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sess the attributes necessary to en
able it to negotiate peace in the name
of France." Gambetta resigned and
Bismarck had his way.
The allies have the same right with
regard to Germany. Austria and Hun.
irary. It is more essential with them
than it was with Germany in dealing
with France In 1871. because they are
not in full military occupation of the
defeated countries, while France forty
eight years a go -was absolutely in the
grip of Germany.
If the creation of Bolshevist gov.
emments in Hungary and Bavaria
should be followed by the triumph of
bolshevlsm in Germany and German
Austria, and if these governments
should refuse the terms of peace upon
which the allies agree, the allies might
find no alternative to complete ecu
pation of all those countries until the
9.n I Parties which rely on force had been
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MWKTHIMli TO MATCH.
IScfore contrrss has decided what
to do with the American railroads
tho.se of Great Britain will probably
be well on the way to become gov
ernment property. A bill is now be
fore parliament establishing a minis
ter of ways and communications, con
tinuing the railroads in his hands on
the present terms for two years and
authorizing him to buy for the gov
ernment all that he thinks flu This
bill applies not only to railroads, but
to light railways, tramways which we
call street railways, canals, water
ways and inland navigation, roads,
bridges and ferries and vehicles and
traffic thereon, harbors, docks, and
riers. and the supply of electricity, j
All means of transportation are placed
tinder his jurisdiction, but he may not
acquire utilities owned by the public
without the consent of the municl
pality concerned and he is not com
pelled to acquire anything ho docs
pot want. All rates and fares are to
be fixed by him. and he is to fix all
salaries and wages except his own
and those of two parliamentary sccre
taries. He is to be the autocrat of
transportation, but subject to ques.
tion and censure by parliament.
When this bill lias been passed and
when its provisions have been fully
carried out. public ownership will be
the rule in every country of Kurope.
Canada is fast progressing toward the
same system and if congress should
return the American railroads to their
owners this will be the one great
country adhering to private owner
ship. The demand for adoption of
the Kuropean plan may be expected
to grow stronger and it will be the
part of the government and the rail
road managers to vindicate the supe
riority of the American plan.
About two million Americans who
will have much to say about the gov
ernment of this country in the next
generation have seen and traveled on
government-owned roads. They will
make allowance for the deterioration
caused by war in Europe, but some
such allowance must be made for war
deficiencies In this country also. Their
verdict will doubtless be that the
service la infinitely better and that
the rates are materially lower on
American roads. Until the interstate
commerce commission began to put
the screws on too tight, extensions and
Improvements kept pace more nearly
with the wants of the country in the
T nitcd States than In any part of
IT u rope.
The American plan of private own
ership and operation under govern
ment regulation has not yet had a fair
trial. Its purpose is to maintain fair
play between the railroads and the
public and between shippers and com
munitiesv Tul"lhe passions aroused by
the strusjrle to establish this system
have left the public in a temper which
prevents the rule from working both
ays. Only by decrees can this atti
tude change to the point where fair
play both ways will be recognized as
to the best interest of both parlies,
We have had several suggestions In
recent events that railroad service
costs more and is worlh less under
public than under private ownership.
It would bo well to perfect our own
rlan of public regulation and to give
it a fair trial, and at the same time
to watch developments under public
ownership in Great Britain.
operation, but it would be the penalty
of the delays marking the Paris con
fcrence.
PITY THE OFFICER OF THE LAW.
When federal agents heard a ru
raor that whisky was to be shipped
through Roanoke (Va.) in a coffin
they obtained a search warrant,
opened the box and casket and found
only that which coffins usually con
tain when tbey contain anything.
"Prohibition outcrows and over.
rides every consideration, profane or
sacred." remarks the New York
Times.
"Shall even the majesty and sacred
ness of death be no bar to the activi
ties of the anti-liquor agents?" asks
the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
It was an unfortunate and a har
rowing incident for the dead man's
relatives and probably a disagreeable
shock to the federal agents, but it
seems to harrow and disagreeably
shock those who despise prohibition
quite as much. Their sympathy is too
restricted.
The use of the coffin as- a container
for liquor was. we believe, first
thought of in Kansas. It has later
been put to that purpose in Michi
gan. One might also inquire with
equal heat, "Shall even the majesty
and sacredness of death be no bar to
the activities of the bootleggers?"
Michigan bootleggers have "out
crowed and overridden" other sacred
considerations. Women whose osten
sible condition was such as to excite
sympathetic interest and good will
have been found to be wearing large
liquor-filled pouches underneath the
clothing. Here is a situation with a
delicate aspect and as sacred a con
sideration as that of the suspected
coffin.
If bootleggers will do these things
what is to be done about them? Let
us search our hearts for a little sym
pathy for the officer sworn to do his
duty, who knows such things are going
on and gets into a pretty pickle if he
errs in judgment.
THE rEVtLTV Or DELAY.
