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PORTLAND, WEDNEliDAT, MARCH 20, 191
THE rrNCHOT HUE AT CRY.
' Because the Senate, in passing the
Khields hill for development of water
power on navigable streams, has
f-hown due respect for the rights of
the states and lias made duo provi
sion for the attraction of capital to
this class of investment, Gifford Pint-hot
and his entire pack of conserva
tion fanatics have started In full cry
after the Senate. Professing an ar
dent desire for development of water
rower, but determined that it shall
ha developed only on terms which
they dictate, the Pinchotltes falsely
charge that by the terms of this bill
the interests of the people are sacri
ficed and that the power sites are de
livered to the water-power trust,
which has no existence except In their
diseased imaginations. They falsely
declare that the Shields bill obliges
the people to pay rates upon, and the
Government in case of recapture to
pay for, unearned increment In the
value of power plants arising from
the privileges granted by the Govern
ment. The fact is that the bill spe
cifically provides that no such value
shall be paid for in recapture. Rates
for power are to be regulated by the
states, none of which make allow
ance for that which has cost the pow
er companies nothing.
The Shields bill was passed as a
substitute for the Adamson bill,
passed h- the house at the last ses
sion. The Adamson bill required the
consent of Congress to each individual
dam site lease, which would be a seri
ous obstruction to any development.
It contained no requirement that
grantees must first comply with state
water and other laws. The recapture
provision allowed only actual cost of
land, depreciated value of structures
and nothing for expenditure on mak
ing the business a going concern.
The Shields bill authorizes the Sec
retary of War to grant permits with
out going to Congress for confirma
tion in each case. Grants can be made
only where operation will be subject
to public regulation. The Secretary
may require, as conditions of the per
mit, the construction of locks, booms,
sluices, etc., and free power for oper
ation of the same, or may later re
quire free grant of land and right of
way and free power for such struc
tures to be erected, by the Govern
ment. The grantee is to pay the cost
of investigation and of Government
supervision over construction, also
reasonable charges for benefits accru
ing from headwater improvements by
the Government.
There is to be no gift of public
land, for which the Government might
afterwards be required to pay full val
ue, including unearned increment, as
the Pinchotltes allege. The grantee
may use public land which is to be
withdrawn from entry for the purpose,
but for its use he must pay "such
reasonable charges based upon its val
ue as may be fixed by the Secretary
of War," who is to be guided by the
state laws governing condemnation of
land.
A provision which arouses the ire
of those who wish to inaugurate com
plete Federal control in disregard of
the rights of the states is. that which
. requires the Secretary of War to give
preference to the one among contend
ing applicants who has first acquired
water rights and who has otherwise
complied with state laws. The gran
tee must first obtain the state's con
sent to the power development. This
regard for state Jurisdiction is evident
ly prompted by knowledge, that Fed
eral Jurisdiction over water is limited
to its use for navigation and can only
be applied to power so far as the lat
ter is incidental to improvements for
navigation. One of the earliest deci
sions of the United States Supreme
Court declared that, even if a state
had entered into an express stipula
tion surrendering its Jurisdiction over
other uses of water to the Govern
ment, "such stipulation would have
been void and inoperative, because the
United States have no constitutional
capacity to exercise" such Jurisdiction.
A long and unbroken line of decisions
has maintained the same principle.
The most savage attacks of the Pin
chotltes are directed at the recapture
provision. Permits may extend be
yond the fifty-year term until re
voked for cause, but the plant may be
recaptured either before or after the
expiration of that period on two years'
notice. In case of recapture, the Gov
ernment is to take over "all the prop
erty of the grantee and dependent in
whole or in part upon it for its use
fulness . . . upon paying the fair
value." together with the cost of locks
or other aids to navigation and other
capital expenditures and upon assum
ing all contracts approved by him.
The fair value Is to be agreed between
the Secretary and the grantee or, if
they fail to agree, by the United States
Court. In determining value, the bill
says "no value shall be claimed by or
allowed to the grantee for the rights
. hereunder granted."
In face of this plain provision that
the Government shall not pay for any
thing it has given and shall pay only
the fair value of what the power com
pany has constructed, a Portland
newspaper says the bill "provides that
in buying back the free gifts it has
made to the water barons the coun
try must pay not only the full value
of the original largess, but the un
earned increment in addition." It pro
vides nothing of the kind. It express
ly forbids payment for "the original
largess," and it thereby excludes any
payment for "the unearned incre
ment" in public land.
The Pinchotites really aim at the
provision that fair value must be paid
for other property, including that land
which power companies may purchase
outright from private parties. They
wish the Government to pay only the
original cost- instead of the value at
the time of recapture. Inevitably the
-.value of such land will increase in
fifty years, mainly as the result of the
Dower company's operations. The
surrounding country will develop and
all other property in the vicinity will
rise in value. It. is proposed to deny
power companies the benefit of this
enhanced value, while not withholding
It from others who wjjl owe their
greater wealth to the power plant.
