THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY. JUNE 2?, 1922
ESTABOSHED BY HENRY L. PJTTOCK
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MONDAY MORNING'S NEWS.
Automobile accidents, many of
them attended by fatal conse
quences, are coming to be- regular
features of the news in Monday
morning's newspapers. It is an un.
eventful Sunday, particularly in
summer, that does not Tecord a few
collisions, a crossing accident -or
two and one or" more cars capsized
in a roadside ditch. It would seem
that their very frequency ought to
make people more careful but we
have no evidence that such is the
case.
Speed and the incompetency of
drivers are the major causes, to
which congestion of roads con-
tnuuiev XL is nut ii w aja 1.110
yirlvAr nr th Innom-netpnt one who
suffers injury, but one or the other
is likely to be discoverable in the
background of mo s.t accidents.
When a machine is overturned by
hitting a pebble, it is evident that
there has been crass misjudgment
Most collisions are avoidable and
are the immediate product of too
great hurry to reach a destination
of no particular importance in
order to do something that might
be put off as well as not.
Someone with deep sense of the
gravity of the situation but with
perhaps less comprehension of its
causes has "suggested that the way
tn reform is to "hold to a strict ac
countability" every driver -concerned
in an accident of any kind.
This presupposes a perfection of
tiv TnnnT)1narir rf 1 n tit AnfniVOmaTlf
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which is perhaps nonore difficult
of attainment than a general im-
rAim m en t in niir arfniiH tnwarrt
fast living would be. It is not easy
to iix tne; oiame tor inaiviauai ac
cidents because it is not always re
vealed by the a6cident itself. Away
back in the beginning, before any
of the participants started out for
their day's pleasure, the foundation
was laid. There was too much
haste haste out of all proportion
to the importance bf the object
sought to be achieved, haste ex
tending to other concerns and other
occasions, haste running through
all the minor affairs of life.
It is a fast world we live in, a
world not to be slowed up by mere
threats of strict accountings, it
needs to be educated in relative
values, in putting its energy and its
speed into the -things that are most
worth while. We see little prospect
of a better Sunday casualty record
until the lesson has been learned
that there is real enjoyment In
traveling at a moderate speed, and
Just as entrancing scenery near
home as there is far away from it
r.x iremg penalties lor automooiie
accidents will .hardly find sentiment
- to insure their enforcement, until
tie basic lesson has been learned.
RAILROAD
WAGES AND
JJVING.
COST OF
The protest of a railroad laborer,
which is published in another col
umn, against the wage reduction
ordered by the railroad labor board
rpst-a nn 1A Ttlan fhof inn nnaf rt
.living snouia decrease oetore wages
are reduced. That is Drpnisplv whftt
ua.& ueen uuue. wage reuuctiuua
nave ueen oraereu oy me lapor
board In accord with decreases in
prices that have already taken
place, tnot with any that are ex
pected to follow as a consequence
of the wage reduction. The Ore
gonian has always maintained, and
'still maintains, , that wages should
-be reduced only in proportion to a
"reduced cost of living that is al
ready in effect. We have gone
'further by contending that rail
roads should reduce rates as a
means of reducing prices and that
Tlnn -ramp-pe fihmilfl Kp raAnnaA in
. proportion to the rate reduction
.and to the fall in prices which it
; should have caused, not that wages
snouia first be reduced in order to
make rate reductions possible.
" xne la ror ooara has been so
careful not to reduce wages more
than prices have already fallen that
' it has leaned decidedly to the side
1 of the workmen. - In his reply, to B.
M. Jewell, Chairman Hooper states
that under the present decision the
hourly rate of railroad laborers is
' 69.4 per cent over 1917 and 118 per
cent over 1915, while its purchasing
in 1917 and 37.3 per cent -greater
than in 1915. Even comparing the
present eight-hour wage with the
ten-hour iwasrp of 1915. hp savn that
' the purchasing power of the new
wage is 9.8 per cent greatee than
that of 1915. As to other classes of
labor hp declare the TnirrhnniTu
power of the new wage is "very
considerably larger" than that of
1917. As representative of the
puunu uu nie uuetiu, iui. iiooper is
"impartial, and the board's calcula
tions are based on information fur
nished by the federal bureau of
labor statistics and by the depart
merit of commerce, which deal with
facts regardless of which way they
tend.
xne normal enect or the wage
reauctions snouia do to justify a
further reduction of railroad rates,
which should cause a further fall
of prices. Shippers have not been
slow to call on the interstate coin
amerce commission for .rate reduc
tions, and The Oregonian has not
been backward in supporting them.
If there should be reason to suspect
that any combination holds prices
up when, lower transportation cost
demands tfleir reduction, it will be
the duty of the federal trade com
mission and the attorney-general to
break up the combinations and to
prosecute the guilty. If they should
be remiss. The Oregonian will do
its part to stir them into action.
Active, but intelligent public opin
ion," which carefully seeks out the
responsible official, is the most ef
fective instrument to arouse energy
in those who should do all in their
power to keep prices on the down
grade by peeping competition
alive.
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MOUNT EVEREST WINS.
The victory of Mount Everest
over the explorers who have been
trying to reach its summit, is in all
likelihood but temporary. The
"great authority on Himalayas"
who is quoted by the correspondent
of. the Associated Press; - contents
himself with the iprudent statement
that the failure of the Bruce expe
dition is proof that the summit is
"almost .unattainable." The quali
fying adverb is the important word
in the statement.
