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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1919.
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matically hunted, probably could fur
nish the entire quantity of 10,000,000
skins that one firm of hatters is said
to desire. The old injunction, "First
catch your rabbit," does not apply.
The work begins when the rabbit is
caught, and there's the rub. It is
going to be a pity, however, If hat
makers are compelled to go abroad
for their supplies while the grain
fields of the west are overrun. The
department sees in the industry an
"inviting field for farmers' boys and
others," but until the boys them
selves can be made to see the field,
there Is a dismal prospect for the
building up of this new industry.
WHAT WILL THEY SAY?
The constitutional rights of American
itizena should protect them on our bor
ers and go with them throughout the
world, and any American citizen residing
or having property in any foreign country
entitled to and must be given tne tun
rolection of the United States govern
ment, both for himself and his property.
From the democratic platform of 1U12.
What the democratic party nobly
said in 1912, and what the demo
cratic administration shamelessly did
in 1913 and the six following years
as to Mexico, the whole wona
knows.
The memory of that oft-repudi
ated declaration is revived to
peculate on what the democrats will
say in 1920, and after, if the repub-
can convention of 1920 adopts an
identical plank, and a republican ad
ministration faithfully observes its
terms of upstanding Americanism.
WEATHER.
Nobody prepares for cold weather,
fcr snow, in the Pacific northwest, in
ttny adequate way, unless it is the
railroads. Probably they recall the
famous winter in 1884, when a train
with its passengers was snowbound
near The Dalles, and was rescued
only after several long and trying
weeks. The old-fashioned railroad
Shovel has been reinforced by the
rotary plow and no railway need be
fclocked for any long time. They did
not have the compelling rotary In
the early "80s, and necessity requires
the solution of all problems, includ
ing meteorological puzzles and per
nlpxities. and it came automatically.
The people of the Pacific coast do
tpot like snow or cold, probably be
cause they are not used to it, ana
re never ready for it. But snow
comes all the same, and they must
meet It with all the improvised snow
shovels and street sweepers they can
find. It is astonishing how quickly
the snow is conquered. It proves
once again that the Americans are a
resourceful people. However, they
admit it. and proof is not needed.
It has been four years since there
was another general snowfall in Ore
con: and then there were two in one
winter. This year it came early,
bearing out to an extent predictions
of a hard winter, and reminding the
timid that there Is imminent
strange conjunction of the planets,
which somehow or other have I
malign influence on mundane weath
er. It is yet another week before the
fateful December 17, when the great
cataclysm is to occur (if it occurs)
There are some confirmed "web-
feet," inured to rain and Impatient
and resentful of snow, who won't
mind the end of things at all, unl
the weather improves meanwhile.
Your old-timer will tell you that
the weather is changing and that
we have less snow in this country
. than of yore or more. It depends
on his recollection and humor. The
biggest snow of 1861 and the big
snow of 1892 are not forgotten, no
the big wind of 1880, nor the big
freeze of 1888, 'nor the big flood
18 94. There was another historic
flood in 18G1 a freshet in the Wil
lamotte and its tributaries and
nothing approaching it has since
occurred. Nor has there been a gale
Comparable to the memorable and
felaruiing. affair of thirty-nine years
rgo.
The slow and protracted rise in the
J-iver twenty-five years ago last June
tame from the backwater of the
Columbia, and the damage was rel
etively small. The Willamette has
kept in bounds since then a longer
reriod than can be found in the rec
ords of earlier day. Does this mean
that there is less rainfall and less
enow?- for June floods come from
ciuickly melting snow in the moun
tains and winter floods from heavy
rains. Probably, not; yet there Is
rf-asonnble assurance that the danger
of disastrous river floods is past
or, if not past, at least greatly mini
mized. The channel of the Columbia
trlow the Willamette has been deep
ened and straightened, and excess
waters are more easily carried off
to the sea.
Yet a plausible argument might be
dvaneed that the average winter
weather is milder than formerly. In
the old days ice on the lakes about
Forttand and through western Ore
con formed so frequently as to make
ckating common in the winters. Any
old inhabitant will describe on re
quest those rare days when the Wil
lamette was frozen over at Portland,
and there were joyous days and
nights of revelry and delight on the
Ice. Can any of the present genera
tion remember any such occurrence?
What is the reason of the change?
Is it because the river traffic is so
much greater, and the forming ice
is the more easily broken up? If
Cot. what?
Forty years ago (December 23,
1879) the mercury descended to the
extremely low figure of 3 degrees
above. In 1883 (February 6) a
rt'eord of 7 above zero was achieved;
end twice in 1SS4 (February 12 and
l'ecembcr 16) the mercury . mean
dered down to uncomfortable fig
ures. 7 above and II above, respec
tively. In 1SSS (January 15) the
damaging truth must be told that all
known records were shattered, and
the shuddering depth of 2 degrees
Delow zero was attained.' It was
a sorrowful hour for those prideful
spirits who hud long boasted that
zero, in a meteorological sense, was
not in the western Oregon vocab
ulary. No such sequence of frigid
years has happened since. On Jan
uary 12, 1916, the thermometer gave
13 degrees above; so far, during the
present storm, nothing worse than
16 above has happened in Portland.
- Possibly the weather sharps can
make something out of these inter
esting statistics. All scientific an
thority says that in the long cycles
of the passing years, weather condi
tions in given latitudes are the same.
