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lO TIIE .MORNING OREGONIAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1919. :; KSTABLISHED BY HENRY PjTTTOCK I Published by The Oresonian Publishing Co. 14. sixth Street, Borland, Oregon. C. A. MOKDE.V, E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The OreRoninn is a member of the Asso ciated Prt-ss. The Associated Press is ex rlusively entitled to the use for iepubl!ca tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in tftis paper, end also the local news published herein. AM rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) Daily, Sunday included, one year $8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months.... 4.1i5 Daily. Sunday included, three months.. 2.25 jDaiiy. Sunday included, one month 73 JDaiiy, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months.... S.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month GO Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) 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Publication of a magazine of na-; tion-wide circulation, in which the letterpress has been produced with out the intervening art of the printer employing the latter term in its restricted sense of the workman who fcets the type may mark the open ing of a new epoch in that craft. That there are certain (at present) obvious disadvantages does not argue, to a people accustomed to the surmounting of mechanical obsta cles, that these will never be over come. One needs only to recall the opinions held by enlightened men half a century ago, that whatever might be done as to supplanting other forms of manual work by ma chinery, typesetting could never be done otherwise than by hand, to find precedent against over-conservatism. The present typesetting machine had a long row to hoe before it won rec ognition. The prototype of the model now in almost universal use underwent 'many changes before it finally was adopted: Ottmar Mer ganthaler owes his fame as original inventor partly to the reluctance of investors in a much earlier day to finance development of a device which seemed to them to be chimer ical, but which has established itself firmly as a factor in industry in the last thirty-five years. The typewriter, one of the agencies which have made the current inter esting issue of the Literary Digest possible, is much older than the typesetting machine, and engraving', without which the publication could not have been made at all, antedates even printing itself. Johann Guten berg printed a book from movable types about 1455, and, doing so, ushered in a new social and political era for the world. But thereafter, for a reason which historians are un able to find, type composition rested on its laurels, despite, the work of Aldus and the Elzevirs and Stephens, so that "William Morris, who tried to instill new life into It about half a century ago, was probably right when he said that "no good printing had been done since 1650." It is a singular fact that the craft which had contributed most to emancipate men from the darker ages should itself have suffered so much more than others from this form of bour bonism. The age of steam was uslr ered in, the locomotive and th steamship were invented, the cotton gin and the loom, turned the textile industry upside down, the science of mechanics made progress every where else, while printing degener ated. The publications of. our own revolutionary times hardly compared favorably, in point of art, with those of the Elzevir family of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is unaccountable that it should have been so. Printing, which aided every other science to advance, lan g-uished long. When William Church built a kind of typesetting machine in 1822, it attracted little notice, and it was a score of years before fur ther patents were issued to show that anyone was interested in this field of endeavor. A machine that is said to have set 13,000 separate types in an hour, was patented about 1840, but seems not to have at tracted attention. Other patterns were used sporadically, but did not grow in popularity. The reception accorded to Mergenthaler varied be tween tolerance and open hostility. Suggestions seriously made that his machine be banned by printers on the amusing economy theory that it would unsettle industry by depriving workmen of employment were re miniscent of the earlier loom riots in Great Britain. But it is significant of the effect of sober thought of people brought face to face with a basic fact that these contentions did not prevail. The typesetting ma- chine, as in earlier days the print ing craft itself, marked a change, the force of which no merely paro chial resistance could stem. It is an interesting coincidence, in connection with the situation which has now impelled the New York pub lishers to utilize the engravers' art to supplant that of typesetting, that j the first known strike in the print ing industry was precipitated by op position of the engravers'- guild to use of woodcuts as illustrations of the typed text. Edmund G. Gress, in his "Art and Practice of Typog raphy," mentions the interesting fact that the first master printer to encounter restrictions by labor unions was Gunther Zainer of Augs burg, who first began illustrating books with woodcuts, to which the block printers' guild objected. They induced the magistrates to pass laws against the use of cuts by typograph ers, but these did not continue long ia effect. That was about 1470. "Typography," a word used to dis tinguish type composition from every other form of printing, has had res tored to it its ancient meaning of "typewriting" by the new method which would reproduce the manu script itself, rather than employ the printer to reset it In type. The fact, although it may furnish diversion for the philologists, is unimportant by comparison with the possibilities that it connotes. With the awaken ing, within a generation, of con structive interest in the mechanics of printing there