In opening an article entitled "Dan
Iters of Delay." the London Times of
January 3 said:
Wba'.crrr ma have been tha rtaaons for
the adjournment of the preliminary dlacua
ions twicrn the allien, the adjournment
ttlf la a subject of rekret. Aa now ar
ranged, they wiil not befln until January 13
more than two month after the ailtnalure
of the armtatKe. Wt are nor In the leiaurely
tlaa of the cons-eaa of Vienna, when the
f.ie of the peop.es could be left In the bal
ance fur months, until U suited tha cunven
1. nee of monan its and of diplotnauala to
debate It.
That was published more than three
months ago, and every subsequent
event has confirmed the wisdom of
the warning. Affairs in the enemy
countries have rapidly gone from bad
to worse, until there is danger that
they may become utterly disorganised
and may have no organized govern
ment to which the allies can dictate
terms, or they may establish forms
of government which will be incapable
of complying with the agreements
which they make. As bolshevlsm
spreads from Russia to Hungary and
from there to Bavaria and makes new
assaults on the Ebert government of
Germany., this danger grows and the
possibility arises that the allies may
hae to occupy the-enemy countries
and compel them to establish govern
ments by the ballot Instead of the
bayonet.
It is imperative ' that in making
peace Germany and the. other central
nations be bound by stable govern
ments which truly reflect the will of
the people. If the allies make a treaty
with a weak, ephemeral government,
it may bo upset by a new faction
which will repudiate Its predecessor's
ohlirations. Bismarck saw this pos
sibility in 1ST I and guarded against
it by providing in the armistice for
an assembly chosen by free elections,
because no government otherwise con
stituted could make a binding peace.
Gambetta proposed to exclude Bona
partists as candidates, but Bismarck
protested that the rights granted "to
the freely elected representatives of
the country cannot be acquired
through elections conducted under an
MOTION riCTTRES IX EIU'CATION.
Infinito possibilities for education
are suggested by the plea of the presi
dent of a large motion picture con
cern' for wide use of motion pictures
in the schools. In this he only voices
the ambition of Thomas A. Edison,
who long ago let it be known that this
was one of the ends toward which he
was striving, but it is significant that
the official in question talks of a con
crete plan. He would begin by cm
ploying the film as a means of instruc
tion in geography. This would be the
entering wedge. Beyond that point
development would depend only upon
the enterprise of school directors.
The plan does not seem fantastic
now, although a few years ago it
would have seemed the height of ex
travagance. The facility with which
motion pictures were shown, with
highly portable apparatus, in the war
zones, their wide employment in lib
erty bond drives, health campaigns.
fire prevention, good citizenship and
other educational movements, gives a
hint of the case with which they can
be adapted to a variety of purposes.
The fcdcraT bureau of education has
long considered the possibility of cre
ating a standardized scries of films
for educational purposes and estab
lishment of an educational film ex
change for similar public use was sug
gested two years ago.
The school film finds its starting
point in geography because here it has
something concrete with which to
ally Itself. Maps, which have pre
dominated in our study of geography
in the past, probably have received
too much emphasis. It makes less
difference whether Australia is in a
certain longitude and latitude than
that it la populated by a certain kind
of people, who bear a relation to us
based upon their ways of living, their
surroundings and products. One of
the best ways to study geography, it
will be conceded. Is to travel; since
school children cannot turn globe
trotters, the motion picture offers the
most feasible substitute. By assocl.
ation of ideas map study, which no
one wants to abolish, is made more
impressive.
Practically no new ground remains
to be broken to make other studies
possible by motion picture classes.
Amasing results already have been
attained in biology and even in mi
croscopy. It is hard to conceive a
better stimulus to botany study than
the pictured growth and development
of the plant from the seed stage, in
which nature's process, covering weeks
or months, is condensed into less than
a minute of time. The fact that no
scientific agency hesitates to employ
the motion picture as a means of
spreading propaganda is a recognition
of its high educational value. The
problems remaining to be solved would
seem to be chiefly. those of organiza
tion and distribution, and these ap
pear to present no insuperable ob
stacles.
History in the making Is now being
recorded by motion pictures. Future
generations may have a better idea
what we are like than we have of our
forbears. But not all historv study
consists in contemplation of the dis
tant past. The motion picture would
lend Itself handily to the purposes of
the class in history if, for example, the
plan- of Dean Hawkcs of Columbia
university should prevail generally.
Dr. Hawkrs proposes that freshmen
henceforth shall not start their his-
Ltory studies with the time of primeval
cbaos and come down the ages to the
present, but shall begin with the bol-
sheviki and other problems of the.
twentieth century and work backward.
Here the motion picture would shine
with double luminosity by making in
troductory study of a heretofore dull
and heavy subject so graphic that the
student would be carried by his own
aroused enthusiasm into the phases of
the subject which he now neglects.
greater completeness than was pos
sible under the old system for two
reasons that farmers-will have more
time in which to study details, and
that their operations of the preceding
crop season will be fresher in mem
ory. It is proposed in the forthcom
ing census to give especial weight to
the extent to which land is actually
utilized and to matters of tenure, ten
ancy, mortgages and variety of crop
raised which are expected to furnish
a more reliable basis than has ever
before existed for study of agricul
tural needs. The department of agri
culture, which is co-operating with
the census bureau, is justified in ex
pressing hope that farmers will lend
every possible aid to the enumera
tors, since upon the accuracy of their
statistics will depend future policies
of first interest to the entire Industry.
