THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX.V PORTLAND, JUNE 4, 1922
MUD SLINGERS PUT
BAD LIGHT ON WAR
INVENTOR PLANS TO IRRIGATE RANCHES AND..
FARMS ALONG COLUMBIA WITH WINDMILLS
Breezes That Blow Along Great River to Be Utilized for Power and for Amazing Unit Reclamation Sys
tem With Huge Air-Power Machines.
DO YOU REMEMBER?
Term, First Meaning 'Chick
Fraud Talk by Both Parties
Called Politics.
en,' Wrong, Says Mayor.
DR. PENCE IS SHOCKED
MOTIVES ARE IMPUGNED
New Type Is Outgrowth of War and
World led to Believe Wilson's
Family Used War as Basis
lor Personal Profit.
Is "Jolly Good Fellow," Avers
- City Librarian.
FLAPPER IS HATED
AID ADMIRED HERE
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Oopjirlpht, by i New York Bvwvtaf
Put, Ins. Published by Axraasameot.)
WASHINGTON, IX C June I.
(Special.) Much could be written
about this egitatloa for the prosecu
tion of ths war frauds much more
than can possibly bs Bald within the
6pacs limitations of the present ar
ticle. But there are a few observa
tions which ougbt to be made, and
which, if the ipublio will accept them,
should provide ua with Issues for a
political campaign thi9 year more
wholesome and more useful than now
promises to be. the case.
What, the pnblio' should bear In
mind Is the amount of politics In
volved in the situation. In the In
spiration of the agitation thera is a
certain amount of fanatlo sincerity,
without doubt. But there Is very
much more of politics politics of the
least elevating kind, and on the part
of both parties.
Flrat'of all, the democrats managed
tha war. They were In offloa when
tha war came and they took the re
sponsibility. -Thereupon the republi
cans In the campaign of 1920 went
bpon the theory that the war had
been managed badly. The charges
the republicans made against the
democratic management -of the war,
and which they reiterated over and
over during- the campaign of 1920, had
a good deal to do with the magnitude
of their success that year.
Investigation I Started.
At tha same time the republicans,
who had come into control of con
press, .started s, congressional Inves
tigation of alleged waste, and worse,
In the democratic party's manage
ment of the war. . That investigation
ended, so far as public Interest was
concerned, in a single phrase of three
words, uttered by one of the most
prominent men in the republican
party, Charles G. Dawes. General
Dawes wag in charge of the supplies
for the allies during the war, and is
now, by appointment from a repub
lican president, (he director of the
budget, v
During the war Dawes had been In
a position to know as much as any
on man could know about how the
business part of It was managed.
Atei the end of the fighting, and
before he took office In the Harding
administration, he had charge of the
liquidation of left-over material and
contracts.' When the republican con.
gressional Investigating committee
wa trying to dig up scandal in the
democratic management of the war,
they called this orthodox republican
Incumbent of a high office In the
Harding administration to testify.
- General Dawes Testifies.
He came and he testified. In the
language of the contemporary clas
sics, be testified a-plenty. He talked
for seven and a half hours literally.
What he said Is nowhere on record
completely because he talked so fast
that the stenographers couldn't get it
all down. General Dawes' per diem
rate of vociferation is high at all
times, and when he is mad it runs up
to something like 200 words a min
ute. And on this occasion he wa
very mad Indeed. No human stenog
rapher could get down the full sum
of his anger at what he considered
the effort to -find material for po
litical mud slinging in America's
glorious part in the war. But there
was one phrase which, by reason of
the witness" frequent reiteration of
It, the stenographers got down ac
curately. It was a cryptic phrase, but
It conveyed the speaker's righteous
Indignation and contempt with entire
accuracy. That phrase of Dawes"
ended the Investigation. . ,
"Hell and Marin" la Phrase.
His seven and a half hours of fig
ures and facts, his angfy justifica
tion of the short cuts which men of
ability and Initiative took to bring
an early end to a war that was cost
ing America $2,000,000 an hour and
mora than a thousand lives a day
all that was In his testimony, but
th thing that carried conviction to
the publlo and ended the investiga
tion was his "Hell and Maria."
