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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING; AUGUST 21. 1221.
Uf JCLE SAWI'S NEW
CHIEF PROHI IS
SHY AS PROPHET
Parched Nation Is Promised by
Haynes but He Refuses to Fix
: Any Date for Aridity. .
By W. H. Atkins
Washington. Aug: to. L N .& Roy
A. Haynes, "dry battler of Ohio." now
prohibition chief of the United States, la
a double-barreled optimist. But as a
prophet he's as shy as a March hare.
Just ask Haynes what he thinks about
the future aridity of America, and he
will tell of his hopes, his ambitions
and his airtight plans for liquor control.
trol. ;
But as for a flat prediction of when
the United States will begin to reduce its
present "wetness" and become actually
- dry. in fact as'well as in theory, he set
tles back in complacent silence and
merely smiles. -
, To those who are yet to know the
liquor law boss at close- range it may
be said that he wears an expansive and
gracious smile that invites admiration
because the man who wears it perforce
must smile, or fall in despair, in a task
that means constant vicissitude.
- But behind this smile there may be
much significance. Significance possibly
- because Haynes, Just getting a toehold
on his Job. has begun to realise the im
mensity of the problems set before him
for solution.
TASK IS BIG 05E
i It is but fair to Haynes, his sup
i porters all agree, to concede that his
' Job is one of the most difficult and per
i haps one of the most thankless in the
government service. - In the present
! frame of mind of the public over prohibl-
tlon, and sentiment constantly shifting
lover the different angles of the ques
tlon, Haynes admits that he does not
expect that all of his acts will escape
censure even from the "drys."
- Haynes, In a good beginning, says he
wants to be fair and square in . liquor
law enforcement. He does not want to
grow frantic,, acquiescing to demands of
dry advocates regardless of the terms
of the law, nor does he want to be so
lenient that the bars will be let down
for law breaking.
Haynes would like to see the United
States so dry in the next year that it
will be impossible for an American to
get a drink of liquor of any kind or
color, or degree of voltage. Of course,
h modifies this by admitting that, as
. congress has specified, liquors have to
, be made available for medical needs.
. As for the beverage liquors, however,
it is his ambition to Jam on the lid so
tight that the country will bef as drj as
the well-known Sahara. He is careful
to qualify his hopes, however, with the
emphatic statement that they are not
linked up with a prediction.
MAT TAKE CEJTTCBT
I cannot predict when the country
will be dry." said Haynes. "That is
scarcely, possible now. We hape for
much. We are confident much will be
. -done to-Improve enforcement and ban'
ish liauor for unlawful uses." .
Haynea does not wish to appear in
the light of a prophet. He takes the
: view that one might as well predict
whan the world will come, to an end. I
He expressed interest in the prediction
of bis predecessor. John F. Kramer, that!
possibly 100 years woum pas eefsiwi
nwtlilKltrnn Kaaama m altiat fa. - ff. I
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weighed that prediction thoughtfully. I
He would say nothing to upset it, real
izing that Kramer had had considerable
Inside knowledge of conditions and must
have based his well-considered statement
upon something else than loose guessing.
Grocer Tries to Be
Polite;Runs Flivver
Into Best Customer
IRv United Nw
': Hammond. Ind.. Aug. 20. N. Felnberg,
grocer, having gone long on sugar, spuds
and other comestibles at the right time,
found his cash balance would allow him
to unbuckle to the extent of a new and.
shiny flivver.
Driving it for the first time Thursday,
he met Mrs. T. F. Edmondston. one of
his best customers.
Wishing to be polite. Felnberg tipped
his hat courteously, trying to drive the
car- with one hand.
The net result was that he guided the
: car over the curb and knocked his best
cash : customer into an alley far, far
away.
From her bed at a hospital Mas. Ed
'mondston gave out the information that
she will do her future trading at a cash
and carry, " r
Felnberg la taking no more chances.
The fliwer is for sale.
Burbank Teaches
Korean Plum How
To Grow in America
Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. 20. (I. Nw &)
After working for six years, Luther Bur
bank has finally trained the climbing
plum, a native of Southern Korea, so
that it will grow in this climate with its
fruit perfected and. enlarged. The plum
is now the else of a large gooseberry and
has the richest of flavor. ' "
Twelve years sgo, Burbank stated to
day, this climbing plum vine, which p
not unuae a grapevine, wu eem mm,
and - after many, experiments and six
years of labor, he has it perfected so that
it will grow here. He haslalready sent
out a few specimens of this production,
without letting. It be known that he had
wrought another wonder in selection and
hybridisation. v
TOOK HIS BED TO GRATE
Poplar Bluff, Ma. Aug. 20. I. N. S.)
