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ence for front porch" campaign. Travel in the
hot weather is disagreeable and uncomfortable
Pilgrimages to the front porch are expensive and
in the aggregate cause loss Of considerable time for
those attending.
BY installation of wireless telephone transmltteH
ii might be possible 10 avoid even the hot sun Of
front porch The candidate could retire to his wire
less equipped study and tell the world and his con-
stituents just what he wants them TO know.
Note: The apparatus should include a cut-out
for use when party leaders arrive for conference.
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WIEN2

THE mob that lynched three negroes in Duluth
i Mimi, added another line to a record which
is the gaveSt blot on civilization and popular respect
Sor law in the United States.
No civil OF military force in Duluth prevented
crime to avenge crime. No power stopped the blood
thirsty execution of mob vengeance on prisoners
already in the grasp of the law. No influence kept
citizens Of an American community from making
beasts Of themselves in contempt of the principles
upon which their civic life and welfare depend.
Attempts to punish the guilty in such cases too
often prove half-hearted and futile.
When will there be strong, concerted movement
of preventon3
In sections of the country where lynchings are
most frequent there are still enough sef-respecting
law-abidiag Americans to oppose formidable mass
of resistance to these sudden furies of the mob
The crime and the danger Of an outbreak of law
lessness to avenge it are usually known to the
surrounding community.
When will the decent part of TINT community
make prompt and organized effort 10 prevent the
ugly thing that threatens'
Lynchng would not live long where public Senti-
ment was actively and Overwhelmingly against it.
1t is the paleness, of public sentiment that EN-
boldenS the lynchers.
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DOES TAFT SPEAK FOR HARDINGp

T-X-PRESlDENT TAFT has expounded for the
l. Tribune the meaning Of the League Of Ma
tons plank in the Republican platform
That, 50 far as Mr. Taft is concerned, is his
answer to the The Evening Worlds question "What
Does It Meanl"
II is hardly necessary to say that Mr.. Taft puts
construction on Mr. Roots creation vastly differ
ent from Hiram Johnsons
Senator johnson would be highly dissatisfied
with the Taft Interpretation.
The question remains: What does 1t meant
fCandidate Harding must answer it sooner or later.
VIII he choose to offend Mr.. Taft by disagree
Ing with his interpretations
Or will he choose to offend Hiram johnson and
risk postoonvention bolt by disagreeng with his
interpretation
What does il mean?
The evening world., 1920-06-17
Mineral Oil in China.

II has been knoiCn for some
time that there WerG oil iUelIS
near Yenchdng, in SheHSi, near
the ShanSi border, lChere sen,
erdI small oil loeHS give about
5000 gallons a month, aud
small Chinese refinery makes a
fairly good product, marketed
locally and at Sidnfu. Hrio.
eUer, as engineers sent ouer by
an American company in 1914
reported that oil did not erist
there In sufficient quantities to
make extensive development
practicable little has been a.
Tsmpted.
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To the Editcr Of The Byenng World:
Recently was standing on the Long
Island side of the Queensborough
Bridge while numerous motor-driven
vehicles were passing to and fro. TIE
motorcycle officer was busily engaged
handing out tickets, and | took par
ticular note that pf all summonses is
sued not one violator happened TO be
driver OF a pleasure car, when in my
honest opinion they were the chief Of
tenders.
1t seems lawful for the operator OF
pleasure. car 10 commit any orfense
against the statute, but II II be COM
| neFelai conveyance no 10 prosecuted TO
! the full extent Of the law. Why doOa
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BETTER THAN THE FRONT PORCH.

ITO politically minded persons we commend the
\ diligent perusal of news despatch in yes
terdays papers
Madame Melba, it is reported, sang in small
room at the Marcon wireless works in England.
The concert was transmitted by wireless waves for
hundreds of miles
Campaigning time will soon be with US. The
political organizations should make haste to avail
themselves Of the Marconi wireless campaigner If
the voice of a songStress can be transmitted TO a
distance, why not the voice of candidate3
Senator Harding has already indicated his prefer.
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Credit for All.
TUT III
10 ttlo Editor Of Tue Bvening World.

