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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2f, .1933 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY X. PITTOCK Published by The Oregonian Pub. Co., 135 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon, a A. MORDBN, B. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oreyonlan fs a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance, v (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year . . . .18.00 Daily, Sunday Included, six months . . 4.25 Dally, Sunday Included, three months 2.25 Dally, Sunday Included, one month .. 75 Dally, without Sunday, one year ..... 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months .. 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month.. .60 Sunday, one year 2.50 (By-Carrier.) - . 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Again the American DeoDla are Z threatened with a general railroad strike because the members of the Z railroad labor board representing the public agree with, those repre Z eentlng the railroad companies that waga Bojoiiiu do reojuceu. i.ne 3 owners' representatives may be pre- eumed to be biased) the employes' representatives have clearly shown a like state of mind by the tone of " their dissent, which contains a di- Z rect incitement to strike. Yet the representatives of the public can 2 have had in mind nothing but Jus-' j tice between owners and employes as best serving the general interest. - They are placed in the position of 1 umpire. Their Integrity not being t questioned, their impartiality is Z assured by the fact that the public interest would suffer, whether cost of transportation was kept at too - high a level by payment of exces- sive wages or wages were reduced Z on railroads below the general level Z and below the minimum necessary ; for decent subsistence. In a con j troversy such as that which Is pend- ing, somebody must decide. Who - is better qualified to render a just " decision than representatives of the " people who must finally pay in one Z way or the other who must pay In Z excessive rates or inferior service ; on the one hand or in impaired character of two million men - among the nation's best manhood, - as well as In diminished purchasing Z power, on the other hand? Z The railroad unions accept no J decision to which the employes' ; representatives on the board, do not 2 assent, but say they will rather fight it out y a strike. Thus they Z deny one of the ruling principles of the transportation act, which is Z that the public's interest in trans ; portation is paramount, and that j this Interest requires that railroad labor disputes be settled without I strikes. They propose to return to the old practice of settling disputes by depriving the people of service until one party had forced the ; other to surrender or to compro- ; mise. They appear not to care hew r much the public the innocent by- Z stander suffers through these in- 1 dustrial hostilities provided the Z railroad men get what they want. ; In fact they cotmj the injury to the ; public as a powerful influence to ; bring the' railroad companies to - their terms. That is the plain ln Iference from the statement of John L. Lewis, head of the striking .:;.miners, who has been In conference J with heads of railroad unions on a - combination of their forces. The - following passage from a news dis- i -patch is open to no other interpre- ..-tation: Mr. Lewis said that all industry, is "largely a matter of transportation, and 1 -approximately one-third of the business ,-of the railroads is hauling coal. "A strike of 1,000,000 or more railroaders' . he contiuned, "would thus cause such a -r Uislocation of all industry that the conn- '" try would soon be prostrated and the j-lrsilroad and mine corporations would oeme to terms with their workers.' That utterance evinces a purpose t produce the very effects on which the United States supreme court, founded its unanimous dec! sion in the Coronado case that a striKe is a conspiracy to restrain , , or monopolize interstate commerce, ..If that be the law with regard to a strike at coal mines In one state, a . v. strike affecting all railroads and all -" -union coal mines in all states would surely fall under the same conde-m nation as a far more extensive re straint of interstate commerce. Public opinion would not counte riance strict application of this con ' struction of the law if it were - -y proposed to apply to the railroads a standard of wages below that I " which prevails In other industries , " involving equal skill and risk, or ; out of proportion to the cost of liv ; - ing. On the contrary, the labor board saya that it -does not order reductions equal to those made for . similar workers in other Industries, s for it rejects the idea that it "Should be controlled by the one ; consideration of the low wages that - may be paid to other labor in a period of temporary depression and , .unemployment" and that "railway , t.. managements have indicated no de ; s sire for such a result," Its deci eions are based on the interstate commerce commission's reports on t wages and on reports of the bureau of labor statistics on cost of living. As to one class of employes th "- board says that, the reduction still ; leaves the standard of living 12 per ; Z cent above that of 1915. Compari ; j-son of average railroad, wages an - of living cost, taking the average .for 1915 aa a basis, shows that . Wages have risen above cost of liv- 4 ing since the beginning of 1918 ; .Cost of living showed a larger in J crease from August, 1919, to Au gust, 1920, but at the latter point wages rose materially while prices ... began a precipitate fall, which con tinued to the end of 1921, and the ' . hourly rate of wages is farther out ; of proportion. Railroad men surely know th general facts, and they cannot ex rr : pect to maintain a scale of wages -a considerably above that which pre Si. vails In other industries, nor can ""; they expect public sympathy in the effort to do so by a strike