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T TUNING AGAINST DEMOCKACT.
Liection results indicate that the
people have turned against the dem
ocratic administration, and that that
jiurty is losing its hold on its mem
bers. That is most clear in Ken
tucky, where the contest for gov
ernor was fought on rational issues
with fewer local complications than
in other states, and where the league
of nations was not an issue, though
the democrats tried to make it one,
and accused Morrow, the republican
candidate, of talking against the
league in country districts. Morrow
carried this normally democratic
state by a decisive majority, and all
the efforts of the entire Kentucky
democratic delegation in congress
proved of no effect.
In none of the other states which
held elections can the result be en
tirely dissociated from the popular
attitude toward national parties.
Massachusetts may be an exception,
for there men of all parties flocked
to support of Governor Coolidge as
the champion of law and order
against bolshevism. Where that is
the issue, they know no party and
refuse to sit at the feet of Lenine
and Trotzky as the latest exponents
of democracy. President Wilson's
telegram of congratulation to Gover
nor Coolidge emphasizes that fact.
We hope that it may be assumed
that no reason other than illness pre
vented Mr. Wilson from endorsing
this republican before, instead of
after, the election.
By electing a republican president
of the board of aldermen and by de
feating the entire Tammany judicial
ticket, New York city showed that it
is breaking away from democracy
and that that most compact organ
ization is losing its grip. The repub
licans can beat that machine when
they represent the cause of good
government, as they did by nominat
ing Newberger for judge after Tam
many had rejected him.
The anti-bolshevist trend is also
apparent in the crushing defeat of
the non-partisan league for control
of the Nebraska constitutional con
vention. There is no comfort for W.
J. Bryan in that news.
The administration can find no
cheer in the vote of either New Jer
sey or Maryland, fr in those states
the liquor issue "' crowded national
politics into the background. New
Jersey's beer-drinking, foreign-born
population is so large that the major
ity for the wet governor would prob
ably have been larger but for the
general drift away from democracy.
War industries have also drawn a
large alien liquor-loving population
to Maryland, yet a democrat carried
that usually democratic state by a
majority of only a few hundred.
Defeat of Charles M. Fickert for
district attorney at San Francisco is
without political significance in view
of the facts that he was running for
a third term and was handicapped
by the accumulated enmities of hij
two terms. It certainly gives no en
couragement to the radicals who
clamor for release of Mooney, since
a recall on that issue was defeated
by two to one.
The people are turning away from
the democratic party. They do so
the more readily because its strict
partisanship has forced it to assume
all responsibility for all that has
been ill done by appropriating all
credit for all that has been well done.
In keeping out of war until we were
clubbed into it, that party kept us
unprepared and it. prepared the way
for that carnival of waste and blun
dering which marked our war pre
parations. It starved the railroads,
and a huge deficit under government
peraiiuu is cue icauu. ii auuuxiiicu
to a hold-UD by the railroad men and
f ii rwi d si ry incpnliyp trt the OTir
of scarce - disguised revolutionary
I critical point in domestic affairs the
- r resident deserted his post to be
come the leading figure at the peace
rnnfci'pnop and t herehv st irrer! n rt a
'. hornets' nest in the senate. Impera-
, tlvely needed legislation was thus de
layed, uie soiaiers were neglected at
the hour of demobilization, and bol
shevism seized the opportunity to in
vade the labor unions and instigate
gigantic strikes in the effort to un
dermine the republic.
The rush to radicalism has been
-stopped by a people which still be
lieves its government to be the best
on earth, and which at last realizes
the disruptive effect of class con
sciousness and class prejudice care
fully cultivated for political or revo
lutionary profit. They see that the
origin of the red plots which pro
duced the strike epidemic and riots
of 1919 was the legislation under
compulsion in 1916. They aro more
than ever determined to stand by the
American form of government, the
American plan of settling industrial
disputes, and to cast out that which
has made Russia a land of horrors.
They know that to escape the evils
which harass them, they must get
rid of the administration which
brought, on those evils, and must
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"" that they have started the search.
Grape growers who a short time
- ago were predicting calamity as the
' result of prohibition, but now see the
evil day postponed by an enormously
increased aemana ior grape juice
and raisins, will take new heart from
the report of the American Chemical
society that a new edible oil made
" from grape seeds promises to become
a real rival of olive and cottonseed
oils for culinary uses. A scientist of
the bureau of plant industry of the
department of agriculture has found
that it is commercially feasible to
separate seeds from the pulp in
pressing: mills and to extract the oil
at a figure which will make other
vegetable oils look to their laurels.
The residue after the oil has been
extracted makes a valuable stock
food, and the process is , applicable
to other seeds, such as those of the
tomato, which are rejected in catsup
factories. More revenue for grape
growers, cheaper edible oil for con
sumers, and a new stock food to help
make meat cheaper, when these are
realized, will be a new feather in the
cap of the industrial chemists.
WHAT THKV WIXI.' SAY.
"One ear before the election of
1920," we are told by Carl Ackerman,
the well-known and well-informed
newspaper correspondent, "none of
the leaders of either of the two big
parties can forecast what plank or
planks will be embodied in the lead
ers' platforms. . . . Not one com
plete platform exists. Not even a
skeleton of a platform has been for
mulated by party leaders.""
Certainly not.' No platform in
words or form is ever written a- year,
or even a month, before a national
convention. It would be an as
sumption of authority which no man
possesses if he should essay to do for
any party now that which it will in
due time undertake -to do for itself.