Not while memory lingers of the
persistent efforts of men to find the
North Pole will men admit that
Mount. Everest cannot be climbed
to the very top. Aviators have
shown that man can exist in an
altitude exceeding 29,000 feet and
other mountains have given prac
tice in combating 6torans and other
natural phenomena no more serious
than those which Everest has been
able to produce.
It took more than half a century
of determined, organized effort to
reach the North Pole. The pre
liminaries to the explorations of
Sir John Franklin were begun in
1851; Peary did not achieve the
final victory until April 6, J909.
The intervening years furnish a
record ol daring, or sunenng ana
of dogged persistence which is in
spiring because it is tainted by no
unselfish motive'. The genius xt
achievement of this sort is that It is
only stimulated by obstacles of
every sort.
The comparative failure of the
most recent Everest party is anal
agous to the many abortive at
tempts that were made to reach the
pole. Peary himself had to be con
tent at first with establishing a few
farthest north" records before
making the victorious dash. The
'highest p" record on Everest is a
challenge, not a final verdict that
the mountain is superior to man.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAT.
A growing number of our young
men will be Interested in the words
of S. B. Quale, who in addition to
being federal prohibition commis
sioner of Minnesota is qualifying as
a moralist on the tendency of the
times. This, says Mr. Quale, fosters
idleness and extravagance. , Take
golf, for example. t
The ancient game popularised by
our Scotch forebears, he says, "was
never intended for youth, or for
anyone who has not arrived at the
age of 55. One can get just as good
and healthful exercise by using the
hoe as he can by usin the golf
ciud. uoir, moreover, creates a
desire among youth" to do some
thing that they cannot .afford to
do." The appeal to the utilitarian
instinct a sort of argumentum ad
hoe-minem, as it were is -not newl
Ever and anon -there arises some'
one to remind us that the time We
devote to play could better be de
voted to making the desert blossom
as the rose, or something of that
sort. The peasant, arising before
the dawn and laboring until long
after the sun has set, is the ideal
inhabitant. There is no allowance
for joy in anything except the "con
structive." All forms of play are
wasteful from the economic point
of view or so these philosophers
would, tell us.
Xet it is but half true Or less
than half. The battle of Waterloo,
said the epigrammatist, was won
on the cricket fields of England.
More important contests, perhaps,
have been decided in the back lot
baseball fields of America. The
temper of a people can be judged
with some accuracy by their capa
city for play. The chief criticism
to which our own countrymen have
been subject is that they take
themselves too seriously, that they
do not give enough time tot friendly
sports, that they measure too many
things fcy the yardstick of useful
ness, without giving a very liberal
Interpretation to the term.
Golf at least has the distinct
merit that it is a game for the par
ticipant therein. The sidelines and
the bleachers cut a negligible figure
in it. If it might formerly have
been said with truth that we played
tfio many of our games by proxy,
golf is doing something to remedy
that omission. The enthusiasm
that it engenders is not a bad thing,
since the recuperative value of a
hobby of any sort is well known.
All work and no play makes Jack
dull boy. The work of the world
is not on the whole being done by
grinds, and certainly they are not
getting the most out of life. -
There is a good deal to be said, of
course, in behalf of the hoe. It has
its uses no less than the golf stick.
But it is yet to be proved that the
man who . never relaxes, never
plays, neveq lias an interest outside
of work, gets any more done with
the implements of utility than the
one who preserves a sane balance
between vocation and vacation.
PRINCE ALBERT PASSES.
The account of Albert, Prihce of
Monaco, is closed by death. A
comic " opera monarch by birth.
whose heritage was the gayest
gambling establishment in the
world, he has not escaped censure
from the moralists, nor will lie be
generally remembered save as one
who took a shameful wage. But
for all that the prince left a legacy
to science and his fellow man
through his unquestioned gifts as
an oceanographer. It were far easier
for him to have been a waster, so
situated, than to have sought to
make for himself a useful place in
the world, despite his handicap.
He ruled an area of eight square
miles, in his principality on the
Mediterranean, but ruled it in name
only. The gambling concessionaires
who operate at. Monte Carlo have
paid him annual - tribute of ' ap
proximately ?400,ooo, while add!
tionally defraying all the expenses
of his midget empire. It Is at least
significant qf his good sense that
Prince Albert remained aloof from
the tables, and that his: subjects
were expressly forbidden to play.
In Europe, where the Puritan con
science does not perplex, the several
nationals are inclined to regard
Monte Carlo as . an indispensable
recreation. They have had nocriti
clsm for it nor of its. ruler. It is
only in America that a different
viewpoint prevails.
Nevertheless the prince , sailed
often away from It all, to study the
currents of the seven seas, to search
for marine specimens and to add
generally' to the knowledge of
oceanography. His marine" mu
seum is said to be the finest ever
assembled. Indeed, the scientific
thoroughness of the man may best
be gauged by recalling the recep
tion given him on, his visit to Amer
ica, a year or so ago. ' He was not
then the Prince of Monte Carlo;
but Albert the oceanographer,
whose knowledge In its application
had saved many a good ship from
disaster. Charts furnished by him,
relative to the drift of mines far
from the seas of conflict, enabled
searchers to capture , many such
deadly mechanisms with a very
probable saving of lives and prop
erty. Prince of gamblers lie may
have been, but there is a touch of
saving grace -in "the thought that
he was at heart a humanitarian
actively in service.
