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Newspaper Page Texta TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1920 ,iftrrnrot0 (Qtigmm KSTABI.ISIIKn BT KE!CBf L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oreffonlan Publishing Co, 13a Sixth street, Portland, Oregon. O. A. MORDEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oregonian la a namber of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use lor publica tion of all news dispatches crsdlted to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably n Advance. (By Mall.) Uatly, Sunday Included, one year ..$. 00 Ia)ly. 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Eastern Business Office Verree at Conlt lln, Brunswick building, New York; Verree & Conklln. Steger building. Chicago; Ver ree & Conklln, Free Preas building. De troit, Mich. San Francisco representative, P.. J. Bidwell. The cost of the - year's fires ex ceeded by some millions the total payroll of the teachers of the United States, who received onlv $364,789,000 for their services. The cost of fire departments was $400, 000,000 more, a sum that has not been begrudged under existing: con ditions, but which would be greatly reduced If fire prevention measures were commoner. The public has a big task ahead of it to reduce fire loss to the 13 per cent of the present figure, which is held to be excusable. HOW IT WAS WON. Secretary Daniels emphasised that, con trary to a popular Impression. Admiral Sim throughout the war was subordinate to Admiral Mayo, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet. He indicated that on the question of the distribution of de stroyer strength as well as on other ques tions. Admiral Sims was overruled tv Ad. miral Mayo as well as tha department. From an Associated Press dispatch. Wash ington, D. C. Thus It is clear that Secretary Daniels and Admiral Mayo won the war, Without the loss of a swivel chair or an Inch of red-tape. , TEE DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIP. Mr. tiouse who never counted on too much when he ex pected mastery of our highly com plicated tongue In so short a period as seven weeks. PUBLIC BASTETT AND PRIVATE RIGHTS. Mr. Gompera has gone to extrava gant lengths In his effort to make out a case against the anti-sedition tnis paesed by house and senate. There is on the one hand the per fectly clear purpose of these bills to restrain persons who preach or at tempt overthrow of the American government by violence. But in several particulars Mr. Gompera adopts a strained construction, and brands the bills, as thus construed by "Mm. as un-American and imperialis tic. . In Ote strict meaning of the term, femythtng that Is un-American Is un constitutional. Clearly it is not within the power of the congress to give an enactment of its own the un constitutional scope that Mr. Gom pera professes to discern In these bills, such, for illustration, as the penalizing of efforts to amend the constitution by the method pre scribed in the constitution. Courts In 'constructing a law of course re ject purposes that might be read into the law but which are clearly uncon stitutional. One may be Justified In suspecting that Mr. Gompera has given his statement a tone calculated to alarm the general public. The apparent motive for his vehemence appears in the following sentence: It would be criminal, for example, for a man to send a letter advocating re sistance to an Injunction issued by a federal Judge ordering workers on strike to go back to work. Then Mr. Gompera maintains that the right exists to send such a letter and that the right ought not to be taken away. Presumably he has in mind the injunction against the coal miners' strike and the provisions of the Cummins bill against railroad strikes. The American people learned the effect of such strikes and knew their purpose when the coal miners attempted to enforce their demands by cutting off the supply of fuel as winter set in, and violated a contract in so doing. If successful, the strike would have caused many people to freeze, would have stopped the greater part of the industries and railroads and would have tied up coal-burning steamers. Mr. Gompers denied the right of the courts to en join that strike, and he now asserts the right to urge resistance to an in junction. He still maintains that the right of the miners to strike is su perior to the right of the American people to lie. But wo are in sympathy with Mr. Gompers' criticism of the power of arbitrary censorship over the press conferred upon the postmaster-general by the two bills. They would, it Is true, give the publisher the right of a court review of the postmaster general's order excluding a publica tion from the mails on the ground of seditious utterances, but they are in that particular a mild application of the old lynch law doctrine: "Hang him first and try him afterwards." Opposition to the mailing provision was made far stronger than it would otherwise have been by the abuse of power which Postmaster - General Burleson committed under the es pionage act. - Senator Lodge summed up this part of the case against further enlargement of that official's authority by quoting an article which Theodore Roosevelt wrote for the Kansas City Star on May 7, 1918, in which the ex-president said: During the last year the administration has shown itself anxious to punish the newspapers which upheld the war but which told the truth about the adminis tration's failure to conduct the war ef ficiently, whereas it has failed to pro ceed against various powerful newspapers which opposed the war or attacked our allies or directly or indirectly aided Ger many against this country, as those papers upheld the administration and defended the inefficiency. Mr. Roosevelt cited a number of examples, the most forcible of which was suppression of Tom "Watson's paper for opposing dispatch of drafted men overseas, while no ac tion was taken against the Hearst papers which expressed the same opinion. - The government, needs the power to protect the public against its enemies, whether those enemies re sist Injunctions of the courts or advo cate or attempt revolution by force. But in the instance of the man who is accused of advocating by word of