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T1TE SUNDAY OREGON! AX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 2, 1921
AMERICAN COURT Ml
CHI 15 ATACKED
Contempt Sentence of Promi
nent Laywer Sensation.
CASE IS NOW ON REVIEW
Attorney Demands Change of Venue
. on Grounds That Court Is
Ilia Worst Enemy.
' SHANGHAI, Oct. 1. Americans In
Ehanghal are Intensely Interested In
the. case of William F. Fleming, an
American attorney and bead of a law
firm here, who, on July 28, was sen
tenced by Judge Charles S. Loblngler
of the United States court for China
to serve a sentenc of six months In
the American prison in Shanghai for
Contempt of court.
' After having served 13 days his
aenteno was sjspended by Judge Lo
kingler, pending a review of the con
tempt proceed'L'gs by the ninth dis
trict Un'ted BtHtes circuit court of ap
peals of California, to which the case
Is being taken on a writ of error. Mr.
J'lemlng gave ball to the amount of
12000 when released.
The cane has developed into a sen
atlon In legal circles largely because
It was upon representations by Mr.
Fleming that P-esident Harding, early
In August, ordered an investigation
of the United States court In this city.
Besides. Mr. Fleming is a prominent
figure in the financial world of Shame
hai, senior member of one of the lead
ing American law Arms of the far east
and the case has Involved an attack
by Mr. Fleming upon the Integrity of
Judge Loblngler and upon certain of
ficers of his court.
Trial by Jury May Be Denied, View.
The case also has brought into pub
lic notice the unusual position In
which ibe United .States court for
China functions under existing laws.
As an exampio of this situation of
the cour,l, attorneys here point out
that soma months ago Judge Lobln
gler handed down a decision in a cap
ital cess to hs effect that an Amer
lan citizen may" be tried for his life
In that court and be executed without
privilege of trial by Jury. This rul-
- ing was baaed on a decision of the
United States supreme court in the
Roes casts, which held that the guar
antees given by the United States con
stitution "apply only to citizens and
others w thir. the United States or
who may be .brought there for trial
for alleged offenses committed else
where, mil not to residents or tem
porary rojourners abroad."
It la generally held by attorneys
here, -also, that no change of venue
may be granted in cases brought be
fore the United States court for China.
Court Rapped at Washington.
Mr. Fleming visited the state de
partment at Washington in the mld-
, die of the summer and. It was under
stood.' presented criticisms of the
t United States court here which have
not been made public. Soon after his
return f.-om Waslhngton to Shanghai
tn July he was arrested.on -a warrant
charging him with criminal libel
against Stirling Kessenden, of Shang
hai, a member of the law firm of
which Major Chauncey P. Holcomb,
United Mates district attorney for
China," was formerly a member.
At ths preliminary hearing of the
libel charge before a United States
commissioner Mr. Fleming made
charges againtt the various court of-
i flclals a.id others and alleged that he
.was the victim of a conspiracy.
Mr. Fleming repeated these charges
SPIRIT FORCES OF EVIL DECLARED THE REAL FOES OF MANKIND
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. T r Nationalism, Race Prejudice, Greed, Narrow Individualism and Atheism . Termed Giants Who Are Oppressing World Christians Urged to Attack Them With Bold Hearts.
BY E. ALBERT COOK. Ph. D.
himon Delivered t Ontrsl Presbyterian
Church.
For we have to -struggle, not with blood
and finh. hut with the spirit-forces ot
vil. Kpa. vi:12. (Moffat's translation.)
WHEN, you are dealing with a
man or a number of men
. you are dealing with forces
where the spirit is the master. It Is the
"man's spirit his thoughts and his
feelings, which make the body fight
or run away. When you attack him
you attack his spirit. You have not
conquered him until you have con
quered his spirit. His spirit is the
commander of his body. Or if it Is a
Croup or a nation, it Is still the spirit
with which you are finally concerned.
As )ong as the spirit of man or na
tion or race remains unconquered,
ou- have still something to reckon
with something which may undo all
the gains you have'made.
" In the words of our text. Paul calls
attention to this fact, which is as old
- us humanity It Is not peculiarly a
religious fact. It is the fundamental
fact in all dealings with human be
,'jigs. ,If you struggle with them in
.any way, in politics, in business. In
fieaee or In war, the struggle may
seem to be between bodies of blood
and flesh, but It is really between
their spirits their thoughts and
their feelings. The struggle of the
Christian, then. Is against the spirit
forces of evil, because the spirit-
'forces are the commanding forces In
this world, whether they be good or
evil.
Material Forces Vast.
One of the chief characteristics of
the new age in which we live, is the
existence of immense forces which
- have become available for man's use.
