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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY,. NOVEMBER 7, 1919.
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THK ntiCRES 1 THE MINERS' CASE.
Since C. F. Keeney of West Vir
ginia has submitted to President
Wilson figures derived from a report
of the United States bureau of labor
statistics in defense of the coal
miners' strike, it is appropriate again
to quote the same authority on the
same subject. The bureau Ijas sent
out a report containing tables of
. earnings and hours of labor for all
classes of workers at coal mines,
anthracite and bituminous separate
ly, based on actual records for 16,209
men in 22 anthracite mines of
Pennsylvania and 40,511 men in 201
bituminous mines in eighteen of the
most important coal-producing
states. They give averages for a
half-month payroll period, and
should fairly reflect conditions
throughout the industry. Only the
figures relating to bituminous coal
mines will be discussed, as those
mines only are involved in the strike.
During the half-month the aver
age hours of work per week-day for
all classes of inside workmen were
6.3 and earnings ranged from $34.54
for trapper boys for the half-month,
to $98.45 for machine miners. Among
men, the lowest wages were $60.17
for laborers, and the average for all
classes, men and boys alike, was
$76.36. For outside men average
hours per weekday were 5.5 and
earnings ranged from $53.22 for la
borers to $72.77 for engineers, the
average for the half-month being
$74.43.
The increase in wages is shown-
by index numbers based on the ton
nage rates paid for hand mining in
the Hocking valley district of Ohio,
which are used as a basis for the
various districts in agreements be
tween operators and miners. The
rate paid in 1902 is represented by
; the number 100. An increase of 125
had been made in 1913 and to 16S.5
in 1918, the latter rate still prevail
ing. Since 1913 there has been an
increase of 34.8 per cent.
Much has been said about loss-of
, time, the miners saying that they are
idle so large a portion of the time,
owing to the failure of the mines to
operate, that their day's wage is no
true indication of their earnings, and
.' that a high wage is necessary in or
der to compensate for the many days
; of enforced idleness. The operators
: retort that miners make a practice of
laying off two or three days a week
when the mines are in operation, and
that therefore a large part of the lost
time is of their own choice. The
facts on this subject for the half
month are shown in tables for seven
teen states as to hand miners, four
teen as to machine miners and six
teen states as to loaders.
This table shows that for hand
miners the mines were in operation
from 47.7 per cent of the full time in
Utah to 102.3 per cent in Alabama,
.tnd indicates that the percentage of
possible time that they-were in op
oration exceeded 7 5, although no
ieneral average is given. It also
- Khows that the miners actually work
"Trom 62.8 per cent of the hours that
- the mine is in operation in Kentucky
o 124.7 per cent in Utah, most of
he percentages being from 70 to 80.
Usually the more nearly a mine
operated full time, the lower is the
percentage of hours the men work,
end vice versa. Thus Alabama was
in operation 102.3 or more than full
time and the miners worked only
6 7.7 per cent of that time, while
1 tah, operating only 47.7 per cent of
full time, shows miners working
124".7, making overtime.
For machine miners hours of
operation ranged from 49.5 per cent
i i Utah to 94.2 per cent in Virginia
vnue miners worKea irora 74.4 per
:cent of this time in Virginia to 142.8
per cent in Utah. In general the
men worKea somewhat over 80 per
cent of the time that they could have
worked.
It has been said that the miners
get only about 180 days' work in
the year. Taking 300 days as a full
ears' work, it appears that they
have opportunity to work about 225
days, but actually work only about
75 to SO per cent of that number of
(Jays. Twenty-five per cent off 225
would bring them down to 169 days.
They can charge about 75 days of
l-ist time to lack of orders, lack of
tars and freight congestion. They
lose the other 56 days of their own
choice.
'I he report shows that, as to wages,
miners' earnings have not increased
during the war in the same propor
tion as the earnings of other trades,
nor, according to Mr. Keeney, in the
same proportion as the price of coal
ha risen. On the basis of equity
they have a good case for asking
lor revision of their contract with
the operators. But when outside
laborers earn at the rate of $106.44
a month and inside laborers at the
rate of $120.34 a month, they are not
-uffering such .privations as' wouid
justify them in tearing up their co.i-
"ract and saying to the operators:
"These are our terms; accept them
or we will strike and let the Ameri
can people freeze." That is in sub
r stance what they have said and what
- they are trying to--do. If they had
, brought the subject before the people
' ' . he right spirit, had nia.de moder
ate requests, and had acknowledged
' the binding Torce of their present
agreement, they could have enlisted
public sympathy on their side. They
have spoiled their case by giving
heed to the counsels of revolutionists.
MORE IMPATIENCE.
The state of Oregon is graced by
the presence of an eminent purty of
women, leaders in the suffrage move
ment, to tell the governor of Oregon
what to do about ratification of the
constitutional amendment and the
women of Oregon how to organize
as voters to make their influence
politically effective. It is a pleasure
always to welcome and entertain
fiistinguished visitors, and to hear
what they have to say. Other such
evangelists of women's causes have
come and gone, and we are bound to
add that rhe course of political and
social life goes on in city and state
much as heretofore.