10 tNo Editor Of TIE Bvening World
Why is 1t that we hear of the gal
'antry performed by our own army and
navy and never hear anything OF the
wonderful work done overseas by our
brave u. s. Marine Corps. haven't
served with any branch of the service
as I was found unfit for military duty,
but nevertheless / volunteered to serve
America in her cause for freedom. I
haven't any III feeling toward any
branch of the War Department
II people will only consider what the
u. $. Marine Corps have suffered in the
battles at Chateau Thierry and st. Mi
hiel they will give a great deal Of credit
to those boys. Not only in the late war.
but in all OF our wars, the Marines
have played very important part.
Only recently in the trouble with Mex
leo these men were first to leave for
active service. G. f. NJ.
The Commodore, June is, 1920.
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NOG. 0. Q.

CENATOR HARDING IS the first and only NOM
- inee for the Presidency chosen while mem
Der Of the Senate.
Other Senators have asplred to but have failed
to gain the nomination.
These facts are not the result of idle clrcum-
stance. There are sound reasons behind them, rea-
sons that are rooted deep in the very fundamentals
OF our American system of Government reasons
such as actuated the trainers of the Constitution
when they provided explicitly for separation Of
the Legislative, Executive and Judicial functions of
the Government.
Voluntarily and Involuntary the principle of
or group of Senators has ever been able to over
come the almost instructive opposition to the posi-
blity of a combination control Of White House and
Senate chamber.
This IS not TO say that no Senator ever should
be nominated. 1t might we'll be that courageous
and independent representative might find his way
TO the Senate and by independence and defiance of
Senatorial precedent might endear himself to the
voters and become a logical choice for the PreSi-
dency.
Had Hiram johnson realized his ambition, there
would have beenlleS feeling that he was part and
parcel Of Senatorial oligarchy seeking to rule both
the Legislative and Executive branches.
Senator Harding, on the contrary is a. nominee
of, by and from the Senate. Senate Penrose spon-
sored his nomination and placed his o. K on the
conSumnation.
Senator Harding has never stood out as an in
dependent. His regularity" has been invariabe.
He has always been amenable to the influence of
the Organization" In one term he has identified
himself clearly if not over-prominentlv as one of
the Old Guard.
There are those who argue that this Nation has
outgrown the separation of the Executive and Legs-
lative branches. There are those who believe in
the adoption of the parliamentary system, with the
Executive chosen from and directly responsible to
the Legislature. If so, let us have it directly and
frankly Let the Executive come from the Lower
House, which is more Immediately responsible to
the voters, and not by informal consent from the
chamber least responsive to the popular will.
The United States is not ready for Government
by an Old Guard olgarhy sitting both in the Senate
and in the White House. That would be worse
than the autocracy of the White House against
which the Republicans invegh.
This feeling of opposition to an oligarchy has not
been reasoned out by many Republicans who are
unenthuSiastic over Harding. But in final analysis
il accounts for much of the unusual "mugwlmp"
attitude in evidence even in the party press.
As the campaign continues and voters grasp The
significance of the nomination of Senator the
feeling is bound to grow.
The United States is not ready for rule BY
Grand Old Oligarchy.
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To the Editur of The BNening World
Your kind reader who deplores the
unfriendllness Of neighbors m New
York should take into consideration
the various types OF families that are
permltted TO occupy dwelling space
in the average apartment house OF
to-day. Little regard Is paid TO the
character or habits OF the occupants.
IL the prospective tenant has suf-
fcient income to guarantee his lease
agreement he is gladly admitted as
a tenant.
on that account IL Is not 10 be won
dered at that a great many people
are reluctant 70 acquaint themselves
With their neiEhhorH, A casual ned
new and then may encourage =
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rhe other sIde cd the FenGl

