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daily journal, Portland, oisego:;.' :o:;day,. july ltzz. mm t C,' S. J ACKSON...... PubllJlM t lit cira. be confident JM cheerful end do bate others a yea. would-save ttea 4a ante 1 ' ' . . ivta.-hi-d every weekday and Sunday morninf ; st The Journal building, Broadway at I hul street, Portland. OnfOB. ; Liitered at the postoffice t Portland. Oregon, I for srsnamhuuoa through the mails u econa f U Matter. -NATIONAL ADVEBTlalNG befkesenta : i TI VI Benjamin .Kentnor Co., Bmr f wir-k building, 225 i"1fUJ rem. Aew Xefkl ' 800 Mailers hmkHnti Cntcsgo. ' " j l AClTtC COAST BEPSESENTATrVE -7 U. I UmrtMMoo Co.. Inc.. Examiner building, Kaa Francisco: Title Insurance building, Lee ' Aneeles: BecorrOe bui-dinf, Seattle. iiili OREGON JOURS AJL (wrret th right - Xa -reieet advertising cop whleh it deem 5 objectionable. 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' Make' -all remittances pay- ble to The iaoxnmX Pnblishtnc .Company, Portland, Oreeon.- " tiXErHONE MAIN 7161. - AU depart- rertits reaebed by tots number. I eeneeire a time when, by a higher ' eirUixaUon, formed on a political economy ; more truly, scientific, becaaae more truly -i according to the will of God. -four human ' 'refuse shall be utilized, like our material refuse; when man as man, erea down to ; the- weakest and uust ignorant, shall be found to be (as he really is) eo valuable, . that it will be worth' while to preserve his health, to develop hU capabilities, to Mrs hint alive, bods, intellect and character, at iny cost; because men will see that a man- ia after alt the most precioua ami ' useful thine on the earth, and that no costs apent on the development of human be- -inn oui possibly tie thrown away. Charles Kinysley. ...... AN UNFULFILLED PROMISE A PPARENTLY the present ad Uv ministration la not nlanntnp- tn ienter the League of Nations, -even fthrough the back door.' Secretary Hughes is on, of the men within administration . circles who usually speaks specifically and to the point. Answering the lette of Hamilton Holt relative to "our foreign rela tions, Mr. Hughes said: '.. .:.r ; "I see no prospect for any treaty or ; convention by which we should share in the maintenance of the eoort untii wome provision is made by which, WITHOUT MHMBERSHIP IX THE LEAGUE, this government would be able to have an. appropriate voice in the election, of Judges, . - - :lh other words, this government will have nothing to SV with any thing so long as entrance-into the f f League of Nations' Is a prerequh i site. We will stay out of the league at all costs. That is. the night mare.; Tnat is the plague. That is the thing, above all things, that must be avoided. But if that "is the case, how does Mr. Hughes explain-his statement,' along with SO other prominent Re publicans during 4 the campaign, that the way to enter the .league was to vote for Mr. Harding? Do the exigencies of politics permit a man to deliberately mislead the public? : Is there no sincerity in campaign statements? Is a system built up here by which, a, man can publicly say . one thing during a campaign and another after election without accounting to the public? Are campaigns open season for-misrepresentation? V f4'tv"':: Mr.. Hughes has always been an advocate of settling disputes by : ar bitration, rather than by the sword. There is no internaUonal clearing house for disputes, save the League Of NaUonai r Mr Hughes, Mn Taft and various other prominent men said a vote foV Mr. Harding was a vote for the League i ef Nations: Now Mr. Hughes says another way has to be found to deal with Europe "without entrance. Into the league. -IE men of the standing of the 31 Kepubucan v. .IwiiQTiing i Secretary Hughes, are to mislead the public, what can be expected of less promt nent Individuals?,; ' And what ia the publio to do When the Word of the republic's foremost men ; is found 10-oe misrepresentation? ' 'It- Is - unfortunate'- that "Mr Hughes didn't go farther into the subject of the league and discuss It as candidly as he discussed It in the campaign. It does Injury to the country when the distinguished men of the nation make promises that are not kept. . ' PORTLAND SCHOOLS THE new Northeast , high school is to sit on a tract of 40 acres In the vicinity of East Thirty-seventh and Thompson streets. The new Chapman school Is t be eurreunded by a tract of some IS acres of ' the Goldsmith tract, the long, familiar: scene of summer's circuses. . -" The school district will erect the Vialdings. The1- city will develop ground the "structures recreational centers. Each public body will "do its share to .g-ive the properties the highest possible public value. This is cooperation worthy of praise. ' It has been awaited. v It has been long desired. While school grounds of ample extent have re gained : unused, children have played A" the street. Some of them have been made sacrifices to the perils of the streets. While the city- has been handicapped by lac If of funds and shortage of appropri ate plaV areas, the possibility of co operation -with the school board has continuously existed. 9 , " - The plandevised by the school board and .. the. city commission means that Portland taxpayers for school : sites will be . assured of larger returns an the money spent for school sites.- . : v-" ' .Another commendable feature of the school transaction are the. terms agreed spori in securing the G01d smlth tracV v The owners lf - the property will accent other areas and obsolete buildings belonging .to the' scTtool district in exchange, the basis of exchange being it feaCh in stance the assessed valuAtion plus one-third. "The assessed valuation should be the guiding factor when ever property -is acquired for public purposes. .r . " - MONEY DOESN'T WIN IF WE retain presidential direct primaries, the Seattle; Times ; is afraid we shall come to the. point where no man of modest resources can hope- to aspire to ' the presi dency' . ':; The xperience in, the latest presidential primaries Was that the man who spent the big money failed to .get the nomination: .General Wood was a widely known public man.