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s THE 3IORXIXG OREGON! AN. MONDAY. "DECEMBER 22, TD19. ItttrrnittjBi (Bttgmm r 1 ABLISHED BY HISBV L. PITTOCK. published by The Oresonian Publishing Co.. ItS sixth Street, Portland. Oregon C A. MORDEN. K. B. PIP-. Marnier, Editor. The Oresonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to thise for publica tion of all news dlspatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All l ights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Kutr IntariabJy in Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday included, one year S8.00 Dally, Sunday Included, six months .... 4.25 Daily. Sunday Included, three months. . 2.23 Dally. Sunday included, one month "o Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without SutSHay. six months .... 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, one month ..... -SO Weekly, one year 1.0O Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly ...... 3.50 (By Carrier.) Dally. 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One comKquenct of the present deadlock between president and sen ate is likely to be, or should be, a clear definition of their respective shares in the work of treaty-making. Foreign affairs fill so large a place in the duties of old-world govern ments that those governments long ago adjusted the matter. Foreign relations will hereafter fill as large a place in American affairs, and this prospect renders such an adjustment necessary to this nation. Throughout the history of Ameri can foreign relations there is appar ent a frequently recurring conflict be tween the plain meaning of the con stitution and the practical dictates of expediency the necessity of getting t hings done. The constitutional con vention, being composed of delegates from sovereign states, each of which held the treaty making power to be inherent in its sovereignty, aimed to express this idea in the constitution. At first It was proposed that the senate alone should make treaties, but this was deemed impracticable and the power was vested in the president by and with the advice and consent of the senate, with the idea expressed by Madison that the senate would need some agent through whom to act and that the president should be that agent. After the con stitution had been submitted to the states, Alexander Hamilton, who had been one of the most active members of the convention, made a speech In New Tork in favor of ratification in which he emphasized the senate's "joint and concurrent participation in making; treaties." He held that "it would be utterly unsafe and Im proper to intrust that power to an executive magistrate of four years duration," and that "an ambitious man might make his own aggran dizement by the aid of foreign power the price of treachery to his consti tutonts." Hamilton's words were gotiate a treaty with Corea, the sen ate attached to its resolution of rati fication a declaration that no agent had authority to negotiate a treaty unless confirmed, provided the sen ate was in session. Arthur took the rebuke in such good part that two years later he went beyond what it asked by asking advice as to whether he should renew a reciprocity treaty with Hawaii. President Wilson has broken with the past by not only following the more recent custom of not previously seeking the advice of the senate on a. proposed treaty, but by denying the senate's right to be consulted. He has declared an authority that was held in abeyance never to have ex isted. He has ignored the senate's plain right to have appointments of peace delegates submitted to it for confirmation, for he appointed him self and others while the senate was in session and he did not submit their names. The senate has frequently exercised the right to amend or make reservations to former treaties, but he Insists that it accept or reject the treaty of Versailles just as it stands. He is thus trying to make good the opinion which he expressed in his "Constitutional Government In the United States," that the presi dent's control of foreign affairs is very absolute;" that he "need dis lose no step of negotiation until it is completed and when in any critical matter it is completed, the govern ment Is virtually committed;" that whatever its disinclination, the sen ate may feel itself committed also." The president has thus provoked the senate to assert constitutional powers which have long Iain dor mant and wjilch would not have een revived If It had not been roused by his assumption that they id not exist. He has precipitated the nation into a controversy on a constitutional question, when all its energies are needed to wind up the war and to deal with its conse quences. The question as to the co- rdinata powers of president and senate in making treaties is thus put before the people in a new light, and they are calledupon for a verdict as to whether any one man should be trusted with such absolute power aa Mr. Wilson claims. this deplorable state of affairs the treaty standpatters, headed by Presi dent Wilson, and the death battalion senators who say that Turkey is none of our business. Perhaps the latter are right as to the present, but it may prove that we shall save a bri gade of troops and a few civil offi cials at the future cost of a large army to fight a first-class war. While the standpatters insist that things shall be done In their way or not at all. the isolationists refuse to see that the best preventive of war is to destroy Its cause at the source. uttered under the influence of the revulsion from monarchy which filled the people's minds during the first few years after the revolution The construction given by Hamil ton was followed by Washington and his immediute successors. The pres ident would go to the senate and seek its advice as to a treaty which he proposed to negotiate. In one case Washington asked for a separ ate vote on seven distinct proposals for a treaty and it rejected some of tin m. This method soon proved im practicable when negotiations must be conducted abroad and must in volve mutual concessions. Thus in nominating