THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1922
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BACK TO THE ISSIT.
It may be suspected from casual
abatements in his column and more
of dLscuoaion today, that the glib
Mr. Xash la referring to the present
railroad strike. It la not some strike
taut may yet be called nor some
irlke that iiaa rone into history.
It is the no -culled shopmen's strike.
"Vet in the main the arguments and
the charges he presents found no
place whatever in the ultimatum is
sued to the railroads by B. M.
Jewell representing the employes,
nor had they place whatsoever in
the three issues presented to the
employes on the strike ballot.
The federated shopcrafts are
striking against three things:
1. The reduction of .wages ef
' f ective July 1.
2. Rules and working conditions.
3. Contracting out of shop work
by some of the railroads.
The first two points were decided
tpon by the labor board after an
Investigation In which both sides
had full hearing; the third has been
receded from by practically all the
railroads that have engaged in the
practice.
The labor board which gave the
decisions against which the shop
crafts are striking, is a board con-
t-tttuted h, authority of law. on
which employes; employers and the
public have equal representation.
The labor board has in the past
given decisions favorable to the em
ployes and unfavorable to the em
ployers. Its record for thorough
ness and fairness is clear. Yet the
side which has in the past benefited
from decisions and joyfully ac.
cepted them not only rejects Its de
rision when unfavorable but,
through a presumably accredited
mouthpiece, now impugns the in
tegrity of the board, and makes be
lated countercharges of bad faith
against the railroad a charges
which mean only. If they mean
anything at all. that the employes
admit a public-be-damned attitude
and justify it on the ground that
the employers have been just as
bad.
rules in effect in the railroad shops.
So further proof ought to be
ceded, but a It Is wanted there is
the evidence accumulated by the
rational industrial conference
board, made public July SO. This
organization announces the com
pletion of a survey of wages of 71
per cent of the employes in foun
ds rles and machine shops in the
United States, constituting In num
ber of 2S8.S60 men. and its findings
are that the average hourly, earn
ings of railroad shopmen are 25 per
cent higher than those of their
brothers in private employ and
their weekly earnings S2 per cent
b'g-her.
Whereas the men on strike are
by their -course violating a decision
of -the railroad wage board, they
are attempting to justify that
course by enumerating violations of
other decisions br the railroad
Their proposed adjustment of the
two offenses is that the railroads
shall now violate the wage and rule
decisions as the employes have
done. We repeat that the railroad
beard represents also the public and
and that its decisions are as much
in behalf of the public as of the
railroads. The Oregonlan conceives
Itself to be speaking for the public
when it says that two wrongs
against the public never made a
right and that three- wrongs against
the public produce an intolerant
s.tuation. not perfection.
logically that his culinary art re
solved the matter of ultimate sur-
the dear delusion that feminine
youth will smile at him; and yet.
vlval into no question at all. But the J despite this personal liberality of
Lest it be forgotten that this con
troversy with Agitator Nash started
over his spurious Lincoln quota
tions, he is advised that he need
rot trust to memory or to any Fan
Francisco newspaper for what Lin
coln has said. The public library
Is open and its attendants are ac
commodating. If he so desires they
will pile books higher than his head
iu which he may find the public
and recorded statements of Abra
ham Lincoln printed fully and ac
curately. We confidently assert
that nowhere In any of these col
guile of his messmate bested him.
so the ditty runs, and though the
larder was almost depleted a "wea
sel" hove in sight to the rescue of
the lone survivor. It was his sol
emn boast thenceforth that he was
an entire ship's company.
Oh. T am a cook and a captain bold
And tha mate of the Nancy brig.
And a bo'aum tight and a mldshlpmlte
And tha crew of tha captain's gjr.
Cannibalism in the South Sea
isles, or in dark Uganda, or canni
balism as depicted in Gilbert's
mirthful ditty, seems very far away
and aloof from our civilization. The
shuddering teror of the thing it
self Is dimmed by distance, both
geographical and impersonal. Yet
the practice of dining upon the
dead is by no means confined to
lavage tribes and light fiction.
There la cannibalism in Russia, or
was quite recently, according to the
many unquestionably authentic re
ports which have drifted back from
that sorrowful land. There are
people not unlike ourselves, driven
to the nadir of horror by that
smirking, boastful, crafty, lneffec
tual thing of lupine ferocity
which men, for lack of a blacker
term, call bolshevism
umns will he find that Abraham
Lincoln, on the day following his live 58.81 years In Oregon Is vastly
IX) NO UTK IX OREGON.
Rather an expansive feeling en
sues on reading the statistical re
port of the census bureau, which
rates the people of Oregon as hav
ing a longer period of life average
than those of any other state save
four. It is comforting to reflect
that a residence' here connotes at
least a few more years of "useful
ness, of happiness, at any rate of
survival, than a habitat elsewhere.
Not even the fact that Kansas is
first, with more than a year in
excess of the Oregon average, robs
us of this natural gratification.
There are disadvantages to living
in Kansas. We may comfort our
selves with the reflection that to
Here you have the agitator at his
worst evasive as to issues, apolo
getic for his followers, abusive of
i is opponents, indifferent to the
public's Injury, intolerant toward
those who support the side of the
injured and innocent element of
the people.
