v y:. . 8 THE MORNING OKEGOXIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26. . 1919. ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I-. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co., 133 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORUEX, E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor The Oregonian la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is sxcluslvely entitled to the use for publica tion ox all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. hub ( ritnion Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Dally. Sunday Included, six months .... 4.23 Dally, Sunday included, three months. . 2.-5 Dally, Sunday included, one month 75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months .... 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month ..... .60 Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) 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Mr, Rockefeller, transmitting a frlft of $100,000,000 to the General Education Board and the Rocke feller Foundation, remarks that "the attention of the American people has recently been drawn to the urgent nd immediate necessity of provid ing more adequate salaries to mem bers of the teaching profession," and mentions the Importance of re taining in the profession the "able and inspiring young men and wom an" who have done so much for edu cation in the past. Undoubtedly, so far as it goes, the gift will relieve the Immediate wants of certain In dividuals and of certain educational Institutions. If It is not spread over too much ground, it may make a definite Impression. But it will do more harm than good if it creates In the mind of Americans who are the chief beneficiaries of the schools, high, low and intermediate, the no tion that they can look to private charity for the solution of every financial problem that arises. There are approximately 700,000 teachers in the United States, and to Increase their salaries only $100 a year each would require $70,000,000 annually, which Is the interest, at 4 per cent, on a principal sum of 1,760,000,000. Nor will it be con tended that an average salary ad vance of $100 a year will meet the situation. It may be doubted that $500 wonld be sufficient. If the standards of the past are not only to be main tained but permitted to advance with the needs of a progressive age. The job is too big for all the Rockefellers put together, however philanthropic ally inclined they may be. There Is only one agency in the world that can possibly be equal to It, and thai Is the public Itself. Mr. Rockefeller's largesses have In various ways been the means of accomplishing a great deal of good. If he does not succeed in giving to every teacher the compensation that he (or she) deserves, he can point to a score of other fields in which his private benevolence has not run so grave a risk of putting a brake on public enterprise. The report of the Foundation for 1918, only recently off the press, gives us belated Infor mation as to the amazing variety of its activities in that year. It tells of campaigns against tuberculosis In France, malaria in Arkansas and Mississippi, yellow fever in Guate mala and Ecuador, and hookworm In twenty-one foreign countries and twelve states of the United States; Of co-operation for improved health work in Australia and Brazil; of the construction of many new buildings for a new medical center in Pekin. and the supplementing of funds for missionary hospitals and medical and pre-medlcal schools in China; the opening of a school of public hygiene and health at Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore; and the carrying out of surveys for the American Red Cross and the Amer ican Social Hygiene Association. These constitute only part of the story. But they give us a glimpse of things that might never have been attended to if Mr. Rockefeller's money had not made initiative pos sible. People are beginning to get a good deal of good out of the money of Mr. Rockefeller, in one way and an other, but, as has been suggested, they will do well not to form the habit of expecting the Rockefellers and the Carnegies and the Fricks and some others to do everything. One of the strongest present features of our educational system is the participation of all the people in it. There is good ground for suspecting that if the people ever lose their sense of responsibility for their own schools, the latter will suffer far more than they now suffer for mere want of funds. It takes more than money to make schools fit for a democracy like ours. Anyway, Mr Rockefeller's latest donation is only a drop in the bucket, and it is up to the people themselves to furnish the additional billions needed to keep their educational facilities up to the mark. THE PACKERS' POSITION. The truth of all that is said on be half of the packers in a letter from Ij. F. Swift, published in another column, can be conceded without in any degree questioning the sound ness of the policy which dictated that they should dispose of their In terests in stock yards and ether mar keting facilities and in the handling of other food than meat products. As The Oregonian has frequently pointed out, the question was one of public policy, not one of whether the packers were guilty of the crimes or vll designs ascribed to them. The argument against concen trated control of the nation's food supply has been weakened rather than strengthened by the unfair one-sided methods of inquiry and the exaggerated charges of the federal trade commission. By employing Francis J. Heney as counsel, the commission Insured that Its Inquiry would not be a search for the whole truth but would be an effort to con vict the packers. It has thus given the latter good cause to charge in justice and persecution and to win the sympathy of many persons who are opposed to concentration of con trol over food in private hands. The reason for the packers' con trol of stockyards may have been all