THE MORNING OREGO.XIAX-. .MOXDAT, DECEMBER 8, 1919. ESTABLISHED BY HENBV t. PITTCK K. Ptifevfshrtl tiy.Ths Oregoolan Pubtishlns Co.. . -lar. Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. m . ............ xr u pipfp Manager. i-ditor. The Oregrontan Is a member of the Asso ciated press. The Associated Fress II exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all newa dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In thia paper ana also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ' Subscription Bate Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) T)ally. Pundav Included, one year 8.0? taily, Sunday Included, six months . Dally, Sunday Included, three month Patly, Sunday included, one mouth . Iaily, without fciiimlay, one year . . . . Ially. without Sunday, six months . Xiaily. without Sunday, one month .. IVoek ly, one year ..... Fur.Uuy, one year Sunday and weekly '. (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ?'2? Country, what we can make, and in dire need of it" Other motives of poliey besides those .of trade must influence us. Bolshevism, feeds tin "misery, as "vulr tures feed on carrion, and if we do not help" the nations of Europe to get to work and provide for their necessities, they will slide down into the abyss where Russia writhes. Our own interest, our duty, to civilization, our duty to the nations which were our comrades in war all call upon us to help them. One of the- most urgent duties of congress is to legis late in aid of foreign trade and stable exchange. NO OPTIMISTIC PROPHETS. There once were prophets, we be- 4.2j 2.2.1 .7.1 6. 00 3.-5 lion ! lieve," who occasionally predicted i 'so otner than disaster and were 'hon ored save, of course, in their own Now they have gone out short of many- essential commodities. ' the fact that he had condoned the I H Y PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES and it, , needs the., labor of all its people Mjermana included, . xo pro duce them.-; aSd1:? incl: Xl. : of style. Foreseeing of calamity is the Dally, without Sunday, one year ...... 7.80 ony vogue. But it IS not Often that Dallv, without Sunday, three months... 1.8o . .. Xa!ly, without Sunday, one month 60 one leaves us with such a sense of How to Remit Send postoffice money foreboding and -distress as does order, express or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are timma CrOldman. at owner's risk. Olve postoffic- address Th erowin7 nractice of denortinsr to 1 na-ei 1 cent; I alien radicals, says jvuss uoiamno, is to 32 p". 2 cents: B4 to -is paees 3 wiI1 bring about a revolution in the C"nis; 50 to BO paxes. 4 cents; 62 to 78 pages. 5 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 centa. United States within five years . The lorelBt. postage, double rates. alternative, therefore, is that we put Eantern Business Office Verree Conk- ' ' lin, Hrutiswick bulldlns;. New York; Verree Up With bombs in the mails,. ambUS- & Conklln, steger building, Chicago: Ver- 1 f r f ,,1 .,)., sti-IUpB in ree.ji: Conklln. Free Press building. De- caae or peaceiui parades, strides in troit, Mich. San Francisco representative, essential industries and the general It. J. Bldwell. . , t state ox unpleasantness tJia.L me In full, including county and state. Postage Kate 12 , . ROUGH STUFF IN ART. ' There Iso fathoming the feelings of the futurist in art, but it is even harder to plumb the depths -of the tninds of patrons ; who make his raft profitable. A recent exhibit 'of paintings of this new school In New York, a feature of which was a number of sketches done on sand paper thatjbrought out a chorus of -'ohs!'. .and 'ahs!" from highbrowed persomvwrhose conception of high art apparently is that it must be un intelligible, illustrates this point. So long as futurists draw crowds, while galleries of the masters are neg lected, we shall continue to despair for the development of art in America. It will be suspected by those who know little and care less about the overworked "psychology" that per vades everything nowadays that the purpose of the art of the palette and brush, no less than that of music and literature, is to propel ideas con ceived by the originators of them. Yet one of the central features of the New York exhibit was a painting called "The Rope Dancer Accom panies Herself With Her Shadows,' which to the ordinary observer re sembles. nothing more than it does a Japanese fan, a sunfish, a tight rrope, a calrs liver surmounted by presence of the alien radicals confers f an umbrella and a geometrical fig' first offense barred him.from obtain ing a legal divorce. George Eliot be came a step-mother to Lewes" chil dren, and the pecuniary returns from her novels educated them. She was not defiant -of the conventions in the everyday sense of the term. Her Romance Clusters Abont the Hasaes of Lover of Laeloaa Bivalve. In all countries there are records of the excessive fondness of great men for oystersV The New York Sun sup- conduct in this regard has seemed a plies the following enumeration: paradox to some, because in all her Napoleon Bonaparte preferred oys- writings she taught sacrifice to duty. tera above any other item for the and by her life indicated in other , . ! ways that she held in reverence the I established laws or tne social oraer ..". " under which she lived. That the I failed to arrive the night before step was taken "only after full and due deliberation, and with a thor ough weighing of consequences and duties," finds a logical sequel in the fact that she took pains to prove that I she regarded their compact as mor ally binding as it could possibly be. and that she was a devoted wife to Waterloo. In early Rome many a ruler, some good, some bad, had private oyster ponds, but it remained for one Ser- gius Orata to create the business of breeding the bivalves for the local trade, old Serg becoming the first Those Who Come and Go. "Do people like to see their names in the newspapers?" Just ask Don Carlos Boyd, editor of the Junction City (Or.) Times, and he will give you an emphatic yes for an .answer. Nine months ago Mr. Boyd took over the Junction City