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I? 10 TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, TANTJAItY 2, 1920. K8IAB11SHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. 135 sixth Street, Portland, Orwon. L JL MORDEN, E. B. PIPER. liana rer. Editor. The Oreg-onlan 1b m member of the Asso tated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local- news published herein. All rlf hts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. "Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) 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Posture Rates 12 to 16 pages, 1 cent; IK to 32 paxes. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3 "cents: 50 to 00 Daces. 4 rents: 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 78 to 82 pages. 6 centa, foreign postage, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verrea Conk lln, Brunswick building. New York; Verree i Conklln, Sieger building, Chicago; Ver ree & Conklin. Free Press' building, De troit, Mich. San Francisco representative, K. J. Bidwell. TWO COMMISSION'St OB 0ET The great and very worthy aspira tion of Governor Olcott that all pro posals for now fish and same legis lation may be considered "calmly and dispassionately" will find fer vent response with the public. An appropriate and much needed pre Jtminary to calmness and dispasslon, -whieh have been entire strangers to "fish and game matters for the past hectic fortnight, will be for the gov ernor to find where he stands and make a heroic effort to stay there. The governor proposes now as a panacea division of the sporting and commercial Interests,' each to be represented by a separate commis sion. It Is a plan which has Ions been In contemplation, both by dis satisfied sportsmen and dissatisfied canners. They have interests in common and other interests which conflict, so that no board organized to represent and protect both has ever been -able to escape the sus picion that it is favoring the one or the other. Just now the demand for segregation is popular with the sportsmen; but there is no obvious opposition to their proposal from 'the commercial fishermen. Both agree to a divorce on the familiar ' ground of incompatibility, and are willing to let it go at that. But it cannot be let go so easily. How about the terms and conditions bf the separation? What then, when .JTie principals shall have decided to go their separate ways? They will still have vital interests in common, they must conserve them in common, and they must agree to the exercise' of mutual forbearance through an authority which must necessarily be shared in common. Governor Olcott foresaw the prac- I tlcal difficulties in- the way of segre gation when he called attention to . the "expense entailed by duplication "Of work-in hatchery operations, in Tpatroling of streams, and various other angles," and he offered the significant alternative that "if sep aration cannot be worked out in the mind of the legislators on practical lines," a new commission will result. The governor has called a meeting of the joint legislative committees on game and fisheries to hear the outline of his project, and presum ably to formulate a bill or bills to present to the legislature. Other wise it might have seemed that he proposed to determine all questions ealmly and dispassionately by turn ing the whole .mess over to the legislature. .'. Even if politics shall be adjourned from the fish and game controversies and the public will devoutly hope that it will be all will not be easy sailing for the legislature or the gov ernor. The public has an interest in this business. On its part it will be well to subdue and forget Its rise in temper over the Flnley dismissal, and insist that the problem be approached and solved on its merits, m If we have two commissions, we are to have a duplication of organi zation, with their retinues of clerks, wardens and other subordinates, and probably a duplication of plants. That is not all. There will be a duplication of authority, in some ln - stances, over the same service. It is not easy to see how it can be ad Justed at the . outset, or accommo dated in practical operation. In evitably the two establishments will cost more than one. Will the tax payer shoulder the expense, or can it all be taken out of the sportsmen and the fisheries? The matter of double ' authority over streams, over hatcheries, over fish, is not an incidental problem; but it is vital. It goes to the heart of a workable system. It should not be passed over lightly. If it shall be, the whole condition will be thrown into confusion, and the thing will nave to be done all over .again. It will be well for the governor nd the legislature to consider whether, after all, a single commis sion must be abandoned, but whethef it may not be practicable to organ ize a body with two distinct depart ments, each representative of its separate interest, and each with its own personnel, but all members of the one board. One department might have exclusive jurisdiction over all affairs pertaining to wild life, and the other over commercial fishing. And the commission as a whole, presided over by a chairman who ' belonged to neither group. could control all decisions where in terests are mutual or where they conflict. This is a hasty and imperfect out line, to be sure; but it is a tentative suggestion which is given for what It is worth, in an effort to avert the mistake of separation of interests into groups not properly co-ordinated and certain to conflict unless their distinct spheres of action are absolutely determined in advance. The beautifully illustrated Christ mas number of the San Francisco News Letter gives first place to an article by Sydney B. Vincent, pub licity manager of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, on the Pacific and Columbia River high ways through Oregon. It is accom panied by two pages of pictures of Oregon's two great trunk highways, one of which will by tlie end of 1920 