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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1919
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WHITTLING DOM'S THE BIG STICK.
If there is ambiguity in section 10
rf the league of nations covenant It
has been increased by the reserva
tion adopted by the senate.
Section 10 reads:
The members of the league undertake
to respect and preserve as against exter
nal assreesion the territorial integrity and
existing political Independence of all mem
bers of the league. In case of any such
aggresHion or in case of any threat or
danger of such aggression the council shall
advice upon the means by which, this
Obligation shall be ruirilled.
Following is the senate reserva
tion: The United States assumes no obliga
tion to preserve the territorial Integrity
or political Independence of any other
country or to interfere in controversies be
tween nations whether members of, the
league er not under the provisions of
article X, or to employ the military or
naval forces of the United States under
snv article of the treaty, for any purpose,
unless in any particular case the congress,
which, under the constitution, has the sole
power to declare war or authorize the
employment of the military or naval
forces of the United States, shall by act
or joint resolution so provide.
Now the statement is made by a
newspaper commentator that this
reservation nullifies all obligation of
the United States to preserve the
territorial Integrity and political in
dependence of other countries; in
other words that it is a flat refusal
in advance to assume any obligation
to do anything about anything that
menaces the peace of nations.
Another reading of the reservation
is that there is reserved to congress
the right to determine whether the
United States has any obligation to
perform in any particular case.
Plainly, the effect of the reser
vation will be to hamper the main
purpose of the league. That purpose
is to prevent the making of war by
aggressive nations by presenting a
united front against wars of con
quest. There is to be no united front.
The United States will Judge for It
self in each instance whether it is
worth while to prevent a war so far
as it is concerned. Other nations
may continue to foster their terri
torial ambitions and if it becomes
apparent to them that the league is
not to make a united stand against
those ambitions they will be free to
strike.
The reservation i thus an Invita
tion to every country with a terri
torial dispute on hand to propa
gandize the people of the United
States. It is a bid for foreign med
dling with our internal politics, . foi
iny congress that may be -elected
may be callea upon to decide wheth
er the United States shall jon the
other nations of the league in en
forcing justice.
Such is the promised result If the
reservation be held to mean that
congress shall decide ' in each in
stance whether the United States has
an obligation to perform. Under
the other reading that the United
States flatly disclaims obligation to
act in any instance we choose that
all the territorial jealousies and am
bitions that have been the causes of
war in the past shall continue to
work their insidious evil without re
straint from us. The purpose of the
league to prevent war is thereby an
nulled.
. The United States has in the Mon
roe doctrine announced in effect that
it will resist external aggression on
the western hemisphere. It has nev
er had to go to war to sustain that
doctrine. Mere knowledge of its ex
istence has been enough. Yet if
President Monroe had said that we
will pass on any case of aggrandize
ment when it arises and may or may
not act to prevent it, we would eithet
have had numerous wars or there
would be few independent nations
in the western hemisphere today.
Section 10 is the big stick of the
league covenant. The senate has
whittled it down to a fragile Bwitch.
! A NEW PARTY !' CANADA.
The war has not only bred new
republics in Europe; it has bred a
new party in Canada. This party is
composed mainly of farmers and is
called the United Farmers' party. It
is radical, but not as much so as the
current labor radicalism, and is not
revolutionary. It Is not sectional
for it has Just elected three members
of the dominion parliament, one
from New Brunswick, one from On
tario and one from Saskatchewan
It Is strong, for it has Just elected
thirty-nine members of the Ontario
legislature against twenty-six con
servatives and twenty-six liberals.
The planks of the new party's plat
form which are of most immediate
interest deal with the tariff and di
rectly concern the United States, be
lng in line with the policy supported
by the northwest provinces when re
oiprocity was a campaign issue
They favor a general and substantial
reduction of duties; decided decrease
In duties on British goods; recipro
city with the United States, putting
all foodstuffs on the free list; house
hold supplies, agricultural machin
ery, building material and other ne
cessities on the free list; special com
mittees to hear claims of specified
Industries to protection.
These plans contemplate serious
loss of revenue, which must be re
covered by other taxation. The most
radical proposal in that direction is
taxation of unimproved land values.
Others are an income tax graduated
from 2 per cent on $2000 to 10 per
cent on $10,000, up to SO per cent on
$100,000 or over; income tax on cor
porutton nrofltst. and inheritance
taxes. Oilier planks are a broad
scheme of public ownership, aboli-
tion of titles, abolition of the senate,
national prohibition, referendum and
recall, equal political rights for
women.
Entrance of this party into the
field may cause final break-up of the
old parties. Since Laurier adopted
tne preferential tariff and sent Ca
nadian contingents to fight in British
wars, their real differences of policy
have been growing smaller. Laurier
raised a new issue by opposing con
scription, but he split his party and
drove half of it Into coalition with
the conservatives, while discrediting
the part which stood by him. Thai
began the break-up, and after-war
problems promise to complete it.
NEWS AWAY FROM HOME.