Sut sometimes we have our doubts.
lOlD CALL, FOB MB, BRYAN.
Mr. Bryan, in accordance with his justice.-
quadrennial custom, has made a I This experience of the miners is
careful and entirely impartial survey I fair notice to any other union which
of the national political field, and I tries to enforce its demands on the
u.u.- j " 'at the battle-front suffering from
without a candidate for the presl-1 life, that it will have to deal not
dency. It is a dilemma which he has only with its employers but with the
been able to solve to his own com-1 public and that the public will re
sist. Hereafter in such cases the pre
cedent set in 1919, not that set in
1916, will be followed.
emancipation have brought coal
production to 98 per cent of the pre
war level. Work will defeat their
enemy high prices more quickly
and more surely than would any in
crease of wages, but the six-hour day
and the five-day week are precious
help to that enemy.'
The decision of the miners' gen
eral committee and the animated
and. prolonged debate which preced
ed it augur well for the future. They
go to show that the more conserva
tive element among the miners has
at last mustered up courage and en
ergy to make a stand-up fight
against the radicals, and- that it is
in a majority. The influence of pub
lic opinion and the determination
shpwn by the people and their gov
ernment not to yield to the extrav
agant demands of the miners were
most effective in bringing about this
outcome. With the precedent of
1916 in mind, the miners evidently
expected, in'' the presence of a com
paratively passive and helpless pub
lic, to coerce the government into
surrender by the mere threat of a
strike. On the contrary, public opin
ion became actively combative, and
the government yielded to coercion
from the people instead of from the
miners. When the government, un
der this pressure, set all the ma
chinery of the law into motion
against them, showed its readiness
to fight it out and then came for
ward with the perfectly fair propo
sition of Mr. Wilson, conservatism
asserted itself and the miners ac
cepted that which they could have
secured" at the first that is, simple
recollection of the present genera-1 BI-PEODCCTS
tion, this would have seemed more
wonderful than an air voyage around
the world seems today.
OF THE TIMES.
MORAL EEFOBM AS A PKOFE8SIOX.
A handicap of all great movements
for human progress is that they at
tract a crowd of professional hangers-on.
When one such movement
achieves success, these people try to
start another, lest they be left with
out an occupation, and they are not
over-particular whether the osten
sible aim of their propaganda be
real reform, or merely the fad of a
lot of busybodies or a downright
public nuisance, nor whether the
statements which they make in its
behalf be true or false, so that they
minister to the prejudices of the
faddists.
This seems to be the explanation
of the anti-tobacco crusade and of
Rev. Clarence True Wilson's connec
tion with it- While prohibition was
the moral issue, Mr. Wilson, who is
a very practical idealist, got a good
appointment and busied himself with
it. When John Barleycorn was slain,
Mr. Wilson was left in the unfor
tunate position of a soldier of for
tune after peace is signed, and he
sought a new employer to fight a
new foe. He seems to have found
one in the body of well-meaning but
ill-informed and misguided ladies
who imagine that, next to alcohol,
tobacco is the greatest evil which
afflicts humanity, and he has enlist
ed in the war against the cigarette
in particular.
The sore straits to which he is
reduced for propaganda may be
judged by the fact that he resorts
to slander on the American soldier
for argument. He depicts the man
plete satisfaction heretofore; but
now, turning his appreciative mind
away from contemplation of the su
perior merits of the one and only
commoner, he sits down and writes
gloomily a stickful of counsel to the
democracy in general and labels it
Wanted: A Candidate."- Not that
Mr. Bryan himself is particularly at
a loss, but the democratic party is
in sore need and Mr. Bryan tells how
it is-
Having raised the great question.
Mr. Bryan is, df course, ready to
give the answer through the mouths
or pens of his faithful readers. They
do not purpose to leave the public in
doubt as to where they stand. He
prints a symposium for them, and
we are able to extract from it a few
choice gems.
One admirer says that "of all he
has spoken to, fully two-thirds are
WHY THE DIFFERENCE?
In one week twenty-three stow
aways arrived on ships at New York
and were promptly deported. In
nine months 697 reds were arrested
in various parts of the country for
conspiracy against the government
and were sent to Ellis island for de
portation, but only about one in ten
were deported. The other nine
tenths were released on various pre
texts.
Why this difference in treatment
between the stowaway and the red?
The former endured great privation
and took great risks in order to get a
chance to make good in this country.
The latter had had his chance to
msik cnnil n n el hsiil thrnwn it nwflv
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iuuo it, xi. cijan by attempts to destroy the govern
ment which gave him welcome. It
next nomination for president.
Another offers the gratifying sug
gestion that "you yourself should
have this honor." .x"
Another concludes: "Wo need "you.
We need you. We need you NOW,
more than ever.".. -
An Imliana man says that "Wil-
was proved that the red was not
good material for an American.
That remained to be proved in re
gard to the stowaway.
It was right that the stowaway
should be deported, for he had vio
lated the law, but so had the red.
shell-shock as one whose nerves are
so shaken by tobacco that he must
be led out of the ranks and given a
smoke before he can hold a rifle and
face the enemy, or as one who fakes
shell-shock that he may escape the
ordeal of battle and safely enjoy a
cigarette in the rear. ...
