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THE HORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919. XNTABLI6HED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. l.;r, sixth s-.reet. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. ' The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches h'jitm are aiso reserved. .. . Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) rnity, Sunday Included, one year 5'S? Lai.-y, Sunday included, six months . .2o Laily. Sunday included, three months. . 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Steger building, Chicago: Ver ree & Conklln. Free Press building. De troit. Jlkh. San Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. THE tlTIMAIK RESPONSIBILITY. The treaty of "Versailles was killed by President Wilson. The sen ators composing the "battalion of death" were not enough to deal the fatal blow. Those democrats who favored ratification unconditionally and the republicans and the few democrats who favored ratification with reservations, moderate or more far-reaching, were numerous enough to have ratified the treaty with such reservations as would have satisfied the scruples of all of them. The moderate reservationist republi cans built a bridge which the dem ocrats could have crossed to arrange a compromise with the main body of republicans. By his no-compromise letter to Senator Hitchcock President Wilson kicked away the bridge, and forced each party to close ranks in determined opposition to the other. On which side lay rea son and moderation may be judged from the fact that on the final vote seven democrats lined up with the republicans, while but one republi can joined the democrats. This is the highest achievement of Mr.' Wilson's professorial statesman ship and unyielding partisanship. Throughout his administration he has enforced the dictum that his party alone should rule the country and that he alone should rule his party. On many important and some critical occasions he has appealed for aid to the patriotism of his political opponents, and he never appealed in vain, but on no such occasion has he acknowledged his obligation to them by sharing with them the responsi bility and honor of executing the pol icies which he called upon them to aid. Whenever a member of his own party Ventured to express an opin ion differing from his own or to ad vocate a measure which he did not initiate or approve, he poured con tumely and scorn on that man. This was notably the case when Senator Chamberlain dared to expose the failure -of Secretary of War Baker and to propose a.wp.r cabinet and a department of munitions. He re sponded by demanding powers which no republic .ever gave save to a dic tator, and rather than risk obstruc tion of his conduct of the war his opponents joined in giving him those powers through the Overman act. This extreme complaisance did not move him from his rigid partisanship or from his grand monarch pose that he was the state. On the eve of the congressional election of 1918 he wrote an appeal to the people to elect democrats while the war was still on .and when patriotism there fore demanded that partisanship be stilled. The reply was a rebuke which would have been heeded by any less wilful, autocratic man, but. like other men of his mold, the pres ident persisted in riding for a fall. Regard for the interests of his coun try and care for his own fame as a successful statesman dictated that he should enlist the co-operation of the co-ordinate branch of the treaty- xnaking power in the work of mak ing peace and forming a league of nations. But he misread the prac tical unanimity with which the peo ple had supported him in war and their ardent desire for a league of nations as readiness to accept any treaty and any league covenant which he might bring back. He ap pointed himself head of the peace delegation and went to Paris ac couipanled by four others, one ' of them his personal agent, but he treated them as ciphers at the con. ierence. None of the many able men of the opposite party, expert enced in foreign affairs, was invited to aid in the greatest task of diplo macy for a century. No senator was appointed and the senate was not consulted, though its approval was kiecessary to completion of the work, When he first returned from Paris le found much criticism of the draft league covenant, especially of the plan to make it a part of the treaty with Germany, but he refused to consider amendment and on the eve of his second departure for Eu rope he vowed that the covenant would be so interwoven with th treaty that to tear them apart would be impossible. He did procure som amendments, but they did not fully meet objections, and the treaty proper contained provisions in exeeu tion of secret agreements among th allies which were repugnant to large number of people. He mistook the almost unanimous demand for A league for an Indorsement of THE league of which he had been the chief builder, the universal desire for peace for a demand that the treaty which he brought back should . be ratified without the dotting of an "i" or the crossing of a "t." He failed to realize that, though the American people were ready to do their full part in compelling Ger many to atone for its crimes and in keeping the peace of the world, this duty required them to emerge from isolation into untrodden fields and tu&t therefore caution dictated care for their national rights and Inter ests. The opposition to the treaty, espe cially to the league covenant, has been mainly of the president's own making, the reaction from his stub bornness and from his contemptuous disregard of the constitutional pow ers of the senate. His attitude put republican senators in a hypercriti- j lsted and to magnify those which did exist. His readiness to commit the nation to great obligations "acting in his own name and byhis own proper authority," inspired excess of caution and prompted reservations going