John Jay as special en voy to negotiate a treaty with Great Britain, Washington confined him self to announcing the appointment and Its purpose. Gradually the custom grew that treaties should be negotiated by mln isters or special delegates appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate and should be presented in completed form to the senate for ratification. The power of the sen ate to give advice in advance of ac tual negotiation fell into disuse. The reasons are not far to seek. Con sultation of the president with the senate required revelation of state secrets not only of this, but of the other nations concerned, to all the senators. Even if all were disposed toward the president, some migh betray these secrets through indis cretion. As party feeling grew in intensity, this danger became greater. It may have been slight when there were only twenty-six senators, but it grew as new states sent more sena tors, and it cannot be ignored when there are ninety-six senators who are supposed to keep inviolate the pro ceedings of executive sessions. The legislative work of the senate also occupied more time, and would have been delayed by preliminary debate on every treaty which the president proposed. But the right of the senate to be consulted in advance was never defi nitely abandoned, and was not as sumed by any president prior to M Wilson not to exist. On the contrary presidents have frequently reverted to the old practice. That is true of Jackson, Polk. Buchanan, Lincoln Johnson, Grant and Arthur, and several of them referred to early precedents as good cause for thei action. Also when tho president made a treaty of his own motion, the senate was the more critical of it and disposed to reject it. Thus the right of the senate to be consulted beforehand may be said to have been held in suspense by tacit consent. This practice has been accompanied by frequent debate on current for eign afairs, which served to give the president a clear indication of the trend of opinion In the senate, and thus in a way answered the purpose of advice. Presidents have with fair con sistency recognized the power of the senate to confirm delegates specially appointed to negotiate treaties while congress was in session. That was notably the case with regard tq the Jay treaty, the treaty of Ghent and the treaty with Spain. In the last named case congress was not in ses sion when peace delegates were ap pointed, so there was no opportunity for their confirmation before they entered upon their duties, but Presi dent McKlnley assured himself of ro-operation in the senate by naming senators as three of the five dele gates. When Arthur, in 1882, neg lected to seek confirmation of a Com.miS6lon.er whom he seat to no EDUCATE ALL THE CRIPPLES. The principle on which is founded the Smith-Fess bill, now pending In a congressional conference commit tee, and which is designed to furnish vocational education for all cripples, Is sound, and the spirit of It is ad mirable. It extends to civilians as well as soldiers the opportunity for rehabilitation, on suffering injury, that is required In the Interests of all the people as well as the afflicted In dividual. The number of victims of industry is many times greater than the number of war cripples. That they have been left to shift for, them selves in the past has been due to an unfortunate combination of circum stances. They have not been sur rounded by the glamor of heroism, their numbers have not been gener ally realized, and they have lacked organization to give publicity to their claims. It will require, of course, no elab orate argument to convince the thoughtful that the man who has lost an arm In a railroad accident is as much handicapped as tfce soldier minus an arm which he left on the battlefield. The people having been persuaded that it is their duty to aid the one arrive without difficulty at the conclusion that It is both expe dient and humane to assist the other. Vocational education of the handl- and personal heroism, is the ideal that calls for expression. What shall be the symbols of the great war, and of the purpose for which we entered It, and of the hopes that we still entertain? These must be determined first, or the art of the sculptor will fail. Here we may look to our poets for assistance, but not until national feeling has crys tallized as to the points in question. How many are there, even among the millions who wore the uniform, who truly sense the subconscious motive that Inspired them? Is the doughboy, who would be last to as sert a special claim o heroism, com petent to pass ripe judgment, even on himself? Are not our art critics perhaps a little too much under the Influence of ancient tradition to help us to the realization of a distinctively American type of memorial ? The memorial art of the past has been the art of Imperialism. The arch, for example, has In all time past been the symbol of the yoke of the conquered, the gate through which the captive was compelled to pass. The conventional type of shaft has not been much better. One of the perplexities of the new memorial art ist Is that he will be called on to give expression to the Idea of peace as well as war. The Importanuee of avoiding the false note now lies In the fact that memorials truly conceived are made to visualize to a future generation the purposes of our sacrifices, rather than for our own self-gratification In the present tense. We are agreed that the men and. the event are wor thy of commemoration; but the lm pression that the future will obtain of us will depend on the manner in which we translate the achievements of those heroes whom we seek to honor. For the war memorial has in reality a double purpose. Like the address of Lincoln at Gettysburg. It Is both a tribute to the dead and a message to the living in every time. On one point only is there thus far substantial unanimity, and that THE PUBLIC WILL PAT. Interest in President Wilson's ap pointment of the bituminous coal commission will be centered In the possibility that the price of coal will be raised, that being the one out come against