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THE SIOItXrXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, . DECEMBER 5, 1919.
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same direction. with the united
support of the Oregon delegation, in
congress, these influences should
overcome any objection to uninter
rupted improvement, which is the
real purpose of the 35-foot project.
It is self-evident that shipping has
come back to Portland and that it
so easily secures cargoes that more
vessels are constantly attracted here.
They would come faster if the emer
gency fleet corporation did not re
tain on the Atlantic coast every tone
of its vessels which takes a cargo
from here, and if it did not hold
steel vessels at prohibitive prices.
Ino business man will pay war cost
for vessels when the value and the
cost of duplication are constantly
falling. That is the real obstacle to
expansion of Portland commerce. If
it were removed, the need of a
deeper as well as a wider channel
would become apparent to every
body. Congress will surely remove
this obstacle and lay down rules un
der which ships will be eagerly
bought for the commerce of Port
land as well as other ports.' Plans
for improvements should be gov
erned by the conditions which will
then prevail, not by those produced
by war conditions and by the present
shipping board policy.
for evaders of the draft, and to be
used as headquarters for pro-German
propaganda throughout Latin
America. He attempted to obstruct
the supply of oil at Tampico to the
American and British navies, for
which it tu absolutely necessary In
the war on submarines.
Since the war ended he has pur
sued schemes of confiscation against
Americans, has let murders of Amer
icans go unpunished, and has en
couraged the propaganda of revolu
tionists in the United States.
Every act of Carranza has proved
him to be a relentless enemy of the
American people, and to be proof
against any argument except force.
If at last the administration should
resolve to send no more notes, but to
resort to this one effective argument,
it will do what it should have done
four years ago. It has saved nothing
but has lost much by the attempt
to evade an unpleasant but impera
tive duty.
PCX THEM OCT.
Senator "Walsh, democrat. Montana, de
clared political views of federal employes
should not be called into question If the
employe properly performed his official
dutues.
Senators Myers of Montana and King of
Utah, democrats, asserted that the socialist
group in the United States, known as the
"left wing of the socialist party," was di
rectly connected with the communist
movement in Russia and was fostering
Bolshevism in this country. From the As
sociated Press, Washington Dispatch.
It is interesting to have the vary
ing ideas of democrats on radicalism
and its numerous manifestations.
Some view with alarm and others
view with complacency. . Senator
Walsh is among those who do not
propose to get excited. A man
he believes, may think and say what
he pleases and still serve the gov
ernment.
Doubtless the senator would also
declare that he may do what he
pleases, outside of office hours. To
him it does not appear important
whether the government employs
patriots or bolshevists, Americans or
internationalists, citizens or aliens,
soldiers or I. W. V.s, so long as they
punch the time clock at the opening
hour in the morning and again at
the closing hours at night.
The senator is wrong. The repub
lie will not live if it is indifferent to
the character, thoughts and purposes
of its servants. It is stupidity
worse, it is folly to turn over any
of the agencies of government to
men and women not in sympathy
with its ideals and principles. The
country is safe so long as its affairs
are administered by those who are at
one on the fundamentals of Ameri
can democracy, though, they may
differ widely on methods of inter
pretation or enforcement, all, how
ever, within the accepted rules. But
some do not accept the rules. They
would repeal them and set up a dif
ferent kind of government. Yet they
find it possible to enter the service
of the government. There may not
be many of them, but one is too
many, and there are more than one.
They are marplots. They are rev
olutionists. They are overthrowers.
They are public enemies. They
should be ejected. They must be, if
FOR A 35-KOOT CHANNEL.
The reasons given by Major Slat
tery for disapproval of immediate
work on a 3 5-foot channel in the Co
lumbia and Willamette rivers can be
fully refuted at several points. As
usual with army engineers when
they report on proposed river and
liarbor improvements he is bound by
the rules of the service to base his
conclusions on actual present condi
tions rather than on possibilities,
probabilities or even certainties
which have not been realized. His
public addresses have .given proof
that he holds a high opinion of the
commercial opportunities of the
port and that he is ready to assist
in their development. Other and
very weighty considerations thali
those which he discusses will enter
into the final recommendations of
the board of engineers and into the
action of congress and all will tend
to a decision that the channel shall
be improved with the least possible
delay for navigation by the largest
ships of either war or commerce.
The facts are that there has been
a great increase in the number and
tonnage of ships coming to Portland
during the last six months, and that
the increase continues. We have a
monthly steamer to the Orient, have
a new coastwise line, have secured
a French line, have started a month
ly line to Hawaii, have proposals for
lines to Scandinavia and to Java and
the Straits Settlements, and have a
movement well advanced for a Portland-owned
line to the Atlantic and
foreign ports. The shipping board
has sent many of its vessels from
here with full cargoes, and their
failure to return has been due to the
policy of the board, not to lack of
return cargoes.
The extent to which the war
robbed Portland of ships and the ex
tent to which they have returned
since the armistice is shown by the
number and tonnage of vessels en
tered and cleared in 1913 and 1918.
The figures are
Number Tonnage Number Tonnage
Yr. Kntwred F.ntered Cleared Cleared
1913.. 1150 1.4S0.1RI 1146 1.4S0.O.,0
118.. 474 674,850 581 S74.757
The recovery after the armistice
did not become marked till May, but
it was marked in that month and
has held firm ever since. Taking
the actual figures for the ten months j the country is to'Survive.
tfUllIl Willi V Fl IUUU1 dllU I l llllVLlllf,
those for November and December
at the average of the six months
from May to October, inclusive, we
find these totals for 191 J:
Vessels entered, D66; tonnage entered,
768.007.
