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TTTTS MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1919
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the latters discharge, as described military aspect of the soldier's life and later became supervisor of the
may not be determined- precisely, I company's affairs at St. Helena. He
but this probably was an Important was sent in 1741 to that island to
factor. That our previous armies in j investigate charges of corruption
peace time managed their own "wel- against the governor and later ad
fare" matters is not pertinent to the ministered the affairs of the island
in an article in The Sunday Orego
nian. Thus the employers are un
consciously made parties to spread
of sedition.
There is need of a campaign of
education by men who will win cre
dence as to the truth about the lum
ber industry and every other Indus
try that is attacked by the wobbliea
It would be far better to make a
full showing of the cost of produc
tion and the profit earrfed than to
permit men to remain in an ignor
ance which makes them ready vic
tims of lying agitators.
ALL AWAITS RATIFICATION.
'A. year has been practically wasted
by the president and congress In set
ting about the work of legislation
for the changed conditions in domes
tic affairs and in foreign commerce
which have grown out of the war.
The best that can be said of the ex
tra session In this regard is that con
gress has done much preparatory
work, but when the completed laws
actually passed are compared with
expectations, the result is meager in
the extreme.
The German treaty has blocked
the way, and the first duty of presi
dent and senate is to get it out of
the way, both because its enforce
ment is necessary to define our re
lations with other nations and be
cause it is vitally important that con
gress should turn its attention to do
mestic affairs.-
The most urgent business is to de
cide the terms under which the rail
roads shall be returned to their own
ers and operated in future. That in
volves definition of the duty of rail
road employes to the public. Con
press has been passing laws for more
than thirty years defining the duty
of railroad companies to the public,
but it has permitted the employes to
aHHiime that they owe no such duty,
and they make more or less positive
threats to tie up the railroads unless
they get what they ask. It is up to
congress to declare that the right
or the people to transportation is
superior to any right of the railroad
employes to strike.
The next most urgent need is a law
or laws which will give the govern
ment ample power to bring revolu-
tionary conspirators to justice, to
suppress all agitation against the
government by formation of socie
ties, by speeches, writing, publica
tions or by strikes, and to deport
every alien revolutionist who is not
imprisoned.
Provision should be made for sale
of the government's emergency fleet
and to regulate its operation by pri
vate owners, with precaution that it
remain under the American flag and
American ownership. Revision of the
navigation and shipping laws is
needed to enable American ship
owners to compete with those of
other nations. There are many pro
visions in the present laws which
confer no benefit on owner or sea
man, but impose useless expense and
make work for useless officials.
The bills providing for develop
ment of coal, oil and mineral land
and of waterpower, which made
progress at the last session, should
be enacted without further delay.
If they had now been law, oil could
bave been used as fuel in mariy
places which suffer from the coal
famine, and waterpower could have
replaced coal as a source of power.
The miners have been able to hold
jap the people because we have, not
developed other resources.
The Lane reclamation bill should
be pushed through In spite of oppo
eition from men of narrow vision
and parochial minds. This is both
a means to provide homes for ex-
soldiers and of making vast areas of
rich but Idle land productive and a
means of correcting the dispropor
tiou of urban to rural population.
systematic aeveiopment and use
f waterways is needed. This re
fiuircs a law which will substitute
lump sum, annual appropriations to
be expended by a non-political body
of engineers and business men for
the present pork-barrel river and
barbor bill. Combined with thi
iwork should go the development o
all uses of water and prevention of
moods.
Order should be introduced into
llie national finances by adoption of
ja budget system. National expen
ditures have reached such a stupen
clous total that system is essential
Revenue is raised by direct taxes,
which bring the need of economy i
government home to everybody, an
the people will not hereafter forget
the stereotyped platform promises of
economy as soon as election is over.
Uheir interest will be sustained by
belief that the high cost of living
is largely aue to nigh cost ot gov
eminent.
When the president and senate
contemplate this great pile .of work
they should be Inspired with a re
' solve to compromise their differ
ences and ratify the treaty before
Christmas.
IN A GREAT HURRY.
The Oregonlan hopes to see the
death penalty for murder restored in
Oregon, and It is Quite sure that the
people will, at the first opportunity,
rectify the grave error of 1814 when
was abolished, leaving no penalty
for murder in the first degree.
But it s unable to share the enthus
iasm of its lively contemporary, the
Evening Telegram, for a special ses
sion .of the legislature which shall
ubmit the question to the people
at a special election. It is deplor
able, but it is true, that nothing
done now can change the status of
the three desperadoes who slew Mr.
Burgess and Mr. Peringer. They are
sent to prison for life, whatever that
means. It may be hoped they will be
ept there for life, and unless we
mistake the present temper of the"
public, there is a general wish that
they live there a long time. .
There is much loose talk now
about special sessions for various ob
jects. There now is a new idea. It
may or may not have escaped the
Telegram's attention in Its frequent
reading of the state constitution,
that under Article XVII it is pro
vided that no convention shall be
called to amend or propose amend
ments to this constitution, or to pro
pose a new constitution, unless, the
aw providing for such convention
hall first be approved by the people
on a referendum vote at a general
election."
It will be well before calling a
legislature together to amend the
constitution, to consider whether or
not it is a convention within the
meaning of the organic law. We
o not contend that it is, but clearly
It is intended that there shall be no
asty changes in the constitution.
A legislative session and an elec
tion would cost at least $100,000.
