THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1923
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VICTORY FOR 8 AXE REPUBLICANISM
Results of republican primaries
in Massachusetts, Michigan and
Washington are a rebuff to those
who seek to retire senators because
of their action on some particular
question or on local interests with
out regard to their general record
of service. All three of the sen
ators who have been renominated
in those states have done well for
the country and thereby for the
party. They are not reactionary,
but are progressive without being
radical; so is the main body of the
party. They have been loyal sup
porters of the Harding administra
tion, and their renomination is an
indorsement of the president. Con
sidered in conjunction with results
in other states which have been
construed as indicating a revolt
against the president, the success
of Lodge, Townsen'd ami Poindexter
is a sign that the mass of level
headed republicans has been
aroused by radical activity and in
dustrial disturbance to declare for
sound government and orderly
progress.
Senator Lodge's renomination
was a foregone conclusion, for he
is so honored for having maintained
the tradition of his family for dis
tinction won by public service and
literary achievement that he is re
garded as a state institution. But
the huge majority by which he has
won can be explained only by ap
- pi-oval of many thousand voters
for his course in the senate, irre
spective of his personal and family
prestige. Democrats have made a
dead set against him in vain pur
suit of revenge, for they wrongly
hold him responsible for defeat of
the Wilson league, though he strove
to save it by attaching reservations.
But the old Bay state holds the
league to be a dead issue,- and
Lodge's work at the Washington
. conference and in promoting sound,
sane legislation in a time of great
-. difficulty has confirmed public
faith in him. The people have ex-
' pressed their trust and pride in the
man.
Senator Townsend's victory is
significant because the Newberry
election was fought in his state,
because he voted for his colleague
when the latter's title to his seat
was attacked, and because that vote
has been made an issue of the pri
mary campaign and has been
squarely met by Townsend. Michi
gan knows that Newberry's cam
paign expenditures tell only half
the story; that the other half is
what Henry Ford spent more
or less directly through his cor
porations to win the nominations
of both parties. Knowing all the
facts, knowing Townsend- and hav
ing heard him 'defend his course
in standing by Newberry, repub
licans df Michigan have evidently
considered his action in that case
as part of his entire record, and
they have renewed their confidence
in him. His course as a whole
meeting with their commendation,
they trust to his judgment so far
that they do not reject him, though
many may not approve his action
in a single instance. Townsend is
no standpatter; he is so progressive
as to have been one of the hardest
workers for railroad regulation,
and he is called reactionary by
those who carry progress beyond
republicanism to socialism, which
turns progress backward.
In renominating Poindexter Wash
ington republicans have resented
the attempted dictation of the
selfish democrat, Hearst, who strives
to pull down men who remain
faithful to the republican party and
to set up others who will serve his
end, which is disruption of parties.
Poindexter has been sobered by
experience, by contact with men
and by the responsibility that has
fallen upon him. As head of the
naval committee he has taken a
national view of the navy's needs.
An attempt has been made by the
Hearst organ to discredit him be
cause he obtained smaller appro
priations for the Bremerton than
for the Mare Island navy yard, but
the 'people have refused to take a
selfish, parochial view of a na
tional question. By voting strongly
for Poindexter Bremerton ex
pressed the opinion that he has
obtained for it all that was due
. under the general naval plan. By
squarely meeting the Newberry
fessue Poindexter. foiled the efforts
of those whose real objection to
Newberry is his republicanism,' not
the means of his nomination and
election. The campaign against the
senator for voting for the four
power treaty had no weight, and
the popular vote is an endorsement
of that achievement of the admin
istration and of its entire- course.
Renomination in Maryland of
Senator France, who has become
known as an exponent of freak
opinions on foreign policy, does not
detract from the force of the gen
eral conclusion to be drawn from
the results in three northern states
so widely separated as Massachu
setts, Michigan, and Washington
Those results are strong symptoms
of the steadying of political opin
ion, of turning from extremes and
of rallying to the Harding admin
istration as the .Instrument by
which the republic is being steered
safely through rough waters. ' The
people turn against both reaction
and radicalism, and remain true to
those principles that are synonym
ous with progress as Americans
understand the word.
OF WHAT TJSE?
The Pendleton East Oregonian,
always on the alert for the people,
or some of them, has fallen upon
a great discovery. . It is that the
republican convention to be held in
Portland on September 26 is to
"bolster up the candidacy of Gov
ernor Olcott." Undoubtedly. We
ourselves have made the same dis
covery, and are not alarmed about
it. It may even be surmised that
the republican convention will in
dorse both the administration and
candidacy of Governor Olcott.
Doubtless the East Oregonian and
other papers will see in spch action
a deep design to overthrow the
direct primary and will say so in
no uncertain tones.
But the direct primary has al
ready nominated Olcott for gov
ernor. Can it be that an organiza
tion of his own party to consum
mate the recommendation of the
primary to the voters is not in
exact harmony with the justly fa
mous and truly admirable Oregon
system? Surely not.