That is what a national convention
of republicans or democrats, or of
ether parties, is for.
But is it true that no one now
knows what any .party will stand for
in 1920? We think not.
One great issue will be the demo
cratic party and its record. The plat
form of one party will point with
pride and the other will view with
alarm and dissatisfaction. The one
party will glorify its part in the war;
the other will emphasize the costly
and ghastly mistakes of the war.
The one will applaud the president
for his service in forming the league
of nations, and will take credit for
its ratification, or lay the blame for
its defeat, as the case may be. The
other will" attack the president for
his methods in our international af
fairs, and claim a controlling part in
shaping the league of nations so that
it will safeguard America.
One party, the republican, will
assert a paramount Americanism, a
firm opposition to radicalism, and
the supremacy of the law. The other,
the democratic party, will, we hope,
do the same thing.
THE WAY IT WORKS.
Among other ways of American
life and duty to which Mr. Samuel
Gompers is not reconciled is prohibi
tion. He blames the present wide
spread unrest largely on the fact that
the country has gone dry. The habits
of the workingman have been in
vaded and there is great trouble.
"We have upset that man," moans
Mr. Gompers; "uprooting one habit
uproots another." The only road out,
evidently, in the Gompers philoso
phy, is to let the workingman and
everybody else get drunk when he
pleases. There are sundry callous
persons, it may be added, who go
Mr. Gompers one better and advance
the amazing theory that the only
way to keep labor contented is to
get it drunk and keep it drunk. Yet
the test of experience is that the way
to make labor prosperous is to per
suade it to be sober and to stay
sober.
It may be well to call the attentior
of Mr. Gompers and others who
think with him on prohibition to the
course of the steel strike about Pitts
burg. There has been a notable ab
sence of disorder. The New York
World, an anti-prohibition paper, has
a report on the situation, with frank
commentary on the reaspns for its
peaceable character. The paragraph
says :
More, however, is due to the fact that
the prohibition laws are being enforced
in the Pittsburg district. If the men had
been able to get liquor there would un
questionably have been a very different
story to tell. If they should come to be
able to get liquor there still might be a
very different story. There is no shadow
even of disagreement among the authorlr
ties as to this, and the authorities imme
diately in charge of the situation are men
who have lived among strikers all their
lives.
It is not possible, of course, that
President Gompers has a preference
for strikes attended by riot, -lawlessness,
crime, and wreckage.
A SUMMONS TO SURRENDER.
President Gompers' proposal that
the government withdraw the in
junction against the coal miners
strike is in fact an invitation to the
government to confess that the
miners did right in striking and
that the injunction was, in his own
language, "a grave wrong and gross
blunder." It is a summons to sur
render. This statement of John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, has the same effect:
If the injunction is vacated, the miners
will be willing immediately to meet the
operators in joint conference to negotiate
a wage scale.
He says nothing about calling off
the strike as a first step toward ne
gotiation. The injunction makes the
strike an act of lawlessness. If it
should be withdrawn, the "strike
would be legalized, and the strikers
would be in better position than be
fore the government set the courts
in motion.
Neither Mr. Gompers nor Mr.
Lewis offers " anything more than
they offered before the strike was
called and enjoined. The strike is a
violation of a contract which was to
run until April 1, 1920, or until such
earlier date as peace shall be pro
claimed. The miners ask the gov
ernment to concede the legality of
the strike which it has denied. Hav
ing violated one contract, they ask
the operators to negotiate another
with the contract breakers. Of what
use is a contract with men who re
fuse to concede the validity of that
which they have broken?
The government does well to stand
firmly by its declaration that the
strike must be called off before it
will offer to arbitrate between op
erators and miners." If the miners
by resuming work will recognize the
binding force of the existing agree
ment, they can fairly ask the opera
tors to consider with them a revision
of the agreement. They forfeit any
claim to its revision when they begin
by violating it. If by calling off the
strike they will concede the right of
the nation to live to be superior to
their right to strike, they will have
the right of all good citizens to the
mediation of the government In set
tling their differences with, the
operators.
Mr. Gompers' course in sustaining
the miners does not square with his
course in upholding unlimited right
to collective bargaining. The miners.'
have followed that custom with, the
operators for almost thirty years, but
they now break a bargain as a pre
liminary to proposing a new. one.
Before Mr. Gompers can expect em
ployers in general to adopt the cus
tom, he should induce unions affili
ated with the federation to respect
their bargains.
m Mr. Gompers, Mr. Lewis and all
other radical labor leaders should
study the election returns, particu
larly those from Massachusetts. They
will then learn that, when the ques
tion is raised whether the law shall
be supreme, whether the rights of
the whole people are superior to
those of any part of the people,
whether the majority shall submit to
the dictation of a minority, the vast
majority of the people of all parties
are on the side of law and order.
The voters have reminded- labor
that there are limits to its rights
and privileges and that duty to the
nation goes with those rights. If
the labor leaders rightly learn their
lesson they will call off the miners'
strike before seeking to negotiate
and they will call off all other strikes
which condemn contracts or the
rights of the people.
A GAIN TOR rOKKEfT SPEKCB.
