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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATTTRDAT, JAZTUARY 10, 1020
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ASD THERE IS !fO PEACE."
President Wilson has In the' past
Utterly arraigned the United States
senate for its seven months' delay in
ratification of the peace treaty; and
pow he crowns his indictment with
ft deliberate proposal for 14 months'
mora delay, while he submits the
whole question of the treaty, the
league and the peace of the world
to a "solemn referendum" of the
American people. For that entire pe
riod, and for an indefinite time
longer, probably, the United States
must remain in a formal state of war
with Germany. It is the "clear and
single way" through the present do
mestic controversy in America, ac
cording to the amazing Wilson de
cision. He underwrites by his fiat
11 consequences of American Isola
tion and aloofness from its responsi
bilities to its allies and all the na
tions. He makes himself a great
issue the paramount issue in the
coming presidential campaign. It
will be a logical and perhaps an
inevitable sequel of his assumption
of a supreme prerogative over the
destinies of his party and of the
nation that he should submit him
self to a third candidacy.
The first result of the Wilson
ultimatum that' "we must take It
(the treaty) without changes which
alter Its meaning, or leave it," is to
(create a schism in the democratic
party, since it involves the attempted
ostracism of Mr. Bryan and his fac
tion; and the second result will be
to drive Into a solid body in opposi
tion to himself all who do not favor
ratification of the treaty exactly as
it came from Paris, with no reserva
tions except such as will only de
clare ita undoubted meaning.
The republican senators are divid
ed Into strict reservatlonists, moder
ate reservationists and opponents of
any league. He unites them by de
manding that to which all alike are
opposed. While uniting the republi
can party, he divides the democratic
.n.f.. V. .3 ..i n . ...... T... . .1 1
can ranks all democrats who favor
any but interpretative reservations
cr who oppose the league.
He has arrayed against him W. J.
Bryan and his great following. He
has placed those democratic senators
who demand immediate peace and
Immediate formation of the league
by compromise on reservations in a
position where they can satisfy their
desire only by splitting their party.
The president himself has made
the league a party question. He laid
the foundation for his present
astounding act when he wrote the
letter in October, 1918, appealing to
the voters for election of a demo
c-ratio congress. At that time peace
was in sight, and the work of the
senate then to be elected was to
Include ratification of a treaty of
peace. He wanted the treaty to be
the work of his party, and for that
purpose he took the grave risk of
throwing it into politics, even before
the peace conference met.
In pursuance of this purpose he
placed Himself at the head- of dele
gates whom he appointed without
submitting their names to the senate
for confirmation and without includ
ing any senators among them and
without prior consultation with the
senate on terms of peace.
ne Drougni DacK a draft Of a
league covenant which he had in
duced the peace conference to make
rart of the treaty. He was warned
that enough senators to defeat ratlfi
jcation opposed coupling the two in
struments when 37 senators signed
b. declaration that, if given the op
portunity, they would have voted for
& resolution stating:
That, while it is their desire that
he nations of the world should unite
to promote peace and general dis
ermament, the constitution of the
league of nations now proposed to
the peace conference should not be
accepted by the United States.
That negotiations on the part ot
me United States should lmmedi
ately be directed to the utmost ex
peditlon of the urgent business of
negotiating peace, and that the pro
posal for a league of nations should
then be taken up.
Thus warned, on the ev of his
return to Paris, Mr. Wilson made a
trpeech in which he said tha the
(covenant and the peace terms would
Te found so interwoven in the treaty
That their separation would be im
possible, and at his Instance that
plan was followed.
Then followed seven months' de
lay of ratification and failure to
ratify to which Mr. Bryan referred,
and the president's take-it-or-leave
It attitude strengthened and solid!
tied the opposition. It alienated the
etrong republican support which he
had received from ex-President Taft,
President Lowell of Harvard, George
w. Wlckersham, Oscar S. Straus and
others. Ex-Secretary of State Root
find Charles E. Hughes proposed
reservations which would make the
covenant acceptable to men of both
parties who desired a league as earn
estly as did Mr. Wilson, but they
were scorned. More moderate reser
vations were proposed by a group of
republican senators who with the aid
of the democrats could have mus
tered enough strength to ratify with
them, but-when the time to vote ar
rived Mr. Wilson exhorted his fol
lowers to stand pat, and they did.
though against the known convic
- tions of many among them. When
Mr. Wilson toured tha country in
behalf of the treaty, he repeatedly
said that the treaty was not a polit
ical question, but by his actions he
made it so more and more every
day.
The strength of the demand for
immediate ratification by com
promise on reservations, irrespective
of party, is demonstrated by the ef
forts of democratic senators in that
direction since congress- reconvened.
It is most forcibly shown by the
course of Mr. Bryan in taking issue
with the president On the subject.
It comes from all except those demo
crats who blindly obey the presi
dent's dictum. If unopposed by the
president, it would quickly bring
compromise on reservations, in rati
fication of the treaty and in estab
lishment of peace. That such a
compromise would be accepted by
the allies is proved by the intimation
of the organ of the French govern
ment that it is willing to accept the
Lodge reservations. Neither the re
publican party nor the allies nor
the inclination of the democratic
senators stand in the way of such a
settlement. Mr. Wilson is the only
obstacle.
