THE 3IORXIXG OREGOMAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920
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IfFO MORE REASONS FOR SESSION.
If the governor's recommendations
tn! his message may be considered
reasons lor summoning: the extra
ordinary session of the legislature,
then those reasons have grown from
five. to seven since the call was ls
ed. The original emergency meas
ures comprised enlargement of bene
fit under the workmen's compensa
tion law; ratification of the equal
guffrage amendment; remedial legis
lation respecting the existing provi
sion for state guarantee of irrigation
arid drainage district bond interest;
submission of an amendment restor
ing capital punishment, and appro
priation of additional funds for sol
diers' and sailors' educational aid.
iTwo recommendations now sub
mitted embrace amendments of the
parole .law and legislation creating
e$arate fisheries and game commis
sions. It Is perhaps true that if there
Is emergent need for restoration of
capital punishment in order to stay
a, wave of crime, a change in the
paroje laws is likewise needed. The
teprfency in punishment for crime
lias-Sheen toward leniency. Sentences
now" sound much severer than they
are in execution. A convict is eligi
ble 0 parole after he has served one
fourth of his sentence and from
that one-fourth may be deducted
timallowances for good behavior in
prison. Adoption of the governor's
suggestion that flat sentences be im
posed, upon conviction for major
crimes and that indeterminate sen
tences be permitted only upon con
viction of lesser crimes, should allay
a6 impression that now seems un
pleasantly prevalent that crime is
not such an unprofitable enterprise
after all.
ISut one may naturally be puzzled
as to what particular circumstances
hav created an emergent need for
fish and game legislation since the
call was issued for the meeting of
the assembly. But let it go that there
is' an emergency political or eco
nomic in this matter and that in
none of the many matters that have
agitated communities, organizations
and interests into asking legislation
at ttiis time, there is anything of para
mount interest. Admitting, too, for
thejjuoment that the "bickerings and
wrajiglings" that have occurred on
thejide lines but have not disturbed
theharmony among the appointed
members of the commission call for
I e gi s 1 a t i o n admitting this, why
should not that legislation be logi-
, 1? is the common understanding
that the chief trouble arises over the
conflict of interests of the sports
men and the commercial fishermen.
The' Commission now administers the
lafrarpertaining to both. The gov
ernor proposes that there shall now
be created two commissions, one to
have exclusive control over commer
cial "interests, the other exclusive
control over the sportsmen's inter
ests.'. If this plan be put into effect
What is to happen to the conflicts
between the two interests? If the
sportsmen cannot agree with the
commercial interests, is it not in
evitable that their bickerings and
wranglings will be prosecuted fur
ther by the two commissions, each
of which represents one faction and
no other?
Members of the fisheries and game
committees of the two houses have
prepared a different measure. It
creates one commission in two divi
tons. One division is to administer
the game and game fish laws, the
iJxer to administer the commercial
f lotteries laws. There is to be an
actional member independent of
thrtwo divisions who is to act a
arbitrator when the two divisions
cannot agree upon an issue in con
flict. between them. The proposal
fthe legislative committees is sensi
bi.- The governor's plan is inde
fensible.
It has been herein stated that the
oicjcerings ana wranglings" over
ttsKeries and game matters have oc
cutfed on the side lines. The com
mission has had since it was created
a reputation for harmony among its
members. The governor himself is
said to be recorded as agreeing: with
the' other members on all question of
liujvbrtance. Within recent months
he listened to the complaints of :
spqrtsmen's delegation and thereaft
er suited that they had wholly
failed to make out a case. There
was no intimation of inharmony
within the commission and presum
Iblv was none until the day the gov
ernor reversed himself on the question-
of dismissing Mr. Finley and
sked the other members to do like-
wise.
If as it appears, the trouble is all
on the outside, the erection of two
iudapendent commissions promises
only that the trouble will be trans
ferred to the inside, with detrimen
rather than benefit to the state.
JVATEItFRONT IMPROVEMENTS.
Although the precise plan offered
by City Kngineer Laurgaard for im
provement of the west side water
f rent between the Hawthorne and
Burnside bridges may not be adopt
ed, it is certain that before many
years have passed something must
Jf;Jone to utilize that frontage, and
npIan proposed will serf as
lua-sia for discussion.
Initio present is an appropriate time
JCvVTeast to prepare for action, for) No Man's Land to carry information
tf-jwater front survey committee has I concerning the enemy and to coll
ar jmd . that many of the existing vey aid to wounded comrades. Ha
structures are so depreciated that
they must be torn down. The own
ers admit that they yield no ade
quate revenue, and therefore will be
ready to co-operate in a general plan
of improvement. The old wharves,
being of wood, are a serious fire
hazard to the business district and
cause insurance rates to be materi
ally higher tjtan would be the case
if fireproof structures filled their
place, and many of them are eye
sores which make a bad first im
pression on strangers.
There is at the same time urgent
need of the very facilities to which
the city engineer proposes to devote
the area in question. The port
needs modern wharves for river
steamers, with modern freight-handling
devices and with direct rail
road connections, so that goods may
be transferred direct from boat to
car. It needs a broad railroad ave
nue through the heart of the city,
where the tracks of several roads
and streetcar lines may run parallel,
with space also for trucks to go to
and from the wharves. It needs an
other north-and-south street, free
from railroad and electric tracks, to
be used for heavy hauling through
the business district. It needs a con
crete sea-wall as a permanent wharf
front and to prevent the space under
the wharves from becoming dumps
for unsanitary rubbish. Before long
it will need a public market equal to
those of many other progressive
cities.
