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THE MORNING OEEGONIAN, TIIURSDAT, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919.
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AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
The American Legion is on a firm
footing in demanding that all foreign
language newspapers print an English
translation in a column parallel with
every article printed in a foreign lan
guage. The effect upon the Immi
grant of ready access to newspapers
printed exclusively in his own lan
guage is antagonistic to Americaniza
tion, whether the publisher wills it so
or not. It encourages the grouping of
nationalities and maintains their per
manence as such. Within them there
becomes no particular use inthe mind
of the colonists for English, for they
can converse with each other and find
reading material 'Without it.
To prohibit wholly the use of a for
eign language In a newspaper, would
probably, as lawyers advised the Port
land post of the Legion, be unconstitu
tional. tNor would it be wholly fair
to the immigrant just arrived or the
older immigrants who acquire a new
language slowly. But parallel col
umns In English will not only arouse
the interest of the alien in the new
tongue but will reveal to society that
which society has a right to know
just what the foreign language news
paper is telling its readers.
The public school is doing its part
to Americanize the second generation,
and Americanization schools have
been provided by private and public
enterprise in various localities for the
benefit of the more enterprising
among the adult aliens. But that col
onies of foreign-born may form and
live wholly unto themselves in this
country for long periods of time was
illustrated during the war period. It
was then proposed in the legislature
that a prerequisite for issuance of a
commercial fishing license should be
full citizenship and it was disclosed
that many fishermen on the river had
been here much longer than necessary
to qualify as to residence requirement
for citizenship but had not acquired
the other necessary qualifications
which only an understanding of the
English language could give them
Some of these men had been in Amer
ica twenty-five years, but still could
not hope to complete immediately
their citizenship.
The man who comes to America ex
pecting to better his condition can
progress only to a limited extent if he
relies solely upon his own language
and customs. The National Safety
Council of Chicago recently prepared
and published twelve excellent reasons
why a foreign-born resident of Amer
ica should learn the English language.
They are:
1. Leam to speak English because then
you will get ahead faster. You have oome
to America to better your condition to earn
a better living. This land offers you bigger
opportunities than any other country in the
wnole worm. -i o make tne most or tnem
you should learn to speak the language of
the Americans.
2. Learn to speak English because you
can get a better Job. How can you expect
your employer to promote you when you
are not able to talk with him in his own
language? Think of your countrymen who
hold the best jobs here. Don't they ail talk
English?
3. Learn to speak English because It will
be easier for your boss to explain what he
wants you to do, and how he wants you
to do it. You can do better work for him.
save his time and save your own time. HQ.
will like you better and be more pleased
with your work.
4. Learn to speak English because you
will be safer from accident. You can read
danger signs and Instructions In safety, and
you can understand your foreman when he
tells you how to do your work safely.
5. Learn to speak English because you
can attend to matters of trade and personal
business with less loss and fewer mistakes.
You will be better able to protect your
self and your family.
6. Learn to speak English because It will
help you to get your first citizenship papers.
It will help you to learn about this wonder
ful country. Its great men and women, how
they worked, fought and died to make it
a land of liberty and Justice: how it grew
with their labors and how great it now is:
also, you can learn our laws, how they are
made, you can understand our politics, and
you csn better Judge how to vote wisely
as a citizen of the United States.
7. Learn English because then you can
read American newspapers, talk every day
with good Americans and know what good
Americans think and do in regard to ques
tions and affairs of our country as well as
of other nations. You can learn to under
stand America and by telling us about your
native land we can learn to understand
you and to appreciate the good which you
bring from your native country.
8. Learn English because you can then
understand for yourself what the govern
ment has to say about labor and about your
place in this land.
9. Iearn English because then you can
be a helper in your city and community.
You can know better how to keep the laws
- and help to urge others to keep them.
10. Learn English because it will open
the way for you to get your second citizen
ship papers.
11. Learn to speak English because, even
If you should go back to the "old country"
later- It will be of benefit to you: it will
help you in your travels and enable you
to take back with you the knowledge of
what America stands for.
12. Learn to speak English because yon
cannot be really Independent in America,
you cannot become a real American until
you speak the language of America.
While directed to the foreigner the
twelve reasons reveal to the thought
f ul why it is to the public interest that
foreigners should be Americanized. It
is to the public's interest that every
resident should better himself, add to
the productiveness of the country to
the maximum of his capacity, learn
the laws that he may not transgress
them, and imbibe American ideals and
thereby become a patriot. Had there
been a better encouragement to study
English and understand American in
stitutions in the northwest there would
have been less of that despicable form
of slackerism which manifested itself
during the war in numerous sur
renders of first papers by aliens.
The foreign language newspaper
alienates the foreigner not always by
the nature of its comments but by of
fering him no encouragement, no
precept. There is need that it be im
pressed upon these newspapers that
their duty does not end with providing
a mere convenience for him.
HIGH SPEED AND POOR DRIVING.