The conflict of opinion between
Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan renders a
split in the democratic party inevit
able. It gives republicans of all
shades of opinion on the treaty new
cause to close ranks in opposition to
the president. It inspires those
democratic senators who have looked
to Mr. Bryan for leadership and who
have trusted his judgment of public
sentiment, with a disposition to re
nounce Mr. Wilson as their leader,
to make a compromise and ratify,
and thus to endeavor to take the
league out of politics. But if they
should do violence to tradition and
habit, there is slight hope that they
would actually bring peace. The
president is so obdurate in his de
termination to win a personal tri
umph, to hold absolute sway, at any
cost to his party, his country and the
world that there is reason to expect
that, in that event, he would refuse
to transmit such a ratification to
Versailles.
This prospect leaves no alternative
to leaving the treaty in politics de
spite the readiness of the republicans
and of the Bryan wing of the demo
crats to take it out of politics. It
would then become the leading issue
of the campaign unless an open fight
for control of the democratic conven
tion should come between the Wilson
and Bryan wings and the latter
should win. The inevitable effect
would then be to add strength to the
extreme wing of. republicans who will
have no league and have sworn
death to the treaty. Such outgrowth
f political controversy is apparent
the fact that Senators Borah.
Johnson and Poind exter, who signed
the round robin in favor of a league
and of an early separate peace apart
from the covenant, have developed
into leaders of the death battalion.
The form which the controversy has
been given by Mr. Wilson not only
nas caused a democratic split and
has made overwhelming republican
victory certain; it has cast grave
doubt on the final fate- of the treaty
in this country. Republicans desire
party success, but not at such cost.
This is the critical situation pro
duced by the imperious desire of Mr.
Wilson to rule only by imposing his
single will on his country. It threate
ns rum to his party and grave con
sequences to the nation and to the
world-
BEAMY WOOD ALCOHOL.
Wide misconception of the. nature
df wood alcohol has been to blame
for a great number of fatalities re
suiting from drinking this peculiar
ly insidious poison. All contraband
liquor is laid under suspicion by pub
lication of the fact that there Is no
simple method for determining the
presence of wood alcohol in a bever
age. The common supposition that
an "expert" could detect it by its
odor or taste is not founded on fact.
Nor is it true, as was believed a few
years ago, that mortality among
woodj alcohol victims has been due
ta impurities generated in the proc
ess of manufacture. It is now known
that poisonousness is an Inherent
quality of wood alcohol. "It is as
impossible," says Dr. Reid Hunt.
head of the department of pharma
cology of Harvard Medical school,
to prepare non-poisonous wood al
cohol as it is to prepare non-poison
ous prussic acid." When this is
better known the marke.t for "boot
leg" will be more restricted than it
is now. It has come to the point
where the user of intoxicants of un
known origin takes his life in his
own hands.
Wood alcohol, it is explained by
chemists, Is itself a poison and is not
eliminated from the body by con
version into harmless substances, as
is a certain proportion of the grain
alcohol which people drink, but is
slowly transformed instead Into
formic acid, another poison. These
poisons and, perhaps a third, for
maldehyde, attack the brain and
cause death or blindness. Variation
of individual susceptibility to wood
alcohol is not pecular to this poison.
borne die or become blind from
amounts "which seem to do no harm
to others. But the American Chemi
cal society, which believes that ex
tended publicity should be given to
tne racts about wood alcohol poison
ing, makes it plain that no one who
uses the stuff is safe. The mortality
from arsenic, for example, is between
bU and 75 per cent, and that from
bichloride of mercury Is even less.
Both of these substances are uni
versally recognized as poisons. Tet
in a group of ISO persons recently
drinking a mixture of grain and wood
alcohol, all but 30 died or were
rendered permanently blind, a cas
ualty rate of 3 5.4 per cent. Sufficient
data have been gathered to warrant
the statement that a single teaspoon
ful may cause death or blindness, 1
while four ounces, or about half an
ordinary glassful, is practically cer
tain to have this effect in a majority
of cases. The only wav to avoid
danger Is to let wood alcohol alone.
Dr. Hunt, who prepared his state
ment at the request of the American
Chemical society, places chief em
phasis on the necessity for discredit
ing so-called experts who pretend
that they can tell whether a bever
age Is safe or not. He adds:
There ta not a single property of wood
alcohol, except Its poisonous affects, by
which anyone but a chemist can distin
guish between purified wood and ordinary
grain" alcohol. Tha appearance, odor
ana
taste of the two are so striklm-iv
alik that even chemists wBo have had
much experience with them are unable by
these properties to distinguish between
them with certainty. The diffioulty Is. of
course, greatly Increased when essences,
flavors or coloring matter are added, aa Is
tha case with spurious drinks. Tha n-
sumer. however great his familiarity with
alcoholto bevaragea may be, not only can
not trust his own Judgment In this mat
ter, but ha cannot trust tha Judgment of
an experienced aaioonicaeper.
Testinxgny offered la spurt tew
years ago was to the effect that
manufacturers of wood alcohol had
represented that their bottles bore
poison labels only as a ruse to pre
vent the government from placing
an Internal revenue tax on the prod
uct. This and similar false state
ments have only made the campaign
of education more difficult. It will
be Supposed, however, that the wood
alcohol death list of the recent holi
days will convey its own moral. It
will also stimulate demand for ade
quate legislation. The federal com
missioner of internal revenue now
holds that he has no authority to
control the sale of wood alcohol,
which "is in no sense a liquid or
beverage" as described in the federal
liquor acts, nor can it be considered
a narcotic under the provisions of
the Harrison act. The problem Is
most likely to be solved through
tightening of the poison laws, and
in this the states as well as the fed
eral government will be called on
to act.