THE PATH TO VICTORY.
The programme followed by the so
cialists of the central European states.
by whatever name they call them
selves, closely resembles what E.
Munsch, a Swiss socialist, calls "the
path which leads the working class
in Switzerland to political power." He
says:
And this path traverses precisely the same
stakes of revolution here aa In the other
countries; general strikes, riots, revolution
ary risings, civil war. It leads over disci
plinary measures and imprisonment, over
thnusanda of proletariat corpses; It leads
dlrei.1 in battle between worker retriments
and peasant residents; with us. as in Rus
sia. It will become a battle tor a crusv oi
bread. . . . The way to power leads through
the ravine of chaos, but It leads In the. end
the victory of the worklng-ciass, to mo
victory of eoclalism.
That is the. path which Russia trav
eled, which Hungary and Bavaria are
traveling and which Germany may yet
travel, and the goal will De tne same
as Russia has reached. The means by
which victory is to be won are tne
same as those by which all conquerors
have won. whether they were auto
crats like Caesar. Alexander, lamer
lane. Solyman, Attila. Napoleon or the
kainer of the present day, or ravag
ing hordes like those which destroyed
the Roman empire, or a class which
seeks supremacy over all other classes.
The onlv difference between me ei.
for of the proletariat to rule by force
and that of the individual despots is
that the former justifies its action ry
an Ingenious system oi piiiiusuini),
which smooths over the deficiencies
of the failures and points an easy way
to acquire that which they cannot
honestly earn.
oppressive and arbitrary rule." He
published an article in the official I Decision to take the 19:0 farm cen
ileniteur maintaining that Germany ! sus on January 1. instead of April 15,
had "the rifht to see that public au-las was done La 1310. wlU guarantee
XEff NAME FOR THE ZEPPELIN
Unpleasant association of the Zep
pelin aircraft with barbarous prac
tices which are now history gives point
to demand for a new word to desig
nate the dirigible balloon, but it is
not plain how the demand will be
met. "Zeppelin" had become a com
mon noun in our language before the
war besran. because it was Count Zep
pelin who developed the airigiDie
pon the scale wnicn toon noia uiu
,r imagination. The less
nctarular efforts of many other in
entors, however, had quite as muca
to do with making the dirigible pos
sible as did the final touches of mag
nificence supplied by the German.
The idea was that of General J. B.
M. C. Meusnier, a Frenchman, who
proposed an elongated balloon in 1784,
116 years before the Zeppelin I took
the air. Then there were the Rob
ert brothers, also Frenchmen, who
were first to operate a balloon me
chanically, and who gave it a certain
amount of deviation from its natural
course by working aerial oars. Henri
Giffard installed the engine, using
steam, in 1S52. Depuy de Lome in
1872 employed eight men to work a
propeller by hand and afterward cal
culated that with an engine weighing
as much as the men he could have
doubled the speed attained. Tissan
dier used an electric motor in 1883,
on one occasion stemming a wind that
blew seven miles an hour.
It was not until 1897 that any Ger
man of prominonce figured in airship
development. The French had then
been at work with the idea 113 years,
and had done the pioneering upon
which the Germans, Wolfert, Schwarz
and Zeppelin, based the achievement
which culminated in the great Zeppe
lin which in 1900 carried five men
aloft and traveled three and a half
miles at a speed of eighteen miles an
hour. But an even stronger claim
may be presented by Albert Santos-
Duinont. the Brazilian, who in laui
steered a balloon completely around
the Eiffel tower. Success of Pierre
and Paul Lcbaudy in 1904 antedated
by at least two years the trip of Zep
oelin around Lake Constance. The
"dirigible" quality of the dirigible was
fully established before Count Zeppe
lin was able to announce his own
success.
There Is natural hostility in both
England and France to the word
"xeppelin." but nothing approaching
agreement on a substitute. For the
present in America it would seem that
"dirigible," although lacking com
pleteness, would have to serve.
ILLEGAL PROPAGANDA.
On the one hand the war depart
ment sought to suppress a letter from
Colonel Ansell to Secretary Baker in
reply to statements made by General
Crowder and, having failed. Mr. Baker
refused to receive it "officially" on
the ground that the colonel was "seek
ing to use the secretary of war as a
medium of publicity." On the other
hand it now develops that 70,000
copies of a letter by Colonel John D.
Wigmore, a subordinate of General
Crowder. have been sent out to law
yers, a letter from General Crowder
being enclosed with it. As Senator
Chamberlain points out and as Colonel
Wigmore admits, this action is con
trary to military discipline. It is also
in violation of law in the fact that
letters were apparently printed at the
government printing- office, presumably
at government expense, and were
mailed under the frank of the defunct
war industries board.
