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THE HORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919.
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KEEPING CP. WITH Tfclf TIMES.
The idea, of a great resort on the
Oregon beach for the recreational
benefit of the people of the North
west is not new." Ben Holladay had
it, and long ago set up a fine estab
lishment on-Ciatsbp beach, under the
shadow of Tillamook head, where
his friends and all their friend could
spend the summer season pleasantly
and healthfully. Over to Taquina
Day the people-of Oregon have been
going, first by the hundreds and then
by the thousands, for many years.
Down North beach there are numer
ous resorts, which have had, each in
its own way, great popularity, not
much diminished by the greater fa
cility of transportation to other
places. Tillamook, Alsea. Coos Bay,
situation in the United States to re
ject the demands of the allies. It
probably believes that the American
army of occupation would not ad
vance from the Rhine, and that the
French and British would not do so
without American co-operation.
Every move in Berlin is doubtless
guided In a large degree by events
in Washington, and much of the
ground gained during the latter half
of 1918 in curbing militarism is thus
lost. '
TOO I.KMEXT WITH THE I. W. W.
The I. W. ,W. conspiracy against
the United States will not be broken
up by such treatment as Judge Bag
ley gave several members at Tilla
mook. If the men deserve ten-year
sentences in the penitentiary, they
should serve at least a large part of
the term. If they deserve to pay
fines of (1000 each, they should pay
the money, not escape on payment
of $100. If such sentences are not
deserved, they should not be im
posed.
These are not times to trifle with
and many others have their own pe- sedition and treason. They are times
cullar attractions and a faithful and I for -severity. Men who conspire to
growing clientele, others go to tne destroy the government or other
FOB THE miCBE.
The experiences of Portland with
elaborate schemes to make a new
and wonderful city beautiful, or a
grand municipal center, or an ideal
metropolis, with lovely boulevards,
attractive parks, broad thorough
fares, and stately buildings, public
and private, all in their proper place
end order, Have not been fortunate
nor profitable. We are pretty much
where we were in the beginning, so
far as a comprehensive plan is con
cerned, except for the monuments of
private enterprise which have been
erected everywhere and for some
other public projects, each promoted
separately on its merits. Yet it is
possible to devise a city plan that Is
practicable and essential; and it
should be done. It should be done
despite the fact that other proposals
In the past have found their way into
the discard, after they had got to the
interesting stage of pretty pictures in
the newspapers.
The difficulty in the past has been
that the architects of the new and
finer Portland wanted to do too
much too quickly. They consulted
mainly their own symmetrical and
fanciful ideals and Ignored the actual
condition. The hoary truth is that
cities are not built In a day, and can
not be built over at all, except
through gradual, sensible, and not
too costly measures.
Just now there is a clty-plannlng
body which is seeking to solve some
of Portland's problems. It has been
steadily at work for a year and there
is promise that It will get some
where. Under a zoning system, it
proposes to find out both what is
best for the various sections and
neighborhoods, and what can be
done. It does not run counter to
community sentiment, but seeks to
heed It, as well as to persuade It to
consider its own best interest by fol.
lowing some arranged plan of bet
terment. It would renovate, segre
gate and build; and it would give to
each locality in the form of buildings
and other Improvements that which
it may be best fitted to have. So far
the commission has encountered no
insuperable difficulties; but the time
is nearly here when it must go in for
actual results, or quit. It should not
quit.
All thoughtful citizens know that
Portland must determine soon
whether it Is to step into the front
rank as a city and as a port, or
whether it is to accept whatever for
tune, circumstances and a fine geo
graphical location shall bestow,
There is a lively appreciation of the
fact that no great shipping center
can be established here unless ample
accommodation is provided to care
for It in docks, elevators, terminals
and water. More must be done to
encourage industry and to assign it
to its proper place in the general de
velopment. Traffic must be better
looked after. It has reached a con
ditlon of congestion that loudly calls
for relief; and it must be given. But,
when given, it should be along lines
that look for the future as well as
the present.
Somehow, for example, there must
be found a traffic highway connect
ing the industrial districts of Port
land, particularly the north and the
south on the west side. There is no
clear plan for it, no acute general
understanding that heavy traffic
must find its course through the
city; but, nevertheless, something
concrete and sufficient must be done.
Ultimately, it may be learned that
Front street, or even First street,
must be widened, and a thoroughfare
from the north to the south boun
dary along the river "be constructed.
It Is true enough that new uses
should be found for the compara
tively moribund district between
Third street and the river we mean
by comparison with Its former ac
tivity and prosperity and it may be
wise to dedicate one of the streets
to a traffic highway, such as San
Francisco has, to its vast benefit We
do not offer it as a solution. We
only say that it is one of the prob
lems to be met. How else can it be
met wisely than by the adoption of
a plan, under expert advice, after a
complete investigation?
The City Planning commission.
made up of a number of Portland's
competent citizens, has given an im
mense amount of time to this vital
public service for many months. It
has been working with Mr. Cheney,
a municipal engineer, and it is satis
fled with him. Now it wants him re
employed, in the expectation and be
lief that, if he is let go. all that has
so fur been done will be lost, unless
another of his qualities shall he en
gaged. It is obvious that the needs
of Portland must be studied, and the
answer given, by some one who
knows what others have successfully
done, who has ideas and policies ot
his own, growing out of his exper
ience, and who can adjust them to
conditions as he finds them. The
commission is convinced that it
found in Mr. Cheney a consultant of
authority, initiative and sense. It
would build for the future and it
would build on the present, and no
seek to throw away all that has been
done.
mountains; but this is a beach story,
to be told in few words.
