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to- THE MORNING -OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1919. . ESTABLISH BD BY HENRY I.. MTTOfK. E. B. l'IPEK, Editor. ."Published by The Orconlan rubliFnlna Co. I . 135 Mtxtii Street, Portland. Omgon. W f C. A. MOBDKN'. E . .Manager. - The Oregonian If a tnemnr of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to hie use for publica tion of at) news dispatches credited to it ' not otner.vie efjdlted in this paper and also the local news published herein. -Alt riKhts of republication of special dispatches herein are e leo reserved.1 Subscription Rate -Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) C Dftlly, Sunday Included, one year SS.lU- ; ra lly. Sunday included, six months .... -t.-i Dt-lly. Sunday Included, three months.. -,- ljaiiy, Sunday included, one month . - .. -75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6-00 Daily, without Sunday, six monthl '. . . . 3.25 " Daily, without Sunday, on month . Weekly, one year l.'Hi Sunday, one year .50 - Sunday and weekly 3.50 J (By Carrier.) 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Bullitt, without so much as saying "By your leave" to congress. Under another president the senate might ha-e taken- for granted that the appointments would be sent to It for confirmation, but1 the senate has learned to take noth ing: for granted in dealing with Mr. Wilson. If he should be embarrassed in putting the treaty In effect, he has himself to thank. Some of the Lodge points are needlessly sharp, and may prick our friends across the wVter, though In tended only to priek Mr. Wilson. But if Mr. Wilson will but adopt a con ciliatory attitude, they can be filed down, and -some may be eliminated. This is the last opportunity to com promise. The man who neglects it will not find the people ready to hear explanations If the treaty should become a campaign Issue. 150. years, and then became one of ( classes the well-to-do upper class. J; AFTER rWENTT-SETBX TEARS.' .,J. ' Twenty-seven years ago the names ;"of Henry C Prick and Alexander Berk man were in prominence to ...gether In the news dispatches. On July 23, 1892, Berkman made his 'Iway into the office of Mr. Frick, i'Hhot him twice and stabbed him. Mr. !JFrick recovered. Berkman was sen Ctonced to the penitentiary for twen-Tty-two years- but was pardoned at .'Llie end of seven. :j; The other day, coincidentally, the ."inews of the death of Mr. Frick was "published and that also of the order ;ifor the deportation of Berkman to -..Russia. ' ii" It has been a long wait for Berk ,fn a n's deportation twenty-seven years. He was an avowed anarchist itvhen he came to this country at the ge of 18. But then the Immigration jaws were more lax than" today. The .'yiarm he has committed has been lm ijmeasurable. In 1916 he established iss editor an anarchist paper in San Francisco known as the Blast. With ;ihim were associated Thomas J. .'IMooney and other anarchists. One "of the avowed policies- of the paper ;-was antagonism to preparedness. It tlopenly preached direct action and it Ilopenly defended one of the Los jtAngeles Times dynamiters. It ridi culed the American flag and It ap plied coarse epithets to the president of the United States and suggested his assassination. " After war was declared Berkman was accused of obstructing the draft, tried, found guilty'and sentenced to twp years in the penitentiary, which -he served. In the San Francisco preparedness - -day bomb outrage. Incited in Berk-p-man's and Mooney's Blast, ten per sons were killed and fifty maimed or ij injured. j; Such Is one record of American "tolerance of anarchism and Its fall 'f aire properly to punish crime. Berk- ;j ;iuan s full sentence of twenty-two ;t 3rears for the attempted murder of i.f-J-1. C. Frick would doubtless have !r subdued him. There would probably ; -ave been no preparedness day mur "tiers In San Francisco. Mooney would .ijiave been still a plain I. W. W., !; Scorned by labor unions, and devot jj'ing his Ingenuity to direct action ;j against property, instead of lives, as he did before he became associated i with Berkman. TIIK SETI.1E"T FOR WOOD. Tlie letter from a correspondent on this page a few days ago in which '.lie iivailaliility of General Leonard Wood for president was' questioned on Hie ground that he is a military figure, has elicited six replies, all of which have been published by The Oregon ian. Although these letters come from separated points (Camas, Wash., Bay Center, Wash., Portland, Corvallis, Oak Grove and Brownsville) there is a certain similarity about them. None agrees with the original cor respondent and all defend not only General Wood's military record, but his general qualifications and his record as an executive having civil functions in Cuba and the Philip pines. Even so small a number as six letters coming from scattered places indicates a considerable sen timent in sympathy with the tone of the letters. For every person who will take the trouble to write his views to his newspaper on a given subject there are invariably many similarly minded who for one reason or another do not publicly express themselves. But It would be rash to say at the very beginning of the presidential campaign that preference in the northwest, for the republican nomi nation has already manifested Itself or Is fully formed. But It does ap pear that admiration for the quali ties of General Wood is not confined to a few Individuals. It. is indicated that he will be a formidable candi date in the Oregon primaries and that Washington voters are not unanimously committed to the aspir ations of a favorite son. tha chief theaters of the war with Napoleon. The French premier's advice to his people should serve as a hint to Americans. According to his calcu lation, our estimate of the average family as five persons leaves the native population stationary, and the increase must be due to the Immi grants and their progeny. ' In order that we may show a net Increase, the average family should be enlarged to six persons, and a drive for more babies Is In order. FIRST