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10 TTTE MORNING OTIEGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1G, 1919. in j sized. Then the people would un derstand that the question is not whether and under what conditions the United States shall become a member of the league, but whether treaties shall be made as the consti tution provides or as Woodrow Wil son demands. If a compromise in the senate should result in a vote to ratify, it would rest with the president to de cide whether to deposit in Versailles the act of ratification as adopted and thus to put the treaty in effect be tween this country and Germany, to make this nation a member of the league and actually to establish peace, or to pigeonhole the treaty, leave us still in a nominal state of war and place us outside the league. The United States would then be precluded from rendering that aid to the small nations upon which he has expended so much eloquence, and the president would be regarded as having said: "If I am not to be allowed to bind up the wounds of the world In my way, let its heart break." Ittormujj nrjrmrimt KSTABLISHEIl BY HENRY PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. las Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. mokden, k. b. piper. Manager. Editor, be Oregonlan Is a member of the Asso ciated Frene. The Associated Press Is xclualvely entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or nut otherwise credited In thu paper and also the local news published herein. All lights of republication of special dispatches fewrein are also reserved. bubscriptlun Bates Invariably In Advance). (By Mall.) Tally, Sunday Included, one year ? !!9 Dally, Sunday Included, six months 4.5 Daily, Sunday included, three months. . i.-tt lfiliy, Sunday Included, one month. .... rally, without Sunday, on year J OO ally, wtthout Sunday, six months Dally, without Sunday, one month ..... -oO Weekly, one year ............... J-JrJJ Bunday, one year T?X Sunday and weekly (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ..... 0J Daily. Sunday Included, three months. . Dally. Sunday Included, one month .... -J3 Daily, without Sunday, one year ...... T.80 Dally, without Sunday, throe months... J-3 Daily, without Sunday, one month 65 How to Remit Send portofrice monej oraer, expreas or personal checic on your i..i hu fstamna rnin or currency are at owner's risk. Give postoff ice address 1 WHAT IS TO BECOME OF US ALL? .. ..M I....1..H In v m n A a t A 1 " -" m - 1.1.1 n . ,o .- 11 -o-. 1 cent: I ooiuumiiuis icicuiimu ui as to H2 pagHs. 2 cents: 8 to 48 pages. 8 presidential pique and pride by Mr, " ' - . ." I TJTll l V. a. a j rages. 0 cents; 78 to SZ pages, a "" ioji iu waouiiiK ua.uuo ui 1 oieign postage, double rates. I the whole treaty and leasrue busi Eastern Business Office -Verree Conk- I nesa. makes it tlmelv to recall a lln, Brunswick building. New York; verree ixr-m,tr,l-. - & Conkiin, steger building. Chicago; Ver- part of the Washington letter from res 4c Conkiin. Free Press building, pe- the correspondent David Lawrence. k j b dw'sir " printed in the Portland Evening journal last, weanesaay. jvir. law- rence, correctly appraising the amaz fxesiaent. uump:' White House, thus places the respon sibility for the present impasse: The) truth may come as a shock to thef many mends of the league of nations and peace treaty who had believed President point the way to the ship master.- If added thirty-seven aliens expelled Captain Gray had had, in 1792, a and fifty-five awaiting deportation single scout airplane, he could have t a total of ninety-two out of the mapped the entire course of the I thousands Tcnown to be members of lower Columbia river in half a day. I the I. W. W. and other seditious Marco Polo, in 1271-1275, gave about' societies. As most of the Russian NO ALLIANCE. creasing difficulty In his great en terprise of making a political al liance between the American Fed eration Of Labor and various far- I Wilson was ready to accept a series of , , ntu Vi fflrmorftl reservations and Interpretations that would mors organizations until the farmers not lmpaIr the leasue or the efficiency of nwitrtAln definitely in what direction I the peace treaty, but It la a fact that Mr. 4c rti rr Tion u n r-1n 1 1 nn bv the Wilson will not only not take the lnltia- labor is going. Denunciation oy me Uve m makIng a comproml(,e, Dut he had labor leaders Of radicalism ana a refused to permit Senator Hitchcock to en poll unon all workers to stamp out sage In negotiations with republican aen 1 ...... &tnrs lAcilcinsr tt that .H , . . .J H1AmAna' in thalp ftwn 1 " . a. A ranks IS good, so iar an u B. - I There Is much perplexity over the outright determination to make and I position which has been adopted by the keen American labor American will I president, criticiant of his course being B.ecp j.wT3i.i.a.u I expressed by friends as well as foes. commena itseit iiui. uixijr iu mo x mers, but to all other classes of good 'v iv.r or.rlitlon But there is to be no compromise. which labor must fulfill before the Mr. Wilson will fight It out on his widening breach between it and the wn a" ,o" 7. farmers can be bridged. One of them tw-en now and March 4 1921. It is the question of production. Once will oe ms treaty negotiate.! witn rrat oblective of .labor was the u ne advice or consent of the sen four years to explorations that would have been the task of a fortnight to a pilot like Captain Ross Smith, and Mungo Park in 1795-6 spent nine teen months marking out a trail that a competent airman could have out lined in two days. There would have been practically no false coves and disappointment bays if early explor ers had enjoyed twentieth century advantages. The point made clear by Lieuten ant Walmsley Is that from now on there need not be a square mile of terra incognita on the face of the globe. Salomon August Andree, the Swedish Arctic explorer, had the germ of the idea when he set out for the North Pole in his ill-fated bal loon, but he lacked modern equip ment. Incidentally, it is impressed on us that the term "modern" Is rel ative. To all effective intents and purposes, the device employed by Andree is now antiquated, although it was the best that could be pro cured in 1897, only twenty-two years ago. Science may have robbed ex ploration of some of its mystery, but it probably also has extracts from it enough of its former hardships to balance the account. 