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THE MOKXING OIlEGOyiAX, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920 I ably American Interests would not I better Impression of the country, have been as well secured by a treaty while no other interest would suffer, the ratification of which was a fore- if Britons would warm their homes FSTtRi isnrn by henry L. pittock. I gone conclusion as. by one over I to a degree somewhat below the Pubii!hd by The Oresonian publishing Co.. I which party polemics have raged. American winter indoor temperature. " y"?."'et- rorua.. t, u?c!k-n I The American people are not going a conclusion with which soldiers of M a najfar. uiiu LUIS UUI gUlU lllUI V, CUS UHC rvuw i a "J. a-, nuv ohiilu ww The Ortronian is a mrab of the Amo- woum as liehtlv break it: they will England for training will be ready eitad Pi-ou. The Associated frese 1SI . , . .1 ,.. exclusively entitled to the use for public- su m J uuo tuua.uon, I tion of all news dispatches credited to it to which he binds himself and then or nnr nrhrviM credited in this paper and i , . . .. . , ; I ; ,.Z i.i . ..hii.h-ri herein. All resolves to live up w U15 uuu6u". DntcnT rnvimint WTTff cmnra nirhts 01 republication 01 special .wuu 1 j. nanus 10 Him, mo two pcupica cm 1 A i-rivol it Portion nt th first now so fully revealed to I vessel with goods direct from Europe Subscrurttoa Rates-Invariably la Adymaee, l u""u rtnce the war began is a first taste of .ucui ,0 uC4u. that larger part in the world's com- 00 Ttie piea tnat tne Loage reserve- mo , ., ni rv bona should be rejected as unaccept- I. d,rec(. shipplng. lines and cuts the bonds which have held (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year Dally. Sunday included, six months Dally. Sunday included, three months.. Dally. Sunday Included, one month. .... Daily, without yunday.. one year Dally, without Sunday, six momns.. Dally, without Sunday, one month. ..... .60 .75 1 able to tne allies is now atspuseu ui 00 land will no lons-er avail the nresl- dent as an excuse for holding the re- bunday. one ear Bt Carrier.) PaUy. Sunday Included, one year .J9.00 Dally. Sunday included, one month 76 Dailv. without Sunday, one year T.KO Dai y. without Sunday, three months... l.&u Daily, without Sunday, one month Ilnw ta Remits Send Dostofflce money order, express or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owner's risk. Give postomce aaaress eb fuil. including county and state. Pmtara Ratiw 12 to 16 UZfL 1 Cent IS to 3; pajcea. 2 cents: 34 to 3S pares. 3 cents: 50 to 60 pases. 4 cents; 82 to 76 it in subordination to other ports, We shall no longer pay tribute on our European imports and exports to other ports on either the Atlantic or Pacific coast, where our products must compete for agents' preference with those of other parts of the country. Passing straight between this port and European ports, our nw.j4nD onol Ai.w. 4 w, nixie. will . . . , I I 1 UUUVld U1U WW. .U, 11 "111 .4 J way oi ratification except. v longeJ. suffer of transfer be oi a man wno BUr.u. " "'"""""T I tween car and ship for the overland ing that he has arrogated too much 4.,, h egcape the extra power va miuu charges and delays incident to trans 'Weekly, one year. . . l.uo huctant democratic senators in leash. u.w i r. laainiA without vui ai,CNiuu fcw ui .iuouw - i article 10 would be welcomed in con fidence that, if .a real emergency such as is contemplated in that I article should arise, we should help the world against another league of kaisers. Then nothing stands in the paees'. 5 cents; 7S to S2 pages. 8 cents, the opinion of his people and of their L e Foreiicn poHtaire. double rates. EuKtrrn Businem Officer Verree A Conk lln. Brunswick buildlnir. New York; Verree & Conklln. Steaer buildlnir. Chicaeo: Vr ree & Conklln. Free Press building. De troit. Mien. San Francisco representative. R. J. Bldwell. allies, also the pride of a party which shrinks from deserting its leader and confessing that its opponents have been right. The democratic party dare not let this ignoble sentiment remain the sole obstacle to that peace and service to humanity on which it has been so eloquent, for This beginning of direct commer cial intercourse comes from estab lishment of agencies in European ports by the Columbia Pacific com pany and Williams, Diamond & Co, Their agents bring before foreign buyers Oregon products as such and set. forth their merits. The goods for CRET CLEARS THE AIR. posed American reservations to the P"blc indignation would .overwhelm 1 there demand ,n Qre treaty of Versailles is one of the most it- The time has come for the sen- &re b Qt to tn(J attention of Ore- ate to act ana mea to g0n merchants by the same means, responsibility to the president. Lm nr win lonr , a. the product of California under this PARTT AVD STRAIGHT TICKKTS. pian, nor win Oregon's taste in important among the many great documents to which the peace ne gotiations have given rise. It sweeps away a whole fog of misunderstand ings, and reveals to the American -and British peoples each other's minds. His wonderfully- clear, log! cal brain, guided by that love of hon The COrvallis Gazette Times states I foreign goods be filtered through the I the whole case for party and party I mind of a New York agent. Business integrity when tt says that it has "no I relations thus established are bound I obiections to the independent voter, I to be satisfactory to both parties orable peace which seeks a basis or Dt if he Is thoroughly honest, he and therefore grow. Though at agreement in the most seemingly ir- I will register that way. He . has no I present a guaranty of a minimum reconcilable disputes, sets Delore tne business to register as a republican tonnage is necessary to bring a ship British people the considerations ac- or a democrat when he isn't." to this port, that precaution should tuating the reservationist senators in I vet we find the Eugene Guard de-lsoon become superfluous, a way which will incline the British I nouncing the statement as represent-1 Appointment of an agent in the to recognize the justice of American Ung the viewpoint of the "yellow-dog orient by the Port of Portland as- scruples about accepting without re- partisan," based on the assumption sures