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14 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1919. est vbi.18H:t by hknrv U pittock. I Published by The Oregonlan Publiahlng Co.. j Sixth btreel, rori.ana. uregu... C. A. MORDEN. Manager. E. B. P1PRR. Editor. Th Oregonlan la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use (or publica tion or all news dispatches credited to It c.i- not otherwise credited In this paper and n!so the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. f Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance. (By Mail. Daily, Sunday Included, one year .S.O0 Tlatlv Kiinrtnv Inr'llldprl. SlX months .. wafly. .Sunday Included, three months Tat:y, Sunday Included, one month . . raily. without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, six months . . Daily, without Sunday, one month . .. AVeekly, one year Sunday, one year uday and weekly 6.00 .HO 1.00 2. .10 3.30 (Hy Carrier.) 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The Oregoniun prints elsewhere the strong, timely and very admir able resolutions adopted by the New York Chamber of Commerce de manding ratification of peace and declaring that "some form of inter national covenant" is a "moral ne cessity." It should and must be at tained through "mutual concessions by both the president and the senate." The New York Chamber reflects unquestionably the prevailing senti ment of the country. It is to be noted that no attempt is made to fix the blame for failure of the treaty. The Chamber is concerned about the condition in which the country and the world find themselves, and is in terested in remedies, not recrimina tions. It calls for "mutual conces sions." This docs not mean that the sen ate should make concessions, and the president none, but it means that both the president and the senate should by conference, by comprom ise, by adjustment, by give and take, lench a meeting of minds that will solve the tremendous problems of rational welfare and world peace. President Wilson has said that he has nothing to offer the senate in the way of conciliation or conces sion. Senator Lodge has responded with similar contemptuous and cyni cal indifference that it is up to the m-psirient and not the senate. All this is deplorable; more, it is tragic Jt must be changed and the deadlock terminated. There should be a way to make the voice of the country heard both at the White House and in the halls of congress. The people are for "mu tunl concession." Only the presi dent and Senator Lodge are not. But they must learn that it is too great li matter for the play of pride or the satisfaction of revenge. IlEMOCKACV REAPS ITS HARVEST. Such a shock was given to the democratic party by the elections in Massachusetts, Maryland, Kentucky snd New York city and by the con gressional by-election in Oklahoma that every subsequent move of the administration must be construed as &n effort of the party to recover it self. In that light President Wil son's message should be read. Democracy is reaping the crop from what it has sown. It yielded to union labor so often that, in Mass achusetts it was finally driven to choose between la t and order and the right of the police to mutiny. It chose the latter, which means an archy, and was utterly routed. The national administration was forced to choose between the right of the coal miners to strike and the right of the people to fuel. It chose the lat ter, but it bungled its case, was de fied by the miners and has incurred the enmity of its former most stal wart supporters, Samuel Gompers, the labor federation and the railroad brotherhoods- It is in a predicament, and the president is seeking a way out in the peace overtures which he has made to the miners' leaders. To the president himself is due the unfavorable light in which his party stands with regard to the league of nations. He pursued his ideal of America's duty to the world without regard to this country's duty to itself, though the two are quite reconcil able, and he undertook to realize that ideal without insuring in ad Vance the aid of the senate, though ita approval was essential to comple tion of his work. He made oppor tunity for his opponents to arouse the spirit of Americanism by insist ing that, while this nation should enter the league, reservations to the covenant should guard its particular interests. He thus became the cham pion of a new internationalism as op posed to an Americanism careful to ; sacrifice no national rights to its duty to other nations. Public opin ion spoke in the democratic plat forra of Massachusetts and in the Oklahoma and Kentucky elections, The president has placed his party in an equally equivocal position with regard to radicals and revolutionists. He now attempts a firm stand :against them, and sets Attorney-Gen eral Palmer on their trail,, but he finds progress obstructed by such ;men as Howe, Densmore, Bullitt, Herron and the swarm of other philosophical anarchists, parlor bol shevists and college socialists whom he has appointed to office, and by the encouragt ment which his entire policy has given to radicals. ' The wide dissemination of bolshevism in this and other countries can be traced to his refusal in the summer of 1918 to join the allies in effective intervention against the bolshevist German plan to destroy Russia and to his moves for peace with the reds, He is now driven to fight an evil of his own creation. If he persists, he sts.nds to lose his radical friends witnout winning the confidence of the great body of Americans which has consistently opposed them. His recommendations of a budget system, of tax reform and economy, of legislation in behalf of the veter ans, of protection to key industries, of promotion of foreign trade pre sent issues which the republicans have already made their own by in troducing bills now pending in con gress. His attempt to place upon his opponents responsibility for fail- ure to pass laws against profiteerinr cannot succeed in. view of the fact legislation of all kinds, and of the general opinion that the strikes and