THE MORNING OKEGONIAX, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.
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last to receive the relief -which they
deserve. In Czeehoslavia the harvest
is now on and fear of famine, which
haunted the people six months ago, is
definitely removed. Crops of grain
and other staples are being garnered
somehow but the building up of a
milk industry is not a matter of a few
months, and while adults now have
plenty to eat. the little ones are with
out the prime necessity of their exist
ence. Extent of the tragedy is illus
trated by the statement that in 1910
there were 3,440,000 children under
14 in Moravia, Bohemia and Silesia;
this number in 1918 had been reduced
to 2.848,000. In the last year of the
war the death rate of babies under a
year old in Prague increased from
14 to 19 per cent and in some suburbs
reached 25 per cent. The armistice
has only, slightly relieved the milk
situation, and relief will be furnished
only by large donations of condensed
milk from other countries.
searching examination. He had
pleaded guilty and had gone his way
to commit another crime which the
alienists might have foretold. The
Journal of the American Society of
Judicature in the article to which
allusion has been made, says:
The fate of ono criminal Is of little eon
sequence. Han? him. If you will, but next
month and next year there will he- other
murders committed lust as brutal. The
didates, each relying on his own
friends to succeed as best he may."
but it seems to have been discovered
in that early day that there was virtue
in organization, even along party lines,
"as a means of arousing a sense of
civic responsibility."
Colonel T'VauIt found the task of
riding many journalistic horses at one
time too much for. him, as perhaps
purpose of psychopathoiory is to determine i other editors have done since his day.
snut : xr . i . . ; . . v. v. i .i v. .
GETTING DOWN TO FINDAMEXTAIS.
All thewefinements of argument con
cerning the cost of living resolve them
selves into the fundamental proposition
that we cannot enjoy possession of
more of the necessities of life until we
produce more of those necessities. The
supposed relationship between the high
price of wheat, or some other single
ommodity, and the price of other
..ecessities can be discussed pro and
ron until doomsday without bringing
i'ie slightest measure of relief. High
v ages and higher prices can continue
I lei! enriieSS IUKIIJ-SW-iuuiiu nimwu,
ver getting anywhere until more of
;he necessities of life are to be had.
'.'he germ of whatever answer is found
lo the cost of living problem will be
t-reater production of necessary articles.
Our chief trouble is that just when
ti-.e whole world needs more food, more
rlothing and more shelter, and in order
to procure these must have larger
I I -PS ailCl 1UUI tS 111 CL 1 1 I I I 1 1 jr
n.ore labor, the output of these is
smaller than it was in normal
trues. Economists seem to agree
that per capita production is smaller
tl: in it has been in some time,
i ' srtainly this is true as to ac
tral necessities. We are producing,
Karbert Hoover says, 35 per cent less
c( a.1 than in ordinary times. The im-
n ense wheat crop which was predicted
lajt June will sutler a snnnnage oi
r.Thaps 20.0,000,000 bushels before it
is safely harvested. Manufacturers
til nost universally discover the per
c: pita output of their factories to be
shrinking. The latter is true not only
:i s to necessary articles of life, but as
to luxuries; but we go on buying
li:.;uries,at constantly increasing prices,
j .st the same.
Indeed, one of the reasons why ne-
wsities are being produced in smaller
quantities in proportion to demand is
hat too many people who should be
i roducing necessities are engaged in
fi.ndamentally non-essential occupa
ti ms. The cities continue to be over
crowded, while the country calls for
men. We can eat no more bread than
we grow grain to make it from, and
::o more boef and pork than we pro-i!-.ce;
and we cannot wear more clotli
i, g unless we produce more wool and
li ien and cotton: and shelter will be
il; ar so long as the output of lumber
Hid hardware continues to be rela
t.vely insufficient.
Who are from the point of view of
t'le men concerned with the cost of
life's necessities the non-producers?
l or one thing, they are all of those
engaged in producing things which
r'-tme second, or third, to the necessi-
lies. The resolution introduced in the
1 ouse by Representative Riddick of
.viontana setting forth "six primary
auses" of high costs simmers down
t fewer primary causes than six.
' Government extravagance and waste"
: nd "encumbering the federal payroll
v.-ith hordes of unnecessary and unpro
luctive employes" are a duplication.
Hoarding by the war department of
food and clothing is an incident of the
main issue. Senator Gronna of North
Dakota, who said that inadequate pro
"duction was partially to blame for con
ditions, struck nearer to the heart of
Lhings. The "hordes of unnecessary
and unproductive employes" of the
government not only are contributing
nothing to the supply of commodities
"of fundamental consumption, but they
are consuming the products of the
1 inadequate number of producers we
already have. The superfluous gov
. eminent job may be a fine thing for
the individual holding it. but it and
other superfluous jobs only postpone
the day when production will over
take consumption.
