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THE 3IORXIXG ORECOXIA", MOXDAT, .TAXTJARY .". 1020. itttrrniujj 0rcmtmn tfcTABI.ISHKD BY IfFNRY t. PITTOCK. Published bv The Oregonian Publishing Co.. Sixth Street, Portland. Cii-won. C. A. MQRDKN, " E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian Is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the Tocal news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispattfb.es herein are alao reserved Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Dally, Sunday rhrluded, one year $8.00 Iui!y, Sunday included, six months .... 4.'2T Dally. Sunday included, three months.. ;- tjfttly, Sunday included, one month ..... -7." Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sur.day, six months .... 3.25 Oaiiy, without Sunday, one month fl0 "Weekly, one year 1.00 .Sunday, one year 2.50 Kunday and weekly 3.50 ( By Carrier.) Tally. 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Wholesale arrests of communist conspirators against the United States have yielded evidence that the steel and coal strlkea were instigated by the communists as the beginning of a revolution, and that the failure of the steel strike and the settlement of the coal strike were staggering defeats for them. Their hope was that those strikes would result in serious armed conflict leading to civil war a war not between two sections of the country, but one dividing the people into classes, in flaming them to bitter enmity, and setting neighbor against neighbor in every city, town and village. Attorney-General Palmer has act ed with commendable vigor in this emercpnpv. (lantnre nf thft leaders and other active workers simultane ously at all points takes away the brains of the organizations and leaves the rank and file without guiding hands. For a time the organizations have been broken up, but owing to strange defects in the law, which can be explained only by that innate re luctance of believers in democracy to deprive men of their liberty until they have been convicted of crime, the opportunity remains to form the ranks anew by giving bail for those under arrest. The extreme liberality of the government against which these people have conspired permits them, on giving bail, to i main free until they have been convicted and again until their appeal has been de cided. Thus they may continue to conspire while the courts are decid ing whether they are guilty of con spiracy and wlTat shall be the pen alty. An alien, conspirator may ob tain his freedom on $1000 bail and may resume his activity until ac tually deported. W. D. Haywood was convicted sixteen months ago, but, being at liberty under bail pending appeal, he has continued his effort to destroy the republic throughout that period. The absurdity of such laws in times of national peril is obvious. They are nets from which most of the fish escape. .The reds do not hesitate to take full advantage of all safeguards for liberty in their efforts to destroy democracy. They have provided abundant funds for bail of I members who fall into the hands of the law, to be counted as part of the cost of their war on what they call the bourgeois. A man released on bail is promptly lost among the mass of the population. To keep under constant watch the thousands who have been taken into custody would employ at least twice their number of men a small army. On the same principle that liberty on bail is denied to an accused mur derer it should be denied to any per son who is accused of conspiracy to murder the republic. National self defense comes before the personal rights, the fundamental, conditions of which are flagrantly violated by those who are readiest to claim them. Conspiracy against the gov ernment, or advocacy in any form of its overthrow, should be added to the list of nonbailable offenses. Although the government maynot yet have been able to obtain legal evidence that Martens, the self-styled ambassador from bolshevist Russia, is the directing head of the con spiracy, there need be no doubt of the fact. His close connection with the Rand school of social science, the activity of Russians in the revolu tionary strikes of last spring, the rapid spread of red . propaganda which followed his arrival, the very large proportion of Russians and Germans among the prisoners, and the large sums of money, received from a mysterious source, which he has been disbursing, all point to him as the chief organizer and director of the conspiracy' knd to Russia as the source of funds. He should be de ported. There is work for all loyal Ameri cans to do in order to defeat utterly the attempt to embroil us in a class war. Classes in the sense in which the term is used in Europe are an exotic in this country, imported with socialism, communism and interna tionalism by the aliens who form the backbone of the red conspiracy. The idea could not have taken root here without feeding on some sense of wrong among a part -of our own people and without ignorance of our institutions among immigrants. Americans can effectively fight the alien enemy by combatting to remove that sense of wrong and that ignor ance. The danger which, we may now hope, has been removed is a summons to all loyal Americans to close ranks and to make class war Impossible. It is a summons to em ployers and workmen, the vast ma jority of whom are loyal, to come together, to recognize that they are partners in the work of production, to realize that their prosperity is de rived from the general public and to act upon that belief. Weakness in our own government or economic system invites enemies to attempt its destruction: our best defense is to remove this weakness. Notwithstanding the claims made for other countries concerning their promptness in providing for the re training of their wounded soldiers, it already appears to be true that the United States will re-educate more men than any other country. About "5.000. or 8 per cent of the wounded, have already sought the privilege of vocational training and the Federal Vocational Training Board expects