us that the same solid founda serve the obligations of the league that "it is a near-crime for a man to tion for direct commerce will soon covenant. He shows that Britain can scratch a candidate once he is nom accept the proposed reservations inated by his party." Continues the without rear that America will seek Guard: lO snirK its pari, m keeping wurtu Xh. indeDendent Barry voter looks noon peace and in confidence that many I the party organization solely as a means -'. of the predicted causes Of friction I DT wnicn no may secure gooa government will prove imaginary or will be w smoothed over in the practical oper ation of the league. He thus finds ground for agreement on terms of ratification which would make the United States a party to the treaty and a member of the league. be laid in that region. Other agents located in the principal oriental ports should introduce the merchants of the orient and the Oregon country to each other, should familiarize them with the respective products and should establish that exchange which constitutes commerce and which makes shipping lines prosper. When this foundation is laid, the way is open for indefinite development Oregon manufacturers will be able and capable officials, and we maintain that he is wholly within his rights in rrg istering as a member of any party he chooses or voting In any primary In the way his judgment tells him will give him the best opportunity to make hia effort! In that direction approach success. It is not often that a newspaper will so frankly uphold the right of a to extend their foreign markets and By this letter Lord Grey makes I citizen to practice perjury, even I consequently the commerce of Port- the positions of both President Wil- when he has so laudable a design as land, if they expand the suggestion son and the death battalion unten-lood government through the elec-1 of Mr. Huntington that they estab able. The president has held any tion of srood officials. It is understood lish a.n exhibit of sum nips In Port- Dut interpretative reservations to do by the Guard, of course, that when a land for the information of foreign out of the question on the ground I voter registers he takes an oath as visitors. The great sample exhibitions tnat tney wouia torow tne wnoie to his party affiliation. The indepen- which have been made at Lyons, treaty open to iresn negotiation, dent denies that he has a party, by London and Leipsig furnish oppor Grey's letter, following intimations his self-definition sets himself out- tunities to duplicate' that sample ex- tnat tne reservations would not oeiside of party, yet when he registers hibit to the ereat advantage of Ore opposed by France, disposes or tnat with a party he asserts his right to a gon industry. Europe is in such dire oojection. xne president nas con- i voice in party management without need of manv thintrs which Oregon aemnea tne reservation to article m accepting any,obligation as to results, can supply that the present is an un as nullifying tnat article, urey is jit is a general obligation only, to be equaled opportunity to Introduce willing to accept it in deference to sure. Yet here we have a denial of them to new customers. It is to the the traditional American policy of the principle of majority rule which interest of our manufacturers to see avoiding European entanglements, I g0es to the life of democracy itself, that tliey.are introduced as products aiso in recognition or tne possiDinty i it is not true that the demand that of Oregon, not of some other state, that some future congress might dis-oniy republicans register as renubli- as is the practice of some aerents in agree with the president of the time j pans and vote at a republican pri- other ports who care nothing about as io acceptance oi me ouugauun. mary, and that democrats who follow Oregon. iiie same principle applies to uuo the same rule with their own party, reservations as to mandates and Ob- ar "vpllow-rlnir" nartisans. The ligations Under article 16. Vollnw-rlnir" flava nr nast Rut th PORTS TOB AIRSHIPS. The manner in which Grey dis- Idavs of fair dealing- are not vet e-one I " 13 called to attention again, by poses of the six-votes-to-one ques- I The "independent" who is proud of efforts of British aviation interests to tion leaves Senator. Bombastes Fu- I bis unpartisanship will deal fairly I establish an air route from Cairo to rioso Hiram jonnson and tne otner I oniv when he practices what he tne v;ape oi urooa nope, um naviga- death battalion senators in the ridi- Inroarhes H lias his nnnnrtunitir to tion is only in part a mechanical culous position of men fanning the scratch a candidate on anv ticket at Problem. This has been as true in air. They have been inveighing anv election I the past or the sea as it is now of the against the evil design of Britain to If it is fair to permit an indepen-1 ar It has always been easy to build stuff the league ballot box with dent to vote as ho pleases at an elec- ships and sail them in fine weather British votes, put urey says tnat an tion as it is it is also fair to ac- m lne iairway or tne open ocean, dux parts of the empire would be de- knowledge the right of partv to con- always relatively difficult to handle barred irom voting in a dispute in trol party affairs. I tnem in tide rips ana cross currents. or in anusuai stresses oi storm, j. T. Trowbridge expressed the thought CHURCH VVIOX I-N SCOTLAND. when he made Darius Green remark The difficulties of the Cairo to the Cape roue seem to embrace all those of the voyage across the United States and that over the islands of the Indian Ocean, multiplied several times 'to stimulate the adventurous spirit in the human breast. It was widely predicted about a year ago that Africa would be crossed from north to south by air within a short time, and that a regu lar schedule would be maintained soon after the "ground" had been broken. But confidence diminishes as time runs on. Our unquestioning faith in man is shaken occasionally. The new speed record of 155 miles an honr made by an American aerial carrier on January 31 indicates prog ress, but does not yet solve the trans continental flight problem. Such a flyer theoretically could cross the United States in twenty-two hours or the continent of