Thereafter, for a time, the talk
doui war irauas died down. But the
Issue was too attractive for the politi
cians to let It go. It was too well
adapted as an alternative to minds too
Intellectually impoverished to invent
or discuss more worthy issues. At a
lime wnen the whole theorv of or
tranlsed society is in the melting pot,
tha politicians could not find any
thing better than mutual charges of
larceny as a leading Issue in a cam
paign for the control of the legisla
tive macmnery or the greatest nation
in mo worm.
Tha issue of waste and fraud was
revived, and now the democrats are
pressing me same Issue that the re
publicans used in 1920. They have
merely changed it to suit their own
situation by, to speak In the ter
minology of a popular indoor game,
'putting the reserve English" on it.
In 1920 the republicans charged that
the democrats had permitted or
shared In fraud 1n the management
of the war; In 1922, the democrats
are charging that the republican ad
ministration, and the republican attorney-general
particularly, are dere
lict In prosecuting those who com
mitted the frauds which the renub
licans originally charged against the
oemocrais.
Daugherty Is Objective.
Tha present proposal for another
congressional Investigation includes a
cemana ior investigation of alleged
irttuus in connection witn the army
na navy contracts during the demo
cratlc management of the war. a;
well as a demand that the reoublican
attorney-general's alleged failure to
prosecute those frauds be investi
gated also. At the same time a great
deal is dug up and given out about
wnat ijaugnerty aid ten years aeo.
It has nothing whatever to do with
war frauds, but in the current enerirv
and volume of the talk about war
frauds, all this added' to the un.
happy likelihood that the peflple of
America, ana or me world, will be led
to think that our part in the great
war was an orgy or iraua.
some portions of all the outcry
acout war irauas is Inspired by
fanatic sincerity, but that the bulk
of It is political there need be no
qoudi. some or tne particular
publicans are named whom It is hoped
to involve to involve, not In fraud,
hut merely as naving made a great
deal of money during the war. It is
perfectly true that many republican
business men, as well as some demo
cratic business men, did make money
A el
amazing plan to utilize the
breezes that blow along the
channel of the upper Columbia
river as power for an equally amazing
ustt irrigation scheme Is found in the
deed of patent recently granted the
Union Land & Power company of
Yakima, Wash. Should success attend
the scheme some day not far away the
bluffs along- the river will be lined
with more windmills than a Holland
landscape boasts, and they will be of
a more intricate, efficient and larger
type than the old-style European
variety. .
Preparations, according to Milan
Velikanje, attorney for the project,
have already gone far enough to start
the work of selecting a site for the
first huge windmill. This, which Is
the largest air-power, or wind driven,
machine in the world, 1b in the process
of manufacture and preliminary
assembling. It is of a type that is
called airplane-winged, "lamp shade"
center frame, with the main wheel 52
feet diameter, and will be mounted
upon an adjustable iron lift tower, 75
feet from the rim to the base, or a
carrying truck car, which swings
upon a circular railroad 100 feet In
diameter. The windmill will be con
structed to operate in a 2V4-mile-per-hour
breeze. i
Air Power to Lift Water.
The power to be derived from the
motion of the gigantic mill will be
utilized in lifting water from the Co
lumbia river to the tillable land on
top of the hills and bluffs that bor
der it for irrigation and reclama
tion purposes. Instead of planning
Irrigation on large scales the com
pany building the machine intends
It to supply water for small units
of several or even one farm; new
mills to be constructed when new
regions want them.
The mill, states the attorney, will
have, when completed, the largest
sail or wing-spread in existence, sur
passing slightly the famous Friesland
mill in Holland, and also the Murphy
memorial mill at the ocean end of
Golden Gate park in San Francisco,
generally said to be the largest air
driven machine in the world, and In
actual fact the largest In this hemi
sphere, which waters at the rate of
75,000 gallons of Irrigation water,
lifted up 800 feet and through two
miles of pipe to an otherwise dry
highland area, for park drinking and
irrigation purposes.
The airplane blades, or balanced
wings, will be 19 feet in length, 11.8
feet at the wider or rim end, and
five feet six inches at the inner end.
The blades are individually controlled
by set springs and twister braces,
to aocommodate any gusts of wind or
air pockets. The wheel will be con-
during tha war. If they were In
certain lines of business they couldn't
help making money. (Although it
would be interesting to know how
much f the wartime profits now re
main after paying the excess profits
tax and suffering the enormous slump
in values of 192U and 1921.)
