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l-OKTLAXD, WEDNESDAY, S1ABCH 12, 1919
I BAYONETS FOR BOLSHEVISM.
There is a close relation between
three leading news articles in The
Oregonian of Tuesday. One tells of a
decision by the supreme council of
the peace conference that conscrip
tion shall be abolished in Germany
and that the army of that country
elia.ll be limited to 100,000 men, all as
preliminary to abolition of conscrip
tion in all countries. Another de
scribes the terrorism practiced by the
Spartacans in Berlin and of the adop
tion of the "shoot on sight" policy by
the German government in dealing
with the reds. A third tells of a wide
spread conspiracy among all classes
of radicals to destroy the government
of the "United States. Closely con
nected is the decision of " the TJnited
States .supremo court upholding the
authority of the government to punish
Eugene V. Debs for obstructing re
jcruiting for the army.
If the allied nations should compel
Germany to reduce its army below the
force necessary to stamp out bol
shevism, and if they should reduce
their own armies below that limit they
vould be guilty of madness, for they
would betray democracy and civiliza
tion into the hands of those who seek
to1 destroy it. They cannot safely re
strict the forces which must combat
bolshevism to such small limits as are
proposed, either for Germany or for
any other country, until bolshevism
las been rendered powerless. Little
as we may trust the present govern
ment of Germany, we cannot deny
that it is the only effective force which
prevents v a bolshevism from over
whelming that country and becoming
supreme from the Urals to the Rhine,
Enough armed force should be left
to Germany to save orderly govern
ment from destruction, and enough
Should be maintained by the allies to
cope with that force lest it be turned
against them. The war is not over.
It has entered upon a second phase
dissolution of orderly government in
central and eastern Europe and upris
ings of the forces of anarchy and
crime, which seek to extend the same
;work of destruction to all other coun
tries. The world cannot safely disarm
so fully as has been proposed until it
lias harvested the aftermath of the
Siar with Germany.
This opinion is sustained byi the
methods used by the bolsheviki, both
tn Russia and in this country. In
"Russia their sole reliance is naked
force in its most brutal, ruthless form.
They do not hesitate to resort to con
iscription. They say in effect to every
man: "If you fight for us, you eat;
if you refuse, you starve, if you fight
egainst us, you die immediately by
the bullet or by torture." They have
"converted hunger into their most effi
icient recruiting sergeant. In the United
States they endeavor to prevent the
grovernment from organizing force Tor
its own defense by resorting to the
methods of Debs and the conspirators
ho are denounced by Solicitor-Gen
eral Lamar. If men are dissuaded
from doing military service, if they
are induced to resist the law, to de
stroy property, to paralyze industry
to set up a rival government, as was
iatttempted at Seattle, the established
government is to that degree weakened
and its would-be wreckers 19c to that
degree strengthened. The ground is
thus prepared for a new Lenine and
a new Trotzky to make themselves
supreme, to set up a new soviet and
to make streets flow with the blood
of those who resist it.
Yet we are exhorted by Raymond
Hobins not to use force for the rescue
of Russia from destruction or for the
salvation, of this republic from a red
revolution, because, he says, "you can
not kill an idea with bayonets." This
sweet-sounding platitude is promptly
snapped up by a bolshevism-tainted
paper of Portland and used as the
text of a homily. In an effort to prove
Its truth that sapient paper puts the
monstrous crime which is devouring
Russia in the same category with
Luther s reformation, with the decla
ration of independence and with the
struggles for freedom by the people
who were formerly oppressed by Ger
many and Austria. That is "the sort
of stuff which has been preached by
certain professional uplifters, many of
Nvhom now prove to be nothing else
Jthan down-tearers in camouflage.
"You cannot kill an idea with bay
onets." No, but if it isx a false and
Criminal idea inimical to everything
that distinguishes man from the beasts,
to everything that contributes to hu
man progress, you can make if as
rare as the dodo. The idea of mili
tary autocracy has been practically
Jiilled with bayonets; it survives only
among the defeated militarists of Ger
many and Austria, among the Turks,
5n such remote countries as Afghan
istan and Abyssinia, or in the brains
of Lenine and Trotzky, . where it
Camouflages as communism. If that
idea had not been fought with bay
onets, the opposing idea of democ
racy would have had a stunted, lan
guishing existence for many years, and
the modern rise of democracy which
the Dutch began in the sixteenth cen.
tury wouia nave ended to make a new
beginning. Right education and train
ing must be used to prevent false ideas
from gaining lodgment in people'
minds, but when they do gain a hold
and lead to lawless acts, their outward
manifestation must be combated by
Sorce. Laws against murder and bur
glary Cannot entirely kill off the idea
of those crimes, but can make them
such risky occupations that few will
follow them.
Conscription should be abolished
and armies and navies should be re
stricted as proposed by President Wil
son in one of bis fourteen points, but
not until free government has been
established safe from the assaults, of
bolshevism as well as autocracy", for
both are different forms of the same
thing- rule by brute force and their
physical manifestations can be over
come only by force. Bolshevism Is as
deadly and insidious an enemy as
kaiserism was, and it can be crushed
in the first instance only by force.
