TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922
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TUMULTY JOINS THE OUTCASTS.
Ex-president Wilson's repudiation
of the message which J. P. Tumulty
conveyed to the New York demo
cratic banqueters marks his es
trangement from one more of his
Intimate political associates. One by
one the men closest to him have
been dropped by the political way
Bide as they expressed opinions of
their own or brought their personali
ties into prominence in the light re
flected from Wilson Harvey, Garri
son, Bryan, Lansing, House and now
Tumulty, who was supposed to have
retained favor when adversity and
illness had made his chief's temper
uncertain. All proved incapable of
running lhat intellectual parallel to
a three-legged race which was im
plied in Mr. Wilson's phrase about
minds that ran along with his.
Mr. Tumulty's offense consisted in
attributing to Mr. Wilson a platitude
broad enoush to cover men of any
opinions, so badly phrased as to
grate on the ear Of the master
phrase-maker. Whether Mr. Wilson
uses words to express or conceal his
thoughts, he selects them with taste
and combines them in gracefully
flowing sentences. But those who
have analyzed Mr. Wilson's char
acter had already inferred that loss
of cordiality on Mr. Wilson's part
must have followed his reading of
Mr. Tumulty's book. "Woodrow Wil
son as I Knew Him," and that Infer
ence Is supported by reports of con
versations between the ex-president
and some of his friends about the
book. Mr. Tumulty has depicted
himself as the confidential adviser of
a man who sought his advice and
often followed it, when that man has
frequently resented advice or the at
tempt of any man to be his spokes
man. The general effect has been to
magnify Tumulty and to lessen the
greatness of Wilson, all through the
publication of incidents and letters
that came to Tumulty's knowledge in
his confidential position of private
Becretary.
The brief, unqualified repudiation
of the Tumulty message is open to a
further interpretation apart from its
revelation of the personal relation
between him and Mr. Tumulty. It
confirms the opinion formed from
his withdrawal into absolute silence
on public affairs, that he considers
his public life definitely ended and
is determined not to speak or write a
word to influence government or
politics. Undoubtedly efforts were
made to draw from him some ut
terance in condemnation of the four
power Pacific treaty, and he is
known to have expressed disap
proval in ' private conversation, but
he could not be induced to encou
rage opposition in the senate. He
considers the record closed, and pur
sues with inflexible will the course
that he has marked out as befitting
an ex-president. Not within living
memory has a man after holding
that office retired so completely
from the public eye, but in this as in
other respects Mr. Wilson is unlike
any of his predecessors.
TAKING UNDUE RISKS.
We can commend the bravery of
Captain Roald Amundsen, who had
a narrow escape with his life when
his plane turned a somersault in a
Pennsylvania field, without com
mending the foolhardiness that in
duced him to take an unnecessary
risk at the very outset of what prom
ised to be one of the most significant
of all expeditions to explore the
north polar regions. The organiza
tion and equipment of such a ven
ture as Amundsen has now entered
upon must have been a formidable
undertaking; a great deal of money
has been invested in it; but more
than all, its success depends upon
the personality of Amundsen him
self. It will be admitted that someone
was needed to fly across the conti
nent the craft which Amundsen in
tends to use in mapping the far
north and that it was desirable that
it should undergo severe preliminary
tests. But there will be still other op
portunities for Amundsen to take his
life in his hands before he returns
from the cruise which he now ex
pects will consume from three to
five years. The danger has by no
means been removed from flying.
The factor of the unexpected is al
most as much to be counted on as it
was when the NCI and the NC3 were
wrecked off the Azores during the
first transatlantic air flight and only
the NC4 completed the ocean voy
age. Every posslblj precaution was
then employed, destroyers patrolled
the course, yet the venture came
near to ending in tragedy. All by
himself, in an uncharted waste of ice
and snow, Amundsen a little later is
likely to find his chances of meeting
with accident mathematically many
times greater than those of the NG
boats.
One possibility of reducing this
chance, however, remains. The radio
has made considerably more rapid
advance in the intervening period
than aviation has done and the
United States navy department has
only recently perfected an antennae
device for planes which will make It
possible for the latter to keep in
communication with ships and shore
stations, even when compelled to
alight. This had not been completed
when Amundsen equipped his vessel
but it is possible that he will include
it in his paraphernalia. It is re
garded by some who have watched i
the recent progress of events as sot I
improbable that he may find the
radiophone practicable for the use of
scouting expeditions away from the
mother ship. If this comes to pass,
3ince the mother ship is equipped
with wireless having- a radius of 2000
miles, it will not be surprising if
daily bulletins are received at shore
stations telling of the progress of
further exploration of the pole.
These possibilities, together with
other scientific purposes of the
Amundsen expedition, make it more
than ever expedient that the com
manding officer shall conserve him
self for greater things to come. It
is profoundly to be wished that he
has had enough of flying for the
present and that he will finish the
Journey to the Pacific coast by tram
MERE NAGGING.
