Morning Oregonian., July 13, 1922, Image 8

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY,. JULY 13, 1922
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publican party' would 'be Stronger.
The men In the house who tried to
, reduce the army and navy below
the level of safety, also those timid
eheep who stampede whenever
dome demagogue or fanatic cracks
the whip, would add strength to the
party by remaining' at home.
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to the party, composed of high-type
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senate and house. The record on
which the Harding administration
will go to the people in 1924 is still
to be completed, and that kind of a
majority can complete- It in suc3
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KMAT.T.T.K, BUT Or BETTER QUALITY
- The republican party was placed
In power in 1920 as much because
It was the only ready means to get
rid of President Wilson's personal
government as because trie people
had confidence fn the ability and
the will of republicans to do better.
Wilson rule had not even the ex
cuse of producing good results; it
was inefficient and wasteful, and it
Involved our affairs, both domestic
and foreign. In a serious muddle.
The voters turned to the repub
licans in the hope that they would
do better and in confidence that
they could hardly do worse. Hence
the unprecedented majority given
to President Harding and the
equally unprecedented republican
majorities elected to both senate
and house were due largely, if not
mainly, to this' state of the public
mind.
In the election next November
the republican party must look for
success to public approval o'f Its
own record, not to condemnation of
that of Its opponents. The worst
obstacle to its making a good record
has been its top-heavy majority in
congress. This, combined with the
reaction from personal direction of
legislation by the president, which
has restrained Mr. Harding from
using the full influence of his of
fice, has caused congress to give
worse results than might reason
ably have been expected from a far
smaller majority. It has put in
congress many men of small calibre
and it has tempted them to group
in factions which support legisla
tion likely to promote their own re
election without regard to declared
party policy or pledges, and to ob
struct -or openly oppose measures
that are plainly in line with the
promises which the party has made.
Hence we have republican dissi
dents on almost every Important
party measure the Washington
treaties and the tariff, for example
:and we have the republican or
ganisation "in . the house opposing
the administration on the size of
army and navy, and passing a
bonus bill without voting money
wherewith to pay the bonus. We,
infact, have men In each house
who, though republicans In name,
are democrats in practice, since
they vote with the opposition on
every important occasion.
Almost every important achieve
ment of the republican party since
it took charge of the government
has been the work of the executive:
not of the legislative, department.
The executive made the Washing
ton treaties, which are the out
standing accomplishment o diplo
macy during four years abounding
in conferences that were barren of
result, and the worst danger to
those treaties came from faction In
the senate. The executive made
peace with Germany and renewed
that measure of co-operation with
the allies which the present state
of public opinion permits. The ex-
ecutive inaugurated the budget sys
tem, vastly reduced the-expenses of
government and put the national
finances In order. Through the in
tervention of the president- social
ism was cut out of the farmer legis
lation and it was so shaped as to
give real relief to agriculture.
Wherever accomplishment has fal
len short of public need and expec
tation, it has been due to the laxity
of congress, and the executive has
" been responsible only so far a"s the
president has neglected to exercise
his authority as head of the nation.
He has strong men in the cabinet,
who shine the brighter by contrast
with congress. r
The general expectation Is that
the republican majority in both
senate and house will be greatlyre
duced at the election, but that the
memory of Wilsonism will be too
fresh and painful to permit transfer
of control to the democrats. The
desire of those who desire repub
lican success in admimsterlng'the
affairs of the nation will be that a
careful house-cleaning relieveMhe
party of incompetent or reactionary
leaders who have not done team
work with the president, of faction.
ists who promote the aims of
groups, often in conflict with party
principles and of habitual bolters
who help the democrats to block
republican measures, and that
thereby the majority in each house
will be reduced to workable propor
tions and be composed of a higher
average quality of men. The convic
tion la growing that the party would
be better off without the men who
use the party's name to get elected,
then do their worst toobstruct its
effective action; that an open op
ponent would be better than that
kind of republican. ,
As a leader, for example, Repre
sentative Mondell Is a positive
swafxhi of weakness. He has not co
operated with the president, has
balked on several occasions and is
so close to the old guard element
as to have : put the reactionary
stamp on the party in the house.
Senator France has played a lone
hand in favor of recognizing the
bolshevist government of Russia,
and opposed ratification of the
Washington treaties. ' Senator La
Follette votes so consistently with
the democrats that it is absurd any
longer to call him a republican. If
the senate majority should be re
duced by election of democrats in
place of a few such men, the re-
and leave the wrong men at home
We need more such men as Bever
iilge, Pinchot and Cellogg, and
fewer Calders, La Follettes, Borahs
and Mondells to carry the nation
forward on the road of sane progress.
: ;
' GRAND ' MARCH OF REFORM.
The Oregonian Is rejoiced to note
that another valiant recruit has
been added to the growing forces of
electoral reform trom the original
army of direct primary stand-patters.
This time it is the Pendleton
East Oregonian, which has hereto
fore been totally unable to see the
smallest fraction of error In the
perfect model of the- primary law.
