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TJXC 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATUKDAY, MAIICIT 1. 1919
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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1919.
THE SEW SPIRIT
One must be Impressed by the out
standing acts of the legislative assem
bly just closed -with the fact that
Oregon has undergone a change of
sentiment as regards public expendi
tures. There is a broader outlook and
better conception of duty to self and
to posterity and to the present and
future wards of the state. That is to
eay, one must be thus impressed if he
concedes that legislative acts are indica
tive of public opinion. There are some
who will not concede that a legisla
ture wholly made up of those who
solicit office for themselves is truly
representative, and it may be admitted
that the ideal of free selection of rep
resentatives by the people is not at
tained. But If not fully representative
the legislature is fairly responsive.
Those who seek office for pure love
of it, or for some personal motive or
f utura prestige know that their ambi
tions are controlled by the satisfac
tion they may give their constituents.
This responsiveness was indicated in
the election of Port of Portland com
missioners. It was there demonstrated
that organized public sentiment can
attain its desires from the law-makers.
So'it may be assumed that'in the pre
liminary legislation for unusual ex
penditure of public money and unpre
cedented public indebtedness the legis
lature was or believed it was comply
ing with the will of the people.
In the past it has pleased Orego
nians to remark with pride that their
state was without a public debt. Yet
there is nothing reprehensible about
Indebtedness if it is incurred for real
development and true betterment. No
business attains much growth without
at some time borrowing money to en
large its service. The state is a busi
ness enterprise. The people have been
a. long time in reaching that under
standing. Two years ago the legisla
ture submitted a $6,000,000 road
bonding scheme with trepidation. It
did not have the courage to put the
plan into effect upon its own respon
sibility. .It submitted it to the people.
Kven that was considered venturesome.
Hut the bond plan was adopted by the
voters. A large portion of the fund
created has Jieen carefully and wisely
expended. The value of good roads
s a pure business investment has in
two short years been so fully im
pressed upon the public that the road
programme now goes on its progressive
way with hardly a hindrance. To the
$6,000,000 in road bonds has been
added a provision for $10,000,009
more. This time the legislature was
able to gauge public sentiment, for the
bonding bill was adopted without ref
erence to the people and an emergency
clause to make it immediately effec
tive was added.
There are other state enterprises
approved which calf for large sums
of money. Because of the constitu
tional restrictions the legislature could
do no more than submit them to the
people. The building programme pro
vides for a possible expenditure, to be
made available through a bond issue,
of $5,000,000. Unlike the road bonds
which are a capitalization of increased
auto licenses, the building bonds will
be a tax charge against property in
general. It has been said that the
American people have obtained
through a world crisis a certain
spiritual uplift; a higher conception
of both private and public duty to
others. The building programme is a
practical test of how firmly the new
ideals have taken hold in Oregon.
There is, incidentally, therein provis
ion for employment of discharged sol
diers and sailors for a. stop gap in
industrial readjustment, and $750,000
is set aside for co-operation with the
government in a soldiers' land-settlement
plan. But the programme of
fers more. It suggests better edu
cational' facilities for the youth
of the state, , better care of the
penal, reformatory and charity wards
of the state. Past indifference has
been strikingly represented at the
state penitentiary. The convict has
few friends. He is deemed to be
justly put at some personal discom
fort. But he is, nevertheless, a human
being and his living conditions at
Salem have been such that no man
can look upon them without feeling
tho blush of shame. Other institu
tions have felt the blight of parsimony,
by some called economy. The build
ing needs of educational and other in
stitutions have never been fully met.
Now all these faults are to be cor
rected if the people so will it.
The legislature, and we think the
people, have finally discovered that a
dollar of tax money profitably spent is
not a dollar wasted. There is a vast dif
ference between burdensome taxes im
posed merely to provide comfortable
offices for politicians, and taxation for
public improvements. The first is still
in disfavor and always will be. It is
an extravagance, while the second is
not an extravagance so long as such
taxes are not devoted to empty monu
ments and needlessly ornate structures.
There is in addition a land reclama
tion plan submitted to the voters. It
does not contemplate large expendi
ture of public money but a guar
anty of irrigation, drainage and other
land reclamation bonds issued by dis
tricts organized and functioning under
state laws and safeguarded thereby.
These improvement and develop
ment measures were the outstanding
acts of the legislature. Much else of
importance might be cited if this were
intended to be a general review of
newly enacted laws, which it Is not.
There was legislation, too, of doubtful
merit, some quite experimental. There
was much wholly unnecessary and
clamorous discussion of details. Occa
sionally one detected a distinctly po
litical flavor in debate and enactments.
There were outcroppings of factional
ism, feudism and personality. But we
have thes ein all legislatures. There
are those 'who profess"""to believe that
a change of system will change the
human nature In which these detri
mentals are bred and born, but the
most promising conceptions tried out
in minor state subdivisions have not
succeeded yet in eradicating them. The
best appraisal of a law-making body
is one that concerns its accomplish
ments. As already indicated, the thir
tieth session did much that was con
structive. There were some things left
undone notably consolidation of state
departments but he who looks for
perfection to come out of forty-six
da-3 of turmoil over 900 bills is too
optimistic for the present age.