which Dr. Garfield fought and in expectation of which he resigned. Opposition from the perators suggests fear that the sell ing price fvill not be raised in pro portion to any advance in wages which may be granted. This opinion seems to be founded on desire of the government to placate the miners by raising wages and at the same time to please the public by not raising price of coal. It is doubtful whether the miners can be given enough to satisfy them unless the price is raised. This would vindicate Gar field, and would sacrifice one of the principles for which the government contended when it intervened. That point turns attention to the controversy between Attorney-General Palmer and Mr. Ogle, the coal operator, the latter denouncing the president's settlement as "a cow ardly, dastardly surrender, as a compromise of principles" Notwith standing Mr. Palmer's vehement de nial, the circumstances indicate that the president's plan was prompted by desire to avoid pushing contempt proceedings against the miners as well as by desire to increase produc tion of coal. The strike injunction had failed to put the miners back at work unless the government were to admit that it and the courts could be defied with impunity, 1 1 must go farther. The only course open in court was to imprison for contempt the men who were Instrumental In continuing the strike. It was highly improbable that an administration which yielded to the railroad broth erhoods on the eve of an election would move Judge Anderson to "put a lot of union leaders in jail." When the attorney-general who conducts the proceedings Is a candidate for the democratic nomination for presi dent, that would Indeed precipitate a terrible industrial situation." It would also precipitate a terrible po litical situation for Mr. Palmer and his party. There was another way out, and Mr. Wilson and Mr. Palmer took it. as it was taken in 1916. The sign at the entrance to that road reads; "The public pays." The public's one protection is the requirement of unanimity on the part of the com mission, but if the miners say they will not dig coal except at certain wages and if the operators say they will not run their mines except at certain prices, what is the repre sentative of the public to do? The public will pay. As this new prece dent is added to the long line which has gone before, still others will be made and the public will continue to pay unti, well, until use of sub stitutes makes coal mining an effete industry. capped no more contemplates the be stowal of charity than does pro-1 has been expressed by Cass Gilbert, vision made for special classes of who is not only an American archi- ohildren in the public schools. It has tect of note, but a westerner in spirit been firmly established that the edu- and fact, who declares that the most cation of all the people Is a legltl- impressive memogal will be that mate function of government, grow which appeals to the imagination ing out or tne very instinct of self- alone. The memorial hall of Harvard protection, most fundamental of all. to the contrary notwithstanding, and 'ine only room left for doubt is as 1 other proposals for utility memorials to minor issues of administrative de- also aside, the American people are tail, and as to the relative responsi- likely to insist that their war memo bilities of federal and local govern- rials shall be shrines, rather than ments. These questions the pending buildings designed also for material bill settles so far as may be by pro- use. He mentions the Arch of Trl vision that federal aid shall be con- umph in Paris, the Washington uiLiuneu uiwii siaie am tne leacrai monument and tne Lincoln memo- government furnishing initiative and rial as examples, which, "though they inspiration, dui requiring tun co-op- are devoid of practical utility, min- eration Dy tne states. rne machln- lster to a much higher use; they com ery which it supplies for investiga- pel contemplation of great men and tion or the case of every cripple, with ideals which they commemorate: a view to giving each the most suit- they elevate the thoughts of all be able form of training, and the pos- holders; they arouse and make ef- slbility of co-ordinating all existing fective the finest impulses of human vocational training agencies, would ity." They are indeed "tho visible seem to justify federal leadership, al- symbols of the aspirations of the tnougn tne care or industrial crip- race." And Mr. Gilbert adds pies may be technically a duty for the states. The movement in its broad conception Is both socially and economically important. It betokens also an awakening of sense of duty toward our unfortunate fellow men that Is capable of almost indefinite extension. ITILITI IN MEMORIAL ART. The campaign, if such It can be The spirit may he the same whether tho monument Is large or small; a little road side shrine or cross, a vlllag-e fountain or a memorial tablet, speaks the same mes sage as the majestic arch or shaft or tem ple, and both messages will be pure and fine and perhaps equally far-reaching If the form of that message Is appealing and beautiful. Another authority, Arnold Brun- ner, puts it in homelier metaphor, when he suggests that the utility memorial savors too much of "giving called, for good designs In war one"8 wife a barrel of flour or a ton memorials lust set on font hv tv.o of coal for a Christmas present." American Federation of Arts deserves There is another objection to trying the support of those who believe that to cmllne the memorial spirit with the splendid victory we won by force was combined with victory' made pos sible by the power of an ideal, and there will be general agreement that an achievement so noteworthy in so many ways deserves the highest pos sible treatment that can be given It Yet the task set for artists is no easy one, and while we may profit by the experience of the past, we gain noth ing by belittling the past. Cecilia Beaux, writing In the official organ of the federation, catches the spirit of this idea when she says that she has not been at all annoyed, as some have professed to be, by