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THE 'MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922
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AN APPEAL TO CLASS HATRED.
The manifesto issued by the cen
tral labor council ' of Portland,
(which purports to state "pertinent
facts" in regard to the railroad
shopmen's strike, is in fact a mass
of mis-statements. It evades the
real question at issue, it misrepre
sents the dispute as between the
workmen and Wall street finan
ciers who control the railroads, and
it drags in a mass of irrelevant
matter for the plain purpose of in
flaming class hatred and thereby
enlisting on the side of the strikers
a large measure of public sympathy
to which they have no just claim.
In order to make this appeal
from reason and justice to passion
and prejudice, the authors of the
manifesto found it necessary first
to dispose of the inconvenient fact
that the shopmen are striking
against a decision of the labor
board that their wages should be
reduced after they had, in 1920, ac
cepted a decision of the same board
greatly increasing their wages. They
did not hesitate to go before the
board and state at great length
their objection to the proposed re
duction, thus accepting its jurisdic
tion, but when its verdict goes
against them they deny its jurisdic
tion and say they are unable to ac
cept." They are able, but they are
unwilling. For them the rule does
not work both ways.
In saying that the strike can be
ended "through joint negotiation
between the railroad management
and the workers," the labor council
proposes to sweep aside the instru
ment which congress has provided
to determine just wages without
strikes and to draw the railroad
managers into a conference with
the strike club always ready to- fall
on their heads. In that kind of ne
gotiation, the rights of all the peo
ple to continuous service at reason
able cost are left out of considera
tion, anu me unions Try 10 eniorce
their demands with the threat of
great loss to the railroads, having
no regard to the far greater loss in
curred by the people, from whom
ultimately the employes receive
their wages and the railroads their
income. . . .
In enacting the transportation
act of 1920 congress in effect de
clared that the interest of the pub
lic is superior to that of either the
owners or the employes, and it un
dertook to put an end to that kind
of "negotiation." It established
the labor board for the purpose of
deciding what wages and working
conditions are just, in order to re
move any excuse for strikes. It
named seven factors which the
board should, take into considera
tion.'first among these being:-The
scales of wages paid for similar
kinds of work in other industries"
and "the relation between wages
and the cost of living." The board
leaned so far backward in paying
regard to these considerations that
it awarded the shopmen 14 cents
an hour more than is paid "for sim
ilar kinds of work in other indus
tries" and 10 per cent more than
would be required by the increase
of the cost of living since 1914. The
government, through the board,
thus awards the shopmen a pre
ferred position over other similar
workmen, but they strike for still
more.
All the invective about Wall
street control of the railroads is not
to the point. If that control were a
fact, it would not affect the' justice
of the board's award, on which the
deciding votes were cast by repre
sentatives of the public. Control of
rates and service rests with the
government through the interstate
commerce commission. That body
pays no attention to the amount of
stock and bonds issued against the
railroads; it is guided by the value
of the railroad property ' employed
in transportation, as ascertained by
actual physical valuation of more
than 50 per cent of the total, on
which it has based its judgment of
the value of the rest. It cut the val
nation Jl, 140, 000, 000 below that
shown by the railroads' books,. and
It fixed rates which should yield
the standard net return on that val
uation. It was so careful not to
grant too much that in no month
t have the railroads as a whole
earned' the net return which com
mission found just to owners and
necessary to secure for the public
.adequate service. The Wall street
financiers who own or control the
stocks and bonds are free to do as
they please with the pieces of paper
representing division of ownership.
and to elect what directors they
please; they cannot raise rates to a
point where dividends would be
come excessive and, if service falls
below public needs, the commission
.brings them up with a sharp turn,
The emergency measures taken in
consequence of the strikes prove
that this power is real and is ac
tually exercised.
The motive for the labor coun
cil's denunciation of the banks is
unmistakable. It is to distract pub'
lie attention front the fact that the
strike Is against the government,
acting through the labor board,
therefore against the American peo
pie, whom the government serves.
It is right that the people should
say the final word as to railroad
wages, for they pay .in the end
through the price they ' pay for
goods and travel, and the justice of
their decisions through their ap
pointed agency is undeniable. The
strike is against them, its purpose
being to inflict loss on them until
they exert Influence on the board
to revise its decision favorably to
the strikers. The effect would be
that the railroads would pay higher
wages than work is worth'' and that
the people 'would be deprived of re
lief from high rates which they
have a right to expect. The strike
is against the people, not against
the Wall street interests and their
hirelings."
The law makes- more effective
provision against strikes than any
direct prohibition, with legal pen
alties attached, could prove to be.
It takes such precautions that
wages and working conditions shall
be just that a well-informed public
opinion shall be arrayed against
strikes, and shall make them fall.
Failure would tie the most effective
prohibition of strikes. Hence the
effort to turn the just resentment
from the labor unions which try to
elevate railroad merr-to the position
of a privileged class to the Wall
street magnates. That is the strike
leaders' one hope of escaping fail
ure and of retaining the strike as a
Veapon in their armory. There is
good opportunity to make the
present railroad strike the last one;
ifsitris lost, we may prepare for a
series of greater magnitude. The
people should not risk waste of this
opportunity by permitting them
selves to be misled by this ranting
about Wall street
OVERTAKEN."