PUT IT BACK.
For years Portland was the center
of government reclamation activities
on the Pacific coast. In that time
plans for the development of several
great Irrigation projects were pre
pared and carried out. The serviee
of the Pacific coast, bureau, to these
important enterprises, and to other
enterprises of merit in Washington,
California and Nevada, was great.
The first duty of the reclamation
bureau was, of course, to the larger
interest of the general government;
and it was performed. But there was
a certain proper sectional interest to
which the bureau was related, and
which it promoted; and it, too, had
valuable support; It is likely, for ex
ample, that, except for the. active con
cern of the reclamation bureau offi
cials for the west Umatilla extension,
it would have been utterly overlooked.
Four years ago the reclamation bu
reau in this city was closed. Politics
may have been the reason; or it may
have been due to the common cessa
tion of activity. Some officials were
dropped and others were transferred
to Denver.
Now Denver Is western" headquar
ters for reclamation. Kvery Pacific
coast project nowadays is scrutinized
and measured through Denver and
Colorado eyes. For four years, or
more, reclamation has been in an
anemic condition of Coloradization.
Now there is to be a revival of
reclamation, through an appropriation
of $100,000,000 which will doubtless
be made by congress. It is high time
Oregon and the Pacific coast took a
renewed interest in the subject.
The first step in the programme, so
far as Oregon is concerned, is to see
that the reclamation bureau is re
established in Portland.
EX-SENATOR EDMrXDS.
Announcement that -Senator
George F. Edmunds is dead seems to
carry the mind back to a bygone and
almost-forgotten acre, for it i ncn.
ciated with controversies which were
long ago settled, or pushed aside for
others which seemed more urgent. Yet
he was a power. in the senate during
twenty-five of the most eventful years
of the nation's lifn. TT vvc c nr
type which it is now fashionable to
ta.li reactionary, Dut ne was one of the
Drotrressives of his Anv not ih v.
was continually spouting hatred of a
tiiisa pui mai ne iook a leading part
in Khanin? the envorn m n t ant lnr-;
lation to the changing needs of the
i
We rightly believe that w o
great work of reconstruction to do, but
it is no greater, in proportion to popu
lation and the means at our disposal,
than that in which Edmunds had a
part. He helped to reconstruct the
exhausted and war-ravaeerf smith Tic
was among those who restored our
noances to a solid basis, and the law
which cut out the cancer of nr.vnm
bears his name.
Though the anti-trust 1 aw rt f 1 c a n
bears the name of Phormon it
drafted in its final shaje by Edm,unds.
itlb wa one or me great constitutional
lawyers, of his timv nri t,-
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frowned on the revolutionary construe-1
"u" t tnese latter days those who
would consism evervthine- HiuKnti.
American to the melting pot call him
a lOTtnouary. remaps ne was not as
ready as he should have hprn t n
some new ideas, but he believed in
continuing to build on the solid foun
dations laid long ago, not that the red
riot of destruction was a necessary
Ficimnuarj to progress.
It is no disparagement nf t
brilliant and patriotic senators of this
uay to say mat tne venerable Edmunds
was the peer of any man who ever sat
in Lite senate.
WHEN TEACHER COMES BACK.
The conferences of President Wilson
with members of congress at the
capitol suggest comparison with the
action of the teacher and his class
when the former returns to the room
after brief absence. The boys have
been playing, eating candy, nuts or
apples, or perhaps shooting paper
wads at each-other, but when teacher
comes In he or she calls them back
to their studies, and there is sudden
devotion to acquisition of knowledge.
So since the president's return there
has been decided speeding up of legis
lation, for he has admonished congress
to get those appropriation bills through
ana dispose of other legislation which
he deems urgent. He wants to get
back to Paris and regulate the affairs
of the world, and does not wish to
leave congress "playing horse" in his
absence. Time enough for congress to
meet again when he returns with the
world nicely regulated.
All of this does not accord with the
intent of the fathers of the republic
when they made the legislative branch
of the government co-ordinate with,
not subordinate to, the executive
branch. The intent was that congress
should take the initiative in doing its
work, receiving recommendations, not
.instructions, from the executive. Un
der the present administration con
gress has abandoned the initiative to
the executive, and when he is absent
it does routine work but mostly
gabbles. If any member proposes
something new, he gets nowhere with
it, for the leaders hold it up to await
instructions from the big chief, who
is busy with other affairs.
The present session is One of the
most important that congress has ever
held, when we consider the momentous
questions with which the nation has to
deal, but it has touched scarcely any
of these problems. Two of them
should have come before all else a
system of demobilization and a plan
of land reclamation which would pro
vide work and homes for soldiers who
could not find other employment. Sol
diers are being demobilized without
any regard to the places that may be
open for them in civil life, and no
provision for extra pay and allowances,
such as all other big belligerents have
made, was enacted until about a mil
lion ancfa half of them had been dis
charged. As to reclamation, the pros
pect of action at this session fades as
we enter the month of March.
