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TITE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1921
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MARKET REPORT OJf IJQCOR.
A. writer for a. press syndicate
wno visited Seattle) In 1918 found
that rood whisky was aelllnsr.
, through the difficult and hazardous
t Channels of Illicit trade, at 125 per
Dome a price high enough to cool
. ven the most ardent thirst. It was
Ills conclusion that prohibition ac
tually prohibited then. Now again
he has been making Inquiries In the
i'uget bound metropolis purely in
professional way and he learns
that the ruling price for rood Scotch
whisky Is 110 a Quart and for bour-
- bon $8 per quart. It would seem
that the efficiency of prohibition had
j declined more than 60 per cent.
Upon hearsay evidence The Ore
fonlan reports that the market for
good hard liquor In Oregon has gone
through substantially the same great
transformation as In Seattle. The
bootlegging traffic lsust a little
higher, we also hear, but business is
thriving and one with the price need
4". not go without very long If he
only knows his way about.
The, official attitude toward con-
. traband manufacture or trade ' In
the unlawful stuff has not changed.
The moonshiners; for example, are
having as hard a time as ever,
though the home brewers have got
over their panic, more or less, de
pending entirely upon the sensitive
ness of their consciences or the
measure of their fears. They have
also got o-er their enthusiasm for
cellar production of every man's
own mixture also more or less. But
importations continue to thrive, and
the smugglers are not discouraged
by the fact that some of them are
occasionally caught. It's all In the
life.
The authorities are doubtless do.
. lng the best they can do. But they
cannot perform miracles. Every
road leading into Tortland is a boot
leggers' highway, and, besides, the
r.-ean is wide, the1 river is deep, and
the nights are long. Every auto
mobile coming from British Colum-
bla Is a DotentioV carrier nf rYirhM.
den goods; every vessel, every
launch leaving a foreign port a
likely receptacle of the same thing
Even the air presents suspicious pos
sibilities for transmission by air
plane. The reason for the increased traf
fic In Imported liquor is the high de
gree of organization of the business,
with British Columbia as the base of
operations. iTohibltlon in America
Is the opportunity for the northern
province, as it is of every foreign
country which does not scruple to
pick up what America has cast
away. Brltluh Columbia, for ex
ample, has abandoned Us half-pretense
of a virtuous resolution to go
dry, and has made, the manufacture
of liquors a state affair, and has
given dealers' licenses to private cit
izens. What reason for the Canadian
authorities to ask where the licensed
merchants are selling the official
product, or where go the importa
tions from Great Britain, France,
Australia and elsewhere? They
know; but prohibition is not their
lookout It Is truer than ever that
. what is now America's poison Is
Canada's bread and butter. Prohi
bition will pay Canada's war debt.
A curious phase of the situation is
its apparent acceptance by the pro
hibitionists. They appear to think
that prohibition is doing as well as
could be expected. Undoubtedly
that is so, unless Canada goes dry,
or unless the United States puts a
great army of enforcement officers
along the border. Meanwhile, who
will say that as much liquor is drunk
in America as formerly, or that
there Is as much drunkenness?
SPAIN'S FOREIGN LEGION.
A favorite device with which to
pick the lock of public interest is to
style some picturesque military
wanderer a "soldier of fortune."
Soldiers of fortune are mercenaries.
The Hessians were mercenaries.
What, then, becomes, of romance?
It is far different to fight for an
ideal, a cause toward which your
heart inclines, than to take the wage
N of the adventurer and embark upon
the enterprise of killing men against
whom you have no possible griev
ance. In civil life we term It mur
der. Bearing these verities well In
mind, for it is so easy to lose track
. of them one does not feel the least
bit sorry because the devitalized
land of Spain Is finding it very dif
ficult to recruit a "foreign legion."
The Moors of northwestf rn Africa,
as we would say, have Spain over a
barrel. Behind their quarrel stand
centuries of mutual hatred and
homicide. In the immediate in
stance, however, the Moors are
fighting for home and hearth, and
to say that they are comporting
themselves quite capably Is to be
mild. Behold, th,en, the desperate
dons, their pride forgotten, as they
appeal to all international vagrants
and swashbucklers to join the
Spanish colors and help subjugate
the Moor. They opened recruiting
offices in London, a sad breach of
etiquette, to entice the Yankees who
lingered when the big show was
over.
We hold no brief,, as the fellow
says, for the ethical perceptions of
the average American adventurer.
When they refused the Spanish uni
forms our wandering boys were not
actuated by any deep-rooted an
tipathy to any old war at all. Moors
or wildcats, it was all one to them,
But In the intrepid, scalawag breasts
of the footloose veterans there was
more than an instinctive distaste for
the menus with which Alfonso re
gales his enlisted military. The pay
was poor, the grub was ditto, and
the glory of campaigning in northern
Africa seemed negligible. They were
disposed to let the don pluck his
own pigeons. Whatever the motive
of their refusal, its effect Is to be
desired. Few Americans, so the dis
patches predict, will hunt the Moor
ish rebels for the wage of Spain.
Legitimate war,' if there is no es
cape from it, is sufficiently terrible.