that thousands more will avail them selves of the opportunity. If our ex perience were based on that of Prance and Great Britain, it is esti mated that -we would be providing for only 19,000, &r 8 per cent. Instead of the number cited. This is partly due to the - comparative youth of American soldiers, which makes them avid for education, but it is also largely attributed to the fact i that our measures are more attrac tive. Provision for education in the soldier's home community and for lines of work of his own choice has been made by the United States to a greater extent than by any other country in the world. THE STANDPATTER. The Oregonian has more than once said that it is for the treaty and league with or without reservations. The only alternative Is no treaty and no league. President Wilson, in his present frame of mind, is for no compromises and no concessions. . No compromises and no conces sions! That means no dotting ot an "I" or crossing of a "t". We should like to hear from tho autocratic democratic newspaper chorus of Oregon what they think of the attitude of the president. They say nothing, and probably will say nothing, except tearfully to criticise those who criticise the president Yet there are obvious signs of a break-up in the democratic senate minority. Some of them would save the treaty and league from wreck if they gan. They -are in practical re volt against the White House. They refuse longer to be ring-nosed, hog tied and branded. They want re sults. A great part of the republi can majority wants the same thing. That is what The Oregonian favors. Are the democratic senators . right or is the president right? Shall the treaty be ratified with reservations? Or shall it be ratified not at all? Let us hear from the newspaper voices of the democratic party. But we won't hear. They will not' say an Intelligent wjrd, except that a republican senate prevents a demo cratic president from having his way. What way? With whom? With his own party? ' COMMISERATION'S. All sympathetic folk will join the Jackson club in its regret over failure to secure Herbert Hoover either as a guest of honor at its banquet or as its candidate for president. The need for a distinguished guest of honor is obvious. Great though may have been the character and achievements of Andrew Jackson, a recounting of them, and nothing else, year after year is bound to become wearisome. The desire for . a candi date is hardly less obvious. On corresponding date there is to be a great democratic banquet in Washington city. All the"- known members of the Order of Democratic Presidential Possibilities are to be there except McAdoo.. Bryan, Pal mer, Pomerene, Cox, Gerard, Under wood, Hitchcock and Champ Clark all will be present. Here is a list that includes both variety and interest. Yet it does not interest the Jackson club of Portland. The club wants a candidate of its own. ' The banquet might have been made an event unique in politics and historical in results. The launching by a democratic organization of a campaign to elect a president com monly reputed to have been a life long republican and political admirer of Theodore Roosevelt would indeed be a novelty -with tremendous conse quences. But it was not to be. Now the banquet 'will be commonplace. Less than that. There is not even promise of the once common refreshment so thoroughly reputed to be productive of at least temporary enthusiasm. SENATOR BORAH'S QUESTIONS. " Senator Borah's questions regard ing the Versailles treaty, addressed to candidates for the republican presidential nomination, assume the truth of his own false assumptions in regard to the purpose and effect of the league of nations. They arc an evident attempt to make the treaty an. issue within the republican party during the ' pre-convention campaign and, if possible, at the election. The senator has misinter preted as the sentiment of repub licans in general the sporadic ex pression of opposition to any league and the more general demand for reservations which, while not pre venting the United States from doing its part in keeping the peace of the world, will protect American in terests. When Mr. Torah asks Governor Lowden whether he favors a policy by which the United States would "enter into understandings and com binations which would embroil us in all ?:uropean conflicts and turmoils," he asks about a policy which no man or party has proposed. It is ; pro posed that we enter a league with all law-abiding nations, not . only of Europe, but of the whole World, to prevent "conflicts and turmoils" in Europe or any other continent. That policy is favored by a great major ity of Americans of all parties. I No man has proposed that "we should abandon the policy of no en tangling alliances, no partnerships with European powers, and enter into alliances and understandings with European powers."- A league by which we agree to co-operate with all nations in promoting the general peace -of the world is not an "en. tangling alliance," a "partnership" or an "understanding" with any one or a few nations. His statement that "powerful forces in this country, co-operating with equally powerful and persistent forces in" Europe, are determined to draw the United States into associa tion and partnership with European powers" is an obvious appeal to prejudice by insinuating that the "powerful forces" referred to have some secret, selfish end to serve. The truth is that we have already been drawn into European affairs, and could not pull out if we would. There are "powerful forces," namely the deliberate opinion of the great ma jority of the American people, that are determine! to have this nation do its share in keeping the peace. There is no secrecy about the mat ter, as he suggests. The covenant is public and under it no secret treaty or agreement would be valid. The statement that it is proposed "to utilize our young men in policing the territories and fighting the rad ical and dynastic battles of the old world" is an appeal to that fear on which the pacifists played prior to 1917. and