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TITE 3IORMXG OKEGOXIAX, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1919.
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tionary society, I. W. W., Union of
Russian Workmen or whatever it
may be, should be arrested and pun
ished according to the measure of
his guilt. When the law once gets
its clutch on them, it should not let
them go, on bail or any other pre
text, unless they should be acquitted.
If there is not enough law to hold
them, it is the duty of congress and
the state legislatures to enact laws
to meet the emergency. Even if this
shuld involve imprisonment of 100,
000 persons, it should not cause hesi
tation. No difficulty was found in
accommodating almost a million
German prisoners . in countries far
more densely populated. If there is
not room enough in jails and peni
tentiaries, stockades can be built.
Plenty of ex-soldiers' will be found
willing to guard them.' Men who at
tack the United States from within
are as dangerous as any boche who
attacked it from without. They
have declared a class war; let them
have it not a war between labor
and capital as. they falsely call it
but a war between American democ
racy and red communism.
panying explanation that "the prin
cipal obstacle in solving them proved
to be the brief time allotted."
No room for cart-horse intelli
gence there. None of the "slow in
judgment but quick in action" tem
perament that we used to value
somewhat, as a counteractant of the
hair-trigger style of thinking that so
often leads one astray. From whales
to peace treaties, it is going to be
speed that counts. Now who is there
who will contend that we do not live
in a speed-mad age?
Let us concede that every intelli
gent person, that every young man
worth spending a college professor's
time on, ought to be able to answer
in .178 of a minute the question: "Is
a whale a fish?" But suppose that
the examiners had substituted "por
poise" or "dolphin" for whale! Or
suppose that they had insisted on
knowing whether Article X of the
covenant obligates the United States
to interfere in the affairs of another
continent! We dread the conse
quence to future matriculation in the
colleges of the United States.
THE CENTKAIIA TRAGEDY AND ITS
LESSON.
No palliation can be found for the
dastardly crime of the I. W. W. in
killing four and wounding three vet
erans of the great war at Centralia.
The American Legion was celebrat
ing victory in a war in which the
rnited States had exerted its whole
strength against an effort to subdue
all free nations and destroy free
Government, when a band of I. W.
W. opened fire. The attack was
plainly the result of a deliberate Con
spiracy by a band of fanatics, in
flamed by hatred of the American
constitution to destroy the govern
ment by slaughter of its most valiant
champions.
Although the lynching of Smith
cannot be condoned, it can be ex
plained. The people, not the officers
of the law. drove the murderers from
their hiding place, captured them
and took them to jail. The ma
chinery of the law had broken down
or there would have been no I. W.
W. at large to commit the murders.
For their own preservation the peo
ple of the oily had been compelled
to take again into their own hands
the authority which their elected of
ficers had neglected to exercise. They
had caught Smith redhanded, for he
shot Hubbard in a final effort to
escape. What wonder that, having
been driven to perform the duty of
arresting the murderer, they should
to on to the next step and execute
him? It was deplorable and repug
nant to regular methods of executing
justice, but the ultimate responsibil
ity must be passed on from the
lynchers to the officials whose neg
lect 'to execute the law had left the
I. W. W. free to commit other crimes.
The Centralia tragedy should burn
the fact into the minds of all persons
entrusted with enforcement of the
law that the I. W. W. and all similar
revolutionary urgiAiiiactLiuii& .i e o
t gaged in war on the United States.
Though they are scattered through
our own country, many of them
American citizens and ostensibly
pursuing peaceful vocations, they
are as truly making war on us as
were the Germans until a year ago.
They are worse enemies than the
Germans, for the latter were in mili
tary organization, in uniform and'
took the- risks of war, while these
skulking miscreants are disguised as
non-combatants, in civilian costume
and without defined organization.
They have followed guerilla meth
ods and have enjoyed immunity be
cause they have hitherto not resorted
to the recognized' methods of war.
But wrecking machinery, defiling
food, spiking logs, sowing sedition,
obstructing the draft are only milder
acts of war than open attacks on
loyal citizens. Because they have
been permitted to commit these
lesser crimes with impunity, they
have been emboldened to the greater
crime of murder.
There has been and still is lack
of zeal and energy on the part of
officers of the law, federal, state
and municipal. It springs from that
tolerance for any scoundrel who
yretends that his crimes are com
mitted in the cause of "labor" and
who brands his prosecutors as per
secutors of labor, which moved Pres
ident Wilson to seek clemency for
the multi-murderer, Mooney, to send
parlor bolshevist agents to make
peace with Lenine and until recently
to adopt only mild measures against
tedition and even treason. That
same spirit has permeated the ad
ministration of the law throughout
the country in these critical tpmes,
which demand severity guided by
strict justice. The state of . Wash
ington has a law declaring member
ship in the I. W. W. a crime, and at
least one man was convicted under
tt during the war, yet we find the
I. W. W. in possession of headquar
ters on the main street of Centralia,
from which it extended Its organiza
tion to the logging camps whence it
had been expelled and from which
it has now made a murderous attack
on the men who have the highest
claim to the gratitude of their coun
try. The I. W. W. is again invading
the lumber industry and has made
its way into the merchant fleet,
damaging engines and inciting crews
to mutiny.