disturbances have their oriirin in his past policies and are the main cause ... of high prices. The democratic party has lost pub lic confidence because its recent pol icy on the subjects now uppermost in the public mind has proved unsound, and because its eleventh-hour stand for the law and the public interest is accompanied by movements to re tain th support of those elements which that stand requires it to force into submission to law. The party is judged, not by - the position which it now assumes, but by the record of its six years in undisputed con trol of the government. The evils which it now professes to combat are seen to flow from that record, and It cannot escape an adverse verdict. A SIGN OF THE TIMES. The Spokane Spokesman-Review has information that the so-called "triple alliance" of the state of Washington has been defined by Na tional Master Wilson of the Grange as a political organization, and the Washington state executive commit tee has issued a statement setting forth the duty of members of that order toward the three-headed ar rangement. It says: No member of the arrange la vlolatlnir hie obligation by becoming a member of the triple alliance or of any other political or ganization that aeeks to. accomplish Ita objecta by the use of the ballot. On the other hand, any member of the grange wno does not desire to become a member of the triple alliance should not be char acterized as "being out of harmony with the grange spirit." aa some of the alliance organizers and officials have apparently sought to do. On the contrary, he is strictly In harmony with the grange spirit and Is exercising hla prerogatives aa a citizen. It is further declared that when any member of the order loins a political party or combination "such action must be taken as an indi vidual and not as a member of the Grange." Here now is a repudiation of the triple alliance, which purports to be an association of the State Feder ation of Labor, of the Railwaymen's Welfare league, and "farmers' or ganizations.',' At The Dalles, the other day, the Farmers' union, in defiance of the well-laid plans of some of its leaders, resolved against partnership with any other than farmers' organiza tions. These developments are interest ing as revealing the signs of the times. They should be particularly interesting to Brother Spence, grand master of the Oregon Grange, who can see and Interpret a sign of the times as quickly as anybody. ABOCT HARBORS. PRO AND CON. San Francisco bay has been her alded so long as the greatest harbor on the Pacific coast that the request of Secretary Daniels for an appro priation to provide a channel 42 feet deep and 1500 feet wide comes as a surprise to many who have credited boasts of its perfection. Those who have had the dangers of the Colum bia river bar dinned into their ears will be surprised to find Mr. Daniels complaining that the entrance to San Francisco bay is "unsatisfactory for big battleships"; that one chan nel "contains dangerous rocks" and that another is "not of sufficient depth" and is "tortuous." By comparison with these en trances, that of the Columbia should commend itself to shipping men with its low water depth 'of 41 feet for a width of half a mile and still gain- ing depth, but without "dangerous rocks." How far the depth of San Francisco bayjfalls short of the de sired 42 feet we are not informed, but the necessity of public expendi ture in order to attain that depth will be news to many who have supposed that any. ship of any draft could safely roam its waters. - These facts drive home the fact that nature does not make harbors complete, all ready to use. She only makes them in the rough, and leaves it to man to finish the job. Hence each harbor has some drawbacks to offset its advantages, and those of one may balance those of another. San Francisco and Piiget sound each score points which the Columbia river cannot make, but the latter has the advantages of deep penetration inland, of fresh water and of a water grade from a vast territory, the traffic of which drains into Portland by, a natural water grade. Neither Puget sound nor San Francisco bay has these advantages, which may easily offset those which they have. CLIMATE AND TUBERCULOSIS. The importance of an educational campaign to show the true relation ship between climate and the cure of certain diseases, especially those of the respiratory tract, is shown by the statement of the New York state department of health that, with ref erence in particular to tuberculosis. all authorities emphasize the four essentials for treatment, which can be obtained almost anywhere and everywhere, namely: Rest, food. fresh air and proper medical attend ance," and that since the mental condition of the patient is important it is essential that he should be freed from the notion that the fresh air exclusively of a particular locality is necessary to his well-being. The "Denver Anti-Tuberculosis Society also calls attention to the same prin ciple in a statement in which it inti mates that, however favorable the climate of Colorado may be for treat ment of the malady, patients should not go there unless adequate provi sion has been made for their recep tion and care. It is not contended that certain salubrities of climate do not offer greater comfort to sufferers in some instances, but the point to b'e kept in mind is that the great tubercu losis problem is an intensely local one, that it is not possible for most patients to travel to a distant place and maintain themselves there, faf from, home and friends, while if proper facilities are provided nearer home there is hardly any climate in which the prime essentials cannot be supplied. This is . particularly true where the disease is "'taken in time," which is in effect a plea for educa tion in recognition of early symp toms. One of the encouraging by products of tbe late war was the number of diagnoses -made in exami nation of men for military service which resulted in adoption of pro tective measures when the disease existed but previously had gone unrecognized. A good