The excess government employe is
not the only economic excrescence we
. have, but he furnishes an excellent
) illustration. It may be asked in all
sincerity whether we have not too
many professional theorists, among
other luxuries. Is it possible that fche
new passion for efficiency has created
too many "professors" who teach effi
ciency and too few graduates who
practice it? We observe that certain
special schools, such, for illustration
: as those teaching domestic science, are
- graduating armies of what? Teach-
' ers, in large proportion; workers
smaller degree. The passion for the
; white-shirt job is the ruling passion
' The back-to-the-soil movement falters
and comes to a halt. The professions
' are overcrowded, real workers are
; scarce, people willing to wear overall
; and to soil their hands threaten to
' become as extinct as the dodo and the
preak auk. toymaners worn overtime
and coal miners adopt the five-day
week all down the line the output o
the individual producer of the things
we must have to live comfortably, o
to live at all, grows less and less.
At the bottom of the solution of th
cost of living problem is willingness
to work in the production of essential
' things: to- go without for a time, if
needs be, the unessential ones. A great
deal would be accomplished if every
individual would take counsel with
himself, as he would do if we were
still Rt war, as to whether he is con
tributing his share to production. Per-
; haps this is too much to expect, human
nature being what it is. But however
much we may theorize, and however
far we may seek for the remedy in
the nostrums of economic quacks, we
shall get no necessary article more
cheaply until we have produced more.
STEEIKEAD AM) LEGISLATORS.
The governor of Oregon, we trust,
did not fail to read the Med ford Mail
Tribune of August 5. That excellent
newspaper -is always readable, to be
sure, but it is not every day that a
newspaper may be expected to have
an article of particular moment to a
governor who is troubled by a demand
from a few energetic women to get
the eighty-nine male members and one
female member of the legislature together-
in a hurry-up call to do some
thing about the suffrage amendment,
which it can do better in its normal
time viz., at the regular session.
The Medford paper is discussing
steelheads. It will be asked, naturally
enough, what steelheads have to do
with governors or legislators. The
flippant may turn a neat phrase on
steelheads, wooden heads, bor.ehea.ds
and legislators, but it is far from our
mind to trifle with so serious a sub
ject. But listen to the Mail Tribune:
I in advance these enemies of soclery and
them up before - they have killed. The
problem of crime ts- coming to be understood
as the problem of mental defectives. If
there are numerous defective delinquents who
cannot be made good citizens, through
courses of treatment cannot he made to
stand up to the normal environment then
an environment must be created for them
which will permit them to lead useful lives.
Every crime commited by a pre
viously convicted pervert is an indict
ment of the system which permits him
to be at large, and a .warning that
there is still something wrong with
our system of handling crime. The
suggestion of another authority on
psychopathology. that this class of
criminals, and others as rapidly as our
knowledge of the mental process of
the criminal expands, be segregated
on farms, where they can lead com
fortable lives without menacing so
ciety at large, will appeal to all but
the hopelessly emotional. There is
much talk about removing the tempta
tion to crime, and not enough consid
eration for the defectives who never
will become normal. A constructive
programme with this purpose in-view
will represent an advance over present
methods at least equal to the supe
riority of the present over the middle
ages. Detection and segregation of
the criminal in advance of the com
mission of crime is a goal toward
which society is warranted in striving.
Those Who Come and Go.
Of rtunw everyone knows the melancholy
career of the Rogue river fish bill, but
those who know most about it. a,re confi
dent of complete success at the next at
tempt. And if the special seselon of the
legislature is called as expected, we trust
the local delegation will see that a measure
is passed which will give the fishermen and
people of southern Oregon the protection
to which they are entitled.
There it is, clear as a noonday in
August. If the legislature meets, the
never-say-die delegation from Jack
son county will lug in the never-moribund
carcass of that old Rogue river
fishing controversy and try to bring
it to life. It has run the gauntlet of
legislative defeats, referendum defeats
and gubernatorial vetoes, and yet is
not dead beyond hope. They will say
in southern Oregon, doubtless, that it
will never be settled until it is settled
right. Evidently they do not believe.
there, in the infallible judgment of the
people or the final wisdom of gov-
rnors.
Only about a dozen members have
complied with Governor Olcott's con
dition that he would call an extraor
dinary session only on a pledge from
the legislature as a whole that it
would serve without pay and consider
only a single subject. The alarming
news from Jackson county will, we
fancy, give the mistaken scheme its
quietus.
MILITARY AXD CIVIL TRAINING.
The Chamberlain-Kahn military
raining bill has such obvious points
of superiority to that of Secretary
Baker that there should be no doubt
as to which will be preferred by con
gress. By requiring six months' train-
ng by every young man, the former
gives time not only for general lnstruc-
ion in military science but for techni
cal instruction in each man's special
ine. This has become the most im
portant part of training, for soldiers
are now specialists in handling ma
chines, all the way from automatic
pistols to airplanes.
