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10 THE 3IORXIXG OltEGOXIAX, TUESDAY, 31 AY 1: 1919. ESTABLISHED Kf HEXBT I. PITTOCK. I'ublished by Tho Orcgonlan rubllahlnc Co. 1M;. Sixth Street. A-urtland, Oregon. C. A. AIORDKN. K. B. FIPKR. Slaiiaser. Editor. The Oresonlan is a member of the Aeso ' elated Presa. The Associated Press U ex-i-;uslvp)y entitled to the use for republica ; Uon of a".l news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the. local new published Herein. All . mlits uf republication of special dispatches . Iierein are also reserved. Subscription rates Invariably in advance: (By Mail.) Iai:y. Sundav included, one year SS.OO " Iiaily. Sunday included, rix months 4.23 1'aily. Sunday included, three months. . 2' U I'aily, yunday included, one month 5 iJaily, without Sunday, one year " JJaily. without Sunday, six month !- I- I-iaily, without Sunday, one month. ...... 1 "Week ly, one year ..... low ft Sunday, one year. ..................... - 0 v Sunday and weekly i.i0 T ,Bv Carrier. 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Opinions expressed by Dr. Boyd and Chaplain Tiplady and many events of the day impress on our minds the great social changes which are in progress. They had begun before the war, but they have advanced -with in credible swiftness during and since that conflict. Old ideals and tradi tions seem' in danger of being shat tered, and a confusing choice of new ideals is offered for acceptance. Stand ing out are the industrial unrest of the workman and the social unrest of 'woman. Always the aim is the same less laborious -work, higher wages, more leisure, higher social and political status, wider freedom from . restraint. The British workman has been struggling for- several generations against a caste system which has de veloped from primitive times, but ; which is breaking down slowly and reluctantly before constant assault. It begins with heredity, which gave su , perior rank to a man because be was ' the -eon of a warrior chief in a savage 'tribe. Because he was so, that young ; man assumed and the tribe conceded that he was born to rule and to fight and that it was ignoble for him to work like the common people. Be cause might was right, he took the '.land which the tribe conquered and forced others sto work it for him or to . pay rent' to him. Hence arose the idea, long pre valent in England, that a gentleman .. may sweat in war or in sport, but never In productive labor, for wages. He must live off the revenue of his landed estate, but must not engage in trade. Younger sons might descend so low as the learned professions the church, the law and medicine but - to go farther was to go into trade, which was for the middle, not the upper, class. Necessity and spread of liberal ideas have broken down the barrier, so that people of so-called blue blood have gone into all kinds of tusiness, but not in occupations where they do manual labor and sweat for wages. They have be come stockholders and directors of corporations engaged in trade, though they may still scorn actually to mine and farm or to buy and sell. Many younger sons have rebelled against tradition, others have been driven by necessity to go to the colonies or the United States, where they worked just like "the common people." Some of them returned home with fortunes, but a discreet silence was preserved as to the manner in which these for tunes were acquired, and they joined the leisure class. It was permissible to work in remote countries, out of sight, but not in the capital of society, These ideas permeate the whole na tion. The middle class shuns' manual work and strives to climb to the upper class by buying landed estates and be coming men and women of Itisure. As families die out and as political and intellectual strength must be main tained, rich middle class families are , ennobled to recruit the aristocracy. v By continuing in active business these new lords further break down the caste barrier. In like manner men climb from the lower to the. middle class, but they are exceptional men. The ambition to escape physical work and to have more leisure has filled the entire working class, and by organizing "unions of great power it has enforced recognition of its claims. All along the line the ambition for wealth and leisure springs from the idea that to work for pay is ignoble, though noth- , ing done in war for the country can degrade. ; These ideas have been transplanted ' to America by the codfish aristocracy of New England, the self-elected 400 of New York and the southern first ' families. They have produced what ? we call the idle rich, but what the Knglish call the leisure class. In both " countries the results have been the ' same vice,'' idleness and general use- lessness. The Gould family, which . has just produced another matri " monial scandal and has quarreled over the division of an inherited for , tune, is an example, but there are , many of the same kind. The same am- bition for a competence and idleness runs through the social scale in Amer ica. Education has made the Ameri can workingman too good for the la " borious work of railroad building, ditch-digging, concrete-mixing; noth- ing less than a skilled workman's job ' is good enough for him. While we - talk seriously of prohibiting immigra ," tion, there is danger that unskilled la bor will become scarce, for we have relied on the "wop" Cor that class of , work. We talk much of the dignity of labor, but we "let George do it." We inveigh against the vices of the I idle rich, but we strive for idleness and riches. What we need is a general recogni tion that the basic idea of both Ameri 1 can plutocracy and