The so-called convention is to be
made up of party nominees, party
officials and other conspicuous cit
izens who acknowledge identifica
tion with the republican party. It
Is likely to adopt a set of prin
ciples, if it is able to agree on
them; and we suppose it can. The
Pendleton paper is worried about
that, too, as witness:
Another thought arising is that the
various nominees already have platforms
of their own. Each man on announcing
his candidacy set forth the things he be
lieved in or opposed. Upon that plat
form he received his nomination. Is hs
not -obligated to stand by the platform J
that secured him his nomination? Has
any unofficial convention power to
change a nominee's contract with his
constituents after they have voted? If
noa, then what is the use of a conven
tion? ;
No so-called convention can
change a nominee's contract with
his party. None will be so temer
arious as to attempt It. '
But if a candidate is to make his
own platform, and a party is to
make none, of what use is a polit
ical party?
THE REFUGE OF SUICIDE.
"There is no refuge from con
fession but suicide; and suicide is
confession," said Daniel Webster.
Something of the sort may have
moved in the mind of Dr. R. M.
Brumfield, condemned murderer of
Dennis Russell, who escaped the
gallows by hanging himself in his
cell. He is well quit of the world.
Is it cruel to say that the world is
well rid of him?
One mystery, and one only, there
was to the peculiarly fantastic and
repellent murder he committed.
That mystery was why such a crime
should be planned and carried to
its' dread fruition by such a man.
Dr. Brumfield was fortunate, re
spected, happy to all outward ap
pearance a gentleman by society's
conception of the term. While one
might well imagine that the Rus
sell murder would be the work of
a darkened mind, an atavistic
criminal, there was naught appar
ent in Dr. Brumfield to suggest the
beast. Yet he killed Russell and
dressed the body of his victim in
horrible masquerade for pecuni
ary advantage. '
For all his cleverness, for all the
resources of his superior intelli
gence, the terror of his crime
tracked him down, brought him to
trial and convicted him. His final
refuge was the refuge of self de
struction. He had cast, at a single
throw, far from him his brilliant
future, his family, their happiness
and his own. It is incredible, al
most, that such a man had played
for such stakes, his intelligence
keenly aware of the hazard, how
ever blunted his secret moral per
ceptions may have been. And that,
and that alone, is the mystery of
the Brumfield case the unsolvable
secret of a mind that is snuffed
out. For Brumfield was guilty be
yond peradventure. " ,
There are dual natures in man,
as strange and baffling and potent
for good or evil as those which
strove in Dr. Jekyll. There is a
spiritual chemistry that ministers
to them. And while one man needs
strive less than another to conquer '
his black thoughts, for that the
good in him normally out-balances
the bad, the mind of his fellow may
be a lost field of battle. Which led
a sage to say that he who conquers
himself is greater than he who
captures a city. Dr. Brumfield lost
his fight, if, indeed, he strove
against the mania that crept to
ward him. Because each is his
own keeper, having the knowl
edge of good and evil, society ex
acts of the loser In such contests
certain legal forfeits. By his own
hand Dr. Brumfield paid.
GOOD THING FOR ALL.
The best work that is being done
for union labor is the conviction of
grafting business agents in Chicago
for conspiracy to extort money
from employers, of bombing, jury
bribery and perjury. Such men are
the parasites of industry, and th.ey
feed as much on workmen as on"
employers. Ultimately their extor
tions come out of the pockets of
the consumers, among whom work
men are the majority, in the shape
of high rent and excessive prices.
While they Are bringing employers
to their blackmail terms, they and
their hired sluggers force workmen
to strike by all manner of violence,
including murder, -and strikers lose
wages while these crooked leaders
get all the profit from the strike.
No reasonable person questions
not only the right of workmen to
organize but the necessity of or
ganization to the smooth working
of industry. Well conducted unions
can render valuable service, not
only to their members but to the
nation by co-operation in promot
ing the progress of industry, by
which labor should profit in larger
earnings. But labor unions are as
liable to go wrong as any other
human institution, and they need
occasional purging, such as that in
progress at Chicago, and they need
the occasional discipline of defeat
when they pursue unwise policy,
it is the custom of the unwise lead
ers to condemn those who point out
and condemn their errors as ene
mies of organized labor, though
such criticism is necessary to the
preservation of unions, even at the
cost of the leaders' jobs.
It is to be hoped that out of the
present and recent strikes and out
of the Chicago trials there will
arise a new conception of the place
of the unions in industry and a new
type of leader whose aim will be to
cultivate co-operation with employ
ers while yielding nothing in de
fense of the rights of their crafts.
Should that come about, it will be
the part of employers to meet the
unions in the same spirit and to be
as severe in reprobation of their
standpat associates cs " they have
been of the excesses of the unions.
IT IS AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
The general convention of the
Episcopal church does not under
estimate the gtavity of the narcotic
problem by dignifying it with a
formal resolution such as has been
adopted by the house of deputies,
and which calls upon Secretary
Hughes to call an international
conference to consider the question
from the world viewpoint. .-. The
evil traffr&Js so well organized and
so deeply involved in enterprise
that ignores national boundaries.
and Its consequences are so deplor
able, that it deserves, as its extinc
tion practically demands, a high
degree of co-operation by all the
governments of the civilized world.