Baiting Portland is still popular
pastime in some upstate quarters;
but is the game worth the candle?
Here is a fair example from the
Pendleton East Oregonian:
The East Oregonian shares the view of
Senator McNary that it will be possible
to build the Umatilla rapids project n im
J3"0,000.000 reclamation bill is adopted by
congress.
But we won't build this project or any
other project of consequence unless Oregon
shows more energy than in the past. We
will not succeed unless Portland awakens
to the situation and takes a vital, vigorous
interest in seeing that it is put over, we
will not get far If our metropolis takes a
passive attitude towards Oregon develop
ment and places chief stress on aiding the
Columbia basin project in Washington or
the great southwest scheme lor the oe
velnnmpnt nf the Colorado nrolect.
If the McNarv bill passes. Oregon will
have a good chance to accomplish a big
forward step. But we will not succeed in
anything of that sort If Portland devotes
Its time to looking always toward the sea
and refuses to realize the opportunity that
exists In Its own dooryard.
Under the original reclamation
law, it was provided that the greater
portion of funds realized by the
government from sale of public
lands within any state should be ap
piled to development of reclamation
within such a state. Yet the law,
which meant expenditure of many
millions in Oregon in great public
land enterprises, was repealed, with
out a single word of protest from
any democratic voice in the state.
This Pendleton paper, a3 we recall,
was among those who were silent
when protest might and would have
counted. The Oregonian alone ap
peared to be alive to the disastrous
consequences of the repeal.
Somehow we think of what might
have resulted for the benefit of all
Oregon if there had been then a
proper conjunction of opinion and
work between all communities and
all parties of Oregon for the general
benefit. Just what service to itself,
to its city or to the state does the
East Oregonian think it is perform
ing by its everlasting ' nagging of
Portland ?
CO-OPERATION BY THE CHILDREN.
The Invitation containing more
than 37,000 signatures and addressed
to President Harding bidding him
attend the Portland Rose Festival in
June will have fulfilled a definite
purpose whether or not the president
is able to be present, as everyone in
Oregon wishes that he may, A not
inconsiderable value attaches to its
enlistment of the interest of so many
boys and girls and to the feeling that
it ought to inspire in the mind of
every youngster that he (or she) has
personally joined in a communica
tion to the highest official in the na
tion. Back of all Is the idea of co-operation,
of loyalty which begins at
home, of doing something in unison
for the good of town and state. It is
understood that the aid of the chil
dren is to be made available in other
novel ways In making the rose fes
tival a success, a form of activity
that Is capable of being extended in
definitely without interfering with
classroocu work.
Since a good part of the life of
every normally-situated individual
Involves contact with his fellowmen,
it is desirable that the spirit of com
munity co-operation, which is a
branch of the duty of citizenship,
shall be inculcated In the schools. It
is an exemplification of the project
method in an aspect with which no
fault can be found.
GOLD IS COMING BACK.
When war prices were at the peak.
no man Was so poor as he who had
a gold mine, that is, an ordinary,
average mine in which gold was the
main content of the ore. Owners of
bonanza mines continued to make
profits, but these were often equaled
by those of war industries. Hence
production of gold decreased -when
an increase was most needed as a
basis for the enlarged volume of
paper money, though all the gold
deposits in the world, worked to the
limit, could not have kept pace with
the swelling flood of paper in which
Europe is wading. Gold miners
called for a premium over the mint
price in order that they might con
tend with the paper-money cost of
production.
Deflation has brought gold mining
back and, as it continues and sends
paper money to the ragman and
pushes prices down, the gold miner
will again become an object of envy.
Closed mines are reopened in all
parts of the United States, including
Oregon. Bolshevism having been
beaten in its attempt at revolution,
the Transvaal Rand will cut costs of
production to the point where low
grade mines can be profitably oper
ated. Prospectors have gone into
the field in various countries, and
rich placers have been discovered in
Tanganyika, the British mandated
territory which was formerly Ger
man East Africa. Butte copper
mines, being again in operation, will
add to the total gold output, for both
gold and silver are by-products.
Having squandered most of the old
imperial gold reserve on bootless
propaganda, the Russian soviet may
induce capital and skill to work the
Ural and Siberian mines by robbing
them in moderation.
There has been some wild talk of
demonetizing gold, because the flood
of fiat paper is so great that to build
a proportionate gold basis under it is
impossible. That would not add even
one soviet ruble the smallest mone
tary unit now extant to the value of
any paper currency. Nothing but
productive labor can perform that
feat, and gold is merely the measure
of its value through use as the me
dium for exchange of one commod
ity for another. Its mere posses
sion does not benefit a nation. Aside
from the purposes of ornament, it de
rives its value from use in exchange
of useful things to be usefully em
ployed. When the bolshevists won
final victory in war, they had over
$300,000,000 in gold, but they ruled
over a nation of tattered, diseased
starvelings. That part of this gold
which was not wasted on propa-
ganda was expended in buying loco-
motives, cars, rails, farm, imple
ments, but those things benefited
Russia little, if at all, for the skill
and the incentive to industry were
lacking to put them to use; they
sank in the bottomless bog of bol
shevlst incompetence. Though bol
shevism had ruined the railroads,
skilled Americans, Britons, Swedes
and men of other nations found ways
to get food to the starving Volga
valley, which gold could not have
savec.