Now the East Oregonian thinks
something should be done about
registration. The Pendleton paper
has made the painful discovery that
too many citizens, registered with
one party, change their minds and
their party allegiance overnight
and vote with some other party.
The Oregonian observed years. ago
the phenomenon that men who
were otherwise honest citizens had
no scruple about perjuring them
selves as to their registration in
order to raid the primary of the
party to which they do not belong,
and which they hope to defeat in
the ensuing general election. At
last there has been a sudden awak
ening in the Pendleton newspaper
office. It has been a long job, but
truth is mighty and will prevail..
To be sure, the Pendleton paper,
in making its confessions and de
manding a remedy, insists that the
fault is with the registration law,
not the primary law. The point is
not important anywhere but with
the East Oregonian, but if that
paper will look up the original di
rect primary law (pages 36-37, sec
tion 38, general laws of Oregon,
1905) it will ascertain that the
terms and conditions In which reg
istered electors are permitted to
vote are there set forth. How can
the primary election law be amend
ed by changing some other law?
But as we intimated, the main
thing is to reform the statute and
not to quibble. The Pendleton
paper suggests that no elector be
permitted to vote at a party pri
mary unless he was duly enrolled
as a member at the last preceding
election. Good enough, and certain
to prevent a great deal of fraud.
But men and women, for legitimate
reasons, often desire to change
their party.. The Pendleton plan
would do much to prevent it. A
better idea probably would be to
require the elector to vote with the
party with which he was identified
through registration three months
before the primary election.
these ' days of economic chaos, I ists. Each crime . they commit
wnere tne security is lar oetter, i causes tne people to give more
both for life and property, so they
do not have to go to either Mexico
or Russia, and they stay away.
It is commonly believed, though
the facts have been greatly over
stated, that the Americans and
other foreigners who developed new
industries in Mexico under the Diaz
government paid rich graft to
somebody and then recouped them
selves at the expense of the Mexi
can people. But Diaz suppressed I who resort to murder to win power.
bandits and made life and property
safe, and under his rule Mexico
prospered more and the peons were
better paid than hey had been be
fore or have been since. The
poverty and" misery that now pre
vail' are the price which Mexico
pays for the insecurity caused by
bandits, who rule all the way from
the capital to the remotest moun
tains. '
A CRISIS FOR THE STATE.
The report that both Mr. Booth
and Mr. Barratt are to leave the
state highway commission is
gravely disturbing. There are,
doubtless, qualified men for their
hearty support to the republic, wins
more adherents to it and encour
ages its statesmen to more severe
measures against the assassins and
conspirators. That implicit obedi
ence which Germans give to au-
thority is rendered more readily, to
the republic as the habit grows,
more willingly as it becomes more
apparent that the only alternative to
the republic Is a government of men
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Caaa Baer.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks; at the Hotel.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
The drastic measures recently taken
to break up monarchist organiza
tions, to. "prevent their meetings, to
bring political assassins to justice
and to destroy ail traces and in
signia of monarchy are evidences of
growing strength and determination!
to maintain the republic. The
longer, it lives, the more vicious the
crimes committed in order to de
stroy it, the smaller becomes the
chance that its enemies will suc
ceed, and the more sick with hope
deferred bfecomes the heart of the
exile at Doorn.
Every American should wish that
the - German republic will win
through Its present trials, and
American policy ihould be directed
to promote that end. Under its rule
Our courteous and efficient office
boy. Bill, glancing ' over the head
lines, saw a line that brought him
up standing.
"Twenty-five beautiful American
women presented to King George,"
read the line.
"Heavens," gasped Bill, "what a
gift" ,
George H Bradford, Chautauqua I Can Yon Answer These Questional
speaker from Washington. D. C, j i. ts the nighthawlc any help to
who is registered at the Portland man?
has a dime that he says he would
not take 550 for. If was given to
him night before last after an ad-
dress- he made at Junction City.
I Mr. Bradford's "talks deal primarily
with problems and current trends
of government, and he always con
cludes them with a review of the
part he believes the young men of
today will play. At Junction City !
to-i
the Little theater in the nlav 'The I the United States for something
Hummingbird," which Miss Fulton new ln government, something that
: -, c, , ,,. ,!,, 1 must come to do away with the
wrote In September Miss Fulton , e dur)n& tQe ast Jt
' Harland Tucker is in Los Angelef
playing leads with Maude Fulton, at , he said that the world is looking to-
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Montngrue.
places qualified, but not available
But even if any such could be per- j we have cause to hope that the Ger-
suaded to take the vacated plac, . man people will learn the truth
they are necessarily without the ex
perience which both' Mr. Booth and
Mr. Barratt have gained, and could
not at the outset be as valuable as
the retiring commissioners.
Mr. Booth has been on the com
mission for more than four years,
during the greater part of what
may be termed the constructive
period of Oregon roadbuilding, as
distinct from the educative or cre
ative period of the good-road idea
in the state. He has given service
of almost incalculable value, at the
expense, doubtless, of his private'
interests. Mr. Barratt and Mr.