The central thought of the hospit
able people of Portland in taking
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson
over the Columbia River highway was
of course to interest and entertain
them. The visiting newspaper men,
who were also the guests of Portland
on the journey, were asked to go along
with the same laudable purpose. If
there was any incidental plan thus to
advertise the beauties and wonders of
the' highway to the world, it may be
feared that it was not a success, owing
to the tragic accident on the return
trip. It is perhaps not relevant or
useful to point out that the mishap
which led to two deaths, one of them
of a reporter, and to the injury of
three reporters, was not on the high
way, but on an approaching road.
The newspaper correspondents as a
group are said to feel that the high
way was not properly policed. Prob
ably it was as well protected as it
could be. It was certain that it would
be thronged with sightseers in and
out of motor cars, and it was also cer
tain that they would have to be regu
lated. They were regulated; but mis
takes occur. The presidential part's,
in going on the highway, understood
the situation. It is the same every
where. The president is of course
abroad to be seen as well as heard. It
is the public's privilege and there is,
and cui be, no notion of denying it.
The tragedy was sad, enough; but
the thought in all minds is of thank
fulness that the president and Mrs.
Wilson were not the victims. It is
felt that they might have been. Yet
the danger to them was slight. They
were in one of the first cars, and the
road before them was everywhere
made clear by motorcycles and a pilot
automobile. The trouble occurred
through the fact that there was a long
procession, and some of the cars fell
behind. In trying to catch up, a col
lision occurred with an intruder who
supposed the show was over.
It may fairly be asked, however.
without directing criticism toward
anyone, if it is wise to rush the presi
dent of the United States from place
to place at high speed in a motor car?
A limit of twenty-five miles per hour
was fixed for the highway trip, but it
was exceeded, so it is said, under the
direct orders of the secret service
guard, who wanted to deliver the pres
ident back on schedule time. Whether
that is so or not, there was no in
hibition on high speed, and the duty of
safeguarding the president was theirs.
The lesson is a valuable one, though
costly. It will show the whole coun
try that the first duty of every com
munity, anxious though it may be to
show its attractions to a president, is
to keep him safe. Its other duty is to
do all it can at all times to keep all
others safe. High speed and poor
driving lead every day to disaster.
HOW TO RATIFY THE TREATY.
A correspondent who has made the
disconcerting discovery that there is
no overwhelming sentiment in favor
of any league of nations" and that
there is decided hostility among the
common people to the league covenant
presented for ratification by Presi
dent Wilson," likewise makes the fol
lowing revealing observations:
Fresident Wilson negotiated the treaty J
In an unconstitutional manner, without tho
advice and consent of the senate, and when
tne senate oDjected he characterized his op
ponents "whose heads were only knots to
keep them from unraveling, men of pigmy
minds." He is deeply resentful when the
senators pay him back In his own coin. If
he had stayed In Washington and met the
senate in a spirit of conciliation, conceding
a few reservations and interpretations, he
doubtless could have secured the ratifica
tion of both the treaty and the league cove
nant, but every day he travels over the coun
try lessens the chance for such ratification.
Clearly, if President Wilson nego
tiated the treaty in an unconstitutional
manner, it should be easy to show that
the treaty is unconstitutional. Why
do not the constitutional lawyers from
every walk of life, who are putting
their own interpretations on the mean
ingful and explicit clause "by and with
the advice and consent of the senate"
save the day by appeal to the courts?
If they are right, those . faithful
.judicial guardians of the cpnstitution
will make short work of the treaty.
Or will they?
But we are not so much interested
in trying to trace the course of water
that has passed through the mill as
in learning how to ratify the treaty.
Not all the wise men who know are
willing to tell. Here is a citizen who
says that the president is primarily
responsible for the apparent impasse
between him and the senate. and who
thinks that the whole controversy-
might be settled if he will concede "a
few reservations and interpretations.
We agree with him entirely. That is
the clear way through a tangled sit
uation. But what interpretations and
reservations? If the senate could
agree on them, the president would
nave no alternative but to accept
them.
The senate foreign relations com
mlttee has submitted some forty-five
textual changes and four amendments.
They appear to be the cumulative re
sult of the outgivings of a protesting
group that is not in harmony as to
what it wants, only as to what it does
not want. Senator Johnson wants no
league and Senator Borah wants no
league, yet they have a plan of amend
ing the proposed covenant. They have
joined hands with Senator Lodge in
the idea, no doubt, that the commit
tee amendments will amend the thing
to death. Senator Lodge wants amend
ments with teeth. Senator Fall wants
something drastic done, and Senator
Brandegee is disgusted with anything
and everything that comes from the
White House. Senator Reed is, as
usual, against anything any one else
is for; and is flocking pretty much by
himself.
The entire thought of the
majority of the committee is obstruc
tion, not construction.
