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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1919. : 1U l-IIMi BY 1IKNBV L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. C. A. IIORDKN. JS. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Orejronian In a member of the Asso ciate.! Press. The Aao i-u-d Preaa la exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of yii news dlspatehss credited to It r not otherwise credited in this paper and Also the local news published herein. AH rights of republication of special dispatches rtor1n fl re also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, on year ..$8.00 Dally, Sunday Included, six months .... 4.25 Dally, Sunday Included, three months.. 3.23 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 75 Dally, without Sunday, on ysar 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months S.25 Dally, without Sunday, one month .60 weekly, one year 1.00 lundHv, one year . 2.50 Sunday and weekly 8.30 (By Carrier.) Dally. 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This Is the same kind of stuff aa was circulated on behalf of Germany while the United States was still neu tral, for the purpose of keeping- the United States out of war. Its pur pose and effect can only be to arouse doubt whether we were right in fighting, to lead us to be merciful In making peace with an innocent, ma ligned and deeply -wronged Germany and to make us turn against the al lies for having tricked us into shed ding the blood of this innocent. Th6 questions discussed in these pamph lets were decided, so far as the American people are concerned, when congress declared war and they cannot be opened until the peace treaty Is ratified and Is being ex ecuted in good faith by Germany. No German influence should be permit ted to weaken our purpose in that respect. Later circulation of such matter might be permitted without harm, for then It will simply aid the academic study of German mentality under the influence of defeat. The law which forbade distribu tion of German publications in time of war Is still In effect, and will re main so till peace is formally re stored. Its enforcement would ex clude all such matter from the mails. ANOTHER OK the ONM.AITillT II. C. O.F I The interesting tactical experiment Of attacking the high cost -of living piecemeal and destroying it by de tachments, continues without much success, if we are to credit the es timate of the National Industrial Conference Board that there was an average increase, between July 1, 1919, and November 1. 1919. of 5.8 per cent in all the five major Items in the family budget. A good deal de pends, it seems, on the spirit in which the problem is approached, and the spirit of extravagance is still rampant. This probably accounts in large measure for the failure noted. There is, for example, the pressing item of rent. Now, there may be in high rent an element of profiteering, but there is chiefly the factor of in adequate housing facilities, which leads prospective tenants to bid against one another for quarters in which to live. Until the point of aaturation is reached, of course, and ao long a the present supply of rentable houses Is unaugmented, landlords as a whole will continue to pile on all that the traffic will bear. The obvious remedy would be more houses. And here and there one reads of new construction enterprises, of which one just described in the New York newspapers is typical of the times. In a city in which BOO. 000 persons are said to lack reasonably adequate homes, it is announced that a "deal has been closed" for the erection of a $4,000,000 apartment house "that for appointments, conveniences and general makeup will quite outshine any establishment of a similar na ture in America." The details are not taken from the "Arabian Nights," but from the matter-of-fact real es tate columns of a metropolitan news paper. At least one of the apartments will comprise twenty-eight rooms and ten bathrooms. Other suites range in size from seventeen rooms and seven bathrooms to three rooms and a single bathroom. No .modern improvement is to be overlooked, if the architects can help it not even the restaurant on the ground floor that Louis Sherry is going to con duct, and which it is announced will be an improvement over all other restaurants that have heretofore ex isted. The ground rental for this ambitious effort to relieve housing congestion runs about $100,000 per annum. We read with even deeper interest that the promoters have solved the servant problem. The house will "maintain a corps of cooks, serving men and women, butlers, doormen, chambermaids, valets and all other necessary functionaries." Whatever sort of servant the tenants may feel they require they can procure by "simply notifying the man in charge of the serving staff." The present need of the country is not more palatial homes, more epi curean restaurants, more valets and flunkeys and other "necessary" func tionaries, but a greater number of average accommodations and com modities, such as before the war the moderately well-off regarded as suf ficient for their wants. Instead, wherever peacetime industry re sumes, it appears, as in the instance cited, to be concerned with produc tion of accommodations and articles de luxe. It Is not to be wondered at that the Federal Reserve Bank should have said, in a recent state ment, that "to high prices the buying public shows almost no resistance. "Buyers accept the high prices as quite to be expected." Also they go right on calling for more at the same price, and if they cannot get it at the aame price, at whatever price the seller chooses to ask. Perhaps it will yet sink into the consciousness of all Americans that thrift is not disgraceful, that econ omy is patriotic, that things that made us happy before the war may be good enough for us now. Until it does, there is small hope of improve ment. The few who seem to Com prehend the necessity of the times can do nothing effective until they are joined by the larger number who by their more or less willing partici pation in the extravagance of the times are doing so much to prolong the high price era indefinitely. front the people which