mouth a revolution by force it is not proposed that any official shall have arbitrary power irrevocably to injure him prior to a formal and legal de termination of his guilt. Yet he who is accused of advocating In print the same thing may be injured by the arbitrary act of a cabinet officer. It may be an injury that cannot be re paired by a later vindication in the courts. The misconduct of Mr. Burleson Is sufficient proof that freedom from abuse of a power thus sought to be conferred upon a political officer cannot safely be relied upon. colonel la going back to Texas for a much-needed rest. He goes with the approval of the entire country. Including President "Wilson. Not the same unanimity of approbation has marked the other House activities during the past five years. No matter what any one else thought or said, he had the favor of President "Wilson and thus by a majority of at least one was able to hold the extraordin ary place he has acquired in the executive confidence. The New Tork World, through Its capable correspondent, Mr. Seibold. recently told the story of a breach between Mr. "Wilson and his "War wick. It was denied from various more or less excited democratic sources; but now Mr. Seibold tells It anew; and it is widely accepted as true." A guarded but significant con firmation of the Seibold narrative is given by Charles H. Grasty of the New Tork Times, in an' article on President "Wilson, in the Jaauary number of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Grasty says: Mr. Wilson's tendency to give his in- dorsement in blank has sometimes got him into trouble. No man should have been put into the position that Colonel House was. The country resented it, and finally the colonel himself Used the nresirient'a writ too freely, with the result that unity of poncy was somewhat Impaired at Paris. Colonel House filled a deeolv-felt need at the White House and from the president's point oi view was most helpful. He was very active In the field in which the presl dent had disabilities. He loved belna- i Warwick as much as the president hated tne wnole business of handling patronage. House was. as it were, a bureau drawer for things he did not exactly know where else to put. The Texan is orderly minded ana nas much sagacity, but he overesti mated his reach. It was inevitable that this should be the result of the president's doming mm witn too much power. Mr. Grasty had close personal re lationship as close as anybody, al ways excepting House with the president at Paris. He knows what he Is writing about. It Is to be re gretted that he does not tell more. The key to Mr. House's remarkable Damon-and-Pythias intimacy with the president may possibly be found In his own account of his first inter view with "Woodrow "Wilson about 1912. "We agreed about everything," he says. CHARITY IN POLITICS. It Is not necessary to resort to the old formality of adopting party plat forms in Oregon to convince the poli tical on-looker that the democratic' party at the present moment "view.s with alarm." The sentiment has been convincingly expressed In rela tion to the bill Just passed by the legislature which provides a method of voting the . straight party ticket with a minimum of effort. The alarm, of course, is all in be half of the "independent" voter, not in behalf of any democratic aspirant for office. Heretofore the Indepen dent or any other voter was re quired to make a cross before the name of every candidate for whom he desired to vote. The new bill does not deprive the voter of that method of voting, but it compels the independent" to jump from one column to another, instead of read ing straight down the ticket, and as a special relief from this extraor dinary effort it grants him the addi tional privilege of making one cross at the head of any ticket and escap ing promptly from the polling booth. The democratic alarm in behalf of the Independent voter seems to be that he will be diverted from a feeble disposition to express a preference for candidates on several tickets by the ease with which he may vote for all the candidates on one ticket and thereby be seduced or an inaiienaDie right to be independent. Possibly the alarm is well justified. We are not so convinced, although we admit that the argument is plausible. If the "independent" Is a fickle and Indolent creature or has shallow preferences, perhaps these frailties of his ought to be humored and not thwarted. If robbed of his independence his choice Is likely to fall on the republican ticket, as it usually presents the greatest number of names and Is therefore the most attractive. In a choice between charity for the feeble and enthusiasm for party we waver. And, lu truth. It does not seem just right that charity should be exhibited exclusively by demo crats. So If the bill shall fall under the veto we shall console ourselves with the thought that humane in stincts have triumphed and that the Oregon system still lives. and by Just International combinations to organize production, raise our exchange, accelerate reconstruction ill the liberated regions, rebuild our transportation sys tem, renew the merchant marine, and put our colonial domination into shape. The election of M. Deschanel as president of the republic is in itself a protitlous beginning for these ex tensive undertakings, since his lead ership is singularly unhampered by party associations. Although the premier must depend upon parlia mentary majorities for support, the president, during his seven-year term, performs his functions through the party In power, and like the king of England, cannot act as a partizan. This aloofness seems to be a remark able virtue of the new executive. Ac cording to Le Temps, the reserve shown by M. Deschanel in remaining outside of political parties has been less occasioned by afected self es teem than by a pure devotion to the cult of France and the vindication of its ideals. "It was a noble un easiness of spirit that kept him from Settling down in any party, and it seemed a defiance of conscience for him to abandon his moral indepen dence. In his party associations he was less concerned with the credit and influence he could furnish than with the light he could shed upon grave social and