Against such slanders are to be set
the statements of thousands of de
voted women who went to the war
zone and ministered to the sick and
wounded. They tell of the soothing
effects of tobacco on the weary and
painwracked. When ether was not
to be had, men underwent operations
without a cry of pain under the
calming effects of a cigarette. Men
who had never smoked before testify
to the comfort they found In tobacco
when under the continuous strain of
battle. Whose judgment is to be
preferred in such matters that of
Mr. Wilson and the women who have
joined him in the new crusade, or
that of the women who saw the pick
of American manhood rout the Hun
while under the influence of the
deadly cigarette?
Hoir Americana Called Bluff of Hotel
Crllla Owner.
On winding up its activities in Paris,
the American peace delegation has
been presented with a nice little bill
for 30.000, over and above the rent
agreed upon, by the proprietor of the
Hotel Crillon, which was the Ameri
can peace headquarters. This is how
the hotel proprietor makes out his
account:
To loss of clientells 20,000
To demoralization of staff by hav
ing accustomed them to receive,
wagea above the ordinary stand
ard 10.00
To these demands, according to the
Weekly Dispatch, no reply has been
sent, but the-American delegates have
proved fully worthy of the occasion.
In their turn they have submitted an
account to the proprietor of the Hotel
Crillon, on which the following are
the chief items:
To advertisement of hotel by mak
ing it American headquarters. .. .20.00
To improvement of staff bv teachinc
them American methods of worK . tiv.uuu
So far no reply has been made by
the proprietor. It would appear that
he will have some difficulty in going
one better!
"In the July number of The Land
mark," writes L. Bterne to that organ
of the English Speaking Union, "I
notice an illustration of the 'Liberty
Bell.' which tolled the celebration of
the Independence of the United States.
It may Interest my fellow-members
to know that in 1849, at the age of 14,
I was employed by Conrad Bard &
Sons, silversmiths, in Arch street,
Philadelphia, and my first work for
this firm was to file out the crack
shown in your Illustration, as it was
intended to ring the bell again at the
Independence Hall in 1850. The bell
was mounted, and rang clearly, and
wasused at several subsequent inde
pendence celebrations. In 1876 it was
sent to Messrs. Cadwalladers & Co.,
the well-known silversmiths of Phila
delphia, to have the crack filed once
more, as It showed a tendency to open
on the last occasion It was used. I
Stars and Starmakers.
Br Leoe Cass Baer.
linm T Rrvan Is t i t nnlv n, .-i n . n I . .....
' . J men Dy what higher law ware nine
icKcuciaw tut; democratic i ,Anv. e v,
party."
There are others of like import,
but we refrain, not exactly to spare
Mr. Bryan's blushes, but Tor lack of
space. Yet we will give room to one
more bright idea, which Mr. Bryan
printed, though it must have shocked
him to do it:
President Wilson. I think, has wrecked
tho democratic party. Mr. McAdoo's man
agement of the railroads has set back gov
ernment ownership for at least fifty years.
Mr. .Burleson's acts have driven thousands
from the party, to say nothing of Mr.
Wilson's autocracy.
Well, it suits us if Mr. Bryan will
take the hint and run. What more
could be asked?
reds allowed to re
main? The only one we can dis
cover is that which was made by the
immigration officers at Ellis island
and the higher-ups in the labor de
partment. It has been said that
this is a government of law. not of
men. In the immigration bureau we
have had a government of men, not
of law. Hence the difference.
BY LEONE CASS BAER.
SIR JOHNSTON FORBES Hyphen
ROBERTSON and Lady Gertrude
Elliott Hyphen Robertson have sailed
for America from Liverpool. They
wl make a ten weeks' tour of the
United States, giving Interpretative
readings from "Hamlet," "Othello,"
"King Lear" and "Macbeth."
Later in the season Sir Johnston
may add to his repertory "The Pass
ing of the Third Floor Back."
The daughter of George Cohen,
Georgette Cohan, who is now 19
years old, is to come here from Lon
don soon and start a career on the
stage under her father's guidance
Miss Cohan went to England at the
age of 11 to live with her mother,
who was Ethel Levey, now the wife
of Claude Graham-White, the avi
ator, and came back two years later
to pass several months. She has not
since then visited this country.
Speaking of Mr. Cohan, that in
dustrious showman has withdrawn
from the producing field, and his
partner and brother-in-law, Sam
Harris, is to have charge of the pro
duclng activities. There is no break
in the friendship of the two men.
merely new business plans. Mr. Har
rls and Mr. Cohan married two
sisters.
Jack Wilson and Kitty Gordon re
turn to "big time" vaudeville next
week at the Colonial, after their re
cent short road tour in a new show
which they expect to reopen after
the holidays. Miss Gordon is being
booked as "the Film Star," Miss
Gordon and Wilson to ofer a little
musical comedy entitled "Two
Keels. Harold Crane wil appear
with the turn.
Sophie Tucker Is closing heren-
gagement with "The Shubert Gaieties
These Who Come and Go.
More Truth Than Poetry.
Br Join J. Montasne.
CAPTAIN SMITH'S ACHIEVEMENT.
Captain Ross Smith, the Austra
lian aviator, by his arrival at Port
Darwin, which is .near Palmerston,
in the Northern Territory of Austra
lia, measurably reduces the distance
yet to be flown before the world will
have been circumnavigated by air.