Gas and bomb and poisdh have slain
its romance. It is not pleasant to
think, even in a good cause, that you
have sent a bullet home to some
heart that might have warmed with
friendship toward you; that you
have snuffed the vital spark in one
who would have asked you in to
supper. Noyes Bent his Balkan hero
against the Turks in a desperate
charge.
E?fnrs Johan a young face rosa
Like a remembered prayer:
He could not halt nor turn aside
In the onrush of thst murderous tld
Hs Jerked his bayonet out of the flesh
And swung the butt In the air.
That was legitimate war. Those
who join the Spanish foreign legion
and fight in Africa may never see, in
the tide of strife, "a face like a re
membered prayer," and have to
strike it down. They will fight col
ored men and most valiant gentle
men, at that. They will be mercen
arles, which translates to hired mur
derer. It is high time we ceased to
cast the cloak of-Tomanco over
bastard calling.
THE abcmOAN MESS,
Senator Newberry is entitled to
the seat which his generous relative
and enthusiastic friends bought and
paid for in the Michigan primary,
not In the general election accord
lng to the finding of the republican
majority of the senate committee
The democratic minority denies that
he has a right to the seat thus
bought and paid for, but shudders at
the necessary alternative and also
declares that Henry Ford, the New
berry opponent in the election, was
not elected, and should not be seated.
Let us get the Newberry-Ford
business clear. The primary, not the
election, was the seat of the colossal
expenditure of moneys by the New.
berry faction in the Michigan prl
mary. Henry Ford was running in
the republican primary and the
democratic primary -another colos
sal and shameful fraud, for he is
neither republican nor democrat.
Yet the law does not protect po
litlcal parties from Intrusion by out-
landers. . Parties have no rights
against immoral. Indecent and dis
honest uses by so-called "independ
ents" who would benefit by taking
something from them but would also
refuse to assume any obligation in
return.
The republicans say that it is- not
true that Newberry bought the pri
mary nomination but In effect ad
mit that his family and his friends
bought it for him, and that he was
Innocent of any collusion. If that Is
so. Senator Newberry should be ex
pelled from the senate as being too
guileless and unsuspecting to be a
senator.
But the democrats cannot stomach
Ford. Theyay that they prefer a
vacancy in the Michigan seat. They
are right. We will not resist the
temptation to say that there would
be no change In the status of the
vacancy, so far as his real usefulness
is concerned, with Ford in it.
THE PREMIERS NOT COMING.
Probably Premier Lloyd George
will be too fully occupied with the
Irish conference and other domestic
affairs to represent Britain .at the
Washington conference. Premier
Briand has to be constantly on
guard to prevent dissolution of his
unstable majority in the French
chamber of deputies, so that he may
not be able to come. So the Ameri
can capital may not be the scene of
such a gathering of rulers as was
seen at Paris. We shall have to be
content with statesmen of somewhat
lower rank.
But it is just as well that this
should be. In such grave .matters as
were considered at Paris and will be
considered at Washington, it is bet
ter that the negotiators be subject
to Instructions and that their agree
ments be subject to revision, by
higher authority, such as a presi
dent, a premier or a cabinet
When the official who has the
final decision in his hands under
takes to negotiate, his pride of
opinion becomes involved, and he
gets so "close to the works" of
diplomacy that he loses perspective
and makes blunders which no one
Is In a position to repair. If Wilson
had remained at Washington, he
might have sensed In time the fatal
blunder of tacking the covenant to
the peace treaty and have reached
an understanding with the senate
that is, he might if he had been a
different kind of man. If Lloyd
George had stayed in London and
kept touch with public opinion, he
would not have been called back by
a protest from several hundred
members of his party or have be
come entangled with the exuberant
Bullitt. From a position of detach
ment each could have reviewed the
work of his delegates in the light of
public sentiment with which he was
in constant touch.
Kings, premiers, chancellors, pres
idents have not shone as diplomats,
and their work has been even more
shortlived than that of plain journey
men at the profession. Napoleon ar
ranged matters at personal inter
views with Czar Alexander I, and
the result was the Moscow campaign
and his final downfall. Emperors,
kings and chancellors went to Vi
enna in 1815 and made a treaty the
destruction of which began within
a decade and which caused the revo
lutions of 1848. Bismarck and Bea
consfleld were the leading lights of
the congress of Berlin in 1878, and
the tearing up of their treaty began
soon after it was signed. Something
of social splendor will be lost by the
absence of the premiers, but the
Washington conference will meet for
serious business.
OREGON THE MAIN EXHIBIT.
After all due allowance has been
made for flattery uttered in the de
sire of guests to please a host, there
:s evident enough sincerity In the
eulogiums of tourists on Oregon
scenery and all else that goes to
make Oregon to prove that the state
itself will be the greatest exhibit
when the fair is held in 19:5. When
people come from great distances to
see a great exposition, they are not
content to see it and the city where
It Is held; they want to eee the ;
country of which that city is the
center.
Four years hence there will be
ample opportunity to see Oregon in
comfort and in reasonable time.
The state will then have a network
of paved roads running north and
south, east and west, and connecting
with similar roads in Washington,
California and Idaho, permitting
motorists to travel in all directions.