Word comes from Seaside that a
definite impetus has been given there
to improvements designed to make it
what Ben Holladay dreamed it
should be, and more. A boulevard
along the sands, a concrete walk, to
take the place of the famous board
walk, a pier into the ocean, are all
under way, and a commodious new
hotel besides. Seaside has learned
that the way to get people to come
there is to give them something be
sides the ocean and the Necanicum
river to come for. It is the same at
the" neighboring fine resort of Gear-
hart. The hotel there burned a few
years ago, and it is planned now to
build another, on a scale to suit the
larger needs of the times. It should
be done.
It is no drawback to the Gearhart
plan that Seaside is building a fine
caravansary, but a positive benefit
It will focalize interest, make tour
ists and sojourners more certain oi
ample accommodations, and provide
greater variety of entertainment and
recreation.
Good roads have opened up a new
era in Oregon and everywhere. The
new highway to Astoria and Clatsop
beach assures a great movement
every summer and during the winter,
too. It is the same throughout Ore
gon. It is the day of the tourist
They are coming to the Northwest ir.
hordes, and they must be cared for.
The keeping of a hotel at a resort
once a hazardous venture, , is to be
come a profitable business.
Let the hotels be built. The publia
will do the rest.
men's property by violence or mali
cious acts need to have the fact im
pressed upon them that they are
guilty of a crime so grave that in
many countries it would be punish
able with death. An impression pre
vails among the I. W. W. that their
activities are "politics," hence the
term "political prisoners" applied to
such men as Debs, Berger and Hay
wood. Sentences, light or heavy, fol-
lowed by immediate parole, cultivate
this impression or make the accused
believe that they have committed
merely petty offenses.
The parole system is abused when
applied to such cases. The safety
of the nation and state should be the
first consideration, and it is best
served by putting all members of
disloyal societies under lock and key
until the conspiracy is broken up
and tranquillity restored
GARBLED.
In an article opposing capital pun
ishment it Is venturesome Indeed to
quote Lenin, the present Russian
czar. Yet a writer does so today,
perhaps figuring that a correspon
dent who is a socialist has a license
to be illogical.
In Russia there was no death pen
alty when Lenin -succeeded in sovie-
tizlng a portion of the country. Ke-
rensky and Kornllof had quarreled
over that very issue- In the period
of transition following dethronement
of Nicholas, army and civil popula
tion were in a state of disorder and
in Kornilof's view, the only way to
restore order was with an iron hand.
Kerensky opposed, and finally the
disorder that he thus invited over
threw him.
Lenin went to the other extreme.
The death penalty was restored by
him not as a measure of exact jus
tice, but as a means of bloody re
pression. Trials have been a mock
ery and massacre by wholesale has
followed trivial offenses against the
government.
And the quotation that Mr. Bar
zee gives from the Russian dictator
in his letter is, we think, incomplete.
Whereas Mr. Barzee is a socialist
who occasionally writes for the
newspapers, John Spargo is a social
ist who occasionally writes for the
magazines. Mr. Spargo, in World's
Work, quotes Lenin as follows:
"Among one hundred so-called bol
shevik! there is one real bolshevik,
with thirty-nine criminals and sixty
fools."
So the delectable Lenin was not
talking about the public in general,
las Mr. Barzee .leaves us to suppose.
but was speaking cynically of his
own followers. It does not require
future developments to make the
completed saying appear to be more
fact than fiction.
GENETICS IX THE ARCTIC.
Jamee E. Crawford may be right
in his. assumption that the "blonde
Eskimos" of the Arctic, first ob
served by the explorer Stefansson,
and supposed by the latter to be de
scendants of a "lost race" of Scan
dinavians, are in fact only what he
terms throw-backs from some
early white explorers of the north.
It does not require a lost race theory
to account for occasional reversion
to a type of early parenthood. Where
there are mixtures of blood, the
newly Introduced strain has a way of
appearing at most unexpected times
If the Eskimos had any definite
ideas as to the relative superiority
and inferiority of races, the blondes
would constitute a real race problem,
As it is, they prove nothing except
that Father Mendel knew a thing or
two when he enunciated his famous
doctrine upon which our present
science of genetics is largely based.
There are, it seems, only three
tribes in Victoria Land in which
blondes are found, and only a dozen
blondes in the whole land. They
have "light eyes, light eyebrows and
reddish brown hair. Some have
markedly Caucasian features. One
little girl who looks much like a
Caucasian is the child of parents of
the pure Eskimo type- The inhabi
tants of her village had never seen
white men before.-: But some of her
ancestors undoubtedly did see white
men, and these may have been ex
plorers looking for a new land who
made their homes among the natives.
