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THE '3IORXIXC OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY G, 1920.
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THE HIGH COST OF FINICAL TASTE.
Food Increased 17 per cent in cost
In the nine months immediately prior
to November 1, but only 1 per cent,
taking the country over, in the last
four months of that .period, accord
ing to figures compiled by the In
dustrial Conference Board. So far,
so good, but food is not the only
Item in the family budget, albeit a
highly necessary one. Clothing does
not exhibit a similar disposition to
pause in its upward tendency, as we
would have a right to expect if it
were influenced chiefly by economic
laws. Naturally, a general decline in
one important category would be
followed by recessions in others; but
operation of so-called natural laws is
sometimes interfered with by circum
stances. Clothing, which the board
finds to have increased in price 54
per cent in nine months, was IB per
cent dearer on November 1 than it
was on July 1. Recent attempts to
determine a "fair price" for a suit
of clothing seem to have been re
ceived apathetically by a great part
of the buying public. The fair price
suggested was based on clothing
made chiefly for utility, from mate
rials of average, but durable, grade;
manufacturers and retail dealers
-on A.e 1 1r n-AA h a ItiaKa tar v-aI-I-
5 HI C 1 Oil M J .1 I V L I I EI I I 1 1 V I E3 .cm
tively small demand for garments so
constructed.
William M. Wood, president of
the American Woolen company, says
that although certain economic laws
have been instrumental in maintain
ing high prices for clothing, these
have not been the principal factors.
"There has developed," he says, "a
curiously insistent demand for cloth
made from the finer and more ex
pensive wools." (People will no longer
be content with the coarser and
cheaper grades, though cloth made
from these grades is both sound and
serviceable. Before the war demand
for the finer grades was chiefly
indeed, almost exclusively from the
"fastidious." Now "everybody de
mands the finer wools and nobody
will take anything else." He relates
an Incident to the point:
We recently made up a sample of cloth
: In which coarse wool was used In the
warp only. The appearance of the sam
. pie was- but slightly dirferent from that
made of finer wool. It had in a markea
degree the smooth, soft texture of fine
wool. Its cost was considerably lee than
the fabric made of the finer grades.
As a cloth it was .. good, strong and
serviceable. Before the war la would bave
nit 1 1 oiii i j , u u t ... n c i c kueuiuivij uu
able to put it on the market.
Our selling agencies told us that there
was no demand for it: that people would
- not buy it: that customers Insisted on
fine, smooth, soft fabrics, and that, ac
cordingly, the manufacturers of clothing
would not buy this cloth if we made It
- up In quantity, because they could not
sell clothes made from It.
To our suggestion that when people agrainst a conspiracy which extends
were complaining so of high prices, this
cloth that would make a difference of J throughout the country, and there
$5 or more in the cost of a suit ought to t should be ho delay about its en
sell readily, the reply vai that $5 in the j actment
" cost of the cloth for a su-it of clothea ,
did not count at all these days the peo
pie demanded the best and would put up
with, no other.
The coarser wools and some of
the finer grades are produced in this
country and in South America, but
the supply of the finer quality is
chiefly maintained by purchases in
' Australia. How greatly these have
. been influenced by supply and de-
IliailU l9 J El4 IV.ll IV- Va " J aOl-Fllt?
made by Mr. Wood of market prices
i in March, 1917, just , before we en
1 tered the war, and the present time:
1917.
Now.
.S5
2.00
2.78
that
Coarser grades . .
Kiner (domestic)
Finest Australian
:.. .75
1.5
1.65
appear
From which it will
some grades, highly useful for cloth
ing purposes, have actually fallen, in
price. The finest show a arge in
crease. Mr. Wood admits that the
cost of the wool is by no means the
only factor in the price of a suit of
fl ot li in sr bp pnlriilntpg thflt ttiic ii
less than that of labor -and othei
materials, but he insists that it is un
. reasonable to expect material reduc-
tion so long as the people will be
; satisfied only with the "fancy"
.grades, the raw material for which
- is constantly rising in price. The
world's supply of coarse wool has
i remained about stationary its nor
' mal increase only being checked
while there is now a shortage of tht
"7 finest wools of about 200,000.000
pounds.
It is open to question whether our
finical buyers are especially in
terested in the economic phases of
the question, but it is probably true
that emphasis on not only the "finer
i grades" of wool but on certain quirks
, of fashion has a good deal to do with
' .maintenance of present price stand
' ards. Clothing continues to go up
at least in part because dealers real
ize that any increase in price, so long
? as the suit is cut "fashionably"
"which by no means always means
becomingly will be paid cheerfully.
. All that the traffic will bear is an
age-old principle in merchandising.
" It undoubtedly verges on "profiteer
ing" when it is applied to indis
. pensables, surh as food, and such at
garments of utility, but it finds
'' plenty of defenders among the
i caterers to the merely finical. If,
the latter argue, with some plausibil
ity. people demand fancy trimmings,
let them pay for them. There is smalt
- evidence, if one reads the technical
journals of the garment and clothing
- trade, of a reaction. Mr. Consumer
Worm shows no sign of turning. The
coarser wools, declining in price, are
till commodities of inutility, so far
.1 the consumer Is concerned; news
rhat there Is a world shortage of
2 00 000,000 pounds of the finest
wools will only increase, we suspect,
the popular desire for garments
made from Australian wool exclu
sively. The "slave of fashion" is noonger
peculiarly a woman. Men now are
hugging their chains and paying
for the privilege of doing it.
MAKE INDUSTRIAL CENSIS CO.M
PLKTE.
Of equal importance with the
population census which is now be
ing taken in Portland is the in
dustrial census, on which work ha3
also begun. Blanks have been dis
tributed by the census bureau to
manufacturers on which they are
I asked to give the necessary informa
tion, and the Chamber of Commerce
co-operates by supplying a classified
list of manufacturers with corrected
addresses and by conducting a pub
licity campaign on behalf of the
census.