The political chairman of the Na
tional Woman's party, Mrs. Baker,
has returned to headquarters from
her campaign of the western states
for ratification of the suffrage
amendment with the doleful report
that unless sundry governors can be
forced" to call extra sessions of
their legislatures the women of thje
country will not be able to vote for
president in 1920. Mrs. Baker makes
also the damaging disclosure that the
governors are "not interested in the
enfranchisement of women who can-
ot vote for them personally." She
also uncovered in Oregon the in
teresting opinion that "Governor Ol-
cott, who, as secretary of state, was
appointed- to take the place of the
executive who died, and fears his own
removal should the legislature meet."
The too discerning chairman of
the Woman's party has somehow
ubslituted the legislature for the
supreme court. The latter body is
in continuous session at the seat of
government, and it will determine
the status of the present governor's
term, provided some anxious citizen
brings the question up to that body.
lhe legislature might indeed im
peach and remove the governor for
cause, but we- venture the opinion
that failure or refusal to call a spe-
lal session at the behest of meddling
outsiders Is not a sufficient cause.
Let us add also the somewhat gra
tuitous suggestion that the way to
secure an extraordinary session for
any purpose is to make a showing to
the governor that It is wanted by the
people of the state.
RESTOBE THE KOCKF1LE,
The county commissioners have
nder consideration re-establishment
of the rockpile at Kelly Butte.
There is a notion that the commis
sioners are in no hurry to meet an
bvious demand of the times; but we
prefer to believe that they mean
what they say when they agree to
consider the question. The time of
consideration should be brief and ac
tion should be prompt.
It is useless to say that there are
no funds. The taxpayers will justify
any expense to meet the present
emergency. It is said that $2000 will
cover the cost of putting the rock
pile in condition. Is it possible that
Multnomah county is so poor that it
cannot furnish $2000 as a contribu
tion to a necessary plan for preserva-
lon of law and promotion of order?
A large road programme is conr
templated in Multnomah for next
year. A million dollars for that pur
pose does not frighten the commis
sioners nor the public. It is even
said that the board has in contem
plation the expenditure of $170,000
outside the county for the Mount
Hood loop. The commissioners are
quite calm over that unusual project.
But they are in something of a panic,
apparently, as to where they are to
get $2000 for the rockpile.
A rockpile will help divert the
troubled minds and troublesome en
ergies of sundry I. W. W.'s and oth
ers of their kidney into useful chan
nels. What they need is hard work.
What the public is entitled to have
0s the product of their work. The
only product now is agitation, law
lessness, unrest and disorder. The
rockpile, under competent manage
ment, will go far toward paying for
tself in its concrete output. It will
pay for itself many times over in its
moral effects upon those who labor
there and upon others who will de
sire to keep away from there.
NO CAl'SE FOR HKS1TATION.
Expressed readiness of the Port ot
Portland commission to UBe the
$1,000,000 fund in aid of shipping
lines' owned in Portland and oper
ated from this port should end any
hesitation on the part of Portland
people to invest in such enterprises.
The full cargoes now taken out and
brought in by every ship show that.
as to the present and the immediate
future, there is no cause for hesi
tation. The aid which the comrais
sion is prepared to offer should re.
move fear Of loss in the farther fu
ture.
There could not be a more favor
able time to launch a big shipping
company. All the principal products
of the Columbia basin are in un
usual demand, both on the Atlantic
coast and in foreign countries, and
will continue so until the deficiency
created by the war has been made
good. This section has a correspond
ing demand for many foreign prod
ucts. A large volume of import and
export business with the Orient from
the interior should be handled
through this port, if regular steam
ship lines are provided. Both im
port and export traffic is thus as
sured for the immediate future. The
nature of our products and manu
factures gives promise of a large
permanent volume of ocean traffic,
The Pacific northwest has the larg
est body of timber in the temperate
lone, other bodies in this country are
near exhaustion, and those of Eu
rope have been depleted by the war.
Hence cargoes of lumber and its
products will be available. Our oth
er products grain, flour, fruit, meat,
fish, butter, condensed milk, cheese
will always be in demand abroad
and on the Atlantic coast. Ships
carrying them abroad will be avail
able to Import raw materials and will
induce establishment of manufac
tures. " Here is good opportunity, to
secure cargoes both ways.
Any doubt arising from past fail
ures of steamship lines or from un
familiarity with the shipping busi
ness should be removed by the guar
anty against loss which the Port of
Portland commission is prepared to
give. In that manner the entire
community would take from the
shoulders of the shipping company
all risk of loss, while leaving open to
it all the opportunity of profits The
people can well afford to do this. II
the entire million dollars which they
have voted should, be expended in
establishing good shipping connec
tions with the world, the resulting
benefits would be worth the invest
ment. The money would come back
in the shape of increased business
for merchants, enhanced values,
greater number and diversity of
manufactures, a wider market for
our products, stimulated develop
ment of the interior everything that
goes to make a great port.
We have heard much of psycho
logical moments of late years. This
is the psychological moment for
Portland to establish its own steam
ship lines and to take a firm grasp
on its share of Pacific coast com
merce. Commerce and shipping are
settling down into new and old chan
nels, and the shipping board has a
great fleet to assign to the various
ports. Those ports which show their
faith in themselves by establishing
home-owned lines may expect to be
served first and best, and those men
who Invest in ships while the whole
world calls for commodities which
must be parried oversea will make
the profits. Some ports and some
men will see this opportunity and
seize it. If Portland and its people
do not, the commerce and the profits
will go elsewhere.- .
