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0 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, APRIL, 27, 1922 ESTABLISHED BI HENRY I PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co. aa aixtn street, iortlana, Oregon. C A. HOHDEX, E. B. PIPER. Aianager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex- I of publication of special dispatches herein re aiso reserved. had been sent to the territory by way of Cape Horn, a voyage of seven months, at the end of which he found orders awaiting him to return home, immediately after which h was sent agal: to Oregon. He was seasick all the time, even while his vessel was in port. "I wish." said clusively entitled to the use for Duplication Cfl..nktn. t of all news dispatches credited to it or not " "5 , ' . "" otnerwise credited in this paper and also I latiier a auvxce auu goue into trie the local news published herein. Ail rights I navy, where I would not have to go to sea so much." Slaughter's death soon afterward in the Indian cam- Subscription Rates Invariabjy in Advance, pagins on Puget sound was one of (By Mail.) the incidents in winning of the west Daily, Sunday included, one year ts.OO which indirectly operated to restore gaily. Sunday included, six months ... 45 ",, . i,;i in,. ..i., r T3&, Sunday included, three months . 2.25 order by bringing tne gravity of the Tafly. Sunday included, one month ... .75 situation to the attention of the pre- EaS!y;wnoutluny:Sinxemonrths"::: viously neglectful national govern- Iaily, without Sunday, one month 60 me-nt at Washington. Sunday, one year 2.50 -;- By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday Included, one year 00 PROVING SOMETHING OB OTHER. Daily, Sunday included, three months . 2.25 rr-i. r-v t ri Daily. Sunday included! one montu ... .75 The Chamber of Commerce can Daily, without Sunday, one year . . 7.S0 determine for itself whether it wants Daily, without Sunday, three months . 1.95 Daily, without Sunday, one month 65 to take a referendum on prohibition, - How to Remit Send postoffice money nst nfi,nntv or n failure or nn yrder, express or personal check on your as an actuality, or a lailure, Or an local bank. Stamps, coin of currency are academic Question; or whether the full. Including county and state. beguiling suggestion of light wines i to IB pages. 1 cent: 18 and beer has" its approval or disap- cents; 50 to' 64 pages, 4 cents; 66 to' 80 proval; or whether the gentle art of Fre7gnrsrage 5-oub"e ratSaBeE' 6 CentS' hip-pocketing is really illegal, or un- Kaetern Business Office Verree & Conk- ethical or both,; or whether Some, Or lln, 300 Madison avenue. New York; Verree - ,.,t Conkiin. steger building, Chicago; Verree a11- of these interesting subjects are conkiin. Free Press building. Detroit, none of its business as a chamber. jnn:n. ; verree uonklin, JUonadnock build a complete success in Oregon, some machinery should be provided to at tract the right type of settler, to fi nance him, to help him to get es tablished and to win, through the first few critical years and thus make him and his farm a new asset to the state. The organization that builds an irrigation plant, drains a swamp or clears a tract of stumps needs to be followed up by another that w sell these jthings to large groups which will form complete rural com munities. It should be practicable for private corporations to do all this under state supervision, as in Wis consin, and to earn normal mortgage interest without involving the state financially. In this manner - the empty places should be peopled an the burden of taxation lightened by adding to the taxable wealth and to the number of taxrayers. jng, San Francisco, Cai. ULYSSES S. GRANT. In General TJ. S. Grant, the cen tenary of whose birth is celebrated BOLSHEVIST DECEIT. Emma Goldman's revelation of the bolshevist practice of maintaining "show schools" at strategic points for the purpose of impressing for eign visitors to unhappy Russians in teresting for other reasons thari that it throws light on the sad condition of education in that country. It points to the bolshevists as a group ofalleged reformers who, while de nouncing the morals of "every other class in the world, are quite as cap- today, the American people honor more to De gaja. ine memory or tne man whose vir- The chamber declines to pick up tues and genius Saved the union, tv,a pfl.hr,t nronihitinn rfnve and therefore they think of him first as thrB nn ar)r)e!,i. But there are soldier. In that capacity he was ,!,, ni..nf ..Tnri nnH no. the peer of any of the world's mill- tion A tMng may in the consti tary chieftains, second only to Wash- tuti0n, but there is nothing in cus ington among American generals. m ,. ;,. , ncHttin When he took supreme command, he ltself to preVent taking it out if the directed the movements of more than con3titutional method is followed. All a million men a greater army than the opponents of prohibition have to that with which Napoleon invaded dn is , t nmendmfint to the xvussid. or prouaoiy man any otner ,,onstitutlon. through the favorabl One member suggests to the open forum of the chamber that it has a plain duty to act, and another mem- ' able of deceit as any product of the ber replies by saying that ' prohibi- : hated capitalistic system. Bolshe- tion is a fact constitutional and vist orators prate of the mighty otherwise and there is nothing power of truth, while official bolshe- vism itself lives a lie. Emma Goldman's admission that she" has been disillusioned by what she has iseen may well be credited, not withstanding suspicion that she herself may not be free from guile. Her picture of life in Russia corre sponds circumstantially with that painted by other observers. She tells how at first she jivas - deeply im pressed by the evidence of progress in the care of children under the dic- tatorshio of the proletariat. She was Keneral had ever commanded. The acti0n of congress itself, and of permitted to visit schools in which promptness with which he attacked thirty-si sovereign states. It has fthe childr when given his first small indepen- ,,,, lt n rtnn. fle.,jn dent