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THE 3IOBNIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1919.
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brewers get behind it. The neces
sary incentive would seem to be fur
nished by desire to find employment
for idle tlants. And the economic
possibilities! of the product are vastly
enhanced by discovery that the new
sweetening is made from the same
grains as beer, that it can. be pro
duced from any plant containing
starch, that even potatoes contain
satisfactory and profitable quantities
and that there need never be an
other sugar famine if Americans will
only adapt themselves to the new
circumstances.
BACK TO JUSTICE.
The Portland post of the Ameri
an Legion, having in mind the
atrocious murder of four useful citi
zens, all ex-soldiers, at Centralia last
Week, at the hands of enemies of the
country and its defenders, has unani
mously adopted a resolution for re
storation of the death penalty in
Oregon. The State Bar association.
made up of experienced practitioners
of law, took similar action yesterday.
Ko voice was raised there for the
surprising act of sentimentalism
which served in 1914 to deprive the
machinery of the law in this state of
a weapon indispensable to the pro
motion of real justice.
The present temper of the public
Is doubtless well disclosed by the
general call for appropriate punish
ment for murder. It is astonishing
that so many people were misled five
years ago by the foolish pleas of "re
formers" who sought to coax mur
derers not to murder by the assurance
that the state would not hang them
but care for them all their lives, if
they did murder.
The arguments for abolishment of
the gallows, officially presented in
the 1914 election pamphlet, were
briefly that:
(1) Capital punishment does not
prevent crime and does brutalize so
ciety. (2) Innocent men are hanged.
(3) Severity of punishment has no
effect in preventing crime?
(4) "If you believe in it (hanging)
to kill another man, would you be
willing to have it in the public square
and you yourself spring the trap? If
not, why not?"
The three first of these arguments
are familiar, and to the unthinking
are weighty. They have been through
all history answered by the experi
ence of society; and they avoid the
powerful and unanswerable fact that
anything less than death for out
right murder is a failure of exact
justice. The last - count is quite
unique. It puts every citizen in the
role of executioner, from which one
instinctively shrinks, and is therefore
an appeal to timidity and downright
cowardice, based on an utterly false
hypothesis. One might as reason
ably advocate the abolition of all
law because the majority of men and
women have no desire to be either
policemen or jailors. For that rea
son, should there be no police or
jails or jailors?
The American Legion will circu
late petitions to place a bill for capi
tal punishment on the ballot in 1920.
It should be encouraged in that hon
est enterprise.
COMPETENT SCHOOL TEACHERS.
The public Is told, on authority of
a distinguished New England educa
tor, now traveling through the north
west, that the public schools are suf
fering heavily from 'the prevalent
trend toward socialistic doctrines;
that the old-fashioned teacher of the
upstanding patriotic type has largely
left the schools; and that the whole
trouble Is due to the low pay of
teachers, which averages only $700 a
year throughout the United States. '
It may fairly be asked if a poor
wage is the sole reason. In the fa
miliar days of long ago when
teaching was a profession which at
tracted consecrated men and women,
the scale f f remuneration was far
lower than it is today. It will scarcely
be argued that they went into the
public school service for the money
there was in it. Why should it be
assumed that such men and women
now are to be had If the salary in
ducements are made sufficiently
large?
The average pay in the city school
is today much higher than in the
country, yet it may be questioned if
the quality of patriotic instruction in
any metropolis is better than in the
village or the backwoods district. It
will not be said, for example, that
there Is likely to be more socialism
in the curriculum of a school down
in Curry county than in Portland.
The school teacher should be ade
quately paid. No reasonable person
will say or desire otherwise. But
the real test of competency is not In
the wage scale. We think it lies
largely in the spirit of service to
others which leads good men and
women into the school, depending on
the public sense of a square deal for
sufficient remuneration.
stacles yet' to overcome, and many
nations have so much to learn In
practice of Its principles that its suc
cess will be in doubt unless the
United States, the greatest of demo
cracies, takes a strong hand in Its
guidance. Some nations which have
won their own liberty still cling to
the right of conquest over their
neighbors by might, and their ethni
cal boundaries are so ill defined that
they have a colorable show of moral
right. The power, precept and ex
ample r of the United States are
needed to teach these nations the
new -way and to prevent local wars
from spreading into world wars.
The league is so new that necessar
ily it is an experiment fraught with
many difficulties, from which the
struggle in tha senate results. Only
in practice can it be perfected. By
practice also the United States can
find its proper place and establish its
proper relation to the bodpr of na
tions. The leajie must therefore
be a continuing subject of study to
Americans, and the colleges and
schools will find it a subject of grow
ing interest -as events develop Its
usefulness. For whatever be the fate
of the treaty in the senate, there will
be a league, and the United States
will, now or later, be a member.
SUPPRESS RED PUBLICATIONS.
In demanding suppression of the
Labor News, the Portland post of the
American Legion will have the sup
port of all the people of the city
except the revolutionists and those
who mistakenly regard action againsi
any publication as an attack on free
dom of the press. Only if it com
pletely changes its policy, should
publication be permitted to continue.
Punishment of those who act upon
the teachings of revolutionary papers
while the publishers and editors es
cape is not only unjust; it is folly.
In order that the revolutionary move
ment may be stamped out, all means
of propagating it should be cut off.