call for delib eration and discussion unclouded by passion or violence, and the reds re semble the disturbers at a public meeting who climb on the platform and slug the speakers. They hinder decision in the American way. Probably the most dangerous men have not fallen into the net, but the voyage of the Buford is only the be ginning; of a systematic campaign. Congress has followed it up by pass ing a law that any alien member of a conspiracy against the government must be deported, leaving no discre tion to the parlor bolshevists in the labor department. It will next pass a law providing- penalties for all American cltirens who are members of such organizations. The depart ment of Justice shows a zeal which those of 1886-90, when 60 per cent of all bachelors married. The pro portion of bachelors who do not marry until they are thirty-five or over increases steadily. Also, only 54.8 per cent of spinsters marrying, during 1917 were under twenty-five years of age. , . The falling birth rate, while the chief cause of depopulation, is not the only one. It Is accepted as a scientific truth in France that cur tailment of alcoholism would check infant mortality, insanity and tuber culosis. Even the enlightened oppo nents of prohibition do not maintain that excessive indulgence in spirits is not harmful. All but a few of the unreconstructed commend the wat measure which did away with ab sinthe. Still, France needs, .to maln- the labor department lacks, and if, tain her existence as a nation, 1,500, as is proposed, it should be entrusted 000 births annually. The pre-war with enforcement of the deportation average was 750,000. Of her 11,000,- law, we shall soon have a general clean-up of reds. DR. OSLKR. Dr. William Osier outlived by ten years and five months the period of more than one-third of the whole. 000 married couples, Mr. Scheifley points out, almost two million are childless, three million have but one child to a family, and more than two million have but two children. The remaining four million, only a little man's usefulness which a misinter pretation of one of his own pleasan tries has made it appear that he had delimited. His seventieth birthday was celebrated on July 29, last, with a noteworthy demonstration on the part of students at Oxford of their reverence, professional and personal. for Dr. Osier as teacher ami all have three or more. "Whereas one third tend to augment the race, ap proximately two-thirds let it de cline." Under Francis I French fam ilies averaged seven children each; under Louis XVI. five; in 1879, four; by 1914 the average had declined to two. Moral remedies, the writer points XAOO.OOe FOR WHAT? Mr. Kozer, of the secretary of state's office, produces gasoline tax figures which reveal that in the nine months during which the tax law has been in effect, Oregon has consumed .10,000,000 gallons of gasoline. The consumption is at the rate of 40,- 000,000 gallons a year. Here Is a basis for computing the cost to Oregon consumers of the re cent advance in the price of gasoline. That advance of one and one-half cents a gallon means a total outlay by users in a year's time of $600,000. The reason for this increase is as cribed by the oil companies wholly to the gravity test imposed by the Oregon law and it is promised that repeal of the law will cause a corres ponding reduction. Clearly it is important to know just what advantage Oregon is re ceiving for its $600,000 a year. If that something is not greater mile age or more power, but merely the satisfaction of knowing that the state is forcing the oil companies to provide a grade which they do not wish to provide, then the same money could be spent to better ad vantage. If the gasoline users have $600,000 a year that they do not need it could be spent advantageously on roads and give much greater satis faction than a mere show of inde pendence. The sum would provide interest and sinking fund for a $10,000,000 bond issue. around man. It is deeply- significant ut- can a,one be tru,y efficacious. that two-thirds of all his career as a professor at Oxford were included In the period to which allusion has been made the years following the sixtieth birthday. This was the time at which, according to the mistaken notion of the philosophy of "osler ization," a man ought to be chloro formed as no longer useful Shall the state, as one writer sug gests, offer for children whatever they cost? The British maternity benefit has been shown to be ludi crously inadequate, if designed as a measure of compensation for the in cident of maternity alone. The dif ficulty with premiums, Mr. Schiefley is aware, is that they would tempt wn r,r n.i.r n. chiefly those least fit to rear chil- more than a new word: he set mnnv dren. Is It true, however, as he sug tn thinking thti, im thn fnni.tinn e I gests, that "present circumstances thf true trarhpr nnH ho -i-e nrnnf permit Of DO Choice , 1 . . . . a i i in his own life and n-nrlti that a man "yet imeu icr, quuieu in a. lJii is bv nr. mentis rlnn fnr nt ,.1-rtv- if Jn letter printed in the New York the years before have' been years of Sun- may have hlt on a fundamental nrenaration for those to follow The. cause in relating how he listened to NOT LD3EL. The amazing case of the charlatan Alzamon Ira Lucas has been closed by a speedy judicial determination that he was not libeled by the Even ing Telegram. It is amazing be cause Lucas seems to have been more or less a -lctim of his own as tounding theories, and to have thought that he had been wronged when the brutal facts about the fal lacy of his teachings and the error of his practices were made public. How otherwise could he have been so self-deceived as to begin suit for damages? There may be doubt about the scientific truth of hypnotism; but there is no doubt about the prev alence of a kind of self-hypnotism. When one sets himself up as a teacher and healer, he assumes a role which justifies inquiry as to his character, motives, and methods. He need not be surprised when he is called to account, and he need not be surprised, besides, when a Jury in sists on'a demonstration of his com petency and his knowledge on the basis of ascertained truth. There is, of course, a