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a THE 3IOKMSG OKEGOMAX, Fit ID AT, FEBRUARY 27, 1920 ESTABLISHKD BY HESRT U PITTOCK. Pubiirbed by The Oresanian Publishing- s-q., l-at bixtb Street, i'oruanu. r A Kniniv ! B PIPER. ji'uuv. Editor. Ttw. OresOman l a member ot the Aeso- eisted frfhs. The amocii"i "T, exclusively emitted to the use, for publics .. . - i . . , credited tO li or not otherwise credited In this paper and In the loca: ner published herein. Ail p-s of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Exihsrrlption Kate Invariably in Ad' . U Mull 1 I, . Hundav-Included, one year .....SS-OO rin, . fcW,,i- inolixfoH months - Th..!.- u. , i. ..i i' H- mnnthS " Eai;y Sunday included! one month. .... -Jf llal'v vlihnnt KunH.v nne vear V.W Iially, without Sunday, six montha I'aily. without Sunday, on month. . . 'Weekly, one year 8nnday. one year (By Carrier.) Xall7. Sunday Included, one year raily. Sunday Included, three month , 3.2. . .0 loo 5.0V 9.00 2-25 .73 7.80 L5 .S3 Daily. Sundar included, one montA Daily, without Sunday, one year . ... lal:y, without Sunday, three month a!ly. without Sunday, one month .. How io Remit Send postoflie money order, express or poraonai. caock on. your local ban. Stamps, coin or currency are at owner risk. Give postottice auurcw in full. Including county and atate. I'nilum kiln t rn IS DIEeL 1 Cent 18 to a; pages. 2 cents: 34 to 4a pages. 3 cental 60 to o4 paxes. 4 cental tto to 80 'pages, 6 cent; ' ol' to 96. page, o cents foreign postage, double rate. Eastera Business Office Verroe Conk Bn, Brunswick building. New York: Verree at Conkltn. steger building, enicago; ver ree a- Conkiin. Free Press building, Io troit. Mich. San Francisco representative. R. J. BidwelL PASTIES FOB PARTY MEMBERS. The frame rs of the Oregon presi dential primary law, unfortunately for the admirers of Mr. Hoover, made no provision for putting on the ballot the name of any man of his peculiar political detachment and personal indifference. There are but two ways to obtain a place on the presidential ballot. One is by writ ten application of the candidate him self, the other by petition of 1000 of his supporters who are registered voters of the political party to which he belongs. Now Mr. Hoover says he is not a candidate. In his present frame of mind he will not make written ap plication for 'ballot place. To the democratic state executive commit tee in Georgia, where there is. s similar requirement that a man must be a democrat to run in the demo cratic primaries, he writes a letter declining to qualify. Moreover, he reveals the fact that he has never been a democrat and he makes it plain that his governmental service has been official and not. partisan. There you are. Yet Oswald West declares it to be his intention to put up the name of Mr. Hoover in the Oregon primaries. A petition signed by 1000 voters registered in the party to which Mr. Hoover belongs, will be necessary, and Mr. Hoover belongs to no party. As Mr. Hoover declines to place himself on record as a democrat and acknowledges that he has never been one, Mr. West and his petitioners will have to put up their candidate In some other party. There is only the republican party left, for but two parties are repre sented on the Oregon ballot. But Mr. Hoover also declines to commit him self to republican party member ship. It is annoying to be sure, yet re citation of the difficulty is not quibble. Thursday, The Oregonian printed a letter from W. M. Ramsay in which the same obstacle was point ed out. Mr. Ramsay is a distin guished lawyer and has been honored with a seat on the bench of the supreme court. His opinions are worth considering. I -ft us refer once more to the preamble of the original direct pri mary law in Oregon, in which are upheld the principles of party in tegrity in nominating elections: those places where their ; labor is ftueans compulsory service. It does neeaea, while many of the foreign born have gone back to Europe to fight. As the tide of the immigration is now swelling, it should be guided to the rural centers, where it will be available for farm -work. BAD ADVICE ON COOS BAT. The Coos Bay Harbor admonishes the republicans 'of that Interesting region that it is an error to organize clubs for the purpose of forwarding the interests of any presidential can didate, but ..would have them wait to see who the candidate will be, and then join In his support, so that there may be a sweeping triumph in November. . Coos" Bay, then, is to have no voice in the selection of the nominee of the republican party, or any other party, tl the counsel of our temer arious contemporary is adopted.' It is to have no preferences, and no differences, conduct no propaganda, rally around- no one. but wait in calm indifference for other citizens to, decide rhe momentous question for it, and it is then to join in approval of a choice made by other citizens no- wiser, more loyal or more intelli gent than the people of Coos Bay. II the republicans of' Coos Bay are alert to the welfare of the party and of the country, they will insist on erecting the standard of the can didate, or the standards of the sev eral candidates, they prefer.- The democrats will adopt the same prac tice which is In accord with sound politics and good citizenship, for sound politics Is good citizenship. There will be Wood clubs, Lowden clubs, Johnson clubs, Harding clubs and Poindexter clubs among the republicans and there will be Wilson clubs, McAdoo clubs, Bryan clubs, and all the rest among the demo crats. We omit the -name of Hoover until we know how to classify him. But they might also organize an On-the-Fence club, meanwhile, and make eligible everybody who is for Hoover, and change the name to "Off-the-Fence when the time comes. If the "rank and file of party are to have no candidates or principles which they can express, for fear of division among themselves, the coun try Is bad off indeed, and parties are ripe for delivery to- the bosses. not: it means that men shall be trained for four months, then sent home to pursue their civil vocations. Is is assumed that compulsory serv ice is militarism when adopted only in case of actual war fdr defense of the country. It is not.. France is a republic, as democratic as this, and but for