1917 "there was some doubt, at a11 intersections where traffic 1 The hour for compromise has arrived. eight-hour day. Now it is for less than eight hours. Right here labor I ate or no treaty. The poor old world. What is to come to the parting become of it nowl and the farmers of the ways. At The Dalles, the other day, the Farmers' union definitely decided to make no alliance with any organiza tion other than one of its owi kind MAKE PENALTIES CERT A EV. Reform of the law under which convicted criminals are liberated on TiArnla Is nnlv Iprh ImnnrtAnt than The resolution was aimed at the restoration of capital punishment Non-partisan league, but it meant Paroies aro riven with such freedom union labor as well. There will be no triple alliance in Oregon. Every time a farmer hears of a j demand by any branch of organized labor for a six-hour day and a five day week, his enthusiasm for an al liance of the "producing classes" suf fers a distinct backset. by Judges or by the parole'board that sentences to any definite term of im prisonment tend to become a farce. Men are sent to the penitentiary for long terms, and the state is presumed to be safe from them for a number of years, but within a year they are convicted of new crimes and sent back to Salem to serve out their original sentences and new ones in addition. This uncertainty of punishment, or SIIKER rETtlANCE. President Wilson's declaration re-c-ardinir the German treaty that "he has no compromise or concession of rather this practical certainty of any kind in mind, but Intends, so far ngnt punisnment, destroys tne aeter. as h is concerned, that the republi- rent effect of the penalty. It is ab can leaders shall continue to bear the surd to suppose that a criminal, ab- unrlivided resnonsibllitv for the fate normal though he is, does not calcu of the treaty" is a flat refusal to lata the chances of paying a severe make treaties in the manner that the penalty. If he knows that, if sen. nonKtitution directs. That Instrument tenced to ten years, the odds are 99 provides that he shall have power to to 1 that he will Serve that term, he Tiecotlate treaties "bv and with the Is less likely to commit a crime than advice and consent of the senate, two he would be if he knew the chances thirds of the members present con- to do even tnat after a year of good rurrtner." It reauires conference and conduct he would be free on parole. noirntiarion with the senate ending Criminals know some law, and they in its consent to the terms of a treaty, know whether its administration is not as submitted by the president, easy or strict. hut :ns airreed between them. He has These considerations are impor not advised with the senate, but has tant at this time when world disturb lssued an ultimatum through Sena- ance has shaken many weak minds tnr Hltpriropk. who acts as his emis- loose from the moorings of morality. sary. The ultimatum has been re- Men whose mental disturbance leads jected, as he was warned last March them to crime need a severe Jolt to would be the case, but still he re- bring them back to their senses, and fuses to "advise" with the senate, es- a prison sentence is Just such a jolt, pecially with those senators without To be effective, it must be actually whose votes ratification is impos- served, that an Impression may be jiir.ln. Still he Insists that the re- made not only on the prisoner but on sponslbility is upon them, not upon hls associates, who know that he is jjjm- in xor so many years ana wm stay This Is Ui conduct of a netulant. atl or those years. Mf-wl11frf nnrl riisa.rmnlntnri man. Youth is made the pretext for pa not of a statesman. Nothing can be rollng many offenders, but the large accomplished by one who acts thus, number of serious crimes committed It is not statesmanship, which must by young men In their teens and ftrnmniish thn hast nosRihln con- early twenties proves the necessity rrrte results with the means, human ot stern repressive measures. It also and Inanimate, at hand. Kven a shows the need of a special prison for despot who ignores such limitations flrst offenders, with careful provi ls doomed to fail, for his way leads 8,on for Industrial training and re-tfi-ulrht tn a. TVTnsrnw and . Waterloo, formation, but the lack of such an When these limitations are imposed Institution Is no reason for setting by a constitution and by the will of first offenders free, for the almost a free people supporting it. attempt certain consequence is that they of tn esr.nnA them ends in aco.omnltBh. fend again and regard the law's fer ment ot nothing. rors as a joke. The imperfections of As the president maintains that our Penal Institutions are no reason the initiative in treaty-making rests I lOT suspension or tne penal law. i solelv with him. it is incumbent on very simple way can be found to es him to .take the initiative in pulling cape suffering from them; that is, to his bark off the rocks on which he "uc law has run despite the warning given more than nine months ago that Ms course led straight to disaster. But for him it would long ago have SIMPUFinxa EXPLORATION. What might not Livingstone. Gfsnl.ir Tl ni.Blll,. .3 T . V. In -nr A e-o L- f ' " " .col ui r" - IT" i- them have accomplished with the to bring about a meeting of minds with the senators whose votes were necessary to ratification would doubtless have brought about reser vatlor.s acceptable both to Ameri cans and to the allies. He made no such attempt, and he cannot escape responsibility for the consequence of equipment possessed by Lieutenant Leo Walmsley, of the Royal Flying Corps, who was chosen recently to make a first reconnaissance of hitherto unmapped district in Africa. Lieutenant Walmsley says that an airplane, carrying a well-trained ob server, got better results within an not having made it, when It could h a uad party might get - J . w It now rests with the democratic even more than the republican lead- in a whole week. Better than that. the air party operated In relative ta foftf two a H.teV eV A St!.,t.Mind.,. 