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The ostensible design of the Seattle strike is to paralyze all industry so as to demonstrate the power of organ ized labor. The real design is to show to the world the control of or ganized labor, in at least one great city, by the radicals. It is, or is in tended to be, an announcement that the revolution is here. The sympathetic strike will fail, be cause it lacks public sympathy. The world has not all gone mad, even if a few men are mad, and even if Russia has been seized and stran gled by Bolshevism. America will not be and cannot be Russianized, for America is what it is because free men have made it so, and will keep it so. It is not merely rhetoric to re peat that the republic was founded on the rights of man, and men have had their rights, and are not going to lose them under the reckless on slaught of desperate redflagism. No matter what happens in Seat tic, the general strike is a tremendous blunder for labor. It has been said that the strike is against the Govern ment of the United States. It is. The Seattle strike leaders, by seeking to penalize the entire public, -including even the helpless patients in the hospitals, are doing their utmost to prove it. They are showing to the whole Nation the reality of the men ace of radicalism and revolution and it will be met. It is no time for mere declamation or denunciation. Words of appeal, or remonstrance, or reproach, are use less. These men who have provoked a crisis were determined that an is sue be made. They wanted the pub lic to know their power. It is well that the people as a whole be made to know its full dimensions. Perhaps the strike will be worth all it may cost, for the foolish men who are re sponsible for it must be taught their lesson. It will be that the power of America is, first of all, a moral pow er, and it will be exercised in potent ways, as it has been, to do justice; to secure equality; to redress wrongs; to adjust grievances, and to achieve peace. It works by orderly processes, and it resents and will defeat all ef forts to subvert them. It will not tol erate wrongdoing to achieve any end, even a righteous end. It has a con science, and it keeps guard over it, and public sentiment is the guardian. The Seattle strike is miscalled a sympathetic strike; but it merits no general sympathy and will not get it. Public sentiment, which sees and hears and judges, will settle the strike, so far as the public outside is con cerned. It may have a troublesome time making itself felt in Seattle, but in time there, too, the situation will adjust itself, if Seattle is to take its proper place as an American city, and not a Russianized city. THE THEORY OF DEFICIT. Attempts are made to overcome the unfavorable impression created by the loss which the Government in curred in the first year of its opera lion of the railroads by advancing the argument that social benefit should be considered a sufficient off set to a deficit in public operation of a public utility. That is a plausible way to induce the people to tolerate 1he notorious extravagance and ineffi ciency of public management of busi ness. It is a defense of methods which make the cost of railroad service ex cessive, yet fail to make them pay for operation. It is unjust, for justice requires that each person pay for railroad service in proportion to his use of it, while the deficit theory would compel the people at large to pay part of that cost without regard to the service they receive. In view of the low rates and the good service which prevailed in the ' United States under private operation, sis compared with the high rate and poor service which prevail in other countries under public operation, the latter policy might result in much higher rates and worse service in this country and in a deficit to be made good out of taxes. Already the Gov ernment is encouraged in its tendency to waste by being consciously free from the necessity of earning a profit. This tendency would be aggravated if it felt free to incur a loss and charge it to social benefit. Yet the deficit theory is frankly adopted by Postmaster-General Burleson in the following words: Under Government o. nership the question or protit would not be taken under consid ration me Government, as uius- i.rvcu iy inv iwoirti svsitm, does nui aim lo make profit out of the service of communi- (ation. but extends the service to the entire public, draw ins its "dividends" from the in- reased wealth, enlightenment, progress and happiness of the Nation. '. . . Public service of universal utility must be extended to the entire public even though it should lie necessary to support It in part by taxa tion, as during the greater part of its his tory has been the case with the postal service Those Americans who have seen public ownership in practical opera- tion in Europe know that that policy pays smaller "dividends from the in creased wealth, enlightenment, prog ress and happiness of the nation" than does the American policy of pri vate ownership under public regula tion. The development of this coun try has been incalculably stimulated by the American policy. Would it not bo retarded, either by high rates to meet extravagant cost or by high taxes to meet-deficits? , No deficit policy is wanted on American railroads. The people want the lowest rates possible consistent with good service and with fair profit earned by good management and suf ficient to attract additional capital to improvement and