THE MOIiXIXG OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1919.
yavy ( perform his duties, but acc
iilorntnrtQjn'it'initnit i "i-- Johnson. an ut
rW W OR the constitution, the inii
according I considerable cost, 'he new bridges to
utnorityioe adorned with certain pntents, or
litiattve I whether it is to place the duty of In
rTBl.lnri BY HENRI I- PITTIH'K rests with that official, for he says: I spect ion, design, and supervision
alilissei to the vic-preslne nt. the le
rlnion would Hen to rest mainly with th.it
officer.
It is necesiury therefore to con-
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;i riht of rcp'ibiirKtton of special dla- ! president Marshall may assume the
iat. h. herein jmr f .reserved. j presidency. He is not of the caliber
" of Mr. Wilson, but is a very success-
Svybsrtpll.,. la.teln.arl.M, in Advance. fu, oosier poIiUcia and has served
Iai!v. Hunrtar Included, one y-ar H " governor, in wnicn ca-
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No rule ran be ivn until a precedent with the engineer of the highway
nil ii-iuany mine, nui as tne pro
vision of the constitution la mandatory and
' pacity he acquired experience as an
executive and in dealing with legts
w lators. Though he has occasionally
3!ii ! oeen flippant in his remarks on ser
i mi ! ious matters, that weakness may
spring from consciousness of the low
held, and he may be sobered by
greater responsibility. His utterances
during the war had the true patriotic
ring and - show no disposition to
clemency with treason. He is in
sound . health, and would impart a
degree of vigor to the administration
which cannot be expected at present
from Mr. Wilson. He would feel
morally bound to maintain the con
tinuity of the president's policy, for
the latter might be expected to re-
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lull bank. Stamp-, coin or currency art
at owners rik. Give poMoffic address
in full. Including- county and state.
Postage Rale. 12 to 1I P-. 1 cent:
1 t paicre. 2 cms: :t to 4S ps;es.:i
rents: . lo rtn catc-. cents: fill io ,H
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'i,reijn postage, double ratea.
coinmi-Hion ut no cost to the county
with no patents on any such bridges.
The decision will he awaited with in
terest and even with concern.
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K. J. Pilwell.
fllC rKKSIDKT. IIIH ILLKS1 AND
HIS tH U K.
Statement of half-truths by Presi
lent Wilson's physicians has given
rise to a flock of alarming rumors as
to the nature of the part of the truth
which remains untold. Ttie Orcgo-
tian finds in tne New York World, a
(launch supporter of the president,
this comment, which fairly expresses
tie opinion of the people:
When professional men can make noth
,r iha tiiiLLtina issued from the Whltl
H. .use. it is natural that the laity should
snr ulste and theorise to the utmost. A
m ru.t of this we have gossip and rumo:
In full cry. some of the Inventions being
sensational and some malicious, and
..f fh-m iiisouieiinc. Denials of these re
ports have been made In specific esses,
but undoubtedly they will persist so Ions
m rr,r is maintatned-
The inianai-iiy of I he president from any
cause Is of vital public interest. His per
sonal welfare is a matter of Importance to
all rood citizens, but above every colis'-d
-ration of svmptthy is ihe right of the
people to be Informed as to his actui
....titlnn K-iim the hcclnnlnff of his i!
R-ssj until the present moment not a word
hue mm, from the sick-chamber th
could he rerarded as frankly enlightening.
.Vivstery begets mvsttllrsiion. and to no
valid purpose. It ta to be presumed that
ris phslclans know the nature of the pres
ident's ma. adv. They are public rharar
ters treating a public character. In the
f-eree light that beats upon them and their
patient there can be no privacy that Is not
mischievous. It is their duty to tell the
truth. Wfcether agreeable or not. that
alone will silence the scandal-mongera and
panic-breeders.
That mystery is still maintained in
the latest statements from the White
House, even to the point of apparent
contradiction. Dr. Grayson said that
"the president's mind is clear and
that he is perfectly capable of form
ing instant judgment on any matter
that might come up." yet In the sec
ond succeeding paragraph we are
told that "the president's physicians
are insistent that danger of a set
back In his condition can be averted
only by complete rest for an indefin
He period." The only way to recon
rile those two statements is to infer
that, while the president's mind
functions normally. It could do so
only at the "cost of his general health.
It is well known that he has been
under a severe mental and nervous
strain, and mas weakened by an at
tack of influenza. No opinion by a
physician is needed to lead to the
conclusion that, when a physical
and nervous strain is followed by a
general breakdown, a Itjng period of
rest and recuperation is necessary to
complete recovery-
The American people earnestly
wish that the president may be able
to perform to the end of his term the
duties of his office and that his
Tiealth may be fully restored. If his
illness promised to be of short dura
tion, they would suffer some sacrifice
of their interests in order that their
business might await his ability to
transact it. But they cannot be In
different to the fact that public bus
iness is urgent, ror more than a
year their domestic affairs have been
drifting while the president has
given attention almost exclusively to
war and the peace- conference.
Kxecutive power was so exclusively
gathered into his hands that little
action was taken on important do
mestic affairs during his absense at
Paris.
The affairs of the nation have
reached such a pass that they must
be taken vigorously in hand. The
treaty with Germany will surely be
out of the way soon. As the action
taken on it will fix the foreign policy
of the senate majority, action on the
other treaties should not be long de
layed, f'ongress would then be
ready to devote itself exclusively to
domestic affairs, which clamor for
-tion. The country is plagued with
strikes inspired by holshevism. and
they call for firm action to crush the
revolutionist on the one hand and to
reform the industrial system by re
novrng valid causes of discontent on
the other hand. legislation has been
too long delayed on railroads, ship
ping, land reclamation, dexelopment
Cf the public domain, foreign trade
and goernmept finances It requires
co-ordinate action by congre&s and
the executive, of which a man who
may or may not be recovering from
a complete breakdown would not be
capable.