AjfONQ MA NT. Organization of a company in Portland to buy a wood hull from the Emergency. Fleet corporation, equip It as a lumber carrier and op erate it from this port . may and should prove to be .the first of a number of such enterprises. The op portunity exists to make good profits, for there Is practically no limit to foreign demand for lumber, and the supply is limited only by capacity of the mills. By offering bare hulls for sale, the fleet corporation leaves the buyers free to complete them for the particular trade in which they are to be used, and the price seems to be low enough to protect buyers fronu depreciation beyond that which can' be met out of prevailing high profits. Return cargoes can be found In many foreign ports, but agents must be employed to secure them. To supply that need It Is proposed that a traffic bureau be established by the Port of Portland commission. When this bureau Is In operation with agents In the principal foreign ports, they will develop- traffic for Portland and shipping lines in gen eral, and small corporations will gain the benefit of an organization which they could not maintain alone- These agents would also spread informa tion about the port, its facilities and its channel, and about the products which the Oregon country has for export and about the market which it affords for imports. A large corporation operating many large vessels on regular lines, maintaining its own, organization In foreign ports and developing new fields of commerce is highly desir able, but the commerce of great ports was generally built up on a foundation of several small lines or individual vessels. Such enterprises have continued to thrive after great corporations have entered the field. and have often grown into great en torprlses. j NOT FATAL TO THE LEAGUE. V . Heat of controversy has so e'xag- gei-ated the Importance of Senator Lodge's fourteen points as to have ,; created the impression that they J- would destroy the league covenant. ;. The most Important of all Is that re ' lating to article 10, but the worst -that can be said of It is that It would - delay action by this country till con , gress had voted. If real occasion arose for the United States to inter ;' vene in defense of another Belgium against the same or another Ger .many, there can be no doubt, in the light of events since August, 1914, that congress would vote to fight. X'Most of the other points merely as i'. sert the authority of congress over J-creation of offices, appointments, ex j penditures, matters of trade, which are clearly within Its Jurisdiction, - though President Wilson seems dis posed to forget that fact. The league .. -would still exist as a great moral force,, and the effect of the reserva tions would only be to limit Ameri . oan participation In Its operations. ; The council and assembly would " xist to promote co-operation for - promotion of peace. Reduction of armaments could till be effected on their recommen dation, and American co-operation would be limited only by increase to J meet a sudden emergency. The nations would still be united against territorial aggression, with ;-the United States a party subject to action of congress. Resort to war In any dispute would still be delayed for three months, the obligation to arbitrate or mediate would still exist, .and the permament high court would be es-- tablished. 'X-i The United States would arbitrate or mediate all disputes except those which concern domestic questions or which arise under the Monroe doc ' trine. Other nations may welcome this reservation as justifying them in taking a similar position. In view of the fact that the Brit ish delegates opposed separate rep resentation of the dominions, Brit ain is not likely to object very forc ibly to the reservations on the six-to-one point. . The boycott is still" available, with only a slight restriction on its extent by theUnited States, and the United .States wou".d Join in action against covenant-breaking states if congress -held that the contingency contem plated In article 16 had arisen. Open diplomacy is established as to all future treaties, and treaties in conflict with the covenant are to be abrogated. The most advanced nations assume -guardianship over backward nations under direction of the league An international labor conference will work continuously for the ad- T:Tancement of labor. Nothing in the fourteen Xodge i-ipoints would prevent the many com .T Tii. ions provided by the treaty from putting the fourteen Wilson points WHY NOT THE FACTS T The Oregonian has not failed to note that Its lachrymose contempor ary, the Journal, has been shedding long columnfuls of tears over the outrageous treatment of the presi dent by congress, and by the news papers particularly The Oregonian, through its Washington correspon dent when he is a very sick man. Has our overwrought neighbor read the letters, appearing in its own col umns, of David Lawrence, who has on occasion reported what the gos sips are saying about the sick man ,of the White House? It is quite true that Mr. Lawrence has known as little as any other person, outside the sacred circle of White House confi dence, as to what was and Is the matter with the president; but he has faithfully done his best, with re sults not essentially different from what others have learned and said. The Oregonian has insisted that the country has a right to know about President Wilson. It did not know, and it was filled with the gravest fears, until some one from congress, sent on no mere errand of polite inquiry, in effect broke In and found out, and1 made a reassuring re port. Why is it that the public did not trust the doctors, or Tumulty, but did believe Senator Fall? Secretary Lansing testified before the senate committee that President Wilson had not been consulted by him as to Mexico. Yet now the pres ident suddenly takes hold, reverses the whole direction of affairs, and puts Lansing to one side. We have oeen drifting along with a headless government for many weeks, and congress and the public have pains- miwugiy sougnt to accommodate themselves- to the