Some mutterings have been heard
from paper money countries about
the huge accumulation of gold in the
United States, amounting to half the
world's visible supply. Currency
based on natural resources has been
suggested aj a means of demonetiz
ing it and of removing a supposed
obstruction to the economic recovery
of Europe. Natural resources are
the basis of the paper money circu
lating in Europe, and that paper has
depreciated because those resources
have only potential value and can
acquire exchajgeable value only
when converted into useful shape by
well directed labor, while the amount
of such labor performed is far below
the nominal value of the paper that
Is based on these resources. There is
one sure way for the people of Eu
rope to get their share of that gold
pile; that is, to earn it. As fast as
they produce and sell to the Ameri
can people goods in excess of what
they buy from this country, that gold
pile will shrink until no more re
mains than is needed as a basis for
our paper currency. Scarcity of gold
is not the trouble with Europe; it is
the attempt to substitute measures
of value which are as fraudulent as
a pair of short-weight scales, and the
unwillingness of people to work or
trade when paid by that measure,
The remedy is to get their paper
down to its gold value, then to work
and exchange their products for gold
or other commodities on that basis.
FIRST GET YOUR SURPLUS.
, It would be gratifying if means
could be found for constructing a
bridge across the river at Sellwood
That a bridge at that point would
be a public convenience cannot be
disputed, but friends of the project
must recognize the existence of dif
ficulties in the way of financing it
at present. The county commis
sioners performed a friendly service
in advising representatives of that
district that submission of a bond
issue now would be risky. The public
is aware of an impending necessity
to reconstruct the Burnside bridge.
When that structure is no longer
safe its reconstruction will be im
perative. At present the public at
titude is one of opposition to further
indebtedness for aught but that
which is imperative, while even in
so fundamental a project as proper
maintenance of the public schools it
has but recently refused money for
building purpose.
But it is proposed by the commis
sioners that the Sellwood bridge be
financed by diverting the earnings
from the interstate bridge tolls to
that purpose. Presumably the plan
is that any surplus after providing
for annual redemption of bonds and
payment of interest on the interstate
structure be so used. The plan would
be more promising if prospect of a
surplus were better.
In 1921 there was a surplus of
about $50,000 after redemption and
interest requirements were met, yet
in 1917 and 1918, the general fund,
which means the taxpaying public,
was called upon for $173,844 for
those purposes. Now, the toll reve
nues are declining. In the first
quarter of 1922 they fell off 32 per
cent from the revenues of the same
period of 1921. Unless there is a
marked increase in traffic the tolls
will no more than pay bond redemp
tion and fnterest this year. They
may do considerably less. The an
nual requirement is practically
$100,000. The first quarter's reve.
nues aggregated $22,240.96. At the
same rate of revenue throughout the
year, the tolls will fall more than
$10,000 short.
An increase in bridge revenues
may of course be expected with in
dustrial and business improvement,
Completion of the pavement in
Washington on the Pacific highway
will also promote larger travel over
the bridge. But It should be remem.
bered that the years during which
the bridge yielded a surplus were the
ears of war and after-war activity.
The redemption and interest needs
will be about $100,000 annually for
the next ten years.
It will, of course, be recognized
that if bridge tolls are used to build
other bridges and the interstate
bridge be paid for out of general tax
reserves, there has been no saving
accomplished over a direct tax for
the new bridges.
It is well that these difficulties be
understood. It is assumed that the
most ardent advocates of the Sell
wood bridge "do not desire imprac
tical encouragement.
THE STRUGGLE WITH BUREAUCRACY.
When Dr. Graves rests his case for
retaining the forestry bureau in the
department of agriculture on a
prophecy, he betrays its weakness.
He predicts that a generation hence
forests will be owned in small tracts
by farmers, therefore come under
the head of agriculture and should
be under the care of the agricultural
department. He thus carries farther
the 'argument that has been made,
that the forestry bureau has to do
with the growing of trees, their pres
ervation from insects, rot depreda
tion and fire, and their harvesting
by loggers, when ripe, therefore is
more closely related to agriculture
than to public land. He proposes
that the government found its pres
ent policy on his prophecy as to
what will be the situation a gener
ation hence. . If he will look back a
generation and study the predictions
then made as to conditions at this
time, he will realize that prophecy is
an unsafe basis for government
policy. It is fortunate for the
prophets tiat their predictions are
forgotten before the day for fulfil
ment arives.