But with all the great problems
awaiting legislation and with indus
try going at half speed because they
are unsolved, the president proposes
to delay the meeting of the new con
gress until the beginning of June, when
he returns from Paris. He assumes
that congress cannot function in his
absence, or at least does not wish it
to function, in order that he may not
have it and the peace conference on
his hands at the same time. For that
reason he proposes to waste three
months which should have been de
voted to settling the nation's sadly
muddled affairs.
The president is responsible for the
paucity of achievement by the 65th
congress, for he reduced it to its condition-of
impotence and then left it
to run itself. Yet one reason for delay
ing the meeting of the 66th congress
is that he foresees that it will function
and will resume tho initiative designed
by the constitution. One great gain
to be made after March 4 Is that the
constitution will be restored and that
the government will again consist of
three co-ordinate branches.
THE NEXT SPEAKER,
By deciding on Representative Fred
erick H. Gillett of Massachusetts as
their candidate for speaker, which is
equivalent to his election, the repub
lican members of the house of repre
sentatives have chosen an experienced
legislator, a man of proved ability, of
thorough knowledge of public affairs,
and, above all, a man of unblemished
record for patriotism during the war.
The course of the republican party
as a whole during the last few years
has been soundly American, but there
have been weak spots where Germans
and pacifists had much influence.
Representative Mann's district was
one of these weak spots, which may
explain his wobbling on occasions-
which called for straight Americanism.
If he had been elected speaker, his
doubtful record would have .been taken
to express the attitude of the part and
would have been a serious handicap
in the election of next year. All cause
for discussion on that point is now
removed.
Mr. Gillett comes from a state which
did its part nobly In the war, and he
personally, as acting leader of his
party, gave unswerving support to
every war measure. He is thoroughly
informed on the nation's finances
through his membership of the appro
priations committee, and is thus well
qualified to guide the work of finan
cial reorganization which will be one
of the many important duties of the
new congress. The large measure of
support which he received from the
Pacific coast will incline him to give
proper consideration to legislation for
this section.
Although Mr. Gillett Is 67 years old,
the country will hope for many years
of good service from him, which it will
receive, if he should have at robust
health as his predecessor, Mr. Cannon,
and it will hope to add his name to the
Hut of great speakers.
THE MEASURE Or ILLITERACY
Measured by the standard set by the
surgeon-general of the United States
army, there are more illiterates in the
country than most persons have sup
posed. Census reports for 1910 Indi
cated, that less Mian 10 per cent of the
adult population was illiterate. The
surgeon-general makes the percentage
- 0 and by his own' figures it prob
ably is greater than that.
The apparent' discrepancy is due to
difference in definitions of illiteracy.
Whereas the census enumerator set
down as "literate" all those who could
sign their names, the surgeon-general
calls one Ulcerate who cannot read
a newspaper printed in English and
write a letter home also in English.
His figures are based upon the re
turns from the drafted men, taken
from all walks of life and probably
representing as nearly a general aver
age of the people as could be easily
obtained. The number of drafted men
who failed to be classed as literate was
more than 700,000, or approximately
one in four.
The amazing feature of the ' dis
closure is that it was not foreign
born but American-born draftees who
brought down the average. The states
with large alien populations made a
better showing than the mountain re
gions of the south, in which the people
trace an unbroken lineage back to
colonial times.
American or alien, the illiterate
presents a problem which calls for
serious consideratiotujrom more than
one angle. Herbert Kaufman, special
assistant to the secretary of the in
terior, testified before the house edu
cation committee recently that 62 per
cent of the coal miners employed in
this country are unable to read safety
instructions posted in the mines or to
understand directions spoken to them
in English. Employment of sub-foremen
who are able to talk Jo them in
their own tongue meets the needs of
the situation only in part- Such men
are not always available, and in some
cases mixture of nationalities is so
marked that only by requiring all to
understand English can there be a
common bond. The fact that 3200
men are killed every year, and approx
imately 300,000 injured to a greater
or less extent, is probably associated
with inability to understand English,
as has been noted.
Experts testified that literacy alone
would add at least $5 a week to the
productive power of the worker. The
importance of this will be apparent
even to the most casual observer. But
even more important is the"effect upon
the standard of citizenship of such
education as would qualify all adult
residents of the country to be classified
as literate by the measuring stick of
the surgeon-general. It will be agreed
that the census standard does not
amount to much. One may barely
scrawl his name without being able
to do much else. Hut if every adult
could read a newspaper (or other
document) printed in English, and
write a letter, also in English, a sub
stantial beginning would be made
toward the solution of a larger
problem.
THE FARMER AND DATLIG HT SATING
The daylight-saving cloud has its
silver lining. Passage of the agricul
tural bill without provision for con
tinuance of the requirement that the
clock shall be moved ahead this sum
mer will disappoint most city folk, but
it will meet w ith the practically unani
mous approval of farmers. To these
it was a nuisance, only aggravated by
the widespread notion that it was de
vised to give city folk an extra hour
of leisure in which to motor and play
golf after working hours.