British aristocracy is false. The leisure class which it '. produces is a source of social evils. A small proportion devotes itself to pub- lie service, a larger proportion does no i particular good, spending its time in ; brainless frivolity, but probably the great majority is a positive detriment. Tt causes divorce and social scandal. By ostentatious extravagance it sets evil examples for others to imitate. It ' encourages the young people of the well-to-do to joyride and frequent . cabarets, often on other people's mon ' ey. There is no real difference be - tween New York and London in these ' respects. The problem of woman presents ; some differences. After being the drudge for ages, woman has attained equality of political rights and equal-in's ity before the law in both countries, and has gone on a mild "liberty jag." Everywhere she wants to exercise her newly won rights, and she does not always practice wise discrimination. By war work she has "found herself" in industry, and demands equal wages and hours with man. Having thrown off parental restraint, she also rejects that of morality and law, and such abnormal girls as Ruth Garrison are the result. Being able to earn a living in a factory or store and enjoy the same freedom as men, women reject domestic work as drudgery. If they marry, they shirk the duties of moth erhood as drudgery also, and devote their leisure to "having a good time," which really means a bad time in many cases. There are many women who take a serious view of their newly acquired rights as imposing duty and responsibility while widening liberty. They have just shown their power in Portland by winning a school elec tion. To this "type of woman we must turn for leadership in teaching their sex that the highest ambition of both man and woman should be to perpetuate the human race, to bring into the world and train a stronger, healthier, more moral and able gen eration. The world needs a new ideal for the leaders of the nations to set before the people. There cannot be a better than the nobility of work any kind of work that is equal to a person's ability and the only way to teach it to oth ers is to practice it. We need to scrap the old idea, inherited from the age when man was only a fighting animal, that a gentleman must be a man of leisure. In fact, the leisure class is the loafing class, and loafing is a vice. It- was so condemned by law in many states during the war, because an emergency required that every man- work. In a less degree that emergency continues, for a nau wrecked world, must be rebuilt, and the job demands the work of all hands. That work 1s as honorable as the war work to which English ladies deigned to turn their dainty hands. Make the loafer cease to iook down on the worker and . go to work him self. Make the worker cease to look lin to and envy the loafer and make him keep at work. Then half of our social ills will be cured. VE. T A IT'S rOPCLARITY. The New York Times quotes with nn arjoearance of surprise the IOilow Ing paragraph from the. Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal: A most astonishing thlnir has happened. Mr. Taft has "come back." lie stands out today as one of the greatest or American leaders- The larirest followinB in the re publican party today is bis. Ho is one o th vorv few men of the country who pos sess to any. great degree the confidence of the pepple. Jt is certain that if a republican national convention representing the true sentiment of that body were to .meet tomorrow to nominate a candidate for president, Mr. Taft would leceive many more votes than any of the .other gentlemen who are being groomed or are grooming themselves for the. nomina tion. The. republican pollticans may or may not realize this, but it is plain to men who rub elbows with other. men. The Times is inclined to question the Journal's enthusiastic prophecy, pointing out that Mr. Taft has alienat ed many important republican lead ers by daring to advocate the league of nations. Mr. Taft is popular in the north, says the Times, and "it used to be said that the south would love to vote for him if he -only bore the proper party label." So it ever is. . The south may pray for him, but it will not vote for him, or any republican. But the popu larity of Mr. Taft is not confined to the hide-bound and unchanging south ern democracy. He is just now in high favor with the democrats of the north, who have forgiven 1912, and will continue to forgive and acclaim him until a republican convention shows some sign of nominating him. Then his popularity among them will diminish in the same ratio as it in creases with the republicans. Mr. Taft's present greatness with the democrats consists in his approval of certain of Mr. -Wilson's policies. He is not applauded there because he is for the league of nations, but because he is for President Wilson. He is all right, not because the league is all right, but because Mr. Wilson is all right, always, whether the thing he favors is all right or not, or whether it is the same this year as last. The popularity of a candidate with the democracy should, of course, not disqualify him before a republican convention, if availability is to be a factor as it already is. But we have a suspicion nevertheless that as a candidate the democrats .are killing Mr. Taft with kindness. SATIXG THE BRASS KAIT..