far to nullify obligations which the people were willing to assume. It was not true, as he vehemently asserted, that the league of all na tions was necessary to enforcement of the terms in Germany. The league of the- allies and associates, comprising twenty-two nations and three-fourths of the world's popula tion, which already existed, was adequate for that purpose. Republi can senators, including their leaders, desired a league and a treaty of stern justice toward Germany as earnestly as he, but the spirit of compromise that is proper to so mo mentous an occasion was wanting on the president's part. A note of personal antagonism entered into the controversy and from day to day rendered more senators as unyield ing as the president. They felt that more than the treaty and the league was at stake; that they were con tending for reassertion of those con stitutional powers of the senate which the president during four years of undisputed supremacy had reduced to a nullity. The' final act in the drama re quires that the main body of demo cratic senators share with, the pres ident responsibility for death of the treaty. A considerable body of re publican senators was ready to join the democrats in ratifying the treaty with such amendments to the cove nant as would not have weakened it and as would have been acceptable to reasonable men. A majority of the remaining republicans, thouglr desiring to go. farther in the matter of reservations, desired to ratify and were open to compromise. Their moderate party associates would have been a ready medium of com munication between them and the democrats. The appropriate moment came when the reservationists had shown their strength on the several clauses of the Lodge resolution, but the democratic leaders had become so habituated to slavish submission to the president that they waited for word from the White House as to whether they should compromise, When the word came to stand pat, they might still have saved the treaty by exercising their independent judg ment, but they meekly submitted to dictation. , Their action drove the moderates to join the strict reserva tionists and the death battalion in killing the last hope of ratification since they could not ratify without surrendering their judgment to the one man who knows no compromise. The United States never stood so high in the esteem of the world as when it lavishly poured out its strength in the cause of democracy, The fate of the treaty will bring us low as when the world was falsely led to believe that we were 'too proud to fight." forth they would be advanced six months in preparation. There is no element of conscrip tion in such a system, though paci fists persistently assert that there is. They refuse to distinguish between raining and service. Training would be compulsory, as education is and should be, but service would be vol untary unless the national safety on rare occasions should demand that 11 be compulsory. The plan would sim ply prepare young men to do one of the duties of citizenship and would m press them with the fact that they have such a duty to perform. GOING AHEAD. Something should be said in com mendation of the high spirit of Astoria in its proposal alone to do nate to the government the site for a naval base at the entrance of the Columbia river. There can be no thought at Astoria that the govern ment purposes to establish there a great naval station for the particular benefit of the enterprising city by the sea, nor that the Columbia, river is its exclusive asset. It might ap propriately be assumed that all the people in the field tributary to the Columbia have a special interest in the great government project: and they might fairly be asked to join with Astoria in raising the amount to donate" the necessary land to the government. Undoubtedly Portland and other cities and communities would respond favorably to any such request. But Astoria purposes to go it alone. Hats off to Astoria. Here we see a fine exhibition of the impulses that are now moving Astoria. There is an appreciation there of the fact that the way to make a town go ahead is to do what is to be done Itself and then to do something more. The somthlng more includes service to the public in generous and effective ways. whether or not there is an' imme diate object of gain for an individual community. It is not helpful either to find or foster grievances; it a big gain either to ignore or to for get them. Living in the past means stagna tion; doing for the future means sat isfaction and prosperity in the present. Astoria is getting along well, be cause it is doing, for itself and has quit waiting on some other to do it for Astoria. FAIXCKE. Thirty-five republicans in the sen ate voted for ratification of the peace treaty and league covenant with res ervations. They were joined by four democrats. Forty-two democrats voted against ratification with reservations. They were joined by thirteen republicans, who are for no league, with or with out reservation.. . Thirty-seven democrats declared for unconditional ratification with out the v alteration of a letter, syllable, word, comma or period. They were reinforced by one repub lican. Forty-six republicans op posed unconditional ratification. Among them are included the thir teen no-reservation, no-amendment. no-league republicans. They were supported by seven democrats. Thus we see that there are from thirty-three to thirty-five republi cans who are for a league from con viction as distinct from thirty-seven democrats who are for a league either from conviction or because it had the Wilson O. K. It will never be known how ,many democrats, if any, would have supported a league de vised and regulated by a republican president without the advice or con sent of any senator. Thus it is seen that there is to be no league, though seventy-two or more senators favor a league, and only about twenty senators are against any league. The tail