It has been stated in the col
umns and it will bear repetition,
that tha public has a genuine and
vital Interest in the conduct of rail
road transportation: that under our
system of railroad regulation, the
amount the railroads pay out in
wages Is one of the most Important
cf thos elements that are tranv
lated into terms of rates which the
shippers shall pay: that the public
for these reasons Is definitely con
cerned in the question whether the
railroads are paying preferential
ages to employes.
It was in accord with the system
ef railroad regulation that the rail
road wage board was constituted
as it via It was recognized that
labor controversies in transporta
tion were of as much interest to the
lubllc as to the railroads snd the
employes. The public was given
representation on the board in men
who have no financial or other
connection with railroads or em
ployes. Thla board. In a decision
made effective by the votes of all
tne representatives of the public,
has determined, after full hearing,
that there should be rhanges In
wages and working rondUlons. The
shopcrafts have struck against what
is equivalent to the findings of a
tepresentative, unprejudiced board
of arbitration.
Now Mr. Nash talks wildly of
tyranny and Caesars and labor
tondauf. He informs us that the
railroads have violated many orders
snd decisions of the railroad board.
If these charges against the rail
loads be true, we do not deny that
the employes are Justified In re
senting them; we do not dispute
that they have a right to resort to
any honorable means to bring the
railroads to time. Hut that Is not to
say that because one side In rail
ixad transportation, (the employ
era) has violated board ordere
and that without noticeable injury
i-- the intermediate party, the pub
lic the third party the employes)
ta justified in cutting the throats of
loth employers and public. The
argument that two wrongs make a
tight was ever specious, it is re
jected by all high-mtnd"d men. It
is beneath the dignity of a union
spokesman. It serves only, as it is
Ir-tended to serve, to cloud the Issue
snd prejudice the minds of the un
thinking. Mr. Nash challenges us to make
a comparison of railroad shop craft
waaes with the mages of men simi
larly employed and requires that
the comparison be general In scope.
Why should the union's spokesman
ajrk The Oregonian to do that, when
cne of the grounds on which his or
ganization called the strike was the
practice of some railroads of con
tracting their work on the outside,
where It could be done at lower
tost? the strike protest
t, gainst this practice imply that
tailroad shopmen are less efficient
than shopmen In private employ?
Nobody has every made such a
charge. The contracting system
was obviously the outgrowth of
prefercatlai wage and working
first inauguration, or the next day
when the nation was menaced by
disunion, and the details of an ex
alted and arduous post had not yet
come within his grasp, paused In
the midst of cabinet making and
tremendous affairs of state to de
liver an address on a dinky sfxike In
New Haven, Connecticut.
There are current spurious Lin
coln quotations that Mr. Nash has
not quoted, and neither he nor the
San Francisco paper in which he
put." his faith, was the first falsely
to apply to present-day industrial
controversies detached phraseology
from Lincoln's comment on negro
slavery. A candidate for president
of the United States did that more
than twenty years ago.. But Uncoln
i not made to say what he did not
say by the combined assertions of
an agitator, a San Ktanclsco editor
and a candidate for president.
. AX ADMIRABLE Ql IVOTC
Unique in the annals of the road
is the conduct of the editor of the
Western Baptist, who not only con
fetsted his fault following a highway
mishap, but actually made volun
tary surrender of his driver's license
to the state authorities. This singu
lar motorist made, on his own inl
t ative. the punishment fit the
crime. Obviously he Is a sensitive
man. who to some degree has mag
nified the accident itself and the
measure of his own responsibility,
but quite as obviously he Is an hon-
orahle one. Yet it Is probable that
In his zeal to atone, to make
amends, he baa deprived the motor
irg fraternity of a safe and sane
operator.
What Is needed Is not the relin
quishment of licenses by men who
think and feel as he does, but their
retention. We have use for drivers
who learn their lessons and profit
by them, and who are thereafter
the exponents and evangelists of
sanity on the highwayst Our
roads are rife with those blithe fel
lows who trust to luck and nerve.
with those addle-pates who never
vill learn that sorrow follows speed
and disregard for caution, with
those who are a law unto them
relves. A convert to senible driv
ing, to the meticulous observance of
traffic regulations, is too valuable
a man to lose.
There is something worth while,
however. In the straightforward
echfession of fault, and the will
ingness to embrace punishment
Something that is available as a
lesson, a homily, when we are In
clined to dodge or shirk our own
responsibilities. The editor of the
Western Baptist has) brought this
tiuth home to us In commentary
upon motoring accidents. It has
served Its purpose. He should now
reconsider his resolve, resume the
wheel, and preach motoring sanity
t the force of good example.
SOME MODERN CANNIBALS.
While the answer to a recent
communication. In the Burroughs
rat u re notes, was correct in ascrib
ing the abhorrent custom of canni
balism to certain tribes of the South
S-e.as, It neglected to add that the
ghoulish appetite for human flesh
is not restricted to the delectable
Isles. For .a great many British
colonists and officials have strug
gled to obliterate the practice In
equatorial Africa, yet even at the
present we find the London Times
in grave discussion respecting the
degenerate banquets of natives of
Uganda. There, we are told, exist
tribes which have such singular
economic views that they extend
their thrift to the consumption of
their dead.
"These people." wrote a corre
spondent of the Times, referring to
the Ba-gishu and Ba-ked! tribes,
"have always been noted for their
sturdy independence, cannibal
habits and lack of clothing. - The
population of that region is dense,
and food is often scarce. When
touring through their district, about
fourteen years ago. I was assured
that there was not a cemetery in
the whole country. The gentle Ba
pshu are thorough anti-wasters,
and nothing that is edible is lost!
