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They are going to the land -where turnip soup and black bread are the chief articles on the bill of fare, though as martyrs to the cause of the proletariat-they may be received Into the favored inner circle of bol-shevism. It will be interesting to learn how they adapt anarchist principles to bolshevist practice, for they believe in no government, while the soviet governs so much that It regulates all the details of daily life. But reds of various shades are highly adaptable when their daily bread Is at stake. not work from the top of the pile like a civil service employe. Inci dentally it might seem handling money is the cleanest and easiest job going, yet it is a safe guess the man in a bank likes it as well as a pastry cook likes pie. BA1X.RO AD S BLOCKADE BAWMII.I.S. There is a general call from poll ticians, economists, business men and friends of suffering humanity for In creased production as the best means of reducing the cost of living. This demand comes to the lumber men of the Pacific northwest in the shape of a flood of orders from the east and abroad., - They ran their mills full time to supply this demand until they found that they were being smothered in their own product. The reason was that delivery steadily got farther behind produc tion. This was due to failure of the rail road administration to supply cars enough to haul lumber away as fast as it was cut. ' Buyers, impatient to have their orders filled, bid against each other for preference in shipment. Up goes the price of lumber, and with it the cost of living, for though we don't eat lumber, we usb it in many ways and its cost enters into the cost of what we eat and wear and of the houses we live in. Then the railroad administration is in part responsible for the high cost of living, and Attorney-General Palmer ought to prosecute Director General Hines. The proof is available in reports of the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation. During the week ending December 7 orders were booked for 90,479,722 feet, but production at the 125 mills reporting was only 76, 819, 216 feet or 11.67 per cent below nor mal, and many mills, having more orders than they could ship, were out of the market. "What would have been the use of producing more when they were able to ship only 60,122,984 feet, of which 42,720,000 went by rail? The mills would only have buried themselves In their own product. The week ending December. 14 was better in one respect, worse in another. More mills retired from the market, for only 119 reported and others must have refused orders, for while the whole world clamors for lumber, new business accepted fell to 61,587,972 feet. Trying to catch up, the mills produced 77,921,114 feet or 7.13 per cent below normal. But this exceeded shipments by about 50 per cent, the latter having decreased to 55,681.369 feet, of which about 40,000,000 feet were shipped by rail and shipments fell about 10 per -cent behind new business. The railroads have blockaded the lumber industry, for the latter can deliver no faster than the rail roads transport its product. The source of the trouble is not lack of cars and engines, but lack of effl ciency. There are probably enough cars in the country if they were kept moving and moved faster. But many empty cars stand on tracks, and trains spend twice the numbfr of days In covering the distance to San Francisco. The boasted efficiency of govern ment operation of railroads Is a myth. It disappeared when the spur of competition was removed, when executive officers ceased to feel the necessity of showing good results to the directors. The languor of bu reaucracy has fallen upon the rail road forces, and kicks cannot arouse them. Congress cannot act too soon on the bill to put the railroads again in the hands of men who have some personal interest In good service to both the people and the owners. American industry is ready to move full speed ahead, for there- is world wide demand for all that it can pro duce, but it can move no faster than the railroads can carry its product away from the factories. When this is the situation, the people cannot view with patience the spectacle of President Wilson giving heed to the plea of the American Federation of I-abor and the railroad brotherhoods tbat this exasperating state of af fairs be continued for two years. The Plumb planners ask that government operation be tried thoroughly, but it has already been tried and found wanting. GAME COMMISSION" AND MR. F1M.KY. No great difficulty should be ex perienced in composing the uproar over the dismissal of State Biologist Finley. Mr. Finley says he desires to have the privilege of resigning. The members of the commission, so far as they have expressed them selves, are willing. There should be no objection, also, to an impartial investigation of the facts. The gen eral public wants to know them, and it should know them before it passes judgment. Commissioner Warren says he will be satisfied to let the misunderstand ing rest on the basis of incompatibil ity of temper. Commissioner Flelsch ner says that the condition" had be come "intolerable," and there was no alternative for the commission but to release Mr. Finley. The gov ernor upholds the right of the com mission to control its own employes, and remarks that, so far as he is concerned, the "incident is closed." Evidently the commission is not well disposed toward Mr. Finley, since the action dismissing him was unanimous. Nevertheless, it must be conceded that its action was sum mary, and it should be reconsidered, and Mr. Finley permitted to resign, as he desires. He does not insist upon his re-employment by a com mission which does not want him, and presumably others will not so Insist. Nothing satisfactory can come of it. Of course the commis sion might resign; but, when one looks at its personnel he is inclined to wonder who can take their places that are more likely to please the