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8 TITE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1918. PORTLAND. OREGON. JEntTd at Portland (Ortjon) Potorrlc ur Mcond-c u mail matter. Subscription rate Invariably In advance. (Br MUD Pally. Bandar Included. one 5""' 2'SU Daily. Sunday Inclu led. ai month ..... -J Iaily. Sunday Inc.uJed. three month.... A;5 I'aily. hunday Included, one month ..... . fat:r. without Sunday, on year ........ SIM) Iaiiy. without Sunday. i month ...... 3.--J lai:y. without Sunday, one month ...... vr W eek.y. ona year . .......... ... 1 00 tlmate peace use for It, will be under suspicion, and may be called upon to explain, lest there be another surprise attack like that of 1914. . 2. . 2.50 Sunday, one 3 ear Sunday and Weekly 1 Rv Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ...... IAt:v fiundiv included, one month -3 I 1. : ' . Unn,a, liu-lnri..! ihFM month ... 2. l a.ly. without Sunday, one year J ? la:.y. without Sunday, three montna .... X-5 Laiiv. without Sunday, one month .. 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Thoughts crowd upon one another as we consider the especial signifi cance of Than ksgi vtng day this year. It la obviously impossible to rive voice to all of them In a formal proclama tion. There have come, as President Wilson suggests, a triumph of the right and a real victory which have "brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as 'well." A new day shines about us In which our hearts take courage." We "look forward with new hope to new and greater duties." Nor is it in a less optimistic vein, we think, that President's proclamation is timely. It reminds us to ask Divine guidance, to the end that "all that we do shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the structure of peace and good will among the Nations. If this Is vouchsafed us we shall have reason to give thanks indeed. ANOTHER HOAX. Some of the up-state newspapers are proposing that Portland be pun ished for its vote on the measure which attempts to fix a legal rate for publishing notices of sheriffs sale, summonses and the like. The purpose of the bill to regulate advertising rates downward pertains only to counties outside of Portland Those counties, as a whole, returned a majority against the bill. But Port land, which had practically no Inter est in the measure, voted so strongly In its favor that it forced the law upon the portion of the state that is af fected and does not want It. For example, we read In the Cor- vallls Gazette-Times: Portland baa recently been eondactlnt- a strenuous campalirn ursine; the uss of Ore- son products, moat of which, of course, are made In Portland. The country press Is not naturally prejudiced aeainat Portland, but It will ba some tlm before It forreu that Portland expressed Its affection for the country pre when It voted to cut every nominal rate It charrea for leiral advertising by 33 s per cent and did se on the rec ommendation of a notoriously untruthful newspaper which brazenly told it that the present rata la mora than the commercial rate. Another peculiarity of the vote is I founded their own ideas with those that the total of those who voted yes I of anarchists, who, in fact, are truly or no on the measure was less than I social and not anti-social, and who one-third of the total number of vot- I have aspirations above mere destruc- ers in the state. The measure was I tion, will make haste, we think, to get carried by the votes of Just about one- I rid of the bloody banner of rapine and sixth of the - electorate. In other I murder and get together under an words, 16 voters Impose tbelr will I emblem which does not invite the on 100. fate of Old Dog Tray. THE RED FT. AG. If it is true that the New York So cialists Intend to discard the red flag for a blue one, as the police commis sioner of that city believes it is, law abiding and temperate Socialists have reason to be glad. The red flag con notes too many unpleasant, not to say barbaric, significances to make a fitting emblem of the citizens of democracy like ours. The red flag which mistaken So cialists have permitted to be foisted upon them by obtrusive foreigners not the flag of social reform, but the emblem of anarchy. It was brought to this country by men who are the very antithesis of Socialists. It is the true emblem of those who practice sabotage and terror, and who tear down the existing order, but are in capable of raising a new structure on the old foundation. It is true that the red in the American flag means valor, but the red flag of anarchy stands for nothing else than blood. By adopting blue, however. Social ists will not only disassociate them selves of a hateful partnership, but will find a symbol with which the best citizens can find no fault. Blue In our flag is meant to represent loy alty, sincerity and Justice principles fit for incorporation into any social platform. Those Socialists who have not con - Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Cass Baer. IIOfE. It Is the conclusion of a sociologist that one of the most important fact ors in Industrial efficiency is the lodg- better But withal, the country newspapers. I we think, take the new law too seri ously. It is beyond) the purpose of the law to punish a newspaper which charges more than the legal rate