Many I. W. W. are merely dupes of
men who write inflammatory articles
in security, but they go to jail, while
the instigators of their crimes re
main free and win more recruits to
the red forces. These red papers
even have use of the mails, causing
the government to circulate incite
ments to Its own destruction.
It should not be necessary for the
American Legion or any other body
of private citizens to call the atten
tion of officials to acts of sedition
and treason which must be obvious
to any person whose eyes and ears
are open. They need not fear that
the public will not sustain them; the
desire is for greater activity.
A mw TSE FOR BREWERS' MALT
The announcement by the special
ists of the bureau of chemistry of the
department of agriculture that malt
sugar syrup has been made possible
on a commercial scale for the first
time in history fits nicely into the
necessities of the times and the ec
onomic need for a use to which to
put the breweries that have been
threatened with extinction by the
prohibition laws. Barley sugar has
long been known to theoretical chem
ists, and has been produced in the
laboratory for a good many years.
The Importance of the new discovery
is that It enables production under
average conditions, out of a raw pro
duct easily grown on American
farms, and in plants until recently
given over to manufacture of Intoxi
cating beverages on a huge scale.
Thus is vindicated the advanced
economic dictum that nothing is ever
ns bad as it seems. A market for
barley is provided together with la
bor for maltsters, and a threatened
famine in sweets may be averted at
a truly psychological moment. Our
lack of sugar is not wholly due to in
creased consumption of sugar in or
dinary ways. Enforcement of "dry"
laws has been attended by phenom
enal increase in demand for sweet
temperance beverages, for baker's
goods and for confectionery. Our
consumption of sugar, which reached
Its high mark at about eighty-eight
pounds per capita per annum, prom
ises to rise to 100 pounds, or even
more. It is important to the success
Of prohibition that substitutes shall
be found for harmful and inebriating
drinks.
'Breweries,'" says the bureau of
chemistry, "with very little change,
can be used and are now being used
for the manufacture of malt sugar
eyrup. Up to a certain point the
process is the same as the process for
making beer." Only addition of
evaporating pans Is required to con
vert a brewery into a malt sugar fac
tory. If the product is less conven
ient for table use than cane sugar,
it is at least pleasing in flavor, lav
Ins a resemblance to honey, and it
can be used without stint in cooking.
lf," says the bureau, "the house
wives want it, the grocers will get
, it."
Here, perhaps, is the real point.
It takes a good deal more than a
famine, as experience has shown, to
pc-t us out of the rut of conserva
tism'as to food. Efforts to popu
larize substitutes were not very sue
cessful, even with the patriotic im
pulse behind them. We have sud
denly relapsed now that the war is
over. It may take more than an of
ficial statement that "this is a case
where the substitute makes so good
that the regular, whose place it
takes, may have to warm the bench
Btu t'T" ! vti a chance that malt
rugLir s tup will win a place if the
THE LEAGUE AND ITS BACKGROUND
Most of the misunderstanding of
and opposition to the covenant of
the league of nations has probably
arisen from neglect to study the his
toric growth of national states and
then of co-operation among them or
groups of them for common ends.
That study is necessary to an under
standing of the need of a league and
of its functions in maintaining peace
and in establishing justice among
nations without war.
A valuable aid to this study is "The
League of Nations: The Principle and
the Practice," edited by Stephen
Pierce Duggan and published by the
Atlantic Monthly Press. It Is com
posed of chapters on each topic by
a recognized authority and includes
the texts of various historic docu
ments, such as the league schemes
of Abbe St. Pierre and Immanuel
Kant, the holy alliance. President
Monroe's message including the Mon
roe doctrine, the Hague arbitration
conventions and the league cove
nant. Review of the background of the
world situation in which the cove
nant was framed shows the league
idea to have been the product of
evolution. Rome with its world-wide
empire and Roman peace gave birth
to the idea of a world ruler as the
peacekeeper, and the confusion of
the dark ages was followed by the
effort of one despot after another to
become that ruler until the balance
of power was set up to balk the am
bitions of Louis XIV. ' Napoleon
made another bid for world power,
which would have leagued the na
tions by force under his sovereignty,
but was wrecked by the combina
tion of monarchs and by national
love of independence. The holy
alliance aimed to exercise through a
partnership of . three monarchs the
power of guardians of the peace, but
it endeavored to trample out both
democracy and nationalism, the tide
of which was beginning to rise. That
tide has continued to rise until in the
great war it has engulfed all the
three empires which formed the holy
alliance.
Former attempts to form a league
of peace were doomed to failure be
cause the conditions essential to sue
css were absent. States then were
formed by violence and ruled by des
pots in contempt of the right of the
Individual to liberty and of each na
tion to unity and independence of
foreign rule. Monarchs knew no
limits to their ambition, and did not
accept restrictions on their right to
military conquest and to breach of
treaties. Not until democracy began
to revive in Europe was the Idea
born that nations should be subject
to the restraints of law and justice
but that idea could not become su
preme until democracy, in which it
is inherent, itself became supreme.
Having been fought and won in or
der to establish good faith among na
tions and the right of each nation to
independent existence, and having
destroyed the powers which denied
those principles, the war has cleared
the ground and made the league of
nations possible.
In fact a league is Impossible un
less it be a league of self-governing
nations. There are so many ob-
OBEGON'S LABOR LAW.
