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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933
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THE HEREIN MASSACRE.
Responsibility for the barbarous
massacre of nonunion miners at
Herrin, HLt cannot be escaped by
the United Mineworkers by making
a simple denial that it was author
ized or countenanced by the union's
officers. An armed mob of 5000
men could not have assembled and
perpetrated so monstrous a crime
without the knowledge of the local
officers of the union at least. The
union's state officers must have
known that the spirit which would
prompt the members to acts of
lawless violence was abroad, and
they evidently did nothing to re
strain it. So ill informed did the
national officers profess to be that
only a few days ago President
Lewis boasted that the miners'
. strike had continued for many
weeks without disorder. Repudia
tion of responsibility, expressions
of surprise and even detestation,
will not suffice.
Nothing can clear the miners
union of the odium of an inaction
that had horrifying results unless
as a body it arrays itself decidedly
on the side of the law, indeed of
civilization, for the deeds which a
great body of its members have
committed were an offense against
civilization itself. The nation has
a right to demand that the union
expel all the guilty members and
exert all its power to aid the offi
cers of the law in bringing the
murderers to justice. The union
must clean house thoroughly before
it can make good its boast of being
a law-respecting body. Unquestion
able proof on that point must be
furnished before it can expect at
tention to its claim to conduct a
struggle for the betterment of the
condition of the miners. Citation
of lawless acts of employers will
be considered no palliation, will be
given no heed, until the union
purges itself of murder and savag
ery and becomes an active force in
support of the law, in order that it
may come before the court of pub
lic opinion with clean hands.
This is the more necessary be
cause on many occasions labor
unions have denied that they au
thorized or approved crimes of vio
lence committed by their members,
even their officers, and have pro
vided funds and hired lawyers to
prove accused men innocent, pro
claiming that these men were vic
tims pf a capitalist conspiracy to
destroy unions. A notable example
is the case of the McNamara
brothers. When they were accused
' of dynamite outrages and when a
" mountain of evidence against them
was found. President Gompers of
the American Iffederation of Labor
raised the old cry of persecution
and collected a national fund for
their, defense. He closed his mind
to all proof until he was con
founded by their confession. The
rule has been that no aid has been
- given by unions to the law in dis
covering and bringing to justice
perpetrators of violent deeds ac
companying strikes, and in some in
stances these acts have been open
ly defended as offset by similar
acts committed on behalf of em
ployers, on the long since exploded
meui y mat wo DiacKs make a
white. Even when the heads of
labor unions in New York and Chi
cago have created a veritable reign
of terror by shooting, bombing,
dynamiting and arson, and have
been convicted of committing these
" crimes for the purpose of black
mailing not only employers but
large bodies of workmen, no help
has been given by labor leaders to
the law.
On the contrary, the speeches
and writings of labor leaders have
been full of attacks on the courts,
' the burden of which is that labor
cannot get justice. Mr. Gompers
recently, m testifying before the
Lockwood committee in New Tork
Ecorned the idea that courts should
' redress the wrongs done by unions
or their officers to their members
or to other workmen. He held that
unions should be left to purify
..themselves from within, though he
was hazy as to the prospect of any
reform. His and other attacks on
the impartiality of the. courts are
a slander on a body of judges which
with rare exceptions maintains as
... high a standard of justice as the
; judiciary of any country judges
to whom labor unions owe con
firmation of all the rights that they
enjoy. Within a few days after the
United States supreme court ren
. dered its decision in the Coronado
case, , the Mineworkers' Journal
- specified circumstances under
. which the right of injunction could
be exercised by the unions, and an
". injunction was lately granted to a
union in New York against the em.
- ployers.
- The idea has been sedulously in
stilled into the minds of union
workmen that the courts and offi
cers of the law are their enemies,
;and always administer the law to
their injury unless frankly elected
to serve the union interest against
that of any other body of citizens.
It has been preached that employ
ers are natural enemies of work
men, and that there is an irrecon
cilable conflict between the two
classes. Such teaching naturally
bears fruit in deeds of violence, the
climax of which has been reached
in Illinois by an act of barbarism
equalled only in Turkey or Russia.
The teachers cannot escape
blame for the deeds into which
their gospel Is translated by men
Tn have little or no education,
who rely mostly on force as an
argument, many of whom are im
migrants from countries where re
form by constitutional agitation is
unknown, where government is re
garded as the poor man's natural
enemy and where men trust only
in force to redress wrong. The
teaching of labor leaders cultivates
the opinion that union labor consti-
tutes a privileged class, not amen
able to the law, whose own defini
tion of its rights must be accepted
without question, and who may, in
defense of those rights, do any deed
which, if done by others, would be
punished aa a heinous crime. The
massacre at Herrin can be traced
back to such doctrine,
Those railroad men who contem
plate a strike and an alliance with
the miners' union in furtherance of
it would do well to draw back in
time. If they should now form the
alliance, the brand of murder
which the miners have put on
themselves would extend to them
and they would incur public con
demnation by the association. Not
until the miners' union has purged
itself of the murderers and has
given convincing proof that crime
is not in its armory by active aid
to the law in prosecuting the guilty
can any labor union which wishes
to preserve its good repute safely
associate with the organization that
has the Herrin massacre on its
record.