These are easy times for all persons
and all institutions but the state and
the municipalities which are con
fronted by the constant demand for
ower taxes and also by the six per
cent tax limitation. Where is the
money to come from?
The Oregonian has before said
that it thinks the death penalty
should be restored. But it thinks
also that the primary fault with the
law is not the lack of penalty, but
the failure of enforcement of penal
ies already provided. The certainty
or punisnment is a great deterrent.
We rarely inflict capital punishment.
when it is possible. The real argu
ment for it is that it is a lust penalty,
We should have capital punishment
and then should enforce it. That
will take a long course of education
of the public, which in its turn
snouid require juries . to do their
duty.
present situation, in view of the
well-known fact that little or noth
ing was done by comparison with
present standards, and that our am
bition for accomplishment has been
vastly stimulated in recent months.
It would be a pity to lose the
benefit of spontaneous and enthus
iastic welfare work for which some
organizations and individuals, and
probably no bureaus, are peculiarly
suited, but it may be that the war
department will yet find a way to
employ these agencies even while
the "responsibility of the army it
self" is not relaxed. But having re
solved to assume-that responsibility,
the war department must make good.
The public has concluded by this
time that morale has a definite val-
almost as great as that of mili
tary training itself, and it will feel
that this ought to be maintained in
peace as well as war.
for a time. Taking up an active
career In the navy, he proved hiJ
courage In an engagement with the
pirate Angria, in which he saved not
only his own ship, but three other?
which he was convoying. The for
eign policy which the Jenkins lnct
dent helped to crystallize resulted
among other things in discontin
uance by Great Britain of the policy
of paying subsidies to foreign powers.
England did not make war or
Spain primarily because Jenkins had
lost his ear, but because of a
long series of outrages of which Jen
kins and his ear were symbols. If
the affair of the twentieth century
Jenkins shall develop serious conse
quences for the Carranza, govern
ment, the parallel will have been
further completed.
PURIFYING THE SCHOOLS.
Proof that the school teachers now
under investigation in New York are
members of a political organization
advocating overthrow by violence of
American institutions should be fol-
owed by instant dismissal, as no
doubt it will be. It is not necessary
to the issue that they should be con
victed of teaching the doctrines of
anarchy or criminal sabotage in the
school room. The party to which
these teachers are accused of be
longing urges destruction of gov
ernment, with violence "if resistance
s offered," whenever the time is set
by the leaders to seize the institu
tions, Industries and property of the
capitalist class." One young woman
teacher, who testified that she was
born in Russia, admitted that she
was in favor of resort to any ex
tremities necessary for the introduc
tion of the soviet form of govern
ment into the United States.
Six teachers were originally on
trial. The investigation recently has
widened to cover fifteen. Even the
larger number is not numerically
formidable by comparison with the
total of 23,000 teachers In the city,
but it is more than enough. It Is a
good time to announce the rule that
persons with anarchistic tendencies
must seek employment elsewhere
than in the schools.
The right of free speech about
which anarchists and criminal syn
dicalists prate so much on every oc
casion is not involved in the pending
cases, to the detriment of any whose
rights we are bound to consider. We
are committed as a people to the
doctrine of orderly evolution. We
have developed, and are constantly
Improving on, a system by which the
will of the people can find peaceful
expression. Those who are too Im
patient to await this process have
no place among us, least of all in
positions of influence among the
children of immigrants. It is un
likely that they will be tolerated In
any school in an American com
munity.
A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE I. W. W.
Recent publications on the ways
of the I. W. W. in their favorite
haunts the logging camps of the
Pacific northwest point to the need
of counter-propaganda carried right
. Into the woods. One writer tells of
a man who had worked in a camp
where the men seemed happy and
contented until a band of agitators
swept through the country and they
struck. They admitted that their
wages J 6 a day were big, but they
Bald:
' "The lumber companies are mak
ing $60 a day out of each one of us."
The statement was false, of course,
but nobody was there to disprove
It, and they believed it. Similar lies
were told at the Chicago packing
bouses with the same effect, and
they "struck" because the answer
was not at hand.
" The I. W. W. also retain their
strength by committing acts of sabot
pge against non-members, causiuc
ARMY WELFARE WORE.
The chapter of the annual report
of Secretary of War Baker which
deals with the "welfare work for the
army of the United States" suggests
that the war department has as
sumed a grave responsibility in de
cidlng to dispense with the agencies
which exerted so powerful an in
fluence in maintaining morale
among our troops both while the
war was in progress and while de
mobilization was being effected. How
greatly this influence was mani
fested is apparent not only from the
statistical review of the work done,
but from the experience and obser
vation of every person in a position
to know. This Secretary Baker
makes no effort to minimize. But
he mentions the decision, reached by
the third assistant secretary of war,
in conference with many high rank
ing army officers, to "turn over at
a convenient date all of the educa
tional and welfare work to the regu
lar army." This decision has cul
minated In General Order No. 109,
which established an education and
recreation branch within the war
plans division of the general staff.
charged with the responsibility of
supervising and maintaining proper
facilities for the education, recrea
tion, and moral training of officers
and men in the military establish
ment.
There will be no particular quarrel
with this decision, if practice shows
that the work can be in fact done in
accordance with methods in vogue
in the army. There is understand
able reluctance on the part of mili
tary men to intrusion of any fac
tors which seem to them not to fit
into the scheme of organization. The
army is Jealous of its discipline, and
it makes much of Its efficiency, as
Indeed it ought to do. It sees, per
haps, a certain incompatibility be
tween government-controlled and
privately-directed institutions in the
same field. It Is the old story of the
bugaboo of "authority" of which
those In authority are Inclined to
make so much.