Yeon may have done less, because
their tenure has been shorter. But
the1 commission as a body has a per
sonnel which could not be attracted
to the public service by any consid
eration of private emolument. ' It
has been independent, diligent, con
structive and altogether useful.
Through It the state has invested
many millions of dollars in roads.
There is concrete evidence every
where that It has been well spent.
If there is to be an entire reor
ganization of the commission, it
may "be difficult to keep Mr." Yeon
on the job; and that, too, would be
a public loss. Yet it is evident that,
with the retirement of Mr. Booth
and Mr. Barratt, there is imminent
a change in the state's road .policies,
with possible, even probable, dis
ruption of the whole road -organization.
So far the state roads have been
kept out of politics. If they' are
dragged into politics, it will be a
public disaster.
about the war and will be cured of
the militarist ideal. If monarchy
should be restored, the future
would be black Indeed, not only for
Germ'any, but for Europe and con
sequently for-America and for all
white civilization. It would bring
repudiation of the treaty and prob
ably renewal of the war, of which
no man could foresee the end. "
THE COST OF INSECURITY! .
Agreement between the Mexican
minister of finance and an interna-"
tional committee of bankers for re
sumption of interest payments on
the Mexican debt of $500,000,000
and for gradual payment of arrears
of interest amounting to $200,000
000 should prove to be a long step
toward full recognition of the Mexi
can government Before that can
be granted, Mexico will be expected
to abrogate the laws which confis
cate oil and mineral rights bought
by Americans and citizens of ether
countries from Mexican citizens,
not from the Mexican government.
The legal,not moral, right of Mexico
to enforce such laws against its own
citizens is not questioned, but la not
admitted by any other nation ex
cept the soviet government of Rus
sia. Probably neither the United
States nor any other government
would make war to maintain such
violated rights of its citizens, but
there are other penalties than those
of war which automatically operate
against any government which
practices arbitrary confiscation.
Mexico Is rich in natural - re
sources, but poor In the means of
developing them, not only in capital
but In men of business ability, en
terprlse and scientific and mechan
ical skill. Until It has these essen
tlals among its own people, it must
obtain them abroad. Men will not
invest capital there if it Is liable to
confiscation as the result of a
revolution, which is too probable,
unless the profits are high In pro
portion to the risk of losing the en
tire Investment. Nor will men ot
ability and skill go to work in such
a country if they are In danger of
being kidnaped and held for ran
som or killed by bandits, unless
they are paid extremely well
Therefore, without security for life
and property, Mexico must either
go without foreign capital and skill
and rely on its own meagre supply
of them or must pay in exorbitant
profits and wages for the luxury of
a bandit government which cannot
or will not suppress lesser bandits
among its people.
Mexico, in a smaller degree, Is In
the same position as Russia. The
usurpers of authority over that
country call on Europe for capital,
yet refuse to restore or pay for the
property that they have confis
cated, and they maintain the right1
of confiscation as a matter of prin
ciple. So long as they uphold this
principle, their offers to restore In
dividual properties are worthless,
for a turn of the political wheel
may at any time cause new confis
cations. . Their promises are worth
less, for they hold no agreement
with a capitalist government to be
binding, and they have violated
treaties and agreements with reck
less abandon. r
The one thing which men of capi
tal and skill can do with regard to
such a country la to let it severely
alone. Recognition of Its govern
ment either de facto or de jure
by their own government cannot
compear persuade them to go there
or invest there. They do not go be
cause the security is bad. There are
plenty of other countries, even In
THE GERMAN REPUBLIC'S YITATJTT
Most appropriately the repub
licans of Germany chose the Fourth
of July for the nation-wide one-day
strike to demonstrate their loyalty
to the republic and to protest
against the murder campaign of
the monarchists. That day has be
come full of meaning.to champions
of popular self-government in all
parts of the world. The principles
proclaimed in the declaration made
at Philadelphia have been taken up
by and have inspired establishment
of republics throughout America
and constant addition to the num
ber of republics in Europe ' until
they equal monarchies in number
and have changed kings into chiefs
of democratic states.
The growing tenacity with which
the mass of the German people
clings to the republic hastily found
ed when. President Wilson refused
to treat with the "military masters"
of Germany and the increased pop
ular support that.lt receives nave
sorely disappointed the monarch
ists who made way for it in order
to save' Germany from foreign .in
vasion and to obtain easy terms
from the allies. They regarded It
as a trick to deceive the enemy,
which could easily J5e discarded
when it had served its purpose.
They concealed arms and main
tained military organizations in .de
fiance of the peace treaty that they
might be ready to overturn the
makeshift republic. To their sur
prise and mortification the republic
acted as though It intended to stay,
more and more of the people as
though they wanted it to stay. In
face of monarchist opposition- the
republic has struggled to execute
the peace terms regarding disarma
ment and reparations, and has pub
lished proof of the monarchy's guilt
In causing the war, even to the
point of framing up false evidence
of innocence. That effort to "con
vict them before public opinion par
ticularly enraged them, for by ex
posing the monarchy as the agency
of the nation's defeat, misery and
humiliation, and them as its Instru
ments, the republic -planted In the
people's minds a purpose to have
no more of monarchy. Enforced
surrender of arms and dissolution
of military organizations deprived
the monarchists of many imple
ments for restoration of kaiserism
and helped to drive them to ter
rorism.
