Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 03, 1920, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text8 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN", SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1020. ESTABLISHED BY JIKNRT L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oresonian Publlhtng Co., 13i Bljtlh titreet, Portland, Oregon. CA.MOREN. B. B. PIPER. Manager. jLiiitor, The Oregonlan la a member of the Alio, elated frees.t The Associated Preaa 11 exclusively entitled to thu use (or publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It er not otherwise credited In thla paper and also the local newa published herein. .All rights of republication ot special dispatches herein are also reserved. Eobscriptlon Kat- Invariably in Advanco, (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ? S2 laliy, Sunday included, six months .... Dally, Sunday Included, three months.. lai;y, Kuntlay Included, one monta .... - Vally, without Sunday, one year ....... e.uu Daily, without Sunday, six months .... Bally, without Sunday, ope month - "Weekly, one year j.eu Bunday, one year ....'....-.- 2.60 bunday and weekly .......... " (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year Dally, Sunday included, three months;. Dally, Sunday Included, one month, -1 Dally, without Sunday, one year ...... J-80 gaily, without Sunday, three months... !.. ally, without Sunday, oae month . ... .oO How to Beniltr rnd postofflce money order, express or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owner's risk. Give postofflce address In full, including- county and state. Postage Kates 12 ts lft pages, 1 cent; IS to Bii paaos. 2 cents: 84 to 8 pages, 8 cents; 50 to 60 pases. 4 cents: 'J to 76 pages. 5 cents: 78 to 82 pages. cents, i'orelgn postage, doable rates. Eastern Business Office Verrea at Conk lln, Brunswick building. New York; Verres ee Conklin, eUeger building. Chicago; Ver ree & Conklin, Free Press building, De troit. Mich. San Francisco representative, K. J, BldwelL VACCINATION AGAINST BMAIXPOX. It is not conceivable that anyone would now deliberately invite a re turn of conditions -which existed throughout the world before the dis covery of vaccination ag-ainst small pox. The disease was present continu ously; so-called epidemics were but outbreaks of some particularly vio lent form. In the city of London, for Illustration, with a population of from 600,000 to 750,000, there were only nine years of -the eighteenth century in which the number of deaths from smallpox fell below a thousand, and the average annual number of cases with fatal outcome was probably in excess of 2000 for the entire century. In that time one case of smallpox in every five terminated fatally, so that it will be concluded that there were on an av erage about 10,000 cases a year. In the course of a generation it was quite certain to make the rounds of the population. Almost no one escaped. It is probable that quite half the population of England at this time were deeply pockmarked. Ben Jonson, once poet laureate of England, wrote: Envious and foul disease, could there not be One peauti In an age (re from tbaT Macaulay, depicting conditions at the close of the seventeenth century, observes that "the disease over which science has achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories was then the most terrible of all ministers of death." It Is worth while to read Macaulay's descrip tion of the death, in 1694, of the young Queen Mary, if for no other purpose than to obtain a lucid Im pression of the difference between- then and now in this single par ticular. Smallpox, which always has inspired popular dread, and which over a long period caused one twelfth of deaths In England from every cause, was not only loath some and highly fatal, but it was a fruitful source of blindness, and it accounted for a large percentage of the permanently maimed. It was a factor of prime Importance in re tarding social and industrial effi ciency. It was so common that it became a literary synonym for ex treme contagiousness. "Poetry," said "Walpole, "is as universally con tagious as smallpox," and we may be certain that every reader felt the force of his simile. "Everyone catches It once In a lifetime at least, and the sooner the better." There is no malady against which science now possesses a surer and more complete safeguard. It is no longer a terror in those countries which have practiced vaccination, either as the result of education in public hygiene or through compul sory laws. Our own record in the Philippines furnishes a recent en lightening example. In- the six provinces near Manila, after the American occupation and adoption of vaccination measures, smallpox almost immediately lost its baneful character. Whereas previously there had been an average of about 6000 cases a year regularly, the death rate was reduced at once to negligible proportions, and deaths ceased alto gether among the vaccinated. Dr. Victor G. Heiser, sanitary director of the Philippines, reported that 2.000,000 were vaccinated by the United States authorities without any loss of life and without a single case of serious infection. Smallpox was eradicated from Cuba after the expulsion of Spain by compulsory vaccination laws, which were - en iorcea. previously it bad been a national scourge. Vaccination is now compulsory in the armies and navies of civilized countries. The result has been that smallpox is no longer a camp problem. To no other cause than universal vaccination can be attributed the common immunity which the vast armies engaged in the recent world war enjoyed. These striking facts are pertinent to the epidemic conditions now pre vailing in numerous communities In the United States, ana from which' neither Portland nor other parts of the state of Oregon are free. The number of cases now existing In Portland, and elsewhere in the state, although they are of relatively mild type, is at best inconvenient and at worst gravely disquieting. It is not as serious as the great plagues of a few centuries ago, but It Is bad enough. No one, it will be assumed, wants to contract smallpox, or is so anti-social