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to THE MORNING OREGONTAN, WEDNESDAY, DECE3rBER 24, T919. s i Itlorttiitjj Btt& mttan ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I PITTOCK. Published by The Oresonlaa Publishing- CO.. l'.'.O -Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOKDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan u a member of the Aim slated Press.' The Associated Preaa ia exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and -also the local news published herein. All riKhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Bally. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Dally. Sunday included, six months .... 4.25 Daily. Sunday Included, three montha. . Z.-5 Dully. Sunday included, one month 75 Dally, withtout Sunday, one year 6.O0 Dally, without Sunday, aia months .... 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, one month ..... .60 "Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) 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Bldwell. uries go by the board if need be, and ness a downward trend, they would to conserve on every hand The unsettled state of the public mind following: the war was not an exceptional manifestation of mass psychology. It has followed other wars, and the history of these past periods shows that in due time peo ple have recovered from their aber rations. Knowledge that this can be done, as it has been done, by the people themselves, ought to be help ful now in bringing it to pass quickly. A little rivalry in thrift and emula tion in common sense will help mightily in the present situation. better meet the miners' demands by forcing down the cost of living than by either forcing up the price or re ducing the production of coal. ZENITH OF THE H. C. OF L. It will be observed that Attorney General Palmer, in making his prophecy that there will be a decline in retail food prices, beginning be tween January l'and March 1, makes It plain that the consumer himself has a duty to perform if the fore cast Is to be realized. "If," said Mr. I'almer, in his Chicago address on December 15, "men and women would do 10 per cent more work, prices would come down .0 per cent, end jf they would economize and save 10 per cent more, this problem of the high cost of living would be solved." "One of the greatest crimes f the day," he said on the same oc casion, "is idleness." He did not allude, of course, to involuntary un employment, but meant to read a lesson to those who, having opportu nity for employment, fail to give to production in the present crisis the best that is in them, which as patriots they ought to do, and which the pub lic has the right to expect. The rem edy for the high cost of living may be, indeed, as the attorney-general suggests, well within the reach of all. "Settled conditions," as he says, are needed first of all, and settled conditions ought to result speedily If 1. Everyone who produces will produce to the utmost. 2. Those who buy and consume will "fave and eliminate extrava gance." 3. All honest people will join with the department of justice in stamp ing out profiteering and hoarding These, then, are duties incumbent on the people themselves, and unless the spirit of co-operation exists It Is easy to believe that a governmental programme of prosecutions under the Lever act, however vigorously conducted, will fail. There is too much denunciation of profiteering in the abstract by individuals who do not hesitate to take their profits on commodities that they themselves happen to be dealing in. Co-opera tion between government agencies and the merchants' associations, which Mr. Palmer says is growing, Is a promising indication, but mer chants associations are hot the only ones from whom co-operation Is to be 'expected. Nobody who is at all observant will deny that there has Deen a not or extravagance all up and down the line. The orgy of spending shares with curtailed pro auction the responsibility for high prices. This is admitted by most persons: it is apt to be conceded even by those who make no visible effort to check their own extravagances. It is good news that the govern ment Intends to prosecute with in creased vigor its campaign against violators of the Lever act, and some thing but not everything is to be expected from this. Hoarding and profiteering are offensive enough, but they are made possible in no small degree, as has been repeatedly pointed out, by- the orgy in which so many buyers have indulged There is reason to believe that more can still be accomplished by indi viduals than by the government. A sensitive and educated conscience ought to be a pretty safe guide. A very little self-denial will be a vast help. The most effective co-opera tion that can be accorded to the government will take the form of re ( fusing to pay the prices charged by extortionists. This, together with jail sentences which Mr. Palme hopes to see meted out to law vio lators, will make the business o profiteering highly unpopular, if not Impossible. One of the hopeful signs of the times is seen in the attorney-gen eral's statement, with reference to the attitude of national organizations representing various trade interests, that "very helpful co-operation has been obtained, which has had marked tendency not only to stop the upward trend of prices, but in some instances to decrease prices. Thus, as concrete examples, it is mentioned that the retail clothing dealers have established their pre war margins of profit as being fair and have so advised their entiro membership; the retail shoe dealers are working toward the same end; the national retail dry goods organi zation, representing 20,000 stores, is co-operating in establishing economy sales for the first two months of the coming year. But all the work of these interests can be nullified by consumers themselves. There is plenty of evidence that demand for non-essentials has contributed a large share to general high costs. Plain clothing and footwear and other necessities are costly at least