Such discrimination is repugnant to
every principle of justice.
The Shields bill ia a rood bill be
cause it provides terms which are
Just to the Nation, the stales and the
power companies and because it care
fully respects the rights and sover
eignty of the states. Under that bill
power would be developed, rates and
service would be regulated and extor
tion -would be prevented. AVere such
terms proposed by a corporation for
development of water power in the
vicinity of the property of any of its
critics, they would be gladly accepted.
Those terms are opposed only as ap
plied to power in which others than
the critics are directly interested and
in which the objections have only an
academic interest. These theorists
shout for power development, but in
sist upon terms which no wise inves
tor will accept. They play dog in the
manger.
SOUK ST f NT.
Everybody has heard of the man
who once . lost a bass drum, but no
one has yet given a satisfactory ex
planation of how -ho did it. Some
years ago an entire passenger train
was lost for three weeks somewhere
in Eastern Oregon; and the summit of
achievement in the disappearance of
non-disappearing things was thought
to have been reached. For years the
train record .remained unbroken; but
now at last the trick has been done.
The city administration of Portland
has lost a thousand cords of wood.
A thousand cords of wood, standard
measurement, would, if piled accord
ing to Hoyle, extend over eight thou
sand, lineal feet. If the same vast
quantity of wood were to be stacked
cord upon cord, say upon the union
passenger station, it would climb
four thousand feet In the air. If some
mischievous vandals were then to
come along and push it over, and it
were to fall due south, the topmost
cords would Just1 about smash down
through the roof of the City Hall. The
intervening streets would be so en
cumbered with four-foot sticks that
they would be impassable.
Just Imagine the litter. Yet all that
mighty lot of wood, making one hun
dred and twenty-eight thousand cubic
feet, has been lost, strayed or stolen.
Stolen! The idea is shocking. It is
not accepted at the City Hall. The
favorite theory there is that the wood
was never cut. What a mighty sigh of
relief must have been emitted from
the sorrowing breasts of the Commis
sioners when it was concluded that,
while the wood was actually missing,
there really were never such a thou
sand cords as the city's books show
were bought and paid for. Ah, yes!
Bought and paid for. But never cut
nor delivered.
Efficiency is still the slogan at the
City Hall. Never mind the cost, so
long as efficiency is achieved. The
taxpayer does not mind; or, if he does,
what of it? Let us turn, the efficiency
experts loose on the problem of what
has become of that wood. They will
no doubt uncover the mystery. What
more could a complaining taxpayer
ask? He certainly will not ask to
have the money paid out for wood he
never got paid back to him. Effi
ciency does some strange things, but
not that.
A HAB ROWING POSSIBILITY.
The bony hand of want and priva
tion is clutching at America's throat
at last. We are not to escape the har
rowing hardships of war. At a late
hour there was a little something to
eat in the, National cupboard. The
Cabinet has not found it necessary to
restrict use of meat and milk or the
Importation and manufacture of lux
uries. But if this thing runs on much
longer we are going to run short of
diamonds. The harrowing possibility
has been foreseen by the National
Jewelers' Board of Trade and a time
ly warning Issued to imperiled Ameri
cans. Think of it! Milady may be com
pelled to go about in last year's dia
mond necklace. Our champion pugi
lists, vaudeville stars and gentlemen
gamblers may be -unable to indulge
their passion for glittering gems. The
frightful possibilities of a diamond
shortage are too agonizing for con
templation. Think of the effect on
the matrimonial market. What girl
would become engaged were not she
assured of a sparkling diamond in ad
dition to a colorless man? What
woman would confess to another
birthday unless it meant an addition
to the scintillating litter on her tap
ering digits?
The country has been reading of
the horrors and privations of a dis
tant war. Tales of people shivering
and starving have seemed strangely
unreal in a country where there is so
much of everything. But now the
black demon reaches out towards us
and threatens thousands of our gilded
citizens with the racking pangs of
want. Unless peace comes soon and
the diamond fields are reopened it
may become necessary to restrict
each parson to a dozen diamonds. Isn't
it awful?
PRESERVING AMERICAN BALLADS
English and Bulgarian ballads are
recorded in many volumes in perma
nent libraries and occupy a conspicu
ous place in the world's literature.
The thought that America might .have
a ballad literature worth recording
and preserving is of recent origin and
the result of belated research along
this line more than Justifies the effort.
A writer in the current Musical Quar
terly, 'Professor C. A. Smith, sums up
the work that has been" done by vol
unteer ballad societies in locating and
preserving these quaint folk song. A
total of 142 has been reduced to rec
ord for preservation since 1914, when
the Federal Bureau of Education first
suggested this activity.
Most of these hitherto unrecorded
ballads were found by ballad societies
of the Southern states. In the moun
tains of Tennessee ten were located,
Georgia contributed nine, Texas ten.