Yet it remains to be seen whether
the army can in fact accomplish, in
the machine-made, bureaucratic way
that seems to be inseparable from
army administration, as much as was
made possible by the enthusiasm and
initiative engendered by private
workers. It was one of the chief
factors in efficiency of the affiliated
organizations of the commission on
training camp activities, for ex
ample, that these organizations were
in a position to act quickly, to cut
red tape, to dare the failure of a
plan now and then, in the general
interest of the men. That a bureau
of the army, even when it is digni
fied as a "branch within the war
plans division of the general staff,"
will succeed in infusing into its work
the spirit of doing will be doubted
by many who have watched the
functioning of government institu
tions.
In reviewing the activities of the
private organizations which worked
together harmoniously for the good
of the men, the secretary finds that
"the morale of the army was greatly
Increased," for example, by such
measures as leadership in singing,
while the physical condition of the
men was enhanced by a programme
of athletic sports and calisthenics,
"which developed co-ordination of
mind and muscle at the same time
that it gave diversion from the usual
military and physical drill." How
much the welfare programmes suc
ceeded because they were disassocl-
WHT REDISTILL CSE THE MAILS.
Responsibility for inability of the
government to stop circulation of
revolutionary literature through the
mails is passed by the administration
to congress, if the New York World
may be presumed to speak for it.
That journal says that "the admin-
strktion has been bombarding con
gress for a year" to get legislation,
and "has furnished bales" of the
literature in question to senate and
house committees "as samples of the
matter put into the mail and for
which there is no enforcement pen
alty." "If the stuff is detected," we
are told, "it is taken from the mail,"
but for lack of censorship, "discovery
is a matter of chance and detection
means nothing at all." Laws to make
advocacy of sedition a crime "have
been framed and forgotten," more
than a dozen being on the legislative
calendar. The World gives a few
lurid samples of the stuff which has
been taken from the mails.
Soon after the United States de
clared war, the administration asked
congress for a censorship bill which
was so drastic that it would have
given the administration power to
prevent or punish publication of any
thing displeasing to it, including
criticism of its conduct of the war.
Congress refused to pass such a law,
but that does not argue that it would
refuse to pass a law against sedition.
Congress doubted the discretion and
Impartiality of Postmaster-General
Burleson, and its doubts have been
justified by his subsequent arbitrary
conduct. It would probably grant to
an impartial tribunal powers which
it would not trust in the hands of Mr.
Burleson.
The course of the administration
in suppressing and punishing criti
cism, so far as lay in its power, and
in expending public money on the
committee of public information for
advertisement of its own pretended
good deeds may well have made con
gress chary of granting more power,
lest It be perverted to the use ot
party.
A JENKINS PARALLEL.
Some persons will wonder
whether William O. Jenkins, our
consular agent at Puebla, Mexico, is
a descendant of that other Jenkins
who 180 years ago figured as at
least the "contributory cause" of the
war between England and Spain
known in history as "the "war of
Jenkins" ear." The parallel between
Robert Jenkins, whose ear was cut
off by Spaniards, and our consular
agent does not end with similarity
of names.
The cry. "No search!" the slogan
of the war of 1739 was the cry of
an outraged and long-suffering
people, frenzied by repeated indigni
ties upon their seamen and their citi
zens which the Walpole government
ignored. The elder Pitt, Just then
looming on the political horizon, was
a leader In the patriot movement.
Spanish authorities in the West In
dies carried matters with high hand,
with connivance of their superiors
at home. Search of British vessels,
an almost every-day occurrence, was
accompanied by barbarities increas
ing as the Spaniards became em.
boldened by Britain's failure to
champion the cause of its citizens.
Jenkins served as a figure for the
patriots to rally around. His ap
pearance in March, 1738, before
parliament, carrying a box In which
he had preserved his ear, came at the
psychological moment to arouse the
country to fury. He had been mas
ter of the brig "Rebecca" some
historians say it was a-Scottish ves
selreturning from the Antilles in
1731, seven years before, and had
been boarded by a Spanish coast
guard who had rifled his holds and,
on his protesting, cut off one of his
ears. "Take the ear to your king,"
Jenkins testified the Spanish com
mander told him, "and tell him that
we will serve him the same way at
the first opportunity." A member
of parliament asked him what his
thoughts were on that occasion. "I
commended ray soul to God," the
shipmaster replied, "and my cause
to my country."
In the turmoil that ensued and
roused the country to a high pitch
of patriotism, efforts were made to
discredit Jenkins' tale and to cast
aspersions on his character and the
purity of his motives. Historians
championing Walpole by preference
over Pitt have continued the en
deavor. A story was circulated that
Jenkins had in fact lost the ear in
a pillory while expiating a misde
meanor. But within the past few
years I. S. Leadam, the historian, has
said that ''recent researches have
disproved Burke's assertion that the
story told by Jenkins was a fable,"
and Sir J. K. Laughlin, writing in
the English Historical Review in
1889, said that Jenkins" version was
supported by the records. Time,
and the subsequent conduct of th
shipmaster of the 1730's, appear to
have confirmed the truth of hit
story, recital of which undoubtedlj
precipitated the war with Spain.