to projudice against mon archy which ignores the fact that in all except a few remote barbarous states monarchies have become dem ocratic and their people no longer fight for dynastic reasons. Such stuff is out of date, and will not mis lead well-informed people. If there should be no league, there would be danger that our young men would have to fight in distant lands: its organization will be the most effect ive means of avoiding that necessity. The senator's questions betray a desire to carry the league contro versy into the next campaign, even if it split the republican party. They seem to be asked in the interest of Senator Hiram Johnson's candidacy for the republican nomination. Jhe latter is opposed to any league, but he is also an advocate of government ownership of railroads, thus showing a leaning to the new labor party, and Mr. Borah is his chief backer. He has wofully mistaken the trend of public opinion if he imagines that any ; considerable proportion of the republican party would follow him to Adullam. The loss caused by any split which they "might effect would be so slight as not to be noticeable. As Mr. Taft points out, the Idaho senator has often threatened to bolt, but has never bolted, and his asso ciates resemble him in the respect that they "do not recognize party allegiance at all except for the pur poses of organization." There is no danger that he will bolt, for the dem ocratic party is. as strongly for the league as is the republican, and, as Mr: Taft says, his "only refuge would be a third party of radical laborites, pro-Germans, non-partisan leaguers and Sinn Feiners." Even Mr. Borah may well draw back from associa tion with such a political conglomer ation. He will not succeed in com mitting the republican party to oppo sition to the league, and it is safe to predict that he will settle down to his present nominal political alle giance until another opportunity offers to muddy the waters by em phasizing the points on which he dis agrees with his party. NO PLACE TO GO. The attorney for those I. W. W.'s accused of the Centralia murders, in his search for an open-minded com muntly, has not yet suggested a change of venue to the Fifth Wis consin congressional district. The Fifth Wisconsin congressional district -is so far from being preju diced against a man who is merely under indictment that it prefers for political honors one who has been convicted and sentenced. But the suggestion, of course, would be useless. It is a provision of law that a person accused of murder must be tried In the state in which the murder was committed. All the inflamed proletarians will at once recognize in this criminal law a violation of personal liberty estab lished by the bourgeois to protect themselves from being murdered in the Interests of the revolution. Noth ing like It, could happen in soviet Russia. There the newspapers print little but government edicts. The ideal jury one that has never read anything or formed any opinions ought there to be found ceadily without a change of venue. HUNTING THE THUNDER LIZARD. The paleontologists probably are right in accepting with extreme re serve the tale from the interior of Africa that a strange beast, a kind of combination of rhinocerous, kan garoo and giraffe, much magnified, which has been seen by native hunt ers, may be a brontosaurus, who by chance has survived the unmeasured centuries since his supposed extinc tion. There are instances where scientific deduction may lead to a- more accurate conclusion than fal lible human testimony. The native hunter in the wilds of Africa Is un trained as a reporter; his observa tions may have been warped .by fright, or a vivid imagination, or other extrinsic circumstances. But the paleontologist properly equipped for his job knows a few things about weighing evidence. The weight of evidence is all against the existence of a brontosaurus in the present age. "Bronte," meaning "thunder" in Greek, and "saurus," for "lizard," give us an adequate conception of what the early scientists thought of the nature of this strange creature of the Jurassic time before, in all probability, our Cascade mountains or. even our Coast range had come into- existence. The fossil sharps have succeeded in reconstructing it from certain remains which in dicate pretty clearly that it attained a length of sixty feet, that it weighed more than twenty tons, had a short, thick body, a monstrous tail, a long and slender neck, a small head and -a horn near the end of its .nose. ' Its footprint covered a square. yard.' Its bones were solid, not hollow, as with others of its con temporaries, and it is supposed that it possessed enormous strength and feeding capacity. - .But it has been shown that it takes something else than massiveness to survive in the struggle for existence. The .weak point of the brontosaurus was in its head, a point that carries its own- moral. It is surmised from fossil remains that the creature had little or no intelligence. Thus handi capped, it was a prey to every crafty enemy. Long ago the last bronto saurus lay down and died for sheer want of mental adaptability. It couldn't reason, and it didn't have guile enough to protect itself. Na ture relegated it to the tomb of the unfit. ' IS THE DREADNOUGHT OBSOLETE? Within a short time the United States launched a new dreadnought which had cost about $15,000,000 and Great Britain decided to scrap the battle cruiser which led Sturdee's squadron at the battle of the Falk land islands, . though it had been in service only twelve years and a war ship's period of usefulness has hith erto been held to be twenty years. The action of the British govern ment may easily have some connec tion with the future use of aircraft in naval war. That government has ruthlessly condemned warships since hostilities ceased, including some which would have been thought to have much fight in them. It may have been influenced by Lord Fish er's campaign for radical change of naval policy in the light of the ev perience of the war. His opinion is that surface ships