South Carolina thirteen,. North Caro
lina nineteen, Missouri twenty, Ken
tucky twenty-four and "Virginia thirty
seven. The preservation of these
simple songs has a' historical as well
as a literary value. The ballad springs
from the hearts of the people and ex
presses their thoughts and environ
ments in treating of incidents in their
lives. Simple, often crude and some
times not subject to reproduction
without judicious eliminations, they
are a vital index to the character of
the people among whom they origi
nated. The saving of those 142 ballads and
folk songs of the South should be fol
lowed by similar efforts In every sec
tion of the country. New England
ballads already are recorded for the
most part, while individual collectors
have endeavored to get hold of West
ern songs, songs of the plains, which
tell the story of the West with greater
fidelity than short stories do. For
the ballads are the work of prin
cipals, while the stories and novels
are largely from the minds of observ
ers. The Bureau of Education's la
bors in this field should not be looked
upon as complete until the folk songs
of the West, the Northwest and the
Pacific Slope have been added to the
permanent record.
1VHY MACHINE GINS JAM AT ISKiHT.
The true story is out of how the ma.
chine guns at Columbus failed to work
the night of the Villa raid. Full light
is shed on the subject by the War De
partment, which caused a detailed In
quiry to be made with a view to de
termining whether or not anyone was
guilty of carelessness. Evidently the
War Department js fully satisfied, for
this is the official explanation, a copy
of which is reproduced by the New
York Sun;
The reason for the jammina- of the ma
chine euns was not the failure of the
mechanism to function properly, but -was
due to tho fact that tho night was dark and
it was difficult to load tho fruns.
In loading, tho feed atrip has to be in
serted In a narrow slot or frulde.
If tho strip Is not inserted properly In
this fc-utde, tho suit will firo about five
shots and will then Jam.
This happened to two of tna funi, as
It was so dark that it was almost impossible
to get the strips In the slots.
And there you are. These guns are
made for daylight operation and no
decent enemy should attempt to force
them into action when the night is
dark. The incompletely developed
mind of the impracticable layman
might cause him to wonder why the
strip could not be inserted in tho nar
row slot the night before, so that the
weapon would be ready to discharge
at least one fusillade. But possibly
that Is contrary to military etiquette
or something of the sort.
HARVESTING THE TOURIST CROP.
In the interest of National har
mony, tranquillity and felicity it is for
tunate, perhaps, that California and
Florida are separated by hundreds of
weary miles of alternating green pas
tures and arid wastes. One shudders
to speculate upon what might happen
were they not kept apart by this wise
dispensation of providence, for there
has developed between the two a riv
alry that propinquity might render
ominous. This rivalry centers about
control of the tourist industry 'of the
Nation, for it now develops that Flor
ida has made cruel inroads during the
past tourist season upon sunny Cali
fornia's boasted monopoly.
"Sunny Florida" is the latest slogan
of the tourist chasers and the re
sponse of the tourists the" past Winter
must have brought dismay and bit
terness to the multitudinous tourist
miners of the Pacific southland. Not
only has "sunny Florida" been, casting
its bait in Eastern pools, but it has
been encroaching upon the Middle
Western, preserve. In consequence,
cargoes of Florida-bound tourists have
broken all previous records, while
sunny California has had a dull sea
son except for the usual influx of
Western and Pacific Coast hoboes.
Florida is so pleased with the gol
den visitation that extensive prepara
tions are being made for cornering
and garnering the whole golden crop
next season. All hotel accommodations
having proved inadequate, new hotels
are going up, while a campaign of
publicity and exploitation Is being
planned to attract even, roving Cali
fornlans to the Florida beach resorts.
Just what Southern California will
do to meet this terrible new menace
to its principal industry remains, to
De seen. One would be tempted to
compare the land and naval forces of
the two states but for their judicious
separation by so many miles.
HTGHES VIEWS OX PRESENT ISSUES.
Justice Hughes is still regarded as
the most available man for President
by the majority of Republicans, and
his repeated declarations that he is
not a candidate are dismissed with the
remark that he has not said he would
not accept a nomination which came
unsought by the unanimous voice of
the convention. The only serious ob
jection to his nomination which has
been so far heard has been that his
opinions on the questions now upper
most in the public mind prepared
ness for war and preparedness for
peace are unknown.
Yet long before this present war
began Mr. Hughes had expressed his
opinions on both questions. In an
address before the Republican Club of
New York in 1908 he said:
We are devoted to the Interests of peace,
and we cherish no policy of aggression. The
maintenance of our ideals Is our surest pro
tection. It is our constant aim to live In
friendship with all nations and to realize
the alms of a free government, secure Irom
the interruptions of strife and the waste of
war. It is entirely consistent with these
alms and it is our duty to make adequate
provision for defense and to maintain the
efficiency of our Army and Navy. And
this I favor.
