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WHERE ARE WE AT?
Criticisms of the league do no make
q Impression on me. for the senti
ment of the country is proof against
euch narrowness ... I have heard
no counsel of generosity in their sug
...iinn I have heard no construc
tive suggestions. From President Wil
son's New York speech, Marcn .
Teeirient Wilson denied that the
league plan would Interfere with the
Monroe doctrine, declaring that the
doctrine would bo guaranteed by all
the member powers. From an Asso
ciated Press account of White House
conference with the senators, Febru
ary The covenant expands the Monroe
doctrine to the world. Original defini
tion by the president.
The Monroe doctrine Is archaic, any
way: amounts to so little It can be
. profitably given up to get the cov
enant. Former President Taft, in New
York speech, March 4.
The Monroe doctrine, of course, must
tie safeguarded: all not partisan fools
have recognized this all along, and
have known the covenant-makers will
be happy to remedy an overlooked
defect. President Lowell of Harvard.
Mr. Root proposed that the Monroe
doctrine "the United States' tradt
i tional attitude toward purely Ameri
. can questions" be withdrawn from
"decisions or recommendations of other
powers" in a paragraph inserted in the
' league constitution immediately before
the signature of the American dele
gates. From a summary of the Root
proposals, March 30.
Commenting on the six amendments
to the covenant of the league of nations
suggested by Elihu Root, it was said
today by one of the legal specialists
associated with the American peace
conference delegation that he bejieved
all the amendments were acceptable
to the American delegation. From
an Associated Press dispatch, Paris,
'April 1.
The Monroe doctrine Is almost eer
taln to be accepted for inclusion. The
claim will take substantially the form
of a definite recognition of certain
principles of International practice
tending to preserve the peace of the
world, such as arbitration treaties and
the Monroe doctrine. From the letter
f Herbert Bayard bwope tew ions
World), April 2.
CO-EDTCATIOX.
The difficulty of pleasing everybody
Is Illustrated by the observations of
an American correspondent in Lon
don, who writes that he "found short
haired women In trousers doing the
work of men with excessive compe
tency and self-assurance," and by an
article on "the Anomaly of Coeduca
tion." by Julian W. Abernethy in
School and Society. Professor Aber
nethy complains that in schools of co
education the young woman is "never
assisted by her Instructor, not even
permitted, to discover the professions
belonging to her own sex." The Lon-
don correspondent finds that feminine
- workers "were absolutely devoid of
nex consciousness." The educator dis
covers that the "process of educating
women as If they were men" has had
the result of graduating them into dis
' illusionraent and discontent, into a de
plorable state of unpreparedness for
the definite vocations which they must
finally enter.
It seems but a brief time since we
were proudly heralding the victory of
: women in obtaining admission, both
-to the professions formerly filled ex
clusively by men and to opportunities
for preparation for them. It is true
that Oberlin admitted women from
its organization in 1833, and that An
tioch college opened Its doors to
them in 1S55. but it has been a strug
gle, viewed as a whole, to persuade
college professors to accept what we
fondly regarded as the broader view.
The state universities have fallen In
line rather slowly. It was hailed as
a triumph at the beginning of the cen
tury that women had gained admission
to 80 out of 149 of the colleges of
medicine, sixty-four out of eighty-six
.colleges of law and forty-four out of
fifty-six colleges of dentistry.
But one would think, after reading
Professor Abernethy's complaint, that
the effort had been in vain, that it was
not equal educational opportunity that
women want, after all. Are we to
f pend years telling our girls not to
display sex consciousness, and then
profess sorrow that education Is not
more conscious of sex difference? On
the authority of a well-known ency
clopedia It can be stated that "investl-
. gations made by the university of Wis
consin and by the University of Vir
ginia have shown that in coeducational
institutions women equal and even
surpass men in excellence of scholar
trhip. Perhaps this is the milk of the
cocoanut. For Professor Abernethy
: also says-Co-education
forces yonnc men Into a
, competition that la unnatural and unfair. A
ollece aenior. beins aaked why he objected
to the women, replied: "They draa all the
prtiea." Girl are better atudenta than boya,
aurpaaalnr them In the power of applica
tion and the will to learn. They read more,
write more, have a wider ranee of Ideaa and
are proportionately more Intellectual. The
reault la Inevitable: academic bonors fall
disproportionately to the airla. Boye are
content with a low standard of acholarahip.
Thua a young; man who would win honors
In a detached men's college is deprived of
them In a co-educational collefte. Naturally
he feels that he has been robbed of Ms
riehta, and In view, of he acquiescent at
titude of faculttee toward the substitution
of sport for acholarahip. he la perlectly cor
rect In his feelings of Injustice.