This situation- can be met
few mruiths, and the national In
terests would suffer by a distinct
break at such close intervals.
When the constitution has pro
vided an orderly, regular way to deal
with the situation, straightforward
Qi-tiAn in ffamonrloft Kv ttiA nalinn i
tmm .n'es.j v igation which threatens
A PROPER INQUIRY.
The auditorium contract with its
vicissitudes is an old story to the
public, but not to some individuals.
Undoubtedly it is true that the sud
den rise in prices of materials and
labor, due to the war, could not have
been anticipated by the contractor.
Thus his losses were due in those
tespects to conditions beyond his
control. To ask the public now to
shoulder the losses may have a cer
tain justification in equity, but not
in law, nor indeed in sound policy.
Such a precedent would surely re
turn to plague the city commis
sioners. But it isatontended that excep
tional requirements, outside the letter
of the contract were placed on the
contractor, and that many thousand
dollars were thus added to the sum
total of his deficit. It is asked that
an inquiry be made, and that all
matters in dispute between the city
and the contractor and his bondsmen
be submitted to arbitration. This is
a fair enough offer, and it should be
accepted. If its results shall be to
lelieve certain bondsmen of an obli
to. involve
can be met only
after congress has full knowledge of
the president's condition. In view
cf the admission that "a setback can
be a-crtod only by complete rest for
an indefinite period." it Is not per
missible to defer action in accord
with that act because "his mind is
ele.tr and he is perfectly capable of
forming Instant judgment." The
guiding fact is not that "the presi
dent could sign bills today if they
were placed before him" as stated by
a White House official, but the other
fact that "we are not putting them
before him." It devolves on some
responsible authority to determine
whether the president's condition Is
one of disability, as contemplated by
the constitution, and then to make
the required provision for perform
ance of the functions of the presi
dency. The physicians should be
railed upon to disclose all the facts
cf the president's condition, for his
Illness concerns the whole nation,
not his family only.
There seems to be no close prece
dent for the present situation.
Though President Garfield was phy
sically disabled after he was shot by
Guiteau. his mind remained clear,
congress was not in session, no vi
tally important matters called for
action and he held office till his
death. Some may suppose that either
for persons or parties should out
weigh the paramount claims of the
nation. All. without regard to poli
tics, will hope that if the president's
duty should require him to relinquish
his office he will be able to resume It
after a few months' rest has re
stored him to full health; but all
look to him and his immediate as
sociates in the administration to re
member that the presidency exists
for the people, not for its incumbent.
EDrCATING THE FOREIGNER.
In asserting that "in some of these
mills over 50 per cent of the work
men cannot read, write or speak the
American language." Senator. Ken
yon makes the steel strike the best
of possible texts not only for a new
federal programme of education, but
also for the plan of the new army
organization to send soldiers to
school, as well as drill them in mili
tary matters.
There is now traveling in the
middle west a recruiting detachment
w-hich illustrates the manner in
which the army in peace time may
be thus employed. It consists of
twenty-eight men. representing four
teen different nationalities. None of
the men three months ago was able
to read, write or speak English. They
row do all three, and are presented
as exhibits of the opportunities
hich the army offers. This is in ad
dition to the vocational training
which is promised, and in some cases
is being given on a scale that prom
ises to make the young soldiers ef
ficient civilian workmen by the time
their periods of enlistment have ex
pired.
Of the many branches which lend
themselves to a wholesale educa
tional programme, knowledge of the
language is the most important. It
will be. supposed that the twenty
eight young men in question repre
sent many others who have been
benefited in the same way. if not
the same degree, by their service.
iSince not every young foreigner will
join the army it will be necessary, of
course, to extend the Americaniza-
ion scheme. Hut this, too. can be
done without any great disturbance
o existing school organizations.
K'forts to obtain a population that
is 100 per cent American, begun so
bravely in the months just prior to
he armistice, should not now be per
mitted to lag.
them in ruin, the public may well be
satisfied.
HIGH COST OR NO COST.
Two new bridges may or may not
be heeded at Portland across the
Willamette river. The county com
missioners, or a majority thereof.
appear to think so. and have under
consideration employment of an en
gineer to find out. One of the com
missioners is anxious to hire a com
mercial engineer who is a member
of a firm that builds bridges and
controls the patent for-a certain'type
of lift draw, and doubtless other
patented devices. We shall expect
such an engineer to guide the bridge
programme through condemnation
of the present bridges to building of
wo new structures of the type which
be especially favors. If he does less.
he will be something more than
human. We do him and his firm no
njtistice when we say that is what
hey are in business for.
It has not been determined by ex
pert authority that the Morrison
bridge or the Burnside ' bridge is
past further usefulness. The Burn-
side bridge is twenty-five years old.
it has not been taken care of and its
day may be about over. But what
ubout the Morrison bridge? Some-
hing is said about electrolysis and
the great damage it has done there.
Quite a unique theory. If so. it Is
not much of a bridge to have stood
for a short fifteen years.
As an aside, it may be remarked
that all the bonds issued against the
former Morrison structure which the
present bridge displaced are not yet
paid. There may be some doubt
bout the quality of the work which
was done on the existing bridge, but
here can he none about the kind of
inance which builds a succession of
bridges in one spot in Portland, goes
Into debt for all of them and pays
p on none of them.