The Mount Hood loop will make
Oregon's great snowpeak easily ac
cessible. The Roosevelt highway
should then be completed, enablin
the visitor to travel the length of
the coast. All of Oregon's wealth of
farm land, forest, mountain, plain
and mine will be spread before the
eye. -
A transformation will have been
worked in the twenty years which
will have elapsed since the Lewis
and Clark fair was held in 1905. At
that time there were no paved roads
and the automobile 4aad just come
into use. A trip by stage or buggy
over the highways was regarded
with a feeling akin to dread, and
travelers clung to the railroads and
steamboats. Few of the visitors to
the 1905 fair saw the glories of the
Columbia river gorge. In 1925 each
party of visitors will be able to go
In his own car over all parts of 'the
state and see all that Oregon has
to show. Oregon will be the main
exhibit.
GOLDEN CHAIRS.
The Shah of Persia, so they say.
has a chair of beaten gold. It puffs
him up with pride to look upon tlSat
glowing fortune in furniture. Jewels
are thickly set along its massive legs
each Jewel a fortune, and from its
back there flashes a veritable sun
burst of rubles, emeralds and dia
monds. Such is the Shah's throne.
It is inevitable that so much idle
wealth should tempt cupidity. A
thief twisted his way into the throne
room, while the guardians of the
golden chair were either at sleep or
out with Omar, and hacked a single
handful of precious stones from
one of the chair's bejeweled legs. It
is said that the shah's enraged roar
was heard for leagues around when
he discovered the sacrilege. He
called for heads! Eventually they
bore one through the streets of Te
heran, a nodding, dripping human
head. Contemplating this, from a
palace window, the wrath of the
ahah was appeased. He felt certain
that no one would have the temerity
to meddle with his golden chair
again.
The shah was wrdng. He is a child
at deduction. Beside his enfeebled
reasoning the Juveniles of the prim
ary room are prodigies of perspi
cacity. So long as there are golden
chairs for kings and shahs to sit in.
so long as the price of a lifted fam
ine Is at the caprice of a titled tyrant,
folk will grumble and scheme and
devise ways to filch these gauds
away. In time to come the shahs of
Persia will sit them down on cane.
or wood, like lesser people. Indeed,
they may . count themselves as
favored of" heaven if a royal head la
not paraded through the streets oi
Teheran as a sequel to the theft of
the chair.
LEANtNG TO THE INTERNATIONAL
A strange lack of energy has
marked the action of the successive
shipping boards with regard to for
eign control of six-sevenths of the
tonnage of the International Mer
cantile Marine corporation, the prln
cipal nominally American shipping
company. That company showed no
desire to conceal the facts, for In
March, 1917, it sent to the board
copies of its agreements with the
British government. The war, in
which the United States intervened
In the following month and in which
close co - operation between the
American and British governments
in shipping matters was essential.
was a good reason for not raising
at that time the question of the
bearing of these agreements on the
American merchant marine which
was Just then coming into being.
But in January, 1919, two months
after armistice day, the company
again sent copies of the agreements
to Bainbridge Colby, a member of
the board, and in November, 1919, it
sent new copies showing amend
ments made on September 2 preced
ing, to Judge John Barton Payne,
then chairman of the board, and
some time in 1920 it wrote to Ad
miral Benson, then chairman, slat
ing that copies had been sent to the
board and discussed with its mem
bers. But the successive boards and
chairmen attached so little import
ance to the subject that, when Sen
ator Jones attacked the agreements
in a public speech on January 22,
1921, it was news to William Den
man, the first chairman, and to
Judge Payne.
In his .reply to Senator Jones' at
tack, Pj A. S. Franklin, president of
the I. M. M., related what was the
probable explanation of the board's
Inaction. He said his company had
tried to sell the British ships to the
British for more than $150,000,000,
which the British were ready to pay
and which was to have been invested
in American ships, but President
Wilson asked him not to sell, as the
shipping board might buy the Brit
ish ships. He agreed with the board
on a price, but it could not secure
the funds from congress.
After the agreements had become
public property, the new board, ap
pointed under the Jones law, held an
Inquiry on January 27, 1921, and on
March S adopted a resolution that
the agreements are "inimical to and
not In harmony with the policy of
the United States" and asking and
directing the company "to so amend"
the agreements "as to exclude there
from any and all vessels documented
under the laws of the United States."
On June 9 the present board came
into office and on July 22 Chairman
Lasker informed Senator La Follette
that Mr. Franklin had written on
March 9 "that his company would j
give the matter tneir very serious
attention with a view to meeting as
nearly as possible the wishes of the
hipping board." Mr. Lasker under
stood that negotiations between the
I. M. M. and the British government
resulting from the board's resolu
tion were practically concluded.
Thus the I. M. M. in effect ad
mitted four and a half years ag
that it was at best a hyphenated
American shipping company, that
the greater part of its tonnage was
under a foreign flag, subject to the
demands of a foreign government
and debarred from competing with
our greatest shipping competitor. It
tried to Americanize itself by selling
its British tonnage to the British
with the intention of buying Ameri-
can tonnage, but President' Wilson,
obsessed with his vision of a government-owned
merchant marine,
blocked tthe deal and arranged pur
chase by the shipping board, but
failed because congress would not
vote the money. The company was
controlled as to six-sevenths of its
tonnage by its British contracts and
British directors and would certainly
be governed as to Its American ton
nage by this interest, yet the board
allocated to it prior to February 7,
1921, 247,893 tons of shipping board
vessels and proposed, in order to
Americanize it, that the British
agreements srrould not apply to its
American vessels. Their text shows
that they do not so apply, but apply
only to British ships in which the
American Mercantile Marine holds
stock control. No effort was made
to rid it of British ships or British
government dictation.