The gallows shadow has thick
ened In the cell of Richard M.
Brumfield, obscuring the last faint
ray of hope. The man must die,
declared the Oregon supreme court
in denying a. reversal of decree.
Few murders have been more
sordid than that of Dennis Russell,
the inoffensive recluse, for whose
life he must pay witlf his own. The
drama of that crime was of the
darkest repugnance. For motives
best known to himself, -but presum
ably those of gain, the cultured
clubman chose Russell as' the vic
tim of his atrocity. Neither a slow
ly kindling anger nor the passion
of a moment contributed to that
resolve and its terrible enactment
Carefully, coldly, and with method
the murderer laid his plans" The
dead body of the. recluse' was to
pose as his own corpse. He pur
posed a super-crime, and with no
trace of ethical emotion he ' set
about the ghastly project
Russell was slain at night by a
rifle bullet, his body cast by the
roadside in the wreckage of an
automobile. It wore the habili
ments of Brumfield in token of the
murderer's impassive poise. He had
not shrunk from playing valet to
his victim. With dynamite he con
trived to shatter the tell-tale head,
and with fire he sought to char
the body beyond all save superficial
recognition. As murders go this
murder was the craftsmanship of a
fiend.
The law took Brumfield, took
him -with a lie on his lips. It
brought the careless fugitlveJiack
to the shadow he had flouted, and
proved him guilty beyond perad
venture. The law was reasonable.
It. tarried until he had erected
every legal obstacle to fate, and
until every obstacle had been by
due process of law and justice re
moved. The law dealt more than
fairly with this man. And fairly it
deals with him still.
THE SCOURGE OF CONSCIENCE.
The frequency with which peni
tent sinners- return nickels and
dimes of over-due carfare to public
service companies, the better to
ease an aching conscience, implies
a chastened world. While it is true
that the amount involved is trifling,
the act itself is magnified by a
great principle. We do desire, and
have hope for, the extension of the
practice to debts for dollars, and
even fives and tens. Sweeping ir
resistibly onward with its impetus
of honesty, who knows but that,
some distant day, a distraught and
repentant captain of finance may
not make an altotment? Ring out
wild bells!'
'Twelve years ago," runs the let
ter of one who saw the light, and
inclosed a single jitney, "I got on a
car and the conductor didn't see
me. I want to lead a good life, and
in order to do so I had to make
things right Trusting to be for
given."
The Jersey City Public Service
corporation prizes that missive and
shrines the nickel. The letter and
the coin seem portents of the dawn
3t a day when 12-year-old chil
dren shall cease to be 8, and trans
fers null and void shall no longer
De urged, upon the conductor. A
day when, so to speak, the hardy
art of getting something for "ndth
ing shall fall into disuse and be
come no more than a myth, the
vaguest of memories. '
Meantime, to such as salve their
souls by the return of nickels, or
who hold, that which is not right
fully theirs, we can think of no bet
ter advice than is given in and to
"The Man Who Corrupted Hadley-
burg. "And if you have not read
the "book, you should, for it. dem
onstrates how very easy it is to be
tempted and how human it is to
err. The advice was: "You are far
from being a bad man go and re
form.'.' SPIMJNO PROSPERITY'S BEANS.'
The only real obstacle to return
Ing. prosperity is the dispute be
tween coal operators and miners
as to how it shall be 'divided and
the refusal of railroad shopmen to
accept the share awarded them as
just. Whenever there is " enough
prosperity to go around, somebody
grabs for more- than his share,
starts a scrimmage and spills the
beans. So greed Always defeats it
self.
Harvest is already .well advanced
and a month hence every car will
be needed to haul crops to market.
Unless the coal and railroad strikes
should soon be ended, many cars
and locomotives will be out of re
pair and there will not be enough
coal to fire the locomotives that
remain in service. Shipments of
coal to the northwest for winter
use are ' far behind ..the normal
quantity and, if opportunity should
come, to make , good, the deficiency
before winter, coal and wheat will !
each grab for cars that the- other
needs. The miners are apt to run
short of bread money, the farmers
to run short of coal money because
they cannot get their crops to mar
ket, and business will-be slack for
r v ...
all who hoped to sell goods to both
miners and farmers.
There is enough work and to
spare to keep everybody busy if all
would settle down and do it, but
millions of people spend half their
time quarreling about what they
shall do and how much they shall
be paid, and they, and others go on
short rations in consequence. In a
recent speech Senator Gooding told
of immense unused capacity to pro
duce food, coal, teel, glass, "meat,
copper, automobile tires,' and said
that 2,500,000 men are still unem
ployed. Hundreds of millions of
people in Europe need enough of
those commodities to employ all
the idle men and rtuch of the idle
capacity, but are so busy with- their
quarrels that they do not work
enough to earn the price.
Men make their own troubles
and, when 'prosperity comes unbid
den, they snatch after and waste
half the bounty that it hrings..'
What fools we mortals be! "
CHARACTERS WITH GRIEVANCES.,
Bill Sikes wasn't such a bad
bloke as Dickens made him out to
be. The real' Bill, so they say, was
one of the few who befriended
Master Charles whilst he learned
that the world was rough and cold
to penniless children, and England
a cruel mother to poverty. For
some reason that none have ever
ferreted the novelist filched the
name of his benefactor for that
character who stands in all fiction
as wholly without a saving grace.