PT REFORMED BANDIT.
Pancho Villa is but another of
the men who has paused to reflect,
as they grow older in years, that
there is no pocket in a shroud.' The
particular philosophy is manifested
in a variety of ways. The Tnzgi who
has given his life to the accumula
tion of money is apt to come to the
point of trying to square himself
with the hereafter by giving to
sundry good works. The man who
has drunk deeply of power becomes
an organizer of philanthropies.
More than one successful outlaw
has devoted his declining years to
admonishing his fellowmen to avoid
xne error or nis ways. v
Villa, who made- widows and
orphans literally by the hundreds,
now abjures political ambitions and
becomes a leader . it morals and
education. . "The one-time bandit,"
says the correspondent of a Mexico
City newspajjer, "has established
schools for his people and has set
up a code of morals which he en
forces with the same severe disci
pline of his bandit days. Liquors
and gambling are prohibited and
every man is forced to perform, his
quota of work. When the devil
was sick the devil a monk would
be. Approaching the close of his
term of residence on this sphere,
the old .villain sees how deeply he
has offended and would make
amends but less for the reason," if
we read him aright, that-he sor
rows for. the misery, that he has
caused than in the . notion that he
may win an approving nod from
Saint Peter at the gate.
It is reasonable to suppose that
the recording angel will not be
fooled so easily. Men's lives 'will
be appraised as a, whole if at all on
the Judgment day. The reformed
bandit is not a heroic figure, el
even a pitiful .one. The misdeeds
of a long life are not to be atoned
for by a few months of benevolence
inspired by a desire to balance life's
grim account i
FISH AND OTHER FISH.
In supplement to a recent an
swer in the nature notes column
respecting the ability of gold fish to
live in stagnant water, Jwhere
some fish speedily would perish, it
should be said that the former but
show a true trait of the carp, whose
family they have the honor to rep
resent. Tameness has little if any
thing to do with their survival un
der seemingly adverse contritions,
nor has domestication caused them
to differ. In a wild state, as with
all carp, they would- manifest the
same Indifference to their habitat.
The questioner was on the trail of
one of nature's enigmas when he
sought light on the subject of gold
fish. Observers have often noted
that certain fishes are comparative
ly indifferent to adverse breathing
conditions, and to a certain extent
apparently independent, at least for
a protracted period, of their native
element Save for the South Amer
ican lung fish, which breathes alike
on land or beneath the current, the
carp is most conspicuous for this
trait.
A common characteristic of such
fishes, as found in Oregon waters,
is the possession of a highly devel
oped air sac, or bladder. In the
lung-fish the development of this
organ has prospered to such extent
that it performs the functions of
lungs. In all other species, several
ol which may be studied on the
northern continent, .the utility of
the bladder has never been! dis
cerned though the guess has been
hazarded that it mar servA as a
storage reservoir for Oxygen. : If
this is true, which really is not
demonstrable, the riddle of the carp
and the gold fish Is answered.
Among Oregon fishes certainly it is
a striking coincidence, at the least,
that carp, catfish and crappie, each
of which possesses the air sac, will
survive for several, hours out of
water. -
It is said that carp, those slug
gish bottom-feeders deified by the
Japanese, when packed in wet moss
and fed at Intervals, will suffer
slight inconvenience and live for
days. Catfish and carp alike, as a I
matter of frequent experience i
among anglers, are vigorous and
swift of fin when returned to their
element after an' absence f a full
ay provided the integument has
not been exposed to the sun. In
asmuch as their normal breathing
apparatus, the gills, cannot filter
oxygen from the air, it may be con
jectured that they have.storage'sup-
piies not common to other fishes,
or that they are more hardy. The
last .seems- an insufficient reply,
yet is supported by another coin
cidental fact The tendency toward
survival in adverse . conditions - la
marked, though not without excep
tion, among the so-called rough
fish the coarser, less intense char,
acters of lake and river. The mys
tery might resolve itself into a mat
ter of nervous organization, if we
but knew.
Game fish, like game birds and
gallant horses, are game because of
a certain greatness of heart a ca
pability for nervous reaction not
shared by the dullards and plod
ders. It is this quality that impels
the trout to fight against capture,
and the lack of it that leads- the
stolid .carp passively to shore.
Pound for pound the rough . fish,
one believes, are the stronger, the
more muscular. A carp of five
pounds might; reasonably be ex
pected to tow a timber, if hitched
to it that would restrain a trout
of equal weight But the highly
organized nervous system of game
fish, frightened and stung by the
barb, is such that almost literally,
they break their valiant hearts in
the struggle to escape. It may be
that superior sensitiveness brings
dea-tlTlo them speedily when sub
jected to conditions under which
the coarser fish thrive..
This, of course, is all conjectural,
yet observation sometimes lends it
the color of fact When the carp
seiners of the Columbia sloughs, in
tent) upon tons of the fat vegeta
rians for an eastern market make
a long haul down the muddy pond
it not infrequently happens that a
number of bass will be included ,in
the catch hundreds of threshing,
floundering, grunting carp to sev
eral of the bronzed game fish. It
is . discovered at such times that
almost without exception the bass,,
which must be returned to water,
are either dead or dying, while the
carp to the last and least Individual
are vigorous and unharmed. A not
unnatural conclusion is- that fright
and exertion, induced by the in
tensely nervous character of the
bass, injured them far more than
the actual pummeling, which
harmed the carp not at all.