A facetious contemporary informs
its readers that as a result of "Better-English
Week" in the schools,
"bad English is receiving some
mighty swats." The temptation to be
jocular oer a commendable effort
at reform in boys" and girls' speech
is natural enough too natural, in
deed. It is a part of the habit of the
time. The newspapers aro respon
sible for much of it, or at least faith
fully reflect'it. The headline artif
icer sets the pace, the reporter
finds in slang the necessary color to
his story, and the editorial writer is
not at all free from it. Language
would indeed be a poor vehicle for
the expression of thought without it
at least of current thought.
It is Better English Week. What
we started out to inquire was as to
whether or not it is also No Slang
Week. Not that we object to slang
in the right place, as we have inti
mated; but it may well be criticized
when it garnishes conversation or
writing to the exclusion of simple
and lucid language. Without slang
or" profanity, or both, many men are
not able to say ten consecutive
words; and without slang, some wo
men ditto. But for our part, we
would as soon hear a good round
oath as the annoying, nauseous, and
senseless "say!" or "listen!" of many
women, or the "I'll say it is" of men,
women and children. Does anybody
know why he or she says it, unless it
is because he is vacant of thoughts?
If a no-slang week shall follow in
the school and if it shall eliminate
such silly words and phrases, in
whole or in part, a great gain for co
herence "and saneness in mere talk
ing by young and old will have been
made.
THE BRYAMC STYLE OF ARGUMENT.
. This fine sample of Bryanic rea
soning was contained in the state
ment which W. J. Bryan made to the
house committee on the railroad bill:
I begin with the proposition that a pri
vate monopoly is indefensible and intol
erable. It is indefensible because It can
not be defended, and intolerable because
a thing that cannot be defended cannot
be tolerated in a republic where the peo
ple are the source of power.
' Thufi we complete the circle and
come back to the point whence we
started. Mr. Bryan went on to re
hearse the familiar arguments
against private monopoly in order to
establish that the only alternative is
public monopoly, which is public
ownership. One of these arguments
is that private monopoly destroys all
incentive to progress, but this is
true also of public monopoly. Pri
vate monopoly at least has the incen
tive of profit, which is lacking in
public monopoly.
He entirely overlooks the third
alternative, which is private monop
oly under public regulation. Kail
roads are in their nature monopolies,
and for that reason must be under
strict government control. Yet they
afford scope for a degree of private
enterprise, initiative, economy in de
tail and general efficiency, of which
a-government department has proved
incapable and which are found only
in private business. The problem is
to combine with these merits of pri
vate ownership such a degree of pub
lic control as will make the railroad
companies agents of the people fo
performance of public service, theit
compensation to be such profit as
they can earn on rates and wages
regulated by the government.
This is the system which the
United States has been trying to per
fect for many years, but which had
not been completed when the wai
forced public operation upon us. Im
perfect as it was, that system gave
us better service at lower rates than
were found in any country where the
government owns the railroads. It is
the system provided by the Cummins
bill, and it offers relief from the
high cost and inefficiency of gov
ernment operation as now practiced.
Advocates of government owner
ship assume that the only alterna
tive t their policy is unrestrained,
unregulated private ownership as it
prevailed before the first interstate
commerce law was passed, and they
urge the evils and abuses which ac
companied it as reasons why the
government should own and run the
railroads. That is not the alterna
tive that is offered. No man, not
even the railroad companies them
selves, proposes a return to those
conditions. They are dead as Caesar.
The only alternative to government
ownership that is now considered la
private ownership under much
stricter and more nearly perfect
government control than has hither
to prevailed. Mr. Bryan, Mr. Plumb
and their like shouldtalk about the
rival plan to theirs, not about one
which nobody proposes.
Another false assumption of gov
ernment ownership men is that theit
opponents act in the interest of the
railroads, though the only considera
tion in the minds of the millions who
are not financially interested is to
get good service at reasonable rates.
With them fair profits to the com
panies are simply a means to that
end. Unless the roads earn at least
the current rate of interest, money-
will not be invested in them and
they will not be able to give good
service. Sensible people favor fair
profits to railroads, not from love of
the stockholders, but from love ot
themselves.
In that connection the provisions
of the Cummins bill which take from
the companies half of the earning?
between 6 and 7 per cent and three
fourths of those above 7 per cent are
open to criticism. They go far to
remove the incentive to effort and
excellence. They ignore a common
human trait. A man is not likely to
do his best when ho does not thereby
increase his earnings, but if bettei
work brings better pay he will strive
for it. A railroad company, its offi
cers and employes are simply an
aggregation of just such men. A
dead level of earnings- means a dead
level of effort and quality of work.
While a reserve fund from net earn-
ngs above the minimum is advis
able, the company should have all
above a certain higher percentage
and up to a fixed maximum. When
the maximum was passed the gov
ernment should take the excess and
should reduce rates. The range be
tween the maximum and minimum
would furnish scope for the very
qualities which render regulated pri
vate ownership superior to public
ownership. For the same reason the
companies should of their own mo
tion divide a liberal share of their
surplus profits among the employes.
A gas company in London has fol
lowed that plan for many years, with
the result that it has had no strikes,
not even during the epidemic of this
year, production has increased and
cost of production has decreased.
Devising a good, workable railroad
policy is not difficult if the single
end of good service be kept in view
and if ordinary human motives be
enlisted to attain it. Complications
arise from the use of argument and
revival of prejudices which became
obsolete when the policy of effective
regulation was definitely adopted,
from the efforts of men to grind
their own financial or political axes
or from devotion to fads like Mr.
Bryan's dual public ownership
scheme. Such schemes are useful
principally as examples of how not
to do it.
