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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 21, 1922
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STATES ACCEPT THE PRINCIPLE OF
FEDERAL AID.
Notwithstanding the refusal of the
legislatures of New York and Rhode
Island to provide for co-operation
with the federal government under
the Sheppard-Towner act and the
adverse opinion of the attorney-general
of Massachusetts on the consti
tutionality of the measure, its advo
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general acceptance. The three states
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verse themselves later. Four states
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ernors pending action by their legis
lators, as provided for by the bill.
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passed the requisite formal legisla
tion.' Action in this state was taken
at the recent special session of the
legislature, which adopted a resolu
tion empowering the state board of
health to comply with the terms of
the bill.
This action by the states is sig
nificant for various reasons, among
them that it indicates a growing
tendency to assent to the principle
of- federal co-operation as a kind
of' liaison between commonwealths
which have a mutual interest in the
solution of a problem, but find it im
practicable to agree upon uniform
laws. As with federal aid in road
building, which has been achieved,
and in education, which it is hoped
to; extend further, the states .find
themselves on common ground in
promoting the aims of the Sheppard
Towner act. The mutual interest
herein is in fostering education in
maternity and the care of infants,
which is conceded to be a matter of
national concern. It is hoped through
the co-operation of state and federal
authorities to reduce the mortality
fate both among mothers and young
children and also to increase the
standard of health. Decline of the
actual birth rate by comparison with
a; generation or more ago is admitted,
, jjinr it is proposed to furnish com
pensation lor tnia uy manuig luetLer
jlify safer and by saving an increas
es proportion of the babies that are
born.
;l It is the number of surviving off
spring rather than the superficial
feeundity of a people that counts in
the en(l a lesson now being taught
by bitter experience in the backward
countries of Europe, such as Russia
r5-and this principle is invoked by
the Sheppard-Towner bill. Its pro
visions, however, are not compulsory
sto individuals and require no ma
chinery of registration, as has been
mistakenly assumed in some quar
ters. It foists on no one a super
vision not voluntarily accepted. Its
j?urpose is to stimulate action by the
states themselves, and the extent to
Which it succeeds in doing this will
bv the measure of the practicability
of the epochal experiment in paternal I
Cooperation in maternity matters.
The law is guarded with provisions
against federal dictation and is con
Jeat with making available federal
Bppropriations on a "fifty-fifty" basis
fo ) match those made for the pur
poses in question by the states.
The promptness with which the
Spates have acted is another sign of
the breaking down of hostility to the
principle of federal aid in fields of
activity formerly regarded as exclu
sively local. The bill was signed by
the president on the day before
Thanksgiving, 1921, less than six
months ago, and already has received
affirmative action by more states
.than would be required to ratify a
constitutional amendment. Observers
of. the drift of affairs are reasoning
well within the bounds of probability
in assuming that speedy passage and
acceptance have trought perceptibly
nearer the day of co-operation in the
enactment of laws for the uniform
regulation of marriage and divorce.
A PIONEER ROSE.
, ; The death of the reputed creator
of. the Crimson Rambler rose will be
a reminder to old-timers in Oregon
of another climber once regarded
as a native of the northwest, but
.which in all probability was exotic,
as other cultivated varieties in Ore
gon are. This was known as the
Mission rose. It was noted for its
fragrance, a particular in which
'ftiany of our modern roses do not
excel, and there is an interesting
difference of opinion as to its origin,
i' John Minto, a pioneer . whose in
'tejest in the development of the state
sxtended to every phase of its life,
is known to have transplanted a bush
.from tire property of the Methodist
;miss ion at Salem, from which it wat
long aupposed that the variety od
talned its name. Another version
Jgives it a more ancient lineage. Dr.
William Fraser Tolmie, chief factor
ef, the Hudson's Bay company at
Fort Nisqually, on Puget sound, is
iauthorlty for the statement that he
.cultivated the rose at Nisqually in
,1840 from cuttings obtained. from the
company's headquarters at Fort Van
couver. It was believed to have been
Jtaken to Vancouver from California
Sn about 1S32 by Thomas McKay,
stepson of Dr. John McLoughlin, who
;had charge of the Hudson's Bay ex-
press between the Sacramento val
hey and the Columbia river in the
learly "30s. David McLoughlin, step
brother of McKay, has vouched for
this version, according to which the
name Mission was obtained from the
Spanish missions of California rather
than the Methodist missions of Ore
gon. Whichever is right it gives us a
picture of the efforts of the people
of the Pacific coast in a very early
time to embellish their gardens with
the familiar flora of their former
homes. . As a matter of fact, both
accounts of the origin of this partic
ular climber may be substantially ac
curate, except as to the derivation of
its name. The early Oregon mission
aries may plausibly have obtained
their first roses from Dr. McLough
lin, who was both a, lavish enter
tainer and a generous host, and he in
all probability, procured his from
California in the manner stated.- Mc
Laughlin's enterprise extended not
only to improvement of the strains
of grain and livestock which made
the Vancouver farm famous, but also
to the importation of fruit and flow
ers. The ornaments as well as the
necessities of civilization had a place
even in the doughty old trader's
scheme of life.