Study of the ramifications of the
Interests of the American Merchant
Marine shows that its control by a
foreign government and foreign
shipping men concerns the whole
American people. It has the largest
American investment in ships and Is
controlled by the greatest American
combination of capital, not only in
ships but In banks, railroads and ex
port trade. - Of its sixteen directors
three are British, thirteen American.
Of the thirteen Americans three
represent the American Interna
tional corporation, which is con
trolled by the National City bank.
four represent J. P. Morgan & Co.,
others the Guaranty Trust company.
The three British directors have in
terests in many great British ship,
ping companies. Among the Amerl
can directors J. P. Morgan is also a
director of ejeven railroads, Charles
H. Sabln -of forty-three and Frank
A. Vanderlip of thirty-one. By
these connections they can direct
traffic to their British shipping lines,
and traffic contracts between rail
and water lines Indicate that they
have done so. Those contracts
make American railroads feeders to
British ships, preventing them from
becoming an aid to the American
merchant marine. '
The power of the International ex
tends to other American steamship
companies. Through the American
International corporation It controls
the Pacific Mail, operating Ameri
can ships on the Pacific ocean, in
cluding many of the shipping board.
One of its directors is Robert Dollar,
who operates a British line from
Vancouver, B. C, to the orient. He
or his son, Stanley Dollar, owns one-
third of the stock in the Paciflo
steamship company, which oper
ates shipping board lines from Puget
sound ports to the orient. The
American International corporation
has close relations with, if it does
not control, corporations which di
rect the movement of Bugar, ma
chinery, Latin American trade, steel,
tea, ship stores, railroad and tele
graph material.
An American merchant marine It
desired by the American people to
extend their foreign trade, which
has become as necessary to the
prosperity of the interior as of the
seaboard states, and in readiness to
form any other bridge of ships,
should another emergency arise like
that of 1917. How can they expect
to get it from a group of shipping
companies which are either bound
directly to serve their chief com
petitor for foreign trade or are so I
closely allied with those so bound
that they will at best render half
hearted service? The best of the
International Merchant Marine ships
are subject to requisition for service
to the British empire 4n any of its
wars, therefore to be withdrawn
from the service of American com
merce, and its British directors
would be inclined to draft its Ameri
can ships into the same service.
Not In the interest of any par
ticular ports but in that of all peo
ple, the shipping board should place
its fleet in the hands of American
companies and should deny It to
companies which, though, owned by
Americans, are operated in foreign
interest. When these companies
have cut themselves loose rrom all
foreign control, it will be safe to en
trust them with the development of
our merchant marine. Hitherto the
board has inclined too much to favor
the International as opposed to the
strictly American companies. The
time for change has come; in fact, is
ong past.
There are doctors and doctors.
Some treat tlf ailments of the hu
man being and some treat the horse.
The latter prefer to be called veter-
narians and their patients have the
advantage over the human in not
being "inflicted" by variety.
According to admission of the glr!
burglar, many of her victims con
tributed by their negligence. Leav
ing the key to the house under a mat
or on the back porch Is handy aid
to a thief.
It's a wonder the police of various
cities don't join with Gardner In
asking President Harding to parole
him. His being at large gives them
such a fine alibi for every unsolved
holdup.
Rather nervy on the part of a
small bank at Brookings to buck the
great Federal Reserve, bui -here's a
historic remark about "rather being
right than president" that applies.
That robbery of a substitute mall-
carrier at Carterville, 111., with 841,-
00 in his sack, will be of easy solu
tion by mail sleuths. It looks like
an inside job pulled off outdoors.
Some good may come out of the
Arbuckie affair in uncovering the
gigantic "booze" ring although it's
California, as everybody knows.
Africa is' said to offer some fine
openings for men of enterprise.
Looks like a good opportunity for
the Ku Klux Klan.
Even the senate committee mi
nority says Mr. Ford was not elected.
The minority forgets to be partisan
to be candid. n.
The Texas Panhandle was chilled
the other day with a temperature of
52. The Panhandle is getting deli
cate. The world Is better for tfie taking
off of Wanderer, but it is rather
tough on where he went.
At last the Irish peace conference
appears to have reached the "third
ly" stage in negotiations.
The prejudice against war taxes
seems to be greater than that against
war,
BY PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS '
Wltk Bates Breath Portland Waits
(or Gals! HUI Traced y.
In the Gold Hill News of September
IT the following advertisement ap
pears:
NOTICE
You humped back, chisel faced,
English setter. Every word you wrote
back to my brother was a dirty rotten
lie. I am not afraid of anyone saoot
lng me as you say the people here
will do. I am here to stay' and don't
owe a dollar and that is more than
you can say. .