The measures so far taken to crush
this infamous conspiracy against the
republic are ineffective. The de
partment of justice arrests more than
a thousand members of this and kin
dred societies, but releases more
than half of them, merely holding
aliens for deportation. It obtains
conviction and sentence of Haywood,
but the courts set him free on bail
while his appeal is pending. He uses
his liberty to repeat the crime of
which he was convicted, and boasts
of the fact. The prosecuting officers
of Washington permit the law
against the I. W. W. to become a
dpad letter. An I. W. W. meeting
in Portland is raided and among the
prisoners appear several men who
have been arrested several times,
but who are still at large and still
spouting hatred of" the republic. All
tbeir indignation is reserved for the
men who hanged their fellow-conspirator
and murderer Smith: they
have not a word of condemnation for
him and the other murderers of the
soldiers. They will soon be martyr
izing Smith as a hero of the "class
war." and heaping opprobrium on
those who hanged him as "minions
d capiUi.lur-11." They should not have
EASILY-MADE ANAKCII1STS.
Even those who deeply sympathize
with the movement to lessen the
law's delays and thus make better
citizens will wish that there were
fewer individuals among us of so un
stable equilibrium that they are lia
ble to be turned from good men into
bad ones by a passing circumstance.
The Carnegie Foundation's report
on the "Law's Delays and the Poor,"
to which reference has been made
heretofore, relates a number of in
stances that illustrate the point.
There was, for illustration, a painter
who had done a job for which he was
to have received $6.60. Payment
was refused him .by a dishonest cus
tomer.. He appealed to a lawyer,
who told him that court costs and
attorney's fees would amount to $10.
Then he went to a judge of the mu
nicipal court, who under the law
could give him no help unless he de
posited certain sums to cover fees
prescribed by a statute which is ad
mittedly unwise and which it la now
proposed to amend. The- report
continues: "As the man told his
story, sitting in the office of the le
gal aid society, he was an incipient
anarchist."
A good many are so fortified by
the inward spirit of independence
that they would resent the insinua
tion that they could be turned into
anarchists by a dispute over $6.60,
or even a much larger sum. The ad
ministration of the law may be, and
probably is, cumbersome enough,
and undoubtedly it calls for prompt
reform, but the most inadequate mo
tive yet suggested for a great re
form movement is that it will bribe
people to be good citizens for $6.60
apiece. '
Even with its unfortunate omis
sions, the structure of the law is
sound, and the really essential prog
ress that has been made in recent
years suggests that there are better
ways of obtaining substantial justice
than by going bolshevik. One won
ders, indeed, whether there may not
have been too much harping on this
bolshevik-peril string. It betokens a
lack of faith in one's own neighbors
and countrymen such as Abraham
Lincoln never had in the nation's
darkest hour. This lack of faith is
almost as uncomplimentary to those
afflicted with it as to those whose
moral stability they profess to doubt
THE AtrUEMV OF TXDl'STBT.
The incident, reported in the Eu
gene Register, of a fruitgrower in the
bottom country near Kugene who
as just received a checker $771.31
as the proceeds from a single acre of
raspberries illustrates what can be
one with opportunity in Oregon.
This yield, as the Register points out.
; equal to a profit, after making
beral allowance for expenses, of 6
per cent on an investment of $10,000
Cutting this in two, it would repre
sent the equivalent of a 6 per cent on
000, and dividing it by ten would
still make 6 per cent on an acre
worth $1000. The outstanding fact.
owever, is that land equally good
for the purpose, and for other, prof-
table purposes, is obtainable at
prices far under even the minimum
f $1000 an acre, while the market
for its produce ia continuous, and the
chief requirements are patience, per
sistence and old-fashioned industry
uch as contributed far more than
the land itself to making this par
ticular berry patch commercially
successful.
The $771 berry acre is perhaps
as exceptional as the $10,000 grower
who made his little garden blossom
nd yield its ripe red fruit that
was instantly converted "by the al
chemy of industry into golden dol
lars; bat both set a mark that ought
to be approximately . attainable.
There is no doubt at all that under
skillful management even average
management farming under pres
ent circumstances can be made to
pay.
We do not, of course, make farm-
ng pay by only talking about it.
Without knowing all the details, one
is safe in venturing the ass ;on that
this particular berry grow . worked
earnestly and diligently at his busi
ness. It is always the way with sue-
essful men. Not only is this true.
but nearly always those who are
earnest and diligent have a some
what similar story to tell. Success
n such commonplace ways is no
esoteric mystery. The recipe is
within the reach of nearly everyone.
ndustry, it will be found, is the
chief ingredient.
MORE TESTS OF INTELLIGENCE.
It is a good sign that the move
ment for substitution of psychology
cal tests for entrance examinations
for colleges is itself to be put to a
further test before final adoption.
The purpose of the so-called psycho
logical test, as has been explained
heretofore, is to determine the de
gree of Intelligence possessed by the
applicants rather than, as formerly,
the precise amount of information
that he may have stored away by
cramming or otherwise. And re
cently 1.600 undergraduate students
of three departments of the TJniver
sity of Pennsylvania, besides students
in twenty-seven colleges and univer
sities throughout the state, have
been called on to serve as educa
tional guinea pigs for the purpose
stated.