extension of the railroads. They do not want a Gov ernment guaranty of dividends and interest. That would remove the in centive to good management and would give owners of badly built, badly located and badly financed roads a reward which they had not earned. . The Government should guarantee nothing. It should fix rates at such a point that they will pay interest on the investment if the roads are well managed; it should regulate the roads in such a mannel as to insure good service,' justice be tween shippers, and sound finance, and then should leave the rest to the owners. The ordinary motives which govern men in business would pro duce the desired results. NO OBJECTION. "Anyone having objection to this letter," says Mr. Wenstrom, in his i ppeal for primary consideration of market roads, printed elsewhere, "please answer." There is no objec tion to market roads; but it may be welL to set Mr. Wenstrom right on a few facts. The Pacific Highway, the Colum bia Highway, and every other high way under construction in Oregon, are market roads, and very important ones. Tho fact that they are main th'oioughfares does not alter the fact. Nor does their construction interfere with local road improvement. lis tinctly, it is helpful to it. What is to prevent the counties going ahead with the minor roads? They are do ing it, and will do it more and more as opportunity for connection with a well-built trunk line is offered, and as impetus to the concrete road movement is given by the promotion of an intelligent, general programme. The farmer who has been respond ing to the call to feed our gallant al lies by increasing his output of food stuffs is doing quite well. He has produced so much wheat, under the Government guarantee of a . high price, that the United States faces a deficit of $1,000,000,000 if it is to pay the farmer, as it agreed to pay, $2.20 per bushel, or nearly twice the world's market price. The appeal to build market roads so as to rush food to Europe is not well-timed. Europe is not starving through any failure of America to raise the" stuff to feed it. Nor will the American farmer starve if he gets, as he will, the guar anteed price for wheat. Who is to pay it? Once there were two road policies the trunk road and the market road. Now it is being learned that there is only one sound way, and it is to build both. It is being done. THE COBBLER'S OPPORTUNITY. The prediction made by the Na tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' Association that the price of shoes is not going to decline for a long, long time promises to give new dignity to the trade of cobbler. With shoes at $10 to $15 a pair, it becomes a mat ter of moment whether the prover bial stitch in time is taken or not. It is inevitable that men will pay more attention to the ordering of re pairs. We are not so certain as to feminine footwear, the styles of which the makers contrive to change often enough to defeat the purposes of thrift. "Surgeons to old shoes," as one of the poets called them, cobblers once held an important place among crafts men. Was there not a king who raised them above the rank of mere shoemakers and gave them a pledge that until the end of the world theirs should be known as "the trade of the gentle craft"? There are men still living who can hark back to the day when menders of soles were imbued with pride of craftsmanship and sat urated with the spirit of a high call ing. They were first aides of thrift when thrift was even more fashion able than it is now. Every village had its cobbler, who might go bare foot himself, as the proverb has said. but whose joy it was to keep the whole world covered with leather for customers who trusted him. More recently, it will have been ob served by those who want to prolong the lives of their old shoes, the sup ply of workmen has fallen below the demand for them. The all-around shoemaker, and with him tho cob bier, owes his decline to the amazing development of shoe machinery and the call for specialists in limited op erations. But now, unless something Happens to the pricfe of new shoes, there is going to be a field for those who can make the old ones last longer. Either that or bare feet will become the vogue. In nothing per taining to the cost of living has the average citizen oeen nit Harder in proportion to his income than in the price of his shoes. THE NEW GERM ANT. uermaDy is aescriDcci by a corre spondent of the London Times who traveled through the country after the armistice was signed as "utterly oroKen, "down and out," "utterly relaxed, incapable of "any sort of military recovery." having "lost not only her technical capacity for ficht ing but her faith in her leaders and the cause for which they have in duced her to fight." The awakening was "absolutely sVdden," and came not when defeat in the west was real ized nor when the revolution was ac complished, but when the Kaiser fled to Holland, for then the nation's god: were shattered and the "whole accu mulated prestige of the Hohenzollern dynasty vanished." This act made it absolutely certain that tho Hohen zollerns can never return," for th people have no use for so weak an dangerous a monarch." The state of mind described may b preliminary to a radical chance national ideals, which may be hastene by full realization of tho abhorrence witn which the rest of the world re (rarely tho rloaHc . arcls tne deeds of Germany. Fn four year3 Germany has been cut off from free intercourse with other na tions, and has received