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s THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919. JtTornwc rrtrmttan ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co. 135 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDENT, . B. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan Is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) rally, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Ijally, Sunday Included, six months.... 4.25 tiaily, Sunday Included, three months.. 2.25 IaIIy, Sunday Included, one month 75 laily, wltnout Sunday, one year. ...... 6.00 iJaily, without Sunday, six months.... 8.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly 3.60 (By Carrier.) 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If, as seems probable, there should he a shortage of sugar next year with a great advance in the price, it may be attributed' to the combined in fluence of prohibition and President Wilson. The American people this year are consuming about 400,000 tons of sugar more than normal, and George A. Zabriskie, president of the sugar equalization board, explains this fact by the craving for soft drinks and candy which has seized drinking men when deprived of their beer and cornjuice. . As the matter was explained to the senate committee, the equalization board awakened to the situation about August and recommended to the president the acceptance of an offer from the Cuban government to sell the entire Cuban crop. The leasons urged were that there was a world's shortage of sugar and that the prospect of securing a regular supply at a reasonable price for 1920 was uncertain. Dr. F. W. Taus sig, chairman of the tariff commis sion and a member of the sugar board, dissented from this opinion. Conceding that there was a shortage and that the price would probably be higher next year, he said "the op eration would involve a guarantee of extremely high profits" to the pro ducers of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the United States, also to the refiners, and that "business of this kind may be undertaken by the gov ernment under stress of war, but should cease now that we are at peace." If the government con trolled sugar, it should also control bread, meat and clothing. He con cluded: In .the main we must look for a remedy to the natural development of production and to the return of the entire world to normal financial conditions. No decision was announced by the president, and a further letter on September 20 reminding him that a considerable tonnage of the Cuban crop had been sold and that the offer was likely to be withdrawn, drew forth no reply. Two days later the Cubans withdrew their offer, having sold about one third of their crop in Europe. The conclusion is that the govern ment no longer assures a supply to the people, and that a large propor tion of our usual supply, which comes from Cuba, is being bought by the British and other countries of Kurope. The crops of Germany and the Danubian states are very short and will leave little, if any, surplus for Britain. The American supply from other sources than Cuba is only about normal, and we shall be short by the amount which Cuba rhips to Europe. The prospect is that we must pay a high price when government control ceases, which will be two months after peace with Germany is proclaimed. Refiners under an open market will doubtless buy much of the Cuban crop, but still more will get away from them, and competition will enhance the price of the remainder. No doubt the present shortage and the high price predicted for the first few months of next year will stimu lnte production. Germany, the frag ments of what was the Hapsburg empire and France may be expected to plant at least their normal quan tity of beets. The prospect is that Russia will soon be delivered from the bolshcvists and will again con tribute its share to the world's sup ply. Great Britain will then need little or none of the Cuban crop and the American sweet tooth will be fully satisfied. But results from these expectations cannot be realized for another year, and with an un controlled market and a short supply we may pay a far higher price than during the war. VISCOUNT ASTOR. Viscount Astor, great-grandson of the founder of the Astor fortunes. now dead in England, called himself to public attention a little less than thirty years ago by the motive rather than the act, of expatriation In a country so many of whose citi zens have renounced a former al legiance to other governments, there would have been no serious quarrel with the determination of an indl vidual to follow his interests by be coming the citizen of another power. But William Waldorf Astor left th united States, it is said, because h resented the interest which peopl took in the manner in which he spent the income he inherited, and because he did not like to have it questioned that he was making the best possible use of his opportunities. He was wholly without the sense of noblesse oblige. He did not regard possession of wealth even inherited wealth as a stewardship. He fled to England to escape the reporters and the inquiring American mind which they symbolized, and he may or may not have found that which he sought in the bosom of an "exclusive"- British set. At any rate William Waldorf Astor presently got a title by which hi3 sturdy progenitor, after whom one of the principal cities of Oregon was named, would not have set much store, and he indulged in another pastime which would hardly have gratified a man less vain in his own conceit when he bought a periodical in order to get his own writings rrlnted, and sought political influ ence, based not on. his own merits, but only on. bis wealth, For these considerations ho surrendered Amer ican citizenship. We leave It to every amateur philosopher, each on his own account, to answer whether the sacrifice was justified by the re ward. Viscount Astor owed his material prosperity entirely to America. As an expatriate, he cut a pitiful rather than an ignoble figure, and he served a purpose in the inscrutable plans of Providence by making his particular form of disloyalty exceedingly un popular. Even the