for I advertising. The advertising rate will operate somewhat as does the lee-al I home. Some married men have no Governor Wiihyconibe, In his address Irate interest rate. That rate annlies homes nnrl some har-helnrs have them to the people of Oregon, bids us re- only in the absence of contract to the The sociologist finas that the line of member not only that hundreds of contrary. While fixed by law at per excellence of workmanship runs close thousands from the very flower of the cent 7 and 8 are nearer the nrevailine i th- ji.i r ... . . , I - - "-" I a J JV'C,1 Ullbl VU bllO i-UUU'UlU J a. IUC Zr'ZrZr . ""P"" rates or interest and. if contracted, worker as to whether he, has the im wh. - T t T 6 '.Tf .v . re conecuD" law- portant stimulus to ambition which fruits of victorious peace." but that The legal advertising rate, it is nos- 1 1. , i.i, . .1. i j i i If Kr?.!.bf- Ia.CanCha'.rS. at vr rD 8lbl8- may not "eded fcy the a,ike by that finest institution in tb- j courts in assessing; costs, out mat ..m u . v r f ""-neea not prevent tne newspapers irom Thus, the bachelor who lives with a price has been paid for them. Our charging and collecting more in ad- hls mother and father, or even with mm vui vance 01 assessment or costs, me law . ij u - . . , , . i - in uiauicu oioiri, nuu mc viuci luau "v '"vu -, actually a, coax ran mn neoDia nerna- i i - ij i , v,i ... . , eil - i 11 . miuuvvci, nnu Jiaa cv ocmuiauLc ui " "". I tratea dv me cnampion Dractlcal I n .i, v,i t,ii i i, I T V; a i , rf ,, riJ " Ct lne 8tale- I to be dependable, given to thinking " ."""L.Xk :rr, before he takes radical action, and people in the world's history. As TTE BCSHXI.8 or -vVHXAT. usually r . better artisan than the a i . , i l nprn is iooa ror uinurnt tut wen as i " 1 1 iwigme-uwu. j-j Jiuicrnaus, wo u.vv ia.r uccu . . . I ,,! i v,. ,l,r,, r spared the ravages of war that we r the body in that little Jag of 7r i I I thin rs HYnm rlmnirinfT inn snn c. iTelJ i!!?, J Ther8 Wa 101 husbaadmM ce houses it is but a step to changing 1, rrH .wU. .m rl WBO tooK counsei or tIS own eart jobs. And shifting becomes more than 1 !.T-Pii!d , .m"f,b U"d "Go to. I will do my bit and a physical matter. It infects charac- iii uui " auu oyu ii.i.w ucc- .v. v j I i 1, l ln.i.h;in . T- mI-mUa , I .... I Ct I " " "J " .1 1 l.'U IO LUIlllllg I 1 I ailU UlttACO 1V1 111 JLttl..lll.J . rT,,. h,v . J If "rh- h.tti - eXnHw wheB 0,6 nations shall be in want." The survey in question takes account ?'S,a.tv.' -f'SilT.ZZl "e girded himself for a big only of men. but we suppose that killing, and plowed and planted all I women also would exhibit the same his fields, and when it was done he reaction. There are, however, fewer mopped his brow with his bandanna of these of the purely nomadic type, and declared it was good. And he Fortunately for all of us, they are prayed for deliverance against the I slower than men are to break the ties day of chinch bugs, rust, hot winds, which bind them to their own. hail, the high-priced hired man, the I Study of 20,000 "lodgers" shows bag monopoly and the grain trust. I that they change their jobs every six And his prayer, so far as it was months on the average. This is so given to him to see. got safely by the often that they do not have time to , (m a ...1 ,s .,!.,- I v uu PUUII (1CCU UBCVIUB ClllUClll 111 CHI J liliuf,, II1S.I. - o m im. rcuao ui;(,.iiiimi6 i . .1.. i .1 J m VI- I mi .V. :.. it I. 1nflfv nnr f.llh In nrlve. The, ciicvi ur i'u I Alley uru itrsa uuiiu mCvo ... , . . . , heart and bubbled from his lips, ver-I harder for them to visualize the neces- lly, was good to behold. And vagrants sities of the future. That there is passing leaned npon the fence and I much unselfishness . in the average marveled at the prospect. KaA cheer- I man is indicated by the fact that those f ul liars hazarded vain prophesies like I who live in homes average four hours "thirty to the acre at the very least," I more of work a week when they are and further swelled his optimism. I working than those who inhabit fur But after many days of rain and I nished rooms. The difference between sunshine intermingled dry weather I them is that the home dweller has fought and won. If we think that our chief reason for rejoicing is that Ger man militarism has surrendered to powerfully superior force. It is rath er because we feel ourselves gather ing strength for our new undertaking that we are glad. We are conscious that war has not brutalized us, but that willingness to make sacrifices has been fostered and the spirit of hu manitarianism newly kindled, and of Its growth is a poor way to foster the shipbuilding industry as a whole, upon which our merchant marine must be founded. ' It is nnr. tn the, nnlrtr trt nn-v the n wood ship is not as well adapted for As nearly as I can find out politics long deep-sea voyages with general and Party lines are adjourned for to- cargo as a steel ship, because its car-dajrs ceieDraxion. rying capacity is less for the same net registered tonnage, because it is I Mister . Wlllura Hohenzollern isn't classed lower and because it must pay I eating turkey today in Paris, . but he higher insurance. Except for lumber will have to pay the check. cargoes,, builders of wood ships freely concede that field to the steel ship. with the National bird at 50 cents