has been more gener al disposition to consider the craft in its interrelation to other mechan ical pursuits. Thus, devices for com tiniug prUiting with telegraphy, in a Tnnn nor which would be economical I both of time and labor both prime lerations in an overbusv world have lately received more hospit- able consideration than would hae been accorded to them a generation or so ago, and photography and engraving- are coming: to be regarded as companion industries. The ulti mate demand that production be at tended by no economically useless motion is superior to every form of conservatism. Direct printing- of an important magazine from original manuscripts may be the proverbial swallow which does not make a sum mer yet it will not In this day be dismissed as lightly as that. Ad vance from hand to machine work in typesetting was hardly more epochal, and was attended by no more obstacles that at first seemed obvious, than that which is now pre sented as more than a possibility. NO PORTLAND SHIPS FOR PORTLAND. If all of the twelve steel steamers yet to be completed In Portland shipyards are to carry cargoes to the Atlantic coast and not to come back, where is Portland to get vessels to bring goods from Atlantic ports, to establish regular Atlantic and Pa cific lines and to establish regular lines to foreign ports? If all of the twelve are needed to carry food to Europe, then the ship ping board should have permitted Portland to build other ships to carry the port's oun commerce. Ap parently that could not be done with out offense to the porcine procliv ities of Hog Island, though the Pa cific coast established some claim to consideration by building half of the new tonnage constructed In 1918 and though Portland did Its full part to ward that result. Falling that, Portland yards should have been given freedom and encouragement to take private contracts. Efforts in that direction have been obstructed by the shipping board in several ways, the dog in the manger being the board's exemplar. It is up to Portland to build Its own ships, to estaDiisn its own steamship lines and to drum up traf fic both on the Atlantic coast and abroad. What this port has ac complished has been by Its own un aided efforts, and the obstructions which It encounters serve only to stir its fighting blood. It grows and thrives in spite of efforts to stifle it. THE STRIKE AS A HOLD-OT. The call for a strike of all miners of bituminous coal on November 1 threatens the country with much more than a labor dispute, tnougn this would be serious enough, as It would cut off the main supply of fuel as winter sets In. But the demands of the miners are so exorbitant that no expectation can be entertained that they will be conceded, and the union officers are given no discretion to make concessions, for any agreement they may make is to be subject to approval by a second convention. The purpose of these extreme de mands, of making them on the eve of winter and of practical exclusion of compromise is suggested by the political demands of the miners' con vention. They, demand government ownership of coal mines and nation alization of the coal mining Industry. and they endorse the Plumb railroad plan. The connection between these radical aims and the strike Is sug gested by the declaration of the union officers to the members that "the United Mine Workers of Amer ica are now embarking upon the greatest enterprise ever undertaken in the history of the trade union movement." In fact, the proposed miners' strike Is an attempt to force the so viet plan on the American people by depriving them of fuel at the season when lack of it means death to thousands. It would also mean sus pension of railroads, tying up fao tories and steamships, cutting off food supply from many points. The consequences would not be confined to this country. Italy depends on imported fuel, and the troubles stirred up by the radicals have re duced British production to the point where Italy has turnea to this coun try. The Danish railroads are run with American coal, because none was available from Britain or Ger many. The threatened strike is an attempt to hold up the American people by inflicting incalculable suffering and loss oh them. It is an attempt to extort exorbitant terms of work and to force radical changes in the laws without opportunity of discussion. The right to do these things is de fended as the right of "a man" to quit work, and it is pretended that the people who depend on coal mines for fuel have no rights worthy of consideration. This hold-up of a nation is at tempted actually by a body of men among whom the proportion of aliens Is probably larger than it is among the steelworkers. They are chiefly of those Slav races for whose emancipation from foreign yoke we have fought, but they now try to fas ten their foreign yoke on us. Their leaders bear apparently American names, but these are the few Ameri can converts to bolshevism or they are aliens disguised under American names, like Greenowich of Seattle. When the strike is used for such ends, it has become an instrument of tyranny, not of emancipation. This abuse ot organized labor's most treasured weapon justifies prohibi tion of its use in any such manner or in any case where means are pro vided for just settlement of disputes without strikes. Patience has been shown with industrial strikes, but there will be no tolerance of political strikes. RESTORING YOTJTH. It Is not easy to resist temptation to frame a quip on the reported dis covery of a European scientist. Dr. Serge Voronoff, of a method by which a man eighty years old, and presumably rather, well advanced on the road to senile decrepitude, has been restored to the semblance of youth, by grafting into his body "an interstitial gland from a young chim panzee." An interstitial gland is a gland situated "within the tissues," a phrase less definite than scientific men could desire, but sufficient for ordinary description. It is not in Itself an imposing affair, but 'it is Iraught with