Probably, as logged-off land that
is adapted for agriculture is cleared
and cut into farms, each farmer will
preserve second-growth timber on a
tract which he will use as a woodlot,
but our main forest areas are moun
tains that are unfit for other pur
poses than forestry and mining. The
larger proportion of these areas is
Included in national forests, and is
likely to be retained as such by the
government. It is part of the public
domain, therefore should be admin
istered by the same department as
manages all other classes of public
land, especially as the same land is
used for mining and other purposes
over which the interior department
has jurisdiction. Preservation of
timber is simply an incident of gen
eral land administration. The secre
tary of the interior and his bureau
chiefs are as competent to hire the
right men to combat pine beetles as
as are the secretary of agriculture
and his assiiints to hire men for
deadly war on the boll weevil. It is
not necessary that the beetle-chaser
and the weevil-chaser be in the same
bureau in order to do their work
well.
The weightiest reason for placing
all bueraus having to do with public
land, of whatever kind and for what
ever purpose used, in one depart
ment under one chief is that this
seems to be the only way of leading
the several bureaus to work together.
Pride, jealousy and greed for au
thority cause them to get in one an
other's way and to defeat the ends
for which all of them exist the de
velopment and use of the public do
main. Alaska is a conspicuous ex
ample. One bureau has built a rail
road at a cost of $56,000,000, while
thirty-six or thirty-seven other bu
reaus block the pioneer's way and
prevent him from producing traffic
for the railroad; result, the railroad
commission must mine coal to , run
its locomotives, and this coal forms
the bulk of the traffic. Oregon has
an example in the wrangle between
the forestry bureau and the park
bureau as to whether Diamond lake
shall be annexed to Crater Lake
park; indeed, all of Oregon is an ex
ample of the success with which bu
reaucracy blocks the way of men
who try to do things. The Jackson
Hole country in Wyoming is yet an
other example. Governor Carey of
that state said in an address to the
governors' conference: '
Most of this section Is In forest and game
preserves, and here we have the best game
country In the United States. The bureau
of parks is endeavoring to add a large part
of it to the Yellowstone national park
which the biological survey wants for
a game preserve. The forestry service is
not in favor of park extension, for the
reason that it would transfer control from
the agricultural to the interior department
The reclamation service has a large reser-
voir at Jackson's lake which Is irrigating
lands in Idaho, and on account of the
large volume of water that is run during
the irrigation season the river is impassable
and there are no bridges. The land along
the river is being constantly washed away
and damaged, but the owners have no
redress. There are two Carey act projects
which ,the general land office will neither
approve nor disapprove. Practically all
lands for homesteading are withdrawn
from entry and the development of the
country is at a standstill. Numerous writers
from the east have been imported into this
section to write propaganda to assist the
different Washington bureaus to get con
trol of this section. Everyone has a press
agent except the man who is trying to live
in this country and to establish a home.
In asking that the forestry bureau
be transferred to the interior depart
ment. Secretary Fall proposes one
step toward ending such absurd
demonstrations of how hot to let the
country go ahead. UndeY a stong
executive head all the bureaus deal
ing with public land homesteads,
grazing, reclamation, forests, parks,
mining, coal and oil should work
together to assist and encourage the
people in development of the public
land as the law provides; Any of
ficial who prevents or obstructs that
activity by senseless enforcement of
red tape regulations, by inter-bureau
feuds or by riding pet hobbies should
be dismissed as out of harmony with
the purpose to promote development
of the west and Alaska.
Control of the national forests is
but one feature of general reorgan
ization of the departments, a plan
for which has been before President
Harding for some time. The con
troversy that has arisen on that
subject is but a skirmish preliminary
to the great battle which will surely
be fought when the complete plan is
laid before congress for action. All
the driving force of the administra
tion, which may be centered in the
dynamic personality of Budget Di
rector Dawes, will be needed to pre
vent the scheme from being wrecked
by the host of official jealousies,
hopes and fears that it will arouse.
The public is caught in the labyrinth
of bureaucracy, in which every path
that should lead to progress ends
against a blind wall. The forestry
controversy and predicament of
Alaska show the evil consequences.
Discovery of a London skin sur
geon that doses of the thyroid gland
will cure baldness by starting hir
sute growth will decimate the lower
animals if only a fraction of bald-
heads try the treatment. In years
to come (say 5000) a bald head may
be an honor instead of as now, an
irritation or joke.
Reclamation of the Guild's lake
district for an industrial center and
more than a mile of deep-water
frontage is just one item in the de
velopment of a newer Portland. Most
cities progress upstream, but here
the field is the other way and un
limited. The season's honors are at Or
chards. ' near Vancouver, where a
deluded hen, contemplating Easter, i
no aouDt, nas produced an egg that
measured eleven inches the long
way around. This ought to squelch
rivalry.
The bitter part of it must be that
the democratic party really doesn't
care a hang whether Mr. Wilson said
it or whether Tumulty said It for
him the effect being nil in either
case.
Those persistent sleepers in Ar
kansas must have been cowhands in
youth and are just catching up. Any
rider of the range can tell how far
behind he is.
