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of energy, by saving the last cent of
expense. Is it worth, that price?
Look at the old nations which hold
rich colonies and prosper by com
merce and which, preserve the
energy of their people by a sea
faring life. The endless battle with
the sea has made strong, free na
tions by making brave, stalwart,
venturesome men.
! FUNDAMENTALS OF 6HIPFIKO,
The shipping board seems not to
lave got down to the fundamental
of its problem. As regards steel
ships. It does not seem to be free
from the illusion that they are worth
what they cost in war time, not as
parts of an American merchant ma
rine, but as the means of carrying
troops and supplies to France. It
shows reluctance to break away from
thj practice of allotting ships to the
few ports that enjoy the favor of
big shipping companies and to dis
tribute them among all ports having
- goods to carry abroad. It seems not
to- have rejected the idea that ex
elusion of foreign ships from the
benefit of low import and export
rates on railroads will enable Amer
ican ships to get cargo' and to over
come their higher cost of operation
Though it appears to have decided
on bare boat charters to operators
in place of the present commission
agency system, the board seems to
shrink from accepting present value
as the basis for charters. To either
charterers or buyers, the ships are
worth only the price at which sim
ilar ships can be obtained in the
world market. That is their value
as a merchant marine. All of their
cost in excess of that value is their
value for war, which was used up
when the war ended. It should be
wiped off the books, done with and
forgotten, so far as shipping is con
cerned. The only concern, -we shall
have with it hereafter is as part of
the war debt. Until this is done it
will artificially swell not only valu
ation, but depreciation and Insur
ance, and no sane shipping man will
charter ships on that valuation. It
is a case of paring valuation down
. to the bone or making no charters,
When that is done, the next step
Is to broaden the market. If the
board listens to the lobbyists of the
shipping combine, it will charter
most of the ships, and the best of
them, to the few ports favored by
the combine, and will give other
ports the leavings or none at alL
By that course it will restrict its
market for charters in the present
aim iur saies in ins tuture. utner
ports, which the combine has con
signed to idleness or decay, are just
awaking to interest in the shipping
business, jf the board gets them
wide awake it will broaden its mar
ket and by expanding ocean com
nierce will swell demand for cargo
space. That is the plain intent pf
sections 7 and 8 of the Jones law.
There is danger to the board's suc
cess in reliance on preferential laws,
designed to force American shippers
to use Aperican ships or to. offset
our nigner cost or operation. The
fundamental fact is that the United
States government and people can
not alone control their shipping
business. The nations to which we
send ships or from which they come
have as mucri control over the busi
ness as we have, for the cargoes are
as much theirs as ours. They can
match every move we make to gain
preference for our vessels, and they
are old hands at the game, therefore
can play tricks to gain preference,
of which we, being novices, know
nothing. While we may gain some
thing by preferential duties or by
Import and export railroad rates,
.we need to study carefully the ulti
mate effects of these devices lest
the indirect loss far exceed the di
rect gain.
We talk much of the superior ef
ficiency of American labor, but this
is chiefly in quicker handling of
cargo at our ports, and foreign ships
profit as much by it as do our own,
while in foreign ports our ships lose
as much by inefficient methods
ea do their own. If we are to
profit at all by superior efficiency
of our labor it must be in handling
ships at sea. Every day saved on a
voyage cuts a slice off every item of
cost and adds to the time during
which the ship earns money.
If the value of our ships should
be cut to the bone our navigation
and seamen's laws would still re
main an obstacle to successful com
petition in the world market, there
fore to charters based on that valu
ation. No American, .however pa
triotic, will ship goods at higher
rates than foreign ships ask, purely
for the pleasure of having them car
ried under the American flag, nor
will American shipping men operate
ei a loss lor ine joy or doing busi
ness under that flag. Our laws must
be changed so that all unnecessary
and avoidable elements of cost will
be eliminated. This does not mean
return to imprisonment for deser
tion, or stuffy forecastles, or coolie
rations. It does mean that if an
American seaman claims to be equal
to three Japanese he must prove it
by doing as much . work as three
Japanese. Tha ts the only way to
maintain the American standard of
' a?3 and livinsr. Otherwise there
will be few jobs on American ships,
and American seamen will have to
work on foreign ships at their stand
ards or seek jobs ashore. If then
we cannot compete, the shipping
board will have to cut .down its
charter rates accordingly or the peo
ple must pay with subsidies for the
satisfaction of having a merchant
marine.
We are going into a new business
under conditions of intense compe
tition. Our competitors have been
in it for centuries, and the very life
of some of them as nations depends
on it. It we assume that we can,
IMMORAL ENTERTAINERS.
It may be hoped that the criminal
charge pfaced against the comedian
Arbuckle will have a sobering influ
ence upon the motion picture colony
in California. It is not to be doubted
that there are within the colony
prominent actors who are home
loving, faithful, sober and indus
trious. But there is an element
therein whose habits of life are giv
ing the profession as a whole a bad
name. That its presence is tolerated
by the producers is not wholly their
fault . It is insisted upon by the
public, for the pulic is, or has been,
unfortunately indifferent to the
character of Its film entertainers.
To be amused or enthralled is suf
ficient. By whom it is done has not
mattered, as yet, enough to count.
