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mE MORNING OliEGONIATf, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1923 -BMusssU 10 ESTABLISHED BY HKNKY JU FITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co., 134 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. A. BORDEN, E. B. PIPER. I t . Manager. Editor. -ih? Oregonian Is a member of the Aaso elated -Pre,,,. The ASB0Clated press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication J. a" news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tne local news published herein. All rights i publication of'special dispatches herein are also reserved. r"' i iSobscrlption Bat, (By Mall.) i "t 'i 5andy Included, one year $8.00 -'.:-' punaay included, it months... .za 4Ja . Sunday included, three months. 2.25 6unnay Included, one month... .75 ai y. without Sunday, one year, 6.00 t iy' without Sunday, six months.... 3.25 $, h wlthut Sunday, one month 60 .uuj,, one year Z-0y ',. - ' (By Ca"ier.) 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Is to the good, namely, militarytraining and instruction in physical care of themselves which ' would be of high, value if they should ; be called upon to deend their coun : try. All this is offered by the citi- . sens' military training camps, of -Much that for Oregon and Washing ton will be held at Camp Lewis from 'July 27 to August 25. Tet with a quota of 340 men Oregon has so r, far enrolled only eighty-three, and but twenty of these are from Port land. Is Oregon to be a slacker for the first time in its recent; military - history? ," Under the national defense act of 1920 the United States for the first time in, its history has a military -'policy providing in advance for ade- : quate and prompt defense. As we . resort to the draft only when war la -actually declared, our main re . llance for defense is an army of citizens, to which the regular army ; and the national guard serve only ' for trninino- nry1 a flfc lln Tn former wars we have deferred train . ing of citizens until war had begun. I The result was that, though we en .' rolled over four million men in our forces for the world war, we did not ' begin to fight in France until we , 1 had been at war for fourteen ' months. - During that period the , allies did the fighting. It is not pleasant to contemplate what might have happened to us If there had been no allies. There may be none - iitM nine, kiioiciuii; uumuiuii pru dence dictates that we be ready to fight without any allies as soon as vue ue&i war ueguis. it IS lolly to take for granted that, because we want no next war, it'will not come. We did not want the last war, but , v4. came, the enemy calculating that , he could crush the allies while we -were preparing. The best way to . prevent war Is to be ready for it. ; - AH that is the reason for citizens' . military-training camps. The forces 1ia!r frtr ITIElunl Dnrl-lnn a w V. n ; regular army and the national guard, ; aggregating about half -a million . men. : Behind them is to stand the skeleton of an organized reserve. consisting -of officers and technical men. To fill the ranks when an y order for mobilization comes, a large j number of trained citizens is needed. To provide these officers and trained men, ten citizens' training camps are established, where all men who volunteer receive a month's training each year from regular officers. By , this means it is designed to add 60,000 a, year to the number of trained men, who may enroll in the organized reserve and who would in any case be the first to volunteer , and to receive appointment as com missioned or non-commissionprl nffi : cers. In that manner it is expected that half a million trained, organized reserves would stand behind the regulars and national guard very soon after war began, not after a lapses of fourteen months. The young man who takes this opportunity of doing a patriotic duty ULAJT W.J met, uuij o,u LilO nnmKlnA nrllh lliot I.... n11 1. pleasures and recreation of a sum mer outing in camp at no expense to himself. He will be free at the --j-.4 4 hl mnnlH in a m t , II in the reserve or not. In either event he will have acquired habits of exer cise and care for his health and will have had a month of invigorating outdoor Hie. He will also know that, if war should come and if he should be drafted, he will have an advantage over his untrained com rades which will stand him in good stead. . A brief extension from May 31 the original date for completing Oregon's quota, has been granted by the war department. The hon orable record made in the war hA " continued Tlin ; effitA was first to complete its quota ? ot volunteers for the national guard It sent none but volunteers to the s It auota to several litierty loans and was awarded the- proud title of the Volunteer State. If it should now fall short, the deficit In its quota would be made good by Washington, which is required to supply double the Oregon quota. There should be no delay 1H sending applications to arlauarters of the 96th division at J2S Postoffice building, Portland, if Oregon is to esi-ape oeing a siacKer. It is not easy to see what would t,e gained oy tne auiomoDiie-Drana , scheme which the district attor 0f New Tork county proposes a. protection against theft. He would establish a federal bureau of ftutonwm" icsisuj involving, oi course, additional, fees and a force of inspect01-3 and would make fed eral registration compulsory. A mark, impossible of effacement, would be attached to each automo bile, and would be set forth in every bill of or other instrument in whlcn the automobile figured. But there are difficulties, among which Is the impracticability of designating all the parts of a car, and the scheme offers nothing that the man ufacturers themselves could not put Into effect if they believed it desir abl. As a aljjtt to add one more tax to the already well-taxed motor- 1 . ; . . 