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THE .MORNING OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1919.
ESTIPXISMEB BI UHBT L. PITTOCK.
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Just when free communication was
needed to improve tbe opportunity to
increase ' foreign trade, and he laid
the administration open to suspicion
of censoring news about the peace
conference.
What the public thinks of govern
ment operation as conducted by Mr.
Burlesdh may be judged from the
action of two men who have food
political reasons for keeping their fin
frers on the public pulse. Representa
tive James B. Aswell of Louisiana, a
democrat, who Introduced the bill per
mitting the government to take over
the wires and cables, has announced
that he will apologize to tlie house of
representatives for his action and has
expressed the conviction that the ad
vance in telegraph tolls "means the
death knell to government control or
ownership of telegraph, telephone and
railroad lines." David J, Lewis, who
has been the foremost champion in
J j J I congress of the policy whloft Mr.
l itj Aswell says is doomed and who was
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esting to recall also by way of coinci- been shamefully treated, by the allies,
dence that the canonization of Joan It was utterly neglected during the
was completed only a short while ago. first year of the war, first in order not
Viewed from every standpoint, the to arouse the Jealousy of Italy, which
failure of Mark Twain was not a mis- the allies were then courting, later in
fortune. The author himself would order to force concessions to Bulgaria,
have thankad no one for any maudlin which they next courted. The Jugo-
sympathy. The reading world is Slavs seem to be 1 in sore need of a
gainer by the work which it stimulated I friend, and both sentiment and policy
him to do. Ills critical essays and I prompt the United States to be
ll Is Autobiography" also are note-1 friend them. An unjust settlement
worthy productions. In a different I of the dispute between them and Italy
vein from that which courses through I would surely prove unstable and
his earlier work. The one character- would open a new chapter of Balkan
istic which is noteworthy in every-1 feuds. We have an interest in pre-
tning ne did. Doth before and after venting such feuds for one of them
the collapse of hi commercial caused the world war, which forced
schemes, is his detestation of sham us to abandon our policy of isolation
and pretense. This is of the frank It is to our interest, and we have a
and open kind, without tinge of bit- right, to prevent the seeds of another
terness or cynicism, and it goes far feud from being planted In such fer-
toward explaining the hold which tile soil.
Mark Twain had upon his public.
Those Who Come and Go.
iJally. without funday. one year
i . . : 'j w it H..t K.in.f v Dit miinlhl
lui.y.' without hunday. one month u I placed in charge of a division of the
Hoar t Keratt end postomco systems by Mr. Burleson, has re-
cor. espreaa or personal check on your, local
bank. Slams, coin or currency sro at own.
tr o rfak. tiive poatofflce address la full, in
Cioutnr county and state.
rMa Katea 12 to I pates. 1 cent: 1
ft -1 paies. 1 cents: " to 41 pair's. 3 cents:
30 to t paces, s cents: - to T pares. 5
c?au: Ts to - pares. cents. Forclsn poat
II double rates.
Eastern Bandiaeaa OffVre Verreo at Conk
Mn. Brucswirk bul.dlnr. .New York: Verree a
t onk in. -terr bulldinc. chlcmro: Verreo at
r"ir.s"in. Kreo Preas hni:d:nr. etrolt. Mich.;
fan Francisc-S representative. R. J. Bldwell
signed in disgust.
The story of the railroads Is quite
another story, but it is significant that
Walker D. Hines. the director-gen.
eral. last winter favored the five-year
extension of government operation as
a preliminary to government opera
tion, but now favors returning the
roads to their owners as soon as prac
ticable.
To sum it all up, Mr. Burleson and
HI RI.ESOX .l vr-1 A TASTE, I Mr. McAdoo have made the issue on
National gratitude is due to Post- which their party had relied for vic-
rcaster-General Burleson for having tory in 1920 . so unpopular that the
inven the people a foretaste of the Party managers would fain take it out
workings of government operation of aMl, ?'" Atlantic ocean
, . . . . ... . , on board one of those doomed Ger-
xne wires oetore tney cummmcu mo-
PATRIOTISM And its negation.
THE SOLITUDE OF TACOMA. . I The Central Labor Council of Port-
There is a rather old story which is land has gone on record in support of
told to illustrate the spirited Interest the victory loan. Its patriotic action
Tacoma folk take in mountain nomen- is in accord with its principles and
dature. I policies . in former loan campaigns.
When the Puyallup or perhaps it and in distinct contrast with tho reso-
was the Nisqually Indians returned lutlon of the labor council of Tacoma,
one year from their annual pilgrimage I which recorded itself as. a repudiator
to the huckleberry patches, they found of the purpose of America to pay for
a slow market and a prospect of loss. I a war which it had helped to win.
But one wise brave started out the I Tacema is not typical of organized
whole tribe in Tacoma with a ready- I labor elsewhere. It is fortunate for
made slogan. - I labor, for America, for civilization,
At each back door, each Indian land for the future of the world that
passed out the word: "Heap fine it is not. Tacoma voices the sporadic
huckleberry. Gettum Mount Tacoma. I and futile echoes of bolshevism in
No dam Rainier bemy' I America. Portland speaks for sanity,
And the Puyallups or was It the I decency, order, law, the rule of the
Nisqually? made more money that I majority, and peaceable adjustment of
year than in tCny year before. I industrial disputes. Tacoma is in
comes forth the Tacoma spirit again fected with the disease of unrest and
when it is proposed to name The I rebellion and lawlessness which had
man hatflashina mil einlr It Inmlliaf
ar-Tvea. In that TjolirV. ThCV had CX" i v. . I tr. T..-t , j
rln nf that nolicv as applied to ,"' ',"'" J M Mount Roosevelt, Thus it too heavy a load in its neighbor, Se
the postal service, and they found though not the which hV intended: P V'Ced in th TaCma Ncws-Trlb- ttle not many weeks since Portland
. . . . . i . . i- I n ti o , I jtfpR TnO PORlllt nr mnHnrntlnn reaonn
He has proved that government own
ership la not what they want.
une: - sees the result of moderation, reason.