The Mission rose, although still oc
casionally encountered in an old-time
garden, was probably crowded into
the background by the superior
claims of a myriad of varieties, the
Rambler among them, which rosa
rians have developed in the past
third of a century. Nevertheless,
there are many who will regret that
it is not more generally cultivated, if
not exclusively, at least in company
with other roses. Its perfume, which
is at once delightful and pervasive,
is sufficient to atone for a number
of minor faults.
THE BOOKS BOYS READ.
To all who in a vanished day be
came fairly familiar with history and
geography through the enticing lanes
opened by Henty's books for boys, to
such as were wont to read Oliver
Optic for sugar-coated morals and
sturdy adventure, the fact that Jhese
books no longer are read may be sur
prising. They seemed so sufficient
and so satisfying once but that was
twenty years and more ago. Library
ians inform us that Cooper's tales of
the Indians are scarcely smudged to
day by the romantic youngsters who
seek for fiction with action abound
ing. Leatherstocking they find In
terminable and tiresome, a garrulous
fellow whose deadly proficiency with
the long rifle is nothing extraordin
ary. Almost any vaudeville theater
features a sharpshooting act now
and again. Henty's heroes and their
valor in distant lands pale before the
actual records of such a war as
England never dreamed.
What do boys read nowadays? In
the Chicago public library not long
ago an endeavor was made to win
now the books available, suitable for
boyish preference, and determine
how old favorites are faring in their
competition with the new. It was
then that Optic, Henty and Cooper
a trio to conjure with not so long
ago walked the plank to compara
tive oblivion. Stevenson, Twain and
Scott still held a firm following, and
are rated as popular with the Ameri
can boy as they were with his father.
It may be a trifle unkind, smacking
of disloyalty, to suggest that the re
tention of these in favor and the re
jection of the others is a test of true
literary merit. Books must win the
right to survive.
The juvenile craving for a nimble
fancy in letters alone is perennial. So
it Is that "Tom Sawyer" still chums
with the boys, and that "A Connecti
cut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
is yet a sort of bantering demi-god in
Camelot and the hearts of his
friends. Boys are drawing "The
Three Musketeers" from library
shelves just as they did a decade or
more ago, and Kipling's "Jungle
Book" has never missed a stride. One
begins to understand the distinction,
the quite important difference, be
tween mere literary productivity and
the true fruit of genius. The liter
ary chap may be a veritable Belgian
hare of letters, a marvel of prolifi
cacy may even be among the ad
mired of the day yet his name will
lae written upon sand.
HAY FEVER AND POISON OAK,
Investigators have recently been
doing good turns for their fellow
men by delving more deeply into
those twin discomforts of summer
time, hay fever and poison oak. Im
portant revelations are that the for
mer is due to causes which, in the
main it Is industrially advantageous
to abate and that the latter can be
forestalled in most instances by the
application of the simplest of reme
dies. Common soap, lavishly applied
in time, is likely to be as efficacious
for people not unduly sensitive to the
irritation of poisonous plants as
more complicated and less accessible
emollients are.
The president of the American Hay
Fever Prevention association. Dr.
William Scheppergrell of New Or
leans, after a long and expert study
of hay fever, confirms the pollen
theory of its causation, which was
first advanced in 1873 by a London
physician but has only recently
gained wide acceptance. In a book
that he has written on the subject
. Tlf 3aVL that fTlA liav faVAI-.niiltlninr
' lants 3 withnnt
pollinated and that those causing the
greatest distress are common weeds,
"such as the ragweeds of various
sorts, wormwoods, yellow dock, care
less weed, marsh elder and cockle
burr." These are also among the
most persistent enemies of the far
mer and gardener, .so that their ex
termination serves the cause of agri
culture at the same time that it re
lieves sufferers from the disease.
Anti-weed laws have been enacted by
thirty-three states and by numerous
towns and cities. State laws are not
well enforced, except in Wisconsin,
but local ordinances are better ob
served. It is noted that in every in
stance where weed war is waged
early and kept up there is a general
abatement of cases requiring medical
treatment. The spring forms of hay
fever are peculiarly responsive to
preventive measures of this kind. ;
It is desirable to know in connec
tion with oak, ivy and sumac pois
oning that it is caused by the caustic
action of a "lac," or juice of the
plant leaf, which even in a desic
cated state is extremely poten and
In this stage is capaole of "being
borne long distances by the wind,
which accounts for the infection of
certain victims who are sure that
they have not handled the plants
themselves. Early or emergency
treatment depends upon saponifica
tion of the "lac," in consequence of
which most standard prescriptions
and remedies contain a saponifying
ingredient. But soap, the uses of
which are not as fully understood as
they ought to be even in these mod
ern times, has almost ideal properties
in this regard. Thoroughly applied,
and always available though other
medicines may not be, soap deserves
a high place in the first-aid chest of
the camper or picknicker whose
outings are apt to be spoiled by these
woodland pests. Automobilists will
be particularly interested in the re
cent announcement of the discovery
that gasoline is also a sovereign sol
vent of the poisonous principle of the
lac and that it is likely to give re
sults if applied within a few hours
of a suspected Infection.