Aside from hoping to show that In
dividual republicans made money dur
ing the war. It la desired to discredit
the Harding administration through
attacking Daugherty. It is hoped to
bring about a situation which will do
to the Harding administration what
the Ballinger case did to the Taft ad
ministration. There is no phrase more
current in Washington this week than
the words "another Ballinger case."
As regards the motive behind this, it
would not take a metaphysician- to
distinguish between the part that is
righteous seal and the cold-blooded
desire for political capital regardless
of the merits.
Mud Is Sought.
As between the. politicians of th
two parties, it Is a race to see whlcn
can. find the most mud to throw at
the other. The democrats hope to
discredit Daugherty; but the repub
licans foresee that the only way to
convict Daugherty of alleged dlla
toriness in prosecuting war frauds
must necessarily include the showing
up of frauds, or alleged frauds, that
occurred while the democrats were
in office. At that point the repub
licans count confidently on 'kicking
the ball back to the democrats. They
confidently expect the odium will fall
less on Daugherty for alleged dila
toriness in prosecuting the frauds
than on the democrats for permitting
the frauds to occur. Also the repub
licans expect to be able to Impugn
several former members of .the Wil
son administration, who, after the
war ended, acted as lawyers in vari
ous matters arising out of the war.
Tha whole thing will be a competi
tion In ingenuity between the two
parties as to which can most serl-ousty-dlscredit
the other.
The whole agitation is eolored with
elements that make it deplorable to a
degree that you don't realize unless
you look into it closely. When the
democrats attack Daugherty the re
publicans reply: very well, if you
impugn our cabinet members- with
this old stuff, we'll impugn yours."
A republican senator, speaking
openly on the floor of the senate, an
swers the charges against Daugherty
by making much worse charges
against two members of Mr, Wilson's
cabinet, one of the two being tha sec
retary ' of the treasury, William G.
McAdoo. What this republican sen
ator said In the way of impugning
Mr. McAdoo Is in the Congressional
Record, and allusions to It went all
through the country in the news
papers. The present writer prefers
to refrain from repeating it verbatim.
For one thing. It was about as libel
5 .Vr-.i,.
Largest windmill In history, which will have, if built, large adjustable
blades to utilize power of wind for drawing water from the river to hills
for reclamation purposes. Lower picture shows model already built. - -
trolled with a governor device for
high winds and also to keep the mill
at a steady speed for prevention oi
flooding and control' of water, flow.
ous an utterance as one man could
possibly make about another. Of
course, a senator is not responsible
In the law for what he says on the
senate floor. Neither is a newspaper
responsible In the law for' printing
what a senator says under these cir
cumstances. But one may be per
mitted to refrain from printing
charges like this for some other
motive than merely to avoid going to
jail or being liable in damages. Let
it be sufficient to say that this al
lusion to Mr. McAdoo. taken in con
nection with the circumstances and
the context, were about as ugly as it
Is possible for anything to be.
Doubtless this republican senator
thought this was good republican
propaganda. Maybe, from the stand
point of those to whom politics is
merely a matter of getting and keep
ing office, through superior energy
and ingenuity in fooling the public -
maybe, to such, this is good repub
lican propaganda. But if it Is good
republican propaganda. It is even bet
ter bolshevist propaganda.
To an Intelligent and ardent leader
of the bolshevist movement could
anything be more agreeable than for
a senator of the United States to give
out to the world the implication that
the son-in-law of ex-President Wilson
used his political connections improp
erly to his own advantage? Every
bolshevist, every communist, every
anarchist, every opponent of organ
ized society. In America and elsewhere-
wherever the fame of Wilson
wag known and wherever America's
part In the war was known, will ex
pand it and read into it his own mal
evolent meaning. .
McAdoo Is Impugned.
They, will say, and base it on th
authority of a Lnited States senator,
that the statesman in whom all the
allies believed had in his family a
man who used the war as a basis $or
personal profit. They will say that
all of Wilson's statesmanship, and al!
the idealism in our part of the war,
was mere window-dressing, behind
which Wilson's relatives and ap
pointees were laying their plans to
use the. war for their own advantage.
