THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. AUGUST
1920
NEW FLORADORA GIRLS MAY OUTDISTANCE
PREDECESSORS WITH MARRIAGE VENTURES
Army Officer Prey to Cupid Working on Stage; French Girl in Public Office; Utah Girls Adopt Unique
Alpine Costume; "Fluffy Ruffles" on Board "Walk.
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located at the beach terminus of the
wonderful 100-foot causeway stretch
ing three miles in length, which spans
Biscayne bay, connecting the city with
the ocean beaches. As the scientists
generally agree that all land animals
came originally out of the sea. the
study of the myriad forms of life in
the tropical seas will, it is believed,
develop links between the sea and the
land animals that will add much to
the world's knowledge of this impor
tant question. Since the question of
food has been accentuated as an aft
ermath of the world war, the eyes of
economists have turned to the warm
seas to develop the possibilities of its
innumerable fish life.
Just as the shoemaker's child is pro
verbially without footwear. so it was
that there was. no aquarium or bio
logical station on the entire Atlantic
coast south of Philadelphia, and con
sequently no extensive and adequately-equipped
and situated institution
to which the ichthyologists of the
country could make pilgrimages and
study at first hand the wonders of
the fauna of the gulf stream. Here
tofore these specialists in zoology
traveled to the aquarium at Naples,
Italy, and to other European institu
tions simply because there was no
where in- the warm seas surrounding
the southern part of our own conti
nent where they could have the means
at hand to pursue their highly impor
tant work.
With the completion of the Miami
aquarium, however, it opens to the
scientists a most acceptable opportu
nity, for not only is it located but 40
hours from New Tork and Chicago,
but in the waters of the gulf stream
are to be found practically all the
forms of fish life and ocean flora
that have been discovered in the Med
iterranean and many others in addi
tion. Only a month or two ago. an entire
ly new species of tuna, one of the
most valuable food fishes in the world,
was located and described by the
director of the Miami aquarium, and
if these great fishes of the horse
mackerel family can be developed in
a commercial way it will have an in
teresting bearing on the problem of
lowering the high cost of living.
Thousands of Visitors Attracted.
The ocean beaches adjacent to Mi
ami, fringed with giant cocoanut
palms and every tropical plant and
flower, its golf courses, polo fields
and facilities for every outdoor sport.
Including aviation, speedboat racing
and sport fishing, are attracting
scores of housands of visitors an
nually. With only 45 miles of water sepa
rating it from the most westerly of
the Bahama islands and with the es
tablishment of a steamer line this fall,
as well as a dirigible balloon on
daily 'schedule between Miami and
Havana, Cuba a. greatly improved
railroad schedule north and to the
middle west, it is small wonder that
the Magic City, as it is called, is forg
ing ahead with leaps and bounds.
JAPANESE TRUCK GARDENERS
DECLARED TO BE NECESSARY
Writer Takes the View That Orientals Alone Can Supply Sufficient
Vegetables for Consumption of the People of' United States.
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MRS. L. M. WATSON of Hayden.
Colo., has as her constant com
panion while visiting Chicago
"Sir Coy," a full-blooded coyote, cap
tured by her husband when a whelp.
Mrs. Watson was a Chicago girl be
fore her marriage, when she went to
reside in the highlands of north
western Colorado.
Mrs. Charles W. Myers, wife of a
Memphis, Tenn., business man, cre
eted a mild sensation at Atlantic City
when she appeared on the boardwalk
clad in a costume of blue taffeta so
ruffled that it gained for her the so
briquet of "Kluffy Ruffles." The
stockings were of white eilk and the
Fandals of blue, edged with white to
match the costume.
Matrimonial -entures, which made the
man of Oklahoma City. Major Clark
was a friend of the director and form
erly was a dramatic critic. He at
tended a rehearshal last fall and was
charmed by the Florodora girl, whom
he has induced to abandon a etage
career. They will spend their honey
moon in Cuba.