momentous conse quences, if Dr. Voronoff's promise is made good. We shall not too readily- assume that the discovery will be a blessing to the race. The reflective will pause to consider seriously whether per petual youth would be desirable if it were attained without payment We may suppose that the common feeling of most men, that they would live far differently if they "had their lives to live over again," would soon give place to the prodigal expendi ture of energy if they were assured in advance that they might recoup their wasted years by a simple sur gical operation. Inevitability of old age does exercise some restraint, at least by example, and it is hardly pleasant to contemplate the prospect of a world in a riot of youthfulness, spending its years in reckless disre gard of any penalty to come. Ponce de Leon, who died at forty-two, sought the waters of perpetual youth because, it may be, he lived too lit erally the short life and a merry one which was all too common in his day, and De Soto may have been moved by a similar reason in his Quest, but we lack evidence that either would have, made better use of a restored adolescence. There are still methods for meas urably postponing senility which promise far greater substantial re wards, because they take account of the unavoidableness of the law of compensation. Such a means was that of Metchnikoff, who thought he had found the secret in temperance of diet, and such are those of the scientists who are now succeeding in increasing the average life of the race. But each promising method involves participation by the benefi ciaries thereof with which we would not dispense; it is the element of exacting payment for it that makes prolonged youth valuable; it is hard ly probable, as has been suggested, that we should attain anything more than a prolongation of the follies of youth if its perpetuation could be insured so long as the supply of chimpanzees held out. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY LOST. Whatever may be said of the earnestness of those investigators who are now seeking evidence of communication with the dead, it is not always easy to commend their discrimination. Most prominent of the recent-converts to spiritualism to testify to an actual conversation with an inhabitant of the Great Be yond is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, cer tainly in his prime a reputable au thority and one who would command respectful attention in any company, yet who ' seems strangely to have laid aside his former habit of close Investigation and even of philosophic thinking In his study of the subject now under Inquiry. In approaching a problem In physics. Dr. Doyle would not, it will be supposed, be content -with any less than all the evidence obtainable, and would even be aroused to instant suspicion by any apparent effort at concealment. Yet in his account of his conversation with his son which took place In the presence of a me dium "bound in six places with a string" he indicates that he was satisfied with the following: "Father." I answered. "Tra, my eon." He eald: "Forgive me." knew te what he referred. We had had only one difference In our lifetlm rl non-belief In spiritualism. I reassured him. He aatd. "1 am so happy." Then his voice faded. The Sggravatingly disappointing fact about spirits as a class is that when ODDortunitv does nrcsent itself. when conditions are precisely "right" I and the line of communication has oeen esuoiuaea, mtjr ian to satisiy their hearer upon the points that the latter would most like to know about. If, as we like to believe, they live on a higher plane, from which they can look down on and appraise at true value the human relations of this earth, they ought not to lack appreciation of the yearn ings of us mortals for more precise Information as to the nature of life over there. Yet they are content with such banalities as would hardly be indulged in by friends who had only been separated from each other by a journey, and they miss every opportunity to tell us the very things that, ever since metaphysical re search began, men have most wanted to know about. A relatively insignificant differ ence of opinion between otherwise tolerant individuals would hardly constitute a tax upon the spirit ot forgiveness, and Sir Arthur's son might have taken this for granted and, in the very few moments per mitted to him for conversation, have told a" good many things which would have thrown vastly more light on the secret that still remains un disclosed. It still remains a mystery why a spirit with a sense of news is not developed. They all have the same falling; they devote the pre scious moments to matters of no scientific or other consequence, and then, just when we have a right to expect them to resolve our doubts on important points, they "fade away." Instead of asking forgiveness for not having believed in spiritualism (this was the point upon which father and son had. differed in the latter's life time) young Doyle should ask to be forgiven for missing so obvious an opportunity for turning on more light. THE NEED FOR AMERICANIZATION, Gary, a city built by the steel cor poration,. Is populated chiefly by aliens. These aliens formed a con spiracy to overthrow the government ot the United States. They manu factured bombs and sent them throughout the United States to kill American officials. The senate committee which has been investigating the steel strike at Pittsburg found that halt the work men could not even speak the Eng llsh language. A witness before the senate com mittee said that foreign agitators In a mill at Newcastle, Pa., told the American workmen they would have to get out, that the foreigners would take possession and that committees would run the mills the soviet plan These and a multitude of similar facts go to prove that the most urgent task now before the Ameri can people is to Americanize the United States. For many years w have been un-Americanizing our own country. In a free-for-all race to get rich we