- He had been for years in the public eya as a protege of Theo dore Roosevelt. Some- millions of dollars fvere spent in the effort to get him-: the , nomination. " , The money was wasted. The nomina tion went glimmering. ; Another candidate in ; the . same primaries was Governor Lowflen of Illinois. He is a man of large wealth..- He is a son-in-law of the head of the' Pullman Palace Car company. Some Missouri delegates were bought for " him.! ' A large amount of money was spent in gor geous literature heralding his vir tues, ' ' ; - " .. As further assets, he was a well known war governor, with a splen did -administrative record. K He had also the merit of a fine personality and , keen intelligence. But the money brought no nomination to Governor Lowden. ; . ! The . nominee of . the .'convention tha V followed those primaries was a . little-known newspaper t man, owner of dally -paper ' in a town of 30,000 and having little of wealth at his command.. He got the nomi nation. All the millions spent in the primaries . for other, candidates did not defeat him. . Money was impotent; A comparatively poor man was "nominated and elected. ' , Woodrow Wilson was a poor col lege prof essorvwith little of this world's goods -beyond his library and his college salary. - He was known only as the president of Princeton- and as governor of New Jersey. ; In worldly goods he was one of the poorest men who ever ran for the presidency,' , In the raceagalnst him wasjthe late Champ Clark. He was backed by some of the wealthiest men on the continent, and very heavy sums of money ,were spent for him in the primaries. He was. In' addition, a statesman of high reputation, who had for years v been . nationally known. '" - -.; Again money was Impotent. The nomination went . to Wilson. ; He served for four vears and at the end of his- term achieved the con spicucus distinction of being nomi nated, under the primary system and reelected to a-second term, the first Democrat to succeed himself since the time of Andrew Jackson. Money doesn't "win, primaries. You can't buy masses of people. It is in conventions where the buying Is done. It is In electing delegates to conventions under the old sys tem" that phoney talks. , ' It Is ideas that win tn direct pri maries. ; " - The one conspicuous Instance In which a direct primary waa bought was Newberry, , And if the senate of y the : United ; States had. been guided by the acts that convinced a Michigan- court and Jury, his rotten enterprise would have failed' and a further example of the impotence of money in direct primaries would have been set. In SO , years, eays Luther Bur- bank, many of the . people In' the United States will be going hungry unless the productivity of the soil Is greatly Increased. Soil which Is being "mined", without replacement of fertilizer will be in the condi tion which Mr. Burbank fears. The abandoned tobacco ' fields ' of Vir ginia and the hill farms of New England testify to this fact, but just now it appears-, equally necessary for the - number of producers on the soil to increase, if America Is to be fed.. . WHERE THE CHINOOKS FEED I AW seems to have overtaken M , science la solving the mystery of the salmon What becomes of the famous food fish of Pacific streams after they drift as finger- ungs dui i iu sea naa long been a question f or'which eo noted an ich- tayojogisi as xa via Starr Jordan had no other than - speculative an swers." . - i -j -" " -li But the recent litigation In fed eral court on the subject of purse seining brings -rather conclusively to light the fact that he chinooks of the Columbia, for initance, feed and grow a fan-shaped area ex- j tending some 29 miles off the! mouth of the Columbia. Most of! them will be found within s mile and a half, of the" coast, although Warden Shoemaker of the Oregon fish "commission .says that large numbers have been found in water ?5 feet deep a score of miles out side. " - " , . .r If this IS exclusively the habit Of the Columbia chinooks an explana tion is furnished. Incidentally, of that' marvelous homing . instinct of the cell which brings the fish back, when theyaro ready to spawn, to the , gravelly .-, tributary streams where,, four years before, they were hatched. The salmon never get away entirely from the influence and the taste of the water' in which they were spawned. ' The accuracy of their return thus becomes one of the .most lucid , of natural phe- rnomena. . -. . ; ;. Such explanation' of the ways .of the chlaook also -strengthen , the justice of Oregon and Washington wardens to prevent purse . seining.' The purse seiners merely 'go .off shore, to the: feeding area, find a school of small, immature salmon, surround them "With tackle s and draw' them into their, boats. The practice is a good deal like, picking greenapples. : - Oregon has a-law, tested as to its Constitutionality, -which not i only forbids purse seining within the three-mile area on s fro re, over I which the state has control, but re fuses to the purse seiners the privi lege of landing on Oregon shores the catch taken outside the three mile limit. Washington has a law which forbids purse seining, within the threenile limit, but does "not fosbid the landing of fish caught outside the three-mile limit. It has been "the practice of the Washing ton .fishermen --to go "outside v and Come- back by way of the mouth of the Columbia? with their catches. Warden Shoemaker undertook to (forbid the: practice because! the waters ' of i the Columbia at . that point are ' under Oregon .jurisdic tion: But Federal Judge Bean has enjoined .the Oregon warden from further activity against the Wash ington fishermen - on - the ground that .the Columbia is a public high way and its use cannot be forbidden to - those who are committing no violation of the law, ef their own state. ) .- .,- -: ;,j Obviously, there are two reme dies.' The first la for the Washing ton legislature to pass a law which will forbid purse seiners to land their catch on Washington shores. The second is for. the federal gov ernment to declare the area out side the three-mile limit f eeding grounds and forbid all salmon fish ing whatsoever; V-The- preservation of the salmon Industry i demands uniform-law and tho. entire elimi natjon of purse seining where the salmon feed. -"" '.'