complete the paved road from San Francisco to Portland, while the other will soon extend over the old Oregon trail to the Idaho line. It Is such publicity as will enable Ore gon to draw dividends from its in vestment in good roads, for it will cause many to come and admire, and some of- these will return to stay. "TIGHT "KM, OREGON!" Boys, you made a gTeat name for Oregon at Pasadena great and noble for fighting spirit, for manli ness, for skill in play, for will to win, for willingness to lose to your betters if they proved themselves the better. But did they? We'll not say it. But there's the record. If the best team did not win, it must have been because you losC through naisplays. We do not admit it. Tou should not and will not. Tou are not whiners, quitters nor bad losers. What a magnificent test it was! It will stand on the imperishable an nals of sport as the best-fought game by the best fighters- Oregon ever sent forth to win. You won the respect of your foes, the admiration of a nation, the glowing gratitude of your state, and the fervent, undying and worshipful acclaim of your alma mater. Tou lost nothing at all but a trifling figure in the score. What's that? The glory of a victory is not in the winning of it, but in the making of a good fight. That you did, to your everlasting honor. Tou will return home, boys, with the gracious laurels of victors. If ever again Oregon must send forth a team to meet on the field of fair combat, the finest of the land, it will wish devoutly that it may send you, and all of you, again; or another eleven Just like you, in pluck, en durance. Initiative, pride, resource fulness and all-around worth. It can never hope. to do better. HOOTER A8 A CANDIDATE. If the democrats ask no qtfestions about Herbert Hoover's politics no body will tell them any lies. Prob ably Hoover himself does not know what party he belongs to, if any. The great impetus to the Hoover boom fqr the presidency among the democrats springs from a painful, but very general realization that no democrat tainted with an ounce of partisanship an by any possibility be elected president this year. They are willing to take Hoover some of them unslght, unseen. He may not be a democrat, but anyway he is no republican, so far as anybody knows. In a democratic year. Hoover,, with his unpartisan record, would stand no chance with a democratic con vention not the whisper nor the echo Of a chance. But now ah, well, desperate cases try desperate remedies. My kingdom for a win ner! Let tis not belittle Hoover. He" is fit for the presidency, if any business man is fit. No business man was ever tried by the country, for good reasons, probably. Government is not a business machine, but a politi cal machine. The science of gov ernment and the science of busi ness are not the same. Statesman ship, and not mere, organizing or money-making genius, is indispens able in a capable chief executive. Hoover is the democracy's one bet perhaps a best bet. They would sell their- political souls for a win ner. But Hoover doesn't want to be the guardian of the democratic conscience. It is too heavy a job even for him. If he is nominated, it will doubtless be on his terms. The salve to the democrats will be that they have at least prevented the re publicans from putting a republican in the White House if Hoover shall be elected. READT TO RECONSTRUCT EUROPE. Just before the ye'ar 1919 ended the United States became equipped with the means of legally financing the work of reconstruction abroad, for which this- country must furnish the capital in order that that work may be done promptly and effect ively, and in such a manner as also to stimulate the industry and com merce of this country. The means Is the Edge bill authorizing incorpor ation of banks by American citizens to do business exclusively in foreign countries and the insular possessions of the United States. Largely through lack of such power, the year 1919 has been one of gradual but very disturbed transi tion from war to peace conditions in business. When it opened, war re strictions on loans and issues of se curities still prevailed, and they were not removed until the Victory loan had been subscribed. Then followed a period of speculation, which ab sorbed much of the capital that should have gone into productive in dustry and into restoration of com merce with the war-ravaged coun tries. An effective check was put on this mania by the action of the fed era! reserve board at the beginning of November in advancing rates ef discount. There has followed a period in which prices of securities have shrunk, volume of business has been limited and rates for call monej have been high.. The Edge bill now opens channels of legitimate foreign trade to the volume of capital which might other wise have been employed in injuri ous speculation. It authorizes Anler ican - citizens to establish banks abroad to deal in foreign bankable paper, exchange and securities, their operations in the United States being limited to such business as is inci dental to their foreign business These banks will be able to finance reconstruction of wrecked industries and establishment of new ones, pur chase of raw material and sale of manufactured goods. They may for example be the means of supplying the rich fields of Poland with the agricultural implements of which the war swept them bare. They may assist American manufacturers in opening new markets abroad. They may market in America the securl ties of enterprises in other countries which are initiated abroad and man- aged by Americans. By providing the money for Europe and Asia to get to work, they can start a flow of imports to this country which will aid in stabilising rates of exchange, disturbance of which seriously ob structs commerce. If American bankers and investors avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them, ..the year 1920 will open a real period of reconstruction abroad, in which American capital will join European brains and muscle