Bad Bill Sikes. how richly he mer
ited the death he died. Poor Bill
Sikes, an honest man who suffered
the reputation 'of a rogue.
.. In American letters we have,
perhaps, no villian comparable to
the late Mister Sikes save Injun
Joe, whose sinister presence stalks
fearsomely through the well
thumbed pages of "Tom Sawyer."
It was Joe who expressed himself
so feelfngly upon the matter of re
venge against the widow. "When
you want to get revenge on a wo
man," said this atavistic practi
tioner, "you don't kill her bosh!
You go for her looks. You 'slit her
nostrils you notch her ears like a
sow!" We can well believe that
Injun Joe would ' have made good
his threat and laughed .to .see the
widow writhe, but for the shotguns
of her neighbors. Yet Joe was
wronged in the immortal narrative
of Missouri' boyhood.
At Hannibal, where Mark Twain
was long ago Tom Sawyer himself,
there dwells old Doc Buck Brown,
who .knew Tom as a boy knows a
boy, and who knew Injun-Joe as
well. And Joe, says he,' was the
tried friend of the Sawyer gang, a
popular character of Hannibal, and
one of the gentlest men who ever
stooped to stroke a kitten. The
picture we have of Injun Joe, .in
the light of this "recollection, is that
of a swarthy, placable, mild-
mannered roustabout in ragged
homespun, spitting on a baited
hook beside the great river. And
such a glimpse at him is entirely
within keeping of the revised char
acter attested by Doc Buck Brown.
For Joe himself passed placidly by
the exit of ordinary pneumonia, in
a cot on the ferryboat, and was
quite generally if idljr mourned.
Good old Injun Joe. -. '
The liberties that authors take
live after them. It now appears
that both Bill and Joe were much
maligned, and have a grievance
against the shades of those who
made their memory infamous. A
trifling matter that, to be settled
beyond a river wider and deeper
and more awful than Thames or
Mississippi, and to be settled with
amicable tolerance, no doubt. We
can Imagine some benevolent old
English merchant chiding the dis
putants, or Becky Thatcher plead
ing for gentleness. But at least Bill
Sikes and Injun Joe are among the
immortals, a fellowship they could
scarcely have expected to join
otherwise. i -'
PROHIBITION IN MASSACHUSETTS.
In view of the fact that a curv
rent survey of the country betrays
sentiment one might almost say
sentimentality for at least a modi
fication of the "Volstead act, the. re
cent report from Massachusetts on
prohibition, crime and poverty, is
somewhat enhanced in value. So
far as we know it represents the
first earnest attempt of magnitude
to strike a balance between the
statistics of the open saloon and
those of the arid era. Issued by
the Scientific Temperance federa
tion the fact of its sponsorship need
not'invite scoffing. Surely the anti-
prohibitionists could not be ex
pected to nurture such an enter
prise. The significant fact is. re
garding the statistics from the bay
state as of general application to
America, that the report flatly de
nies our storied sufferings from
prohibition and, indeed, convicts
those who assail the reform of ig
norance of, their own welfare.
"The outstanding conclusion ' of
this report," said Dr. Richard C.
Cabot, professor of clinical medi
cine, of Harvard medical school.
is that to the poor prohibition in
Massachusetts has been a "signal
blerylng. The rich may, for all we
know, be as foolish as ever, but be
yond any question the poor are bet
ter off. Drunkenness in womeiT of
the poorer classes his signally de
creased, while children under
seventeen are much better off. I
believe the report represents the
truth as nearly as statistics and
first-hand observations of 'social
workers can 'give it. I do not see
how tts conclusions can be Im
pugned nor how anyone can help
rejoicing in the improvement it
registers."
The statistics cover a period of
ten years, from 1912 to . 1921," and
should be scanned with a realiza
tion of the fact that Boston was
ever pro-liquor, that the natural
obstacles to enforcement have been
as great in Massachusetts as in any
other state, and that aldltionally
the state did not have an enforce
ment act of its own until May,
1922. Thus the prohibition years
reyresenieu in me survey were
years in which no agency save that
of the federal government was at
work for enforcement. Despite
these obstinate factors it is found
that prohibition vis successfully re
flected in every phase of the sta
tistical abstract and that both
crime and poverty have decreased.
Noting but a few of the many
improvements under prohibition it
is observed that while the average
of annual arrests for drunkenness
in Boston during the 'wet" years
of the decade was 6339, the average
for the "dry" years was 1023, Or a
decline of S3 per cent. The de-
crease in drunkenness, as attested
by arrest for the state as a whole
was" 55 per cent Arrests for all
causes in the state showed a de
crease of 14 per cent for the pro"
hibition years. The decrease In
prison population, was as follows:
Reformatory for women, decrease
of "49 per cent; state "reformatory
for men, decrease of 34 per cent;
state farm for vagrants and" Indi
gent, decrease of 82 per cent. .
"Until the shortage of intoxicat
ing beverages set in," runs -an offi
cial report of the state farm, "the
institution was one of the most
populous .prison farms for drunk
ards and vagrants to be found in
the United States: The farm has a
tract of 1420 acres under intensive
cultivation. - Since the coming of
prohibition the inmate population
has npt afforded enough labor"-to
keep the -farm tilled, and the state
is already considering the wisom of
converting this immense plant to
other uses."
