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TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 10, 1921
ESTABLISHED BV HEN'BY L. PITTOCK.
Published by The Oreeronlan Publishing Co,
blxtn Street. Portland, Oregon.
C A. HORDE.N. E. B. PIPER,
Manaser. Editor.
The Oreionian li a member of the Asao
elated Press. The Associated Press la
clualvery entitled to the um (or publication
or all newa dlsDatchea credited to It or no:
otberwlae credited In thla pape and alao
tin local newa published herein. All rignia
ot publication of special dispatches bereln
are also reserved.
Statement ef the Ownership, Management,
Circulation, Etc Required by the Act
( Consraa of A as tut t. liS.
Of 8undar Ore son lan. published each
Sunday at Portland. Oregon, for April
1, llt-1. Stat of Oregon. County ot Mult
nomah. Before me. a notary public In and for
Tne state and county aloresald. personally
appeared C A. Morden. who, having- been
duly sworn according- to law, deposes and
ays that be Is the manager of the Sunday
Oregonlan and that the following Is to the
best of hi knowledge and belief a true
statement of the ownership, management
land, if a dally paper, the circulation)
etc, of the aforesaid publication for the
Cat shown In the above caption, required
Jy the act of August 24, 1012, embodied In
section 443, Postal Ui and Regulations,
to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the
publisher, editor, managina- editor, and
business manager are: ' -
Publisher, Oregonlan Publishing Co..
C A. Morden. Manager, Portland. Oregon.
Editor, E. B. Piper. Portland, Oregon.
Business manager, W. E. Hartmus. Port
land, Oregon.
2. That the owners are (Give names and
addresses of the Individual owners, or if a
corporation, give Its name and .the names
and addresses of stockholders owning or
boldfng 1 per cent or more of the total
amount of stock):
Owner, Oregonlan Publishing Co., Inc.,
Portland, Oregon. -
Stockholders: H. U Plttock Estate.
Portland, Oregon; The Scott Company,
Portland, Oregon.
3. That the known bondholders, mort
gagees and other security holders owning
or holding 1 per cent or more of total
amount of bonds, mortgages, or other se
curities are: ill there are none, so state.)
Nona .
4. That the two paragraphs next above
giving the names of the owners, stock-
sons for leaving" the initiative aa to
peace and an association of nations
to the secretary of state as the agent
of th- president, as was the Intent of
the constitution, for much care by
one man is needed to straighten out
the tangled threads. If the precipi
tancy and self-assertion of the senate
should make the tangle worse and
should injure the nation's interests,
the people would administer as se
vere a rebuke as they gave President
Wilson. Not many years have passed
since the people stood behind a pres
ident and rebuked a reactionary and
obstructive senate and they would be
ready to administer discipline again
if occasion should require. They
will not view with tolerance the spec
tacle of a band of irreconcilable sen
ators trying to pull President Hard
ing around and dictating to him,
They know what they want and they
look to the president and the senate
to work together in getting it for
them.
which may be presumed to contain I of the country given by Macdonald the picturesque as well as the prac
important messages will be reprinted to Glynn and by the latter conveyed I tical in language. "Lockup" , is a
VICTIMS or SWINDLERS.
A revelation growing out of the
killing of one swindler of national
reputation by another at a Florida
health resort the other day was
that the gang to which these men
belonged did not prey on the rela
tively poor, whose envy might have
been expected to b a vulnerable
point, but that they confined them
selves almost wholly to the well-to-do
and the apparently successful.
They played for large stakes and
they often won. In one scheme, the
classical wire-tapping game, they
r-ad fleeced one individual of $60,000.
From another they got $50,000. It
is not particularly surprising that
they avoided arrest. Part of the
plan was to incriminate the victim
in advance by making him party to
an openly dishonest transaction. The
from time to time, while newspapers I to the government' at Washington
will not. It is a disquieting thought I hastened the expedition under Com
that, unless some inventor comes to I modore Matthew Calbraith Perry
the rescue with a process for pre- which visited Japan in 1853 and ex
eerving newspapers, their use in re- acted a treaty of commercial rela
search will be denied to students and t:ons from the hermit empire.
historians, and vast quantities of Ranald Macdonald was twenty
valuable material will be forever one years old when he shipped from
lost. I New York and twenty-five at the
Ambitious inventors may profit by time of his delivery from Imprison-
knowledge that it is not as easy as merit His feat marks him as one of
it may seem. The problem has en- I the truly remarkable characters in
gaged the attention of experts for a early Oregon history. Although the
good many years. Tet it will be romantic aspect of the adventure has
worth while to find a 'solution. A been adequately handled, there will
good many historical controversies be for the historian especial value in
now pending would be resolved easily I the authentic account of his experi-
enough if the world had always had ences as told by himself. There is
newspapers and if a way of preservr I further significance in the fact that
ing them had always beer, known. I the manuscript is being edited, as to
Japanese facts, by a Japanese pro-
mere transfer of the act to the thing
suggested by it. ' "Calaboose" is al
most pure" Spanish and is a relic of
our relations with the Spaniards in
the times of discovery and occupa
tion of the American continent. As
a substitute for "dungeon'V it is his
torically interesting and its diminish
ing use is - suggestive of modern
American ideas of what a prison
ought to be.
But "penitentiary," which the cor.
ized a state and instead of choosing
a single - governor they elected an
executive committee of three. Nor I
can it be said that they were stimu
lated by desire to enjoy the pecu
niary emoluments of office. Mem
bers of Oregon's first legislature re
ceived $1.25 per diem and subscribed
the amounts of their stipends to the
fund from which it was to be paid.
