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THE " MOtlXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER
18. 1919.
ESTABLISHED BY HENBY I.. PITTOCK.
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GENERAL WOOD'S CREED.
General Wood's declaration of
faith in the virility, the oyalty to its
principles and the progressive and
constructive force of American de
mocracy will cheer the spirits and
strengthen the will of those whose
patriotism Is unshaken but whose
fears have been aroused by the de
structive forces that Have been at
work. Through his contact with the
mob spirit at Omaha and with the
. revolutionary spirit at Gary, the Gen
eral has had opportunity to learn the
worst. His experience has but con
, firmed his confidence that the spirit
.' and body of the nation are sound and
will bring the republic safely through
troubles which are but a reaction of
those which have shaken other na
tions. This is "the judgment of a
sane, farseeing public servant, who
has successfully met every difficult
situation in which he has been placed
and whose self-restra,int and fidelity
have not been affected by the wrongs
and slights which have been put upon
him.
Hasees that red agitation Js a
frank attempt to impose the rule of
an organized minority upon the un
organized majority, and that this
agitation derives its inspiration from
aliens and its support from abroad.
The reds exploit whatever wrongs
are suffered by the workmen, ex
aggerate them enormously and use
strikes for their redress as a means
of putting forward excessive demands
and of putting through their revolu
tionary programme. General Wood
rightly looks to the American LegiQn.
which is destined to draw into ita
ranks the great mass of America's
fighting men, as the great conserva
tive force which will combat and
. crush these foes of Americanism. It
will devolve upon the government to
deport all aliens who have been ac
tive in attempts to bolshevize Ameri-
ca, and to Americanize those aliens
who are susceptible to the process
"and who may therefore be permitted
to remain.
The spirit of his great friend and
fellow-worker Roosevelt spoke in
General Wood's proposals for rooting
out the domestic causes of revolution
and sedition. Alien conspiracy could
not have spread so far or taken such
hold without the aid of many Ameri
cans, some of whom figure as leaders.
The duty of the loyal majority in la
bor unions is to depose the red
, leaders, both native and foreign, and
to put none but loyal citizens on
guard. But the general sees that,
in order to deprive the reds of ma
terial to work on, "we should satisfy
the demands of the workers for a
fighting chance in life," for the pres-
- ervation of the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. This
requires "keen, sympathetic relations
between those who employ and those
who are employed," an end to "se
crecy, suppression of the truth and
misrepresentation" in the relations
of the two, ' recognition of the right
of ihen to organize, but also the right
of unorganized men to work without
being subject to violence. It im
plies elimination of alien poison from
our blood, and Restriction of immi
gration that no more such poison
may enter. It demands the. services
of the American Legion as a positive
.force, the elevating influence of the
. women voters, especially in teaching
children the blessings of being Amer
icans. These are the great construe
five, purtrying and corrective in
fluences which will awaken the great
body of citizens to a sense of duty.
The general's remarks about in-
ternatioualism are especially timely
when the league of nations is under
discussion and when an international
labor conference is in session
Washington. When he warns us tlat
'J "internationalism put into practice
means national death," he refers to
that doctrine which in the professed
'. "' cause of the working class would
. break down all dividing lines between
nations, would merge them into one
under the rule of "the parliament
of men, the federation of the world"
C .. but would, as General Wood savs.
"undermine the foundation-stones of
our modern civilization." That would
be the result, for the aim of its pro
tagonists is to unite what they call
the proletariat of all nations and to
make them supreme over other
classes. The full fruit of that idea
would be seen if the whole world
were reduced to the condition
bolshevist Russia. That theory was
", deliberately propagated by the Ger
- man socialists at the instigation of
the militarists, to break down the
loyalty to their countries of socialists
of other nations, while the Germans
'" stood firmly by the German militar
ists who aimed at world-power. It
produced nti-militarism before th
wr, defetwtism during the war i
' France, it caused the disaster to
Italy at Caporetto, and the labo
protest in Britain against interven
tion in Russia.
A very different internationalism
was evidently in' the general's min
when he said:
You owe it to your brother to keep your
self In such good condition that you can
always render him your nest service.
America is to be a great force for good i
. . the world, we must maintain ourselves
- - a vigorous and well balanced nation.
, . . what we do for other peoples, w
must do as Americans, acting" under our
own volition and guidance.
This is the form of international
ism which the league of nations
designed to establish. Each nation
as a self-governing, independent unit
would join all other nations to main
tain the reign of neuce and justice
In the world, but none would Inter-
fere with the internal affairs of any
other. ,
What the American people most
need at this time is clear thinking
and straight talk from such men as
General Wood; men who have proved
their ability to lead and have won
the public confidence by their past
services and by their known freedom
from bias in favor of any particular
interest. General Wood does not
fear to run counter to any element
in marking a course which will lead
to peace, safety and progress both
at home and abroad.
NEAR THE VERGE,
The you'll-take-my-treaty-or-none
attitude of the president has per
force suffered some modification.
He will have the opportunity to say
whether there shall be a treaty or
no treaty. We are not to have THK
league. It is questionable now
whether there is even to be A league,
so far as America is concerned. It
is, or will be, up to the president.
When the time for compromise
was at hand President Wilson re
fused to compromise. When the time
for compromise is past the president
is ready to compromise. This is not
statesmanship. It is monumental
perversity. It has brought the league
to the verge of calamity. Nothing
can save it now but concession by the
senate majority. It will make none
because of appeals' from the White
House. It may make them on Its
responsibility to the country.