All these innuendos and worse ones-
worse ones than any decent - person
likes to write down, are justified by
the express words of a speech in
which a republican senator named
two members of Wilson's cabinet, in
cluding his son-in-law, and ended
with a phrase about the performance
being "a smoke screen to bide the
misdemeanors of -democratic cabinet
members who served under the last
administration."
All the-bolsbevists must have heard
of that speech and exulted over it. All
the Lenines and Trotzkys, big and
little; all the I. W. W.; all the ene
mies and critics of the present organ
ization of society must rejoice at this
gift of propaganda to them. One can
imagine Bill Haywood, from bis prei-
mmm
JJZ
In a recent letter Velikanje said
that the first mill or mills are ex
pected to be in operation long be
fore the 19j!5 exposition.
tent position at Moscow, sending the
message to this republican senator.
"Good stuff send us some more.1
Next to this brutal shattering of the
faith of the world in the integrity
and high-mindedness of President
Wilson and his family, the most
agreeable thing to the bolshevists
must be the Innuendo made in the
same republican senator's speech,
that the attorney-general who, during
the war, was responsible for the sup
pression of boTshevisra in the United
States, was merely another creature
getting ready to feather his own nest
McAdoo Is Poor Man.
These are merely the larger and
graver results of this kind of poli
tics The .Individual results to Mr,
McAdoo must be painful. Mr. McAdoo
is a poor man poor almost to the
point where poverty is an embarrass
ment. It Is doubtful If Mr. McAdoo
today, even after three and a half
years of the- private practice of law,
could pay in full for the Log Angeles
house he lives In. But -the personal
injustices Involved in this kind of
politics, cruel as many of them are.
are -minor to the public interests,
which is impaired by giving to the
world the idea that there was whole
sale fraud -in the American conduct
of the war. If the politicians, who re
gard thj sort of thing as the most
effective kind of Issue are allowed
free rein,"we shall all come to believe
that we are quite mistaken wnen we
thought we fought a war between
1917 and 1919, and that what we really
did duringthose years was to engage
in an Immense and complex project of
stealing money from eacn other.
Hysteria Is Stirred Up.
Any cautious person who keeps
himself Immune from the hysteria
that has been stirred up about the
prosecution or alleged failure to
prosecute war. frauds, whot under
stands the political or perso'nal mo
tives that lie back of some speqific
eases, and who Is Impressed with the
Immense public damage done by let
ting the discussion of these things
obscure issues that are more vital-
such a person, if called upon for an
adequate action covering the whole
situation in the briefest way, would
probably set up a radio, summon Mr.
Charles G. Dawes to the transmitting
end of it, and broadcast throughout
the United States, for 24 hours a day,
one reiteration after another of the
contemptuous phrasa with which Gen.
ral Dawes summed up his ssven and
one-half hours of testimony 'Hell
and Maria." If the reiteration of that
particular phrase should be too tire
some, this republican director of the
budget has in his well-stocked vocab
ulary ample variations of the same
summary of his emotions and . ha
would be glad to use them all in ex
pressing his feelings about politicians
who are trying to make us think that
Americas part in the war was an
orgy of fraud.
What Is a flapper?
is she sn innocent school elrl, a
fluffy debutante whose Idea of ad
venture Is a tea fight, a resoectable
but "skittish" working girl, a plucked
eyeorowed dancehall , habitue who
thinks with her feet, or a baby
vamp? Or Is she a myth, a state of
mind?
Prominent Portland men And women
or various walks of life gave up in
disgust yesterday when aBked to
give a waiting world a spontaneous
definition of a flapper.
Apart as the poles were the im
promptu explanation of 'minister,
nousewue, educator, mechanic, law
yer, society girl and all. the rest, of
what a "flapper" Is to them.-. From
righteous Indignation and mordant
condemnation to warm defense and
unqualified eulogy raged the verbal
battle of the pro-flappers and the
anti-flappers.
How old are flappers? Why do
they flap? Can a flapper be married?
Does a flapper want to be one or has
she, like Topsy, "jest growed?" Has
the significance of flapperhood
changed? Does a flapper admit she
Is one? Is she something compara
tively new under the sun?
"All Wrong," Says Mayor. ,
To Mayor Baker, the man who made
Mary Garden famous, went the
honor of first attempting . to define
this young person whom everybody
discusses, and-; then asks someone
else what it is.