This is a most instructive example
of the extent to which government
agencies and government funds are
used for purposes of propaganda in
behalf of the administration's policies
and for the purpose of suppressing any
publicity antagonistic to those policies.
The Ansell letter was suppressed for
weeks because it did not accord with
Secretary Baker's plans and, after it
had become public in spite of him, it
was denied further publicity On the
ground that it would not be "helpful."
But when Colonel Wigmore writes a
letter that is hostile to the cause of
military justice, which Mr. Baker pro
fesses to uphold, the government print
ing office and the mails are placed
at its service to obtain that publicity
which is denied to Colonel Ansell.
Usually .the government departments
and bureaus are so rigidly distinct that
only with the greatest difficulty are
they brought into communication and
co-operation, but all barriers were
broken down In order to clear tie way.
for the Wigmore letter to reach the
lawyers.
The same species of partisan propa
ganda has marked the entire course of
the committee on public information
that was organized by George CreeL
Established by executive order of the
president, without authority of law,
and maintained with the 8100,000,000
fund voted by congress for expenditure
at the president's discretion, this com
mittee conducted a partisan propa
ganda on behalf of the democratic
party in conjunction -with its propa
ganda against Germany. It dissemi
nated false information about aircraft
production for the purpose of protect
ing Mr. Baker from attack and, when
Senator Chamberlain exposed the fail
ure of the war department in January,
1918, it published the speeches of Mr.
Baker's apologists, but not Mr. Cham
berlain's speech.
It is human nature not only to
follow but to improve upon such ex
amples, and the Wigmore affair has
about reached the limit. The letter
is an expression of an individual
opinion about military matters by a
military officer, and its circulation is
contrary to military regulations. That
is one violation of law. If it was printed
at the government printing office at
public expense, as Senator Chamber
lain believes that is a second violation
of law. Mailing under a government
frank is a third violation of law. Not
that Colonel Wigmore and his asso
ciates are in much danger of prosecu
tion. Direct violation or evasion o
law by government officials has be
come so common of late years that it
may be said, "They all do it," and
there is safety in numbers. But th
effect of such practices on the move
ment for reform of military justice
proves the necessity of brinfiriner all
federal officials into erict observance
of the law. If the opponents of that
reform were permitted to suppress all
facts and arguments in its favor while
they were free to use all the resources
of the government in proclaiming the
case against it,, the army might be
condemned to continuance of a relic
of Prussian militarism.
The proof is clear that Mr. Baker
and all the forces of the army machine
are trying to conceal the monstrous
injustice which has been done and to
kill the movement for reform. The
secretary's anger was aroused, not by
the evils of the court-martial system
but by Colonel Ansell's discovery that
for many years a law had existed per
mining review of sentences and that
this power had not been exercised.
That was the attitude of a small man
who was interested in keeping himself
clear from blame, not in seeing jus
tice done. When General Crowder's
attention was called to existence of
the power of review, his naturally
humane instinct prompted him to
agree with his subordinates' opinion,
but when Mr. Baker upbraided him
for an abuse which long antedated his
military career, he, too, ran to cover
by denying that the power of review
existed, in order to save his "official
reputation."
Mr. Baker has now practically ad
mitted the truth of Colonel Ansell's
contention by his own actions. He has
admitted that the power .to review
verdicts of courts martial exists by es
tablishing a clemency board. That
board has proved that sentences have
been cruelly excessive by recommend
ing that they be reduced in 1521 out
of 1683 cases considered, and by re
ducing the average from seven years
four months to one year nine months.
He admits the need of wholesale re
form by calling on Colonel Ansell to
prepare a bill for that purpose. But
Mr. Baker's conduct in reducing Colo
nel Ansell in rank, in suppressing agi
tation for reform and in promoting
propaganda against reform is con
elusive proof that he is not sincere in
his pretended advocacy of justice to
the soldiers. He ,is completely in the
hands of the army machine, which
clings to all old prerogatives of offi
cers which have come down from the
middle ages.
Any bill which Colonel Ansell draws
will be ripped to pieces by the military
bureaucrats or pigeonholed in the war
department. Only the industry of
Senator Chamberlain, backed by con
gress, could save it.
Those Who Come and Go.
There is need of a sort of "Who's
Who" of military decorations and of
ficial badges. How is one to know
whether an ornament on a man's coat
is just a deputy sheriff's star or a
decorRtion from King Albert or Presi
dent Poincare?
A good way to avoid congestion of
grain shipments at New Tork would
be to divide them with other ports.
Handling of half the nation's com
merce through one port obstructs
traffic, as was proved during the war.
This is not a one-port country.
John Barrett, director-general, hav
ing held his Pan-Americans in excel
lent control during the trying period,
will have a grand round-up and cele
bration in Washington ere long.
