Show National Men and Affairs A i Portland and Mount Hood Chief Justice Is Unconvinced Unconvinced vinced Wild Duck In Oakland Puzzles In School College Humor liy Ily T T. SMALL f LL L Correspondent of The li rh Manila Copyright Co 1927 11 1 Consolidated Press lOtus Association JUSTICE M HOWARD Juts 1 for tor years twitted tho the people of oC Portland Ore on what ho he tails calls thEir uh uhs s claim culm of ot the ilio exist exist- existence existence ence of ot A I snow clad mountain known us S Mount Mr Me Taft l tt has boon been a n visitor to Portland 1 half hair halfa u II dozen times twice as president prel lent of ot the United states and an 1 on every occasion oc alon he has lias strained d his eyes cyca in vain aln for tho majestic lines of Mount Hood 1 lifting lia ita long ex extinct IX ex- volcanic peak into tho the clouds But Dut always there thera was something wrong with the ill v visibility If it didn't happen to be bo boa bea a a. heavy y haze it was a II rainstorm or something tending to obscure the vier 10 As S Isit after fler visit went by and no mountain was to be seen Mi 11 Taft naturally drifted Into real or assumed disbelief Only a short tune time ago Uncle Joe Teal native Oregonian n and long Ion a 1 prominent attorney of ot Portland wax was In the national capital and was paying his lila respects to tho the chief justice The conversation had not progressed progressed ery very far tar when Mr Taft with that characteristic chuckle of ot his hi turned to o his caller Brother Teal feal he lie said naW why wh do you OU folks in Portland persist 11 m that fabrication about Mount loune Hood Why dont don't you ou come conic right out and admit I to the world that there Isn't any nn such thing Mr Chief Justice wo we 0 have got gol that mountain replied Mr lr Teal real and it la is certainly u n shame you OU never ne have o been able to see soe it it Next time limo you ou conic como cometo comoto to Portland we will guarantee you see pee that mountain even enn It if we have to bring it to Mahomet Mr in Taft ft shook shoo his head in In Indulgent In- In Indulgent doubt He sale sala he was convinced of ot neither the law nor northe northe northe the facts In the case laving Having been In Portland with Mr 11 Taft on two of ot his visits and having ha also been there th re half halt a a. sec serre re of ot other times limes without ever er h having had so much muchas as IlS a glimpse glimpse- of or Mount Hood the writer was eras as always alwa's ready read to sub SUI substantiate the Ule disbelief of ot the chief justice But Dut there hm has come conic at last lait a patting parting pat ting of tho ways By D a strange coincidence the v writer was visiting in Mr Teals Teal's office of rice only a 0 day or two ago when out oC or the enveloping mists Mount lount Hood suddenly appeared In Its white snow splendor turning pints a few minutes later laler under the magic touch of a 0 a setting sun The Thu view was wa worth all ali the years ear of wanting The mountain Is clad with snow this season Mason clear down downto to tho the timber line Residents of the Pacific coast have their favorite tn m mountains Somo Sonio prefer Shasta Sha ta some Hood and others think both of these must mut bow to MoUnt Io nt Rainier There Thero Is no doubt that Hood HooI seems more exclusive than the tho others and an 1 per per- perhaps haps hops that in I s why wh it has such sueh on- on 0 partisans Maybe some someday someday day da even tho the chief Justice of ot the United States Statu will join john Inc Hood Admirers' Admirers association Oakland Calif boasts bOl ts one of ot the most remarkable wild duck havens ha in America It Is at nt side park Jark right in tho heart ot of the city elt and the tho city cit officially toed foods tho the ducks while they are arc on their migratory visits visit It Is la an amazing thing that on the tho very first day of ot tho the open season SC con lor shooting in the tho state s trio tho ducks b 11 fly into Oakland k d in great flocks which all but darken toe proverb proverb- proverbially lally sunny California skies o 7 so 0 ono one knows whether they have heard the firing tiring of oC guns or if It 11 It ItIs Is just Homo amino strange strang animal in instinct to- to which tells tho thu ducks they arc no longer safe sate In their wilder willier homes home But nut In any event to es es- escape es- es escape cape capo their enemy man they the fly tl to Oakland to take tako refuge in tIle the very midst of ot men and are fed by the tho hands of ot man No longer wild 11 1 they live a lIfo of ot luxury at al Lakeside Lake until the season closes clones and then the tho same instinct which brought them theft there thero takes them away awny Even Kven then some name of or the tho lazy ones olles loiter behind II and through through- throughout out tho the year car Oakland has always 1 a few fow duck du l boarders down by bytho bytho bythe tho the lake Young Richard A A. Cooke Coole Jr of or Honolulu a scion aelon of oC one of or the theol oldest ol and most roost esteemed Amen Ameri American can cnn families in Hawaii has reach reach- reached ed now to the estate of oC 12 sea seasoned sea sea- seasoned Boned years and is a devoted stu atu- student dent at school Hut But the time line was IllS In hU hll youth when he didn't dl think so 80 much of oC the American school system As a matter ot of o fact tact soon after acter ho he started to school he ho came canto home homo one day with w so knitted brows Ills father was interested Well Veil Richard he said what did dl 1 you have at school today Oh puzzles replied the boy in a nonchalant sort ot of way way- Puzzles repeated the father somewhat puzzled himself by the new curriculum Yes sir What sort of oC puzzles Rich Rich- Richard Richard ard 1 Oh the tho teacher wanted to know know- how much was Vias ono one and one and how ho much was two and twe two two- Just puzzles that's all to It Is wonderfully Interesting travel about the tho country and to Come Conte more or less Into personal contact with the various comic papers Issued by the the- th students of or American universities The publications publications aro are most Impressive In their typographical t dresses and their art and tho the seeming propriety ety et which conies comes from local and national advertising They Imply good business management and a a. degree of or substantiality not thought of a few years ars ago But these papers are arc a n strange mixture of or a sophistication which Is amusing If It assumed and alarming if It true and a youthful callow callowness ness which is wholly amus arnus amusing amusIng ing log and nothing else e Most of or thu called so-called jokes joltes revolve re about gin and petting pelting and short and garters but the frankness of oC the humor carries its own stamp of ot Innocence with It It This Inno Inno- Innocence Innocence innocence cence also Is reflected in sonic some of or the ancient chestnuts so 80 glee glee- gleefully gleefully fully rull reprinted Tho The boys Lors want to be thought of or as lII devils dc even If It they the are aro not lId and the tho eds co seem scent not time the least lel t bit alarmed So 80 perhaps the younger genera generation g tion Is I. I not going to the bow bow- bowwow bowwows wows wow a as fast as 11 I some persons persona would have ha us believe I |