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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1919, F" r KSTARUSHKD BV HESBV U PITTOClL Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oregonian 1 a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion ol all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. AH rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 6.00 7.80 3.2.-. .80 1.00 2.50 3.50 Subscription Kal Invariably In Advance. CBy Mail.) Tally, Sunday Included, one year . ..$S.OO Dailv, Sunday Included, six months .... 4.2: Iailv. Sunday Included, three months. . Z.J;. Dally. Sunday included, one month . . .. Uajly. without Sunday, one year Dally, without Sunday, one year ... Daily, without Sunday, six months . Daily, without Sunday, one month . . Weekly, one year Sunday, on year Sunday and weekly (By Carrier.) 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The United States finds itself in almost as grave a state of unpre paredness to combat revolution as it was in 1917 to fight Germany. It has general laws against sedition and re . bellion. but they do not meet some -of the worst forms which tnese cian- gers now assume. ir. nus tuts eoyiuu- ... 1 . . . V, ,t 1 1 1 'i t ti- t; n ri . t Prl to age i .1 , . . . .. - . adapted to peace conditions nor are juries willing- to convict under it after the necessities of war have passed. At least three-fourths of the disturbers are aliens, whom we have the undoubted right to ship out of "the country, but jurisdiction over .them is vested in the immigration bureau, which lacks men and money -to dual with such large numbers as are concerned, and which also has some officials with so strong a lean ing toward radicalism that they use every pretext to set free many reds who have been caught by other of ficials. The department of justice has men and money to deal with aliens, but can act only when it can prove ueiuiuc unai gc. The government has to deal with several conspiracies with varied ul- - -limaie aim dul an wun me mime- ;stitution by force. Their theories are of foreign origin, are held chiefly by people of alien birth and are advo cated in tnis country more Dy -speeches and publications in foreign ..languages than in the English lan guage. These aliens exercise the " right to a free press in carrying on their propaganda, even to the extent of sending many tons of their pub lications by mail. Thy use the right of free speech and assembly to speak in foreign tongues to foreigners in favor of destruction of the govern ment which permits them to exercise these rights, denied to many of them in their native lands. These rights are guaranteed by the constitution not to alien residents, but to Ameri can citizens, and in the absence o special treaty guarantees they are ex ercised by aliens only on sufferance and during, good behavior. The framers of the constitution never in tended that they should be used by . aliens or citizens advocating violen rebellion to destroy that instrument. Attorney-General Palmer ascribes --his failure to prosecute for such of fenses by saying that the law does not extend to seditious writings or speecnes ana mat ne must prove ac tual conspiracy to use force. He ha: risked congress for a law making se ditious utterances crimes, whethe . by an individual or a band of con spirators, but he complains that con gress has not acted. Several bill are unner way, dui nave ueen ae layed by the peace debate. While conceding that more com be enacted. Senator Poindexter con tends that hundreds of cases com wttnin the provisions or the criminal rrever incites insurrection against the j .. authority of the United States," or ties "if two or more persons conspire J to oppose by force the authority of the United States." Surely the word "- "incite" covers speech, writing. i 1 1 . 1 1 1 uiim f ii i 1 1 1 u i iuii aiiu atiuuiu gon and Washington cover all pre- vaiims n.iina ti I cvuiULIUIlal y ilL " t i V 1 1 V Vl 1 1 1 ll n fVia -i 11 1 1 nvit i r,.- . these states catch a foreign red and ' , a n A li i nl a f t n tKa i ,-, . i .-.... . . . - officials with a view to deportation, he no sooner reaches New York than in tmir- r mi , i . nf ri..A v, 1 .. . . .5 T loose. If ordered to be deported, he may appeal, give bail and disappear, no effort being made to recapture him. Rpnrpspntn tivfi Alhprt 7 n Vi n son, of Washington, says that of fifty men sent from Seattle, only ten were deported. He proposes that power to order deportation be transferred to the department of justice: that permanent passport law be applied to all immigrants: that a strictly se Jective system of immigration be adopted; and that no treaty should extend the right of free speech, free . press, assembly or of bearing arms to - aliens. No loopholes in the law for the Americanism demands of every citi- j true of the Balkan countries, of parts zen that he obey all the laws, without! of Ireland, of the mountains of Spain, excepting such as do not please, and j Probably it will be found to be true that he must recognize the right of i in the case of John Shell, who for all the people to be superior to any' more than a hundred years has lived right claimed for himself or for his ! fraction of the people. Departure! from this simple, elementary prin ciple has been the main cause of our present troubles. There has been much talk of the rights of labor, the rights of capital, the rights of this, that or the other particular interest leading to that hateful foreign im portation, class consciousness. There is no room for any such thing under the American constitution. Though people naturally divide themselves into classes socially, according to their degree of education, tastes, oc cupations, the law recognizes no such distinctions, and the way to these classes is open to all who are accept able, the sole exception being that small un-American class which apes European customs and ideas. None have special rights as members of a class, but all have equal rights as ltizens, and the right of each are estricted by the rights of the others and of all. Those who claim special