But that indifference, it need not
be assumed, is impervious. Too
much scandal will ultimately cause
revolt. The producer is learning by
experience that the film most talked
about and therefore the film that is
most remunerative is the one that
appeals to the finer sensibilities. Th
depth- of a mother's love, the sacred
ness of the marriage vow, the relief
of distress, the protection of the in
nocent these subjects and clean
comedy are the things that take
hold of public favor. Tet one likes
to feel that what he sees on th
screen is not wholly pretense. It is
an unpleasant after-taste to read
that the ones seen last evening as
defenders of home and virtue are
today involved in a disgraceful di
vorce or that the comedian over
whose good-natured antics we
laughed so heartily is In fact gross
and degenerate.
Some actors have not learned as
have the producers. Th money still
rolls in. it ought to be scant cause
for satisfaction that it is only their
pictures, their make-believe, that is
applauded, yet they go their way,
They are too highly paid for the
little they do. They have too much
time for play.
Already a small part of the pub
lie has abandoned its worship of
certain actors because of their es
capades. There will be more as
time goes on who will look beneath
the curly head for gray matter and
behind the mobile face for char
acter. Immorality in amusement
enterprises is a liability that is
bound to have its growing pains.
no longer can trust to instinct in
their feeding, but must rely on the
refined products furnished them. It
is now well known that Improper
diet is as provocative of woe among
the well-to-do as it is among the
poor, and as destructive of efficiency
as pellagra in the section where it
happens to prevail most virulently.
HERO STUFF.
The letter printed today from the
wounded admirer of Mr. Gardner
leaves us unabashed. We are ac
cused of insulting this hero of the
good sports squad by calling him a
common thief when he is an au
dacious thjef, a spectacular thief. He
is a fair fighter, we are told, a fel
low who does not want to take hu
man life in order to get his own
way, and he is no worse than some
others who are at liberty.
Without being specific let us ad
mit that this hero of the sob sisters,
male and female, is no worse than
some criminals who. are at liberty.
But the fact that so many persons
are out of jail who ought to be in
jail has always impressed us as a
sound reason, why society should
keep a firm grasp upon the crim
inals it has succeeded in incarcerate
ing.
But when -one of those already
caught succeeds in getting away we
shall reserve our emotional admira
tion until it is determined whether
he is a true modern Robin Hood
The modern Robin Hood will rob
the rich and avoid the poor. Our
herp among fugitive criminals, if
we ever have one, will be the fellow
who grabs the banker's nickle-
plated automobile and provides pur
suit stuff that is more like a moving
picture climax than a coon hunt.
Or, if hungered, he will enter the
mansion on the hill and hold up the
richest man in town for porterhouse
steak and cream puffs.
But this hero of the good sports
squad, this daring adventurer of Mc
Neil's island, is of another type
When he escaped the time before
this he furnished but the one brief
thrill on the train. He' robbed no
rich folk, but skulked around barn-
ards, milked the farmer's cows and
robbed his hen roosts. Stealing
hickeng is common thieveryvery
common. So is sneaking jewelry
out of a 6tore, for which Gardner
had served three years.
And does not our innocent corre
spondent know that about 90 per
cent pf the robbers don't kill unless
their victims resist or attempt to
kill the robbers first? A few slug
or kill and then rob, but they are
few. The highwayman usually
gives one a chance for his life if not
for his purse. All one has to do is
submit, just as the officer sub
mitted when Gardner threatened to
kill him if ha didn't as he would.
The robber does not kill if he can
rob without. To shoot makes a
loud noise and invites quicker pur
suit. Moreover,, to kill provokes
large rewards. Let the man who
prides himself on being a good sport
and who thinks he has exercised real
gray matter in . considering the
Gardner case ask himself one ques
tion: "If a resourceful, gallant and
smiling criminal were in my power
would I feed him on rich viands and
bid him Godspeed or turn him over
to the authorities for a (1000 re
ward?" We guess that cupidity
would control most of those who are
wishing that Gardner 'might get
away.
Ths vigorous campaign now being
waged by .health officers in the
southern states to counteract the
prevailing impression that pellagra
is increasing as a corollary to the
declining price of cotton will have a
beneficial effect in other regions
than the south, for it is a disquieting
thought that a disease so baneful in
its effects might be the result of
conditions likely to occur in any re
gion. 'It will serve, however, to call
attention to another fact, the knowl
edge of which will prove valuable,
which is that malnutrition, which is
not quite the' same thing as starva
tion, is a predisposing cause of many
tseases, of which pellagra is only
one. Better understanding of the
sound principles of diet is made
necessary by the complex nature of
high civilization, in which people
IMIARE THE SHAMEFCT. BARGAIN.
The correspondence of Walter H.
Page as ambassador to London in
regard to the Panama canal tolls
and Mexican questions has con
firmed the belief expressed at the
time that repeal of exemption for
coastwise -fessels was the price
which Mr. Wilson paid for freedom
from British interference with his
Mexican policy. That belief was
thus expressed by , Representative
Sinnott in the house on March 2
1914r
The abdication of our sovereignty at
the canal and the cession of the canal
territory to all the powers of the world
In common Is too great a price to pay
for taking on an English pilot to help
navigate our ' ship of state In Mexican
waters.