- Samuel Vauclain. C the. Baldwin locomotive works says "that Mathias Baldwin, founder of the company. produced the company's first loco motive In 1852. olt would run Z0 miles an hour, but Its wheels would do nothing bat spin' when the rails were wet.'' He asked $4000 for It, but reduced the ; price "to ,$3000 and also reconstructed the rails In order to make the contrivance satisfactory to the buyer. Then he announced to the. shop) force that he would never, never again build another locomotive. And he didn't r-untll another order came in. THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT PORTLAND, appears in enviable A relation to the movement Of apples by water, in the reports is sued .by the federal "bureau of agrt cultural economics. 2, '., is shown that p to March. 1 last thewatefshipments of apples from Portland aggregated 443,306 boxes, and from Seattle In the same period 806,801 boxes. ! Practically- no shipments had ever moved from Portland before, says the government report, while the Seattle shipments constituted an Increase of 220,393 boxes over the 1920 movement -and SO 5.0 II boxes over the 1919 movement. In aot her words, Portland in its first year outstripped its competl tor by more than 40 per cent of the Seattle exportations. The report adds: - With sufficiently low rates to permit absorption of rail freight frota taitial producing points to the Pacific sea board, absorption of short-haui rates from AtlaAtic-terminals inland for nasonabie distance, frequent and reg ular sailings, convenient terminals at Atlantic ports of discharge, and an in crease in the number ef discharging ports,- this feature of thehandling of the Northwestern apple crop is expect ed to assume even greater proportions ia the future.-. jy;,. .... ;. .A' cftbat has been", in progress -for some time as to the advisability of providing in Portland public cold storage facilities for fruit in transit destined for. exportation by water Many arguments have been ad vanced' to show that the exportable supply of the Columbia basin war rants the action," But no argument Is so effective as this simple show Hps of the figures under govern ment seal. The movement of ap ples to Europe and to the Atlantic is not a thing of the future. It has commenced. Portland's exporta tions the first year approached the half million mark. , This year the efficiency of this new mode for transporting , fruit and? the . de mand from distant markets will ac count for substantial increase. The cold storage, facilities cannot be provided too soon"; Whom did the great men of the past hold responsible for their mis takes, when there were no news paper reporters? Exe ha n g e . Resurrect their wives and ask them. ON THE WATER PLAYGROUNDi Automobile Can't Get Away With All 'This Touring and FicaickVig Stuff MotorbOat, Yacht v and Canoe Not to Be Overlooked An En ? . thustast in River Rusticating Tells of Delights to Which the Koble Columbia and. the Beautiful Willam . ette Give Invitation. r. - George J. Kelly in the "Winged M" BaUetto Arriotijf the best of outdoor sports Is that of yachting and motor boating. Yachting might be said to cover me sailboat family and inotorboatlng that which Is driven by power other than the wind or band, although hand pow er method is often used in the very best of both families. .::; r Bo kindred are the Crafts Oti the river, whether they be tnotorboate. yachts canoes . or others when- you speak of yone you speak for all- for their playground is on the broad bosom of the Willamette or the mighty Colum bia river. '; ...-i Although the more remote stretches of these .rivers may be easily and more quickly reached - by the fast-going motorboat. given more, time the other types of craft will get there just the same, for the waters are invariably safe.- and with a little experience in seamanship- and navigation gained in the sands and rocks of experience a stood navigator is made in a fraction of a ; season," and then ' the rivers for almost , their entire length are his to roam as he pleases.: , i - He can drive his craft Just as fast as the little old motor can make her go,, for no speed cop lurks on his trail : there are no treat volumes of traffic ordinances -to be complied with but' just the few definite navigation laws of the government. He can park bis bus almost any old place without having a blue chalk mark placed on the rudder and a calling card placed on the- eeat; he knows not the sensa tions of a pinch" or the stony stare of "25 bones call ilfe next case." Truly the rivet, is a haven of rest for the pepfal navigator, where the ex hibition of surplus energy reduced to speed-in. miles is a quality to be ad mired by all the grilles of law and order.' Again,'- unlike his gasoline - brother of the land, our navigator eats no dust of summer roads, cares not a whit who makes the best nonskid tires Or what they cost : the ditch worries him not. Only when he fans " off a propeller blade on a lonesome rock does he come back to earthly affair, and, then only for a moment, for he usually has two more' blades to keep a-going on. 1 if another bus tries to pass him. he turns, the - little old : lady loose and then. .'Oh. Boy! with the -dash of the spray and -the parr of the- motors, and the f swish of the bow cutting through the waters,' and the sway of the old boat under him as ehe rambles, he ex periences the Sensations of flying ; and he rambles home With an --appetite worth more than his gasoline bill. . lie can load the little old shin .with all the family arid most of the neigh bors and drive her up to some little inlet and turn them all loose on the sandy beach to picnic and. frolic, to Swim and -sunburn and have the tftna f their live and still come, home witt the price of ham and eggs in his pocket. : . r And this Is true: the cost of running the ship if she is not of the ' racing type is so small as compared to up keep and operation of a motorcar that there is hardly, any comparison. ,v i The initial 'cost of the boat may. be hundreds where the motorcar is thousands, and the upkeep bears the same proportion. But it is true also that for class and speed there la prac tically no limit to the cost to which one may. go ; the large cruiser with all its nttings may run into many thou sands while the