8 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920. jtotmuct mrmttnn ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oretoman Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. CLJL. MORDBN, B. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Orexonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is xclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and a'S the local news published herein. Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. fstibscriptiou Rates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Sally. Sunday Included, one year $S.OO .Daily. Sunday included, six months .... 4.-5 Tily, Sunday Included, three months.. 2.25 TJally, Sunday included, one month .... .75 3sily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months .... Z.'-'t Jily, without Sunday, one month 60 Wsekly, one year i 1.00 Sunday, one year ...... -.50 buoday and weekly 3.50 (By Carrier.) 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Follow almost any one of them to his home and you will find that his fellow citizens trust him in matters of business and that he is in all re spects reputable in his communitiy. Yet "once he is in Salem on business of the state, he who reads the news paper that is sensational as a matter of policy is likely to obtain the im pression that this reputable citizen has surrendered the interests of his constituents and of the public gen erally into the keeping of the fish trust, the paving trust, the cement combine, the oil trust, the railroad lobby, or the boss politician that is, if the member has not voted as that particular newspaper desired him to Vote. , These attacks do not ordinarily in jure a legislator in his own commun ity where his constituents know himj for what he is. But a legislature is made up of ninety men from a large number of communities, each of whom is not intimately known out side of his own district. Disrepute is therefore not escaped- by the legis lature as a body. The suspicions en gendered fall on the other fellows and the public comes to look upon each session of the . legislature in a half serious way as' if it were an in fliction as well as a necessity. But no legislature ever sat that could please everybody. In truth, the members, being fairly Tepresen tative of an intelligent and well or dered community, consistently en deavor to do the right thing. They are sometimes led astray. They sometimes make mistakes. But ac tual corruption is a rarity. Nor have legislators political inducement to do the bidding of any combination or boss wickedly inclined, for neither one can give their material assistance ' in a free and equal election. As a rule the hysterical charges that one nnarti ir e ron iif-n 1 1 v o a smnlio screen to cloud the loss of pro pa ganda. The extraordinary session of the legislature that has just closed put in a week of close application. It dis posed with commendable thorough- . ness of the several important issues ' that caused its summoning. It rati fied the suffrage amendment, en larged compensations under the in dustrial insurance law; submitted capital punishment to vote of the to criticise and' acts to commend. But there is nothing so far disclosed in its record to create doubt as to the value of representative government or to justify wholesale condemnation of the existing assembly. ONE PROOF OF FITNESS. Governor Coolidge, of Massachu setts, is not exactly in the front rank of the men who are talked of for the republican nomination for president, but good evidence of his fitness is to be found not only An his stand against the mutinous Boston police men, but in his view of the office, ex pressed in these words: I do not feel that any man could re gard himself as qualified to fill the great office of president. If It comes to any man, it should come not of his own seek ing, but as a great duty to be met with a knowledge and faith that when duties are sent, powers are sent to enable their dis charge. We need not to go beyond men now in the public mind to fortify the opinion that, as a general rule, the men who most persistently seek the presidency are least fitted. for it and that the best presidents have been men who were at most recep tive candidates. The known char acter and past service of a man are a safe guide to a wise popular choice, and when the office comes to a man unsought, he is apt to do his work with a freer judgment than will he who in the course of a long pursuit incurs many political debts t and makes many compromises which lead him into the habit of sacrificing principle to expediency. The man who takes the office as a great duty imposed on him, rather than a po litical honor which he has sought may better be trusted to strive con scientiously to be faithful to his trust and to rise to great emergen HIGH-PRESSURE LAW MAKING. One of the five reasons named by Governor Olcott for summoning the legislature in extraordinary session was lack of sufficient funds to carry out fully the provisions of the sol diers", sailors' and marines' educa tional aid law. The Oregonian recalls that when this measure was before the voters last June it endorsed it in principle but pointed out as fair warning cer tain defects. One was the inade quate provision made for .the aid purported to be granted by the bill: another was the opening left for wildcat educational institutions to profit from its provisions without materially aiding the service men they pretended to educate. The Oregonian is not preening it self on the accuracy of its prophetic vision when it now points out that one of the enumerated defects was partly responsible for the necessity of an extra session of the legislature and that not only was a further ap propriation made but an amendment was found necessary in order to put an end to abuses of the law. It did not' require a great deal of prescience to forsee these results. Their forth coming was obvious to the ordinarily careful student of the bill. It is not here asserted that the bill should have been defeated last June because of its