In a list of questions included In
the new intelligence test we find this
one: "All fishes are cold-blooded
The whale is not cold-blooded. There
fore the whale is not a fish. Under
line true or false." The logic of the
proposition is faultless, yet the state
ment as a whole is confusing enough
Modern zoology sets the whale down
as a "cetacean," and the dictionaries
define cetacean as "an order o
completely aquatic, mostly marine,
mammals." But the dictionary also
defines "fish" as "in the broadest
sense a designation of any exclu
sively aquatic animal, vertebrate or
invertebrate.". This "usage is tech
nically obsolete, or is becoming rare
among educated people, except in
certain phrases." And again, as to
fishes: "Their blood is cold (in some
large forms somewhat warm)." Th
point here is not that the whale is or
is not a fish. It will be conceded
that in the view of educated people
it is not. But what shall be said of
the question as a test of intelligence
rather than of information?
Psychology becomes more inter
esting when it is made concrete.
From a statement by a well-known
public man, the following is taken
as the basis of further examination
of the candidates:
The day of conquest and aggrandize
ment is gone by. as Is also the day of
secret covenants entered into in the in
terest of particular governments and
likely at some unlooked-for moment to
upset the peace of the world.
From the following interpreta
tions, the student is required to
choose two that are applicable:
Secret covenants are no longer to be
tolerated. This is an age of conquest
and aggrandisement. Secret covenants
are likely to lead to wars. Nations should
not have secret understandings with other
nations.
Probably this test is fair enough.
Yet it will not have escaped obser
vation that a number of United
States senators, judging from the
difficulty they are having with in
terpretation of the peace treaty and
their failure to agree upon issues not
less fundamental than the foregoing,
would not be able to pass a psycho
logical college entrance examination
in Pennsylvania.
The essence of intelligence is quick
thinking, it seems, from the circum
stance that the student is expected to
read, ponder and inwardly digest 168
questions, of which the foregoing are
said to be fair specimens, and write
his answers in 30 minutes. We are
not much surprised by the accotn-
bodies. It must be apparent to those
who desire to preserve the unions
but who oppose revolution that, if
the radicals remain in control, ar-
rest and prosecution of their leaders
with public approval will end in de
struction of the unions. The true
unionists may be impelled to gather
their forces for a new fight to win
control of the national and local fed
erations or may abandon them to th
radicals and form new, rival organi
zations. No opinion could be more errone
ous than that employers in general
or the people at large are hostile to
labor unions. .All recognize that the
Impulse to combine is so strong and
universal as to produce some form
of organization among workmen.
With few exceptions, employers
would gladly deal with a strongly or
ganized body of the best workmen in
a trade, which would make and keep
a bargain like a responsible business
man and which would in good faith
arbitrate disputes when direct nego
tiation failed, since the alternative
would be mushroom, secret, ill or
ganized and irresponsible unions
which would spring up suddenly and
announce their existence by a strike.
The source of most of the opposition
to unions has been that their meth
ods seemed to put a premium on
strikes. They sought quantity in
stead of quality of membership, be
cause officers wanted to make sure
of their salaries and of a big strike
fund. New members joined in ex
pectation of a strike for more wages.
Officers are paid while members arc
on strike but the latter get nothing.
and in some unions certain officers
are paid double salary during strikes.
If all is peace and relations with em
ployers are harmonious, interest lags,
some members drop out and others,
itching for a strike, think they get
nothing for their money.
Such a condition made the field
ripe for the activity of the radical,
whose aim is to use the union as a
means of revolution and to destroy
it. at the same time as a part of the
hated "capitalist" system. That fate
may be averted -only by forming new
unions which make skill and charac
ter qualifications for membership,
avoidance of strife their main object
and the interest of their officers, and
amicable settlement of relations with
employers their method of operation.
If such unions proved themselves
responsible by keeping their con
tracts and disciplining members who
broke them, if they relied on these
qualities and the skill and character
of their members, they would prob
ably find employers eager to deal
with them and a demand for the
closed shop would be unnecessary.
There would be no room for Sam
uel Gompers in these unions, for
they would resist radicalism, while
he has yielded to it, perhaps against
his convictions, in his anxiety to hold
his job. Unions of this type could
and should be a positive force for
support of the government and
would not accept leaders of the
Gompers type.
Stars and Starmakers. ,
By Leoa C'aa Birr,
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS.
AMERICAN TRADE EXPANDING.
Americans are not waiting for
completion on a large scale of ar
rangements to finance foreign trade.
They are reaching out into the tjew
lates or Liurope ror development en
terprises and into Germany as well
as the allied countries for markets
for manufactures. The American
Czecho-Slovak corporation has been
established in Czecho-SIovakia to
conduct import and export trade, and
American engineers have prepared!
plans for railroads in Jugo-Slavia,
tor which both capital and -materia:
are to come from America. Another
American syndicate has bought all
the stock of Serb and Croat shipping
companies on the Danube and its
tributaries.
American automobile tires are be
ing sold in Germany, though German
lubber factories have enough raw
material to supply the market.
American chemical manufacturers
have driven the Germans out of the
home market and are invading Hol
land and Scandinavia.
There is also a growing market for
American coal in Europe. Labor
troubles have reduced exports from
Britain to the point where Danish
railroads are run with American
coal, Italy calls for 500,000 tons a
month and France must draw heav
ily on this country until- Germany
makes shipments required by the
treaty. If adequate credits for Euro
pean nations shoulrr be arranged
there would be no practical limit to
the market for American coal except.
the capacity Of railroads and ships to
transport it to seaboard and overseas
J his is an added demonstration of
the absurdity of the miners' plea that
it was necessary to reduce working
hours in order that there might be
enough work to go around.