It is the custom of those who
uphold every labor union, no mat
ter what it may do, to denounce as
enemies of the principle of union
ism any one who condemns mis
deeds done in its name or in its
cause. Such men are the worst
enemies of unionism, for they in
effect assert that the most brutal
crimes are necessary to its exist
ence. There are many unions which
scrupulously respect the law and
the rights of others, with which
employers gladly make contracts
because they are observed. They
are the oldest and strongest, and
they stand high in public- esteem,
though they do not often figure in
the newspapers. To them the prin
ciple of unionism owes its vitality,
for they truly represent it. Their
worst shortcoming is their silence
when loyalty both to their country
and to unionism summons them to
condemn violence, fraud, black
mail and breach of contract as
wrongs to the whole system of la
bor organization. They have noth
ing in common . with the Herrin
murderers and torturers, and they
should say so.
PUT THE BEST MEV AT THE HEAD.
No doubt exists that the seniority
rule is the chief cause of the dis
agreement on questions of policy
between President Harding and the
men in congress who are leaders
of the republican majority by vir
tue of their positions as chairmen
of important committees.
The present congress has given
several examples of the pernicious
working of seniority. The main
body of republicans in both house
and senate was convinced that the
national welfare required emer
gency legislation for relief of the
farmers from the effects of de
pression in 1920, but it had to begin
by overcoming the opposition of the
men whom seniority had made the
party leaders, to reject the leader
ship of these men ahd to compel
them to follow.
Another example was the fight in
the house on the naval bill. The
chairmen of the naval committee
and the appropriation committee
recommended a smaller number of
men for the navy than the presi
dent considered necessary, and the
event proved that the house agreed
with the president, not with its
putative leaders. Again the nom
inal leaders were repudiated by the
party vhich was supposed to fol
low.
If chairmen of committees were
chosen on the ground of their abil
ity, their fitness to lead and their
holding opinions on party and na
tional policy in harmony with the
party majority, such incidents
would rarely happen. Electing its
leaders because it recognized these
qualifications in them, the ruling
party in each house would on each
occasion show high regard for their
judgment and would incline to sup
port them. As matters now stand,
the nominal leaders have no such
claim to the respect of members,
and a challenge by men of higher
quality is taken up generally and
causes a revolt.
RELATIVE POVERTY.
News that the price paid by the
successful American bidders for the
publication rights of the kaiser's
memoirs $225,000 i regarded by
that formerly royal personage as a
m.pre pittance, wholly inadequate
to his needs, . is a reminder that
poverty is a relative term. ; We
know of no precedent in literary
history for the downright payment
of so large a sum. The former
emperor, it goes almost without
saying, has no claim to literary
skill. The valuation put upon his
writings is almost wholly advent!
tious, depending neither on his
reputation as a philosopher and
historian nor on his .training in
interpretation, but altogether on
certain melancholy events asso
ciated with his career.
We confess to a deeper interest
in his theory that he ought to have
received $1,000,000 for his manu
script because he happens to need
that much money than in the sub
ject matter of the forthcoming
book. The latter has been rather
heavily discounted; the former sets
an ingenious standard for the ap
praisement of service to society.- It
will be suspected nevertheless that
it is not altogether novel. On no
other ground can w account for
certain charges made by other in
dividuals than the ex-kaiser than
that they "need the money." The
royal exile of Doom is more can
did, that is all. '
Prudently invested to yield, say,
5 per cent, the sum to be paid for
the book will yield $11,250 per
annum, or only a little short of
$1000 a month. It is a tidy sum,
such as even a plumber would not
disdain, but to one accustomed to
having a national treasury behind
him ll is but chicken feed. One
must imagine himself in his situa
tion in order to understand why it
was that he felt compelled recently
to refuse a subscription to a fund
to provide a dinner for the poor
children of war victims in a Berlin
war suburb. Or why he has been
pressing for another remittance
from the Prussian government,
which already has advanced him
some 60,000,000 marks. If he had
been reared in poverty, if he had
wrung a living from literature at
current rates of compensation for
matter of ordinary merit, he would
feel as rich as Croesus with a
$225,000 book in press. A reason
able amount of poverty has its ad
vantages, after all.
DEADLY NOT MTRTHFCt.