that Mr. Swift says, but, as they are I the principal buyers. It is impossible I to convince the people that they do not use their control for their own profit rather than the public inter est. There may be ample economic reasons for their handling canned goods and other commodities, since they have the proper distributive machinery, but the public may well have misgivings about such all-embracing machinery In private hands for private profit. These are suf ficient reasons for dividing the man ufacture and distribution of food into many units, each under distinct own ership and control. There still re mains wide scope for that economy which is the boasted result of large business units. By entering Into a voluntary agreement with the attorney-general to divest themselves of all interests outside of packing, the packers have given the most effective answer to the aspersions which have been cast upon them, have proved their readi ness to comply with the spirit of the law and to bow to public opinion. Their conduct will help to dispose of the prevalent Impression that big business is lawless and shows no re spect for the public interest or pub lic opinion. It dare not do so, for in the end it depends on the good will of the public. POLITICAL PROPHECY. Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, former senator from Illinois, former democratic whip, and former repre sentative in congress from the state of Washington, has not abandoned the political areia which he so long decorated with his hirsute and sar torial scenery- Not at all. Though not now a gladiator, with a Job, he is a prophet with a mission, it Is to enlighten the untutored east on the remarkable condition which con fronts the country. He is the great est little political forecaster since Dooley of Archy road. He has given out in New York an interview, which all the papers print, that In 1920 there will be five presidential tickets republican, democratic, socialist, labor and liberal and that the re sult is likely to be a deadlock in the electoral college, so that the election will be thrown in the house of repre sentatives. What will happen then, the delph ic Lewis does not say. Perhaps his tender heart shrinks from the duty of drawing a veil which will dis close the sad fact that It will prob ably be a republican congress, which of course will know what it is there for, and do it. But we are chiefly interested in the Lewis prediction as to the "re publican nomination. Here It Is: The republicans will be dominated by the expressions of the primaries, to be held from now to May In the eleven big states. The republican will meet with del egates all different from those now cal culated on and bound by new directions. Then, in an attempt to prevent the demo crats from winning the west on the league and peace treaty Issues, the republicans w ill nominate a middleman conciliator like Senator Frank Kellogg of Minnesota or Senator Kenyon of Iowa. If we get It right, nobody who wants to go to the republican con vention will be nominated as a dele gate and everybody now thought to have a chance to be the presidential candidate must give way either to Kenyon or Kellogg. It was unkind of the colonel not to put in a word or two for his fellow townsman, Mr. Lowden, who is some conciliator himself. A prophecy is ordinarily good un til It falls, or Is realized. But the picturesque propagandist from Illi nois works on a different principle. A prophecy from him is good if he gets it and himself in the papers. DANGEROUS PARTISANSHIP. The Oregonian learns by way of the Corvallls Gazette-Times that the Eugene Guard says The Oregonian "Is exceedingly Jubilant over failure of the senate to ratify the peace treaty," and it accuses the Guard and other democratic papers of ingrati tude, because it (The Oregonian) 'was in great favor with them when it was riding In the democratic band wagon." But, adds the Corvallls paper, "just as soon as it comes out of its trance, discovers it has not located the bandwagon at all, then all these papers begin to denounce it." Here are two types of newspaper that In their respective ways fairly represent the provincialism, pettiness and partisanship that have brought the peace treaty to. disaster. One of them Is for the league because Presi dent Wilson is for It, the other is against the league for the same rea son. Both kinds are contemptible. A far-seeing Americanism ap proves the idea of the league of na tions because it makes the world safe for America. It is not vital that it be a league in the exact form of covenant negotiated by the allies at Paris; it is vital that it contain a workable guarantee of the world's peace. The controversy at Wash ington is almost wholly over words, over mere formulae. The Oregonian would take the league in its original form or in its amended form. It does not believe that all the reservations impair the structure, but it thinks that some of them strengthen It. It wants a 100 per cent league, but it will take a 90 per cent league as an alternative. The eyes that see the chaos wrought in Europe, and receive no impression that it means anything to America are blinded by a false and dangerous sense of security. The mind that seeks to Isolate America from all other nations is ignorant of history and Impervious to the les sons of experience and common sense. The mouth that shouts for an Impossible isolation is doing harm to the present and future of Amer ica. If America fails or refuses to join hands with other nations for the common good, declaring that it has no duty to insure the welfare of others, but that every nation must look out for Itself, . It surely will awake some day soon to find that it has made an appalling mistake. Women in Turkey, the dispatche say, are hoping for speedy peace in order that the resultant prosperity will make marriage less difficult; the sultan and the pashas are reducing the size of the harems because they cannot afford to maintain many wives in the