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8 Jltonrotjgi rerrmrtmt K8TABL1KHED bv HENRI' U PITTOCK. published by The oregonian publishing Co.. . r. . c.reet- - t" t. pfpRR I A.. WVALOIV, - Manager. Eaitor. Ths Oregonian la a member of the aim- - elated Pre The Associated . exclusively entitled to the use (or puDllca- - tlon of all new dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper anu , . . & I in inn 1 : news iiud lsneu iieitiu. . rights of republication of special dispatches herein are aleo reserved. riubscriptlon Rates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Uaily. Sunday included, one year S S9 Xjaily, Sunday Included, six months . .. V2R Bally. Sunday Included, three months. 2.25 Daily. Sunday Included, one month ..... .10 Dally, without Sunday, one year 8.00 pally, without Sunday, six months .... 3.2S Daily, without Sunday, one month .... .60 "Weekly, one year . 1.00 Sunday, one year 5.00 (By Carrier.) 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Sunsets and song birds still cling to the flaming, gorgeous, col- orful motif in their expression of living. Only mortals have grown staid and lusterless. That is why. if there weren't four-scor- e and more excellent reasons besides, that Port- land will find refreshing tonic for herself In the. welcome to the Im- perial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. For they some, these pilgrims, from all the cities of the land, in the silk and satin splendor of strange, ro- mantic courts, riding down upon the city like some cavalcade in a caliph's dream. Dawn in the tropics or a desert evening cannot vie with them for radiant disregard of conventional attire. Temple by temple they tilt at the hum-dru- until it topples to the turf, and life takes on the colors that were given to gladden the heart, and there is music to step to, and the drear commonplace is forgotten. Salaam! And with the obeisance Ot a proud city to her honored guests let all remember that the hospitality of Portland is tested by the welcome given and sustained. No light trib- ute was paid to Oregon and its metropolis when Shrinedom chose the city for its gala week. With the individual citizen and business man rests the pledge that no untoward conduct, no violation of the- desert creed of hospitality, free-hand- and open-hearte- d, shall mar a moment's pleasure or give cause for an in- stant's regret. Portland has ever "been the graceful hostess, loveliest " In June, and would have the cara- vans bear with them, outward bound, some word that Portland's fame has ' not been idly celebrated, but that reality transcends the rumor. ' Masonry itself, ancient of orders, rises as some rugged, loyal monolith from the sands of antiquity, gigan- tic, impressive, and fraught with tre- mendous capabilities for service. It Is fraternalism at the zenith, and its records are graven on stone which felt the chisel so many centuries ago that antiquarians quarrel concerning the era of those most venerable in- scriptions. Hence one is not sur- prised, but touched with the vanity of redeemed assurance, to discover that the festal auxiliary order of the Mystic Shrine is no mere conception of merry modernity, but that it, too, had its origin in days as remote as Mohammed, and that the order, even as Masonry, recedes in the dim per- spective of the past, with tradition supplanting- the inadequacy of his- torical narration. The advent of the original . order. according to authorities, swings back ward to the flight of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina, that time the prophet found it to his advantage to be absent when dissenting rell gionists thought to call upon him with whetted scimetars and new pointed javelins. The flight of the Moslem prophet became the birth of the Mohammedan era, corresponding to the year 622 in the Christian cal endar, and known as the Hejira. In Mecca, toward whose unseen min arets the Moslem bows to pray, in the year of the Hejira 25, the Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine was founded, or in the Christian calendar year of 647. The origin of the modern order In America, however, seems to bear no direct relation to this period of the organization, which was revived some 222 years ago in Arabia, as an auxil iary to and the suppression of banditry. Caravans laden with treasure and commerce were lures for the lawless, and the. wild riders of the desert swooped down upon the camel trains with consequent fatalities and disruption , of trade. Then arose again the An- cient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, its members pledged to keep the trade lanes open through the expeditious removal of ever so many picturesque plunderers an oriental version of the vigilantes of our own rough west half a lifetime since In 1871 there journeyed to Mecca ' a pilgrim from distant America. Wil , Ham J. Florence, whom all the boys called "Billy," a 33d degree Mason .; It was at Aleppo, historic Syrian city, where the crusaders camped when they essayed the conquest of the Holy Land, that the enterpris ing Mr. Florence gained entrance to ..a session of the Mystic Shrine, wherewith he was manifestly de lighted. He returned to America and New York with the notion that a good-fello- w burlesque of the some what serious eastern order might yield to American Masonry an hour . or so Of playtime. So in New York on September 26, 1872, Mecca Tern pie No. 1, of the American order, was rounded. The novelty and freshness of the idea lacked not fo converts, for in the notable assembly tnat gathers in Portland today there are 147 temples represented with a membership exceeding 300,000. And in Arabia they are still doing busi- ness at the old- - stand. The popularity of the order arises from two distinct sources, chief of which is the exacting nature of the requirements for membership. To be numbered among the faithful . phrases from the Koran and Arabian Nights are ever apropos the can- didate must not only be a tested Mason of high degree, but he must rua the gauntlet of a very critical h " - inspection by the auxiliary order, Trt iovo nttotnarl Vi o stiHnn 1 t r, hfl . knighted in the lists of good-fello- ship, In the broadest application of tne DhrasG The second source of popularity is the frank and undenie! to. intention of the nobles to wrest from life its store of gaiety and mirth a project at which the membership may be Bald, without a trace Of exaggeration, to be exceptionally successful All the foregoing is by way of introducing to Portland the guests It within our gates, affording their hosts, the public,- a more definite conception of the order which hon- ors the city with its pitched tents and grazing dromedaries. When you perceive, th.s afternoon, some jolly fellow with his fez at a jaunty angle, resplendent in gorgeous zouave cos- tuming, you will not only be con- templating the incarnation of car- nival but you may, at the same time, be gazing at the governor of a state. For the Mystic Shrine, and is here is the condensed clue to its being, affords men the opportunity to lay dignity and care aside, and to give life the glad hand with the exuberance of youth. ONE OF THOSE POOR BILKS.- - The law is often mysterious in its workings. is In 1914 the voters of Oregon abol- ished capital punishment.- On the day of election two murderers were held at Salem under sentence of death. Nobody disputed that if the amendment carried their necks would be saved. The only issue was whether its adoption would not actually set them free. They had been convicted of a crime the only legal punishment a for which was death by hanging. Prohibition of hanging would remove the only legal penalty, unless mean- while the governor commuted their sentences to life imprisonment.. This he did before the amendment became effective. . Now capital punishment has been restored. But before the amendment was proclaimed a brutal and pre- meditated murder was committed near Oregon City. One young man has confessed that he and another slew the driver of a for-hir- e car 1n cold blood. The two men have not been tried- nor . have they been legally proved guilty. But it is as- sumed by all lawyers that have been interviewed that the amendment will not be retroactive in their case. In- asmuch as the crime was committed before capital punishment was for- mally restored they can be given no worse punishment than life Impris- onment. As we said before the law is often mysterious in its workings. Abolish ment of capital punishment is retro- active. Restoration of capital pun ishment is not. It's a queer propo sition but doubtless any lawyer can xplain it so that all the other law, ers, but nobody else, can under stand it. GREAT INDIGNATION. What's the primary between friends rf the friends are democrats? Here is Mr. Schuyleman, not only a seer and a prophet, but entitled by the' unwritten law of politics to appointment to a place on the Ore- gon delegation to the national demo- - ratlc convention made vacant by the death of one of the elected candi- dates. He had the most votes among the remaining candidates. Does he get it? He does not. The trifling excuse that he was once a socialist is used against him. Be- sides, something like Senator John- son, he is the choice of the plain people, and the plain people are not n control. It's the old guard the old guard whose members ' almost without exception were by the same plain people turned down when they ran for delegates in the recent dem- ocratic primary. In democratic eyes the defeat of Senator Johnson for the nomination for president by the republicans was a high crime and misdemeanor. Yet Johnson had been a progressive just as Schuyleman had been a socialist. Yes, the primary is undermined, the people are betrayed and a member of the old guard' is chosen by the old guard to fill a democratic va cancy. This sounds like indignation, does it not? It is quite as sincere as that which has been choking the demo cratic brethren since the Chicago exhibit of "prussianism" and "politi cal skullduggery." HEIFERS It is the bizarre that oDtrudes and becomes claimant to headlines. A six-legg- ed heifer calf is always more conducive to interest than are her normal sisters of the same farm- yard. Her fame or notoriety, rather, gathers embellishments on : every tongue. Albinos, with their pale, pinkish eyes and their wisps of col orless hair,' are interesting despite their unattractiveness. But like the lonely swallow, who does not consti- tute a summer or a drink, for that matter the freak Is no criterion of the normal. Do you recall the blind men and the elephant? Their opin- ions differed, and trie chap who seized upon the beast's trunk asserted that the ponderous pachyderm was nothing if not a rope. " In England they are calling the Fannie Hurst marriage, with typical British per spicacity, "the American experiment." To an amazed public this prominent magazine contributor recently dis- closed the fact of her marriage, which caught the popular fancy as something eccentric and outre, like the six-legg- calf. It was the mu- tual agreement, not the marriage, that roused t?ie jaded public interest. "We decided that seven break- fasts a week opposite one another might prove irksome," smirked the bride. "Our average is two." With this announcement the freak- ish element entered, and nuptials that a paragraph had sufficed to narrate became the subject of .col- umns. The serious-minde- d British journalists charged in gallant, thick- headed mass formation, in defense of marriage and the home. Theirs was the valor and concern of Sir Kay, the seneschal, rather than that of Sir Launcelot, for in America the revelations of the bride were the source only of comic comment Miss Hurst's, way is neither the American way nor "the American experiment." It is the affectedly wearied and blase choice of a woman who ought to know better, if ever she truly interprets life as an author, and is but another six-legg- ed heifer ln the rarmyard of American man- ners and morals. Any creator of magazine fiction, gifted with but a trace of discernment, should be able to perceive that such a custom, had it been generally inaugurated a few TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1920 generations ago, must have surely f r P- -s 11 1 p rl in the pHminatinn of a. ereat many magazine contributors. Do you follow us? The invincible, dearly desirable ego that is ourselves came being because of an ed belief in actual marriages, not in oc- casional breakfast jousts of literary wit- - In triving to retain her romance. by means so unique. Miss Hurst lead3 casual critics to the belief that she hasn't any romance worth retaining. is another six-legg- ed belfer, and its home is the sideshow. LIFE BLOOD OF the LAND. A total of . 