in relieving famine and poverty by increasing production. America is now the great reservoir of capital for the world, and American dollars are destined to penetrate lands to which few Americans ever thought of going, and by increasing produc tion they make war on the high cost of living. By putting idle hands to work and by filling empty stomachs, they also make successful war on bolshevisra, for that delusion thrives on idleness, hunger and misery. So much for the stupid cry - against capitalism. WOOD SHIP INDUSTRY SURVIVE. S. Return of Joseph Supple to the business of building wood ships is a good augury for that Industry. Despite the injury done by the ig norant blundering of the shipping board, this man, who knows the business thoroughly and has made money at it, still believes that there is a place for vessels of this type and that there Is money In them. There is certainly occupation for such vessels as he proposes to build. There was before the war. and there will be still more hereafter, for every year new markets open for Pacific coast lumber as other sources of supply become exhausted, and the Pacific coast type of wood ship is best adapted to carry lumber. When wood hulls built by the Emergency Fleet corporation have been finished to fit them for particular classes of traffic, it may well prove that there is still a field for much larger wood ships than were built before 1914. Whatever demand there may be for wood ships hereafter, the north Pacific coast is likely to take the lead in supplying it, and the Columbia river district will lead the coast. It has the largest body of fir timber accessible to tidewater, it has a sup ply of skilled labor sifted out of the mass bf untrained men who flocked to the shipyards during the war, and it has a climate where outdoor work possible .for a larger number bf days of the year than in any other section of the United States. Though this Industry cannot be expected to retain the proportions which it at tained during the war, it may be expected to continue on a far larger scale than in former years. WHAT COALITIONS HATE DONE. j Coalition governments have been scorned as monuments of Impotence' due to the necessity of compromise, but Mr. Bonar Law's praise of .what they accomplished for the allies In vites contrast between that achieve ment and the work for war nd peace which was done by the party government of the United State9. Very early in the war France formed a coalition government, and one succeeded another until piem- enceau came to the helm. He com bined under his leadership all par ties except the anti-war -socialists, and he fought the war to victory, won for France guaranties of peace and reparation at the peace confer ence, and stands before the world today as its greatest, most forcible statesman. After eight months of blundering under party government, Great Brit ain installed a coalition which threw all of the empire's human and In dustrial energy into the struggle. It created the armies which fought the campaigns of 1916 and 1917 in France, Egypt, Mesopotamia and East Africa and reinforced the fleet which pHt the Germans to flight at Jutland. Its blunders in diplomacy were due to survivalsof weak men from the party cabinet and caused its fall, but it was succeeded by a new coalition which ended the cam. palgns of 1917 With victory in every field, withstood the terrific shock of the German assault in 1918, made good the army's losses and played a leading part beside, the other allies in all the final successful campaigns. A new coalition under the old leaders undertook the work of re construction and peace. It has rati fied the German treaty, demobilized a great army and navy, fought and won a railroad strike, legislated for the railroads and for foreign trade, has laid the foundation for indus trial peace in the Whitley councils, provided self-government for India and initiated it for Ireland and gypt. Italy, too, had a coalition govern ment under Orlando. It improvised munition factories and, though com pelled to import fuel and raw mate rials, : It fought its way through the Alps until the collapse came at Caporetto. TRen it tightened the bonds with the allies and in a ter rific ten days' battle not Only re gained all that had been lost, but destroyed the Austrian army and empire. The United States had a party gov ernment which delayed entering the war to the limit of safety, and then entered unprepared. It prepared so slowly that the army fought its first small offensive action almost four- teen months after war was declared, its first major offensive seventeen months after, and its great, decisive offensive began two weeks later. The head of this government appealed for support of his party while the battle still raged and was rebuked by the people. He still persisted in party government, both in peace making and in reconstruction. In consequence, a year after fighting ceased the peace treaty is not yet ratified, the railroad reorganization bill is still under discussion, nothing has been done to establish industrial peace and reconstruction laws are barely started. Grave danger ex ists that the fruits of victory will be wasted, and the United States an pears in the eyes of the world as a slacker in doing its share of the work to establish peace. WHAT ARE OUR SCHOOLS WORTH T The public school teachers of Ore gon, recently in convention in Port land, made it plain thtt they are not to be won over to the cause of the "closed shop" in education, and their attitude toward trades unionism and all that its adoption would imply will help them, undoubtedly, in obtaining the very reasonable standards of compensation which, as a state as sociation, they have indorsed. The public, too, is still jealous of its rights, and it is in no mood, after the experience of the Tecent past, to tolerate a class movement In its schools. It will suffer nothing to come to pass which smacks of de fiance of the rights of all children to be educated, whether they are