The Other Side OF the Fehc''
To ,no EtHnr Of The Byening World:
wonder II your rather decided
stond on the subject OF the Eighteenth
Amendment will allow you 70 print
inc views of one who is on the other
side OF the fence?
notice from time to time in your
columns letters about the disastrous
effects Of prohibition-wails of despair
from calamity howlers who predict
the speedy depopulation of our fair
land-sobs OF anguish from those who,
due to the improved conditions among
the poorer classes, are unable to get
scrub women--O tempora, o mores,
&e,r the country 10 uadeubtsdiy BalnE
"a the caninoA .-.-
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To tbe Editor Of The Eyenirg World
In your paper as well as many other
publications you are apt to find head
ings like these: "Ex-Service Men Sent
10 Prison" Eek Soldier a Hold-up
Man" "Ex- Soldier Murdered HIS
Wife" Elk Marine Held 81 Thief"
Now, everybody knows that there
were all kinds of men in the service,
and everybody knows that 1t was hard
TO keep some out, but what hurts me
most is that there were 100000 men
who are having their characters UNI
dermined for the sake OF few GRIM
mails who are cx-service men.
I believe that / can truthfully say
that more than so per cent or the, eN-
service men who have been convicted
since their discharge have had some
had record previous to entering the
service.
II this continues as II has a good
ex-soryice man who did his bit and
did II honestly and also did his bit
honestly before entering the service
will be ashamed to admit that he
served in the great World War.
In view of the fact that your paper
has done so much in protesting other
things, will you kindly protest this use
OF the words eX-soldier, sailor or ma
rlne in this connection2
II Il continues man holding an
honorable discharge will look at II and
il will seem TO be mere scrap OF
naper. ONE OF 100000.
New York. June 16, 1920.
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Ten-Minute Studies
of New York City
Government.
Cop6uight 1870 by The Press P,ltliehina On.
LThe New York EHeninl World. D
By Willis Brooks HGICkins.


This Is the seventh article Of
series defining the duties Of the ad-
ministrGtiUe and legislative officers
and boards Of the NeD York City
Government.
THE SINKING FUND coMMls-
SION.
THIS board, composed OF the
Mayor (Chairman). the Comp
troller, the Chamberlain, the
President of the Board of Aldermen
and the Chairman of the Finance
Committee Of the Board Of Aldermen,
is charged with the duty of admin
istering the several sinking funds OF
the city, which provide for the re-
demption of the city debt and the
payment of interest. 1t Is also the
custodian of the cltys real and per-
sonal property. A quorum consists
of four members OF whom the
Comptroller or his representative
must be one.
The Sinking Fund Commission is
empowered to fix rates OF interest on
the city's bonds and stock; TO sell,
lease or exchange Except parks,
markets, wharves, piers and land un-
der water) and to hire property for
public use; to adjust disputes be
tween the city and private owners
with respect TO boundary lines: 10
establish the line of high water; TO
pass on plans for improvements OF
the water 'front.' on the ACQUISITION
of property by condemnation for
dock purposes and on Issues of cor
porate stock for the Department OF
Docks and for the purposes of the
Armory Board; TO approve dock
leases and ferry franchises, and 10
cancel upon the written certificate
Of the Comptroller taxes, assessments
and water rents that are a lien ON
the real estate Of corporations en-
titled to exemption.
The Sinking Fund Commission
meets In room 16, City Hall, every
other Thursday at IL A. NJ. at the
call OF the Chairman. John Korb is
the Secretary of the board. His
office, on the seventh moor OF the
Municipal Building is open daily
from Q A. NJ. to p. NJ, SATURDAYS.
to IL noon.
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the present city administration permit
such distinctions? This question can
he satisfactorily answered only through
the medium Of the ballot
FRANCIS X. MCGOWAN.
Now York, June II, 1920.
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An Essential Industry.

To the Blitor n The Evening World:
Il see by the morning paper that At
torney General Palmer has provided
for sugar for the essential indus
tries, those engaged in canning fruits
and vegetables"
How about tho housewife?
Owing to the shortage of sugar dur
Ing wartime our stock of homemade
preserves is utterly depleted. We
then thought 1t our patriotic duty %
manage. We did. We know of no
canning industry more essential than
our own right in our own LITTLE
kitchen.
PLEASE HELP THE HOUSE,
WIFE!
ONE WHO FACES THE PROBLEM.
Mt. Vernon, June 10. 1920.
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FROM EVENING WORLD READERS

What kind of reGdGbIeH
that hundredf
lot satisfaction trying
In q Take time to be briet.
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To Gold stnr Parents.