263 permits have been issued from the state engineer's of- - portation" and of liberal appropria- - 'mo3t you Spread-fic- e water eagled to stand in line for the appropriation of tion for highways, from-Orego- n for the pur- - Aid most effectively wlth the of 90-la- y lieutenants pose of irrigation and the develop- - ment of power. More 40,000 acres of land are to be watered un- der the grants, and 9300 horsepower to be developed. Here are slaves of the lamp, in- deed. A state so providentially dow- ered that she has but to press lightly upon her natural resources and set the wheels of industry turning with exhaustless energy, to turn the spisrot of her many streams and cause the soil to bring forth abundantly, and then some. The natural conjecture that the future of Oregon is one of industrial magnitude, as well as agricultural. There is an abundance of water for such fertile soil as needa it. and an abundance to manufacture the electrical energy that draws fac- tories and enterprise as to a magnet. In the development of the state these factors scarcely have begun to count. They have been tapped with pin-pric- k. But years soon to come will see them moving prosperously a through the veins of economic en- terprise, when Oregon, already great and prosperous, will stand among the foremost as a export-producin- g commonwealth, asking for little from eastern shelves. HOW TO HELP THE FARMER. Senator Harding's conference with editors of farm papers evidences his interest in and extensjve information on agriculture and his realization of its importance in the whole economic structure of the country. Having spent his life in a country town which has grown up into an indus- trial center, he has seen manufac- tures and cities develop out of pro- portion to agriculture and rural pop- ulation. Solid prosperity and economic in- dependence of the country can be secured only by symmetrical growth of agriculture in step with manu- factures, mining and other urban industries. Farming has fallen be- hind, and the whole nation pays in higher prices for everything that it buys. It is necessary that farming be put on an equality with other lines of production in the amount and stability of prices, in credit, mar and transportation facilities and in supply of labor. When that is done, the of the farmer will be increased, yet the price paid by the for his products will be decreased, farm production will inqrea.se, and the general level of prices will fall. There should fol- low a larger surplus of farm prod ucts for export and greater ability of manufacturers to compete in for- eign traded Thus the prosperity of all other industries is closely bound up with that-o- f agriculture. The requisites for greater strength in the farming industry are plainly indicated in the report of Senator Capper of Kansas to the advisory committee on platform, which is condensed In the platform plank on that subject. The first cause of the farmer's troubles is the wide differ ence between the price which he re ceives and that which the consumer pays for his products. Wholesale prices of farm products have kept pace with those of all commodities. but between 1910 and 1917 the in- come of the farmer increased 112 per cent, while that of manufactur- ing, light and power, companies in- creased 208 per cent. That discrep- ancy was due in the main to inter- vention of too many middlemen be tween farmer and and to excessive cost of transportation. It Is also due lnTart to fluctuations in price which afford speculators op- portunity to make it at the ex- pense of the consumer, no part of which goes to the The readiest means of securing a large share of this margin for the farmer and of saving another large share to the.corjsumer is marketing extension to every prod- uct in every district of the system which, is successfully followed by fruitgrowers and .other producers. Another means is more liberal credit at moderate interest to carry the farmer over the period from seed- - time to Harvest lhese means can uc piuviutsa oy legislation wnicn will enable the farmers to help them- selves laws to facilitate of marketing associations which would not fall foul of anti-tru- st laws but could be prevented from becom- ing injurious to the public; also laws to facilitate loan asso- ciations on the pattern of the farm loan associations of the rural credit system. Federal reserve banks might also be permitted to give more lib- eral discount privileges to farm pa- per, especially for purchase of fer tilizer and seed and to carry crops until they are marketed. The best remedy for speculation. aside .from such credit as relieves the farmer from the necessity of selling to the speculator, is informa tion as to world conditions of supply. demand and price, which is furnished by the market bureau. This infor- mation would naturally be studied by officers of marketing associations, which could thus advise their mem- bers what to plant and how much of it, and by direct sales on a large scale would take away the specu lator's occupation. Wide dissemina tion of Information which influences production and prices would limit fluctuations, which make the specu lator's opportunity and would go far to ' eliminate him. These means would enable the farmer to pay higher wages and would thus help to overcome the labor difficulty. This arises from his inability to keep pace with ad- vances in wages paid in cities, mines and lumbering, also from the sea sonal nature of farm work. An em- ployment bureau in the labor de- partment working in conjunction with the immigration bureau could assist by directing immigrants away from the already congested cities to the farming states, as is suggested by the platform in its recommenda tion of provision "for better economic distribution of our alien population." Transportation means much more to the farmer than railroads, for it begins at his own gate.- : Mud roads j nrit a. ta on "him which can be re- - l moved by modern highways. High rail rates and congested railroads l are another tax which can be re- - moved both by motor highways and by improved' waterways, and by co- - ordination of these with each other and with railroads. Lower cost of transportation will raise the price paid to the farmer, and good roads tha brldgo of boats wasn't going to right to his farm will bring him into Iet anybody get over to Ehrenbreit-touc- h with the world, relieve farm 8tein or vice verBat lf ha could help me irom jts isolation, . tractive ana neip to tura lut u ot population Dacn troixi w . rr.. i fKlo I j j" v. ,. , to agriculture by the government by decentralization of its activities. TJo bureau official at Washington is as anywhere wanted. colonels had streams b iriven newest than keting profits consumer consumer producer. formation well qualified to decide a question show the proper authority when rid-a- s a man on the ground, but tooling in O. D. motor. cars. But generals many men on the ground have no I power to act and must convince a man two or three thousand miles away in order to get a decision. Lo- - I cal officials should have power to decide in accord with a general pol- icy. One of the farm editors dem onstrated the absurdity of- requiring the farmer to go to the agricultural department. It is to be hoped that one result of the promised reorgan ization of the government will be I that the' department will go to the farmer. A COMMON RIGHT. . One of the fundamental truths oil our economic system is that capital, I no less than labor, has the right to r fair return upon its investment, Dollars or toil, it is all one, there- - turn must be adequate or the service ceases. Applications are common enough. There is, lor example, tne I current decision or tne uurtiss Air- - piane company to cease tne com-- 1 merciai manuiacture ot jib macnines, oecause tne government nas per- - mlttea salvaged war planes, or iung- - lish manufacture, to invade the home I market. Exercising its privilege, the! Curtiss firm has announced that it I will suspend the industry, rathe than -- continue in competition at a ruinous disparity. The action of this firm illustrates, to the fullest extent, the freedom of invested capital to decline an unprofitable venture. The same effect ,may be produced throughout the industrial field, in some degree, if organized labor in the. flush of recent wage victories, presses too strongly upon the em- - ployer. Beyond such a mishap none can predict what lies difficult times, certainly, with unemployment and bread lines. Wholly aside from all rodomontade In behalf of either em ployer or employe, it is plain' that confiscatory wage exactions will compel the cessation . of industry, For two years and more the weight of wage increases has been passed I along to the public, through the me-- 1 dium of increased costs. Manufac-- 1 turers realize, and the public is reso-- I lutely confident, that the limit of the consumer's endurance has been I reached. Further exactions in that direction mean such .forced economy as; will' lessen production, or invoke openly rebellious measures. In certain New Kngland textile OF" mills a recent wage demand for. 15 William' D. Howells said not long per cent increase was forced from the before his death that he never had the employers. They answered through least fear for the literary future of the only means left to them, in a this country,- - and added, after to curtail operations to four tionlng some of the early celebrities days a week. Other textile' manu- - I facturers have given notice that the situation has reached an impasse, I ana tnat further wage demands must I of necessity be met by. the shutting down of the plants. The only evl- - dence of self interest in such a situ-- I anon is tne natural aesire to escape bankruptcy. Employers have made so many concessions to labor within the last few years that most of them " w"8"r can e ciassea as unrea- - nerflnu-- s to nuti now, when they assert they can yield no more. We have .n'nrhis ln 75 vears or so since w,irrl a clear space for the future city, that .001 wiin me timDerea J,ua- - ue lDO -- own "ie idea ruu.,eMt has been of course, ered be- - i . A 7ZLZr nf Sanv f ntfl m an- - hour's motoring tH tV ,J city limits and ranches all the-wa- and yet in the most fashion possible a big. hunrv couirar comes meanderihe out of the The dogs take up his trail and a welt-spe- d him smash- - ing down from a fir-to- p. The wil- - dernesa is nn trie Inh a if u the. time of the pioneer. Maine is an elder state, and her hills are still the sanctuaries of wild life that lures the sportsman ' frpm distant places, something of the is in the fu- - ture of Oregon, for the Sandy dis- - trlct cougar is but that the I state ordered that survival of game ts not only assured, but Is inevitable. Numerous major-genera- ls brie- - adiers have been reduced to ore-w- ar I rank wnile the board is making a new deal. Pleasant diversion will I be found in watching the politics in it. I invariably a man s wife can select I his best picture, for she is an im- partial odd as that may seem. Harding is lucky. Grants Pass votes $400,000 offhand for irrigation, for the city by th Rogue knows what V water do. Give the red fez the right of way . . IT mi ii I cnr " ou"- - youi vuuw. luc utiier iiuy-on- e weeas. I The news atorv tmvm h RiIvm. I ton special is complete in every de- - tall." Is it possible! . Portland owes something to the weather all the week. See the crescent in the sky? McAdoo is a good to get out I of the way of "dad." I May be Solomon wore Clothes like I some of these. . 