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THE MORNING OREG ONI AN. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1919.
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have profited largely if they had
beeii a little more patient.
Missouri once stood on an emi
nence in apple culture. It does not
stand alone among older states in
which orchard destruction has been
going- on. The same reports of
poorer quality of fruit come from
New York and from the Ohio val
ley. It is necessary, in entering into
the fruit-growing industry, to take a
rather broader view than in the pro
duction" of annual crops. Destruction
of a productive tree takes an asset
that it has required years to produce
and will take years to replace. Mean
while temporary "overproduction"
becomes a thing of the past, "the
cycle inevitably repeats itself, and
those who regarded their business as
a life work reap the reward.
This is one of the particulars in
which horticulture differs from agri
culture. And the true horticulturist,
of course, takes care of his trees
even in the off years. ' There is no
known limit to the life of a scientifically-kept
orchard, but it is easy to
destroy the efforts of a lifetime with
a few hours' labor with an ax.
make so many permanent friends
for us among the people scattered
over a territory comprising nearly
a million square miles. Breeders
of fine stock from the nature of
their calling are men of substance
and enterprise. They will first come
to see and learn. Seeing and learn
ing, it is conceivable that they will
ship their stock to Portland yards.
More or less gradually, they will
grow to regard Portland as their re
serve banking center and trading
point. Bringing with them their
wives and families, being apprised
by degrees of our educational advan
tages, and establishing social and
domestic as well as commercial ties,
they will, we believe, some day come
to look on Portland as home. This
is a consummation devoutly to be
wished, a not too remote possibility
of the exposition now in progress and
one certain to be realized if our vis
itors are made to comprehend the
true warmth of the hospitality which
every Portlander must feel.
THE LEAGIE CRISIS.
Eack in Oklahoma, the other day,
there was a special election in the
fifth congressional district to name
the successor of Representative
Thompson, who had died. Mr.
Thompson, a democrat, had been
elected in 1916 by the comfortable
plurality of 6000, and in 1918, when
the republicans were generally suc
cessful throughout the nation, he had
nearly as great a margin of safety.
Now a republican has been chosen
"by about 1000 plurality in a district
which has usually been held secure
by the democracy.
The reason in part is to be found
in the general dissatisfaction with
the national administration and the
restored prestige of the opposition;
but only in part. It would not wholly
account for a reversal so sudden and
so marked. The explanation lies in the
league of nations. It was the issue
in Oklahoma. The republican can
didate stood "for the league with res-'
crvations, which is in accord with
the general attitude of his party, and
the democratic candidate supported
the covenant as it stands. In other
words, he was with the administra
tion and the administration senators
who throughout a long and stubborn
fight had accepted the autocratic
dictum of the White House that
there must be no alteration, or modi
fication, or revision whatsoever, even
to the substitution of a single word.
The answer of the voters was an un
mistakable repudiation of President
Wilson and his league. It was not
less distinctly a pronouncement for
a league, but with reservations which
are designed to define the American
policy within the league.
It is not too much to say that the
position of the people of Oklahoma
Is a reflection of general opinion and
desire throughout the United States.
The great body of American .citizen
ship, acknowledging their duty and
responsibility to other nations, and
conscious of their international lead
ership and the respect and confidence
of the world, have their own consent
' to enter a league: but they would
remove all reasonable ground for
misunderstanding or misinterpreta
tion by declaring beforehand what
they will do and what they will not
do, or permit to be done, so far as
exclusive American interests are eon
rerned. This is their mandate to the
United States senate, as expressed ei
plicitly in Oklahoma and as shown
Implicitly by the trend of sentiment
everywhere. Only here and there is
a voice raised against membership
in any league: but .all, or nearly all
flre for peace, stability, order and
progress in all nations, and agree
that the best chance for them is
through an international compact.
President Wilson has understood
lhat the American public was for a
league, and all it promises and im
plies: but he has failed to under
stand that he was not given a com
mission to go alone to Paris and
speak for the United States. He has
sought to interpret the common con
sent for a league into a mandate on
the senate to ratify unconditionally
the league he brought back from
Paris, and he was mistaken. He ha
not consulted at any time the United
States senate, which is under th
constitution the executive's partner
In the making of treaties, but he has
Pt his convenience and in his own
fashion made conversational reports
to certain senators. He has rejected
fct all times until now all appeals
for amendment, or reservation, or
Interpretation and he has required
Ills representatives in the senate,
doubtless against their will, to
stand or fall by the written word.
Kow we see that the two factions of
the senate have reached an impasse,
from which it can be extricated only
by the exercise of moderation and
cool judgment on both sides. Of the
ninety-six senators it is a fair esti
mate that eighty are for A league,
Rnd of tho eighty less than forty are
for THE league: and about fifteen
or sixteen' are for no league. It will
be a sad (Commentary on American
political methods If the sixteen sena
tors shall In tho end triumph over
the eigrhfy and emerge from the
many months' debate with no league.
CALVIN C GANTEXBEIX.
The death of Judge Gantenbein is
received by the public with pained
surprise. Few men in Portland were
more widely known; and few had led
a more active life. He was just past
the meridian, and he was apparently
iri robust health. His going illus
trates anew the tenuousness of the tie
that holds all mortal beings. Foi
some it breaks soon; for all it breaks
inevitably.
Judge Gantenbein had served use
fully and Jionorably on the bench of
Multnomah for ten or more years.