To the Editor Of The Bvening World;
have been a consistent reader of
your good paper for many years. par
ucularly interested in your able edi-
torials and with which l am almost
invariably in accord ] also enjoy
the letters from World readers.
Let me thank you for publishing
the letter from "A Gold Star Father"
in to-day's issue. For all gold star
parents | always feel like coming to
the old salute with the old ''click"
May | say to him through your
columns that personally on the street
or in n public conveyance, my eyes
almost unconsciously search for ser
vice buttons. And | know that my
face softens at sight of one, and If II
is silver l cannot help a little nod OF
sympathy and approval.
For. Won see, have the honor my
self to wear a bronze
VICTORY BUTTON.
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friendship which may be painfully
embarrassing at some future date,
and while it seems unjust to include
the really nice neighbors in the cate
CORY of the first mentioned, our in
stinct of caution" has been so firmly
imbedded in US, through experience
and publicity, that we are loath to
encourage what we may later regret.
ALICE d. STRATIS ISIS.
No. 1872 Grand Street. June Is, 1920.
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He Is.
To the Edits Of The Evening World
If a child is born in the United
States of foreign parentage who
have never taken out (lip pa
perS is he an American? b. b.
Jersey CITY, June 16, 1920.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09
Woe for Vote Perjurers.

The ruling of the Attorney Gen
erals office to the effect that those
who voted a nom Republican state
ticket in the final election Of 1918 and
who swear to the contrary in apply
ing for a Republican ballot in the
coming state primaries presents a
pretty pickle for the Nonpartisan lea
que machine which purposes to steal
the Republican gubernatorial nomin-
alton for DIR. Shipstead on the twen-
ty-first of this month.
David H. Evans, Farmer-Labor can
didate two years ago, received Ill ,948
votes. Of course, this figure repre-
sents some disconnected voters among
the Democrats and Republican pro-
gressives who will not vote for Ship
stead in the primaries this year, but
the bulk of it comprises those elements
who expect to cast their ballot for
Shipstead. If election boards choose
to challenge this large army of voters
and require the former Evans sup
porters either to withdraw their appli-
cation for the Republican ballot or
make themselves liable to conviction
for perjury, the Shipstead vote would
dwindle to insignificance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09
Woman Poultry Ex-
tensiOnist Coming

Government figures show that 80
per cent of farm poultry flocks are
cared for by women. The better to
reach farm women poultry raisers of
Minnesota, the home economics ex-
tension staff at University Farm has
engaged the services, beginning July
l, of Miss Annabell Campbell, who for
nine years conducted her own poultry
farm and for nearly three years serv-
ed as an extensionist in Michigan.
Miss Campbell will take part in the
culling campaign, which was approx
ed at the annual meeting of county
agents to be put on during August,
September and October. Miss Esther
Cooley, clothing specialist, will also
join the extension forces July l. Her
home is in Montana, but she comes
to Minnesota from a years graduate
work at Teachers college of Columbia
university.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09
DRAWS MUSIC
FROM A SAW
New Yorker Gets Startling and Pleas
ing Effects by Using the Tool
as a Violin.

The conventional saw has recently
appeared in a new role-namely, as Il
musical instrument. Indeed, one of
the leading novelties of current New
York musical revue is the musical car
penter who uses his saw as a violin
After protracted experimentation
and untiring practice, Sam Moore Of
New York city has succeeded in get
ting very agreeable music from ordin-
airy carpenters saw, according to the
handle between his legs, holds the tip
of the saw in one hand and works the
usual violin bow with the other. The
vibrating steel blade emits soft, ap-
pealing notes, the pitch of which is
varied by changing the curvature of
the blade.
All sorts OF queer effects can be
obtained by the adept manipulation
of the blade; in fact, the music de
rived by this means can hardly be de
scribed. If anything, it resembles the
human voice; then again it has the
queer wall of the Hawaiian Ukulele.
All in all, the effect is startling and
pleasing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09

law under Daniel Webster and was
admitted to the Suffolk bar July g.,
1927. He was a prominent demo
crat and an eminent Greek scholar,
serving some years on the examin-
ing board in Greek at Harvard. He
was both a representative and senator
and died in the asylum in Somervilley
Oct. 19, 1864. Judge Josiah G. Alb
bolt told me a story illustrating Rob
inson's hatred of George Farley of
Groton, another very able Middlesex
county lawyer. Robinson came into
his office one morning, rubbing his
hands in high glee and exclaiming.
Great times in hell this morning;
Farley died last night"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09