compulsory service would have been a conquered country to day. Militarism is not the system by which an army is raised, but the spirit which animates the army and the people for whom it fights. Ger many was militaristic because for two centuries it had been trained with desire for'conquest, and because the military had been made supreme over the civil power. Under our con stitution this could not be, for the military power is strictly subordinat ed to the civil power. The cry of economy is raised, though our enor mous expenditures during 19 months of war were probably doubled by unpreparedness. By comparison, the cost; of -compulsory training would be the strictest economy. party. Its alien origin is revealed by this statement: The left wing secured the immediate adhesion of the Lettish. Russian, Lithu anian, Polish, Ukrainian, South Slavic, Hungarian and Esthonlan federations of the party, representing about 25,000 mem bers. As Fraina says that the communist party at its organization had "ap proximately 55,000 members," or 'more than half the membership of BT-PHODICTS OF THE TIMES What Rich Employer Learaed By Essaying the Role of Workman. The late Henry B. Endicott wishing to learn afrom intimate contact his employes' personal attitude toward him, once donned overalls and had himself installed as a lathe-had in a section of, his plant where a num the old party," these foreign, organi-' Der of new men were employed, and THE CONTAGION HOSPITAL, AT TALK. Under our form of government, political parties are useful and necessary at the present time. . . . Kvery political par ty and every voluntary political organ. ra tion has the fame right lo be pro.ecled from the Interference or persons Dot idn Ufid with it as its known and pubilcly avowed members, that the government of the state has to protect Itself from tha interference of persons who are not known and registered as its electors. . . -The purpose of thi3 law ia better to secure and to preserve the rtgnls ol political par tie and voluntary political organisations, and of their members and candidates. The foregoing is written into the statutes of Oregon. It enunciates a principle that has been consistently followed in later primary law enact ments. If the Hoover movement within the democratic party shall be carried forward the case will prob ably resolve itself into an issue as to whether "known and publicly avowed" democrats who may be can didates in the same primary care to be in the running with an avowed non-partisan. The courts v.-ill be their natural resort. But is it not strange that Mr. West, who is a publicly avowed supporter of the people's rule, should set 6ut to override the spirit, if not the letter, of laws duly nacted by vote of the people? - For years there has been talk of consolidation of city and county, but there is no consolidation: only talk. So it will be until there is a genuine spirit among the men who hold the jobs to forget what will happen to them, and think only about the pub lic, in any proposal for consolida tion. . . Now we hear more about consoli dation of county and city, growing out of the new contagion hospital. The city, after protracted and incon clusive deliberation, with various dilatory little moves vulgarly known 'passing the buck," finally got down to business, in face of a painful and near-disastrous emergency, and got to work. Suddenly the county wakes up and determines that it has a great duty to perform to build a contagion hospital. Two such hos pitals obviously are too many; so the county thinks the city should aban don itsenterprise and let the county go ahead. Ah, yes. And we hear in that con nection more chatter about consoli dation. No difficulty about the hos pital and its conduct, it is said, can possibly arise under consolidation. Meanwhile the city will want to run the hospital, and the county ditto. But there is no consolidation, and so far no hospital; only the begin nings of one. The city will be derelict in its plain duty if it docs not proceed vigorously with its hospital project. The way to build is to build, and not talk about building when a remote and hazy consolidation shall be ef fected. If the county will immediate ly undertake the project, the city may be justified in turning it over; but not till then, and not until a definite and specific arrangement shall have been made. LET THE REDS HATE THEIR WAT. With their usual ingenuity, Rus sian revolutionists in this country try to embarrass the government by threatening to flock to the docks and demand deportation to Russia. That course would admirably fit the gov ernment's plans. Assemblage of the reds at the docks would be good presumptive evidence that they are members of the Union of Russian Workers and therefore liable to de portation. They are not so numerous that a good body of troops could not corral them and march them to ap internment camp to await ships which would carry them to the land whert. the penalty for inciting strike is death. There is a deficiency of the kind of labor that the reds can do, and it may seem to be aggravated by the deportation of so many aliens. But the revolutionary spirit of these peo ple makes many of them inefficient and leads them to sabotage. They provoke strikes of many times their number, and in the end the country loses more by their presence than it would lose by their absence. This country needs men who willingly do their part in productive work, not men who stir up Industrial strife and who cause waste of the labor of a large force in preventing them from overturning the government. TIME TO CO BACK TO THE FARM. The inexorable laws of political economy are bringing punishment on those people who have abandoned the farm for the high wages, short work days and pleasures and con veniences of the city. The result, as stated by the department of agricul ture, is that labor on the farm has become scarce and high-priced, pro duction has decreased and threatens to decrease still further, and the peo-' pie of the cities find difficulty in making ends meet. The time is ripe for a reaction in favcr of farm work. Some men take to growing their own vegetables and fruit, to keeping a cow and chickens in the suburbs, in order to escape the high cost of food. They take to pro daring a surplus for