He had an excellent record there;
but his best remembered service was
as a soldier. He had as a young man
entered the Oregon national guard
and earned promotion through vari
ous grades until he became colonel
of the Third regiment. He responded
to his country's call and followed the
flag to the Philippines, where he
acquitted himself gallantly under
ire. Again he sought to enter the
service in the war with Germany,
having a commission as colonel in
the reserve; and he attended the first
officers' training camp at the Pre
sidio, accepting the lot there of the
private soldier; but the government
saw fit to impose conditions upon
him which he thought he could not
accept and he returned to the bench
His long and conspicuous connection
with the national guard will not
soon be forgotten by the men who
served with or under him, nor by the
public.
Judge Gantenbein was a linguist
and was once a teacher of foreign
languages. He was always a stu
dent and his decisions were marked
by care, clearness and .egal under
standing. He had the confidence of
many friends and he sought always
to requite it. As a dean of the Ore
gon law school he came in contact
with many novitiates in the profes
sion, and to them he was always
neiprui and sympathetic. He was
a political figure of consequence, and
his service in such circles will be
missed. Altogether his career touched
numerous angles, and his passing
will be occasion for general regret.
SHORT CCf AROU"0 THE WORLD.
With all the exuberance of youth
Lord Fisher, the aged builder of the
modern British na-vy, proposes a
new, quick line of communication for
the greater part, of the distance
around the world, which may stagger
some people with its magnitude but
will also stagger others with its Sim-
the Washington mines voted to work, i
but were induced to rescind that ac- i
tion. Some Wyoming miners went ;
into the mines, but were "persuaded" ,
by Austrian radicals to come out
again. Whence comes the Initiative
of these movements?
Samuel Gompers' defiant utter
ances on the eve of formal submis
sion by the miners officials may
have been more than an empty
boast. The injunction does nofc,ap
ply to him or to the funds of the
American Federation of Labor. It
does not apply to the railroad broth
erhoods, which have taken as strong
ground as Mr. Gompers in favor of
the unlimited right to tie up the
whole country by strikes. Attorney
General Palmer might discover that
these organizations have taken over
the conduct and financing of the
strike in the hope" of proving that
the people are powerless to prevent
success of a strike in any great in
dustry and therefore must submit to
the dictation of any compactly or
ganized minority of the population.
It is welcome news that word has
been passed to the coal conference
that action is regarded by the fed
eral authorities as absolutely im
peratiie, and that Fuel Administra
tor Garfield Is prepared to present
the situation to the conference forc
ibly. But more is needed than' has
tening action by the conference. The
supremacy of the government must
be established, for that means the
Stars and Star-makers.
By Leoa Ca.a Baer.
EVA TANGUAT has had her face
done over. She had the good
sense to leave her figure alone.
Heaven has been good to the Irre
pressible Eva from her toes to her
neck, but her face has not been her
fortune, sir, in many years. So Eva
took matters into her own fair hands.
It came about because Eva aspires to
be a picture actress. A year ago she
made a venture into the motion-
picture game.
The quoted report of the director
when her first appearances were run
on the screen savors more of the
truthful than elegant- What the
director said is. in part (as we say
In the paper when we don't want to
run the whole thing). "Heavy bags
BY-PROUVCTS OK THE TIUKa
Water Power f I "If les El-
cirdm Taat of A ay Other Coantrr.
The United States has more water
power than any other country, -un
8.100.000 potential horsepower, pan
ada is next, with 19.000, oou horse
power. In point of hydro-electric de
velopment.. Norway Is first, and Can
ada second. The United States trans
along after these two.
It should not be So. says the Buffalo
Express. The United States, when it
has the power waiting to be devel
oped, when the manufacturing cen
ters are as near the source o power
as are Canada's, when capital and en
gineering akill are at least as much
at our command as at Canada's should
lead.
J. B. Challies. superintendent of
the dominion water power branch of
under the eyes, double chin, yawning I the department of the interior, gives
riimnl. whlih Innt lilr Bhallhnloa In IfivA ronannfl whV Canada ha9
olicitv
Angered bv a decision that Rosvth. supremacy or all tne people over any
on the east coast of Scotland, is to Part of the people. The government
be headquarters of the Atlantic fleet, must bring to justice and punish any
he savs: "Surelv if there is to be an persons who prevent or obstruct
Atlantic fleet, it ought to be on the working or tne mines, it must aem-
Atiantlc." and selects "Blacksod bay. onstrate its power to nave coal pro
on the west coast of Ireland one cucea. witn or witnout tne consent
of the finest harbors in the world of tle United Mine Workers, the
and the nearest land to America, as American ederation of Labor or any
the best headquarters. He then in other organization. It rnust prove
a letter to the London Times explains that the law of the United States is
his scheme as follows: supreme over tne law oi any private
association, and that the rights of all
the people are superior to the actual
or pretended rights of any associa
tion or any industry.
We hear many vociferous asser
tions of the rights of "the people'
by men and bodies of men who really
mean rights claimed for parts of the
the whole people.