as to be insensible to the danger to others. Smallpox remains loathsome, and contagious, and sometimes disfiguring. In a com munity in which it exists, no one can be quite sure of complete im munity; least of all those who have adopted no protective measures. There is disagreement, if at all, only as to methods of prevention and protection. But it seems to have been estab lished beyond reasonable doubt that isolation and quarantine, in them selves necessary and desirable, are not alone sufficient; that prudent men and women will avail them selves of the further immunity which scientific vaccination offers; and that in time of common peril, as from threatened epidemic, there will be loyal co-operation for the common good. Enlightened self-interest ought to supply a sufficient motive. That compulsion has not been suggested. and probably is not even contem plated, does not diminish individual duty. That there is some opposition, often sincere but more often founded on erroneous data, is not an excuse for apathy on the part of those who truly appreciate the possible gravity of the occasion. The prudent and open-minded will give consideration to the question whether it is not better to avail themselves of the protection thus open to them than to run the risks which neglect involves; and sense of duty to their, families and those of their neighbors will dictate the course so well justified by science and by history. The pretended dan gers of vaccination do not exist in the presence of modern technic, and the demonstrable benefits of vac cination weigh exceedingly heavy In the scale. A ril.VNCK FOR FAME. Th Oregonlan classes the Guard, along with the Corvallls Gazette-Times, as being "provincial." Since we don't know any more than The Oregonlan does Just what this term means, taken in connection with a discussion of the peace treaty, we are noi going to da very mucn incensea over the charge. If being in favor of the rat ification of the treaty and the ending of the war so that the country can get down to business is a symptom of "provincial ism," then we have the malady In a malignant form, and no mistake about It. The Gazette-Times, however, seems to be suffering from a different type of "provin cialism, since it has consistently ' opposed ratification of the treaty at All times on the very logical ground that President Wilson favors it. and thereby has in curred the displeasure of The Oregonlan, which advocates ratification some days and vehemently opposes it on other daya i ne eeitor or ine oregonlan would seem to be suffering more from nervous indi gestion than "provincialism" or any of the more fashionable diseases.- Kugene Guard. Not being troubled by nervous in digestion on this sunny January day, and still retaining some of the Christmas spirit (note that there is no final "s" on the word). The Ore gonian is benevolently inclined to make Its contemporary In Eugene a fair proposition. If the Guard will point out In the columns of The Oregonian a single expression from it in opposition to ratification of the treaty. The Orego nian will retract and sin no more. Now here is an easy way for the Guard to discomfit The Oregonian, if what the Guard says is true, and thereby acquire a reputation for clear reading and broad under standing. It will doubtless, never be clear to the Guard how one can support the treaty without supporting the presi dent in all else, or how one can criti cise the president's arbitrariness and technical blunders as regards treaty- making and treaty-ratifying without opposing the treaty too. It must be a dispensation of providence that some must feed on politics until it steals their' wits away. WHAT IS LOST BY DELAY. Senators who, whatever their dif ferences about the terms of the treaty, are united in the purpose that Germany shall be rendered powerless for further harm and shall atone for the Injuries It has done, also in the purpose to 'aid In preventing war, cannot be indifferent to the re action of the treaty deadlock be tween president and senate on af fairs in Europe. Germany acts with an eye on America, and all elements of discord find encouragement in the possibility that the United States will remain outside the league. Marshal Foch reports that Ger many has 1,200,000 men under arms. Reports come from Germany that ovations are still given to Hlnden burg and Ludendorff, that plots to restore the Hohenzollerns are at work and that prayers for the ex-kalser are still offered in many churches. Germany objects to the protocol which must be signed before the treaty comes into effect, especially refusing to admit culpability for sink ing the fleet at Scapa Flow. Nothing but force can compel Germany to execute a treaty in good faith, and the possibility that the United States may not Join its force to that of the allies causes the beaten but unre pentant nation to balk. The allies formerly awaited the as sent of President Wilson to a pro posed settlement of the Fiume dis pute, but now they appear to have an arrangement in mind which leaves the Croatian port to Italy, the latter conceding the point claimed by D'Annunzio, the poet filibuster. Again the Jugo-Slavs are to be sacrificed to military and po litical expediency, the seed of a fu ture war being planted. In Turkey the nationalists under the lead of Mustapha Ivemal Pasha are supreme, renew terrorism against the Armenians and threaten armed resistance to any cessions of territory. They gain courage from the possibility that the moral force and potential military power of the United States will not be with the allies. Thus one result, if the United States should not accede to the covenant, may be a new .lease of life for the unspeakable Turk. The United States has direct in terest in adoption of the treaty. By it we should be able to retain the 750,000,000 realized from sale of German property -in this country as compensation for the American ships and cargoes which Germany sank. Without a treaty Germany might claim restitution of that sum, also compensation for German ships seized by the government, while we should have to force payment for American property in Germany seized by the kaiser s