I was told, however, that they do
not consume their own defunct
relatives, but make presents of the
'remains' to friendly and neighbor
ing villages. The "compliment" Is
tfuly returned, and the period of
mournitng Is short."
One recalls, upon the perusal of
these lines, Gilbert's nautical bal
lad of the "Yarn of the 'Nancy
BHI.' wherein the sea-faring man
lifted his significant ditty. Ship
wreck and privation had forced the
crew of the Nancy to the dread al
ternative, until presently the hero
of the lay was left to the company
oT the cook, who reasoned quite
better than to exist for 59.73 years
in Kansas.
The relative position of the states
with respect to longevity is. how
ever, somewhat baffling. It might
be concluded casually that a mild
and favorable climate is conducive
tj survival, yet both Wisconsin and
Minnesota, provinces of a very
vigorous winter, surpass Oregon In
this- respect. On the other hand,
certain of the eastern states, as
Massachusetts,- New Jersey and
New York, which have also the
attribute of marked seasonal
change, are well toward the foot of
the list. If we may hazard a theory
It is that, broadly speaking, a
varied climate Is best suited to the
requirements of the race, and that
apparently exceptions to the rule
erise from immigration and disre
gard for the rules of living.
The normal expectancy Is. bio
logically considered, roughly five
time that of the age of maturity.
This rule applies not to man alone,
hut to the various species of the
lower orders, yet In its application
to the race it Is flouted by the
hazards of unnatural death. Thus
it may be seen that the average
lifeline for Oregon, of 68.49 for
rialea. and 60.31 for females, is
t'espite these hazards well ad
vanced toward the maximum un
der natural law. We may well
conclude that a beneficial climate
has much to do with the happy re
sult, but we should not lose sight
of the fact that a young western
elate, still calling to settlers, has
attracted and will continue to sum
mon the most virile residents of
other states.
Indeed, there Is apparent proof
that such is the case, for California
most- widely knofrn and her
alded of western states
tweirtn in lifetime expectancy, or
ten, full places below Oregon. The
average life line In our southern
sister is shorter by more than three
years. Presumably this variation
! largely created by the popularity
o? California as a health resort and
its appeal to people who seek des
perately to lengthen their Imperiled
span. The milder, more slothful
climate of California may have an
Influence that contributes to the
effect, but In the main It Is more
charitable to conclude that many
of Its' adopted residents are Im
paired In health when they arrive
there and remain so.
Fifth In place among her sister
states. In the matter of lifetime ex
pectancy, Oregon should regard
with complacence the statistical
fact that four other states surpass
her. What Oregonian, native or
adopted, would wish to dwell in
either Kansas. Wisconsin, Minne
sota or Tennessee?
morals, stoutly and heatedly deny
ing that his wife may subscribe to
the same code and comparable
yearnings. The picture is recog
nizable, in all truth, but Miss Hurst
seems to have forgotten that the
free and untrammeled female of to
t!ay has thrown as many wrenches
into conventional mechanism as the
saddest roue of them all.
Such a debate proceeds aimlessly
and arrives nowhere. The only sen
sible salvage to be derived from it
is Mr. Hergeishelmer's trite obser
vation that men think less about
women as they grow older. A placid
twilight descends upon the sexes,
and the turmoil and stress of in
stinct are succeeded by contem
plative peace. Yet love in this twi
light is the most beautiful of life's
manifestations, certain poets and
philosophers have observed. Then
the tiresome debate is at an end,
and the Fannies and the Josephs
plant marigolds and parsnips and
keep a cow. They are quite indis
pensable to one another.
Miss Hurst seems of the belief
that men are, somehow, delinquent
in their homage to their wives. She
overlooks the millions that are not.
But let that pass. Equally she over
looks the millions of wives that 'are
unworthy of homage. And such a
shoe as she shapes will fit the feet
of either. There was once but
here Is the story:
The husband was a eon of the
wilderness. He hunted and fished.
He grew corn. It often happened
that the corn suffered, and that as
he removed his sodden footgear
after a long tramp through the wet
hills, his wife upbraided him for a
Itjsy vagrant. He .made no retort,
but bore the tirade smilingly,
though his forbearance but added
fuel to the Indignant flame.
"Twenty years ago, JTm," ob
served a friend, "she wouldn't have
talked to you like that."
No," said the hill man, "you're
right. But it most generally hap
pens) that .as wimmen gets older
trey gets cold and dormant."
Stars and Starmakers.
By Ltone Cass Baer.
WHY THEY WALK OCT. '
In the course of one of his fre
quent onslaughts on the federal re
serve board Senator Heflin re
marked that, whenever discussion
of that subject began, several news
paper men walked out of the press
gallery- of the senate, and that he
"was told;"
They do -it in order that they may aay
if questioned about it. "Why, I waa not
In the gallery when that was said: 1 did
not haar it and that la why I did not
wrlto a story about It."
Perhaps Mr. Heflin gave himself
that explanation rather than wound
his vanity by acknowledging the
true one. Washington correspon
dents are good judges of news and
know when a senator begins to talk
whether to expect any. They are
familiar with the quality of Mr.
Heflin's speeches as news. That is
why they walk out.