in part because so many workmen are busy filling the demand for frills and fur belows. Now a "decided downward trend Ordinarily may be expected in the part of the year between January 1 and March 1," as Mr. Palmer says, just as in the past it has been cus tomary for prices to rise between August 1 and the beginning of the following year. Having been able to arrest the usual upward trend during the recent autumn, the people may look hopefully to an accelerated downward movement after the holi days but only if they do their part Prosecution of profiteers, with jail sentences and all, will not accomplish everything. We need to get back to normal, to reimbue with life the old principles of thrift and economy, "to work and save," to produce more necessities and let soma ot tha lux- A GRAND SOIXTIOX. Governor Olcott has repented of his action in approving dismissal of State Biologist Flnley from the pub lic service, and wants him reinstated. Mr. Finley has recovered from his urning desire to be permitted to esign, and says or said the other day that it is now too late. Evi- ently the commission failed to seize the opportunity at the psychological moment. However, the commission cannot be accused of wanting in de- islon. It did not want Mr. Flnley in its service, and it dismissed him. It was not reckoning on psychology not the executive psychology, nor ven the psychology of the public. which received the news with evi- ences of its displeasure. The com motion, diligently fostered by sun dry persons who were not friendly to the commission, and by a news paper or two which were not friendly the governor, and by anothei newspaper which was and is friendly. reached the distant environs of the executive office, and caused a counter commotion there, which took the form of a very active and somewhat panicky effort to compose the mud die without hurting anybody's feel lngs. It Is to have the commission which doesn't want him take Mr. inley back, and to have Mr. Fln- ey, who doesn t or didn t want to go back, go back to a body which doesn't want him back, unless it is for a time long enough for him to hand in his resignation. The com mission is to re-hire Mr. Finley, who It Is understood, is to be under no body's control and is to follow his own bent in his own sweetly scien tific way. Meanwhile, the unenlightened pub ic is as much in the dark as ever about what the row is about. In compatibility, inability to get along, constant friction, disloyalty are the counts In the Indictment against Finley. The solution now offered by the governor is to arrange matters so that Mr. Finley will have nobody to please but himself. We wonder if it can be done. BAD UCK FOR FOER MURDERERS. The Chicago Tribune finds fault with the tenderness with which mur derers are treated in that city, and makes the following interesting dis- closures: Evidently there is something in the cur rent mood, some looseness of construction w-hlch gives rise to the idea that there Is & latitude in crime. One of the most direct testimonials to the disregard for law Is the fact that 301 murders have been committed in cook county, while only four persons have been hanged for murder, In the last year. Enthnd haims some fifty-four convicts for each JOO murders committed; we seem to hang four for each 301. The figures may not prove sveo thing, but they are accurate. ,If four murderers were hanged in Chicago, and 297 not hanged, what does it prove? That capital punish ment does not prevent murder? Or that failure to hang Is also failure to prevent? We should like to see the record of the 297 unhanged mur derers. Nothing is ventured when the statement is made that many of them, perhaps most, escaped scot free. In the past several years twenty-five or more women have been arrested and tried for murder In Chicago and not one of them has been convicted. Certainly the Trib une is right when it says there is a latitude in crime. It Is axiomatic in Chicago, and elsewhere, that no good-looking woman can commit murder, no matter whom she kills, or why. London has proved that capital punishment does not prevent all murders; but undoubtedly it prevents some murders. There are more homicides in Chicago in one year than in the English metropolis in any five years. The explanation Is that it is easy to kill in America, and get away with it. It can't be done in Great Britain. Yet they hanged four in Chicago. The four played out of luck. They took the chance, and lost. It doesn't often happen. CIDER APPLKS. The promise that cider will he- come a national beverage under pro hibition, rivalling grape juice and even the matchless nectar from our own loganberry, offers little or no encouragement to those who have thought that it would afford a mar ket for the bad fruit of ill-kept orchards. The fact Is, as has been explained by more than one govern ment official, that it requires good apples to make good cider, which will be more than ever made plain if we become a nation of cider con noisseurs. Heretofore it has been possible to sell the juice of poorly matured, or overripe, or wormy. fungus-infected culls only because the majority of buyers knew no bet ter and this incidentally may ac count for the relatively small con sumption of so healthful and deli cious a beverage. Cider-making has long been an art In France and England. In both countries special varieties of apples are grown which are known to pos sess irferit for making into cider. It will be so in America if the business reaches the proportions that some people predict for it. Competition will relegate the bad fruit to the place where it belongs. No one who has tasted real cider the product of conscience as well as of the grinding mill will ever be satisfied with the "worm juice" that too often passes for it nowadays. Those who hope to enjoy their share of cider prosperity will adopt the modern methods that have made the extra fancy apple a standard of good eating wherever the fruit Is known. of employment there gives way to the general need. If the right to the use