will be at the mercy of aircraft, and that the dreadnought of the future must be a vessel which can dive at sight of an airplane in order to avoid bombs. Although the battleship is the most powerful vessel, new develop ments have constantly , called for more means for its defense. The torpedoboat was designed to sink it with a single shot below the water line and caused the destroyer to be built for its protection. The sub- marine followed, and called for more powerful and speedier d-1 stroyers, also for swift scout cruisers to give warning of the enemy.' In- troduction of mines, . both drifting! and anchored, caused mine-sweepers ' to go in advance and clear the , course. It has come to the point where one of the naval monsters cannot put to sea without a fleet of smaller protectors. A battle fleet might be accom panied by an air fleet which would engage and drive off the air fleet of the enemy and might sink his ships, but the question arises: If the bat tleship needs so much protection, is it worth its keep? When the war with Germany developed into a war with the submarine, the battle fleet proved in a sense a handicap. The most effective enemy of the subma-. rine was the destroyer, but so many of these vessels were' needed to pro tect the grand fleet that the anti-U boat patrol was, seriously weakened, yet the grand fleet had to be well guarded in order that it might keep the German battle fleet from sweep ing the sea. Admiral Sims has made known that lack of enough destroy ers was the main reason why , the convoy system was not sooner adopted and that the greatest serf ice of the American navy consisted in making good the deficiency. Airplanes have attained such ex cellence and air-bombing has reached such accuracy as to render it quite conceivable that a country with a decisively superior air force could sink all of its enemy's battleships not only at sea but in port after having established its supremacy over the enemy's air force. In that event battleships would be useless without air supremacy and, having the lat ter, a nation might gain and hold control of the sea by controlling the air. Then why have battleships at all? This suggests that the navy of the future may be entirely submarine ships of far greater size, better armed and protected than the larg est that Germany built, but of lighter draft than any battleship and cap able of navigating shallower waters on the surface, though at risk of being' bombed from the air. It might then be possible for a fleet of such vessels, together with an air fleet, to pusfi close in to the shallow coast of Germany and land an army, as Fisher proposed in 1915. Success would hinge on air supremacy to overpower and drive off the enemy's air force, to sink his surface ships and to drive his submarines under water. When such are the possibilities of the next war, it behooves the naval, military and air authorities to study the part which each must play and to co-ordinate them thoroughly. These possibilities serve to confirm the opinion that the airplane will be the principal weapon of the future and that supremacy in the air will be decisive both on land and sea. The neglect of aircraft is a more deadly sin of unpreparedness than all the sins of that kind of which this coun try was guilty prior to 1917, and the first care of the government should be to preserve the airplane Industry, which is falling into decay, and to build up a powerful air force for op eration with both army and navy. The evening newspaper asks: "Can Bryan Come Back?" and Bryan can answer by telling his favorite story of the fat old lady who wished to alight and was helped up the car steps twice by officious people as'she essayed to back down, and carried a few stations beyond. "Can happen," as the Chinaman might say. Prohibitionists will claim a victory in Italy in the law restricting sales of liquor to early hours of the day; but "liquor" in Italy Is not what we know liquor to have been here. Wines, es pecially,' are consumed pretty much as we take water, perhaps a little more. John Burroughs thinks it will be a long, "hard winter because seveial Arctic birds. have been seen south of the Canadian boundary; but we sus pect that it is the long, hard winter in the Arctic regions that the birds are tfying to get away from. The . Krupps, making railroad equipment and agricultural ma chinery, are putting into effect on a large scale, the beating 'of swords into plowshares that used to be a favor ite figure of speech. Every boat from Europe is said to be bringing girls ambitious and ready to hire out at housework. They may do it for a year or so, until they get into something "more stylish." If discovery of oil follows the strike of gas at Amity, they can change that name to somethlug that means different. There will then be little amity around there. McNary, a republican senator, se. cured passage of the sugar law, and a democratic administration cannot consistently follow it, even though sugar goes to 20 cents. With prospects of an earlv trial of the ex-kaiser, the propaganda will be devoted to callinsr it off. There is even local precedent for not sending to jail of men, of his age. That Linn county woman who cap tured a three-foot chicken hawk barehanded deserves a medal. She didn't do it by putting salt on its tail, either. The statement is made that 85 per cent of ti,e girls in the state indus trial home are offspring of divorced people. Will that make many couples pause? Regular Oregon weather for this week; which means frequent" rains with snow on the mountains and plenty of water during the summe'r. The "greenbacker" of a generation ago can now see the "beauty" of it in the German presses running on a new and big edition of marks. The fellow who would stampede women picketers union No. -1 with red pepper is a bad man if they prove- it on him. I ' The Jackson day banquet in the national capital will be held in two places, providing for the sheep and goats, of course. County superintendents paid on a pre-war basis, by rights how should get more. They never