What did we rain by it? Free
dom to wait watchfully while hun
dreds of Americans and a few
Britons were murdered in Mexico,
Assurance that when a British sub
lect was murdered. Britain would
not intervene, as had been its cus
tom in other barbarous countries
when its subjects were murdered
Freedom to occupy Vera Cruz and
evacuate it, to advance to Parral
and to retreat, and to leave un
avenged the American soldiers slain
at Carrizal. Freedom to put on an
take off the embargo on arms for
Mexico, as the windings of watchful
waiting dictated.
All of this is pertinent to the pres.
ent situation. The bargain was
shameful to bofh parties, for it in
volved neglect- of a plain, primary
duty of any government to protect
the lives and property of its citl
zens ' and - to obtain redress lor
wrongs done. It is not binding on
the successor of "the president who
made it The present admlnistra
tion Is able and willing to defend
the rights of citizens of the United
States and of any other foreign
country in Mexico, therefore does
not need to buy exoneration from
that duty. The canal tolls question
should be taken up again where
Presiden Taft left It, apart from any
other question. If recognition of
full American rights in the canal
can be obtained by diplomacy, well
and good. If not, congress should
re-enact the tolls clause as it stood
in the Panama canal law. '
JEWISH PROTOCOLS TROVED
FORGERY.
One of . those strange chances
which spring from the wandering
of people to strange lands during
periods of world turmoil has brought
about presentation of complete proof
that the so-called Protocols of the
Elders of Sion" are a plagiarism, and
a fraud.- The story casts tignt on
the occult methods of "secret police
Under despots. It runs back to the
reign of Napoleon III 'in France,
then moves forward to the Russian
rebellion of 1905-6, on to the eve of
the revolution of 1917 and reaches
its climax in the meeting of an
exiled Russian monarchist and
British newspaper correspondent in
Constantinople in 1921.
A Russian landowner of the Greek
Orthodox faith, a constitutional
monarchist, remained in Russia
while Benikin's power was growing
in the south and sought to discover
whether any such occult Masonic or.
ganization as ths protocols speak of
existed there. After the final de
feat of the whites in Russia he took
refuge in Constantinople. There he
bought, a number of old books from
a former officer of the czar's secret
police. Among them was a small
volume of which the title page was
missing, but of which the preface
was dated Ueneva, October lb,
1864." He took it to the correspond
ent of the London Times and said:
Read this book through and you wi l
find irrefutable proof that the "Protocols
of the Learned Elders of Sion" is a p a-giarism.
Search by the Times In the British
museum discovered a complete copy
of the book, which is entitled
Dialogue aux Enters entre Mach
lave! et Montesquieu, ou la Politique
de Machiavel au XIX Siecle. Par
un Contemporain." (Dialogues in
rHell between Montesquieu and Mach-
iavelli, or the policy of Machiavelll
in the nineteenth century. By a
contemporary.") It was published
at Brussels in 1865, and the author,
Maurice- Joly, a Paris lawyer and
publicist, shortly afterward was ar
rested by the police of Napoleon III
and sentenced to eighteen months'
imprisonment.
This book is described by the cor
respondent as a "very thinly veiled
ttack on the despotism of Napoleon
III" in the form of twenty-five di
alogues between Montesquieu, whose
book, "Esprit des Lois," sowed the
peed for the first French revolution,
and Machiavelll, whose book, "The
Prince," is a textbook in the guile,
perfidy and cruelty by which tyrants
hold people in subjection and extend
heir dominions. The author says
his book "particularly personifies a
political system which has not varied
in its application for a single day
since the fatal and, alas! too distant
date when it was enthroned." The
preface contains many references to
the many repressive measures and
policies of the third Napoleon,
which, though not naming him, are
unmistakable. . In the dialogues Na
poleon, speaking through Machia
velll, -explains and defends his methi
ods of establishing and maintaining
ruthless dictatorship in reply to
the questions and objections of
Montesquieu. .
The "Protocols" were first ' pub
lished by Professor Sergei Nilus at
Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, in 1905, and
purport to give details of a con
spiracy to establish a Jewish world
mpire, over which a prince of the
ouse of David should reign. Nilus
said they were obtained by a woman
who stole them- from "one of the
most Influential and highly Initiated
leaders of Freemasonry" at the close
f the secret meeting of the "ini
tiated in France, that nest ot Jewish
onspiracy, and that "my friend
found them in the safes at the head
quarters of the Society of Zion,
which are at the present situated in
France." Another edition was pub
lished in January, 1917, in the
French version, of which Nilus says
the manuscript of the "Protocols"
was given him by Alexis Nicolaie
vitch Sukhotin and that it was notes
of a plan submitted to the council
of elders by Theodor Herzl at the
first Zionist congress, which was
held at Basle in August, 1897. The
Protocols, he says,, were signed by
Zionist representatives of the thir-
ty-thlrd degree" ia orient Free
masonry and were secretly removed
from the complete file of the pro
ceedings of the aforesaid Zionist
congress, which was hidden in the
"chief Zionist office, which is sit
uated in French territory."
By thorough comparison and by
many parallel quotations from the
two books, the correspondent proves
that these contradictory stories of
the origin of the Protocols are false
and that they are a plagiarized ver
sion of the Dialogues. The work
was done so hastily and carelessly
and with so little fear of exposure
that entire paragraphs are only
slightly paraphrased, that phrases
and illustrations, including figures,
are copied verbatim sand historical
allusions are adopted with little
change.