All that mechanical appliance
could do to insure safety was in
working order on the Missouri Pa
cific, but an engineer with thirty
seven years' experience without a
mark on his record ran past the
signal. After all, safety In travel
depends on the human element.
T71DWARD HORTON, ' a Portland
III favorite by reason of his ex
cellent work here as leading man
with the Baker company, is appear
ing in a new production calHed "A
Nervous wreck. .The piece waa
tried out a week' ago In-Atlantic
City and is scheduled for a run in
New York. - -
. a a
William B. Naylor; general press
representative of the Sells-Floto cir
cus, brings word from a pair of
former Baker players, who were
greatly ..beloved during their stay
here. Bob Conness and Mrs. Conness
who played character roles and was
known as Helen Strickland. They
are soendina the summer in their
home near Portland. Me. With them
are Mra. Conness' sister, Mabel
Strickland, and her husband, George
Mark, who Is a well-known the
atrical manager.
Bob Conness was with an eastern
company last season In "The Bat."
Another sister of Mrs. Conness,
Ethel Strickland, was with Will
iam Courtney last year in "Honors
Are Even." Ethel's husband, A. J.
Edwards, Is a theatrical producer
and last year had a stock company
in Trenton. N. J. Ethel Strickland
played the role of the old fortune
teller. Rosalie La Grange. . In the
Pacific coast company, on tour in
-The Thirteenth Chair."
a a a
Marjorie Foster Is playing leads
with one of the Poll stock theaters
in Springfield. Mass. Her husband.
Arthur Holman. and her little
daughter are In Chicago. Mr. Hol
man is directing at the National
Stock theater there.
a a a
Oliver Morosco has added another
new play to his already plethoric
list for the coming season and the
latest one, "The Hurdy Gurdy Man."
has gone into rehearsal : prepara
tory to a tryout in New Jersey in
September.
Still another bit of news con
cerning the Morosco enterprises has
It that Marcus Loew has turned
over his vaudeville house at Sacra
mento, Cal., to his brother producer
and It will be devoted to a Morosco
stock company starting September
25. I
The San Francisco play bills for
the week of September 10 will be
dominated by Morosco attractions,
with four of the five legitimate the
aters of that art center housing
his wares. Thompson Buchanan's
new play, "The Sporting Thing to
Do," will be tried out. at the Mor
osco; Bronson and Baldwin will be
seen In .a new musical comedy at
the Casino; Leo Carillo is to open
the new Curran theater with "Mike
Angelo," and the Alcazar is to offer
"Civilian Clothes."
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
Two Missourlans, brothers, who
wrecked their bank at. Moberly by
embezzling JiOO.OOO were sent to
jail for five and ten-year terms.
The incongruity of punishment and
offense explains why some bank
ers go wrong.
THE ETERNAL DEBATE.
When, they agree, as they do,
that all men are vain, the current
debate In McCall's magazine be
tween Fannie Hurst 'and Joseph
hergeishelmer, respecting the Inti
mate thoughts of the opposite sexes.
teems at a stroke to lose its con
troversial element- There is little
left to argue about. For Mr. Her
geishelmer is of the opinion that
middle-aged men forget their
waistlines and yearn for an Indian
summer of love and this, mark
you, without disloyalty to their
wives; and Miss Hurst somewhat
cattily observes that the gentleman
who has not seen his own ankles
for ten years is eagerly intrigued by
the silken ones of the comely flap
per. Ah, the bad, bad, unregener
ate old Adam In us!
It is not partisan to advance the
conclusion that, all things consld
eied, Mr. Hergeishelmer is the
more chivalrous of the two. Freely
admitting the conscious or subcon
scious duplicity of his sex, he offers
as the sole defense the truth well
known to men that the sentimen
tal allure of a lost youth does not
In the least destroy the real affec
tion in which men hold their wives."
They are the sport of cosmic cir
cumstance, despite which most of
them manage somehow to adhere
to the conventions. Indeed, he
hints that as the years fall due it is
ever the more easy to respect those
canonical adages. In his discussion
tf women Mr. Hergeishelmer is
more than tender ... a true
knight.
But MUiS Hurst, bless her, she
does not spare us. With the lash
of a caustic cynicism, well pickled
In wit, the sprightly Fannie flays
the w orthle.-w masculine hide. She
charges the middle-aged male with
ogling and with an incurable van
ity, and marvels that he has not the
good sense sometime to consult his
mirror. She depicts for us a most
objectionable masculine .hypocrite.
rotund and bold, forever nursing
Now comes the report that Dr.
Sun Yat Sen, the principal Chinese
revolutionary leader. Is suffering
from mental trouble. The evi
dence seems incontrovertible. He
wouldn't pose a battle scene for the
movies.
The money of the wealthy Amerl
can is his to buy anything lawful
but purchase of a small island in
the Bahamas, whereon he may
drink aplenty, contemplates break-
:ng a moral law at J east.
Residents of Washington, D. C,
are shown by the census to live
longer than those of any other city
in the I. nited States. Once a job
seeker gets on the federal payroll
he simply won't die.
People in Kansas, "where It
never rains," have the longest ex
pectations of life, and people in
Oregon, where it seldom rains,
ctowd the Kansans for the longevi
cal honors.
Rain Is not due to the circus nor
the Gresham fair hoodoo, but to "a
low pressure moving down from
British Columbia." Oh, those Ca
nucks!
