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8 TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1020 JftornhtjS rmttnir KSTABMSIIED BY HEN BY I-. PITTOCK. Published by The Oreeonlan Publishing Co. fixCh Street. Portland. Oregon. C A. MOKD1SN. K. B. PIPER. JJanaBer. Editor. Tho Oregonian is a. member of the A eluled Press. "llie Associated Pre exclusively entitled to the use for Vollc tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana alpo the local news published herein. All riKhta of republication of special dispatcnes herein are also reaerved. . ' Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. By Mall.) rtq llv fiim.o (h.Ih. nnVMr 8.00 Uaily, Sunday included, six monthB.. ... Dully. Sunday included. :hreo months. . lially. Kunday included, one month 1-ialiy. without Sunday, one year 8 00 Uaili'. without Kunday. six month. .... Jo JXilly. without Sun.laj . one mouth...... .JO Weekly, oneyeur. ...... J'-n Sunday, one year 2.00 bunuay and weekly .... .o (By Carrier.) Dally. 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"It dis couraged useless expenditure for superfluities, and some thought that it had its share of influence in pro ducing that growing plenty of money which was observable for several years after its publication." It is pertinent to observe that those who are not irretrievably committed to an attitude of contempt for the old fashioned virtues will find in the book a good deal of food for thought today. AS POOR RICHARD SAYS. "Industry." wrote Benjamin Frank lin, in his Almanac a century and a half ago, "pays debts, while despair increases them." "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets put out the kitchen fire. The artificial wants of mankind ' become more numerous than the natural; and, as poor Dick eays, 'for one poor person there are a hundred indigent.' " Franklin has rightly been called the apostle of thrift In America. His birthday, January 17, is appropriately observed as Thrift day throughout the land. Wise spending, says the modern Poor Richard, is the basis for steady profits, and is neither to be con founded with extreme niggardliness nor reckles3 extravagance. Com munities are prosperous and stable in proportion, not to sums they spend bo much as to the value they give and receive for each dollar spent for food, clothing, rent, recreation and education. Work is the basis of pro duction, and thrift is the embodiment of permanent as distinguished from ephemeral value. No one ever knew better than Dr. Franklin the saving power of work. "God helps them that help them selves," said Poor Richard in 1733, borrowing the thought expressed by Herbert more than a century before. "Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while a used key is always bright." "Industry need not wish": "He that lives on hope will die fasting": "At the workingman's house, hunger looks in, but dares not enter." Our ancestors were not free from the vices of today, as the popu larity of Poor Richard's maxims dur ing the twenty-five years tha't Frank lin conducted his Almanac indicates to- us. It has been observed by Franklin's biographers that his witty, worldly-wise sayings were very influ ential in molding American char acter. It remains to be determined whether the present generation, needing as it does to he warned against the evil consequences of withdrawal from the production of useful things as much as against the results of ill-considered spending, will be as open to the admonition of experience. Franklin was the first American to cry out against the folly of wear ing one's self out in the effort to keep up with the Joneses." " "Tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich," he said, "as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.' ' "Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt," as Poor Richard says, and in another place, "Pride break fasted with plenty, dined with pov erty and supped with infamy." And for thtise who laid all their woes to high taxes, he had this word: Friends and neighbors, the taxes are In deed very heavy., and if those laid on by the government were the only ones wa Ji:td to pay, we might t&o more easily ais- - RESULTS OF THE TEST. The only policy offered as a sub-oj stitute for returning the railroads to private operation under fiublic regu lation is continuance of public opera tion for two more years as a test during peace time. That policy is advocated as a preliminary to public ownership with operation by a soviet of the employes and managers, in which representatives of the public would merely sit in. At present the roads are run for the government by men who have not a dollar at stake, and they earn a deficit which the public pays. Under the Plumb plan substantially the same condi tion would prevail, with the differ ence that the employes would have an equal voice with the managers in control of affairs. . Then we have no right to expect substantially differ ent results. Experience with the Pennsylvania railroad is a fair example of what these results have been and would be. In 1919 it employed 14 per cent more men to handle 11 per cent less traffic than in 1917, that is, it took 127 men in 1919 to do the work which 100 men did in 1917. The financial result was that 84 per cent of gross income was ex pended on operation, and after taxes were . paid there remained three- fourths of a cent out of every dollar of gross revenue. The government has guaranteed the . railroad com panies an income equal to the aver age of the three pre-war years, and it paid a big deficit represented by the difference between this return and that three fourths of 1 per cent. There is no reason to expect that the Plumb soviet would show any better results. That plan contem plates paying for the roads with per cent bonds. Unless the roads earned 4 per cent net, whatever sum they fell short would be the price paid by the people for the pleasure of owning the railroads and letting the soviet run them. This does not spell economy to a people whose minds