But provision should be made for
the contemplated reduction in arma
ment, which should preclude continu
ance of universal training for military
Service especially. Under a general
agreement the United States will be
required to limit, the number of men
annually trained as soldiers. Yet we
have learned by the war the benefits
of many features of such training in
civil life.' Every young man should be
instructed in care of the health, in
sanitation for the common good and in
organized action, and he should have
large part of the physical training
which the army alone gives. These
could be given to all, with the mili
tary features omitted, to be added
only for those who are to serve in the
army.
This matter might be considered in
conjunction with the larger question of
national education. It is the part of
the nation to insure that this training
for citizenship be added to the educa
tion which every boy and girl is pre
sumed to have. Thus we may reduce
the large proportion of physically un
fit who are rejected at the recruiting
offices and who are in a measure unfit
to do their part in civil life.
A NOTEWORTHY CENTENARY.
The man who first gave public
demonstration of the u'e of an anaes
thetic in performing a srrgical opera
tion was bom August E, 1.819. He was
Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, a
Boston dentist, and the credit of dis
covery belongs to him. notwithstand
ing the earlier use of ether to allay
pain by Dr. Crawford W. Long of
Georgia, because Dr. Long not only
did not publish his discovery to the
medical world, but failed wholly to
utilize his opportunity. He may not
have realized the vast importance of
the fact which he had stumbled upon.
The undignified litigation which
marred the later years of Dr. Morton's
life has not dimmed his reputation, as
did the neglect of Dr. T.ong to give to
humanity the benefits of his discovery.
It is not easy to appraise highly
enough the value of anaesthesia, which
has revolutionized surgery and
brought, relief from pain to untold
millions. The name, it will be re
called, was coined by Dr. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, whose achievements in
medical science were considerable,
although overshadowed by his fame
as poet and philosopher. It was Dr.
Holmes who, when the dispute over
the credit for the discovery was sub
mitted to him, replied with the witti
cism: "It belongs to ether." Dr.
Morton first made use of ether on
October 16, 1846. He received a pat
ent for it under the name "letheon" a
month after the operation in question,
but the name failed to survive.
Emphasis upon publication as a
requisite for credit for discovery is
a recognition of the humanitarian im
pulse underlying the profession of
healing. Dr. Long was within his
technical rights in keeping his secret,
but he thereby lost his claim to undy
ing fame. Morton's name will always
be associated with perhaps the great
est blessing which science in the nine
teenth century gave to man.
Nor was the situation much helped by
the specious definition of "politics"
which was given by his successor, Mr.
Lee. "Politics, as we understand the
term," said Lee. "means the science of
government, and not the effervescing
or fermenting partyism- or the noisy
froth of. spouting demagogues." This
on April 16, 1846, Just ten weeks after
the first issue of the paper. But the
popular American definition of "poli
tics" was no more then than it ts now
the . "abstract science of government,"
the dictionary-makers to the contrary
notwithstanding. "Our paper will yet
be edited to the satisfaction of at least
a majority of our subscribers," said
Lee, perhaps sarcastically, certainly
not prophetically, in leaving the task
behind him only four months after
ward. There were issues in Oregon,
and the editor chafed over restrictions
on his pen. He said:
That a paper published by Americans In
Oreson and that paper, too, the only channel
through which the tnieresta and feelings of
the Americans In Oregon can be made
known to the world, should be restricted in
its publications and so conducted as to meet
the approbation and save the feelings of
some whose principles and views are to all
Intents and purposes anti-American. Is pre
posterous In th extreme and not to be
thought of for a moment.
Gradually, but evidently not rapidly
enough, the Spectator, notwithstand
ing its articles of incorporation, took
on a more decided tone. Editor Num
ber 3 said that "it will be our aim to
give this journal a firm and consistent
American tone." But Editor Curry,
in his valedictory a little later, depre
cated the "censorship of the press in
Oregon," and went his way.
Failure of the attempt at "non-partisanship"
in a typical community of
ardent Americans illuminates in its
own way the spirit of that time. This
is perhaps the most interesting phase
of the Spectator's history.
The latest pronouncements of the
National Clothing association do not
hold out much hope for reduction of
the high cost of living in the quarter
from which we are clad. Our coats
are to De fashioned after more gen
erous lines, with broader shoulders
and deeper chests, requiring more ma
terial which will cost more, of course.