rights for heir class ultimately lose, though for time they may win. Their success ncourages some other class to fol low their example. If the practice were to continue, our politics would degenerate Into a chronic conflict be tween classes, in which the enerc-v and sulfttance of all would be con sumed in conflict and all would be poorer and less happy in the end. The best security for the rights of each class, so-called, is respect for the rights of all, and this is the val uable lesson which all can learn and practice from the present unrest. on corn bread and hominy, with only a few home-grown vegetables for variety. The man thus content with a monotonous, vegetative existence, we may suppose, is not much given to worry, and thus his life is further prolonged. But before we waste too much time in inquiry into the secret of longevity in these instances, it may be worth while to inquire whether long life so obtained is worth the price. "We live in deeds, not years," said Philip Bailey; "in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial." Better a short life and a useful one, to paraphrase the adage, than a century with nothing done. We learn little from the Shells and Parrs; a good deal more from those who employ their time to greater advantage. Alexander . the Great, Byron, Shelley, Henry Kirke White it would not be difficult in definitely to extend the list lived onger than any centenarian, accord ing to the true measure of living. Mere longevity is nothing much to brag about. The specialists will do well to take this into account. GEORGE M. TROWBRIDGE. It is not altogether easy to ap praise the personal attributes of one so retiring as was George M. Trow bridge. One must look for them in his case partly to the characteristics f the newspaper of which he was the editorial head. For thirteen ears he held that place on the Ore gon Journal. Those years, marked the greater growth of that publica tion, and as a newspaper's advance ment must depend upon the quality of its news presentation and upon its editorial policies, so one mst give the credit therefor to him who di rects them. So also in that period the Journal developed an individuality. The policies it espoused were presented energetically and in a style exclusively its own. It is said of Mr. Trowbridge that he never made a cause his news paper's but that he was heart and soul in sympathy with it. He was jealous of the journalistic proroga tive of publicly expressing an opinion whether it pleased personal enemies and displeased personal friends or vice versa. He seemed to believe. rightly, that one's views on public is sues are not properly governed by individual friendships or enmities. It is a trite observation that the world seems to wag along as usual after death has withdrawn its best men one by one. The inference is that he who has a large part in con duct of public affairs is not so im portant as he seems to be. It is false impression. The final test of real service is that one's affairs are found to have been so conducted and so ordained with thought for the fu ture that they may be taken up and carried on without him. Mr. Trowbridge built to that end. He loved his work and in it he was industrious and ever energetic. His example inspired his associates and aided him in building up a loyal or ganization. They learned his ways and they absorbed his ideals. Though gone away, he will doubtless still be an editor of the Journal so long as the organization he created lasts. PROVE THE LAW SUPREME, No reasonable man will maintain that about 450,000 coal miners scat tered through many states would remain idle in defiance of the law and in disregard of the order of their national officers except by concerted action directed from some central authority which all of them recognize. If the law is not to be brought into contempt, the duty of the government is to discover the man or men who exercise that au thority and to bring them to justice. Not to do so would be to concede to this occult force more power than is possessed by the United States government. It would establish minority rule, which exists in Russia and which is the aim of all votaries of direct action. Settlement of the dispute between miners and operators is important Production of coal by the miners now on strike is very desirable. But more important than all else is es tablishment of supremacy of the law over all who deny it and set it at defiance. The first duty of the gov ernment is to find and punish the men who are responsible for con tinuance of the miners' strike and, if then the strikers refuse to work, to cause production of coal without their aid. It can be done, if the gov ernment will but exert its powers. The united support of congress re moves the last possible excuse for not doing it. The question is not one of miners' wages; ft is one of rule by a minority over th majority. JOHN SHELL AND THOMAS PARR. Greasy Creek, which only a few students of geography will recall, is situated in Leslie county, Kentucky, and takes its place on the map be cause it is the home of John Shell who celebrated the other day his 132d birthday, and because scien tists are beginning to flock thither in red to remain at large within this slnce the tltue of Thomas Parr no country, an open door for them to go s,,rh r,r,rrt,,r,itv- h, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND II. C. L. About the only point on. which students of marriage and divorce seem able to agree is that the former is becoming less common, while the latter is increasing steadily. As for reasons, they are as numerous and as various as those advanced to ac count for the .condition vaguely termed "social unrest." The New York board of health has just issued a bulletin in which it shows that the number of marriage's in New York city for the first eight months of the present year was only 37,615, by comparison with 37,821 in the same months of 1918. There was a falling off in marriages, a continuance of a previously noted decline, of 206 couples in a single year. In the same period the num ber of births declined from 94,956 to 