The motive of the plagiarism is
indicated by the first use made of
it and by the dates of its publica
tion. The' earliest edition seems to
have been published in 1902 as an
appendix ; to a religious work of
Nilus and to have, been used to dis
lodge Philippe, a Freneh hypnotist,
from favor with the czar and czarina
by creating the impression that he
was a Zionist agent. The edition of
1905 was prepared in haste at
time of revolution, when "a proof
of Jewish conspiracy was required
at once as a weapon for the con
servatives against the liberal ele
ments of Russia." The Jews actively
supported the revolution and the
publication of the "Protocols" . was
opportune in helping the conserva
tives to convince the czar that there
was truth in the long current story
of a secret council of rabbis plotting
against the orthodox church. Rus
sians say it strongly assisted the
subsequent reaction. The purpose
was to persuade the czar that .the
cause of discontent was net bureau
cratic oppression, but a world-wide
Jewish conspiracy, and thus to dis
suade him from making concessions
to the liberals. The second edition
in January, 1917, .on the eve of the
revolution, must have had the same
purpose. The number and promi
nence of Jews in the bolshevist gov
ernment and the bolshevist move
ment for world revolution gave
plausibility to the belief fostered by
the book that there existed a Jewish
conspiracy for world empire and ex
plain the wide publicity recently
given to the bosk.
History records few more mon
strous crimes of the kind than this
forgery and plagiarism. It was a
direct incitement to the awful
pogroms of 1906 with which the re
bellion ended. It helped to provoke
the pogroms in which thousands of
Jews were massacred in the Ukraine
in 1919, and it intensified the fury
with which they were avenged by
Jewish bolshevist commissars. By
confounding the Masonic order with
the pretended conspiracy it at
tempted to make Masonry a party
to crimes which are abhorrent to
its principles. . It is a malign legacy
pf Russian autocracy and bigotry.
We are surprised to see the hoary
chestnut going the rounds again that
"war will end when munitions
makers find it as profitable to pre
vent as to ' invent. The para-
grapher who' does not know that
wars antedated munitions makers is
hardly on the way to discover a
remedy for the world's greatest evil
The attorneyrgeneral of Missouri
says that people would never drink
moonshine if they knew the filthy
conditions under which it is made.
The man who can drink the aver
age moonshine after tasting it Isn't
apt to care much about the condi
tions under which it is made.
Hood River county is ready to
protect her roads by enforcing rules
for truck-loading. This refers to im
proved roads. Probably other coun
ties will follow. There are plain dirt
roads that could be benefited by a
ittle regulation, but that would be
altruistic.
Seattle buslnes men in a body are
this week dropping into territory
east of the 'Cascades that might- be
said to belong to Portland, but this
city is not worrying. That which is
good for Seattle is good for the
whole region.
The span of the bridge at Chester,
Pa., that gave way and drowned
many Saturday had been three times
condemned. People in many places
are disposed to take engineers' opin
ions lightly until disaster follows,
In the very nature of things, not
many more national encampments
of the Grand Army of the Republic
can be held. Not many years are
left in which to honor the survivors
among the "boys of '61."
The hearing on the protest by the
three railroads against the bus line
between Seattle and Portland will
establish a precedent if the depart
ment of public works of Washington
possesses backbone.
BY - PRODUCTS OP THE PRESS
Nation's Waste Provides Fortunes for
, . Salvage Men.
On what wasteful Americans throw
away 50,009 junk collectors last year
salvaged nearly two million dollars
worth of material, says the Waste
Trade Journal published in New York.
Thly reclaimed 1,500,000 tons of waste
paper, 500,000 tons of old cotton and
woolen rags to be made into shoddy
all-woolen clothing, 130,000 tons of old
copper, 259,000 tons of old brass, 124,-
OjOO tons of lead, 60,000 tons of sine,
23,000 tons of tin, 15,000 tons of alum
inum, 200,000 tons of rubber, of which
75 per cent were used tires and Inner
tubes, and 6,000,000 tons of scrap iron
and steel. But as this waste keeps
50.000 people busy, perhaps it isn't all
waste, after all.
Mike and. Joe Stankavltch had a pe
culiar experience while .returning
from Rogue river late one night, ac
cording to the Port Orford Tribune.
While coasting down the mountain
between Brushes and Hubbards
creeks at about 11 o'clock a large
panther sprang out of the darkness
and landed on the hood of the auto
mobile. It scratched and tore about
for a moment trying to get a foothold,
but Joe, after getting a close-up view
of the animal's countenance, stepped
on 'er.
The panther couldn't stick to th
lizzie, and in getting off almost got
caught in the front wheel. The boys
had five large salmon strapped to the
bug and it is supposed the panther
got a smell of the fish and decided
to get some of it Joe says that for
little while he had a perfect pompa
dour.
There may be something In the old
saw about killing two birds with one
stone, but it remained for H. G. Cave
of Marysville, Cal., to demonstrate
that it is possible to slay a brace with
a single golf ball.
Cave makes no boasts about sights
on his driver, but when he teed off
with a mighty swing the ball sipped
through a flock of linnets that was
flying over the fairway and two birds
dropped to the ground dead. Cave
declared the drive was a,"blrdle"
While automobiles are cutting more
and more into the business of the
railways by competing for short-haul
freight and lessening the movement
of passengers, there is- a compensat
ing aspect, finds the Ottawa Journal.