defects. The point is that the bills worthy in prin ciple should be free, from such plain imperfections. This particular meas ure was submitted to the people by the legislature functioning in regular session one year ago. Every Oregon legislature works under high pres sure whether in regular or special session. Much of this high pres sure is needless. It comes from paying too much heed to personal animosities, private campaigns and pure demagogy born outside of the legislature and carried into that body with a noisy, yet superficial, show of influential backing. The extraordinary session just closed was unduly disturbed by just adopted when the blockade was im posed and re-affirmed when the Nansen scheme to provide food was rejected. Then it was contended that no security could be obtained for the food's reaching the starving people for whom it was intended, and it would almost surely fall into the hands of the soviet, which used control of food to hold the people in subjection. The only means by which the allies could prevent its use in this manner would be to send an army with it to place it in the hands of the hungry. That would involve a war of conquest and occu pation of at least part of Russia, which they were unwilling to under take. Trade with Russia, however, is now to be limited to certain classes of commodities and to be effected with the Russian co-operative socie ties. These are so numerous and have such hold that they have kept trade alive in spite of the Soviet's efforts to communize everything, and have re sisted all attempts to uproot them. While they survive, the power which the soviet derives from control of the food supply in the cities-will not be absolute "and will be limited among the peasants. At the All-Russian soviet congress in December Lenin denounced the well-to-do peasants for selling their surplus ' food and started a new campaign against the co-operatives. Men who have pene trated to the rear of the red armies bring back reports that the only way for the reds to get supplies for the cities is to take them by force from the peasants, that pitched battles often ensue, that hundreds of thous ands of peasants have taken to the forests . and formed bands of green guards which carry on guerilla war and which combine forces against red raiders. Peasants take sacks of food to the cities and fight or buy their way through the red : patrol lines in order to sell their loads by stealth in defiance of soviet law against speculation. Thus Russia is represented as a country where the soviet is being starved out by the hostility, both active and passive, of the peasants, and where the officials, their favorites and their army get food, while the rest of the urban population gets barely enough to keep alive. , The plan to trade with the co-op eratives while permitting no rela tions with the reds depends for suc cess on ability to pass goods across the frontier into the right hands in defiance of an army of 3,000,000 reds. That may be facilitated by the-noto rious corruption of Russian officials, in which those of the soviet are said to excel those of the czar. But im port of the very commodities which the reds say are lacking because of the blockade would tend to support mind of the man who was to direct BY -PRODI CTS OF THE TIMES this co-operation. That was a fine feat of naval strategy. ' Happily Sims I Planets Forbade Pessimism la World, is not the type of man to be thus in- I Says Milwaukee Astrologer. fluenced. He knew what was at I There Is little hone for relief from stake and that the highest strategy I the nigh cost of iivitlg.. nor frorn the demanded that the two navies work unreat among the people of the world vogBLner as one. yncc mure a. yam- for motUha to come, according to Pro otic American rigntmg jiitn, ..u fessor Chrl.a K irr-hof f. who ad- thinks nothing of party when the life of his country is concerned, saved us from the folly of the party poli tician. The warning against letting the British pull the wool over his eyes implied that an attempt might be dressed a group of his followers re cently in Milwaukee. Professor Klrchoff is a student of the heavenly bodies and leader of a group of astrological students who gather in their temple twice a week to hear the words of their prophet. made to use the American navy in I . , . . . , tish in-1 . .. .. . . . L serving some peculiarly British terest in which we had no share or to which American interests were opposed. If that disposition ton the part of Britain had existed, there was no opportunity to gratify it. All of mil" navol f rn ati ri n r m nro wpr needed to make communication safe weakn.ess' and the unfavorable reia- ture events, as his theory is that the relative position of the planets gov erns the- act of men and the history of the world. Mercury, the stellar body which rules over the intellect, is showing Those Who Come and Go. With a Kick in It. Br Linton L. Daviea. such activities. If the important people: provided needed funds for J legislation that it adopted in haste the service men's educational aid I between times of forensic combat law; and corrected defeats in the I over fish and game, paving and other irrigation and drainage bond interest I matters unnecessarily intruded, shall guarantee law. It declined to be i turn out to be perfect it will be con swept off its feet by indefinite criti- ceded that the legislature sat under cisms of the fish and game adminis- I a lucky star, tration but vindicated the present commission, meanwhile adding other members and dividing that body into two divisions that it may better com pose the feuds that, arise among "sportsmen and commercial fisher men. The legislature might, well have stopped with enactment of these . measures. It was clearly a mistake ; to attempt to pass miscellaneous bills , within the week allotted to delibera : tion and it would , have been a still graver mistake to prolong the ses sion more than a week. A less hasty consideration would probably have caused the legislature to decline to pen the state