THE MORNING OR EG ONI AN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919.
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THE ALTERNATIVE.
The French authority quoted by
Lincoln Eyre la a dispatch from
Taris is probably more or less cor
rect in his prediction that if the
United States rejects the league cov
enant now it will apply for admission
to the lea cue within a year. The
time mentioned may be under
estimated but the purposes of the
league, if It ever becomes a power
ful and efficient organization, make
it distinctly unpleasant to be an out
sider. The league of nations is at once an
arbitral body and an offensive and
defensive alliance, with the inter
actional boycott as its primary of
fensive weapon and armed force a
possibility. It not only binds its
members to submit their disputes to
arbitration but it declares that any
cispute between a non-member and a
member or any dispute between two
non-members is a matter of concern
to the league.
Any non-member in dispute with
another nation will, by the terms of
Article XVII. be invited to accept
the obligations of the league for the
purposes of the dispute. If it de
clines and resorts to war against a
member of the league it ipso facto
commits an act of war against every
other member of the league. Is sub
jected to severance of ail trade and
financial relations and the council
mav recommend the exercise of
armed force against it. If two non
members are in dpute and reject
the imitation to accept temporarily
the obligations of membership the
council may take such measures and
make such recommendations as wili
result In settlement of the dispute.
If. to use a familiar illustration,
the I'nited States and Japan should
become involved In a dispute over
immigration and that dispute threat
ened a rupture between the two na
tions and the I'nited States were not
a member of the league, the league
would Invite it to become tempor
f rily a member of the league for the
purposes of the dispute. If the
I'ni'fd States declined and resorted
to war against Japan it would at
once be boycotted commercially and
financially by all the nations in the
league! If it accepted the invitation
the council would have authority to
modify the provisions of certain arti
cles and one of those provision is the
denial of the right of the council to
consider matters of domestic Juris
diction. Thus might we have the
alternative of arbitrating a foreign
objection to a domestic policy or
fighting the world in defense of it.
Put if the I'nited States were a
permanent member of the league
and the same dispute arose with
Japan the provision of Article XV
niHclaiming league jurisdiction over
disputes founded on domestic policies
would not be subject to modification.
Numerous dangers that we might
face, if a member of the league of
nations, have been dwelt upon with
out length, but let it also be under
stood that there are dangers to be
faced if we remain out of it. As a
permanent member of the league
and a member of the council, the
I'nited States could use its influence
to amend the covenant wherein it is
deemed detrimental to Its interests.
As a member of the council it could
perpetually veto any effort to abro
gate the recognition by the covenant
of the Monroe doctrine. If the
I'nited States were not a member of
the lague the way would be open
for the assembly to eliminate that
recognition and the United States
could not then even launch an expe
; tiition against Mexican bandits wlth
' out subjecting, itself to a world boy
cott, if Mexico objected and had
meanwhile beim admitted to the
league. As an outsider the United
States could indulge in no interna-
. tional dispute or embroglio without
been rated by some educators' rul
as being below the pedagogical
standard of the present time. Th
fact is that, so avid Is the average
young American for learning, and so
resourceful withal, that it is harj
to keep education from him If th
tare opportunity is afforded. A. gocd
many of our pioneers acquired the
rudiments of a substantial educatioi
in schools taught by instructors who
themselves were hardly more than
boys and girls, and who could not
have "passed" the. examination re
uired before granting a. certificate
The teacher is a good deal; but not
everything, and the American school
ewes more than most people suppose
to the strong1 desire, of pupils to
learn.
This is not to say that the teaching
standard should not be maintained
at the highest possible pitch, but it
is to argue that it is better in the
emergency to open the school with
the best teacher obtainable than to
let it remain closed for want of one
who measures up to a certain finical
standard. Wf are speaking of the
emergency, of course. Meanwhile
the whole problem will have to be
ettacked at its foundation. The rea
son for the teacher shortage is that
other vocations are offering better
opportunities for earning a living.
It will continue until either the
schools bid higher or the competing
trades and professions lose their
pecuniary drawing power. But it
will not be settled by any single
school district. Employing authori
ties generally need to realize that U
Is worth as much to train its chil
dren as to milk Its cows and milki
ers .are now getting considerably
higher wages than the average teach
er in a rural school.
IF THE FARMERS RHOl'LD STRIKE.
A rift between labor unions and
the farmers broadens. The cause is
that the unions incline more and
more to reduce the hours of labor.
while the necessities of the farmer's
calling compel him to work from
sunup to sundown. There is also a
conflict of Interest, for the farmer is
what the labor men call a capitalist,
having money invested in land, live
stock and implements.
Farmers have discovered a griev
ance against urban labor, because
the latter tries to force down the
price of that which farmers produce
food and raw materials for cloth
ing but forces up the price of that
which the farmer consumes by de-
nands for higher wages and shorter
workdays. The effect Is both to re
duce the wages of the farmer's labor
and to reduce the income on his cap
ital. Being both capitalist and work
man, the farmer gets hurt both ways.
As an employer he is also hit. for
high wages in cities force him to
pay more for farm labor.