Among the early arguments against
admission of women to the temples
of learning. 'we do not recall having
heard it said that they would cause
dissension by carrying off all the
prizes. The objection used to be that
they were Inferior creatures, incapa
ble of absorbing instruction designed
for their brothers. Can a change of
front be attributable to the scholar
ship showing to which allusion has
been made, or to the fact that in the
six years from 1910 to 191C the in
crease of women in coeducational col
leges was 70 per cent and that of men
only 43 per cent?
It Is a grotesque monster that the
educational Frankenstein: have cre
ated to frighten ns with. Women, hav
ing contended long for admission to
our universities, are about to drive
out the men, by "dragging all the
prizes." and in other ways. From the
point of view of men who can't win
prizes in competition with their sisters
the Prussian system seems to offer
certain advantages. There a woman
to be admitted must obtain consent
from the minister of Instruction, the
rector of the university and the pro
fessors' whose courses she desires to
attend. Man, confessing his relative
Incapacity, has a chance at the prizes
under such a system. There is. how
ever, another way perhaps more suited
to the sporting spirit of the true Amer
ican. WHEN THE BOTS CAME HOME.
Thirty thousand valiant sons of Ore
gon followed the flag of their country
into the war. They went away with
tha prayers of fathers and mothers,
wives and sisters, and the grateful
acclaim of state and nation. The
largest single unit of them was the
old Third Oregon, and the pride of
air the people was mightily stirred
when it saw them, a magnificent body
of American soldiers, .march away to
duty and perhaps to death.
But if the boys when they started
for "Over There" aroused to the deep
est depths the patriotic feeling of the
applauding public, what about the
glorious day of their return thirty
thousand of them back from the
triumphs of the battlefield, with the
record of duty faithfully done, with
the mementoes of achievement glori
ously wrought? It was a splendid
vision, present in the minds of thou
sands of Oregon citizens, treasured by
them finally in the long and wearing
time the boys were away. When the
boys come home! Oh, for the day
when the boys come home!
The grand, triumphal day never
dawned, of course but there were
many days when they came in hand
fuls. They were preeted rapturously
and are being cared for generously.
But In New York there was a dif
ferent story. The war department lent
all its sympathies and bent all its
energies to keep the 27th division to
gether for a grand parade up Fifth
avenue. It was a great affair, and it
pleased the metropolis mightily.
Now it develops that the actual cost
to tho government of the parade was
8927,000, chiefly in army pay. It came
high, but they had to have it in New
York but not In Oregon.
TBTEY HATE BEEN 8IIOWX.
Ordinarily, one might be led to
wonder at the patience of the people
of Lebanon and Linn county, who sat
five consecutive hours at a banquet
Monday night and listened to thirty
two several speeches from thirty-two
several orators on good roads.
Linn county Is proverbial for Its
hospitality: but its unprecedented feat
is not to be explained on any easy
ground of mere politeness. Nor Is it
to be assumed that the speakers com
pelled such continuous and attentive
interest by the intrinsic merit of their
words and periods, though It is agreed
that Linn county is the mortal elysiuin
of spellbindery. Nor was it even the
dainty and palatable viands of the
table. Lebanon being the original habi
tat of gustatory succulency.
The reason for the long and fruitful
session was the occasion itself; and
the occasion was the formal embarka-?
tion of Linn county upon a campaign
of good roads. Let us not say that
old Linn has not heretofore been en
thusiastic for good roads, for doubtless
it has ever known their utility. But it
has not always been a unit on how
best to get them. Now the way is
clear, and Lltin knows what to do and
how to do it, and has thrown hesita
tion Into the scrap-heap and has joined
the grand march of highway progress.
It Is proposed now to issue 8600,000
in bonds to build roads in Linn county.
It is the era of team-work. The state
has developed a plan of highway con
struction, and It is accepted every
where as sound and fair to all sections.
But the state must cqnfine Itself to
main thoroughfares, leaving It to the
counties to supplement the general
scheme In their own way for their spe
cial benefit, and to do besides their
proper share In the larger scheme.
In Sherman county, the other day,
they had a vote on the question of
8300.000' for road building. The pro
gressives of that enterprising county
rolled up 1017 votes for the bonds;
while the opposition could muster a
grand total of only 6. It was a tri
umph of enlightenment over purblind
sticklnthemuditiveness. It was a testi
monial, besides, of indorsement for the
road movement In the state, wisely
devised by the state legislature and as
wisely administered by the state high
way commission.
Linn county will do its part: so will
Marion, and other counties which have
adopted a show-me attitude In the
past, and which have now been shown.
NEW BRITISH LAND POLICY.
No class has been more tenacious of
its right of absolute ownership of land,
to be used as the owner pleased, than
the British aristocracy, but the war
has worked a great change. For ex
ample Lord Ernie, president of the
British board of agriculture, said in a
recent speech to an audience of farm
ers that the new principle emerging
from the war was that the nat'.on had
a direct ana practical interest in uie
use to which land was put; that own
ers could no longer treat their land
as they liked, and occupiers must pro
duce the utmost quantity of food that
the nation required. Discussing farm
laborers' wages, he said that the la
borer must to a large extent become
the profit-sharer rather than the mere
laborer for wages.