public, including the sportsmen. It must be said that pleasing the sportsmen, and all of them, is quite a Job. It can't be done; or at least it has not been done by any com mission The Oregonian knows any thing about. We find ourselves speculating on whether Mr. Finley would get along any better with an other commission. He is a naturalist, and more or less of a law unto him self, and strongly inclined to his own ways, ideas and Ideals. Mr. Finley will not be lost to Ore gon upon his retirement from the commission. He knows too much about the fauna of the country, espe cially birds; it is his life. This re markable knowledge is an asset to him and to the state, and It should be used, and doubtless it will be. Meanwhile, we have no doubt that the commission will consent to an amicable adjustment of the whole affair. RULES FOR OTHERS XO FOLLOW. In a foreword to the first of a series of "messages of five nations to the American people" to be pub lished in the New York Independent, President Wilson says: Men today are blessed with a new cur iosity about their governments. Every where they are demanding that the doors behind which secret policies have been incubated be thrown open and kept open henceforth. The doors that do not re spond to the keys the people .hold will be battered down and free passageways erected In their stead. Autocratic srovernments of the past have lived by -concealment; rree governments must live by understanding. In the new day that is dawning only those govern ments that have no secrets from their peoples can long endure. The American people In particular have "a new curiosity" about their government. They have acquired a ew interest in the respective con stitutional powers of the president and senate. They would like to know what "secret policies' were incu bated behind the doors which shut on Mr. Wilson and his confidential adviser. Colonel House. They are interested in the reasons which. ata.de the virile Garrison give place to the spineless Baker; the astute McAdoo to drop the railroads like the hot end f a poker as soon as the war ended; also In the reasons for reversing Garfield's decision on the coal strike. They are not likely to learn, for now, as in the past, "autocratic gov ernments live by concealment." If the Wilson administration had chosen to "live by understanding, "free governments must," how different might have been the course f recent history! There would have been no partisan appeal to the voters in the fall of 1918, the president and the senatej or its foreign relations committee, would have . conferred and agreed on the general policy to be pursued at the peace conference, some senators would have gone to Paris as peace delegates, the treaty might long ago have been ratified and the league of nations might al ready have been a going concern. If all makers of fine phrases ana promoters of beautiful ideals, among whom President Wilson is pre-eminent, would only practice what they preach, what a beautiful, happy. peaceful world this would be. un happily, they too often lay down principles for others only to follow TIIE LAST LOXG, SAD LOOK. Emma Goldman . and Alexander Berkman were no sooner released from prison than they went to Chi cago, chief haven of refuge for alien revolutionists tinder the sheltering wing of "Bir Bill" Thompson, and held a meeting of SOOO or 4000 vocif erous and odorous reds at 60 cents a head- When the speeches had wrought up the audience to the re quired pitch of enthusiasm, a collec tion was taken, and donations were liberal. The couple must have netted about $8000 on that evening's work. When they were on the ferryboat which took them to Cilia island pre liminary to deportation, we find this description of them: He wore a green waterproof overcoat, a silk muffler and a light green hat and carried a cane of cherry -wood. Me had several suitcases filled with new clothing purchased for the Journey. She wore a new tailored suit and handsome furs. .Those two glimpses of them doubt less explain why, as Miss Goldman jtood on the ferryboat, she "took a long and serious look at the fading skyline of New York," and why. when two friends closed in with her and Berkman, "all four, embracing each other, wept bitterly." THE tTMWRITTEN LAW. If George Chenoweth is not insane. and not likely to go Insane, and kill somebody else, he should, of course, be released from the state hospital Dr. Griffith, the superintendent, thinks that he should be discharged and has so recommended to the board of control. Probably it will be done. Chenoweth was not sent to the asylum as punishment for killing Syndham, and he cannot and should not be kept there a day longer than the period necessary for his complete restoration to normality. The cure has been most speedy and satisfac tory, for it is the testimony of the authorities that he has shown not the slightest sign of mental aberra tion from the first hours of his In carceration. The assumption is rea sonable that he was sane when he got there. It is also reasonable that he recovered at the moment he was acquitted by the Curry county jury on the ground of emotional insanity. Or was it Just insanity? WHether emotlorfal or not it was sufficient to excuse his deed in the eyes of his neighbors, constituting a Jury of his peers. Here is a case of the unwritten law, expressed in frontier justice that ignores and defies the written law and justifies the right of private vengeance. Syndham had despoiled a member of Chenoweth's family, called upon by the father- to repai the wrong by marriage, the repro bate refused, and Chenoweth killed him. These are the bald facts, as we recall them. The act was sun ported by community opinion, by custom and finally by the courts. How else can we account for the fact that twelve men readily accepted the transparent and threadbare theory that Chenoweth was crazy? He was not crazy, except as any man. mad dened by his wrongs and passionate ror revenge, commits an- act which in his cooler moments