When it has been rendered incapable
of immediate harm, we can finish it
by resort to reason, but chiefly by
wise, humane laws and administration.
In these times of world-wide, dis
turbance there is need of clear, straight
thinking, and then of action in accord
with such thinking. Men need to take
and keep firm hold on the truths
which lie at the foundation of free
dom, civilization aid human progress.
One of these is that democracy is
founded on surrender of a certain
measure of each man's liberty in order
that he may the more securely pre
serve the rest. That truth is as often
forgotten by the over-conservative as
by the radical. In theory every man
is full sovereign over himself. Asser
tion of that sovereignty is anarchy
negation of all government. In the
practice of that theory the weak or
unarmed sovereign soon becomes sub
ject to the strong or armed sovereign.
As with individuals, so with nations.
Austria's pounce on Serbia, Germany's
on Belgium, was anarchy among na
tions in practice. The nations can put
down bolsheviki anarchy only by each
surrendering a part of its liberty in
order to preserve the rest. They should
then remain under arms until they
have crushed bolshevism as they
crushed kaiserism.
XOT NOW. PERHAPS NOT SOON.
The misguided propagandists of Ger
manized opera thought the present a
good time and New York a fit place
to renew the service to kultur vio
lently suspended in 1914. -They had
planned to produce a. musical work
German) . called "Der Vogelhandler,"
which has some relation to birds, but
more evidently to a. revival of the Ger
man idea everywhere. A group of sol-
iers and sailors took it upon them
selves to notify the kulturists that the
war was not over, and that the great
German work must not be produced.
They were obeyed.
The unthinking may say that these
hardy soldiers and sailors are making
ndiscriminate warfare on all things
German, and that a wiser decision
would be to give the world the benefit
of all the healthy products of German
civilization, education and culture, of
which there are many. But they had
been up against the German idea, in
full uniform and armed to the teeth.
and they recognized it in its disguise
as cosmopolitan music and literature.
There is a body of German music
which belongs to the world. Who
does not know that all nations
get profit and pleasure from
the operas of Wagner Wagner the
rebel, whose great career was all but
ended because he would not bow to
autocracy? Then there are Beethoven,
Haydn, Mozart and many more. Even
Handel, who is known as an English
composer, was born in Germany. The
list might be multiplied many times.
It is needless.
The solution as to what to do with
German songs and German operas lies
probably in the rule that they shall
be sung in English. If they are not
fit to be sung in English, hey are not
fit to be sung at all in America.
DO IOIB OWN Cl'ESSIXG.
PORTLAND, On. March 11. (To the Ed-
tor.) I see in that interesting column of
The Oregonian devoted to old times and
old timers that (George Chamberlain along
n 1894 was attorney-general of the state.
and that he was considering his eligibility
to run lor secretary or state. 1 am no
pioneer; I belong -to the latter part of the
Chamberlain era In Ort-Jron. 1 supposed
naturally that if he wanted to be secretary
of state he went and got it; but in looking
over the roster of state officials 1 find his
name missing so far as this particular
office is concerned. For goodness sake, what
happened? TENDEKFOOT.
What happened, indeed! On the one
hand, his term was about to expire,
and he had the alternative of retiring
to the uneventful ways and days of
private, life, or of running, as usual.
for something and staying in office, if
he won, and he always theretofore
had won. Surprising as it may seem, he
did the former. We shall never know
what would have happened if he had
cast his lot in the uncertain seas of
divided and distracted democracy;
for b it remembered that along about
that time the populistic boa had all
but swallowed the gentle democratic
gazelle. It was a republican year,
and the whole republican ticket was
elected. It might have been otherwise,
indeed, if our George Jiad not consid
ered it discreet to lie low until the
populist blow was over. Probably it
would have been otherwise; usually it
was, when he was on the ticket.
In 1896 Mr. Chamberlain evidently
thought the political skies were again
auspicious, for did not the populists
and the democrats bury their differ
ences and grandly unite in promoting
the candidacy of the illustrious Bryan?
He became a candidate for circuit
judge, in Portland, but, alas, there had
been somehow a disastrous miscalcu
lation in the reading of the horoscope,
for the Chamberlain star went into
eclipse that year. He was defeated by
Alfred F. Sears. There are other
claims to distinction for Judge Sears
besides the unique record as the only
man that ever defeated Chamberlain
for office; so this particular achieve
ment is not well remembered. Even
the Chamberlain biographers some
how overlook it. It is not agreeable
even for us to bring a forgotten epi
sode to light; but the record is the
record.
However, it was not often done. It
was never aone aiterward; and we
have no scruple in venturing the sur
mise that it may never be done again
True Mr. Chamberlain has shown a
certain independence of his party and
has even dared to criticise our august
president; but our guess is that he will
be duly renominated by a docile, if
mildly resentful, primary. We will
make no guess as to the further result.
The average citizen of Oregon is quali
fied to do his own guessing about
Chamberlain and any election.