Moonshine has entered the casual
category of comical terms. The
stealth by which the law is evaded,
the frequency with which other
wise excellent citizens contribute
to that evasion have created no
little merriment among the Joke
smiths. But' the abruptness of the
moonshine tragedy at Plainview,
with its toll of three lives, must
serve to awaken the suspicion that
we have jested about a matter not
in the least subject to jest. He is
a merry moonshiner, indeed, or a
mirthful patron of moonshiners,
who can discover the trace of
Jocularity in such a finis.
It Is idle to condemn the dead
though he took two lives, and
worthier ones, before he killed him
self. That which concerns us is
that the elements for similar trag-
edies are brewing even now. The
still of the moonshiner drips a
deadlier .concoction than any liquor,
however vicious. It drips despite
of law and anarchy and death.
Such has ever been the product of
the distillery, but now that the
still Itself is outlawed there exists
no reason In law or conscience why
this should be. And very far from
being an argument against prohi
bition, the Plainview murders and
suicide serve as reminders of the
spleen and passion that are asso
ciated with liquor. Plainly the pre
vention of other tragedies rests not
alone with the law, but with the
individual citizen.
There is no mirth In moonshine.
The man who makes, buys or
drinks it is indirectly, but cer
tainly, contributing to the creation
of tragedy. Broaden the field, if
you like, until it embraces the en
tire Illicit traffic in liquor, and sets
tramp and tradesman cheek by
jowl. There is still no mirth in it
PEACE ON THE WATERFONT.
Settlement of the longshoremen's
strike is a subject for congratula
tion to all parties directly con
cerned and to the public also. By
Joint control of the hiring system
the rights of both employers and
workers, non-union as well as
union, will be assured. Efficiency
and good citizenship being the
standard according to which men
will be hired, fair treatment of all
men is to be expected, and the
employers should secure good re
sults. With the same wage scale
as other ports and with this stand
ard as a guide, Portland will be
able to handle cargo with the same
economy in money and time.
While employers will profit in the
amount of business done, workers
will profit in steady employment
and in constant additions to their
number as more ships come.
It is to be hoped that the co
operation arranged will cause both
parties to the dispute now happily
ended to realize that they have a
common interest in the success of
the business in which they are
jointly engaged. In these days of
big ships of high cost, quick turn
around in port is an important
point in deciding whether they will
come to this port and at what
charter rate. Efficiency in loading
and discharge reduces time in port
and adds to the time In which -a.
ship is earning freight. It thus
attracts both ships and cargo, mak
ing more business for shipping
men, more work for longshoremen,
and more business for the whole
community. A3 longshoremen are
solid citizens, many of them own
ing their homes, they profit by the
general prosperity which results.
As this view of their relation be
comes clear, it is to be hoped that
shipping men and longshoremen
will come to regard themselves as
in a sense' partners in the same
business, and that they will work
together as closely as do lumber
men and their employes in the
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumr
bermen. The peace and harmony
now prevailing in the lumber in
dustry have mainly been produced
by that organization, and in the
Interest of all concerned like con
ditions should hereafter prevail in
the shipping business.
OUTGUESSING THE STORK. .
A homeopathic prophet has won
headlines through her assertion
that, in the not distant future, the
secret of determination of sex will
be ours to apply. That tricky old
visitant, the stork, shall then be
made to understan-dHhat he cannot
foist something just as good on
the erudite parents. Nor shall the
quandary presented in those fine
old lines, hereto appended, ever
recur:
O if it be a girl, she shall stay at home
wltbj me;
But if ,it be a boy, he shall plow the
raging sea
With his tarpaulin hat and his round
about so blue
Ha Bhall pace the quarterdeck as his
daddy used to do.
Nature's law of checks and bal
ances, which has served since the
origin of life in primeval ooze, is
not so readily flouted, however;
as long continued experiment with
lower forms has demonstrated.
Science has appeared not one but
several times to be nearing the so
lution of sex determination, but the
convictions of successive savants,
each, with a new theory, have uni
formly been discarded as inconclu
sive. It is highly probable that we
shall never know enough about the
marvel to make certain that the
arrival from far shores shall have
ourls or freckles. There is, indeed,
no urgent necessity why we should.
Fads and preference might in the
light of such knowledge prove
meddlesome beyond endurance. The
wish that the first-born should be
a boy, an almost unanimous prefer
ence, would if fulfilled completely
destroy a reasonable sex ratio.