Dominance of certain racial fea
tures, their reappearance after the
lapse of many generations, the ten
dency to skip over long periods and
then to show in entirely unexpected
places are features of the compara
tively new study that make it inter
esting. In the absence of written
records, they may yet make it pos
sible for the scientists to write a more
comprehensive history of the world
than any now accessible. Books and
monuments may be destroyed, but
the impress of race is nearly ineradi
cable. It is the work not of cen
turies but of eons to create a true
thoroughbred.
most and adopted reservations which ' BY-PRODUCTS
went to extremes, but among them
were enough men who favored a
more moderate course to insure rat
ification. He needed only to have
reached an agreement with these
men. At a word from him the dem
ocratic senators would have sought
and made such an agreement, but,
as ex-President Taft says, "he per
sisted in hamstringing" them.' He
wrote a letter bidding them oppose
any reservations, and saving that the
reservations would nullify the cove-
nant; but Mr. Taft, leader of the
league of nations forces from a day
long before Mr. Wilson constituted
himself their chief, says in the Phil
adelphia Ledger:
Ninety per cent of the value of the
league is left In the treaty In spite of tha
reservations. The president's statement
that they nullify the treaty Is entirely un
warranted. It le a statement unfortunate
both in Its lack of foundation and In the
obstacle It forms to future compromise.
The league was not a party ques
tion In the senate until Mr. Wilson
made it so. It would not be so there
now if the president would bend
from his uncompromising position.
The republican senators are not uni
ted beyond yielding in support of Ihe
Lodge reservations- Those who favor
moderate reservations were driven
by the president to support the
Lodge programme as the only hope
of forcing him to agreement with
them. They were ready to accept a
league that is 90 per cent good in
confidence that after organization it
could be made 100 per cent good by
amendment. The constitution of the
United States was only 80 per cent
good when ratified, but within a
year amendments added the other 10
per cent. The covenant is to be no
"law of the Medes and Persians
which changeth not;" it is to be a
human document to be adapted from
time to time to the human needs of
the nations composing It.
The league Is still less' a party
question among the people than in
the senate. A vote on the covenant
alone with such reasonable reserva
tions as would protect the interests
of the United States would show
nine out of every ten of the people
to favor It. But that question has
now become inseparably connected
In the people's minds with another
whether the government shall consist
in effect of one man or of the sev
eral co-ordinate branches provided
by the constitution. On that ques
tion the vote would certainly be two
to one against one-man rule and in
favor of the constitution, and the
majority might easily rise to nine
out of ten.
It rests with the president to de
cide whether this question shall go
before the people next November.
If he should consent to a reasonable
compromise, two thirds of the. sen
ators would certainly accept; they
would not dare do otherwise. If bj
remaining obdurate he 6hould force
a popular decision, the verdict
though confused by other issues.
would be that-he, far more than the
senate, threatened to "break the
heart of the world."
OF THE TIMES
Mule Tone Are Felt tsi Various Farts
of the Body.
"There is, after all, very little dif
ference between Beethoven's moon
light sonata and a succulent sirloin
steak. Both are enjoyed primarily
through the medium of the stomach."
With that statement Frederick
Schlieder, formerly president ot the
New York State Muslo Teachers' as
sociation, delivered a collective body
blow, as It were, to nearly 200 mem
bers of the Philadelphia Musio Teach
ers' association, who had gathered to
listen to him in the Presser audito
rium. Mr. Schlieder failed to mention,
however, whether musio had suffi
cient nourishment to sustain life in
these days of great expense.
"The consciousness of the basic tone
of the scale is felt in the solar
plexus," said Mr.' Schlieder. He said
it by way of an explanation. But
what did it mean? The 10S profes
sionals did not know.
Mr. Schlieder had more to say.
"The fifth tone of the Bcale (g)."
he announced', "is felt In the for
head. The third tone e) is felt in
the neck."
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While having some of the family
furniture that came over in the May
flower done over and polished some
years since, I formed the acquaint
ance of a deaf furniture polisher. Had
it not beerf for two slight handicaps,
first, the impediment in his hearing
and, second, a quiet taste for alco
holic beverages that sometimes de
tained him week-ends from work, he
would have done very well In the
race of life. He was a faithful and
rapid workman and a man whom it
was a pleasure to know. When I
sought him one day his place was
vacant. A limousine had run over him
while he was riding home on his bi
cycle. A fellow workman explained
that the gentleman who was pilot
ing the big car had done his duty.
He had sounded his horn. The furni
ture polisher did not hear it and was
moving quietly on, doubtless antici
pating his evening meal, when the
big car went over him as though he
had been an autumn leaf. There was
a slight scrunch and that was all.
The chauffeur carefully explained
that he had sounded his horn, but
that the rider had paid no attention.
When informed that the man had been
deaf, that seemed to the chauffeur
an extenuating circumstance and I
think he did not. blame him for the
accident as he had been Inclined to
do before. A. J. R., in Minneapolis
Journal.
Thoi3 Who Come and Go.
Things didn't break right for Dan
Kellaher. former city commissioner,
who ws In Bend Sunday. In the
dlnlngiroom of the hotel the waitress
had served hotcakes and waa bring
ing a pitcher of syrup when she stum
bled and the contents of the pitcher
struck Mr.- Kellaher on the sleeve
and trickled and smeared its sticky
course over him. Mr. Kellaher re
tired and with the aid ot warm water
sponged off most of the syrup. The
coat being :oo wet to wear, he po
litely inquired of the assembled pa
trons if he could finish his breakfast
in his. shirtsleeves. He could. Quak
ing and nervous from the mishap, the
waitress brought in a pitcher of cream
for coffee. The girl's foot struck a
pool of the syrup on the floor and in
saving herself she pitched the pitcher
of cream over Mr. liellaher's vest,
over his sleeves and down the back of
his neck Inside his collar. Retreating
in good order, Mr. Kellaher began
peeling off more soggy habiliments,
and it wouldn't have been eo bad if
the cream had not been sour. But
was Dan Kellaher's disposition soured
at these mishaps? It was not. That's
one advantage in being fat
L. B. Reeder, who was speaker of
the Oregon legislature in 1901. now
lives at Porthill, Idaho, about 400
yards from the international line.