wags the dog. Failure to achieve an ef fective understanding between the seventy-two or more senators the great majority is a pitiful failure of schoolmaster statesmanship. home-building, they would be worth while. Twenty-five other -nations, ac cording to statements made before a house committee, have taken govern mental action . to meet the housing situation. These include belligerents as well as neutrals, arid show that the problem is regarded as one of the first to be solved, in connection with reconstruction. It was stated that Canada since the armistice has provided a furrti of $25,000,000 to be lent through, local - authorities and building societies for home-buildrng. In the United States it is held to be" less a question, of sufficient .funds than of individual initiative, and the purpose of publicity at this time is to stimulate building by calling at tention to the extreme need of more houses, the increasing inadequacy of present accommodations, - and the bearing of home-building upon the preservation of social equilibrium. : BY-PRODtCTS OF THE PRESS Thoss Who Come and Go. Senate Cloakrooms) Kew Redolent With Odor of Plebeian Pipe.. iiBy ralslnR few but better cat- Long-servlce pipes now perfume the I je tne stockmen will make more several cloakrooms of the United money," asserts Fred A Edwards, who States senate. Cigars and cigarettes i! KXOW TOUR TENANT. The "Know Your Tenant" cam paign instituted by the government is a little different from the ordinary drive. Failure to co-operate may mean a direct pecuniary loss, where as the slacker in other worthy drives merely suffers mutually with, his fellows. The facts concerning this cam paign were given in some detail the other day in The Oregonian by Mil ton A. Miller, collector of revenue. They have to do with federal pro hibition. The landlord on whose premises intoxicants are illicitly made or sold may be made to suffer with the actual perpetrator of the crime. The latter may be fined as much as $1000, and a lien may issue against the property of the landlord to pay it. Probably .the property owner, if genuinely unaware that violations of the prohibition law were committed on his property, would not be liable, but what con stitutes knowledge of unlawful prac tices of the kind is yet a matter for court construction, so if the landlord is wise he will know his tenant and what he is doing. . Another interesting phase of : the prohibition law is that the metal worker who ' manufactures a still must have a government license. Thus, acts that heretofore may have been considered innocent encourage ment of illegal practice are no long er innocent. Moreover, it is well to emphasize again that he who uses a still for manufacturing his own liquor and with no intent to comnfer cialize his product violates the law. The simple act of setting up a'still is unlawful. With federal agents watching landlords and metal workers and, together with state agents, keeping a sharp eye for sources of illicit spirits, the future has a dry aspect. ELUTERATK VOTERS. The ignorant vote is not always an ; illiterate vote, but the proportion of ignorance hv inevitably reduced by promotion of literacy, which gives an especial point ,to the provision in the naturalization bill of Represen tative Johnson of Washington that applicants for citizenship must be able-to read and "write the English language, in addition to being able to tell something about the consti tution and institutions of our country and the reasons why they. wish to become citizens. Such a-law would strike a further blow at illiteracy by furnishing, in connection with stricter immigration laws, a supreme incentive to foreign ers to learn to read and write. That It does, not reach native born illiter ates, and could not be made to reach them without a drastic and imprac tical amendment to the constitution, does not argue against its positive aavantages. A good deal may be expected of the various cam paigns for elimination of illiter acy among the native-born, and meanwhile we can easily avoid in creasing the illiterate vote from alien sources. Growing inclination to give preference to American citizens in various employments will make the seeker for citizenship more willing Yo equip himself for the privilege, and it is safer to trust the country to voters who can do their own reading than to those who, having no access to original sources of information. are the prey of conscienceless lead ers and demagogues. The corrupt vote has been mea surably reduced by improvements in the ballot law. If a means can be found to eliminate the. illiterate vote another step forward will have been made. Intimate knowledge of American politics is shown in the London Times' explanation of the treaty con troversy in the senate as more even than a party fight as a fight be tween president and senate on a question of constitutional prerogative. 1 ormer presidents have avoided con troversy when far less was at stake than in the treaty of Versailles. The highest patriotism and statesmanship would have prompted President Wil son to avoid it on this occasion, when the future peace of the world is at stake. The Times tactfully accom panies its intimation that the treaty can be put in effect without concur rence of the United States with an admission that this can be done far better. with our aid. There is no denying that this nation will suffer grave loss of moral . influence if it hould stand aloof, but we fully agree with the prediction that if another summons to fight for the right should come, this nation would fight, though unaer no treaty obligation. But the forces of autocracy would be en couraged to strike again and to re new their propaganda for neutrality, and we should be unready, as we were in 1917. This is the danger we nvite by having a constitutional question fought out over the treaty. THE PERSHING TRAINING PLAN. Little favor is shown by the news papers to the war department's