Experiments in the determina
tion of sex have seemed at times to
prove that external influences con
trol the mystery, If we are to ad
mit that the sex of life is not
existent from the first But the
application of these doubtful reve
lations to the race, through the
most favorable observation, has
failed of - proof. Nutrition- is the
lane along which science has
groped for the most part, holding
that the most favorable conditions
of climate and sustenance tend to
induce a preponderance of the fe
male. Famine and cold, it would
appear from this, should be coo-
ducive to many males. Yet when
actual famine conditions were
found, and the births therein noted
for comparative purposes, the the
ory failed.
The authenticity of findings in
the lower forma of life cannot,
however, be doubted but that such
discoveries are-- catholic in the
application is more than, doubtful.
Nature does not always employ the
same formula, and quite evidently
has made an exception of the hu
man race. It may be that similar
exceptiona are many and varied.
The aphides, we are told by one
experimenter, incline toward ; a
numerical predominance of females
during the clement summer sea
son, when warmth and food are
common. Cold and barren autumn
alone restores the balance by de
creeing that hunger and hardship
shall summon males to the roster.
What then? One might reasonably
expect, if the rule were effective
from aphides to men, that a race
of Amazons would dwell in the
tropics, and that the polar regions
would be frequented by tribes of
hardy males. Yet nothing of the
sort is evident.
They called the tadpole into eon-
ference an otd And valued ally.
It appeared that under normal
conditions one hundred random
tadpoles were -as 43 to 57 in male
and female membership. But. an
increase of warmth to the water
and rations of the richest food
materially altered the ratio by cre
ating an even greater preponder
ance of females, A like response
fto pampering resulted among the
juveniles of the Crustacea. From
these and kindred experiments it
was rather hastily deduced that
plenty and hardship served to de
termine sex, the one inducing the
female, the other the male. It may
have been so with the tadpole and
the aphides, and equally true of the
Crustacea though there was room
for error in each research' but
even the investigators had to admit
that it did not apply to man. ;
Is it too much to suggest,
apropos of this particular field of
inquiry, that the idea of sex deter
mination at will is an unnatural
one? It has been safe for count
less centuries to leave the matter
to nature, who is after all a most
kindly, tolerant and capable mid
wife. Somehow or other the sug
gestion that babies be regarded
solely as the wards of science is not
one to waken enthusiasm. It is
nearly akin to the communistic be
lief that children are the property
of the state. ;
TOO MANY RESOLUTIONS.
The month of June is as good as
any other . month in which to call
attention to the futility of making
New Year resolutions in quantity
and breaking them in inverse ratio
to the will power of the resolver.
Henry Hazlitt, who has just written
a book on the psychology of the
subject, reminds us that momen
tary good intentions are worse than
none at all and that the habit of
forgetting or disregarding them at
convenience has a serious effect on
character.
"To break a resolve," says Mr.
Hazlitt, "is to lose faith in your
self. But with every resolution
kept, be it ever so small, your faith
in yourself grows. The keeping of
the next resolution becomes tre
mendously easier. Will power comes
into its inheritance. The moral is
that you should make fewer reso
lutions and keep more."
Not even the. practice of relat
ing everything to "psychology" that
touches upon the commonest voli
tions can obscure the truth in this
engaging bit of pedantry. There is
no conflict of principles in the sug
gestion that while New Year ought
not to be an exclusive day for re
solving to rid ourselves of bad
habits, neither should it:, be made
the occasion for taking on a load
of virtues greater than we can
possibly carry. An excellent and
vital resolution on an average of
once in, say, every three years, if
persisted in by every other citizen,
would bring us in an. almost in
credibly short space of time in full
sight of the millennial dawn.
The young man employed in a
piano house ' should - have" known
better than accept a challenge to
fight an old man, no matter how
"cocky" the latter was; anyway, he
should have ... "pulled his punch."
Now the old man lies near death
and the other has left the city.
Pussyfoot Johnson says he is
ashamed. of the ynited States, The
country probably can worry along
and continue to pay dividends of
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness to its citizens, even under
the terrific burden of Mr. Johnson's
disapprovals
The 350,000 people of Portland
(except those -participating) and
the 25,000 visitors were of one
opinion as to a Portland parade.
Great!" is the word.
A law by congress is not needed
to make "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" the national anthem. It's the
first" real song a child learns and
he never forgets. ,
If a park employe want3 to pray
in a-park during" the noon hour,
that should be his privilege. This
is a. case for Mayor Baker to
handle.
. It will be time enough to think
of granting independence , to the
Filipinos when they show a little
less of it on their own account.
Before Will Hays was appointed
nobody ever would have dreamed
that the movies would turn to a
politician for uplift inspiration. :
There was honored yesterday the
man who brought the first rose
bush to Portland. Or was it a
woman? Most likely.
The boy of 18 and the girl of 15
who elope will come home in the
by and by, much wiser.
Dae "reason there is such lack of
respect for . the ' law is the great
number of fool laws.