only such n pressions of opinion as were contained in newspapers and state papers and as could leak through a rigid censor ship. When peace is signed, the blockade lifted and Germans begin to travel abroad in an effort to re j cover their lost commerce, they will find in the attitude of citizens of other countries the estimation in which they are held. In the aversion which has been inspired by the crimes of which they have been guilty they will often find an insuperable obstacle to ac ceptance of their most tempting offers. They will find that they have a past to live down. They will not dare to defend their country's acts, and, if they profess a change of heart, there will bo doubt of their sincerity, which they must remove. Germany has renounced militarism, but there is no proof that it has rc- nounced ambition for commercial conquest by means of the machinery which the empire built or of the un derhand tricks and methods of busi ness coercion which its merchants practiced. There is no sign that August Thyssen condemns the aims and methods of the war which the Kaiser induced him and his like to finance; he seems only to condemn the failure to win and deliver the goods. German capitalists have laid up great stores of raw material in neutral countries, ready to renew com petition between a Germany whose factories were untouched by war and rivals whose industries are in ruins. Contracts still stand binding Dutch merchants to buy only from Germany for a term of years contracts ex torted by an implied threat of war. Necessity will drive Germany to most desperate shifts in order to re gain foreign commerce which has been lost. Poiicy will cause Germans to make vehement professions of aver sion for militarism and imperialism, of devotion to democracy and the League of Nations. The suddenness of this conversion will raise doubt of its sincerity, especially as it will coin cide with material interest. Time alone can tell wnetner the case pas sions "which formerly found vent in militarism have been cast out or have turned to commerce for gratification. THE OVERT ACT. A few weeks ago in the Federal Court in Portland Dr. Marie Equl was convicted on a charge of violat- ng the espionage act. Dr. Equl has no independent means or other finan cial resources. She is one of those who are pleased to style themselves the "class conscious proletariat." Rather, her sympathies and associa tions have been with that class in spite of education and practice in one of the higher professions. Yesterday, In the same court, there was convicted, on a charge of sedition, the wealthy miller, J. Henry Albers. Mr. Albers has long enjoyed riches. His associates have been men of wealth and the substantial lights of the business and professional world. For his defense he had ample means. Anything that could be honestly pro cured to give him a fair -trial was within his means, and was doubtless obtained. The wealthy Mr. Albers and the mpecunious Dr. Equl went through the same mill of justice; they re ceived the same treatment. Wealth got for ope no brand of justice dif ferent from that given the other. It is further proof is any truly need ed ? that there is no real distinction made between wealth and poverty in the trial of those accused of crime. Though there was a contrast be tween the two 'defendants as regards wealth, there was in a way a certain similarity in the nature of the things charged against them. Dr. Equi was not intoxicated by strong drink when she uttered the inhibited words that brought her into court, but she was ntoxicated by emotions born of a rad ical trend of thought. Mr. Albers was drunk with liquor when he gave voice to seditious remarks. It is pertinent here to point out that neither drunkenness nor emo tion unless it be an insane emotion is an excuse for crime. It is well for those who excuse either or both of the accused, on the grounds that the words spoken were uttered under some stress or irresponsibility, and were not indicative of the true senti ment of the individual, to know that the law does not attempt to punish a man for the wrong he thinks, but for wrong he does. The person who is at heart disloyal is not a good citi zen, but if he will but eo govern his words and deeds that no. harm may be imposed by him upon Nation or society, he is as safe as the most pa triotic citizen. The espionage act was framed to protect the Nation from injury. In adopting it. Congress conceived that tho spoken unpatriotic word might work a baneful influence upon the raising, equipment and maintenance of the armed forces. Mr. Albers in a public place denounced his country and lauded the enemy. A deed in violation of a law framed to protect the very life of the Nation was com mitted. It is immaterial whether his sober heart was in what he said or whether, if it was, he would have re strained his sentiments had his brain not been Inflamed by alcohol. The mischief was done. The crime was committed. Without thought of palliation or ex cuse, we should like to think that Henry Albers is In fact a loyal citi zen. We should like to believe that a country whose freedom and oppor tunities are so broad that a poor immigrant may grow up therein to wealth and every possibility for ma terial happiness, would inevitably in spire in its acquired citizens a lasting love and reverence. We know, too. that some men drunk are different beings from the same men sober. Wo know that in these men alcohol turns wholly contrary their manners, expressions of