Africa in about forty-four hours, but only theoreti cally. There Is as much to be done on the ground as in the air to make aviation a complete success. The mariner without a port would pre- BY - PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES A Celebrities' Club Kales Oat Snobs and Standing: Speakers. It is the custom of the Dutch Treat club, writes O. O. Mclntyre in "Bits of New York IJfe," to invite a celeb rity at their luncheons every Tues day. One week they invited an actor starring on Broadway, who was sur prised when he had to pay for his nch himself before he sat down to He got even, however, by inviting the entire membership to see hia play that night on the same basis. The Dutch Treat has a membership limited to 100 and it includes the most famous writers, artists and novelists Those Who Come and Go. in America. There is no clubroom nor are there any dues. They just meet every Tuesday at Browne's chop house, an old Broadway Institution, opposite the Metropolitan opera. A member must attend once a month or have a good reason. If he fails he Is dropped. There is no wait ing list. A man must be asked to join the organization. There is al sent a no more distressing picture 1 ways a celebrity present who is th than the aviator with whom the ground forces have not cc operated In advance. A long-distance machine may be built for a few thousand dol lars, but it will require millions to create for It safe routes to travel over. which any one of them was inter ested, and as to other disputes, "we have no objection in principle to ln- -crease of the American vote." Thus -disappears the fiction that has been The vote by which a commission that flying was easy; the hard part of the established Church of Scot- was when the flyer tried to light. conjured up by Johnson, Borah, j land at a meeting in Edinburgh In Neither the shipmaster nor the avi Reed and others of a Britain which December resolved to ask parliament ator Is much concerned with the sought to control the league by giv- for an act authorizing union with the problems of the straightaway. One ing a vote to each of Its dominions United Free church is likely to give worries not at all until he finds him Although the effect of Grey's de- new impetus to the movement for self in proximity to a rocky coast: the elaration is to leave the position of church union throughout the world, other sails the air in perfect security the reservationists, strong or "mild," I The Scotch, historically tenacious of until something happens that re- - safe from attack by either Wilson or I their beliefs and proverbially argu-1 quires him to come down. The port --tne joonsoa element, it aoes not m. uieuuuve m luaiters uieuiogiuu, i m more important Tna,T tne crait in .'validate the arguments which have 'been advanced for compromise be- een ratification with and without -reservations. That declaration has -been drawn orrt by the long debate in the senate, by the final deadlock be tween it and the president and by - the necessity in the Interest of Europe and the. world at large that , the United States take part In execnt- ; Ing the treaty and in organizing the i 'league. It reveals the dire need of 'American help in pacifying the world -and the price which the allies are r ready to pay, in the shape of conces- "V'sions to American traditions and ' idiosyncrasies. That price would not : have been offered if the deadlock had not created the necessity. To say this does not at all detract from due appreciation of the lofty " tone of Lord Grey's discussion of the difficulties, their source and the means for their removal. He is as I fully in sympathy with the American a with the British viewpoint, and , his one aim Is to reconcile them. ' Taking his stand as a peacemaker where he can view impartially the positions of both countries, he at tributes blame to no one on either side of the ocean or to either party to the controversy In this country. He might truthfully have accused Mr. Wilson of having misrepresented American opinion to the allies, but of course tact forbade. He does not complain that the treaty has become . a subject of party politics, but re calls that British parties also take sides on such weighty questions. He explains reluctance to assume bind ing and indefinite obligations under ' article 10 by the difference between the American and British constitu tions, and Justifies the reservation " ists by that difference. He frankly admits that the dominions will prob ably vote with the United States in most cases. He is so confident that most of the dangers seen larking In the covenant are figments of fear that -- lie would accept precautions against them as of no effect, for good or ill. Such a man silences controversy by proving how little cause there is for It and he Is the despair of those sen- , ators who framed reservations for :.-the covert purposes of strangling the covenant. I,'- If the president had joined the - senate witn ainueu m matting tne - treaty, due recognition might have .C-been given to those "cross-currents and nacKwaters oi American opin- Ion to which Grey refers, but prob- have taken a long step toward earn- either case, lnation of purely denominational dif- Now the rorrte from Cairo to the fereneea in religion. The vote was Cape has been mapped and machines 219 in favor of union to thirty-six have been perfected whose perform in opposition to it In an the records ances give assurance that they are of the church, says a writer in the I capable of covering the distance. Edinburgh Scotsman, "there has I Cecil Rhodes, who dreamed of the never Been sucn a decided majority Cape-to-Calro railroad but did not for any question." The delegates live to see its fulfilment, no doubt favoring union .constituted 86 per would be amazed If he were living cent or the wnoie number voting. to discover that there are physical The United Presbyterians of Scot- obstacles to flying over the course he land and the Free church had pre- had conceived for a railroad that are viously paved the way for larger not altogether simpler than those anion by their action in coming to- which stood in his way. Rhodes' tn gether in 1900. The articles Just for- glneers had wild animals and myr mulated for continuance of the lads of Insects to fight