Criticism by President Hayter of
the Oregon State Bar association of
the law legalizing strikes, boycotts and
picketing revives interest in one of
the outstanding acts of thf 1919 leg
islature. The law in question does not use
the terms "strike," "boycott" and
"picketing" but .resorts to elaborate
legal verbiage which means the same
thing. For example:
No restraining order or injunction shall
prohibit any person or persons, whether
singly or In concert, from terminating any
relation of employment, or from ceasing
to perform any work or labor; or from
recommending or advising or persuading
others by peaceful means so to do; or
from attending at any place where any
person or persons may lawfully be for
the purpose of peacefully obtaining or com
municating information; or from peace
fully persuading any person to abstain
from working: or from ceasing to pat
ronize any party to Buch dispute: or from
recommending, advising or persuading
others by peaceful or lawful means so to
do; or from paying to or withholding
from, any person engaged In such dispute
any strike benefits or other monies or
things of value.
All these acts are, in addition, de
clared to be lawful and it is further
provided that no restraining order or
injunction shall be granted as af
fecting any labor dispute unless
necessary to prevent Irreparable in
jury to property. The right to labor
Is declared to be a personal right,
not a property right, and the injunc
tion is forbidden as a means of pre
venting violations of contracts of
employment.
The law Is notable in its recogni
tion of a labor dispute as a matter of
interest solely to the employer and
employe. The interest of the public
upheld In the federal court In In
dianapolis recently in the coal strike,
is wholly ignored.
It is a point of interest in discuss
ing the law to recall that the su
preme court of Oregon held, prior to
the passage of this act, that while the
boycott is not prohibited by statute
it is wrongful per se and that a re
straining order will lie against it.
Probably when the constitutionality
of the new act is fully presented to
the court. Inquiry will be raised as
to Whether by legislative fiat that
which is wrongful per se can be
made legally right. Probably, too,
the courts would have ' previously
held that the labor leader who col
lected money for the specific purpose
of relieving the need of strikers and
withheld that, money committed a
wrong. Yet under a strict construc
tion of the law the courts are charged
not to consider unlawful the with
holding of strike benefits.
A case has already gone into the
courts over the picketing provision.
In the decision which has been ap
pealed, one of the circuit court
judges who sat in the trial held that
there could be no such thing as
peaceful picketing. If the legality
of picketing and the boycott shall be
fully upheld, it is not fanciful to
predict that those devices will ulti
mately have a much broader appli
cation than at present. The con
sciousness of the public that it is
Interested vitally in every strike of
importance is becoming stronger and
there is no apparent reason why pub
lic support should not be sought by
every legal means. For example, the
open-shop organization of employers
could logically picket closed shops
in the effort to divert public patron
age from them, or vice versa. When
employers as well as employes en
gage in picketing and boycotts (and
why not?) then will such outgrowths
of industrial warfare be in full
flower.
around space as to put a period at
the end of time.
The discoveries made possible by
development of the infinities upon
infinities of the mathematicians have
had their place in the scheme of
things, but they must ever remain the
exclusive property of the elect. Curi
ously enough, it is the common mind,
the mind once content to let others
do its thinking for it, that now re
fuses to be confined. It is bound
by no philosophical niceties of defi
nition. It listens with impatience to
the statement, for illustration, that
"infinite time does not now exist,
never has existed, nor ever will ex
ist," because "at no moment has it
completed its unending course."
These, as has been suggested, are
quibblings with diction, with the
nomenclature of a philosophy which
has no short cuts, of a process that
has nothing in common with any-
thing else that we are able to com
prehend.
While certain geometricians are
proving to their own complete satis
faction that there is a place (though
it be in "infinity") where parallel
lines do meet, and others are
forming one another that infinity is
finite, and therefore non-existent.
and while another sets down in fin
ite feet, and miles, and light years
the boundaries of the illimitable,
average man, still calling his soul his
own, insists on soaring' to greater
heights and penetrating greater dis
tances. Professor Einstein and Sir
Joseph J. Thomson and all the other
physicists to the contrary notwith
standing, he will continue to insist
that there is always something be
yond the beyond. What do we care
for a mere sphere with a radius of
only 100,000,000,000 times the dis
tance between the earth and the sun?
The question still recurs: What is
there on the other side of the fence?
Men with souls above mathematics
will never be persuaded that there
are limitations to either space or
time.
BV-PRODrCTS OF" THE TIMES
Mysjtessousj Force Operates In Jersey
to Confound Commuters.
With mica schist boulders smoothed
and refined and polished the inhablt-
nts of Englewood, N. J., have or
rather thought they had perpetuated
the fair name of Englewood for all
time on the greensward abutting the
nglewood station.
The boulders were arranged In let
ters 6x2 feet, so that folks who
lived in Englewood, as well as those
who happened, to be passing fast
trains, could look down on the ground
and be brightened and cheered by
the knowledge that this place was,
in truth.
ENGLEWOOD.
But while all Englewood slept a
power mightier than the glacial pe
riod stepied in and shattered Engle-
ood's faith in Its fair name. When
the first of the day's commuters
reached the north platform of the
Erie station, they found the old boul-
ers still there, whitewashed and
beautiful aa ever, only the tidings
those boulders spelled out to a wait
ing World was no longer Englewood
ut
WOODEN LEG.