1 isn't a grouch in all this big i UU4" "Joe Singer of was there.) Ready! " , . I BV' - PRODl'CTS men-decisi- THE TIMES Doughboy Tell General Star Mean. "Son in the Service.' In the early days of the army of occupation, says the Home It was not such a simple matter to get in permission to cross the Rhine as it later became. And the M, P. who had been stationed at the Ccblens end of It, the party in question had ironclad ed be Now one of the privileges of being a general is that you can-- or could-- go in not to mention the bucks when a train puiiea into an a. m. r. center. Similarly, those same colonels had to oh, just a salute that was a little better than usual. So when a car bearing the single star of a brigadier on its windshield rolled easily up toward the bridge of in boats, its driver merely glanced at the M. P. to be sure he was out of harm's way and bounced up on the bridge. "Hey," called the M. P. The chauffeur stopped. There might have been a silent or some- - thins id 'Got your pass?" queried the M. P sticking his head inside the door and Baluting as many times as space per an mitted. "Pass?" repeated the occupant of the car with reasonable irritation. "Yessir pass." insisted the M politely, saluating some more. "Don't you know what that star means?" inquired the general with Is some acidity, pointing to the wind shield xhe M. p. grinned witn a well-ho- air. "Sure," he said. "Msans you got a so in tha servirn so of George Bernard Shaw declares that the old cottages of England sbould.be destroyed wholesale. living in one of these "liter ary and artistic' with an ex- - alted sense of doing the right thing, he told the Society of Arts recently, -- 0ne realizes that all the time one ag been living in a ort of. architec- - turai neil. -- m ao fa modern that t have come to tno conc,UBlon that what is wanted is a law that every building 8hould be knocked down at the end of 20 years, and a new one erected. That would get rid of old cottages. We have got into tho incorrigible habit of sponging on the past. generation ought to be able to Produce its own art and. all this worship of the past can only be got rld of bv wholesale destruction ot a11 tne monuments of the past." He added If we could avoid the wholesale destruction of human beings involved by a great war, I should be glad to have half a dozen great wars in Eu rope, so that all the old buildings might be knocked down, thus forcing us by a sort of starvation to make our own architectural efforts. he had "I am not dismayed by the num bers who have taken to literature in these days and found a living 'in it. When there are o many new readers. why should not the new writers have their innings? The old ones have had theirs, and even the old readers do ot want ,h(im .iw.v. nlrhli we oId writers, who are confronting a new llfe elsewhere at 8UCh cloae 'range I "texture here? I myself am going to cultivate an affection fcr it from this on. The great men I have named could not do .just the fine things, the brave things, the true things that are don no""r tne men 1 wl n- name lesl A mlB BOme lnaa ;onS count. Gently . swaying to and fro. a huge granite monolith forming a unique lleved to be tb only. ".winging monu """- - L" worm. The shaft is more than 100 feet high and ln the COUT8e of many ya haa beco"lt' tree tro a surrounding "arln aormawon except at tne Dase, wnicn is aoout iz teet wide. In the center tne granite column Is about 50 leel ,n ""caneas ana tapers orf. to a wld't& at the summit practically the same at the base The "tire shaft moves probably from two to three feet at the apex, n tl swing is constant under the pressure of light The base of the shaft rests in a small hollow about three feet in depth., and the continguous granite formation has been entirely disconnected. Detroit News, an tne mountains oi Scotland a Highlander and an American were walking. In due course they came to ullo'u ,u nuis irom wnicn a wonaeriua ecno couia De obtained. Having explained matters to his companion, the Scotsman proceeded to uojuuii.ii aio. no eilllll'JU a, anout, ana after neariy three minutes the echo returned as per programme said the Scot, "ye can't show anything like that in your country." "I guess we can," replied the other, in my camp in the Rocky u lo Dea Jusl po my neaa or the tent and shout, "Time to get up! Wake up there:' iiiignt nours later that echo travels back and wakens me! Tire attacked a cargo of coal in an American concrete nhin. . lvlno- - at ancnor in tne harbor of Lisbon. Port- - tugal. recently, and ln halt an hour lt1.lad1 Salnea such headway that other !hip? lnf wa" angered, and " be- - j vcqoci. I this eeemlnelv slmDla tn.sk. rs va rnn. ular Mechanics Magazine, a Portu- - into the stone hull before it finally listed and went down In the! deep water at the mouth of the Tagua river. The glow of the burning ves- sel, and the warship's desperate bom- - bardment made a spectacle that kept thousands or excited spectators in sus pense kvr nours. The name New England was coined by Captain John Smith, of Pocohontas fame, and one of the founders of the Virginia colony. In 1614 he explored aim inouiiiiu mo uur ui--- -n coast, tnen r..U.i Vi Vl Vii-vltil- . j ... V- - w Rnarland Th. i)bh.. tne Mayflower Pilgrims adopted the name as used in Smith s map several years before. mere are natural monument there, and jackrab- - on Green mountain, several miles .a"d. Tyt"? r or Canon City. Colo. It is hamlet farms casual bullet brings sort proof is so and critic, will as local Shrine "for keeping the guese gunboat worked all night, f ir-o- ff the streets. ing the astonishing total of 189 shells Shrine western fellow There Oregon" Sector, unless blowout "After houses Hvery known winds. "Mon," "Why, 3000-to- n fakers Those Who Come and Go. "Just looking around," George L. Haff of Gold Hill, Or., is sojourning the city during Shrine and Rose Festival week, renewing old times with Deputy District-Attorne- y Hara-mersl- y, "Joe" Beeman, of the Internal revenue equad, "Bill" Carter, w, and others; whose mem- ories hark back to earlier days in the it Jackson county town. George used to a barber, and was once city re- corder, but who could trim hair and sign legal documents when the green hills of . the Rogue river billowed away In the distance? "There's gold them hills, pardner," has been the motto of Mr. Haff s career, and. inci- dentally, he has proved the truth of the old prospector's axiom by dis- covering a considerable quantity of the same metal. . A prospector be- cause he is one. as all prospectors are. George Hafrs countenance, lean. good-humor- ed and set with sun wrin kles, is the sort that makes the kid dies want to come to him and) induces the friendless dog to wag a jolly tail greeting. Of late Mr. Haff has been following some of the old trails and blazing a few new .ones, in the desert fields of the southwest. Mrs. Hattie Beeman, wife of Josiah Horton Beeman, that indefatigable sleuth of the internal revenue squad convalescing at an east side home after a fortnight in the Portland Sur gical hospital, where she underwent operation for the removal. of vari cose veins in her marching equipment. Every autumn, with her eon Horton Jr., now a student at Oregon univer sity, Mrs. Beeman takes a long trek into the headwaters timber of Evans creek. In Jackson county, camping at Willow springs. There, because she a ranger and dead shot. Mrs. Bee man takes annual toll of the deer, to the limit prescribed by law. Most of all, just at present, ehe is worrying over this trip and petitioning provi dence that she will be sufficiently re covered to stand a strenuous day or clambering the hills and gullies of upper Evans creek. Miss Jessie. Levy of . Indianapolis. who came to America from Rusela when 6 years of age and knows from personal experience what the advan tages of America, mean, arrived in Portland yesterday to spend a week here giving talks upon the subject of "Americanism." Miss Levy is accom- panied by Miss'Esther Goldberg. Both young women are studying law snd expect to make sufficient funds through the' sale of a brochure which Miss Levy has written on the sub ject, "Americanism, What It Has Done For Me," to take them through the law school next year. Miss Levy is secretary to Judge Willis C. McMahan of Indianapolis and Miss Goldberg is secretary to Judge A. L. Nichols of the same city. Following a visit of week here the women will go to San Francisco. "These Portland people certainly have the spirit of hospitality." was the remark of C. L Faust of Los An geles, who was consorting with two young men who were proudly wear ing the fez of Hillah temple, Ashland in rambles about the business district Saturday afternoon. "Having a eel lulpid badge bearing my name 1 find It convenient to wear it while here and wanted to connect it with the oc casion so I stepped into a jewelry store and asked where I could have fez put on. The man behind the counter did It In a jiffy, and when I offered to pay, he Just said, "Oh. that's all right, Noble! we are glad you are here. So I feel glad to be where peo pie have the spirit that is met here Any time the people down in Mari on and Linn counties dlagree to such an extent that they resort to the courts, they generally put their dif ferences before Percy R. Kelly for adjudication. The fact that the port ly circuit judge ts becoming a fixture in the circuit bench of that district indicates that his decisions and rul ings are according to all the well-regulat- rules of law acid equity. Judge Kelly Is stopping at .the Oregon while here for the general festivities. Scott H. Wells, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. Hunter Wells of Portland, returned home yesterday from Boston where he has just graduated from the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Wells was an active participant in all student activities at the Boston institution and was prominent in fra- ternity circles. Hotel clerks are trying to decide among themselves whether or not the present week Is to be a soft one or lf It is to b efllled with grief. For one thing, there will not be the usual trouble of reassigning rooms from day to day for the guests at all local hotels this week are wearing the red fez of Shrinedom, and there isn't a chance for an outsider to edge in on a room. Some few of them tried it yesterday but soon found that they'd have to stay on the outside looking in. .Dr. John C. Merrlam. president-elec- t of the Carnegie institution of Wash- ington. D. C, is in Portland on a brief visit and was the guest of honor at a dinner at the University club last night. Dr. Merrlam formerly was dean of the faculties of the University of California. Mr. Merrlam is en route to his home at the national capital. " J. T. Hinkle who, as city attorney, takes care of the legal troubles of the city of Hermiston, is here for the fun of the fezzers and is stopping at the Imperial. ' Dewey Bali, who was so anxious to get to France at the outset of the recent war that he fibbed about his age. la visiting with relatives from his home at Eugene. Mr. Ball got into the army all right, and got to France where he served for nearly a year in a field artillery outfit. He's here looking on at the Shrine festivities and Rose Festival. Mr. and Mrs. Gale Anderton stopped off in Portland for a brief visit while en route home. to San Francisco from Seattle. Mr. Anderton attended a banker's meeting at Seattle last week. He is 'a prominent financier of the Golden Gate. Life of Eleetornl System. . KERRY. Or., June 20. fTo the Editor.) 1. Please tell me when the present system vof electoral voting started? 2. Was there ever a presi- dent elected by the house of repre- sentatives, and If so who was he? DALLAS WILD PITTENGER- 1. The electoral system was estab- lished by the constitution as origin- ally" adopted. The principal change made since then concerns the elec tion of vice-preside- who was not voted for separately but became vlce-prslde- nt by virtue of having received the second highest number of votes for president. The twelfth amend- ment changing the system was adopted in 1804. 