"That's a pretty hard question!"
breathed Hlzonner; and immediately
went into a trance, marked by oc
casional scratches at the northeast
corner of hiss,official head.
Emerging, he. exclaimed:
"I don't know what a flapper's
idea of a flapper Is!
"I have never used the term be
cause it's all wrong. It started way
back when they first called a girl
a 'chicken,' then a 'baby doll,' then
other terms as these became worn
(Kit by overuse. . Always they are
taken to mean a girl who is off
color. "No girl whs wears a neat dress
Of proper lengthwithout rolled or
expensive hose or garters in evi
dence is ever-referred to except as
a nice, neat 'girl.' Some girls like
to be referred to as flappers, but It's
all' wrong."
Dr. Pence Shocked.
"Whew! My dear sir, what a ques
tion to ask a man In my position!''
exhaled Rev. Edward H. Pence of
Westminister Presbyterian churchl t
It was suggested faintly - that he
might have some a few flappers In
his congregation. -
'Under my preaching? Heaven for
bid!" he protested. When he had
gone ever the top of the last chuckle,
however, he vouchsafed: r
"Usually a female of uncertain age
who, In order to hook a man, takes
advantage of what nature endowed
her with, or what She thinks nature
endowed her with. Instead of utilizing
her own mental and moral .cutlure;
who, Instead of the product of her
own character development, depends
on adventitious gifts.";
On the other hand, Miss Anne M.
Mulheron - citv librarian, not onlv
does not ohject to the flapper" and
calls her "not a bad sort" but re
veals an entirely different sort of
flapper from the popular conception
or misconception of the creature of
a different age, origin, social stratum,
motive and mental caliber.
Elapper Held Result of War-
"She's one type of society girl,
from 18 to 23, a girl who thinks, and
knows what she's doing; refined,
cultured, not 'after a man' not the
queer, painted, forward, cheap, com
mon flirt "tit the streets. She is an
outgrowth of the war. Forced 'to be
jolly good fellow to entertain
soldiers and sailors, told to do so as
patriotic duty, she took on re
sponsibilities and did things uncon
ventionally. I'm for her!"
Mrs. W. A. Elvers, state president
and national committeawoman of the
American Legion auxiliary, gave her
similar origin and pronounced the
flapper "a sweet, dear, cute girl who
did her ,duty In a sisterly way in
entertaining returned soldiers, served
a useful purpose . and Is still needed
to entertain service men from, other
cities."
"Flapper" Held Not New. I
It remained for Dan J. Malarkey,
attorney, to take all the local pride
out of life by - dating the flappei
today elusive and indefinable to 9H
Portlanders out of 10 as previous
to 1913 in her descent upon a defense
less world. Mr. Malarkey s explana
tion, which had a shot of legal flavor
In it, also presented the clearest in
formation as to the origin of, the
flapping ingenue.
"I first heard the word flapper'
when in England in 1918. I'm not
sure that it was new then, and again
when there in 1916. It originated,
believe, as a designation for the
yaung British schoolgirl with her
hair in a braid, flapping to and fro.
What is popularly understood and
accented here as the meaning of the
slang term ; 'flapper is a 'chicken'
the girl In her teens who chases
around the streets at hours when she
ought to be home, who gads about
at dancehalls; the girl who is near-
bad. But in England It was and
probably still la a term not compli
mentary but conveying no moral re
proach.'' "
Brainless, Avers Stenographer,
Perhaps the cleverest and certainly
the most format definition came from
a young stenographer in a wholesale
piano house. Miss Peg Mara. It Is
only fair to the other entrants in the
Webster Derby to admit that she had
opportunity to -formulate her dictum,
"I've discussed her with all ths
girls in our office," scoffed Miss
Mara.
"A flapper is a female from 15
to t as brainless as she looks. All
she has above the chin Is a conviction
that we (flappers) are a long time
dead." All she has below the chin are
a cobweb blouse, inadequate hose and
an abbreviated periwinkle Skirt.
"She speaks a language all her own.
TJnable to give an intelligent answer
to any question, she invarlaoiy re
plies: "Did it was T Everything to
her Is the cat's pajamas' or 'th
caterpillar's right eyebrow.' Ask her
what makes her flap and she hands
you an unintelligible mouthful of
flapperese small talk-.M
Phone your want ads to The Ore-
gonlan. Main 7070, Automatic 560-55.
