8 TTTB SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE, 35, 1932 SSTABUSHKD BY HENRY L. PITXOCK Published by The Orosonlan Pub. Co.. . 135 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon, fc. A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. . Manager. Editor. 5 The Oresronian is a member of -the As sociated Press. The Associated Press is fxcluslvely entitled to the use for publi cation of all newl dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this paper ina also the local news published herein, jill rights of publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. ; Subscription Rates Invariably to J Advance. (fey Mall.) . bally, Sunday included, one year . . . .18.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months .. 4.25 Daily. 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Free Press build ing Detroit. Mich.; Verree & Conklln. Monadnock building, San Francisco, Cal. J I THE MELTING POT AGAIN. ! j One is reminded that the process f "transforming aliens to citizens Still is active by attnouncemetit that , the most recent Portland naturali sation class comprises-almost two fruridred applicants. For five years fr more each individual has dwelt in the United States, has complied with preliminary forms and now Earnestly desires to enter the na tional family as a full brother. That is good, for in some such manner and; from identical sources the eountry acquired its characteristic spiritual and political identity by the! blend of varied nationals, by a most . fraternal commingling: of tloods. Yet to the average Ameri can, whether hie degree was con ferred by law or birth,-there must arise the inevitable question what tnanneT of citizens will these men make? and .the trust that merit and; sincerity alone shall win ac ceptance of the applicants. None will gainsay the fact that he; nation, over gracious in wel coming strangers, has in -the past fduridered to its own sorrow and bitter cost. These wene the excep tional instances wherein those who sought our national sanctuary and professed to be of us. proved in grates, traitors and rogues. To off set such memories, and far to sur pass them, we have about us in daily life those many, many thou eandis millions of alien-bom who achieved citizenship in the right epUrit and who wear it proudly and competently. Whatever lack of in spiration, of insight, may have been theirs when they crossed the seas, the breadth and freedom of our'in Btttutions gave to them the vision and made of them American citi zens. Almost we have forgotten that they were bom beyond the borders, and certainly we do not recall that fact with any save the kindliest feeling. They are Ameri cans. The processes which made them so were identical with those who conferred the new nationality upon the fathers and grandfathers of ihe native-born. Yet we have the right, and should exercise it, to inquire searchingly iato the motives of the seeker after citizenship. It is a degree, a knight hood of the republic, not lightly to be given. No fraternal order of the many would accept, if cognizant of the truth,, a novice whose purpose in applying was at heart, but selfish , and insincere. America as a fra ternity without a peer would pro ceed most unwisely if it did not at tempt to search the spirits as wel! a$ the minds of the men who come to crave a boon. It is vastly more important to know with assurance tijat the applicant has learned to love the" land, than to make certain that he is proficient in civil govern ment and national history even though the latter are tests that should never be dispensed with, constituting as they do proof of Bbudy and good faith. !Not many months ago, at a port iii Europe, an American writer talked with representatives' of the A'merican immigration service Whose duty it was to inspect aliens taking ship for the United States. From his own observation and fom that which they told him he deduced that not every European jrfjrrth who quits his millet mush for the steaks of America is either fitted or desirable or sincere as a prospective citizen. And aside from the certainty that a lower standard if living, thus introduced into the Country, must occasion economic difficulty before the alien is ad- Justed to America, he perceived a Spiritual difference even, more dis concerting. S Thus, when a trio of peasant Vouths were sounded on their atti tude toward war, in the event that Ameraca snouia take up arms again, it was discovered that none of them hod the remotest notion that his residence, his citizenship, Carried an obligation to defend the " land of his adoption. "War?" they repeated, once the idea had glim- fnered home. "What would we have to do with war? Why Should we fight for America? We are go SnjJ there to make money." It was obJV too apparent that further Jvds would be wasted. . Ethically, spiritually, the hopeful . voyagers wene a triple blank. 