2. Thomas Jefferson was chosen by the house in 1S01 as result of a tie vote with Aaron Burr. John Qulncy Adams was chosen by the house in 1825. the electoral college having failed to give Adams, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay or William H. Crosford a, majority. SAVETU ORECOV SEWSPAPCRS. Some Criticise. orae Approve Nomi nation. Depending on Polltlca. Grants Pass Courier. There is nothinsr in the private or rublic life of Warren G. Harding that can give offense to the radi cally progressive element of the republican party; there is nothing but admiration from the great middle class of forward-lookin- g republicans, and there is nothing to but acquiescence from what is left of the old ultra-conservati- ve gang of stand-patter- s, because they could never elect a man anyway. So be yond this, where there' is opposition to the typically American figure of Warren G. Harding, we must con clude "they are democrats, and none are so blind as tbey who will not see." Logical Car.didarte Cbraen. - J. Pendleton Tribune. The dignified, good natured char acter of the campaign conducted by Senator Harding has made a good impression and he has incurred no enmities. He occupied the most logical, most strategic position off the large field of candidates. Likened to Garfield. Tillamook Headlight. As once was said ' of his chosen predecessor. James A. Garfield. Mr. Harding has "'a bushel of brains' which he knows how to use to the advantage of his country and his party. Whatever public position he may occupy will be well tilled. Self Made Man. St. Helens Mist. The Mist Is pleased at the selection of the candidates who will head the national republican ticket. Harding is a self-mad- e man. He fought his battles alone and fought them well. His success in life is evidence of his gieatness. No better man than Coolidge could have been selected as the running mate of Harding. Man Worthy of Support. Forest Grove News. The republicans have nominated a man whom every republican can con sclentlously support. He Is classed as a conservative, but he is not so con servative but that he can see the good of some of the things advanced by his rivals. He may be conserva tive but he is not retrogressive. He floes not stand ln the way of progress. He is practical. His record has been one of constructive progressiveism. Two Splendid Men. Newberg Graphic. In the nomination of Harding and Coolidge the Graphic feels that the party has two splendid men to head tne ticket. If the San Francisco' convention does as well in selecting: standard bearers the country will be assured of good leadership- - for four years, rouowlng March 4, 1921. Tower of Strenath. Heppner Gazette-Time- s. Senator Harding is not known in the west as he is In the east, and yet every citizen who has followed the trend of current events conld not help but know that the senator is a tower of strength, not only to the party but to the nation. We firmly believe that western people will' learn to know better, ln the coming months, of the man who has been chosen to the leadership of the party, and let us hope, the leadership of America. From the Common People. Lebanon Criterion. Both Senator Harding and Gover- nor Coolidge are men of the common people; what they are today they have made themselves by their energy, activity and efftctency. Born in humble surroundings both have advanced to the highest positions In the gift of their native states, and now tne call of the nation has beckoned them to the highest places in the gift of that nation. Three Thlnica Prsved. Hood River News. The result of the convention at Chicago offers three great conclu- sions for republicans. Firrt, that the day of the prophet is done; second. rat tne primary election is a useless and expensive farce; and third, that it is the duty of every republican, disgruntled or otherwise, to Support the nominee at the polls next fall. Fellow Feellna- - From Craft. Monmouth Herald. However the .average editor, and printer may disagree with Candidate Harding n matters political, he can- not but exhibit fraternal feeling for the nominee because he Ik a fol low newspaper man. Not only is he an editor and but he is a practical printer, being familiar with the business from ordinary hand com- position to running the linotype and the cylinder press. Kot Strwnsreat or Weakest. Post. Independence. Mr. Harding is' neither the strong- est nor the weakest candidate the re- publican party could have nominated, but he can go before the country po- litically and personally clean, which may be sufficient to give him the election. Here la Hoping. Bend Press. One thing in his favor is that he la a newspaper man. Perhaps he will find some relief for the newsprint shortage. Teat of Great neaa. Halfway Herald. The aaying that greatness consists ' in being in the right place at the right time is proven in the case of Senator Harding. Harding went into the convention . without a following but won his nomination because con- ditions were Just right. Not Another Autocrat. HiUsboro Independent. Possessing ability and being of the type his record proves him to be. he can be safely considered on the basis of things he will not do. Ills ad- ministration will not be of the one-ma- n kind, but the best brains and ability of the nation Will be sirm-mon- ed to his assistance and to coun- sel with him ln his cabinet. That cabinet will not be selected with an eye to Its chief being an outstand- ing figure with marionettes to Jump when he pulls the wires or accept ignominious dismissal If they pre- sume to act without orders. Where Fault Lies. Athena Press. " Harding, who is described as a lov- able mah of the McKinley .type, is not an objectionable candidate. Beyond doubt he is a good man if not a great one. The objection lies in the manner of his nomination through the scheming of "old guard" senators who paid not the slightest attention to the result of the presidential primary. Tiot a " One - Sinn " Mm. Albany Herald. It is refreshing to note that Mr. Harding is getting away from the "one-ma- n" attlttrde of the person w"ho will go down in history as his im- mediate predecessor in the presi- dency. For Mr. Harding has de clared that even in his campaign the "one-ma- n" Idea will be taboo. 'ot Dark But Thoroughbred. Harrisburg Bulletin. Harding didn't win as a dark horse. It might be proper, however, to class him as a thorougn Drea. He made nis way up as a printer and publisher and it sure takes some horse to get recognition at that game. In Other Days. Twenty-fiv- e Years Ago. From The Oreg-onia- of June St. 1895. BrumsbutteL Germany At 4 o'clock today the Imperial Tacht Hohenzol-ler- n, with Emperor William and princes aboard, severed the threads across the Kiel canal and its formal dedication was completed. The 25th annual commencement ex ercises of Bishop Scott academy were held yesterday, 10 young men receiv ing diplomas. r Fully 4000 persons attended the opening yesterday of the big 15-d- ay race meeting at the Irvington track. J. Frank Davis, chief deputy of In ternal Revenue Collector Blackman. will retire at the end of this month. B. Mullay will succeed Mr. Davis. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oreronlan of June 21. 1870. Washington Rogers Green is nom inated for associate justice of the su preme court of Washington territory. St Louis General Canby arrived here yesterday en route to the Pa- cific to take charge of the depart- ment of the Columbia. In the city election yesterday the successful alderman ic candidates were: First ward. A. B. Hallock; sec- ond ward, J. B. Congle: third ward. L. Besser long term. W. Lair Hill short term. Sheriff Zeiber" offers a reward of $300 for the arrest and delivery of the prisoners, Trainor, Engall and Falk, who escaped from jail yester- day. For We Must Grow. By Grace K. Hall. ' Ah! Would 'twere always sunny spring. With singing birds in leafy boughs. And yellow butterflies While on the hillside mottled cows Browse in the tangled clover sweet. And bees drone softly 'round their ' feet. O wonder music of the trees! An echo-son- g of by-go- ne years, A wordless symphony of "leaves That whispers of our hopeless tears; Soft spirit-musi- c of the glade. Sweeter than harps by masters played! Ah! Would that we might ever thrill With rapture that the springtime brings. When unasked flowers are on the hill. And dawn arrives on feathered wings; But hearts must gain .the autumn's, glow. And bear the chill of winter's snow. TOO MUCH CODDLING OF ROBINS They Will Neglect Bug Hon tins; If Given Foil Access to Berries. PORTLAND. June 20. (To the Ed- itor.) Once I. like The Oregonian, had a sentimental attachment for Sir Rob- in Redbreast and I was also his de- fender because of his known prowess against the pests of field and gar- den. That was before I owned a strawberry patch. I do not now in- dict the whole tribe pt Robin the Red, but I have arrived at the conclusion that Sir Robin, like the industrious bee or the human being, lf you please, can be turned into a laiy lout and a thief by too much coddling. The bee, as we all know, is held up as a model of industry, but his virtue is not thrift alone, for he is a valua- ble aid in spreading the pollen of the blossoming fruit trees. But set out a pan of sugar and he will throw up his job of pollenising at once, take all the sugar and become lazy and discon tented after the sugar is gone. Like- wise the most promising youth may turn out a burden and a er if he is permitted all the lux- uries he desires without having to exert himself to obtain them. My strawberries are on the sun- ny side of the orchard and beyond the orchard ln a grove of trees-ma- ples, firs' cedars and others. The robin colony is large and it is enter- prising in the matter of home mak- ing. This spring they dotted the lawn working for worms and bugs. That was before the strawberries began to ripen. Now they do nothing but raid the patch or sit in the trees bor- dering it and wait for the strawber- ries to ripen. And I notice that -- they quarrel among themselves most of the time. In exchange for my straw- berries they have decided to permit me to have the earth worms in the lawns and the bugs ln the vegetable garden. This self-arrang- bargain is being executed religiously. Where- as a week ago there was promise of an abundant crop and they were Just beginning to turn red. now all that remain each morning when I wander out in faint hope of getting enough for a breakfast dish are the clumps of green ones too small and hard to suit the exacting taste of either robin Or myself. It is an actual fact that I have had not one single straw- berry out of a patch large enough to give a good-sise- d family all they would care for for table use. And I have, gone some distance from my place to that of a friend who has but a little larger patch than I, but is more favorably situated as to bird colonies, and have bought two crates of fine berries for canning. I amr told to let the robins have a few strawberries because they will destroy the garden bugs. They are in truth taking all the berries and it is now up to me to go out and buy sprays and other bug poisons. As I said before, I do not condemn the whole tribe of Robin the Red, but there is such a thing as being too sentimental. Your bird lovers take it for granted that birds are so much superior to human beings that they cannot be spoiled by ease and luxury. POST-WA- R GARDENER. DREAMING. Far away the rapids gleam And the water, lit by glances Of the setting suns rays, dances To the music of the poplars by the stream. Gold and crimson the wave tips are And the voice of the rapids comes faint from afar Like music heard in a dream. Now the sun sinks ln the west And the ' cloud-ban- ks stately, rolling. Seem like sounds of great bells tolling,. .As the glowing day is drifting to its rest. Volumes of music they float high in air. Harmony echoed in tone-colo- rs . rare On. the river's shimmering breast. Oh. that I might, like the sun Sink to slumber, 'mid the singing Of the poplars and the ringing Of great bells, life's long toilsome Journey donel Oh. for a rest of an aeon or two Till the Master of Time shall have formed me anew And set me a pew course to run. LOIS SMITH. Wife Has Clever Idea. Boston Transcript. Mrs. A. "Does your husband ever Torarei to sumi mo icucio jvu eivu j him?" Mrs. B. "No. I always see to it that, fee puts them in his cigar case."