Paid ad. D. E. TRUMBULL:
The newt editor states that he has
received no word of any casualties In
Jackson county to date. 1
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The versatility of American bust
ness men is demonstrated by Homer
P. E. Kingsbury, former - mayor of
Redlands, Cal graduate of Harvard
real estate man and famous hiker,
who added to his reputation when he
took charge of the big kitchens at
the hotel there In which he'is living
this summer. ,
The manager of the hotel had left
for the week end. The chef decided
It would be a good time to strike so
he threw up the frying pan and quit.
There was a house full of guests, sev
eral motor parties on hand, chickens
to fry and no cook. '
Mr. Kingsbury has spent enough
time la camp to know enough about
cooking to write a cook book. Ht
Jumped into the breach, fried the
chickens and prepared a dinner that
brought cries of "chef, chef" from the
dining room.
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To a Wife Away for Summer.
(By F. D. D. in Kansas City Times.)
You ask me if I've missed you,
If I'm lonesome or I'm gay.
How I long to see and ask you
Where you put my things away.
Where'd you leave my extra undies?
And my second-best straw hat.
For I want It when it's raining?
Say, I cannot find the cat.
Did we have an old alarm clock.
For I miss the baby's howls?
Have I got a chance of bathing.
when I can't find any towels?
Where'd you put my pink pajamas,
And that snappy shirt of silk?
You forgot to stop the milkman
Leaving baby speolal milk.
When this frying pan gets rusty,
Are there any more around?
Say, my cuff links and the Ice pick
And the cards cannot be found.
But there's something I've located
So you won't think I'm a slouch
It's that nice, sharp darning needle
You left sticking in the couch.
'
More than 1,600.000 men and women
more than 45 years old are eking out
a miserable existence In single bless
edness, the census. reports. More
than 100,000 men about 76 years of
age are listed as bachelors and nearly
an ejual number of women, 64 years
or more, also are unmarried, besides
till largeayhumber of men and
women 50 years Old who are without
mate as a result of divorce Or death.
The average man now marries at 30
ind the average woman at 25.' While
93 per cent of the revenues of the na
tional government are spent on war,
majority of the funds raised by
city, state and oounty levies is. ex
penaea on scnoois. By all means
let's have a school tax on bachelors
gays Capper's Weekly.
wnne sitting Quietly there (on a
small coral island) I noticed some
rats going down to the edge of the
reef lank, hungry-looking brutes
they were, with pink, naked tails, re
Iatea Captain C. A. W. Monekton in
his book, "Taming New Guinea." I
stopped on the point of throwing
lumps of coral at them, out of curl
osity to eee what the vermin meant
to do at the sea.
Rat after rat picked a fattish lump
of coral, squatted on the edge and
dangld his tail In the water; sud
denly one rat gave a violent leap of
about a yard and as he landed I saw
a crab clinging to his tall. Turning
around, the rat grabbed the crab and
devoured It, and then returned' to his
stone; the while the other rats were
repeating the same performance.
What on earth those rats did for
fresh water, though, I don't know,
as there was none on the Island that
I could eee.
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People preserved tneir love letters
Just as -carefully 2000 years ago as
they do today, says the New York
Evening Post. At the excavations
now being made at Pompeii an epistle
of affection, written on an ivory tab
let, was found recently in which a
young lady addressed the following
reassuring statements to a success
ful gladiator by the name of Strax:
"Are you Phoebus Apollo in the
body of Hercules? I don't know and
I don't care, but for me you are a
gdd. eur beauty and your strength
make me forget all other men. My
adorers, whom I despise, say that I
am beautiful. I am young. I shall
expect you, beloved, sit the temple of
Isls."
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The Alta Vista correspondent of
the Topeka (Kan.) Capital sends in
the following item:
On going into his henhouse one day
a local farmer found a snake trapped
In the handle of a jug. The Snake had
evidently swallowed an egg, then
crawled through the Jug handle as
far as the egg would permit, then
swallowed another egg, thereby trap
ping himself.
Napoleon's original tomb on St.
Helena has fallen into a sad state of
disrepair since the body was removed
in state to the Invalides in Paris 81
years ago, according to a letter re
ceived by Sir Lees Knowles, a former
cabinet minister, from a recent visitor
to that remote island, an excerpt from
which 1 printed in the New York
Evening Fost.
"1 walked the five and one-half
miles uphill to Longwood, Napoleon's
old home," the writer says, "and in
spected his much neglected tomb,
which Is down in a deep earner of a
deep valley Just a slab covered withj
dirty whitewash no Inscription what
ever. The grass around was unkept,
and surrounded by a circle, about
20 paces In diameter, of tall trees, and
there was nothing anywhere to tell
the visitor when the body was re
moved or to whom the old tomb had
belonged."
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"Gossip" by housewives Is forbidden
by the municipal council of the Ger
man township of Suhl, because of the
loss of time and neglect of duty oc
casioned thereby, according to the
Dearborn Independent. Police have
orders to arrest all women found gos
siping on doorsteps or over garden
walls. Gossip is allowed only on
Sunday afternoons and after sunset.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Foist at the Hotels.
"Strawberries can be grown In our
section for three months in the year.