1. : wjie I exiieuy lur auto tiueveiy more likely to work would be prompt punishment of thieves under the laws that we already have. SOtRCE OF THE SCANDAL. The love affairs of a silly girl of seventeen and a man three times her age, or of anv asre. are not ordinar- IHy of Interest to any persons but themselves and the gossips. Tet the world itself the frreareot rf msKir.s finds itself immenswlv concerned over the "romance" of Miss McCor mlck and the Swiss riding master, who is at times referred to satirically as a livery stable keeper. Suppose he keeps a livery stable. It is a respectable employment. If he keeps a good stable It should be a guarantee that he is a respectable man. ' But the scandal of the proposed match does not lie in the details of the intending bridegroom's private employment. It has its roots in the utter failure of her parents to care for Miss McCormick and make a sensible girl of her. She has been reared in idleness, just as they have ived lives of useless and inane lux ury, indifferent to one another, for getful of duty to a young daughter, concerned only about the day's pleasures. They had too much money, all of it unearned. Now the mother makes a belated effort to stop the match. She calls In the law. Jt is a poor substitute for a mother's love, a parent's zeal ous guardianship. But it is all there is left to do unless the father and mother reform. They never can. HOW TO PRESERVE ORDER. The strike of the longshoremen in Portland, beginning late in , April, was followed by a series of brutal attacks upon non-union workmen, committed by strikers, or by others sympathetic with their cause, or by yet others who were chiefly inter ested in making trouble for all con cerned. The mayor on May 11 issued a statement to the effect that he proposed at any hazard or cost to preserve order. Large forces of policemen were diverted to the waterfront and since then there have been few attacks on non-union workmen, or anybody. The public, peace has been preserved. Now it is demanded that the mayor withdraw his police and leave the waterfront employers and the unions to settle their quarrel. What bearing has the presence of the police on the merits of the issue? Does any person or organization dare maintain that It is not the duty of public authority to protect its citizens and all of them, - union or non-union, employer or employee? Does anyone dare maintain or ad mit that but for the preservation of law and order the strike would have been won or lost? ... Such Is in effect, but not in words, admitted, when it Is declared that the mayor is "interfering" in behalf of the employers when he suppresses lawlessness. Interfering with whom? With those who rely on brutality, on terrorization, on group assaults against individual workers, to win the strike? Is that admitted? If it is, then It must also be de clared that it is the duty of govern ment to keep hands off, no matter what happens, when any organiza tion sets out to strike, or any other organization sets out to prevent a strike. It is possible that it is costing the citv a thousand dollars a day to police the strike. That Is one good reason why the public should regard itself as deeply concerned In its early end; but it is more vitally con cerned in maintaining its own su preme position as the conservator of the peace. - It may be true that the eftect-or the mayor's intervention has been helpful to the employers. But It is a shameful plea , to make in any body's interest that he should keep the police away from any scene ot probable,' even certain, disorder, for fear that there might be disadvan tage in their presence to some one. There is one condition in which the mayor might be justified in withdrawing the police. Let there come from the waterfront employers and waterfront employees satisfac tory guarantees that the strike will be carried on without disorder. Let the employees guarantee -with an adequate bond that they may be held accountable, with suitable pen alties, for every infraction of law perpetrated by them or by any of their sympathizers. Let the longshoreman s organiza tion also guarantee, with an ade quate bond, that they be ' held ac countable for any infraction ofiaw committed by any of their members or sympathizers. If the' employers or the unions deny that they have any responsi bility to see that order Is preserved, how can any of them complain when the mayor does it? MODERN CONVENIENCES. ' Decidedly the answer to the prob lem of the high cost of living is not to be found in the suggestion of an eastern promoter that people shall dispense with "all modern conve niences in: their homes, such, for example, as running water and the fixed bathtub, but it ought to com fort those who do not have all the things they would like to have to remember that, their forefathers went without most of the luxuries which have become the necessities of today. Charles Sumner Bird tells the Springfield Republican that he has observed that home ownership is largely retarded by insistence on accessories which our ancestors got along very well without. If, he says, houses could be erected without' fur naces, bathtubs or electric lights, their cost would be so greatly re duced that many could afford" them who cannot now do so. "Our an cestors," he says, "got along with stoves only, and you can do the same. I have observed in many parts of Canada extremely worthy people who are living without fur naces, electric lights or bathtubs, all of which are very aesirame u one can affQrd them." We more than suspect that if this theorist will sit down with pencil and paper and calculate In detail the cost of the conveniences he has roughly assumed to be prohibitive, he will find them a much smaller factor then he thinks they are. For it does not appear that he proposes that people shall do without heat or lights or that they shall go un bathed. The modern furnace at its best Is in all probability a fuel con- server; the electric light, after making due allowance for the cost of wiring the house, wm oear com- parison with