The moderate reservatlonlsts, among
whom are Senator McNary, want to
save the league and to save America
In the league. There are democrats
who sympathize with them, and a
few like Simmons who are outspoken
for some such plan. Senator Hitch
cock and the stand-pat democrats do
not want any profane hands laid on
the covenant; yet they appear to be
looking anxiously for word from the
president which will permit them to
escape from an attitude which spells
defeat for the treaty.
But through the entire muddle, the
fact that stands out clearly is that
the opposition to ratification is largely
personal and partly political, and
could have been satisfied entirely by a
conciliatory and diplomatic attitude on
the part of President Wilson. This
Is an idea that pervades the letter of
The Oregonian's correspondent, and
with it and with him In that particu
lar The Oregonian has no quarrel. The
senate acting through a majority, is
inspired by a desire to assert its con
stitutional prerogative to be consulted;
and it has not been consulted not in
the right way nor at the right time.
It is unfortunate that the merits of the
pact are subordinated and even ob
scured in a controversy of that kind.
But, men being men, it is so, and it
need not have been so.
MORE WORK THE ONE REMEDY.
While urban labor in the factory
demands more wages for fewer hours
and does less work in each hour than
before, rural labor represented by the
farmers' demands that it do more work
and work longer hours, -and protests
against the call to farmers to "labor
long hours at inadequate pay in order
that another class may have shorter
oours ana nigner wages. me
statement . is from the New York
state grange, which goes on to say
that "no laboring man of the city
should find fault if he (the farmer)
applies the same rule that his city
brother has taught him." Men who
demand a higher wage, "although
their labor does not earn it," are de
nounced as "dishonest profiteers" and
the city laborer is challenged to a
cost accounting "that all the world
may see who earns his wage."
That is the answer of the food pro
ducer to the outcry of the city laborer
against the high cost of living. It is
in essence: "Do more work, earn all
the dollars you receive and you will
get more food for them." It reduces
the cost of living to the simple propo
sition that the city and the country
produce commodities to exchange for
the products of each other. The less
the city produces, the less it will get
of the food which the farm produces.
Once more it reminds that "Work
more" is the cure for a disease which
many try to cure by working less.
It is another angle of the world
wide complaint that production is de
ficient, and of-the demand that all in
crease production by doing more work.
When men strike for higher wages to
meet the rising cost of living, they do
feat their own end, for they restrict
production ana thereby force prices
higher. That truth was expressed by
Mr. Roberts, the British food con
troller, when he said at a meeting of
striking Yorkshire coal miners:
Without Increased production we 'Shall
never get rid of the burden of high prices.
Miners and other workers exercise a more
potent Influence on food prices than I do.
What better can he do than see that
everybody gets a share of the available
food supply proportioned to the
amount each man earns? If the miner
digs no coal, he earns no food, he
makes coal more scarce and therefore
dearer, so that each other man must
burn less coal or will have less money
to pay for food. We come right back
to tne DiDiicai injunction: If any
would not work, neither should he
eat."
The rival remedy fewer hours and
less work has been carried to its
logical conclusion in Russia, where, as
Herbert Hoover says, the philosophy
of the Lenines and Trotzkys is de
stroying itself "in the extraordinary
lowering of productivity" and where
socialism has demonstrated its fallacy
and "wrecked itself on the rock of
production."
That there are serious defects in
our industrial system no thinking man
will deny, but less work will not cure
them nor will seizure of the means of
production and their transfer to the
workers, as the I. W. W. propose and
as the bolshevists have done. So-
Cialism, of which bolshevism is the
extreme, is a uerman tneory tried on
Russia by way of experiment. Its re
sults have been so disastrous that we
should strive to get as far away from
it as possible without departing from
the rule that to each man should be
given all that he earns In the shape of
goods produced, not of time consumed
We need a solution for our problem.
but, to quote Mr. Hoover again, "this
solution must be found by Americans
In a practical American way, based
upon American ideas, on American
philosophy of. life."
THE SUPERSTITION OF THE EQCINOX.
Of the same nature as the notion
that rain on Easter presages rain on
seven succeeding Sundays, that i
stormy St. Swlthln's day is the fore
runner of forty days of bad weather
and that lumber will become worm-
eaten if made from a tree felled in tlys
rs or. tne moon is tne somewhat
widely held belief that storms always
occur at the time of the autumn
equinox. The autumn equinox oc
ours on September 22 or 23. It falls
this year on the 23d,- at 7:26
P. M., Pacific summer time. It may
or not this season be coincident with
stormy weather, which can reason
ably be expected to occur in some part
or tne world about this time. If this
does occur It will be no more than a
coincidence, furnishing no scientific
iounaation for the superstition to
which we have referred.
The equinox Js simply the time, as
Weather Observer Wells would take
delight in explaining to the layman.
when the sun stands directly over the
equator and day and night are of
equal length over the entire earth
It is an astronomical term and is not
connected with weather changes, as
these changes occur as a result of the
march of the seasons. The neces
sary setting in of sudden storms at or
about the date of the equinox exists
only in the imagination. There is as
a matter of fact no more reason for
expecting a storm on the date of the
equinox than on any other date in
autumn.