Vessels cleared, 710; tonnage cleared.
1,110.801.
ThoBe figures show both the effect
of the war on Columbia river ship
ping an abnormal cause which
should not be considered in deciding
on permanent improvements and a
decided recovery from these effects.
They show that the government has
to provide for an increasing, not a
decreasing, tonnage.
When the bar channel reached a
satisfactory depth in 1914, Portland
had two regular foreign lines of
steamers, but the war took them
away. It also deprived us of all the
tramp ships which had carried
wheat, flour and lumber, and of
coastwise passenger and freight ves
sels. The tonnage of which the port
was deprived is fast returning or is
being replaced by other vessels, and
the reasonable outlook is that with
in a year the total will" be greater
than it was in the summer of 1914.
Business foresight dictates that pro
vision be made for the commerce
which is obviously coming in the
near future, not solely for that which
is already here. The requirements of
the Pacific fleet must also be con
sidered, for it is not to be expected
that the vessels will be content to
remain at Tongue point. They will
want a free passage to the great
market which Portland affords for
all kinds of supplies. Nor is it prob
able that the naval base will remain
simply a base for destroyers and
submarines. As the merits of the
Columbia river become known to
navy men through experience, it is
likely to develop, as Mare island and
Bremerton have developed, into a
base for the largest warships want
ing the maximum draft, that they
too may have access to this source
of supply.
For the traffic already existing
and reasonably assured a depth of
35 feet at the lowest stage of water
will be needed by the time it can be
attained. It will not be sufficient to
have adequate depth for vessels of
the greatest draft two-thirds or
three-fourths of the year; it must
be constant. Portland plans to es
tablish passenger lines on regular
schedule, and they would not con
tinue if low water caused them to
miss a trip or two in the summer or
fall. The present depth is not too
great for some vessels going out
with full cargoes. The government
and the Port of Portland commis
sion should maintain the present
depth of 30 feet every day of the
year and should increase the width
to 500 feet, as Major Slattery pro
poses, but provision should be made
now to continue work till 35 feet is
reached and maintained. Kxperience
proves that the draft of vessels con
stantly crowds the limit in capacity
of the channel as fast as it is extended.
No doubt need be entertained that
"CBUKL AND ITNTJSUAL."
The argument that if hanging is a
deterrent of murder a torturous
death would be a greater deterrent
is shallow argument whether it be
presented as sarcasm or seriously.
If the correspondent who presents it
today will reflect a moment upon
deterrents of minor ills she will
be able readily to recall several that
are no better for the overdoing of
them.
The dread of death is instinctive.
No thought upon the subject is re
quired of the dullest intelligence. It
exists strongly enough without add
ing to it. So torture is not
only abhorrent, but cumulative
and wholly unnecessary. Dread
of imprisonment, on the other
hand, is a product of the reasoning
faculties and it has se'veral mitiga
tions, at least to the mind that is
criminally diseased or in the reflec
tions of him who for the moment
holds loss of liberty not too great a
price to pay for revenge or desire.
There is chance of pardon, of parole,
of escape, of semi-liberty as a trusty
or honor man. Hope is co-existent
with life.
But if the correspondent desires a
more practical reason why her argu
ment is shallow it lies in the inhibi
tion of the federal constitution
against cruel and unusual punish
ments. The same inhibition was
copied into the Oregon constitution,
yet one of the ear'y laws enacted
thereafter imposed the death penalty
for murder. The distinction between
hanging and torture has been so
fully recognized by legislatures,
courts and peoples for more than a
century that it is almost idle to
discuss it.
the navy department will have much
OUR CASE AGAINST CARRANZA.
If the United States should make
war on Mexico, the outrageous treat
ment of Jenkins would be but the
last of a long series of wrongs which
President Carranza has done to
Americans, of insults to the Amer
ican government and of flagrant
breaches of solemn promise, for
which this country would claim re
dress. Through the whole history
of his rise to power he has shown
bitter hatred of Americans, evidenced
during the war by open favor to
Germany.
His first act on starting his revo
lution in May, 1913, was to demand
from the American owners of a coal
mine in Coahuila payment of 100,000
pesos under threat to destroy their
property. They could not pay the
money and he dynamited the mine,
stole 30,000 tons of coke and turned
the mine over to Germans to operate.
President Wilson's refusal to
recognize Huerta and occupation of
Vera Cruz were instrumental in en
abling Carranza to gain control of
the government, but" he showed no
gratitude for this favor; in fact he
joined in denouncing the "Vera Cruz
expedition.
He continued raids on the border !
and murders of Americans to the
day when he was recognized; then
these outrages suddenly stopped. He
evidently hoped to intimidate Mr.
Wilson, and the event indicates that
he succeeded.
As a condition of recognition, he
promised to hold an election for
president on October 8, 1915, but he
delayed it for two years. He then
held a sham election, directed by his
soldiers, at which only 2 per cent
of the electors voted and at which
polls were not open in five entire
states. The vote of five states and
of large parts of three others was
thrown out because it was not unani
mous for Carranza.
He also promised to restore the
constitution of 1857, but he drew
and promulgated a new constitution
which had not been ratified by the
people and which contained retro
active, conriscatory provisions
against the property and personal
rights of foreigners.