The moderate reservationists, the
radical reservationists and the irrec
oncilables are all lined up together.
It is not easy to understand what
has brought them together, unless
it was the hopelessness of a fair
understanding for compromise with
the president. And perhaps the
strategics to force a compromise on
their terms, and not on Wilson's
terms or defeat.
President W i 1 s o n threatens to
pigeonhole the treaty and the cove-
ant because it is not his treaty or
ovenant. It never was, though he
thought it was. It was, or should
ave been, the country's treaty and
covenant. '
Never again will a president of the
United States ignore the senate of
the United States and the people in
any great negotiation with a foreign
power or group of powers.
PLAYFUL IRONY? OR SOLID IVORY?
The Oregonian is frankly glad to
ear from a discerning correspondent
that the little editorial excursion of
the Reed College Quest into ration
alism, or pragmatism, or whatever
it was, was nothing but irony. The
Oregonian sees it, now that the real
quality of the literary masterpiece
is painstakingly pointed out; but,
ad to say, our sober-minded con
temporary, the Telegram, mistook it
for the shocking outgiving of an in
fidel pen, and proceeded to read a
ecture to any educational institu-
ttfm which fosters such amazing
sentiments.
Can't the Telegram take a joke
at least cannot it take a Reed col-
ege joke? Does it not understand
that no subject, even the most
sacred, is exempt from humorous ex
position or interpretation by the so
phomoric mind? Everywhere out
ride the Telegram office, we are sure,
the little harmless travesty on re
ligion must have been received with
vociferous ha-ha's. We tan imagine
the ripple of merriment .which swept
the placid surface of the ministerial
association, for example, when the
article "was read there, if it was read.
Your clergyman is always delighted
at any piece of satire which inverts
scriptural meanings " or theological
definitions, or life-long beliefs. Every
preacher in Portland knows, of
course, that Reed college is a veri
table hotbed of orthodoxy, and he
will not lend his ear. to any rumors
r opinions or suspicions or charges
to the contrary.
Primarily, of course, the Quest lu
cubration was designed for the eyes
of the elect at Reed. To the unini
tiated, or the uncollegiate or the
ournalistically unregenerate, it may
be admitted there was some likeli
hood of misunderstanding. But what
of it? Reed college knew and that
was enough. Or it would have been
enough if everybody who read the
article knew the real Reed college.
There would have been no trouble at
all, doubtless. If a matter-of-fact
newspaper, lost to the finer practices
of college journalism, had not ap
praised the thing at its apparent val
ue in words and not its real oh,
very real value In burlesque.
A HOUSING PROBLEM AND AN OPPOR
TUNITY.
One interesting phase of the Brit
ish housing problem, which seems to
be at least as acute as our own, is
that, as the London Times recently
remarked: "There Is a likelihood also
of a certain amount of social preju
dice against wooden houses." The
ministry of health nevertheless has
proceeded to enact by-laws which
will permit construction of wooden
houses by those who are willing
to defy the conventions. Ameri
cans, particularly of the Pacific
coast, will watch the outcome with
a good deal of interest. The wooden
house is too common with us and
its most primitive forms are too
fresh in memory for us to be able
easily to sympathize with those who
draw lines of social cleavage based
on the materials from which their
dwellings were made. Even the log
house has sheltered a good many
men whom Americans have delight
ed to honor.
A statement made recently before
the British ministry of health by an
official appointed to investigate the
housing problem indicated that the
people will do well to overcome such
prejudices, social or otherwise, as
may stand in the way of building
some kind of houses for the people to
live in. The number of new houses
required for minimum convenience of
the people is 500.000. The number
provided for in "schemes under con
sideration" .is only 40,000. . But
schemes under, consideration are so
far from being schemes under reali
zation that only S000 houses are in
process of erection, while the num
ber occupied since the government
began to make plans is represented
by zero. - Meanwhile . winter ap
proaches and the situation becomes
more acute
Social feeling is certain to give way
under pressure of stern necessity.
The British health ministry already
intimates that it is more concerned
with the economic feasibility of the
scheme than with its adventitious as
pects. Bidders with practical plans,
whether -these involve use of wood,
terra cotta blocks or concrete, may
be sure of a hospitable reception.
I These are bidden only to bear
- mind that the "frame or shell of a
J house, whether it is of brick or tira
Jber, costs only one-third of the total.
The government has had an unfortu
nate experience In having expended
upwards of 2000 each to convert
army huts into civilian dwellings. It
has been unable to find bidders who
would undertake to construct simple
dwellings of wood for less than about
$3600. The type for which bids were
sought makes provision for "three
bedrooms, one sitting room, bath,
scullery and copper."
Yet "it seems, perhaps because they
are less conservative, that the Nor
wegians are able to do better than
the English. A factory near Chrls
tiania.ls already turning out ready
made houses of six rooms and not at
all unattractive specifications at
something less than $2400. An almost-unnecessary
provision (in this
servantless age) is made for a serv
ant's room, the living room is large
and commodious and the bedrooms
much more commodious than any
modern flat dweller is accustomed
to. The Norwegian builders promise
delivery in six weeks after receipt of
order. .
It looks as if the Norwegian build
ers had beaten Americans into a
highly promising field of industry.