of liquor is inalienable because it is harmless to the exceptional few or harmless in exceptional circumstances, then there must be a long list of Inalienable rights which the statutes now at tempt to prohibit. The automobil lst, with a clear track far ahead and a straightaway pavement. Is not likely to come to harm or to harm others if he runs at forty miles an hour. And when he does it he is generally in pursuit of happiness. But the exceptional circumstance does not now vitiate the law nor acquit him if he shall be arrested. Some men may derive harmless happiness by prowl ing about the streets at a late hour of night, but the fact that they may not be bent on harm does not now give them an Inalienable right to do it, nor is it now supposed to Invali date the curfew law. And so the illustrations might be carried on. Probably not one of the worthy gentlemen composing the league would admit that use by him of in toxicants was necessary to his health or general well-being. The organi sation disclaims financial Interest In manufacture or traffic. So for grati fication of an occasional pleasure of the appetite, one with which each could comfortably do without, they nsist that a common source of waste, poverty, vice and crime shall go unmolested by the law. It is self ishness supreme. TO BE A PROBLEM IN COAL. If the commission appointed by- President Wilson to adjust the coal miners' dispute should succeed in satisfying the miners without at the same time raising tne price or diminishing the supply of coal, it will accomplish a feat sure to stag ger the ablest economists in the world. An advance of 14 per cent in wages does not satisfy the miners yet Dr. Garfield practically agrees with the operators that any larger increase must entail an advance in price. Mr. Wilson is pledged to rc sist further rise in prices, yet his instructions to the commission leave the way open to raise wages further and to raise prices also. If wages should be again raised and prices held at the present level by government fiat, some mines would surely close and their miners would be out of a job. Cost of pro ducing coal is by no means uniform and some operators would go bank rupt at prices which would yield oth ers a good profit. The net result would be reduced production of coal, though the purpose of the govern ment's proceedings against the strike was to prevent any reduction. All the conditions of domestic in dustry and foreign trade forbid any smaller production. Our own rail roads, industries and domestic con sumers need more than the pre-war production. There is a market abroad for all surplus over what they consume, even up to maximum war production. The output of Europe has fallen far below normal, and can not recover until all the mines wrecked or damaged in the war are in full operation or until labor set tles down to steady work. It is up to the United States to fill the gap, and it is to our interest to do so. Not only is export trade In coal a good thing in Itself, but it will bring revival of industry, and that Is nec essary to revival of foreign com merce. When Europe again has goods for sale, it will have means of buying from us. Thus the coal wo export will Indirectly make work for our own factories. As the president now has the price control law for which he asked and as Attorney-General Palmer is con fident of forcing down prices by its use. and that tha new: jear will wit- THE IN ALIEN ABLE RIGHT SELFISH. The name of John Drew in the list of organizers of the Vigilance League which seeks to have declared unconstitutional an article of the United States constitution that a fundamental law is not fundamental is not so significant as it may seem. considering that Mr. Drew is not un known to comedy. The league is a serious organisation of se rious men. It includes in its personnel besides Mr. Drew at least two architects, an artist, a nov elist, several physicians and a clergy man- though the last now occupies a universlay chair, not a pulpit and numerous others. The "Vigilance League Is attacking the prohibition amendment in the supreme court of the District of Columbia. The unsophisticated may also pre sume that the only ground for ques tioning the validity- of a constitu tional amendment must concern the niceties of the prescribed manner of submission and ratification. But this idea is error. There are some tech nical points raised as to the suffi ciency of ratification, but the main attack is upon broader grounds. It is argued that in a republic the citi zen possesses certain Inalienable rights, among them being the rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness and enjoyment of one's property. These rights. It is Insisted, cannot be taken away by the largest major lty and it is moreover asserted that among the inalienable rights is the "liberty to use alcoholic beverages in moderation and sobriety and un der circumstances In which no Injury results, or can result, to others there from." The arguments are not overlooked that property Is taken without due process and that the right to be heard in their own behalf before competent and Impartial tribunal whenever their liberties or rights are In question is denied the people by the amendment. The claim is also set up that the states have sov ereign powers of Internal govern ment and police within their terri torial jurisdiction, that these powers cannot be surrendered by the several states, and that- the attempt of the amendment to confer concurrent jurisdiction upon congress in en forcement of the amendment is in violation of such powe-rs It will be readily deduced that success of this court proceeding would forever dispose of national prohibition. A ruling that the right to use intoxicants In moderation 1 Inalienable would not even permit the people by unanimous vote to pro hibit its use. for someone In a suc ceeding generation might insist upon exercising his right. . But it is per haps not worth while speculating on that. Some of the Issues raised are not unfamiliar. The United States supreme