"I've been raising wheat In Washing
ton for the past couple of years," said
he at the Perkins, "and now I'm go
ing Into the cattle game with my
brother. We will raise cattle and
hogs, but principally cattle. It is a
mountainous country around Porthill
and there are no large towns or set
tlements." Although he served two
terms in the legislature, Mr. Reeder
lsn t interested in politics any more.
The Capital Journal has set about
to persuade the people of Salem that
the state capital "has been a detri
ment rather than a benefit." The
town is suffering from what the Cap
ital Journal describes as "capitalitis '
a malady that "has dwarfed Sa.
lem, stunted growth, and retarded
development- Capitalitis breeds a
fatal lethargy, a provincial indiffer
ence that paralyzes initiative and
palsies progress." This astonishing
diagnosis will doubtless be quite in
teresting to the people of Salem.
Evidently the great movement to
take the capital bodily somewhere
else is to have an unexpected ally at
Salem unexpected, but most ser
viceable. The management of the
Capital Journal can always be relied
on to do its worst for its community.
Scio, bless her old-fashioned heart
Is in a stew of no small proportions
The city owns the light plant and
charges a flat rate for current, but
so many have been using the "juice'
for other purposes, all have been or
WHY GERMANY IS DEFIANT.
Defiance of the allies by Germany
when they demanded performance
of certain conditions of the armistice
before the treaty should be put in
effect, and. their modification of the
conditions, may properly be ascribed
to the failure of the United States to
become a party to the treaty of "Ver
sailles. Germany knows that the al-
ies are exhausted and torn by Indus
trial strife. It knows that they have
demobilized their armies, that their
financial resources are at a low ebb,
and that the ardor with which their
people fought cannot be revived.
The one power which Germany
fears is the United States. The great
army which this nation had put in
the field in November, 1918, reduced
the Germans to such a plight that
another -month of hostilities must
have resulted in destruction or sur
render of their army. They yielded
to that American army and to fear
of the still greater army and of the
flood of munitions which America
would have sent agafhst them if they
had fought on through 1919. That
army is now dissolved and discussion
of the treaty has developed into a
domestic controversy over a consti
tutional question. These facts have
encouraged Germany to set the allies
at defiance within thirteen months
after that nation seemed to be hum
bled in the dust.
The concessions which the allies
have felt it necessary to make are an
example of the danger which lies in
making threats without the intent or
the ability to ;mt them into execu
tion. But the whole episode is notice
to this nation that the necessity of
unity among all the enemies of Ger
many did not end with the armistice
it continues until the treaty has not
only been signed and ratified, -but
has been executed. That necessity
should have restrained President
Wilson from reviving partisan con
troversy while the war was still on
and from provoking the senate to
critical dissection of. the treaty. It
should particularly have restrained
him from giving the senate cause to
raise a question as to the respectiv
powers of president and senate under
the constitution.
Germany takes advantage of this
Undoubtedly those 1,500,000 gal
lons of old bourbon whisky to be
distributed to stockholders of the
distilleries will be used for medicinal
purposes only. From all we are able
to gather, the prohibition movement
has left them very sick men.
COMPROMISE AND END DELAY.
Senator Lodge's readiness to take
the dispute between the senate ma
jority and President Wilson in re
gard to the league of nations to the
people for decision next November
is approved by the New York Sun as
the "only form of referendum pos
sible." It could not be a clean cut
referendum. In voting for president,
senators and representatives, the
people would be guided not by their
attitude on the league alone, but by
their attitude on a score of other
questions. If a clear expression of
public opinion were possible it would
entail delay which would be intol
erable and inexcusable. It might de
lay final action until the new ad
ministration takes office on March 4,
lszi. uiteen months hence. When
80 of the 96 senators are in favor of
ratification in some form, we should
not wait any such period. In less
than one month an agreement should
be reached on a form of ratification
which would enlist the necessary 64
votes in its support.
There is but one obstacle which
prevents such an agreement. It is
.President Wilson. The New York
World, his foremost newsDaoer
cnampion, alter standing by him till
tne eleventh hour, said:
All that stands In the wit Is an mo
ment on the character and scope of the
reservations, wnicn could be settled very
Quickly If partisanship and n,r.nn.i
ity were subordinated to t i- rnlM.,1
cerns- ox national ana international welfare.