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Page 1: University of Oregon...8 Jltonrotjgi rerrmrtmt K8TABL1KHED bv HENRI' U PITTOCK. published by The oregonian publishing Co.. . r. . c.reet-- t" t. pfpRR I A.. WVALOIV, - Manager. Eaitor

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BALAAM TO THE SHRINE.Life is too drab, take it by and

large. Sunsets and song birds stillcling to the flaming, gorgeous, col-

orful motif in their expression ofliving. Only mortals have grownstaid and lusterless. That is why. ifthere weren't four-scor- e and moreexcellent reasons besides, that Port-land will find refreshing tonic forherself In the. welcome to the Im-

perial Council of the Ancient ArabicOrder Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.For they some, these pilgrims, fromall the cities of the land, in the silkand satin splendor of strange, ro-

mantic courts, riding down upon thecity like some cavalcade in a caliph'sdream. Dawn in the tropics or adesert evening cannot vie with themfor radiant disregard of conventionalattire. Temple by temple they tiltat the hum-dru- until it topples tothe turf, and life takes on the colorsthat were given to gladden the heart,and there is music to step to, andthe drear commonplace is forgotten.

Salaam! And with the obeisanceOt a proud city to her honored guestslet all remember that the hospitalityof Portland is tested by the welcomegiven and sustained. No light trib-ute was paid to Oregon and itsmetropolis when Shrinedom chosethe city for its gala week. With theindividual citizen and business manrests the pledge that no untowardconduct, no violation of the- desertcreed of hospitality, free-hand- andopen-hearte- d, shall mar a moment'spleasure or give cause for an in-

stant's regret. Portland has ever"been the graceful hostess, loveliest" In June, and would have the cara-vans bear with them, outward bound,some word that Portland's fame has

' not been idly celebrated, but thatreality transcends the rumor. '

Masonry itself, ancient of orders,rises as some rugged, loyal monolithfrom the sands of antiquity, gigan-tic, impressive, and fraught with tre-mendous capabilities for service. ItIs fraternalism at the zenith, and itsrecords are graven on stone whichfelt the chisel so many centuries agothat antiquarians quarrel concerningthe era of those most venerable in-

scriptions. Hence one is not sur-prised, but touched with the vanityof redeemed assurance, to discoverthat the festal auxiliary order of theMystic Shrine is no mere conceptionof merry modernity, but that it, too,had its origin in days as remote asMohammed, and that the order, evenas Masonry, recedes in the dim per-spective of the past, with traditionsupplanting- the inadequacy of his-torical narration.

The advent of the original . order.according to authorities, swings backward to the flight of Mohammedfrom Mecca to Medina, that time theprophet found it to his advantageto be absent when dissenting rellgionists thought to call upon himwith whetted scimetars and newpointed javelins. The flight of theMoslem prophet became the birth ofthe Mohammedan era, correspondingto the year 622 in the Christian calendar, and known as the Hejira. InMecca, toward whose unseen minarets the Moslem bows to pray, inthe year of the Hejira 25, the ArabicOrder of the Mystic Shrine wasfounded, or in the Christian calendaryear of 647.

The origin of the modern order InAmerica, however, seems to bear nodirect relation to this period of theorganization, which was revived some222 years ago in Arabia, as an auxiliary to and thesuppression of banditry. Caravansladen with treasure and commercewere lures for the lawless, and the.wild riders of the desert swoopeddown upon the camel trains withconsequent fatalities and disruption

, of trade. Then arose again the An-cient Arabic Order of the MysticShrine, its members pledged to keepthe trade lanes open through theexpeditious removal of ever so manypicturesque plunderers an orientalversion of the vigilantes of our ownrough west half a lifetime since

In 1871 there journeyed to Mecca' a pilgrim from distant America. Wil

, Ham J. Florence, whom all the boyscalled "Billy," a 33d degree Mason

.; It was at Aleppo, historic Syriancity, where the crusaders campedwhen they essayed the conquest ofthe Holy Land, that the enterprising Mr. Florence gained entrance to

..a session of the Mystic Shrine,wherewith he was manifestly delighted. He returned to Americaand New York with the notion thata good-fello- w burlesque of the somewhat serious eastern order mightyield to American Masonry an hour

. or so Of playtime. So in New Yorkon September 26, 1872, Mecca Ternpie No. 1, of the American order,was rounded. The novelty andfreshness of the idea lacked not foconverts, for in the notable assemblytnat gathers in Portland today thereare 147 temples represented with amembership exceeding 300,000. Andin Arabia they are still doing busi-ness at the old- - stand.

The popularity of the order arisesfrom two distinct sources, chief ofwhich is the exacting nature of therequirements for membership. Tobe numbered among the faithful

. phrases from the Koran and ArabianNights are ever apropos the can-didate must not only be a testedMason of high degree, but he mustrua the gauntlet of a very critical

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inspection by the auxiliary order,Trt iovo nttotnarl Vi o stiHnn 1 t r, hfl .

knighted in the lists of good-fello-

ship, In the broadest application oftne DhrasG The second source ofpopularity is the frank and undenie! to.intention of the nobles to wrest fromlife its store of gaiety and mirth aproject at which the membershipmay be Bald, without a trace Ofexaggeration, to be exceptionallysuccessful

All the foregoing is by way ofintroducing to Portland the guests Itwithin our gates, affording theirhosts, the public,- a more definiteconception of the order which hon-ors the city with its pitched tentsand grazing dromedaries. When youperceive, th.s afternoon, some jollyfellow with his fez at a jaunty angle,resplendent in gorgeous zouave cos-tuming, you will not only be con-templating the incarnation of car-nival but you may, at the sametime, be gazing at the governor ofa state. For the Mystic Shrine, and ishere is the condensed clue to itsbeing, affords men the opportunityto lay dignity and care aside, andto give life the glad hand with theexuberance of youth.

ONE OF THOSE POOR BILKS.- -

The law is often mysterious in itsworkings. is

In 1914 the voters of Oregon abol-ished capital punishment.- On theday of election two murderers wereheld at Salem under sentence ofdeath. Nobody disputed that if theamendment carried their necks wouldbe saved. The only issue was whetherits adoption would not actually setthem free. They had been convictedof a crime the only legal punishment afor which was death by hanging.Prohibition of hanging would removethe only legal penalty, unless mean-while the governor commuted theirsentences to life imprisonment.. Thishe did before the amendment becameeffective. .

Now capital punishment has beenrestored. But before the amendmentwas proclaimed a brutal and pre-meditated murder was committednear Oregon City. One young manhas confessed that he and anotherslew the driver of a for-hir- e car 1ncold blood. The two men have notbeen tried- nor . have they beenlegally proved guilty. But it is as-sumed by all lawyers that have beeninterviewed that the amendment willnot be retroactive in their case. In-asmuch as the crime was committedbefore capital punishment was for-mally restored they can be given noworse punishment than life Impris-onment.

As we said before the law is oftenmysterious in its workings. Abolishment of capital punishment is retro-active. Restoration of capital punishment is not. It's a queer proposition but doubtless any lawyer canxplain it so that all the other law,ers, but nobody else, can under

stand it.

GREAT INDIGNATION.What's the primary between friendsrf the friends are democrats?Here is Mr. Schuyleman, not only

a seer and a prophet, but entitledby the' unwritten law of politics toappointment to a place on the Ore-gon delegation to the national demo- -ratlc convention made vacant by the

death of one of the elected candi-dates. He had the most votes amongthe remaining candidates.

Does he get it? He does not. Thetrifling excuse that he was once asocialist is used against him. Be-sides, something like Senator John-son, he is the choice of the plainpeople, and the plain people are notn control. It's the old guard the

old guard whose members ' almostwithout exception were by the sameplain people turned down when theyran for delegates in the recent dem-ocratic primary.

In democratic eyes the defeat ofSenator Johnson for the nominationfor president by the republicans wasa high crime and misdemeanor. YetJohnson had been a progressive justas Schuyleman had been a socialist.Yes, the primary is undermined, thepeople are betrayed and a memberof the old guard' is chosen by theold guard to fill a democratic vacancy.

This sounds like indignation, doesit not? It is quite as sincere as thatwhich has been choking the democratic brethren since the Chicagoexhibit of "prussianism" and "political skullduggery."

HEIFERSIt is the bizarre that oDtrudes and

becomes claimant to headlines. Asix-legg- ed heifer calf is always moreconducive to interest than are hernormal sisters of the same farm-yard. Her fame or notoriety, rather,gathers embellishments on : everytongue. Albinos, with their pale,pinkish eyes and their wisps of colorless hair,' are interesting despitetheir unattractiveness. But like thelonely swallow, who does not consti-tute a summer or a drink, for thatmatter the freak Is no criterion ofthe normal. Do you recall the blindmen and the elephant? Their opin-ions differed, and trie chap whoseized upon the beast's trunk assertedthat the ponderous pachyderm wasnothing if not a rope. " In Englandthey are calling the Fannie Hurstmarriage, with typical British perspicacity, "the American experiment."To an amazed public this prominentmagazine contributor recently dis-closed the fact of her marriage,which caught the popular fancy assomething eccentric and outre, likethe six-legg- calf. It was the mu-tual agreement, not the marriage,that roused t?ie jaded public interest.

"We decided that seven break-fasts a week opposite one anothermight prove irksome," smirked thebride. "Our average is two."

With this announcement the freak-ish element entered, and nuptialsthat a paragraph had sufficed tonarrate became the subject of .col-umns. The serious-minde- d Britishjournalists charged in gallant, thick-headed mass formation, in defenseof marriage and the home. Theirswas the valor and concern of SirKay, the seneschal, rather than thatof Sir Launcelot, for in America therevelations of the bride were thesource only of comic comment

Miss Hurst's, way is neither theAmerican way nor "the Americanexperiment." It is the affectedlywearied and blase choice of a womanwho ought to know better, if evershe truly interprets life as an author,and is but another six-legg- ed heiferln the rarmyard of American man-ners and morals. Any creator ofmagazine fiction, gifted with but atrace of discernment, should be ableto perceive that such a custom, hadit been generally inaugurated a few

TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1920

generations ago, must have surely f

r P--s 1 1 1 p rl in the pHminatinn of a. ereatmany magazine contributors. Doyou follow us? The invincible, dearlydesirable ego that is ourselves came

being because of an ed

belief in actual marriages, not in oc-

casional breakfast jousts of literarywit--

In triving to retain her romance.by means so unique. Miss Hurst lead3casual critics to the belief that shehasn't any romance worth retaining.

is another six-legg- ed belfer, andits home is the sideshow.

LIFE BLOOD OF the LAND.A total of . 263 permits have been

issued from the state engineer's of-- portation" and of liberal appropria-- 'mo3t you Spread-fic- e

water eagled to stand in linefor the appropriation of tion for highways,from-Orego- n for the pur- - Aid most effectively wlth the of 90-la- y lieutenantspose of irrigation and the develop--ment of power. More 40,000acres of land are to be watered un-

der the grants, and 9300 horsepowerto be developed.

Here are slaves of the lamp, in-deed. A state so providentially dow-ered that she has but to press lightlyupon her natural resources and setthe wheels of industry turning withexhaustless energy, to turn the spisrotof her many streams and cause thesoil to bring forth abundantly, andthen some. The natural conjecture

that the future of Oregon is oneof industrial magnitude, as well asagricultural. There is an abundanceof water for such fertile soil as needait. and an abundance to manufacturethe electrical energy that draws fac-

tories and enterprise as to a magnet.In the development of the state

these factors scarcely have begun tocount. They have been tapped with

pin-pric- k. But years soon to comewill see them moving prosperously athrough the veins of economic en-terprise, when Oregon, already greatand prosperous, will stand among theforemost as a export-producin- g

commonwealth, asking forlittle from eastern shelves.