the much- cnticised village memorials of the civil war. The "cast-iron tmaee of material usefulness, and that is that in one respect or the other it usually fails. Familiarity sooner or later breeds a species of contempt. Of all the memorial halls, and hospitals. and utilities of one kind and another in the land, how many are there which continue actually to impress us with the achievements they were meant to celebrate? The message becomes imbedded in the utility of the thing and Is lost. The exclusive memorial, grandly executed, serves so long as it lasts the sole purpose for which it was Intended. BY-PRODUCTS OK THE TIMES Tncle Joe" Cannon Talks About Courting; aa lie Recalls It. "Courting isn't what It used to be." said Uncle Joe Cannon, In conversa tion with a writer for the Washing ton Star. "Courting?" Uncle Joe went on. "Why, bless your heart, the young fellows of today do not know the meaning of that wsord! When a young- man would walk five or even ten miles through the snow or rain or mud, freeze his ears and fingers and face the danger of wildcats to see his girl, and that, too. In the general living room, with the family, he was entitled to admit that he was courting. And that was the rule, not the ex ception. The young follows would start out Sunday afternoon to see their sweethearts and-no weather was too bad to keep them at home. It might be too cold or too muddy to take out a horse, but In that case he would go on foot and he would go through as much hardship to see his girl as did the knighta of old'to res cue fair maiden in castles bold. "But It was his devotion, his court ing; and when he won that girl he stuck to her through thick and through thin, through good report and evil report, obeying the scriptural In junction that what God hath joined together no man shall put asunder. "There were no marriages of con venience and few hasty marriages then. The courting was long and there were no divorces to follow. The young people might meet often at the singing school or the dance or the husking bee, but these did not take the place of regular "courting." "The courting was on Sunday night and the young man went religiously to see his girl and remained until midnight with the object of his af fection, even though the father and mother and younger children were present to share the visit. "When he went home. either through the storm or under the bright starlight, he walked the earth as a conqueror for he had been In the presence that to him represented the real poem of life. He had been court ing and that Is all we need to bring back safe and sane Ideas In marriage courting courting In the true ; sense of the word. The man seek ing, if not serving, like Jacob, seven years for the object of his affection. Then he will stick to her and she to him through life. "There are some old fashions that have not been improved upon, and one of them Is the old way of court ing." e e A Chicago correspondent of the Kansas City Star sends this little story: The blue eyes of Sergeant Alvln C. York turned quietly on the question er. He had been asked why he, the greatest hero of the world war, stub bornly had refused to appear in the movies and write the customary war book and allow himself to be adver tised blatantly from coast to coast and lionised by society. "Friend." York said, "I couldn't. Why, it's jest a sellln' my honors for a pot of gold." Sergeant York came to Chicago with his bride, who was Grade Wil liams, 19-year-old Tennessee moun tain girl, to speak at Orchestra hall In behalf of the Alvln C. Tork foun dation. He wants to collect $300,000 to found a school for the hill chil dren in the Tennessee backwoods. "I'll be glad when the trip's over, too," he said, as he noticed with that gentle smile his wife's fatigue. "But I reckon a man shouldn't be worrying when he's out on well doing. Those kids up there In the Tennessee hills have been starved of book learnin'. Those Who Come and Go. Professor L. F. Anderson and wife of Walla Walla are among the guests at the Portland, spending a few days In the city shopping, before return ing to their home In the southeastern Washington city for the Yuletle. Professor Anderson was for many years head of the Latin and Greek department lit Whitman college, but retired some years ago to devote his time to writing and research. He Is vice-president of the college at the present time. Professor Anderson Is one of the foremost archeologtsts of the northwest, and an officer of the national society, and enjoys nothing so well as Investigating an antique or anything else all cluttered up with the dust of ages. He Is the son of Dr. Anderson, well remembered by pioneer educators of Portland as president of the university of Wash ington two-score years ago, and one of the foremost educational lights of the early days. While Oeorge M. Olson's principal business Is making music Cupid man aged to get ahead of him about three weeks ago and played Mendelssohn's well-known tune for the young man. who used to live in Portland. Mr. Olson and his bride are at the Mult nomah renewing old acquaintances and attending to affairs of the for mer's father, who died recently in this city. He will probably remain here permanently. The musician or ganized the first band at Lincoln high school and also the first one at Washington high. He later attended the University of Michigan and was active In musical circles there. For the past 12 seasons he has been con ducting a jazz orchestra at the French Lick Springs hotel in Indiana. Franklin S. Allen, formerly dlrec tor of Pacific railway advertising for Oregon and Washington with head quarters In Portland, will be In the city today. He is at present adver tislng expert on the Los Angeles Ex amlner. Mr. Allen Is better known In this section as "Bones." a nick name which he acquired by reason of an extremely lean pony he rode in his youthful days. The rider was chunky and his steed seemed to have no hopes of ever acquiring surplus flesh until he should secure a new owner. Wallace C. Blrdsall. who is manager of what Irvln 8. Cobb calls the best mall town hotel In