face of the high cost of living; there are three women to every two men; monogamy stalks abroad; marriage is still the only career open to women. Those who think that women are confronted with a problem In occidental coun tries will read the news from the Bosphorus and realize that their troubles are as nothing by compari son with those of their sisters under the crescent. To make matten worse, the "new women" of Turke assert that .not only the ballot, but husbands, have been promised them. It is evident that the west has no monopoly of those who for the sake I of some temporary advantage prom- Ise more than they can perform. The ballot Is easy, but the lot of the Turk- ish politician is not going to be an easy one when the girls discover that there are not enough husbands to go around. THE PCBLIO CAN HELP. Merchants and manufacturers of Portland have responded readily to the call for employment for ex-service men, but after all It is up to the consuming public In the long run Some of the factories have agreed to employ their quota of ex-service men, though this means production of more goods than they have a mar ket for at present. They cannot long continue this employment unless they can sell the surplus, but If they should find steady sale for larger output, their new men's jobs will be come permanent. Thus It is up to the general public after all. By buying Oregon goods they will enable ex-service men to hold their jobs and will add to the prosperity of Oregon industry. The factories in question produce staples which are needed at all seasons food, clothing, furniture and house furnishings and they run the yeai round. With larger payrolls they will cause more money to circulate in all channels of trade, and employ ment of the men who served will serve all. Oregon has always been ready to care for Its own, and by expanding the home market of Its industries It will care both for them and the men whom it sent to war. PARADISE ENOUGH. The most recent contributor toour stock of information as to "what Paradise is like is a Kentish widow, reported from London as having been able to obtain through spirit communications a description of the heavenly abode. It illustrates anew the point that revelation almost al ways corresponds to the recipient's own Ideas of what would constitute an Ideal hereafter. To say that "everyone is happy and everything Is bright" is, of course, to waste words on platitudes. To as sure us that heaven is not "dry" and that smoking Is permitted there is only to let us know that the departed one was more or less given to in dulgence in his earthly sphere. But we are Indebted to the Kentish lady for a new revelation that makes the place seem altogether worth while. People up there, "it seems, do not tol erate the asking of foolish and trivial questions, although they enjoy an occasional joke. They are serious, but not too much so. They are just sensible enough, without carrying the thing to a painful extreme. The time-worn inquiry about how we like the weather is, of course, barred under the heavenly rule, along with the long list of others that dally tax our urbanity while they furnish topics of conversation for vacuous minds. But it will be sus pected nevertheless that heaven is not very densely populated. The number of persons who habitually ask trivial questions is exceedingly large. Delightful as life would be without them, It Is a question how many of us could meet this condition precedent of a spiritual career. HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. The Lloyd George cabinet makes a daring attempt to remove a source of discord In the British isles which has continued for centuries and has defied the efforts of statesmen for generations the demand of the ma jority of the Irish people for self government apart from the other members of the United Kingdom. Something had to be done, for the home rule act of 1914 would other wise have come Into operation six months after the proclamation of peace, and it satisfies nobody. That law was enacted after a con stitutional struggle which was the culmination of agitation for home rule that began In the early '70s after the repeal agitation of O'Con nell and the Young Ireland and Fenian rebellions had failed. A par liament was elected in 1910 in which the Irish Nationalists led by John Redmond held the balance of power, and they formed an alliance with the Liberals led by Asquith on con dition that the latter should pass a home rule bill. As the house of lords was Inflexibly hostile, fulfill ment of this promise was impossible without curtailment of its powers. This was accomplished after an in tense struggle in regard to a radical budget, a law being forced through providing that, if a bill passed by the commons and rejected by the lords at two successive sessions should be passed by the commons at a third session. It should become law on receiving the royal assent, even though again rejected by the lords. Under that law the home rule bill was finally enacted in 1914, but not until outbreak of the great war had averted imminent civil war and only when accompanied by suspension un til six months after the war. All parties threw themselves with fervor Into the conflict with Germany, and it seemed as If reconciliation were at hand. Redmond equaled any of the party leaders in the zeal with which he urged the Irish to volun teer, and at the outset Ireand's ratio compared well with that of England or Scotland. But the war office be trayed distrust of the Irish by refus ing at first to organize their men into distinct divisions, the Sinn Fein independence party agitated more actively than ever, and administra tion of Chief Secretary Birrell was miserably weak and blind to what was going on. Hence he was almost taken by surprise when the Sinn Fein rebellion broke out on Easter Sunday, 1916. though Sir Roger Casement, a Sinn Fein leader, was captured promptly after his landing from Germany. Military executions and wholesale