deal of mischief probably has been done in the past by the notion that the "fresh air" prescribed for. tuberculosis victims needed to be the fresh air of ' Colorado, or Ari- zona, or some other far-off state. j The harm has consisted in retarda- tion of measures for treatment nearer home. Since the work is so largely a community undertaking, depend ent in its broader aspects upon co operation of every individual, the facts cannot be too widely known. The notion is too prevalent that the patient must be "sent away," and this blinds us also to the greater necessity for preventive as well as curative measures. Pecuniary con siderations, also, often influence patients dangerously to postpone their going and to devote money to travel that might much more judi ciously be expended for other neces sities. The New York health department says that "belief in the unique value of climatic treatment has been proved to be erroneous in all but exceptional cases." This would be true if it had been written in Oregon. It is true in all the seasons of the yeart but it is now called to attention by the campaign for Red Cross tuberculosis seals just draw ing to a close. When the people of every state resolve to take care of their own, and stop relying on inerapeutic measures that are remote in a-double sense, the fight will have been more than half won. -CACGHT IN HIS OWN NET. President Cacranza's answer to the latest of the many notes from Secre tary Lansing appears to set up a legally impregnable defense of the refusal to take charges against Mr. Jenkins out of the hands of the Mex ican courts. It Is contended that he suffers no hardship since he has been released on bail, though a man out on bail cannot be considered strictly a free man. From the fact that bail was given without his knowledge and consent by a man named Hansen, who had intimate relations with the Carranza govern ment, there is reason to suspect that the bail money came out of the Mex ican treasury. If any was deposited, and that the entire transaction was fictitious, designed to put Carranza in the correct position to write the note. If the Mexican government were such as the United States could trust to leave the courts independent of executive dictation, there would be no excuse for making a case which i3 in the hands of the courts a sub ject for diplomatic negotiation. By recognizing me carranza govern ment. President Wilson conceded that it has that character, when any man with the least knowledge of how things are done in Mexico knows that it has not. Carranza's whole defense is founded' on this false premise, but Mr. Wilson has debarred himself from declaring it false and thus has laid the foundation for a plausible answer. He can tear down that foundation only by severing relations on the ground that the Carranza government does not fulfill the re quirements of civilized nations. That would be an admission of error which' he is loath to make, hence he may sit impotent while the Jenkins case is played out. J.HB president, is entangled in a net of his own weaving. He might nave escaped with comparative ease, though with some loss of prestige. prior to nis recognition of Carranza. Since then his only way of escane has been to cut the net by admitting that he erred then and has erred ever since. Pride and, stubbornness will not permit this. BAKER, PROTECTOR OF THE REDS. While Attorney-General Palmer has been arresting and sending to prison preachers of revolution. Sec retary of War Baker has been turn ing loose others of the same kind. Baker makes work for Palmer. He is the protector, the shield' and de fender of the reds, for when they get into the clutches of the army he sets them free. A typical but particularly notori ous case is that of Allan S. Broms of Minnesota and the department of Minnesota of the American Legion has taken it in hand with a view to bringing the- whole influence of the legion to bear in putting Broms where he belongs and exposing the disloyalty of Baker. Broms was con victed at Camp Dodge. Iowa, on March 7, 1918, as a conscientious ob jector and sentenced to 20 years in the Fort Leavenworth prison, to dis honorable discharge and to forfeit ure of all pay. In affirming the sen tence, Adjutant - General Crowder said: Short of army mutiny nothing more in imical to military discipline can be Im agined than conduct auch aa displayed by the accused In thia case. From the tran script of hla statement, contained In tha record. It la plain that he la not only an educated man, but possessed of an ener getic and forceful power of presentation and endowed with faculties calculated to give him more than an ordinary Influence over hla hearers and render him conspicu ously successful In the work of proselyting In which it la not unreasonable to in for he haa been engaged. A man auch as thia allowed at large is Incalculably more dan gerous than an enemy spy. That description fully justifies the Minnesota legion's statement that Broms is a slacker and communist leader, but on March 11, 1919, his sentence was reduced to three vears. and on March 18, through a mistake at the barracks, Broms was given a certificate of dishonorable discharge and released. In a memorandum to F. P. Keppel, third assistant secre tary of war, dated May 14, of which me legion publishes a facsimile. General J. T. Kerr cited these facts. said that Broms was in Minneapolis uu Aprti xx, ana continued: ine release or this man was without authority. The commandant desires him returned to custody. ' The judge advocate-general la of opinion that Broun can be legally taken Into tody and returned to the United States disciplinary barracks. Vnrt t .v. Kansas, to serve the unexpired portion of his sentence to confinement as remitted. The clemency board la of opinion that the maximum remlsalon Justified by a care- iui review oi me proceedings of the G. C. M. waa given In thia case. In Justice to other prisoners serving elm liar sentencea 1 am of opinion that Broms should be re lumed to me unitea states disciplinary unuLn.s . vuiiujieie nia sentence of con. flnement aa