command, his vigorous and sue- But it ls quite a joD, A Mces3ary t-woiui oiieuwve against r on xjuuei- preliminary Is an irresistible public auu. v.u.uu.k mm m icujisws, sentiment for it. me proaigamy wnn wnicn He ex- Cr Volstead act may be re pended life in the final campaign of L, ax ,.,, a a law attrition against Petersburg and definine anew what is non-intoxicat- Kichmond all these suggest a splen- j Iiquor There hope Kere (or did fighting animal directed by a the advocates of invigorating but superb, trained brain. n.inrifimr xvin anri her But that brief sketch of Grant as i hpv "hVA m,a , Rtart in th- e general shows only the high points Third coriffreSsional district of Ore- of the merely professional side of his A poljtician who was disap- characten If he had taken delight pointed in his application to be pro- In war, he could not have spent a hibition director for Oregon is a . T i .,f fv l""-n.,fy candidate for congress on a "light Indoors and witness the agony of the wounded undergoing operations be wines and beer" platform. The out come of his campaign on so attrac- fore anesethetics were in common tlve and lively an issue should de use; he could not have made merci termine something, but, just what is ful terms of surrender at Appomat- n t exacUy cIear. 1 Possit,iy it, will tox and told the confederate cavalry- serve merey -to furnisn aI0ther' nail men to keep their horses, take them - t. fw ,.it,Vn Jome and use them in plowing; he wouid Hke to build for the direct could not have inspired such devoted friendship, such abiding affection among the people that, despite the errors which marked his first term, lie was, elected to a second term s primary. AFTER RECLAMATION. When reclamation" of waste land president and that ithe famous 306 has taken a new start and is soon to stood firm through ballot after bal- be pushed on a larger scale than lot for his nomination for third term, ever under the Smith-McNary bill, When in his last year the people of organization for its permanent, suc- the nation watched his losing fight cessful settlement should at the against an intensely painful disease, same time be taken up. Reclama- their sympathy was aroused not only tion is simply preparation of land for by admiration for the general and sale, and formation of an irrigation statesman but by their live for one district is not complete unless it in- who had shown himself not only eludes a selling agency But it is stern and resolute in war, but. tender not enough to find a buyer without and merciful at all times, loyal to his regard to whether he "goes broke" friends though they played him In the effort to make a paying farm, false, and whose gravest weakness - From a land-selling standpoint such overtrustful simplicity appealed to failures spoil the market for other their hearts against their reason, land, for one man who fails makes His military achievements serjed to more noise than a dozen who suc- bring him before the people for ceed. From the standpoint of the their judgment of him as a man, state, a community should be built and they found him every inch a on each project which will make man. hitherto barren land productive, will Every variety of test brought to add to the wealth of the state and light courage of the highest temper, will reduce the taxes of each citizen At Monterey he made, a ride under by paying its share of the irreducible fire to obtain new supplies- for the I minimum cost of state administra troops, but then he was fired by the tion. -excitement of battle. Courage of a Attention ls turning to this neces- Jiigher quality was required for his I sary' next step in land reclamation decision to cut loose from his base Wisconsin has a plan in operation and make the final attack on Vicks- so has California. The Northern Pa- burg. The same kind of courage was I cifio railroad has made a valuable needed for the campaign of attrition J contribution to. knowledge of the wnicn wouio sureiy cause terriiic I subject througn publication of a slaughter and provoke much cen- pamphlet on "The Problem of Land sure, but which in one year .battered Settlement," by E. F. Benson, man he confederacy to ruins. The high- ager of its department of immigra est moral courage was that with tion and industry. Many minds are which he drovj himself to write his turned to the need of stopping the memoirs while cancer was eating desertion of the country and the away his lire, for that was a test con- I concentration of people in the cities, tlnuing for a year to within four and the problem is tb place a farm days or nis aeatn. ie was nerved to I within reach of a man of small capi Jt by no battle-fever, by no ambition tal, to put him on the way to for future horfors, for he had en- success and to secure for him Joyed all that his country could give; those conveniences roads, schools, Jiis sole thought was to employ the churches, buying and selling facili hort and intensely painful remain- ties and recreation which will der of his life in securing his family make him content with country life against poverty after his death. " but are possible only for a commu . Grant's failures in business, the nity fit farmers, not for an isolated rrors which marred his career as farmer. president, were the result of that Land in already developed areas is simplicity of character which made to high priced as to be beyond the Jiim too ready to trust others. But means of the type of man that that quality may go to explain the should be drawn from the city to the readiness with which he forgot the farm or of the tenant farmer who Ignominy of his practical dismissal desires to become an owner. The from the army and promptly volun- opportunity lies in the arid and teered his services at the outbreak of swamp lands that are to be re he civil war. It may have con- claimed and in such logged-off land tributed to his clear understanding as is better fitted for agriculture of the tremendous issue at stake than forestry. Wisconsin is now the union or break-up of the nation working on reclamation of its great to his appreciation of the forces areas of logged-off land. Under