The press agent of the tea industry
has been able to make out a good case
for the possibilities of tea in the Unit
ed States with the advent of prohibi
tion by confining himself strictly to
statistics. The United States is said to
consume only 100,000,000 pounds
year, or a pound per capita of the
population. Australia, with a popula
tion of only 7,000,000, uses 35,000,000
pounds a year, which would be equiv
alent to 700,000,000 pounds a year for
the United States, and Russia con
sumes 400,000,000 pounds annually
Aside from the sociability which
promotes, and which commends tea
drinking as a substitute for consump
tion of intoxicants, tea has hygienic
merit because it requires the water to
be boiled and thus minimizes danger
of epidemics. " Chinese historians say
that this was the origin ,of tea drink
ing in China. The people learned that
boiled water was safer to drink than
the unboiled In insanitary districts,
and . used tea leaves to make it pal
atable and as an afterthought. From
this beginning an industry was built
up in which the production is estimat
ed as 1,200.000,000 pounds a year.
LEAVTNG TEIR JOBS.
From roads to religion is a far cry,
perhaps; but somehow one is disposed
to associate in his mind two events of
recent note the possible departure of
Dr. Thomas It. Boyd to Chicago, and
the possible retirement of Mr. R. A.
Booth from the state highway com
mission. Either withdrawal repre
sents a public loss; both will be re
gretted by many, very many, citizens.
Both Dr. Boyd and Mr. Booth inti
mate that their reasons for consider
ing other plans are overwork. Let us
no.t say that any mere layman or out
sider knows better than they what
they should or can do; but possibly
it can be arranged that the public de
mands on them shall not be so
heavy.x Perhaps one or both of them
have been doing more than they need
to do.
The state highway commission has
a remarkably efficient personnel, and
it will bo difficult to keep it at its
present standard if Mr. Booth leaves.
The Chicago field probably presents
wider opportunities for Mr. Boyd; but
we do not understand that he desires
to go there to assume any heavier
tasks than he has here. Could a more
appreciative or responsive or deserv
ing public be found than here? It is
well enough for Mr. Booth and Dr.
Boyd to know that The Oregonian in
this wise is responding to appeals from
several sources made to it to do what
it can to keep them at their respec
tive jobs. It can only indicate to them
something of what is in the public
mind about them.
INKI.CEXZA HEROES.
Citation of fifty-two enlisted men
of the navy by Secretary Daniels lor
distinguished services during the re
cent epidemic of influenza, and the
death of Major 1 1. G. Gibson of the
medical corps of the British army as
the indirect result of his work in
seeking " the cause and cure of the
malady, reported in the cable dis
patches, call attention to acts of
heroism which deserve praise no less
than if they had been performed on
the battlefield. The bluejackets were
volunteers who submitted to a series
of experiments at a naval hospital to
determine the cause and method of
transmission of the disease. Major
Gibson, working along independent
lines'at about the same time, with two
other surgeons, is believed to have
completed dissovery of the causative
germ, which if his discoveries are
verified will mark an important step
in our progress in epidemiology.
It was a medical officer of the
United States army who made pos
sible, at the cost of his own life, the
banishment of yellow fever from the
island of Cuba and practically from
the tropics, by permitting himself to
be bitten by a mosquito of the species
stegomyia fasclata, then suspected of
being the carrier of the fever serum
The experiment was successful in the
highest possible degree, but the ex
perimenter died to prove the truth of
his theory. The British army surgeon
was no less a victim, of his devotion
to science. His vital forces were so
depleted by overwork that when at
tacked by the germ which it is thought
he had succeeded in identifying he
fell an easy victim to it.
The fifty-two bluejackets mentioned
the citation of Secretary Daniels
present an interesting study. Their
names show them to have descended
from families of many nationalities,
although all were loyal Americans, as
they showed when they volunteered
in the service of their country. East,
west, north and south, and more than
a score of states are represented in
home addresses. Their service was
accomplished without blare of trum
pets, and doubtless without promise
even of the passing honor which has
been conferred upon them.
Yet they were distinctly consecrated
in the spirit of sacrifice. It makes no
difference whether the experiments
to which they lent themselves were
successful or not their glory is un
dimmed. It is said that our officers
were embarrassed, when calling for
volunteers for perilous duty at the
front, by the numbers from which
they had to choose. Yet the same
heroism runs through other depart
ments of the fighting machine, as the
influenza epidemic has shown. It is not
easy to distinguish among heroes, but
the fifty-two bluejackets and the Brit
ish major deserve a permanent place
in the annals of the heroism revealed
by this war.
THE TTPKWKITEK CKNTKNAKV.
In calling attention to th centenary
of the birth of the inventor of the
practical typewriter, the manufactur
ers of one of the many sub-species
of writing machines now in use set in
motion a long" chain of thoughts upon
the progress made by the world in
the employment of machinery to do
its work. The typewriter itself, as we
now know it, or a crude form of the
present typewriter containing the
basic principles of the present one, is
fifty years old this month. Yet it was
not until 1873 that the device was
regarded as sufficiently practical to
be placed in the hands of a manufac
turer, and it was some years after that
before public inertia was overcome
and machine writing became a popu
lar practice. The typewriter is to all
intents and purposes the creation of
the present generation.