The continent of North America and
the Atlantic ocean already had been
subjugated. Captain Smith has per-
DELAVED BT LACK OF A HEAD.
The terms on which President
Wilson has arranged settlement of
the coal miners' strike are so emi
nently reasonable that they are likely formed another noteworthy feat by
to be accepted as promptly by the covering without serious mishap the
operators as they have been by the 11.500 miles between England and
miners, and that the question natur- Australia. There remains only the
ally arises: Why did not somebody Pacific ocean, dotted with a myriad
think of that before? The miners of islands, to be conquered to make
professed to demand wages propor- the feat complete.
tioned to the cost of living, though This latest performance should
they actually asked much more, with send the boys and girls to their
several other things, and they are as- geographies and the elders, too, if
sured of getting such wages through they expect to be ready to answer
the commission which is to inquire questions. . "Port . Darwin," to begin
into the facts and to readjust both with, has" been created, or named,
wages and the price of coal. since most of the standard atlases
But the public will ask why such were published. Smith evidently
a settlement was so long delayed, chose this prace of landing because it
The reason is that we had a govern- was the nearest point on the Aus-
ment without a head. The ten mem- tralian coast by the route he had
bers of the cabinet tried to do the chosen. Now, if he decides to corn
work of the president, and they hesi- plete the gap to San Francisco, he
tated, delayed, and when they de- has, over the route he would be most
cided, bungled affairs. When tlie likely to select, some 1800 miles to
miners did not comply with the or- fly to reach Sydney, -whence it is a
der of their union officers revoking little more than 7000 miles to the
the strike orders by command of the I California coast, by way of Auck
federal court, further steps evidently land. But this stretch can be brok-
became necessary, but they were de- I en in a number of ways. The Pa
layed for almost a month while coal cific is liberally sprinkled with
stocks ran low or were exhausted, islands in great variety. The Fijis.
many industries suspended, train I for example, can be reached, with
service was reduced and much pri- I Sunday island as a resting place on
vation was endured. The contempt I the .way. From the Fijis to Samoa
proceedings doubtless influenced the i has been made on occasion by na-
miners' leaders to accept the presi- Uvea in canoes. The Hawaiians are
dent's offer and they might easily almost north-northwest from the
have been begun earlier. The delay latter, and there are many atolls in
was due to the fact that no one man between. The "hop" from Hawaii to
with the power to decide was at the i the mainland will be the test. It is
head of affairs. A sound precedent I a little longer than the shortest dis-
There is nothing new In the Idea
of a one-tree orchard such as the
ons which is attracting attention in
an eastern state. The possibilities of
grafting, so long as the grower un
dei stands its limitations and keeps
within them, are quite extensive, and
thirty-six varieties of apples and
pears growing from a single trunk
are not without precedent. The idea
is capable of almost infinite adap
tation to the needs of householders
who have room for only a small gar
den and a taste for more than one
kind of pome. A single tree can
easily be made to yield fruit for the
round of seasons; tended at odd
times it offers a sufficient reward for
the labor expended, and when it is
not bearing fruit it is giving grate
ful shade. One of the beauties of it
is that anyone can learn to graft
scions into an apple or a pear.
There is no mystery about the art.
It is surprising that more urban or
chardists have not thought of the
plan, which provides a maximum of
variety with a minimum of room.
The department of agriculture
announcement that there will be an
unprecedented demand during the
coming winter for rabbit skins ough
to help solve the rabbit pest prob
lem, but probably will not do so un
til people can be found who are will
ing to skin a rabbit for the price ol
a pelt. There is no difficulty about
the eupply; .Oregon- alonet 1 eyste-
heard the bell ring in 1876 in Phila- I of 1919" week after next and expects
delphia, and the tone was quite clear."
.
In these days of gold shortage it is
Interesting to know that there are in
sects In this world which are said to
be gold-producing! The most popular
of the species of beetles which con
tain gold and silver is the golden
rosechafer. It is a very handsome,
yellow beetle, with a metallic luster
and its size Is about as big as the end
of a man '8 thumb.
The most remarkable gold beetles,
however, are to be found in Central
America, says London "Answers." At
first sight one would think the beetle
an actual piece of gold, until it moves.
The head and wing-cases are bril
liantly polished with a luster like
pure gold. It is very strange, too, that
silver beetles exist in the same
country.
About 26 years ago the finest col
lection of gold and silver beetles was
owned by the Hon. Walter Roths
child. They then had a market value
ranging from S25 to $75 each.
While on the subject of beetles, it is
perhaps Interesting to recall that in
the days gone by a "beetle-crusher"
was a prosperous occupation. Men
used to sign contracts to go from
house to house killing beetles, but it
is not recorded that they ever came
across any gold or silver ones.
to return to vaudeville unless she de-
cioes to take a trip to Havana. Miss
Tucker has other offers but vaude
ville seems to be the prospective
haven at present.
Miss Tucker and George McKay
(McKay and Ardine) recently pur
chased a big garage at Baldwin, L.
I., on a, "fifty-fifty" basis, with Frank
Westphal and MoKay to be the bosses
of the firm. The garage Is valued
at JZB.OOO. Frank Westphal is
Sophie's husband.