In Russia when the bolshevists
ceased to produce that which the
farmer wanted to buy and tried to
pay for his grain in worthless paper
money, he refused to sell grain and
refused to produce more than enough
for his own needs. The bolshevists
broke the deadlock by seizing the
pram and killing the farmer. As
the law is still supreme in America
and would prevent such drastic
measures, it Is possible that the
American farmer might take a leaf
out of the Russian farmer's book by
striking against selling food to the
cities until labor worked in the fac
tories for the hours the farmer con
sidered a full day. Jle might have
to dispense with some articles bought
in the city, hut he could live on his
produce, which is more than the city-
workman could do. An interesting
and highly critical situation would
result.
the three-score and ten and there lor documents." Also any officer.
is a hard winter in sight; so, perhaps agent or employe of the licensee
the best thing he can do is to stay that is any person anywhere along
by the radiator and eat and sleep the line from the stockyard to the re
regularly. It is "tough" to content- tailer must "answer correctly under
plate an editor In jail, though most oath ... all questions touching his
people will admit knowing one or knowledge" of the business. If he re
more who ought to be in.
Ql'OTER OR KI ITRE.HSOR.
In discussing an incident connect
ed with Senator Johnson's appear
ance in Portland Mr. Ganoe in a let
ter published today remarks:
fuses or misleads, it is $1000 fine or a
year in jail for him. All information
thus obtained except secret processed
or formulas may be published. Pen
alties for violation of the law, con
sisting mainly in evasion of inspec
tion, are most drastic, each day's
continuance being a separate violar
tion, and the secretary of agricul-
Onre tent of the leajrue have been
aid s-roae exaggerations of its defe-ts. Hire's order suspending or revoking a
For answer thy have quoted the lan- license being final and conclusive
ch.rVe. aaalnst the leaatie". opponent, o Unless the victim appeals to court
far a I he observed, has (one up fur- I This bill would put the entire meat
tn-r tnn their assertion. and pouitry industry of the country-
Mr. Ganoe and others will doubt- lmder the thumb of a subordinate of
less .recall that Senator Johnson de- tne secretary of agriculture and his
voted about twenty minutes or nis subordinates, not .free to make a
evening address to discussion of the move without being dogged bv an
six votes given the British empire in inspector, liable to have their affairs
tne assembly as against one given tne examined at any time and published
unuea Mates: tnat ne attempted to t the world, any person engaged in
remonstrate tnat with its six votes in the industry liable to be fined or im
tne assemmy liritatn couia expect to prisoned if he is not polite to the in
elect one or more of its colonies to Upectois. The packers may find ir
the council and thereby gain a pre- necessary to follow the example of
ponderatlng influence m that body;the Japanese newspapers, which em-
and that he referred to the explana- pioy a jaii editor," whose duty it is
uons or tne president ana otners 0 represent the paper by going to
concerning the harmlessness of the jan whenever it is convicted of libel,
six-to-one vole as mathematical par- Rather than do that they may pre-
adoxes and mental gymnastics. fer to move their business to Argen
Senator Johnson, in Mr. Ganoe s I tina or' Patagonia. They have their
eyes, is, we presume, one of the faults, but these can probably be
quoters of the text of the covenant, i corrected without driving them into
Yet in all the twenty minutes devot- CXile. Though they have offended.
ed to tnis hair-raising infamy ne ail they have established a great indus-
not quote irom tne nrst paragrapn try and we need it.
of Article V of the covenant, which The fact must not be overlooked
imposes the unanimous rule on the that this elaborate system of license
assembly except in specific Instances. 8nd inspection will cost money. A
or disclose to his hearers that Britain pretense may be made of passing the
in spite of its six assembly votes ccst on to the packers by charging
could not gain additional votes in I iicer.se fees, but that should deceive
the council except with the concur, I nobody.- The fees would be added
rence of every other nation repre- to the cost of meat and would be
sented in the assembly, including the paid by the national goat the ulti
United States.
Mr. Johnson as a member of the I KO to Patagonia.
united states senate Is familiar with
he unanimous consent rule applied
n that body in certain instances. He
has himself on many occasions ob-
mate consumer. He is too poor to
Sir William Crookes' conclusion
that there exist in meteorites no
substances which are not more or
served the desire of the great major- hess familiar to terrestrial scientists
ity, sometimes the desire of 95 of the js interesting to those who believe
6 members, defeated by the objec- that our" own earth is a sample of
tions of one senator. On the day after the entire universe, and that by
he appeared in Portland an attempt studying it we shall ultimately ar
eas instituted in the senate to gain riVe at all there is to be known of
unanimous consent to the fixing of the composition of the spheres. He
aate ror a vote on tne snantung finds that in all the metallic mete-
raendment, and that movement was orites the predominating metal is
squelched by the lone objection of iron; that with nickel cobalt is near
Senator France. - iv alwavs found, which corresponds
Knowing from personal observa- with its occurrence on this planet:
Uon the potency of a rule requiring and that they bear a strong scien-
nammous concurrence in a decision tific resemblance, with exceptions
nd knowing also that the covenant which are not significant, to the vol
which he was discussing provided canic rocks of earth. Whether they
for the unanimous rule in the as- come from bodies within our own
sembly. Senator Johnson for twenty I solar system or. from other solar sys-
minutes exaggerated the importance terns, they resemble each other and
i ine six-to-one vote ana aeriaea also the earth itself, leaving us no
hose who quoted the - unanimous reason to suppose that the remotest
rule as indulging in mathematical corners of the universe contain geo-
paratloxes and mental gymnastics, logical secrets which cannot be un-
Is he a real "quoter"?
raveled by examination of the earth
itself.