road map. There are ; many counties that desire to add to the main system of, state highways roads that lie within their borders. When one new road is admitted a precedent has been established for admitting others. In this instance the creation of one new state high- - way led promptly to designation of several others, and there would un ", questionably have been more if some ' members had not been taken by sur prise. Yet the programme laid down in the original highway law and ad hered to by the highway commission. Is by no means completed and a further spreading out of available funds will tend to postpone improve ment of roads that are actually main arteries of travel. There is the further danger that road designa tions will become the football of leg- islative politics. That has been true in a neighboring state, wherein in times past combinations formed solely on the basis of a division of road money have organized the legislature and virtually controlled lawmaking. . The legislature, so long as it was passing on miscellaneous bills, might properly have repealed the law fix ing a gravity test on gasoline. There is scientific assurance that the gra vity test alone is not a true test of gasoline quality. It is common knowledge that because of this use less requirement the gasoline users of the state must pay $600,000 a year more for their fuel than do the users in adjoining states. Perhaps the sen ators were becoming nervous toward the last as result of reiterated news between America and Europe, to protect ships and to destroy subma rines. This work was as essential to transport of the American army and supplies to Europe and to preserva tion of American commerce as to supply of the British army and feed ing and clothing of the British tion between Gemini and Saturn I prophesies that the people are to be In a high strung and nervous state, susceptible to radical influences and easily led into hysteria. As for prohibition. Professor Klrch off announced that the stars told the world that prohibition had come to people. If we had failed to supply! tn United States to stay, there was the British, they and their allies no chance of a change from the pre must have surrendered and we vailing dry condition. should then have had to fight alone. I If the men who have the affaire of This should have been obvious to the the world In their hands came to any merest tyro, and the talk of wool-I momentous agreement lately, they did pulling was a stupid blunder of also under the most favorable influ- small and suspicious mind. I ences of Uranus, Saturn, Mars, Venus, Co-operation with the British was the moon and the rest of the planets. not prompted by affection for them and much good would result, accord- or by sympathy with them, except so far as they were as one with us in devotion to common principles: It was prompted by recognized com munity of interest in defeat of Ger many. Expressions of mutual admi ration were all very well as a means of promoting hearty co-operation be. tween the men who must organize and win victory, but in the light of what Admiral Sims tells they were rank hypocrisy when emanating from the navy department, for it taught distrust and as great readiness to fight against as with "the British. Such duplicity is shameful. Not until Ambassador Page made a direct appeal to President Wilson did Secretary Daniels begin to dis. play that energy in complying wilh Si,ms request for ships and staff of ficers which led The Oregonian at the time to give the secretary credit for having been transformed from the pacifistX)aniels who clung to un- ing to Professor Kirchoff. But If the men whose acts govern our affairs did not enact any important legislation recently, there was a long time to wait before the planets would again come into favorable relationship. Milwaukee Sentinel. ' A new. bridge is being built across the Patomac river from Georgetown !o the Virginia side in memory of Francis Scott Key, composer of the "Star-Spangled Banner." The com pletion of the bridge will be the big gest thin that has happened in Georgetown in a long, long time, and If in the early days politics had not played to the detriment of George town, Washington's citizens now probably would be looking forward to some such big event as the build ing of the bridge even as George town's residents are today. Georgetown lies just to' the west of preparedness into a vigorous, effi- Washington and despite the fact that cient, warlike Daniels. Sfms begged it was started 40 years before a single in vain for destroyers, battleships building was erected on the site of the and staff officers during the critical present capital of the nation it leeps period from April to November, 1917, 1 even more seriously than did Wash- when the submarine was winning thel ington itself before the European war war at sea by destruction of ships applied 'electric treatment to the flanks of the nation's capital. George town first claimed fame before the revolution when George Washington laid out a canal beginning within its limits and running up into Maryland Then it blossomed promisingly and when the time came to select a capi tal for the United States it was a ; prominent contender. But Thomas Jef ferson, determined to make Washing ton the capital, arranged a political deal with Alexander Hamilton's bill for the federal government to assume tneir excuse that the present scarcity I and of cargoes on which the allies is due to the blockade, not to the relied-for food. It was nip and tuck ndustrial failure of communism. If, during that summer, but Daniels as Mr. Hoover says, lifting the block-I heeded no pleas until orders came ade will knock one of the greatest from above which he could not ier- props from under bolshevism, it is nore. Sims was on the ground, at well worth trying. I the center of action ready to Join The one thing which the American I the allies in checking every move people win not countenance is any of the enemy, but Daniels and move to recognize as a legitimate ! his swivel-chair strategists under- government tne band of murderers took to direct operations from Wash and robbers which now controls ington. 