There remain enough cases of idio
syncrasy to warrant caution in gen
eralization. The investigators recog
nize that certain Individuals catch
hay fever from the pollen of plants
which do not affect most persons.
and that there are others whose skin
is abnormally subject to the poison
oaks. These, however, are no worse
off than before and some millions
for whom the simple measures suf
fice will be made incalculably hap
pier by the knowledge that their dif
ficulties are not insurmountable.
TRUBEE DAVISON'S CHOICE.
There is a story behind the will o
the late Henry P. Davison that sheds
light on the way some rich men
think. "Never Intent upon mere
muneymaking, always actuated by a
communal duty," says the New York
World, he left a heritage "in the
form of a high sense of public serv
ice" for his son Trubee, aged 26, to
carry on. After the young man had
graduated from Yale and had served
in the war as an aviator, his father
gave him a year in which to reach
a decision regarding his life's work.
The World says:
Was he to follow in his father's finan
cial footsteps and enter the Morgan firm,
or was he to travel another road toward
which his father's inclination always bent,
and give himself to public life and poli
tics? The father pointed out to the son
that in the event of the second course
being chosen he would be practically de
barred from engaging in money-making
enterprises, for, in the opinion of the
senior Davison, money making and politics
snould be widely separated. The boy was
told that he would have provision made
for him whereby he would be wealthy, but
ty no means unusually so. He was told
further that it would involve a sacrifice,
since his final success would depend upon
the sincerity of disinterested and finan
cially unrewarded effort. 'whereas, were he
to become a banker, the money he con
trolled would make a great deal more for
him.
After a few months the son chose
public service and renounced succes
sion to his father's interest in the
Morgan firm to his younger brother.
The father then provided in his will
that upon the death of his wife, to
whom he left his estate in trust for
the whole family, $4,500,000 and his
country property on Long Island
should pass to Trubee.
By his course during the war the
elder Davison had given an example
of his conception of civic duty. He
devoted himself entirely to manage
ment of the Red Cross, and to his
great executive ability was due chief
ly its success in raising unprece
dented sums and in administering
them for the benefit of the soldiers,
of the allies and of distressed nations
after the war. A very close friend
is quoted as saying: ''He gaveall
tne time, but always requested that
his name be withheld." The choice
set before his son shows that he re
gards politics as public service, for
he considered that "moneyraaking
and' politics should be widely sepa
rated" and that success in politics
"would depend upon the sincerity of
disinterested . and financially unre
warded effort," -
That view of political life has been
taken by an, increasing number of
men of -wealth or of income that
provided amply for their needs.
Theodore Roosevelt was a shining
example, and, aside from his genius,
there is no doubt that his influence
greatly raised the moral standard of
politics. His example fired others
and led a galaxy of young men to
enter public life with generally good
results, notwithstanding inevitable
errors of judgment. Though The
Oregonian disagrees seriously with
some of Gifford Pinchot's opinions,
it frankly regards him as a man of
the same type.
Development of such a class fur
nishes the answer to those who have
been wont to bewail the absence of
a "leisure class," comparable to the
rich aristocracy which supplied
many of the political leaders of Eu
rope in its less democratic day
Men like Davison are not so rare as
many seem to imagine, especially
those who sneer at Americans as
"dollar-chasers." They soon realize
that accumulation of a fortune is an
unsatisfying aim in itself, and that
it can give the highest and most
lasting satisfaction only by being re
garded as the means to an'end. Such
an end is the betterment of the com
munity in which one lives, of the
nation of which one is a citizen. So
far better is the lot of an American
than that of a citizen of any other
country in. these days that the con
trast inspires men to prize it highly
and to devote their lives to removal
of any shadow on It. Having this
aspiration, Trubee Davison will not
add to his fortune, may even dimin
ish it, but the service he may render
hio country will give him more en
during fame.
PROTECTING THE WILD FLOWERS.
The desirability of educating pub
lic sentiment for the protection of
native wild flowers is emphasized by
the apparent futility of legislative
efforts in that direction in some of
the eastern states. In Massachusetts,
for example, the trailing arbutus, or
New England mayfiower, has been
singled out for control, but the inter
ests behind a pending bill represent
precisely the opposite principle to
that which would seem to be desir
able. There it is said that the active
supporters of the measure are the
people of Cape Cod, who have capi
talized the sentiment which the arbu
tus connotes and are obtaining a
considerable revenue from its sale.
Legislation, moreover, to prohibit the
picking of a single species of flower
is inconvenient and undesirable for
several reasons, among them the
prevailing want of information of
the average city dwellers of the
botany of the woods and fields.
Prohibition of the sale of wild
flowers of any or all species, how
ever, is practicable and invokes an
idea that would be generally accep
table. The principle has been adopted
in existing laws forbidding commer
cial dealings in wild game and fish
even in the seasons when it is lawful
to take them for the sportsman's
own use. Moreover, enforcement of
an anti-picking law would but add
another costly and anger-provoking
warden serivce to our police depart
ments. To put a ban on commercial
ization of the kinds of wild flowers
which we would most like to pre
serve would be to place prohibitory
legislation in an entirely different
category. The flowers most likely to
be affected by such a law in Oregon
would be the wake-robin, the Ore
gon grape and the rhododendron.