are bent that way by having to pay a tax every time they turn around. with those .bodies to- establish rates which will attract industry but will also attract capital for further power development. The prospect that the ten-year em bargo on power development will at last be lifted augurs well for the fu ture of Oregon, for this state pos sesses a volume of power equal to any, and utilization of the vast power of the Columbia river would bring with it extension of the navigable length of -that stream for hundreds of miles. As the state has abundant raw material, an ample supply of cheap power is the one other requisite of great industrial expansion; But release of waterpower from the clutch of the reservationists will not come too soon to give the west a good start in the race for world trade which begins this year. i-liurgo tliem; but we have many others. end much more grievous to some of us. We aro taxed twice as much by our idle ness, three times as much, by our pride and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners can not deliver us by allowing an abatement. However. let us harken to good advice. uiu suiuciiuui: uia.y wme tur us. The creator of Poor Richard was no miser. None were so practical as he, or so ready to recognize the mutual obligations of neighbors. His whole philosophy of thrift revolved around the old-fashioned notion that industry and frugality were requi sites of prosperity, and that the lat ter could not be obtained without them. He was not himself niggardly, as his many contributions to public enterprises showed. By constant practice of the cardinal virtues that he preached he obtained what was regarded a competence in his time, and this made his many philan thropies possible. His own thrift and frugality were inspired by the highest possible degree of enlight ened unselfishness The other lesson of Dr. Frank. lin's life, the value of time, is worth study, too. "Leisure," he preached is time for doing something use ful." His own career is the best evidence of the value of his maxim. No other American was so many sided, or accomplished so much in so many fields. He laid the founda tion for the Philadelphia library, which was the model of the public library system now in vogue throughout the country; he was a pioneer in the work to establish -a public hospital; he broached the plan for an academy which sub sequently developed into the Uni versity of Pennsylvania; and he de vised, in connection with the threat ened French and Indian wars, the plan of combining local indepen dence with colonial union which if it had been followed might have avoided many of the causes which led to the Revolution. He invented the cook stove and made important contributions to physical science. He waa deeply interested in and gave freely to every scheme of usefulness and philanthropy of his day. His voluminous writings, never the re suit of deliberate purpose of author; ship, and his achievements in state craft and diplomacy are familiar to alj school boys who have ben well taught. His multitudinous services to his fellow citizens and to mankind in general were made possible -only by the thrift and frugality of time as well as of material things that lie preached incessantly. It is 188 years since Poor Richard Almanac was founded. The proverbs it contained, as the author himself has explained, embracer! the wisdom NATURE FAKING. The hunter who comes home with a tale of how he took refuge from a grizzly in a tree, and how the bear climbed after him, is a nature fakir, pure and simple, as Enoa A. Mills reminds hunters in the story of the Adventures of a Nature Guide." Yet this curious misapprehension of the imbing abilities of the greatest of the Ursidae persists in many quar ters, and is not always accounted for by mendacity. It seems to be reasonable explanation that when grizzly sets out in pursuit of a more or less inexperienced sportsman, the latter is not always in the attitude l calm investigator. Things are not precisely what they seem when the normal positions of hunter and hunted are reversed. It is the task of more than one generation to put end to nature faking. Colonel Roosevelt, if he were alive, would take delight in in orsing the work of Mr. Mills, who has recently become famous as a na tional park guide, who revealed the delightful possibilities of guiding in the wilderness as a profession for ambitious young men. The wilder ness, says Mr. Mills, is really th safest place in the world for de fenceless human beings. Not even the catamount, or puma, is danger ous. Colonel Roosevelt had already assured us on this point, but the tatement will bear repetition. And the Bible to the contrary notwith standing, "bears never eat human flesh." This is a reminder that the old-time hunters knew their Bible when they dubbed the grizzly "Old Ephraim." It was a deserved tribute to his boldness and sagacity: His scientific name of Ursus horribilis is libel; the class in beginners' Latin will recognize in it the effort of an early naturalist to translate ''grizzly" into the dead language employed by science. A good many zoological "facts" still call for investigation. We are most disturbed by Mr. Mills' state ment that the ostrich when pursued does not thrust its head into the sand. "It is possible," he says, '"that mentally deranged plume bearer may yet be discovered which will do this; but it has never been considered good form among the common run of ostriches." We have here the tragedy of a popular zoological superstition and a widely employed literary figure of speech being an nihilated with a single stroke. Authors and political orators who are forehanded will set at once about the search for an equally forceful simile relating, as we have been led to believe, to an almost universal practice of the unelect. MII.K tr T1TE DIET, A recent "milk survey," made in schools in Oregon, furnishes a par tial answer to the suggestion made by a correspondent of The Oregonian that money now being spent by the dairymen's organization for