a But that concession still leaves a wide ppund over here, it looks as If the boys neia ior me wooa snip to De econom- over there stand a better chance of hav ically employed, where it wiU need a lDg turkey at today's feed by remain- limited amount of fuel and can there. fore carry a full cargo, equal to that of the same sized steel ship on a long voyage. The wood ship is good for coast wise trade, for short sea trips like t Vl -1 t Ketwoen Tnw Pnctan r, r. ,1 thi maritime provinces of Canada. for the head instead of a vital spot. the Caribbean Sea, and for inland seas like the Mediterranean, Black I mg over there for the day. a Al McGovern, of the Baker, says that one reasno he doesn't believe Mister Hohenzollern's oldest boy is dead is be cause the account said he was shot in Those Who Come and Go. Portland is consuming today a great quantity of turkeys shipped from Oak land, Or., by J. T. Bridges, -Mayor of that town. Mr: Bridges has shipped 6200 of the birds, weighing an average of ten pounds. All but 20,000 pounds, which were sent to San Francisco, came to Portland. A band of 52, cornfed and of the 1917 vintage, was sold to a Portland hotel and Mr. Bridges consid ers them the finest he ever saw. Oak land, said Mr. Bridges, who is regis tered at the Hotel Portland, is the "best town of its size in Oregon," and ships out more poultry and livestock than any other. In one day this year 53 cars of stock were sent to market. Mr. Bridges Is in Portland to see about the wool situation, for he has dealt in $50,000 worth of wool this year. Gov ernment regulations make It difficult to buy from growers, for the dealer does not know what he will get for the wool until it is graded In the ware house. Coach Hargiss, Dr. Brown and the Oregon Agricultural College football players arrived at the Multnomah last night about 10 o'clock and were im mediately sent to bed by the coach. And Edward Everett Horton rises to and Baltic. The Norwegians know as remark that whereas Holland used much about ships as anybody, and to be scared stiff that Germany would they were eager to buy wood ships I annex her, now sne s scared suit mat when they were warned off by the I she'll have to annex the old Kaiser. Shipping Board. The Greeks hav She's in Dutch any way you look at it-iMark Woodruff, publicity man of the Deen sailors for Z5UU years, and they a a hotel, insists that by the team's stay would be glad of wood ships for trade I Hoover Insists that we live simply. J ing at the Multnomah last year their among their islands and in the Le- 1 Most of us simply live. Jinx with the 1-niversitv of Oregon vant. The French have bought many I , w.as broken and consequently the "Ag- wi h, m-e TOr..,lH - . , .t . S'es snouio. win loaay. ine noiei ""j - - in conjunction wun me vuj i uKh o,v,-.. i tertatning men, in uniiorm, juice riem- land black of the college remain for steel ships, for which steel . !. ide durintr the io. r the r.trinf nlv. Charles Prim, one of the founders of ..... -r-u .I h.- Jacksonville. Or., AiicSiautc 1 111 uu, 'i mo I Hotel mother, Mrs. P. M. Weeks, who is ac- In Other Days. will not become cheap or abundant for several years. This is not a matter which concerns th is at the Imperial e lumber and wood shipbuilding dis- Uvely lnterested n WOmen's welfare General Rufus E. Langard. U. S. A, is tricts alone. It is a matter of general policy affecting the whole country. The Government should go about the transition from war to peace in such work. Miss Flemine located families a guest of Dr. F. E. Moore, at the of several overseas soldiers each week Hotel Portland. and invited the aged parents and worn- Th d Robinaon TnI,mook. manner as to produce the minimum en dependents to attend a. performance arrival at the Hotel Oregon Mr. Rob disturbance, but it is producing mad- of the patriotic play. Miss Fleming inson is one of the leading bankers of m .h.L- TTr.iiUe the nie tnvern- and her mother purchased the tickets Tillamook County. ments. which long ago appointed min- and paid the war tax and, in several Mr and Mrg R B DiX0n are regis- isters of reconstruction, it has made instances, paid the carrare. various tered at the New Perkins. They came no adequate preparation for the I local boards supplied the names of de- I from Newport, Or, to observe Thanks- change, except in the employment serving families. giving m tne city. bureau of the Labor Department. Imo a a otto jietschan became peeved when plans have been made for transfer of I Seems to me, from reading letters pnil Metschan. Jr., unconsciously ehut industrial energy from the work I some women write at the paper and to the register book. "Do you want the whirh it. has heen doins to that which the oaoer that a lot of us trirls are all house to close?" demanded Otto. "Did it must do in future. No Govern- messed up trying to figure on a career not do ?'e"ded "yu k"'; . , ,. , , , . . . . , . explained Phil to a guest nearby, hotel meuiai uireiuuu iiM uCix 6'cii iv, to aaopt tor mo oncUmi.B " clerks think if the register is shut the me cifixuiuii ui luicigu luuiiucuv. . peace universal. j.l ceeina lu ue a. yruu- i hotel will close I don't take anv No laws have been passed to facili- em for the girls to decide whether stock in such superstitions wha-wha-tate return of soldiers to' private life. I thev'll be social