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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1919.
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the Plumb plan" and resolved toand bringing the world back to nor
"carry its fight for nationalization of rnal again.
mines into the dominion of Canada." The essence of thrift is not nlg
This is evidence of a purpose to imi- gardliness, but excess of production
tate the triple alliance which con
vulsed Great Britain, and to use the
strike as a weapon of direct action
on congress and the people in behalf
of bolshevist legislation. It was
timed to influence congress when
railroad and other reconstruction
bills are under consideration, and to
influence the people by cutting off
the supply of fuel and by tying up
the railroads when winter is at hand.
This is an attempt to terrorize the
government and to hold up the
American people, which Attorney-
8.no ; wsuerai raimer rigntly describes as
3.23 i "a more deadly attack on the life
or the nation than an Invading
army." In combating this attack on
its life the government will have the
support of all people who resent ter
rorism and who wish to preserve the
American republic. The precedent
of the. steel strike warrants the be
lief that many miners will continue
work If they are guarded from vio
lence, and that the radicals will be
ready to resort to violence If not re
strained by the-forces of the law. The
government should show no weak
ness about using all its powers to
enforce order, to keep the mines in
operation and to rid the country of
the revolutionary agitators who are
ultimately responsible for this at
tack, on the nation. '
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THE MINERS' FINAL WORD.
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The "final word" of the United
Mine "Workers Is that they refuse to
revoke the strike order as a condi
tion of negotiation for settlement ot
their demands on the operators.
They say:
The strike will be so big and have such
xs.r-reaching- effects that we do not be
lieve it can last very long before a criaia
Is reached.
What they mean is that they want
to negotiate with the strike club held
threateningly over the operators'
heads In one hand and with a pen in
the other hand, while they say:
"Sign here. Their expectation is
that, if the operators refuse to sign
tl)e suffering and loss caused by the
Dnke to the whole nation will be so
$eat and far-reaching that the
JJtnerican people will say to the op-
Oiators: "Pay them their price, and
W!e will stand the cost, though it
double the price of coal."
These are all the conditions of a
holdup. They differ only in detail
from those which exist when a bank
robber thrusts a gun in the teller's
face and says, "Throw up your
hands," while a . confederate takes
the money. There is no element ot
negotiation while the threat of force
is present in the shape of an irre
vocable strike order unless certain
terms are accepted.
This is not a strike. It is a con
epiracy of half a million men to hold
up the American people. As the
Russian soviet compels men to fight
for it lest their families starve or be
murdered, so the miners propose to
compel the American people to pay
what they demand, with the alterna
tive of freezing, hunger and idle
ness. This mere statement of the
conditions shows the broad distinc
tion between the right of "a man'
to quit work when he pleases and
the right of half a million men to
Quit work in combination at such a
time and under such circumstances.
The plea that the war is over, that
the existing contract has therefore
expired and that the present de
mands and threat of a strike involve
no breach of contract, is too weak
for consideration. The war is not
over when Germany is violating the
treaty immediately after ratifying it
' and when the war emergency still
prevails in the coal industry. The
war will end, actually as well as le
gally, when the president proclaims
peace.
When the miners state that the
operators refused to negotiate with
them, they state what is false. The
operators sent delegates to the joint
fcoale conference, as they stated in
their reply to the miners' demands,
"for the purpose of negotiating a
contract to be effective immediately
upon the legal expiration of the pres
ent contract." They protested against
the conditions under which they
were called on to negotiate, saying:
The operators have sent their accred
ited representatives to this conference with
full power to negotiate a contract as pro
vided by the call. We regret to find that
the miners' convention" from which you
come has failed to vest in you .correspond
ing power and discretion. With your au
thority apparently limited to a presenta
tion of the excessive demands above set
forth and to reconvene your convention
or execute yonr Instructions to call a gen
eral strike November 1. we are faced with
the alternative of granting your demands
in full or of requesting you to go back for
authority to negotiate with us in con
formity with the call.
The operators hold that no abrogation
f the existing contract can be had prior
to Its legal termination, except by the
mutual agreement of all the parties there
to, the operators, the miners and the gov
ernment. We are ready and willing to
Tegotiatft a new contract to succeed at its
lgu.l expiration the contract now in ef
fect, but we must insist that such negotia-.
tion be entered into in a spirit of reasona
bleness and that the representatives of the
miners be vested with their usual discre
tionary power to really negoti&'te. Only
under such conditions Is it possible to
reach a prompt and definite conclusion
and to preserve the principles of collective
bargaining.
over consumption. It ought to be
possible for a vast number to pro
duce the equivalent of 20 cents a
day more than they are now pro
ducing, while holding consumption at
the present. level. This, is as appli
cable to large industry as to isolated
individual instances.
No abstruse economic problem is
involved in the proposition that be
fore we can pay we must produce
and save. The burden of the war
can be removed in no other way.
ANOTHER ALIBI.
The Oregonian notes that the Ev
ening Journal has a conspicuous
headline to the effect that "The Ore
gonian Error May Cost Dr. Boyd
His Position." If The Oregonlan
made an error in its report of Dr.
Boyd's farewell sermon it is incon
ceivable that he will not be able to
demonstrate it satisfactorily to his
church and his employment. We
hope he will, indeed, though the dis
covery of the so-called misquotation
has been unhappily long delayed.