he would not have committed. let it must be said that the law is at fault when it fails to take in hand all perpetrators of homicide, no mat- ter what the provocation, and deal with them sternly. It is true enough that Syndham deserved punishment, fciuiipB ueam. .out it is not true that the right rests with any private citizen to inflict it. For its own pro tection society must insist that crime is an offense against the public and must be dealt with by the public. Insofar as society refuses or neg lects to do its duty by and for itself, . to that extent It weak ens its own authority and prestige ana is less efficient and trustworthy in the performance of its duty to do justice, or see that justice is done, to all its citizens. Two men quarrel, and one kills the other. He pleads dementia, or self- aerense or other easily manufactured justification, and the jury in a ma jority of cases, frees him. Back of it an is the feeling, conscious or un conscious, among the great body of citizens, that a personal controversy, een wnen it nas tragic conse quences, between two citizens is their own affair. , In no other way can the American tolerance of homi cide, and even of outright murder, be explained. What's done cannot be undone. It is a dangerous and fatal philosophy, not to be corrected by panic-stricken outbursts for cap ital punishment, but only by a stern and general purpose to see that the law has its way. Education in effi cient and fundamental morality is a public need in America. Those who envy the bank em- rjlOVeS for thft rhrlRfmna hnnTie nmw. For loo the fact that the bank clerk many year the easy-going - old pulls out in stress of work and does AMERICA TO GRUBSTAKE ECROPE, Constantly discussion revives of the part which the volume of paper currency issued during the war, and of the national debts incurred, plays In the level of prices. This discus sion always reverts to the ratio of the gold supply to paper money in circulation, the changes in which during the war point to enormous in flation. The volume of paper cur rency is so enormous and is so con stantly changing that no reliable fig ures are available, but the relation of gold supply to bonded debt is a fair indication. In 1914 the ratio of the world's gold supply to the debts ot the big nations, according -to E. S. Van Dyck, was 1 to 3. At the end of 1918 It was 1 to 15, and addition of contingent debts would make it 1 to 26. In the United States it was 1 to 12 on June 30, 1919, as com pared with 1 to B a year before. New production of gold was so far from restoring the safe ratio that the annual yield is only S'-a per cent of the annual Interest on the world's debts. The natural conclusion is that cur rency is no longer secured by gold, but circulates by fiat of the several governments, and that the increase represents inflation, which produces high prices. European governments found that war required an amount of circulating medium greater than was permitted by the prevailing ratio to gold, and they issued it as a war necessity. Their people accepted it under the influence of patriotism and of confidence in victory , and in the collection of a huge indemnity from the enemy. But the effect of this large supply of money was that merchants asked higher prices and consumers willingly paid them. During the same period down to 1917 the United States greatly in creased its volume of currency. The federal reserve banks gathered al most all of the nation's gold supply from the several thousand little res ervoirs of the national banks Into one big reservoir. This change per mitted issue of a great volume of new currency, espeoially through the rediscount system, but until the United States went to war there was a fundamental difference between this new currency and that of Eu rope. Every dollar of new American money represented production of useful commodities and "much was re-invested in increasing production New European money was expended on things which were to be destroyed or to be used in destroying wealth produced in former years. The dif ference resembled that between t man who mortgages a house fot $10,000 and squanders the mdney on high living and a man who re-invests the money in a productive profit able enterprise. The one has a debt with nothing to balance it; the other has a debt balanced by a good credit. America began to accumulate the former class .of debts in 1917, but their ratio to the gold supply Is far lower than is that of Europe's debts and their ratio to the national wealth is well within the margin of safety, namely, the ability of the nation to pay both principal and interest. There has been a further increase of circulation through the use of checks and other bank paper. Which represent either cash deposits or loans for use in production and dis tribution of useful commodities. This form of circulation is several times as great as that of paper money in this country and has come into much greater use in Europe under pressure of the war. The result has been a practical divorce between . gold and the cir culating medium of Europe,. but the worse that could be said of the sit uation in the United States is that their relations have become some what strained. In fact, conditions indicate that this country has much more gold than -it can conveniently use as a basis for circulation, - for federal reserve notes, representing actual transitions in useful commo dities of equal value, have small nee of gold security, and our possession of a huge stock of gold is an ob stacle of Europe's recovery from ths war's effects and consequently to ex tension of our foreign trade. That effect is demonstrated by the stead fall in the exchange value of Euro pean money, not excluding even the English pound, which has hitherto been proverbial for stability. Several remedies have" been sug gested, but they are either imprac ticable or inadequate to cure the disease- One is bimetalism, but that would Vequire maintenance of a stable ratio of