Preparedness for peace i3 closely
connected with the tariff. In a pub
lished edition of his speeches he is
quoted as having said on that subject
in 1908:
I believe in a proctetlve tariff. It is an
established policy. Our opponents would
not undertake to present to the voters of
the country the issue of free trade. A pro
tective tariff is essential to the Interests of
our wage earners. In that it makes possi
ble the payment of wages on the scale to
which 'we are accustomed In thia country,
and thus maintain our American standards
of living. Hence the difference in the cost
of production here and abroad is the funda
mental consideration.
There is no reasonable doubt that,
having declared in favor of an effi
cient Army and Navy adequate for
defense in 1908, he would favor means
of defense adequate for the greatly
changed conditions of 1916. His state
ment that "the maintenance of our
Ideals is our surest protection" proves
that he is no jingo or militarist, while
his opinion that adequate defense is
consistent with our aim to live in
friendship with all nations is suffi
cient proof that he believes force may
be necessary to maintain our- ideals.
A man who saw so clearly in time of
peace what would be necessary to our
National safety 'in time of war is a
safe man to head the Nation in the
present crisis.
"The difference In the cost of pro
duction here and abroad" has long
been "the fundamental consideration"
in Republican tariff legislation and
will be so more than ever when the
Republican party comes to meet the
economic conditions which the war
will have produced. Establishment of
a tariff commission to ascertain that
difference is now the central point
of Republican tariff policy. The war
has taught us that a tariff based on
that difference is the first essential
to preparedness for peace and war
alike, for one of its most important
lessons is that to be safe a Nation
must be economically and industrially
independent.
There need be no anxiety as to what
would be Mr. Hughe' policy if he
were President. He would favor fully
equipping the Nation for defense
against aggression and for mainte
nance of our National rights on land
and sea against any assailant. Ho
would also favor such measure.of pro
tection as would foster both our do
mestic industry and our foreign com
merce. But he would not heedlessly
plunge the Nation into a war which
we could honorably avoid, nor would
he approve a tariff which yielded ex
cessive profits, fostered monopoly and
facilitated extortion from the consumer.
With only two aeroplanes fit for
ferviee, the American Army is in no
better position than was the Russian
army, which was surprised and over
whelfhed in East Prussia early in the
war. Americans invented the aero
Plane for other nations to use, just as
an American invented the armored
ship to be used first on. a large scale
by European nations. Our Govern
ment is always about two years behind
our citizens in applying new inventions
to public use. The reasons are red
tape, bureaucracy and pork.
What is needed at Kelly Butte is a
sanitary building, with baths, breakfast-rooms
and sleeping porches. Then
the occupants, reveling in thoughts of
what they will do with the 15 cents'
pay per day, will have little desire to
elope .unless the walking delegate of
the stonebreakers' union gets busy.
The man who has ground that will
grow beans will got Kood money for
his crop next Fall. Armies cannot ex-:
ist without beans even an army in
Mexico. Frijoles are good for the Colo
rado maduros, but the white man
wants the little old navy bean.
Great Britain is waking up at last
and arresting the leaders who foment
strikes in munition plants. In that
respect - Germany Is ahead, for you
never hear of such strikes there. "Free
speech" has its disadvantages in war
times.
If the House stands by its action
on the literacy test for immigrants, it
will pass the bill over the President's
expected veto and put up the bars
against the hordes which may come
from Southern Europe after the war.
As soon as the Mexican situation
grows acute the Administration begins
heckling Germany again. But if poor
old Carranza is able to bluff us down,
what would happen if Germany actu
ally talked back right strong?
How a gang in the Walla Walla
Penitentiary or any similar abode can
make counterfeit currency is one of
the problems to puzzle a man on the
outside, where the same Job must be
more or less complex. r
The former higher-ups in the Mani
toba government have been indicted
for grafting, which will make them
sorry they did not operate this side
of the border, where such acta are
seldom punished.
Admiral Fiske says the German
navy is twice as powerful as the Amer
ican Navy. One of the advantages of
the German navy is that the Admirals
do not spend half their time telling
how poor it is.
The Washington correspondents can
now make a hit by publishing the
vituperative words of "Cyclone" Davjs
which were expunged from, that highly
respectable daily, the Congressional
Record.
There may, however, be a subter
ranean arrangement whereby the Ad
ministration may indulge in a certain
amount of election-time verbal pyro
technics without really offending Ger.
many.
Why not make the Tualatin a navi
gable stream? Then the Government
will dyke it and in the years to come
there will be thrillers about levees
broken and wide-spreading inunda
tions. Secretary of War Baker is now On
the job, but he already has muzzles
for Army officers who might expose
the weak points of the Army reorgani
zation scheme.
Colonel House is to advise on the
submarine situation. Once upon a time
one John Llnd advised on Mexico, and.
look at it today!
Men who want offices are promising
great things to ' the taxpayers this
Spring, and they really believe they
can fulfill them.
The Kaiser has presented the Sul
tan with a field marshal's baton. The
Sultan might reciprocate "With a pass
to the harem.
Suffrage faces defeat in Congres
sional committee. Suffrage Is having
a rough time of it these virulent mas
culine times.