It is of vital interest to the city
that manufacturers take these blanks
seriously, fill them out ' accurately
and promptly, and. mail them with
out delay to Samuel L. Rogers, di
rector of census, Washington, D. C.
Any manufacturers who do not re
ceive blanks are' urged to communi
cate at once with the department of
industries. Chamber of Commerce,
Oregon building, telephone Broad
way 440, asking that their names be
placed on the mailing list.
A full and accurate industrial
census is necessary to give Portland
its proper rank as a manufacturing
city in comparison with other citie3.
For the next ten years this census
will be the measure of the city's
standing as an industrial center. . It
will be referred to by men who con
template establishment of industries,
shipping lines or import and export
houses, by engineers and conrrr?ss in
deciding on river and harbji im
provements, by railroads and the
interstate commerce commission .in
deciding railroad rate questions. For
these reasons every citizen, especially
every manufacturer, has a direct in
terest, both as an individual and as
a citizen of Portland, in seeing that
the industries of the ctiy are fully
and accurately recorded.
PASS FEDERAL. SEDITION UW.
It is a severe commentary on the
energy of congress in legislating
against seditious agitation that the
attorney-general has to rely on the
anti-syndicalism laws of Oregon and
Washington for prosecution of the
reds arrested in those states during
the recent raids. A bill for that
purpose was introduced in the house
several months ago and was ap
proved by all patriotic newspapers,
but it still reposes in the hands of a
subcommittee. Either that subcom
mittee and the main committee
should be required to report im
mediately or the bill should be
taken out of their hands. -
No law will meet the case unless
it provides for punishment of the
parlor bolshevists who from the
security of public office, of their
professorial or editorial chairs, or of
the lecture platform, incite others to
overthrow the government. To the
greater shame of these peopfe, many
of them are American citizens, not
merely by naturalization but by
birth, and have been highly educated,
under' the government which they
would destroy. They take the least
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dupes to do the dangerous work of I
riot, bombthrowing and revolution.
They are the slickers of the revolu
tion, similar to those who rested
their spurred heels on desks at
Washington while real soldiers met
the enemy in Europe.
Oregon is as ' ready to serve the
cause of Americanism with its laws
as it was with its men. It put trea
son on the run by driving the I. W.
W. out of its cities early in 1917; the
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumber
men, organized in Oregon, drove
them out of the logging camps and
sawmills in the fall of that year, and
the legislature made membership in
the I. W. W. or other seditious so
ciety a crime in 1919. But federal
law is the only efficient weapon
PROPHECY AS TO IMMIGRATION.
Those who attempt to prophesy
the course of immigration in the near
future labor under the handicap- of
all prophets. Experience of the past
does not always furnish a basis for
future calculations, since there are
so many doubtful quantities likely
to be overlooked by the most cau
tious calculator. Yet the annual re
port of Commissioner of Immigra
tion Caminetti contains a historical
review of . immigration into the
United States that can be studied
with profit by those who cherish am
bition to figure as seers.
It is just a century, as Mr. Cami
netti says, since the government be
gan to keep records of immigration.
There had been som? immigration
before that, which had fallen off dur
ing the war of 1812, but revived
afterward, and may have reached
about 20,000 in the year 1817. It
was steady but not particularly large
in the years frojji 1820 to 1845, and
principally from the British isles.
There were 114.000 immigrants in
1845. Then came the famine in Ire
land and the revolution in Germany.
The current was immensely accel
erated. The number of arrivals in
1864 was 428,000, of whom 215,000
were Germans. There was a check
during our civil war. followed by a
slight revival, another retardation
due to the "panic of "73," and a new
rush beginning in the early '80's. We
had recovered our economic balance
and Europe was not slow to find it
out. Immigrants in 1879 numbered
179.000; in 1882. 7.89.000. There
was another .relapse with the hard
times of 1893. After this, the cur
rent shifted. Southern Europe,
which furnished 11 per cent of im
migrants in 1882, sent 75 per cent of
all in 1902. The number reached
1.285.349 in 1907; it was 1,218,480
in 1914, the year in which the war
began. It sank last year to the low
est level since 1862.
The record for the century is
more than 30.000,000. The principal
sources described by the commis
sioner were: Germany, 5,500.000;
Ireland, 4,350.000; Italy, 4.100-.000;
Austria-Hungary, 4,068,000; United
Kingdom (except Ireland)
3,850,-
000; Russia, 3.311.000; Scandinavia,
2.134.000. If a large proportion of
our immigrants. particularly "the
earlier ones, had not been complete
ly assimilated, we would not be the
united nation that we are today.
The descendant's of the great Teu
tonic immigration that reached its
crest about 18 54 are not the ones
who more recently have tried to pro
mote discord. This esrly movement
from Germany was typified by such
completely Americanized Teutons as j
Franz Sigel and Carl Schurz. Most
of the present strain on the melting
pot has been due to immigration
within relatively a few years.
Mr. Caminetti thinks that people
of the recent enemy countries will
not be slow to emigrate to the United
States if it appears that their inter
ests lie in this direction. "Such dif
ferences are soon forgotten by the
immigrant classes." He predicts
that Germans will keep coming a
different class of Germans, however;
"army and navy officers, land own
ers, small capitalists, and ' others
upon whom the burden of changed
conditions will fall so heavily that
they will resort to emigration for
relief." He thinks that no one can
guess as to Russia, and we agree
with him. Austrians, badly situated
economically, are likely to seek an
outlet. Hungarian of the agricul
tural regions are better satisfied at
home than are many other classes in
Europe.