- Success of the Salvation Army in winning its way into the hearts of our soldiers. at the front is due In large measure to its comprehension of "group psychology," although it is doubtful if one Salvation Army work er in a thousand has taken the trouble to give it so ponderous a designation. There are some persons in the world who are intuitive psychologists, and whose powers, in the absence of a college nomenclature, are called knowledge of human nature, or, more often, just "tact." The most recent evidence of this is given in the announcement by Com mander Evangeline Booth that "the Salvation Army has within the last few weeks demonstrated in its prov ince of New York the psychology of the brass rail." There is a probably unintended pun in her further state ment that there is "something about the shiny bar which brings all men to a common rooting. ine easy ana re laxed attitude of those who lean against the mahogany or cherry sug gests solid comfort. Vndoubtedly the inventors of the brass rail knew ex actly what they were doing. They, too, were psychologists, albeit without diplomas. They were pretty success ful salesmen, also. The Salvation Army does not intend to reject the benefits of their experience. In a newly opened hotel in New Tork. the army has decided to retain the bar and the bartender, and more especially the brass rail. "Because wine and beer are to go," asks Miss Booth, "shall not a man take his ease in his own inn?" Certainly he shall. Miss Booth wrote an article some time ago in which at greater length she endeavored to tell "how the Sal vation Army did it" meaning the way it succeeded so well in meeting demands upon it in France. "The army," she said, "has done nothing new nothing different." Perhaps there is nothing "new"- in the decision to retain the brass footrail; but on second thought there is something quite novel in recognition of the value of this appurtenance of sociability. A great many others were in the way of overlooking it. The policy of giving a man that which is good for him and at the same time that which he wants, so far as possible, is founded on a sound philosophy. There Is an old gay- that you can lead a horse to -water but you can't make him drink, and it is also true that you can create a sub stitute for the saloon and' not-be able to get men inside.- But the Salvation Army proposes to get them inside, and to "furnish all the comforts and liber ties of" the poor man's club, except the one that steals away his brains, and as a practical proposition it is doing about right. WHAT GERMANY COULD PAY. In view of the moans and. wails about bankruptcy, serfdom and ruin which now rend the atmosphere of termany, it Is timely to consider the capacity of Germany to pay the repa ration claims named in the treaty. Calculations were made by Lieut. Col. Lowther, a member of the British par liament, with a view of proving that Germany could pay the entire war debt of the allies, which ho estimated at 12o, 000, 000.000 after deducting duplications. - His figures were so well credited that they led 400 members of parliament to send a telegram to arieuncr iJioa oeorge urging mm to stand pat on payment of all war debts, """uer saia tnap vxrmany naa proved its ability to pay a debt of ,40,000,000,000 by incurring such a debt for the war. He would give the allies' claim to that amount prefer- ence over the German debt against the resources out of which the latter was to nave oeen paid. Jtsy reduction oi armament $300,000,000 a year could be saved, which would provide inter- est and sinking fund on $12,500,000,- ouu. on civil expenses another $500,- 000,000 a year could be saved, to be applied to. maintaining an army of oc- cupation. About $15,000,000,000 could be paid in labor and material to re- pair damage in Belgium, France and other countries. On account of the territory and colonies taken from Ger- many and its allies he would credit J2 i, o00,000,000.' There would remain 1 i0,ooo,ooo,ooo, requiring an annual payment tor interest and sinning runo oi ii,suuuv,uvu, to meet wnicn ne would appropriate the profits of aH the mineral resources of the four central powers, the vast estates of the Hohen zollerns and all the other sovereigns and all German property in the Unit ed Kingdom, the United States, Chile, Brazil and Argentina. Colonel Low- " 1 country, nut. trie destruction oi ther's prediction as to the expedients schools, is all the more tragic, be to which Germanv wonM resort to es- cause education was only just begin- cape payment are proving so accurate that they are worth quoting. He said: That Germany can pay in full, by this or other expedients, I have never for a moment doubted, but every excuse will be advanced, 1 1 ' ' l oni- 1 1 III 9. wnimnx v, 1 1 1 1 1 1 people, uuu from the .rid'. mrofeioni Twne v-monr- ers and international financiers. Th-y will leave no wire unpulled, no stone un turned, to prove Germany's debacle and in ability to pay, to save their ill-gotten gains. They will strike every note on tho gamut of human emotion pity, sympathy, charity, eternal brotherhood. Germany has been called on to pay $25,000,000,000, not $125,000,000,000, and this sum is to pay for reparation, not to pay the allies' war debt. Though doobt may exist as to the possibility of making the exactions proposed by Colonel Lowther, the fact that they were seriously proposed and were sup ported by 400 members of the British parliament goes to support the opinion that Germany can pay the smaller sum. In fact, there Is reason to suspect that the Germans are se cretly surprised and pleased at escap ing so easily. As to the territorial terms, they differ so slightly from the statements of the allies war aims made by President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George that they should have caused no surprise. The Germans are bluffing and they really think the allies are "easy, AS TO FIGHTIXG THE RA1XROADS. "Why are you always fighting the railroads?" ask some of those who carp at