Lew Dockstader, minstrel and mon
ologlst, has been ill for over a fort
night, but now he is getting well
enough to contemplate a return to
vaudeville.
Evelyn Nesbit has returned to
vaudeville. She recently wound up
a film contract ar.d then arranged
for a vaudeville appearance without
any dancing partner. Miss Nesbit,
using a plant t, opned the first half
of this week in Mount Vernon with
her song repertoire, including "You
Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" and "Mol
ly Malone My Own," a new song by
two San Francisco writers. Miss Nes
bit is expected at the Palace in New
York within a few weeks.
a
Jonn Hogarty, manager for Chaun
cey Olcott, is known otherwise to
fame as the husband of Maribel Sey
mour, who played Ingenue roles at
After coming all the .way from
Norway, the proverbial home of snow
and ice, Mr. and Mrs. A. Borge of
Christiania have reached Portland,
the proverbial city of roses, only to
be thwarted by a twelve-inch fall of
snow. They arrived at the Portland
hotel late Tuesday and since that time
have been vainly trying to get in
touch with their relative, Mrs. Anna
K. Moore, 436 East Fifty-fifth street.
The telephone with its "line busy,"
taxis, trolleys and thoroughfares have
availed them nothing. They plan to
leave Portland tomorrow for Cali
fornia, where they will winter until
the latter part of February, when
they will go back to New York and
Norway by way of New Orleans and
other southern points. Mr. Borge is
a member of the firm of Borge &.
Ronning, which for 20 years has been
importing flour and food suprlies into
Christiania. His trip to America is
Just five years behind schedule, as he
had planned to tour the United States
in the autumn of 1914, but owing to
the war was not able to leave Nor
way.
John M. Williams, attorney from
Eugene, registered at the Imperial
hotel yesterday. Mr. Williams has
several claims to fame. He was adjutant-general
of the state until the
spring of 1918. Then he left the state
service, being mustered Into the fed
eral army, and receiving the commis
sion of major and the position of
Camp Lewis adjutant, which he held
until after the armistice was signed.
His chief claim to fame, according
to his own belief, is the fact that he
is the father of Major "Billie" Will
iams, who served oversaas with the
Oregon coast artillery. Lieutenant
Bennv illiams. who went from
the first Presidio training camp over
seas, and Sergeant. "Verne iiltams,
who served . in England in the hos
pital corps and who brought back to
Oregon and Eugene an English bride.
Hotels were filled even to the big
lounging chairs in the lobbies last
night and the night before. Out-of-
town patrons were forced to Hold
rooms longer than was their original
Intention, as many of them were
snow bound. A large number of
the snow-bound patrons were able to
get trains out of Portland, but not
trains running through to their des
tinations. Kather than take chances
of being detained in some of the
smaller towns, they remained in
Portland. Names of Portland busi
ness men and women predominated
on the registers. Many iirms naa as
many as 50 employes as their guests
at downtown hotels.
THE! HOAD TO BY AND BY.
Along the road to by and by the little
children go
To watch the birds and butterflies
that flicker to and fro.
And every hour seems a year, and
every golden day,
An age. as toward the Journey's end
they take their tranquil way.
For friendly are the fields and woods.
and soft the summer sky
And light are children's hearts along
the road to by and by.
Along the road to by and by, with
swift impatient tread
Goes youth to seek the mysteries
that beckon on ahead.
Unheedful of the silver brooks that
ripple where they pass
And careless of the flowers that
gleam among the velvet grass.
With hurrying footseps forth they
go, their souls alert to learn
What waits behind the distant hils
that loom beyond the turn.
Upon the road to by and by stands
middle age, in doubt
Afraid to travel further on, afraid
to turn about.
Delightful as the way has been, no
longer smiles the spring
And who can tell what trials and
storms the autumn days may
bring.
And still, although the flowers droop,
and all the birds are gone
One has no choice but keep the road
and slowly Journey on.
Along the road to by and by when
autumn's misty glow
Is soft upon the brown clad hills
and brilliant woods below.
Old age looks out upon the scerte
with eyes that understand
The beauty that shines radiant on all
the lovely land.
And till in all the valleys deep the
evening shadows lie
Old age will cheerfuly trudge down
the road to by and by.
Suspicious Thrift.
Capital wants to save the .country
from labor, and labor wants to save
It from capital, and both want to
save it for a rainy day.
a
Judg-lna; by Reanlts.
The authorities whose duty it is
to arrest reds seem to be color blind.
Suppose we throw a few bouquets
to the platform men who stayed with
their jobs Tuesday night and got
their passengers to destination. Next
time you think you-have a grouch,
remember this storm.
One point in relation to Mrs. Tom
Thumb is of special Interest, because I the Baker a dozen years ago.
It contradicts the quite common Im
pression that dwarfs and giants, so
called, are of different mental ca
pacity from people of more normal
physical proportions.
The fact is that the Countess Margi,
as she was known in her late years,
was a person of excellent mental at
tainments, well informed, a charming
companion and conversationalist; al
together normal in every respect ex
cept bulk. To Judge from her case.
mental abnormality is something quite
independent of physical characteris
tics. Boston Post.