remitted. It la proposed to fllrect the commandant. United States disciplinary barracks, to send an officer and one man to Mt'nne- apolla. Mlnneaota. to rearreat Broms and take him to the United Statea disciplinary barracka at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It la recommended that you give ap proval to thia action. Only three days later, on May 17, Mr. Keppel returned the memoran dum with the following endorsement signed by himself: By personal direction of the ,Becretary of war, disapproved. In view of the fact that the prisoner la In legal possession of a discharge certificate and - haa been re leased from confinement. Copies of this correspondence are being sent by the Minnesota depart ment to all other departments with the following suggestion: The American Legion must now choose between standing up for the boys who served faithfully and honorably under Pershing In France and laying down to the proteges of the aecretary of war who "aerved" at Leavenworth. Broms was set free "by personal direction of the secretary of war" at the time when revolutionary agita tion was at its height, though he had been denounced by General Crowder as "incalculably more dangerous than an enemy spy." Baker held that he was "in legal possession of a discharge certificate" and could not therefore be again imprisoned, in flat contradiction of the opinion of the Judge advocate general, his legal adviser, that "the release was without authority" and that Broms "can be legally taken into custody and returned" to prison. In short. Baker strained the law and took ad vantage of a mistake to liberate an enemy of the government which he is sworn to defend. When such things are "done in these perilous times, there is no cause for surprise that enemies of democratic institutions are loud, ac tive and rampant. They know that they have friends at the center of power. They are in practical con trol of two departments of the gov ernment, so far as arrest and pun ishment for treason, sedition and re bellion are concerned. When an alien revolutionist gets into the clutches of the immigration bureau, the heads of the labor department intercede, and in nine out of ten cases set him free. When a disloyal citizen falls foul of military law, Mr. Baker comes to his relief. When over 400 fake conscientious objec tors were released at Leavensworth with honorable discharge, full pay and new clothes, responsibility was placed on some unnamed subordin ate official of the war department, but it should rest on the head of that department. No doubt exists in the Broms case, for that man retained his freedom "by personal direction of the 'Secretary of war." The nation owes it to the men who served faithfully in-the war to stamp the yellow brand indelibly on those who refused to serve and who spread sedition among the loyal. An hon orable discharge should be a .thing to be treasured by a man and his family for many generations a badge of honor. If it is held by the unworthy, its value is diminished, for doubt is raised whether it speaks truth. When an ex-soldier's son reads of the Leavenworth slackers who bear this badge of honor, question may be raised in his mind whether his father served in France or the training camp or in the slacker's prison, to be ultimately-whitewashed by a slacker secretary of war. The poison of red radicalism does even more injury, for it has spread all through several departments of the government and paralyzes the energies of those departments whose heads are faithful in combating rev olution. The department would have occupation enough in rounding up the reds with one hand and the prof iteers with the other if it had the hearty co-operation of all other de partments. Its task will be hercu lean if it must contend with the ef forts of the labor and war depart ments to keep alien reds in the coun try and to keep citizen reds out of the military prisons. To make his work successful, Mr. Palmer should proceed against Mr. Baker and Mr. Densmore and all their parlor bol shevist assistants. The navy department announces that members of the naval reserve force on the inactive list are to be organized in each district immedi ately for drill and instruction. Yes, we thought the secretary had swab bing the decks in mind when he spoke so warmly of the reserve in his annual report. With slippery walks there is much in knowing how to fall. Fat. people, having good buffers fore and aft, sel dom are hurt. Slim ones should fold arms and look out for the head; the rest of the anatomy will care for itself. The nearer one can form into the shape of a ball, the less danger of damage. One of the electric stores listed yesterday in its advertisement under the heading, "For Father," a waffle iron. That's the most sensible "ad kof the season. Father always has to wait and should have his own indi vidual waffle iron. There is a hen at the poultry show that laid 330 eggs in a year and never clucked for a day off. If people worked that way production soon would reduce ' the cost of existence. But hens have no sense and merely set examples. Come to think of It, the mint julep output in the southern novels won't be affected so seriously after all The supreme court decision doesn't prohibit the fiction hero from having a fictional drink. Captain Lewis declares fines fail to stop traffic law violators. He is right. A jail sentence, however, if the appellate court stands for it; will do the business. According to Carranza, the admin istration has written him 1656 notes, A lot of trouble would have been saved if the note writing had stopped with No. 23. The end of the world failed to ar rive, but the end of the month is coming with all disadvantages of be ing "broke" after this Christmas. Ever notice how stufr accumu lates under a Dea .' Give tier a vacuum affair for Christmas and lis ten to her sing. The cross pull of the planets must have turned the sun around, for it failed to show up on Mount Hood when due. Today will really be the end of the world for anyone who gets his head under one of. those big icicles on its way down. Portland dentists celebrated the other night with a high jinks. Pre sume they did it to fill in the time. The bundle-carrying husband in dicates a good man, though that is not what he says. Professor Porta really should let the world in on the secret of that new drink. .. However, Secretary Glass has not yet broken with the President. One week until Christmas, and you must hurry. Do it mornings. . Have you put up your ice while the putting is good? No man ever had too many razors. We all seem to be here. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. PRINTED in the programmes of the Alcazar theater is a little mis sionary line. It is doing a lot to curb the evil abroad In-the land of the theater, of rushing out before the final curtain. The habit is a fixed one with a majority of theater goers, to begin to grope for rubbers and put them on, adjust headgear and outer wraps and be half way up the aisle before the last curtain. As soon as it is established in the plot that the heroine and hero will wed, thoughtless souls In the audience begin- to make preparations to beat someone else up the aisle. Editorials by the millions have been written in protest of the folk 'who chatter or sing while the entertainment is go-1 ing on, and about the brother pest, who races out and walks backward up tbe aisle in order to hear all that's going on on the stage and also be the first to reach the street. But conviction prevails that .these pests do not read editorials or, having read, do not apply the remonstrance to their own shortcomings.' Realiz ing this, the Alcazar management has caused to be inserted on every page of the programme, where every reader of the cast or reader of advertise ments must see it, this line: "Kindly remain seated until final curtain. Be considerate of others." It is having its effect. Kvery pro gramme in other theaters should copy the Idea, and it should be flashed on the screen as well, and it wouldn't be a bad idea to have an announcer come out before the show and be tween acts and mention it again. Mr. and Mrs. Walter de Leon have a new baby boy, their second son. Mrs. De Leon is known professionally as Muggins Davies. They are a San Francisco team of vaude villlans. ' Grace La Rue walked off of the Alhambra stage in New York at the Monday matinee last week when the gallery "gods" started a shower of pennies in her direction. The inter ruption was during her fourth song. Your Eyes." Miss La Rue did not return to finish her act. The Denishawn dancers of 15 peo ple, have been routed over the Pan tages circuit at $1200 net, weekly. Neither Ruth St. Denis nor Ted Shan appear in the turn, which is composed of pupils from their school in Los Angeles. The act was booked by Pantages following the recent fire at the Shawns' home. Naming several women affinities. Korinne Carter has filed suit in Los Angeles against her husband, Charles Carter, the magician, for separate maintenance and a division of realty holdings worth $100,000. Carter is now planning a world tour and sails for the orient this month. m Leo Ditrichstein, " wno has been touring in "The Marquis de Priola," Is planning to appear next In "The Red Mask," the play tried out on trie road last season by Winthrop Ames, with Richard Bennett in the leading part. It did not work out successfully for either of them. The play may be renamed when Ditrichstein appears in it. Brandon Tynan will be in the cast. He Is now playing the son in the Lavedan drama. . . Grace George will put into rehears al In two weeks a new play, the name and authorship of which is beiner withheld. It is definitely stated by the William A, Brady office that this play is not "The Widow.'s Mite." tried out last spring'on the road. Miss George Is now touring in Quick Work." by Sir Arthur Pinero Preston Gibson has been commis sioned to write a play for David Be lasco. Maxine Elliott will play in rehears al December 20 a play by Williarm J. Hurlburt called "Trimmed In Scarlet," It was produced last summer in Lon don at the Globe, with Violet Van brugh in the leading role. Previously it had toured the prov inces for a year under the direction of Clifford Heatherley. Syracusans will not see Mrs. Irene Castle Tremain of Ithaca as a wit ness for herself in court. Mrs. Castle has settled in full the damage action brought against her by Angelo C. Albino, local butcher. During the last state fair Mrs. Tre- main's chauffeur, Lee Brock, brought the actress to the fair and then "bor rowed" her high-powered coupe for a "Joy ride." Two Syracuse girls and a Syracuse youth completed the party. The car was going faster than the law allows, according to police re ports, when it struck the Albino au tomoblle. The terms of the settlement wers not made known. Bob McGreer left for the orient last week In advance of the Julian El tin ge show, which will sail Decembei 3 for Manila and Japan. The cost of moving Mr. Eltinge and his company to Manila wtll approx imate $10,000, but it is calculated that this Investment is warranted by reas on of the success of the Eltinge films which have preceded him. May Robson is playing this week in Los Angeles in "Tish," her newest comedy. She is en route here. Elsie Janls has written her ex periences "over there." Miss Janis spent almost a year with the Ameri can troops at the front and also made several short excursions to a number of British sectors. It was Miss Janis' mission to be "merry and bright," The illustrations would indicate she obeyed orders. The book is in the form of a diary and is written in a breezy and thoroughly interesting manner. m m George Arliss is considered hurt over what he says Is a misquotation on his recent remarks on Louisville. Arliss was held up in the Chicago Tribune as having maligned Louis ville, where he opened his present ve hicle, "Jacques Duval," by calling it a "dog" town. This he did, but he says he was shocked to receive. nu merous letters from the Kentucky inetrop, misunderstanding his intent. "The word 'dog' town in theatrical parlance means a tryout place," says Arliss. "I meant it in no uncompli mentary