facts, only to be denied the right to know anv facts at all times until now, when they "re ascertained through the Insist ence of a senate which is accused of outraging the proprieties because it set afoot measures to know. Prac tically all the time the assumption ana fiction that the president was in control has been maintained by his caumei ana ry his party. me country sympathizes deeply witn tne president, and heartily wishes him strong and well. But it resents the deception practiced about him, and it is disgusted with the slushy and whining protests about an inquiry into facts It has a right to nave, such as are made by Portland's gusmng sor sister. Rl'RAL LUXURIES. The experiment now being made in Howard county, Nebraska, in bring ing the city to the country, as a means of counteracting the drift from the farm to the town, may mean a good deal to the future of rural life In America. If it suc ceeds, it . may react on the cost of living, and we hope it will. If the city has tieen a little indifferent to the welfare of the farmer in the past, this has been because.lt has been busy with Its own affairs, and not because it has not wished the farmer well. The Nebraskans In question have united for the purpose of harnessing the waters of a portion of the Loup river, and are building a central plant from which they propose to transmit electricity to their own doors. They will not only light their own houses, and barns, but also operate their fixed machinery by electricity. A good many of the common chores will be made easy by simply turning on a switch. We sus pect that boys will not be so anxious to leave the farm when they can start the corn-sheller or the feed cutter by turning on a switch, and that rural housewives will have less to say about the hardships of coun try life when the electric washing machine and the electric stove have been installed. Vast are the possi bilities of electricity in making farm life comfortable and attractive There Is not, as a matter of fact much good reason why farmers even In regions where electric power Is not available should cling to all the old drudgeries. The gasoline engine has reached a state of perfection Ithln a decade that was not dreamed of a generation ago, and it is available practically everywhere. ,. ' 1 T " ' : " "m"JL coal during the warm weather, and people. The portable gasoline cross cut saw robbed the last backbreaklng job of most of Its terrors. Modern conveniences are beginning to mean something. In the country as well as in the city. The farmer who has not informed himself about them Is nviting discontent In his own fam ily, and the present era of farm prosperity Is the time for him to begin to repair his mistake. A CAIX FOR MORE BABIES. fremier tjiemenceau has issued a. call for more, babies to make good the loss of population which France suffered in the war. He deprecates the national inclination to make the mother of many children "the sub ject of raillery" and he tells the people that In order to contribute a net Increase, to the population a mar ried couple should have at least four children, for two are needed to re place the parents, a third on the average to provide against prema ture death, sterility or celibacy, and not until the fourth arrives does a family "give more than it receives' and become "the nation's creditor." Whether a nation quickly recovers the loss of population due to war Is contingent on several causes- The loss is naturally less in a successful war fought on the enemy's territory than in one that devastates a peo pie s own fields, causes death or de bilitation of many civilians and ends in defeat and a great indemnity. Victory too brings prosperity and confidence, whtch encourage peopl to bring rorth children. This may help to explain the rapid Increase in the population of Germany since 1S70. though .increasing luxury dur ing the decade or two before the war was accompanied by a declining birthrate. The most rapid Increase in population of a highly fivillzed nation took place In Great Britain after 22 years of war with France ending in 1816, in which all the fighting was on foreign soil or at sea. The most terrible decrease ac companied the thirty years' war in Germany, for almost all the fightinsr was on German soil, and the armies caused more deaths by massacre, de in eLTect. Thcv havp tnken nrian. vastatton and famine than in battle Uous that Air. WUsou shall not affai Germany did not fully recover for m&lnly possessing a fair degre of education, which, however, la educa tion without background, and a lower class, abysmally Ignorant, "possessed of nothing but primitive emotions and empty stomachs." No middle class exists. Public opinion is an uncertain, quantity, if it can be said to exist at all. Existence of bandits like Villa is possible because no reformer, however sincere, would have either capital or tools with which to prepare effective human instruments to aid him In reform. To go. to war to make Mexico a safe neighbor, as the United States mas be compelled to do, would accom plish nothing permanent unless the war after the war" were considered In advance and wisely provided for. No one wants to occupy Mexico in definitely. The educational pro gramme is offered as the only rem edy that offers a hope of cure- What happened In the Philippines was that not much was accomplished with the adult generation, but that the "youngsters' who . learned, first, profanity, and then' their A B abs, proved eager learners, wax to receive and adamant to retain. ' The Fill pino commission which visited Washington last summer, demanding Independence and so Imbued with a national spirit that they also asked admittance to the league of nation on a rasis of equality, was one product of our educational system, and was proof sufficient that we did not, while we were founding school houses, suppress the legit mate and natural aspirations of the people. The plan of laying the foundation of a public school system" by employ ment of teachers from -abroad, has been tried, but voluntarily, by other Latin-American countries. It was conspicuously successful in Argen tina, which awoke in the early '80s to the need of education, and went to both Europe and the United States for its first teachers, retiring them, as has been suggested In the case of Mexico, as rapidly as native teachers were trained.