weekly when it had a circulation of 110 and when its monthly advertising accounts hovered around $40. Js"ow he has a circulation of more than 800 with the monthly advertising account boosted to be tween $300 and $500. "When I took over the Times I made up my mind to print the names of every resident of Junction City every week If it were possible," explained' Mr. Boyd yes terday at the New Perkins hotel. It is a hard job some weeks and con sumes from six to eight columns of space, but I have managed to stick fairly close to my goal week after week and the results show for them selves." Mr. Boyd recently purchased a new linotype machine to take care of the needs of his growing plant and his visit to Portland this week is to fignt the battles of Junction City res idents before the state highway commission. With a Kick in It. . By I. L. I). Lewes and mother to his children Oysterman. until his death. It is an interesting Vitellius is credited with being the subject for speculation that her sub- I greatest of all oyster eaters, having sequent marriage to John Walter I surrounded 1000 at one historic sit Cross in 188 0 may have been at least! ting. Caligula, Roman tyrant, was In part Influenced by her desire to an oyster gourmand, and Cicero ii show that she did in fact respect the I said to have nourished his eloquence ueu on mem. LaPine. Or., is noted for two thi may. 111 nuj cveuu, t-umu "" uanton. RobesDierre and the other Fov thr- 1 ,,, ..,, "st.rv. denstein, a friendly commentator, French revolutionists who naved the 1 Plantation." the farm home of Guv E. has suggested, "have made It easier 1 way for Bonaparte were all habitues k0116"6- well-known Montana to form a new alliance after the I . th- -p--..!-- I newspaper editor, and It is likewise death of her first husband." .?, !rP?- J near LaPine that a lost mine of fab- XI ueurge jliiui vta.s uui iuo uiuai -Tralm Schedules Are Cot." You may not ride for pleasure On continental lines." So says Director-General Of Railroads Mr. Mines. My gosh! Is Mines a-kidding ua? How does he get that way? Train riding's been no pleasure For lo! this many a day. Back to the Dark Ages. Twentieth Century Limited Sus pended for First Time." says a head line. Evidently it has reached its limit. "O. nhn the Dowaa Are Uarllna." O, when the downs are darling With May's most magic flowers, When comes the vagrant starling To long neglected bowers Then well do I remember Those morns of other springs That keep through each December All half-forgotten things. r ngs. tion 1 1 Important literary figure of her sex I oysters were conducive to learning. ulous wealth is believed to be located X'tr. 1-1111.11. ""11 Tt i tr. ho -nno if wo Ho. If President Wilson has devised a port an woe if we don.t- . plan . acceptable to the coal miners Mental contemplation of this sit under which they can resume work uation is said to have put both Miss without anv increase in the price of Goldman and Friend Berk'man in a coal to the public, his action in mak- happy frame of mind as they took ; do we get the idea that we suppose reposea. in tne artist s cereDrum ure or two. One may believe that the sandpaper medium is intended some how to convey the subtle impression of roughness, but the rest of it rep resents only subtlety gone mad. Nor In c a proposal to them will meet with . jf t, ins i"ui,uoal " Soon they are to be on their way to general approval. But if his plan in- soviet Russia. Even the problem of volves an advance in wages so large wnat a professional revolutionist can that the operators must pass it on do in a country already revoluted, to the public in the shape of higher where all the talking-jobs are filled prices, it will be condemned by all and counter revolutionists are de except the parties immediately con- Pped by the gun powder method K " disturbs not their peace as they re cerned. fleet upon the disasters they leave The president must understand behind, that the people are behind Dr. Gar- so it goes. No prophet nowadays field, the fuel administrator. In this ever thinks of predicting anything matter. Like him, they are "sick nice. It is only the pessimist who and tired of proposals to make the can gain attention, from the fore people bear additional burdens." caster of a hard winter clear, down They have seen . wages raised time the scale to the confirmed calamity after time and prices raised to cover 1 nowier. the increase, and more too. They have heard tne stereotyped expiana- 1 WHAT OF DUTY TO WORK?" tion "it is tne war until tney are Those who are working in behalf nauseateu. xney see mat tne people of a poUtical alliance of federated wno piay tue game never pay tux it, unions railroad brotherhoods and but always "pass the buck to the farmers. organizations in Oregon are people, iney nave reaoiveu tiiat ui getting around to pratical politics. tmng nas got to stop, in weir upm- special lures for the farmer are now Ion the government of the United States is the government of all of them, not the government of the miners or the operators or of any particular interest. They look to Mr. proposed. The farmer needs a lure or two. He has been resolving loudly and publicly, here and elsewhere, against the shorter hours and halting production of the urban workers. He in some secluded spot in the barren In her century, she was at least very " "II l" 1Krt "V nar It Charlotte Krnntfi alone tors of the Sorbonne to all the oysters been scores of prospectors with tneir near It. cimriotte uronte alone . j grubstakes and hopes of great wealth seems a possible rival and if sus- A " , . . . , who have searched the hills for the tained effort be considered. George Among other notables who left en- ,ost mlne but thu9 far ,t haa e8Ca,ped Eliot is likely still to hold the lead, viable records as oyster eaters the detection, providing it exists. Fred Although in "Komola" and in "Dan- following must not be overlooked: L. Mahan. a returned overseas veter- lel Deronda" she ventured on alien Cervantes, Voltaire. Alexander. Pope. I an- 18 registered at the New Perkins ground and more abstruse themes. Dean Swift and Dr. Richard Bentley, 