On and near the central water
front there is room to supply all
these needs, and the time when the
old, dilapidated structures are being
torn down is the time to take up the
matter and to study out a general
plan with an eye to the future
growth of the city. Whether the fu
ture structures be owned or simply
regulated by the city, they should
conform to a general plan to be laid
down by the dock commission, which
should control construction, rates
and management. If a good plan is
adopted and well and economically
executed, there should be no doubt
of the future structures earning in
terest on the Cost of the improve
ment.
OX BEING A CALIFORNIAX.
The New Tork Evening Post ha
been making Inquiry Into the attitude
of the Pacific coast toward Hiram
Johnson as a candidate for president
and it has made the Interesting dis
covery that California is for the
eague of nations and for Johnson,
who is against the league of nations,
or any league. It quotes the Fresno
Republican as its authority for the
statement that "the senator has been
the leading national opponent of a
policy which the majority of his
California friends and constituents
favor." But what of that? He
should receive the "full support of
th California delegation at Chi
cago." The basic reason, then, for Cali
fornia's unquestioning support of
Senator Johnson is that he is a Cali
fornian. But naturally California
oes not expect other states to be
moved to similar enthusiasm on any
such account. To be sure, an appeal
might be made to Oregon on the
ground of neighborliness, but what
then shall be done about Mr. J?oin-
dexter? He is just as close, in terms
f distance, to the imperial domain
of Oregon as to the Native Son of
the Golden West who lives at San
rancisco. Parenthetically, it may
be mentioned that in the bright lexi
con of sun-kis9ed California, there
s no such thing as a "Native Son of
the Golden West" outside the highly
exclusiye boundaries of that glorious
state. In other words, California is
the Golden West. It must be so, for
everybody in California concedes it.
But, with all the superiority that
automatically attaches to everything
Californian, practical politics is a
condition, not a theory, not a boast.
Mr. Johnson must make his case in
Oregon on what he stands for. That
is what the republicans of Oregon
will insist on knowing, before they
give him their vote in the May pri
mary. Doubtless he will tell them
again.
THE AVAR AND THE INDIAN.
The Indian "lost much of his
timidity" as a result of the war,
says Indian Commissioner Sells
in his annual report, and those
whose conception of an In
dian is a man by no means lacking
in righting qualities will need to
supply the thought . between' the
lines. The timidity of our Indians
has been of a different kind. It
has been the result of unfamiliarity
with the white man's ways and of
almost complete neglect of white
men to further his education by
meeting him on common ground.
Provisions made by a paternal gov
ernment for his welfare have until
comparatively recent years only in
tensified his aloofness. Candor
compels admission that he has had
reason for being suspicious. Hid
immediate contacts with civilization
have been too frequently colored by
the ulterior purposes of individuals
with whom he has had dealing.
The timidity suggested by Com
missioner Sells, which can be trans
lated "suspicion" without doing vio
lence to his probable meaning, has
given way to a certain measure of
assurance and trust as the direct re
sult of wider association with the
whites. One effect of the mobiliza
tion was to throw all sorts of Ameri
cans together on a basis of equality,
The Indian, no less than the natural
ized alien, must have had opportunity
to discover that Americans in the
mass are willing to do justice, when
they understand their obligations. In
timate contact has done what no
amount of promises by delegations
could accomplish. The promises
have often been broken, but the In
dian now discovers that there is in
the people themselves a court of ap
peal. The chapter which Mr. Sells de
votes to "Heroic Features of Indian
Soldiers" is as interesting as any re
view of the achievements of any
class during the war. The bureau
has been hampered in obtaining def
inite information as to individual
acts of bravery by the fact that "as
a rule the Indian bears his honors
very modestly," and ia reluctant to
permit any display, but it is becom
ing known that as individuals these
former wards of ours have performed
many mighty deeds. The valor of
the widely-known Sergeant York is
fairly matched by the hitherto un
mentioned feat of Private Oklahom
bi, a full-blooded Choctaw, who
dashed through 21Q yards of wire
entanglements, starmed a machine
gun nest and captured 171 prisoners.
He turned the captured guns on the
enemy. At various times he crossed
was rewarded with a French decora- .
tion. He was only one of many whom !
the commissioner mentions as exam-!
pies of Indian devotion to duty.
NOT OPEN 'TO DISCUSSION.
Men who, like Dr. Devine, propose
that public officials and believers in
American democracy should meet
with revolutionists and discuss their
grievances with them encourage the
theory of the reds that the difference
between treason and loyalty is a
mere matter- of political opinion
which people are free to discuss in
meetings or newspapers, and that
prosecution of those who advocate
treason is violation of the rights of
free speech and free press and is
therefore political persecution. What
the reds call their grievances are
the existence of the American in
stead of the soviet constitution, rule
by the ballots of a majority of all
classes instead of by the bullets of
a minority of one class, and, in gen
eral, absence of those "blessings" of
rule bv the proletariat which Russia
"enjovs." All. these questions were
closed when the American constitu
tion was adopted. To discuss them
would be to acknowledge them to be
open.