No country in the world is bettet
supplied with the necessary raw ma
terials, or better equipped with labor
saving machinery and skilled work
men for this very kind of enterprise
than is America. The wooden house
is an institution with us and we
ought to be .able to reintroduce the
fashion into Europe. It is a fine
task for American initiative and
pluck. Yet unless we bestir our
selves the market will be gone. Other
nations, it already is plain, are alive
to the opportunity.
FICTION FROM MEXICO.
There Is Ho limit to the lengths to
which President Carranza will go in
his attempt to escape responsibility
for outrages on Americans in Mexi
co, but his explanation of the Jen
kins kidnaping about reaches the
limit. This is that Jenkins conspired
with a bandit chief to kidnap him
in order that they might extort
money from Carranza to pay his
ransom. If the money was obtained
in the first instance from Jenkins'
family or from the United States, it
was to be recovered from Carranza
afterward.
Mr. Jenkins has lived in McVico
for many years and is reputed to be
rich. In view of that fact, the scheme
attributed to him is absurdly Im
probable. He knows Mexico too well
to trnst a bandit to- divide the plun
der or to release him if it were not
obtainable.
The other explanation is far more
reasonable. It Is that Carranza's
authority extends no farther than
his troops can shoot and that AmerU
cans are afe game for bandits be
cause their government never does
more about it than, to write notes
and because their friends readily
put up ransoms. Finally, any fiction
is good enough to stand off the
United States and to cover the very
narrow limits to vhich Carrana's
authority extends.
LETTERS ON IRELAND.
Irish independence is a subject
which few who are interested therein
can discuss soberly, whichever side
they may favor. And despite the
enthusiasm of the great gathering
addressed by Ir. de Valera, there is
in Portland a considerable number
who are not in- sympathy with his
cause and a much larger number
who have formed no enthusiastic
opinions on the subject- ' Incident to
his visit' The 'Oregonian :received
numerous letters for publication in
which he was assailed with bitter
invective.
' Now letters are coming from the
other side in which the flag incident
is discussed in immoderate language.
One correspondent frankly states
that he is at a loss for proper epithets
to apply to certain individuals. Use
of epithets is not argument and in
most instances injures one's cause
Moreover, few journals are willing
to be the medium for name-calling
by correspondents or for publication
of personal abuse.
These remarks are in partial ex
planation of the non-appearance pn
this page of the several letters on
the subject submitted recently. There
are other reasons. At the time of
Mr. de Valera's visit there was pub
lic tension over the Centralia mur
ders. There is' no conceivable con
nection between I. W. W.-ism and
Irish independence, but when a
whole people's nerves are on edge
from one cause it is unwise to rub
any part of the public the wrong
way, even though It be over a mat
ter entirely remote.' It was a' bad
time to encourage quarrels of ' any
kind. -. : . .
Finally, those who are immediately
interested in the Irish' question are
ready letter-writers.. One letter on
either side -or the subject -calls out
ten replies. To open newspaper col
umns to its discussion means "ex
clusion of practically everything else
Whatever may be the sympathies
of the general public, we think it
would not welcome subordination o
our own problems wholly to those
of Ireland. It is not pleasant to The
Oregonian to have to restrain its
correspondents but it sees no other
way out, at present.
TEACHERS' PAY AND VACATIONS.
Dr. David Snedden, former com
missioner of education of Massa
chusetts and now professor of edu
cation at Columbia university, writ
ing in School and Society in advo
cacy . of organization by teachers,
takes pains to distinguish between
various forms and purposes of or
ganization, and makes an interesting
suggestion as to a "concession" which
teachers might make to the public
furtherance of the proposal that
teachers should be paid on a twelve
onths basis. "It is in the highest
degree desirable," he writes, "that
teachers' compensation should be es
timated by the year, and so given
that it will bear the least possible
resemblance to weekly or monthly
pay for the few weeks or months for
which casual laborers are employed."
Vacations. Dr. Snedden points out
in this connection, are a relic of the
days when teaching was essentially
casual labor. "No other real voca
tion," he observes, "has so much va
cational season as teaching." It is
true that progressive teachers use
their vacations only In part for rest.
Some engage in -other occupations;
others' devote themselves to study,
the benefits of. which clearly accrue
to the public if it is wisely pursued,
but "the whole matter is utterly
without standards or regulation."
The writer has a plan, presumably
tentative. He m suggests that the
teacher be employed and paid for
fifty-two weeks each year; four
weeks in the summer and the holi
days shall be devoted to rest; two
weeks at the opening of school and
two weeks at its close to preparatory
Vnrlr " 1 1 n .1 n r- ttia ili,-... ti.i.i r f sihnnl i
work "under the direction of school
authorities"; thirty-six weeks to
teaching during the period of com
pulsory attendance; and the rest to
professional study or. in part to va
cation classes in the fourth or
"empty" quarter of the school year.
This may be one of the roads to
public approval necessary for teach
ers in order that they shall obtain
their just reward. Their relation to
their employers differs from that of
other employes. They are "in the
main public servants," and "the pub
lic is almost necessarily a poor em
ployer, whether it acts directly at the
ballot box or indirectly through rep
resentatives." Republics have other
shortcomings than ingratitude, it
seems. The public is "too many
thumbed to discriminate nicely in the
characteristics of those whom it em
ploys": it is slow to reward the de
serving and it dismisses the faithful
with little reason. Yet the modern
world knows no effective substitutes
for- democratic collective employ
ment, and the methods of autocracies
and bureaucracies would certainly
not be acceptable. Teachers, consti
tuting the largest branch of the pub
lic service, must face these facts.