the children of employer or em ploye, or of union or non-union parentage, or wnether or not strikes and lockouts are provoked by the quarrels of other trades or pro fessions. Whatever else may come to pass, the schools will remain the people's, and their interests will be paramount. The public as a whole begins to appreciate what it would mean to have matters otherwise; and it may be doubted that any but a i minority of radicals in the trades unions themselves would now con J tend that a union "card" should be made the ticket of admission to the ranks either of teachers or pupils. This issue having to all Intents and purposes been disposed of by the manifest attitude of the members of the recent convention, the mother and fathers of children and all others concerned with public education ought to be In a receptive mood as to the essentially reasonable salary standard fixed by the convention as the minimum for qualified teachers, together with moderate assur ance of advancement. Ninety dol lars a months as a matter of fact, in times like these, is not a very large sum. A competent clerk, or a good barber, or a teamster, or any other craftsman would be ready enough with a refusal if asked to work for such a pittance. It rep resents an hourly rate of compensa tion for which a householder could not expect to have his wood carried into his cellar. Assuming that the profession intends to maintain a high standard of efficiency and obviously it does the proposed minimum is low enough. Even with the advancing scale, the teacher will be compelled to wait a good while before commanding a nearly com mensurate "wage." The profession, as a number of speakers before the convention pointed out, possesses a better means of improving the conditions under which it labors. Teachers' organiza tions, not designed on the soviet system, not to be . employed as "political clubs," but recognizing public duty and the "spiritual and intellectual nature" of the profession to which one of the speakers al luded, are of a different ilk and will commend themselves as being in keeping with the spirit of the times. The speaker who remarked that "no self-respecting teacher who thinks much of his profession would have H on a union basis" meant, of course, the trades union basis, with its im plication of closed shop, sympathetic strike, boycott, and so forth, and evidently did not imply a "teachers' council," .which may . be a far dif ferent affair. The latter would, in a different spirit, satisfy the aspira tions of a representative democracy. and by bringing about a suitable measure of co-operation in vital per sonal affairs would do a great deal to forestall dissatisfaction. . The question of what the schools are worth to the people is raised in 8 till another form in the suggestion that some measure of support shall be furnished by the state. The state association did well to avoid com mitment as to administrative de tails. Difference between state "aid" and state "support" is after all a matter for the hair-splitters. In some other states it is called "state equalization" of education. It is difficult to escape the conclusion, as PaySon Smith, state commissioner of education of Massachusetts, has said, that the state is an entity in educa tion. Wise counsel would dictate a policy having no eleemosynary taint. The isolated district is not a "poor district" seeking charity from a benevolent fund, but an educational unit as deserving of full opportunity for education as the greatest city in the land.- Equalization of educa tional advantages is necessary to in dustrial, particularly agricultural. development. This principle is recog nized in the pending Smith-Towner bill extending federal aid in educa tion, and it will be necessary to make some provision in this manner if the state is to receive benefit from the national education fund. It goes without saying that . suit able normal school facilities, what ever these may be shown to be, must be provided if an adequate supply of competent teachers is to be maintained. It will be admitted that at this moment the teachers have a strategic advantage over the public, arising out of recent unostentatious operation of the "anticipatory strike." Great numbers of teachers have found better-paying jobs. There is little doubt that K curtailment should continue, qualified teachers could within a few years invite competi tive bidding " for their services. A selfish policy of abolishing appren ticeships for a period, in strict ac cord with the soviet idea, would for tify them still more strongly in this regard. But we find them, instead. asking for more and better normal schools in the public interest and without reference to effect on their own fortunes through operation of the law of . supply and. demand. This further manifestation of the essen tially professional spirit, and of fur ther confidence in the public's ulti mate sense of justice, ought not to go unrewarded. The best advice to any well-to-do motorist who contemplates running into four other automobiles in one hour after admittedly "having "a few drinks," would seem to be to culti vate the faculty of weeping in court. Now and then' you will find a de votee of the old custom of swearing off on tobacco. In a day or two he will be recognized by the glare in his eyes, but this time next week he will be happy, for cause. Hoover was an Oregon boy and Oregon Will be pleased to meet him next week. There, will be no politics in the visit beyond a desire of a few local democrats to ride all the horses. Latest French' styles for women call for still shorter skirts, no sleeves or stockings and sandals. Really, they'll be going around la bathing suits yet. Reports from Vancouver, Wash., say that 2600 couples were married there in 1919.