He promised to protect the lives
and property of foreigners, but he
has caused or permitted murder of
more than 300 Americans and has
destroyed American property worth
a00.uoo,ooo. He has seized rail
roads, street railways, banks, power
plants, ana now attempts to confis
cate oil wells on land which Amer
icans bought from individuals, not
from the Mexican government, as is '
falsely pretended.
He consented to Pershing's pur
suit of Villa after the Columbus raid.
but when it advanced into Mexico he
protested, caused his troops to attack
the American troops at Parral and
Carrizal, and demanded their with
drawal. When the United States declared
war on Germany, he permitted
his country to become a ref
uge for Germans and their spies and
WORRIES ABOUT WORDS.
The Walla Walla Bulletin turns
again its batteries of persuasion on
The Oregonian in another effort to
show that "lenity" is a better word
than "leniency." It musters a for
midable array of authorities in the
following interesting fashion:
We were not .criticising the Oregonian.
but seeking its advice. We do not re-
rrember to have seen that journal use the
"hub in question, out it was our dcsn
to get tne discussion going. We agree
with It on debark. We might idd that
-Ay re does not like leniency at -ill. See
his 'Verbalist." In "Good English" the
great Gould says that "leniency" is of low
origin. It was not and is not, he says,
pa-nctloned by educated men. Lenity is
the right word, he maintains, being from
lenitaa, and lenity is pure English. Gould
rays leniency is a philological abortion,
just as bad as jeopardize for jeopard, or
as preventative for preventive. We admit
that some of these Illegitimates get into
good society, but the presence of a word
in a dictionary does not give it legitimacy.
Fernald's "Synonyms" gives lenity and
leniency as of identical meaning. Since
they mean the saone thing, why not take
lenity? It Is legitimate and unquestioned.
Since they mean the same thing
why not take "leniency" ? Tour ver
balist refines the meaning of words
till he takes the flavor entirely out
of them. He is as difficult to com
prehend as the grammarian who
splits hairs over the technicalities of
construction through dreary pages,
and ends nowhere in -particular.
The grammarian, or the verbarian,
or the lexicographer who will make
language easy, not hard, is the need
of the age. For example, we should
like to have some great luminary
who will enlighten the puzzled mind
of the average copy-reader over the
mysteries of the relative pronoun
and its uses. The Oregonian the
day before yesterday had "whom, it
is said, was an American citizen.
and yesterday it evened up matters
with "who he charged with com
mitting immoral acts." A letter came
from a graduate of a state institution
recently signed "Alumni," and "dis
associate" and ""preventative" per
sist despite constant endeavor to
head them off. And so on ad
infinitum.
Let us say to our valued neighbor
at Walla Walla that such constant
departures from the fundamentals
of good grammar we use "good"
advisedly, for we are not among
those purists who regard the adjec
tive as superfluous worry us a great
deal more than any question over
"lenity" or "leniency," where an easy
option may be exercised and good
usage be observed.
confidence in Mr. Wilson which he '
assumed by undertaking the peace
negotiations himself without consult
ing tha senate and without associat
ing any senators with him. The
answer to his appeal for a vote of
confidence at the elections of 1918
was a majority of his opponents in
both houses of congress. After he
brought back the first draft of the
covenant thirty - seven senators
enough to defeat ratification signed
a declaration that "the constitution
of the league of nations in the form
now proposed should not be ac
cepted."; that "negotiations should
immediately be directed to the ut
most expedition of the urgent busi
ness of negotiating peace with Ger
many satisfactory to the United
States" and the allies, and that "the
proposal for a league of nations
should then be taken up."
While he caused some changes in
the covenant in the direction indi
cated by his critics, they did not meet
all serious objections, and he flouted
the senate by declaring that the
covenant and the peace terms would
be so- closely interwoven that they
would be inseparable. That was an
invitation and a provocation to seek
faults. It was also a challenge to a
test of strength to decide whether
the senate should actually have a
real part in treaty-making or should
become a mere rubber stamp. Not
until the senate had adopted the
Lodge reservations did he permit
Senator Hitchcock to make any sug
gestion of compromise reservations.
The majority had then committed it
self and, though eighty senators were
ready to ratify on conditions which
might fairly have been arranged, the
treaty was defeated because the
president prevented agreement
among its friends.
The democratic senators made this
outcome possible by their unques
tioning obedience to the will of the
president. Though elected to act as
members of the senate independent
of the president, all except a handful
acted as democrats following their
leader. They were democrats before
they were Americans. There was
among the republicans a body of
earnest friends of the treaty who
favored reservations which would
not have weakened the covenant. At
any time during the last four months
they were open to an offer of com
promise from Senator Hitchcock, the
democratic leader, which would in
all probability have won enough ad
aitionai repuoucan votes to insure
ratification. But he refused to show
his hand. The moderate reservation
ists committed themselves to certain
proposals, and were prepared for an
honest effort at agreement with the
democrats, but Mr. Hitchcock and
his party would not commit them
selves to any definite proposal. They
would not, because they could not
They were not free agents, for they
took orders from the White House,
and Mr. Wils.on forbade compromise
The way to break the deadlock is
for the democratic senators to com
promise on reservations which will
command support of two-thirds of
the senate. They should do this in
agreement with the president if they
can. without it if they must. They
should again become free agents,
acting as senators rather than
democrats, and exercising their inde
pendent judgment. They were elected
to co-operate in the first instance
with other members of the senate in
making laws and treaties, that body
as a whole to reach agreement with
the president and the house in final
enactments. If after they had taken
this course and had thus caused rati
fication with reservations, the presi
dent should refuse to complete th
act and send the compact to Ver
sailles, the responsibility would be
upon him. That responsibility would
be so heavy that there is doubt
whether even he, if in full possession
of his faculties, would, assume it.