The mystery Is too deep for the
tatienmaster, who says the fair name
f Englewood was O. K. when ha
brushed off the boulders and went
home for the night. It is true, he
ays, that the Englewood branch of
the American Legion held a meeting
that night, at which lemonade was
njoyed by all, but that doesn't seem
to have any bearing on the case. Old
timers say ft looks like the work of
Jersey lightning.
Is it wonder there is contempt of
law when cases of this kind happen?
A rich broker of Chicago deserted
his wife and two children in New
York sixteen years ago, later acquir
ing another wife and, progressively,
three children in Chicago. Being ex
posed and brought to court, an ac
commodating judge gives him until
today to pick the wife he prefers or
go to Jail. Perhaps the term "rich
broker" contains an explanation.
Consular Agent Jenkins, held fo
alleged swindling in connection with
being kidnaped by bandits, is not
passing any chances. The Mexican
government refuses to put him in
jail, pending trial, though he made
such demand. Every day in confine
ment might mean more damages.
People who lived in the mountain
country to the eastward years ago
paid a "bit" a pound for their sugar
and thought nothing of it. Now th
price here is due to be higher, and
conditions are much different with
out a remedy in surlit.
Now that the senate is enforcin
the cloture rule, we can readily im
agine that any regret the Honorabl
Milton A. Miller may entertain at
never having been chosen United
States senator has considerably lost
its early poignancy.
The last chapter of an interestin
tory was completed yesterday when
settlement was made of the contro
versy with the Pacific Livestock
company over lands that soon will be
omes for hundreds in eastern Ore
gon.
Who says the worlft. is getting low
brow? With Poet D'Annunzio
Italy, Pianist Paderewski in Poland
and our own Professor Wilson, in
ternational styles in foreheads have
gained at least an inch.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding,
there is a coal strike in progress an
steel strike as well, but the bod
politic is less disturbed than the
body physical with a small boil.
According to their own reports
all the drivers who have run down
and killed people were going "very
slowly," whereby it is a wonder th
victims did not dodge out of the way.
A FENCE AROUND SPACE.
Laymen unversed in the subtleties,
say, of the Einstein theory of rela
tivity, may be less deeply impressed
than they ought to be by the an
nouncement made by certain British
scientists that as a result of the ob
servations made of the total eclipse
of the sun made last May they are
convinced that space has its definite
limitations. "The greatest discovery
in connection with gravitation since
Sir Isaac Newton enunciated that
principle " which, incidentally
an Italian scientist of note has re
cently disputed is hailed by no less
personage than Sir Joseph J.
Thomson, formerly Cavendish pro
fessor of physics at Cambridge, also
as "one of the greatest achievements
in the history of modern thought
The astronomical observations al
luded to are said to have shown that
rays of light from the stars are de
fleeted in their passage past the sun
in a manner which does not accord
with the Newtonian theory, but
which supports- the hypothesis
Professor Einstein instead. To the
man in the street all this means little
or nothing. To the philosopher of
science, however, it indicates that
space "does not extend out indefin
itely in all directions." The straight
line is abolished. If one travels far
enough in any direction, he is bound
to re-enter the same field.
Not content with repealing infinity,
one Investigator goes so far. as to
attempt to measure the finity that he
has given us in its place. He cal
culates the radius of space at about
100,000,000,000 times the distance
from the earth to the sun, or about
16,000,000 light years. Space is
gigantic sphere, suspended in th
middle of what? Though it be con.
ceded that the distance measured by
16,000,000 light years is so vast as to
pass the ordinary capacity for mathe
matical comprehension, it .does not
pass beyond the indefinable yearn
ings of the human mind. These will
be content with no less than infinity,
and eternity. It will be as futile for
the scientists, with their refinements
Great Britain and France are un
easy about the peace treaty and may
not await our action. This matter of
keeping us at war is worse than keep
ing us out of it.
Thosj Who Come and Go.
"Cattle stealing has been practically
stamped out in Oregon.", said S. O. I
Correll, with a sigh of satisfaction.
Mr. Correll is secretary of the Cattle
& Horse Raisers' association, or
ganized six years ago to aid in the
detection and assist in the prosecu
tion of cattle and horse thieves.
"There will always be some stealing
as long as there are calves," says
Mr. Correll, "but while the associa
tion is on the job there will be no
wholesale rustling, as in other days.
The cattle thief, however, doesn't re
form; he simply awaits his opportuni
ty and seizes It and the cattle. We
had considerable trouble in keeping
the thieves in the penitentiary, for
they would be pardoned out, and one
man we sent there three times
was pardoned out as fast as we'd
convict him. The thieves were very
actives for a while in Harney. Lake
nd Klamath counties. The seventh
annual meeting of the association will
be held at Burns in May."
How long can hay keep? The ques
tion has never been settled, but hay
18 years old and still good sounds
like a record. George Bloomingcamp,
who with his brother has been run
ning a stock ranch on Sprague river
In Klamath county, had hay that old.
When George who is at the Imperial
was a boy. a barn on the ranch was
filled with hay and It lay there ..ntil
the bad winter of three years ago,
when cattle were being lost because
of feed shortage. The Bloomingcamp
boys, however, did not lose a head.