Four constables were chosen and
four justices of the peace,as'well as
supreme judge, sheriff, clerk, a ma-
The Listening Post.
Code of Gea and Joe la Solved.
MR. BONNEVILLE has qualified
for membership in. our select
sleuth club by sending In the first
solution of Joe's cryptic message to
Gen, as published In The Listening
Post a week ago. This secret code,
displayed so that all might read In a
department store appointment book.
fessor of the University of Tokyo,
who is also Japan's commissioner of
historical interpretation. The prog
ress made by the Japanese in study
of western culture, long hampered
man of presumed respectability who
holders and security holders. If any. con- I had bribed a suDDOsed telegraph OP-
S-T.ot n,'3Lth' ""A. of "o"010 "a erator, for example, is not in a posi
books of the company, but also in cases tion to complain just because the
where the stockholder or security holder latter turns out to be not a real op-:,P,T.nrihnh.rdhu,c,arVB,r:,ay-
erator. but only a member of the
tion. the name of the person or corporation gang.
for whom such trustee Is acting. Is given: It is this Tjhase of swindling that
XTSZnSSi". " so difficult to combat and
edge and belief aa to the circumstances that furnishes a lesson to those who
and conditions under which stockholders would keep out of the net. Nine
lZS times out of ten there must be desire
tees, bold stock and securities in a capacity to get something for nothing, or to
ether than that of a bona fide owner, and rot anmpthlnfir diRhonestlv. as a back-
thls affiant has no reason to believe that ., j th- Mwindlera work The
any other person, association, or corpora- feTOUnn lor the swindlers' worn, ine
tion has any Interest, direct or Indirect. In ancient greengoods game flourishes
the said stock, bonds or other securities because there are individuals here
,h" "ha.rth:,adverlg.l"n,umber of conle. d the Vh Would pass counter-
f each ixsue of this publication sold or feit money if they believed they
distributed, through the mails or other-1 r.nnlri rln no without .belne causrht.
mnsVH,' -ick engineer swindle involves
i 07.1)17. fThis Information is required from I willingness to take advantage Of the
uiiy puDiicauoua omy.) i misfortune or anotner. xo man or.
c. a. mordbn, sound morals ever tried to buy a
Sworn to and subscribed he for- m. this gold brick. The polished confidence
1st -day of April, 1921. man evades arrest because those
(a, commission empire. May 25, 19J3!) wnose f1" he fattens on. are of a
-' r-nv rmrriiTin. I piece with himself.
Average for months ending Ponzl and 620 Per Cent MlI,e'
March 3. 1921 07017 I played the same tune on a different
Armm tar March, i2l 105.0991 string. They had a scheme to "beat"
someone else and they made their
A NATIONAL FLOWER.
There is material for a new con
troversy in the effort to obtain adop.
tion of the aster as the national
flower of the United States. The by the circumstance that there were
particular form, aster spectabilis, no words in their language in which
which is proposed is common vlr- to represent western religious and
tually to all North America. It Is philosophic thought, has been mar-
i elated to the Chinese aster, but is velous when it is considered that this
not found in China. The aster fam- has been accomplished in a period
ily is distinguished by adaptability of less than seventy-five years.
to various conditions of soil and cli- I Macdonald landed on the shores
mate and it has a long season of of one of the Japanese islands in
bloom. It is likely also to be com- 11847; In two years.he had so far eau
mended by its name, which means I cated his jailors In the spirit of west-
star, a symbol of especial signlfl- ern methods that when Glynn threat
cance to Americans who know the ! ened- them they knew better than to
history and the meaning of ' their I attempt resistance, as they previously
flag. I would have done, and by the time
The states meanwhile continue to I Perry visited the country interpreters
choose floral emblems, Tennessee who had been taught by Macdonald
with the white passion flower" having were available for the promotion of
been the latest to record its prefer- negotiations between the American
ence. This flower and the Oregon I commodore and the Japanese au
grape of Oregon are among the few I thorities which resulted in the open
which are distinctive of the com- ing of the ports of the country to
monwealths by which they-have been commercial intercourse with the
chosen. . The mayflower of Massachu- I world
setts is another, the poppy of Call- I Macdonald was, as has been said,
forma a fourth and the pine cone a figure in the heroic age in tne nis-
of Maine a fifth. But most of the tory of Oregon. There were united
other states have been content with I in him the enterprise of his fron
emblems that would be as suitable I tiersman father and the fateful
to a good many other states. The bravery of his Chinook grandfather.
rhododendron, carnation, rose, gol-t It was Concomly who vigorously op
denrod and violet each has been I posed the surrender of Astoria and
chosen by more than one state. The I who offered the support of an army
dogwood of Virginia more nearly I of his braves to defend the post
approaches perfection In the Pacific against a British warship in the war
northwest than in the southern of 1812. Concomly never quite nil
Atlantic states and is found in nearly derstood the reason for what he sup-
all the states of the union. The I posed was surrender and his confi-
Kansas sunflower is common not dence In the "Boston men" was sadly
only to the entire prairie region, shaken by the outcome of this affair,
but to the southwest, and the Indian
paiuiuruBn oi Wyoming is tne prop- i ioHtf BURROUGHS ON FREE VERSE,
erty ot me enure west.
