THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1922
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THE CLUB BEHIND THE DOOB.
The secretary for Washington
. the state on the north, where the
initiative and referendum, in some
i't fcered form also flourishes
liTscloses the interesting' fact that the
people of the state have in all, dur
ing eight years, voted on a total of
forty-eight measures;; thirty - seven
initiative and one referendum and
have adopted a grand total of three
rejecting forty-five. When in doubt.
they voted no; also -when not in
doubt.
The state of Oregon has enjoyed
the benefits, and lack of them, of
the initiative and referendum for
nearly twenty years, and has accu
mulated a wealth of experience.
some of it costly and painful, some
of it otherwise. Unlike Washington,
it employs the referendum to adopt,
Tfllas nevertheless had changing
lotions on the subject.
I'nce it was the fashion to run to
referendum and pass bills, some
lich the legislature had de
Then everybody with a no-
f-r idea, or theory, or a spasm.
fmted enacted into law took a
The result was that, for a
Lsiderable period, the referendum
i s loaded down with all kinds of
asures, and the people in self-de-
l.se voted no, where at first their
lination had been otherwise. Now
r re is small encouragement to put
ffreak measure on the ballot, ex
lot for the single taxers, who need
encouragement. Since 1902
en, the referendum was adopted
record shows that 81 measures
eluding amendments? Have Seen
pted, and 114 rejected, in the
te at large. The number of bills
fl the vote are shown in the fol
ding table:
Meaa.
I ear urea. les. po,
1 1 ...
3 3 ...
11
19
32
36
(special) 5
29
11
I'SIT (special) 7
t-f IS 7
T19 (special)
20 (special).... 9
20 11
11)21 (special) S
8
11
9
11
3
4
6
4
Totals 195 81 114
It will be observed that in the first
nr. elections twenty-three measures
re adopted and eleven defeated;
en came the rise of protest against
,ncd iha mfACaniinm qt, in Via
vficceeding two elections, with a
startling aggregate of more than
thirty bills on the ballot in each
vear, nineteen were carried and
forty-eight defeated. The referen
dum then passed its fashionable
period and settled down to a more
.staid and useful existence.
Recently, it has been learned that
he best assurances of adoption of
fiy measure is to get the legislature
I-submit it to the referendum,
fixty-four bills in all have thus been
eferred, since 1902, and thirty-two
liave been successful, while thirty-
two have been beaten. But it is
Vnotlceable that the legislature had
vs best luck in the early days of the
leferendum,. whilst the initiative
fvorkers then had their best fortune
except for two disastrous elections).
'rom 1902 to 1912 inclusive the leg
slature passed on to the people sev
nteen measures (including amend-
nents) and six of them were
adopted while eleven were rejected.
But since then there have been a
total of forty-seven bills emanating
with the legislature for action by the
people, and twenty-six of them have
passed and twenty-one been beaten.
At the special election of 1920, with
nine legislative measures to be voted
on, the legislature scored 100 per
.cent, all being passed. The legisla
ture now usually does well with its
referendum measures, unless it tries
i raise its pay, or is obviously
passing the buck" on something too
troublesome for the average law
tucker to take a stand on.
The referendum is all right, so
long as it is used to decide questions
and determine policies the people
want to pass on.
apart from the fact that she is the
first woman to appear In that ca
pacity. Her father, David Alfred
Thomas, was the Welsh coal king
and was ennobled for his services as
food controller during and after the
war. He was but one of many cap
tains of industry who were raised to
the peerage in the industrial era,
and the viscountess has succeeded
him In that capacity also, for she
manages the great group of corpor
ations of which he was the creator.
By raising to the upper house men
of brains, 'wealth and power like
Thomas, the British government has
preserved the vigor of that relic of
feudalism as the old families ran to
seed or died out. Other peerages
have been given to superannuated
statesmen from thb house of com
mons, and yet others are reported to
have been rewarded for big con-
tributions to party campaign funds.
There has been much talk, but no
Newberry case, growing out of the
latter class of peerages, perhaps be
cause both great parties are tarred
with the same brush.
If the present coalition govern
ment should live long enough to ef
fect the long promised reform, the
house of lords may soon undergo a
complete transformation. Prone to
compromise as Great Britain Is, it
may preserve a strong link with the
past by retaining a minority of the
hereditary peers elected by their
whole number, but we may be sure
that the new house will be composed
mainly of self-made men and women,
who will owe their positions to their
own achievements, not to those of
their ancestors.
TIIE JHDDIE fiKOCJil).
The tax reduction league at Salem
the other day adopted a resolution
favoring submission of bonding
measures to taxpayers only. A cor
respondent whose letter has ap
peared in The Oregonian would per
mit only taxpayers to vote on any
tax measure. The same proposition
came up for discussion at the meet
ing held by the tax investigating
commission at Baker, and one hears
of it from other sources every day
or so.
This voting restriction on tax
measures and bonding proposals is
now in operation as regards school
district affairs. It is significant that,
while objection is heard to the lack
of freehold restriction on general
tax submissions, objection is also
heard to the existence of that re
striction as applied to school district
finances. One of the Portland school
directors is a candidate for the legis
lature and in his platform he advo
cates abolishment of the school dis
trict freehofder rule.
It is true that the legal voters as
a body are more liberal in voting
bonds and additional taxes than the
taxpayer voters. It is remembered
that in the last Portland school elec
tion the taxpayers refused to con
tinue the 3-mill building levy, al
though the chairman of the board
avers that the district needs fully
$10,000,000 worth of new school
buildings.