government. The reparation commission would secure us In these particulars. An American member of that commis sion would also watch over our in terests in German trade and ,in the distribution of seized German ships. The most serious obstacle to re vlval of foreign trade Is the disturbed and uncertain economic conditions resulting from delay In final es tablishment of peace. Proportion ately the United States suffers in this respect as much as any nation. for our sales abroad depend on cred its to be given to foreign customers and on adjustment of exchange, the basis for which cannot be reached until the worst element of doubt the peace question has been re moved. When foreign commerce is set moving, there will be abundant employment for our ships, and for eign contracts for more ships will come to our shipyards. If President Wilson would assent to a compromise by the senate on reasonable reservations to the treaty, the way to final ratification would be cleared and the treaty would soon take effect- Germany would not dare to trifle further with a united world, and the normal conditions of peace would be restored. . A very high price is being paid for the gratification . of Mr. Wilson's self- will. France, under the pressure of ex treme necessity, plans to re-enact daylight saving law solely for eco - noniic reasons. There Is no senti- ment in the movement, no sugges tion that it means more leisure for the people to enjoy the beauties of twilight, but only an effort to do something which will conserve as much as possible the wholly Inade quate supply of fuel. It is a measure of national economy, and nothing else, a point that may commend itself to our own congress when, the issue is raised again. It is admitted by all that we ought to practice thrift and that conservation of fuel is one high form of thrift. If at the same tiinel daylight saving adds to the conven ience and even the pleasure of a ma. jority of the population, this is not an argument against it. The exam ple of France, and in particular the announced reason for it, ought to weigh heavily in the scale when the daylight saving measure is put to a vote again. WHERE HENS SET. The Oregonian is pained to' note that the "great detector of spurious English," the Walla Walla Bulletin, has decided the case of the sitting hen against The Oregonlan. In other words, the Bulletin say's that. a "set ting hen" is good grammar, and therefore correct English, and by ln ference.at least has ruled that "sit ting hen" is wrong. Thus finally are overruled those great authorities upon which The Oregonian, in common with many misguided millions of trusting per sons, has long relied to guide it through the mazes of good words and bad. Will the Bulletin be good enough to break the news as gently as possible to the mistaken makers of those ponderous, and now obvi ously worthless, volumes, the Stand ard, the Century and Webster's dic tionaries? What, alas! shall we also do about the Bible, which perpetrates the same grievous error, "The partridge sitteth on eggs and hateheth them not" (Jeremiah xvil-U)? But a hen sets, not sits, according to Walla Walla. Hereafter that an cient partridge must set on eggs. Perhaps, if the patient bird had gone about her task In true gram matical form, the results would have been more satisfactory, and, instead of a historic lamentation from the weeping Jeremiah, we should have had from him the radiant news of a happy accomplishment, all in the course of nature, which, after all, Is wonderful, and rarely fails In her phenomena. , The lexicographers all but Walla Walla, so far as we know hold that a hen sits, but the sun sets. When it sets it sinks from sight. Is that what happens to the hens at Walla Walla? NORMAN HAPGOOD AND OTHERS. Norman Hapgood Is so emphatic n his denial that he used his posi tion as minister to Denmark for the purpose of obtaining financial as sistance in this country for the Rus sian soviet republic as to suggest that his resignation at the time when British and bolshevist agents are meeting In Copenhagen to arrange exchange of prisoners is merely a coincidence. But it is also a coin cidence that the Danish government had consented to the meeting of James O'Grady, M. P., and M. Lit- vinoff, in Copenhagen on the dis tinct understanding that It should not extend to a general peace con ference and should not become the occasion for conferences between Litvlnoff and bolshevists from othei countries than Russia, or of bolshe vist propaganda. This coincidence is made the more pertinent by the fact that a Swedish socialist leader was sent home when he went to Copenhagen to meet Litvinoff. Shortly afterward Mr. Hapgood sud denly resigned after being charged with giving aid and comfort to the reds. . Under the circumstances, it is natural to speculate whether his going was wholly voluntary or was hastened by the Banish government- There would be less ground for this speculation or for giving cred ence to the charge made hy Har vey's Weekly If Mr. Hapgood's ante cedents did not encourage belief that he is just the kind of man to hobnob In a friendly way with a bolshevist envoy. As editor "of Col lier's Weekly he showed decidedly radical proclivities, and had a fellow-feeling for anything or anybody that was red politically. - What more natural than that such a man should break the species of quarantine in which Denmark had placed Litvinoff and should seek to play mediator be tween red Russia and America? If that be the true explanation of Mr. 