The report teems with figures,
but even the most pregnant statis
tics are dusty reading, not , wholly
because of the restrictions of the
Volstead act, and but a few of the
many must suffice to show the
tenor of the whole. A study was
made, for example, of 144 families
known in 1916 to be suffering pri
marily from intemperance in a
year of general prosperity. The
families so" observed were scattered
over nine counties. In 1916 tiere
were 210 alcoholics in these home
circles. In 1921 there were ninety-Ulan
mm Yn 1 1 C M L "I J) 111- A
four. In 115 of the families, or 79
per cent, definite improvement was
found in the following respects:
Eighty-eight in total income,
twenty-seven in general health,
sixty-six in physical care of .chil
dren, twenty-eight in medical care
of children, thirtysix in moral care
of children, seventy-four in- general
home conditions.
The sincerity and authenticity of
the. Massachusetts report are not to
be questioned. ' Inasmuch as the
nation declared for prohibition for
moral and economic reasons It
would appear that ' the statistics
prove the tremendous weight and
worth of the experiment. Advo
cates of. personal liberty may well
pause before the statement that In
twenty-eight homes under observa
tion there was Improvement in the
moral care of fchildren, or the at
tested fact thatdeaths from, alco
holism and related causes in Bos
ton has decreased 62 per cent un
er the "dry" regime. -, . .
It should be borne in mind.
when we consider the Literary Di
gest survey, with its showing of a
popular demand for light wine and
beer, that ever since the advent of
prohibition the liquor propagan
dists have been tirelessly busied;
and that' the state of the public
mind Is not so much one of thirst
as of fret. Moreover, the enforce
ment of such a revolutionary re
form is initially difficult, for the
reason that we are striving to com
bat custom as well as profit None
dared believe that the application
of the prohibition law would effect
national drouth on the moment
Broadly considered, prohibition is
scarcely more than, an experiment
favorably progressing toward abso
lute certainty. As such it is being
keenly watched by the world.
Presently they will strive to con
vince us that Hawaiian belles first
learned to cast languorous eyes
when the white man came, and
that before that time they looked
neither to right nor left but kept
stolidly at their poi pounding. For
with the death of Manuel Nunes, a
native of Madeira, rises the claim
that he, and no native of the de
lectable isles, invented theplaintive
ukulele. And not so long ago we
Were downcast by the prosy asser
tion that Hawaiian love songs and
melodies are but the dreamy echo
of those old hymns the mission
aries brought them. . With all def
erence to the hymnal one hates to
accept this version. It is bad for
Hawaiian romance and equally bad
for the hymns. Saying aloha to a
prized belief, especially when it is
twined with garlands, is a sorrow
that time cannot heal.
Down the river, on the other
side,, "they" will hold a community
affair this year which they call a
"cranberries" fair. As the berries
are getting fat and plenty and are
irrigated, the dry weather does not
affect them and the exhibits . will
be in the first class. . f -
Following the devastating fire at
Marshfield Sunday morning the
Coos Bay Times issued a fire extra
a few hours later that was a mar
vel in newspaper work. In four
pages it covered the fire from
every angle.. The Maloneys are
emergency men. . . -
xne Japanese have taken up
American baseball and have be
come quite adept at it but they
never can be considered real fans
until they kill a few umpires.
The Roosevelt statue should be
placed where 'it will be seen 'and
not where it will be a mere exhibit.
Respect for the memory of the
man demands the best place.
Another billion dollars' worth of
Victory bonds are to be paid off on
December 15, which will give the
holders of the bonds that much
more to spend on oil stocks.
Mr. Chamberlain has been visit
ing the scenes of his "standing;
start' Like him, Albany is a little
older, and also likewise somewhat
better looking.
The periodical raid on a Chinese
lottery produced the customary re
sult. When the Chinaman cannot
mark one he will cease to be a
celestial. - .
Publication of the ' restraining
order to the striking shopmen is
equivalent to personal service, for
the shopmen read the papers.
The city will recover early today
from the embargo of yesterday by
the grocers, who must have one
day of "rest" 4n the year.
The modern trend is toward gov
ernment of the bureaucrats, by the
bureaucrats and for the bureau
crats. the remarks stricken out of the
Congressional Record are usually
the only remarks in it worth read
ing. -, -. '. " . .
- We predict that the senate in
quiry into gasoline prices will make
very poor mileage per gallon. ., :
Stars -and Starmakers.
By Leone Can Baer.
Lee Millar, who appeared in char
acter roles with the Baker Players
for two seasons a few years ago
when Verna Felton played leads, is
now a member of Miss Felton's
company, "The 'Allen Players," in
Edmonton, Canada. . Also in the
company is Alvin Baird, who played
at the Alcazar here.
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Jaif Paderewski has gone to
Europe, but he will return, he an
nounces, to resume concert appear
ances in the ' fall. , The last time
Paderewski appeared publicly was
in 1917, when he retired to enter
into political activities in Poland.
He will start his concert tour next
November under the direction of
George Engels, playing a limited
number of concerts in the United
States and Canada. s
.
James Bliss is a member of the
Bonstelle Stock company in Detroit.