- But success may have been due largely to the circumstance that there was In the beginning no open hostility to overcome. The Phil ippines came to us with a heritage of foreign domination. In both In stances education proved it!s value as stabilizer, but did not furnish a precedent for the case of Mexico as at present constituted. There Is a good deal In the plan of Mr. Riggs, however, that appeals to the Imagin ation. That the problem has certain new features does not necessarll-v make it unattractive to Americana It ought at least to furnish a subject for discussion, by statesmen and edu cators, of ways and means. . It will be agreed that education Is the onlj solution of the Mexican trouble. The question Is the practical one of put ting it Into effect. Tho Who Come and Go. BY-FRODI CTS OK THE TIME. Cnstedlaa Job Pro-rtdra Imtereatiaa; Mean a of Rerrntloa. The hearings of the Join commit tee or congress Investigating poatal salaries developed one financial phil osopher, a negro named Malone' em ployed in the Louisville postoffice. ho testified that hla job was de scribed variously by the white folks in the office n "ootah. or laborah, I narkwav betwaen them. and sometimes common laborah, when will put up a concrete bulkhead the whole, length of tha water- iwnt it "Seaside has 2b3.OO0 to spend on Improvements," announced E. N. Hurd. mayor of that resort, yesterday. "We will spend 1110.000 on the Roosevelt drive. which will extend from Wthannt station, at the north of town, to the city limits on the south. The drive will be 65 feet wide, con sisting of two 18-foot pavements with AiBO WC Dr. Morrison has completed a long term of years as rector of Trinity, which is not to imply that he cannot duplicate the record. He came to us a young man, grew with us and still is growing. One does not need be a member of his flock to wish that his days may be long and his way easy Undoubtedly the burglar who got the three dozen restaurant eggs was the same one that stole a' 31-inch circular saw later the same night. Our only surprise is that he didn't steal some dynamite. -We can't help but suspect the democrats of starting this propa ganda to bring the world to an end December 17. Looks like the only way to prevent a republican land slide next year. There should be a new curfew law to make the Christmas shopper go home before dark, after which time the working people have all the ngms oa me cars out ao not get them. The Chinese are sending a trade commissioner here to urge removal of the ban on importation of Chinese eggs. Should think they might need "em in their campaign against the Japs. Next year everybody will buy his that will keep the miners busy. There is nothing like stress and distress to start the making of good resolutions. dey ain't feelln' Jes' so good." Mr. Malone, after telling the com mittee why he thought postoffice la borers should have an Increase of payj was questioned by Representative Madden, and this Illuminating collo quy, as reported In the Postoffice Bul letin, resulted: "Mr. Madden In case congress should agree to pay you what you ask, and the cost of living should de crease, would you be willing to ac cept a corresponding redoictlonT "Mr. Malone Well, sah. Ah figgers dat Ah won't have nuthtn to say about dat. Tou gemmen fix dat to suit yuself, anyhow. "Mr. Madder What do you do for recreation? "Mr. Malone Mah principal recrea tion Is entertalnln' mah credltuhs. "Mr. Madden How do you manage them? "Mr. Malone Well, aah. Ah bin act ing on de principle of payln' dun fust dat hollah de loudest." ' Brother Malone'a system of enter- th talnlng creditors would have a ten- ency. If applied to the settlement of nternatlonal debts, of producing a concert of nations et unprecedented character and volume,' remarks the New York Sun. e e e Several of the great-granchlldren of Charles Dickens, the novelist, attended Mis Elaine Dickens, granddaughter of the novelist, who was married to Major Alex Whaley at Brompton Ora tory, according to a copyrighted Lon don dispatch to the Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger. The eight bridesmaids all wore typical Dickenslan dresses of white silk with wreaths of colored flowers on their hair and carried early Victorian posies. The bride, given away by her father, Henry Dickens, common sergeant of the city of London, wore cream satin with a white and silver brocade train, a head dress of silver lace and orange blossoms and carried llllies of the valley. As the bride and bridegroom left the church, three little grandsons of Charles Dickens, Richard Charles Dickens Shuchbergh and Cedrlc and Peter Dickens, strewed white chrysan themum petals'ln their path. , BE PICKS THEM OFF OXE BY OJTE! j Ceatatrr Preacher la Sharpaliooter of Christina Amy. Saya Writer. RIDGEFIELD. Wah.. Dec. 7. (To the Editor.) All blessings on the : country preacher and his personal work. All honor on him. when he with a noble, steady purpose in an humble Christian frame of heart and a clear mind attends to the king's business. In big cities, where bad I and evil conditions of human rela-1 tionshlp approach to the point of ,' danger for all. a foghorn of a great preacher In a grand "first church" pulpit has its place for a warning More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moatasraa. will have a broad walk and cluster lighta. And we will have a. pier ex tending Into the ocean i.o.uuu worth that is, we want ix. to o 2000 feet long and 25 feet wide, and wa v. 175.000 to build it. but if we can't , get a pier that long for the money we win ouna n aa nr , unto himself alone. the ocean aa we can for the aum. Jn. Henry Ward Beacher once said: ).. .it. . th Mnorit hotel work has i started on a new 300-room hotel. The The lonrer I live the more confidence , " , j . June,! I have in the sermons preached whera one work may not be completed by June