The typewriter ran the gamut of
pioneer experience. It used to be the
custom to predict, whenever a ma
chine was invented, that it would
"never meet the needs" of industry In
certain refinements. Samuel K. 13.
Morse encountered this bourbon atti
tude in people who said that no one
but a Morse could read dots and dash
es fast enough to make practical use
of them. The 'typewriter was criti
cized from two opposite points of
view. First it was said that it could
not be employed in composition be
cause no one could give necessary at
tention to the mechanical require
ments of the keyboard and simulta
neously give thought to intellectual
processes. When writers quite gen
erally developed co-ordination to the
point at which mechanics became sub
merged, the pessimists changed front.
It was then an era of too great pro
lixity in literature which they feared.
In literature the prediction has been
confounded by events. The three-volume
novel has not made its reappearance,-
notwithstanding the nuuiber of
authors who type their manuscripts. It
is possible that larger gross output by
individuals has been facilitated, but
there is not, upon tho whole, more
verbosity in composition than there
used to be. The logic of the situation
would seem to call for more books of
the type of "Tom. Jones," "Ten Thou
sand a Year." "Sir Charles Grandi
son," "Camelia," and a long list of
others which were painstakingly pro
duced in long hand. One may wonder
what the early Victorians might have
done with the typewriter's help, but
their successors have not abused the
boon conferred upon them.
Business correspondence has been
enormously expanded by the introduc
tion of the machine, but this has been
perhaps an indirect result; lt has
flowed from the practice of dictating
letters, which has been made possible
by multiplication of amanuenses. It
would be interesting to trace the ef
fect of typewriter making upon the
allied stationery and paper-making
trades also. The traditional result of
labor-saving devices" has been ob
servable, in the respect that a device
conceived for the purpose of econo
mizing time has immensely increased
the number of employes in every in
dustry affected. Thousands are now
employed in clerical work where
scores sufficed a generation ago. If
the process of conducting correspond
ence by the aid of a machine has not
reduced the time devoted to writing.
t has promoted human Intercourse
inestimably, and thus has become an
important factor in social develop
ment. It Is not singular that the centenary
of Charles Latham ""holes, which oc
curs this year, should find people
generally inquiring. Who was Sholes?
This has been the fate of all but a
few of the inventors of epoch-making
contraptions. The identity of the in
dividual soon becomes lost in absorp
tion in the reality of his product
And Inventions and discoveries crowd
upon one another so closely In these
times, and are so taken as a matte
of course, that we give neither time
nor thought to the human beings
whose brains conceive them. It is
pertinent to recall, for example, that
there died only the other day a man
named Walter V. Turner, whose con
tributions to the safety of travel were
01 enormous vaiue, ana one or wnose
inventions, a triple safety valve for the
air brake, has been appraised at $28.-
000,000, yet he was virtually unknown
except to a restricted circle of technl
clans. Similarly, the long list of men
who worked upon lines similar to that
of Sholes Is mostly a list of unfamiliar
names. Sholes and his co-workers
deserve to rank with the benefactors
of mankind, bur. they share the fate
of others of whom we do not stop to
take account in the busiest age in all
our history.
Discovery of a bank account held
by Karl Llebknecht, the assassinated
Spartacan leader in Germany, in which
12,000,000 marks reposed, ought to
be, but probably will not be, a shock
to consistent bolshevlsts everywhere,
The Spartacan leader, it seems, was
fattening on revolution; the bank ac
count was out of proportion to his
known possessions before the war, and
was said to have grown apace during
the disturbed period following the
signing of the armistice. That it prob
ably was replenished by a system of
levies akin to the blackhand method
will furnish a subject for reflection by
the academic bolshevists of our own
country. The plan seems to have
been to make a charge for withhold
ing the names of "plutocrat." from a
death list which the radicals were
supposed to be preparing. Leibknecht
was fast qualifying himself to enter
that same plutocrat class, but it doubt
less was far from his intention to es
tablish a rule which should work two
ways.
The city today has a sale on codfish
throwing 30.000 pounds n the coun
ters at a price to make the deal profit
able to buyers. The ood is the handles
fish that swims in the sea. It can be
baked, boiled, stewed and chowdered
and what is left made Into balls for
the breakfast table, of which no man
ever had enough. Food sharps tell us
the cod is the best brain food, has
more phosphorous, proteins, calories
or whatever Is the term, and that mus
be so. for the commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts for years had a gilded cod
on its statehouse, and it must be ad
mitted the people of the Bay state are
smart. Ask any man from there if
it is not so. Commissioner Bigelow
Is a benefactor, though it is likely he
is not aware of it.
Raymond Robbins seems to think all
that an army needs to win victory in
Russia is that the soldiers carry .a
sack of flour in one hand and a plow
in the other. But the bolsheviki would
would take the flour and the plow
and then kill the bearer unless he
also had a rifle and plenty of cart
ridges. Famine is one of the bol
shevikl Implements of warfare, and
they let food get into the hands only
of people who "stand by the party
The fact that ex-Ambassador Gerard
is persona non grata with President
Wilson may prove a boost Instead of
a knock to his chances for the demo
cratic nomination in 1920. The man
who talked right back to the kaiser
when that monster was at the height
of his power may have many attrac
tions to the democratic voters.