Up-to-date Eskimos are building
their igloos of concrete .instead of
snow. If civilization keeps on . in
creasing up there, they'll start pro
testing one of these days against the
coal strike-
There's a home run hitting Babe
Ruth back in the weather bureau at
Washington who is batting 1000 per
cent. When he predicted snow in
Oregon for this week, we all laughed.
Call the nearest fire house instead
of the fire bureau, but, better still,
don't have a fire- Watch the flues.
drafts and dampers.
There is an ordinance that re
quires walks to be cleared within a
short time after snow ceases falling.
Musical indiernation is oreanizinar to
New York has a law prohibiting the drive the American jazz band out of
display or aavertising signs along France.
nignways ana now the state highway
commissioner is ordering its enforce
ment against political advertising.
Pennsylvania has a similar law and
it also has been called to the atten
tion of candidates and highway au
thorities. In his letter to division engineers,
the state highway commissioner of
New York says:
I have noticed that political posters have
recently appeared on telegraph poles and
trees within the right of w-ay of state
highways. As no candidate could winh to
begin his appeal to voters by a violation
of the law, 1 feel that those posters have
been placed through ignorance of the
statute prohibiting the display of adver
tising aigns along highways. You will im
mediately have all such posters removed
and notify the candidate by letter that he
has made an improper use of highways.
As previously instructed, you will remove
ail signs except those of county fairs and
chautauquaa, from the rights of way along
state roada
Portland is probably 60 taxies
shorter today than it was yesterday,"
declared the manager of the Oregon
Taxlcab company, with headquarters
in the Oregon hotel, last evening.
"We helped get the people home Tues
day evening, but it's been beyond us
to helD bring them out again." he
said. "We ran taxis until aoout
o'clock Wednesday morning without
much trouble. From then on it was
nothing but trouble. To run machines
on the east side was lmpossioie. uy
10 o'clock Wednesday morning we and 1
other Portland companies had with
drawn every taxi from active serv
ice."
Love Davis and Hazel Benson are
among those wno are maning tne
Oregon their temporary home. Miss
Benson is the head usher at the Lib
erty theater "and is the author of a
recent book. The book, wnicn Miss
Benson has Just published, is a hand
book for the employes of Jensen &
Von Herberg, operators of the Liber-
tv. Columbia. Majestic. People s ana
Star theaters. It emphasizes the pol
icy of these houses of giving "service
with a smile" to the Portland public.
So far as local theater men know, it
the first compilation of its kina
ever nublished Dy a motion picture
house for its ushers, dor men, cash-
ers. maids and other employes.
Selling 250,000 pictures of pretty
girls in Portland within three or four
davs is the task of V. E. Kipps. who
with his wife is registered at tne
Benson hotel. Mr. Kipps represents
the National Art company, which sells
pictorial and embossed covers for
candy boxes. The covers are made
for candy boxes of from one to five
pounds. Mr. Kipps estimates tnat at
least 625,000 pounds of confections
will be sold in Portland during 1JU
by the orders he has already placed.
He covers Portland eacn year tor nio
company.
Among those for whom the Port
land hotel was vainly trying to make
room late vesterdaT afternoon were
Three or tne largest jazz-aancmg i Mr. and Mrs. w. E. Douglas or nong-
Csaw and Effect.
Lloyd George in sympathy with
American dry law. Headline.
Lloyd George loses two by elec
tions Another headline.
(Copyright. 1S19. by the Bell Syndi
cate, Incorporated.)
Gray Day.
By Grace E. Hall.
E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe and
members of their company, who are
appearing in Shakespearean reper
toire at the Wieting theater at Syra
cuse, N. Y., and Frances Starr and
associate players, who appeared in
"Tiger Teeth" at the Empire theater,
have been vaccinated by Syracuse
physicians.
Both companies are booked for To
ronto next week. Several cases of
smallpox in and near Toronto have
roused authorities to strong quaran
tine and other preventive measures.
Living costs have gone up 131 per
cent since 1914. That's nothing.
Whisky has gone up 1031 per cent.
Patience, brothers and sisters. In
the great times coming, general
aviation will beat snow storms.
existed in the settlement of the an
thracite strike by President Roose
velt, and it has been followed in
principle, but it should have been
followed sooner.
The people, the coal miners and
the operators have ail learned a val
uable lesson from the strike. The
tance across the Atlantic ocean.
Yet who is there to say. in this day
and age, that it will not be
done and soon? The route sug
gested is only tentative, from the
viewpoint of an aviator bent on en
circling the globe. From Falmers-
ton. If he wished to save distance, for
people have learned that they are in- I example. Captain Smith could easily
terested parties in any strike of mag- 1 fly to the Solomon islands, by way
nituae, tnat tor their own safety they I of Papua, and thence pick his way
must place a limit on the right to) across the coral strands of Oceania,
strike; that continual concessions and so shorten the trip bv a few
without regard to their justice, but thousand miles at the expense, it is
simply to avoid trouble, only beget true, of greater isolation and a larger
more demands, and that they must chance that he would not be sue-
provide and enforce means other cored if accident befell him. But
than strikes to determine what is
justice. The miners have learned
that the American people will not
suomit. to tne coercion of a strike
that affects a necessary of life. Th
one who likes to travel by the easy
and pleasant way of spreading a
world atlas before him will readily
come to the conclusion that an ad
venturer who has threaded his way
operators have learned that thev will 1 across the Indian ocean to Hansroon
not be permitted to satisfy unreason- 1 down the Malay peninsula and along
able demands of miners at the ex- (or perhaps across) Sumatra and
pense of the public by raising prices. Java, will not make much of such
ana tnat when wages are too. low I obstacles ' as remain in the way of
and prices too high, they must pay I completing the voyage around the
advances in wages out of profits, I world.