A BIG CHURCH PROGRAMME.
The campaign launched at Detroit
by the Methodist Protestant church
in the United States is a challenge
to those who have contended that
the churches were not alive to their
opportunities, and it stands out con
spicuously because the 1917 relig
ious census credits this denomina
tion with only 186,873 members, by
comparison with a total of 42,044,-
000 church members in the whole
ountry, and with several denomina
tions having a membership of more
than a million each. The Methodist
Protestant programme includes the
world. It comprises comprehensive
plans for Americanization of aliens
in the United States, in co-operation
with the department of the interior,
at a cost of $1,500,000; educational
work within the denomination at a
cost of $3,300,000; and other projects
involving the raising of $20,000,000
for work In fhls country alone.
The item of $600,000 for "quieting
social unrest" is wisely left without
elaboration. The. first thing to be
done in this connection -will be to
determine thfl precise cause of social
unrest, and, incidentally, whether in
fact It is as deep-seated as some sup
pose. If for this sum the cause can
be found, it will have been wisely ex
pended. But a good deal will have
been accomplished toward restoring
equilibrium by the campaign itself.
If enough Americans can be per
suaded to take part in an uplift cam
paign that will take their minds from
their own fancied woes, unrest will
automatically have been measurably
overcome.
The foreign missionary pro
gramme is calculated further to keep
alive the missionary spirit which is
the essential motive power of every
religious movement. Two 'million
dollars will be spent to combat ex-
sting evils in Latin-American coun
tries. Other "foreign" fields include
Alaska, China, Japan, the Philip
pines and Liberia. It is especially
significant that the work here will
nclude construction of a large num
ber ,of schools and hospitals. Prac
tical Christianity is the watchword
of the day.
If the scheme is carried through,
it will mean the raising of more than
$500 for each member of the denom
ination, and of more than $300 per
capita if all the scholars in Sunday
schools .are included. It would mean
a fund of $21,000,000,000 if every de
nomination did proportionately as
well. The mere raising of such a
fund the spirit that made it possi
ble would go further toward check
ing unrest than expenditure of the
money itself.
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE ON RAILROADS.
The principle invoked by the gov
ernment against the coal miners'
strike, that as regards public neces
sities, the rights of the nation are
superior to the right of either capi
tal or labor to stop production, is to
be threshed out by congress in dis
cussion of the railroad bill. It is af
firmed frankly in the Cummins sen
ate bill, by provision for compulsory
arbitration of labor disputes and by
prohibition of strikes. The Esch bill
in the house rather evades the ques
tion, providing for voluntary arbi
tratior and for penalties against em
ployers when they lock out em
ployes or against unions when they
strike in violation of a contract to
abide by decision of an arbitration
tribunal. The railroad brotherhoods
condemn both plans, stand out for
the unlimited right to strike, and ask
for continuance of government oper
ation for two years in the hope of
winning a popular verdict for gov
ernment ownership and against the
anti-strike clause. .
There is but one possible excuse
for a strike on railroads that justice
can be done between the company
and its employes in no other way.
That Is not true. Arbitration is an
effective means of securing substan
tial justice. Labor unions clamored
for it not many years ago, but when
employers accepted it, unions began
to criticize its machinery and results,
Railroad men complained that the
decision usually rested with the um
pire, who was often a man not fa
miliar with their business, either
with a leaning to the employer's side
of a dispute or disposed to split the
difference. They have an equal
voice with employers in selection of
an umpire, and the time to question
his fitness is before, not after, he
has acted. The frequency with
which umpires split the difference is
evidence on its face that, when each
party to a dispute stands firmly for
its demands, justice is about half
way between the two. It is surely
practicable to provide that an um
pire shall have knowledge of the
railroad business gained by expe
rience.
These considerations lead straight
to the conclusion that, when they in
sist on the right to strike, the rail
road men want more than justice,
and that they plan to extort it by in
flicting loss on the railroads or by
threatening such loss without regard
to the injury done to the public. In
these days of political strikes and in
view of the brotherhoods' advocacy
of government ownership, they may
contemplate much more. They may
contemplate such exactions from
railroads without regard to the lat
ter's ability to pay as will render
private ownership impracticable and
as will weary the people into consent
to government ownership. In short,
their determination to retain th
strike weapon while they press th
Plumb plan on congress leads to the
conclusion that they propose to
bludgeon the railroads into granting
demands which an arbitration court
would not grant, and to bludgeon
congress into passing laws against its
judgment.
In taking this position, the rail
road unions Ignore the principl
which has been successfully asserted
in the coal miners' case that stop
page of the supply of a necessity of
life is an invasion of the rights of the
public, which is superior to the rights
of both capital and labor. This prin
ciple applies with particular force
to the railroads, for they perform a
government function under govern
ment regulation, and when men ac
cept employment from them, they do
so with knowledge of this fact and
they become parties to the obliga
tion to give good, continuous service.