Prior to the passage of the
Jones-Miller bill the anomalous
situation existed that although dis
tribution and sale of habit-forming
narcotics were nominally regulated
as to consumers in our own coun
try, unlimited amounts might be
manufactured and sold to custom
ers in other lands, by whom they
were resold to be smuggled back
into the United States and used
not only to cater to the depraved
tastes of confirmed addicts but to
make new addicts as well. Only a
partial solution Is furnished by the
check on domestic manufacture
which the new law provides. It is
requisite in order to make the em
bargo still more effective that
other nations shall work with us
to accomplish the desired end.
Canon Bliss, whose association
with the White Cross and whose
personal interest in the topic have
given him a deep insight into the
facts as they are, properly insists
that education is one of the weap
ons to be employed in suppression.
But it is unnecessary to wait until
the whole world has been made
aware of its peril. The leaders now
have undisputed fac's enough in
their possession to warrant them in
demanding the strictest measures
that can possibly be devised. No
principle of democracy, of personal
liberty, is involved in the proposal
to regulate the le of narcotic
drugs so far as is administratively
possible and to treat as irredeem
able criminals those who deliber
ately violate the law.
AN IMMATERIAL, REVISION.
Proposed deletion of the word
"obey" from the marriage cere
mony, by the house of bishops of
the Episcopal church, is no more
than an attack upon an immaterial
anachronism, the -significance of
which is more romantic than aught
else. Since when have wives obeyed
their husbands, in the literal sense
of the mandate? Since when has
either church or husband required
unquestioning obedience of them?
A very long time, at any rate, has
elapsed since the wife was proper
ty. Today in America she is in all
respects recognized as the equal of
the husband. Though it may seem
fitting that the empty forms of the
past should be discarded, and an
ancient quibble laid at rest, the
bishops we ask their pardon are
tilting to little practical purpose.
The presence of such a provision
in the marriage form doubtless
harks back to a time when obe
dience was literally Interpreted,
but of itself it was never open to
such a construction. It lingered,
like many another memory, be
cause tradition had fixed it firmly,
but it neither asked nor expected
of the wife an obedience incom
patible with her own individual
rights and opinions. It comported
well and romantically with the
pledges to love and honor. One
might well ask how it is possible
for a bride to pledge herself to love
or to honor, when so many hus
bands of other wives have eventu
ally proved themselves to be un
worthy of either love or respect.
That most sacred and peculiar of
all contracts, the marriage con
tract, has necessarily a form.
Wives obeyed their husbands
though doubtless with reservations
a great many centuries ago. That
time was the dawn of the race,
when the family was a state - of
itself, governed by the male mate.
Force and not reason ruled, and, the
device .of uncontested masculine
sovereignty was adapted to the
rough and perilous episodes of the
day. Where the family problems
were met, if at all, by the strength
and courage, largely physical, of
the husband, it required that the
woman yield the family govern
ment to her mate.. Those were the
centuries of physical dominance,
logically to be followed, as culture
progressed, by legal recognition of
the property rights of the husband
as pertaining to his wife. In Eng
land of old it was the privilege
and, indeed, the duty, of the hus
band to rebuke his erring or con
tentious wife with a cudgel. An
adage survives the quaint custom,
which was by no means confined
to England: "A dog, a woman, and
a walnut tree, the more you beat
them the better they be."
Virtually all primitive modes of
marriage recognized and approved
without qualification the incontest
able power of the husband, where
by the position of the wife in the
family, as regarded masculine au
thority, was comparable to that of
the children. - It is a long stride
thence to suffrage, but it has been
a stride away from barbarism and
none will regret it. There arises,
naturally, even though the pledge
of obedience be stricken from the
marriage ceremony, the obvious and
normal requirement of mutualobe
dience when consistent with sense
and morals. It- is incumbent upon
each party of the contract to recog
nize, respect and carry out the
wishes of the other, when . it is
apparent that the demands are rea
sonable and make for happiness.
An obstinate wife, a stubborn hus
band, can scarcely prove congenial.
Thrice unfortunate it is if obsti
nacy and stubbornness are mated.
Obedience, of husband to wife, of
wife to husband, is both rational
and normal.
Casting backward, one can see
that the woman has had, until com
paratively recent times, much the
worse of it, though the opinion of
the times and not the marriage
form dictated her lot. Even in
grandmother's day she was required
to hold no opinions of her own on
matters then considered as exclu-
sively within the masculine prov
ince. The laws which governed
her, which ministered to or marred
the welfare of her children, were
not of her making. . She had no
voice in them. She could play the
harpsichord, could sew a fine seam,
could bake and brew yes, brew
and keep her hearth fleckless, but
when men discoursed wisely it was
for her to listen. And if denial
and rebellion were in her heart she
was perhaps a trifle afraid of such
sentiments and considered them as
whisperings of the evil one. Times
change. He would be a bold man
and valiant who kept the modern
Woman out of public discussion.
In a sense, grandmother was still
dwelling in the age ' of marital
property. But in no sense is her
granddaughter so situated.
An occasional rebel yet beats "his
wife, harking back to the primitive.
It fares hard with him when his
, feU(JW ma,es catch hlm at this di.
version. Indeed, he is fortunate if
he reaches the stern refuge of an
unsympathetic court unscathed.
