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6 TITE 3rORXIXG OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAT, XOVE3IBER 24. 1919. ETABLlliUKD BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. PuDl'thed by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. 15 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. 'C A. MORDEX, E. B. PIPER Manager. iditor. . The Oregonian In a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is -exclusively entitled to the use for puouca--tlon of ali news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana also the local news published herein. AH rights of republication ot special dispatches .herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ?'S? Daily, Sunday included, six months .... 4,-o Daily, Sunday included, three months. . .- Daily, Sunday included, one month .... -Jo Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.O0 Daily, without Sunday, six months .... 2.'o Daily, -without Sunday, one month. ..... -oO "Weekly, one year l-0 Sunday, one year - Sunday and weekly 3.o0 (By Carrier.) 'Dally. 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W. is not cause for de portation, but that the accused must have advocated or done something or must have conspired to do some thing in violation of law in order to merit deportation, reduces the law to impotence as a means of ridding the country of its enemies by depor tation. That is abundantly proved by the figures produced at the In quiry by a congressional committee !in New York. What protection is there against revolutionists when only 25 out of 64 persons ordered deported from Seattle, only 60 out of 697 arrested in the whole country be tween February 7 and November 1, have actually been deported? Proof is conclusive that the I. W. W. is a revolutionary conspiracy and that every person who becomes a member pledges himself to work for its revolutionary ends. Hence'mem- i "hership is in itself cause for deporta tion of aliens. So long as the gov ernment adheres to the present prac tice of the immigration bureau, such a campaign to round up the I. V. V. as has been made on the Pacific coast is wasted labor, like pouring water through a sieve. The only way . to rid the country of this pest is, once an I. W. W. is caught, to hold him until he is in an American peni tentiary or on board an outward bound ship. U The blame does not lie with the "ield officers of the immigration ser vice: they have worked with com mendable zeal to gather in every I. . W. W. and bolshevist alien In this '..country and have done all that lay in their power to send the pests across the ocean. The blame rests with the - executive heads of the bureau and -with their superiors at the head of the labor department, who turn loose --to resume their evil work nine out of '. every ten of the men who are placed . under arrest. Real Americans are ,-wanted in the place of these officials -with parlor bolshevist proclivities. " No time should be wasted about "amending the law. The house can do its part while the senate consid ers the railroad bill, and the senate - can act on it as soon as that bill is out of the way. near its end, and that letter evinced j a determination that peace shduld j be made by the democratic party. In view of Mr. Wilson's unquestioned mastery over that party; this meant that it should be made by him. He had contended, In act if not in word, that the war should be run by the democratic party, though he sum moned the whole nation to fight the war, and it nobly responded. The terms of the treaty and the grave ob ligations of the covenant must be fulfilled by all of the people, not solely by the democratic party. As sumption by one party of the ex clusive right to conduct a war which the whole nation must fight and to conclude a treaty which the whole nation must fulfill is a frank invita tion, indeed a provocation, to criti cism and party controversy. These may be restrained by patriotism while danger to the nation is im minent, but they Inevitably break loose when the danger is past, as it was believed to be, but was not, on Armistice day. We now realize from the perils which threaten both from within and without that the danger is not yet past and that we need the same unity of action as when we were actually at war. From this realization should spring a decision of the people that never again shall a foreign war be made and a treaty ending such a war be made as a party enterprise. The people should, and probably will, demand, with their customary grasp of realities, that in face of danger to the nation's life, their unity of action shall reach to the top and that "all the ablest and best men of all par ties shall be summoned to share the highest responsibilities of making war and peace, and they will con demn Mr. Wilson for not having fol lowed that course. In that event, never again will a president write such letters as he wrote, summoning the people to a party standard when the only summons should be to the national standard. THE REATj ISSUE ABOUT THE TREATY. If President Wilson should at . tempt to make the treaty of Versail les the main political issue ot the campaign, he will find that state . ments of two senators are unanswer- able proof that a very different issue ' is before the people. Both of these A COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY. It is virtually certain that capital punishment will be restored in Ore gon at the next general election. That is well enough as far as it goes, but it is not sufficient cause. for the public now to sit back at its ease and view with complacency the era of law breaking that exists. Reenactment of capital punishment is a matter for the future. It cannot be accomplished short of November, 1920. And when accomplished it will reach only the crime of murder. Nor Is the capture of the Claremont murderers a cause for renewal of apathy. Their quick apprehension may shake the nerve of other crim inals for a few days. Crimes may diminish for a short period, but there is no reason to