The day is probably far distant
when any of these species will be
come extinct, in the nature of a
country whose uttermost fastnesses
are as yet not even explored, but
they are even now beginning to dis
appear from the more accessible
spots. The more striking varieties of
the Oregon grape in particular have
suffered severely within a decade
and increasing use of the automobile
and the extension of roads hastens
the day of Its comparative destruc
tion. Increasing rarity but whets the
appetite for it. The ox-eyed daisy,
which has become a pest, would be
sought with avidity for its undoubted
decorative qualities if it were but
scarce.
Something can be said meanwhile
for the campaign of education which
various outdoor societies are promot
ing. It does not seem beyond the
probabilities that people can be
made to realize that thoughtless de
struction of flowers destroys the
pleasure of future generations with
out greatly enhancing their own. In
any event those who insist on having
native wild flora on their tables
ought to be put to the trouble of
going after it. Making merchandise
of it is as great an offense to the
finer sensibilities as plastering the
grandeur of the landscape with
crude advertising signs.
A FUTURIST CALENDAR.
When it is remembered how
stormy a reception greeted the daylight-saving
movement, there will,
not be much confidence in the suc
cess of the movement to revise the
calendar, newly brought to attention
by discussion of a proposition to
make Easter a fixed instead of a
movable holiday. The calendar of
thirteen months, each month having
four weeks, with a separate day at
tached to neither week or month for
New Year and another like it for
leap years, is the simplest form sug
gested thus far. But it is not to be
permitted to go unchallenged.
Two German scientists propose to
divide the year into four quarters of
thirteen weeks each, the first month
of the quarter containing thirty-one
days and each of the two following
months
The most curious thing about this
proposal is . that it is said to have
been received seriously by German
scientists. Others will have consider
able dificulty in reconciling it either
wuh the instinct for conservatism
which is the common obstacle to all
change or with the desire for change
in the interest of simplification and
efficiency. It is remindful of the
futurist tendency in art and free
verse in poetry, in which the passion
for something or anything differ
ent degenerates into the grotesque.
The single advantage over the present
calendar resulting from this German
invention would be that one calendar
would serve for a number of years.
As an instrument of time-saving it
would be inferior to the thirteen
months scheme. It would give us
more quirks and oddities to, bear in
mind than the system that we now
have, and would compel us to invent
a rhymed substitute for "Thirty days
hath beptember besides.
Theoretically it would be a fine
thing to have the days of the week
and the days of the month corre
spond always. But, as has been il
lustrated by the history of the metric
system of weights and measures,
theory and practice frequently do not j
correspond. Custom has a way of
taking such a hold on us that the I
mere argument of superior efficiency
is apt to carry little weight. We have
hardly even now recovered from the
inconvenience caused by reforming
the calendar that was in force when
George Washington was born, and
the next change, if possible, should
be the last. We are much too busy
doing a number of things to be inter
rupted by the necessity of learning a
new calendar every few hundred
years. j
TRIFLING WITH THE MARRIAGE
LAWS.
One Rudolph Valentino, a motion
picture actor, appears to have cher
ished the notion that the marriage
ana divorce statutes of his state
which happens to be California are
not to be taken seriously. The revela
tion that he was married the other
day in a town just across the border
in Mexico while an interlocutory de
cree of divorce was still pending at
Los Angeles has precipitated inquiry
partly no doubt because of the
prominence of motion picture folk in
the public eye just now with the
result that other motion picture
actors are shown to be in the same
boat. They, too, Were impatient with
the orderly processes of the law and
sought to evade it in the same man
ner. But these incidents are sug
gestive not so much of another scan
dal brewing in motion picture circles
as of the belief, by no means con
fined to that quarter, that the re
sponsibilities of a serious contract
are to be escaped in this way.
Marriage is not to be sanctified, or
even legalized, by so patent a sub
terfuge. It is particularly so in
California, whose law makes provi
sion for the granting Wi the begin
ning of an interlocutory decree only.
This decree is 'not . a divorce, but is
in substance nothing more than no
tice that the court at the expiration
of a year will grant a divorce. Pend
ing completion of the proceeding the
parties to the action -are still hus
band andVwife. Yet almost countless
individuals seem to think that by
going to another state, or another
country, or somewhere outside the
three-mile limit they can contract a
new marriage and set the laws of
their state at naught.
The practice has'not been without
Its followers In Oregon, where, al
though there is a slight difference in
the form of the law, its effect is in
principle the same. Prohibition of
remarriage within a period of six
months is here designed to protect
the right of the defendant to appeal
yet there is no doubt that this pro
vision is valid, whether appeal shall
subsequently be taken or not. Not
withstanding the plain statement of
the statute and the equally lucid
opinions of courts, people who ought
to know better continue to resort to
the popular but unlawful subterfuge
of going elsewhere to wed within the
period prescribed.