The exactions of working for a many
headed employer are inherent in the
situation. They are among the fac
tors to be considered before adopting
teaching as a profession. Dr. Sned
den goes on:
It may well be doubted whether pub-
llo employment can ever become si dis-
rimtuating, as appreciative, as well-re
warded and as free from vexatious restrlc-
ions as private employment. Hence- of-
ice-holders, including teachers, whether
elected by the public at large or appointed
under more or lens of dictation from these
in restrictive rules and laws, if in noth
ing else) must be prepared to accept their
positions- with these limitations in mind.
lhey may not expect to treat the public
as employer as they would a private em
ployer. The public s sentiorlum of re
sponsibility is too widely diffused. It Is
now agreed by moat competent students
of sociology or public science that it is
neither expedient nor right for the em
ployes of the public to coerce their em
ployer through the medium of the strike
or of sabotage. Grievances of workers
must be expected, but only educational
measures can effect their alleviatl-
Educators, If strong In public confidence.
are in a peculiarly strategic position to
conduct such education If they are patient
and relatively unselfish in their aspira
tions. It is peculiarly their function to
be thinking in terms of the public wel
fare and the conditions making for a next
generation of better citizens than those of
today. .
Dr. "Snedden "makes a strong point
against class alliance on the part of
teachers when he states a fact taken
for granted, that it would "be folly,
as well as a social' offense, for teach
ers collectively to ally themselves
with the democratic or republican
party, with the Methodist or Catho
lic church, with a suffrage or with
wet' partisan group." For the
moment snch an alliance might pro
cure them various gains; in the long
run they would lose public support
and confidence, and in this it mat
ters nothing that each group sin
cerely believes itself to be right. The
respect in which the American Fed
eration of Labor is quite generally
held does not obscure the face that
it represents from the standpoint of
60,000,000 or more productive
workers of the nation only a part of
the population. "It is impossible to
see," the writer concludes, "how
teachers can benefit . , . by close
or exclusive alliance ... at
least until the latter shall have
ceased to reflect class or sectarian
interests.'
The writer ' sees 'no prospect of
permanent improvement of the
teacher's situation through selfish
policies, threats to coerce the pub
lie,"-morbid dwelling on grievances
or shortsighted alliances which em
ploy methods alien to public educa
tion. It will be noted, however, that
he does not deprecate organization
along professional lines, which is a
very different thing.
Russia will provide transportation
back some for Russian undesirables
not wanted in this country, says the
representative here of the soviet gov
ernment. This sounds too good to be
true. Better make sure he issues no
round trip tickets.
A young man is under indictment
in Grant county for passing a forged
check for $10 and it is charged he
bought whiskey with. the worthless
paper. A keen attorney should be
able to make a great defense in that
case.
The most helpless person is an In
sane patient and anything that sav
ors of brutal treatment must have
rigid examination. There are two
sides to everything, of course, but
the side of brutality is weak.
Ohio "drys" want a recount, basing
the demand on the number of alleged
errors found, but they will" get little
from it: In general a recount reveals
enough errors on both sides to leave
the result about the same.
Secretary of the Treasury Glass
has thrown up his job in the presi
dent's cabinet for a seat in the
United States senate. He must have
in mind that 1920 is presidential elec
tion year.
Wonder if It couldn't be arranged
with Von Tirpit to resume subma
rine warfare fox a few days along
about the time we start deporting
I. W. W. members?
Those women who were fined for
taking things from Portland depart
ment stores at least deserve credit
for doing their Christmas shoplifting
early.
"Pulpit raps I. W. W.," says a head
line. About the only kind of rap
that an I. W. W. really heeds is a
rap with a night stick.
The president basked in the balmy
sunshine yesterday and so did many
Portlanders. Washington has noth
ing on us.
No need to waif for steam heat
and other nonessentials at Kelly
Butte. The main idea must be to get
going.
Now the Pacific coast league um
pires threaten to go on strike. After
all, this might not be an unmitigated
evil.
Do you hear "the kaouck and
chuckle of the strutting turkey cock"
this week before Thanksgiving?
Everybody with pride in Oregon
will go to the livestock show, not
once, but often.
. The visiting stockgrower can have
all he wants if it be procurable.
Hop a Kenton car and meet him
at the livestock show,
BY - PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS
OH Strike Makes Socialist Baseball
Club Wealthy.
Several years ago Eastland county
was the hotbed of socialism in Texas,
says a Texas correspondent of ths
Milwaukee Journal. It was during
those days that the socialists of Dt-
deroona then it was called Hog-town
rganized a baseball team. And
they made a very good job of It.
Nearly every team that played with
ths Desdemona lads was defeated.
Finally the democrats, who had man
aged to keep a lead in pfolitics, de
cided that something must be done.
They organized a rival team and after
much practice played the socialists.
The radicals won easily.
At that time there was no regular
ball park at Desdemona and the so
cialists had clearecU,off a small space
n the pasture of Dr. S. E. Snodgrass.
That was the scene of the democrats'
defeat. I
Snodgrass was a democrat and af
ter the ball game other leaders of his
party appealed to him. They told
him that the socialists could not be
beaten at baseball, so they ought to
be stopped. The only way was to
prohibit them from using the Snod
gress pasture. So Snodgrass gave the
order. Then ths socialists offered to
buy the small tract where they had
been playing-. Snodgrass told them
they could nave it for $50, this being
considered a pretty steep price for
ths acre or two of ground. Ths so
cialist players and fans, however.
chipped in a dollar apiece and bought
the ground.