It is obvious, for example, that a con
siderable volume of traffic is brought
to the railways in motor trucks op
erating in rural districts which could
not very well be hauled by horses,
and the freight bill on autos shipped
to all parts of the country turns mil
lions of dollars annually into the
treasuries of the transportation com
panies. The production of motor ve
hides of all classes has assumed huge
proportions, and, while this has ere
ated a certain measure of competi
tion with the railways, it has not been
one-sided matter. . Whatever pro
motes the industrial activities of the
country is at once reflected in freight
traffic. In the long run, the general
scheme of distribution reaches a state
of adjustment which provides employ
ment for both autos and railways..
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folk at the Hotels.
( ADMIRER'S FEELINGS ARE III RT
The Detroit Times tells of a fas
tidious man who dropped Into a res
taurant for lunch. It was a rough
ill-smelling place, but he thought he
could manage to get down a cup of
coffee and a doughnut, so he ordered
them. The waitress brought his cof
fee In a thick, heavy cup.
"Where's the saucer?" inquired the
fastidious man.
"We don't give no saucers here,"
replied the girl, turning her wad of
gum. "If we did, some lowbrow
would come blowin' In and drink out
of his saucer, and we'd lose a lot of
our swell trade."
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Utile Bran Peep.
Little Beau Peep, shs dresses for you.
Her make-up is much, ber clothes are few.
Shs hides her ears, put her back Is bars.
Her knees .are cold, tut shs doesn't osrs.
Her waist is transparent, but please don't
weep.
Just Little Beat Peep! Just I.lttls Beau
Peep! Cartoons Magazine,
e -
A soap-box orator was haranguing
a New York noonday crowd in Bryant
park, says the Atlanta Constitution
How about Einstein" someone
elled. "I don't know what he's talk
ing about, and this relativity stuff is
over my head, but I do understand
what his name means in German, 'one
beer,'" said the orator.
Fire that destroys most pf the
usiness property of a small town,
like that at Maupin. Is calamitous.
Yet Maupin will arise from its ashes,
for it is a typical western town.
Probably the next great immigra
tion will be into South America, fol
lowing the latitudes complementary
to the settlement - of the northern
half of the continent.
A 60-year-old, man in Spokane
was fined $750 and given six months
for moonshining, probably in the
idea that he was old enough to know
and do better. w
The time-honored waffle is cir
cular; now they are making them
square by electricity. By and by
will come the square doughnut with
round hole.
Half a dozen county fairs will
be held in Oregon this week, and the
weather office at the national cap
ital has made "good medicine" for
them.
People who travel the Astoria
ne will do well to consider sched
ules in effect this morning and avoid
be.ng left at the start.
Commissioner Pier is the sales
manager of this municipality and
will endeavor to plug the leaks. This
is a good time.
"Lennon's" has been a name with
meaning in Portland's business cir
cles, and so will "Berg's," its successor.
Sensations come fast and furious,
giving details of man's inhumanities
to man and woman,
Bill Haywood, says the Dayton
News, will be -known in history as the
great deserter." First, he is accused
of deserting his wife, next of desert
ing his country and of deserting the
dear old I. W. W.
The war record bureau shows in
comparative statistics just issued
that the Cohens were most numerous
in New York city's fighting forces,
finds the World.
The Smiths ran a close second in
the city, with the-MUlers third.
.
Albert B. Brown, county clerk of
Sutter county, California, lays claim
to having produced the most costly
peach in the world. It is worth $10,
000. Brown's orchard is only one
year old and he was surprised when
inspecting it to find on one of the
yearlings " handsome large peach.
The orchard has cost him the price he
places on the peach. Fruit men marvel
at the product of this yearling.'
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"A load of jackass Is being takan
through the county."
This is the cryptic message flashed
District Attorney M. J. Cheatham of
Tehama county, Cal., from Los Mo
linos recently, which caused that of
ficial to call City Marshal Frank
Montgomery and Constable Harry Mc
Govern and hastily motor to Los Mo-
linos in the belief they would make a
big haul of certain proscribed liquids.
Reaching Los Mollnos, the car con
taining -the "Jackass" was pointed out
to them.
Then, and only then, did it dawn
upon the officers that their trip from
Red Bluff to Los Molinos was caused
by a practical joker.
The "Jackass'' the officers had ex
pected to find, was a reai Jackass of
quadruped type, a regular mule.
"Dallas Is the prune center of the
world," declared Herman Hawkins of
the Polk county metropolis yesterday.
"Every man who has any money to
spare is buying himself a few acres
and planting new trees. I can re
member when there were only a
couple hundred acres of prunes
around Dallas. Now there are sev
eral thousand acres bearing fruit and
many acres are newly planted. True,
many of the growers did not make
eny money last year, due to the low
est price in. years, but there Is a good
prospect for an Increased price this
year and they may be able to make
up for what was lost. Mr. Hawkins
Is a native of Polk county. He was
a member of L company of 'the old
Third Oregon and served with the
organization In France. He is regis
tered at the Imperial.
B. Singer, professor of International
law In De Pau university and the
author of a number of text books.
spent a few hours at the Multnomah
hotel yesterday before departing for
the east. He will attend the disarm
ament conference In Washington In
November and looks upon it as a
great step In the bringing about of
permanent peace. Professor Singer
believes that the allies made Ger
many a dangerous enemy in the com
mercial world when they placed the
heavy indemnity upon he. This in
demnity causes all efforts of the Ger
man people to be directed toward
manufacturing. Long hours and low
wages make low-priced products and
these thrown into the world markets
make competition that other nations
cannot meet.