by which .. the public will suffer and which if successful, would impair the , prospect of lower rates whereby all would benefit through lower prices and more general prosperity. Nat urally railroad men present every possible argument against having their, wages cut and receive the cut with a growl, if only to make cuts as few and as small as possible; few men are so angelic as to re ceive lower wages with a welcom ing smile. For these reasons the men affected almost unanimously vote authority to their union offi cers to call a strike, not that they want to strike, but that they wish to" supply a weapon for use in making the best terms possible and to insure that the labor board shall know that on such occasions it must have an unanswerable case. There are compensations for the railroad men. They may be sure that the reduction in cost of rail road operation caused by wage re ductions will soon be made the ground of a further reduction of rates, which will be reflected In a decline in prices, in other words a fall in living cost. Reviving indus trial activity is- steadily decreasing the number of idle freight cars in pite of the large number put out of use by the coal strike. We may expect that crops will begin to move In two months hence, and that4-by that time the coal strike will end. The number of ldie cars should then shrink to that normal ly out of repair, railroads should have all the traffic they can move, and their net earnings should rise above the standard rate of return. That condition should cause rates to fall farther with the effect that rates will fall and that prices will follow, not only as a direct effect but in consequence of stimulated production which will increase sup ply of goods In proportion to de mand. Not the wage scale alone is be ing reduced; prices are forced; down at the same time, and the natural result will be that lower wages will buy as much as higher wages have bought when prices were at the peak. If that should not prove to be the couirse of events, it will be time to strike at those who artifi cially keep prices up. In such a strike the railroad men would have the public as an ally. Ont FESTIVAL OF ROSES. The advent of our fifteenth rose festival, at the height of the floral season, compels again the attention of the city to n.n esthetic apprecia tion of life. The business routine of any year, whatever Its dramas and comedies, la at best plain and methodical, and dedicated' to prac tical things. Such is its nature that affords scant time for apprecia tion of the tint of a petal, or the fragrance of a bursting bud. One would say, if he were not privi leged to enter the Intimacy of home, that we had been dulled by too much beauty and were far from realizing the poetry of flowers. Not ith- intent so to do, the festival disproves this while proving at the same time that the soul of a city is that of a poet. The festival finds its Inspiration in the true worship of beaiuty, as told in flowers, and no doubt It leaves with the celebrants refreshed concepts of the Influence of beauty in life. If this were not true, then the celebration of the festival would be mockery. Indeed, it is regrettable that some persist In weighing the worth of three days in June by their not Improbable advantage as civic propaganda. We are told that the festival is bringing fame to Portland, and urged to its continuance by such an argument, If it should so transpire, all the more fortunate are we but at no time should we mistake the inci dent for the aim. The rose festival is sufficient to itself. It is of and for Portland. One .would like to think that no motives of selfishness had worked for its perfection and that nothing mattered save its lesson of beauty. In the presentation of a spiritual ideal, in the yielding of tribute to those fairy-folk, the flowers, It were consistent always to shun the contact of materialism. REASON OR INSTINCT? That instinct plays a leading role In the. thought of wild creatures seems certain, but instinct alone does not always suffice to explain their preferences and conduct. Al most the observer is" forced to acquit them of Instinct and admit that they reason. Why should the water-ouzel, foraging along the bank for food, carry its edible dis coveries to the stream and there wash them before eating? Here we have an Instance of the instinct of appetite restrained' by an 1m pulse that seems not In the least instinctive, though generations of the birds have practiced it. It is obvious that friend- ouzel Is finical and will not tolerate sand on his food. Water washes away sand ergo, to tne water, instinct, or something else? An eastern poultryman, experi menting in the rearing of wild ducks from the egg, was amazed' to discover that his mallards brought off larger and stronger broods when permitted to build their own nests in natural out-of-doors con ditions. Instinct undoubtedly ac counts for this preference, and the infallibility of wild Instinct was sustained by the eventual hatches. At least we have come to classify such stubborn traits as nesting in natural surroundings as among the instinctive urges. Yet there was a sufficient though unrevealed reason for the preference the definite lack of something In the one con dition that was supplied in the other. This lack it was that the excellent ducks perceived. Why instinctively? To the contrary, and still dwell ing upon the selection, of nesting sites- there are abundant evidences that these are not always wisely chosen demonstrating that either instinct or reason is deficient, it matters not. Yet if instinct were the rule, the code, one would imag ine that every bird would unerJ ringly seek an ideal nesting spot A pair of brown house-wrens, fond ly believed to be that chattering couple of wee home builders who returned each April, had long made their nursery in the walls of an abandoned shed, tgaining entrance through a providential knot-hole. When the urge was on them In another spring it chanced that the family washing decked the clothes line. Into the swaying