sale, and find that there is money in it. Thus they in a y develop into farmers. Others are attracted back to the farm by high wages. They find conditions much improved by comparison with their fathers' time. Machinery is used where men formerly did back breaking work. Paved roads are fast replacing the mud tracks of the past, and automobiles and auto -trucks have replaced the wagon, buggy and burxooard. Living conditions have generally improved, for farm houses have many modern conveniences. All of tjese things have attracted many men ot small capital to farm life, and others may be expected to follow. These improvements have been has tened by tha drift of labor to the cities, for they are part compensation for the fact that labor is scarce and high, just as use of machinery in factories was stimulated by a stand ard of wages much higher than that of Kurope. The tendency should now be for labor to reverse its drift by going to the farm and, as farming becomes more a skilled, scientific industry, for capital to go the same way. One cause of the present condition has been neglect to direct Immigrants to AIMS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY. Those parlor bolshevists who urge on active bolshevists from the. se curity of editorial chairs, college studies and government offices con tinually tell us that we cannot allay industrial unrest by. passing and en forcing anti-sedition laws, that such laws violate the constitutional rights of free speech and free press, and that the sound policy for curing dis content is to talk with the bolshev ists, find and remove the cause of their discontent. How far these ad vocates of mild, do-nothing meas ures are from the truth is proved by the documents of the revolutionists themselves, "which have been pub lished by Attorney-General Palmer. The organizations against which the attacks of the government are directed do not propose laws or even constitutional amendments to allay discontent or to remove mere de fects in the present laws and in the relations between employers and workmen. They hate the foundation principles of our government, and they propose, by revolution after the pattern of that in Russia, to destroy it utterly and to substitute commun ism under the rule of the proleta riat." Any measures milder than open revolution to which they may resort, like general strikes, are mere preliminaries designed to break down the present system gradually and to gather strength for the final attack which is to extinguish it. This is no mere inference. It is frankly stated in the manifestoes and con stitution of the communist party and of kindred bodies. aThe origin and purpose of the communist party, are explained in the "report of Louis C. Fraina, in ternational secretary of the com munist party of America, to the ex ecutive committee of the commun ist international," which begins with these words: As international secretary, I make ap plication for admission of the communist party of America to the bureau of the communist international as & major party. The communist international was organized at Moscow March 2 to 6, 1919, and its manifesto was signed by "Comrades C. Rakovsky, N. Lenin, M. Zinovjev, L. Trotsky and Fritz Platten," ruling chiefs of the Russian soviet government. Thus the communist party of America is directly allied with the bolshevists whose declared aim is to revolution ize the world. Fraina's report goes on to relate the formation of. the communist party by a split in the socialist party. He describes the socialist - party as having "adopted fundamentally a non-class policy, directing its appeal to the middle class, to the farmers, to every temporary sentiment of dis content," as having "particularly discouraged all action for revolutionary- unionism, becoming a bul wark of the Gomperized A. F. of L. and its reactionary officials," as hav ing failed' to develop the "revolu tionary implications" of strikes and as . having considered "parliamen tarism the important thing." From concentration of industries grew the I. W.. W., which ;Vurged industrial unionism," and of -which he sys: Industrial unionism was urged net simply for the Immediate struggle of the workers but as the revolutionary means for the workers to assume control of In dustry; The socialist partyis declared to have repeatedly-rejectea resoiu tions indorsing the I. W. W. and in dustrial unionism, although support ing I. .W. W. strikes by money and publicity." It is accused of having in 1912 "emascnlated the Marxian conception, of political action, limit ing it to parliamentarism." It is said to have been "acquiescently silent" about "the betrayal of socialism" in the war, thus causing a "revolution ary awakening" in its ranks. Its anti-war resolutions, adopted at St. Louis in April, 1917, are said to have been ."forced upon a reluctant bu reaucracy by the revolutionary mem bershfp.7 Vhen the Russian soviet proposed an armistice- on all fronts in November, 1917, the socialist party was silent, -."but the revolu tionary membership responded, its enthusiasm for the bolshevik revo lution being magnificent." A revolution within the party fol lowed. The "left wing section was formed in New Tork in . February, 1919, and its manifesto -was adopted zations comprised almost half of its membership. The left wing then forced a refer endum of the soqialist party on a resolution to affiliate with the third international, that is the Moscow organization, and the vote was over whelmingly in its favor.