'ro LaPine, although he confesses she showed in other stories that one who could never pa., an oyster shop smi """o quul f'llsr Sow- need not go iar irom nome ror plot witnoui Having a few nibbles. Mar-1 ever, with Editor LaFollette's "Star or characters. "Silas Marner" and shal Turgot ate a hundred or two 1 vation Plantation." Drifts back to me the magic Of blossoms long since blown. The tender and the tragic Loss that was never known, clasp to me most dearly Each wilful wastrel hour. That woke the lark so clearly To hymn the earliest flower. Wilson as their president, to protect needs to be shown that there is some their interest and to concern himself sort of community interest in a with the quarrel between operators trjpie alliance and miners only as regards equitable But we tnmk the ,urea su&gested division between those two parties of are not enou&h. Thev inclu(le state the price which the public pays for owned packing p ants, warehouses coal. They have seen oefeat of the and cold storage facilitieg. The in revolutionary steel strike, and they timatlon ia tnat urban labor wil vote nave reacneu tne conclusion tnat tue Which depicts "My First Born" by means of two figures that look like ashcans. The "illusive abstractions" that futurists talk about so glibly convey psychological impressions to whom? . We. tolerantly concede a certain latitude to artists and poets. Tenny son crushed a commentator who had displeased him with the condemna tory; "I regard him as a mere photographer." Yet a good deal will be permitted a Tennyson that we cannot allow in one who has never yet succeeded in making himself un derstood.' - The craze for mere nov elty Verges on the bounds of insan ity, and discourages those who like to think of art and music and litera ture, as mediums of communication for all people with aspirations to higher things. The sorrowful phase of the "futurist" movement in poetry as well as in pictures and song is not that it has an occasional crazy exponent, but that It always succeeds in getting a numerically formidable following. A thing may be ever so useless, but if it only mas "novelty" enough it is sure to attract attention. - coal strike is a good opportunity for a finish fight against having the 1 buck passed to them every time em ployers and workmen fall out. For this reason the public is likely I to ' view with misgiving the an nouncement that the president, with out the knowledge of Dr. Garfield, for these if farmers will vote for the "right to work" measure. The latter provides for public employment at any time to all comers of five years' citizenship in the state. But what of duty to work? State owned packing houses, warehouses and cold storage plants offer no con- v. .. , . , ri ., 1 , , ; .... .... - , . i- ti; y else-when men refuse to work" there- whlch they are disposed to accept. It in or insist on condltions of employ. may be that, in view of the contempt ment that make economic operations proceedings against the leaders for impossible. And when the empIoyes continuing the strike and of the evi- of tnese ,ant ar(J wllH to iv dent readiness of the public to fight fair .d .. Work for fair the it out on the lines laid down by Dr. scheme stm ls fault ,f rlkiWo em. Garfield, the president has advised nlnv- nr. ,. ,t, , the miners to accept the 14 per cent fu as th farmera ana th men Jn increase for the time being and to niant. negotiate as to what they shall have In future. The people will have no fault to find with such an arrange ment, provided it implies no Increase In the price of coal. The situation, as the public views It, is this: Dr. Garfield has deter mined that a 14 per cent, not a 60 per cent, advance in wages is suf ficient to bring the war increase in wages to a par with the war increase in the cost of living: that the oper It is a poor rule that does not work both ways. If the public has a duty to provide employment for labor in the hour of labor's need, then labor has a duty to work In- the time of public need The "right to work" amendment is n6t worth a moment's consideration unless to it be added a "duty to work" provision. Let it be so at- "The Mill on the Floss" are con spicuous examples. Her father was the prototype of her "Adam Bede' her mother that of Mrs. Hackit in Amos Barton" and perhaps of Mrs. Poysey. Her aunt. Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, was the inspiration for Dinah Morris in "Adam Bede." Yet it will be observed that, even with her natural genius for seizing on every material at hand .and making the most of It, and with a gift of analy sis that must have been a heritage. she did not take up her pen to write a novel until hers was one of the most accomplished minds of her time. It is true that sincerity and high purpose alone do not make a great or even an endurable, novelist. Some each morning to whet his appetite for breakfast. No lesser authority than Bertram, author of the "Harvest of the Sea," said: "The oyster. I maintain, mav be eaten raw day by day, every day of the 214 days In which it is in leason, and never do hurt. The man who ends the day with an oyster in his mouth rises with a clear head." Tribute is paid by an unknown author to the hardy man who ate the first one: "The man had sure a palate covered o'er With brass, or steel that on tha rocky shore First broke the cozy oyster's pearly coat bis throat.". Few persons are aware of the nur ber of holidays observed In the world. ranged that the farmer may never :l f'A I II nnrionna . i n 1 . . t ' J?:? ePs while he beseecherin of their profit, hence that the op erators have made excessive profits, though not on the enormous scale stated for campaign purposes by W. G. McAdoo; that, therefore, no in crease in the price of coal shall fol- men in the market place to go to work for him. When the legislative programme of the proposed triple alliance has been, so further arranged that the public may without question lawfully demand t l"l 11 t nn aacantlol 1,1...