advertis ing might better be saved and de ducted from the price of milk, "since people already are fully informed as to the food value of milk." The sur vey indicates that not all people do appreciate the practically indispens able quality of milk in the dietary of the growing. It was shown, for illustration, that in one school in Malheur county, 119 pupils of a total of 373 were receiv ing no milk;' in a school In Multno mah county outside of Portland the proportion was eighty-four Jn 200; in one school in Marlon county eighty five out of a total of 204 received no milk, and in another In the same county thirty-three out of fifty-eight were similarly neglected. More than 30 per cent of the pupils in the grade schools in Astoria subsisted on a milkless diet. It was found that this condition prevailed in so-called "dairy" districts as well as in cities, and in communities by no means re garded as backward in general en lightenment-. Lack of milk was not confined, either, to localities chiefly inhabited by the poor. It is stated on the authority of men interested in the dairy Industry' that the expenditure for propaganda to encourage milk consumption in one district (Multnomah county) amounts to a fraction less than five one-hundredths of a cent a quart of milk now being sold. It will be con ceded that this sum is not a potent factor, one way or the other, in the price of milk. Dairymen are on solid ground in urging the value of their product as a food. Consumers have the right to expect, however, such economies as are the result of modern methods of production and distribution Doubtless these will be brought about by natural processes in due time. But the point now to be em phasized is that we are mistaken if we assume that the people already know all there is to know about the high necessity of using some milk as food. The statistics of the survey in question show that quite the con trary is true. SETTING WATERPOWER FREE. Passage of the waterpower bill by the senate is practical assurance that final action will be taken at this ses sion of congress. A bill substantially in the present form passed both sen ate and house at the last session, but opposition by the conservation fa natics held it In conference until the life of that congress ended. As the present session will extend into the summer and as the bill might be taken up again next December if no action should be taken at this ses sion, the chances of a successful fili buster are slight. The bill appears to be a good workable plan, giving full protection to the interests of the public while not making the terms of lease so stringent that capital could not be attracted. It shows scant respect for the rights of the western states to control their streams and thus puts them in an inferior position to the older states. The land involved will be exempt from state taxation, but lawyers hold that the leases and im provements will be taxable. As the states will be more interested in hav- ing cheap power, they will probably be more disposed . to do anything which tends in that direction than to seek revenue through taxes which would add to the cost. Regulation of rates and service within each state will be in, the hands of its util . itiea commission, and it will rest THE RED PERIL. The peril to civilization arising from bolshevist victories which have almost extinguished all opposition in Russia is not limited to Europe and Asia. f bolshevism shall devour Poland, Roumania and the Baltic states which have split off from Russia, it may sweep on through Germany and the Danubian states, gaining power as it advances until Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain cannot withstand it. If it shall overflow India, Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey, it may also ex tend eastward through China and Japan. The flood would then men ace both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in such volume that America would be forced to resist it. This is the inevitable consequence of the allies' failure to attack and destroy the bolshevist menace when it was young and comparatively weak. The way from the south was blocked until Turkey surrendered on October 31, 1918, and the Baltic was closed by ice soon after the armistice with Germany was signed eleven days later, but approach from the Pacific had been open to American troops all through the preceding summer and fall, Black sea ports were open all winter and a landing could have beei effected on the Bal tic coast in the spring. Nothing was done to stamp out the plague in its infancy because some of the allies could not and others would not act effectively at that time. The prin cipal reason for their inaction or ineffective action was that when the other nations were willing, President Wilson hung back. The bolshevists had no sooner gained power than they began to flood the countries of the allies with the literature and agents of their propaganda, denouncing the war as capitalists', war and inciting the workers to begin a class war. The effect was seen in strikes of British workers on a constantly larger scale and on any pretext, however flimsy, at the very prisis of the war, during those fateful months from March tq August, 1918, when the decision hung in the balance. The same in fluence was behind some strikes in the United States during that year, when hindrance to war's prosecu tion was so obviously the effect that presumably it was the purpose of the instigators, though many of the strikers were mere dupes. Lenin proclaimed the purpose, which for years he had advocated in his writ ings, to begin a class war in all countries in order to effect a world- revolution, which should destroy every capitalist government and make the proletariat supreme, and to him every democratic nation was capitalist. He and Trotzky pro claimed the enmity of the soviet to the United States and the allies in July," 1918, and replied with insult and expressions of hostility to a mes sage of greeting to the first soviet congress in Moscow. The