way. I drew $7200 in four performances in an unknown play in Louisville. I t reasonable that would knowingly Insult such a stand?" CALL FOR MUTUAL- CONCESSIONS Peaee Imperative, If World la to Be Saved. Resolutions Adopted by New York Cham ber of Commerce. The chamber of commerce, of the state of New York, in common with the business men of the whole nation, believes that as a people we are now confronted in the world of morals and In the world of trade with a cri sis similar to that which we faced on the 6th of April, 1917. We then realized suddenly that we had well nigh waited too long, and for 19 months after that date the question of what the results of our delinquency might be hung in the balance. On the 11th of November, 1918, came victory. We again felt, as we had not for some time surely felt, that we had a right to have pride in our descent from the men who fash ioned our constitution in 178" and preserved it in 1865. Victory not only restored our self respect; it also brought duties and opportunities. Our declaration that we sought none of the usual spoils of war, no territory, no indemnities, placed us in a position of moral lead ership. We fought not alone to pre serve our self-respect and to defend free institutions, but to end war. In harmony with the unselfish motives that moved us we were as a people insistent In our demands that a post bellum programme should be adopted by the free nations of the world that would make a repetition of the hor rors of 1914-1918 impossible. The peace delegates at Versailles under took to meet this demand. - When we made the demand it is probable that few of us fully realized what that demand involved. It nec essarily Involved some sacrifice of long-cherished precedents and prac tices. It involved at least the estab lishment of a council of free nations with such power of moral and eco nomic suasion, with such machinery for the adjudication of international disputes, as would surely lessen the probability of war. The Versailles treaty sought, even though its ma chinery may well seem to some of us as lacking In perfection, to achieve these ends. The senate of the United States, faced, with the specific provisions of a compact which demanded some de parture from the well-settled prac tices of the government, hesitated, debated, delayed. And finally, to the grave concern and even alarm of the country at large, not only was the treaty rejected, but no compromise treaty was left for discussion. This has created what we have called a crisis in morals and trade. As a con sequence of this unhappy condition we are losing moral leadership; the le gitimate commerce which victory as sured us is slipping away. The pros perity of America's export trade is largely dependent upon the extension of credits to our customers abroad. But pending a condition of peace and the establishment of a known basis for the continuance of international trade, no adequate credit plans can possibly be established. The alarm of the whole world of business over this protracted delay is evidenced by the continued and wholly unprece dented fall in the rates of exchang a fall almost as detrimental for us as exporters, as it is for the unfortunate peoples of Europe who are unable to buy from us food and materials which they so sorely need. It Is not the duty of this body to place the responsibility for this con dition. Rather our problem lies in the circumstances in which we And ourselves and in the practical meas ures that ought to be taken to solve the problem. Whatever the moral or trade effect of that fact may be, the treaty as presented cannot command the votes necessary to its rat illcatlon, but the situation thus created is intolerable Unless the parties to the controversy make concessions we shall soon stand before the world self-indicted as gov-J ernmentally incompetent. To drop the treaty and seek a di rect and separate peace with Ger many would not only imperil Amer ican business interests, but would be a base abandonment of our allies and of our own principles. The only al ternatlve la suutaal concession by both the president and the senate. We want peace. We want it speed ily; but we want an honotable peace Many parts of Europe are in desper ate plight, A peace in which we wrap ourselves in the robes of isolation and self-interest would be as dishon orable as further delay would have been our decision to enter the war on April 6, 1917; therefore, be it Resolved, That some form of Inter' national covenant which seeks to pre vent war Is a moral necessity; That the differences between the president and the senate should be composed without delay by such mu tual concessions regarding" reserva tions as may be necessary In the treaty to secure ratification. DEATH IS THE GREATER PE.VALTY Criminals Themselves Would So De cide, if It Rested With Them. PORTLAND, Dec. 17. (To the Edi tor.) In the discussion of the ques tion whether death or life imprison ment is the greater punishment fo the crime of murder, suppose we agree that no person who has not been actually confronted with the ne cessity of deciding the matter in his own case is in any degree competent to give an opinion. If the decision were left to the criminal after conviction nobody will doubt that 99 per cent, of them would! choose life imprisonment. All other self-appointed judges are from the very nature of the case incompetent. Even the ex-convict whose letter ap peared in The Oregonlan the other day must admit that if he had been convicted of murder in the first de gree he would have preferred life Im prisonment to hangyig. The way to settle this question Is to accept what we know would be" .the decision of the convicted criminals themselves. - They are not the kind of men to say: "Give us liberty or give us death." T. T. GEER. The English Were There. New York Evening Post. At the anniversary of the battle of Yorktown. William M. Kvarta re membered that there were English guests present, and after paying tribute to the French, he turned to the former, jocosely asking: "What would that occasion have amounted