The famous team of roadsters, Hallle Hinges end Happy Hooligan owned and driven more than 20 years ago
by Wallace Whitmore? It was one of a number of particularly fine, spans driven about the streets and roads
of Portland and vicinity In the days when the horse was still the combined means of transportation and recreation,
and when the -Riverside Driving club meant the same to the city that the Waverley club now means.
Hallle Hinges was named after the well-knqwn Salem soloist, Hallle Fairish. Hinges, and the appellation of ths
other horse was chosen tor its euphonious qualities. The owner was one of the city's leading horsemen and the
span was the pride of his heart, although horse lovers of that day still In Portland declare Hallle Hinges and Happy
Hooligan- were hot the finest team in town, and each one has a favorite pair that he still backs to the last word,
just as hs backed them when the horses were still trotting on tha Riverside road.
The photograph was taken in front of the Dolph. heme and was lent to The Oregonian by L. H. Adams, himself
a horseman In the days gone by. It shows Whitmore In the seat and the team posed for showing.
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When the venerable Dr. Thomas L. Eliot was superintendent of schools for Multnomah county?
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When Bishop B. Wlstar Morris had a calling; acquaintance with every Episcopalian family living on tha west
side? .
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When Al Zleber and Charles W. Knowles, always Immaculately dressed, were the benlfaces of ths Clarendon
hotel? - .
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When Mrs. C Holt Wilson and Colonel John McCraken played "The Lady of Lyons at a benefit performance?
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Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bates, the parents of Blanche Bates, were Shakespearean stars at the old Oro FInoT
RIGHT OF WOMEN TO ENTER
SENATE UPHELD -BY SOLONS
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Members of August Body Know No Reason Why Feminine Influence
. Would Not Be Helpful to Government.
BY CAROLYN VANCE.
(Copyrisht, 1822, by The Oregonlan.
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ASHINGTON, D. C, June .
(Speelal.) If, as a result of
the topsy-turvy conditions ex
isting in American politics, a woman
should be elected to the United States
senate this fall or In 1924, will she, as
she crosses the hallowed threshold,
find "Welcome" on the mat?
I put this question bluntly to a bloc
of senators today and they all an
swered "Yes." What else could the
poor things answer?
Senators have progressed far from
that small boy lack of control when
they would have handed out black
looks and even jeers to the leggy; pig
talled little girl creature who would
have dared to Invade their pirates'
cave. , , - , -
Nevertheless, under the veneer they
have acquired, some remnant of that
feeling, call it sex antagonism If you
will, remains. It sticks out even In
those senators who are loudest in
lauding the efforts of women who are
trying this year to fight their way to
the senate.
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Thus far, the two leading feminine
aspirants for togas are Mrs. Peter
Oleson of Minnesota, and Miss Belle
Kearney of Mississippi, but there are
half a score of others "dlppin their
timid toes" in the political pond to see
just how cold the water is.
Should any ladies be elected to the-
senate during my term of office, I
shall try to be polite to 'em," blurted
out Senator Moses of New Hampshire,
and this is perhaps indicative of the
general attitude of the senate.
As a matter, of fact, senators are
looking forward to participation by
women In the affairs of the senate
with about the same happy anticipa
tion that most men look forward to
"ladles' night" at the club,
a a e
Senator Ashurst- of Arizona, be
ginning alphabetically, fails to see
where the dignity of the "most august
body ln.the world" would be lowered
by the entrance of a woman.
"The world has seen some capable
queens, Elizabeth and Victoria of
England and Wilhelmina of Holland.
So why not a woman senator?" he
questions, not without some degree of
reason.
Lack of training in public life, and
even a profound knowledge of public
affairs, la,not necessary to the success
of a woman In the senate, avers the
senator from Arizona. Woman's in
tuition will balance what she lacks
In other ways.
"The senate has ehanged greatly
from the senate of 60 years ago," said
Mr. Ashurst. "Today It Is crisp, cold
and businesslike with no time for the
poetry and gentleness of life. A
woman would add a touch of life, a
flavor of romance to the senate. Fur
thermore, she would help to make the
senators behave."
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. Senator Shortridge of California
pooh-poohed the idea that woman's
intuition would have anything to do
with her success in the senate.