i f mln)fiter Qne msn u THE IJfBiOCKJiT BYSTAJfUKR. I never was much of a prophet; I haven't a Chinajnan'a chance To win in the street when attempting to beat The curious game of finance. But when, as I run through the papers, I suddenly fall on the news That a strike is declared, why Pro always prepared To tell you the side that will lose. sound. But we come into the world i one by one, we die one by one. and Whenever the owners of coal mines we live each one an individual life, J Announce that the miners of coal rejecting or accepting Christ as Can go on a strike, and be darned II avior each for himself. There Is no other way. And yet no man llveth 1. when the season opens, but at least one unit will be ready." "California la a good place to Ietlr from, not retire to," declares E. R. Helllg. About six years ago Mr. Hellig, hearing the call of back-to-the-land. went to Callfernla and be gan fighting SO acres for a -Hying. Prunes and olivea were his speclalty and he sold the place Just when the trees came into bearing. "It was sell out or be carried out." he ex plains, "and I preferred to sell. This proposition of trying to do all the work on SO acres by yourself Isn t what lt' cracked uo to be. A lew mon consreeation; where there's no question as to who is meant whea the preacher says, "Thou art. the man." The Rev. Dr. Nevlus wanted no great preachers In his missionary field in China. If he could find a man who could talk familiarly face to face with another man, wherever he met him, he had missionary work for that kind of a man in China. This kind of man Is also a good man for Christian v ork in America. Dr. Trumbull, the late editor of the Sunday School Times, who served as chaplain In the civil war wrote: My experience In active service in the sure it the con flict, that the thunder of artillery was likely to be ntoet Impressive, bat the rifles of the sharpshooters brousht down more men. . . . So It la with those who aa drees Individuals for Christ. Sharpshoot era may brlns down more Individuals with their telllna single bullets, but they cannot make the impression in the aur- Ireland. who has Deen visiting ' bli cuna that are heard to thunder out brother-in-law, H. W. McLean, left I from the pulpit casements - ery time they for Erin yesterday. At home Mr. Mc- open tire. Human pnuosopny ain.ust invan ably sinks the individual and exalts ,nths ago Mr. Helllg went to Jjl,' ,VdJ e headquarters of the Helllg olan. nic tbmt th thun,or of art to recover from Ola larming e,-. -enee. "The shipyard in Tacoma la preparing to resume operations," he says, "and that will mean the em ployment of about 6000 men." Thorn ae W. McMullen or Beiiaat. iruiior, la ih head of the largest gro eery, drug ana mm huiiijij w.... . Belfast, and he Is a trustee oi me harbor board, which com Dines tne activities of both port and dock com missions. On leaving tseitasi tne board asked him to keep an eye open for pointers they could use in their new 115,000,000 Improvement piana. Regarding the work of the port and dock commissions of Portland and the proposed plans, Mr. McMullen was deeply Impressed. Among other things in Portland. Mr. McMunen iook noio of the many labor-saving devites. ex plaining that these are or especial Importance in Europe now because of the increased costs of doing business. A sportsman's paradise is Wallowa county, according to W. S. Burleigh of Enterprise, There are fishing. hunting and ahootlng galore and all you need, is ammunition and aome luck. The popular fish" in Wallowa are "yanks, which are notning more the mass. It looks upon man arith metically, and, because a million counts more than one, infers that one Is of but little value, and that to effect anything we must reach the million rather than the one. Christ, on the other hand, viewed each man as an infinite quantity; and when we reach Infinite quantities arlth metlc is no longer available. What Christ sought was to bless Individ uals, knowing that if they were per fected. Institutions which grow out of them would necessarily be good. N. M. HANSEN. they like. I am willing to bet all ray roll That neither the strikers nor owner! Will lose at the end of the fuse. The folks that are due to he done through and through When everything' over, are u. Whenever Sam Gompera minions. Whatever the trade they may ply. In conference alt and decide they will quit Till wages are lifted sky-hiith. know (and I'll bet on ray knowl edge) Just what the conclusion will be. The folks that are stuck when the unions have struok. Are people like you and like me. I am little addicted to gambling. But anyone wishing to bet On the ultimate goat, when tha big business boat By a general strike la upset. Will find I am willing to wager Whatever I've got laid away. That when all the fun haa been andad and done Us suckers will step up and pay! e e Wait Cam Be the Matter Wrth Thetatt London la suffering from a chorua girl shortage. And yet they still sell champagne over there. One Reenlt of the Coal Strike. People are importing diamonds al most by the carload. It has got abroad that diamonds are pure carbon. e a For the Benefit of the Proftteera. Just as prices were about to drop somebody Invented a means of sus pending the law of gravitation. (Copyright, 1919, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TREATY FAILURE Dl'E TO SENATE Soldiers' Mother Seea Nothing But Partisanship In Incident GRESHAM. Or.. Dec. 7 (To the Editor.! May I, a sojourner in your beautiful state, voice my plaint? I am the mother of three boys who "Kverybody is robbing everybody else," Is a quotation from a news dis patch detailing conditions In Con stantinople. Those Turks will be come civilized yet. EDCCATIOJf FOB MEXICO. The key to permanent pacification of Mexico will be found In our exper ience of less than eighteen years In the Philippines, In the view of Arthur Stanley Riggs, a fellow of the Royal Geographic society, expressed ( in the University Extension Bulletin. It Is education compulsory educa tion, if necessary. Mr. Riggs does not ignore the political difficulties which his programme would Involve, but