That was, indeed, a happy family
reunion tho other night when th
seven sons of Robert E. Hemphill
gathered in from all parts of the
country and Canada and met father
and mother. That was a pleasure not
vouchsafed to many couples.
Tho latest dollar-a-year man is tho
outlaw who held up a Great Northern
train in January and got just $10. His
sentence l? ten years.
There is a new course in dessert
making at tho Girls' Polytechnic, but
how about corned beef and cabbage
and the apple pie?
Belgium and France get their re
venge on Germany after all. They see
the Germans practice frightfulness o
each other. .
There may not be enough jails to
hold the American "reds" who would
join a revolution, but there are coffins
In plenty.
We shall have with us Secretary
Baker, while the great east has ou
Mayor Baker even Steven.
Germany will have "a contemptibl
little army" of 100,000 and no mor
just enough for paying empty honors,
The sure way to make the leagu
of nations popular in Germany is to
convert It into a league of rations.
Who would be a grand duke, even
if the bolsheviki gave him a chance to
be one?
Better get vaccinated and hnve
dona totthe' children.
Those Who Come and Go.
Oregon's lumber industry w well
represented In the hotels yesterday. Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Flora, of Kerry, Or., were
at the Multnomah; F. De Wayne
Sprague, who has a sawmill at Casca
dia, was at the Seward; EX . Ellsworth,
of Cascade Locks; C. K Spauldlng. of
Salem; R. S. Shw, of the Hammond
company at Astoria, and J. R. Shaw, of
the Hammond concern at Mill City: W.
McGregor, of Astoria, an4 J. F. Pot-
er, who looks after logging for the
Hammond interests at Seaside, were all
at the "imperial. Once upon a time Mr.
otter had a mill adjacent to Shaw s
ill at Mill City. Mr. McGregor, while
ot at present active In the lumber
game, has extensive Interests, lie was
formerly collector of customs at As-
"" I
Women are not nearly as satisfactory
patrons as men for hotels, as one clerk
xplained. Women wear out a room
more than a man does. A man may put
comb or brush on the bureau and that
is as far as he goes. A woman no
ooner engages a room than she empties
11 her suitcases and grips, fills every
rawer in the dresser, covers the bureau
op and hangs up clothing In the closet.
hen, chances are, she gets the cham
bermaid and asks her 10.000 questions.
preventing the chambermaid from uo
ing her work on time. A man rents a
room, rolls Into bed at night and rolls
ut in the morning, so that there 13
little wear and tear to the room while
e has It.
T. II. Wlllette. who went away as
rum major with the 3d Oregon, and
amo back the other day leading the
band, was a policeman before he first
card war's alarm, and In the last big
Chinese tong war In Portland he cap-
ured a highbinder almost red-handed.
0 feet from the place of the klllinic.
The Chinese had a lawyer, however,
who convinced the Jury that Wlllette
had captured the wrong Chinese, al-
hough the prisoner was the only one
In eight. Bill, the cook, at Houses
restuarant. was the Intended victim,
only the crunman made a mistake and
hot another countryman. N lllette la
registered at the Multnomah.
Foot candidates for president of the
Greeters" Association are already In
ght, according to note clerk gossip.
The election will be held when the con
vention Is held In this city in June.
New York, Cleveland. Los Angeles and
San Francisco each has an active as-
irant for head of the organisation. The
hotel business the past year has been
fine, there was a shortage of clerks
and those who worked received more
pay than ever before, so L is be-
ieved there wll" be a big crowa 01
penuers at tne national coiivcimuu.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Warren, of
Warrenton, at the mouth of the Colum
bia river, are at the Hotel Portland.
Warrenton is one of the few incor
porated towns in Oregon which is not
worried by the 6 per cent tax iimna-
ion. because the year this took effect
Warrenton had Just made a terrific
levy. Seaside, at the same time, had
a streak of economy and Seaside hasn't
been able to make Income and outgo
meet since.
Representing the French government
In the matter of ship contracts for the
Foundation yard In Portland, there
came to the Benson yesterday Captain
A. Mlllot, of Paris; K. Trldneaux and
Robert Lavere. ot New York. Bayley
llipkins, representing the Foundation
company, took t-hem over tne coiumum
river highway yesterday afternoon.
Condon Is a town with a small popu
ation. and yet every day one of the
Portland hotels is asked to cash checks
for people from Condon or in that im
mediate vicinity. About 20 of these
Condon checks are presented each day
and they are written on all sorts of
paper, and once upon a piece of hark.
Not once has a Condon check proved
worthless.
To visit her son. Leslie L. Pott, who
Is a night clerk at the Hotel Portland,
Mrs. J. R. Pott arrived yesterday morn
ing from Wtlliamsport. Pa. Mrs. I'ott
will remain in the city long enousth to
see all points of interest in this vicin
ity before returning east.