factors, industrial fac- I what has become of my rabbit's foot?" We have been caught as unprepared tors political factors or just hopeless he broe off, rummaging a hand into Tor peace as we were ior war, ana industry,, after going through one agony in 1917, must go through an other in 1919, simply because the Gov ernment has not planned ahead. his pockets. With a Metschan grin he drew a furry disconsolate left hind leg from a pocket and his alarm faded. "Thought I'd lost it." reactionaries and return to the w. k, position (w. k. means well known) of being mere matrimonial and domestic foi-lnra n. x. numpnrey, registered: at tne RanGATI la V. n l?,e.a.n n n - c n n , t . , a juun.o a man ui a. aa .1 ui the W llnmert. Iron J!. Sll Wi.,b. Many a woman will envy the "first I only chance some of the returning sol- I He will return East in a few days to Twenty-five Yeara Ago. (From The Oreeonlan. November 28. 1893.) The regular monthly meeting of the commissioners of the Oregon Midwin ter Fair Association will be held at 11 o'clock this morning in the Chamber of Commerce hall. The regular monthly meeting of the committee of 18 will be held at the same place at 3:30 this afternoon. The Southern Pacific has raised the boycott against the Canadian Pacific. announcing that it would take all busi ness tendered by the Canadian Pacific at the established rates. The other lines are curious to see if the Cajiadinn Pacific will put up the tariff, now th:it its only grievance is removed. San Francisco Is shipping tallow to Spanish America and France. Tallow and hides were formerly the chief ex ports of California, but for many years the shipments have been insignificant. Washington. The tariff bill of 1893 was born this morning. Chairman Wil son of the committee presented a copy or tue bill to each member. He stated that probably tomorrow he would be able to furnish additional data, which would furnish a comparison of the new Dili with the present law. Cleveland. William McKinley was asked his opinion of the Wilson tarifl bill. He said the objectionable fea ture of the bill was the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties. He said, "the ad valorem system rests on the foreign situation, which is hard to de termine and it puts a premium upon under-valuation frauds.!' lady of the land," with her private diers have at getting their jobs back close the office. urse and opportunity to show her ls to ma-try 'em. clothes; but there's a ray of com- a fort in the -other side. If all of us Don't you relish that line of the ar- ere wealthy we would be living in rested Mrs. Liard's who says that Mrs. Ben W. Olcott, wife of the Sec- retary of State, was at the Seward yesterday. wickiups, for there would be nobody isposed to do the work. -bing and murdering. The name of J. C. McElroy. a well- aside from her husband had no bad habits"? j known citizen of Salem, is on the New Whaddya mean bad habits? Perkins regfster. The apt retort to Police Commis sioner Wriirht nf TVew York. UDon that little affair at Madison square """"" shipbuilding in the Northwest, is that if the police would attend to or ner mrone, says a neaanne. w ell, the Multnomah from Seattle. .,s , : ,1 u i. I if s a tossuD which is beiner rated at !"! r""Ll l"T "I, ' Lhe , , ',. , .. A woman giving the name of Princess uctsiuu iur mo oumicia cm. i - Dobogorukava entered the Imperial Queen Wilhelmina may be asked to T " aiorrs. accompanied Dy I T A IfllTorlKaiin Kftth .vA-ArTn lam Fifty Tears Ago. (From The Oregonian. November 2S. 1S0S.) Louisville, Ky. The Journal and Courier have consolidated, and will ap pear tomorrow as the Louisville Cour ier and Journal. W. N. Halaerman takes the business, and Henry Watter son, the editorial management. Messrs. McCormick and Bushwiler have commenced the work of getting out a city directory for the year 1M!;i. Bushwiler and assistants will begin at once to canvass the city for names and statistics, and will be pleased if the citizens will render any information that will help to make the directory full and accurate. The trip may now be made between San Francisco and New York in eleven days via the Pacific railroads and Wells, Fargo and Company stages, for total sum of J2S4.20. These prices are not at all extravagant, considering the distance and time in which it is traversed. A meeting was held at Brant's hall in Vancouver on the evening of the 21st, in an attempt to secure the cross ing of the Oregon and 1'uget Mound Railway at that point of the Columbia. Subscriptions were asked to aid in constructing the bridge. 