thought, their friend ships and their dislikes. Mr. Albers may be one of them. Yet we cannot admit that drunkenness can ever re lieve one of responsibility for crime Were it to be so held, society would never be safe so long as he who medi tated crime could, with pre-medita- tion, take refugo in intoxication for the purpose of carrying out his foul designs. TITO KINDS OF A PEACE LEAGUE. So many bright hopes have been held up by the speeches made at Paris and other cities of Europe by Presi dent Wilson on tho league of nations taat it is well to have a clear knowl ec'ge of what the Pari? conference proposes to give The world. This is best understood from Mr. Wilson's speeches, for he is tho chief protag onist of the league, and none of the other nations are likely to propose that the conference go beyond his scheme. The subject- is dispassion ately canvassed in an article contrib uted to. the Philadelphia Ledger by ex-President Taft, who, as president of the League of Enforce Peace, ex presses the American view of the question as it was entertained before this country became a party to the war. . Mr. Taft says that "those who are looking for something real in a league of nations to preserve peace . have counted on securing a convenant between the members of the league to unite, whenever necessity may arise, with the powerful members of the league to compel compliance with judgments of the league and to sup press recalcitrant members taithless to the principles of the league and to their obligations." He finds warrant for this hope i the following quotation from one of Mr. Wilson's speeches in Europe: I pray Cod that If this contest have other result it will at least have the result of creating an international tribunal and producing some sort of joint guaranty of peace on the part of the great nations of the world. Now. let us suppose that we have formed a family of nation and that family of nations says; "Tho w-erld is not going to havo any mora wars of this sort without at least first going through certain processes to show whether there is anything In its case or not." If you say: "We shall not have any war, you have got to have the force to make the "shall" bit-. And the rest of the world, if America takes part in this thing, will have the right to expect from her that she can contribute her ele ment of force to. the general understanding. Surely that is not a militaristic idea. That is a very practical Ideal. Premier Lloyd George Indorsed this opinion by saying that nations should "band themselves together to punish the peacebreaker." and . ex-Premier Asquith thus construed and approved the President's words: The President held out to his hearers the prospect of an era when the civilisation of mankind, banded together for the purpose, will make it their Joint and several duty to repress by their united authority and. if need be. by their combined naval and military forces, any wanton or aggressive invasion of the peace of the world, it is a fine Ideal, which must arouse all our sym pathies. Mr. Taft calls it "a descending cli max" to hear that "no member of the league is to unite its forces with any other in enforcing the judgments of the league court or in punishing the peacebreaker." He continues: "We are" now to. depend on moral force, or the exercise of an economic boycott, it may be. and on the general public opinion of the world. If a nation which is inter ested In a Judgment in Its behalf desires, it is to be given the right to go to war to enforce it. The strength and bite of the league are "fading into merely moral aspira tions and moral sanctions." This is ascribed to the difficulties which the allies experience in maintaining their armies, which also explain their very weak policy in dealing with the Bol sheviki. But the ex-President sees a prospect that, after all, a league with a bite, will be established, in the necessity of maintaining and con trolling tho new nations to be cre ated in Central Europe, and of keep ing peace in the Balkans, for the new states are to hem in Germany, German-Austria and Hungary, and "all the issues thus threatening must be decided by a tribunal with authority supported by real power." The suggestion that every nation may decide for Itself whether a ques tion threatening war is justiciable, and shall go before an arbitral tribunal, or is not justiciable and shall go to council of conciliation, is deprecated by Mr. Taft as weakening the league to ineffectiveness. He hopes for more bite when the Paris conference comes to formulate the machinery of the league. This article makes It clear that two alternative plans for a league of na tions are before the world. The Taft plan is that of the League to Enforce Peace, its distinguishing point being conveyed by the word "enforce." It would compel arbitration of justici able disputes and 'would compel sub mission to the decisions. It would maintain at the service of the league's judicial tribunal an international rmed force, to which each member would contribute its quota, sufficient to coerce any small nation which broke the peace, and might call on the armies and navies of the members to act against a large nation which of fended. The Wilson plan, as described bv Mr. Taft, would have no such positive force or sanction behind it. It ap pears to have been devised with a view of avoiding all the objections which have been raised, in order that by some means, some kind of league might result from the peace confer ence. It will derive its