traitor may serve to emphasize a lesson in patriotism, as students of history know. That he retained large financial interests in this country, while employing the proceeds to cut a swath in British affairs, gives added interest to the fact that British law levies a heavy tax on the estates of British subjects, "wherever the estates may be sit uated," and that as a. consequence his taxes for some time previous to his death exceeded his total income. Viscount Astor's adopted country at least did not put a premium on his desertion of the land in which the Astor millions were accumulated. TAX DKLINQCENCY INVITED.. Last November" there was adopted by vote of the people a law which eliminated the publication of delin quent tax lists. Today Multnomah county aces the largest tar delinquency in its istoryt and this at a time when there is probably better ability to pay than ever before. As pointed out by those who op posed the measure adopted last No vember, there is more than one pur pose in the publication of delinquent tax lists. The spurring of the prop- rty owner who would otherwise eglect promptly to pay his quota to ward the maintenance of . govern ment is one of them. He is stirred to activity by the knowledge that he is delinquent that fttct will be made widely known. When this measure was adopted the public had but reoently thereto fore had before it a wholesome ex- mple of the effect of publicity on other matters of delinquency. The duty of those who were able to sub- scribe to liberty loans was patent. Some sought to evade that duty. The names of a few slackers were pub lished with the promise that more would be printed if necessary. None but the first publication was neces sary. The mere prospect of publicity was enough. Publication of delinquent tax lists costs the public nothing. It is paid for by the delinquents. But a large delinquency in taxes in the long run 5 costly to all of the public. This ear the- percentage of unpaid taxes umps 50 per cent over the preceding ear. It is not difficult to reason from cause to effect. , EQUAL PAf FOR WOMEN, There is to be 'held in Portland November 29 a civil service examina tion of laborers to fill vacancies in the custodian service at the federal bulding. According to official an nouncement of this examination, the salary of an unskilled laborer, male, in the custodian service is "$60 plus $20 a month;" for an unskilled laborer, female, $30 plus $18 a month." There may not seem to be close connection between a civil service examination to fill a laborer's job in the federal building of Portland and the doings of congress or-of the Ver. sailles conference. Yet toward, the close of the 80,000-word document which sets forth the peace .terms is a chapter devoted to labor. Therein are enumerated nine general prin ciples, and one of these is the prin ciple "that men and women should receive equal remuneration for work of equal value." When the United States ratifies the treaty it will also subscribe to that principle. It is-doubtless true that in. dis tributing the unskilled labor about a federal building the lighter tasks are assigned to the women employes. But are the lighter tasks less im portant in - themselves than the heavier ones? Is not the lesser pay ment for doing them based more on woman's physical ability to do them than upon the idea that such tasks can the more readily be dispensed with? It is fairly clear that the senate is not the only department of the gov ernment that - needs to ratify the treaty. TEACHERS AM) THE FEDERATION, Wholesome and timely informa tion is grven to. the public school teachers of Portland by the Oregon Voter as to the consequence of forming a labor union and affiliat ing with the American Federation of Labor. They have an instinctive sympathy with the movement to improve the condition of the work ing people, which inclines them to throw in their . lot with organized labor, but as men and women whose first duty is to the public they shrink from binding themselves to strike both for themselves and for other occupations with which they sympathize. To meet this objection they are told that the federation will give them a charter containing a non-strike clause, that is, a clause relieving them from any obligation to strike at the call of the federation. The Voter disposes of this explana tion by saying: Many people have an idea that a onllm men's union or a teachers' union is granted a "non-strike" charter from the American Federation of Labor.. The 'fact is that all charters granted ny the A. F. of L. are "non-strike" charters, in the sense that it Is up to the local, under the rules witn tne consent oi its own national or International, to decide whether to strike. Ijnaer charters as granted, either the po licemen or ine teacners. naving tne con sent of their Internationals, would have th right to decide to strike. Neither the Cen tral Labor Council nor the A.. F. of L.. would have the right either to call the teachers out on strike or to forbid them to strike. But Ir, uncer anion .rules, they di go on strike, both the Central Labor Coun cil and the A. F. of L, would be boun to give them moral and financial support. 'With this obligation to support strik ing teachers or policemen goes a similar obligation upon the policemen or teachers to support authorized strikes in other lines. This obligation they cannot escape, as it is as real as is the obligation to support them in the event they go out on an .authorized strike. So that in affiliating with the A. F. of L.. the teachers most certainly ob ligate themselves to support strikes to the same full extent that any other labor local is obligated through its connection with the A. F. of L. . Do the teachers feel like assuming a real and unavoidable strike obligation equal to that assumed by any other labor locals by virtue of the same federation affiliation? There is no 'way for a body of teachers to join a labor organization and at the same time not to be a part of it. If they want the bene fits of unionism they must be re sponsible for the policies and actions of unionism. The labor leaders un derstand that a teachers' union in affiliation with a central organiza