A certain obedience to law is due
from those who invoke its benefits,
and the statutes governing marriage
and divorce are no exception to the
rule. Even "where the citizens of
the state purposely go beyond its
jurisdiction and not within the juris
diction of another state, as at sea,'
as the supreme court of Oregon has
declared, "and then contract mar-
riage otherwise than in accordance
with the laws of such state, the
transaction is a fraudulent evasion
of the laws of the state to which the
parties owe obedience, and therefore
void." The hoary notion that the
high seas" are a law unto them
selves persists, notwithstanding the
obvious insecurity of its foundation.
The possibility of contracting a valid
marriage under conditions rendering
it illegal at home by merely crossing
a national boundary line rests on no
better ground than the exploded
high seas" theory.
At bottom there is more than
technical avoidance of the laws of
commonwealths in the inclination
noted. There is crass ignorance of
the protective principle on which the
laws are founded. But there is also
a regrettable tendency to view mar
riage itself too lightly. Desire to
be off with the old and on with the
new prohibits reflection, brooks no
delay. What shall be said of the
probable future of those who enter
the new relation in flagrant defiance
of law designed to protect it against
degradation? How gravely are its
responsibilities likely to be regarded
by individuals who hold law in so
low esteem?
OREGON'S LAST LINCOLN ELECTOR.
The death at Spokane recently of
J. W. Souther, formerly of Benton
county, Oregon, who was the last
survivor of the Oregon delegation to
the national republican convention of
1864, recalls some of the political
devices made necessary to assure the
supremacy of the union forces dur
ing the stirring period of the civil
war. Souther and his colleagues
voted, as the Oregon convention in
structed them to do, for the renomi
nation of Abraham Lincoln for presi
dent. The republican party in this
state, however, had no technical ex
istence, and the delegateswere named
as those of the Union party, with
which during the war the Douglas
or union democrats were also affili
ated. The union convention in this
state in 1864, which was held at
Salem, was remarkable among other
things for a studied avoidance of the
name "republican" throughout its
proceedings. The delegates, of
whom Mr. Souther was one, were ac
credited to the national conven
tion,", the prefix "republican" being
omitted. Their credentials were re
ceived, however, by the national re
publican convention without serious
question.
The fact is that Oregon was
nearer to active support of the re
bellion, or at least to a negative po
litical policy, than many loyal citi
zens supposed. The union party,
though conceived in patriotic desire.
found no little difficulty in divorcing
politics from patriotism. It will be
remembered that the year 1863 had
been a gloomy one for the republic.
Sympathizers with secession, the
number including many who had
emigrated to Oregon from the south
ern states, were emboldened by the
adverse fortunes of the union arms
on the battlefields of the east. Six
Oregon newspapers, including , one
edited by the poet Joaquin Miller,
were suppressed for treasonable ut
erances, but the sentiment which
they represented was rife. The op
position of Douglas supporters to the
emancipation proclamation made it
problematical whether the party
coalition could be held together. The
Knights of the Golden Circle were
openly active and disloyal. The ad
jutant-general of the state officially
reported that there were ten circles
of this copperhead organization in
the state, of which two were in Port
land. The dream of a Pacific re
public, chimerical as it now seems.
still had a hold on the imaginations
of some of the people.
Souther's fellow delegates were
the Rev. T. H. Pearne, then pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal
church of Portland; Fred Charman
of Oregon City; Josiah Failing, a
pioneer of 1851; Meyer Hirsch of
Salem and Hiram Smith of Linn
county. A fact of historical impor
tance as now seen in perspective was
the growing political Influence of
southern Oregon, which region.
however, was unable to obtain the
nomination of its candidate for con
gress, Orange Jacobs, who subse
quently removed north of the Colum
bia river and became an eminent and
honored citizen of Washington. The
successful nomine for congress was
the Rev. J. H. D. Henderson, a Pres
byterian minister who had helped in
the organization of the republican
party.
The success of both Henderson and
Pearne is reminiscent of the large
influence of the clergy in political
affairs in that time and of the pecu
liarly active type of men in the Ore
gon ministry. Henderson was suc
cessful in the election and Pearne
was George H. Williams' most for
midable rival for the United States
senatorship when Williams was
elected a short time afterward. The
strong tendency to divide, over local
and regional issues was Illustrated by
the defeat of John R. McBride for
renomination to congress. Oregon'
was then In the throes of a gold min
ing excitement which shared inter
est with the war, and was demanding
a coinage mint from the federal gov
ernment. McBride s action in favor
ing The Dalles as the seat of a mint
was largely responsible for the op
position of other sections which de
feated him.
Indeed, in view of the greater ca
pacity for overlooking merely paro
chial grievances which the people of
Oregon later manifested in the
Spanish-American war and in the
still more recent world war, the po
litical annals of the civil war period
make strange reading. Historical ac
curacy does not permit any assump
tion that the union cause in this
state had an easy road to travel. It
is somewhat doubtful that it would
have won in the 1864 election if the
democrats had not been hopelessly
divided over various forms of dis
loyalty. K strong and increasingly
outspoken secessionist faction de
clared for peace at any price. A
number of formerly unionist demo
crats were weary of the war and
others had been alienated by ' the
emancipation of the slaves. A so
called group of "war democrats"
favored prosecution of the war, but
only for the preservation of the
union as it then stood. A convention
of Polk county democrats adopted
resolutions declaring against contin
uance of the war for the suppression
of slavery. The radicals denounced
"the present unjust, unnatural and
savage war." The democratic plat
form adopted at Albany carried
water on both shoulders, but singled
out the abolition of slavery for espe
cial condemnation. Ex - Governor
Whiteaker, an avowed champion of
the right of secession, was chairman
of the democratic convention; for
mer Governor and Delegate Joe Lane
made a number of secessionist
speeches during the campaign.
