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t nm tvtt ZZh ?H CAPITAL JOURNAL The Capital-Journal AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Sunday by The Capital Journal Print- ,&na partisanship, ing Co, 136 South Commercial street. Telephones Circulation and Busi ness office, 81: Editorial rooms. 82. O. PITNAM. Editor and Publisher. Entered as second ul&ss mail mat ter at Silem, Oregon. SUBSCRIPTION KATES By carrier 60 cents a month. By mail 50c a month, $1.25 for three months, $2.25 for six months, $4 per rear in Marlon and Polk counties. Elsewhere 15 a year. By order of U. S. government, all mail subscriptions are payable in advance. Advertising representatives W. D. Ward. Tribune Bids'., New York: V. H. Stockwell, Peoples Gas. Bid.. Chicago. EXPEDIENCY REPLACES PRINCIPLE. The republican platform might well be called "the damnation of democracy." Throughout the wearisome appeal to prejudice the fulsome self-laudation and Pecksniffian professions of piffle, the campaign platitudes and desuetudes,' runs the anvil chorus of denunciation of the administration as the consummation of all that is evil. The platform is certainly not an instrument to point to with! pride. Neither can it be viewed with much alarm. Where there; is a vital principle at stake, there is a lack of principle in the; wobbly straddle. Where the platform is committal, it is reaction-! ary in tendency, and reflects the viewpoint of the Old Guard and. ft the mts.i? sBYf ARTHUR SCOT I UAikt T A Xofcry ltogne. I whether he found food there or not If i -1 u.,- .. Jllv. 4V. i- ,v x -i- I Some of the feathered folk In Pleas- he caught the cat out of doors he had big business rather than the aspirations Of the toiling masses ant Valley said thatold Mr. Crow was 'good sport teasing her. And he always MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news 'ubl!shed herein. o regon bservations Portland Thousands of dollars will be saved by the Northwest l'.ridse 4k Iron company through the use of electric welding In aeven tank ships of 12.00 Otons capacity which this company has contracted to build. Tankers of this class require about twice as much riveting as the steel carsro carriers formerly built at the plant. Welding will be substituted for rivets in a large part of this work. Klamath Falls The Klamath Mini company, recently incorporated here for $200,000, has purchased 2500 acres of mursh land on Upper Kla math lake, anil a portion of this traut will be planted to spearmint and pel permlnt this year. Experiments have shown that the Oregon variety mint Is unusually suitable for distil lation because of its high menthol content. It is claimed that this will be the largest single tract devoted to mint grpwing in the United States. Burns An attempt to reach tin lake of oil which is believed to under ly Harney and Malheur counties is being made by O. W. Howell, who tag commenced drilling operations near hero. Rockuway Surf bathers who are chilled by the waters of the Pacific may restore their circulation In a dance pavilion which Is being' con , otructed here, A movie show is ulso ffoing lit across the street from the Church, 4 Portland The Peninsula lumber mill here, now producing 100,000,000 feet of lumber a year, will Just dou ble Its capacity when expansion al ready In progress Is completed. Three thousand lineal feet of bulkheading 40 feet , wide now surround a tract that is being filled by a suction dredge. Upon this site will be built a complete new unit comprising a saw mill, planing mill, dry kiln and nock for ocean going vossels. Tillamook The dairy industry in this Bection Is seriously hampered by the lack of sufficient gasoline to run the milking mnchlnes. Cows cannot be milked by hand because of the scarcity of labor. Pittsburg The vast Iron resources of Columbia county are being devel oped for the first time successfully by the first unit of a smelter which has" started operation near here. Portland. Instead of paying mill prices for boxes, fruit growers of the Yakima vally will build their own. Construction has started and machin ery Is arrtvfrifl here for a box factory in the Kenton Industrial district which will nunufuuture 12,000 apple boxes a day working two shifts. For the pur pose of operating this factory and re ducing the cost of packing Apples, tin growers have organized the vtede Lumber company, of which they are the owners nnd managers. Bend, ' The ShevHii-IIix.on nnd Hrooks-Sennlon Lumber companies, the two Inris-fHt Industries of this city, will help solve the housing problem by furnlshliiMT lumber to their em ployes and residents of this city for home bulldliiff purposes at a price less than that reeclved for their product f. o. 1). cars at their own mills. The lumber companies will also finance the building of homes and let employes puy for them by deducting a small sum from each month's wage The 1920 payroll for these two mills alone will be close to $3,000,000 and with their present holdings of timber in this re Klon the mills can operate at this ca pacity for 80 years. Portland. A notorious white ele phant here In the shape of the Mon arch Lumber mill has been harnessed and put to work. ThiB huge mill, which is capable of producing 81,250 feet of lumber an hour, operated only a short time nfter It was finished, was entangled in litigation and has lain Idle ever since. Il hns now been taken over by Lester W. finvld, an enterpris ing lumberman. Is furnishing employ ment for 175 men, and Is producing a lot of good lumber at a good profit. jjjjJi j . '.nf. J.. rh, You see lie was like Friskey Squirrel in that. summer, either, that Jasper's shrieks and laughter