TRAYER AND DEEDS.
Bishop Hughes, addressing a New
York congregation on a recent Sun
day, told his hearers that "persons
who pray for material favors commit
forgery on the bank of heaven." It
was not in the spirit that the bishop
decried that Lieutenant Maynard,
known as the "flying parson," who
so finely represented the church mil
itant, as well as the army, in the air
race across the continent, prayed for
victory in the race, or knowing that
his wife also was praying for him to
win resolved that he would do his
best to "make the prayers of his.wife
come true."
Reliance on the efficacy of prayer
is not new among men who have
been leaders of thought as well as
action. But it will have been noted
by the observant that the prayer that
was most worth while was that
which strengthened the resolve to
back it up with deeds, and which ad
dressed itself to the support of a pur
pose in harmony with the higher
plan. Cromwell's classical "Put your
trust in God, but keep your powder
dry," is recalled easily to memory.
Cromwell had faith in prayer, but he
was not the type of man who would '
insult the deity with a request for
guidance in an oil stock investment.
Stonewall Jackson was one of many
otheu fighting men who prayed, but
prayed for power to go on striving,
rather than for the interposition of a
miracle.
Simon Magus, who did not com
prehend that the power of prayer
was destroyed by the element of self
seeking, made the mistake of those
who pervert the purpose of prayer
when he made an offer of money to
the disciples for the gift of the Holy
Ghost. Simon Magus won a perma
nent place in the English language
in the word "simony," used to desig
nate the offense of corruptly seeking
to influence ecclesiastical prefer
ment. Lieutenant Maynard realized
the truth in the adage that "God
helps them that help themselves." It
is true that he did not win the time
record in the race, but he did win
substantial fame and the respect of
all who watched the progress of the
contest, and he contributed largels
to the store of scientific data to ob
tain which the race was organized.
Bisho-p Hughes' warning was ad
dressed, not to those who pray and
work, but to that other element who
believe that commercial prosperity
can be had by the simple process of
praying for it. For these he offers
10 comfort. The praying man must
be certain that he enters the celes
tial court with clean hands.
At last the senate has discovered
why the treaty debate is so long. It
is held in open session. If the sena
tors had only been talking to each
other, instead of to the gallery and
the newspapers, they would have
finished long ago. . For many years
there have been protests against ex
ecutive sessions, but after this ex
perience a referendum vote would
be unanimous for them, except for a
few senators.
Let us concede without cavil that
the victory in New Jersey of booze
and the democrats is a personal tri
umph for the administration and for
Tumulty, who directed the campaign
the dispatches tell us, actively.
If you have $75,000 to spare and
need a first-class houseboat, some
thing with class, there is choice of
several in the harbor you can buy
from the shipping corporation.
There will be a hiatus if the pro
posed abbreviated shirt is adopted
that cannot be overcome by a rub
ber band. Try it on any fat man.
Local shortage of eggs is said to
be due to activity of Seattle buyers.
and everybody supposed it due to in
activity of Oregon hens.
If you think the office boy is
threatened with lethargic encephali
tis, do not call a doctor, buy him a
ticket to the movies.
Once generally known that Curry
county pigs are fattened on acorns,
the hog thieves who know quality
will flock that way.
What sort of a city jailer must
they have at' Spokane that the jail
can be converted into a blind pig
under his nose?
This will be a cold, hard winter for
the alien slacker with nothing but
his yellow streak to keep him warm.
The bargain sale of wooden ships
gives somebody an opportunity to get
into the shipping business.
If the worst should come, we can
all emigrate to Andorra, the land of
perpetual peace.
Cutting In ahead when the draw
gate opens is an offense against the
law, at last.
The burglar who loots a plumber's
shop violates ethics.
T. R. is not neglecting any beta.
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Stars and Starmakers.
By Leon C'aaa Baer.
BY LEOXB CASS BAER.
UN
NTIL Sophie Tucker took me on
a personally-conducted motor
trip around Long Island, a few weeks
ago. I had always Imagined the place
to be binder than Oregon and Wash
ington togetner, my ideas on its size
teing the result of interviews I have
had with actors, real and near. Nine
out of ten of em have homes on Long
Island, and when they aren't "renew
ing acquaintances on the dear Pacifie
ccast," they are refusing offers from
Belasco and the Selwyns and the rest,
and living with a flock of hired help
on their Long Island homes. The
truth of It is that trie actors' estates
on Long Island are conspicuous by
their absence.
Sophie pointed out a few modest
estates, and I've remembered 'em.
Hereafter when Miss Lena Dike, play
ing Pacific coast leads In the No. 4
company of "The Hearts of Us
Women." casta down her eyes and
pulls at the fringe on the table while
she chats of her place (they always
refer to any lot SuxBO as a place) on
Long Island. I won't rush it into print
like I usta.
Most of the actors in New York
eat at Childs' restaurants and then
walk over and stand in front of
Claridge's or the Astor and talk with
each other about the good meals
tl ey've just had.
