a. super
ficial conclusion. From facts set
forth by Mr. Stovall himself I make
a much more fundamental deduction.
which is that the boys, where they
are not the product of a bad general
social environment (apart from a
merely bad domestic environment),
are the "damaged goods" of mis
mated couples. Parents who de
liberately fail to provide for their
children give every evidence of un
fitness for their calling and obviously
should never have had offspring.
The biological fact must never be
forgotten that there are men and
women who are not by nature fitted
for parenthood. We admit this at
once with regard to their physical
condition; it is equally true as to
their Inborn temperament. Divorce
has nothing to do with their unfit
ness, for that is already present in
them long before they marry and
have progeny. It is solely a question
cf inherited (not acquired) character.
Coercion and the police power of the
state are helpless before this con
dition. When persons with this non.
philoprogenitive strain in them marry,
their natures are not changed. Mar
riage cannot work a magic like that.
But they are in duty bound, in recog
nition of their organic shortcomings,
to avoid prepetuating their deeply
fixed non-parental qualities.
Modification or even abolition of
divorce would not succeed in pre
venting delinquency in the offspring
of such types. I do not say this with
any feeling of scornful superiority,
for I have lived long enough to hold
the opinion that both the parental
at.d non-parental type has Its good
and bad qualities, and its place in
the world. But it seems absurd to
expect the non-parental kind, with
no inborn capacity for that function,
to be good fathers and mothers. You
would not set a blind man to paint
pictures, nor a deaf man to learn the
violin. Incidentally I might ask, are
those parents who know how to pro
vide for their children and have a
capacity for loving them nowadays
really rearing as many as the wel
fare and progress of mankind de
mand? There is where the real race
suicide Is found In the small families
of the well-to-do and the capable.
If there were no divorce laws and
all the couples who are incapable of
creating real family life were forced,
contrary to their real natures, to con
tinue to live together, their children
would be worse off than they are
now under Mr. Stovall's kindly and
Intelligent direction. Perhaps not one
parent In 20 knows as well as Mr.
Stovall does what is good for a boy's
physical development. Parents might,
and do., continue to live together all
their lives and treat their children
cruelly, rear them in sloth and ig
norance, or exploit them shamefully.
Such children generally grow up to
be criminals, tramps, wasters, defec
tives, invalids, hoodlums, drunkards,
drug addicts, or perhaps political
hirelings and grafters, petty trick
sters, liars. corruptionists, jury
fixers, or oppressors of their fellow
men. They will inevitably prove a
burden in one way or another to the
really productive and useful elements
of a community sooner or later.
While divorce may work an oc
casional injustice or hardship what
human institution does not what 1
see and hear almost every day leads
me to believe that vastly more goo
than evil flows from it. The "menace
of divorce" is an imaginary danger.
Divorce really helps to eliminate the
matrimonial misfits. Why interrupt
the process by crusading against the
supposed evils of divorce when it is
tn fact a social benefit?
HERBERT J. FOSTER .
ALTO TAGS TO ADVERTISE FAIR
Visitor Suggests L'e of License
Plntra With Lrarnd.
BELLING HAM, Wash., July 31.
(To the Editor.) The writer had the
privilege of visiting Portland a week
ago and was very much impressed
with the interest manifested by many
of its people with reference to the
fair proposed in 1925.
In going about Portland the fol
lowing suggestion came to my mind
and I am passing it on for what it
is worth:
I noticed that a number of people
were displaying pennants and ther
advertising matter with the following
words: "Oregon 1925" or "Portland
1925." I also notice that automobile
license plates read "Oregon 1921" at
the present' time. Why couldn't the
following suggestion be carried out,
and that is, have the license plate
department of Oregon issue license
plates with "Oregon 1925" for the
next three or four years, but in
order to distinguish 1921 and 1922
plates and the other yearly plates
from one another, have the color dif
ferent each yar?
The advertising that you would
get from the number of automobiles
that you have in Oregon carrying
"Oregon 1925" Instead of "Oregon
1921" or "Oregon 1922." etc., would
be of a value that you could get in
no other way. The hundreds of Ore
gon cars that would go to other sec
tions of the country with the "1925"
number on would attract a great
deal of attention and would cause
quite a little comment, and an ex
planation would be the very best ad
vertising. I am very much Impressed with the
wonderful opportunities afforded by
Portland and the surrounding coun
try and with the interest displayed
by Its citizens In the Interest of their
particular district and I wish to pass
this on for what it is worth.
PERCY LIVESEY.
Early Mornlna; Cats.
PORTLAND. Aug. 2. (To the Edi
tor.) Can't you say something to
cat-lovers, for bird-lovers, which will
help our feathered friends In their
distress? Surely cats must walk
abroad, but if their owners would
only shut them In from evening until
breakfast-time, our birds would be
spared much sorrow. Young birds
are always helpless: but at early
dawn even the older birds cannot see
the waiting claws and teeth hidden
in the shadows of the long grass.
Yes, some may say that there are
too many robins: and that they eat
the fruit. But they have their com
munity rights! One's feeling of jus
tice is roused by these daybreak
tragedies. It Is not so much, perhaps,
because of the little bird which is
destroyed as It Is for the- tree-top
group of feathered things crying for
their dead. So few come to their
aid. One longs to help the' distracted
little things against their sore and
oft-repeated trial.