allies saw the danger then and they proposed to Mr. Wilson that they should Intervene in force in support of the antl-bolshevist forces, but In a declaration from the state department issued August 3, 1918, the government rejected these pror posals and said Military Intervention In Russia would be more likely to add to tbe present sad confusion there than to cure it, and would iiijure Russia, rather than help her out of or to feed their men. women and children. Military action is admissible in Russia now only to render such protection and ! help as is possible to the Cxecho-Slovaks against the armed Austrian and German prisoners who are attacking them and to steady any efforts at self-government or self-defe-nse In which the Russians them- I selves may be willing to accept assistance. When hostilities against the cen- J tral powers ceased, French and Greek troops were sent to the Black sea coast,- but propaganda had so weakened their morale that some French regiments mutinied and their numbers were so small that they were driven back to their ships or into Ronniania. Tho mixed forces at Archangel, Murmansk and Vladi vostok were too weak to undertake an effective offensive, and nothing was accomplished on tbe lines laid down by Mr. Wilson. The opera tions, having been undertaken against Germany, now assumed the character of an undeclared war on the soviet, and were opposed by the British labor party, by the French and Italian socialists and by some radical American socialists as an at-r tempt to crush the first workmen's government and as a stretch of ex ecutive power. In consequence the allies withdrew their troops, made vain attempts to bring the warring elements of Russia into conference, made secret peace overtures which they disowned when the facts be came public, and limited their aid to the white armies to supply of war material and food. They had fool ishly permitted the German army of Von der Goltz to remain in the Baltic provinces, and it treacherously at tacked ' the Letts. Lithuanians and Esthonians. renewing the assault on Riga at an opportune time to ac complish defeat of Yudenitch's drive for Fetrogxad. That German army served as a line of communication by which German officers filtered into Russia to train red troops and German arms were conveyed to the soviet. Not until the mischief was done did the allies force the Ger mans to evacuate. The consequence of this fatuous policy of Ineffective Intervention al ternating with peace overtures is that all white armies have been destroyed.! that bolshevism Is supreme In European Russia and central Asia and sweeps resistlessly through Si beria. By a peculiar twist of its own theories, it has enlisted the Moham medans of central Asia in its sup port, has formed alliances with Af ghanistan, with Enver, king of the Kurds, with the Turkish nationalists and with the rebels of India, and has reached out for an arrangement with China. Behind Lenin and pulling his military strings are a body of German officers who hope to snatch power from his hands and to deliver exhausted Russia into the hands of Germany, to use it in completing the conquest of Asia. That done, they could laugh at a naval blockade, for not only would It be Impracticable; it would be impotent, for all products of both temperate and tropic zones would be accessible by land. Lenin now bends all his efforts to make peace with the allies, for he has wrecked Russia in order to rule it, and he needs time to restore and organize his conquests. But that is only preliminary to another spring at the throat of civilization. One of his commissars boasts that the soviet now has an invincible army of 3,000, 000, men, and that peace would be only an armistice before a final war for world-revolution by the com bined forces of the army and propa ganda. Let those Americans who believe that this nation should retire into its shell and not concern Itself with the affairs of the rest of the world pon der over these things. Then they may realize that, for its own safety, this nation should have taken part on Friday in that first meeting of the council of the league of nations a league at which Lenin scoffs. Then too President Wilson might realize how slight are his reasons for de laying American membership in the league by comparison with the weighty reasons for joining our strength with that of all other civil ized nations to destroy this monster which threatens to 'set back civiliza tion fifteen hundred years. FOOTBALL AM) NATIONAL UXITY isms. Sack sis OrrKOB vs. Bsrvsra, Develop Ieterseetloool latere!. Providence (R. I.) Journal. According to Mr. Kipling, east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet; and that may be true in the sense that he intended. But the twain eertainly met at Pasa dena on Now Tear's day, when Har vard played the University of Oregon at football, and 32,000 spectators from 11 parts of the country flocked to witness the match. . There have been many objections raised to long athletic journeys of th sort the Harvard team waa compelled to take in order to compete in the tournament of roses. And possibly an event of this sort does put a dis proportionate emphasis on undergrad uate rivalry. But on the. other hand. it is worth a good deal for the people of the Atlantic ' seaboard to ge.t through the medium of the game and its attendant Incidents a new glimpse of the Pacific coast, ahd for the Pa cific coast, in return to hear "Fair Harvard' sung to the accompaniment of a lusty band in the Pasadena grandstand, to listen to the cheers of the Crimson adherents and to be brought into touch, if only for a day. with the athletic and academic life of the east- How much did tbe east know about the University of Oregon before this game? Perhaps it does not know very much now. The fact is that we have been very provincial in -this part of tne country, just aa the people in otner parts nave beta, we know a good' deal, here in New England, about Cambridge and New Haven, but practically nothing of tbe col lege towns of the