Dee Wright, mountaineer and
packer, who gained fame a number
of years ago by superintending the
packing of lumber to the summit of
Mount Hood for the construction of a
fire lookout station for Elija Cole
man, is registered at the Imperial
For some time he has been engaged
by a motion picture concern as a
mule packer and mountain guide.
When Wright suggested a few years
ago that he could take mules almost
to the top of Mount Hood people
laughed at him, but he made good and
carried the lumber almost to the
summit.
Frank H. Bartholomew, formerly
connected wlth-Portland newspapers
and now manager of the southern
California bureau of the United Press,
was In Portland visiting with friends
yesterday. Mr. Bartholomew, who
makes his headquarters In Los An
geles, declared that Portland has the
edge on the California city as a place
to live. The Portland man becamt
connected with the United Press the
first of the year when he became
manager of the local bureau of that
news service. He was later promoted
to the position which he-now holds.
Congressman A. J. Sabath, accom
panied by his brothers, Henry and
M.J. Sabath, all prominent In demo
cratjc politics in Chicago, are spend
ing a vacation In Oregon and are
registered at the ' Benson. Repre
sentative Sabath is president of the
Chicago Bonding & Surety company.
For a number of years he was on the
bench in the municipal courts of Chi
cago. The Sabath brothers are ac
companied by their wives. Yesterday
afternoon was spent in making a trip
over the Columbia river highway and
visiting other points of scenic interest
around the city.
Train up a hired girl In the way
she should go and the first thing you
know she's gone," is the motto that
was followed by Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Peters of Hood River. Their maid
left them last week and they came to
this city and registered at the Tort-
land. The prime reason for their trip
here was to secure a new maid. Yes
terday they held open house In their
rooms and interviewed a score of
women who sought the position.
Hugh Wiley, 'famed as a writer of
negro and other stories will arrive In
Portland today. He will be a guest
at the Multnomah hotel, where he
will visit Major Kenneth Hauser, vlh
whom he served in ths engineer corps
In France.
Learning that her husband was
about to acquire the position of sur
veyor-general of Oregon, Mrs. Wes W.
Caviness of Pendleton made up her
mind to come to Portland and make
Inquiries about the duties the job in
volves. She m registered at the Ore
gon.
W. E. Buell of Seattle, engineer In
charge of the construction of the new
dam at Oswego, spent the week-end
at the Portland. Ha says that work
on the dam Is progressing rapidly.
Mrs. B. A. Lubbe, wife of one of
the leading business men and mer
chants of The Dalles, Is registered at
the Portland.
New York is much Interested In the
fate of the shipping board wooden
hulls,"for Senator Frellnghuysen has
a scheme for using a number of th
vessels for a pontoon bridge across
the Hudson between Yonkers and Al
pine. There Is some criticism of the
rhtmt. a few shipping men holding
that the Ice flows in the winter will ; as 3,242,670;
tear the ship pontoons loos. I 1,147,549.
P. A. Finseth, who conducts a cloth
Ing store at Dallas; spent Saturday
and Sunday in Portland. Me regis
tered at the Imperial.
Arthur Hendershott, who conducts
sporting goods store in Eugene,
drove down to Portland yesterday
and registered at the Imperial. .
A. H. Glbbs, newspaper editor of
Estacada, spent the week-end m
Portland and was regstered at the
Imperial hotel.
Apportionment ft Delegate.
EUGENE. Or., Sept. 10. (To the
Editor.) 1. What Is the rule for rep
resentation In the republican national
convention since the recent change by
he national committee?
2. what is the amount or tne rrot-
estant population of Ireland? Also
that of the whole island?
U. G. SMITH.
1. Four delegates at large from
each state: two additional delegates
at large for each representative at
large in congress from any state; two
delegates at large for each territory;
two delegates at large from each
state casting a majority of its elec
toral votes for the republican pres
idential nominee in the last election;
one district delegate from each con
gressional district maintaining a re
publican district organization and
casting 2500 or more votes for any re
publican presidential . elector or re
publican nominee for congress In the
preceding election. One additional
district delegate from each congres-
jorial district casting 10,009 votes
or more for any republican elector or
republican congressional nominee in
the preceding election; one alternate
delegate to each delegate to the na
tional convention.
The plan also makes the special
provision that a state. If Its laws re-
uire, may elect the total number of
delegates permitted under the plan
at large from the state and that in
case the state laws so require the
total delegates at large shall be the
same as if they were elected by dis
tricts. ' I
2. The Worlfl almanac gives the !
Roman Catholic population of Ireland
non-Roman Catholic,
i We Are Chlded for Condemning Sneak
I Thief, Train Rwliber, Ife-De.erter
1 PORTLAND, 8ept. 10. (To the Ed-
, Itor.) Two editorials, one Sept.
and tne other of Sept. 9, In The Ore
gonlan regarding Roy Gardner seem
to have been written by a regular
grouch. It is hard to understand why
one will write articles of such vln
dictive type, of even a bandit. The
accusations hurled at Roy Gardner
are quite a long way from being en
tirely fair.
There Is an old saying that is often
quoted that might be considered
by the editor, "Give the devil his due."