The republic gave the first dramatic-evidence
of vitality when the
Kapp army seized Berlin in March,
1920. The government was so weak
that, though it proclaimed the
Kappists traitors, it fled to Stutt
gart, but the workmen paralyzed
the revolutionists with a general
strike, which prevented tlteir sue
cess in any other city and drove the
army to abandon theT capital. En
raged at this failure, the monarch
ists have carried on a deliberate
campaign of assassination. ''Every
leader Jn combating their designs,
In compelling the war-rich land
owners and manufacturers to pay
their share toward the reparation
indemnity, in efforts to perform
treaty obligations and to strengthen
the republic has been marked for
slaughter. Erzberger and Rathenau
are but' two outstanding examples
among hundreds,-and an -attempt
has been made to add Harden to
the number. A conspiracy was
formed at Munich, with Ludendorff
as Its center, to restore monarchy.
In Bavaria and to annex the Tyrol
to that kingdom, and the honors
paid to the dead ex-king and the
unopposed return of ex-Crown
Prince Rupprecht to the palace
Indicate that monarchy is still too
strong In that quarter to be openly
attacked and that the conspiracy is
stilr active.
The mental blindness, the igno
ranco of human nature, which mili
tary Germany displayed in arraying
the world against it are apparent in
the present tactics of the monarch-
NEEDLESS ANXIETY. '.
A strange and most perplexing
age By one group of serious savants
the tired business man is assured
that he is, so to1 speak,- atrophied
from the neck up and that. his in
tellectual diet is 'deficient. Then
arises another wiseacre, before the
national osteopathie'eonvention, to
warn that a motor-mad world has
an evolutionary tendency toward
weak and flaccid nether limbs, and
that if we would walk down the
generations we should away to the
greenwood in the present, and
romp and race like our stout fore
bears, v The trolley car and the au
tomobile, he said, are depriving us
of muscular locomotion.
Now this presents a very grave
condition, as even the mentally
atrophied will perceive. One might
amble along well enough with a
minimum of brains, but what were
life- without legs? A long while
ago, before he turned his pen to
serious subjects, Mr. Wells wrote a
moon story a la Verne. Dimly re
calling hat pleasing, fiction, the
troubled, will find comfort therein,
for it taught that too much of any
thing, however excellent, is never
theless too much. The strange
people with which he populated the
moon set great store by brains. The
cranial development of their wise
men, of their really serious think
ers, became of such proportion as
to require slaves to uphold the pon
derous brow. The logic of Mr.
Wells, too, seemed perilous. Might
It not be that in the pursuit of
physical perfection we may go too
far?
Legs were given us for locomo
tion, and their exercise Is beyond
dispute the most excellent of all
recreations. Yet in those glad days
which the savant would revive,
when we ran and capered and were
tireless of limb, locomotion by leg
was the principal business of life.
And until this ceased to be the case
we discovered no countries beyond
our own forests and built no towns.
Vehicular travel has its advan-
goes to New York to appear in a
series of plays she has written. Mr.
Tucker has. signed a contract with
Moroseo for next season. Mrs. Har
land Tucker (Marie Wolcamp) Is
appearing in the company with her
husband.
.
L. Wolfe' Gilbert, song writer, re
cently at the Hippodrome, and now
in San Jose, writes to theatrical
papers that his pianist, Riley Reilly,
has become a raving maniac, with
the outcome doubtful, through
drinking moonshine whiskey.
At first Reilly seemed slightly de
ranged, says Gilbert, who states he
placed him In the Berkeley sani
tarium, from which Reilly three
times escaped. " - . "
Gilbert says each time Reilly was
picked up by the police and finally
was sent for observation to the de
tention hospital at San Francisco,
where he is at present.
.
Emilio de Gogorza, baritone, for
merly of the Metropolitan Opera
company, and Madame Emma
Eames Gogorza have returned from
a European trip to their home In
Bath, Maine. : They passed . three
weeks in Paris and six weeks In
London, where, Madame Eames
said, John Galsworthy's new play,
Loyalties," would surely be the
great hit of the season.
She said she wished it could be
brought to New York with its Eng
lish company, jvery member of
which is a star. After a summer's
rest in Maine. Mr. de Gogorza will
start on an extensive concert tour.
Morosco's Casino In San Francisco
opened last week with "So Long
Letty" by the newly organized
Moroseo company. The opening per
formance was remarkably smooth.
Marjorie Leach, playing the title
role, is said to be a happy selection
for the role created by Charlotte
Greenwood. She is built along the
general . style of that comedienne'
and has a fine sense of comedy val
ues. In support are Frank Devoe,
Marta Golden, James Dunn, Alma
Francis, Herbert Hoey, Marna Da
lore and Oakes and De Lour.
.