The citizens of Tacoma yield to those of counsel, and support of government.
no other community in their veneration and I aad, above all, acknowledges and has
L"v .?r. RrTat p"1?"' "d leader who a desire to perform the common duty
TCRNING THE OTHER CIHEK. 3 woiwt connt to such titu. citizenships. The duties of Amer-
The "allied and associated powers" I "on for tha beautiful and sonorous Indian I lean citizenship are . included in the
It is the
it on the whole good, with quite a
far "buts." They had heard much
cf the beauties of government owner-i-Mp
from those who could see noth
ing but good in its workings in other
n n . ew,n t K n. a whn iAiilH
a nnthtnr but evil in any business! chiefly the United States. Great ..n.n .Vuk Tk- r.;r...r r'l..t . aii-emDracjng word, loyalty.
e to feed hsfors tha foot of ths white man pressed """ ueiiina xne action oi foriiana;
son came on the scene as me great
demonstrator.
He began with the parcel post,
which had been established by the
Taft administration with a zone sys-
thfii w.c ennrinrf ri bv a comoration. I rhid in a ttaiv.
We eemed to b. drifting toward gov- RusBia Jf th. wfn qut flKnUng. r. iXZVXZZ. . EgS? t0 feeWy' r DOt at
rasnh:Wraloa'dP, when 1"" other words, they wll, save Russja."- UTry Portland operators
nuro iisaiiiw-iaKinzj mm wen m.m nmmre- i or. industrial plants who cav t&Ken
has wrought. It1"' hu in th Ti'bt of advantage of their employes and have.
A sort word turnetn away wratn. I without due compensation taken over
i us omtr cueca. is uucreu w i xne wouni uacoma contention has 1 their equities in war bonds, as the
the murderers and outlaws, conspir- been rejected by the Seven Learned Portland labor council ausnects thev
tWi of rates. It immediately attract- atonl "d nemies- whl -i"d Russ SocieUes; by all responsible cartog- should be discovered and the facts
f." ZYLI "" dedicated It to the cause of Germany, raphers: by the prosaic Indian him- mad nt.hlic
ttsion had hew made in the con- Pvoked chaos and started the wave self, if he happens to know English If any worker, or any one else, has "oodriRlv"- e, doctor has been ste-
tracts with the railroads. Mr. Burle- -Xr -,:;ZZ"Zu .... .. . T p.arual on f r Dona for nearly a year and he says that the
Apparently about 40 per cent of
the patrons of the hotels in Portland
came from adjacent towns to witness
the fights of tbe aerial acrobats. Hun
dreds were turned away at the hotels
and decided to return home on late
trains when they found a shortage of
accommodations. The Benson hotel roof
was -turned over to them and many
were on top of the Multnomah. The
Portland has no roof for sightseeing
and the Imperial management declined
to run any risks, as the roof of that
building is not surrounded by a parapet.
Those who viewed the show complained
that their eyes hurt them- for several
hours later on'account of the glare of
the sun.
"There is between 12,000,000 and 15,
000,000 feet of timber being taken out
of Powers over to Marshfield," said
W. W. Williams, "and conditions are
good around there." Mr. Williams, who
runs the Virginia Grill at Powers,
landed in Portland yesterday morning
with a high-powered field glass and be
gan a search tor the best spot in Port
land to view the flying circus. He
made the trip to the Rose City for this
special feature.
To have a heart-to-heart talk with
Railroad Administrator Hines, several
tie manufacturers in the Willamette
valley came to Portland yesterday.
Among them were F. C. Walters, pres
ident of the Western Oregon Tie asso
ciation, of Kugene; O. C. Ball, secretary
of the association, also of Kugene;
Stevens Ferris of the Coos Bay dis
trict: J. M. Brown, of the Harrison
Shingle & Lumber company; W. C.
Powell of Eugene and F. A. Garetson
of Cottage Grove. 1
J. A. Thornburgh of Forest Grove, ode
of the select civilians permitted to soar
with the aviators yesterday, is at the
Hotel Oregon. With him are Mr. and
Mrs. L J. Hoar, also of Forest Grov
Mr. Thornburerh was accorded the priv
ilege of obtaining a birdseye view of
Portland because he is chairman of the
victory loan drive in Washington coun
ty, the first Oregon county to go ove
the top with its quota. .
A Rebuke.
By Grace K. Hall.
In Other Days.
Oh, fickle, fickle April, what do you
mean to dor
Ton keep us in a .Dickie, an everlasting
fetAW W
We dress for warmth and sunshine and
promenade to town
Ton turn a fitful tantrum and pelting
hall comes down!
We "Change to warmer garments and
order up some coal:
No sooner Is it emptied until, upon my
- soul.
You flash a day of sunshine that makes
us fairly broil
I'd hate to have your temper, forever
in a tolN
When will you grow respectful to those
who love your cheer.
And cease to mock their confidence,
which other mouths hod dear?
Tou tantalise your lovers each worried,
anxious day.
Until you tire, and then in ire you hand
them o'er to May!