'They were jETOing to America xto better them selves, to feed fat upon the fatness "of the land, and the notion that Anything might be expected in re turn was utterly beyond them. Even the Einstein theory could not Jiave interested them less. - They were; doubtless, very average sam ples of our immigrants f torn- the ese enlightened nations of Europe; One could only trust and pray that Ihe future, the contact with Ameri canism, would work a miracle. Save for a miracle, sound clti kenshlp In less than two or three generations cannot be constructed from such materials. Americanism is an ideal so vital to the country, fco essential to . our national iden tity, that it were well to sound each Immigrant upon his concept of it Seven before the gangplanks are lowered. If there exists the faint est understanding of the privilege bought, of the obligations implied, Mhe truths which stand so solidly behind the desirability of this land above others, It is probable that the wishful one will make a citizen, though, he may not have two cop- pera to jingle. . But it this inspira tion, this , vision is lacking or in sincere, or subject to qualification, the sea lane back to the native shore should be unhesitatingly and invariably indicated. THK PURPOSE OF A VACATION. The annual exodus from moun tains to seashore and to mountains is a reminder that the chief pur pose of vacation is change. It is idle to argue that people need not go to the beach because those who are already there want to get away for a spell. ' The, secret of good health, which rrftans efficiency and is a Step" toward longevity, lies in getting out of a rut, as one of our near-centenarians recently said. The human mind' is so constituted that it prospers best In a state of activity. When performance of its functions becomes mechanical it is on the' road jto decay4 Better wear out than rust out'eontains but half a truth. The fact is that rust causes infinitely more casualties than decay. There are sound physiological reasons why change Is desirable occasionally, and sounder psycho logical ones. Idleness is not neces sarily rest, though a new occupa tion nearly always is. Hygienists tell us that we heed not be alarmed if we ; return . from our vacation trips utterly exhausted and requir ing a day i or two to "recuperate from rest ' ' An' infinitely intricate reaction Sag been Ijaking place in the cells of bodyand .brain, the full benefits of ""which may not be im mediately apprehended. But the readjustment soon takes place, and studies of the chemistry of fatigue have shown that the man who has had . relief from monotony soon overtakes and passes the man who has not. ,., . , . . . That is one reason why it is likely to be more profitable to go away for even a short distance to loaf than to stay at home and do the same thing. Unconsciously we cerebrate in a new track when new scenes are unfolded before us. The eye may not comprehend Jt all or the body ' be sensible of the differ ence, but the process goes on just the same. - The principle -applies with equal force to those who have become 'all run down" from having noth ing to do. The real vacation for that kind of people may be enjoyed at hard work. A ROAD TO THE CAVES. The bear that Elijah Davidson pursued into a craftny in a Jose phine county mountain nearly half a century ago opened the eyes of Oregonians to another of the won ders of their own state, but like the prophet of old, he was a long time winning appreciation in his own country. The incident in ques tion occurred in 1874, and it has taken until 1922 to get a convenient and passable highway to what un doubtedly is one of the real won ders-of the west. - - The Mammoth caves of Ken tucky, which for two generations were "a mecca for sightseers from all parts of the United States, are hardly more wonderful; they sur pass only in explored extent, but not at all in beauty, the caves of Oregon. It is 'not as well known as it ought to be, indeed, that in many particulars Oregon's caves excel those of her sister state. Nature is a lavish decorator out this way. In interior no less than in exterior artistry she works with exceeding deftness. The drive to the caves as Well as the beauty of the spectacle withirf them is a con stant succession of surprises to those who- are not familiar with scenery as we have It in Oregon Quite naturally, the new interest created, by the completion of the road to the caves will stimulate exploration within. The curiosity of men can be depended on to dis cover all that there is to know about the inside as well as the out side of the earth. The three or four miles of galleries now 'open to the public are in all likelihood but a small part of the great laby rinthian mystery. There is an in teresting theory that the passage ways 'extend entirely through the summit of the Siskiyous and into California. If it is true it will soon be known. There may be better ways of traveling from Oregon to California, but none which so challenge the interest of our young sters of all- ages, in whom the pas sion for exploration is as keen as the appetite for food. CUTTING TERMINAL COST. Absorption of switching charges by the three principal steam rail roads entering the city and reduc tion to the minimum of the .charge of the Portland, Railway, Light & Power company will relieve busi ness on the east side of a serious burden and will especially facilitate exchange of traffic between rail and ship. The railroads should be given due credit for promptly granting the request of the shippers. The most serious- objection to separate ownership of railroad tracks within the ciy being thus removed, vacation of streets needed for access to the new terminal ground will give shippers the full benefit of that system. The city can then proceed to inquire into the subject of unified control of all 'terminals and tracks within the city with a view to operation as a belt line and as a single terminal sys tem. This may be done in co-oper ation with the state public service commission and, if a plan cannot be arranged by negotiation with the railroad companies, . the power of the interstate . commerce com mission "to require joint or com mon - use of terminals, including main line track or tracks for a rea sonable distance outside of such terminals," . might. : be invoked, Though the merger controversy raises doubt as tothe future con trol of some of the property in question, it disposes the railroads concerned to court the favor of the public and thus may be turned to advantage in a general adjustment of the.termlnal question. AH of the preliminaries to final