main strength from the fvye great powers which lead the alliance. Since these five have been able to combine against Get- many, it may be contended that they should at least be able to combine their forces to keep the peace among tho small nations, but no such intent is implied in Mr. Wilson's latest scheme. Mr. Wilson, after indorsing the programme of the League to Enforce Peace more than two years ago, has fallen back on a league without force Mr. Taft insists that the only effective league will be ono backed by force. The difference is clear and sharp. In inelegant but expressive Ian guage, the English brewery stockhold crs put out of business by National prohibition might "chase themselves' for remuneration by Uncle Sam. This Government established a precedent when it refused to pay the former slaveholders. Bapaume, which has taen captured o often that nothing remains but a heap of ruins, needs a rich Ameri can city as godmother, and the lists are open. Here is an opportunity for some Pacific Coast city to win lasting fame In Franco. Ono way to help build up Oregon is to set a hen this Spring: and better way is to set two. Then, when both come off, give all the chicks to one and reset the other. She will never know in fact, she will enjoy it. Unlimited feed now goes to waste that can bo converted Into hares and rabbits. The main point should be to get the best stock for a start. A thoroughbred hare is just as essential as any other blood animal. Lower California need not become excited about that annexation talk. Jt has the right of self-determination, and is free- to remain a refugo for whisky-sellers and gamblers if it prefers to do so. For unlimited gall, the burglars who reopened a North End restaurant, the other night, and entertained cus tomers, including the policeman on the beat, earned the blue ribbon. It would not be a bad plan to run all these contestants for boxing laws into a lecture room at the library, and deal them a fill of something esoteric and recondite. Connecticut records tho first legis lative vote against ratification of the prohibition amendment. Tho wooden nutmegs have changed to wooden cocos. If departmental clerks in Wash ington are to receive transportation home, it is no more than fair to ex tend the favor to shipyard workers. The estate of a deceased brewer has been appraised at something over a million. It took a lot of nickels to make that. Seattle women will cut out the shopping and stay at home to cook while there is anything in the larder. The popular in one sense only income tax will be 6 per cent, and that is easily figured. Trade in your troubles for a n ear. Spring is coming. Seattle is that big -red spot on the map. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. WHAT answer gist have tc er can the antl-surrra- o the latest argument for the superiority of woman advanced by Mary O'Neil. the Western champion, who says: "A hen has just as much right to crow as a rooster, which can neither lay nor hatch an egg"? All the time I've had this Anita Stew art, who is going to be queen of Portu gal, maybe, all mixed up with Anita Stewart, queen of the movies. Knew I'd heard the name somewhere. Per sonally, if you ask me, I'd rather be queen of a fillum than of a throne. It's safer, and It's more popular in these days. Hen Ford denies that his son,Edsel, draws $150,000 a year salary. Hen cays it's only a paltry JTo.000. e See where a "descendant of royalty" is a burglar in Chicago, or you can put It t'other way 'round, that a Chicago burglar turns out to be a descendant of royalty. Well, there isn't much else for royalty to do except to go to work. Fanny Ward and Jack Dean are awaiting word from the passport office which will permit them to go over to England to fulfill an engagement made for that country. Francis Wilson, with Mrs. Wilson and their baby con. are vacationing in Flor ida for six weeks or more. e By cable Gilbert Miller has engaged Maggie Teyte to be starred in the musi cal version of "Monsieur Beaucaire." music by Metsiger, which he is to pre sent in London. Marie Courtney, Marie Lloyd's daugh ter, has gone back to England after a visit in New York. On reading that Louis Mann planned to give several performances of Shy lock during the season, Arthur Hara merstein wrote him as follows: "The report that you are to play Shy- lock recalls to me the engagement of the Cherry Sisters, whom my father brought to New York 20 years ago. The Cherry Sisters, too. attempted Shakes pearean roles, and they mistook the cat-calls and noisy demonstrations for approval. My father finally was obliged to stretch a net across the stage, as the audience deluged the sisters with fruit and fish. I don't know what be came of the net, but probably my father still has it. Nevertheless, believe me to be sincere in expressing my confi dence in your success as Shy lock in 'Shakespeare Without a Net." " a- See where a returning soldier has turned down a nice berth as janitor in a local apartment-house. It would ap pear that ho has fully adopted tl-.e theory of humane warfare. It remained for a Chicago picture manager to flash this underline on his screen: TOMORROW IBSEN'S "A DOLL'S HOUSE." (Bring the Kiddies.) The world's foremost chewing gum manufacturer (name deleted by adver tising department) has made Will Rogers an offer to pay him a consider able royalty if the- lariat philosopher will mention the name of his gum from the etage In "The Follies. Rogers is the most prominent gum chewer in th