court has held that the Kansas prohibition law is not a tak ing of property without due process, and in upholding the Webb-Kenyon law it observed. In effect, that the exceptional nature of the subject regulated was the basis for the ex ercise of an exceptional power not consistent with the ordinary guaran ties of the constitution. It Is quite possible, however, that there are certain rights which the courts would hold cannot be alien ated even by constitutional amend ment. A law providing for the im prisonment of everybody who walked pigeon-toed would hardly stand even though ratified by three-fourths of the states and notwithstanding that that peculiar form of locomotion shocks the esthetic sense of most be holders. Clearly numerous persons find it necessary to the pursuit of happiness to toe inward instead of outward, but heretofore most or us have seen a distinction between that practice and the use of intoxicants. The use of liquor may not be harm ful to a few nor to the many through its use by only a particular few. But it is Impracticable to legis late for the few. The few, we had supposed, cannot claim an inallen, able right to do that which is harm less to them, If that particular thing can and will be done with harm by and to the many. An illustration may be found in the Oregon law limiting the hours of women's labor in laundries. That law went to the United States su preme court and was there sustained Tet it will not be disputed that there are some women who are physically able to work without harm to them selves for more than ten hours a day in a laundry and that some of them would find it to their pleasure to do so. But there are countless other women whose health would be under mined by long hours of work. The court held that as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well being oft woman is an object of public interest and that the regulation of her hours of labor falls within the police powers of the state. The presumably inalienable right to choose the kind and manner WHERE THE AUTOMOBILE IS NOT. The narrow margin seventeen to fifteen by which the assembly of Bermuda voted to exclude automo biles from the islands suggests that this Eden of pedestrians Is not likely much longer to preserve its exclusive character as a place where roads are said to be excellent, climate ideal, pleasure-seeking the chief end of arge numbers of tourists, but where the honk-honk of the automobile horn is never heard. No community in the twentieth century can long escape the contagion or progress. The fact that the Bermudas are the most isolated of all the important Island groups in the world will hardly count in these times of fast steamships and wireless communica tion. With a winter temperature of 50 to 70 degrees, and a summer maxi mum of about 87 degrees, it is no wonder that the Islands have long been a mecca for tourists, and it Is hardly to be doubted that its people place due value on their income from this source. This will be the ulti mate influence in favor of introduc tion of modern necessities. The automobile has emerged from tius luxury class and when visitors to Hamilton demand It Insistently enough the embargo will be removed. In this country conservation made a last stand against the automobile in the national parks, but not for long. Not even the argument that the motor car was destructive of the picturesque and the antique pre vailed against it. The only possible way to exclude the automobile In definitely would be to refuse to build roads, and Bermuda In this respect is among the most up-to-date of states. BT-PKODICTS OF THE TIMES Seven Wonders at the Ancient World Recalled by Modern Writer. The seven wonders of the world prior to the great Inventions of the last 46 years were the pyramids of Egypt, hanging gardens of Seraira rnls at Babylon, Phidias' statue of Jupiter at Athens, temple of Diana at Ephesus, mausoleum at Hallcar nassus, colussus of Rhodes and the pharos or lighthouse at Alexandria. The seven wonders of the ancient world never amounted to much ex cept in the wea-y of scenery. And as scenery they wouldn't be much of a sight today. Nevertheless, In their time they- were truly wonders, and as such had an incalculable effect upon the lives of the ancients. The hanging gardens of Babylon doubtless represented a rather med iocre quality of landscape garden- ng, but they were wonderful to the Babylonians and as much a matter of pride to them as a 24-story build ing is to a Texas city today. The colossus of Rhodes was a mas sive bronze Joke, but it stirred be holders to awe. Those who came to see it did not laugh; they only rub bered. The sight of an immense Image of a man straddling a harbor did not strike the tourists of those days as comical, but only as great. And the end of that mighty effigy what a change it was from herolo pose to lowly dispossession, from climax to anti-climax! The colossus of Rhodes was dethroned by earthquake - and sold by the thrifty townspeople to a Junk dealer. All man's wonders perish in time. Only the things of God endure Dallas (Texas) Newa e Peter Perley Poore, writing from Charlottesville, Va., to the Washing ton Times, has an Interesting mem ory : "Who remembers the scrap which took place between Colonel 'Wes' Cox and Senator John Sharp Wil liams on the top of Vinegar hill when the senator was here at college and 'us boys' were boys? 