A NEW ARMY OF INSPECTORS.
One of the common failings of the
American legislator is that, when
ever any flaw in our industrial or
commercial system is discovered, he I
introduces a bill establishing a ma-
I cing called to account bv a combina-
tion of nations in whicA it had no
..influence and in the procedure of
whii-h it had no voice.
If we are to be damned if we join,
which we do not admit, we are to be
doubly damned if we don't provid
ed always that the league becomes
as powerful and efficient as its de
signers Intend.
THE TEACHER SHORTAGE.
The estimate of Dean Sheldon of
the University of Oregon school of
education that out of 4000 schools in
Oregon there are 150 which will
. he unable to open this fall on ac
count of inability to obtain teachers
brirgs home(to this state a problem
that is nation-wide. There are In the
country as a whole positions requir
Irg some 730,000 teachers, and edu
cators believe that there Is a short
age of about 40.000. with an addi
tional 65.0uO who are employed in
the emergency but are rated as "un
fit to teach." Both sets of figures
depict a condition that may easily
become a social tragedy. The pupils
who are doomed to instruction by
"unfit" teachers, and those who
have no school opportunities at all.
are alike to be commiserated, but the
los is not theirs alone. The educa
tion of the children is profoundly a
matter of community concern.
The burden falls most heavily, as
t'sttal. on the smaller districts, the
one-teacher schools. These, with m
school at all. cannot even make shift
to open the doors and trust the pu
pils to get along as best they may
with something short of the custom
ary supervision. Nor-is it a matter
of so great moment that a certain
percentage of the teaching staff has
Jt STK E TO A rSErTI. BRAMBLE.
We share the concern of the cor
respondent who in a letter printed in
another column on this page sug
gests that measures be taken to cre
ate an immemorial record in justice
to the evergreen blackberry, once a
despised bramble, now one of the
most fruitful of all the food plants
of Oregon. ' . Horticultural history is
strangely inadequate on the subject
Most of the standard works, like
those of Bailey, omit the name al
together. Professor E. J. Wlckson,
or the University of California, men
tions it as the "Oregon evergreen,"
which he says "has advanced great
ly in favor in recent years," but "is
not a native, nor did it originate in
that state." Nor. are we content
with the description given by the
late John Hock, also an authority on
berry culture:
rip-in unknown. Beautiful, rut-leaved
foliage, which It retain durlnr the winter:
berrle larce. black, aweet. rich and de
llcloue. It rontlnnea to ripen from July to
November, which makes it one of the bet
berrlee for family use. It loae size and
quality notably In scant moIMure.
This description accounts for the
amazing prolificity of the evergreen
particularly on the western slopes of
the oust range, where there seldom
a deficiency of moisture, and
here the gathering of the berries
already has attained the proportions
of a great industry. One Is no longer
amazed, on finding certain towns de
populated of their surplus labor, to
be told that the evergreen black
berry is responsible for It. No
greater tribute could be paid to its
commercial staying qualities than to
say that it has even taken precedence
over the shot huckleberry in regions
where the latter grows at approxi
mately the rate of a quart to the
square foot.
Henderson Luelling. when he
brought his wagon nursery to Ore
gon, seems to have thought of about
everything except the evergreen
blackberry, yet a fruit much resem
bling this, if it was not the variety
itself, must have been transported to
the Oregon country in a very early
time. Hovcy's Magazine mentioned
in 1SS8 the "cut-leaved blackberry,"
but gave it another name. The ever
green closely answers the description
given. Whatever Its source may
have been, it is plain that It has no-
found a congenial abiding place.
Given a sufficient supply of autumn
moisture. It runs riot everywhere.
But yesterday regarded as a mere
bramble, it promises to take a high
place in our economic life.
It does not seem probable that the
evergreen or any other blackberry
originated, as the correspondent sug
gests, in Australia or in Hawaii. The
modern cultivated blackberry is pecu
liarly American. Prototypes exist in
Europe, but only as thorn bushes.
There are more delicious varieties
than the evergreen, but probably
none so fitted by nature to shift for
themselves, as the evergreen has
done in Oregon, in what until recent
ly was an alien soil.
Ham Katitzman, Columbia county
editor serving a sentence in the Mult
nomah jail, has been offered a par
con by Governor Olcott on conditions
that he refuses to accept. Ham is
getting along In years at or near
Albert, kin of the Belgians, made
early experiments in democracy, as
a reporter on American northwest
ern papers, says his biographers.