It would almost seem that the
women of Oregon, who have been
foremost in social welfare and other
good movements, have a clear con
ception of effective organization and
methods, for they are. able to point
with satisfaction to a long record of
accomplishment, shown in part by
.'i code of laws designed to help and
protect women and children and
generally conceded to have worked
well. We rather think that the
representatives of other states may
learn something worth while in Ore
gon, both as to what has been done
and as to how to do it. Doubtless
they are here with that laudable
object in view.
But, so far as instruction to the
state government as to what it
should do about ratification of the
suffrage amendment is concerned,
the mission of Mrs. Catt and her
party is love's labor lost. The
amendment will be duly ratified, of
course. The governor of Oregon
would doubtless call a special se.s.sion
for that purpose if he thought or
were to be convinced that the people
of Oregon want it; and of the people
of Oregon one-half are women. It
floes not particularly help the, effort
for a special session and early rati
fication for Mrs. Catt or anybody to
speak as she did the other 'night on
the subject. She is reported to have
said:
When the American delegation nwu
to Spain next sprinK to the international
meeting of women voters, the first since
the war. we shall tell them, shall we, that
the state of Oregon has elected such ir
responsible legislators that they can't be
trusted We shall tell them, shail we.
that it costs too ' much to ratify the
amendment we have worked for 50 yearn
to have adopted; we shall tell them this,
and that the women of this state weren't
anxious to give other women the vote?
We shall tell this to the women, of Ger
many and Austria? I would like to ap
point the governor of Oregon my proxy at
that convention.
It is not to be supposed that the
American . delegation to Spain, or
anywhere, will wish to misrepresent
the governor or the women of Ore
gon. They will not for that reason
adopt either the attitude or the lan
guage of the critic of Oregon and its
government and voters.
No question of trustworthiness
of the legislature is involved in Gov
ernor Olcott's refusal to invoke a
special session. The amendment will
be ratified when the legislature next
meets, and there is neither legal nor
moral compulsion upon Oregon to
call it together upon the demand of
some one from some other state. It
is the business of Oregon and of Ore
gon alone. The gift of a vote to
women elsewhere does not rest with
the women of Oregon, but on the
state itself in one-forty-eighth part;
and it is not, becoming in the bene
ficiaries of the gift to define the time
and terms in which the giver shall
give it.
COMMON SENSE FROM THE FARMERS
While the workmen of the cities
constantly strike for more wages and
less work, the workmen-capitalists
of the farms call for an end to
strikes and declare against the forty-
four-hour week. While the workmen
of the cities call for lower prices in
the same breath as they demand
more wages for less work, the farm
ers denounce them as "allies of the
profiteers in keeping up the high
cost of living,'.' and they say:
We know that the forty-four-hour
week cannot feed the world, and we
proclaim that it cannot clothe it. Those
who advocate the short day in industry
should not expect the farmer to work
"six hours before dinner and six hours
alter," with b fore-breakfast and after,
supper hours thrown in.
That is an extract from the reso
lutions adopted by the Farmers' Na
tional Congress at Hagerstown, Md
which also pledged help to "honest
organized labor," opposed strikes.
advocated a federal board of arbi
tration to give both capital and labor
a square deal, but condemned the
"treason of false leaders who. for pay
and price would scuttle the ship of
state and rear the red flag of bol
shevism over t,he ranks of an out
raged and fallen republic."
A similar stand was taken by the
International Farm Congress at a
convention at Kansas City of a thou
sana delegates representing more
than twelve states. It justly pointed
with pride to the farmers' fine rec
crd of war production and pledged
them to "continue to produce in
such measure as may be required to
meet a.ny future emergency." It re
newed its pledge of friendship and
good will to labor, but viewed "with
apprehension and disfavor the tur
bulent conditions existing, particu
larly in the ranks of organized la-
Lor," and dc-plored "the calling- of
strikes in rimes like these for any
reason other than a grave emer
gency." The convention opposed
unionization of policemen and others
in public service; condemned the
growing tendency toward idleness;
protested against the wide margin
between the price received by the
producer and that paid by the con
sumer; condemned profiteering, par
ticularly in the necessities of life,
end opposed further government op
eration of railroads.
The farmers are the great sta
Vilizing force of the nation. They
are so close to the primary facts of
production that they cannot be de
ceived into the belief that they can
get more by doing less work. They
know that each man can get more
only by producing more and that un
less each man on the average pro
duces his share, all will go short or
some will go hungry and prices will
be high in proportion to deficient
production. Often having to work
eight hours before noon and eight
hours after noon, the farmer has
sympathy with labor, but none with
the s;x-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week
kind of labor. Being no mere
peasant drudge, bound by necessity
to a patch of land like the Russian
peasant under the czar, but in most
cases having a considerable invest
ment in land, livestock . and imple
ments, he realizes that capital as
well as labor must-have its reward,
and he dots not favor nationalization
of railroads and mines. Having ac
quired all that he has under the1
American constitution, he has no at
traction toward the soviet form of
government which has knocked out
the brains of Russia, wrecked its
railroads and industries, reduced its
workmen to starvation and rules by
wholesale murder.
Although socialism has gained a
stronger hold in Italy than in Amer
ica, Italian workmen realize that the
one way out of their country's pres
ent distress is more work to increase
production, and an engineer says
that they give two hours a day as a
free gift to the state. It is left to
American workmen to attempt to in
crease wealth by producing less, and
they derive their theory from Russia,
of all countries on earth, as though
Russia could teach America "any
thing except what to shun. When
the present bolshevist madness is
past, those who have been seized by
it will be the first to confess that
they lost their sanity.