Audiences in New York are the
rudest I ever saw. Individuals arrive
late and clamber out of their seats
before each act closes and go home
before the end of the show. They
laugh and roar and bellow at ante
diluvean Jokes and utter drivel, and
idiocy passes as something tremen
dously smirt with them. You can't
pick out the supposedly nice women
from the other kind in audiences, for
they have everything on their faces
but the kitchen clock, and relax their
bored-to-death expression only to
look in mild concern at their men or
the other women's men, who them
selves laugh at everything. Actors
complain that here in' Portland our
audiences sit on their hands and
never applaud. Well, there's no cause
for complaint in New York, for there
they applaud anything and every
thing. In the fortnight we were there I
saw a show every night and every
matinee day. Of them all the most
delightful performance was Frank
Bacon's "Lightnin'," Fay Bainter in
"East Is West," Ethel Barrymore in
"Declasse" and Sophie Tucker's grand
opera jazz in "Hello. Alexander!"
I had a happy chat with Frank
Bacon, who is one of the beloved
actors of this coast and whose
reminiscences of early theatrical days
in Portland will be used in this col
umn at some other time. Mr. Bacon's
daughter, Bessie, is appearing with
him in "Lightnin" ", which he wrote
in collaboration with John Winchell
Smith. Mr. Bacon had a literary
hand, too, in "Five O'clock," a new
production which promises to be one
of the season's novelties. "Lightnin, "
is now in its sixtieth week and seats
are sold weeks ahead. It is prob
able the play will be brought out
here before Bpring. A Portland boy.
Paul Stanton, is doing a big role in
the Bacon play. He is considered one
of the "finds" in the theatrical field
and the critics are keen in their pre
dictions for his future work. He has
been interested, too, in song writ
ing. Grace La Rue uses two of his
compositions in her Orpheum act. It
Is five years since Mr. Stanton went
east. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Q. I. Slahl of Portland and is big
enough and fine enough to remember
his home folk and the town. Thomas
MacLarnie and his pretty wife, Be
atrice Nichols, are also in the "Light
nin' " play. They used to be here at
the Baker. Another one-time Baker
leading woman, Maude Leone, who
was Willard Mack's first wife, is fea
tured with Eddie Leonard in "Roly
Boly Eyes," and she Is picturesque
and sparkling. Still another one
time Baker player, Maude Hanna
ford, is playing leads with Lionel and
John Barrymore in "The Jest." Maude
has Improved, and when we used to
know her Maude had need for much,
much improvement. "The Jest." by
the way, is sold out for three months
ahead even the standing room. It's
a sombre, grewsome tragedy, with a
few scattered bright spots, the last
cry in the ultra-artistic and the best
acting the two Barrymore men ever
did. Lionel is going to do Hamlet,
so it is said, and I imagine he can
give a beautiful new idea of the
melancholy Dane. Fay Bainter's
sister, Mrs. Burgess, is with her, and
so is their mother, and all three have
warm loving memories of Portland.
Fay, whose name is in electric lights,
and who is adored next to Maude
Adams, and who. by the way is
strangely like Miss Adams in her
methods and beauty of voice, is un
spoiled. She has been reported as
engaged to all sorts of eliglbles and
the day I met her the papers carried
a story of her bethrothal to a re
turned lieutenant, Richard Venable.
Fay assured me It was all a nice
mistake, that Richard is a lovely lad,
one whom any girl might b- proud
to marry, but that Miss Fay Bainter
Is wedded to her job for several
years to come.
Fay is adorable as the little Chinese
maid in "East Is West," and wears a
black wig over her golden curls. She
recalled, with much, laughter, her
first "interview" when she was in
genue at the Baker seven or eight
years ago, and some appalling new
fashion threatened us girls feminalls
or bifurcated skirts or some similar
monstrosity and the -leading lady
wouldn't wear "em even for a story,
so the little Bainter obliged. She was
too funny for words In the garment,
and the interview we cooked up was
an amazing thing.
Applications for Census Jobs.
PORTLAND. Nov. 5. To'the Edi
tor.) Is it too late to apply for a
position taking the census? If not.
where is the place to go to see about
them? MRS. J. C. B.
No- more applications for field
workers are being received in the
Portland district. You might make
inquiry of William D. Bennett, super
visor of the census, in the Fenton
building for information as to any
other possible employment In connec
tion with the census.
Habit Eaailr Acquired.
Boston Transcript.
Wife John, I shall have to
some new clothes this fall.
get
Hull Great Scott, woman! That's
just what you said last year.
Y-P R O D U C T OK THE PRESS
President of Baldwin Loeomotlvr
w.lr H.n.i t- .,ln. Track.
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A Pennsylvania express train bound i
, . i
ror iaw York stoppea not mng ncr
leaving Philadelphia. The passengers
became uneasy and some of them
climbed out. to find the engine crew
trying to make a minor repair on the
engine. The job puzzled them. Then
from the crowd Btepped out a pros
perous looking citizen, who said:
"Give me a hammer and I will fix
it for you."
Without waiting to don overalls,
he went to worn and in a short time
the engine was. in running condition.
"Who is that man?" asked a pas
senger. "That is Sam Vauclain," replied an
other. The volunteer engine mender was
the president of the great Baldwin
Locomotive works at Philadelphia. He
worked in the shop, learned his trade,
came up from the ranks and is now
head of the greatest locomotive mak
ing plant in the world. Wheeling
Intelligencer.
To commemorate the centenary of
the birth of Walt Whitman a medal
of the "good, gray poet" has been
designed by Dr. K. Tait McKenzie, at
the behest of the Franklin Inn, one
of Philadelphia's most exclusive
clubs. The matter has been In charge
of a committee, including A. Edward
Newton, chairman; Dr. John Bach Mc
Master, Christopher Morley and
Charles C. Shoemaker. The design.
which has been accepted by the club.