Brown Hughlett. Howell county's pio
neer settler, has been buried with a
feather mattress in his rude home hewed
coffin '. He was garbed tn his nightshirt
as he entered the "long sleep." Thesw
oddities ef his funeral were in compli
ance with hia request. ? ..
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Above, residence of W. O. Cummlngs
taken. looking cast along the highway. Rocks and mnd filled the yard
to a depth of two feet, almost high enough to get In through the win
dows. Only the quick work of the
dikes of stone, prevented great damage to the house. Below, a washout
on the highway west of Mount Vernon; temporary bridge shown In the
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rower ngui-oanu corner.- . I
Canyon Citx; Aug. 20. A storm of
short duration a last Sunday .afternoon
did much damage for SO mile along the
John Day "highway between ML Vernon
and- Dayville- and -in the country round
about. Hail stones IVi inches in diame
ter stripped apples and foliage from the
trees and damaged fruit left hanging.
left sunflower stalks bare and ruined
If Earth Hit Another Body?
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Serviss Analyzes Outcome
By Garrett P. Serviss
Eminrnt Astronomer and Writer oa Problems ef
. Scientific Interest.
"Wbat would happen if, by some un
foreseen obstacle, the orbital motion of
the earth were retarded? Would the
decrease of the earth's centrifugal force
cause , it to (M drawn into the sun, or
would the orbit be automatically ad-
Justed so that equilibrium would be re-
stored r .- J :
The writer of .'that may eeem to some
readers to be borrowing trouble abouaxf
fiAthlnlF tint tn'. '.Iliv R.. h a.trMl o I
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very practical question. The kind Of
knowledge he seeks is of the same nature
as that .sought by the steamship pas
senger who insists on knowing what
provision-, has been made for an en
counter with icebergs.
MAlTT POTENTIAL OBSTACLES ;
'.' The earth rushes eastward round the
sun at a velocity of about ISMr miles per
Second. But, while interstellar space,
like . the Atlantic ocean, offers .plenty
of open room for' speeding suns and
planets, yet it also ' contains many
potential obstacles; auch as great nebulae.
both luminous and dark, some of which
are billions of miles across, and wander
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I Within a short ' time the John Day
river rose four feet and gulches and
canyons for -30- miles-were left -choked
with brush and rocks, while portions of
the highway were washed out. The
county court began Immediate recon
struction work and by noon Monday the
worst damage was repaired.
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ing comets, snd shoals of meteors, snd
huge invisible bodies which are only
known to exist by the effects that they
produce upon visible stars that have
fallen under the Influence of their at
traction ; to say nothing of the millions
of other suns which, like oars, are rush
ing in all ' directions, like ships at sea,
each seeking Its own port..,;
I Some of these. like the Immense star
Arcturus, which exceeds out. sun thou
sands of UrnesMn magnitude, are mov
ing with appalling speed, as If they were
giant battleships ramming, their way
through the universe. -' "..;
AcCIDEIf TS MAT HAFPE2T .; , ,V
i So it is evident that accidents may
happen . even to the best ordered solar
systems', snd an inquiry like that made
above is worthy of an answer.
i If the "unforeseen obstacle' Should ab
solutely destroy , the earth's orbital mo
tion round the sun, the consequence
would be that the. earth would fall
straight into' the sun and be consumed
almost In a flash -. But there would be
time 'for its inhabitants to make digni
fled preparation for their end. since
the earth would take about 64 and a half
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days to fall to the sua after Its orbital .
motion was . arrested. If the orbital
motion of the moon were similarly de
stroyed it would fall to the earth in
about four days and 20 hours.
If the obstacle acted for a short time
only and destroyed but a part of the
earth's orbital motion, then the earth
would drop nearer the sun and begin to.
travel round it in a smaller orbit. In 1
that case the earth would adjust itself
automatically to the new state of affairs.
But probably it would not be very agree
able for use to be carried, say, twice as
near she sua as we arc now, for then the
quantity of solar heat falling upon the
eariA wouta m quaarupieq.
woru PLtnroB mo scjt
If the Obstacle acted as a continuous
resistance to the earth's orbital motion,
then the earth would gradually approach
the sun on a spiral path, until, at last.
it woujo. piunge into tbo solar furnace. .