The farm day already began when
the sun rose, and (sometimes) ended
at dusk. A few years ago, when town
and country were not so closely allied
as they are now, the change would
have made little difference. The
farmer could have gone his own way
and let the city man do as he pleased.
There would have been no especial
disadvantage In two sets of clocks.
But the city and country are growing
into one. When city clocks are moved
up, tho farmer cannot ignore them.
He must deliver 'milk and vegetables
to- trains whose schedules are accom
modated to needs of consumers.
The trouble was that whereas the
city man had a margin for a change
of time, the farmer did not. Daylight
saving did a world of good w-hile It
was in effect, but Its beneficiaries
were all city folk. And it was frankly
a. war measure". It was, perhaps, too
much to hope that it would be ex
tended over into peace. We can only
hope that those who have seen the
benefits of early rising will continue
to get up early without waiting for a
law to change the clock.
WnY NOT CO-ORDINATE THEM?
Under present methods of caring for
wounded soldiers returning from duty
overseas, there are no fewer than
seven branches of the government
which may or may not be concerned
with his rehabilitation. These are the
office of the surgeon-general of the
army, the bureau of medicine and
surgery of the navy, the bureau of
war risk insurance, the United States
public health service, the federal board
for vocational re-education, the fed
eral employment service of the depart
ment of labor and, the department of
the interior.
From these organizations he may
receive medical treatment and educa
tion, award of pension provision for
artificial limbs, medical care after dis
charge, training for a new occupation,
placement In a job,, or settlement on
the land. One or more of these things
will be his due perhaps all of them.
Co-ordination between -departments
over which there is no" responsible
head can be only theoretical, "Passing
the buck" is a universal bureaucratic
failing.
Australia has established a depart
ment of repatriation, with a minister
In the cabinet. The interests of re
turned soldiers in Canada are covered
by a newly created department of sol
diers' civil re-establishmcnt. In New
Zealand there is now pending a bill
to place under a single administrative
head curative treatment, compensation,
vocational training, re-employment
and land settlement for returned
soldiers.
The precise method may be open to
debate. It may not- require an addi
tion to the cabinet to accomplish the
desired result. Hift is there any doubt
that something ought to be done
promptly to insure the most efficient
possible working together of every
government agency designed to help
the soldier?
The examples of these three coun
tries furnish the suggestion, if not the
working model, for a plan that might
well receive early consideration at
home.
Whatever hop fields are left from
the year's depression will be over
hauled and put into condition to meet
this year's demand, which will be
good. It may be the big year of the
gamble for all anybody-knows.
With delivery, fire fighting and gar
bage collection using power, the only
fine horses in active life will soon be
driven by the Chinese vegetable man;
but if ever he takes to power, provi
dence has Its work rut out.
The woman who works, wife of a
man on a paying job, does not care
for what people say or think if she
continues. Perhaps it is the first time
since marriage that she has her own
money to spend.
The Oregon democrat is in bad way
between loyalty to Wilson and Cham
berlain. "Though tho former gives the
marble heart to the latter, the man
in the ranks would better stand by the
senator.
.
That was a noble man the sailor
who jumped overboard and drowned
to save the rest of the crew from the
charge of bootlegging. He deserves a
monumental pile of empty bottles.
California will keep on wanting
Klamath county. Some time Oregon
may be divided at the Cascades, but
none of her area ever will become
Californian.
There were 250,000 in the volunteer
secret service last year, and the enemy
aliens who eluded all of them are
qualified to stay. They know when
to sit tight.
That bill in the California house
making a ten-hour day for the hired
girl is not enough. It should be eight
hours and let tho "missus" hire two
girls.
The idea of a forty days' session
probably was taken from the deluge.
It will be observed Oregon has a ten
dency toward rainy affairs.
The sole objection to the new attorney-general
is his style of name. If he
had to sign many documents he would
not part it in the middle.
This is the point in each short ses
sion of congress when each party says
to the other. "It's your fault," and
both are rie-ht.
It would be interesting to know what
each thought when President Wilson
grasped the hand of Senator Cham
berlain. When Germans talk of restoring the
kaiser, expect tho opposite. The world
will not allow it, which Germany
knows.
Under the new law auto owners are
as well off as before, though the
owner of a "junk" car must pay more.
One reason why soviet governments
are likely to be shortlived id that they
destroy everything there is to govern,.
Hired girls may get a ten-hour day,
but dad gets no overtime pay when he
walks the floor with the baby at night.
What is a luxury in the mind of the
taxpayer? The thing the other fellow
has, but he cannot get.
: By and by Pershing will need a man
to go along to wear all his medals for
a proper display.
Chicago partially will redeem itself
if Carter Harrison returns to run for
mayor.
Once the ocean is filled, these rains
may cease, but the prospect is not
bright.
Finally the matter is settled nd
Malheur lake stays in Oregon.
Those Who Come and Go.