value between gold and silver, which has proved im possible. It would also require In creased production of silver, when present production is far below the needs of that metal's present uses. Moreton Frewen gives the annual total of these needs as 620,000,000 ounces, while the director of the mint gives the present world's pro duction as only 157,000,000 ounces. Increased production of gold would help, but that requires some form of governmental aid to fill the gap between the mint price of $20.67 an ounce and the estimated cost of pro duction at an average mine of $33.33 an ounce, and the effect of such aid would be slow and utterly inade quate. The world needs to put increased value against the money that is in circulation. That can be done in but one way by increased produc tion of useful commodities, which means labor. The market is unlim ited, for Europe and large parts of Asia" are on short rations, in rags, short of houses and fuel and of tools and machinery with which to work. Europe is In the position of a west ern man, honest, industrious and healthy, who has gone broke. He has suffered a nervous shock, and his doctor prescribes plenty of physi cal exercise and good, wholesome food. He asks the storekeeper for a grubstake to go prospecting and agrees to give the storekeeper a half interest In any mineral he discovers. It is up to the United States to grub stake Europe by selling on credit food, raw materials, tools arid ma chinery with which to make goods to be sold in payment and exchange for more goods. The articles thus produced will increase the volume of commodities - to set against the volume of currency and will thus reduce prices. It will increase each nation's wealth, and thus establish more credit to set against its debt. The work and the better food pro cured will steady each nation's nerves and clear its brain, putting It in condition to reject the crazy schemes of bolshevism and to rely on the one safe panacea for its ills, which Is work just plain, honest. day-to-day work- For Americans, this is no mere matter of sentiment or idealism. It is just plain business. The fortune of war has made the United States the world's banker, and Europe has all the- qualities to make it our best client. It has been our best cus tomer, and will remain so with ou help; if we refuse help, an awful void will appear in our totals of for eign trade, which will be reflected in industrial depression at home. is up to us to grubstake Europe, ex tending credit enough to carry along until it begins sales, or over one season, then gradually givln more credit as production and sales grow. If we do-not thus help Eu rope to swim ashore, it will pull us down with it or at best we shall have hard pull. There is some senti ment in the case, but both business and sentiment point the same way. BY - PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES Aatkors Hsst Start at Bottom. Says) One Who Has Succeeded. Octavus Ttnv r!nhn. who rather "It required three times he normal i. v,i , ,,i.t force of men to keep the city water George .eroaanurst maae a piay n"i,V,r rHv who r-ame in of one of his stories, disagrees with It Those Who Come and Go. The effort of the'Ttallan govern ment to atone for the omissions of an 1 educational system of the past by making provision, in connection with its other reconstruction activities, for establishment of a national insti- ute for instruction of illiterate adults furnishes a striking example of official recognition of the need of education to increase not only the productive capacity of a people, but their individual happiness and their usefulness as citizens. Our trade commissioner at Rome reports to the department of commerce that free education will be offered to all demobilized soldiers now classified as "illiterate." It is a movement of no small moment, and it is a revela tion of the idealism of the people that a considerable part of the necessary funds is to be supplied by a draft or the profits of the national opera. A share of the money paid by lovers of music for their pleasure win be devoted to opening the way to higher enjoyment of life by the great masses of the people. Up-to-date Eskimos are experi menting with the concrete igloo as a substitute for the ancient one of snow. They even have a housing problem in the Arctic. Hot air expands to several times the size of cold air. On that basis. Seattle should be able to make a truly extraordinary showing in the coming census. Irvin S. Cobb, who holds that writ ing Btorlea and writing plays are very different. Mr. Cobb once said. It's like laying bricks and laying eggs it sounds alike, but the proc- sses are different." Mr. Cohen- says it's all the same. There is no- basic difference." Mr. Cohen tells the New York Herald, between the writing of fiction, writ ing for the stage, writing for the films or any other sort of writing. It is all a case of starting at the bottom and working up. The idea of any one who expects to succeed start ing at the top is piffle. It simply can't be done. "In the first place, it isn't sound logic. The bottom Is a mighty good place to start. In my own opinion. it is the only place to start if- any one expects to have the bedrock foundation. There are very few, if any, except here and there a rare genius, who have started at the top and remained there, and if we look deeply enough we will find that even a genius has had a foundation to begin on or else he isn't at the top. I sold my first story early in 113, after writing more than a hundred which did not sell. "I have had several of my friends ask me to give them rules and regu lations for writing a play, to which I reply: 'Don't! Wait until the man agers send for you and flash an ad vance royalty check in your face, Then, when you have revived, tell them directly that you won't touch a typewriter without 150 per cent of the weekly gross and permission to play the leading role. All of which will prove that I am not a play wright. but only a writer of fiction.' 