Imprisonments fol lowed suppression of the revolt, and won hosts of recruits to the Sinn Fein. The field was thus ill prepared for the policy of conciliation which was then attempted. Nevertheless the Asquith coalition cabinet which then ruled sent Lloyd George to Ireland to attempt a com promise on home rule between Na tionalists under Redmond and Ulster Unionists under Sir Edward Carson. Their consent was obtained to a ten tative plan under which certain coun ties of Ulster would have had the option of voting themselves out of a home rule Ireland, but Lord Lans downe, a rock-ribbed Irish Tory land lord, who was in the cabinet, ob jected that it must be approved by all the members, and he withheld his approval. Sinn Feinlsm then spread like a prairie fire, and made great Inroads on the Nationalist party. The government did not ven- ture to make conscription apply to Ireland when it was adopted in May, 1916. When In the spring of 1918 the German offensive made necessary the calling of every available man. the law was extended to Ireland in the face of passionate protests from Redmond, but its operation was held in suspense until a last effort had been made to raise Ireland's quota by the voluntary system. A call was made for 50,000 men before October, but only about 13,000 were enlisted. After Lloyd George became pre mier in December, 1916, he renewed his efforts to gratify the ambition of the Irish. majority for home rule and the desire of the other kingdoms to conciliate Ireland without breaking up the uni6n under one central gov ernment. He appointed a conven tion composed of all parties and In terests in Ireland except the Sinn Fein. That party was invited but declined to participate. He held that the obstacle to home rule was not opposition to the English and Scotch but inability of the Irish to agree. and the convention was appointed to give them an opportunity to agree on a plan, independence or coercion of a minority to the will of the ma jority being excluded. The conven tion by a small majority agreed on a plan acceptable to the Nationalists but rejected by the Ulster Unionists and therefore not complying with the government's conditions. The breach between the govern ment and Sinn Fein grew wider. Many leaders of the latter were im prisoned on suspicion of conspiring with Germany, but some escaped and the others were released after the armistice was made. An election closely followed that event, and Sinn Feiners elected 78 of the ,105 Irish members, the Nationalist party being reduced to seven members. The Sinn Fein members refused to take their seats in what they called an English parliament, but organized an IriBh republic In Dublin with all the ma chinery of government. Secret drill ing, occasional murder of policemen and others, and other outrages fol lowed and have grown In frequency, to be accompanied by constantly more severe repressive measures and to culminate in the attempted mur der of the viceroy, "Viscount French A delegation was sent to the peace conference to present Ireland's claim. agitation extended to America and the British colonies, and many ef forts were made to embarrass Great Britain. Demand grew among all the Brit ish people, exclusive of the Ulster Unionists and hidebound Tories, that the government itself should frame a bill granting Ireland the largest measure of self-government short of Independence and consistent with the rights of the minority and should Impose It on Ireland without seeking the consent of the several irrecon cilable parties. This demand has the support of certain moderate men In Ireland, and the bill which Lloyd George has announced is the re ponse, also being his third attempt to gratify the wishes of the majority with due regard to the objections of the minority. It approaches the do minion system for the two parts of the island and leaves them the option of uniting whenever they wish, th cabinet apparently being confident that the great interests which they have in common will bring them to gether. . This is the thorniest of several problems of reconstruction which the British empire has undertaken to solve. A bill to establish self-govern ment In India Is already before par liament, and a commission has been sent to Ejsrypt to prepare a similar plan for that country. It will not be the fault of the present govern ment if the. British empire does not become in literal fact what General Smuts called it "commonwealth of nations." The Hood River pheasants which set on the frozen apples In the orchards over there during- the cold snap In order to warm them up and make them palatable are wise birds, to be sure: but they are not any more Intelligent than the birds of Yakima. Over here It was a common sight every morning during the storm to see a couple of hundred Chinks lined up in front of Game Warden Frank Bryant's office welting to be fitted with Bteel bills which Frank designed to enable them to crack the frosen apples and break the Ice on the creeks. North Yakima Republic. Interesting, quite interesting in deed. But we deny that Hood River pheasants "set," either In the pres ent or past tense. The publisher of a "rountrj-" pa per has his ambitions and aspirations and one of them Is get out' as good a paper for his town as The Ore gonian is for Portland. Lots of them do It- The holiday season is his harvest time. Washington is to present a $600 diamond medal to the Washington soldier with the best war record. The one who gets It Isn't likely to be one who admits loudly that he ought to have it A jazz orchestra furnished music at a Christmas party of drug addicts in New York. Must have figured the drug addicts needed a musical shot in the arm. Of course the "gin" special of twenty-seven cars from Peoria to New Tork makes the trip. A train of that kind could not be ditched no such luck. It's comforting to hear that worn en's spring suits will ba no higher. Apparently the limit In height has been reached. D'Annunzio describes