These men are simply enlarged du
plicates of the three tailors of Tooley
street who issued a proclamation in
the name of "We, the people of Eng
land." The people of England did
not accept the rule of the three
tailors, and the people of the United
States do not accept that of their
imitators. The audacity of these iml
tators has grown with continued
weak concessions by the admlnistra
tion for political ends until radicals
have gained control of the labor
unions and use them in an effort to
control the government for the pur
pose jof destroying it. Slowly the
administration has realized the truth
that it has been sowing cockles in
the American wheat field, which
have grown up into a bountiful crop
of I. W. W., non-partisan league, bol
I am going to ask Schwab, of the Beth
lehem Kteel Works, to run a line of huge
passenger steamers (1O0.0O0 tons!) from a
harber outside New York to Blacksod bay,
a new type going 4u mile an hour (big
ness don't signify, to Blacksod bay!).
Then from there he will make a bit of
railway to Achill. Good railway exists
from Achill to Lame. Thirty miles Chan
nel Tube. Lame to Stranraer. Stranraer
Calais to Constantinople direct. Channel People against
lube under Bosphorus. Then Bagdad rail
way direct to Calcutta, and Burma and
China (to Pekin) and Japan (Japanese
tube already projected!) There you are!
The Americans will do it! We are bank
rupt if not in money, yet in enterprise!
Schwab will do it.
"He'll get the ships, he'll get the tubes.
And he'll get the money, too!"
The distance is short across a pen
insula from Blacksod bay to Achill,
whence a railroad runs to Lame in
Antrim, on the northeast coast. The
tube would cross the North channel
to Stranraer, at the head of Loch
Ryan, in the southwest corner of
Scotland. Thence the route to Bag
dad would be complete but for the
tubes under the English channel,
which are now seriously projected,
and the Bosphorus, and the con
struction of the short remaining
stretch of the Bagdad railroad. The
, CVTTINO HOWN ORCHARDS.
In the long run the producer who
!s too much influenced by the breeze
of every " passing public fancy be
t-omes a loser. The report of the state
department of agriculture of Mis
souri, which shows that tho number
of apple trees in that state is only
hnlf as great as it was in 1910, illus
trates tho point. The further state
ment that this year's crop is only
per cent of normal as to quality and
48 per cent as to quantity is also
significant. Deterioration in quality
shows that growers have already be
Iran to neglect their fruit trees, which
Jit the .end is sure to result in fur
ther loss of markets and finally in
destruction of more orchards.
Horticulture in this country ha
passed through several periods com
parable to this one. Within recent
memory there was an epidemic o
uprooting prune orchards, the resul
of a brief period of low prices with
ft poor crop or two, in Washington
and Oregon. How much this has
cost growers it is impossible to esti
mate, but the number who more
recently have been trying to get new
nursery stock and not always getting
it indicate that a good many would
THE LIVESTOCK SHOW.
Looking backward, from the van
tage ground of the splendid livestock
exhibition now being held in the ne.v
building in North Portland, on the
seven previous expositions that have
been held in temporary quarters, one
may wonder that the latter were
tolerated jis long as they were. Yet
the past has furnished its lessons,
one of which has been that the stock
men of the northwest are loyal, al
most to a man, to Portland; that if
they endured inferior quarters and
poor accommodations it was because
they had faith that these would
sooner or later bo remedied; and
that, probably, they saw -through it
all the logic of the event. The ad
vantage to the livestock industry of
holding the annual exposition at this
point has been apparent from the
beginning.
Now, thanks largely to the loyal
co-operation of these men, the real
beginning has been made. From the
dust and mud and ashes of the tents
in which the first shows were held
colossal new building has arisen al
most like magic and the exposition
holds forth in its own home. The ex
position still is, as its successors will
be, a Portland institution in the
sense that it is held in Portland, bu
Portland owes a debt of gratitude to
the exhibitors who lent their aid in
financing the enterprise, and with
out whose constant future help all of
our labor and theirs will come to
naught. Portland, even Oregon, can
not hold a great exposition unas
sisted. All that either can do is to
set the stage ready for the ringing
up of the curtain. If the curtain
ises on empty stalls, the show will
die. There is, however, nothing in
he present situation to justify any
thing but optimism. The showing now
being made, the great number pf en
tries and, in particular, the excellent
quality of the stock on exhibition,
point to permanent and increasing
success.
Geographically, Portland is the
strategic point for the great live
stock exposition of the west. On thu
north, we have the great Canadian
provinces to draw from; on the east
the vast region extending from the
Great Lakes on the north to Arizona
on the south. It is noteworthy that
In the present show there are ex
hibits representing all of the terri
tory mentioned.
When, a few months ago, the ques
tion of adding to the daylight show
of meat and milk animals and draft
horses, a night show for the benefit
ofc saddle, carriage, coach and othe
classes of hunters, roadsters and
work horses, some said that we
lacked the horses, the riders, the
drivers and the horse lovers and en
thusiasts. Hence, said the pessi
mists, such a show would not pros
per here as like events have pros
pered at Chicago, New York and
Kansas City. It was only the argu
ment of guess work; but now we
have the argument of fact to show
that the pessimists were wrong and
the optimists right, for some 4000
paid admissions was the record both
on Monday night and Tuesday night.
A fair estimate for the six nights
woul;i be close to 30,000 admissions.
It is necessary in estimating the
benefits to Portland from holding
these annual affairs to understand
that they are not expected to yield
large or immediate cash dividends.