-. . , lnw th snttlonipnt hnlw.nn rr.lr. I " "ut., or PUD11C " . " , , ' " utility snau be closed by strike or and miners. This conclusion has been ockout. and tnat in othJ ,nduK8:ri" appioveu uy i.ie enure cuumet. ana nQ workman m d t the public will look to the presl- workman hls rlht her dent to stand by It. If after work and not untu thJ the wise Varmr " -..-"B.- i,KeIy to heed the call. juoiii, w ui lieu uui uy wuieii miners' wages shall have a definite relation to the price of coal, so much TRADE with German the better, provided the government. Among the several reasons for as the people's agent, sees that the early settlement of the controversy two parties do not get their heads in regard to the treaty of Versailles together to raise both wages and I is the practical necessity for full re profits at the consumer's expense. I sumption of trade with Germany. The people have awakened to the I This does not Imply that we should fact that, whichever party wins a condone the crimes of the German strike, they always lose, and they are people. It is a practical question 61 in the temper to strike against any national self-interest, which has no strikes having this result. When the connection with our opinion of their government has finished with coal, character and conduct, they may call upon it to take up' the No apprehension is felt by those enso of shoes, clothes and other who have studied the economic con necessaries, and to be their "busl- dition of Germany that that country ness agent strike. GEORGE ELIOT Revival of popular interest In George Eliot and publishers have not neglected so obvious an oppor tunity as a centenary affords for stimulating that interest can have nothing but a wholesome effect on popular taste, now a little vitiated, perhaps, by much reading of fiction less conscientionsly constructed and lacking, on the whole, the high pur pose which moved . this "spiritual teacher of the Victorian age" in all her writings. Her earlier life had taught her the supreme idea of duty, compassion for suffering, sympathy with the aspirations of others. Dom inance of duty above every other consideration is manifest in every thing she wrote in plot and char acter delineation, and also in her own preparation for her career. She was 37 years old when she began to write fiction, but the preceding years had not been wasted. She acquired in childhood a good knowledge of the continental languages. She be came a fair Greek and Latin scholar later, and read the Hebrew scrip tures in the original. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, botany and biol ogy, together with not a little music. tested her marvelous versatility, and for perhaps twelve years before she wrote her first novel she further for tified herself. by omnivorous reading of the best In English as well as con tinental literature, and by such phil- osophico-religious tasks as the translation of "The Essence of Chris- tianityV.by Ludwig Fuerbach. These, together with a monumental transla tion of . David Strauss' "Life of Christ," to which she gave three whole years; 'her work as assistant editor of an important review numerous essays and criticisms, in cluding "Silly Novels of Lady Novel ists" and "German Wit," had given her an important place in the Eng lish literary world before she even ventured on the serious undertaking of her life. Those who. in a more dynamic present day, are in such haste to become famous that they omit all the preliminary labor, will draw their own moral from this phase of the life of George Eliot. Her first novel, published anony mously, was "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton," the title of which is said to have come to her in a dream. This was completed of the stupidest folks possible have And risked the living morsel down tried tneir hands at purpose writ ing, and an elevated tone ls no guar antee of immortality. But there oc casionally rises an artist who sue ceeds in being inspiriting and enter taming at tne same time. Such a genius was George Eliot. Now it ls said that publishing houses are com plaining of the dearth of good fiction and are having to print more re jection slips because offerings are below the standard demanded even by the present generation. But until all have read at least the five great novels that George Eliot wrote, and a few others of hers besides, there need not be much concern over the dearth of modern best-sellers. To have stood th of a century a book. We can view the present desia ana a cnurcn festival day For nearly a year during the recent war. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gram of Salem gave their son, John, up as lost. .arly last year they were of ficially notified that the bey had been wounded in battle somewhere in France and had been sent to a hospital somewhere In the rear. From then on they made repeated efforts to find trace of their soldier son. Let ters to him were returned and neither the war department nor the Red Cross could relieve the minds of the anx ious parents. It was not until Repre sentative McArthur got busy and de manded some word that the parents learned that their son had recovered and was in good health. Mr. Gram, who is state labor commissioner. Is registered at the Seward, with hia son. "Montana people, you know, have a reputation for sharing honors with the south so far as hospitality goes, but from my observations during the past week I can say in all honesty that Oregon can give both Montana so as a matter of convenience to I and the south a few pointers In this banks with foreign connections the Guaranty Trust company of New York Issues an occasional bulletin on the subject. A recent issue discloses only 11 of the 31 days in December not on the holiday calendar somewhere in More Truth Than Poetry. Br James J. Meataarve. For lo, when dawn upstarting Strides down the sprouting wold. Ah, keener far than parting Comes memory of old. And deep within me waking Are all the Mays I knew. With many mornings breaking On faerie fiefs of dew. Thus while my heart ls leaping For mirth that May IS come, There sits within me, weeping, A stripling smitten dumb. 