The kaiser is said to be. thinking
of going into moving pictures. Well,
that will be safer for him, we
should think, than vaudeville, with
eggs at summer prices.
Oregon, says the federal prohi
bition commissioner here, is the
dryest, state in the union. Sure it la
there hasn t been a. real shower
since along In May.
Evan Burrows Fontaine, who Is
suing "Sonny" Whitney, is to be
featured in a new musical comedy
called,: appropriately enough, "Be
Careful, Dearie." The play is now
in rehearsal In San Francisco.
f a a a
Down In her own bailiwick, Los
Angeles, Texas Guinan, vaudeville
motion picture and musical comedy
actress, jumped from a stage arres
Into the real thing.
As she stepped from a downtown
theater, where she was playing an
act called "Spitfire," she was met
by policemen who placed her under
arrest on the charge of the larceny
of an automobile. Just a few min
utes previously she had submitted
to a make-believe detention In the
playlet. '
When the excitement blew over
and Miss Guinan had finally been
released on her own cognizance. It
developed that B. F. Tatum. a Holly
wood money lender, accuses her of
being somewhat careless about the
manner in which she handled
mortgaged automobile. He charges
that In 1920 she bought a car on
money borrowed from him and that
to secure the debt she had given
him a straight mortgage of 1575.
The complaint further alleges
that Miss Guinan traded the encum
bered car for a new one and sent
the latter east by freight without
either paying off the mortgage or
notifying Tatum.
We should think New York city
would Intervene in the Irish-situation
on the ground that, it endan
gers the source of raw materia! for
her police force.
Nowhere else could such a week
be programmed for the Buyers.
Two days of circus and a county
faiiare no mean attractions thrown
in. , .
While discussing this French pro
posal to cancel her debt to America
It might be pertinent to suggest
that France cancel her huge army.
No, the millennium Is not near,
though the gas company has
knocked off another nickel. It la
just a good business proposition.
The funeral directors of the state
are in session here again. Due to
Colonel John Flnley, these gentle
men now are "morticians.'
The price qf shoes has dropped,
but we haven't noticed any great
tendency to substitute w-alking for
gasoline.
The discovery of Osier was for
tunate. He might have made It a
million In time.
That champion crawfish eater at
New Orleans has wonderful inter
nal "economy."
Julian Eltinge was operated on a
week ago in Buffalo for appendi
citis. ' Eltinae made the trip from
his home In California to Buffalo to
have a physician who Is a personal
friend perform the operation.
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Lady Forbes Robertson (Gertrude
Elliot) has sailed from England to
fulfill her engagement with the
South African Theater trust, taking
a full west end London company
with her,
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Edith Day Is heading the cast of
"Orange Blossoms." Edith has been
mixed up In a scandal and a couple
of divorce suits, her husband's and
that of the wife of the "other man'
in England. It isn't all straightened
out yet, but it's an ill wind that
blows no actress good and people
who never heard of Edith Day know
all about her now. "Orange Blos
soms" is founded on "La Passerelle,
by Mme. Fred de Gresac and F. da
Croisset, the first named of' whom
has also contributed the book for
the new work to the lyrics of B.
G. de Sylva and the score of Victor
Herbert. .
Oliver Morosco takes occasion to
deny through the medium of the
dramatic departments of the press
that he has ever contemplated the
presentation of Roscoe Arbuckle In
one of his new plays, although such
a report has emanated from Cali
fornia. "
Mr. Morosco. asserts he was ap
proached by a representative of the
late film comedian with a view to
starring the latter In a comedy, but
the producer says that was as far
as matters got.
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"Dancers are born, not made,"
declares Gilda Gray, and she uses
her statement as a text, for declin
ing an offer she has just received
to teach dancing ' to the summer
classes at' Columbia.
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" Marie Curtis la In New York. She
has spent three years on the coast,
one as second woman with , the Al
cazar stock here. She spent last
season - In Los Angeles with the
Majestic stock. ,
fHERB has Been enough adven-
X ture, excitement and romance in
the sea career of Captain John
O'Brien to provide a scenario writer
with sufficient material to turn out
thrillers for several years. Captain
O'Brien is at the Hotel Oregon while
here planning an Alaska enterprise.
He plans shipping a cargo of mining
machinery to Nome. It was In 1877
that the bark Edward James had a
fire in her hold and Captain O'Brien
and Joe' Day went down to extin
guish it. The two men were over
come by fumes and were rescued
more dead than alive. Shortly
afterward Mr. Day decided his life's
calling was the police business and
so he joined the Portland police
department and has been on the
job ever since. A particularly
spectacular chapter in the captain's
career was when the Umatilla went
on the rocks near Cape Flattery.
It was Captain O'Brien who leaped
Into the breakers and took a line
ashore himself. In Alaskan waters
the captain Jumped into the sea and
rescued his son. who was perishing.
Captain O'Brien is 72 years young;
vigorous and hard as nails, due to
the active seafaring life which has
been his. He is well known to the
old-timers of Portland and he is
related by jnarriage to several of
the early-day families.
"The so-called 'orphan road" be
tween Crescent City, Cal., and the
Oregon state line near Brookings,
is vto be adopted and cared for by
the California highway department."
announced Charles Purcell of the
bureau or public roads, who re
turned to Portland yesterday. "This
is the road that inspired resolutions
and speeches at the big road meet
ing at Crescent City in July, when
Governor Olcott and the Oregon
highway commission was there.