The public will be interested to
ear from the county commissioners
a valid reason why an outside en
gineer. Interested professionally and
financially In a certain type of
bridge construction, is to be em
ployed when the state of Oregon has
available an engineering force, con
nected with the highway commis
sion, entirely competent to design
and build bridges here or anywhere.
The highway commission engineers
have to their credit a fine bridge
over the same Willamette river at
Salem and there is no patent of any
kind on it from one end to the bther.
Other bridges are being built, or to
be built, under the same expert di
rectors, across the Deschutes, one
over Youngs Bay. at Oregon City,
and elsewhere: and the public will
have entire confidence in the guar
antee of the highway commission
that they will be first-class bridges.
The state foots the bills, we believe,
for all the work of design and drafts
manship and for supervision in construction.
The Multnomah county commis-
the cabinet or congress should take sion Is to determine whether It Is to
cognizance of a president's disability I hire an engineer to inspect present
and call upon the vice-president to 1 1 ridfies, and to build new bridges, ax !
AS SEEK ON THE OTHER SIDE.
If such things as the anti-leaguers
are saying about Europe were said
by Europeans about America, we
can hardly imagine the outburst of
wrath which would follow. -Yet the
remarkable thing about European
comment, on the treaty debate Is
the absence of recrimination in face
of great provocation, and the tone of
reproachful friendship which Is
adopted.
Britain has been the particular
target of such eruptive senators as
Johnson, Borah and Reed, but the
worst that the London Observer says
is that "the proceedings have been
painful aeading to Britons"; that the
leaders "have not sought to spare
our feelings ; that their aim has
been to play upon the prejudice that
has survived from the dead and gone
antagonisms of a century and a half
ago." Recognizing that Ireland has
been the chief cause of opposition to
the league, that paper says:
The more universal Issues at stake de
mand a comprehensive scheme of settle
ment which shall at once commend itself
to moderate and enlightened mind In
Itritaln and the United States. Among the
first and not the least of Its consequences
itirfa a scheme would reveal the earnest
ness with which hlritain desires the es
tablishment of a tranquil, prosperous and
untied Ireland. America has as yet no
inkling- of the depth of thin feeling-, be
cause 11- has so far lacked the opportunity
of expression.
If speeches were to be made and
resolutions passed in the British par
liament denouncing the culpable
neglect of the United States to give
good government to Alaska, what
mould the Johnsons and Reeds say?
Would the comments of American
newspapers be as restrained as those
of the Observer? Would there be
any disposition to reply that we
knew Alaskan affairs were in bad
shape, but that we had been busy
with war and would now attend to
them?
The article says further:
The discussion of the treaty has been
tinged by a tone galling to Buropean pride
An Intense but misguided patriotism has
Induced some Americans to place the
frieat powers of Kurope on the level of
petty Central American republics. Such
an attitude can only breed misunderstand
ing and bad blood. Not only have we peo
ples of the old world done and suffered
great things in the war. but. we have made
greut concessions to American sentiment.
Recognition of the Monroe doc
trine is cited as "a specific instance
scarcely congenial to European
thought" which, "applied to Euro
pean conditions, offers dangerous
scope to a secretive and cantanker
ous diplomacy." But is "represents
the price which Europe will willingly
pay for American co-operation in the
common welfare." Europe thought
that America had "definitely broken
with the policy of aloofness," but
"a policy of spasmodic Intervention
followed by retirement is incompat
ible with'! Europe's "ideas of a world
order." The article ends thus:
History can never know a greater trag
edy than that America, a nation whose
unity Is based on the fusion of peop.les.
should be the power whose reluctance im
peded the fusion and unity of nations.
The contrast between the'spirit of
that article and that which fills the
fulminations of the anti-league sena
tors cannot fail to impress fair
minded Americans. The nations be
side which we fought invite our help
In establishing in the old world a
new world order imbued with the
spirit of the new world. They fought
steadfastly for two and a half years
without our aid in a cause which we
finally were compelled to recognize
as our own. But we are now warned
not to trust them, to keep aloof from
the league lest they use it to entrap
us. and there Is joy In Germany.
After victory is won. there is a pros
pect that Germany will accomplish
that which it attempted often, but in
vain, while the war was on. Europe
sees that danger, but those Amer
icans who would emasculate the cov
enant and wreck the treaty are blind
to it or reckless of the consequences.
time there recurred another and
even more dreadful social plague,
which also is now receiving the
earnest attention of health officials
and humanitarians of the whole civ
ilized world.
Fortunately, the progress which
science has made in the past half
century and the high standing of the
officials whom the dispatches quote
as announcing the discovery of a
"cure" give reason.for hope that the
physicians are not , over sanguine.
The health authorities of Hawaii by
paroling a score of patients have
given the best possible evidence of
their sincerity. Existence of the
germ of leprosy Is a determinable
fact; its disappearance can be ascer
tained bv the microscope, and the
science of bacteriology has advanced
amazingly even within a decade.
leprosy, which was unknown in
Hawaii prior to 1848, when it is sup
posed to have been introduced there
from China, had attained such pro
portions in 1901 that it was deemed
necessary to make a systematic
search of the islands and ruthlessly
to isolate all suspected cases, im
measurably intensifying the tragedy
of the less complete segregation
which had been previously enforced.
There were more than 1100 lepers in
the Molokai colony In that year, and
the number has since increased. Not
only to these sufferers but to an en
tire population living in constant
dread the reported discovery of the
physicians will come as a priceless
boon. - .