The difficulty that confronts us is
tha the legal voters as a body are j
held to be excessively generous,
while the taxpayer voters as a body
are held to be excessively cautious.
Perhaps the middle ground would be
achieved by increasing the number
of taxpayer voters. It would be
done, as the Eugene Register re
marks, by the adoption of the in
come tax. A direct personal interest
in- the cost as well as the benefits of
public enterprise is a valuable spur
to the exercise of sound and careful
judgment.
parading them up Main street in a
carryall drawn by a cow, never1 get
a tip in advance. The charivari is
one of our best examples of the in
nate capacity of the American vil
lager for community organization,
which if followed to a logical con
clusion would make the highest
civic achievement possible. The
small town sense of humor is not al
ways subtle, but It is usually kindly
enough and it is invariably redeemed
by.the spirit of neighborhood jovial
ity that it embodies. It always stops
short of incendiarism, for which rea
son we are inclined to reject this ex
planation, of the Antigonish affair,
but it is quite capable of creating
ghosts and maintaining them for an
indefinite period of time.
The Listening Post.
By BeWitt Harry.
opposition in the-senate to American
lepresentation on the reparation
commission to which President
Harding yielded. Though far smaller
than the claims of the allies, our
claim is large enough to justify
American participation in the work
of the commission, and this would
A, . w v. i uti. ( inn
ing Germany to cease balking aK opirJon, John W Pettigrew-S pet!
in influencing the allies to make
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
I
N HOPE that some versifier or
rhymster of reputation can venture
reasonable terms of payment. It
would have been a steppingstone to
our Inevitable participation in the
work of economic reconstruction.
Possibly the president and Secre
tion for expert advice is herewith
passed on. John W. beseeches as fol
lows:
. "I am sending you herewith a epec
imen verse of genuine handmade Ore
gon poetry, asking for your judgment
as to its merit. I have long contem
tarv Hushes welcomed the oppor
tunity to impress on congress the Plated writing a poem which should
necessity of our co-operation with be an epidemic or eastern uregon
our partners in the war in the work to embalm, in deathless verse, the
of winding up the business that grew valiant deeds of Lewis and, Clark, of
Aiif.Af if- Whan t Vi tmmififiinn had PmlAno.1 "Raker of Chief Josenh. of
SEIXEVG THE PTJREBBED STOCK IDEA beefi stabiighed f or tnis purp0se Fern Hobbs. Tall the bright galaxy
lie evidence mat tne oepanmem , d cte f otner partners, there of military genius that has made east
or. agriculture is accuiuuiMiiis ah Lt not nnlv inconvenience but ob- i-n rWe-nn sl household, word: of th
support of - its contention that pure- vIoVL9 injury to our interests in deal- mines, the forests, the range, of th
bred livestock pays better than wltb rfir7T,,riv spna.ra.telv anri in lpnHnn Tfn.inrt-nn the never-faillm
scrubs will not surprise those who then obtaining from the allies due meal ticket of that enterprising vil
nave given tne subject tne siigntest rec0gition o our rights. The allies ,ajre.
uuiisiiiei auuu. in i coiuso w are so anxious for our assistance and
questionnaire eent broadcast over wnl that oreat a9 r, their need
the United States the department of all that Germany can pay, they Eue6ne to school,'and he said I was
uiovvvwa o"w"av.a i-wMii fimintieKsi resnecr. our ritrnra nv
mous. xv or. a single iarmer who no revising the division of the pay
tried to improve his herd has ex- mentg.
pressed a willingness to return to the Mr. Hughes can exert useful influ-
old ways, and many testily in aer.au hv. rAir,1iatirie' tti detrren of
to actual saving in costs oi ieeains hriT1,s t h(,aP aenordine
and handling of grade and purebred to the ae&ree t0 Which the allies
stock by comparison wun mierior show themselves amenable to his
animals. Stories of Individual expe- r,,nSRi -n reduction of armament
riences are particularly interesting. rW!tnratinn f iirid fananee.
For example, a Nebraska farmer u. .... 1 ..;,..
writes- I , .. . . . Kipllnsr. but just for homemade po
" 1 Ites . I nnvmenr. flj fl0-mriKt. a. nn.ttnn which ""St
my who ana i sialics ,ui iwe.n,. ( t , ereat prmv while its "J
year ago on. a rented larm wltn a very 1 ....... . I
little property ana some ae-pc. we now i ...w .. .0 u..v,., i , . , , .l,;-!,
k. f th- fint finnk. of ihorrit Li.r f a notion In submitting his sample, for Tvhich
the best herd of Jerseys in this part oi the which limits it3 army to the strict he has not as yet selected, a title, Mr.
needs of defense and of internal Pettlgrew says.
order and which souares its ac-- "These few verses' will give you an
counts. I idea or tne general pian ui mo wui.,
The demand for navment of its ex- I am not very familiar with tne in
penses should hasten final with- cuan names oi eumw ui u.o
X. , "f .... drawal of the American armv from and may make mistakes. However,
wage until tne iesson; , u infer that most folks won't know the differ
tvi I. Xld,ltllllK OllUWCU lb iU AC 1 a
main In response to the pleas of the Far to the north of the valley.
allies as to the ill effect of its with- Where the eagle swoops down from the
drawal on Germany,
government of that country has now I a homesteader built him a cabin.
"I showedi these verses to a young
neighbor of mine, who has heen to
a plagiarist. This insinuation was en
tlrely gratitudinous, as everybody
that knows me knows that I am en
tirely opposed to that sort of thing
and that I never was much of a hand
for the women nohow.