Miss Thelma McMurrin of Salt Lake
City is one ofa number of girls of
the Utah capital who are exploring
the recesses and heights of Zion
national park this summer. They
have adopted the latest Alpine cos
tumes, including woolen shirts, knick
ers, woolen socks, which can be worn
turned down or rolled up to protect
tne Knees, heavy hob-nailed ankle-
high boots and a soft buckskin coat.
Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, who attended
the San Francisco convention with her
husband. Captain Calhoun, is the
mother of Miss Margarite Simons of
Washington, who last winter received
a call from the Prince of Wales. Miss
Simons will visit relatives in Paris
and London and after a round of
house parties will be presented at
court.
Mile. - Landry, daughter of the
French minister of marine, has been
given a position in the secretariat of
the ministry. It has created a stir
in Paris because it is unique for a
woman to hold public office there,
She has taken degrees in philosophy
and law and is considered exception
ally capable.
original Floradora sextet famous, bid
fair to be outdistanced by the new
galaxy that has been presented to
uphold its traditions. Cupid has al
ready begun to direct his darts, and
Miss Ethel Lores, 24, has announced
her intention to forsake the footlights.
She was married to Major Harry B.
Clark of the 36th infantry in St. Paul's
Methodist Kpiscopal church. New York
July 22. She was graduated from
Oklahoma College for Women in 1917
and is the daughter of a wealthy oil
MIAMI, FLORIDA SEAPORT,
j : BROUGHT INTO LIMELIGHT
Most Southerly City on Mainland Blessed With Year-Round Climate
. That Rivals Riviera.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 21.
..jlSpcclal.) Probably for the
first time since the stirring
clayi of the clivl war a southern port
has been blockaded by United States
warships. Happily, however, it is no
crisis brought about by an uncom
promising demand for the Integrity of
state rights, but to prevent a cable
ship entering the port of Miami, the
most southerly city on the Floridan
mainland and the third largest in the
state from the standpoint of popula
tion! -Nestling beside the beautiful waters
of Biscayne bay and separated from
the Atlantic only by the peninsula of
Miami beach, , the .city has rapidly
come Into its own, due to the strat
egic geographic location it occupies
on the south Atlantic coast, and it
gives promise to rival Jacksonville as
a port of call. When one realizes that
one-third of all the grapefruit in the
United States comes from the county
in which Miami is situated and that
one-fifth of all the animal life in
America north of Panama is to be
found in the waters of the gulf stream
which lave the golren strand of Miami
beach in its front yard and with the
great potential agricultural wealth of
the everglades at its back door, small
wonder that Miami has grown, as
shown by the last census report, 440
per cent.
Climate Rivals Riviera.
Blessed with a year-round climate
that rivals the Riviera, with . ever-
blowing trade winds that temper the
semi-tropical sun, Miami bids fair to
take rank with anything of its size in
the United States for development
along highly profitable and thorough
ly DusinessiiKe lines.
It is not surprising that a telegraph
company desires to bring the Barba
dos cables into Miami instead of Key
West, a hundred-odd miles south of
this point; but there is some diplo
matic hitch about England's control
of cables which has caused this prac
tically unheard-of situation of United
States war vessels blockading a United
fatates port in the time of peace.
Three years ago the money on de
posit in the banking institutions of
Miami amounted to something like
4. 000. 000; in the summer of 1919 to
$12,000,000: in March. 1920. to J17.000.
000. and today the amount is upward
of $20,000,000. Moreover, in permanent
population it has grown in ten years
from 5471 to 29,549. During the win
ter months there are nearly as many
traffic "cops" on Its well-paved streets
as there are in the national capital,
ten times its size.
One of the most important develop
ments of Miami beach is the inaugu
ration and completion of the Miami
aquarium and biological laboratory.
BT MARION B. PATTON.
(The following artilce on the Japanese
question, written by Marlon B. Patton of
South Pasadena, Cal., will be found of in
terest by all. There are two sldvs to every
question and Mr. Patton takes ttve position
that the Japanese gardeners are a neces
sity, rather than a menace.)
(Published by Kwquest.)
THERE is a great deal of publicity
lately concerning . the Japanese
question, the last phase of which
is designed to prohibit the orientals
from' leasing land. But in no such
article have I seen a practical sug
gestion as to who or what class of
people is to take the place of the
Japanese farmers.