Lincoln's nomination was fortu
nate from the viewpoint of Oregon
as well as of the nation. His plu
rality over McClellan, however, was
only 1431. McClellan carried nine
counties Baker, Benton, Jackson,
Josephine. Lane, Linn, Tillamook,
Umatilla and Wasco, though by
small majorities. Lincoln's majority
in November was but half of that by
which Henderson had been elected
to congress in June. An almost per
ilous event had occurred in the in
terim. The union vote as a matter
of fact had increased by more than
1100 but meanwhile the democrats
had received- accessions numbering
some 2500. This was the vanguard
of the celebrated body which came
to be good-humoredly and collo
quially known aa the "left wing of
Price's army."
These incidents marked the closing
scenes in the life of the union party
in Oregon, which subsquently gave
way to the re-established republican
party. The Pacific republic scheme
gave up the ghost with the end of
the civil war and the death of all
the hopes of secession.
These trying events, in which Mr.
Souther was a participant, are re
minders, as has been suggested, of a
period which, for political romance
and profound human interest, are
probably without a counterpart in
the history of the state.
If the old apple tree on the site
formerly occupied by the Hudson's
Bay company at Fort Vancouver
shall prove to be actually nearly a
century old it will have little diffi
culty in establishing its distinction as
the oldest apple tree in the United
States, although there is a greater
probability that apple trees more re
cently planted will live to be a hun
dred. Our forefathers knew less than
men do now about prolonging the
life of an orchard, and trees that
have lived fifty years or more have
mostly grown out of bounds, so far
as present usefulness is concerned.
The modern methods of horticulture
have been particularly successful in
extending the existence of the peach,
formerly regarded as the most short
lived of fruits, but which is now
made perennially to renew its youth
by being constantly occupied In the
production of new wood, which will
remind the moralists that Chauncey
Depew, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and Dr.
Parkhurst were right when they said
that the recipe for longevity consists
in always having plenty to do.
Frederick MacMonnies wins his
point that man was made strong and
woman tempting, and his statue of
Civic Virtue will stand in New York's
city hall park, for which it was de
signed. Nevertheless, the contro-
versey precipitated by his insistence
on a symbolism that aroused the ire
of the feminists suggests that women
have not fared altogether badly in the
allegories of the past. Beauty is
always represented by a woman; the
muses are women; Britannia, who
rules the waves, is a woman, and
Columbia, the gem of the ocean, is
also a woman, though they have to
feminize the name of the discoverer
of America to make it so. While we
are about -it we might as well in
clude a reminder that Liberty also
is of the gentler sex, although it Is
only recently that women have ob
tained political rights approximately
equal to those of men.
President Harding's rule not to ap
point men over 60 years to the bench
does not mean, however, that jurists
ought to be chloroformed at that age.
It is designed to obtain a guarantee
of longer public service, and might
well be relaxed to meet especial con
tingencies.
German ingenuity never rose to
greater heights than in conceiving
the scheme by which she proposes
that part of her debts shall be for
given her and that we shall lend her
the money to pay the rest.
Three weeks after marriage, an
Iowa woman declares, she discovered
her "husband" was a woman. It
was the bride's second marriage, too
A novelist might put across such an
affair, but It taxes credulity.
The governor of New York, in ve
toing a bill making provision for
further suspension of prison sen
tences, gives voice to a growing idea
that the way of the transgressor is
easy enough as it is.
Now that President Harding has
obtained a promise of shorter hours
for steel workers, maybe Mrs. Hard
lng can Institute a successful move
ment to cut down the hours of house
wives.
The circus press agent has a story
of an elephant that wept for joy on
seeing its owner after a long ab
sence. But man, who will scout the
tale, remains the only animal that
laughs.
A New York judge holds that the
wife $who refuses to get breakfast
for her husband is guilty of cruelty.
It would seem that a good deal might
depend on the kind of cook she is,
An epidemic of incendiary fires in
moonshine distilleries entitles the
reader of the news to draw his own
conclusions as to whether there is
honor among moonshiners.
A civil judgment obtained in an
American court against a Cossack
general seems to be worth about as
much as a garnishee of the salary of
an officer of the soviet.
For some reason those garden hats
that are so popular this season have
no association with the garden that
Mary,. Mary, quite contrary, used to
cultivate.
Now here is a preacher who says
that the young people are being car
ried off their feet by jazz. Still, they
have to touch the floor once in
while.
Then again it were more profitable
to get out and hustle than to spend
all of one's time bemoaning the re
luctance of the cost of living to de
cline.
Now that the conference is over,
Genoa can return to the defense of
its reputation as the only genuine
birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
Dr. Doyle, having got in touch
with George Washington, will oblige
us by obtaining the latter's opinion
of Parson Weems.