deal of buncombe that passes for science (but is not); and it is possible for even an ignorant man to ucquire a vocabulary of cant and pretense that to the unthinking passes for the language of real learn ing. But there is a difference, and it is easily found and exposed. The astrologer uses the terminology of the astronomer to read the horo scope and tell the fortune of the credulous; the quack guarantees to cure where the physician promises only to give the treatment prescribed by long experimentation .and by proven experience; the faker will get ducks out of a bag where the farmer must adopt the slow and orderly processes of propagation and care. The public has had the benefit of the Telegram's purpose to show up Lucas and his false doctrines and certain other details about him. It may be that other bogus "doctors" will be warned that the scheme of making a living out of the fears and doubts of a gullible public has its dangers. catalogue of things that he did in the last ten years of his life is a formid able one. Nor did his multitudinous duties, professional and editorial ever keep him so busy that he could not find time to be the personal guide, counsellor and friend of his students individually. Dr. Osier's life was ordered, on the whole, we think, almost as it would have been in an ideal state of society. There is a saying among the Indian? which applies to it: "Old men for the council; young men for war. Not that Dr. Osier In his sixties was "old," fn the careless sense of the word, but that in the period when his Judgment was most ripe, his counsel most valuable, he was able to devote himself to admonition and instruc tion of the coming generation. These were years of consecration, of frui tion, of revivification, of inspiration. The physician lives in the students he has ennobled by example and pre cept. The good he might have done merely as a worker In his later years is multiplied many-fold by the achievements of others that he made possible. THE FALLING BIRTH RATE France is not the only nation in Europe in which the problem of a falling birth rate is acute. London correspondents note that British thinkers are alarmed. The birth rate per 1000 persons in England and Wales, says a recent London let ter, was 17.7 in 1918, as compared with 34.1 per 1000 as the average of ten years from 1851 to 1860. The rate in Cheshire is only 16.9 per 1000 and that in London 16.1. "The end of the war," says one correspondent, "shows no check in what is really national suicide." Nor are England and France alone concerned. Even Germany, formerly regarded as the nursery of Europe, and which pro duced its million babies a year at the bidding of the war lord as food for his cannon, is fast depopulating. Discussion the question, "Is France Dying?" William II. Scheifley, writ ing in the North American Review, makes a gloomy prognostication, but seeks to be eonstructlveto indicate a remedy. Reviewing the transition from one social condition to another since the revolution, he quotes a French philosopher as declaring de population to be "essentially a socio logical question, though stated in physical, biological, moral and politi cal terms," and as attributing it "chiefly to the lack of adaptation be- seventeen couples of business girls, of which number no fewer than eleven used the expression: "Where are you going tonight?" The rela tion between this question and the issue of depopulation is that the former denotes concern over pleas ure, which is in modern practice expensive and which in excess means selfishness, entails effort and absorbs vitality. Pleasure becoming a neces sity, necessity for choosing between pleasure and children results in de cision against children. Which goes back to Mr. Schiefley's assumption that "moral remedies can alone be truly efficacious." and supports his contention that It will at last be nec essary to implant in the people the knowledge that society is not the abstraction they have conceived it to be. that "national economy, in its highest form, implies a reciprocity of rights and duties between the in dividual and society." The citizen must be made to feel both the weak ness of his country and his duty toward it. The problem is to find a corrective for individual selfishness at least the substitution for this of the higher conception of self-interest which realizes individual duty to the nation and the race. A man paralyzed in both legs is reported by doctors to have jumped up, cured, when a phonograph play ing jazz music was wheeled into his room. This sounds likely enough He was probably trying to get out of the room. Travel to the south is so heavy the Southern Pacific has had to put on an extra train. This is peculiar. We I understood the price of bootleg whisky had been Increased In Cali fornia to meet the Oregon scale. What will the 32.000 Western Union employes do with all the money they get In salary increases after New Year's? It averages about $3 a week and it is to be hoped they do not tell their wives. BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES. American Machinery I'se-d in Cold Mines of South Africa. At a depth of three-quarters of a mile below the surface of the earth, men at work In the wonderful gold mines of the Rand, in South Africa, with pneumatic machines of Ameri can make, are digging for gold. Having reached a depth of 4000 feet, the Rand diggers cannot go much further down on account of the heat. As one descends Into the bowels of the planet the temperature steadily rises and a mile below the surface it is usually so high that workmen cannot endure It, even with ventila tion. Gold bearing quartz reefs ordinarily represent cracks In the .earth's crust that have been filled In with aurif erous material brought up from the depths by volranic action. With the Rand It is different. No gold has ever been found elsewhere under such conditions, the deposit being sedimen tary. The edge of the reef (part of which la straddled by the city of Johannes- burs) runs In almost a straight line for a distance of 30 miles, cropping out at intervals. It Is only a few feet wide, but slants down Into the bowels of the earth for miles The ore bodies are of nearly