hostile xiovement In this direction were com- peoples to pacify and a hundred de pleted after a long series of con- gtructive agencies to combat; the ferences in which certain modif lea- aviator finds air pockets in one zone, tlons not revealed in the news dis- want of landing fields la a second, patches were proposed as to the con- and weather that destroys his ma- sutution or tne MtaoiiBiied cnurcn. cninery in a third. Steam rising xnese moauicaiions were agreed to from the unties of the eauatorlal and enthusiastic advocates of church beit conceais the earth from view at union in tnat country now predict one point almost limitless tnat no insuperable Obstacles will be -,amns nreclnde landine- at others. found to finding a basis for complete There are in one great district many spiritual umon. varieties of weather none good. uentunes or mo pasi, sbjo tne l-rr.y, f the ereat lakes, in far. mover of the resolution, "so fuU of observes a London Times correspon REWARDS OP AUTHORSHIP. Cyrus Townsend Brady, who died the other day, is best remembered as the author of robust novels, his torical in flavor, which appeared with amazing frequency, and of mo tion picture scenarios in which chief emphasis was laid on motion. But it is not so well known that he re signed from the church, after hav ing given several years to study of theology and to preaching, because he found it impossible as a clergy man to earn a salary- sufficient to support a family. His choice illus t rates the change that has taken place within about half a century n the financial status of authors. Few men before the middle of the nineteenth century would have deliberately abandoned any salaried calling for authorship with the money motive uppermost. The comprehension of mass psy chology which Dr. Brady exhibited his choice of subjects and his method of treating them would have made of him an effective if not a great preacher had he elected to re main in that vocation. One of his most popular tales was "Henry Mor gan, Buccaneer, which was a best seller, and which greatly elevated the public taste in yellow-back literature. His heroes were invariably "red blooded," and his villains nearly al ways got their deserts. People paid cheerfully to read his books who could hardly have been counted on to go to church to hear him preach. His "Stephen Decatur" was a good book for boys to read, and his "Bob Dashaway" books were a marked improvement over the Oliver Optic series of forty years ago, which they strongly resemble. Curiously, Dr. Brady was a pad fist before America entered the war, notwithstanding the rufous coloring of his historical tales, but after we declared war on Germany he was among the most zealous of the cany ons. It will be recalled with Inci dental interest that he once took sides against woman suffrage, declar ing that women needed husbands more than votes, and that he urged on many occasions that the funda mentals of Christianity ought to be adapted to the circumstances of the moment In a series of sermons which he planned on "The Religion of a Gentleman," he asserted that Jesus Christ was the "ideal gentle man of humanity." The material rewards of his literary work were very large. The new secretary of agriculture passes out the same kind of patte: about the "middleman" and "making the farm pay." He must know the middleman is a necessity and that hundreds of thousands make their farms pay. Without a middleman to handle the crops from the paying farm, that farm would choke up. and cease to exist bitter strife and dissension, are meet- dent "has its own peculiar type of mg on tne morning oi conciliation. b,d weather." There is rain the vear is not. uaru ior uioae who are around, often accompanied by thun lamuiar wiin me xraaiuonai acorasn N,nn, .nd watnnmniitji traveling tendency to maxe conscience meir at tremendous velocity. "The only guiue even in uimute matters oi opio- pogsIble gjte for a landing place la ion to understand why the event Tr(.n lnri,. under watar- hut should be regarded as momentous in 0wing to the luxuriant growth of f ouuuuy. I t i tmuik hl fnr a nllnr tn it prooaoiy is. as a matter ot lact. an aUght safely- if he knows his busl- occurreuco i w.aer fciguui- ness thoroughly and has good luck. cance. The sectarian barriers seem Tne aviator can nearly always es to be rapidly breaking down. Uarv. th nonroachlne storm hv risine- nnifklv tn a. treat heierht but hn is It is suggested by the Landmark, , . hart wav if his muhln.m a journal wnose lire purpose is pro- chances to go wrong. The weather motion or cordiality among English- la especially destructive of airplane speaking peoples, that "in the in- pr0peiiers. The glue between the terests of Anglo-American friend- iaminations loses its adhesiveness snip- tne peopie oi yreat Britain and the propeller falls to pieces. ougnt to ananoon tneir attitude or rje difficulties of cross-continent contempt toward steam neaung. it navigation are illustrated by recent is conceaea ubi . mny oe gooa ror experience in the United States, the development of moral character cosUy of human life, though con to make getting up In winter an act ducted under conditions as nearly of daily heroism, but there are some ideal M We have a right to expect in jngusnmen woo wouia re wuiing , r.ront stt of sir navigation to suDsutute anotner iorm or train- There is much yet to be learned Ing. Mr. fickwicK s nand-basln, about the currents of the air and it is wnicn naa a mass, o ice on it on Btul a perilous undertaking to bring Christmas morning, is often dupli- the aircraft safely to harbor. Cap- catea in England in iecemoer ana tain rOSs Smith, who made the flight January, and it is the idea of the from Eneland to Australia, has not Landmark editor, seemingly, that hRn In haste to reDeat the Derform- Americ&n visitors would obtain a ! anc and has not found an Imitator. Take that little family of Posey Livingstone at Albany six children in 15 months, triplets both occasions and all doing well. If one certain gentleman, now dead, were in the White House, he would shut up shop until he had done something hand some in the premises. . . The war department specifically exclnded enlisted men from dis tinguished service medal awards, ac cording to testimony of General Robert