have neglected the most elementary precautions for the pre servation of that which we profess to value most highly the republic and the Institutions and customs which have grown up under It. In pursuit of wealth, steamship companies have brought shiploads of foreigners to this country. These foreigners knew nothing of our insti tutlons except that they had a gen eral Idea that this was a republic where everybody does as he pleases. We had a fond delusion that they came to enjoy the blessings of Amer ican liberty. They did not. They came to make money, and, when they found that they could not make It as fast as they hoped, they gave heed to the urgtngs of red agitators. When they learned that American liberty did not extend to spouting treason and to free riot, they were led by the re da te form, conspiracies. to make and plant bombs and gen erally to tear down what the Ameri can people have been building for a century and a half. These aliens were brought in by wholesale in response to a demand from the Steel Corporation and other big corporations for labor. The latter were indifferent to what kind of labor they got, and to the fact that labor has behind it a thinking brain, rentiments, passions. ambitions. ideals. They took this labor as it came and they planted in scores ot American cities foreign cities wh'.ch were separated from the original population by barriers of language. This barrier was used by the mis-, sionanea of socialism, the I. W. w. and bolshevism to win converts to their doctrines of violence and to make each of these foreign cities an enemy camp in the heart of this country. No effort was made to teach the aliens the language of the coun try or win their support for Ameri can democracy and rule of the ma jority. They have known only the rule of force in their native countries, hence they assume as a matter of course that they must make their new system supreme by force. While all this has been going on, the American people have watched the growing totals of immigration and have swollen with pride at the fast increasing population. They have had some vague idea that this country is the refuge for the op pressed, and that the immigrant hordes are poured into a melting pot which by some secret process con verts them into Americans. The events of this year have awak ened the American people to the fact that they have been living in a fool's paradise. The employers have discovered that the commodity which they call labor thinks, feels and acts most vigorously on Its own initiative, to the general purpose of ousting them from possession of their property, clubbing, shooting or bombing any persons who uphold their rights, and changing the entire form of government to the soviet system. The people in general find that those whom they regarded as the oppressed are in a fair way to be come their oppressors after the man ner of Lenin e, and that the melting pot has not done any perceptible amount of melting. If we are to pre vent those whom we sheltered from the fierce storms of autocracy from pulling down the roof over our heads, we must be up and doing. Trying to place the blame at present would be profitless and would waste valuable time. The forces of the law can catch and pun ish the leaders and break up the con dpi racy, as is being done at Gary, but that strikes only at the outward manifestation of the evil. It is ncces sary to remove its source, which Is In the minds of the aliens. Kortu nately, for the time immigration is stopped, and we have opportunity to make a fresh start. Immigration should be forbidden until new meas ures have been adopted and put in operation. Before new immigrants are ad mitted, the bad should be sifted from the mass of those already here and should be shipped back whence they came, xnen me way win oe open io deal with what remains. It is a job to be undertaken under the general direction of the federal government, for It Is a national problem. No man or woman should be naturalized un less he can read a newspaper printed in English and unless he knows enough of American history and in stitutions to vote intelligently; he should be compelled to go to school that he may acquire this knowledge; and the state in co-operation with he nation should provide the schools. The immigration laws should be revised to limit the annual number of immigrants of any nation ality, to admit only those who intend to become Americans in the full sense of that word, and to make the degree of education above described an indispensable qualification tor citizenship. If we adopt and strictly tollow that rule, the foreign cities ill melt into the American cities, for the barrier of language will be burned away. In order that the cause of radical ism may be rooted out of the mind of both alien and native, the reactionary employer must be brought to a sense of his duty to the country. The man who refuses to have any dealings with a labor union to receive a committee of his em ployes, to consult them as a body, to bargain with them as a body or to treat them as anything but a com modity, is a breeder of bolshevism. as dangerous as the bolshevists themselves. Such men need to be brought to a sense of their responsi bility to the community, and to be taught that their rights are limjted by the injury which maybe done by their narrowly selfish exercise. If President Wilson only would be practical and throw his brain into a vacuum, he would get instant re lief. That's the trouble with big men, however, they will not. Per haps that's why the rest of us get along. Seven thousand Cailfornlans have declared Intention to make wine for home consumption, and here's hop ing the latchstrlng is out for visitors from Oregon. A ready-made house concern of the east is looking at Portland, and If there be one place more than an other ready to be fitted it Is Port land. By arresting the leaders of the lynching mob Omaha marks the dif ference between the northern and southern manner of handling lynch ers. None of these doctors of economy