A PURE ASSEMBLY.
Those democrats who have devised
a plan for adopting party resolutions
and recommending candidates be
fore the primary will naturally re
sent any implication that they are
falling back on the discredited as
sembly plan. The distinction is quite
plain to a democrat. Just what it
is may not be wholly clear to others,
but it is probably in the name.
The work of inducing suitable
candidates to run is to be accom
plished first if possible by the regu
lar party committees, and if there
are still vacancies mass meetings will
seek the lambs and erect the plat
form for . the sacrifice. The loyal
democrat will at once recognize the
distinction between a mass meeting
which adopts a platform and nomi
nates candidates and - an . assembly
which does the same thing. The
latter is a horrid name adopted by
republicans. But anybody can call
a mass meeting for any purpose.
Yes, the difference must be in the
name.
But what interests even more than
this solicitous regard for the voter
who would not know whom to vote
for If not told. Is the forwardness of
the Oregon party in proposing adop
tion jf resolutions and platforms.
now in ins worm is tne uregon
democracy, to know whether it is for
the Wilson's "My-treaty-or-bust"
platform or for Bryan's "Nix-on-the-treaty-stuff"
platform until the na
tional convention tells it what to do?
Lead forth the democrat who
would venture to draft a party plat
form right now or at any time prior
to the Oregon primaries. We should
like to find out what the alienists
think of him.
THE GHOUL,
The Evening Telegram gave space
in its columns to the Oratorical effer
vescence of a man named Turner, a
democratic office-holder at Rose
burg, who deemed the celebration of
the memory of Andrew Jackson a fit
time to defile the grave of the late
Theodore Roosevelt. Turner is re
ported to have said:
"The republicans of the country,
for want of a better issue, are now
canonizing Theodore Roosevelt, a
man whom I have never admired,
since he boasted in his memoirs of
having shot a Spanish captive In the
back during the battle of San Juan
hill."
There is no record that the wicked
slander of Turner was received with
approval by the assembled demo
cratic company. Nor was there an
attempt to correct or silence his
ghoulish malice. Probably no one
among the democrats was in posses
sion of the facts.
The incident to which Turner
doubtless refers occurred during the
battle of San Juan hill. In his book,
the "Rough Riders." Theodore
Roosevelt says:
Lieutenant Davis first serireant. Clar
ence Gould, killed a Spanish soldier with
his revolver, just as the .Spaniard was
aiming at one of my Rough Riders. At
about the same time also I shot one. I
was with Henry Bordshar, running- up at
the double and two Spaniards leaped from
the trenches, and shot at us, not ten
yards away. As they turned to run, I
closed in and fired twine, missing the
first and killing the second.
The lieutenant of whom Colonel
Roosevelt speaks was Milton F.
Davis, appointed to West Point from
Oregon. It Is obvious of course that
the Roosevelt exploit was a legiti
mate and necessary act of war the
killing of an enemy on the field of
battle. Nothing more need be said
In Justification of it. Nothing can
be said in justification of a wanton
endeavor to steal and destroy Roose
velt s good name and fame by out
right perversion of the truth.
It may be pertinent to mention the
more or less relevant fact that An
drew Jackson in 1806 killed a per
sonal enemy a fellow American, not
a national enemy, Charles Dickinson
-in a duel. The American people
evidently justified the act of Jackson,
who had more than one duel in
time when resort to the "code of
honor" was common, for they after
ward twice elected him president.
RURAL FASHION SHOWS.
The rural fashion shows which the
United States department of agri
culture is staging In various agri
cultural centers differ from their
metropolitan prototypes in the im
portant particular that they do not
seek to place undue emphasis on a
mode with the purpose of causing
the discarding of still serviceable
garments for new ones. Quite the
contrary is the case. From the of
fice of information of the depart
ment comes an official bulletin from
which the following paragraph is
taxen:
In Marion county. Missouri a four Hmvs
demonstration was recentlv s-lven h th.
suite doming specialist, it Included read
Justment of patterns, flttinar. finishing p..
modeling, designing, trimming and the use
and manufacture of a dress form. Old
garments were brought to the remndnllns-
dexnonstration and the patterns " w-r-a
pinned on them. On the davs when irlm.
ming ana designing were studied, the neo-
uroufiiu mreaa. neeaies and msttr it
and worked under the supervision of the
specialist ana ner assistants.
There was a special show after
ward at which nine women wore
afternoon dresses they had made,
five wore good-looking street dresses
and four attractive gingham or cot
ton frocks. Even the babies were
sensibly as well as prettily dressed.
A great deal of interest was taken In
the lectures and demonstrations per
taining to the 'making over of old
clothing.
We suspect that behind the scenes
there Is going on a good deal more
of this making over of old clothing
than is commonly realized. It is an
excellent practice and it ought not
to be discouraged by word or In
timation. In this way will the ten
dency toward extravagance in cloth
ing be combated. It Is said that
in the higher grades of garments
as many are discarded because they
have been superseded by a new
fashion as are worn until they have
exhausted their usefulness. The
movement now being promoted by
the department of agriculture in
the country districts might with
profit be extended to. the cities. It
is a happy compromise between
economy of material and the natural
desire not to fall too far behind the
times. It will be hoped that a way
will be found to make thrift also
fashionable.