The Portland rose is perfection
until . some genius develops, an
edible bloom.
, Nicolai Lenine won't even die
conventionally as per schedule.
Here's your umbrella and come
again. . -
All tired, but happy.
WELFARE RULES ALL PROPER
Charge of Red Tape and Neglect
Ungrounded, Says Investigator.
PORTLAND, June 23. (To the
Editor.) It seems to have become
quite the fashion to point arrows
and fling stones against the man
ners and methods of the Public
Welfare bureau, and some of these
missiles are so far from carrying
the truth that I am minded to say
a few words in defense, although I
hold no brief for this intention ex
cept as. a- firm believer in fair play
and a square deal.
I am an eastern woman who has
been given the privilege of adopt
ing this fine country as her future
home, but before coming here I, as
a young woman, had served a long
term of apprenticeship in social and
humanitarian welfare work in two
of the largest cities of the east,
under the direct instruction of the
ablest exponents of philanthropic
enterprises. I have been connected
with the local bureau for the past
two years in the capacity of a vol
unteer worker, i. e., one who puts
much heart, conscienoe and genuine
sympathy in her work with no fi
nancial remuneration. If I have
any official title it may be said to
oe mat oi intercity invMupwor, denim shirt, such as honest work
in which capacity I have been called sDort. and he was sans necktie.
on to visit persons of both high and
low degree and several of our pub
lic institutions. Had I been so dis
posed there is not a single one of
the latter In which I could not find
several more or less flagrant ex
amples of shortcomings of .various
degrees of importance. These er
rors exist in our own bureau with
out a doubt, but It has been my own
inviolable policy to go directly to
the executive head with my com
plaints or criticisms and sometimes
I have found them not well founded
and in other cases changes were im
mediately inaugurated.
So far as charges of "red tape are
concerned, as spoken of in an item
in a local paper, it was my Own im
pression when I first began my
work with the bureau that there
was a great deal too much of it,
and far too much time was spent
over records than was necessary,
but I have had occasion to see that
I was mistaken, and I am of the
firm belief that records cannot be
too full of information nor too ac
curate in this detail.
I have had occasion to run down
statements of neglect on the part
of the bureau furnished me by peo
pie who almost invariably state that
they know what they are talking
about and have facts as proof. In
none of these instances have I found
any evidence of bona fide neglect
on the part of the bureau, wuite
often kindnesses have been shown
that were gratuitous on the part of
the worker in charge and could not
be measured by money.
People have been reported to me
as being in a "starving condition
and the bureau will not do one
thing for them." "On a visit I have
almost invariably found food in the
pantry, or an order for it In hand,
and heard few words of complaint
from the beneficiaries. There are
some people who will not be satis
fied with the fit of their wings
when they are1 translated, and we
meet some of this kind of course.
But, by and large, I believe the ef
forts of the bureau are directed to
wards relieving all of human
misery within their power, and
that most of their rules of pro
cedure are made necessary by the
fact that not yet is everyone truth
ful. honest or deserving.
Long, long ago I put these few
lines from one of Will Carlton's
poems in my commonplace book.
and I wish we all could be more
guided by them than we apparently
are:
Boys flying kites haul home their -white-winged
birds,
You can't do that way when you'rs fly
in words:
Thoughts unexpressed may often fall
back dead.
But God himself ean't kill them when
they're said.
MARIAN D. MERRY.
WHY HAVE SEVEN DIRECTORS f
Suggestion Made That School Affairs
; Be Pot In City Department. '
PORTLAND, June 23. (To the
itor.) it is a matter for amaze
ment the number and variety of no
tions, ideas and suggestions as well
as criticisms, constructive and de
structive, that the careful reader of
The Oregonian finds in your "letters
from the people."
Here is one we picked up the other
day, and which we are sending you
for your exhibit.
A fairly well posted man on city
affairs, especially as they pertain
to school matters, calls attention to
the fact that the school director
serves without pay, and therefore
the handling of this vast business
with all its responsibilities is but
incidental or a sort of side line to
his private business, which he is
often under a very heavy obligation
to place nrst in nis consideration.
This gentleman's criticism was
that it was remarkable that the
school -affairs under the circum
stances were as well handled as
they are. His suggestion was that
the schools be placed under the city
commission as a department with a
real civil service and a paid com
missioner under heavy bond in
charge, and devoting all his time
to the work. He put up quite a
strong argument in favor of his
idea.
What is the reason it would not
work? What reason have we in
logic or common sense to expect
more or better work on the part of
the school board than we are getting
at present under the system in use?
O. G. HUGHSON.
Hon to Be Happy.
PORTLAND, June 23. (To the
Editor.) One way to be happy is
to keep busy.. If not working for
yourself, do something for another,
if only to coax a smile from a little
child.