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THE TREATY BLOCKS LEGISLATION.
Among the many matters of legis
lation for which the people look to
congress in order to restore normal
conditions, the railroad bill is in
most imperative demand. Having
been introduced in the senate, it
must be passed first by that body.
but it cannot be taken up till the
treaty is out of the way. The presi
dent has virtually placed a time lim
it on action by announcing that in
any event he will return the roads to
their owners on January 1. Senator
Cummins in reporting his bill ex
pressed a desire that it be taken up
as soon as the treaty was ratified
and over-sanguinely suggested that it
could be passed after two weeks' de
bate. It includes so many subjects
of intense controversy that two
months would be a moderate esti
mate. That would bring us to Jan
uary 1, with the bill waiting action by
the house and approval by the presi
dent. He read to the senate a letter from
Director General Hines calling at
tention to the bad effects of the pres
ent state of uncertainty. The gov
ernment is not warranted in making
badly needed improvements, and the
railroad companies cannot make
plans and provide funds for that
purpose until the roads are in their
possession or until they know under
what law they must operate.
Regardless of this imperative duty.
the senate gabbles on about the
treaty and actually talks of taking
a recess early in November. It has
forfeited its vacation by wasting
time. The impossibility of getting
action by the senate has led the
house to go at low speed with the
great mass of reconstruction legisla
tion for which the people looked to
it. Bills for irrigation, land reclama
tion, soldier settlement, immigra
tion, shipping, army reorganization,
and foreign trade hang fire, and the
only constructive measure of first
importance that has passed the house
is the budget bill. The results of
the extra session are disappointing.
and the fault rests with the senate.
IXHIENZA STATISTICS.
The world is only now beginning
to learn the full extent of the influ
enza epidemic which swept the coun
try a year ago. Early estimates that
it might rival the world war as a
destructive force appear to be borne
out by more complete statistics, and
these clearly point to the importance
of preventive measures at the first
signs of its return.
It is now known that . the great
mortality was among wage-earners,
among persons in young adulthood
and among the white race. The tota'
number of deaths in the world, due
to influenza and pneumonia alone,
was probably 15,000,000, or about 1
per cent of the entire population.
Thirty-one life insurance companies
disbursed more than $120,000,000
for influenza deaths occurring be
tween October, 1918, and the end of
March, 1919. Including ' disburse
ments of the war risk insurance bu-.
reau, it is probable that the total loss
to American life insurance was not
less than $250,000,000.
The loss to insurance, however,
since it will be made good in due
time, was not the most serious ma
terial phase. It is impossible to es
timate the vast economic loss to the
country by the death of so many
workers, or indirectly by the orphan
ing so many children, many of
whom, it is to be feared, will be re
tarded in their education and devel
opment. Nor do the figures as to
influenza and pneumonia tell the
whole story. There was, as an im
mediate consequence of the epidemic,
an increase of 16 per cent in the
mortality rate from tuberculosis, of
S00 per cent in complications inci
dental to childbirth and of 21 per
cent in fatal heart diseases. -
Its effects will continue to be felt
in reduction of the number of ef
fective workers in agriculture and
other industry, in necessity for car
ing for the orphans, and in the
smaller number of future births, to
an extent which it is also impossible
to forecast.
There is a silver lining to the
cloud. The American Public Health
association concludes from a recent
examination of health data thai
there is not at present any focus of
infection in the United States, and
that with ordinary care we shall es
cape a recurrence of the malady.
"Ordinary care" means observance
of the common-sense rules of health.
These include study of proper nour
ishment, especially of the young;
avoidance of excesses of eating and
drinking; suitable exercise and regu
lar habits. Those who observe these
simple rules will be best fortified
against the onslaught of the disease
if, unhappily, it should reappear.
FINISHING ARMY REFORMERS.
Secretary of War Baker's replies
to the several counts in the indict
ment of Senator Chamberlain are in
fact an admission that he and tha
general staff have deliberately perse
cuted and ostracized any officer who
has ventured to express opinions at
variance with" their own, to advo
cate a policy with which they did not
agree or to criticize any laws or
practices which they wished to main
tain. Having no mind of his own on
military affairs how he could he,
being a confirmed pacifist who
would scrap the army if he could
Mr. Baker takes his opinions from
the general staff. The staff is the
champion of military bourbonism
Not content with its proper function
of studying problems of strategy and
organization, tactics and armament,
it strives to control the line of the
army, and it crushes all who op
pose it.
After General Squiers had failed
as organizer of the air service. Colo
nel Kenly, with the temporary rank
of major-general, brilliantly Suc
ceeded, but lie incurred the displeas-
ure of the staff by proposing to or
ganize the air service as a distinct
arm, equal in rank with the cavalry,
infantry and artillery. This plan
would have given aviation officers
an qual claim to the limited num
ber of appointments of high rank
with the other branches of the army,
and would have delayed promotion
of officers in the other arms. Thus
he fell foul of the staff, where the
old guard is strongly entrenched. He
was punished- by demotion to his
permanent rank of colonel, his plans
were rejected, aircraft production
was suddenly stopped with disastrous
effect to the industry and congress
was induced to cut appropriations to
the bone. Colonel Kenly has been
driven to resign at an age when the
army should have had the benefit of
bi proved ability and valuable ex
perience for at least ten more years.