The same result would be nroduced.
but much more slowly. If the resistance
were encountered by the earth periodical
ly at some point in its orbit. The orbit
would then become a little' Smaller after
each encounter, until, at last. It mirht
become so small that It would pass with
in the body of the Sun. which is Sf 0.000
miles in diameter.
Something of this kind seems actually
to have occurred to Encke's comet, whose !
orbit has been observed to become slight
ly smaller at several returns, as if. at
some place, it encountered a swarm of
meteors lying in Its track. ' .
MIGHT MOTE AWAY .
It would also be possible for soma vast
mass, like an extinguished sun. passing
near tne soiar system to act upeajhe
earth as to increase instead of decre
its orbital velocity, and In that case the
earth would adjust Itself to the new
conditions by moving away from the sun,
and traveling in a larger and more' re
mote orbit, perhaps away out in the
cold Of distant space. .
If it arere carried as far a.av aa
Jupiter is from the sun. the heat that it
received would be only about one-twenty-fifth
as much aa it now gets.
But the earth might be dragged off.
Ilk a kidnaped child, by a huge passing
body, ana then it would never see its
family again. All the other ' planets
would suffer similarly, the solar 'sys
tem would be broken up and scattered
abroad, and the sun itself, owing to the
tremendous tidal forces set in action by
the near approach of the disturbing
body, would probably bo burst asunder,
and the entire system reduced to the
chaotic stats of a whirling, spiral nebula.
PICTURE 2T0T FASCIFCX
This Is not purely a fanciful picture,
for there are many reasons for believing
that just such catastrophes have hap
pened to other suns and solar systems,
and have been visible to us in the form
of new, temporary stars.
But the universe is only the more In
teresting for these things. The Joy of
the creator is in making, unmaking and
remaking, and. perhaps, in a higher
state of existence we shall take the
same pleasure in these vast changes that
we now find in watching the progression
from seed to flower and from flower
back to seed, while spring, summer and
autumn flit over our gardens.
Cop JTakes Good
Pull' and Then
Nabs Moonshiner
(By United Newt)
New Torki Aug. 20. A- rubber hot
water bag ; capacity, two quarts ; con
tents : hooch, has been added to the vast
miscellany of "vehicles" utilised by New
Tork bootleggers. William Henry ad
mitted to the court here Thursday that
he peddled a drink of liquor from the
bottle, which be were under his coat, by
passing; a ? rubber tube to Detective
Regor with. Instructions to "take a good
pull.' The detectives did as advised
and arrested Henry as soon as he
came to. -
The police museum- of seised convey
ances now ranges from an Infant's nurs
ing bottle to a three ton truck. .
ORDER BEFOBK TOU LEAP
' Poplar Bluff. Mo.. Aug. 20. (L N. S.)
At a dangerous curve on a downgrade
road near here Is the "advertisement
unique. Warning automoblllsits that
unless they turn successfully they will
plunge several hundred feet to a river
below, a billboard bears the following
can Men, In huge red letters: "Danger!
Coffins snd caskets at Blank's.".
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HARDING CABINET
FULLY ATHLETIC
AS PREDECESSORS
Wave - of. Physical Culture : Has
, Swept Over National Capital
Since New Prexy Took Office.
By T. Sasdifer "
'Washington, Aug 80. (L 5. S.) Pres
ident Harding's cabinet today is fully as
athletlo as any of its predecessors, to
Judge by the activities of Us members
during their off hours around Washington.-,
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Be it said in the beginning, however,
that these "off hours" are not numerous
at present. '
Not only the cabinet but many mem
bers of congress have Joined In the wave
of physical culture which has swept over
the capital, since the president became
so active on links and afield.
The new fad takes various forma
Secretary of the v Navy Denby, a vet
eran of navy- and marine corps,' Is a
farmer when he has time ; Secretary of
Labor Davis keeps tn training by eating
only the lightest of lunches ; several of
ficials do away with the lunch hour
altogether, and most of them are en
thusiastic hikers. -
The most : strenuous devotees . of the
latter recreation, however, belong to
what is ' known unofficially as "The
Statesmen's Marching club," and it lives
up to Its name. ' Its principal members
are Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr.. as
sistant secretary of the navy; Senator
James Wadsworth. Ohio, and Represent
ative "Nick- Longrworth, Ohio. Colonel
Roosevelt, who- is also one of the "light
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I Factory Sale and "RgS
I Demonstration of the ! tSf-fe'
l Kerosene ; Gas Burner
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installs a .