Clearly in each instance such as
this the family tiff, tilt or combat
had its origin in the failure of the
wife to recognize the propriety of
that archaic requirement obedi
ence. But, far from supporting
their brother, his fellow males sur
pass in their indignation the utmost
fury of her sisters. It is recalled
that, in a mid-western town not
many years ago the village drunk
ard made a practice of beating his
wife. She was a ponderous woman
and he a frail inebriate, but with
wifely fortitude she bore her
bruises. The upshot of the recur
rent scandal was that the men of
the village tied a stout rope to the
wife beater, kicked him to a nearby
lake and, three on a side, hurled
him into the water. When he sank
they pulled him in and cast him
out again. Pleased by their disport
they nearly made an end of him
but he survived and reformed.
Such is modern masculine partisan
ship for the woman. They say the
age of chivalry is dead and done
for. The age of chivalry is now.
The chivalry of medieval times was
a sugared deceit.
Chivalry is a moving motive in
the design of the bishops to delete
the word "obey" from the marriage
ceremony. Tet it is an immaterial
operation, at best, for it is long
since the pledge has been harshly
construed, and we are fain" to feel
that when they have deleted it a
little more of romance will have
gone from the form of the contract
NOT ANGRY OFTEN ENOUGH.
liovernor Allen of Kansas .is
quoted as saying of the railroad
strike:
4ne board s decisions virtually were
left to public sentiment to enforce. But
the general public does not get angry
oicen enougn.
In the same vein the Detroit Free
Press says that the people were
not alarmed about coal, for:
It. was summer; why bother about
coal? Everything would come out all
right. President Harding was calling
Dotn. sides into conference,- wasn't he?
He'd tell "em. Let's take in a ball game.
So the president delayed until
the public got angry and prodded
him into action. Then the coal
strikes ended, and congress .spent
almost a month In considering
measures to prevent their evil con
sequences and their recurrence, and
public interest waned and public
anger is already cooling.
Is not the trouble thai! we need
always to have a man in the White
House who will prevent today the
things that the public would get
angry about tomorrow, or do the
people need more of that eternal
vigilance whereof Patrick Henry
spoke in order to keep any presi
dent up to his work? But the
American people have such a "Why
worry?" -temperament that they re
fuse to think about trouble till it
Is upon them. Then they turn
angrily to the president and ask
why he did not prevent it.
The only way out seems to be to
have a president who foresees what
will make the people angry, who
will have a strong enough hold on
congress to get preventive legisla
tion and who will head off trouble.
Even then he would be criticized
for meeting trouble halfway. It Is
a hard job to satisfy more than a
hundred million people of many
moods. -
If New York is to have no more
naughty plays, then it follows that
the rest of the country is to be
spared for, come to think of it
most of ours came from there, and
certainly all of the ideas did. The
vogue of plays In which marital
deceit was most suggestively por
trayed, the problem plays that fun
damentally depend upon sex inter
est for their attraction, the musical
comedies that are a trifle too dar
ing, the innumerable songs, h.its,
gags and mots that relied for hu
mor entirely upon their question
able nature, these will be banned if
the censors in Gotham have respect
for their office or consideration for
the public' It is a good sign.
Entertainment need not seek a low
moral level in order to be enter
taining, nor do real artists require
smut as a vehicle to fame and for
tune. Naughty plays are to be put on
trial before a jury in New York,
and suppressed if the jury votes
that way. Not so drastic as it
sounds. There probably aren't
twelve persons in New York who
would recognize a naughty play
when they saw one.
The man whose income state
ment read "$0,000.00" on the last
line is not worrying about a partial
payment tomorrow.
Portland has the lowest infant
mortality of all cities In the Union
and its other vital statistics are
"not so bad."
An old tradition of law entitles
every dog to one bite,, but thank
goodness it doesn't apply to rattle
snakes. And If Atlantic City wants to
know it, there are plenty more
beauties where Miss Portland came
from.
Rubber gloves might be added to
the hairnets proposed for all han
dlers of food in public places.
There ought to be such a thing
as sportsmanship, even in politics,
but apparently there is not.
Bull Run water . never was in
tended exclusively for a "chaser":
it's the main drink.
Stars and Starmaker.
By Leone Caul Bner.
Neysa McMein, magazine - cover
artist, who is scheduled for an early
appearance in vaudeville, has se
cured considerable publicity in the
dailies through naming what she
considered the 12 most beautiful
women and 10 handsomest men in
America.
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In Washington, D. C, one night a
few weeks ago, ex-President Wilson
and Mrs. Wilson attended Keith's
vaudeville show, and at the conclu
sion of the Russian dancing act,
"Yarmack," or "At the Carnival,"
expressed his regret that he couldn't
see more of the dancing. The thea
ter management gathered the act
together and, with the ex-president
and Mrs. Wilson seated in their au
tomobile in the stage entrance of
the theater, a number of additional
dances were executed in the alle
way. Mr. Wilson has always been an
ardent vaudeville admirer, 1 attend
ing weekly. This "alley perform
ance," it was stated, afforded him
unusual enjoyment.
Louis Mann will soon open in
"Dollar Daddy," a comedy that was
produced in Vienna In 1917. It will
probably go into the Punch and
Judy theater in New York, presented
by Harry Cahane, a former picture
man. Charlton Andrews has adapt
ed the piece. In Mann's support
will be Leonard Doyle, Betsy Ross
Clark, William Clarke, Lucia Moore
and Myrtle Miller. Lucia Moore is
a former Bakeronian.