- This should be a happy new year for the divorce lawyers. Madame de Teleme, French seer ess, "foretells" the end of bolshe vism in 1920. Thank goodness, that'i settled! If the labor shortae-e is dun tn laeV of alien or other foreign-born help, me united utates is not much loser. Portland never had a better New Tear s day. Weather was perfect ana people above the average. The man who married last year has a happy new year coming, late uut sure. Do not wait for thrift week. Be gin now to make it a thrift year. "Women to wear less." says headline. Barely possible. All sober and ready for work this morning. The early sale catches the women, Eat fish today and brain up, BIT-PRO DUCT 9 OF THE TIMES. alvaare of panish Armada Yields Results After 830 Tears. Salvage operations on the galleon. De Florencla, the treasure ship of Spain's "invincible armada," sunk off Tobermory 810 years ago, are begin ning to yield results. These operations were begun In 1908: Recently several breechlocks of cannon, bits of the hijf hull and other relics have re warded the treasure hunters' efforts. The De Florencla was sunk by one of the MtcLsan'i of Morven, who fired her powder magazine. If her main atores are retrieved from the sea, the ship should yield a rich haul, for,, according to contemporary chroni clers, the ship's stronghold was full of gold, silver plate and Jewels, in cluding a crown Intended for the coronation of the Spanish nominee to the throne of England. By a cove nant made shortly after the wreck this crown, if reoovered, goes to the king of England; but the rest of the treasure to the duke of Argyll. Inverary castle houses a beautifully ornamented bronze ordnance, whloh Was one of the galleon's 52 guns. From time to time blunderbusses, swords, scabbards, doubloons and pieces of plate have been brought up. The oak found, believed to be bits of the ship's hull Is overlaid with a crust of compressed shell as dif ficult as concrete to penetrate and some time may elapse before it is possible to reach the more Important part of the sunken cargo. Robert Carels of Philadelphia, who went to Bird Rock In the gulf of St. Lawrence and made motion pictures of the nesting birds instead of shoot ing them, gave a fascinating story of that exploit to a .writer in the Philadelphia Ledger. Peter Bourque, the lighthouse keep er who recently retired, went there over 2 years ago, after two keepers had been crazed by the isolation. He took his wife and son. Two daughters were born on the lonely islet. The five members of the family took all the letters and newspapers they received and divided them among 365 pigeonholes in a cabinet, so that they were always a year late with the morning's mail and still had the sense of keeping In daily touch with the world. They practiced on all sorts of instruments, studied five languages and had a different occupation for each evening. They read and reread the poems of Burns. In foggy weather they had to fire a gun-cotton bomb every 20 minutes. day and night. The top of the rock, 160 feet above the sea, is reached by ladders lashed end to end, and the climber is sur rounded by the wheeling, flapping gannets, klttlwakes, auks and murrs. It Is supposed to be the greatest bird nursery In the North Atlantic. Mr. Carels was lowered over the edge of the cliffa by ropes to make his pictures. Do you know how the Frenchmen train fleas to move in teams and to draw little gilded coaches and march in companies and perform other pleas ing tricks? asks the Boston Tran script. 'Well, they put the fleas on a plane surface above which, say an inch above the fleas, is stretched thin sheet of plate glass. Now the nature of the flea is to jump and as these imprisoned fleas do not flee the .glass, they all Jump at once. Bang! Down they come upon their floor, knocked nearly senseless by the invisible, but impenetrable canopy above them. But in a little while the fleas have recovered their senses, and, seeing nothing above them but the blue sky, they jump again. Biff! Senseless on the ground once more. Well, the fleas keep this up until they have Jumped, no doubt, 60 or 100 times, always with the same result, always beaten back by the glass. And then they give it up. It has at last become conclusive. And those fleas' never Jump again as long as they live. They can be trained to draw little coaches or do anything else that the mind of man desires. They are models of docility. The jump is all out of them forever. e e It was Friday morning in the park and not one of the children who were playing in a group in front of their gossiping nurses had attained to the responsibilities of full School age. Some of the nurses were French and from many, of the children came vol uble Gallic-Amerlcanese. - The nearest little girl was talking to another very fast and very earn estly, but not one of her words was intelligible. "What ia she saying?" a .writer in the .New York 'Evening Sun, shame lessly asked of the sturdy little brother, who was smiling pleasantly at her.- v The small boy looked at her gravely but kindly. "Is It French or. English V the Woman persisted. - "You would not understand," he answered patiently. "No grown per son can, but the other child knows. It' not French and It's not English. They learn It off Ood, and they keep It 'till they're three!". Already there' are signs of a revolt against the barbarous music that has ruled our ballrooms for five year says the Boston Commercial Bulletin. The watohman's rattle, the revolver, the tin pan and the gong are no longer considered Indispensable for a high-class orchestra and when our conductors are again allowed to per form the waltzes of Straus and . of Waldteuf el, we may expect to see a revival ot musio and dancing fit for a civilized nation. Instead of the sounds and actions that have offended the ear and the eye during the reign of Jazz. Xanthus Smith te well known for his historical ' naval pictures, the Kearsarge and other noteworthy men-of-war of the civil war. He has Just finished a large picture of John Burns on the first day at Gettysburg. Standing with him are Colonel Langhorne Wistar. Lieutenant-Colonel Huidekoper and Major Chamberlain, all officers of the Junior "Bucktall" regiment