For forty-two years W. G. Thomas
has been living in Alaska, and- about
every part of it has been visited by
him during that time. "I have held
office," said Mr. Thomas at the Im
perial yesterday where he complained
that his room was too warm, after such
a long time in the north "under every
administration from President Arthur
down to the present time. For the past
12 years I have been United States
commissioner at Wrangell. The popu
lation of Wrangell has been reduced by
the influenza, the disease being par
ticularly fatal to the Indians, although
the whites in southeastern Alaska got
off fairly well." For a number of
years Mr. Thomas was stationed on the
Aleutian islands, and that was the time
when there was a row over the sealing
rights and the water was covered with
revenue cutters and warships. Mr.
Thomas is a native Oregonian, born at
Scio. He will visit Jefferson Myers
before leaving the city.
Brigadier-General George Blakely,
coast artillery corps, U. S. A., com
manding general, headquarters North
Pacific C. A. C, Seattle, aecompaniea
by two members of his staff. Majors
W. P. Simpson, Q. M. C, district quar
termaster, and Walter Pollitz, district
personnel officer, are at the Benson
General Blakely is on an inspection
tour of the coast defenses of the Co
lumbia, which comprise the forts at the
mouth of the Columbia river. Major
Simpson was formerly chief clerk to
the adjutant-general ot uregon, J.ieu
tenant-Colonel George A. White, and
left that service to accept a commis
sion in the federal service a few days
after the declaration of war by this
country. After making the inspection
the officers will return to their station
at Seattle.
"Matches are given away only on the
Pacific coast in the hotels ot .fort
land," says Clerk Myers of the Ben
son. "At least that is what travelers
tell us. Formerly hotels everywhere
handed cut matches freely, usually the
sort which carried an advertisement
of the house, but since the war
matches have been placed on the list
of articles to be conserved. Hotels in
Portland continue to give away
matches, even though the hotels in
other cities do not. I think there is
truth in what the travelers say from
the way our supply at the desk has to
be replenished several times a day.
The Multnomah, Portland and Imperial
have packages of matches advertising
those establishments. The Benson uses
the ordinary stick match of commerce.
One thousand dollars was lost by
Phil Metschan Jr. this week, which
might as well have gone Into the con
vention fund for the Shrine. A cattle
man Informed Mr. Metschan that he
was shipping some cattle to market
and expected they would sell for about
S3500 less than they cost him. Just
to show he was a good fellow, the cat
tleman offered to let Mr. Metschan in
on half of anything the stock brought
above a certain figure, if Mr. Metschan
would pay half on a loss. The hotel
man refused. Acceptance would have
netted him a trifle better than ?1000.
The Birds.
Uy Grace 1 Hall.
In Other Days.
There Is a bird house on a polo among
the hisr fir trees.
With a chimney, porch, partitions, and against the Southern Pacific company
Ttventy-ave Yean Ao.
From Tho Oreg-onian. April J I, ISO.
Ogden. A permanent injuucttasa.
two front doors, if you please.
It stands above the danger sone and
invitation flings
To nesting birds who seek abode yet
no response it brings.
'Tis man-made, and they cautiously ap
proach it every day
They view it o'er, discuss tho plan, then
swiftly wing away;
has been issued here to Drevent the
unloading of members of the industrial
army brought from California.
Albany. Returns Indicate that the
republicans have scored an overwhelm
ing victory at the polls in New York:
and New Jersey.
After the republican convention end-
And to a niche where no one meant a ea ioors or tne oay yesterday ic
hiri in h. I was believed the contest for nomination
They bring their sticks and feathered 'or Evcrnor of Oregon had narrowed
bit anrf work ritrht merrllv. down to Judge W. P. Lord of Salem and
C. W. Fulton of Astoria, with Judge
J-.om leaning.
The democratic county convention ie
in session at The Dalles.
In a few minutes, John W. Bergman
of Florence sold 123 Roosevelt high
way buttons for four-bits each to Fort
land business connections. Mr. Berg
man took a supply of the buttons, vis
ited a wholesale concern or two and
talked the managers into buying his
entire stock. Then, as he was pre
paring to return to Florence, he laid
in a fresh stock of buttons to sell to
his fellow townsmen. The revenue
from the buttons is intended to assist
in defraying the expense of carrying
on the campaign for the bond issue.
Smuggling six cans of opium into
Portland, Jane Westerman, a waitress.
was arrested yesterday afternoon. Her
story to Assistant United States At
torney Bcckman was that she bought
the drug in Vancouver, B. C. where
she had been employed, for S68 a can,
expecting to dispose of it in Portland
for 890 a can. She had no trouble
smuggling the drug across the inter
national line, as the cans were con
cealed on her person.
Looking for a location, Lieutenant
Charles Z. Randall, former Salem attor
ney, is at the Imperial. He left with
the Woodburn unit of the old Third
Oregon and was with the Sunset divi-
on. Lieutenant Randall, who was dis-
harged this week, may go to eastern
Oregon to resume his profession.
bits and work right merrily.
They do not trust our overtures; too oft
they've tried to gain
A faith in human kind which brought
alas! but grief and pain;
And so they follow Nature's way and do
the best they can,
Depending on their tiny wits to live in
spite of man.