For IS months Dan Tarpley was a
lumberjack in France as a member of
tho 10th engineers. He returned yes
terday to Portland, having been two
months on his way home from the
Swiss border. His overcoat is wrinkled,
his uniform warped and he wears a
campaign hat instead of the overseas
cap. The hat is a source of annoy
ance to Dan Tarpley because he had
to buy it from the quartermaster at
Camp Lewis. The cap became unwear
able after going through the anti
cootle fumlgator on his return to the
United States. The fumlnator put
wrinkles in the overcoat and uniform
which will never be eradicated. Mr.
Tarpley, who is no greenhorn where
timber is concerned, says the trees he
worked on near the Swiss border were
regular man-sized trees, from which
occasionally a 40-inch timber was
sawed. Most of the timber which other
engTheers had to deal with were about
the circumference of telephone poles.
Right into a hornets' nest landed
Representative Pat Gallagher of On
tario when he struck Portland yester
day. He found that the Rod and Gun
club is gunning- for him because the
Malheur lake bill was killed in the
legislature and Representative E. C
McFarland and some other sportsmen
were hostile. Mr. Gallagher was In
formed that the initiative will be in
voked to turn the lake 61.000 acres
over to the government as a bird re
serve. It had been agreed that the
bill was to pass with amendments
which suited the settlers and the bird
people, but Senator Julian Hurley
talked to such purpose that the senate
slaughtered the measure and now the
Rod and Gun club threatens to hold
Mr. Gallagher responsible.
"I'm going to see If the people of
rossu win elect me by mail as their
representative in the 1921 session of
tho legislature," announced James
Stewart at the Imperial last night. Mr.
Stewart was elected from an eastern
Oregon district, but before the legis
lature convened he moved to Corvallis,
where he will reside until his children
are graduated from the Oregon Agri
cultural College. The ending of the
war prevented Mr. Stewart from going
to Franco -as a "Y" secretary.
An unabating flow of travel is pour
ing throuKh the city, filtering throoch
the hotels and rooming-houses The
movement was so great yesterday that
standing-room-only signs were needed
at the principal hotels. Downtown ho
tels had long lines of waiting visitors
hcrelng- and threatening the clerks for
accommodations. To some extent the
traffic is accounted for by the passing
of ' returning soldiers from overseas
service, but there is a tremendous trav
eling public
Roy Ttltner. wheat grower of Uma
tllla and active in staging the Pendle
ton Hound-up, drove from Salem to
Portland last nluht In an auto. He
was accompanied by Benton Burdick.
of Redmond. They visited towns alonn
the way looking for a suitable safe
for a email bank.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Handley are
registered at the Seward. They are
returning to Tillamook, which Is one
of tho counties Mr. Handley represents
as a state senator. When at home
Mr. Handley practices with the laws
which he helps make at Salem.
C. E. Spence and family registered at
the Imperial yesterday from Salem. Mr.
Spence is master of the Oregon state
granae and has been in the third house
of the legislature looking after meas
ures in which the farmers were inter
ested. Mrs. A A Smith Is at the Seward
awaiting the arrival of her husband
from the legislature, where he repre
sented Baker county and was one of
the dozen members who wore the
bronze badge of tho four-minute men.
J. G. BJorges. who operates salmon
canneries at Astoria and at Altoona.
Wash., is at the Oreron. ,lr. BJorges
Is arranging the preliminaries for the
opening of the fishing season.
M. VanPorne. formerly of California,
but now eniraa-ed In th fruit-packing
business in Salem, was in Portland for
a few hours on business yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mesereau. of Doty.
Wash., are at the Benson. Mr. Mese
reau is one of the prominent figures
In the lumber industry In the Taciflc
northwest.
Among CorraTlls people at the Mult
nomah yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. C
J. Whiteside and Mr. and Mrs. O. M.
Locke.
Dick Klger, a sheep and cattle man
of Corvallis, is in town on a bnsiness
trip and is at the Imperial.
Orchardlsts of Medford. A C. Perkins
and A. w. Walker, were among the
arrivals at the Imperial yesterday.
Cook Patton, of Salem, a brother of
Hal. the two conducting a bookstore,
was In Portland yesterday.
R. H. Cowden. who comes from Ho
mer Davenport's town of Silverton. is
at the Oregon. Mr. Cowden is a banker.
K. Uchlda. representing commercial
interests in Japan, arrived at the Ben
son yesterday from Tokio.
I. C. Bunress of Walla Walla Is In
Portland attending the automobile
show. He Is at the Oregon.
Mrs. Alhertina Johnson of Seaside,
accompanied by Miss Alfin. are at the
Multnomah.
R. H. Irwin and J. n. Raeve, from
Stanfield, are at the Seward for a few
days.
LAND HECLAMATIOS THK T II TNG
Government Appronrlntlons for Irriga
tion Are Prosperity Insurance
SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 27. (To the
Editor.) Money appropriated by the
states and government for irrigation is
well Fpent. I apeak of appropriations
for bringing irrigable lands under
water. No' money spent by the states
or by the federal government will
bring as large returns or continue to
bring them for the present generation
and for the Kenemtions to come as the
money spent for. Irrigation. Kvery
acre of arable land brought under
water will bring better returns per
acre than any non-irrieated land.