and all In the United States uniform of 1863. Beyond are the men of. the regiment moving rapidly into action on the firing line, and on the left is the historic barn In which these and -other officers and men were cared for after being wounded. The figure of John Burns is represented with a high hat and the gun he used In the Mexican war. Philadelphia Publio Ledger. . Those Who Come and Go. Mr. and Mrs. James Pitcher of Sil ver Lke. Or.' are at the ImDertaL The stock of Mr. Pitcher carry a brand which resembles a pitcher. The system of brand registration now makes It almost impossible -for rus tlers to change bran da Judge Ber nard Daly of Lake county- has a brand, T L. which attempts have been made in the past to alter. One way simply extended a couple of lines and the T L became the "ladder" brand, and one chap worked it into "sled" brand and another connect ed the two letters and. said It was the "bulldog" brand. Anyone ac quainted with Judge Daly, however, would know that no one got away with infringements on his original brand. By means of a realstration brandling board the ancient practice of altering brands has become prac tically obsolete. T. G. Brenson. from Redmond. Or.. at the Multnomah. Is a stockman. There was deep snow In central Ore gon, but very little stock was lost. chiefly because the stookmen did not try to move the animals. It has been demonstrated that the stock, if ma rooned in deep snow, will survive for a remarkable length of time by living on their own tallow. Moving stock through deep snows exhausts the ani mals. ' . Saddler Dewey Brown, erstwhile bellboy at the Benson, arrived there yesterday end registered with - his Driae, for he Is on n honeymoon trip from his home it Sheridan, Wyo. Mr. Brown served 23 months In France with the 14fith field artillery and was a dlniyitch rider. Elnce his discharge rrom. the service he has been appoint ed agent for several of the most ex pensive automobiles at Sheridan and is doing well. Members of the legislature who were registered In Portland yester day were Ivan O. Martin of the Ma rlon county delegation, who is at the Benson, and Josoph O. Richardson ot the Multnomah delegation, who is a deputy state treasurer. Earl Wlthycombe. son of the late governor, is registered at the Imperial rrom Klamath Falls. Mr. Wlthycombe has been representing the engineer ing department of the Mate highway commission in that section. W. J. McCormack, who Is building a railroad out Buxton way, is among the Hotel Oregon arrivals. Unless something goes wrong, the railroad will be in good shape before the end of the current year. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Heinrict of Ta coma are at the Multnomah. Mr. Heinrici is president of a wholesale paint and oil company in the town which the late George Francis Train called the City of Destiny. R. G. Harrison, who Is in the lum ber business at San Francisco, pre ferred observing the advent of 1920 In Portland to watching the new year arrive on Market street. He is at the Hotel Portland. IT.' W. Morlan, who knows mora students at MonmOuth normal school than probably any other man in town, aside from the faculty. Is at the Mult nomah. Mr. Morlan deals in books and stationery. It being a holiday yesterday and stores closed and nothing for mer chants to do, U. M. Nayberger of Mc Mlnnville came to Portland and is at the Hotel Portland. Sometimes he registers from Black Rock and again from Dallas, does R. G. Balderee when he comes to the: Seward. Yesterday the lumberman se lected Dallas. For the second time In a few weeks, H. R. Peacock of Nampa, Idaho, has escorted a shipment of livestock to Portland. He is registered at the Perkins. Rufus S. Moore, capitalist and for mer lumberman of Klamath Falls is in town for the holidays and is regis tered at the Hotel Portland. C. L. Prlder, who deals in general merchandise at Dallas, Or., Is at the Multnomah while doing the wholesale houses. Governor and Mrs. Bert W. Olcott came to Portland to see 19 ill ushered in and registered at the Multnomah. T. J. Robinson, who Is in the timber business at Silverton, Or., is a New Year arrival at the Perkins. I'KDKSTKIANS SELDOM AT F,tlLT Confessed Jaywalker Snjm Middle ef Block Is Safeat Crossing. PORTLAND. Jan. 1. (To the Ed itor.) Please allow a Jaywalker to say something. I am one of them. Perhaps a bad one, but I have escaped reckless drivers and speed maniacs these many years. All this talk about the pedestrian be.ing to blame Is bunk. I assert that four-fifths of all acci dents on streets occur at intersec tions, and that in nine-tenths of the accidents a pedestrian is not to blame. Furthermore, the middle of the block Is the safest place for the pedestrian to run the gauntlet Of a Portland street in the congested dis trict. A few days ago an elderly woman and 1 were caught at Fifth and Morrison streets. The signal was given for east and west traffic. We started .east on the sotrth walk of Morrison street and at the same time a streetcar started east and swung to the north In time to stop an auto that was. going west and wanted to swing south. Then a car going east turned south and nearly got ns. Then that west-bound car swung south, and Just behind It was a recklessly driven west-bound auto that swung three-quarters around and went back down Morrison street, while a Fifth street car came from the south and nearly got in because the wild auto had forced us off the crossing. There is a remedy for this danger ous traffic in the congested district. Eliminate parking and curb the epeed maniacs, both of which have been mentioned in The Oregonlan. 