Centralia has a fire chief "worse"
than our Johnnie Young. He orders
the firemen to take physical exer
cise daily. Maybe he would better
beware.
After surviving an eight-hour de
bate in congress, the dangers of
combat with any foreign power must
seem like mighty small potatoes to
the navy.
Mrs. Medill McCprmick tells Penn
sylvania women to get in and be
come "real politicians." Needless ad
vice there or anywhere. They are.
Still, there must be a certain fas
cination to being a democrat. It's
so easy to get a nomination for of
fice at any old time-
More than praying people will
halt for a moment to wish recovery
for John McCormack, with the won
derful tenor voice.
Some men did not fear the crack
of doom by filing'on the last day,
though it was Friday.
What will that Genoa conference
be when it really gets a good start!
What a wonderful oil stock sales-1
man Lenine would make.
The Listening Post.
By DeWltt Harry.
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NE of the ne'st places In the city!
to oDserve newiyweas is me
. i . . . . .
, , ... . a
market on Yamhill street. Appar -
ently as soon as the knot is tied the
better-half begins to feel her terrific
responsibility and seeks every means
of beinfr economical. Those are the
wonderful days of budgets and the
,.,.. ivi
many plans about the things "he
likes." Always some surprise or other,
but once in a while bitter tears ac
company some failure.
Arm. in arm, neat little market
basket in fcer hands, they approach
the stalls. Little do they realize what
is in store. She wants to show her
skill, for did she not take a domestic
science course and learn how to make
muffins and those dainty desserts
with whippe4 cream and nuts and
pineapple cores and all that?
So they stop at the first stall and
she gives a few dainty punches to a
head of cabbage and then pays for
it, from her little purse that contains
the household allowance. Allowances
must not be mixed, every item in the
budget generally has a separate hid
ing place and the wife is the squirrel
who knows where the money is.
Then, in rapid sequence she buys ten
pounds of potatoes, a dozen oranges,
three grapefruit, two heads of cauli
flower, a pound of butter, two dozen
eggs, a jar of honey, some cottage
cheese, a bottle of cream, a pound of
coffee, half a dozen cans of condensed
milk, a bag of rice, half a side of
bacon, a ' pot of primroses in full
bloom and half a dozen sprays of
teazels.
By now they are no longer arm in
arm. The capacity of the cute little
market basket proved limited at the
second stop and he bought one of
those big bags. Since then, on their
trip, he has accumulated two more
bags and as he is too proud to allow
his wife to carry anything he cer
tainly is packing one load, with the
pot of primroses capping the heap,
and the teazel burrs in his ear.
The final act nears. It often comes
over the meat. She has picked out a
shop with such a nice butcher he
waited on her the other morning
when she got the dozen small steaks.
She hesitates between a pork roast
and a leg of mutton. Hubby, foolisn
fellow, thinking he knows something
about meat, breaks in and tells her of
the virtues of T-bone steak, just as
If she "didn't know nothing," and
they get into an argument. He gets
the steak, and gets some more when
he gets home, and it dosen't usually
take him more than six years to
tumble to the fact that marketing
expeditions are not journeys of joy.
Cat fanciers, both amateur and pro
fessional, made life more than in
teresting for Miss Thelma Pauline
Flint a few weeks ago when the
picture of her 25-pound pet and his
two bulky playmates was published
in The Oregonian. The day follow
ing the appearance . of the picture
Miss Flint reported herself in a state
of siege, and while she did not wish
to appear discourteous she was forced
to barricade herself and refuse to
answer the door. At that, when she
emerged, . half a dozen people were
waiting. Then R. E. Hobbs came into
the controversy with another gi
gantic feline. And now the sage
of Hebo, Or., enters with yet an
other cat tale. He says:
"I noticed under date of April 8
a story about a large cat that a Mr.
R. E. Hobbs has. Now, if Mr. Hobbs
had been with me while .duck hunting
over at Sand Lake, Or., he could have
seen some real cats.
"I stopped with a man named Wild,
and while waiting for dinner I looked
around and there was one of the
largest cats that I ever saw. I re
marked to Mr. Wild 'that sure is some
cat." '
Why,' he said, that's just a
kitten. Come on out in the barn and
I'll show you a cat.' And I'll say it
was. The one he showed me weighed
almost 122 pounds. I asked Wild
if this was some unknown strain of
cats that he had.
No,' he said. 'You see, I am the
original Mr. Wild that put the wild
in wildcats and these are some in
which I left the wild out.' "
While It is not the intention in
this department to feature crime, the
Great Hot Cross Bun Robbery" is
too glaring to overlook. The daring
and artistic pair of thieves might
have aggregated 14 years In age, and
it was a difficult matter to judge
w! ether they were accustomed to
shoplifting or not, but they certainly
possessed a technique that a master
crook would envy.