believe that the men caught are the only criminals oper ating in Portland or that the un caught will not soon resume their op erations. There must be a concerted cam paign in Portland against criminality of all kinds against burglary, against sneak-thievery, against high- waymanry, against bootlegging, against reckless driving of automo biles. The householder who today leaves his home for a few hours returns ex pecting to find that it has been en tered and robbed during his absence. The pedestrian .at night avoids the dark streets, shifts his purse and fears the -approach of any stranger; the careful automobile driver is in constant apprehension that his car will be mashed and he perhaps in jured, through fault of some reckless driver. There is need for- an aggressive policy in which the public does its share. The Oregonian renews its suggestion made yesterday that the public organize itself into a commit tee of public safety, and In co operation with the authorities, devise a system of espionage, of protection, and of apprehension of malefactors. fers one a fully equipped building with blacksmith shop and tools. Sev eral towns want men to run scores or hotels, jNortn Bend being in urgent need of the latter. There are opportunities for young tinen to grow up with the country. and by supplying the wants men tioned the cities will help the country to grow up. Newcomers from the well settled east and middle west, where everything needed for ordinary emergencies is close at hand, might reasonably hesitate to settle in a place that is several hours' journey from a doctor or an automo bile repair shop, and thus a good set tler may be lost. The man who sup plies these requisites will help the place to grow up, and his fortune will grow with it. Men too readily assume that all the opportunities have been taken, when the instances mentioned show that they bob up every day for the man whose eyes are open. PATIENCE WORTH. Reappearance of "P a 1 1 e n c e Worth," supposed to have been a young New England maiden who de parted this life some 350 years ago, and now arousing more or less curi ous interest in metaphysical circles in the east, was timed to fill a de mand such as is described in Robert Hichens' latest novel, "Mrs. Marden." 'And so," says the medium of the story, "i began .to give the people what they wanted." This medium is frankly a humbug, but strangely and not altogether inconsistently he is a humbug who believes. The dis tinction is one that has been over looked by both sides in the recent discussion of matters spiritualistic. Mr. Hichens has no difficulty in making his medium a pathetic figure, even while "exposing" him. After all, why should not there be some consideration for a man who tries, even for pay, to satisfy the spiritual longings of a people bereaved by war The large number of books on re ligion, and especially on spiritualism exceeding In some printed lists the number of books on the war itself, printed since the war came to a nominal close, indicates a state of mind which accounts at the same time for the new interest in "Pa tience Worth" and her earthly amanuensis, Mrs. Curran. Patience, be it known to those who have not followed her recent manifestations, customarily employs the ouija board as -a means of communication. She has written, or dictated, a number of formidable books and some verse through this method. Two thous and words in an afternoon have been a not-uncommon stint; one day the record was 12,000 words. That good deal of the product has been commonplace does not rob it of an other exceptional quality. For mere volume, considering the -mechanical limitations of the ouija board, it Is amazing. If not from Patience Worth herself, then Mrs. Curran is a remarkable woman. One need only try it himself to realize this. The difficulty of the work has been voluntarily, and perhaps need lessly, increased, if it is wholly that poetry with Patience's ease and ra pidity. And in so sighing, Mr. Mas ters disabuses the minds of many of the notion that he writes free verse because it comes more easily than the other kind. "Set thy handmaid a task," says Patience, quaintly, again, and then proceeds to Indite, ouijawise, the following to that still more modern institution, the Red Cross: Scarlet emblem, bluhsing symbol. Pillow of the godhead, where his regal brow bended And it wept tears which burned the eyes. Blushing symbol, bathed In mercy. What man may stand before It But he that raise his hands palm up. And his heart leap and he remember Nazareth, the birth of love. And Golgotha, Its culmination. One may admit that the verse Is remarkable without pretending to know precisely what it means. And one may hold to the position taken by Dr. Hyslop, that it Is altogether "highly interesting psychological problem" without taking sides on the issue whether the medium is sin cere or insincere. A good deal of new interest un doubtedly has been awakened di rectly because of the war and the bereavements it has caused, and much of it may deserve the charac terization which Mr. Hichens has given it in "Mrs. Marden" of "mys-tery-mongering." The interesting phase of it all, to the investigating scientist, is likely to be the psycho logy of the crowd, rather than the mystery of the manifestation. Mr. Hichens gives us something to think t bout with his suggestion that "there is something else besides folly to every human manifestation." Lodge, Doyle and Crooks may not have ob tained precisely that which they think they have, yet, as one of the characters in "Mrs. Marsden says. men of their calibre are not fools.' And as he goes on: "This war, which is doing so many strange things to the world, is turning frivolous and hitherto materially-minded men and women toward the beyond. I turn with them. Kuripides said, 'Who knows if life be not death and death be not life?" And I say, too who knows?" BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES Airplanes for forest patrol have proved such a success that much larger use of them should be made next