far west, or the colleges themselves. ina university or. Oregon was rounded in 1876. It ia a state insti tution, with a student attendance of 2000. Eugene, the aeat of the uni versity, was settled in 1854. and at I the last census was the fourth city in sixe in the state. One gazetteer thus describes it: "Eugene, a banking city, capital of Lane county. Oregon, on the Willam ette river, at the head of steamboat navigation, and on the Southern Pa cific railroad forty-five miles south of Albany. It has iron works and machine shops, tanneries and manu facturers of wagons, furniture, leath er, woolens, excelsior, sash and doors, etc It is the seat of the University of Oregon and is partly surrounded by an amphitheater of low moun tains." To most people in New England these Tacts are perhaps uninteresting. A good many of us flatter ourselve; that we care only for the things "worth While" and remote college tewns do not come within that cate gory. But at Eugene a great host of young Americans are beinc Drenartd for their life work, as others are at Seattle, Portland, Berkeley, Palo Alto, L.os Angeles and Claremont. And we are narrow-minded if we fail to de? velop a healthy Interest in the hieher education of that section of the coun try, even if it is 3000 miles away. Every intersectional game like the one at Pasadena on Thursday helps to strengthen our spirit of national unity, to make us conscious that we are socially. Industrially and polit ically Douna to tne people of the far thest states, and that, in spite of neighborhood prejudices and interests, what affects one part of the great repuDiic aiiects every other. Those Who Come and Go. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jaasea J. Hontame. PRICE CONTROL IS NOT PA.VACKA Chairman Hay struck at one cause of our troubles when he point ed with scorn at the man who takes no interest in politics. The very word democracy implies that every citizen should be a politician, to the extent of being informed on public affairs and voting accordingly. Indifference of many is largely due to the fact that politics is too much a matter of office-seeking and getting and too little a matter of rival principles of government. Departmental theorists can tell why and how the prices of clothing should come down,' finally sticking it on the retail dealers, who would be glad to get from under the pile if they could. It will be observed the dealers themselves are not over whelmingly extravagant in wearing apparel. Sir Oliver Lodge, the British scientist and exponent of spiritual ism, says the next world may not be so different from this one. Well, let's hope at least that they don't have fish and game controversies. her distress. Such military intervention as has been most frequently proposed, even supposing it to be eiticactous In Its im mediate object of delivering an attack unon Germany from the east, would in its (the government's)' judgment be likely to turn out to be merely a method of mak Ins: use of Russia than to be a method of serving her. Her people. If they profited bv It at all. could not profit by It in time to deliver them from their present des perate difficulties, and their substance would meantime be used to maintain for- ; elsa armies, not to reconstitute their own Persona of weak minds are advised by Sir Oliver Lodge to keep away from ' ouija boards. He probably figures that the strong-minded ones will keep away from them without the advice. Both sides ia the fish and game controversy accuse Governor Olcott of "passing the buck." Before the governor ends his term be will hav a liberal education in tbe game laws HUterlas la Quoted on Kali ore of , Policy la Early Unxlsaa. OREGON CITY. Or.. Jan. 15. (To the Editor.) Tho problems of today were those of yesterday, and will be tnose or tomorrow. The world as it grows older does not grow wiser. ine following extract is from Hume's history mt England, published in 1S18, and refers to an incident of the reign of Edward II, 1307 to The kingdom of England was afflicted ith a grievous famine during several years of this reign. Peroetual rain, and cold weather not only destroyed the bar vest, but bred a mortality among tho cattle, and raised every kind of food to an enormous price. The parliament in 1315 endeavored to fix more moderate rates to commodities: not sensible that such an attempt was impracticable, and that, were It posslblo to reduce the prrce of provisions by any other expedient than by introducing plenty, nothing could be more pernicious ana destructive, to the public. Where the produce of a year, for instance, falte so far short as to aford full subsistence only for nine months, the only expedient for making it la.nt all the 14 la to raise tne prices, to put th people by that means on short allowance, and oblige them to savs their food till a more plentiful season. But, in. reality, the in crease of prices is a necessary, consequence of scarcity; and laws, instead of prevent ing it, only aggravate tne evil, bv cramp ing and restraining commerce. The par liament, accordingly. In the ensuing year, repea-led their ordinance, which they had tound useievs ana burdensome. Those people must, after all. have been wiser tfcan we, if it only took them till "the ensuing year" to come tp their senses. A B. SMITH. THE SNOB. Oh, ignominious Thingumbob. At work upon your modest job. Take off your hat and bend your knob And gase with open, gaping gob. For, passing in a motor by your door You see a snob! Oh, ignominious Thingumbob, Tou live among the common mob; You eat your corn upon the cob; Your kettle boil? upon the hob. But every day you live on earth give thanks You're not a anob! A creature that is but a daub On nature's landscape but the knob To fashion's door one who would rob Life of its meaning--not one throb Of honest love beats in that heart of atone That Ja a anob! MART ALETHEA WOODWARD. While F. W. Lampkin, publisher of the East Oregonian at Pendleton, is not an infrequent visitor at tbe Ben- eon, clerks there are now referring to