"Would you advise me to take out
a poetic license? Of course, I would
not need a first-class license, like
Bller Wilier Wheelcox or Woodyard
stcte, and 240 acres of vauey land with
modern improvements,
This testimonial and others like It
furnish a foundation for a campaign
for "better sires, better livestock,
which the department proposes to
United States. It is all the more
effective as a slogan because it can
be supported by tacts. Asida from
the factor of the money cost of feed
which is demonstrably lower in pro
portion to return in the case of pure
bred stock than in that of the scrub,
set itself in such earnest to- meet its guilt it of larch ami 0,10B-J'-
treaty obligations that the presence ch!inked lt and daubed it and made it
Of a few thousand American troops Secure against Oregon weather.
tne element oi numau iaoui aiuw 1. T.omr linirered ha there in the forest.
enters more largely. than, ever before no longer ncoary a auo i Waling Iho bear and the mowitch.
in our history intfthe. expense ac- B"aul1' auv.m, chewing the rag wun tne aiwasn.
i I jjayers viLiy j.cixy likxl. wuoumuia- i vuaius t,bUUw
Increasing nei. ty that the "on waen xney Bau uo Z"1" .ui After a while he grew weary,
(.... ,ii .ht.. rinm America s claims as it weucu ioi Soured on beans and on bacon,
iiteration oi me treaty ui v ciaaiuco uuugou aa n. weut uu .ad
and of "antagonism to France.'
for his time, which has been a pow
erful influence in depopulating some
of the farming districts, and has
been one of the significant phases of
economic "development in the last
Wished himself back in the valley.
Then he quit and rolled his blankets.
Hung them up and closed his cabin;
In the news account of the meeting H -the .hike and came to Richland,
of the tax investigating commission There he filled himself with sheen-dip,
a 3 j i ia i,Jt 'Rater The Oretronian was inad- Filled his hide with rough-on-ranchers,
two uecaucs, m4 i ccaaa a-aka... " ' T,lp,di,v that Filled hds tank with home-brewed bootleg
Y,o shall TTinka nil hia labor count I vertently made to say, luesday, mat rf-ii, h,. , t,,y,i.a
That lt takes no longer to grow feed the population o"f Baker county nad ...
fnr a wili.BTailA lierii. and no Iontrer decreased 89 per cent between 1910 in compiling the immortal biog
to care for the herd, than it would and 1920. While there was in fact a raphy of Paul Bunyan the writer
take to tend a herd of the veriest decrease in population or tne county wishes to thank the many contrib
scrubs is a fact so obvious that the between tne two census enumera- utors. Gradually the life of this as-
wonder is that it should have es- tion3, the loss was almost negiigioie. tounding character is assuming shape
caped the attention of anyone. Balcer county s population ir. im and K seeJns tMO moro provocation
was lo.wio, in laAtu a j- , , - ,
numerical loss of 147, and a percent-
BORAH'S GERMAN ARGTJMEXT. I age loss of less than 1 per cent. The
When Senator Borah undertakes to city of Baker increased in population
show a resemblance between tne I from 6742 in 1910 to 7729 in 1920.
triple entente which existed in Europe
in 1914 and the four-power Pacific
treaty, and to demonstrate that, be-
offered the more results achieved. No
sooner is one episode of his history
written than half a dozen other ver
sions are received, helping cloud up
the subject. P. O. Stamp's version of
the construction of the Three Sisters
Archie McCoy, 30, who hanged and hls heart-rendiner tale of this
himself in the' uregon penitentiary blasted romance was no sooner print
cause the entente ended in war the MondaVf wa3 a bri&llt boy ln the cid ed than we hear from Vera A. Rlch.
THE CHANGING HOUSE OF LORDS.
By seating the Viscountess Rhond-
da as a peeress in her own right, the
British house of lords has accepted
the logical consequence of admission
f women to the house of commons
and has established a rule which
will admit eight other peeresses.
The old rule by which titles and es
tates descended in the male line and
by which, if women inherited in de
fault of male heirs, they could not
eit in tne souse or peers, is wen nign
gone. That rule was carried to the
extreme by the old Salic law which
excluded women and their offspring
from succession to a throne and at-
e.mrjts to modify which caused the
wars between .ngland - and France
in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen
turies. A famous breach was made
in it when Maria Theresa's right to
the thrones of Austria and Hungary
was contested. She asserted her
purpose to defend it in a fiery
speech to the Hungarian diet. Still
clinging to the letter of the old law,
the Magyar obles overcame the dif
ficulty and proved their loyalty by
drawing their swords and swearing
that they would die for Maria
Theresa, "our king."
Lady Rhondda's appearance as a
hereditary legislator has significance
SMALL-TOWN POLTERGEIST.
The incendiary inclination of the
Antigonish poltergeist would seem
to dispose of an ingenious theory, re
cpintly offered by a skeptic, that the
vhole business is a hoax devised by
the people of the village fop the dls
omfiture of serious-minded invest!
gators, but no one who has ever lived
In the kind of town that Antigonish
probably is will doubt for a moment
that, barring actual destruction of
property, it would be possible to en
list an entire population in a ven
ture of the kind. There is something
peculiarly small-townish about the
tendency to get-together on a prac-
leal joke, and there is nothing quite
like the village solidarity that de-
elops out of opportunity to have
fun at some stranger's expense
There are towns whose people can
get together on nothing else what
ever, irom the Duilding of a new
pera house to the regulation of
browsing livestock, which will unite
to the last man, woman and child in
keeping the secret of a hoax.