year, especially as the experi ence thus gained in peace will prove valuable In war. They might also help in pursuing wobblies and other criminals. The tragedy at a dance hall at Ville Platte, La., is one more lesson in the necessity of wide doors and wde stairs to places of entertain ment. These lessons have to be re peated from time to time, always at the cost of human life. A Portland man has invented a gas barrage device to protect safes from safe crackers, but humanely declares he will use only tear gas and not the poison kind. -ine saie cracitem would appreciate the joke more if he used laughing gas. Victims of burglars who get away of the medium herself, by the pose with sums under a hundred dollars of Patience as a sixteenth century might be ahead in those amounts it spirit. Certain archaic forms of die- they had checking accounts instead tion which persist in her communi- I of keeping the money in bureaus ana cations and which are said to have trunks where the robbers give tnei withstood philological criticism, must I first "once over. necessarily constitute a severe tax on the medium. Patience talks in the President Wilson has told his opin language of a bygone time. The ion of Carranza so often that h quaintness of her "wouldsts" and knows it by this time. Nothing can 'thys," her antiquated handlings of I influence him except what Mr. W 11 the grammar and syntax of the lan- I son may do to him, but there is a guage, undoubtedly lend piquancy striking absence of deeds. and mystery to the whole adventure. Those who agreed with Dr. Hyslop, The veto which the German gov head of the Psychical Research so- ernment has put on comment on th ciety, when he said of- one of . the senate's failure to ratify the treaty earlier Patience Worth books that I is prompted no doubt by fear lest too Seattle Writer Informs on Mayor Baker's Legal Learning-. "Mayor George Baker of Portland Is a lawyer," positively, asserts "The Stroller" in the Seattle Argus. "Tears ago, before Mayor Baker was even Councilman Baker, The Stroller .had some business dealings with him. The Stroller had contracted with Manager Baker to do a certain thing. Another party secured a court 1 injunction to prevent its being done. Mayor Baker's lawyer was ill. " T am a lawyer,' said Manager Baker. 'Me to the courts. "After Mr. Baker had made a more or less able statement of the cas anyhow, as able as it was possible for him to make the judge made the temporary injunction permanent. And then Mr. Baker and The Stroller hunted rip the sick lawyer and stated the case to him. 'The court,' said he, 'had no busi ness issuing such an injunction. It is absolutely illegal. Just act as if ou had never heard of it, and Mon day when I am better I will get it dissolved.' "We did and he did, and that was the end of the case. . I am constrained to tell that story through reading in the "secular" press that Mayor Baker wants some more aws passed, and I would suggest to him that perhaps, as was the case years ago, he is more in need of lawyers than of laws." There is no better test of a man's bigness than his way of handling sub ordinates who make mistakes, says a writer in the Boston Post. J. Pierpont Morgan, the elder, had a clerk who, living beyond his means. sought to make up the balance through speculation, and. having failed, helped himself to the firm's money. The culprit was called into Mr. Morgan's private office. He expected arrest. Instead, he was told to go home and tell his wife all about it. "And tomorrow morning," said Mr. Morgan, "see me again." The clerk obeyed, and Mr. Morgan, to the young fellow's amezement. handed him in bills the full amount of his peculation $5400 with: "Put that back where you took the other from. It is a loan from me, and I expect you to return it as soon as you can. None of the other clerks know anything about it. Let me see if you can't be a man." After many months the youngster restored to Mr. Morgan the last dol lar of the debt. AfteP counting the pile of bills on his desk, to which he had added t'.iose just given him, Mr. Moj-gan observed: "Well, my boy, it was a bit harder saving it than losing it, I'll warrant. Now take It home and give it to your wife. It's a safe bet that she saved most of it." Thos j Who Come and Go. With a Kick in It. B7 I. t. 1). much joy should cause it to ratify after all DANGEROUS JOKES. In the category of practical jokes there are several that ought to be strictly taboo. They are the staged statements come from the men who , "oia-up me laite ponce ram, tne desire that the treaty be ratified, and stunt oi tne swimmer wno pretenas each corroborates the conclusion to . be drawn from the other, that Mr. the facts necessary to establish Pa tience Worth are deliberately omitted from the book, evidently because they could not stand the light of day," I The trirl who leaped into the river nevertheless will concede that Pa- m an effort to commit suicide, and tience is a -piece of rather clever was rescued by the police, now has craftsmanship, if not humbuggery. I an offer of marriage. In other words, Patience is entertaining. Her in-1 this time she may plunge into the consistencies provide for that. AI- I sea of matrimony. though she prefers not to use modern forms of speech, leading us to believe that spirits do not keep pace with changes on this sphere of ours, she ; Wilson prevented ratification. One of these statements was made by Senator McNary, leader of the moderate reservationists, who have " been ready to unite with the presi- dent's supporters in favor of reserva tions which would not have weak ened the treaty in any respect. It is: I have no doubt that the treaty would have been ratified during the day that congress ud.iourned, had it not been for , . the president's letter to the democratic , . members of the -senate, wherein he da ' clared that the acceptance of the resolu tions of ratification would result in null 1 fication rather than ratification of the treaty. Thin letter had the effect of withholding from the support of the reso .. lutton a sufficient number, of democrats - to defeat the treaty. The other declaration was made '.' bv Senator Hitchcock, leader of the . democrats in the treaty fight, and the man to whom the president sent the letter to which Mr. McNary re ferred. An Associated Press dispatch quotes him as "reiterating his- belief that ratification would yet be ac coinplished" but as saying that reser - vations were "inevitable." Reservations were as inevitable on November 1 9 as they were when Mr. - Hithcock spoke. They would have ; been made and the treaty would have been ratified but for that letter of ; Mr. Wilson, which "had the effect of withholding from the support of the - resolution- a sufficient number of democrats to defeat the treaty." " That proves that, when the treaty controversy is discussed by the peo- pie in the campaign, the real ques ir tion before them will not be as to the merits of the treaty, especially the league covenant, and of the res- " ervations: it will be as to whether " the senate should submit to executive " dictation or should exercise its inde . pendent judgment as a co-ordinate branch of the treaty-making power. - The question will be whether the - people shall approve or condemn the r action of a large body of senators in t converting themselves into rubbe - stamps in the hands of the president - for no other reason than that they are members of the same political . party as he. The voters will ask: If . the senate is to make ratification of ; the acts of the president a merely - formal matter of course, in what better condition are we, under this " one-man power, than the subjects of ; the autocrat against whom we . fought? The popular verdict will not be " rendered on the acts of the last day " or the last few days of the senate's " deliberations. It will be rendered on the whole chain of acts, extending back at least to the letter of the - president, written In October, 191S. asking the peoplj to elect a demo cratic congress. The war was then he is drowning and that frequent practice of inducing newspapers to print a limited number of copies for private circulation containing some scandalous article. Nearly all soon or late injure or plague the perpe trators or persons whom they were not intended to amuse. The staged hold-up causes men sometimes to resist the -real desper ado; the fake police raid, when par ticipated in by real oficers dimin ishes public confidence-in the sober ness of law and in the Industry of the department; the swimming joke smith often causes rescuers to neg- ect those in real need of assistance: he humorously published scandal frequently gets into the hands of those by whom it was not intended that it should be seen and is taken seriously. J. N. Burgess, who was killed at Claremont tavern, refused to obey the command of a desperado because he thought it was a joke. Mr. Bur gess had spent his life in a stock- raising country where men work hard and in their leisure moments are often given to rude pranks. If he had not himself seen or known personally of robbery fakements he had undoubtedly read of them. Everybody has. Some practical joker somewhere is an accessory to' the two Claremont murders. The practical joke is ever a dan gerous plaything. But there are some types of it that should be let relig iousiy alone by all stuntsters, for their own future peace of mind. Give the police bureau credit for more good work, while all criminals cannot be arrested instanter. the shows in other ways that she has force can be depended upon to solve Deen Keeping nerseii miormea oi what mav be called "blind" cases, tne progress oi events, tjnnging to tne etymology or loau. sne nevertne- y,0 -a-y,n tiw.nitine- a car. less is not taken aback by twentieth accepts a ride on a slippery morning century happenings. She knows who a chance. The street car may jugar jee -wasters is, ana nas a mi n n(1 crowded, but it 4erse reauy at jur. masters re- seldom skids and overturns. ijUCaL, LU U1U9U uil LUiiceniiCK VV 11- OPPORTCNITIES STILL, OPEN. An example of the kind of service which the Oregon Chamber of Com merce renders to the smaller towns and villages of the state is, to be found in its latest news letter. It tells the opportunities offered by various towns for industries, but it also tells of the needs of small communities for some of the indispensables of civ ilized life. The most striking of these is doc tors and druggists. Only one who has lived in the country where towns are far apart realizes what it means not to be able to call a doctor or pro cure medicine without a day's jour ney, involving delay which in some cases may mean death. Such a place is Flora, which "has neither a drug store nor a doctor," though it is forty miles from the railroad at En terprise, and a doctor "would serve a section twenty or thirty miles' in each direction." Boardman is in the same position, the nearest'physician being at Hermiston. Garage men also are in demand. Ruby, on the Jordon Valley irriga tion project, wants one, and May ville, on the John Day highway, of- liam Marion Reedy of St. Louis, and a bit of repartee for Dr. Hyslop, who seems to have gone to scoff without remaining to pray. The mission of the Red Cross is no news to her. In every respect except her diction she seems to have kept up- to date. In the presence of that most modern of modern personages, Ethel Barry more, she is as much at home as we can imagine her in her own drawing- room, among spirits of her own cen tury and her own choosing. We do not wonder that the re porters recorded after a recent seance that "Dr. Hyslop listened with slightly enigmatical, worried expres sion, and "admitted that there was an extraordinary psychological phe nomenon" involved in the case of Patience Worth. Perhaps this devil dog of psychological research owed part of his worry to the fact that Patience, who must have heard the doctor'" opinion of her, instead of using words of recrimination in dited, off-hand, the following: Through that vast vale, black, pitlike, Wouldst thou hold a