When Thomas MacDonald, chief of
the bureau of public roads, was in
California, a few days ago he had
the 'orphan road' settled and the
California officials promised that
they would make it part of their
system. When this is done that
section will be a part of the Red
wood highway and will connect at
tne Oregon line, near Chetco river
with the Roosevelt highway."
M. S. Johnson, mayor of the once
live mining town of Gold Hill, is at
the Imperial. Gold Hill, which was
rather sleepy until the Pacific high
way was graded and paved through
the town, is now perking- up. In the
old days the "morning's morning"
was an Institution in its several-sa
loons. Any man was entitled to get
a drink of whisky free In the morn
ing if he called while the bartender
was cleaning up and had not donned
his apron. While the drink, in the
circumstances, was free, a charge
was promptly made if the morning
visitor asked for a chaser of water.
A man arrived at the Multnomah
yesterday from the east with the
object of buying piles at least 100
feet In length. He will require a
great number. The piling is In
tended for a big wharf in New York
harbor. The southern forests can
not produce piling as long as needed
for this work so the agent waa dis
patched to Oregon for the required
material. If the piling is located,
the next step will be to find cargo
space, for the piling is too long to be
sent across the continent by rail
and the freight charge would be too
expensive.
Chocolate amounting to 1,250,000
pounds was shipped west last month.
It required a solid train of 31 cars,
each loaded to capacity with the
confection. This is the first time
that a trainload of chocolate has
ever been sent to the west. All of
the stuff was distributed between
Cincinnati and Portland, one con
cern alone in this city buying $8,000
worth. . C. S. Woodford, who is vice-
president of the company, shipping
the chocolate, is an arrival at the
Multnomah from New England.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Cooper of
Alsea, Or., are among the visitors
for buyers' week and they are at the
Hotel Oregon. The Alsea road, for
improvement of. which Benton
county voted bonds, is now on the
way to development with the state
and the forest department co-operating.
A contract for the mountain
section of the Alsea road has been
advertised by the state highway
commission for the next meeting of
that body.
Gilpin Lovering of- Sisters is at
the Hotel Portland. The McKenzie
pass route from the Willamette val
ley across the Cascades to Sisters
Is now closed to traffic. The gov
ernment road department Is cutting
a roadbed through the lava field
near the pass and there is enough
other road work in progress so
that rather than permit it to be in
terfered with by traffic, the road
was ordered closed for the year a
few days ago.
LINCOLN'S ITSiDYING ADDRESS,
Review of Evidence as to Time
Consumed In Preparation.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 8. (To the
Editor.) In a recent editorial you
use the following language:
Mr. Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg
speech in half an hour or less and re
proached himself for it inadequacy. Yet
it. is deathless.
In the last number of the Liter
ary Digest, reaching here about the
same time, Mr. Cole, a former sen
ator from California, an acquaint
ance of Mr. Lincoln and present
when the address was made, has
this to say: V
It is another mistake, often made,
that Mr. Lincoln wrote out the Gettys
burg address on- the train -before he pot
there. He never wrote that speech. He
didn't know he was to be a speaker that,
day. Mr. Everett- was announced as
the man that was to be the principal
figure on that occasion, and the president t
went there as a listener. He waa called
upon and spoke from the bottom of his
heart and not from any notes.
'Then there is the little book by
Mary Ramond Shipmaa Andrews,
"The Perfect Tribute," in which she
describes with great particularity
Mr. Lincoln on the train for Gettys
burg ana unprepared for the ad
dress of the morrow. He sees a
piece of brown wrapping paper on
the car floor, calls for it, and then,
with "the untidy stump of a pen
cil," writes the immortal docu
ment. She gives him a little more
time than you, for she says "he la
bored as the hours flew."- No book
could be more unreliable than hers.
She calls it "The Perfect Tribute"
because, at the conclusion of the
address, as she says: -
There was no sound from the silent
vast assembly. Not a hand was lifted in
applause. . . . There was no sound
of approval, of recognition from the au
dience; only a long sigh ran like a rip
ple on he ocean through rank after
rank.
This is all very pretty, but the
address was taken down in short
hand by an official of the Asso
ciated Press, seated on the plat
form, and in reporting it for pub-r
lication he notes that the short
address was interrupted during de
livery by applause five times, and
that at the end it received "long
continued applause." So much for
"the perfect tribute," the tribute of
silence.
When the private secretaries of
Mr. Lincoln, John G. Nicolay and
John Hay, wrote their monumental
life of Mr. Lincoln they did not
overlook the composition of this
remarkable address. The facts re
garding it, over the signature of
Mr. Nicolay; may be found In the
Century Magazine of February,
1S94. The article includes the sten
ographer's report of the address,
with the notations of applause, and
was published 14 years before Mrs.
Andrews made her discovery of
"the perfect tribute."
Now, he facts about the address,
briefly summarized, are: The
dedicatory services i at . Gettysburg
were set for November 19, 1863. On
November 2 Judge Wills of Gettys
burg wrote Mr. Lincoln, saying,
among other, things: ,
I am authorized by the governors of
the different states to invite -you to be
present and to pa-rticipate in these cere
monies, which will doubtless be very im
posing and solemnly impressive. It is
the .desire that after cthe oration, you,
as chief executive of the nation, for
mally set aDart the ground to thair sa
cred use by a few appropriate remarks.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Hontagoe.