This is the modern scientific view,
confirmed by elaborate collections o
data on the subject. Professor W. I
Milham, of Williams college, autho
of a leading text book on meteorologv
referring especially to the autumn
equinox, says:
The widespread belief In the existence of
an equinoctial storm snd Indian summe
comes, to a certain extent, under rh hu
Popular superstitions. . . . The amoun
of precipitation near the 21st has been shown
Dy averairin the observations to be no
Greater than before or after that date.
A few years ago H. J. Cox and J. H.
Armlngton, of the United States
weather bureau, published a compre
hensive treatise on the weather and
cilmate of Chicago, in which they
made the following statement:
The tables appear to furnish an Interest
ins; and conclusive disproval of the belief,
somewhat widely held, that storms are
much more frequent during- and immediately
after the time of the equinoxes. The avsr
aire occurrence on each date of the five
day Intervals from March 21 to March 23.
and from September 21 to 23, 13.6 and 11.2.
respectively, are In each case lower and in
March considerably lower than the average
occurrence for the months in which ths
periods afall.
The records of the Portland weather
office bear out with peculiar force the
conclusion that the equinoctial storm
is only a figment of fancy. There are
records for forty-seven years covering
the autumn equinox, which show that
in all that time rain has fallen on Sep
tember 22 twelve times, which is to
say that 26 per cent of all the days
recorded were more or less rainy, al
though in many cases rainfall was too
light to interfere with any outdoor
occupation. For September 23 the
record is sixteen times in forty-seven
years, or 34 per cent. For the entire
month of September 27 per cent of
the days have had .01 of an inch or
more of rain; for October 42 per cent:
for November 57 per cent. The prob
ability of rain, in other words, is much
greater in any part of October than
it is on the date of the equinox, while
in November the probability that rain
will occur is about twice as great as
on the date of the equinox.
It is true that rain usually falls
somewhere in the United States on the
equinoctial date, but the same is true
of any other day of the year, and it is
particularly true when observations
are extended over a wide area. Ship
captains, who probably have done
more than any other class to per
petuate the equinoctial superstition,
are storm-watchers in the nature of
their vocation. Fine days are no more
eventful at sea than virtue is news.
The habit of generalizing from insuf
ficient data here is strengthened by
the fact that the record of storm' at
tracts attention, while the reverse
passes unnoticed into history. The
records show that rainfall does not
occur over a wider area on September
2 or 23 than on any other day of the
year. On September 23, 1917, lor il
lustration, of the seventy-nine places
reporting to Portland by telegraph,
fifty-three had no rainfall. On the
corresponding date in 1918, forty-
ight places out of sixty-nine were
without rainfall, and from the plains
states eastward to the middle and
south Atlantic coast and southward to
the gulf of Mexico the day was en
tirely fair.
The equinox, as has been said, is an
Itogether astronomical affair. Be
lief in its influence on the weather is
a relic of the mode of thought, if not
of the entire lack of scientific infor
mation, of the ancients who put an
maginary band around the celestial
phere, divided it into twelve arbi
trary sectors and named each after an
animal, from which we derived our
conception of the zodiac, a word which
any high school student will recognize
from its resemblance to' "zoology."
Tho cow-jumped-over-the-moon scien
tists of our forefathers time also
thought that the weather could change
only with the "changes" of the moon.
We can still remember folks who
weaned their babies and planted their
corn, beans and potatoes according to
those same moon "changes." It used
o be quite generally thought that If
the new moon was Inclined at such an
angle that it would "spill" the rain
the entire week would be wet. It took
a good many years of careful weather
observation to dispel this illusion.
which still persists in bourbon quar
ters. People who know that the moon
is some four thousand times as far
away as the most distant rain cloud
still cling with fatalistic obstinacy to
the old idea. St. Swithin furnished
another subject for superstitious gos
sip nine centuries or more ago, when,
so the legend runs, plans to exhume
his body and bury it in consecrated
ground were delayed by violent rains
which continued without intermission
for forty days. The "current belief
that if it rains on July 15 it will rain
for forty days thereafter never has
been justified by the weather records
In Oregon, but it would take some
thing more than forty-seven years of
weather statistics to confound some of
the old-school prophets.
The figures have pretty well ex
ploded the equinoctial superstition
along with a number of Its companion
bits of goosebone lore. But we sup
pose tholf It happens to rain on Sep
tember 23, this year, there still will be
men who will rise and say that this is
confirmation of their theory. It is
hard to catch up with a weather su
perstition, no matter how we try.
If every man is to be permitted to
make "non-Intoxicating" light wine
and cider In his own house, as pro
posed by the senate, who is to deter
mine whether it Is intoxicating? The
next thing we may expect ls a corps
of official tasters for the Internal rev
enue to go from house to house tast
ing the home brew to discover how
many tastes intoxicate.