political problems which, in our epoch, assail and tor ment the ardent minds of those who strive for progress and who place the general permanent welfare above private and ephemereal interests. . . One is accustomed to seeing in him neither a radical, an oppor tunist, nor a progressive: He belongs to the party of France and of the republic." The National Board of Fire Under writers' estimate- of $390,000,000 as the fire loss of the United States in 1919, of which 87 per cent was avoidable, either wholly or in part, constitutes another indictment of the American people of the of fense of criminal waste. Of all the great conflagrations that have oc curred in the country, the only one that was not preventable is held to Have been that at San Francisco, which was caused by earthquake which not only started it but de jroyed the means of fighting it. A POET. NOT A LINGUIST. The disagreement between Maurice Maeterlinck, the master Belgian poet, and the business manager for his American lecture tour, Mr. Pond, over the former's failure to address his audiences in- English is a re minder that the faculty of linguipo- tence, like the predilection for mathematics, is not invariably asso ciated with mental capacity. One needs only to cast up in his mind the list of the many-tonguad individuals he has known who are sub-normal in other intellectual respects to realize that it is so, and the reverse also is true, as has been shown by others than M. Maeterlinck. The latter's friend and companion, who also acts as his interpreter, cites the example of a capable French scholar now at Harvard who has been unable in three years to learn to ask for a piece of roast beef in English. M. Mae terlinck "understands" English when it is carefully spoken in his presence, but he struggles with its vocal pit falls in vain. A good many Americans will sym pathize with him, and not a few Englishmen as well. Our insularity in a language sense is not altogether the result of inferior teaching meth ods, to which it is popularly ascribed. Centuries of living in countries such as those whose polyglot populations are now perplexing the self-de-terminationists, have bred in certain European peoples an aptitude for ac quiring new tongues quickly. The Levant teems with men who speak and think in many languages, and so do the Balkan states. The Scandi navians probably lead all others in the north in possession of this gift, although there is a not fully sup ported notion that the Russian Is the greatest linguist in the world, grow ing from the supposition that any one who can master Russian ought to be equal to anything. In those who dwell apart from others, as we have done, the faculty appears to atrophy in time. M. Maeterlinck's failure to put himself in possession of our language in the few weeks he gave to the task may be due to an other kind of isolation, none the less real that of the poet, philosopher and dreamer from the affairs of the world. There are nevertheless great num bers of Americans who will want to hear Maeterlinck, even though he speaks a language unfamiliar to most of them. There is a definite, human, romantic quality in a per sonality. There is interest that . is above idle curiosity in seeing what manner of man it is who can not only do great things, but can do small things greatly. This Maeterlinck did wnen ne numanizea me bee In a work which, however the bee tenders and the naturalists may pick flaws in its minutiae, will live forever. and he did it again when "he gave to readers in every land the kindly philosophy and the light that are contained in his dramatization of the unborn, "The Blue Bird." The revelations in those stories of bees and children make the world the debtor of the poet from across the sea. It is something to see a man like Maeterlinck, and to hear him speak in any language. Yet the problem, from the point of view of the lec ture manager, is a practical, fi nancial one. The manager says that not enough people will buy tickets for a lecture in a foreign language to make it pay. He ought to have known beforehand, and it will be quite generally conceded that he FRANCE'S NEW PRESIDENT. The termination of conditions which since 1871 have threatened the third French republic with an in creasing menace of ultimate disin tegration seems assured by the elec tion of Paul Deschanel to the office of president by the national assembly at "Versailles. By this election, in which the support of all factions was extraordinarily concentrated, the as sembly has undoubtedly signified its aspiration for a new regime, with the reestablishment of national com posure as its fundamental principle Since the republic has passed safely through the terrible convulsions of war the existing political system has ceased to be the dogma of 'a single party and henceforth will probably take its place as a national creed. The frequent anomalous situations which have blocked the perfect functioning of parliamentary govern ment in France since 1871 were due to the presence in politics of numer ous party sub-divisions from which the formation of responsible minis tries could be accomplished only with grave difficulty. The principle disturbing- factor has been the groups of irreconcilables who refuse to accept the concensus on which the governmental authority is founded and who cannot, be entrusted with power without danger to the funda mental institutions of the nation One of these groups, the royalist. Is a survival of the old regime and the reign of Louis Philippe- The lack of large party groups of nation-wide development is partly the result of temperamental inclina tions, for most Frenchmen are the oretlcal rather than practical in poll tlcg. There is little party discipline, for deputies in the chamber prefer to strive toward individual conceptions of an ideal society, refusing to re linquish a part of the ideal to obtain what is within reach. As a result there . are no definitely organized party policies, and the platform of a candidate for the chamber is more a philosophical work than a definite programme of activities to which he might pledge himself. Lines of political cleavage in France a few years ago were less In conformity with real issues than with personal sentiment. The