There are many suggestions -from all
parts of the United States to provide
work and homes for our returned sol
diers. There is nothing that will give
as many men work and provide homes
for all who wish to leave the city as
to put the irrigable land under water.
As a starter the land between the Cas
cades and the Rockies will do. Twenty
acres of sage brush land under water
will support a family of five or six
and then some. Twenty acres of land
will take cars of 15 milk cows or for
raising apples, hogs and everything
that a farmer raises except grain and
that also, if used in the raising of
stock. ,
Let all those who have the prosperity
of the country at heart, write your
congressmen, your state legislators and
tell them to work for the irrigation ap
propriations! Start the work! Don't wait until we
have 2.000,000 more men with us who will
have to work for a living! Start now
and push it alone! It will bring pros
perity to all. whether rich or poor and
your children will thank you for
having the foresight to do this work.
If you want to see the results of Irri-
ation. investigate Utah. Arizona and
"Jolorado. W. E. COLTON.
TOO INTIMATE WITH ROYALTY
Colonel Watterxoa Says Wilson Has
Destroyed Chance of Re-election.
Miami (Fla.) Herald.
Henry Wanerson, being a winter res
ident of Miami, who keeps a sharp and
clear lookout upon the country and tho
world at large and is suspected of hav
ing had in his time some illuminating
political experience, a reporter from
tho Herald called and put to him the
direct question. "Will Woodrow Wilson
be the democratic candidate for presi
dent in l2or' to which tho editor ol
the Courier-Journal replied:
'If Mr. Wilson wants the nomination
he can have it, because tlfi party ma
chinery is wholly in his hands and
there is no one of national character
and standing to oppose him."
"What about the third-term issue?"
the Herald's scribe modestly inquired.
"l am afraid." said Mr. Watterson.
"that the democratic party of the
period is not much moved by Issues. Its
objective is rather the concrete thinss
of public life, the governmental patron
age, the emoluments of place and polf,
in a word, the loaves and fishes. For
the matter of that, all our parties are
more or less afflicted with tho disease
known of old as 'officitis.' It is still
with the party leaders, as it ever baa
been. "What are we here forr "
"You don't give credit." still venture
some, put in the Herald's reporter, "to
the claim of tha leaders that it is the
country, the whole country and noth
ing but the country they seek to serve?"
"The trade-mark of the professional
politician." the veteran answered, "is
the party labeLhis asset popular ma
jorities, or the hope of popular majori
ties. Apart from these he is nothing.
You may recall that In pal Is of Kansas
once described a statesman as a politi
cian out of a Job. But now each poli
tician who has a Job calls himself a
statesman and has his claim allowed
by the riff-raff who rattle round as
voters
Somei on 'em venal and some on 'em m!-r.
Hut all on 'em hayseeds and crtckuri.1'
"That seems hard on our southern
people." the reporter, still true to his
colors, made bold to Fay.
The southern people"' exclaimed the
old Confederate. "They are a race of
degenerates. I know them not. 1
passed tho better part of my life Bsht
ing southern battles. The south came
out of an unequal war into which the
wildcat folly had precipitated it. a
picked bird. Reconstruction menaced
It with political extinction. The south
ern extremist of secession vanquished,
impoverished, ruined, was met by the
northern extremist of radicalism, im
perious, savage of temper and malign
of countenance, proposing to yield his
beaten adversary two rights, and two
riajhts only, the right to be hanged and
the right to be dam'd. Knlightcned
conservatism and patriotic devotion to
republican ideals rescued him from the
boa constrictor of sectionalism. Once
more he became a free man. Then what
happened? As soon as he got on his
feet or thought he was on his feet
he plunged successively into green
backlsm. free silverlsm, and licked to
a frazxle In both, as he deserved to be
ho is now pluncinc into prohibition.
Such an animal deserves not his free
dom, because be neither values it nor
is tit for it."
"But." Interjected the. reporter, who
has vies of his own, "is not the presi
dent coming to the rescue of tho better
classes of the people and will he not
save the country from what you. Mr.
Watterson. have called the Bolshevik!
of fanaticism and innorance?-
"Do you happen to recall." said Mr.
Watterson, "what happened to the
frogs who took Jupiter for their kitie?