In any event The Oregonian de
clines to accept responsibility either
tor what Dr. Boyd said, or for the
action of the theological seminary.
or what it thinks or supposes he said.
It is the business of that body to
know.
vvnatever Happens, it must be a
great relief to the sensitive soul of
the Journal to know that it is not in
any way to be the cause of Dr.
Boyd's losing his job, if he loses it
though our conscientious contempor
ary had the same account, condensed.
of that memorable sermon as The
Oregonian had. Did The Journal
reporter also misunderstand the elo
fluent doctor? Or must it confess
that it appropriated without credit
its account from The Oregonian?
Somehow we are reminded of that
other anxious occasion when the es
teemed Journal was cited for con
tempt because it had ventured to dis
cuss a criminal case then on trial in
the federal court. It escaped the
penalty of its transgression by suc
cessfully showing that not a single
member of the jury had read The
Journal. It may be able to prove
another great journalistic alibi by
showing that nobody concerned in
the Boyd affair saw its account.
THE SOCIAL UNIT PtAN.
The social unit plan, which is be
ing advocated by experimenters in
sociology as a means of reviving the
community spirit which existed in
high degree in the days of our town
meeting ancestors, and is a distinct
part of our Anglo-Saxon heritage,
finds practical justification in figures
prepared in Cincinnati, where it has
had its first extensive trial. It ap
pears that the death rate in the so-
ial unit area during last year's in
fluenza epidemic was only 2.2 a
thousand, whereas it was 4.10 in the
remainder of the city, and 5.80 in
the remainder of the three wards of
which the social units were a part.
That the idea is locally popular is
indicated by the result of a referen
dum vote on its continuance 4034
for and 120 against.
The New England town meeting
had its counterpart in the miners'
ourts of the west, which furnished
the pioneers with all the law that
they had during the formative period
and made good the Anglo-Saxon
claim to a fundamental sense of Jus-
ce. They were symbolical of a pe
riod in which all the people took a
personal interest in public affairs.
and in which the sense of individual
responsibility was greater than it is
now because Intimate participation
n local affairs was practically uni
versal. That this sense' of responsi
bility is now In danger of becoming
dormant is conceded by observers
who are not alarmists. Whatever fact that the sticking point, which is
the causes and these are as com- I common in almost every life expert
plex as the factors that have entered ence. is not a sign that progress has
into development of our civilization I come to a standstill. The child who
it is not a condition to be overlooked. I "does fairly well for a time in
The social unit plan is one of the school," comes to a standstill where
most interesting of our recent ex- continued efforts produce no observ-
penments in the promotion of neigh- I able progress, and "if the" sticking
borly feeling. It is natural that it point is a particularly tough one is
should, have found most fruitful called stupid. or feeble-minded," may
ground in the more thickly popu- I be only repeating the life-experience
lated districts, but it contains the of the flagellatus. It may be in
germ of an idea that is adapted to finitely important to know this. The
nearly every community. It gets as I psychological begins to intrude at
tar as possible away from -the idea this point upon - the physiological,
that "what is everybody's business and to increase the danger. The
is nobody's business," particularly in I child who, coming to a merely phys-
matters of government, and it is said I iological pause, learns that he is
that where it has been tried it has I looked down on. gets discouraged
If the miners would stand by their
existing contract and would send
men free to negotiate, the operators
were ready to negotiate a new con
tract to succeed that now in force.
Because they refuse to negotiate
with men who begin by contract
breaking and who come with the
strike club in hand and with au
thority only to dictate, the miners
accuse them of refusal to negotiate
at all. For a match to this perver
sion of facts we must go to Germany
or bolshevist Russia. The miners
say they are "willing and anxious to
meet the coal operators for the pur
pose of negotiating an agreement,"
yet they insist on the strike, which
is a violation of their present con
tract and is an instrument of com
pulsion, not of negotiation.
Nor does denial that one purpose
of the strike is to force nationaliza
tion of mines on the government
egree with circumstances, although
that scheme is not among the de
mands sent to the operators. At the
same convention as adopted the
miners' demands on the operators,
there were adopted resolutions de
manding "the immediate nationali
sation of the coal mining industry"
and ordering the union officers to
have a bill prepared for congress
providing for government purchase
of the mines, for their operation by
the government and for equal rep
resentation of the miners on the
managing commission an exact par
allel of the Plumb plan for" the rail
roads. The convention also instruct
ed its representatives "to urge in the
coming conference with the repre
sentatives of the railroad workers'
unions a working alliance for the
' purpose of securing the adoption of
ELASTICITY OF ENGLISH.
An authority on international re
lations recorded, about twenty-five
years ago, the observation that in
every instance in which the United
States had been party to a treaty
written wholly in English the mean
ing of one or more clauses had come
into dispute, but that in no instance
in which this country had been party
to a treaty written in two languages
had there ever been question as to
its meaning.
The peace treaty with Germany
has both English and French author
ized texts, yet none of the senators
in dispute over interpretation of the
covenant has thought to procure the
French text for purpose of compart
son. At least if one of them has, the
result has not been disclosed to the
publics.