In thirty of the forty-five states
jor, three captains and a legislative
resDOndent also mentions. Is not re- ! committee of nine. It is recorded
culiar to Texas as a synonym for that fifty-two sympathizers with the yielded, some highly Interesting met
"state prison." It is almost univer- government movement attended the sages. Mr. Bonneville's letter reads:
sally employed elsewhere, even by Champoeg meeting. A little more "Relative to Lipman's 'Note Book,'
people who know that penitentiaries than half that number of offices I'm not Joe nor Gen, but I have their
have little to do with penitence, were created. message deciphered (I hope). V and
"Two bits" Is not the prevailing word - Yet It will not be said that their letter following are dummies, 'square'
for twenty-five cents, even in the honors were not fairly won. It is true le end of words preceding the letter
west, and fresh eggs are not known that the magistrates and constables which 'square' follows, thus:
as "yard eggs" except in a few locali- had nothing much to do for a long 'Gen: Atut rursquare eedul Hush
ties. The fact is that provincialisms time afterward, but it is also true otutelul Rursquareoomum 20 Joe.
Scribes.
By Grace E. Hall.
The
write
The absolute good taste and the
which have chosen emblems action Profound sincerity of John Bur-
Lot speech in the United States are I that the legislature levied no taxes
rapidly taking care of themselves and that even its successor, chosen
with destruction of frontiers, with in the following year, when the pop
dissemination of standard literature ulation had been more than doubled
through a universal mail service and I by the noteworthy immigration In
particularly as the result of travel I 1843, resorted only to Indirect means
between, communities, indulged in by 1 of compelling citizens to contribute
an ever increasing proportion of the to the public treasury. If, said the
people, I lawmakers of 1844, there are those
The correspondent wants to know I among us who don't want to be gov.
'which speaks American the Texan I erned, let them have it their own
or the New Yorker"? He cites cer- way. But the benefits of govern
tain census renorts which show that I ment. were withdrawn from non
the percentage of native Americans contributors to it and the security of Bonneville's solution fail?
is greater in Texas than It is in New their persons and property was left
York. But the issue is not solvable to the mercy of chance. Non-par
on a basis of percentage. Both speak ticipation in the responsibilities and
"American" and by the same token the burdens of government was thus
both speak English. Isolated exam- made unpopular in the' simplest pos-
ples prove nothing. The body of the I aible way,
l-.teratures of both nations Is, the I It is a long way from New Jersey
Resolves itself Into
"'Gen: At Reed Hotel Room 20.' "
A search of the directories falls to
disclose any Reed hotel, but there is
a Read hotel. Looking on the Read
hotel register any guests for room 20
fail to appear, but there are two
names one Joe Mallen and the other
J. Gannon of Dennison, Mont. that
rented rooms there the latter part of
March. Now, does Reed hotel refer
to some other Dlace. or does Mr.
Newcomers to Portland are Mrs. L. S.
and her mother of the Campbell-Hill
hotel. Mrs. L, S., recently of Indiana,
relates the story of her favored real
estate agent. In the rainbow-like
same and the SDoken languages are I to Orerron and n. fpirlv lonr time chae for the vacant home treasure
substantially alike. In the end words since the Issues of offices and taxes I sne has met flocks of assorted sales- But tnere ro men who meet l
scribe shall write and
throughout the years.
Of doctrines, old and new, of Ideals,
works and plays.
Fancies and faiths, religions, and of
fears
Of superstitions, alwayi, through
his days;
And sometimes truth Is in what he
Indites, -
And then again 'tis nonsense that
he writes.
But here and there some mind con
ceives a scheme
To spread a new philosophy by pen.
That shall arouse another's better
a dream.
Thus shedding cheer upon the paths
of men:
Uplifting minds that, left alone, might
grope
In depths abysmal, nor find a goal.
And those who write of joy and love
and hope
Shall serve-as real physicians of the
soul.
"TIs not enough to find a better way '
For self alone it must be freely
.shared;
The man who thinks to live hit little
day
Apart and independent, ne'er has
fared
One-half so well as he who, having
less.
Still proffered of his scanty earthly
store
To those who, heavy laden anad dis
tressed, ,
Paused In their passing by his hum
ble door.
Life Is no complicated, gruesome plot.
Meant to enslave and handicap and
blind;
rlth
which commend themselves, by pro- I were first debated in Oregon, but I men, but wants to award the rubber
priety, or by picturesqueness, or I we gather from these historical I toothpick to a retired railway brake-
mere habit, will prevail, but It Is un- events that human nature in various man. Mrs. L. S. pithily observes that
likely that the language of either times and places is pretty much the real estate must pay or this man
country will ever depart far from I same. I could not have left his big railway
a common standard. Our few pro-1 " I income,
vandalisms but add a temporary mv. nf nictiireanue. I be endowed with a suDer-Derceotion. To plain nhllosoohy:
piquancy to our language, without crcuit rider is known in recent Meth- tor as soon as his client explained
that thought.
And face it with a dogged air, to
find
Just why It yields not to their bent
and will.
And curse it when It still persists
to hold
hen reason,
still
doing it harm enough to cause seri
ous concern.
odlst
FOUNDING THE PERFECT STATE.
The citizens of Tavistock, a small
but highly organized community in
New Jersey, have laid the foundation
for a perfect state, reminiscent, too,
of the earliest government in Oregon.
At a recent election held In Tavi-
centenary literature, but it that she wanted a small bungalow or " vi. ... s..ir,, .....
should be noted that "passing" is a I house in a nice neighborhood (Mr. I Through Its own petty hurt then
loudly shouts
Its maledictions and
relative term, since it is reported that L. S. works for a local bank) he
there are more than 11,000 charges I caught her thought at once.
which have not more than two points I "l have Just the place for you," he
to a circuit which Is to say that the gurgled as he steered them into his
ministers in charge have no more aut0 and tne Bun of hope rose hSh
than two parishes to care for and A they 8ped toward their elusive
are not compeueo. to wanner iar , ha .,,.,, ,h(l h..tiB of
doubts.