The bol8hevists do not acknowl
edge them to be open In Russia, but
have closed discussion of them in
favor of the soviet and all its theor
ies and practices. They closed dis
cussion of the question whether they
or all the people of Russia should
rule by dispersing the constituent
assembly in December. 1917, and by
killing about two-thirds of the mem
bers. They have kept it closed by
suppressing all speech and publica
tion opposed to the soviet and by
killing the speakers and writers. If
workmen strike against their indus
trial system, they pick out the leaders
and end their lives in the death
house. They massacre Christian
clergy of all denominations for the
declared purpose of extirpating re
ligion. None of these questions are
open with the Russian soviet; the
penalty for attempting to open them
is, death.
'Although we consider discussion of
the principles of the constitution to
have been closed by adoption of that
instrument, there is always oppor
tunity to reopen it in the American
way. Any body of men is free to per
suade, by reason, enough other men
that a change" is desirable, and if it
succeeds, the change is made. By
that means the income tax, direct
election of senators and prohibition
have been brought about and woman
suffrage has passed congress. . But
that is not what the reds in this
country want. They want their
minority to overturn the existing
government by force and to set up
a soviet government in its place, to
rule by force and terror. That is
the only subject for discussion with
them, and it is a ' subject which
Americans do not admit to be open
to discussion.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE SOVTET.
If anything would raise doubt as
to the wisdom of deporting Russian
bolshevists, It is their professed
readiness to go to Russia. There
might be some question as to their
sincerity, if Litvinoff had not been
sent to . Copenhagen to negotiate ex
change of prisoners with Great
Britain. That implies that the reds
at Moscow need reinforcements.
Several thousand strong, well fed
bolshevists from the United States
and western Europe, all. with money
in their pockets, will be quite an ac
quisition to the soviet. Of course
we want to be rid of them, but it is
no act of kindness to suffering Rus
sia to unload them on that country.
The , Soviet's seeming anxiety to
get back its missionaries to the lands
of capitalism and imperialism coin
cides with a show of moderation and
of abandonment of terrorism which
seem to be parts of a campaign for
peace with the allies and the United
States. The Moscow press agency
has given out announcements that
the moderate socialists have been
received into the gdvernment, that
the extraordinary commissions which
have carried on the work of torture
and slaughter are to be abolished,
and that the Orthodox church, which
has been ruthlessly persecuted, is to
be reconciled and bolshevized. AH
of these movements are in aid of the
drive for peace. Their sincerity may
be judged by the fact that the non
bolshevist socialists were given only
38 members out of over 900 at the
recent soviet congress, that the
clergy of all denominations have
been massacred, that wholesale exe
cutions in Petrograd followod the
defeat of Tudenitch, that a commis
sar at that city boasted that the
reds would blot the very name of
God out of the minds of Russians,
and that the imprisoned Patriarch
Tykhon has repudiated a submission
to the soviet which was recently sent
abroad from Moscow. The show of
moderation and toleration seems to
by mere window dressing to impress
me allies
The soviet congress made a bid
tor peace, which it said was the
tenth since last August. Its desire
for peace is not difficult to under
stand. Germans still largely rule at
Moscow, though many of them have
disguised themselves under Russian
names, and Germans are readv to
take possession as soon as hostilities
cease. The anti-bolshevist armies
having been routed on all sides, the
situation is favorable for peace, and
peace is urgently needed. Food be
comes scarcer, workmen's efficiency
approaches zero because semi-starva
ion nas made them too weak to
work, and peasants refuse to give
up surplus food except in exchange
ror ciotmng, machines and tools
which the soviet cannot supply. They
can be obtained from abroad, but
the allied blockade prevents imports.
Stocks of food are almost exhausted.
and there is doubt of ability to feed
the army through the winter. The
soviet must have food, and can ob
tain it only by opening the ports to
imports.
The country is ready for Germany
to enter and take possession. Kdu
cated people have been cither killed,
exiled or have entered the service of
the soviet. There remains a vast
mass of ignorant people who. after
centuries of the czar's tyranny, have
fallen under that of the bolshevists
with a brief. Interval 6f hysterical
liberty. They nre weary of war.
poverty, misery and terrorism and
are ready to submit to any orderly
despotism. The Germans are expert?
at that kind of government and are
ready to supply the brains and abil
ity which Russia now lacks. When
their hold is secure, they may he
expected to push aside or extermi
nate the bolshevist fanatics and
butchers, and then to exploit Rus
sia for their own ends. A few
thousand returned emigrants from
America and elsewhere may prove
very useful, if they can be tamed as
Germans know how to tame.
The Germans probably realize that
their mistake was in advancing west
ward to world conquest; that if they
had started eastward they would
have found a more docile and indus
trious people in the Russians, whom
they could have used to conquer
Asia, whose hordes could then be
trained to subdue the rest of the
white race.
The bolshevist peace move may
win. The Italian chamber has voted
to recognize all de facto governments
in Russia and Lloyd George is evi
dently being pushed toward recogni
tion by the British labor unions.
France may have to overcome the
rep'ugnance expressed by Foreign
Minister Pichon. when he called the
reds nothing but murderers.
The allies lost their opportunity
when they failed to give such degree
of support as would enable the anti
bolshevist generals to crush the
soviet, and as would have made them
powerful enough to cause establish
ment of true democracy. They may
pay for that mistake by having to
cope with red propaganda in the
present and to fight an even greater
war than the last In the not distant
future.
THE INKXHAl'STIrtl.K CI.EM ENCEAtJ.