Many different stories have been
told regarding the shooting of Al
bert Johnson, husband of Peggy
Marsh, which occurred at the Jack
Clifford camp at Lake Chateaugay.
Johnson is still a patient at Cham
plain Valley hospital, where the au
thorities say that he has a fighting
chance for his life.
At the hospital the authorities
first said that the wound was sus
tained during target practice at the
Clifford camp. The wife of the
wounded man said he shot himself
while cleaning a gun used in the
target practice.
A nearby neighbor of the Clifford
camp has been relating a story to
the effect that the shooting occurred
as the result of a brawl. This latter
version Is without verification.
The state police have been making
an investigation, but have not as
yet found anything that would tend
to discredit the stories Regarding
the shooting that have been told by
those who were present.
'Johnson and his wife formed a
dancing act last season, appearing
for a short while on the Shubert
vaudeville circuit. Peggy Marsh is
the girl who sued the Marshall Field
estate for her little son's share in
the inheritance as the illegitimate
son of young Field.
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Wilbur Mack and -Grade Deagon
will shortly appear together in a
new vaudeville skit. Miss Deagon
was of Dickinson and Deagon. They
were divorced about a year ago, but
remarried. Separation proceedings
have again been started by Miss
Deagon.
Dickinson is now with Florenz
Tempest.
, Mack featured his own act over
the Orpheum circuit last season and
also appeared in pictures on the
coast. He was formerly of Mack
and Walker (Nella).
Tom McNaughton has had another
mental relapse and is to be confined
in a stanitarium in London.' His
wife, Alice Lloyd, called in their
physician, who ordered him under
constant observation. Miss Lloyd
has decided not to return to America
until her husband is finally passed
upon by the doctors. 'Meanwhile she
will appear in vaudeville in London.
Tom McNaughton was stricken
over here two years ago while with
his wife and family on Long Island.
At the time it was believed Mr.
McNaughton, a constant devotee of
golf, had been affected by the sun's
rays, in which he played the game
daily.
In a contest held recently by the
New York Evening World for selec
tion of a queen and king to reign
for a week at the Mardi Gras at
Coney Island, the places were won
by Ethelynn Clark and Joseph
Howard.
Ruth Budd failed-to open as head-
liner last week at the Astoria, As
toria, L. I., claiming unsatisfactory
billing. With the refusal, her
trunks were held by the manager of
the house," the act having been
booked under a play-or-pay contract.
Miss Budd reimbursed the theater
for the amount her contract called
for, at which time her trunks were
released.
Another star turning to Shakes
peare is John Barrymore, who is
due in New York about the holidays.
Arthur Hopkins Is making the
presentation. The same manager is
making productions for Ethel Bar
rymore, who -will appear in "Rose
Bernd," a foreign adaptation, and
Lionel Barrymore, who Is to star in
"The Fountain," a Eugene O'Neill
drama.
Edna Wallace Hopper, who has
been in Los Angeles for about a
year, is to go into pictures in about
six weeks. She is to play the lead
in a six-reel feature comedy drama,
to be produced by the Lesser-Rosenberg
interests. Miss Hopper says
that she is 62 years of age, while
"Who's Who" says that she Is 48. In
reality her age is about 56.
When she first arrived in Los An
geles Miss Hopper made a visit to
Universal City looking like a chick
en and interviewed Irving Thalberg,
general manager for Carl Leammle.
After he had chatted with her' for
about 15 minutes and, entertained
her ambitions as to the screen, he
casually asked her if she "had ever
been on the stage.
Zelda Sears has completed the
manuscript of a new musical play
In which Mltzi will be seen under
Henry W. Savage's management
early next spring.
That diminutive actress Is now In
New York rehearsing with her com
pany preparatory to a tour to the
Pacific coast in "Lady Billy." This
will be her third season in this
piece. - .. . , ..
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales) of Folks at the Hotels.
Forty-five years ago George T.
Thompson arrived in Portland
and it looked good, but-after a
month he went on to Walla Walla,
Wash., and has lived there ever
since. Mr. Thompson originally came I
from Brooklyn, New York, moved to
Iowa, where, as a lad, he was in
the livestock business. He headed
- i-, .nil ll r lioH at fresrent f"itv.
il hut nnn wearied of that olace
and shifted to Portland. In Iowa I 1. A robin built a nest near my
he had to feed stock six months in ; house, and after laying three eggs
the year and when he heard that j and setting for many days, disap
Qrnnnfl walla Walla stock could be i peared. There was no trace of egg
taken off the range at Christmas
and used for beef he decided that
was the sort of stock country he
was looking for.
Even in those
days," explains Mr.
Thompson
"Walla Walla had all
the indica -
tions of being a city while Tacoraa
and Seattle were merely stumps.
Portland and Walla Walla were the
only, two towns in this part of the
country." Mr. Thompson, who long
ego abandoned the stock business
for the legal profession, says that
the wheat crop in the Walla Walla
country is only about half this year.