Now this old diamond is in ths
heart of the Desdemona field and the
potential oil production of the site la
worth millions. It belongs to the so
cialists, but which ones?
Many other socialists around Des
demona have made lots of money in
oil.
The same Is true of the Ranger
district, the northern part of East
and county and in Stephens county.
Scores of these former socialists now
are independently wealthy.
Will they divide?
Somewhere in America there is a
nurse from overseas who wears a
short strand of Bmall, round pink
beads. She calls It her "Croix de
Guerre." Just before Chateau Thier
ry, when the refugees were pouring
out of eastern France, a young girl
with big, dark eyes came with a sick
baby to one of the hospitals behind
the lines. During the first few weeks
at the hospital the baby whimpered
and wailed constantly, but with the
nurse's unremitting care it gradually
grew well and strong.
- The day the little mother was leav
ing she sought out the nurse whose
untiring patience and kindness had
meant the return of her baby's health.
"This, ma'm'selle," she said, holding
a string of'pink beads in her out
stretched hand, "I want you to have
it; it is the only thing I have left
besides my baby, and you have saved
him for me."
"Just a tiny happening in the big
story of the world war." says the
Modern Hospital In relating: the inci
dent, "but one which will long; live In
the memory of the nurse whom it so
closely touched."
At a dinner In Washington' the wife
of an attache of the French embassy
turned to Secretry Lansing and re
marked: "I never can make out you Amer
icans. You measure everything by
the dollar, you name everything after
dollars, you even count our great vic
tory in dollars and yet you gave your
lives and your dollars cheerfully for
a principle."-
"Yes," replied Lansing, "though 1
don't know what you mean when you
say we even name things after
money,"
"Your doughboys. Only yesterday
I heard a man say he got his dough
from the government."
Dr. J. J. Monahan of t. Luke hos
pital staff, Chicago, says that if
women continue to wear high-heeled,
pointed-toe shoes the human race in
time will develop single-toed feet like
the horse. To support this theory
that the race is already on the way
to a single-tied foot he says that Dr.
Reuben Gross of New York has a pic
ture of a nine-toed foot, that he
found on one of his pationts, a boy
in New York city.
No use to lose sleep over the dan
ger of this physiological transmogri
fication, for some wise authropologist
who writes editorial comment for the
Boston Transcript asseverates that
the single-toed " human being is at
least an ultimate possibility, yet it
would take about a million years to
effect the change in a general way.
So toothpick shoes will stay in
vogue until fashion says otherwise
and the chiropodists will be busy with
the corns on five toes not one on
each foot. .
Scientists say that the horse once
had five toes on each foot, but that
was countless years ago. The scien
tists say that the horse's foot grad
ually hardened from running swiftly
over stony or parched ground and
the compression finally eliminated the
toes. As a throwback now and then
a domestic horse has an additional
toe with a complete hoof at birth, and
sometimes three or more toes occur.
Marguerite L. Smith, elected to the
state assembly from the 19th New
York district. Is 25 years old and a
specialist in physical framing and
her election Is, she believes, the nat
ural outgrowth of the work she has
been doing In her community all
through the war. She will not give
up her work as physical director in
the Horace Mann Elementary school,
where she Is also supervisor of girls'
clubs.
In the summer for several years
Miss Smith has been director of ths
nhvKical training and dancing at
Camp Hanoun, a girls' camp in Ver- Onalaska, Wash., at the Benson. He
. .i..ls still in the lumber business.
mont, ana sidu Duyci inicuucu ill.
girls' hikes through the White moun
tains.
U When she was in Teachers' collegs
Miss Smith was president of the ath
letic association for two years and
received the highest individual score
for athletics in her senior year.
"I never had any legislative or po
litical plans for myself," she says. "1
haven't now. But I want to keep on
working for the people of my own
community in whatever way I can."
Thosa Who Come and Go.
Ths whole Kuhn family of Suplee
arrived In Portland to take in the
stock show and all hands are at the
Imperial' when not out at the exhibit
building. J. V. Kuhn. head of the
family, has lived in Grant county
since 1882 and while he registered
from Suplee, he lives on the south
fork of the John Day, in the country
where General Howard chased the
Indians under Chief Joseph. "When
ever the soldiers would catch up with
the Indians," says Mr, Kuhn, "Gen
eral Howard would have a pre yer
meeting and when the prayers were
over the Indians were on their way.
The Indians called him 'Old Day
After Tomorrow'." Mr. Kuhn special
izes in sheep, although he runs stock
and has some extra-fancy hogs.
"Grant county," says he, "ts an ideal
sheep country, so that's why I like
'em." Mr. Kuhn had some trouble
getting herders until after the war,
but when the boys returned from
oversea service they headed right
back to the ranch and that trouble
was eliminated.
T favor a general tax len-y on
Clatsop county to raise funds to pay
tor the site of the proposed naval
base at Tongue Point," says E. P.
Noonan, of Astoria, registered at the
Benson. "The owners of the site
cannot be expected to donate it and
they are entitled to compensation
after holding it all these years. As
Clatsop county will be directly bene
rited by the establishment of the
base, a tax levy on all the assessed
property tn the county strikes me its
a fair proposition. i et. m a tax
payer myself."' Speaking of Astoria,
Mr. Noonin declares that everyone
has money and is spending it and
the shutting down of the shipyards
has made no apparent decrease in the
business activities of the community.