'Hapgood's resignation, he is only one more of those radicals in the Wilson- administration who have overstepped the bounds of prudence in using their official positions to promote their radical ends. The record shows that It is held no crime to help the radicals and carry on their propaganda from the vantage point pi puoiio onice, put it is a Heinous crime to be caught at it and thereby to bring condemnation on the administration. The word of advice appears to have been "Be bold, but not too bold." For others have met the fate of Hapgood. W. C. Bullitt went to Russia on a peace mission from the American peace delegation at Paris to the so viet, with the approval of Lloyd George one of those missions which the originators can acknowledge If tney succeed, but can disown if they fail. Bullitt brought back an offer from Lenine, but the London Mail made such a violent protest that President Wilson disowned Bullitt, 200 British members of parliament telegraphed Lloyd George a warn ing to have no dealings with the soviet,, and he hurried home to ex plain. That ended Bullitt's useful ness. About the same time -George D. Herron, whose matrimonial ways were, to say the least, peculiar, and who induced his rich second wife to found the Rand school of social science that is, of socialism was appointed delegate to the proposed Prinkipo conference. As the pro posed conferees refused to confer, the conference was not held, and Herron fell by the wayside. His ap pointment having caused full exploi tation of his career there were no regrets on the part of Mr. Wilson. While the war was on, Felix Frankfurter was appointed a mem ber of th,e war labor policies board - one of the numerous boards which littered the landscape at that time and in the cause of industrial peace came to the Pacific coast and made reports which caused strife' In sev eral Industries. His Idea of war policies was a sort of diluted social ism, but he evidently Intended to give it to us straight as soon as we became used to the diet. The ar- j mistice ended his opportunity to be 1 conspicuously obnoxious, . John Bs Densmoret solicitor tQ the department of labor, and afterward assistant secretary of labor, made an investigation of the prosecution of Mooney, the convicted Preparedness day dynamiter and made a long re port to the effect that It was a frame-up and that the multiple mur derer was an innocent, persecuted champion of labor. Either for thla performance or because he is a nephew of Secretary Wilson, he was promoted, and in the higher office saved many alien reds from depor tation by over-ruling Commissioner of Immigration Caminetti. Being a nephew, he still holds his Job. The most distinguished service In preventing a wholesale, enforced exodus of reds was performed by Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, who advanced by degrees from advocacy of single tax to champion ship of reds of every shade. The law provides for- deportation of any member of a conspiracy to over throw the government or to destroy property, but he construed it to ap ply only to those who commit overt acts to those ends, thereby turning loose many reds to conspire again. He still holds the fort, while Attorney-General Palmer promises to deport reds by the thousand. It re mains to be seen whether Palmer has enough Influence to unseat him as an obstacle to the exodus. Frederick C. Howe was the third of a trio in- which Densmore and Post are the other two. As deputy commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island, he established friendly rela tions with Emma Goldman and at her Intercession turned loose 'many a worker for rule by the proletariat. So efficient were the three in pro tecting the reds against the law that of 697 arrested for deportation, only sixty were actually deported. The light of publicity being turned too glaringly on Howe, he was sup planted. It was reserved for Senator Wat-1 son of Indiana to flush a whole covey of reds from the office of the federal trade commission, all of whom, were commended by the com mission for their services in the In vestigation of th,e packers. Chief among them was Stuart Chase, who made the commission's Chicago office a center of socialist activities, founded the Fabian club, gathered around him such worthies as Victor Berger and Irvine St. John Tucker, rounded up the commission's employes at a meeting addressed by Berger and took up the cause of the conscientious objectors. He organ ized a meeting in Chicago at which Lincoln - Stef fens spoke in favor of recognizing the bolshevist govern ment of Russia, and he wrote an article excoriating the government for not doing bo. Samuel W. Tator, who had gen eral charge of the packer Investiga tion is an avowed admirer of Lenine and 'Trotxky, an active member of the Fabian club and was pronounc edly, against the allies. After the armistice was signed, he sent to his associates In the Chicago office a warning from the commission to cease revolutionary activity lest they get into trouble with the department of justice. The following were also employes of the federal trade com mission: A- S. Kravits, a Russian from Riga, Is an ardent socialist, intensely pro- German, an ardent admirer of Lenine and Trotzky and a personal friend of Lenine. Raphael Mallen, born in the United States but raised -in Mexico, was a preacher but was expelled from his church for his socialist ut terances, has written for socialist publications, frequently waved a red flag at meetings of federal trade commission employes, said' that his home had been raided several times by the government and was under constant suspicion by the govern ment. Basil L. Manley ' is a member of the Fabian club, ' a frequent con tributor to radical publications and wrote seditious articles for Recon struction. He was appointed to the war labor board to succeed France P. Walsh, also a radical. Johann G. Ohsol was once a mem ber of the Russian duma, was exiled to Siberia, escaped and came to America, where ' he expressed admiration- for bolshevlsm and its leaders. Senator -Watson gave similar facts about Martin L. Sorber. Daniel A. Kemper, .Irs. Baldwin, stenographer to the commission and an anarchist of the most pronounced type, and Earl S. Haines, all employes ot the commission. When the attorney general starts to round . up the reds, he will not need to go far from home. He may well begin with the department of labor and the federal trade commis sion at Washington, and then extend his activity to their various branches all over the country. But if he should be faithful and should not be called off, the ranks of the Wilson admin istration will be sadly depleted when he gets through. . Herbert Hoover Is to address Ore gon democrats at the Jackson day banquet. It Is perhaps too much to hope that this will inspire any of the other speakers to Hooverize In their addresses. And now the Bagdad railroad, one of the causes of the great war. Is to be completed. But It will not be the kaiser who drives the golden spike. If Hoover should happen to be elected president we could at least hope for a little Hooverlzlng In this writing of diplomatic notes. The Du Pont powder mills have resumed exploding. One at Wil mington took the air yesterday with ordinary casualties. This will be the best census of re ord because many women are taking it. Being their first effort, nothing will be missed. One unfortunate thing about the new year is the necessity of paying the old year's Christmas bills. Even a mild-mannered man feels his gorge rise at sight of the pound wagon and captured dogs. Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific coast in 1513. Now. Har vard has discovered it- There seems always to be an open season on members of the fish and game commission. Bryan-will make his standing start in Michigan. Ho, Henry! Do you get that? It might be a good thing to de port some of the alienists, too. How many have you broken so fax! INDUSTRIAL, PEACE) POSSIBLE: Larger Use of Portland Chamber of Commerce Urged. PORTLAND, Jan. 2. (To the Edi tor.) We are talking a great deal about the league of nations and inter national peace, but no league of na tions and no peace in Europe would be of any value and of small com fort to us in Portland If Portland was torn with strikes, lockouts and blood shed as at Gary. Pittsburg and other strike centers. Really, the supreme need of Port land is industrial peace, because with out industrial peace you cannot have industrial productivity. The on is dependent upon the other. And the future of Portland as a leader among the Industrial centers of this state is dependent upon both. Now, industrial peace can be built up fn one way, and one way only, namely, by organisation of good fellowship and co-operation between capital and labor, as definitely and efficiently organized as a manufac turers' association or trades union. Also, the Chamber of Commerce as the unit or central council represent ing the best intelligence of both, be cause It is the combined intelligence of both capital and labor, which pro duces all wealth. Our faith has been tremendously strengthened by the number of Amer ica's biggest leaders, both on the side of capital and labor, who have ac cepted and are working out their mu tual peace and prosperity on the same principles which I am now suggesting manufacturers .and employers, such as Charles Schwab, J. M. McCormlck. J. D. Rockefeller ' Jr., Henry Ford, John Ryan, Eldon Keith and many others; labor leaders such as Samuel Gompers, W. S. Carter, John Fitz gerald, Frank Morrison. Miss Mary Anderson, and, above all, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, with its 40,000 members, operators and men, playing 50-50 and the square deal all the time. And also our two leading statesmen. President Wilson and ex-President Taft. - We call these men great Industrial leaders. Why are they leaders? What makes leadership? It Is because they are the men who live in the present as if it were the future. And the men who are not leaders are the men who live in the present as if it were the past, and there Is no past. What applies to leadership among men applies equally to cities. And if Portland is to take its place in the van of the cities in this state and in this nation Portland must live more in the present as If It were the fu ture, rather than as if it were the past. It is Interesting to notice how the conservative autocratic capitalists on the one hand, and the socialist lead ers on the other, are both back num bers. Both are decadent forces In the industrial world today because po litical democracy, which Is the great world force today, cannot be organ ized on the basis of class Interest. Class Interest must give' way to community Interest. The word "la-. bor as applied to the hand worlrer is today but the echo of a dead nast. The only solidarity which counts against the revolutionary and de structive forces of today Is the trln ity of capital, labor and community. The chamber of commerce of today must represent not merely the manu facturer and the banker of commerce. out every ractory, every man and woman who is adding his or her quota or industrial output, which is the only real commerce of Portland today. Also, an industrial service depart ment is a vital and Integral depart ment oi me cnamoer or commerce. To Invite those who do the work into the councils of those who direct .t is no great sacrifice of authority To Increase production is service, not to mo, owner or woraer only, but to the whole-community. " We need fear no revolution, foe the tools sooner or Jater will go Into the hands of those who can use them 'best for the whole community. Thla is a democratic country and we do- not believe that the genius of America rests solely in any one iragment or our producing body. The call is for an Increasing combination of all our producing forces, brains, backs and brother hood. We live near to great and won derful deeds. We have an example in those who fought and died in or der that this nation might be pre served. It is for us in our turn to make this country worthy of their sacrifice. They died to establish in ternational peace. Let us live to es tablish industrial peace at our own doors, and especially in the chamber of commerce here In Portland. HARRY PHILIPS. Alcasar Players Deserve Support. PORTLAND, Jan. 2. (To the Edi tor.) Certainly every citizen who has a regard for the good name of Portland hopes that the rather be lated effort to Insure the retention of the Alcazar Musical Players for the remainder of the season will suc ceed. For years there has been a general wish that we had such a com pany to supply a gap In our local en- icriiuinitni iieia. ana now that we have a.n excellent musical stock or ganization it seems almost criminal to lose it through a sheer lack of ap preciation. It is doubtless true that n.. zar company is not excelled by any VuxjiiiK uuisiag or Aew xork city, as has often been claimed, and no effort should he left, unmade to Insure its sufficient