One gratifying fact about the tern-1 Since Captain Smith's achieve
porary conditions on which work is ment, amazing as it would have been
to do resumed is tnat. other condi-1 only a year or two ago. does not
tions than wages are to remain as I arouse our awe. it is no wonder that
they were before the strike. That another fact connected with it passes
means that there will be no six-hour I wholly without remark. Yet it is
day for five days a week. The min- I because of no small amount of hu-
ers are thus impressed with the duty man genius and enterprise that
of more, not less, work as the sover- Captain Smith's arrival almost at the
eign cure for the ailment of the farthest point from Portland that it
world. They might well pattern is possible to conceive is now told of
after their brother-miners in Bel-1 within a few hours of the occur-
Eiuxu, yrno within a year alter their I rente, Irr a time yell within tba
halls in Paris have fired their Ameri
can racket squads and "the league
against the jazz band Is now carry
ing on a heavy offensive from its
headquarters in the Boulevard des
Capucines.
Big posters on the walls of the
Tavern Olympia fairly shout the chal
enge of conventional French music
to the syncopated noise which the
doughboy brought to France and for
got to take away when he departed.
"This league will fight that awful
exotic music known as the Jazz," the
poster proclaims, "and will restore
the melodious rhythm of our own or
chestras." The Olympia's manager says the
patrons of the cafe are satisfied with
the tango and fox trot melodies of
South America, but will never again
patronize places where their ears are
subject to the offensive clamor and
clangor of the American jazz band.
The Folies Bergere has followed the
example of the Olympia,
After the war the Folies, a bur-
The snow storm has brought out I
more service uniforms than ap
peared for Armistice day.
At Kingston, N. Y the other day,
the steamboat Mary Powell was sold
to a waste and metal company for
$40,000. One condition of the sale
was that the vessel should ba
scrarmed.
This means the end of the fastest lesque show, was transformed into a
and most famous steamboat of her dance hall to catch the thousands of
Caring for game birds is not the
farmer's duty, but he will do it and
get small thanks.
time. For nearly 60 years the Mary
Powell has been the queen of the
American Rhine. She had a speed of
26 hi miles an hour. In her many
francs which American soldiers were
willing to spend in a shrine of jazz.
Since the Yanks departed, however,
it came acutely to the management's
years of service she has been owned notice that the Frenchmen were
and commanded bv one famllv. and patronizing places where French or-
Funny we haven't been hearing
any. complaints about fuel shortage
from the Arctic.
Here's the silver lining of the
storm cloud it happens two weeks
before Christmas.
There are no shorn lambs in Ore
gon and the wind does not need tem
pering.
Full many are called and all are
chosen to build that fire in the early
morn.
Digging snow here will match
digging coal on the Atlantic coast.
The end of the steel strike is get
ting into the rumor column.
If it is any comfort to know it,
there is somebody worse off.
Of course you had a fall or two.
Tell it to your friends.
in that time has carried 7.00O.000 pas
sengers. Although of good size, she
had the lines of a yacht and she
never had but one serious accident.
Only one other craft shared with
the Mary Powell the affection of the
river men of the Hudson. That was
the schooner Polly, probably the
oldest craft in the world. The Polly
antedates . the revolution and in her
nearly 150 years has known storm
chestras played. The French girls,
alone, remained true to the jazz, and
as the weeks wore on the floor be
came populated with couples of girls,
while the men who did come insisted
on sitting out.
Now the Folies is being reconverted
into a show shop.
At the Apollo an American negro
band played, alternating with a
French orchestra. But it is noticeable
Good old mail carrier!
late, but on the job.
He was
Anybody heard from the oranges
in California?
Shy grumble?. Xhis isn't eleet
and stress and every kind of cargo, I that few couples take the floor for
but never has known wreck.
Getting "mugged" monthly is the
pleasing prospect before those whose
business or social duties require that
they commute between this city and
Trenton. N. J. "Effective December
5." the order reads, their commuta
tion tickets must bear their photo
graphs and photographs must be pro
vided by the purchasers."
Along in the spring, therefore, spec
ulates the New York World, when a
fellow wears his winter derby one
day and his nice new pearl-gray fe
dora the next, hea better have two
commutation tickets to avoid compli
cations. Then, too, the straw hat sea
son will necessarily cause a run on
the ' photograph gallery. The poor
commuter who decides to run down
to Trenton for a banquet or some
other affair, or to come to town for
a like reason, had better buy a trip
ticket, for his tail lid will completely
disguise hir", - l, .
the Jazz, although native melodies
crowd the dancing space.
The Bal Tabarin's Jazz band Is gone,
but a French band of Jazz steps still
sways the dancers because the Bal
Tabarin is in the Montmarte, where
the Jazz dance was done long before
the war only It, wasn't called that.
The natives of the Montmarte pre
serve their traditional light-hearted
and nimble disregard tor conventional
steps.