uniform rich ness throughout, though "low grade," yielding only about $14 worth of gold to the ton. Perhaps 60.000,000 years have passed s-ince the great reef was the beach of an ancient sea. Its sands contain ing gold brought down by rivers. By geologic causes It has been tilted up, and the Bands have become quartzlte rock, which looks like dark gray nut cake, with whitish pebbles thickly scattered through it. It Is the vast quantities of this ore available that have made the mines of the Rand the greatest gold pro ducers the world has ever known, modern scientific methods rendering practicable the extraction of the precious metal at the cost of only $6 per ton of the raw material. Among the populace of Dublin in 1780 the shoeblacks were a numerous and formidable body. The polish they used was lampblack and eggs. Tor which they purchased all that were rotten in the markets. Their imple ments consisted of a three-legged stooT, a basket containing a blunt knife called a spud, a painter's brush and an old wig. A gentleman usually went out In the morning with dirty betst or shoes sure to find a shoe black sitting on his stool at the cor ner of a street. The gentleman put his foot In the lap of the shoeblack with out ceremony, and the artist scraped it with his spud, wiped It with his wig and then laid on his composition as thick as paint with his painter's brush. The stuff dried with rich pol ish, requiring no friction. It was little Inferior to the elaborate modern fluids, save only the Intolerable odors ex haled from eggs in a high state of putridity and which filled the house which was entered before the compo sition was quite dry and sometimes even tainted the air of fashionable drawing rooms. Detroit News. "Frisco ," which as a sobriquet. Is not tolerated by any newspaper of the Golden Gate city, almost prevented the Christmas marriage of Miss Edith Tubbs of London. England, and L. R. Canan of Lindsay, Cal. The young woman, a resident of Old Kent road, London, came to California to marry Canan. She was to meet him at Fresno, but made a mistake and bought a ticket to "Frisco." Canan was not In San Francisco to meet her when she arrived. Frightened and tearful, she sought the help of the Travelers' aid. The society got word to Canan. As soon as he learned she was in San Francisco he com menced telegraphing instructions and money and kept it up until the bride-to-be reached Fresno. Those Who Come and Go. "Warrenton. Or., is unique, for It has a population of 600 or 700 people and a bonded debt of $1,000,000." says E. H. Kings, publisher. "When I went to Warrenton it had no paved streets, no water system, nor lighting sys tem. It has all of these now. It Is building a 816,000 gymnasium for Its achool; It has dredged and diked the Skipanon for more than a mile. It has bought 100 acres of land for in dustrial sites and this land will be provided with lights and water, trackage and dock facilities. The In dustrial sites will be leased, the title of the property being held by the city. The result of the big bonded debt la that the people who own vacant lots and are Interested chiefly in selling real estate, will have to build In order to make them produce a revenue, for the taxes will be too high to enable anyone to hold a lot of unimproved property. Warrenton is certain to be a real town and It la time for people to wipe out the idea that one town on the Columbia river is enough." Mr. Flagg, accompanied by Mrs. Flagg, is at the Imperial. 8UARDMA.V WANTS HERB HOOVER Other Presidential Timber Discarded in Eastern Orrron Town. BOARDMAN, Or.. Dec. 27. (To the Editor.) Do readers of The Ore gonlan know there Is a place in Ore gon called Boardman? It Is on the ; main line of the O.-W. R. & N., 2 j miles east of Arlington and 26 mites west of Hermlston. It is a new town. t Just growing up out of the sand and ' sagebrush. Docs anybody live there? Sure. Mike. We have a 835,000 con crete school building nearlng comple tion, a church, hotel, tw garages, two grocery stores, barber shop, pool hall and an up-to-date hardware and furniture store. We read The Dally Oregonlan, the Literary Digest, and any old thing that comes along, hop ing to keep abreast of the times, so ' to speak. One tomfool fellow came in the other day and said, "Hurrah for WU- Tate Leading Man. By l.rsrr E. Hall. Another man may have more gold, may make far more display. And show perhaps a keener, bright er brain, Until In bitter envy you may hate him. in a way. And secretly resent his steady gain: For It takes a bit of reasoning to hold a steady view When Injustice seems to mock on every hand. But there s always compensation that will balance fair and true. If you keep an eye alert and un-de-stand. There are many kinds of values, and some fe.v are placed too high. That's the fault of folk who do not an lyze. And line raiment Is the apple Of ths weak, myopic eye. And In many a race Is rated as the prize; It is estimated that we shall need $5,000,000,000 to run the govern ment for a year. How long ago was it that Thomas B. Reed was moved to remark that "this is a billion-dol- lar country"? That St. Louis family of thirty four has nothing on the Belles fam ily of thirty-four at Cosmopolis. The west can match the east any time In tween a monarchial. Christian family anything from marbles to offspring and an egalitarian, lay democracy." GERMANY STILL PLEADS INNOCENCE Although a state of war still exists between the United States and Ger many and although the present course of Germany leaves open a possibility that actual war may be renewed, German propaganda comes through the malts as freely as be fore this country became a belliger cnt. The Oregonian has received three samples, all published in Ber lln in the year 1919 and all with the same obvious purpose to justify Germany. Only one of these pamphlets is printed in English. It is entitled "Russia's mobilisation for the world war" and quotes numerous docu ments In the effort to prove that Russia was preparing to attack Ger many when Germany attacked Rus sia. Another in German quotes members' of the German general staff on the probability of war dur ing the last few years prior to the outbreak, leading to the