taper? Is that yearning born of truth. Kating thy heart with hungry anticipation That thou shouldst leave a beacon upon the sands? Yet, O had thou beheld the regal bark of day r Floating upon the sea of eternity And no beacon light, no chart! In benediction do I bow before thee. It will be admitted that the "come back," to use the vernacular of our day, as Patience does that of hers. was rather neat, and that it ought to account sufficiently for Dr. Hys- lop's worried look. Fourteen "poems' in an hour, of which the foregoing is a fair specimen, are a creditable output for either spirit or medium. Take, for further example, the fol lowing, produced in answer to Mr. Masters' request for something about Mr. Reedv: He who -epeaketh with a barbed tongue, direct as an arrow; He whose eyes are pits, deep as midnight and as coverings; He whoso heart is the tabernacle, yea the sanctuary ot all men That Is great news that the two miners entonioea a ween Dy a cave in at Mullan are alive, with the strong probability of seeing daylight before many days pass. The administration has sent an other of its "sharp" notes to Car ranza. And his reply, no doubt, will be another protest against being slapped on the wrist. A certain wag once said (he has since died) that there are three things a man should do in private washing, marrying and eating breakfast. This is a solemn truth. Washing Is an act of purification, marriage Is an act of dedication and breakfast is an act of contemplation. For the first two privacy is preferable; to contempla tion it is necessary. Co writes Rich ardson Wright in Atlantic Monthly. One cannot contemplate and be polite surrounded by a family. He must have leisure and privacy. When a man props a newspaper before him at breakfast, he Is rarely avid for news; the paper is merely to shield against intrusion. Wives should un derstand this. But because many of us do not appreciate leisure and pri vacy we really do not value a meal devoted to such virtues. All day we are too busy. At night we are too tired. It is only in justice to ourselves that we should lay claim to at least one meal a day. This is no selfish premise; it is a fact that older people have proved leisure and pri vacy are requisite for the development of self-respect, discernment and poise. So then Luncheon to business. Dinner to the family. Breakfast to one's personal thoughts. That is the perfect day. The following example of true Mis souri philosophy comes from the Maitland (Mo.) Herald: "Bert Patterson is moving down nto Cass county, southeast of Kansas City about 40 miles. His new farm is five miles from a rock road that runs straight to Kansas City, and he says he counts that he is as good as home in any kind of weather when he reaches K. C, because no matter how bad and muddy he can ride to the end of the stone road and walk the last five miles. Bert says that they ask $50 an acre more for the same kind of a farm as his if it is on the stone road." Two elderly sleuths, as good as they were in their best days, when they were the best ever, shook hi.nds yesterday as William A. ' Pinkerton, chief of the famous detective agency, greeted Sergeant Joe Day of the Portland police bureau, veteran de tective of the local force. "Know Joe Day?" laughed Mr. Pinkerton. "Should ay I do, ever since Hector was a pup." Whereupon Mr. Pinker ton, apropos of Portlan memories, drew from his mental filing cabinet a most Interesting story of "Christ mas" Keough. once a local pugilist, who swindled a Portland bank and be gan a successful career as forger and h.H.rhk onerator. They called him "Christmas" because the holiday sea son alwavs brought him form to re- .iviiv. After an eight years qhc th pinhertoDl landed him and he went to the "big house" tor a turns "stretch." Mr. Pinkerton is now makinir a Dersonal visit to the many agencies of his organization. Something unusual Is always be falling F. W. Huntington of the police force, when he takes his gun or rod and fares forth to vacation He traps bobcats almost within the city limits, he has a keener nose for the elusive Chinese pheasant than mnsi Betters have. Some weeks ago, when the pheasant season was at its explosive height. Huntington was hunting the glorious big birds near Forest Grove. He carried a double- barreled shotgun loaded with number sixes, chilled. There was a crash in an oaken thicket, a glimmer of hide and horn hiking swiftly away on four nimble leas, and Huntington fired twice. The aimrry took both spite ful loads broadside and tumbled at the double report dead as the proverbial doornail. That night the Huntington family fried venison steaks cut from the very fine specimen of spike buck that Huntington the hunter Drougn home with him from the pheasant chase. Do von believe in black cats, broken mirrors, picked-up pins and all those many omens that are held to point the pathway of the future Mavbe vou don't, but Coach William H. "Harris of the O. A. C. football sauad. slumbered with a football his arms on the eve of Saturday's battle, when his merry men wrested victory from the lithe and sinewy Cotgars of Oregon University. "I held the pigskin in my arms as I went to sleep." confessed Coach Harglss, "so the boys wouldn't fum ble in the- game the next day. It was in my arms when I woke, and 1 knew then that the game was a cinch. 'Go to it, men:' I told the fel lows. Tou can't fumble, for the signs are with you.' The rest Is his tory. They didn't fumble and we wiped the field with the Cougar oppo sition. Don't tell me fiere isn't any thing in signs." "I am seriously thinking of placing an order for a Curtiss plane, or one of those snoring big De Havilands." declared Lee D. Drake of Pendleton, as he left the Hotel Multnomah yester dav on his return trip to the eastern OreKon metropolis. Mr. Drake is one of the owners of the Pendleton East Oregonian and of the Astoria Budset. These newspaper interests, widely separated, necessitate frequent trips from the interior to the coast and vice versa. Mr. Drake believes that the time element may be pared to the bone if he travels by plane, and adds that his only reluctance to take up the innovation is the shortage of sta tion platforms along the air route. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moatagoe, TIME TO PAY THE PIPER- Down below the Rio Grande, On the desert stretches sandy. i-1 Presldente Carranaa Cherishes a neat bonanza But there's trouble in his forecast. 'Cause he's stirred up Uncle Sam! South of Texas it's the fashion. When the Yanks begin to cash in. To Invite em to contribute: And this simple form of tribute Rids the greasers of all worry on the uost or. bread and jam. It was good stuff while It lasted. But his plans may soon be blasted, I tor i.1 Presldente Carranza, As we said in our first stanza. May read trouble in his forecast. t-ause he s riled our Uncle Sam. Thla Wins the Far-Lined MeanVlt. The famous speech at the tomb of Lafayette attributed to General Pershing and others is still in the minds of Americans. Last week a crowd of homesick doughboys visit ed the same spot. After a moment of silent awe, one spoke up: -vi y God, Lafayette, were still here." The American Legion Weekly. Ain't It the Truth. Blllf Once with Ode and Elegy I took a little fiver. Straightway wtnged they back to m. They couldn't find a buyer. Then I tuned by cithern up And cut some foolish capers Dined on pie and claret-cup And bust into the papers. William Rose. Benet. in Sunset. m And Gayer. What is the average life of a chick en? asks a reader. N hatever it is. dear reader, it Is longer than it was when they sold at lu cents a pound. On the Contrary, If a Dark. Prospect Dear L. L. D.: The real trouble with tnese light wines Is that they're not illuminating. N"est pas? Old Scout If We Had Them Now. I wish I had a Dinosaur: I d keep It in the yard. It could not come inside the door. For that would be too hard. Eleanor. Tell It t Wilson. Dear L. L. D.: Mav 1. Knott live in Pittsburg", Pa. A. B. S. For Prnteetlon. Mithr. Tk-. Strenarth In Nnmbera. TOUN'G trombonist would like to con nect up with an orchestra for amusement or otherwise. C 417. Oregonian. STATUTORY HOSPITALITY. The food laws of England forbid entertaining guests for more than a week. Cable dispatch. In England, when one'e wife's rela tions Prolong beyond a week their stay And there appear no indications That they intend to go away. One says: "I'd like to keep you longer But though I love you more and mora My love for England's law is stronger. When you go out, don't slam the door." In England, when a country cousin Whom one's invited out to dine Absorbs unaided half a dozen Quart bottles of one's favorite wine. One says: "I hate to be offending To one I like and honor so. But England's statutes are unbend ing. So here's your hat, and out you go:" In England, if a week-end party v hen gathered round one s festal board With appetites a bit too heartv Makes raids upon one's victual hoard One eays: "It fills my heart with sorrow As it will yours. I make no doubt. But you must pack and go tomorrow For England's laws I dare not flout." When guests with us prolong a visit Beyond such limits as seem meet We can't complain to them, nor is It The thing to throw them in the street. The U. S. statutes do not eoften An action that seems Impolite Like hurling out a guest but often One rather wishes that he might: Undigested and Indigestible Securities. Stocks are coming down, but what good does that do? We can't wear or eat them. If at First Ion Don't Succeed. After all these years Switzerland is to have a navy, oven if she has to launch it in the air. Hood River, where the best z.7o cider is made, reports a red, white and blue lizard. The "insect" was caught, probably, when an elephant stepped on its tail. A woman of 75, married five years to a man of 55, is seeking relief in separation. There ought to be a law but what's the use in talking of such afafirs? If the American Legion does as thorough a job in the Mason county forest as it did in the Argonne forest. there will be a complete clean-up of the reds. Winlock has better than a gold mine if it continues shipping a car load of eggs a week to New York The hens around Wrinlock will be famous. The number of candidates for the republican presidential nomination is at least a sign that some astute politicians consider it worth having. It is up to Dr. Garfield to get the miners back-to work, and it is up to Mr. Palmer to learn by what influ ence they are kept out of work. If the administration really wants to settle the Mexican problem, it might turn- the whole thing over to the American Legion. A champion Oregon hen has laid 3 30 eggs in the past year. This un- Behold. if thou hast sorrow, take it to the questionably makes her subject' to tabernacle door and knock, I I . And behold, there is no password save the two pit-like eyes. And a grasp which hath a soul within lt- Oh. give me not wine or feast or muee: Nay, give me such a man In whose eyes I may look and dream dreams Of depths and be led past the paltry argu ments of men out upon the open sea Of fellowship and understanding. I the income tax. Dr. Steiner need not be in a hurry about changing the gallows room into a kitchen. Funny how men like to be twitted Well may Mr. Masters have sighed ! about smoking stale pipes or bad that lie wished that lie could write ! cigars, A keeper at the New York zoologi cal gardens disturbed a rather old gentleman who was taking his rest just in front of the cages of the African lions, writes the New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis patch. The man was doing no harm, as he explained when awakened, but inas much as he was seated upon the rea sonably hard concrete an had al lowed his skypiece to fall some dis tance from him, the keeper thought best to give him a gentle shake. In exchange for wWch he learned some thing. "It's all right," laid the ancient per son who had dozed. "I didn't mean to fall asleep and will be on my way now. I come up here every now and again and feel so contented that I get 6leepy with comfort. "I