himself as "your lion-hearted poet." Neverthe less, he gives a good imitation of braying. Kansas, with her billion In prod ucts. must not be vainglorious or the grasshopper again will get her It Is tough on the dog and the cat and the garbage man's hogs to miss the accustomed relics of the turkey No wonder they called It "Jersey lightning." That state surely does miss her booze. Nobody wants a pesthouse In his neighborhood, which is why the cases creep in. Oregon's gasoline plight might be described as a situation of much gravity. The pile will be out of the rail way "velv'et" in two months and a week. Between Oregon cider and logan julce, the east will be caught both ways. About time for someone to form an Anti-Christmas Card league. BY-PRODUCTS OK TUB TIMES How Some Japanese Look Upon Ptety In Business. No hard feelings against Japan are felt by the Philadelphia business man who laughingly showed me this copy of a letter received by a London firm from a Japanese correspondent, re lates a writer in the Public Ledger. One can enjoy the humor without for a moment Insinuating that roguery Is rife in the big business of Nippon. "Regarding the matter of escaping penaljy for non-delivery of the Bar machine, there is a way to creep round same by diplomat, and we must make a statement of strike occur In our factory (of course, being untrue). Please address my firm In Inclosed form of letter, and believe this will avoid penalty of case. As Mr. B. Is most religious and a competent man. and also heavily upright and godly. It fears me that useless apply for hie signature. Please attach same by Yokohama office, making forge, but no cause to fear prison happening, as this Is often operated by other mer chants of highest Integrity. "It Is highest unfortunate Mr. B. so godlike and excessive awkward for business purpose. I think much better add a little serpentlike wisdom to up right manhood, and thus found good business edifice." e Manicurists who don't split their Infinitives are more successful than those whose grammar has been neg lected, according to Miss Helen Beegle, new principal for the Trades School for Girls In Philadelphia. A course In English will be established at the eohool under Miss Beegle's di rection. Courses In manicuring and hairdresslng will be arranged, also. Not only will the fair young students be obliged to take a course In the technicalities of dermatology, but they will be required also to study rhetoric, history, civics and other sub jects with which all well-informed persons should be acquainted. The course for prospective mani curists will cover a period of six months. It Is Miss Beegle's aim. she said, not only to prepare the students for the technical performance of their work, but to make them cultured cit izens of the community. The most remarkable Bible ever produced, now in London. Is to be tak en to the United States next year. It weighs three-quarters of a ton, is S feet 6 Inches wide, and when opened flat measures 1 feet 10 Inches across the pages. This tremendous volume, says the New Tork American, is to be the prin cipal feature of a world-wide cam paign for the popularizing of the Bible. The oampalgn will be started early in the new year and will be conducted by the Bible crusade, whose founder is "William Henry Fry, grandson of the (rreat English Quak eress, Elizabeth Fry. Instead of being set in type and printed on a press, every verse of the Bible Is being written, each by a dif ferent person, and signed with his or her signature. So far about 2000 texts have been written, the scribes ranging from bishop to laborer. Twelve large goatskins were re quired for the binding, which is in rich Levant Morocco leather of the finest quality. The book contains 176 sheets of heavy paper boards. It is sewn with twine in the old-fashioned way, around six stout hempen ropes. Each rope is thicker than the ordinary clothes line. "Mr. Bagg," said Dorset Knob, sec retary of the Brass Monkey club (so called because all Its members were required to have the nerve of a brass monkey) "Mr. Bagg, I have the hon or to Inform you that you have been proposed as a member of the Brass Monkey club. But before the recom mendation comes up for a vote, you will have to successfully pass the three nerve testa The first test Is. to seat yourself In a fashionable restau rant, open up a paper containing two homemade sandwiches, call for mus tard, apply It to your sandwiches and eat them, and depart. "Easy," laughed Paper W. Bagg. And he returned that evening; with a smile and a black eye, and said sim ply, "I did it." "The second test." said Dorset Knob. Is to go out on the street and ask the first man you meet for cigarette makings. Then explain that you don't know how to make therm and ask him to roll It. Then request him to light It for you." Cinch." laughed Bagg. And the next morning he returned with two black eyes and a smile, and said sim ply, "I did it." "The third test." said Dorset Knob, is to walk into a meeting of the Plumbers' and Steamf ltters' union and announce that you are the president of the Anti-Saloon league." PaperW. Bagg paled. "I don't wanna join your old club." he said, with assumed indifference. Indianapolis Star. When Columbus landed on the Is land of Haiti, a huge banquet was given In his honor by a native chief tain and on that occasion he chanced to notice that two or three of the aboriginal guests bore scars on their bodies suggesting severe wounds. In response to his polite inquiry, they said the scars represented bites which gentlemen from the nearby is land of Canniba had casually taken. It was explained further that ths people of Canniba (known today as Porto Rico) were addicted to canni balism and that they were accus tomed to undertake armed raids upon the Haitian and other neighbor folk. Henca the origin of the word "can nibal." v There was a poem, so-called, writ ten in that form called free-verse which looks like verse in the types and too often sounds like