7..t0J by hstne navs nor to the ravages of Jungle disease. -ratification without the aid of the president. They admit as much by It will seem like no time at all be Hitchcock admits it by saying: The Lodge resolutions are tn the senate; urs are. there also. We are willing to clacuss a compromise at any time. their statement, as quoted by the As- " C2 lYl."? " . . . " .Al,f Tit, Wll.nn'. . . - - .B m,cicun Ul " " Mk continent have all been solved, compromise and that compromise eTnd to 7h . efforts would proceed." Senator ,aitor. ,Z the last rew years in a degree not un derstood by most persons. Lieuten ant Walmsley says that the photo The president having made known I graphs taken on his expedition gave that he will co-operate in no compro- I almost as much information as could mise, the duty falls on the demo- have been obtained by an explorer on cratic senators to act independently the ground. No forest Is an "impen of him. to rely no longer on his etrable forest" to the man who can judgment, but to use their own. It I fly high enough. The densest Jungles has been demonstrated that 80 sen-I betray their secrets to the skilled ob- ators favor ratification in some form, server. From the nature of the veg- If the democrats among them will etation shown in the photograph the free ' themselves from presidential I scientist is able to infer the presence dictation and act as senators, rather I or absence of streams. "The concen than as democrats, they can agree 1 tration of game paths" tells a storv. with the republicans on reservations 1 and "signs of human habitation are which will command the votes of recognized with ease. sixty-four or more of those eighty. I There is another phase of explor- That would leave the president I ation by air which reminds one of standing alone, but he now stands the use of sea planes as submarine alone, attended only by a retinue of I detectors during the war. To the obedient democratic senators. If he airman overhead, the shoals and persists in his contention that execu- i reefs on which a vessel would go to tive power in treaty-making is abso-l pieces stand out with peculiar dis lute. his solitude should be empba-1 tinctness. The airman is able to DR. GARFIELD'S RESIGNATION. Resignation of Dr. Garfield as fuel administrator because he disap proved of President Wilson's settle ment of the miners' strike will raise doubt in the people's minds whether the president has actually won the points for which he contended in opposing the miners' demands that miners must recognize the binding effect of their contract by remaining at work pending negotiation for Its revision, and that increase in the price of coal must not follow that revision if possible to avoid it in Jus tice both to miners and operators. Such was the position taken by Dr. Garfield before the strike, and he was supported by both president and cabinet. He now maintains that the president's proposal to the miners opens the way for the price to be raised, and is therefore abandon ment of that position. It leaves Dr, Garfield standing alone in defense of the people against dearer coal. The strike was not only, one of the miners for higher wages and shorter working days; It was a strike of. the people against higher prices and against the miners' demands as bav ing that effect. Dr. Garfield was agent of the president in conducting the people's strike. The injunction was issued in its support, but was obeyed in letter only, not in spirit, by the miners. When conferences were resumed, the miners took advantage of formal compliance with Judge Anderson's order, but reduction of about two-thirds in output of coal gave them all the coercive advantage of non-compliance without penalty. Dr. Garfield determined that an in crease of 14 per cent in wages would bring the total increase since the war began to equality with increase incost of living, and should not raise the price. This offer was rejected and the strike, though legally off, continued. Production was increasing and had reached 50 per cent of normal. It was being further increased by defections from the strike here and there and by volunteer miners. This must certainly have weakened the strikers' morale. Still the law was being defied, and the contempt pro ceedings against the leaders placed reponsibility on them. These, too, if pushed, must have affected the. strikers' morale. There was a pros pect that the government would win clean victory against a hold-up strike and against dear coal, but it would have cost much suffering and tremendous loss in suspension of in dustry and interruption of traffic. More important still in the eyes of politicians, it would have brought a definite break between the presi dent and his labor union allies. He was unwilling to fight it out, and he effected a compromise unaer which both parties claim victory. The miners get their 14 per cent with the chance of more after sixty days; the people pay no more for coal at present, but may have to pay more after sixty days. Perhaps it is hoped that by that time something else will occupy their minds, and they will say nothing about it. Such is the logic of the opportunist. Al though the president's commis sion is only to investigate and re port findings as a basis for further negotiation between operators and miners. Dr. Garfield believes the re sult will be to raise prices, and there is reason for this belief. If miners' and operators' representa tives should agree on a certain ad vance in wages as fair, the people's representative would find difficulty in opposing any advance in price which this made necessary. But Dr. Garfield was pushed aside and set tlement was made over his head and against his protest. He has cause to feel humiliated and to suspect that his purpose to protect the people has been defeated. Mr. Wilson thus loses the services of one more member of his adminis tration who dares to think for him self and to disagree with the presi dent. In this manner he lost Bryan, McAdoo, Garrison and Redfield. Men of that character may be Induced to endure slights and to yield theif Judgment to that of a