A girl was sent to Jail for boisterous
joyriding. If all such offenders were
jailed the prisons would not be large
enough.
These are the days when the com
muter is known by the packages of
eggs he carries as he rushes from the
train.
When a de facto government of
Mexico begins to seize church prop
erty, that is the beginning of the end.
"Villa in flight and Americans in
pursuit," says a news bulletin. How
extraordinarily comprehensive.
The Mexican railroad is sorely need
ed for supplying our troops in Mexico.
Then why not take it!
"Socialists lose voice," says a head
line. Then they are totally disabled
for political activity.
Hey, boys! A newspaperman is go
ing Into the hotel business at Dallas!
Enough said! --'
Oregon City struck a. wrong balance
Monday with one license and two di
vorces. .
To see something unique, visit the
land office and gaze at the lineup.
The "agony" has begun and the
coupons are being printed dally.
"Pork," it might be explained, is
what the other fellow is after.
. .The suggestion to use safety ' first
never came from a barber.
Every day is ladies' day -now at the
registration office.
Is that ground spaded for the wife's
garden I
How to Keep Well
By Sr. W. A. Evans.
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of disease, if matters of gen
eral Interest, will ba answered in this col
umn. Where space will not permit or the
subject is not suitable, letter will bn per
sonally answered, subject to propi-r limita
tions and where stamped, addressed en
velope is inclosed. Ir. Kvans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for individual dis
eases. Requests for such service cauuot be
answered.
(Copyright. by Dr. "v". A. Kvans.
Published by" arrangement with Chicago
Tribune.)
Complexion.
LYING deep in the skin beyond the
-each of chemicals applied to the
surfact are the cells and vessels which
determine whether the skin is dark,
light pink or pale. If the color is due
to pigment then it ia a matter of cells.
The pigment bearing cells are placed
in the innermost layers. Certain parts
of tho light ray can pass by tho outer
layers of skin and reach these cells,
but few other agencies can.
Aside from pigment in the cells- the
color is affected by the amount and
quality of blood in the vessels. The
outer layers of skin have no blood ves
sels, but the deeper rayers are well
supplied. The blood vessels of the skin
have very thin walls. The color of the
blood shows through the walls of the
capillaries and at times gives to tho
skin a pinkinsh color.
Blushingr.
In blushing there is a dilation of
the capillaries of the skin. The skin is
flushed with blood. The nerves which
cause this dilation of the blood vessels
belong to the sympathetic system. The
nerves of the sympathetic system com
municate with the nerves from -he
brain, but they are not directly or com
pletely under their control. A violent
emotion such as fright sends an im
pulse from the brain through the sym
pathetic nerves to the blood vessels,
causing the latter to contract the face
becomes pale, a sign of violent fear.
Or another violent emotion such as
shame sends an impulse from the brain
through the sympathetic nerves to the
blood vessels causing the latter to
dilate the face becomes pink, blush
ing. The ordinary blushing is a mental
process in that It is due to such mental
processes . as self-consciousness and
such emotions as shame, but the reason,
judgment, will mental processes also
cannot control It.
Many people write asking for a
remedy for blushing. The blushing of
which they complain is the result of
self-consciousness, not to analyze It
further. The remedy Is mental and
social training. There is no other.
Many can train themselves out of the
embarrassing habit. Others will re
quire help, some of the psychothera
pists, some of Freudian psychothera
pists. House' Pallor.
People who live indoors develop
house pallor. The color of the convict
is due to house pallor. A convict turned
loose in a farming community is a
marked man. As soon as he can get
among the factory and ofifce workers
of a city he is able to lose himself. His
gray color is one with the color of the
men around him. The woman loosed
from Sing Sing can easily hide her
pallor by mingling with housewives,
office girls and shop workers.
One factor in house pallor is change
in the pigment of the skin. The object
of the skin pigment is to curtain the
underlying tissues from the effects of
certain parts of the light rays. People
whose skins are subject to bright light
develop a tan. There is a heavy pig
ment layer in their skin. People who
work in dark places in mines, prisons,
some factories, some offices and some
homes lose some part of the skin pig
ment. Another factor in house pallor is loss
of quality of the blood. The blood is
composed of a fluid part and at least
two varieties of cells, white anvi red.
The white cells, few In number, do work
of several kinds. The red cells, many
in number, have only one kind, of work
to do. They carry gases from the place
of manufacture to places of use and
places of elimination. The red cor
puscles are the freight cars of the body,
,but they carry only gases. They carry
oxygen from the lungs to the tissues
in need of it, and carbonic acid from
the tissues that make it to the lungs
that excrete it. They carry gases made
In the intestines to the lungs that get
rid of them.
The element in the red. corpuscles
which picks up gases and holds them
while they are being transported is
hemoglobin. Hemoglobin well supplied
with oxygen is red in color. To It is
due the red color of the blood in the
arteries and capillaries. Hemoglobin
charged with carbonic acid is red in
color. The dark red, apparently blue,
color of blood in the veins is due to
hemoglobin saturated with carbonic
acid. The blood in the capillaries,
speaking generally, is red.