points out that it Is futile to hope for the salvation of Mexico from war alone. His programme is fascinat- ng enough. It remains only to ob tain the consent of Mexico itself. That Mr. Riggs Is no mere doctrin aire is apparent from the fact that he suggests the possibility that "to secure Mexico's agreement we should probably be obliged to make a tre mendous naval demonstration on both sides of the country simulta neously." But, once this was obtained, and American soldiers were stationed at -strategic points to act as a kind of constabulary, our Philippine exper ience to which allusion has been made leads to belief that progress would be rapid. This, then, would be the programme: The teachers, mainly veterans of the Philippine ca.mpe.lKn. could be thrown in by the hundred, equipped with special discretionary powers and with American textbooks the most efficient and modern in the world translated Into Spanish for the purpose. The teachers would be nald thut by Mexico), aa they were in the Phil ippines, ana would be automatically re tired in favor of Mexican teachers aa fat as the latter were fitted by training and experience and proved by examination to be ready to take their plaoes. Eventually all the teachers would be Mexicans, all the schools would have been tharaurhl. Mexlcanized and the new generation would have such a background of general knowl edge and experience of the ways of the now hated and feared gringo that when the young men of a dozen or more vean hence turned their attention to Mexico's problems and their settlement lo! the problems would not be thera "Nothing is. but thinking makes It so." One trouble with such education as has existed in Mexico in the past has been that it lacked the "back ground" which the writer wisely re gards as necessary to its permanency. Thera are in Mexico now only two Traffic cops who have trouble making pedestrians obey the sema phores at crossings can get at It an other way. Simply enforce the law against attempting suicide. The Rev. Clarence True Wilson announces a war to the death against tobacco. We hope the worthy man isn't trying to popularize the cubeb. D'Annunzio is said to yearn to fly to America and will somebody please put up the screens? America has plenty just now and to spare. Whether we have a wet or a dry Christmas Is up to the supreme court. Even the wets wouldn't object if the court decided for extra dry. Firemen enjoy rolling out after midnight these days. That's their cure for "ongwee." Flnley P. Dunne was talking about the 1919 fashions. 'Worse and worse." he said mood ily. "They grow worse and worse. A beggar held me us the other day. 'Why," I said as I gave the poor fellow a dime, "why isn't this Hotton, the famous impresario? 'That's me.' said the beggar. 'But what, old chap,' I'asked, what is the cause of your downfall?" "The new fashions,' he answered, bitterly. The new fashions, Peter. You see, I used to make millions out of le I mean limb shows, but the ladies display so many charms for nothing now that the public won't pay to see shows like mine any more. " St. Louis Republic. "Sold," declared A. Kanson. founder of Moneta, Wyo., when John Goodman of Shoshoni, offered 10,000 cash for title to the entire town, which Kan son held. Goodman receives title to the "whole works," including 40 lots, an lS-room hotel, a five-room cottage, two other dwellings, a large bam. an ice house, a railroad eating house and a miscellaneous assortment of out houses that has been accumulating during the 20 years that M"o neta has been on the map. e . a a The emerald has been known since early times both In Europe and In cer tain parts of the orient, where its at tractive color and rarity have en dowed It with the highest rank. Its name may be traced back to an old world which appeared in Greek as smaragdos. mentioned in Greek by Theoprastus 800 B. C. see Although there Is a great shortage of paper. It is unlikely that many of us have carried economy to the extent indicated in a letter received by a school teacher the other day. "Dear Sir," it ran, "Please excuse Tom be ing late; but our gas leaks, so we couldn't cook any breakfast. Please send a man to put it right. P. S. Please let him take this note on to the plumber." London Chronicle. e a a The Literary Digest typewriting dodge is old stuff. Somebody sends us a copy of the Typewriter Trade Journal for December 14, 1904. with a typewritten poem, "Lines Written in Memory of the Alleged Inventor of the Writing Machine." credited to F. P. A. in the Chicago Journal. And a rotten poem it was, too, though we say it that shouldn't. F. P.. A. in New York Tribune. nor less than runty blueback salmon . fought ln the la,e war. Two of them who never see - the sea. hy the . came back to me. and one sleeps ln yanxs snouia oe awarioa is ' "Flandera fields." I tell you thi known, but. maybe, the rallure or Unat you may know that my Interest these ealmon to go to the ocean to ( an that of my two sons, in the peace develop, like the Chinook and other ia a very real one. We have studied Complication. By Grace K. Hall. minds to see species, may account for their stunted j growth. Be that as It may. the yank Is some game fish and you have to yank 'em quick when they take the hook. The reason these blueback sal mon faii to make the ocean voyage is that thuy are prevented from doing eo by barriers. As for deer, they are eo plentiful in Wallowa that you can almost knock 'em over with a club, like hunting Jackrabbits. Duncan McRae yes, he was born In Scotland Is the man responsible for giving the name to Riverside, Mal heur county. "We went there 30 years ago," said Mr. McRae." I might say that we were there before the sage brush started to grow. Riverside wasn't much of a place at the time and there wasn't much to suggest a name except the river, so we called It Riverside. And It Isn't much of a place today, except that It is In a wonderful etockralsing country and Is not far from one of the biggest Irri gation dams in the United States the one at Warm Springs." Mr. Mc Rae raises horses and mules and has Deen very successful at the