One man's hand may open the valves
that will set In motion an engine ex
ercising the power of 50.000 horses,
and one man's arm may turn the
wheel that guides the passage of a
city ot 10.000 inhabitants across the
ocean or, if the arm move wrong,
egalnst the Iceberg or on the fatal
reef. And one man's finger may
"press a button and explode a mine
that will tear 10.000 men to shreds.
This control of material forces is a
symbol of the new control that may
be exercised over the spirit-forces.
Telegraph and printing press make
possible the communication of the
thoughts of one man to many mil
lions, all over the earth, within a few
hours thoughts which stir feelings
tnd awaken action. And then there
are great organizations of men under
the control, voluntary or Involuntary,
Of a few leaders.
Power Given Leaders.
One man may call a strike of half
a million. One man. years ago, had
power, and used it, to throw a
whole nation of 70,000,000 people Into
the most horrible and gigantic war
this earth has ever known, and thus
compel the rest of the world to take
aj-ms.
The imicens force ot the, nw
In part when arraigned before Judge
Lobinglcr in t.-.e United States court,
whereupon the judge held him guilty
of contempt of court and imposed the
prison sentence. In controversion of
these charges eight affidavits have
been fllel In the court by officials and
others accused by Mr. Fleming, all of
which deny his charges against
Judge Loblngier and the others.
Meantime the charge of libel remains
undisposed of.
Whilo the hearing was In progress
Mr. Fleming offered a motion for
cnange cr venue, alleging among
other things that the judge-' of the
court was his worst enemy, and argu
ing tha under American legal pro
cedure, lie cou.d not be tried fairly
on a criminal charge by an enemy.
Judge Lohlngl.-r, In committing him
for contempt, did not pass upon Flem
ing's motion fjr a Change of venue.
VINE CHOICE NEEDS CARE
(Continued From Finn Psjre. )
the easiest culture and makes a gor
geous screen. Where rank growth Is
needed, plant the Japanese hop. It
Is an annual which is best planted In
the fall, but It seeds itself so readily
that it is really perennial In nature.
The wild cucumber sjid the scarlet
runner bean are also rapid climbers,
Coboea Scandens is a beautiful,
strong-growing annual. It will make
10 feet In a season under good con
ditions. It does best In a sunny lo
cation, with plenty of moisture. It
and the moonflower must be started
In January or February indoors. Two
or three plants of either will cover
a veranda In a season.
The herbaceous perennials are
vines which have permanent roots,
but which die to the ground each
season. The hop of commerce is a
good example of the type; the clus
ters of hops make this vine par
ticularly beautiful In the fall. Some
of .the more tender of this class
have, tuberous roots, which may be
taken Indoors In the fall. The
Madeira vine is one of these. Some
of the newer varieties of the peren
nial pea are attractive when In
flower and make a dense, though
not. very tall, growth.
The wisteria easily leads when It
comes to the spring flowering vines,
which are, of course, the woody per
ennials. It is easily grown by ama
teurs. Tn fact. It In Inrllneri tn re
sent much petting. It is not grownVl
for shade, but is useful for framing
the veranda. The wisteria requires
a deep rich soil, as it makes but few
roots, which strike deeply. It does
not ask for full sunshine, but re
quires plenty of light and a shel
tered location where early frosts will
not strike it- The first vine to bloom
in the spring Is the yellow Jasmine.
The flowers appear before the leaves.
The white Jasmine Is a late bloomer.
It Is a strong grower after it Is once
established, -and the foliage and
flowers are particularly attractive.
Of course the grape would recom
mend itself to those with an eye to
both utility and beauty. It makes a
dense shade and is really a beautiful
vine.
Honeysuckle Culture Easy.
Tbe clematis Is fastidious as to
soil. There are many varieties some
early and some late bloomers. Not all
are robust growers, a'nd they are par
ticularly sensitive to poor drainage.
The various honeysuckles are good
vines of easy culture. The trumpet
vine Is excellent; it Will cling to
bricks or rockwork, without support.
Polygonum is rsther a new vine; It
Is a strong, rapid grower. The
Kudzu vine is 'said to be the most
rapid grower on cultivation;' the
foliage is large, and so it furnishes a
dense shade.
Ampelopsls Is the general name for
Japanese Ivy, Virginia creeper and
Boston Ivy. These all have their
uses. Boston ivy covers stonework,
clinging by means ofNjittle vacuum
cups. Helix is the English ivy. It
should not be grown about houses in
our climate, but it is evergreen, and
so good for covering fences or old
stumps or trees.