Lepers were known in earliest his
torical times, in the valley ef the
Nile, and there is ample reason for
supposing that they existed in re
mote antiquity. It is not known why
the disease persisted in Asia while it
died out in Europe after some cen
turies of unimpeded progress, or
why meanwhile it gained a new foot
hold in Africa, where it attacked not
only the natives but also the white
population, or why it remained in
Scotland after it had disappeared
from the rest of the L'nited Kingdom.
or why there were 30 cases in Nor
way as recently as 1856. It has con
founded all the theorists by the man
ner of its rise and decline. Once re
garded as a result of a diet in which
fish predominated, it appeared in in
land districts where no fish was con
sumed: the climate theory was later
dispelled by its widespread, occur
rence in many climatic zones; and it
was not explained by heredity, for
statisticians determined that it
rarely, if ever, prevailed through
three generations in a single family.
The mystery attending it has added
zest to the search for the cure.
The leper has been in all ages the
symbol of utter hopelessness, but
science now bids all the afflicted
hope. In an achievement so mo
mentous there will be glory enough
for all who have labored to attain
the end, but it is probable that first
honors will be given to the Nor
wegian Hansen, who nearly half a
century ago isolated the microbe
which for ages had held the world in
thrall. We are gradually approach
ing the point where, once a cause has
been determined defiiutely, the ulti
mate remedy rests wiu the patience
and determination of the scientific
men," who like those sent by the
United States government to Hawaii
in 1898,. have labored unceasingly to
an end which may now be in sight
after all these years.
BY-PRODUCTS OF" THK PRESS
Cuban Sunnr dorm to Eneland Been use
l'nited States Lacks Ship. 1
. The rtsuson no sugar has been com
ing to the United States from Cuba,
although one mill alone produces 702,
S40 bags, equivalent to about 227,373.
000 pounds, is because it is all going
to England. This was stated by
Those Who Ccme and Go.
I JI STSCE WOl tD fiOVEKi AWARDS
LeaKue Derisions on Any Other Basis
Would Invite Reprisal.
PORTLAND. Oct. 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Suppose a dispute should arise
"Linn county sold a block of its
road bonds the other day and not
only received par, but a premium. hpt.PHrl thi1 ,,. nrt another
member of the league of nations. In
case both parties lose their
votes and we should lose our veto
power. Suppose, further, that it
says Willard L. Marks, former county
cierK or tnat county, nut now a prat :-s h
vicing a,iiurue d Alutxiiy . viii.c
a tima tor. no ira o ontirt hmlKA rp.
William Hymers of Scotland, who was ! porter ln Portland, but that should
t-: ne il : 1 T m1T..J v.. ' . . . . . ... . i :
speaking of the mills controlled by
the Cuban-American company on the
island, upon his arrival in New York.
"It has been going to England for
the last three years," he said. "Eng
land has- the ships to send for the
sugar and is getting all she can. You
should have more American sugar
ships in Cuban ports and then you
would get some of it, too." He ex
pressed surprise at the high price of
sugar in America, as the staple was
being refined in large quantities and
the crop In Cuba was unusually good.
. . .
Thirty-five to forty horses are
stolen each day in Berlin, and a very
small percentage are ever returned to
the owners, despite the creation of a
special police department to combat
this evil. The horses disappear for
ever because they are usually imme
diately slaughtered and the meat sold
through illicit trade channels. The
thieves watch for teams the drivers of
which have left them for a moment,
and drive the horses away. If the
wagons contain anything of value it is
stolen and the horses are taken to
secret barns and sheds, or even to
wooded suburban sections, and killed
immediately. Insurance companies that
used to insure horses and teams will
do so no more.
War correspondents and all others
notwithstanding, the correct name of
the commander of Canada's army
corps is "Sir Arthur W. Curry," ac
cording to a definite statement made
by officialsVof Middlesex county.- Re
cently the general was made the re
cipient of a ?500 chest of silver, on
which was engraved the name
"Curry." fretful persons, ' greatly
disturbed, rushed to see what could
be done to remedy the supposed en
graver's, error, tut Warden John
Curry, brother of the general, set
their fears at rest. He stated that
the family name had been correctly
spelled, and indicated that the general
had simply let "Currie" go by default
during the war as not worth bother
ing about.
Dr. Herman A. Bundesen of the
Chicago city health department, sum
moned to Judge Stelk's court as a
witness, left the court room after a
wait of half an hour, saying the air
in the room was unfit to breathe, and
that those in the room were endanger
ing their health. "I could fine Dr.
Bundesen for contempt of court for
refusing to testify," Judge Stelk said,
"but I have no right to ask a man to
endanger his health. This court room
has npt been cleaned for eight years.
If action is not taken to improve the
ventilation it will be necessary to
close the court."
The Humbird company operating
logging camps In Bonner county,
Idaho, has been boarding its hands
at a dollar a day, losing up to 60
cents daily on it. So it increased the
charge 25 cents and therein is the I.
W. W. opportunity to pull off a
strike at a busy time. Anybody who
has seen a logger eat will realize the
Hnmbird's problem, but that does
pot concern the' "Industrial" trouble
maker. ' " -
Bad lot, the foreign element at
Gary. The word "foreign". describes
the undesirables. The desirable
foreigner has taken his first papers
or already is a. citizen. America is
glad -to have him; but the "foreign
devil" must go and the sooner the
better. Labor does not want him
there he is a "crowd in," but. his
mouth is big.
Peace making has its casualty list
no less in proportion than that of
war. President Wilson, and Colonel
House are both very sick men, Pre
mier Orlando lost his job, Scheide
mann lost his, and Lloyd George i:
losing his grip. The peace conference
has produced an anti-climax to the
glorious end of the war.
A CVTtr, FOR LEPROSY?