The stockholders undoubtedly would
be well enough pleased if they even
tually realized 5 or 6 per cent on the
investment. But indirectly, the peo
ple at home perhaps have never be
fore put money into a venture with
more brilliant promise of growth and
stability. Probably no other could
sriusn nave aireauy extenuea mat shevism and anarchism and have
road to Basra, and would have to raised the red rlag above the stars
build another across southern Persia and stl.ipes It has at last set lts
to meet the road which extends half hand to tnc work ot eeparatlng the
way across Baluchistan into India. cockles from the wheat and burning
The old admiral's vaulting ambition tnem. It must make amends for Hs
makes notning oi tne laSK. oi duuo- errors bv doing the iob thorouirhlv.
The coal miners' strike is the first
test of its thoroughness, and the
people all the people, not the vo
ciferous minority watch for results.
ing railroads through Indo-China
nd China to Pekin, and his scheme
stops with Japan, leaving the Pacific
ocean to cross. ' A more northern
oute through Germany, Russia and
Siberia could cross Bering strait to
Alaska by another tube. Then,
time, probabry much time, a railroad
might be built through Alaska, Yu
kon territory and British Columbia
connect with the Canadian and
American railroad systems, and the
flank of the broad Pacific ocean
would be turned.
A suggestion that Fisher was mad
moved his friend. Sir Percy Scott,
who truly predicted the great part
which the submarine would play in
war, to write a letter, in which he
said:
What madness Is there In Lord Fiaher'
proposal? I.Ike all good ideas, it Is very
simple; ne siiKKessts a qui
fc.urope
President Wilson's eagerness to
have Secretary Glass transformed in
to Senator Glass Is explained by his
need of every possible vote in the
senate, also by his need of good poli
ticians and debaters in the upper
house. Mr. Glass proved his value
by steering the federal reserve bill
through the house.
route from
America to Europe and from there to
Japan. His proposal involves a quick
ne of steamers and a few tuues, A quick
ne of steamers only means increase of
ength and engine power, with suitable
Katherine Clemmons Gould inti
mates woman in business will not
succeed while she spends time pow
dering her nose. Nevertheless, the
red nose is not attractive in an of
fice and woman knows it and will
continue to powder. Who blames
her?
No Man's Land. Fine acting, but
poor mug." '
"I should be perturbed." remarked
Eva. "If my face doesn't suit you.
I'll change it. I don't care."
Which is the first chapter.
Chapter two will follow Imme
diately. . .
Today Eva is on her way, plus a
new face, to motion-picture land.
The puffs under the eyes which have
interested the first ten rows many a
night are gone. The chin which used
to sag matronly is as rounded as an
athletic schoolgirl's. The dimples
are faint dents In peachy cheeks.
In a "surgeon's operating room in
New York the miracle came about.
The flesh was drawn tightly upward
and backward from the bones of the
face and a sharp knife applied to
the bulges. A pound, nearly, was
taken out by two incisions. The
scars are covered by the mass of
TUngOay hair.
Eva's two extra chins were next
trimmed down. The operation was
the same in this case.
"This is chapter three, still on the
subject of Eva. A Chicago account
of her departure says:
"Eva Tanguay left here yesterday
in the private car, Columbia, for
Hollywood, Cal., where she has a
magnificent residence, purchased by
her last winter.
Before going west Miss Tanguay
disposed of all ef her holdings in the
east, including real estate in and
around New York city.
Eddie Weber, musical director for
Miss Tanguay, accompanied -'her to
the coast.
Miss Tanguay abandoned an auto
tour across the country because it
was too much of a strain, to engage
the private car for $2100. She en
gaged it so that she could carry two
dogs, a spaniel and a poodle.
Told that she would not be allowed
to take the pupa in a stateroom Miss
Tanguay had reserved, Bhe turned
them over to a woman here to mind.
Next morning she sent for them
again, saying ahe hadn't slept all
night over the thought of her pets
In strange hands. She then hired the
car. and at the last moment was
told she couldn't take the canines
abroad that, either, but she managed
to obtain a special dispensation per
mitting it.
'
George M. Cohan's daughter by his
first 'wife, Ethel Levy, is to make her
debut soon In a London production
called "Mr. Pip Passes," in which
Dion Bouccicault is to star. The girl's
name is Georgette Cohan.
Bronda Fowler has a baby girl,
born November 9, in Connecticut,
where Brenda has married a G. D.
Sherman, a non-professional, and
retired forever from the stage.
Brenda used to be a Baker player,
and later headlined on the Orpheum
with Ethel Clifton. The two girl
wrote the sketches they presented.
progressed so far in hydro-electric
The third reason is
"The action of dominion and provin
cial governments in having the wa
ter possibilities thoroughly investi
gated and intelligently administered
If Mr. Challies put them down in
order of their importance his third
reason should have been first.
Thosj Who Come and Go.
A Los Angeles lawyer is working as
a common sailor on board a ship in
order to qualify himself thorough!;
as chief counsel for the Seamen's un
ion, to defend the federal seamen's
act before the supreme court of the
United States. This is interesting,
whether it be done from devotion to
the cause, a desire for notoriety or
for advertising purposes, says the
Sacramento Bee. But it is scarcely
probable that any Justices of the
court will in like manner seek to Im
prove their ability to understand and
determine tho points in issue. And
it might not be amiss to remark that I creek.
either Andrew Puruseth or Walter
Macarthur could make a better show
ing for the seamen even before the
supreme court than any admitted
lawyer for either is a perfect en
cyclopedia of the maritime laws of
all ages and all countries.