.U ETH THE OREGON NEWSPAPER
CookStove L os in Encounter Wltk
. Tin Ltssie.
Athena Press.
Tom Gilkey. Jim Clevenger and
Dad" Welch hare set up housekeep- on his wav to Portland from HeoDner
ing in true bachelor style. Jess White I ad slopped at Condon to get a shave.
ndertook to provide the trio with a While the barber was shaving Sam's
cookstove and delivered it from the
ranch in his jit. When he arrived at
bachelor headquarters, however, the
stove was in just 43 more pieces than
when he started with it.
Tbe Money That's In the Hank.
Baker Democrat.
Often the "umbrella'" ypu put away
for that rainy day is money in the
ank, and, believe us, there is no
that is handy for your use on the
rainy day, the cold day, the snowy
day, the day when there's a shortage
of coal, or food, or clothes, the day of
nemployment, the day of hard times.
the day when the wolf howls loudest
at the door. .
Waiting; for Christmas. Perhaps.
Carlton Sentinel.
Time was when an editor could
often count on a Thanksgiving bird.
ust "on subscription account, but
folks these days do not seem to fee!
like paying for five or six years in
advance.
Familiar Sisrut.
Wheeler Reporter.
R. H. Cady and The Oregonian.
The Difference and the Distinction.
Eugene Register.
Before the W. C. T. U. goes too far
in the direction of crowding temper
ance on other nations it might be well
to consider our own good American
opinion of foreigners who come here
to change our institutions. The W. C.
T. U-. is an honored organization, in
he United States, but whiskered bol
shevik! are honored in Russia, while
here they are anathema.
Watson was found guilty of the
white slavery charge, the jury con
sidering his crime very "raw" work
and indeed it was. Yet the lesson of
it will be lost on other victims of
other slaver, for it is the sorrowful
way of the world to try anything
once.
In the cabinet of the new Omsk
government are M. Pepeliaeff, M
Tretiakoff and M. Bourishkine. We
predict that the government will lose
the ball on downs from loss of
breath.
Nobody cares to snitch, but if you
know an alien slicker or slacker,
who has a job, report him in the
hope an ex-service man can get it.
This is no time for being sentimental.
THE WAY TO RATIFICATION.
When the treaty of Versailles is
taken up again at the session which
opens today, there will be opportun
ity to make a fresh start toward rati
fication. Democratic senators know
that it cannot be ratified without
reservations satisfactory to those
who fear injury to American inter
ests. Republican senators know that
ratification with reservations to the
league covenant is possible only with
the aid of democratic votes, and that
reservations which emasculate the
covenant will not be accepted by the
democratic senators or by President
Wilson.
The president has learned several
things which should lead him to
modify his attitude. He has learned
that the senate is determined to ex
ercise its function as a co-ordinate
branch of the treaty-making power
and will not approve without change
anything that he brings back from
a peace conference. He knows that
reservations of a certain general pur
port must be accepted in order to
gain the support of two-thirds of the
senators and to be acceptable to the
other signatories. He knows that the
alies are mortified at the discovery
that he does not accurately express
American opinion. They rightly as
sumed that he had gauged public
opinion so correctly that they might
safely expect any agreement made
by him to be ratified, and on that as
sumption they made important con
cessions to his wishes. They have
good cause to feel that .they have
been misled.
Fair notice was given before the
peace (Conference adopted the final
draft of the covenant that the Ameri
can people had not that unbounded
Thoi Who Come and Go.
He is telling how his lip was cut,
ia Sam Van Vector, at the Imperial.
It appears that Mr. Van Vector was
lip a man came up behind the barber
and struck him. The pain felt by the
tonsorial artist was nothing compared
to the sensation experienced by the
attorney from Heppner, so Mr. Van
Vector leaped from the chair, face
covered with lather and gore, and
with the apron flowing from around
his neck he picked up a cuspidor and
biffed the barber's assailant on the
bean. On wn fell the csusa of Mr. Van
mbrella quite so desirable as the one i vector's wound and for a moment it
With a Kick in It.
By i i u.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montacne.
Pacific coast ice cream makers are
meeting in Spokane to discuss prob
lems of the industry. We should
think this east wind would be one
of their main December problems.
The French government is making
men's suits to sell for only $11. If
they're anything like prevailing
French fashions In women's dress
the government is profiteering.
And now even Walter M. Pierce,
the silver-tongued orator from La
Grande, is aroused to the menace of
Japanese land owning. The peril
must indeed be great.
Here's a Good Example.
Condon Globe-Times.
A reader of this paper subscribed to
it the other day as a Christmas pres
ent for a friend who formerly resided
here but had left. It is a present that
will be appreciated.
Dislikes Etched Print inn.
Coquille Sentinel.
After attempting for several weeks
to read printing of this new style we
can frankly say we don't like it. The
print is often blurred and nowhere
stands out with the clear-cut dis
tinctness of type. It is hard on the
eyes and its very newness repels.
Rognc Kiver Rhapsody.