Mr. Wilson in a very clever and a very
astute person. Ho hasn't taught school
for nothing. He harn't read history
for nothing. He has a mighty com
fortable perch In the White House he
likes it he is of no mind to move and.
like the wise old ral upon his hunk, or
cheese, he delivers beautiful lectnres
upon the glory of life and living, ithe
virtue of sweetness and liaht. .1 do
not relish the Idea of breaking In npon
his beatitude or callfna time upo4 his
Intentions or in any wise of criiicl-tnK
his exaltation, though whilst lvy
hook maxims seem to be Kotncfand
have weight with him I cannot ursist
reminding him that exploitation may
be carried too far. that pride some .mes
rides for a fait and that his passt i for
breaking precedents is a dangero' in
dulgence. "1 am an old-fashioned democra and
take precious little stock In roy lttcs
of any sort. When George the 'i liin!
reminded John Adams that, bti I: an
Kntrlishman born, he ought to lov.i Knc
land. tho sturdy old patriot s.l:iten
tlously replied: "Sire. I love no clintry
reminded John Artitms that, bet
except my own. I do not like t
have
the president of the United States
julte
s of
hlng
so persona grata to the great o
Kurope. I do not like his hobn
with crowns and scepters, stai
garters or as the saying used
ami
o be
"ripping with old Uurlpides and
cant
Ing with old Cantharides.' Two p.
have Just reached me from the
side which will make excellent
palgn material for the rcpublicai
of these represents Mr. and Mrs. i
tures
other
cam
one
ilson
standing 1 will not say smirkinp
with
King tie
ieorge and Queen Mary Jefore
lera. The other depicts -. and
ilson driving proudly do J n-the
tho cam
Mrs. W
Corso In Rome with King Victor Kmaa
uel and Queen Helena. For one don't
like it. It offends not only in; plain
American sense of republican s.mplic
ity. but what 1 may call a sense if na
tional propriety. There can be ro such
thing as equality between a citiitn and
a sovereign, and. save that tho presi
dent begins to think, feel and ait like
a sovereign, be is out of character and
out of place in these vainglorious ex
ploitations. He has shown himself at
times a man of very unequal tven of
infirm Judgment- With such haidicaps
to carry, along with the third-ltrm is
sue. I do not believe that if he agrees
to offer himself in 190 ho wil carry
a state outside the bolshevik provinces
of tho south
"Suppose you are mistaken and he
runs and is elected?"
"In that event, good-bye to the re
publio of Washington. Jack
Lincoln and all hail the autoc
i and
ies of
Bolivar, Rosas and Diar. North
merica
Is next door to South Amer
, you
; will
will
thing
know. But if he runs again
not be elected. The republic
have an easy thing an easi
than they had last year. But
see what we ehall sec."
0 shall
Education Aid for Soldlr
GRESHAM. Or.. Feb. 27.
Editor.) I would appreciate v
the publication whether or n
the
much
. bill
has passed the state leifislatur
bv all returned soldiers anc
where-
ailors.
who desire to do so. may at
state university or any stat
tlon and their expenses be pal
nd the
nstltu-
by the
state. G. G. Me,
UiR.
A bill of that purport was abmltted
to the people for their apppval. It
was outlined In the news coumns of
The Oregon lan Friday, Februry 28.
Teachers Mlataam Pay m w.
DRAIN, Or.. Feb. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) 11) Was there a law assed at
the recent legislature fixing a mini
mum price of $75 per month r teach
ers? 2) If so. does it appr to the
state as a whole? (S) Whe does it
take effect? RADER
1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Ninety days after end legisla
tive session.
Ills Wife Is a Flatted.
Jude.
Husband It Is a strance line, bur
true, that the biggest foolsbave tho
most oeautiiui wives.
ife oh. you flatterer.
In Other Day.-
Tnenty-Flve. Yearn Ago.
P"rn Tl:a Oregonlao. March 1. 1K.
New York. A great battle which it
j..- ex;cTcd wi'l end the revolt in Braul
'M ejected torrorrow according to in-
rvii.on received here from Rio de
June:'o. The government's new fleet
Is 3u then.
Wa-htnR-ton Resolutions demanding
aroiTplete investigation of the affairs
ot the Nicar.-.fuan Canal comnanv hav
(teen Introdu.cd in congress by kepie-
.-ci-.ia ive o-ary of California.
, . Alharv- N- The greater New Tork
vnit;: Nw" York City and Brook.
...y u.-t:i s gned by the governor.
In vrporanon r.f the Columbia Rlv
T..iilroad ciary by officials of the
""n1 ailroad has been ef-
It.cted. The main object la the con.
" ....ii o: a i -ie to Astoria,
Fifty Years Aao.
Troir T!-a Oresonian. March 1 !!.
Tie n-ownsvl'le Woolen Mills, sold
at her?i - sale February 22. were bid
in by J. 1- .Vome:th for i913.5J.
Fsris.-Gre.-r-r ha officlallv an
no.,n. ei t ,e ic-eMablishment of peace
"V; Th 5iul,I'm Porte, at
S , ""1"' ha! 1'ue'1 circular
of thank i-, ,). forricn powers for
-he r attii.n !n .h5 at) difficulty,
Havana. Or.iera have been Issued
the M,ri n troora In tho field to take
no rn,o.,. Th insurgents have re
tal.ated I v , r. a i. ura t in g a campaign
of oetru il-j,, , a estates owned by
iK"'r', VfIoc,rJ tried
out In this city yesterday. The verdict
of the spectators was acalnst it. It
was declared th;.t nothing less than a
practical two-wheel velocipede would
DOCK REVKWES AIK ICnF.ArG
Business at Municipal Terminals Shown
Gratifying Ipmrd Trend.