To prepare for the future immi
gration is a task for statesmen,
lacking the gift of prophecy, it is all
the more necessary that they shall
guard against every contingency.
Whether or not we shall continue to
be hospitable to the deserving, it is
plain that Americans want no more
of the. class who violate their asylum
here. Assimilabillty would be the
ideal standard, if it could be guaged.
The literacy test alone to illustrate
one of the difficulties of the situa
tion would not be sufficient to sep
arate the goats from the sheep if
Mr. Caminetti's prediction as to Ger
many came true. Ex-officers of an
army and navy with the record of
Germany's, Junkers, small capitalists
bent on evading their share of the
reconstruction job at home these
are not all likely to be illiterate, but
extremely likely to be undesirable.
Perhaps needs will be met by some
form of conditional admission. New
situations call for new remedies. It
is nevertheless a problem that will
tax to the utmost our Ingenuity and
our common sense.
nntKCT TRADE WITH EUROPE.
Removal of the difficulty in the
way of obtaining cargo for steamers
to run directly between Portland and
European ports Is shown by J. Fred
Larson to rest in the power of Port
land producers and merchants them
selves. So long as they sell their
products through agents In San
Francisco and New York, they may
expect their goods to be routed for
shipment by vessels loading at those
ports. Agents naturally pull for their
own ports and for shipping lines with
which they have relations. Portland
shippers can secure commerce for
this port either by dealing through
agents in this port for European
buyers or by establishing direct re
lations with the buyers. .
They have both a direct and an in
direct interest in following this
policy. If they deal through Port
land agents, they will be in personal
touch with the men who handle their
shipments and the goods will be
loaded, in a sense, under their eyes.
If they deal directly with the Euro
pean buyers, they will be able to save
commissions and will thus have an
advantage in competition for busi
ness. They pay their share of the
taxes levied for channel and dock
improvements, and by diverting traf
fic to this port they increase the
dock revenue and lighten their load
of- taxation. By diverting a part of
this traffic from New York, they de
crease the number of cars used to
haul goods' across the continent to
that port for export and correspond
ingly, increase the number available
to haul lumber to the interior. They
cause direct import of European
goods as return cargoes, and thus In
crease the supply and lower the cost
of these goods in Portland. There
are advantages for the merchants of
Europe in direct dealing with Port
land rather than indirect dealing
through other ports, for they pay toll
and lose time through this diversion
of traffic from its direct channel.
While it is true that depreciation
of European exchange causes Euro
pean buyers to "limit their purchases
to actual necessaries of life," those
necessaries are precisely what Port
land has to sell. Next to lumber,
food products of all kinds, wool and
woolen goods form the bulk of ex
ports of the Columbia basin. Europe
buys these troods from slipur npcoa.
sity in .spite of unfavorable exchange.
and it will buy in larger volume as
exchange improves. Now, in the time
of necessity, is the time to establish
direct relations, for Europe buys
necessaries wherever they can be ob
tained, and, having found a good
source of supply, will continue to
draw on It.
CAPACITY FOR 8ELF-GOVF,RNIEXT.
Comparison of the manner in
which the German and other peoples
taKe democracy puts in question the
assumption that education is an es
sential ingredient of capacity for
self-government. It is said that half
the members of the German parlia
ment do not attend the sessions and
that those who do are indifferent to
the proceedings. The upper and
middle classes of Germany are
highly educated, the working class
only along a narrow rut designed to
make them good workmen or farm
ers and to "keep them in their place."
They have not been trained in the
work of self-government, and they
have been content to regard that as
the work of the kaiser, his ministers
and the bureaucrats as work for
specialists. This excess of confidence
Inflated the Hohenzollerns to the
point where they attempted to be
come government specialists for the
whole world, made a horrible mess
of it, threw the job back on the
people's hands, and now the people
do not know how po handle it, nor
have they any taste for it. If any
fairly competent dynasty would take
it, they would probably ioice.
The Czechs of the neighboring
Bohemia are as well educated and
intelligent as the Germans, and their
new republic is already a successful,
going concern after little more than
a year of existence. The majority of
them are socialists and are deter
mined to socialize their industries,
but President Mazaryck advises them
to go to work cautiously, and they
follow his advice. They have been
attacked by bolshevlsm. but have
driven it out. This is the conduct of
a people which was subjugated three
centuries ago and has had only a
restricted degree of self-government
during the last seventy years.
Poland too has made a fair be
ginning under far greater difficul
ties. It has found in General Pil
sudskl an able popular leader whom
it trusts Implicitly, and Its diet has
divided into parties which show a
keen interest in public affairs,
though they make much trouble for
Premier Paderewskl. The Poles
have shown the traditional fighting
spirit of their race by driving the
Ukrainians from Galicia and the
bolsheviki across the Beresina, and
they give promise of making good
as a democratic nation.
The Saxons of England, who laid
the foundations of modern English
democratic institutions, were an un
lettered people. So were the Swiss,
who founded the first republic in
Europe, and the Dutch, who drove
out the Spaniards, and disputed
British naval supremacy. The up
per and middle classes of these na
tions were educated, but the masses
were illiterate. The free institutions
of England were transplanted to
America and took form In the town
meetings of New England at a time
when education was by no means
general. We may fairly doubt
whether the United States has been
better governed since education has
extended to all than it was In colon
ial days, making due allowance for
general progress In that particular.
Then what has education to do
with capacity for self-government?
Is not that capacity rather a matter
of national character than of edu
cation? Democracy requires not only
determination to be free but exercise
of self-restraint. It requires recog
nition that each man's liberty is con
tingent on respect for equal liberty
for each other citizen, even under
provocation .to restrict some other's
liberty. Far more, it requires con
stant practice of that principle,
when there Is frequent temptation to
violate it. That implies control of
reason over passion.