Whatever Roy Gardner may be, he Is
no common thief. Neither is there
any comparison In his case and Gro
ver Cleveland BererdoH's case. Any
one may consult Webster for a defi
nition of common, and If they can ap
ply any of those definitions to any
of Gardner's exploits, then I will apol
ogize for this interruption.
One may call him an audacious thief
or a spectacular thief, or even a ban
dit, but it Is an insult even to Gard
ner to call him a common thief. And
the cartoon in The Oregonian Is an
insult to Gardner and also those who
admire Gardner's fairness In outwit
ting his captors and pursuers. Be
cause one Is thrilled and elated at
Gardner's feats of grasping an op
portunity by the tail, as it goes by.
and lifting himself out of a close
predicament, is no reason for an ed
itor or anyone else to suppose that
one condones the crime that he com
mits. It is his cool headedness and
resourcefulness that people admire.
Again, they admire the fact that he
has always so far at least fought
fair. He doesn't want to take 'life
and he will not unless they try to kill
him first. We remember how he al
most begged the officer who was tak
ing him to the penitentiary to throw
up his hands saying "For God's sake
put 'em up! I don't want to kill you!"
Then for the cartoonist to hint that
Gardner would sneak up on anyone in
the dark and tap him on the head
with a gas pipe.
.What Gardner has done he has ac
complished unaided and alone and
without money. Bergdoll had thou
sands of dollars to aid him and no
doubt it aided him well to have them.
Had he been penniless the officers
would never have allowed him to
cross the Atlantic, and it Is doubtful
If he would have been allowed to re
main In 'Germany had he been short
of money.
Which does The Oregonlan consider
the greatest menace to society, Roy
Gardner whe we all k-iow is a crim
inalor the Michigan senator whom
we suspect is one; at least, he was
convicted by a Jury of his peers? Or
Sorensen, who was convicted and
turned loose by some five or six ot
our judges and told to refrain from
driving his car again? Yet it Is re
ported that he has often driven on
the streets of Portland since that
time. We all know where to place
Gardner, but w don't know where to
place those two fellows.
No less a personags than the chief
Justice of the supreme court recently
made the statement that the man
with the' longest puree usually re
ceived the greatest consideration at
the hand of the law. And the way
that some of our "high financiers" get
by with their exploits Is all the proof
that we need that such Is the case.
JOHN F. CHR1STAL.
The correspondent has misquoted
Chief Justice Taft. The Michigan
senator was convloted of exceeding
the limit of campaign expenditures
fixed by a federal law. The law was
held unconstitutional. Sorensen In the
Instance mentioned was accused of,
snd found guilty of violating a rity
traffic ordinance and a six months'
sentence In Jail was remitted. Be
was not admonished by the court to
refrain from driving, but It was rep
resented at the time that his driver's
license had been permanently revoked
by the secretary of state. Gardner
began his criminal career as a Jew
elry store sneak thief, for which he
served three years; has robbed hen
roosts. Is a wife deserter, robbed two
mail trains and in his last escape be
trayed two fellow prisoners, one of
whom was killed, by pretending he
had bribed the guards not to shoot,
and by using ths two men as a screen
for his own flight.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James) J. Montague.
BABY, BVK.
Baby, bye.
Here's a fly.
Fairly Smeared with bacilli.
Which he will
'Round him spill
Making babies ill.
Germs of colic, germs of "flu"
He will scatter over you.
Small he Is.
But, gee whim!
What the brute can do!
Baby, bye.
Here's a fly,
Crafty hearted, slick and sly.
He don't rare
How or where
He pollutes ths air.
If he lights upon your chin
Better call the doctor In,
Lest you quake
WKcn you wakt .
With a tummy achs.
Baby bye,
Here's a fly:
See his cold, malignant eye:
Be discreet.
Keep his feet
Out of what you cat.
You'd as safely let him park
Near your person as a shark.
Should he tread
On your head.
Swat the rascal dead.
Eaally satisfied.
The curious thing about congress
men is that they never ask to have
their terms shortened for good be
havior. Impossible.
What a fine thing It would be if
could build a battleship so quickly
that It wouldn't be out of date by the
time It is ready for launching.
Rare, However.
Now and then we hear of an Im
portant public office that hasn't at
some time or other been held by Will
lam H. Taft.
(Cnpyrlaht by the Hll Syndicate. Tne
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Honshton-Mlfrlln Co.
!n0'TH RECALLS ITALIA PO ET
600lh Anniversary of. Dante's Death
Innplren Landatlon of Works.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Sept. 10. (To
the Editor.) The month of Septem
ber, 1921, brings before our minds the
600th anniversary of the death of
Dante, and the great work done by
the poet, who ranks with Homer and
Shakespeare.
If Dante Is but little read, even
by scholars, then our misfortune
faces us. "Inferno." "Purgatorlo"
and "Paradlso" present the forward
steps of the soul from darkness into
light. We do well to read "Inferno"
at sundown, "Purgatorio" at sunrise
and "Paradiso" at high noon of the
day. Beatrice was not greatly loved
by Dante In her life, but was loved
by him In poetry. In "Inferno" was
put the loathsomeness of sin Dante
saw all about him. "in "Purgatorio"
the pure air blows upon transgres
sion, and in "Paradiso" the trumpets
of triumph are sounded, The poems
are perfect constructions of cantos,
Can Yon Answer These Questioner
1. Do snakes have eyelids?
2. Why do some animals have bushy
tails and others skinny ones?