L A. Wright of Union, who is in the
city, is one of the prime movers in
the plan to give I nion a Jio.000 tour
ist hotel. Local business men are back
of the enterprise, and they intend
making the establishment so attrac
tive that tourists over the Columbia
highway will stay over a day or two.
The hotel, which will have a park as
an annex, will be constructed like a
Swiss chalet, with wide porch, fire
places and everything. Mr. Wriaht
is the political boss of his end of the
county, and scarcely anyone thinks of
even oting for the constable without
first consulting L. A., just as years
ago they used to consult his uncle
Tom on matters political.
A postcard addressed to Jungle
town. Or., was delivered to Merton
Kiddle at Island City, after being
mailed in Pennsylvania. When in the
east Mr. Kiddle occasionaly refers to
his home as Jungletown. and someone
who wanted to send him a line
thought that was the right address.
Island City Is on a point of land
formed by a fork of a river, but there
are so many bridges from the main
land to Island City that the word
island has lost its significance. Mr.
Kiddle is at the Imperial. Island City
consists of a store, a flouring mill and
the Kiddle family.
Imbler, which is on a sand ridge
running across the Graiide Ronde val
ley In eastern Oregon, is the head
quarters of Charles Playl. who is in
Portland attending the stock show.
Mr. Playl went into the country about
15 years ago as a renter, but a few
years ago, having a long head, he
bought up some land at a price which
was considered ridiculous, and then
he worked the land so scientifically
that his yield was Immense and peo
ple thought his land better than that
of others, so recently he had no trou
ble In selling out at a big price.
Friends say that Mr. Playl can write
his check in six figures.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br Jn J. Blootaau.
A Washington dispatch says
harbors at ea. h end: there Is no difficulty Joseph M. Rieg, manager of Colum
bia Beach, at Portland, is in Wash-
-well, there is no dif-
about that. Tube;
flculty about them.
Then comes 'J. R. F" with an in
dorsement, saying: "The quick At-
intic route is bound to come. , If we
do not take it up, our American
friends will." He tells of a scheme
concocted in New York for a direct
line from that city to Vigo, Spain,
which would avoid the icebergs and
fogs of Newfoundland and wo'
ington on a tour to investigate
amusement facilities in different
cities of the country. We should
think his tour would end right there.
The only religion that fixes a date
for the end of the world Is that of the
Hindus. According to their faith, the
universe periodically emanates from
and again enters into Brahma. The
period during which the universe
evolves into existence Is called Maxi-
vantara, or a day of Brahma: that
during which It is unmanifested s
Pralaya, or Brahma's night. The for
mer period is divided into four sep
arate' periods, and the world Is sup
posed to be in the last period, which
began 3101 or 3102 B. C. This period
is 432,000 mundane years, of which
6020 have elapsed, so that they figure
the world has 426,980 years still to
exist.
Hebrews give the world but 6000
years to exist, according to their
Talmudlc chronologies, followed by
a reign of peace of 1000 years before 1 chest so that no drives were neces
Clay Shown, who winters 200 or 300
head on a rich meadow on Indian
is attending the livestock
show. He registers from Mitchell,
but lives some distance out. Mr.
Shown Is one of the many people in
that section who came from Ten
nessee and from Mountain city at
that. From the number of people
formerly residents of Mountain City.
Tenn.. the impression exists that
Mountain City must be depopu
lated, but it isn't. And every man
from that part of Tennessee is a red-
hot republican and most of them are
cousins.
Chris Leinenweber. formerly a rep
resentaUvc and later a state senator
for Clatsop county in the legislature.
was in the city yesterday. Also he
has been a member of the city coun
cil at Astoria. Like all the other
residents of that town he Is waxing
enthusiastic over the prospect of
naval base at Tongue Point and
new bridge to be built by the state
highway commission across Youngs
Bay
Three out-of-town bankers are at
the Hotel Oregon. They are Kam H.
Baker of Grants Pass, who signs on
the register that "it's the climate";
C. A. Wlnetrout and Fred I.. Meyers
of La Grande. In Union county during
the war the people got up a war
chest and paid all quotas out of the
THE PICTlHKS , THK 1KS
When the atiiunm laaves are drifting
i:l the brze that hurries by
Where the silt-nt trees are outlined.
sharp and olea- aaainst the sky:
When the airds have all departed.
save a lonely crow or two.
And the brook gleams cold and ste-ly
as It winds the meadows through.
You can see beside the window, while
the rosy twilight wanes.
Troops of little ferry fairies, painting
pictures on tne panes.
ficttires of enhanted forerts. filled
with weird and spectral light.
Every boueh an arch of jcwtls. every
blossom frosty white
Pictures of amaaing cities such as
only fairies see
In the world beyond the rainbow
inat is closed to you and me.
Fictures of astounding creatures, un
like any that we know:
Birds with sparkling, frosted feath
ers, beasts built ail of spotless
snow.
Wrapped in snug and cold-proof man
tles to and fro the fairies pass
Wielt.ing tirw, skillful brushes on
the smooth and shining glass.
All night long their filmy fuiests and
slim-towered cities rise.
Till the morning star is hanging like
a lantern in the skies.
Then they pack their pain's and van
ish, anl wa ll seek for them in
vain
Till the sunshine of tomorrow fades
their picture irem the pane.
Oft we wonder as we waken from
some fas'inatirc- dream
Of a Jewelled cobweb forest and a
slender, silver stream
That we're sure that we remember
where, in -his dull world of ours.
We have ever chanced to wander
throusrh such bright and filmy
bowers.