its with which he must contend, to the supervision the owner contracts to relentless character of his attacks, to sen a tract of 30,000 to 50.000 acres the fixed determination with which to a colonization company for $8 to lie prosecuted his campaigns, and to $12 an acre with a small payment the concentration of his powers upon down and the balance spread over the one great task he had in mind, ten to twenty years.. The state's soil He had supreme genius for the one experts first determine the fertility art. exercise of which was demanded and character of the soil. The tract ty his country, and he gave it with a ia surveyed and divided into 0-acre patriotic singleness of purpose and tracts, then it Is advertised, but set ceaseless energy that would have tiers are selected by a supervisor of liardly been possible to a man of agricultural development with a more varied parts. Had he not view t0 their ability to succeed and shone so brilliantly as a soldier, we their contentment with country life, should have expected less of him as The settler pays $500 cash on the a statesman. He gave service with- land the balance in six to ten annual ut stint and of which the value paTments at 7 per cent. The com cannot be measured in the field pany provides, a house, barn, cow, where his ability lay, and the better pig chickens and tools, on which the the people knew him the more they settler pavs half cash, giving a chat srw in him to win their love.. As sol- tel mortgage for the balance. If lier. patriot, president and citizen he after three vears the buyer has made enshrined in the nation's heart such improvements that his debt . : 1 . li-.. .1.; j t ! i does not exceed 60 per cent of the total value, the company takes a 30- year amortization mortgage, on children "were given the best of everything food, clothing, rooms, concerts, dances." But it transpires that these were but the window- -fdressing of bolshevism. The masses of the children of Russia were not so favored. The following is from Miss Goldman's description in the New York World: The bolshevik! thought it necessary to have a few show schools in each city for the benefit of the foreign missions, dele gations and reporters. The children . were exhibited, paraded on every occasion and written about. , These schools had the cream of everything. . . . Persons that visited the show schools only and judged of the care of children in Russia by them were utterly ignorant of the true con ditions of the mass of children in Russia Dictatorship of the profetariat, it seems, does not mean the doom of special privilege,' as apologists for bolshevism would have us believe. In the ordinary schools there were no food, no clothing, no lodgings, no conoarts. We are not surprised that the very elements of sound education were neglected, since the supply of teachers must be unequal to the task. even if the bolshevists meant to es tablish a national system of educa tion. But it seems also that the schools which were on exhibition were reserved for the favored few. Favoritism was rampant. There is even less of real democracy under the Soviets than there used to be in the regime of the czars. The child of the proletariat has no more Tihance on the whole than he had in the days of old. Russia has unfortunately but ex changed the tyranny of one set of oppressors for the tyranny of an other. This applies 'to industries as well as to the schools. There are "show factories," too, which visitors are permitted to see who are care fully excluded from others which do not make so favorable an impres sion. The soviet leaders are not candid with ths world. usual way, whereupon the court If duly convinced is empowered to "dissolve the marriage." In our own state divorce is granted for desertion for one year; New Tork by the new practice prescribes five years, though it preserves the figment that the marriage is thus ended by death rather than by operation of a "di vorce" law. On the assumption that the defendant is in fact dead, it makes provision for the dissolution of a tie that Providence already has severed. Suit is brought against a person presumably dead. We are not unmindful that the protection of the innocent often re quires many legal formalities the reason for which may seem obscure to the layman. Assumption of the death of a person not heard from for seven years, for example, would be permissible In Oregon, and in most other states, to the extent of war ranting remarriage of the survivor without formal court proceedings, such as would be especially abhor rent to those conscientiously opposed to divorce and to remarriage, while there ls a living spouse. Tet it some times happens that; the good faith of the person is questioned and New Tork puts this beyond cavil by. pro vision for formal decree. In Oregon we have a corresponding safeguard in the general practice which would permit the taking of testimony for perpetuation, by which "the peti tioner would be allowed to make a showing of good faith which would become a matter of record, though not of final adjudication an issue of interest in this state only to those who desire to avoid divorce, since our desertion statute is liberal enough in this regard. The most interesting aspect of the New York amendment is the par ticulai manner by which it seeks to liberalize the divorce law without admitting that it is doing so. Evi dently there is a sentiment worth taking into account in the Empire state which would protest against any general movement to let down the bars. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Cass Baer. beside Washington and Lincoln. The reported success of the giant stabilizer which is being tried on an which it bases sale of bonds, thus ocean-going steamship will mean much to those unfortunate ones who like to travel but are victims of sea sickness in obstinate form. There are Individuals who suffer from this baffling malady and can find no cure. Lieutenant Slaughter, one of the heroes of the Indian wars of 1853, was one of them. General Grant relates in his "Memoirs" how he encountered Slaughter at Panama on the way to Oregon. Slaughter turning over Its capital. The com pany provides sites and supervision for various community interests, such as schools, churches, hall, store, contests among farmers. Land and mortgage associations exist to make loans on the amortization plan to farmers direct or to buy mortgagee froni colonization companies, all un der "control and supervision of the state banking commissioner. In order that reclamation may be AN ENOCH ARDEV LAW. A law just passed by the New York legislature and signed by the governor makes it possible for a person to obtain annulment of a marriage if the husband or wife has been absent from home for five years, during which time diligent effort to obtain evidence as to whether the defendant is living or dead has gone unrewarded. This is hailed by the proponents of easier divorce as a gain, since New York has heretofore permitted divorce for only one cause adultery. Yet a peculiar situation still exists in New York which will be interesting to students of the legalistic philosophy of marriage and divorce in general. For while in ef fect the new law adds another ground for divorce desertion for five years to the single one already existing, in a more restricted sense It but revises the old precedent, founded in the common law, for as suming a person dead, from whom no tidings have been received for a certain period. This period is seven years by common law and the statutes of many states, including Oregon. So it is affirmed with some reason, and with at least a plausible ground for argument, that what New York has done in reality has been to re duce by two years the common law period beyond which the person may be assumed to be legally dead. That the statute does not apply to the seven-year period in general, that for the purpose of probating estates and so forth, proof of seven years' absence is still essential, and that it applies only to the marriage status of the person make a good deal of difference in the discussion. The in tent of the legislature is plainly be trayed and that intent is to let down the bars and make divorce a little easier, yet avoid the issue of the ex pediency of divorce in general. For, of course, calling a divorce an annul ment of marriage does not make any material difference to the individual who by the decree is restored to the pre-married Ctatus. Yet a curious reluctance, and perhaps a vague sense of shame, is exhibited in the fact that it is sought to accomplish this purpose by indirection. The thought that It would have been an even simpler matter to amend the divorce law itself by adding deser- j tion for five years to the list of causes seems not to have occurred to the New York lawmakers, or if it did it was rejected for some pruden tial reason. New Ybrk now accomplishes all that it conld have done straightfor wardly but does it by setting up the convenient assumption that one who has been continuously absent and has not been heard from for five years Is "dead" for domestic purposes, al though not for others. The pro cedure required, however, belongs in the divorce category rather than in the province of the surrogate. A petition is filed as in a divorce ac tion and evidence Is taken In the NO LONGER A "RLTRAL MIND." The passing of the rural districts. which Peter Clark Macfarlane com ments on after a lecture tour which has taken him into forty-two states. has not escaped the attention of other observers; It has been noted recently that the confidence man with a gold brick or its equivalent to sell no longer goes into the country districts1 with his wa'res. "Rubee" are no more numerous in proportion to population in the country than in the town and are easier to reach in the latter. The improvement in rural conditions is due to no single inci dent, but probably has been most greatly influenced by development of means of communication by which all people are made one. Waldemar' Kaempffert in his "A B C of Radio" has this thought in mind when he visualizes the Cana dian woodsman, weary for the mo ment of his eternal round of chop ping, sitting down on a log, unfold ing a private- radio set and listening to a Broadway concert. There are no longer any remote corners of the earth only places where one may take one's self if one cares to do so, but still remain in touch with - all that is going on in the world. The day is not only approaching, but- to all intents and purposes it is here, as those are aware who have kept in formed of the progress made by the new radio science. The fact that a book issued early in the present year is not quite up to date in April is a commentary on the amazing speed with which it moves. I In the phrase "better means of communication" is embraced all thaff eoes to establish, a bond between the people of town and country. The railroad, practically the development of half a century in the West, the au tomobile, less than a quarter of a century old, the rural telephone, free rural mail delivery, better roads have made it possible' for country people to keep pace with the rest of the world. The whole movement tor betterment of rural conditions is the product of better communication which has created desire and set people thinking. It is not by mere coincidence that a manufacturer of radio appliances reports that a large part" of his orders come from towns that are supply centers for farming regions. The country ought even to have definite advantages over the city as a place to live in when the new order is perfected. People on the farms will have the option of holding com munication with their neighbors or shutting it off, as they desire. To the dweller in Arcadia alone will the great boon of privacy be vouchsafed, if things keep moving as they are. And it must be admitted that even with the most gregarious there are moments when there Is no happiness quite comparable with being let alone. From Los Angeles comes news of Mayo Methot La Mond, who, with her husband, John La Mond, 13 touring California by motor with the Robert Bruce Film company. Mr. La Mond is camera man with the Bruce pro auctions and Miss Methot is to ap pear in various plays. She has seen any number. of