The two 7-year-olds took a position
near one of those traveling sets of
wheeled shelves used by a depart
ment store bakery department to han
dle goods. Innocent in appearance
they looked like they were accom
panying mother shopping, for each
one carried a big paper bag. One
would back up to the laden cart
while the other took a shielding po
sition and the "lifters" would reach
back and grab a bun and drop it Into
the big bag, then another into the
bag and then possibly the next one
into a pocket and then a change ol
position while the inactive half of the
sketch would step in arid resume the
raid. It was an artistic exhibition,
and while there is no means of know
ing whether they got away with it,
the one who saw is willing to bet
they were not caught.
They were talking about Howard
and Mifton and Ida and their essays,
the interesting documents of child
hood that appeared in The Listening
Post yesterday.. The outstanding fea
ture was how exact each story about
the domestic pets was in. its knowl
edge of sex.
"Now, these kids were about 8 or 9
years of age," remarked one woman.
"They know all about sex. Young
sters know a lot these days. I have
a daughter and a mother. Mother is
getting along about three score and
ten, but life even yet is a great mys
tery to her. Now, I'll bet that my
girl, aged 11, or any other child of
that age today, can give the average
old woman of the previous generation
or more ago cards and spades when
it comes to a question of sex and yet
more than hold her own."
Give me a glass of milk, hall
cream, oraered the customer.
Why not order a glass of cream,
half milk?" asked the curious one on
the next stool. "There can't be any
difference."
"Tes there is five cents some-
times."
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
W. A. Wood, judge of Curry county.
lis in i r,c p iv a n r-. m . . iart . ivi
-- - "j '
vwuu. iucj are residents or joia
! Beacn the countv seat Curry county
,1s the only county in Oregon which
cannot point to a single incorporated
i town. The judge is particularly in -
terested In the improvement of the
00fe'n'snway along tne coast
in hls county. While Curry county
has a small population and a lim
ited valuation because so much of the
territory is in the reserve, still the
per capita wealth far surpasses that
of more than half of the other coun
ties in the state. It has been said that
Curry county is one of the least ex
plored sections of Oregon and one of
the wildest sections of the United
States. The Rogue river, which cuts
the county In two, flows through can
yons, the walls of which in places
are more than half a mile high.
"It doesn't hurt to ask and maybe
we can get something if we do," is
the philosophical viewpoint taken by
Ernest Johnson, county commissioner
of Wallowa. Mr. Johnson is here to
request the highway commission to
improve seven miles of state road
between Lostine and Enterprise. The
rest of the road has been improved,
but this section Is so bad that it has
been impassable for weeks at a time.
Mr. Johnson says that the winter has
been long drawn out in Wallowa, and
that feeding has been going on for
five and a half months. The hay, ac
cumulations of two years, has been
used and some has been brought in.
As is the case in other places, the
grass is slow in coming.
Captain Ward M. Ackley, one of the
army instructors now stationed at
Oregon Agricultural college, was in
Portland yesterday and "fought over
the war" with a number of his old
comrades of the 91st division. Cap
tain Ackley trained with the Powder
river unit at Camp Lewis and went
overseas. He served with the 363d
infantry In the Meuse-Argonne as a
first lieutenant. When Captain Charles
M. Abercombe Of Portland was killed
Ackley was promoted to a captain and
took command of his comrade's com
pany. Following the war he took a
regular army commission and now is
endeavoring to instill military knowl
edge into the cadets at the state ag
ricultural college.
C. P. Wade, Judge of Coos county,
is among the arrivals at the Imper
ial. The judge is desirous of speed
ing nn the location of the road be
tween Coquille and Bandon, as the
county has some money to put on
that section for co-operation with
the highway commission. This link,
when built, will be a section of the
Coast or Roosevelt highway and will
connect at Coquille with the high
way across the coast range to the
Pacific highway near Roseburg. The
commission has been considering
three possible routes for a year and
is expected to make a decision be
fore the adjournment of the present
session.
"Two or three days of weather like
this," commented Division Engineer
Clarke, of the highway forces, as he
watched the rain storm pelting the
pavements and the people, "will de
lay road construction as many
weeks. After this kind of a storm
it requires time for the conditions
to become . favorable for outdoor
work. There are three jobs in my
district which could be under way
now if the weather was at all suit
able." One of the things for which M. C.
I Conlon is noted is his specialty of
Percheron horses, those big husky
animals which look like an elephant
and have legs on them like a grand
piano. Mr. Conlon became a com
missioner of Deschutes county about
a year ago, succeeding C. H. Miller,
and now he Is a candidate for re
election. Mr. Conlon,. who farms
near Redmond, is in the city attend
ing the highway commission meet
ing. W. H. Malone, former judge of Ben
ton county, is attending the meeting
of the highway .commission as a con
tractor, whereas before he left his
official position, he used to appear
before the commission and urge road
construction in his county. The
former judge is a resident of Cor
vallis. John C. Kendall of Coos Bay ar
rived at the Multnomah yesterday
from the coast metropolis. Mr. Ken
dall is interested in highways and
politics, and while in Portland yes-
. . . : : .1 .1 i., . .ll. 1. ... n n
these two subjects.