the cost of lighting with candles, as our ancestors did; while as for the bath It is ex tremely likely ' that the balance would show strongly against the old fashioned Saturday nigSt method of heating water in sundry pots and kettles on the top of the family stove. One of the facts about the old luxuries that have now become ne cessities Is that they have been democratized by their very cheap ness. To eliminate them would not be in the end to reduce costs un less at the same time we are willing to do without the advantages they represent. We can. better afford to rent a while longer than to dispense with heat, light or the bath. PROOF WANTED. As distinguished from the will to believe, which usually gets what it most-wants to believe, to the exclu sion of all else, the spirit of gen uinely scientific inquiry Is invoked by the offer of a. Portland physician who has also been an investigator of psychic phenomena. It is an offer of a sum of money the precise amount being of course a matter of no concern to those who lay claim to supernatural powers, -and yet quite sufficient as a guaranty of good faith for definite proof of a very simple thing. In a safe deposit box there reposes, 'as the physician affirms, "a certain sign, countersign, password, code or whatever one may see fit to call It," by failing to pro duce which a number of pretended spirit communicators have in the past branded their efforts as futile if not actually spurious. Tet the conditions of the proposed test are not unreasonable or unduly compli cated, and at least as negative proof the failure to comply with them must be regarded as conclusive to the present time. The whole history of the investi gation of so-called psychic phenom ena has been so cluttered with the trumpery, the prestidigitation and the small claptrap of the "seance," and particularly has been so con fused by the incapacity of witnesses to distinguish the probable from the improbable because of their own predilections, that the wonder all along has been that the affirmants of spirit communication have not been willing to submit their case to some such straightforward test. The "spirits" always discourse in mysti fying parables when direct language would make everything clear. They deal in generalities which do not always glitter when specific infor mation is the thing above all others that Is desired. They are masters of ambiguity, but apparently of nothing else. We shall not too hastily conclude that by coming forward with the designated -"certain sign, counter sign, password, code," or whatnot, the proponents of spirit communica tion will in this instance make out beyond peradventure a positive case,' for we do not exclude the possibility of certain phenomena which are explicable on non-supernatural grounds, but they will at least create a better presumption in their favor than now exists. An interesting, and perhaps a significant, starting point will be furnished for future inquiry. For it must be conceded by those who have been hitherto unhampered by preconceptions that we have lacked a clearcut issue in the past. Such a test has been previously proposed in the case of Dr. Hyslop, also a devoted investigator with a peculiarly scientific, cast of mind with, we believe, the result that was to have been expected. All sorts of purported messages, came, none of them, however, bearing the single and simple hallmark that would have marked them as genuine. These also, as has so often been the case, have bespoken the "lamentable decadence of mentality (if they had been genuine) to which the Portland physician alludes. it is not ,a sign of declining ca pacity for things of the spirit that Lpeople in the twentieth century are inclined to insist on scientitic proot. It is on the contrary an indication gullibility is on the wane. ' The pity is that people should be expected to put their faith in the manifestations of the dark room and tne sieignt-oi- hand performer when, If the busi ness were genuine, a simple word or two would set the whole matter right. ' PORTLAND'S UNPARDONABLE SIN Confronted with the alternative of being deprived of all shipping board vessels operating to the orient, the. Columbia Pacific shipping company has been driven to yield to the board's demand that it employ union longshoremen under the closed shop policy. There is no appeal, for the board is the court of last resort, its word, is law, its decrees have all the force of the ukase that was former ly issued by the czars. " The board thus wins the dlstinc tion of forcing upon the agents for its trans-Pacific line from Portland restrictions on employment of long shoremen that are not imposed on any of its other ships sailing from this or any other Pacific port, that are not followed by any other ship owners or their agents doing busi ness in these ports. At every other Pacific port the open shop is the rule and no discrimination is prac ticed in hiring longshoremen be tween union and non-union men. All other companies Operating ship ping board vessels on the Pacific have the open shop, even including those in the intercoastal business to and from Portland. An exception is made by the board of one com pany in one port. In defense -of this edict it is said that the closed shop is the policy of the present board, and that its con tract with managing operators gives it the right to enforce that policy. If there is to be any certainty about the interpretation of a contract, the present board should be bound by the construction put on the terms by its predecessors. When the open shop was adopted at Seattle and San Francisco, the former board held the matter to be one for the managing operators to decide, and the present board has made no attempt to change conditions there. Is a con tract to mean one thing to one board, something else to another board; one thing at one port, the reverse at another port? But the present board's policy is not even consistent with its own past actions. It per mitted