MAN FN HIS OLD PART.
Representative James M. Mann,
who had the audacity to seek nomi
nation by the republican party for
speaker of the house of representa
tives. Is one of the afflictions which
the party seems doomed to endure.
The party has moved with the times,
but Mann ha not. There was a
time up to which he kept pace with
it. He then had acquired high rank
in it by skill in politics, by keeping
on the right side of the ruling powers
and in no small degree by the rule of
seniority. He thus , acquired the
prestige which emboldened him to
seek the speakership and which gave
fhim a fighting chance of victory.
His party associates began to find
him out in the days of the progres
sive schism, and more of them have
been finding him out ever since. He
was one of the standpatters who
caused the breach in 1912, but he
was then believed to be an American
at heart. When the war forced men
to declare whether they " stood for
American rights or for tame sub
mission to German ruthlessness, it
was discovered that he was not even
that. He voted wrong on the Mc
Lemore resolution and, though he
voted right on the other test ballots
connected with the war, he talked
the other way, for Germans predomi
nate in his district and he voted with
one eye on them and with the other
on has duty. . ,
His championship of Victor Ber-
ger, the convicted traitor and the
expelled representative, is a fit con
tinuation of this record. His opposi
tion to a second denial by the house
of Berger's right to a seat suggests
that he has heard from his German
constituents and fears that they will
deprive him of his seat if he does not
vote to let Berger in.
Any doubt whether the house does
any wrong to that district by exclud
ing Berger is easily solved. Its action
n electing Berger the first time may
plausibly- be excused on the ground
that It did not know or believe that
he was disloyal. After he had been
shut out for that reason, his re-elec
tion can be explained only on the
ground that the people voted for him
because lie is disloyal. By the same
reasoning; the majority of the voters
are themselves disloyal, and there
fore not entitled to representation
If Berger's disloyalty is to be pun
ished by imprisonment, the disloyalty
of his constituents who honor him
for his crime by electing him to con
gress should not be permitted expres
sion, for that would be a manifest
absurdity.
In fact the fifth Wisconsin district
is
a disconnected fragment of Ger
many planted in the midst of the
United States and in open enmity to
ward this country. It might have
acted like the little republic of San
Marino, which, planted in the midst
of Italy, sent out, its 300 soldiers to
fight beside the Italians, but it chose
otherwise. Judging by Mann's con
duct, the second Illinois district in
clines the same way, and Mann in
clines with it. There is time before
the next regular election for the
Wisconsin and Illinois districts and
Jim Mann to become Americanized,
but that time grows short. The men
who wore the uniform and those who
backed them at home are determined
to Americanize the whole United
States, and they will not neglect the
most desperate cases
Major-General George O. Squier,
chief signal officer of the army, has
shown that idealism is not dead by
his recent dedication to the public
of all his rights in his invention of a
new means of commonication de
scribed as "wired wireless," because
it combines the principles of the
radio with those of ordinary tele
phony, but gives privacy and econ
omy, not possible with the former,
Instead of being diffused in all di
rections, with great expenditure of
power, the currents under the new
system are guided by the wire to
their destination, but a dozen mes
sages can be transmitted simul
taneously and there is believed to be
no limit to the distance they can be
made to cover. Kconomic as well as
scientific possibilties of the Invention
are very large, if it will do all that
is claimed for it, but even more in
teresting is General Squier's motive
in renouncing all hope of profit.
"When. an army man," he said re
cently, "begins to think about money,
he begins to forget about the army
Which, in a few words, constitutes a
little sermon in itself.
When the Warner valley gets to
going on muskrats and the going is
good, the folks will live high. Besides
the pelts which will grace the forms
of the fairest in the laud, there is to
be had the muskrat stew, a decoction
that tickles the palate if the tickles
forgets its ingredients. Hall the
Warner valley "muskrat"!
If . Priest River, Idaho, fails to
make a showing In the census it will
not be fault of its people. A recent
number of the Times announces the
birth of the J.6th. child to a couple
that cannot be otherwise than happy,
Mr. Carpentier is In no hurry to
fight Mr. Dempsey at Tia Juana and
Insists on waiting until fall. . H
needs a few months to pick up some
velvet" and, being a Frenchman,
will do it.
Rather odd' that prohibition Is
hurting lemon trade, in the east, but
summer weather will revive it, and
there will be big demand for the
Bryan, Wilson & Co. people later on.
The woman secretary of a New
York terminal company gets $70,000
a year, which is more than many
men earn in a lifetime.
'
Calling off of the steel strike was
a few weeks later than expectation
The result is 100 per cent loss to
the strikers.
All the same, Mrs. Alexander
Thompson Is a . smiling loser and
that's what counts.
Chilly temperatures are features
of January, so stoke up and stop
grumbling.
Following wooden socks may come
hats made of sawdust for th wood
en heads, .
ROBBERS' VICTIM PROTESTS
Release of Fence Raises Inquiry
aa to Fxactnesa of Justice.