PORTLAND. Feb. 2S. (To tho Edi
tor.) One prominent citizen of Port
land recently imparted to another
prominent citizen the information that
the only business the Washington
street terminal on the east side, known
as municipal dock .No. 2. had ever done
as wiih Han Kellaher'a fish boat.
This trifling remark well illustrates
the spirit of a good many citizens and
furnishes at least one answer to the
quest ion "What is tho matter with
Portland?" Whether willfully or Inno
cently made, the effect of such com
ments Is tho same. They slmplv help
to swell the "anvil chorus" of the
knockers. It would at least help con
ditions a little if wc would all of us
spend at ast as much time in find
ing something in commend as some of
us spend in seeking out something
to condemn.
As the ajiiount of revenue coming In
rroni our municipal docks is of some
general Interest, it is not amiss to fur
nish a few fiKiires. The total revenue
for the past 12 months from dock No.
2 is approximately $35,000. In recent
months It has been rapidlv Increasing.
For November It was ltS.?3. for De
cember llii:6;i. for Januarv it was
over 11900. The trend Is upward and
there U every reason to believe It will
continue to increase and this is not
merely storage revenue, but comes
principally from freight that U con
tinually passing over the dock.
It is not easy to seprecate all the
overhead expense of the different mu
nicipal dock units, but it is sufficient
to say that dock No. 2. the dock that
owes its solvation to Dan Kellaher's
fish boat, at the rate of revenue com
tnir In durlnc recent months Is not only
meetinir ail operating expenses, hut is
In additron. een now. coming close to
meeting the interest on its total cost.
The total rexenuo from municipal
dock No. 1 f,.r the past 1- months has
been over JSS.Ooo. while its average
monthly revenue for several month.!
past has been nearly IlO.tmu. The reve
nue from the I'ltt.-burg-street terminal
has been ruintnj; from over lllon to
as hiirh as Il?3t per month. The total
revenue from these three docks last
month whs over 116.000. None of these
figures relato to the new St. Johns ter
minal, which la not yet in operation.
A number of applications, however, for
space on the completed dire , ihld
minal have already been received.
ir critics disposed to depreciate what
Is beinii done will he considerate
enounh to visit these different termi
nals they mav develon a itiffi.,..
ceptlon of existing and prospective con
ditions. C1LAS. B. MOOKHS.
L TUB YANKEES OX THE MARYE.
Oh. the English and the Irish, and the
'owlin' Scotties. too.
The Canucks and the Austryleyuna and
the, 'airy French Poilu;
The only thing that bothered us a year
before we knew
Was 'ow in VII the Yankees ud look,
an' wot in ell they'd do.
They 'arln't ad no tryin". they didn't
know the gyme.
They'd never "marched It" much their
"shootin"" was the syme;
An' the only thine that bothered us
that! day in lawst Julv
Was w In VII the lined '"old If they
should run aw'y.
Them IrctJy, nosey new uns. Just come
across the sea.
We could nit Vlp hut wonder "ow in 'ell
their? cuts 'd be.
An' the onfly thinp that bothered in alt
our JMasnre'rin' ranks.
Was wot lin ell 'ud "apnrn w'en thai
UnsUad "it the Tanks.
My word!
driv
We seed t
hlim
But tho o
that
appened sudden, w'en the
id first begun.
he Yanks a-runnin' Gaw
'ow they run:
ily thing that bothered ua
seed the chase begin
Was 'ow i
en to stop 'em 'fore thev
got i
nto Berlin. c
They didn
t 'ave no tactics but the
blood
r manual.
learned no borders but
-ty" and "give 'em 'ell";
ly thing that bothered us
them lesrgy lads
VII to cet the chow to feed
"Kamerads."
ndin all together In a etif
irin" line.
should awsk you, you can
Vre doin fine:
v thing that bothers us, an
on't bother much,
11 to cct the dirt to bury
j Dutch.
They ain'
" 'oo
but the oi
abou
Was 'ow in
their
So we're .st
fish
it any one
s"y w
But the onl
that
Is 'ow in
all th
Gaw's trew
h! It's rotten flehtln. that's
all ou
r troops 'as seen.
The 'in's
i dirty pryer. becos' 'e's
alwtis
But the oni
y thing that bothers us In
'andir
in our inanKS
1 we'd done it if It weren't
Yanks.
lish and the Irish, and the
Scotties. too,
and the Austryelyuns, and
ry French Poilu;
:ng that bothered us don't
us no more:
'ell we didn't V-nnv . w
Is 'ow in 'e
for tl
Oh. the Enr
"owllr.
The Canuck
the 's
The only t;
bothe
It's why It
Yank
I - -- t. w
I boys before.
tMERSoN HOUGH.
Of the Vigilante.
la a narrower.
-iianapolls Star.
kid Hut. father, he is a
triist.
ratious. girl: what I want
I
Mis Trit
man you ca1
Her Va
is one I cat
oorrow irom.