The prime requisites to swelling of
foreign trade to full flow are ratifi
cation of the German treaty, stabili
zation of exchange by giving Europe
long credit for what it wants to buy,
cessation of labor disturbances and
capacity production. There is abun
dant demand for all that we can pro
duce. The obstacles to sales are ob
stacles to placing the goods in the
hands of would-be consumers and to
financing the sales. There is work
f.nough for all, not only for five six
hour days a week, but for six eight
hour days a week. By doing that
workmen can most effectively re
duce prices and thereby raise wages.
The Boy Scouts are campaigning
to urge better books for children's
reading, but what is a "better" book?
A man can remember "Rollo" and
"Sanford and Merton" of the days of
his youth, but he would call his wife
into consultation if he found his boy
reading them. What the boy of 1919
wants is something with action and
there is plenty of the sort, with the
moral a bit obscure, but there.
A woman suing for divorce com
plains that her husband made her
sleep on the floor. Yet Chief Ulla
latum, of the Warm Springs Indians,
attributes his 106 years to the fact
that he has always slept on the floor.
Mayor Baker should not vex his
soul in wrath because his constitu
ents are slow about saluting the flag.
The right-minded man does It in
pride, but what can be expected of
a feeble mind?
Perhaps when a prosperous-look
ing man is asked to buy a Red Cross
button, a dollar may be all the mon
ey he has and he hates td let go. Yet
the Red Cross never hesitates to let
go.
A COINCIDENCE, during our
stay In New York, I met the three
Tittel sisters Minnie,. Charlotte and
Essie Portland's histrionic favorites
of yesterday. The trio have maintained
a Lillian Russell attitude toward life
and their complexions and figures.
and folk who knew them 25 years ago
and know them now say that they
are as youthful, almost, and as stun
ning as in the days when Cordray's
theater housed! Essie and Minnie, and
Charlotte was playing with Madame
Modjeska. Charlotte is Mrs. Wallace
Munro, and we had dinner with them
and saw other theatrical celebrities
one evening at their hotel. Mr. Munro
is the manager of the Criterion thea
ter, where "Thunder." with Burr Mc
intosh in the title role, is playing.
Mrs. Munro played a New York en
gagement last season and has been
highly successful as a wrrter of mag
azine articles and sketches. Her big
gest venture in a literary line is a
play which will be produced In Janu
ary, with herself in the title role
Essie Tittel is now Mrs. George E.
Crater, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Fred
Stone, wife of the comedian.
Essie has forsaken the stage en
tirely for the studio. She has con
tributed some fine canvasses to the
academy and is now at work on a
prize sketch for the Roosevelt memo
rial. Minnie Tittel Is the wife of
Captain C. M. Brune of the quarter
master's department. United States
army, and returned to America from
England the week before our arrival
in New York. She is a handsome,
mentally alert woman, who saw four
years' active, valiant service as, an
ambulance driver and community
service worker in the world war. Prior
to the outbreak of the war Mrs. Brune
had achieved enormous success In
Australia and Britain in the plays of
Sardou, Barrie and Pinero.
Robert Blei, another old-time the
atrical man of Portland, was in New
York sight-seeing. Mr. Blei owns a
huge ranch in southern California and
goes to New York twice a year to see
the various lights o' Broadway and
take a look at the old location of
Koster & Blals, where he made a bar
rel of money when a New York im
presario.
m
Another old-timer from Portland's
theatrical colony Is W. H. Lytell,
Billy" Lytell, mellowed by the years.
He la now promoting a big spectac
ular pageant to be given this season
under ' the auspices of various fra
ternal organizations which partici
pated in the welfare activities of the
American expeditionary forces.
Mina Crolius Gleaeon made an Indi
vidual success in a motherly role in
new play called "Five o'clock."
Frank Bacon helped write It, just as
he helped write "Lightnin'," but he
was going to withhold, he said, any
prideful boasts about being a part
author until after the opening night
and he saw how New York received
the play.
"If it's a success 1 helped write it,"
he told me. "If it's a flivver, why the
identity of the author will be covered
in a fictitious name."
The play is a really delightful
thtng, with a dozen children in it. and
lots of homely comedy, but it didn't
make a big hit and will probably be
re-written and tried again some
where. Met Bide Dudley, who used to write
a column of clever observations for
the Denver Post, and is nowdoing the
same clever work on a New York
newspaper. A new musical comedy
called "The Little Whopper" was one
of the good things we saw. and we
appreciated it possibly the more be
cause Mr. Dudley had written the
song lyrics. Otto Harbach wrote the
book and Rudolph Friml the music.
Sydney .Grant was in the cast, and
Vivienne Segal.
Kaiser Devoted to Crude Pranks on
Official Staff.
Captain Lothan" Perslus, German
naval attache at Washington for a
Those Who Come and Go.
Centralia is more inflamed than j
Skagway was when the Soapy Smith
gang was cleaned out and I was in
number of years long before the war, Skagway at the linm, and I was in
and subsequently Germany's leading I Centralia when the armistice pa-
naval critic, devotes a good deal of I raders were ambushed by the I. W.
space In his "Personal Reminiscences" " . Bas petite sutler, nanKer oi
to acrid ridicule of the once sacred " . lne f.enr
person of the kaiser and to advocacy noori. vvh-r, i i..ft i-,r.n,
of the proposition, that German of- body of Brick Smith, who killed Hub-
ficers guilty of atrocities -should be bard, was still swinging from the
punished, says the Berlin corre- bridge, and I guess it is still there,
spondent of the New York Sun. Cap- Smith taunted the men who took him
tain Persius says, "There are no great Jhm J" a"d "ald ey d'd. not ve
, . . . , the nerve to hang htm. He mad a
men in the eyes of their valets. Btatement before he swung off whicn
tr:i i ; n , n ... . .