Another sure way is to forget
yourself. Do not make out a list
of your failings to ponder over, or
repeat them to an unwilling or un
fortunate listener. Never attempt
to "remove a mote" from thy broth
er's eye while the "beam in thine
own" is forgotten.
Then be very sure to bar the door
to the past. . If you peep in you
will find some dreadful skeletons.
Then it is quite as important to lock
the door to the future, for you can
dig up all kinds of worries and
fears.
But just quietly cultivate poise,
and "be still and know" that the
present is,good: Right now is your
opportunity. Be content to let your
blessings unfold. Each day will
prove the value of listening to the
"still small voice" which is ever
ready to cheer and comfort those
who will accept the "ever-present
help."
Never for a moment forget to be
grateful for the blessings that are
always available.
MATTIE BORNE ROSS.
A Missouri Landmark Passes,
Aurora Advertiser.
A century old postoffice at Boy
ler's Mill, in Morgan county, has
been discontinued following a fire
which destroyed the place. The
place was settled in 1819 at the big
spring 25 miles from the famous
Ha-Ha-Tonka spring. A mill was
established there by a man who in
troduced wheat bread to a section
which had known only corn and rye
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotel.
"People are feeling ' better than
they were a year ago," says William
Pollman, who owns a couple of
banks in Baker and is deeply in
terested in the livestock market
Mr. Pollman came to Portland on
business but when he arrived dis
covered that the meeting which he
came to attend had been post
poned for a week, so in the mean
time he will visit Puget sound. Mr.
Pollman explains that some of the
growers who were hard hit a couple
of years ago have not yet been
straightened out, but that people
as a rule are getting back on their
teefc, Mr. Pollman paused long
enough to say that Baker will have
an Old Oregon Trail celebration on
July 4, which will be worth travel
ing a week to see. In Baker the
old-fashioned costumes are being
worn and Bill, himself, is sporting a
whale of a Stetson for the first
time in years.
On the spur of the moment, Frank
Sloan left his sheep camp, jumped
a train and came to Portland to see
the Rose Festival parade. He cared
not that he was wearing a blue
men sport, and he was sans necktie,
but that didn't bother him any. Hav
ing seen the show Mr. Sloan took
the night train for his camp In
eastern Oregon. "Sheep and stock
business is getting better," stated
Mr. Sloan. It was Mr. Sloan, as a
member of the legislature at the
special session, who organized the
farm bloo which prevented the
house of representatives from
adopting the idea of a state prop
erty tax as .one means of financing
the 1925 exposition.
The lumber industry Is looking
up, our way, reports S. S.. Smith
of Medford, registered at the Benson
while attending the republican state
central committee. "W. H. Olds,
who bought the 50-cent govern
ment timber, has been rebuilding
the railroad to Butte Falls from
Medford and has provided new roll
ing stock. An extension 12 miles
beyond Butte Falls is under way
and of this three miles have already
been graded and arrangements are
being made to get the road . in
operation. I also hear that the
S. S. Bullis sawmill may be sold.1
Mr. Smith has returned recently
from an extended visit to Kansas.
"Banking business 1 good," ad
mits W. H. Gore, banker of Medford.
"General conditions in that vicinity
are encouraging and crop prospects
are excellent. Mr. Gore was for
merly a member of the legislature
and was a member of the house
committee on roads and highways
and also on the banking committee.
The bank with which Mr. Gore is
connected has been reconstructing
its building at the expenditure of
many thousands of dollars, and the
building will be ready for occu
pancy In August, It Is hoped.
The largest order for metal flume
ever given in the west was awarded
by the Tumalo irrigation district a
few days ago. The order is for 12,
250 feet of flume, 10 feet 10 inches
wide at the top, and the job went
to the Portland Coast Culvert &
Flume company, a local concern. The
cost of this flume material amounts
to $125,000. Fred N. Wallace, who
has long been closely Identified with
the Tumalo project, is in the city
for a few days.
Jesse Winburn of Ashland taid
formerly of New York crushed into
town yesterday while the parade
was in progress and could not reach
a hotel, and, in addition, lost his
car and driver for hours. Finally
he wound up at the Benson with
Bert Moses, also of Medford. Mr,
Winburn has been driving across the
continent and rolled up 4000 miles
on the trip, lie continues on to Med
ford today.
Chauncey Butler, formerly In the
office of secretary of state and now
operating an abstract office at The
Dalles, is at the Imperial for the
rose show. Mr. Butler is another of
the numerous former residents of
Mountain City, Tenn., who have set
tled in Wasco, Sherman, Morrow and
Gilliam counties. Each of the former
Mountain City men is a red-hot re
publican and is prepared to tell the
world.