With any of the vines location
plays an important part. Most of
them are shade lovers. Jn the wild
state they are to be found clinging
to trees in dense forests, though some
few are to be found in full sunlight.
age may come under the control of the
spirit-forces of good and bring us
vapidly on toward that
' One fsr-off divine event
Toward which the whole creation moves
Or they may come under the control
of the splrit-orces of evil and bring
humanity with frightful speed back
toward the age of the ape and the
tiger. -i
"We have to struggle." said Paul,
'not with blood and flesh, but with
. . . the spirit-forces of evil." And
what are the spirit-forces of evil?
They are false ideas. yWe do indeed
sometimes have to fight against men,
tut when we do. It is not-because
they are men, but because they are
men ruled by false ideas. Kill the
:deas that are false and leave, in
control Ideas that ere good and true,
and all men will be friends and
brothers.
False Ideas In veiled.
Look with me, then, at five great
false ideas fallacies, as-the logician
calls them, which have brought un
told wreck and ruin to humanity for
thousands of years. The danger of
the present is that these fallacies,
tome or all of them, shall obtain pos
session of the immense forces of this
r.ew age and use them for unspeak
able destruction. Tbe hope of hu
manity Is that the spirit-forces of
pood shall wage a successful war of
extermination against these five
giant fallacies and thus bring deliv
erance and salvation to Hhe world.
Let me firs; name these false Ideas
cr fallacies, that you may be on the
lookout for them, and then describe
them more particularly. They are
the.e: the geographical fallacy, the
fallacy of physics, the grammatical
fallacy, the fallacy of physiology and
the fallacy of astronomy.
.Nationalism la Scored.
Let us begin with the geographical
fallacy. In geography we learn that
tl.ere are different portions of the
earth's surface marked off from each
other, sometimes by rivers, or moun
tain ranges, or perhaps forests, and
sometimes Dy Invisible, Imaginary
lines. Now all over the earth there
are people who believe that because
they live on the north side of a river
instead of tha west side, or southwest
r.f some imaginary line Instead of
the south side, or on the east side
of some mountain instead of north
east of it. they are better than the
rther people, and therefore have the
right to despise, overreach, rob or
enslave them.
We are coming to call this absurd
Idea nationalism. It is most com
monly called patriotism, but that is
not the right name or If this is pat
riotism. It is a very poor variety of It.
But this false Idea is a terribly pow
erful one. It will drive whole nations
great., and supposedly Intelligent
peoples into deceit, trickery, cruelty
and slaughter. Into ths commission
of every crime that man has been able
to invent. At this very moment it is
doing untold mischief In the world.
This, then, is one of the giant fal
lacies, one of ths great powers that
make up tb spirit forces evil
EARLY MORNING IN AUTUMN IS BEST TIME TO VISIT
HAUNTS AND CULTIVATE FRIENDSHIP OF OREGON BIRDS
Towlee at That Time May Be Found Scratching Dry Leaves Beneath Gaudy Maple Every Boy Knows Catbird by His Call Juncos, Found Every
where and Sometimes Known as Snowbirds, Are Friendly Lot.
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This Is the seventh of a series of articles
on Oregon birds that are being printed
in The Sunday Oregonlan. Illustrations
are provided by K. Bruce Horsfall of
Portland, one of tie greatest Dlra artists
in America.
The descriptive articles are supplied by
MIhs Mary E. Raker, instructor in ornith
ology at Pacific university and a member
of several bird societies.
BT-MARt K. RAKER.
DIU iuu ever go Diraing ou
a bright autumn morning Into
the suburbs where tbe vacant
lots are overgrown with weeds and
the vine maple leaves are painted
red and yellow by nature's brush?
On that morniag did you sit quietly
down on some old log and wait for
the birds to come to you while you
breathed In the morning's freshness?
It is one of the best ways of study
ing birds and animals, for the crea
against -which we must struggle to
the death. - '
Another fallacy, .twin brother ' of
this first Philistine giant, might be
called the fallacy of physics, for it
Is concerned with the laws of- light
and reflection. We know that things,
visible objects, . have no color, but
they have the peculiarity that they
reflect light of various colors. An
object that reflects only red light,
we call a red object. That which re
flects green light;, we call green. But
ths light has the color, not the ob
ject. .
Now this second strange fallacy is
that people with, skin which reflects a
certain- amount ,or color of light are
superior to those whose Skin reflects
a" different amount or color. Perhaps
the worst case of this delusion ' Is
among people whose skin reflects all
colors of light, making what we call
white light, with occasionally a little
extra pink, and who think that they
are better than all people whose skin
reflects light Uifferently, or less com
pletely. I need - not point out to you ' how
supremely ridiculous it is to hold that
a man is more virtuous, or clever,
or loving, better - mannered, more
truthful, a better doctor or lawyer
or farmer or carpenter," because bis
skin reflects a little'more light .than
some one else's skin.