PORTLAND. Jan. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) As I sat by the fireside a, day
r two ago. a glaring neacuine caugnt.
my eye: "Cohen Is r"aroied (Tom
Prison Term." As I read the article
my mind drifted back to a beautiful
Saturday afternoon last Beptemoer
when my wife and myself drova out
Gresham to get some fresn air
and sunshine. When we returned at
:40 o'clock we found our house had
been ransacked and all the valuables
we had in the house were gone. Two
young men had been seen leaving
the house a short half hour before.
An inventory of what was left
showed that we were losers by about
175 worth of material, so far as
value-, goes, but most of the articles
were presents to us and priceless
because they cannot be replaced.
There were an engagement ring, my
present to my wife In 1906. et with '
two ODals and two chip diamonds;
er opal class ring, a gift Irom ner
class-mate chum at school; another
ring set with, four opals, her father's
gift to her opal Is her birth stone;
lavallier, a present .to my little
girl from her grandmother; a past
master's Masonic' jewel, presented to
me by Oregon lodge No. 101, A. F.
A. M., the most prized KeepsaKe
ever owned; two razors, one given
to me by my father in 1898 and the
nly one I ever shaved witn until
after it was stolen; a Waterman
founfain pen, my wife's present to
me in 191S; a silk smoking jacket,
presented to me by O. M. Standlfer
employes for Christmas, 1918; a blue
worsted suit of clothes, almost new-
nickle-plated Everready flash light.
and about 9 In money.
All these floated past me In a
vision as I remembered the robbery
and part of these goods, a very small
part, now at the police station await
ing trial of Cohen.
The silk smoking Jacket and grip
are now at tne ponce station ana ins
officers there told me the past mas
ter's jewel had been - broken up and
melted.
What law permits a Judge to allow
criminal to plead guilty to one
charge when there are numbers of
others hanging over him and thou
sands of dollars worth of property
disposed of, according to the papers?
What sinister influence Is at worn
our courts that allows some crim
inals to get off so easy? Why let
this man go under these circum
stances and send others to the penl-
entlary for smaller crimes? Has
come to a point where Cohen,
Sorensen and others who have influ-
ntial friends or money are Immune
from punishment?
We hear every day of the work the
government is doing to rid the coun
try of the red element, yet it would
seem there is no protection for a
man who is trying to live honestly
and save a little more than he spends.
s there a force at work here to make
bolshevlsts out of us all?
I have always talked and worked
against bolshevist principles, but
when your best friends say to you.
I told you so, they'll turn them loose.
they've got money behind them,
what can you say?
When you read of all the robberies
autos, stores, houses and banks -
and of the kind hands that care for
the perpetrators of these misdeeds,
it makes you wonder what the bar
of Justice really means.
ARCHIE C. FRIES.
1511 Kerby Street.
FURTHER RETICENCE RESETTED
Awful Threat of Referendum on Eln-
ate-la Theory- la Made.
BAT CENTER. Wash.. Jan. 8--To
the Editor.) Please get busy with us,
about this Einstein's theory of rela
tivity. We've just got to know some
thing about it. ,
To be sure, we are told that there
are not the necessary words wltn
which to exchange confidences on the
subject. But you may as well start
making them, and teaching us. We
may have to have them, anyhow, as
starting point when we get into
communication with Mars, and we
would feel sheepish without them.
Naturally, we cannot claim to be
among the elect dozen who know
enough mathematics to judge of the
truth of the theory; but surely we
can be fed a few crumbs under the
table.
The few words we can dimly hear
coming from the sacred precincts
sound as if there is moBtly involved
some abstruse developments in the
calculus. Well, most of us would
have trouble in trying to' differenti
ate the equation of the leminiscate
in terms of the fourth dimension, to be
sure: but there are quite a number
of us who retain an idea of the differ
ence between differentiation and in
tegration. Won't it help out a bit?
At least we might get a 'notion what
the row Is about.
Why, anyhow, should It be funda
mentally necessary in the order of
things for a yardstick lying east and
west to be shorter than , the same
yardstick lying north and south?
What has relativity to do with such
unconventional behavior?
Is It this Einstein's theory that is
responsible for our being told now
that the old "laws of motion' we
were taught in physics don't go any
more; that there is in the constitu
tion of the universe an Inherent im
possibility of motion faster than that
pproximated by the velocity of
light?
And is it but no matter about the
other detailed bewilderments. We
want an inkling of what ie doing it
all. Someone better take the job of
fixing us up; for, please take notice:
After going through the greatest
catclysm of history, "to make the
world safe for democracy," we com
mon people are going to insist on
look in when great things are being
cooked up for us. If we don't have
a bit of pitiless publicity, then we
shall call a referendum and decide
that it is not so, anyhow. If we do.
that settles it, Einstein or no Ein
stein. There is, of course, no princi
pie paramount to the final decision
made by us, the people.
To avoid this calamity. It is up to
you to give us a taste of the broth
being stewed for us, or find someone
to show us the inside of the kitchen
where the .cooks are at work. Really,
seriously, we want to be shown.
I. L. JUS1L
A. Gkest of a Country."
Indianapolis News.
' Harry Gullett, official correspond
ent wltn tne Australians In the cam
paign which broke the Turkish rule
over . Palestine, says that country
"was disillusionment all the way.