Evidently the great majority of per
sons are grossly misinformed on the
subject and, though perfectly honest
in their belief that the Japanese are
a detriment to California, do not know
the relative value of the Japanese
farmer to our vegetable industry. I
refer especially to those writers and
committees of various clubs who have
been spreading anti-Japanese propa
ganda through the newspapers and
public meetings and circulating peti
tions for signers.
Should the people of California in
form themselves at first hand as to
the real conditions and what is re
quired to raise a crop of vegetables
or berries, their censure would turn
to praise for these most industrious,
peaceful and hard-working people.
But, whatever the sentiment may be.
the question remains: Who is to take
the place of the Japanese truck
farmer? How is the country to be
supplied with the small fruits, and
vegetables that require close-down
to-the-ground cultivation, constant
back bending and endless labor?
Will the American farmer grow
vegetables in quantities sufficient for
local consumption and for eastern
shipment? -
No.
Why?
Because the American farmer will
not subject himself to the conditions
and laborious efforts that are neces
sary to produce truck garden crops.
He is not fitted by nature nor by gen
erations of ancestors engaged in the
same occupation for such work. i
Art Is Inherited.
The Japanese are very skillful in
raising vegetables and have a thor
ough knowledge of truck or market
gardening. This knowledge has not
been obtained in America, however,
as the Japanese are raised from child
hood on exceedingly small farms.
many of the Japanese farms being
simply tiny plots of ground, nothing
more than terraces on hillsides, which
are farmed to obtain the greatest pro
duction in the smallest space. Thus it
is that the Japanese early learns the
methods by which to obtain the larg
est market garden crops on the least
ground. Our low prices now on vege
tables can be held only by this pres
ent system of Japanese intensive
farming.
Truck gardening requires a great
deal of small, painstaking hand work
which must be given Incessantly and
rapidly, and with every day a long
day and often going far into the night.
Then the bunching of vegetables for
market is by no means an easy task.
The Japanese can succeed on account
of whole families working in the field.
But if labor were to be hired at har
vest time for this class of crop the
price of our vegetables would be exorbitant.
Also it is necessary to transplant
many of the vegetable crops, such as
celery, cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes,
peppers and eggplants; and there are
a great many that need thinning, as
lettuce, turnips, beets, onions, etc. The
operation of caring for, growing and
harvesting all these crops is very te
dious, hard, and requires an endless
amount of patience. . Even then it is
more or less of a gamble, as the price
to be obtained for the crop is con
stantly changing and usually low.
Often the crop will not pay for its
care and harvesting.
Hardships Borne Stoically.
This makes the business very diffi
cult for our American people, not only
from the very nature of the labor it
necessitates, but because, after a crop
has been grown, it is most discour
aging to find that it will not pay for
harvesting and that the only thing to
be done is to disc it under for ferti
lizer, with nothing left but hard work
for one's pains. Yet this hardship is
borne stoically by the Japanese, be
cause from childhood they are taught
not to show their disappointment. And
their greatest honor is to die for
Worthy cause in war with an oppos
ing enemy, or in battle with the soil.
As regards the growing of straw
berries in California, it is conceded
that this commodity is grown ex
clusively by the Japanese farmers. The
reason for this lies in the fact that
the production of a strawberry crop
reauires the closest application of
hand work. To the ordinary consumer
of berries, strawberries are straw
berries, nothing more. Comparatively
few are familiar with the different va
riety and practically even c larger
percentage is totally ignorant of the
fact that it requires three years to
produce two crops of strawberries and
that but two years crops are grown
on the same plant. At the end of the
third year the- vines stop producing
and must be plowed up.
Although land rental, water for ir
rigating and the expense in harvest
ing are the main items to oe consia
ered. the difficult part of raising
strawberries lies in the fact that the
fruit grows so close to the ground
that it is necessary in putting in the
plants, caring for them and harvesting
the crop for tne larmer to assume tne
position of kneeling or a "squat," and
this is a position difficult for an
American to negotiate for any length
of time, for his legs are too long and
hl hack is too stiff.