86,380, a loss of 8576. While there is no reason to suppose that the falling marriage rate of 1919 has al ready been reflected in the birth rate. the health board sees ample reason for asserting that "the number of marriages does not account for the marked falling off in the number of births." The increase of 400 per cent in our national divorce rate in the last half century, shown by the census reports and commented on recently by the chairman of the world's com mission on trie family -at the Pitts burg conference on world citizenship, gives us another cause for alarm, and considered in connection with the falling marriage and birth rate further complicates the issue. Yet there may be profit in contemplation of the reasons advanced here. The New York board thinks that decline of births and marriages, particularly the former, may be due to "economic conditions," including, of course, the well-advertised high cost of living, to entrance of women into industrial and professional pursuits and to ab sence of young men in connection with the war. The analyst of the oauses of divorce finds his task less simple. Decline of the religious mo tive is the leading contributory cause, in his opinion, but he finds 19 others, as follows: Growing spirit of Individualism, the women's movement, including the femin ist propaganda and higher education of women; growth of modern industrialism : higher living standards; growth of mod ern cities: higher age of marriage; popu larization of law; laxity of law and ad ministration; transition from the old order to the new: wrong conception of marriage and the marriage relation; the Mormon propaganda; the social evilf-infectious dia ea?e; hasty marriages; the double stand ard: newspaper publicity; childless mar riages; the war: and too many cases of the wife's failure to recognize her responsi bility in the maintenance of the home. The issue will bear a good deal of simplifying. It will be noted that in a number of instances, at least. the attributed causes of fewer mar riages and of more divorces run parallel. Several of the specified causes of divorce can be grouped un der the comprehensive economic causes" mentioned by the New York health board as a chief reason for decline in marriage. Such are higher living standards, growth of cities. growth of industrialism and the high er age of marriage. "Entrance of women into industrial and profes sional pursuits," mentioned as a cause for fewer marriages, is a corollary of the growing "spirit of individualism" to which so many di vorces are attributed. "Wrong con ception of marriage" needs further explanation to make it fully clear, but it may be supposed that the van ishing birth rate is a part of, it. "Transition from the old order to the new" is a rather vague generality The "double standard" accounts for increasing divorce only if it is es tablished that this standard is more generally prevalent. There are ob servers who will assert that this is not true. Of the reasons given, for both de cline of marriage and for increase of divorce, those which seem to re ceive widest acceptance are the "economic causes" already alluded to. We ought, if these reasons de serve the prominence given them, to be able to find the remedy. Econo mics will not be the "dismal science" that Lord Salisbury said it was, once it is shown to be sq intimately re lated to the most vital issue of our existence. It would add a good deal to the joy of living if through better understanding of "economics" we might solve the problems of birth. death, marriage, divorce and the high cost of living at one swoop. yet very old from the fact that Gis borne's project, then regarded as somewhat visionary, embraced a sub terranean (not a submarine) tele graph line across New Foundland, a distance of 400 miles, which he in tended to supplement by use of car rier pigeons and fast boats to cross the water from Cape Ray to Cape North, on the eastern extremity of Nova Scotia, whence the rest of the journey was to be by land telegraph to New York. Field got from this the idea of the trans-Atlantic cable. Early obstacles both of a political and financial nature were en countered in the effort to organize the necessary corporation and after ward in laying the preliminary cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In the latter operation a gale arose which made it necessary to cut the cable to save the ship. This re sulted in a year's delay. Sectional jealousies and party rivalries which seem trivial in the perspective of history almost defeated Mr. Field's efforts to obtain help from congress for the trans-Atlantic project after British interests had subscribed their share of the esti mated cost, and the bill carrying an appropriation passed tb,e United States senate by a majority of only one and was signed by President Pierce on March 3, 1857, the day before he went out of office. Lay ing of the first cable was begun the same year, but when 335 miles had been paid out. it parted. ' It was then that Mr. Field, seeking further sup port in England, was asked: "Sup pose you fail again; then what will you do?" He answered: "Charge it to profit and loss and begin on another." The reply made a deep impression in England, being hailed as a "manifestation of the American j spirit, and laid the foundation for another expedition. But the second also failed. The United States steam frigate Niagara, then the largest in the world, and the British ship Aga memnon met in mid-ocean, spliced the cable there and sailed for their respective shores. They had paid out 111 miles rr cable when the break came. A third attempt was successful two months later. A mes sage from Queen "Victoria to Presi dent Buchanan was the first official communication carried beneath the waters of the sea. On September 1, 1858, the country celebrated. A monster religious service was held in New York in which 200 clergy participated and the mayor of New York presented Mr. Field with a gold snuff box. Even while the ensuing banquet was in progress the cable gave its last gasp and ceased. The civil war inter rupted progress at this