One man In the district sold between
$600 and $1000 worth of berries off an
acre. The berries ripen In the middle
of July after the Willamette valley
berries are dtsaDoearlng from the
market. From .July until October we
have fresb strawberries,' said George
W. Hobeon, president of the Tumalo
Irrigation district, who came to Fort
land yesterday and was at the" Impe
rial. The Tumalo district is ready to
sell about $550,000 worth of bonds
There are 8000 acres under water and
by selling about $200,000 of the au
thorized issue another 8000 acres can
be developed. The distributing ays
tem lo already In and there Is plenty
of water to take care of the project
Mr. Hobson says that the farmers in
the district raised wonderful crops
this year of wheat, rye and alfalfa
and superior quality potatoes and
other vegetables.
"During the summer the ducks were
uncommonly plentiful along the lakes
of the Columbia, but In the past three
weeks they do not appear to be so
plentiful," stated Fred W. Herman
city attorney of Rainier. "However,
there will probably.be ail the ducks
that the hunter can kill when the
season open Saturday. Most of the
ducks which we around during the
summer were native. They have
probably gone to some other place on
the river where the Portland sports
men have been supplying feed.'
Many hunters left Portland lstet night
so they could start shooting at day
break today. Portland sportsmen say
that the expense of renting a lake,
feeding ducks and maintaining
watchman brings the cost of a duck
to at least $5, and frequently the cost
per duck Is several dollars higher.
"According to the geologists. Pilot
butte was the last active volcano in
central Oregon. Powell butte and
Lava butte, which Is south of Bend on
The Dalles-California highway, were
In eruption at the same time," says
Fred Wallace of Tumalo, who knows
more about the geology of his part of
Oregon than any other man in it
Just when Pilot butte and Lava butte
were operating I do not know, and 1
have never met a geologist who would
even approximate a period of years.
Anyway, the signs show that when
the rest of the volcanoa had gone out
of business, these two buttes were
still couging up lava."
A, Phimlster Proctor of Palo Alto,
Cal., Is at the Hotel Portland Mr.
Proctor designs and makes statuary.
He made the Roosevelt statue which
is to be located on the Base Line road
near Montavllla, the pioneer statue on
the campus at the University of Ore
gon and the circuit rider statue now
being made In Mr. Proctor's studio in
California. The circuit rider may be
located on the atatehouee lawn at
Salem. One of his best-known pieces
is a buckaroo and, while the inspira
tion came from the Pendleton Round
up, the city of Denver bought it.
There Is a London In Oregon and
one of its threescore residents Is F. J.
Thomas, registered at the Perkins.
London Is on the coast fork of the
Willamette river, a dozen miles south
of Cottage Grove, its nearest railroad
noint. Not far away are the mineral
springs which the Calapooia Indians
used to patronise before the coming of
the white man. The springs are still
bubbling, but the CalRpoolae, to the
last man, have vanished from the face
of the earth.
From Sandy to Cherryvllle the road
will be rocked this season at least suf
ficiently wide to permit the passssjre
of traffic one way. This will prevent
the road from being tied up during
the winter months. This Is a section
of the Mount Hood loop and is in
Clackamas county. The grade was
made during .the summer and is a
vast improvement over the old road
between these two points. A. C.
Cower of Sandyjs among the arrivals
at the Perkins.
' H. R. Dibblee of the Rainier drain
age district, was In Portland yester
day to see about selling some securi
ties of the district for the purpose of
completing the project. He didn't
find a very active market. The dis
trict, which ie between the railroad
embankment and the Columbia river,
has already been cleared of shrubs
and when the last dike is constructed
It -Bill keep all water from the land.
Batterson Is where the Tillamook
train swings across a meadow. Once
In a while the train stops and off
hops a fisherman, usually a railway
employe traveling on a pass, for the
railroaders are great anglers. There
are found a house and a very large
barn. Several years ago the sports
men slept In the barn, but now they
are permitted in the farmhouse, which
Is presided over by H. J. Pies, who
registered yesterday at the Hotel
Portland.
Lumberjacks are In the woods of
Columbia county, getting out 4.000.-
000 feet of logs, which win De woven
Into a cigar-shaped raft and next
spring this immense - body of tree
trunks will be towed down the Co
lumbia to the ocean and then towed
along the coast to San Diego, where
the loirs will be sawed, into lumDer.
O. E. Everson of Clatskanie. Or., who
has charge of these operations, is
registered at the Benson.
Milllcoma river is one of the little-,
known streams In Oregon. On the
river Is Allegany, some 20 miles
from Marwhfield, and a boat Is the
only means of connection between
the two. Allegany is kept alive by
the lumber business, but, aside from
that, is a good locality for hunting
and fishing. John Smith and John
Hultin. both of Allegany, are at the
Imperial. .
There was the biggest crowd the
last two days and the best show that
the Round-up, ever had," reports
Henry Collins of Pendleton, regis
tered at the Benson. This year Mr.
Collins was the boss of the Round-up.
Now that the annual show is over,
the business men of Pendleton have
parked their sombreros In the moth
ball bag until next September.
