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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919.
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DEAR 6CCAR IX PROSPECT.
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was likely to be withdrawn, drew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.
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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
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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."