point. Mr, Field meanwhile procured a cable of larger size and much higher break ing strain. In July, 1865, work of laying the fourth cable was begun by the Great Eastern, then the BY-PRODUCTS OK THE PRESS 'Yen Cannot Bide Anything; In m Newspaper," Well Illustrated. The Philadelphia Record, taken to task for attributing a literary quota tion to the wrong author, says; "You can't hide anything in a newspaper, Thosj Who Come and Go. One of 'the unexpected products of the war has been the amazing manner in which financial campaigns by dif ferent religious denominations have swept the country and been a greater and tells the story of its mistake as success, in proportion, than liberty follows: . loans. Red Cross or other drives, de- The Record quoted, sandwiched In be- clared Frank C. Jackson, notable lay- tween borrowed witticisms in Its -Wise man and former head of the laymen s and Otherwise" grouping, four lines from missionary movement, who was at the Macaulay. They were erroneously at- Portland hotel vesterday. "A few tributed to Scott. The guilty editor was months ago the Methodists asked of promptly deluged with letter. ;Bett'n o their membership JlOO.000.000. They right. From as far off as Atlanta, bi., people wrote to correct this, obscure error, responded with nearly IJOO.000.000 If the Record should state. In aa little a cn.cm ucr mai mis irum uu. two lines, that Woodrow Wilson was born j very small proportion of the popula In Covington. Ky., or that President Mc- I tion as compared to Red Cross sub- With a Kick in It. Uy L. L. D. CISTOM HAMPERS UTILITIES Relief From Special Charter Adva eate4 1m Brkalt of Street Railway. PORTLAND. Nov. 29. (To the Edi tor.) Along with other citizens in- w - i I ' -7 1-v V h L o i 'n which .mull Pe. ot covl replace - - r w r'rn biot, in iriiin?. of the street car company. There can when the stranger strolls In Paris A LA MODE. PHntnnM are wearinr Hfir aoJ Ti- Kinley wbi hot in 1S9. and bury those two lines in the remotest corner of an in side pane, literally thousands of readers would dig them up and hurl them in our abashed face within' 24 hours. "That." the Record continues, "is why small advertisements are so as- tonishly effective," because readers "go through a newspaper with a fine- be little doubt from well-authenticat ed sources of information that the streetcar company is entirely honest and sincere in its dilemma presented by the insufficiency of income to meet the outgo due to repeated advances In the pay of the men and allowing the meritorious demands made by them for larger wr.ges. Of course, it has been intimated as one solution of the problem that we shall ultimately be driven to take oyer the street car ccmpany under mu- JjlttIe damsels, cream and peachy. rfim.H.i in'eiauyn. i nouui 11. wif p i - I Jjnle tinv ciil lilts idxii.i.vtra v ill (iu- rr.it of any sucli settlement, and yet no fair-minded m.tn can drny that something- must be done in the enier- heavily oversubscribed. This can only 1 en- or otnerwiae we .ni, , ., ,.. ,. is,., 1- ! fer the injury of decreased and in.uf- scribers." said Mr. Jackson. "Now, the Episcopalians are asking 142,000, 000. I expect they will receive $55,- 000.000. The Presbyterian: and the Baptists, the Lutherans and others have also held drives which were He need not travel very Far to notice On each, bodice Oddities in Jewelry. Paris wit has set the fashion And the jewelers are rnashln IVp their winter's Coal in splinters For to set in filigree. All along: the Place de Clichy Black and shiny I Earrings as they pass along:. point to a greater spirituality in the nation, for this giving is simply tooth comb! They don't miss any-I manifestation of a greater Interest in thing," and for that reason They will read your advertisement, en If it occupies a comparatively small space. and be influenced by It if you have some thing; interesting- to say about desirable merchandise or services. The up-to-date, alert advertiser I clergy, as well as for the boys who the intelligent reader, who keeps In I actually did the fighting." said Henry spiritual affairs. The statement that the church was losing ground would not seem to be justified in face of this really extraordinary showing." "The army did wonders for the touch with the times, will readily subscribe to the statement "You can't hide anything in a newspaper.' , There's a certain old cemetery out in Jersey where, now and again, when visiting friends, a writer for the New Kobertson of Roseberg. at the Im periaL. "For example, we have a new Episcopalian vicar at Roseburg. I used to think that energy was not marked among clergymen, yet this man. the Rev. H. R. White, came to Roseburg a week ago to a church which has had no clergyman for Tork Sun strolls on Sunday. Many a I many weeks. In one week he has story lingers about a neglected grave he'd a great mass meeting, using the or a haughty headstone. But two very much alive young people furnished her diversion one afternoon. They were engaged, that was plain, and proud of it. Theirs was newspaper advertising columns; he takes long drives over Douglas county visiting those far and near; he has organized mission churches which were unorganized and all this seven days. Kipling said: 'It's a a happy silence, broken by the girl's way we have in the army." I wonder clear soprano. "Do you know, George, what I've been noticing in this cemetery?" Apparently George did not. "Why. on almost every tombstone marking the grave of a man and his wife, his name comes first, with hers tucked modestly below. Take this." And she read aloud, "Thomas Spring er. Died April 22, 1842. Aged 85 years. His wife, Annie, died June 2, 1838, aged 43 years.' You see, even if the wife dies first her place on the tombstone is at the bottom. Isn't it queer?" If old Rudyard did not know what he was talking about?" Santa Catilina island is one of Cali fornia's show places situated about 30 miles out in the Pacific ocean from Los Angeles harbor. George E. Daul, manager of Island villa, part of the world-famous St. Catherine's hotel. accompanied by Mrs. Daul, is among recent