- An" election of officers of the socialist party fol lowed and resulted . In another vic tory for the left wing. The national executive Committee declared the re sult of the election illegal, expelled or suspended a number of locals, having 40,000 members, and called an emergency convention for August 30 to decide the validity of the elec tions, in which the left wing had elected twelve out of fifteen mem bers of the national executive com mittee. A left wing conference at New Tork on June 21 rejected a proposal to organize a new party immediately, but the foreign federations and the Michigan delegates, composing the minority, withdrew-. ' The majority decided to continue the fight in the old party, but called a convention "of all revolutionary elements" for September 1 to organize a commun ist party. The socialist party split into three parts the right wing still composing the socialist party with about 25,000 members; the com munist party, composed of the left wing, with 58,000 members, and the communist labor party, with 10000 members, which attempted to win control of the old party and refused to unite with the left wing, though it has the same revolutionary aims. Fraina says many of its members are joining the communist party. The radically revolutionary aims of the communist party are openly stated. Fraina rejoices at "profound industrial unrest," at "a revolution ary upsurge in the old unions," and says: where he was least likely to be recog nized says the Wall Street Journal. He found his neighbor on the right to be an Irishman with a ready wit and in a rather talkative mood. After-exchanging views on factory conditions, current topics, and so forth, the fa mous shoe man asked his fellow worker what he thought of working in a shoe factory. "Bedad." answered the Celt, "An' It's happy Ol am to know that Oi'm Instrumental in fur- nishln' the people with new, clean soles." When the laughter that fol lowed this had subsided, the employer incognito inquired: "What kind of a chap Is the old man? I hear he's In clined to be hard-boiled.'" Tndade an' he's not," the Corkonian shot back. "He's the most kind hearted, liberal man Oi ivver wor-rkei fur: and manny's the time Ol've hur-rd it said that fur a real, honest- t'-goodness sport, his aiqual is not be found in the whole state of Massa chusetts. As yit, Oi've had no raison to doubt the latter. Now, phwat d'ye say to you an' me takin' the rist av th' day off and goin" fishin , Misther Endicott r Those Who Come and Ge: The American Federation of Labor as a whole is hopelessly reactionary. The Industrial Workers of the World la waging an aggressive campaign of or ganization, it has deo,ded to affiliate with the communist International: but Its press and spokesmen show no understand ing of communist tactics. . . . The com munist party endorses the L W. W. as a revolutionary mass movement, while criti cising, its' theoretical shortcomings. imperialism is now consciously domi nant in the United States. . - . Ameri canism Is usurping world power, constitut ing the' very heart of international re action. The communist party realizes the lm mensity of Its task; It realizes that the final struggle of the communist proletariat will be waged in the United States, our conquest of power alone assuring the world soviet republic. Realizing all this, the communist party prepares for the strug gle. A party with such plans is not open to reason and forfeits the con stitutional rights which its apologists would concede to it, for it would use them only to destroy the govern ment which grants them. No course is open except to fight it, for It has chosen the United States as the field of a decisive struggle for world su premacy between democracy as communism. Frank A. Kennedy is editor of the Western Laborer of Omaha and when he says in his paper that labor un ions are being "worked" for fund" to aid killers of ex-service- men hi knows his subject. For more than 40 years he has been a member of the Typographical union, which one of the "easy" bodies when de fense funds are wanted. Kennedy knows, that's all there is to it, and Mr. Gompers will do well to listen to what is said. Trades-unionists are not anarchists, but they are mighty good fellows when they have a dollar or two, and that is all the time and some overtime. The Mc Namara affair, however, was some thing of a lesson to them and the "drag" has been a little harder since, A cable report ' from Persia tells of revolutionists driving British away from a point on the Caspian sea, That's a joke. Nobody drives British from anywhere since the days of the revolution, and that was a sort of family affair. Skunk pelts brought $12.25 each at a New Tork fur auction, the high est price in history. Still, in view of the skunk's well-known aversion to being skinned, we doubt if anyone will accuse him of profiteering. Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller says tips must be listed as in come. The goveiuiment won't get a very big tax out of some of the political tips extant in this territory. Old fellows who have lived with the wives of their youth for half a century wonder how they ever got along when they read some of the testimony in divorce cases. - Hoover will not say to the Georgians he is a democrat. Pretty soon he can tell them he's the hole in the doughnut, growing larger. Along about 0 years ago Bain I bridge Colby would have been called a mugwump. Now they make him secretary of state. FIGHT IT OCT IX CONVENTION. Decision of the republican mem bers of the house military committee to include no provision for universal military training in the army bill of this session leaves the question to be settled among the republican voters at the primaries and by the national convention. When the choice lies be tween the advice of such men as Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, Senator Wadsworth, General Per shing and the million members of the American Legion and that of such reactionaries as Representatives Mann and Mondell, there is small room for doubt how the party will decide. A sound military policy must come from the republican party if at all, for the democrats have de clared for return to unpreparedness, and the question must be fought out in the republican convention. Events of the last few years prove the necessity of training the citizens for defense of the country, and the present situation of the world adds further proof. Rapid development of aircraft justifies the belief that in the next war an air fleet will cross the Atlantic as easily as the Germans crossed the French frontier in 1914. We have no right to expect that we shall again have allies to occupy the enemy for more than a year while we train and equip an army. Our only safety lies in having our men already trained, their equipment on hand and our industries so organized that they can be instantly diverted to war production.. The most convincing argument for compulsory training is the fact that its most earnest advocates are the men who have personal experience of the obstacles which unprepared