consolidation might be carried through without interference with the improvements now in progress, for no property rights need be impaired, and Guild's lake Is a logical site for consolidat ed terminals, v , . This subject is -closely connected with the srowthJof this port's com. merce, for ihat rftust be pushed in close competition with Puget sound ports. -The volume of trade, either coastwise,, intercoastal or foreign. will depend on our handling it with at least as greaeconomy of money and time as by our competitors, and a difference of even a nickel a ton may decide which port shall handle entire cargoes. Extension of raU roads throughout central and south ern Oregon is at hand.and, as much of that region will be little farther from San Francisco than from Port land, we may have to compete with San Francisco for its business. Rail roads have begun to realize that, with intense. Independent water competition, they must rely less on transcontinental traffic aad more on that which comes by water to the coast for them to haul inland aAd vice versa. Hence they should incline more to promote economy in interchange of traffic with ship ping lines and, when the same rail road serves two competing ports, each port will need to be on the. alert lest the railroad favor one by' readier co-operation in this respect than with the other. -' THE PRISON MEMOIRS OF DEBS. The prison, memoirs of Eugene V. Debs, as was to be expected, proVe to be the blend of fanatic idealism and blind faith that is the texture' of the man. America has never despised nor hated him; nor dis counted' his motives, nor at any time seen him other than as an altruist. He was sent to prison be cause, in. a moment of national peril, no man could say the things he said and keep his liberty. Amer ica regards him as a trifle mad as one who dreams and fancies his dreams are prophetic. It is from this viewpoint that America will regard his memoirs. Debs found only good in prison. Rather he discovered all prisoners to be mellow at . heart and mopt prison officials to be brutes in uniform. Thieves and murderers were his mess-mates, and in these he perceived virtues that a bitter world refused to see. The world cannot quite agree with him. It believes in ; redemption, , but it knows from the fullness of expe rience that society must war ,to the end with its renegades. It must tight or. be overwhelmed. Debs, to the contrary,' ;-" holds that every Incarcerated being Binned through the fault of society, and suffers for the negligence of government. Mea culpa. The attitude is that of the sen timentalist, not-the man. of senti ment. Sentiment is always ready to aid and serve, though the service of sentiment connotes a true reason for its invocation. But sentimen tality will weep for the sorrows ofr the thug and stretch a hand to the pervert. Sentimentality would open the doors of every jail and flood the land with crime and criminals. When we grow sentimental over those repentant ones who sinned and were sentenced, it. is well to" remember that those they wronged have a greater claim upon our pity the widows of murdered men, the despoiled, the forsaken, the hun dreds and thousands of lives that have been marred by criminals against whom society could but in voke a term in prison. Unfortu nately we are yet a long way from the fruition of ideals, when there will no longer be need for bolts and bars, and sheriffs and courts. And we must continue to face our prob lems as they are, not as the senti mentalists see them. FRIENDLY OLD SHOES. Intent on'the pursuit of Fashion, who sauntered down a column con cerning what men wear, we were chagrined to discover our delin quency in shoes. It appears that, to quote the authority, there are several essential varieties of foot gear, including "types of shoes for town and' country, for yachting, fishing, camping .and hunting." To be regarded as well dressed, in any given environment, one must com ply with the dictum or be -er confused. The horror- of forgetting such a social obligation and, let us say, going fishing with a pair of boots that were intended for a hill ramble, must scar the soul tissue of the culprit: Yet the guilty feeling engendered by the paragraph, we were grati fied to note, passed gradually but pleasantly away as thought revert ed fondly to a battered and, friendly old pair of brogans which rest be hind the closet door those faithful servitors, scarred and patched like any valiant retainer, which have been on occasion our town and country shoes, our yachting, fish ing, campaign and hunting shoes. Honest leather went to their mak ing, and honest stitches, and stub born hobnails, and, they have left many a happily honest mile behind them. " To feel their pliant caress through woollen sox is to suspect that Mercury has tipped each heel with a wing, and that a seven- league stride is simplicity itself. They fidget foF the open road. Once,, when "yachting," those shoes well recall, the snub-nosed rowboat poked herself under the current in emulation of the mudhen she so resembled, and. left their owner floundering in swift blue water. It was quite the event of 'yachting" circles that day, an. in cident to shatter the shackles of the humdrum, and when they had fished him out and set him ashore the shoes squelched with pride and importance. They were the shoes dried on feet, which any old shoe will inform you is far, more sen sible than being dried on a shoe tree or set before a fire. They walked a -mile that evening, shed ding mud by the way, a mile into sunset, where the firs" were dark and crooning against an ineffafcle delight of color. Time and again we have taken them to the country for an outing our country snoes. There was a day when their print in the dust was sharp and