Portland for opening the con- troversy about rates from the inter-1 mountain country. It is one of those glib questions which deal with out- ward appearances but do not go to the heart of things. Portland is not de - liberately fighting the railroads; it is contending for a just basis of rates to accord with the unchangeable natural law that water flows down hill be- cause it follows the line of least resist- ance. If in the course of Portland's journey toward that goal, i oiniana comes m conflict with the railroads, that is not because fortland is rignt ing the railroads tut Because ine ran- roads fight Portland. Xor should the opposition of the,sicai suffering:. It now behooves the railroads be taken too seriously. When a move is made to disturb a long es tablished arrangement, it is always their practice to oppose, whether they would eventually gain or lose by the change. Vested interests have grown around the existing condition, and might be destroyed, or materially in jured if it were disturbed. If the rail road should side against them, it would earn their bitter enmity. The railroad knows that it derives a cer tain revenue from them, while it re gards that to be gained by a change as theoretical. - It -also Jears less the enmity of those who seek something which they have not than that of those who fear to lose that which they already- have, for the former may be mollified with some other favor, while the latter never forgive. Therefore the railroads hold the bird in the hand by defending the existing order rather than grasp at the bird in the bush by favoring a change. Further, one change in rates may bring many others in its train, and railroad men are naturally conserva tive and hate tor be bothered. Yet it can be demonstrated from history of the railroads' present favor ite. Seattle, that they have profited greatly by being successfully fought. There was a time when Seattle had i H , .i.nnc'inil rtennle- when Ta- coma was the pet and when every ef- fort was made by the N6rthern pacific n bint Seattle off the map. Seattle o firct denied nnv railroad at all, and when finally somebody built a connecting line from that city to Stuck i..iinn no through passenger car was run. a stub train took Seattleites stunk and left them waiting ror hnra in the rain until the palatial ,hrn,h train came. That little branch road was called "the orphan road" orf s-rvlce it cave was execrable. Seattle, foutrht and fought and fought, in it mt the Seattle. Lake Shore & vi.m started. It continued to fight until the Great Northern came in. Then the Northern Pacific gave Seat- i unv-thin it asked, and an evidence of Seattle's eratitnde to Jim Hill was! thi it still gave nine-tenths of its n.winoKB to the Northern Pacific, Since then, other roads have gone in but the aggregate traffic of all roads is to great that probably the Northern Pacific's share is a hundred times the total iri the days of the orphan road. The Northern Pacific has profited enormously by being fought, but itfcs not recorded that the board of direc tors ever passed a voto of thanks to Seattle for fighting it. ' It may prove that in like manner Tortland will benefit the O.-W. K. N. and the North Bank roads, and ! through the latter the Northern Paci fic and Great Northern, its Joint own ers. If Portland should be iven rates based on the cost of service over the water grade and if the rates over the mountain roads should be based on their cost of service, it is reasonable to assume that a large volume of traf fic from the intermountain country would be attracted to the Columbia river route and would be divided be tween the two roads. The lower rates would Increase the profits of the pro ducers and would stimulate develop ment,' adding further to the volume of traffic. When the railroads found that this traffic was coming to Port land in any' case aud that they got it, to whichever port it went, they would not greatly care about its destination. They might be rather pleased,, for the shorter haul would give them more service from their rolling stock, and the wear and tear on a water grade would be much less than on the mountains. As they saw the vol ume of traffic grow far beyond even Seattle's total, they might inwardly gloat, though thev would probably not thank Portland any more than they tnanked Seattle There is no occa si on fn r a n v trrnn t perturbation of spirit about Portland's fighting the railroads. If the rate suit is to be so termed, which we by no means concede, then Portland is fighting the railroads for their own good, just as Seattle did The bolshevlsts' attitude toward ed ucation, which many of them hold to be undesirable because it creates "inequalities" by making some men more able and efficient than others, has a practical illustration in the sum- mary of recent bolshevik destruction of institutions of learning, cabled from Omsk to the Russian information bu- reau at New York. The bolshevists have "brought to a standstill" eight universities and eighteen high schools and have destroyed 109 libraries. thirty-two monuments and seven mu seums. They have burned one uni versity, six high schools and fif teen libraries. There will be no great grief over the destruction of monuments, judging by the pictured representations of some of them seen nine to et a foothold in Russia when the storm began. With an illiteracy rate of 69.1 per cent for all the popu- lation and of 61.9 per cent for the army recruits, Russia in 1910 was the . . , . - .. most illiterate country in all Lurope. It appears that the league covenant is to be framed with the advice as well as the consent of the senate after all. If the debate on ratification should