registrants at the Multnomah, on the return trip from a risit to the Canadian Rockies. "The winter sea son at Catalina is not very busy." said Mr. Daul. "Our busy season is between April and October, during which time there are about 18,000 to 20.000 tourists coming and going. This ficient street car service. Perhaps there is no city in the United States from the peculiar point upon which Portland is laid out and extended where the specification of street car service would be so disastrous. I have thought of one method to meet the situation land in my discus sion of the subject with ma ny promi nent taxpayers and citizens) I believe with proper explanation of the meritoriousness of the case that it would meet with favor. I proi.o."e instead of taking over the street-car system, like some other municipali ties have been compelled to do, that Tt would be a much more acceptable alternative for the taxpayers to re lieve the company, temporarily at least, from all fees of public charges or taxes. For Instance, the charge of $175,009 for the privilege of crossing our bridces end the ridiculous imposition in these days of electric operation of ccmpellinsr the company to tontonn yet to the old requirement of min- taininc tne street between the trai-Ks. It seems to me of all the obsolete relics that still attach to the modern methods as a survival of the obsolete past, the idea of chargnifr the com Danv the expense of maintaining pavement, subject to no sort of wear or depreciation by eieeiricauy-anven cars Is the most absurd and unreason, able. I make this suearestion in the in terest of the public welfare in thi hope it may Inspire better informed aid better qualified authority than myself to .take up the consideration of what to do with this lamentable and vexed problem. CHAS. J. SCHXABEL. And along the Champs-Elysees-Avenue so green and trees-y Heavy matrons. Fashion's patrons. For the latest mode are strong. George had evidently not bothered I north west country is as wonderful as much about tombstones. He'd been too busy looking at her. But it didn't really matter much, he thought. "Oh, but It does," she argued. "It's another attack on a woman's indi viduality. Now when I die, much as I care for you, I don't want my name to be a postscript on your tombstone." Naturally George assured her that It shouldn't be, and they strolled on, 111. OUUl in tun California, only it is of a different nature. When your highways through the state are finished you will be astonished at the influx of tourists. 'When I first came to Portland reminisced Will H. Stanley, who has sold goods as a commercial visitor to this city for 32 years, "the Esmond hotel was the principal hostelry. It was considered a pretty good hotel. we used to pay $2 a day for a room Thus Mnklsc Them Drjtr Still. It is rumored that the prohibition ists are going to delete the battle of Brandywine from American histories. Toor Move, "Plsptr Dear L. I. D.: San Francisco had an earthquake. That s nothing. An Oregon newspaper headline says "Real estate moves m Brownsville. THE MAJOR. 0, Slnsr to the Glory of Moi-nlssr." Light after darkness, the morning is breaking, Jfy heart is a field where the daisies are stirred. And off in the pastures where dawn is awakmg e with the infinite and Indian I and three good meals. The American largest steamship in the world. This summer weather. It had been a plan held sway in nearly all the coast cable parted 600 miles off the New Foundland shore. Three times the cable was recovered by grapnels, but the machinery on board was not powerful enough to raise It. An other ciew company was formed, an other cable constructed. The super- stitiously inclined are entitled to make the most of the circumstance that the final, and this time success ful, voyage was begun on July 13, 1866, the day being Friday, and that the Great Eastern reached Heart's Content on July 27, also Friday. As Columbus had set out from Spain on Friday and discovered the new world on Friday, so Mr. Field also began and ended his last voyage on that day of the week. More than 12 years were con sumed in bringing the undertaking to a conclusion. The moral as well as the physical obstacles overcome probably are without precedent In history. The work incidentally de veloped great interest in the science of oceanography, then in its infancy, and resulted in further perfection of the electric telegraph on a scale that was not dreamed of before the cable project was conceived. No similar difficulty has attended experiments since made with more modern in ventions, such as the wireless, large ly, no doubt, because of the example of Field's great perseverance. This stands out no less conspicuously than the achievement of the cable itself. It probably is not an exaggeration to say that it had a profound effect on the personnel of American enter prise, as well as on the commercial I und social life of the world. These young fellows working their way through school, up occasionally for speeding, will be able to qualify to drive butcher carts when they get their degrees if other means fall. That kind of delivery rig needs speed and gets it. The woman with a baby in the house does not bother much about politics, excepting, of course. Lady Astor, who is quoted as saying naively, she has six and is "not through yet." glimpse of'the twentieth century girl noh, "ntu tv yea" S' . that would have .mated Annie adopted. materially increasing the springer, at rest beneath the moss-, traveler's expenses. While hotel rates grown granite. have advanced with everything else. I we' must admit that these were the An analysis of Russian soviet liter- I last to advance, and at that they have not been increased at as high a ratio as have other essentials." Mr. Stanley is at the Multnomah. Clarence G. Andrew of Packwood, one of the many middle-westerners who are giving the Pacific coast the once over, in comparison with the blizzard-swept districts of their own home towns, is registered at the Ben son. "If I recall rightly," mused the clerk, scanning Mr. Andrews' signa ture, "the town of Packwood derived ature