tion will be another unit to their strength. They have a right to have the support and sympathy of the teachers, if they join. The teachers have no right to. go in unless they are prepared to give such -sympathy and support. But ho can they give it, when their full and exclusive duty is to the public and not to a part of the public only? SLANDER OF A WHOLE NATION. The Portland Labor News has an account of the reappearance of a gone-to-seed Oregon intellectual on the soap-box, winding up with the following paragraph: He concluded his speech by alluding to the French and. American revolutions. How In the former the peasants did acquire for themselves the church lands and part of the feudal fiefs, while the American revolution was fought to make the Ohio valley safe for a land syndicate beaded by George Washington. Over in Tacoma a patriotic Amer ican jury convicted a' loose-mouthed agitator of libel for making the false and outrageous statement that George Washington was a drunkard. The charge was brought by a loyal citizen. Colonel Joab, who was not dismayed in his purpose to exonerate the memory of the Father of His Country by the too ready assumption that his fame was secure and beyond detraction, and by the corollary as- umption that Washington was dead and could not. legally be slandered. If Colonel Joab has completed his work of requiring a proper respect in Tacoma for the fame and deeds of the great First American, it may be possible that he can be induced to come to Portland, where he can per form the greater service of silencing the slanderers of . a name, a cause, and a nation. TRETB MONEY'S WORTH. The pleasing announcement is made that public-spirited citizens of Portland have 'subscribed a $12,000 guaranty fund for the coming season of the symphony orchestra. It is not much, in comparison with the elab orate amounts furnished by other cities. It is said, for example, that Philadelphia has raised $1,000,000 for its orchestra, and it is known that the annual deficit of the Boston Symphony orchestra is regularly many thousands of dollars, and it is made up out of the pockets of gen erous individuals. It is publicly ad- ertised that if every seat is sold for every production of the Chicago op era company, during the coming winter, the balance will yet be heav ily on the wrong side of the ledger. Why is it that communities never theless embark on such enterprises. knowing that the pecuniary loss will be large? It is not, of course, that they have money to throw away, but that something i3 gained that cannot be measured in mere dollars and cents. It is not only the satisfaction of having done something worth while; it is that the maintenance of a fine orchestra, or great opera com pany, is an intelligent investment in culture; and the people who are deaf and blind to the uses of art, whether in music, or painting, or sculpture, or literature, or histrionism, are headed straight back to barbarism. , While $12,000 is not much, as has been said, . it is enough, for the present. The Portland symphony orchestra has got along, after a fashion, for six or eight years on even less in annual subscriptions. Now it is said that the organization is to be enlarged and improved, and the quality of the programme bet tered, if the $12,000 is furnished and if there is a sufficient sale of season tickets. Thejone has, been done: now it is up to the public to do the other. There-are to 1)4 six regular concerts and a visiting artist of dis tinction is to be furnished besides for at least three concerts. Clearly, the buyers of tickets are to get their money's worth and more. REASONS AflAINST DELAY. Controversy about the league of nations hs wandered so far from the thoughts which the American people had in mind when they went to war, so far from their hopes when the armistice was made, that it is well that, some man whom all can trust and who has stood apart from the discussion should -bring our minds back to the point from which we looked out on the future less than a year ago. Such a man is Herbert Hoover. He is qualified to judge of this country's present interests and duty from his wide knowledge of the world, particularly from his exper lence and observation while saving whole nations from starvation. He is so thoroughjy American that his beneficent work in Europe is no sooner finished than he returns home to resume bis place as a plain citi zen. Opponents of the league covenant In the senate say it creates a league of war, not a league of peace. To them Mr. Hoover replied in his speech at Palo Alto: Its opposition in Paris arose entirely from the representatives of the old mili taristic regimes and from the reaction aries of the world In general. They saw in it truly the undermining of militarism. The liberty of the new states can not be safeguarded from invasion with the league, and the first anxious ouestion asked Mr. Hoover by of ficials of these states was: "Will America ratify the league?" for "without it their only course was the hopeless effort to arm themselves against stronger neighbors." Do op ponents of the league wish these young nations which have just won their freedom to remain free or to be again subjugated? "Many elements in Europe wish to see the treaty break down and the league of nations disappear," we are told. The allies have been growing weaker by demobilisation of their armies, while "the reactioary group in Germany has been growing in strength through the hope of yet se curing a division of the allies." Ger many now has "a well disciplined. well officered army of at least 400 000 men, largely congregated on the Polish frontier and even defying the government at Berlin." Mr. Hoover warns us: The failure of the treaty means the in vasion of the Polish state. Thia is only one of the powder magazines in Europe which cannot be destroyed until this treaty la ratified, and during every day of delay more explosives are poured into it. The only alternative to the league is the old balance of power, which would bring more wars and "take civilization back to the middle ages. If we revise the treaty, , we shall "tread a road through European chaos," in which, "even if we keep our