'They say" that the senator and his bunch were called up before the faculty the next day and he was asked who gave him he black eye. He replied that no one had given It to him he had to ight like the devil for it, and he onsldered himself doggone lucky. that both of thenl were not black. That they had started out from the niversity to clean up the town boys nd they ran against a little fellow t the top of Vinegar hill and they thought he would be a good sub ject to start in on and get 'kinder' warmed up, but before they got through they were uncertain as to whether they had struck a boy or a wild-cat and when whatever it was got through with them they were ready to return to the university; hey'd had enough. The faculty, after giving him the 'once over," In formed them that they would droD the case, as from the appearance of all of them they had been punished enough." Those Who Come and Go. "Wheat five feet high, with heads so heavy thatHhey lean over; oats so high that a tall man has to raise his arms to be seen over the tops. that's the kind of crops being raised on Irrigated land In our section, de clares State Senator Baldwin of Klam- th county, who Is at the Imperial. My boy Is Irrigating 11.000 acres and Is about to put 3000 more under water. The cost Is 127 an acre. This Is almost half as much acreage as the government has irrigated In that district, the government having 82,000 acres, which eost 132 an acre, al though the government said It would cost but $18." Senator Baldwin has Just returned from the livestock show at Chicago, being one of a party of 85 Oregon people who went back. He says that the Oregonlan group are more enthusiastic than ever over the recent stock show In Portland after viewing the show In Chicago. When Mrs. L A. Humphries was in Lebanon at the time of the recent storm, the temperature was 10 de grees below lero and took everything before It. The city water works froze up enough to put the servloe out of business. Mrs. Humphries noticed that the water was running a bit slow so she filled the bsth tub with water and that tub of water wae all the water In evidence about the hotel where she was housed, except melted snow, which was used for drinking and cooking purposes. All one night the kitchen range was used to melt snow enough to run the boilers to get enough heat to keep warm. Two traveling men had to get to Albany. 14 miles away, and hired a rig at a cost of $20. They were seven hours going the 14 miles. Mrs. Humphries represents a local flour mill In west ern Oregon. She registered at the Multnomah yesterday for the holidays. RIVER ICE-BREAKER OF TALCK Could Be feed for Toning Be tween Emergencies. WARRENDALE. Or.. Dec. 22. (To the Editor.) Has It ever occurred to th th Ice-breaker In the Columbia river! The people along both sides of the river after a freeze are faced with a grave danger of losing thousands of dollars worth or property through the lack of a boat that oould be used for breaking up Icejame, thus getting the Ice to move downstream gradually be fore any damage Is done. The only natural way to clear Co lumbia river from Ice is to wait until snow front the bottom lands and foot hills has formed a eufflcient amount of water behind to force the Ice -to move downstream In one body. It Is under such condition the havoc Is played with improvements on ths river. I would not be surprised, after be ing so familiar with ice conditions on the upper river, to hear some day that the interstate bridge at Van couver is in utmost danger, due to Icejams. An urgent need would be solved If the state would build and maintain a tugboat built in the bow similar to Icebreakers used for keep ing ports open on the Baltic. It could be used for towing vessels In and out over the bar and for any emergency that may happen. ERICK EXQUIST. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. WOMEN WIM. BE WOMEX. The H. C. L. has .w. w e port and pilot commissioner of j Philippines to give up their clothes, but , t the women Insist on dreeslne- mora lav Is state that there la need for an i UnlT tnmn evr N ,. , mor In the smiling Isle of Jolo. where the natives lay the foe low with a bludgeon called a bolo and a harsh and hideous grin. Back through centuries unnumbered, people fished and fought and slumbered, absolutely unencum bered save by their surrounding skin. Then the white man came and brought 'em Paris styles that swiftly caught 'em. and they hocked their spears and bought em till each Jolo beau and belle Had a silken scarf or sash and a well- aeveioped passion to be dolled up In the fashion of th true Parisian swell. But alas, the cost of dressinar soon grew painfully distressing, while the need for chow was pressing end the bread fruit crop was short. It was hard to meet the payment for a Drand new set of raiment when one's stomach was a claimant for Its nutritive support. When the twenty-six former steel- workers from Youngstown, O., who have $25,000 among them on their deportation, arrive in red Russia, they are apt to wish they had let well enough alone, so that they could have stayed in the United States. If they go to work under the Utopian rule of bolshevists, they will not be able to accumulate such sums. and if they change their American money Into bolshevist money at the present value, they will probably need an autotruck to haul it around until some commissar or red guard relieves them of it. But the saddest awakening will come when they compare the rations of red Russia with those of "capitalist" America. Probably the best cure for their revolutionary opinons is to send them to the country which has tried those opinions on itself. If nothing else could, the arrival of the Christmas number of the Se attle Argus reminds that Christmas is near. It Is fully up to the high standard of excellence which has been maintained for many years perfect halftones and good, breezy descriptive articles printed on the best paper. The Pacific fleet in the harbor holds a prominent place among the illustrations, and there are views of the city from sea, shore and air, also of mountains, forests ranoh and farm. An army of ex-siloon bouncers Is out of employment In the east. If an expeditious job is wanted, why not call for volunteers and turn 'em loose on the I. W. W.? Fourteen former terrorists of the Bela Kun regime have been executed at Budapest. A little terrorism for the terrorists. Attorney-General Palmer promises a .drop in food prices after January 1 Hope this isn t merely a New Year's resolution. Internal revenue officers are on a hunt for stills. Evidently trying to supply the chaser for moonshine whisky. Spokane barbers nave gone on strike. At current barbering prices