woke the echoes. Since it was his habit to spend his winters right there in Farmer Green's young pines, near the foot of Blue Mountain, on many a cold morning Jasper's ear splitting "Jay! Jay" rang out on the frosty air. At that season Jasper often visited the farm buildings. In the hope of find ing a few kernels of corn scattered about the-door of the corn-crib. But it seemed to make'little difference to him it rmgnt as well nave oeen written a score oi years ago, as lar as tne noisiest person in the neighbor world vision and the changed outlook of humanity is concerned.! hoo1- Bu ny must have forgotten It belongs to an era that is passing. - FaSYJ Z? The administration is assailed in the platform for its unpre-' : sparedness for war and the winning of the war ignored. It is attacked for its "unpreparedness for peace" yet the republicans have been in full control of congress since the war, and refused ,to enact the peace legislation asked by the president and now 'demanded in the platform. A mandate for Armenia is repudiat ed and scorned but a mandate for Mexico favored. It' combines a maximum of destructive criticism with a minimum of constructive suggestion. . It is, however the subject of the League of Nations that the platform attempts to face both ways repudiating the League of Nations and the peace treaty, yet favoring a new treaty to cre ate "world courts" to preserve peace after the manner of the Iitgue tribunal, which worked so effectively in preventing the world war. One must read the platform, however, to appreciate the stand and the peace treaty : "(A) League of Nations. Foreign policy of administration has been founded upon no principle and directed by no definite conceptions of our nation's rights and obligations. It has been humiliating to America and ir ritating to other nations, with the result that, after a period of unexampled sacrifice, our motives are suspected, our moral influence impaired and our government stands discredited and friendless among the nations of the world. "We favor a liberal. and generous foreign policy, founded upon definite moral and political principles, characterized by a clear understanding of and firm adherence upon our own rights and unfailing respect for the rights of others. We should afford full and adequate protection to the life, liberty nnd property and all international rights of every American citizen and should require a proper respect for the American flag; but we should be equally icareful to manifest a Just regard for the rights of other nations. A scrupu lous observance of our international engagements when lawfully assumed is essential to our own honor and self-respect and the respect of other nations. Subject to a new regard for our international obligations, we should leave our country free to develop its civilization along the lines most conductive io ine nuppiness ana weitare or tne people, ana to cost its Influence on the side of Justice and right should occasion require. . The republican party stands for agreement among the nations to pre serve the peace of the world. "We believe that such an international institution must be based upon International Justice and muBt provide methods which shall maintain the rule of public right by the development of law and the decision of impartial cgurts, and which Bhall secure instant and general international conferences whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, so that the nations pledged to do and insist upon what is Just and fair may exercise their in fluence and power for the prevention of war. t "We believe that all this can be done without compromise of national Independence, without depriving the people of the United States in advance of the right to determine for themselves what 1b Just and fair, when the oc casion arises, and without involving them as participants and not as peace makers in a multitude of quarrels, the merits of which they are unable to Judge. The covenant Blgned by the president at Paris failed signally to accom plish this great purpose and contains stipulations not only intolerable for an independent people, but certain to produce the Injustice, hostility and con troversy among nations which it proposed to prevent. "That covenant repudiated to a degree wholly unnecessary and lnjus tlfluble the time-honored policies in favor of peace declared by Washington nnd Jefferson and Monroe and pursued by all American administration for more than a century, and it ignored the universal sentiment of Americans for generations past in favor of international law and arbitration, and it rest ed the hope of the future upon near-expediency and devotion. "The unfortunate insistence of the president upon having his own way without any change and without regard to the opinions of a majority ot the sennte, which shares with him in the treaty making power, and the presi dent's demand that the treaty should be ratified without any modification created a situation In which senators were required to vote upon their con sciences and their oaths according to their judgment against the treaty as it was presented, submit to the command of a dictator in a matter where the authority and the responsibility under the constitution were there and not here. . . ' The senators performed their duty faithfully. We approve their conduct and honor their courage and fidelity. And we pledge the coming republican administration to such agreement with the other nations of the world as shnll meet the full duty of America to civilization and humanity, In ac cordance with American ideals and without surrendering the light of the American people to exercise this Judgment and its power in favor of justice and peace." . . The Treaty of Versailles is repudiated and the action of the republican senators in killing the treaty commended. In this re spect Johnson and the bitter enders have won the victory, the party tail has wagged the party dog, and the republican party stands committed absolutely against the League of Nations, podge's cloak of reservations, under which the treaty was assas sinated, is dropped as having served its purpose. As a substitute .. i 1. 