It Is in just that respect that. na
tions untrained in practice of de
mocracy fail. They are not content
to effect change by the peaceful proc
ess of democracy, but resort to
force on slight provocation. They
alternate between gusts of revolu
tionary passion and tame submission
to" the rule of a dictator. Having be
fore them the experience and ex
ample of those nations which have
achieved success, they may make
more rapid progress and may not
have to travel the long, toilsome road
which the Anglo-Saxon and French
peoples have tray led, but they will
not achieve success until they have
acquired self-restraint. This lesson
must be learned by the Russian,
Egyptian, Indian, Burmese and other
peoples which are struggling or
clamoring for liberty. They may win
the form, but they cannot establish
the reality until they acquire the
spirit, without which they may sink
Into the condition ,of Mexico a
ghastly travesty on democracy.
The New Year's number of the
Newberg Graphic recorded the close
of the 30th year in the editorial chair
of E. H. Woodward. That compre
hends quite a span in a young man's
life, for Mr. Woodward is far front
old. He has been faithful to his
duty, year in and year out, and the
Graphic is In the class of "country"
weeklies called "dependable." It
prints the local news without fuss
and feathers in a way that brings
joy to the hearts of the boy and girl
who have outgrown the little cify of
their rearing and gone outside to the
big world. That is the best measure
of a local paper. Now and then the
Graphic prints editorial comment on
which all do not agree, while none
questions its sincerity. City and
man are growing in years at even
pace, despite occasional competition
that burns itself out. May they con
tinue so to do.
Speaking of ownership, control and
distribution of coal Mr. Ford's Page
in the Dearborn Independent re
marks that "when it is a matter of
keeping a fire in his own cookstove
a man cannot be expected to sit
down coolly-and consider the whole
question." Them's our sentiments j
exactly. There are certain difficulties
about sitting down coolly by a kitchen
fire that no man should be expected
to overcome. We are convinced he
by all means ought to be expected
to sit down warmly In his own
kitchen. We don't know when any
body has hit off so exactly our own
ideas on an important subject. By
the way, who is Mr. Ford's Page?
Incidental In ' showing the right
people are running the Albany Demo
crat is the New Year's issue, not
large, as becomes news print con
servation, but full of text of value
to the city and the reader.
In lieu of a speech by Herb
Hoover, the boys might fill in at the
Jackson club banquet with a movie
showing those 100,000 airplanes that
the administration did not send to
France.
Might help their memory next year
if motorists who forget to apply for
new license tags until after the new
year is under way had to sweeten the
pot by a few dollars for the omission.
Government statistics show there
is 50 per cent more wool In the coun
try than last year, and somebody
please show that to Mr. Coopey,
whose slogan is "wool In woolens!"
Clemenceau says the French people
are trying to force him to take the
presidency. Somehow that sounds
as if he might be announcing his
candidacy for the Oregon legislature.
Domination of the world by the
yellow race will come when the white
race is unable to make something
that will shoot twice to the tinted
man's once, and not until then.
In announcing his declination to be
a candidate for president Mr. Hoover
informs the public at the same time
that it is largely because he has
important work to do.
The federal trade commission
rules that selling sugar as a leader
to induce other buying is an unfair
practice and must cease.
But why worry about the organiza
tion of the special legislative ses
sion? So long -as the Hon. Joseph
Singer is there, the wheels will go
round somehow.
We are told tliat there still are
great opportunities open to young
Americans. Yes. Jack Dempsey was
riding the brakebeams about four
years ago.
Presidencies of republics are go
ing begging these days. Hoover de
clines It and Clemenceau Is fighting
hard against it in France.
William .T. Bryan says the report
that he is a candidate for president
"must be a mistake." Yes. it would
be a mistake.
The main trouble with the Plumb
railroad plan seems to be that it Is
out of plumb.
AMENDMENT PROCESS IS DEFINED
I'nited State Could Veto Any Attempt i
i . - i
PORTLAND. Jan. 6. (To the Edl-!
tor.) Attached you will find a news
item clipped from the Portland Jour
nal. If the statement relative to the
allies in this news item is true, does
it not mean that the league of na
tions is a super-government?
This question nas been strenuously
argued by some very prominent re
publicans and as strenuously dented
by the friends of the league of na
tions, including The Oregonian.
If the league of nations Is "a
higher authority than the United
States," is it not a higher authority
than any other on all other govern
ments? If the league of nations can say
that no Monroe doctrine is necessary
If the United States is not a party
ti, tVi a ion 0.11 a. r,f nations. COUld it not
jsay the same thing if the United
Mates oecomca a party m 1
Could It not say that our immigration
laws are not necessary? touio. ii ni
say the same thing regarding any oi
our international laws?
While the Monroe doctrine is not
a law. it is more sacred to most
Americans than most of our laws are
If this news item is true, it proves
the league of nations to be the last
word in I. W. W.ism; that is, "one.
big union," that can force any nation
hv fair means or by- unfair means.
to submit to its authority. In other
words, a super-government; and. If
everything had gone on schedule,
with Woodrow Wilson as the high
mogul with more power than the
kaiser ever dreamed of having.
C. H. W.
The dispatch referred to is from
London and asserts that the allies are
making an intensive campaign to se
cure membership of all American re
publics in the league of nations with
the hope thereby of forcing the United
States to join or see the Monroe
doctrine become a "scrap of paper."
The dispatch concludes:
Aa soon as the South Americans have de
clared themselves. It was eald, the league
secretary will point out "that the league
Is a higher authority than the United
States" and that no Monroe doctrine Is
necessary to protect the small South Amer
ican nations.
There is no issue of super-government
here involved. The league cove
nant expressly recognizes the validity
of the Monroe doctrine. The secre
tariat of the league has no authority
to declare an amendment on its own
motion. The covenant can be amended
only by unanimous vote of the coun
cil, with acquiescence of a majority of
the other members of the league.