'Twas well I knew the stranger, Whenas his glance was high, A lithe and laughing ranger The lad that once was I. FRIAR TUCK. Vo-o-o. Buddy! The timid ctoughboy, on his first day under fire, left his company un ceremoniously and fled rearward. He covered a lot of distance before he pulled up at the command of a port ly soldier: "Halt, there! Where are you go ing?" "Oh, I'm Just going. Who are you?" "Ira General Richardson." "Holy smokes! I didn't know I'd run as far as that!" The American Legion Weekly. Eggaactly. Let millionaires their ducats hoard. I covet not their golden megs; But I'd rejoice could I afford To dine each day' on two fresh eggs. Indianapolis Star. Let princes sit in regal state. I grudge not one his coronet; But I'd delight to deck my plate Each morn with one fair ome.let- POOR GRASD-DAD. Makers of artificial teeth have gone on a strike, creating a famine in their product. News item. At grandpa's teeth the doctor looked And said there wasn't any doubt - But that the old man's goose was cooked Unless he went and had "em out. - Though grandpa shook his head and whined That minus teeth he couldn't chew. We told him that he needn't mind False teeth would make him good as new. So grandpa to a dentist went. Complaining loudly all the while. And left there with a badly bent And absolutelv toothless smila. He took on in a shameful way; ne d cuss and fuss and swear and " fret. And so we went to town next day to get an ariincial set. But though we searched the city through (Poor grandpa always had bad luck) We found that all the people who Build artificial teeth had struck. A few boys' sizes still they had. But they, of course, were far too small. And fitted grandpa's jaw so bad He simply couldn't eat at alL He's getting thin and peevish now; He storms and rages all about And makes the dickens of a row Because we had his teeth pulled out. Apart his jaws we have to pry And feed him with a tablespoon. And he or we are due to die Unless that strike is over soon! Vcneerrd. Wash a bolshevik and you'll find a socialist. Dangerous. Closing the schools because of the coal shortage is only making etrike sympathizers out of the children. Bum Risks. There are Mexicans in Mexico who are friendly to the United States, but they are never pestered by life insur ance agents. (Copyright. 1919, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.l A Ron Without florists. a Thorn. Fine flowers and floral designs, branch stores." St. No respect," is the rumination of "Bill" Culbertson, proprietor of the Corne lius hotel, who returned yesterday irom the state convention of hotel men held last week at Albany. Mr. Culbertson has been located in Port land less than a year, but he is Quick the world and two of these 11 days I to admit that hs missed a lot of worth are Sundays. The holidays, of course. wnlle living during the years he onmmmnrt. rl. f hi. nd "uuaieu near tne radiators at Mis 1" - ,7 . I soula, Mont. events. jeuamuer x is lias any in 1'ortugai and "Newport day" in Ll- I vv hen a man wants to travel or is berla. On December S the kinsr'a compelled to travel, a little thins: like r residents or tne east side nave or late teit exceeaingiy indignant over ipulators of the o iiiurriauii-BireuL uriuKe imva a uauii gave assurance yesterday that the f totally ignoring the rights of citi- Runaway Thoughts. By Grace E. Hall. bridge; users denied rights Thousands Held Up by Small Boatn Pasalng MorrlsoD Bridge. PORTLAND. Dec. 8. (To the Edi tor.) It is safe to say that thousands lOdem Dest-sellers TO oria. w n i-'ccemuer tne- kiukb v.. . ... ... l . . 1 1, A nine i ii i ii & line - le test of three-ouarterK coronation ls celebrated in Slam. De- railroad administration restrictions late felt exceedingly iie test oi tnree quarters ... ... and rules doesn't cut much figure is the fact that the man! is something in favor of cember 4 is "Shanghai day" in Rho- the beef of portlandotelmfn. who Morrison-street bridge e can view the nresent desia and a church festival day in ...j.. .v.. 1 nf tntniiv imnrinr th. threatened famine with equanimity Russia and Serbia; December 8 in I pending elimination of many trains zens who have to cross the bridge. If we realize that the past still has a I many Catholic count ies commemor- I and the coal shortage is not making Perhaps they are not to blame the good deal to offer. Books that were ates the immaculate conception; De- an appreciable difference in hotel pat- men who stop all bridge traffic at so satisfying to our grandparents I cember 12 ls a saint's day in Mexico; ought not to be wholly inadequate I December . IS Is "Dingaan's day"Mn to our own needs. the -South African Union; December 28 ls "proclamation day" In South ronage so far. Although there were I inopportune times perhaps it is the no conventions in Portland during system. vy nicnever it is, eitner tne Ihe latter part of the week, the hotels men or the system needs changing, continued to be crowded. In fact, it Almost any morning between 8:15 is a rare day during these times when and 8:45, when street cars are run any of the Portland hotels has any ning full tilt, overflowing with pas sengers, wnen autos Dy tne score are ready to cross the bridge with loads The steel strike ls said to have cost I Australia. Several of the days are eel the country 1250,000,000, which islebrated for reasons not given in the I vacant rooms. 19 R(i A, .An, I I A - . . 