Grants Pass Courier.
And so we might go down the entire
list. Berry or fruit or vegetable, it's
the climate that makes it just a little
sweeter, or a little more nectar-like,
or of a richer quality.
He Means rider.
larshfield Record.
It is the liquid sunshine of a Coos
Bay summer. Absolutely pure. All
the good left in. All the bad taken
out.
The Extravagant Habit.
Crane American.
People like to be humbugged. The
world is full of vanity. Pansies are
prettier than diamonds, but people
like to wear diamonds because they
cost more. If you have something to
sell, don't offer it cheap, for nobody
will want it. Few people are inter
ested in the gospel because it is free
and without price.
Bad Suggestion, Nevertheless.
Eugene Guard.
A quick and effective way of
stamping out anarchy would be to
hang without trial the lawyers who
are always on hand to defend mem
bers of these murderous gangs. They
did that very thins in Montana not
so long ago, and the beneficial ef
fects of that lynching bee are easily
observed there. There are too many
of a certain brand of lawyers in the
country, anyway.
Running to Seed.
Monmouth Herald.
While we blame the undigested for
eigner for the I. W. W., it Is a fact
to be lamented that good old Ameri
can names among the prominent
members thereof are altogether too
common.
This Way to tbe Knpewallt.
Weston Leader.
We would advocate summary sus
pension of red activities and inci
dentally of the reds.
Expectations and Disappointments.
Woodburn Independent.
We lose a day a year opening circu
lar letters. Some are marked "Rush"
and sealed, and our heart goes pit-a-pat
with the thought that inside
there might possibly be a big check,
but it turns out to be the same old
truck. A man's time is worth some
thing even to open and glance at all
these circular letters, and then there
is the added disappointment. Have
you ever noticed how full this world
is of haoDV thoughts. Drlgnt laeas.
great expectations, trials, tribulations
and disappointments?
Larky Rlnehnrt Hosts.
Blue Mountain Eagle.
There was a big crop of apples at
the Rinehart orchard, and it has taken
111 hogs to keep up with tne wind
falls and at present they are away
behind.
"The Petty, the Potty and the Pity.
Independence Post.
Blessed be the progressive citizen
and booster. "A lot of them just go
ahead and do things'" and because
they do, the petty, the putty and pity
gain sustenance and benefit in the
harvest that none nao a snare in
reaping.
looked as though Mr. Van Vector
would be facing a charge of murder
in the second degree, but the victim
of the cuspidor slowly revived. "'And
now," explained Mr. Van Vector to a
sympathetic audience, "I've got to
hang around Phil Metschan's hotel
until my lip is healed."
There was a very dapper and keen
eyed young man who flim-flammed
hotels, theatrical men and real es
taters in Portland a few days ago.
Claiming that he came from San
Francisco to select a site for a
theater, the stranger soon had glad
hands extended. He examined va
rious pieces of property and Sat
urday night he decided to take a
quarter block on Broadway. Nego
tiations were carried on to the point
where he was to make an initial pay
ment of $5000. At this point he dis
covered he had to go to Puget Sound,
but he would be back Monday morn
ing to close the deal. Meanwhile he
casually mentioned that he had run
out of ready cash and asked to have
a check cashed. This check-cashing
was worked with the hotel, the real
estate agent, a theatrical man and
goodness knows how many others.
Anyway, the man who wanted a site
for a Portland theater has levanted
and he is much wanted in these parts.
FOHBIGN EXCHANGES.
What of the pound?
What is Wall street's latest word J
Three point eight-seven? What? Ab
surd! It seemed much stronger is our hand
When, back in June, we strolled along
the Strand
And bought two tickets for the Drury
Lane. ...
What? Three point eight-seven?
You're insane!
What of the franc?
What is the murmur from the Bourse?
Ten to the dollar? Worse and worse!
We got but seven for the buck
When, back in May, we played in
brilliant luck
And trailed the paymaster straight to
his lair.
And now ten to the dollar?
"Tisn't fair!
What of the mark?
To two and a quarter cents they're
gone?
Employes of the Spokane Power
company who received a 13 per cent
rise in pay are hardly likely to re
fuse it on the ground that 13 is unlucky.
Interned Germans, deported, plan
to return to this country after peace.
for they know a good thing when
they see it.
If you awake tomorrow and hear 1
the raindrops pattering on the roof,
the first installment of winter has
passed.
Looking into the stores and on the
streets these afternoons, one wonders
who is at home attending to dinner.
The British pound Is now worth
only $3.87. But will someone kindly
tell us what the dollar is worth?
Even after being trimmed, Mr.
Eatchel's road budget is satisfactory
in covering the most needs.
Government gives up sugar con
trol at the end of this month. The
situation cannot be worse.
Try the British plan on Carranza,
Mr. Lansing. Fear nothing the
country will be behind you.
If Carranza insists on inquiry
there should be at least one under
taker on the board.
The best cure for a hunger strike
seems to be to let them strike.
How Dick; Rotherford Went.
Kandon Western World.
Local G. A. R. and W. R. C. have
called to attention the story of Dick
Rutherford, an 80-year-old veteran of
Ontario, Or., who was helped to attend
the national encampment oi j. a. ..
at Columbus the past summer.- It ap
pears the veteran was without funds
for the trip and so It was decided to
ask the members of Oregon, Idaho and
Washington to send in pennies to
help. A total of 10,750 pennies were
received, of which 4896 were used to
pay railroad fare and 5854 for his
other expenses.