the United States. Is to be found around the Portland this week. Mr. Blrdsall Is from Bend and Is connected with the Pilot Butte Inn, which boasts as one of its main attractions a big window clear, across one end of its dining room. Through this window, framed as though In a great picture, one sees the pine woods, the Deschutes river and the snow-capped Three Sisters. Condon folk seem to be making the Seward general Christmas shop ping headquarters. Among the most recent arrivals are County Judge O. W. Parman and family. P. H. Stephenson and S. B. Couture. Both the latter own large Btock ranches, but Mr. Stephenson has retired from active business and has his leased. He was formerly proprietor of one of the town's hotels. DEADLY FRUITS OF DEL4T. . An interregnum of anarchy has prevailed in Turkey during the four teen months which have elapsed since the allies granted an armistice on October 31, 918, and the delay has been due chiefly to doubt as to the part which the United States would take in future government of that country and to the treaty con troversy in this country. During that period the Kurds have massa cred more Armenians and yet more of that unhappy race have died of famine and disease; Syria has seethed with strife; Enver Pasha has set up a kingdom in Azerbaijan, tak ing in parts of Turkoy and Persia; Greeks and Turks have fought around Smyrna, and Mustapha Kemal Pasha has formed a nationalist army which dictates to the Turkish government and threatens war on the allies If they attempt to dismember the Otto man empire. One of the first requisites to settle ment of a country that is disorgan ised by defeat is prompt action, that it may plan with certaintj- for the future. This has been denied to Turkey, and all the nations for which we expressed such deep sympathy a year ago are the sufferers. As the United States now seems disposed to stand aloof, the allies propose to make a settlement of their own. They are expected to let the Turk continue his defilement of Constanti nople, and they may carve up his territory in tho same old way, which would mean more wars among weakling republics that need the help of a strong republic to set them on their feet. Two sets of men In the United States are largely: resgoiiMbis Xor For his efforts to keep a 15-year old girl out of the Walla Walla neni the soldier with his musket" may not tentlary- sentenced by a Vancouver have represented art as the esthetic )uaere ror i0y riding somebody's would always have It. but it was in- I auiomooiie, Mr. JiacLaren of the dubltablv sincere', and there Is a lrlnri Rescue society is to be commended. of art in that which does nn mnr An' penitentiary Is a bad place for than depict the sincerity of the times. a lrl ana worse ror one of that age My own impulse." says this writer. I " on coming across one of these in I That local 250-pound wench who village or country town, has not been gives two or three policemen all first of all. Irritation at its ugliness. they can handle should be taken up It has always delivered to m the y lno municipal Doxing commis- message that was intended. It has a slon- trained and turned loose against distinct emotional and historical stir- the world. She would draw men nificance. iroin a sic oea io tne squared circle It was an era, she goes on to recall that was packed with blunders In art, A man" 'ho 8avs he had $10,000 In if art was present at all. and of bad I French currency in a suitcase says taste. "The hour of bustles, chignons no sot u down In a doorway to speak and tormented silk dresses" was upon I to a friend and in a moment the us, out even this has retreated far r'P ijau disappeared. .treasonable enough into the distance to be visible story, with one wonder how a care en masse and have a unity and char- less man kopped so much kale." acter of its own." In perspective there is new dignity over it all. "The stamnl Mr. Van Kleek, who cares for the of the period is unmistakable." The Jersey cow at Beaverton that has statues may be ugly, but they are I broken all records. Is a "Jersey" man only ugly with "the ugliness of a and tnat is one of the points in the great president's frock coat, his I case, and not a slight one cither boots, the marble-topped table at which he sits, the ugliness of the The Buford, which has Bmma spotted Brussels carpet, the cast-Iron Goldman and Berkman aboard, Is inkstand and the Spittoon." These I stocked with provisions to last 600 are ugly, or pot. depending on tie! Persons sixty days and it is devoutly point or view. There are significance to be wished she goes that far, and emotion in them, certainlv Something is to be expected from The state veterinarian says there tne beholder. In the quest for beauty, I are 50 per cent more coyotes in Oro- we must carry it with us or we find I gon than a year ago, which is likely lt not: the sentiment which Emerson The coyote never will be eradicated; expressed is as true of a civil war I he is too smart for man memorial as it will be of the tributes Congress can disfranchise that Milwaukee district to an extent by barring Berger, and that is what congress will do to the post-Huns. which communities all over America are now preparing to pay to their soldier dead. But because of a new self-con sclousness born of recent contacts wim tun oia world. to which we TTnvlnir nrnvided for nv.rvhnJv nn Instinctively look as the home of all your list, there are yet the office that is good in art. as well as because boys and janitors, who do not revsl Ui ic.iu wir was iougnt with a 1 in grotesquely large wages. euiiiuao mr uinerenr. from that ..-T-.J..1, I 1 . "T' J Kreat nation. About all the American members fiuuicui ui our war memorials 1 c ''i in- . viuimoiuuii ii i u u U V l,i .aiuuniy umicuit Dy com- the trenches by Christmas," the last i..,. ,,c ae not only our own of them arriving today lu eaiiBiy, due also ZZLZi I n " "'"ers. oetter A man with 800 two-cent stamps tn -pihi' V "tl-1""s ,Jb-1 in his possession Is held on suspicion 7.ini " y ao' Officials are a "suspecting" lot of -T: """-v-uuBciuusness. people at best. 