Mrs. J. E.. Boyd, and daughter Dor
othy registered at tho Seward yester
day from Los Angeles. Mr. Boyd came
here a couple of months afro and 10
catcd and now tho family is prepared to
boost for Portland and forget ' cli
mate."
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Considine. of
Seattle, are at tho Hotel Portland. Dur
ing one of the horse shows In Portland
a few years ago tho Consldine entries
were the most noteworthy.
Colonel Cox. Just returned from the
war. was at the Hotel uregou on nis
way to. his San Francisco home, where
he was assistant manager ot the 1 alace
hotel.
Denton G. Burdlck, who represented
more square miles and undeveloped land
in the Oregon legislature than any
other man in the recent session. Is at
the Benson.
Mrs. Jake Klein, of Omaha, accom
panied by her two amall sons. Is at the
Multnomah. She Is making a Paeitlc
coast tour and visiting friends.
W. A. KInecy. representing
tractor
concern. Is at the Multnoman.
Swan Benson, a well-known contrae
tor. who has a big ranch near Newbera
came Into Portland on business yes
terday and Is at the Multnomah.
W. Tj. Bear, one Of the financial lead
ers of Boise. Idaho, came to the city on
business yesterday and Is registered at
the Hotel Portland.
J. J. Gorman, of Seattle, who has u
pervised the Knlahts of Columbus war
work activities in the camps In Ore
gon and Washington, is at the Benson.
H. Q. Dustman, who has been exhibit
Ing a truck made in Dayton. O., In the
auto shows of the northwest, is reg
istered at the Seward.
Frank K. Manning, who has been rep
resenting the Red Cross In various ca
pacities on the coast, registered yester
day at the Multnomah.
Rev. John H. Cavanaugh. president
of Notre Bame university, at South
Hend. Ind.. passed through Portland on
his way home from California.
Congressman H. Z. Osbourne. of Bos
Angeles, accompanied by his wife, are
at the Multnomah, visiting Mrs. Blaine
Smith.
Mrs. W. E. Welch, of Welch's, up near
the base of Mount Hood, Is at the Per
kins. Accompanying her is Miss Naomi
Foublon.
J. B. Rhodes and other railroaders
held a conference at the Imperial yes
terday for the good of the brother
hoods. ( Mrs. Robert McMurphy. assistant
grand matron of the Order of Kastern
Star, was at the Imperial yesterday.
Mrs. Sade Houser, of the. home for
girls at tirand Mound, Wash., is at the
Multnomah.
H. W. Collins, representing Baifour.
Guthrie & Co.. at Pendleton, was in
Portland yesterday on business.
James McKachern. a Seattle contrsc
tcr, is at the Multnomah.
PROBLEMS FACED BY JTCO-SLATI l
Proposed l aioa Saagests Ode Period of
American History.
The problem of organization facing
the new kingdom of Serbs. Croats and
Slovenes f Jugo-Slavia) is compared to
that confronting the 13 American
states after-the Revolution and before
the constitution was adopted in a bul
letin jusi issued by the National Geo
graphic society.
"To unite all the Jugo-Slavs has long
been the aspiration of leaders among
the Croats snd Slavonians as well as
those in the""kinKdom of Serbia. They
wished to Include the Uosnlans, Hel
vats, Croats, Slavonians. Halmatians,
and Slovenes, former Austro-Hungar-lan,
or still earlier Turkish, subjects, as
well as the independent south Slavic
states of Montenegro.
"The world war has extended this
desire, except that It no longer includes
Bulgaria. When Bulgaria allied herself
with ihit TiirL whn ihrnuch centuries
had trampled upon the Slavs, and sent
her armies to work their naviige will
upon the Serbians, she outraged Slavic
feeling more than her mere alignment
with their common foe. the central
powers, could have done.
"One obstacle to federal union is dif
ference of church communion. Mont of
the Jugo-Slavs are eastern orthodox,
the remainder, except those who are
Moslems. Koman Calholu-. Obliiratlons
to Islam rest lightly on the peninsular
Moslems and they will eventually jo.n
one or thji other church.
"The Roman church has allowed the
Dalmatian. Slavonian and Croatian
Catholics, almost uninterruptedly since
their conversion, to use the Slavic in
stead of the l-itln liturgy, and to em
ploy their Glagolilhic, or Cyrillic
Slavic, alphabet. Against this nuuii:
there hns bcn. mostly during the last
generation, foreism protest, bured on
political grounds. An attempt, however.
to enforce the Jjitin ritual would prob
ably swing the dissident .luco-Sla
into the eastern orthodox church.
'Another obstacle to federal union
Is Inexperience in self-government on
he part of the several groups. Kxerpt
he Montenegrins and tho Serbians in
the larger part of royal Serbia, all the
crroups have been under the blighting
domination of alternating foreipn mas
ters, mainly Turks. Austrians and Mair
yars. since the middle ages. Tho fedem.1
system Is of all systems tho most diffi
cult and complex, requiring the largest
degree not only of skill, but of self,
adjustment and self-control. Yet upon
such a ship of state these Slavic lands
men would embark as officers and
crew In a stormy pea.