In the conflict that is coming be
tween Judge Gary and 150,000 steel
workers. Judge Gary will be one stub
born man against an army that will
divide Itself as the struggle extends
over weeks. Blood may be shed and
the country put In turmoil and the
cause of neither side be satisfied when
all Is over. Then will be time to ask:
What's the good In it all?
With a deficit of over $3,000,000,000
In prospect, we are likely to have an
other bond issue, and a name will be
wanted for it. To name it the Deficit
loan would be to condemn it in ad
vance. High cost of government would
be correct ' but clumsy. Secretary
Glass should offer a prize for the best
suggestion.
There is some cheer for sufferers
from the high cost they may deduct
taxes on ice cream, movies, railroad
tickets, silk stockings and other lux
uries that are now enjoyed chiefly by
shipbuilders, but what a vast amount
of petty book-keeping It will entail to
the conscientious man.
In the eyes of B0 per cent of man
kind, the job of policeman is "a snap"
which it is not. by the way and
there are hundreds and thousands
ready to understudy the part. There
fore a policeman should not strike.
The house has passed a bill and sent
it to the senate that will make stealing
an automobile a federal rather than a
state crime in certain cases. It s a
brazen thief who would butt into a
federal court
The firm attitude of. the mayor of
Boston, backed by the governor, has
put a damper on the strike mania.
Firmness and coolness are quick and
effective cures for hysteria.
Good Idea that, to reissue the old
2-cent coin, and, better yet, to have
Roosevelt on It. The half-cent, too,
would be handy.
A dozen years hence all of us may
be telling how we met Roosevelt in
1919. It will be good telling, too.
The bobtail car has an advantage in
time of holdup. The "one man" can
lock himself In and skip away.
Australia, pre-eminently "labor,"
rejects the "one big union" Idea.
A strike must be won inside forty
eight hours or it's a struck out.
The cordage company decides
give Its employes more rope.
to
Gresham luck, of course, but go out
to the fair anyway.
Those Who Come and Go.
There is a shortage of accommoda
tions at the Oregon Agricultural col
lege. There will be about 2600 students,
whereas normally there are about
1600." ays R M. Kickard of Corvailis.
"At least 00 families came to Corvailis
recently and left because they could
not find a place to stay. They wanted
to live In the town while the children
attend the school. There is a scarcity
of carpenters and the wage is $10. a
day. From 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock at
night we some carpenters and myself
work on the old barracks, trying to
put the building in shape for the stu
dents. The carpenters are at work
building a big garage for me, and they
do the work for the state in the even
ing. There has never been anything
like It in Corvailis in the way of stu
dents and scarcity of houses and ac
commodations. It is a difficult prob
lem to solve. Although school will not
open for some time, 30 students arrived
in Corvailis Tuesday to scout around
for rooms." Mr. Rickard Ls at the Im
perial, i
"There were some queer people
arourd the hotel when the president
was here," states J. J. O'Brien, Hotel
Portland clerk. "One man asked that
his card be sent to Mrs. Wilson. It
was one of those cards written by card
writers on the sidewalk, full of curves
and ornate lines. He explained that
he was a friend of a man who had
been an Intimate friend of Mrs. Wil
son's first husband and he thought she
might like to talk about her first hus
band with him. I was standing at the
1 amhill-street entrance with a police
man to identify patrons of the hotel
when a woman across the street
climbed over the ropes, came across
the street and walked up the steps to
me. She said: I want you to go right
npstalrs and tell Mr. Wilson to go to
the second window and stand there.
There are a few of us here who would
like to get a good look at him.' Can
you beat it?"
Not all the thrills are on the seas,
battling waves or hunting enemy ships,
ls the conclusion of Lieutenant-Com
mander Wells, who ls with the Pacific
fleet. The naval officer and his wife
went to Walla Walla to view Frontier
Days, and saw the' wild and untamed
buckaroos and the rough and ready
sports of the cattle country. The lieu
tenant-commander and his wife wi3hed
to view the Round-Up. but it was nec-
etssry for him to leave for San Fran
cisco last night. They were accom
panied by Mrs. Miller, wife of a lieu
tenant with the fleet. The party were
registered at the Multnomah.
Joseph G. Richardson, who is the
right-hand man of Olaf Hoff In run
ning the state treasury, registered at
tne Hotel Oregon yesterday. Mr. Rich
ardson returned a few days ago from
Gold Beach, Curry county, where he
was a witness for the defense in the
case of George Chenoweth. During the
recent legislature, when Richardson
was a member of the Multnomah dele
gation, Chenoweth was a silent member
for Curry, having been appointed to
fill the place of the regular Curry
county representative, who died of in
fluenza while on his way to Salem.
Mr. Chenoweth is charged with murder
and his defense is insanity due to shell
shock.