conclusion that the military chiefs of Germany were lamblike innocents, who were alarmed only at the danger of attack by the entente. A third, also in Ger man, discusser German methods of HOW THE REDS ARE DANGEROUS. We are warned by the Springfield Republican that deportation of an archists is no panacea for the do mestic disturbance with which the American people now contend, and it questions whether the most dan gerous persons are those who fall into the net of the law. It calls an archists a nuisance but not danger ous, they being only what Roosevelt called "the lunatic fringe" of the revolutionists. It should be remembered that the cargo of the Buford does not con sist only of anarchists. It includes several varieties of revolutionists. A New York investigator has listed no less than fifteen distinct varieties. No one brand may be dangerous, and their only point of agreement may be a desire to destroy the govern ment, but they agree there and in the aggregate are capable of much evil. If they should succeed in their first object, they wfeuld doubtless have a civil war to decide which par ticular kind of Utopia should be es tablished, and the United States would fall into the condition of Rus sia or Mexico. Reds of all shades are dangerous because they are so Impatient for change that they refuse to wait until they have convinced the majority in the orderly, American way; they want to do by violence at once that which the American people are not willing to do in exercise of cool judg ment. They inflame passion by ap peals to class hatred when reason is most needed. Their impatience, which is characteristic of people long held down by a despot and un trained in the ways of democracy, is infectious and spreads to all who favor fundamental change. It then inspires the recklessness born of con fidence in numbers. Problems con- Dr. Vermilye lost his nerve when time came to marry a young woman in Massachusetts while his wife was alive in Pennsylvania. That's all there is to it, and it isn't much. An undertaker seems to have been the king pin of the wood alcohol poisoning plot. He should certainly suffers along with other institutions 8"et tne opportunity to try the fit of whirh the individual lines not riomi- one OI nis own coirtns nate. The family is based on author ity: democracy on liberty. The writer The only punishment to fit the recalls Renan's strictures on the case of men responsible for selling French social organization which re- wood alcohol for beverage would be Such transitions as that through which France passed with the revo lution are accompanied by great ex penditures of psychic energy. De stroying the "moral conceptions of ancient France," it "offered, as the sole guide to conduct, the interest o the individual." Society is reorgan ized for the individual; the family suited from the revolution: A code of laws which seem to have been made for an Ideal citizen bora a foundling and dying a celibate: a cods which con verts everything- Snto life annuities; in which chlldr-m are an Incumbrance fol their father; In which all collective, per manent creation Is forblddsn; in which moral unities the only vital ones are dls- aolvea at each generation; jn which the shrewd fellow is an egotist who arranges his life so as to have the fewest duties possible. In France, the peril Is national de population. "Had the German em iperor but exercised patience, France would have fallen like a ripe fruit Into his lap." In other countries Great Britain for example it Is at present a problem of the extermina tion of the middle classes. A falling birth rate here among workingmen has been compensated for to a large extent by a falling death rate, as these have profited by better educa tion, particularly in health matters and by the widespread development of child welfare movements. Reduc tion of Infant mortality has made noteworthy strides in the past thirty years, and especially in the past dec ade, but the middle classes, never having suffered as did the poor, have had correspondingly less to gain The middle-class family of four or five becomes the family of two or three. A prominent physician, writ ing to the London.. Times, proposes that upon the coffin of that class shall be written the epitaph: "A class thafc died because it could not live." The marriage age meanwhile advances. Between 1911 and 1914, 89 per cent of all bachelors in Eng land married; in 1917 only 37.6 per cent. The latter figure may easily be accounted for by the war, al though the war Is held at first to have accelerated matrimony. But either figure is a decided contrast to to compel them to drink some of their own mixture A member of the Italian senate is quoted as saying that all Italy de mands is her rights. We were under the impression that she Is also de manding Flume. Lots of men might not object to breaking out of the Roseburg jail if they could stumble on to what the four escaping prisoners found. For once, at least, money hid in a trunk was not taken by local burg lars a night or two ago. As there was $100 in it, they may go back. "Klamath Falla la some town." de clares K." K. Kubli. who has returned from a trip to that place. "There Is a payroll of $100,000 a month from five lumber and. box companies, whlla throughout the county are numerous small mills. At Algoma la one of the finest mills on the coast. The county Is well covered with timber, there being more than six billion feet of standing timber. During 1918 Klamath Falla was the aecond largest ahlpplng point In Oregon for cattle and the shipments have been larger this year than last although the official figures are not yet obtainable. The Industries of Klamath county are chiefly lum bering, stock raising, dairying and farming and aside from the stock raising, none of the others have been fully developed and the opportunities are almost unlimited. The Strahorn road, now under construction, will open up the eastern part of the county and is supposed some day to go on to Bend." "The apple loss in Hood River was far greater than Is generally ad mitted." declares John R. Nlckelson member of the state senate, who Is at the Perkins. " Hundreds of car loads of apples were lost by the cold