If, as is . reported from Hono
lulu, a cure for leprosy has been
found, science approaches the end of
a quest that has lasted at least three
thousand years. Meanwhile it has
not been easy to explain why leprosy
has not depopulated the world. In
Uie seeming Immunity of certain
races and of innumerable individuals
to the attacks of the specific bacillus
of leprosy, which was not discovered
until 1871, and the spontaneous
abatement of the plague in many of
the countries of Europe after it had
become known as "the greatest
disease of medieval Christendom,"
are involved problems the solution of
which is likely to go farther toward
determining the basic principles of
disease Eradication than any other
problem of our time.
Leprosy once ravaged Europe;
there are said to have been 19.000
"leper houses" on the continent at
one time; the care of lepers was a re
ligious duty in the tenth and elev
enth centuries; but the number of
victims continued to grow apace.
Then, ln about the fifteenth century,
although nothing had been learned
of sanitary .science and the world
had not emerged from the stage in
which disease was treated by incan
tation, leprosy practically disap
peared. There is a mystifying coin
cidence in the fact that at about this
A new source of injury develops
in Lane- county. An ensilage cutter
"exploded," grindstone and flywheel
fashion, and the "shrapnel" caught
all the operators and spectators. The
cld-fashioned corn chopper was
more considerate, but these are pro-,
gressive days.
Hoover predicts decrease in food
cost In a month, but much he knows.
That's too near Thanksgiving time,
when turkeys, to be consistent and
due to the shortage in grasshoppers,
should sell around half a dollar a
pound.
In the old days commissioners and
other county officials bought their
own oats when1hey traveled, and
perhaps that is where "Watchdog"
Kaste gets his old-fashioned notions
about buying gasoline and tires.
Press censorship at Gary is denied,
snd that is good news. Now let the
details come of arrests, broken
heads and general casualties among
the "Reds." The country awaits
them.
Here is an item that will maken
every lawyer indignant, but it must
be remembered that it happened in
New York: In a contest as to who
could tell the biggest lie in one min
ute's time, James Mclntyre of Mc-
Intyre & Heath won a gold watch at
a testimonial concert given for Bar
ney Fagan, minstrel, in the Manhat
tan opera house. Mr. Mclntyre said
he knew that "at one time there was
an honest lawyer." He had barejy
finished his sentence when his one
minute time was up, but he got the
watch.
"
Vassar college has received a sec
ond 1100,000 gift from two of its
alumnae, Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker
and her sister, Mrs. Queen E. Ferry
Coonley, of Greenwich, Conn., for the
erection of a new alumnae house on
the college campus. The original
$100,000 gift was doubled because of
the increased cost of building. The
givers are daughters of Dexter M.
Ferry of Detroit, of national reputa
tion as a seedsman. Mrs. Hooker has
been yery prominent in college affairs
and has four daughters, one of whom,
Barbara, entered Vassar this year.
Fancy dress balls "with the foxtrot,
one-step, hesitation and tango as the
popular dances, make up the pro
gramme of social leaders who are
-preparing for the next London sea
son. "There are some 30 Hawaiian
orchestras on the ocean London
bound," said one leading dancing mas
ter who predicted they would take
the city by storm and drive the pop
ular "jazz" Into the social discard.
The pendulum, he said, "is swing- I
Ing back from noisy music to ,the
plaintive, simple melodies of pre-war
days."
not be held against him. Accordin
to Mr. Marks, a group of local capi
talists took the bonds, but they had
brisk competition for the reason that
other bidders were offering par and
a premium, and one bond house in
Portland even offered to furnish the
bonds. 'During the war," says Mr.
Marks, "the bottom dropped out of
the towns in the Willamette valley
but they are certainly booming now."
One of the latest industries for Albany
Is an immense cannery, something
that the town has long needed to take
care of the fruit and berries grown
in that vicinity.
"Shoes will go to $20 a pair this
winter, "nredicts a shoe salesman, at
the Hotel Portland. Among- other
causes for the soaring price he quotes
small skins. Formerly they went for
75 cents but are now $2.25. In Russia
there are no shoes, says the sales
man, and the aristocracy such as the
bolshevik! haven't yet wiped out are
going around in barefeet. A commer
cial traveler in Russia is offered any
where from $25 to $100 for the shoes
on his feet. "The public is respon
sible for the high cost of living," as
serted the salesman. "When high
school boys wear $15 silk shirts and
have to have two or three ready-made
suits ranging from $40 to $65 what
can you expect? As long as the public
wants these things the manufacturers
will produce them."
"Weather permitting, we will keep
working all winter on the Kilches
river railroad," stated Matt Glavin, at
the Seward yesterday. "This is to be
a 12-mile road, running from Idaville
into a big body of timber owned by
the Whitney Lumber company. We
have four miles of road built now,
standard construction a a pippin, if
I do say it myself. A 'Y' is being built
to Kilches Point and a warehouse 80x
140 feet is being erected. I'm in town
now because a steams hovel broke
down and I had to get some parts."
Mr. Glavin, although a young man, is
an old hand at railroad construction.
There Is a station named after him
over in Washington, where he was do
ing railroad work.
For seven weeks three young wom
en have been driving across the coun
try from Troy, N. C, in an automobile.
Arrayed in "knickers," they arrived
at the Hotel Portland yesterday. They
say .they have had all the motoring
they care for and as soon as they
can arrive in San Francisco they plan
to sell the car and go home by train.
The young women are the Misses Mary
and Grace Suntherlun and Harriet
Tilghman. . The girls took turns at
the wheel and managed to land each
night where they could secure hotel
accommodations.