The partisanship and personal
vanity" from the outset to the pres
ent day have been Mr. Wilson's. They
have provoked display of the same
vices by his political opponents, but
he is primarily responsible. They
led him to appeal to the people for
a new mandate to his party, which,
in view of his party's slavish obedi
ence to his will, means him. That
mandate was denied him. Neverthe
less he went to Europe assuming to
be spokesman for the American peo
ple, when the ballots had just shown
that he had the confidence of less
than half of them. He undertook to
do with tlfe aid of his -personal
friend. Colonel House, that which
the constitution requires to be done
in collaboration with the senate. His
one desire being to form a league of
nations, the allies gave him what he
wanted as a means 'of getting what
they wanted, taking him at his word
as spokesman for the American peo
ple. He brought back a covenant
which the vast majority of the peo
ple approved, but which many of
tlrsm held to need modification in
order to guard American rights and
interests. The senate majority, its
antagonism aroused by his assump
tion of sole power to make treaties.
i exploited - this sentiment to the ut-
The Ashland man who Is inventing
a typewriter to print wallpaper de
signs is working on the wrong
theory. A pneumatic riveter would
be a much more suitable instrument,
judging from the designs in vogue.
Some 1,500,000 gallons of fine old
bourbon may be distributed to dis
tillery stockholders in lieu of a cash
dividend. At last we know what the
financiers mean when they speak of
liquid assets.
There must be one or two oldtime
"motes" who can tell the pampered
platform men of the present how
they controlled the "juice" on open
vestibules in snow storms long ago.
But even if the president has
broken with Colonel House, the sit
uation is not necessarily desperate.
Barney Baruch, Joe Tumulty, Doo
Garfield and Burleson are still left.
The casualties among the colonels
have been enormous. But at any
rate Colonel House, Colonel Watter
son and Colonel Harvey went down
with titles waving.
Marie Dressier, discussing the ac
tors' strike in New York, laughed
good-naturedly and said:
"The managers' intention of re
cruiting substitutes for the strikers
was a failure. They got too much
talent, like the raw youth who was
engaged by a London manager to
play the part of a lackey.
"It was a simple part. The youth
had merely to walk on in livery and
announce that his lordship's carriage
was at the door. All would have gone
off well but for the fact that his
lordship was a waggish person, ad
dicted to guying.
"So when the footman came in and
awkwardly remarked. "My lor,' your
kerridge Is at the door,' the peer ex
claimed, 'What sayest thou, varlet?"
"This was too much for the lackey.
Flurried and annoyed by the un
expected question, he retorted, 'You
'eard!' and amid shouts of laughter
stalked off the stage."
John Alexander Dowie founded Zion
City on a system of don'ts and no's.
and that system persists, with the
addition of a few new inhibitions and
prohibitions for good measure. Here
is a birdseye picture of Zion City, as
it existed under Dowie and as it ex
ists today:
No saloons or liquor.
No pork of any kind.
No tobacco.
No oysters.
No doctors.
No drug stores.
No theatera
No politics except that engendered
by the bitter factional warfare of
Voliva's faithful and their opponents.
No secret societies.
No vaccination.
No vice or gambling.
No other church but Dowle's. But
several others have crept in.
It was Vollva, Dowle's successor,
I-who added to the original Dowie list.
Here are some of his additions:
No extreme styles of dress for
women peekaboo waists, low-neck
waists, silk hose, short skirts and
such folderols strictly taboo.
No residents but followers of Vo
llva a regulation he has strenuously
fought to enforce in court and out.
but .in vain. ,
No male angels in heaven all
women.
No round earth only a flat one.
And now it is officially announced
that Vollva plans to add another
"no", to his list:
No Zion City.
I He told his followers recently that
"I'm wondering," observed Manager
Cnllds of the Hotel Portland, "how
long it will continue to snow before
the stuff begins sliding off the roof
and I have to put ropes around the
sidewalk." The Hotel Portland has
the steepest roof of any building In
tne city, it has a slate roof on an
angie or aoout 60 degrees and is so
eteep that when a snow flake hits it
the snowflake, to quote former Mu
nicipal Judge Hennessey, "falls with
a crash to the ground."
The old saw that "few die and none
resign" was upset by H. DeArmond
of Bend, who is in town with his
family and registered at the Imperial.
Mr. DeArmond was once upon a time
the district attorney in Deschutes
county. There was more business
than the salary justified, he conclud
ed, so he did the almost unheard-of
thing of tendering his resignation.
Since then a couple of other district
attorneys have followed his example
ana gone into private practice.
After three weeks of "timber stuff"
In Bend and vicinity. Carol Halloway,
motion picture leading woman, re
turned to the Benson yesterday. A
story is being filmed in the Deschutes
country, in which the forests of that
section have been used to advantage,
moA of the spectacular stunts of the
lumberjacks being cranked. Ml
Halloway left Bend Just as a cold
snap moved in.
PR1VATK VENGEANCE PROSCRIBED!
j Nothlnsr More In tended 1st Christ's
Reference to Mosaic Iaw.
UNIVERSITY PARK. Or.. Dee. 9.
(To the Editor.) That the words ot
Jesus of Nazareth should be- applied
to abrogate the matter of retribution
sanctioned by the Mosaic law seem to
miss the spirit of the teachings of the
Sermon on the Mount. "An eye for'
an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was
the old law. which Jesus put aside as
a means of gratifying private venge
ance. "But 1 say unto you." followed
the statement of the Mosaic injunc
tion. Persons familiar with that an
nouncement would be prompted by
revenge and retaliation to execute the
law for themselves, forgetting the
authority of government Instituted
by God himself. Jesus was speaking
to persons, not to those In authority,
who must use human lives if govern
ment exist at all.