plan of three months universal military training for all young men, but Gen eral Pershing's plan of six months' training combined with education re ceives support from such a paper as the Houston Post, which may be pre disposed to support the administra tion in general. But fortunately party has slight hold ' on either the people or the newspapers when they considei such a question as that of national defense. The declaration of the American Legion will also have decided effect in favor of the Pershing plan, for it is not to be supposed that men who have been through the mill of active servico would give a second thought to any half measure like the Baker plan. General Pershing's recommenda tion will be the more acceptable be cause he proposes that military dis cipline should be "somewhat re laxed so that the systetn would be in complete harmony with demo cratic Institutions" and that military training should be combined with educational work. The training camp would then be a military school, where training would be given with out interrupting ordinary education. The young men would need to ac quire the habits and thoughts of the soldier, but not such rigid discipline as is maintained by an army in the field. The people would not coun tenance such court-martial proceed Ings as General Ansell exposed. Training is and would be some thing entirely distinct from service The ranks of the regular army would be filled by volunteers as before Such of the trained men as chose might be enrolled in a first reserve. but the main body of them would not be subject to service until actual war required. Then they would-be dratted by some selective system similar to that which was adopted in 1917. The difference between the 1917 system and that of the future ciil frame of mind, and predisposed l would be that men in 1917 entered them to find defects where none ex-J the army untrained, but that hence THE SHORTAGE OF HOMES. Discussion of a bill now pending in congress to create a bureau of hous ing and living conditions in the de partment of labor, even if it does not result in passage of the bill, will serve a purpose in emphasizing the gravity of the home famine. The sit uation is much more serious than the ordinary observer will have realized. It is all the more alarming because there is no substantial evi dence that anything is being done to bring relief. Congress is told, for example, that of 20,255,000 families in the United States, 10,697,000 live in rented houses. This is regarded as bad enough, but a worse feature is that there is a shortage of 1,550,000 rent able buildings of a type that can properly be regarded as suitable for homes. Since the beginning of the war more than 100,000 business blocks have been converted into tenements, which has been at best a makeshift. The census of 1910 showed that 46 per cent of the entire population of the United States then lived in cities and towns and it is fully expected that the census of 1920 will show more than 50 per cent of urban population. Slum con ditions, despite the publicity they have received in recent years, are pictured as growing worse and home ownership is said to -be declining steadily. A man arrested in Kansas the ether day on the charge of conspiring against the government declared to the arresting officers that it was impossible that he could be guilty, 'because," he said, ingeniously can prove that I own my home and have more than $2000 in the bank. The novelty of the alibi is probably not less appealing than its reason ableness. -The chances are that if the prisoner makes good his claims as to home ownership he will be able to create at least a reasonable doubt that he Is an anarchist- There is a widely prevalent notion, in any event, that by far the greater pro portion of the disturbers are without home ties in the better sense of th term. The influence of adequate housing on national harmony is at least worth thinking about. Whether the problem will be solved by creation of another bureau is another matter. It would serve somewhat, however, to make avail able the work done by various hous ing committees during the war. The government in that period spent some $100,000,000 on housing, and it is said that in the possession, of various war boards there are up wards of 20,000 plans for. houses te cost from $3000 to $6000. which would constitute a valuable bit of salvage. Taken in connection with a practical scheme for financing give plari to cat plug, although con servatives like Lodge look askance at ' Nugent , and' other' iconoclasts of tradition, writes a staff correspond ent of the'New York Evening Mail. Until these days of hard times and T-L C- L., no such desecratlqn has ever been known, from a time whereunto the memory ot man runneth not to the contrary. - The law which barred pipes was unwritten, but none the less strictly observed, until the advent of one John F. Nugent, senator from Idaho. The senator scorns precedent. He ' was a country lawyer, who spent h.'pf his earlier life in mining camps.; cow camea and railroad -work-Also he- loves his pipe. Elevation to the uenate did not cure him of that taste. When he came to Washington he brought his pipe with him. Senator Nugent noticed the ab sence of pipes in the cloakroom, but he attributed it to taste. If other senators preferred cigars and cigar ettes, well and good; for him, the succulent and odoriferous pipe. He packed in the tobacco, lit up and puffed away. Nobody objected, al though it is said that Henry Cabot Lodge looked askance. Others looked envious. Nugent was alone in his glory for some days, and then, with out any apology to anybody, an other senator pulled out a jimmy pipe and lit up. Soon the practice spread, until now the pipe in the cloakroom is not in the least un usual The vice-president. John Sharp Williams, and Senator Johnson of South Dakota are among the pipe- sinoklnfcr contingent. As an American newspaper chron icles, with