Jack Clifford's camp in the Adi
rondacks is to be made into a health
resort. . Harry Ferns, a chiroprac
tic, is to be interested with Clifford
in the venture. The camp is situ
ated on the shore of the farthest
north of the state's lakes. A sandy
beach , makes bathing attractive.
The property, which Clifford has
owned for the last .22 years ,is
thickly wooded.
There are 2,000'.000 feet of lumber
on the land. The camp house cost
$6-0,000 to. build. A Veranda com
pletely circles the house and meas
ures 11 laps to the mile.
This is the property Evelyn Nes
blt Thaw Clifford said she bought
wicn ner, earnings, and wmch Clif-
fnrri hnri In trn t ,,... v.
, Ac tr. th. fhot- laM -nrill I " v" "
T ' ; L:- -Tl.had owned 'before he ever heard
ia.lL uo, nc iia-vo mui i.v f,,a-11'--- I Evelyn
S1UUUU oco luuat c& uiv
still, so to speak, in their prime.
The nurserymen know that "it's
an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Plant quarantines against foreign
pests may shut off Imports but
there is the making of a noble in
dustry in the business of growing
our own stock at home.
The soviet delegates are learning
that credit is based on confidence
and that debt-repudiation is a bad
thing from the viewpoint of policy,
if on no higher ground.
Mars, says' the Smithsonian as
tronomer, "has a temperature of 60
degrees below zero. No wonder the
radio communicators seem to have
struck a cold trail.
A Kentucky mountaipeer has just
died at the age of 133. Evidently
those feuds we hear so much about
are not more than one-half of jne
per cent lavai.
But after everything has been
said the fact remains that the cigar
ette is responsible for fifty fires
where , the maligned firecracker
may cause one.
Elinor Glyn would have authors
who write for the screen insist on
having credit for their work.
Wouldn't "blame" often.be the bet
ter word?
There will be vo companies of
Irene" lor next season, which will
be the fourth for that attraction.
They will play new territory only,
routed into one-nlghters. A city
company was to have been sent out,
but the failure of a special company
to repeat in Chicago recently caused
a cancellation of the route. "Irene
haB played repeats in every major
stand in $he last several seasons,
"The Circle," with John Drew and
Mrs. Carter, and "Mr. Pirn Passes
By" closed in San Francisco last
week with the local engagement.
"The Circle" at: the Century will
open the new Selwyn, in Chicago
on Labor day. j.
Strike or no strike1, the vacation
ist has little to worry about. NThere
are automobiles, of course, and the
walking tour is nothing to be de
spised. '
Seventy-nine thousand American
tourists have landed in France since
March T. ' And none of them are
there to take the waters, either.
The engagement of the Courtney
sisters (Fay and Florence) for the
Davidow & Le Maire-George Jessel
Shubert unit brings about a curious
situation, incited, it is said, by young;
Mr. Jessel. He was lately divorced
by Florence Courtney, after a series
of conferences and meetings. Jessel
wanted to be agreeable to his wife
and when ,she insisted upon a di
vorce , he assented. Mrs.' Jessel ap
peared to most -seriously object to
her husband absenting himself at
the club too frequently. Jessel said
it was his relaxation, but that didn't
get over. The engagement of the
Courtneys (with jazz band at $1600
i week) with the Jessel show is
reported to have been made upon
Jessel's recommendation. In the
unit show Fay Courtney, the older
and larger sister,' will appear In
blackface, the first time Fay has
consented to use blackface. -
Elsa Ryan, who is sailing soon
for Europe, will again appear in
vaudeville, starting in the fall. She
recently purchased the dramatic
rights to "The. Chap Upstairs," a
Roland Pertwee story that appeared
i the Saturday Evening Post, and
will fashion it into a playlet for.
her own ub. Last season Miss
Ryan was featured with her play
let, "Peg for Short." ,' ;
June Caprice has a bas-y daugh
ter. June Caprice is in private life
Mrs. Harry Millarde of Boston.
Florence Wright, who Is singing
at Pantages this week, is renewing
friendships with former residents
of Hamilton, Ont., who knew the
young soprano before she went on
the stage. Miss Wright is really
Mrs. Wright Her husband was G.
,Montrose Wright, a brilliant young
barrister of Calgary, whose untimely
death in 1918 sent his young wife
back Into the operatic career upon
which she had started before her
marriage. She has studied with
Madame Kaukman in New York.
This is her second tour with the
Alexander Opera company over Pan-
tages circuit, and at its close she
The wonders of radio so far are ' plans to go to Europe to study for
mostly talk. grand opera.
will 'develop within the next 25
years and the younger generation
will provide It. There were three
or four barefoot boys in the front
row, drinking down his words about
the young blood of the country. At
the conclusion of the address one
of them, deeply impressed and in
spired by his allusions to coming
Lincolns, stepped to the edge of
the platform to shake hands with
Mr. Bradford. When he withdrew
his grimy little paw he left a shiny
dime in the palm of the orator. He
had received a great message and
wanted to pay for it.