It would be an absurdity of the
first magnitude to assert the over
throw of the principle of self-defence
by reading these words so important
for the purpose indicated by them.
The retaliation is in the hand taking
the life of another outside of a proper
self-defence, but retribution marks
the rope around the neck of the num
derer. When criminal law loses retrl-
ution for offenders, society receives
a mortal blow. There need be no pri
vate vengeance at all in the execu
tion of a murderer, which when prop-
rly considered contains the solemnity
of the sacrament Itself. It is sheer
effrontery to call government guilty
of murder In executing swiftly a mur
derer to prevent murder in the future
by the preservative influence exerted
upon society.
The matter of appealing to statis
tics with reference to decrease or in
crease of murders by capital punish.
ment is unreliable. Who knows ex
cept God and the minds deterred from
crime through fear of death how
many are kept back from killing
others? "Thou Shalt not kill. 1 es.
But convert the commandment into
rape to proclaim the sanctity of
human lives. B. J. HOADLEI.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br James J. Hostasse,
BOLSHEVIK CYNICISM 1S QUOTED
1 he Intended to change the name of
week f
Is your home in order .for a week f Dowle's dream community to "Vo-
from tomorrow? Of course nothing , liva.'
will happen, but the preparation may
be beneficial.
All the robins are in winter quar
ters and the sparrows are hustlers
who can paw snow like a range cow.
The coal strike doesn't seem to
have caused any slackening In the
output of the Hot Stove league.
These temperatures and discom
forts demonstrate women are
tougher than men.
Contemplating the thermometer
and the dollar mark, the Oregon hen
is in a quandary.
Milwaukee, erstwhile famous, is
made infamous by Victor Berger' 3
renomination.
They do the jewelry-store robbing
with more class in Chicago and get
bigger hauls.
Days like these the
goes to the dentist.
traffic cop
The merciful man is merciful to
his radiator.
It was ice cream in the bottle on
the porch.
Perhaps it is due to that sunspot.
Now for the soft winter,
The Central News Port Elizabeth,
South Africa, correspondent sends the
following:
"The head of the local museum here
has received information from a Mr.
Lepage, who was in charge of rail
way construction in the Belgian
Congo, of an exciting adventure last
month. While Lepage was hunting
one day In October he came upon an
extraordinary monster, which charged
at him. Lepage fired, but was forced
to flee, with the monster In chase.
The animal before long gave up the
chase and Lepage was able to exam
ine it through his binoculars. The
animal, he says, was about 24 feet
in length, with a long pointed snout
adorned with tusks like horns and a
short horn above the nostrils. The
front feet were like those of a horse
and the htnd hoofs were cloven. There
was a scaly hump on the monster's
shoulder.
"The animal later charged through
the native village of Fungurume, de
stroying the huts and killing some
of 4he native dwellers. A hunt was
at once organised, but the govern
ment has forbidden the molestation
of the animal, on the ground that it
is probably a relic of antiquity. There
is a wild, trackless region in the
neighborhood, which contains many
swamps and marches, where, says the
head of the museum, it la possible
that a few primeval monsters may
survive."
State Senator Charles Thomas of
Medford left for heme last nigh
after giving two days of his time to
fish and game matters In Portland
During the 1919 session. Senator
Thomas specialized In trying to bring
about legislation against the so-called
paving trust. Also, he was Interested
In the Rogue river flah bill, a meas
ure which is a bone of contention
ever time the legislature assembles,
and which may bob up at the special
session next month.
Guy W. Talbot has a town named
after him in Marlon county, although
he doesn t boast much about It be
cause there isn't much chance of It
taking the state capital away from
Salem. One of the handful of peopl
who get their retail at the Talbot
postoffice was in Portland yesterday
He 13 John Krebs, who registered at
the Hotel Oregon.
"I've Just arrived from Montana.
where the temperature was 8 and 1
degrees above zero, but I feel th
cold In Portland more than I did in
Montana." complained J. Bachrach, as
he backed up against a steam pip
radiator at the Hotel Portland yester
day and looked out at the Infant bliz
zard.
M. F. Sommarstrom of Columbia
City Is at the Hotel Washington.
Things are quiet at Columbia City
now. for the mainstay of the com
munity was the shipbuilding Industry
which Sommarstrom developed. Un
til the opportunity comes to build
more ships. Columbia City will be
somnolent.
"We're developing the canning in
dustry In Roseburg and it is grow
ing rapidly." states G. B. Crouch, a
hardware dealer of the Douglas
county metropolis. "The cannery is
putting up apples and peaches. Our
prunes there are no better found
anywhere we dry."
There was a look of disgust on the
faces of a party of women at the
Benson yesterday. They had fled
from their home in Montreal to avoid
the rigorous winter and came to the
Pacific coast to enjoy the balmy
climate, and then the snow came and
with It the east wind.
Centrallans registered at the Mult
nomah yesterday were Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Young, who own a drug
store in the town where the L W. W.
staged the Armistice day massacre.
and C. C. Caveness, who operates a
large dry goods establishment.