WAR MYTHS STILL CIRCIXATTNG
One of the oldest sheepmen on Wi
plnitia plains came to town yesterday.
He is Frank Gable and is registered at
the Perkins. Wapinitia is intended to
be the objective of a spur road from the
proposed Mount Hood loop, which the
government will start constructing thi
summer. The Wapinitia road will en
able-central Oregon traffic to make
short cut into Portland.
Oregon has the Hawaiian islands
beaten," asserts Dr. H. D. W, Plneo of
son compelled the railroads to carry '7.7"", X. "r.. " ,. " ', reason unaoie 10 com- ..Paradise of the Pacific" is fine for
this additional tonnage at first for , ,, , ""'J xuu.- pieie nts oDiigauon to pay, ne can about two weeks, when one is on a visit.
. . i i, am luiiT vwa skiiuwu t iuuuul I at run i pn nr mnriror tun annitv nt ita k... ' - i .. . ... i i . v. . nntne
email compensation and he later In
duced congress to vote what was still
Inadequate compensation. That course
was popular then, for it was the cus
tom to "swat the corporations," but
Mr. Burleson did not realize that he
was storing up trouble in the future
for his colleague. W. G. McAdoo.
Hecond-class postage rates were ad
mittedly too low. and efforts had long
oiiy tuny uean Known as mount at tna least market hin unnllv nr it x.,. - . !.,-
doctrine or sen - determination lor Tacoma. value. There are many employers prefers Hood River. He landed at the
"' " inese oe aays wnen numan nature, I who are willing,, in deserving cases Seward yesterday on his way home,
notion that the way to combat bol-1 ennobled bv the sacrifices and suffer- I
shevism is to feed It? In feeding It. ings of a great war. welcomes the ud- h Khrintinn r,H r-trn , en Ten carloads of cattle were shipped
nf rniiria a r-art.iln rmininnmr. 1. 1 art onH --. j . , . , , . to Portland yesterday by Bidwell Cram,
" .... ... miiu wvm- amuuuL ui i n (j investment. xsut in I i w . n- ....i. ci.,,.OI1
rivn i it .- v. niiioH mil nnnrini.rf I v.enm.. re .i v. .v.. .... . it . . ... whose ranch is on Trout creek, eleven
-.".I -"IjV"-r.Tl , case neea mere oe a roneiture. miiea from Gateway. The town of Gate
i""" sumumuo m u.umiuuu, uu nuuneieii eugsesuon was a toucning it is inexcusable that anv citizen. whoL,.. ,,- ,h(. inn retaliation hut
custoaians ot tne worlds conscience, compromise and an encouragement may in good faith have bought a is a shipping point for stockraiaers in
"nine ana iToisny ana tneir ieiiowiio peaceiui solution ot a Heartrending bond and cannot pay all his install-I that vicinity of Jefferson county. Mr.
been made to raise them. Congressmen , U t , l'" i tui-raji oui ikoihi is unrelenting, ments, should be penalized by forfeit- Mram s iapny motorea to roruaua uu
U . 1 . . A K . V. l...V, 1. V 1 .1 f.lllSMilV. I 1, 1 0 OAU, 1 1 1 U 1. 1 U . fUTe. I HI C . tft . 1 1 .,u,..m..
were only too willing to raise them
to the roof, for congress had been
muckraked without mercy. Mr. Bur;
le.ion saw his opportunity to gratify
his ambition to show a profit on postal
business and at the same time to hit
the unfriendly newspapers and maga
zines. He Induced congress to apply
the zone system to periodicals, thus
attacking the revenue of the big pub
lications, and incidentally making
more enemies for his party.
His rage for economy also attacked
both the big cities and the remote
settlers. He insisted on cutting out
the pneumatic tube service of the
former and he cut down the star route
and rural service of the latter by re
fusing to make higher payment in
luff V n i1 hnmh v aaalr t n snt it 1 1 r I K 1 1 f I ut 11 . t,A full. irk.,, im nnfunll. 1 mi 1 1 -. . . . .
r-j - -. " - 1 . " - - " x,,c.o o ..niiiii 1 lie iduur council win rinn. nnnnr-i , . , .., .
It may be and Is humane to feed no need to intrude upon the mag- less, that the committee which has " R H (My whi li S
Russia, and it may be wise to tempor- nificent solitude of the people of Ta- undertaken to investiirate its com- uo.i rie.-rc.; vkr vernl vears
ize witn Doisnevism. dui is it wise to coma, yet reacn a satisiactoryj plaints will go into the matter fully Wheeler was practically dead, for the
restore rtussia ana leave adenine ano agreement, let it De understood that and fairly, and w II see that lustiee is big mill there was closed, but witn
the wartime activities tne mm resumea
and bungalows had to be built by the
score to accommodate the families of
workers.
it
Trotsky there to destroy it once more? hereafter all who have known the done.
mountain as Mount, Rainier shall
THE SAME EVERYWHERE. u o kiuuih .nouoeveii. mroma instead of the Berlin to Bagdad rail-
I (llr.ilir will nn ln,l . V. .. . . V. . .... . I .... . . .
m.v r.n - -.. ak..k t , V.. I J ma, 1 11 d I loi VI TDaa. It IR TO n I HP I U I It 1 U O 111!
democratic members in Washington, but I 'be world shall not discard the name deauz to Bagdad railroad. .The allied
tola seii.same staio OK unio. wnicn insistea I rcainier. let Iflrnmn retain 1t Kcnfl. 1 . ;. .-; i .1 ,j. . 1 I . .-. 1 l. . . . w-.t.