N'ever even half-suspecting that we
saw them long- ago
On the panes the fairies painted in
the winter twilight's glow.
the last judgment. The Mohamme
dans believe the end of the world
a secret known to God only. They
say the angel Gabriel admitted his
Ignorance of it when asked by Mo.
hammed.
e
Mount Ararat, the celebrated moun
tain upon which, according to tradi
tion, the Ark rested when the flood
abated, is situated in Armenia, form
lng the point of contact of Russia
with Turkey and Persia, to all ot
which countries it belongs, the sum
mit belonging to Russia. It rises, an
isolated cone, on the southern border
of the plain of Aras, or Araxes. South
east irom Monnt Ararat proper, or
the Great Ararat, rises the Little
Ararat, their summits in a direct line
being about seven miles apart, and
sary. Mr. -Meyers was one
keepers of the war chest.
of the
Somebody has to be the goat when
a football team doesn't win its
game. Hence, indications of a good
u1(j many changes among the coaches of
lUULUUM
Pacific coast conference
teams next season.
Oregon firs are going to Peru to
be Christmas trees, and Oregon can
furnish the world wiih the real ar
ticle, something much "better than
the "shrubbery" that is used of ne-
connect with European railroads.
Seeing danger ot diversion of com
merce from Britain, he proposes a
new harbor on the northeast coast of
Newfoundland, a railroad already-
built across that island leading to
Cape Ray, whence a train ferry
wnuld run nrrnss Cabot straie-ht to
Cape Breton on the mainland. This p-11''
t-(, 1 1 1 (. wrtiilri itrmd tne foffs and
would eliminate the sea vovaire oar- An allegation in a complaint for
allel to the American coast to New divorce by a wife the other day was
Vnrk which is one-third of the that the husband had been at home
trans-Atlantic trip. This, with Lord Dn'y 1410 ingnia in iuur years, ddock
fisher's big ships, would bring us "K;
"within measurable distance of a
three-day crossing.
Judging from the quantities of
seized liquor that were being held
for "personal use," there are a few
men who expect to live to be as old
as Methusaleh.
Reports of the high cost of living
In the Arctic should be taken with a
little salt. We haven't noticed any
advance in the quotations on walrus
blubber. .
DUAL WITH FACTS. NOT FORMS.
Nominally and officially, the strike
of bituminous miners has been called
off; actually and unofficially, the
strike is still on. Formally the offi
cers "of the Cnited Mine Workers
have obeyed the order of Judge An
derson to revoke the strike order;
actually, the members of the union
have not taken that action to be an
order to resume work, or have
chosen to disregard it If that were
the intent, or have received some
secret instructions by underground
wire to give no heed to it. Osten
sibly, the strike club, removal of
which was demanded by the opera
tors as a condition of going into con
ference WMth the miners, has been
removed: acluallv. that club still
hangs over the heads of operators Idaho nonpartisans must find
and people in the shape of general nr Wa8 to "raise the wind" than
.nvn.ion of rni nmrinriion .nri by suin the Boiise Statesman and
imminent coal famine. Operators
Remember when you thought 2h
cents a good price for turkey? All
right. Ready? Just shut your eyes
and double it with a grin this year.
'Plan sweeping war on Reds' an
nounces a contemporary headline
That's exactly the kind of war that
is needed. Fweep them out.
' Frank Gooding for libel.
and miners have met in conference,
but a week has expired and thy
have not got down to business.
The people are not concerned with
the outward appearances presented
by the documents on file in the fed
eral court at Indianapolis and by
the meetings of miners and opera
tors in. conference at Washington.
They are concerned with the con
Crete fact that the miners are not at
work and that coal is not being pro
duced. That fact points to formal
compliance with, but actual defiance
of. the order of the court. This is
defiance of the law, of the govern
ment, which is the people of the
United States. Various circumstances
indicate that some influence is at
work to prevent miners from resum
ing work wherever they.show a dis
i position to do so. Those at some of
A Ives Anderton, one of the four
survivors of company A of the 308th
infantry, which was wiped out with
the exception of the four men. Is
the Imperial, with Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
Farnard, of Fossil. Mr. Anderton is
the son of Mrs. Barnard. Mr. An
derton and Mr. Bernard are after
some Polled Angus cattle to improve
their herds.
H. P. Thompson, at the Hotel Port
land, is out of a job for the rex
seven mouths. Mr. Thompson has
been selling pneumatic tires for auto
mobi les, but owing to the number
orders, the nhortage of labor and the
di ff iculty of securing enough rubber,
the head office sent put word for him
to lay off until next June.
Lumbermen are thick at the Hote
their bases blending into each other Portland at present. Among those on
He 1,1 mi 14 Hi Drmandi to Altar-
and Kirea.
Marco DOzsrip was the first strike
leader, but he never mentioned a five-
hour day or a dollar an hour.
They'll Do Anything or Publicity.
TVAnnunsio's new play Is to be
produced next month. Now we begin
to ui.oersiana.
Wholly on the Level.
The late election did not appear
to be a buy -elect ion.
(Copyright. 1&19. by The Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
Lepers.
By (irire K. Hall.
Oh, why are the lepers allowed to
stray
From the haunts of the lepr fold.
When their grievous plight and Us
awful blight
Is a terror olten told?
Vet they roam st will, and their
cu rte it spread
O'er t lie Innocent, every day:
We j-enne th'jir coming In fear and
dread
The lepers that pass our way.