HOW TO HELP THE FARMER.Senator Harding's conference with

editors of farm papers evidences hisinterest in and extensjve informationon agriculture and his realization ofits importance in the whole economicstructure of the country. Havingspent his life in a country townwhich has grown up into an indus-trial center, he has seen manufac-tures and cities develop out of pro-portion to agriculture and rural pop-ulation.

Solid prosperity and economic in-dependence of the country can besecured only by symmetrical growthof agriculture in step with manu-factures, mining and other urbanindustries. Farming has fallen be-hind, and the whole nation pays inhigher prices for everything that itbuys. It is necessary that farmingbe put on an equality with otherlines of production in the amountand stability of prices, in credit, mar

and transportation facilitiesand in supply of labor. When thatis done, the of the farmerwill be increased, yet the price paidby the for his productswill be decreased, farm productionwill inqrea.se, and the general levelof prices will fall. There should fol-low a larger surplus of farm products for export and greater abilityof manufacturers to compete in for-eign traded Thus the prosperity ofall other industries is closely boundup with that-o- f agriculture.

The requisites for greater strengthin the farming industry are plainlyindicated in the report of SenatorCapper of Kansas to the advisorycommittee on platform, which iscondensed In the platform plank onthat subject. The first cause of thefarmer's troubles is the wide difference between the price which he receives and that which the consumerpays for his products. Wholesaleprices of farm products have keptpace with those of all commodities.but between 1910 and 1917 the in-come of the farmer increased 112per cent, while that of manufactur-ing, light and power, companies in-creased 208 per cent. That discrep-ancy was due in the main to inter-vention of too many middlemen between farmer and and toexcessive cost of transportation. ItIs also due lnTart to fluctuations inprice which afford speculators op-portunity to make it at the ex-pense of the consumer, no part ofwhich goes to the

The readiest means of securing alarge share of this margin for thefarmer and of saving another largeshare to the.corjsumer ismarketing extension to every prod-uct in every district of the systemwhich, is successfully followed byfruitgrowers and .other producers.Another means is more liberal creditat moderate interest to carry thefarmer over the period from seed- -time to Harvest lhese means canuc piuviutsa oy legislation wnicn willenable the farmers to help them-selves laws to facilitateof marketing associations whichwould not fall foul of anti-tru- st lawsbut could be prevented from becom-ing injurious to the public; also lawsto facilitate loan asso-ciations on the pattern of the farmloan associations of the rural creditsystem. Federal reserve banks mightalso be permitted to give more lib-eral discount privileges to farm pa-per, especially for purchase of fertilizer and seed and to carry cropsuntil they are marketed.

The best remedy for speculation.aside .from such credit as relievesthe farmer from the necessity ofselling to the speculator, is information as to world conditions of supply.demand and price, which is furnishedby the market bureau. This infor-mation would naturally be studiedby officers of marketing associations,which could thus advise their mem-bers what to plant and how muchof it, and by direct sales on a largescale would take away the speculator's occupation. Wide dissemination of Information which influencesproduction and prices would limitfluctuations, which make the speculator's opportunity and would go farto ' eliminate him.

These means would enable thefarmer to pay higher wages andwould thus help to overcome thelabor difficulty. This arises fromhis inability to keep pace with ad-vances in wages paid in cities, minesand lumbering, also from the seasonal nature of farm work. An em-ployment bureau in the labor de-partment working in conjunctionwith the immigration bureau couldassist by directing immigrants awayfrom the already congested cities tothe farming states, as is suggestedby the platform in its recommendation of provision "for better economicdistribution of our alien population."

Transportation means much moreto the farmer than railroads, for it

begins at his own gate.- : Mud roads j

nrit a. ta on "him which can be re- - l

moved by modern highways. Highrail rates and congested railroads l

are another tax which can be re- -moved both by motor highways andby improved' waterways, and by co--ordination of these with each otherand with railroads. Lower cost oftransportation will raise the pricepaid to the farmer, and good roads tha brldgo of boats wasn't going toright to his farm will bring him into Iet anybody get over to Ehrenbreit-touc- h

with the world, relieve farm 8tein or vice verBat lf ha could helpme irom jts isolation,

.tractive ana neip to tura lut uot population Dacn troixi w. rr.. i fKlo I

j j" v. ,. ,

to agriculture by the government bydecentralization of its activities. TJobureau official at Washington is as

anywhere wanted.colonels had

streams b iriven newest

than

keting

profits

consumer

consumer

producer.

formation

well qualified to decide a question show the proper authority when rid-a-s

a man on the ground, but tooling in O. D. motor. cars. But generalsmany men on the ground have no I

power to act and must convince aman two or three thousand milesaway in order to get a decision. Lo- - I

cal officials should have power todecide in accord with a general pol-icy. One of the farm editors demonstrated the absurdity of- requiringthe farmer to go to the agriculturaldepartment. It is to be hoped thatone result of the promised reorganization of the government will be I

that the' department will go to thefarmer.

A COMMON RIGHT. .One of the fundamental truths oil

our economic system is that capital, I

no less than labor, has the right to rfair return upon its investment,

Dollars or toil, it is all one, there- -turn must be adequate or the serviceceases. Applications are commonenough. There is, lor example, tne I

current decision or tne uurtiss Air--piane company to cease tne com-- 1

merciai manuiacture ot jib macnines,oecause tne government nas per- -mlttea salvaged war planes, or iung--lish manufacture, to invade the home I

market. Exercising its privilege, the!Curtiss firm has announced that it I

will suspend the industry, rathethan -- continue in competition at aruinous disparity. The action of thisfirm illustrates, to the fullest extent,the freedom of invested capital todecline an unprofitable venture.

The same effect ,may be producedthroughout the industrial field, insome degree, if organized labor inthe. flush of recent wage victories,presses too strongly upon the em- -ployer. Beyond such a mishap nonecan predict what lies difficult times,certainly, with unemployment andbread lines. Wholly aside from allrodomontade In behalf of either employer or employe, it is plain' thatconfiscatory wage exactions willcompel the cessation . of industry,For two years and more the weightof wage increases has been passed I

along to the public, through the me-- 1

dium of increased costs. Manufac-- 1turers realize, and the public is reso-- Ilutely confident, that the limit ofthe consumer's endurance has been I

reached. Further exactions in thatdirection mean such .forced economyas; will' lessen production, or invokeopenly rebellious measures.

In certain New Kngland textile

OF"

mills a recent wage demand for. 15 William' D. Howells said not longper cent increase was forced from the before his death that he never had theemployers. They answered through least fear for the literary future ofthe only means left to them, in a this country,- - and added, after

to curtail operations to four tionlng some of the early celebritiesdays a week. Other textile' manu- - I

facturers have given notice that thesituation has reached an impasse, I

ana tnat further wage demands must I

of necessity be met by. the shuttingdown of the plants. The only evl- -dence of self interest in such a situ-- Ianon is tne natural aesire to escapebankruptcy. Employers have madeso many concessions to labor withinthe last few years that most of them" w"8"r can e ciassea as unrea- -

nerflnu--s to nutinow, when they assert they can yieldno more.

We have .n'nrhis ln75 vears or so since w,irrla clear space for the future city, that

.001 wiin me timDereaJ,ua- - ue lDO -- own "ie idea

ruu.,eMt has beenof course, eredbe- -

i . A 7ZLZrnf Sanv f ntfl m

an- - hour's motoring tH tV ,Jcity limits and ranches allthe-wa- and yet in the mostfashion possible a big. hunrv couirarcomes meanderihe out of theThe dogs take up his trail and awelt-spe- d him smash- -ing down from a fir-to- p. The wil- -dernesa is nn trie Inh a if uthe. time of the pioneer. Maine isan elder state, and her hills are stillthe sanctuaries of wild life that luresthe sportsman ' frpm distant places,something of the is in the fu--ture of Oregon, for the Sandy dis--trlct cougar is but that the I

state ordered that survival ofgame ts not only assured, but Isinevitable.

Numerous major-genera- ls brie--adiers have been reduced to ore-w- ar I

rank wnile the board is making anew deal. Pleasant diversion will I

be found in watching the politics in it. I

invariably a man s wife can select I

his best picture, for she is an im-partial odd as that may seem.Harding is lucky.

Grants Pass votes $400,000 offhandfor irrigation, for the city by thRogue knows whatV water do.

Give the red fez the right of way. . IT mi ii Icnr " ou"- - youivuuw. luc utiier iiuy-on- e weeas. I

The news atorv tmvm h RiIvm. I

ton special is complete in every de- -tall." Is it possible! .

Portland owes something to the

weather all the week. Seethe crescent in the sky?

McAdoo is a good to get out I

of the way of "dad." I

May be Solomon wore Clothes like I

some of these. . 1

isn't a grouch in all this bigiUU4"

"Joe Singer of was there.)Ready! " , . I

BV' -PRODl'CTS

men-decisi-

THE TIMES

Doughboy Tell General Star Mean."Son in the Service.'

In the early days of the army ofoccupation, says the Home Itwas not such a simple matter to get inpermission to cross the Rhine as itlater became. And the M, P. who hadbeen stationed at the Ccblens end of

It, the party in question hadironclad ed be

Now one of the privileges of being ageneral is that you can-- or could-- go

in

not to mention the bucks when atrain puiiea into an a. m. r. center.Similarly, those same colonels had to

oh, just a salute that was a littlebetter than usual.

So when a car bearing the singlestar of a brigadier on its windshieldrolled easily up toward the bridge of inboats, its driver merely glanced at theM. P. to be sure he was out of harm'sway and bounced up on the bridge.

"Hey," called the M. P.The chauffeur stopped. There might

have been a silent or some- -thins id

'Got your pass?" queried the M. Psticking his head inside the door andBaluting as many times as space per anmitted.

"Pass?" repeated the occupant of thecar with reasonable irritation.

"Yessir pass." insisted the Mpolitely, saluating some more.

"Don't you know what that starmeans?" inquired the general with Issome acidity, pointing to the windshield

xhe M. p. grinned witn a well-ho-

air."Sure," he said. "Msans you got a

so in tha servirn soof

George Bernard Shaw declares thatthe old cottages of England sbould.bedestroyed wholesale.

living in one of these "literary and artistic' with an ex--alted sense of doing the right thing,he told the Society of Arts recently,-- 0ne realizes that all the time one

ag been living in a ort of. architec- -turai neil.