sleeve of a waist they poked twigs and straw, the merriest wrens within a miie. Without regret the waist was aban doned tothem a most mistaken course. Almost at the hour of hatching a rude west wind lashed the garment and the eggs were broken. Instinct should have told those foolish little birds that so unstable a site was not for their treasures they who for intermin able generations had frequented knot-holes. Not far from Portland this spring a robin built her nest on the raft ers of a train shed, though trees were within a stone's throw. Con cealment there was none, nor was there turf beneath for the fledg lings to tumble on when first they left the nest.. Like the wrens who nested in the waist, and who were foolish thereby, she had been de serted by instinct and was courting sorrow. Instinct, then, does not always apply and If instinct is not conscious cerebration why has it left its post? As good a guess as any- is that the instinct of wild creatures is more akin to reason than we will admit, and that lapses from long custom only serve to prove this theory. The lapses be token a revolt against custom, how ever unwisely decided upon ' and connote thought. SO FUNDS. Riches and pride are evanescent. Money takes wings. Roscoe Ar buckle is broke. Oddly enough the fact that this once famous film comedian no longer owns the sesame of gold does not perturb the reader. Is there a trace of elation,' not spiteful, but retributive, in the thought? House, car, friends and money, alike gone from him. Roscoe Arbuckle is broke. Money, we take It, ought of right to be his who most deserves it. In a topsy-turvy world such is not always, or often, the case. Profli gates have incomes they cannot squander! though they exhaust vice and vitality ln the attempt. Nig gards and nincompoops axe some times abundantly blessed with bank balances. Yet once m a while for tune tips the beam and down they tumble, even as Fatty of the films. Shall we not smile to see their fall? It were less than, human not to. Why shouldn't Roscoe Arbuckle be flat of purse? True, he escaped the courts and brazened' it out "be fore the world. But the nemesis of his folly filched from him all his goods, and justice not ade quately, perhaps, but to some ex tent has been served. He goes the way of all wasters, all Incom petents, all merry morons who are suddenly required of life for an accounting and discover their defi ciencies. The years will roll over him now. FJLYING CP TO 185,000 FEET. The altitude attained by the air plane from which Captain Stevens jumped with a parachute the other day, making a safe landing, lacked a few feet of the record of Lleuten ant Hamilton, made a year ago last March, but it was amazing in the respect that it was the daring jumper's first attempt of the kind and that it was successful notwlth standing the loss of the oxygen tank with which he started. But even more interesting are the con clusions of the experts of the war department. Brigadier-General Mitchell of the air service points out that by demonstrating the possibility of fly ing at approximately 25,000 feet, the aviators have conquered two Important obstacles. One relates to war, the other to peace. At about five miles in the air the craft would be practically immune from attack from the ground. But, better than that. If it could go a little higher it probably would be able to avoid storms, a fact of great importance In commercial aviation. Moreover it would have the advantage of air currents which would greatly accel erate its rate of travel. The feat of crossing the continent in a single day, upon which theorists have speculated lor some time, is brought perceptibly nearer by Ste vens' performance. In fact, flying at 25,000 feet in volves principles differing only in degree from those governing ascent to twice the distance. Adventitious aids, both for the engine and the engineer, are required- in either in stance. Data obtained as the result of the adventure of Stevens and his companion are likely to prove of tremendous moment. It reminds us that - incidents are occurring almost every day and receiving lit tle notice that constitute definite steps In the scientific progress of mankind. ENTER THE FLIWERBOOB. Reckless motorists have been variously denominated, in times of stress, to the utter exhaustion of all possible epithets and frequent ly with a gifted and fluent preci sion .that would quicken the envy of Long John Silver himself. The age, however, is one of standardi zation, In nomenclature as In navy beans. Hence the want has long been felt of some, comimon term that, by its general descriptive in clusiveness, would fittingly describe the madcap morons of the public thoroughfare. Casting about for such an appellation, the American Automobile association recently of fered a cash prize to the member who should suggest the sought for name. Of the ten, thousand-names coined In response to this plea that of "fliwerboob" was awarded the palm. We are told that, in its province, it may and should be applied to those -motorists who as such are comparable to the "jay walker" among pedestrians. Fliwerboob! Doubtless the day shall dawn wherein men will strip to their shirt sleeves and fight to disprove it. Facetious police judges, who must have their pun beore punishment, will preface fines and imprisonment with this scrap of slang-compounded. To be known as a fliwerboob will bring the mantle of shame to many a hither to unblushing maniac. All this and more the A. A. A. had In mind when it convoked its members to evolve the term. What, then, is 4 fliwerboob? Alas, there are so many of him, so versatile a variety is he, that no single definition quite suffices. Like charity, he covers a multitude of sins. First among fliwerboobs, beyond dispute, is the fool for speed. He is premier of the fraternity and by his crash, men know htm. Until the time of . tragedy his course la littered with dead hens. More menacing than an army with spears. Is it not permissible to nominate, also, the informative yawp who turns ever from the