Ha earthy
afield as the old-timers did. Nearly
61 per cent of all Methodist rural
FACTS WHICH SO WE SENATORS
FORGET.
If the United States senate con
tinues to be as "cocky" as Mark Sul-
dupes their partners in the transac
tion. Swindling will largely go out
of fashion when there is general
recognition of the economic fact
ifvan says it is. a public rebuke Is in having that can be had for less than
More for it. If the republican lead- face value nowadays. Want of cupid
ers actually contemplate an attempt lty and honesty are an excellent pro-
. . .uiM treaty ana tection against the get-rich-quick
Suc ut uauuiis, mey win per- i man's snares.
mn exultation at tnetr victory over
Iresident Wilson and vannfni do-
sire) to destroy his work to ov-errom IEWH his.
their reason and their sense of duty Recent researches made under the
to the country. I direction of the New York public
The Versailles treaty cannot be library, in the hope of discover-
has been taken by the legislature.
In four the people have voted in
formally and in the remainder se
lection has. been left to the schools.
Congress has been frequently impor
tuned to designate a nattonal flower,
but has failed to act. If it has been
waiting for a nomination appropriate
both in Us symbolism and the uni
roughs are nowhere better exempli
fied than in the last article written
by the great naturalist before his
death, which occurred on March 29.
It was a scathing criticism of so
called free verse, printed In Current
Opinion, and it will appeal strongly
to all who deprecate the effort to
versality of its habitat, the aster , tru ,petry fm hf
or star-flower, will seem to have
solved the problem.
scrapped without the consent of the ing a method of preserving news-
signatories, which include Germany paper files against the ravages
and all the nations which fought of time, suggest the importance of
against Germany other than the the newspaper as an original record
United States. The only nation which of historical events. It is because
wants to scrap It is Germany; to the there were no newspapers in the
other signatories It Is the guaranty olden days that there are now so
of the fruits of their victory and the manv rais in the annals of those
charter of their security and liberty, times. Though the number of offi
Though some are not satisfied with cial documents grows apace, and
some or its terms, they do not want though the Congressional Record
to destroy it. for they know that by and other records are always with
so doing they would lose more than us, the modern historian seeks con
they could possibly gain by a new ar- stantly In newspaper files for the
rangement. The American people object of his desire. And here, if
will condemn a policy which would he is patient, he is almost certain
please only their enemies and would to find his reward,
be resented by their friends. For every conscious contemporary
Though there is no prospect that recorder of significant events there
the senate will ratify the treaty, any are a thousand who contribute to
peace settlement that the United the making of history without real
State makes cannot be made without izing the value of that which they
regard to it. By th treaty Germany are doing. The formal diaries of
is bound to do certain things; It can- citizens like Pepys and the note
not make a conflicting bargain with books of statesmen like Thomas
this country. If that were attempted Jefferson bear a certain quality of
the United States would be in the in- having been weighted and measured,
vidious position of standing with as if In the knowledge that they
Germany against the allies for an- were to be read by posterity; where
nulment of at least parts of their as we ourselves prefer to make our
treaty. Many of its terms have al- own appraisements of current events,
teady been executed and others are The temper of a community, the in
inT'eourse of execution. The allies timate aspects of the problems that
will not consent to undo that which confront It, the seeming trivialities
has been done, though the German 0f the moment, are revealed in sum
wastebacket yawns for the scraps to In th transient records rontemno-
which the militarists would fain re- rarily called news. It is the task of
duce the treaty. The most that we the philosopher to assemble and in-
can properly ask is that it be revised terpret them in the perspective that
in -those particulars wherein our na- they attain with the passing of time,
tional interests are injuriously af- it will be discoverable, for illus-
fected. That treaty is a fixed fact tration, that the minds of men and
with which we have to reckon. women have been occupied with
Nor can the league of nations be very similar problems ever since
strapped as easily as the glib irrecon- their acts and opinions first began
cllables assume. That, too, is a. fixed, to be regarded as news. The musty
faet, over forty nations already be- tiles are always revealing in ways
ing members. It is In operation, has that are most unexnected. The cur-
porformed some services and is per- rent agitation for and against the i limited to that obtained from occa
forming others, some of great mo- fashions adopted by women is shown j sional shipwrecked mariners, who
ment. It cannot be scrapped by a to have been duplicated in previous were always imprisoned when
decision of the United States not to periods. Even in the early thirties, as t caught, were sometimes maltreated
EARLY OREGON AND JAPAN.
Announcement that the Eastern
Washington Historical society is pre
paring to publish a manuscript by
Ranald Macdonald is a subject of
concern to all who are Interested in
the history of the later years of the
fur-trade period in the Pacific north
west. It is more than that, how
evera reminder of the part that a
man of Oregon birth played in In
troducing education in new-world
methods into the ancient kingdom of
Japan.
The story has beeri told as a ro
mance by Mrs. Dye in "Macdonald
of Oregon," but it Is hardly likely
that it will ever seem less romantic
when related by the man himself
who participated in one ' of the
strangest adventures ever recorded.