president who has the confidence of the people and who is to remain in power for several more years, but they will not do so for a man who has brought defeat on himself and his party, against whom the people have turned, and who has little more than a year to serve. bolshevlst agents have come to this country during the last fiscal year, exclusion of only two and deporta tion of ninety-two constitute prac tical failure of the laws to protect us against alien enemies. Commissioner Caminettl, over whose heads the parlor bolshevists Howe and Densmore went in releas ing 90 per cent of the reds arrested for deportation, shows no disposition to mercy. He says in his annual re- ! port that as to the Immigration law ) of whether anarchists could be de ported as such unless evidence could be produced showing activity," but the bureau proceeded against "aliens who admitted that they were an archists of the so-called philosoph ical type, but did not advocate or teach it." To provide against a pos sible contest of this construction in the courts, congress was induced to pass the law of October 16, 1913, which broadens the definition of the excluded class that Mr. Camlnetti generally terms anarchists. That definition is so broad as to cover all aliens who advocate, teach or practice acts of violence against the government- ' Some pussyfoot judges and prosecutors have main tained that, though membership in the I. W. W. is a crime, under the laws of Oregon and Washington, it is not so under the laws of the United States. Tet the proscribed class as defined in the law of 1918 includes any person "that advocates or teaches the unlawful destruction of property." Sabotage is one of the chief methods of I. W. W. warfare. and must be known as such to every man who becomes a member. Hence any court or Jury would be Justified In holding that members of that organization "advocates the unlawful destruction of property. The action of the courts and the leniency of the immigration officials show how little use has been made of the power which this law confers A great leak in the net to catch anarchists was torn by the La Fol- lette seamen's law which gives sea men the right to desert. It requires examination under the immigration law, but provides no system for fol lowing up deserting alien seamen and doubtless many anarchists have come in by that leak It is an absurd anomaly that laws which render an alien subject to ex clusion or deportation do not define as crimes the same acts or opinions on the part of citizens. In fact, Mr. Caminettl points out as an example of the "tenderness with which the law acts" toward anarchists that deportation is not a punishment for crime" and that the deported alien lanarchist "is merely removed . from one field of activity to another, where he may continue his work." The commisloner sensibly suggests that "something may be done to pro vide for his adequate punishment as an international outlaw TRAFFIC OFFICERS REAL NEED Blorc Folleemea ob Job Would Reduce Street Accidents. PORTLAND, Dec 15. (To the Edi tor.) I have noticed an editorial in The Oregonlan under the caption "One Way Traffic" in which you sub mit three ways to prevent accidents in this city, viz: No parking; one way traffic and wider streets. Nona of these will do. We must park our flivvers somewhere. We cannot widen our streets and one way traffic for uch little traffic as is on Portland's streets would be a Joke of the whole United States. What we need is traffic policeman Those Who Come and Go. BETTER VSB FOR MONET I'SED Water pipes here will freeze as long as people build on California ideas. It will be well to consider this when the revival in building homes sets in in the spring. There is but one person more disgusted than the man whose pipes are frozen, and tnat is nis wire. "I saw smoke coming from the chimneys of my neighbors' homes and I thought they were wiser than I am or else more foolish. Well, in a short time stoves began glowing up and I was thankful that we cooked our breakfast over a heater," says A. C. Allen of Medford, who is regis tered at the Hotel Portland. "Our country Isn't built for cold weather, so when It went to 7 below it Just froze us up. We were wtthout elec tric lights or gas and mere were no newspapers printed for two days. About three score of telegraph poles went down between Medford and Ashland, which are only a few miles apart. The day the storm hit Port land a dispatch was sent out say ing that the snow extended from Medford to the north. One of the local editors published the dispatch and inquired, edltorally. where the snow was. Next morning when we woke up there was a foot of snow on the ground and the town was paralyzed. The first time the edi tor had a chance to issue another he published an editorial declaring he would not discuss the weather again." "They prefer drinking canned milk to milking a cow and having a dairy, do the cattle men in central Oregon." declared J. P. Heurlng of Ontario, at the Multnomah. "We want dairymen in Malheur county; we want diversified farming. Around Vale and Ontario we can beat Cali fornia growing the casaba and we can beat them with ' our Persian melons, although California thinks Itself the only place where these melons can grow. And as for hay. I know of ten tons being cut to the acre. Near Ontario there is tne Dig- Caet mt Maintaining Murderer Mlgttt Car for Same Uaeful Cltlaeau PORTLAND, Dec 15. (To the Edi tor.) Seeing that arguments for and against capital punishment are of fered, I wish to submit the follow ing observations of an authority whose expressions are based on scien tific knowledge of Justice as it oper ates on both the physical and the spiritual planes of life, and who therefore may be said to present all j the evidence in the case: More Truth Than Poetry. By Janata J. Montasrua. greatest men that will be on the Job all the time and not quit at six in the evening when traffic is greatest, and not be driven in when a little storm breaks. For instance, Tuesday evening when a small blizzard was brewing and the streets were slippery and it was a good Job for a man to keep a flivver headed straightaway I started for home. I had to cross