These opinions would sound revolu
tionary to thjre Scotch dukes who
evicted thousands of crofters from
their mountain estates in order that
tney might establish preserves for
deer and grouse. Great areas in the
Highlands were almost depopulated in
this manner, and the people went to
Canada and other colonies, which
have sent their sons and grandsons to
fight in colonial Highland regiments
in the great war. Nor will the new
idea be welcomed by those English
lords who hold great tracts of rich
lands as parks in which a few deer
graze.
National necessity now rises super-
lor to all else, and the principle teems
to be accepted by all Britons that the
nation has the right to have the- land
made productive. Already the pro
portion of British food consumption
that is produced at home has been
raised from one-fifth to four-fifths,
and it Is not Improbable that this pro
portion will be increased, or at leas:
maintained. ' The submarine has un
intentionally done hated England a
service by teaching the wisdom of eco
nomic self-reliance.
THE MISCriDED CPIJFTERS.
One of the strange developments of
the spread of socialism is the extent
to which it has laid on people who
are working for social betterment and
on those who study social problems
with special regard to improving the
condition of the poor. To suoh people,
whose sympathies cause them to seek
a scapegoat for the evils which they
witness, the socialist exclaims, "It is
all the fault of capitalism!" and they
believe. We soon find some of our
most estimable, religious, humane citi
zens talking the gibberish of socialism,
members of the same army and using
the same language as the monsters.
Lenine and Trotzky.
It seems never to occur to these
people that many of the objects of
their sympathy might have done much
to help themselves. They forget that
it is a common human trait, especially
among those who have failed or who
shirk effort, to seek any other than
oneself to blame. They do not think
to preach the good old doctrine of
self-help. Industry and thrift. Their
tympathy runs away with their judg
ment, and - they join in the chorus
against capitalism. Many of them do
not openly embrace socialism, but they
gobble it readily when the label Is
left off, not realizing that It is the
same thing which has made Russia a
vast charncl house. If it were offered
to them under its true name as. the
same thing which Lenine practices,
they would turn with horror from it.
The clerical votaries of the new cult
would be horrified to learn that the
bolshevists have killed thousands of
priests in Russia, have, not only pil
laged but polluted the churches and
have converted them into dance halls
or worse. When such stories are told
them, the bolshevist propagandist ex
claims, "capitalist lies," and they are
reassured.
These Intellectuals and uplifters,
who are bolshevists without knowing
it, need to recover their balance and
see things as they are. Americanism
has been branded "capitalism" by its
enemies, and it has been accompanied
by many evils and grave Inequalities.
These are being removed in an honest
effort which agrees with our own
Ideas. -That does not satisfy men
whose hearts are wrung by the suf
ferings of the poor and improvident,
and who seize eagerly at radical cures,
but they would do well to study more
closely the practical working out of
the substitute that socialism offers.
They find it in Petrograd, with popu
lation reduced in two years from
2.000,000 to 700,000, in famine stalk
ing all through Russia, In Germany
torn by civil war. If the uplifters will
consider these things, they may de
cide that the remedy offered by the
bolshevists is many times worse than
the disease.
TIIE WAR ON NICOTINE.
The haste with which leaders of the
prohibition forces have denied that
they are concerned with the move
ment to banish tobacco from the
United States may mean either one of
two things. It may be that they do
not share the beliefs of those who con
demn tobacco on scientific grounds,
and again it may be that they regard
the fight on alcohol as still not won,
and prefer to concentrate their efforts
upon marking the victory complete. The
latter seems the more reasonable ex
planation. At any rate, William H.
Anderson, head of the Anti-Saloon
league, lost no time the other day,
when the rumor was started, in giving
out a statement in which he said: "For
the present, suffice It to say that the
Anti - Saloon league has absolutely
nothing to do with any of those move
ments, and has never contemplated
any activity against tobacco and will
not engage in any anti-tobacco move
ment." From this and similar statements it
would appear that if the '.'nemies of
nicotine are bent on continuing their
fight, they will do so without support
of the splendid organization built up
by tha foes of John Barleycorn. Vigor
of the disclaimers Indicates that the
anti-alcohol cohorts are not to be
trapped In a mesh of roorbacks. Per
haps they are right in supposing that
the liquor men are trying to make an
apprehensive public believe that it is
in danger of losing its right to smoke,
solely with the idea that spread of
such erroneous thoughts will create
anti-prohibition sentiment. The anti-
tobacco propaganda will need to be
organized all over again. It undoubt
edly suffer a setback during the
war, which was won by young men
who had access to tobacco. The case
against drink probably was strength
ened by the war, which at the same
time furnished certain discourage
ments to the anti-tobacco forces. It
is almost universally conceded, for ex
ample, that It would have been diffi
cult to mobilize and train such an
army as we recently put in the field
under conditions of open indulgence
in liquor such as prevailed at the time
of the Spanish war. At the same time
the comfort of smoking may have
greatly aided in maintaining morale.