Shouid our American farmer at-
COOS COUNTY HAS GREATEST WEALTH OF
WATERWAYS, PERHAPS, IN UNITED STATES
Stock, Catching:, Isthmus, Ross, Joe Xey, South, Pony, North, Millers, Kentuck, Romanes, Coal Bank, Iowa,
Haynes and Hatchet Sloughs Are All Arteries of Trade and Commerce, and of Great Value to Country.
tempt to undergo the ordeals of the
Japanese farmer he would find the
proposition exceedingly arduous and
our vegetables and small fruits would
be at prohibitive prices, due to their
scarcity, since the American farmer,
unused to intensive methods, will
grow but one crop in a year. The
Japanese, on the other hand, grow a
succession of crops.
Do Japs R.nln Land?
Both in vegetables and berries the
Japanese produce large crops by their
periect system or planting, fertilizing
and caring for the plants with copious
irrigation and painstaking cultivation
and by this method are also able to
farm poorer land than, the American
farmer.
And this leads me to the statement
which is so often made that the Japa
nese improverish the land upon which
they farm. Thi-3 statement is erron
eous inasmuch as the Japanese farm
ers use immense quantities of fertil
izer. They will in many cases use as
high as a ton of fertilizer to the acre
for the ordinary crop. The minimum
amount for vegetable crops runs from
400 to 600 pounds an acre; for po
tatoes, from 500 to 1000 pounds an
acre and for berries, 500 to 1000
Pounds an acre. One farmer whom
I know used 2000 pounds an acre for
strawberries. At the present prices
of fertilizer this means an enormous
expenditure outside the regular ex
penses that are required to produce
a crop.
If I have seemed to draw a line be
tween the American farmer and the
Japanese farmer, it is because I have
desired to show the great difference
between the American farmer and the
market gardener. There is no better
class or farmers .in the world than
our California farmers, but it must be
understood that our American farm
ers are not truck gardeners. The
American iarmer will grow and pro
uutc io perieciion large rield crops
on a large scale, such as alfalfa.
wneat, oats, barley. rye. beans,
Kras&es, corn ana rodder crops; also
citrus ana deciduous fruits, in fact
everytnmg that can be handled by
our improved methods and machin
ery, but even as expert and willing
as we all know them to be. r.eitv,r
the farm ens nor their sons, their
aaugnters nor their wives, care to
wc cquai to undergoing the or-
ceai or market gardening, neither by
inclination, auty, or choice. And I
nave yet to hear the first Amorlnn
iarmer say he will undertake to on
erate a market earden of snfriUni
size to even approximately supply
vegetables for local consumption or
iur eastern snipment.
Salaries Too Allnrlns;.
Therefore, should the Jananese h
exciuaea irora the market garden In
nusiry, irom where, and when, and
irom wnom are we to receive o
supply?
The salaries for American lihr rn-
American young men in every line of
uusmess ana industry in our country
are so alluring that there are not
oniy lew, put there are none, who are
willing to operate a market garden
And notwithstanding all the modern
Improvements and machinery they
win not m most cases so much as
work on the farm, even whero
are free from responsibility, invest
ment, etc.
Should the Japanese be force frnm
the farms which they now occupy, the
Mine condition would nrpvall her.
as in the east, where.the young men
nave given up tne farms and gone to
tne city because there the .salaries
art, large wim put eight hours' work
a aay. m consequence nothing i
grown for market, the older persons
remaining on the farms raising only
sufficient for themselves. And with a
sieaauy aecreaslng supply and in
creasing demand the price of fo6d
win continue to advance
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" uauaueBu are tier, I nnv n
ready and willing to do the work; all
they ask is the chance. We need th.
vegetables and small fruits they know
now. 10 raise, and there is absolutely
vf uur cisc to supply tnem. We can
not anord to do without them.
Manitoba. Aids Hat-Making.
WINNIPEG, Man. The Manitoh,
government has published a 32-page
bulletin, "Lessons in Millinery," which
contains iiv illustrations and de
scribes the operations in hat making.
It is not a book of styles but a pam
phlet of instructions in hat making.