By providing means of securing Jus
tice for the employes, congress will
deprive them of the last valid pre
text for striking. By holding out for
the right to strike, they hold out for
the right to extort- more than justice.
Such exactions would ultimately be
made from the people, for the rail
roads can obtain the money to meet
them from the people only and
would simply be a go-between.
The practical unity of the people,
of congress and of the courts in con
demning the coal miners' strike
leaves no room top doubt of their
view of a railroad strike. It would
meet with general condemnation.
The brotherhoods appear to realize
that public opinion is now against
their strike policy, for they ask for
postponement of a decision till the
next election, hoping for some politi
cal deal or some turn of the political
wheel in favor of their Plumb plan,
which would in effect put them in
control of the railroads. A railroad
strike now or in the near future
would array against them air tho
forces of government with the solid
backing of public' opinion.
Nor would the people be so help
less against a general railroad strike
as the labor radicals seem to imag
ine. The British railroad strike
proved that. The whole nation ex
clusive of the strikers and their
union allies rose up to fight them.
It enrolled 25,000 special police to
guard the railroads and 350,000 vol
unteers to run them or other means
of transport. Auto trucks proved a
aluable substitute for railroads.
They ran from a radius of 120 miles
to supply London with food, and au
tomobiles carried passengers as far
as Bristol. Before the strike ended
olunteers were running 4000 trains
day on the main lines and 1400
trains a day on the underground sys
tem of London. Men of all ranks
went into the fight to defeat the
strike, lords volunteering for manual
work.
If the American people should be
confronted with a similar attack on
their transportation system, they
would defeat it by like means. This
country, is better supplied with mo
or transport than Great Britain, it
has made much progress in building
solid highways, many loyal men have
learned to run auto trucks in the
war, and the people can adapt them
selves to meet any emergency.
A police judge in one eastern city
has devised a grim ordeal for auto
mobile speeders. Each' convicted
speeder is sentenced to pay a visit to
the morgue under police custody.
There he is shown the corpses of vic
timsyjf other speeders. Only a truly
hard-boiled citizen is .not affected by
such a test, and it is a pallid and
shaky group that reappears before
the judge. "Could you sleep tonight
knowing that your carelessness in
speeding had caused the death of
one of those persons?" inexorably
questions the judge. Arrests for
speeding are reported to have de
creased remarkably in number since
this judge instituted his system.
The Walnut Growers' association
cannot get along without J. C. Coop
er for president; but what would a
meeting be without the presence of
Ferd Groner, the Washington coun
ty pioneer nut man, whose name is
not "Fred," though the combined
forces of most daily papers make it
such?
Everybody familiar at all with the
case believes the jury trying the al
leged assassin of Governor Steunen-
berg was terrorized. Such was pos
sible; but such is not now the case,
for there is a government pretty well
organized to deal punishment where
it should go and with the will to do
so.
What business have Chicago high
school boys allowing themselves to
become fertile fields for bolshevik
propaganda? The most notable of
fenders are sons of naturalized citi
zens and that fact may explain.
If alleged reports of an- alleged
automobile being driven about the
city in' an alleged intoxicated condi
tion are true, the disreputable car is
becoming an alleged menace to traf
fic, so to speak.
London crowds do not take kindly
to American adventurers in the field
of prohibition. They are right. Pro
hibition is a local affair and the
Americans should stay at home.
Convicts at the Washington state
penitentiary are to take correspond
ence courses in agriculture. There
will undoubtedly be much interest in
the growing of wall flowers.
Sugar companies in the Hawaiian
Islands are paying huge dividends.
one plantation alone making profits
of $150,000. . Meanwhile the family
sugar bowl shrinks in inverse ratio
Further news is anxiously awaited
of the movement of walrus herds
south from the Arctio ocean. Can
Seattle have sent out a hurry call for
the coming census?
Medical students in London rode
"Pussyfoot" Johnson, American pro
hibition orator, on a rail. Evidently
the British idea of dry humor;
One of the refreshing spectacles of
life is to see a practical joke turned
on the Joker. That seems to "be what
happened to Senator Walsh.
. Texas and Oklahoma must send to
Chile and Peru for a few reports for
guidance in neighborly troubles.
In one way the war was a boon
to the south. It has renewed the
supply of Kentucky colonels.
How would you like to-be on
Jury trying an assassin? Guard your
tongue, but think a lot.
The horse show opens Monday. If
not out of order, we rise to inquire,
what is a horse?
Another grave question in dispute.
Is "Little Joe" & number or only a
point?
By the way, where and how is the
president these days?
BY-PRODUCTS OP THE PRESS
v
Stories Told of Men Who Did Thins
That Couldn't Be Done.
"When Napoleon offered the United
States the territory of Louisiana for
$15,000,000 everybody told President
Jefferson, there was no way to buy
it. It wasn't constitutional, and it
wasn't possible. . It just could not be
done. But he did it and got for
America the richest land in the world
at 4 cents an acre. They are still
debating whether he had a right to
do it.
When President Roosevelt decided
the Panama canal should be built, he
built it. "For two generations they
had debated that canal," said Mr.