Possibly the answer to the question
of why some fish endure longer out
of their element than do others, or
are fitted to live under conditions
uncongenial or fatal to game fish,
is both one of hardiness, as ex
pressed in an inferior and apathetic
nervous system, and the possession
of a reserve supply of oxygen
though howtand where are veiled.
The lung-fish proves that at least
one of the pisces evoluted to a posi
tion of indifference or choice as to
air or,, water, but it is absurd to
imagine, as withthe conjecture re
garding gold fish, that handling has
in so brief a space as human his
tory accounted for their ability to
survive in stagnant water.
FAULTS OF THE BOCNTY SYSTEM.
- It is significant that cattle and
horse raisers qf Oregon, in their re
cent conventi6n,. condemned the
predatory animal bounty law and
recorded themselves as favoring its
repeal. Certainly these men, most
directly concerned in losses from
predatory animals, are entitled to a
hearing and their opinion one that
all are bound to respect. The Burns
Times-Herald voiced that opinion
editorially when it said in a recent
issue that the law "has been abused
and the taxpayers robbed for years,
and it is time a halt be made."
There are evidential faults to the
bounty system. Chief among these
is the fact that professional bounty
hunters, operating in a- district
where coyotes are prevalent, for ex
ample, will hunt and trap and
poison, only so long as the animals
are plentiful. Naturally they leave
behind them a sufficient number of
animals to insure that the district
will be restocked. Such a course
need not be intentional. Under the
bounty system it would be folly to
remain in a locality no longer lu
crative. Then, too, as the Times
Herald ' points out, the bounty
hunter operates largely when the
fur is good and his profit doubled,
ahr not in the. season of poor 'fur,
when the animals increase.
It is recalled that thrifty farm
ers, not necessarily residents of
Oregon, have been known to throw
the mantle of their prelection over
a pair of coyotes, relying upon the
annual litter to swell their bank ac
counts. The ethics of such a course
are reprehensible, are lacking, for
that matter;' but the profits are
there. In a middle-western state,
a score of years ago, it was lawful
to present the tail of a gopher and
receive therefor two cents in
bounty. Where gophers were amaz
ingly plentiful a fair wage could be
earned at their extermination. The
flaw in this method was discerned
when it became apparent that the
state was the happy hunting ground
of thousands of tailless female
gophers. The astute bounty hunt
ers hadn't . the heart to kill one.
Clipping off the tail they turned
madam loose to bring more gophers
into this vale of sorrow. There was
money in it It is not intimated
that such practices are general
under the bounty system, or even
occasional, but that they are pds
sible. , . -
- The method of the federal gov
ernment, which is endorsed by the
stockmen, is to place paid and skill
ful hunters in field" afid forest.
These pursue the animals with no
thought of bounty, but with the
single-minded" purpose of ridding
each locality of the last surviving
specimen. Co-operation with the
government in its campaign
against predatory animals, is sug
gested by the stockmen as the most
effectual means of dealing with the
problem.
Jazz has not lacked for defend
ers. Commonly these assured us
that there was no harm in the
vogue, "that t was the spontaneous
and natural expression of true ela
tion, and that it was slanderous to
intimate that it had an origin in the
jungle. Afro-Americans, for that
matter, deemed it a slight upon
their race that an occasional -critic
asserted jazz music and dances to
be of negro savagery. Tet less than
a year ago, far in the African in
terior, Mary Hastings Bradley, a
member of the Akeley gorilla expe
dition, witnessed a native dance.
"It was jazz in its own home town,"
she wrote. "It was not the shimmy,
but it was a recognizable toddle.
and there were some other things
that even our younger set haven't
discovered yet" Which seems to
settle the origin of jazz. But which
does not settle the pertinent puzzle
as to why our proud civilization is,
at times, subject to atavism.
The little country bank at Brook
ings gotthe goods against the big
federal reserve bank yesterday Oh,
David! And oh, Goliath!
' The senate retains shingles on
the free list and the fight is up to
the delegation when the bill gets
back to the house. '
The easier way out of a distress
ing situation Is to blame about
everybody in Herrin, and that will
be about all of it
"Continued, warm" weather is
standable, but not "increasing
warm," as one likes it in winter.
A Seattle dispatch tells of a
"schooner on ice." The harrowing
past! '
Portland will have a sane Fojurth,
with few left in the city.
First firecracker fire yesterday.
Must we have them? ,
The Listening Post.
By DeWitt Barry.
SHE-HAIL-TJS, Wash. (En. Route
to Seattle. ) Dear Sir: I saw the big
Rose Festival pee-rade from A to
iizard, and Gee, how I did enjoy 't!
I was parked in a Benjamin: right in
front of the sir-cuss tent on tiie east
si&a. It was a sir-cuss teat, all
right, for I heard some- roustabouts
cuseing, some kids who wished; to
get la on the ground floor, where
the heat was "in-tents." It was a
chilly day, "weren't 't? Anyway, we
held a point of vintage I mean
vantage and he.'d the time of our
lives greeting the parade-is ts.