He is a one-time Baker player.
Guy Usher, another former player
with the Baker stock, is a member
of the Wilkes Players in Denver,
Colo., at the Denham theater. How-,
ard Russell of the old Baker guard
years ago has Joined the Wilkes
Players. Russell is an able corns-
and the Denver reviews all
1
agree on that point.
The latest news from London has
it that Sophie Tucker will sail for
home on August 23 after a season
in that, city and the English prov
inces. Miss; Tucker recently fin
ished, an engagement of six weeks
at the London hippodrome in a re
vue, "Round in 60," and the close
of her run was the occasion for a
big reception backstage in her
honor.
";.
Dorothy Shoemaker, one of the
popular leading women of the Baker
seasons, has cast her lot with the
Robert McLaughlin Players in Cleve
land. Others in the company are
Ralph Kellard, Bernard Magowen,
Irene Purcelle, Elinore Wilson and
Ede Mae. - "
T Mr. McLaughlin plans to keep the
organization Intact through the
winter and already has acquired
several new plays which he is going
to try out in Cleveland for New
York producers.
. ,
Elsie Ferguson is now on the
high seas en route to America. She
has been in London conferring with
J. B. Fagan, author of "The Wheel,"
which ran in the British capital a
season and in which she will be
seen this fall under the manage
ment of Marc Klaw. Inc. ''The
Wheel" will be known by another
name in its New York reincarnar
tion. i
Jack's, famous all-night restau
rant in New York is to be sold, it is
announced. The place was for many
years the rendezvous of theatrical
folks, but since prohibition it has
steadily lost business. John Dustan,
the owner, will retire.
Ina Claire, who was engaged by
Gilbert Miller, on behalf of Charles
Frohman, Inc., while that young
star was sojourning in Europe, will
be seen shortly in the leading role
In "The Awful Truth," the role
played by Ruth Chatterton in the
try-out production in San Francisco
under the direction of Henry Miller.
"The Awful Truth" is boolfed to
open at, the Henry Miller theater in
New YoTk September 20. Bruce Mc
Rae will have the leading male role,
which he created with the try-out
company.
Pauline Frederick has begun re
hearsals in "By Right of Conquest,"
a new drama in three acts, by
Michael Morton and Peter Traill,
under- the" direction of A. H. Woods.
This play . will mark Miss Fred
erick's return to the stage after an
absence . of eight years, during
which time she has achieved celeb
rity as one of the most successful
stars in the pictures.
' Miss. Frederick's last appearance
in the spoken drama occurred in
1914, when he appeared in "Inno
cent," at the Elting-e theater, also
under the management of Mr.
Woods in New York.
Adele Blood, who starred in
"Everywoman" on tour for several
seasons, and then renounced the j
stage for domesticity in Pasadena,
is now preparing to return to the
stage. .". She has been In New York '
for two weeks organizing a Com
pany to play- in the orient. T.
Daniel Frawley is associated with
Miss Blood in her venture.
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-Jan. Rubini, violinist, and Mile.
Diane, his ex-wife, were married
to each other for the- second time
in . New . York a week ago. The
newspapers there have duly re
ported that Jan Child Rubini, vio
linist, and Mrs. Jan Child Rubini
Aubrey obtained a marriage license
and were united at once by Deputy
City Clerk James J. McCormick. The
record ' also revealed that Mr. and
Mrs. Rubini were divorced in San
Francisco in March. 1921. Mrs.
Rubini, it may be added. Is Mile.
Diane on the playbills.
; The bridegroom explained all
about it to an interviewer. "We
were married and were partners
for four years,", he said, "when I
got the idea that there might be
somewhere9, some one prettier and
more congenial. Then came the di
vorce. I went on a concert tour
and my , wife went into the pic-,
tures.
"I realized my mistake and I
came crawling on my knees, beg
ging her to take me back,", the
violinist paused.
"Well," he replied, in response to
a final question, "we went on tour
again about five weeks ago, and
yesterday morning she agreed to
forget and start ail over again."
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' That new play upon which Madame
Fetrova has been at -work for the
last several weeks down at her
home in Great Neck, has been com
pleted, with the exception of one
scene, laid' in Italy. It is in .three
acts and madame will write in the
missing lick during her sojourn' in
Naples, where she has gone to get a
local color. The title of the work is
"The Harlot's House," suggested by
Oscar Wilde's poem of the same
name. Madame Petrova's husband,
Dr. John D. Stewart, accompanied
her to Italy. - - . "
Those Who Come and Go.
Tale ot Folks at the Hotels.
Having secured from the high
way commission what he wanted
an order to finish the one and one
half miles of the Sisters-Bend high
way, from Tumalo.town to the Bend
bridge County Judge Sawyer
checked out for home. The judge
is deeply interested in the Deschutes
country, and a few days ago he ex
plored the lava river cave about 15
miles south of Bend. This cave is a
sort of subway through which an
immense stream of molten lava
flowed at some time in the ancient
past, but where the lava entered and
wnere it went when it nassed. out
of the tunnel has no been discov-
erea. The lava river cave is con
sidered one of the attractions of
central Oregon, although it has not
been exploited commercially. It is
quite a place for young people to
bo, ana a sign nearby calls it
"Lovers' Cave." Electric flashlights
or ordinary lanterns are almost use
less in the cave, and the best method
or illumination is for the Inves
tigator to gather some pitch pine
knots from dead trees nearby and
use these as torches. To enter the
cave on the west opening it is nec
essary to climb down about 100 feet
over gigantic blocks of lava, and
these boulders must be scaled for
the first 100 yards after reaching
the bottom. Later the floor of the
cave becomes covered with fine
sand. Some day the tunnel will be
lighted with electricity, ladders will
be provided and some enterprising
chap will coin money from tourists
by running a bus line from Bend to
the lava cave.