One Deschntes Resource.
Bend Press.-
One thing Bend will never lack and
that is lava rock. A visitor lady upon
arriving in Bend the other day cast
her eyes upon the surface of the
ground and quoted: "Oh, how firm a
foundation, ye saints of the Lord."
She had visualized our .splendid re
source of lava rock, which serves as
the ready-at-hand concrete wall, and
also makes a. wear-ever stone fence,
which for cheapness and durability
cannot be excelled.
Epitome of All Things Bad.
Cottage Grove Sentinel.
Profanity in public places is a sign
of ill-breeding; it is a sign of de
graded mentality; it is a sign of a
depleted vocabulary, and vile and in
decent language is even frowned
upon by the law, being a misdemeanor
and punishable by jail sentences.
The Laborer's Hire.
Baker Democrat. -
Few people question the value of
the church to the community or the
value of the minister of God as a
member of society, yet the business
affairs of most churches and the pay
ment of the minister's salary are no
toriously conducted in a slipshod
manner.
Charles Paige of the Public Amuse
ment company, builders of the Miller
patent coaster, of Baltimore, is here
in the interest of building one of the
company's latest rides at Columbia
beach. After spending several days
in surveying and going over the
ground Mr. Paige has recommended a
ride identical with one which his
company is now building at Rlverview
park. Chicago. This park is the
largest amusement resort of the kind
in this country and also has the
greatest ' number of amusement de
vices. This ride will have three-quarters
of a mile of track and will be of
the latest type of construction known
in this business. It will consist of a
500-foot tunnel and after leaving the
tunnel the cars will be elevated to
75 feet and from there on the fun
begins. Every dip will be to the
ground at -a speed that will be fast
cnoujrh for the patrons of the .park
and still be safe. Mr. Pale Is to start
work on two rides for the Giant
Safety Coaster company at Venice, CaL
There are times when the Columbia
river is too rough for navigation, as
K. P. Ash, banker and merchant of
Stevenson, Wash., can testify. Wed
nesday evening Mr. Ash crossed the
Columbia to attend a lodge meeting
at The Dalles. When the brothers
had closed the session and Mr. Ash
started for his own fireside far away.
he discovered that the east wind was
playing hob with the river and the
Columbia was too nasty for a person
to try to cross. Thus shut off from
home, Mr. Ash came to Portland and
went to the Multnomah. He is now
more convinced than ever that there
s need for the projected bridge across
the Columbia at Cascade locks. This
bridge project is now moving along
slowly and has been taken up with
the officials at Washington, D. t.
There will be the greatest market
ever known next year for loganber
ries," says Louis Lauchmund. former
ly mayor of Salem and now a state
senator from Marion county. "A big
price is assured. I can't say-how high
it will go. but the price is going to be
good." Mr. Lauchmund is the man
who handles the green fruits for the
canning and juice company at Salem
and therefore has to keep in touch
with the situation among the growers
and the progress of the crops as well
as the prices. And for the benefit of
those who have heard rumors. Mr.
Lauchmund declares that he does not
intend being a candidate for the re
publican nomination for congress,
There were such reports current when
the legislature was in session-
There are 123 farmers living in
tents waiting to get houses on their
places in the Warm feprings irriga
tlon district, according to J. Ward
Armington of Vale, who is registered
at the Hotel Portland. This is cited
as an evidence of the desire of the ir
rigation farmers to lose no time
starting work on their farms. Mr.
Armington is president of the Vale
Milling company, recently erected.
which expects to grind tne grain
raised by the people on the irrigated
ground. The mill will begin operat
ing January l. it nas a -capacity oi
150 barrels a day and is said to be one
of the most complete flouring mills
in Oregon.. Mr. Armington is in Port
land for the purpose of buying the
final finishings of the mill.
E. L. King, reared in Ontario. Or,
is in town looking for a location. He
entered banking in his home town,
where his father. G. L. King, once
owned about half of Ontario, then he
went to Boise for 12 years. During
the war Mr. King was cashier of the
First National at Meridian. Idaho,
sold out and went into the federal re
serve bank at San Francisco for more
training. For the past three months
he has been in a hospital and is now
recuperating and. as explained, is
browsing around for a. likely location.
G. H. Jacobs of Gold Hill, Or., is
among the Hotel Oregon arrivals.
Gold Hill is now distinctly on the
map. For years about half of the
houses in the town were empty, out
they are now all occupied. Also, Gold
Hill is blessed with hard-surface
pavement on its section of the Pacific
highway, so that traffic can go from
Gold Hill to Asniana on pavement.
Have another root beer, John!
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Incredible!
The market quotation for marks is
2.25. That makes them .50 weaker
than near beer.
The Hilt and the Blade.
O, many a hilt that is girt with gold
Bears a blade of pewter and tin.
That glimmers aright in the throne
room light
But turns when the foe drives in.
For a hilt that is red with the ruby
stone
And set with the soulful pearl
Is worth the price of its blade alone
When the nickering broadswords
whirl.
I knew a knight, down Sherwood way,
And he was a vain, vain swine.
Who pledged his shire for the lam
bent fire
Of terns from a sultan's mine.
His blade was wrought by the village
smith.
Though its grip wore the glow of
stars
But mine was the cool gray steel they
tool
From true Toledo bars.
O, mine was a blade with thought in
wrought.