' - We tried to stir up every band
the-t passed Some did favor us, and
others were strangely silent. When
the Irrigators in coveralls passed
with shovels on their shoulders I
yelled: "Get in and dig, boys; the
asphalt., Is soft today." The man
standing in front of me hollered:
"You win, boys!" They did have a
scdop, all right.
When the telephone cential float
passed, I caught the little lady's eye
and lustily helloed to her for the
rlgh$ time, she replied, "Rocky
mountain time!" It was, by my In
gersoll. It did my heart good to see those
big fellows marching with the
youngsters, boosting them along,
and asking if they were tired. Some
of the little fellows were, but I
don't think for a moment that they
would give up their positions in that
grand parade nuthin doin', Skin
nay!. As the lamb that Mary had (M&ry
was a sheeps) passed a strange hush
fell upon the crowd. They caught
the lesson conveyed. It wasgood!
When the mayor passed a fellow
behind me yelled, "Hello, Jawge!"
The mayor turned, emiled and
waived his hand. He thought it
was me. It's the first time in my
young life that I have been so
beautifully favored by a high offi
cial. EverybQdy had great praise for
the parade, and Portland's hospital
ity and good-natured citizens. I
heard it on all sides during my
hort visit there. Long live Port
land! BIL3ATES.
Quaintly garbed in blue pajama
like garments, the little children of
Chinatown play the day away in the
drowsy orienta'l quarter- Somehow
it seems out of place to the- occi
dental ear to hear shouts of childish
glee come from the strange figures
as they play away at their games. '
No' baseball, no running and jump
ing contests, no wading pools or
playground apparatus, but they ,
seem content as.they sit on the curb
and talk or toy with queer dolls and
other playthings.
Might be some little reflection on
the many-centuries-old tranquillity
of the race may be summed up in
the one word "patience." The small
editions ot the older habitues af the
quarter seem to get their best fun
from the sidecars of the motorcycle
police. Here they will sit and play
for hours, not giving their parents
any concern for they never venture
into the street where there is any
danger.
C.'V. Bergen, head waiter of the
Benson hotel,' was reminiscing the
other day and referred to a table
at the Arlington club which used to
be filled at lunch time with prom
inent Portland 'men. -
"One day," said 'Bergen, "Theo
dore B. Wilcox, C. S. Jackson, C. E. S.
.Wood, Ben Mulkey and some others
were seated tt the table and all but
Mr. Mulkey were discussing a point
of la"w. Mulkey remained silent.
'"What's the matter, Ben? Don't
you know anything about .this ques
tion?" inquired Mr. Wilcox. '
get paid for my opinions!" was
Mulkey's laoonio reply."
No, Clarence; the girl - coming
down the street fanning her armpits
with her hands Is not trying to
Imitate a butterfly or moth. Horses
sweat, men perspire, but she is all
aglow. Tou see in these days of
real light blouses and other clothing
it is impossible to make use of the
old-fashioned shield, and, anyhow,
shields have gone out of date. So
she is just trying to keep herself
from ruining a crepe waist in whose
dyes she-has not any too much con
fidence. -
One of our steadiest steadies
wants to know where the bathing
girls were this year. He writes:
"I missed the shapely queens in
their one-piece suits amidst the
beautiful flowers. For several years
past we have been treated to an eye
ful of bathing beauties In every
Rose Festival parade, for that is
certainly a good excuse to get them
out. Plenty of people to see and
admire, and they were sure missed."
.
Aw, Gimme de Core, Wontehaf
A green little boy, ,
In a green little way,
A green little apple devoured one
day;
And the green little grasses now
tenderly wave
O'er the green little apple boy's
green little grave.
BILBATES.
Continuing the penny discussions,
we hear of the man who makes a
regular use of them. His policy' is
to pay regular tips and he likes to
make it exactly 10 per cent of his
bill. In order not to cheat or over
pay his waiters, he carries coppers
and dishes them out on the "notch."
' LITTLE MEMORIES. '
Strange how they linger
Memories of little things.
How much they mean we little guess.
Once when a child
Alone amid the quiet of a wood,
I 'heard a blrdsong ring: so clear and
true
It waked my soul
And so Impressed oi
That though Ion g years have passed,
I can recall its sound at will
And see the spot wherein I waited
Listening. '
Above me rose a stately fir
And all around the woodland bowers
Moved gently In the light and shadow
Qf the eummer sun.
And rapturously the bird sang out
As though for me alone.
This mental picture I can e'er recall
And hear the accompanying bird song
If I will. .
A little incident, Ah yes, but still
The Omnipotent with voice of power
Speaks in the little hour.
- - r-JANBTTEJ MARTUi, ,
Those Who Come and Go.
Talcs of Folks at the Hotels.
The road to Mount St Helens and
Spirit lake is now "open and its
beautiful -scenery and fine fishing
are now available to the public, ac
cording to Roy DoVns of Aberdeen,
Wash., who has just returned from
there. Mr. Downs states that there
is good fishing in the lake, where
the rainbow and lake trout are tak
ing the troll and fly eagerly. Stream
fishing is not at its best yet, but
will improve rapidly. The road is
in exceptionally good condition,
with the exception of a one-mile
stretch that is now being worked
on -near Silver lake. The forest
service maintains a splendid camp
site at the lake and has opened
up trails to many of the scenic
points in the district The road
starts from the Pacific highway
one-half mile north of Castle Rock,
Wash., and is 4a miles in length.