The very circumstances of his birth
marked Ranald Macdonald as a man
apart. His father was a trader with
the North West company at Fort
George, near Astoria, and afterward
with the Hudson's Bay company at
Fort Colville. and his mother was
the daughter of Chief Concomly of
the Chinooks, whose friendship for
the white traders In the early times
is one of the pleasing recollections
of our history. Young Macdonald
ran away from home as a youth,
crossed the continent to New York,
no mean achievement in Itself in the
forties, and at length shipped from
that port on board a whaler bound
for the Pacific ocean. At Honolulu
he reshipped for a voyage to the
northern Pacific, presumably under
an arrangement with the whaling
skipper that he would be set ashore
on the coast of Japan. Previous ac
cidental relations between Japan and
the western coast of North America
may have furnished a background
for the kindly reception that he re
ceived, although he was held in cap
tivity. Among the pupils in the first
school at Fort Vancouver were three
Japanese sailors who had been cast
away on the western coast of what
is now the state of Washington. But
Japan had elected a policy of isola
tion, after having expelled the for
eign missionaries early in the seven
teenth century, and contemporaneous
knowledge of foreign peoples was
estate. Burroughs calls It "shredded
trose." but a good deal of it was not
even passable prose, as, for example, I rather than emolument that mo
a so-called "poem by Carl Sand
berg, an extract from which follows:
stock to incorporate the colony as churches are stations, whereas half
a century ago nearly an were cir-
j-.iitta A n.iv inniintlnn et nnntnral
I -- " " I .u . n i. i . v
the charter was prepared just nine- duty is partly responsible for the ''"' " '"'"'',t
teen offices were nrovided for. new order. The modern minister f?uM eh day as he cam off
Evervone is haoov now in Tavistock, is regarded as a community builder, - a- wnre wo.u,a
rr-.. " " i , v.i. B well us n roiiirloii!. Rt-rvsnt- and it DO tne 'a?-1 Dome ot an ex-outcner
x nuae w iiu tauuui mo iuavvi ui i-hici i o i ,
of Dolice or members of the village Is one of the purposes of the com- or garDage man.
council are fain to be content with munity drive to provide assistance
. . - ... m I U - a.-.!., mnn m n it ka flit. I
JOBS as healtn omc3rs or justices oi , I After several sleepless nights Mns.
the peace. But the point is mat no x,..u c E- Hickman vows she can tell of
Citizen has Deen neglected. ine news i"W"t "J"1" " '""""'J the meaneat nerann In Portland Hick
-now. mit ,f.rn- t .i-h. ished in the west; it survives rcost the meanest person in Portland, hick
and other details of ways and means. largely in the Ohio valley, from
But these are inconsequential mat- which a large numDer or tne oia
ters. Office means preferment and time circuit riders of the west were
it suits us to believe that it is honor recruitea
Life is all kind and lovely: Fruits and
flowers
Seasons and change and growth and
winds and rain;
The peaceful passing of the measured
hours
Upon their courses, ne'er to come
u its I n
wonder, for when they arrived it was The tree,, tn, hills, the creatures in
the little home he was to show, con
fiding that he had long had his eye
on the place as his ideal. And no
tivates the better class of politicians. I The report of the department of
T.' i o-Ii t ir ..Aai-a a vtn tViln sni-ino tint I a orl.ii1)ii rA r.voallnv triar thff aver-
Americans iri Oregon, then residing age price of plow land in the United sponsible, and it Is evidently one of Andi need.M 0f the awful havoo
Is manager for the telephone
company and his path has had many
more thorns than roses since the de
cision of the public service commis
sion awarding his company an In
crease n rates. Many persona seem
to want to hold him personally re-
the wood-
There is no hint of friction in the
plan.
In all of nature's schemes there Is
but good.
And peace and order save for war
ring man.
The gifts for all, laid at the gate of
life
Man swift appropriates through
cunning stealth:
Adds to Ms own and other lives the
- strife
That breeds like maggots In the
greed for wealth;
Scorns, too. the universal brother-
thought.
That must have been the keynote
of our birth.
join it. nor are its members likely t-ne old newspaper tells, people were
to consent to its dissolution unless writine- to the editor to tell him
the United States presents a superior that the race was on its way to
substitute, or to agree to Its recon- nerdition because of the prevailing
Ftruction unless convinced that the immodesty of feminine attire. Just I in the first instance have turned
change would, be an improvement, now a relative scantiness of apparel sailor and in the next have conceived
and occasionally aided in returning
to their homes.
The wonder is that Ranald Mac
donald, who was half Indian, should
They will also want assurance that alarms the pessimists. In 1868 or
tny agreement made by the United thereabouts there was an outcry
states is supported. Dy the whole against the stuffiness of garments
treaty-making power before they of the mode, that was held to be sin
yield a point, for they had a sad f ul because of that which it susr-
experience with a president and gested rather than by reason of any
senate which work at cross pur- thing that It revealed. We are able
poses. to deduce from these circumstances
All the complications growing out I that mankind may not be headed
ef the war cannot be ended by a res- down hill after all, else It would
olution declaring that peace with have reached the pit bottom long
Germany is restored. Germany owes ego. The alarmist stands convicted
us a bill fr destruction of American at least of want of originality. He
life and property at sea the very ofr
fense for which we declared war. It
is small by comparison with Ger
many's bill to the allies, but not to
be despised, especially as its payment
would be virtual justification for our
making war. If congress were to
declare peace before Germany had
acknowledged the debt and agreed
to-pay, it would throw away one of
the means by which payment can be
exacted the state of war and it
would sacrifice the advantage to be
gained through co-operation with
the allies. Germany is so reluctant
to pay that our chances will be far
better If we pull together with the
other creditors than if we act Inde
pendently and we-shall avoid a dis
pute with the allies as to priority.
All these circumstances axe rea
ls but the replica from a pattern
that was made in early time.