Captain Edward E. Hall, once upon
a time a member of the Multnomah
football team say about 20 years
ago passed through Portland yster
day. He was on his way from Camp
Lewis to the United States general
hospital at Denver. The captain, who
is in the engineers, by the way. ls in
the educational service of the physical
reconstruction division of the army, the
province of this division being the
building up physically and educational
ly of injured soldiers. Captain Hall is
a native Oregonian. for he was born
and reared in Portland, but left for
other pastures 15 years ago.
People in Ontario, Or., are preparing
to have the town paved. There will
be about 40 blocks hard-surfaced and
these hard-surfaced streets will be con
nected with tte Snake river bridge by
m paved road, this latter supplied by
the state highway commission. K. M.
Grey of Ontario is among the arrivals
at the Imperial.
Two members of the United States
circuit court registered at the Hotel
Portland yesterday. One was Judge
William H. Hunt, who presided at some
of the famous land fraud trials in Port
land more than ten years ago. and
the other was Judge William W. Mor
row. The latter is accompanied by his
wife. The jurists have finished hold
ing court In Seattle and will convene
court In Portland next Monday morn
ing. With them is Paul P. O'Brien,
deputy clerk. All are residents of
San Francisco.
A railroad for logging purposes ls
now being constructed from Idaville,
in Tillamook county, toward the Trask
river. The yards will .be at Idaville,
which Is not far from Bay City. The
road will run up the Kilchas a few
miles. This enterprise is being con
ducted by the Whitney Lumber com
pany. Frank Rajotte of Rajotte. Fobert
& Winter, who are building the road,
was at the Hotel Oregon yesterday.
To have a good time In Portland and
put in circulation some of the good
money they received for this year's
crop, a party of Walla Walla farmers
have arrived at the Hotel Washing
ton. They are Mr. and Mrs. Compton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A Compton. Harold and
Ralph Nlbler. They motored down
from the inland empire in two days and
report the roads in excellent condition.
To have some ore assayed. W. A.
Alcorn of Brlghtwood, up near Mount
Hood, was in town yesterday and was
at the Imperial. The ore comes from a
prospect on Wolf creek. In southern
Oregon. The prospect has been cross
sectioned and a body of ore. which
appears to be very good to the naked
eye, has been uncovered.
For a honeymoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Martin arrived at tne Multnomah yes
terday from Seattle. For years Mr.
Mirtin has been connected with the
Grant Smith company and as a sort
of escort for the bridal couple Grant
Smith and H. H. Hunt came from Puget
sound with them.
John H. Lewis, for years state engl
neer. but now connected with the big
irrigation project near Vale, Mainour
county, is at the Imperial. This project
is one of the largest now under way
in Oregon and some of the land will be
under water in the spring.
Mrs. J. Henry Booth of Roseburg. ac
companied by her son Edwin, is at the
Imperial. Mr. Booth, who was formerly
a member of the state fair board, is a
Roseburg banker and owns some of
the finest prune orchards in Douglas
county.
Sam Lebenthal. a pioneer produce
merchant of Astoria, has arrived at the
Hotel Washington with his wife. Mr.
Lebenthal has recently purchased the
Charles R. Levy commission house on
Front street.
A legal adviser for the fleet corpora
tion, W. R. DeField of Philadelphia,
arrived at the Multnomah. He is here
to confer with the material heads for
the fleet corporation in this district.
C. Y. Tengwald, chief clerk of the
Holland .hotel art Medford, Is at the
Multnomah. He ls a service man and is
here as a delegate to the American
Legion convention.
As a delegate to the American Legion,
V. R. Abraham of Hood River arrived
at the Benson yesterday.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Mostsgne.
WILD BEASTS.
You never would dream that a Hon
With a collar of whiskery hair
And a mouth full of teeth lies in hiding
beneath
That plush-covered library chair;
Nor yet that a great anaconda.
ls coiled in the velvety gloom
All ready to spring on the first living
thing
That tries to get out of the room
You'd never suppose that a leopard
W hose morals are black to the core
Is lying in wait, both eyes blazing hate.
Right out by the dining room door.
You'd hardly believe that a grizzly
Who'll eat up a boy at a bite
Is watching upstairs for the young-
. ster who dares
To venture up there in the night
You wouldn't suspect that a cobra
who is nearly eleven feet tall
And has fangs like a spear, has been
hovering near.
In fact by the clock in the hall.
Nor think that a horrid hyena
Is crouching right there in the grate
With a death-dealing paw and a long,
hungry jaw.
Just yearning to settle your fate
And yet they are all in the shadows
And will bite the first person to stir:
I well am aware that the whole tribe
are there.
For a little boy told me they were.
And that, without doubt. Is the reason
That he stubbornly shakes his small
head
And whispers: "Come too!" when the
sandman is due
And it's time to be tucked into bed!
Ns One Else Cans See Half mo Well.
Attorney-General Palmer can see the
dawn of lower prices and the rest of
us would like to know the name of his
oculist.