1 T-1. - a ...... A 11 .. .A lA I nhlM -f - ti,- ,,rT -rv.. . . , ki. I i a """" Although the serious coal shortage of people going to work, the bridge child of the population. This is fig- wide public holiday in any month. ,n thl9 country is having: lts effe; will be swung. Then it will be closed ured on the basis of lost production, Christmas comes nearest It, but It la on railroad travel. It appears not to and traffic will proceed over It, but but when it is understood that this not observed as a holiday In Bulga- be causing gray hairs or frowns or before half the waiting cars are over loss never will be atoned for it will ria, Greece, Rumania, Russia, Serbia I worries to Canadian railroad offi- I it will be opened again for some small A flock of thoughts stole out one morning, Just to travel free. And mingle with the others that a- roaming chanced to be: To slip the leash, to seek and find and try untrodden trails. To catch the sentiment afloat and list to strange new tales; So, wandering on a bit too fast, some few went quite astray. Nor did they turn to homeward paths when others did, that day. This foolish flock gasped in amaze a. what they chanced to learn: . They soon despised the docile ways . and all control did spn-n; Kept wandering further from th- trail that saner thoughts had made. Until at last completely lost they halted, sore afraid; They would have gone the backward route but Pride was standing nigh. And smiled derisively when one at tempted to slip by. The homing thoughts returned im proved from mingling with the best. - And sought with conduct unreproved their mental niche, to reBt: Invigorated by their flight, they gained in strength and speed. And seemed to bring a clearer light to shed when there was need. But lb! the truants, gone too far, re turned in deepest grief. From mingling with a lawless band led by a cheat and thief! be seen that no strike can be ap-1 or Turkey except by foreign banks praised in dollars and cents alone. I and merchants, and Is observed by only the foreign community in China, The Sheik-nl-Islam. head of the I and by European colonies only in Mohammedan church, is delighted I Africa, Liberia and Morocco. to observe that Americans are obey ing tne command of the prophet by 1 what Representative Weaver of banishing intoxicants. A good many I North Carolina doesn't know about or us win he surprised to learn that our orders came from that source. cials. At least, there was no out- boat or' log raft to go through, the ward appearance of trouble visible rights or needs of the thousands of about the party of Canadian Pacific people being ignored In the interest In Other Days. railroad representatives who regis tered yesterday at the Multnomah ho tel. Included In the party are G C. Dew, Asiatic freight agent, with head quarters in Montreal: H. W. Gillia foreign freight agent, with headquar ters in Montreal; W. Howie, division Rather shameful to contemplate Multnomah county is a few thousand dollars "shy" in the Roosevelt fund. One day's conscientious work should produce It, but the "conscience" part will be needed. If 4000 hens at the state hospital can make a profit of $10,000 a year, there is no reason why every woman in Oregon cannot own a house and lot. That, at least, is how she will figure It. birds ls not worth knowing. He un- freight agent, with headquarters at derstands their habits, can imitate I Vancouver. B. C, end J. H. Clenden- their calls, is on speaking terras with 'ng, assistant foreign freight agent in conducting their I w'ill FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND TRADE. Foreign exchange may mean noth ing to the average man, but It is the barometer of International trade, and its present rates show a condition as harmful to this country as to others. So many units of the money of other ""I ucuuuib a serious com petitor for world trade. Darwin P. Klngsley quoted from the report of a British commission statements as to the abnormal death rate during the war. which increased rapidly each year, the bad physical condition of the people due to under-nouri"shr ineni ana tne bad mental condition due to defeat. There are also coal itliin fr woot-, a tlli,nj 1 ""'"" 1857 and brought' her about 20. Jable,S wU1 be necessary holiday 0eid and killed herself eating green .. . . - I traffiC. I tr .1 AA AAA1.A KA A.Iaa-a Adam neae, wnicn loiiowea, early com. nwnut in 1859, attracted wide -attention and! T. ., TT7 1 man's wife ran out of the house, up- kiiiui "i"u m outing nen is -ttlng a four-gallon churn run oi at cottage throve, tnis necessary road cream into a basket of kittens, drown- work must be done at night, when ing the whole flock. She slipped on all well-regulated sitters knock off the cream and fell downstairs, break work. I , , , , Q , --1-A 1I1K UCI lnB A 111. a, a.w w. " ' " teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled S to an I through the spilled cream Into the countries are required to buy a dol- """ a Jmoralized lar's worth of goods in this countrv !ran.8.portat.lo.n stem. and .almost hit h npi,nl nf Fiirnn- r-a , ""ai 108a OI Shipping tO Contend With ...... lu.i. a ... j Loss of coal, iron and nnfaoh n-u. I'll L IlVbiO VI US UB) UIIU UUBU1U1Q I ,lli . a, necessaries which they can obtain !V" .f,?.V.e"t Ge.rmny bidding nowhere else. They can raise the . . 8teel industry value of their monev in comoarlson Vu" "greasing xood produc, with ours only by borrowing from us J,.". 1 Pre-War level. No longer or by selling goods to us. But they nf . sur.plus of Potash and must buy raw materials, of which d,rlven otner, nations to de- -ii . .v.- -vi- i elop their own supply. Ofrmn -an til ia tuuuii j o um nuui ,.i i u 11 u i ci , ill Iaaa. a . , ' " order to make these goods. Onlv as " ' oner U8 that fertilizer to foree they buy these materials, manufac- T concessions from other nations, ture them and sell a large part of n 'for 15,000.000 of the the product to us can the rate of ex- PePle must be drawn from abroad. a ,... i k Germany will need so great a nn.. etoratlon of the balance between ex- 1", . ' . uiminisnea supply of increase iood production at home that little wyi remain for export. ... t-ernlany owes a huge suh- for reparations, and can pay it only in 6"' produced Dy industry. In order that these goods mav h- nrn. duced. Germany must be supplied with raw" materials and with food, and must be given credit, for fheir purchase. Then" we must b prepared to buy manufactures which would ouiance credit. The world also, is ports and imports. Hence the United States must buy In order to sell. If we do not buy. the stream of our surplus products will be backed up right to the fac tory door. The necessity of foreign markets to keep our Industries mov ing has been incueased by the im mense growth In our productive ca pacity during the war. If we do not sell abroad, the result may be shut downs and soup kitchens, all the time with, other nations calling for their eggs, and everythnig. When