ness placed in our way when we fought Germany the men who did the fighting. The American Legion without ceasing and without division urges congress to adopt a plan on the same general lines as that which is recommended by the senate mili tary committee. The two million men who compose the legion know the truth of what General Wood said, that men drafted in July were killed in September without knowing how to handle their rifles because there had been no time to train them. To send men into battle thus unpre pared is murder. To neglect the training without which they cannot win is to gamble with the life of tha nation. The legion knows this, there fore urges that men be trained, and none has a better claim on the at tention of the people and congress. The objections raised to compul sory training are either falsehood or are founded on falsehood. It is as-1 1919, and its manifesto -was adopted 1 A dry spell of three weeks sumed that compulsory training by local after local of .the socialist February is plenty-for Portland. A New Tork weather prophet pre diets a "jazz band blizzard" about February 29. Another argument against leap year. Vanderveer Is rattled. The troops are at Montesano for spring maneu vers, that's all. Hope he doesn't get in the way. . - The army store is to sell soup bones at 4 cents..- which is getting close to the old style ot giving them away. . ; - .-. An Arizona man Is suggested as minister to Siam. That used to be an Oregon job until it degenerated. The net result of the whisky in surrection in Michigan is the usual expenditure of federal money.' Some movie magnate '.trill be "kopping" that five-pound sapphire for a scarf pin. Secretary Baker is packing his kit bag, too, it is said. Nobody blames him. ' ' Denver plumbers are asking $9 and one wonders why the moderation. - in Shoes have their tradition of song and story. We all know Cinderella, but few have heard of Rhodope, th Egyptian maiden who had the most beautiful foot to be found along th Nile. One day when she was at her bath a discriminating eagle flew down and carried off her sandal, which he dropped, by way of a suggestion, at the feet of the king. Of course the king put his heralds right on the Joh, took a hand in the search himself, found his Cinderella, and made he queen of Egypt. Our boys in Franee'must have seen the manv shrines and memorials around Soissons dedicated to St. Cris pin, patron saint of shoemakers. The story goes that St. Crispin and his brother Crisnianus were Romans, who, about the year 303, were con verted to Christianity. Together they went north Into France, spreading the gospel. They supported themselves by making shoes which they sold to the natives at a very low price. Pre sumably they undersold all competi tors. At any rate, possibly with the encouragement and connivance of the local chamber of commerce, they were finally put out of the way by the un grateful proletariat. Wainwright Evans in the Nation's Business. TJie millionaire head of one of America's very prominent business organisations is a virile, masculine, unfrilled member of the human spe cies, who made his mark in the rough and-tumble of college athletics . and who detests every form of frippery and dandyism. For years his wife had tried in vain to get him to weaf spats. Recently he returned from a long trip through Europe. A very few days later he blossomed out with a pair of spats. "Ha, ha," triumphed his wife, "so you learned in Europe that spats are the thing." "For a moment her teas ing made me feel foolish, he ex plained to a writer in Forbes Maga zine, "until I explained matters. was so deeply impressed with the poverty and want that I saw in Europe that I came home determined to do anything and everything I could to lend a helping hand.j I needed winter shoes but the prices asked were so outrageous that I refused to buy a single pair. I made up my mind there and then that I would buy pair of spats and make my low shoes do for the winter. I paid dollar and a half for the spats and I figured they will save me having to buy (30 or $40 worth of shoes this winter." Just as it was beginning to be be lieved that the ultimate possibilities in Ford stories bad been exhausted, the Los Angeles Times comes along with this: In the year 1865 the leading phy sician of Greenfield. Mich., was called to the home of one of tha citizens. The patient was the lady of the house, and after the physician had prescribed for her, he noticed her lit tle son, a two-year-old, lying asleep on a truckle bed. He held a child's rattle tightly clinched in his hand. Every few min utes he would rouse himself from his sleep sufficiently to shake this rattle and then would close his eyes again. He has been that way for several months," said the mother, "sleeping or waking he won't endure to have that rattle out of his eight or pos session. Sleeping or waking he wants to hear it every few minutes." A very peculiar case," said -the doctor, "however, he will doubtless outgrow the tendency In time," But he never did. The child was Henry Ford. Whatever one's view concerning the propriety of the "fox trot," the lame duck" and the "grizzly bear," one fact about them may be of in terest animal dances are not new. says a bulletin issued by the National Geographic society. v These dances recall the steps long practiced by the American . Indians and also by some primitive peoples of the present day. The red men engaged in the buf falo, deer, bear and eagle dances with true poetry of motion and religious feryor. Modern ballroom artistry fre- uently is crude, as compared with the dances which long existed among these earlier Americans. The buffalo dance Is one of, the fin est exhibitions of Indian art The cast for the buffalpHIance is usually composed of a group of five dancers, two of them of whom rep resent the buffalo,- one the hunter and two women the mother animal. The interpreters wear garments in imitation of the colors of the animal. This sobriety in tone Is accentuated on the lower portions of their bodies by a few white marks, an occasional bit of rad at the waist, and the soft green of pine branches in their hands. The dancers representing the buf falo wear long masks in imitation of buffalo heads, the outlines of which blend with the shades of their own