Dr. Hereward Carrlngton reminds
us of a celebrated instance of the
kind. Some fifteen or sixteen years
ago the town of Windsor, Nova
Scotia, achieied a place in the news
as Antigonish has more recently
done, by virtue of a mysterious visi
tor that engaged the attention of re
search societies and psychical inves
tigators from all over the world. The
country was presently stirred by the
elaborately written reports of x an
eminent jurist, a man with a high
reputation for veraefcy, who sent to
research societies long accounts of
the extraordinary thing3 which had
manifested themselves to him. There
were voices in the air, shoutings,
electrical shocks, potatoes and eggs
dropping apparently from the sky,
and the investigator himself was ap
parently followed constantly by pe
culiar and personal spirits, which
made life exceedingly uncomfortable
but highly interesting to him.
This was perhaps the most con
spicuous example which has come to
public attention of a whole town en
gaged in a harmless conspiracy to
defraud. It became known a long
time afterward that a large furniture
factory in the town had been espe
cially fitted at considerable expense
for the purpose of deceiving the
town's inquiring .guests. The people
had equipped the jJlace with con
cealed speaking tubes, hidden bells
and rattles, and all sorts of con
trivances for imposture. Concealed
springs would make vegetables
dance in their baskets at the green
grocers, mysterious voices would
address the investigators in the most
out-of-the-way places; the very ani
mals of the village were unwitting
actors in the farce. Everybody in
town was in on the hoax, which was
carried on for weeks, and nobody
told. As a manifestation of the get
together spirit it would have been a
noteworthy success if it only had
been employed in a larger cause.
The practical Joke is the one
phase of human activity an which
the people of every small town,
without exception, can be persuaded
to unite. The returning bridal
couple, met at the railway station
by a delegation f citizens beat on
Pacific treaty also involves an obll
gation to make war, he adopts the
line of reasoning in regard to the
conditions leading to the world war
that is followed by Germany in deny
ing guilt for the war. The theory
set up by apologists for Germany is
that the war was brought about by
no one power or group of powers, but
by a prevailing condition, that there
fore all belligerents must share the
respons'bility, and that Germany and
North Central school of the east side ardson of Salem, as follows
a score of years 'ago. iis active "it was the summer before the blue
prison career began nearly eight snow and Paul Bunyan had taken
years ago at Salem, for larceny from tne contract to level off central Ore-
the person, home time all the data on after Mount Jefferson had e-ot
will be collected and published on th-nl,T, Ht,ittir.s- lava. nirer th
why boys go wrong. Until then one c,untry in heaps. As you know, there
must figure on the facts to fit each I lsn.t much water over there and It
Case he knOWS. I y,0aTr,a v,; , -haul water frnm
the Willamette river every day for
Frank S. Akin, for three-score th. blua 03t. so Paul decided to ditr
its allies are deeply wronged by be- years well known in commercial, a weI1 cIoser to his work. Just to
ing held guilty. civic and eleemosynary activities of maka things eaSier for the men who
This line of argument disregards 1 "is ceieuine m o"--" uiawa- were to dig. the welf ono noon hour
the fundamental facts. The triple al- day. lie is one oi tne iew to wuoiii paul hltched the bIue oz to the
nan wa fnrm first t,h the trinle has been given tne pleasure oi orw.
. . - - - I T,-jr-li,Tic TVirtlnnrl p-rnw frnm ham. . - .
entente long aiterwara ior aeiense . . off the top and the Three Sisters are
against it. The obligations of the let to metropolis. He may be too those three heaps of dlpt JuBt ag he
entente as between Great Britain on "-""f1 " "lu' V " - " r dumped them.
the one part and France and Kussia wuaaaacaiua iia,- a.a Tne well saved a iot of time for
on the other part were so restricted a fact. pauJ The next wlnter the blua snow
that, when Germany declared war on came and when lt went off the water
The
named it Blue
Russia, then on France, Great Britain j An Idaho man of much previous Jn paul.a weli was jet blue.
lake."
. . , I , .a 1 A-A-J1IA.. 1 .J . .1 . i V. I
reserved decision wnetner to inier- respcciauiiiLj ciuiieu uj axaa-hao. settlers have since
vene, though implored by Doth par- i anotner s wiie ana now goes to ivit;
ties to the entente to come to their Neil's island for two years in which
aid. Austria - Hungary struck- the to ponder on the cost system. The
first blow at Serbia; Germany the road of decency may be hard to
next at Russia, and the next at travel, but strait is the gate and
France through Belgium. Great Brit- I narrow the way to it.
ain declared war in defense of Bel
gium, not of France and Russia. McArthur and Sinnott voted
Then we are indebted to Albert
Smith of Centralia for some more
alluring data on the great Bunyan
donkey engine. Smith says, and
vouches personally for his own ve
racity, that the whistle alone was so
Those are the damning facts against agSLin3t and Hawley for free seeds. lar&6 that the men wou,d go to work
mo ceuLAi.i puncis Am wca -j-jj man who needs seeas Duys oi
prior refusal to enter a conference, tne seedman: that section of the
which Mr. Borah ignores, as cer- public that delights in getting some
many's apologists ignore them. I thing "off the government" wel
Yet the entente went much rartner comes the cheap courtesy.
than the faciic treaty goes, it was
The good word "bucketeer" has
accompanied by an arrangement that
the French fleet should be concen
trated in the Mediterranean sea, the
British in the North sea, and that in
case of military co-operation, Great
Britain sh'ould send a certain force to
France. During the first few days of tion of th- dictionaries.