1 want a room, stated a young
man to Otto Metschan, at the Im
perial yesterday. "Have you a reser
vation?" inquired Otto. Without a
word the young man dug into his coat
pocket and produced a marriage
license. "There it is," said the
stranger. He was assigned to a room
Last week a somewhat similar inci
dent occurred at the Hotel Portland.
Johnnie O'Brien, on the desk, asked a
young man if he had a reservation,
and the visitor produced his railroad
ticket and sleeper ticket.
An old salt-water skipper is Cap
tain C. A. Johnson of Seward. Alaska,
who landed at the Seward yesterday.
The captain, who is 76 years old. re
tired from the sea some time ago and
is interested in mining properties in
the north. He came out on the last
boat. In Seattle he found the hotels
so crowded that he had to sit up all
night, an experience he had in Port
land when he was here on his last
visit.
"I don't want to be a delegate to
the next republican national conven
tion," declared C. P. Bishop of Salens
who is at the Hotel Portland. , "I've
had my turn at it, and there isn't any
thing but a little honor in being a
delegate and so I'm in favor of letting
some of the younger men have it. As
for Salem, he continued, "we're full
of prunes ated loganberries; there's
lots of money, plenty of business and
conditions are just line.
When the last section of the John
Day highway is completed E. O.
Woodall can come to Portland from
Long creek any time in the year. This
is a particularly vital link to Grant
county. Stockmen of Long creek and
that-a-way are practically cut off dur
ing tne winter from Portland. Mr.
Woodall is in town on business and
is at the Hotel Oregon.
J. L. Calvert, road contractor, is at
the Hotel Oregon from Grants Pass.
Mr. Calvert is a member of the con
tracting firm which has the job on
the Pacific highway from the Jack
son county line south toward the
point where a new. bridge is to cross
the Rogue river near Gold Hill. This
Is one of the sections which will not
be completed before next year.
should be evident that the other mem
bers of the council were against us
or that for some otho.r reason we
should decide to ask that the dispute
be referred to the assembly,, as can
be done at the request of either
party to the dispute, provided that
such request be made within 14 days
after the submission' of the dispute
to the council.
As I understand the last clause of
article 15, if a majority of the as
sembly should, vote in our favor the
report would be made in our favor, or
it might be regarded as a failure to
reach a report, which is .provided for
in the sixth clause of the same arti
cle. In either case, might not the five
extra votes of Great liritain's colo
nies figure considerably in making
up the majority in the assembly?
The president says that it is im
probable that England's colonies ever
would vote against this country, but
it is quite possible that they might
do so and we want to deal with possi
bilities, not probabilities. It is al
ready Said in England that if any dis
pute should arise in regard to the in
terpretation of the Monroe doctrine
there is the league of nations to de
cide It. It is conceivable that the
other members of the council mipht
differ from us and such a situation as
I have described misht arise.
Please answer this question in the
spirit of candor and sincerity in which
it is asked. INQUIRER.
A report by the assembly, in order
to have force, requires the concur
rence of all the members of the coun
cil and of a majority of the other
members of the league, . exclusive of
the parties to the dispute. As a party
to any dispute the United States
would not have a vote.
The correspondent's point is not
exactly clear to The Oregonian. If
he means that the council might unan
imously favor, the United States but
that this country smight lose a ma
jority of the other members of the
league through the five adverse votes
of the British colonies, the effect
would be that the report would be
without force. The several nations
could take such action as individually
they saw fit.' It would be as if there
were no league of nations.
If the correspondent fears that
there might be a report adverse to
this country by unanimous vote of
the council and a majority of the
other members of the assembly, he
should bear in mind that it is ex
tremely far-fetched to imagine that
the United States, on a meritorious
contention, could not obtain even one
vote on the council and would also
lose a majority of the other members.
Even if the members were inclined
to decide disputes without reference
to justice, . it is certain that they
would remember that, soon or late,
one or -jnore of them would have a
case before the league. They would
refrain from kicking in the face a
nation thatlwould, as a member of the
council, be in a position to kick back
when the time came.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
THE DIFFER E!YC'R.
When Shakespeare heard his gran
dad say
An ancient king named Lear
In giving all his wealth away
Behaved uncommon queer
He did not sigh and say. "Tuf: tut!"
Or weep and cry', "Alack"'
But dramatized the royal nut
And made a lot of Jack!
When Henry Eighth fell for a squab,
Thoueh well along in life
And. getting Wolsey on the Job
Divorced his wedded wife.
He didn't say, "Ain't that too bad
To fall for such a chit!"
But pulled his coat and worked like
mad
And made a play of it!
When Shakespeare heard how Shylock
meant
To carve Antonio
To get his legal six per rent
Upon some borrowed doiiKh
He did not sit around and weep
Or tear his hair or rage;
He sacrificed his meals and sleep
To write it for the stage.
Both you and I observe events
That stir the world today.
We see ail sorts of curious gents
Worth putting In a play.
However, neither I nor you
Immortalize them now
The way Bill Shakespeare used to do
Because wednn't know how!
The I.nn's Delays.
Apparently the only way the kaiser's
guilt will be determined will he hy a
postmortem after he dies of old age.
Munificent Corruption.
The New York state doctor who was
bribed with an automobile tire must
have guaranteed to perform some
enormous service for the briber.
Keeping l p the Death Rate.
When the football mortality abates
the colleges make it up with hazing
accidents.
(Copyright, 1919, by the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
Loyalty.
By Grace E. Jlall.
Cling to the hand that clings to vours,
as over the hills you plod.
Where the cactus grow and row on
row the thistle hursts Its pod:
Where the springs run dry as vou
journey by, for the way is long and
steep.