"It takes knowledge to be efficient
WATER FROM BROKEN MAIN
FLOODS PART OF BROADWAY
New York Also Gets Shock When Autoists Headed for West Appear
. Trailing House on Wheels.
BY JESSIE HENDERSOnV '
(Copyright. 1B2& by The Oregonlan.)
NEW
EW YORK, June i. (Special.)
haa been an exciting week
for "the average New Yorker.
Not only has he had nis own affairs
to take up his attention, but he has
also grown cross-eyed in the attempt
to keep track of young Mathilda Mc
cormick and her ever-changing nup
tial plans.
Most of the water from the Cats
kills burst through a three-foot main
ono afternoon and went roaring in
great waves down Broadway from
Eighty-sixth street to Columbus cir
cle. It was a little- matter of five
million rushing gallons, more water
so Bon Vlvants remarked than had
been seen on Broadway since the pro
hibition amendment made H-2-O the
rarest thing along the Great White
Way.
. When the shock of the sight of so
much water was over. New York
awoke to the fact that for the first
time In Its career there was fishing
on Broadway. Just why fish should
be part of the city water supply re
mains & mystery. But boys .with
in the senate. Work on committees
requires a trained mind and impartial
judgment," he said.
But the senator Is quite sure that
there Is no sex In the Intellectual
world and that there are plenty ef
women with keen minds who would
be eminently qualified for the senate.
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It was rather surprising to find
Senator Ladd of North Dakota, who
always has been a staunch friend of
the women, warning them against
running for the senate.
"They will Injure their cause by
going too fast," he dissuades. "Thers
should be now for women a period of
training. It is better for them now
t& seek municipal offices, like places
on school boards, etc."
He makes exceptions, however, for
the women of his own state because
they have voted for years and have
had that training.
Women should become hardened to
political life before -they try for such
high places as the senate, he re-1
marked with finality.
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Senator King of Utah concedes the
right of women to run for offices
particularly the senate but deplores
the tendency. -
"We need women -now in te home
more than we ever needed her be
fore," he said. "It Is. lack of homes
that is the matter with the world
today. There are too many apartment
houses rtoo many boarding houses
and not enough homes."-
The. senator does not insist that
woman's place Is wholly In the home,
but he thinks a "back to the home"
movement on the part of woman
would be decidedly beneficial In the
race. , . -
"A man will not fight for his board
ing house," he said.
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Senator Walsh of . Massachusetts
emphasized the point tjat "a woman
has just as much right as a man to
run for the senate, that she was apt
t'o be just as capable as a man, and
that she should be considered exactly
as a man in the senate.''
Senator Du Pont of Delaware de
clared for equal rights but not "pre
fereptlal rights."
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I really should have asked Carrie
Chapman Catt and Alice Paul to col
laborate on the statement which Sen
ator La Follette was willing to have
made for him In respect to women
running for the senate. He was anx
ious to get back on the floor of the
senate to vote on some question, and
so he gave me carte blanche to make
a statement in favor of the proposi
tion "as strong as you have a mind
to, young lady," he said.
. .
Senator Spencer of Missouri was
willing to state that a woman might
be a greater acquisition In some in
stances to the senate than a man.
Senator Capper of Kansas disagreed
with Senator Spencer on that point.
He does not believe that & woman can
be of more use In drawing up certain
kinds of legislation than a man, but
I if there is a woman within the state
who has outstat.dmg ability for pub-
1 Ho service Bhe should be elected.
buckets caught two or three "Bhlners"
In the flood. Grown folks they of
the childlike hearts got as much fun
from watching the deluge as did the
youngsters who waded therein.
Water Supply Short.
" But It wasn't so funny to learn a
little later that many apartments
above the seventh floor must get their
water supply In pails from some
lower level. Here, indeed, was a
touch of backwoods stuff in the mid
dle of man's civilization.
In such a topsy-turvy town it Is
not surprising to find a bit of grim
though unpremeditated humor even
in the Memorial day observances
Solemn, beautiful - and reverent
though the services were at the mon
ument unveiled In Brooklyn to the
war heroes of the 19th assembly dis
trict, they had their touch of a smile.