The cordiale apparently was some
thing less than one-hair or 1 per
cent.
LIVE TOPICS FROM THE PRESS
Weakness of Cherry Pie Is Inavaila-
bllity Next Day.
Now that the cherry pie season Is
approaching, discussion of the merits
and demerits of this succulent des
sert is seasonable. A writer in the
Kansas City Star points out that the
prime weakness of cherry pie is its
inability to hold Its age. Fresh
cherry pie is one thing, but a cherry
pie baked on Tuesday takes on the
appearance of the infirm on Wednes
day. As the trimmings for a "cold
snack" it doesn't perform satisfac
torily as a husband-holder, much less
a husband-getter.
Cherry pie is in the same classifica
tion .as the peach cobbler, and the
strawberry shortcake, i Therefore it
lacks standardization. It is not re
garded as a household necessity. An
artistic cherry pie is not to be
sneezed at in the best of company.
But a cherry pie that insists upon the
observance of all the rules of society,
and the use of a fork when it really
requires the use of. a spoon or to be
treated as a beverage, has a tendency
to bring the whole institution of
cherry pie into discredit.
Probably the same charges could
be laid against huckleberry pie, only
more so. Whether either is to be
recommended as a husband-getter
may well be left to those who be
lieve that matches are made in the
kitchen and not in heaven. But why
should a girl take chances when
apple pie is easier to make and is
always safe? Hot or cold, in April,
June, November or January, for Sun
day dinner or Sunday night lunch, for
picnic, banquet or church supper,
fresh from the oven or an article
kept in cold storage for a rainy day
there's apple, pie.
Long ago it was predicted that the
brewers would not spend all their
time bemoaning the passage of the
eighteenth amendment but would
adapt their business to new con
ditions. That they have already done
so was indicated by some of the ex
hibits at the National Candy show at
Chicago recently. Old plants that
used to .turn out thirst-quenching
stuff by the million barrels are now
making sweets, demand for which is
said to be accentuated by inability to
get alcohol.
The plant of the brewery which
manufactured the beer that made
Milwaukee famous" is turning-out
chocolates by the ton. Many other
breweries in other parts of the coun
try also have been turned into candy
factories. Many men who used to
drink heavily during the heyday of
the saloon now have a box of choco
lates in their desk, because of the
alcoholic content in sugar, but Walter
C. Hughes, secretary of the National
Confectioners' association, says that
the confectionery industry is not the
legal heir of the saloon" as many
people think, and he gives some facts
to uphold this contention.
Of course the candy industry bene
fited from prohibition the same as
other industries," said Mr. Hughes,
because people are spending the
money formerly spent in saloons for
other purposes, but the confectionery
industry is not the legal heir of the
saloon.
"It is the fifth in the industries in
the benefits accrued from prohibition.
The greatest gainer is the savings
bank, then comes the soft drink busi
ness, the third is ice cream and the
fourth the movies and other theaters,
with our industry as the fifth."
Vegetarians are getting strong sup
port from the antiquarians nowadays.
Recent researches made by scholars
indicate that heroes of Homer pre
pared their food with their own
hands. In the happy simplicity of the
Homeric ages the great heroes who
dealt such terrible blows, leaving
death and desolation behind them
when they reposed after their ex
ploits, partook of a blameless dish of
beans or a plate of homely lentils.
It may be difficult to imagine Di
omedes in the act of peling onions or
Achilles washing cabbages. But, al
though the wise Ulysses roasted, with
his own hands, a sirloin of beef, vege
tables occupied the most conspicuous
places at all the great banquets of
ancient Greece.
Parsley formed the crown with
which Hercules, as conqueror of the
Nemean lion, crowned himself. An
acreon celebrates the plant as the em
blem of joy and festivity. Fable
makes parsley the food of coursers;
the warriors of Homer fed their
chargers with it for battle.
The cabbage was adored by the
Egyptians, who raised altars to it.
Afterward they made this strange
god the first dish in their repasts.
The Greeks and Romans ascribed to
it the happy quality of preserving
from drunkenness and looked upon
it as a sovereign remedy against
paralysis.
Asia is said to be the native home
of the asparagus. Yet the Romans
cultivated it with such marvelous suc
cess that the stalks raised at Raven
na are said to have weighed three
pounds each, and we are asked to be
lieve that the African variety, grown
In Libya, reached a height of 12 feet.
Attention has been called to the
long words in the chemical schedule
of the tariff bill. But, as in many
controversies In the realm of states
manship, the human element has been
overlooked, notes the Washington
correspondent of the Springfield Re
publican. The pathetic suffering and
personal agonies of the senate read
ing clerk have been but too lightly
brushed aside. It will be remembered
that the whole bill, covering 179
closely-printed pages, was read to the
senate. It is said on reliable author
ity that when the clerk reached di
methylaminophenol his morale was so
completely undermined that an assist
ant had to be rushed to his succor.
And when dimethylphenylbenzylam
monium hydroxide, nitroanthraqui
none and kindred words were reached
the senate atmosphere resembled a
tripartite debate with "Tom" Watson
speaking on Corea, Senator King on
Russia and "Tom" Heflin broadsiding
the federal reserve board.