game. according to his acquaintances. "With the exception of the over head crossing at Messner." savs Cvril I heart. I feel that the senate, in play Brownell of Umatilla, "there are 40 I ing politics, has betrayed the mother miles of the highway completed. This I hood of the nation; has broken faith stretch of the highway runs from i wlth my bov and those other splen Echo to Boardman and goes right dld lads who gave their lives for through Umatilla. The difference humanity's cause. Let us mothers that road has made in She countrv la rise in our wrath and demand an If the miners finally reject that 14 per cent proposal, the brewers would gladly take It up. it from the first with open and passionately we desired it ratified. It seemed to us te be a question of THE peace treaty or noni. For after all. A pea:e treaty was a. vague, unworked-out thing, and THE treaty was drawn up by the greatest minds of the se.veral nations represented and presented as a concrete work able plan, thought by those same great men to be the best workable plan that could be devised for carry ing out the ideals of the people they represented. It was the on.y such treaty that had ever been presented. It was a good treaty. Its faults ere not serious ones; Just such fZxts as those made over critical by differ ence In political views from its sponsor might find In any document. (Why. the word of God. itself, has been the occasion of controversy ln the manner of Its Interpretation from time Immemorial). AND THE UNITED STATES SEN ATE FAILED TO RATIFY THE TREATY! Oh. the shame of it! Of fering up the welfare of a nation on the altar of its selfish partlsanism. For sidestep as It may, the facts re main unchangeable: It was the senate that failed to ratify the treaty. For my part I feel very sore at Life was not meant to puzzle, I'll assert Simplicity, in fact, marks every field. Save where mankind bis efforts may exert. To bind free forces and their strength concealed. And make of nature's units vast array That .brings about confusion and dismay. The waterfall is but a lovely sight Aa o'er the mountain-side It fling the spray. Until, man-envied for its untried might. He clutches at Its power to make it "pay"; Then the soothing lullaby it sung The roar of commerce from Ita voice is wrung. The subtle currents that In nature charm. And thrill the universe with dart ing rays. Charge whirring wheels that threaten dire harm. As. man-controlled. they speed through endless days; Thus, on and on, the complications spread. For nature, harnessed, multiplies her dread. surprising. The surface is of "a sort of concrete gravel, taken from a bank, and makes a splendid surface. 'Some day, of course, this part of the high way will have to be paved with hard surface. This will come when public sentiment makes the demand and the funds are available." "A budget committee has been ap pointed to recommend to the county court of Lane county what-to do for road funds," says J. S. Magladry of I Cottage lirove, at the Imperial. "I am a member of the committee, but will not be able to attend the meet ing. If I was on hand I would sug gest that a bond issue be voted for the roads instead of a direct tax. We thought we had good roads In the valley until the days of the motor trucks and fast machines. These trucks and fast cars just tear up a macadam or gravel surface in no time. E. J. Adams, formerly a mem ber of the state highway commis sion, is chairman of the budget ad visory committee." accounting of the senate. MRS. C. C. MILLER. Twenty-five Yenrs Ago, From The Oregonian December 9. 1804. valla Walla. This community was hrown into a fever of excitement by ews of the suicide of ex-Warden J. H. Coblenz, who shot himself as he was at the point of arrest on a charge r tnert or state property. Astoria. Colonel James Taylor, who won his rank ln Indian troubles in northwestern Ohio and Michigan and was a pioneer of 1S45 in Oregon, died here at the age of 86. Visitors to Newport know more about the rock oysters you fish for them with a hammer than about the fish in the streams, and they care more for the crabs and the clams than the creatures with f inn hut th. I N'iwnort native la not lnierHt.il in -e - .lthe rock oyster and other shell fish. Tears go Thomas A. Edison used Tnere is a rod-and-gun club at New. to try to Instill the rudiments of ' port, of which W. A. Schumacher is science into the head of his young son and never overlooked an oppor tunity to use some everyday happen ing to illustrate some principle of mechanics. president, ana air. Schumacher was in Portland yesterday attending the meeting of sportsmen. John Bell, state senator from Lane county, went duck hunting down the On this particular occasion, chanc- I Columbia Sunday. Yesterday he In- These temperatures cannot be charged to the Hun, though the fuel shortage might: "Old Bill" White has written a movie scenario, but think what Ed Howe might do! San Francisco is out of it and backing Chicago for the convention. A wise move. . This will be a memorable day in some respects if the coal strike shall be settled. If some of the garden pests are killed, the freeze will be a mixed blessing. Anything that helps a baby Is worthy and that means the Waverly home. Again we have the great anomaly of skating on natural ice in Portland. Since holly has become naturally it costs mora. crop. Ing to spy a peddler pushing a band cart, the great inventor cried: "Now there's a good example. I don't suppose you can tell me why he pushes the cart Instead of pulls it. I don't know whether the man himself could answer. I'll ask him." "My good man," said the Inventor, turning to the peddler, "why do you push the cart rather than pull it?" "Cause I ain'ta da hoss, you damm- na fool," was the unscientific though disconcerting answer. a. a Struck by the notice, "Iron Sinks," in a shop window, a wag went inside and said that he was perfectly aware of the fact that "Iron sank." Alive to the occasion, the smart shopkeeper retaliated: "Yes, and time flies, but wine vaults, sulphur springs. Jam rolls, grass slopes, music stands, Niagara Falls, moonlight