the destruction of the "last sod shanty" in Oklahoma, there dis appears a humble form ot pioneer dwelling that had an important part in the development of the American west, -though It never caught the fancy of the rest of the country as did the log cabin. The first settlers in Oklahoma, however, could build no log cabins,- for the good and suffi cient reason that they had no log They settled on a treeless land, and made their first homes of the only building material immediately avail able. The sod shanty became, the home of the pioneer, as it had in the settlement, of ' Kansas, and soon the women folk made the shanty a com fortable place, to live in, even without the much-admired modern cohven lences. One regrets that the "last sod shanty" has not been preserved as a historic reminder; but. perhaps. somewhere there is still another. Christian Science Monitor. lives on Thirtv Mile, out from Fossil. "The fat stock in the show would j be useless on the range, but by im-1 proving the range stock the cattle men can get better results." Mr. lid wards, with his brother S- H.. who lives near Mayvllle. has 100 head of registered .Herefords and these are disposed -of to stock - raisers to im prove their range herds. The reg istered stuff costs more than the scrubs and they, require more feed, but they compensate by producing more beef. Last year at the stock show the Edwards boys' bought the highest priced Hereford, paying $1900 for him. "We're trying to get a big road programme under way for early next year." says E. H. Test, county Judge of Malheur county, who is at the Im perial. "We plan building the road rom Ontario to vale ana on to rozan. -and ud from Ontario on the Id Oregon trail toward Huntington. Then ,- nfto build south into Jordan valley. . Next year Malheur county will have more road work in progress than ever before in its nis tory. The- county is doing fine rops "good, prices good ana people coming dn from everywhere nu uv-inir farms and homes. Tnen mere Is the Irrigation matter, wnicn IS moving along rapidly and developing the county. Malheur is an rignt Off Agsla, Oai Atala. They're swapping headquarters tn Russia, The newspapers tell us each day; Petrograd's rid of the bolshles And the antis are slipping from Omsk. But how can we tell what will hap pen, . . If they travel around this-a-way? What's going to become of the bol- shies? Where ' next will .-the antts come fromsk? -v - Barki Hark! "Phone - Expert to Speak." says a headline. Maybe he'll tell us how to get the connection we ask Central for. 'We took Americans prisoner," said General Ludendorff, testifying at Berlin before the committee in vestigating responsibility for the war. 'who had an entirely wrong or vague conception of what they were fight ing for." Still, the Americans seem to have had a tolerably accurate idea that they were fighting to whip the Germans. The Hindus Have the belief that the world will last another 4 26,980 Tears. Maybe by that time the ad ministration will be willing to tell us what is really the matter with President Wilson. A &nver ureek. Or., couple in six teen days trapped 1S5 coyotes, for which they received $500 in bounties and $2500 for the furs. Some of those wild west movies must be true, after all. . . The chase of the Wyoming train robber has been given up and his capture depends on luck. One of these days his luck will break, always is so. It More than a fake bomb will be needed to get a rise out of Mayor Baker. It will be well, however, not to take chances. The doctors are charging more for attending childbirth cases in the country. Case of the stork striking for mileage? Another thing to be thankful for is that we shail at least have an armistice m the senate treaty debate. People who witness violations of traffic laws are asked to report them, but who wants to be an informer? Where's that passport clerk? Great. Britain has released 115,000, 000 gallons of liquor! There has been no armistice in the American casualty lists from Siberia and northern Russia. Isn't it about time for someone to set out a little" propaganda against propaganda? "May I not" have a few days' rest at last? as Mr. Wilson might Eay. Lots of "fowl" murders, wilt be revealed in the coming week. -"' In some ways peace is actually more trying than war. This is Thanksgiving day weather a week ahead of time. Why call a fowl everything is off 7 "dressed" when The Historical Society of Pennsyl vanla early in its career- translated into English an account by the Swed Ish traveler, Israel Acreiius, of the different sorts of strong drink that were popular hereabouts,' says the Philadelphia Ledger. Mamm" was made of water, sugar and rum, and was the chief stock-in trade of many a tavern keeper. "Man- athan" was rum, sugar and beer. 'LiUibub" -was made of milk, wine and sugar. "Tiff" was beer, rum and sugar poured on buttered toast. Sampson" lived up to the name mixture of cider and rum. The in gredients of "sangaree" were wine water, sugar and nutmeg. When brandy and sugar were added to cider It became "cider royal." "Raw dram" was the title for straight rum. Meteorites of indicated great age are not found in museum collections, and it is suggested that such sped mens may disintegrate and disappear from the rocks within a relatively short time after falling. The British museum, however, has lately acquired a slice of somewhat less than a pound from a meteoric Iron -that is believed to represent an ancient fall, says the Newark News. The slice is from one or two similar masses that were found in January, 1905, within a few miles of Dawson, Klondike, and that, from their posi tion deep in the oldest gravels the district, are thought to have rest ed there since the Pliocene age, or before. ' . While the minister was making call the little girl of the house was busy with pencil and paper. "What are ytu doing" he asked when her mother had left the room for a moment. I'm making your picture," said