The Bis; Event lias llres Settled.
It looks as if Belgium and Holland
might light a little bout for the light
weight championship.
Not Eves osi Soap Boxes.
The problems of the nation maybe
settled, but they won't be settled in
grocery stores or the smoking rooms
of Pullman cars.
(Copyright, 1H, The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS IMPRESSIVE
Writer Finds Mr. W ilson's Quel, Force
ful Lottie Irresistible.
PORTLAND, Sept. 16. (To the Ed
itor.) 1 have listened to the eloquence
of Mark Hanna; I have heard the parti
san appeal of David B. Hill; I have felt
the spell of Williams Jennings Bryan;
I have been- intluenced by the dynamic
sincerity of Theodore Roosevelt; 1 have
been present at many other occasions
where matters of great moment were
being argued by men of splendid at
tainment, but never have 1 witnessed
a similar testing of such dramatic ap
peal as that at the municipal audiio
roum. in which President Woodrow
Wilson was the central figure. The
prolonged cheers upon his appearance,
their unquestioned sincerity, their gra
cious and modest reception by the pres
ident, were all conclusive of the unani
mous respect of the 7000 Individuals
present for a truly great man.
During the president speech never
did he raise his voice in heat of passion
or anger; never were his gestures other
than dignified; never were his epithets
vituperative; never did he refer to his
traducers in any way that was bitter;
never was there the slightest .sugges
tion of the demagogue; but the tremen
dous force of his quiet logic, the su
preme magnetism of his intellect, his"
keen sense of responsibility and of a
duty to perform were irresistible.
His presentation of the idea and pur
poses of the league of nations, which
was the product of the representative
minds of all the great nations of the
world, his earnest appeal that a colos-
Bai effort to reduce the chances of t
ture wars was embodied therein and
tnat a sense or that great purpose
should supplant all wrangling over ad
mitted question as to proper phrase
ology and minor faults; his exposition
of the impracticability of revision of
the proffered league to any better re
suit, were a masterpiece In their effect
upon that great audience of diversitied
citizonry. And where it is incumbent
upon the people of a democracy to de
pend largely upon their faith in the
brains, honor and patriotism of those
in whim they entrust matters of great
national interest, is not the vision and
ppeal to our sense of duty as well as
to our sense of right in world affairs
which come from such a man to be pre
ferred to the narrow and mistaken pa
triotism of those who would jeopardize
one or the noblest efforts of man?
CHARLES S. HOLBKOOK.
SOSO OF THE DESERT.
Sing of the desert drear.
Of the sage in its wide domain.
Of the stretch of the year to the year
in tne land of little rain.
Sing of the glowing sun
And the shadows short in the dust.
Of the sun and the sun and the sun-
Everywhere in his lust.
Sing of the endless ure
Whleh sticks to the edge of the blue,
And the torrid sun in his rage
As he tries to conquer you.
Of the dust that lies at your feet
And afar on the boundless plain.
Where the brush and horizon meet.
They meet but their meeting is vain.
And sing of the desert at night.
When the starlight has vanished the
heat.
And your eyes are relieved of the light.
And the silence is cool and sweet.
And the stars In their infinite blue
Breathe a silence and sweetness pro
found. Bringing love of this desert to you
Deep love of Its vastness profound.
Yes. sing of the desert so drear.
With its limits against the blue
In its silence there is a cheer
And a pledge for the just and the
true.
M. A. YOTHERS. Medford.
"Seven Seas'' Identified.
GRESHAM. Or., Sept. 16. (To the
Editor.) The seven seas. Who ls the
originator of this phrase? When, where.
under what circumstances was the
phrase coined? Kindly name the seven.
CHARLES S. WYET1L
"The Seven Seas" was the name given
In ancient times to extensive lagoons
of salt water existing on both sides
of the delta of the River Po, in north
ern Italy, where It flows Into the
Adriatic. Venice is situated In one of
these lagoons, which were once much
more extensive than at present and
afforded a continuous means of in
ternal navigation.
German Cities Tarn Out Crowds.
MARSHF1ELD. Or., Sept. 16. (To
the Editor.) I noticed that Senators
Borah (Bhould be spelled Bore, for he
is one.) and Johnson picked out the
cities to visit that are full of Germans.
St. Louis, for instance, is almost 75
per cent German.
It does look like these fellows are
being paid by the Germans to do the
act they are doing in this grandstand
play.
I am a daily reader of The Oregonian
and appreciate many of your late edi
torials, and yesterday's cartoon is
grand. S. C. GUTHRIE.
In Other Day.
Twenty-nve Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of September IS. 1S94.
St. Johns. X. F. Engineer Peary,
thouBh disappointed with results of his
expedition at the time the relief party
left, thinks prospects of success quite
bright.
James D. Taylor, captured yesterday
in a lumber camp in Washington coun
ty, is charged with having murdered
Louis Rehart 1 years ago near Waco,
Tex.