Frenchman cares less for facts than for prin ciples and opinions, and as an ex ample of this preference, French newspapers are almost entirely de voted to editorial comment, with only the barest account of daily events. The formation of groups In the chamber, similarly, is often a union of sympathies based on com paratively irrelevant issues. The emphatic choice of the as sembly for Deschanel Is important evidence that the old numerous party sub-divisions have been eradi cated. The war was chiefly instru mental In obliterating many of the old loves and hatreds, and the issues of government are becoming much more conspicuous. The formation of a bloc national In the elections at the end of November was clear challenge to the radical-socialist ele ment which was hitherto the only party with a concise programme, and in place of barren dynastic questions, a series of clearly formulated issues will undoubtedly rise In French poli tics. The creation of a coherent group for the realization of a definite reconstruction programme has al ready begun, and the establishment of a permanent national party along conservative lines may be its ulti mate consequence. The labors to be undertaken by the new chamber were indicated by M. Deschanel on the occasion of his election to its presidency on Decem ber 19, when he said: And now, my colleagues, a magnificent and arduous task is presented to ua thm task of rebuilding France, of completing SUSTAINING THE "Y." . The claim of the Portland Toung Men's Christian Association to a con tinuance of popular - support would seem to be fully sustained by the official statement, made in connec tion with its present campaign, that measured by the number of mem bers, classes conducted, students' graduated, young men located In self-supporting positions and profes sions, and all the volume of over one hundred different lines of activities carried 6n by the association, the year 1919 is shown to be the largest In the history of the association." The point needs to be emphasized that this' is an achievement of the first year Vafter the war," and thati the association has thereby shown it self t be readily? adaptable to the needs, of the times. It is conceded that a steadying Influence is one of the first requisites of successful reconstruction. As a measure of self-interest, the citizen who has a stake in his own community will be as liberal as he can afford to be in support of every movement that has thus demonstrated Its capacity. The "Christian character building vocational educational system" to which Mr. H. W. Stone alludes In a recent number of Association Men. the official magazine of the "Y" in America, as an integral part of the association's work, is one of the striking features of "Y" policy which commends itself to practical men. It Is, moreover, in line with th,e growth of the educational motive throughout the country, and with the organiza tion's determination to put its entire plant and equipment at the service of demobilized soldiers and sailors for educational purposes. Definite plans for further large and imme diate expansion of this work were made at the association's recent con vention at Detroit. The Importance of the Portland association In the na tional scheme is made plain by the statement . which shows that It stands, in membership, ninth in the list of ten largest associations in the United States, and at the head of the list of all those situated west of Chi cago. It is second ia point enroll ment in its educational classes among all of the associations west of Chicago, with 1546 students. In the past ten years it has received 23,052 calls from employers and placed 18, 008 young men in positions, of which 2823. calls from employers and 1472 placements occurred in 1919 The appeal of the "Y" is strongly supported by statistics, but the latter do not do full justice to it. Influ ences which in the end contribute most to good citizenship, to good order and to creation of a commun ity that is good to live in include a number of elements not so readily ap praised. These will be taken into account by the observant. The standing of the "Y" as a definite and desirable community force is estab lished. It would be difficult to es timate this In terms of dollars and cents. The association is well organ ized and aggressive, but the needs of the times call for continued ex tension, If It is to perform adequately the tasks that are being literally thrust upon it. We think that no thoughtful citizen would contemplate with equanimity the prospect of city without an efficient "Y," but that all will turn a hospitable ear to its request for continuance of an ade quate endowment. Its past record and Its promise for the future un doubtedly merit generous support. BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES Parable of the Measly, Sore-Eyed Meachln' and Man err Cat Related. This modern parable, quite easy of Interpretation, heads T. P. Adams' column, "The Conning Tower," in a recent number of the New York Tribune: A peaked cat came along one day An' picked our haouse ez the place to stay. They wa'n't no drlvin" the thing away. So we give it food an' a place to lay. It was measly an" sore-eyed an' meachin an' sad Mangy an' sllnkin' an' thin as a brad. We give It the first home It ever had: It grew fat an' furry, but begun actln' mad. Araound the cellar that cat 'd sail. With a humped-up back an' a swelled up tail, A-knockln' daown eVry pan an' pall From hook er table er peg er nail. Sometimes In thenight we'd hear a thump, Er the coal In the bin slldin' lump on lump; Er somethin somewhere a-goln bump 'D bring us up out o' bed with a Jump. On a good lace curtain the creeter 'd cling. An' claw It into a mess o' string; If It got in the pantry, up it 'd spring. Grabbln' meat er pertaters er anything. We'd go callln' "Nice kitty r an' "Come, kit. kit!" No use that there varmint 'd only spit So our patience was wore .away, bit by bit. Till w opened the 'door an' Jes' told It to UIT1 An as we consider the subjec' more. By ginger, I'll tell ye what makes us sore: With that policy o' the Open Door, We might ha' got rid of It long before! G. S. B. An interesting myth has been woven about the 5 o'clock "tea." Ac cording to a