C Davis before a house com mittee. . , Tet , we never . have heard that the officers did all the fishting. The case la reported from Bend, Or., of a woman who was saved from the effects of poison, self-adminis tered, by having her stomach "flooded with alcohol." i Every now and then somebody does invent a new way to get a drink." ' Seizure "of the frve-mllllon-dollar cargo Of liquor oo the Black Star liner Yarmouth that turned back for repairs,. Havana-bound,, shows the truth in. the saying that it is bad luck to turn back, so the negro owners will believe. Rural can lets ask an 'increase of CO per cent as the minimum base rate of pay. - As the rate of increase of everything they must buy averages 87 per cent their demand of 60 is modest and moderate. ' There is an old saying, "God save the mark." At the present rate of exchange on Germany; divine help would seem to be urgently needed. It slowly comes to the knowledge of grown men that basketball is a game which men real men play. It takes a long time to soak in. By general agreement a demurrer will be filed should Attorney-General Palmer become a candidate for presi dent Here's chance for the whisky fel lows: A Denver paper offers $25,000 reward for a cure of influenza. It was a slick thief who cleaned up the Seattle sleeper the other night disturbing nobody. The man who buys whisky these days often finds he has Invested in watered stocks. Trouble with the groundhog is that he never has got used to the Oregon climate, - - - . guest of honor, bnt he cannot speak st&ndlnsr. If he has anything to eay he just talks sitting down and Is never introduced with a "We have with us today " There are no rules among the Dutch Treaters except that there must never be a snob among them. A man who shows the slightest sign of snobbish ness is just as popular as S o'clock in the morning. The club was start ed by a handful of writers about eight years ago. Among them was Jack London. They Just happened to drop in at Browne's at the same hour and final ly collected at the same table. Others came, and when they outgrew the table a room was reserved for them upstairs. John Drinkwater, a recent guest declared that he had never seen euch an Interesting body of men torother at one time. One is liable to see Robert W. Chambers, Howard Chan dler Christy. Irvin Cobb and Will Ir win at one table and at the adjoining table others equally celebrated. Something new comes out of Wash ington. Citizens living in the Wilson Normal community, one of the best residential sections of Washington, are organizing a corporation for the purpose of buying outright a 365 acre farm and operating it for the mutual benefit of community homes. It Is claimed by the prime movers of the project that farm products eggs, milk, ' etc. can be sold to homes of the community at a figure consider ably below the prevailing prices. . Fifty years ago, according to papers of that date, remarks the Washing ton Post the people of Washington were complaining about the high cost of steak, which had just jumped to 10 cents a pound. Eggs not so many years ago were worth no more per dozen than they now bring per egg. It is hoped to make the corporation free from evils. The organizers think that one share only should be sold to each family. Thus, one person could not control the prices and man age the farm by being a majority stockholder. There are 4000 homes in the Wilson Normal community. The Pasteur institute is unable to continue its experiments into the ef fects of serums against Infectious dis eases. Before the war country women used to devote their spare time to the breeding of guinea pigs and thus brought in a small extra revenue to help the bas delaine. Since 1914 the women have been too busy In the fields to attend - to this work one more proof of how the women tilled the fields and carried on when their husbands were at the front With the dearth of guinea pigs, the price has gone up considerably. Dr. Roux, the director of the Pasteur Institute, thinks the crisis will now pass with the return of the peasants to the land. There are already symptoms of this. the price of the guinea pig having fallen to 1.75 franc. Tears before Marconi was born wireless telegraphy was invented by an obscure Washington dentist. Dr. Marlon Loomis. Dr. Loomis called his discovery "aerial telegraphy." In 1866 he did actually telegraph wire- lessly with the aid of kites from one Blue Ridge peak to another 18 miles distant It is told in the Washington Star by H. O. Bishop how .Dr. Loomis ap pealed again and again to congress for assistance in putting his invention into use. Charles Sumner finally pre sented his petition to the senate with the comment: "I content myself with remarking that it is either a great case of moonshine or It marks a great epoch in the progress of invention." Congress went so far as'-to incorpo rate the "Loomis Aerial Telegraph company," but failed to appropriate 50,000 to further the discovery, so Dr. Loomis never could make prac tical use of his patent The sapient newspapers made great fun of the poor dentist's folly. At one tlriie pins were dreadfully expensive, so that only wealthy peo ple could afford them, and they were carefully saved. By a curious law the manufacturers of pins were only al lowed to sell them on January 1 and 2 each year, and so when those days came around the woman whose hus band could afford it secured pin money from them and went out and got their pins. The expression "pin money" has continued to live, although today when used it means any allowance of money which a husband gives a wife for her personal expenses. Pins were known and used as long ago as 1S47 A D. They were Intro duced into England in 1540. In 1S21 an American named Might invented a machine for making pins which en abled them to be manufactured cheaply. About 1600 tons of Iron and brass are made Into pins every year j in the United States. New xork Globe. V Marmaduke M. Mizzle, having formed an anagram from the name of the kaiser's residence, wrote the New York Times: The only anagram that can be formed out of 'Amerongen' le 'one German,' which, commencing with the '& usee up the nine letters mak ing the-nawe of the quaint Dutch vil lage." . - Promptlr Blllsby i. BisJtesiey re plied, using the