got too much at best. Secretary Daniels will increase his m rH n 1 .list down to the rnl tenru ana coom, BY-PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES Secret of the BtIe of Beaufort" BlupATold In "Homf Sector." Hudson Hawley, European corre spondent . of the Home Sector, con ducted by the former editorial coun cil of the Stars and Stripes, gives for the first time the secret of the "battle of Belfort. telling how General Pershing and a certain major-general of the A. E. F. weaVeened the German defense of the St- Mihiel salient by a tableau, staged at Belfort, prior to the great American advance of Sep tember 13, 1918. "The German high command knew early In September, 1918, that an at tack was coming from the massed divisions of the United States and the American high command knew the Germans knew it," says the writer. "Furthermore, it was surmised that the German high command had some sort of an idea of where the newly created 1st American army was going to strike. "It was at this time that an Amer ican major-general, accompanied by his entire staff, motored grandly into Belfort on the Alsace front. ISO kilo meters from St. Mihiel. They were possessed of a tentative campaign plan and were under orders to work it out in detail. They took possession of a hotel, sat around and looked wise. - "When the party went dip to their rooms for the first night, the major general found ha had lost his orders plans, maps and everything. He called the proprietor, raised a row and had the hotel searched from end to end. Nothing came of the search, of course, for tho country near the German and Swiss borders was thick with spies. The point of It Is that three Ger man divisions actually did come down to the front opposite Belfort from the garrison around Metx just at the time the battle of St. Mihiel was being launched, lightening the real battla task of the A. E. F. by just so much." It was by his work In protecting the Indians in South Dakota, by the strict enforcement of the United States stat utes against introducing liquor on In dian reservations, that William E. Johnson, now working for prohibition in England, acquired his title of "Pussyfoot," according to former gov ernment officials, who knew him well In this state In 1910, says a Sioux Falls, S. D., correspondent of. the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Johnson was at that time em ployed by the government to watch the Indian reservations of the west and had his headquarters In Denver. His vigilance in following up the constant Importations of liquor onto the South Dakota Indian reservations brought him much publicity. It was asserted by his detractors that he used "pussyfoot" methods, and the name was promptly applied to him in the newspapers and stuck to him. Mr. Johnson made scores of arrests In this state in his campaign. He did it without the co-operation of offi cials, and in numerous instances was unable to obtain conviction, but he persevered In his work and came to be feared by the' violators of the liquor law on the reservations. When least expected and when believed to be hundreds of miles away, he had a way of suddenly appearing on the scene of the violation, having over come the limited transportation fa cilities that section of the country provided. He never hesitated to ride day and night to reach his, destina tion, whether by automobile, train or horseback. A New York woman sends uo the New York Herald this clipping, treas ured through many years: "Few presidents have had a clearer vision 'of their duty than Abraham Lincoln. One characteristic incident of his career, but little known, is espe cially worth recalling at the present time. "Shortly after his election, an Im portant committee of influential busi ness men waited upon him. "'Mr. President,' began the spokes man, 'you know the needs of business. It rests with you to say whether or not the grass shall grow in the mid dle of the streets of our cities.' "Mr. Llncolnsmiled thoughtfully as he replied to the committee, speaking slowly and with deliberation: "'Gentlemen,' he said, 'the proper place for the grass to grow is in the fields arid the meadows, and I would prefer personally to see it grow there.' There was a pause and the suspicion of a twinkle in the presi dent's eyes. 'But.' he continued, I have been elected to serve the people, and, God helping me. I will do so to the best of my ability, in accordance with the constitution let the grass grow where it will.'" Captain William E. Miller. 84 years old, formerly state senator, credited with winning the battle of Gettys burg by disobeying orders, which ex ploit was recognized by the bestowal of the congressional medal, died re cently at Carlisle, Pa. On the third day of the Gettysburg battle the Confederates, far from be ing beaten', advanced in perfect order and threatened to turn the Union right wing and seize reserve stores of artillery and ammunition, from which blow the Yankees probably could not have recovered.' Captain Miller was - stationed at a point which the advancing "rebels" had passed and was ordered to remain there. But,, realizing the crisis, he boldly charged the flank of the pass ing Confederate column with only 80 men. The impetus cut the column in two and threw the enemy Into confu sion. Shortly afterward General Lee gave the order to retreat and the Con federate cause was lost. Back in Issd, when General Miles was busy putting crimps in the Apaches of the southwest, young Dr. Wood of Boston entered the army as a contract surgeon and was ordered to Fort Huachaca, Ariz. He arrived at night, ran plumb into his Harvard friend. Captain (afterward General) Lawton of the 4th cavalry, and early next morning was hotfooting it with Lawton after Geronimo. Before night every man In the tropp knew that the big, husky, blond Boston doctor was a born Indian fighter and a man of iron. The final chase after the rene gade Apaches was 2000 miles long. Thirty men were picked for their abil ity to stand hardship and all kind; of exposure; only 14 of t"nese lasted to the