Preserving the royal incognito, even
as Harun Al-Raschid did when he
chine for regulation and inspection strolled to adventure in ancient Bag-
of the business In question, manned dad, the Belgian prince doubtless
by an army of inspectors, agents and "covered police," interviewed promi-
others with a board of commission- nent visitors and wrote an obituary
ers at their head. It matters not or so. He saw America at close
that the subject may have been cov- range, not as a pampered, feted vis-
ered by existing law, which only itor, but as one of "those newspaper
needs to be energetically enforced guys." Intimations that King Albert's
in order to prove its effectiveness or visit to Portland may be canceled, in
to reveal any weak points which I deference to President Wilson's ill-
could be strengthened by a short ness, are unwelcome for the city
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PRKSS.
Good Food at Higra Prices Better
Than Sicknesa In the Family.
"High prices or low prices, I always
buy the best of foodstuffs," said a
prominent member of a woman's club.
"And there's a reason," she continued.
"How do you do it with the present
dreadful charges for everything?" de
manded another member and every
one paused to listen. Here's the ex
planation: "Why," if the cost is too
high. I simply buy a little less we
usually eat too much, anyway but
It Is always the best. You see, I
was trying to economise on meats
and my husband got ptomaine poison
ing. What his sickness cost in loss
in his law practice, doctor's bills.
edlcines and anxiety on my part was
a heap more than I'd saved by shop
ping for cheap foods since prices
went up. Believe me, a sick husband
is not cheap at any price."
The chateau of La Huchette has been
put up for sale. In few novels are
to be found so manyTeal persons.
places and incidents, disguised thinly
or not at all, as in Flaubert's
"Madame Bovary." Emma Bovary and
her tragic husband' and the provincial
roue, Rodolphe Boulanger, actually
lived and died In that Normandy dis
trict and old inhabitants can identify
the prototypes of Homais, the gar
rulous and opinionated apothecary,
Hivert the carrier, and La Mere Le-
francois, the aubergiste. The pic
turesque chateau itself, on the road
from Rouen to Gournay. is still the
same as it appears in Flaubert's pages,
except that the garden pavilion where
Emma first met Rodolphe clan
destinely is stripped of all its furni
ture and bears only a faded vestige of
wallpaper depicting hunting scenes.
m
Take any row of nine figures, re
verse the order and subtract the less
from the greater. The answer will
certainly be always nine, or a mul
tlple of nine." Dr. Frank Crane. The
explanation is simple: A number is
a multiple of nine if the sum of the
digits is a multiple of nine. For ex
ample: The sum of the digits of 8055
being 18, the sum is a multiple of
nine; 8355 is not a multiple of nine.
as the sum of its digits is 2x9 plus 3,
or three units too many. Reversing ws
receive 5538, with the same sum of
digits. By subtracting 5538 from 8355
we take away from the latter a cer
tain multiple of nine and at the same
ime the above mentioned three units
which prevented the original number
(8355) from being a multiple of nine;
8355 5538 equals 2817, a number
whose digits add up to 18 and which
is 313x9.
Those Who Come and-Go.
Mox Maretzek tells of Adelina Pat
ti's keen business ability, even from
her earliest years. Maretzek, when
PattI was a very little girl, promised
her a doll as a reward for singing
in a concert. It was to be her very
first appearance. Patti did not for
get the promise and when it was
nearly time for her to sing she asked
for her doll. Maretzek had forgotten
it and promised that she should have
it after the concert or on the next day.
But no, she must have it first or she
would not go on and sing. The ptor
man was In despair. It was late and
the stores were closed, but by some
means he managed to get that doll
and rushing back in breathless haste
he handed it to'her. At once her little
face was all smiles and, giving it to
her mother to be taken care of, she
went on and performed her part in
the concer
"More real estate changed hands in
one month last summer than In the
previous seven years," announces
Mayor C. E. Gates of Medford. "We
are now in better condition than when
the boom was on. Our crops are rec
ord-breakers and the prices are good.
In short, the orchard business is at
last just what the boomers and pro
moters used to say it would be. The
trouble with our country was that the
boys came in with too much money
and they did their farming at the
university club and at the country
club. Now they have to get in and
work and run the orchards properly
and the result is just what it should
be. Then the boomers paved the
streets, put in a water system and
saddled the town with debt until the
assessments were higher than the
property was worth. The bankers
stood behind the town and there were
no failures. Well, not long ago we
put all the old debts into a jackpot,
issued new bonds and started out
afresh. Interest will be paid on the
new bonds for three years and then
every interest-due date a percentage
of the securities will be canceled
Medford has found itself.'
"As long as Clackamas county of
ficials show a disposition to treat us
fair, we won't try to create a new
county," said Ed Bartlet, mayor ol
Estacada. who was in the city yes
terday. "We hadn't any money to
spend for a county fight last year,
anyway, but now everything is hum
ming at Estacada. We and I think I
voice the sentiment of most people
on the east end of the county are
getting behind the proposed 1,700,000
road bond issue. The county has teen
divided into districts. Each district
is to prepare the grade and base and
the county is to hardsurface the road
out of the bond money. The Estacada
country is receiving fair treatment
in the bond deal, so we have no com
plaint. We think we have a pretty
good chance to swing the Mount Hood
loop through Cherryville, for the state
highway commission has said it will
not locate the loop section until the
surveyors have made a report and we
believe we can demonstrate that the
best road, for any purpose, is to be
had via Cherryville."