smaller craft may be had for several hundred; but history shows that the most real fun mav be had out of the little boat,- - r - - it Is said that the scone of motor. boat is limited to a few miles of river ; but the river road is several hundred miles in length, with navigable side roads up many of the river branches. One never tires of the scenery and is never at a loss to find a new spot for picnicking or a new place to which to cruise, even though he cruise every tounaay m the year. The area for cruising and exploration is so great mat it would take a lone time to ex haust its attractiveness to the real lover or tne great outdoors. , - m--.r - -There are several clubs alonsr the river that are devoted to boating, each in its own particular line the Motor beat club, Yacht club and Rowing club. Each has its own finely appointed club house,, And moorage grounds within easy reach of the center of town. These clubs always. have a summer program the winter season of river inactivity is taken care of by the "Rocking Chair Fleet,'!, around the fireside," with smok ers, dancing and other entertainment. A feeling of good- fellowship prevails between the clubs, and interclub events are of -frequent occurrence.. I Truly-the river Is, a good place to get acquainted with. It fits right .in with one's athletic tastes, whether we are active comparatively or superla tively, s We can usually find the degree of exercise we like in one kind of boat ing or. other. . .. - -v. - . . . - The development of sports on the river has not -reached its full irrowth bat interest in this sport is -growing year by'year. Portland needs to awak en to a more general appreciation of what, a wonderful . water: playground the city ..really has right in its own front yard. We hopeto' see the sport continue; to grow and prosper, so- that the Joys of the river may: be the joys of the. many rather than the sport of ue lew.: . ... .. AN - UP-TO-DATE SHAKESPEARE? From the Chicago Evening Poet - -The London Times in a recent edu cational number sets forth a proposal having to do ? with- our antiquated friend Will Shakespeare. It is con cerned because his works are sadly out oj date ! It admits that Will is all right in his Elizabethan way. but if he could only be modernized a bit, if we might s have-, his old-fashioned - blank verse translated into brisk, snappy, present-day English, how much more we would appreciate him 1 The Times alludes to the fact that German and French translations are couched in the best of timely- idiom, -and argues that it would be better had we a similar version. . - i .as ; ms proposal is rmaerstood. we shall Abe pleasantly surprised by, a Hamlet who ponders To be or not to be . ; after this sprightly . and Idiomatic fashion. "Now what the devil shall I do about this; I'll be a fit subject tor an; alienist if I keep this murder to myself. Yet, if I let it out. Til get the gate., Oh, d It! That gets the' stuff over intelligibly. Or " suppose we turn - over to George M. Cohan' or Avery Hop wood the taste of modernising Kalstaff. , When. FaJ- staf f : addresses Prince Hal We - would be convulsed with merriment by some thing like this:: -Tome on. Buddy, let's drop - In at Madame Quickly'a place' and nave couple o' htghballa eh what?. Clearly this adds sest and conviction to Will s -character of paunch and punch. - - . Acala. let ws suppose Bernard Shaw had the Work of bringing the court scene, in The Merchant of Venice up to the present mode of repartee. ' The "Oh. noble judge '. . . most learned Judge . very Daniel in his judg ments" would come to our ears In this guise:- "By George, that magistrate is a clever fellow, an exceedingly smart chap. A keen decision, that." .? -How much mors terse and telling is this Shavian version. - . . Truly we would appreciate a mod ernising - of Will Shakespeare's pi ay a We might miss the. poetry and at mosphere t lose the characterisations and the flavor, but what are such trifles when balanced against Romeo and Juliet written in our very smartest vernacular? v - - - - We hope the plan has all the suc cess of the. many attempts to- prove that. Bacon -: or : anybody ' else but Shakespeare wrote the play. . Letters From the People - T Communication tent to The Journal for publication in this depsrtment should Be writ ten n enly one side of the' paper, should trot exceed 809 words tar length, and ..must be signed by the writer, whose mail address ia full must Accompany the contributioa. - , MORE CONCERNING ETHER ' If It Is So or isn't. Scientists Needn't Be Ashamed to Confess lg t r - . norance Either Way. : - - Portland, July lS--r-Xo the Editor of The- Journal "Concerning ether,! 1 have thought for many years that the theory of ether filling ail space was a pure invention, of scientists, to Sustain the wave theory of the transmission of light.- . Some aviators tell us that three or four miles above the earth's surface It Is twilight only, the whole 24 hours, and the farther from the earth, the less the light." An increasing ratio. of dark ness prevails. Therefore, beyond the earth's atmosphere there -would be. no light at alt Space would be as dark as midnight at the tropics. . If ether had a real entity it would be subject to the law of gravitation just as the invisible gases are. - If it does not exist, the interstellar spaces would be a vacuum, and the old saying that "Nature abhors a vacuum" would not Q tnie """ ': When" God said, lt there be" light," there is no reason to believe he created light. 'It was only one of the first laws of adjustrrient of the heavens and. the earth . already : created. Chemical ac tion is the source of 'light, and anyone can - make light ' through chemical agencies. .:.-.