Moments of intense interest be
come increasingly more frequent in
the career of Georges Clemenceau
Since the climax of his life on the
28th of last June, when he laid a
voluminous work in a white binding
entitled "Terms of Peace" before the
representatives of beaten Germany,
there have been many episodes of his
torical importance in which ' the
audacious and dramatic old Gallic
chieftain has been a principal figure.
It might be interesting to suppose
that Clemenceau sustains his intense
youthfulness upon the emotion of
the successive dramatic ceremonies
which It has been his singular for
tune to conduct at various times in
recent months as the representative
of victorious France. During the fi
nal transactions with German pleni
potentiaries, Clemenceau spoke but
few words, yet his one brief utter
ance was devastating. It came after
the address of Brockdorff-Rantzau
before the assemblage in which the
holiness of long-suffering Germany
was sanctimoniously portrayed, and
stripped of all but the sheerest for
malities merely consisted of the in
quiry, "Are there any other re
marks?" Clemenceau later acknowl
edged that his emotions as he ter
minated this solemn ceremony were
acute beyond description, coming as
a comprehensive climax to many
months of tremendous aspiration and
unequalled labors.
The subsequent meeting of the
French parliament in which the text
of the peace treaty was communi
cated by the premier came as an
other historic moment where the
oratorical power of Clemenceau
found an . appropriate setting. The
occasion was momentous in its ex
pressions or solemn ana joyous
thanksgiving. Parliament had al
ready expressed its thanks to
Clemenceau for his war service, for
immediately alter tne armistice a
resolution was passed which stated
that the premier of France "deserved
well of his country."
Clemenceau's recent reception at
Strasburg was at once -picturesque
and symbolic, for it was here that
the world came to witness the per
manent reunion of French patriots
who had ' been separated since the
annexations of 1870. No ceremony
in history was more effective than
the salutation of Alsace and Lorraine
to Clemenceau, who received flowers
and kisses from schoolgirls dressed
in their traditional costume.
Of recent Interest to the world
are the fairly definite intimations
that Clemenceau will become the
president of the French republic. It
is assured that if Clemenceau should
decide to accept the presidency, no
other will aspire to become a can
didate.
Another episode in keeping with
these astonishing precedents is now
being rumored as imminent and the
world is straining to learn if the
Tiger, in order to fulfil the social
ooiigations attached to the presi
dency, will marry the widow of Count
Charles le Peletier d'Aunay, who is
being mentioned in this connection.
Of especial Interest to Americans is
the report that the countess is of an
American family, although this has
not yet been confirmed by any fur
ther detail.
. Iconoclasts in Utah want to change
the date of Thanksgiving day to that
of Armistice day. Thanksgiving day
is a movable feast like Laster. gov
erned much by the same rule. There
always will be a last Thursday in
November as there will be a Sunday
following the full moon, that follows
the vernal equinox. Those Utah peo
pie must try something else.
In waging war on films the worn
enfolk must remember that what is
one man's meat is anpther's poison.
Many of no moral obliquity whatever
can see little harm in pictures .that
raise the gorge in others. The world
Is made up just so.
The story told by a 16-year-old
boy in San Jose of knocking out and
robbing a Portland policeman of J10
has an inharmonious note. There's
the ?10.
California, naturally republican
will go that way next fall, for once
Is enough the other way; but it is
just as well to continue the "whoop
her up!" begun yesterday to the
finish.
Possibly most clubwomen of the
state are opposed to capital punish
ment, but the great bulk of woman
kind will, close its eyes and let those
who deserve it hang.
1roDaDiy tne autoist who runs
down a crazy man out of Morning-
side is as much frightened as his vic
tim and, anyway, can make a better
getaway.
The popular name of the new loan
talked of as necessary must be "Old
Hoss," for that ia what it will be,
due to waste and extravagance.
New Jersey boozers have bucked
the last line and lost. The supreme
court says they have no standing,
So Carranza is cohorting with I.
W. W bolsheviki and other rads and
reds, is he? Drag him in!
"Substitution" reaches its limit in
the "sausage" made of fish in Cali
fornia. If it's all Bull Run water In the
jues at the capital, well and good.
BY - PRODUCTS OK THE TI31KS
Heaienes's Castle,' anions Wash
ington Home, to House Legation.
One of the most famous residences
In Washington, D. C, "Henderson's
Castle," has been bought by the
Polish republic to house Its represen
tatives to the- United States govern
ment. The castle was built by tha
late J. B. Henderson when he was
senator from Missouri and is an im
posing mass of stone and brick, with
turrets and battlements. It is situ
ated on Washington Heights, looking
down Sixteenth street, sometimes
called Executive avenue, which runs
due north from Lafayette square, the
broad park in front of the main en
trance to the White House, from
which the "castle" Is more than a
mile distant. Prior to the war it was
occupied by Boris Bakhmetiff, Rus-
lan ambassador under the old regime.
In American money the deal Is one
of the largest in recent real estate
annals in Washinaton. the Drice being:
between 1160.000 and $200,000. On the
books of the legation the amount
stands at 8.000,000 marks, the pres
ent rate of exchange being: about 44
marks to the dollar.
The Rev. Adamski member of the
Polish congress and regarded as the
leading Polish banker, with head
quarters at Posen, is at present in
Washington as the guest of the lega
tion while studying American mat
ters. A clear distinction must be made
between fetich and witchcraft, says a
writer in the current ( Wide World.