The hay was taken from the barn.
where it had been stowed away 18
years before and was fed to the stock,
This experience is said to be a con
firmation of the assertion tnat tviam-
th county can grow the finest hay
In the world. The Bloomingcamps
have sold their Sprague river ranch
but still own a large alfalfa farm
in that county
"There was a regular old-fashioned
republican banquet In Umatilla coun
ty Saturday night," "says Bruce Den
nis, who Is at the Multnomah. "All
the enthusiasm of the daya of Grant
and Harrison and McKinley and the
rest was brought down to date.
never attended a republican meeting
which had more of the republican
snirit. At this meeting the boys de
clared their intention to get behind
Frank Curl as a delegate to the re
publican national convention from the
second district and Frank agreed to
lake the run. It looks as though the
republicans of Umatilla county are
getting ready to do their full share
In the coming campaign for even some
With silver selling at or above
$1.30 H an ounce, at which price the
metal in a silver dollar is worth
slightly more than SI if sold as bul
lion, banking circles were today de
bating the question whether American
silver dollars would disappear from
circulation. There Is no law against
melting the coins, the only prohibition
being directed against their deface
ment with fraudulent intent. In the
opinion of men familiar with the bul
lion market and with conditions in
China, where most of the silver ex
ports are now being sent, silver would
have to advance a good' deal higher
before the coins could be profitably
melted. The cost of melting and of
eliminating the alloy would probably of the boys who have been off the
reservation tor several years v ei s m
attendance at the gathering.
cost about a cent an ounce. It was
said, and the cost of making ship
ments to the far east would probably
require a price of about $1.33 before
it would be possible to mske much
profit out of converting dollars Into
bullion. Moreover, it would probably
be difficult to collect any great
amount of silver dollars fcr this pur
pose, according to bankers familiar
with the situation.
Among the visitors to the stock
show is William Miller, who comes
from Paislie. in the Chewaucan val
lev. one of the most beautiful and
fertile snots in the stf.te. Paislte
the headouarters of a "Jig cattle com
pany which runs abou: la.uoo neaa or
cattle. There Is a story to the effect
that when the assessor first went to
Manager Fitzgerald and asked him
' SAITH THE OREGOX NEWSPAPER
Corn Husk, Gweniie t Co. Predict
i Mild "Winter.
Salem Statesman.
The corn husk, the goose bone, the
squirrel and muskrat all proclaim an
open winter In the balmy Willamette
alley.
Crane American.
The first snow of the season ap
peared last Saturday night. Old-
tmers say this is a forerunnner or
some fine weather before winter sets
in.
Sclo Tribune.
The recent warm rains, which
brought much snow out of the moun
tains, are rather indicative of a mild
winter.
Er Vet! O. "Vest
Harney Valley News.
There are some tormenting influ
ences from the biological situation
that as yet are unreasonable, but as
the desires and purposes of the bio
logical department of both state and
government are met with even better
and more permanent conditions for
the propagation of birds in the fresh
water reservoirs of the several rec
antation projects, leaves the situa
tion with nothing but arbitrary minds
on the part of the biological bureau
that have the temerity to oppose this
logical solving of the problem and a
conducive situation culminated that
will redound to the benefits of all
interested.
New Angle on Compere.
Woodburn Independent.
Instead of fighting Samuel Gom-
pers. president of the. American Fed
eration of Labor, the big employers
should work hand in hand with him.
He is the conservative head of a great
crganizatlon which the I. W. W. rad
icals seek to control, bring on revo-
tion and destroy the existing govern
ment as well as eliminating capital.
The selfishness of capital., the encour
agement of the "reds" by certain par
lor monied influentials in New York,
aim to knock the props from under
this republican form of government.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montasjne.
bow manv head there were for as-
Now the tall of his shirt is threat- I sessment purposes. Fitzgerald replied:
ened.
The combination of shirt and tail.
revered as highly as the time-honored
combination of mocha and Java, ham
and eggs, half-and-half, ' whisky and
soda, and fair and warmer. Is threat
er.ed with final and absolute di
vorce.
And the trouble-maker is a man.
W. B. Jackson of Chicago, secretary
of the Federal Plate Glass company,
says that part of a man's shirt below
th'3 belt must go. He Intends to manu
facture the tailless shirt.
"Igot the idea from a friend of
mine in Oak Park," he said, "a prom!
nent man there. He wears a rubber
band about his waist, and has his
shirt cut off at the waietllre. When
the advantages were shown to me
I decided It was only right that some
one should start to manufacture them.
A many is inclined to grow stouter as
he grows older. You have no ldi
what a lessening effect, the tailless
shirt has. In summer the shirts are
cooler."
Six thousand." 'Well." the assessor
Is reported to have said, "if you don't
round 'em up and count every head.
I'll assess the company at 20,00"
head." "Put 'em down at 20,000 then."
snapped Fitzpatrick.
Wearing a big hat and a flam
boyant tie. A. Hendericksen, a stock
man of Cecil, Is among the arrivals at
the Hotel Oregon, here to look at the
stock on exhibition. Cecil, In about
year, will have a good road con
necting it with the Columbia river
highway at one- end and Heppner at
the other, a contract having been
awarded a few weeks ago for the
grading of most of the distance. This
Is the Oregon and Washington mgn-
way, which hits Washington state
line near Walla Walla.