To the majority of these people the
Idea of union is novel, until reeentlv
entertained only by sorpe score of
dreamers, who. while Turkish or Aus-
tro-Hangarian subjects themselves,
hardly believed In Its possibility of
realization. Nor do all the crouns
equally desire union, even now. The
Slovenes, for example, are not over-enthusiastic
for it. In some respects the
situation is analogous to that of the
J 3 American states after the Revolu
tion and before the adoption of the
constitution.
"Powerful factors exist favorable to
co-operation. The peoples are raciallv
one, confronted everywhere by foreign
ers. Despite minor local differences
they possess In the Serbian a language
ntelligibl." to all, though in less de
gree to the Slovene, spoken by the
great majority, the literary language
of Croat. Bosnian. Hp!v.h. Kinenni ...
Serbian, and In part of the Dalmatian.'
Bonds of race and language are strong.
1 nere is practical absence of lnlior
ted animosities. The fact is
that whoever of them foutlit in th..
Austro-Hungarian ranks did so under
military compulsion. There is also ap
preciative recognition of decimated
Serhias natural leadership.
ina one com Del line- factor ls ti,n
consciousness that unless united, the
political existence of any of them is
most insecure.
"!n ih attempt of the .liim.i ,v, .
rule themselves in tho only possible
way. they are entitled to the svn.p.-chv
ntul patience of j.11 v ho believe in if-
goveriuntnt by the people."
Itabblt Itonnty I.an.
KLAMATH FALI-S. Or. M 1 - k 1
(To the F.ditor.) February -;
you state "... Kustern Oregon' coun
ties were given the power to v oto on
county questions under the initiative
. . . " after which you refer to an
other bill conferring upon counties the
right to vote on all local measures,
this evidently being- S. 1!. 165.
Kindly Rive me the number of the
bill conferring upon eastern Oregon
counties the power to vote upon ques
tions under the initiative and state its
provisions.
I was not aware of any uaeasure per
mitting; counties to vote on local legis
lation except S. It. 16". introduced bv
Senator Nlckelson of Hood River anil
prepared by CHcn.
J. II. CAItNAIIAX.
The reference was to H. It. 170. au
thorizing tho cajlir.g or elections upon
petition to pass upon rabbit bounties.
Mraalai at Kirt-r laaa frit ate.
POKTLAM). March 11 (To the F.di
tor.) (1) Kindly tell mo w hat la meant
by the term f irt-c!iiss private? t;
Who was the first Orepon soldier tr
marine to lose his life in action or by
wounds received in action, and who
was the first Port. and boy? t3) In
what part of France was the 721 com
pany, replacement battalion. 6th rei
ment marines, in action in April. l'.'lS?
4) If there is formed a leiicue of na
tions will the I'nited States of America
still be "the land of the free"? M. It.
(1) Advancement from private- to
first-class private is the first step in
promotion of a eoldier. There Is nor
mally an advance of 3 a month In pay.
(I!) anil (! The office of the adjutant
general, Morgan building, will make
an attempt to find these data If you
make request for It. (I) Yes.
rOKTLAXP, March 10. (To the F.d
itor.) Inasmuch its counter statements
have appealed in The Oregonian involv
ing statements of the undersigned and
"an executive officer" of the Minis
terial association relative to a resolu
tion adopted by the ministers In their
last meeting," may I ask that the reso
lution itself. siKiied by the secretary
anil herewith submitted, be published?
The association desires its publication
in The Oregonian. By this it may be
seen whether "The T.eacuo of Nations."
submittted by Mr. Wilson, was adopt
ed or ".V League of Nations." as report
ed to The Oregonian by me.
Therefore, he ft resolved, thnt we. tjie
Ministerial Assnrintlon of Portland, advo
cate tha estat.iHt'no-iit of a loacu- of ni.
tions. for the afruram of the peae thut hns
been won at ;tppaHir.B I'ost. and that vee
favor the entrance of the t'ttlted Slul- into
such a ltntue.
C. E. CLINK.
Oipyrlsht on Rnok.
NORTH BEN" P. Wash.. Marrh 10
(To the Editor.) rieae print the
necessary proceedings to have a poem
or book or song copyrighted. M. R.
If for general sale, publish the work
with copyright notice and send two
copies with application for registration
and $1 to the copyright office. Wash
ington. Ov C Blank applications sind
accompanying affidavit will be for
warded by that office- on lequest.
Shlverlna llurclar l-'aplaiam.
Judge.
Irate householder What you mean,
getting a man out of bed a zero ninht
like this? Shiverlns: biirclar That s
jii"t sir. I tbourrhT ynti iniclit makP
things hot lor me.
In Other Days.
Twenty-rive Iran Ago.
From The Oregonian. March 12. ISP4.
A number of enthusiastic mountain
climbers are making plans for holding
a banquet and organizing a club on the
summit of Mount Hood this summer.