'Innmn n ,,- n ,1 .1 wllh.l wo. -1 m.r i r. I n)eA 1A r-L- f n than him. in our His-1 , . ,1.. it. , I pusaiug, bu uiucu bo mat uie nus- i sell. bandman was troubled in his soul, I The inference would seem to be for his fields, now almost ready for I plain. It is that the young man who the sickle, wore a bilious aspect, and I aspires to be efficient should be chary the outlook all around was blue and of breaking old home ties before h dubious. But he had gone through I is in a position to form new ones. It dismal days and tribulations before I Is really ah argument for matrimony, and he was no quitter yet. I since one's own home Is, of course, And it came to pass that other evil I the best of all. But the lodging things befell, and his spirit was sorely I house is an enemy of industry. Any troubled and the rosy dreams of I sort of home is better than none. Springtime planting days began to inward glow, which is not of vain boasting, but only of supreme confi dence that we are nnited for high em prise. Is nothing of which to be ashamed. If we live up to the new estimate which we have made of our selves, and with due modesty strive to deserve it always, we shall ever look back to Thanksgiving day. 1918 as the most memorabl tory. We can be profoundly humble In cur contemplation of the casualty lists of the war and thankful for our selves. The British dead, for ex ample, number more than 658,000. The French list, which never has been published, probably includes more than a million names. Italy. Belgium, Serbia and Roumania all have given of the flower of their manhood, both la actual numbers and in proportion to their populations, more than we have done. They have suffered by direct contact as we have not done. Yet. there exists for us the oppor tunlty so to guide events that the his. torian of the future will concede that we shall have done our full share. The Uvea and the treasure which have been spared to us are ours In trust. to be devoted to the continuance of the gTeat constructive enterprise which the war itself has only begun. It is 330 years, the historians tell us. since the first Thanksgiving day was celebrated. This was in 1588, when the English people set apart a "Victory day" on which to give thanks for the defeat of the Spanish armada on the sea. It is incidentally Interesting to remember " that the November tradition was established in the following year, but that our more immediate ancestors of New England, to whom we commonly at tribute the founding of the present holiday, ehosa February 22, in 1631 There was another coincidence in the fact that the second regular Thanks. giving, held to celebrate the safe homecoming of Governor Winthrop and his wife was held on November BtTHO AND SELLING 11. The last-Thursday-in-November BLOCKS. custom was not firmly established 1 Reconstruction after the war will until after Massachusetts had become I furnish occasion for co-operative sell a state, and it will be recalled that I ing abroad by American manufactur Fresident Grant once set apart De-1 ers on a scale far greater than was cember 8. which did not crystallize contemplated when the Webb export into practice because of many pro- law was passed, and which would tests. The facts are mentioned only have been illegal but for that law. because of their bearing upon the ( France, Belgium, Italy and Poland movement, already gaining headway, will want large quantities of lumber, to make November 11. our own Vic- steel, machinery and various raw ma tory day and that of our allies, a new terials, for manufacture. All buying Thanksgiving day, not only for our-1 is likely to be conducted in large selves, but for all the world. quantities by the respective govern There is, indeed, good ground for ments. and there will be equal occa belief that changing the date would I sion for co-operation on a large scale heighten its significance. It has in in selling. American business men the recent past shown signs of de- may thus get their first training in generating into a festival of eating the methods by which Germany con- and outdoor sports, in which Whit- ducted aggressive campaigns for for- man's estimate that the "giving I eign commerce and which they will thanks part, with what it infers, was have to practice in order to compete essentially the best item," was usu- successfully with other nations. ally not shared by most 6f the people. There will be opportunity for Amer There is in the new Thanksgiving day lean farmers and fruitgrowers to pur suggestlon a probability -that its older sue the same methods in marketing and chiefly religious purpose would their products abroad, mere should not readily be lost to view. It will be much advantage in selling to one be many a generation before the sig- syndicate all the apples or prunes niftcance of November 11 will be for-I which Oregon has to sell in England rotten by the world, and we think or which England can consume. that future events will heighten the The business of the future, partlcu rejoicing over the supreme event of larly between nations, will be done that great day. in large blocks, and the governments The thanksgiving which we feel will have a hand in it. That may.be today must be tempered, as we have I one means of keeping the peace. Any said bv the reeling that great as our nation wnicn Duys aonormai quanti achievements may have been, our task ties of some material highly useful is not yet don. The prayer In the I to. war, but which can show no legl- look like vanity and vexation, for, verily, there were bugs busy in his fields and his ripening grain was tak ing on a rusty hue, and the sun still shone hot and unhealthily above. And idlers with vinegar in their hearts said he should have plowed and planted deeper. And sinners in the service of the evil one made vain inquiries about seed treatment. And neighbors envious of his great do main chid him, saying, "too many acres. f ools passing asKea, "is it hot enough?" and. others sought to cheer him with the raw remark. "It might be worse." And he smote his breast, saying, "What's the use? For