Chinese legend, tea was discovered by a son of an Indian k'ng, Darma. who in 519 A D. paid a semi religious visit to China. To prove his religious fervor, Dar ma led an austere life, ate only veg etables and prayed constantly. He vowed never to sleep that he might devote all his time to prayer, but one day, after many years, he was over come with drowsiness and, against his will, slept. On awakening he wept bitterly. To show his remorse he cut off his eyelids. The next morning he found the eyelids metamorphosed into two shrubs which ever since have been called "cbaa," the Chinese for eyelids. ' The moral of the legend points out that Darma chewed some of the shrub and learned its arousing properties. In 1839 the Chinese presented the chaa" or "tea" leaves to the czar and later they were introduced into London. Those Who Come and Go. DOES FEAR CAUSE DISEASE tne arrangemenis ior peace, and of or ganizing our victory. Our first duty Is to re-estaonsn our uipiomacy. and then re new the economic and financial situation. Our foreign policy Is important above all else tne army, finances, constitutional changes, and the social regime. It must bo acknowledged that the French have never paid enough attention to outside matters ... ranee, by the voice of the living, and the voice of the dead, calls for a foreign policy worthy of her sacrifices, and nownere giving way on the guarantees necessary to her security and independence, her interests, rights, and secular traditions, and which shall keep her in Intimate harmony with the other peoples who, by their struggle for Justice are entitled to our affection and respect. On the interior it Is necessary to balance our budgets by fairly distributed taxation. On the theory of "playing' safe,' the state senate killed tne bill that would have reduced the price of gas oline 1 cents per gallon in Oregon, "Playing safe" for whom? Certainly not for the car owners who have to pay the gasoline bills. The government announces It will see that rent profiteers are hard hit by the income tax. Wonder If this an nouncement hasn't something to do with the February rental increase just -made by apartment house own er8. The steamer Yarmouth, with a hurry-up cargo of whisky, gin and champagne aboard, is reported In dispatches to have left New York "with a heavy list to 'starboard." Liquor still has the same old effect. "Pussyfoot" Johnson says he hopes England will be the next prohibition country. But probably he doesn't hope it too hard. "Pussyfoot" isn't the man to hope himself out of a job. History seems to be repeating it self In popular entertainment; at any rate, the plans of a new motion pic ture enterprise in Boston, which will cover three separate motion picture exhibitions under a single roof, re calls the growth of the circus from ono ring to three. The three motion picture perform ances, to be sure, may not all be vis ible at once, but the enterprise seems plausible enough based on the same economic situation. It furnishes In the same structure room for three audiences, which- was the purpose of the three-ring circus, presenting prac tlcally the same kind of performance In each ring simultaneously, and thus providing for meeting a popular in terest that bad outgrown the one ring tent. Like the three-ring cir cus, the three-screen motion picture theater may appeal to many people's admiration for bigness, even If the Included theaters are out of sight of each other. Christian Science Mon itor. e The present gigantic development of electric power in the west is a mere scratch on the surface of the moat far-reaching possibilities." said Robert Sibley, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Electricity, at a luncheon In the Palace hotel, San Francisco, given to R. H. BallardJ president of the National Electric Light assocla-t tioh by the San Francisco Eleotrical Development league. Ballard, who is connected with the Edison company of southern Califor nia, Los Angeles, is on his way east to tell of prospects In the west among the leaders of the electrical indus tries on the Atlantic seaboard. The main purpose of the trip is to bring to a conclusion the preparations for the annual national convention of the association, which takes place in Pas adena May 18-21. Sibley continued: "Only such a mall matter as S per cent of the total possible electric power in the west has so far been utilized. The intens ive use of electric power here is far greater than in the east, which Is shown by the figures. The west has In comparison with tr-e east a small population, and yet it produces 70 per cent, or 88,000,000 horsepower, of the total output of the United States, see Don't worry and be moderate in all things if you want to live to be 70 or more. This recipe for longevity is given by Dr. George D. Meylan, di rector 'of the Columbia university gymnasium, after an Investigation of the modes of life of those who live long and those who die prematurely. The characteristics of people over 70 years old. Dr. Meylan finds, are that they do not worry, have a happy disposition and eat, drink, exercise and enjoy themselves moderately. "Exactly the opposite conditions,' he says, "are found almost Invariably in persons between SO and 70 years who suffer from organic disorder of the nerves, digestive, excretory or cir culatory systems and premature senil ity, but the vicious circle of unhy gienic living usually Includes over stimulation, worry, excess In pleasure. abuse of drugs and worry." e A house built of beer bottles was once an Interesting feature of Tono pah, Kev. It waa on account of the local scarcity of timber that a miner conceived the Idea of building him self a dwelling from a huge stack of beer bottles. More than 10,000 bot ties were incorporated in the dwell ing. "Wrist watch." That was all the message contained that was signed for by Thomas B. Handley of Tilla mook, at the Seward yesterday. It Was a gentle reminder and Mr. Hand ley went out and .bought a watch for his daughter, who had sent the tele gram. Before leaving home for the legislature. Mr. Handley informed his daughter that he would bring her home a wrist watch if she wrote him a letter in his absence. Apparently the girl forgot until the last minute, and figured