Colonel Ansell had the audacity to
begin a campaign for reform of the
court-martial system, which is cruel
and a travesty on justice, the courts
being mere tools of commanding
officers. General Crowder and the
whole military machine rose up to
crush him. He was deprived of his
temporary rank of brigadier-generai
and driven from the judge-advocate-general's
office. He has since been
a thorn in the side of the men who
would keep Prussianism" alive in
America after it has been repudiated
in Prussia, men who cling to a mili
tary code derived from the Romans
which was long ago abandoned by
the British.
Like treatment was meted out to
Adjutant-General McCain when he
did not wish to become subject to
the general staff. In his attempt to
disprove that he had punished Gen
eral McCain, Mr. Baker only made a
bad matter worse. He had offered
the general command of a division
in the field, but did not learn till
afterward that McCain "had never
had anything but office experience."
In other words, he was ready to
cover his subservience to the staff
by risking the lives of soldiers and
the success of military operations
under an inexperienced commander.
The same diligence has been prac
ticed in covering failures as in pun
ishing men who dared to think and
to express their thoughts. Unreadi
ness of cantonments was proved, but
vociferously denied, and now comes
proof of wholesale corruption and
waste. The story of aircraft is one
continuous narrative of profuse
promise and uttef failure to perform,
the climax coming in General Per
shing's statement that not one
American-built fighting plane was at
the front when hostilities ceased.
The truth about the Brest mudhole
was suppressed by delay of the
homeward voyage of any soldier who
complained. When it finally was
published, conditions were remedied
in haste and the improved camp was
officially praised in terms implying
plainly that they had never been
otherwise, and that all who talked of
the former state of affairs were
scandalmongers. The horrors of the
prisoners' camp in France could not
be denied, but none of the respon
sible officers has been brought to
justice except "Hardboiled Smith,"
who is the "goat" for his superiors.
All of these things go to show that
the war department and the army
need a thorough overhauling. Tha
incompetents and worse among civi
lians need to be cleared out, the ring
at the general staff needs to be
broken, and the army and the de
partment need to be reorganized in
the light of the experience gained In
the war. There Is no hope of much
change for the better under the pres
ent administration, for any new leg
islation will be blocked in execution
by the gang in control. The best that
congress can do Is to pass laws
changing the system in time for the
next administration to put them in
effect. This means a stiff fight with
the military bourbons, but the ex
soldiers should be able to arouse
public opinion to the point where it
will be irresistible.
Who says that old England is not
progressive? It is only a few years
since the Pankhursts were mobbing
ministers and going on hunger
strikes. Now a peeress Is running
for parliament with the whole na
tion hanging on her words.
Senator New gave all the care and
attention due an illegitimate son, but
morals and firmness of character are
born in a son, and the sinister off-,
spring is handicapped by his inher
itance. Really, it pays to go straight.
Woman is not fitted to "enjoy"
politics like man. Man just snorts
at things that rankle, and right away
forgets them. Woman is different,
in neither forgetting nor ever for
giving. The effect of the wet majorities in
some few states may be that the fed
eral authorities will enforce pro
hibition without aid from the state,
but that does not mean that thos
states will be wet.
Cotton growers contemplate hold
ing out two million bales to force
prices upward. If northern wool
growers did that, all the powers of
an administration would be invoked.
Banks is a town in Washington
county in the center of a prosperous
dairy and lumber field, and has de
cided to Incorporate. The . name
itself sounds good for a start-
Increased earnings of a Chicago
hotel under prohibition Indicate that
the less people drink the more they
eat and the more liberally they pay
for food.
The striking alien is playing irW
hard luck no beer, no wine, no
work. No wonder he wants to go
"home," and may joy go with him.
Carlton Shorthorns swept all the
championships at Spokane. Nothing
remarkable. Oregon blood stock of
all kinds can do that anywhere.
The treaty has run against an
other filibuster by La Follette.. The
senator tries to stop the advance
with a barrage of tallff.
Most all auto thieves are called
"youthful." They should overcome
the disadvantage by growing old
gracefully in jail.
Results of the elections are ideal
All parties except the bolshevista
found something to sattsfy them.
Seems to have been a
election, as everybody is
But wait a year.
pleasant
smiling!
The Red Cross never lagged, never
does and never will. Suppose all of
us watch it; 4 ,
BY-PRODUCTS OF TH PRESS.
Army Sleuths Discover Mark Twain
la Popular In Russia.
Army sleuths at Gary Ind., raided a
"Russian den." They discovered a
well-thumbed volume printed In Rus
sian. Evidently It was popular. Prob
ably It contained the ordained pro
cedure in dynamitings.
To headquarters at full speed and
an Interpreter summoned.
"Read It to ue what does it say?"
The Interpreter opened 4t at ran
dom and began to run over the sen
tences translating in fragments:
"Then you put the blood on dig a
grave and bury It near midnight-
burn up the rest"
We've got 'em now," exclaimed
one. "That s the master book. Read
some more."
"That helps the blood" went on
the interpreter. "Pretty soon off she
comes.