its agent at San Diego to Introduce the open shop without pro test and it allows that practice to continue. Why this sudden zeal for the closed shop when Portland at tempts to follow the practice of every port on this coast? Private ship owners may plausibly contend that they nave a right to employ either union or non-union men exclusively, for they are dealing with ships in which their own cap ital Is invested. The shipping board can justly claim no such right, for It is the servant of all the people operating ships owned by all the people, among whom non-union men stand on an equality with union men. On .the ground of economy It acts contrary to th policy of the admin istration and to- thej trust that was placed in it. Private ship owners in this port do not make such a deter mined fight for the right to exercise their own judgment in employing longshoremen out of merely senti mental regard for non-union as against union men. They maintain that it effects real economy in oper ation, not only by equalizing charges with those of competing ports, but by higher efficiency in work. Their action jn making the fight confirms their statement. How can the board, which is spending the people's money, including that of the non union men whom It ostracizes, justify its action in incurring higher cost for the benefit of union men alone? , ' . . The action of the board in this matter is cumulative evidence of the board's consistent purpose, to dis criminate against this port on every occasion. It. threatened to deprive Portland of its own trans-Pacific service and attempted to hand over the Columbia Pacific fleet to its rival, the Admiral line, which bends all its efforts to divert traffic from Portland to Seattle, and it was led to desist only by most vehement protests. It has persistently ignored Portland's just claim to trans-Pacific passenger service, and it treated the final presentation of Portland's claim with contemptuous silence. Having thus evinced a desire to deprive Portland of American ships, it be trays deep anxiety to put in effect section 28 of the Jones law, though the Inevitable effect would be to drive foreign lines from this port to the gulf and Atlantic coast. It now singles out its Portland line for en forcement of a labor policy which neither it nor any other ship owner pursues at any other Pacific port. This chain of circumstance leads to one opinion that the board consid ers Portland guilty of an unpardon able sin in presuming to be a port. For the source of that opinion we must follow the trail from the ship ping board to the big shipping com panies which have too much to say in , influencing the policy of the board. WINNER OF A PATRIOTIC ESSAY PRIZE. , The case of Solomon Dabinskl commends itself to our notice as an example of what persistent deter mination will accomplish. Dabinski has just been voted the winner of a bronze medal awarded by the Na tional Society of Colonial Daughters for the best patriotic essay in Eng lish. The facts about him of par ticular significance in this connec tion are that he was born in Poland and that he came to the United States only a year ago without any knowledge of the language of the country of his adoption. The suc cessful essay is described as a "mar vel of lucjd English, which might well serve as a model for young students who were born in this country." Still another circumstance that deserves relation because it bears on the difference between this man and other aliens is that he decided for himself, without aid from any committee on Americanization of aliens, that an understanding of English was .essential to his success as an American. On the day that he landed as an immigrant at Ellis island he was precisely like thou sands of other immigrants. - He got, job not much to his liking, but immediately sought and found an opportunity to attend night school. The gift of tongues which (most Poles possess was helpful to him, but not more than his singleness of purpose. To all intents and pur poses he has mastered our language. which many young native-born stu dents find exceedingly complicated, in a single year. v When some process of selecting immigrants is devised that is better than the first-come-first-served sys tem by which national quotas are filled, the Dabinskis of all countries will have -preferred privileges, not altogether because of the facility with which this Dabinski acquired a language but because of the spirit that he exhibited in doing so. It is conceded that language is a common bond that unites peoples, and It is as true that those who refuse or neglect to learn our speech betray an attitude that is against the prob ability of their becoming good citi zens. , Mr. Bryan is "a full-fledged Southerner, sun!" at last. His home at Lincoln has been given to church, to be remade into a hospital. Take him by and large, Mr. Bryan is not a bad sort. Chile, who considers herself cock of the walk in South America, is beginning to decline arbitrating any thing In the Peruvian dispute con ference. By declining to "save daylight" Mayor Baker saves himself and the public much controversy and incon venience. There is fire menace everywhere in the city, on smaller scale than in the woods, yet requiring more vigi lance. - It seems anomalous to ask for rain in this region, but just now It would be welcome. The little neckfur is not so out of place. The original owner wore It In this kind of weather. The system needs more than five pints a hot day Bull Run brand preferred, iced in the pipe. Mamma McCormick is becoming Interested in Mathilde rather late, but mamma knows best. Who wants to save any .of this glorious June daylight? It is made to riot in. What these sub-flappers need most is a little parental flapping of a slipper. Every rose bush is working over time these days. Time now to think, of that sum mer -vacation, Stars and Starmakers. By I-rone Csss Baer. SUMMER is surely here. The agi tators and little groups of re formers