the house ls not In session Weaver wanders around through the capitol grounds, holding converse with the jaybirds, sparrow hawks, crows, blackbirds and such other birds as are found around Washington. And the town Is full of birds. Weaver got the bird habit through wandering about the. North Carolina hills. Washington. Star,. . - "Out on Long Island they are telling Some class to Councilman Moore I of a farmer who was - too stingy to of Salem, who will pay from his own I take a newspaper. pocket for wages and material in One evening he sent hia son over to sewers he ordered built and for borrow the paper, and while the son which the council refuses to pay. was on his way he ran Into a large stand of bees, and in a few minutes Perhaps science some day will be I his face looked like a summer squash. able to extract the heat in a cake of! Hearing the agonized cries of the ice and then the people east of the son,- the father ran to hia assistance, mountains will have it on us In a I and in doing so ran into a barbed coal strike. Li -.--a -utttnsr out a handful of flesh from his anatomy and ruining a About the time the new schedules 4 pair of trousers. are working, production of coal will Th old cow took advantage of the of a boat that should be made to wait five minutes while the accumulated traffic passes. It is getting now so that the man who is due at his place cf work at a certain hour needs to allow 10 or 15 minutes extra for such performances. It certainly would seem to the man not on the water that unless it is a fireboat or something equally im portant at these rush hours the wait ing traffic should be allowed to cross the bridge before It Is again swung. The people do not rule as far as the manipulation of this bridge Is con cerned. One will often see the bridge keep on swinging open after the boat with headquarters at Vancouver, B. C When it Is a man's job to advertise hia railroad's best points In an effort to Induce tourists and travelers to buy their pasteboards over his line. and then the government steps In and says Decause or tne coal shortage, has gone through, and there Is ap- travel must be restricted, it's no won- parently no consideration on the part der that the advertising man loses a of the bridge men for the rights of lot of sleep as well as his rosy out- the public. If the system is to blame look on life in general. O. D. Wheeler, it should be altered, and In writing of the Northern Pacific advertising this letter I am but voicing the sen department, gave it up as a bad Job tlments of thousands of my fellow wnen tnese circumstances came about I surrerers, and came to Seaside where he has 1 I desire to add a word of praise for been taking the salt air treatment for the police department for stationing the past few days. He sinned his t tnese rusn morning nours an oi- Twesty-Klve Years Ago. From The Oreiconian of December 8. 1RJ4. Paris. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who made the Suez canal, died here at the age of 89. Tacoma. Investigations following the subsidence of portions of the sound here show that In many places it was much greater than 80 feet, which was the measurement at the wharves. It is stated on reliable authority that the new through Great Northern and Oregon Railway & Navigation train between Portland and St- Paul will be inaugurated December 15. Agitation for the leasing of the Morrison street bridge is growing and it is proposed to give the bridge com pany S500 a month rental. resume and another juggle of time hole In the fence, got Into the corn caused much speculation as to its authorship, the public being then not so receptive as it is now to the notion that a woman can rise to great height in literature. "The I Mill on the Floss," completed in I 77 -n. Hiin.H wlt-K Am ear oi tne world comin name yesterday on the .register at the Multnomah hotel. Hie headquar ters are at t. Paul. sportsmen from throughout the state began gathering in Portland yesterday for the meeting of the Ore. gon sportsmen's league which will oe new today at the Imperial hotel. Among those to arrive yesterdav for the meeting and who registered at ins imperial were Ray Bremraer. Sa lem; E. 8. Hawker,. Albany: J. C. Alt ken and P. H. Daliey. Medford; W. G emery, rwewport. and J. M. Thnm toon say. One of the biggest Droblems con fronting the Oregon Agricultural col- lege during the present school vear I- to house the students properly, ac- and is unfit for office. 1860, was destined, with "Adam Bede," to rank among the five really great novels from her pen: There was a gap of three years, during which "Silas Marner" was produced. before perhaps .the greatest of all her novels, "Romola," appeared, and another Interval of nine years which produced only "Felix Holt" until Middlemarch" was added. "Daniel Derohda," last of the five, and in some respects the most noteworthy character study of the century, came In 1876. It was her last novel that lived. "The Impressions of Theo- phrastus Such," published . in 1878 did not add materially to her fame. An event In the life of George Eliot which has given the moralists a good deal to debate was her union with George Henry Lewes. Undoubt edly it has influenced many persons to refrain from reading her books another fact for. .Ihe moralists to concern themselves with. She Joined Lewes In 1854. and thereafter lived with him openly as his wife until his death In 1878. The train of circum stances was a peculiar one. Lewes' wife had deserted him; she had re turned-and he had cared for her tenderly: the second time she left him, never to return. But by a pro vision of then-existing English law. end in ten days U beneficial in onepalor and rulned 40 carpet. Dur- i cajicvi. At uia.jr luiuw a scare into some too "hard boiled" to reason. The legislature will not meet for a year, yet much state work ls being done. In politics, however, the early bird seldom catches the worm. What the brotherhood man laid off by the elimination thinks of the coal miner might be unfit to print. Can you blame him? Mr. Frick spread his money where it will do a lot of good. It will be observed the