Can't you write a poem, construct
a psalm, run a head-line, do some
thing, to persaude our friendly cat
owners to keep their pets indoors at
the dawn and twilight hours?
A SUBSCRIBER.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
EXPEDITING LEGISLATION.
At first we were givena bit of a
shock.
When a statesman suggested last
week.
That he hoped to compose a dispute
that arose
By a biff on a senator's beak.
It seemed to us dreadful that men
should employ
The uppercut. wallop and swing
And lams to the jawc in the making
of laws.
As they do to gain fame In the ring.
And yet when we thought of the days
we have spent
In the echoing chambers of state,
And sagged in our chair while the
ambient air
Was filled with the noise of do-bate.
It seemed that a lightning like clip
on the ear
Would silence much word-burdened
din.
And that language expressed by a
slam on the chest
Might be. better than limitless chin.
Today, when -
a measure comes up
for a vote
The senators all take the floor.
And before there's a chance for the
bill to advance
They talk for a fortniarht or more.
But if all the members jumped into
a ring
And wallops were savagely plied.
They would rush through the bills
and give plenty of thrills
To the eager spectators beside.
Our elderly uncle arises to say
That If statesmen resort to a fight.
In settling a cause or in making the
laws.
They'll never be sure they are right.
However, we've found a convincing
reply
To this carping objection of his;
And he's bound to admit our conten
tion, to-wit:
They seldom are right as it Is!
Oae Ohjeectlon.
That proposed duty on leather
would shut out a lot of the beef,
steaks that are now current in this
country.
Not So Easy.
Now If Mr. Dawes can show con
gressmen how to save their Jobs as
well as how to save 1112.000,000 he
may be able to persuade them to save
the $112,000,000.
No Tronble at AIL
' If England will only back her next
polo team we may be able to gather
In what she owes us without any
diplomatic difficulties.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Hooarhton-Mlf film Co.
Can You Answer These Questions r
1. Can horses and mules open
their mouths after closing their teeth
on an object? As in the case of mules
seen to catch a chicken by the head
and swing it until the head would
come off, apparently unable to let go.
2. Kindly explain the meaning of
dog days. Is the water poisonous to
bathe in during those days?
3. Kindly advise what to feed a
tame crow on. 1 It harmful to
give bones?
Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes.
A nan-era to Previous Questions.
1. What color is the true pole-cat?
The true pole-cat representative in
America is a ferret, called black
footed pole-cat. It lives on our
plains, preys on prairie dogs. Is a
buffy or whitish color, with black
feet, black at the end of the tail and
has a conspicuous black stripe across
the face, extending beyond the eyes
mm
2. Will ring-neck pheasants mate
our native pheasant?
We have no native American pheas
ant. Several varieties of this bird
have been introduced from Asia. The
ring-neck pheasant will mate in
Europe with the so-called "common"
pheasant, itself an introduced bird,
but so long naturalized as to seerr
native to parts of Europe and Eng
land. 3. How long will a plajit live?
This depends on the type and spe
cies of plant. Annuals, like grain
and many garden plants, flower and
mature seed in one growing season,
then die. Biennials grow a stem the
first year, flower and bear the sec
ond, then die. Perennials live several
or many years, bearing each year.
Those flourish so long as their root
hairs are able to absorb moisture and
nourishment which passes greater
and greater distances, as the plant
grows larger, to reach the new shoots.
When this distance becomes too great
less nourishment reaches the shoots,
fewer leaves are formed, less chem
istry Is performed by leaves and the
plant will weaken and die.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oreeonlan of Aucuit 3. 1896.
Lincoln, Neb. it was given out at
the, Bryan home this evening that
Hon. R. P. Bland of Missouri will
arrive In Lincoln next Friday and
will accompany Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
on their trip to New Y'ork.
Cincinnati. A terrific wind, hail
and rain storm, accompanied by blind
ing lightning, passed over the city
this evening. The wind reached a
velocity of 60 miles an hour. In the
city proper chimneys and buildings .
were blown down and much minor
damage was done.
The persistent rumors circulated in
regard to the health of Queen Vic
toria and her intention to retire al
most immediately in favor of the
prince of Wales have caused quit
a sensation in court and other circles.
John Sims, a prosperous stockman
of Poe valley, was at the Falls Fri
day. He returned about two weeks
ago from Sacramento, where he took
a bunch of horses to sell. He says
there is no question of doubt that
the horse, market "needs fixing."
Heavy horses bring In that market
only about $35, and those weighing
from 900 to 1000 pounds bring but
17 or $8.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 3, 1S71.
London. There is a growing un
easiness in the public mind on the
fact that the cholera has been rag
ing for two years in Russia. As the
terrible scourge had not yet reached
the frontier, a close watch has been
instituted to prevent its progress. .
Washington. President Grant, ac
companied by General Porter, ar
rived here this morning. His ap
pearance was a surprise except to
members of the cabinet.
The party who went into the wil
derness to spy out a route for the
proposed railroad from Columbia City
to the upper Willamette valley, have
completed their first survey of the
grade from the summit of Cornelius
pass.
Parties are now offering 60 cents
a bushel for wheat at Walla Walia.
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