wheel to dis course With affrighted friends in the rear seat? That farm, he. tella us, was sold ten years ago for $20 an acre. Today heaven send he misses that post at the turn! it is worth $200. Jump, doggie for your life! A friend of the under taker. J ' Consider as well the thirty- second degree fliwerboob whose delight It is to disport on slippery pavements, newly strewn sand and the treacherous country clay. He demonstrates that any automobile, driven by a congenital idiot, is more blithe under such circum stances tham the unbroken broncho of the range, more agile than the catamount more deadly than, jug gernaught. By. his skid you shall know him. And we are equally of the opin ion that the witless wight who. for ever "demonstrates" his car is of the elect in fliwerboobdom. He stands on. his neck, a peer among his peers. A train thundering to the crossing, a daredevil chance, she can do sixty a tossed and bat tered wreck beside the right of way. Here, coroner, was manifest ly an error in Judgment. We, the jury ... Of almost equal prominence amorfg the lackwits of the road is , the fliwerboob whose joy it is to stimulate the plugging pedestrian; to make him Jump like the young gazelle, whatever his years; to curve his back and flutter his dis tressed coattolls -and to leave him, nearly always, im a most laughable condition of fright and frenzy. Yet sometimes to leave him frightless for ever after. To stamaner in court and, over and over, tell why he didn't think and how "It" hap pened. His stand is where the ambulance stops. Is he not a fliwerboob who. learning that his brakes are not working perfectly, saves time and takes a chance? He sees the child in the roadway, the truck in the offing, but the brute mechanism hurtles him horribly onward. He is a gambler whose stake is human life, and, additionally, perhaps the most Incomprehensible outlaw of them all. Hop In, I think they'll do. An " infinite variety of them, whose so lei lack seems common sense. It may be taken aa tritely true that a fliwerboob is always a deficient, not precisely normal, not right bright," as folks used to say of the unfortunate not exactly all there. In brief, a mental mechan ism with defective brakes. Other definitions of the fliwerboob will occur to many who ponder their own experiences, their hairbreadth escapes, their exciting episodes. He is not to be mistaken, for anything else. '"'.' As to "the excellence of the term itself, the prefix Is operr to crit icism.' Not only does it fasten opprobrium on a most . reliable friend, but it Implies that boob motorists are addicted to the fliv ver. Such is not the case, as a generality. To any observer it Is evident that fliwerboobing is apt to manifest itself through the agency of the more expensive auto the elements of pride and price apparently serving to arouse delu sions of grandeur in the driver. Nevertheless the term has a popu lar flavor, and- so often and per sistently has the fUwer itself been ridiculed, the target of a thousand jests, that no- doubt it can bear with this one which is well intended. Not long ago the Inland Empire Automobile association, of Spo kane, conducted a similar contest for a name to fit the reck less driver. The choice fell- to "speediacu" clearly descriptive but wholly without tang. The predic tion is ventured that it never can be popularized. For that matter it remains to be seen whether the public will adopt the more facile term of fliwerboob. The public may prefer to consult its own in spiration, depending upon the cir cumstances to coin something com mensurate with each offense. "Jim" Casey, local representative of the Milwaukee system, who died Monday, was of the old guard of "tackhammer" men who, as travel ing passenger agents, spread the merits of their lines over the coun try. They held their jobs because of their personality and they got the business. They had a canny way of knowing who was contem plating a trip, wedding or other wise; and landing him. Portland had a number of them and they w a fine lot. , An. Oregon girl who has made records at the Round-tip is break ing .precedent by seeking a jockey license' oni eastern' tracks. Depend on her to show'them if she gets it. Fishermen all over will note that a rainbow trout 34 inches long was taken in one of the Klamath lakes the other day and came to Oregon for real sport. Portland can do as well with any other flower, except, perhaps, the night-blooming cereus, and she would not be afraid to tackle that. An auto thief on parole from McNeil's stole another car and has to go back. There Is no use "fool ing" with one who has the habit. The. Hawaiians want Oregon trout to plant in their streams, but no Oregon trout would feel right that far away from home. Balloting in lreiand seems to have faviored the democrats, if par tisans of De Valera's republic can be called republicans." The really singular thing about these new vitamines the scientists are talking about is that they come without extra charge. Well there's one comforting thing about this Hague conference. All the conferees will be equally in Dutch together. Chicago has a man of 69 with five wives. He lived with one thirty-seven years before he "went crazy. Tne Mouormick operation re vives all the "monkey business" that had been allowed to slumber. The lighthouse at the mouth of the Willamette should not be aban doned. It's a landmark. Hale won easily the senatorial nomination in Maine. The Hales' always do that there. Portland needs afloating grand stand upon occasions. Those Who Come and Go, Tales) of Folks at the Hotels. "Instead of spending money to advertise Oregon and bring people here to sea the state, the thing to do now is to spend the money en tertaining and educating the visitors.