Roosevelt later. "T built it and let
them debate me instead." The point
is they are still debating Mr. Roose
velt, but the canal Is built.
When everybody was worrying
about how the government was going
to resume specie payment, Salmon P.
Chase said: "The way to resume is
to resUme." The history of the world
is made up of life 'stories of men
who went ahead and did things that
couldn't be done. Detroit News.
The Liberty bell rug, over which
the peace treaty was signed in Paris,
is the one on which the original Lib
erty bell rested for five months at
the Panama-Pacific exposition in
1915. Before this the rug had a
history of 100 years of love and in
trigue involving Persian royalty, ac
cording to Thomas H. Kullujian, its
owner, of San Francisco. It became
symbol of patriotism during its
Liberty bell work and a Liberty loan
tour, and entered politics when its
present owner, Mr. Kullujian. Ar
menian rug merchant, took it to
Paris.
The rug was used in the ceremony
In honor of 1700 drafted men from
San Francisco, on their way overseas.
Mr. Kullujian collected the dust they
left on th rug. giving- one bottle
to the San Francisco mayor, another
to President Wilson and the third he
intends to present to Premier Katcha
znooni, head of the new Armenian
republic, as a symbol of America's
work in freeing that country.
John McCormack, the singer, was
talking at a roof garden luncheon
in New York about the broken en
gagement of a theatrical star and a
popular young society man.
"Poor blank," said Mr. McCormack.
He seemed hard up and terribly blue
over the affair when 1 saw mm at
Atlantic City last week.
Cheer up, old man," I said. 'There
are plenty more fish in the sea.'
Yes I know," Blank replied gloom
ily, "but this last one took all
my bait.'" Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph.
It is a curious fact that the effect
of war upon birds is not that which
one is led to expect, says the Atlanta
Journal. When a Zeppelin flew over
the pheasant hunting preserves in
England the shrill cry of these birds
warned the country for miles around
of the approach of the airship. But
the nightingale never stopped his
song unless a flying machine was
directly over his head.
The birds at the front paid little
attention to the din and roar of bat
tle, often singing while a bombard
ment was in progress. Their nests
were found under the roofs of the
railroad stations. The partridge and
the lark often rested directly in tne
line of flie. and during the intervals
of firing the song of the lark could
be heard.
The swallows upon their return
from warmer climates, finding their
previous nesting places destroyed,
built their new homes in the mouths
of deserted cannon and in trench re
inforcements. In a newspaper file of 1913 only
six years ago, out wnat. a woria
away" a reader has come across a
Russian item that makes one smile
sickly. The important news was tele
graphed from the city that was St
Petersburg that an issue of stamps
bearing portraits of the Romanoffs
was to be withdrawn since the holy
synod, sitting in solemn conclave,
had decided that to cancel the im
perial visages with postoffice dies
would" be not merely lese majeste
but sacrilege! So the stamps were
kept inviolate and in four years the
czar himself was cancelled.
A contributor to the New York Sun
suggests formation of Half-as-Much
clubs right now at the breakfast
table half as much sugar on cereals,
half as much sugar in the coffee.
"It really tastes better without any,
as an honest three-day trial will
convince almost any one. An average
family can save at least seven tea-
spoonfuls of sugar each day by doing
as suggested. This means one pound
a week. For the whole country this
would save 1,000,000,000 pounds a
year. And we would set along just
as well perhaps better."
When the Pilgrim Fathers landed
in New England they naturally knew
little of the climatic conditions of
their new home. With October came
the first flurries of snow. The frost
nipped the woods and the chill of the
air foretold of the coming of win
ter. "We will now have winter," it
Is related that one of the band re
marked. But the friendly Indians
pointed to the skies and to the west
and told the Pilgrims that summer
would come again before the winter.
And they were .right. In the last
days of October it grew warm again.
The air was filled with slanting sun
shine. The world seemed wrapped In
an atmosphere of sleepy warmth. The
Pilfrrims looked forward and re
marked, "Lo, the Indian's summer
This may or may not have been the
origin of the term. It is an expres
sion, however, that is applied t6 a
short season of pleasant weather
which commonly occurs in the lat
ter part of October or the early part
of November.
James Whitcomb Riley's grave on
the crest of Crown Hill cemetery is
to be marked by a beautiful memorial,
a Greek peristyle of light gray gran
ite, which is being erected by the
poet's heirs, Mrs. Mary Riley Payne,
the only living sister; Miss Lesley
Payne, a niece; and Elizabeth and
Edmund Eitel, niece and nephew.
The memorial will be completed in
about even months. The peristyle
will be about 12 feet high, 15 feet
long amd 11 feet wide, with 10 Ionic
columns supporting a canopy. On
the south facade will be the simple
inscription, "James Whitcomb Riley,"
in classic letters. The same inscrip
tion, with date of birth and death,
is now on the slab which covers the
grave. The memorial peristyle will
be visible for some distance away
from the cemetery. Indianapolis
News.
Thos Who Come and Go.