Is highly praised by those who knew
Whitman intimately in those days
when his little home In Mickel street,
Camden, was a mecca for world
known intellectuals. The medals are
now being cast and will be ready for
delivery to subscribers in a month.
They may be obtained at a cost of
17.50.. Surplus funds will be used to
erect a suitable memorial to the poet.
Justina Wayne, English dramatic
actress, finds an explanation of the
question as to why Shakespearian
plays seldom win financial reward in
what she terms Shakespeare's in
ability to give his productions catchy
titles. She suggests a repertoire of
the bard's plays rechristened to meet
popular demands for stimulating
titles. She suggests "How Could You,
Juliet?" as more appropriate than
plain "Romeo and Juliet." She also
would substitute "Call of the Flesh"
for "The Merchant ef Venice";
' strangled in Bed" for "Othello";
"The Nutty Prince" for "Hamlet";
"Hon, Whom Do You Love" for
"Henry V;" "Big Dick" for "Richard
The Third"; "The Knife" for "Julius
Caesar" and "Moonlight and Honey'
suckle for "Mid-summer Night'i
Dream.".
Some singular discounts "are al
lowed in the book trade. They were
happily illustrated on one occasion
by Mark Twain. One day while the
humorist was connected with a pub
lishing house, he went to a bookcase
and picking up a volume, asked the
price. He then suggested that, as a
publisher he was entitled to 50 per
cent discount. To this the clerk as
sented.
"As I am also the author of the
book," said Mark Twain, "it would
appear that I am again entitled to 50
per cent discount." And the clerk
bowed.
"And as I am a personal friend of
the proprietor." he modestly contin
ued. "I presume you will allow me the
usual 25 per cent discount?"
"Well," drawled the unblushing
humorist, "under these conditions 1
think I may as well take the book.
What's the tax?" The clerk took
out his pencil and figured industri
ously. Then he said, with great
obsequiousness, "as near as 1 can cal
culate, we owe you the book and
about 37 cents."
Ambergris, which forms a basis for
nearly all the best quality perfumes
and scents, is found in an unattrac
tive looking mass floating on the sea
or lodged upon the shore.. It is not
known how such an unlikely sub
stance suggested Itself as a perfume,
but it has been in use for centuries.
Its origin, however, has only been
discovered comparatively recently. It
la a morbid secretion of the liver of
a sick sperm whale, and ashen-colored
and waxy in appearance. Al
though unpleasant to sight and touch,
it gives off a fragrant, mushy odor
when warmed, even In its raw and
unprepared state. In this crude form
it is subjected to chemical action to
extract the active principle, called
axnbertne. from which the perfume is
actually derived.' Ambergris is also
used as a remedy for catarrh and
nervous diseases, and is very valu
able. The largest piece on record,
weighing -J pounds, sold for $1600.
Probably it annoys you, too, to
hear someone's, telephone ringing
and nobody making any move toward
answering it. says the Kansas City
Star, commenting on the following
incident: In the opera, "Aida," last
week, one of the scenes was laid "in
front of the Temple of Isis." At the
close of the scene, the curtain signal
was given with a bell-buzzer which
was heard all over the house. The
operator of the curtain was evi
dently slow in answering, for the
bell continued to ring, and a woman
in the audience said, "The telephone
in the temple is ringing why in the
world doesn't the high priest go in
and answer it?"
Like "Old Sleuth" and Al Quad, in
America, who are said to have em
ployed hack writers to grind out the
stuff that appeared under their
signatures, Alexander Dumas, the
elder, is now accused of permitting
"collaboration" In which he furnished
only the weight of his great name.
M. Gustavo Simon, writing In the
Revue de Paris, says that the real
author of the "Three Musketeers" was
Auguste Maquet.
M. Simon maintains that not only
did Maquet conceive the idea of
founding a novel on the "Memolres
de M. d'Artagnan," but actually wrote
the "Three Musketeers," to which
book, more than any other, Dumas
owes his fame. M- Simon says that
he compared Maquet's manuscript
with the printed text and found that
the two were practically identical,
the only changes being the inversion
of a few phrases and the addition of
some paragraphs. M. Simon even
publishes several notes from Dumas
to Maquet clamoring for "copy" about
d'Artagnan and suggesting develop
ments of the story. Maquet went on
selling his work to Dumas for ten
1 years.
Those Who Come and Go.
Lnless they receive help, condi-
, , . ,,, , ...
tions in Austria will be terrible this
winter and the people in Vienna will
starve," states Emil Bernegger who
was. manager of the Benson when
he went to war. Mr. Bernesger re
turned to Portland yesterday with
his discharge from the service. He
made 'a trip to Switzerland, his old
home, before returning to the United
States. "They are organi.ins: excur-
i sions of children in Vienna every six
weeks and sending them to Switzer
land, where families feed and care
for the youngsters for six weeks and
then the children are returned to
Vienna and their places are taken by
a new lot. The children are as pale
as paper when they arrive in Swit
zerland." Mr. Bernegger sas the
battlefield are beinsr restored and
made ready for cultivation, and every
afternoon at 4 o'clock the grenades
and shells which have been collected I
during the day are exploded. French I
authorities had to put a slop to cobs
irom me navy taking (souvenirs from
the battle areas as the pobs would
tool with a grenade until it would
explode and blow off a hand. The
grass Is growing in No Mans 1-nnd,
and .while crossing it while sisht
seeing. Mr. Barnesger stepped on the
skeleton of a ennan. He says there
are plenty of these skeletons in the
mil nicn nave not necn lo
cated. The former hotelman declares
that the hotels in France. Italv.