storm. An attempt was made to save them by keeping up the temperature with oil stoves, and then the oil supply ran out. A carload of oil was ordered but It did not arrive until a day too late. There are churches In Hood River where there has not been a sermon preached for many weeks aa the churches were used as storehouses for apples. The loss of the apples can be attributed more to car shortage than cold weather, for if cars had been provided the apples would have been shipped and In the hands of retailers long before the cold weather struck Hood River." The storm drove Senator Nlckelsen's family to Portland and they are here still. After living in Prlneville for four years, John R. Stlnson left there five years ago. With Mrs. Stlnson he spent Christmas at Prlneville and was surprised at the remarkable develop ment which has occurred during his absence. He found that Prlneville is connected with the main line at Red mond Junction and a big dam across the Ochoco a few miles distant from the town will irrigate about 25.000, acres, which means a big Increase in the population and wealth of that sec tion. Mr. Stlnson also learned that some Important interests are prepar ing to open up big tracts of timber and sawmills will follow in a year or two. Mr. Stlnson is at the Mult nomah arranging for the Dental Manufacturers' association convention in this city. -'The port commission at Coos Bay." says Charles Hall, chairman of the state chamber of commerce, regis tered at the Benson, "will set aside between $250,000 and $400,000 for a terminal dock. The question of lo cating the site will be left to an engineer from Portland and an engi neer from Astoria and they. In turn, will select a third engineer and the trio will determine where the dock should be placed. I feel confident that Coos county will vote favorably on the proposed $1,060,000 road bond Issue which will come up In a few weeks. If the bonds carry. It will enable Coos county to have an ad mirable system of roads." son. For president, see? What a But the one who flashes diamonds as huge joke. Another said: "No, sir I an entree to the heart General Pershing." Another said "Hi j Is a fakir that mere time will soon Johnson." Another wanted Cummins. expose; But the funniest happened the other ! And the friends who fall for glitter, day. A fellow came In and said ha ' when at length he shall depart. wanted to see the fellow elected Will not strew his path with rrujes well, my memory is falling so I can when he goes! hardly recall but If you look over I your files of many vears ago I think j So. In estimating values, though you will find his name somewhere In I you re rated oommonpiare. connection with the secretary of: You may easily be greater than tne state's office or the Chautauqua. rest. Rut have you read and keot tab on ! " rou arare a aunny smile arouna Herbert Hoover? We Boardmanltes have, and as sure as there are bristles on a hog's back If Herbert Hoover gets the nomination we shall vote for him. He la now and always has been the friend of the man that works. your ordinary face And to spread mere human sunshine do your best; For there comes a time when traits of worth atand out in plain array. When the things of tinsel tarnish, one by one. Then the real man takes the, prince's part in life's great tragic play. Though he took a minor part when 'twas begun. We are not now living In ages gone by when the common people hardly knew what the president was, but in an advanced age. We believe it high time for the rank and file, the farmer. 1. m -V, n 1.. . -nAnA - . V. ! ..... . w " r. - Oh. the man who really matters. in line and choose a man from among . . Pl0Kd, ?f 2-?L. ha.w themselve to wield the pter of! An b''x." the greatest nation of workingmen I - ... w D is - ..... , , , . . , . , i inr mail w uv puumuru uuuvi, wm an offhand, friendly way. on earth. Or shall we, as In the past sit Idly by and permit the money power to assemble in a great con vention with men of their own choos ing to choose a president from among themselves who will see to it that their Interests are conserved regard less of the wishes of the majority? I am an American-born citizen, boiled down, dyed In the wool, and say first and last and all the time "America for Americans only." Then, as Amer icans, let us demand of those whose duty it Is to hear us that our choice of American manhood be nominated for the highest seat of honor in this the greatest, nation on earth. And let that choice be none other than Her bert Hoover. W. A. G. And we let him lift and do not seem to care; The man who fills the leading role upon life's stage, you'll find. Though perhaps you never thought of It before. Is the one who has the common touch which means just being kind. And who knocks In time of trouble at your door. More Truth Than Poetry. By .lames J. Montague. SOLDIER PROTESTS JORDAN PLAX Proposal to Import Cnlnese Coolies Declared I n-American. PORTLAND. Deo. 28. (To the Edi tor.) On December 24 an Item ap peared in The Oregonlan signed by Frank C. Jordan, California secretary of state, declaring that the only solu tion of the food problem Is through the Importation of Chinese labor Into the United States to work on farms. I wish to state that in my estima tion Mr. Jordan has taken a stand that is wholly un-American and Is contrary to the principles of the American L,eglon which stands for a bigger and better America. Now. I have worked on a farm and have performed every line of labor known to farm work. What line of REMINISCENCES. No wife, no child 6hall say me nay. Despite the vain objections Of kindly friends I mean, some day. To write my recollections. No Jeer, no jibe, no fleer, no flout This plan of mine shall stifle; I've not a thing to write about. But that's the merest trifle. My recollection's not too strong, It's served me rather crudely, I haven't recollected long Or recollected shrewdly. The things that I remember now Are not the least exciting. But better men have taught me how To make 'em worth the writing. If one lets time enough elapse Before he reminisces And fills In all the many gaps Where memory often misses With kindly deeds and loving deds And deeds of glowing glory. agricultural