"That means an explosion," the
sleuths chorused.
Begin at the beginning." demand
ed one. "What's the book called?
The interpreter turned to the title
page and read:
The Adventures of Tom. Sawyer,
by Mark Twain."
He had been reading from Huckle
berry Finn's recipe for warts.
Plans to preserve the history of
every secies of tree known through
out the world are announced by Pro
fessor Charles S. Sargent, head of the
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard uni
versity, which has established the
most complete collection of trees and
shrubs In America, the finest library
In Its special field and a herbarium
of 200,000 specimens.
Professor Sargent, who has accom
panied explorations thuoughout North
America and the far east, declares
that if the alumni provide the funds
necessary to carry on the work the
arboretum will purchase more land,
make new explorations and bring
into the parks of America many more
new trees and rare shrubs.
The arboretum was founded in 1874,
and is considered among- specialists
to be the most important institution
of its kind In the world.
Major George Haven Putnam, com
mander of the Loyal Legion in New
York, ones his military title to serv
ice with the 176th New York Volun
teers, and he spent a winter In Libby
prison. There, he relates, he and his
f.ellows played chess for the first
half of the winter with bits of fire
wood for men. In the second half of
the winter they gave up the game,
because, from Insufficient nourish
ment, they fainted over the board
after a period of intense concentra
tion.
Mrs. Putnam, by the way. is a grad
uate of Bryn Mawr in the class of
1S89. She is the brilliant dean of
Barnard college, and has made a
name for herself in economic re
search and In political education as
well as in the field of belles lettres.
Sir Rablndranath Tagore, who had
asked to be relieved of his knight
hood as a protest against the severity
of the Indian government in dealing
with recent dlsturances in Punjab,
is a great believer in the back-to-the-
land movement in regard to his own
countrymen, says Pearson's Weekly.
A little while back, in addressing
a meeting of students in Bombay, he
said:
"Will every member of the audi
ence who was raised on a farm please
hold up his right hand?"
Most of the students raised their
hands.
" "How many of you still live on
your parents' farms during the vaca
tions?" was the next question.
About half the members did.
"And how many of you intend go
ing back to your farms for good when
you have completed your college
course?"
This time not a hand went up.
"The farms are in great luck!"
rasped Sir Rablndranath, and walked
from the platform in high, dudgeon.
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A "regular" from a western army
camp came home the other day -on an
extended furlough, says the New
York Evening Post. He was enter
tained extensively by his former
companions and frieifds.
One evening he told the boys about
the Indian's great love for whisky.
"Why. the way them Indians love
whisky. . beats anything you ever
saw, he remaritca. unetj mci
Cheyenne on his pony. "Give me a
drink of whisky; I'll give you my
bridle for it,' he says. 'No,' says 1.
Then he offered his bridle and saddle
and pony all in a bunch for one
drink."
"Well, wouldn't you give it to him
for all that?" asked one of the boys.
"Well, not much!" said the soldier.
emphatically. "1 only had one drink
left."
In the Ambrosian library at Milan
there is a thirteenth century Mi en
titled "Fifty Courtesies of tha Table,"
by one Fra Bonvesin. Here are a few
of the 50:
"Let the hands be clean, and, above
all, do not at table scratch your bc--d.
nor. Indeed, any portion of your
body."
"Do not lick your fingers, which is
very ugly and Ill-bred, for fingers
which are greasy are not clean, but
dirty."
"In eating do not put too much
upon your spoon at one time, for not
only will you thus give much embar
rassment to your stomach, but you
will, by eating too quickly, offend
those sitting near."
' "Wash well your hands and drink
good wine."
In an English book entitled "The
Rules of Civility," published in 1671.
there are minute Instructions regu
lating the demeanor of the mere man
in the presence of a person of qual
ity. If the mere man is asked to dine
with the person of quality, "it is un
civil to wash with him unless you
be commanded expressly. Grace be
ing said, he is to stand, still till he
be placed, or dispose himself at the
lower end of the table.
"When he is set, he must keep him
self uncovered till the rest sit down,
and the person of quality has put
down his hat." Hats were worn both
at table and .in church in those days.
Some Delay In TranamlMnlon.
Roseburg News.
The Binder Bros, report a very un
usual occurrence on their farm near
Elkton. On October 15 one of their
cows save birth to a heifer calf. They
were much surprised when on October
21 this same cow presented them with
a bull calf. Both calves are doing
nicely. . .
ThoS3 Who Come and Go.
"Haven't been in Portland in 26
years," says E. C. Nast of Cheyenne,
Wyo., who is at the Multnomah wtth
Mrs. Nast. Mrs. M. M. Reynard and
Mrs. Anna b. Carey. "On that other
trip T resistered with Mrs. Nast at the
St. Charles, which was then Portland's
leading hotel, and in those days we
thought it some pumpkins. Oil and
slock are the principal industries of
our locality. The dry. hot summer
has caused a shortage of feed for the
stock this winter, therefore I. like
many others, have been obliged to sell
my'stock prior to cold weather. Mrs.
Carey. ot' our party, is an aunt of
our- aovernor. Robert D. Carey, and.
by the way. Governor Carey's father
was also .a governor of Wyoming.