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(This is the Slet of a series of articles
by Mr. Bennett on Oregon waterways. The
22d will follow at an early date: presum-
bly the Sunday following this article.
Readers of The Oregonlan would do well
to aava these articles, for when concluded
they will present the first authentic tabu
lation of out rivers, lakes and creeks.)
AV1XG gone over all of the
.streams in Coos county, it only
remains to 'make the tabula-
ions, except that some remarks seem
necessary in relation to the lakes and
sloughs in that county.
No other section in the west, per
haps no other section in the United
States, has such a wealth of these
waterways in so small an area as
Coos.
With two exceptions, Iowa and
Hatchet sloughs, these arteries cen
ter on Coos bay, from North Bend to
Marshfield, and radiate in every di
rection, save to the west, where the
Pacific lies, for a distance of some 20
miles.
Every one of them Is an artery of
trade and commerce, and all are used I
for some purpose.
All told, there are 15 of these
unique waterways, named as follows:
Stock, Catching, Isthmus. Ross, Joe
Ney, South, Pony, North, Haynes, Mil
ler's, Kentuck, Romane s and . Coal
Bank, and the two a distance from
the coast Iowa and Hatchet.
The reader will remember that the
Coos bay section was not connected
with the world generally by wire
until the Willamette-Pacific was built
four or five years ago. A number of
years before that some California cap
italists constructed a railway from
Marshfield to Myrtle Point, and this
road was supposed to be but a starter
for the outside world, but it never got
far enough to indicate its prophetic
sounding name Coos Bay, Roseburg
& Eastern.
Some 13 years ago this road was
bought by the Harriman interests and
is operated as a separate property as
of yore.
Coos bay was then one of the re
mote places of the world until quite
recently. But in spite of the inac
cessibility of the place. Coos county
grew and prospered beyond many of
our sister counties on the great trunk
lines and much of this was due to
the splendid systems of boat service
on the sloughs.
Indeed, it would be well worth the
while of every Oregonian to v'sit the
beautiful and prosperous cities of
Marshfield and North Bend and see
what the people of that section ac
complished by their-own exertions
and their own capital.
As to the lakes of Coos, they are
as unique as tne sloughs, but both
Douglas and Lane share in the pos
session of this string of waterway
lying close to the ocean and reaching
from the Siuslaw river on the north
to Coos bay on the south.
There is in Coos, in the very south
west corner, bordering almost on the
ocean and extending into Curry
county, a small body of water called
New lake, but I am not prepared to
say much about it. I have passed
close to it several times but never
heard it described. On the map it
seems to show an area of about 160
acres.
Just above Coos bay, about a mile
from the ocean, there are three un
named lakes, each one probably cov
ering 80 to 160 acres. But I think
these are shallow bodies of water and
not stocked with fish.
A mile north of the upper end of
these is Beale's lake, about three
quarters of a mile from the ocean.
The railroad travels it on the east. It
covers about -00 acres, but I do not
think it is a resort for the brothers
of the angle.
A half-mile further nbrh is Butter
field lake, covering about SO acres,
and the Saunders lake. 300 acres.
These are directly on the railroad but
are not, I think, noted for their
fishing.
About two and a quarter miles ea6t
of the latter lake is the western ex
tremity of Ten Mile, or Johnson lake,
and connected with that by a short
channel is North lake, and next to
this is Kel lake, both of the latter
reaching over into Douglas county.
The Coos people think the trout
fishermen can find no better sport in
the United States than can be had in
these three lakes, and I am inclined
to say they come mighty close to the
truth in that statement. I will not
describe these lakes, as 1 have already
done that.
I will finish Coos by saying there
are 151 named creeks, with an esti
mated length of 579 miles, and 1029
unnamed streams, with an estimated
length of 2000 miles, making a total
of 2579 miles.
10,000 NEW YORKERS ATTEND
CONCERT FOR SIR THOMAS
Lipton Says He Has Just One Objection to Americans, the Boats They
Build Are Too Good; New Irish Tenor Signed for U. S. Tour.
(Continued From First Page
Shelley, copies of which were pre
sented to the guests.
A beautiful flag of the city was
presetted to Sir Thomas with an ad
dress by Mayor Hylan. His friend.