trenchant, each hobs nail recording itself. ' Now - they have done with pride, the nails are worn, the soles are -spatulate, and their impress is not unlike that of the storied dinosaur. However, be twixt and between, they have trav ersed a deal of country, have tar ried by many a spring, have haft tened when a squirrel was to be seen, have loitered .when the sun was high and the shade good. They climbed a long hill up from the Molalla river one afternoon in Aug ust, a long and shard-strewn, hill that seemed interminable up and up from the clover of the green val ley to the red lilies of the dusty burn. . Ana this without a blister, Our country shoes. For fishing and camping, too they have proved indispensable though the criterion insists that they should have differed in style. What streams have they not wad ed, gripping the moss of the river bed rocks, when, there were days to be spent in seeking ever arpund the next bend -for the pool of the big one? About what camps have they not tramped ashes down, that time the bacon wag hot in the an and the flapjacks cold in the breeze? Good serviceable yachting, camping, tramping, fishing, thunt ing and country shoes wherewith, if the ax seemed slothful, one might spring upona two-by-four and re duce it to kindling lengths. - The friendliness of an old shoe It needed no inspiration to evolve the simile that sprang from such a thought. Fashions . irr town and country shoes may come and go, wax and wane, but ever there will be those unregenerate noncom formists who know of a pair that cannot be Improved on, and the re tirement of which shall be enforced by dilapidation alone. Having haled them from their hiding, our friends of old cfays, -we have - determined that with another" patch or so, a stitch here and there, they will en dure for. yet another season our yachting, ' fishing, camping, hunt ing, general utility shoes. ' , A ROUGH AND READY SOUL-SAVER. - The Rev. Joab Powell, whose memory will be honored by the Willamette valley Baptists at the settlement in the forks of the San tiam, which he made famous in the early days, was a unique and eccentric character. The event of which this Is the seventieth anni versary is the establishment of the little colony in the neighborhood of Providence, where the Rev.- Mr. Powell and his. fellow immigrants settled in 1852. The Providence Baptist church was not organized until the following April, but some idea of the vigor of this pioneer evangelist's methods is obtainable from the church records, which show that the membership was doubled in the first year. But it is necessary to a correct appraisal of his efforts that we shall understand something of the conditions under which he labored. The pioneers among whom he was a leader were firm believers in work as the outward and visible symbol of faith within. The Eev. Mr. Powell toiled with his hands for the means of sustenance the while he helped lay the foundation for what is now seen to have been a religious and moral undertaking of vast importance, to the state. ' The, region of the Santiam was well calculated to inspire its habi tants with religious safetiments. To newcomers in the territoryit seemed a veritable Eden. It was this lo cality which had inspired the Rev. Ezra Fisher to write, in the autumn of 1849: "Traveled 23 miles this day over some of the most delight ful parts of Oregon. . . . Per haps no part of the world can ex hibit, at one glance of the eye, so admirable a combination of the beautiful, the grand and the sub lime." There were rumors at one time that the sands of the Santiam contained gold but, fortunately for the peace of mind of the people, this proved to be ill-founded. The 3000 or more souls that Mr. Powell is reputed to have saved were the product of self-denial perhaps without parallel in the history of rnoie recent times. The Providence church, as is attested by the Rev. C. H. Mattoon in his "Baptist An nals of Oregon," became one of the most important in the Central Bap tist association and at one time numbered 400 members, among whom were several men of high prominence in the political history of Oregon. These have given testi mony on more than one occasion to the influence of the "harp with a thousand strings," as Mr. Powell used to be called,, in molding the characters of men. But ,an inadequate conception of the kind of man he was is obtained from the statement of the historian that he "was unquestionably the eccentricity of Oregon." He be longed to the rough and ready school of evangelism. He was un lettered but not ignorant, was pro foundly versed in human nature and in later life knew his bible so nearly by heart as to be practically independent of the printed text, and his hymn, book, which he always called his "song book," he remem bered from cover to cover. For years he would accept no compen sation for his preaching except the care of himself and his horse. Though he subsequently modified his views to the extent of accept ing that which was "freely con tributed," the question of the pas tor's salary never became an issue in any congregation to whih he ministered. It was the era of the circuit rider and the itinerant. The Rev. Mr. Powell was both, as the records of the churches at Good Hope,. Wash ington, Butte, Pleasant Valley, Scio and Sublimity, and the memories of hundreds of pioneers from the Columbia to the Umpqua attest. He was a remarkable man, who lived in a stirring and romantic period, and in honoring his memory theJ descendants of those who profited by his precept and example are preserving a -set of traditions of permanent value to the people 'of the present day. THREE IN ONE. ! The spooky sketchbook, with its eerie but skillful drawings, has been declared by an eastern psychiatrist