- It is no longer a matter of attracting outsiders they are com ing here by the thousand and they can't be stopped, so the thing to do is to see that they are properly tak en care of," declared B. V. Carter, banker of Ashland, Or., who is at the Imperial. "A tremendous num ber of tourists are now on the road and our camp- at Lithla park is crowded. Every day and night the camp has a throng of machines from all over the country. We have engaged a high-class. Intelligent man to take charge of the camp and he is diplomatic and knows how to handle the people, giving them information and advice. We have a big open-air fireplace, cooking plates, shower baths and show them where to get the different kinds of mineral water and what each water is especially good for. Now we plan buying a. lantern "and every night giving an entertainment showing the scenic and commercial resources of Oregon, so that the visitors will want to remain as long as possible in the state. We charge 50 cents a night for the first two nights, then 25 cents a night for the next four, nights, after which the four-bit charge is imposed. Few complain of the nominal charge for the accommodations, and those who protest are a class of people who wouldn't toe much benefit to a com munity, anyway. I was a little du bious about the camp fee at first, but I am convinced now that it is the proper thing." Mr. and Mrs. Carter drove to Portland to attend the Rose Festival. "As soon as we struck the Oregon state line the air felt better and cooler and every prospect pleased," claimed Sam Thompson, wheat grower of Umatilla, who is at the Benson from Pendleton. Mr. Thomp son and Willard Bond of Bond Bros., Pendleton merchants, went to Cal ifornia several weeks ago and are now preparing to return home. They left before the primaries and Sam swore In his vote at Salem. Be cause of his Identity with the Pen dleton round-up Mr. Thompson had been Invited to be one of the Judges at the round-up held at Sacramento, and he met the cowboys and cow girls who ride in the Pendleton classic and they greeted him as an old inena. Mr. Thompson ana Mr. Bond went to the Rotary convention as representatives, and as they are also Shriners they attended the fes tivities in San Francisco. In driv ing back Mr. Thompson declares the sultry heat in California was most disagreeable for two days, which was all the more reason that Oregon looked good to them when they reached the line and struck the hard-surface pavement of the Pa cific highway. "There are SO miles of the Yel lowstone trail in Montana, of which 250 miles are improved, more or less," states W. H. Lynch of the Montana highway department? who Is in Portland attending a highway conference. "We have about 25 miles of hard-surfaced pavement in Montana outside of the cities. There is no state money for road construc tion and counties receive 50 per cent of the tax from motor vehicles. There is a gasoline tax of 1 cent a gallon which, instead of going Into a road fund as in Oregon, goes to the school and general fund." Speaking of crop conditions, Mr. Lynch says that Montana now has plenty of moisture and the best crop prospects since 1916. "Cave day is next Monday, and everyone is invited to the celebra tion which Grants Pass is prepar ing," said John Hampshire, as he checked out of the Hotel Portland last evening. "The caves are one of the real wonders of Oregon, and every native and every tourist should see them. The government is taking special pride in the caves and with the state has contributed toward building a good automobile road to the entrance. Means of Il luminating the caves are now being considered. For the celebration June 26 a big time will be staged, and it will be one of the real events of southern Oregon." , Samuel Pepys, who gossiped about 1667 and gossiped so intimately that he jotted down his thoughts in shorthand of his own creation, served as the basis of A. H. Upham's remarks to the graduating class at tne University of Oregon, Monday. The general title was "a gentleman and a scholar," a not uncommon combination when Samuel was writ ing his diary. Mr. Upham, who is president of the University of Idaho, is returning to Moscow from Eugene and is registered at the Benson. James C. Black, who lives at the Imperial when he is not globe-trot ting, wrote to Harry Hamilton from Manila, P. I.,- giving Instructions about keeping moths out of his clothes which are at the hotel. In his letter Mr. Black says that he would have been home this month hut for the war In China. He was In Mukden, Manchuria, when the war broke, and managed to get to Tient sin. There he discovered that the railroad to Pekin and Shanghai had been cut and the only way he man aged to escape the country was in a German motorship. He superintended the laying of the pavement at Maryhill, . Wash., for Sam Hill, did W. G. Borden, and now he is the state highway commission er for Nevada. Mr. Borden lived in Goldendale, Wash., before shifting to Nevada. "We are a large state with a small population, so we haven't made the progress in finish ing roads that Oregon has, "observed Mr. Borden yesterday. "There are about 30 miles of bard-surface pave ment in the state. The rest of the roads are of .gravel or crushed rock." "Frostproof" Florida, is the way F. C. Thompson registers at ' the Multnomah. In view of the fact that every year there are dispatches fill ing the press about the Florida fruit crop being ruined by frost, Mr. Thompson's boast appears to require an explanation. Florida is- now best known as the place where the tin can tourists flock during the winter when they do not want to make the longer trip to Sunny Cafeteria. Old "Alfalfa Rex, himself, other wise B. M. Fuller of Crook county, arrived at the Benson yesterday. Today he will be joined by the rest of his gang, the Irrigators of Crook county. The Irrigators lost all their band instruments in the Prineville fire, but they promise to make their presence known in the parade just the same. John B. Holman, registering from the Elks club of Salem at the Per kins, Is 84 years old and is in the city to take in the Rose Festival parades, even if he has to sleep on a cot. . Robert W. Ruhl, the fighting edi tor of the Medford Mail-Tribune, is registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Newberry, of Medford are at