1 merely want to say a word for the poor pedestrian. A. J. WALKER. COMMISSION MAKIA is dislikbd Fewer Boards Desired, "ays Writer on Game Commission Proposal. HOOD RIVER, Or- Dec 31. (To the Editor.) The office of game commis sioner appears to be a football for Oregon governors. Governor Olcott now arises to his opportunity for an inning. In order to retire the present, board for its re cent insubordination and make the going easy the governor proposes that we have two commissions instead of one. It seems to me that some of our officials lie awake nights studying some new scheme to tap the public purse.' If there Is a crying need for the legislature to do one thing more than another It is to cut out a few commissions Instead of forming new ones. It Is about time for the pub lic to have Its Inning and reduce the number of tax eaters.' There is no official from the pres ident to the lowest whose acts In handling public money should not be subject to scrutiny and control. Publicity keeps many of us honest and Incorruptible. J. D. McCULLY. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montncae. LEARNING ABOUT BABIKS. A Mild Infringement on a Kipling Copyright. We've taken our kid to a doctor's Whenever his health wasn't right It his teeth didn't come when, they ought to. Or he woke up and cried of a night To doctors that -najored in babies Made 'em their regular biz. To old-fashioned family doctors And every kind that there is. One told us: "He needs to be coddled. I make It a rule to advise A mother to take up her baby Whenever he fusses or cries: Just feed him whenever he's hungry. And humor his every whim. All babies thrive best when they're loved and caressed," So we learned about babies from him. "Just leave him alone." said another, "A baby should stay in his bed. Don't think every time that he wakens He ought to be dandled or fed. Attention is harmful for babies. Neglecting 'em keeps 'em in trim; To fondle a child gets it nervous and riled," So we learned about babies from him. Some doctors have told us the baby Should always be kept In the air. While others have said that he shouldn't. Because of the germs that are there. We always have done as they ordered. But just look at the poor little cuss. And you'll view him askance, and there isn't a chance That you'll learn about babies from us. e Heckles Extravagance. The high cost of hsts hasn't pre vented practically all our senators from casting theirs into the ring. Method In His Absenteeism. There is no discount on Pe Valra" wisdom. If we were president of Ire land just now we'd stay right here In the United States. That's Vt here lie V Last Seen. Poland is buying airships, probably with the intention of hunting for Padierewskl. (Copyright. 1920. by The Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) THOIGHT8 OF SOLDIER'S MOTHER Blessed Blew Year Made Possible by His Sacrifice. PORTLAND, Jan. 1. (To the Edi tor.) God sent his only son on earth that all who would might have life everlasting. I, like hundreds of other mothers, sent my only son to France that all who lived might be entitled to "life, health, and the pursuit of happiness." His son said: "1 am the way. the truth and the life." Also, "I go to prepare a place for you." My son and thousands oT other brave boys said: "I am an American. 1 stand for liberty, equality and jus tice for all, and I go to prepare the world for democracy." His son said to his disciples: "It i I; be not afraid." My son and his comrades said to th Huns: "Here we come! look out for us." His beloved son was crucified between two thieves. My beloved son was. shrapneled at Chateau Thierry with scores of his companions. His son died that ail men might know Uod and have life eternal. My son died that men might live on earth, free from despotism and tyranny. His son's dying words were. '"Fath er, forcive them; they know not what 4hey do." My son's dying act- proclaimed. "The United States of Amerk'a will teach them what they may not do." His son was buried, rose again, and ascended into heaven. The work he did lives on forever in the hearts of men. My son's body lies burled in a for eign land, side by side with hundreds of his comrades. The thing for which they died was so great also that their memory shall never die but shall live on forever In the hearts of men. It is because this is true that I and hundreds of other mothers can say, "Thy will be done." It Is because of this that we. with lonely lives and hungry hearts, were enabled to intone at the Christmas tide. 'Teace on earth; good will to men." Because God's son gave his life voluntarily; because our sons gave their lives voluntarily for all man kind, we are given the power to pierce the mist of turmoil, restlessness and grief which now enshrouds the world, and to know that. In truth and in reality, a new year Is today pro claimed a new year which heralds the birth of a new era, an era of pros perity, an era of hope, an era of brotherly helpfulness and of brotherly understanding. KATHLEEN M. DURHAM. LEAGUE FAVORED IX CORTALLIJ Attitude of Local Paper Does Not Re flect Majority Sentiment. CORVALLJS. Or.. Dec. 31. (To the Editor.) I want to commend most heartily The Oregonlan's recent edi torials relative to the attitude of the Gazette-Timea on the league of na tions. It might be assumed that the position taken by the local paper re flects the opinions of the people ot this community but I want to say most emphatically that it does not. The great majority of the people here want - a league of nations. Some modifications in the league would he welcomed If the effectiveness of the league .was not Impaired. People want a league and they want It soon. To many of us failure to adopt some league would mean that America had failed utterly to capitalize any of the high idealism which actuated most of us during the war period. We believe that America Is in the drift of world politics, that we can't get out If we would and should not if we could. We settled all that when we got into the big war. For heaven's sake, let's get this league of nations and peace treaty settled andi get down to business. Here's more power to the editorial pen of The Oregonlan in its statesmanlike policy of handling the questions. READER Observance of Christmas. ECHO, Dec 31. (To the Editor.) To settle a controversy kindly in form your readers by what people December 25 (Christmas day) was originally observed as a holy day and why it was taken up by the Chris tian world and celebrated as the birthday of our Lord. A BECKER. In remote antiquity heathen nations celebrated the winter solstice as a most important part of the year, as the beginning of the renewed life and activity of the powers of nature, and of the gods, who were originally merely the symbolic personification of these. It is not known when the custom originated of observing De cember 25 as the Savior's nativity. Until the fourth century, there was no uniformity in the period among the early churches; some held the festival in May or April, others in. January; still others In December. With a Kick in It. By l. L, n. HOWDY. STRAXGEltl Hall, there, little New Tear. Coming down the pike. Tarry here and have no fean. Let's see what you're like. "What is In your knapsack Little Nineteen-Twenty T Do you pack upon your back Peace and Joy and plenty? Ah, well, little New Year. Here's a welcome true: Exude a cheer while you ere here, And we'll be nice to you. Or Scandal? "Latest women's styles from Paris will be: no stockings, very fhon skirts, no sleeves, sandals." Take the Anhcato Cigar. Bill. "Acknowledge my patriotism." ap peals Bill Strandbovg. "I refuse to urink wood alcohol these dnys ou ac count of the fuel shortage." And He It Further Resolved - If the new year finds you gropin' Down a road that's rouah, quit hopin" inst someoody s bound to help vou; you may only get the gafT: For the guy who's always mopin Doesn't have much luck at ropln' In suocess. So throw your chest out. grit your teeth, old kid. And laugh! If you're gettin' used to growin" Wrinkles on your brow from knou in' That this world's a pretty rouuh old place to spend a lifetime in. Just you chuck the grief you're sliow !n . Let them think you like the coin". Take your coat off. bo; get busy; hit (he ball, old kid. And grin! If you harbor some mlsgivin' That you've earned a better livln' But that fate or luck has downed you. Just forget It for a while. For the world ain't soon forglvln' Anyone who's used to givln' Some excuse for every failure. Buckle down, old kid. And smile! So while Nineleen-Twenty's peepln' At the threshold, let's quit weepiif Over fancied wrongs that make you lose your grip and want to shirk; And, just let this thought keep seep in' Through your brain awake or sleep in' If you're gotn' to win success, old kid. roll up your sleeves And work! Oh, Yon Scott High School! The Scott high school. Toledo. O.. football team rested in Portland only a few minutes on Its way Into the unknown atate of Washington last Monday on Its way to Everett. Wash., to plf-y the Everett high football team. 'Why don't you stop vr here to work the boys out?" Graduate Man ager W. L. A-.lanis was asked by a sporting writer. "We want to hurry through," wss the reply. "We'll stop in a fmali town this side of Everett to work out." "Wliat's the name of the place?" "S' attic." B. I'ntr J. RwfuN. HKl.l' WANTED An expert tiilir liier;. city experience only." , On the car one day a workman from his toilsome task released. Sat in glum and sober silence, with a stare that did not cease; His patient eyes were listless and in color fad-ed blue. His clothes were frayed anvl soiled. and his face was soiled, too: And his coarsened hands a story told that made me want to cry. Though he'd never understand nie if I tried to tell him why. Raced my thoughts back to a cot luge home where, many years ano. In a humble, sweet contentment thai a youthful pair may Know, Dwelt a man and woman, planning as a youthful pir will plan. How their Jimplcd babe shall prosper when he grows to be a man: "Tis a free land, so they argue, and tho humblest may rise. While the presidential chair may even tutline m their eyes And a lad that has such w isdmu as their precious only son May be ruler of the nation when he reaches twenty-one! Then again 1 eyed the woikman. viewing him with li.tcrcst keen. Striving to discern the eg", there some brighter light to glenn As to why some men are satisfied to always slave and moll. When by use of higher faculties 1h-y might have missed such toil. Then there seemed to come an answer from that unknown somewhere place. As I searched In vain for intellect in that dull, stupid face. And I sensed the secret vaguely bow mere hope and pride -won't win When thare Is no spark of leaven in the sordid brain within: So, no matter how you're hoping that your son will be a "whizz." He will scarcely reach the White House if a half-baked bean is his! In Other Days. Teny-flve Tears Ago. From The Oregnnlan, January 2. 1S05. San Francisco. L,mnber dealers of this city met yesterday in an effort to form an association to enable thetn to conduct their business profitably after several months in which thoy have been constantly losing money. At Chehalis 188 bales of hops were sold at "H cents and 152 bales at 7 '4 cents. These are the highest prices and the biggest sales so tar this year. Bull Run water is now flowing into the water mains of the city. No. 4 reservoir, at the head of Jefferson street, was partly filled yesterday and then drawn off to wash the basin, after which the water was turned in to supply the city. London. William Randall Cramer, member of parliament, will sail for America tomorrow to memorialize President Cleveland and congress In favor of the arbitration of all dis putes between England and the United State-v Axis of Rotation. NORTH BEND, Or., Dec. 31. (To the Editor.) Please answer Jhe fol lowing question to settle argu ment, and oblige: Does the axis, or dead center, of a shaft turn? H. L. O. There is In theory an axis of rota tion which remains at rest. Pensions for Southern Widows, PORTLAND. Jan. 1. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly inform me if this state provides any pension for confederate soldiers' widows. - If so. to whom should 1 apply'.' H. J. 1. No sucii provision has been made by Oregon. Sentiment Analyzed. Ily Ornce I'-. Hall.