3000 miles awav. and did not Russia. If resumption of trade with I arrive at any plan of action, nor did their enemies is to be a step toward I we "reallv mm a to tho niH of th a Prinkipo conference. Americans allies" until Un months after Kims I the debts of the states of the union will have none of it. Nor should it I arrived in London. land at same time named the site oi become the means of smuggling red I The consequences were well nigh I Washington as the capital. Detroit propaganda and agents out of Russia, fatal to the cause in which we were Journal. for this and all other, countries are I fiehtinsr. In January. 1918. FtritUh alre!&y surfeited with such stuff, food supplies ran so low that Hoover Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of Allied policy toward Russia has been was plainly told that if certain quan- Plymouth church, in Brooklyn, made such a chapter of vacillation and tities of wheat were not forthcoming famous by Henry Ward Beecher, Is iaiiure mat mere is good reason to before March 1, famine would com-1 reported to be about to resign his doubt the success of its latest phase. I pel abandonment of the war, in! pastorate to take the lecture field in other words, surrender. Then amid a fight against bolshevism. It is said the freight congestion of that ter-1 he will go at once on an extensive rihlA Winter mntv trains ninro lne euerS ol tne narvara n- rushed west to return with wheat dowment Fund may well be puzzled, which accumulated on the Atlantic as they confess that they fere, over J seaboard faster than 'ships could lpad the results of their analysis of the I it. The . race between food and subscriptions to the fund obtained i famine was won by a hair, no thanks from the alumni. These show that I to Daniels. men between the ages of forty and I Some information leaked out about forty-five are the most liberal. The 1 failure of the department to support highest average subscriptions have I Sims, and the first breath of criti come from men who have been outlcism caused a move that was charac- of college about twenty years. The I teristic of Daniels and his coterie. average-for the subscribers from the! Admiral Benson, in whose favor the "I've got something I'll bet you never eaw the like of before," re marked Colonel Frank " J. Parker when he registered at the Perkins yesterday. The colonel is an old miner and he has an inborn fondness for precious stones, so it comes about that he carries with him in a chamois bag a huge opal, nearly an inch and a half across and weighing 184 carats. "Bet you don't know where I got it," he aaid. "During the San Francisco exposition I was wandering around Chinatown and saw it in tbe rough. .The Chinaman that had it didn't know It was worth several hundred dollars and he was going to cut it up in pins- He sold it to me for a song." Colonel Parker also has several beautiful sapphires, given bim by a "desert rat" he met in Ari zona. At the time one was lost, but had water while the other man had no water, but knew the way out of the desert. Parker took his com panion into town and fed him up. whereupon the man parted with seven uncut sapphires. The old sourdough has been living at Welseyville, Cal.. where he has a ranch which goes by the name of Snug Harbor. He and hie wife have been visiting at Walla Walla, where for 23 years the colonel ran a newspaper. Canyon City, avers P. W. McRob erts. who is connected with the bank there, is a great nlace for bootleggers because they can easily hide in the hilly country roundabout. That is tne reason why he and three other men from the same town are down here as witnesees. not defendants, in a booze case ud before the U. S. district court. He is accompanied by George Aiasson, miner and rancher, and C. G. Gurney and H. T. Lyon, who have stores Canyon City. Everett Hicks, an at torney from the town, is also along. The entire party are at the rcrxms. When thev are in Salem during legislative sessions Representative Jim Stewart of Corvallis and Fossil nd Senator Walter M. Pierce or Baker are real enemies, for one is for ever boosting road bonds and the other is always pruning them. Never theless, they came down from Salem yesterday and rubbed elbows all the way on the train. r.ext iney ruuo in the PerKhlnar rjroctssion. as the only two members of the state wel come committee. Last of. all. they went into the Imperial and luncnea together, the senator paying the bin. It is understood that the state win reimburse him. Colonel B. K. Lawson, registered at the Seward, is on his way homo to Wedderburn from Salem. Once upon time the colonel was in charge or the penitentiary and was one of the best men who ever handled that in stitution. There is a row at tne mouth of the Rogue river between the commercial fishermen. One out fit wants to put the Wcddcrourn Fishing company out of business, or at least prevent it from using all of its gear. The colonel was at Salem to look out for the interests of the Wedderburn company, and there was also a lobbyists for the other side. Somehow, in the final hours of tho session, the bill which was so impor tant to these two lobbyists, disappeared- A member gave the bill a pocket veto. ' IK FIRST SPRING POMK. Dull skies, whereon the clouds, are stroked . In heavy, haggard mass of fleece and plume. Brushed by some giant wind un yoked And galloping to doom. Kaptly a sense of waiting covers alt. A hushed delay, space ... When hurtling down fall The foremost raindrop strikes the eager face. i peering into rard to its epic More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montaie. THE GENEROUS ACE. And faint and far, but clear and true of tone. The note of storm advancing and the soft. Sibilant whisper over turf and stone And the wet herbage of the tiny croft. There is a fragrance born of leaf and mist. Of waking bud, of pussy willow folk. As though celestial lips had bent and kissed The dreaming world