It the blood Is rich in hemoglobin the
skin has a rosy hue. If there is little
the skin Is pale. This is the second
factor in house pallor. The hemoglobin
in some of its characteristics is akin
to the pigment of the skin. As in the
case of skin pigment, sunlight' in
creases the amount of blood pigment
hemoglobin and the lack of sunshine
decreases it.
The third factor in house pallor Is the
lack of the stimulus of cold and mois
ture on the capillaries of the skin.
When the skin of the face is subjected
to cold the capillaries dilate. The cells
of the skin must not be allowed to
freeze If it can be avoided. In conse
quence an excessive amount of blood
is sent to the skin. The people who
are out of doors much of the time in
a cold climate come to have large ca
pillaries In their skin. We say they
have rosy complexions. On the other
hand, people who live' in countries
where there is no Winter have pale
complexions. The best that they can
possibly get out of it (without paint) is
the pale white of the upper class Ital
ian or Spaniard.
The effect of rain, fog or snow on the
skin may bring about the same chronic
rosiness. The California, Washington
and Oregon women who get out in the
fog and rain sometimes have complex
ions as rosy as the woman of .Canada
who tramps out on a cold day.
The amount of blood in the skin ia
the third factor In house pallor. The
person who spends all of his time in air
of an evenly regulated temperature is
apt to develop house pallor.
The remedy for house pallor is plain
in the light o the above facts. It is to
get out of doors for a while each day
regardless of the weather. A walk is
all the better if the air is crisp. To have
the snow or rain beat in the face is al
most a panacea.
Books on Home Games.
PORTLAND, March 27. (To the Ed
itor.) Will you print in The Orego
nian the title of some book on games
for the home, including forfeits and
similar diversions? ENTERTAINER,
"Games for All Occasions," by Mary
E. Blain, has a complete description of
various games of forfeits as well as
other games. It retails at 50 cents.
"Games for Everybody," by Hofmann,
Is also a good book on games, although
it has nothing on "forfeits."
Applicant for a Job.
Detroit Free Press.
"I shall have to ask you for a
recommendation from your last
mistress." "If my last mistress
thought enough of me to write a
recommendation I wouldn't be here
asking for a job."
Defined.
From Judge.
"Aren't the fashions this season less
extreme?"
"Oh, extremely; less.1;
GREELliY 61'BKBT COXTKOVEHSV,
Peninsula Advisory Club Analyzra Issue
Over xtcnsion rrojeet.
PORTLAND, March 27. (To the Ed
itor.) In your issue of March 22 your
North Portland Commercial Club cor
respondent "claims to shed light on the
Greeley-street (Willamette boulevard)
extension. We beg to borrow his can
dle, trim it up and see if it will not
shed a little more light.
The sum of his figures, from the city
engineer's office, for right of way, ex
cavation, embankments and paving (of
the bitullthic kind) which would prob
ably be the kind used, is 1333.141. an
average of about $18.60 a lot. Now his
light apparently went out before he
had time to estimate the probable cost
of the easements, which, accordingtto
the views of the City Attorney, cannot
be secured with the rieht of way. It
seems very strange indeed that Port
land by its charter is prevented from
buying at one time land enough for a
right of way and including "sufficient
width to provide for cuts and fills, the
same 8k any private party or corpo
ration would do. Possibly it Is neces
sary to have a joker in municipal bar
gains. Now this extension will cross about
the roughest land in tho city, calling
for immense, cuts and fills in many
places, so that the 70-foot street (the
width of the right of way at first se
cured) will in many places need for the
full width of cuts and fills, which will
be very deep and high, from 150 to 250
feet, so that all in excess of 70 feet
the city must bargain for and pay the
price asked or bring condemnation
suits to settle at some future time. And
there are 41 separate owners of the
land and lots to be crossed to dicker
with, who will ask "all the traffic will
bear" when they have such an advan
tage. N
Some people think the casements
will cost as much as the right of way,
which is estimated Nby tho city en
gineer to be $113,766. But we will put
it down $40,000, which added to the
sum of other items mentioned, viz.,
$333,141, equals $373,141, or about $21
a lot for the whole district, and a suffi
cient amount to macadamize at 75
cents per square yard a strip 15 feet
wide in tho center of more than oo
miles of very muddy streets on the
peninsula. This would enhance our
real estate values and general benefits
ten thousand times more than that
criminal folly of extending Greeley
street over the side hills and gulches
Of Albina, on which no carline is con
templated, and if built would not save
three minutes of. time in reaching the
east end of the bridges.
The petition asking for this extension
was signed by only 661 people, who
were -rrosslv deceived bv the hired cir
culators, and now the people to defend
themselves are forced to go to the
trouble and expense of getting 60 per
cent of the property owners to remon
strate to defeat it, and 60 per cent is
about 5000 people scattered over a big
country. The Mayor and Commission
ers have been reasoned and pleaded
with to no purpose, as the few schem
ers who are pushing this ruinous folly
are the ones they appear to obey.