world, and as an ex poncnt of any brand, could be of in estimable value to its sales, says the manufacturer. Rogers is chewing over the proposl - tiou. with him. In Los Angeles last Wednesday ground was broken for the Alexander Pantages theater building at Seventh and Hill streets. Carmen Pantages, the manager's daughter, turned the first shovel of earth. News of Portlanders who have gone elsewhere and are doing worth while things Is always interesting to the rest of us. A theatrical paper In New York tells of the activities of Corinno Riley Barker in behalf of the stage women's war relief work, and in particular her work in the recent Red Cross drive. Note that Miss Barker has eliminated the Riley from her name and is now Corinne Barker. The columnist says: "When Miss Barker recently resigned from the cast of 'Remnant' it was pri marily for the purpose of appearing In a motion picture production. But the Red Cross drive was imminent, and, in stead of turning to professional work, she set forth to solicit contributions to the greater cause. In Wall street and in front of the Public Library che has been one of the most active of the pa triotic women from the ranks of the stage, her personal efforts in one after noon bringing to tho Red Cross $17,000. Also at the recent block party celebra tion in Fifth avenue rhe cajoled many of the spectators Into donating money to the cause by rewarding tho donor with a dance on the pavement to the music of a corner band. Ono venerable business man, for a brief and, on his part, somewhat unsteady fox fot, was Induced to yield up $1000.- As Miss Barker limped back to headquarters she said she had been underpaid. May Irwin may return to the statro this season in a new musical play, title not selected. The book is being writ ten bv Glen MacDonald. the lyrics by- Joe Young and Sam Lewis, and the mu sic bv Ted Snyder. The show is the inusicallzed "Sister Mary." a former Ir win success. The plot, which deals with prohibition, is considered more timely now than when first put on. Kurt Eisfelt Is producing the piece. Mr. Eisfelt is Miss Irwin's husband. Muriel Ridley, a dancer, was suc cessful in winning her suit for $lio0 against Lady Duff Gordon, the sponsor of the vaudeville act known as "Pleur ette's Dream at Peronne." which played about a year ago. Miss Ridley. Eng lish, agreed to appear in the Lady Duff Gordon act upon Lin a Abarbanell's rec ommendation, and was forthwith en gaged, verbally, at a salary of $73 weekly, which was eventually reduced to $50 weekly. The plaintiff, through her attorney, Alexander Mayper, alleges she rehearsed with the turn up to the point where it "broke in," prior to its Palace, New York, engagement. When the act arrived at the Palace Miss Rid ley was let out, although she showed programmes of the current week of the "Fleurette" ict bearing her name as the dancer. She entered suit for the amount mentioned, which represents the promised 30 weeks' engagement at $50 per. Myron C. Fagin. business man ager of the turn, entered the defense on the stand that he had 1'et her out on rehearsals because of his belief Miss Ridley would not come up to the Palace standard. The plaintiff proved she had appeared on that stace on four differ ent occasions prior to the i.ordon en gagement. Judee Walsh, of the Cityjceived as to the extent or the niacnln Court, upheld her plea, and the jury I ery trouble or how long she would he awarded her the full amount. I undergoing repairs. Those Who Come and Go. Tradition, as exemplified by motion picture plays and short stories, has made the average newspaperman a thing of beauty, handsome with great dark eyes that snap fire and unlimited energy. He must be physically perfect, too. In real life, however, he is none of these things. He is just an ordinary piece of masculine humanity. But V. G. Alls-run. of Chicago, who was at the Benson yesterday, had not met many newspapermen in real life until he en countered "Irv" Cobb. the portly, homely correspondent with the interna tional reputation. So. as Mr. Allgrun had drawn his ideas from the pictures and the printed page, he may be par doned for remarking that Mr. Cobb "may be a good newspaperman, but he is most awfully homely." And Mr. All srrum was really skeptical regarding Mr. Cobb's reportorial abilities. Inci dentally, Mr. Cobb told Mr. Allgrun. whom he met on the train in Montana, that "the dollar-a-year man was gross ly overpaid." Mr. Cobb was quite a hu morist, said Mr. Allarun. J. L. Cox. Seatttelte and world rover, does not bother about the high cost of living. He is just as much at home in the Klondike as in Oregon. If you asked the large cattle men of Canada. South America and Australia if they knew Cox they would, of a certainty, say "yes." Mr. Cox buys and sells cattle. He is just as much interested in a trainload or two as In a carload. Wherever in the world he hears that beef cattle are to be obtained at a bar gain. Mr. Cox wanders there, deposits tho cash, and then takes said cattle to some other point on the globe where the market is high, or where he expocts it will be high. In between the two prices there is a nice profit. The profit is Mr. Cox's, who, therefore, does not worry about the rising cost of comesti bles. He was at the Imperial yester day. It will be welcome news to Pendle- tonites that Roy Alexander, the "well known and popular" young man of the Cmatilla County metropolis will shortly once more be in their midst. Sergeant Alexander is still in the un popular Pepot Brigade at Camp Lewis, but Carl Cooley. another of Pendleton's younger set. received yesterday, at the Benson, a nice big bundle from Camp Lewis containing Sergeant Alexander's old duds. "Which to me," said Cooley, Would. seem to indicate that Roy ex pects to get out of the service in a week or less. Cooley, young Alexander, 11. W. Collins and a group of Pendle ton's young progressives about a year ago bought out Alexander's depart ment store and are running it on new and vigorous lines. From and after Thursday Seattle guests will receive either a candle or a lantern with their room keys, accord ing to J. W. Pyncheon. veteran O.