Millions Follow Idea.
And yet there sre millions of peo.
pie in this ei-llghtened country who
are. led around by the nose, by this
Philistine giant of what is commonly
known as race prejudice. I don't
say that every colored man Is as good
and smart as any white man nor
that every white man is as smart
and good as any colored man. That
would be quite false.
I met a hotel porter down In Ken
tucky some years ago, who confided
to me. as If it were a kind of new
scientific hypothesis he had discov
ered, that he believed that the col
ored people were like the monkeys
and had no souls. That man's face
when It was clean, . reflected more
light than the faces of the people
who had no soul, ascording to his
self a whits man, and regarded hlm
theory. He would have called him
self superior to Booker Washington
sr Frederick Douglass.
Mind Declared Test.
But i know dozens of men whose
faces do not reflect quite so much
white light as his, who have all the
marks of intelligent and noble souls,
much more strongly In evidence than
that man had. The amount or the
color of light that your skin wis re
flect does not determine whether you
have a soul or not it is the amount
of light that your mind will absorb.
You know all too well the mischief
wrought by this fallacy of physios.
Tou know how It persecutes Jews
and slaughtersV them in ths en
lightened cities of Europe, how it
makes slaves of the natives of Africa,
how it despises ths Chinese or the
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tures of the wood eeem to think you
are one of them and show little fear.
No doubt, if you have had such an
experience, one of the first sounds
that attracted your attention was
a scratching in the dry leaves be
neath a low gaudy maple. You may
have, focused your glass intently oa
the spot without distinguishing th
maker of the sound. Perhaps 1:
stopped.- Then suddenly from the
top of another tree some distant
away came a commanding call with
a nasal twang, "to-hee; to-hee!" If
you were unfamiliar with the birl
you were doubtless pleasantly sur
prised by the handsome fellow who
shouted to his companions from the
top oft the bush. The towhee is in
deed aonspicuous fellow with black
head and upper parts, bright rei
eye, brick-colored sides and a white
stripe down his breast. His wingi
how It Jim-Crows and lynches the
negro in the south and sometimes
in the north too. . You know the dia
bolical crimes which this great false
Idea has driven men to commit. Will
you then, help to destroy this enemy
of man? .
Service Is Dlxcnssed.
vA. third giant among these spirit
forces of evil, we might call the
grammatical fallacy. It Is the false
idea that the road to happiness and
life lies in the application to ones
self of the verb "to serve" In the
passive voice instead of the active
voice that the greatest satisfaction
is to be obtained through being
served by others as largely as pos
sible rather than by serving others.
- The common, name for this fallacy
is "love of money." But the use of
money is to buy the service of peo
ple. With money I get the farmer to
raise, wheat for me, the miller to
grind it and the baker to bake it. I
get the tailor to make me clothes and
the'bullder to make me a house. And
everyone must be served thus by his
fellow men. to a certain extent, if
he -would be healthy and useful in
this World. But most people are not
satisfied wtth enough of the service
of others to make them healthy and
enable them to be useful.
Money Crase Deplored.
.The are guilty, if you would put
It so, of the arithmetical fallacy.
They think that if J1000 is good,
$2000 Is twice as good, and $50,000
50 times as good. And it seems as if
the" world had gone wild now In Its
effort to get more money, to buy more
service from others, and to diminish
one's own 'service to humanity to the
lowest degree.
Too largely the struggle between
"labor" and "capital" is not one for
fundamental justice in the world. It
is a class struggle in which two pow
erful groups are in conflict for the
financial returns of production, wlthJ
no concern for the welfare of the peo
ple. We should pity the members of
both groups, those of the one desiring
and seeking to indulge in the folly
with which the members of the other
group are ruining their lives that of
amassing great sums of money to en
able them or their children to abandon
altogether the life of joyful service
and spend their time in luxurious idle
ness, pleasure-seeking and vice.
iiut since the foundation oi the
world no one ever found happiness
that wsy. A man's -life consisteth
not in the abundance of the things
that he possesseth. He who "came
not to be ministered unto but to min
ister" was the wise man, who knew
the meaning and the joy of life for
himself and others.
j Life Declared Activity.
Life is activity, doing, striving,
building, giving, serving. Many a
slave has been happier than his mas
ter, for he had work to do, and he
might do it. if he would, with a cheer
ful and loving heart, and sing at bis
work. But. to fold one's hands and
let others do all the real, good things
that ths healthy spirit loves to do, to
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are streaked with white and his tall
has white feathers, too.