"If the 1925 fair is to be a success,"
began Thomas Foley, manager of the
power and light company at Bend,
endeavoring to do a little propaganda
work, "The Dalles-California high
way will have to be paved its full
length. All of the automobile visitors
from the southern states will want
to travel to Portland over this high
way." One of the oldest mines in Oregon
la the Buffalo mine, in the Sumpter
district. Norbourn Berkeley of Pen
dleton, who is Interested in the Buf
falo, is registered at the Imperial.
Before going into the mining game
Mr. Berkeley was for many years a
real estate operator In Pendleton.
Not all the sawmills of the fir belt
are Idle or working spasmodically,
even though the lumber market isn't
at its best. William Donovan of
Aberdeen, Wash., who Is at the Ben
son, says that his mill is working day
and night.
Mrs. Edmund Nichols and her two
daughters and eon arrived at the
Perkins yesterday from Billings,
Mont., in a flivver. They are travel
ing south.
Frank J. Carney, former postmaster
of Astoria, was In the city yes
terday. Mr. Carney Is again a candi
date for his former poeitioa.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Bonshtoa-MlfntB Co.
Can You Answer Ta Questional
1. ' At nightfall and tLrcugh the
night a bird with two mcrtr.ful notes.
I don't think it is a . wiipporwill.
though people say it is. What is it?
2. Are house cats descended from
wild oats?
3. Which turtle do they get tor
toise shell from?
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Answers to Prevtons Qaeatlona.
1. ' Can vegetable refuse be turned
into manure by letting It decay?
Yes, but it should he well sprinkled
with lime. Otherwise it becomes a
hotbed for fungus diseases of several
kinds, and when worked .into the
ground, sows the seeds of future
spread of these various rots, etc.
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2. Where does the raccoon make
Its home?
The home varies with locality. A
favorite place Is high in a tree trunk
where some accident has caused a
hole big enough to sleep in. Often
a hollow log or stump near the
ground will serve, and in some parts
of the country the raccoon uses an
abandoned burrow, but does not Itself
dig. Swampy regions are common
'coon neighborhoods.
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S. As a boy I watched woodpeckers
storing red oak acorns, and later
hulling them and feasting on the
worms In the acorns. Had the bird
instinct enough to know he could find
Insects in stored acorns?
It is more likely experience and
association, after he had once chanced
on worms in acorns would make him
Investigate any acorns he found
stored afterward. Possibly the hoard
ing instinct of one woodpecker stored
the nuts and another pecker found
the worms
Tower of London Viewed.
Indianapolis News.
The tower of London is a group of
buildings, the oldest of which Is the
central White tower, built in the time
of William the Conqueror, on the site
of an earlier fortress), dating, accord
ing to some authorities, from the rule
of Julius Caesar. The tower known
chiefly for Its h'story as a prison, was
also the scene of .the courts of some
of the earlier kings. Many distin
guished prisoners have been led
from one or another of Its buildings
to execution, and a large number of
these, including Sir Thomas More,
Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey and
Catherine Howard, lie bur'ed in the
tower chapel. The White tower was
called "La Tour Blanche" in the days
of the Piantagenets and obtained its
name from the frequency with which
it was whitewashed. It is 90 feet
high, and the walls are from 12 to
15 feet thick. On each of four tur
rets is a weathercock. The tower
of London is now open to the public.
Visitors find much Interest there,
though the associations of the eld
fortress are almost uniformly tragic.
Baa-Reliefs by Photography.
Christian Science Monitor.
Baese of Florence. Italy. Invented
a process of producing bas-reliefs by
photography. The baa's of the in
vention is the property possessed by
a film of chromium gelatin of swell
Inn In proportion to the Intensity of
light falling upon It. The swelling
is greater with low than with high
Intensity, so that the light passing
through a photographic negative
produces upon a chromium gelatin
plate a positive in distinct relief.
The transparency of an ordinary
negative, however, is not truly pro
portional to the relief of the original
method, but by an Ingenious auto
matic device, involving a double ex
posure, this difficulty is avoided and
a negative is obtained having its
lights and shades correctly graded to
produce the effect of relief.
Duties of State Board of Education.
OAK GROVE, Or., Sept. 29 (To
the Editor.) Please state who are the
members of Uie state board of educa
tion, what their duties consist of, etc.
L. E. C.
The board consists of the governor,
secretary of atate and state superin
tendent of public Instruction. Their
duties are described by the Oregon
Blue Book as: To authorize such pub
lic school text-books as shall be adopt
ed by the text-book commission, to
prepare a state course of study for
grammar and high schools and to
prescribe a series of rules and regu
lations for the general government
of public schools and for the main
tenance of discipline therein.
First Wedding Anniversary.
PORTLAND. Sept. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) Please tell me what the first
year's anniversary ie cotton or pa
per? We have had a dispute over it.
READER.
The first anniversary is "cotton."
the second "pnper."
Diverting Narrative
and the
Of course, you know, there really was but one Mr. Bluebeard,
the ugly old original who gave his keys gave his keys but the
rest is too terrible to recall. However, the lively reputation that this
Oriental husband left behind him has caused folk to apply his name
quite generally to gentlemen who are inclined to be peculiar in their
affairs of the heart. In the Sunday issue, with illustrations, Thomas
B. Sherman tells of the wealthy Mr. Shaw, who now is known as
Bluebeard to all New York, and of the oh; so beautiful Butterfly,
late of the Follies. The title page feature of the Sunday maga
zine section.