-,-.: -- Gravitation partially accounts' for the formation r and growth - of i spherical bodies in the Universe rs;u-.5..; ' '" It would seem . to be - reasonable to consider light as a force thavt. passes through space without friction or vlsi bility, but meeting -with matter (as the earth's atmosphere) it becomes visible, causing heat In proportion to friction and reflection. Scientists nave discovered much tn the last century to add to our knowledge Snd happiness. but they need not be ashamed -of their Ignorance ef .fundamental. There is much. to learn, yet. The vista widens as you get higher. J. B. Wrlght. THE JOTS OP IGNORANCE' Vancouver. Wash., July 13. To the Editor of The Journal. Truly, Ignor ance Js bliss. Verily, - the unsophistl cated are happy. Some time ago I overheard - one- lamenting the demise of the saloon. . This savant stated That he never patronised the barroom, but. he asserted that as a source of na tional revenue its loss was irreparable! Later, one was heard to. aver thai bil lionaires are national blessings, v be cause they endow colleges and hospi tais, establish libraries and "patronize art. - . Now what hope 'can there be for a nation wherein stlch r psychic ..atfophy maintains? " AncL to our shame be.it said, more thnn ' half , our people jire no less mentally obtuse than are-thes specimens. IMd not the saloon? man poison, ; degrade ; and demoralise: ':in. order to pay his taxes? poes not the billionaire, plunder defratrd and ex ploit that he may t are sumptuously,' enaew colleges ana nospitais ana . pa trontze the fine arts? Truly, .ignor ance is sin. ' -. . . Economist. ADDRESSED TO "THE PREACHER" Washougal, Waslu, July lJ To the Editor of The Journal "The Preach er", m Ther Journal of JulylS, -who brands W. J. Bryan as "a prating fool" fori his attitude toward the teach ing of evolution in elementary schools is rather absurd in using as his text the quotation 'from Proverbs, "But a prating fool hall fail," By what logic does "The, Preacher"1 connect the strong character of a man like Bryan with the prating fool, and by what faculties does the lay preacher perceive that the nrovere , he otiotes is true? Does he accept it on- laithi-wAftd tif , he accepts it merely because lt.-la"s to the Bible why floes he not accept the rest of the- Bible? , "Thelogi of thei preacher does not seem to me cio bear scrutiny, as there is no eviJence. even by quoting science or the .Bible, that Mr. - Bryan seeks notoriety. Let "The Preacher" look to his own Jogic, . i.,:,;.-:i -- . 7,, A - Lover of . Truth.. AT THE ISOLATION HOSPITAL -Portland, July 1- To the. Editor of The -. Journal A - states - that - the city isolation hospital charges for the patients- the city physician sends there with contagious diseases. -. B says -no fee Is charged, as the hospital is run by the city and expenses are paid-by the taxpayers. Which is correct? If a .fee i is charged. :: please -state . how much and why- i r;.'x A. Subscriber." ' The city's maximum ' charge for a patient keiit at the isolation aeepitaL is S 15 m week. This is. required from persona who are able to pay for hospital service. . Inability to pay, however, does not debar -one from this serv ice.; ea in such aes the patient ia eared for at the isolatioa hospital and -the city pays the rUl.- If a personVis "enable to pay the maxtmum charge he is vsrpecfed to . pay such portion aa he can. .The health department acts on - the theory that persons ; receiriag the i services of the- isolation hospital should pay for the service the same aa they . would were they to go to av private. hoepitaX Were the City to- undertake to pay the costs of all petMnta- sent - to-' the isolatioa hospital the total amount would ' be ehonDoua, and - It undertakes only the casta of those who cannot pax Ute charges. , - . EXPLORING SAHARA ' , " from the LiTiog Age. ..'. , -.. Under Rothschild auspices, a ecolog ical expedition,, composed of one Eng lishman' and one Scotchman, Is forcing its way deep into : heart of s the Sahara desert,' a region Which Is prac tically "unmapped soologlcally. - At its head is Captain Angus Bu chanan, a soologica) explorer of great skill and experience. The expedition has been sent to find and collect birds, animals and plants wherever it is able to" penetrate, to look for any '-aces;.of Roman or other classical civilization In the central Sahara, and to secure cam era and motion picture records of ithe habits, customs and - general ' mode of life of the inhabitants of the country. - -, The expedition, with , its -camel cara van, is now r heading for ; the. desert north of Nigeria. eCommunicat ions are necessarily very irregular; for there are only five main roads across the desert. some of which' have never , yet been traveled by Europeans. Once Captain Buchanan- leaves the French post f Agades,- there may be no news from him for months. v : SENATORIAL FKOBLEMS From the Ohio State Journal ; Our leading United States senators seem te - have " been devoting a good deal of their invaluable time lately-to deciding W inetr; constrtrcllve ;jy which of the great measures they have under ' consideration they're least afraid to put through first, with No vember coming on and everything. . COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF , SMALL CHANGE : . - Ganna Walska says Americans make the beet, mates.' And, of course, the best captains, too. ,. ; If it wasn't more a matter of fishing than fish there would be very few fishermen on the streams. - ; -;:&' iv W'V -. :...?-'.;;-';'-r';jS' Tc? live do to its bent traditions it should rain late this week for It is then that our vacation starts. Anyhow, ' Senator Stanfield ! Isn't wearing out his trousers rubbing them upon tne.,seat of his senate chain , Paris Professor savs JavellS water is cure for mosquito bite poison. Is that aayuung uxe tne ia snaae one cure 1 ThS Mivfnl nrantArit wTiYlll Tttt-va. si fine, easy time of it if he didn't have to anve lor all the - careless ones as Every time v ret sour and out of spirits we just have to think of Am- Dassaoor liarvey ia knee breeches , at the king's-: party. : - - . e . e - . - Market editor ssvs onions have. ben damaged to a large extent. Yet many a kind housewife will weep over the remains next winter. Berlin - police to wear bullet-proof vests, says a story, from Germany. just leaas us !to the nope that there may soon be a gravy-proof vst.v v MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr. and Mr. J. F. Strause and party of six of New York are gucsu at the Kultnomah while spending a few days In Portland viewing the highway and other places of interest. Mr. Strause is one of the owners of the Hotel Am bassador of New York. - . . - -. .. . Mrs. Ed JktcGreef of ' Ahtelope is vis iting friends and shopping in the city for a day or so, staying at the Inv perlaL Orln 1? Patterson, prominent citi Sen and attorney at Canyon .