If the United States were not a
member of the league the nations
composing it could amend the cove
nant so that it would refuse recogni
tion of the Monroe doctrine. But
that could be done by any other
combination or alliance of nations.
If the United States joins the league
It will be a member of the council
and no amendment abrogating the
Monroe doctrine or the jurisdiction of
the United States over its domestic
problems can then be adopted with
out the consent of the United States.
r'lUHTINU JL'ST TO BE FIUUTIMti
Potato Mill Fhllonoiitay on Barnyard
and Other Warm.
Eitmct from chanter on war In
"Ventures in Common Sense," by
E. W. Howe, the philosopher of Potato
Hill farm, Kansas:
One day, while sitting on my porch
at Potato Hill farm. I saw Bert
Raulston's rooster pass in the road.
He was going down to the chicken
yard at the farmhouse, and I fol
lowed him, wondering why he was
visiting' us. I soon found out.
My brother Bruce, the farmer, has
a rooster who rules the chicken yard.
The other roosters fought him until
they found they could not whip him
ind
then declared peace by keeping
out or nis way. tsui me oest rooster
f his way. But the beat roi
among Bert Raulston's chickens
had
possibly heard or my Drotner s P"e
Chlcnen ana wnen i arr.vea ,n l
barnyard.
they were at
hot and
heavy. They fougiit for an hour,
resting at intervals, but finally our
rooster .drove the interloper away and
chased him up the Voad until he dis
appeared. Our rooster won the fight,
but he did not seem to feel well for
several days; he had been badly pun
ished. A week or two later, while
again t the farmhouse, I saw another
strange rooster come walking into
the barnyard. The rooster was step
ping high and looking carefully
about. He was seeking a fight and
soon found it.
The strange rooster belonged to
Abe King, and was rather a" better
rooster than that sent over by Bert
Raulston. Our rooster and Abe
King's fought at intervals all day.
but finally the stranger was com
pelled to retreat and return home.
But. while our rooster had won a
splendid victory, he had been cruelly
punished. For days he rested out In
the hay. and we saw little of- him.
There was nothing in either encoun
ter except a flfrht; no principle, stm
ply punishment for the three best
chickens in the neighborhood. If our
rooster is compelled every week or
two to whip the best rooster In the
neighborhood, I plainly see the re
sult; he will finally be compelled to
give up the championship belt. He is
being overloaded.
Fights of this character go on not
only in every barnyard in the coun
try, but in every store and office.
Whoever has opposition has a fight
on his' hands. And It is men and
roosters who have opposition. At one
time during my business carer I was
fighting three roosters at one time;
three newspapers in my town were
abusing me. Several out-of-town
roosters have fought me; not because
I had offended them, but because it
is the disposition of roosters and
men to fight. There was no great
prize in my barnyard; no great pros
pect of advancement, but I -as com
pelled to fight as though lighting
for a kingdom. And how I have been
battered up! The punishment that
hurt me most was the evident en
joyment the other chickens found in
seeing three roosters on me at one
time.
After fiKliting the world all day. a
man is too often compelled to fight
his women folks at night, and the
preachers on Sunday. For the preach
ers often abuse the men as unfairly
as the shiftless abuse the Industrious;
and so do the women.
' Oesiceiit of Prtpcrty.
ROSEBURCt, Or.. Jan. 4. (To the
Editor.) (1) I owned a farm and ob
tained a federal loan for $1000, then
sold the farm, taking a second mort
gage for $1000. Is there any way I
can collect the Interest on the second
mortgage? Can I attach his stock or
crop or money In bank?
(21 My brother owned real estate
valued at $10,000. He died five years
ago leaving a widow, but no chldren.
His widow claimed all his real estate
and the courts deeded It to her. She
was married a year ago. but Is now
dead. Can her second husband hold
the property or can my
dead brother s
heirs hold part of If ?
A StTBSr-RIBER
1. Your rVmedy Is to foreclose the
mortgage on the purchaser's equity Iti
the property.
"2. The property goes to the second
husband.
Those Who Come and Go.
Piano wire was used to take sound-
. . . . c D.
Darling, who was a member of the
party, eays they found 1998 feet of
water In the deepest part. Mr. Dar
ling was a soldier in those days and
the survey was conducted by the gov
ernment. Mr. Darling managed to
get the skiff down which was used
in the work, and this was the Tirst
boat that waa ever floated on the
lake. In these days Indians would
not get within four miles of the lake
because the medicine men told them
there waa a big serpent in the water
which ate people alive. Mr. Darling
confided that he helped supply the
demand for souvenirs of the Modoc
war and sold about a cord of wood
supposed to come from the gallows
on which Captain Jack was executed,
and he sold yards and yards of rope
In strips a couple of inches long for
$1 and $2, the rope supposedly being
that used in. the hangtng. The large
padlock in Smithsonian institution sup
posed to have been used In chaining
Captain Jack to the floor is a lock
Mr. Darling found In the quarter
master's stores and which was good
for nothing.
"One can always learn by studying
Portland's schools,"' remarked R. W.
Moore, director of manual and Indus
trial education In Seattle, who was
In the city yesterday. " caine down
just a year ago and browsed around
the school offices and went back with
a whole lot of ideas that we have
successfully applied on the ound."
Mr. Moore says educators of his state
are looking forward to the passage
of the compulsory education law next
September, which would require all
boys and girls between the ages of
14 and 18 to spend at least four hours
a day In the classroom. If this goes
through. Seattle will probably estab
lish a continuation school, placing all
students first in what Mr. Moore
terms a "reservoir" and feeding them
out into classes they are best suited
for.