support. The five principal actors and three act resses, together with a splendid cho rus, afford an unusually we'.l-balanced company and It will be a shame if a city of 300,000 people falls to support ii euinusiasticany. a. B. C. Literature on -South America. SERVICE CREEK. Or., Deo 31. (To the Editor.) I would like to obtain literature on Smith Amai-in. Could you tell me where I could get some? , JOHN E. BUTLER. Write to the Bulletin of the Pan America Union, Washington, D. C Orlcta of Lines Waated. PORTLAND, Jan. 2. (To the Edi tor.) Who can give the origin of the lines: Where the green Multnomah wanders Through a valley of the west. And the thunder shakes his turban Over Allegheny's crest. W. H. W. Rattled by Authority. EUGENE, Or.. Jaa. 2. (To the Ed itor.) Although I am a strong friend of the governor. I am bound to admit that your strong and well-merited rebuke of the 30th of December, meets my entire approbation. A lit tle brief authority rattled his excel lency. R. M. THOMPSON. Figures of 1810 Census. SOUTH BEACH. Or Dec. 81. (To the Editor.) What Is the population of the United States and of Chicago, as enumerated at thoJast census? -A READER. United States, 1.972,266: Chicago, 2.1S5.283. McConmack In. Vaudeville. PORTLAND, Or.. Jan. 1. (To the Editor.) Please tell me if John Mc Cormack, the singer, ever appeared on the Orpheum circuit In Portland and where? A READER. H has not. . . i . Those Who Come and Go. "Some night an automobile load of j people will go through the bridge I across Youngs Bay and be drowned," predicted Mayor E. N. Hurd of Sea- j side, at the Imperial. "The bridge Is very d a n g e r o u s hardly strong enough to hold up a wheelbarrow, yet It is dally subjected to heavy truck and automobile traffic The other night, while returning from Astoria, a truck in front of my car knocked out a plank' and I had just time to swing my car around the hole. 1 could look through it down to the water. The county commissioners have placed warning signs but the traffic continues. The county can not afford to rebuild the bridge, but is willing to pay one-third for a new structure. The state highway com mission rejected all bids submlttod for rebuilding a week ago and tha people down in Clatsop county are feeling mighty unkindly toward the highway commission." It was Mayor Hurd who had charge of releasing 30 elk between Cannon Beach and Sea side a few days ago. One of the ani mals hurt the mayor's hand. Thei-e is a band of 75 big elk already in that vicinity." Thomas Nelson, president of the Co-Operative Cannery at Astoria, was at the Imperial yesterday. Mr. Nelson was appointed to the board of pilot commissioners but was re cently removed at the request of the Astoria post of the American Legion because of his refusal to discharge from the cannery a man the legion objected to. Mr. Nelson has taken his dismissal into the courts. Ha says that he is still a pilot commis sioner and in ulner Governor Olcott and Frank Sweet, harbormaster of Astoria, the man appotnted as his successor by the governor. The case will be argued in Portland January 8. According to Mr. Nelson, there are only two reasons why a member of the commission can be canned. One is for Inefficiency and the other Is neglect of duty, and Governor Ol cott did not dismiss him for either of these reasons. "If It would be less expensive to shift the railroad rather than make some heavy cuts, the railroad com pany has suggested that the moving of the tracks be made," says Mr. Devers, legal adviser for the state highway commission, who was in Portland yesterday on right-of-way matters. "The Union Pacific system has shown a disposition to be agree able with the road work," continued Mr. Devers, "probably realizing that in time the state highways will be used by trucks which will haul freight down to the railroads and In this way tha .railroad will get the business without the cost of building branch lines." Mr. Devers has been adjusting some 24 encroachments of the state highway system on the railroad company's right-of-way in Morrow county. Jason C. Moore of Summer Lake Is registered at the Hotel Oregon, with Mrs. Moore. A few years ago Mr. Moore was the center of a great deal of publicity and controversy In Ore gon. He planned to lease Summer and Abert lakes- from the state and pipe the water over to the Deschutes canyon and let it flow by gravity down to the confluence of the Des chutes and the Columbia, where the water would be evaporated and the mineral salts extracted. It looked like a big undertaking which would em ploy a large number of men and would Involve vast capital, and as times were slow, the prospect of the employment and Investment of out side money gave the proposed enter prise unusual attention. Later Mr. Moore had difficulties over his option on the lake lease. Lakevlew Is so far from Portland that as a rule the Lakevlew people do business with California rather than with the Rose City. But O. M. Corkins of Lakevlew arrived at the Multnomah yesterday and F. M. Thompson registered at the Hotel Oregon. Lakevlew expects to see considerable highway work under way this year, as the projects called for will be started as soon as pos sible by the state . highway commis sion. The county has agreed to make a substantial contrbutlon in the way of road bonds for co-operation and the highway commission has made plans accordingly. The millionaire kid. J. G. Richard son, again registered at the Hotel Oregon yesterday and again he toted $1,000,000 of state highway bonds to Portland from Salem and delivered them to buyers In this city. They were Vz per cent bonds, part of the $10,000,000 Issue authorized when Mr. Richardson was a member of the leg islature last February. Incidentally, Mr. Richardson Intends returning to his seat when the special session la called, as he says there Is nothing to the rumor that be resigned from the legislature when he accepted the position of deputy state treasurer. George Gore pf St. Helens was in the city from St. Helens to talk over the football game. Mr. Gore won the croIx de guerre, three silver stars and a few other honors and decorations while In France. - District Attorney