Spain. Switzerland. Norway a n d
Sweden arc filled to overflowing and
that Spain and Switzerland have more
money now than ever before.
The other day I naid a shcrD-
herder J1900 for ltj months' work.
and he had it all save the expense
of three pairs of overalls and a few-
dollars for tobacco," said J. N. Bur
gess of Pilot Rock. "But the sheep-
herder is a man of responsibility."
Which brought up the information
that in parts of Orejran eheeDherders
do their herding in an automobile.
wnne they let their does do the
footwork. "It looks to me." Ki"li.d
County Judge Marsh of Umatilla.
that some sheepherders are better
paid than some countv officials."
With R. N. Stanfield. .Mr. Unrcoss
recently held a conference with Mr.
Culberson of the tariff board ar
which time the Oregon sheen men
presented statistics showing t lie in
creasing costs of producing wool in
recent years. Mr. Culberson has been
making a tour of the west conferring
with wool producers to gather ma
terial for. a report.
"We're going to have a flour mill
in Tillamook," says Senator Thomas
B. Hand ley. who is at the Seward.
"There has never been one in the
place. The dairymen have been using
an immense amount of mill feed with
their herds and they figure that it is
better to ship in the grain, mill it and
use the by-products than to ship in
the chop feed. The papers of incor
poration have been prepared and the
stock is being subscribed. There is
a building boom on in Tillamook,
many houses being erected, but even
so there is a shortage of home and
hotel accommodations, Tillamook be
ing filled with new people. Some
big buildings are also being con
structed and tlie town has a very
prosperous air. And, say." concluded
he state senator, "we're going to
liave a road that will be onen all
winter. The work through the moun
tains has progressed . so well that it
will be possible now to travel it all
year a most desirable innovation."
Three members of the lendiuir four
in a company which served in the
Philippines met in the courthouse ves-
terday for the first time since they
served together. They were State
Highway Engineer Herbert Nnnn, O.
N. Pierce, a local architect, and John
Smith, who is employed in the high
way department. The three ex-service
men bumped into one another at
the meeting of the highway com
mission. The fourth member of the
four. John O. Vox, was killed by
Chinese Boxers in Pekin.
There is a plan on foot to build a
bridge across the Columbia river near
Cascade Locks, according to K. I
Ash. a banker of Stevenson. Wash.,
who is registered at the Multnomah.
The application for approval ot the
idea has been made to the govern
ment. It is the desire of the pro
moters to connect the hisrhwaye on
the Washington and Oregon sides of
tlie stream.
Dr. J. W. Donnelly of Arlington
came to Portland yesterday to see if
the highway commission would spread
oil on the new grade of the Columbia
highway near the town of Arlington,
but his mission was without success.
The commission talked of buying
equipment for oiling, but got no fur
there. Lr. Donnelly says that unless
the grade is oiled it will be blown
aw-ay during the winter by tlie well-
known and unpopular winds which
sweep alonp: that portion of the Co
lumbia gorge.
George M. Cornwall, publisher of
the Timberman. is at Vancouver. B. C,
where he was scheduled to speak
before the British Columbia Lumber
and Shingle association last night.
November 15 Mr. Cornwall will attend
a meeting of the Southern California
Retail Lumber Dealers' association,
appearing on the programme for that
gathering, which will be one of the
most important of the year in the
south.
Officials of the Canadian National
Railways were at the Multnomah yes
terday while passing throiiRh Port
land. They were H. 11. Melanson,
passenger traffic manager, of Toronto;
R. Creelson, assistant passenger traf
fic manager, of Winnipeg, and A.
Brostedt. general passenger agent, of
Vancouver, B. C
"There has been a good fishing sea
son in Tillamook bay," reports T. H.
Meade, an arrival at the Seward. ' The
canneries are busy, one canning fish
and the other making a mild cure.
The big chinook are used for the mild
cure and when they are thu3 pre
pared they command a market in all
parts of the United States."
Deputy State Treasurer Joseph
Richardson arrived at the Hotel Ore
gon yesterday. He is here to attend
the suit which the treasury depart
ment is bringing against an estate to
secure a larger inheritance tax.
Representative W. P. Elmore of !
Brownsville, who is a banker by pro
fession and advocate of prohibition by
nature. Is at the Perkins. Mr. Elmore
was one of the most active of the pro
hibition propagandists in the Oregon
legislature.
E. I. Davis of Hermiston, who has
a contract to build three concrete
bridges for the highway commission,
is at the Imperial. Mr. Davis is
anxious to begin work immediately.
Mrs. Nellie G. Day, former society
editor of the Walla Walla (Wash.)
Bulletin, is at the Hotel Washington
on her way to California for the win
ter. C. W. Vail, one of the prominent
citizens of Carlton, Or., is at the Hotel
Oregon. Rheumatism bothering him,
he came to Portland to try to get rid
of it.
Member of an old pioneer family
in eastern Washington, Leslie G.
Kirkman. a wheat rancher near
Walla Walla. Wash., is at the Hotel
Washington.
Although a resident of Bellingham,
Wash., E. Larabee is a larse prop
erty owner in Portland. He is among
the Multuomaa arrivals.