"Never sell the soil," is the advice
Mrs. Howard, 80 years old, gives to
her son, E. J. Howard, of Drewsey,
Or., who is at the Imperial. The par
ents of E. J. Howard were in the
party which discovered gold on Can
yon Creek, and his mother rode into
the country on a pack mule. Tom
Howard, the father, w-as the first
sheriff of Grant county, and he also
conducted a butcher shop and had as
a helper Phil Metschan, Sr., who later
became state treasurer. The Howards
moved over to Drewsey In 1884, be
ing the first people in there, and they
prospered. The elder, Mrs. Howard
always advises her son not to sell any
of his land, declaring that her parents
did so when they lived in the middle
west and they never found anything
else that repaid them as well as the
soil.
"As people can't rent, they are buy
ing and it is the easiest thing In the
world to soil real estate in La Grands
and the surrounding valley," says J.
D. McKennon, one of the city commis
sioners. "There is little building, for
the price of lumber is too high and
carpenters want $7 or $8 a day. Peo
ple wanted automobiles for a while
everyone wanted a machine and now
they have the cars they are thinking
of buying a home, and they are doing
so." Mr. McKennon is one of the
commissioners about whom there are
rumors of a possible recall because
the commission is not providing a new
water system for La Grande.
Douglas Pine, who Is at times stu
dent and at times instructor when he
Is attending O. A. C, is in town for
a few days, renewing acquaintance
made during his stay In Europe. Mr.
Pine went overseas with Company D,
Sixth Battalion, 20th Engineers, for
estry, which battalion went most of
the way on the ill-fated Tuscania.
He served in southern France, where
the 20th made a wonderful record
sawing French pine trees Into trench
lumber. Mr. Pine was commissioned
a second lieutenant shortly before the
armistice, but tailed to lose the
friendship of his former comrades
Being a nut grower has its compen
sations. Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Groner
of Hillsboro. registered at the Mult
nomah, are planning a trip to France
and Egypt within the next six months.
an indication that the nut crop and
the' prices must have been good. It
is the intention of Mr. Groner to buy
an automobile, ship It across the At
lantic, and then make his tour in his
own car.
Although the manufacturer of silk
and the price of silk and the silk
market are matters of general in
terest to the public these days, E. H.
Kluge of Englewood, N. J., does not
his wife. Mr. Kluge arrived at the
Benson yesterday with fearsome tales
of adventure stalking big game In
the Canadian Rockies. The popula
tion of wild things in the C. R. has
been greatly decreased during the
campaign of the silk-maker.
The "million dollar kid," Joe
Richardson, breezed Into the Hotel
Oregon yesterday from Salem. Joseph
has a little habit of toting a million
or so of road bonds around with him
when he is making deliveries for the
state treasury to the bond dealers. He
had a bag filled with the securities
when he arrived yesterday and he
also had a body guard, to-wit one C.
K. Knickerbocker.
Edward S. Hough, a ship designer
from San Francisco, is registered at
the Multnomah. Mr. Hough designed
a type of ship which met with the ap
proval of the shipping board and
about 23 of the Hough-type vessels
were built in the Columbia river dis
trict. In the lobby of the Multnomah
is a model of a Hough ship.
John Philip Sousa, sans his whisk
ers, is at the Benson. When the com
poser of American march tunes last
visited the Hose City he had his
popular and well-known beard, but
since then he has fallen into the
hands of a barber and sports a dec
oration on his upper lip. Mr. Sousa
discovered how to make the public
step lively before the traffic officers
or the street-car conductors did.
Highway Commissioner Robert A.
Booth was among the arrivals at the
Imperial yesterday. Mr. Booth came
to Portland from Eugene to confer
with a delegation from Malheur
county who wanted to discuss ways
and means for a road from Ontario to
the Jordan valley country on the
eastern edge of Oregon.
Bernard Daly, who Is doctor,
lawyer, banker, stockman, landed
proprietor and a few other things at
Lakeview, is at the Imperial. There
Is an unconfirmed rumor that Dr. or
Judse Daly bought more liberty
JjonUs than almost any other person
in Oregon. The Judge, or doctor. Is
here to meet Mr. DeValera. the
absentee president of the "Irish re
public.
"Never saw the Willamette valley
looking better or more prosperous,"
says Milton A. Miller, collector of in
ternal revenue, who is back from a
trip to Lebanon and way points. Mr.
Miller is rooming at the Hotel Ore
gon. V. N. Johnson, whose sheep ranch Is
on Girds creek or maybe on Shoo
Fly creek Is at the Perkins, regis
tered from Fossil. The sheepman 1b
accompanied by Jack Cassel. who is
in town to look over the livestock ex
hibit. With a car of big type Poland China
hogs and Cotswold sheep, O. T. Mur
phey and son of Hubbard, Or., are in
the city. The livestock Is for the
show next week. The Murpheys are at
the Hotel Oregon.
Proprietor of a clothing store at
Spokane, R. J. Hurd. is at tho Multno
mah with Mrs. Hurd. Another Wash
ington clothing dealer at the Multno
mah is C. C. Caveness of Centralla,
the town where the I. W. W. is in dis
repute. Captain Howard R. Lyons of Seat
tle, who has been in a local hospital,
was well enough to be discharged
yesterday, and he went to the Hotel
Oregon.