1 ., .. 1. 1 ' VI. . 1L. 1 . . 5 1 1 T, tne it-ague, iieute treaties, iikb uiose conuuueu uy uryan, are "What good does it do?" I said to proposed, and international courts to adjudicate claims suggested, myself rather dramatically as i faced It is hoped thus to retain the votes of those favorable to a League in rPfleetlon ln the long mirror, "what . e xTi: rru . i: j : e i i i j x il good does it do? I repeated "to make ui ltiuiiMitt. me iictuiic uesue iui iiarmuiiy nas leu to tne abandonment of principle and the substitution of political exped' ioney as the pillar of fire to guide the republican party from the jobless wilderness unto the promised piecounter, enjoyed that Jasper was a bold rowdy but hand some. And Farmer Green liked to look out of the window early on a bleak morning and see him in his bright blue suit frisking in and out of the bare trees. Still, Farmer Green knew well enough that Jasper Jay was a rogn. "He reminds me of a bad boy," John nie Green's tafher said one day. "He's mischievous and destructive; and he's forever whistling and screeching. But there's something about him that I can't help liking . . . Maybe it's be cause he always has such a good time." "He steals birds' eggs in summer," Johnnie Green remarked. "I've known boys to do that," his father remarked. And Johnnie saM nothing more just then. Perhaps he was too busy watching Jasper Jay, who had flown into the orchard and was already breakfasting on frozen apples, which hung here and there upon the trees. When warm weather came, the rog ue, Jasper fared better. Then there were insects and irult for him. And though Jasper took his full share of Farmer Green's strawberries, currants and blackberries, he did him no small service in devouring moths that would have harmed the grapes. But "In the fall Jasper scorned al most any food except nuts, which he liked more than anything else that Is, If their shells were not too thick. Beechnuts and chestnuts and acorns suited him well. And he was, very skill ful ln opening them. He would grasp a nut firmly with his feet and split it with his strong bill. Johnnie Green could not crack a beechnut with his father's hammer more quickly than Jasper Jay could reach the inside of a sweet beechnut. Though Jasper hated to spend any of his time during the nutting season by doing much else except eat, he was so fond of nuts that he always hid away j as many as he could in cracks and : crevices, and buried them under the j fallen leaves. . j You see, he was like Frisky Squirrel in that. He believed in storing nuts for : the winter. But since he had no hollow ' tree in which to put them. It was only! ! natural that he never succeeded In i finding every one of his carefully hid-1 den nuts. He left them in so many dlf- j ferent places that he couldn't remem-1 , - Aij Der thorn a iu i nose that fashion often took nt' he '-T trees. And so mer Green in mJ?J? htl But no doubt Jas8 Bhneked with laurhte? kWou!1 uggedsuchaaMear ttH to0 fori Sal h nooQuumArcoij Bungalow Ordiestn OF Portland Hot Summer Sun Trying on the Complexi which you gave me to understand you were going to use In my business you used to make a payment on the house. "Well, the house is ours, isn't it?" "I believe you did write me you were making me a present of it." "What time does the first train go? I'm getting so tired of your nagging that I think I will get out and go to the station instead of waiting for a la ter train. Of course, if you want me to lose the money that I have already paid on the hoUsa;?you can keep your old money, but I should think you wouia nave enough interest in my af fairs to help me out on the next pay ment." . Making Much Money.' "1 would do this gladly, John, if I really thought you needed It. But I do not think so. If you have told me the truth you have been making a great deal of money In your business. know there has'never been so much advertising as there Is now and you have gotten your share of It. I also have learned, unhappily, that because of some queer little bias in your mind you cannot bear to see me have a cent of money, consequently you are very anxious to get what little money I have left and pay it on T;his house, I'll give you the credit that perhaps it Isn't the mere dollars that influences you, but a feeling that you shoud be given entire charge of our finahical arrangements. "This has become perfectly inrorer able to me," I went on, "consequently I realize that my only hope, not only of happiness, but even content, would lie In the accumulation of a little in come of my own.', John looked at'.rhe queerly. For the first time ln my life I was positively afraid of him. He said nothing, how ever. He simply picked up his grips and left the roonn A moment later I heard the frortt d6or slam and knew that he had gone to the station. AVImt Good Docs It Do? nights, beginning Friday evening. And Manager Bligh who has sought dill- gently to book a real comedian for half-week appearance at his theatre. expressed delight at his ability to win Mr. Murphy for such a lengthy ap pearance In this city. . ' Mrs. Catt Re-elected. Geneva, June 11-Mrs. Carrie Chap man Catt was unanimously