Primary causes, however, were lost
to sight, and the war, which after
ward merged into the war of th
Austrian succession, took a widei
scope.
It needed the Jenkins Incident to
crystallize the spirit of a people de
clared by one historian to have "be
come glutted with stories of out
rages." Torture of Britons on th
sea had become so common that the
English had grown apathetic about
them. The physical ear of Jenkins,
preserved in its ghastly reality,
visualized as nothing else could have
done, the extremes toward which
events were drifting. Jenkins ac
quitted himself with credit in later
years. He received a commission in
It may comfort Chairman Jaeger
to know that about every house
holder will have a spare room or
two when Shrinedom takes the city,
but he will need to tell them so
many times, for it is the Portland
way to make good as the clock
strikes 11 hours and 30 minutes.
A contemporary blandly advises
amateur trappers to practice trap
ping on "the unwary skunk." It
would be still safer to practice on
one that is also blind, deaf and
paralyzed.
Bill Haywood, forbidden by the
police commissioner to address a big
I. W. W. meeting at Detroit, kept
out of the city. Wise old Bill at
last! Let the candle continue to
burn. -
Secretary Baker declares a funda
mental reorganization of the whole
war department Is needed. Quite so
The secretary's resignation would
start the reorganization very nicely.
Admiral Kolchak has lost eleven
generals, captured by the bolshevlki.
But judging from recent achieve
ments of the Kolchak forces, this
could hardly be accounted a loss.
Parson Maynard deplores the
bareback dress, but ought to know
there's but one way a husband can
stop it, but he would be put In jail
for cave-man tactics.
Arid now still another "sharp
note" has been dispatched to Mexico
Really, it's remarkable how many of
the administration's sharps turn to
flats.
Seattle has had thirty cases of
sleeping sickness since November
15. Can the Rev. Mark A. Mathews
be losing his well known punch?
BT-rBODl'CTS OP THE TIMES
i
Reprint of Rare Book Gives Graphic
Story of Later-Day Duel.
Duels become practically unknown
in America about the time or
the civil war. That of Terry and
Broderick in California In 1859 was
one of the last of note. Soon after
the war every state had passed drastic
laws forbidding the practice. The
following account of a duel in 1865
Is from Major John N. Edwards'
"Shelby's Expedition to Mexico." The
book Is now out of print but is being
reprinted in the Missouri Historical
Review. At the close of the war Gen
eral Joseph Shelby led 600 Confeder
ates through Texas to Mexico, where
they attempted to cast their fortunes
with Maximilian.
Two officers, one a captain and one
a lieutenant, "quarried about a wom
an, a fair young thing enough, lis
some and light of love. She was the
captain's by right of discovery, the
lieutenant's by right of conquest. At
the night encampment she abandoned
the old love for the new and in the
struggle for possession the captain
truck the lieutenant fair in the
face."
The terms of the resulting duel re
quired the principals to be mounted
and stationed 20 paces apart, back to
back. They were to wheel, then fire,
advancing or remaining stationary as
they chose. The author continues:
It was a beautflul morning, ail balm
and bloom and verdure. There was not
wind enough to shake the sparkling dew
drops from the grass not wind enough
to lift breast high the heavy odor of the
flowers The face of the sky was placid
and benignant. Some red, like a blush,
shone in the east, and some clouds, airy
and gossamer, floated away to the west.
Some birds sang, too, hushed and far
apart. Two and two, and in groups, men
stole away from the camp and ranged
themselves on either flank. A few rude
Jokes were heard, but they died out
quickly as the combatants rode up to the
dead line. Both were calm and cool, and
on the Captain's face there was a half
smile. Poor fellow, there were already
the scars of three honorable wounds upon
his body. The fourth would be his death
wound.
They were placed and sat their horses
like men who are about to charge. Each
head was turned a little to one side, the
feet rested lightly in the stirrups, the
left hands grasped the reins well gath
ered up, the right hands held the deadly
pistols, loaded fresh an hour before.
"Ready wheel !" The trained steeds
turned upon a pivot as one steed.
"Fire!"
The Lieutenant never moved from his
tracks. The Captain dashed down upon
him at a full gallop, firing as he came on.
Three chambers were emptied, and three
bullets sped away over the prairie harm-
ess. Before the fourth fire was given
the Captain was abreast of the Lieuten
ant, and aiming at him at deadly range.
Too late! The Lieutenant threw out his
pistol until the muscle almost touched
the Captain's hair, and fired. The mad
horse dashed away riderless, the Captain's
life-blood upon his trappings and his
glossy hide. There was a face in the
grass, a widowed woman in Missouri, and
a soul somewhere In the white hush and
waste of eternity.
e e
Seven United States senators are
bachelors. Senator Donald Kenneth
McKellar of Tennessee does not use
tobacco, and July 1 meant nothing to
him. Despite his bachelordom, he
looks like Bobbie Burns, eloquent
singer of feminine charms.
Senator David Ignatius Walsh of
Massachusetts is called "Handsome
Dave." And every time a Boston so
ciety reporter needs "copy" she an
nounces the engagement of Senator
Walsh to some beautiful New Eng
land or Washington girl.
Then there Is the Beau Brummel of
the senate, James Luval Phelan of
California. He dodged the age Ques
tion in the congressional directory
Globe trotter, patron of arts and de
lightful companion, he is in addition
quite wealthy altogether a desirable
catch."