to be interesting as a psychological phenomenon but wholly without worth as proof that the ghostly fingers of the dead in spired the deft touch of the living. In brief, he concisely summed for us ajrather vague suspicion that it was natural enough, this sDirit art if we "but understood the why. A brain ' quirk, not normally active, is responsible such an impulse as comes to the deluded insane, who often draw and - paint for their pleasure when in the madhouse, though before their affliction they evinced -no trait of the artist..' Not that the psychic demonstrators are touched with madness, but merely that the same source of , un suspected, and uncanny talent has been, tapped. " The investigator, who recently reviewed the interesting New York exhibit of pictures purporting to have been created under spirit guidance, found them amazingly similar to the many he had pre viously studied as the work 'of insane. They were, one Imagines, not unlike the futurist a.nd futurist schools of art, as well. Perhaps even our psychiatrist erred in the too hasty assumption . that the brains which conceived them were unclouded. "The pictures," he said, "arise- from the dream sources of the mind, usually latent, but frequently stimulated by insanity." It was last year, one recalls, that a learned German psychologist pre sented an extensive and alarming array of sketches and paintings each the effort of an insane person. The similarity of the individual pictures, and as a group, to the presumably inspired masterpieces of the newer school of art was at once apparent Now it seems that out of the queer complex of the human mind, sane or insane, arises a third development of the same school, the same genre, identical in oddity of subject and freedom ' of treatment. If . the wraiths of a hundred artists have become con cerned over spiritism, and are bent upon manifesting themselves by the passive hands of involuntary me diums, it must be for the sufficient reason that none gave them honor when they excited the madman to draw, or the futurist to daub. 'THB TURK SURE OF IMMUNITY. AH. the fair promises of Europe to deliver the Christians from the tyranny of the Turk have simmered down to an agreement to send;' a commission to Asia Minor for the purpose of investigating the atest massacres and deportations of Ar menians and Greeks. The United States has agreed to appoint a rep resentative on the commission on the distinct understanding that it commits us tj no action, only to ascertainment of facts. There is no probability that Mus- tapha, Kemal would permit the commission to go where It would unless he was compelled by su perior force, which means war. The allies would not make war, because that would be the signal for Mus tapha Kemal to send an alarm throughout the Moslem world that the infidels were attacking the citadel of the faithful. Each of the allies has many million Moslem subjects, and the last thing they want is a rebellion to suppress. Far otherwise, France and Italy are dickering with that multi-murderer, Mustapha Kemal, for conces sions in Anatolia'. Also the Turks have friends in all countries of the allies who say that the Greeks and Armenians have, massacred Turks by way of reprisal, and they de mand that the inquiry extend to these excesses also. So we expect either that no in quiry will be permitted or that the wily Mustapha Kemal will steer the commission away from the scenes of his crimes or will remove all traces of them, sucft as piles of human bones and will kill or de port all witnesses. He is likely to marshal a host of witnesses to mas sacres of meek and gentle Turks by savage, ruthless Greeks and Ar menians, and to conjure up in his imagination slaughters that never happened. There may be a circum stantial report, full of condemna tion of massacre, but Asia Minor will remain in its state of savagery in the very birthplace of ancient civilization. The right moment for extinction of Turkish barbarism was when Al- lenby's army swept through Syria to the Taurus mountains, when the last Turkish army in Mesopotamia surrendered, , and when the -sultan begged for an armistice. Then nothing but winter stood in the way of a complete allied occupation of Anatolia. But at that time Ger many and Austria were in the act of surrender and the allies were sighing for peace. The only na tion that is now free from the hin drance of many Mohammedan sub jects, therefore free to deal with the Turk as he deserves, is the United States, but we have no na tional Interest in the matter, hence it Is none of our business, and cru sades are out of date by several centuries The Turk is likely to go his own murderous way until some nation, perhaps Greece, be comes strong enough and angry enough to dispose of him once for all. Until then one of the hopes awakened by the world war will remain unfulfilled. . ENRICHING THE LANGUAGE. It Is something in evidence of general good taste, more or less prevalent at all times, that so little of the slang current in earlier years has found confirmation with lin guistlc authorities. ' Slang is essen tially a product of its own day, and fortunately the most of it passes with its own day. Much of the slang of twenty, ten and even of five years ago, is incomprehensible to the present rising generation; and it may well be doubted if anything of the ultra modern lingo associated with flap perism will survive. With that doubt goes also the hope that it will not, since it is largely mean ingless and useless, and in instahces strikingly disrespectful and often slve. Slang is not wholly to be con demned. , Rigid observance of purist rules does not always tend to clarify the expression of thought. Clogs to understanding that will not yield to the most classical turn of a