Even the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation recognized this, not only by
helping to distribute tobacco, but by
erasing the "No" from "No Smoking"
signs in Its huts near the front. War,
by emphasizing need of efficiency,
dealt a severe blow to alcohol, whose
deadening effects are apparent enough.
it nas been lar from plain, however,
that tobacco was in the same category,
notwithstanding all that some scien
tists say about it,
For more than three centuries to
bacco and alcohol, the pine and the
glass, have been close companions, but
it does not follow that they are to be
companions la defeat. It is not quite
certain whether its use was first in
troduced into England by Sir John
Hawkins in 1P65 or by Sir Walter
Raleigh and Francis Drake In 1586.
It was at first urged as a substitute
for drinking. It had a social value
from the start, but the price, which
was the equivalent of twenty shillings
an ounce considering the relative pur
chasing power of money, operated
against Its becoming a formidable
rival of drink. It is interesting to re
call that King James I, whose motives
were not always above suspicion, de
claimed violently against the weed, and
condemned smoking "as a branch of
the sin of drunkenness, which is the
root of all sins." To this monarch It
was. Indeed
a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to
the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous
to the lungs, and In the black, stinkine-
fumes thereof, nearest resembling; the hor
rible Stygian fumes of the pit that la bot
tomless. King James probably was not the
first anti-tobacco crusader. His ful
raination was published In 1604. It
seems, from the works In defense of
it before that time, that others had
assailed tobacco. In one of these ap
peared, for illustration, these lines:
Much meat doth gluttony procure,
To feed men fat as awlne;
But he's the frugal man indeed
That with a leaf can dine.
He needs no napkin for his hands,
- His finger ends to wipe.
That hath bis kitchen in a box.
His roast meat in a pipe.
Smoking, hdwever, tended to grow
in respectability as use of intoxicants
became more disreputable. Tobacco
enlisted a good many excellent men
in its cause. "For thy sake, tobacco,
I," wrote Lamb, "would do anything
but die." Early argument against the
weed, that it dried the mouth and
parched the throat and so created de
sire for liquids, will seem to have less
force in a "dry" community, if makers
of non-alcoholic potions are awake to
their opportunity. . It was an old no
tion that the smoker could not possibly
refrain from "moistening his clay.'
Perhaps Lamb did so. But that
beside the question of prohibition. It
will hardly be contended seriously that
tobacco is to be dreaded because it
creates demand for Ice cream sodas.
loganberry juice or root beer.
We are even less won by the con
tention of Professor Henry W. Farnum
that smoking is an eyesore to art and
esthetics. One can easily see this, re
marks Professor Farnum, "if he will
but imagine the Hermes of Praxiteles
with a cigar In his mouth. But the
esthetics, we think, can be trusted to
regulate themselves. No one proposes
to put a cigar In Hermes' mouth. The
fact that a good many scientists are
lined up against tobacco, that Dr.
Alexander Lambert is chairman of
committee of fifty, of which Dr. Will
iam Osier is also a member, would
cause more concern, but it appears
that the committee of fifty proposes
a scientific investigation, not a legisla
tive campaign. There is an economic
argument which may carry weight.
We may be spending, as Professor
Farnum says we are, twice as much
for tobacco as for primary education;
In some measure the anti-tobacco ar
guments partake of the anti-Barley-
cornian flavor, but there is wide diver
gence at the point at which the prohi
bitionists are able to prove that alco
hol has been to blame for a large pro
portion of crimes of violence and cu
pidity, for joy-riding fatalities and for
other untoward happenings which
claimed innocents for their victims.
Probably the effort to connect the
anti-tobacco movement with the anti
drink crusade will fail. It is clearly
not without guile. The anti-saloon
leaders are not to be taken in by it.
Their prompt disclaimer indicates that
they believe that the cause of the more
important prohibition can only suffer
by the association. The anti-tobacco
crusaders will be under necessity of
standing on their separate merits and
of building their organization up from
me ground.
With bolshevism In control of Ba
varia, it has not far to go in order to
cross the Rhine. If Kerensky had had
the courage to fire the modern equiva
lent of Napoleon's "whiff of graDe-
snot," It might have died in Petro
grad in July. 1917.
Announcement that the George
Washington will arrive at Brest on
April 17 may be intended as notice to
the peace conference to agree by that
date, yet at the same time It may be
intended as a bluff, merely to hurry
proceedings.
It will be a fine job compelling land
lords to rent apartments to neoDle
with children or to anybody they do
not desire. The place for people with
children is a house with enough yard
room to keep the little ones off the
street.
There was a standard Joke In olden
-lays about the man who stole a red
hot stove, but he goes into the can in
favor of the fellow who took the -win
dow of a trolley car to use as a wind
shield.