The Anti-Jazz league notes with
considerable satisfaction that the old
fashioned French instrumental sex
tets and sextets are returning ' to
vogue, and is doing all it can to re
establish this sort of music every
where in Paris.
Dignified musical circles are con
vinced that a year-from now the last
loud echoes of the banjo and dish-pan
will have died out in the dance hall:
of their capital
kong, China. The orient was also rep
resented in Portland yesterday by
M. Uno, from the land of cherry blos
soms. Mr. Uno's headquarters are in
Tokio. He also was having difficulty
in obtaining a room and was regis
tered temporarily at the Benson.
On their way home from Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Small of Tillamook
got as far as Portland yesterday and
found they must wait nere until tne
snow melts or transportation is once
more established between here and
their coast town. Mr. Small is Inter
ested in one of the largest salmon
packing plants of Oregon. They are
registered at the Oregon hotel.
The Oresron hotel apparently got
the lion's share of Portland refugees
yesterday. The First National bank
had BO of its employes housed there
The United States National bank was
represented by 12 men and women
forced to remain downtown in order
t be at their resrular posts of duty
Fifteen telephone operators found
shelter at the Oregon last night.
Fred Quimby. accompanied by
"friend wife." passed through Port
land. Mr. Quimby is the national dl
rector of Pathe exchange offices and
his visit to Portland was to confer
with Manager Sperry of the local
Pathe exchange, which was organized
following a visit by Mr. Quimby last
summer. The Quimbys left for San
Francisco.
Portland hotels posted the notice
yesterday that southbound passengers
w ishing to go to Goldendale would be
met at Fallbrtde ana taicen to uoia
endale by stage. The notice was evi
dence of lust one of the many ways
in which railroads are trying to Peat
the coal shortage.
McMorran & Washburne, one of the
largest dry goods stores of the entire
state, had one of Its bosses in Port
land yesterday in the person of Carl
Washburne, of Eugene, wno regis
tered at the Portland.
A W. Stone of Hood River is i
truest of the Portland hotel. Mr.
Stone Is the head of the Hood River
Apple Growers' association, which has
formed the model for a number of
similar organizations recently incor
porated by apple growers of the state
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Evenson of
Clatskanie are registered at the Ben
son. Mr. Evenson Is known among
Portland lumbermen as the son o
"O. J." with whom he Is associated
In the lumber business.
D. B. Stalter is one of those few
persons who may be taken literally
when he remarks that he has a gold
mine. Mr. Stalter is from Heppne
and his mining interests are in Bake
county.
Mark Woodruff of "Al Kader" and
Shriner glory was one of the Port
landers forced by snow and transpor
tation to change the pleasures of hi
home hearth for a hotel abode. He
registered at the Imperial, -
Time was when you were like an
ashen cloud.
Descending o'er my heart like spec
tre grim.
A clammy, clinging, moist, oosy
shroud.
That drove each spark of energy
within.
And closed and locked the door; not
one sweet thought
Escaping to enliven hours that
grew
Into a maze of horror anguish
fraught. As I dissolved in tears, from watch
ing you!
But I have reached a different plane
at last.
And in my catalogue you're newly
classed.
You have not changed; your mist is
just as gray.
And droningly drips down from
corner spout.
Your general tendency's the same
alway.
The sky Is just as oozy, and no
doubt
You're just as dreary as you ever
were
If you were ever prone to be distressed
When, in the past our moods seemed
to concur.
Before your real designs I'd ever
guessed;
No, you are just the same, but I have
learned
A bit of truth for which long years
I've yearned.
You are the gray-garbed nurse who
comes to lave
With moist leaf and grass and
spongy turf
The ailing, fevered earth, whose
parched lips crave
The nectar of the clouds, caught
from the surf;
weep no more, beholding all you
do
The flowers that droop and wither
on their stems
Put on new strength and strive, be
cause of you.
Aroused by incense sprinkled over
them.
You soothe me now where once you
caused me fret.
Your soft-hued presence brings a
nameless peace;
You bring me poise and calm; the
skies are wet
And races in the eaves-trough never
cease;
The firs, a-tremble, sen- .our silvery
beads
In wild disorder down in shimmer
ing spray.
Each one to meet the parched earth's
dying needs
Thrice welcome, then, to you, sweet
rttirs of gray!
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Y'eara Aero.
From The Oregonlan of December 11, 18B4.
Washington. On motion 'of Sena
tor Morgan the senate took up the
Nicaragua canal proposal. Chief En
gineer Menocal estimates that it can
be constructed for $85,000,000.
The feasibility of Portland holding
an oriental fair next year was the
principal topic of discussion at the
monthly meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce.
A combination has been formed in
this city and on the sound to get con
trol of the principals theaters of the
Pacific northwest and form a circuit
Independent of California and the
southern Pacific circuit.
General H. B. Compson. railroad
commissioner; Colonel R, W. Mitchell,
adjutant-general of the national
guard, and other prominent citizens
will go to Astoria to invite business
men o fthat city to the exposition.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonlan of December 11, 1893.
Washington. The senate has con
firmed Belknap as secretary of war
and Robinson as secretary of the
navy.
New York. General Rosencrans
was the guest last night of the Union
League.
Over $27,000 worth of property
changed hands in the city during the
past week.
We learn that Fred Muller. well
known in the city and prominent in
the Oddfellows' lodge, is dangerously
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