disjointed prose In the reading, which appeared in a New York paper a few days ago. It paid tributes in three stanzas to labor, capital and the brains that brings them Into co-operation for the production of useful things. It closed with this comment upon the strife among the three: Capital, management, labor, combatant Which is the most Important leg Of a three-legged stool ? The simile Is apt. If only each of the legs of the stool could realize Its dependence on ths others. Syracuse Post-Standard. Those Who Come and Go. Jim Wonr fiiicic. who. In a white blouse and trousers and armed with a dustpan and brush, keeps the Hotel Portland lobby free from cigar ashes. played a new role yesterday. He made his debut as the official Santa Claus at the hotel. After a great deal of persuasion and explanation, Charles Schrelber. assistant manager. Invei gled Jim Into the fur-trimmed car mine costume' of St. Nick, concealing the nationality of the Chinese under a flowing beard and wig of white horsehair. Arrangements were made to distribute 170 presents at the Christmas tree in the lobby to street urchins. Jim, in his get-up, was in structed to parade Sixth street, carry ing an armful of balloons, and as a bodyguard the colored page boy ac- panled him. Like the Pled Piper, the kids trailed-behind Santa Wong Guck Claus and swarmed into the hotel. Asked what he thought of His experi ence, Jim answered In choice Canton ese. "Mm gow um si sow," which, translated, means "I should worry." It was a bitter Christmas for an employe of a Portland hoteL A friend approached him and imparted the In formation that he had three bottles of Imported cordial and that the ho telman could have one' for $16. The deal was quickly closed and the friend oozed out of the hotel. Later, when the hotelman sampled the contents of the bottle he discovered that they consisted of grape Juice and a dash of almond extract, and that the con tents can be bought almost anywhere for 75 cents. "It looked good and the almond made It smell fine," con fessed the victim, "but it was as de void of kick as a dead mule." W. A Terrall will be a pretty busy man beginning January 2. He is the supervisor of census for the Second congressional district In Oregon, which takes In practically everything in Western Oregon except Multnomah county. Mr. Terrall, who is registered at the Seward, has his organization In shape and ready to start asking questions promptly one week from today. , When the central library was built A. J. Miller of Seattle had a hand In It. Mr. Miller, who is registered at the Seward, was disappointed yester day In not being able to make a trip over the highway. It waa such a poor day for travel that the sight-seeing busses did not have enough custom ers to make the trip, do the run was canceled. Mr. Miller, therefore, de cided to remain over In Portland an other day in the hope of viewing the scenic wonderland. "What's your name?" asked a hotel clerk. "Tee," was the answer. "T, what?" "Just Tea" "I don't mean your Initials, but your full name." "A. J. Tee." replied the visitor, and that Is the way he wrote It on the register at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Tee, who Is from Astoria, says he generally has trouble explaining that his surname is not an initial when he tells people his name is plain Tee. The Cross brothers arrived at the Imperial yesterday on their way to California for the winter. A. J. Cross is a livestock man from Landes, Sask.. and B. H. Cross is a merchant of Brockville, Ont. They will remain in Portland a few days looking around the city before continuing southward. T. G. Bllgh. who Is about as well known in Salem as is the statehouse. is among the visitors recorded at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. Bligh owns one of the biggest buildings in the town, is the movie impresario and buys good real estate from his profits. It was a lonesome, dismal, homeless group of visitors who hung around the lobbies of the hotels yesterday. The usual flow of patrons was absent, and In their stead were men who hadn't any special place to go and had nothing to do. C. P. Hembree of "Willows. Cal.. ar rived at the Imperial yesterday, which recalls the information that "Buck" "Wlllard has sold his Interest In the Portland stockyards and is going to Willows to engage In the cultivation of rice. A wanderer from Universal City, Cal., Is John Walters, who Is at the Hotel Oregon. Universal City, as the movie fans know, is the establishment where miles of film are turned out every month. Mr. Walters Is "In the f ilms." W. D. Haley of Mahama dropped Into the Perkins Christmas to spend the day with his son and son's fam ily. The son Is a resident of Portland, but the cold Bnap caused them to seek refuge at the Perkins, and they're there yet- Filled ylth the holiday spirit, a patron of the Hotel Portland yester day opened a wallet filled with nice, new, crinkly greenbacks and began handing out $5 notes to everyone from the telephone operators to the desk force. With the plant closed for the holi days, C Aalvlk, of the Aalvik-Domltt Lumber company at Stevenson, Wash., came to the Hotel Oregon yesterday to see how Christmas looks in Portland. P. L. Vincent, sawmill man of Dee. which same is near Hood River, and in the vicinity of where very luscious Btrawberrles are grown, is an arrival at the Hotel Portland. John J. Collins, who upholds the arm of Uncle faam as a deputy In ternal revenue collector at Salem, Is at the Hotel Oregon. Chrlstmasers In Portland were State Senator and Mrs. I. L. Patterson and Judge and Mrs. E. C. Kirkpatrick of Polk county. E. M. Duffy, business manager for the Oregon Agricultural college at Corvallls, Is registered at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Smith of Hood River came to the Benson yes terday to have a Christmas dinner in Portland. Speaking of unusual names. E. T. Boatman, city, and L. Broadwater of Puget Sound, are registered at the Seward. Addrrsa of Publication. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Dec. 24. (To the Editor.) Can you tell me If the American Artisan ' Is published by Daniel Stern, 68 Dearborn street. Chi cago? I have never seen one for over 20 years, but representatives of Port land hardware firms tell me It Is still published In Chicago, but could not give the address. It is a weekly periodical In the interest of tinsmith and sheet metal workers. I am anx ious to get on the track of the Ameri can Artisan ones more. & B. EGBERT. The American Artisan and Hard ware Record Is published in Chicago by Daniel Stern, 910 S. Michigan ave. Bank's rhrlstnis Economy. PORTLAND, Dec 25. (To the Edi tor.) To settle a dispute, please an swer the following: A says bank managers used to give employes turkey each for Christmas, being obliged to economise, have this year given a month's salary Instead. B says there Is no economy. Which Is riKht? u- R. WISE It sounds plausible enough. Goodnight. By ' race K. HalL Goodnight shall sometime mean good bye forever The hour glass is too far away to see. The sands are running swiftly on; they sever The dearest ties most unexpectedly. Goodnight! Who knows the import of the parting? Perhaps at dawn a silence shall be all; 'Tis sad that memory brings so oft a smarting. As we a cold good night long to recall! Good night may mean forever; we are going. As flows the rushing stream where It must flow. And destiny our fragile craft is row ing We answer when the signal comes to go. Within the homing harbor, all un heeding, We bid departing friend a brief good night. Tet ere the sunrise he may be a-speed-lng Far out, while tear-mist blurs his ship from sight NO WRONG-DOING IS CONFESSED L. K. Swift Telia Packers' Motives In Agreeing With Government. CHICAGO. Dec. 20. (To the Edi tor.) During the next few days the newspapers will, through editorial expression. Interpret for their readers the significance, botli as to cause and effect, of the recently announced agreement between the attorney- general and the packing concerns. A statement of our motives in entering this agreement I hope will be of In terest to you. Although It Is true that we have agreed to sell our Interests In stock yards, I want to assert emphatically that our principal reason for being Interested In stockyards has been to Improve the facilities for the proper marketing and handling of livestock and that ownership in such yards has not been used as a means of manipu lating prices, of obtaining unfair profits. I have often publicly an nounced that we should be willing to part with our interests In stork yards if arrangements could be made to continue their efficient operation As for our willingness to stop han dllng canned goods and a few other commodities ordinarily sold by whole sale grocers. I want to emphasize the fact that there have been amrle economic reasons for our handling these products, in that we have the distributive machinery to get these goods from producer to consumer in most direct and economical fashion We believe eventually the public would have come to realize the sound ness of our position, but because of the spirit of unrest and misunder standing we are glad to make some sacrifices and concessions. I believe that it Is Just as necessary to make such sacrifices during the uncertain Deriod of reconstruction as it was during the war. Let me direct attention to the rac that the decree to which we have agreed to submit in no way finds u guilty of combination In restraint o trade or. of any other Illegal prac tlces. Under no condition would have consented to such a solution i the decree were to charge us with guilt. For this reason, enjoining us rrom combining to restrain trade 'will no way affect our operations, becaus we are an Independent unit In open comnetition with the other larg packers and with the hundreds smaller ones. The decree in this re spect will merely strengthen existing law, which we are following to rne letter. With these thoughts in mlnrl. I trust that you will appreciate the fact that our position is in no way an admis sion that we have been guilty oi an- thine- economically, legally or morally wrong, and that we have made this concession with the sincere hope that It will help to overcome the suspicion which still lurks In the minds or many people. L. F. SWIFT. Ml'.RRV CHWST1MS. Said the pumpkin to the turkey and the cranberry Jen: "This Christmas makes me weary. Makes me trembly, weak and teary. And I feel like letting out a dismal yell. T was once a Jolly fellow. Round and smooth and fat and yel low. And I never growled a growl, nor sighed a sigh; Now I feel like one forsaken, I'm as flat as slab of bacon. Since the cook has made me into Christmas pumpkin pie." Said the turkey: "Now you've s;itd if. Merry Christmas, how I dread it! How I used to gobble, gobble. Got so fat I'd fairly wobble. 1 was always proudly strutting, and without a single care; Now my shape would keep you guess ing Since they crammed me full of dress ing. And my naked legs are pointing In the air." Now the jell spoke with a shiver, All his being seemed to quiver. And his voice was very acid when he spnks: "All my folks are plucked and stran srlssL Boiled and squeezed and strained and Tisnsrled: I should say that Merry Christmas Is a Joke. See that boy around the corner? Took to me like Jacks" Horner; Looks at us Hke he could eat us with a rake; We must have our vengeance, fellows T.t him eat until he bellows With a gripping, good, old-fashioned tummy -ache. WILLIAM VAN GROOS. DANGER IN VOTE SLACKERS TOO Less to Blame Than Fnl-Hom for Hers-er's Election. VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 24. (To the Editor.) The election of Victor Berger for the second time to repre sent the fifth Wisconsin district In congress indicates that the voters who are enemies to our form of govern ment and free Institutions, and slack ers who do not think it worth while to ro to the polls are In the rftajbrlty In that