The Rose Festival people do well
In discarding the electrical affairs this
year. They were no longer new. Some
entertainment is necessary, but most
of the visitors will prefer to hunt their
own.
Only cheap clothing will be cheap
this season, say men of the national
associations' that handle men's goods,
That grade Is necessary, but men get
out of it as soon as possible.
Not many are alive to recall the
wave of joy that swept the land from
Appomattox fifty-four years ago. That
was a peace without frills, because it
was all in the family.
With sympathy for the victims of
tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas
and Nebraska, it Is pleasant to know
that Oregon is exempt from such dis
asters. "Papa" Clemenceau Is grander than
ever, if that be possible, in asking
clemency for the man who would have
killed him.
The Poles have a highly efficient
method of dealing with the reds. When
they finish a job, there are always
fewer reds.
The first "Little Eva" is dead, but
the cakes of ice float on forever, with
George and Eliza in continuous escape
to Canada.
The thirteenth inning was unlucky
for the Beavers and otherwise for the
Angels. What about the superstition?
Airplanes will be a great aid to
forest patrol, but they may have
trouble in finding a place to alight.
It looks bad when the allies begin
to discuss which of them is respon
sible for the Archangel expedition.
Making a barge of a hull intended
for a steamship may be economical,
but it is destructive of ideals.
This weather is just right. Con
sider the buds, just crazy to burst.
Frost would be worse.
There are many calls, to be sure, but
the Shrine conclave is an investment,
and a good one, too.
Now we know that peace is with us.
Baseball has reappeared on the first
pag.
Mount Lassen is smoking again, and
that is something no ribboner can stop.
Bavaria has more governments than
it knows what to do with, -
Stars and Startnakers.
By Leone Caas Baer.
A MINISTER In another city has
been arrested, charged with steal
ing several books from a store. It is
said that several of the "year.'s best
sellers" were among the volumes which
were missing, including "several mas
terpieces by Harold Bell Wright and a
few gems by Mrs Gene Stratton Por
ter." Well, every one has their likes
and dislikes, and after all, stealing
books .Js a matter of personal taste,
but my idea of nothing on earth worth
stealing is a book by Harold Bell
Wright or one by Mrs. Gene Stratton
Porter.
Haven't read or heard a joke yet
about the daylight saving bringing us
one hour nearer to proniDition ana
July worst,
The New York Morning Telegrarh
publishes this story, and since it has a
local setting and the man mentioned
may be some Portland hero, the etory
Is here repeated:
"For .-.way at Pendleton the other day
arrived Harry Bisslag, the manager of
The Country Cousin.' and his wife.
Else Alder, who is accompanying him.
Miss Alder went directly to the hotel
where they planned to stop, and Biss
ing. called at the theater.
"A little later Bissing went to the
hotel. His wife had gone out and Biss
ing asked a bellboy to conduct him to
his room. Miss Alder had left her fur
coat hanging over a chair in the room,
and ihe bellboy looked at it Intently. '
" It's all right, my boy,' remarked
Bissing, this Is a perfectly legal affair.
There's a certificate goes with it.'
" That's not what I'm worrying
about,' replied the boy. 'The last tlma
this room was occupied a man took it,
and a woman who had been here just
before his arrival left her nightgown
in the closet. When the man departed
he left his pajamas behind and we ex
pressed them and the nightgown to his
home in Portland, Or. That guy, it ap
pears, hasn't arranged an armistice
with his wife yet. So I'm not taking
any chances again,
Article on woman's page says:
woman doesn't mind having a woman
friend tell her she is 'getting fat.' ".
Possibly not But I've yet to hear of
the "friend" remaining on the list of
friends to the fat woman after she
tells her.
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Speaking of obesity, every time
hear that trite observation that no
body loves a fat man," I call to mind
Fatty Arbuckle.
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What's become of the old-fashioned
actress who used to knit while she
was being interviewed?
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E. D. Price, an early-day theatrical
manager and also remembered as hus
band to Cathrlne Countiss, Is in San
Francisco, from where he sends word
that the Alcazar theater, presenting
stock productions, has regained its for
mer prestige after hard sledding
through the period of the influenza
which raged hard and long on the Pa
cific coast, Mr. Price is now the gen
eral manager for Belasco & Mayer, with
his headquarters at the Alcazar.
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The posthumous work of Henry Blos
som, which is being finished by rxoi
Cooper Megrue, author of "Seven
Chances," on which it is founded, has
been named "Among the Girls." Sel-
wyn and company announce that re
hearsals will start in a few days. Glen
Macdonough. R. H. Burnside and John
L. Golden will contribute their cervices
toward the production without any
compensation.
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Albert de Courvllle's new production
at the Hippodrome, London, entitled
"Joy Bells," has just had its premiere,
and, according to cabled dispatches, has
registered an immediate and enduring
success. Ned Wayburn, who staged it.
says that the libraries have already pur
chased $200,000 worth of tickets.