To attend the livestock show. Lea
Caldwell and Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Rosenberg of Pendleton came to the
Hotel Oregon yesterday.
M. D. Scroggins, a contractor of
Hermiston, Is at the Perkins. Mr.
Scroggins has been engaged in high
way work.
E. H. Epperson, northwest manager
of tho Delco light system, is having a
convention of salesmen in this terri
tory at the Multnomah.
George Stmenstad, a dealer in
ready-to-wear Jewelry at Pomeroy,
Wash.. Is at the Multnomah with his
wife.
J. H. McCune, a stockman of Moro.
is among early arrivals at the Perkins
for the stock show.
Mrs. H. P. Husband and husband
from North Platte, Neb., are regis
tered at the Multnomah.
Manager Hlte of the Hotel Wash
ington was reported on' the .sick list
j yesterday.
The Tickle-Fairies.
By Grace E. Hall.
Did you ever hear of the tickle fairies
that bring all the smiles we
see?
Why, they are the busiest sprites on
earth and labor unceasingly;
And sometimes they lift 'til they're
- , , , , I
uiuck in me luce .
On & frown that they mean to com
pletely erase.
Or strain every nerve to make a
glad curve
On lips that of cheer have lost all
sign and trace.
Why, haven't you felt them boost up
on your lips
"Til your face seemed 'most break
ing in two?
And haven't you known them to
come with swift skips
When someone told something to
you?
And oft when you take up a nice
book you'll find
The fairies are lurking the pages
behind.
And they creep up your chin with a
big, merry grin.
And they change all the thoughts
in your mind!
Oh, let them come play, without
hindrance or pause,
These blithe jolly sprites that
adorn
Our faces with twinkles that chase
away wrinkles.
Nor greet them with sternness nor
scorn;
And when you are frowning and feel
' no desire
To purse up your lips in a smile.
Remember each fairy becomes quite
contrary.
And ceases to help, after while!
LIBERTY BELL MAY TOLL AGAIN
It Will Call New Party Into Being; If
Old Ones Uo Hot Rise lo Issue.
FOREST GROVE, Or., Nov. 12. (To
tha Editor.) We have dealt too
gently with the unpatriotic alien
nuisance. It is disturbing the In
dustrial situation. It Is blockading
prosperity. It is sowing" the seeds of
revolution, it is inspired by the bol
sheviki and the I. W. W. It must be
abated. There has been too much
"pussyfooting." There ha? been too
much catering to the army of aliens
that has poured In on the United
States with no other purpose than to
seek the benefits of our free land,
and to give nothing iu return.
Strikes In our great industries are
not inspired by patriotic Americans;
neither do the. latter contemplate vio
lence; this is' usually the work of
aliens.
The names of men arrested for in
citing riots, disturbing the peace, and
Intimidation around Pittsburg are
significant and include the follow
ing: Kamisjtia, Kaurich, Troski,
Gorles, fciloviki, Jerkovich, Yehovick.
At the West Penn Steel company's
plant 700 American employes were
at work with only six foreigners out
of 600.
This tells the story. It is high
time that these undigested and uniii-
gestible should be measured for what
tney are worth. They show no loy
alty to the country that has riven
them a home, a living and wases be
yond the wildest dreams of their
avarice. They seek no permanent abid
ing place here. Fealty goes to for
eign countries.
It is time for the Liberty Bell to
be rung again. We welcome the im
migrants who come to make this
their home, to give allegiance to the
American flag and to stand fast for
the principles of our government.
These have been an important factor
in the upbuilding of the new land.
We recognize their worth. For years
they have been welcome. They are
among our best citizens. Our doors
have been wide open to receive them,
and we will welcome strangers to
our shores as long as they blend with
our population. accept American
principles and follow the American
flag. But those who will not seek
naturalization, who despise our con
stitution and spit upon our flag and
are at the beck and call of the soap
box orators and false leaders of the
bolshevik and I. W. W. stripe should
be driven from every factory, shop
and office. They have been fed.
clothed and enriched only to turn
and bite the hand that feeds them.
We have dealt with this unassimi
lated element too gently. If neither
of the great parties arises to the
emergency and seeks to put an end
to the malign influence these aliens
have been exerting In our industrial
fields, a new party of greater politi
cal influence will arise, made of true
Americans whose motto will be, "Our
Flag, Our Country and Our Freedom."
Roosevelt, "We need thee, oh. we
need thee; every hour we -need thee."
W. .1. R. HKACH.
I '
Oregon Hens Fight to Protect
Ham-and-Eggs Partnership
In the rush to the Yukon for Alaskan gold, eggs sold in the north
country for a dollar a dozen, and dull nuggets and glinting grains of
the coveted metal were eagerly bartered for spheroids of doubtful
virtue. The dollar-a-dozen egg has come back, but the hens of Ore
gon are fighting to depose it. The would-be poultryman's chances
of amplifying his menu and pocketbook are discussed in The Sunday
Oregonian by De Witt Harry. Photographs of barnyard champions
and barnyard scenes enliven the page.