THE PENINSULA ADVISORY CLUB.
LIMIT CAXOEISTS TO SWIMMERS
One Way to Dtneane "Number of River
Fatalities Is Suggested.
OSWEGO. Or., March 27. (To the
Editor.) Reckless and inexperienced
canoeists are causing members of the
Portland Motorboat Club great worry,
according to recent newspaper accounts.
The club now Intends to 'have laws
passed whereby there will be certain
rules for the canoeist to adhere to be
fore he ventures forth upon the river.
Every canoe should be equipped with
proper and reliable lights. But there
will be some difficulty regarding life
preservers. The standard type of life
preserver specified by the Government,
the belt form, is too bulky and occu
pies too much space to be carried by
canoes. With four adults in a canoe
and a life preserver provided for each,
that craft would be overcrowded.
Instead of requiring life preservers,
why not make it a law that no person
be allowed to operate a canoe who can
not swim? This would be the only way
to stop the numerous fatal accidents
that happen each year to canoeists.
The motorboat Club need not throw all
the blame on the canoeist in regard
to towing canoes astern from motor
boats. It is as often the fault of the
operator of the motorboat as it is of
the canoeist. It- is a simple trick to
follow in tow of a motorboat. The man
at the wheel of the motorboat, how
ever, doesn't always know his business
and. forgets the canoe he is towing.
He starts to cut sharp angles, swerve
this way and that, when the next thing
he knows the canoe has capBized. If
the occupants of the latter craft cannot
swim or haven't presence of mind
enough to hold on to the canoe (not
crawl on top of it) until help arrives,
then there are three or four deaths,
as many bereaved families and more
work for Hugh Brady. So let the Mo
torboat Club's worthy campaign for
"Safety First" have for its slogan
"Learn to Swim."
GEORGE D. PHILP.
USIVG A SHIP'S LOG AS A RAFT
William Alden Smith's Qualifications
Recall Titanic Investigation.
VANCOUVER. Wash., March 27. (To
the Editor.) Through the Detroit News
we learn that among the aspirants for
the Presidency Is "William Alden
Smith, of Grand Rapids, who has ren
dered the Grand River navigable for
light draft canoes over part of its
course for part of the year."
At this writing we are not in posi
tion to determine whether Mr. Smith
is particularly qualified to fill the of
fice of President, but we are confident
that at the present time his services
as Secretary of the Navy would be par
ticularly acceptable and highly appre
ciated. The knowledge of "things
aboard" which he displayed during the
investigation of the Titanic disaster
by a Senatorial committee, of which he
was chairman, is surprising. Some of
his questions to witnesses during the
investigation follow:
Why was not the ship's log used as a
life raft? Was the dog watch of the
open face or hunting case pattern?
Do not the banks of Newfoundland
close at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon?
Do ocean currents grow on seaweed?
EUREKA.
postage Stamp Flirtation.
LA GRANDE, Or., March 26. (To
the Editor.) Someone recently asked
for details of the so-called postage
stamp flirtation. Here it is:
E. JUNE.
Right-hand upper corner, inverted
Write no more.
Left-hand upper corner, inverted I
love you.- '
Right-hand upper corner, right sid
up I want to see you.
Left-hand upper corner, right side
up I am your friend.
In center, at top, young man's let
ter Will you marry me?
In center, at top, young lady's letter
Yes.
Same at bottom No.
Right-hand, upper corner, diagonally
Do you love me?
Left-hand upper corner I hate you.
On line with name of young man
Will you have me?
On line with name of young lady
Yes. '
On line with name of lady, Inverted
No.
A Deduction.
From Judge.
The continued devotion of Congress
to Pork, and its indifference to Pre
paredness, would seem to indicato that
the Pig Pen too- is mightier than the
sword.
In Other Day.
Tmnl y-f ive Team Ago.
From Tho Oregonian of March 2!, 1891.
Yesterday was an important day witl
the new East Side Water Company, aa
connections were made with two com
pleted wells and a small pump was set
to work.
Berlin. March 28. The semi-official
organs are advised to ignore renewed
war alarms and not to notice the re
ports coming from various source
which indicate early aggressive action
on the part of France and Russia.
San Francisco, March 28. Captain
Gifford, of the steamer Hounslow.
which arrived from Honolulu this
afternoon, states that the Queen was
having considerable difficulty with her
Cabinet when he left.
San Francisco, March 28. One of tho
largest sales of o'piuni ever made in this
city took place this morning by United
States Marshal Long, when 1300 boxes
of opium were sold.
Washington. March 2S. A sensation
has been caused at the Treasury De
partment by the discovery of a counter
feit $2 silver certificate so nearly per
fect as to be almost impossible of de
tection. Mrs. Potter Palmer, president of the
board of lady managers of tho World's
Fair, has announced its executive com
mittee. Half n Century Ago.