'Two propositions on the social question that the Christian church generally accepts are unsound and outworn." eays The Christian Regis ter (Unit.) of Boston. "They come together In two sentences of a state ment by Dr. John McDowell, who speaks with authority for the Presby terian .church: "Both the laborer and the capitalist should bear in mind tbat brotherhood, not wealth, is the only secure basis of human society. It is not the function of the church to determine the form of social or ganlzation; it is its work to influence the spirit of it.' Wealth is as surely in the foundation of human society as brotherhood is. The intelligent use of it is as vital to well-being as the sentiment of good wilL How can we get along without wealth? Its neces slty is absolute. How can one ex press his brotherhood, indeed, except by the proper use of his goods in be half of his kind? . . . The other error is equally absurd. The spirit must assume form. It cannot float around like a pleasant fragrance. The Presbyterian spirit surely has neve lacked form of organization. Their system of doctrine is the best fo mulated In Protestantism. Their pol icy is the farthest removed from neb ulosity. So in every phase of life the spirit craves a form and is naught until It finds a sound body." Martin Ready, who came in from the reserve yestreday and penned nis name on the book at the Benson. "The snow was about shoulder high and ten horses were needed to break through with some supplies. The ice kept accumulating in the canal and would pile up near the gates, and we had. to keep opening the gates every little while and keep the screens cleared. Down here in Port land, where householders have been letting the water run day and night through the faucets to keep their pipe from freezing, they did not ap preciate the fight the men were mak ing out there at the headwaters to ee that the city supply was not cut if." Mr. Ready, who has been batcn- Ing In the reserve, lost his entire sup ply of potaotes. They were in a tent and some goats got In and ate them all. "It's a srood thing the goats got he spuds," says he, philosophically. 'for otherwise the frost would have ruined them." The goats, however, did not eat his stock of dried onions. When the termometer hit 14 below last Saturday out in Washington county, Alfred H. Davies, locating en gineer for the United Railways, de cided it was time to declare a vaca tion. Accordingly he and his merry men swung transits and levels and grub on their shoulders and hit -the back trail, six miles on foot, six miles by sled and four miles by auto, to Timber, on the Tillamook line. While with the 20th engineers in France Da vies carried the star and wreath of a master engineer, senior grade, and ranked everyone not decorated with a Sam Browne belt. All of his crew were in service during the war. four being second lieutenants. Deer were plentiful where the party operated. v htle they were running a line in an open clearing a doe ran into the open, surveyed them in perplexity and leisurely departed. Housewives will be interested to learn that they will not have to wor ry about sugar shortage when it comes to preserving peaches next Bummer. The sugar shortage may be acute, but that isn't the question, for it is the peach crop which promises to be short. The peach orchards have had the time of their lives in the cold weather. Leslie Butler, banker and orchardist of Hood River, who ap peared at the Benson yesterday in an O. D. shirt, says that while the apples are okeh, the peach trees were badly damaged. At least this is the present supposition. Tests are now being made to ascertain the extent of the damage on the peach trees. Mr. But ler says the trees have probbaly been so severely injured that they will have to be cut off close to the ground and get a fresh start. This means a shortage of peaches next summer. SAVETD THE OREGON NEWSPAPER United States Needs a Moses as I Never Before. Pendleton Tribune. i What is the matter with us? What ! has become of our boasted resource- i fulness? What Is the matter with our government? What has paralyzed our leadership? Where is the man who will show us the way to a so- j lution of our difficulties? If ever vision, and a high order of wisdom nd courage, were needed in the United States, they are needed now. Who will be our Moses? Two Vices Do Not Equal One Virtue. Arthur Perry in the Smudge Pot. An acquaintance some time since started chewing gum to break him self of the cigarette habit and now ha3 both of them. The Man Who Succeeds. The Dalles Chronicle. Men who like their jobs are eo in terested in their work that they haven't time or inclination to think about unrest or take part In unrest demonstrations'. Something; That Cannot Be Done. Blue Mountain Eagle. Folks live too far apart. In this country It takes two big beef hides to buy a pair of shoes. The folks who raise the hides and the folks who make the shoes are too far apart. Let's move in a little closer. Needed Everywhere. Medford Mall-Tribune. So we need in Medford a Miracle woman. Not one of them, but sev eral, one at least in every neighbor hood. We need more hospitality to strangers, more human interest in our neighbors, particularly our new ones, and particularly our women It isn't a matter of pink teas and evening parties. It a a matter of com. mon good will and human feeling and ordinary thoughtf ulness. Sounds simple. Nevertheless, its a job for Miracle woman. Old Horse Has Understudy. Monmouth Herald. D. Calbreath's old horse has now reached the age of 30 years and Mr. Calbreath recently bought another horse, the purchase being made of T. J. Alslp. Hlllsboro . "Rips' Poor Guesaers. Hillsboro Arsrus. Hlllsboro' s Rip Van Winkles should take a trip down the highway to Portland. Those who predicted we should always wade in the mud were poor guessers. Wives Who Embroider. Myrtle Point American. Wive really ought not to put In more than half time embroidering pansies and things on lingerie when husbands have only one night-gown and no buttons on that. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. ON WITH THE DANCE! These New Dances, at Reformer. When the human race rssldsd in the tree-tops And our forbears were bmc mere abysmal brutes. With an anthropodlal loathing for nil forms and styles of clothing And a savage, porcine appetite for roots. All the youths would get together In the moonlight And, responding to a vaguely fait romance. Execute entrancing tangoes under neath the spreading mangoes; For the earliest urge of natuae was to dance. When the student f the cuneiforms of Cheops Bends his head above the closely written tiles. Now and then he fondly lingers o'er the brickbat that he fingers. Studies out the pictured hieroglyph and smiles. In the figure of a shuddery eon of Cairo And a quaking little Alexandrian minx. Though the lines are dark and dim. he has discovered that the shimmy Co-existed with the pyramids end sphinx. There were dancers in the days when Father Noah Loaded all his little pets aboard the ark. As he drifted o'er the waters It's a cinch his sons and daurhters Did the dip and glide and trot from dawn till dark. Miss Salome spent her little lifetime dancing The waltz, the sink, the hug she knew 'em all And there eurely was a jazzer at the feast where old Belshazzar Read the warning that was written on the wall! Do not think that we are citing his tory's pages In a low attempt to Justify the Jazz, But we're here to tell the nation that this form of recreation Always will exist, because it al ways has. We could prove that now thaf-liquor is abolished Dancing's lost its last legitimate excuse. We could wax quite misanthropic on this salatory topic But it wouldn't help a bit 1 so what's the use? The great Cahokla mounds, near St. Louis, the most Imposing work of the lost race of mound builders. are doomed to disappear, announce the Kansas City Star. Efforts to pre serve them have proved unavailin and now the whole area in which they stand is to be turned into an in dustrial site. When an attempt- was being made to interest congress in their preser vation back in 1913, Gerard Fowke, curator of the Missouri historical so ciety, wrote of the mounds: The Cahokla mounds are the most stu pendous plies of earth ' ever erected by human hands solely as a monument or temple site. The countries of Europe willingly would spend large sums to pre serve ruins or remains which scarcely would be noticeable. If placed near the Cahokla mounds. We have In them the culmination of the work of the mound builders. It Is among their worke that the most magnificent cathedral Is among our buildings. The Cahokla mounds should never he disturbed by pick or shovel. The great "Monks' mound," which stands in the center of the group, is 1080 feet long, in fact 280 feet longer than the great pyramid of Egypt. Its base covers almost 16 acres. There are in all 75 mounds. The pur pose of their construction, as well as the race that built them, long has been a puzzle to scientists and archeologlsts. After a lifetime of effort, Fred Ramey, who owns the land on which the mounds -are situated, has given up the attempt to interest the legls- Seattle really should muzzle the latures of Missouri or Illinois or con- Judge A. D. Leady of Canyon City 1 making his home art the Multnomah while submitting his teeth to a den tist. "Canyon City is about 100 miles south of Pendleton and is in a won derful stock country," says the visi tor. "I came out Just prior to the cold spell, but do not think the stock suffered any there as the stockmen were well provided with feed and shelter. There is a large amount of work being done on the John Day highway which will bring Portland 120 miles nearer by automobile than by the Columbia river highway and will be the means of much overland auto travel coming that way." The judge thinks that the John Day high way will be finished next autumn. Dr. W. P. Chisholm of Gold Hill, registered at the Hotel Portland, has an overseas record and was commis sioned a captain. Be that as it may, the' doctor is one of the most enthusi astic miners in southern Oregon, the mines being his hobby while medicine Is his profession. He has one mine, the Little Tom, in the Ramsey can yon district, which is a fine copper ledge. In the past 10 years the doctor has spent $30,000 on this copper prop erty and his optimism is shown by the fact that he still considers it a great prospect. Rev. Mark A. Matthews until after the censtrs. Why, the good man would drive all the prizefighters out of town! Secretary Lane In resigning - of course emphasizes that he is on the best possible terms with the presi dent. That's part of the court eti quette. That Umatilla hunter who fired into the bushes, thinking to kill a bobcat, and killed a friend,, is close to a charge of manslaughter. A Frenchman is putting the third dimension Into the screen, and some time that may get into a fellow's pocketbook Christmas time. Before the Christmas fund is ex hausted, set aside a few dollars for doing good to some one who other wise might be overlooked. The world certainly must be grow- ing Detter. roniana garage men are pushing a campaign to have glass swept off the streets. The simplest solution to the prob lem of how to- keep out the Japanese picture brides would seem to be to keep out the bridegrooms. People are shocked when a woman gets up In court and tells brazenly of her phllanderlngs, but they read it just the same. If the exchanges with Mexico are only notes, we thank heaven that diplomats don't write letters. Regular Mayflower weather in the east for Mayflower time, and that's where it belongs. Many are learning it is cheaper to burn fuel all night than to pay for frozen pipes. Do it in the morning, even to mail ing your packages. If you can. gress in their preservation. He in tends selling the land to a firm which seeks a factory and industrial Dlant region. Ana with the sale the mounds, like the