end, and two of them were of ficers Lawton and Wood. But they brought in Geronimo in his pajamas. The contract surgeon's part In this campaign brought him the congres sional medal of honor, eight months after receiving his commission. Les- I lie's Weekly. Those Who Come and Go. "There is urgent needxfor a 15.000 ton drydock In Portland." U the expressed belief cf Melville Dollar, widely-known steamship operator, who was in Portland yesterday. Mr. Dollar says that Portland's reputation as a port would be enhanced at least 100 per cent if such a drydock were constructed. He called attention to the fact that it Was only a few weeks ago that the vessel Grace Dollar broke a propeller blade coming to the coast, bound for Portland. Because there were no drydock facilities in Portland, the owners had to wireless the vessel to proceed to Puget sound for repairs. The boat laid up there while a 89000 repair job was being done, whereas this work would have gone to Portland had the local har bor a suitable drydock. Mr. Dollar, whose headquarters are at Vancouver, B. C, was taken on a trip of inspection to the St. Johns terminal yesterday morning by F. C. Knapp of the dock commission and G. B. Hegardt' engineer of the com mission. He said this terminal is one of the finest he had ever seen and believes it will be a vital factor In this city's future as a port. Ho also examined two six-masted schooners on the ways at the Peninsula Ship building company's plant, which he is contemplating purchasing from the supply and sales division of the emer gency fleet corporation. Mr. Dollar stopped at the Benson during his brief visit in Portland and left at noon for Vancouver, B. C. Every traveling man who makes the western states knows the Weiss cafe at Helena, Mont. It Is one of those places which sains a reputa tion and keeps It, and grows in fame because the traveling men know it to be the one best bet in all Mon tana so far as "eats" are concerned. The man who started this cafe and built up its reputation is Maurice Weiss. When, seven years ago, the citizens of Helena decided they wanted a real hotel in their town they got together and subscribed enough stock to build one of the finest hos telries in the state. And quite nat urally enough, they insisted that Mau rice Weiss divide- his time between his cafe and managing this hotel. As manager and part owner of the Placer hotel Mr. Weiss gets the traveling men coming and going. They sleep in his hotel and then walk across the gulch or rather, Main street to his cafe to eat. Mr. Weiss and wife are stopping at the Multnomah for sev eral weeks, while Mrs. Weiss is here under the care of specialists. She is showing rapid Improvement and they expect to return to Helena within a couple of weeks. When It comes to selling insurance policies or collecting money for civic or patriotic drives there are few peo ple that can beat the record achieved by J. F. Hutehaaon of Salem. Mr. Hutchason has an office on State street In the heart of town and he has such sociable ways that he just naturally can't help people from helping him pile up policy sales until last year he won special recognition from the eastern company lie repre sents. Hutchason took the day off yesterday and shed some of his smiles and persuasiveness around the Impe rial lobby. When It comes to civic spirit, there are mighty few organizations, which can beat that of the Prunarians of Vancouver, Wash. So says Carl D. Gabrielson of Salem, and he knows whereof he speaks. The Cherrians of Salem .are staging their annual din ner dance at tht Marion hotel tonight. They issued invitations to the Rosa liana in Portland, the Prunarians at Vancouver and several other,organi zations about the state. Saturday the Salem organization received word from Vancouver to reserve 80 tables for Prunarians "It was a most delightful surprise to know they had decided to come in such large numbers," quoth Mr. Ga brielson, who signed the register yes terday at the Imperial. "In fact, so many reservations have been made that 11-hour arrangements were made to have the dinner served in the ar mory, directly east of the hotel, as the Marion dining room will be too small to handle the many guests." "If I can get ten other senators to stand by me I will agree to pack up my grip and leave the upper branch without a quorum on the very min ute the emergency legislation is com pleted at the special session," ven tured Roy W. Ritner, state senator from Umatilla county, who is stop ping at the Imperial prior to leav ing for the state capital. Senator Rit ner is fearful that about half of the so-called emergency bills will be of no importance, and as he is anxious to go to California for- the winter he has no intention of remaining at Salem to assist in the. defeat or pass age of a lot of unimportant pet meas ures of the various legislators. "All of Oregon has every reason to be proud of the record of our foot ball team at Pasadena on New Year's day." says P. L. Campbell, president of the University of Oregon, who is a guest at the Multnomah. "It is a Tnost valuable thing to know that the ability and quality of western students are in every way equal to those of the eastern students. It is likewise true that the western stu dent has shown the same high qual ity in scholastic endeavor. Statistics show that the western men and women who attend eastern colleges are equally as good as those from the east." President Campbell and staff at the university are now preparing for the mid-year semester, which be gins Immediately after the holidays. "If they will confine their efforts solely to emergency legislation I shall be supremely happy," announced Sen ator A. L. Norblad of Clatsop countv, who arrived yesterday at the Impe rial en route to Salem to attend the governor's fish and game conference at the capitol today. "But if they are going to let down the bars I have one bill which I want passed. The people of Astoria .want to vote an other $3,000,000 for dock and harbor improvements and they feel that this is an emergency measure, just