him as a man of mystery. It seems that he took a jaunt down to Astoria, where his company recently took over the Evening Budget and returned to Portland Thursday. His ticket home was purchased and a. berth reserved for that nitrht, but jiise before the train was ready to leave the news paperman cancelled the reservation and remained in the city over night. Hotel folks have been speculating upon the cause of the delicate blush which Mr. Lampkin took bark to east ern Oregon with him last night. The lumber industry was well rep resented yesterdty on the .Benson register. J. P. Keyes. manager of the Brooks-Scanlon plant at Bend was down on one of his periodical trips in the interest of the white and yellow pine. The mill with which he is connected is one' of the two mam moth plants that caused Bend to put on city clothes. The mills even now employ more people than there are substantial dwellings for and not an insignificant part of the output goes into brand new temporary shanties. When W. H. Stockman left his home in Wukwonago, Wis., all his friends advised him to avoid northern roads In coming west for fear his train would get snowed under. Twenty be low zero weather in his own state and snow on the ground most of the time had convinced Mr. Stockman that it was a good sea-son for a visit to California. He induced Mr. and Mrs. William Kingston and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Scliultz to come along with him and the entire party pulled up at the Seward last night. They will stop here before going south. One glance at the register at the Portland is enough to convince one that a goodly proportion of Bend's population is to be found at the hotel T. A. McCann. manager of the Khev- lin-Hixon mill, one of the biggest lumber mills in the state, heads the list. Then there are George A Jones, who has a dairy, and H. J. Overturf, who is secretary of the commercial club. . Others who came in are R. r. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Blakley and Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Taylor. Back from a month's trip to Kansas last night came Miss Henrietta Me- Kaughan, who is registered at the Multnomah. Miss McKaughan. a Io cal newspaperwoman, visited her old home In Edgerton and spent several days at the University of Kansas, of which she is a graduate. While at the latter place the was made an honorary member of Theta Sigma Phi. women's mtional journalism frater nity. C IT. Underwood, exalted ruler of Klamath Falls lodge of Elks, and a prominent merchant of southeastern Oregon, is in Portland, awaiting the meeting of the Oregon btate eiks association at Salem Sunday. Mr. Underwood took a leading part in handling the Elks' state convention held in Klamath Kails last August, and will aid the Salem committee by giving them some "hunches" gained by experience. Wilson S. Wiley, deputy district grand exalted ruler of the Order of Elks for Oregon south, arrived in Portland last night, after visiting Oregon City lodge. No. 11S9. When not busily engaged in handling af fairs of the antlered herd. Mr. Wiley Dractices law in Klamath Kails. He is registered at the Imperial. In Other Days. DISTRESSING SEWS. (A movie actor has been arrested for complicity in a New York rob bery.) When the burglar only knew his crooked trade And applied it in his bungling, bur gling style. We could view his operations undismayed. And defy him with a sneering, jeer ing style. For a b.urglar's but a burglar after all Just a dabbler in the simplest sorts of crime The dimensions of his intellect are small And detectives could out-think him every time. But when movie actors fall on evil days. Prowling round with guns and Jim mies every night- Stealing through deserted streets and . darkened ways. It is time to view the future with affright. I confess that I'd awaken with a start And prepare, aa best I could, to meet my doom I Any time that Mr. William Sureshot Hart Loomed, at midnight in the doorway of my room. If Doug Fairbanks sought to burglar ize my Mat, I should wait him with a foolish, frightened grin While my palpitating heart went pit a-pat For there'd never be a doubt., bert he'd get In. Should I catch Houdini going through my pants. I All in vain for help to hold him I might shout. For there wouldn't be a shadow of a chance; When he once got good and ready, ,he'd get out. Burglars haven't made much trouble through the years They are just a notch above the missing link. They are never very high above the ears. And a good successful criminal mast think. But if movie actors turn to Jives of crime When they find the bankroll's gone a little shy. And go out for loot and plunder, it is tim That we kissed our cash a long and last goodby. Kves IIm a aclrr. Nod. The bankers that have bonded ware house certificates In their vaults now wish they had put the booze there Instead. And Welcome. If Oreat Britain really insists on that thirteen billion-dollar loan let's give it to her in bonds of the Irish republic Too Much to Hope For. we ehouldn t worry any if some way could be found to make the world a little less safe for profiteers. (Copyright. 1920, by the Bell Syndi cate Inc.) Twestj-FiTe Years Aero. From The Oregonian of January 17. 1SD6. Salem. Without ostentation Ore gon's ninth governor, William P. 1-ord. was Inaugurated yesterday, succeeding Sylvester Pcnnoyer. One of the most Important mur-t-cal events in history of the city was the presentation of the sacred can tata "The Messiah," by the Apollo Choral society at the armory last night. Versailles. Felix Faure was elected president of ' Franca on the secaad ballot today, defeating Heart Brls son. F. R. Wall, now on The Oreyonlan staff has been awarded the thirst prixe of $500 by the United States Investor, for the best essay on an American cJutx. Fifty Years Aco. ' From The Oregonian of January 17. 