elements of his ana gram to make tne roiiowing siang phrase, thereby enriching the lan guage, as he remarks, with a gem like, soul-stirring couplet fully ex pressive of the kaiser's dally rumina tions, namely: One uerman. H' aae a gonert , When the senate killed the gaso line bill It forced the automobile owners to pay between J60O.000 and $700,000 a year without benefit" de clared W. N. Dennis of Carleton, Or, yesterday. Mr. Dennis, who made a thorough investigation of the gasoline situation before the special session of the legislature, came to the con clusion that to demand the specific gravity provided for by the Oregon statute the consumers, were forced to pay extra and at the same time received no especial advantage, so Mr. Dennis had a bill prepared re pealing the specific gravity law and providing for the same test that the federal government demands of gaso line. This bill, after passing the house, was killed about midnight on the last night of the session. "It simply means," says Mr. Dennis, "that the gasoline consumers must pay a fortune in tribute for this special gravity and it will be no better than other gasoline. It Is just taxing the eonsumess uselessly." Prom operating a machine gun in France to driving mules on a wheat ranch In Sherman county la a wel come change to Frank Schanel, who Is at the Imperial. Mr. Schanel is work ing a 2000-acre wheat ranch ten miles southeast of Grass Valley, and he will not be surprised nor angry If the yield Is about 60,000 bushels this year. Anyway, all the Indications for a big crop are good. Mr. Schanel was with the 91st division and wears three machine gun bullets as a watch charm. As to the mule proposition, he says he prefers the animals for plowing rather than a tractor, be cause the animals will start when you tell them to and If they get fussy a little swearing makes them hit on all cylinders. Crawford Blagden like to hunt big game and has been in the northwest before, as seven years ago he was out this way and was In a hunting party with Hamilton Corbett Mr. Bladgen, who became a major during the war, arrived at the Benson yes terday morning and proceeded to look up "Ham." The main purpose of hia visit to Portland and the west, how ever, is to see how the people are taking to the candidacy of Leonard Wood, and he has come from New York for that purpose. Tonight h will resume his scouting. "We would like to have a road built south from I'rineville to connect with the Burns-Bend road, the central Ore gon highway," explains D. F. Stuart of Prineville. "This is a road no one should .object to, as it will be a great convenience for traffic It will serve as a sort of a tap line Into the Bend Bums road and will save a great deal of detouring. A delegation is In the city to take the matter up with the state highway commission at Its meet ing tomorrow. Jap McKlnnon, one of the commis sioners of Haraey county, is at the Imperial. He Is in town to see about roads, explaining that there is plenty of room in Harney for all the roads that the highway commission would like to build. It is the largest' county in Oregon and embraces more terri tory than some states. Unofficially Mr. McKinnon is a cattleman, as any one can tell by looking at him. Carl G. Doney of the Willamette university at Salem is registered at the Seward and is here on business connected with the recent Are at the Institution. Mr. Doney aroused some discussion during the war when he objected to the soldiers smoking cigarettes, but he failed to convert the buddies and make them swear off on th' makin's." ANCIENT INDIAN- TALKS POIJTTCi Ckarlle Step ta tee Med, Age 123, Thee Issues Ckalleage te root Race. THORP. Wash.. Feb. 1. (Te the Editor.) I am en old Indian, and as I have lived a long time mayne 1 aont know anything. Well. It looks to me that Mr. Wilson has coerced congress into letting him have his English way of doing Just as he pleases. He has kow-towed to all of the labor unions and their leaders and bas given them all their demands end caused very much hardship to fall upon the whole people. By so doing, as I see It this extreme high high coat of living lies right at the door of the labor unions and nowhere else. I say right here that if all the farm era and producers would join together with all of the whole American Le gion next fall and pick out true, hon est, red-hot blooded Americans of true Americanism, of America for Ameri cans and to hell with the rest of the earth, and elect them to office, there might yet something be done to avoid having to whip old John Bull again. In 1812 I was a boy of 15 years, and I went wltli my father and older brothers and joined General Jackson's army because the British had been giving bad whisky, rotten rum, stink ing powder and rusty muskets to my red kindred to kill each other witb and our white friends with. After that war was fought out and the British were whipped, old John Bull declared that If he could not whip this country by force of arms he would buy It In the end with his gold. Now all big enterprise In this country Is backed by Knglish capital, and the I. W. W.s. bolsheviks and sovlets are very menacing. I helped to whip the Mexicans under General Winfleld Scott. I served In the army during the civil war. I was at Shilah, Gettysburg, Vlcksburg, Lookout mountain, Sentry hill and a few other places. And as old as I was getting to be I went to Cuba and was at the battle of San Juan hill and did my feeble part to help whip the Spaniards. Before that I put in a good many years out on the plains and In the mountains helping to keep my people from going to war with enr white friends. But whenever they did I would always Join the soldiers and help whip my people back to a peace ful life aguin. I am entitled to 5. 