Believing in safety first, an auto
mobile party cancelled a trip to Salem
from Portland Monday night. Frank
Schmidt, with his wife and baby, and
J. H. Race, started from the Hotel
Oregon for Salem, but after making a
short distance found that the fog was
so dense that it was impossible to
see half the length of the car ahead
Rather than take chances in run
ning blindly, the Salemites back
tracked to the Oregon. Mr. Schmidt
Is Interested in the fruit juice busi
ness.
Editors' Errors and Doctors'.
Tillamook Headlight.
A Portland doctor sends us a long
scolding letter because a trivial typo
graphical error appeared in his ad
vertisement. When an editor or
printer makes a mistake he anolo-
glzes in a gentlemanly manner and I
corrects the mistake. When a doc
tor snakes a mistake it Is put into a
coffin and nailed up as soon as pos- !
sible, buried in a grave and covered
up in a cemetery where nobody can
find it. That's the difference in dif
ferent kinds of mistakes.
Small Town Editor's Kindness.
Junction City Times.
Ths small town paper has often
been accused of being too conserva
tiLe, because It refuses to publish all
the scandal and horrible details which
accompany some unusual and unfor
tunate local affair. But in the first
place, the small town editor is nearly
always acquainted with the people
concerned and, sympathizing with
neir reeiings, cannot add unscrupu
lous publicity to the already oppres-
lve burden.
A Few Dollars. Forsooth!
Astorian.
Two men who endangered life and
liinb on the Columbia highway sev
eral weeks ago were yesterday fined
$37.50 each In Justice court. We doubt
if the imposition of money penalties
will ever stop this sort of law viola
tion any more than it has curbed
bootlegging. There will alwas be
someone willing to take a chance for
a few paltry dollars, especially when
they have an employer who is willing
to stand the gaff."
THE WAIL, OF THE HEELER.
A woman assemblyman. Elected in
a New York district, bought 100
pounds of candy for distribution
among the families of all the men
who worked for her at the polls.
News Item.
I voted for Mrs. McMbney
For alderman down In de TheiS;"
She was open an' free as a lldy can b
Wlf de little long green, so I hold.
An" when de election was over.
An' de lady finds out dat she oops.
Wot she sends to my house was a
chocolate mouse
An' a bag full o' peppermint drops.
I voted for Mrs. CLearr
Who was out for ths magistrate's
court-
Tim Clancy, me boss gives th word.
t-ome across
An' hand the ole duns 90121 support."
An when all the ballots were counted
I gets from de petticoat Judge
Some nutty fruit bars an' some candy
cigars
An' some stuff m old woman-calls
fudge!
Now women is runnln for offiesj
De candy store keepers will soon
Be dotn' as good at their garn as
they would
If they owned a good corner saloon.
I'm starvin' to deat' as a heeler,
No skolts on de ticket for mine.
I loses me goat when' de Janes gits
de vote.
But me wife an' me kids likes it
fine!
a
No Wonder.
The farmer didn't want to nave
daylight. He would have had to
work Just that much longer.
Content.
The wages of sin is death, yet sin
never seems to go out on a strike.
Stupid.
What we can't understand is why a
burglar should spend a night break
ing Into a bank when he could break
into a milk wagon in ten minutes.
(Corrrlght. by Bell Svndlcate, Ine.)
better than I
emotions that
When there is work of soliciting
for funds in Salem, F. G. Deckenbach
always one of the "go-getters
selected for the task of tempting the
dollars from his fellow citisens. At
other times Mr. Deckenbach Is an
active member of the Commercial
club and is a merchant. He has been
at the head of four of the liberty
oan drives in Marion county and
Why doesn't some enterprising
restaurateur increase his profits by
painting the butter pat on the dish?
His patrons would never know the
difference.
The man who drives an automobile
about town while under the influence
of liquor is as bad -as an I. W. W.,
and deserves not one whit more consideration.
Some of Britain s most valuable
books are leaving these shores for the
United States, writes a London corre
spondent. During one week a small
bundle of rare editions was sold to
an American dealer for $125,000. They
Included a rare edition of "Robin
son Crusoe," some works of Eliza
bethan dramatists, and early poems
of Rosettl.
So great is the demand in Amer
lea for European antiques, either in
china, pictures or books, that Amer- put them over the top each time.
lean dealers are opening places in
London to keep in touch with patrons
of their own firms in America.
American dealers are anxious to
buy Keats' or Blake's first editions.
and some of Shakespeare's first fol
ios have already left for the United
States. Bidding runs high for
Lamb's letters and any works with
marginal notes by the author. For
first edition of Keats' "Endymion"
about $3500 was asked. A few years
ago they could have been purchased
for less than $2.50. Larger sums
than this have been paid for rare
books recently.
Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer is indeed a bold young man
if he really expects to run for presi
dent with his name parted in the
middle.
Astoria will get the naval site
without help. That s the proper
spirit. That's the way Portland does
thlngs when she is in the doing
mood.
Bull fights have been resumed in
Mexico City after an interim of three
years. Does this mean the Mexicans
are becoming civilized again?
Suppose we cease calling these
affairs "drives." The gait is too
slow. "Jogs" is better, though not
literally perfect.
The worst has at length happened
in the progress of the high cost of
living. Chinese noodles have gone
up.
We sometimes wonder what Gen
eral Denikine expects to do with
Petrograd if he gets it.
One job we wouldn't care to tackle
Is that of umpiring the League of
Nations.
Judge Gatens gave an automobile
thief three years. Good work.