Mrs. George H. Detwiler of Sum
mer Lake is at the Imperial. The
Summer Lake irrigation" project is
now under way and the dam is in
process of construction. The waters
of Anna springs will be impounded
for irrigation purposes. These
springs burst from the ground in
immense volume. Where the water
comes from has not been deter
mined, but the origin is supposed to
be somewhere within the Winter
ridge, which skirts one side of the
lake. The springs were found by
Fremont in his expedition. Fremont
crossed the Winter ridge in Decem
ber from Bend and when he saw
Summer lake, with the trees and
grass green, he promptly gave it
the appropriate name. There is so
much wind out where the dam is
being built, the dam being com
posed of sand, that a gravel cover
ing or mattress has to be overlaid
to prevent the sand from blowing
away.
"To really see Wallowa county,"
explained F. D. McCully, county
commissioner,- here on road matters,
"one should spend a month there.
I don't know how many lakes there
are In the Wallowa country, but I
do know that you can hike up a
trail, recently opened by the for
pst people and from one spot, but
kuriiiiig jsiuwiy muuuu, yvu urn
sec seven beautiful bodies of water.
among them Ice lake, which has
ice in it even in summer. Aneroid
lake is a favorite with anglers. I
have never scaled Eagle Cap, our
main mountain, - but from its top
there is said to be spread out . one
of the finest panoramic views to
be had anywhere in the state, if not
in the west."
Sage hens have been pretty plen
tiful in the country around Lake-
view, according to E. H. Smith,
who is a physician and county
judge. The season opened recently
and it was a very poor shot who
couldn't go out and bring home
enough for a feast. Lakeview is
planning a big rodeo in Septem
ber and trie cow punchers expect
great doings. Lakeview's main
street is generally speckled with
cowboys hanging around pastimes.
arrayed in their holiday clothes,
which means the loudest colored
shirts, new silk handkerchiefs
knotted around the neck, and with
the high-heeled boots polished.
When W. E. Neuenschander of
Fort Wayne, Ind., came, to Portland
to attend the Shrine convention he
liked the town so well that he in
formed Manager Myers of the Hotel
Oregon that he would, return. Yes
terday he made good his promise
and rought his brother, H. W., of
Berne, Ind., with him. Mr. Neuen
schander says that the railroad
strike is having a serious effect in
his part of the country as there are
plenty of railroads there and, conse-J
quently, the train situation is more
keenly felt than in Oregon. The
Pennsylvania system, he reports,
has 475 special officers protecting
its road.
Now that the Old Oregon Trail
from the Idaho, line to Baker has
been graded, surfaced or under con
tract, J. L. Dodson, the county
judge, is working to open up more
highway mileage in Baker county
and has come to Portland to argue
it out with the highway commis
sion. It is the belief in Baker that
when the Trail is completed eastern
tourists will enter the state over
that route In preference to "the
others offered at Ontario, which are
the John Day highway and the Cen
tral Oregon highway. .
W. E. Wadsworth of Harrisburg,
where he is chief of the fire depart
ment, was in town yesterday. There
was a delegation from the town to
see the highway commission about
locating the Pacific highway. The
delegation explained that the town
wants an auto camp but hasn't the
money and thought that perhaps
the commission could help in the
matter.
H. N, Graham of Fossil, is at the
Hotel Oregon. Fossil is the'town into
which Governor Olcott had to walk
last week, when the automobile in
which he was riding from Spray ran
out of gasoline. Near Fossil are
some famous fossil beds, but the
residents of the town are not much
interested in them, notwithstanding
that several scientific expeditions
have been sent there to excavate
for the remains.
Dennis Carmody of Carmody Bros.,
wholesale tobacco dealers of Bend,
is in Portland to consult an archi
tect. Mr. Carmody is having plans
drawn for a theater, which he in
tends to erect in the metropolis of
central Oregon. Being a payroll
town, Bend is a good place for en
tertainment enterprises.
D. E. Ingram of Looking Glass
creek, Douglas county, is at the
Perkins. He owns the gravel bed
from which road material is being
taken for that section. -
Frank Cohan, druggist and one ot
the active business men of Coos
Bay, has arrived at the Benson with
Mrs. Cohan.
R. S. Eccles of Baker, where he
is in rhe lumber business, is an ar
rival at the Benson.
G. P. Morden, apple grower of the
Mosier district is registered at the
Imperial.. . -
Harry J. Hildeburn of Roseburg, a
highway contractor, is registered at
the 'Benson.
Police!
Life.
, It should
encourage
habits of
cleanliness to notice that the man
who cleans up usually amasses a
I seat pile or a tidy sum.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Copyright, 1922. by Houg-hton Mifflin Co.