until she smiled and woke. The drumming music of the storm retreats A. thankful bird awakes to sway and sing. And clean-washed sunshine, softly radiant, greets The first-born morning of the darling Spring. FRIAR TUCK. Why Xot Pay 'Em In Francsf Tho entire crew of the battleship Mississippi at Los Angeles has signed a petition to congress for an increase in pay. Reckon the boys are sashayin around with the movie queens. . It Was the Wrong Robber. An apartment house keeper is robbed of 20n -which he had laid out to pay a plumber. There'll bo trouble yet if the boys persist in refusing to "recognize the profession." The w Movie Hoanr. Some of 'em call it Riv-o-lce The owner does and so do we. Some of them call it the Riv-oh-ly That really can't bo right, now frho'ly But say, I like the bird That fiddles with the word And makes it Ravioli! Sims So, l.adi, Mm o. "Sims Thinks Rocket Would Strike Moon," headlines a paper. And tho chances are he wouldn't care much if it bumped into Josephus Daniels on the way up. ATLAS! POOR ROHB. C. E. Mitchell, president of the Na tional City company, declares tiat the automobile might have saved anaient Home. News Item. When old Maecenas ran his farva The fliv' was not Invented And so the hands that tilled his Lauds Lived lazily and contented. Thoy had no punctures whose repair Was urgently insistent. For inner tubes to Korean rces Were wholly non-existent. Thry never had to leave the vins To droop for want of tillaisie To patch a leak or oil a sJWk Or motor to the village. They never rose at 4 A. M. Because it was essential Before the boat began to mote To grease the differential. Xor did they have to harness up The old Etruscan mewel And go to Home to tow her bVf' When she ran out of fuel. They sat around the nouse at night. And knocked the ruling pptors. With not a thought of how they ougkt To clean their carburetors. And so. with nothing else to do Excepting simple farming Their loafing time they spent in crime Whose spread became alarrnuifT- A great and wealthy state was Rome 'Kre tyranny enslaved it. It fell too soon that modern bB-on The flivver might have saved it. Nothing Dima Ilia Eternal Hone. Whatever you say about Mr. Bryan you are bound to admit that- te is the world's leading optimist. Insuring a Welcome. If 'the next shipload of deported reds expect to find a welcome on for eign Fhores. they had better aail on a ship that is laden with outgoing whisky. Tnanimooaly. College professors want more pay and shorter hours and the students are in favor of giving them the shower hours. t Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) A Movie-Leas World By Grace K. Hall. tour and combat the propaganda which the reds are now spreading among the people, According to the report, a large fund has been raised in the west to fight bolshevism and Dr. Hillis is to be the central figure in the cam paign. Dr. Hillis, who has long been prom inent In pulpit and 'on lecture plat form, succeeding the Rev. Lyman Abbott in the pastorate of Plymouth MAKE GOOD IMMIGRANTS WELCOME, Efforts to reassure those indus trious, law-abiding foreign residents of the United States who have beer. disturbed by raids on alien residents are a valuable part of that work of settling down which the recent worldwide convulsion has made needful. Immigrants of this class should be given to understand that they are welcome as plainly as the revolutionists should be . informed that they are not wanted. Any im pression that there is intentional discrimination between, alien and American reds will soon be removed by passage of the law against sedi tion now before congress. If any thing, the American .red is worse than the foreigner, for he has had the opportunity to know better and has never endured that oppression which drfves men of other nations to extremes. Something is due to the immi grants which has not been given to them, and their inclination to revo lution is partly due to that fact. They have come by the million, built our railroads and done much other heavy unskilled labor at which Americans turn up their noses more each year. They have lived in tem porary, unsanitary camps at .many places where they have worked, and have endured being called "bohunks1 and "wops" and have been treated as outsiders in American communities. Little has been done to make them feel at home, to "put them next" Jo our torni or. government and cus toms. .To their credit manv of them have' overcome the difficulty of lan guage, which is no small one to a man with little or no education to begin with, and have become citizens and fought as American soldiers. The best antidote to bolshevism among the foreign-born, next to Just and considerate treatment by, em ployers, is American propaganda. promotion of better understanding by "translating America to them in terms which they will understand" and by educating them. three classes of 1897, 1898 and 1899 outspoken Admiral Fisk had been church. It is reported that the death is $1480; for the members of the displaced as chief of operations. of five of the leading supporters of class of 1898 alone it is S1199. As- called on Sims for a "stronsr state- the cnurcn in tne last, year naa teu suming the age of graduation to be 1 ment" that he had .not been denied h'm to contemplate a cnange. w nen in the neighborhood of twenty-one. I support when it was asked. Thus he went to Plymouth church, it is the case for the superior generosity Daniels, as usml when found out, I said, it was understood that he was of men in the early forties would I tried to cover his tracks with a de-1 to be allowed to go out ana lecture seem to have been proved. Inial of the truth extorted from a If the period between forty and I subordinate. Sims gave it because forty-five were the period of greatest I his highest duty in time of war de- average prosperity in men's lives, the manded support of the administra question would find a ready answer, I tion, but he could not be forced to but this probably does not corres- 1 keep silence after war was over, pond