"This paper money has no value." he
says. "A $20 greenback doesn't seem
like real money like a $5 gold piece
and maybe this is a psychological
phase of the spending fever.
"While thousands of cattle have
been shipped out of Lake county in
the past two years, It will not affect
the resources of the county." explains
Judge- Bernard Daly. "The cattle
were tent to California and sold be
cause Lake ccunty has had a couple
of dry years. The stock brot ght good
prices. I, myself, sold yearlings at
$56 a head. The breeding stock was
not disposed of and in a year there
will be as many head of catUe in
Lake cointy ns before the movement
started toward California."
. Mountain climbers are supposed to
be ttll. thin fellows, but J. T. Haz
zard. of Rainier, Wash., who is at the
Hotel Portland, is about as broad as
he is tall. Mr. Hazzard is all muscle,
however, an! even when a rock fell
down the side cf the mountain last
year and hit him on the head, the
rock broke, Mazzard was knocked
out, but' the stone failed to dent him.
Mr. Hazzard came here to look up a
Swiss guide, who lives near Hiils
boro and who is said lo be one of
the most expert guides in the coun-
JY-
"Practically all of the paving plants
in the western division have been
shut down." reports C. H. Whicmore
of the Mjthway engineering depart
ment. "Oskar Huber is still paving
near Aurora and has about 2000 feet
more before finishing. Normally, this
stretch will be finished in a week.
The Hillsboro-Forest Grove section is
also being paved and the Warren
company will complete it this season
if the weather holds good."
Governor Hart, who became chief
executive of the state of Washington
when Governor Lister died, came to
the Hotel Portland late last night. He
is to make a speech for his state at
the stock show. The governor was
quoted a" few months ago as not
wanting to serve after his present
term expires. 'but since then he has
let it be known that he may Tun for
governor.
Loaded down with 57 big wild
geese, shot in the vicinity of Arling
ton, Or., William Bender of Victoria,
B C. came to the Hotel Portland
yesterday and began a distribution of
the load. Mn Bender is in the city
for the livestock show, but had an in
vitation from a friend to do a little
shooting in Gilliam county) so he took
advantage of the bid to go gunning.
"Paving In Eastern Oregon will
continue until December," states C. P.
A Lonergan of Pendleton. "They are
paving from La Grande toward Hot
Lake and from Milton to Athena to
connect with Pendleton. This is about
done and the paving is going on now
between Athena and Weston. At En
terprise the plant has shut down,
after laying about 20,000 feet."
Frank Farrell of Medford, who
was a naval aviator when the war
was In bloom, is in town for a few
days. The former lieutenant went
to Eugene Saturday to root for the
Oregon Agricultural college and con
sequently is not particularly satisfied
with the result of the game.
Portland looks good to Horace M.
Hall and so he fled Seattle for this
city. Mr. Hall wants to live here, at
least for a while, and has been trying
to engage an"' apartment, thus far
without any more success than other
house-hunters are having. With Mrs.
Hall he Is at the Benson.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Standisb of The
Dalles, who are at the Imperial, are
entertaining J. P. Conroy, father of
.Mrs. Standish. a well-known cattle
man of the middle west, who is here
attending the stock show. Mr. Stan
dish Is a prominent architect of The
Dalle's.
Antone isn't much more than a dot
on the landscape In central Oregon,
but some pretty good stock is raised
up that way and a carload has been
shipped to Portland as a sample by
R. N. Erlckson. The Antone animals
are on exhibition at the show
Captain J. W. Ciemans, president of
the First tSate & Savings bank of
Klamath Falls, is at the Imperial. He
is here to look over the stock show.
The captain went into the Klamath
country when he was In the regular
army and liked the place so well that
he remained.
All the way from Fort Bidwell. Mo
doc county, California, comes R. R.
Baker to buy some breeding stock at
the livestock show. Mr. Baker drove
by machine 210 miles, at which point
he took the train, at Bend, for Port
land. He Is at the Imperial.
Stockmen from Spray, Or., who are
here to look 'em over at the show are
C. F. Waters. Stewart Grant and E. E.
Mathews. They are at the Perkins. C.
W. Emerson of Maylvllle is also at the
Perkins on 'the same mission.
A. M. Hagen, who up to a few
months ago was superintendent of a
ill at Astoria. Is now registered from
F. M. Rothrock of the Rothrock
stock ranch near Spokane is at the
Hotel Portland. With him is Henry
Thlessen of Sweetwater, Idaho.
Heading a party from New York,
K. S. Breckenridge, a director in the
American Can company, arrived yes
terday at the Multnomah.
One of the big sheepmen of -Montana
Is E. O. Selway, who has arrived
at the Hotel Portland from Dillon,
his headquarters,
JUST
BIT OF REAL SATIRE
Tkat Is All There Was to the Reed
Quest Article.
PORTLAND, Nov. IT. (To the Edi
tor.) "It is to laugh." as the Danes
y. when one views the work of ths
"heresy hunters" hereabouts.
It is but a short time since Dr. John
H. Boyd was so futilely attacked and
by quotation, removed from Its con
text, made to appear as lacking In
orthodoxy.
The latest exhibition In this line la
contained in an editorial in the Tele
gram which quotes from the Reed
College "Quest." (See editorial at
tached.)
It is of course obvious that the
writer in the Quest wrote in sarcas
tic vein after the manner of George
Bernard Shaw and with no other ob
ject than to increase the interest of
the student body in religious matters.