Wayburn, by the way, will sail fof
America tomorrow on the Lapland and
Immediately take up his work of stag
lng the new "Follies." He brings back
with him many costumes, scenic de
signs and features for that show.
Adam Forepaugh, well known and
largely interested in theatr'cal affairs
and the son of the famous old-time
circus owner and manager, Adam Fore
paugh, died last week of paralysis at
his home in Philadelphia, He was
about 53 years old, and for the greater
part of his life had been more or less
identified with theatrical Interests
other than circuses. To distinguish
him from his father, the decedent was
mostly known as Adam Jr. In his
young days with the senior Forepaugh's
circus Adam Jr. achieved high fame as
a lion tamer. He had been in ill-health
for a number of years.
According to a letter from Florence
Walton, the cost of living In Paris is
greatly in excess of the prices paid in
this country. Everything has advanced
in proportion and one must pay for
amusement as well as necessities at a
price that is astounding. Paris has
not removed its ban from food and
there are still bread cards and no sugar
or butter is servea. xnere are no
candy or sweets and no pastry except
that made of dark flour and the bread
is still dark.
"The prices for everything," says Miss
Walton, "are 60 per cent higher than
In New York and it is almost impos
sible for two people to lunch for less
than 50 francs, or $10. I am paying
28 a day for my three rooms without
beat and if I have a fire it is five
francs extra and it burns only one
hour. . .
"There are no carriages or voitures
and few private cars, though many are
beginning to have new cars. But with
all of these inconveniences," she con
tinues, "one may be happy in Paris."
She is compensated in the fact that she
and Maurice receive $4 admission to
their afternoon dancing teas, which is
four times the price charged in New
York, and Maurice is paid $50 for a les
son. Miss Walton explains that Paris
is enjoying a reaction after the four
and a half years of denial and there
is a continuous swirl of gayety.
Frank T. Buell is In Portland ahead
St "The Better- Ole," which comes to
the Heilig next week. Mrs. Buell is a
member of the company. Mr. Buell
was out here last season as manager
with Mitzi Hajos in "Pom Pom.
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Marjorie Rambeau, who was Miss
Frederick's predecessor, has married.
Hugh Dillman, who is her leading man
jj "Tne ronuno icuci in -cw lum.
Mr. Dillman played juveniles with the
Baker stock company about seven sea
sons ago,
Those Who Come and Go.
"And the man didn't need it," con
eluded "Bill" A Johnstone, of Th
Dalles, in telling of riches in Califor
nia. "I saw an orchard of oranges,
which was worth 82000 on' the surface,
and while I was on my visit an oil
gusher shot up on the place with 10.000
barrels a day, and now it is runnin
6000 barrels daily. Them as has get
as David Harum observed." In th
past two months Mr. Johnson motored
4200 miles in southern California and
after seeing alf the good roads there
he doubts that Oregon can ever equal
California as a paved highway state.
California has too many resources for
Oregon to compete with, and he cited
the oil gusher aa confirmation, ju
Johnstone, who is a "cheese-knifer,
stooDed over yesterday to confab with
Potenate Hofmann and Noble Bill
Davis.
"Water Is too muddy to fish, so I'm
on my way," eaid C. H. French of Chi
cago, who looks after the interests
the Thiel detective service. Mr. Frenc
wanted to stop off a few days and whi
the streams, but the water did not look
inviting as he rode through the Wit
lamette valley from the south. As
solace, he took a spin out the Columbi;
highway to see what he"couldn't see
the last time Judge George J. Cameron
dragged him out there in a blinding
rain. During the republican national
convention in 1916 Mr. French too
Judge Cameron, Judge Carey and oth
ers of the Oregon delegation in charge
and played the host so royally that
they haven t forgotten, the town on the
lake.
' "There are about , 3500 people I
North Bend and on the last liberty loan
we had 1600 subscriptions, which
wasn't at all bad," announced J. H
Greves of the First National bank of
North Bend, who was in town yester
day. Mr. Greves is on a vacation an
will be in the middle west when th
victory drive is held. He fays that
with three sawmills operating and
shipyard building on private account,
his district feels very well, indeed. On
mill, which was working on spruce,
has reopened and the others never did
stop.
Astorians in town yesterday were
Mr. and Mrs. F. I. Dunbar, Mrs. Guy
Sanborn and Fred J. Johnson. His con
nectlon with the K. P. (Knights of
Pythias, not the army initials for
kitchen police) is keeping Mr. John
son constantly on the go. Mr. Johnson
is at the Seward and the others at the
Portland.
"Joe," said R. C. Ferguson of Se
attle, who is by way of making
living in the art metal works line,
"Joe, take care of this fishing equip
ment. I've bought about everything in
the world to catch fish and when I re
turn from California I want to try for
trout." Joe, the porter at the Benson,
assumed charge of the impedimenta.