1S70. Washington. -Tho legislatures of Ohio and Kansas today ratified the 15th amendment. Mr. Thompson, boat builder. Is con structing a number of boats to be used in fishing down the Columbia, as this business has developed greatly of late. Captain J. H. Couch is dangerously ill at his homo with pneumonia. Night before last burglars entered the store of Kast & Cahalin and took several pairs of boots. H. L. Wieder, who sells automobilea accessories and works out of Kansas City, is a man of excellent judgment. Xo Senator Klected President. PORTLAND, Jan. IS. (To the Kdi tor.) Although this government has been in existence for 130 years, no man has been chosen president who was at the time a member of the United States senate. Many have been aspirants, but none has been chosen. Monroe. John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson. Martin Van Huren. William Henry Harrison. John Tyler. Franklin Pierce. James Buchanan and Henjaruin Harrison had nerved in the senate be- The Phantom Lady. By Grace K. Hall. There's a person who lives in my mirror That never I've met elsewhere. She views me with eyes unflinching Audi studies me face to face; Yet somehow I get no nearer. Though I give her my courteous care. While determinedly she confronts me With a look that I can't efface. She tells me 'with stunning candor The story of vanquished years, She traces the marks of sorrow That the pencil of time has drawn; Then I turn with a sigh to hand her Excuse of pain and tears. In lieu of the passing twelve-months But, lo! she has swiftly gone. There's a soul in the eyes of this phantom That peers at me straight and square, I have questioned it Just as frankly. With a gaze that was just as straight; It eludea me with subtle cunning. Yet calls me from everywhere. And though I would know it fully. Forever I turn too late. Go look in the polished surface That always is lying near. And study the stranger gazing So tactlessly out at you; She will tell you of joy or a sorrow. Bring a smile or a sudden tear. As you look on the shadow lady Who eludes- you a lifetime through. In the first place he just got married I fore their election to the presidency. and in the second place he decided to I and Andrew Johnson served in the come to Portland and make his home I senate "before and after" the only here. With Mrs. Wieder he arrived I president to have that experience yesterday at the Seward. I James A. ?irfield. while a member or me Douse, naa Deen elected to the The lobby of the Seward yesterday I senate, but succeeded to the prcsi afternoon was the gathering place forjdency on the day that he would have numerous friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. I become a senator Attorney - tieneral Palmer says clothing prices must come down. It will be remembered that he made a similar edict in regard to food prices, but nothing startling happened. Cider has been officially declsrred an intoxicant when fermented. Xo doubt there will now be an added run on the cider market. Old Harvard with a few centuries in its record is no prouder of its age than is Pacific university, observing jts 71st birthday. Roseburg would rather do without sugar than pay tribute to profiteers, and Roseburg has the nerve to do it. Late revelations indicate that there wasn't any steal shortage in the ship building industry during the war. The south wind was welcome with its brisk showers. It beats the doc tors for curing ills. Only the sticky sweet cider is per missible now, Hcaalag of Soviet. DALLAS, Or., Jan. 15. (To the Edi tor.) I will appreciate it greatly if you will indicate the correct pronun ciation of and briefly define the much used word "soviet." IX A MACKENZIE. Soviet ia a Russian word, meaning council or a committee, and is applied particularly to councils of workmen's delegates in control of governmental affairs. It la pronounced aa it la spelled. S. Kenyon of Jetrpore. Kan. The el derly couple are going south for the winter. If C. M. Ravlin can t sell a pros pective buyer a few carloads of ap ples, he immediately changes his tuna and tries to dispose of a section ot Hood River real estate. Mr, Ravlin Is at the Benson with Truman Butler, vice-president of the Butler Banking company of that town. Already Shriners from the cast are sleuthing around Portland locating rooms for their delegations for the convention next June. J. Nelson of Trent, N. D., is one of these advanc agents to he found at the Perkins. He is accompanied by his wife and Daughter. Seattle's motion-picture men turned out in force to take part in the open ing of the Rivoll theater last night. and the Benson hotel housed a dele gation of four. Those who came down for the event were Carl Stearn. Jack Weil. A. B. Knox and Hugh Iteene. H. F. McCormick of St. Helens ia another of the tirabermen at the Ben son. He came to Portland to attend a business men's get-together and brought Mrs. McCormick with him. Heppner was minus two of its mer chants yesterday while Sam Ganger and V. J. Nicholson were in Portland. They were registered at the Perkins. P. Sinnock, president of the Penin sula Iron works, has just returned from a short business trip to Seattle. He is back at his old headquarters in tbe Multnomah. F.- L. Stewart, the principal finan cier of Kelso. Wash., was at the Ore gon yesterday. Mr. Stewart has the distinction of running a bank In his home town. James Twohy, formerly of this city and now of Seattle, Is at the Port land. Mr. Twohy is a railroad con tractor. Two Hood River orchardiste at the Seward yesterday were L. E. Ireland and W. B. Dickenson. A. C. Woodcock. Eugene attorney, waa at the Oregon yesterday. This Is not written to discouraare Senators Johnson and Poindexter. but f either of them is chosen president it will break a precedent that has stood for 130 years. T. T. GEER. Desieeet of Property. HALSET. Or.. Jan. 15. (To the Editor.) What is the law regarding descent of property where a man with a family dies without making a will? What about money deposited in the bank in the husband's name? If the children get a share, who takes care of it for them? SUBSCRIBER. All the property descends to the children subject to the widow's dower of a life Interest in the income