Families are leaving Cheyenne every
cay because it Is impossible to get a
hcuse. The increase in school at
tendance necessitates the building of
thiee new schoolhouses. It seems
that every city and town in the Unit
ed States and Canada is in the same
condition."
A genuine Sinn Feiner who had
command of -.he Irish republic troops
in the uprising of 1916 is Liam Mel
lows, who arrived at the Imperial
yesterday as advance agent for De
V ale ra. president of the republic.
Liam. by the way. is the last syllable
of William and is said to be Gaelic.
Mellows, age- 26, is one of the few
men active in the Easter uprising who
escaped execution. He has been in
the United States a couple of years,
and last December was one of the
Sinn Feiners elected to parliament. It
was an Instance where the office
sought the man. as he did not know
he was a candidate until he was in
formed of his election. Accompanying
Mellows is Charles P. Sweeney, a
newspaper man of New York, who is
handling publicity. .
Dreams of central Oregon to see
the desert producing foodstuff are
materializing accoidmg to Julten A.
Hurley of Vale, who is at the Irape
rial. Irrigation projects are getting
nnuer way in many places, some are
approaching completion and others
are in the preliminary stage. As
member of the state senate, Mr. Hur
ley was one of the authors of the bill
wnicn enables the state to guarantee
the payment of interest for the first
five years on irrigation project bonds
and this measure has had a stimulat
ing effect.
Having driven his bier car from
Walla Walla. Wash., to Portland. Kred
Hofer is endeavoring to get it
shipped to California. Mr. Hofer is
capitalist farmer. He owns 3800 acres
between La Touchet and Prescott, in
Washington, acro.i.s the line from
Oregon, and his check for his wheat
this year was large enough to satis
fy the average man and enable him
to put up a long fight against tiie
nign cost or living, air. Horer goes
to California each winter, being part
of the tourist crop which California
angles for.
"People back at Washington don't
understand our country and don't un
derstand our needs in the way of a
mail service." complains Jap McKin
non, commissioner of Harney county.
"The Portland newspapers come to us
two or three days old. We used to
have better service than we receive
now." Mr. McKinnon expresses him
self as highly pleased with the re
sults of the highway commission
emeting the other day, when many
miles of The Dalles-California high
way were placed under contract. .
Charles X. Faulkner of Burns, mem
ber of the commercial club and sent to
Portland to confer with the state
highway commission, is registered at
the Imperial with I. S. Geer, who
came here on the same mission. Mr.
Geer is a merchant and says that he
buys nothing from Portland except
such things as cannot be supplied at
Boise. The reason assigned is that
the freight rate is against Portland,
so far as doing business wlth Burns
is concerned, and that this will be
the rule until a railroad connects
Burns with Bend.
George W. Simons is In town from
Dayton, Ohio, for a few days. Before
leaving Portland for the east Mr.
Simons was active In many local en
terprises, ranging from the Multno
mah Athletic club to street railways
and .from contracting to manufactur
ing. Mr. Simons says there are a
world of industries at Dayton and
vicinity and he has a bed of coal so
rich that he is figuring on buying
a shovel and a wheelbarrow and
breaking the Btrike.
"We've a housing problem In Cor
vallis," confessed A. J. Johnson, bank
er of that town, "but no one wants
to build because of the high prices."
Mr. Johnson tyas once upon a time
a member of The state senate and in
troduced one of the first good roads
bills in the Oregon legislature, al
though Its possibilities were not tak
en advantage of at the time.
The freeze which ruined so many
apples in the Inland Empire did not
catch W. H. Sheehan of Boise, who is
at the Hotel Washington. Mr. Shre
han had just disposed of the last box
he had when the cold spell arrived.
With Mrs. Shoehan he is in Portland
with the intention of locating here.
Mr. Sheehan served for two years with
the Canadian forces overseas.
If everyone in Astoria boosted for
the town as persistently and unfail
ingly as B. F. Stone and R. R. Bart
lett the town would be booming even
more than It Is. These citizens, mem
bers of the port of Astoria commis
sion, are in the city on official busi
ness and are among the arrivals at
the Hotel Portland.
"Killed two bear, one elk. two
mountain goats and got lots of moun
tain trout." postcards Beverley James,
mall clerk of the Benson, to George
underwood, also of the Benson stiff.
Miss James is in the Canadian
Rockies.
J. L. Connett. an arrival at the
Perkins from New Zealand, confided
to George Thompson, the clerk, that
he has heard of Redmond, Or, and
wants to locate in that vicinity.
Fred A. Williams, member of the
public service commission, is at the
Hotel Oregon. Commissioner Fred
Buchtel, who will have to run for the
nomination again in the comi- g pri
maries, is at the Seward.
W. S. Dinwoodie, formerly a con
tractor in Portland but now a resi
dent of and operating in San Fran
cisco, arrived yesterday at the Benson
on a business trip.
Colonel John Leader, who managed
the training camp at the University
of Oregon during the war, has gone
into the lumber business and is at
the Hotel Portland from Eugene.
J. E. Anderson, cashier of the Scan
dinavian bank at Astoria, was In the
city yesterday, the out-of-town banks
being well represented for some rea
son. Leon Marquet, formerly chief clerk
at the Chandler hotel at Marshfield,
has joined the staff of the Washing
ton hotel.
C. IC Marshall, who has one of the
big apple orchards in the Hood River
district, is registered at the Perkins.