AHen Clark of St. Louis, who is
at the Multnomah for the paint and
varnish dealers' convention, was the
originator of the clean-up and
paint-up campaign. "I got the idea
ten years ago," he said, "that paint
makers were missing their mission
in not looking beyond the ingredi
ents of a paint can, and that they
should realize and visualize the re
sults of painting rather than con
centrating on how to make paint.
iney nad a better chance. I thought,
to do good than any other industry
in the United States, and the clean
up and paint-up campaign, which
is now observed in 7000 communi
ties is the result. The common im
pression of clean-up and paint-up
week Is wrong. It is not a week,
but a campaign, and the first week
is only a starter. No city can ever
be cleaned in a week. Portland is
pretty clean, she remind- me of a
beautiful girl, the citizen; the par
ents who are trying to make the
most of their daughter. Lots of
eastern cities are old women, con
tent to look fairly well, and not
troubling themselves about being
ueauuiui. . j
J. T. Cross, ex'-mayor of Moberly,
Mo., and head of - the J. T.- Cross
Lumber company of that city, ar
rived in Portland yesterday from
Weed, Cal., en route to Seattle, after
he looks over the lumber situatibn
in Portlands He maintains that the
revival in building is due to the peo
ple getting tired of waiting to build.
Most of the .building now In his part
of the country is made up of small
houses. , Home owners were getting
tired of delaying their building and
as soon as conditions , loosened up
tney began to get busy. "I find this
true everywhere I go," he added.
They are bulldins fast down in
California and all through the west.
There are more people than there
are houses and that explains it."
Mr. Jtross is buying a few carloads
of lumber everywhere he stops, he
said, because he believes business
win stay good and that prices now
are as good as they are going to be.
He asserted that there would be
no more drops in lumber prices.
A new advantage of steel fence
posts over the old-fashioned wooden
posts was advanced in the lobby of
the Imperial yesterday by W. D.
Thomas of Peoria. 111., who sells
them out here on the coast. He said
that wire fence and steel posts pro
tect the livestock from lightning
and that wholesale killings from
electrical storms have been greatly
decreased- in regions where the steel
posts nave been used. The wire
fences attract the lightning- and the
steel posts inserted in the ground
taxe care or it from there on. Farm
ers have not been doin? much fenc
ing during the past three or four
years, he added, because they have
been kept busy fencing with eco
nomic conditions. They are perking
up now on farm improvement and
rail fences and the common varieties
of barbed wire are being displaced
by more modern and effective stuff.
Another result of the recent and
well-remembered war is the in
creased use of sewing machines,
according to Lance E. Hull, who
motored down from Tacoma yester
day and put up at the Oregon, .and'
who manages the Washington
branch of one of the large sewing
machine concerns. He said that
when clothing went so high in price
during the war it became necessary
for thousands of women to learn
how to make their own clothes, and
it wasn't forgotten when the war
was over, either. In spite of the
growing business of popular-priced
ready-made clothing, women seem
to like fashioning their own gar
ments. The electric-driven machine
is also another factor, according to
Hull, which has increase! the use
of sewing machines. And another
thing, those that are sold don't all
go to farms.' Women handy to the
stores in the cities buy just as
many as farmers' wives do.
2. Should the ground be prepared
before planting tree seeds?
3. How many young does a kanga
roo have? How many litters a year?
Does the female have more than
one udder? How long do the young
stay in the mother's pocket?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. At what time of year does the
black duck breed? t
The black or dusky duck. Anas
rubripes, is paired by March, or
even earlier, and will lay from mid
April to mid-May. THough' a river
duck, its nest is in swamp land or
waste fields, often far from water,
the nest being hidden in tall grass
or brush.
2. In the rear of my home in the
afternoon, when temperature is 45
to 50 degrees, the air is full of small
gnats or flies. Where do they come
from, and where do they stay when
it is colder? What are they?
Probably belong to the family
Chironomidae, of which 800 species
are known. We cannot guess which
this one may be. They are com
monly noticed in early spring while
snow Is on the ground. Larvae and
pupae of some kinds are aquatic.
Others live in the earth, or in decaying-
vegetable matter. When the
pupae transform to the winged
stage, the swarms of adults appear.
They were In the incomplete forms
earlier in the season, and hence
practically Invisible.
3. My flower boxes dry out and
bake like bricks, no matter if I
water every day. - What can I do?
Keep your top layer of soil loos
ened, and the moisture will not
evaporate so quickly. Soon after
watering, use a two-tined kitchen
fork or a wire meat skewer to
scratch up the surface without get
ting into the roots. Another way is
subterranean watering, never wet
ting the surface. Crack a small
hole in wide-necked bottles, bury
to the neck, water into them, then
cork. The water will seep through
slowly around the roots. We Icnow
a sun-baked roof garden where this
worked well.
WANTS OREGON TRAII, MUSEUM
Oregon History Should Receive
Greater Attention In Schools.
Baker Democrat.