Can Yon Answer These Questions I
1. Can any of the carnivorous
animals climb trees?
2. I read your statement , that
the humming bird moth works at
night, and would like to say my
experience is that it works by day,
especially on phlox.
' 3. What is the biggest bird of
prey we have?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Do eels have jaws?
True eels do, rather long and nar
row. Any confusion on whether
they do or lo not have jaws is
due to the so-called lamper eel, of
which there are many species.
These eel-like fishes have no true
jaws, but have round mouths fur
nished with teeth, and teeth on the
tongue. The mouth fastens on the j
prey and sucks vigorously, these
tiny teeth aiding by rasping off the
flesh.
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i. How much seed will a quail
or bob-white eat in a day?
There are scientific records show
ing the actual count of seeds taken
from stomachs of single specimens,
numbering from 600 to 30,000 seeds.
Persons who doubt this astonishing
statement are recommended to the
Journal of Economic Entomology,
volume 3, No. 3, wherein is a list
of various weed seed and quantities
of each, known to have been eaten
in a single day by various single
specimens.
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3. Please tell me what a swift is.
I always supposed it was a bird,
but read recently of a fox called
swift.
The name is given to the bird
chaetura pelagica, or chimney swift;
to two foxes, called locally "swift"
in Colorado, as the pinon fox, or
8oott's gray fox, urocyon cinereo
argenteus scotti. and also velox
vulpes, the swift fox that ranges
the plains from Texas to Saskatche
wan. Also to lizards, uta, the small
scaled kind found in desert country
of the southwest, and to sceloporus,
the spiny swift, more widely dis
tributed in America.
LAW ENFORCEMENT HELD LAX
Mr. Lowe Gives Recaller's Case In
Jackson County Controversy.
MEDFORD, Or., July 25. (To the
Editor.) There will be a special re
call election held in Jackson county
on ; July 29, directed against the
present incumbent of the sheriffs
office. With reference to this elec
tion I wish to say a few words.
In the past tw6 years the peo
ple of this county have, to a great
extent, lost confidence in the dispo
sition or ability of the county po
lice powers to control violations of
the law. It has been necessary to
bring In, special officers, at great
expense, to run aown ana secure
conviction of law violators.
The sheriff's office has seemed
to be helpless in dealing with cer
tain classes of offenders. With an
officient, honest and capable police
and law enforcement administra
tion, working and co-operating
with a vigorous prosecution, boot
leg rings could have been broken
up by the arrest and conviction of
their individual members and their
more or less prominent backers and
defenders brought into wholesome
disrepute. This should and could
have been accomplished by a capa
ble and , energetic local police ad
ministration and the taxpayers
saved thousands of dollars paid out
for the assistance "of special offi
cers. Another class bf offenders di
rected against the majesty of the
law would never have led to the
division and bitterness now existing
if they had been met promptly and
vigorously Dy me snerui ana outer
law enforcement officers of our
county. I refer to the so-culled Ku
Klux Klan outrages. For the past
three or four months indictments
and convictions have been of daily
occurrence by the newspapers and
other biased and interested groups,
mostly for political purposes, but no
arrests have been attempted by our
lawfully constituted county author
ities. These crimes, (however simple
their nature, have been magnified
and enlarged upon by rumor, hear
say and downright misrepresenta
tion, both from home and upstate
sources, until they are now the sub
ject of a special grand jury investi
gation, with all its attendant ex
pense and notoriety, with special
correspondents from the big dailies,
special prosecutdrs and assistants,
ex-sleuths from Portland and wit
nesses from southern California,
with the precious grand goblin rec
ords, all to make a Roman holiday
for trie lawyers and politicians at
the expense of the people. And still
a great hubbub is being raised
about the expense of a recall, which
1b the only method under our elec
toral system whereby the people can
have a chance to remedy an un
bearable situation.
We all apreciate that the recall
is .an instrument that should be sel
dom used, but hundreds of people in
this county have been forced to the
conclusion that our only way back
to the sane and normal operation
of the county's law enforcement
machinery is by the speedy removal
of some of our present officials and
their places filled by men Who be
lieve that strict obedience to our
laws is the very foundation of our
American institutions.
I am asking space for this com
munication in the hope that the
smoke screen thrown about the sit
uation In Jackson county can be in
a measure cleared away and the
real foundation and source of our
troubles made clear to the people
in other parts of the state.
D. M. LOWE.
KING ALCOHOL. AT THE WHEEL
Why Should He Not Be Disqualified
ns n Driver r
Silverton Tribune.
No railroad company would ever
dream of employing an- engineer
who had been found drunk at the
throttle. He would be discharged
instantly and would find difficulty
In finding employment on that or
any other road.
Our courts and , civil authorities,
however, show less business acu
men than do our corporations.
A drunken man at the wheel of
an automobile can terrorize pedes
trians and other motorists and kill
and malm and get off with a nom
inal fine or no punishment .at all,
depending upon his political or
financial drag and the shrewdness
of his attorney.
Such a condition of affairs is to
tally without reason or justice.
A man found at the wheel of a
car while intoxicated -should be de
prived of his right to drive for all
future time. If he kills or maims
while in that condition he should
go to the gallows or to the peni
tentiary , regardless of whom or
what he Is.
