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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1920.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
Members of the Oregon legislature
fere as a rule representative citizens.
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, '