It took about seven hours for
Frederick W. Steiwer of Pendleto
Jio drive from Hood River to the
Benson. Life was just one blow-out
after another. Mr. Steiwer, one of
the best-known lawyers in eastern
Oregoh, scooted over the Columbia
river highway from Pendleton to
Hood River, about 165 miles, with
out a bit of trouble, over the grav
eled surface, but his troubles came
when he hit the hard-surface pave
ment Another visitor who had bad
luck was C A Smith of Astoria.
He was invited to ride to Portland
with a traveling salesman. They
left Astoria at 9 P. M. Blow-outs
developed and after working until
tired Mr. Smith fell asleep In the
machine. When he woke up it was
9 A. M. and the salesman was driv
ing up to the curb at the Benson.
S. B. Hill of Jefferson. Or., is
an arrival at the Perkins. Every
motorist using th6 Pacific highway
knows about Jefferson. It Is the
town where the machines go bump
ing through over a road full of pot
holes and at every bump th state
highway commission is criticised
for not paving this section. How
ever, lack of pavement through the
incorporated limits of the town Of
Jefferson is hot the fault of the
highway commission, but of the
townspeople. No one knows when
this stretch will be paved, if ever,
and thex prospects are that there
will be no paving for a great many
years, as the town doesn't see its
way clear to have the work done.
There is a modest speed limit
through Jefferson, but no one with
respect for the springs of his car
will try to move as fast as the
limit
Mrs. J. C. Bellinger is at the
Hotel Oregon from Rockaway, Or.
This Is the leading resort in jilla-
mooK county ana is midway De
tween Nehalem bay and Tillamook
bay. Originally Rockaway was a
piece of marsh land, with some
heavy spruce scattered around. It
was bought with the intention ot
(being used as a cranberry ,marsh,
but the promoters concluded there
would be more .money cutting it
up into 2-foot lots and selling the
lots as home sites to people who
want to be near the ocean. The
strand at Rockaway is broad and
clean, almost entirely free from
driftwood since the jetty was con
structed at Tillamook bay, and the
big event of the defy is when the
Portland train arrives with mail
from home.
Although The Dalles is the Cherry
city so is Salem), canning of this
fruit has been postponed until
this week, according to Frank
Seufert. packer, who was in Port
land for the week end. The cher
ries filled out and look pretty, but
there had not been enough sun to
develop the sugar content, and
sugar in cherries placed there by
nature ' is better than patronizing
the sugar trust to sweeten the fruit
Cherries for canning are picked
without the stem, pulled off the
tree in that manner. Collecting
cherries without the stems is cheap
er than gathering the cherries and
removing the stems later.
C W. Nibley and wife arrived at
the Hotel Portland from Salt Lake
City yesterday and found the tem
perature in Portland much more
comfortable than at the metropolis
of Utah, even though the Willam
ette river isn't as' pleasant to bathe
In as the lake. Mr. Nibley is a
sugar magnate with the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company, which makes sugar
from beets. One of the leading in
dustries .of southern Idaho and ' of
Utah at present is the raising of
sugar beets for the company.
McNeil's island, In Puget sound, is
noted chiefly as a federal prison,
and so far as known only one pris
oner has escaped from the Institu
tion and managed to reach the main
land. This exception was Roy Gard
ner, train robber, who was later
captured by a mail clerk, when he
was trying to rob a train in Colo
rado. F. R. Archer and S. F. Metcalf
are registered from McNeil's at the
Hotel Oregon.
Road building has been pretty
good for J. E. Nelson of. Roseburg,
registeredat the Hotel Oregon. Mr.
Nelson owns a lot of rock a short
distance south of Roseburg, and
while rock isn't very productive this
pile was as good as a gold mine to
Mr. Nelson, for it was developed into
a quarry and he sold many cubio
yards of the material to highway,
contractors and to the railroad com
pany. George McKay, retired cattleman
of Waterman, Or., was operated on
recently. His nephew, J. H. How
den, an undertaker of Caledonia,
Canada, has arrived to visit him.
W. M. Calder, a half-brother of Mr.
McKay, has also arrived in the city
from Ontario, Canada, where he is a
rancher. Mr. McKay has been show
ing his relatives around the town.
The trio are registered at the Per
kins. '
Mrs. Charles W. Ellis passed
through Portland yesterday on her
way to Eugene to attend the fu
neral of her father, who died in his
92d year. Mrs. Ellis staged from
Burns, her home, to Bend, at which
point she took the train for Port
land. Mr. Ellis Is a member of the
state senate from Grant, Harney
and Malheur counties.
J. O. Goldsthwait, lumberman of
Chiloquin, Klamath county, is among
the arrivals at the Hotel Portland.
Tes, it's getting warm at Chiloquin
and the mills are. running.
Thomas C. Devlin, formerly city
auditor of Portland, who has been
a resident of the east for many
years, arrived at the Multnomah yes
terday with Mrs. Devlin.
Walter P. Reed of Reedsport is In
the city to be present at a lawsuit
He is at the Imperial.
Henry Cohn, automobile dealer of
Heppner, Or., is at the Benson.
Buffalo Bill Weapons In Museum.
Pahaskee Tepee, the Buffalo Bill
museum in the Denver Mountain
parks system, contains the knife
with which Colonel Cody .scalped
Yellow Hand, the Sioux chief, after
the Custer massacre, and the gun
with which he killed 4000 buffalo
in one year for the Union Pacific
road, . . " '
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. Hoilffkton-Mlfflin Co.