And love, and cunning and pride
The good brown hilt was all ungilt
And laced with bullock hide.
And so when we fought, on the twi
light turf.
In a quarrel no man mav know.
I laughed at his thrust and gave my
trust
To the steel that armorers know.
If you ask the fox on Sherwood heath
What he found as the dawn winds
blew,
xe win Know tnat a blade Is never
made
Of aught save the steel that's true.
For many a hilt that is irirt with gold
.tsears a Diade or pewter and tin.
That glimmers aright in the throne
room light
But turns when the foe drives in.
Friar Tuck.
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And Stewed on Saturdays?
Dear L. L. D.: Have you noticed this
ad?
HARDBOILED
at the
GLOBE
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
L. A.
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Who Speaks f
I wish I had a caveman bold
To drag me by the hair;
I'd treat him well and never scold,
Because I shouldn't dare.
Dorothea.
Joyriders, Attention!
"Reliable young lady wishes posi
tion as auto accessory or hardware
saleslady; some experience. Main
616:!."
W H K THE FIREMEN ORGAMIE.
As they did in Jeraev City.)
The holocaust is at its height. The
flames leap upward in the
night.
The watchers thrill as higher still
The conflagration towers.
"Put out the flames!" somebody cries.
"N"ot us," the fireman gruff re
Plies. "'It can't be done. It's half-past
one.
And long past union hours."
Amid a roaring, deafening dm the up
per stories topple in
While with a cloak of inky smoke
The horrid sight is hidden.
A voice cries. "Telephone the chief
and ask for succor and relief."
Alas, too late! He begs to state
I hat overtime's forbidden!
mother shrieks in accents wild.
"Please. Mister Fireman, save
my child!
, iTo lose my James amid the flames
Would dreadfullv unset me."
The fireman stifles down a moan and
answers sternly in a tone
Of adamant. "1 simply can't!
The union rules won't let me!"
Hereafter, friends, remember, please,
in having holocausts like these.
To have them when the engine men
Are waiting in their stations.
All smoke that leaps, all flames that
roar, outside the hours of eight
to four.
Must be ignored; they don't accord
With union regulations!
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W hich Makes It 1 nanimona.
Xow it is Ludn-dorf that accuses
Btrnstorff of trickery.
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Qualifying;.
The ex-kaiser is growing whiskers
now, and the bolsheviks are wonder
ing if he intends to join them.
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Business Opportunity.
The man who invents a burglar-
proof cellar door will make a fortune.
tCopyrisht, 1919. by The Bell Syndi-
cate. inc.)
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ARillMi FOR
OIT1AWS IRli'Kll
"Drastic- and Foolish I.a-r" Is nVll
Invitation to Crime. t
PORTLAND. Dec. 6. (To the HdV
tor.) As a result of the recent ap
prehension of the Clarement taverW
murderers. I and a few thnusann
other struggling taxpayers will have
the pleasure of supporting a lot of
degenerates for the rest of their nat
ural lives in the state penitentiary.
There should be some way of making
the "floater" and the professional
idler and work-evader bear his part
of the expense of the government.
The only tax some of these men have
ever paid was indirectly through the
excise tax, when the state was "wet."
Now they pay nothing. This also ap
plies to apartment house dwellers,
who pay only a small portion through
rental money.
Another thing that galls me. is
the fact that 1 have a walk of three
blocks from my carline. through dark
streets that are tree-lined. Some Sat
urday night I am going to be held
up. If 1 carry a gun I am subject to
arrest and as I am law-abiding. I do
not carry one. and every thug in the
northwest knows that Portland is
gunless. through a drastic and foolish
"gun law." If every law-abiding
citizen were allowed by some simple
permit system to carry a gun, there
would be fewer "getaways." and the
news would quickly spread in the
underworld. As it is we are just an
invitation to them. A. M. TURNER.
PACKIXCJ THKATBIIS IS SCORED
Standing
BOILING OIL FOR MFRDEUERS
W. L. Provost of Bay City, Or., ac
companied by his family, is at the
Perkins. There have been Provosts
at Bay City ever since the town was
laid out. The Portland visitor na
been connected with the light and
power company in Tillamook.
Gilbert Thompson, who is a greeter
at Renrl. was at the Multnomah yes
terdav and declares that the people oi
central Oregon are planning to offer
every comfort to tne tourists wxio
visit that section during the coming
summer.
There is plenty of feed for the stock
this winter in the Antone district, re
ports Mrs. L. M. Quint, who is regis
tered with her daughter at the Mult
nomah. Mrs. Quint owns and oper
ates a large stock ranch near Antone,
Or.
C. C. Seeley. who has charge of the
highway construction now in prog
ress between Blalock and Arlington,
is at the Multnomah, accompanied by
Mrs. Seeley. He says that the road
work is progressing very well, con
sidering the cold.
A. W. Van Ness of San Francisco,
who does not claim that the noted ave
nue was named after him. is at the
Benson. He is in the Jewelry busi
ness. A. W. Spencer, a stockman whose
ranch is outside of Wasco, is among
the arrivals at the Perkins.
Additions to Death Penalties Sus;
geated by Sarcastic Writer.
PORTLAND, Or., Dee. 4. (To the
Editor.) A writer in The Oregonian
asks what can be urged In favor of
life imprisonment. It keeps a bar
barous practice off the statute books
of Oregon, and fhe blood of the exe
cuted Off the Voters' hands. The r,nh-
iic snouid ana must be protected from
the mental "wobblies" and criminals
are such, with rare exceptions. ThiB
is proved over and over again by their
illogical reasoning and iH-laid nlans.