August. 1914, trance asserted, in con
sequence of this arrangement, a
been coined out of recent financial
disclosures in New York. If com
pressing a lot of meaning into a few
letters entitles a word to survive,
this one ought to make the next edi-
in the morning on its blast and when
they heard the echo would know that
their day's work was done. The don
key was so big, says Smith, that
each time the main drive shaft made
one revolution , it was payday, an
entire month had passed.
Finally, and this should be enough
for today, comes Ellsworth Hooker
of Corvallis, who says:
'Because of his gigantic stature,
Paul Bunyan found it exceedingly
Inconvenient and sometimes impossi
ble to confine himself to the accom-
TIia ftnfh iiRiasm fTrrii liit.fiA Iru- var!.
moral claim to defense of its channel Qua jgng.uved and Wealthy citizens nidations ot his fellow men. This
over their various diets, all different,
trnp.s tn nrnve that tha man who
agreed that the British fleet would knnwa from ,XT,erience, what is trood unfrequented Lost lake for his bath
prevent a German invasion in those for him doesn't need to go to others t"b- However, It was not entirely
quarters, mere is noming oi tne i dvice about it. I a sense oi moaesty wnicn prompted
kind in the Pacific treaty or its him to this choice. It's location en-
supplement; nothing but an agree- I . ,vs now, di. abled him to heat his water on tha
ment to communicate with & view to patcn consumed 210,000,000,000 Cascade range."
A II UUUOlSLauUlllg VAA llicoouita aai UD
taken in case an outside power
threatens aggression on the rights of
any of the four signatories.
In his despairing search for
weapons wherewith to assail tne
treaty, Mr. Borah has adopted a men
tal attitude regarding the origin of
the war which would better befit
Baron von Borah, a junker member
of the Prussian diet, than Senator
Borah of the United States.
kronen worth of beer in 1920. Di
luted in the same proportion as
kronen, were, the beer could hardly
have tested as much as one-half of 1
per cent.
Advertising in a street car where
in everybody sits opposite every
body must be made more attractive
to keep the eyes of even a modest
man a fnnt rr mnrft arinvft thA flnnr?
Some men find it embarrassing at Pint celebrating the birthday of
.n Washington's birthday, Ora I
Riggs' small daughter Janet, aged 6,
now a resident of Seattle, said:
"Mother, whose birthday did we
celebrate the other day? That other
George? (trying to think of Abraham
Lincoln); Oh, I ' know George
Baker's."
And mother had to explain that
Seattle had not as yet come to the
"Hollywood As It Is and As It
I Isn't," will be shown In a special
five-reel motion-picture production
now being made by prominent mem
bers of the film world as a defense
of their profession, according to
Terry Turner, a representative of
New York headquarters of Marcus
Loew, Inc., who arrived here yester
day. "The picture will present two
views of Hollywood," said Mr. Turner.
"The first will show this Los Angeles
suburb as it has been pictured in re
cent publicity growing out of the
Taylor murder mystery and the Ar
buckle case, and will present Holly
wood and the life of the screen
colony as it Is believed to exist by
many persons who have never been
there. This view will picture Holly
wood as a drunkard's paradise, a
modern Babylon ' inhabited by wild
men and wild women, with gay revels
and dope parties. The other view of
the film capital will present Holly
wood as the film people know lt
a little city of respectable homes,
schools and churches, no different
from similar suburbs. Leaders in
every . branch of .the motion-picture
Industry will donate their services
and co-operate in putting over the
picture. The cast will be a truly
all-star affair. Gloria Swanson, Bert
Lytell, "Viola Dana and many other
celebrities will appear. The picture
will be directed by a group of the
foremost directors in the business,
including Rex Ingram, who made
The Four Horsemen of the Apoca
lypse,! Cecil and William DeMille and
Robert D. Baker. The best camera
men and technical workers will con
tribute their services. The picture
will be presented all over the United
States through co-operation of dis-
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moslxa.
Can "Von Answer These Questions t
1. What makes it possible for the
deer and rabbit to change the color
of their fur in winter and summer?
2. Does our white pine grow in Eu
rope
3. Has anyone tried to Import the
nightingale. Usicnuolo, into this coun
try? They flourish in northern Italy,
where the climate is similar,
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Is it true a lizard can walk on
its hind legs?
In some cases, yea. Anolis carolinen
sis, the "green," "fence" and "alliga
tor" lizard Jumps to advantage on
long hindi legs, but does not move on
those alone. But the collared lizard
of the southwest, Crotaphytus col
laris, is said on good authority
to jump kangaroo style on its back
legs when startledi It gets, a start on
all fours, then raises the fore part of
the body from the ground and travels
some distance on the back legs only,
2. Do birds sing while they ar in
their winter homes in the south?
Bluebirds are said to. Of course
their music is not exactly a song,
but a series of musical gurgling
notes. However, they are vocal and
sweet-toned.
3. In late summer and fall of 191S
muskrats within a radius of 75. -miles
of Jamestown. N. D., left their habitat
and traveled east, how far or to what
locality is not known. Few remained.