that she would have to act quickly on learning that the ses sion had. adjourned; so she used the wire. Hotel men understand that a couple of agents are In Portland checking up on hotel orchestras, dance-hall orchestras and movie houses to dis cover whether music is being played on which no royalty has been paid. An association of composers in the east want a royalty when their se lections are played. The hotelmen are awaiting developments, which are expected in the form of legal pro ceedings. When H. L. Heckel collided with a telephone pole while riding a motor cycle, he was sent to a local hos pital and later married his nurse. In those days, five years ago, Mr. Heckel was a Portland newspaper man. Now, the father of two chll dren, he is selling X-ray equipment. Mr. Heckel. who is registered at the Hotel Portland, went out near the forestry building yesterday to ex amine the pole which waa Instru mental in making him a married man. "We want to pave across our coun ty, 50 miles," says Judge Phy of Union county, who is In the city on road matters. "The county has voted the necessary bonds. As yet trie weather has not been favorable for the contractors to look over the projects, but we expect to have every thing In readiness for awarding cop tracts early in the spring. By let ting the work In sections, most of the paving may be finished this year."- When Colon Eberhard returns to his home in La Grande he hopes to be able to see his family. A month ago his children contracted scarlet fever and his home was quarantined. Fortunately for his constituents, Mr. Eberhard was not home when the quarantine was started, or he would not have been able to assume his duties In the special session of the legislature. P. L. Campbell, president of the University of Oregon, has arrived the Hotel Portland via Salem, where he was interested in having a millage act passed by the legislature. The university, under this measure, will receive. In round numbers, about half a million dollars. TKJ legislature also appropriated $50,000 to finish and furnish the women's building at the university. ! Am Appeal to Soppress News Asosl the Influenza. . PORTLAND, Jan. 19. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonian the other morn ing contained a news item, with suf ficiently large headlines, to the ef fect that the Spanish influenza (whatever that seems to be), has got ten, as far west as Kansas City, and it naturally follows in human reason ing, that in time it will make another isit to Portland. The reception com mittee has been waiting anxiously In Portland for a reappearance of this disease for several months, and dis appointment has been expressed that t has not yet arrived, also of Igno rance of Its delay. After years of study and experi ence, I am of the firm opinion that disease is, in all cases, simply fear made manifest on the body." The fear may be latent or a universal belief bordering upon superstition, and if we are not awake to these sugges tions, like Job, the thing which we greatly feared will come upon us. A man certainly walks In the direction in which he looks." So would It not be a good Idea to minimize fear in the direction of in fluenza this year, by refusing to fea ture the experience of other com munities? A little thought on the subject will show most conclusively that the publishing of accounts of any epidemic in the press creates a fear of the disease, which causes that very disease to appear. All causation is mental, and sooner or later we win find that If we do not want to com mit murder of mind or body we will at once dismiss the suggestion in stead of debating it. "He who hesi tates is lost-" I am sure you can do great good to humanity by trying this plan. Will you do it? B. S. JOSSELYN. The Oregonian has a conception of Its duty as a public Journal which 111 not permit it to suppress the news of any epidemic here or else- More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. TIIE HENS AND TIIE JAZZ. A scientist asserts that by lighting chicken coops at. night and playing music to the hens a far higher rate ot egg production can be secured. News Item. On learning that hens never slum bered As long as it seemed to be light. We lighted our coops and the chick ens poor dupes Sat up and laid eggs every night. , But Just as we found we were get ting The number of eggs we desired. Being long without sleep, with a piteous peep They turned up their toes and expired. Undaunted by one little failure (Such failure as every one has)" We cheered up again when we heard that the hen Is frightfully fond of the Jazz. "If hens are enlivened by music They will jazz round the chicken coop floor," (So the author we read In his article said) "And lay twice as fast as before." We therefore put in a piano And, greatly delighted, we found When we started to play in our rather crude way That the hens began dancing around. They swarmed from the yard by the hundred. They crowded the windows and doors. They danced till they dropped, but whenever we stopped They would flap with their wings for encores. And now (though afar in the dis tance) Whenever a phonograph plays. Or a street organ groans in lugu brious tones Our hens thread the jazzian maze And never an egg do they furnish The fowls simply can t spare the time. where. It may be true that fear of I And hens are no use If they cannot mind makes the body susceptible to disease, we do not deny it; neither do we affirm It. .But fear, or appre hension", based on knowledge, leads to preparedness; Ignorance Invites disaster to mind and body. If we must accept an alternative between fear and ignorance we shall choose fear. Then we shall set out to abol ish fear ' through knowledge and through faith. General PerBhlng, while In Port land, promised Ralph E. Bancroft, a banker of Cascade. Mont., that he will send an autographed photograph to Mrs. Bancroft. There a a reason, When Mrs. Bancroft was a young girl she was a flower girl at Lieutenant Pershing's wedding. Mr. Bancroft i among those - present at the Mult nomah. Having disposed of his duties as a legislator, and seen that his constl tutional amendment to increase the indeDtednesa or tne state for more road money will be referred to th people, James