phrase may sometimes be swept away by the force of slang; and many words of slanglsh origin, for this reason, have been adopted into the language to its permanent enrichment. As to all the remain der of it, the slang of bygone days has sunk back into the obscurity from which it so briefly emerged. Makers of new words, more per. sistent arid less frivolous than the ephemeral slangists, have been cor. respondingly more successful. New words, sprung of sound roots, have thrived in every generation, as any fat dietignary of today will prove oy cctiiiparjatm witu iLa last pre viouS edition. But there must be sound reason for such words. In the manufacture of the artificial kind, meaningless in fact, yet euphoniously filled with what seemed almost- to be sense, the suc cess of Lewis Carroll has probably never been matched. Yet even the glossary which he issued in exten uation of his inimitable dramatic adventure of The Jabberwock did not serve to fix a permanent place in language for any word of his quaint vocabulary save one. "Chortle" seems to be the sole separate survivor, though The Jab berwock, as a whole, Has by no means run its course: Present-day publishers of word books, large and small, give warn ing in their advertisements that many entirely new words came into being during the world war, and that intelligent conversation now depends upon an understanding of these words. Specifications that go with this warning give risky ground for contrary prediction; yet while we may admit that "buddy" will endure as a term of comradely endearment, we.must be permitted to cherish doubts as to "blimp." j . On much safer ground may be j predicted the refusal of the people i to indorse and accept the unneces- J sary enlargement of words occa-1 sionally attempted in careless "journalese,", and mnch more fre quently noted in the output of bud ding statesmen and political ora tors. Some otherwise - capably edited newspaperl - have been known to admit that a house had been "burglarized," but the number that go to the- extent of discussing "burgSrization" is ; happily few. Interesting, and we ' hope inconse quential, efforts along this : line have been noted by a correspondent who has attended several recent political gatherings in the ' north west, wherein speakers have over stepped the bounds of etymological prudence in trying., to sway the minds of their hearers. Increase of the size and sonority of words seems to have been the object : sought by these speakers. Taxing bodies have been scored for having spread a levy that meant nothing , less than "conf Isticatlon" of property. In a Washington state convention it was said that the poll tax had ..been "computated" to yield a gross revenue in excess of J2, 500,000 - annually. . Another speaker urged reception of women in party councils on equal terms with men and not on any basis of "femininism." Still another, calling for protection of the peoples' heri tage, demanded a comprehensive policy of "reforestization." Being bigger words, they sound bigger; requiring greater ' wave lengths perhaps they carry far ther. But it's dangerous business to send the tongue tripping up against a word like "femininism"; for if the speaker gets going fast the number of syllables is likely to multiply indefinitely, as in a stut tering description of. a bed of narcissuses by one who spurns the simpler Latin plural. . The still greater danger is that some who hear these self-improved words may go away with the notion that they are real words, and may there after use them to the point of cer tain rebuke and humiliation. With- the British parliament awakening to the menace of the narcotic traffic, the day draws appreciably nearer when there will be international regulation that wll really work. The sale of habit forming drugs has long been a penal offence except for medicinal purposes, but it has not stopped the traffic, and the British home secre tary was moved recently to declare that it was useless to expect the police to detect the importation of dangerous drugs, such, as cocaine. while unregulated and unrestricted production, was allowed in other countries. The Hague opium con vention was excellent so far as it went, but it did not go .far enough. It is needed that all civilized na tidns shall " adopt measures as drastic as that recently provided by congress, and this will be done when it is learned that it is im possible for any . people to profit as a whole by an immoral ana illicit business. The health commissioner of New York is chided by a newspaper for recommending that there be a musical Instrument in every 'home. It wishes that he might have to live In an apartment with a trom bone player on one side, a saxo phone on the other and a ukulele overhead. But "musical Instru ment" was the term the health official used. Signor Marconi Is said to have made eighty-five voyages between Europe and America, a distance in all of almost half a million miles, and when he perfects a wireless that will go that far he will be ready to begin conversing with the man in the moon. With "American Moonshine Whisky" on the official wine card of the steamship George Washing ton, are we .. entitled to know whether the internal 'revenue tax on the stuff has been paid? William J. Pinkerton, the famous detective, says the whipping post is the real remedy for crime. There's just one little detail, however you have to catch your criminal before you can whip him. The scientist who has discovered that the real Noah's ark was the pyramid of Cheops wants us to be lieve that the stoneboat was not a Yankee invention for use in clear ing rocky land. By and by; with more discoveries, vitamines will , be made In tablet form and the .roan with the habit of being late to' dinner can snap