Two years later they started coming
back, are rebuilding, and seem as
numerous as ever. They were not
tributing organizations and exhib- drlvei-out oy trappers or in any way
itors." Mr. Turner, who in rirla- molested. Can. this migration be ex-
tered at the BenRon. in in pnPnnfl fWiei
to confer with W. W. Ely. manager Not satisfactorily. Severe droughts
of the Hippodrome theater, regarding in late summer will sometimes cause
a new policy which will go Into effect muskrats to travel far from home
March 18, when shows will play this Spring migrations are thought to be
house for a full week instead of three related to the breeding season. In
or four days. some cases possibly a scantage of
food might Induce them to seek nw
Time was when the visit of a
pasturage. Farmers' bulletin 869 tells
ssfbrvni i. ntr ai,iAvt; wo. Drieiiy or musKrat migration, nut can-
a signal for hotel clerks to tie down not fu"y account for the cause.
r,,r:-A.?KJu. 'j;ilni"i: How did- the days of the. week
I r,H, .,. I set their names?
l""1""- "" I rt.i v. . I ,
things ar d fferen.t now Th vnutiz """"S" " a.a..c..w
men who wear the colors of their 'Mlura Dl ivieAuci. uu, i.a.o '""
educational institution ln, athletic con- or tn aay to elaborate to outline
tests are welcomed by hotel manage- ""S 6- "
mnt. k,, CTo n-r t, i or Saturday; the sun, Sunday; the
conduct of the new type' of student' moon' Monday, etc The names of the
athlete. The basketball team of Pen. I"4""0 " ""' '
riiotnn hio-h srhnni wo . .v, Tmna. ami French forms. We get our tng-
rial hcvtoi i-.ro ! t.-h lish day names from the same sys-
a tour. In the squad are R. E. Han- I tem, but through Anglo-Saxon names
ley. William Kramer. Frerti Krmw. r i""""""' in
Walfred' Holmgren, Charles Cahiil. tne Planet! were named.
Richard Laurence, Waldon Byers, Ben
5. How many eyes has a fly?
Two, but they are the so-called
compound! style, with many cells form
ing each eye, so that this organ can
reflect images from practically all
directions. Probably this explains why
flies Eeeai eo extraordinarily alert ts
the slightest motion made by the man
with the swatter.
6. Kindly advise whether quails and
Smith, Carl Nelson and Adolph Hey-
den.
W. C. Ribenack of Thornton. Ark..
chairman of the California & Orearon
Lumber company of Brookings, Or.,
arrived in Portland yesterday to con
fer with officials of the company and
other lumbermen. With James H.
Owen of the California & Oregon
WA.lra.AlV, AACT ItOJ ICKiaiClDU O. (. AAIO I . - , , ,
Pnrtin woi w.aa ,r. t-h, partridges are the same bird.
prosperous times are coming soon ln I J?" Z.ZVf? A?,, o" t"'
the timber and lumber industry of !? L " ec,t10"B: In..tie
Ar.nn nr. n, ...x? i iiurmeasL paririuge 13 more corn-
is picking up rapidly. We' are cutting "only applied to the ruffed grouse,
Oregon fir at Brookings and are also i rr " Z
interested in running a railroad from u,Pho ?9 thls- In e"f, whf,r, "Part-
Brookings to the heart of the red- f'd F.J1 use,' mea,ns
1 "bob-white." the ten-inch Colinus vir-
We plan to handle redwood, as well as f'",a?"8' .L ? U,,?..ZZ.
fir. In lartre nnantitv ornn L"c S " aav. a-
l.irfo-o" Tf 4a oa fn.r tn .ail In av htr 17.
omt n n.mmnj I inth grouse by that name, to avoid
manner of the 162d infantry, returned vvl"'"'v"
to Portland yesterday from New Or
leans, where he attended a national MAN, 83, IS OPPOSED TO DANCING
military conference. "Limitation of
naval armaments does not mean nec- Best Citizens Declared to Be Against
essarny the total elimination of all
military preparedness," said Colonel
Hammond. "That is, it' doesn't mean
elimination of preparedness unless tA.e
people want life under a Russianized
form of government. I still aiave
faith in the patriotism and good judg
ment of the common American peo-
Use of Public Schools.
PORTLAND, March 14. (To the
Editor.) I have spent th last six
months between Portland and The
Dalles and Salem, Or, and Goldendale,
Wash., looking over this fine country
pie." Colonel Hammond was in New and ara favorably impressed, espe
Orleans during the city's famous cially with Portland and lbs surround-
mardi gras festival. "The parades ingsi I came from Missouri, the
and floats of the mardi gras did not "show mo" state, first to visit our
Degiu to compare m Deauty or num- children and also with a view to lo
bar with those of some of Portland's eating here If I like the country,
rose festivals," he saidt I have been dennlv lntereateri. In the
D ,. . discussions in your paper as well as
P. B. Carter, attorney and golf en- ii TTr,i c.i..
thusiast of Boise, Idaho, is in Port- tion "Should dancing be allowed in
Aciiiu m try a cse in ieaerai court. our public schools?" "Show me" why
caaov AAAGiiiuiAiitA IU Ll'SLlf ITU T t - I n P. (In 1 A, 1 n V A t h A, n a n n a A Ti n T will . inw
land friends into trying out the dif- you why dancing in the schools has
ncuit course oi tne noise uoir club, to be "chaperoned
the hazards of our course will give Is it not because exnal 1ihrHi
me dcbi roruana goners a nard test." are o1!iwH that wnM r, Ka
said Mr. Carter. "Our visitors usually ated anywhere else? Sn far as, health.
have a hard time getting over the I ful exercises are concerned are there
laite nazara, wnicn is wen Known not plenty of ball cames and run-
and dreaded by golfers who have ning plays that we all used when
piayeu tne course. In order to make children which do not need "chaperon
the game more difficult we have a ing?" I have talked with many and
nazaru wnicn requires tne players to read much on this dancing question
drive over a lalce-. and a row of tall and now in my 83d year I am per
trees." I suaded that a large majority of our
best citizens will vote to nut dancine
The county fair Dlavs an important I out of the public schools. "Train &
part in American life, and is being child in the way he should go," etc.
made a bigger thing each year Ba" "ie wise man
A FEW WORDS Of COMFORT.