Can Yon Answer Thee Questions?
1. What are caraway seeds?
2. When did they start Import
ing reindeer into Alaska?
3. Are cuckoos nest robbers?
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
'.
-Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Please tell me why the com
mon snapping turtle cannot swallow
unless his head is below the surface
of water?
We can't tell' you why. So far
as we know, nobody can explain
satisfactorily. The snapping turtle
by habit spends much of Its time
embedded in mud under water, and
seems to prefer to eat in the ele
ment, in which It commonly lives.
The habit is observed, but not ac
counted for " even by eminent spe
cialists.
2. Do any rats beside the trading
rat steal objects and carry them to
the nests?
Yes , this is a characteristic of
American wood rats, our native rats.
Sticks, bones, almost any small bit
of trash is collected. The trading
rat is most notorious for this habit.
adding the trick of leaving some
rwcie in. exenange occasionally, .out
the rest of the wood rats are
troublesome as' thieves near any
camp or dwelling, though it is not
food they eteal, theirs being "wild"
seeds, nuts, cactus fruits, etc
3. Can the Canada goose be kept
in captivity?
Yes, easily, if it has proper home
and foocL Zoo specimens usually
feed on cracked corn and whole
wheat, with a little other grain for
variety. In winter they ned some
sort of shelter neai the pond's edge,
and when the latter freezes over,
a place must be broken out so that
the geese can continue to paddle
otherwise they will freeze their .feet
Canada gaslings are often success
fully reared from stolen eggs and
live comfortably with domestic
geese.
FIRST LOWER COST OF LIVIiVO
Railroad Worker Denies Justifica
tion of Wage Redaction.
IL WACO, Wash., June 25. (To the
Editor.) The Oregonian seems to
think that the present wage re
duction of the railroad workers is
just and that we should be perfectly
satisfied and live in the hone that
the prices, will come down and then
low wages will buy as much as they
used to, when the prices were at the
peak. We heard the same bunk last
year when another big chunk was
sliced off our wages, and waited pa
tiently for the cost of living to
come down, but in vain. Your statis
tics mean nothing to me, when I
have to pay 30 cents for a pound
of porkchops, 0 cents' for a tube of
dental cream, which, even last year,
was selling for 25 cents, and 25 for
a suit of clothes, which looks as
though it were made out of cheese
cloth. It is true that it did come
down a bit, especially in the large
cities, but that was only owing to
the prevailing unemployment, and
because the' poor merchants knew
that they couldn't get any more;
but now that the unemployment is
vanishing, reports from all over the
country indicate that old H. C. of L.
has started upward again, and there
is no doubt but that it'll go over
the top.- Then is the time to strike,
you say; but if wages can't be kept
up now, what chance have we to
raise them after once they fall?
As far as having the public
opinion as an ally is concerned, al
though it would- be a mighty fine
thing, for it's fl formidable ally, I
don't think there is such a prob
ability, for public opinion is as
changeable as the wind, with the
only difference that, regardless of
what -the circumstances are, it never
gets on the workmen's side.
The railroad labor board reached
its decision by taking the wage and
the cost of living of 1915 as a basis,
but if we go back at all, why can't
we go farther back when they had
slaves?
Without going into the past and
meddle with statistics, which I do
not understand, I am going to pre
sent to you a few facts by which I
hope to show you. not to convince
you, that the recent decision of the
railroad board is unjust.
Let us take the railroad laborers
(I am one of them), and from them
let us consider the ones most wor
thy " of consideration, namely, the
Americans, natives or naturalized,
who have families. True, they are
in the minority, but they constitute
a substantial minority and should
be heard. Now, if the head of the
family works 26 days he will receive
$72.80 75 cents for hospital fee. Let
us suppose that each family has
five members and allow each one
of them 30 cents a day for food
alone. Am 1 too generous? Thank
you. After paying ?45 for food he will
have 27 and 1 nickel left. On that
he will have to buy clothes, shoes,
keep up the house, books, amuse
ments and what not.
It is certainly true that most of
the railroad workers are foreigners
without families, who perhaps can
live cheaper, but that Is only an
unfortunate affair for which the
former are not In the least bit re
sponsible, and certainly should not
be penalized. Our legislature should
have foreseen this and enacted laws
against immigration long ago. They
did not do so, however, because the
industry captains wanted cheap la
bor, and even last winter, when the
unemployment situation was ex
tremely serious, they were talking
about repealing Johnson's anti
immigration bill:
Were the laborers capable of
learning anything they certainly
could derive a great lesson out of
the present railroad situation, and
that is the necessity of getting to
gether, not in the L W. W., but in a
sound American union which can
insure them a square deal and pro
tect them from greed of the few.
, AUGUST CHRISTY.
Pioneer Oregon Railroad.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 20. (To
the Editor.) When "J. M. C." and
The Oregonian stated that the Dr.
Baker railroad between Walla
Walla and Wallula was the "pioneer
railroad of the west," I was as
tonished. Unless memory is at fault, the
road between The Dalles and Celilo,
built and operated in the early "60s,
is by many years entitled to the
name of "pioneer railroad venture."
How about it? " O. C. WHITE.