There will be gaudy linings of blue,
orange and purple, with pickpocket
proof pockets which will be wholly
superfluous in most cases if the wearer
pays cash for his suit, and with cer
tain other accessories, all running into
money at unusual speed. Further to
add to the expense account of the
already overburdened male, vests will
be cut low for the first time in some
years, thus conspiring to increase our
expenditures for fancy shirts. Sim
plicity of design, with a view to econ
omy such as would seem to be highly
desirable in times like the present, is
apparently the last thing thought of
by the arbiters of the coming season's
styles.
The picture drawn by the informa
tion bureau of the Czechoslavak
republic is typical of conditions pre
vailing in many districts, and which
show that the children who have been
innocent victims of the war are always
TENDENCY TO CRIME.
It Is a fascinating scientific pro
gramme which the Journal of the
American Judicature society presents
in a recent discussion of the associa
tion between criminal tendency and
mental defect. A revolting offense
against a girl in Chicago, murder of
manufacturer in Xew York by two
youths, both of whom, had criminal
records, constant return to lives of
crime by certain types of men, not
withstanding all efforts to reform
them, persistent parole violations by
another class furnish a text for re
newed urging by the psychiatrists thai
facilities be furnished for the classl
fication of criminals as early as possi
ble in their careers. It is the dream
of those versed in this branch of psy
chology that the day may come when
criminals whose offending lies deep in
their natures shall be segregated in
advance rather than punished repeat
edly after commiting crime after
crime.
There is a peculiar type of reformer
who expends all his sympathetic en
ergy upon the criminal and none at
all upon the victim. A particularly
cold-blooded murderer the other day
in New York was the recipient of
loads of flowers, sent by persons -who
undoubtedly sent no flowers to adorn
the caskets of any of the many men
he-slew. There is no convict who
could not get signers to a petition ask
ing that he be returned to his former
status in society. It is the age of par
dons, and when not pardons, of pa
roles. There is failure to recognize
distinctions, to realize that there is a
more or less definitely determined
connection between some kinds of
mental deficiency and the tendency to
crime.
In the recent case in Chicago it
was disclosed that the murderer of
the girl had been arrested several
years ago and fined $100 for an at
tempted crime which ought fully to
have disclosed his evil tendency, and
for which he was not subjected to a
A JOURNALISTIC XOX-I'ABTlSAJi.
The Oregon Spectator, the first
newspaper published in Oregon and
also the first west of the Rocky
mountains, began its life as an experi
ment in journalistic non-partisanship.
The experiment was a failure, from
which the reader who understands the
temper of the American people will
have no difficulty in drawing his own
conclusions. The founders of this edi
torial enterprise had a plausible theory
which did not work in practice. The
theory was that people from all parts
of the United States who had come to
Oregon were presumably tired of poli
tics, and would welcome surcease from
constant discussion of the "issues of
the day." But the founders guessed
wrong. The first editor of the Specta
tor, Colonel T'Vault, seems to have had
sense of the situation, which he
revealed in his salutatory, in which he
related the provision of the articles of
corporation, which not only set forth
that "the presses owned by or in con
nection with this association shall
never be used by any party for the
purpose of propagating sectarian
principles or doctrines, nor for the
discussion of exclusive party politics,"
but also expressly excepted this arti
cle of the document rom possibility
of amendment. Colonel T'Vault un
dertook readily enough the editorial
task, at the princely stipend of $300
a year, but we may suppose that even
then he had some misgivings. He
wrote:
"The lumber game Is about shot away
down in my country," says H. E. Walk
er of New Orleans, who is at the Mult
nomah, "and in ten years the lumber
men of Oregon and Washington will be
reaping a harvest. The timber in Lou
isiana israpidly disappearing and even
now we have to send to the northwest
for our shingles."
while In Portland Mr. Walker has
been examining sawmill plants and
making a close inspection of the lumber
industry in this vicinity. He says that
Seattle. Spokane and Portland remind
him of New York. Alabama and New
Orleans. The people of Portland are
more hospitable than those he haa
found anywhere except in New Or
leans. In Portland, he says, people will
go out of their way to show a straneer
where a building or a street la. and this
Is the way the citizens of New Orleans
do; but a similar disposition he did not
discover in Seattle. It is possible that
Mr. Walker may decide to stay in Ore
gon and get Into the lumber business.
Tve told my friends back in Con
necticut that I want to see Crater
lake and then die. I'm leaving for
Crater lake in the morning." announced
H. M. Davis of New Haven, at the
Multnomah. "This is the fifth time
since March that we have visited Port
land. We like It Immensely out here
on the coast and we have looked over
Alaska, Washington, California, the na
tional parks and as many slchts of in
terest as- we could find. You know
that poem. Out Where the West Be
gins. Well, that expresses my senti
ments. The people In the west are so
different from those in the east. I
don't know why It should be so. but it
la. Out here people are more friendly
and thoughtful. They don't appear to
be so money mad and they seem to enjoy
life more. If nothing interferes we
shall be In the west many, many times
again.