. . ... . ...... . . . I 1 l.U II 1 111 1 .1.1 11111 Jlda 11 111. 1 11 11 11 Lll I 111! I I HIIIH I 1I1M 1 . 1 1 1 1 11 II .1 DC1IKIVI9 1 U 1 ,T Hll
"e pub,ir.n pVociivi.; .f lu zhJori mental fiction- A" tnat is now 8U- from Calais and Bordeaux through the Ington and John Hartman. an attorney
Pennsylvania and Indiana, would not elect a Bicu 10 mat il not. interiere Willi s mn on tunnel to arrive uitnnltji. 1 OI Seattle, wno is wiui tne treuaiur. an
urauciai o o i-iuiuuian 01 toe proveruiavi 1 tne rest OI US. I n .... , 1 .-1 . iunn ..1. i.i.iat tne censgn. senator I uinuoiLCl, 111
Dounu If there warn an election tomorrow. 1 n'v. . .. 1. 1 . , I ' - - "
Miles Polndezter of Spokane, one of
There ought to be a natural monu. .in , ,' -d. rr, A. addition to giving a five-minute talk
Here we have the finding of a com- ment to Theodore Roosevelt In the train win rf,M oi Llfor the victory loan yesterday, was
natant newsnaoer Investigator David n net h -mo. 1 it ,mi j 1. 1 A . T. ' T . T taken over tne coiumoia river nign-
' ' ' , . . .. , to jjucnaresi ana ultimately to uaessa.
Lawrence, of the New York Lvcntng that, whereas Tacoma and Seattle tho mh.r thm.ioh Tii,i -.'
proportion to the increased quantity V??r h ,has b"n maVnfv.a Z? haVe bUt ne mountaln ot the stantinople. The Bagdad railroad
' iVlvL . of the political situation in tbe middle name in the backyard, the Portlander ncHo iv h
ajt matter coaling irviu ma purtivi
way by Amos Benson.
post. He had been able to force for
mer measures through congress by Ju
dicious use of postofflces, but by this
time the supply of postofflces had
about run out and he had a narrow
political situation in the middle name in the backyard, the Portlander needs nniv tho aiminn
' o'iBiit. ncvauou may unns in near Mosul and of the Taurus tunnel
live 01 a paper 01 inaepeiiueni. pro- tne Deauties 01 rive. Two of them to permit through traffic to Bagdad
iesions ana aemocrauc teuaencies ijonor tne names of presidents. If in fact, the British have built a road
and policies. He has long been we fannot bestow Roosevelt on Rainier from Rusn to -Rao-Hori which moiro.
persona grata at the White House, we may grab the honor for one of the traffic to the Persian gulf possible. A
to Bombay
voyage to the
rscVpe frSm defTat or the uU que.- But he values a well-deserved repute other two peaks and leave Puget passenger from London
t.on.eing saved only by a presidential for, i', ,an h d" S?U"d I'Z t0reV" the may then limit tho sea '
. i, .K-.II.V.. .k. ...k.. v.. the favor of Joe Tumulty. of an unprofitable controversy. short trios across tha Kn,
Condon was represented at the flying
circus yesterday. Among those uphold
ing the curiosity of Gilliam county
were G. W. Parman,, former judge of
the county; James D. Burns, merchant;
P. H. Stephenson, a former hotel man
and rancher, and C. W. Harris. They
were registered at the Seward.
"I want to swell the subscriptions in
veto. By abolishing the tubes he
roused the anger of New Tork, Bos
ton. Philadelphia. St. Louis and other
cities, and he caused such congestion
of mails that he was compelled to ask
congress for authority to construct a
tube system of his own in New York,
thus reversing himself.
In order to remove the popular be
lief that the spoils system still rules
lsJepartment he Introduced a camou
flaged non-partisan merit system for
appointment of first-class postmasters.
The papers of applicants are examined
Mr. Lawrence has discovered what
everyone, everywhere, who has his
eyes open, has seen. It is that the
country has utterly lost confidence
in the democratic party, while it re
tains, or desires to retain, and is loath
to surrender, its confidence in the
president. It has made an idol of the
president and created him in its
Image.
MARK TWAI.
The name of Mark Twain appeared
short trln across tho t'noii.h v,oi I my home town of Ridgefield. Wash'
and down the Persian gulf and across a.:, "K"' J,"nwSl":
AWAY with Till! SECRET TREATIES. the Indian ocean, cutting out the terday. 'Til buy. my bond at home. I
The apparent deadlock with Italy i,,culle' ru"cau- l"" """"6 nea sea just came here to see the flying cir
n regard to Flume and Dalmatla is anu l"B voyage suuin oi Araoia. cut cus.
u. ...... . - . i I the air ionrnev will haat that onH i . i
1 1 in vuiLuiiio ut one ot tnose secret i --... . . ... . , . , .i..ji. , .
. . . . . j . Ian earlv nrosnert ! Among the delegates attending the
ucaucn v 1111:11 lii c aiiiit.s ugreea to 1 v
support, each other's claims and won
new nations to the alliance. There I If the Syrians know what's good I Camnlon. representing Tacoma mailers.
was a treaty by which France was t0T them, they will want some power Mr. Campion is now acting as assistant
assured Alsace-Lorraine and the es- to protect them from each other. I city editor of the Tacoma Ledger.
tablishment of a buffer state west of Jews- Turks, Arabs, Druses, Maro-
the Rhine. Another treaty guaran
teed' Constantinople and the Darda
nelles to Russia, together with a large
part of Asiatic Turkey. Another gave
Italy the entire east shore of the
nites and possibly one or two other
races and creeds will not make a
harmonious mixture.