Dan W. Ryan of Fort Klamath ar
rived at the Imperial yesterday witn
his wife and daughter from a trip to
Virginia, the home of Mrs. Ryan's
people, i'or years Mr. Ryan has been
In the cattle business and still is. ai
though last year he sold a part of his
holdinss to Jack McAuiirr. -Mr. iic-
Auliff was a sheepman of Lake county
and was well fixed. He loafed arouna
Klamath county for a year and then
houarht out Rvan. Burns and Otter,
acquiring 1000 acres, for which he
paid t'Q an acre. This land is in the
Wood River country finest land in
the world, asserts Mr. Ryan but It
is a cattle country and sheep are not
welcomed, so Mr. McAullft Dougnl
cattle.
Twenty years ago Burton W. New
hatl, as a traveling man. was making
the coast twice a year. Yesterday
he arrived at the Multnomah with
Mrs. Newhall and comes as vice
president and general manager for
a big concern manufacturing tractors
and pumps. He and "Patsy" Clark,
at the Multnomah, had a long talk,
the upshot of which was that in the
old days people got closer than they
do now. Mr. Newhall and his part
ners own a couple of hotels at Quincy,
111.
A hydro-electric power plant of
4000-horse capacity is planned on the
Tumalo by the electric company
represented by T. H. Foley of Bend,
who is In the city on business. Mean
while the company is building a steam
power plant to use until the pre
liminaries for the Tumalo plant have
been arranged. The company had
rights on the Deschutes river but has
waived them in view of the projected
big irrigation programme in that sec
tion. Salem's principal authority on as
tronomy, although he is a merchant,
is E. T. Barnes, who is registered at
the Hotel Portland. Anyone who
sees a ring around the moon, or a
couple of moons, at 2 A M, tele
phones Mr. Barnes, gets him out of
lied and asks him the whyness of
I the stranee sight. But Mr. Barnes
, . . Inconveniences as
i ; - : "... Vi i kv...
he has made astronomy his hobby.
, he retired aa a member of
thj 8cnool board aa he
plans extensive
travel.
It has been a very good winter for
Pat Foley, who has a hotel at The
Dalles. During the freeze-up. every
one In The Dailes who could get into
Mr. Foley's establishment did so, be
cause the town was frozen solid for
a couple of weeks. In these latter
days Mr. Foley has discarded the
green- sombrero, green suit, green
necktie, green shirt and green boots
which distinguished him from the
rest of humanity around La Grande,
where he formerly was In the hotel
business.
George Dixon of Prineville. Crook
county, has just returned from a
visit to Chicago, where he attended
the livestock show. While there he
purchased a carload of black Polled
Angus which he shipped by 'express
to Prineville. In the lot is a 2-year-old
heifer for which he paid $4000.
Mr. Dixon is firm in the belief that
central Oregon will in time produce
most wonderful cattle.
W. A. M. Smith. W. H. Silliman.'j.
A. Peterson and M. A. Tenney of Se
attle, are at the Hotel Portland while
attending an insurance conference in
this city. Mr. Peterson is known In
his company as "Ramps" and he is as
big as a moose. He walked into the
home office in New York once upon
a time and while he had never been
seen there before he was immediately
identified as "Ramps" on account of
his size.
D. T. Coulson, member of the city
council of Newberg. Is registered at
the Hotel Portland. The alderman
is a real estater and points with pride
to the way the town is improving.
Instead of the detour now necessary,
a fine concrete bridge will soon be
completed and traffic can flow Into
town direct.
Dr. W. N. .Tones, who is a druggist
as well as physician at Jordan Val
ley, is at tho, Multnomah with his
daughters, Pauline and Eliza. The
"out" of Jordan Valley now is usually
made through Idaho, but In a year or
two this will be changed, as there is
a growing sentiment for a first-class
highway from the valley into On
tario. I
Another evidence of the prosperity
of Tillamook county is the mounting
deposits in the bank of which B. t:.
Lamb is president. In the last 12
month period the deposits increased
$260,000. and this isn't the only bank
in the town, either. Mr. Lamb Is at
the Seward with W. G. Dwight, also
of Tillamook.
Judge G. W. Parman of Condon
with his wife and child, checked out
of the Seward for home last night.
The family was down for the holidays
and then the little girl became ill and
they had to wait for her to recuper
ate. To consider the application of the
Sumpter Valley railroad for relief by
the state" public service com-
mission, is In the city.
There is a big limber deal
ookllifr
ii lid it will soon lie ready. I. S. W.
Walker of Euaene. Informed Clerk
Thompson of the Perkins, when fh
! timber dealer registered there yea-
I terday.
RESUME OK ABAXDOMDD POLICIES
Writer Oaoln From President to Show
Ilia Celerity In Reversing Self.
PORTLAND. Jan. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) rresident Wilson, in his bac
calaureate sermon, delivered to the
students of Princeton university June
14, 1909, said, in part:
Tou Vnow what the usu.il standard of
the employe is in our day. It is to Blve as
little as lie may for his waRfs. l.ator is
standardized by the trades unions, and this
la the standard to which it is imide to
conform. No one Is suffered to do more
than the averase working man can do. In
some trades and handicrafts no one is suf
fered to do more than the least skillful of
his fellows can do within tho hours allotted
to a day's labor, and no one may work out
of hours at all. or volunteer anything be
yond the minimum. I need not point out
hotr economically disastrous such a recula
tlon of labor Is. It is so unprof liable to
the employer that in some trades it will
presently not be worth his while to attempt
anything at all. He had better stop alto
gether than operate at an liievitiible and
invariable loss. The labor of America is
rapidly becoming unprofitable under pres
ent regulations by those who have deter
mined to reduce It to a minimum. tmr
economic supremacy may be lost because
the country frrows more and more full of
unprofitable servants.