From The Oregonian of March 2?, 1866.
The bark Jane A. Falkinburg. Cap-,
tain A. D. Wass, cleared yesterday for
Youngs River, where she will take on
a cargo of lumber for San Francisco.
There is an old adago that advises
everyone to go slow and sure. Uncle
Sam's mailcarriers seem to have adopt-
ed the first half of it and to have to-,
tally discarded the other half.
The property owners on Second street
are opposed to the proposition of the
Council in imposing upon them tha
macadamizing process of improvement.
The appearance of Washington street
should be enough to sicken anyone on
that point.
The clipper bark Ethan Allen is ad
vertised by the agents, Messrs. Mc.
Craken, Merrill & Company, to leave
for Honolulu, after loading at this port,
Tha political cauldron in Oregon ia
seething and boiling at a terrible rate.
The election of a Governor, a Reprc-
sentative in Congress, a United States
Senator, besides other state and c6unty.
officers. Is pending.
There are at present about 60 set-'
tiers on the Coquille River, the most
of them with families. The settlements
are about 60 miles distant from Rose
burg. The weather yesterday upset every
thing. The clouds themselves were up
set, at least we should think -so from
the amount of water spilled in Port-
land.
A DOCTOR, COOK COME TO EIGHT
Larch Mountain Awcent Honors Are
Several Times Claimed.
PORTLAND, March 27. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Sunday Oregonian March
26 Conrad Sleberts makes the unqual
ified statement that two members of
his party climbed Larch Mountain on
February 19-20, making the first 1916
ascent. This statement was evidently
made to counteract the effects of an
article that recently appeared in an
evening publication.
As one who stood" on the summit cf
Larch Mountain on January 2 last, I
can hardly concede this honor to mem
bers of Mr. Sieberts' party. I spent an
entire week around Larcli and met all
the parties that made the ascent on
January 1-2. To Mr. Pfaender, Miss
Pfaender, Mr. Farmer and a young lady
falls the credit of having made the
first ascent. This party spent eight
hours on the Multnomah trail and
reached the summit without the aid of
snowshoes. And thus far they have
been the last party to ascend the trail
this year. About an hour later D. J.
Conway arrived up alone from the
upper camp. Before noon a party of
Mazamas Miss Richardson, Mr. and
Mrs. Conley, MY. Van Bibber, Mr. Hitch,
Mr. Wilson and a young lady and a
party of four, led by Jack Brown, ar
rived on the summit. Shortly after
ward Mr. Leach,. Mr. Simola and Mr,
Ritchie came up from Bridal Veil.
This makes 19 people who climbed!
on January 2. Since that time C. E.
Blackney took a party of three to the
summit and down Multnomah.
No doubt members of Mr. Sieberta
party are capable of making a Winter
ascent of Larch, but they were about
50 days late to be In on the big trip.
MAZAMA.
Dogs and Ruined Garden.
PORTLAND, March 27. (To the Ed
itor.) As Mayor Albee has a -problem
before him regarding the pheasant
digging up gardens, 1 wish to put an
other one to him, namely, that of peo
ple permitting their dogs to roam
abroad in flower and vegetable gar
dens, digging and scratching up every
thing. It is very discouraging after
the work of planting, etc., to have it
simply demoralized. In the district of
Sixtieth and East Glisan streets there
is a large bird dog and a bulldog that
should be gotten rid of. There are peo
ple who wait until after dark and then
let the dogs out for exercise. To be
sure, the dogs do not know any better.
It is their nature, but they should not
be allowed out and if people can or
will have pets, they must not be al
lowed to trespass. Dogs are a luxury,
not a necessity. So it behooves the
Mayor to don his thinking cap.
DISCOURAGED GARDENER. .
More on Oregon Grape.
PORTLAND. March 28. (To the Ed
itor.) A recent inquiry appeared la
The Oregonian asking for the botanic
cal name of the Oregon grape, which,
you gave as "Berberis aquifolium." I
understand the correct name is "Ma
honia ripens." It is easily distinguished
from the Berberis by the pinnate leaves
and the unarmed branches, also by the)
large inflorescence springing from tia
axils of bud-scales and by the nine
sepals. It was often united with "Ber
beris" genera, but the distinction is
sufficient to be classed alone and sepa-4
rate from Berberis.
MARK T. KADY.
True Thrift
True thrift is buying what you
need when yon need it, and paying
the lowest market price for satis
factory quality.
It means using your brains to
think with to acquire knowledge.
The advertising in this newspaper
assists you to this knowledge it
plays an important part in your well
being.
It is the news of the market place:
and by reading and weighing it you
are equipped to buy to the best ad
vantage. Women long ago learned the value
of advertising, because they have
the large part of the family income
to spend and must make the dollars
go as far as possible.
They realize that it pays to know
and to buy when and where the
opportunity is best for them. And
they realize, too, that they can gain
th;s knowledge from the advertising
columns of good newspapers like
The Oregonian.
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