. iinaiu ii. ncvei was a s,i cv ' nis executioners nave not made pub-
More Truth Than Poetit
By James J. Montague.
Wouldn't adoption of the metric
system be rather a dangerous ex
periment? Just think of all the dry
goods clerks who have their arms ad.
justed to measuring out yards.
In the eyes of anybody, although
he was ever assuming aaheroic pose,
whether the occasion was solemn
or ridiculous. But William 11. in
the eyes of his valets and attend
ants was not only not great, he was
even contemptibly small, mean and
cowardly, enjoying the humiliation,
degradation and pain he Inflicted upon
those in his power. With my own eyes
1 have seen him dash the contents of
a half filled champagne glass into
the face of an admiral who happened
to be standing near him on the bridge
of a vessel. 1 saw him scrape the
caviar off his sandwich and fling the
mess into the eye of some officer of
high rank unfortunately within reach
of thei -imperial "joker." Of course, all
these 'pranks' were perpetrated when
his majesty was in a state of intoxica
tion, which at times happened to oc
cur early in the morning."
Captain Persius states that Tirpitz
remained so long in power because he
would "stand for anything," even to
permitting the kaiser to pull his
whiskers and kick him in the stomach.
Consumers of coal are advised to
take warning from the case of Adam
Williams, a farmer in Kansas. The
case is reported by a physician in
Wichita. Williams went to a coal deal
er and asked what it would cost to
heat his home for the winter.
The coal dealer told him and Will
iams fell dead.
Physicians said his death was due
to heart failure.
lie. The man who killed Warren
orimm . was seen by several oeoole
who recognized him. He escaDed.
There is another man the citizens
want. It required the highest tvne of
courage for citizens to persuade the
crowd not to hang every man ar
rested, and Smith was hanged because
there was no question about him. and
there are two more regarding whom
there is no question. Lists of the
wobblies' were found on the pris
oners and on Brick Smith and they
are being rounded up. I was tolrl
there were 30 or more I. W. W. in
jail when I left for Portland. Condi-
tions-Jiave been bad in Centralia for
some time past, and an ordinance
which was prepared for the city com
missioners to pass, under which the
radicals could be dealt with, was -not
passed. The massacre was deliber
ately planned, the gunmen being
planted in hotel and rooming house
windows, and they opened fire on the
unarmed, defenseless service men in
the parade. I'm a law-abiding citi
zen, not inclined to be blood-thirsty,
but when I saw the crowd have a
rope around the neck of one prisoner
I felt a strong temptation to help pull
the rope. The prisoner was rescued
by the police."
"Eat eggs and encourage produc
tion," advises Professor Dryden of
Corvallis. Yea, at 7 or 8 cents each:
but why not put the butter and salt
on the money and eat that?
A University of Illinois professor
says he has discovered an alloy sub
stitute for gold and platinum. What
more folks would be interested in is
a substitute for money.'
Just a suggestion to sheriffs and
jailers for the coming Thanksgiving
day dinner: Omit the turkey and
trimmings this year. Why coddle
the bad men? -
.. Just about everything else has in
creased in price but Red Cross mem
berships. They are still the same
old figure one dollar each. Get
your button.
The Japanese are reported to be
no longer content with a rice diet.
They have developed more refined
tastes among others, for Hood Riv
;r apples.
A 'vVncouveri Wash., man adver
tised "100 year-old hens for sale."
No doubt this was a misprint. What
he meant was eggs.
FUTURE OF LABOR I'MtkNS.
Prohibition of a strike by the
courts in defense of the public in
terest as superior to that of the direct
parties to the dispute and submis
sion of the union in question while
the Federation of labor and other
unions urged defiance may prove a
turning point in the history of labor
unionism in the United States. There
are already evidences of open divi
sion between the members of the old
established unions which believe in
American democracy, sanctity of
contracts and peaceable settlement
of disputes and the new radicals who
advocate revolution and regard
strikes, violation of contracts, resist
ance to law and violence as parts of
their military strategy. The con
Fervatives have so far fought a losing
battle, for the radicals refuse to ac
cept defeat as conclusive and come
up for another battle tintil the con
servatives give up in disgust and
leave control of the organizations to
the radicals.
The tactics of the radicalHhave
now aroused the hostility of the peo
ple and have stirred the government
to vigorous action against them and
Mayor Baker wonders what's be
come of the patriotism of yesteryear.
Let someone start another war, and
he'll soon find out.
Ohio is "wet" by a few hundred
majority, which is sad to contem
plate: but a recount might make it
sadder.
To "be neighborly. Oregon will ap
prove San Francisco's plan to get the
republican convention.
The miners' sun-tender rather left
Jlr. Gompers in the air. A cold
place in November.
While we were at Niagara Falls
the king and queen of Belgium and
Prince Leopold were also seeing one
of the seven wonders of the world at
its. best. A mist had hung over the
falls all morning, the natives said, but
dramatically enough the sun came
sailing through a billowy bank of
clouds and made a rainbow above the
thundering cataract just as their
majesties reached the railing. They
both had their cameras along and
took a flock of pictures. The king
said it was "wonderful." The queen
selected another word. She said it
was "grand." An airplane had es
corted their special train into Niagara
Falls.