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aussBBi " ' ' Ar- :
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O MORE wood-choppint. no kindliar. no coil, soot "or odors.
Yo turn it on. when you neea a km wnen you -are
tnrougtu X twiit of the wrist raise's of lower the flame,
lfs noiseless. Has pilot burner. .Heats your water ooils.
your oven or the top of your
. Uses kerosene, the cheap fuel,
' Installed im the firebox ef say
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NO INTEREST
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luchera." mostly " because of lack of
time, usually leads the "olumn. accord
ing to his associates.
The rough garb affected by the club
has led to a number of com plica tiona.
Recently, while the trio were resting
lna baeky section near Washington.
U.ey overhear 1 the nather of several
eLiddrea who had . rcen picnicking
nearby ware her husband to "keep an
eye on the cftiltreo, because X think there
are three horrid tramps ever r-y tne
road." She was greatly surprised when
she found who the "tramps' were.
-.When President Hari'ng "golfs- he
nearly always has .several of hj late
associates cl the senate as partners;
while other , members of congress prac
tice walking to "work." ahich Utter, la
view of the local ear service, Is t times
about the - best way - to get ' there.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon of Illinois and Rep
resentative Phil Campbell of Kansas
head the congressional hiking delegation.
Peggy Has Left For
Paris; $1300 Monthly
Is Too Small for U. S.
(By Catena! Scrriec)
Chicago, Aug. 20. James -Stanley
Joyce was unconcerned today when told
that' his pretty , wife. Peggy, had flown
to Paris to escape the big a cost ei uv
In. " ' '
- "And we dont have to have detectives
rllin ptrrv to where she goes." sata
Alfred 8. Austrian, attorney for the mil
lionaire lumberman. "Wherever she goes
she makes enough fuss and biases so
wide a trail that one would be bereft
of reasoning powers not to know where
she was." - -r '-''.-
He added that her going would not
affect the divorce case that Joyce had
filed aealnst her. - . -
Dispatches said Peggy has eluded two
sleuths and hopped on a boat for Paris.
She U said .to have told that-she was
tired of being watched .and besides the
$1300 a month alimony was not enougn
to keep her In New York.
the wonderful
revolutionizing
ranee all at one time or separately.
and gives an intense, hot blue flame,
range without Basking may cksngss.
Wide Propaganda Is
Planned to Boost
, SmiilMcNary Bill
Washington, . Aug. X0. Nationwide
propaganda la behalf of the Smith
McNary bill providing a system of fed
eral and state ' cooperation for the de
velopment and settlement of the agri
cultural resources of the nation will be
carried oa between now and the conven
ing of the regular session of congress la
December. . . .
EL F. Blaine of Seattle, chairman of
the commiuee oa legislation and edu
cation of the Western States Reclama
tion .association, is in Washington work
ing out a plan to conduct senators and
representatives on a tour to the principal
government reclamation projects. ' West
ern and south western commercial bodies
are cooperating. -
- Commissioner Spry of the general land
office has submitted an argument to the
house committee on Irrigation la favor
of the Smith-McNary bUL ' His state
ment shows that there Is still a heavy
demand for land, but that virtually an ef
the desirable public land which could be
cultivated without Irrigation has been
entered.
In a statement Issued today Repre
sentative Addison Smith ef Idaho, author
of the bill, said that he ia confident
President Harding will recommend to
congress In his next message the enact
ment of legislation for extending the
activities . of the federal reclamation
service -and appropriations to carry on
the work. - -. -
' The 'pending bin carries an appropri
ation of J2S0.OOO.0OO to be expended dur
ing a period of six years for completion
of existing government reclamation pro
jects and development of others. It con
tains a preference clause in favor of men
and womeiTwho served in the late war.
WI3TS MOKET, TCBXS BCGXAKER
Marissa. IU- Aug. 13. (L N. S.) A
new limousine stands In front ef the
invention that is!
cooking and baking
- It Is the rreatest boon to the housewife that this feneration
of labor-savin devices has yet produced. By .all means make it
a point to attend the -factory .sale and demonstration this veek;
yon will at least see how thousands of -other women are savin t
time and enerry. AH burners will be installed In rotation accord
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residence of Edward Brown, miner. It
la a portion of his newly acquired wealth.
Brown -was 'bequeathed $56,000 by an
uncle, Daniel Fraxer, former vice presi
dent of a Washington bank. Brown, will
make rugs the remainder of his life,
the fortune permitting him t fulfill a
life-long desire, . . -
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