6. zero 7 full pensions according to law, but because I happen to be a full-blooded Indian I only get 0 for all my long years of faithful service. Say. aint it hell? Well, dear old edttor, I will bet you a new hat that I can do a bigger day's work than yon can. Tills last summer I pitched on and made my own loads and pitched them off Into the barn and mowed away four tons of hay a day and by my lonesome self. And I will bet you I can outrun you for fun. money or raables either for 100 yards or a mile. I can take a blanket tomahawk, knife, rifle, am munition belt and some grub and Dike It 50 miles In a day, and I havo pros pects of 25 to SO years more. I did not learn to read and write until about SO years ago. I can do anything any other man can do. I can build or make anything either of Iron or wood or eteel and repair any kind of machinery. Am also fond of music. I beat nil my white friends playing the fiddle. I can play a cornet a half-octave higher than any of my white friends, and I can Just make an old trombone howl. But I like the old paper. The Ore- gonlan. the beat of all. I read my iriends (Jregonlan I am staying with KXKPTKIKUMDKTDfK. (In English) Charlie Step In the Mud. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jesses t. Mesrtagve. CP AI IP AXD IT. A Cawt t I.lrUg Danad. Smith put ail bis cash In a nice corner lot And Joyfully mid to hh wife. That when they'd erected a neat Kb tie cot They'd surely be happy for ttf: But the Klow they felt whn the bouse was complete Endured but a shadowy minute. For the lirowna built a house half a block op the street With three baths and a sua parlor In it So Smith on the BaDdlng and Lena made a raid And put op a bnfwe that thmar Brown's in the shade. When Smith, In bis fllvvw. vou)d Jog Into town. ' He thrilled with a histlfTod prtd As he drew up his car at the man Ion of Brown And asked him to go for a ride. But the Joy that he felt swiftly van ished away. As be stood by hia white gardM rste. Regarding the world with content ment one day. Brown drove up a brand-new Twin Klght. So Smith right away bad to work oat a plan To purchase on credit a Twla-Elght Sedan. The Smiths had a cook whom Omy proudly displayed Whenever the Browns came to rait It pleased Mrs. Smith to refer to "my maid." For the Browns bad no servant at all. But Joy fades away as the months apeed around. The Smiths were soon plunged ta despair. For when at the Browns they took dinner, they found A cook and two second girla thT. Now they've written an ad, uhli h I'm quoting herewith: "Wanted Butlr.r and Footman Ap ply to J. Smith.." see Ife e nard ( Pick Tm. Mr. Hoover Is no croonlnc. "How happy 1 it with either Were foiher great putty aay." If at Hr.t, I'tr. If Admiral Flms haiichtily refiim a decoration, we BiicRrl that Jo- sephus offer him a bottle of something. Ahaottff rly Knrmal. There 1 already a criula In the. new French cablnt which la an enr.mraR tng indication that everything is lovely. tropTrttht. 1930. TTie Tell Frti1lr. rn. Ancestors. By C;rare K. nail. From Calcutta, India, comes B. C Sircar, a tourist to the Hotel Port land. Calcutta is now booming along and has taken a new spurt, although the city has always been a big dis- nbuting center since and before the days of the "black hole." P. J? Stodelman, who operates an Ice plant and owns a hardware store at The Dalles, Is among the Multno mah arrivals. As the temperature In The Dalles In summer is rather ex cessive, the ice plant Is an Important factor in the town. "Haven't found anything but Wood sentiment In Eastern Oregon," says Cyril Brownell of Umatilla. "If there is any other candidate making a howing in that section I have failed to find traces." Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Behan of Spring field, Mass., are at the Multnomah while making their first trip to the I'acific coast. Mr. Behan is superin tendent of agencies for an eastern insurance corporation. After spending a cotiple of months in California, Mr. and Mrs. Al Murphy nd Miss Clara Merllhan of Caldwell. Idaho, have arrived at the Seward and will visit Portland for a week or two before going home. Everything looks favorable for a big wheat crop In the Horse Heaven country, according to A. L Smalley of Sprague, Wash- who la at the Multnomah, - To have a heart-to-heart talk with the highway commission, George Rus sell, cattleman from Prineville, is at the Benson. George S. Bulkley, connected with one of the big milk canning compa nies, is at the Multnomah attending the milkmen's convention. William Mackay, a stockman from the ranges of the John Day country, Is among the arrivals at the Perkins. Tr M. Carlyle, president of a milk company at Calgary, Canada, is at the Multnomah meeting with the dairymen. W. H. Gore, banker of Medford and also member of the legislature, is at the Imperial. ONE FAMILY THAT DE.4T H. C U J. Llghtbody of Vancouver, Is at the Seward. B. C TROUT HATCH CLAIMS DOUBTED Steelhead Output Abo Improperly Classified, Says Mr. Roe. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 3 (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan Saturday, Master Fish Warden Clanton makes the assertion that in 1917 Oregon hatched more trout than all other states combined. If this statement be true the anglers of Oregon and the public should be pleased tin thank ful that such a record has been made. But I am strongly or the belief that the statement is erroneous, f-r avail able records . of New England, the middle Atlantic states, Michigan, Wis consin, Colorado ana some ether trout states -indicate that their total trout hatch is many times that of Oregon, even if steelheads are Includea in Ore gon's total. When the habits of the steelhad, which are reckoned as trout In Ore gon's hatching records, are consid ered, it is evident that regardless of peculiarities of teeth and structure. the steelheaa is practically a saimo-i. Perhaps 95 per cent of the steelhead take Is by commercial fishermen. For the past seven years at least the steelhead hatch has been wrong fully counted as trout tn order to make a fictitious total to placate the anglers. Our hatcheries were admit tedly unable to obtain native trout eirtrs in sufficient quantity, hence khe I purchase of eggs from Colorado and I eastern states. GEOUGB RAH Three Live Well ea A boot $1300 Vear and Acquire Owa Home. TURNER, Or, Feb. J. (To the Edi tor.) It isn't the "hlRh cont of living. but "the cost of living high." that is worrying most people. I will agree that a $2334 yearly family bill is a "sprendtnrirt estimate." I know a young conple who were married a little over five years ago. He was 23, she 19. They have a girl of four. Their health has been only average, as Doth have been to, the doc tor and she to the hospital for an operation. When they