his fingers at the. cook and her "missus." - - The Shipping Board may after all be underestimating the number of people who would like to travel on a vessel which had not -been turned Into a booze-fighters' re sort. Miss Robertson notes the kindly good nature and courtesy of Port land people. They are natural assets, well known, to be sure; but we need a visitor to tell us of thean, There's 'an idea in the raisin bread that appeals to make bread pudding of what's uncut. In these days of swiftness, making bread pudding might be a forgotten art. Marks and rubleJ rubles and marks! . Germany and Russia have a common bond at least in the worthlessness of their paper money. It is time for the weather sharps to tell us that this is the kind of summer we always have following the kind of winter we recently had. ' The Rose Festival is over, giving us a whole year to prepare for the always bigger and better one that we are going to have next time. The annversary of the treaty of Versailles seems destined to leave us in doubt wttether here is any thing to celebrate or not. t Dr. Conan Doyle,1 -though an ex pert on spirits, is not necessarily versed in the kind that were aimed at in the Volstead law. We almost need to be reassured that Herrin county Is not in Russia but is a part of the United States. Next thing will be to get ready for a safe and sane Fourth of July in the smaller towns, . 'The Listening Post. By DeWItt Harry. X' LIQUOR1CALLY speaking, case goods used to mean full bottles in dozens or more packed in boxes. But times do change and packing systems as well. Deep studies have been made in proper packing meth ods because stuff that is damaged frequentlycomes back on the jobber or sales agent. Half the game Is in getting goods delivered undamaged in the sport of booze running. Safe delivery is the "whole thing, and liquor spilled in transit is a dead Damp portions of western Canada cater to parched American tourists. Americans are heavy collectors of souvenirs, and most of .them who travel by auto want to bring some thing back with them as a reminder of. Canada, something novel that they cannot get at home. But a big box of "case goods" would be diffi cult to smuggle past the dry work ers, so the Canadians have .con trived several novel and unique methods of packing to overcome, as much as possible, the chances for loss. The most regular package of 12 quarts today, it might be classed as the standard, is a gunnysack con taining straw. This bundle has no betraying .corners and can be stowed away in many an old and unsuspect ing cranny. . - Mighty waters breed mighty fish. At' "Hebo," where -the rivers are so small that they can be turned on and off with a faucet, it is easy to understand that the fish therein -might be satisfied with "brown hackles," grasshoppers or other such trifles. Here at. St. Helens, where the river is more than a mile wide and in ' places more than 100 feet deep, the salmon need something more sustaining to carry them on their thousand-mile journey to the spawning grounds, and a six or eight-inch strip of brass is more to the point. Daddy Waters, when he wants to catch a few 50-pounders, unhooks the little boat he keeps for the pur pose. This has a three-horse en gine and swings a wheel with six- inch blades." He runs the little boat along at halfispeed and about 100 feet from shore: the vicious old chlnooks, thinking the wheel to bej a new kind of spoon, make a run at it and, hanging on with their bull dog grip, are flung out on the bank, when Daddy can go back and gather them up. Sometimes they carry the blade they seize with them, - and Daddy has to have another weld ed on. The best time for this sport is shortly after the sheriff has brought In a newly captured "still" and has dumped , by the board a few thou sand gallons of "shine." The iron works here takes in a good deal of coin during the sea son welding on blades that have been nipped off by the fish, and you may at any time see the bas kets of iron the regular fishing boats carry around their wheels to protect them. P. W. H. of St. Hel ens. While there are many outstand ing incidents of tHe gala day of the annual Rose Festival, two of yes terday seemed particularly inter esting. One was the heat and the bright sunshine, while for the past several years there have been the contrasting showers. The other the youngsters' harvest in selling seats on empty boxes and in scrambling for pennies. The penny scramble on the downtown streets while waiting for the parade is taking on ' the character of a regular event. Yesterday one side of the street was desirable and shady, the other side sticky and hot. One flag bearer stopped right in front of a crowd of young men with army dis charge buttons, and they remained uncovered for about ten minutes and nearly fried their brains. Remindful of early automobile days was the manner in which many of the tops were taken down. One of the great selling points a few short years back was the "one-man top," now the tops are almost al ways raised except in southern Cali fornia, where the styles in many things are weird. Down tops and up umbrellas was the rule yesterday, and on the running board of a ma chine so arranged sat a pair of young capitalists, . counting over day's gains : and splitting 50-50-What with , their box sales and scrambling they had exactly $14.65 each. Ralph Burdick, prominent apple grower and ex-railroad man from Minnesota, who graces Burdoin mountain with his six feet of bone and muscle, and his unlimited sup ply of ready wit, is responsible for this one: "What is your hobby, Ralph?" "Work!" he replied. "Don't you know that all work and no play will make' you old be fore your day?" "Well," he softly drawled, "I don't ride my hobby to