with facts, or with the expe- I We had hoped that the supreme riences of other solicitors of benevo- I emergencies of war had evolved a new lences. It is a fair guess that men I Daniels from behind that smilin at this time show deepest Interest in I countenance, but events have proved their alma mater because at about I the Daniels of war to have been the that time they have sons of their own I same old Daniels with whom we in college. tJOiiege-Dred parents, as were ait laminar a, fit companion other statisticians have shown, con- I for baker. stitute the greatest single moral in fluence in "support of higher educa- Rather makes a moekerv of mar- tion. A good many men to whom the I riage when a woman seeks a divorce opportunity nas Deen denied resoive thirteen days after the ceremony, as that their sons shall not be similarly I a recent bride is dointr at Euorene. A handicapped, but the proportion of I beneficial law would put a minimum those who, having finished college, I cf at least three months hffor sr- afterward send their sons, there is I aration and make a couple fight it almost iuv per cent, rsoi always, out I out. often, the alma mater of the father is chosen for the son; but the benefits of higher training are seldom denied by those who have received it. All on board the "soviet ark," that touched at a Finnish port, are re potted to have had a pleasant trip, That is what was said of Mr. Ford's SIMS AND DANIELS. I peace "ark" a few . years ago, but It was known that down to thel there the similarity ends, for that German proclamation of unrestricted J boatload came back submarine warfare- on January 81 1917, the administration was blind to I Time was when a man grumbled the fact that the war was a death I and disturbed the domestic harmonv struggle between the opposing prin-1 when he had to "pack" home a dol- ciples of democracy and autocracy, I lar's worth of sugar: but no more! but the revelations of Admiral Sims at any time. "Why did Wagner never write a violin concerto?" asked Michel Scia- piro one day as he was looking through "Tristan" with his teacher. Hugo Heermann, "I am surprised For he shows such a wonderful sense of the beauty of the violin. In his scoring for the instrument he has given such exquisite music to the violin. Why did lie avoid making vio lln concertos?" "The very question I once put to Wagner himself," answered Heer mann. "It was In his gardens at Wahnfried and we were all alone, had been for hours. When I asked him he looked at me and in a sort of blinking ecstasy he took me at arms' length and eatd with a laugh in his voice, 'Dear Hugo, a violin solo is like, a beautiful woman." 'Well, I said, 'that doesn t explain it. He laughed and burst out. 'One is not enough many, many, many I want; that Is why 1 make music only for many in the orchestra. One beauti ful woman is not enough. THE NEW POLICY TOWARD RCSSIA. The allies have chEfnged front so often in their policy toward Russia. paper charges of trust influence. The and hitherto with such ill-success only reasonable explanation for fail-1 that skepticism as to the good re- ure to pass the repeal bill is that I suits of their latest change is natural. some members thought it time to 1 Public opinion in this country will snow tneir lndependene of the oil I approve any measures that may un trust at a cost to the public of I dermine or destroy the power of the 600,000 a year. I bolshevists, but will condemn anv jNumerous in considered or un-I action mat is liKeiy to fortify them worthy measures were defeated, not-I or to facilitate their efforts to cause ably Senator Pierce's state income I a world-revolution. From that view-j without mutual confidence of each Senator Thomas predicts Senator Pierce will be the next democratic candidate for governor. "It's a- long time a-gittm to de crossroads!" show that this obdurate failure to see continued down to the day when intervention by the United States against Germany had become inevi table. In March, 1917, when Presi H.nt Wilson harT become convinced that there was no alternative to war. Fifteen day's time was not enough anrl when everv American who had 1 in which to take the Seattle census, brains to think with knew that this or. lo Put unaerstanoaDiy, tne would require close co-operation with counters did not get enough the allies, of which Britain was the chief, "a high official" of the navy innuenza, it appears, is a movawe department gave Sims the parting I disease, so by the time it gets into admonition "not to let tle British I a fellow's corns, he can cut them out null tbe wool over your eves" and land be immune. showed so little appreciation of the vital interests at stake as to say "the United States would as soon fight the British as the Germans." ' That re mark might well have come from a pro-German. Close co-operation between the American and British navies was as necessary to American as to British interests. It could not be attained tax measure and the repeal of the point the decision to raise the block- zoning law. So it is that in the re-I ade will be judged, cent session, as with every other that I The decision of the supreme coun Jl cat la Oregon, one will find actsjcil is a direct reversal of the policy in the other's single purpose to de feat the common enemy. Yet at the very outset this "high official" epwed suspicion of - our ally; In the Milton L. Meyers of Salem is a gen uine mixer and so is Mrs. Meyers, both of whom were on the guest list at the Bensop over the week-end. Mr. Meyers, with his brother, runs the town's biggest department store, and all by himself he commands a goodly share of the O. N'. G. down in that section of the country. They tell a great many stories about It. Alexander, one of Pendle ton's best-known merchants, who has come to Portland to spend the winter at the Imperial. The latest yarn concerns ors of his fellow clothing merchants. . '"How's Leon getting along?" a Portlander asked the plump Mr. Alexander. "Fine," was the reply, "his store burned out last week." Mrs. Alexander