Tha former Is regarded' by the black
man as perfectly legitimate; the lat
ter he looks upon with hatred, and
all over Africa summary methods are
used, as in olden days In England,
with witches. One or other of the
law-god-cult societies secret soci
eties bearing such names as Purroh,
Oru. Egbo. Ukukiwe, etc. intervenes.
and a trial by ordeal follows. In fact,
any one can claim that right.
A says to B: "Tou're a witch."
"I'm not!" ejaculates B. who imme
diately takes a calabar bean and swal
lows it. B dies, or Is very sick; there
fore he is the guilty person, and this
long before the elaborate mechanism
of the law society has heard of the
dispute. If B wants to have a big
palaver, and run himself and his ac
cusers into a lot of expense, he has a
right to call in the aid of the society;
but he needn't.
Witchcraft is a dangerous word to
utter in an African village. Miss
Klngsley relates that you have only
to shout "Ifot" at a man or woman In
Calabar, or "Ndo tchi" in Fjortland,
and the whole population, so good-
tempered the moment before, is
turned bloodthirsty. But, mind you.
the ordeal must prove the guilt first,
before the witch is literally torn to
pieces.
The picture or the bleak, frozen
north, unft as a habitat for human
beings, was dispelled by Donald B.
MacMillan, arctic explorer, who lec
tured before the National Geographic
society in Washington the other
night.
Food and flowers that rivalled in
their beauty and delicacy of charm
many of the most favorite types of
tha temperate zones were described
by Mr. MacMillan as being character
istic of tha far northern regions.
Eiderdown duck eggs may be found
as far north as there is land and they
may be gathered by the boatload; Mr.
MacMillan' said. Besides the duck
eggs, the walrus and seals provide
the principal sources of food.
"The Eskimo and the Eskimo dogs
are the white man's friends in the
northern regions," said Mr. MacMil
lan. "Without the Eskimo dogs
Peary would not have discovered the
North Pole. In the four years that
we were marooned on tne northern
coasts of Greenland, waiting for a
rescue ship to come to us, I never saw
a fist fight among the Eskimos nor
heard a cross word from any of
them."
When the rescue ship came, Mr.
MacMillan said, it brought news of
tha world war, which seemed almost
inexplicable to the Eskimo. He could
not understand why Germany should
wage war to secure more land when
there was plenty to be had around tha
North Pole.
A recent meeting in New York of
the Travelers' Aid society disclosed
that the number of young women who
leave 'home without permission and
venture out in. the world unprepared
is rapidly increasing. No loss than
68.000 girls under 21 have been re
ported missing during the last year.
Of these 3600 abandoned homes in
New Tork. The Travelers' Aid was
called upon to protect and assist more
than 60,000 helpless young women
during the time period.
Persons connected with the society
attribute the restlessness and impa
tience indicated by the surprising
number of disappearances in a meas
ure to the excitements of the war
period. Girls who went into war
work without restraint, and found
therein relief from high pressure
emotions, now find a return to peace
time conditions and limitations boring
and intolerable.
A financial creed for Americans,
the adoption of which is urged by the
United States treasury department, as
a means of enlisting the aid of every
American in solving the economic
and financial problems of the day, is
as follows:
"I believe in the United States of
America. My opportunity and my
hope depend upon her future. I be
lieve that her stability and progress
rest upon the industry and thrift of
her people. Therefore I will work
hard and live simply. I will spend
less than I earn. I will use my sav
ings with care, and I will save con
sistently. I will Invest thoughtfully.
To increase the. financial strength of
my countryand myself I will buy gov
ernment securities. I will hold above
barter the obligations my country
thus incurs. I will do all these things
to insure the greatness of America's
future."
"Can any boy tell me what harness
is?" asked the teacher.
Not a single boy knew.
"Well," fih,e continued, "is there any
boy hare whose father works among
horses?"
Ona small boy. stood up and an
swered. "Yes. teacher, mine does."
"Well." said the teacher, ';what docs
your father put on the horses every
morning?"
"please, teacher, every cent he ha."
r Edinburgh Scotsman.
Those Who Come and Go.
"It was both a wonderful and ex
citing trip across the country," de
clared A. Gorruspan and his bride,
when they arrived at the Multnomah
yesterday. They left Omaha in a
Dodge sedan on September 22 on what
was both a weddine trip and a busi
ness tour. "We found good roads until
we reached Grand forks. N. D.," said
Mr. Gorruspan. "then we ran into
much snow and were forced to ship
our car to Spokane- and make this
part of the Journey by rail. We drove
from there through Lewiston. Pendle
ton, Heppner. Condon and The Dalles.
Camping equipment was carried in
case we should get stuck in the snow
and have to stay out over night. How
ever, farmers were kind and took
us In." The couple will drive from
here to San Diego, New Orleans and
Florida, then home, returning prob
ably next autumn to the starting
point.
If you are stranded out on the ocean
and are resting peacefully on tha
waves .waiting for the next vessel to
pick you up, you might as well ba
shipwrecked or fall overboard in com
fort, maintains J. D. Davis of Seattle,
who is at the Portland. Mr. Davis
sells raincoats and life-saving coats.
tha latter, he says, affording solid
comfort on the briny deep. Accord
ing to his description of them ona
can take luncheon along and carry
hot soup In a thermos bottle. "When
the company made a test ith the
coat." he related, "a man remained
eight hours on the water, dined there
and when the boat went after him
he was found asleep," The manufac
turers are planning to rent coats to
people taking long ocean voyages.