That is a mean thief holding up
working girls going home late.
Perhaps Zama Is where all the
yama-yama girls conTe from.
Take the boys to the livestock
show. Take the girls, too.
House the visitor if you have a
of logic, to attempt to put a fence room to spare.
All the hop growers are adding
five or ten or more acres to their
fields for next year." says' Judge E.
C. Kirkpatrick of Dallas. "There is
good market for hops, notwith
standing that the United States has
gone dry, for the British buyers are
active. Hop growers are looking for
ward to good prices. Judge Kirk
Patrick Is an enthusiastic good roads
man and is one of the regulars who
attend every meeting of the state
highway commission.
Thirty-one years ago Edward Egll
was born In Lake county. Now he Is
a stockman In Harney, with Burns as
his postoffice address. "Weve got
the finest country that ever lay ou
of doors," proudly asserted Mr. Egll
at the Imperial yesterday. All we
need are good roads and more water.
We need roads for transportation pur
poses and the county is talking of is
suing a lump of road bonds to bring
Forbes Robertson's letter declining
an impossible piay. Bays me sen
York Globe, is laconic:
Dear Sir: I have read your play.
Oh, my dear sir! Very truly yours.'
Did he have in the back of his head about the desired result."
the story of Talleyrand's two-word
note of condolence to a widow: Inmates of the penitentiary win
"i-t, mnflitra'" l nave tneir eyes exammwu auu n .iuc
' .. . I need glasses the lenses will be pre
In less than a year tne woman naa lb d Will Peare of La Grande,
married again and then Talleyrand's secretary of the state board of opto
later of congratulations was: etrv. who Is In town attending a meet
"Ah madam!" g of the board, says that tne boara
The limit of brevity In corresnond- will go to Salem in January to look
ence was attained by Victor Hugo
and the publisher of "Les Miserables.'
When the book came out Hugo wrote
anxiously from his place of exile in
the Channel Islands: "V He expected
detailed statement of the book's
sale. The publishers answer was
simply: "1"
In American annals what is more
concise than the Indorsements of
President Lincoln and Secretary Stan
ton on a letter of application for the
post of army chaplain In the civil
war?
"Dear Stanton: Appoint this man
chaplain in the army. A LINCOLN.
"Dear Mr. Lincoln: He is not
Dreacher. E. M. STANTON."
Dated a few months later: -"Dear
Stanton: He Is now."
"A LINCOLN.'
"Dear Mr. Lincoln: But there Is no
vacancy. E. M. STANTON.
"Dear Stanton: Appoint him chap
ain-at-large. A LINCOLN.'
"Dear Mr. Lincoln: There is no war
rant of law for that.
"E. M. STANTON
"Dear Stanton: Appoint him any
how. . A. LINCOLN."
"Dear Mr. Lincoln: 1 will not.
"E. M. STANTON".
The appointment was not made.
after the vision of the convicts, after
which some of them the inmates, not
the board may see the error of, their
ways.
Eastern OreKon men arriving 1
Portland yesterday were pleased ana
surprised to see M. J. Buskley boss
ing a wrecking crew at Troutdale.
"He went at It." explalnea a union
resident, "as he did in the old days
at La Grande, when he would direct
work in the Telocaset cut when tne
snow would be as high as a tail
Indian's shoulders."
J. E. Clinton of Boise, Idaho, left
for home last night after attending
the stock show. Mr. Clinton, who
was at the Hotel Portland, is one of
the most active business men of the
Gem state and he is one of the largest
sheep owners of Idaho. Also he is
vice-president or one 01 tne Boise
banks.
Rev. Mr. Jones of Baker and George
Small, who for years was part owner
of the Baker Democrat, are at tne
Benson. They are arranging to hold
a class to initiate a group of Masons
in eastern Oregon in tne thirty
second degree.
' Ben Sheldon of Medford. member of
the house of representatives, who
probably introduced more bills In the
house In the 1919 session than any
other man, is in the city attending
the stock show and talking politics.
Birds of Like Feather.
Powers Patriot.
The labor agitator has as little
connection with the source from
which employment flows as the sDar-
rows have with thir supply of ber
ries. iature supplies the sparrows
witn berries just as stored capital
and experienced brains plan Indus
tries and make employment possible.
The sparrows and the agitators enjoy
maKing tne big noise and eating the
berries which they do not provide.
Gompers' Beer Propaganda.
Oregon City Enterm-ise.
The laboring people of the country
are not benefited by Mr. Gompers'
attitude. His statements are silly
ana untrue, it was only a few years
ago mac uregon city Had 16 saloons,
and 75 per cent of the mill checks
were cashed in them, instead of gol-
10 tne outcner ana the srrocer
ana tne wile and children at home
1le saloon is a social evil and will
never appear again in this country.
Pnrice for Peare.
Marshfield Record.
It is significant that this enidemic
of strikes is likely to lead to a ner-
manent law for the deportation of
aliens who are anarchists or onen
violators of American law. That
would be a very desirable purge. It
might, for a time, reduce the labor
force In some Industries, but it would
tend to industrial peace.
No High Cost of Hides.
Blue Mountain Eagle.
Tnere Is no use to attempt to
ascribe the high cost of shoes to the
price of hides. That is ridiculous. In
the first place, there is no high price
of hides in the cattle country. Grant
couhty, for Instance. And in the next
place, there is very little leather In
shoes, as they are made of paper and
wood.