as ispich aj any other one which has been brought to light. But I am for a short session and will leave this bill In my vest pocket if other legislators will do likewise." , j. .miiignani ana . senroeder deserted the cold of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for the more favored climate or Portland, and both are registered at the Perkins. Both men from the far north are mining men. although Mr. Alingham has more recently been engaged in introducing cattle into Alaskan territory. Jay Upton, president of the Oregon Irrigation congress and former mem ber of the legislature. Is stopping at the Portland. He will be one of the third-house regulars at the special session net week. Dr. A. Slaughter, well-known physi cian of Salem, is a guest at the Ore gon during a brief business visit to Portland. Harold Baldwin, a banker of Prineville, was one of the Sunday travelers to sign the register at the Imperial yesterday. Mrs, C. H. Fisher, wife' of the owner of the Eugene Guard, is a guest at the Imperial while on a shopping trip to Portland. Francis X. Bushman, noted actor of the silent drama, and his wife, Bever ley Bayne, are at the Benson, with valet and secretary. Wijth a Kick in It. By l.lnton I.. Davie. . The Call of the ild. Come Marjorle and Gwendolyn, And Marigold and Anne! Come Katherine and Carolyn, And Winnifred and Rose'. For it is open season On the genus homo man Dianas we will follow him Everywhere he goes'. Hot Stuff, Iodic. Dear L. L. D. Is this what they mean when they speak of "warmth of affection?" BELATED KISS MELTS WIFE. LUCILE. Not Hard to Keep. The only New Tear resolution we have recorded so far is a resolution by the sporting writers to "lay off these Christmas cigars." It got a cheer from our corner. See! Yonder Falters One Lay no sweet flowers on my lowly tomb; In quiet let my humble dust repose At last within earth's quiet, gentle womb. Which freely bears alike the thorn and rose. Long have I toiled along the dreary way Thorn-strewn and steep for weary, stumbling feet While ye plucked fragrant roses through the day. And yet no rose for my tired eyes, to greet. Ye would have left 'the pleasant fields awhile, Had ye but known the hunger in my heart As sad I trudged each lonely, bitter mile Bereft of hope, with none to take my part. So let no garlands my ' tst slumbers hide. But brothers, gather quickly while ye may. See! Yonder falters one; haste to his side And scatter flowers on his : tony way. W. H. P. w m m Nothing Unnsuai. "TIES ONE-THIRD OFF IX OUR UNUSUAL JANUARY BARGAIN SALE." They sometimes are, by the time a man gets away from the counter. Sign" Behind the Times. Dear L. L D. Down on Burnside street stands a restaurant. In the restaurant is a showcase, full of bread. On the showcase hangs a sign, "Ten Cents a Slice." It's all right, though. The Greek boss just forgot to take the sign down when he quit selling water melon slices out of the showcase last summer. M. H. Civilian VerJiion, All we do is punch the time clock. All we do is punch the time clock. All we do is punch the time clock. And we irever hear a bugle blow. The Home Sector. The Latent liupnlme. Tell a gold-striper that Pershing is coming to town and watch him hur riedly button up his coat and straighten out his pocket flaps. OPPORTUNITIES EXIST IN L.AM) Present-Day Chances Are Compared With. Those Long (ione. PORTLAND, Jan. 3. (To the Edi tor.) 1 read with much interest, a recently published article in The Oregonian by Dewitt Harry, entitled "Midas' Touch Evident in Portland Realty Business." It is entertaining to read of how fortunes have been made through wise in vestments . in real estate. Sometimes, however, we are inclined to' look upon those persons favored with a feeling of envy particularly if we are in a position to realize that the same opportunities were open to us and for various reasons we failed to accept them. Indulging ill vain regrets should be no part of the programme of the Portland man of today. Opportunity did not retire from the field and suspend activities with the enriching of the few who have profited by Portland's advancement. She still is engaged in business at the old stand and iter offers are more attractive than ever. It is true that the promises held out by the Portland of a quarter of a cen tury ago were far less bright than those we are confronted with today. Then we were struggling for recogni tion among the big cities of the na tion. Now our greatness is a fact and our continued growth assured. In this time" of pleantiful money there is the great danger of extrava gance and wastefulness which may affect us .disastrously in the future. Safety, to a reat extent, may lie in invest laents in real estate, that basis of every prosperity any city ever has known. A lew tllousand. or even a few hundred dollars well placed now when land and city lots are cheap may add much to the con tentment and happiness of the In vestor a few years hence. I wish also to compliment The Ore gonian upon an editorial printed re cently urging people of Portland to build their own homes. This is a matter of supreme importanc-e to this city today and your advice is timely and I believe will be effective. We are away behind in our building and unless activity in this line is mani fested quickly, our growth and pros perity will be threatened. Every person who is in a position to do so should build his own home and in this manner assist in making room for the newcomers who soon will in vade ttie city. These people must be provided for. They cannot be prevailed upon to remain with us unless they en be properly housed and otherwise cared tor. It is a situation for us to care for and at once. The Interest vou have taken in i these matters will do much to en courage the peoile to have faith in Portland, her t eal estate and tier institutions in general. J'AUL C. MURPHY. Compensation fur Survey. CARLISLE. Wash.,-Jan. 2. (To the iriini. i A nu-iiR dpilni liiml. B is ' a homesteader. B has located section corners and lines until lie Knows ex actly where the lines are between his property and that of A. A goes to the county surveyor and calls for a survey without, a word on the sub ject to B. The county surveyor puts his line where B had stakes set. Can county surveyor make B pay half the cost of survey? R. L G. B is not required to pay half un less properly notified of proposed survey, either by personal service or by publication of notice. Verse I Identified. PORTLAND. Jan. 3. (To the Edi tor.) To The Oregonian inquirer n-Vin asks for the origin of the llne which, by the way, he has quoted in- correctly: Where the green Multnomah wanders. Where the Alabama rrsls. Where the thunder shakes his turban Over AHesheliy's crests." I beg to say they will he found in the closins of the second stanza of I -God Bless Our Stars forever." writ ten by Benjamin F. Taylor about !l857. The poem may be found In i Sander's New Fourth Reader, pae . 