Although the fact has nothing to
ao with difficulty of interpretation
it is interesting to the student of the
treaty to observe that it is written
in English, in the restricted sense
of the word. One finds therein the
words "labour," "harbour," favour,
"recognise" and others. But the
distinguishing feature is found not
alone in the matter of spelling. How
many Americans can offhand define
the verb "opt." The word is rarely
used in America, but is not uncom
mon in England. Its use in the fol
lowing clause of the treaty relating
to the plebiscite as to sovereignty of
Schleswig makes clear its meaning:
"Persons who have exercised th
above right to opt must within th
ensuing twelve -months transfer their
place of residence to the state in
favour of which they have opted."
"Opt" may be found in the dic
tionary, but one would look there in
vain, for "nacelle" and fuselage." The
latter are French contributions to
the vocabulary of the person, be he
American or English, who would
f.peak intelligently of airplane parts.
They are given definite recognition
in the English text of the treaty in
the requirement that Germany sur
render certain aeronautical equipment.
about 60 degrees Fahr., he occupied
about two months in raising the tem
perature to 73 degrees. At 73.5 de
grees some deaths occurred and he
found it impossible for some time to
get by this point. But after consum
ing two months in raising the tem
perature 8. single djegree and keeping
the animals alive, progress was much
more rapid. At 78 degrees another
danger point was reached, which it
took eight months to overcome. But
In six years he succeeded in produc
ing animals which could live in
water at 158 degrees. The average
rate of progress was about 16 de
grees a year, or one and one-third
degrees a month, but it was not uni
form. A strong point that Mr. Red
field makes is that this became
easier as time went on. Progress
from 142 to 158 was made in less
than four months.
Mr. Redfield finds that the ana
logy is borne out by examination of
the petformances of noted race
horses at different ages and by the
milk product of pure-bred cows. Gold
smith Maid, who gained in trotting
power from the age of eight to the
age of twenty, and of Flora Temple
who similarly developed from five to
sixteen, are classical examples. The
difficulty of proving a contention by
the case method, where so many un
ascertainable factors may be involved.
will be appreciated by investigators
but Mr. Redfield makes a sincere ef
fort not to generalize too hopefully.
The occurrence of "sticking" points
in every Instance which he has ex
amined lead him to conclude that
they are the rule. This phase of
his study, which is open to examina
tion by all who have access to the
records of performances of animals,
wilL be pursued at leisure by those
who enjoy that sort of thing.
The Binet tests of intelligence re
cognize the principle of development
of mental power by exercise of that
power in children, and other tests
indicate that mental development
may be continued by persistent men
tal exercise through adult life to
comparatively old age. But the ser
vice, if any, which Mr. Redfield per
forms is in calling attention to the
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS.
Svrfnbnrne Put Meter and Rhythm of I
Child's Poem Into Classic Drama.
It may "well be, writes Willis
Fletcher Johnson In the New York j
Sun, that Swinburne caught the beat
of Greek poetry. by hearing his nur-
Those Who Come and Go.
The cold weather in central Ore
gon reminds me" of a blizzard I was in
back in Nebraska In ' 1888.". says A.
Zblnden of Fossil. "I was practically
frozen to death. Caught In the bliz-
eery governess read Jane Taylor's Izard I was frozen stiff while on horse
back. The animal found its way
Precept.
By Grace E. Hall.
More Truth Than Poetry.
H y James J. HIontBcie,
Out
in
"The Chatter Box"; for certainly the
meter and the rhythm of that old-
ashioned poem of childhood are ex
actly reproduced in his English ver
sion of Aristophanes' "Grand Chorus
of Birds." Nor is there any essential
incongruity in this identity of form in
through the storm to the barn door
and on striking th door. I was
knocked to the ground. One of the
dogs on the ranch found me and
brought the family out and I was car
ried to shelter. For 60 days I was
laid up." Although Mr. Zblnden has a
big ranch near Fossil, he registers at
in a rose-wreathed arbor
little rocking chair.
A dainty little maiden sewed sedately
md with care;
She ruffled .tiny garments and she
fitted each sleeve,
Nor paused to play, for no delay was
in this make-believe.
The sunbeams kissed a golden head
bowed o'er a staring doll.
"Which lay within a bassinet beside
the bedroom wall;
The little mother's face was grave as.
spoon in hand she stood
& great classic drama and a 'nursery I the Imperial from Seattle, possibly be- I And' seriously the potion gave, as
jingle. The form is perfectly adapted
to both.
A similar case of borrowing a meter
is well authenticated in which Swin
burne also figures, but as the source
borrowed from.-and not as the bor
rower. . "When Bret Harte first read
Swinburne's "Atalanta in Calydon'
the meter and rhythm of one of its
marvelous choruses obsessed and cap
tivated him. . He could not get rid
of It. For days he went about re
peating audibly or inaudlbly:
Who shall seek then and bring
And restore thee the day.
When the dove dipped her wins
And- the oars won their way
Where ths narrowing Symplegades
whitened the cliffs of Fropontia
with spray?
until finally he got relief by weaving
the magic meter Into a lyric of hii
own:
Then I looked up at Nye,
And he gaxed upon me:
And, he rose with a sigh
And Xild, "Can this be?
We are ruined toy Chinese cheap labor!"
and he went for that heathen
Chinee.