Senator Davis Elkins of West Vir
ginia Is a war hero, and was elected
to the senate while serving in France.
Vet he is a bachelor, not to mention
Deing a Dank president of great
walth.
ten i i. ue lauit oz nis tailor or
haberdasher that Senator Frank Bos
worth Brandegee of Connecticut is
still an untamed bachelor. He is ad
dieted to such brilliant plumage as
nils green and burnt orange ties and
carnation pink shirts.
Senator Frederick Hale of Maine
may have acquired girl shyness in
college at Lawrencevllle, lair of the
"Tennessee Shad," "The Uncooked
Beefsteak" and "The Triumphant Egg
Head," youthful cynics. But he is
only 45 now. Pluck up courage, girls.
On the trail of Senator Boies Pen
rose of Pennsylvania, for years not
a girl has yet arrived within gunshot
distance. Even the United States mails
fail to be of assistance. Recently a
sweet young thing in Kansas City,
who described herself as a "striking
brunette and a perfect 36," wrote him
a note on the advantages of matrP
mony. But the senator is a wary
bachelor.
As
Thosj Who Come and Go.
The ambition of the people of Cres
cent City, Cal-, is to see that town a
great seaport. Off and on from the
days when the miners gathered there,
loaded their pack mules and headed
over the trails to the diggings in
Southern Oregon, there has existed a
belief that some day Crescent City
would come into its own. It had
somewhat the appearance of a seaport
prior to national prohibition, last
July, for there were many saloons
there. H. R. Saltmarsh, who arrived
at the Hotel Oregon yesterday, is the
owner of a large slice of the shore
line at Crescent City and feels con
fident that when the day comes and
wharves are constructed for big
steamers the said quays will be erect
ed on his particular property
Still on his mission of education.
urging that Chinese be permitted to
enter the United states to worn on
the farms doing the hard work. Frank
C. Jordan of San Francisco is at the
Benson. When at home Mr. Jordan is
secretary of state. He has been in
politics and holding office since he
was 24 years old, which was about 40
veara -o Mr. Jordan must be a
pretty nifty politician, for he has
never yet experienced the taste of
defeat. He came out square-toed as
a wet candidate the last time ne ran
and came within a handful of votes
of leading the ticket. Since coming
to the northwest he hes tried a little
duck shooting on the Columbia river.
Wheat farmers of Oregon are doing
one of two things these days, they
are either moving into town and buy
ing a fine home, or else they are
headed for California to spend the
winter. The number of Oregon wheat
raisers who are in California. Intend
going there or are on the way must
number a couple of thousand, at least.
-Mr nrt Mrs. M. D. McHaley and Mr.
BLOOD GriLT RESTS OSf PEOPLE
Net That ef Criminal, but ef Taetr
Vtetlsaa, Caster Pret Leniency.
PORTLAND. Dec. 1. (To the Edi
tor.) Again sickening sentimentality
over the punishment of criminals Is
manifesting itself. It would be better
if people would spend their time In
forming themselves broadly on the
subject, rather than to select one Iso
lated Bible text and warp it to fit
their own distorted ideas.
It is true that too much cannot be
said about the mercy of God; but we
need to remember that justice is an
equally strong element of his char
acter. Beside, his mercy is not lim
ited alone to the evil-doer; it em
braces equally the Innocent victim of
the murderer a fact almost. It not
quite wholly, ignored by those who
advocate abolition of capital punish
ment. Mercy, to say nothing of Jus
tlce. toward the decent, law-abidini
public, would demand that the assas
sin be deprived of power and oppor
tunity -to harm others; and mere im
prisonment gives no such assurance
to the public, should we chance to
elect as governor of our state a man
who was swayed by feeling rather
than sound judgment
The murderer is convicted by his
own conscience that his life is for
feit to his deed, as witness the words
of Cain, the first of them all; and like
him, nearly all his breed since imme
diately "begin to whine lest "everyone
that findeth me ehall slay me." God
did not Immediately take Cain's life;
but we do find in Genesis'9:6 that he
pronounced to men a law providing
punishment In future for such crimes:
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be ehed."
"Vengeance 1s mine, I will repay,
saith the Lord." And well may this
be true, for there are many crimes
ao revolting and horrible that no hu-
and Mrs. J. Coates of Heppner are at man punishment could possibly expi-
the Perkins on their way to the south. ato them nothing but the wisdom of
Having had a highly profitable season an omniscient God could devise an
with their grain, they plan spending adequate penalty.
a share of the profit with the hotel- Those who are so apt at quoting
men, restaurants, movies ana garage Rom- 12:19 would do well to go a
i j
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moatagne.
men In the sunshine belt.
The mayor of Pendleton and the
city attorney of that city are at the
Benson. J. i vaugnan, tne h.jv..
and James L. Fee, the city attorney,
Baltimore made a slight success
of Sunday closing, but the desire
will run out when -automobiling
weather is good.
If we do have - to give Mexico
trimming, Mr. Carranza's whiskers
would be about as good a starting
point as any.
Mexico? Let's see. "Mexico is
bounded on the north by the United
States." Why not make it "hounded
awhile?
Rather a waste of energy to cable
that crimes are increasing In Ire
land. Crimes are increasing every
where.
little further and read thoughtfully
the first part of the 13th chapter;
because therein they would learn that
God ordained civil governments for
the protection of the innocent and
com-
t . . ,1 . nff that the re- I v.. m tuwii, iu
are inicrt.icu ... ----- - mirr.j . . -. ,j i .
ward for the capture OI me Biayera " -
J N. Burgessnd George Peringer. email part, at thatof his work of
i,.ii., i. nroDerly dis- "vengeance.' in the death penalty.