soldiers out, we will not escape fearful economic losses," but "if the league is to break down, we must at once prepare to fight." Next winter the eyes of cold and hungry Europe will be turned on "this rich, fat nation." Some nations will be at war with their neighbors. and "we have already -experienced the impossibility of maintaining neu trality with self-respect and safety." If the allies ratify the treaty With out us, the league council would be a council oL Europe . to. . solye .tha problems of Europe, and Mr. Hoover' says: I would rather that we be reDresented therein lest it become a league of Europe against the western hemisphere. A peace without us means more army and navy for us. with the old treadmill of taxes and aangers xor us. The true road to peace "lies . in every effort to remove the causes of war." We cannot isolate ourselves from those causes or from war, for modern communication has short ened our distance from our neigh bors from a month to an hour." Europe is the market for our sur plus products, and without- order there we shall have business de pression and unemployment. Dis organization there will breed social diseases and anarchy, which will spread to America. We are en tangled in Europe's affairs "for good or ill" and our own interest requires us to "join with Europe's better spirits to prevent these entangle ments from involving us in war." "Reasons of idealism and true na tional interest lie along the path of practical ideals" says this practical idealist, and he continues: . For us to refuse to enter into a 5olnt attempt with the well-thinking sections of a large, part or the world, to establish, a continuing moral conscience against war, is the utmost folly in our own interests. v e fought the attempt to impose autoc racy on the world. We won. We imposed democracy all over Europe. "We set up a score of new democracies. Are we to refuse our counsels to these peoples now struggling to realize our own Ideals T It behooves those Americans who are finding flaws in the league cov enant through patriotic care for this country's mterests to consider what Mr. Hoover says and to weigh their criticisms against his reasons for bringing the league into operation without delay. Those American in terests for which they are fearful can be guarded by reservations which would not change the form of the covenant. But if not subjected to all the reservations proposed is hot the league covenant with these supposed defects a less evil than delay while the world is in its present critical condition? Europe is in such need of American help, and is so anxious for it, that the nations of that continent would probably consent gladly after organization of the league to amend ments which would meet American objections. The urgent need is the disarmament of Germany, reduction of the German army, fortifying of the new states in freedom and pros perity,' reconstruction of the devas tated regions and general revival of the world's trade. Those are the things necessary to make the world safe for democracy,' which includes making the United States safe from war. A better defense of poetry is needed than that made in a recent issue of Poet Lore by a writer who compares Americans unfavorably with Mexicans because "when stir ring national events such as would bring out the biggest headlines in American newspapers were taking place, the papers of Mexico City relegated them to an inconspicuous corner and gave the place of honor to the visit of some poet from Spain or South America." It is said that there are so many poets in Mexico that In the course of a recent revo lution a defeated fugitive who had climbed a tree called to his pursuers, "Don't shoot, I am a poet," where upon every gun was lowered in rec ognition of a friend and brother. It seems that at least In Mexico the ef fect of poetry may be to overstimu late. Americans may be slow in de veloping a taste for it, as the critics complain, but it is something that they manage to maintain their sense of proportion. We take our poetry as a dessert, not as a principal intellectual food. Sir Oliver Lodge opens a new path for the imagination by his declara tion, made before a recent meeting of British scientists, that we are on the verge of harnessing "atomic energy," which may be what Gara bed T. Garagossian was driving at when he made a miserable failure to demonstrate his theory before a committee authorized by congress. But Lodge has the advantage of hav ing had some of his predictions come true and is sure of a more receptive audience. His description of the possibilities of what he calls atomic dynamics makes it appear that the world is at the beginning of a new chapter of its history. According to Sir Oliver the energy which we commonly associate with radium is latent in all matter; the only thing that remains to be done is to find a practical way of making use of it. mat this will be found in time to forestall the strike is highly improb able, but it furnishes a field for in ventive genius without a parallel. It is tound to give the lavman who lives correctly and keeps out of jail a supreme contempt of law and lawmakers to learn that because of a hairsplitting technicality a warrant for extradition of alleged murderers is not valid. This Is what happened in Los Angeles when a court refused to recognize the right of Governor Hart because he is "acting" gov ernor. The man who said the "devil" was patron saint of law had a vision. A Baltimore couple recently cele brated their diamond wedding and with joyful .acclaim asserted they nact uvea sixty years without a riuar rel. Possibly; but memory shortens as the years lengthen. The French people now have a fine opportunity to stock up with many articles from the supplies of tne American expedition. Has an old-time sound regulars on the job on the New York docks. Now there will be unloading, and settlement afterward. New York brewers announce thev will quit making illegal beer as soon as prohibition goes into effect. You bet they will! A woman with a full market bas ket may not appear stylish, but the menfolk look twice at her. -Watch local democracy hop, skip and jump! Will R. King has been in