arrived at the hotel last night to join her husband. On the busiest corner in Salem, O. A. Hartman and his brother have a -prosperous looking jewelry store. Consequently the proprietor Is an au thority in "just the thing for brides or "what to give the girl graduate." Also he knows how to preside over conventions, as he was head of the State Jewelers' association a year ago. Mr. Hartman was browsing around Portland yesterday and passed the night at the Seward. The last time Gus Bassett was In town was 15 years ago, and he was little more than a boy then. Con sequently It was considerable of a surprise to him when Harry Hamil ton over at the Imperial trotted up yesterday and called him by his first name. Ous said he is traveling around the country selling leather, and now calls Albany, Ala., his home. Among the returning legislators who dropped In at tho Portland yes terday were P. J. Gallagher of On tario and Ben C. Sheldon of Medford. J. A. Westerlund, another of the solons, who happens also to manage a hotel at Medford, brought his wife along with him. Fred Anderson of Aberdeen used to be a "regular fellow" several years ago. xnat was before he got mar ried and eettled down as a model hus band. He is at the Benson with his wife, while in the city transacting business for his lumber mill. Two brothers who celebrated Persh ing s visit to Portland with a trip to the city were R. H. Merrill of Camas and L. J. Merrill, banker from Mosier. Both the young men eawserv ice during the war. The l.rglon Would Approve. If some of these fight promoters who are making such tempting offers to ihe unresponsive Dempsey would only arrange a match between Trotsky and Villa we might forfeit our inborn desire for free passes and pay a dollar to tee the thing. ALL HAVK-OT5 FOR IIK.H TASKS la The income tax rate is lower, but as nearly everybody got more in the year it is little comfort. The moral dancing law will not hurt decent people and it will put a clamp on indecency. s Looks sad to see a democratic crocodile shedding tears about Chamberlain. Lewiston is figuring on its best asset! by nrpDosea 130040.00. h-otsl. Say what you choose of pictures, you cannot gainsay that they are a power. The nation is admitting it. Via Secretary Lane's coining to New York on Sunday to meet the picture men. Read their co-operation in the anti- red campaign. The dynamo. William A. Brady. Is one of the most active in this respect and F. T. Phillips of the New York Globe reports him as saying: "The entire picture industry Is at the command of the government. Every manufacturer and every exhibi tor is anxious to help. And it is grati fying to know that the officials ad mit the screen's power. Americaniza tion should have been begun long ago. And begun In- just this way.- Let.it once become generally known that the red idea Is unsafe and there will be no more reds And that's exactly what the screen can do let it be known. And it will." Five dollars a quart not a cent less would be the price he would ask for whale's milk if he established a whale dairy, according to Captain John B. Loop, a sea mammal expert of Long Beach, Cal., who recently re turned from a whale hunt in Mexican Pacific waters. Captain Loop has not determined, however, to establish a whale dairy; he merely made that announcement because Arthur de Ell of Omaha. Neb., who had heard of the seaman's knowl edge of whale and a small cargo of the lacteal fluid of leviathans that he recently brought to southern Califor nia, sent a request "reserving" a earn plo of the milk. Rocky Mountain Sews, A goodly share of the lumber and grain that goes in and out of the town of Culver Is handled by H. C. Topping, who is paying a visit at tbe MgUllnomab. Business looks good'for a rancher, according to George Kohlhagen of Roseburg. who is at the Oregon Mr. Kohlhagen brought with him some cattle t dispose of at the Portland yards. One of the people who wanted to see General Pershing is Henry D. Keyes of Fossil, who Is to be found at the Oregon. Judge Keyes was formerly county judge in his home town. Hot Lake sanitarium owes most of its fame to Dr. W. T. 'Phy, its pro prietor. The physician has stolen away from his mud baths and milk diets and is at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. Schmidt, with their babies, were here from Astoria yesterday and were at the Benson Mr. Schmidt is proprietor of "a store and came to town to contract goods. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Keith and Mr, anV Mrs. F. M. Snow make up a par ty at the Multnomah. Both men are orchardists from the Hood River valley. Edward P. Scallon, general super intendent of the Matnomen Mining company of Ironton, Minn., Is one of the new arrivals at the Multnomah. E. H. Thompson, manager of the Bridal Veil Lumber 'company, is in from Bridal Veil and la at the Mult i n,oman. Diaaatifaction M ftn (.overnment Aim of Public Spendthrift. ALBANY, Or.. .Ian". 17. To the Ed itor.) Thomas 3efferson, the chief founder of the republican party, said: "I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as tiie greatest of the dangers to be feared." Every ne'er-do-welV' every man who owns no property and has but little respect for property or the own ers thereof, every I. -W. W.. every socialist who is opposed to" private ownership in land, and every bolshe vik encourage by word and pen every scheme which calls for expenditure of public moneys in national, state and municipal governments, with tne object in view to make taxation so high that no one will want to own land, hoping thereby to cause such ultimate dissatisfaction that the peo ple will cry out for an overthrow of our jrovernment. There is just fear that alter a few more years of reckless extravagance in national and state legislatures in Iheir appropriating millions and bil lions of dollars, that taxes will reacn that height that it will be easy for the enemies of our republic to say that it is the fault of the capitalist class. whereas in fact is is not the property owner who asKs ior more onices. larger