from one-half of the estate. The county court should be asked to appoint a guardian and administrator. Aid for Soldiers. GOI.PENDALE. Wash.. Jan. 14.. (To the Editor.) In regard to the educational bill making an allowance of $-100 to bet used only on attending some school or college in Oregon, al lowing $25 per month until it is ex hausted, there are many of us Ore gon boys residing outside of the state who have finished our educa tion or are working at some chosen trade or profession to provide for ourselves, our family or our parents. It would he interesting for us to know If there is any bill that pro vides anything for us. A REGULAR. Oregon has not granted any bonus to soldiers of the late war except in the form of educational aid. Homes for Aged. PORTLAND. Or.. Jan. 16. (To tho Editor.) Is there a home in Portland or near here for aged people? Where should I write for particulars? READER. The principal old people's homes here are Altenhcim. 2001 Diyision street.; Mount St. Joseph's home for the aged. Thirtieth and East Stark streets; the old people's home. Thirty second and Sandy boulevard; Fatten home, 975 Michigan avenue, and the Woodmere old people's home, 7511 Sixty-fourth street. Any of these will supply you with information if you write or telephone. Battle of Htmt. PORLAND, Jan. It. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly inform me when the batle of Marengo took place, who were the contending parties (nations) who won the battle, and who were the rulers. TAG. The battle of Marengo occurred near Alesandria, Italy, . on June 14, 1800, between the French under Napoleon and the Austrlana under General U Las. The Auatrlana were completely defeated. WMsw's Right to Pcaaloa. ST. HELENS. Or., Jan. 14. (To the Editor). I wish to know concerning the widows' penaion law. A woman a husband, who was a civil war veteran, died and she remarried. Her second husband also died. Can she draw her pension as a widow of a civil war veteran? READER. She can, by proper application to the pension commissioner at Wash ington, D. C. It would be well to have someone familiar with procedure make this application for her. The "widow's pension" law Is a state law providing for aid to widows in Oregon having children under the age of 1( years. February With Five Sundays. PORTLAND. Jan. 16 (To the Ed itor.) To settle an argument please answer how long will it be before we have five Sundays again In the month of February. How long is it since we had five Sundays in February? - A READER. The next February containing five ''Sundays will be in 1948; the last pre ceding one was in 1880. Boiling .Point of Water. CONDON, Or., Jan. 15. (To the Ed itor.) To Bettle an argument will you please tell me the temperature of boil ing water at Leadville. Colo., which I believe is 10.200 feet above the sea? GEO. O. TAYLOR. The boiling point of water at the sea level la 212. It is lowered one de gree for each rise of about 550 feet in altitude. . Their Day's Work Is Done at Night While the majority of city dwellers are off to the Land of Nod, in more or less silent slumber, all about them are hundreds of folks who are keeping the night watches for the safety and com fort of the sleepers. De Witt Harry, special feature contributor to The Sunday Oregonian, followed this fact through its many phases and has evolved an interesting and instructive story of the night workers of Portland, which appears in the Sunday issue. Though the ban against liquor banished the convivial night scenes and hectic life that once were common, not all of Portland slum bers after the sun has set. A good article on a topic that con cerns everyone. Brilliant 3areer of General Pershing. The distinguished Ameri can commander, who led the Yankee hosts overseas, is Portland's guest today. In honor to Pershing and that those thousands who welcome him may know more of the man himself, and his earlier military career, the Sunday issue contains a page review of "Black Jack" Pershjng's life, with many photographs. The Little Woman With a Bib Job. Household drudgery is no longer the province to which women are condemned for life servi tude. Witness the case of Jane Carroll, a young business woman who is sole manager of a ?p,000,000 corporation, and who has won her spurs jn the field o'f commercial affairs as truly as Joan of Arc won hers on the stricken fields of France. There is a st.ory in the Sunday paper of the inspiring success of Miss Carroll, whoso industry and its reward point the way to broader work for her sex. Fifty Thousand a Year Turned Down for an Ideal. If one of ' the temples of Mammon along Wall street should send to you, on its heavy embossed letterhead, the offer of $50,000 a year, would, you smile and shake your head as you held fast to the vision of a great principle and a great work, where the salary was but $5000? S. Earl Taylor, who organized the "Centenary World Rebuilding Programme," did that very thing. In the Sun day Oregonian appears a story of Mr. Taylor and the toil to which he has unselfishly dedicated himself. Familiar Faces and Folks. As a fillip to the day, open Sun day's paper and turn to the page whereon W. E. Hill, master illus trator, has drawn a number of people we all know perhaps ourselves, as well as they wrestle with current problems. These are trying times, indeed but the touch of humor that Hill lends to the subject is tonic. Not caricatures, but character delineation. Turning to China for Comfortable Clothes. Dame Fashion says that the clothing of Chinese women is not only chic but com fortable, even though it is patterned not unlike the habiliments of the sterner sex. The vogue for shimmering Chinese gowns and kimonos, delightfully embroidered and of delicate hues, is taking the fashion world by storm. In the Sunday issue Ethel Thurston writes chattily about Chinese coats and trousers for women, and gives pointers on how the modish and attractive garments are made. All the News of All -the World. THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN.