town two days. - ' j The second time a woman gets 'a divorce from the same man she ought to stay put. What makes the Yakima valley? About 25,000 cars of its products. America will take the mandate ovtr turkey in about five weeks. A week at most should see Mur derer Freeman in Salem. Sugar can stand a slight rise; only get trie sugar, " - BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS MM 1 Astonishing; Collection of Stage Lit erature Left to Harvard. Evert Jansen Wendell, an American who died in Paris recently, had for 35 years been an Indefatigable col lector of printed literature and ico nography of the stage. In his collection there were about 2.000,000 items, which filled 700 large cases. The books and pamphlets num bered from 200,000 to a quarter of a million; there were 600,000 playbills, 350,000 theatrical photographs ($00 alone of Adah I. Menken) of all sizes. and half a million pieces of music with Illustrated covers. There were also special collections relating to Na poleon, Abraham Lincoln, pugilistica. New York and other subjects. Thou sands of items had been ordered, re ceived and paid for; hundreds of par cels had never been opened; the day or rather the years, for sorting out and systematic arrangement of these vast quantities of accumulations never arrived. By will Mr. Wendell left his vast collections to the library of Harvard University to select everything which it wanted, and to dispose of everything which it did not want, the proceeds of the sale "to bo used as the officers deem for the best interest of said university." This bequest places the Harvard library In the position of owning the most extensive collection of theatrical matter In the world. Through the generosity of John Drew, Harvard already possessed the fine collection of R. W. Lowe, the author of a "Biblographlcal Account of Eng lish Theatrical Literature." Another Important collection of the same na ture had come from R. G. Shaw, but Mr. Wendell's was easily the most ex tensive of all. -. The other day the Philadelphia Public Ledger printed a dispatch from London which quoted an American platform speaker, a Mr. Wilkes-Barre, as saying of a prohibition state that "anyone with the brains of a boiled egg, the courage of a clam or the punch of a parsnip leaves that state as quickly as he can." It so happened that E. W. Wright, former manager of the Port of Portland was in Phila delphia and read this slander. There upon he wrote a letter to the Public Ledger of which the following Is a part: . John Barleycorn, Wilkes-Barre, et al.. are in the position of the independent man who sat on a railroad track, as a fast ex press was approaching. "Qet out of there or you'll get run over," said the ra'lroad agent. ' "Don't have to," said the Independent man "f!ot a right to get run over if I want to." "Perhaps you have," said the agent as a well-directed kick lifted the independent clear of the track. "Perhaps you have, but who the hell do you think wanta to clean up the muss?" Quite a few of ua "egg-brained, clam couraged, parsnip-punched''' average Amer icans who voted and worked for prohibi tion were passively friendly to John Barleycorn until the work of "cleaning up the muss" he made became ao expensive and unpleasant that It more than offset the fun we had with him. , If Mr Wilkes-Barre had taken the trouble to investigate the causa and effect of prohibition where it has had a fair trial he would find even the ex-bartenders favrolng it, most of the ex-drunkardg and all of the ex-drunkard's families In love with it and the rest of us bearing up quite bravely -thank you. - The country is accustomed to the political - pleasantries in Congress, otherwise known as debates, preced ing national elections; it Is accus tomed to witnessing the utter shat tering of what was once known as senatorial dignity; It is accustomed to read the words of eloquence from the several orators, but It has for the first time learned that present day statesmanship is "simply ro bust voice gathered upon the plains of the west" and should not, even in its most vibrant and strident tones, be "construed as violent." The au thority In this field of investigation and discovery is Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska. The west met the east In vocal combat when Senator Lodge, In Puri tanical softness, protested: "I wish the senator from Nebraska would not talk in such a violent way. He fright ens me. He frightens the senate." Nebraska has the habit of sending "robust voices" to congress, masquer ading at the utterances of sages, but this is the first time that the soft im peachment has been acknowledged. New York Herald. . Boston Jews take exceptions to John Singer's painting, "The Syna gogue," recently installed in the Boston Public Library. They say it Is an affront to Judaism and Is poorly conceived. The library trustees maintain that the picture is symbolical and is in harmony with the rules of art as pictured for centuries in Europe and that the present agitation against the picture is a "tempest in & teapot" They Insist that no slur was Intended to the Jews and are certain that Mr. Sargent would not willingly give of fense to them. Rabbi M. M. Elchler, director of the Zionist bureau of New England who leads' the protest against the picture, gives these reasons for objecting to It: "Sargent represents the synagogue as a grim, austere, unwomanly woman, with blinded eyes and bent head, from which is falling a crown. In her hands is a broken scepter and she clutches to her breast what Is supposed to be the tablets of the law. All about her is chaos and ruin. "The face of the woman is not that of a Jewess. The Israel should have been pictured more properly as an old man with flowing beard. This conception suggests that the syna gogue represents things that are broken and passed away. Not only does the Jew believe that Judaism never died, but that it has retained its vitality and still maintains Its In fluence." A petition is being circulated to have the painting removed from the library. One phenomenon of war time, Amer ica was quite unknown to the men of three gold chevrons. These were the women's auxilaries who got into