So it will be a hundred, and a
thousand years from now. Yet those
who are concerned lest posterity
shall fail to profit by the experiences
of today will be interested in know
ing thct the. newspaper of the
present is threatened with destruc
tion because of the ephemeral na
ture of the material of which it Is
composed. The excellent print paper
that our great-grandfathers knew,
and that contained a large propor
tion of rags, has been replaced by
the wood pulp that economic condi
tions have made necessary. But by
comparison with the old paper, its
life is sadly circumscribed. And in
the book world the situation is es
sentially the same, except that those
what amounted to an obsession to
visit a country in which all foreign
ers were unwelcome. The spirit of
Marco Polo has not often moved any
of our western Indians, from which
it will be concluded that he derived
much of his quality of curiosity from
his adventurous father. In any
event, Macdonald the younger, an
Oregon half-breed, thus became the
first teacher of the English language
In the land of the shoguns. But he
found in the country men who knew
a little English which they had
learned from previous British and
American castaways and he was able
to employ this as a basis for further
Instruction. That he must have pos
sessed a remarkable faculty for mak
ing his way in the world is indicated
by the fact, now well understood,
that he contrived to disarm suspi
cion, to procure for himself many
honors in his captivity and to enlist
the warm friendship of a number of
the Japanese leaders of that time
before he was rescued by Commander
Glynn of the American brig Preble,
who anchored in 1849 in the harbor
of Nagasaki and threatened to bom
bard the town unless eighteen ship
wrecked seamen, also held prisoners,
were delivered immediately. It is a
plausible theory that the accounts I
My shirt Is a token and a symbol.
lore than a lover for sun and rain.
my shirt Is a signal.
and a teller of souls.
I can take off my shirt and tear It,
ind so make a ripping- razzy noise.
and the people will say.
"Look at him tear his shirt."
I can keen my shirt on.
I can stick around and sins like a little
bird.
and look 'em all in the eye and never
be fazed.
n , . , . , .. . i ni- -' lu J .v . U1UOU.MVH, ... - ...... . BO gome person nas caiiea up several
Burroughs saw the insincerity not nf thK Korkv mountains to con- nrndnHnir cotton and tobacco and . .-- !.. ,,,
1., r UK-lot K..f .ten " " . - ' . . " . 1 . '. . . . H" iH V.111J
uu.j i im. t.si w"- "" sider plans for founding a state, fcsut l the greatest deenne nas occurrea in
wie i-uuiM iu t"B iuiu.is.1 .iu ,et it not De supposed that there those states, because of decline in
Their trick, he pointed out, consisted were none &mong them wno opposed the relative value of those commod
in the avoidance of difficulties. the g,. in that time there were ties. Kentucky, South Carolina and
xneir iaisiucauon ox nature, as in
wrought.
Holds to his self-made theories on
earth. .
It was not meant to hinder or con
fuse
This scheme of life so simple and
so plain;
chiefly in the Willamette valley, States has declined about 7 per cent these who is causing the insomnia In
were about as numerous as citizens I In the riast vear. taken in connection I tne nicuman nome.
of Tavistock. They. too. conceived with the average price of farm ! An unlisted private line serves the
that government would be good and products, shows that there is a logi- telephone chief In his apartment, this
they set themselves to the task of jcal relation between land prices and for special purposes and to get away
organizing themselves into a com- crop prices ami also that investors from the legion of calls that woulo
monwealth. A resnected citizen I mav make a. mistake who do not encroach on his nrivate time If Der-
owning property, had died and there buy on the basis of returns for a mitted. The number of the Hickman But men In blindness stubbornly re-
ii . . ! , , . . . . , i il- . , . . i . I TUBS
was no maunuiery lur liic legal au- I period oi yearo, rciuicr inaix wbw 1 pnone is never given out py iniunna- c --a .1,..,. .n WB. fnr
minU,.liAn tile ..(fit. Thla woal'.rnn TnA mnflt nni.wnrthV OH- I . i J A . . .... a - I J
uiiiiioi.1 auuu v. nw Liit, - -j w biujj. ...iu ...wu- j iiuii uuci.iuia &iiu uvco 111 i' 1 vain
the ostensible reason for calling the vances In land prices during the war. n tne books, yet for. the last week or The scribes write on. each of his song.
his creed.
And men In passing pause, some
times, to note.
And pay a moment's tribute to his
screed
And then forget. In worry, what he
wrote!
'Tis thus the songs of dreamers meet
with scorn.
There is so little time. It seems, to
hear;
fnllra wht r-mmtpd noRta Hnvprn. I flAnrtHa eiiffarad thn heaviest de-
the pictures of the cubists, is not ment they hinted, was a luxury and declines, which were not, however.
art. Put crudity, ana tneir pretense ,ike otner luxuriM must be pald for equal to prevIous advances. The
that it Is s return to primitive art It m be that there were amongr 3tates in which diversified farming
is either bluff or ignorance. View- I ii,K. .-, .i, v-j I ,, tv, l,,-.
... I L1ICII 111,15 1, I.Vl O L 1 1 VJ O WIIW .C1.U II VJ l. L.-1 C .0.119 I.U LIIC ,1(1.1.31. L - ....... . ... .. ... I , , , . . ,
Ing the whole movement, as Bur- thouf?ht of ,he matter in that light . been nearly stable. Iowa, which has fer- but "he derives some satisfac- Tet In some burdened heart sometimes
up with a mocking laugh when the
phone was answered.
The only feasible explanation of
the number getting out would be
through the agency of some bolshe-
vist operator. Mrs. Hickman Insists
that is a mean way to take revenge,
for she, a real innocent, has to suf-
roughs did, as a preposterous com
mercial proposition, one sees It
stripped of its claim to popular sym
pathy and attention. Its pretense
that it got its charter from Whitman
was monumental effrontery. The
lines that Whitman wrote at least
had meaning, which specimens like
another that Burroughs cited did
not:
Helios makes all things right
nig-ht brands and chokes,
aa If destruction broke
over furze and stone and crop
of myrtle-shoot- and field-wort
destroyed with flakes of iron,
the bracken sterna-
: where tender roots were, sown
bright,, chaff and waste
of darkness to choke and drown.