black-stained bodies. They Imitate as nearly as possible the actions of the animals, catch their solemnity and endeavor to portray their power. "Farmers are satisfied that w don't intend placing a colony-, of Japanese on the 16.000 or 18,000 acres which we have bought near Redmond to grow potatoes on," announced George Burtt, who arrived at the Imperial from Redmond yesterday after having a session with the men who objected to the big development enterprise. "The farmers passed resolutions allowing us to send potato experts there. We will have three of these Japaneee ex perts on each place and no more. These men will see that the potatoes are properly treated before they are planted. There ought to be 50y cars of spuds going out of Redmond each year and the kind of potatoes grown there bring more money on the Cali fornia market than spuds from any other placed Just as soon as we can we shall start clearing the land and planting and getting water. Before we are through it will be something like a million-dollar proposition." - j Dahlias are the hobby of J. E. Lewis of San Francisco, who represents a jewelry factory in Rhode Island. Mr. Lewis, who is registered at the Ben son, has about 150 varieties in his garden in San Francisco, which is something of a record for a person not professionally engaged ln the propagation of dahlias. The foggy damp weather, the loose, sandy soil and the sunshine form ideal condi tions for the development of dahlias in San Francisco, according to Mr. Lewis. California is the driest it has been in half a century, Mr. Lewis re ports, and the farmers and stockmen are anxious regarding the outlook this summer. Streams are drying up. rivers are becoming mere trickles and the general situation is not en couraging. California is having its "flu" and Los Angeles, says the visi tor, has 3000 cases in quarantine. It was a pretty good apple year for Walter McDoual of Hood River, for he arrived at the Hotel Portland yes terday on his way to Honolulu for a few weeks. Not all the apple men have been as lucky as Mr. McDougal, according to reports from that dis trict, 'for there are a couple of hundred cars of apples awaiting shipment and there were thousands of boxes which were frozen and consequently a total loss. One owner of a Hood River or chard got off lucky. He lives In Los Angeles. He sold his crop, orchard run, for $25,000 and the next day was offered $40,000 for his acreage, which offer he declined. The man who bought the apples, however, lost about $5000 because the market went bad n him. When it conies to boosting Ross- burg, W. J. Weaver is on the job. Being in the hotel business there, Mr. Weaver has a good idea.of the'amount of through travel on the Pacific high way and all last summer his hotel was filled all the time with automo bile tourists coming from or going to California. The popular costume for these tourists is khaki. The town night policeman used to catch un wary tourists last season when they would park their car on the side street of Mr. Weaver's establishment without keeping their lights on. The usual fine was $1 the next morning. It made tourists mad, but that mat tered little to the municipality. One of the wealthiest towns in Ore gon, considering its size and popu ation, is Lcho, according to Thomas Ross, who, with Mrs. Ross, is at the Multnomah. "We are about to con struct a large irrigation ditch," he says, "which will bring thousands ot acres of raw, idle land into a blos soming garden. We are also going to build a bank building which will be the best typical bank structure in Oregon outside of Portland. We are also going to erect a new hotel of concrete and it will -be thoroughly modern in construction and equip ment. As a matter of fact, there is nothing which will put a town on the map quicker than a good hotel prop erly managed." With an abundance of native coal nd an unlimited amount of wood. the fuel business in North Bend should have little trouble in securing sup plies. H. D. Putnam, who is a fuel dealer in that town, is at the Hotel Oregon. Speaking of coal, there are approximately 2o0 square miles of coal fields surrounding Coos bay, the coal being of bituminous character nd the market is chiefly San Fran-. Cisco and Portland. More coal is mined in Coos county than in all the rest of the state, and around the bay there are little coal shafts and pros pect holes scattered everywhere. "There are about 60,008 acres of Irrigated land tributary to Redmond, and when the big project Is com pleted, as we hope It will be in a few years, there will be 400,000 acres more," says Guy E. Dobson, banker of Redmond. The town has a popu lation of about 800 and is in the cen ter of an agricultural district in De schutes county. There wasn't much but sagebrush at Redmond when Mr, Dobson arrived there ten years ago. Frank Brown of Salem is at the Hotel Washington. There are three Frank Browns in Salem and they have terrible time with their mail and maintaining their individual identity. The Frank Brown at the Hotel Wash ington has the edge on - the other Frank Browns, because he has "W in front of his name. Also he is an officer in the state Sunday school association. SPEKtH BY I.I OL HOT "LOST" Kdloay of WaiihlBCtoa Found la Iliog--raphy Published ia JMM1. HEPPNEU, Or.. Feb. !. (To the .Editor.) In The Oregonian recently was an article headed' "Lincoln Speech Lost 78 Years Recovered." In which article one Lucicn Hush Alex ander of Philadelphia gives to the Associated Prass an account of his discovery of a "lost'" speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1842. eulogising George Washington. ' Mr. Alexander claims to have run across this lost Hpeech i if a copy ot the Sangamon Journal of date Murcli. 26. 