There is a mental kink somewhere or
a man would not be a criminal.
But if we are to have capital Dun-
ishment again, let it be made a real
deterrent. . This has not been true of
hanging, except in a mild degree.
When murder has been proved let us
Don tne victim in oil, introducing him
feet foremost. Then let every one of
voting age be compelled by law to fCR
attend and witness the efficacy of
their handiwork, while they preen
with satisfaction over having made an
example that will be a crime-soother.
This would indeed be a spectacle to
be long remembered, a crime-deterrent
that would fairly curl the hair
of the younger generation to which
the story might be told.
And why not? The murderer would
be no deader then than if he had been
hanged and the voter no more guilty.
There is but one life-spark to ba
snuffed out, one life to give. Why
hesitate at the method? It is the
deed that counts. If it be desirable
to "throw the scarce" into others, take
the most direct route to gain that
objective. Why go on with mild hang
ings for years when a few boilings
would certainly end crime, if fear has
any effect?
The ten commandments are about as
much law as is needed, and the call
ing into use of "isolated texts" is en
tirely unnecessary, I grant. The
Bible, in fact, need not enter into the
discussion; man's law denies the right
to kill, also (even to suicide), and
what is decreed for one man should
hold true of all under the same law.
Man cannot legislate right into an act
at his own convenience; neither can
crime be lessened by doubling the
killings, even though one be called
"legaL"
Since laws are so easily framed it
should not be difficult to deprive the
chief executive of the pardoning
power, thus insuring life imprison
ment of the guilty ones so sentenced.
And as to the cry of punishment
was Christ eager for retaliation on
those who crucified him? "Forgive
them. Father, for they know not what
they sjo." GRACE E. HALL.
Movie Kan Haps . Long
Walts imposed.
. PORTLAND, Dec. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) With a " get the money poller"
and a "public be damned" attitude
Portland theaters are abusing the
atergoers in a way that is shame
fully outrageous. I am referring to
the policy of selling tickets to patrons
and then requiring them to stand up
in a packed perspiring multitude and
be rammed and jammed this way and
that for sometimes even as high as an
hour before getting a seat.
With the exception of places where
specified seats are sold this condi
tion exists at every place of enter
tainment in the city and there is no
way of telling before you get insWe
whether a place is crowded or not.
The theater managers certainly do
not trouble themselves to let you
know the conditions' for it seems that
as long as they get your money they
do not care whether you stand for
an hour to get a seat or get disgusred
and go home or for anything else
that may befall you. You are thi
goat and they are the gainer.
This practice, besides being a
fraudulent way of obtaining money,
is both unhealthful and unsafe and
legislation should be taken against It.
MOVIE FAK.
CRICKETS IX GO'S ARE RECALLED
Pasco Writer Reeouta Fiirht to
Check Peats.
PASCO, Dec 5. (To the Editor.)
The article by H. R. Verder in The
Oregonian recalls a migration of
crickets that came out of the Klicki
tat valley and tried to cross the Co
lumbia river at Columbus (now Mary
hill) in the early 60's. The people tried
to ditch against them, but the crick
ets filled the ditches and kept on
their way and- plunged Into the river.
The current carried them down into
an eddy half a mile below town.
The 500 yards wide and three-quarters
of a mile long was thioiuly cov
ered with dead crickets, and as our
steamboat plowed through them we
could see live crickets on 'he outer
edge of the eddy jumping into the
water bound south for Oregon. The
crickets (or locusts, as we called
them) were about two inches long
and had bodies one-half to five
eighths inch through, no wings, six
crawlers or legs and two very effi
cient jumping legs two inches long.
This may be a little pre-historic,
but I think there are old settlers in
the Klickitat valley that will bear me
OUt in reiUlltlg mr. vciuci a diiciuu.,v
that his crickets were the first found
Tirv,ir,tr, w. P. GRAY.
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How to Obtain Coprlajht.
RAYMOND, Wash., Dec. 3. (To the
Editor.) Please tell me what the
copyright rates are on manuscripts
written for publication in newspapers
and magazines. I have written an
article for a lumber publication and
am advised to have it copyrighted.
How shall I proceed? W. L. B.
' Publish the work with copyright
notice. Promptly after publication
send two copies to the copyright of
fice, library of congress. Washington.
D. C, with statutory fee of $1. paya
ble to register of copyrights. Neces
sary blanks can be obtained from the
library of congress.
Results Are Told for Benefit of Ei
Presldent Tsft.
CASTLE ROCK. Wash, Dec Si
(To the Editor.) A short time since
my attention was called to a picture
of" ex-President Taft poised on the
golf links and attention called to the
fit of his clothes, telling us it was
exercise. Now, we differ.
When we were called on to vote yes
or no on the saloon I weighed 175
pounds. I voted "no saloon." I went
into the chicken business at Winlock
with overalls measuring 35-SS. After
one year of dry weather I took an in
ventory of my weight and a cursory
view of my pants. I found my weight
118 pounds and I watched nine cats
SO minutes trying to catch a mouse in
the bosom of these same pants. The
mouse escaped and I thought Taft
was probably on the wrong trail and
I would take advantage of your lib
eral space and -put him on the right
track. If you publish this don't let
the "no-slang critics" read it.
J. W. FERRIEK.