The long, cold spring and then the
long, hot, dry summer did not help
on the light lands. In the heavy
lands of the Walla Walla district
Mr. Thompson says that wheat can
be raised indefinitely and, so far
as known, there is no other such
soil anywhere except in a small
section of Europe. Wheat was
raised in . the Mississippi valley
years ago, but the soil became ex
hausted. When the first legisla
ture of Washington was organized
Mr. Thompson was a member and he
has always been interested in poll
tics. This is his first visit to Port
land in 15 years.
"By the end of the week the de
tour for the Pacific highway near
Roseburg will be a thing of the
past," reports W. J. Weaver, of the"
Hotel Umpqua, of Roseburg, who
arrived at the Imperial yesterday.
"The contractors were getting ready
to lay the last few hundred yards
of pavement near the town when I
left."
Mr. Weaver says that motor trav
el is still heavy. Most 6f his busi
ness comes within three hours,
starting about 5 o'clock in the eve
ning, and then all the customers
check out again the next morning
In about three hours. The move
ment of traffic has been running
lik-e that all summer. Mr. Weaver
is advertising Crater lake and has
sent 60.000 advertisements of the
lake- and incidentally of his hotel
to California. He figures that
tie more tourists who come to
southern Oregon to see the lake
the more money they will leave and
that makes business In all lines. As
to the prune crop, Mr. Weaver says
one of the largest crops in years
is now ready for picking and the
price is good. The warm weather
of recent days is filling the prunes
with sugar and the growers are
happy.
The bridge across the Lewis and
Clark river, down in Clatsop, is in
bad shape. It has been reported
on by the bridge department as
likely to go haywire any time. Yes
terday a man kicked a hole in the
bridge with the toe of his shoe and
didn't hurt his foot. L. D. Drake
of the Astoria Budget and repre
senting the Astoria chamber , of
commerce, was in Portland yester
day to see what can be done about
replacing the bridge with a more
modern structure. He wants the
state to co-operate with Clatsop
county in defraying the cost of the
proposed new bridge. .
Herbert Nunn, chief engineer of
the highway commission, leaves
this morning for a tour of inspec
tion In eastern Oregon. Chief Nunn
will devote most of his time on the
Journey to the John Day highway,
much of which is now under con
struction, some of which has been
completed, and other sections of
which are still in their natural
state. Contractors have been work
Ing for several years on this east-and-west
artery and the highway is
steadily being developed. The en
tire highway Is now usable. ' -
Armed to the teeth, George H.
Kelly, member of the Port of Port
land commission and also the state
game commission; Phil Metschan,
manager of the Imperial, and Clyde
G. Huntley, collector of Internal
revenue, sallied forth yesterday to
stalk deer in the wilds of Lane
county. This is a sort of annual
event with them and usually they
bring back some deer meat, and
always they bring back some most
remarkable stories of the marvel
ous adventures they experience.
Wilford" Allen, one of the ardent
sportsmen of the Rogue river, who
took an active part In the fight
which waged so long between the
sportsmen of the upper river and
the comm-erciaf fishermen of the
lower river, is at the Multnomah.
Mr. Allen's home is at Grants' Pass,
where every citizen of consequence
has the niftiest fishing tackle that
he can procure.
William Pollman, who acts as a
sort of father confessor to scores of
the sheepmen and cattlemen of
eastern Oregon, and lends 'em
money, too, is in the city on busi
ness. Mr. Tollman's home ia at
Baker, but his activities extend
over the state and even into Wash
ington. Frederick Stelwer, one of the tall
est attorneys in eastern Oregon, and
who has been mentioned more than
once as a future candidate for con
gress in the second district, is reg
istered at the Hotel Portland from
Pendleton. '
M. D. Shanks, now an attorney
of Lebanon, where the grass grows
green, but formerly of Condon,
where the grass isn't, is at the Mult
nomah. Mr. Shanks is, like his
partner Sam Barland, a former
member of the state senate.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Watzek of
Davenport, Iowa, are at the Hotel
Portland. Mr. Watzek Is interested
in the big lumber mill at Wauna,
Or., and comes out to the coast
about once a year to see how things
are going.
R. A. Booth, chairman of the state
highway commission, arrived from
Eugene yesterday to attend a spe
cial meeting of the commission
called to dispose of a quantity of
routine matters.
Carl Kendrlck, sales manager for
the Western Drygoods company of
Seattle, is registered at the Hotel
Portland while looking over the ter
ritory. ,
Joseph Romane, formerly a rep
resentative in the legislature from
Clatsop county, but now a banker
at Astoria, was in Portland yes
terday. Herbert Armstrong, a lumberman
from North Bend, Or., Is at the
Hotel Portland.
Ye. Editor Holds the Sack.
North Bend Harbor.
One candidate for state office who
has neglected to pay this office for
advertising space 'used during his
campaign writes that he cannot pay
because the amount fixed by statute
would be exceeded. There is no law
which prevents a newspaper man
from being stung. - - - -
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, HongktOB-Nlfflli Co.
Can You Answer These Queatlonaf
1. Is it true that a hummingbird
lays only two eggs, and that one of
these is always a male and the other
a female?
2. Do alligators do any good
3. What is a dingo?
Answer in tomorrow's nature
notes. '
' . Answers to Previous Questions
shells, and no boys in the neighbor- .