'j ou6Suot.cu, aim mere may "v lu mucn ol J yt it will Though ages old. it is still more have served some purpose if it impels pleasant to give than receive, but u 1.1.10 u .lowiy. ine war its mighty pleasant the other way uuw iimi ii conceived we nope win De tne last we shall ever The oldest voter In Hawaii is 109 pian. jney snpuio. ir they embody and able to "whoop r up" in the un mat. mey are intended for. ex- primaries press me tnougnt not only that our men fought well, but that they fought that others after them should have no need to fight. This may un happily be in excess of realization, but It, as well as individual sasrilic It was not the shortest day of the year for the man with nothing to do The foxy woman shopper moves forward and gets a beat. didn't realize that, d traveled a bit." I reckon, until A striking Cruikshank collection of drawings and sketches by Isaac Cruikshank and his sons, George and Robert, together with many books Il lustrated by them, and a general li brary all brought together by the ato Richard Walter Melrs of Phila delphia are on exhibition In the American art galleries, says the New York Herald. Among the drawings are the four original water colors made by the elder Cruikshank for the 1761 edition of Thomson's "Seasons." Some of the plates by George Cruikshank have autograph identifications. There is volume of original pen and Ink sketches, together with the originals for "The Man of Metal," "The Comet of 1853," the title page for "My Sketch Book" and "The Bottle." Other Items by the same great artist- consist of original water color drawings, executed for "The Chron- cles of the Bastlle," and a large se ries of colored caricatures of the po litical life and society of the time of the Third and Fourth Georges. John D. Wells, whose "Rhymes of Our Home Folks" was published re cently, does not mind a Joke on himself. "It is difficult to remember all the children of one's own pen," he ex plained, when relating the following anecdote: "I've written s verse a day for 15 years and oftentimes a forgot ten one comes horns to chide. Not long ago my little daughter Annette came home from school reciting a bit of verse. 1 TJld your teacher waste your time memorising that verse?" I asked. 'Yes. father.' 'Well. It's doggerel: it has neither rhyme nor reason, and you may tell your teacher your father said so.' "The next evening at dinner my little daughter said: " I told my teacher what you said, father that my rhyme was doggerel. " Well,' I asked, what did she sayf" " 'She said. Tour father ought to know. He wrote It.' Minneapolis Tribune. The gods were believed to love the high forests on the mountain slopes, and there doubtless they were wor shipped, even as today. Every tra veler must be struck by the secluded beauty of the ancient groves wherein, in the far east, the most famous temples are reared. We may gather from a story In the Upantshads how Satyakama. the cowherd. learned from his solitary communing with the wilds some lessons of the unity of man with nature. His (jam. struck by the luminous gase of the lad, questioned him: "You shine like one who knows God: who, then, has taught you?" and was answered, with radiant smile. "Mot man," Asia, Theatrical folk were In the major ity on the register at the Portland yesterday, due to companies being held up by storms. The unusual oc curred and the hotel housed three companies, one which has Just played at the Helllg. the one that opens later In the week and the present Orpheum troupe. "Bob" Paulus. who goes around the Willamette valley telling farmers what fruit to grow and what price they ought to get for It. Is at the Seward. Mr. Paulus Is president of the Salem Commercial club, manager of the Salem Fruit union and an of ficer In nearly every horticultural organization in the northwest. Miss Belle Jsffery of Seattle Is registered at the Portlsnd. 8he Is field secretary for Oregon for the Y. W. C. A. educational campaign and previous to taking up this work was in charge of war activities of the as sociation in Tacoma. Miss Jeffery Is making a tour of the towns in this state. Every Christmas Charles E. Davis buys a ticket to Portland and goes on a shopping spree. When he returns to his home in Grass Valley his folks give him a reception such as Is gen erally considered due Santa Claus. Mr. Davis arrived yesterday at the Oregon for his usual holiday reasons. A. E. Meyers, who came nut from St. Paul on the first train operated under the new schedule. Is at the Multnomah. He said that Glendtve. Mont., is supposed to be the coldest city In the United States, but when he passed through it the weather man seemed to have had spring pay an early call. Deputy State Treasurer J. G. Rich ardson is back from San Francisco and stopped yesterday at the Oregon on his way to Salem. He carried with him the same traveling bag In which he recently brought about a million dollars' worth of bonds to Portland, but nobody knows what he is carrying in It this time. Cape Horn. Wash.. hasn't big enough stores to satisfy Mrs. C. Ack erman's Christmas shopping list, so she is stopping at the Portland while making her holiday purchases here. Mrs. Ackerman has a large ranch which she manages entirely by her self. The Central Oregon 'irrigation com pany couldn't run without Fred Stanley, sometimes of Deschutes and sometimes of Portland. Mr. Stanley with Frederick S. Jr. and C. M. Red- field of Deschutes are at the Imperial. Redfleld is the engineer who planned the vast system of irrigation ditches controlled by the company. Miss Gertrude May. head of the clearing department of the Portland Federal Reserve bank, has left for Los Angeles to take a similar posi tion In the bank there. Miss May was formerly a student at the Uni versity of Oregon and belongs to Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. F. W. Sumner, president of the Sumner Iron works at Everett, Wash.. Is at the Oregon while In the city attending to business at the com pany's local headquarters. Ellis S.' Dement of Myrtle Point is to be found around the Imperial lobby. He has Just brought in sev eral carloads of cattle and