family gets a lot, however. After seeing the latest picture of "Pussyfoot Johnson, we wonder more than ever at the appellation. When a lawyer is fined for speed ing there would not be a joke In It If he 'did not appeal. No one Is giving much attention to the steel strike., just letting it wear out itself. Anybody see the jewelry burglars get away in a, lane, Friday. Z ing the excitement the daughter eloped with the hired man, taking the family savings with them The moral is that every man should be a subscriber. New Tork Evening Sun. s Cassell's new English dictionary, recently published In London, contains a large number of words that came into use during the war. many of them borrowed from American slang. A few of the innovations are: Bus An aeroplane. Cold feet To be In a funk. Dud No good. Guy A toff. Highbrow A highly superior per son. Eyewash Humbug. -No flies on one No fool. JazzA noisy and boisterous dance In ragtime Movies A klnematographlc exhi bition. Umpteen Any number. For the benefit of Americans "old bean" Is denned as "old fellow ficer at the east end of the bridge to control the traffic. He certainly is needed and he saves much rasped feelings when an entire community is up in arms at the unsatisfactory man agement of the bridge. R. M. TUTTLE. , - NO (JIALIKICATIOV IS LACKING Opponents' Every Llstes Essential Possessed by General Wood. CORVALLIS, Or.. Dec. 6. (To the Editor.) In a letter published In The Oregonian we are informed what kind of a candidate the republican party needs, also what qualifications he must have. Furthermore we are told that General Wood is a "militarist" cording te Dr. W. J. Kerr president or ins ooiiege. wno is a visitor to t-ortiana. or. Kerr says that the at- tenaance at the state college is high er mis year man ever before in Its history. Ex-service men, who .gave up their books and athletics to heln whip the Hun. are flockinsr collesre In larae numbers. rr. it--- bowinsr to "German kultur.1 Is a guest at the Multnomah Next he says tnat tne candidate Lniimi Ha "safe and sane." and "must Mr. and Mrs. J. Jorey, Mrs. H. Leh-I not hear voices from the air," must be back and two children, all of Rose-I guided by the interests of America in burg, and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Puetz his foreign policy, must be 100 per of La Mont, la., are SDendlnsr tha cent American and last he must not Mr. Spencer also states that "most folks are sfck and tired of war and this soldier stuff." The writer would like to ask where the United States would be if we had not gone to war against Germany? Also where would we be if It vasal ror tnis "soiaier stuff?" No doubt we would now be "harbor nor preach class or race hatreds." What one of these essen tials Is it that General Wood lacks? Not one. He more than fulfills every one of them. His Americanism is sec- week-end in Portland and are regls- ierea at tne juuitnomah. George D. Beaumont, a Seattle an. tomooiie dealer, is etoDDlns: at the Cornelius on a business trio to Port- nrt onlv to the late Colonel Roose- land. During the war Mr. Beaumont) velt's. If he is 100 per cent American served as a major in the signal corps he cannot fail to possess the other es- uu overseas auty. sentials. wiAiA- 77i h. , "In being denied the privilege of "11. U3 HIIIIUUL 1IK1 ... .A l.'AA AAA ('AAAAA , W OOfl Tl T fl V O official head for a few days this L..!f . mm American, for Instead week while R. H. Cady, mayor of the cf complaining of his lot he gdt be thrlving little eastern Oregon com- hind the game and did all that he munlty.ls sojourning on a business could do to win the war. In his many mission. In addition to sruidins- th I ..i,. made in the cast five' years nothing but the most stirring Ameri canism is found. His cld;e friend ship with Colonel Roosevelt and the colonel's high regard for him both speak well for this great American. Were -Teddy alive today nothing would please him more than to see Fifty Years Ago. From The Ore'gonlan of December 8. 1S69. Washington. President Grant's message was read in congress and 1U0.000 copies were ordered printed. Helena. The legislature of Mon tana territory is now In session. It is almost entirely democratic The monthly report or the depart ment of agriculture for the first time has a definite report on crops in Oregon, the data covering crops of this season. The sheriff of Washington county has offered a reward of 8300. for the arrest of Courtney Meek, murderer of Jake Smith, and Robert Emery adds S100. WHERE NO VISION IS TIS NIGHT. If I each season's day and passing years But saw my food, my raiment and my tools: If I but lived each day with atl Its tears. And spoke by rote and worked alone by rules; If plows or engines or the whin of wheels. The roar of trains or airships over head: If these alone were all my real self feels; If work alone were all by -which I'm led. - - -If I saw naught beyond the potters clay; Discerned no vision back of each day's strife; If all there was and ls were but to day: How utterly insipid then were life. But I behold In all life's wires and strings , A grand and tender symphony or things. a -OTHERS. . destinies of Wheeler, Mr. Cady is pro prietor or us largest general mer- cnanaise store. He is quartered at tne Oregon. Among the Bend residents visiting In Portland yesterday were Dr. P. M. ; 1 Moore and Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Petti- c-neral Leonard Wood elected presi- "concby. as a conscientious objector; I bone. Mr. Pettibone is In the ware- dent of the Lmted fctates. Let us hnit " as "the verv beat, and I house business at Betid. Thev ura follow Teddy's example. "washout.." as a failure or muddle. I registered at the Benson. i fi. J-. SPAIN, Acknowledging Wedding Invitations. PORTLAND, Dec. 4 (To the Ed- ltor.) Kindly let me know if all wedding invitations should be ac knowledged, either In the city or out of the city. A SUBSCRIBER. If one is invited to a home wedding or a wedding reception following a church wedding, either In the city or out of town, it should be answered at once. If one only is invited to the church it is unnecessary to answer.