work is so degraded or He'll find that this Is all he needs To make a corking story. When great men their memoirs lndiia No facts their memories fetter. They never quite remember right. Which makes th'em all the better get a Job? Is It not a fact that the i Ana i snail write tne same darn stun, mayor of the city of Portland in co- I -Vo power on earth shall curb me. As soon as l forget enougn contaminated that white labor cannot be persuaded to perform It? Is It not enough for the ex-soldler to be com pelled to stand back and wait for a slacker or alien to quit his job of his own accord before the ex-soldier caa This opposition to one-way traffic recalls that some men opposed au tomobile traffic Just as vehemently only a few years back. Aside from more potent reasons, it Is hardly patriotic to drink wood alcohol when there Is such a fuel shortage. By this time everybody should know the danger in drinking wood alcohol. Persistence bringB punishment. The man who first called a street a "traffic artery" must have had one-way traffic hi mind. Alas and alack! The silver dollar cannot be Mr. Bryan's sign in which to conquer. Now the pesthouse has been lo cated, you wopld better be vaccinated. These visiting school ma'ams do not look like the kind that "lick." An Anderson. Ind., correspondent of the Indianapolis News gives this In teresting data on the price of eggs now and in "those good old days": Mrs. Mary McCarty, living near Pendleton, sold 40 dozen of eggs for a total of $34.40, whereupon Tlllus I'len. who has lived In the vicinity of Pendleton since boyhood, became reminiscent. In 1857, Mr. Ulen said, he was wearing hats made by his mother. He wished a regular store hat, so he hid hen eggs In a barn until he col lected 26 dozen. He then sold the eggs at Pendleton for a total of 78 cents. For 75 cents he bought the kind of hat he wished and with the remaining i cents went out and saw the town." There is a country Inn that is pop ularly supposed to have been estab lished 100 years ago and the present proprietor Is very proud of the repu tation, says the Houston Post. "This Inn must be very old," said a visitor who had not as yet been made acquainted with its history. "Very old, sir," said the proprietor. with the utmoat solemnity. "Would you like to hear some of the stories conected with the place?" "1 should. Indeed," replied the tour ist. "Tell me the legend of that curious old apple pie the waiter just brought In." The largest steam turbine ever built, developing 100,000 horsepower, has been installed in a street railway power-house at New, York city, and Is described and illustrated In "Popular Mechanics magazine." It Is also the first three-cylinder cross-compound unit In America. Superheated steam at 295-pound pressure enters the high pressure element and exhausts Into the two low-presaure elements In par allel, condensing at 29-lnch vacuum. At full load the unit takes 826,000 pounds of steam an hour. All the ele ments, which. In an emergency, can be used independently, run at 1500 r. p. m-. driving 25-cycle, three-phase generators of 20,000 kw. each, at 11,- 000 volts. The three generators com bined have a two-hour overload ca pacity of 70,000 kw. The Installation occupies a floor space 52 by 50 feet. When Harry Leon Wilson was In New York from California recently a group of writers accompanied him to Maine for a snipe hunt. All the hunt ers wore dark clothes and dark brown shirts save Wilson, who wore a white shirt. While waiting In ambush some of the hunters complained to Wilson that his white shirt didn't blend with the surroundings and might frlghttn the fowls away. "I don't care," said Wilson, "I'll not let any snipe dictate my manner of dress." In 15 days, when the Tide creek bridge Is finished, all the bridges operation with the Chamber of Com merce is canvassing the city and has been for aeveral days past, persuad ing buslneaa of all lines to give cx servloe men preference of Jobs? And is It not a fact that the state of Cali fornia has many ex-service men out of employment? Let me say I know for a fact It has. And to think that a state official of the state of Cali fornia will make such an absurd statement. Ye Gods and I enlisted in that state too! Concerning myself I am a mem ber of Coos Bay Post, American L,eglon. and am proud of the fact that I am a real and true American and that I am of the character eligible to become a member of an organisation on the lower Columbia highway bv-1 that stands for a bigger and better So facts will not disturb me. s What's the L"ae. Just as gold begins to be worth nothing much at all. some scientist comes along and invents a way to make it. And Not Very Loud at That. Money used to talk. Now it whis pers. Whnt Caa Yon Expect f The maple sugar crop also will be short next spring. The farmers in Vermont won't be able to get any cane sucar to make It out of. (Copyright, 1919, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) tween Portland and Astoria will have been completed." states C. W. Wan zer, of the state highway engineering force. 'The bridges north and south of Scappoose. Milton creek and the rest are finished. Weather conditions caused some delay at Tide creek, but progress is now being made. On the Hlllsboro-Forest Grove highway paving Is proceeding and in about AO days, if the weather Is not too bad, the Job will be completed. About half of the paving has been laid." According to J. C. Ainsworth, who has returned from a trip to San Fran cisco, there Is hope of Portland's branch of the federal reserve bank having a home of Its own aome day. The surplus earnings of the federal reserve bank In this district are ac cumulating in a building fund and the branch in Portland is growing so rapidly that larger accommodations will. In time, be necessary. W hlle In San Francisco Mr. Ainsworth was shown the site which has been bought for the federal reserve bank building. Lieutenant W. D. McAllen. son of Dan " McAllen. has returned from Honolulu, where he has been sta tioned as an instructor In the flying service. Mr. McAllen returned home In time to spend the holidays with his parents after being released at Mather field, and has already en tered the