Since the squib appeared in this col
umn quoting J. E. Martin of Seattl
that Portland had the prettiest girl
he ever saw, Mr. Martin has been ac
costed by at least a dozen lumbermen
in his home town who have chided
him for his supposed disloyalty to the
fair sex of Fuget sound.
R. R. Butler is in town from The
Dalles, "on a little business." He now
answers whether called judge or sena
tor, for he has been a circuit judge
and he has been a state senator. The
judicial senator or senatorial judge is
a republican from the mountains of
Tennessee, suh!
Nathan Hale, not the American who
was hanged by the British during the
war of the revolution and who
gretted that he had but one life to
give for his country, but the Nathan
Hale of Los Angeles, Cal., is regis
tered at the Imperial.
Interested In a contract for road con-
struction betwen Marshfield and Co
quille, Victor Anderson of North Bend
is in Portland and registered at the
Imperial. Some of the natives pro
nounce Coquille "Ko-keeU" and others
Koquill."
Boosting the Roosevelt highway,
Fred Hollister, lawyer and banker of
North Bend, was in town yesterday.
Mr. Hollister has been assigned to
carry his county for the proposed bond
issue and he considers that he has an
easy job.
'Baker county produced $3,000,000 in
gold, copper and silver last year," re
ports William Pollman of Baker.
Which will be news to a lot of Oregon
people who do not consider this as
mining state, and Mr. Pollman speaks
for one county only.
For more than 30 years A B. Lamb
has been selling pills to the people of
Fossil. The pioneer druggist was reg
istered at the Imperial yesterday dis
cussing baseball with George McKay,
an ex-townie.
A very important factor In the com
missary department of the Northern
Pacific railroad, D. L. Tobias was at
the Hotel Portland yesterday. His
headquarters are located in Seattle.
G. Cooper, the baseball player,
whose case has not been disposed of
and who isn't sure where he will be
playing this season, is registered at
the Seward from Atlanta, Ga.
Owing to the illness of his son, C.
H. Watzck, lumberman of Wauna, Or.
hurried the boy to the city for treat
ment yesterday, registering at the Ho
tel Portland.
,
r. and Mrs. Chester Thorne, well
known Tacoma people, passed a few
hours at the Benson yesterday on their
way home from California.
Howard Jayne, secretary of the Wil-
lapa Lumber company, is at the Benson
looking after interests or the concern
In Portland.
Mrs. Corlnne R. Barker, formerly
well known in this city, and who went
on the stage, is at the Hotel Portland.
She now registers from Broadway
(N. Y.).
Accompanied by their son, Marvin,
still in uniform, Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
Coats of Raymond, Wash., are at the
Oregon.
T. G. Randolph, a film distributor
from the Elliott bay metropolis, is at
the Hotel Oregon. -
Robert C. Kinney, member of the
port of Astoria, Is at the Hotel Port
land. District Attorney for Columbia
County Glen R. Metsker of St. Helens is
registered at the imperial.
Here to sing the praises of Saskat
chewan wheat lands, O. M. Akers is at
the Perkins.
Peter Dietrich, a Stayton merchant,
s In Portland on business and is at the
Perkins.
E. C. McClung and family of Bend
are at the Perkins. Mr. McClung is a
merchant.
Plea for Prison Women.
Exchange.
Most of the service flags used in
Massachusetts were made by women
in the state reformatory, 'inese pris
oners also supplied more than 2000
socks to the American army. At the
recent conference on prison labor.
where these facts were stated, the
plea was also made that judges should
cfiase to look on all women delinquents
o. nriTTilnnlH but should acauaint them
selves with the circumstances back of
the delinquency, I
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Year Asa.
From The Oregonlan, April 10. 1884.
Salem. Binger Hermann was nomi
nated for representative In congress
from the first district, to succeed him
self. McMinnville's telephone
exchange
starts with 20 subscribers.
Lcwest bid received for construction
of reservoir No. 2, on the east side, was
that of James Alexander for $19,659.13.
Milwaukee. Wis. Before a commis
sion of the judiciary committee of tba
house of representatives. Federal
Jud?re Jenkins was under investigation
for his order for the Northern Pacific
strike injunction.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonlan. April 10. 1869.
"Washington. The committee on re
construction has agreed to report a
bill in accordance with the president's
wishes in regard to Virginia and Mis
sissippi. The Alabama claims - corre
spondence was sent In to the senate to
day. The archives of Umatilla, county
were removed today from Umatilla to
Pendleton by order of the county court.
Virginia City, Nev. All hopes have
been given up of saving the lives of
the eight or ten men confined in the
lower levels of the burning mines.