...v..,,. TJ.nHi-tnn oeonle raised a N'ote veiee 4: "For he is the minister
,. ,v,. reward fund, and the of God to thee far good. But If thou
sheriff of Umatilla county. Til Tay- oo tnat wnicn is evil. oe airaia; lor
lor was one of the orilcers wno r- " me voru (tyrauoi oj
CHEER rP.
Reds are thick and getting thicker)
Stocks are falling watch the tick
er. You can't buy a droo of licker."
walls your peutlmlaUc friend. 'An
gry strikers fight and riot; every
business is unquiet; we shall all be
ruined by it. if this chaos doesat
end!"
"Prices every day are rising at a rate
that's paralyzing; there Is really no
disguising that we're due to have
a crash. Any one can see the na
tion in this dreadful situation will
be forced by wild inflation to
swift and awful smastar
"Yon can hear the earthquake rum
ble! Industry is going to tumble,
the republic sure will crumble and
leave honest people flat. Bolsheviks
with evil cravings will go south
ward with our savings, with de
moniacal ravings and rough ges
tures of eclat."
Though I would not try to smother
the repining of this brother. I be
lieve somehow or other that he's
just a trifle wrong. For we're told
by sundry sages that the history of
the gs has contained its gloomy
pa?e. yet the world has logged
along.
Things may look a bit depressing.
limes may seem somewhat distress
ing; future prospects keep us guess
ing: skies may look extremely
black; but despite our troubled
glances at rude strikes and mixed
finances, we are banking on the
chances that the country's coming
back.
It W III Be a Hard Winter. Tee.
Hot words around the arbitration
council won't warm the country half
as well as the. coal would.
If They Hurried.
By a second court ruling Rhode
Island has gone dry once more. The
boys In the courtroom just about had
time to ru-sh down to the corner and
get a drink.
IV Goo.
Tou can still export whisky with
out getting arrested, but who wants
to export whisky nowadays?
tCopyright, 1919, by the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
rested the assassins.
irmmellna Pankhurst. who used to
be the wild woman of the militant
suffs in England, Is registered at the
Portland. Mrs. Pankhurst usea to got
,,h attention from the British
press as Carrie Nation and her hatchet
were wont to receive in tne
Whll. Mrs, Pankhurst was scratcning
and marking London bobbles because
she couldn't vote, the women of Ore
gon had the vote ana many ui m..i
wouldn't take the trouble to mark the
ballot.
w -p. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs.
Louts Bloch of San Francisco, are
at the Benson. They are connected
with the crown-Willamette Paper
oomnanv. which has a plant at Ore-
rnn r-.itv. The company aiao u
the biggest paper mill in the world,
located .it Ocean fans, cruiaa v,uium-
kio wt-ra there s unlimited raw
material for pulp.
When a commercial traveler doesn't
get the room he wants or has some
other complaint to make about a ho
tel h nave to tne cierK on uuiy.
"I'll take this matter up with the
Far Western Travelers association.
r,rt h nlerk is suDDOsed to be prop
erty subdued on the spot. narry
stonira. secretary of the association.
in town ana is reguwruo .t ,
Benson.
He comes from a town which de-
death penalty) In vain: for he is the
minister of God. a revenger to execute
wrath upon him that doeth evil." We
see no signs of the evil-doer being
"afraid" In Oregon today, simply be
cause she has divested herself of the
strength of her law that is, a just
penalty.
Let Oregon beware lest. In avoiding
the responsibility of the plain ordi
nance of God for her, she bring upon
nerseir guilt ror tne blood of all the
Innocent victims slain by the horde
of vile assassins who are Invading
hor borders. And let voters remem
ber that it is not by the lawful pun
isnment or crime, but rather by fail
ure to avenge such crime according to
aw, that blood-guiltiness will come
upon their garments. E. S.
Fate.
By Grace E. IlalL
P.ll'LT FOR TRACTIOX PLIGHT.
Self-impoaed Burdens Are to Blame,
Argues Mr. Cousin.
PORTLAND. Dec 1. (To the Edi
tor.) The alleged necessitous condi
tion of the local street railway and
various plans for "relief form a
topic which should be approached
with considerable regard for the ac
tual facts and circumstances.
At the outset, there must be borne
In mind the fact that operations of
the street railway in this city may
not actually be divorced in their en
tirety from the interurban railways.
j. , it. iTirinatrv on the Droduct power plants, gas works and other
of contented cows, does Eugene Swar- activities embraced by the corpora
lorg. who registers at the Perkins tion. To do so would Involve esu
from Ferndale, Wash. The town, mates and assumptions of a highly
which is up near the British Colum- speculative character.
Ki lino Vent aoina- by a milk 1 In any event, whether the company
evaporatory plant and almost every- has the inherent right to require the
one In rernaaie wonts uncutij v puuuu io ocu-ouqlih m... ui.ioiw.
indirectly for the concern.
D. Hollywood of the San Pedro
ShlDbuilding company, is in town for
a brief visit 'and is at the Benson.
San Pedro, which is the seaport ol
Los Angeles, has no timber back ol
it for the construction of wooden
ships, so all the lumber ror the ves
of its operations upon the basis arbi
trarily prescribed by the company is
debatable.