With the memory of the recent
celebration staged in this city still
fresh in the minds of all the
Morning Democrat has three sug
gestions to make which it believes
are in keeping in every way with
the spirit which has so recently
been manifest. '
At the present time. Oregon's his
tory is given but slight considera
tin in our schools and only that
condensed form is studied which,
appears in the history approved by
the regular course of study. Many
have expressed the opinion that a
textbook of the history of Oregon
from its first inception and of
Baker county ' should be presented
in the grammar grades in order
that every child may become fa
miliar with the historical side of
that section in which he lives. It
is believed that the local school
boards should consider this step
and if finally, decided upon it is
certain that it would not be long
before every county in the state
would undertake similar steps.'
During the past several weeks
there have been displayed by nu
merous business houses of the city
collection of relics and pictures of
pioneer times such as were never
known to exist, simply because of
the fact that they had been hidden
away in garrets and trunks and
only brought forth when needed as
a part of the aelebration. Why not
gather together these relics in a
room to be known as an Old Oregon
Trail museum? It is certain that
owners would gladly give them to a
committee to place in such a dis
play and to visitors to our city it
would not only prove most interest
ing but would be a wonderful ad
vertising feature.
THE AVERAGE CITIZEN.
We have partially bought the piano
(We purchased the music out
right). We still are in debt for the dining
room set.
But freedom from that is in sight.
Next autumn we wind up the sofa
And the rack and settee In the
hall.
We are two months ahead on the
four-poster bed,
And so that collector won't call
We still owe a lot on the auto
The upkeep's a little bit high
And we get sort of blue when the
payments are due.
But we'll own the whole car by
and by.
We have paid for most all of the
dishes
And a third or the washing machine.
We have got a receipt for the sil
ver, complete.
Excepting the tray and tureen.
It isn't so bad when you've started.
Ypu get the things bought one
by one.
And there'll soon come a time when
we've paid the last dime
And every installment is done.
And what Is the pinching and sav
ing. Although It may gall you a lot.
When you look for the day, if you
only can pay.
That you'll own everything that
you've got?
No money to keep for the icebox,
No pennies to save for thp
Wait!
We thought for a while we could
sit back and smile.
And fancy we'd triumphed o'er
fate,
But it's only two months, we re
member. Till the first of September arrives.
And we think, with a chill, of the
income tax bill
We'll get that the rest of our
lives!
-
High Time.
Governor Cox has gone to Europe
to find out if the league of nations
is as great an institution as he said
it was in the last campaign.
Still Efficient.
The Germans have found a way
to get the ink off printed paper,
and now their marks can be turned
into labels for American liquor.
Pretty Tugh.
Apparently, globe trotters will
have to get along as best they can
without viewing the sunset from
the top of Mount' Everest.
He did it once at least, he re
ceived credit for doing It. Will
somebody suggest to Colonel Hofer
that Oregon needs rain? . -v r
"Government Is protection," says
one definition. Hardly, in William,
son county, Illinois, and perhaps
not in Dennison, Texas.
-Now that the momentous issue of
the proper tariff on peanuts has
been decided, the senate can call it
a summer.
A Little Bit of Happiness.
By Grace E. Hall.
A little bit of happiness
Makes all the world look new,
The sunshine turns to yellow silk
That lines the skies of blue;
The clouds are misty lovely veils.
With borders dainty pink,
The flowers lift blushing faces up
To watch the star-eyes wink.
A little bit of happiness
And hearts are newly strung.
Like" lutes of gold that waited, mute,
For songs that were unsung;
And eyes with brilliant irised gleams
Shine in the dusky eve,
When fairies touch the magic loom
Of happiness and weave.
The little buraens slip away,
The greater ones grow less,
When love renews the smouldering
flame
Of human happiness; --, ...
And voices sound the deeper notes ,
Of songsters on the wing,
When froqs the depths of lightened
hearts , ...
The spirit-tones upspring.
In Other Days.
' Belgium will sell ' sequestered
property if Germany does not pay
at date. Belgium retains the spirit
of 1914.
. Germany wants to "renew the
note." She has the money,, but
hates to pay.
Prohibition may not prohibit,
but at present prices it is almost
prohibitive.
M. A. Millard, former Portlander
and resident of Los Angeles, found
things rather changed, when he
drifted back into town after 22
years' absence. Friends who used
to live right around the center of
town seemed to have abandoned
their former homes, on the sites of
which office buildings now stand.
Mr. Millard says he likes the new
town so- well that' he is coming
back. When he lived here before
he was one of the most enthusiastic
fishermen and hunters in this oart
of the state. "That's the first thing
l m going to do when I come back.
he declared. "I'm in the buildinK
business down In California, but
before I resume It up here I'm going
to get some guns and rods and have
some of the old-time fun again."
A. E. Holcombe, president of the
hotelmen's organization, Greeters
of Oregon, is just back from the
national convention at Pittsburg,
and has much to say about the
western spirit. "Its existence is a
fact and not imagination," he said
yesterday. 'We had a wonderful
trip to the east and back, and in
every city we were treated royally,
but you could tell the difference as
soon as we got past Omaha. I don't
know exactly what it is, but you
get a different feeling when youj
fiBi in lub BUBL, anu lac western
spirit isn't there." '
H. R. Peterson of Cochran, Or.,
who Is staying at the Imperial, said
yesterday the forest fires have
made, a lot of excitement in his
home town, but that they were not
as disastrous as indicated in the
common impression. While there
is great danger on account of dry
weather from fires, Mr. Peterson
said that those which have already
occurred have kept close to the
ground for the most part and did
not greatly damage the crowns of
the trees. '
J. W. -Thompson, who is In the
lumber business in St Helens, is
spending a few days in this city and
is staying at the Hotel Portland.