for mer Portland folk during their stops at Coronado, Del Monte, Carmel-by- the-Sea and at Tia Juan a. .Last week 'Mr. and Mrs. La Mond were guests one day of Theodore Roberts, . with whom Mayo played at the Baker here, when he and Florence Roberts and Thurlow Bergen .were tri-stars In stock. The La Monds visited also Wallace Reid, whom they both know, and Rhea Mitchelljka former Portland girl. . Katharine Graham, who is appear, ing this week at the Baker in '."My Lady Friends," Is in receipt of a let ter from Edward Horton. telling her that at last he has succumbed to the call of the "fillum." Mr, Horton- has been approached over and over by managers of ' film companies, but heretofore he has turned an unlisten ing ear to their importunities. Now he has accepted an offer of the Jesse Robbins productions to play in "Too Much Business," a six-reel light comedy now being distributed by Vitag-raph. Horton is continuing his stock engagement with the Wilkes company in Los Angeles and giving his talent to the screen in the day time. His second subject is tempo rarily titled "The Ladder Jinx," from the story of Edgar Franklin. Mr. Horton was one of the most popular leading men the Baker com pany ever gave us and he has many friends made during his stay here. Having run the Justly famous ga mut of theatricals all the way from the drama to the films, Grace Valen tine has decided to take a flier in vaudeville. Miss Valentine's vehicle will be a comedy playlet by Hal Crane entitled "The Four-Flushers," and in her sup port will be seen James Mitchell and Carlo de Angelo. Zeh Prevost, who was a member of the party at which the late Fatty Arbuckle was host, is going into vaudeville, if vaudeville wants her. She is making overtures through Harry Weber's office for a vaude ville route. Miss Prevost proposes to do a sketch, in which also will appear Mrs. Wally Schang, wife of the regu lar catcher of the Yankees. ' , Maude Hannaford writes that she is on her way back to this country after two years of theatrical work in Australia. Miss Hannaford was last seen in New York in '"Crooked Gam blers." Following that engagement she left for the land of the kangaroo and since then has appeared in all the principal cities of Australia and New Zealand as the leading figure in such American works as "The Sign on the Door," "Scandal" and "Adam and Eva." She is due in New York early next month. Maude Hannaford was at one time in her early career a player at the Baker. She appeared three years ago in "The Jest," which brought her her first recognition in the east. Grant: The Soldier. By Wallace BIcCamant. Those Who Come and Go. Tales st Folks at 4ae Hatela. If ever the corner drugstore( handles much of that grayish pow der, a pinch of which makes a man tell the truth, uneasiness of wives regarding husbands will either sub side or grow into magnificent proportions. This radio thing is going a little fast. The smack of a kiss has been broadcast." A kiss with soul in it may be too sacred to be thrown to the world; but perhaps this was an other kind. - Those mutineers in Ireland are not fighting fair like real Irishmen. A brigadier in the republican army was shot dead after complying with an order to throw up his hands. They will get no sympathy for such work- The "Sesqui-Cents" at Philadel phia have some grand ideas of expo sitions. One wants to pay the head of the affair $50,000 a year for five years. They are thinking In big terms back there; yet why not? Fine thing they caught the man eating shark off the California coast early. He was a chump to miss the layout farther south. Nearly 7000 voters are registered in Clatsop and it will be a very cold day that keeps all of them from the primaries this year. The search for the plesiosaurus was futile. Patagonian moonshine seems as "deludering" as the North American brand. The mire in this campaign is deepening. After awhile it will dry up. Uneasy lies the head of the man that runs for office, but not the mouth. Marguerite Sylva has returned to New York, following the completion of a concert tour which carried her through Florida and Cuba. ' . Eileen Wilson," who is best known for her work in "The Lady of the Lamp" a year back, is now safely ensconced in the leading role of "Ladies' Night" in Chicago. She has the part created by Clairborne Foster, who was recently severely injured in an automobile accident. Eileen WUson is a pretty brunette, who was for a few months ingenue with the Baker Players and who later was married to William Powell, who also was a member of the Baker company. Later they were divorced. Max Hoffman 'Jr. will not continue with his mother, Gertrude Hoffman, In her act. He is to resume a- vaude ville tour, a dance act, with his wife Norma Terriss. Isadora Duncan's mother died in Paris April 12. Raymond Duncan, who is In Paris, directed that the funeral services be conducted accord ing to the ritual of the ancient Greeks. James Dutton, who was In Port land at the Orpheum a few weeks ago with his troupe of trained white horses in an equestrian act, is in a hospital in San Francisco, suffering from a severe case of blood , poison ing, which will keep him confined for several more weeks. Another Orpheutn. actor who is in the limelight just now, is George N. Brown, who was here about a month ago In "Pedestrianism," an act in which he and a husky girl walked several million miles along a tread mill. Mr. Brown has been' made defendant in a euit for divorce, filed in Kansas City, by Mrs. Lorena Brown. According to lae petition, the couple were married in New York June 16. 1918, and separated in Kan sas City April 15, 1921 The plaintiff, as a cause of action. claims that her husband beat, cursed and otherwise abused her. She asks that her maiden name, Lorena J. Chapman, be restored and that she be granted alimony. Lorena probably wants George to keep on walking. Geraldine Farrar is selling the cos tumes she wore In her famous opera roles. The .flaming- red gown from the last act of "Tosca," the vivid Spanish "Carmen" dresses, the dainty kimonos she wore as Madame Butter fly, and dozens of others used in her 20-year operatic career, are be ing bought by admirers and friends In the Metropolitan company. Only the simple blue gown she displayed as Marguerite in "Faust" at her de but, In the Berlin Royal Opera house in 19lv will be kept. Richard Herndon has secured the rights to "For Value Received, a new play by Ethel Clifton, who was a Baker player a dozen years ago. Miss Clifton has written many sketches and is also appearing each season in some playlet of her owa ia vaudeville. 