Western sheriffs are supposed to
sport two guna. have a star attached
to the'r vests and go cor.tless. They
are aluo supposed to wear boots, knee
high, with trousers tucked into 'em.
Likewise, their headgear ia supposed to
be of the larg. broad-brimmed style.
All these traditions are shattered by
the collection of western sheriffs who
are mobilized in Portland attending
their convention. They may have
star, but If so it is concealed, and there
probably isn't one shootin' iron in the
posse. W. A Gellatly, who represents
the-peace and dignity of the county of
Benton, Is one of the many sheriffs In
town. He is putting up at the Perkins.
"Portland should be advertised aa
summer resort, assert A. L. Gordon
of Winnipeg, who with Mrs. Gordon
is summering at the Hotel Washington.
The Gordons have been visiting the
national parks and the beaches and
when they arrived In Portland the town
looked so good that they determined
to pass the rest of the warm weather
period here. Mr. Gordon la delighted
with the coast country, and is partlc
ularly enamored of the city of roses,
even though it Is somewhat late for
the rose crop.
Judse Max Sloss. who for the past
14 years has been on the supreme
bench of California, and for five years
before that was a trial judge, left for
San Francisco last night after spend
ing a few days at the Benson. While
here he has been entertained by mem
bers of the bench. Judge Sloss re
signed recently from the supreme
court. Mrs. Sloss has been accom
panying him on his visit to the north
west.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br Jinn J. Montame,
The main objection to making Haig
and Beatty earls is that their fame
will be hidden by their titles. Many
a great commoner has thus sunk into
lordly obscurity. There was once a
cabinet member who bore the plain
name Bob Lowe, but . who was an
oratorical fire-eater. He was kicked
upstairs into the house of lords under
the title of Lord Sherbrooke. After
period of silence, he had one of his
characteristic outbreaks. Everybody
asked, "Who is Sherbrooke?" and
much diligent inquiry was necessary
in order to discover that he was the
once-famous but long-forgotten Bob
Lowe. Perhaps that is why Gladstone
refused a peerage.
The government cannot dodge re
sponsibility for the railroad shopmen's
strike, for It has been considering
their demands since January. If the
demands were just, this is denial of
justice. The government should be
able to decide such questions within
a month after they arise, and its failure
to do so does not promise well for its
success in running the railroads.
There must be a fascination aside
from the profit about the bootlegging
business, else so many men would not
persist in spite of frequent arrest. It
cannot be the whisky that is carried,
for those who. have tasted it agree
that the quality steadily grows worse.
It was pretty well proved by the
war that the nation which controls
the world's steel supply controls the
world. That being so, the significance
of American purchase of steel works
in Austria and Bohemia can be understood.
A large majority of the citizens of Ore
gon are emigrants from the Cnited States,
and for the last twenty years fiolitics there
have been the order of the day. . . Hence
it is to be presumed that a portion of the
citizens of Oregon have brought with them
their views of policy entertained while re
siding in the United State It might also
be expected that the Oregon Spectator
would be a political paper; but reason and
good sense argue differently. Situated as
we are remote from the civilized settle
ments of the United Slates, and at this
time having no protection but that which is
afforded us by the provisional government
of Oregon, and having but one Interest to
represent and that interest the welfare of
Oregon tind the citizens unanimously . .
It would be bad policy to break open old
wounds and in doing so to create new ones.
to discuss politics in The Spectator
Here the editor was overcome by
his own predilections, perhaps by re
alization that an assertion of princi
ples was necessary to a successful
newspaper, for he concluded, half
defiantly: notwithstanding that we are now. as
we have always been and ever shall be. a
democrat of the Jeffersonian school.
This was the first editorial political
declaration ever made in Oregon, and
it appeared in an article contending
that "reason and good sense argue
differently." Polk was then president
of the United States. Political dis
cussions were rife everywhere. The
abolition issue, which a few years
later almost defeated Oregon's aspira
tions for statehood, was looming on
the horizon. The people of Oregon
were at the time of the birth of the
Spectator, February 5. 1846, grouped
into parties, the alignments of which
were as complex as in an older and
more populous community. It seems
strange now to read, as Professor
Woodward has told in his history, that
"the missionary party was rather
looked upon as representing the aris
tocracy and vested interests of the set
tlement from the United States." Nev
ertheless, it was so. But on the whole
there was lack of leadership, and fail
ure to crystallize public sentiment on
any Important issue. Tieie vers ."can-
Harden's plea for clemency to Ger
many on the strength of its change
of heart comes too early. Nations do
not change so suddenly, and better
proof must be given than is yet apparent.
Package goods increase the cost of
living, but they are what the consumer
prefers, and this leads to a question
that may answer itself: Is not lazi
ness of people one big reason for high
prices of foods?
In Other Days.