328, published by S. C. Brljrgs & Co., I Chicago, 1SG1. ilacMAHON. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. M ontagme. FORWARD LOOKING MEN. (Genius A man In advance .of bis . times An editor.) When Hannibal went through Spain and crossed the Jagged Alps Descending into Italy to grab the Roman scalps. The boisheviks and pacifists that fol lowed on behind The morals of his fighting forc overtly undermined. But when they all laid down their arms, announcing they had quit Did Hannibal give way to tears or grumble? Not a bit. He merely said. "Some other day I'll go and capture Roma," And climbing in his biplane Spad, se renely sailed for home. The sorry day that Richard Third de cided to retreat And yearned for some conveyance that was faster than his feet. He viewed the wire entanglements and bomb-proofs all around Observing. "I'm afraid a horse would never cross such ground. tsut since I do not care to fight all Richmond's savage horde. I g-uess that 1 11 be on my way. My kingdom for a Ford!" And when the Ford came chuffing up King Richard split the air At fifty-five- or sixty miles in get ting out of there. When Kldd drowned helpless sailors, with a harsh and hideous laugh Recording their objections n a handy phonograph. A captain of a Spanish ship who long The vessel of the pirate in the resl- ing. rolling drink. v hen at him with a twelve-Inch gun. which tore the ship in two And then a true torpedo-shot de- Ktrm-.H Kn u T.- ; j , , -" iv iu u .na crew. V, hat s that? You say these war ma- ere not invented then Quite true! But Hannibal, the king and Kidd were forward looking men! Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth. If you carry a flask of the kind of liquor they sell nowadays you lay yourself liable to arrest for carrying concealed weapons. Too Keen a Sense of Manor. The butchers, grocers and res taurant men appear to be getting their price lists out of comic papers that were printed five years ago. It's an III Wind One good thing about 19-cent milk is that it is making the dairymen keen for measures that will conserve the water supply. (Copyright, 1920. by The Bell Syn dicate, Inc.) Happy Memories. By (irsce E. Hall. Lay aside a bit of cheer, you'll need it after while. When the days are dark and drear and it is hard to smile; Store a little sunshine in a crannie of your brain, A little spark to pierce the dark when hours are full of pain; Cacho a pleasant memory of frolics full of glee So' full with mirth you'll grasp their worth When gloom has turned the key. O, catch a bit of romance as it is going by. Your nature it may sweeten when youthful fount is dry; And put away some heart-throbs filled with tensest joy. You'll need their glow as on you go- they're gold without alloy: Foi- though you scale the highest peak that tops life's highest range, You'll seurch your mind some dav to find These gems that never change. In Other Days. Twrnty-flTe Years Ago. From The Oregonian of Januarr a, 180A. Frederick H. Ramsey, one of th pioneer residents of Oregon, llvlnr alone at the mouth of the Willametts. opposite Sauvies island, cams to a frightful end Wednesday, when ho was burned to death. Warmer weather and rain are pre dicted and the prospect Is that tho great drifts of snow that blockade tho streets and cripple traffio of all kinds will be transformed into lakes and running streams. G. P. Rummelin. the furrier, will leave in a short time to visit his old home in Europe and attend fur sales ir. London and Leipsic, Germany. The number of Chinese admitted here between July 1 and December 1 was but -4. a marked falling off from previous records. Fifty Years Ago. fro tn The Uresonian of January 5. 1ST0. The frame work of the Lutheran church is up and two new frame dwellings are going up on Alder street, between Sixth and Seventh. Washington.- There is authority for saying that the postmaster-general will, during the present session of congress, reoommend adoption of a postal telegraph system. One of the most brilliant displays of the aurora borealia ever witnessed in this latitude was seen Monday morning between 1:30 and 3 o'clock. Captain Smith has tendered the use of his brand-new sidewheel steamer Marv Bell for a grand excursion and cotillion party to Astoria next week. MY FATHER'S HOISK. The fields lie cold and barren. The tall trees moan and sigh, Mv heart is sad of thinking Along the years gone by. His house stands by the poplar. Tucked close against the hill. With terraced garden waiting; He comes not all is still. The stream, like silver ribbon. Once kissed by noonday sun. Has ceased its crooning rhythm For him in love begun. In fancy well I see him. My father, tall and straight. He trods the pathway winding From roadway to our gate. His cheery smile of greeting. How well his voice I knew In kindly council giving As to womanhood I grew. His little house besWe the trees, The farm he loved so well. On these I gaze in silence. In memory long to dwell. Time bends on unheeding Along its endless way. Forgetful of our aching hearts; A silent part they play. I trust him to God's keeping. The father that I knew. As down the years 1 wander His love 1 Keep my father true. RENA F. HARTMAH.