Many people think he is much like
a robin, since he is nearly as large
and is somewhat similarly clothed.
With a little care, however, he Is
easily distinguished, for the robin
has no white on the breast nor has
he a black head. Also, the towhee
is usually to be seen on the ground,
w-here he searches for his food seeds
and bugs, among the leaves. Surely
he is never so picturesque as when
there are autumn leaves about hiin
to set off his own color.
The towhee is familiar to nearly
everyone, for he is found In- some
variety, the whole country over. In
some communities he is known as tho
chewink, in others the ground robin.
Nearly every boy knows the "cat
bird," as he is sometimes called. The
diversity of names is due to the
bird's peculiar cries, which to dif
wait to be entertained and amused,
pampered and carried about by others,
with no task to call forth one's utmost
energies, and no friends to make hap
pier and better by your service this
is indeed to take the straight road to
boredom, to weariness with life, and
either to suicide or the vices that
made the name of Nero a symbol for
all that Is foul and rotten in human
nature.
If there be any among: you who are
stirred by the blasphemous challenge
of this Goliath of greed who seems to
be almost mastering the world as he
towers there In the camp of the spirit
forces of evil, listen to the words of
the world's greatest seer: "Whosoever
among you would be great really
great let him be your servant" let
him serve with all his might, and
every stroke of work shall make him
greater.
Fourth Fallacy Analyzed.
The fourth fallacy of which I wish
to speak is the father of the three I
have mentioned and of most of the
other enemies of mankind. - And he Is
the most cunning and subtle of them.
He might be called the -fallacy of
physiology or the fallacy of detached
bodies. In physiology we learn of the
body as a unit, apparently indepen
dent of other bodies, since it is not
attached to them.
My body may be quite well while
the bodies of various people near
me are sick and in pain. But then we
go on quite falsely, to imagine that
our bodies are our selves, or at any
rate that our selves do not extend out
side our bodies, and therefore we
think it is possible for us to exist and
even be happy, without considering
other people and their welfare. This
idea Is so universal that at first many
will not realize how absurd it is. Let
me help you to see it, if I can.
Spiritual Hurt Worse.
Suppose a soldier, back from over
seas, has left one of his tegs on the
battlefield, and has supplied lis place
with a cunningly contrived artificial
leg, with which he has learned to
walk with skill. You want to know
which leg is his own, and which leg
he has borrowed from the machine
shop. How can you find out? Why,
try sticking a pin through his trou
sers, into one of the legs as he sits in
front of you. If he Jumps, you will
know that you have reached him and
not his ingenious machine. Where
you can hurt him, there he Is.
Now there Is a comparatively small
area within which you can hurt my
body but how about my spirit? Sup
pose you hurt my wife or my boy or
my little girl! Do you hurt me? Yes.
and a great deal more than if you
stuck a pin into my leg. ' Then my
wife and children are parts of myself,
aren't they? Attack my country
with guns or with words, and you
attack me and I feel the pain of your
shot or your blow. And the life of
my spirit that Is exposed to pain, does
not stop with my country.
Humanity's Suffering Fains.
I suffer in the suffering of the tor
tured Armenians, or the starving Chi
nese, or the misguided Germans. De
nounce England and you iurt . mi
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ferent bird students seem to sound
differently.
This is rather a secluded bird, for
though he may make his home neir
houses he is seldom a familiar bird
of the door-yard, although he l
sometimes tempted Into partial
friendliness by a bird bath.
The Oregon towhee Is with us the
year 'round. In the winter he be
comes more tame, and if snow is
on the ground he will readily coma
to feeding stations, or even window
shelves. As spring approaches thn
towhee becomes more shy and hldei
his nest well in a little hollow is
the ground where four or five pale,
greenish, speckled eggs are laid.
The towhee does practically nj
damage to cultivated fruit, though
he is fond of wild varieties. Being
a finch, his chief food consists of
Insects.
The juncos have been divided into
so many sub-species that it is prac
stab France and my soul quivers.
Whip some poor ignorant naked Af
rican and I feel the sting of your
lash.
My life is bound up In the bundle of
life with all mankind. All human
Joys are mine sooner or later, and
all human sorrows are my sorrow.
Jesus did Indeed bear the sin of the
world, and we. too. In a measure must
bear It with him. No man liveth to
himself and no man dleth to himself.
Do you see how Impossible it is for
you to look out for yourself alone?
You don't know what yourself iB
until you realize that it is all human
ity white, black, red, yellow and
brown. You may indeed by your nar
row nationalism or your cruel race
prejudice, cut yourself off from por
tions of humanity, but if you do you
will find that you have been hurting
yourself, cutting off your own fin
gers or your own limbs, and sooner
or later the blood will run and the
pain will come from the amputation.