THE FAIRY FI.EKT.
It won't be long till old Jack Frost
comes sailing from the skies,
palette underneath his arms, all
smeared with glowing dyes.
And seats himself beside a stream to
tint with brilliant hues.
n many a gaudy camouflage the fairy-
folks' canoes.
And when the bending boughs let
through the autumn sunlight's
gleam.
The fairy-folk will launch their craft.
and hurry down the stream.
You've seen them passing oftentimes
when Idling by the shore;
You thought the zephyrs picked them
up along the forest floor.
And tumbled them upon the waves
for then you never knew.
That every little painted leaf bore up
a fairy crew.
Or that the fleet the little stream
swept happily away
Was peopled with a viewless host upon
a holiday!
Staunch boats are these that skim
along and dance and dip and
veer.
And catch in eddies by the shore, or
pause In mid-career.
To set a. little scarlet sail to tack
across the tide.
While fishes watch them overhead and
swiftly dart aside.
And if toe close above the dam a dere
lict should float. .
The fairy-folk leap overboard and get
another boat.
And o. when brown October comes
and on the trees o'erhead
You see the leaves turn suddenly to
gold and glowing red.
Just watch the stream that runs along
almost beneath your feet.
And presently you'll see it bears a
many-colored fleet.
And though you may not see a soul in
any bright canoe
Yju'H never, never doubt again that
fairy tales are true!
Now It's m Traced y.
Returned travelers say that the Eng
lish telephone system is a Joke. Ours
used to be.
Call In the Jankers.
Erzberger says "brutal measures"
are needed to bring out hidden money
for taxation. Well, nobody knows any
more about brutal measures than the
Germans.
Hrnrj la o Exception.
There are a lot of people who
wouldn't care whether or not thev
knew the difference between Arnold
Bennett and Benedict Arnold if they
were making titty or sixty million
dollars a year.
(Copyright, 1W1B. by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
TweBly-flT Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August f. 1RH4.
Washington Al ter long weeks of de
bate in congrese over the new tariff
bill it Is expected by everyone that an
agreement will be reached tomorrow.
E. McNeill, receiver and general man
ager of the Oregon Railroad & Naviga
tion company, returned to Portland late
Tuesday, accompanied by B. Campbell,
general freight agent of the line.
Two daring chimney-sweeps yester
day succeeded in replacing the hal
yards on the courthouse flagstaff, malt
ing the climb up the pole before a great
throng of spectators.
The butchers are circulating an
agreement to close their shops August
15 and attend the grocers' picnic in a
body.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 9. lSf9.
Des Moines Twelve astronomers were
here and viewed the eclipse of the sun
on August 7 through 11 large tele-
ecopes.
The third regatta took place Satur
day. The Monnie was first and the
Nettie second.
It is said that more than IS. 000 bush
els of new wheat has been received and
stored in Albany to await shipment.
The water in the Willamette is said
to be as low as at any time last year
and boats have ceased to run to Albany.
.MRSERV
INVITES INSPECmOaT
The Baby Homes.
By Grace E. Hall.
Not everybody can make a thousand
dollars an acre in loganberries, as has
J. H. Hoffman of Marion county, but
many can try and come near that fig
ure, to their and the state's benefit.
The old battleship is running true to
name. Practically dismantled, the
Oregon is being rushed together for
the reception. Will she be ready?
S-a-y, "was she ever otherwise?
Seattle complains that its army ba
con is "all fat." Humph! Fat is
mighty good. Perhaps Seattle expect
ed the hind legs of the hog.
If the Roumanians shoot every man
in Budapest who looks like a bol-
shevist, the barbers will do a booming
business.
When today you see a fellow wear
ing a convention badge, and you have
a spare seat, ask him to hop in.
The old south must smile in derision
at discrimination against the negroes
in the second city of the north.
If you like watermelons, now is the
time. You'll never get them cheaper,
unless you steal 'em.
Robbing a jewelry store of dia
monds in San Francisco must be easily
done, according to the news report.
Says the Beaver to the
"Climb out o my wayi"-
Si wash:
Save your buttons. There has been
a. aharn advance in these useful disk
and the prices are going still higher.
ho that there is a prospect of pin
comlnc into fashion as a substitute. J
B. Haffen and J. A. Pilcher, who rep
resent one of the biggest button man
ufacturers in the country, are arrival
i- ih. Multnomah. Thev tinned off th
information that buttons have Joined
the high cost of living.