Pathetic, is it not that birds, our little
Should ever learn to rfonhf anrt fear "s happily conceiving what is for our
man's proffers and his ends? greatest good and having themselves no
Wee bits of darting life are they, with palate for the nectar designed to bless
Joys quite bubbling o'er; I the hearts of the majority, have ac-
Oh, would the West could be more blest complished their fell purpose, and are
DILL MONOTONY I.V BEING GOOD.
Writer Fears We Shall Tire of Con
tinued Vplift af Prohibition lira.
PORTLAND, April 10. Certain among:
and have ten thousand more.
GOOD WILL OFFERED TO PORTLAND
Appeal at Medford for Better Feeling
Toward Metropolis.
Medford Mail-Tribune.
There is ample authority for exhibit
ing a friendly spirit toward the sinner
that repenteth. Most of us regard n.- i m i.
the usual sign
now dancing in mad glee around the
sinking form of the dying god of wine.
Indeed, is it not a wonderful, a truly
magnificent tning that Is coming into
our disconsolate midst? Will not this
enforced abjuration promote longevity,
and allow our clarified brains to dwell
upon the finer aspects of life Buch aa
to conjure up new and unexpected ways
of doing good, and projecting little rays
of sunshine into small dark corners?
Portland as a sinner of long standing,
but for some time past assurances have
come from the north that the metropo
lis has repented of her ways and
pledged herself to a new and righteous
policy of good will and friendly co-op
eration toward the rest of the state,
particularly southern Oregon.
Now comes some concrete evidence
of this change of heart. The National
Kditorial association planned a trip to
the coast in August, but was routed
to arrive and return over the northern
route. A trip to Crater lake was sug
gested, but the expense of such a side
trip stood in the way. Portland was
appealed to and without suggesting the
assistance of southern Oregon pledged
$6000 in cold cash to provide a special
train to Medford and return.
We have never been backward In
advertising the sins of Portland, now
It is only common decency to give
equal publicity to her virtues. This
Invesrmentt of 86000 is unquestionably
an investment for Medford and south
Of course, just as an afterthought,
there are certain features of this arid
law that may be somewhat burdensome
and unsatisfying to a few millions.
After all, there is nothing quite so
tiresome as "Just being good.' This is
an expression that always harks mo
back to those Sabbath days of my hal
cyon youth when I was earnestly at
tended by a devout creature who droned
to me of winged angels and golden
streets on the one hand and of a sin
ister, leering, long-tailed ogre on the
other and all the while my young soul
longed to escape from its sanctified
boredom into the song and sunshine
without
Then again, I may say and It comes
from my inmost soul that there are
times in this puzzling scheme of ex
istence when some of us feel a dire
need of -..he sort of exhilaration that
nothing save the flowing bowl will
supply. The saloon has gone its way,
and we want it no more; but, odds bod
kins, who docs not feel his heart leap
, , , iwiio. wiiw uuuo nub isci ins iichi i leau
em Oregon. It means financing the madlv wlthin him t the thous-ht of a
largest and most important campaign "ayW,i wti e bh'
of beneficent propaganda Jackson lar,e'c'd i""1; frB,ht! ..,,.
, i . Suppose we admit that we may live
county has ever enjoyed. It means
bringing 300 leading newspaper men of
the country to Medford. and thus
forming at least a million people of
tne wonders of the Rogue river valley
and the glories of our greatest tourist
asset. Crater lake. This publicity
moreover, will extend where it is most
needed in the heart of the densely
populated districts of the east and
middle west
Let's give the devil his due. Instead
of reverting to suspicions and time
honored grievances, let's forget the
past, start with a clean slate and take
this splendid testimonial of the new
Portland spirit, in the spirit in which
it is given, ready to return it in kind,
whenever opportunity offers.
No possible good can come to Med
ford. Portland or the rest of the state
by encouraging antagonisms, distorting
motives, or nursing perhaps needless
assumptions of hostility and ill will.
What benefits one portion of the state
benefits all, and while we may believe
we nave always accepted this view
it is scarcely generous to assume that
all the errors have been on one side NEIGHBOR'S ACTS PREACH SERMO.V
and none on the other.
Here's a splendid opportunity to start I Writer Finds Inspiration in Charity
longer atop this rusty old coll if we
forego these delightful beverages. How.
then, If we do? Who among our valiant
dry promoters will make so bold as to
furnish a valid reason for wanting to
tack on a few moldy years at the end
of a lifeless life? After all, man must
needs have his little excesses, in some
form or another, for seldom is he con
tent to accept unreservedly the bright
but not too well-founded dream of fu
ture glories in lieu of temporal bliss.
A.nd I do adn it that the man in his
sups is less reprehensible to mu than
the man who has taken away the cup
entirely.
Just before "school is out and we
are relegated to the monastic routine
of living bright, good little lives, I hope
with the hope that springs eternal that
somebody will come forward with a
satisfying substitute for those immortal
words as musical as the whir of an
angel's wings: "Come, on, let's have a
drink." H. H. BOND.
1262 East Flanders street. '
a new era of good will and friendlj
feeling within - the commonwealth.