May the company determine:
That interurban cars shall travel
over the tracks of the city lines with
out contributing to city lines' earnings?
That about ?3, 000, 000 power plant
ated as much as poible from the . the East Iudia Company's service lady I
matter of fact, though, none
of them are willing women haters.
Doubtless they are merely hardened
to endure their bachelordom. Chi
cago Post.
e a
Susan Llsby, stout, generous and a
recognlied pastry wisard, lays claim
to being the champion pie maker of
the world.
As head cook of Pennsylvania Mili
tary college at Chester, Pa., she has
baked exactly 23,600 pies in the last
six years, and each has brought gas
tronomic joy to "P. M. C." cadets, says
the New York Tribune.
But that is only an Item in Susan's
pie-making record. For ten years she
was pie-maker In chief at Swarthmore
college, and during that period she
baked 75 pies a week, or. a total of
39,000.
This makes a record of 62,600 pies
made by Susan during a period of 16
yeaca enough pies if placed a yard
apart to reach from the city hall. Phil
adelphia, to the Grand Central station
in New York.
Chief Hannan of the Topeka police
advises householders to take a few
shots at burglars, and perhaps they
will proceed in their systematic plun
der of Topeka acmes with less con
fidence. "But the trouble is." says
Harve Parsons of the Capital, who
used to be chiif of Topeka's police.
"that the average householder sleeps
like a petrified log, and as the bur
glar is not in the habit of rolling him
over and dumping a pitcher of cold
water on him before swiping his
Darts, the chancts greatly favor the
burglar A tew years ago a sound
bleeper suspeaded half a ten of as
sorted junk over the door of his hen
house, which would spill the im
promptu alar n clock all over one
Emma Goldman needs the paddle ! mm-lit anvone except his wife when
well laid on, but alas, Emma is a I she e, t to feed the fowls. Most
i burglar alarjju work the same way,
sels constructed there naa to valuation shall be added to tne city
freighted In largely from the Colum- 9treet railway lines on which earn
bia river mills. lners must be realized?
. That the charge for power against
Charles Hall, who runs a bank at iinRR .hall anDroximate J10.-
Coos Bay as one o the many means 000 per month?
ne nas or occupy uib mn tunc That the Vancouver division snuii
not ridinar his oet hobby good roadsH . .- . u. r-grrvinc
is in the city for a few days and . interstate bridge toll expense with
is regisierea at too x.u... nJ lncrea8e ln the Vancouver rate
he is president or tne state cnaniuer above lhe 5-cent basis?
of commerce, and this brings nim to Tnat J30.509 per month shall be
Portland Irequentiy. ohara-ed aerainst the earnings of the
, , lcitv lines for depreciation?
William scnimpil. uioiimoi " I ... L. . o , f..,,, l- .mrm npr
the Astoria colony, which is located iM'riina- nolicemen and
nd I?? hrmpff is nX r.m.n or employe, in uniform) shall
ue nrricu 11 ' .
That general expenses shall average
nearly J30.OU0 per month including
11060 per month contribution to an
office in Philadelphia?
In June of this year the city lines
T s M!irl,.rirv of Cottairn I Carried o.oau.uuu uaoiiscio. '
Grove, wife of the lumberman. Is at ten years ago tne numocr : iu
Imn,rl.l A few veara aaro Hri ..; reuiuaiy una J"
" T" a v- kLk, T.onr. 6.900,000;
nn.Arlmia n , I 1 l 1. 1' iluilO la HID f .......... ... ...
Can you paint a mental picture If I
furnish you the scene?
Listen, then: The dusk is falling and
the sky is blue, serene:
Here and there a bit of lace-work
wrought of gauze and colored
gray
Floats across the distant heavens, to
dissolve and drift away;
Now and then a darting shadow falls
between you and the sky.
As a tardy bird, turned homeward,
like a mammoth moth wings
by;
There is silence deep, unbroken, save
by murmurs of the night.
Which. like mystic cloak, enwraps
one with the fading of the
light.
Listen once again: A window frames
a girl's face sadr and strange;
There. is wonderment and longing in
the eyes, which tell of range
Peering eyes that seek to fathom.
hungry eyes that hint of grief.
And they haunt you with a question.
though your glimpse of them is
brief;
Just a girl beside a window, with her.
face' turned toward the west.
And a heart of world-old longings
beating in her breast;
From that humble little casement
goes a message plain and true:
"Wait for me upon the summit; I
am on my way to you."
Breezes carried it to northward, to
the southward, east and west;:
Zephyrs whispered It at nightfall,
when the swift winds paused
to rest;
Ocean waves its cadence echoed, lilt
ing song birds trilled Its tune.
Mothers hummed It to their infants in
the sacred twilight croon;
In the laughter of the children, in
the lovers' longing sigh.
Passed this message from the window
half a prayer and half a cry:
Just a call to one who waited, but
who heard, alas! too late.
For the messengers who bore It were
the henchmen, all, of Fate!
It was not a brilliant genius who
ordered a federal census in January,
when country roads are at their
worst.
The Tacoma reds "enjoying" the
hunger strike will be relieved of all
stomach troubles when the strike
ends.
The phone order Is an early
Christmas present. Everybody
please say: "Thank you!"
An I. W. W. organizer with a
"von" in his name is more than an
object of suspicion.
One kind of hanging the prose
cuting attorneys will hardly favor
is a bung jury.