W: M. Gace. who has lived at Co
quiile about as long as the Hotel Bax
tor ha existed, or longer, is an ar
riei at th Perkins. Coauille is in
terested in the concrete highway being
iairt hetween that place and Marsn
field. Two coni'rete mixing plants are
laying the stuff at the rate of aoou
.. . , . e a mile a day. and unlefi
mnthiiKT ernes wrong, the job will
practically be completed this season
With the known price of wheat, it 1
v to figure what David Nelson o
DunHistnn will tret this year, when it
iiiH that his crop will ru
innrnYlmatalr 40.000 bushels. Nor 1'
thi. nil Mr Nelson, who is registere
o kA Mntel Portland, has an alfalfa
ranch in Montana which will net him
substantial income. And yet friends of
Mr. Nelson refer to him as "retired
There is a crreat era of building ac
tivitv in Walla Walla and unexpected
wheat yields are responsible for a more
optimistic feeling than has been noted
for Eome time past, reports n. n. ir
shall, nresident of the People's Stat
bank of the southeastern Washington
metropolis. Accompanied by Mrs. Mar
shall and daughter. Miss Virginia, th
banker motored to Portland and will
spend several days visiting trienas.
Eastern Oregon people flee that sec
tion when the warm weather comes
thev can. which accounts for so man
found in Portland at present. Mrs.
V. Burcess. Miss Madeline Burgess an
Miss Thelma Thompson were at th
Imperial yesterday, having been spend
insr a few days at the base of Moun
Hood. They were on their way to Sea
side.
Mrs. R. H. Johnson of Walla Walla is
at the Hotel Washington. Her husband
is the former secretary of the county
fair association and has been active in
the frontier days show which was put
on by the association. Mr. Johnson is
a grain buyer.
One of the early birds of the National
Editorial association to arrive In town
yesterday was George Jr.. Hosmer of
Denver, who is chairman of the legisla
tion committee of the N. K. A. Mr.
Hosmer Is at the Imperial.
Laurel, headquarters for 150 people
in Washington county and which has
a daily mail, has two churches and two
sawmills. The nearest railroad is about
seven miles distant. W. L. Stevens of
Laurel is at the Perkins.
Motoring from Butte. Mont., to south
ern California. C. E. Moline and family
have arrived at the Hotel Washington.
They have been traveling leisurely
across to the coast, visited Puget sound
cities, looked through Rainier park and
are now headed for the south.
Mrs. Lillian Templeton and Miss
Helen Templeton are at the Imperial
from Brownsville. Or. For years the
football teams at the university of
Oregon had a member of the Temple
ton family on the eleven, and the
Templeton boys were regular world
beaters at the game.
Heppner wants a hospital, but the
drive for the hospital is being held
back until money is raised to float a
hotel enterprise. As soon as the hotel
is a fact, the hospital proposition will
be put before the people. Albert
Bowker of Heppner Is at the Hotel
Oregon for a few days.
President of the Tum-a-lum Lumber
company and former president of the
commercial club of Walla Walla, J. M.
Crawford of Walla Walla, Wash., is
at the Hotel Portland with his family.
A. M. Bolter, who with F. H. Lewis
operates a sawmill at Holbrook. is in
the city on business and is at the
Imperial, .
They call for love oh. thousands call
in vain.
The little babes that came without
desire
To fill strange homes, where mothers
do not reign;
Nor fathers rule. The baby eyes inquire
By mute appeal of strangers who
pass by
Why they are left unloved to laugh
ana cry.
When homes unnumbered lack the vital
thing
Of "atmosphere" that only children
bring.
They call for love oh. every day they
plead.
With smiling lips and lifted hands.
their need
Of that great gift which human hearts
crave most:
And yet there passes by a silent host
The strange, untouched, uncaring crowds
that sursre
Through childless homes, though con
scious or the urge
That nature in her wisdom ra to
each
The untuned heart-strings baby fingers
reacn.
call that none
They call for love
may smother:
They lisp to strangers oft the name of
"Mother": ,
And, yet. in state upon a cushioned
seat.
The bulldog rides each day upon the
street-
While hearts that long for love and
parent care
Are left alone to sicken in despair.
And long years hence, with bitterness
and sneers.
To scoff at mercy which ignored their
tears.
In Grays. Blacks and Whites.
Boston Post.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has always af
fected in her dress the grays, blacks
and whites and they are most becoming
to her. When she came home from
Paris she wore a gray gown, chic gray
hat and cloak of gray and white striped
material. In the senate gallery she
wore a costume of black satin, com
bined with navy blue. On her head
waa a "picture" gray hat. She very
often plays golf In the morning and
long auto rides In the afternoon. She
frequently visits a vaudeville theater.
I
Fund to Be Songbt to Provide Faeili
tie for I' nf ortunateo.
PORTLAND, Aug. $ (To the Ed
itor.) There was a letter in a Satur
day evening paper. July 24. calling at
tention to conditions in the Albertina
Kerr nursery.
The inaccuracy of the statements Is
so marked that the board of directors
conditio iaily invites the writer of the
letter, as well as anyone who is Inter
ested in the home, to visit the Institu
tion at any time and see how many ba
bies there are and how they are cared
for. as well as all the conditions in the
nursery.