Portland has done her part, now it Is
np to us to do ours. Let s bury our
grievances at least until there is some
new and undeniable evidence of their
ustification.
The Britisher who held up the pres
ident's cables will be punished pub
licly and rewarded privately. What
the empire does not know about red
tape is not worth thought.
Things may happen to Lloyd George
If he does not bring home the bacon
from Paris that is, get all the repa
ration he promised ' in his election
speeches.
The great objection of American
soldiers to service in Russia is that
not enough of them are sent to finish
the Job in fine, artistic style.
If Gene Mitchell wished to adopt
the Joe Knowles costume she should
have gone to the mountains, where
Joe Knowles wore it.
W. F. Sumners, a discharged private
who was masquerading as a lieuten
ant, was fined $25 in the federal court
yesterday. Sumners, who is a British
subject, although he served in the
American army, was accused of wcar-
ng the uniform of an officer of the
United States. His explanation was
hat he was doing secret service work.
Woonsocket. R. I., was represented
on the registers of two hotels, yes-
crday. G. W. Lothrop and family
were at the Multnomah, and Mr. and
Mrs. A. Gilbert were at the Benson
These people have been passing the
winter in California and are swinging
omeward by the northern route.
Feet frozen by the rigors of the New
York winter, L. J. Jones, of the Na-
ional Lead company, -was forced to
take a vacation, and he came west to
look at the scenery and find a mild
climate. He landed at the Imperial
yesterday.
FRENCH ATTITl'DE IS SANE ONE
Best for World and Germany to Treat
- Germans, as Conquered People.
CARLTON, Or., April 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Thank you for your editorial,
"The French Viewpoint." It is a relief
to find now and then a few sane people land care tbey bestow upon her is an
expressing themselves in the midst of inspiration to all who know of it. I
the hubbub occasioned by the long-
Across the Way.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. April 10. (To
the Editor.) Just across the street
lives a man who to me is rather in
teresting. He has lived there for about
year, and yet I have never spoken
to him nor he to mc. He attends to
his own business and I to mine, and
it has been only by occasional glances
in his direction that I have formed my
opinion of him.
There is a little baby girl at his
house whom he and his wife took from
a foundling home, I have been told. She
is not a robust child but rather weak
ly, apparently. But the tender love
delayed peace.
It must be very astonishing to the
French people to be made the victims
of so much criticism by the very people
who were so short a time ago hysteri
cally proclaiming them the greatest,
have never noticed them going to
church on Sunday, and I don't supposo
tricy are aware of It, but the love and
care they bestow on that little baby
is a continual sermon they aro preach
ing to others.
I have noticed at times he has come
outcast dog that nobody else has a
We no sooner get forecasts of a
bumper crop of wheat than along
comes a storm which lays waste whole
counties. i
Texas is an. empire and one edge
can indulge in snow blockade while
the bollworm feathers his nest in
another.
Burleson is feeling the steps with
a foot. He has let go of a few thou
sand phone companies.
Three thousand revenue agents are
ready to enforce the "dry" law in
July. Booze hounds!
The Sinn Fein treasury is empty,
but what boots it to a real optimist
to be "broke"?
Congress is coming back in a month.
but. ah! what a congress of a differ
ent kind!
Spare the old hen! There is talk
of dollar eggs next winter.
Airs. Gerard has the camera eye,
C. W. Vail of Carlton is at the Ore
gon. Mr. Vail looks after the Inter
ests of the telephone company at Carl
ton and sells real estate. Although
the town has a population of only
about 800, or maybe less, it has more
snap to it than many Oregon towns
with twice the population.
J. W. Maxwell, president of the Na
tional City bank of Seattle, departed
for the Puget sound metropolis yester
day after having devoted three days
to business affairs in Portland. He
was at the Benson.
W. T. Brown, who has the store at
Timber the place on the Tillamook
railroad where the passengers were
permitted to eat before the town
burned down is at the Hotel Oregon
for a few days on. business.
Hal V. Bolam, of North Takima,
where he has been in the hop business,
is at the Imperial. Formerly he was
associated with Thomas Liveley'at Sa
lem.
Pioneer hotel man of Eugene, J. M
Stark, arrived at the Perkins yester
day on his return from several weeks
in California. He is now on his way
to Pendleton.
L. R. French of Grass Valley,
which is In the southern part of Sher
man county and on the route to
Shaniko, is at the Perkins for a few
days,
Gustav Huette of Sheboygan, Wis.,
is at the Benson. He is a friend of Ira
F. Powers and therefore has been
given the key of the city.
Jack IT. Peare, La Grande jeweler,
and Judge Knowles, of the same place.
passed through Portland to attend a
Red Cross meeting in Seattle.
Field Secretary for the Brotherhood
of St. Andrew, W. C Harvey, was an
arrival at the Hotel Portland yester
day from Camp Lewis.
Motoring from Tacoma to Portland
In ten hours flat. Mr. and Mrs. W. II.
Warner registered at the Multnomah
yesterday.