By adopting the tone of the occasion
al student who assumes this superior
attitude toward religious matters the
article was much more effective than
would have been a straig! t-out appeal
to the students to attend chapel, and
It is said to have gone far toward
producing the desired effect.
" It was not for a moment misunder
stood bv the student body nor the
faculty nor indeed could it be by any
one else who possessed even the rudi
ments of a sense of humor.
The Telegram says the Quest needs
a censor. Does it, or does the Tele
gram need a saving sense of humor
and a modern rather than an ancient
viewpoint?
Reed college needs no defense as
to Its attitude toward religion. It
has just voted $300 to send delegates
to a religious conference, but for fear
there might be others among the
public as lacking in perception as the
writer of the Telegram editorial, we
ask you to give this space so as to
set the matter right.
M. W. HOWARD.
Following is the article from the
Quest, to which Dr. Howard refers:
Any student who comes to Heed college
with a re.igloua enthusiasm loses it. hides
it. or gets out. Even in this day and an
some people who are cultured euuf toKvant
to go to college nave aeep rtufiiuua re
liefs. Rec-d pets pome of these, and under
her nurturing hand they either lose what
they had or they hide it or they set
out.
Of course, as an enlightened group we,
students, faculty and all, do not deny that
much good has cunie to the world from
certain religious enthusiasms Christianity,
for instance, civilization has been greatly
benefited by doctrines which It fosters. On
the other hand we have caught a glimpse
of a rational existence, and to us much
of the so-called "spiritual" in religion ap
pears unjustifiable in view of the inde
structibility of matter, the conservation ot
energy, etc. From our mature standpoint
it is "so obviously unscientific for a man
to prav that we we wonder why people
don't use better judgment. We Imp.y as
much to our college friends, and they
well, no matter!
CHRISTIANITY GOING FOllWAIlD
Truer to
Name- Than In Any
Othe
U17 of the Era.
ALBANY. Or.. Nov. 16. (To the
Editor.) Your reference in Sunday's
Oregonian of the 1903 New Year poem
of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the beautiful
sentiments of which ending in "we
are climbing, we are climbing, as
we circle on our way." brings to
mind the wonderful intellectual and
moral climb made during the last -00
years. Even Christianity has become
more like the loving and merciful
Christ, and the different Christian
denominations instead of torturing
each other for variance in religious
opinions, or burning so-called heretics
at the stake for no other crime than
a doubt in the creed of the church,
are now to some extent practicing
the good doctrine of brotherly love.
Many cf the professed Christians'
of todav are occupying about the
same ground occupied by the heretics
of a century ago. Only a few genera
tions ago. people were afraid to ques
tion the king or priest; afraid to in
vestigate or denounce a church dog
ma. - Before great wealth the people
bowed, and before kings and priests
they were prostrate. Happily the
world now is more inclined to pay
homage to intellectual and moral
worth, to real Christianity, and to all
those great virtues that go to make
up the truly great and noble men and
women.
It would take a book to enumerate
the progress made intellectually, mor
ally and religiously during the last
200 years. Separation of church and
state: the right to worship God or
not to worship him; the abolishment
of slavery; the uplifting of women
the right of woman suffrage: tne
prohibition of Intoxicating liquor; the
laws against white slavery, and
against vice in all its forms, are but
a few of the great blessings enacted
into law. May our federal constitu
tion and good laws be ever preservea
is the sincere wish of every good
citizen. GEOGE W. WRIGHT.
WHY WORKMEN GROW RESTIVE
Average Toller Has Hjjji to Reduce
Standard of Living, Says Vtritrr.
PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 17. (To the
Editor.) The vitriolic letter or Colo
nel W. H. Bowen, who charges the
"proletariat" with "extravagance and
insolence" and wants it "taken down
a peg," Is only another sample that
goes to show the oblique view of the
specialist expert, the professional
soldier's Ignorance of civil life andi
the unwisdom of a nation s giving its
destiny into his keepirg (except in
actual time of war).
Perhana the colonel has been re
ltovri , I0112: from the necessity of
providing his own mess that he doi
not know what every workingman
above 40 knows, namely, that the av
erage toiler consumes less good 100a
than formerly; less eggs, less butter.
leB meat, -ream and cheese: that
meals at heme and in "cheap" res
taurants have become smaller be
cause the prices of even the substi
tutes to which he is more ana more
forced to turn are aiinormallj nisn
He also wears lets woolen clothing
ai d he dwells in the same-old shack.
No wonder he is getting reslive. The
ec-lonel has hitched the cart before
the horse, has mixed cause and effect.
It is just such blind torylsm as his
which has recited in the violent
revolutions of the past
PAUL W. EBERSOLL,
254 Vi Market st
WHAT HOt LD ROOSEVELT SAVf
Kins Carrie-SNly taed in Collection of
Memorial Funds.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Nov. 17. (To
the Editor.) Are some people losing
their minds entirely over this Roose
velt memorial fund? I was dum
founded Saturday while attending one
of our picture shows to see cast upon
the screen a picture of students hold
ing a large American flag, which
held quite an amount of money for
the memorial fund.
Then our flag was stretched on
the ground and the boys sat down on
the flag of their country, while they
gathered in the shekels. Soiled
clothes, dirty shoes were placed on
the colors, tne boys forgetting their
manhood in the excitement.