The books of the Albertina Kerr nur
sery are kept at the oiTice at 195 Burn
side street and are open to inspection
by the public at any time.
This is the slate-aided institution
which cares for the babes of unmar
ried and unfortunate mothers. At the
present time there are nearly 40 babies
in the nursery. Some of these babes
are suffering from the sina of their
parents and are sick babies in conse
quence. The buildings used by the Institu
tion were constructed for dwelling
houses and are consequently not as
well fitted for a nursery as a specially
designed building would be. There
are many demands made from different
quarters for places for new babies. For
all these reasons it is very desirable
that a fireproof building be construct
ed, with much more room, in order to
allow segregation of the babies and to
provide tne best care possible, in or
der to meet the constant demands for
a place for unfortunate babes who ab
solutely require care.
The plan of the board of directors is
to conduct a state-wide campaign in
September for a fund of $60,000 to buy
a site and construct a fireproof brick
building with a capacity of perhaps
100 babies. There will be three wards
In this new building. One will be for
the normal, healthy babies and one will
be for new babies who come to the in
stitution. There will also be a ward
for the feeble-minded babies. The Pa
cific Coast Rescue and Protective so
ciety is the first institution in the state
of Oregon to meet the serious demand
for a place for defective babies. ' The
state institution at Salem will not take
defective children under 6 years old.
The consequence has been that private
institutions have had to take care of
defective babies in the same quarters
as the normal and healthy children.
This has increased the work of the
nurses and has been a great dotriment
to the normal children.
A couple of years ago this society
built what has been called the Eliza
beth cottage in connection with the
Louise home for abandoned mothers,
but this cottage is full and more space
is needed. As soon as the new, fire
proof nursery is built tne present Elis
abeth cottage will be used as a mater
nity ward of the Louise home and there
will then be one fully-equipped institu
tion for the care of defective children
under 5 years of age. There is no
doubt but that this is the most Impor
tant feature of the new institution a
suitable provision for defective and
helpless babies.
Everyone familiar with the work- of
this society realizes the great need of
greatly enlarging the quarters for the
nursery and providing good accommo
dations for the well babies, the sick
babies and the defective babies and
also to meet the growing demands for
these unfortunate little ones.
The letter questioning the fitness of
the present quarters and the efficiency
of the nurses invites at least a response
from the officers of this society and
an invitation to the general public, es
pecially all lovers of babies, to come
to the nursery and see the babies and
Inspect the Institution at any time.
MRS. R. E. BONDUHANT,
President of the Board.
THOMAS WYNNE WATTS.
Secretary nf the Board.
THE AMERICAN LEGION: The
G. A. R. of the Future
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., that virile leader among the service boys
who will be in Portland in September, says, "The American Legion
exists to put something: in the government and not to take something
away from ic." You know what the Portland post is doing here at
home in the way of welcoming the boys home and finding positions
for them. You are wondering what tremendous influence this organ
ization is going to wield in the future. There will be a timely article
by George Palmer Putnam, formerly of Bend, in The Sunday Ore
gonian tomorrow.
ALCOHOL AND RUSSIAN HISTORY When Peter the Great, great
est leader of all the Russians, went down to Holland to buy boats
for his own ports he sealed the bargain with a pint of Flemish beer.
Intoxicants have ever played a part in the dealings of kings and
emperors. History shows that alcohol has seeped its sinister way
into the heart of every important transaction of the Russian nation
under the old regime. An interesting chronicle of the influence
which alcohol has had on Russian destiny is one of the features of
tomorrow's magazine section.
THE WAR AND LITERATURE Are you thinking of writing the
"great American novel"? If so you will want to know what the
reading public is going to want, and what effect the war will have
upon the desires of the readers. Are we to have a deluge of war
novels such as followed the civil war, or are the people anxious to
forget it all in the delights of fantasie and romance? Five of tfce
leading English authors have contributed their thoughts on this
timely subject for the readers of The Sunday Oregonian.
IDEAL SUMMER MOTOR TRIP Many Oregonians are planning
motor trips during their summer vacations. Such as are well want
the latest information on a route to the Klamath Falls section and
return, recently logged by a party of Portland Elks. The trip out
lined is one of the most wonderful trips possible in Oregon, in
cluding visits to Crater lake and Mount Hood.
THE COMPLETE SUNDAY NEW'SPAPER Important exclusive fea
tures are being published each week in The Sunday Oregonian.
Frank A. Vanderlip's third article on reconstruction problems finds
an important place tomorrow, and to the thousands that have been
following this masterly series no further word need be said. And
do not forget the Sunday colored supplement, enjoyed so by the
kiddies and by the grown-ups.
All the News of All the World.
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.