They are getting uneasy in France
Where the jazz holds Us hiduoui
sway
Lest the horrid American dance
Should sweep all their morals away.
They fear that their youth will suu
' cumb to the craze,
That an orgy of wild syncopation
Will get them all going, till one of
these days
It will utterly ruin the cation.
We beg them to still their alarm;
We have had the same stuff over
here
And it never did half of the harm
Our moralists led us to fear.
We waited and trembled, while saxo
phones wailed.
And drums rolled, with' throbbing
insistence.
For the country to crumble, with ter
ror we paled
And yet we are still in existence.
While Berlin was doing hia worst
With brazen-tongued voices of
sound
Our shuddering eardrums to burst
And to scatter our fragments
around.
We still went and came at our regu
lar jobs.
Untroubled and cay and llght
hearted. And we're wholly unhurt, now the
thundering throbs
Of the banjos and drums havo de
parted. "Cheer up!" Is onr message to France.
"Don't be so downhearted." say we.
For there isn't the ghost of a chance
That the jazz will destroy your
esprit.
The jazz will depart, as it did over
here.
You'll find it deceptive and hollow;
It will run at the most but a fleeting
career
And a worse one is certain to
follow!
.
Ma bins; No Hit at Home.
It was hardly husbandly conduct
for the New York pressmen to otrlko
on the very morning their wives
wanted to read all about the royal
wedding.
. V
They Lead n Hard Life.
Somebody ln the senate ought to
organize a bloc for the prevention- of
cruelty to treaties.
...
Tkey Can't Be Too Careful.
An appeal has been made to ths
motion picture magnates to forbid
women smoking in film plays. This is
doubtless for the purpose of reducing
the fire hazard In the movie theaters.
(Copyright by the Bell 8jmdict. Inc.)
Harmony.
By Grace E. Hall.
The night Is sultry.
The winds are slow;
Secrets of the trees
Are whispered low.
Passing fire-flies
With lanterns bright,
Flash brilliant signals
To left and light.
A night bird whimpers
In muffled tone
Somewhere in the hedge-
"Alone alone."
Dreary, lonely night
With you away;
Tender, lovely night
When you but Btay!
Melancholy night.
With voices drear
Beauty and delight
When you are hero!
In Other Daya.
through co-operation of various dis
tricts. Some of the problems of the
county fair were discussed yesterday
afternoon by county fair secretaries
in conference here. Among the out-of-town
secretaries at this session
were D. E. Long, Oregon City; J. S.
Whitaker, Marshfleld, representing
Coos and Curry counties: A. C. Mil
ler, Wallowa county; Paul V. Maris,
extension department, Oregon Agri
cultural college; B. O. Garrett, Mc-
Minnville; W. A. Ayres, Eugene, and
Fred Bennion, Pendleton.
F. K. Hummel of Boise, Idaho, who
will have charge of the new Portland
office of the firm of Hummel & Tour-
JOHN GILHOUSEN.
Cockroaches and President's Par.
DETROIT, Or., March 1. (To the
Editor.) (1) Would like to know how
to exterminate cockroaches in new
building and cause for same.
(2) When was the president's salary
raised to $75,000 per year?
OLD SUBSCRIBER.
1. Roach exterminators sold In imr
stores will do the work very well.
The reason for roaches being In a
new building Is unknown to us.
2. On March i. 1907, the second ees
tune time to enter business here,
said Mr. Hummel,
THE CALL FOR PAYMENT
The American claim to compen-
times.
Portland's mayor.
A 13-year-old ' boy in Berkeley,
Say, Doc, can, you Je-nd me two
bits?" asked the rough old bum of
Dr. Tom Ross, Tom shelled out and
then- asked:
Where have I known you'
"You don't know me," the moocher
answered.
Then how did you know I was a
......... ... ... I- !aa. . a -a a flontnr?"
reparation clauses or tne Versailles I up wua a siory ui veins marooned i
treaty. But the allies may claim in the bay, a perfect alibi la a etate
saiion for expense of our army of trying to recover a tanlged kite, re-
occupation on the Rhine is certainly ceived 13,000 volts and sustained
just and should have priority on 1 little damage. He may be destined
equal terms with the similar claims for the ax, but never the chair.
of the allies. So far as Germany is
concerned, this is secured by inclu- That California game warden
sion in the Berlin treaty of the missing since Thursday has turned
Saturday afternoon an old man was
knocked to the pavement by a pass-
'Oh, I call everybody Doc.
that, as the United States is not a I where no alibi is needed.
party to the Versailles treaty and as
our claim against Germany arises I Old-time beach rates will be in ef-
under a' later treaty, they are un- I feet this year. The little -"war" at ing auto at tho corner of Sixth and
der no obligation to consider it on an I the end of. the season last year was Aider streets. As toe picked himself
equality with their claims. So fa? I kind of convincing. .up and dusted his coat the traffic
as they are concerned, we must go I r: cop came up and observed that he
back to the armistice, which makes I The ides of March and Vesuvius is must be a tough guy to be emUlng
us parties to the occupation jointly I in eruption. See programmes Of after such an experience
with them, to establish our rights. I prophecy for any more. I "I've been knocked about a heap
This is one of the embarrassments I I in my time," said the old man be
that arose in the first instance from I Uneasy lay the head last night tween chuckles, "but that is the first
the senate's refusal to ratify the I with an income- tax return yet to he I time I've ever -been wallowed by a
Versailles treaty and. later from, the If ilea. I Ford.'