Is now in fine form for Christmas shopping. E. C. Judd of Astoria was at the Multnomah yesterdsy to visit hie son. George F. Judd. who is connected with the Salem Kings Products company. PRESIDENT HAS SOLE INITIATIVE Right of Senate to Have Consultation OB Treaties Denied. HOQUIAM. Wash.. Dec. 20. (To the Editor.) The writer has read The Oregonlsn's editorial argument to the effect that It was the dutv of Presi dent Wilson to advise with the sen ate as to the terms of the peace treaty before submitting It to the sen ate, and that It Is now his duty to advise with the senate concerning the matter of modification and reserva tion. I have also read numerous other editorial articles In republican papers on the Pacific coast to the same ef fect. While these arguments are in teresting and no doubt convincing to the republican editorial mind, still this question has been settled for a good many years adverse to the con tention which you make. The rule construing this section of the constitution, as stated by Mr. Jus tice Brown of the supreme court of the United States, In the fourteen diamond rings case. Is as follows: Obviously the treaty must contain the whole contract between the parties, and the power of the senate Is limited to rati fication of such terms as have already been agreed upon between the president. actlnjr for the United States, and the com mlsalonera of the other contracting power. The senate has no right to ratify the treaty and introduce new terms Into It. which shall be obligatory upon the other power, although It may refuse Its ratifi cation, or make such ratification condi tional upon the adoption of amendments to the treaty. If. for Instance, the treaty with Spain had contained a provision in stating the Inhabitants of the Philippine' as citizens of the United States, the sen ate might have refused to ratify It until this provision was stricken out But It could not. In my opinion, ratify the treaty and then adopt a resolution declaring it not to be Its Intention to admit the In habitant of the Philippine Islands to th privileges of citizenship of the United states. Such resolution would be inopera tive as an amendment to the treaty, since It had not received the assent of the president or the Spanish commissioners 183 United States ITS. Moreover, more than 140 years of executive practice has firmly estab lished and fixed this method f treat ing our foreign relations. The effort of the senate to enlarge Its powers Is only another example of that which has gone on since the beginning of our government, of each department reaching out to enlarge Its powers, the legislative constantly seeking to Increase Its powers at the expense of the executive, and the Judicial depart ment enlarging Its powers at the ex pense of both. Exactly the same language Is used In the constitution with reference to the appointment of ambassadors, judges and other officers, by the pres ident. "the president) by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint ambassadors or other public ministers, consuls. Judges of the supreme court and all other offi cers of the United States, whose ap pointments are not herein otherwise provided for." The argument made with reference to treaties, if followed to Its legitimate conclusion, would also apply to appointive officers, and we would have the sorry spectacle of the president trottlns ovrr to the sen ate first to consult with them as to who shall be postmaster of Port land. The president Is unquestionably correct In the attitude which he has tiker. that the senate must either ratify or reject the treaty, and the question of whether the senate shall he allowed to en.-roacn upon tne ex ecutlve is even larger than the mo mentous question as to whether or not the peace treaty sbsll tie raunea. CJ. M(Jit(jrAI. With a Kick in It. ByLUDi The majority opinion of the su preme court in the 1 diamond rings case made no reference to the re spective parts of the president and senate In making treaties, or to the right of the senate to make reserva tions. It related to the right to im port goods duty free from the Phil ippines after ratification of the treaty with Spain mads the islands Amer ican territory but before congress had imposed a tariff on import! thence. and the treaty-making power ws not in question. The opinion of Justice Brown was simply a separate con curring opinion, in which he ex exprsssed his individual views on that subject. But he concedes the right of the senate to make reservations. That right was exercised by the sen ate as early as 1795, when it rejected one of the provisions of the Jay treaty, and has been frequently ex ercised since then, notably in the case of the Hague treaties. We do not recall that the president has ever insisted that the senate MUST, as a matter of constitutional law or precedent. ratify without amendment or reservation or reject the treaty. He has simply insisted that it SHALL do so. THE WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. "Oh, gee," Sighed the little shopgirl. "Me feet are swelled up Ilk a pois oned pup. And me head's In a crazy whirl. "It ain't the standin' for hours. Or the rush in' at noon, that sours; It's the Thank you, I'll drop la again' And you know It's to do over when They come back next day for a look At a painting or picture or book." "Oh. gee." Sighed the little shopgirl. "Me feet are swelled up like a pois oned pup. And me head's In a foolish whirl." s m Also Shirts, Trousers. Etc. "Elks Will Fill Empty Stockings.- says a headline In a San Francisco newspaper. Here in Portland during arctic days the Elks filled all the empty stock ings they could find. m Hope Springs Infernal. Dear I.. L. D. : Did you hear what the shopgirl said? "I've seen Theda Bara fight for her honor 19 times and she ain't never lost once. "But I ain't discouraged. She can't always win." F. G. T. e They Get LM I Tor a Six Months' lgt. "The Eskimos don't dare vote pro hibition." "Why?" "They would have to rive up their alcohol thermometers." SOS When Ton Are Far Away. Oh. days are long and dreary. The dawn is wan and grav. My heart Is spent and weary w nen you are far away. For all that I have chidden The longings that arise. The brightest sky is hidden henas I miss your eyes. 1 walked by waking flowers hon morn was sweet with dew. Nor blessed the golden hours My heart was gone to you. Oh. spring was pain to cherish. Ana ' - ' . ' was in trie May Come quickly, ere 1 perish. V hue you are far away. Oh. days are wan and weary. The dawn Is dun and gray. My heart is spent and dreary When you are far away. o s Which Would Give n Blgrsrer Total! "The cost of material bought In Europe by the A E. F. was fi.0S4. 