Both roads were entitled to be
called "pioneer railroad ventures,"
although The Dalles-Celilo road un
doubtedly antedated the Wallula
Walla Walla line by some years, as
the correspondent suggests. The
first-named line, however, was a
portage road, operated in connection
with the river steamboat lines, and
not a common carrier in the sense
that Dr. Baker's celebrated "raw
hide railroad" was.
Analysis of Water.
SILVERTON, Or., June 25 (To
the Editor.) Where does one send
water to have it analyzed?
VERLIN L. COCHRAN.
State health bureau, Selling build
ing. Portland, On, - - ,
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montagrne."
REMEMBERIG THE RISK.
Scientists, always alert to adyise us
Of any cerebral helps that they find.
Are now writing brochures and
screeds to advise us
That flying in airships will
brighten the mind.
If your thought has of lata become
duller and duller.
If you seldom -are there with a
come-back or quip,
If your reason is stale and reflec
tion off color,
You're in need of a ride In an
aerial ship.
Get away from the world . to the
wiae, open spaces.
Away from the racket and roaring
of cars
Away from the crowd, with its
gaunt, gaping laces.
Go where there's nothing to see
but the stars
Like a hermit who flees to some
desert seclusion
To banish the present and bury
the nast.
You will find, when you're free from
an human intrusion,
That It's easy to think and to
think mighty fast
Looking down on the world from
jvui iuiLy position.
Ideas will flow in a stream to
Perspective win give you a rare
uiiuiuoa,
And shortly your -mind will be
We know lots of minds that would
i unction rar better
If their owners would purchase
ATI alrnlan. n.J .
. - nuu 1.1J-
If they'd break with the world that
no.;, neia ui-eni in letter,
, And bathe In the sunlight afar
in the sky.
But as for ourselves, while we
doubtless may need it.
We are giving advice that we're
not going to take.
For the sake of our mind we would
be willing to heed it
But we'll stick to the ground for
security's sake.
We might get ideas to last us for
ever. The world, when we landed, per
haps might be thrilled
To find us so brilliant and suddenly
clever.
But that wouldn't help if we fell
and got killed.
Always CarefnI.
John D. Rockefeller made his first
dollar by selling a flock of geese.
We feel confident that he first made
sure that none of them was laying
any golden eggra.
Almost Hoggins.
' New York has Just had a cyclonic
storm. She hates to let any western
town have anything she can't have.
A Habit.
Having failed as a war lord and
as an emperor, Mn Hohenzollern
insists on .failing as an author.
(Copyright, 11)22, by BeU Syndicate, Inc.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ajro.
From The Oregronian of June 27, 1S9T.
Berlin The kaiser, in an inter
view, said he did not fear Chinese
ambition or anarchists, but he did
fear th intervention of America in
European affairs.
The Jefferson club was formed
last night at a meeting of sound
money demb-crats.
Washington Senator Pettigrew
of SoutH Dakota was stricken dumb
while debating on the tariff bill.
Agitation is strong locally for
military instruction in the public
schools.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of Jun2T, 1872.
Washington The Chronicle has
an article today declaring that Ger
many intends to become a first-class
naval power.
Albany A stay of execution was
granted today in the cases of Will
iam M. Tweed and Richard M. Con
nolly pending appeal.
The new city council held its first
meeting last night.
The new Masonic temple at Third
and Alder streets will be dedicated
this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Computation of Note.
PORTLAND, June 23. (To the
Editor.) (1) I hold demand prom
issory notes given ten yeans ago
upon which payments have been
made from, (time to time and I now
desire to compute what is due.
Years ego, as a school boy, we were
taught to use what was called the
"United States rule," which was:
Find the amount of the given prin
cipal to a time when the payment
or the sum of the payments, equate
or exceeds the interest due. Sub
tract the payment, or sum of the
payments, from the famount and
treat the remainder.. as a new prin
cipal. Proceed in the same manner
with the new principal, and each
sucoeeding one, to the time of set
tlement. Is this the modern way? If not,
please s-tate what is.
(2) Suppose the sum of the pay
ments made upon a note falls -short
of the interest due and the maker
cannot pay the principal or balance
of the interest, would the income
tax law regard these payments as
going towards discharge of princi
pal or interest? PUZZLED.
(1) Bankers no longer use the
rule you cite in computing interest
You fail to state whether the inter
est Is payable annually or at shorter
intervals. Taking it for granted it
wa.3 payable annually, in your case
no payments before expifratio-n of
the first year could be credited to
Interest as no interest was yet due.
Thereafter the banker figures in
terest on the amount that was due
up to time of the first payment.
Interest on the new principal is fig
ured to the hext in-teirest date or
date of next payment if before the
interest date. At each interest date
any amount of interest due is added
to the principal.
(2) So far as possible it is the
banker's practice to credit payments
to principal. Income tax laws per
mit you to do this in the case you
cite.
married Lincoln's Parents. .
Nashville Tennesseean.
A campaign for funds to erect a
marker at the grave of the Rev.
Jesse Head, who united tn marriage
the parents of Abraham Lincoln, is
being sponsored by the Harrods
burg, Ky., Chamber of Commerce
and citizens everywhere are- asked
to contribute.
The remains of Rev. Head, Meth
odist preacher, justice and cabinet
maker, lie In an unmarked grave in
Cave Hill cemetery at Harrodsburg.
Only a few years ago the original
return of the minister was found
in the Washington county court
house, whereas it should have been
returned to the Hardin county clerk
tX Elizabeth town,