the striking should be done by pa trons. Let us be fair and give the drivers much credit for the few accidents while city streets have been thronged r - Why not clean up all kinds of gambling affairs fpr at least one full week this holiday season? Admiral Sims is a big enough man to criticise his superior if it is against ethics. Havelock Ellis does not believe that such a thing as to dream that you are dreaming Is possible. For his part he says, he has never had any such experience, but admits that it has been borne witness to by many phil osophers and other Investigators of dream phenomena from Aristotle and Syncslus down to the present day. In this connection It may be reckoned that the literature of dream scienoe Is a large one and that the books written upon the subject by learned and distinguished men from Arls totle, the famous Greek philosopher who died 322 years before Christ and was the first to attempt a scientlflo investigation of the dream problem down to Freud and Havelock, would fill a considerable library. Most of the scientists admit the fact of dreams within dreams and nearly everybody has had such an experience, even though Havelock has not. Havelock says that when In our dream we say to ourselves, "I am dreaming," we are not asleep really. but have "emerged for a moment, without realizing it, to the waking surface of consciousness." No one who has had such a dream will agree with him. The other scientists, ad mitting the dream within a dream. explain It in various learned psycho logical ways. As for our mystic, he bothers him self not at all about psychology, but declares that It is unlucky to dream that you are dreaming. For It means that somebody Is going to deceive you and cheat you out of money or valuables. So if in some complicated or unpleasant dream your "dream thought" says, "It's all dreaming any way; I am only dreaming," look carefully after your affairs and keep watch of those who are In a position to deceive you. Journeys, unless ab solutely, necessary, are not recom mended after such a dream. But its special warning Is to be on the alert for cheats. Atlanta Constitution. What Is really needed is a New Year's resolution that will enforce Itself. Please remember, madam, the best smokes are not tied with ribbon bows. Most of these reds seem to have more yellow than red in their make ups. Comes near being a dollar Christ mas a dollar for everything. "Princess Pat" always was right and now she's more so. all Last day for doing It and 'most a year for regretting not. Portland never green, Christmas. worries over a Perhaps no man but Paderewskl could compose both a minuet and a state paper. Yet he is not the first, says a writer in the New York Globe, to practloe both music and state craft. Lambert MVrphy, tenor. In his recitals. Is singing songs by Francis Hopklnson, our first Ameri can composer in point of time, and a signer, moreover, of the Declara tion of Independence. Jefferson wrote from Paris that one of Hop klnson's songs played by his elder daughter on the harpsichord moved her sister to tears. Current versifiers may take heart on reading , one of Hopkinson's mas terpieces. He was a better signer than singer. My days have been so wondrous free The little birds that fly With careless ease from tree to tree Vers but as blest aa L Ask gilding waters If a tear Of mine increaa'd that stream. And ask the breathing glades IX e'er I lent a sfgh to them. Hopklnson dedicated his songs to Washington, who. In accepting the honor, remarked that he could neither sing nor "raise a single note on any in'strument." A recent dispatch from Peoria, Til., reports the death of J. H. Monroe, a veteran of the Civil war. Mr. Monroe was the "Drummer Boy of Shlloh." who was shown in marble in mam old-time statues, and whose fame was blazed forth vividly In every little red Bchoolhouse of the midwest SO years ago as tha principal character in home-made war dramas of the same name. These produc tions afforded the first sight of red fir to many who were confirmed theatergoers In later life. Two fa mous actresses declared that their first appearance on the stage was in the school cast of "The Drummer Boy. fit Shlloh,." New York, Sun, Turkeys are selling, retail, for 48 cents at Hermiston. says Colonel H. G. Xewport, who Is at the Perkins. The colonel Is Interested in the high way contract between John Day- river and the Deschutes. 15 miles of heavy work. The contractors have 100 horses on the ground, a steam shovel and other equipment, and had the work somewhat under way when tne com spell arrived. The work Is a winter job. hotvever, and will be pushed aa fast as DOssible. The highway ia graded and graveled from two miles west of Heppner Junction to Echo, a distance of 45 miles. There are bridges still to be put In along this route, and those which are to be of concrete are now under way. By- spring the road will be completed between Blalock and Echo and in tne fall the bridge across the Deschutes will be finished and the machines can slip along from the sea to Pendle ton on high. F. B. Tngels of Dufur time to Port land Monday with a carload of 88 Jersey-Duroe hogs, and It was one of the finest carlosds placed on the Portland market. They "topped the msrket." bringing 16 cents. Their average weight was 253 pounds. Mr. Ingles rame from Interior Alaska about five years ago and bought the Batch farm and hotel at Dufur. There were 1500 acres in the farm, but he added to It an adjacent tract of 800 acres for a spring pasture, where he will keep his Hereford when not In th forest reserve. Mr. Ingles has several hundred cattle, about an equal number of hogs, and nearly as many horses and colts. To keep from Idle ness. Mr. Ingles manages tha big Balch hotel and look after his or chards of about 150 acres. He checked out from the Denton and returned home yesterday. J. J. Gorman of Seattle is at the Hotel Portland- Mr. Gorman is In the city arranging for the establishment of a school for demobilised soldiers under th auspices of the Knights of