Take care that you do not bleed to
death.
- - Seeing God Impossible.
I cannot tarry .longer with this
great fallacy because I must speak
of one more, that might be called the
fallacy of astronomy. A century or so
ago a French astronomer announced
to the wondering world: "I have swept
the heavens with my telescope and I
haven't found God anywhere."
What he said, no douDt. was true
enough. The fallacy lay In his con
clusion "Therefore, there isn't any
Godi" If he had known wnat uoa
was like doubtless he might have
realized, whenever ho pointed his
telescope at a star, that ho was look
ing at a part of the body or shall we
say the garment of God. But he was
looking, if irdi'Cd he was looking In
good faith doubtless for an immonao
old man with h long white beard,
somewhere in the sky and that he
did not find, and no one ever will
find that kini of a God in the sky.
The fallacy of astronomy is that since
we cannot see God with our human
eyes and our telenccpes and our mi
croscopes, therefore there is fio God.
Now what Joes it mean to believe
in God? It means to believe that the
ultimate power the universe Is
a -power making for righteousness,"
and a power ens power of love. It
means that -t pars to be good an 1
that nothing elso does pay. It means
that although with the psalmist yo l
may say "I saw the wicked in great
power and spread r.g himself like a
green tree in its native soil." yet if
you will wait :i hi tie while a few
jears. a few decades, perhaps a few
centuries you will add: "But one
passed by and lo, he was not. yea I
sought him and he could not be
found."
iz. means that ail men belong to one
family and are meant to love one an
other, and that as they learn to do
this, they prosper in body and i:i
sp.rit. This is what God means thse
things are the evidences of Goi s
presence, the marks of his activity in
the world. And this God you may find
'n history and in l.fe if you will, but
ret with the 'elf-scope, because ts
f e'd of vision is fat too small.
7h belief In God, which ws havo
tically Impossible to distinguish them.
The differences are very slight and
are noticeable in the majority ot
cases only upon examination of skins.
For practical purposes the Oregon
junco is sufficiently accurate for thu
sub-species found in the western pari
of the coast states at least. Junco
are found all over the United State.
The familiar elate-colored junco of
the east has corns to be called "snow
bird, for he often appears In rov
ing flocks during the winter, search
ing for food.
Juncos do not migrate for great
distances, but there is a gener-U
movement of each species southward
for a short distance in search of bet
ter food. Like the sparrows. whic'J
they resemble, the Juncos belong t3
the finch family and live chiefly upo:i
seeds. In the winter when snow
covers the ground they subsist upon
the seeds left on the tall stalks
which protrude above the snow. Like
his eastern cousin, our Ortsron junco
has been called "snowbird." for he
is usually seen in large winter flock
which make the evergreen woods
picturesque as they fly across the
roadway exhibiting their conspic
uous white outer tail feathers. They
are most familiar birds about houses,
even in cities, for they are very
friendly and are quick to take ad
vantage of and appreciate food put
out for them. Indeed, if food is
customarily put in one place they
will even spread the news to other
birds making good advertising agents
for the common lunch counter.
Surely no one has an ill word to
say of the Junco. for he is as un
obtrusive as his quaker-like plumage.
In the summer, he, too, becomes
more secluded, and though It Is not
difficult to find his nest, his man
ner seldom betrays his four or five
mottled treasures.
FAIR TO BE DEDICATED
Linn County Exercises Aro to Be
Held Tuesday Morning.
ALBAKT, Or., Oct. 1. (Special.)
Dedicatory exercises of the new Linn
county fair ground at this city will
be held on the opening day of the
fair next Tuesday morning. The
grounds, here were purchased last
year and most of the buildings erected
then, but because of excessive rains,
which flooded the new grounds, not
then graveled or properly drained,
the fair was postponed so they will
be used for the first time next week.
Frank J. Miller, ex-chairman of
the state public service commission
and ex-president of the Albany cham
ber of commerce, will be chairman
during the dedicatory exercises.
Samuel M. Garland of Lebanon, ex
state senator from Linn county, will
make the dedicatory address. He is
a member of the board of directors
of the fair association. W. W. Poland
of Shedd. president of the Linn county
farm bureau and also a member of
the board, will also speak. Musical
numbers will be Interspersed with
the talks.
COWBOYS ON LONG RIDE
Trip to New York to Bo Made as
Result of Wager.
BUFFALO, Wyo., Oct. 1. Three
Jackson Hole, Wyo, cowboys are on
their way to New York City from
Yellowstone national park on horse
back, attempting to win a wager
which contains novel terms.