whom do I labor and bereave my soul of good?" , For when the harvest came there were twelve bushels Instead of thirty. And the hired man was not. for there was not the wherewithal to pay him. Not wisely nor well had. he planted, for his fields were weak, and the over head charge, adjusted for thirty, had absorbed all the profit of twelve bushels, and he was poor and the na tions were hungrier than ever. EN" LARGE NO PLANS TO AVOID SHOCK. If the losses after the war are to be reduced to a minimum, there should be a gradual transition from war to peace conditions in industry and busi ness. The- necessities of war require that the transition from peace to war be sudden, whatever the cost, but the first consideration in transition from war to peace should be prosperity for all. This can best be promoted by making the transition gradual, by- turning factories from war to peace production just as fast as war .con tracts are completed and peace con tracts obtatned, by shutting down those which can make nothing but war goods no faster than their work men can be given other employment. This should not strain the intellect and energy of a wise administration. It may add something to war expendi ture, but the material produced will be needed in future and can be stored, The additional cost will be but a frac tion of tha loss which would result from a sudden change. By shutting down spruce produc tion, cutting off wood shipbuilding and restricting private ship contracts to American owners, the Government has pursued exactly the opposite course to that described. It has given a shock to business at a time when every precaution should have been taken to avoid shock. It Is throwing tens of thousands of lumber-workers into idleness by cutting off the exist ing market for their product before opening the world-wide new market which waits. It has lifted restrictions from building, it Is true, but at a Sea son when building is inactive every where, except on the favored Pacific Coast. It will need spruce for mili tary aircraft, and probably for air mail lines but it refuses even to ac cept logs which have been cut in the woods. The Shipping Board has stopped building wood ships for the Govern ment, because they are not adapted for its purpose after it has run the cost up to figures which may prove prohibitive to private owners. Oper ation of ships in American commerce is a business which requires great ex tension in order to absorb all the po tential product of American yards, yet this high cost will militate against it, when new men must be attracted to that business. The Shipping Board's motive in excluding foreign buyers is presumably to build up a great Amer ican merchant marine, which can rival that of any other nation, but that involves a great shipbuilding in dustry, for great maritime nations build their own ships. To disorganize the wood ship industry at this stage attend to it for them. Now that we have relieved the Bel gians, Poles, Serbians, Italians, Ar menians and other people in distress, what is the matter with a drive to raise a fund for the relief of McAdoo, nowadays, a throne or a German hus- iast night and ordered a cablegram sent Dana. i to Siberia, paying J30. Today the cable company is trying to find the Princess Peggy O'Neil has gone into a Zeig- to return the money, as the message feld production. She is playing the role could not be delivered. of a chaffeuse in "By Pigeon Post,' opening this week at theaCohan Thea- the man who handled billions, yet ter in New Tork- N. J. Blagen, prominent In lumber circles at Hoquiam, Wash., is at the Benson. remains poor? While thankful today for much In good municipality, let us throw a bouquet to the police service, which : .. ji 11..... nrnPli- IhAiivh It Tiaol 44 " "T.JhV the hent rnTSher. York' and UDOn his "rlvel, expected Harry Lauder's farewell last season, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dean, of Sc which was positively his last appear- attle are at the Seward. Mr. Dean is ani-e. te ete i. .ct., n tt 111,1 interested in a Seattle hotel and is the regular and prescribed farewells. He has sailed from Liverpool for New whose day in court is coming, never theless. - The Kaiser cannot get a fair trial in England, and why not bring him to America on a change of venue? Many a local attorney could secure a disagreement, and think of the re sourceful technicalities! here on a pleasure trip. Mrs. James Hughes and daughter are at the Benson from Bandon, Curry County. 1 . I Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dennis, of Carl ton, Or., are at the Multnomah for way in the Spring. Just as I had begun to suspect al actors of being more or less pessimis tic about this influenza stuff alnnc The opinion 01 me attorney-generm comes Walter Gilbert and aavs that an that a thresher cannot De compeneo. old-fashioned hard cider jag will cure to thresh a man s graia may oe mw. influenza, Spanish or any kind but it is not good law in the interest of community welfare. James Bliss, director at the Alcazar, says that one sure eign that the war this week, he begins preparations for his 11th annual tour under William Morris' engagement. This tour is to take Harry around the world. He nanKsgiving day. opens at the Lexington Theater in New F. S. Rutledsre. an automobile man York on December 