I call them lepers the ones who
dwell
Tailoring the waters fresh.
Where the aqua flow of th spring
and well
Are bnlm to the human flesh;
Lepers. I nay. who grovel and sweat
In the filth of their reeking clay.
And force on the cleanly, without re
gret. Aroma, tiiat hints decay!
I say they are lepers, befouling the
earth.
Let them wash and be clean, or re
main Away from the cleanly, thus showing
some w.rtti.
Respect lng mother man's claim.
If you doubt my assertion that lepers
they be.
As they pi bow about in each scene.
Let your olfactory tell by the surft
sense of smell
And t will shout the old warning,
"Unclean !'
Ruth Chatterton's play, "In the
Merrie Month of May,' was rechris
tened for the New York presentation.
It is now "Moonlight and Honey
suckle." Reports say that it is not
proving a success and will end its
run this month.
"Llghtnln" will remain at the
Qalety in New York until June, when
Frank Bacon has completed arrange
ments' to lift the company intact
across the continent to San Fran
cisco without a break in the tour.
Frank Bacon is so beloved In San
Francisco and the play itself is such
gem, that the engagement there
could extend way into the summer,
This will be Mr. Bacon's realization
of a dream he cherishes to show the
people where he was born and
raised, his first New York starring
success.
Dan Bruce and Margot Duffet, who
both used to be Baker players, are
on Keith's vaudeville circuit in the
east. They have a sketch called
Thru the Keyhole," written for
them by Hilliard Booth. Its a
comedy, with a novelty surprise
climax and the attractive Marget has
a swarm of smart clothes.
.
William Rock is coming to us this
winter over the Orpheum. He used
to be with Maude Fulton and later
with Frances White in vaudeville.
Now he has a new act.
.the register are C. L. Hall of Chicago
representing the Hines Lumber com
pany, which has yards all over th
country: A. C. Dixon, manager of th
Booth-Kelly company, at Eugeno;
J. P. Mcaoldrick and W. X?. Ryan of
Spokane, and Huntington Taylor of
I Coeur d'Alene.
With a check for the Gilliam county
by the Interposition of a wide valley.
The summit of Great Ararat rises
17,325 feet above sea level. It is cov
ered with perpetual snow and ice for
about three miles from its summit
downward in an oblique direction. The
summit of Little Ararat rises to
height of 12,840 feet, and its decliv
ities are much steeper than those of quota for the Roosevelt memorial. Dr.
In Other Days.
A Bend jury holds that every dog
is entitled to one bite. Presume they
don't mean to extend the same cour
tesy to rattlesnakes.
The dollar Mex. is actually worth
a dollar at last. It probably is the
last of the despised list to come Into
its own.
The high cost of living is not likely
to come down a great deal until the
cost of profiteering is made higher.
Three thousand Shriners In town
today, and but a shadow of a com
ing event.
Owing to shortage of grasshoppers
Blanche Ring's son, Gordon Mc
Nichel, was married last week in
New York to Hallie Manning, one of
the dancers in William Rock's act.
w
Those two perennials, Kolb and
Dill, are preparing to resume their
activities some time in December in
a new show, "The Cellar Fienda,"
written by Max Dill, with the lyrics
and musiv by Jean Have
Daphne Polland will spend the
Christmas tide with relatives of her
husband in Seattle. Daphne Is - the
diminutive comedienne from Aus
tralia by way of San Francisco, who
has been a big hit in Joy Bells"
the musical revue at the London
Hippodrome.
A Salt Lake City girl. Wanda
Lyons, Is in the London 4,Joy Bells"
show. Wanda was playing In Port
land on Pantages circuit as ope of
the girly girls in one of the usua
girly girl acts when Al Jolson, who
was appearing at the Hetllg, gave
her a place in his company.
Ta-Vear-Old Bey Waatcd."
PORTLAND, Nov. 19. (To the Edi
tor.) If the person writing In the
Sunday Orcgonian and signing "Read
er," inquiring about a Doy win teie
last summer, lurxey comes mga this -phone Marshall stfti we will try to
year. . J help iu the selection, NEIGHBOR,
the Great Ararat. The summit of
Great Ararat was reached by Profes
sor Parrot In 1S29, and since that time
by Bryce and others.
Talus, the Greek, is said to have
Invented the saw from having once
found the jawboneof a snake, which
he employed to cut through a small
piece of wood In early periods the
trunks of trees were spit into boards
with wedges, and although these
deals were not always straight, they
were regarded as much better suited
to construction than sawn boards, be
cause they followed the grain and
lasted longer and were stronger. Wa
tcr mills for the purpose of sawing
came into use in the fourth century.
The smallest circular saw in the
world now in actual use is a tiny
disc less than the fourth of an Inch
in diameter, used in a famous jew
elry establishment for slitting gold
pens. It Is about the thickness of a
sheet of writing paper and revolves
at the rate of 4000 revolutions per
minute. The high velocity keeps
the saw rigid, notwithstanding Its
thinness. "
Paper was invented and paper mills
were in operation in China long be
fore the days of the Pharaohs
Egypt, when the people of the latter
highly civilized nation were content
to use papyrus, a poor, unsubstantial
and perishable article made from
strips of reed, according to the Kan
sas City Star.