WHY DO GIRLS RUN AWAY? "Girls want excitement," says
Miss Josephine Kremser, 23-year-old woman detective on the New
York police force. Miss Kremser blames the discomforts of home
life in the cities for a good deal of the social unrest in America.
Her remedy is a supply of old-fashioned fathers and new-fashioned
mothers. Dr. Max Barff, who has held a sphygmomano
meter on the fair sex for two years, says that but for conventions
that hold her, woman would roam more than man. Both authori
ties speak in the Sunday 'issue.
WHAT IS HIGHEST GOAL OF MAX'S LIFE? "Service," replies
Edward Bok, editor of The Ladies' Home JournaL who is going
to retire on January 1 and devote the rest of hisife to "play."
Mr. Bok believes there is nothing to the dollar chase, anyway,
and that there is not bo much virtue in the writing of checks for
philanthropy if the hand that writes the checks does not give
further service. In The Sunday Oregonian the retiring editor af
firms his intention to try to serve his fellow-men.
THE VICTORY AT SEA. America's best beloved admiral, who en
deared himself alike to jackies, doughboys and civilians while he
commanded the American destroyer force in European waters,
tells of the institution of the convoy" system on the Atlantic, in
tomorrow's issue. Historic conferences which decided the 7ate
of thousands of Yank soldiers are recounted for the first time.
MILADY AGAIN HUMS SIREN SONG. The chic ladies with their
tiny accents and their foreign luggage are returning to Wash
ington, D. C, after three years' absence, to slip into their former
places next door to the United States government, where they
can peek through the keyhole and listen to the discussions of
state. A thrilling tale of the Countess Carolyi's arrest is fea
tured in The Sunday Oregonian's article on the lady spies in the
national capital.
THE PHONOGRAPH SHOP. Is invaded by W. E. Hill, the artist
who draws those wonderfully true-to-life cartoons of people and
things but mostly people. Officer Hennessy, Arthur, Miss
France, the Bowie family and others are caught hearing their fa
vorites. Briggs is there, too.
All the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
THE TURK AND THE SERVANT
PROBLEM.
In the far-away town of Stamboul
Where the popular customs axe
strange.
" nen a weii-to-do Turk needs
lady
vkj worn
At his washtubs or over his range.
He hurries her straight to tho Mosquo
hero he joyfully takes her to wif
And she cooks his ragouts and pilaffs
and beef stews
For the rest of her natural life.
And in case any richer Pasha
Endeavors to lure her away
(As sometimes it's true they art will
ing to do)
With offers of much bigger pajt
Her husband appeals to tho law
Which sternly refuses to brook
Any stealthy attempt (great Pashas
not exempt)
To steal a connubial cook.
And if tho young woman herself.
Another employment should seek
With some opulent Turk who will
give her lees worn
And moro evenings off every week.
Her husband will take her to court
Where tho Ottoman statutes are
read
Which set forth, to-witt "It a cook
tries to quit
Her husband may chop off her
head."
We never were strong- for tho Turk.
He's a rough and cantankerous cuss
But in some things he's got, wo will
own. quite a lot
On civilized people like us.
When the Reda Get There.
There is little color in prison life,
but that now promises to be changed
for'the better.
Beating Htm to It.
The Prince of Wales will limit his
stay in the United States to ten day.
The King of the Belgians played all
the best territory.
o
Lost ArtH.
Wining, dining and mining.
(CopyrlKlit. 1919. by Bell Syndicate. Inc
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Tears Asro.
From The Oreitonlnn of November IS.
The grand Jury spent the greater
part of yesterday Investigating the
gambling situation in Portland and
the city is deeply agitated over the
matter.
It is estimated that ISO carloads of
dried Italian prunes will be shipped
from Oregon this season and dealers
predict a great business for the
future.
Water came through the Bull Run
pipeline and was pouring into the
Willamette through the Sunnyside
sewer, yesterday.
largest crowds of the week yes
terday attended the kirmfss. where
many enjoyable features were pre
sented. Fifty Year Afro.
From The Orenonlan of November 15. lS'il.
Washington. It is staled that al
though General Sherman has written
the annual report of the war depart
ment. Secretary Belknnp repudiates it
and will write one himself.
New York. A Mormon temple is
to be erected here within the next
year at a cost of $500,000.
A rumor that the Gussie Telfair has
been lost Is abroad but is discredited
in marine circles.
The first term of the Seminary at
Orrpon City closed Friday. The at
tendance registered was 241.
"And" or "Hut f"
BAY CKNTliR. Wash.. Nov. 12. (To
the Editor.) in an editorial in The
Hresonian of November tt you quote
Cromwell as saying, "Put your trust
in God, but keep your powder dry."
I have usually seen it "Put your
trust In God. AND keep your powder
dry." The difference is small as to
words, and either would serve tho
practical purpose with his soldiery;
but the choice of words might be
quite significant as to the quality of
the faith behind thein.
Which is the correct wording?
L. L. BUSH.
In "Oliver's advice" (Colonel Black
er) the sentence is, "Put your trust
In God, my boys, AND keep jour
powder dry."
In "Ballads of Ireland," Hay is
quotes Cromwell as saying: "Put your
trust In God. BUT mind to keep your
nrwrlpr. dry."