In a speech to newspaper men on re
turning from the "Holy Land," he
added:
"Palestine was the ghost of a eoun
try living on the memory of the glory
that had gone. 'Jerusalem. the
Golden,' was a most verminous and
foul city. There was not a cedar on
Lebanon; no balm blew over Gltead,
and there was no bull in Bashan.
"What the Australian learned from
this land was that he must always
keep and strengthen his ideal of oni
land for one race.fl
Good Roada Goape-1 Spread.
Indianapolis News.
There has never before been such
an era of improved highway construc
tion In Arkansas as today. It has
been estimated that tRe regular SO
day session and the extraordinary 10
day session of the Arkansas legisla
ture passed acts providing for the
construction of more than 8500 miles
of hard-surface road, the cost of
which will run into- millions. The
extra session was called by Governor
B rough specifically for the purpose of
passing good-roads legislation.
Those Who Come and Go.
Td like to see a law making capital
punishment tha penalty for anyone
who holds up a revolver or a gun at
another person when committing, a
holdup," announces J. M. Crawford
of Dundee. T see by the papers that
nearly every day aome highwaymen
enters a store in Portland or some
other town, sticks a gun into the pro
prietor's face and loot the establish
ment. The Intent of the highwayman
is to -kill if it Is necessary to carry
out his purpose, so a highwayman
with a gun, I believe, should be sen
tenced to prison for life, or else be
executed. If we proceeded to hang
them as fast as they were caught the
others would leave the state when
they dlsoovered that the people felt
unkindly toward gentry of that pro
fession and Oregon would soon be
tbaa tne UmU of 1)foor aeatn
have a deterrent effect on the crimi
nals armed with guns. I'd like to
see a bill of that kind offered In the
legislature, but I don't think I will
introduce It." Mr. Crawford is a rep
resentative from Tamhlll county.
Ben C Sheldon of Medford. who Is
registered at the Hotel Portland, is
ready to launch the special session of
the legislature. As chairman of house
committee on resolutions, he has the
set of resolutions necesBary to be
introduced and adopted to make the
wheels go round. Personally, he says
he will not have a single bill to in
troduce. although he fathered a great
number at the regular session. As he
represents Jackson county, Mr. Shel
don explains that tfe will support the
Rogue river fish bill, which his con
stltuents demand, this being, in ef
fect, to eliminate commercial fishing
on that stream. "And from what 1
have heard. I suspect there will be
a fish row. on the Umpqua river,"
he adds.
T "R ' TTanrtlev and Mr. and Mrs.
S. S. Johnson of Tillamook, arrived
at the Seward last evening. Mr. Hand
ley is on his way to Salem to rep
resent Lincoln, Tillamook, Yamhill
and Washington counties as their
joint etate senator. He Is on the spe
clal committee which Is drafting the
new bill for a state fish and game
commission, such as members of the
legislature agreed on with the gov
ernor at Salem last Monday. Tilla-
ook county is particularly Interested
in fish and game legislation as the
commercial fishing Is one of the in
dustries of the county and the streams
are alive with trout, while the forests
are filled with deer.
W. H. Malone. Judge of Benton
county, who dropped in to look over
the democratic gathering, says that
Benton county is somewhat disap
pointed about the road proposition.
The county voted road bonds and
wanted the Alsea road improved and,
although the state highway commis
sioners made certain agreements re
taarintr the project, the commission
Is not now in position to mane gooa,
and there is no record on the rain
utes of the promise made. However,
Judge Malone hopes that the situa
tion will be untangled about tne mid
die of the year.
Charles A. Brand of Roseburg, who
Is reerlstered at the Hotel Portland
has one of the finest orchards in
Douglas county. It Is part of the old
Booth place. Mr. Brand will work for
the state beginning next Monday, for
3 a day, that being his compensation
as a member of the house. Jtepresen
tatlve Brand, In the lobby yesterday,
expressed himself as not particularly
smitten with the idea of a new fish
and game commission of seven mem
bers and suspects that lr tne legisia
ture names the personnel of the com
mission the present incumbents will
be retained.
Everyone who lives at Reedsport
Douglas county, is a booster for the
town, and W. M. Brown, hotel man of
that place, who is registered at the
Multnomah, Is no exception. "We are
located on the two rivers." says he
the Schmitz and the Umpqua. We
are, of course, crude, so iar as moaern
city improvements are concerned, bu
we have an electric light plant. 'Ihere
is about 65,000.000,000 feet of tim
ber tributary to Reedsport, and we
have three sawmills, a- shingle mill
and a bo factory.1
Too much Irrigation made a central
Oregon man at the congress very
popular. It appears that he had
quart in his grip and that in handling
the grip the train porter broke the
bottle, and the clothing In the grip
was soaked. Notwithstanding that the
clothes were sent to a cleaner, there
was an aroma which hung like a halo
around the delegate, and wherever he
went he was the center of attraction
and sympathy when he made his
explanation.
For the past few days almost every
hotel In the city has had from two
to half a dozen patrons from across
the line on their way to California.
Calgary. Moose Jaw. Saskatoon, Al
berta and other places and districts
are represented. There must hav
been 100 or more pass through Port
land during the current week. Pros
perity, permitting travel, and a very
cold winter are attributed as the
causes of the migration.