Columbus, this schooling being with out charge to the former service men A registration bureau for the former soldiers who wish to take advantage of th educational offering will be opened in the Peck building. The courses will b along practical lines and th only qualification necessary to enter Is for a service man to ex hibit his discharge paper. George Trumblay, clerk at the Multnomah, has been trying to figure out why so many lumbermen and mill operators have been In Portland during the past two weeks. He began to think that there was a lumDermen s convention on tap until he made a few inquiries and discovered that the recent cold snap caused the mills and camps to close, and the managers of the mills and camps decided to keep them closed during th holiday pe riod on account of so many of the men wanting to lay off. Th mills and camps will open up again about January- 1. Between 6 and 7 per cent of the fish at the Bonneville state hatchery were lost during the recent cold weather, according to Ed Clanton, fish culturist for the state. The water shut off vral times owing to the Ice and men had to be kept engaged breaking the Ice and en abling the water to flow into the hatchery. Th Columbia highway la still spotted with drifts, and here and there some rocks" have come down the mountain side, brought down by snow slides, but the highway can easily be cleared In a short time, he says. Scourge of the jackrabblts of east ern Oregon. Frank L. Ballard of the Oregon Agricultural college extension staff arrived at tne imperial yesier rfv Mr. Ballard say his efforts to exterminate the pest are meeting with success, notwithstanding that the rab bit is prolific. Mr. Ballard states that one ounce of strychnine has on the vpriin nolsoned 50 or tne ronems Throughout the jackrabbit habitat east of the Cascade mountains Mr. Raii.rd Is known as "Jackrabbit Sleep." BEECH ER'S PROFAMTf 9ERMO Portland Educator Confirm PesalaT story of Incident. PORTLAND, Dec. C2. (To thb Edi tor.) I have read in The Oregonian the Henry Ward Beecher sermon epi sode, and your correspondent. scarcely does th occasion Justice. Our once fellow-townsman. Prof. R. K. Warren, of commendable fame throughout Oregon as a thorough Christian, gentleman and educator, notable as president of Albany col lege, and for a number of years as principal of our Portland high school. is at one time an attendant upon Mr. Beecher's services, and I heard him relate the Incident referred to. Mr. Beecher stood before his audi ence a few moments, vigorously wip ing the perspiration from his face and hands and deliberately repeated the words three times, "It la damned hot! to the astonishment of his hearers and then in deep-toned accents he added, "Such were th words which greeted my ears on entering the house of God. He then proceeded to de liver a masterful sermon upon pro fanity. Inspirational sermons and ad dresses were characteristic Of Mr Beecher. He was a personal friend and admirer of President Lincoln, and hlB unalloyed patriotism, eloquent and unabated zeal enabled him to render exceptional service to the union cause in those fateful days of our civil war, E. QUACKEXBL'SH One Sad But by one the men proceeded to provide most they needed, one by ofte they sadly heeded na ture's stern demand for food. of face and heavy hearted their beloved clothe they carted to the pawnshop and departed to their native jungle, nude. the women folks, whose graces and whose saddle colored faces were enhanced with silks and and laces and enchanting furbelows. Xow that they have learned to wear em vow they simply cannol spar 'em; threats of famine cannot scare 'em; they've Just got to have those clothes. T naapplly. Sugar, diamonds and coal are all made or carbon, but not of the kind of csrbon that collects so plentifully on the valves of your fllwer. Do Them Any .Naturally. It Didn't Good. Goldman and Berk man announced that there is no law and then tried to hid behind it. e And Doing a Hushing Bnalneaa. The Mexican correspondence schools are now giving courses In kidnaping (Copyright. 1019. by Th Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Alone. By Grnre K. Mall. WHAT OK THE NO-SERVICE MAX; Case of Mlddle-Aged Head of Family Presented for Attention. PORTLAND, Dec. 2S. (To the Edi tor.) I beg for a hearing through the columns of The Oregonlan. We hear df nation-wide agitation for jobs for ex-servlee men. all of which Is highly commendable. But what about the man of family between the ages of 40 and 50 who kept Industry going at home and bought liberty bonds? I am one who has been discharged from my job to make a place for a soldier. I have a family, pay taxes and am trying to pay for a home. My financial needs are desperate. There are many others In the same fix. Xow why don't som of our lead ing citizens tak that matter up and at least make an effort to help the deserving family man? Am I not worth aa much to the nation as an ex-service man? We would be thank ful for two or three days work a week. Why not divide the work? We could all work half time and get by until conditions Improve. Think about that. The family of a working man is Just as dear to him as the family of one In some higher station or society. I for on will not permit my family to starve MAN WITH A FAMILY. DEMOCRATIC TWIST TO ARTICLE Capleasaat Surprise Found at End of Government Arraignment. PORTLAND. Dec. S3. (To the Edi tor.) -There Is a splendid editorial In th Saturday Evening Post of date December SO that is, it Is splendid down to th last two sentences, which say: "The old parties might profit ably spend a little time searching their souls. If they do not, they- will wake up some fine morning between now and the next election and find new narty. armed with a search war- want, at the front door of the capitol." This is a deplorable statement to make as a summing up of a masterly argument on the subject of recon structlon. It could not have ben made except by the mind of a stub born democrat. The statement In those two sentences fairly takes the breath