-W. conductor, who Is at the Mullnoraah. The principal problem the Scattlo hotel owners face is what to do about their laundry. said Conductor Pyncheon. They usually have three sots, one on the beds, one In the wash and one on the shelves. As Uicre are indications that the set In the wash may stay in the wash indefinitely, if the strike con tinues, the hotel owners and their pros pective guests do not view the prospect with equanimity. J. C. Cooper's walnuts are famous wherever walnuts are eaten. He know the exact thickness of the shell wal nuts should have and Just how much water and fertilizer and pruning, and all the rest of it. that walnuts should receive. Therefore it is not surprising that he is president of the Walnut Growers' Association. At the Portland yesterday Mr. Cooper was eternally be steced for some of the nuts he carried with him. The demand was so great ho donated one at a time only. Mr. Cooper hails from McMinnville. "Say," said the bellhop. "Pipe that skoirt. That's a princess, honest it is. 1 took a tter to her today addressed to Princess Mona Darkfeather. t's straicht it is." Her Motion Picture Highness is, however, registered at tho Oregon as Mrs. P. E. Montgomery. H. j M. P. Hiehncss has appeared with many different companies. Major C. R. Peck, once an attorney, of Marshfirld, Or., went to "war." They attached him to the Spruce Production Iivlsion and sent him back to Marh ficld. Major Peck, who was at tho Im perial yesterday, is heartily in acree ment with the way Etandard authori ties are reported to define war. W. L. Thompson, who doubles In the capacity of president of the American National Bank, of Pendleton, and Stale Hiphway Commissioner, with his fincer in every patriotic drive and worthwhile enterprise in Cmatiila County, was at the Benson yesterday. While IT. S. Page has the Initials that would entitle hint to be a Federal em ploye, he Is a member of the State Treasurer's force at Salem. Mr. Page is at the Imperial. Editor J. S. Dellinger of the Astoria Astorian, was at the Multnomah yes terday. County Judge W. D. Barnes, of Bend, was registered at the Imperial Hotel yesterday. J. L. Calvert, banker of Grants Pass, was at tho Multnomah Hotel yesterday. Herbert Nunn. the State Highway Engineer, was at the Benson Hotel yes terday. nillns; of ZOth Engineers. MOL'N'T SOLO. Wash.. Feb. 4. (To tho Editor.) In The Oreguniati Janu ary 26 I notice you reply to "Anxious Wife" and several others in regard to the return of units of the 2ith Knci neers that up to Friday. January -4. none of these units had been listed in sailings. I have a son in the 32d Com pany of the 20th Engineers and have watched notice of sailings closely. I raw in the official bulletin of Janu ary CO where the battleship New Jer sey sailed from Brest January 13 with th 32d. 33d and 31th companies of the 20th Engineers aboard and wan due to arrive at Newport News January 27. Could it be possible that thin notice is in error? J. E. YOUNG. The 11th Battalion, :0th EnBineern. composed of the 32d. 33d and 31th com panies, arrived at Newport News Feb ruary 1 on the New Jersey. Not all announcements of sailings are sent out over the press wires and the official bulletin gives us the final check on these announcements. You overlook the fact that you found the notice in the bulletin after January 24 and un doubtedly after January 2fi. when the reply appeared In Tho Oregonlon. In cidentally, much of tho 32d Company will be mustered out at Camp Lewis. Itejort on "Western Sr." MCMINNVILLE. Or., Feb. 4. (To the Editor.) Was the C. S. S. "Western Sea" built in Portland? Can you give any Information about her present whereabouts. She left New York about Dec. 20, bound for the south of England where she was to receive orders where to take her cargo of flour. My son is one of her officers and we have had no word from him since he sailed. K F R II. 1. No. 2. The Western Sea left New Tork for London December 21 and arrived January 12 with her machinery dam aged. Her ultimate destination -was Falmouth. No Information has been r"- In Other Days. Twenty-five Tears Ago. From Te Oregonlan of February . ISM. The purchase of a heater for Engine Company No. 1. four, hand tongues for the trucks of the different tire compa nies and two horses was authorised at the regular monthly meeting of the tiro commissioners yesterday. Over a ton of Chinook salmon weigh ing from 30 to 50 pounds each was re ceived by one dealer yesterday from down the Columbia. Officer Hudson, row on the East Side, is the oldest policeman on the force. Sunday was the S"th anniversary of his appointment. When he first caxna on Harry L. Hoyt was City Marshal. The Oddfellows' building on Grand avenue is on wheels and will soon b turned to face the avenue. This struc ture originally stood at East Tenth and East Oak streets. Washington. The President