used to be an acrobat with Bar num & Bailey's and the Cook Broth ers' shows, and those were the happy days. When I get up here the ani mal odor makes me drowsy with memories. The Harvard college observatory is making a systematic search for new stars, according to Acting Director S. I. Bailey, who states that every two weeks a photographic study of the milky way was made and the new stars charted. Since this work was undertaken several years ago,. hf added, 18 new stars had been dis covered. "We are also engaged upon a de tailed study of the magnitudes - of stars," Professor Bailey said. "In certain specified areas, in co-operation with Professor Kapteyn of Gron ingen, Holland, we are making an es pecially intensive study of both the magnitude and positions of all stars down, to stars about 10. Out) times too faint to be seen with the naked eye. There are something like 100,000,000 I such stars." Western Idaho, like some lusty lad who delights to saw wood, is making raDld Droitress in all manner or de velonment. declares Dr. William S. Kennedy, past president of the Ore gon State Elks' association, wno nas returned from a three months' tour of Washington and Idaho, during which time he visited every Elks' lodgs In the two states in the inter ests of Elkdom s espousal oi tne aai vation Army campaign. "Western Idaho has Kone forward with remark able vigor." said Dr. Kennedy, "and is still on Its way. Its communities are thriving and agricultural develop ment is particularly keen. Oregon'B sister state Is finding herself, beyond doubt." Some years ago he used to nurse stone brnises and chase jackrabbits In the vicinity of Lebanon, Linn county, but he has now returned to revisit the scenes of childhood at successful rancher of the Alberta country. "They all come back to Lebanon." said Charles S. Smith, sub ject of this sketch, "as pilgrims to Mecca. It is the centr of the uni verse and the American eagle roosts there every night." Accompanied by Mrs. Smith, the former Linn county citizen spent several days at the Ore, gon hotel, visiting local friends. W. Van Horn, prominent Hood River orchardist, is at Portland Sanitarium for treatment following an attack of illness sustained Satur day, while visiting at the. Hotel Portland. The stroke came suddenly and resulted in the partial paralysi of Mr. Van Horn's facial muscles. His condition is said not to be serious. Accompanied by Mrs. Van Horn he came to Portland on rriday on business trip. An advance scout of Minneapoli Sliriners who will visit Portland nex summer at the national convention i V. D. Jones of Minneapolis, an offi cial of the Great Northern railway rea-lstered. with Mrs. Jones, at the Multnomah. During his visit to thi city Mr. Jones is making arrange ments for the accommodation of th Minneapolis delegates who will attend the 1920 assembly. of Our njlna for It Is the Least T roubles. The Literary Digest has an article on "How to Get Coal Free," which seems overdoing it a bit at a time when few of us know how to get it at all. (Copyright. 1S19. by The Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) McCumber Lengue Reservations. ELK CITY. Or.. Nov. 22. (To ih. Editor.) I would like to know in full what the McCumber amendment is. HOMER DIXON. Senator McCumber on October 21 introduced seven comDromise rpi-vn - ions, the last two of which relate to the vote of the British empire and were generally called the McCumber reservation to distinguish them from the one on the same subject which was introduced by Senator Johnson of California. They are: i ne united feta-tos reserves the right. upon the submission of any dispute to the council or the assembly, to object to any member and Its self-governing dominions. dependencies or possessions having in the aggregate more than one vote; and in case such objection is made the United States assumes no obligation to be bound by any election, finding or decision in which such member and its said dominions, dependen cies and possessions have in the airirre gate cast more than one vote. mat tne united States understands and construes the words "disputes between memoers ana the words aispute be tween parties." in article l.. to mean that uispute with a self-governing domini colony or aependency represented in the assembly is a aisputa with the dominant principal member represented therein and that a dispute with such dominant or principal member is a dispute with all its self-governing dominions, colonies or de pendencies: and that the exclusion of the parties to the dispute provided in the last paragraph of said article will cover not only the dominant or principal memher. but also its dominions, colonies and de pendencies. , Doubt Hy tiraee K. Hi 11. Man is not bound save by ais own sick doubts Which, like a vanquished army flinch and cower. Jeeringis high ambitions, recalling routs. Whispering innuendoes of his oower- Hinting of lacks that circumscribe his field. Taunting of others who are richly blessed. 'Til man to mawkish fears at lensrth shnll yield. And nevermore reach out for his real best. No man is &lave so much to anv force That may convbine to thwart him of his goal. As to this poison, acting at the source Of every effort, sickening the soul: Outside himself, the circumstance that rears Its ugly head, defyins his advance. Need hold no ultimatum based on fears. For he may overcome each thing of chalice. With mind of average mold, he may aspire x To what, on earth, another man has done; Not gift, but concentration, effort, firi Shall blaze the trail until the victory's won; "Advantage" oft means but the steady plod That some maintain, while others step aside. And doubt alone makes many a man a clod. When he had been a prince could doubt have died. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hampton of Los Angeles are visitors at the Mult nomah hotel for a few days. M Hampton is extensively interested i wood-pipe and water-tank factories. with representation in several of th Pacific coast cities. Mrs. Thomas Terry, whose rest dence is the Multnomah hotel, was summoned to Cincinnati yesterda morning by the receipt of a message announcing the serious illness of he mother in that city. J. B. Kelly and Mrs. Kelly Yacolt, where the former is general manager of the Murphy Lumber com pany, are at the Perkins during brief visit to Portland. George J. Stone of Astoria, wh catches and cans the frolicksom salmon as it ascends the Columbia, Is at the Hotel Perkins during a busi ness visit to Portland. Mrs. J. G. Woodworth of St. Paul, -wife of Vice-President Woodworth of the Northern Pacific railway, is at the Portland while visiting local friends. Potentate of two of Eugene's motion-picture palaces is A. H. McDon ald, numbered among recent busi ness arrivals at the Multnomah hotel Leo Wise, son of Herman Wise, Astoria's pleasantly paternal post master, ia among recent arrivals at the Imperial. W. E. Newton, general merchant and stockman of Moro. is in Portland with Mrs. Newton, registered at the Hotel Perkins. Elmer E. Matthews, land owner and stockman of Fossil, is at the Multno- IVon-Support Is Felony. PORTLAND. Nov. 22. (To the Edi tor.) wnat can be done with a man (in New York) who deserts for more than a year the woman who has been his faithful wife for 16 years, leav- ng her in the most wretched health. to work far beyond her strength? He is strong and able-bodied, of middle age, has a government position which he claims payfe only enough for his expenses. He sends her no money. In spite of all. She still loves him, being utterly deceived by his whimpering letters. His own declaration to others Is that he means to leave her. In terested distant persons have a very great hesitancy in saying anything against him " to her in her present state of illness, but would like to know if there is any law (except the divorce, that would break her heart) that can touch him. Could the agency employing him be authorized to for ward a just proportion of his salary to her? Would half be a just pro portion? What steps would be neces sary for said interested persons to take? She has no other resource ex cept charity or enforced dependence, and can no longer work. SUBSCRIBER. It is a felony in Oregon for a hus band, financially able to do so, to re fuse to support his wife. The law also gives the wife a civil remedy. But it may be impracticable for out siders to do anything without the wife's co-operation. She should be Induced to consult the district at torney. No National Holiday. ASHLAND Or., Nov. 22. (To the Editor.) 1. ' Is there such a thing in the United States as a national holiday? The holidays we call na tional holidays such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and so on are, as I understand, not national holidays, declared so by congress at Washington, but declared so oy tne governors of each state in the union and nationally celebrated, but not national holidays. 2. Was November 11 (Armistice day) legally as much of a holiday In the states in which the governors of each state declared t so. as any other holiday sucn as Christmas. Thanksgiving, Labor day and .Fourth of July? H. B. CARTER. In Other Days. Xvventy-Flve Venrs Apro. London. A dispatch from Cliee Foo states that Port Arthur fell after a battle that lasted 06 hours. China has asked for peace on the terms of paving Japan 25o.ooo.000 taels, equiv alent to $175,000,000. Washington Secretary of State Gresham and Minister Kurino of Ja pan, have attached their signatures to the new treaty of amity and com merce between the United States and Japan. Colonel W. H. Yarborough of North Carolina, internal revenue agent for a new district comprising Oregon, Washington and Idaho, has arrived to establish his headquarters here. The United States fish commission recently planted a carload of eastern oysters in Palux channel, near Bay Center, on the Washington coast. Fifty Years Ago. Newcastle. Drla. Five men were publicly flogired in the jail yard at this place yesterday. Madrid Accounts have been re ceived of a destructive earthquake at the Philippine Islands. The loss of property was very great. The improvement of Morrison street has begun. A plank roadway and new sidewalks are to be constructed. The Dalles The Wasco Woolen factory sold at sheriff's sale to Benj. Snipes for J:t25 over and above the liabilities. mab. for a few. days' visit to the citjr.lpends on the laws therein. 1. Congress has no Jurisdiction to declare a legal holiday. . You have given a good explanation of the so called national holidays. 2. In Oregon the law authorizes the governor to proclaim legal holi days and when so proclaimed they have the same force as legal holidays appointed by law as regards court procedure and payment of negotiable Instruments. It has been held, how ever, that a contract providing for cessation of work on "holidays" re fers only to holidays customarily ob served and not to those specially ap pointed. The effect of specially ap- A Lasgosge of Grants Heard. Kansas City Star. An Italian missionary to central Africa has found a tribe which uses a language that cannot be written or recorded. The Bacongo tribe lias handed down all its history from gerv eration to generation by words of mouth, as the language Is composed of queer sounds which to a European ear, seem to be a variation of grunts and gutural noises. No one has yet discovered the means of interpreting these sounds into letters or signs. The codes of morals and government are expressed in proverbs. The motto of, the tribe is: "Wherever man has passed, misery follows." Mineral Claim on Homesteard. PORTLAND, Nov. 22. (To the Edi tor.) A has taken up a homestead and B finds mineral on A's land. What will A do to hold his claim? Has B any right to the located ground? SUBSCRIBER. Unless the agricultural claimant has secured a patent for his land he cannot hold control of It and the min ing prospector would be able to con test his rights. If you would go into further details of the case apply to pointed holidays in other states de- J the Oregon bureau of mines in the I Oregon building, Portland.