Mr. Nicolay notes that Mr. Lin
coln "had a little more than two
weeks in which to prepare' the re
marks he might Intend to make."
Can anyone who has studied Mr.
Lincoln's life and noted his habit
of careful preparation doubt that
he properly and seasonably pre
pared himself to fulfil his part on
this "very imposing" and "'solemnly
impressive" occasion? Of his prep
aration Mr. Nicolay says:
He probably followed his usual habit
In such matters, using great deliberation
in arranging his thoughts and molding
his phrases mentally, waiting to reduce
them to writing until they had taken
satisfactory form.
That Mr. Lincoln did follow that
course as to this address is shown
probable by a statement by Noah
Brook in his book, "Abraham
Lincoln." Mr. Brook was 'a corre
spondent of the New York Tribune
and had a considerable personal ac
quaintance with Mr. Lincoln.
Brook says:
A few days before the ceremony M
Everett sent the president a copy of his
address, printed on one sheet of a Bos
ton newspaper. It was very long. Mr.
Lincoln looked it over with grea.t gravity
and said: "It was very kind in Mr. Ever-
tt to send me this that I might not go
over the same ground he has. There is no
danger that I shall. My speech is all
blocked out. It is very short."
POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE.
It ain't the cloe's that makes the
man.
It's the pluck an' brains and
study; V
The barefoot b6y with cheeks of tan
Is good as anybody.
It ain't the chap with, endless means
That gits the prizes, sonny;
The honest guy with soiled blue
jeans May make the biggest money.
He may an' that sounds strange,
beouz
The fact is that he seldom does.
It ain't the creases In his pants
Nor fancy linen collars
That gives the lad with sense a
chance ,
To harness all the dollars.
It's what he's got inside his head
Not what he eats for dinner
An" what he's seen an' did and read
That makes a man a winner.
An' ylt, we reely must admit
That togs does help a little bit.
It ain't the way you part your hair.
Or grease an' shine an' slick it.
That makes folks know that you are
there
To draw the lucky ticket.
Red flowered vests don't git no cash.
Pink shirts don't draw no prizes,
Sou'ii see the gents that makes a
splash .
Has got big hatband sizes.
Still, after all Is said and done,
Good stylish cloe's don't hurt ye
none.
If tailors made a man succeed.
Or rise to ranks above 'em
You soon would find that thero
would need
To be a lot more of 'em.
A man's all right ghat's clean In
side, And ikeeps at work all hours,
No matter if his ties ain't dyed
The color of spring flowers.
Tet, somehow, style does help a guy
Who Just is starting to git by.
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Descriptive.
The old-fashioned expression, "a
man of parts," applies rather neatly
to Henry Ford.
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See Russia for Proof.
An autocrat in Europe is a bol
shevik who has got a government
job.
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Nearer ana Nearer.
The chances of peace in Europe
ere much , brighter now that The
Hagueconference has been aban
doned. (Copyright. 1022. by Bell Syndicate. Inj.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Can Yon Answer These Questions f
1. If birds are driven out from
a nesting site, do they ever come
back ?
2. Is it dangerous to handle dead
rats? '
3. How old should trees in a .
wood lot be allowed to grow?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
"Three thousand lambs were
shipped out of Heppner Tuesday,"
says J. J. Kelly, sheepman of Mor
row county, who arrived at the Im
perial yesterday. "There is a steady
movement of lambs out of Hepp
ner every day, but Tuesday s ship
ment was especially heavy. The
lambs are being sent to the east
ern market and the' growers are
receiving a pretty fair price."
Emil Mohr. mine host of the Med-
ford hotel, arrived at the Multno
malt yesterday. With his family he
is maKing a tour and now- Is a
good time, for the heat in Medford
is uncomfortable. For weeks Med
ford has experienced hot weather
and despite the temperature there
Is scarcely a palm beach suit to be
seen on the streets.
Joe R. Thompson, ,. who is a mer
chant as well as a member of the
city council of Burns, Harney county,
is one of the buying army now in
Portland. The principal topic in
Burns for the past few weeks is
the prospect of railroad develop
ment and tfle expectations that
something will come out of the Cen
tral Pacific situation.
George W. Hyatt of Enterprise,
formerly representative of Union and
Wallowa counties in the legislature,
arrived in Portland yesterday to
attend a meeting of the State Mer
chants' association. 'Considering
everything, says Mr. Hyatt, things
in Wallowa county are fair. -
C. C. Childs, once upon a time in
the hotel business and proprietor
of the Grand hotel at Boise, Idaho,
Is In Portland as a buyer. Mr.
Childs is now conducting a mercan
tile establishment at Rexburg,
Idaho. He is at the Multnomah.
S. M. McClure Is in town from
Nampa, Idaho. He was formerly
secretary of the National Wool
growers' association and was con
nected with the Cunningham ranch
in Umatilla county at one time;
i McKinley Kane of Prineville, who
was talked of as a possible candi
date in the primaries for the legis
lature, is registered at the Benson.
L. J. Falk of the Falk Mercantile
comoany of Boise, Idaho, Is at the
Multnomah and his family has pro
ceeded on to the beach.
John O. Bozarth, one of the
owners of "Bay City, Or., 45 . miles
due west of Portland is registered
at the Hotel Oregon.