Interested in timber holdings down
Coos county way, W. ' F. Johnson of
Minneapolis Is at the Benson with his
family. ., ,
noblest and most long-suffering human WOrd of kindness for at his home to
beings on earth. Even to a Frenchman, reed up an1 befriend because he is ap
our sudden transitions in sentiment parentlv friendless. There is one there
must be puzzling, especially as so many
of them seem to have so little reason
for the basis of change.
Then, probably every thinking person
realizes that it we had caged our be
loved Wdodrow and kept him and his
determination to enforce his ideals
at present with a wounded foot, and he
is being cared for royally. In a few
days the man will find a home for
the dog, as he has already done with
several others ho found in need of hu
man help.
That Is another sermon he Is preach-
first even it he had to sacrifice peace i -i-.j,t .inner nverv . and tha text
to do so, at home, better progress would is the kindness that everybody needs,
have besn made. Everything had to It,,,, in incidents of this kind start a.
give way to the gentleman until he , nd elevatin- train of thought in
got sat upon by his own people; hence the nina of the neighbors on every
we are in the muddle we are, for his slde of r,ilrl. jt causes new resolves
own people did not sit down soon while it loads the way to higher planes
enough. , I nf Ufa tn he attained here in this world
No thinking person can blame the , v.n an m1i of mistakes that
French for not being particularly en- the average individual who has reached
thusiastic over all this effort to save the three-score and ten milestone would
the great brute force that is named hesitate to go back and live life over
"German," and it would have been bet- agajn unless he was sure he could do
ter for the Germans themselves if they a mUch better Job than he had done
had been treated as a conquered people before But it is a mighty good plan
but governed with sufficient kindness tn 'mnrova nresent oDDortunitles
10 ikl inrai evoive into Eumeuiras nu- m making others happy.
man, slowly and surely. But then our
very own Woodrow could not have
practiced his ideas of humanity in that
case.
Some few people can see these thin
in spite of Herbert Bayard Swope and
the rest of the correspondents who are
so busily engaged damning the French
and placing a halo around our presi
dent s head. Unless we do look at
things in this manner, we must take
OBSERVER.
HORROR TO ATTEND BOLSHEVISM
Writer Trembles Over Letting: Looae of
Myriad of Noisy Motor Vehicles.
PORTLAND, April 10. (To the Edi
tor.) One unanswerable argument
against bolshevlsm occurs to me that
r hovo nnt vet seen in Drint. If the
the Irish attitude that there is a "nig- wage-earners get all the money that
ger in the wodpile" and his name is bolsheviks promise them under their
England! The Irish are often right, -ehame the civilized world will soon be
at that. offii-tH with one of the worst evils
Of course. Wilson is planning for i-,, n helnlesa humanity.
1920 and playing politics with his T'Vl-n nerhana millions, or more
eague, too. If he comes home and I ,,rr...iB. nnH flivvers would come
leaves that rather sstute Texan in full lnt0 use t"0 tj,e air with noise and
control, things will probably be settled K E.n
sooner, and the Texan is likely to have Are we not already tortured enough?
a chance to prove that he is very EOodAre not our nerves shattered and our
iiicoiueinisi i-.mi.ei. I nostrils Irritated now to tne limit or
GERTRLDE RUTHERFORD, nrf.irnce? Is not an excess of gasoline
fumes from engines running win mak-
No Tricks for Aunt Tabifha. I incr day and night hideous with never-
(Exchange.) Iceaslnir rattle and boundless stenchT
Aunt Tabitha and Uncle Hiram start- Thousands are now on the verge of
ed for a visit to New York, and at nervous exhaustion eausea Dy ine ln
Philadelphla Uncle Hiram got out to fernal racket of exploding gasoline
buv a newspaper and the train went charges. What will become of an al
oft without him. But the railroad pco- ready neurastnenic population u every
pie were more than kind to Uncle worklng-'man and woman races madly
Hiram in his predicament. They put hither and thither, bent on nowhere in
him on an extra raniri exnreas. and ha particular, just restless With lOCOmOtO-
actually arrived in New York L'O min- niania a blind desire to be moving, the
utes ahead of Aunt Tabitha. He stood faster tne oetterf xninit oi ins inae-
at the exit in his black Sunday suit, scribablo clatter, lin. hUDDUD. DomDili-
carpet bag in hand, when she came tion. roar, detonation, snappery-craok-
forth. "Here we are again," he said ery of a universal volley of millions of
clasping her waist jocosely "I tell motorcycles and cheap automobiles
ye. Tabitha, gal, I thought I'd lost y with their mufflers cut out.
for good." But Aunt Tabitha had This frightful assault on over-iiraa
drawn herself up straight and stiff, nerves must be prevented by all means.
She was frowning as black as a thun- The nuisance is already., great enough
der cloud.. "You clear out, mister!" I to call for stringent regulation. Bol
she hissed. "None o' yer New York I shfvlsm would drive insane all people
confidence tricks on me. I - left -my I who have nerves In their bodies Instead
Hiram in Philadelphia." . 1 of cotton twine. KENT L. ROOT.