continue until after the league assembly Is held In Washington in October, there inevitably will be com munication In regard to amendments of the covenant that would be accept able to both. .This may delay procla mation of peace till a year after the armistice was signed. Some of this delay might have been avoided if a couple of senators had been on the peace delegation. President Wilson is blamed for the "hard" terms dictated to Germany. Italy blames him for opposing annex ation of Fiume, France has a secret grouch over being denied the Rhine provinces, China is angry because Japan was given Shantung, and Japan's feelings are hurt because race equality was voted down. That's what a man gets for being the friend of all humanity. No wonder he has half a mind to make peace with the bolshe viki. When the allied fleet goes to Petro- grad, it will need only to hang a sack of flour at the masthead to insure a I rapturous welcome. The whole popu lation will eat out of the sailors' hands and. if the sailors are not careful, will I eat their hands, too I Tne government will take great pre cautions not to break the market when it sell3 Its surplus beef and ba I con. It might occasionally take a pre 1 caution or two against breaking th consumer, to .whom bacon has become a luxury Judge Bean rules that mental an guish must be aeeomoanied bv Dhv plaintiff in an alienation suit to get his "block knocked off" by the bust ness corner of the triangle. It was always a wonder why hard ware stores chained their grindstones on leaving them out overnight, but not since a fellow stole a blank grave stone at Eugene the other night. Frank Gould should move to Port land. He would find Vancouver handy every time he wanted to get married and the Portland courts handy every time he wanted a divorce. White Salmon has an auto tourist camp with electric lights, water sys tem and shower baths, and nothing more is needed but sugar, spoons, glasses and so forth. Corn goes to $1.77 a bushel in Chi cago, where the price is set, and any body who wants a substitute for high- priced flour can get it if he has the money. Mr. Cordray, who starts the sum mer season in the city, beats Colonel Dan Moore, who regulates the salt-wa ter calendar, by one day this year. A woman who could shoot herself through the heart and then tuck the revolver under the pillow surely had liu,ui-uu hu.uh. i mo idu Even those not acquainted with him are glad to learn Chaplain Gilbert is i "- i-mnvc. uc usuuuj i)i son belongs to all Oregon ueraana ih-ik. vi a. orumi peace oi force." Recalling Belgium and north ern France four years ago. they can " '"sui Mr. Hohenzollern is said to be ig norant of what Is in store for him I but he may be able to imagine a few tmngs. Germany la learning of its troubles, but in the true Hun way blames th allies instead of its masters. frmany need not worry about loss o the cables. -incy nave rorgottc how to talk German At present prices of pork and pork I products, the grower can feed his hog: - 1 on pie if he likes. I j Germany is like the small boy tak ling spring medicine. Somebody hold &thc German nose. Those Who Come and Go. Just to go fishing In Oregon, a party of financiers are here from Michigan and are spending some of their Arizona mining property dividends at the Seward. In the party are Captain Thomas Hoatson, president of the Calumet National bank and of the Calumet & Arizona Mining company, his sons. Cat and Chester, and his son-in-law Walter Kdwards, cashier in the Calumet bank; M. Banditlna, a retired hotel man of Calumet; Captain W. J. Bond and W. J. Trevarthen. They tried trout fishing down in Tillamook and today they will tackle salmon at Ore gon City. Most of the party are own ers of a. mine in Arizona which lias paid 142.000,000 in dividends in the past 11 years. Mr. Trevarthen is the father of IS children and he had 12 sons in the war which is somewhat of a record. The crowd came here as a result of the "letter writiug week" which was held a few years ago when people here were requested to write to their friends back east about Oregon. "Salmon, agriculture, mining, timber and other resources of Oregon are good." says John K. Buttermoore of St. 1'aul. Minn., "but the biggest re source of the state is scenery and some day the people of Oregon will realize it. I have traveled all over the t'nited States and in many parts of Kurope. but Oregon has a greater variety of scenery than any other spot of equal territory. AH it needs is plenty of high-grade roads to reach the scenery and accommodations for tourists and these are things which will come in time." Right In the heart of Hood River valley, here is a hill, or butte, from the top of which a panoramic view can be had of the entire basin. Formerly It was covered with oak trees, but now an apple orchard is growing on the sides. This is known as the Van Home place and it is the best-known place In Hood River because of its prominence. W. Van Home is at the Hotel Tortland. Robert X. Stanfield, whose signature is so large that it requires four lines of the Imperial register to record, and Charles Hall, who uses less than half the space of a single line on the Ben son register, were in town yeaterday in connection with the business of the reconstruction commission of which both are members. "It would be cheaper for me to bring my chickens to the Benson to board," sighed M. A. Mayer, Mosier chicken fancier and orchardist de luxe. Mr. Mayer sella his egg output to the Ben son, but says that if he was to break even on the business he should be paid $1 per egg, as that is what they ost him to produce. There is always a demand for bath rooms at the hotels on Mondays. This Is the day that the stockmen arrive nd having traveled anywhere from 24 to 48 hours with a train of hogs, sheep r cattle, they make a bee-line for a lace to remove the grime and per fume, so that Monday is Saturday night for most of the stockmen. 