Cigarettes are due for another ad
vance, but who cares? Not the
smoker, at least.
One touch of Nature makes the
whole world kin. So does a crap
game.
Raid them off the earth is the law
ful way.
their allies, thu frankly revolutionary delay ?
Start that rockpile. Whose is the
Mildred Keats is doing a dance
specialty with Raymond Hitchcock in
"Hitchy Koo" at the Liberty. It's a
musical piece and Miss Keats' artistry
is notable and she is exceedingly
pretty. Ona Munson, who was Owrna
Wolcott before she changed her name
for professional purposes, is on the
road with George White and Ann
Pennington in "Scandals of 1919." but
a dozen newspaper folk told me that
little Portlander is a capital dancer
and the next sensation in stepping.
Frances White's star is setting. She
is getting fat, has a roily chin and
is lazy in her movements. I saw her
lead the chorus numbers at Zi-g-feld's
Amsterdam roof, "Midnight
Frolic." She never could sing, but
she certainly could dance. She and
William Rock have divided their ways
and Billy has married a lovely young
Knglish girl and Frances is doing a
single. Fannie Brice in her trave"sty
of the "Dying ' Swan," burlesqueing
Pavlowa and the lesser Pavlowas who
lio in for Saint Saens classic, is the
comedy hit of the "Midnight Frolio."
Sophie Tucker has her name in elec
tric lights for the first time in New
York and the whole place is crazy
over her. She has a flock of new
songs and clothes and is thinner. She
Is featured in "Hello. Alexand?r." and
after the show is over she is hostess
;;t. Ueisenwebier's supper-dance on
the j.-cond floor, where she sings a
programme betwreen dances and
where the festivities are heightened
by the impromptu performances of
other professionals who drop In as
srucsts. One night we counted two
dozen, all well-known vatidevillians
and legitimate performers, all through
their own work, who acted just like
children let out from school, and con
tributed original acts that would have
been knockouts on any circuit More
next week.
Speaking of the scarcity of houses.
read this" from the London Daily Mail
It was a small shop in a small side
street, and I don't think I should have
looked twice at It had it not been for
the fact that I had run short of cig
arettes. But when I saw "Tobac
conist" over the window I pushed
open the door and went in.
I had to wait some time before any
one appeared and then, to my sur
prise, an immaculate young man came
forward.
"Hullo, hullo, hullo!" he said.
"And what can we do for you today.
old thing?"
As 1 had never seen him in my life
before, I was rather taken aback by
his breezy manner.
"I want some cigarettes," I said:
" 'Diplomats.' if you have them."
"Diplomats" Good gracious, no
They've not been heard of In this be
nighted quarter of the globe. 'Yellow
Perils" are our limit. Suppose I can't
tempt you with a pocket of thos
what?"
I smiled and shook my head.
"Frightfully sorry, old thing." he
went on. "Here, have one of these
and he took out a silver cigarette case
and offered It to me. "They aren
quite as poisonous as some."
I thanked him and took the ciuar
ette.
"rsothing else in our line. 1 sup
pose?" he said. "We've got bags of
snuff. Chocolates jolly old oranges
and all the usual debris. Frightful
old dump of a rhop. isn't it?'.'
I had never met a Miopkeep-r quite
like this one and I was interested. 1
took a long shot.
"1 suppose you've hardly settled
down yet?" I sf: id.
"You're absolutely right, old thing."
he replied. "I haven't, and, to be per
fectly frank, I don't think T ever shall
l m quite new to this game and it's
about the mouldiest life I've struck
so far. Perhaps you wonder why I'm
doing U?"
I made polite noises.
"You see," he said, "while I was in
the army I got married and ever since
I was' 'demobbed' I've been trying to
find a house. But it's a hopeless bus!
ness. You can't get 'em. If any one
makes a noise like moving furniture a
queue forms up outside waiting to
snatch the edifice as soon as it's
empty.
"I'd very nearly given up hope, when
a man I know told me about this. The
house part of it is quite good. The
only drawback is the shop. I had to
take that and the stock or else 1
couldn't have had the place at all. So
I took it and here I am. I don't mind
selling th stuff if anyone wants it.
but, honestly, I haven't the least in
terest in it. However, I've got
house, and that, after all, is the great
thing, isn't it?"
"The shooting was in the street
back of my house, and I heard it all.
only. I thought it was a celebration
going on during tiie parade" says
Mrs. R. M. Wasson of Centralia, who
arrived at the Hotel Oregon yester
day afternoon. "Things have been
pretty bad in Centralia for several
weeks and have been getting worse.
l'he officers haven't done right. The
trouble seems to have started when
the agent for a Seattle newspaper
was ordered out of town. The offi
cers had warning that something was
going to happen on Armistice day,
for five men stoie a taxicab in Port
land, seized the driver when he was
rear the interstate bridge, and drove
to Centralia. where, after driving
around the town, they threw the
driver out. They told the driver they
had committed 20 crimes in Portland
and were icoing to Centralia 'to pull
off something,' as Monday would be a
legal holiday. The driver said that
one or two of his kidnapers vvere
service men.