1842. which he unearthed in t ho library of congress while engaged In historical research work. lie also states that Hay Ansl Nicolay and also Ida Tarbell missed It "and so have all of Lincoln's biographers, so far as 1 can discover." Now this man Alexander Is no doubt a Jolly old scout, good to his neighbors and all that sort of thing, but he Is running around loose In our national capital under a nom de plume. His right name is Van Win kle and he goes his old Uncle Kip about Ave years better In somnambu lism. He has been asleep at least 25 years. or It may be that he is an attache of Secretary Baker's war department. Again it may develop that he is one of the most active spirits In the fed eral reserve bank department, where the farmer gets a loan a year or two after applying for It if he has not worried himself to death by that time Anyway, here are the facts: The so-cailed "lost" speech was made by Mr. Lincoln before the Washingtonlan Temperance society. Springfield, Hi., on February 22, 1842, and it has been read and reread . by the American people for at least the last quarter of a century. If Lucien Hugh Alexander, the "discoverer," will turn to pages 20:1 and 203 of Clifton M. Nichols "Life of Lincoln" (published In 1M'), he will read this lost speech In full, con cluding with the following beautiful and immortal tribute to the father of our country: "This is the 110th anniversary of Washington we are met to cclcwrate this day. ' Washington Is the might iest name on earth long since the mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It cunnot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike Impossible. Let none attempt It. In solemn awe pro nounce the name, and, in its naked. deathless splendor, leave It shining on." E. M. SHL'TT. More, ".ruth Than Poetry. By Jaatea J. MmiIikw. M.4KK VOIR OW MOBIL. The Tiger's hert u mean and ha-: he has a coarse and brutal face; lie prowls of nlfchu and growls ana 4)118 When thine don't jto to suit him. And. that Is w hy bis days are frw h only lives a year or two: Then angry men seek nut M den And pitilessly shout 1.4m. The Lamb, upon the other hand, is fond and loving, kind and bland, He cultivates all gentle traits As far as he is able. But though his ways are uave and sootb. he's butchered In his early youth And stewed or boiled or braised or broiled. To grace the gourmet's table. We slay the Shark, whose moods ai grim. If we can get our hands on him The terror he of all the sea. Wild, murderous nnd tameless But also do we kill the Clam, who doesn't give a tinker's dam For savage strife, and leads a lif That's absolutely Manieless. e We thought, when we began1 this lay, that we had something wise to say That, when complete, there'd be a neat And snappy moral to It. But we have racked our puzslrd bra:a to find said moral, all in valits If one is here at all, we fear That you will have to do it. m m till Thrlvlasr. The high license doctrine did not die with prohibition enforcement. It has merely been transferred to auto mobiles. a a The Sore Wmj. I.vneh a few lynchers and lynching will stop. Merely Kvrnlng I . Enrol complains that the I'nitid Stales iloes not tnke enounh inlerei-t in her governments. Hut then e nrs not at present taking sny interest out of them. (Copyright. 1;. hr Hell Syndicate In, m;i-:i uk tkaimwg msmkkxt Bravery of Our Voluoteers Dors Sot Vitiate Principle. PORTLAND, Feb. 26. (To the Ed itor.) Seems like I "stepped on somebody's toes" when I said that only three volunteer regiments par ticipated in battle during the Spnnish war, and some of my comradef. of the old 8th army corps havo their neck fes.thers up. Pure ignorince on my part; I didn't know that the engage ments at Malate and Manila had ever been dignified by the name of "bat tles." 1 made out several discharges of men who were In both and the first was called an "engagement" and th latter an "assault and capture." On the night of July 31, 1898, the Spaniards opened up on our trenches; we were ordered not to return the tire, but some untrained Penusylva nians couldn't resist the temptation and that starts! the whole line. Some 20.000 rounds were fired Into the dafkness and we had 10 men killed and 38 wounded about 1 per cent of. the number engaged. Neither side advanced a foot and If I am not mis taken neither attempted to advance. Also on August 13 our men advanced 8500 strong and took the town of Ma nila. - The Spanish fire was so gall ing that It took the appalling toll 01 eight killed and 40 wounded about one-half ot 1 per cent! Some battles these. True, they don't look much ike battles now, but they looked like 'right smart scraps" to those who were in them. A11 our volunteer regiments, who fought in the insurrection did good work, but this was after they had had live or six months' training. 1 often wonder what would have hap pened to them If they had had to face an enemy like the Germans. Even that little "play war" furnished man? shining examples of the folly of put ting untrained men In the Held, both regulars and volunteers. No one who has seen the properly trained American soldier in action, whether volunteer or conscript, will ever question his bravery; 7but the unpleasant fact remains that we have suffered some enromous casualties and mors than one disgraceful defeat by our short-sighted policy of throw ing untrained men into battle. A. BARNES. Self-Deception. By (irare r. Halt Iloa oft alas! horn; oft w lore a dream, A fancied thing crested of our thought. Possessing; not ihs iiualitlrs that seem Its real components, frequently is rought The sorrow of a life through errors made Of fancy, woven In a pleasing wa. While attributes of fact are scarcely weighed I'ntll Illusions fade, another day. Our Ideals! How they domlnal at here Give golden lone to things most common-place, For dreams take on a vivid atmo sphere That cold reality st last may quits efface; We love, sometimes, because our dreams take form. We glorify the object that choose. Then O. the heart -ache and the hitler scorn. If It shall fail to measure to o views! I wonder oft what are the dreams! and why? And If it were not belter Just plod? But no! they lift our vision to the sky, Without them we should scarcely think of God! So I would love the dream, though It were vain, Enfold my chosen object In its glow And strive unto the end to make It seem J A lovely thing because I thought It so! --(SHACK K. IIAI.l.. In Othwr Dayt. A miner of the old days is W. H. Burkbardt, who lives at Salem but who came to Portland yesterday and registered at the Perkins. Mr. Burk hardt's mining ventures have not been in Marion county, however, but in the southern part of the state, where there are still many good mines and much good ore that has never been dug out. J. Lampshire, who has the garage at Burns, is at the Hotel Oregon. He was attracted