A carload or two of British Co
lumbla people on their way to Califor
nia arrived in Portland for a few
hours yesterday and registered at th
Multnomah. Each winter a large
group of these people band togethe
for a special excursion, and there are
so many of them that they have
couple of cars which are virtually
special. ,
A. D. Anderson, of the north uni
of the Deschutes project, who is at
tending the irrigation congress, i
one of tha honeat-to-goounesa farm
ers present and who wants more wa
ter and less legislation. Mr. Andcr
son confided to a fellow delegate
yesterday that it mlcht be a good
thing to have some farmers instead
of so many lawyers among the ot
ficers
Max Gorfkle, president of the East
ern Oregon Hide company of Pendle
too, arrived at the Multnomah yes
terday on his way home after si
months through eastern Canalla an
the United States. Mr. Gorfkle be
comes most eloquent when he tell
of the excessive high rates the hotel
in the east are charging,
Harry Gard, of the irrigation con
Hfess, whose habitat is - the north
unit, received information that the
dam sites will be approved. The
Deschutes project extends practically
from Crescent to The Dalles, and em
braces about 250,000 acres.
J. E. Oats, owner of a natatorium
at Seaside, and one of the stock-
holders of the Seaside hotel, is at the
Multnomah. He says that the foun
dation of the new Seaside hotel is in
and one wing will.be completed for
the summer trade.
F. W. Lampkin, who is interested
in newspapers at Pendleton and As
toria, arrived at the Benson from
Pendleton yesterday, reporting that
it is a trifle chilly in the Kound-Up
town.
a
Chief of Police Al H. Roberts of
Pendleton Is at the Perkins. His
visits to Portland, somehow, gen
erally synchronize with the meetings
of the federal grand jury.
E. S. Prouty. who has the box fac
tory at Seaside. Or., Is among the
visitors at the Hotel Oregon,
The Mystic Hour.
By Grace E. Ball,
Tia gloaming time and the shadows
rray
Touch out the gold of the fading day.
As the hill stands forth In Its purple
gown.
Trimmed here and tberw with a tree
of brown.
While over the meadows that stretch
between,
mist of gray with a silver sheen
Is slowly dropped, like a nun's soft
veil.
And draped o'er the foliage that trims
the trail;
And the traveler there In the softened
haze
la touched in myriad mystic ways.
As voices whisper and plead anew
nor traits in his soul that are fine
and true.
The trees bend near, and murmuring
low.
Bring back sweet thoughts of the
long ago;
A night bird flits, with a swishing
wine, .
To a tali vine-maple's graceful swing;
Ana voices come on the pulsing air
With an old-time ring or a hint of
care.
With the gold of a laugh or a smoth
ered cry
Ton hear them all as you're passing
by;
Like grains of wheat that fall-from
the hand.
The years drop away, and the things
one planned
With the one who was loved and who
went away
All these return in the shadows gray.
mysterious hills and Whispering
breeze
And murmuring spirits within the
trees.
Are you the voices of loved ones -?ped
To a shadow land where there are no
dead?
Ton call In the dawn with a clarion
tone.
Tou "whisper at night when we are
alone.
Tou warm Bur heart and you urge
our wllL
Though years on years we have
thought you still;
But th,e gloaming ' time Is a mystic
hour
Tou speak in the brook and the way
side flower.
In the night wind's warmth we can
feel your breath
And our soul cries out that there Is
no death!
FISH NEKD FEDERAL PROTECTION'
AnidrniDtran Varieties Held Similar to
Migratory- Birds and Seals.
PORTLAND. Jan. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) A letter has been sent to Gov
ernor Olcott caling attention to the
chaotic condition with regard to the
salmon and trout laws of Oregon and
to the- apparent fact that the true
interests of Oregon are Jeopardized
through the failure of commercial
and anglers' associations to look fur
ther than their own special and selfish
Interests.
The governor has been urged to
use his inriuence to cause the usti
and game commission to restore the
laws protecting small salmon and
trout as an Immediate need. Further
It Is urged that the public Interest
in the salmon and trout of the en
tire Pacific coast can only be satis
factorily conserved through interna
tional action as to anadromous fish
similar to the International migratory
bird and sealing laws.
The financial Interests of the can
ners and the selfish desires of anglers
must both be kept from dictation if
the public interest In a future Btipply
of both salmon and trout Is to be
protected.
This matter will be the subject of
a short talk, at the Audubon society
Saturday night. GEORGE RAH.
First Fountain Pen L'aed.
A fountain pen used in 1S64 still Is
in use In Paris. It was patented that
same year by Jean Benoit Mallat, an
engineer, and the firm that still car
ries on the business founded by him
asserts that this was the first foun
tain pen ever made.
Mallat was the inventor of the gold
pen with the ruby point, perhaps the
easiest writing and most durable nib
ever put on the market. But it is
necessarily expensive. In 1843 Mallat
substituted Iridium as a point for his
pens. At the same time he provided
a reservoir for the ink. This was
the germ from which grew the idea
of storing Ink In the handle.
Mallat's fountain pen differs only
slightly from our modern ones. It
was self-filling, but the flow of Ink
was regulated by a little turn screw
on the side. This, however, was soon
given up. as it became cloetred.
How Alaska, Golden Territory
of the North, Will Come
Into Her Own
The days of the rush to the frozen north are past, the name
of Nome is no longer one to conjure dreams of immediate riches,
but Alaska is moving forward with the certainty of providence to
a great commercial and industrial career. So says H. C. Lowa,
railroad builder, who recently returned after five jears in the
northland. In a special article appearing in The Sunday Ore
gonian, by Lucile Saunders, the prodigious prospects of Alaska
are discussed by Mr. Lowe, who speaks with the weight of abso
lute familiarity.