' hood knew of the nest. Who stole
the eggs?
Of course we can't say positively;
the chances are that a blue Jay, red
' squirrel or even a snake may have
eaten the eggs, shell and all. lne
parent bird would then make off. as
birds usually abandon a nest that
has been Interfered with.
2. Will you kindly tell if the
Peepers heard in spring re young
frogs, or a separate species?
They are the" Hylas, of which Hyla
Pickeringii is the smallest, and Hyla
versicolor, the commonest. Many
persons believe the shrill sweet trill
of these little tree toads or .tree
frogs Is the note of youthful frogs
which will cbange to the deeper note
heard later in the season from big
frogs. The Hylas are of the family
Hylidae, while frogs are of the fam
ily Ranidae, and each has a differ
ent note.
S. What are the little dark- bladder-like
things with horny points
at each corner, that you find on the
sea shore? They are oblong shape
and bloated in the middle.
You probably refer to the egg
cases of the skate, or dogfish, or
some other member of the cartilaginous-skeleton
fishes. (Elasmobran
chii.) They are not dry and horny
when fresh, but almost translucent,
and light olive-tan. The curved
spines at the four corners are to
anchor the egg case to seaweed, etc.,
to prevent its being washed up onto
dry land.
SITE FOR FAIR IS SITGGESTKD
Patronage, Indirect Benefit and
Salvage Are Considered.
PORTLAND, Sept. 12. (To the
Editor.) The success of the 1925
exposition will depend very large
ly upon the proper selection of a
site. From a local business stand
point there are three items In
volved. First Patronage or the number
of paid dally admissions. Experi
ence of past expositions proves
that the bulk of the gate receipts
comes from the resident popula
tion; therefore the closer and more
accessible the Bite the larger the
patronage and the more certain the
chances of success.
Second Reflex benefit to the bus
iness interests of Portland. A close
in site will insure a maximum of
business for hotels, restaurants,
rooming houses, theaters, retail
merchants, markets and every other
line.
Third Salvage or the preserva
tion of the site and buildings for
future public use. A great public
park, which would Insure the pres
ervation of the expensive landscap
ing and some of the buildings and
other artistic features would bo a
beautiful and enduring monument
to the "Success of the exposition."
The ideal site should be: (1) close
to the center of population and bus
iness, (2) picturesque in ItRelf and
surroundings, (3) on the Willamette
river, (4) adaptable to the needs of
a great exposition, to) accessinie
by all means of transportation, (6)
available and suitable for use as a
permanent public park.
There is one ideal site in Port
land:
1. This site is only two miles
from Broadway and Washington
street.
2. It includes Ross island. The
Oaks, Windemuth beach, Terwllli
ger boulevard. Marquam hill. Conn
ell Crest, In - the most scenic sec
tion of Portland.
3. It is located In the Willam
ette river at a point above sew
age contamination, one mile south of
Madison-street bridge ana at me
site of the proposed new bridge. It
is accessible in ten minutes by
water from the central business sec
tion. 4. There are 400 acres in Ross
island alone, in addition to the
available territory on cast and west
mainland, good foundation and suf
ficient material at hand for filling
and grading above high-water level.
5. It is touched by every line of
transportation from the south and
is only three miles from Union
depot. It is on direct line with
California and the east by the pro
posed new tunnel of the Southern
Pacific railway, five minutes by
trolley from the Morrison - street
bridge, within walking distance
from residential center.
6. As a site for a city park after
the exposition it might easily be
come the "Belle Isle of the west."
It has long been considered as suit
able for this purpose.
The data and maps for the ques
tionnaire relative to this site were
prepared by John F. I,ewis. former
Btate surveyor of Oregon, and R. R
Clark, engineer of the bridge of tht
gods. KENNETH BKOVVN.
Minnesota Goes Bock to Convention.
Editorial Correspondence in Cottage
Grove Sentinel.
Having criticised upon occasion
some of the results obtained through
the Oregon system, I have been
much interested in the fact that
Minnesota has returned to what la
practically the old convention sys
tem. The party conventions were
held this year and complete tickets
submitted to the primaries Dy all
the parties. At the primaries those
indorsed by the several party con
ventions were indorsed by the vot
ers. No doubt the primary itself
will be done away with and the tax
money saved that goes for its con
duct. The people soon will be con
vinced that the return to the old
convention system will not bring
also a return of the evils that de
veloped in the convention system
before the adoption of the primary
system. Too many elections have
taken away the Interest of the vot
ers In any election.
What Snakes Eat?
PORTLAND, Sept. 12. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian, In reply
to "What do garter snakes eat?" It
is stated by the Burroughs Nature
club that they never take warm
blooded prey, which I am sure Is a
mistake.
I once came upon a garter snake
in the act of swallowing a young
nestling hedge sparrow, and two
other young birds were on the
ground near. As they were still al
most naked, I believe the snake was
responsible also for their being out
of the nest.
Another time I found a very large
garter snake fully three feet long
asleep. I took it by the tall and
snapped It as one would a whip,
which caused it to disgorge a chip
munk which had been stretched and
swallowed. C. B. PYE.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moatam.
A HABIT.
(Physicians advise brain workers
to eat heavier breakfasts.)