Guy E. Dobson, once in the build
ing inspection department In Port
land, but for the last ten years a
resident of Redmond, Or., s regis
tered at the Imperial. Mr. Dobson is
president of the First National bank
in his town.
Fred J. Palmer, the mayor of dis
tant Jordan Valley, which is in the
valley of the same name, in Malheur
county, is la Portland. The town is
an important trading point for a ter
ritory which spreads over a great
area.
Judge Marvin of Wallowa county
is one of the throng of county offi
cials gathered from all sections of
the state to be present at the high
way meeting He is registered at the
Imperial.
J. R. Blackaby, democrat and
banker of Ontario, Or., is in the city
meeting democratic leaders who are
In town planning the spring offensive
which will be held May 19.
Sc'o Is one of the old settlements
in the Willamette valley. Dr. A. F.
Pr.'ll, who combines the duties of
mayor end health officer, is an ar
rival at the Imperial.
Fred N. Wallace of Tumalo passed
through Portland yesterday on his
way to Salem in connection with busi
ness matters for the Tumalo irriga
tion district.
Forms of National Bonus.
PORTLAND, April 13. (To the Edi
tor.) Has the United States passed
the soldiers' bonus bill? If so, how
much bonus will a man get who was
enlisted in the naval aviation from
December, 1917. until February 1,
1919, and 11 months of this time re
ceived $40 and the balance $60 per
month? If he owes a debt which more
than covers his bonus can this bonus
be taken or garnisheed before it
passes into his hands?
SUBSCRIBER.
The bill has passed the house but
not the senate. It provides five op
tions, the total of adjusted service
pay on which they are based varying
in each.. It is therefore not possible
to figure your bonus without know
ing which form you elect. Better
visit the public library reference de
partment and study the articles de
scribing the bill.
Days In Other Years.
LAUREL, Or., April 13. (To the
Editor.) Please publish what day of
the week April 6, 1905, fell on, and
April 6, 1906, and April 10, 1900.
CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER.
April 6. 1905, Thursday.
April 6, 1906, Friday.
April 10. 1900. Tuesday.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague-
NOW WE KNOW THE IIF.ASOX.
(Baker-made bread . has developed
, y -. . , h. 0f
-"3 impptji, , .
wholesome work in the kitchen A
baking machine manufacturer.)
What makes her so flippity-floppity,
i So foolishly fond of romance,
j So skippity, hippity-hoppity
When jazzinir about in the dance?
What makes her so nervous and Jlg
gilty With never a thought in her head?
Her rearing was higgilty-plggilty ;
She never was taught to make
bread!
She wouldn't be nearly so fluttery.
Her mind on her feminine charms.
; if she'd put in her time in the buttery
With flour all over her arms.
She wouldn't be raucously chattery.
Spilling words in an unending flow.
If her apron had ever been splattery
With the good honest makings of
dough.
She wouldn't belong to sororities,
Which high schools now seek to
forbid.
If she'd toiled as the homey major-
ities
Of our bread-making grandmothers
did.
She'd never behave hlghty-tightily
And act so new-fangled and strange.
In fact she would benefit mightily
By spending her days at her range.
But bread is now made by the bakery.
All lovely and crusty and brown.
And maidens will never get Quakery
" By dressing and going down town.
They talk' most inanely and vapidly;
Their dress fills their mothers with
shame.
They're growing Intractable rapidly,
But the baking machine is to blame.
A Cinch.
The coal operators may have no
power over the miners, but they know
that in the event of a strike they can
always make the public dig.
An Absentee.
The truth is mighty and will pre
vail, but it is mighty hard to find i-
A Proud Record-Holder.
There is no scorn like the scorn ol
a New Yorker listening to the crime
statistics of other cities.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houa-hton-MUf flln Co.
Can Yon Answer These Questions f
1. Do birds all have the same num
ber of feathers in their wings?
2. Please tell me how to rid my
seashore cottage of fleas. My last
tenant had two dogs and left the
place swarming.
3. Why should bread turn moldy in
a clean place, sometimes?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. I notice a small bird in my or
chard, on the trunks of trees a good
deal, white underneath, black on top,
with a good many white stripes and
marks on wings and tail. Can you
tell me what it is?
Undoubtedly a black-and-white
creeper, or more properly, creeping
warbler. Very useful. You will find
jt working on woodland trees also,
and on old half-rotted wood fences
where lichen has accumulated, beside
the orchard, usually working rather
near the ground. It takes caterpil
lars, small insects and insect eggs,
moving rather restlessly from tree to
tree.
2. What makes the earth worm
crawl?
Supposing you mean by what meth
od It crawls the earth worm has on
its under side some minute points like
the ends of bristles. These are thrust
backward, which thrusts the body
slowly forward. The points are called
Setae. By their help the worm clings
to its burrow when a robin tries to
pry or pull it out, and sometimes
holds on too tightly to be dislodged.