With two cars of cattle shipped
from Echo, R. M. Adams is in Port
land. He lives at Ktanfield when at
home.
r i
I More Truth Than Poetry.
i By Janes J. Hoalasar.
1 I
THE NEW. TOGS.
In Chicago a club has been formed
of
men who awear to wear their old clothes
and their oid iboei till they fall to piece
like the one hoj ahay. New Item.
When Harold, the hobo, some seven
years back.
(When times and conditions were
normal
Would shyly apply for a sandwich or
pie.
His dress was a trifle informal.
His single suspender, his openwork
shoes.
His large and Irregular trousers.
Indented beneath by the punitive teeth
Of Fidos and Rovers and Towsers.
Were hardly such clothes as you see
in the ads
Of "Togs for the college and city"
His raiment, in short, often wakened
a sort
Of emotion that bordered on pity.
But now when a person whose shoes
are not mates
Whose waistcoat is utterly lacking.
Whose remnant of shirt appears fres
coed with dirt.
(Or possibly polished with blacking)
Whose coat has two sleeves of two
i different hues.
And whose collar has started to
crumble.
You happen to meet as you hurry
down street.
You don't even give him a tumble.
For why should you glance wtth an
eye that bespeaks
A gentle and kindly compassion.
At the up-to-date clothes of a fel
low who knows
He is dressed in the height of the
fashion?
No longer a garment of tatters and
shreds
Will seem to be keenly distressing.
No coats will be worn that aren't
battered and torn
In this thrifty new manner of dress
ing. Old cl." men will carol their query
in vain
No duds are so old you can spare
'em.
Nobody will smile at their shape or
their style
As long as they last, you can wear
'em.
And soon. In the street and the park
and the shop
The public will all be appareled
In the synthetic clothes that were
worn by the 'boes
In the time of our ragged friend
Harold.
A a a Cure for Kaon!.
Members of the A. E. F. who feel
homesick for'the old excitement can
find plenty of it by serving for the
next two months as Maine guides.
It Ought to Salt Ilim F.mrtly.
If d'Annunzio will come over here
he can find congenial employment as
a strike leader.
The I. W. W. College (oune.
"Learn to labor and to hate."
tCopyright, 1919, by the Bell Syndicate.
Inc).
ISIOS LIBOR WILL MARCH ON
Majority Has Proved Loyalty and t;ood
Citizens Will Control.
PORTLAND, Nov. 7. (To the Edi
tor.) In reply to W. H. C. Bowen.
colonel United States army, com
mandant Hill Military academy, will
say that long after the colonel has
been gathered to his fathers the con
servative members of organized labor,
among whom are numbered a great
majority of good American citizens,
who love their country, their homes
and families, who are earnestly work
ing to better the condition of their
fellowman; who believe in majority
rule, who do not and never have
looked for special privileges to build
up their cause: who ask only for an
even break; these members of or
ganized labor will be in control of the
labor unions and under their control
the unions will go on.
The colonel says the demands of
labor are outrageous. They are to
some who by accident of birth or
other cause have been placed in con
trol of millions in wealth, the control
of factories, etc. The laboring class
haa been unable to assimilate an edu
cation at the expense of the govern
ment and a life position after the
assimilation. Please, colonel, tell us
what are the great privileges which
have been granted the laborers. What
are the statements advanced by the
workers' leaders which are untrue?
Can you tell of any laborers who have
eaten so much cake that a bellyache
has followed from the cake eaten?
What do you suggest should be done
to "bring them down a peg?"
Whose sweat brought forth the
wealth of those who have "been in
the habit of spending all their lives"
and where did they get the wealth to
enable them thus to spend? Did or
ganized labor take the right stand in
the late war? To point to a specific
Instance, did the members of the In
ternational Typographical union take
the right stand when over 12 per cent
of Its members wore a uniform and
the members who remained at home
kept these members in good standing;
paid their Insurance and in many
cases aided their families during t heir
absence? Was that the right stand,
or was it not? Please answer this
one question.
You told one truth and that was:
"The law should be strained to its
limits to crush out those who are
trying to ruin our country." But you
will have to look outside of the ranks
of the working classes for a number
of undesirables. Did you ever know
of organized labor attempting to have
a law pasFed which would give it
some special prlvilece to the detri
ment of the other citizens? Do you
know where the laws regulating
child labor came from? From whom
did laws reculatlng working condi
tions and hours for women come?
Was it the army, the churches, as a
body, or from your point of view
the accursed ranks of organized
labor?
Long- after you are gone to your
reward. Colonel Bowen. organized
labor or something better along the
same lines will be here and working
for the betterment of the working
classes. You can no more crush the
spirit which Is fostered by organized
labor than you can pluck out a man's
heart and have him live afterward
R. P. COBL'RN.
Annual Rainfall In Portland.
PENDLETON, Or., Nov. 5. (To the
Editor.) An argument has arisen
here among several former residents
of Portland as to the annual rainfall
there and we have made a small wa
ger on the subject. Will you please
print the rainfall for the past six
years. T. J. McGINNIS.
Records of the United States wea
ther bureau at Portland snow: 1903,
43.75 inches; 1910, 118.65 inches;
1911.
1913,
1915.
1917.