In the opinion of Louis Strauss, who
left the Perkins yesterday for San
Francisco, the Aleutian islands are a
lot warmer place to live in than Ore
gon in winter. Mr. Strauss since way
back before 1900 has been agent for
the Alaska Commercial company at
Unalaska. where the concern prac
tically operates the entire town. It
has a coaling station, stores and
wharves and soon will put in more
improvements.
For the past 21 years W. H. Troup
has been coming to the Pacific coast
from New York, selling stationers'
supplies, making in all 53 round trips
and taking in practically every city
of any size in the United States. Mr.
Troup Is registered at the Multnomah
and has informed his friends that he
Is going to bring his family with him
on one of his visits in the near fu
ture and locate here.
"Did you, bring a fishing rod or a
catalogue with you this trip"? is the
first question hardware dealers on
the west side ask R. C. Ferguson
when he puts in one of his five-times-a-year
appearances. Mr. Ferguson
represents a Seattle firm, but during
open season his favorite line of hard
ware Is sinkers for fishing lines. He
is now telling the clerks at the Ben
son about his biggest catch.
Howard D.' Baker, son of W. W.
Baker, well known capitalist ot
Walla Walla, is -at the Benson. Mr.
Baker's father is a banker and the
son occupies himself with managing
the Baker-Boyer Bank building. He
has recently been discharged from
the government service, having been
in the photographic division of the
signal corps.
Miss Jessie F. Herrenkoh and Miss
Ann C. Hibler, who have made For
est hall famous for its southern style
chicken dinners, were at the Portland
yesterday. They are preparing to
leave Wednesday on the Rose City
for San Francisco, where they will
spend the winter, returning in time
to open their house on the Columbia
highway for the tourist season.
L. L. Pierce of Edmonton, Alberta,
accompanied by Mrs. Pierce and their
two young children, spent several
days here during the past week. Mr.
Pearce Is president of the Pearca
Petroleum company, with headquar
ters in Wichita, Kan., and left Sat
urday for that place. Mrs. Pearca
and children returned to Edmonton.
Those who know Peter G. Schmidt
immediately associate him with Ap
plju. the fruity drink, his plant at
Olympia. Wash., manufactures from
northwestern apples. Mr. Schmidt
was accompanied to Portland by F.
M. Kinney, a banker In the same
town. Both men were at the Oregon
yesterday.
In the house of Stanfield there is a
strong family resemblance and so it
comes about that H. L. Stanfield of
Echo, who has been roamlns about
the lobby of the Imperial the last
day or so. looks very much like his
brother, R. N. Stanfield. Pendleton.
Like this same brother. Mr. Stanfield
interests himself in raising sheep.
N. E. Dodd was in from Haines yes
terdav telling: folks around the Im
perial about the superior qualities of
his latest load of long horns, short
horns, white faces or whatever the
four-footed beef cattle are that he
raises. He has juBt brought another
shipment into the Portland stock
yards. Prank Lewis, niftht clerk at the
Seward, left late yesterday for Los
Angreles. on receiving word of the
death of his father there. The elder
Mr. Lewis had been in ill health and
had left his home In Walla Walla to
spend the winter In the south. Ha
died Sunday.
When Harley J. Hooker of Jordan
Valley comes to town and stays at
the Portland he is always out hunting
for more people who want to get
back to the land. He is Interested in
the 30.000 irrigation project, of which
10,000 acres Is to be opened this year
in the stock country he hails from.
A. J. Wiley, one of Boise's leading
civil engineers, is hobnobbing with
friends at the Portland. Mr. Wiley
doesn't say much about the projects
he has been interested in. but several
have connected him witlTbig Port
land interests and he has made sev
eral trips to tha city recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Newman and
Miss Laura Newman from Hoqulam
Wash., are staying at the Multnomah
while in the city visiting friends. Mr
Newman owns several motion picture
theaters operating in the Grays Har
bor city.
For the purpose of arranging for
shipments of army goods I... L. Pol
soin of Boise is here to confer with
government officials In the city. He
has charce of an srmy retail store
similar to that operated here.
F. H. Ryder, whose , name appears
on the Perkins register. Is one ot the
Ryder brothers who has been operat
ing a printing plant at Baker ever
since anybody can remember.
On their way from Raymond. Wash.,
to The Dalles Mr. and -Mrs. W. 3.
t'ram passed Sunday night at the
Benson. Mr. Cram is Interested in a
large lumber mill at Raymond.
Three Spokane contractors. John D.
Porter. J. A. Carlson ard D. (3. Munro,
era passing several days in the city.
They are makina the Multnomah
their headquarters.
J. W. Conrad Is one or La tjrande
citincns now to be found at tho Mult
nomah, lie is secretary of the Amen
can- farm federation ot tho north
weal slates.
DEADLOCK IS BLAMED TO LODGE
Writer Esoseratrs President on Hia
reBeratloa of Several Faeta.
BAKER. Or., Jan. 12. (To the Edi
tor.) I have been a constant reader
of the many editorials previously
printed in The Oregonian in regard to
the ratification of the treaty of peace
and the league of nations. That the
treaty is In Its present condition is
blamed upon President Wilson, which
you now try to make it appear is the
case, I can't quite understand. Let
us review briefly some facts:
Senator Lodge is the leader of the
republican majority in the senate.