11. A. Tresham of Gold Hill Is at the mperial. Gold Hill was located by an old-timer named Cavanaugh who took more than $500,000 in gold from one pocket. When he laid out the town- ite he gave every alternate block to he railroad, which was a pretty good hlng for the railroad. To meet his comrades in the ISth nineers. the railroad outfit. Irwin Winding of Astoria is at the Multno mah. He enlisted as a buck private and was made top sergeant before company ! departed and when dis- harged he was a first lieutenant. J. W. Robinson of Pilot Rock is at he Imperial for a short stay. Pilot Rock is a monument which stands high In the air and was used as a guide by he early immigrants as they were wandering through eastern Oregon rying to reach the v illamette valley. They always welcome me to Port land with rain," confided Trixie Kriganza. as she signed the book at the Hotel Portland. Miss Friganza is one of the few women in the world who does not get angry when told: May your shadow never grow less. Judge A. S. Bennett. Mrs. Bennett, his son-in-law. C. D. Butler, the lat ter's wife and child passed through Portland on the way to Salem yestcr- U'. They were at the Imperial. J. O. Jones, from the wheat country of Walla Walla, Wash., is registered at the Nortonia. With the price guar antee the farmer are out to raise every blessed bushel they can coax from the soil this year. Mortimer Fleishhacker of San Fran cisco, accompanied by Mrs. Fleisch hacker. is at the Benson. His Interests In Portland and vicinity run into the millions of dollars. Carl Cooley.-manager for Alexander's store at Pendleton, and Marshall Spell. who is also on the same payroll, are at the Benson. They predict that this year's Round-up will be the best ever. Arago, Or., where there is coal mining and cheese making, had 150 population until K. K. Hampton and Gua Schroeder came out from Coos county and reg istered at the Imperial yesterday. David Jenkins, traveling auditor" for the railroad administration, is at the Multnomah. He was a private when he went to war and was mustered out with the silver bar of a lieutenant. Mabel Wilber. who used to appear as Sonia in "The Merry Widow In the days before the war when Vienna was not sted as an enemy, is an arrival at the Hotel Portland. They deal in suspender, the kind that Mr. Wilson is supposed to wear, do F. H. S. and H. R. Hyde, who are reg Istered at the Multnomah They say their business is keeping up. One of the score of stockmen who were in Portland yesterday from the Willamette valley waa W. C. Edwards of Oram. Douglas county. He put up at the Perkins. Judge J. B. Messick of Baker Is among the arrivals at the Imperial. The judge says that he is through with politics. Motoring down the Pacific hlghway from Tacoma, Wash.. L. Eberhardt and family are at the Nortonia for a day or so. M. Meyerfeld Jr. of San Francisco. whose father is largely responsible for the Orpheum circuit, is at the Benson. Having devoted a week te an In tensive study of Prineville, Dr. F. M Brooks has returned to Portland. A. H. Chambers, tlmberman from Olympia. Wash., is at the Perkins for a few days. "FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR. They hung It up with zealous glee So all the world can plainly see. They're fighting to beat Germany And they hate to take it down. They say it is a burning shame To waste the food. It is their aim To cut it so their cards proclaim. And they hate to take it down. With patriotic zest they cut. Till we are all as lank as Mutt. While gleefully they save and glut, And they hate to take it down. Our men are home, all battle-scarred, These heroes still are fighting hard. Witness the price, the chow, the card. And they hate to take it dow n. W1LL.U1 VAN UROOS. Ostracized. By ;race K. Hall. The hour was dreary midnight and the scene, as you soon shall see. Was a ghostly and gruesome grave yard, where no one cares to be: The night wind was wildly moaning and the cedar trees bent low To miss the gale with its frightful wall which chilled their bare limbs so. Then out of each cold black cavern an ash-gray form arose. It stretched itself in the darkness and wriggled its stiffened toes. Then sat on the cold slab calmly and gazing about the place. Pulled 'round its form the shrould long worn and lifted the mold from Its face. Then they talked of the life-time pleas ures and of ones who were true and near. They moaned o'er the vanished treas ures that at one time had been dear; 'Til the grayest of all cadavers rose up and in scornful voice Demanded that they should pause and ay why a mortal should e'er re joice. Each argued his views with vigor and told of the things worth while That he'd known in his strength and rigor and the memory brought a smile: But the grayish cadaver scorned them deriding each pleasant view. And told them that why he'd been glad to die was because he had found none true. Then suddenly all remembered and knew who he was once more The pessimist and the knocker who had been such an earthly bore; Kach one grabbed his shroud and face mold and went back to his grave pell mell. And the pessimist lone rolled back each stone and himself retired to PEACE OPEXS WAY FOR SCIEXCF, Istereattng Inquiries to Follow Settle- meat of Coloalal Qneatlons In Paclfie. "How did the flightless birds of New Zealand originate? "What is the nearest living relative to the extinct dodo of Samoa? "What is the import of the same species of