And you need a friend to the very
end whose faith you're sure to keep.
In the spring of life when pulses
throb and eyes are bright and keen.
No doubt for a moment seems to rob
your mind of its faith serene;
But the hill is long and the many
turn where the side-trails branch
aside.
And you'll find some day in sad dis
may that but few friends long abide.
There are great "concessions" along
tne trail from dawn til the close
of day.
You will see the strongest sometimes
fall and right to wrong give wav:
The cactus thorns shall bring you
pain, out it will not burn nor sear
Like the awful pall when in grief
you call and no friend answers.
"Here:"
FORT'S IVEED IS C'O-OI'ERATIOV
In Other Days.
A backless gown on a beautiful
woman may be joy to tired eyes; but
if ever man begins to wearing back
less coats, vests, shirts and
"etceteras," lt'-s the backless ax for
him.
British dislike of American
preachers has broken out about the
time when prohibition pussyfooting
annoys John Bull. There may be
some connection.
It is seasonal to remark! that the
woman who can make the right'kind
of pumpkin pie is never dragged
into court as defendant in a divorce
suit. ' . " "
No waiting for the hens to idy
before one can have his breakfast in
Oregon. A trip to the fields will
produce a China pheasant.
Why can't the Magyars and Rou
manians let us settle the old war be
fore they begin a new one?
Colonel House's condition is im
proved. As he would say in Texas,
he's taking- nourishment.
Designation of the point north of
Gosport, Ind., which formerly ,was the
north boundary of Indiana, has been
made by marker. The point was
specified in a treaty of 1809 signed
with the Indians at Fort Wayne, and
the line which crosses the highway is
popularly known as the 10 o'clock line
because it is supposed to represent
the line a shadow thrown at 10 o'clock
by the sun would make. The survey.
which included the point, started not
far from Lawrenceburg on the Ohio
river and crossed the Wabash in the
vicinity of Terre Haute.
A" banal young person named Claire
Has affected a Frenchified air;
She drinks cafe noir
And when told, "Au revoir"
She always replies. "Pomme de terre!"
Boston Transcript.
a
Be master of your temper and you
hold the key to Joy and contentment.
La Rochefoucauld.
jong accounted a social science
laboratory and political experiment
station, some physical features of
New Zealand are - equally unusual.
Zoologists found there a tailless bird,
evolutionary souvenir, they believe, of
the now extinct wingless moa, rang
ing In size from that of a turkey
to a super-ostrich height of 12 feet
from head to ground. . Then there is
a caterpillar which dies but to live
again in the form of a plant, which
blossoms .and goes to seed.
"Isn't there some talk of a
preachers' strike?"
Something of the sort has been
suggested."
Do you think the slogan, 'More
pay, or no preacning, would get re
Does the small boy weep when
his teacher has the 'fluT "Birming
ham Age-Herald. - -
Pacific City, which has a popula
tion of less than 50. is represented 1n
Portland today by D. T. Edmunds,
who is registered at the Hotel Port
land. Pacific City, is a summer re
sort on the Nestucca river and bay
where there's plenty of seafood with
general farming and dairying in the
neighborhood.
Auld isn't a very common name, but
two patrons bearing that cognomen
arrived at the Multnomah yesterday
from widely different parts of the
"world. James D. Auld, registered
from London, England, and David
Auld registered from Eugene, Or.
Thomas H. Tongue, Jr., -of Hills
boro, chairman of the republican state
committee, and sometimes mentioned
as a possible candidate for congress
from the first district, was conferring
with fellow republicans in Portland
yesterday.
Bankers are rather thick in town,
for some reason. J. J. Shockly of
Baker is at the Imperial, F.C.Stewart
of Kelso, Wash., is at the Hotel Ore
gon, and E. P. Ash of Stevenson,
Wash., is at the Multnomah;
A. F. Knuttner, accompanied by his
wife, registered at the Hotel Wash
ington yesterday from Alaska. Mr.
Knuttner is in the government serv
ice in the territory.
Attending the Knights of Pythias
convention from Vale are George W.
Hayes, attorney, and T. B. Nordale,
furniture dealer. They are registered
at the Perkins.
Judge T. E. J. Duffy, of Prineville.
Crook county, is at the Imperial. He
was originally appointed to the bench
by the late Governor Withycombe.
Wearing the uniform of a sailor,
E. G. Porter registered at the Perkins
hotel yesterday from Cebie, Philippine
islands.
J. B. E. Bourne, a newspaper pub
lisher of- Rainier, Or., is among the
arrivals at the Seward.
E. I. Ballagh, representative of Co
lumbia county, was registered at the
Imperial yesterday. ,
D. E. Yoran of Eugene, where he is
in the retail shoe business, is at the
Seward for a few days. ,
Advocacy of Move to Astoria Opposes
History and Best Authorities.
PORTLAND. Or., Oct. 14. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian Saturdav
the manager of a Portland bonding
house, who is in Astoria "promoting
financial interest at Seaside." js
quoted as suggesting that Portland,
"a so-called port," quit spending her
nioney on her so-called docks" and
use it to buy and improve the S. P.
S. railroad to Astoria. Then follows
a picture of the wonderful prosperity
that will inure to the whole Columbia
basin. "One for all and all for one"
l to be the seductive slogan.
May we suggest that an excellent
start in this Utopian scheme, for all
who believe ln it, would be to trans
fer their business to the coming "real
port" of the Columbia and allow the
loyal citizens of Portland to work out
the destiny of the "so-called port"
ulone.
The gentleman suggests "co-operation."