1 i GRANT'S military career falls under four general subdivisions. I elim inate the Mexican war, because he held a subordinate position in that conflict and had no opportunity to prove himself other than a brave and cool subordinate officer. Grants victory at Donelson was the first decisive victory won by the federal forces in the civil war. He was outnumbered and was confront ing an enemy strongly entrenched. James Ford Rhodes gives him thej highest praise for the, quickness with which ' his mind acted and for his coolness in the critical moment of fighting at Fort Donelson. He had found in the knapsacks of prisoners three days' rations. He at once reached the conclusion that the Con federate commanders were panic Stricken and endeavoring to retreat. He sent them his famous message: "No terms 'except unconditional sur render," and thus won a victory which put western Kentucky and Tennessee in federal control. The Vicksburg campaign was. In my opinion, the most brilliant mill tary achievement of the civil war. The tenacity and resourcefulness with which Grant transported his army to the south of Vickburg, the Napoleonic genius with which he attacked and defeated in detail Confederate forces largely outnumbering his own army and the' cool courage with which he put himself out of communication with the war department to the end that he might have a free hand, all att'st his supreme excellence as a military chieftain. When Grant reached Chattanooga the Union forces were in a critical situation. The promptness with which Grant grasped the situation, broke the Confederate blockade and in sured the safety of the army was re garded by General Thomas M. Ander son as the most brilliant piece ot military strategy in the history of the Union armies during the civil war. The overwhelming victories at Mis sionary ridge and Lookout mountain crowned Grant's career in the west. It would unduly prolong this article to discuss Grant's campaign from the Rapidan to the James. Three yea"rs of warfare had demonstrated that in Lee and the army of northern Vir ginia Grant had no ordinary antag onist and that victory could be won only by hard fighting and a policy of attrition. Grant's plans called for a great deal of bloodshed, but In my opinion there was no other way out of the situation. He kept Lee fight ing at all points all the time and thus took advantage of the superior population and resources of the north. The campaign in the spring of 1865, which terminated at Appo mattox, was brilliant and decisive. General Morris Schaff has written the best characterization of this campaign which I have ?een and he "I saw a man who had a IS radio phone which worked without anten nae. He would take the box and put it on the dining room table and henr stuff while the family was at meals. The machine was small and cheap and while it caught and reproduced sounds it was like an old scratchy phonograph," said T. H. Foley of Bend, at the Multnomah. Mr. Foley has the radio fever in severe form. He Is here for the express purpose of getting an Instrument to install in his office at Bend for the benefit of the public. The only one he found in Portland that fits his purpose is in the hands of a local firm, which is using it for demonstration pur poses. "If it were in Bend I'd find a way of getting that machine." says Mr. Foley, "but In Portland I'm not so well acquainted and don't know what pressure to apply." An extra strong instrument is needed in Bend because it Is so far from the broad casting stations. Mr. Foley says h saw a machine made by a I'ortlander who took a curtain rod, wound wire around it and has been catching mes sages from Honolulu on the con traption. "Phonograph companies and telephone companies will be viewing the radio with alarm," says the Bend man, "so they will be devising some method of taking advantage of the radio or applying it to their own pur poses. Say, a radio set on the high desert In central Oregon In the cabin of some lonej-ome homesteader would be a great thing." Headed for the China coast and the ports of Japan, A. F. Cook reg istered at the Multnomah, is almost ready to check out. Mr. Cook, who is well known In the lumber trac",e on the facinc coast, is 1-0 esiannsn his headquarters in Tokio. represent- ne a lumbe r exporting cor cern. mr. Cook Is to make a survey of the lum ber market of the orient, discovering what particular sizes and lengths are most in demand and getting any other information that may De userui in develoninsr the market and then supplying it. Japan is now a partlcu larlv active customer for the woods of the Pacific coast, and scores of shiDloads of red cedar and Lawson cypress have been sent overseas. The Japanese are now beginning to use great quantities of Douglas fir, and there is a growing demand for hem lock blocks. C. L. Ireland, editor of the Ob server, published at Moro, Sherman county, Is registered at the Perkins and. like all newspaper men at this season, is inquiring around regarding the Dolitical situation. Mr. lreiana predicts a good wheat crop In his county this year, but says it will not be a bumper, nor, for that mat ter, will It fall below normal. The county is much interested in the de velopment of the state road pro gramme and when the highway com mission next month awards the grad ing and surfacing contract for the section between Wasco and Biggs the Sherman highway will have only about 30 miles unfinished. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moatasae. WHAT 8TOPPKU TIIH tIIIEE. The Chlrese child has llitls easa In studying his A B C's. He pegs away the livelong day Nor dares to rest & minute. Inside kls head hs has to get ths copious Chinese alphabet. Which has about we've figured thousand letters In It. The Chinese poet who essays to sine his pink-cheeked flapper's praise. And softly rhyme the thrill sub lime Of love's delightful fetters. Gets wearied out before he's done, for really hardly one Can well enrhuse who has to use Three thousand wrlRKly letters. A Chinese printer has to sweat a wee k i, to get a column set; It takes an aee to set a page. And there would be a Vint If, when the type was In the chsse. some clumsy bungler round ths place Breezed through the room and sealed his d"orn By happening to pi It. The Chinese have not cot as far as almost all the nations are; They had the start la wealth and art. But their (treat days hsvs faded. And we'd be bark as far as they If, In our nation's younaer day, Our chief concern had been to learn An alphabet like they did. Stlrr'aa- Youssr Ambltlna. If great ships are to be named af ter presidents, the kids of ths coun try will bs almost as eacer to. hs president as they are to to home run kings. Areounted For. Ths rallronrts are prosperous again. Crooks hound for N'ew Tork boost passenuer trafflo snd the loot they send home to the folks helps the freight business. ImposNlhle. Tariffs can't ba revised by their friends any moro. After they have been In effect a year or two, they haven't got any friends. , Copyright hy the Bell PyndTeats. Tne.) Burroughs Nature Club. CopyrlsBt. lfoaasten-Mlfflla a. In the coming primary campaign Loval M. Graham of Forest Grove oecuDies a peculiar position. He ls the only man in Washington county who has filed as a candidate for rep resentative and the county is entitled to two members. Consequently Mr. Graham has a cinch on his nomina announces the opinion that Grant was! tion. Someone's name will be written a greater soldier than Lee, basing hist in on the ballot, however, ana some conclusions chiefly on the strategy o this last campaign, but to some con siderable extent on the previous ca reers of these two great soldiers. One of Grant's strong qualities was the affection he inspired In his me and especially in the officers with waom ne was useucmicu. xntj iuu friendship existing between Grant on the one hand and Sherman and Sheri dan on the other is a bright chapter In civil war history. George H. Will lams told me that Grant could no find language strong enough in which to express his admiration for Sheridan. Another strong point In Grant's career Is his chivalry and gentleness toward the enemy when they were once within his power. The order he issued at Appomatox stopping the salute which the artillery had. started to fire stamps him a thorough gen tleman. His generosity to Lee's army in the matter of horses needed for the spring plowing and his plea in his first inaugural: "Let us have peace," entitled him to rank as broad-gauge chlvalrlc leader. READY TO PROMISE AXTTHI.Vtjl Prescribed Marrlnjre Vows Take Ad vantage of Lovers State of Mind PORTLAND, April 26. (To the Edl- tor.i If the marriage 'vows are to be changed, they should be so changed that the parties would make only such promises as are possible for them to keep. Obey? Yes! cnensn r ices. But no matter how earnestly they may desire to do so, they cannot make themselves continue to love and honor where love and honor are not due. It does not seem fair that a body of church dignitaries, many of whom have gone far along life's way ana seen many" disillusionments, should take advantage of the beatific state of mind that leads a couple to the marriage altar, to exact ipromises from them that they may not be able -to keep. Whv not have the woman promise to obey and endeavor to- be worthy of love and honor, ana tne man promise to cherish and endeavor to be worthy of love and honor? Such promises might put a curb on selfish, grouchy husbands and frivolous, nagging wives. In any case they would be nromises much more possible to keep than loving either one of them. Lov-j ing neighbors and enemies ls easy in comparison, for with them there is not the daily contact. Regarding the promise "with all my worldly goods I thee endow," tnat never has meant anything. If it had, the men would have had it taken out long ago. It never has been In ac cord with the civil law. M. S. B. Speaker and French President. ALBANY, Or.." April 25.- (To the Editor.) Please answer who the speaker of the'house Is (In congress), and who the president of France is. MARGARET E. HOLMES. Speaker, Frederick H. GMllett of Massachusetts. . President of France, Alexandre MI1-lerand. A Threat Is Implied. Banter. Patient Doctor, I've known you so long now that It would be an insult for me to pay your bill, so I've ar ranged a handsome legacy for you in my will. Doctor You don't mean it I am overwhelmed by the way, just let me take a look at the prescription again. . Dates and Days ot Week. PORTLAND. April 26. (To the Ed itor.) Please give the day of the week on which the following dates fell: (1) December 22. 1866; (2) De cember J2, 1909. SUBSCRIBER FOR 20 YKAK3. (1) Sunday. (2) Wednesday. one will win the second nomination. Mr. Graham, who is registered at the Multnomah, was a member of the 1919 session and had much to do with the writing of the highway leaisla tion in that year. When a man in Sherman county Is called a "good farmer" It means something. There are many farmers in Sherman county who are success ful, but the adjective "good" is ap plied to only about half a dozen and among this select few is Fred Hen nagin, who farms two or three sec tions of Wheatland west of the town of Wasco. Mr. Hennagin and his wife, registered at the Imperial, drove to Portland to visit their daughter Katherine, who is attending a pri vate school in this city. Mrs. C. P. Bishop of Salem, one of the few women In the state who have offered themselves as candidates for the legislature, is registered' at the Hotel Portland. Mrs. Bishop is run ning In the republican primaries in Marion county. Her brother, Thomas B. Kay, is another of the candidates for the legislature in the same district. Being Justice of the peace in a small town is a sort of incidental job. It