What has he done?
In the first place he organized
about 37 republican senators in a
round-robin pledge to reject the
treaty before it was ever finished or
presented to the senate.
His appointment of the republican
foreign relations committee by putting
men Ilka Senators Borah Knox and
other extreme radicals in opposition
to the treaty and league of nations
In any form whatever.
He brought forth in the senate 45
amendments to destroy the treaty,
every one being defeated.
Then for the purpose of misleading
public sentiment he framed up what
he pretends to be reservations which,
if adopted, will destroy the treaty and
make It an impotent thing for any-
good and an Insult to our late allien,
and he did this to accomplish in one
way what he failed to do in another.
his whole purpose being to destroy
the treaty and the league of nations.
Just for a moment look at his fol
lowing. Hiram Johnson, W. E. Borah.
Philander Knox, who openly stated
the terms were too hard on Germany,
Sherman of Illinois. Hratideefe. Fall.
La Follette, with Lodge holding the
party wnip over such men as our
benaior McNary and other fair-minded
men. and in view of all these out
standing facts you now blame the
president for the plans of Lodge and
his followers to wreck the treaty and
the league of nations.
A great newspaper like The Orego
nlan should place the blame where It
ria-htfully belongs, on Senator Lodge
and his radical following. He said
months ago that the whole miserable
thing should be killed, and he has
brought It about, at least for the
present. He has done by stealth what
he dared not do in the open, defeated
the. ratification of the treaty, and
preat papers like The Oreironian
should place the blame where It right
fully belongs, and not try to lay it on
the president, for If you do that you
simply encourage Lodge, Borah, John
son. Pomdexter. Knox and other rad
Icala to betray the country and defeat
the will of the overwhelmine senti
ment of this nation, as you well know
GEO. E. ALLEN. ,
The round robin did not pledge the
signers to reject the treaty and league
covenant before they were finished
It said that the treaty and covenant
should be kept apart, and it stated
what kind of league the 37 senators
would approve. Events have proved
that they were right. If their advice
had been followed the treaty with
bermany wovrld have been ratified
much sooner, the United States would
Imost certainly have been a party to
it, and a covenant would have been
drawn to which there would have
been little objection in this country.
Senators Borah and Knox were on
the foreign relations committee of the
65th congress in April, 1917. before war
was declared. They simply held thei
places according to custom, but were
not put there by Senator Lodge as
enemies of the treaty, for there was
no treaty when they became mem
bers.
The 4o amendments to the treaty-
were favorably reported to the sen
ate by the foreign relations commit
tee, but few of them were the work of
Senator Lodge. Nos. 3 to 38 inclusive
were introduced by Senator Fall and
were rejected by the senate. They pro
vided that no American members
should sit on the many commissions
established by the. treaty, except the
reparations commission. Tha sub
stance of the others was included in
the 14 reservations afterward adopted
by the senate.
The Lodge reservations do not de
stroy the treaty. In the opinion of th
Paris Temps, which is a semi-officla
organ of the French government and
which holds that they do not impai
its force. Francre is most deeply in
tercfted in making the league effect
ive. for it gave up the claim to the
Rhine frontier in reliance on the se
curity to be afforded by the league
Mr. Lodge has shown no aversion to
compromise with the moderate reser
vationlsts in his own party, wit
hi many democratic senators are
ready to agree.
All of the senators named as
Lodge's following voted against hi
resolution of ratification with reser
vations, "with the exception of Fal
who was absent but said he was op
posed to the resolution. They are not
in his following, but are members o
the death battalion. Lodge's resolu
tion proves that he did not wish
kill the treaty. He Baid months ag
In his debate with President Lowe
that he favored the league with cer
tain reservations.
In view of the series of misstate
mcnts on which they are founded, th
strictures on the course of The Ore
e-onian are not worthy of comment.
With the facts thus put straigh
Mr. Lodge is not black as Mr. Alle
paints him. He has long favored
league which would gain the earn
ends as President Wilson seeks. Hi
reservations do not destroy the leagu
or the treaty, though their purpos
might be gained by change in th
direction of modification. Mr. Lodge
has shown a disposition to compro
nilse. but Mr. Wilson and the stand
pat democrats have not. Mr. Lodge
has never said: "Take It or leave It
Mr. Wilson. Then the blame rests
with Mr. Wilson. He can get ratifies
tion on terms which would not impai
the force of the treaty or the covenan
and which would be acceptable to th
allies, but he refuses to move, though
it is his move.
On Mimearrtajce of Joatlre.
ALBANY. Or., Jan. II. (To the Ed
itor.) Under the caption of "No
Square Deal for Wealthy," Juror says
In part that such papers as the Jour
nal and the News are a menace to
any country, for they incite th ig
norant people to think and aot acainst
the government and are Instrumental
in creating the revolutionary spirit.
Fvldntly Juror overlooks the fact
that the Telegram was just as out
spoken apalnst the methods employed
in the Sorenson case as were the Jour
nal and News.
The facts in the cose are that ev
ery time a newspaper or any trdi
vidual raises a voice against injustice
In our courts some narrow-minded
person has a fit and mutters "bol
shevik." The crying need of the hour is jus
tice to rich and poor alike. We are
s' forced to ciose our eyes as regards
the past, but hope, ror something bet
ter in the future. Injustice is the
mother of bolshcvism.