The contrast between "The Chatter
Box" and the "Grand Chorus of Birds"
finds a companion piece in that be
tween "Atalanta" and "The Heathen
Chinee."
The title of purchasing agent for a
cause once on a time he was a mem
ber of the city council of .Seattle and
is at present a part owner In one or
the few Seattle hotels not controlled
by Japanese.-
It begins to look as if the family of
the new pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Tillamook will not live with
him for some time to come. The Rev.
Allan A. McRea, the pastor, who is at
the Hotel Washington, says that Til
lamook is bo crowded-and there Is
such a scarcity of dwellings that he
has not been able yet to find a house
for his family, yhere are no houses
to be had in the county seat, or in the
smaller towns of that county.
"This coal strike situation looks se
rious." observed v State Senator Alex
LaFollette of Marion county to Frank REWARDS ARE SLOW BIT SIRE
Seufert. the pioneer cannery man of
loving mother should.
Another day, with angry face and
all too angry eyes,
She plied the rod to sawdust back.
nor paused at china criep;
She slammed the door and left alona
the recalcitrant doll.
With lips stern-set showed no regret
at fancied baby call.
A thousand times within a year this
winsome maiden tries
The habits, tricks and tempers that
are shown before her eyes;
And when in coming years the dolls
shall laugh and cry and coo.
Their mothers will apply the tactics
taught by me and you!
ART.
t could net write a .trashy play
With sodden theme and dreary
lines
Like those you see along Broadway
Beneath the big electric signs.
No trifling drama could I pen
For which the populace would fall.
And pay their cash to see but then.
I could not write a play at all.
But I will state that if I could.
I would.
could not write the sort of tale
Put forth by Mr. Harold Wright
Which critics bitterly assail
But people buy with wild do-light.
The hack's dull trade I could not play
To gHin the popular support.
In point of fact, I doubt that I
Could write a bo6k of any sort
But would I thus attain success?
Yes, Tes!
I know crude writing is not art
And art alone is worth the while.
It's most ignoble to depart
From the accepted rules of style.
But one can't live by art alone
And if the product of my pen
Although it made the critics groan
Would earn a thousand now and
then.
Would I write stuff that wasn't good?
I would!
The Dalles. "Maybe there won't be
enough coal to cook food. Mr. Seu
fert mulled the matter and replied:
'Well, the less there is in the stom
ach, the better the brain works."
The Marion county solon, who is built
on generous lines around the equator.
glanced at his figure and said: "I've
often wondered what was the matter
with me. I guess you've explained it-"
Oregon's supreme bench was mobil
ized in Portland yesterday. Four of
the justices were at the Imperial and
the chief justice was at the Multno
mah. Those at the Imperial were
machine and foundry company does Judges Burnett, Benson, Harris and
been marked by revival of patriot
ism. It is not hard to imagine the
extension of this feeling from the
local "unit" to the state and nation.
THE FUTURE OF MONARCHY.
The fact that President Wilson
was sick in bed when he received
King Albert of Belgium adds to
rather than detracts from the in
terest .attaching to the event. It
caused all form and' ceremony to be
waived and brought the two men to
gether as men rather than as heads'
of two nations. It gave the king's
visit somewhat the character of a
visit of sympathy to a sick friend
instead of an official call in cour
tesy to a brother statesman for ex
change of hollow compliments.
King Albert's visit is peculiarly
significant, because he, as a heredi
tary ruler, has been unusually hon
ored by the people of a republic at
a time when monarchy has fallen to
low esteem, when members of de
posed dynasties are renouncing their
claims and titleS'Hjf rank and accept-
and stops trying. Thus the physiolog
ical sticking point becomes a psy
chological one also, the latter reacts
upon the former, and the effect is to
stop further progress by checking the
effort to overcome the obstacle.
The outcome of Mr. Redfield's
theory, like that of the theory of evo
lution in general, is optimistic. It in
dicates that, omitting individuals
who have organic mental defects
comparable to the loss of a limb,
"sticking points" are normally to be
expected, and can certainly be over
come ifthe effort is persistently
made. In the light of this novel
physiological explanation of common
periods of intellectual stagnation oc
curring in both children and adulta,
stick-to-itiveness takes on a new
meaning and promises a new reward.
In the estimation of the com
mittee on public information money
seems to . have been the cheapest
thing in the world. Checks hidden
in files i and many out-of-the-way
places and strewn on the floor form
g their place as plain citizens of fair Pture of its business methods.
republics, in fact when monarchy
seems approaching extinction. The
greatest unintentional service which
has been done to freedom by the
Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs and Ro
manoffs is that they have brought
monarchy into utter disrepute and
have wrecked its claims to superi-
orlty o v e r democratic rule as i
means of good government and pub
lie welfare.
Albert has done all that any man
humanly could to reinstate the in
stitution of monarchy in the good
opinion of the world. His proud
defiance of the German invader, his
tenacity in continuing the
Its record in giving out information
about aircraft and other war affairs
shows it to have been as reckless
with facts as with money. For some
reasons we have thought that the
war came to an end too soon, but it
could not have ended too soon to kill
the wasteful Creel bureau.