Oregon milk ought to stay sweet
longer when the cows go on that
molaases diet-
in Portia
Portland. Mr. Schimp
concerned ln the cranberry industry.
which promises to be to Clatsop
county what the loganberries are to
Marion county ana me prunes are
to Douglas.
one of the most
thieves in the country. She discov
ered the thief in their room and
while Mr. Magladry held the robber
Mrs. Magladry hunted up a police
man.
city for street car travel, and there
fore a gauge for potential traffic
density. February is the low month.
This increased trarric ana conse
quent lncreasea earnings, in spue m
loss of long haul passengers to tne
automobile and short haul passengers
due to the 6-cent fare, suggests the
Idea that the. street railway's "plight"
n-av not be chargeable so much to
time the machine had to the employes, tne passengers, tne Lar.
feet of snow. I ana so-caiiea puuiic iuiucn l vv
the undue burdens imposea upon tne
street railway lines by the companj
itself EDWARD M. COLS1.N.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Abo.
From The Oregonlan. December 2. 1894.
Astoria. A contract was signed to
day by representative citizens of
Astoria and A. B. Hammond of Mis
soula assuring the construction of a
railroad between Portland and As
toria. A land subsidy valued at over
J2.00fl.000 is pledged.
San Francisco. Today a sweeping
reduction of salaries goes Into effect
all over the Southern Pacific system.
Two carloads of prunes. 80.000
pounds, left here yesterday for New
York. Over 30 tons of these were
from Newberg growers and the re
mainder from the orchard of Dr. O.
P. S. Plummer.
-New York. Frank Waller of Chi
cago won the 24-hour international
bicycle tourney with a record or
434.9 miles.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Smythe of Med
ford arrived- at the Multnomah yes
terday from Elleneburg, Wash., and
declared that the going was good ai
though for
be driven through two
THE SANDALS OK MY YOYTH.
The sandals of my youth are shed.
The glowing dreams, alas: are fled-
Fled? No. glad youth is deck again;
I snatch again the singing pen.
I walk on air, my eanaais snine.
For all of hope and life are mine.
The sandals of my youth are worn.
And battered brown and torn
Torn? No. I step again anew
With rainbows breaking into view.
Above the clouds I see a star'
Where radiant worlds enraptured are.
The sandals of my youth are lost
In this long voyage tempest-tossed-
Lost? No, fresh claa and trim
I tread the joyous outer rim
Of endless conquest over death.
Of endless happiness and breath.
Ah, sandals of my youth, aglide
On all the starlit heavenslde,
I trace the skies, explore the deeps
Where human wisdom silent sleeps;
I know now God. the one divine.
Whose life embodies all of mine.
New hopes, new dreams are flitting by.
The chrysalis is burst, and I,
Aleap, aloft, unbound and free.
Have felt creation's mystery;
The Past is dead forgotten long
The sandals on my feet are Song.
AN ALIEN.
I wandered through a sar.ien
Of roses and lilies fair:
And there among, the flowers
Gleamed an alien blossom rare.
Her graceful form, so slender.
Swayed with every breeze tnat Diew;
Her hair the shade of moonbeams
Hid her downcast face from view.
And lured by her witching beauty.
Charmed with her willowy grace.
I was filled with mad desire
To glimpse the wonders of her face.
And kneeling reverently.
I upheld the velvet etin.
And gazed -pellbound in horror
At the vision there within.
Her lusty, lurid eyeballs
Sent forth darting streaks of name.
And in their depths reflected
Degradation, want ar d : -iame.
Serpents and leering demons
Floated on her withering breath;
Wretched victims unnumoered.
Walling, sougnt reiiet in ueam.
I flung the blossom from me
With a shrill and frenzied scream,
And. rising, glanced about me
In that garden of my dream.
Come ye. whose sandals hesitate,
A-doubting on the brink of fate.
Look up. look out, ye are alive
With thoughts that burn and deeds I The roses had drooped and faded;
that drive. I The lilies were seered and dead
Ye are not dead nor dying yet I I cround the Demon Poppy
New sandals on thy feet are set. I 'Neath a savaee heel and 'led
VA UlitY DIE. I M1NA M. GATL.Ni
Fifty Yeara Ago.
From The Oreconian, December. 1SW.
Washington. Thomas Savier, Ed
win R. Geary and Jesse Applegate are
appointed commissioners to examine
and report upon the road and tele
graph line authorized to be con
structed by the Oregon Central Rail
road company.
The Walla Walla Union: "The
steamers are making three trips per
week to Wallula and come well
loaded."
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has announced that owing to
the large deficit telegraphic commun
ication may soon be discontinued be
tween Portland and Victoria. B. C,
unless the people are enough Interest
ed in the matter to give aid.
t.rrman Securities Im lalted States
NEWPORT, Or.. Nov. 30. (To tae
Editor.) Please publish whetner
Germany received any loan from this
government during her last war be
fore this country Joined the allies.
LOUIS THOMFSON.
Germany during the war prior to
our entry sold bonds ln a large
amount to private Investors in this
country. The United States govern
ment made no loans to foreign gov
ernments before it became associated
with them in the war against Ger
many. Villas; la la Half.
Indianapolis News.
The village of Kesar Falls, in Maine,
is divided by the Ossippe river, so
that one side is in Oxford county and
the other side in York county. Four
residents of the village are in the
Maine legislature, two representing
oue county and two the otber.