Our breakfast was never our favor
ite meal
It seemed to diminish our piinrh.
So we ate but a little and saved up
our zeal
For a vigorous rail on our lunch.
We did fairly well with our work
after that,
And when, at the end of the day.
We tidied our desk up and reached
for our hat
We thought we had well earned
our pay.
And then came the news from a
medical gent
That a person who tolls with his
head
Begins his day's labor exhausted
and spent
Unless he la thoroughly fed.
So we breakfasted dally on coffes
and steak
And then, when our luncheon time
came,
We found we were hungry and liked
to partake
Of a pretty big snack Just ths
same.
We tried this a month, but It did us
no good;
To the office we heavily crept. 1
Ran through a few letters as soon
as we could
And sat in our desk chair and
slept.
So set in this habit of sleeping w
got.
That although our morals wer
sound.
Employers believed us a drlnk-rld-den
sot
And never would have us around.
And now, though we fain would go
back where we were.
And eat little breakfast or none.
Our hunger steps forward and
makes a demur X
And we find that the thing can't
be done.
So we warn all our readers: he
wary of food.
For, once you are caught In Its
clutch,
Like a tottering drunkard, by liquor
pursued.
You will never eat right, but too
much.
It Will Soon Come.
People are now beginning to scan
ths market columns to see If they
are running the dally quotations on
glands.
Conclusive.
The prohibition poll seems to Indi
cate that where the country isn't
dry It is wet.
Biological Note.
Our observations convince us that
mosquitoes like to take their hu
man gore with a da-in of cltronella.
(Copyright, U-'2. by H-11 Syn.llrSte. In
In Other Day.
Tvtent y-Flfve Tears Ago.
From The Oregonian of S-pt. 14. 1WT.
Pittsburg. Emma Hammi, ths
miners' Joan d'Arc, and three other
women were arrested for marching
at Plum creek this morning by the
sheriff's deputies.
London. The Times correspondent
at Buenos Aires says that It Is
feared the entire harvest has been
destroyed by locusts.
The Oregon Itoad club will, hold
its first good roads meeting of the
season tomorrow night.
The fall run of hoboes has begun
and promises to be the bigger! (or
many years.
Fifty Tears Aao.
From The Oregonian of Sept. 14. 1TJ.
. St. Johnsburg, N. J. llnracs
Greeley arrived here today and vis
ited the Btate fair. Greeley made an
address on tho field of Improve
ments In agriculture.
Richmond. Ex-l'nlon soldiers held
a reunion meeting here today, Gen
eral H. 11. Wells presiding.
The telegraph brings news of ths
death of Right Hev. Mantnrn East
burn, bluhop of tho I'rolrhtant Epis
copal church In .M a suae h use its. Thl
Is the third death nmong bishops of
that church since the meeting of the
general convention In October Inst.
When Bishop Eanthttrn took his
seat in the house of bishops there
were but 19 others. Now there are
13 bishops.
Salmon cutches between April 1
and August 1 this season amounted
o 170,000 fish.
TRAtiF.DY IS CALL TO ACTIO
Example Should Be Set to All Moon
shiners and Bootleggers.
WESTON'. Or.. Sept. 8. tTo the
Editor.) The recent tragedy at
Grand Ronde, In which two officers
of the law were murdered by a
bootlegger, and the pllKht of the
wife and children of Glen H. Price,
as presented in The Orosronlan. are
enough to arouse tho people of Ore
gon to a realization that something
must -be done.
Public sentiment can do almost
anything when it Is strong enough
and 1b aroused to action, and It Is
time for an outraged public to de
mand that the moonshiner and th
bootlegger be ruthlessly hunted
down and put where they will be
compelled to obey the law. Stiff jail
sentences at hard labor, applied
without fear or favor, would go a
long way toward stopping them.
Another thing a brought out by
this case is that the state makva no
provision for the family of an oftl
cer who may be killed while on
duty. It seems to me that the state
should take out an Insurance policy
In some reliable Insurance company
for its peace otlicers, to he kept In
force at state expend as lone am
the oflicer holds his commission
trom the state or county.
n. It. EAPS.
National Turks In I nlted States.
TWIN -FALLS. IdHho, Sept. 10
(To the Editor.) l'lea.c Mute ths
number of national parks and where
thty are situated.
(2) Which Is the lnrftowt?
(3) By what means are they set
aside as such ?
CONSTANT HEADER.
The national parks of the Cnlted
States are: Hot Springs. ArkansHS;
Yellowstone. Wyoming; Sequoia,
California ; Yosemlte, California;
General Grant. California; Mount
Rainier, Washington; Crater Lake,
Oregon; Wind Cave. Soulh Dakota;
Piatt. Oklahoma; Sully's Hill, North
Dakota; Mesa Verde. Colorado; Gla
cier, Montana; Rocky Mountain. Col
oradd; Hawaii, Hawaii; Lassen Vol
cano, Caliiornia; .Mount oicrviniey.
Alaska; Grand Canyon. Arizona; Li
rlzona; La, I
h. J
ellowitone, l
fayette, Maine; Zion, Utah.
(2) The largest Is Yel
S34S square miles.
(3) National parka ars set ailds
by act of congress.
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