race that erected them, will pass away. During the recent war many cures of heart wounds were effected, the soiuier in one case naving been in a hospital for four months with a bul let In his heart. When a bullet touches the brain recovery is not rare, pro vided that only the outer portion ot this important organ be injured. In the anatomical museum of Harvard university may be seen a drill, four feet long, which was blown, through the entire brain of a mechanic, de stroying the sight of one eye; yet the man recovered, and subsequently even proved capable of earning his living. Bank robberies in outlying city districts have become so frequent that one president adopted a sugges tion from his son and cashier, form erly a lieutenant in the A E. F. In France the son acquired a whole some respect for the little steel and concrete "pill boxes" used with such murderous effect by the Germans. So the bank now boasts a steel "pill box" of its own. It replaces a large window and Is located in a strategic corner, where the guard's high-power riot guns command every part . of the interior and all exits. Answering "High School Inquirer1 as to whether Villa is a bandit or i revolutionist. T. K. H. in the Chicgo News states it thus: When he has from five to fifty men the genial Pancho is a bandit; when his force is from 1000 to 3000 he is a rebel, but when he has from 10,000 to 50,000 men he is a great revolutionary chieftain. He has been in -turn all three and may be again though now be seem to be sagging from rebel to bandit. But it is a matter of legs, largely. If his legs hold out and he has already lost eight he may yet march to th "Let 'em come " says Charles G. Miller, manager of the Marion at Salem. Mr. Miller referred to the members of the legislature, who have been summoned to assemble in the statehouse and in the lobby of the Marion on January 12. There is prob- bly more legislation arranged in the Marion than in the statehouse. Mr. Miller is at the Hotel Portland, ac companied by Mrs. Miller. Rev. Henry J. Harding of Skamo- kawa. Wash., has been etorm-bound at the Multnomah for the past week. He arrived from Seattle the morning of the storm, where he had been at tending a church conference. Arriv ing here, the minister could not pro ceed home as the Columbia was full of ice and no boats were navigating the mighty stream. J. W. Thompson, who is connected with the lumber plant at Warner, Or., but who insists on registering "city" at the Hotel Portland, was bragging around the lobby yesterday that the cold weather diun t affect his auto mobile and that he has the only car that Is getting through. It is air- cooled instead of water-cooled. George F. Paterson and J. P. Smith of Willamina, have arrived at the Perkins. During the storm the road to Tillamook, which has its "out through Willamina was deserted, no traffic trying to make the trip through the coast range. Representing about 400 shippers, John L. Craib of Seattle. Wash., is attending th6 poultry show and is registered at the Multnomah. Mr. Cralb Is manager of the Washington Co-Operatlve Poultry & Egg asso ciation and this is said to be the largest aaeoctatlon of the kind in the Pacific northwest. L G. Ross. M. D., health officer for St. Helens, county seat of Co lumbla county. Is at the Seward, ac companied by Mrs. Ross. The doctor is in the city to attend the annual health conference. Good Swap. Oregon Labor Press. Workers made no mistake when they traded the burnished brass foot rali for a clear head. Mean Thieves. Ad. in Cottage Grove Sentinel. "I know where my walnuts on the old Veatch place went to. and I also know where my peaches went to last year, and I am finding It too expen sive to supply luxuries to these par ticular parties in such quantities. If those who are stealing my stuff will ask me I will.be pleased to supply them with a reasonable quantity for any family and 1 will thereby ease heir consciences and at the same time get my name recorded in. the big ook upstairs.s I have been, as pa tient as I can and the next time this happens someone, and I know who hat someone Is. is going to have his ouse searched by the constituted uthorlties." The Firm Foundation. Warrenton News. A nation of home-lovers of men and women who believe that the spot of mold under their feet is sweeter than any other In the world Is to be feared only by the aggressor. It is the truest type of internationalism and the only one that can bring prac- ical results. Just Previous. Eugene Register. Thus far a dismal failure has been scored by the goose bones and vari ous other infallible signs that pointed to a hard winter. 'Infant Industry." Woodburn Independent. Two small Schafer children while delivering the Portland Journal Tues day evening lay down in the snow and fell asleep. They were found at 11 o'clock that night in South ood burn almost covered with snow and in an exhausted condition. The Cheerful Widower. Roseburg News. Nothing makes women more in dignant than to observe a cheerful widower. Even the Dona! Condon Globe-Times. Colby Clarke s dog Rolfe is a re publican and has ideas of his own He comes down town every day with Mr. Clarke, and takes great delight in carrying home a newspaper pro vlded It is The Oregonian. He abso lutely balks at the Journal, and will not carry it. Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Prince of Bend. Or., are at the Multnomah for a brief visit. Mr. Prince is connected with one of the big lumber mills in the central Oregon metropolis. M. E. Atkinson, a shingle manufac turer of Hollywood, Wash., is at the Multnomah. There is a spurt on in the shingle business, owing to the revived building industry. H. C. Stegeman registers at the Per kins from Liberty Bond, Wash. Like its namesake, the town has a world of resources and assets back of it and is 100 per cent American. W. R. Lebo, who was one of the star witnesses in the recent govern ment case against the so-called ce ment combine, is registered at the Benson fromTacoma. A. F. Tallman. son of Joe. of Pen dleton. is registered at the Imperial Joseph Tallman Is an old-timer in Pendleton, where he has been in the drug store business for ages. S. B. Wilkins of La Grande, one o the few stockmen to come to - Port land since the storm, is among th arrivals at the Perkins. W. R. Warner of Cleveland, O.. who an automobile accessory mfn- JAY WALKING COMMON PRACTICE The Girls Will Have to Dress. A coal famine would put most of he New York musical shows out of business the first thing. Somebody Ous;ht to Catch Them. Those Mexican bandits are so good at catching people, why not get some of them up here after the reds. There's Always Something. Just as peace was within our grasp we go and threaten to start another war by deporting Alex Bergman and Km ma Goldman to some formerly friendly nation. (Copyrlcht. 1!19, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Rather Discomfiting. By Grace E. Hall. Oh, how oft in meeting strangers or In glance from stranger's eve. Have I felt a query pressing for intel ligent reply As to when and where, in other sphere, we had a meeting last I can almost grasp the gist of con versation that was passed: Tet a veil seems intervening and a haze obscures the view. 'Til I 'only sense a meaning and the cloud I can't see through. Many a time a look in passing stirs emotion In my brain. And my thoughts go racing backward to untangle memory's skein. Tet though careful Is my tracing of each face In memory's book. I can find no strong resemblance to that passing, piercing look; And I've gone away and marveled o'er a mystery so complete Why my soul should seem responsive to a stranger on the street! Sometimes, too, comes conscious feel ing that a scene I'm acting in Has been lived, and Is appealing from a past that's ancient dim; Comes the certainty within me that In other time and place. I have met these self-same people and have viewed them face to face: That the same emotions touched me, in those aeons gone before, A3 are tugging at my heart-strings aye, I even sensed them more! Not a mystic, not a dreamer, not a follower of fad. Yet somehow I'm forced to ponder o'er these feellnKS t have had: Can it be re-incarnation, and In ages long remote Have I seen these people passing when perhaps I was a iroat? And if such were once my station and my sad pre-human plane. Then who knows but in the future I shall be the goat again? Una Should Be Enforced Against Pedestrians as Well as Autolxts, PORTLAND, Dec. 18. (To the Edi tor.) I have been quite Interested i articles from time to time concerning traffic and ithnk. like the "Kx-Gob whose good letter was in The Ore gonian December 16, that one-wa traffic would be ridiculous. It is not the traffic alone that needs regulation. I think the pedestrians of Portland are the limit. Just try, some of you who read this, and see how far you can walk on the right-hand side of the sidewalk through the business sections of the city before coming face to face with someone who won ders what ails you because you hap pen to be on the rlKht-hand side of the walk. You miKht as well move over where you belong while a Port- lander. The walking public pays absolutely no attention to the semaphores ar ranged for their safety in crossing streets. I go into town on a Rose City car and of the 30 or 40 people getting off at Fifth and Washington only a very, very few wait for the signal to cross in safety. Why are not the street-crossing laws as rigorously enforced for pe destrians if they are intended for them, too, as they are for the people who drive automobiles? When the driver of a machine runs over some poor "boob" who had no business in the middle of the street at that time, he of the j.uto is rushed to the jaiL while the one who is really at fault goes on his way if he cn. The people of Portland simply "Jay walk" to their hearts' content; no laws or regulations bother them. I say that pedestrians wh- do not com ply with the laws made for their safety should be dealt with Just the same as those who disregard the traf fic laws. "Pinch" them. It Is not the laws that a at fault, it is the people themselves. Everything possible Is done to safeguard them, and until they themselves value their lives enough to comply with city laws no one-way traffic nor police on duty at all hours of the day or night is going In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Asro. From The OregcmlRn of December 19. 1S!M. London. A Tokio dispatch says Japanese captured llai Cheng Decem ber 13. The Chinese garrison num bered 5000, the Japanese forces only 1500. The Chinese retreated with trifling losses. Washington. Another resolution providing for union with Canada made its appearance in the senate today, havint been introduced by Mr. Gallinger of New Hampshire. Preliminary work on the erection of the new coal bunkers In lower Albina is in progress. The first gate in the canal at Cas cade Locks is to be placed in posi tion this week. The 3d regiment, P. N. G., bas re ceived from the state $6421 in the past two years. presidency of the Mexican republic, j family. I ufacturer, is at the Benson with his I to keep tome of them from being I ... , -1 l i, 1 1 1 -) TVT1."1? T I.' r l? w a n l-f INTERESTED READER. Descent of Property. GOLD HILL. Dec. 17. (To the Edi tor.) (1) Is there a law In Oregon that provides that in the case of the death 'of the huBband the wife re ceives only one third of his estate case there is no will? Do his people receive the rest? (2) What provision is made in case there are children? (3) If their money Is in a Joint ac count in the bank, does not that be long to the widow? SUBSCRIBER. 1. In the absence of a will and of children all the property goes to the widow. 2. All the property descends to the children except the widow's dower, which is a life interest in the Income from one half of the estate. 3. Yes. His Reply Is Blnnt. Boston Transcript. Miss Passe (playfully) I'm older than you think I am. Mr. Blunt I doubt U.