S. Stewart, has come to Portland to direct the campaign o Hiram Johnson for the popular vot in the presidential primary election. "I didn't know anything about it until I received a message that I had been elected on the state fish and game commission, to represent the commercial fishing interests," ex plains Charles Hall, at the Benson. "It certainly was a surprise, especial ly as I'm not up much on the fish question." The steam shovel broke down so John B. Doyle came in from Toledo to see about having It fixed. Mr. Doyle is doing road work for Lincoln county. There are several camps es tablished and the work is being pushed along whenever the weather and the steamshovel permit. Mr. Doyle is registered at the Hotel Oregon. A party of Japanese business men who are looking over commercial con ditions on the Pacific coast are regis tered at the Benson. The party con sists of R. Babu of Tokio; Nishibori, wife and son of Kyoto, and N. Ysanda of Kobe. Matt Mosgrove is spending some good Canadian money in Portland. Mr. Mosgrove was for years a traveling man and then he became a merchant at Milton, Or. Of late he has been farming in Canada and had a pretty good crop last year. George Kohlhagen of near Rose- burg, Is at the Hotel Oregon. He es corted a shipment of livestock to Portland yesterday and hurried over to the yards to sell the stock as soon as he assured himself that he could get a room. "It's a boy," the doctor telephoned to Ray W. Clark of the Multnomah yesterday forenoon. Last night Mr. Clark was thinking of having his hand put in a sling, it was so crushed from receiving congratulations. Walla Walla is a good wheat coun try and R. K.Bollemann is ready tc attest this fact to the world. The wheat rancher came to the Hotel Ore gon yesterday to look the town over There are nearly a score of school textbook salesmen at the Hotel Port land. The group is here awaiting a decision regarding changes in school books. A. R. McAllister, a stockman of Wasco, la at the Perkins, having brought a shipment to town yester day morning. J. L. Calvert, who Is one of the con tractors working on the Pacific high, way, is registered at the Benson from Grants Pass. . "I never introduced a bill in' the special session," declared Representa tive A. A. Smith of Baker, at the Benson. ABSENCE OF LOVE IS DETECTED Correspondent Accused of Applying Own Grievance to Religions Body. PORTLAND, Jan. 19. (To the Ed itor.) It is regrettable that any one should consider it necessary to go into print to misrepresent doctrines with which he does not agree, but which are cherished by large numbers of his fellow citizens. The abuse of a religion, or its followers, never turned a thoughtful man away from it, and tiroduea But their Jazzing Is really sublime! Nation Debt Would Soon Be Paid. Too bad that people aren't as crazy to see the fight on the league of na tions as they are to see the Dempsey- Carpentler scrap. No Lack of Accidents. It never seems to be necessary to hang a '"Help Wanted sign on the White House. The Quickest Way. The next time we have a war with I Germany we'll leave a couple of hun dred barrels of wood alcohol around where they can capture it. In Other Days. Twenty-five Yesri Ago. From The Oregonian, January 20. 18!.Y Brooklyn. Militiamen today found It necessary to charge a moo gatner- no one who is ready to consider the I ing in support of the striking surface merits of Christian Science is likely car men with fixed bayonets. to consider unkind insinuations about I Its-teachinsr or its adherents as a suf ficient substitute for intelligent infor mation. The teaching of Christian Science is simply that of pure Christianity. It does not teach negation of any thing, nor end with the denial or any thing that possesses- the nature of Astoria. The British bark Glen- dinorvlg arrived yesterday after a stormy voyage of 112 days from Rio Janeiro. Food ran short ana tne crew subsisted for two weens on bread and coffee. Fire at Halsey day before yesterday substance, and it defines substance destroyed several store buildings and as that which is real in distinction to stocks Cf merchandise with a loss of If Colonel House is at all revenge ful, he has one consolation. After "iT. f i.n,,rV ,, . - - . , , - , ; The Oregonian or January March, 1921, Mr. Wilson will be tak- you BerioU8 or was somebo ing the same rest cure. Seattle needs more time to com plete her census. Must be that some herds of Arctic walrus have not yet been counted. Whether Holland does or does not give up the kaiser will make little difference in his status of being In dutch. ' This would be a pretty good time for Havana to take a census. Comfort On 9150 a Month. OREGON CITY, Or.. Jan. 18. (To the Editor.) On the front page of 13, were body trying to perpetrate a Joke? A Seattle couple live on $150 per month." Perhaps in Seattle a very stingy couple might squeeze through on that wage; but please give this section credit for what can be done here. 1 earn $150 a month, keep a family of five well fed and well clothed, own my own home, and automobile, with gas it cents a gallon. My children are getting good educations, both at school and In private music lessons, and while we are not spendthrifts, we are able to enjoy ourselves as much as we want or have any de sire to. A P. SNIDER. that which is apparent. Its followers are taught to live clean and whole some lives, to love their neighbors as themselves, and to do as they would be done by, and all sincere students of Christian Science are striving to Dut these precepts into practice. If the critic of Christian Science was truly sincere in referring to the tenets of the church aa allowing for the law-abiding observance of quar antine regulations (which they cer- tainly do), and if he is sincere in say ing it is not his purpose to assert that all Scientists would not disregard the health laws by sending their children to school while broken out with an eruption, then it would have been more loving for him to have refrained from palpably perverting a statement from "Science and Health ty airs Eddy and from casting aspersions on Christian Science churches, teachers and children. In other words, it one has a srrievance against an individual. It would be the more loving thing to confine that grievance with the indi vidual than to attack his religion and all of its adherents. A. O. FEEEU more than $20,000. A franchise has been granted for a telephone system at McMlnnvtlle. Fifty Years Ago. J-'rom The Oreponian, January tin, 1870. New York. The relief fund for the family of the lato Secretary Stanton totals about tsb.uuu, suuscnueu m Boston, Philadelphia and New iorK. Paris. The funeral of Victor Noiro, shot by Prince Bonaparte, brought a public demonstration in which 100. 