Probably the best explanation of
the Milwaukee railroad company's
vehement denials that it wants the
Olympic peninsula railroad is that.
however much it may want the road
it dare not buy after so much stir
not sound like one that would attract
women, but it is the one that li
tacked fast to' Miss Mary O'Neill, who
has held it for a number of years, says
the New York Commercial. Hun
d-reda of thousands of dollars' worth
of business pass through MlssO'Neill'i
hands annually as purchasing agent
for the American Machine & Foundry
company of Brooklyn, manufacturers
of machinery used in the tobacco
trade.
The story of Miss O'Neill's business
success starts 16 years ago as ste
nographer. At that time her firm
employed 90 men. Now their force
numbers over 1600 and Miss O'Neill.
The job is an unusual one, and per
haps the nature of it has had much to
do with the .fact that Miss O'Neill
feels thatrehe could have attained
much higher margin of success if she
had been a man. She has known in
stances where salesmen have refused
the business of the company rather
than do business with a woman, but
she - has found that after she had
proved that she knew as much about
it as they did she found them easy to
deal with.
Inez Irwin the brilliant novelist,
said in an address on eugenics in Bos
ton recently:
"Mercenary marriages are bad not
only for the children, buV for the con
trading parties as well. The parties
to mercenary marriages fight like cat
and dog.
"The poor young husband ofone of
these marriages had a terrific fight
at breakfast on a spring morning
with his rich and withered wife. That
afternoon h6 drove home in a mag
nificent new touring car. He called
his wife out to see it. His good
humor was quite restored. She, how
ever, said bitterly, for the breakfast
quarrel still rankled in her breast:
" 'It's a fine car, a very fine car,
but if it hadn't been for my money U
wouldn't be here.'
" 'Well, my love said the young
Johns, while Judge McBride was at
the Multnomah. One of the difficul
ties of being a member of the supreme
court is the attention one receives
from the legal fraternity. The judges
could scarcely walk a block In Port
land yesterday without being inter
cepted and chatted with, by lawyers.
For a .complete rest, William R.
Dawes is visiting the west. Mr. Dawes
is the vice-president and cashier of
the Central Trust company of Illi
nois. One of. his first desires on ar
riving at the Multnomah was to view
the Columbia highway. Mr. Dawes is
interested In roads and says that Illi
nois recently voted $60,000,000 bonds
for constructing highways and there
are five federal road projects under
way in that state.
Salesmen of men's ready-to-wear
clothing are late in arriving this' sea
son. Normally the hotels would be
filled with these drummers, but while
many are on the road they have not
reached this point. Owing to the high
prices of men's suits, there are fewer
salesmen out seeking orders this year
than for many seasons past
Mrs. J, E. Beekman and Miss Beek
man of Jacksonville, Or., arrived at
the Hotel Portland yesterday and will
remain in the city for the winter. The
Beekman family is one of the best
known in Jacksonville and the Beek
man bank was a unique Institution
of its kind on the Pacific coast.
Fred V. Heesey was the first cap
tain Greeter Fred M. Sayles had when
he. was in the army. Mr. Hessey was
the mess officer on the ship when he
returned and had the feeding of 6000
men three times a day. With his wife.
Mr. Hessey is at the Multnomah, on
his way to San Francisco, where he
makes his home.
"My orders in the three days I was
in Seattle amounted to $5000. As
starter in Portland today, my sales
were $3000. with two more days to
go on. buch orders as that show the
confidence of the merchants in the
larger cities of the Pacific north
west." declared a commercial man at
the Multnomah.
Mr. Cooper 'Writes of Walnat Culture
and Harvesting Methods.
McMIN'NVlLLE. Or., Oct. 30. (To
the Editor.) Walnut growers and
those interested in walnut growing
certainly read The Oregonian. Re
cently The Oregonian printed an
item referring those to me who want
information on the subject, and now
that the walnut harvest is on in
quiries have multiplied, and I will
ask you to help me disseminate in
formation such as we have.
There is a shortage of grafted
walnut trees at all of the nurseries
in the northwest, so far as I know.
Nearly all nurseries sell walnut trees
or will procure them for customers
when they are to be had. Some plant
the nuts, either black or English, ancfl
graft when necessary, when the tree
is large, enough, which will be from
three to five years. Anyone who goes
into walnut growing will need pa
tience, but the rewards will come
The varieties most suited to this
section are largely according to what
the nurseryman has to sell and what
the grower has planted. Franquette
Wiltz, Mayette and Meyhan predom
inate all good.
Harvesting the walnut is a simple
process. Pick up the nuts soon after
they fall from the trees, every two
or three days before they become
discolored, and wash them. A good
way to wash nuts is to make a wire
basket of 1-inch mesh poultry net
ting to fit inside a washtub; fill th
tub with water and pour in a half
bushel or more of nuts and churn
them around for a minute or so with
a broom; life them out and lower
them into another tub of water to
rinse them; lift them out and pour
them onto a wire tray for drying.
Plenty of air must circulate through
the nuts or they will mold. Tem
perature should not get above 90 de
grees. Do not keep them in sacks or
ouckets more than' 10 or 12 hours
after they are picked up from the
ground or they will mold. The above
method is for a small crop. For a
large crop, write Charles Trunk,
Dundee. He has made a washer.