Washington, Alder and Morrison streets two or three times before I finally got ready to go and there was not a traffic cop in sight. This at the time when they were most needed. A man driving a closed lizzie, with the windows all frosted up could not see out either side and consequently did not know whether there was a car coming on a cross street or not. Had the traffic men been on the Job it would have been easy enough to tell when all was clear. Did a little storm such as we have been having the past two or three days drive them (a AVrf T f mn what WAulH th.HA men v,ov ih,v iivd in nnrthrrn nit haystack in Oregon. It is 310 Minnesota, as I have most of my life, feet long, 28 feet wide and 68 feet and where traffic policemen stay on over tne top. j.ne irouoie -wren vre th ion all the time? I have seen the gon people is that they don't know mercury down to 40 and 60 degrees tneir own state. row as ig in below zero In Minnesota and we lived storm, I venture the prediction that through it. I 20,000 head of sheep will perish in The onlv war to reduce the num- central Oregon, in uiite, xviamain. ber of accidents in Portland will be Grant, parts of Malheur and the like. to nut more traffic oolicemen on the The bands which are removed from Job and keep them there. The idea of the railroad axe Just about as good m nna wav atraat would ha ridiculous. I as lost. We've 'been shipping hay to More people and machines cross other counties for some time. I know Broadway and 42d street In New York of 1000 head of cattle in Wallowa in an hour than any one of Portland's county tnat wll never get out ana i streets in a 24-hour day. And do they know that a great many tons of hay have Broadway a one way street? Not nave neen snipped into wauowa. on vnnr Ufa. Thai ona wa.v ' traffic) I idea of Portland's Dollce bureau A world record in dam building is would be as funny as the 12 o'clock said to have been performed at the closlna- law and that's a scream, "arm springs irrigation projocu in Sunnoe New York. Chlcasra or Mln- Malheur county, 'here a dam was neanolis were to keen neonle off the completed In 98 days. E. J. Carlllo streets after midnight? They would engineer in charge, arrived at the not have anv business at all. PeoDla Benson yesteraay. Mr. uariuo is In those cities do not commence to brother of i.eo Cartllo. stage star. live until 10 o'clock at night. Tne dam is 100 feet nign, across a Portland should wake uo and a-et "-reet canyon. Jtisz reet tnicK on the Job. If she hasn't enough traf- at the base and 8 feet thick at the fin and other cons to nrotect her. call top. tne aim wiu nolo ku.vuu acre- tor volunteers. Lots of ex-gobs like feet of water and will make a lake myself who have seen the world can l miles long Dy tnree mues wiae handle a traffic Job. and do It right, and It will' be a place for ducking Do anything; something, but don't for when the duck season arrives next the love of Mike, make Portland the spring. The cost is about l.300.ouo laughing stock of the reet of the There are 28,800 acres in the project U. S. A. EX-GOB. a,nd the land has an oeen sold. Al ready 63 families are on the land and REMEDY FOR EXCESSIVE SPEED 145 other families will move on within a short time. The lake will probably l . 1 . a . . I . . 1 a j j . . . . , i,.jl u-.i ' ' 3 oivuncu w. 1 1. 1 1 uiibq iu uuo iimi anu mum on uowmwa streets. the birds which loaf around Alalheu PORTLAND, Deo. 15. (To the Edl- lake may shift oven to the Warm tor.) Pedestrians have read with Springs dam, great Interest the findings of the of compensation is inexorable. It is no respecter of persons. It binds all and favors none.1 Nature deals absolute Justice, not indiscriminate mercy. She is merciful as well, but only for cause; there- The supreme court Is fair. The "wet" districts that hoped for a whisky Christmas will not get it and be the better without the hangover the next morning. If the whole country is going on a "dry" basis, one time is as good as another to start. traffic committee in regard to accl dents caused by autos, from which it may be inferred: First That pedestrians are respon sible for 80 per cent of all accidents. Second be fined for 80 per dents occurring to them. Third That they are consequently a menace to the autos and people at larse and should moderate their speed. , Fourth Finally, ths.t inasmuch THE UNBELIEVABLE) TRUTH. . I know a young fellow who hops from fela couch, wings dumbbells around ds am hour. And then without ahivexinK, "KMSTf" or "Ouch!" Jumps under aa icT-eold, shoes usa. He frequently tells oC this) stoical stunt. His lie-abed friends to inspira. "In the realm of morality the law I But they merely walk oil with a cyni cal grunt And think he's a. dod-rotted Uarl I know an old man who woold rhfrJfc that his soul Was lost beyond hope) of redeznp tion fore her mercy is based on Justice. I . ilm of nature the wages of . " In the real i t rt.it mtir I with the purpose of clalmJrrs; . .,,, j, k.nii. ti I emption. o. - uiuiiiaiii;aii auu as i,,. . ...... vm , . . exact as natural law does, the criminal I J- " - ...u u- .v- r.t I cent his art y, r.rrnllv hefork perform- H knOW Would most Cruelly grlsTa i ti : . .v. ,. him: uvawa I'll i mm m i.aa 1 1 1 1 !' crlmlral Is willing to take chances on breaking man-made law. One Is tne possibility of escaping detection and the other the possibility of escaping punishment if he is detected. As to the value of life, it is of value only according to use. Each one of us recognizes his own Inalienable right to Individual life. But the mere right to live upon which old gent. But no one will evar bailor Mas, I know of a very exceptional youthf No power could aver divert him From telling the simple and absolute truth. No matter how much It might hurt him. we nil Insist, and upon which all other I But when he tells people how always achievements necessarily depend! he tries wculd be an empty and meaningless I To stick to the facts every minute, heritage if mere living were the goal I They say: "If a prize should be of- of individual attainment or of lndi vidua! purpose. The higher view of this inalienable rieht of Individual existence Is that life itself la of no value, either to the Individual or to the world except Insofar as It Is made a life of service to the causa of hu From an economic viewpoint n . amcrLior, seems little short of foolish to feed, clothe and house, out of the common fund, an individual who Is of "no use either to himself or to the world.' The money thus expended on mere I be forgiven.' existence for tne murderer mignt wen be used to save the Ufa of some po tentlally useful citizen. Absolute Justice is xnarey to all con cerned. MR 8. M. A. ALB IN. feredi for lies. This guy is the lad who would win it!" a a Jn tillable Anxiety. The noble red man wants It dis tinctly understood that the bolshevlst But la Vain. German trade is still listening for the words. "Coma back and all will a a a Revised Version. ' AH strike and no work makes Jack a poor bum. Copyrlht. 