seem to have thought of going, visit ing as a way of reducing the high cost of existing. The premier's wife is out for pro hibition, but just watch Lloydie wink when he meets a thousand or two colllerymen. Japan Is planning more big bat tie ships and' that makes business good. They will need our steel. If Parson Maynard does not break his neck- today, he will make record. The biggest Elk in all the pasture will be here with horns on tomorrow. Steel strike, did some one say? No, Just an Indian summer vacation. Pretty good weather. If It was not this way. It might be worse. Killed out that Roosevelt memorial check yet? BY.PRODICT9 OK THE PRESS Lord Bereaford, Advocate of Deer for Poor Man, Quits V'ae at Age of 60. Admiral Lord Beresford. whose sud den death England is still mourning, gave up the use of Intoxicating drinks at the age ot 60. "Since I have given up wine, spirits and beer." he said some time afterward, "I find I can do as much work or more, physically and mentally, than I could when I was 30. I laugh at the 'downs' of life equally with the 'ups' and always feel fit." "Our Charlie." as Britishers affec tionately referred to their sea hero. wasn't a prohibitionist, hoover. He truck the keynote of his attitude toward prohibition whan at the age of 18 he made his maiden speech in the house ot commons, quoting the refrain: "Confound their eyes If ever they tries To rob a poor man of his beer." Asked when a boy what he would like to be, he said he wanted to be an admiral "like Nelson." So at 13 e entered the navy as a cadet. He was an all-around sportsman and an xcellent boxer. Once when a young man he baa an argument wnu a cabman. "I'll fight you for the fare." his lordship proposed. "Done," said the cabby, climbing down with alac rity from his perch. Lord Beres ford was severely handled. It devel- ped that the cabby was a former middleweight champion. Two years ago at a luncheon Lord Beresford exclaimed: "Here's a pretty tat of affairs." He pointed to an inscription on the under side ot nis plate which read, "Factory, Welden. Germany." We have actually," he cried "been dining off German plates." There was a crash of chinaware. i the diners, led by Beresford. mashed their plates on the floor and ground the fragments under heel. e e Macauley's premature death in 1I5S left his history of England uncom pleted. Ill health Interrupted the work as early as 1852. Volume IV of the earlier editions brought the work to the time of William III and ends with the peace of Kyswick In 697. As expressed on the title page, it was the author's original Intention to extend the history "from the acces sion of King James II down to a time which Is within the memory of men still living." In 1861 Lady Tre- velyan. sister of Lord Macauley, edited the chapters of his unl alsheo history which he left at the time of his death. These were published as volume V of the early editions, and contained also additional notes to the four previous chapters. Some doubt is expressed in London as to whether Premier Lloyd George will accept Andrew Carnegie's annu ity to him of 310,000, though it solves for him the question of his financial independence when he leaves office. He is still member of a law firm In London with his brother, but the Car negie bequest, made when he is still progressive politician, furthering policies which Carnegie favored, will enable him to give his whole time to them. John Burns, questioned about his legacy, said: "1 have nothing whatever to say about 'It one way or nother." and his critics are reviving the old saying of his that "no man Is worth more than 500 a year." Two of Mr. Carnegie's English legatees are dead Kir Swire Smith and John Wilson, Durham labor member, while the Hon. Thomas Burt, also a former labor member of unique standing and at one time "father of the house of commons," is a confirmed invalid. The little town of Malone. N. Y has added to its laurels by producing the youngest bride thus far recorded in New York state. Miss Llllie May Lattimore was Just 13, according to the record, when she gave her heart and hand, with the consent or her parents, to R. G. Arglelopls, aged 36. The bridegroom is a Greek, who. It is said, has studied theology, but seems to have confined his efforts to the street preaching of the Salvation Army. He has been In America sev eral years, going to Malone about two years ago. He Is an accomplished musician and is leader of the Salva tion Army band of six pieces. His bride also has musical talents, and Mr. Arglelopls has taught her to play the cornet and her sister to play the slide trombone. When a New York fireman in civ ilian clothes dashed into police head quarters with a call for the entire police and fire departments and called Sergeant Haley to the street to show him a white cloud pouring out of windows of the office of Second Dep uty Coramlsioner William Lahey, some excitement ensued. While the force ran tor pulmotora, extinguishers and what not. Sergeant Haley pounded vainly on the door and finally en tered with a master key. A roar of disapproval sounded from ' the midst of the white cloud and one and all were ordered to depart. The dep uty commissioner was taking a bath. The cloud was of steam. Back somewhere In 1870 was a man called M. Cbabert, better known as "the fire king," and these are some of the things he did to prove himself inhuman and a marvel in London: To begin with, he swallowed 40 grains of phosphorus, which is quite enough to kill several good-sized men. and after that he sipped oil at 330 degrees, and lived long enough to rub a red hot shovel over bla tongue, face and hair, and then lived some more. Some few years later, on a challenge of $250, he repeated the feat, won the wager and threw in a few more like stunts for good measure. He swal lowed a piece of burning torch, for Instance, and then, costumed in coarse woolens, entered an ' oven at 380 degrees, sang a song and cooked two dishes of beefsteak. A Cornell professor and his wife were entertained at dinner a