J. C. COOPER.
Marshal Koch Please 'Write.
Now that the loser has told how he
lost the war, perhaps the winner will
tell us how he won it.
Some nod j- Must Be HoardlnK It.
"Worst Sugar Shortage Since War"
Headline. What's become of the
tons of it that used to go Into the
cocktails?
U-nlcsa There's a Cellar In the New
York. Yacht Club.
If Lipton does succeed in lifting the
cup this time he'll have to bring along
the stuff to fill it.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Ine
In Other Days.
Finding Dlscharared Soldier.
CHERRY GROVE. Or., Oct. 29.
(To the Editor.) Please tell me how
I could locate a soldier friend who
was discharged from Houston, Tex.,
last March.
At that time I was in a hospital
and not allowed to write or receive
any letters, and weeks after, when I
was allowed my mail, my friend had
been discharged and I had lost all
trace of him. His name is Earl T.
Canfield and he belonged to squad
ron L, and if there is any chance to
locate him I would like to find it.
SOLDIER.
Twenty-Five Ycara Ago.
From The Oregonian of November 1, 1894.
In 1SS4 the number of miles of rail
road constructed and operated as the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon was
443; in 1894 the total mileage is 653.
At a special meeting of the Cham
ber of Commerce last night it was
voted to memorialize congress to take
prompt action to construct the Nicara
gua canal.
Samuel Klein, father, of one of The
Dalles express robbers! has made up
the $200 which the boys spent, so the
entire $14,000 has been recovered.
Today is the date set for completion
of the Bull Run water works contract,
but no department is entirely Com
pleted.
Fifty Years Ago.
From Tho Oregonian of November 1. 186ft.
Hartford. Addresses were made at
the woman suffrage convention today
by Mrs. Lloyd Garrison and Mrs.
Stanton.
Washington. It is estimated that
T60.000.000 letters passed through the
mails last year, an increase of 40,000,
000 over any previous year.
The closing examination of the term
in the Oregon City seminary will take
place Thursday and the term will
close Friday.
The Willamette river has not for
many years been as low as now.
lie just announces his home as
' V T" tw- H Shir" rinea Pr i ntor loan a
husband, if It Saint been for your Gallic mariner .who hove to overniEht charged soldiers. Records in the of
There is no government depart
ment or other agency that maintains
a record of the whereabouts of dis-
boches.
CONTINUING THE THRIFT MOVEMENT.
The statement by Paul M. War
burg, ex-member of the Federal Re
serve board, that "the more rapidly
our national debt is genuinely paid
for by the savings of the people, the
sooner shall we be able to get away
from the necessity of drastic taxa
tion," is matched by that of' Dwight
W. Morrow, before the International
Trade conference at Atlantic City the
other day, that "the hero of that en
terprise (the combination of the peo
ple in a campaign of saving) will be
the old-fashioned man who spends
less than he produces and. thus
creates the fund without which all
the plans' for the restoration of Eu
rope must come to naught." ' Read
ing "America" for "Europe" in the
preceding sentence does not make it
less true. There has been waste and
there must be thrift to atone for it.
No country on the globe has escaped
the waste.
Mr. Morrow told the delegates to
the conference that if the people of
the United States would save, in pro
duction over consumption, only 20
cents a day for 300 days the prob
lem, would be largely solved. Ob
viously there are individuals among
the 100,000,000 who could not save
0 cents a day or any other amount,
but as an average the figure would
not seem to be impossible. Although
20 cents is a small amount, it pro
duces the stupendous aggregate of
$6,000,000,000, which it is admitted
would go a long way toward restor
ing credit and therefore industry.
has been made. But after a while.
fight l"when affairs have quieted down, we
when driven to a bleak corner of his shall see what will happen,
country, his able leadership of his
people and his unfaltering confi- It was the first division which
dence tn their ultimate liberation I gave the Germans a taste of Ameri-
when their fortunes seemed darkest can fighting spirit at Belleau Wood
all these qualities have marked and Chateau Thierry. If any strong
him as the most chivalrous hero that arm methods should be adopted to
the war has produced, lifting him to force unwilling miners to strike, they
8. pedestal where he commands the will show how they treated the
admiration of republicans and mon
archists alike. Yet he has not been
spoiled by all the praise that has
been heaped on him. He remains
simple and sincere, still the devoted
servant of his people.
Appearance of such a man when
the trend is so strongly toward re
puDiics leads us to contrast some
kingdoms with some republics for
example Belgium under Albert with
Mexico under Carranza. We are led
to judge by the inwansj spirit rather
than by the outward form of a gov
ernment. The Belgian dynasty was
elected by popular representatives.
and the people rule as truly there as Wisely the miners decide to let
in the United States, but the ruling men stay in the mines to keep tnem
head of the elected dvnastv cives the in condition. They want them in
government a degree of stability. Bv working shape when they resume.
way of contrast. Mexico, thoueh in Considerate fellows, for themselves!
name a republic, is in fact ruled by
a despot and since it gained inde- There is no way of getting the
pendence has enjoyed peace only statement officially, but take it for
a fact, the local burglar first looks
for bottled goods.
The replies of Washington sena
tors and representatives to the ques
tion how they stand on the open shop
shows which of them are sidestep
pers and which meet an issue
squarely.