district, and there Is nearly as much danger to representative government In the latter class as there Is In the former. Berger and his roiiowers are op posed to law and orderly government, but he has taken advantage of every twist and turn of the law In order to delay his Incarceration In federal prison to which he was sentenced some months ago for violation of the espionage act and for sedition. While out on ball he has been allowed by a complacent government to continue the spread of his pernicious doctrines and were he to be dealt with In strict justice his sentence would be doubled for recent utterances. It Is utterly useless to seek to curb the spread of radical doctrines by ar- k, resting the small rry reas and I. W. a ! "W's. when men like Berger are al lowed to rant and rail against the government that has given them the oooortunitles they lacked in their na tive countries. Dry up the flow of sewage at the fountain head and the resultant streams win naturally sub .ids. FRANK W. STONE. With a Kick in It. By L. L. D. MERRY CHRISTMAS. If We Are One Day Late. On Christmas day when skies are gray Nobody really minds "em: For ail, we'll say, are blithe and gay. With sorrow tucked behind 'em. i A word of cheer In your left ear In simple verse we hall you; And we do pray no future day With trouble may assail you. May Christmas bring you everything You ever hankered after; But best of all the test of all We hope It brings you laughter. SOS All's Quiet on the Willamette. We had a gat loaded for any swim ming fan who might bob up with a plan for a Christmas swim. But even Harry Eddas played safe, and the day passed without adding a ripple to the prevailing crime wave. Ah, There, Mitk Infantry! Dover. N. J.. Dec 18. The Pica- tinny arsenal, about seven miles from here, was partially destroyed bv an explosion followed by a fire about midnight. The explosions caused no casualties, but five United States ma rines were injured, one orobabiv fa tally." "God Took the Sunshine From ths Skies." God took the sunshine from the skies and wove It In your hair. Then from the trees and leafy woods and flying In the air He called the sweetest songbirds down and bid them all rejoice. And, lo! He caught the clearest note and kept it for your voice. From glowing purple violets and bits of azure skies. With a glistening silver dew drop he lasnioned your two eyes. Then breathed on you. and bid you speak, and you were wondrous fair Ss God took the sunshine from The skies and wove It In your hair. J BAN S. Turkeys Being no Cents a Pound. "The club will meet this afternoon at luncheon at the home of Mrs. . A pro gramme and Christmas tree will fol low the luncheon." Yo Ho. Me Lads, Yo Ho! She eat beneath the mistletoe. And wondered why the men were slow. What was the reason this was so? She had a face oh, well, you know. S. H. W. Excitement In Aberdeen. Dear L. L. D.: The following bit of scandal was published in the Aber deen World: "She walked in her sleep with Paul Norton." MARJOR1E M. s . s Christmas Casualty. $20,000 Left Wounded." says a head line. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. HOW THE CROW LOST HIS VOICE. I've found out why the old black crow That .:avs the whole day long As he sweeps winging to and fro Can never sing a song. A tragic tale it is. and sad Yet every word ie true; I heard it from a tiny lad And here it is, for you: Long, long ago, when in the trees The songsters gave a ball. And chanted choruses and glees The crow outsang them all. Although they strained their little throats In bursts of glorious song Above their best soprano notes His voice rang clear and strong. But he was greedy, was the crow. And when came autumn time And all the birds prepared to go To seek a sunnier clime. He said. "I think I'll stay right here For when they're gone, you see (And here he leered a knowing leer) There'll be more worms for me. He stayed and caught a cold, of course. And when agnin came spring. He found that he had grown so hoarse He simply couldn't sing. And now when winds blow cold and raw And he goes lumbering by With nothing but a husky caw. You'll know the reason why. He'd Have "N n Inspiration Voir. Tho poet who sang of sweetness and light wrote before there was any sugar and coal famine. s Foollnh Mr. Garfield. Tf we had the control of the coal In the country you bet we wouldn't quit. SOS Fifty Mtlllona of Them. Only Americans who were not horn in the United States know how to keep from looking self-conscious when you begin to talk of presidential possibilities. (Copyright by ths BeTI Syndicate. las.). In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago, From The Oregonian of December 26. 1894. San Francisco. The steamer Colum bia, which left San Francisco this morning for Portland with passengers and freight, was reported in distress last night near Point Reyes. In a train collision on the Oregon Railway &. Navigation linn east of The Dalles yesterday between pas senger train No. 1 and a freight the engineer of the freight train was killed. Fred Wooldrldge. a young man of west Portland, fell from a motor car last night and was 'crushed to death. A dog show Is to be a feature today of the holiday exposition and tomor row has been set aside as Central Labor Council day. The annual session of the Stats Teachers' association will open to night with a meeting In the high school buldlng. THE SONG OF BETHLEHEM. Sweet the song of Bethlehem, A sacred song for every ear: The tone Is sweet, the word Is clear. Long has the Bethlehem song been sung. But who will congregate to hear This sacred sons:, so sweet and true. This song so old, this song so new. This song for aged and for young? Why all shall hear this wondrous song: Tts spiritual echoes, loud and free. Resound to man. where'er he be Upon life's broad highway. And that all men may know, may hear. The wondrous world-wide Bethlehem song. Ring out the bells, loudly and long, L'non the Joyous Christmas day. BERTHA E. HUGHE Y. -