The public that knew Burroughs
chiefly as a naturalist ,may have
In any event the movement lan- the highest priced farmland in the tIon from the thought that the mys
guished. - The -imperfect records of I union, showed the smallest decline.
the period leave much to the imagi
nation. . I Havlne- eaten onions to their
terlous caller also has to stay awake.
'But I hope they don't learn where Let no one wrUa who ilpB hil pen !b
Is born
New truth, because
faith and cheer;
of words of
we live and dynamite the building,"
she moralized.
The Oregon country, long neglect- hearts' content in response to the
ea Dy statesmen m wasninpion, naa pjea 0f tJle department of agricul
just begun to attract attention In the , the oeoole are hoDine that the
... .71 next plea to get busy ana consume a oregonlan, came from a small town
sentetive in the person of Lieutenant surplua of something may come ln Moro county. Across the top of
rAAwn.H Ul Ulr.ii . .Via m a ,r.r t e AvOv, I....... I
'6 -" 1 aoout watermelon time.
The following, addressed to The
a-all.
The world has now a far too bitter
trend.
But let each scribe send forth his
urgent call
For men to pause and call each
other friend.
ine into the condition of the region
and report on its needs. One of the
most human documents in the pre-
ploneer annals Is the official narra
tive, in the course of which he re
counts that he advised against the
formation of a commonwealth on
Once in a while the New York po
lice solve a murder mystery, as is
ehown by the capture of the Elwell
murderers whose crime was com
mitted a little more than ten months
the page the writer requests: "Don't
delay this very long," so he evidently
yearns for action:
Dear Sir: Can you tell me where
THE TRIt'MPH OP TltE ItlftHT.
O hark to the tramp of the army
As It shakes the eartn witn us
. A I
I can get a lovley girl hoes folks . . .ta,-ni.M fiar and a triumph
uwen a nice rantcn ana now nas 1
neo. But there are a lot or other
the ground, among others, that there muraers yet unsolved.'
was not population enougn to go
n rnnnn r-i n ci 1 1 1 1 ri nnr nvn n pn nnir 1 . . . .. . 1
overlooked his adventures in literarv . , . .. , - me race ior tne cup onerea Dy
plenty of Money. So I could get the
rantch and her to? I have about
Fifteen Hunderd Dollars with witch
I can start Something if I onley had
overiooKea n aayentures ,n merary attention to the fact," he says in his KInr Albert of Belgium Is about to some ood place To put It In to.
he wrote Doetrv of hien oualitv In "lc?rs V1" P P T'"s we" Is too bad to be compelled to admit wants to get marriea. just sena your
appointed there would be no sub- that tne professlonal yacht racers are n"1 to the oregonlan and I w
ianla 4Vta law P.al wftVl " Tt I - ..I , XTP-TTn IS .1
he wrote poetry of high quality. In
M.nA.f ....rnMlno- V, o eAA 1 "
'-v- ' ."-..-.o ..co .-. v,A i t deal wrlfh " Tt 7. - . - .......... I -i.ji I, xtt-tz-c k .v.-
j i , o-i, . . j .... . - ..... - - i r n e nn v onen wno nave BDomnei isiauie. .
wuitu ne ucuuuiroru. illD luuvemem , v In n,tui.l fn. no r ' I 1.. . . ...
in .u.i miltahle memoHoi tn ,! """ " ""rr"' blood in them. gi" is over n riease ao not appiy.
. venues oi nisiory, mat mis argument
uiuiiiui win a.m laLuer tiiau luse
converts by an understanding as to
precisely where he stood on the
new but evanescent literary school,
scale. The idea thai there might be not that are losIn(J thelr taste
The vounir ladey muust be between
aione Drougni aoout tne aownian oi Th reason why the Germans are the age of 17 and 24 and not mutch
s. l aa Kut ItV wan A w s A wraa lunil at 4 I " I
-.no pm... uui. i i.a.u drinking 750.000,000 gallons less moore for I am hart Brocken.
least sufficient weight to turn i the beer a year tnan before the war ..x subscriber.
"P. S. Put this on the first page If
possible."
He admits that he wants to start
something. Possibly this will be dis
appointing to the girls over 31, but
the writer seems to have developed
certain prejudice.
law but no one for it to deal with,
for beer. There are not so many
WHAT IS AN AMERICAN LANGUAGE? as Wilkes cannily phrased it, seems Germans' to drink beer as there were
I'unaiis wno lane too seriously tne I rot to nave occurreu iu uiint rew i 1914
discussion now raging over tne re- Jersey iwii wuu uu;u yieuiaeiy
spective merits of the English and enough offices to go around.
American languages will be Inter-1 It was even so two .. years later
ested in a by-product of the debate when the organization movement was
which concerns the authenticity of revived. At one of the meetings pre-
the American language itself. What, limlnary to' the convention at Cham-
asks a writer in ap eastern news- poeg which will be commemorated
paper, constitutes American with re- by Oregon pioneers next month and
spect to speech? He Is himself a which occurred two years after the
Texan and he reminds his readers visit of Wilkes, it was still believed
that the language, of Texas is not by an influential minority of the
American population that there were
Judge Landis, who fined the Stand
ard Oil $29,000,000 for violation of
the anti-trust laws, has just fined
a man $25 for shooting a robin and
the chances are that the $25 fine
will be collected.