Five years ago th cotton-growers
were crying for help in getting rid
of their cotton. Now they sell it at
7 5 cents a pound and cry for help in
taking care of their money.
money you wouldn't be here either.' '
s
Bert A Boyd, an Indianapolis grain
dealer, played a joke on some mem
bers of the Indiana congressional
delegation, writes tho Washington
correspondent of ths Indianapolis
News. It was not a cruel joke on
seme, because the joys and t"kicklng
of a good bottle have never appealed
to them, but It can be said with defl
niteness that when Mr. Boyd sent to
each member a quart bottle with the
label "a bottle of rye," some of the
Indianans were delighted for a mo
ment or two.
Inspection, however, showed that
the bottle of rye was what it was
said to be. It was a bottle of grains
of rye, and was not liquid. Each
member also received from Mr. Boyd
poem, one stanza of which fol
lows:
Place this bottls on your table.
Bow your head and kls the label
Then imagine, U you're able.
That you're back to days gone by.
A man with a cracked derby .in his
hand and ragged coat pinned expertly
together with ten-penny nails slid
professionally through the door of
the Roosevelt Memorial association
headquarters in the Garrick building
during the despotic reign of Diaz.
Portugal was abominably misgov
erned under the kings, but as a re
public it has been in chronic revolution.
Most of the applicants for enumer
ating the census are women and it
well may be hoped they get the Jobs.
STICKING POINTS TS DEVELOPMENT.
Casper L. Redfield's studies in
genetics, which have recently
If the candy bar were a necessity.
dealers who profiteer in it would be
brought him notice because of his Nailed; but candy is a luxury.
conclusion that acquired traits are
transmissible, bear new fruit in his
New York courts enjoin the sale of
contention that in all progress there one-half of 1 per cent stuff and that
are certain "sticking points" which
is not even a mouth wash.
Miss your wandering boy this
morning? Perhaps the police caught
him pranking last night.
require especial effort to overcome,
but which nevertheless can be over
come if the effort is made. In an
article in the Medical Record Mr,
Redfield says that failure to recog
nize the existence of these sticking This Is the month of the turkey
points and to take them into con- and with it the problem of how
sideration in the treatment of chil- much
dren is an important cause of much
injustice. It will not be Chicago without its
The flagellata, which are unicel- Montgomery Ward.
Iular animals which live in water I
and reproduce by fission, furnish I When government says
Mr. Redfield with a logical starting means just that.
point. Experiments were made by a
scientist who subjected the flagel-1 "Nothing doing!
lata to gradually increasing tern, either way.
peratures. . Beginning with animals
living and reproducing in water at I Plenty of "white coal."
"must" it
at the Hotel Oregon. The visitor is
off the French, boat now in the har
bor, which is the first of a line In
tended to operate between this port
and the old country.
T; visit his son-in-law. former State
Senator Claude McColloch, Judge M.
D. Clifford is in the city from Baker.
The judge got his start at Canyon
jity, or., where for years, as a dem
ocratic candidate, he defeated all com
ers of the republican persuasion.
After a successful season conduct-
ir.g the Government Springs, on the
upper Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. L. B.
Markham have come to Portland for
the winter and are at the Hotel
Washington. They will live in Laurel
hurst until next spring.
There is a steadily increasing d-
miind for soap, reports A. H. Dried-
well of Seattle, who is at the Hotel
Washington. This is a demand which
exactly suits him, as he is in the bus
iness of selling soap.
Miss Barbara Booth, daughter of
Senator R A. Booth of Eugene, passed
through the city yesterday with Mrs.
V. A. Peterson. During the war Miss
Brotn was e-ngatred in welfare work
and only recently returned home.
Direct from the escolta come Mr.
and Mrs. S. M. Berger. The couple
flee of the adjutant-general, Wash
ington, D. C would disclose the place
of residence of the soldier at the
time of enlistment, but not whether
he is now living at that place.
Medicine Refused.
" Baltimore American.
Doctor "Did you give the patient
the Insomnia medicine I ordered?"
Amateur Nurse "Yes, doctor, but he
got so angry whenever I woke him up
to give it to him."
Paekagrs to Canada.
WHEELER, Or., Oct. 30. (To the
Editor.) Please tell me how I can
send a package to Canada, contain
ing a sweater, shirt and like articles
of wearing apparel.
GERTRUDE BROWN.
It is necessary to make application
for an export permit. Address Will
H. Moore, collector of customs, cus
tom house, Portland, Or., giving full
Information as to articles you wish
to send, value of the articles and as
to conditions under which you wish
to send the package, and you will
be advised as to method to employ.
People Are Kind.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"I see you have me billed for a re
turn engagement In Plunkviilo."
boomed Yorick Hamm. "Let me see,
I was there last in 1905." "Yes. but
don't worry. People have had time to
forsret."
and coughed, says the Chicago Trib- ?IriV'd "l" w?n "tX and
I report that the Philippine islands are
can be read
Richard L. Kelley, secretary of ths
memorial fund drive, looked up and
snapped: "Get out! No beggars al
lowed. Ws re raising money our
selves."
"That's what I came to see about.
said the knight of the road huskily.
"I come to give, not to get. You see.