telotte, architects, is registered at I sion of the 9th congress appropriated
the Multnomah hotel. "After care- $25,000 as traveling expenses to be
fully investigating conditions in Port- used at the discretion of tha presi
iana, we leit mat tnis .was an oppor- dent ln addition to his salary of J50,
000. The second session of the fol
lowing congress fixed the amount of
The snow in Crater Lake national $75,000 as the permanent salary f
pars: has been deep this winter, but the president.
the parte will De open for the annual
tourist invasion by July 1, according
to A. Sparrow, superintendent of the
park, who is a Portland visitor. In
Identity of Kinnikinick.
BEND, Or., March 13. (To the Edi-
KDite of the deen snow. John Maben. tor.) Can you tell me the name now
caretaker or Crater Lake lodge, spent I tor wnat tne
Mr. I kinnikinick berry?
Indians called the
Twenty-Five Years A(o.
From The Oresonlan of March 15, 10T.
Ezra Durand, whose unheralded
exodus from Portland five years aro,
left his friends poorer by about $li0,
000, returned yesterday morning In
charge of special deputy Sheriff W,
A. Currio,
Owners of nickle-in-the-slot ma
chines have circumvented Mayor Pen
noyer by substituting eets of dice In
place of the machines.
Bicycles, buggies and pedestrians
were out ln full force on Belmont
street yesterday, but in the prenenos
of Officer Parker there were few at
tempts to race.
Washington. The 55th congress
meets in extraordinary eesnion today
in pursuance of President McKlnley'a
proclamation.
Fifty Years A(o.
From Ths OreRonlan of March 15. 1ST.
The postoffice force now consists of
seven regulars and occasionally a
few extras.
Paris. King Amadeua is reported
to be concentrating his army around
Madrid, disarming the national guard
and preparing to defend bis throns.
Contributions are being offered for
the construction of a plank road to
the cemetery for tho greater conveni
ence of funeral professions.
It MAW
Work Is being rushed on the North
ern Pacific railroad In order to hava
it in running order between the Co
lumbia river and Puget sound by No.
vember.
STUDENT.
Kinnikinick was the Indian name
for tobacco substitutes made of the
leaves or bark of certain plants and
for the plants themselves. It included
the willow, sumac, cornel and others
the winter in the lodge alone.
Sparrow is at the Multnomah.
Several prominent citizens of Med
ford are registered at the Multnomah,
Including Bert Anderson of the state
game commission, William Isaacs ffnd
State Senator Thomas, new Dresident
of the state game protective associ- and especially the bearberry. The
ation. I bearberry known as kinnikinick is
nnt the bearwood or cascara. hunlr.
Roy A.. Hunt, vice-president of the (kl, th,a -a.t ,hih i.
Tva. r indiananniia. i ir, Portland times called bearberry, but an ever-
to attend a meeting of agents of the green trailing iuoi oi mo neatn ram
association. He is a guest at the Mult- ily having bright red berries, and is
nomah.
Baalim and Student Models.
SEASIDE. Or.. March IS. (To tho
Editor.) 1. What is the meaning of
the word "hahai?" 2. Who or what
were Don Prltchard's student models?
What Is the date of Tho Oregonian
in which tho last interview of Mr.
Julian Eltinge by Leone Cas B&er
appears? E. E. E.
1. Bahal or bahalsm. Is the name of
a religious movement, tounaea oy
Abdul Baha, which "alms at the free
ing of mankind from the religious,
social and political yoke of ths
times."
2. Don Prltchard's student models
are adjustable lay figures used by
artists for draping. They are very
little used on the Pacific coast, but
more commonly ln the east.
3. February 1, 1919. page 4.
probably what you mean.
William Tollman, banker of Baker,
Or., is at the Imperial, having just
returned from a business trip -to New
York.
John Doumit, 'merchant of Cath-
Duratlon of Lent.
SOUTH BEND, Wash., March 13.
(To the Editor.) The almanac this
year gives March 1 as Ash Wednes
riav and April J6 bm Easter Simrl.-iv
lamet. Wash., is in the city on a short which makes 47 days In Lent. I have
Dusmeaa mp. no is au me uresra. always thought there were only 40
- I ,1 A. in T.ant Tf if- In riiffAM. 41.!.
the Big Creek Logging company at I J ' WILLI
Knappa, Or., is at the Portland
WILLIAM WICKHAM.
C. C. Clark, wheat man of Arlington, I IOU ao count ounaay.
Or, is registered at the Imperial, computing the, 40 days, t Lont,
in
Segregation of Erg Production.
PORTLAND, March 14. (To tho
Editor.) Will you kindly state what
proportion of the egg supply of the
United States is furnished by the com
mercial plants and what by the farm
ers? Do the latter furnish tho main
supply? SUBSCRIBER.
We know of no accurate statistics
on the subject. The census reports,
which are virtually the sole source of
dependable information on such mat
ters, do not define or separately list
commercial plants.
Meaning of Word.
PORTLAND, March 1. (To the Ed
itor.) Please tell me the definition
of the word antldiestablUhmcntar
lanlsm. II. R.
Tho word, specifically, means a
doctrine of opposition to the dises
tablishment of unity of church and
state.