Robert Zeverly they call him
Bob the tonsorial artist of Prine
ville. Or., Is . in Portland. . With
about all the live wires in Crook
county coming to Portland to march
in the Rose Festival parade as mem
bers of the Irrigators, there was
little use of Bob remaining home.
Owner of ten acres of prune trees,
County Chairman Hall of the Uma
tilla republican committee, is in
town from Freewater and is regis
tered at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. Hall,
although not a member of the state
committee, came to Portland to see
what he could do about helping or
ganize it. -
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Krebs of Rock
away, Or., are at the Imperial. Mr.
Krebs is deputy coroner, water
agent, notary public and general
leading citizen of Rockaway beach,
and he is the proprietor of the El
more hotel.
Lloyd L. Low, sheriff of Klamath
county, arrived in Portland yester
day. He came at the request of the
federal grand jury and managed to
get out on the streets long enough
to see the Rose Festival parade.
. Mike Kelly, the big lumberman of
Duluth, who owns more timber land
in Oregon than most . residents of
thi3 state, arrived at the Hotel Port
land yesterday from the east.
Clarence Reames, formerly United
States attorney for Oregon, and
who looked after (he "wobblies"
and others during the war in Se
attle, is in Portland from Puget
sound.
Mr. and Mrs. William Lippltt of
Spokane are at the Nortonia while
spending a holiday in the Rose City.
Mr. Lippitt is a. Spokane business
man.
Harold Baldwin, cashier of the
First National bank of Prineville,
Or., is in Portland with Mrs. Bald
win. They are attending the Rose
Festival. . . .
Among Salemites in town for the
festival week are Dr; and Mrs. H. C.
Epley, who are at the Nortonia.
Componnd Words Defined.
TRENHOLM, Or., June 22 (To
the Editor.) Kindiy tell me if
words like the following are com
pound words or not, and what a
compound word is: Homeliness,
houseless, ' armlet, aerometer, an
other, assail, assimilate.
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
A compound word is one made up
of two or more words which, retain
their separate form and significance.
Words to which are attached obvi-
ous prefixes or suffixes, such as
"houseless" and "homeliness" are
not compound words. Examples of
compound words are "housetop,"
"blackberry," "hilltop," '"washtub,"
"lifelike," "always," "herein." Only
two of the words given by the cor
respondent "aerometer" and "an
other" are compound words.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague
A RAW DEAL.
We munch the sublimated stews
And rare ambrosial hashes
The menu tedl-s us are ragouts
Or entrees -or goulashes.
We smack our Hps and call them
time,
Expressing fervent wishes
That we possessed the skill divine
To frame such savory dashes.
But he wihose Heaven-lnispined
brains,
From caviar to etiiton, j
Conceived the perfect meals remains
a mute, inglorious Milton
The artist, loMirtg at his ease
Amid a field of daisies.
Paints half a score of soraggly trees
And earns prodigious -praises.
The sculptor, who from senseless
stone
A human form has poiuroded.
Is pleased to bear, from zone to
zone.
His merits loudly sounded.
The poet, for a few brief lays
The world considers clever.
Receives a horseshoe framed of bays
Arid fame that lasts forever.
But ah! the chef! all day he stands
Amid his steaming kettles.
And often burns his snowy hands
On overheated metals.
His soul is in whate'er he cooks, .
But no one sings his glory.
In vain to search through all the
books
To find his epic story.
For other artists people shout
Their eager approbation.
And leaving such a genius out
Is plain discrimination.
Used to It. .
Henry Ford will not care if his
boom for the presidency collapses.
Making one more flivver will be
nothing in his life.
Any Way Will Do.
The drys want the Volstead law
executed. The wets don't care how
it is put to death.
-Bfo
Donbt About It.
The college graduate thinks he Is
going to run the world some day,
and the irritating thing about it is
that he is.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Honguton-Mlttlln Co.
Can Yon Answer These Questionsl
1. What is the biggest animal that
ever lived?
2. Do any Insects take care of
their young?
3. Is it DOssible that I saw a belted
kingffaher in. a city park?
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to. Previous Questions.
1. How far south does the Canada
goose go for the winter?
Some members of ihe tribe go no
further down than the inlets along
the coast of Virginia and the Caro
linas. Others go to Texas and Mex
Ico, along the gulf shores.
2. Is the buffalo about extermi
nated?
Not as a species, though really
wild herds are negligible, compared
with their natural estate. The Can
adian government has a good wild
herd on protected land in Alberta
and we have smaller ones in Kansas
and South Dakota. The New York
Zoological society maintains a small
but healthy herd jusU out of the
city, demonstrating that underprop
er management wild buffalo tan Be
bred in absolute captivity. This herd
has actually furnished the nucleus
for the two western heras.