away from a thinking person. It is a wild effort to presume that tha republicans and the democrats are alike to blame for the present state of affairs. Following, as those sen tences do, a masterly arraignment of incompetents, one would almost think the editor would rather see almost anything happen than the Inevitable replacement of the democrats by re publican. ' J. A. CLEMENSOX. When sorrow presses close and lin gering stays. To force uuwelcom gloom upen our heart, . Or pain becomes companion through the days. Refusing urg to lessen or depart. There comes the kindly wish from many a friend. The sympathising word In lovlnt tone. But from the first unto th bitter end We bear the grief and sense the pain alone. Sometimes In anxious thought we strive to reach The sane conclusion where best In terests lie. Call to our aid the logic life may teach. Deductions and solutions valnlv try; Go then to others, telling of our plight. Weigh well advice they offer for our aid. Yet In the worry-hours of the night Tls through self-power the great decision's made. If man but reasoned In a concret way. But recognized that his own force must serve. That through th trials meeting him each day His own brain must be source of strength and nerve. If he but faced th truth that none can break A trail for him through life's gray desert zone. Perhaps he then a clean-cut path would make. On no man's strength relying save his own. t In Other Days. On of the toughest features of fighting the snowstorm in trve Uma tilla district was finding men to go out with the equipment to keep the linen onert. according to t. h. JBuiier worth, yardmaster at Umatilla. The effects of the storm nave now oeen obliterated and Mr. Butterworth took a day off to come to Portland to browse around among the shops look ing for St. Nicholas. W. Bollons, a well-known rail roader of La' Grande, which is the garden spot of the world, according to James Corbett. also of that town, Is registered at the Hotel Oregon. B. B. Richards, who s m the real estate business at Athena, Or.. Is at the Multnomah. He Is accompanied by his son, a student at the Oregon Agricultural college. Among the Christmas shoppers from out of town registered at the Mult nomah are Dr. and Mrs, M. Ditte brandt of Cascade Locks. Only World War Veteran. PORTLAND, Dec. 2S. (To the Edi tor.) Can a veteran of the Spanish American war become a member at large of th American Legion?- What is the fee and where must one apply for membership? JOHN KOKTA. At the national convention of th American Legion it was decided that only service men In the world wat could be admitted to membership and that no honorary memberships would be recognized, , DOWN TO THE SEA. (Lines on the loss of the J. P. Chanslor. ) O, the land may lure and the city call. But their landward charms on the mariners pall When the anchor's up and the hawsa ropes fall. And the ship slips out from her com rades tall. Adventuring down to the sea. For these are the men who can face their goal. And face as they watch their argosy roll To a thundering death on a treacher ous shoal. Nor flinch as the brute ea takes its toll Of adventurers down to the sea. O, a quiet sea 'neath a starshot sky Is a sea for lovers to whisper by To whisper and gaze, and gazing, sigh But not for the mariner, head flung high. Adventuring down to the sea. L. L DAVIES. Land Not Yet Available. GASTON. Or.. Dec S2. (To the Edi tor.) I see where uncle Sam is going to give 7000 acres of land to ex service men. Please state where a man should write to get Information and where he should file application: also state If men must live on this land three years like any other home stead to obtain deed. If a man is going to school will his time go on his homestead? EX -SERVICE MAN. The bill has not yet passed con gress and rules and regulations for allotment of the land have not yet been formulated. Full Information will be given in the press In ample Tvrenty-flve Years Ago. From The Oretronlan. December 24, 1894. Whitman, Ga. The lives of seven negroes have been taken In the last 24 hours. In revenge for that of one white man. and many more lives are In jeopardy. London. Great loss of life end property resulted from a storm that prevailed throughout Great Britain yesterday. Washington. It Is understood that congress will make an effort during the present session to provide a code of laws for the government of Alas ka. Since its organisation the terri tory has been governed by the Oregon laws. Some 1200 bales of hops are yet un sold in Puyallup. Wash., warehouses. Kitty Year Ago. From The Oregonlan. December 24, 189. Washington. The national debt has been reduced $71,903,525 since March L 1869. Indianapolis. The board of Purdue University and Agricultural college today selected a site for th college near LafayeUe. The two flouring mills are supplied with sufficient grain to run the full time. The three sawmills are run ning, two of them three-quarters time. We see by the California papers that Oregon hams are being favorably received in the markets of that state. time It tha land 4sv finally, opened. ITTEREST IN STTM. 18 DENIED air. WIla Ready to Establish Inno cence 1st All Particular. TALBOT. Or., Deo. 13, 1S19. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan, De cember SO, I not a special item from Salem under date of December 18. stating In effect that I had been operstlng three liquor stills and, had actually admitted that I had ordered one of the 20-gellon stills seised at the plumbing establishment of Fraser ft Piatt of Salem. I do not know who is responsible for such a slanderous news item, but I do feel sure that you will not hesi tate to rectify the errors by another Item stating that I can easily estab lish my Innocence of ever having been connected with Illicit brewing or dl tilling of any kind. E. E. WELLS. The I nf ailing Test. XEWBERG. Or., Dec. 22. (To the Editor.) It 1 sometimes said of an Irritable man: "He oould not get along with his own dog!" Did our own Mr. Wilson ever own a dog? 3, V. SMITH, V