were married he had a lot 60x100 feot well located In the suburbs of Salem and very little, if any, cash. He had paid for the lot from earn ings of never more than $35 per month. They built a house at a cost of a little over $1100. It Is well pro portioned, fully completed, plumbed, wired and above the average In np pearance. They have a substantial, well-built wood house and a small but comfortable cow stable also on the lot. They have kept a cow part of the time but not regularly. They have a good share of the modern conven iences, electric lights and Iron, tele phone, hot and cold water and have subscribed regularly for dally as well as other papers. They dressed plainly but substantially and would pass in a crowd as average city people. They have recently purchased a new Ford automobile. The furniture that they have purchased has been substantial and some of It even expensive. They have not been miserly In their living. Tbey are still in debt something less than $300, but In view of what they have accomplished in the past that doesn't seem much, The husband has been employed most of the time and ha.T advanced from the original $36 nntil last year he drew a little over 1100 Der month This past fall they received $200 from an estate. He has raised a garden, with varying success, each year. She has not worked out. He la out of work at present. This family hasn't done more than It Is possible for any family of like size to do, but has simply lived up to its opportunities and is well on the road to Independence. I am not at liberty to irlve th nm and address of these people as thia Is written without their knowl,l. but will furnish It to anyone who I curious, and am satisfied an inquirer will get a civil answer to anv Dronor qucaiiuus inai ni mignt care to svk. . LEWIS K. JUDSO.V. Every Taxpayer Should Read It. i-tjit'ruA.-vu. Or., Feb. S. (To the conor.; i nave read with great In teresi ana concern the first report oi ine tax supervising and conserva tion commission published In The Sunday Oregonlan and also The Ore gonlan s comprehensive review and approval of the same In two leading eunui mis. As the report in order properly to cover the subject matter wa. noces arily long and was published In con nection with much other Interesting news, I am fearful that most of our taxpayers who should be vitally con cernea tnerem, nave not read It. I therefore suggest that It be published In pamphlet form and mailed to tvery taxpayer In the county. I want to take this opportunity publicly to thank Messrs. Farrell, Day and Hurlburt for the sacrifice of' time and research they have given Mils very important subject. The discloi ures made by the report shoull awak en every taxpayer to the necessity of giving more attention to public ex ptndltures. J. P. MENEFBE. Lie etill and sleep! Tou had your earthly day; The sprlnctlme pave lta treasures Jnes. as free. The autumn wood where lonbnami turn to Kfny, Were trimmed for you, as they are now for me; The blood that dries within the vernsi now d ad. Should erase to pulsate m my II vis g heart. The Impulse that through other mlnde sped, .Should rest from fllcht when thry at last depart. Ton had your turn! Are you not sat- iMfleii? Why come to nve again in my owa brain? Why cull to me of venture yon bve tried. Or vitiate my blood with gloom and pain? With no one nlirh, you whleper ta my ear. Ton tsnlallre with voices ages old. Until I hesitate In doulit or f"ar. Half r-hAken In mr faith through what you've told. Why do you corns? Tou even seem to ask Hold deeds of me that you ne'er un dertook. Ambition comes to plead for greater task. AltbouKh you once this aelf-aame work forsook; From some long-nrumhied cLay that once wis man. A volco I never heard commands my will. Demands attention to some cheriehed plan. That 1 must do, this etranBcr-votce to allll! O sleep, my forbears, sleep! I would not know The forces that were you In ages pant; Forget that lean yours, for I would ro My separate way, unhindered, to the last; Could you but sleep and leave my soul In peace. Life then were rid of many a sorry ecar. But O, your Importuning will Dot cease For you still urge my atepa, from where you arel In Other Days. Tree Name Elberta. COXDOX, Or, Feb. 1. (To the Ed itor.) Is there both an Alberta and an Elberta peach? We have an ar gument on this question. BOX 4J. "Alberta" is a misspelling of the ..... . t h. 'V 1 V, ... . mv Ivj u c uuuiu v. .119 Hiuei Aiiey are a single variety. Twenty-fire Tears Aao. Frrnn Ths Oreronlsn of Felinisrr 4. Wi. Washington. The bond lnnie to he authorized by the president will prolt ably be for $200,000,000 and It Is un derstood will be taken entirely by European financiers at a rate not ex ceeding 3ii per cent. It is expected that arrangements under way by the Oregon Railroad Si Navigation company to put on a rc-uu-lar steamBhlp service between Port land. China and Japan will be con cluded next Wednesday. Hood River has been Incorporated by the county court of Wasco county. The annnal report of the Pnrtlacd Library association made at the an nual merlins; last niuht shows that 19,876 persona was the attendance during the year 1894. The total cir culation of books was 25,874. Fifty Tears Ajre. From Th OritonlftB of February 4, !ro. Washincton. John A. I.Kiin Intro duced a rrxolutlon In the house In structing the committee on foreign affairs to Inquire what reasons exist why the I'nltnl States should not recognize the Cubans as belligerents. Vienna, The arch-duchess, Eliza of AUKtrla, ha fled to America, hav ing embarked from Hamburg. The tax levy for city purposes fixed by the commdn council I 1.02 mills on the doliar. I'se Black nsar la I.'nst. Philadelphia I'ulillc Ledger. Black sugar now la being uned In Philadelphia houreholds. Tons of black sugar In 1-pound 1-rli Vs of uni form sine have been sold by (trorers. Aside from being Mack, It hsa the familiar molasses taste common tn raw lunar, whose sweetness rloya on the palate. It was shipped from Cuba, and when the refineries here could not take care of It the siiKar was sold for home consumption. Deal ers who laid in Inrne iln, k of It had difficulty In disposing of them. Purchasers, however, have not tak en kindly to the blink nr after trying It oat In their breakfast coffee.