has been made by the Walla Walla Bulletin to determine the pre dominating thought as expressed by frequent use of words. It remarks: "It Is said that the Apaches h?d five words for murder, not one for love. ' A recent analysis of soviet litera ture is said to show ten words for destruction, only one for construc tion; six words for communism, only one ror patriotism. Bolshevism, ac cording to linguistic analysis, yields I its name in pioneer times from the many words meaning pain, agony torment, fear, awe, sadness, hunger, tears, distress, misery, imprisonment, adversity, calamity, disaster and con fiscation. ttoisnevistlc writings also yield many words meaning bereavement widow, orphan, doom, death, grave and punishment. We also find the following words abounding in soviet literature: revolt, masses, classes. seize, destroy, burn, demolish, blow up and finally: 'In the work of de struction we must be merciless Americanism abounds in such words as love, brotherhood, home. country, protection, sympathy, pity, tellow-feeling, compassion, charity, friend, country, God, progress, assist ance, hope. The conditions portrayed by words are as true to life as the negative is to that upon which the camera, was xocusea. Take your choice, utter absence of anything like fuel on the prairies roundabout. So the hardy pilgrims packed firewood for long distances, from coulees and river bottoms, lending the town its singu lar moniker." R. M. Wasson. registered from Cen- tralia, Wrash., at the Oregon, is a railroad man. During the recent search for I. W. W. following the Armistice day murders at Centralia, .11 trains were thoroughly investi gated by members of the American Legion and many a wobbly was haled forth for detention and inquiry. Speaking as one who knows. Mr. Wasson declares that he is -glad the wild days of excitement and auto matic pistols are over while fervent ly wishful that justice will be dealt out without delay at the coming ses sion of court. UNREST CAUSES FAR DIFFERENT Religion, Suffrage, Prohibition and Unionism Produce Pence. PORTLAND, Nov. 29. (To the Ed itor.) I have thought of many things on which the unrest of the country could be blamed, but 1 have not as yet been able to place the lame on prohibition, woman suf frage, religion nor labor unions, as Mr. Russell puts it in The Oregonian November 27. First, he says, and the worst, no doubt, is labor unions. The next but Ot least Is prohibition. ine next, is woman suffrage. And the last is re ligious fanaticism Now it is natural that Mr. Russell would be against woman suffrage, for he is against prohibition. He would be against religion, for he is gainst prohibition; woman suttrage plus religion equals prohibition. But where Mr. Russell finds ground to blame labor unions is more than I can account for, and he fails to give the answer. I am not the man who never took drink, but I am one of the many who are willing to deny themselves the social drink to save the women snd children the sufferings brought on them by the sale of liquor. And as this la a free country 1 see no reason why the woman should hot be allowed the ballot. I would at least prefer a vote of the fairer 6ex to that of Mr. Russell. I stand for labor unions, for they Sir Thomas Lipton has sailed for home predicting again that his chal lenger will lift the America's cup, and she may, in time. Anything can happen in enough years. The despised "upper" has gone. It's now a shelf. Lsed to be we travel ng men never wouia riae in an upper. If we could not get a lower we'd roast the railroads to death and ha Batlufifiil nnlv u-ith 1. A KiAn """"imj mcis regarding anoloeies of the Pullman randiwnr. ' the work required in building a large said Rudy Herman at the Imperial modern airship is given in a recent "Xl)w tlle traveling man who cannot issue of The Engineer, which states Duy nls commoaation8 hours ahead that the control k,. . , , gets a "shelf and thinks he's lucky , , '.' "l even to obtain that. These days the are closely allied to those of naval traveling man who can find snvwhora architecture; although the airship de- I to lay his head, either in Pullman or signer must be a highly skilled me- I hotel, is in real luck. rhHniral pt, c i nfinr arA 1 n . . . .. . V. a vr,wied f Stockmen from the two premier Lc,iiiuiUeI, to(,i, districts of Oregon, the smith. ui construction, owing I ern and eastern counties, were abou to the multiplicity of parts required, equally represented on the Imperial's very efficient shop organization Is necessary. In a rigid airship struc ture, excluding the machinery, there are 20,000 different parts, a total length of structural material of 20 register yesterday, wnen they ar rived with carloads of cattle and sheep for the Portland market Among the registrants were: A. T. Demaris of Milton. C. C. Carter. Myrtle Point; E. W. Coles. Haines out. a carefully guarded door to pre vent their coming in, and American rights for Americans only and for those aliens whom we deem fit to en joy them, should be the guiding prin ciples of the legislation which the reople expect from congress very early in the present session. Jl&T PLAIN AMERICANISM. One of the compensations for an . Industrial crisis such as that through which this country is passing is that it brings to the front men of sound principle and of undaunted moral ..courage, like Representative J. Stan-.