-City, is transacting legal business in Portland, registered at the Imperial, :"-ii'-k ', - .,i;iij-ii?-:;ijA "" G. W. Byers of Pendleton,-, a well' known business man of that-city, is a Portland Visitor for a day or so, reg istered at the Imperial. i - Mr. .and Mrs. Al w" Hodgman Of Waldport are visiting, in the city for a short time, registered at the Port land. - - .. . .. . 1 Mr. and Mrs, Milton A. "Myers of Salem were ; guests at the 'Imperial for a few days while visiting friends in the city. , . . . - - a e - Mrs. W. H. Morton Of Nashville is transacting business in the city, regis tered at the Imperial. AJ K. Peck, lawyer of Marshfleid,' Is in the city for a day or bo, registered at the imperial. - - 'Mrs. G. Mann,,' prominent citizen 0 Gales Creek, is visiting friends In the city, registered at the ImpeniaL - A-J j;. --i .-" . i-V" i.;. ' , : " P. C; Garrison of Prineville is reg istered .at the Portland whilevisiting in the oity- for a short time. -. - . . .. e - e - '' . - ... Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Dawes, and son of Marshf ield , are at the Portland for a few days, ' F Howard Turner of Madras Is at the Multnomah while In the city on a short visit. -"' OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS 7 OF THE JOURNAL MAN" By Fred In this article Mr. Lockley attends to the tourist interest. . He quotes s ceneral passen-. ger agent and -the proprietor of- a hotel that prospers in. a small town,- largely from touriat patronage, He -appends valuable data fur irahed by , farmer who farm intensively. f A. 13. Smith, .general passenger aifent ef the Northern Pacific railway, was a recent Portland visitor. "The more I see of Oregon and the West," Said Mr. Smith, "'the more X am .Impressed with ! the fact that the people of the West do not realize . what a . wonder ful asset they have in the"1 natural seen! a attractions of their region. In all our advertising X am Using the, slogan. Two thousand miles of start ling beauty, and. to an inlander or a person. -Trom tne Middle west tne beauty ot the Paclflo Northwest is startling. I' have just come back from a trip up the Columbia river- highway. No i one can make that trip without wanting to take off his hat to Samuel C Lancaster and the others who had the vision and the insight to plan: this highway. The natural attractions are unsurpassed, and fortunately man has worked with and not against nature in this oase in making this one of the world's worth while, trips, . Mount Hood, the majestie Columbia, a trip to Sea side, Rainier park, the Yellowstone all these scenic assets wilt mean a countless- etream. of gold into the 'North west for all time to come from beauty hungry travelers, - In . all . of our ad vertising I am - mentioning "not only the commercial possibilities of Port land" and the other communities along our- lines, but I am playing up the natural resources 'and the-scenic assets so that investors -and : tourists will know that' this is the place for which they -have long been seeking.". ! Several- days ago I stopped at Kar tell's hotel at Cottage Grove. "What is the prospect for the tourist busi ness this yearr I "asked. - "Twice as many-cars are coming through Cot tage Grove as came last year," said Mr. Bartell. - Reaching under the desk he pulled out a book, and said, "Just glance over this record,: and you can e what I mean. During the season of 1921 I kept a careful record ef every tourist who stopped at : my - hotel. I asked them - aU about road .conditions and also the approximate cost per day while touring, Aa you will see, last year I . had 257 cars from different Oregon cities stay overnight; with me, 133 from Washington and 97 from"- Cal ifornia, as well as cars from Montana, British Columbia, Utah; - Colorado, Texas, - Minnesota, "-New, Yorlv Ne braska,, Illinois. Oklahoma, Ohio, Mich gan, Idaho, Indiana and Arizona. This year ; X - notice f there-, are many ; more cars ! from the -Eastern-; and- Middle Western states. It almost 'seems as if all the i worid were - a-wheel. One f the benefits, of keeping this record is,- that ;when a tourist ; comes back, from an occasional study of last year's record I can : talk - to him about bis last year's trip, telj him the number of " the room he had, and when he was here. They think I have a marvelous memory,-, while as a matter of .fact, it is merely a ' case of ,- studying last year's register. . You would be sur prised at the number of tourists who made the trip last year who are com ing - back. I doubt' if 1 per cent of the tourists who pass, through here stop at ' my hotel- - In. other words, those who happen to come about sup per time will stay overnight with me, but hundreds of cars go by during-the day in - both ' directions, anU a ;very large proportion of these tourists, par ticularly those who travel in : Fords, carry along their own camp equipage and stop in the . auto tourist camps: so you will see . what a tremendous business the tourist business Is, SIDELIGHTS : The man who ya loafing these days in Oregon is doing eo from choice. There appears to be work for all who desire it. Union Republican. - ; - --l-l" ":'.. 'y?'-X- - This Is going to be a prosperous'year for Grant county,; for -vvhich all hands are grateful. Peace, plenty and proa- Serity reign In Grand Cvld 3ranC Blue lountain Eagle. i - ; ' - . .. .' e:, e . - Mdre American tourists than ever be fore -are flocking into France. The French bave our gracious permission to hold them up for enough to pay their debt to America. Athena Press, . e i ; - Congressman Fordney announces that he wilt retire at the end of this term. Ha does so voluntarily, buf -there are others who will not know they are co in to retire until - after election.-- Prinevule Central oregonian. - . ; As to Yetuming good; for evil." the American relief administration is- now feeding 10,000,000 Russians, while if the Bolsheviks had their way America would soon be reduced to a condition wherein it couldn't even feed itself,' Weston Leader. ; ? ; . , -- ' When we hear about the amount of money wastea by congress on tne tree eeed distribution and, the little allowed tor save our forests, we wonder what to wrong. If this wasted money Would only be applied In forest protection what untold good it would do. Amity , standard. - . . Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Stanley of Des chutes are registered at the Imperial while visiting in Portland for a day or so. r ' C. H. Carson of The Dalles is-transacting business in Portland, making the Imperial his headquarters while in tne city. - - . ; - -'----4 '-v-?7 ...v" '-..1. ' Mrs. C E. Ferguson of Walla Walla ia visiting friends -In . the city -for a short time, tjiaklng- her headquarters at tne juuitnomab. Mr. and Mrs. R. Bsfgstad and daugh ter of La Grande are at the Multnomah while staying in the city lor a few days. , - , .- . George P. - Wlnslow.' lawyer Of Til lamook. Is transacting legal business In' Portland,' registered at the - Impe rial. - F. P. Beals, prominent business man of Tillamook. Is at the Imperial for a short time while la the city attend ing to business matters. E. IL Chrlstenson of Eugene Is a Portland visitor, registered at the Im perial... .. .. .-. - M. M. Boney of Eugene is at the Imperial while irr the city on - a busi ness trip. "'.' ' v - ' 'Walter A." Denton, prominent busi ness man of Salem, Is at the Imperial for a short visit In the city.., . - Kenneth C McCormick of Bend Is a guest at the Imperial while in Port land for a short time. . . - j-. . e .."'. - ;' Mrs;' Robert G. Hall of Eugene Is -a Portland visitor, staying at the Impe rial. y:-u.; - i -: v- --' .l ': - --' . - . . s.i-w.- ":; R M. Young, business fnan of Sheri dan, is a guest at the Imperial for a day or so. - . , - Mr. and Mrs. C. V Clark of Eugene are visiting frienda in the city,- stop ping at the Imperial- . . ; ; . Lockley "The hotel man with any -vision is glad to se such a heavy amount of tourist travel even' though most of them stop in the auto parks. While they do hot spend their money directly at the hotel, nevertheless they buy oil and gas at the garage and groceries of the .merchants, , and are bound to leave some money in the - community, all of which helps everyone In the community.1 A good hotel on the main traveled . highway between San Fran cisco and Portland, if properly con ducted and if tourists are made to feel welcome and hot overcharged, can become a regular mint, for travelers pass- the word along to other tourists where t stay, -and - a dozen or IS cars, averaging from ' three to four people to a car, stopping with you very night means a welcome addition to the regular business." v i " ' - " , Recently I . spent a day or two at Lebanon, George Alexander, publisher of the Lebanon Express, took me for a drive through the surrounding coun try. We stepped for a visit at the Bates brothers farm, where Ora and OrviHe liases showed j us over their place. They specialize in raising and shipping strawberries. These berries always command a. premium on ac count of their superior size, flavor and keeping qualities. "Our berries av-. erage - about four tons to the acre.? I said Ora Batea --"We pay a cent a oox tor picaing tnern, yve go over the field each day. A good picker can earn 92.B0 to $4 a dayBMany of the women and young girls can pick more than, the menu? : , - We stopped -next at N. D. Keefhaver's farm, four- miles southeast of Leba non, on the river road to Waterloo. Pointing to a patch of pie plant, Mr, Keefhaver said.: "There is not over three-quarters of an acre in that field of. rhubarb. yet I took tons from it in the first picking asd-wia get that much or more from, the ; second picking. 1 1 sold it to the cannery at 1 cent a pound, and aa I picked 16,388 pounds on the first picking I received $153.28. ; I will get that much or more from, the second picking, so the yield of that three-quarters of an.! acre in rhubarb wiu. make me over $300. Some of the stalks Were as 5 thick- as my wrist and as' lorjg as my arm. -The Ideal way to raise rhubarb to send it; to the Portland market when it is large enough to pick and while people are hungry for .something tart in the spring. For the first - picking you can get five or .six -cents a pound. As soon as It begins to come into the market you ean mell all you can raise to the cannery at V cent a pound. A man can make, good money on five acres v of vegetables raised for the cannery. - A man with a 10-acre tract raising strawberries, rhubarb, asparagus and celery can not only keep busy but can make a living and accumulate .a substantial balance tn the. bank." FromMr.- Keefhaver's we vwent to Sol Lindieys farm. This Is one of the model farms in the Lebanon -district V Everything about the place is in apple pie order. He has 10 acres in 10-year-old walnut trees that will yield a large revenue for a long: tints to come. - Garden, - orchard and farm yard are so: kept up that; it ; is a delight to': visit his ftrm.-i;..-5!-";- Prom.. Mr. Lrndley's we- Went ea out to Waterloo, ; one ; a prospisrous communfty but new one of the ghost cities of tJregon. There is a splendid spring of mineral water. In factthis whole .--district..-,, including - Cascadia, Sodaville end Waterloo, Is rich in min eral springs. Snd some day some- man of vision -will take hold ef -them and build up a great health and pleasure resort. The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings In Brief Foraa for the v- Suay Header. ...t . - ' . " OREGON . ' A contract baa ttMn let tTi feftrinnl board of Langlois for the construotloU 01 a new school building to cost $:o. A Mrtilr'af' th rimitiu at Parifio university has been ' leased to the--Standard - Oil . company .: tor a campus . xiiuBg eiauQn. , - It Is estimated that about 1100 tons ' ef this year's pack of pears . will be grown In the vicinity of Salem. Grow ers will receive S0 a ton. " - A new S 0-ton Baldwin locomotive, costing $35,000, has arrived at Bend tor tn Brooks-Scanlon company and will be used in their logging opera tions. ; - - .... ,- Basil Hrav ' le. nnrla srvaat a t A. Grande charged with the theft of li ' head of cattle from John Beinder. The animals were disposed of to butchers at Pendleton. .. - . - Mrs. Alice . A. Whitoomb. ared 81. wife of William Whitoomb, NO. 49 East Ninth street, Portland, died Sunday morning