walks, sheep run. Kent hops and holiday trips, scandal spreads, standard weights, India rub ber tires, the organ stops, the world goes round, trade returns, and " , But the visitor had bolted. After collecting his thoughts he returned and showing his head at the dporway, shouted: "Yes, I agree with all of that perfectly Ixuh World, tended going to Prinevllle and Bend, but lacking at the weather reports he decided that he didn't have enough heavy underwear for the trip and postponed the Deschutes canyon jour ney iintil the weather moderates. E. E. Kiddle, newly appointed mem ber of the state highway commission, passed through Portland yesterday on his way to Salem and Eugene to familiarize himself with the duties of the office at the commission's head quarters in Salem and to confer with R. A. Booth, his colleague, at Eugene. Dr C. E. Gard and W. F. Hulery (pronounced Ooley) of Moro were milling around with the fishermen at the Imperial yesterday. The doc tor makes a specialty of quoting ad lib. Kipling and Service, which is one way of making a patient forget the pain of an extracted tooth. Carrying all the ducks and geese he could - tote, Louis E. Bean of Eugene was ln town yesterday. The ducks were shot on the Columbia Before he caught the 4:50 train for home friends of Mr. Bean, feeling sympathy for him, relieved him .of about half of the game. Senate's Part In Treaty Making. PORTLAND, Dec. 8. (To the Edi tor.) (1) Is It legal for one to serve on election board when same person resides in another precinct? (2) Can one serve legally on elec tion board who Is not registered, but resides ln precinct and who refrains from voting, but was appointed by county clerk for said election? (3) Did President Roosevelt while president of the United States nego tiate a treaty with Jamaica without the advice and consent of the senate or did any other presdent do so with any other nation? (4) To what political faith does The Oregonian belong? I notice ln The Oregonian that the school board of this city paid out $500 for 6CK10 Portland high school stu dents to witness a dress rehearsal by members of the Portland Opera association which the board considers an educational feature. It seems to me the board is certainly stretching the word education. Why not Include baseball, vaudeville, pugilistic en counters? Why not spend a like amount each year ln teachng them church music? I as a taxpayer cer talnly protest against the school funda being spent in this manner. A SUBSCRIBER. 1. No. 2. Yes. If qualified electors. S. Jamaica is a British possession and has no power to conclude a treaty. Washington was assailed by op ponents of the Jay treaty with Eng land on the ground that he had negotiated the treaty without the aavlce of the senate. Hayes similar- Iv offended the senate. In most in stances presidents have consulted t-h senate before negotiating treaties or have apponted senators to the treaty- makinsr commission 4. The Oregonian usually finds it self In accord with the republican party. Duties of Alde-de-Camp. Indianapolis News. An aide-de-camp Is an officer at tached to the general's staff who as sists him in his work; he is an act ina- assistant adjutant-general by reason of his detail as aid. He at tends the general, acts practicaly as hia nrlvate secretary ana may oe aes ignated to aome special military duty, During our civil war tne aids car rled orders and actea in an sorts useful ways. Searchlight Wright Reduced. Exchange. When the United States-entered th war the searchliehts then In use by the army were far too heavy, weigh inir between 8009 ana io,oou pound for those with 60-inch reflectors. Lam Bar Allen Anarchists. ASTORIA, Or.. Dec. 7. (To the Editor.) Please let me know whether Emma Goldman has been deported, and if so, where she was sent? Also please state on what legal grounds officials at Ellis Island are holding aliens who have been sent there for deportation. P. L. B. Emma Goldman has not yet been deported. Alien anarchist are de ported on the ground that they are Ira- man v years, is re? - . . . ... 1 t. II. I n (M Y .- 1 .1 ..!..!.:..,, I n f na ii Hi i u i e ousts. . nam-. o o .i wi ,.4.i,u ..oil, no i ... . 1 I his daughter. Miss Bernice. brought down to 1400 pounds. J entry. In Other Days. The second week of the holiday ex position begins today, with special attractions billed for every night this week. Numerous important changes in the city charter were discussed and pro posed at a meeting of the citizens committee of 100 yesterday. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian December 0. 1869. Y astwrigton. The postmaster-gen eral's report shows ordinary revenues for the department for the fiscal year were $18,344,000 as compared with ex penditures of $23,690,000. Real estate transactions of the week ln the city and county amounted to $16,000. We learn that F. M. Warren is put ting up the works of a new and ex tensive salmon cannery at Cathlamet, THE PIOXEEIl FARMERS. We call them "pioneer farmers," The founders of our land; They, too. were pioneer farmers That little Oregon band. And while they planted churches. And schools upon our soil. They sowed the goodly kernels With patient, trustful toil. All through the. sweet, bright spring time Of Eighteen fitty-one. They labored 'mid the furrows From dawn till set of sun And where the Indian wigwam Had stood ln other days. They scattered wide the barley. The wheat and oats and hay. . It was a bounteous harvest They gathered in that year. And so they kept Christmas With feasting and good cheer; And praised the gracious father For sunshine and for rain That filled their bursting gran'rles With heaps of golden grain. All hall the pioneer farmers And hail them once again! The founders of our Oregon, And her first husbandmen: The memory of their virtues Shall never fade awav As long as each December Brings us Christmas day. ELIZABETH SHUTE. Tiirlor Abr&hnm. who has been a. dry goods mercnani in Koseourg ior , A"r """" n,wfnllv in this country. th gisterea at tut Muit- ing aou --"""6" . . . vi .,,n,i,r nr nans, tne wetirtit wan miKiauuu vaius, . w ...- i