Quarantine, -Guards Tort From Disessc They have ugly germs
and baccili, and all that $ort of thing, in other lands far uglier
than ours. Hence it behooves us to watch our ports lest pestilence
flit from the deck of any steamer, in port from foreign parts, and
start forth in quest of prey. In the Sunday magazine section,
accompanied by several photographic illustrations, there is a story
of the port quarantine and the men who enforce it. The story should
interest everyone, for the health these men so zealously defend from
foreign attack is yours and mine. Related by De Witt Harry.
Developing Eyea in the Tips of Our Fingers The almost uncanny
perceptions of t'.e blind, their ability to get along without ocular
vision, have cr impressed the observer. In the Sunday issue,
magazine section, you'll find a real marvel story from the book of
science. It is based upon the very curious new discoveries of eminent
French savants, who assert that each of the delicate nerve terminals
beneath the skin may actually be potent to' see. A scientific story
that is saved from dullness by its e'ear and -interesting narration,
which transforms it to a keenly interesting article. Illustrated with
helpful diagrams and drawings.
A Half Century of Hamlet S?y 'hat you will, it was the role of
Hamlet, but a few years ago, that determined the excellence of an
aspiring actor. In the Sunday issue, with many photographs of
noted Thespians, Clinton Stuart writes of these varied temperaments
which undertook the interpretation, and what reception Ihey received
from their public. A good yarn, admirably told..
Black Sauriol Here then, comes Arthur Stringer, master of the
short story, to spin for Sunday readers the merry tale of the thirty
six Adamses, ihe King of cursers and his WaJeloo Hitherto unpub
lished and but one of the many superior short stories that the Sunday
editor went marketing for.
AH the News of All the World
"THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
Just Five Cents .
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moataaue.
rVOT SO RED AS THEY ARK
PAINTED.
We have seen the soulless savage who
was wont to raid and ravage.
When the emigrant was crossing of
the. plain;
We have seen the wild Apaches gar
ner perfect strangers' thatehes,
Unregardful of their piercing
shrieks of pain.
We have seen hard - faced Co
manches selling beads on west
ern ranches
Every sort and kind of redskin w
have seen.
And It's been our observation that no
brave, of any nation.
Leoked a bit like those who act
upon the screen.
When In movie shows .we've met 'em.
we have wondered' where thej
get em.
They are neither Sioux nor Ban
nocks, Utes nor Crows.
Many of these curious creatures have
the flattened facial features
That one often sees on Chinks or
Esqulmos.
Though arrayed in frlngy leathers, or
adorned with esarle feathers.
Or in nature's simple costume.
lightly dressed.
Or in coon skins, frayed and raveled.
it Is plain to one who's traveled.
That they're surely not productions
or the west.
Now and then we think we've spied
one a low-built and amber-
eyed one,
Who was like the lads that hail
from Turkestan;
And again have we suspeeted that
these red men ware selected
From the teeming population of
Japan.
But In six of seven cases, as we gaze
upon their faces
As the drama unwinds slowly from
the reel.
We are sure these fierce Apaches and
the like were caught In
Natchez,
Or In Baton Rouge, New Orleans
or Mobile.
Speech In movies Is not vital, so
there's not In any title
Any means to spot these birds by
word of mouth:
Yet their gait Is slow and heavy, and
suggestive of the levee.
And their faces bring to mind the
sunny south.
And we'll bet our trusty flivver that
these sons of plain and river.
When they once have washed the
war paint off their maps.
Wander out behind the village they
have had to burn and pillage
And devote a leisure hour or so to
craps.
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Pence, Indeed!
They are calling Liberty sausage
frankfurters again.
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Wont's the l ur!
If Uncle Ram pays for the dis
armament conference, the Washing
ton hotel keepers will get all the
money disarmament would give us on
battleships.
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Useless Information.
The coal operators will find that
propaganda explaining why coal
prices are high is not going to make
them transcendently popular.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five 1 ears Asro.
From The Oreronlan of October 1, 1808.
Jacksonville, Fla. It Is a conserva
tive estimate to say that 50 people
have lost their lives from yesterday's
hurricane, and the number may go
much higher.
Hillsboro. Walter L. Tooze, mayor
of Wood.burn. addrrHsed a large and
enthusiastic audience here last night
undar the auspices of the Mcklnlry
and Hobart club of this city.
It Is probable that an ordinance will
be introduced in the common council
tomorrow providing that all side
walks hereafter laid within the fire
limits or some diturlrt to be desig
nated shall be of artificial stone.
Not to Receive Two Benefit.
PORTLAND. Sept. 30. (To the
Editor.) Is an ex-soldler who is
drawing the $25 monthly state school
fund entitled to the property loan
from state? If so, can mother's prop
erty be used as Hccurlty till said sol
dier finishes college about three
years? I understand In order to ob
tain the loan one must apply within
a short time. EX-SOLDIER.
1. He can become eligible to re
ceive the loan only by refunding the
sum received for educational aid. In
otffrr words, he is noj entitled to
both.
2. Property of the mother-may be
pledged to obtain a veteran's loan
of Mr. Bluebeard
Butterfly