Until we have drastic laws cover
ing such cases, and those laws are
relentlessly enforced, our highways
will continue to be a menace in
stead of a public benefit. '
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Montague.
FREUD IN THE HOME.
The Jones' kid was naughty;
Unlike most little boys.
He loved to fight and scratch and
bite
And make unlovely noise.
They took him to the doctor,
Who solemnly advised
That he'd be good, as small boys
should.
If psychoanalyzed.
A Freudian physician
Was placed in full control;
He took young Jones and quelled
his moans
And probed his naughty soul.
The complexes were fathomed
That made him scratch and bite,
"Now go to bed," the doctor said,
"And you will be all right."
The kid awoke next morning.
And blacked the baby's eye,
And threw the cat directly at
A casual passer-by.
And when his father begged him.
Politely, to come in.
The Freudian child with rage grew
wild
And kicked him in the shin.
They called another doctor
To treat the little chap.
Who, much surprised, was analyzed
But thrs time with a strap.
And no he's kind and gentle,
He does not scratch or bite.
Nor tease the cat, which shows ue
that
One doctor had him right
Since They Locked Him Up.
Bottomley has now got two coun
tries to hate America and England.
Not Doing So Well.'
It is about time that the league
6f nations asked for waivers on a
few statesmen.
Ont of the Question.
Who the world's greatest women
are will never be decided. Nobody
can be found with enough nerve
to act. as judge.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian July 27, 1887.
Seattle A dispatch from Port
Townsend states that all the popu
lation of Juneau, Alaska, has start
ed for the Klondike, using every
available route to the Interior.
Wheeling, W Va. Eugene Debs
made his appearance here today and
was greeted by a large crowd at the
railroad station. Failing to secure
permission to speak in the public
square, he conducted t a meeting a
block away.
Thft nilfl drfvpr haji nlantftH nparW
all the piles that will be required
to renew the elevated roadway on
East Water between East Clay
street and Hawthorne avenue.
Fifty Years Ago.
From Jhe Oregonian. July 27, 1872.
New York The yachts Madeline
and Rambler, which are contesting
for the Bennett cup passed the
Bronton reef lightship this morninga
and may be here this afternoon.
Havana General Rio Reguelome
reports that his troops attacked the
survivors of the Fannie expedition,
killed ten, captured and executed
four. Five escaped and are expect
ed to die of hunger.
New York The Herald this morn
ing received a long message from
Dr. Livingstone thanking Mr. Ben
nett for equipping and sending out
the Stanley expedition.
Two or three days after the coun
cil passed the ordinance abating the
cow nuisance the poundmaster had
20 or 30 cows shut up.
The East Portland brass band was
i out seranading Tuesday night. They
rendered some very fine music in
front of the homes of prominent
citizens. ;
McLOUGHMN PORTRAIT ABSENT
Oregon Contribution to sanomi
Gallery in London Is Suggested.
LON'DOX. July 8. (To the Ed
itor.) In honor of her sons oi
high achievement Britain maintains
in Trafalgar square in tne neari
of London a hall of fame styled
the national portrait gallery. Here
are assembled in portraiture Britons
who in any manner of service to the
empire, or to mankind, may De en
titled to honorable remembrance.
Here come day by day scores or
thousands in the spirit of reverence
for great deeds and great names.
As I passed through tms vainaiia
today I wondered why Dr. John Mc
Loughlin, a truly great Briton, as
well as a great Oregonian, nas no
place in this company of historic
worthies. Surely one whose ener
gies expanded the sphere of British
civilization is entitled to stana in
this assemblage.
That the authorities of the na
tional portrait gallery would be
glad to yield space for a portrait of
Dr. McLoughlin there is no oouoi.
It is plainly a case where honor is
due. And the initiative might come
with a special grace from the coun
try of Dr. McLoughlin s achieve
ments from Oregon. It might come
becomingly from the legislature of
Oregon, or if that body should be
indifferent to the suggestion, it
could come through the Oregon His
torical society under a Plan of popu
lar subscriptions. I would be glad
to become a contributor to any fund
that might be required.
Let me add that a notable con
tribution to the British national
portrait gallery by an American
commonwealth would De an act or
special significance at a time when
the peoples of Britain and America
are drawing together in support of
the civilization that is their com
mon heritage and whose guardian
ship is their common obligation.
ALFRED HOLMAN.
Compensation Tor Injuries.
ASTORIA. Or, July 25. (To the
Editor.) What does the state acci
dent commission compensate a mar
ried man for temporary disability?
REGULAR SUBSCRIBER.
A workman who is subject to the
Industrial accident law and receives
injuries in the course of his em
ployment causing temporary total
disability is entitled, if he has a
wife but no children under 16 years
of age, to 48 per cent of his wages.
but not more than $65 a .month,
during the period of disability. The
schedule Increases 5 per cent, or $8
a month, for each child under 16
up to and inoltlding three children.
If he has a wife and four or more
children his .compensation is two-
thirds of his wages, but not more
than $97" a month. When the d
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ability becomes partial only and
temporary in cnaracter nis compen
sation, limited to twoyears, is that
proportion of the payments pro
vided for total disability which his
earning power at any kind of work
bears to that existing at the time
the injury occurred. -
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