The plan of towns advertising on
hotel registers Is spreading. Jr-endle
tonians scribble after their name
Round-up." For the past week or
so people from Grants Pass pen on
the register It s the climate." Next'
Native trout, eastern brook and
rainbow which Infest the streams in
Hood river county all appeal to A R,
Crulkshank, consulting engineer and
piscatorial authority, who was in
Portland yesterday talking fish-
To do some Christmas shopping,
Mr. and Mrs. E. R-- Jones of Chitwood,
Or, are at the Imperial. Chitwood Is
loeated on the'Yaqulna river in Lin
coln county and until Mr. and Mra
Jones came to Portland, it had a popu.
latlon of 50.
Major George Newlove, who had
charge of the young soldier murdered
by highwaymen at Eleventh and
Main streets. Monday night, is reg
istered at the Hotel Portland.
After a visit to her father at New
Orleans, Mrs. Emma Wernicke has
returned to Portland and is at the
Hotel Washington.
R, II. Reeves, vice-president of the
Reeves-Clark store at Lebanon, Or.
is at the Multnomah.
Rev. 3. M. Pamment of Wood-
lawn. Wash., is among the arrivals
at the Hotel Washington. His wife
accompanies him.
Frank Blckenfeld, who hails from
the town of Blckenfeld. Or., is amon
the Benson arrivals.
J. J. Sklllings, who owns a stock
ranch at Imbler, Or, is registered at
the Multnoman.
C. H. Miller of Redmond, who i
one of the county commissioners of
Deschutes county. Is at the Imperial.
Opponent of Death Penalty Finds
Comfort In I. mine's Remark..
PORTLAND, Dec. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) In support of the sane writings
of ray humane friend, Grace E. Hall.
defending the present law abolishing
the death penalty, let me say all have
not "bowed the knee to Baal" In the
war-made lust for blood. However,
It Is quite certain that the death pen
alty will be restored in Oregon. In
this conclusion may not the saying
of Lenine that "for every honest bol
shevik (thinker) there are 39 scoun
drels and 60 fools," some day be made
to apear more fact than fiction?
When we learn to live without wars
of destruction, uch a monstrosity as
this late war will surely appear to
have been engendered by fools.
Just a word about Johnson, mur
derer of Mrs. Freeman. His state
ment that he would not have mur
dered Mrs. Freeman, whom I well
knew, if It had been a capital offense
to society Is entirely discredited by
his other statement that he would
willingly hang If he might be abl'i to
kill the other woman In the case, Mrs
Williams. Why did his angar no
lead him to kill the Wlliams woman
first? Such an all-round liar is no
a sensible capital punishment defense
for anyone to act on.
Then the Centralia affair. If capital
punishment Is a deterrent of murder
which seems to be the general opin
ion of the people with regard to that
tragedy, why was not that killing
staged In non-hanging Oregon Instead
of hanging Washington? Critics may
answer if they can.
Let the penalty for murder be in
carceration for life. Let there be n
pardon for the offense and society wil
be as well protected as by hanging th
individual.
No doubt In the present reaction
the pendulum will swing to the limit.
It may bring with Its return another
Paris commune. Let us hope that
enough common sense for seed plant
ing will be retained to restore Boclety
to a happy democratic equilibrium.
A W. BARZEE.
THE MINE SWEEPERS.
They never had a half a chance at
glory;
To them the joy of battle was
denied;
The nation never thrilled to read the
story
Of how they lived and tolled and
how they died.
Unseen, unmarked, they went where
duty called them.
On mine-encircled seas their nets
were spread;
No storms delayed, no dangers grim
appalled them.
Though death was always lurking
just ahead.
Day in. day out, their dreary vigil
fieepin s
As on across the tide their vessels
stole.
Alert of mind, untroubled and un
sleeping.
They calmly kept their perilous
patrol.
And If there came a flash a roar of
thunder.
And smothered In a whirl of hissing
foam
A ship and all aboard of her went
under.
No cable sent the tragic story home.
They brought to port no submarine as
booty.
Their shouts of triumph ringing In
the breeze.
It never was their high and glorious
duty
To scourge these slinking serpents
from the seas.
They wore no crown of fame, yet their
devotion
For victory's mighty progress
cleared the wav.
Made safe an array's path across the
ocean.
And baffled craft and cunning of
their prey.
They wore no crown of fame and yet
their story
When half its glowing chapters
have been told
Will write their names upon tha roll
of glory
In fine resplendent characters of
gold!
The Most Favored Occupation.
There are twice as many students
of chemistry as there were a year
ago. Chemists, you know, can make
alcohol.
Inconsistent.
The trouble with the labor situation
is that the labor leaders refuse to
stop talking when the whistle blows.
The Easiest Way.
sWhy not send the reds to Mexico.
and let nature take its course?
(Copyright, 119. by The Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
A Friend of Mine.
By Grace E. Hall.
WHIPPING POST IS ADVOCATED
Bible Quotation Against Death Pen
alty Contradicted by Writer.
ORENCO, Or.. Dec 9. (To the Ed
itor.) Please allow me a little space
for a reply to the letter of Grace E.
Hall about capital punishment. Your
honorable correspondent quotes the
Bible saying: "Thou shalt not kill,"
nd adds, "Nowhere else on its pages.
to my knowledge, does the Bible
modify this statement by any "ifs
nor "In case ot.
I beg your correspondent to read:
First, Exodus 21:12; second, Leviticus
24: 16, 17 and 21: third. Number?
35:29-34; and fourth, Deuteronomy
19:11-12. All these passages will
show how God gave orders to kill the
murderer. Too many people quote
the Bible to the effect that we cannot
punish the murderer nor make war In
defense against any Hun, ttocne
W. W. Better knowledge of the
Bbile leads one to be most careful.