fresh-water fish in two rivers situated on opposite sides of the Pacific? "Did a land mass fly out of what is now the Pacific ocean before this planet was cooled and form the moon?' These are just a few of the many lines of inquiry which science will turn to In the Pacific ocean after the peace conference has adjusted the many colonial questions affecting New Guinea, the Carolines, the Marshall Islands and the numerous other hold ings in this least-known region in the world, according to a bulletin from the National Geographic society. The writer of the communication upon which the bulletin is based, Leopold G. Blackman. continues: "Much valuable material also will be collected to assist in a better under standing of the growth of our own civilization from elemental savagery, for it is reasonable to suppose that the primitive wants of man in differ ent ages and regions have called forth similar expedients to satisfy them. "Other important objects of investi gation for the ethnologist will touch the various racial types Into which the Pacific islanders are divided. Of these, three are generally recognized, of whom the I'apuans and Polynesi ans appear to show the widest diver gences, with the Micronesians occupy ing the intermediate ground and pos sessing affinities of race, language and custom within the other two. The presence of two distinct races of man in the Pacific suggests two periods and sources of immigration and adds diffi culty to an already perplexing ques- ion. for the demarkation between the divisions of the races is by no means well defined, but is complicated by the admixture of many other races of both oriental and occidental origin. 'The Papuans may be generally said to inhabit New Guinea, the Solomons New Caledonia and Fiji. Their most obvious characteristics may be briefly summed up by stating that they are irreligious, democratic, quarrelsome, cannibalistic and hostile to strangers. They possess no hereditary chiefs. paint or scar the body rather than wear clothes, cook in earthen pots. chew betel, and their speech is broken up Into a number of apparently irre concilable dialects. The Papuans are the least attractive of any Pacific islanders, and the Island groups which they occupy are among the least known of the Pacific and have been for many generations shunned by mariners and associated with everything that is of evil repute In the record of the ocean. "The Polynesians In many attributes are greatly at variance with the Papuan islanders. They possess, gen erally speaking, an elaborate religious system, an established order of heredi tary chiefs and well-defined social castes. They are friendly to strang ers, fond of dress, expert manufac turers of Kapa cloth and Intrepid sea men and navigators. They tatoo in stead of scar the body, seldom prac tice cannibalism, cook in earthen ovens instead of in earthen pots, drink aw and possess a common language un derstandable throughout New Zealand, Hawaii. Samoa, Tahiti and the Pau motu islands. "Of all the Pacific races the greatest interest attaches to the Polynesian Islanders, but it is unfortunately these people whose primitive customs and racial types have been most broken up by modern intercourse. "The Maiayo-Polynesian language possesses the distinction or being spoken by indigenes over the widest area of any language of the world, for it embraces two great oceans and ex tends from the island continent of Madagascar to the isolated islet of Ra- panui. IF YOU SHOII.D SMI I.E. A little word of kindness. Or even a smile, may roam A long way from its starting place Before it gets back home; But when it comes, be very sure That It will have a pack Of bigger emiles and kinder words A-hanging at its back. For everything likes company. And even the timid smile. If It rinds welcome on your lips. Will linsrer there a while: And it may burrow down, such is I Its penetrating way. And reach the heart and make Its home, And want to always stay. RAYMOND K. BAKER. Coquille. Or. TTow to Get Cheaper Milk. PORTLAND. May 12. (To the Edi tor.) In regard to. the milk ques tion that is troubling all city dwell ers. let me give a' few facts. The dealers' have all agreed to try to eliminate the pint bottle, so they charge us 10 cents for it. Poor people who can hardly make both ends meet are thus deprived of the correct high price even. We pay one grocery man 13 cents a quart for milk, and the pints should be 8. If our authorities would let clean dairies sell direct from the can, each patron furnishing his own pitcher, we could afford to use milk. One thing the high prices have done have taught us all to use oleomarga rlne and it is a shame to the state th Its laws keep this clean pure produc so high. They seem to begrudge poo people anything on their bread. No poor person thinks of buying butter a present prices and the children half starve lor milk. . . A.-Jt ARiSlER. In Other Days. fifty Years Aro. From The Orejoninn of M:iy 1". 