- ley Webster, while it sends to the . rear the mercenary, the demagogue, the time-server and the jelly-spined ' who thrive in times of ease and com parative quiet. Mr. Webster talked straight Americanism in the speech which was republished in The Sun day Oregonian. and he did not spare the contemptible creatures who arc ever ready to forsake it in order to gain another term in office. ? There is nothing to alarm any part of the people in his assertion that such opportunity has been presented for obtaining accurate data on the subject. "Old Man Parr," whom the earl of Arundel took to court at the reputed age of 152, lived in a period in which the spirit of exact inquiry had not been much aroused. Un fortunately, not much is known about him except that soon after be ing introduced to the high life of the British capital he died. From which it will be deduced that it was the simple way of living that prolonged Parr's stay on earth, 'and this, from what we know of the ways of Kentucky mountain folk. corresponds with the probabilities in the case of Shell. It offers, too, an interesting opportunity for study of the theory of those other scientists who believe they have discovered the secret of long life to be a "con sistent diet." The consistent diet, in the language of dietetics, is one in which a highly monotonous menu is long persisted in. It is perhaps more than a coincidence that this is the practice of the people in those countries which furnish the largest proportion of centenarians. It is THE CENTENARY OF CYRUS W. FIEUD. Cyrus W. Field was born a hun dred years ago on November 30, 1819 and the centenary of his birth Is worth more than passing notice, not altogether because of the vast change in world politics that "fol lowed construction of the Atlantic cable with which his name will for ever be associated, but in large part because of the indefatiguable per sistence of the man. which alone made that achievement possible. A good many temporary failures at tended these enterprises, and one who can recall the material resources of the time in which Field lived will appreciate how much depended upon his personality and how greatly the peoples of two continents are in debted to the fact that he did not lose faith in the face of vast dis couragements. Frederick Newton Gisborne, a Canadian engineer and inventor, in cubated the idea that grew into the ocean telegraph. We obtain a good conception of the primitive nature of communication in a period within the experience of men who are not What matters the political scan dal in Michigan beside the news of the rescue of the two miners in a Coeur d' Alene mine after two weeks at the bottom of a cave-in? Three, the oldest 19, have con fessed to many holdups and robber ies of late, and two of them have re form school records. There may be hope for the other. Among those who are working overtime and not getting time and a half for it are the committees trying to find a way to settle the strikes. A man by the name of Donald Mc Donald will be prohibition director of Washington, but there's nothing In a name, any more. Seattle celebrates its half-century tomorrow and Seattle knows how to do it. though it must be a dehydrated affair. If this corset talk continues, the Portland "cop" will learn the differ ence between a camisole and corset- cover. Occasional showers are forecast for the week, but a better would be occasional sunshine. South Dakota will hold a tin-cup session of the legislature tomorrow night. The Ynqni appears to be the smal ler "bug" on the Mexican flea, miles, 60 miles of wire and more than I J- "i'son, C. E. Hutchinson and 2 000 000 rivets "utcmnson. an ot rortn Pow m m I ner, ana li. v siner ox auinerun. "l "larquis tens or (-;.,-, nitf k ,UUoii.uuiiuus uun. .ine sun naa Mrs. Olcott, were guests at the Port set behind a bank of clouds In the I land Saturday and yesterday fore Berkshlres. The east wind blew the I noon, returning to Salem. Governo leaves in whirls along the Green riv- olcott came to Portland to attend the , , i Banquet 01 trie ssi. Anurews society, er road and far across the valley in heid Saturday night in the grill room "' s.iii. luumcu inn majestic I 0f the Portland. lorm or Greyiock mountain, Immov able in the blast. A boss carpenter drew up In his light-running automobile alongside the road, and at the same time heavy touring car containing a well known dodger ot debts stopped on the other side of the highway. The debt dodger owed the carpen ter a considerable sum for labor and materials for two years. "I think we will get some rain," remarked the occupant of the larger car by way of I wln showing a neighborly spirit. "Yes," replied the carpenter. "Na ture pays her-debts." F. Klevenhusen of Altoona, Wash one of the best known salmon pack ers in the Columbia river districts. I among recent arrivals at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. Klevenhusen avers tha the catch during the past season wa satisfactory in quantity and of excel lent grade. Robert Cleaveland Goodwin, young er brother of Orton E. Goodwin Jr. was among the rising generation travelers yesterday. Young Mr. Good who confesses to being fou months old. left with his parents las night for Seattle. Irwin O. Biffle, one of the air mail pilots who fly between Chicago and Cleveland, received an unexpected lesson in geography one day. He was flying westward when a storm came up. ' Fog enveloped him, and he was driven by diverse air currents many miles out of his course. Then his engine went wrong, and he was forced to descend. He wasn't' quite certain what state he was in. As he neared the ground, however, the skies grew lighter, and he saw a crowd of villagers running toward him through a field. They surrounded him as he reached land. "Where am l?""asked Biffle. "You're in Jerry Hendrick's cow pastura," said one of them. Mrs. H. J. Lorentzen of Sonora Cal.. registered at the Multnoma yesterday. Mr. Lorentzen is field su perintendent ot the eastern Oregon Land company, with headquarters in Portland. Mrs. R. W". Dunning of Seaside where Mr. Dunning is in the real es tate and insurance business, is at the Cornelius while visiting Portland friends. Robert D. Shefles of Lake Grove. Or., where he is operating on a road construction contract, is among re cent arrivals at the Cornelius. There rises the clear fairy note of a bird. O, sing to the glory of morning, you duffer. You dear little duffer with feathers Sing clear to your mate that you luffer, you luffer. Afar from the dust ant" the moil of the town! The rajah of Ind mid his trove and his treasure. Great rubies that glimmer, great emeralds that gleam. Hears never the same soft ecstatical measure That wings to my soul from the rippling stream. , Foor fellow! He holds never province so dearly O, cities of jasper and amethyst built! As I hold me my