The terms of the wager require
that they must dress In typical west
ern costume, travel the entire dist
ance on horseback and reach New
York not later than January 1, 1922.
They are required to smoke every
day, but they must not buy tobacco.
Horse trading Is the only business
which they may engage in while on
the Journey. No matter how serlouB
their need may become, they will not
be permitted to buy a horse while on
the Journey.
The group consists of B. T. Meers.
known as Wild Horse Sam; V). M.
Steel, known as Flap Jack Steel, anil
H. E. Leslie, whose nickname is Mul
ligan Peter.
de.cribedt might re called practical
as compared with theoretical theis-v.
To do right, tc net lovingly towaid
al' men, to be laithful to duty it
all costs and to tho end, this is pra:-
t'oal faith in '.tod; and every honest
man may nave it. whether or not he
rtp doubts ii'iout a personal spin
in control of the universe. And '
net selfishly, to eek to pile up m.
terial possessions lor oneself at the
spense of vjoi-ity. to despise otlv
tr.n, whether of other classes it
r-ces or nation:1, to seek to be served
rather than tJ serve humanity th,s
is practical atheism no matter what
creed the mai uiav profess on Sul
ci ys.
t is very d.-rlmble to say In. ono s
n: rd that th j.-e is a God. But it is
'.he one who snys 'n his heart in h s
will, his actl Hiat there is no God.
who is the fool r.nc's'the enemy of man.
1 is this pn'icnl atheism which is
tan great anl Una! fallacy, which In
ni -nity must a't.u-k and overthrow.
Atheism ?rini of Kullnelrs.
j nd so this faMicy of the telescoie
aid the ey-. this falso belief "-at
slr.re God is net to be seen walk-is
about on the cr.ith on two legs t
stretching O'.tt t,vt arms up In
sl:y, therefore tlnr Is no Gpd, Is th.;
sum of the fallacies that make up
the spirit-forces of evil against
which wo must struKKle, for our ,vn
sp.kes and for tho sake -if all tr.en.
History tells uo tho story how In
the. Swiss struggle 'oi liberty against
th.' tyranny of Auutri.i, the Swiss sul
dlrrs faced the solid phalanx of tbe
Austrian armv, standing with sha.-
spears leveled. To rush against those
fl.eais mean; to rush u. death, ial
the Swiss soldiers hesitated.
Arnold von Winkelried rushed out
from their ranks and as he reached
the Austrian- lines he stretched out
his arms and gathered against his
own breast all the spears he could
reach, crying ".Make way for liberty!"
and as he fell bearing down the spears
which pierced him. his comrades
rushed through the breach he had
made. The line was broken and the
Austrians were routed.
Christ's Work Misunderstood.
History tells us of another man, a
man who, because he saw that the
real enemies of man were, not blood
and flesh but the spirit forces of evil,
and rushed against these with all his
might, to make a way to liberty for
all mankind, has been more misun
derstood than any other, of the world's
mighty champions. We Jiave speken
of him as the meek and lowly one, and
have been blind to the impetuous
ferocity with which he attacked the
great enemies of man single-handed
and gathered to his breast the sharp
blades of their spears.
"It is finished," was his final shout.
"I have broken the line of the spirit
forces of evil. Who will rush Into
the breach?"
Christians, followers of the Christ,
are you following him Indeed through
the breach he made in the ranks of
your mortal foes? Yonder stand the
five arch-enemies of mankind, defying
you: nationalism, race - prejudice,
greed for money, individualism and
practical atheism. They; have con
VOLCIC ERUPTION
IS EXPECTED SOOfJ
Kilauea Likely to Overflow
for Publishers.
MOLTEN LAVA LAKE RISES
Lava In Crater Is Kisin Kapldly
and Strange Sights Are Be
' ' Ing Seen at Ullo.
HILO, Island of Hawaii, T. H., Oct.
ne of the world's greatest spec
tacles of nature demonstrations of
volcanic activity by Kilauea volcano
on this Island will very possibly be
unfolded before'the eyes of delegates
to the forthcoming World's Press
congress sessions in Honolulu In Oc
tober, according to L. W. deVIs-Nor-ton.
secretary of the Hawaiian Vol
cano Research association and an au
thority on the Hawaiian volcanoes.
The lava column within the vast
fire-pit of Kilauea has been rising
steadily, according to reports from
the Hawaiian Volcano observatory on
the rim of the great crater directly
overlooking the volcano. The molten
lava lakes within the great fire pit
are Increasing their area so rapidly
that the shoals and lava rock Islands
which were conspicuous objects upon
the lake's surface are disappearing
one by one as the molten floods over
whelm them.