re-elected president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at this morning's session of its congress here. She has agreed to accept the office, 1 was an nounced despite her declaration in t speech yesterday that she felt com pelled to retire. " . MWNUt7 ' it Rippling Rhymes THE DOCTOR. '. The doctor felt my throbbing wrist, whose pulsebeats seemed to lope; he said, "You have the hives, I wist, and I'll prescribe some dope." And when J. got the doctor s bill, a painful hour was mine, a sort of raw and clammy.chill went sliding down my spine. I said, "It is a sin and shame, to tax. me such a sum, and I shall climb that sawbones frame, when next I see him come. And when I thought of all the toil it took to make him wise ; he studied by the midnight oil until he strained his eyes. He had to paw old misfit bones, and listen, by the day, to lecturers, whose musty tones would make a corpse turn gray. He had to physic pauper gents to get his hand in right, and if they paid him fifty cents he wept from pure delight. He had to travel muddy roads in mid night rain and storm, while I was writing nutty odes, serene and fat and warm. He often lacked a goose to eat when came his Christmas day ; and if he's now in Easy Street, he surely fought his way, "He's charging for the skill' I said, "that long hard years have brought, and ?0 I will not punch his head, or spoil his dome of thought.". j 1 LOVE and MARRIED LIFE By the Noted Author ID AH McGLONE GIBSON Ten r.inkloy went V th' tiiy t'd.ty t' Kit a !: car mi' m.iy have some mi nor Improvemmn nnule on hi year' sfrnw bal. Wlctl's h.vtie o' tit" h. !!,,! ,,.,, 1 (' :i !":;!. Whew l"rMliislilp t'Nie. ''Want Is this key for?" he asked, and 1 saw that he was curiously -fingering my keys which he jjad found on the table. "It's the key to my safety deposit box." 'Well,. I thought I needed one down here, Mother, you know, left me some ilcces of Jewelry that are-rather valu able." "Hut you know, Katherine, I have a safety deposit box at my bank. I eould take your Jew elry up "there. You won t be wearing It now for awhile. It seems such a waste of money to have two safety deposit boxes." "John, why do you find fault wfth me for every bit of money that I spend without consulting you?" "1 don't," he answered in surprise. "Yes, you do. I have never spent a cent Hliiee we were married that you haven't found some f.tul! with it It is true 1 have spent very litt'c money be e.iue I have had very little to spend. U: s.mie w v you lew uiini.t to money from the oil wells, and the main reason I did not ask you to manage them for me was because I knew that If I did t would have to go back to the old regime of never having a cent In my pockets. Even now you have managed to us almost all of the mon ey that I had from my mother and from these oil wells, and when I found I probnbly would have no more I de cided I would keep what little I had." In KatViy Vault. "'So, after giving me a power of at torney," he said with an ugly loon, "you toek.the remaining deposit yon had in the bank and put ln a safety deposit vault, did you? You act as tho you were married to a thief." "Don't be so disagreeable, John. Charles told meyiyi would probably have no more need for money In the oil business," "I'll thank Goodwin to mind hismi, business. The meddling fool." "It seems to me John, that he med dled to your advantage, 3 you tell me hi u'ti Ms own h'.oiu-y to pay up the t'.hs I'- is-- !.-.! - i i : the :''. i.-v yourself pretty for a man who has no respect for you whatever, to whom you are nothing but a toy for him to play with and who tires of ou very quickly if by any possibility you do not re spond to his slightest change of mood?" KIght here something snapped In my heart and the tension and hurt that had been mine for many-months was over. I realized that I particularly did not 'care what John thought of me, and I also realized that I was very glad that John had gone, I was almost ready to wish he would always stay away. As that thought came to me my breath stopped and I realized that I was not quite ready for him to pass out of my life entirely. Tomorrow Some Modern Ides. Comedian Prince To Appear Here The "Prince of Comedians" is in Sa lem. He is W. P. Murphy, blackface and the funniest of funny, and arrived ln thia city direct from the east, smil ing and as Jovial at theatre and com edian fans remembered him when he passed through Salem several years ago. Comedian Murphy, who won the en viable title of "Prince of Comedians" after il years an exonent 0f mirth and Joy In the best theatres in the east, will Many secrets you will find revealed in the green box of Nadine Face Powder They are secrets which every weman would solve secrets of personal charm. 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I recom mend it to all of my friends.". NOTE To get the very best 'effwl be sure to follow the complete di rections contained ln every package of Derwillo. You have only to pt Derwillo and oatmeal. You need tola Ing else, and it Is so simple that aaf one can use It, and so Inejpeaaita that any' girl or woman can afford it. The manufacturers and drusgirt guarantee that there will be a not iceable improvement after the tint application or they will refund tin money. It is sold in this city under a money refund guarantee by de partment stores and all druggists, la eluding J. C. Perry and D, J. Fry. (adr) A Free Oatmeal Prescription Does Its Work Overnight. You Can Prepare it at Home '.. New York Exposure to sun, dust and wind has a very bad effect upon the skin and complexion. There is a way to overcome this. 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