Metsker of Columbia county is re ported to have said that he would resign about the first of the year and If he makes good on his promise, there will be a petition sent to the governor to have Mr. Gore appointed to fill the vacancy. A. A Smith, who was conceded to be the orator of the 1919 session of the legislature, which should not be mistaken as windjamming, the popu lar Indoor sport of the solons. Is reg istered at the Benson from his home at Baker. Mr. Smith is one of the few democrats In the lower house. Ac companying him Is Blaine Hallock. also of Baker, but formerly of Port land. S. C. Morton, editor of the St. Helens Mist, which was established 34 years ago, when one of the Impor tant industries of the town, was the digging of Belgian blocks from the basaltio cliffs alonir the shore of the Columbia, was at the Imperial yester day. Mr. Morfton was foiynerly Judge of Columbia county, appointed by the late Governor Wlthycombe. F. D. Small Is In favor of continu ous fishing In the waters of the Pa cific ocean, and does not believe In having the privilege of deep-sea fish ing curbed. Mr. Small, who Is con ducting a cannery at Bay City, on Tillamook bay. Is at the Hotel Ore gon while attending the conference of packers now In session. M. J.Shoemaker of Roseburg, one of whose claims to fame Is that he is the father of the state game warden, Carl Shoemaker, was In Portland on business yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Hudson of Bend arrived at the Benson yesterday morning and left out last night for San Francisco. Mr. .Hudson is presi dent of a bank at Bend. Mrs. Henry J. Bean, wife of the associate- Justice of the Oregon supreme court. Is in the city with her daugh ter and is registered at the Hotel Portland. A. G. Beals. a former member of the legislature, resident of Tillamook, was registered at the Imperial yes terday. C. G. Knight, representative of the Pacific Coast Steel company of Seat tle, la registered at the Multnomah. More -Truth Than Poetry. By Jame Montatrue. THE NEW ALIBI. London Explanations of Joe Beck ett's defeat by Georges Carpentier on the ground that the latter exerted some occult force has many warm ad herents among those who did not see the battle. Cable dispatch. When a pug who views the madly howling fight fans Through a devastated, macerated lamp. Of a sudden realizes, as he painfully arises. That he's lost the proud entitlement of champ. For some soothing and consoling ex planation Of his soul-appalling loss he casts about. And he decides that though the punches of his rival came in bunches. It Is really occult force that knocked him out. Here's an alibi the kaiser should have thought of When he bumped against the bris tling allied line. And his badly frightened legions hur ried rearward toward the re- glons i That were safe behind the yellow, I sheltering Rhine. He could claim that every time his men were routed By the Yankees, French or English, foot and horse. That they never, were defeated, but most prudently retreated When their armies felt the grip of occult force. Now we understand the reason prohi bition Swept the country from New Mexico to Maine. While the liquor-loving masses that compose the drinking classes Found their wild appeals and pro tests were In vain. The "majority were backers of the "demon. But along about the first of last July. While a wholly helpless nation poured Its lingering last libation. There appeared an occult force and made us dry. Tou and I. beloved reader, may dis cover. When we try to be the country's richest man. That John D. and sundry others of our predatory brothers Still retain the front position in the van. But we needn't fret our souls with useless worry. Or become unhappy victims of' re morse; We'd have easily succeeded If we hadn't been Impeded On the road to boimdles wealth by occult force. e . In Restraint of Trade. Rhode Island is going to attack the supreme court's dry law decision, probably on the ground that it will ruin the New Year resolution Indus try. Prohibition Follows the Flag. We know a number of people who have stopped talking about the ad vantages of annexing Cuba. - Almost Hopeless. Now they are trying to make Ger many safe for democracy, but nobody is very optimistic about it. WHOLESOME OUTLOOK Ol'R SEED People Must Aid Statesmen Who En deavor to Klsrht the .World. PORTLAND, Jan. "5. (To the Edi tor.) At the present time a mist surrounds this old earth and the peo ple on It a mist ot discord and un rest. Those of us who can not see through it are Indeed unfortunate and needful of assistance. There is a future, there is a day coming, when this mist must rise and once again leave our visions true and whole some. Until that moment, there are bound to be collisions of state and country, of people and class. There fore let us of those who have vision and faith and trust in our principles make every move possible to steady the doubtful. There Is no greater evil today than bolshevlsm and Its propaganda. With out It we would be 100 per cent bet ter off. With it we are 100 per cent in the hole. Unity of state and gov ernment, of country, is the keynote to prosperity. Why It is that such impediments should fall on the road over which we all should travel, as a nation. Is not recorded, and Indeed not Justifiable? We have men of to day, brilliant men. devoting their en tire time to the uprighting of all un desirable conditions, nationally, and Internationally, but how Is It pos sible for their efforts to bear fruit without the aid of the populace? As a citizen of this grand old Unit ed States and as a veteran of four major operations In the world war I appeal to each and every loyal Amer ican to do his bit help to abolish the abnormal conditions now existing. E. L. W. I Triumphs and Tragedies of Early Days on the River The second and closing installment of De Witt Harry's thrilling: narrative of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, and of the craft and captains that pioneered thereon, appears in the Sunday issue, with a half page of illustrations. Every paragraph of this yarn radiates the personality of men whose deeds are yet talked of along the water front, and