That Kentucky dam contest was a tel Oregon.
Adriatic with a piece of Asia Minor 'air test of 'merit between Douglas
To see the "aces" do stunts in the
ffying circus. B. F. McCullough of
Echo. Fred Poorman of Tillamook and
Mr. and Mrs.. C. W. Vail of Corvallis
are in town and registered at the Ho-
by a joint board of men from the civil I twice the other day in the "In
nervice commission and the postoffice Other Days" column of The Ore
department, who report on their order I gonlan. Fifty years ago, it seems,
nf merit ami leuva Mr Iturlaiiiin tola auarsreation had been made that
ninkp his aueloi-tton Tha achom Vina I thai author ha sent to Tennessee tnlunH tu-olvo DHmi..ni -v., fir and vellow nine ltlnlher and Done-- . Micnoias van aer try 1 or tne empioy-
not been working long, but at Newark, see a monstrous frog, with the ob- other was made with Japan by the las fir won. The best lumber is at I8"1 .J'tTifA.Y.f Shu5'.0', ?VC''
N. J., a . republican inconveniently Ject of obtaining material for a story Kuro pea n allies in 1916. and still re- Mast coming Into its own in spite of I ,,. 1V, i,,. K.. e . ....
..... . ... . . .... I . I.. . . r . . , . ..I v.m.,.w. , u,i,iiii.u j va
jirauru tne 1131 iu.i January ana no suicn uiigufc auriiuna xue v-ciciiiaieiiiiuaiiis aerrei. in tne same vear a I i-'"- uuni 11 vj 1 1 oi.ai.csuAcu mm jjuii tarflav
appointment has yet teen made. The I Jumping Tog ot uaiaveras county." I treaty with Roumania induced that Ior J enow pine,
rivil service commission objected to I The country was then talking about country to engage in a disastrous war.
this hybrid system and wanted to fol-lthat Jumping frog. Twenty-five years There is a perfect network of such
low tne piaji provided Dy law. Mr. I inter a contrasting note was neara. i treaties, all of which are more or
liurleson took his troubles to the I Twain and Frederick J. Hall, book less in conflict with President Wil-
lresMent. who demanded and got the I publishers, made an assignment fori son s fourteen pofnts and the pro-
resit;nations of two commissioner. I the benefit of their creditors. These posed covenant of nations.
Thus Mr. Burleson won for the ad-1 Items were published on April 19,1 All of these treaties stand In the
nunij-tration the enmity of the civil I respectively in 1869 and 1894. The way of an agreement among the allies
service reformers. I "Jumping Frog had first appeared consistent with the terms of the arm-
Kver since he became boss of the I in a book of sketches in 1861
Robert Carsner of Spray, which same
When a whole bolshevist armv sur- la in Wheeler county, registered at the
renders to the Ukranians, there anust I!n,perial yesterday, having brought a
be a loose sciqw In Trotzky's ma- " pme ' cait.eto roruana.
chinery for keeping the proletariat on J. E. Reynolds of La Grande and W.
top. Perhaps Petlura offered an ad-I H. Savage of Corvallis. both members
ditional meal a day.
ot tne Oregon state lair board, were
at the Imperial yesterday to consider
state fair matters.
One la That Germans Have Army of
Occupation on Marne.
ST.- JOHNS, Or., April 21. (To the
Editor.) Maximilian Harden is still
telling the world that the German peo
ple have been duped and misled into
their present deplorable condition.
However true his statement may be of
the people In Germany, it is hard to
understand why so many men in Port
land are being misled the same wav.
The other evening I had the pleasure of
mingling with a crowd of men and
being highly entertained with one of
those mysterious demonstrations of the
workings fthe German mind which
were so common up to April 6, 1917.
The topic was the peace conference,
and our learned entertainer was, of
course, imparting information of which
the allied council was unjustly keeping
us in ignorance.
He stated that Germany had won the
war because Wilson's 14 points would
give her all she had fought for. There
would be -no indemnity, no reparation,
no attempt to hang the kaiser, or any
thing of that sort. All this talk about
the Saar valley was ridiculous, because
even Alsace-Lorraine would always re
main German. In proof of this he cited
the receipt of a letter from his parents
there, which bore the GeAnan post
mark. Nothing is more conclusive than
the German stamp.
Then, we had not been told the real
terms of the armistice. We were not
aware that there was a German army
of occupation on the Marne. But this
was true. American soldiers just back
from Germany had seen and talked
with German soldiers guarding the
Marne. The terms of the armistice
specified that German troops should
occupy the Marne until the allied army
ha withdrawn from France: the time
being July 1. After that date there
will be no allied troops on the Rhine
and no German troops on the Marne.
Knowing the average Portlander as
you must do, it will be needless for me
to say that the crowd enjoyed this news
Immensely, and treated it with outi-ie-ht
laugnter as it deserved. But the ques
tion is. Where does this stuff come
from? We notice it at first leading us
into sympathetic glens and groves
which seem to extend all the way to
the glory of the millennium and the
brotherhood of, man. And then all at
onec we find burselves staring at a
signpost which reads: "Hands off
Germany!"
The German mind resembles nothing
so truly as the Niagara whirlpool.
JAMES G CLARKSON.
Tweaty-flve Years Ago.
From The Oreronlun. April a. 1894.
Highwaymen yesterday shot Charles
B. Malarkey, son of the county treas
urer, and robhbed the treasurer's office
of nearly $1000.