A. E. Hayes, his wife and his son,
are stopping at the Oregon during
a short visit in town. Mr. Hayes
runs the ferry at Kelso, Wash.
CAMPINU TIME.
The time of year we love best
Is camping time.
It holds more charm than all the
rest
That camping time.
For it we wait the whole year
through.
We save our dimes and old clothes,
too.
And plan the things we'll surely do
At camping time.
We get our guns and fish rods out
At camping time.
And talk of how we'll catch big
trout
At camping time, '
And mother bakes the whole day
long, '
Yet never falls to sing a-song,
For she has always voted strong
For camping time.
We bring the old Ford to the door
At camping time,
And load it up with many a store,
At camping time.
And last, upon the fender bent, .
Where former trips have left their
dent.
We firmly tie the big, old tent,-.
At camping time.
We all climb in and find a place,
At camping time;
And back to nature turn our face.
At camping time.
Then for two weeks of perfect bliss.
Though tender cheeks the sun may
kiss.
We vow there is no life like this
Our camping time.
Twenty-Five Yearn Ago.
From The Oregonian of July 13. 1R97.
William Jennings Bryan delivered
an address yesterday at Gladstone
park, under the auspices of the Wil
lamette Valley Chautauqua associa
tion. v
President James J. Hill of the
Great Northern arrived in this city
Sunday- night from Seattle on his
special train of three cars. Mr. Hill
was accompanied by F. Weyer
hauser, the lumberman, of St. Paul,
who is a guest of Mr. Hill. .
Chicago A special to the Times
Herald from Washington says: "The
administration has taken steps to
keep its grip on Hawaii. Any ag
gressive interference on the part of
Japan .will result in the landing of
marines and the hoisting of the
American flag.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of July IS, IST2.
London. A dispatch from Aden
announces the arrival there of Stan
ley and says he started for London
today in company with a son of Dr.
Livingstone, bearing letters from
the great explorer to the English
government. Stanley says when he
left the interior of Africa the doctor
was 111, but had determined to pro
ceed with his explorations and will
not return until he discovers the
sources of the NtP
We lie abed until we tire
At camping time;
Then bake our hotcakes o'er the
fire,
At camping time.
Then, armed with fishrod and with
book
We settle down beside the brook,
While minnows nibble at the hook.
. At camping time.
And when at last we homeward turn.
From camping time,
complexions dark from many a
burn
At camping time.
Our thoughts leap forward to next
year,
With minglings of hope and fear,
Lest something chance to interfere
With camping time. '
GRACE PADDOCK EDGERTON.
Ridding Lawns of Molea.
PORTLAND, July 12. (To the
Editor.) Please inform me as to
what is the food of monies such as
work, in lawns? I have been trying
to'poison them with grain soaked in
strychnine, but am in doubt about
their eating grain, i ,
CONSTANT READER.
Moles live chiefly on earthworms
and similar animal food. Efforts to
poison them have never been at
tended with success. Trapping is
probably the only method. Traps
for the purpose are sold by dealers
In hardware and garden supplies.
New York. A Rio-de Janeiro let
ter says the Russian fleet, with the
Grand Duke Alexis on board, left
there for the Cape of Good Hope on
June 9. Considerable preparations
of a warlike nature were being
made by Brazil in anticipation of a
coming war with the Argentine Re
public.
FIRST LEARN HOW TO THINK
All Things Are Possible Once Mind
Has Been Well Trained.
v La Grande Observer.
Everybody wants something else
taught in the grammar schools.
More music, more art, more manual
training, table manners, home man
agement, general economics, world
history, evolution these are a few
of the subjects regarded by their
pushers as all-important.
It may be granted that it is de
sirable that the future citizen be
taught all these things and more.
But life is short and there are only
60 minutes in an hour.
One thing many well-wishers of
the schools forget, and that is the
foundation on which these studies
must rest if they are to do any good.
First and foremost schoo.s must
tea,ch their children how to think
If a child has been taught how to
get a tight hold of facts in his mem
ory, how to' reason problems out to
their conclusions, then when he is a
bit older he can be trusted to tackle
for himself, with sound results, mat
ters of art, economics, health, man
ners and carpentry.
But if all his training is slipshod
on cjTe,.fif-al nnflP nf it Will sHf-lf
Thorough analysis of arithmetic
examples, maintenance of standards
of excellence In spelling, education
of hand muscles In legible writing,
rules for grammer which will helF
make of it that "clear cold engine"
Huxley said it should be. -
Anything can be learned or done
with a well-trained mind.- Nothing
can be done with a hazy, lazy, un
exercised, mind. .