The cotton crop of South Carolina
has more money value than any here
tofore produced, though 50,000 bales
short. Its value is placed at $25.uuo,
000. WHAT TKOOPS FID IX HARBIX
Manchurinn Station for an Amerlcaai
Force la Boom Town,
In connection with the reported ar
rival at Harbin, Manchuria, of a con
tingent of American troops, a part of a
force to be stationed along the trans
Siberian railway, the National Geo
graphic society has issued the follow
ing bulletin:
"In Harbin east meets west only to
prove Kipling's prophecy that the two
never will blend. Harbin is the loophole
through which the long, lean arm of
European Russia stretched clear across
a continent to clutch a coveted ice-free
Pacific port, and thus precipitated the
Russo-Japanese war.
'American soldiers will find in uar-
bln an oriental boom town, cosmopoli
tan and nondescript, only ten years
older than Gary, Indiana, though built
a land whose history antedates the
Sphinx and the pyramids.
'Kussiain and Chinese, French Ger
man and Japanese are spoken there, but
little English. There are schools of oc
cidental and oriental mould; Christian
churches and temples of the ancient
faiths of the Asiatics. Even the vices of
the east and west competed until a few
years ago the vodka shops vieing with
opium dens to allure the adventurous
visitor.
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'The Russians founded Harbin In
1896 on the site of an obscure Chinese
hamlet. It was built for a railway and
military center. Today it is the Man-
churian Chicago, where traffic streams
from Vladivostok, South Manchuria and
Europe converge and a far eastern
Minneapolis, with a score of modern
flour mills attesting its importance as
a grain center.
Harbin lies on the Sungarl river to
the northeast of Port Arthur. It Is a
little less distant from that port than
is New York from Detroit, and Vladi
vostok is only about half as far to the
southeast. The Chinese Eastern rail
way, which is the eastern continuation
of the Siberian line, divides at Harbin,
with its main arm running to Vladi
vostok and the other branch forming
another inverted T' with the prongs
resting at Pekin and Port Arthur.
"Already the original town is known
as "Old Harbin, while the -New MarDin'
is the predominant commercial and
manufacturing center. As in many
new railroad towns with large foreign
populations there Is an 'across-the-tracks'
district, inhabited in this in
stance by the natives who have become
strangers In their own land, and a con
siderable floating population of coolies.
Adding the average native population
of this section, known as Fu-chia-tien,
to the 40,000 or so residents In Harbin
proper the total population was es
timated, before the world war, at about
100,000.
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When work began on the railway to
South Manchuria in 1898 Harbin started
its rapid growth, but it was the Russo-
Japanese war that brought phenomenal
prosperity to the city, Just as the war
now closing did to many American
cities. Fu-chia-tien prospered so richly
that it became known as the 'Six Mil-
ion Tiao,' a Chinese pun hinging on the
double meaning of 'Tiao,' which sig
nifies either money or town.
The Chinese Eastern Railway com
pany owns the town literally. It ac
quired 29.000 acres, a tract extending
beyond the bounds of Harbin, through
Russo-Chmese treaty. The railroad
permitted citizens of the city to assume
some municipal functions, such as reg
ulating their own schools, streets, pub
lic health provisions and taxation."
SIGHT UNPLEASANT TO VISITOR
founs Girls as Tag Sellers Give Out-
of-Town Folk Bad Impression.
NEWBERG, Or., April 7. (To the
Editor.) If the Portland Grade Teach-
association considered an Easter
egg tag sale necessary to advertise its
patriotism, would it not have been bet
ter if its members had been the sellers
of the tags as. well, rather than expose
young girls to undue publicity on the
streets and In the puono places in tne
downtown districts?
Portland, because of Its position as
the metropolis, sets the pace for the
surrounding towns and for the entire
tate. Young people from the country
who are not acquainted with the better
feature of city life, the refined home
life, get their ideas of a city from what
they see in the downtown districts
during Saturday trips for shopping or
ntertainment and form their conciu-
ions accordingly, and such campaigns
as Saturday's encourage the very evil
that country towns are fighting the
habit of young girls accosting stran-
The needs or tne poor tn iiuropt ana
of our boys "over there can be met
without licensing our young people to
do the very acts that place them in the
way of temptation. Less publicity
patriotism, more regard for authority
and more true co-operation with the
home would lessen the need of the
much-discussed court of domestic rela
tions. Too much Is classed as patrlot-
that deserves a less nooie line.
Would not the protection of our young
nennla at home come under the head
of true patriotism?
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Orlgin f "Goose Baagi Hlch."
Indianapolis News.
The most popular explanation of the
origin of the expression. "Everything Is
lovely and tne goose nangj nigii. is
this That it comes from the southern
country amusement known as "goose
pulling. A goose, us neca careiuuy
plucked and well greased, was hung by
it feet to a branch of a tree. The men
would ride past at a gallop, trying to
catch it by the neck and pull Its head
ft The better tne goose was in
dodging the greater the fun. When the
goose hung high, so that the competi
tors had to stand In their stirrups to
srrasD at it. the joy wis greatest. An
other sutrKested origin Is that It refers
to the fact that wild geese fly in clear
weather: this explanation would change
"hangs" to "honks."-