Salem. Or.. April 21. The Oregon
Breeding and Speed Association met
here this afternoon and arranged a pro
gramme for the June races.
Baker City. Or.TTpril 21. A search
ing party Is out in the hills looking tor
Thomas McMurdo, 10, who got lost to
day. The steamer Islander, with a cargo of
Chinamen and Japanese, arrived today
and anchored in midstream opposite Al-binat
VUtr Years As.
Prom Tho Oregonlan. April 22, 186s.
The senate has confirmed the ap
pointment of Charles K. Wells of Rose
burg, Or., as register of land.
Spring salmon are alreadv h.in.
shipped from Oregon to San Francisco.
Henry Nevlson will leave imi...
for Sutherland bar. on the n,,.-
Columbia. to investigate mining possl-
uiiuieu mere.
New Tork. Anrll 20 Tho t
Times says England has gone to the
extreme in the matter of the Alabama
claims and that if America rejects her
offer Britain should abstain from fur
ther overtures.
WOBBLIES AD BROTHEIlLY LOVE.
"In a week I'll be out of the service,"
announced Colonel Creed Hammond of
the 39th C. A. C. The colonel was
If Italy should bolt-the peace con-
It istice, also with the aims for which I ference, preservation of world peace
mails. Mr. Burleson has ached to add I has since been translated into more the United States fought. The Russian I may after all devolve on the United
the telegraph and telephone systems I languages than 'any other purely I claim was renounced after the revo-1 States, Great Britain and France,
to his domain. When war came, he I humorous sketch ever written by an Iution and was forfeited by the Brest- whether they form an alliance or not I in the city as a sky-gazer yesterday
saw his chance. On the well-worn I American. I Lltovsk treaty. France has modified I - r J
plea of military necessity he rot con-1 But the more interesting of the its claims to conform with American The Huns hav hernmo an reconciled . S. E. Stewart of Lebanon, accompan
. i .i i, i, .v. . .i in.. . i I ii an .i. . , . led ty his wire and daughter, are reg
e w m m vir..iuriu 1 mv .ku,.., iw nm.i v imc km iihu i i-i iiH-iiiira. .cm me Luiniurieu colonies i to un(i tooa tnat tney turn up tneir i itered at the Seward The flying cir-
I V T J - . , " ' -- mn " aiuua. i ui iianu u,ib.iiiCUg attracted tnem to town.
tne airra in ins ctiarare lust summer, i cutiteriis iuh iiuiure ot tne aumors ichkuq ot nations ior aisposai. Ti)e snip tnem a cargo ot sawdust with
Then he began to do things with star-1 publishing firm, which had been only claims under the secret treaties -which to make bread. David H. Graham of Eugene, one of
tling rapidity. He formed a combina-1 brought on partly by his other ad- which still stand are those of Italy I I the Lane county representatives In the
tion a-itn tne western i nlon and I venture in a typesetting machine, and Japan. They do not sauare with I One. wife seekins- a dr-r aiinrn session, is at tne imperial.
Hell Telephone companies and left The firm had profitably launched the fourteen points, which Germany that on one occasion the husband Thomas A. Huerhes. real etat B.
the? Postal people out in the cold. I "The Adventures of Huckleberry and Austria accepted as the basis of dumped all the dishes on the table tor and merchant of Heppner, is among
He undertook to pool the earnings of I Finn." but had not been so successful their surrender.
the Postal, which were good, with las to "The American Claimant." Thel The sure way to peace is to sweep
those of the Western Union and Belli failure mas complete and the entire! aside the whole framework of secret
companies, which were not so good, I financial burden fell upon M a r k I treaties and to adhere to the prin-
and he also proposed to unify the tele-1 Twain, who accepted It In the spirit I ciple of consent-of-the-governed. The
Into her lap. Some lap, that!
I the arrivals at the Perkins.
graph systems. When the Postal ob-I of seriousness which underlies his (American army did not fight to hand self, and do it today.
TI 1 T -tr.-t.l, nmll-Vnn-.- . .' J i
Putting it over will not be easy if f rntti r.m... i rari.i.md .v..
cvcijuvu; luuiaa ii. win ue, ano. aiiuwa i Multnomah.
the other fellow to do it. Do it your-
jected, he threw out its officials a-d writings, even those upon which his
installed Western Union men. By fame as a humorist rests. It is con
granting Inadequate and unequal ad- celvable that he might have rested on
vances in wages to the operators, he his laurels as an author if all had gone
gat strength to a weak union and well with him as publisher and manu-
has caused a strike vote to be taken. I focturer. As it was. he was stiniu-
By like treatment and by arbitrary I kited to new endeavor. His tour
rulings he provoked a strike of the I around the world was undertaken ex-
New England telephone employes. Helpresaly to get money with which to
has attempted to raise telephone rates I pay the debts which he assumed
In disregard of state law. and has I cheerfully enough.
thus provoked the commissions of a I It was the most successful tour ever
doxen states to legal war on him. I made. Even the antipodes turned
He has raised telegraph tolls 20 per out en masse to see and bear the
cent. Both telegraph and telephone famous American. Another product
vervtce have become worse, and there of the tour was "Following the Equa
ls no prospect of Improvement. These tor." which also was a financial suc
proceedings have disgusted the vision- cess, and having definitely abandoned
mnes who expected government opera
tion to give them cheaper, better serv
ice.