1919. br Ben Sj-adroatai he.) FOR ATi INSTRUCTED DELEGATION Judge Lewell Urges Republicans te Give Definite Expression. PENDLETON. Or Dee. 1. (To the Editor.) Will The Oregonlan grant me the courtesy of Its columns to The Christmas Habit By Graoe Hall. It was a crispy winter day almost a year ago. He passed along an ax upon his arm: appeal to the republicans of the state I And took a trail that led away ta ror a aennite expression ot semi-1 where the green pines grow. ment upon the presidential noralni-1 On mountain-aide beyond the near- tion or next yearr in farm I have observed that some men who occupy places of power and influ- He trudged but slowly, head low beat. ence in tne party are urging an un- i yet paused not to observe pledged delegation from this state. The narrow path that twisted o'er With that notion I am not in accord. Every man familiar with the political game knows that Buch a delegation would possess substantially no influ ence, and would be trading stock for the acute gamesters of the old guard. If the republicans of Oregon prefer t halted as he passed me by to say a word to him. the hill. Nor hesitated to decide at frequent turn and curve, As he plodded on unheeding, lone and still. Fears for the Yakima peach crop next year may as well await spring. Peaches are killed about every other winter in Michigan and Delaware, yet when peach time comes they have peaches. An English spirit message Is quoted as saying they have substi tute beer In heaven. If It's anything like near-beer, somebody has iden tified the wrong place as heaven. The stork did not await a thaw. His best record Is thirteen trips in twenty-four hours, and that never will be beaten in zero weather. Reliable information la to the ef fect that the recent purchase of po tato land near Bend was not made for a Japanese naval base. The "lost" Griffith movie party managed to drift onto the front pages, as well as into port. The ex pedition was a great success. Mexicans have killed 6 SI Ameri cans in nine years, but Americans will kill that many in nine minutes, once the affair starts. Hugo, said to be held by Vlllistas for ransom, has been released. Villa is not fighting the United States if he knows it. "We gave a show at Medford start ing at 11:40 P. M. The electric powe went off and we had to get a coupl of dosen candles and stick them along the footlights," declares M. K. Klein, That they should therefore "rr , , PM.nT"" for 80 per cent of the acoi- hrhich J"1" " '"f.?"1?.0- At ma auiiaiiLco vu inv ',.' . . v . , handa held pocket flashlights. At Salem we got to the station at 6 A. M. and were told the train was 30 min utes late. We remained at the station until 4 o'clock In the afternoon and had nothing to eat from before 6 A. M. they persist in stepping in front of untn w. arrlved ,n tnlB clty. W( were autos at curbs or Intersections with- arrald to ieaVe the station for fear we oui woams rigni. wii. uaca. ana ironi, would miss the train. In the twenty wnetner tney are irresponsible cnu- rtrt v.ara T have been traveling in dren. distracted women and men tnls country 1 have never seen such liiiiib.hu, occaoiunaii auoui inejr conditions as prevail at preaent. In business or maybe some other trou- November 1 was in Los Angeles and oie. tney commit aeiioerate auiciae they had snow. And Imagine snow whenever they are run over and killed at san joee. and a foot at Keddlng. I ana snouia tnereiore oe nnea again, think the climate must be changing. pedestrians are of a simple turn w. had only two hot days In New ot mina ana rigure that the only York all last summer. remedy for an excessive speed of IS miles an hour (or more) in congested I "Something has to be done to get zones should be to reduce said speed action from congress on the noose to 8 or 10 miles in business district, velt highway, asserted Ben IT. Jones as soma other cities do. exception I of Newport at the Imperial yesteraay. being made for ambulances, fire and I telegraphed Keprebentative riawiey police. They still believe naively a couple of weeks ago to ask if any- that it will be the only way to re- thing was being done. He wrote me duee the killing and accidents; but a letter saying that some members of what of accidents, and even eternity, the committee are favorable, some are when a few sernnrin can hn ,,vp,1 non-committal and others are absent. a crossing: or curb? We knew that mucn last juiy. l came Probablv what is mostly naadail to rortiana to tatce up tne matter now Is a pedestrian protective league. wltn other members of the Roosevelt JAY WALKER. I rlignway association ana wiin mo Male taiinoir ot Lomraerea. ai .iui blad is the only member of the asso ciatlon who has shown up. I under stand the State Chamber of Commerce may send a man to Washington to uree action, and if we're to get action it should be during this session of congress.' General Wood let them say so in the selection of delegates. If they favor Governor Lowden or Governor Cool- idge let them so declare In the same manner. A delegation thus elected will be a fighting delegation, and will count for something. Above all It will reflect the real opinion of the republicans of the state. Personally the writer desires to see the nomination of Wood, barring I Hughes, who seems at this writing I out of the running this campaign. But if the majority of the republican voters are In another alignment, they ought to be reflected In the voters of the delegation at Chlcaaro. This is the day of the plain folk in everyday affairs. It ought to be their day in politics. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. TAX EXEMPTION FOR PARENTS Pfeyslclsa Proposes Material Eacoar- age-meat to Large Families. PENDLETON. Or., Dec. 14. No one will deny that among the chief as sets of a nation, state or community are babies, especially healthy babies. l nose naving no babies are as stiong in their advocacy as those who have them, but has it occurred to those advocates that nowadays It costs money to raise babies, with chil dren's shoes at $3 to $6. little cloaks $10 to $15, food almost at prices pro hibitive, especially milk and eergs. which are the principal diet for chil dren T What are the people doing to foster. aid and protect this rising generation' Government made over eight mil lions profit last year making money, but anybody could do that if he ran a mint. Now some genius has invented an unsinkabla ship's safe. What's really, needed Is a safe unsinkable ship. Carrots are the cheapest vegetable in the markets and the world does not eat half enough of them. Clear your walk. It is hardly likely you will be arrested for some delay, but do the best you can. GAPS IN THE ANTI-RED FENCE. Immigration and naturalization, with the closely related subject of revolutionary agitation conspiracy. will surely form one of the principal subjects of legislation by congress as soon as the treaty with Germany and the railroad bill are disposed of. As the house will have no part in the treaty controversy and will not need to consider railroads again until the conference stage is reached, it may take up soon after the holidays the bill which its committee on immi gration is almost ready to report. First place promises to be given to plans for ridding the country of revolutionists and for preventing Im migration of more of that class. The machinery for excluding and expel ling such persons resembles a large- meshed sieve. Only 3.5 per cent of arrivals during the fiscal year 1919 were excluded for all causes, or 8626 as against 141,132 admitted, and only two of these were rejected as We expect to read any day that D'Annunzio and D. W. Griffith have gone into partnership. Although the temperature was around 40 below at Elgin, H. H. Weatherspoon. who is at the Imperial, says he hasn't lost an apple. Up that way cold weather is expected, al though nothing like the dose which has lust been administered. aim preparations are made accordingly. Mr. Weatherspoon s pacK receivea at tention in anticipation of below-xero conditions, so he isn't worrying. Me came to Portland yesterday to attend meeting of the state horticultural commission, but with the exception of kept to the grindstone racing assets A. C. Allen of Medford. none of the (chllren) for state and nation? other commiaslonera put in an ap- Tbe burden is unequal between those having children and those hav ing nons. Did it ever occur to our wise legislators that the man with a family is entitled to some protection and assistance? Why not enact from taxation property amount or fsuo or tne pa pearanca. Joe. the norter at the Benson, has lost faith in his knowledge or piumD lna-. At 2 o clock yesterday morning the range in Mr. Alvord's home blew t a law to timrnl up, making a resounding bang in the SptrtV aiS.""?ha "V!"??" lt atVrTom 0 - u I Joe had drained all the water from BIIIUUUl Wl V V Ve, H1TJ Wll V T In. I'll . j a WJ 1 a child between the ages of 1 and 16? the pipes, he supposed and had let Have you thought about It? Is It "f6 out; bUt just? I. U. TEMPLE. M. D. vent the range from celebrating. Two J - of the bellboys at the Benson had Retnraa of Pareksse. RAINIER, Or.. Dec. 14. (To the Editor.) My husband, while in Port land, bought at a Chinese store an expensive silk embroidered bath robe. NAVAL. DEFENCE NATIONAL ISSUE For years he had Impressed ma as he searched Among the hillside treasures for a pine tree thick and trim. Which he managed down the trail with halt and lurch. Well, you see. he said with sudden joy within his pale blue eyes. We only got one baby or a lad: He's 19 now and don't care much, but still he s Just our boy. And) we can't forget the Christroases we've had. I've always got a tree each year, but now be laughs and goes Away on Christmas ava to have his fun; Its sort-a-hard on ma and me to see how fast he grows. But we puts the tree up, as wo first begun. For them as has their young ones home when It comes Christmas eve. It sure is happiness to scheme and plan. Newspaper's Aid la Crystallizing; Sea- flmpnt -Is Appreciated. SEATTLE. Dec. 14. (To the Edi tor.) By formal resolution of the board of trustees of the Seattle Cham ber of Commerce I am directed to Though some may never know it til convey to you an expression or ap- they have to make-believe. preclation of the public spirited and When their only baby grows to be iar-signten eiiort ot l ne uregonian i a man. In crystallising Pacific coast senti ment to give united support to the I Was it a tear that softly fell as he rieim recommenaation tor tne ae-I trudeed on his way' velopment of the naval defenses. 1 Somehow. I can't foreet his natient The work of The Oregonian. speak ing from a position less influenced by locality interests than would have been the case with the newspapers of any other large city on the coast. was potent in pointing the way to a consideration of the problem to one ' involving the entire Pacific coast and the nation as a whole. Sentiment was therefore crystallized and what otherwise have had the ap pearance of conflicting efforts were co-ordinated. The result is evident in the recommendations of the secretary of the navy for the carrying out of programme of gigantic proportions for this coast." This programme Is such as to insure a sense of security tone; And there'll coma a shadow now and then across my Christmas day. As I picture him and ma at home a lone. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oreiconian, December 16, 1894. Washington. A 17-lnch Harveyized nickel-steel plate, representing the barbette plates of the Oregon, was tested at the naval proving grounds. Indian Head, Md., yesterday. Lane county has 398.000.037 acres to the residents of the coast and to cf cultivated land, average value, per demonstrate the value of united I. r- 7.!8. total value 13 137.SS5. ac. action. ' REGINALD H. PARSONS. similar experiences. . Ul.k 1 , V. . himA nf oneDoypau, ... iv .... - ( . M. D. Olds, registered at the Benson,."" cn.iv,i icucacuidino m Weiat Point and Annapolis. RIDGE FIELD. Wash.. Dec. 14. (To the Editor.) (1) Please state what qualifications for admission are de manded for West Point cadets and (2) Tell how cadets are appointed at the naval academy at Annapolis. CLARA HATCH. (1) West Point candidates must be between the ages of 17 and 22 and be physically fit for military service. The educational examination includes English grammar, English composi tion. English literature, algebra through quadratic equations, plane geometry, descriptive geography and the elements of physical geography, especially the geosraphy of the United States; United States history and the outlines of general history. (2) Students at Annapolis are called midshipmen. Three are allowed for cording to county assessment figures. Riley Hammersley, superintendent I of a mine In the Jumpoff Joe district, in which he is interested, has taken another $1000 to Ashland. During the latst SO days they have deposited I over 14000 ot bullion. E. D. Parrott of Ellenshurg. Wash, Is making a flying machine which he proposes to patent. It will be of aluminum. md ha shouldn't mind this weather. hut he does. Mr. Olds is a tlmber- The Italian government appears to have granted D'Annunzio unlimited poetic license. The intense cold did not stop the divorce mill Just checked speed a little. Really, now, don't you consider it a disgrace to be caught short of fuel ? Always the way. As the holiday draws nearer, cranberries go higher. It is too small for mo and it is also I man and while on business in Med too expensive for people in our clr- 1 ford the storm broke. Anxious to get cumstances. I returned the robe away from such a cold spot he hur- wlthin three days and wanted him to ried to Portland and declared, he return our money, but he absolutely wasn't much better off, but he was refused to take the robe back, though by about 20 degrees. It is not aamaicea in any manner, l Can he be compelled to take it back? I "It was 35 degrees below lero." si- SUBSCRIBER; plained Dr. J. W. Donnelly of Arllng- (,. where he is mayor, aa hs wrote Unless the article was delivered on I Ms name in a shivering hand on the approval its return is optional with Benson register. "I got tired trying the merchant. The supreme court always has been noted for its dry decisions. Tomorrow for the big bump off. Be ready to grab a root. Mr. Justice Brandeis is an inspir ing person. Time to talk of that Christmas anarchists. To these two may bs, turkey. Openlnar of Reservation. ASTORIA. Or,, Dec. 14. (To thi Editor.) Where would I write for Information on the Umatilla and Klamath Indian reservations? I understand they are to be opened for homesteaders. EX-SOLDIER. Write to Representative N. J. nott, Washington, D. C. - Nnllo fa BOO. Sin- to eep fires going against such a temperature." Tl mayor, oy tne i way. did not bring his wife to the milder climate of Portland. Georsre S. Ward of Nyssa and Charles Wallls of Rufus are at the Imperial together. At Nyssa a week ago a train of 45 cars of cattle was received from tnion and v allowa counties, the owners sending the shipment into Malheur county for feeding purposes. George A. Lars son. one of the Coos PORTLAND. Dec. 15. (To the Edi- Bay people who delight in predlct- tor.) In the game of "500" where Ing a glowing tuture ior marsnneia "nullo" are played does the bidder of Is at the Multnomah. m,VtlA niilln" nick nr tha "wiflnw" I or nof. F F SMITH I Robert Scott, a mining man from congress. In addition the president appoints 15 at large each year. The secretary of the navy appoints 25 yearly from the enlisted personnel of the navy. The congressional ap pointments are so distributed that each member may make one appoint ment during each congress. State Doc Tax. FOREST GROVE, Or, Dec 14. (To the Editor.) A says the dog tax ap plies only in cities. B says it applies to all dogs In the state. Who is right? J. W. B is right. A license tag is ob tained from the county clerk on pay ment of 11 far male dog and 12 for female dog. No license is required for dogs under the age of eight months. He does not. Jur.-enu, Alaska, is registered at the Multnomah. Title of Book. JEFFERSON, Or., Dec 15. (To the Editor.) If space will permit please publish Kipling's The Seven Seas." SUBSCRIBER. "The Seven Seas" is the title of a volume of verse, not of a single I poena. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oresonlan. December IS, 1809. The Catholic Sentinel Is the title of the Catholic newspaper that is soon to be started at this city. The first number will be issued about February 1, 1S70. The newspapers in all parts of the state are telling of ripe strawberries. It would be hard to tell which locality is ahead for there are ripe straw. berries everywhere. Dr. Livingston is to be knighted for having found himself after hav ing been so long lost. It is difficult to get a Jury In Omaha for the trial of Indians. One who was accepted as being the least biased In answer to the question of prejudice said: "No, only I have been chased by 'em, been chased in several battles with 'em and would hang every one of 'em." Attachment of Joint Property PORTLAND, Dec. 15. (To the Edi Uor.) If the title to property in Ore gon is made out to John Smith and Mary Smith, his wife, can that prop erty be held for a note which the hus band signs without the consent or knowledge of the wife? Is the wife in any way bound to recognize the existence of the note since it was signed to assume debts of the hus band's brothers? W. A. K. 1. The property might be attached, but the writ could not be executed during the lifetime of both parties. Should the wife die. the property would revert to the husband and an execution could be Issued. Should the husband die. the property would go to the wife, and would not be subject to the attachment.