The Man Who Paints With People. Some have said that art
transcends life, and that the conceptions of the master of canvas
or marble are truth idealized beyond human limitations. But
Ben Ali Haggin, millionaire artist, has disproved this claim by
reproducing the masterpieces of ancient and modern art, painted
or graven, in living forms and the actuality is gifted with beauty
beyond that of the inspired sculptors and painters of any age. An
article in the Sunday magazine section, with illustrations, h
vibrant with new interest
Industrial Conditions Never Were Better. Is America at an.
industrial impasse? No more qualified witness than Samuel H
Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works, could be
called to testify on this point and he asserts that prospects never
were brighter than they are today. In the Sunday issue is the
text of a recent address delivered by Mr. Vauclain, analyzing
conditions as they are at the close of the war era and predicting
that the nation will take up its work with gigantic vigor and with
every certainty of tremendous success.
Gone Is the Harem With Ita Languorous Beauties. The glam
our of Arabian nights descends no more in the lands of the
prophet. Women of the harem, beauties whose charms were for
no man's eyes save those of their lords, have doffed the veil and
taken the first step toward feminine rights and recognition. As
an institution of romance and oppression, scented and mysterious,
the happy harem is no more. In the Sunday issue, with illustra
tions, Is a special story by Charles W. Duke, showing how the
high cost of living freed the wives and maidens of Turkey.
Is the American Girl Really Frightening England? Wedded
by English nobility, certain daughters of America have so en
livened the upper social life of staid old Britain, have plunged
successfully into politics for example, Lady Astor that the '
home-grown daughters of Albion are both puzzled and distressed
by the apparently depreciated value of their own stock of charms
and ability. The Sunday magazine section, with portrait illus
trations, has a story that reveals the pre-eminence of American
girls in British affairs.
Features for All the Family.
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Hoatarne.
rrFVPYrr- a tt,
(Who M T8 will run for th presi
dency of France.)
At fifty-two or fifty-throe
When your old dad and m&Mh
Contentedly sat down to see
Their suns (not sons) decltne,
A gentleman named Clemencean
Who dwelt somewhere in France,
Was saying, "In a year or so
Perhaps Til get my chancel"
t
At sixty-two or thereabout
When, reader, you and I
Without a shadow of a doubt
Will feel not quite so spry,
This husky, time-defying chap
As lively as a pup.
With all his Intellect on tap.
Was making France sit tip.
At seventy (when we'll be glad
If we are still around).
This indestructible old lad
Was hale and hard and sound.
At seventy-six. still going good.
The same old thoroughbred.
Again got on the Job and stood -
The kaiser on his head.
And now, arrived at seventy-eight.
He signs in calm content.
When beckoned by the hand of fate
To run for president.
Here's to that luBty heart and brain.
Long may they live ajirl thrive
Who knows what heights they maj
attaln When he Is ninety-flvea
Gsrss Why.
They're calling passenger liners be
tween New York and Cuba tank ships.
a
A Record.
For once New York city celebrated
New Tears without putting a strain
on the psycopathic wards in the local
hospitals.
Bad SperlnnaBshtp.
The plan of the reda to dest-roy the
Jails is not clubby. It would leave
too many of their own sort out In the
cold.
(Copyright. 1920, by the Bell Syndi
cate, In a.)
In Other Days,
Twenty-Five Tears Ago,
Prom The OreironlAn of January 10, 3815,
At a meeting yesterday of the com
mittee of 100 tha new city charter
was considered and put into form for
presentation.
The steamer George W. Elder,
which ran aground at the foot of
Swan Island Monday, was floated
yesterday.
The senatorial situation ts develop
ing into a clean-cut contest brtween
Senator Dolph and the field, em
bracing Several candidates.
The old cathedral building at the
corner of Third and Stark streets is
In the process of rapid demolition and
will be replaced by a two-story office
building.
Fifty Years Aero.
From The Oretrontan of-Januarv 1A. 170.
Troy. N. V. The Glen Falls Na
tional bank was entered by burglars
who blew the safe and obtained
o.ooo.
Interesting fossil remains have re
cently been found In Yamhill county
in a stratum of stone at a depth of
20 feet from the surfaqe.
The democratic state central com
mittee at it3 meeting Saturday ar
ranged to hold the state convention
of the party at Albany March 23.
Fire broke out Saturday in the
Cosmopolitan hotel but was checked
before it had done extensive damage.
Vacant City Lola Defaced.
PORTLAND. Jan. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) I note that the Women's Ad
j.. nl..nlnrr a bw to nrohiblt
I the depositing of tin cans, garbage.
refuse or debris or any Kiiia aionK
the right of way of county roads.
This is a step in the right direction,
but whv limit it to the county roads?
Why not have the same or a similar
law rifiht here in the beautiful city
of Portland, at least as far as un
sightly debris on empty lots is con
cerned? Look at the vacant lots at
the corner of East Twentieth and Bel
mont streets, which I have to pass
frequently. Again look at West Mor
rison street between Eighteenth and
Twentieth streets. Both these places
are a disgrace to the city of Portland.
SUBSCniKKR.
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