9, and gets out our I from San Francisco, arrived yesterday at the Benson. "GOD DID IT" IS TRIE PHRASE Correspondent Reealls How ' Others In History Gave Glory for Victory. PORTLAND, Nov. 27. (To the Edi tor.) That it is done and well done is evident. &ome say it was this and some say it was that. Due credit has been given the many human agencies How about the divine? Gideons vie If the Crown Prince has a soul, his Is over is that a flock of stenographers tory was by the "Sword of the Lord. slumbers on his Dutch Island will be nave applied ior joDs as extra girls on " "en laB -ruLnua. wa uesirojca Ms- disturbed by dreams of the hundreds the stage. cnuaeu ' " . " . , , v,,. a the inscription, "Afflavit Deus et of thousands he sent to the slaughter t , v dissepautur," "God blew on them and at Verdun. Tork evening newspaper that thev were scattered." After the Civil rioesn t care what happens to it DUb- War the TTnlted Rtatea nut on hftr roins ww nr.t ehane-e the order for this "snea on Wednesday, under a Brook. "In God We Trust." King Edward HI. " I Tn ,4 Jne. II . . I ..inf-Atn.. k.rrlA 1 .- . once and let Father have a leg in- """" """emeni mat ueorge ...Uuo """. u. " "- stead of the neck? This wiU con- h - u, atr and tt Snnor, iCo, fuse him, but he win enjoy it- . f pe. Not rnto Us- Lorai but Unto Thy ..... , i.icn . am, 1 xame Be Glory Given." ior yesterday ne sent from French Lick At Valley Forge the father of our a telegram to a friend In the Lambs' country went daily to his secret place Club, reading: "I hope to last the day of prayer and poured out his soul to Al out. Am playing golf with Ort Will, mighty God for success of the American Vice-President Marshall hastens to say he will not assume the duties of the President during the sojourn abroad. Tom knows the boss. One of the insoluble problems now iams. Never felt better In my life.' Lieutenant John Philip Sousa, naval confronting governors of states is how bandmaster. 1 ill at hi hom 'nri.it.. to unscramble their National Guards -tone. L. I. He went t v.i, ---.: i i 1 ' ..w.. .twn. ii u HI irom tne rsauuiiai Army. cause. Lincoln in his classic oration at the dedication of the battlefield oi Gettysburg as a soldier's cemetery said That the Nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom." The second larger new birth of free- Toronto, where he had been conducting dom has come November 11, 1918, a his sailor band. Sousa contrar-tert eni morning surpassed in glory only by the It mav be all rltrnt to demobilize In one of h n whii. n,..i,i.. , resurrection oi tne Hon or man. vie the Irnittinor needles, but tha war rar. the (-"hleao-n iih.,.t i . tory unprecedented has come to human Hen Khn,,ld he ke.nt in active service tt, . I,, u o. " . 7w." T. y- God has given it It is answer to . Oito inat time tne nraver. To him he all the s-lnrv and """'" " constantly recurring I to the world liberty, justice and joy. ne nas aeciaea to remain at home un NOW KXOWN AS "YANKEK TALK" Language of L'nltcd Statea Now Rfron nixed and Has Invaded England. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nov. ;6. (To the Kditor.) The Oregonian. Monday, presented a letter evidently written by a "humdinger" patriot. It suggests that our language be "everywhere" (throughout Infinite space) known as the "United States language." Now. this move has already been anticipated in degree, possibly not all over God's creation, but certainly in all lands in which modern English is "spoke" oir lingo is alluded to as "Yankee talk." Surely such distinguishing distinction should satisfy even the most ardent patriot. Regarding your correspondent's move to bring George's English under the scope of our protective tariff. I do not feei that such action would by any great shake jar the cultured caste o England, as 1 feel that they would be tickled halt to death if we placed an almighty powerful embargo on our lan guage and held it at home. Further, when your correspondent as- serts that the English of England Is "well-nigh" "stationary," he is "talk ing through his hat," is "off his base." has the "wrong sow by the ear." The standard of English in England is far from constant; in fact, during the past half century language In Eng. land has been markedly retrogressive. This decadent trend is owing to thfl fact that American tourists have "learned" the "new Fet" in England to talk the United States language. To day in all parts of England peoplu "guess." "reckon" and "calculate." And even from persons who pose as learned one incessantly hears sucli provincial isms as "Where was it at?" "Is that so?" "You don't say so"; "Come straight in"; "Sit right down"; "You're entirely welcome"; "You look fine"; "I feel good"; "Mother has a fierce headache"; "Father caught a tremendous cold"; "I adore pickled pigs' feet"; "Sister loves tripe and onions"; "Our new parson in awfully cute, and his little pug dog is just too sweet for anything." So far English journalists do not al lude to soldiers being "blinded in t li war." Nor do they inform us that tuberculosis kills more men than bul lets," but after a "while they win strike their gait" and "get right down to it." JIM. for another year. The request of Secretary McAdoo's I til his trouble is entirely cured. aids for more salary might appropri ately be referred to the Wage Adjust