SAYETH THE ORI:;O.Y NEWSPAPER
I'ent for Ten Years Turns Out to lie
Money Maker.
Florence West. .
Captain Steear of Mapleton recently
told us there is growing In his field
near his house a blackberry bush that
he has tried for ten years to get rid
of. He cut it down, dug It out by the
roots and tried in every way to kill
it. but the bush persisted in growing.
Captain Steear says that this year be
picked 150 worth of fruit from that
bush alone. The bush is likely to
grow- some years yet.
The Moneyless l-'innnrkr.
Monmouth Herald.
A measure is to be put on the ballot
next year making 4 per cent the 1,-cal
rate of interest and 5 per cent the
contract rate. Time enough to discuss
it after it soaks in. for most people
reali7e that it is the man who lias the
money who makes the rato of interest.
All A li r red.
Woodhiirn Independent.
It would probably be mole pleasing
to Governor Oloot t if be were a can
didate for gubernatorial nomination
and election next year, but there en
he r.o doubt that lie succeeded to the
late Governor Wit hycombe's unex
pired term. The latter was re-elected
for a certain period and the unexpired
time belongs to his successor. -Ml
take it for granted, consequently,
there arc no republican and demo
cratic candidates being groomed.
Rainbow Dream.
catcm journal.
Instead of championing .Ifl-hour
work weeks to give leisure for self
indulgence and idleness, instead of
sow-injc the seeds of discord, labor or
ganizations should strive to inculcate
love of industry, so that the toiler
may find joy in his work, the pursuit
of knowledge in his leisure and advo
cate the practice of thrift that be mav
profit in the future from his labor of
t od a y .
Keepings l.oeal SavinKH at Home
Baker Democrat.
The obvious thing to do with home
earned dollars is to invest them In
home industries. If one must have
the security of bonds, buy town, coun
ty and highway bonds. The averane
small community markets its bonds
jn the large city and pays the dis
count, while at the same time it sends
Its savings to the same city and pays
a commission upon its investments.
By keeping dollars at home, working.
you help build up the home community.
That is building to your business. It
is increasing the value of your land.
It will in time make it possible for
you and your children to enjoy privi
leges and conveniences now only to
be found in large cities.
As Seen in Sherman County.
Mitchell Sentinel.
I-aboring men are beginning to sus
pect that they have been drawn into
a trap and betrayed by the president,
at least in effect. With the labor
prroup composed of its own represen
tatives, an equal number of employers
representing thaT group, and with the
group representing the public made
up almost entirely of employers also
appointed by Mr. Wilson, the wage
earners have been blocked at every
turn at the industrial conference held
at the national capital. Even such
wholesome remedies as propivsed by
the war labor board for the guidance
of both sides in industry have been
too radical for acceptance.
Poor "i-'iMlder fiets the Shock.
Eugene Register.
The frost is on the pumpkin and the
woodpile's on tlie parking signs of
fall in Oregon.
(eoref Mr('allM-nit HrmirkK.
H.trrisburg Bulletin.
George McCulloch is cussing the
weather. He has quite an acreage of
popcorn still in the field.
Twenty of 'Km, Opposite the Hunk.
Salem Statesman.
Qijte a number of the older resi
dents of Salem can well recall when
it was possible to buy something in
this town with a dollar.
Ir. l:iul and flrrt llanry.
La Grande Observer.
Dr. Mary Hqui will serve three
years in prison for her redhanded
work in Portland. Fine. Send all of
her kind along with her. Bert Haney
as prosecutor deserves a cliromo.
In Other Days.
Twenly-flve 1 earn Abo.
(From The Oregonian Nov. 6. 194.)
Washington. In 42 states and four
territories elections are being held to
day, all of the states choosing con
gressmen and -1 of them selecting
legislatures.
Abe Tb-lienor and I. N. James were
appointed captains on the police force
by the police commissioners last
night.
O. A. Bowen, treasurer of the state
of Washington, en route to his homo
at Cathlaniet to vote, was iu the city
yesterday.
A telephone message from Sandy
yesterday announced that the last
rivet in the Bull Run water pipe had
been fastened and water turned in
the hcadworks.
Fifty Iran Abo.
(From The Oregonian of Nov. ti, 1SH3.)
Seattle. While tlie steamer George
P. Wright was en route here from
Portland with the great world's cir
cus on board six valuable horses and
other animals were washed overboard.
Work on the United States post
office building still goes on and will
not be .suspended until the weather
becomes more unfavorable.
The first promenade concert by the
Philharmonic society last evening was
an exceedingly pleasant affair.
Two spring wagons were on the
bank of the river in E:ast Portland
yesterdav which had come all the
way from Cincinnati by way of Cal
ifornia this season. .
Not a Mesalliance.
By Grace K. Hall.
I see strange females board the cars
My stars'. .
With sagging skirts and taggy hair.
With sloven gait and stupid air.
And waists that don't "line" a-ny-where
"Some jars'."
I look them over one by one.
And wonder how the thing was
done -
The change from maiden trim and
neat
To this disjointed squab we neet,
I fiercely vow "It is a sin'."
And pity him.
Another day I see the two:
I'm telling you
Each thing I said ..t first of hter
Was solemn fact, and I avor
Such shocking change should not oc
cur That's true.
But
In
when I note
what time
has
wrought
life's prize bargain
that ?HE
bought.
How youth has fled and left a hulk
Devoid of anything but bulk.
i At his w orse plight 1 must demur
I And pity her!