16:. Washington. Receipts for the, pres ent month In the internal revenue uc- 1-artment total $300,000. London. In the house of commons today it was proposed to increase the powers of the lord lieutenant of Ire land for tlie more effectual suppres sion of outrages in that country. The city council today voted ad versely to changing the city gas lights to oil. An exploring party reports that the trip from Canyonville to Fort Klamath, over the mountains has been made suc cessfully and that $1000 would make a trail through. Twenty-five Years A. Krom The Orcconlan of May 1:'.. iv.il. Seattle One hundred-thirty mem bers of tho Coxey army and 16 citi zens of Yakima were broguht to this city, having been arrested by dejjuty fcdcral marshalls for rioting. Salem. The total number of pa tients and employes now at the asylum is 1042. New Zealand. The governor was fined 5 shillings yesterday because his coachman drove too fast. The new free ferry boat to replace the steamer now o:i the Albina. route was launched at Stepfen's yard yester day. Her length Is IiO feet, beam 32 and depth $ feet. J15T MATTKK OK CONTItAST. ltepablirasa and IlrnorraO Compared bat -"ot Ievtdio!lj. PORTLAND. May 12. (To the Fdi tor.) Mr. Gladstone, the grand old man of Kngiand. once said that Amer ica has a natural base for the greatest continuous empire ever founded by man a magnificent fact. li" all our arable land was under cultivation, cays Josia, Strong in "Our Country," we could fcd 400.000.000 of peoples and have millions of bushels left for ex port. With our extensive territory. tuperabundant resources and unequalcd liberty we can say with David "wo have a goodly heritage", and also with Emerson, "America is only another name for opportunity." While I thought on these things and was proud of the' fact that I lived In such a country, a few questions camo to me: Is America any longer Amer ica? Is Americanism losing Us color? Is the snirit of the fathers upon us. or has it departed? Is the patriotism of our people general or only in spots? Twenty-five years ago a man would have been knocked down for saying half about this country that be &ays today, and seemingly w ith much pride. A person in Portland uid or wrote a short time ago of our nation, "your liberty is a lie; your freedom is a lie; your equality is a lie: your justice is a lie: your democracy is a lie; your courts are a lie; your church is a lie; your religion is a lie. and your God is a lie." ycl he was not molested either by authorities or by civilians. When the Mainn was sunk by accident or purposely, there was no talk of refer endum or any attempt to obstruct op erations. We got to work quickly and did a good job. Would that 1 could say the same about Germany. I alo have been contrasting the leaders in the two big parties with re gards to Americanism and foresight. A week or so after Mr. Bryan resigned as secretary of ti: te the Associated Press brought the following statement from him: "Germany is our friend but she is desperate." This clearly implies that her d-esperation justified the kill ing of American citizens by the Ger mans. It is generally conceded that Uryau wrote the platform of the demo cratic party in 1912. in which we find his plank: "American citizens must e protected on land and on sea and on the border." When it came time to de fend them, he gave up his job and made a tour of the country condemning the. very thing that was set forth in this p'.ank. A iittle later the fame newt, agency brought to us the following sentence from Mr. Hughes: "The exi gency of no nation can justify the Mll- r of Americans." L pon which of these. two men does the spirit of the fathers rest? Coming a little farther down. Mr. Baker, secretary of war. makes an in vidious comparison between the actions of the Germans and the soldiers of rf. I do not recall that any of his prominent democratic brethren took isue with liim or exceptions to what he said, but, from the republicans ra nks there came, a vigorous protest against this slanderous comparison. Now. a word about foresight: That gift sernis to be to a larger extent with, the republicans. Preparedness was a, necessity. The democrats couldn"t see ft. It took such men as Leonard Wood, Theodore Roosevelt. Senator Lodge and Representative Gardner, the latter re signing u:s place in the nou. e of rep resentatives, joining the army antl ding of pneumonia in one of tha camps. V hen .Mr. Wilson brought the draft of the constitution of the league of nations back with him and ita con tents were fully made known, it was the republicans who contended that certain amendments should be made and today these changes have been made. There is nothing invidious in this ar ticle I have just written as I see and feel it. ISAAC PL ART. THE ftlESTIOV. Nobody asks how hard It was fought As long us the battle was won. Nobody asks how hard was the day. If you re there at the set of the sun. Nobody asks how long was the night. Or how wildly the adverse winds blew As long as you landed your ship at the port And return with the spoils which you drew. Nobody asks how much pain did you stand While Btriving the victory to pain; Nobody cares if you're able to swim. Or sink on the quicksands of pain. The question is never how long did you strive. How long did you struggle and try? But always the question stands ever the same. Did you get there, my friend, bye and bye? Nobody asks was the night dark and long; Were you battered and beaten, and blue? How long was the struggle e'er vic tory was yours? Did your friends stand just back of you. too? You answer. "The tempest was violent and long. But 1 battled afresh at each sun And you could have helped me if only you'd tried But I battled alone and I won." DORA REEVES CROKT. May 2T Is Ht Day." Indianapolis News. Governor Goodrich, in a statement is sued at the request of the state board of health and state food production and conservation committee, has deslgn.tteu May 27 as "rat day." On that day spe cial attention is to be given to the de struction of rats and their hiding places because of the enormous damage done by destruction of property and sprca of disease. "The menace to health and the great loss of property due to the unrestrained activity of the common rat and other rodents." reads the governor's state ment, "have become so serious that the subject should receive attention at tho uauda of every citizen of the sUUa."