uni forms and wore Sam Browne belts and had the time of their lives. One of these embodiments of tha war spirit greeted the eye of a battered- old overseas campaigner the first hour he hit the new-old country. He was much startled when she brought her heels together and snapped out a salute worthy of a Canadian sergeant-major. For just a second he was nonplused. He couldn't think what to do. Then an Inspiration came to 1110). He courte sied. The Home Sector." Those Who Come and Go. "We figure that it will cost a mil lion dollars to complete our plans for the port of Umpqua," announced C. E. Ricker, president of the port, who was at the Imperial yesterday. "We've already spent $200,000 of our own money, have built a 4000-foot jetty and have secured 19 feet of water on the bar at mean low water. An appropriation of $533,000 is needed for the north jetty and we expect congress to help, and some lobbying may be necessary. When we attain 20 feet at low water on the bar we can ship by water to the Atlantic mar ket via the canal. There is a mill at Gardiner and three at Reedsport, which need this water transportation, although at- present they are ship ping all the spruce they can turn out as far east as New York. There are 60 billion feet of timber tributary to the mouth of the Umpqua, and we've as good a natural harbor as Coos Bay, but the general public doesn't realise it, nor does the public understand that the Umpqua is the second larg est river in Oregon and it is in Doug las county, which is as large as Con necticut. We can raise butter fat cheaper than any other part of Ore gon. I was 14 years in the dairy business and know It. And we want a road from Roseburg to the mouth of the river." If things go right, there should be 24.000 new China pheasants ready for the sportsmen next year, calcu lates Frank Warren, member of the state game and fish commission, who left for Lane county y-sterday, to look over the pheasant farm. "We will hold over the winter 4000 birds." said Commissioner Warren, "and each pair should average 10 birds next year after they are released, and this will give 20,000 birds, and. counting the 4000 turned loose, this makes 24.000. It looks to me as though the logical thing o do is to "hold the birds over until spring. Releasing birds in the fall has not been en tirely satisfactory. The birds have to face the rains and cold and many are lost before spring comes. By sheltering the birds until spring and then releasing them they have sev eral months before them in which to propagate, and the climatic con dltlons will be favorable. The Chinas have never recovered from our silver thaw. When a bird gets under tree and Ms long tall feathers touch the ground he -Is anchored there by Ice until he dies. Patrick Donegan. Oregon pioneer and for 56 years in business at Jack sonvtlle, died in Sacramento a few days ago and will be buried at Jack sonville. To attend the funeral, J. J. Donegan of Burns, Patrick Donegan Jr. of the ranch In Harney county and Mrs. Frances Donegan Welcome of Burns, passed through Portland yesterday. Patrick Donegan was born near Belfast, Ireland, arrived in New York in 1852, crossed the isthmus of Panama, arrived In California and went to Crescent City. From there he went by pack train to the Sterling mine In 1854. the mine causing the creation of Jacksonville in 1S55. Mr. Donegan, who had 15 children, was a blacksmith and made the picks for the miners and the plows for the farmers for many years. He was active at his trade until 10 year ago. when he retired at the age of 78 and went to Sacramento. In addi tion to the children mentioned, he is survived by other children: Mrs. J. F. Shaw of Portland, Richard of feacramento, Hugh and Edward of San Francisco, Mrs. Mary McCoy of San Diego, and Mrs. C. F. Cmpbell ok oacrameato. W. E. Tallant. a packer of Astoria, has been spending a few hours In Portland aside from other matters in looking for a fisherman who owes him $300. The fisherman came to Tallant last season ami said he had $800 and if he could sret 1300 more he would be able to secure a boat. Tal lant advanced the money. It appears that the fisherman then went to an other packer and said all he needed was 800 toward getting a boat, as he naa 3uu, and he secured the $800 Being financed by the rival packers, the fisherman went forth. The fish erman turned in a few fish to Tallant, but not enough to pay for the gaso line fie drew for operating the boat Learning the fisherman Is in Portland and that the other packer was repaid the $800, Tallant is curious to know what happened to his $300. "I've never heard the origin of Ce lolo," confesses Frank Seufert of The Dalles. "Many people have inquired but there hasn't been any answer.!' Lewis and Clark pitched their camp when they were at Celilo on the site of the Seufert cannery. The explor ers selected that point as it Is a rocky V," with the river on one side and a creek on the other, and all they had to do was to throw a guard across the mainland side to give them com plete protection against the Indians. Thomas Ellis, one of the leading merchants of Rainier, Is at the Hotel Oregon. He was there a few months ago and about as soon as he registered he had to be taken to a hospital for an attack of pneumonia. They shooed S. P. Foster away from the desk at the- Seward yesterday and sent him on a vacation. Mr. Fos ter headed for. Toledo, Lincoln county, with letters 6f Introduction to the best native fisherman in that section. J. T. Wilson, one of the few resi dents of Mayville, Gilliam county, is at the Hotel Oregon. Mayville is tick led pink over the work under way and the contracts let for the building of the John Day highway. Prinevllle's main street "must have worn a deserted appearance yesterday, judging from the hotel registers in Portland. There must have been more than 50 people from Prinevtlle regis tered at various hotels. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Simpson and Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Tower of Coos Bay are registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Simpson came to town to talk roads. P. L. Campbell, president of the University of Oregon, was at the Ho tel Portland yesterday, and W.. J. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agri cultural college, was at the Imperial James E. Blackwell, an engineer of Seattle, who was called in consulta tion on the grain elevator several months ago, is at' the Perkins. Charles McRae and Thomas M. Kay are stockmen at the Perkins. .Mr. McRae brought a shipment from An telope and Mr. Kay from Fossil. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barker of Van couver, B. C, were at the Benson yesterday on their way to Astoria to visit Mr. Barker's brother, who ie a salmon packer. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lyon of Guelph, Canada, are at the Benson. The town was christened after the family name of the king of England. E. E. Fobs, who has a mill at Pros per, is among the arrivals at tha Hotel Portland. James Wilson, bank cashier of Prlneville, is in town on business and is at the Imperial. Bird Rose, a rancher near Harris "burg, is at the Perkins. Agents Are Blamed. Baltimore American. "Your employer has been telling me that he was badly gassed." "Well, he has no business to let those book agents keep coming into his office." More Truth Than Poetry. . By James J, Montague. THE MOVIE CHILD. Poor Si., not meaning any harm. Sells hay he hasn't got; The sheriff comes to take the farm. Which saddens him a lot. But look! the little movie child By one sweet, tearful glance The stern-faced ShwrtfT has beguiled To give her pa a chance. The shertlT smiles and drives away. Pop goes to town that night And banks the money for the hay. And everything's all right. II. The villain, with a black moustache. Whose speech is one long curse. Persuades dear sister, fondly rash. To swipe her mother's purse. But ah; the movie child comes in And says in accents sad: "Oh, sister, stealing is a sin And mother would be mad." And then dear sister sees a light Ana cries in bitter tones: To steal that purse would not be right. I scorn you, Egbert Jones." IIL They lash tne nero to the track And when the seven-five Shall pass the spot In coming back He will not be alive. But-see! the movie child Is here! she nimbly cuts the roDes And for a promisina career The hero once more hopes! The fiend who tied him to the rail (Despite his evil sneers) Is subsequently sent to jail tor sixteen bitter years. ENVOI. I've never seen a. movie child Excepting on tnS screen. But I'm completely reconciled. If you know what I mean! Crafty Crowd. Those Hohensollerns. In order to get a better sale for his new book the former German crown prince has got the German govern- ent to supr.ress It. The Road to Fame. The only way for a king to gain distinction nowadays is for him to announce that he is not going to the United States. e Nothing to Worry Aboat. Most of the striking steel workers needed a few days to clip coupons and take their cars to the garage for an overhauling, anyway. (Copyright. 1919 by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DANGER IS READ IN COVENANT Mr. Seeley Discovers Provisions Therein That Are Ijnknown to Others. PORTLAND, Oct. 19. (To the Edi tor.) The league of nations cove nant provides for five members in the council, America to be one mem ber, thereby representing one-fifth of the voting power. Hence, the con trol Is with Europe and Asia. America jointly pledges to protect the territory of the other members. This commits us to send our army ond navy to any part of the world whenever the league demands It. Un oer this pledge our American boys can be ordered by the league to Japan, sacrificing their lives in pro tecting Japanese territory fighting undir Japanese officers. The Monroe doctrine is declared a "regional question," being subject to the Interpretation of the league, therefore beyond our Individual con trol. After two years notice America can withdraw from the league provided all our obligttlons have been ful filled. But as we are obligated to keep American iroops on the German-French line 15 years certainly we cannot withdraw from the league before the 15 years expire, and not then, if we have assumed as we probably will, additional obligations. Such questions, however, to be de tci mined by the other members of the council as we are not permitted to vote because our Interests are in volved. Therefore America may be forced to remain in the league so long as the majority members de mand. Is it not evident then that we have surrendered our sovereignty and in dependence to become a federation of natjr.ns with .he capital In faraway Geneva where we. having only one fifth of the representation, are a hopeless, helpless minority in direct ing our army and navy. Including their expenses, while engaged in fighting oth t people's wars far across the seas in distant lands? The advocates of the leasrue may try to explain that we are not mak ing a binding agreement when our senate ratifies the covenant. But just as sure as the English language means what It says, we are bound hard and foot and in every way pledged by our lives and our for tunes to do just as Europe and Asia. with their majority vote, choose to order us to do. Americans, are you for such a compact? If not, then immediately write to our senators In Washington appeal ing to them to preserve our rights as inviolate as they came to us from Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. L. B. StELEY. Mr. Seeley makes several misstate ments as to tho provisions of the league covenant. The council Is to be composed of nine, not five mem bers, two of which are nations in the western hemisphere. Control, how ever, does not rest In Europe and Asia as In all decisions of conse quence unanimous concurrence is re quired. The league cannot demend that American forces be sent to protect Japan from territorial agression Un less the American representatives, who would obviously be guided by public sentiment as expressed through congress, concurred in such demand. The Monroe doctrine Is mentioned as a. "regional understanding" not "regional question," its validity is tpecificaly recognized and there is no assertion of right by the !tague iv Interpret it. There Is no obligation imposed by the covenant to keep