is with L. W. Ross of Moro. Or., whose regular occupation Is that of jeweler. As Justice of the peace one of the duties of Mr. Ross is to perform marriage ceremonies, and sometimes, as was the case within the year, he is asked to unwed those he has joined. Kodiac oromlses to be one of the Imoortant oil fields of tne west ana much is expected of the district by those who have made an examina tion of the formation. J. w. Mc Cord arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday from Kodiac, where he ls nterested In an oil operation wnicn is now preparing to drill. R. M. Betts of Cornucopia. Or., at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Betts is a member of the state board of ge oloery and mines and is In .the mtn ing industry in .the Cornucopia dis trict, which same is in Baker county. James Allen, state highway com missioner for Washington, was at the Multnomah yesterday. Commission er ' Allen was here to consult wltn Charles H. Purcell of the federal aid bureau. After a sojourn fh "a hospital for an operation, D. Cornier of Lebanon returned to the Hotel Portland yes terday and will go to Lebanon with in a few days. C. V. Essroger, vice-president of the First National bank of Chicago is In Portland on business and is reg istered at the Multnomah. E. E. Calvin, vice-president of the Union Pacific system, and R. L. Hunt ley, chief engineer, wer"e among the Multnomah arrivals yesterday. J. P. McGoldrick and George 'L Gardner, lumbermen f s Spokane, are among the Hotel Portland arrivals. L. R. Vonlee. a grocer of Moro. Or ia in Portland on a business trip. Can You Answer These Questions r 1. Are bats dangerous? 2. Why do corn kernels come In even numbers of rows? 3. Please tell me what sort of Place the cardinal uses fni neat One ihaa been about my arnimds all winter, and I want to keep It If I can. Answers In tomorrow's nature note, s Answers to Previous Question. 1. Do the warblers all keep to the tree tops? No, though this ls a characterlstl. place to find many varieties of war bler. The Maryland yellowthroat Is a haunter of bushes. In marshy places, and the worm-eatfnir warhler is another bush-dweller. The yellow pakm warbler lives In trees or bushes, hut often eats on the ground. The redstart Is found In tree tops. s 2. Is dogwood ever used as a med icine In hydrophobia? Not nowadays, certainly. There was a superstition that It was efficacious. The word "doewood" has an snclent history, originally coming from ths old-English habit of cnlllnir frulls worth less-to-man "dog-berry." The drupes of the cornel which we rwll dogwood were thus dubbed dosrher rles and from the habit of eslhnic them by this name, came the Ig norant idea that the leaves alleviate dog bite. 3. Why does coating stagnant water wilii oil kill mosquitoes? Because It suffocates the mosquito stage of- life parsed In water. The egss are laid In efur-k-tnarethi-r batihes. from which the larvae or wriirglers escape from the under side. This wriggler, and It next hlffher form, the pupa, holh need to come to the surface for air. If thev strike film of oil their breathing tnhe get clogged. The mosquito adult comes out of Its pupa case at the surface. also, and shakes out Us wintrs preparatory to fllirht. Th least speck of oil on tlis wlnSR makes It helpless and It drowns. In Other Days. SENATOR McNARY NOT INVOLVED. Senator McNary is taking no part In the contest between Mr. Williams and Mr. Fithian for republican na tional committeeman for Oregon. A misleading headline "McNary's sup port given Mr. Williams" which ran over an Interview with Thomas H. Tongue Jr., through several editions of The Oregonlan yesterday before correction, gave n entirely contrary Idea. The telegram of Senator Mc Nary to Chairman Tongue, of the Oregon republican state committee. under date April 2Z. is as follows: Am taking no part In contest for na tional committeeman nor in any other political contest. Indeed, no one has ever requested an expression from me concern ing any of the candidates and 1 cave authorized no one to speak for me. In a telegram to Charles T. EaVIy, president of the Fithlan club," Sena tor McNary again declares his neu trality, saying he "is taking no part In this or any primary contest in Oregon." Twenty-five Years Abo. Trom The Oreaontan of April 27, 1 f7. London. Ths Turks are reported to be within an hour's march of Vo?o and the Greek troops are being with drawn from the city. New Ybrk. General Grant's tomb ls being dedicated today and many notable people are In the city to wit ness the ceremony. A little German band, ths like of whleh has become a rarity In Port land, has been discoursing; musii about the city recently. Dr. Byron E. Miller's handson span of cream-colored horses ra- away yesterday and collided with a streetcar, breaking the buggy t. fragments but not injuring them selves or Dr. Miller. Fifty Years Asia. From The Oregonlan of April S7, l7S ' Washington. The Goat Island question has been the subject of de bate for the past three days In ths senate. Naples. The eruption of Vesuvius !s at its greatest height. New craters have formed and streams of lava are pouring down the mountain sldea In different directions. A railroad company ls being or ganized at Denver for the purpose of building a road to Halt 1-ake Cltv hi- way of ueorgetown ana me rsortn Park. The band, will discourse music at the plaza this afternoon, commencing at 6 o'clock and ending at 7 o'clock. TEW REPRESENTATIVE PAPEHS Those by Which an Easjllah Torre. pondrnt ;auajrs American I'eellns. from "After the Avar," by Colonel Repington. Sunday, November 27. 1931 nt Washington) After consulting Mark Sullivan. I have made a list of ten American papers which one should read daily in order to a-mire, Amerlt-nn feeling from the Atlantic to the Pa cific: The New Tork Times. New Tor k World, Washington Post. l'ort:.in'. Oregonlan. Chicaico Tribune. l..ili ville Courier-Journal for aoii;;-:i views, Indianapolis News. I-,n'-:i Transcript and the Sprlnu'leld. . Republican, which ls the Ma '!.; -r Guardian of America. And rr.e shotiM add a Hearst paper. A nmss fun see and read nothing elr.c.