Mr. Roosevelt was police commission
er in New Toak once, and I was a
cop, and they framed me. He saved
me my Job. He wouldn't remember
me if he were alive, but I never for
got it. Here's two bucks. I panhan
dled it in Evanston this morning for
him. Nope, no lame."
Dr. Robert Bridges, poet laureate
of Great Britain, celebrated the sev
enty-fifth anniversary of his birth,
October 23. By appointment of the
British premier Dr. Bridges became
poet laureate In 1913, in succession
to the late Alfred Austin. He was
educated at Eton and Oxford, studied
medicine and practiced as a hospital
physician until 1882, when he retired.
For a time he privately printed his
poetry and other compositions. The
"Growth of Love" is a series of 69
sonnets privately circulated from 1876
to 1888. Among his volumes 1
"Shorter Poems," in which his best
work is to be found. Others are
"Nero." a historical tragedy; "Pali'
cio." a romantic drama in the Eliza'
bethan manner, and "Humors of the
Court," a comedy. Although he has
never measured up to the standard of
popularity attained by some of his
distinguished predecessors. Dr.
Bridges is credited with exerting
gjeat influence In a select circle.
thriving and that Manila is moving
tiong at a lively rate commercially.
George R. Hyslop, grain expert at
the Oregon Agricultural college.' Is at
tho Multnomah. Some time airo Mr.
Hysl-op had the responsibility of grad
ing the wheat of eastern Oregon's
vast ranches.
Miss Jean Porter." daughter of John
T. Porter, railroad contractor of Spo
kane, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ken
neth D. Hauser, at the Multnomah.
F. A Gleason. a stockman operat
ing in the Antelope district, has ar
rived at the Perkins. He brought a
shipment to the stockyards, with him.
A sheepman of Prineville. who ad
mits that the sheep business has been
good the past year, is F. L. Dodge,
who is among the arrivals at the Per
kins.
With a velour hat and a Charley
Chapiin overcoat, Tom Nolan, the dry
goo os merchant of Corvallis, landed
at the Hotel Portland.
E. E. Johnson of Coqullle is in the
city on business and is registered at
tho Imperial. Mr. Johnson operates
one of the larjre. lumber mills in the
Coos county city.
To visit his wife, who is In a Port
land hospital recovering from an
operation. Judge J. B. Bridges of
Olympia. Wash., arrived in the city
yesterday and is at the Benson.
Connected with the shipping firm
of Matsui & Co., Ltd.; S. Masuda and
M. Sasaki are at the Benson. They
are from the New York branch of the
organization. ,
Thomes W. Howson, a mirilr.gr man.
who has headquarters in Seattle, is at
the Perkins.
They Laugh at the Flight of Years
These Staunch and Eminently
Serviceable "Old" Men
How old are you? Have the years touched your thatch with
silver or thinned it away as a memory ? A fig for mere years, any
howyou are as old as you feel, and there are services yet waiting
your effort and your thought. In the Sunday issue are cited any
1 number of prominent men, powers in the world of unabated vigor,
whose years alone would classify them as fit for slippers and a fire
side. John Wanamaker, Samuel Gompers, Dr. Charles W. Eliot,
Chauncey M. Depew, John Burroughs, and a score of others, all
testify that the path toward the sunset is a busy end useful one, if
men but choose.
HORRORS OF CHILD BEGGARY IN MEXICO Here is a yarn to
shudder at, with the prayer that light may sometime, and soon,
dawn after the long darkness that has rested upon Mexico. It
deals with the slavery of children, abducted for the profession of
beggary, and mutilated horribly to excite the pity of alms-givers.
It is authentic in every detail and the stories presented are from
the reports of American Humane association, which delegated
trained investigators to probe this barbarism of the southern
republic, land of contradictions and terror.
PORTLAND'S MANLESS HOTELS When the modern young
woman, by circumstance or choice, cleaves the ties of family and
friends in other cities, and comes to Portland to carve out a career
in the business world there is no lack of homes for her. In The
Sunday Oregonian, with illustrations of cosy quarters where
women make their homes while serving the Vorld of affairs, is
a special article by. De Witt Harry.. It discusses the "manless
" hotels" of Portland, cleanly, comfortable, and responding to a
definite need of the modern era.
THE LOVE MATCH THAT HAS SCANDALIZED ROUMANIA
Court etiquette and the rule of royalty that kingly blood must
never stoop to the love of one of lesser birth, were swept aside
by Crown Prince Carol, of Roumania, when he fled with Zizi
Lambrino, otherwise the "Little Parisienne" of Bucharest, and set
his royal mama and the rest of the royal household on their royal
noses figuratively speaking. A lively romance from real life, in
the Sunday issue, with pictures of the young lovers.
THE VICTORY AT SEA Heard about the "depth charge," havent
you? It was an iron-bound catastrophe that plunged into old
ocean and sought out the lurking submarine, rending the sea
terror to scrap-iron and sending to the surface that well-known
"smear of oil" that featured in the naval dispatches during the
world war. Just what the depth charge accomplished in opening
the sea lanes and bringing Germany to her knees, is told by
Admiral William Sowden Sims, in the Sunday issue, through the
latest installment of his stirring.serial of American naval activi
ties against the Hun.
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