has sent to the Senate a treaty negotiated with the representatives of Great Britain tor an extension of the time lor making survey of the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions. Fifty Vein Ago. From The 0:ccon!an of Tcbrusry 6. The Senate lias aci ccd to Mr. Cor- bett's resolution directing that an offi cer bo selected to pick out points for tho erection of litrhthouscs on th coasts of Orccon, Washington Terri tory and Alaska. A private letter from San Francl'ci says that a company has been formed to operate steamers between thai c;ty and Portland. Construction of a water ditch in Mc- Mlnnvlllo for milling purposes and of another to convey water from thei Grand Rondo River at Oro Dell is con templated by companies recently formed in those cities." Washington. It is reported that: Suratt is preparing for the press a his tory of hi efforts to escape arrest hit! thai he will divulge u)l he knows about the assassination of President Lincoln. Colonel J. F. Morse, special agent and Government architect for this Coasl. has been in The Dalles several days ex amining specifications for Tho Dal Us branch mint. Artists. nr l.raee 1- Hall. They come, do these fairy artists, when the dawn o'erfpreads the sky. With brushes and placqucs and mode'. from tho Master's great supply; They catch up the glistening dew-drops and fashion them one by ono Into petals for gorgeous flowers to glow "ncath the noon-day sun: They sprinkle a bit of incense on each blossom day by day. That each one may waft its fragrance to the souls that pus that -way: They enclose In the heart of the rose rich colors that none rhxll see Till they search for the glow that none may know who pass by heed lessly. They come, do these fairy artists, with their brushes of red and sold. And ralnt ail the fl.iminc landscape with radiant colors bold; They hang red beads on the bushes where the roses fade and die. And they mottle the verdart foliage- with tones from the sunset sky: They paint brown cones for the pine trees: for the haselbush, brown burrs : They design for the shivering forest a mantle of dark-Kreen firs; A labor of love is their tintinc. and from rosebud to goldenrod They give of their art, unstinting, in tho great out-doors of God. HIGH VAI.VI3 OK 3IARKLT IIO.IOS First Cnnnltlerntlna I Raised Fop Their Construction. SALEM. Jan. 31 (To the Editor.) T.a.t night at tho State Houee. we. listened to eloquent speeches on tho toad questions. I paid particular at tention to Mr. Thompson, from Pendle ton. Or., who is a member of the State HiBhwny Commission. Ho said they would speed up and complete the Co lumbia and the Pacific Highways, and asked the members of tho Legislature to brace up and vo-te a ? lo.onn.nun bond ishue. so they could conipicto the road procram. IWe have n" objection to the Colum bia, the racifio lliphway. or any other hlirhw-ay, nor the- bond issue; hut tho road program of two years nfco was made before America entered the war and at present, programmes and treat ies are set aside to meet conditions that are now confronting us. The facta are tliee: The most important busi m ss Is to produce foodstuffs for llio human race; so to the farmers of East ern Oregon, who" produce wheat hy the millions of bushels, wo say "speed up." and to the small dairy farmers of Western Orepon. w e say, ''speed up ' and take gO"d care of your sucking calves and milk your cows. "Mush on.' Hand your milk to tho market seven days in tho week in mud, rain or sun yhlne as there are thousands of chil dren In the I'nited States and millions of our allies crj ins for milk and wo will get our reward and go down in history as benefactors of ihe human race. But let us insist that the mar ket roads are entitled to receive care ful consideration. Any one having any objection to this letter, please answer. E. WEMSTROM. noacl Tric Cfceup and Ffrecllve. PORTLAND. Feb. S. (To the Editor.) In Portland, the King road drag is not properly appreciated nor adequately used. Wherever a road Is properly graded there Is no rearon why it should not be kept passable at all seasons and under all circumstances. The use of the drag should be so frequent and per sistent as to allow no water to stand between the side ditches. If tho dragclng is done when it should be jurt after a shower the surface becomes baked and. by keeping the sub-surface bone dry. tho heaviest truck will not dent it. When the cnt is considered, you have the host kind of road that it is possible to ma ke. With mc thl Is not simply a theory. I havo seen it demonstrated and know nhercof I speak. Furthermore, if prop er equipage is placed at my disposal. I will civo a demonstration on a public street here. J. M. AM START. Southern Wood Shipyards. ALBANY. Feb. 4. (To the Editor.) I would like the name and addresses of some of the largest wood shipyards of the South. Will you please publish same or advise me where I can get this information. A READER. Try writing to Southern Lumberman, Nashville, Tenn. The Emergency, Fleet Corporation would have the Information but It is doubtful if It would answer miscel laneous inquiries. Addition to Mr. Draek'a Name. PORTLAND, Feb. S. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly tell me why Arno Dosch added tho Fleurot to his name? He is a Portland man and we knew him as a newspaper correspondent. , I. E. D. Z. Mr. Dosch found It advantageous, while with the allies in France, to append the name of his mother. This was Fleurot. as she was a native o Alsuce-Lorraine. i