-- m ao fa modern that t havecome to tno conc,UBlon that what iswanted is a law that every building8hould be knocked down at the endof 20 years, and a new one erected.That would get rid of old cottages.We have got into tho incorrigiblehabit of sponging on the past.

generation ought to be ableto Produce its own art and. all thisworship of the past can only be gotrld of bv wholesale destruction ota11 tne monuments of the past." Headded

If we could avoid the wholesaledestruction of human beings involvedby a great war, I should be glad tohave half a dozen great wars in Europe, so that all the old buildingsmight be knocked down, thus forcingus by a sort of starvation to makeour own architectural efforts.

he had"I am not dismayed by the num

bers who have taken to literature inthese days and found a living 'in it.When there are o many new readers.why should not the new writers havetheir innings? The old ones have hadtheirs, and even the old readers doot want ,h(im .iw.v. nlrhli we

oId writers, who are confronting anew llfe elsewhere at 8UCh cloae

'range I

"texture here? I myself am going tocultivate an affection fcr it from thison. The great men I have namedcould not do .just the fine things, thebrave things, the true things that aredon no""r tne men 1 wl n- namelesl A mlB BOme lnaa ;onS count.

Gently . swaying to and fro. a hugegranite monolith forming a unique

lleved to be tb only. ".winging monu"""- - L" worm.

The shaft is more than 100 feet highand ln the COUT8e of many ya haabeco"lt' tree tro a surrounding"arln aormawon except at tne Dase,wnicn is aoout iz teet wide. In thecenter tne granite column Is about 50leel ,n ""caneas ana tapers orf. to awld't& at the summit practically thesame at the base

The "tire shaft moves probablyfrom two to three feet at the apex,

n tl swing is constant under thepressure of light The baseof the shaft rests in a small hollowabout three feet in depth., and thecontinguous granite formation hasbeen entirely disconnected. DetroitNews,

an tne mountains oi Scotland aHighlander and an American werewalking. In due course they came to

ullo'u ,u nuis irom wnicn awonaeriua ecno couia De obtained.

Having explained matters to hiscompanion, the Scotsman proceeded touojuuii.ii aio. no eilllll'JU a, anout, anaafter neariy three minutes the echoreturned as per programme

said the Scot, "ye can't showanything like that in your country."

"I guess we can," replied the other,in my camp in the Rocky

u lo Dea Juslpo my neaa or the tent and shout,"Time to get up! Wake up there:'iiiignt nours later that echo travelsback and wakens me!

Tire attacked a cargo of coal in anAmerican concrete nhin. . lvlno- - atancnor in tne harbor of Lisbon. Port--tugal. recently, and ln halt an hourlt1.lad1 Salnea such headway that other!hip? lnf wa" angered, and " be- -

j vcqoci. Ithis eeemlnelv slmDla tn.sk. rs va rnn.ular Mechanics Magazine, a Portu- -

into the stone hull before itfinally listed and went down In the!deep water at the mouth of the Taguariver. The glow of the burning ves-sel, and the warship's desperate bom- -bardment made a spectacle that keptthousands or excited spectators in suspense kvr nours.

The name New England was coinedby Captain John Smith, of Pocohontasfame, and one of the founders of theVirginia colony. In 1614 he exploredaim inouiiiiu mo uur ui--- -n coast, tnenr..U.i Vi Vl Vii-vltil- . j ...V-- w Rnarland Th. i)bh..tne Mayflower Pilgrims adopted thename as used in Smith s map severalyears before.

mere are natural monumentthere, and jackrab- - on Green mountain, several miles.a"d. Tyt"? r or Canon City. Colo. It is

hamlet

farmscasual

bullet brings

sort

proofis so

and

critic,

will

as

local Shrine "for keeping the guese gunboat worked all night, f ir-o- ff

the streets. ing the astonishing total of 189 shells

Shrinewestern

fellow

There

Oregon"

Sector,

unless

blowout

"Afterhouses

Hvery

known

winds.

"Mon,"

"Why,

3000-to- n

fakers

Those Who Come and Go.

"Just looking around," George L.Haff of Gold Hill, Or., is sojourning

the city during Shrine and RoseFestival week, renewing old timeswith Deputy District-Attorne- y Hara-mersl- y,

"Joe" Beeman, of the Internalrevenue equad, "Bill" Carter, w,

and others; whose mem-ories hark back to earlier days in the itJackson county town. George used to

a barber, and was once city re-corder, but who could trim hair andsign legal documents when the greenhills of . the Rogue river billowedaway In the distance? "There's gold

them hills, pardner," has been themotto of Mr. Haff s career, and. inci-dentally, he has proved the truth ofthe old prospector's axiom by dis-covering a considerable quantity ofthe same metal. . A prospector be-cause he is one. as all prospectors are.George Hafrs countenance, lean.good-humor- ed and set with sun wrinkles, is the sort that makes the kiddies want to come to him and) inducesthe friendless dog to wag a jolly tail

greeting. Of late Mr. Haff hasbeen following some of the old trailsand blazing a few new .ones, in thedesert fields of the southwest.

Mrs. Hattie Beeman, wife of JosiahHorton Beeman, that indefatigablesleuth of the internal revenue squad

convalescing at an east side homeafter a fortnight in the Portland Surgical hospital, where she underwent

operation for the removal. of varicose veins in her marching equipment.Every autumn, with her eon HortonJr., now a student at Oregon university, Mrs. Beeman takes a long trekinto the headwaters timber of Evanscreek. In Jackson county, camping atWillow springs. There, because she

a ranger and dead shot. Mrs. Beeman takes annual toll of the deer, tothe limit prescribed by law. Most ofall, just at present, ehe is worryingover this trip and petitioning providence that she will be sufficiently recovered to stand a strenuous day or

clambering the hills and gullies ofupper Evans creek.

Miss Jessie. Levy of . Indianapolis.who came to America from Ruselawhen 6 years of age and knows frompersonal experience what the advantages of America, mean, arrived inPortland yesterday to spend a weekhere giving talks upon the subject of"Americanism." Miss Levy is accom-panied by Miss'Esther Goldberg. Bothyoung women are studying law sndexpect to make sufficient fundsthrough the' sale of a brochure whichMiss Levy has written on the subject, "Americanism, What It Has DoneFor Me," to take them through thelaw school next year. Miss Levy issecretary to Judge Willis C. McMahanof Indianapolis and Miss Goldberg issecretary to Judge A. L. Nichols ofthe same city. Following a visit ofweek here the women will go to SanFrancisco.

"These Portland people certainlyhave the spirit of hospitality." wasthe remark of C. L Faust of Los Angeles, who was consorting with twoyoung men who were proudly wearing the fez of Hillah temple, Ashlandin rambles about the business districtSaturday afternoon. "Having a eellulpid badge bearing my name 1 findIt convenient to wear it while hereand wanted to connect it with the occasion so I stepped into a jewelrystore and asked where I could have

fez put on. The man behind thecounter did It In a jiffy, and when Ioffered to pay, he Just said, "Oh. that'sall right, Noble! we are glad you arehere. So I feel glad to be where peopie have the spirit that is met here

Any time the people down in Marion and Linn counties dlagree to suchan extent that they resort to thecourts, they generally put their differences before Percy R. Kelly foradjudication. The fact that the portly circuit judge ts becoming a fixturein the circuit bench of that districtindicates that his decisions and rulings are according to all the well-regulat-

rules of law acid equity.Judge Kelly Is stopping at .the Oregonwhile here for the general festivities.

Scott H. Wells, son of Dr. and Mrs.J. Hunter Wells of Portland, returnedhome yesterday from Boston wherehe has just graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Mr. Wells was an active participantin all student activities at the Bostoninstitution and was prominent in fra-ternity circles.

Hotel clerks are trying to decideamong themselves whether or not thepresent week Is to be a soft one orlf It is to b efllled with grief. For onething, there will not be the usualtrouble of reassigning rooms fromday to day for the guests at all localhotels this week are wearing the redfez of Shrinedom, and there isn't achance for an outsider to edge in ona room. Some few of them tried ityesterday but soon found that they'dhave to stay on the outside lookingin.

.Dr. John C. Merrlam. president-elec- tof the Carnegie institution of Wash-ington. D. C, is in Portland on abrief visit and was the guest of honorat a dinner at the University club lastnight. Dr. Merrlam formerly was deanof the faculties of the University ofCalifornia. Mr. Merrlam is en routeto his home at the national capital." J. T. Hinkle who, as city attorney,takes care of the legal troubles of thecity of Hermiston, is here for the funof the fezzers and is stopping at theImperial. '

Dewey Bali, who was so anxious toget to France at the outset of therecent war that he fibbed about hisage. la visiting with relatives from hishome at Eugene. Mr. Ball got intothe army all right, and got to Francewhere he served for nearly a year ina field artillery outfit. He's herelooking on at the Shrine festivitiesand Rose Festival.

Mr. and Mrs. Gale Anderton stoppedoff in Portland for a brief visit whileen route home. to San Francisco fromSeattle. Mr. Anderton attended abanker's meeting at Seattle last week.He is 'a prominent financier of theGolden Gate.

Life of Eleetornl System. .

KERRY. Or., June 20. fTo theEditor.) 1. Please tell me when thepresent system vof electoral votingstarted? 2. Was there ever a presi-dent elected by the house of repre-sentatives, and If so who was he?

DALLAS WILD PITTENGER-

1. The electoral system was estab-lished by the constitution as origin-ally" adopted. The principal changemade since then concerns the election of vice-preside- who was notvoted for separately but became vlce-prslde- nt

by virtue of having receivedthe second highest number of votesfor president. The twelfth amend-ment changing the system wasadopted in 1804.

2. Thomas Jefferson was chosenby the house in 1S01 as result of atie vote with Aaron Burr. JohnQulncy Adams was chosen by thehouse in 1825. the electoral collegehaving failed to give Adams, AndrewJackson, Henry Clay or William H.Crosford a, majority.

SAVETU ORECOV SEWSPAPCRS.

Some Criticise. orae Approve Nomination. Depending on Polltlca.

Grants Pass Courier.There is nothinsr in the private or

rublic life of Warren G. Hardingthat can give offense to the radically progressive element of therepublican party; there is nothingbut admiration from the greatmiddle class of forward-lookin- g

republicans, and there is nothing tobut acquiescence from what is left

of the old ultra-conservati- ve gang ofstand-patter- s, because they couldnever elect a man anyway. So beyond this, where there' is oppositionto the typically American figure ofWarren G. Harding, we must conclude "they are democrats, and noneare so blind as tbey who will notsee."