MJtS. MAliTUA FliiK.
n
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
THE EVKNING SV IT.
But yesterday he wore a bib.
And strewed his dinner all around
him;
He slept beside me in his crib.
That is sometimes he slept, con
found him!
still have got his cast-off shoe
A rumpled wad of shabbv leather.
The heel worn off. the toe worn
through.
And seams that hardly hold to
gether. Last night, it was. I read to him
That old but unforKOtten thriller
The movies have no lure to dim
The tale of Jack-the-Giant-Killer.
Last week he got his rooking horse
A steed no rider's hand had hum
bled. And baby nature took its course.
(He barked his forehead when he
tumbled).
And now a husky hulking brute.
i-alr looking though 1 cant denv
it
las Rot to have an evening suit.
And I. forsooth, have aot to buy it.
Could he wear mine? The Fates for
bid.
I'm wiser I believe and oldej
But when I stand beside the kid
My head is level with his shoulder.
An evening: suit when yesterday
He prattled in his crib a baby!
I count the years again, and say-
In wan bewilderment Well, mav
be." An autocrat is Madame Style
Perhaps that ought to satisfy me.
But where could I have been the
while
That all those years were slipping
by me?
The Force of Habit la Straac.
Probably Just as soon as they stem
the articles for the big fight Demp-
sey will put in a claim for exemption.
m, m 0
Contagions.
Now Afghanistan demands her free
dom, and will soon be sending a pres
ident over here to pell her bonds.
m
A Luitard Country.
Mexico is hopelessly behind the
times. If we had an industry as
profitable as her bandit business, it
would long ago have been organized
into a trust and separated into its
component companies by the United
States supreme court.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Aaro.
T-'romThe Oregonian. January J3. IS&Ii.
Berlin Emperor Wilhelm has mads
known his desire to found a power
ful navy of the first rank.
A volunteer fire company was or
ganized at Campbell's hall. Sellwood,
last night, with 20 names on tha
membership roll.
Johnson and Tanner creeks over
flowed yesterday as a reswlt of heavy
rainfall, flooded the paved streets and
filled cellars in the residence district
below Portland Heights and Cornell
road, ss the streams afford the nat
ural drainage for that section of the
city.
Fifty Yeeara A (to.
From The Oregonlsn. January 18. 1S70.
Washington -t The government of
the United States has proposed to all
the maritime powers the establish
ment of the principle of neutrality
in ocean cables.
There is much complaint of tha
manner in which the oil lamps used
for lighting the streets are managed;
that they are not lit early enough,
and afford little light, the chimneys
being blackened with smoke.
Walla Walla Reports have been
received here that new mines are lo
cated on a branch of the Missoula
river in the Couer d'Alene mountains.
13 miles from the Mullan road
Cheyenne. Wyo. The Union Pacific
resisted payment of its taxes, amount
ing to JIT. 000, but the court holds
that the corporation must help sus
tain the local government that pro
tects its property.
A New Home.
By Graee E. Hall.
A new homo opened its portals iic
in the world of old homes today.
And a mistress aits by her cheery
grate while a man is lounging
near;
There are bounding hopes in t !i
hearts inside the bungalow ovp
the way.
With courage and faith for tt"
morrow morn and gladness foi
all the year.
O, ehame on the one who scars a
dream and razes a castle low:
For all too soon hope goes to aah
in the grato of the burning
years;
And shame on tho one who marl a
gleam of that new hearth's
cheery glow.
Or hints of another twilight scena
made gray by a rain of tears.
There is need of cheer in tho homes
of men and need of hope in the
heart.
And the new grate over the way
shines bright like a ehrine by
the beaten trail.
And a silent message goes out to
them as they take up their
youthful part
A praver that they add to their
homing light love's gleam that
shall never fail.
C(TRlBlTIO.V TO JUSTICE LOST
Owner of Evidence Against Robbers'
Fence F"eel He Has Been Penalised.
PORTLAND, Jan. 12. (To tho Edi
tor.) The letter from Archie C. Fries
in regard to the Cohen case strikes
a responsive chord in me. I. too. had
the experience of having my home
broken into and a miscellaneous lot
of rugs, clothing and small articles
of sentimental valuo taken away, a
part of the loot being afterwards
found by the police in the possession
of Cohen. This was last September,
and because the authorities wished
to hold the goods as evidence I quite
willingly went without them from
that time until a few days ago.
though 1 had to spend almost flilO
replacing necessary clothing, etc. I
feel, therefore, that I have been pen
alized, along with the other victims,
as a result of tho robberies, while, ac
cording to reports, Cohen escapes
with a handsome net profit.
This feeling arises not alone or
principally from my own loss or a de
sire for "vindictive justice," but far
more because it seems to me the op
portunity presented by this case to
put a curb on tho present-crime wave
in our city was worse than lost.
Surely the ptftty house robheries re
ported every day in the papers would
cease if the perpetrators had nowhere
to dispose of the stolen goods, and
surely the taxpayers and law-abiding
citizens that Is. the voters ot
the community have a right to ex
pect that the efforts of the police
and prosecuting officers toward in
suring their homes from unlawful
entry and protecting the safety ot
their families will be assisted to tha
fullest legal extent by the courts.
O. G. EDWARDS.
1S11 East Thirtieth street North..