salaries and more bonds for this scheme and that. Trace it back and the source of it will be found to be in some smooth socialist who pays no tax and has no real love for our constitution and laws. Some of our big men at least hold ing high positions scemincly are Playing to the hands of those who seek to overthrow our government by appropriating our moneys and mort gaging our future credit to aid tne nations of Europe. Witness the con tinued calls to feed the millions of Europe by loaning them billions of dollars of money. This thing of love of human beings outside of our coun try is all well enough, but charity commences at home, and if rich peo ple desire to give money to Europeans let them raise it by private subscrip tion, as our government was not formed to tax our citizens to give or loan money to foreign countries. A public debt is not a public blessing and it is liable to prove a public curse. It is high time that our states men looked more after the financial welfare of our citizens at home and dispensed with expenditures of public money oa people in Europe. GEORGE W. WRIGHT. I dreamed last night that movie ehows were banished from the earth. That censor boards had all agreed that they were void of worth: That never, more would shining star his flowery pathway tread. And never more would film-ly maid her shadow-hero wed. The picture houses all were closed, the windows tightly barred. And sad-eyed actors roamed among the billboards where they'd starred : The men who wound the crank ma chines that made the whole earth "reel" Had sought the legislative halls some "thunder" there to steal. At ticket windo.v where of old I glad ly paid my way, I saw the ghosts of many a dime peer out with faces gray: And passing down the thoroughfare a dismal crowd I met. I noted that each face was sad and many an eye was wet. I heard the little children ask if it were really true That Charlie Chaplin had been shot and then they wept anew. They begged for news of Marguerite, of .Mary. "Doug" and others. But only tears were their replies. from all the dads and mothers. "No more," thought I. "shall any eye alight upon the scene Where waiter chap receives a rap upon his festive bean. While pie and paste both go to waste in making farces funny: Oh, nevermore at movie door shall we yield up our money!" It was a ecream that broke my dream and brought me to my feet My little boy with shouts of joy had raced in from the street: 'Twas time to go! the movie show is but two blocks away. I'm glad it's near, with harmless cheer to close the worKman s aay. In Other Day. t'Ol RTEOl S AGK.XT C OM.fl K.N DED Affaliliy of Railroad .Man at War renton lniprcMc Correspondent. PORTLAND. Jan. 17. (To the Ed itor.) Few if any railroad stations are attractive places at which to spend much time agreeably. Partic ularly is this true of the smaller towns, of which Warrenton, Or., is an example. But yesterday I found Warrenton occupying an exclusive and unique position through the kindly thoughtfulness of the railroad agent at that place and his wife; not to me solely, but to the public generally, which should place them in a position where the exercise of courtesy and graciousness would find greater op portunity to win friends for the com pany. Here an affable man and a pleasant-voiced, sweet-faced woman had attractively placed several copies each of ten or more different magazines of comparative late Issue on a shelf in the waiting room, presumably for sale, until I discovered a sign stating that they were for the free use of all persons to help pass the time while wailing for train3. Close notice of the manner with which both of these ! people served tne public indicated hearts full of Kinaness and consid eration for others. Can you beat it in these rushing dayaj JAMES S. REED, Twenty-five Yearn Ago. From The Oregonian. January 19. 189S. San Francisco. The steamer Ala meda brought news of a revolution and bloodshed at Honolulu. Charles L. Carter, one of the annexation com missioners, waa killed and several government supporters wounded. Salem. The funeral of ex-Governor Chadwiek was conducted here today by P. S. Malcolm, master of the Masonic grand lodge of Oregon. A 30-horsepower steam boiler ex ploded at the government work at tho cascades of the Columbia yester day, completely demolishing the boil- erhouse. Tho engineer, wno nao. jus stepped outside to attend a pump, was thrown some distance and lanaea on a snowbank but was uninjured. The first of the 600-horscpower dynamos for the new station of the Portland General Electric company at Oregon City, to replace those de stroyed in the elevator fire, has ar rived. Fifty Tun Ago. From The Orcsonian. January IP. 1570. Washington. I. C. Dec. 80. Mer chants of Victoria. B. C, have peti tioned the president with a view to intervention looking to the annexa tion of the colony of British Colum bia to the United States. Springfield, Til. Gffvernor John M. Palmer, of Illinois, has refused to commission a woman as notary psb lic on the ground that the law re quires a bond and that a woman could not be held responsible. The stampeders from Helena. Mont to the Missoula mines average 20 a day, says the Northwest. The price which the Central Pa cific company paid to the Union Pa cific company for the railroad trom Ogden to Promontory is said to be $3,000,000. half in United States bonds and half in Central Pacific. To Antorln via Fortst drove. PORTLAND. Jan. 17. (To the Edi tor.) To settle an argument, kindly slate whether Forest Grove is west, southwest or northwest of Portland. Also is there a road leading to As toria through Forest Grove? A SUBSCRIBER. Forest Grove is directly west of Portland. What is known as the in side route to Astoria is via Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Gales creek, Vernonia and Mist. Descent of Property. CANBY, Or., Jan. 13. (To the Ed itor.) When property is In the wife's name, in case of husband's death could a child of his by a. former mar riage come in for any of the property? CONSTANT READER, '