at Seaside after an illness of - less than two days. . . Albert Fisher, f 4S years old. born and - raised in- tJnior countv. ' was drowned a few days ago tn the Grand Ronde river near the head ot the can yon souui 01 js.igin. . Stanley Jewett reports that during the month of June in Oregon . more than 360 coyotes - and bobcats were killed. Only one case of rabies was -reported in the state. , . " Miss Martha Spring Is in a critical condition at Foster, having received a fractured skull when thrown from a buggy when the horse became fright ened at a passing automobile.. . , . The postoffice depastment Is calling for bids to carry mall between Tilla mook and Grand Ronde The service is to commence September 1 - and a round trip Is to be made daily. ' Twenty-six of the 12 organizations of the Oregon National Guard showed , an increase In drill attendance during the past month. The Cottage Grove machine gun company led the list Bright lights on a passing csr are held responsible by trafflo officials for a wreck on the highway near Barn-, hart last Tuesday night, in which " Lewis Kilka, a farmer of Fresno, Cal was killed. - v . - . .-. -.- . ... Diamond lake has been Opened as a summer resort by the Diamond Lake Improvement corporation, a company formed chiefly , of Med ford business men, 4o whom a franchise from the government has been granted, -v WASHINGTON Howard Heath. 14 years old. struck on the head by an automobile driven By L Diehi, died at a Yakima hospital last week... The-Bumping- Lake Mining com pany, at a recent meeting held Ta Yak ima, increased its capitalization from $300,000 to $500,000.- - Samuel W. Hanna. 12, was Instantly killed Monday afternoon tn an ex plosion at (he Du Pont de Nemours powaer plant at Dupont Wash. The department of agriculture eat!-' mates that Washington grain growers last, year lost $214,000 on account Of smui in tneir wneat. , - Motor vehicle - licenses have brought to Washington's state treasury- $8,006, 000 this year to date, while the entire receipts tor 1921 were only $2,918,000. Drouth In the Yakima valley has so far burned ud oastures that demand is already' keen for alfalfa or the first cutting at prices as high as $16 a ton. Seattle's municipal street railway again went on a warrant basis Monday. Receipts are needed to meet the semi annual bond interest payment, which falls due September 1. , . .. . , Federal Judge Cushmart at Tacoma has granted a temporary injunction restraining the Washington fisheries board from forbidding purse seiners to operate Toff the Columbia river.. Fir at Spokane recently destroyed burned IS horses - to death and - con sumed two automobile and five wag-' viia, cauMiie,. Ji cgiunsieu loss -01 S4S nnn t (.'.... 1 .. - South Bend business men have r?e Cided to reopen the South Bend can nery this wason and put up a large quantity of small fruits, berries and vegetables, c The cannery last year op- SVV SV (USB,. . Hereafter utility ' companies musi give none of Intended rat . changes. The law does not compel companies to warn patrons, but the department of public work has .adopted a special rule governing the case, ? : t Becoming crszed by ;i the "extreme heat. David Young, son of J. H. Youns. a Kache farmer, attacked his father with a pitchfork, and after the weapon had been tak nfrom him. . attempted suicide by taking poison. . IDAHO - Idaho automobile men. 'In convention at Hailey last week,- favored a state tax of 2 cents a-gallon on gasoline. Railroad officials announce - that there will be plenty of refrigerator cars this season to handle the crops raised in Idaho. - - . . . ... . . ... , The $800,000 set" aside by the Secre tary of the interior for construction of the Emmett dam is now available and work will start immediately. -. ; - Henry Salsbury, ' Itinerant ' moving picture operator, was fined $50 and costs at Bandpoint for leaving a ramp fire burning a few miles east of Hep. , Despondent over th condition Of his health, Harold Button ef Mountain home - shot and , killed himself while camping with his wife and two children bear Atlanta. Idaho, , While visiting "at the home of neighbor in Cour d'Alene, A. L. Prieh ard was shot in the back hy Peter Man nintfx The men had been good friends, and if. Is thought Manning was insane, t Wlien his horses became frightened and tran away, . Clarence Kerr ef Grantleville. $5. became n tangled In th harness - and was dragged over rocky It-round, saetaioing injuries jthal. resulted in his death. - . - - E, D. Ds Jardlnes of Bonrirs Ferry and his nephew, Elsa Des Jardlnes, el Sandpolnt, found each other at Sand' point last week after th two branches of th family had heard nothing ef each other" for 36 years. f . i. Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of July 24,. 1902. - The noted swfhdier who for years bag used the name of J. i Coleman Drayton, r the ,NW - York millionaire, was ordered out ef Portland this after noon by Chief of Police McLauchlin. - Estimating the eity'i population at 100,000, Mayor WOliams la askd to appoint IS delegates to the, "Interna tional Mining convention to be held at Butte, September . 1-6. Th apportion ment ts. five original delegates and on for each 16,000 population. -. . . e - . '.... ". ' Berlin -Emperor William wilj not visit Posen during the army' maneu vers. It is feared that he might be assassinated because of the . prnt Polish agitation. ' . V .; . : ... - - " e ,-" '; . f?; - & ":; ;-. Consumers of wood had better pre pars" for an advance In the price of the article. G. G. Mayger of the My ger". company, predicts th price will go to $2.76 a cord within a week, . . .... At last night's meeting of th Elks Carnival association. Chairman B. B, Rich of ' the committee . on Ways and means proposed making-the' award ef $a00 in gold to the successful candidate for queen of th carmvat,; His sug gestion . was adopted,-.-t' ? '. .-2 . . w - . e v. -. - - Chicago - Oats eatabllahed . a new record today when th July, optior ad- vanced from -67 cents to 70 cents, t cents abov the pr lo Of i Jaljr corn. -r- i;:-..'; 1 V :- V -.-. -Postmaster Croasman directs public attention to the fact that the recently established postal stations on the west elds are now fully: equipped and ready for businesa