'We have to feed the lion es
when we can't get horse meat for
him. At present prices I haven't the
heart to stand around and watch the
keepers beat up the egs," sighed
Harry F. Hofer of Chlcaco. who ar-
ived at the Hotel Portland yester
day to remain here several months,
as the show he is with is winterinz
in this city. "We do our best, how
ever, to provide horse meat. lor It is
cheaper than eegs and is more fill
ing, but with horses eoing out or
date because of automobiles, in a few
years we'll either have to put the
i;on on a straight egg diet and go into
bankruptcy or else slaughter the lion.
The only other alternative is to edu-
fite the monarch of the wildenress to
feed on gasoline." The menagerie of
the show is to be turned over to the
Shriners for ceremonial parade pur
poses.
"A flour mill with a capacity of
150 barrels a day is a new industry
startinar at Vale. announced Julien
A. Hurley of that city, at the Imperial
yesterday. "The mill cost. I should
guess, about $r,o.iHu and is in a thrnc
story buildiutr on the main str,t.
This mill is the direct rebult of Iht?
Warm Springs irritration project, for
this project will produce wh-at and
the mill has been started to grind it
into flour. It is the old story otie
ndustry attracts another. The irri
gation project will have 40.0(H) acres
under water next spring, of which
Jti.iMio acres are new and the re
maining JU.OdO have been partly irri
gated in the past."
THE VOICE IN THE NIGIlf
Upon a midnight, cold and clen
When slumber marks you fi
own.
You waken, with a start, to he.
The tinkling of the telephone
A sound that, heard in broad da:
Possesses a peculiar charm.
But, in the watches of the nigh
Invests your soul with wild A
You rise with palpitating dread
And, through the deep and sp
gloom
You stagger from your downy
Insteadily across the room.
And, standing in the wintry br
lour nightie flapping to and
Athwart your weak and tren-l
knees
You feebly cry. "Hello! Hello
"Hello! Hello" you feebly cry
With chilling shanks and risln
But you elicit no reply
Except the singing of the w
Lntil in soothing tones and low
As if your troubled soul to ea
A lady answers your "Hello"
And softly says, "Excuse it,, plot
"Excuse it. please!" when one Is
From gentle slumber's tw
zone
As frightened as if Gabriel's ho
Its awful reveille had blown!
When ripped untimely from his
W hen every nerve that he ha
Is set on edge with cold and dr
W ill he excuse it? He will N
Alibied.
There is a woman judge on th
York bench and one reported ha
called her a Portia. He is on a
tion in the Adirondacks.
If It Can Be Done.
If Mr. Hoover wants to make
hit he will do something abou
conservation of after-dinner o.
Eaay Money.
Mexico will soon make enougl by
selling our consuls back to us to fctart
another war.
tCopyright. 1019. bv the Bell Syndicate,
Inc.!
Modesty.
By Grace E. Hall.
Modesty is a jewel of unlimited value
bestowed upon woman kind in
tiie beginning of time, by the
lapidary of the universe:
It is ever at par in any country on
the globe, and is correctly ap
praised without knowledge of
that country's language.
Modesty is never mistaken nor mis
interpreted, be the observer
brilliant scholar or mental
dullard:
It is a passport to admiring respect
among all men and in all na
tions, and it is pointed out to
the oung with loving admoni
tions; She who loses this jewel or ignores
it at once becomes an object of
doubt and too often of unchari
table suspicion:
Forever after, her worth is ques
tioned and her genuineness
made a subject of speculative
discussion.
Substitute gems, worn in lieu of the
one lost, deceive no one and
make of the wearer a target
for cheap jesters.
No other adornt ent so well becomes
womankind as does this perfect
gem which is hers invariably
at birth;
other loss so pauperizes her in
the marts of the world where
characters are measured and
weighed.
wise indeed is she who cherishes
this priceless gift above all
others with which she has been
blessed!
More fortunate still the woman
young or old. who wears it
with an unconscious grace;
is the dignity of genuine and
lofty character insignia un
mistakable of the true gentlewoman.
No
Oh.
11.
In Other Days.
From Andernach. Germany, to Little
Rock, Ark., is a long leap, but that is
the jump made by The Watch on the
Rhine, an eight-page weekly newspa
per that the men of the third United
States division edited, printed and
supplied regularly to 30,000 readers
during the six months previous to the
departure' of the division from Ger
many In -August. The publication, be
sides recording matters of interest re
garding the troops still with the third
division, which is located near Little
Rock, at Camp Pike, aims specially to
keep fresh the memories of the days
with the A. E. F. and to echo the
spirit of all those who have at any
time been members of the division.
The new office of the Watch on the
Rhine, which is in room 306 Board of
Commerce building. Little Rock, was
opened October 18. and the first issue
of the paper at its new location ap
peared November 1.
It is quite remai'Kaoie how a sons
can gain popularity merely by its
being sung In a good show by a gooa
performer. Eddie Canton, singing
"My Baby's Arms" in the Follies one
week, shot the New York sales up to
15.000 over the previous week That
Is why Tin Pan alley puts out the
plush chair and the fat cigars when a
stage singer drops In for a call. How
ever, the song must have quality or it
will not be sung, for the singer knows
that -in the end he will lose. There
are some actors who pick up extra
money mentioning various articles.