Insurance business. James Dalton of North Powder, which same is in Baker county, is In the city and meeting acquaintances In the Imperial lobby. Mr. Dalton raises hay. It Is said that he Is responsible for about half of the wa ter laws in Oregon through litigating with his neighbors or being litigated against. J. A. McEachern, contractor, is reg istered at the Hotel Oregon from Seattle. Mr. McEachern started one of the shipyards at Astoria which had government contracts and his construction company also had the contract for building the sea wall In that city. Mrs. C. W. Shurte. superintendent of schools at Heppner. Is at the Per kins. Minnie C. Weatherford of the Arlington schools Is also at the Per kins. They are among the scores of teachers who are In the city attend ing the convention. "Frost did a lot of damage to the fruit up our way." confided H. A. Ta tum of Hood River to George Thomp son, clerk at the Perkins, when Mr. Tatum, with his wife, arrived there yesterday. It doesn't sound like a suitable sea son for his business, but A. E. Ed wards of Seattle Is at the Hotel Port land on business connected with Ice cream machinery. In which he special lies. J. A Ellsworth and I R. Traver, rival salesmen for school textbooks, are registered at the Hotel Portland from Seattla. America, but we cannot make It big ger and better by Importing alien pauper labor Into our own United J States to compete with the labor of j the ex-soldler. I am an ex-sergeant of company B. 121st engineers; also served with company D. 116th engi neers. Was also on detached serv- j Ice and did my bit like a real and true American. HAROLD WILLIAMS. In Other Days. I 1 NO I NIT OF DIVISION GAVE WA1 Twenly-lve Years Asto. I From The Oregonlan. December SO. 1884 San Francisco. The will of James G. Fair. ex-United States senator, who died here late last night, was filed i today, disposing of an estate the valu of which is estimated at $40.- 000.000. The corporation of Ben C. Irwin & Co. has been changed to the Irwin Hodson company and the capital stock Increased to $20,000. The new railroad to Aberdeen. Wash., has been completed and is now being ballaBted. Trains are to be running by January 10. H. W. Corbett was re-elected chair man of the committee of 100 at the first annual meeting yesterday, at which reports were received of the work done during the past year. Action and Disposal of Troops In the Champacne-Marne Engaateinent CASCADE LOCKS. Or.. Dec. 28. (To the Editor.) In an editorial The Ore gonlan's comments on the stand made against the Germans In the Cham-pagne-Marne engagement by the 38th Infantry, known better as "the rock of the Marne," are very complimen tary. Very seldom has an article appeared in which credit has been nS unstintedly given where It be longs as in this one. Nevertheless, a few places are likely to cause mis understanding among other readers. The disposition of the troops be longing to the 3d regular division was the 4th. 7th, 30th and 38th. in the order named, along the south bank of the Marne. The 39th French dlviaion held the left flank, while the 125th French held the right. It is true the latter flank gave way, caus ing the 38th Infantry to form a line of resistance to the east, and whera City of Mexico. William H. Seward, those companies of the 30th Infantry secretary of state of the United States, were wiped out there occurred a gap who has been touring Mexico, will in the line But the left flank of the j sail from Vera Crus for Havana Jan 38th Infantry was never exposed, ex- uary 2 on an English ship. cept that the line formed a horse- Ktfty Yenra Ako. From The Oregonlan, December 30. 1869. Xew York. Postmaster-General Cresswell Is here endeavoring to ar range terms with the European steam ship llnea. which have refused to carry the malls after January 1 at the rate of 2 cents for each tettar that has been offered by the government. shoe In following the river. The terrain made it possible for the Ger mans to concentrate artillery fire on the position of the 38th infantry from three distinct directions. Where the 30th and 38th pocketed the Huns they maintained a solid line. No Heinle reached the Fosaoy-Crezancy road ex cept prisoners. I have taken pleasure in reading your glowing tribute to the 38th in fantry, as It was greatly due to this organization that General Joseph Dickman s prediction concerning tne Washington. Daniel G. Major, sur veyor of the boundary between Cali fornia and Oregon, has arrived with the final report of his survey. Ths atate teachers' institute met yesterday. The session was devoted to the best method of teaching elocution. Drill for Naval Reserve. PORTLAND. Dec. 28. (To the Edi tor.! A few diaya ago I noticed In quality of the 3d division soldiers The Oregonian a notice from the navy was substantiated. While offering this correction as a contradiction that any unit of the 3d division gave way. it is not In any sense subtracting from the glory and name of the 38th infantry. This writer happened to be a com batant In the described action and offers the official report of Colonel Robert C. Kelton. chief of staff, for confirmation. B. H. R. Aerial Inspector Appointed. Indianapolis News. Niagara Falla Is the first Ameri can border city to have an aerial cus toms inspector. Lieutenant Paul It Moore, an aviator, has been appointed a deputy collector of custorfls and will guard against smuggling and the Illegal entrance of airplanes from Canada without registering when and where the occasion demands. department at Washington, D. -., in regard to the drilling of navy reserve men on machine duty. Can you tell me whether such men resident in Portland will have to give up their civilian employment and go to some other point in the district to be drilled, or will they be drilled In Portland the same aa the O. N. G. used to be, and how long a period will they have to drill? NAVY RESERVE MAN. The policy of the navy depart ment in regard to the future of the naval reserve has not yet been deter mined. However, if the men on in active duty are called upon to drill it is probable that it will be for only a short period each ysar and will be so arranged as not to Interfere with civilian employment.