Logical Car.didarte Cbraen. - J.Pendleton Tribune.The dignified, good natured char

acter of the campaign conducted bySenator Harding has made a goodimpression and he has incurred noenmities. He occupied the mostlogical, most strategic position offthe large field of candidates.

Likened to Garfield.Tillamook Headlight.

As once was said ' of his chosenpredecessor. James A. Garfield. Mr.Harding has "'a bushel of brains'which he knows how to use to theadvantage of his country and hisparty. Whatever public position hemay occupy will be well tilled.

Self Made Man.St. Helens Mist.

The Mist Is pleased at the selectionof the candidates who will head thenational republican ticket. Hardingis a self-mad- e man. He fought hisbattles alone and fought them well.His success in life is evidence of hisgieatness. No better man thanCoolidge could have been selected asthe running mate of Harding.

Man Worthy of Support.Forest Grove News.

The republicans have nominated aman whom every republican can consclentlously support. He Is classed asa conservative, but he is not so conservative but that he can see thegood of some of the things advancedby his rivals. He may be conservative but he is not retrogressive. Hefloes not stand ln the way of progress.He is practical. His record has beenone of constructive progressiveism.

Two Splendid Men.Newberg Graphic.

In the nomination of Harding andCoolidge the Graphic feels that theparty has two splendid men to headtne ticket. If the San Francisco'convention does as well in selecting:standard bearers the country will beassured of good leadership- - for fouryears, rouowlng March 4, 1921.

Tower of Strenath.Heppner Gazette-Time- s.

Senator Harding is not known inthe west as he is In the east, and yetevery citizen who has followed thetrend of current events conld not helpbut know that the senator is a towerof strength, not only to the party butto the nation. We firmly believe thatwestern people will' learn to knowbetter, ln the coming months, of theman who has been chosen to theleadership of the party, and let ushope, the leadership of America.

From the Common People.Lebanon Criterion.

Both Senator Harding and Gover-nor Coolidge are men of the commonpeople; what they are today theyhave made themselves by theirenergy, activity and efftctency. Bornin humble surroundings both haveadvanced to the highest positions Inthe gift of their native states, andnow tne call of the nation hasbeckoned them to the highest placesin the gift of that nation.

Three Thlnica Prsved.Hood River News.

The result of the convention atChicago offers three great conclu-sions for republicans. Firrt, that theday of the prophet is done; second.rat tne primary election is a uselessand expensive farce; and third, thatit is the duty of every republican,disgruntled or otherwise, to Supportthe nominee at the polls next fall.Fellow Feellna-- From Craft.

Monmouth Herald.However the .average editor, andprinter may disagree with CandidateHarding n matters political, he can-not but exhibit fraternal feelingfor the nominee because he Ik a follow newspaper man. Not only is he aneditor and but he is apractical printer, being familiar withthe business from ordinary hand com-position to running the linotype andthe cylinder press.

Kot Strwnsreat or Weakest.Post. Independence.

Mr. Harding is' neither the strong-est nor the weakest candidate the re-publican party could have nominated,but he can go before the country po-litically and personally clean, whichmay be sufficient to give him theelection.

Here la Hoping.Bend Press.

One thing in his favor is that he laa newspaper man. Perhaps he willfind some relief for the newsprintshortage.

Teat of Great neaa.Halfway Herald.

The aaying that greatness consists'in being in the right place at theright time is proven in the case ofSenator Harding. Harding went intothe convention . without a followingbut won his nomination because con-ditions were Just right.

Not Another Autocrat.HiUsboro Independent.

Possessing ability and being of thetype his record proves him to be. hecan be safely considered on the basisof things he will not do. Ills ad-ministration will not be of the one-ma- n

kind, but the best brains andability of the nation Will be sirm-mon- ed

to his assistance and to coun-sel with him ln his cabinet. Thatcabinet will not be selected with aneye to Its chief being an outstand-ing figure with marionettes to Jumpwhen he pulls the wires or acceptignominious dismissal If they pre-sume to act without orders.

Where Fault Lies.Athena Press.

" Harding, who is described as a lov-able mah of the McKinley .type, is notan objectionable candidate. Beyonddoubt he is a good man if not agreat one. The objection lies in themanner of his nomination through thescheming of "old guard" senators whopaid not the slightest attention to theresult of the presidential primary.

Tiot a " One - Sinn " Mm.Albany Herald.

It is refreshing to note that Mr.Harding is getting away from the"one-ma- n" attlttrde of the person w"howill go down in history as his im-

mediate predecessor in the presi-dency. For Mr. Harding has declared that even in his campaign the"one-ma- n" Idea will be taboo.

'ot Dark But Thoroughbred.Harrisburg Bulletin.

Harding didn't win as a dark horse.It might be proper, however, to classhim as a thorougn Drea. He made nisway up as a printer and publisherand it sure takes some horse to getrecognition at that game.

In Other Days.

Twenty-fiv- e Years Ago.From The Oreg-onia- of June St. 1895.BrumsbutteL Germany At 4 o'clock

today the Imperial Tacht Hohenzol-ler- n,

with Emperor William andprinces aboard, severed the threadsacross the Kiel canal and its formaldedication was completed.

The 25th annual commencement exercises of Bishop Scott academy wereheld yesterday, 10 young men receiving diplomas. r

Fully 4000 persons attended theopening yesterday of the big 15-d- ay

race meeting at the Irvington track.

J. Frank Davis, chief deputy of Internal Revenue Collector Blackman.will retire at the end of this month.

B. Mullay will succeed Mr. Davis.

Fifty Years Ago.From The Oreronlan of June 21. 1870.Washington Rogers Green is nom

inated for associate justice of the supreme court of Washington territory.

St Louis General Canby arrivedhere yesterday en route to the Pa-cific to take charge of the depart-ment of the Columbia.

In the city election yesterday thesuccessful alderman ic candidateswere: First ward. A. B. Hallock; sec-ond ward, J. B. Congle: third ward. L.Besser long term. W. Lair Hill shortterm.

Sheriff Zeiber" offers a reward of$300 for the arrest and delivery ofthe prisoners, Trainor, Engall andFalk, who escaped from jail yester-day.

For We Must Grow.By Grace K. Hall. '

Ah! Would 'twere always sunnyspring.

With singing birds in leafy boughs.And yellow butterfliesWhile on the hillside mottled cowsBrowse in the tangled clover sweet.And bees drone softly 'round their

' feet.O wonder music of the trees!An echo-son- g of by-go- ne years,A wordless symphony of "leavesThat whispers of our hopeless tears;Soft spirit-musi- c of the glade.Sweeter than harps by masters

played!

Ah! Would that we might ever thrillWith rapture that the springtime

brings.When unasked flowers are on the hill.And dawn arrives on feathered wings;But hearts must gain .the autumn's,

glow.And bear the chill of winter's snow.

TOO MUCH CODDLING OF ROBINS

They Will Neglect Bug Hon tins; IfGiven Foil Access to Berries.

PORTLAND. June 20. (To the Ed-itor.) Once I. like The Oregonian, hada sentimental attachment for Sir Rob-in Redbreast and I was also his de-

fender because of his known prowessagainst the pests of field and gar-den. That was before I owned astrawberry patch. I do not now in-

dict the whole tribe pt Robin the Red,but I have arrived at the conclusionthat Sir Robin, like the industriousbee or the human being, lf you please,can be turned into a laiy lout and athief by too much coddling.

The bee, as we all know, is held upas a model of industry, but his virtueis not thrift alone, for he is a valua-ble aid in spreading the pollen of theblossoming fruit trees. But set outa pan of sugar and he will throw uphis job of pollenising at once, take allthe sugar and become lazy and discontented after the sugar is gone. Like-wise the most promising youth mayturn out a burden and a er

if he is permitted all the lux-uries he desires without having toexert himself to obtain them.

My strawberries are on the sun-ny side of the orchard and beyondthe orchard ln a grove of trees-ma- ples,

firs' cedars and others. Therobin colony is large and it is enter-prising in the matter of home mak-ing. This spring they dotted the lawnworking for worms and bugs. Thatwas before the strawberries beganto ripen. Now they do nothing butraid the patch or sit in the trees bor-dering it and wait for the strawber-ries to ripen. And I notice that --theyquarrel among themselves most ofthe time. In exchange for my straw-berries they have decided to permitme to have the earth worms in thelawns and the bugs ln the vegetablegarden. This self-arrang- bargainis being executed religiously. Where-as a week ago there was promise ofan abundant crop and they were Justbeginning to turn red. now all thatremain each morning when I wanderout in faint hope of getting enoughfor a breakfast dish are the clumpsof green ones too small and hard tosuit the exacting taste of eitherrobin Or myself. It is an actual factthat I have had not one single straw-berry out of a patch large enough togive a good-sise- d family all theywould care for for table use. And Ihave, gone some distance from myplace to that of a friend who has buta little larger patch than I, but ismore favorably situated as to birdcolonies, and have bought two cratesof fine berries for canning.

I amr told to let the robins have afew strawberries because they willdestroy the garden bugs. They arein truth taking all the berries andit is now up to me to go out and buysprays and other bug poisons.

As I said before, I do not condemnthe whole tribe of Robin the Red, butthere is such a thing as being toosentimental. Your bird lovers takeit for granted that birds are so muchsuperior to human beings that theycannot be spoiled by ease and luxury.

POST-WA- R GARDENER.

DREAMING.Far away the rapids gleam

And the water, lit by glancesOf the setting suns rays, dances

To the music of the poplars by thestream.

Gold and crimson the wave tips areAnd the voice of the rapids comes

faint from afarLike music heard in a dream.

Now the sun sinks ln the westAnd the ' cloud-ban- ks stately,

rolling.Seem like sounds of great bells

tolling,..As the glowing day is drifting to

its rest.Volumes of music they float high

in air.Harmony echoed in tone-colo- rs

. rareOn. the river's shimmering breast.

Oh. that I might, like the sunSink to slumber, 'mid the singing

Of the poplars and the ringingOf great bells, life's long toilsome

Journey donelOh. for a rest of an aeon or two

Till the Master of Time shall haveformed me anew

And set me a pew course to run.LOIS SMITH.

Wife Has Clever Idea.Boston Transcript.

Mrs. A. "Does your husband everTorarei to sumi mo icucio jvu eivu

j him?"Mrs. B. "No. I always see to it that,

fee puts them in his cigar case."

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