Mr. Burleson's ambition waa sub
tile attempt to convert himself into
a business man, he settled down to
writing again. "Pudd'nhead Wilson,"
published in 1896, exhibited the au-
marine as well as aerial, and he pined thor in a new vein, and the "Personal
for control of the cables. Congress Recollections' of Joan of Arc." which
having authorised it on tbe plea of (treated the maid with the utmost
military necessity, he obtained it from! reverence, came out in 1897. The lat-
the president on the very day when I ter probably never would have been
military necessity was -ended by the (written if it had not been for Mark
armistice. He clupped on censorship Twain's financial failure. It is inter-
over any people, as attachments of a
piece of territory, to either Italy or
Japan, nor can they permit that to be
the result of their part in the war.
If Italy should withdraw from the
peace conference and make a sepa
rate treaty with the remnants of
Austria-Hungary, by which it would
secure all that it claims, the American
people would be profoundly dissatis
fied. Italy's claim may be valid, but
that manner of settlement would be
the , verdict of arms, not of justice
and national right. If Italy should
withdraw and should not make a sepa
rate treaty, war with the Jugo-Slavs
might result with only one probable
result victory for Italy. Such a war
would open another of those intermin
able feuds which have painted the
Balkan peninsula red.
The American people wish to restore
to Italy all ita unredeemed children,
so far as this is consistent with the
rights of other nations. But the Jugo
slavs also have rights with which
those of Italy must be reconciled.
Serbia, which Is the eenter to which
the Jugo-Slav provinces rally, has
O. E. Doyle, who sells corsets and
maybe wears 'em, is at the Benson from
inn uerumns surrenaerea ratner
than carry the war into the interior Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Houghton of Tha
of Germany, but they have carried it Dalles are registered at the Nortonia.
therA themselves-
visitors irom seattie at tne ivortonla
are Mr. and Mrs. James Peterson,
- W. H. Turner, a lumberman of Ray
mond, Wash., is at the Hotel Portland.
H. B. Cusick and P. A. Young, prom
inent citizens of Albany, are at the
I Benson.
A Polk county stockman, R. Wiggs
of McCoy, is at the Perkins.
A. Smith of North Bend is at the
Multnomah.
Colleges graduating missionaries
need to provide a course In gunnery,
or at least shooting from the hip.
The Portland "kid" will now camou
flage his coaster.
Nobody knows what the pigeons
thought, but they kept on the go.
Fiume is, so to speak, making a
stench in the peace gathering.
Flying looked easy, but the good i
old earth looked better.
A flying circus lacks-the
to furnish thrills.
"close up"
Neck ache this morning?
Show your "V." button,
Addresses of Publishers.
x PORTLAND, Or., April 21. (To the
Editor.) Kindly publish the names of
several publishing houses who handle
juvenile stories.
AMATEUR WRITER.
D. Lothrop Company. 1$. McLaughlin
I Company and George Routledge & Bon,
I all publishers. New York.
PORTIiAXD NEEDS REST PLACES
Correspondent Folnts Out Advantages
of Well-Placed Conveniences.
PORTLAND, April 21. (To the Edl
tor.) This is humane week, when we
are asked to consider and plan to care
for our animal friends. Should we not
also at this time give a thought to
the comfort of our fellow human
beings? It seems a very appropriate
time to call the attention of the public
o tne great need for seats or resting
places to De scattered about the city.
Anyone whose attention has not been
pecifically called to the fact, can
scarcely realize how many persons
might be thus benefited. The hotels
and apartment houses are full of peo
ple temporarily residing in Portland
while receiving 'medical care. These
re semi-invalid, aged or Infirm per
sons whose health could be immeasur-
bly benefited by walking. But do
they walk? Most assuredly not. And
why not? Because they get too tired
that is the universal reply when the
uestion is put. Many of these persons
re not physically capable of walking
more than three or four blocks with-
ut rest. With the opportunity of rest
t hand they might be encouraged to
spend hours In walking where now
they spend minutes. .
Then again how many mothers, with"
small children, would be glad to take
them to parks or play grounds, but
cannot do so because the children get
too tired walking. The mother's own
trength is not sufficient to permit
er carrying the tired child: the family
exchequer is too limited to permit
oney being spent for carfare. And
the result is we see a white faced, hot-
ouse variety of children growing up
to be the easy prey of tuberculosis or J
other infection.
The drinking fountains of Portland
have been, and admittedly are. a great
public benefaction. Cannot some philan
thropic person or group of persons be
persuaded to supply this one great need
of our fair city?
DR. EMMA MAKI WICKSTROM.
True Pussytall Mill nt Aid Worker
Except for Profit.
PORTLAND, April 21. (To ths Edi
tor.) It is amusing to read the at
tempted interpretation of either hobo
or wobbly lingo appearing from time
to time In magazines and newspapers.
The Oregonian editorial on the sub
jects was unique because it did not in
vent any new phrases. If one should
spring some of the average magazine
hobo lingo on the real article he would
get an uncomprehending stare.
The Oregonian is wrong in classify
ing "Mr. Block" as one faitnfnl to hi.
employer's interest. "Mr. Block," "Henry
Lsuiu, aciBsor uiu, and "Willy
Shears" are synonyms. All mean at
working man who is not Informed oa
economics, who Is opposed to any in
dustrial refoim and who believes In the
efficiency of either the democratic or
republican party. The word block sign!,
fies blockhead and nothing else.
A cockroach Is not one who is loyal
to his home town, but one who must
needs run and inform the town mar
shal of "Pesky-Go-Abouts" being in
town. The "town clown," 'Cossack."
and "barbarian" are now Latin and
Greek to the wobblies.