Salt Lake. Ltah"s legislative assem
bly remained in session today, despite
the fact that it was Sunday, contin
uintr a session that has lasted 96 hours
with recesses instead of adjournments.
The) regular session expired last Thurs
day. Spokane. Kdward K. Sturgis jumped
in the river here today and. after being
rescued, shot himself thorugh the head
on account of W-stoudency ovcause he
has a disfigured lip.
The Multnomah Amateur Athletic
club held its first annual all-around
gymjiastic tournament Saturday liiKht.
Fifty Iran Ago.
From The (.ToRor.I.m. Min-!i 1?. lrt:V
The Pucet sound people have rumors
to the effect that the O. S. N. coinpany
i s about to place a line-1 of stages on
the road between Mor.ticello and
Olympla. to connect with their boats
on the Columbia and Fugct sound.
The warm weather of the past month
has started fruit buds of all sorts and
forwarded them so much as to render
them lwiblo to be killed by froMs.
Sprlnirf iold. Mass. The women's
riuhts convention closed Its session
this evening. It was resolved to send
petitions to congress nunierouyly
signed.
S:in Francisco. That there are
$5.0.ni0 lyinir in the sewers ot this
city was inserted last night by a 111x11
who applied to the street superintend
ent for permission to searcli them for
treasure.
Our Little World.
Br t'rare K. Hall.
Our world Is Just as large, a eye can
see. as day by day wo toll at
given taek;
And moving, we tako with u what
may be the "atmosphere In
which we choose to bask;
Then pausinar "mid a strange and alien
raco. we fix another skyline far
ahead.
Which in its turn becomes our world
In spare, until another epoch
shall have fled
And here we find new interesta strong
and keen, as Ihouch forever cen
tered in this scene.
Our little private world how very
small the circle really is, com
pared to all!
And yet each atom seemingly was sent
to Hit his space according to his
bent :
Takes serious note of what goes on
each day within tho meager
sphere where ho holds sway;
I-aughs just a bit at other atoms, too.
hinting at warped ideas snd nar
row view;
Then, turning, gazes through myopic
eyes and thinks his world as
w ide as arching skies!
A M.llMON IV THE 1. 1 11 It A It V.
I
We think to live and learn the sense
of life
By
spectacle achieving search In
books
hunting up from dark subcon
Or
scious nooks
Pnparcrited ideas we feel are rife
Jn our contemplative mentality.
What fools!
Thought is not life, nor poetry delight
lu their own selves; nor e'en at all.
"lis clear.
If they be potted plants we try to
rea r
In sheltered courts, protected from the
light
Of world-borne truths and bright
reality.
- And hence.
Much leading fails to rala a garden
f.tir.
And speculation eickly growth puts
forth
In lhat man's soul, who thinks of
little worth
His own two eyes and in whose mini
is rare
Quite all save cloistrr-sicved Illumi
nation. II
The blind may hark to rhapsodies
On Titians master coloring;
Rut nre they by these eulogies
Repaid for lack of v liion i li tr ?
And he who ne'er observes life's ait.
But seeks for it on printed pace.
i nn he pra.-p e er the valued part
of what is writ it's beauties gauge?
AthI oil. wilh eyes clued to your book.
Entranced 1-y genius' life-sonKS rare.
Perchance by nature's captured brook.
Seem ignorant that round your cha ir.
Your very ihair. life's soul is flowing.
HI
See at your elbow, a youth lovingly
showing
The bungalow book to a maid warmly
clowinir
With Joy in all tenses past, future and
present.
And there "cros. the aisle in. grief
eiiially pleasant.
With tears on her check and sobs
choked In her kerchief.
With heart wherein pathos has worked
its sweet mischief.
Enrapi ureil. reads feminine softness
that rathless
Fate w hiins'cally guesses will flower
111 hardness.
Like unto the haughty, amusing, jow led
ma Iron
Who.' yonder, her right as a library
patron
I usinar to bully the dutiful pages.
Perhaps you are pruuish find tilrtir.g
alarming
Have no toleration, much less any
warming
Toward thort-panted. bold Don Juan
who's disarming
Coy black braids with skill unobtru
sively charming
Perhaps your heart sees notthe regal
old man
Whose body's worn out In ambition's
achievements.
Whose fact Is so young and who lives
while he can.
Vnsoured by failures or bitter be
reavements. His face, the face of a doer, is
A man who much has done, a man
Who yet will do while life Is his
Ills brain is keen, his courage can
Still look on truth with head erect.
IV
Oh! We. whoso wingless aspirations
yearn
To soar above material domain.
Find that our wedded souls to earth
remain.
And oft from this forced conjugation
stern.
Unwelcome progeny, comes inspira
t ion.
One bare truth.
Oivine illumination.
So gazinxr through
The Intertw ining buiUches of the trees
That uttra'tistically
Engrille the windows of the reading
mom,
T ponder o'er this one bare truth.
Which sag-.s oft have cried.
Put none i-sn lenrn
Kxerpt by first-hand o'.-servat ion ;
1C we would live, w ould learn the. sense
of life.
We must do with a love pf doing and
live with a love for life.
K- R. S.