3. What can. I feed a pet chame
leon?
We have constant inquiries for
this, and recently had a letter in
reply to one o our answers, sup
plementing it helpfully. We listed
the chameleon's food as flies, cock
roaches, not earth worms, and
pleaty of drinking water, supply to
be sprinkled on a lettuce leaf or
celery top. A correspondent writes
she has found minute shreds of
liver will be taken. She fed them
on a toothpick and poked them
down the chameleon's throat. Dan
gling them on a thread might teach
it to snap for the food as in nature
Another correspondent has had suc
cess with condensed milk fed. in
drops.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of June 24. 1897.
NASHVILLE. The annual reunion
of United Confederate Veterans is
being held here.
Camp Jackson, the national guard
encampment near Hood River,, will
be occupied Tuesday by the state
soldiers.
POUGHKEEPSIE. Yale freshmen
smash all records as they defeat
Harvard and 'Cornell in the annual
crew classic.
LONDON. Queen Victoria passed
a wearisome day receiving In con
nection with her diamond jubilee.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian ot June 24. 1872.
The second annual hortlculaural
fair being held here is proving a
great success.
The Congregational association of
this city had adjourned after trans
acting much business. ,
BELLEVILLE, Canada. Sixty
lives were lost when a train on the
Grand Trunk railroad jumped the
track near here.
NEW YORK, -r- Labor strikes,
which have been prevalent here
lately, are dying out.
, Germany Can Pay,
UNIVERSITY PARK, Or., June 23.
(To the Editor.) That Germany is
comDetent to pay in run me sums
of money .justly imposed by the
allies is evident from two points of
view. First, her territory, her
towns, her manufactories, her soil
have not been devastated and ruined
by war. France and Belgium must.
unlike Germany, recuperate. Sec
ondly. the increase of German pop
ulation is marked, which took place
during the war, and has gone on
with speed since tfte close oi nos
tilities. Germans have come mainly
from Alsace-Lorraine, Poland pos
sessions and Russia to make the
laree increase within the father
land. The coming Into Germany of
Germans, and of people with Ger
man sympathies, from several parts
of the old empire, and from unset
tled Russia during the war and
since, amounts to a round million
of souls.
While the death rate is in ad-
, vane 01 'f'ZZV 1' "
i st h rri rift tx i h winh in unr
many. The great oenent Brought
to the German people by the war
in the broken neck of Prussianism
and the birth of their republic,
should stimulate to prompt pay
ments of. the money due to allies to
partly repay the damage - received
by them in defeating inglorious
aims. B. J. HOADLEY
Rose Pete Views
in Tomorrow's
Oregonian j
Four full pag-es in the Sun- !
day paper will be devoted to
photographs illustrating the
outstanding features of the
Rose Festival.
In the Magazine
Science Discovers
Tears Kill Germs
Cry if you would save your
life, for this releases most
powerful germicide, says
physician.
Mountain Climbing
at City's Border
Portland fails to boast enough
of unique scenic advantages,
declares timely article by
DeWitt Harry.
Fiction Feature
by W. L. George
"Efleen," interesting story,
hitherto unpublished, tells
how a modern girl met with
some modern problems.
Honor Memory of
General Meade
Memorial to commander at
Gettysburg under erection
now at national capital.
''
The One Time
Glorious Fourth
Clever page of cartoons by
W. E. Hill shows intensely
human views of people in
humorous light.
Common-Law Union
Does Not Pay
This is declaration of woman
who tells of tragic life of
wedding without benefit of
clergy.
Thought Photography
Startles Scientists
French criminologist trans
fers mental impressions to
highly sensitized plate.
Love Troubles of
Perfect Lover
How 10,000 flappers spend
anxious day or two because
sheik has wife.
Other Features
Tennis Frocks
Now of Silk
Fashion department declares
that country club entertain
ments require special cos
tumes. North Bank Highway
Work Is Under Way
Article by H. W. Lyman tells
how this roadway will be
made complement 'to Colum
bia river highway.
Apple Pies Like
Mother Made
rtecipes lor delicious goodies
and problems of home baking
told in special department by
Miss Tingle.
How to Make Those
Outing Clothes
Problems of dressmaking and
the arrangement of wardrobe
solved by Madam Richet.
Vancouver Radio
Regular Broadcaster
Vocal and instrumental mu
sical talent to serve audi
ences two nights each week.
Page of Cartoons
on Topics of Day
Current happenings pictori
ally presented by Darling in
interesting manner.
Woman Gives Opinion
on Bolshevik Problems
After tour of Europe Mrs.
Hamilton "Wright advises re
fusal to recognize bolsheviki
Papers Surprise
M argot Asquith
r . Another of the series of in
teresting articles by talented
Englishwoman on American
life.
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