to Portland by the auto show, for in Harney county the auto mobile stages long ago replaced the horse-drawn stages with the excep tion of the winter months, when the snow Is too deep for the machines to get through. Ida M. Tarbell, magazine writer, was a visitor at the Hotel Portland for a-few hours yesterday morning and checked out for the south. Miss Tarbell, years ago, specialized on two subjects, one being John D. Rocke feller and the Standard Oil company, and the other was Abraham Lincoln. "What's the matter with this town that a fellow csfn't get a room In the hotels without waiting?" demanded an 'arrival at the Hotel Portland yester day. "Where are all the people com ing from? I guess I'll haye to buy a tent and camp in the woods if condi tions don't get better." Since the early "80s Charles W. Stevelan has been ranching between Walla Walla and Milton. Every once in a while he leaves the ranch and comes to Portland. He is here now, at the Hotel Washington. One of the men the auto show at- IT'S KVIDENCK OF SPI SSTER8HIP That's What Movie Censorship If Avers Correspoadeat. PORTLAND, Feb. 26. (To the Edi tor.) Several years ago, while liv ing in San Francisco', I read an article in a national periodical which alluded to Portland as the "spinster" city. At the time, I thought it was a Joke, but after two years of residence here I realize just why the author of that article mentioned Portland as the "spinster" city. It occurs to me that Portland has progressed beyond the "cow pasture" stage In population only it Is just a big "hick town and "ruled" in "tank" town fashion, and when I say "ruled," that is exactly what I mean. It Is after reading the various let ters published In The Oregonian relative to motion picture censorship that I am encouraged to give my views on censorship and Portland in general. Ths mayor probably -doesn t know that the people of Portland do not want censorship. Because a dozen or twenty women have told him that Portland wanted censorship, he has come to ths erroneous conclusion that it is a fact. He is out of touch with tha hundreds of thousands that con stitute the great public of Portland. If he thinks for a moment he ia on the right track as fur as Portland Is concerned, all he has to do In to visit a few of the theaters and hear the people applaud when the censor ship slides are thrown on the screen that Is public expression. All he had to do was sit in the 'Columbia theater the night 'The 13th Com mandment" was) taken off -by an Irate censor. The people hissed the very mention of the board. That Is public opinion. Why is it that San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle nnd Oakland have no censor board? Because they know there exists a national board of re view, and they know that this is an efficient body. These cities have pro. grossed beyond the "cow pasture stage. H. HUNTER. 497 Hall Street. Tweaty-flve ears Attn. From The Oresenlan of Kebruarv C7- ln.Y I hllip asscrntr n, a pioneer resi dent of Portland anil one largely Iden tified with the buslners Interests for many years, died at his residence, 6!." Davi3 street, yesterday morning. Major G. F. Telfer lias been ap pointed inspector-general, and Csntsln lavid M. Dunne commissary. grnrral of the Oregon National Uuard. Arrangements for taking the census of Multnomah county, as required by state statute, have almost been com pleted by County Assessor Greenleaf. Salem. The general appropriation bill of the last legislature was ap proved by the governor Saturday, and carries a total of f 1,257, 13, as com pared with II, ,01, 81,5 two years a so The work of repairing defects In reservoir No. 2 hi,s been completed and it will be filled In a few das. Collecting a Doctor's Bill. PORTLAND, Feb. 26. (To the Edi tor.) Please answer the following to settle a dispute: (11 A savs a doctor s bill never ne- tracted to Portland was D. E. Stewart I comes outlawed by the statute of llmi of Knappa. Mr. Stewart, who is at ! tattons. B says that if nothing has SAKK WITH PBKTTV C'OMPAMO Mo Daager of Mil Being Baa Dowa by Anto If He Knows Uarne, PORTLAND, Feb. 26 (To ths Krtl- tor.) I havo been visiting in Tort land for a few weeks. I notice you have quite a few automobile acci dents, mostly men victims. I also no tice If the men would wait for a "lift" there would not bs near so many so cldenta. if any. For instance, especially on Wash ington street and Broadway, when a man Is alone and wishes to cross the streets. It is very dangerous, but If he would wait until a nice looking, well dressed woman was crossing and stepped across with her ha would bo perfectly safe, as the driver of ths car will stop his machine to ad m Irs the lady. But it Is dangerous for a man to take chances, by himself, because drivers pay no attention to men or ven an ordinarily dresaed woman. J. J. McALLlSTKK. the Hotel Portland with his wife, bought one of the highest-priced cars in the show. ' Sheriff Anderson of Baker county. who has held that Job for many years, was at- the Imperial yesterday. He doesn't intend being a candidate to succeed himself. .V been paid on the bill it becomes out lawed at the expiration of six years. Which Is right? (2) What Is the statute of limita tions for open accounts In the state of Oregon? SUBSCRIBER. (1) B Is light. (2) Six years. Democratic f nnam If leeNiaa laqalrro. PORTLAND. Feb. 26 (To the F.rtl tor.) In the energetic effort of Mr Ci. Hamaker to enlighten our many readers on tha various multitudinous and multifarious failures, short-comings and bscksllrilnga of Hcnslor Chamberlain during the recent ses sions, I observed he signed himself as "chairman of tha Multnomah dem ocratic county central coirmlttss," and I am wondering if lis slvnsd as an Individual, giving to the publlo his title, or did he sign for tha Mult nomah democratic county central committee? If tha latter, was ha In structed to do so, and if so, when did tha Multnomah democratle county central committee nisot, and if It did. I did not receive any notice of sucb meeting, and have not heard of such either as an ind-tvidusl or ss a mem ber of the committee? COMMITTEEMAN. t'oluaihaa tilvea Baak. Boys' Life. First Scout I wish Columbu been a Frenchman. Second Scout Why? First Scout I put him th my examination paper. had c at wUV la V