Can you see the horror in the ex
president's eyes, were he alive today,
or do you think he would be "de
lighted" at this desecration of the
flag in his name?
And again one of our splendidly
loyal orders subscribed from their
funds to the Roosevelt memorial, but
"did not feel able to subscribe to the
Red Cross," which has Shelped, and
still helps, the widows and orphans
of the defenders of this same flag.
Which is the most essentia, caring
for these needy ons or th Roose
velt memorial? AN AMERICAN.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
LINES ON FATING FIFTY CENTS
FOR A TEMPERANCK DRINK.
When entering an ex-cafe.
Without a flicker of an eys-ball
Tou call a waiter up and say:
"I'd like to l.ave a Bourbon hich-
ba!V
You don't get hectic In the nock
And wilt a brand new Quarter collar
When you discover that the check
Requests you to dig up a dollar.
Instead you mutter to yourself
"A dollar for a slug of whisky
Is quite a tidy bit of pelf
But violating laws is risky.
I'll pay it with a cheerful face.
The wealth of which I've been di
vested May go to square a fine In case
The owner of the joint's arrested."
But when you get a temperance drink;
Like grape juice, lemonade or soda.
From some young lovely thing In pink
Presiding .at a glass pagoda.
And get a check for fifty cents
You loose a flow of conversation
Which thrills and vibrates with in
tense
And wholly righteoua indignation.
For those who needs must break ths
law
Must run. of
chances
course, uncommon
And though they get a little raw
In instigating price advances
Upon them we are not severe.
Hut honestly, it's simply awful
When fellows start to profiteer
Whose businesses are strictly law
ful.
No Other Apparent Reason.
With national prohibition impend
ing the states that voted wet or dry
apparently did it merely to give a
little needful exercise to the elec
torate.
"Warning.
Better double the insurance on rour
Automobile. It might collide with a
milk trtrbk some morning.
The l.iinohorralgn'a Ttew.
Perhaps they are called donkey en
gines because they do all the work
given them to do and never strike or
break an agreement.
(Copyright, 1913, by the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
When Ghosts Intrude.
By Grace E. Hall.
From out of a drawer or a box or a
book
In confusion, thev fall at our feet.
To gaze with what seems a long lin
gering look.
And to hasten our heart In its beat:
The place and the time are forgotten;
we gaze
Through a mist at old scenes that
we' knew.
When in startled surprise there Is
dropped 'neath our eyes
A picture long hidden from view. .
They returr. ta their own o'er the
trails of the years.
Though their footprints are dim on
the way.
Though the paths have been drenched
with a rainfall of tears
That have dried to salt dust day
by day;
They .regain for a moment their once
tender hold.
Meet our own with their eyes brown
or blue.
As wo c; tch to our heart this mock
ery art
The picture that falls Into view!
Oh, where do the wraiths of our mem
ory hide.
That they came with such haste at
the call?
Are the loves of 'tTTe past evermore to
abide.
In the etchings on memory's wall?
We lay them away in the tomb of the
past. -
Mark the spot with both roses and
rue;
Yet no claim of today ever keeps
them away
When the pictures of old meet our
view.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five lean Ago.
From The Oregonian of November 18. lRn4.
Syracuse, N. Y. Fitzsimmons, the
pugilist, who caused the death of Con
Riordan in a sparring exhibition, was
arraigned today in police court on a
charge of manslaughter.
The state university football team
met defeat at the hands of the Port
land university eleven on Multnomah
field yesterday by a score of 12 to 0.
The fete Breton and Kirmess closed
last night in a blaze of glory and
the Portland Woman's Union will be
benefited to the extent of about
$4000.
Thirty-three Indian war veterans
yesterday attended a meeting In the,
city hall, presided over by Captain
Thomas A Wood.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of November IS. 1SH9.
Washington. The post mauler-general
is preparing for letting the great
mail route contracts next spring, and
among those to be let are 41 in Ore
gon. The Emmet guaVd will hold their
second annual ball at the Washington
guard's armory this evening.
The Cambridge, sailing for Hono
lulu, takes as part qf its cargo -947
sacks of flour. 85 sacks of wheat, 43
barrels of salmon and 147,239 feet of
lumber.
RHODES SCHOLARS WELL CHOSEN
Reed Graduate Defends Oresron Selec
tions for Oxford.
HALFWAY. Or., Nov. 14. (To the
Editor.) May I beg to differ with
the correspondent signing himself
"Student." whose contribution ap
peared in The Oregonian November
10? I am a recent graduate of Reed
college and am personally acquainted
with the two men selected to repre
sent Oregon at Oxford. First let me
say that the requirement of a Rhodes
scholar in the past has not demanded
an athletic prodigy as a Bill Sjtars
or a "Woo" Coylo, nor a social lion,
a junior prom chairman (we all know
them), but a man pre-eminently fitted
for research in an intellectual sphere.
Rhodes demanded the acme, not of
the scientific, but of the cultural, ths
philological, the classical which this
country .produced. These two men
are that. In them are embodied ideals
which have been taken as the stand
ard of a Rhodes man. I'll back them
against all Oregon in scholarship and
zeai in the required endeavors.
We will grant that the committee
may have erred in their Interpreta
tion of what a Rhodes man should
now be and what a Rhodes man of the
future will be. When Oxford in ths
time to come asks for an all-around
socialized, democratic man, the com
bination of student, lover of outdoor
sports, and true patriot, then we still
feel assured that Reed will again bo
represented.
: NON-PREJ CDICBS.