American or any other troops -jtx the German-French frontier for 15 years or for any other period. Such jurisclction as is given over occupation by armed forces of the Rhine bridgeheads Is vested In the reparation commission of whiih the league is not 'the parent. Nor Is the league given any duties whatever In connection therewith. The portion of the treaty creating the reparation commission Is independent of the league covenant and contains its own provision for withdrawal by any member from the commission on one year's notice. Ttere is no provision In the league covenant giving league members by majority or any other vote power to restrain a member from withdrawing on the ground that It had not ful filled Us obligations. If the league determined that a member had not fulfilled its obligations. It could pun ish only by expelling such member from the league. He Can't Cough. Michigan Gargoyle. The king "I must have gold, you Imbecile! Cough up!" Prime minister "But, your majes ty, the coffers are empty." With a Kick in It. By L. L. II. "OFFICIAL PETROGRAD HAS BEEN TAKE.N." There is news from Russia coming Of a myriad drums a-drumming. Of the Cossacks overcoming Like a blasting desert wind; And the worsted Bolshevik! Hits the trail in manner sneaky O'er the enowflelds cold and bleaky. To the tall and unconfined. From the north the Russ is lrmnirir To the west the Pole is camping. And the Cossack steed is chamuinc On the fringe of Petrosrrad: And the Red patrols diminish As the Bolshies see their finish. And they hike in columns thinnish o tne DacKwoods. sore and sad. Live Doss and Dead Lions. It's a safe bet that Lenine and Trotsky are beginning to envy the buck privates with Vudenitch and Denikine. The Bolshevik Alibi. D'you wonder why we quit the game Ana lilt the ditch? We'll bet the vodka you'd have done the same If Yudenitch. And Sunshine In the Yeast. A Philadelphia citizen writes that a fruit seller In that citv sticks . package of yeast in every bag of Concord grapes which he sells. Evi dently there is bright hope in the Concords. Footwork and Head work. Why do the French peasants smash up the grapes with their feet when they make wine?" asks George Pritchard. "So as to put a kick In It." says George. The Roosevelt Memorial. Got a copper? Go and drop 'er At the corner fire station; Let the penny From the many Form the tribute of the nation. Let the nation Veneration Show its statesman, Theodore; Every donor Shares the honor In the pot your pennies pourl Sweet Reflection Coins: Bad. No relief from the sugar shortage, say the headlines. And the faces we see In the eleva tor are looking more sour every day. You Can't Kid the Postmaster. "Any mall for Mike Howe?" asked a farmer of the newly arrived post master. The guardian of the mails glared at the applicant. "No, sir," he snapped. "Not for your cow or anybody else's cow." s The Return from Moscow. Idaho. How was the Moscow game? Gee, I've forgotten; But twenty-seven to six Is not so rotten! Depending: on the Sector. "Make Armistice Day a Duplicate of Last Year's" is the slogan of the committee on the Armistice day cele bration. The civilians will echo the senti ment, surely; and the boys who hap pened to be in the Paris sector wiil support the movement. But we with hold our personal approval. We re member a 30-kilo ride in a "hommes 40" from Toul to Neufuhateau, and a dinner that consisted largely of monkey-meat. Neve Mind Saving- Daylltrht. "Duplicate Armistice Day?" asks Albian Gerber, late of the 4th divis ion, A. K. F. "Fine but start the day at 11 A. M. Doegone. October's frosts have come and gone; The leaves from off the maple trees Are shaken by the passing breeze. And gosh, they clutter up the lawn! In Other Days. Twenty-flve Years Ago. From The Ores-onlsn of October 21. 1S04. Shanghai. According to Chinese advices a severe battle has been fought on the lower Yalu river. After fierce fighting the Japanese were re pulsed, both sides losing heavily. Berlin A committee has been formed to receive voluntary contri butions to a fund to further produc tion of Professor Behring's new anti diphtheria serum. Sixteen ocean-going grain vessels, representing a combined tonnage of 17,662 tons, are in the harbor at this time. All are under charter to carry wheat either to European or Atlantic coast ports. A monster blaclc bear which has been looting the orchards and fields in the vicinity of Milwaukie for two months past was shot and slain yes terday by J. D. Rusk. Fifty Years Ago. From The OrfRonian of Cx tober 21. 1B. At a meeting of the common coun cil yesterday the city surveyor was Instructed to draw up plans for the extension of South Front street. Virginia City, Xev. Residents of this section met at Dayton yesterday to celebrate the opening of the Sutro tunnel. The sum of $300 has been appro priated by the city for defraying the expenses of the recention which the citizens will extend to Secretary Seward. Vancouver. The Clarke county fair has proven an unusual success this year and It has been decided to keep the fair open one day longer. The Enigma. By tirsce K. Hall. Strange folks abide within our reach And pass us on the street; Unmoved, untouched by what wo teach, Unnoting as we meet: And yet they laugh without a smile. They mock without a word. And keep their even pace meanwhile As if they had not heard. They tantalize with measured look That never seem to care; Their brain is like an uncut book At which we only stare; And while we fain would make be lieve That they disturb us not. Our prying minds it would relieve To know their inmost thought! They quite elude our mental hold, Though dwelling by our side; Perhaps demure and far from bold. Yet often they deride: We try approach at every gate. Believing we shall win. They are beyond we are too late. We cannot enter In! Thus many a soul In secret hides And watches as we pans; Strange and unlik'e all else besides An alien to the mass; They oft are figures great In force. But yield no history; I only ask: From what strange source Came man's own mystery? Waiting At the Fire. Life.' "Number, please?" "Never mind, central. I wanted the fire department, but the house has burned down now."