000.000. The chief Items were 124.000 tons of motor vehicles, more than a million animals and 1,250,000 tons of coal, wood and timber." PACIFIC LEGION. This doesn's count the bucks-on-leave. figures on "oofs." pate de fol gras, and no tiled sunshine. Thin lee. Me Hearty! The Marine Editor warped up to our desk and hove to. "With the Columbia river frozen cross and the Willamette blocked at Its mouth and several vessels frozen in." he remarked casually, "the port of Portland might also be called lee-olated." Mny We Take It on Trial f A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN. FIFTH FLOOR. 11.98. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montagae. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregnnlan. December 22, 1894. The piles for the foundation of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation com pany's new coal bunkers at Albina are beginning to arrive. The work of driving the plies was begun yes terday. The new Bull Run pipeline is com pleted and carries 21.760,000 gallons every 24 hours. Hon. T. T. Geer, the "tall syca more" of the Waldo hills, is receiving some fine press Indorsements for the superlntendency of the reform school. A number of deer have been rang ing on the hills north of Goldendale Wfh., and the hunters of that lo cality have been trying to get shots t then. Dr. P. Woerner is staying at the Oregon while here from Aberdeen to see his mother. He will return home for the holidays. Lee A. Thomas, who has a corner on architectural work in Bend, is the Benson. Sale of Spirituous Liquors. PORTLAND. Dec. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Is It legal to sell whisky, wins or beer over the bars In San Fran cisco or Sacramento. CaL? If so until when? SUBSCRIBER. It la illegal. Fifty Tears Ago. From The Oregonian, December U2. 1S00 Washington Carl Schurz intro duced a bill providing for the creation of a civil service board to examine into the qualifications of applicants for office. Washington Tho president today sent to the senate the nomination of Edwin M. Stanton as associate jus tice of the supreme court, which was immediately confirmed. The first section of the Oregon Central railroad, east side, is almost completed. The bridge across the Clackamas river that is now the break In It, will be completed in a day or two. The Telfair sailed yesterday for Victoria, with 250 tons of freight. OSTRICHES EAT ANVILS. New York poulterers have been caught feeding chickens, gravel and crap iron to increase their weight be fore marketing them. News Item. The butchers, when you go to bux your modest morning meat supply Leave lu the bones that weigh like stones When on the scales they lay It. Your appetite for bones is nil, but when you get your butcher bill The bones are there, and though you swear. And howl and moan, you pay it. Before the chicken gets the axe they reed It up on carpet tacks And horseshoe nails and bucket bails. (Which- fowls regard as diet). A carpet tack cannot be chewed, scrap iron makes a sodden food Which, try your best, you don't di gest But still you've got to buy iL Before a duck goes on beyond they let him drift around the pond And drink a flood of liquid mud Which goes to make him weigh more. And when your better half opines that Sunday when the family dines She'd like a duck, of course you'ro stuck For you have got to pay mors. When of such things as these I read it makes me very sad indeed The market news that I peruse Is difficult to soften. Yet I'll conclude this tragic verse by statlng that things might be worse. I'm glad that I don't have to buy An ostrich very often, e . Self Protection. Massachusetts is experiencing a wave of reaction against prohibition. The drys. having a lot of Idle time on their hands, were understood to be plotting a ban on be.tns and codfish. OS'S All the Qunllfiratlons. The fleet Is to go south for target practice and as targets are expensive we suggest that they might use Car ranza for one. Letting Em Off Light. Tho suggestion of a $500,000 a pist liquor tax will, if bnoze keeps soar ing, amount to only about a tenth of one per cent, after all. (Copyright, 1919. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) MY BILLIKIN. I have a little blllikln And all he does Is sit and grin That's all he does; And If I down him with a blow He bobs right up again as though It never was. If I should lose this game of life No one will know it; For all I'll do Is sit and grin. Just like my little blllikin. And never show IL D. E. HALL. His Own Choice. Birmingham Age-Herald. "What are you reading, daughter?'' "A novel entitled, 'The Heart of Geraldine.' " "Umph! Rubbish. I suppose!" "Yes, dad. It's a book you pre sented to mother years ago." Who Repairs Plumbing. PORTLAND, Dec. 20. (To the Edi tor.) PK-ase state who is responsible for repairing broken water pipes, caused by freezing, the tenant or property owner? WORRIED. In the absence of express agree ment the lessor Is not bound to make repairs to the leased property. The repairing of broken water pipes, caused by freezing, would probably not be considered as an ordinary re pair, and the duty to repair the same, therefore, would devolve upon the landlord, unless the breaking of the pipes was plainly due to neglect or carelessness of the tenant. Pleaslna His Customer. Houston Post. "I want," explained the particular woman at the butcher's, ''some meat without bone or gristle." The butcher indicated a piece of beef. "Oh. no fat. please." she added. "John." shouted the shopman, "bring acrobs the eggsi"