to. either In the fact or the celebra tion of it, if the English had not been there?" He then went on to express the American admiration for Queen Victoria and to declare that "the rela tions of blood and history make Entr- I i land and us one, as we always shall be." Those Who Come and Go. To be snappy and smiling and give service when you have trouble at home is a trying task, but Gene True man, head bellman at the Benson, is getting by. Here is what happened in the Trueman home: Yesterday morning, along about the hour of matins, the water tank in the kitchen decided to go on a rampage. The metal split from top to bottom of the tank and the imprisoned water, tired of its . confinement, decided to live Its own wild life. The water gushed up against the plaster, tie break being on the side next to the wall. The pressure of the water dissolved the plaster in a Jiffy, leav ing the laths bare. While Mr. True man was trying to turn the cut-off on his service pipe, the young hy draulic, working like a giant In a mining claim, proceeded to eat away the plaster in the adjoining room and by the time the flow was stopped two rooms were wrecked, water-soaked and ruined. Notwithstanding this. Mr. Trueman had to appear smiling and unruffled on his watch at the hotel. "I traveled three days on ski try ing to catch a chinook the wind I mean, not the fish and when I caught one at Lake Chelan, it got to Portland ahead of me. "announced J. W. Van Wee, at the Benson. "So I think I am entitled to a lot of credit. It's easy for an Indian to catch a Chinook, but it's hard for a white man to do it." Mr. Van Wee. who Is about six feet 12 inches, and built on the lines of one of his own skis, has been going around the theatrical circuit of the northwest looking after their scenery, which he makes in Portland. "There, are the aters springing up all over." said he. 'This season I have handled work for 32 houses, and it will probably surprise most people to learn that the heatrical business Is spreading so fast. There are combination houses being opened in towns that formerly had only a motion picture place." It's getting to be a habit for the snow on the roof of the Hotel Port land to strafe automobiles. An ava lancne irom the roof flattened a car parked on Morrison street and yester day as a fliver was snorting along with the cylinders hitting now and then, a gob of slush slid off the roof of the hotel and hit the roof of the In cootie. The indignant driver and his passenger stormed into the hotel and demanded damages for the damaged top. Health officers swarmed at the Hotel Portland yesterday from many parts of the state. Among those registered were Dr. R. O. Loggan, of Philomath; Dr. B. H. McCallon of Dallas; Dr. S. M. Kerron of Eugene: Dr. W. H. Dale of Harrisburg. and nr. A A. Soule of Klamath Falls. The health officers are here to com pare notes and take general stock of the situation as is their yearly wont. W. S. (Billie) McSwain is at th Hotel Portland. This is the first time Mr. McSwain has visited Port land since he was one of the body guards for President Wilson. Mr, McSwain -was detailed to accompany east the body of the newspaper cor respondent, member of the president's party, who was killed near Gresham Although Seattle is his headquarters, Mr.McSwain Is well known in Port land, as he was in the United States marshal's office here for many years. E. Carlson, who registered from Butte, Mont., but is said to represent Skinner & Eddy of Seattle was ii the Portland shipyard district yester day looking over boats with a view It is reported, of buying a flock or two. He was accompanied by John L. Hubbard, in charge of inspection for the shipping board. Mr. Carlson departed for Seattle last night. He was at the Hotel Portland. B. W. DeBusk of the University Oregon, who has been registered the Seward, checked out for Eugene last evening. He has been in the city was a witness in a libel case. Dr De Busk being a specialist in psy chological lines and knows old John W. Psychoanalysis by his first name. Incidentally he is also interested in the child welfare commission. Charles Duffy of the Eastern & Western Lumber company has re turned home from a trip to Utah. "I was only 4u degrees below when was heading for home." he explains, "and the cold was so Intense that the steam pipes in the train were frozen and even the locomotive froze. I was like making the trip in a refrig erator car. Among the many butter and cheese enthusiasts who are in the city at tending a meeting of the craft or profession- Is V. D. Chappell of Cor vallis. Mr. Chappell is an authority on the subject and, it is said, can tell one make of cheese from an other with his eyes shut, "If this weather doesn't Improve," threatened J. H. Long at the Hotel Washington. "I'm going back to a country where they have a good climate. I mean Juneau. Alaska." Mr. Long, accompanied by his wife, has arrived in Portland for the annual visit between seasons. Mr. Long is a canneryman. T. A. McCann of the executive de partment of the Hicks-Shevlin mill at Bend, is at the Hotel Portland with his wife. The mill had to close down for a short time during the storm but resumed operations this week. Wallowa, in Wallowa county, on Wallowa river, will have to worry along without the spiritual guidance of Rev. John M. Paxton for a few days. With his wife, the clergyman Is at the Seward. Mr. and Sirs. E. G. Shaw- of Walla Walla are at the Multnomah on their way to California Mr. Shaw recently sold out his wheat interests in the Inland Empire. Louis H.. Irving, who helps mould public opinion at Madras, via print ers' ink, is at the Perkins. To attend the poultry show. W. C. Conner of Salem Is in the city and is registered at the Hotel Washing ton. Mrs. Grant PIrtle, whose husband is a hotelman of Albany, is registered at the Seward. G. Stubblefield. a fruit grower from Lake creek, in Jackson county, is at the Multnomah. From Shanghai, China, came Mrs. Carl Crow to the Hotel Portland yes terday. Mrs. E. King, manager of the hotel at Centralia, is among the recent ar rivals at the Seward. Questions SuaKcsted by the Cold. PORTLAND. Dec. 13. (To the Ed itor.) (1) What is the freezing point of mercury? (2) How are temperatures lower than that recorded? t3) If the water is shut off oulslde the house does water remain in the coils of the heating stove? (4) Is it dangerous to build a fire In the stove containing coils when the water is chut off. the water in the pipes not being frozen? READER. (1) Forty degrees ' below zero, Fahrenheit. (2) By alcohol thermometers. (5) Not if inside faucets are opened. (4) No. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. 31omtgum. THE WORST IS YET TO COME. How oft the illusions we cherished Have vanished, no more to return; Our visions how oft they have per ished As life became bitter on A stern. The friend we implicitly trusted To teach us Fame's glittering trail How often he finishes, busted. The barber who boosts for the tonic HO keeps on the Daner-clad xrisTf. You note, with a grimace, sardonic. Is bald as. a cranpfrnii Mmulf The doctor who hastes to assure you As wisely he looks at your tongue. That he is the lad who can cure you. j-ies jounjj. The dentist who prunes your Incisors una pans, with a guttural groan. Your earlier dental advisers. Has hardly three tepth rf An-n And. now and then, even the preacher ..no nays mat to smoke is not right. Elopes with a Sunday school teacher That night, i The rainbows you nought for are scattered Like mists in the rlani- r fK The hopes that vou hnrhnrtH - r shattered. Your dreams fade awav sin v. The future you view with mls-lvlnir Writ large on your grief-laden brow. And yet you keep right along living Flnnegan Theatricals. With the police and ministers oft ni tric New York girl ehoTrs it's a. steady case of off again on again. s Let Is Hope for the Worst. Mexican bandits have trot Villa now and America trusts that every bandit win ao nis auty. But There's Nothing Else. It isn't going to heln the Christmas plum pudding much when we have to use kerosene to light it up. topynsht, 1919. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc. ) Education" and "Culture.' By Grace E. HalL How one ponders o'er the question which is -often brought to mind. Who are really educated, 'mong the thousands that we find? Who may claim the noble finish that real culture ever lends? Count them up and view the number of acquaintances and friends. Make a mental calculation of the, value of each trait. That an "educated" person should cor rectly estimate; There's a chance that you'll discover things you never grasped be fore. If you study folks that pass you by in grill and home and store. It is not an unknown circumstance for persons college-bred. To make a sorry spectacle when seated at a "spread"; To even have no inkling of a manner dignified. When guests assemble "round the board at which they may pre side; And I know a college woman who can talk of wondrous books. 'Till you'd think her educated if you couldn't see her looks! But with finger-nails in mourning, and her hair a taggy mess. You just somehow lose your love of lore in viewing her distress! She has advantages of school, for which so many yearn. But there are all too many things that she has failed to learn; She'd be a clown in many a sphere by all would thus be rated. And yet she lifts a scornful nose at those less "educated"; There Is a fact that's oft Ignored that culture's not "acquired." Nor gained In passing through a course, with mind by books in spired : . For grounded deep within each man. no matter what he's taught. Is natural culture or its lack he IS. or he is NOT! In Other Days. Twent y-Klve Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of December IS. 1SIM. NEW YORK. A dispatch received here says that first and second Japa nese armies are now marching direct on Tien Tsin. Weldon B. Heyburn of Osburn, Idaho, who has been In AVashington, L. C. as counsel In a mining case. was in Portland yesterday and stated that he will probably be a candidate r United States senator. The annual meeting of the State Teachers' association will be held in this city Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. A six-mch column of water from the standpipe at reservoir No. 2. near the base of Mount Tabor, was spurting Into the air 110 feet last Sunday and attracted much atten tion. Fifty Yenrs Abo. From The Oregonlan of December lsriSRO Washington. The president sent to the senate for confirmation appoint ments of Wilson Shaffer of Illinois to be governor of Utah and Benja min F. Potts of Illinois to be gov ernor of Montana. Baltimore. L. Phillips, late post master at Cambridge. Md.. was sen tenced to six months in jail and fined $34,000 for embezzlement. E. L. Dole has 18 pipes which he manufactured from fine potter's clay, a large stratum of which he has lo cated on the Lewis river, about 20 miles from Vancouver. Among the passengers to leave for Europe by steamer this afternoon is Mr. Seller, who will visit Germany, Paris and London to purchase a large supply of crockery and glassware. WHAT MR. BEECHER REALLY SAID "It's Hotter Than Hell," .Preface to Hot Sermon on Profanity. PORTLAND, Dec. 17. (To the Editor.)-" The question is asked in the "By-Products of the Times" whether anyone heard that famous sermon of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, N. Y.. In which he prefaced his sermon with "This is a damned hot day." Well. I am right here to 6ay that I heard that sermon, but that is not what he said. What he did say was: "It's hotter than hell." and then proceeded to preach the hot test sermon on the universal habit of using profanity, even by church-going people that ever emanated from old Plymouth pulpit, It was on a hot Sunday in July, and on my way to Boston I had stopped over to spend Sunday In New York and Coney Island with a frijux. who took me to hear Beecher. FRANK P. BARBER. Date of Previous Silver Thaw. PORTLAND. Dec 17. (To the Ed itor.) To settle an argument, can you tell me when the last "silver thaw" occurred In.Oregon? R. B. CUNNINGHAM. The most recent "silver thaw" in Oregon occurred on February 1, 1S1C