have renewed their annual wrangle over one-piece bathir.E suite for women. . Gilda Gray, whose only claim to attention is that she introduced the classic shimmy dance to New Tork theater optionees, has climbed stead ily i since her discovery , by Sophie Tucker In a small cabaret In Chi cago. ' Gilda, , who is a beautiful blonde, has been engaged by. Plor eni Ziegfeld for his forthcoming pro duction of "The Follies." and her ap pearance withthe show. It Is prom ised, will herald an act entirely dif ferent from anything in which this dancer has been identified hereto fore. Miss Gray has been seen In sev eral Broadway productions in the past and is one of the foremost devo tees of terpsichore on the theatrical horizon. , . With the closing of the Baker stock Leona Powers and her mother, Mrs. Emily Powers, departed foT Salt Lake, where they will be guests of relatives at the army post for a fort night, following which they will go to Duluth, Minn., where Miss Powers will head a summer stock company. Lora Rogers left for Oakland, Cal., - on the Saturday evening following the season's -closing at the Baker. Miss Rogers' last week was one of those grief-filled occasions which oc cur in the lives of the folk In the theater and of which the public, ait ting in judgment of ' the actor or actress, knows nothing. Too late for her to make the trip to her father's home in Oklahoma, Miss Rogers re ceived word of his death, and heroic ally went on playing the remainder of the week rather than leave the role to be read by a substitute. Miss Rogers will play ten weeks' engagement in Oakland in support of Crane Wilbur and other leading men who are to. be featured during the season. Mina Croiius Gleason, -long a favor ite in stock along this coast, is play ing an Important role In "The Red Geranium," now current at the Princ ess theater in New York, and spon sored by the Greenwich Village Pro ducing company. The play Is a drama and deals with free things, love and life and so forth, in New York's Latin quarter. After successful years in vaudeville, both in this country and abroad, Ethel Levey has returned to musical com edy at the Long Acre theater in "Go Easy, Mabel," a three-act affair, which also served to introduce Estelle Winwood to Broadway for the first time. Charles George wrote the book, mu sic, lyrics, everything, in fact, ex cept the advertisements and the re views. - The cast Includes in addition to the star, Ethel Levey, and Estelle Win wood, Will Deming, Arthur Ayles worth, Russell Mack, - James C Mar lowe, Eileen Van fiiene and Margaret Dumont. " ' The jealousy of a married couple and the well-intentioned efforts of their friends to smooth the troubled waters furnishes the complications which are voven into five scenes. The passing of Harry1 E. Williams a few weeks ago at the Merritt hos pital In Oakland, Cal., recalls that he was the author of a number of best sellers In their day, among them 'Tipperary," "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree," "Cheyenne," ' "Seminole," "Back to Baltimore," "I'm Afraid to Go Home in the Dark," "Peggy" and a score of others that set the public to humming. He made a fortune from his share of the royalties, but the bulk of his money has been lost through unfortunate Investments. Federoff, the interesting old Rus sian impresario - who brought his Russian opera company here last yeai is fond of a joke and proved it to the discomfiture of a well-known musical critic on one of the Chicago papers, when the troupe was recently In that city. It seems one of the members of the male chorus has a remarkably bass voice and at one of the performances he plunged down into what the re viewers considered the lowest note they had ever- heard. Forthwith there was a scramble- to discover the identity of the rr-an and one of the seekers for information accosted Federoff, who wrote down "Mr. Boz- zozlichlno" on his visitor's pro gramme. The next day this critic was the only one who used the name, the others having learned that "Kurech- kin" was correct. When the thing sifted down, however, it was found Federoff had merely been cavorting with the credulity of the minority critic as the word. "Bozzozlichino" in Russian means "It is of no con sequence." . . And yet who shall say the lone re viewer wasn't right in spite of him self? . ' When Charles Dillingham sailed for Europe a few days ago he declared that he hoped to induce the kaiser to come back with him and be director-general of the theatrical busi ness in America. He said the pro ducing managers had decided they needed a manager and the kaiser cer tainly needed a job. With somebody to take over their responsibilities and produce their plays, the man agers would have nothing to do but work on their income tax reports and play golf at Great Neck. The director-general would guarantee a fair Income on their Investments of millions of dollars in the theaters they own, and if they were dissatis fida with his returns they could vote to delegate Jackie Coogan as assis tant administrator. "It's a great idea," Mr. Dillingham went on. "and there's no end to its possibilities. Trotsky might be en gaged to attend to the Russian the atrical activities, now the vogue. Lloyd George could certainly handle the dramatic end of it. The man agers could afford to spend any amount f money to be guaranteed they would not be bothered with their' ductibn approximates $12 a mon, own business. They have muddled it sufficient to pay the rent of m-iuy . i. k . w . , workers. Besides,- there is no appre- long enough, but thank heaven. it'Sble redncUo in the cost of living, not too late for them to realize they which should precede cuts in wages, need a conservator. "I'll bring one I even if the latter Is necessary, back alive, it possible." I WORKER. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of tfolks at the Hotel. "This is the most unusual condition that I have ever known in Morrow county," observed W. H. Barratt, stated highway commissioner. "The outside range is burning up and the sheep will be suffering within a few days. The sheep cannot get into the range on the reserve. I have never seen the like of this In the years I have been in the sheep business." Mr. Barratt says that there has been a 30 per cent Toss in lambs this season and that wool is two pounds short per fleece. The shortage in the fleece is due to the long winter. The loss of two pounds on a fleece runs, in the aggregate, into a considerable sum for owners of large bands. The shear ing in Morrow county has been com pleted, shearing starting early in that section and the work is mostly done by machines. C. N. McArthur leaves today to re turn . to his duties at Washington, D. C. "Congresa" said the repre sentative last night, "will probably not adjourn before 1 August. After adjournment I shall return to Port land and conduct a vigorous cam paign for the general election. I ap preciate the 'offers of .congratulation and support which my primary op ponents have extended, Mr. Korell, Mr. Crumpacker and Mr. Macdonaid, and I look for "a. harmonious election in November. I also believe the voters of the state will continue to support the Harding administration by re turning all of the Oregon congress men." Yesterday was hot enough for Representative McArthur to dig out his palm beach suit, which is very necessary in Washington, but rarely needed so early in the season in Port land. .Tourists are beginning to percolate into Coos Bay, coming over the Rose-burg-Coos Bay highway from the Pa cific highway, reports C. R. Wade, county judge of Coos county, regis tered at the Imperial. The Roseburg Coos Bay road is not finished, but the stages and tourists are using it now. The day before Judge Wade left for Portland there were several cars ar rived at the bay from California, Washington, Idaho and Colorado. These are merely the forerunners of the caravans of motor tourists who will head for the lively towns on the bay when they discover what a fine country it is. The ride from Rose- burg to Marshfield can be made in a few hours, even with the road rough in socts. Some of the most expensive construction in the state is on this highway. Heretofore the hotel business in June has been crowded into the Rose Festival week, but this year things are different and the coming events could not be better arranged to satis fy the managers. Beginning June 7 the town will have Shrlners passing through on their way to San Fran cisco. - Then from June 10 to 17 the grand lodge of Masons will convene and the Order of Eastern Star and the grand chapter. : From June 16 to 19 the delegates who attended the Shrine gathering in San Francisco will be passing through on their way home, after which comes a week for the crowds attending the Rose Festival. "We have only three or four months in our county when road work can be done, .so it is necessary for us to hit the Ball hard In the limited time, stated H. V. Alley of Nehalem, who Is registered at the Imperial. "And when ic rains in Tillamook, it certainly rains. The county is pushing its road programme and among roads under way is one intended to get to Bay ocean, the resort on the south side of the. bay. Until a road can be built to Bayoceari from' the town of Tilia mook the visitors to that resort will have to cross the bay by boat. This road will probably be completed about the year after next "People who talk about bad roads should have been driving an automo bile 10 years ago, says Mrs. F. D. McCully of Enterprise, on her way to Tillamook and the Mexican border. "The day that La Grande newspapers reported snow on the Old Oregon trail at Kamela, making the road Impass able, Mrs. McCully drove over that section of the highway without see ing snow and without knowing that the road was supposed to be out of commission. Unless a new road is built, an all year road, between Bandon and Co- quille, the full benefits of the coast highway from Bandon to the Call fornia state line will not be received, according to J. E. Norton of Coquille. Therefore, the highway commission is being urged to help in the construc tion of this section. Part of the pro posed road will have to be a dike, thrown up out of marshland by clam shell dredges. ' Mrs. J. E. Ferguson, of Hood Rivfer, registered at the Imperial en route to the meeting of clubwomen at Til lamook. Her husband was formerly a contractor and builder at Astoria and constructed some large buildings in Portland. Of recent years, how ever, he has been in the apple bus iness in the Hood River country and is said to be one of the largest single-handed shippers in that dis trict. Chauncey L. Crider, who has lived in Polk county for years and one of the big business men of Dallas, is in town. He is also interested in prunes and the indications are for a good crop and good prices. Mr. and Mrs. C- E. Hutcheson, of North Powder, Or., have been in Port land for the holiday week end, reg istered at the Imperial. Mr. Hutch eson is a farmer with extensive hold ings. . . . Asa Fordyce, commissioner of Klamath county, is in town on road business for his cour.:y. He says, speaking of the strike at Klamath Falls, that a number of men are re turning to work. C. W. James, Lincoln county judge, is a Portland visitor, along with the county commissioners. They had a conference with the state highway commission last evening. G. L. Dunning, of Stanfield, Or., is registered at tne Hotel Portland. Mr. - Dunning is a commissioner of Umatilla county. Wage Drop and Normalcy. PORTLAND, May 31. (To the Ed itor.) In The Oregonian I read that "the nation is quickly returning to normal," and that the "wage drop is a factor ; also that wage cut stif fens rail stock prices." Further along I see that there has been reduction in rail rates, which has been made contingent upon and awaited the cut in wages; and that with the adjustment of these two embarrassing factors the way is clear for a thorough-going resumption of business activities. It seems to me that this is a false premise. With a reduction In wages of t80.0(M),000, the worker will have that much less to spend; that much less to circulate in the various lines of business not to speak of the curtailment of comfort of himself and family. Even five cents an hour ie- Burroughs Nature Club. ( opyriKbt, Houghton-Mifflin Co. Con Yon Answer These Questional 1. Please give the size of houses and doors required for wrens and English sparrows. Also best location for house and how early to place them. 2. How are the scales on a snake's body arranged? v 8. How did the wild flower saxi frage get its name? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. v Answers to Previous Questions. 1. How is it that toads are found sometimes at the bottom of old wells? The probable explanation is that they were very dry, and on finding a well, jumped in, and then could not get out again. It is thought that toads have sometimes existed as much as ten years, or even more, in a well, living on the low forms of life that also congregate in such spots. Toads suffer terribly from heat and dry ness, and will adopt desperate meas ures to get the moisture they need for existence. '. 2. What makes some birds drop their legs and spread the tail dov. when they - come to a perch or to earth? The tail is known to serve as a rudder, and probably also as a brake. Spreading the tail just before alight ing would slow up the descent and allow the bird to stop more exactly on a given perch. Letting the legs down also helps the downward drop. 3. What is the liana of tropical forests? ' It Is a perennial climbing vine with a woody stem, something on the order on a big scale of grape vine. Its tendrils are delicate but strong, and once fastened around a tree, grow heavier and tighter until the tree is practically strangled. As soon as it begins to show damaged vitality from the choking, insect and plant para sites fasten on to it and help it to decay. Eventually it falls to the ground, and may decay so entirely that the liana loops are left empty. But the vine sends out new tendrils to reach for new tree prey. MEMORIES OF OLD HOME .TOWN There Is Never Any Romance Like That of the Past. Albany Democrat. The visitors' -.memories of Albany and the Willamette valley will be of varying, periods, some recent, some so. Among pilgrims will be some who will see again, in changed or in unchanged appearance, old spots dear to the mind. It is a sad and happy peculiarity of the human, that what so background of .beauty has served him in dear scenes or tender, or in climactic tragedy, linger always in his memory and gather added potency as the time that separates him from the original events increases. But perhaps the trait is not entirely privilege of the human. Birds come home over thousands of miles of mountain, sea or desert. .Who owns and loves a -canary songster may one day see the little yellow fellow beat ing his wings frantically against the bars of the gilt cage in which he so long has carolled happily. And, un less he is liberated and allowed to start toward that home somewhere whence he came, he will be found. next morning, dead on his back, the alien surroundings over which his joyful spirit, but not his memory, had conquered. The angler-fish crawls ashore to die, answering some faint, far cry in his being; and thrushes and sparrows, at the final call, fly to sea until their weary wings fold and sleep ere they touch the water. Home, then, and the power of tender memory are universal sentiments. To some few of the visitors Tues day the ways and byways of country districts will call up the most poig nant associations. One may feel these with them, even one who has not lived tnem. Tne old nouses on our county roads, somewhat lonely, some what stately, suggestive that they have lived and gloried through the dramatic heights of life, tell, their stories to the sympathetic friend Usually they stand among their staunch cronies, oaks or firs or ma ples. ' There will be time-dulled gin ger-bread work along the eaves, once the pride of a careful carpenter who, likely, remained to build within the house he had created a family of which he was even prouder. Panel pane windows kept out the south westers that swept the pioneered valley. Narrow porches were the rule. A heavy front door, four steps, a patch to the gate and one Is remind ed of a midnight in the olden ro mance days, of a shiny new buggy stopping at the gate, a movement as the country beauty of those days leaned out, took the arms of - the youth and leaped down. There would be a lilac tree just inside the gate. There would be another pause; an other good night, and yet another. The long-skirted girl would slip to her room up beneath the gable, and not until he saw her light there woul- the wooer drive away. The angry whirl of automobile wheels now scatters the dust of the country lanes where once the driver. mooning and dreaming at the mercy of the valley night, listened to the wheels softlv errindine nn th rnaH Yet none will forget none so for tunate as to have lived in that rueered. tender era. wnetner it were a social in the new Grange hall, or a dance down the river at Black Dog, where strange maidens from- Independence and Buena Vista vied with buxom Knox Butte girls, the tanned youn man and hts fine black buggy with yellow wheels would be ready. His hard days of woodcutting or plowing or harvesting would not tire him ou ' Doubtless there are .more pilgrim mages made unannounced, more sen timent untold, than can be gathered in however large an official home coming. There will be, to, for th visitors, a new Albany to take their attention a town healthily grown from the town of old. Yet we venture there will be those who will wander off alone. There is never any ro mance like the romance that is gone. B'EV AS THE SUN. The sun and man, since the world began,- Have blazed a trail for the highway clan. From the. east to the gold-crowned west That trail, at last, like the miles they've passed, Has lost its print in the shadows cast. When the evening gives them rest. We spring from the rosy brow of east, E'en as the sun; Girding ourselves for the highway feast The trek's begun. We race through the eager morning hours. E'en as the sun; And rest In the shadow-casting bow ers. Our race half run. We winnow our gold as the moments ' stray. E'en as the sun; And burnish the west at the close of day, With wealth we've won. And come at last to the western bars. E'en as the sun; To seek our rest 'neath the unreached stars. Our labors done. HOWARD M. CORNING. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jumi $. Montague. ENVY. I bitterly envied the wealthy In my young and my ignorant years; I wanted so bad all the things that they had That it moved me to covetous tears. I envied their wonderful houses, I envied their marvelous meals, Their swell private cars and their dollar cigars, Their yachts and their automobiles. I envied their glorious leisure. Their freedom from trouble and .care, I murmured "Ah. me! how contented I'd be Were I but a rich millionaire! would travel about over Europe And view all the historic scenes, would marry a wife that would look, to the life. Like the girls on the June maga zines." viewed them, of course, at a dis tance I saw them stroll by on the street. For I felt that to roam through a rich person s home Uninvited, might be Indiscreet. But still in my fancy I pictured how rarely delightful their lot. And I'd often remark, as they passed in the park, On, the cinch that the wealthy had got. I am older, and sadder and wiser. And know sundry neODla of means. Who do as they please with their elegant ease And own thirty-eight limousines. I really am fond of these people. Ana nope they will not take It (11. Should they ever be told that I envied their gold In my youth, and I envy It till. - It Means Somethlnjr In these days the old invitation. "Name your poison" isn't so jocular as it was. - Epidemic Every few weeks a peace confer ence breaks out in some new section of Europe. A Friendly Rivalry. At last account Emma Goldman was two banishments ahead of Biri Bin Haywood; tCopyrlg-ht by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oreroniar. of June 1, 1897. Ed Fortune's imported Endymion won the five-eighths mile dash yes terday from E. R. Budd's Miss Lewis, aomg the distance in 63 seconds. . Today will take place the ooenine of the new hotel at Flavel, near the mouth of the Columbia river, a crea tion that gives Portland a new fixed seaside resort. Six new competing transconti nental roads are practically what the opening of the Ogden gateway means to this region. The rooms of the Multoroor club have recently been renovated and newly papered and painted, in Dren- aration for a grand balL Fifty Years Asro. From The Oregonian of June 1, 1872. Queen Victoria has appointed the Countess of Mayo to be the honorary iaay or tne oedenamber to her maj esty. The steamer Idaho,-now due in this port, took on 600 tons of building stone at Bellingham bay for the new Portland customs house. - Cuban customs authorities seized a large quantity of wooden pails shipped from this country because they were painted with red and green stripes, the revolutionary colors. The .ironwork for the lighthouse tower, soon to be erected at Cape Foulweather, has been completed at the mills In Oregon City and will be shipped in the near future. GO AHEAD AND WIN PENNANT Suggestion by Fan As to Bow the Thing Can Be Done. 'PORTLAND, May 31. (To the Ed itor.) Those directly interested In the Landis award handed the Port land baseball club have made their statements and they all seem par ticularly interested in their own cases. . To us it seems that there is only one' straight and narrow path for them to follow: Klepper and Brew ster turn over their stock without recompense to someone whom they have confidence in; resign as manag ing heads; the club buy Kenworthy's services from the league after Aug ust 1 and go on and win a pennant. In the meantime, William H. Klep per and James R. Brewster, it seems to me,, would have one perfectly good cause as individuals and citizens to collect a nice fat chunk of that $50,000 per year salary awarded to that other individual, Kenesaw Moun tain Landis, as damages for confis cation of their property. Doesn't this seem to take care fcf everybody much better than hurting the club by their fighting while still in charge? PLAIN FAN. Absurdity of Recall Law Plain. Coquille Sentinel. The absurdity of our recall law was very fully demonstrated in the voting a week ago. In some places the tickets marked in favor of the re call, and at the same time tor the official proposed to be recalled were thrown out as meaning nothing. But what better was it to vote against .v.- ..nail anA frtT a rps 11 .anili.lA LL1C 1 CV-1J, " " . .. , running to replace the incumbent? To be at all logical the recall proposi tion should be put first, and then. If it carried, there should be an election to fill the vacancy thus caused. For. with two candidates running against the official whom it is sought to re call, it might well happen that the recall would carry and the official recalled get a plurality as the candi date for the place made vacant by the recall. . ' OPTrMISM. Life is not all roses. And spring is not all rain; Summer is not -all sunshine. And success is not all gain. Eut roses brighten life's pathway. Rain brings the wild flowers sweet; Sunshine is Boftened by .shadow, And success often comes from de feat. Then let us take heart as we journey. And look for the sunshine through rain; Let's strew other pathways with roses ; Thus true success we may gain. GRACE PADDOCK EDGERTON. Recipe Is Suspicious. Exchange. '"You may give me a pound of rai sins, a cake of yfast a peck of -apples " , "Yes, yes." ' .. "And four cakes of soap." "Huh! I'll never try that recipe," said the grocer as be turned away." In Other Days.