the Imperial to i watch the Rose Festival activities. SHAKERS FIRST SUFFRAGISTS Idea Introduced by Strange Sect In j America in 1774. Theridea of equal rights for wom en was introduced in America two years before our Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal." Spirit manifesta tions, akin to the recent popularity of other world communication, had a vogue in the colonies before the revolutionary war. These facts are, recalled by the proposed abandonment of the Shaker ; community in Enfield, N. H., which is reported to have dwindled from 350 members to only six survivors, says a bulletin from the Washing ton, D. C, headquarters of the Na tional Geographies society. "Of all the religious groups that found sanctuary on the soil of colo nial America the most remarkable, perhaps, were the Shakers with their customs that were partly medieval and partly far ahead of their day," the bulletin continues. "And the persistence nf a firmly grounded "religious belief is aptly Illustrated by their survival to this day, although their virginal vows provided no younger generation to carry on their tradition, and their deliberate Isolation in self-sustaining communities gave few oppor- I tunlties to make converts. The Shakers never naa more than 5000 members and the 12 com munities remaining today reported 867 members In 1916, which means a population of not more than 1000. The longevity of Individual mem bers, combined with their abstinence from meat ana Ilsn, tneir prescnoeu manual labor and hVKlenio living. have made their communities in teresting human experiment- sta tions for the biologist as well as the geographer. The bodily move ments as they worshiped closely re semble the noon-day gymnasium exercises of many an American business man. "Ann Lee, self-styled 'Ann the Word," but known among her fol lowers as "Mother Ann,' founded the Shakers, whose official title is 'United Society of True BelleverB In Christ's Second Coming." After four children died in their infancy Ann Lee sought solace among an offshoot of the Quaker sect in Eng land which had been Influenced by the early 18th century wave of 'manifestations' among what we would call 'mediums.' Ann could not read nor write, and her hus band later deserted her. For her shouting, leaping and bodily gyra tions during her exhortations she was arrested' in Manchester. "Wlile in Jail the young woman asserted that the Cnrist appeared to her in a vision, told her he was one with her, and upon serving her sentence she gathered a few fol lowers and set out to America to proclaim herself the embodiment of Christ in his second coming. "On the way across the ship's captain forbade the Shakers to in dulge in their athletic form of wor ship. Whereupon, according to Shaker literature, a storm arose, a plank was sprung, and the vessel began to JUL 'Mother Ann' reas Bured the captain, saying two angels had appeared before her In a vision to promise her safe passage. Just as the crew was becoming exhaust ed from pumping, a huge wave again struck the ship and jammed the plank back Into plaee. , "For two years "Mother Ann' worked In New York as a washer woman, then. In 1776, she founded the first Shaker village at Water vliet, N. Y. "In such strange fashion was in stituted, the year that America dates her national birth, the west ern world's first experiment in communism. Later societies, or 'families,' grew up in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Ohio and Ken tucky. "The cardinal principles of the Shakers' religion are virgin purity, confession of their sins, complete separation from what they term the world's vanities, and a communism which approaches political social ism. , If a man and wife join a Shaker community they are sup posed to live as brother and sis ter. "Until recently they prohibited the taking of photographs and they forbade pictures of all kinds as idolatrous. Even the cultivation of flower gardens for decorative pur poses was, frowned upon in former years. " And there is still doubt among the older members about the propriety of musical instruments. "The Shaker community is i nearly self-sustaining as possible and about the only Importations in their beginnings were iron for their plowshares. In their Industrial and agricultural development they have contributed many valuable ideas which have been slezed upon for general use. They are credited with the revolving harrow, cut nails and the planing machine. Raising herbs for medicinal use was one of their early major Industries. "A famous description of their central community, that of Mount Lebanon, N. Y., Is applicable to all their settlements. 'No Dutch town has a neater aspect, no Moravian hamlet a softer hush,' says this writer. The streets are quietj for here you have no grog shop, no beer house, no lock-up. no pound of the dozen edifices rising about you workrooms, barns, tabernacles, stables, kitchens, schools and dormi tories not one is either foul or noisy; and every building, what ever may be its use, has some thing of the air of a chapel.' "An elder and an eldress are the patriarchal heads of the villages. In the larger villages two of each sex are chosen, and their authority Is unquestioned. The recruits of the societies are from world-weary persons to whom the isolation ap peals, and children attending their schools who are imbued at an im pressionable age with their religious teacnings. macn member of the community is expected to perform a share of the work, and by work the Shaker means manual labor. Many attempts to carry out the economic ideas of the Shaker vil lages have failed, apparently be cause the absence of the religious tie allowed members to depart too easily." WHAT IS BEAtlTYf Sky of flawless turquoise. Clouds like ships of snow. Fields of emerald velvet. Orchards in full blow; In the distance, trees tall. Waving, greeting kind. O'er all, golden Bunshine, Caressing, fragrant wind That is beauty! . Night of sheerest silver Flooding flowers and trees, Peace and restful stillness, Friendly, cooling breeze; Boundless sea of azure, Wisps of lace-cloud haze. Golden moon a-gllding Through the mystic ways That is beauty! Bank of mossy verdure Girt by fronds of ferns. Drifts of yellow violets Everywhere one turns; Pool of limpid water, Breath of nectared air, , Gleam of purple iris I With dew-jewels rare That In hAnntvt I -NORMA DANIEL ARANT. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, HonRhton-MlffHn Co. Can Yon Answer These Questions? 1. Do all birds eat Insects? 2. Is the mule deer the same as the black-tailed? I hear It spoken of both ways. - 3. Please explain why gold fish put in a small volume of water without aeration live anS. apparently thrive for a considerable time, when the general run of fresh oralt water fish will die within a few hours when so confined? Answers In tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Please name all the kinds of birds known as game birds. We give the standard groupings In usj by the American Ornitholo gists' union, viz.: Anatidae, or ducks, geese and swans; Rallidae, or rails, coots end galllnules; Llmlcolae, or shore birds in general; Galllnae, or quail, grouse, pheasants and wild turkeys. In some states Columbae, or wild pigions and doves are un fortunately included as game birds. v 2. Do any of the common ants have wings? Yes, the queen, or egg-layer for the colony, has wings when she be comes adult, but loses these when she makes her nuptial flight, mating with one of the numerous winged males. After the flight the queen's wings either fall off or are plucked off by herself or by workers, and she lives wingless. The winged males (serving like drone bees) die after the swarming or mating period. , 3. When do woodchucks first come out in spring? What do they eat then? Roughly speaking, the wood- chuck s hibernation reaches from autumnal to vernal equinox. But the actual date for coming out In spring varies with the individual, the lati tude and weather conditions. The vernal equinox Is March Sl some time in April would be a better guess-for the average chuck. He eats any tender vegetation he can find, but is very thin and flabby for some days after emerging. HONEST BOJTCS PLAN OR NONE Schemes to Pick the Money Out of the Air Condemned by Writer. PORTLAND, June 20. (To the Editor.) Senator Ladd, the non-partisan league senator of North Da kota, the financial genius (?) of the United States senate, has dis covered a scheme for paying the soldiers' bonus without it costing anybody much of anything. Mr. Ladd would Issue legal ten der treasury notes to the extent of ,2,500,000.000, or as much thereof as may be necessary to pay the sol diers their compensation in cash. Isn't it delightfully simple? These notes would be retired dur ing the next 25 years by revenue raised in three ways. First, he would tax all banking institutions to the extent of 50 per cent of any profits they make m excess of 12 per cent. Second, he would use any Interest paid the United "States gov ernment on its foreign loans. And third, he would use any other moneys it the treasury not other wise appropriated. The league senator's scheme for painless raising of funds is so sim - pie that it is surprising he stops with the soldiers. Why not make all of us Independently rich by his method of painless taxation? Why not pay everybody a bonus and raise the money by a tax on big busi ness instead of just the banks? Taxation is supposed to be equit able under our constitution. Why permit other corporations to escape if the banks are to be taxed? Of course, if all corporations are thus taxed It would be just getting back to the excess profits tax, which did so much to raise the cost of living, and, of course, the consumers pay the tax in the end, but if it is taken frpm the corporations directly, and they are madethe tax collectors, it makes the public cuss them and for get about the peddlers of political bunk. And speaking of the second source of raising revenue, one had but to wonder who will pay the interest and principal of the loan floated to raise the money to lend Europe. As for the third source of revenue, perhaps there are material sums in the treasury "not otherwise appro priated," but since this country owes $25,000,000,000, we might ap ply those sums on our debts. Senator Ladd's scheme is just a little more ridiculous than, the aver age plan for paying the bonus pain lessly. A general bonus for all un injured service men is going to cost this country from four billion of dollars upward to an Indefinite figure. If we decide to pay It, the only honest thing to do is to dig down In our pockets and pay it through a sales tax or some other tax that we know will raise the funds. There is nothing to be be gained by "kidding ourselves" that we can pick the money out of the air or collect in such a way that the consumer won't feel It. The consumers will pay it directly or in directly and all the bunk that all the politicians in Washington can peddle won t alter the fact one bit. It is neither courageous nor hon est to attempt to buy votes with money from the public treasury and at the same time avoid losing the vote of the taxpayer who must. pay. If we are going to have a bonus for uninjured service men by all means let us have an honest one. Let us either turn it down or pass it and raise the money to pay it with a tax that will be adequate, and not by quack schemes to Issue "water fall money or. "legal tender treas ury notes." If the government can simply print enough "legal tender treasury notes' to pay a bonus, :t can print enough to make us all rich. Russia tried it. h. a: kaeppler. Examination for Postmaster. CORVALLIS, Or, June 19. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian, June 11, is mention of "civil serv ice examinations at Dallas, Cor vallis and Monroe." Can you advise if these examinations are open to others besides the present postmas ters? Also where,and when will the examinations be held and to whom should application be made? If possible also advise present salary of these three offices. SUBSCRIBER. John M. Jones, postmaster at Portland, says the Information asked for In this letter can be ob tained only from the first assist ant postmaster-general at Washing ton, D. C. Application for Federal Farm Loan. LA CENTER, Wash., June 19. (To the Editor.) Where will I have to apply to for the government farm loan, and is the office in Portland open for business yet or not? A SUBSCRIBER. Application for the government farm loan should be made at the Lumbermens Trust company, Broad way and Oak, Portland. This office handles loan3 for the states of Ore- tgon and Washington. . More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Ilontnsrne. ACCOUNTING FOR IT. Dr. Bernard Hollander, a British pschyco&nalyst. says that monkey love is far more constant and devoted than tha human variety. In Afrlc's burning Jungles. Where fetid blows the breeze And quaint festoons Of gaunt baboons Depend from ell the trees. A love that lasts a lifetime Is still to be enjoyed;. No wicked vamps With round blue lamps Disturb the anthropoid. An ape that once is mated i Resides throughout his life. Serene and calm Upon a palm. With one and only wife. No elim and simian flapper May look on him with hope, No goo-goo glanoe By any chance Will lead him to elope. There's no such word as "siren" la any simian tongue. No aged ape Will deign to gape At lovely forms and young. He's true to one life partner And true to her alone. Among the boughs Where simians browse - Divorces are unknown. The females of the species, - In Afrlc's tropio vales. Are not so weak. They cannot wreak Their vengeance on the naleav, This often Is their practice. Which Interesting; fact May Influence The way the gerats With wives and families act. . Now We Breathe Easiest Our apprehension at the news Mars was coming within 42,000,000 miles of the earth has been relieved. The corrected figures are 42,250,000. Safe rrom Oblivion. Thanks to the power of the human voice, there is no such thing as an unknown congressman. Almost Permanent, The SpanlBh-Morocco war went into extra innings more than a year ago, and there Is no prospect of win ning any bets on it. (OopyrlKht. 1923, hy Be-Tl Syndicate, Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of June 21, 1897. London. Queen victoria com menced the celebration of her jubilee today. Special services are being held throughout the empire. San Francisco Two sharp" and severe earthquake shocks were felt here today. The quake was general throughout the state. No great damage was done. A prize fight occurred last night in East Astoria, the contestants be ing two lightweights named Walton and Morse. A band of dirty, disreputable Mexicans, of the type generally known as "greasers," is encamped on Carson Heights, south of Fulton Park. Fifty Years Ago. 'From The OreBonlan of June- 21. 1872 laborers on Long island went on strike yesterday. They demand an eight-hour system and an increase in wages from 6 to iu cents aa uuui. Rait TjlUb Cltv. Horse cars rolled over the tracks of the Salt Lake City railway for the first time to day. The First Baptist church of this city, long without a pastor, nas called to its leadership Rev. R. A. Medbury, former pastor of the First Baptist church or Ban irmi.. There will be a camp-meeting held two miles below Lancaster, on the Willamette, near Lemon's ware house, commencing Friday, the 28th instant. COURTESY IMPRESSES VISITOR In Hospitality to Strangers Portland Is Put at the Forefront. PORTLAND, June 20. (To the Editor.) No city in America has made a more profound impression upon me than yours. Not so much its marvelous, unequaled scenic beauty, not the evidence of progress on every hand, not the merry clangor of Its busy workmen, but the atmosphere of home the unself ish interest you show the stranger within your gates. Everybody on the streets shows a kindliness In telling you just how to get to where you want to go with most beautiful courtesy. It all reminds one of the old-time southern plantations, with their joyous welcome to even a chance guest. Portland's peace and plenty ana prosperity seem of that comfortable sort which joys Vn having because of opportunity of giving. Such a spirit must attract kindred minds and your city will continue a place of Ideal home life. From such a life center should radiate paths to smaller commercial centers. Portland, in Its joyouS completeness, will never surely have the spirit of the prayer: Ood bless me and my 'wife. My son John and his wile. Us four, and no more, but will, after making sure that "my wife and John and his wife" are get ting on well, by not only example, but practical influence and effort, stimulate that emulation which is the life of progress. . The wonderful fertility of the sur rounding country shows the possi bility for dense surrounding popu lation. In remoter sections, where the rainfall may not be the same, or other difficulties call for the help ful effort of their strong guardian, Portland, questions of irrigation, transportation, etc., suggest them selves. It comes to you, answering the age-old Bible question, "Who is my neighbor?" to make homes possi ble for that unfortunate neighbor from less favored states in this won derful climate, and under the Inspi ration of favoring conditions he may find life, happiness and pros perity in Oregon. The people of Oregon, led, of course, by you of Portland, have already accomplished stupendous things in your highways arteries for the pulsing of new life and vigor. Following these arteries and their lesser ramifications newcom ers will be led to homes and will become an integral part of Oregon. I cannot frankly say that I think the most populous state is most to be desired from a selfish viewpoint. You of Oregon seem to have quality rather than quantity, and the nat ural admiration is for carbon in dia mond shape rather than that of the useful coal. VISITOR. Home Pianist Is Through. Exchange. "I miss your neighbor across the way at the piano this evening. He plays with such finish," "Yes. he's finished; the install ment man took his piano this morning."