An ingenious Chinaman hit upon the
idea of reducing Tags to a pulp, mix
ing the latter with plenty of water.
pouring the diluted mixture out upon
a frame, and permitting it to dry
slowly in sheets. The same meth
od Is used today, substantially, in
making paper.
All the books of the Bible were
Originally written on papyrus. Parch
ment was not known In Rome until
the first century of the Christian
era. No paper was used In PI u rope
until the tenth century, except what
was Imported from Asia.
"I have a stupid lot of students
this year," said a professor of chem
istry, gloomily. "Here s a paper
which shows plainly that the boy
who wrote It does not understand
that expansion and contraction are
contradictory terms." "They are not
always, said a professor of econom
ics, quietly. "Now, in my classes 1
find It necessary to state explicitly
the fact that the constant contraction
of debts is sure to result in their ex
pansion."
J. W. Donnelly arrived at the Benson
yesterday. "It was the easiest drive
I ever had anything to do with." saya
the mayor of Arlington, "and Gilliam
county could have doubled its quota
with just as little effort."
S. S. Smith, the most enthusiastic
republican in Medford and the sur
rounding country, is registered at the
Hotel Portland. When Mr. Smith first
moved into Jackson county repub
licans were so scarce that they kept
under cover, but now the democrats
are keeping out of sight.
In 18S0 R. N. Donnelly deserted
Mountain City, Tenn.. and went to
Wheeler county. Oregon. He registers
when in Portland from Richmond, but
he ranches on Shdo Fly creek, where
he conducts a sheep industry. Yes.
he is here for the stock show, too.
President of the Pine Box company
of Grants Pass, I. A. Robie, is at the
Multnomah. The manufacture of pine
boxes In Grants Pass has been an in
dustry there for 30 years or more.
The townslte was once covered with
pine trees and they have all disap
peared into boxes.
U. S. Grant butted into the goat
game years ago and now he Is presi
dent of the National Mohair Growers'
association. Mr. Grant, who is a
pioneer goater in Oregon, lives at
Dallas and is In the city to attend the
livestock exnlblt.
Former Representative William
Potter and Fred Waters, both of
Spray, are in town for the stock
show. Like most of the stockmen
who are here to see the animals, how
ever, they "devote a good deal of their
time to the hotel lobbies,
Raiser of pure bred stock and own
er of some 8000 or 10.000 acres. Will
iam Reddy of Fossil is in the city for
the week, attracted by the came mag
net that is bringing a world of stock
men to Portland.
William Crawford, cashier of the
Condon National bank, and Mart
Blakley, a wealthy stockman also of
Condon, are at the Multnomah to see
the stock show.
C. F. Loweth, chief engineer for
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad, registered from Chicago at
the Multnomah yesterday with R. J.
Mlddleton of Seattle.
T. A. Johnson, proprietor of the Fos
sil Mercantile company, is at the Ho
tel Oregon, being one of a bunch of
Fosilitc who are here Xo see the
animals at the show.
E. L. Coburn. county clerk of Jo
sephine county, is at the Imperial. He
comes from Grants Pass.
D. M. Ward, an old timer from
Heppner, is at the Hotel Oregon. The
stock show is the reason.
R. J. Ginn, merchant of Moro. is
among the arrivals at the Perkins.
Twenty-fiv Years Ago.
From The Oresonian of November I!0. 1S04.
St. Petersburg. The body of the
late czar was laid to rest in the tomb
of his f a thers. beneath the fortress
cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint
Paul, today.
The Northern Pacific officials who
arrived Sunday finished their busi
ness and departed for Tacolna at 11:30
o'clock last night.
At the next meeting of the commit
tee of 100 the committee on revision
of the city charter will make its re
port, recommending big reductions In
salaries and entire elimination of the
councllmen from the salary list.
The floors of the Portland Savings
bank will not open this morning, the
institution1 having been ordered
closed for the second time in its his
tory.
Fifty Years Ago
From The Oregon la.n of November 20. ISHft.
New Yor It is stated that Jeff
Davis does not intend to settle In
America: that he merely went to Mis
sissippi to settle his private affairs
and will then join his family in
London.
Wash I n gt on. The Alabama legis
lature yesterday ratified the fifteenth
amendment.
United States Marshal Young will
today sell. Under decree of the United
States circuit court, some beautiful
building spots, situated in the very
center of the most delightful section
of the city.
From St. Helens comes word that
the sawmill of Francis Perry on Mil
ton creek was carried away by a
flood while Perry and his sons were
in the mill.' They escaped without injury.
0 DISHESPKCT SHOV TO Kl-A-
Stars and Strlprn Dfxplayed at Irish
Meeting.
SALEM, Or.. Nov. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregonian's report of
the meeting of Americans of Irish
birth and descent held in Portland
on Saturday evening in nonor oi
President De Valera of the Irish re
public there appears to be an Intima
tion, as we view it, that there was
an intent to slight the flag of the
United States and the principles for
which it stands and that the flag
of the Irish republic was not in the
Auditorium. This Is an error and
from well known independence of
your paper we think was thought
lessly made.
Permit me to say as an American
born citixen and pioneer of Oregon. I
would not preside at any meeting
which did not have the greatet-t re
spect and loyalty for the flag of our
country and the principles and tradi
tions it represents.
The flag of the Irish republic
draped the speaker's stand in th
Auditorium.
The other and only flag that wan
there was the stars and stripes which
we love and revere.
P H. D'ARCY,
Chairman De Yaleia MecMii.