He men-
A Chile editor says that goods that
I suit 100,000,000 Americans ought to
suit the people of his country, but it
not enough independent Americans ls QuIte evident that he has had no
in the eolonv to warrant' the enter- experience m mo mh uucoo.
nrlcA IIiav were artnut to undertake
tv,. Ttev .Taann Ie head of the The persistence oi ine aayngnt
Methodist mission, whose faith had saving movement in ine ciues may
always that of New Tork,
tlons several examples.
In Texas they call relatives "kins-
folk." A piazza, or porch, is a "gal.
lery." Hulled corn, he says, is
cmoken of fls "hominv." thnutrn even
this IVsxan ought to be informed been proved by works, was yet a help to account for the movement
that there are two kinds of hominy counselor of delay. So then was away irom "
in many parts of his state, distln-1 George Abernethy, steward of the
guished by the names "lye hominy" I mission and afterward governor
and "grits." The green corn of the I under the provisional regime. Both
north and east is the "roasting ear" I ridiculed a government as foolish
or the region Deiow tne Mason and I and unnecessary. Mr. iee told a
Dixon line, but the latter is also good story to Illustrate his point. It was
Kansanese. More truly local' is the a tale of the efforts of the people
term "hack for "carryall" and the of a Canadian community in which
latter in its 'turn is a provincialism he had been reared to organize a
not much employed In the west. company of militia. All of the citi-
Not only in Texas, but in some zens of military age being present.
other parts of the south, "evening" they proceeded to elect officers,
conveys the meaning of our "after- whereupon it was discovered that
noon." "Tote," which the writer only one private soldier was left,
cites as the Texas equivalent for "Well," said the soldier, "you may
carry," probably still lacks the seal I march me, you may drill me. you
of excellent usage even in Texas and I may face me to the right or to the
light is made only to consume.
is unlikely to be found anywhere in
formal writing, however much it
may be employed ln intimate conver
sation. Both "lockup" and "cala
boose" are localisms. There ls an
interesting difference between them,
however, that Illustrates the Ameri
can willingness to take possession of
left, or about face just as much as
you please, but for mercy's sake
don't divide me into platoons."
The events which afterward came
to pass in Oregon indicate that our
forefathers were not much impressed
by Lee's story. They went ahead
less than a month later and organ-
There ought to be fewer dandelions
in the lawns this summer, now that
it has been discovered that a very
good quality of beer can be made
from them.
After all, the main issue is not so
much the actual rate of wages as the
productivity of the workman who
draws them.
. Anyway, a late spring means a
good fruit crop and that is some
thing, now that spring is here at
last.
The list of draft evaders Is not go
ing to contain the names of nuiy
men we know, at any rate. -
The ad, not in The Oregonian, read,
"Wanted, ten solicitors, salary and
sonar.
And the King of Kings ahead!
Oh, It Isn't the allies of whom I sing,
Thouith they covered half the world;
Nor the German giant's war machine,
Where the bombs of bell were
hurled.
God knows they slew enough to slake
The thirst of bloody Mara
A scene so ghastly never swept
Beneath the weeping stars.
But these have time and these have
space.
And these have loyal sway.
But the war I sing Includes them all
And the rest of human clay.
The world Itself Is a Waterloo,
A hell without a cloak.
But the flag ot God is floating still
Above the shell and smoke.
"TIs a battle for women, a battle for
men.
A battle for every child;
Tis a fight against might and disease
and sin.
And deluded souls gone wild.
commission." The address given was But I hear the clang of broken chains,
.u. . ,m. ,. ,k With every state gone dry;
UO 1 11 C CtVsSb sssuv UUIIS, VUHf, 1 , - K T mml a (a.
j... i- j -,!, am.j j I AnQ X nr ... u.oiu
UdUl y til UC7U Ul. n VI ft. tftiicu Up sa.ll U I BCllT
was assured that a position was open As our rn8slon bands march by,
tor nan a ooaen men. nB rounueo up T hear tha of atorKt; mtt
three others. I And ... Mexan's dry decree:
When they got to the east Market t hear the angels tune their harps
street place they found an old man For a final Jubilee.
who offered to put them to work at I can't you read the record upon the
S3 dally and commission soliciting! sky
backers for i new scenic trio he had With hope In every line?
worked out. The scheme, as reported. A" you trailing the rear with the
was to use airplane, to pull sled, up Cr .T.rTThVflrtn.r Un.T
ine siuq d'uui,. ..ww .v, .1,111
seers, they being allowed to coast
back. That there was a fortune in
it the originator was certain.
About this time his son appeared
and confirmed their belief that his
father was a little hazy on some
subjects.
WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON.
WHERE IGNORANCE 19 BLISS.
Ere keener greening of the leaf buds
pale,
The treble vocalists and deep bassoon
There had been hundreds I Gurgle wet voices In the loathly
of men coming after the promised Job. I swale
Some may have gone to work. The In waggish Incongruity of tune.
young fellow who reported this In gleeful Ignorance, rules unaware.
walked back to the center of town
to save the 8-cent carfare.
e
Ray Hagen of the International
Harvester company puts a hard one.
He would like to know whether the
Baker hotel, across from the city
hall, was named, a la popular cigar.
If the strikes would only hold off 1 after our mayor, or because there ls
a good many srobisjais would settle I a bakery store underneath or for
thscnssjlwaa. j some other reason. THE SCOUT.
With no least consciousness of art
or sin.
These mimic choristers do strangely
dare
Tha direst notes in quaint concen
tered din.
O, gargling bolshevlkl of the pool.
From mine own lips surprising
tones might start
In bubbling bliss, sans rhyme or right
or rule.
Had I . but half your honesty of
heart. M. H. P.