3. What will a horned toad eat?
Insects. Though a lizard and not a
real toad, the "horned toad" eats much
as a real toad does, bending its neck
down toward the prey and darting out
a thick and sticky tongue to snap up
the mouthful. Specimens kept in cap
tivity will eat mealworms and cock
roaches, but won't take angleworms.
They must be kept warm and dry a-nd
have sunshine. Water in a shallow
dish is needed, but it must be level
with the sand at the bottom of the
pen and not tip over to wet the sand.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of April 15, 1897.
Mayor Pennoyer yesterday appoint
ed p'rancis A. Watts police commis
sioner as successor to Sylvester B.
Riggen.
The proposal to hold a brigade en
campment of the Oregon national
guard this summer is meeting with
aproval and Salem will probably be
picked as the site.
Captain Thomas N. Valllns, who has
been appointed chief of police in
Kansas City, has many friends here,
having been connected with the Pin
kerton agency in Portland.
The new building of the Oregon
Cracker company, on Sixth, near
Glisan street, is nearly completed,
and the company expects to move in
about May 15.
Fifty Years Ago.
Brom The Oregonian of April 15, 1872.
The yield of wheat for the coming
harvest In this state Is variously esti
mated at from 30.000,000 to 35,000,000
bushels.
The various Oddfellows' lodges of
the city have appointed committees
to complete arrangements for a
grand picnic to be held in celebration
of the 53d anniversary of the order
on April 26.
The rival candidates for congress,
Hon. Joseph G. Wilson, republican,
and John Burnett, Esq., democrat,
will address their fellow citizens at
the courthouse tonight.
ITse of Soldier's Compensation.
PORT TOWN-SEND, Wash.. April 12
(To the Editor.) 1. I am an ex
service man and In a hospital have
been ever since the war. One leg is
gone. I have a family and am draw
ing $100 per month compensation. I
send my family $75 per month. I am
trying to save most of the other $25.
but some of the people around our
home have threatened to report me to
the government for laying away some
of my compensation. What can I do
with them for meddling in my affairs?
2. Isn't it true the government wants
the ex-service men to save their com
pensation or as much of It as they
can? SUBSCRIBER.
Your compensation Is yours to do
with as you see fit, except that under
state law you can be required to sup
port your family. If $75 Is enough to
support them, the fact that you are I
laying away $25 is no one's business
but your own.
EASTER
Spirit Declared
Essence
of Spring Season
Story of the resurrc-ction re
told together with legends of
feast and pagan customs
handed down in myths of an
cients in article, voicing the
sacred beliefs of the Christian,
which will appear in tomor
rows Oregonian. The article
is illustrated with a beautiful
Easter "study by Leonid Fink.
Little Stories
of Married Life
The first of a series of stories
on "The Married Life of Helen
and Warren" will appear in
The Sunday Oregonian.
In the Magazine
When Fame
Is Embarrassing
Husband calls for help when
wife's face smiles at him from
posters and bottles everywhere.
Spring Brings
Moonshine Flood
Sudden death awaits many in
southern hills where drama and'
novel have brought glamour of
romance.
Fiction Feature
by Samuel Merwin
This hitherto unpublished story
tells how shadows from past
flit before possessor of great
fortune.
Woman Keeps Figure
and Her First Love
Modern Galatea, whose romance
began in studio, declares any
woman may attain beauty.
Oregon Springs
Are Curative
Startling government analysis
shows arsenic tonic in waters
found in Cascade forest.
Ghosts That Have
Challenged Science
The myths of haunted houses.
many of which have remained
unexplained to the present day.
Other Features
Churches to Observe
Easter Fittingly
What the various churches are
planning for the Sunday's ob
servance, in the church section.
Three-piece Costume
Is Fashion Feature
The up-to-date woman reads
The Oregonian's fashion sec
tion to get the latest in the
world of dress.
Economical Use
of Gas Given
This is one of various features
in the special section devoted
to the gas ranges in honor of
gas-range week.
Benson "Tech"
to Hold Show
Big annual exhibition set for
three nights. Other news of
schools contained in school de
partment. Page of Cartoons
on Newsy Topics
A series of Darling's famous
cartoons depicting events hap
pening in the world of news.
How to Make
Ambrosia Pudding
Many interesting bits of infor
mation in the world of cookery
in Miss Tingle's department.
Latest Gossip
in the Movies
The news of the various Port
land theaters and of plays and
pictures to come told in spe
cial departments.
Beautiful Drive
for Motorists
The story of a trip along the
Clackamas river is told by
II. W. Lyman, automobile
editor.
What Is Doing
in Radio World
The latest gossip of this new
method of communication re
lated in illustrated department.
Scores for the
Baseball Fan
The Oregonian carries in daily
and Sunday papers all the box
scores of the big league games,
in addition to other sports.
All the News of All the
World in
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