Robert C. Johnson, whose interest
In livestock has made him noted
among cattle, swine and goat breed
ers, is at the Hotel Portland, with
Mrs. Johnson. Their home is In Law
rence. Kan., and they have been tour
ing Canada and the west. Mr. John
son was for many years president of
the American Angora Goat Breeders'
association and has never been absent
from a session until this year, when
the association met at Kansas City,
last Wednesday. He farms in Kansas,
Colorado and Oklahoma, owns electric
light plants and carries on other di
verting lines of business, but likes
to visit the Pacific coast. His trip over
the highway Thursday was subject of
highest commendation, but he was
disappointed that he could not see the
operation of salmon packing.
The 84-year-old king of Montene-
amendment. The lawmaker must I had made up its mind to see what gro, who awaits in vain for the pow
begin at the foundation and draw a I manner of sovereign it is that
new and imposing bill, in order to chooses newspaper cubbing as a
Impress the people with his zeal to schooling in democracy, and that
remove abuses, and incidentally to I braves the firing line with the com
create a few hundred or a few thou- I ment that his own hide is no more
sand new jobs. I to be valued than that of any private
The bill introduced by Senator soldier.
Kenyon, whitah he euphemistically
calls .a bill to stimulate the produc-I When men accused of conspiracy
tion. sale and distribution of live to destroy the government can. ob-
stock and live stock products," Is a tain their liberty on bail and can
case in point. A study of the bill in- then straightway continue the same
spires the opinion that the only in- activities for which they are to be
dustry which the bill would stimu- tried, there is a screw loose in the
late would be that of Inspection and law. Then the only limit to a man's
investigation, with the companion lawbreaking Is the amount of bail
industry, litigation. Not that the he can obtain. As large sums of
meat industry does not need atten- money are coming into the country
tion from the government in order from mysterious sources, apparently
that it may be freed from abuses, from bolshevist Russia, there is prac
cut there are several laws in exist- tically no limit.
ence which have. been little used and
wnicn might be effectively Invoked. The year 1859 is the limit for
The evils of the packing business are qualification of an Oregon pioneer.
of the same general character as That will do for the Valley, but a
those which afflict several other in- later date should be set for the men
dustries. The Sherman and Clayton who went into Oregon east of the
laws are applicable and only need mountains. The men of the 60s
to be enforced. It would be advis- crossed the plains in all the discom
able to take refrigerator cars from forts of the preceding decade,
control of the packers . and hand
Memories of Timothy Regan, who
died in Boise Tuesday, date back-to
the days of the War Eagle In Silver
City. . He was a pioneer of Owyhee
and followed the custom of moving
to Boise when his "pile" was made.
Not many of the old guard are left-
Winter Willis, Ttt 24, is an auto
mobile thief by confession and has
to his record three escapes from the
penitentiary. Not much - more is
needed to put him in the "confirmed
criminal" class.
The mayor and commissioners
were good business men before elec
tion. Why do they need experts for
this and that to show them how to
run the city?
Winter is a flirtatious affair. It
lingers in the lap of spring and flirts
desperately with autumn.
them over to a common carrier com
pany subject to the Interstate Com
merce commission, and perhaps to
release stockyards from the packers,
further new laws would be super
fluous, and might prove worse than
the disease.
But Mr. Kenyon proposes to li
cense every person vho has anything
to do with live stock from the mo
ment when the first steer arrives at
the stockyards to the time when the
last bottle of glue from the animal's
hoofs reaches the store. Even the
livestock paper which publishes- mar
ket quotations must be licensed. So
must the dealer in dairy', products
and poultry. If he does business
without license, he pays $5000 fine
or goes to jail for two years or pays
both penalties. A commissioner of
foodstuffs Is established under the
secretary of agriculture, and the lat
ter is to draw up regulations, for vio
lation of which a license may be re
yoked or suspended, whereupon the
offender must stop business.
The superfluity of this new bill Is
apparent from the fact that practi
cally everything that a licensee is
forbidden by section 7 to do is al
ready unlawful under the Sherman
and Clayton laws, for they all relate
to unfair discrimination or deceptive
practices, to combinations, monopo
lies, restraint or competition and
conspiracy to control business and
prices. The law against these prac
tices is not made stronger by enact
ing it again. But the bill goes far
ther by forbidding a licensee to
charge an unreasonable price," thus
Indirectly conferring authority on
the commissioner or his agents to
declare what is a reasonable price.
Here is the opening for permanent
government price-fixing.
The inspectors would shine In all
their glory when they came to ad
minister the sections which require
all licensees to keep exact records,
to make reports under oath which
disclose all transactions," to permit
"anv officer of the government" to
enter and Inspect any place" and x Sir 'rnomas Tipton win seen tne
examine any books, letters, papers America's cup until he gets it or dies.
A transcontinental air race that
produces four deaths of aviators Is
an expensive experiment-
Taxes next year will be higher, of
course, with everybody wanting and
getting rr--" oney.
.The problem of the bathing suits
at "the club" has been settled with
scissors, so to say.
Marion county's Spetember record
of 125 licenses to 23 divorces is mat
ter for pride.
There is one "closed shop" with
merit none can dispute. The junk
man runs it.
King George has ratified the peace
treaty and is one ahead of "King"
Wood row.