For Anthony Fentola, whose name
was Inscribed among those of the 83
dead heroes, was among the specta
tors of the ceremony. Through an
extraordinary chance of war, a letter
addressed to Pentola had been found
In the pocket of an unidentified sol
dier. - Ths monument had been la-'
scribed and erected before Fentola
learned that his name was on ths
list of the dead.
Autolsts Start West.
George B. Lenox motored Into town
the other- forenoon with his house
trailing at the tall end of his car.
Lenox likes to travel. So do his wife
and daughter. They happen to. be
on their way to Seattle now from
Watertown. N. Y. Lenox said they
didn't want to spend a lot of money
stopping at hotels, so they Just rigged
up a hotel of their own Lenox Is a
carpenter and hitched it on behind.
The house has electric lights, screen
doors and windows, as well as the
merit of always being able to accom
modate the Lenox family, no matter
where night overtakes them. At
present they are camped on a vacant
lot in the Bronx.
Firemen have no easy time in this
town. If It isn't a fire It may bs a
summons-to establish peace without
victory. Seeing clouds of smoke and
hearing cries for help, the neighbors
of James Murray turned in the alarm
the other night. When two fire
trucks, an engine, the chief's wagon
and 1000 people had assembled, the
first fireman to dash up the stairs
discovered that the sparks were
wholly verbal. The Murrays were ,
arguing the theory of evolution or
the nebular hypothesis or something.
Any way, they had become so in
terested in the argument that they
had forgotten the supper which,
burned to a crisp, supplied the smoke.
QItb Admit Thefts.
Crime has been getting on as well
as could be expected, or, indeed, much
better than that Two little girls,
aged 11 and 12 amazed detectives by
confessing that for a year they had
spent most of their time after school
hours in picking pockets. Another
of their little school playmates had
taught them how to do It, and it was
awfully good fun. There were also
the two little boys, aged 14 and 15,
who lassoed a sedate citizen of
Brooklyn as he was sauntering down
main street, the way they had seen
it done In the movies, threw him
to the ground and emptied his
pockets. But boys will be boys, and
nowadays girls will be boys also;
therefore, why should one be too
critical?
GRANTS PASS GIRL GETS CLARA
WALDO PRIZE.
Portland Boy Receives A. J. Joints
son Award at College and Many
Others Are Rated Highly.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL CCti
LEGE, Corvallis, June 3. (Special.?
Scholarship honors and awards hi.v
been announced by the registrar a of
fice, which had final decision on tha
prizes. Jeannette Cramer of Grants
Pass won the senior Clara H. Waldo
prize of 850, and Harold Readen of
Portland Won the A J. Johnson prize
of $50 for senior men. Others men
tioned were Gladys Miller of Portland
and Alice Feike of Portland, Earl
Price of Pomona, Cal., and Myrton
Westering of Portland.
Junior awards under ths Waldo and
Johnson scholarships of 8140 each
were to Edna Readen of Portland, 140,
and J. B. Alexander of Corvallis, 840.
Anita K. Davis of CorvalliB and Jen
nieNorene of Bend, Grant Hylander
of Portland and Percy Locey of Cor
vallis were given honorable mention.
Sophomore winners were Lillian
Nordgren of Aberdeen, Wash.,, and
Paul Magill of Nampa, Idaho, $30
each, and honorable mention was
given Marie Tonseth of Portland, Ann
McPherson of Portland, Dwight
McCaw of Prescott, Wash., and Rob
ert Hadley of Portland. A $20 prize
under each of these two scholarships
was awarded R. C. Jenner of Seattle,
Wash., and Lottie Morris of YamhilL
Honorable mention was given Bertha
Schumacher of Portland, Helen Hum
phreys of Corvallis, D. D. Hill of
Corvallis and C C. Christiansen Of
Ontario.
Hortense van i-ioneDeae or waua
Walla, Wash., student 'in commerce, is
the winner of the Joseph M. Albert
prize of 825, offered to the senior
student adjudged by faculty and stu
dent committees to have made the
greatest progress toward the Ideal of
character, service, and wholesome in
fluence during the four-year college
course. " .
A silver loving cup was awarded to
Joe Kasberger of The Dalles by the
Mountain States Power company, of
fered each year to the senior man
excelling- In athletics, scholarship and
manhood.
In 1921 the world's proairctlon of
coal dropped back to the level of
production in 1909. with the total
output at approximately LIOO.OOO,
009 metric tons. -