The real wobbly psychologist or ety
mologist would, scarcely condescend to
use the word "hoosier." "Willy Shears''
or his twin "Scissor Bill" would be
quite the logical and proper word.
Most of the slang of today originated
among tho despised wobblies, but it
never becomes common before it is con
signed to the scrap heap by the origin
ators. The word wobbly itself was for years
a secret password of the I. W. W.'s.
Although there are many peculiar in
dividualities on the "road" the subdivi
sions all are blending Into one common
class, formerly known as the gay cat,
now known as the fussytails. The
f ussytail is best described as an oppor
tunist and as nearly as possible a com
bination of a pessimist and optimist.
He works at the best wages he can find,
frequently seeking and obtaining em
ployment at the higher skilled trades.
of the technique of which he may be en
tirely ignorant. He seldom stays with a
job for more than a month, but always
has a good excuse for leaving. Lither
the outfit is "haywire" or he thinks
he will find things much more satisfac
tory in "Frisco or upper sy."
There is still however, a great class
distinction between migratory work
ers and fussytails. The fussytails are
more exclusive than the four hundred.
To be eligible for membership one must
have traveled extensively on the rods,
not the cushions, and have some sort
of revolutionary ideas. One not qualify
ing is totally and absolutely Ignored,
unless they see a chance to work him
for some kale.
The following Is an actual example of
how the wobbly or fussytail shows his
brotherly love.
At a "jungSe" five or six wobblies
had prepared a mulligan. There were
three or four mystery workers present.
One of these a young, sickly-looking
lad, stepped over to warm his hands at
the fire, at the same time casting a
hungry eye at the remnants of the
stew. The loudest mouthed wobbly ex
claimed: "Aw for God's sake, ain't you
got a match?" at the same time kick
ing over the can of stew.
- . . . . ...... r' rr'
IT. A. LillViSVUl 1.
Writing Style la Discnssed.
E. W. Howe's Monthly.
It is recorded by Plato that in a
rough draft of one of his catalogues
found after his death, the first para
graph was written in 70 different
forms.
I never knew a writer yet who took
the smallest pains with his style, and
was at the same time reliable. Plato
having made 70 attempts at one sen
tence, is quite enough to explain to
me wny I dislike him. A man may
and ought to take a great deal of
pains to write clearly, tersely and
euphemistically; he will write many a
sentence three to four times over to
do much more than this is worse than
not rewriting at all. He will be at
great pains to see that he does not re
peat himself, to arrange matter in the
way that shall best enable the reader to
master it, to cut out superfluous words.
and even more, to eschew irrelevant
matter; but in each case he will be
thinking not of his own style, but of
his reader's convenience.
I should like to put It on record
that I never took the smallest pains
witn my style, have never thought
about It, and do not know or want to
know whether It is a style at all. or
whether It is not, as I hope, just com
mon, simple straightforwardness.
History Omits Name.
NEWPORT, Or., April 20. (To the
Editor.) In reading Professor Horn
er's "Oregon" of recent publication, I
find that he has done as others before
him. In speaking of the commission
appointed to treat with Captain Jack
he omits the name of Samuel Case, who
succeeded Amos Harvey as sub-Indian
agent at Yahuts.
Mr, Case was one of the commission
and refused to enter Jack's trap, saying
the Modocs would fire on the party,
and they did, killing General Canby
and Reverend Thomas.
Bancroft gives the names of the com
mission as it was originally.
R. A. EEASELL.
TOO MUCH IS SPENT ON SCHOOLS
Writer Opposes Raise of Teachers' Pay
and Suggests Fewer High Schools.
PORTLAND, April 21. (To the Ed
itor.) I see by paper that teachers
want more pay and a special election
to be called. Said salary raise was
voted down last November at an eiec-
ion costing 116,000, and now they have
the nerve to call another election.
I am in favor of an election It tnese
teachers will pay for it, but otherwise
not. They are the best paiu women in
the city, have shortest hours, easy
work and are not satisfied. As a tax
payer I think I voice the sentiment
of many.. If they are not satisfied, let
the j n do other work or else let the
taxpayer close the schools, particularly
high schools, as it is a waste of time
and money and does not prepare one
for the world, only for college of which
we have too many now.
These schools are our biggest item of
expense, costing the awful sum of
$3,000,000 every ten months, which
shows a great waste somewhere. I am
now more convinced than ever, to be
taxpayer and property owner (of which
these teachers are neither, not paying
income or any other taxes or helping
to build up a city) is to be worked to
a finish. It is high time tne taxpayers
eyes are opened to the demands and
expectations. He gives too much for
nothing and people are never satisfied.
M. V.
ETERNAL SPRING.
Just in his erime, when life was strong;
Why Was he called? The requiem song
Brings no answer, it's sad strains cease
and questioning will not bring peace.
But O, to him as life's glad spring
Into summer was lengthening.
Came release, ere through weary time
Autumn's decay laid wreck to prime.
What of the winter when life Is slow?
A strong heart called in advance may
know
Eternal spring where the sun shines
bright.
Leaving the shadow to dwell in tne
light.
JANETTE MARTIN.
Good Feeders, These.
DRAIN. Or., April 20. (To the Edi-
tor.) Can this be beat by any other
two men in Oregon: Time, 1 hour and
half.
Twenty-four good sized bananas.
Twenty-four generous 10 cent dishes
of ice cream.
Twenty-four 10-ounce milk shakes.
Ending with one-half dozen 4-ounce
cans of shrimp.
Combined food weight, 28 pounds.
They have now gone to the dancs
and are coming back for supper later.
C. G. PEEBLER.