That is what Portland has long
needed and want of it has been her
principal handicap in the past. In
rating the value of the advice given
us it is pertinent to inquire what ex
perience the gentleman has had
port building, and what knowledge he
has of any port ln the world that has
ever followed the plan he suggests.
Before we adopt it, let i ' try it op
the dog." Ask Seattle, for instance,
to spend all her money and her ener
gies on building up Port Angeles or
Port Townsend and send word to
Hamburg that her only hope as a
seaport i3 dependent on making 8
great port of the little village of Cux
haven. Colonel Slattery, one of our
local government engineers, who is
a recognized authority of actual ex
perience, told the Ad club last week
that Portland had advantages today
equal to those of the greatest ports in
the world, and that the best author
ities regarded an inland situation, as
close In as possible to the seat of in
dustry and production, as a matter of
prime importance. Our only real need,
he declared, was co-operation locally
and the development of the civic spirit
shown in rival ports.
Portland is not jealous In any way
of the progress of her little sister at
the mouth of the Columbia. Nobody
here Is excited over this phase of the
situation at all who has any real in
terest ln the future of Portland. She
Is simply looking out for her own
legitimate Interests, as is every other
prosperous port in tffe world. If gen
tlemen interested in the other ports
will concentrate their energies in
building up their favorite location in
stead of constantly trying to dis
credit other ports, they will secure
better results. Is it not about time
to end once and for all propagation of
the absurd fiction that Portland Is
wasting any time in fighting Astoria'
Why should she? She is after larger
game. She never was in better con
dition, and she never did in al her his
tory give greater promise of becoming
a great seaport. INQUIRER.
Twenty-five Years Abo.
From The Oregonian of October 1., lft!4.
A delegation f 100 business men
made an excursion Saturday on the
steamer Telephone, to Astoria and the
mouth of the Columbia.
London. Germany has rejected
England's proposal to join the other
powers and intervene In the war be
tween China and Japan.
An intercollegiate football associa
tion, with five laading universities
and colleges as members, was formed
Saturday at Albany.'
,
When the Albina warehouse of the
O.-R. & N. company burned three
weeks ago some 10.000 cases of sal
mon went Into the river and work
men engaged on the task have thus
lar fished out about 30(10 cases.
Sinn Feiners.ln Parliament.
PORTLAND. Oct. 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly settle an argument that
has arisen out of the question of the
number of Sinn Feiners elected to
parliament in the elections held last
December.
Would you also kindly quote an
excerpt from some English newspa
per, from an editorial, which will
show the number of Sinn Feiners
elected.
D. P. McLOUGHLIN.
The. number was 73. The Dublin
correspondent of the London Times in
a dispatch dated December 29, 1918,
published in the weekly edition of
January 3, 1919, said: "I was told a
few days ago that Sinn Fein expected
to win 75 seats. In fact It has won
73." We can find no editorial men
tioning this number, though the gen
eral subject was discussed.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oreponlan of October 15, lslllt.
Chicago. Admiral Farragut revived
a little yesterday from his critical
condition, but it is feared he cannot
recover.
Columbus. Election returns indi
cate the election of Hayes by a ma
jority of 3000. with a democratic sen
ate and republican house.
A worklngmen's union is to be or-
niganized tonight at a meeting in the
n.uimei liuara nnn.
Nearly all the sailors on the st hoon
er Walter Raleigh, recently arrived
from New York, deserted yesterday.
EVERGREKX BEItRV I.Oti KNOW N
Mentioned by Cerman Hot an 1st Who
Lived More Thuu Century Ago.
ROSEBURG. Oct. 13 (To the Edi
tor.) Referring to the correspond
ence in The Oregonian concerning the
evergreen blackberry, much of the
doubt therein expressed as to Its or
igin may be very easily cleared up
by consulting Gray's Field, Forest
and Garden Botany, where we find
the following:
Rubus Iacinlatus, Wild. Cut-leaved or
evergreen blaekberry. Leaflets .1, each
plnnately divided into lolied and rut por
tions; flower cluster small, whitish Dubes-
cont; stems with recurved nrlcklHs. I'rob
ably a form of tho European Kubua frutl
cosus. Carl Ludwlg Willdenow, who Is
here quoted as having named the
plant, was a German botanist who
flourished from 17tio to 1S1 2 : so we
see the plant is probably older than
the Declaration of Independence.
The writer came from the Willam
ette valley to this locality about 45
years ago. where he then formed hi
first acquaintance with, as it was
then called, the Australian black
berry: but how it came here or when,
he has no knowledge.
Now, notwithstanding the desirable
qualities of the plant as set forth In
The Oregonian, please mark this pre
diction: Wherever the plant sets a
foothold in congenial surroundings
the inhabitants thereof, are booked
for trouble in the not distant future.
It spreads rapidly from both seed
and root stocks, and once established,
is almost Impossible to eradicate, and
of course any place occupied by it is
good for nothing else under the sun
F. M. SEBRIN'G.
Berry Introduced From Alaska.
CLACKAMAS, Or., Oct. 13 (To the
editor.) Replying to the letter of
Mrs. B. Bickford in The Oregonian
regarding the introduction of the
evergreen blackberry into this state:
A few years ago an old pioneer told
me the following: When Wllie
Chapman was collector of customs in
Sitka, Alaska, during the early '70s.
he sent six roots of these berries
from there to Oregon. Two were
sent to his home ln Clackamas, two
to the vicinity of Salom, and two to
Philip Foster at Eagle Creek.
A. MATHER.
Neckties Criticised.
Boston Transcript.
"Such vivid neckties Dicky wears.
They're simply dazzling." "Yes, his
idea seems to be Best is the lie that
blinds," -
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