The itinerary for the press con
gress delegates calls for their arrival
.'lere on the evening of October 12,
and it has been arranged that the
t.ext two days will be spent by the
delegates at the volcano among the
wonders of America's latest national
park. All indications point to a cul
mination of Kllauea's activities about
that time, the observatory reports,
snd If these conditions materialize
the delegates will witness a scene
of marvelous and awe-inspiring
brilliance, Mr. de Vis-Norton said.
Many strange things are transpir
ing in connection with the rapid up
ward swell of molten interior of the
earth within the vent of Kilauea. Mr.
deVis-N'orton said. A gigantic mass
of rock is being forced steadily up
from the depths and is already rear
ing its crest high above the white
hot torrents that lap its base. The
continuous movement and the vibra
tion of this great mass Is causing
heavy avalanches to rush down its
cldes. The result is that it has
ccaled off until the rock mass has
taken the form of an extremely sharp
pinnacle towering high above the
lakes.
Another phenomenon In evidence Is
causing ocnsiderable comment. The
great subsidence that occurred after
the explosive eruption of last March
at Kilauea caused heavy avalanches
to fall from the walls of the groat
firepit. These, crashing down to the
depths, formed talus slopes which
recame covered with d-'bris from
sbove. During the past few days a
ceries of remarkable spouting lava
springs have broken out , at Inter
vals along the top of these debris
slopes, showing that an Irresistible
torrent of lava is forcing its way
up within them, Mr. deVls-Norton
said. The various points of emer
gence are high above the lava lakes
and every few moments, glittering
tnd spectacular cascades of molten
fire and flame roar down over the
:,loprs to the lakes below. It Is "as
thoush the whirlpool rapids at Ni
agara falls had been turned Into
Hume" and the spectacle Is espe
cially striking at night, Mr. deVls
X'orton s:iid.
quered and enslaved multitudes of
your fellow men and are threatening
the world with destruction. The weak
and helpless of the world look
trembling up to you. Will you fight
or will you run? Go, If Indeed you be
true Christians, tall strong spirits, and
hurl back their defiance in their teeth.
Attack Is Urged.
Choose you five smooth stones out
of the brook of truth, that you may
sling them into the foreheads of thes
five giant false Ideas. And these shall
be your stones: first, the stone with
which to attack nationalism 1 will
love my country and make her the
country that shall most serve all hu
manity; secondly the stone with which
to smite race-prejudice I will allow
no hostility, suspicion or contempt In
my mind nuainst any man because of
the color of his skin, the shape of his
features. Ills nationality or his lan
guage, but JudKe every man by what
he is and does; third, the stone that
will kill greed I will seek true great
ness on the path of service and not in
the wilderness of avarice; fourth, the
stone for the destruction of narrow
Individualism I recognize my unity
with all mankind the sorrows of
every man shall be my snrrsws and
the joys of all, my joys I will seek
the welfare of all; fifth the stone for
the forehead of atheism I will trust
in the righteous and loving God I
will seek him and find him in the his
tory of the world's iirorcns in the
past, in the evidences of the increas
ing power of goodness and truth In
the present, and in the urse of all
that is noble and Kreat and Chrisl
likc within me.
1'nllncles Are Traitors.
.Put these five stones In your wallet
and sling thenu with all ur. mipht
and skill aKainst the champions of the
spirit-force of evil. "I-'or we have to
struggle, not with hlnod and flesh,
but with the spirit-forces of evil." If
there were any sifat nation on e.irth
which had completily driven on'
thes-e five spirit-niants. It wnn'.d l.e
come, within a p enerat ion, the run
queror and at the same time Mir
savior of humanity Hut there Is lu
nation free or safe from thrm.
They are the arch-traitni s witr.1"
our walls and within the very rit-ade'
of our minds. They are reaching i r
after the Immense forces which chai
acterlze the new And if .hese
traitors gain control of these forces
then they will destroy the human
race, body and soul; and where now
are sunny o, , hards a nd frjitful fields
happy homes and noble cathedrals
strong men. beautiful women and
merry children, there will be devasta
tion and ruin, barren plains and smok
ing rubbish heaps of brick and stone
and a ghastly graveyard, horrid, bat-tle-ravased
stretches of blood-soaked
earth, with drying bones and rotting,
unburled flesli of what once was man.
And the weird wind will whistle and
howl in mockery over the cinders of
the fools who once had a beautiful
earth and a chance to make It Into a
glorious heaven, but perished because
they would not open their eyes and
strengthen their arms against their
only real enemies, the spirit-forces of
evil.