Lord Dewar of London, was among
the speakers at the supper.
It would be difficult to express in
words ajiything that could convey
what has been done and is constantly
done by City Chamberlain Berolz
heimer in behalf of music What is
not accomplished by the city is done
by himself as a private citizen and
to hta generosity, supported by the
willingness of the mayor, the people
have derived immeasurable benefits.
Police Officer Eschenberger is an
enthusiast in all that concerns music
and has been of great assistance in
arranging the musical programmes of
many of these affairs, including the
music provided at the Waldorf-Astoria
on Tuesday evening.
"Irish Tenor" Is Signed.
Interest in Tom Burke, the young
tenor who Is to make his first Ameri
can tour this season under the direc
tion of William Morris, is at a white
heat. Like John McCormack, he made
his first sensation in the company of
Melba in "La Boheme" at Covent
Garden, which revives memories of
McCormack's early days under Oscar
Hammerstein.
With his first success, the London
press and public hailed Burke as "the
Irish tenor, and following the an
nouncement of William Morris that
he had signed the singer for an
American tour, it was not strange
that the American newspapers cabled
the news of his Irish extraction.
In this regard the London Graphic
states: "Mr. Thomas Burke, whose
triumph at his Covent Garden debut
is the - talk of London, is not a
Lancastershiro man, as everybody
seems to think. He was born in a
northern town, but he is an Irishman
and proud of the fact. Moreover, al
though he is a tenor, he is modesty
personified."
Started Study at IS.
Apart from the musical' education
received at the hands of the Jesuits,
Burke's life was anything but event
ful. When his voice changed hs
thought the end of a musical career
was in sight, but at IS he began to
study singing and theory with Dr.
Richard Mort, a local musician of
his town, and be offered his services
as chorister to the Turner opera com
pany, only to be rejected after they
heard him sing.
His determination stood him well
in hand and he continued to study
and joined the Halle choir. He at
tracted the attention of people who
sent him to London for study and
from there he was sent to Italy,
where he studied with Ernesto Colli,
which resulted in a debut in Milan
as the duke in "Rigoletto." and there
after he became a favorite in Italy.
He will be among the first attrac
tions of the new season, making his
debut at the Hippodrome in October.
Dog Has Four Ages.
A dog attains its full growth at the
age of 2, is old at 10, and seldom lives
more than 20 years.
SAGE TEA DANDY
TO
It's Grandmother's Recipe to
Bring Back Color and
Lustre to Hair.
Tou can turn gray, faded hair beau
tifully dark and lustrous almost over
night If you'll get a bottle of "Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound" at any
drug store. Millions of bottles of this
old famous sage tea recipe, improved
by the addition of other Ingredients,
are sold annually, says a well-known
druggist here, because it darkens the
hair so naturally and evenly that no
one can tell it has been applied.
Those whose hair is turning gray or
ecoming faded have a surprise await
ing, them, because arter one or two
applications the gray hair vanishes
and your locks become luxuriantly
dark and beautiful.
This is the age of youth. Gray
haired, unattractive folks aren't
wanted around, so get busy with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound
tonight and you'll be delighted with
your dark, handsome hair and your
youthful appearance .wiu-in a few
days. -Adv.-
Hi in iimn
U & B. 1920
"I ended corns forever
in this scientific way"
Millions have said tbat about Blue-jay.
Others tried it and told others the same
story. So the use has spread, until corn
troubles have largely disappeared.
If you have a corn you can settle it to
night And find the way to end every corn.
Apply liquid Blue-jay or a Blue-jay
plaster. The pain will stop.
Soon the whole corn will loosen and
come out
Think what folly it is to keep corns, to
pare or pad them, or to use the old harsh
treatments.
Here is the new-day way, gentle, sure
and scientific. It was created by a noted
chemist in this world-famed laboratory.
It is ending millions of corns by a touch. ,
The relief is quick, and it ends them
completely.
Try it tonight. Corns are utterly need
less, and this is the time to prove it
Buy Blue-jay from your druggist
Blue jay
Plaster or Liquid
The Scientific Corn Ender
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