Just a little before the above re
marks were made Professor Wilson
wrote a letter, in which he said:
I am a fierce partisan of the open shop
and of everything that makes for indi
vidual liberty and I should like' to con
tribute anything that it mishl be pm-sihle
for me to contribute to the c:nrif icat ion of
thinking, and the formation of right pur
poses in matters of this kind.
Two years before, in the course of
an after-dinner speech at the Wultiorf
hotel. Dr. Woodrow Wilson said:
We speak too exclusively of the capital
istic class. There is another as formidable
an enemy to equality and freedom of op
portunity aa It Is. and that is the class
formed by the labor organizations and
leaders of t-he country.
Professor Wilson, then a candidate
for the presidency on August 10, 191"
in a speech delivered to 2e00 farmers
at Washington park. New Jersey, said:
Now there Is another matter, you know;
we are digging a Iremtndous ditch across
the Isthmus of Panama. One of the great
objects in cutting that great ditch across
the Isthmus of Panama is to allow farmers
who are near the Atlantic to ship to the
Pacific hy way of the Atlantic ports, to al
low all farmers to find an outlet, to hava
coaBtwise steamers carry their products
through the canal and up the Pacific coast.
Now, at the present there are no ships to
do that, and one of the bills pending pro
vides for the free tolls for American ships
through that canal and prohibits any ship
from passing through which is owned by
any American railroad company. You see
the ob.iect of that, don't you? We dnn't
want the railroads to compete with them
selves. Our platform Is not molasses to catch
flies. It means what it says. It is the ut
terance of earnest and honest men.
President Wilson, in his messnsre to
congress, urging the repeal of canal
tolls exemption law. said:
fjentlemen of the congress: I have come
to you on an errand which can be very
briefly performed, but I beg that you will
not measure its Importance by the number
of sentences in which I state it. I h;ive
come to ask for the repeal of that provision
of tho Panama canal act of August '24.
ll12. which exempts vesse'.s enenced in
the coastwise trade of tho United States
from payment of tolls, am! to urge on you
the justice, the wisdom and the large policy
of such a reiieal. with the utmost earnest
ness of which 1 am capnble.
In the Baltimore platform of 1912
upon which Professor Wilson accepted
his nomination for president we find
the following section:
We favor the exemption from tolls of
American ships engaged in coast A ise trade
passing through the Panama canal. I ur
platform is one of principles which we be
lieve to be essentia! to our national wel
fare, our pledges are made to be kept when
in of:ice. as well as relied upon during the
campaign.
Hon W. .1. Hryan. secretary of state
under Wilson, made an address at
Harrisburg. Pa.. In May 1913. as fol
lows: A man who violates ft party platform
and betrays his party and the people is a
criminal worse than the man who em
hessles money. And mom to the point.)
President Wilson's message to con
gress of December 8. 1014:
More than this I preparedness for national
defense, proposed at this time, permit me
to say. wou'd mean merely that we had
losf-our self-possession; that we bad been
thrown off our balance hy a war witli
which we have nothing to do. whofce cam. s
cannot touch us. whose very exis:cncc elves
us opportunities for friendship and disin
terested service which would make impos
sible to us any hostile preparation for
truubie.
The foregoing quotations are self
explanatory and I deem them perti
nent as this time as a reminder of
attitudes abandoned.
W. II. ODKLL
WEALTHY MAX BEFORE LAW
Sorenaon Onae AroQncsi Reflection
Over Inaanlty ah Defense of Rich.
ALBANY, Or.. Jan. 4. (To the Kdi
ort.) Why is it that Mr. Sorenson.
the rich lumberman, escapes Jail
humiliation when others who have
committed offenses of less magnitude
are compelled to take their medicine?
Why is it that the court is more con
cerned in this particular case than it
has been in others? Why is it that
a certain physician comes to Mr.
Sorenson's rescue anil advises the
court that he is fearful that if Mr.
Sorenson be Imprisoned he (Mr. Sor
enson) might within a week become
insane? These are questions that
should be answered.
If we continue in our practice of
forcing Justice to hide its eyes in i
shame the time Is not far distant!
I when we Shall be compelled to pick
up our mop and clean house. side that were the nicest tasters that
The insanity route ig well known j were known of a long time In La
to all law violators and about all the I Manoha. of which two I will relate
handicap there is to traveling this j you a story that makes good what I
particular rnute Is the absence of a I 3aid. It fell out on a time that some
well-known fact that tho watering wine was drawn fresh out of a hogs
places along this particular route I head and given to these same friends
possess wonderful healing powers.
The victim begins his journey dan
gerously insane and by the time he
reaches his destination he is per
fectly sane and docile as a lamb. How
long will our good people stand for
such bunk? ' J. D. WINN.
Honors for Both Tenraa.
PORTLAND. Jan. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) As a Harvard graduate and a
resident of Oregon for the past four
years, I am movei to send The Ore
gonian this expression of appreciation
of the editorial entitled "Fight 'Km
Oregon." 1
Not only does this editorial state
the facts in connection with the great
game at Pasadena truly and gra
ciously, but further than- that, it
seems to me. must certainly help to
strengthen the tie that we all hope
may finally bind east and west to
gether in mutual respect and confi
dence. As a Harvard inan I am milurally
proud of the victory of our lioys: as
an Oregon citizen I am equally proud
of the splendid figlil put up by the
Oregon team. Certainly in this game
there va equal honor for both vic
tor and vanquished.
WALTER C. LARNED.
Kesjrful l.osmeN to Party.
WOODBURN, Or., Jan. 4. (To the
Editor.) In the name of all that has
gone before In the last seven years,
why does not Wilson rise and call a
halt on the raid's now boinir made on
the bolsheviki and put a stop to de
portations? It begins to look now as thoueli
there Is not sroing to be much left of
his party it he doesn't tret action
pretty soon. A. W. HI N DM AN.