The Alien's Code.
The Dalles Chronicle.
Aliens and vice go band in hand
fr.very time an alien comes to this
country, crime is likely to increase.
according to the police records. The
reason is simple. At home these men
were not taught high ideals. The
Held the idea that anything one could
get away with was right.
Two More Holidnys, Please.
Forest Grove News-Times.
noimays are getting so numerou
tnat it is pretty nam to keep track
of them. Might It not be better to
get aown to business and let a few
ot tnem pass by celebrating with
worx inateaa or so much play?
Last Court of Appeal.
Hillsboro Argus.
ine murneroua element will fin
alter a wnne tnat a court of last
resort win mean tne great hpurt
the people and that heart will not
listen to appeals for changes of venue.
Thins That Were.
Hillsboro Independent.
There was once a time when the
man who couldn't afford shoes could
wrap his feet in gunny sacks, but
now gunny sacks are in the shoe class
when It comes to buying.
Blue Mountain Dreaming".
La Grande Observer.
It wouldn't ever do for retailers to
follow suit immediately when whole
salers lower prices. These things have
to be conducted with due deliberation.
Neighborly Suggestion.
' Warrenton News.
- We need an Astorian in- congress.
must In truth be
know.
Because of sweet
arise.
Mystic as incenss. Dure aa falllnr
snow.
From inner depth I do not rrillr.
Til at the call of music's voice divine
T-here echoes vibrant tones I never
knew.
Sounding like sliver bells within a
hnne.
Where one kneels softly, knowing
God is true.
TJnuttered thoughts lu laungage never
oressea,
Wild impulse and emotion, nude of
word,
Sweet longings like a bouquet closely
pressed
Against my heart, lest they be
called absurd.
Alt gentle, unvoiced better thoughts
awake
When harmony in tender accents
speaks.
Tea, e'en beyond my trend these
voices make
For better things than I was prone
to seek!
Oh! he whose miracles in sound por-
tray
The gripping melody that stirs his
soul.
Is greater than mankind shall ever
say,
And higher than mere recompense,
his goal;
A million hearts have quickened in
their beat,
Beneath the golden magic of his
thought.
And those unborn shall tenderly re
peat
The name of Sousa, loving what he
wrought.
Sousa: A Tribute.
By Grace E. HH.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years A go.
From The Oregonian of November 19, 1804.
St. Petersburg. The last state serv
ice for Alexander III, whose funeral
is to take place tomorrow, was held
today. C. P. Breckenridge, the new
American ambassador, represented
President Cleveland.
Dr. Charles Edward Locke, at ths
Taylor-street Methodist church, last
night spoke for complete suppression
of the Sunday saloon and resolutions
were adopted approving the commit
tee of 100.
Among the distinguished visitors
in Portland today Is ex-Senator John
C. Spooner, prominent lawyer of Hud
son. Wis., now attorney for the re
ceivers of the Northern Pacific
The chrysanthemum show, to be
held under auspices of the Oregon
Horticultural society. will . open
Wednesday at the A. O. U. W. hall.
S1REET PERILS DRIVE HIM AWAY
Newcomer Declares He Will Lfbtc
Because of Auto Menace.
PORTLAND. Nov. 18. (To the Edi
tor.) The "joke" is that notwith
standing the most extraordinary num
ber of auto accidents here each day.
and the wail that the pedestrian pub
lic is sending forth, they still continue
to speed 'em, just the same! By ac
tual count, from St. Louis papers re
ceived daily, you have nearly 300 per
cent more auto accidents here than
they have In that city of over 1.000.
000 population each day.
Trouble seems to be that no auto
driver here takes the matter seriously.
You coax and you shame them, and
your special writers put out enough
sob stuff to drive a brass monkey to
tears, all to no avail whatever, when
a brief crusade of arrests with heavy
fines would stop the menace instantly.
I travel a great deal by auto. We
get to a town "Are they strict here?"
if "Yes," we are mighty careful as to
speed and traffic rules. If "No," it is
of course different.
I micht add, I came here to make
Portland my home, with my family,
but I wouldn't think of subjecting
them to the daily auto menace here.
Therefore I am locating elsewhere.
DISGUSTED.
Population of United States.
PORTLAND, Nov. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly inform me what the
population of the United States is at
the present time.
NELL NORDQUIST.
There has been no enumeration
since 1910. The population is esti
mated to be at present about lui,-000,000.
Governors of Colorado.
STEVENSON, Wash., Nov. 17. (To
the Editor.) (1) Who succeeded Gov
ernor Waite as governor of Colorado?
2) Was Governor Waite a candi
date for re-election in 1894?
(3) Who defeated him?
(4) When was Alva Adams gov
ernor of Colorado?
GEORGE F. CHRIST ENS EN.
1. A. W. Mclntyre.
2. Yes.
3. A. W. Mclntyre.
4. From 1887 to
from 1S37 to 1899.
and again
Information on Mexico.
GOLD HILL. Or., Nov. 17. (To the
Editor.) Kindly inform me whom I
could write to In Vera Cruz or Salina
Cruz in regard to land areas In the
Tehauntepec Isthmus.
SUBSCRIBER.
Aihlitss the United States consul.
Vera Cruz or Salina Crux.