the child. The minister sat very still and she worked away earnestly. Then she stopped and compared her work with the original and shook her head. "I don't like it much," she said. "'Taint a great deal like you. will put a tail to it and call It dog." Edinburg Scotsman. . - . -A new type of painting is being in troduced in the galleries of England now by a member of the royal ai force. The paintings are by Captal A. E. Cooper, made while flying in lighter-than-air machine over varl ous picturesque spots in England Great interest is being taken in these pictures by the people of England, and especially by artists. Thirty of his pictures are on display at the Prince's galleries. Many pictures of flying subjects have been painted on the ground. But Captain Cooper takes his palette and brush into the air. He has been as tonishly successful in v his work, as the pictures attest. - '"Edinburgh Castle From theAlr" is described as beingr "quite wonderful" by critics; his "Aberdeen From R-29" is another one called an exceptional painting. Captain Cooper is evincing some surprise at the popularity of his work. "Most of the pictures were begun and finished in the air," the captain said. "It is a pretty quick Job, too. One has to paint at top speed the whole time. It took three trips to complete some of them. I have paint ed more than 200 hours In the air. "The slower the ship travels the better for painting. I don't think It would be possible to paint In the heavier-than-alr type, as the ma chines are not steady and the speed is too great.-. I find the . North sea type of dirigible the most adaptable to the work. The best altitude, I find, is about 600 feet." Wheeler, county Is tne most typical stock country in Oregon," asserts L. R I-ain-hlin. whose home is on .Moun tain creek and whose postomce aa-. ress is Mitchell. Mr. ixugnun s l u ,-. u a Rntir of the Blue moun- ains and is about the highest part of thu.piiuntv. "Wheeler county is moun tainous and there is little farming. heep and cattle are the main re Knurr.ea and the ranchers are pros peroua. We feed three or four months the -vear and raise lust aooui nnmrh hav to take care of our wants. Mr Ijiuirhlln. who is registered at the Perkins, was born in North Yam hill, but moved across the mountains into central Oregon when a youngster. Tk.p' ahout 3000 tons of hay on the 8000- acres that used to De tne bottom of Silver lake," Gays John Hayes, cattleman, who 1b at tne rer- Vina Thirtv vears aKO buver iae went drv. but it hardl dried oetore It fllle nn a train. It has now been rv for two Vears and Is being iarmea There is a dispute as to who owns the lake bed, the riparian owners con- endinar that they own It. dui mis riirhr hai been Questioned. Any way the lake bed Is proaucinj nay mm -will be farmed until it once more be comes a lane, as n prouiuy " Scnura-e of bootleggers. Sheriff r:onrr F Oulne of Douglas county was in the. city yesteroay, wcanns his fez and giving the glad hand to his fellow noble brotners oi ms cheese knife. For 10 years air. uine has been sheriff, and now no one lh.nk nf havinar any other man nil the position. Any bootlegger who tries to come through the Willamette valley from California has to pass through Sheriff Qulne's territory and the sheriff and his deputies just snu ply pick 'em up. After swearing off smoking for tl,,a. wkft "Frank Warren OI in state flsh and game commission ana Carl Shoemaker, state game warden swore on again. In tne tnree ween. they suspended BmoKing operation each gained 10 pounds and it beeam necessary to return- to smoking o buy new clothes, and cigars were con sidered the cneapesi solution o problem. rtil Vinci and flock masters wh have predominated in the hotel lobbie thia week took a DaCK Seat S'Wierua. when their places were occupiea , oy the Shriners. The noDies swarmea i ru lnhhin and their bands raised terrlhie dtn. but no one objectea. in hotels were swamped; one hotel send ing S00 visitors to outsiae piaceai With a name like his, no wonder Roy Hunter of Corvallls is a sports man. He was a meniuci ui prutiv-B committee of the Oregon Sportsmen's lagie and was an arden advocate of the game farm pro irramme of the state ilsn ana game mmiRlnn. Mr.. Hunter hunte around the hotels in vain for a room nnrt flnallv located one in tne out skirts. ' . There Is Just one man in Harris h.ira- who is bigger than Thomas W Sommerville. who Is enrining in ron. land. The admission is made by Mr. Sommerville. but he failed to identify the other fellow. Mr. Sommerville IS a native of Harrlsburg, which is on of the oldest towns in the state, but which hasn't increased mucn in popu lation since it was founded. "There Isn't an empty house in th town, and you can't rent one." This old. old etory is told this time by Frank A. Page of Eugene, for th university city, like all the other towns of the state, is filled with peo pie. Mr. Page was in town fezzing with the shrine. "Bv March 1, the dam of th Ochoco irrigation project will be com nleted and storing water, and It will not be long before there will water available for 22,000 acres. etated R. W. Rea' of Prinville, who 1 the engineer on the Ochoco undertak ing. State Senator W. A. Wood of Hills boro was in town to be initiated in the-ehrine yesterday. Dr. Wood the dean of the Oregon state senate and for years was on the ways and means -committee until the 1919 ses sion, when he was left oft that body by president Vinton. r . With a Kick in It, BrLLD. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J, Montague. When the Stormy Winds Do Blow. Two riveters stood in a local ship yard and gazed at an unfinished hull In -the yard. . They're going to call her 'Cur- inus,' " said one. " "Let's hope they won't be," replied the other. . J , 'Won't be" what?"' "Cursin' us." Apres le Guerre. Gas used to be cheap In France. Too common, quite, I vow; But for my cookstove I dig up Two bits for a shot of it now. FRANK W. BARTON. In the Pacific Legion. When we were squatting in a trench. w e fired and f lreu all day and night; The times have just reversed the French, We can't, fire now for miners' sp ite.! While the Marching- Is Good. The Shriners were passing, bands blaring and banners flying. Wonder if the neophytes are marching today." remarked a by- tander. ineyo better- march today." re- urned another. "They won't be able to tomorrow. A Sure-Fire I. ouch. I'm putting on a show for the boys who've returned from France, and I want something funny. What do you suggestr- opo tnem some battle scenes from the' war movies produced while tney were away." JACK BURROUGHS, In The Home Sector. If We Had Them Now. I wish I had an Ichthyorn, To chase the burglars out; A single flourish of his horn Would put them all to rout. . . We'll Care for the Salary. 'Schoolgirl to care for baby, room board, salary. Main 4090.'' Don't swear at the buncling chauffeur nea us ruins a nundred-buck shoe. All persons are likely to err, A thing it is human to do Just tell him you don't care a rap; j.uere are nunareas of shoes in the shop S-y. "What does It matter old chap?" Or "Well. I should worry, old top!" For he's getting paid uch a. lot He'll soon have you out on a limb. And. year after year, like as not. You'll have a Job chauffing for him! Dcr't chafe at the butler who buys Your meat and potatoes and such And grafts on your daily supplies With a pleasant Intent to get rich. Don't call him a crook or a thief. With epithets drastic and strong. Or say it's your honaat bsliaf That hes cheated the hoosh-goi) te iong. With wages as high as they are. And harder and harder to pay. Don't let your hard words go too far.. You may be his butler some day. Don't cuss at the tonirue-waaa-lne clerk. Although it Is nerfaetlv true Thai he never attends to his work v hen there's anything else he can do. Don't anger the lad with abuse. Or cry With a Sinister aneer That he Isn't of any more use man a barrel of half-percent beer. It's not that he'll take it amlas If your language is brutally cross. But a couple of months after this the chances ane he'll be the bass. a Coin it. Going:, Gone! If 3.27 beer was decimal nolnt hear. .050 per cent beer is vanishing point beer. BRITISH VIEW OF TREATY FIGHT Optimists. You may smash, you mav shatter the bar if you will, but the thirsty old bar flies will hang round it still. These Are Sad Times. The labor agitation is catching. Even the cider you buy at the grocery store won't work. (Copyright, 1919. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Self-Restraint. By Grace E. Hall. Denton Burdlck wandered around like a .lost-spirit seeking accommo dations when he arrived in Portland. Mr.- Burdlck is from Redmond, in the Deschutes country, and is representa tive of the largest district in the Ore gon legislature. Dick Williams, yardmaster of the Southern Pacific at Roseburg, took a day off yesterday to attend the ceremonial of the shrine, and was bet ter pleased with the reeuit than if No. 6 came in on time. W. E. Grace, banker and druggist of Astoria, and formerly a business man and member of the legislature from Baker, is among the arrivals at the Multnomah. He is accompanied by Mrs. Grace. A party of Japanese from Hakodate arrived at the Benson yesterday. The party consists of business men who are looking over the United States. They are S. Abe, S. Yamado and K. Kato. Governor Ben Olcott is registered at the Multnomah. The governor was Bent over the hot sands during the shrine initiation yesterday after noon, and is reported as having held on to the rope with all his might. Hood River people- at the Perkins yesterday were Mr.- and Mrs. W. F. Laraway. orchardist and jeweler, and C. K- Marshall, apple producer. Seattle lumbermen who are regis tered at the Benson are R. D. Mer rill. W. J. Chisholm, T. Jerome and O B. Rupp. Charles F. Clough. druggist of Tillamook, is at the Multnomah. League or No League. America Would Battle for World Liberty. The British view of the senate's reservatinna tn ra t i f i t i nn r,r , , German treaty and of the possible de- teat or ratification is probably ex pressed as fairly as can be in an edi torial in the London Times of- Octo ber 27. It pays of the fight in the senate: 'It Is a party fight, but it is not merely a party fight. It involves the old constitutional question of the right of the executive on the one hand and congress on the other, which has long divided American statesmen and Jurists. The allies deeply regret that the controversy has arisen, and they mill regret its rise still more should it lead to America's rejection of the treaty and to the many unfor tunate consequences ' which would flow from an incident so untoward. They must, however, make up their minds that rejection Is at- least pos sible, and consider how this possibil ity atlecte themselves. 'iRatif icatlon by America, highly desirable though for many reasons it would be, is not, we need scarcely observe, essential to the operation of tne treaty of Versailles or of the League of Nations. Both come into force as soon as the formalities fol lowing ratification by Germany and any three of the principal allies have been complied with. As the neces sary number of ratifications has been effected, all that remains is the ful filment of these' formalities a step which cannot be indefinitely post poned. If either party in the senate, or any combination of parties, rejects the treaty, the. allies must take in hand the business of carrying out its provisions without the American aid which they were led to expect, and which they would so gladly welcome. Undeniably that would be a lament able disappointment to them all, and a spring of joy and hope to the de feated "militarists" and monarchists of central Europe. But the task of the allies would not become' impossi bie, if they go about it in the right spirit. All of them would miss, and Englishmen would miss most of all, the practical help