33.28 inches;
36.30 inches;
41.30 inches;
40.50 Inches;
1912, 4.1.47 inches;
1914, 36.67 Inches:
1916. 45.77 inches;
1918. 31.50 inches.
When Will Our Hotels Have Hoomaf
PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) I notice in The Oregonian that
the hotel clerks In New York have
been greatly humbled through lack
of patronage to fill the hotel rooms,
"because of prohibition." When, pray
tell me, will prohibition strike Port
laud? A. RUMOR.
With a Kick in It.
r u l u
"THE 1HIRDEH OF THE AIXT
They have sharpened up their axes
In the Portland high school halls.
And they're cleaning up "their gram
mar. Which for respite vainly calls.
And they're slaughtering
Slaughtering
The poor old AI.VT "
MAKE THK AMEKR'.VN KKD
CROSS IM PEACE AS IN .K.
Campaign sign.
We'll say the average American
Red is a good deal crosser.
Matlna.
When morning casts her mantle off
.My sinful head is high
For Joy to see, o'er turf and tree.
The splendor of her sky.
And harkaway! and harkawav!
The hwunds are belling clear
By brook and fell and moor and dell.
To rouse the bounding deer.
Dear Lord, when morning greets the
world.
I feel the spur of pride
In all that thou, from blade to bough.
Hast raised and glorified.
Now pity me. a sinful lout.
Full penitent and sad
For thou it was who gavest me
The heart of any lad.
FRIAR TUCK.
Conspicuous Bravery on Capitol Hill.
To the buck privates In France
General Pershing was never much
more than a general nuisance, whose
visits meant polishing equipment and
standing in the rain for an hour or
I two.
But when General John told the
congressional committee the army
needed de-Prussianizing, the demo-'
bilized bucks grinned delightedly and
cried: "What did we tell yuh?"
Not With l a It Won't.
A new model dirigible will replace
the touring car with cross - country
travelers, according to Major Glidden.
It will cost 15.000.
The streetcar and the railroad
coach will continue to carry us. Major.
Appeal to Evelyn.
We fain would win
You. Evelyn;
Wouldst count us In,
Sweet Evelyn?
We have no tin.
Our purse is thin
But. oh, our grin!
We fain would win
You. Evelyn.
Wouldst count us in.
Dear Evelyn?
DICKY.
Kxpoaltlon Exposure.
Dear L L. D. The livestock men
will display many cows at the com
ing exposition.
May we not suggest that, on ac
count of the prevailing styles, the
wives and daughters of the stock men
will display a good many calves?
R. F. W.
Revelationa in Equine Anatomy.
"The impact threw the horse upon
the hood of the car. breaking its
windshield and front purt of the top."
Our Natural Hiatury.
(TheArg.)
The Arg is a slnerular biped.
With seven small ears on its sly head;
It rides in a flivver
And sleeps in the river
Because it's averse to a dry bed.
Our Dictionary of Vna4rtdR;eil Bro
mldea. CHARMING HOST A friend In the
desert, with a full flagon, two glasses
and a happy "Here's how!"
PIPE DREAMS Telling the land
lord to wait till the 10th inst.
STUDY IN SCARLET A red-headed
radical reading the Portland Labor
News.
Thanks! We Wreck Our Own.
"We wreck all makes of cars: let us
wrei'k yours. CO."
Disappointments.
By Vraee E. Hall.
Wrap them In perfumed rose leaves.
Sprinkle them down with tears:
Lay them npon the dead sheaves
That make up the shock of years:
Tie them about with heart-strings
Vibrant with hopeless grief.
Place on the mound the strength
you've found
This is the crowning sheaf!
Count them in morning sunshine.
Number them In the night.
Ponder them in the noontime.
Measure their shade and lisrht;
Think of the truths they brought you.
Witness how time relieves;
In pain you wrought but lessons were
taught
These are the crowning sheaves!
Ranire them In studied fashion.
Placing them row on row.
Dreams of your hope and passion
Blighted so long ago;
Glance o'er the burning stubble
Showers shall bring relief
Then ganner the grain of strength
through pain
This is the crowning sheaf!
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Aa-o.
From The Oresonian of November 7. 1!4.
New York. Returns from the elec
tions of Tuesday indicate about this
constituency of the "4th congress:
Republicans. 169; democrats. 1P5;
populists, five.
A feature of the coming kirniess
will be the 12th century May dance,
executed by 12 charming young ladies
and an equal number of gentlemen.
The Portland Whist club, organized
a month ago with 100 charter mem
bers, is growing steadily and prom
ises to become one of the most stable
social organizations in the city.
Henry C. Grady, C. W. Johnson and
R. W. Mitchell yesterday filed arti
cles of incorporation of the Columbia
& Eastern railroad, with capital of
1500.600 and projecting a road from
near the mouth of the Columbia
through the state to a point near
Ontario.
Game Not Learned at Home.
Indianapolis News.
The fourth-grade teacher had a
great deal of trouble with Fred's at
tendance. He was absent so often
that she got suspicious and wrote a
note to his parents as follows:
"1 am afraid that Fred is playing
truant and I would like your co-Oiper-ation
in securing a better attendance
record from him."
Back that afternoon came this, an
ew e r :
"Dere Teacher If Fred is playing
truant he didn't learn it at hoam. We
air church people and hain't got a
au.rd la our house."