meadow where rob ins twit clearly. Where life is an exquisite pain to the hilt. mix me a brimming round bowl of brown batter, I bake me some cake o'er the willow twig fire I'll mumble them down and what cares then shall matter As I light me my pipe and stroll out on my shire? Light after darkness, the morning is breaking. My heart is a viol, the strings set to tune. And way over yonder, where dawn is awaking. The sun spears are thrown at the shield of the moon. FRIAR TUCK. Wer Not Monkeying. London. Oct. 30. The monkey gland cocktail has arrived. Orange juice, gin and a dash of absinthe are the principal ingredients." New York Times Cable If We Had Then Now. I wish I had a Dodo-bird To cheer me with Its song; So sweet a note has not been heard For very, very long. COUNCIL CREST, v Hasn't Scratched Yet! Mrs. is the new president stand for the uplift of mankind. There pf the Bide-a-While Knitting Circle black sheep in every flock. Therefore labor unions have their radicals. But the union man is be ng educated to see where he can get more through arbitration man oy striking. And we shall soon see the time when labor and capital will set tie their disputes altogether by act of arbitration. I am not a fanatic, but hold a high regard for religion. I know of no place, except hell, that they fail to teach the gospel, and I don't care to live there. So I am unable to agree with Mr. Russell except on one point. That is where he says "my own opinion not, of course, worth much." J. P. PASCHALL. She has not yet made her inaugural speech." Why Nott "Why worry with your furnace? Why soil your lily-white hands? Why not have them cleaned by an expert chimney and furnace man? phone . ' In Other Days. CHIVALRY OUT HAWTHORNE WAY Straphanger Marvels Over Letter of Accommodating; Anlolut, PORTLAND. Nov. 29. (To the Edi tor.) In reference to a letter in ine Oregonian signed "Auto." a few days ago. I wish to say there must be one chivalrous being left. 1 only wisn Twenty-five Years Agro, From Ths Orexontan of December 1. 1894. The safe in the Union Savings and Loan association bank. Sixth and Morrison streets, was blown open by burglars during the Thanksgiving in terval and 2500 was obtained. The Seattle Athletic club eleven is Ihe undisputed champion team of the Pacific northwest and carried away the cup trophy by defeating Multnomah club 8 to 0. A successful fair for the purpose there was someone who liked to be I of obtaining a library is being held accommodating living in my neigh borhood. Everyone knows what terrible car service we have on tne a inornu lino. In fact, they have even taken off most of the few cars that were left to us. It has been my luck to be at its mercy for 16 years, and it is economically impossible ror me to move, but that doesn't change the fact that I loathe to ride on these jammed streetcars. Every morning I stand and wait and wait until I think I'll drop, and every night it is a fight for life to get aboard after the right car fin ally does come along. I am spending my life waiting on someone else. While I stand on the ver edge of the curb, dying to ride in a machine, perhaps 25 autos will drive past, mostly seven-passenger cars, with six seats unoccupied, without so much as offering to pick up anyone at all. I certainly would like to get in touch with an auto owner arriving in town at D o'clock and leaving at 5 in the evening who would permit little me to sit in the tonneau. I would be glad to pay anything less than taxi- cab rates. But how to do it without publicity is the question. 1 live near 20th and Hawthorne, and It would be no task at all for some kind-hearted person to pick me up on his way. If we could only get the jitneys back! ' SUBSCRIBER. by the A. O. U. W. lodges of the city. with a different lodge in charge each evening. The big Portland Universal expo sition at the exposition building will be opened tonight with a Dombard-" ment by Battery A and a startling pyrotechnic exhibition. Fifty Yearn Ago. From The Oregonian of December 1. 1869. New York. Vanderbllt offers to build a first-class prison and give $200,000 in exchange for the Sing Sing property, which he wants for railroad purposes. It is understood here that the Cali fornia and Oregon railroad has com menced to lay iron on its new track north of Marysville. Cal. Mrs. Norden. the mother of County Clerk B. I Norden, is dangerously ill. A correspondent at Victoria writes that the ship Cowper, with 1614 tons or coal on Doara. went on las reeio 40 miles south of there. Sounds Plausible. A Papuan who lived in a tree Was as happy as mortal could be; With a 106ic profound. When he fell to the ground, "It's the cost of high living." said he. J. J. W. Crater Lake In Winter. About his ragged rim the' mist-veils creep And fall Niagara-like into the blue: The ghostly winds among his towers sweep And sigh and moan the dismal season through. When storm and darkness fold the lake in night. Behind chill shoulders of torn sen tinel peaks. There moans a spirit through the murky light; The spirit-ghost of old Mazama speaks. And all night long, the while the fu ries roar And rage with dismal, undiminished grief. The sapphire ripples whisper fo the shore. And whispering in sorrow seek relief. So does Mazania's spirit after death Return in fury in the storm wind's breath. Medford. Or. M. A. YOTHEKS. Pictures By Grace E. Hall Queer pictures hang upon the wall and clutter up the room. They number millions, large and small, and shed their cheer or gloom; For some are painted gray and drear, although there's no excuse: Rut all men add an "atmosphere" to that which they produce. This room is in the mental store. where treasures all remain. Some will be bright forevermore. while some are dull with pain. Oh, when in years to come you turn to view these bits of art. May pictures rare of days most fair bring joy to your heart. Then give a thought to what you choose to hang upon your wall: The years are thieves and you shall lose the dearest ones of all: But if you plan and wisely paint with brush of golden hue. They will endure and stay secure on memory's wall for you.