The OrecAnlnn's Annunl Appreciated.
PORTLAND. Jan. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) Just a line to tell you how
much I appreciate The reKonlan's
New Tear number. It Is a beauty
froni a t y poara ph leal viewpoint and
is crammed full of interesting facts.
Certainly it is a credit to those re
sponsible, for il. and to the city anil
state that It represents.
EDWIN KAWDKN.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
Froni The Oregonian. January 6. 1S3R.
San Francisco. Executors of the
will of James G. Fair toAay peti
tioned to probate the document. It is
stated that the matter of a contest Is
under consideration by the heirs and
their attorneys.
Paris. Captain Alfred Drejrfus
tried by coutrmartial and convicted
of treason, was publicly degmaried this
morning in front of the military
school in this city.
A colony of Nebraska people has
arrived at Independence to settle on
Polk county farms.
It cost i29,8;9 to run Yamhill coun
ty during 1K94, as Indicated by the
bills audited.
F"lfty Tears Ago.
From The Oregonian. January 6k ISTOl
Washington. The Mesolora Apache
Indians are still on the warpath in
New Mexico, according to report re
ceived from the superintendent of
Indian affairs for New Mexico.
St. Paul, Pec. 21. Letters from Pem
bina say the revolutionary council
held at Fort Garry resolved to resist
by force all efforts thst the Canadian
government may make to assume ex
ecutivec ontrol of the Red rrvei
country.
Walla Walla. Jan. 1. Captain Ju
lius' pack train of 28 animals, loaded
with merchandise for Fort Colville,
started out early this week.
The total number of arrests ln
Portland during 1869 were 497. of
which 215 were for violations of state
laws, including seven for murder and
five for assault with intent to kill.
Included in city cases were 200 ar
rests for drunkenness, fast driving
five, sellinsr without license 10.
Example.
By (.race E. Hall.
I dare not fail! If I my task give o'er
Another soul perchance because of me
Shall cease to try and justify Itself
Forevermore through my example.
I dare not hesitate! The currents
That impel
Sweep ever onward, and to stand Inert
Rut spreads, the strong, straight tide.
And sends it swirling far in weak
ened eddies.
I dare not doubt! When faith but
feels the rein.
Though lightly drawn, there Is a les
sening That spells too oft disaster; and I'd
become
A light that blinds when others
would go on.
I dare not shirk! Though wide the
field and long.
Too many eyes behold the work I do:
Too many, laboring by my side, set
pace with mine.
And dare I but refuse to do my best
Mow great the slackening in impetus.'
ALL IS OLD IN WTr AND HITMOR
Apparently Modern Anecdote Turns
. Out to Tie From Don Quixote.
PORTLAND, Jan. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Sunday Oregonian there
ia an article by a writer In the Globe
Democrat in which he seeks to justify
his claim that, there are. no new
stories, that, in fact, all witticisms, or
practically all of them, are but a re
vamping of older ones, and he gives
numerous examples In proof.
The article reminded me that about
2 years ago I read In an eastern
newspaper a story to the effect that
a wealthy resident of New York City
invited two Kervtucky colonels to be
his guests for a few days and in
honor of the occasion he opened a 30
icalion barrel of whisky of a vintage
which meant that it had been In h;s
cellar for ten years ripening. He ex
plained all this to the colonels and
added that he wanted them to give
their opinion as to its quality
whether it was up to the Kentucky
standard, etc.
The first colonel tasted it gingerly,
smacked his lips and said: "Well, that
Is about let me see?" And he took
another sip, smacked his lips In a
critical way and said, "Well, it is fine,
but I really think I detect a slight
leathery taste." The second colonel
went through the same method of
analysis and finally said: "Well, there
is something a little unusual about it,
and after another taste said, "But I
think it has the flavor of iron." At
which the host had the barrel emptied
and they found In the bottom of that
?,0-gallon barrel of whisky a common
carpet tack !
Well, thls'was. to me. a very funny
story and I repeated it several times
on proper occasions, until upon read
ing "Don Quixote" a few years after
ward I came across this narrative by
Sancho Panza:
"And all this is natural to me air.
I for I had two relations by the father s
0f mine to taste and they were asked
their opinions of the condition, the
goodness, the quality, the badness of
the wine and all that. The one tried
It with the tip of his tongue, the
other only smelled it: the first said
the wine tasted of Iron: the other
said it had a tang of goat's leather.
The vintner swore his vessel was
dean, and the wine neat, and so pure
thst It could have no taste of any
such thing. Well, the time ran on.
the wine was sold, and when the
vessel r'ame to be emptied, what do
you think, sir. was found in the cask?
A little key. with a bit of leather
thonK tied to it. Now, judire you by
this, whether he that comes of suoh
a generation has not reason to under
stand wine?"
Of course, that Is still a funny
story, but when we recall that Cer
vnrtes wrote and published "Don
Quixote" more than 300 years ago
thorp is reason for concluding that
the Glolie-Democrat writer was at
least partially correct In his conclu
sion. T. T. GEER.
Poem Not Identified.
PORTLAND. Jan. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly print the poem entitled
"Saint Christopher." or give name of
the atithor. It Is not Howells' nor
Craik's poem that is wanted, hut one
founded upon the old third century
letrond of Saint Christopher and the
Christ child. J. H. S.
No poem entitled "Saint Chris
topher" Is known at the pejblic li
brary except the one of that title by
Howells.
Application for Soldiers' Add.
PORTLAND. Jan. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) ITow long dops an ex-soldier
have to wait before the state pays
his allowance for educational pur
poses after filling all papers and
coins: before a notary and ewearlng
to them? This occurred about a
month ago and first papers were
made about four months ago.
To ascertain the status of your ap
plication write to the executive head
of the Institution you Intend to enter.