ment Board. There is no need to worry about what to do with our airmen. They will selves. D. A. WATTERS, Fit to Lead. THANKSGIVING DAYS CONTRASTED PORTLAND. Nov. 27. (To the Edi tor.) Allow me In the- behalf of good Tear Ago We Were Bidding Boys Good-1 citizenship and myself to thank you for bye Now We Rejoice. I the excellent words of caution and wis TTrr i,m , . I uu U in tne eunurmi, Dflwaro ui blii1 jrvmmuxiJ. INOV. Zl fiO tne Ed- 1 ..ncerelv wish that everv iv i - - I gazing. settle that question for them- "or.j i am thinning today of the won- person could see It and read and pon derful change In the great world drama der the views therein contained. I my since last Thankseivinz. Then we self most heartily indorse the nrin- TMtl.n international lawvers are in- ?J?'n awl1., l our boys ciple and believe it to , p the only safe . caun occincu n. ifjiiir w m. v i i nrin nvfir" rn a n v nirn a. iifrri if hnnu n lib biiv vited to contribute prize essays on of blodd between. It looked as if might erned. How to get tne Jvaiser out or jioi- would triumph over right. Some of us Leaders, yes, and what people among land." I knew that could not happen, for all the nations such as England, France, History points to the ultimate triumph Italy and the United States, are better Portland Is thankful for one spe-1 ,nr) tI h,,-,- , ih.vi t,h,.. cial thing in a lot of others, in having wno despaired of the world, or human I and teachers, too. showing to the world some of the best hotels in the lard. If you have a new baby in the fam ily you have more reason to be thank ful than for all else in the world. kind. 1 what true democracy is. Many of the Then all changed as suddenly as if an countries of the world (including Ger- angel had blown a trumpet. The great many with all of her kuitur) knows battle opened, which may well be called about as much about such a govern the "Battle of Armageddon." Our own I ment as a child in school days knows boys were there as well as the tried about the graduation exercises. and true from our allies. It was re- Rometimes it is neeessarv to dron vealed as never before in the world's inin riieieet tn crut the full intent nf history to be a conflict between light I BnJ .... V.. .. .. n . I , aim uxin.,.c90, u c r. n. c a .1 , i in auu on. ARTHUR H. NICHOLS. near poet. frornnuie af BoIahevfkL MONMOUTH, Or., Nov. 27 To between God and the devil. Then we Eaitor.)will you be so kind Properly to observe this day, let our wife know you are thankful you own" her. That right is right, since God is God, The boy who eats the most today and right the day must win." What a may get the most things Christmas. Thanksgiving day for all the earth, but especially for our own country. the to state the fundamental principles of Bolshevism? A READER. Government by councils of soldiers, who saw even in the darkest hour, I workmen and peasants to the exclusion of all other classes, and confiscation of banks, land, factories and all other saw the utter rout of the enemy forces. The triumph of right, of democracy, of God. It is the vindication of those Idealists It's an old-time kind of game this afternoon, with an old-time result. Anyway, Tumulty will have the rub ber stamp during the Absence. of reconstruction. Our Nation has a great responsibility laid upon it, for all the ends of the earth have their eyes fastened on us. The door of op portunity is wide open. Let us enter in. May there come forth from all : the years of agony and blood a "New It is well Father asks the blessing earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." before he begins to carve. I SARAH J. LYMON. prosperity by the "class conscious pro- May we be guided in the coming days letaries," the hired laborers and the poorer portion ot tne rural population. Heard at Quarantine. The Marine. Examining surgeon Have .you any scars? Rookie marine applicant No, sir, but I have some cigarettes in my coat over there. THANKSGIVING HAT, I sing of a day the heart of the year The pulse of rejoicing the throb oi good cheer When the prodigal comes for the well fatted calf And there's welcome for all, with a tear and a laugh. When the wanderer gives the old folks a surprise On the date of ripe turkeys and portly mince pies; While the tables are groaning with what they contain, And groan, too, the feasters in Jovial pain. The boys resurrect old family Jokes No grumbler is there to mar them with croaks; Slight feuds of the year are forgotten in mirth , And friendships renewed or find their first birth. From familiar old shelf the worn Bible' is brought That ponderous tome that grandfather bought. And from It the mother with spectacled eyes. Dimmed also with tears, reads the words of the wise: How the Lord watches well the blithe sparrow's flight And clothes the meek lilies In raiment of light. How he numbers the hairs of our head in his love And has built for our home golden man sions above. The father, atremble with age and with zeal. Unburdens his heart of its thanks fof our weal; That he who relieved the pigrlms' dis tress Still watches, unwearied, their offspring to bless. All too soon, with a clasp of father's dear hand And mother's fond kiss, the family band Breaks up once again, while all silently pray For the watch care of God till next Thanksgiving day. DR. ALBERT BUXTON. Centralia, Wash.