Otherwise I agree fully with youi
correspondent. All the trouble comes
through the leniency oi the laws ot
court.
The weekly number of accidents in
Portland is a shame on a civilized
city. In about any bunch of criminals
arrested together you find always
one or many "paroled Individuals.
spent 18 months in Canada a few
years ago. it you go to caigary, on
East Eighth street you will see many
thousands of dollars worth or sec
ond-hand stuff stored In the open.
day and night, all the year round, and
you never hear about a robbery. Well,
there they have the whip In the jails,
and In a few cases I know the per
sons are afraid of the v-hip a thou
sand times more than of the light
fines the offenders get In Oregon.
Maybe you will say that Americans
don't like such a system. I guess
the Canadian people don't like it
either, but It is because they don'l
like it that they manage to observe
the laws so welL Murderers. I. W. W.
and offenders of every kind don't
create sentimentality. Why would
you be so kind to them?
Put a whip or a wnipper or a ma
chine in every Jail and you will see
quick decrease in every wrong
doing. A few sensible souls will
howl; tell them "Nobody compels you
to try the whip on your back." The
security of the public is worth at
least a little more than the well
being of scoundrels.
E. PETREQU1N.
Ill health has laid a blighting hand
upon her splendid powers.
Has closed the door on liberty and
space;
While all alone she fills the time that
makes the golden hours.
Yet there is no frown nor cloud
upon her face:
With gentleness that's -rue and fine
she welcomes everyone;
Her greeting Is as sweet as a
caress.
And her cheer Is like a ray of warmth
shed by the noon-day sun.
'Till of dreariness you would not
even guess.
She has set herself a duty or a little
pleasing task
That, she means shall be accom
plished every day.
"One kind thing, to bring a pleasure,"
is her answer when you ask.
Thus she sow the seeds of joy
along the way;
Shut In from the rush and hurry, you
may say she has more time
Ah! but keep in mind the pain that
she must bear!
And how few there be with leisure
who have Impulse so sublime
Oh, how few with hearts so willing
just to share:
I. I
Every day some deed of kindne-- for
another can you guess
What change would come if all were
just that good?
If each one would care for others
more, for self a little less.
And give out a bit of sunshine when
he fnnlrl
a million minds with helpfuj
thoughts, each with a strong
desire ... ,
help another climbing life s
,nn.h hill
Would start a blaze of human warmth
to cheer with healing fire
Nine-tenths of those whose hearts
are cold and ill!
Why,
To
NAME OF C. M. SCHWAB OFFERED
Precinct Committeeman Proposes
Business Man for President.
PORTLAND, Dec. 9. (To the Edi.
tor.) Kindly allow a republican com
mitteeman to have his say in regard
to our next president. Whoever we
nominate will be the next president.
As a good citizen, a republican and a
volunteer in the great war, I want
the right man nominated, as our coun
try was never in worse shape.- and
needed the right man so much
now.
We need a level-headed business
man. not a politician, a man with lots
of big business experience, but who
also has seen the dawn of a new day
In the relations of industry and labor
and will give both a square deal,
which will bring honor and prosper
ity to our country, and the G. O. P.
At this time we could nominate
and elect Charles M. Schwab, with the
assurance. . when his term Is ended,
that we will never again fear to put
a business man at the head of our
government.
UNION MACHINIST.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian. December 10. 1S04.
-ew York The second deposit in
FltzBlmmons' stake for the fight with
Champion James J. Corbett, was
posted here today.
Report of the water commission of
the city shows that the total storage
capacity of the four reservoirs is
67.500,000 gallons.
Thirty-seven carloads of potatoes
have been shipped from Jefferson this
falL
w TtT. -Perkins recently received at
Gibbon. Umatilla county. 1000 moun
tain trout from the government fish
hatchery at Leadville. Colo. The fry
were placed In the water at ninsnim
Springs.
Fifty Yeara Ago.
From The Oregonian. December 1. la.
Owyhee Tidal Wave says: The
Golden Chariot Mining company are
paying off In coin and have changed
the scale of miners' wages from $5 In
currency to $4.50 in coin.
Washington The postmaster-generals
estimates for the coming fiscal
year include $500,000 for steamship
service between Pan Francisco and
the Sandwich islands.
Washington The senate confirmed
the appointment of Belknap as sec
retary of war and Robenson as sec
retary of the navy.
St- Petersburg Emperor Alexander
has conferred the grand cross of the
Order of St. George on King William
of Prussia as a prodf- of cordial rela
tions existing between Russia and
Prussia.
Flume Canaea a Deadlock.
ASTORIA Or.. Dec 8. (To the
Editor.) Please print a cjear state
ment of what the peace conference
has done in regard to Flume. I can
find no reference to the matter in the
text of the treaty with Germany
or of that with Austria.
. SUBSCRIBER.
By the treaty with Austria Fiume
is included In territory ceded by
Austria to the allies and associates
collectively and the peace conference
is still negotiating as to what dis
position shall be made of it. Both
Italy and the Jugo-Slav state claim
it, and President Wilson insists that
It be given to the latter, while
D'AnnunzIo has seized and holds for
Italy against the will of the Italian
government. Hence the deadlock.