few weeks ago, says a New York paper. In the midst of the gaiety at the table a child's voice"1 was heard com ing from the floor above. Mother." he cried. "What Is It, Archie?" she asked. "There's only clean towels in the bathroom. Shall I start one?" A Pictorial Review advertisement, speaking of Sister Corra Harris, says: "Mrs. Harris sees through men as if they were glass." That sounds pretty dangerous at first, but don't all wid , owl? Those Who Come and Go. Portland Is rapidly becoming a strong market for silk goods. It has always been a liberal purchaser, but of late the demand has been remark able. Silk salesmen, who are visiting this city, report that they have no trouble In securing substantial orders. One salesman flashed orders for 120,- 000. I10.00C and J500 as a result of a few day's' work, and he Is only one of the many silk salesmen who are stocking up ths dealers In Portland. Business was so good with one silk salesman at the Hotel Portland that very day during the world series he cat from 11000 io 31500. It might also be stated that every day he bet he placed his money on the Chicago team. and that the "Sox" won two games and lost five. The fact that this salesman "was wagering such large sums Is another Indication ot the prosperity ot the silk trade. "Every man that I brought from Fuget sound with ma to Install wire less outfits on tha ships being built for the government In Portland was married here, with a single exception, and that man was to have married but died of the Influenza." says F. R. Wright, at the Multnomah. "The en tire crew, with the single exception, found Portland girls they liked and proposed to them. "Mr. Wright says the wireless outfits for each boat cost from 35000 to 36000, and of these the tiggest single Item of expense were the storage batteries." "One can drive to Portland easily in three and one-half hours when tha pavement Is finished," Bays Roy Win der of Astoria, who Is at the Hotel Washington with Mrs. Winder. The couple report the road In good con dltion. notwithstanding construction work In spots, and they motored up the highway without trouble. On the other hand, consider Mr. and Mrs. C A. Smith, who operate a couple of stores in Astoria. They started to motor to Portland, had trouble with their machine and had to take a train. The Smiths are at the Benson. "I wouldn't miss seeing the Colum bia highway for anything." an nounced Mrs. D.- J. Finnigan of Los Angeles, at the Hotel Washington Mrs. Finnigan has seen the highway before, but on a trip to the north she remained over a day yesterday for the express purpose of enabling her niece. Hazel Leete, to view It. "And added Mrs. Finnigan. "even though the day was far from favorable and the vision impaired, it was worth go ing out to see." Those end-to-end planks which are found serving as roads In parts of the Coos bay country, especially out toward Empire city at the mouth of the bay, will be replaced by regular roads before long, as there is a move ment on foot to do a vast amount of road work in the county. M. E. Green of Marshfield, where the road move ment is being agitated, is at the Ho tel Oregon. Fred M. Sayles of the Multnomah staff was at the Hotel Crillon. Paris, where the management is now de rr.anding $45,000 damages because the help in the establishment was taught American methods of performing service and was spoiled by too large wages. Mr. Sayles Is the chap who broke in the Crillon help In the American style of hotel service. Joe Hermann smiled when he saw Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Rodda of Vashon Wash., register at the Hotel Port land. Before he became a clerk at the Portland Mr. Hermann lived at Seattle and used to go over to Vashon island to capture the wild, untamed clam in Its lair, He assertstnat there are no better butter clams grown anywhere than on Vashon. K. K. Kawakawi. who was at the Multnomah yesterday with Baron Gato, came Into prominence recently during a discussion of the Japanese question in California by United States Senator Phelan. Mr. Kawa kawi is also the author of a book fresh from the presses, which caused a mild sensation in diplomatic clr cles. Rollie W. Watson of Tillamook is at the Imperial. Mr. Watson's name la known to everyone who goes to tha town, because his signs are ever in evidence from the time a passenge arrives at the depot. He is in the real estate business, among othe enterprises. J. W. Mayo, whose name on a piec of paper was good for a free ride to Astoria once upon a time, when h was In the railroad business. Is at th Imperial. Mr. Mayo eschewed th rails years ago and is now in th banking business at Stayton, Or. Mrs. Ben Sheldon or Medford is a the Benson. Mrs. Sheldon is the wife of Representative Sheldon of Jackson county, one of the most active mem bers ot the house during the 191 session of the legislature. From Petrograd to Portland come J. M. Larsman. who Is registered the Benson. The Russian visitor Is accompanied by F. W. Weston of Philadelphia. J. H. Hawley Jr. of Idaho arrived at the Hotel Portland last night. He Is a son of the ex-United States senator of the Gem state. Miles McNally. an old-time mining man of the Wallace. Idaho, district, is in the city for a few days and is at the Hotel Portland. IT. E Grant Is registered at the Hotel Portland. He comes from the lumber town of Wheeler, on Nehalem bay, Tillamook county. Or. Oswald West, former governor, for mer railroad commissioner and former land agent, left for California yester day on a business trip. R. J. Kinder of Timber Valley. Wash., motored to Portland yesterday and is registered at the Hotel Port land. Australian tourists at the Benson are C. G. Franklin. Mrs. C. Franklin and Mrs. Holladay. They are from V lctoria. C. H. "-llendar. secretary and treas urer of the Callender Navigation com pany of Astoria, is at the Multnomah. Common Law Marrlasre. PORTLAND, Oct. 16. (To the Edi tor.) Please Inform me what Is meant by the term "common law marriage?" Is it legal In Oregon? How