The Nicolay article devotes con
siderable space to showing that
Mr. Lincoln did no writing on the
train. He clinches this conclusion
by giving in fac simile the orig
inal draft of the address, the drift
that Mr- Lincoln had on the
speaker's stand at Gettysburg. It
consists of two sheets of paper, the
first a piece of White House sta
tionery, on which are written 19
lines of the address in ink; the sec
ond a piece of blue-gray legal cap
on which the remaining nine lines
are written, in pencil. Mr. Nicolay
Is positive that the first sheet was
written In Washington and car
ried to Gettysburg by Mr. Lincoln.
He is equally positive that the sec
end sheet was written In the room
that Mr. Lincoln occupied in Judge
Wills' house in Gettysburg and on
the morning of November 19. Mr.
Nicolay visited Mr. Lincoln and
saw him in his room engaged in
writing or revising the last nine
lines of the address.
fie gives the time which Mr.
Lincoln devoted to this work as
''about one hour." Whether this
ending of nine lines had been writ
ten in Washington and the work at
Gettysburg was a mere revision of
it, or whether this ending was first
written at Gettysburg, Mr. Nicolay
does hot pretend to say. It will be
noticed that the first, the ink
written sheet, ends in the middle
of a sentence, that the last three
words of this part sentence have
been changed In penfcil and that
the second sheet, wholly in pencil,
lits on to the first sheet. There
is no other change on either sheet.
It seems reasonable to me to sup
pose that the entire address had
been written in Washington and
that the work at Gettysburg was
mere revision of the ending. It
will be evident, I think, to anyone
who" will read Mr. Nicolay's account,
that the ' Gettysburg address was
not the hasty, for-tnate,, inspira
tional effort it is usually repre
sented to be, but the careful and
studied work of one who very well
exemplified Buffon's . definition that
'genius is patience."
S. D. .ALLEN.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. What is the difference be
tween a starling and a grackle?
Are starlings pests?
The starling belongs to family
Sturnidae, is an imported bird from
Europe, about & inches long. Has
metallic-iridescent plumage; easily
identified by long ivory-color or
pale yellow bill. Fights native de
sirable birds and drives them out.
Undesirable. Grackles are natives.
12 to 13 inches, metallic irides
cent plumage, family Icteridae, re
lated to corn-birds, orioles, bobo
links, meadowlarks, red-winged
blackbirds. Useful in feeding habit.
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2. Does the common "wild aster
Sive honey?
Yes, nectar, that is. (Bees make
l-.oney by an internal process which
converts nectar into honey.) The
yellow center of this type of flow
er which is said to have nearly
150 species in North America is
formed of tubular flowers in which
nectar is stored. Various Insects
visit this flower honey bees, bum
b!bees, wasps, butterflies and even
fliea. The honey made from aster
nectar is not a high grade, how
ever, and is commonly sold to bak
ers or candy makers instead of be
ing boxed or bottled for table use.
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3. Are there any parasitic fishes?
Only one true parasite, the hag
i'ish, Myxine eptatreus. It is worm
shaped, and has a round mouth with
strong hooked teeth. It works its
way into the muscles of fishes with
tnt tearing the ekin, and gradually
eats out the muscle, not touching
the skin or internal organs. Fish
that are being thus slowly eaten
alive, live for some time as mere
hulks of a normal fish.
In Other Days.
Jefferson Review.
What will the citizens of this state
get out of any of the proposed state
wide tax-raising measures on the
ballot at the coming election?
Instead of adopting new measures.
every state, public official and citi
zen should work for "less need of
revenue" and more value for the
dollar expended, rather than for
more ways to tax the public in order
to raise larger and larger sums. ,
Unless the bill is more important
and necessity urgent, never was the
time better to vote "no" on every
experimental and tax-raising piece
of legislation.
. Twenty-five Years Aso.
From The Oregonian, August 10, 18ft".
St. Petersburg. Today the em
peror and empress of Germany pro
ceeded to Kranso-Heli, the great
military camp, where they were
received by the czar and czarina.
Chicago. Ex-King Milan of Ser
bia, overwhelmed with debt in Pa
ris and narassa Deyona all Dear-
mg by his innumerable "creditors,
has left that city and established
himself in Vienna.
Confidence of miners In south
ern Oregon is shown by a recent
transaction in which the mine
known as the Denver City ledge, 35
miles from Grants Pass, was sold
for 128,000.
John Sharkey has sold and re
ceived orders for 1000 pack- saddles
since the Klondike gold rush began.
Fifty Years Ago.
From Tne Oregonian, August 10, 1872.
San Diego. The Tuscon Arizonian
says the Apaches continue to mur
der our people the same as before
promising to keep the peace.
Seattle. The territorial university
will open on the first Monday of
September with Professor E. K.
Hill and his wife In charge.
The spire of the new Trinity
church at "the corner of Oak and
Sixth streets was raised and bolted
into place yesterday morning, and
the whole structure will be finished
in a few weeks. -
A very destructive fire visited
Springville Thursday night, burn
ing three large warehouses, a store
and two wharves. All the property,
valued at $16,000, belonged to Com
stock & Co.
Poll Tax In Washington,
ORETOWN, Or., Aug. 8. (To the
Editor.) A used to live in the state
of Washington and still has real
estate in said state. But A is now
a resident of Oregon and has been
for the last two years. Can the
state of Washington collect poll tax
from A? CONSTANT READER.
The answer Is no.
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