Portland's one case of influenza
has recovered, but continue the precautions.
ers to give him back his mountain
kingdom, says "I, myself, am an old
man and it matters little to me that
I regain my throne. But it -matters
much to my people that they shall
have the government they want. All
I ask for them is that they should
have the opportunity of making
known whether they want the res
toration of the monarchy, an inde
pendent republic or whether indeed
they agree to be embodied In the
kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes."
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"Some long-forgotten words have
been brought out and oiled up for
use during the caca treaty squabble
in congress," notes Havre Parsons.
"Pusillanimous," formerly a standby
of editorial writers, but so long in
disuse that few of the younger writ
ers know how to spell it, has made
its appearance. The shorter and uglier
is playing a return engagement and
if the Wilsonian pact holds the cen
ter of the stage much longer, we may
look with confidence for the return of
that noted team in lingual vaudeville,
'Iota and Scintilla.' "
Congress, instead of giving General
John J. Pershing a sword, handed him
its thanks accompanied by a large
number of elegant quotations. Mr.
Kitchin and the other democratic
statesmen who were opposed to the
proposed gift, on the ground of econ
omy, were not exactly noted for ad
vocacy or national parsimony a
short time ago that is to say. while
they were spending the money. New
York Herald.
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A critic was discussing John Singer
Sargent, the artist, with Chauncey
Depew, and remarked: "They say he
painted a cobweb on a ceiling once
and it was so natural that the maid
wore herself out trying to brush it
off." "What you say about the nat
uralness of the cobweb may be per
fectly true," retorted Depew, "but
there never was any such maid, I'm
sure."
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Canada's victory flagstaff has been
erected on victory mound at the vic
tory gate entrance to Kew Garden,
London, a straight Oregon pine 215
feet high and almost three feet in
diameter at the base. It is the gift of
the people of British Columbia t6
London and ranks with the tallest
structure in tjondon. Nelson's monu
ment in Trafalgar Square being only
142 feet high. Bow church 222, St.
Stephen's clock tower (Big Ben's
home) 320, Victoria tower (house of
lords) 33S and St. Paul's cathedral
365 feet.
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'"What kind of coal do you wish,
mum?" "Dear me! I am so inexperi
enced in these things. Are there vari
ous kinds?" "Oh, yes. We .have egg
coal, chestnut " "I think I'll take
egg coal. We have eggs oftener than
we have chestnuts."- Kansas City
Journal.
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Experience is the great test of truth
and Is constantly contradicting the
theories of men. Samuel Johnson.
"I killed a deer down on the Slus
law the other day and no one will
believe I killed it," complains Carl
Shoemaker, state game warden. "It
is the first deer I have shot since I
became warden. Found it about eight
miles back of Florence, down on the
coast in Lane county, and when
dressed it weighed 146 pounds." About
every time the game warden tries to
tell of his success, someone takes the
joy out of life by inquiring who tied
the deer to the tree or where was the
pen the deer was in.
Helen Ardelle, who makes the
chocolates bearing her name, was at
the Benson yesterday. Miss Ardelle
and her sister were students at the'
University of Washington when they
undertook the manufacture of candy
as a revenue producer. The demand
for their chocolates was so great the
sisters finally had to devote all their
time to maintaining a supply. Now
Helen looks after the business on the
outside while her sister superintends
the manufacturing end.
For 10 cents F. C. Bramwell of
Grants Pass, who is at the Hotel Ore
gon, has discovered a fund of enter
tainment. On a train coming to Port
land he bought from the peanut
butcher a booklet of poems, which are
so bad that they are good. Not being
selfish, Mr. Bramwell passed the vol
ume to Manager A. H. Meyers, and
the latter is driving patrons into a
corner of the lobby and insisting on
reading to them "Ode to a Pumpkin
Pie" and similar efforts which con
tain neither rhyme nor reason.
Both of the Sperry boys of lone are
now out of the service. Mrs. C. B.
Sperry came to the Perkins yesterday,
where she met Royal and H. D. Sperry,
her sons, and will accompany them
back to Morrow county. The young
men went into the navy, the sea at
tracting a large percentage of-the
boys in central Oregon, probably be
cause water is rather scarce in that
country.
"I deal In little things like shoe
strings and corset laces," observed
B. F. White of Paterson, N. J., to
Clerk Myers at the Benson, "and you
wouldn't believe that I could take
$40,000 worth of orders out of Port
land. Well, I can if I wish, but I
don't want to overstock my custom
ers, so I won't. Last year I sold $43,-
000 worth of shoestrings to San Fran
cisco." J"
A seven-foot bed had to be bought
by the Imperial hotel for the special
benefit and comfort of J. B. Cox. who
needed room to stretch when he re
tired. Mr. Cox, in those days, was a
traveling salesman, but now he is a
farmer near lone. "Twenty-five dol
lars a ton for alfalfa in the stack isn't
bad," he explains.
"Never saw such tourist business as
we've had this year," says J. J. Mere
dith, assistant manager of the Banff
Springs hotel, who is at the Mult
nomah with his wife. Also in the
party are D. N. Delahanty, chief clerk,
and Robert Gallagher, auditor of the
Banff establishment.
Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Johnson, stu
dents of the University of Oregon,
who. left there to take the matri
monial degree, are registered at the
Hotel Portland from Vancouver,
Wash.
Example, Then Emulation.
By fir nee K. Hall.
Somewhere there must be good with
out a flaw.
Else had man never known the urge
within
Which prompts to better acts through
ln-born law, .
Which through vicissitudes still
lives in him;
Ere there be emulation, there must be
Example this is truth that all mus
see.
Mankind cannot explain this silen
voice,
Which dwells in every brain of nor
mal trend.
T.ne sure insistent "feel" in every
choice,
Though oft it be perverted in the
. end;
But through this force which no man
can control.
He knows the sense of right in his
own soul.
Somewhere must be perfection. No
one knows
From whence came strong desire
for higher life;
But impulse for the ideal surely shows
This vital spark lives on through
stress and strife;
And evil only gains when men ignore
This tone divine, which pleads for
evermore.
Then, since men only emulate and
plan '
Because of what they feel in their
own heart,
And as perfection never dwelt in man
We must ascribe to God this nobler
part;
To me this comforts much when
doubts assail
This better intuition cannot fail!
LETTER DEEMED DISCOURTEOUS
Mr. Ganoe Takes Exception to Mr,
Carry' t'rtrielsm of Johnson.
PORTLAND, Oct. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) A letter recently published ii
The Oregonian over the name of
Charles H. Carey coming as an ex
tremely discourteous supplement to
his "polite declination" of the invita
tion to serve on the reception com
mittee appointed to welcome Senator
Johnson, is of more than passing in
terest to the citizens of Oregon. It
is quite true that "the record of the
people of Oregon for Americanism is
a proud one," but that proud record
Is not made brighter through abuse
of a distinguished senator by one of
its citizens. There is more meaning
that word Americanism" than
people sometimes realize. It includes
those principles of democracy and
fraternity which have been fostered
and cultivated In the hearts of our
people since before the foundation of
this republic. It requires a thought
ful and considerate attitude toward
the opinion of others.
In my opinion the light of "piti
less publicity" which has too long
been extinguished, holds the world's
only hope that proper action will be
taken upon this treaty conceived in
secrecy, born of ambition, and fostered
by a motley array of political influ
ences throughout the world. Oppo
nents of the league have been charged
with flagrant misrepresentations and
gross exaggerations of its defects.
Kor answer they have quoted the
language of the covenant. The proof
of the charges against the league's
apponents, so. far as I have observed.
has gone no further than their as
sertion. The league has been recom
mended by some as a panacea, a spe
cific for the dread disease war, by
others as a partial cure only. The
how and why of the remedy is not
explained. The argument seems to
be quite similar to that of the pro
moter. Buy our oil stock and be
come a millionaire may be an at-
ractlve headline, but of itself is a
poor basis for an investment.
If. however, there be great merit
In the enterprise, public discussion
of its defects as well as its merits
can only serve to enlighten and en
lightenment is a right inherent in
the public. Right or wrong in prin
ciple, or in detail the covenant should
be freely and fearlessly discussed.
JAMES H. GANOE.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague,
LOOK WHAT D'ASMNZIO'S DO!EI
I met a young man with a big .44
Who was peppering shot after shot
At a couple of cows that were seeking
to browse
On the grass in a ten-acre lot.
Said I: "My young friend, I regret to
behold
That you foolishly seem to be bent
On attaining the skill of a Buffalo
Bill.
Is such your degrading Intent?"
"Oh, no, sir," he said. "I'm a poet by
trade;
But writing In metres and rhymes
Is quite out of date with us poets of
late.
For we're living in turbulent times.
No poet today has a Chinaman's
chance
To lead a political plot.
And thus get his name on the journsl
of lame
Unless he's a number one .'hot."
I met a young bard whom I knew in
the days
When we both ran together at
large
Who was making attack on a saw
dust filled sack
With a strenuous bayonet-charge.
"Hello," I cried out, "I supposed that
the war
Was ended In nineteen-clehtecn.
Is rehearsing the frav Just vour
quaint little way
Of keeping Its memory green?"
"No! No!" he replied. "We discinles
of Keats
And Shakespeare and Shelley and
Byron
Can't win any bays by the writing of
lays;
We've got to be persons of iron.
No poet who merely can handle a pen
uan give the dear public a thrill.
The bard of today finds the business
don t pay
Unless he's a guy who can kill!"
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One Point of Agreement.
Railroad managers object to every
thing, the government did with the
roads except raising fares.
Plenty of 1 There.
The only trade in which there Is
any appreciable increased production
is tnat of burglary.
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It Won't Do Hint Any Ilnrm.
We Judge from the fact that H.nrr
Ford has disappeared from the public
eye that he is going to night school
somewhere.
fOpyrlKht. IPIO. by Bell Svnrtlcnto. Inr
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Tear Ago.
From The Oregonian of October 11. 1WM
NeV York. Levi P. Morton todav
gave out his acceptance of the re
publican nomination for governor of
New York.
Zenophon N. Steeves and .Tnxenh
(Bunco) Kelly were yesterdav indict
ed by the grand Jury for murder In
he first degree as result of investi
gation into the assassination of
George W. Sayres last week.