contracted? How annulled? SUBSCRIBER. A common law marriage is an agreement between a man and a woman to enter into the marriage re lation without ecclesiastic or civil ceremony, such marriage being prov able by the writings, declarations or conduct of the parties. Such mar riages are void In Oregon. Wnereabouts of Canadlaa Soldier. GOLD HILL. Or., Oct. 16. (To the Editor.) Where can I secure Infor mation regarding the whereabouts of my brother, K. O. W. Jury, who en listed In the Canadian railway con struction draft at Santa Barbara. Cat., and was last heard of with the Canad ian railway. B. E. F.. France? I have written him -at his overseas address several times without avail. A READER. Write the ministry of war, Ottawa, Canada. With a Kick in It. By L, L. I). D'Annunzlo Wops Neighboring Slavs. II fail line. Oh ve men of Slavla. Hearken to my lay! vTarriora. I would have you Heed what I would say. Think ye leagues will bring ye peace? From the flail of war eurcease? From oppression ye release? fclavia. ye are wrong! Spurn the dollar-chasing Tanks, rrominnr tbelr aid: Staking for their swollen banks wealth that yon hare mad. Do not trust the, Anglophiles, Steer dear of th Frenchman's wiles. List not while th Yank beguiles. uo not heed their songl Flume lives for Italy, That ye will allow. From the mountains to the sea. And all that we hold now. Yield ye now we hold the fort; Ccme on, take another port. Come on, be a good old sport. eiavia. come along! Batting for IV ha lea. A certain young author of Portland sent to an eastern magazine an arti- le describing tha nnnual run of smelt In the Columbia river. In returning the manuscript the editor made tha facetious comment: 1 We are sorry that we cannot use this article. What with post-war news from Europe and treaty discus sloes we have other fish to fry." m m m Nrlahltorhoo! Attractions. Advertisement. Striped outings. rink. blue and tan stripes. Especially good for garments to bo worn on the sleeping porch. Wholesalers Deny Hoarding of Surar. iieaanne. Ladles, do not start a war, We have not a hidden store Of sugar underneath our floor. Sugar is our lack. Sugar? It's a stranger here. Search our cellars, tier on tier. You will tind. where'er you peer, Not a single sack. Along With the Army Goldfish. Veterans of the French campaigns wear v. worried look nowadays. uo you think." inauired TTarrv Ketterman anxiously, "they might in troduce saccharine on account of the sugar shortage?" Call Ont the Airplane Patrol. Dlng-a-lIng went the telephone bell at the police station. Desk Officer John Wendorf resj onded. There s a woodpecker necking a bele In my roof," n excited feminine voice reported. "I chat-ed him awav crce. but he's btck again. I want It stopped right away." need Deplores Dark Streets. Broken Olobes. Head II am. "Let's light the lamps!" cries Ferdie Reed. "For all this daiknesz there's no need. N a bark our shins when we co out. Unless we travel roundabout; Our way Is barred by robbers stout. And none can trace our startled shout; We care not for the holdup rout. Its something we can do without. For all this darkness there's nc Let's light the lamps!" cries Ferdie Reed. Tee-a-tee. rrut-rtre. On the cover of the October issua of Good Housekeeping magazine runs the line, cans punctuation, sans quo tation marks. COIl'S IX HI" HKAVr.V. BY KATHLEEN NORR1S. A e Opine. Gee. this weather's fine! How that sun does love to shine! How'i your liver? So Is mine! Gee! This weather's fine! The Difference. By Urate K. Hall. The clouds drift by. the earth moves round, the moon comes into view. The trees grow tall, the flowers bloom nigh, the heat gives place to dew; The seasons change, the brooks rush on, the rain gives way to enow . In all Clod's plan not even man shall aught but progress know. Man builds a mill beside a stream where gushing waters roar. But Just a silent mill 'twill be '111 man has added more; The power of God works ceaselessly and ever onward tends, Man's small creations stand Inert 'til further power he lends. In ail the scheme of living things there is no time of rest; Some change the hour forever brings. as He has deemed It best; The bursting seed beneath the mold, the violet 'neath the 6od. Are mere.'y halted by the cold while struggling up towards God. In Other Days. Twenty-live Years Ago. From The Orezonlan of October 17. 1S94. Shanghai. A report Is In circula tion here that the Japanees have cap tured Port Arthur, the place of refugn of the Chinese fleet after the battle of Yalu. Htllsboro. Holdup men confronted John W. Shute. president of the Hills boro National bank, as he was return ing home on a bicycle last night, de manding that he return and open the safe. They released him after veri fying the fact that a time lock pre vented possible opening ot the safe. The ship Ivanhoe, which sailed from Seattle September 2? for San Fran cisco, is now 11 days overdue and grave fears for her safety are ex pressed. The courtmartial of Colonel Samuel Lovell. 2d regiment, O. N. a.. ws concluded at daybreak yesterday, but the result has not been announced. AtTlM.1 IlEVERIE. Soon the rains will be descending on our roofs and on our lawns. Soon the colors will be changing on the leaves, the Squirrel, the fawn. Soon the winds will be heard sighing through the branches they have stripped. Soon the smoke will be seen curling, telling us we're winter gripped. Then we'll turn our thought streams backward to the charms of sum mer life. Listen to the falling waters far re moved from worldly strife. Hear the dipping of the paddle as it shoots our light canoe Through the limpid, rippling waters with its load- of only two. There we'll listen for the night birds whip-poor-will and evening when. Wondering if their notes are telling they have mated once again. So in reverie we ponder over Joys so rich and deep. Till we pull the covers 'round us and In peace we re off to sleep. ROBERT H. TATE. Age C'amoaftafre Ancient. Ohio State Journal. We suppose that In the days of old Methuselah and almost-equally-old Noah what correspond to the present class between 41 and 46 was knov as' the class between 4d and G25 and did its best to preserve a youthful appearance. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Mn'icue. HOW I0 TMKV DO ITf work ija finance by a popular In wrttar I lately discovered a number of schemes By which the most stupid and Ignor ant blighter Could gather In wealth beyond Croesus' draarcs. "This author." said I. "is a shark on the market; He's versed in all systems of piling up pelf; He tells how to harness a fortune and park It; He must have no end of big money hlmself." But a week later on when we hap pened to meet He touched me for a five said he needed to eat. A motor car expert who writes for the papers On tachiMcal subjects has recently told The speediest mod of correcting the capers That cars will cut up when the en gine goes cold. 'Til try them." I said, as I folded the clipping. "Hereafter my flivver won't need to be towed: He's lucky, that fellow; it must be just ripping To know how to fix up a car on the road." I met him that week as my flivver aped by; His motor was stalled, and he didn't know why! Some eons ago, in my youth's early heyday, I used to sit up until midnight to read A method of getting more money on pay day In a book that was called "Seven Ways to Succeed." That man," I observed, fold wonder. Is a seveu- Ho s learned all the tricks and the kinks in the game. A person so wise couldn't know how to blunder; By now he must be on the top peak of fame." But I found later on that the gifted old bloke Had died in the workhouse, disheart ened and broke. Via i Pilsenrr. The most effective German prop aganda Is how barred from AmerK-a for keeps. . More Action. Too. K'Annunnilo has discovered lliat riahting wrongs gets more fame t.iau wilting rhymes. No skill at Anything-. Tirpltz may be right In saving the kaiser tried to make peace, tin I failed. He also tried to make war. wim the same result. (Copyright. 1819. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) CONSENT OF GOVERNED IGNORED League I Denounced Because It Ia Hard on Non-Members. KELSO. Wash.. Oct. 15. (To the Editor.) The Oregohlan's editorial, entitled. "The Alternative." seems to place the United States between the devil and the deep, deep sea. We must either become a member of the league ot nations, or its victim. We must either hunt with the hounds or run with the bare. You say: "The league of nations is at once an arbi tral body and an offensive and de fensive alliance, with the interna tional boycott as Its primary offens ive weapon and armed force a possi bility." Also: ". . . but the pur poses of the league. If It ever becomes a powerful anil efficient organization, make It distinctly unpleasant to be an outsider." .Nations that are non- members of this "offensive and de fensive alliance" are to be deprived of the power to manage cither their foreign or domestic affairs. Either may be invaded at will by the league. lnis otrcnsive and defensive al liance" is to be organised and con trolled by Hngland. France, Italy. Japan and the United States. Who has delegated to these great powers the right to assume control of the whole world? It was declared in the Declaration of Independents that ". . . governments derive all their Just powers from the consent of the governed. Governments have juris diction over two matters, their for eign relations and their domestic af fairs. We are invited to join an "of fensive and defensive alliance" that assumes the right to deprive free governments of all power over both these matters. We have been advised to abandon the advice of Washington and Jefferson and now The Oregonian advises us to tear out the corner stone of the Declaration of Independ ence. Surely The Oregonian by much thinking has gone mad. We have two alternatives, we may either Join an "offensive and de fensive alliance" that proposes to de prive free governments of all right to self government, or we must be pre pared to surrender to this alliance all power over both our foreign rela tions and our domestic affairs. "We have fought the" good fiirht. we have rinlshed our course, and henceforth there is laid up for us . . ." the option to Join the thieves, with no share of the loot, or to be ourselve. looted. But are these the only alternatives? Why not continue to follow the ad vice of Washington and- Jefferson, stay out of entangling alliances, leave the Declaration of Independence In tact and bid defiance to this "offen sive and defensive alliance" that pro poses to rule the world, with or with out its own consent? The American people will never consent to become either thieves or victims, and they are not too proud to fight. T. P. FISK. The Oregonian has not yet been able to conceive of the league of na tions as a government. It is a group or nations pledged not to go to war among themselves without first at tempting to adjust their disputes by arbitration." In addition it proposes to see that no outsider goes to war against another outsider or sgainst a member of the league without doing likewise. But conceding for the mo ment that this Is a form of govern ment, it is no more an infringement upon the consent of the governed than is adoption of a state law pro viding penalties for commission of a wrong. Such a law Is Invariably en acted without the consent of those who wish to be free to commit that wrong. It might also be suggested that even if all the other nations In the league are thieves at heart they have offered to place their inclinations in the hands of the United States whose morality the league opponents do not question they have consented to the veto of any foul design by any slnglfe member of the council, and the United States would be a member of that body. LeHos In Thlrmt. Judge. "I am Informed that this town is thoroughly 'dry. Is It true?" Citl-jten- "Yep that's so. Not U drop in It." Temperance lecturer (beaming ly) "Do toil me how you coud cltl- I sen accomp'lsned it." Citizen "We J crank It dry."