The Port of Portland commission has
asked, the Bowers Dredging company
to submit a bid for cutting a channel
20 feet deep across the Swan island
bar.
Salem. The 34th annual state fair
opened auspiciously here yesterday.
Fifty Yean Ako.
From The Oresonlan of September IS. 1S69.
Washington. The national revenue
for distilling Fpirits the last fiscal year
is given as $43,800,000 and the revenue
received from tobacco in all forms as
$22,200,000.
A number of men are engaged in get
ting out rock near Oregon City for
piers of the railroad bridge to be built
across the Clackamas.
The foundations are laid for a new
parsonage to be built beside the M. E.
church of East Portland.
The old Taylor-street M. E. church
on Second street, "a landmark in the
city, is to be squared around and con
verted into two business houses.
My Tiny Chart.
By Grace E. Hall.
This little span of life which is my part.
And has been mine throughout the
countless years.
Was given me to fashion, as a chart
ls outlined with the orayon. All my
tears
Are rivulets that creep out towards the
sea.
Where all the woes of earth a voice
assume.
And chant a requiem softly, ceaselessly.
While white waves wash the wet
wall of their tomb.
This little span of life! How brief it
seems.
How swiftly filled with fancies, facts
and dreams!
The crayon moves with such an undue
speed
'Tis hard to give the outline proper
heed.
But never shall another mar nor blot
My own small chart! 'Tis but a tiny
spot
Upon life's map. but I its lines can
trace
With strokes that time Itself shall
not erase.
LACK OF RESPECT IS REPORTED
Flag and National Air Are Ignored Tky
One of Reception Committee.
KELSO. Wash.. Sept. 16. (To the
Editor.) As a rule what kind of men
act on a. reception committee? I was
a spectator on the curb near the depot
when our president started on his tour
of Portland and vicinity. Right in
front of me was an automobile, a Buick.
This was apparently driven by a hired
chauffeur.
When the band played "The Star-
Spangled Banner" the chauffeur uncov
ered. As far as 1 could see every other
person in the reception cars stood and
uncovered. The man in the Buick sal
solid, remained covered and quietly
smoked a cigar.
When the colors went past evcrvone
uncovered, police and army men came
to attention, but the man in the Buick
smoked on and remained covered.
When the president passed everyons
uncovered save the purple-ribboned,
man In the Buick and he smoked on.
On each occasion the chauffeur un
covered. Because of this neglect on
the part of a member of the reception
committee there was no end of com-
ment by people on the curb. Some lit
tle children remarked about it.
If we wish our children to show re
spect to tho Hag and country let us
appoint members to the future recep
tion committees that will set the ex
ample. EX-ARMY OFFICER.
SIRVIVAL
(Dedicated to the Oregon Rose.)
Nature. In a spirit of fair play.
Stuck in the earth a rose, one day.
And hade It win renown
Flora and Faum among; each on the
way,
A year, a month, a week, perchance a
d n y .
From germ to normal life, and the
docajr.
The staunch-grown stock of irils
weed
The product of a rank-grown seed
Made laughter, loud and long.
That such a weakling brushlet dare
compete.
And in its lowly state elect to meew
With rohu.i growth of weed ol
strength replete.
'Twas Fauna, then, that by chance did
look
At modest flowinsr. shady nook.
And dully smiled contempt
For all the Flora of this worldlj
sphere
With seeming mission but for mourner's
bier
That dare to grow and sweetly breaths
a cheer.
Then Time, the hoary keeper of earth's
lot.
A student of great nature's products
w.uKht.
A head submissive bent.
The m uld of Fauna did but mulch the
ground.
While shriveled weed sent forth a
death-like sound.
Nature, t-miling. of buds and blooms
a garland wound.
C. J. HOWARD.
Gardiner, Or.
Atrhlsoa Globe Sights.
The lazier the workman the more he
talks about the unrest.
An Atchison nut is peculiar. He does
all his worrying about other people's
business.
It used to be when a man got a good
job he felt grateful; now he feels he
is doing his employer a favor to work
for him.
Elder Burbank The shortsighted
business man tells his men to get the
people's money. A longsighted busi
ness man tells his help to get the peo
ple's confidence.
Replacements In Siberia.
UNDERWOOD. Wash.. Sept. 16. (To
the Editor.) Could you tell me If the
headquarters company of the 27th In
fantry. C. E. F.. Siberia, has returned
or been listed for return?
UNDERWOOD.
General announcements to the effect
that forces which have served In Si
beria are being replaced have been
made, but as to the progress of replace
ments we do not have definite informa
tion. Mines In North Sen.
MAUPIX. Or.. Sept. 16. (To the Ed
itor.) Can you tell me if the North
sea is yet cleared of mines. If so, will
the American mine-sweeper be returned
home or will they be transferred to an
other field of operations? READER.
Authoritative answer to your ques
tions could be given only by the navy
department at Washington.