Blind Tom, the famous pianist, will
appear in Portland at Arion hall Oc
tober 14.
Marcus A. Mayer, resident niHnagt'i-
n New York of the firm of l-'leisch-
er & Mayer, arrived in Portland yes-
erday.
The Wife Wins Contest.
Pittsburg Sun.
The race for the last word was get
ting hot. Hubby arid wife were run
ning neck and neck.
"You did!"
"I didn't!"
"You did!"
"I did not!"
The pace was slowing.
"Well," flashed hubby, "one of us
two is a very capable liar. But there
Is one thing which prevents me say
ing which one."
"Modesty, I presume," retorted
wifie.
Fifty 1 ear Ago.
From The Oregonian of Oelobcr II, 1 snn.
Concord. N. H. Kx - President
Pierce died here yesterday morning.
New York. The Albany Journal
last evening stated that Horace Gree
ley has accepted the nomination of
state controller, but the state central
committee has heard nothing from
him.
Abstracts from the Tillamook coun
ty assessor's report show population
of the county to bo about 400, and
that butter produced this year
amounts to seven tons.
The steamer George S. Wright ar
rived from Victoria Saturday. .1.
Kamm, wife and son, were among the
passengers.
A ladom in Huahand.
Louisville Courier-Journul.
"My husband anticipates my every
wish." "Mine seems to have talent
in that direction, too. At least, when
1 am about to express a wish, -he
heads me off with a poverty pint."
DATA OJT NOTED BERRY WANTED
Whence Came the Evergreen? Early
Set-tier Would Like to Know.
NEWPORT. Or., Oct.- 9. (To the
Editor.) I think it would be of in
terest to many of your readers if
some of the early settlers would
write and tell what they know about
the origin of the evergreen blackberry.
My parents, after living in the
Willamette valley several years,
moved to Douglas county, near Rose
burg, in 1881, and during the next 20
years often made trips to rortiana
and other valley towns. As fruit was
not very plentiful, there was quite a
lot of wild fruit used, and I am sure
,.. it thora hud hppn nnv everfreen
hl.fllrKaprifta p-mwlni? nlnii? the rnads '
we would have noticed them.
About 1870 a man by the name of
Jonathan Way came from the Wil
lamette valley and brought some
evergreen blackberry plants, some of
which he planted on his place, selling
the rest to his neighbors. I am not
sure, but it seems to me that I once
read that it was brought either from
Australia or the Sandwich islands.
MRS. B. BICKFORD.
Will the Kaiser Ever "Come Back?"
Dodging destruction a king flees from his throne, the roar of the
rabble or the guns of war at his very heels. In the vanished
centuries there have been dozens of monarchs ousted from their
thrones. Few of them ever went back to the kinging business. Im
placable reasons, bristling with personal danger, stood in the way.
, Will ex-Kaiser Wilhelm regain his throne? Writing in the Sunday
issue, and summoning historical parallels to prove his point, Clive
Marshall says there isn't a chance. You'll want to read this article.
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Loved
by his myriad friends, feared by his many enemies, the stamp of
a strongly virile personality was on Theodore Roosevelt. With
the campaign for a great national memorial to this distinctive
American now at its outset, the Sunday story which tells any
number of typical anecdotes of Roosevelt is timely and fraught
with interest. For the stories they relate of Roosevelt, as the
stories they tell of Lincoln, are the real index to a character that
was conspicuously American.
WITH THE NAVY IN PERILOUS WATERS In the Sunday issue
appears another installment of Admiral Sims' engrossing narra
tive of American naval participation in the world war. Chapter
by chapter he traces the increased activity of the sea forces, until
the submarine ceased to be an active factor and the weight of
troops and supplies, uninterrupted in transit, crushed the Ger
man military dream.
MEXICO, LAND OF TRAGIC BEAUTY Here is a story, one of
the Sunday offerings, that will curl you up in absorbed content
ment to the very last paragraph. The writer knows old Mexico,
beauty and blood, and draws an intimate picture of the land of
perpetual revolt, with a vein of gossip running through it. Illu
strated. POSE YOUR HANDS. There are fashions in photography, as in
evening gowns. And the latest dictum is that fair subjects, when
they front the camera, must display their hands, adding to
the artistic interpretation of character. All the girls are posing
with chin languidly at rest on one curved lily, with the digital
index pointing north. There are heaps of ways to accomplish
the pose. Read about them in the Sunday issue, with illustra
tions from life.
THE "LIGHT OF CHINA." What do you know about Confucius?
Nothing at all some sort of ancient Chinese priest, who passed
on about the time that our ancestral folks learned to fashion
iron to spear points. In the orient they call Confucianism the
"Light of China." Dr. Kung Han Li, direct lineal descendant of
Confucius, has an illuminating story of this moral creed in the
Sunday issue.
THE POSSIBILITY OF A FUTURE LIFE That spirit survival
has been scientifically proved, but that he is unable to define the
nature of the life hereafter is the conclusion of Dr. James H.
Hyslop, Ph. D., LL. D., founder and secretary of the American
Society for Psychical Research. His conclusions, with data and
deductions, appear in the Sunday issue.
All the News of All the World.
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.