New York to San Francisco and see
standardized billboards all along the
way telling you what to smoke and
what gum-the thing Americans de-
pend upon most for happiness-to
chew. They passed law in England
against the erection of signboards
that would obstruct the view or along
the highways. They are civilized in
that country. How long before we
advertising on billboard
Perhaps it should not be necessary
to go SO far as that, and perhaps that
is. the surest way; but it is certain
that billboard concerns are allowed too
much latitude to deface both city and
country, and restrictions even if based
on no higher view than that beauty is
an asset and should be conserved,
should be applied.-Duluth Herald
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09

On the part of election boards such
action not only would be warranted
in law, according to Interpretation of
the Attorney Generals office, but it
would be nothing if not morally justi-
fled. All that the Shipstead candida
cy is is a deliberate attempt to grab
the Republican nomination for any
thing but Republican candidates with
Republican principles and with Re
publican history. We do not see how
even Mr.. Townley could have the crust
to deny so obvious a fact.-Pioneer
Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09
Who Was John p?

Who was the John P. Robinson" re-
ferred to in Lowell's Bigelow Popers +?
Robinson was an eminent lawyer of
Lowell and Boston, born in Dover, N
H., March 16, 1900. He was a grad
uate of Exeter academy, nongrad-
uating member of the Harvard class
of 1919, but recipient of a degree of
Master of Arts in 1923. He studied
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09

the American Federation of Arts in
New York the other day, Joseph Pen
nell, the famous artist, voiced the
sentiment of thousand of Americans
when he said:
"Our beautiful country has been
captured by billboard men. 1t is as
great. crime to steal beauty as to
steal cash. Barbarians have invaded
the country. You can travel from
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09

culiarly beautiful vista of Natures
loneliness to which the eye instinc-
lively turns, the billboard man has
anticipated you and the effect of the
view is marred if not lost by the in
trusion of signs that jar like cow
bell in church; the sublime is turn
ed into the ridiculous and sentiment
becomes a joke.
Speaking before the convention of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-06-09
The Billboard Nuisance.

Along every railroad, trolley line,
automobile highway and country pike
in America the succession OF bill
boards on row, east and west,
north and south-is the most conspi-
cuous feature of the scenery. Should
a bend in the road disclose some pc
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-07-29

! Mr.. and Mrs. Robert G. McNary, Mrs.
| A. C. Anderson, Miss Elda jackson
and Corbett Alexander Mrs. Anderson
is here from Fort Lee. Va where her
/ husband, Capt Anderson, is stationed,
visiting Mrs. Earl Franz. her sister.
MIR. and Mrs. F. W. Rockhold. of the
Upper Valley. Ebert L. Newell, local
civil engineer, and A. j. Logan, Port
! land architect. back last week from an
ascent of Mount Adams, report thrill
| ing time when they were swept by "A
cloud charged with electricity while on
the slope of the snow peak. The air
was so surcharged that the hair of the
parties sparkled. Climbing conditions
on Adams, it is said, are good.
The following delegates from the
Hood River Post will leave this week
for Astoria for the state convention of
the American Legion: DR.. II. ID. w.
Pineo. Stewart Kimball and Ned Van
Horn, the latter commander of the
Hood River Post. Others who will
make the trip are DR.. V. Il. Abraham
and family and Geo. X. Wilbur and
family. DIR. Pineo will also be accom-
panied by his family. Before return
ing here about August 20 they will
spend an outing at Cannon Beach.
Miss Opal Callison, en- route to her
home in the Upper Valley from PEN
deton, was here Monday Miss CALI
son, who knew Mr. Taylor very we'll,
had spoken to the Umatila sheriff only
few minutes before he entered his
office, where he was killed by an es-
Gaping outlaw. Miss Callison says that
Pendleton activities cesaed entirely
while posses searched for the jail
breakers. Harvest crews and cowboys
swarmed into the city to join the
chase.
A. j. Graham, after &c years resi-
dence here, will leave next week for
Detroit, where he will be associated
with branch house Of Ed V. Price
the Chicago tailoring concern. Mr..
Graham, in the mercantile business
here for many years, has been in
charge Of local Price Office for the
past four years. His brOther-in-law
w. B. Fitch, who has visited Oregon
frequently, is treasurer of the big CON
cern. Mrs. Graham will remain here
about a month before going east to
Join Mr. Graham.