and the immense moral influence which America might have exercised in working out her ideals in practice. That would be loss to them, and we believe a real loss to her. . She would have missed the education for her manifest dis- tiny which ..such an experience would have given her. "But we do not believe that refusal to ratify the treaty or abstention from the league would mean that she had renounced the spirit of the league. We are confident, as we said on Sat urday, that, did events again plainly summon her to fight for right, she would again fight for It. It needs no treaty to make her do that. No treaty bound her to do it two years ago. No treaty, as we have more than once remarked, can possibly constrain self-governing democracy to fight against, its -will. Congress has con trol of the purse, and that makes congress the final arbiter. What American refusal or abstention would mean would be delay over armed ac tion, should armed action become nec essary. America would De unready, as we and she were unready when duty bade us strike in this war. We know the evils and the dangers of delay. They will be greater in the future. The allies must be prepared to face them until America can come in. Then, as Mr. Wilson said at Salt Lake City, "the nation would enter it anyway, league or no league." We know She would. We hope she will say so; but whatever she says or does, our faith in her is unshaken. When first I sought to practice this rare faith 'Twas forced upon me; circum stance decreed That mjsr slim purse should be but as a wraith Of what such things should be! My urgent need Was ever present; shadow-like, it chased My every step yea, e'en proclaimed its want; Flaunted its shabby presence, and disgraced , My efforts at composure. Thin and gaunt. It trailed me, mocking when, in pass ing by. Some frilly thing of beauty caught my eye; Derided, that within my soul there burned Desire for what was fashioned to ensnare. When mortal needs so little, as I'd learned A bit of raiment, humble roof, plain fare. Thus, taunted day by day of foolish laclc Within my mental process. I hesran Examination; and at once turned back io re-survey the baubles-hat and fan. And dress and bead and eew-gaw. which had (riven A thrill of longing ere my mind had striven To rid itself of fallacy and see inose tnings in life which held real - worth for me: Then, viewing with what seemed a clearer light That came from deeper recess in my brain, grasped at truth, and holding fast and tight. Set out to find new values. All in vain. Came now the glint of tinsel, for at last I walked with mind sure-poised, self-controlled. Not- even saw the glitter as I passed. vj.vwu iii;n iii aeii-restraint, ii not in gold! Witness Fees Vary. PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Edi tor.) If a person is called from one state into another on a lawsuit, wha fees does he get while there; also what mileage, and is it fer both ways? MRS. F. M. WALSH. It depends altogether on the state from which the call is issued. In Ore gon "reasonable expenses" are paid which include railroad fare and rec ompense for time. . Georare Ban- MeCnteheon'a Mother. PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Can you give me the maiden name of George Barr McCutcheon. or. failing this, his address, so that I can write him, for family reasons. ' S. C. Mr. McCutcheon's mother was, be fore her marriage. Miss Clara Glick Mr. McCutcheon's address Is 1 West Sixty-fourth street. New York. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of November 21, 18S4. ou Petersburg. Anton Gronor Ru- benstein. the celebrated Russian pian ist ana composer, died today of heart disease at Peterhof. H. N. Scott has" been given a con tract as special collector and" is at work in an effort to recover for the county between J500.000 and $600,000 due for the past several years on the delinquent tax list. For the first time in many years the shipment of opium direct from China to Portland is being made, Chi nese merchants having arranged for direct filling of their orders. m Portland's first chrysanthemum show will be thrown open to the pub lic this axternoon in the A. o. u. W. temple. A colony of Oregon residents which has been forming for some time will leave today to become permanent res idents of Hawaii WRITERS WHO ARE OLD FOGIES Howe, Harvey and Warteraoa Opposed to Proajreaatve Ideas. HAMMOND, - Or., Nov. 19. (To the Editor.) I read with interest and- X might say a great deal of amuse ment the quotations from E. W. Howe In The Sunday Oregonian. I say amusement because his ideas seem to be considered "common-sense philoso phy." Why papers throughout our country continue to present the. ideas of Howe, Harvey and Watterson as philosophy is more than 1 can under stand, when these papers must know that practically every position taken by these sages upon vital questions has been proved erroneous. I have kread them. for more than 30 years. I have been intluenced oy tnem. 1 confess they have led me to think wrongly. In my youth I debated in country literary societies and at college such questions as "Prohibition," "Aus tralian Ballot System," "Woman Suf frage," "Election of Senators by Direct Vote," "The Initiative, Referen dum and Recall" and "Union Labor." Always I opposed, because my young mind was influenced by Howe, Harvey, Watterson, Nelson and others. They were against those things and as I read- them I was against those things too. In late years younger minds have been presenting new ideas, progres sive ideas, which the above named sages do not include in their philoso phy. I am glad they do not for those old fellows fooled me so often in my younger days that I fear I might now reject something that Is good because I should be afraid to accept what they recommend. From a literary standpoint, I still admire them; from a standpoint of genuine, vital ideas I look to less known and sometimes condemned philosophers. T. F. KABLES.