of ships that steam no more, but masters and vessels they were who opened the great inland waterway of the west. DOES THE WORLD NEED A MARRIAGE BUREAU? It may be that the much maligned and jested matrimonial agency was the first dim striving toward an international necessity a marriage bureau that will feature official match-making and that will bring the lonesome ones together, though continents and seas stretch between. In the Sunday issue there is a speculative account of the view3 of Winifred Graham, British novelist, on this proposal, which 6he thinks is altogether splendid. AT THE HEAD OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST CORPORATION If his whiskers were a yard long one wouldn't be surprised, but the fact is that Walter C. Teagle, president of Standard Oil, is just 40 years of age a young fellow who rose from well-digger to the first desk of the first financial giant in the country. They eay that "push" instead of "pull" wrought the ends that he sought. At any rate he's there, and a Sunday magazine story tells about his rise. INTO THE TRACKLESS JUNGLE WHERE SOLITUDE CRUSHES More than all other rivers together, even as its great current is mightier, does romance cling to the unfathomed reaches of the Amazon. Wildernesses where the first vestige of civilization has yet to come, jungles where paths may only be won by the edge of a matchete, tribes where the poisoned arrow is still the vogue these and more are the everyday stock of the Amazon. In the Sunday issue there is the story of the explorer who found a grand piano, a luxurious home and a skilled musician hundreds of miles beyond the last border of civilization which indicates that ex ceptions but prove the rule. HAS THIS GIRL REVEALED AN AGE-LONG MYSTERY? In the new national park of Utah, Zion canyon, there looms a great face that holds the secret of a vanished race, the cliff dwellers whose homes were the clefts that hang dizzily on the canyon wall. .It is Miss Margaret Yard, of Washington, D. C, who seems to be on the verge of revelations regarding the long-concealed wonders of the ancients. In the Sunday magazine section, with illus trations, is a comprehensive story on Zion canyon and its mystery. All the News of All the World THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN An Autumn Painting. By Ursce K. Hall. The golden sun was pinking in a bank of orange fluff. From the rail fence one lone songs ter flung his notes; Every maple, ash and scrub oak wore a gown of green and buff. While the stubble told of garnered wheat and oats; Far from habitat of mortal, la the splendid sunset glow, Rose a gaunt red bridge outlined against the trees. While beneath the blue-green water seemed too indolent to flow. Not a ripple trembled up from teas ing breeze. A silver mirror, with no flaw upon Its glistening face. Lay between the banks that framed It, smooth and still Leaning bushes cast their bronze and red reflections, and a trace Of green came down from fir trimmed friendly hill; Every sapling 'long the silent course threw gorgeous colors down To mingle with the tints within the stream. Not e'en a restless minnow stirred the shallows edged with brown. To displace so much as one rich, beauteous gleam. Peace! From the restful brook th:it night, which waited on Its way. Reflecting beauties that were clus tering near. There came a silent message to be cherished many a day, A picture to recall when scenes are drear; I brought that avrtumn painting home. It hangs on memory's wall. And It baffles skill of any artist's brush: A still stream banked by autumn trees, a lone bird's plaintive call. And the golden glory of the sunset hush! LAW TO KEEP PREIIDEXT ROME Correspondent Would Make Former Precedent LeKal One. PORTLAND, Jan. 2. (To the Edi tor.) I have a suggestion: Why not a plank In the republican platform asking congress to pass an act pro viding for a constitutional amendment making it unlawful for the president of the United States to leave the soil and waters of the United States dur ing his term of office penalty, for- leiture oi orrice? Human nature Is much the same. There are few but like to be lauded and flattered and if we do not have some such safeguard we shall again find ourselves without a president- In the past we have in a measure been protected by precedent. True Mr. Cleveland went fishing outside the three-mile limit and Mr. Roose velt visited the Panama zone. But now that precedent is broken to smithereens. There is none of us who wants to see our presidents degenerate in to mere figure heads. We want them to be the real business head of the nation. That tlrey can not be and be over In Europe. Then there Is the dollar and cents side to the question. It cost real money to send our president on a visit and if he visits we must ex pect to entertain. If there Is any surplus money lets have more good roads. Then all can benefit. One can hardly bo entertained royally and not feel under obliga tions to his host and the only obli gation a president should have Is to own people. I am not a politician but a citizen of good old U. S. A C. S. HONE. 203 Twelfth street- Costs on Foreclosure. PORTLAND. Jan. 2. (To the Edi tor.) A loaned B a sum of money on a small acreage of land In Oregon and took a deed and contract for se curity. The money is overdue for two years. Now, If A forecloses will A have to stand the expense of fore closure and Interest lost? , A SUBSCRIBER. Accrued Interest and costs would be Included In the Judgment. If on fore closure sale the property failed to satisfy the judgment you could ob tain a deficiency judgment for the remainder, assuming that the note and mortgage were not for a portion of the purchase price. Whether you could realize on the deficiency judg ment would depend on whether tha debtor had anything to attach. Removal of Service -Klas. EDDYVILLE, Or., Dec. 31. (To the Editor.) One of our communities wishes to remove the service flag from the wall and place It in safe keeping and would like to be informed of the ceremony incident to this action. Would you kindly inform us? S. T. LOUDON. There are no set formalities. Any respectful exercises would be appropriate.