In the great drawing room, with its
rich furniture and rose-shaded lights,
the heiress and her husband sat chat
ting after dinner.
"Percy, dear," she said presently, a
tender light in her blue orbs, "do you
remember that tomorrow is the eighth
anniversary of our wedding, and I
have never missed baking you a spe
cial cake for the great day?"
"My darling," he said, in limpid
love tones, "you have never failed
me. I look back on those cakes as
milestones in my life!"- Answers,
'Old Souls": A Study.
By Grace Hall.
Oh, soul returned, aware of every
truth.
Age-wearied by you grasp of more
than others see.
You must grow lonely early in your
youth
And come in time to hunger word
lessly With still unquenched. unquenchable
desire
For wisdom that to but a few seems
great;
You must sit desolate by your own
hearth-fire
With many others near you, early,
late;
And they shall whisper with a covert.
knowing smile.
And even think you stupid, after
while.
Oh, soul aware! Thrice blessed are
the weak!
Those who are born with blindness
of the brain:
They ask no better pastime than to
speak,
A thousand barbs, deflected, spare
them pain;
Like infants much concerned with
painted toys,
They wear their little energies
away.
To them there are no mysteries; and
joys
Are gathered from the baubles of
each day;
Yet must you, pitying, pass, for what
they choose
Is from the rubbish heap of your
refuse.
Oh, soul! yours is the treasure trove
of years,
A treasure that but few indeed
shall prize;
Although you come full-handed, yet
your peers
List coldly to your truths; unsee
ing eyes
Meet yours without one flash, one
purposed glance.
To indicate they sense your worth,
your sphere.
While lesser atoms, listening in, per
chance. May raise their maudlin voices in a
sneer;
You waste no language in a voiced
reply,
Your very silence challenging their
lie.
Whence came you to this alien place,
oh, eoul?
Were you released long ages past
from otherwhere,
Aud burdened then with verities of
life, your goal
Seems centered in this lower strata,
where
Men grope in blindness for these
things so plain to you
Speak, soul, and say if you have
lived before.
Whence came your super-instincts if
this be not true?
Who opened to you life's queer,
complex store?
Were you a super-thing in ages past.
Or is this present ego wiser than the
lust?
Did some strange, restless atom, a
million vears am
Give you a torch with ultra-brilliant
gleam.
And bid you take your lonely way
below,
In search of its own one-time cher
ished dream?
Did this unresting spirit whisper se
cret things,
Explaining correlations few men
understand?
Did it make clear all truth, touching
queer hidden springs
Somewhere within yourself, with
sly and cunning hand?
Oh, soul! were you but given a voice
to speak
You then might tell the truth that
ait men seek.
lovk.
Come, all divine and beautious love.
uressed in the dreams of God;
In your eyes the first intentions, and
The tragedy of infinite regret;
uring us the logic of the things
above,
And sow our hearts with flowers, as
the sod
Foams forth in bloom when summer
rain has wet
The panting earth. Hate has been
long alive;
And men have made them fearful
things of steel.
And set them boundaries for which
they fight,
Though but the vagaries of thought
they reel
In the drunken madness and stupidity
Of race injustice. Weltering war and
blood,
And the wild tears of woman, and
the rage
Of frenzied men. Upon the fartherest
sea
By Oman's gulf and Cashmere's sunny
flood,
Balking reason and the destiny
Of weltering tribes wherever has ap
peared The starry creed of what men ought
to be.
Oh, heavenly love! All fair and beau
tious come!
Lay thy rebuke upon the sword and
spear;
Give voice to those, who smitten dead
and dumb.
Have neither eyes to see nor ears to
hear.
Strike off our chains; expose our self
ishness; Make plain the the. reason of the
world's distress;
Bid charity her radiant banner give
To all the skies ideal, and send fair
mercy forth;
Proclaim, proclaim, these sodden souls
shall live;
Bring our dead dreams to fullness of
sweet birth,
Lest night and horror shall engulf
the earth.
GUY FITCH PHELPS.
MARIA.
When you gaze out at me
From those dark languid eyes.
When your lips, half parted.
Seem to speak without a sound,
It seems that all the romance
Of old Spain comes to my heart,
And sitting here with you
The dull world floats away.
And out of mists as in a dream
Marches a procession of the glory
That was Spain in ages past:
Chevaliers with great sweeping
Plumes and wrinkled leathern
Boots, with swords that flash.
Then Spanish beauties who seem
To look like you, with fan combs
In their raven hair and spangles
On their lacen drapes of black.
Such is the opiate of fiery
Southern love. To take awry
The sodden earthen themts
And bring a paradise of dreams.
NORD B. JONES.
UNITY.
As fruit, that rests beneath the
leaves.
As darkness, holding fast the sun.
As grain, asleep within the sheaves
So heart and heart are one!
As hills lie folded, each on each,
Or mould, where molten metals rue.;
As waves are lost upon th beach.
So mind and mind are one!
As bee. that sucks the s weet-loveO
best,
Like larva in a bed, new spun,
Or homing bird that finds her nest;
So life and death are one!
MARY ALETHEA WOODWARD.