3. What are the laying locations,
kinds of nests, and color and size of
eggs of the blackbird, American crow.
snipe, Indian hen and wild mallard
duck?
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
e
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Do birds ever hibernate?
No, though for years even students
oenevea swanows aia, uurying mem
selves In mud. Birds do not store
food (except as where woodpeckers
and Jays may hide acorns In cracks
ot bark), and having exceptionally
rapid digestion, mut continually find
new food. Where food la ample they '
Siand severe cold. Within a few years
a cardinal was seen all winter n
Rochester, N. Y-, thanks lo food sup
plied by bird-protecting citizens.
see
2. Jlow does mistletoe get started
on a tree?
It is spread by birds that ferd on Its
berries, and afterward wipe their
Leaks on bark, leaving a seed or two.
This seed germinates and thrusts a
rootlet down into the bark, reiu-hlng
through it to the wood. It catrthrn
suck some of the tree's juices. But
the mistletoe does soma of Its own
work In feeding, as It has grein
leaves and can absorb carbonic acid
gas from the atmosphere like a nor
mal plant.
3. Do pumas or panthers alw ays at-
lai-K itrvy iruin a ierun in a tree.
Not always. Trees over a spot
n uric wuiiiiuia I UBiuiai uy ivru ui
drink, offer a natural lurking place. A
perch on overhanuing rock is fre
quent, springing rrom a height In
creases the Impact of the blow felling
the prey, and gives the puma a chance
to grab and Jerk back the victim's
head, to break the m-ck. Small prey
tan be sprung at from a level.
In Other Days.
l-'lfly Yearn A sr.
From the Oregonisn of September 12, I1"!.
' The street commissioner Is keeping
three or four men at Mountain park
to fight the forest fire and keep It
from entering the park.
The track of the O. C, railroad was
laid as far as "C" street yesterday
afternoon at 4 o'clock and the grad
ing was then completed to Oak street.
It la reported that 5 persons are
en route for Tillamook, from Cal
ifornia, with a view of taking farms
and settling there.
Paris The evacuation by the Ger
man troops of the four departments,
contiguous to Par's will be completed
on the 13th.
Twenty-five Year Ago.
From (he Oresoniaa ot 8i ptemler ls!6
which are like each other in length, J most Interesting cricket matches w ill
De piayea mis aiternoon it muii-
and which hold together like ca
thedra'.s, and the finished poetry
breaking Its fetter becomes music
In the divine comedy we discern the
ideal fronting the real and overcom
ing it. If people now have no souls,
thev will find them by and by. Eco
nomics will yet bow before true life,
DavoholoK-y will release itself from
mechanics, literature will say farewell
to pessimism, science will turn Its
braying into silence and the church
will learn that the conversion of the
unit precedes the new birrti of the
whole. In fine, we shall leave evil
through repentance and shout within
paradise.
TO fill Ourselves up wun uany iuu
la ona thing, but to abide in ine
higher spheres where nobilities are at
home is the crown and root of our
true being. B. J. HOADLEY.
Railroad Funding Rill.
PORTLAND. Sept. 10. (To the Kdl
tor.) Please explain briefly the pro
nnaed railroad funding bill.
SUBSCRIBER.
The government owes the railroads
money for deferred maintenance and
other work which should have been
done during government control. The
railroads owe the government tho
cost of Improvements and equipment
bought during this period. It la pro
posed that the government pay the
railroads In cash what It owes them,
that the railroads give the govern
ment ten-year notes for what they
owe It and the government sell the
notes and uss the proceeds In reim
bursing' itself for what It pays the
railroads.
nouiah field by the All-Oregon eleven
and a picked team. '
Now that the grain shipping, busi
ness is decreasing on I'uget Sound
there is a disposition over there to do
away with the pilot system recently
established off the straits.
The work of laying the asphalt
pavement on Washington street was
commenced yesterday to the great
delight of everybody.
The number of divorces granted In
Canada during the last -0 years Is
116. It is divorce and not marriage
that la a failure over the border.
Another Mysterious DlNnppenrniMT.
PORTLAND, Sept. 10. To the Edi
tor.) Kindly tell me what has be
come of Hubbard, the young Seattle
Inventor, and his Invention.
HARRY HARRIS.
He has dropped out of Hie news.
We have no late Information about
him.
Old Whrela Will Bunk Again.
La Grande Observer.
It sounds really funny to hear
Portland shouting o loud about the
1925 exposition when everything l so
quiet. But things will not always
be this quiet and by 1925 the old
wheels will b buzxing attain, so go
I to it, Portland, and we'll all help.
Whole 1'arlflr Korlhweat lltnefllrS.
Grcsham Outlook.
Nor will Port-land and Oregon alono
profit by this exposition, but th
whole Pacific northwest will feel the
impetus which will result. Ori-goii
has been first in showing her luyslty
and support of the government on
former occasions and her clllxene are
now imbued with the thouxlil that
by giving co-operation In this great
project a real service will be given
to ths state.
I'o-aprratlon Ifelaht of Wisdom.
Wood hum Independent.
Now that rortsand has d-i Ided upon
having an exposition In lVii It would
be poor policy In any Oregonlan or
any of the press to knock the project.
It would b the height of wisdom for
those having charge of the arrange-
menta to select the site at once, so as
to allow certain sections to get over
their grief and to allay any suspicion
o( graft.
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