death, like some folks 'round here." He was aiming a dart at me; mine is getting up out of bed at 4 A M. (sometimes) to jot down some inspiration to weave a story around. To tell the truth, nearly all of mine originated in a railroad ticket, where one meets, the oddest charac ters imaginable, and from whom one can obtain inspiration enough to last a lifetime. Here are a couple of samples, having happened about the year 1886, when I was selling tickets for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Man itoba railway (Great Northern) in Fargo, N. D. (No, it wasn't dry then!) Dear old lady What time does the 8 o'clock train go to MInn-aplus, mister? With a quick glance at my Inger soll, I replied. "In precisely 20 min utes, madam." "Whattime izzut now?" ' '- A Swedish gentleman rushed up to the ticket window just as No. 4 was pulling out, and I was - reporting them out to , the dispatcher at Barnesville. "Hey, mister, cum har quick like hell; I tank ay vaht tick ets to Minn-oplus!" ... "Single?" I asked, vas 'I . Wet my fingers (my two fingers were usu ally wet)i . "Single, naw! Ay Tsane marfied!" "Wanta one way?" 1 yelled.' -t "One vay? 1 Ay skal say nots. Gaeve may two tcekuts Ay vanta com beck ayen! Babates. Heart Beats. By Grace' E. Ball. There is no permanency, 'tis true, For all of life ie memory. How soon an hour Is lost to view. Classed with the things that used to be! , The Now is all that we may use,- Is all that we may grasp or hold. The past may call, but we refuse To give the new day for the old. The past, if it be sad or gay, Is gone, save where our memories , cling Like cobweb tendrils, that may sway In casement comers; everything Fades as the daylight wmcf, we Know, And takes the mystic tones of thought That linger to the long ago And what past days have brought. One second that is now our share Tls gone that is our measured claim; . One speeding second for despair. Or one for happiness the same; The years that were the pulse of life Are but a memory first and last, For to our final breath the strife. The fret and joy are things that passed. ENVY. Twin sister of Despair, thy secret sting Is rival to the gentler thrust of hers Who leads her v'ctlms to an easeful death. There Is a purity in just despali? The end creeps on slow, sure, in- x clpient. The meekness and the gentleness of ' fate Accepted, brings a certain silent peace, A quietness of breath and relaxed limbs. . - But mark the man who ones has shrinking felt The spectral touch of thy slime-oozing hand, New dipt within the river of De feat, That crawls a thickening course around his soul. The sluggard waves grow rapid with his struggles And buoyed by false hope thy hand has given, He floats, a living corpse,' that soon will feed Thy drooling, satiated appetite. There grows a mighty rook on the horizon, And beside it, a fresh sprouted grass blade Waves and takes the dew wltii shiv ering delight, Drinks in the .sunlight, rests upon the breeze. Accepts the storm and envies not the rock That holds the secret of Eternity Within the walls of its unfeeling , breast. While in thy sight, subservient to thy will. And to thy clan, the denizens of night That breed corruption as a sore does filth, " , . Must man, the former demi-god of earth. Prostrate and abject creep his little way Nor feel the glory of the wind in storm, The peace of reposing lakes at . night, but die With thy green fangs embedded in his heart? KATHRTN EASTHAM. TO A MAID WITH A BRAID. For one thing I'm searching There's one thing I lack, As I tramp through the land With my little drab pack. If only I'd glimpse it. On some happy day. Though foot-sore and weary 'Twould be ample pay. If my dream and my vision Should prove a real fact; A modest, sweet maid With a pretty brown braid Hanging down, away down in the back! I have seen them with puffs. And those wads, called ear-muffs. With fringes and bangs and neck ruffs. I have seen them with frizzes And all sorts of bizzes, With curls that were nothing but bluff. And my eyes are sore weary For a glimpse of my dearie. But still I keep beating a track, For a modest sweet maid With a pretty brown braid, That hangs down, away down In the back! Though she live in a hut On the top of a hill, Though she live in a plain miner's shack. There's one thing she may have For good or for ill, Though all other things she may lack. She may have my whole heart And what's more to the good I'll throw in my kettle and sack If she be but a maid With a pretty brown braid Hanging down, away down in the RUTH WOOLLEY LAWS. WHEN LUNA HOLDS HER SWAY. Night drapes the court In somber hues Of midnight blue and gray; Sets in, like jewels rare, the stars. When Luna holds her sway. The aueen her scepter takes in hand. And makes the land below Her court In other words, give back The radiance of her glow. The heaped-up rocks are castles tall, Like those in fairy books; The irrigation ditches, dull Are rippling, silver brooks. The lone coyote a herald is A herald of the queen; Announcing by a wailing cry Her first approaching beam. The sagebrush gray is silver now And who can doubt, perchance That 'mongst the fllck'ring shadows there The wee folk skip and dance? A mystic time, a magic time Oh who would long for day When sagebrush hills are beauteous And Luna holds her sway? MARGARET HUMPHREY. Vale, Or. EXPECTANCY. Through mists of snow The moon hangs low. Nor seek to hasten higher She waits within the dawn's dark room. For Pentecostal fire. In silken sheen Of shining green. The pine lifts emerald spires. She seeks a wandering cloud to light Them all with heavenly fires. On buds that grow. The winds will blow; And touch them all with flame; And love will light my searching soul; And give my joy a name! , MARY ALETHEA WOODWARD,