One got J101 a week for referring to
a certain make of talking machine
until the author of the play dropped
in one night and heard the line. He
almost slopped V'e. show and it was
cut out after lhat.r
V. P. Hubbard of Centralia. whose
n was shot and killed by Brick
Smith, the I. W. W. who was hanged
for the crime, left the Hotel Portland
yesterday for home. He had received
a long-distance message Monday night
saying that his boy was wounded, but
was not informed that the wound was
so. serious. Mr. Hubbard said, betore
leaving for home, that he had "felt it
coming," as there were serious condi
tions existing in Centralia on account
of the I. W. W. activities there. Mr.
Hubbard declared that he went to the
chief of police a week ago and urged
that something be done to curb the
reds, but the officials were weak
kneed. Major Barney Day and Mrs. Day.
who are at the Benson, are on their
way to England. While in Los An
geles some enthusiastic citizens sup
posed the British major was Kins:
Albert of Belgium and pelted htm
with flowers, blooms. stems and
thorns. The major was a liaison of
ficer attached to the American expe
ditionary forces for 17 months and
wjts recommended Tor the distin
guished service medal. Mrs. Day was
Belgian girl was escaped through
the enemy lines in the early days of
the war.
In advance of nine carloads of
Herefords and shorthorns. Will Hen
of Kansas City, arrived at the Im
perial yesterday, via California. The
stock has been on exhibition in Salt
Lake. Los Angeles and San Francisco
and will be at the livestock show in
Portland next week. Mr. Hen states
that there has been a wonderful at
tendance at every show he has at
tended this season.
This building boom, caused by the
demand for houses, has brought ac
tivity for M .1. Campbell of Clats
kanie. Mr. Campbell has a shingle mill
which is so rushed with orders that
the plant is operating at top speed.
Mr. Campbell is registered at the Ho
tel Portland.
Owning five acres of walnut trees.
Seymour Jones, former speaker of the
Oi egon house of representatives, was
in the city yesterday to look over
the nut exhibit of the walnut grower'
convention at the Multnomah. Most
of his acreage is in prunes, says Mr.
Jones, and while be did not get the
top price for bis prunes by about S
cents a pound, because he sold too
early, he has no complaint to make
at what he did receive.
Among the walnut gtovrrs m the
Multnomah are Mr and Mrs. L. S.
O'is of Newherg: Mr. and Mrs. Fred
tinnier of HiUshoro, Mr. and Mrs.
F. C. Gilds of Yamhill and Mr. and
Mrs. L. Herner of Carlton. Or.
Two clergymen from ( 'oos county
arrived at the Hotel Washington yes
terday to attend a conference of the
Episcopal church. They are Rev. W.
E. Cooper of Coquille and Rev. .1. C.
Black of Marshfield.
W. J. Mariner, former member of
the legislature: advocate of the "open
river" and enthusiastic irrigationist,
is registered at the Hotel Washington.
Tvent-five eara Ann.
Kroal The Ore.nian of November 13. lSt4.
limlun a Shanghai dispatch says
that Port Arthur was taken yesterday
by the Japanese without resistance.
The fete Breton and kirmess, given
by 300 of Portland's best-known young
people under direction of Miss Mar
garet Mel Eager, was opened auspi
ciously at the exposition building last
night.
The old Ainsworth residence at
Third and Pine streets, occupied by
the Arlington club until its new
building was completed. is to be
moved and a row of stone buildings
will be constructed along Third
street.
W. 11. Doolittle of Tacoma, con
gressman from Washington, arrived
in Portland last night and will leave
in a day or so tor Washington, D. C.
I- r.
l-'lfty Ycnrii Aku.
in The Orefcoiiian f November 1.. Ihti'.f.
Philadelphia General Ben K. Butler,
while coming here rrom Washington,
was robbed of his overcoat and
undercoat in which there was $700 in
cash and between $3000 and tlOOO in
checks.
J. N. Dolpii and family, who have
been absent in eastern states since
July, returned home yesterday, ar
riving by steamer Ajax.
The dedication of the Hebrew
synagogue on Sixth street has been
postponed until December 2 because
needed paraphernalia has not ar
rived. The steamer Ajax brought up two
or three coops of pigs of the White
Chester breed, imported from the
east by Dr. Hawthorne.
I'EOIM.l-: KAU. TO SAl.l'l'K rXA
OniixKion Pnrtieularly Noticeable o
line bu Haa Bern Oversea.
PORTLAND, Nov. 12. (To the Edi-
lor.) 1 have recently returned from
two years' service in France and Ger
many. In 'he former country the rev
erence of the people for their national
colors is extremely noticeable. I have
seen numbers of parades when the
colors were carried past but cannot
recollect an instance when any civil
ian has failed to remove his hat or a
soldier to salute. It is inspiring.
In Germany the rule is so strict that
when otir colors were carried passt it
large percentage of the German civ
ilians removed their hats, partially
from custom and partially out ol
courtesy to any national colors.
ThU did not, however, satisfy the
American soldiers in Germany to have
only a portion of the civilians saluting
the flag, and biter guards were placed
who walked abreast of the colors and
removed, not too gently, any hats
which did not come off more grace
fully. Our soldiers learned to salute the
colors and any who had failed to come
to attention and snap up would have
been frowned on by their companions.
Today when the colors were carried
past in the Armistice parade, it was
extremely noticeable that very few
civilians removed their hats and, Qf
the men in uniform whom I saw
amontf the spectators, not one saluted.
It must be dimply thoughtlessness,
and if such is the case little pub
lb ii In established practices would
bo in order. K. D. WOODRUFF.
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