000 people took part, but without any violent outbreak. Paris General Garibaldi passed through raris today on his way to London. January 6 Boise. Idiiho, was visited bv a fire that destroyed the capital block. Damage was more than $73,000. estimated at GALLOWS FROM DAHK AGES SENATE JEALOUS OK PRESIDENT Political Affront In Treaty Making Held Cnuxe of Failure to Ratify. WAI.LA WALLA. Wash.. Jan. 18. To the Editor.) I understand wny the senate has a technical constitu tional riKht to amend or make reser vations to the present treaty as Pres- I ldent Wilson has submitted it, but 1 cannot see how that maKes it ngm In the sense of real righteousness Our former allies had to fight hard er and make more sacrnices in nm war than we did. They nave rorgot- Uae Now Likened to Resort to Wooden Plow and Reap Hook. ALBANY, Or, Jan. 18. (To the Editor.) Away back in olden times when the farmers were satisfied with the wooden plow and reap hook some one thought of the gallows as a deterrent of crime. The world has tried this Instrument of death for thousands of years and it goes with- I neraonal selfishness, each aban- out Baying that the results have been I Zoning pet aspirations for the corn far from satisfactory. I mon cause of permanent peace by ac- In our present age of enlighten- I --Dtinsr the present treaty. The ment It would seem proper that we I American people are for the league. view the gallows In the same light or at least something very similar. that we would the old wooden plow I when our allies have made great mu- and the reap hook. Evidently they I tual concessions, why should we insist were the best that brains could pro- I nn It beinir chanced especially for us: duce at that time, but not so now. t ask what kind of a league would it What would we think of a farmer oe jf Great Britan said. "We want that would undertake to preach that reservations because the mandate pro- the methods of agriculture employed I vision does not agree witn our lor- a thousand years ago were Just as good and up to date as Is our present day methods? We would think he was either Insane or a fool. As far as farm implements and till ing of the soil are concerned, we have kept pace with the times, but not so in our dealings with criminals. We have overlooked the source and mer colonial policy." and f ranee said "We want to reserve the right to arm to the teeth." and Italy said "The right of people to free access to the (sea is all riEni. nui wo mirvo en ervations as to Kiume? This is the way the senate is aoing. and in my opinion it has disgraced the American people and actea tne part causes of crime and persisted in our I of the great big boob Mr. Taft'a Private Secretary. PORTLAND, Jan. 18. (To the Edi tor.) Please print who was Presi dent Taft's private secretary. I claim Tumulty was and a friend says no. Which is right? . I also claim the south had three fourths of the cantonments in the present war. Am I right? LOYAL AMERICAN. The best known of the several men who held the post of private secre tary to President Taft was Charles D. Hilles. Mr. Tumulty was not en gaged in that capacity during the Taft administration. National guard camps and national army cantonments were located as follows: Four in Texas, three in Georgia three in South Carolina, two in Alabama, two in California and one each in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ar kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia. Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, I Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Kansas, Louisiana and Washington. old-time methods of dealing with the finished product only. There are causes for crime, and twiless these causes are removed the same cause? will continue to produce an endless chain of criminals Just as they have done in the past. What we need most Is an army of persistent workers at' the source of crime as well as at the head, and until this is done there is not the slightest hope of any change for the better. The gallows and prisons will never cure criminals. They only re move them for the time being, until a new crop comes on and fills their places. J. D. WINN. Some may disagree with the pres ident's method when he went to make the treaty. He took along his friends and left his political opponents ax home. So right there, without beat ing around the bush, you have the real reason why the senate has sur rendered our world leadership and totally failed to function in the mat ter of reconstruction legislation for the American people. Personal jeal ousy of the president! LEWIS R. BURNS. TRUE I don't give FRIENDSHIP. darn for riches. Nor to play in Society's game: To the dickens with popularity And the careless crowds acclaim. I don't care a snap for luxury, I can scoff and sneer at fame: But. so help me Pete. I'd sell my soul For a friend who is worthy the name. Who, doesn't knowing your faults blame vou. But loves you more deeply instead; developed land exercise such "Why Fndeairablen Are Admitted. CAMAS, Wash., Jan. 19. (To the Editor.) In the Sunday Oregonian there was an article from, someone in Corvallis who signed himself "A Bud die." in regard to the influx of un desirable foreigners to this country and he as.ked a very pertinent ques tion: "Why deport a few of the big ones and let in thousands of smaller ones?" I have put the same question to several of our representatives in congress and they state that the reason is this: The big steamship lines, railroad companies, big employers of cheap labor and the large owners of un- pow- Who knows you are sorry, and, smil Ing, forgives The things that you shouldn't have said. One who appreciates silent moods. Or is gay when you want to raise Ned And can still admire and respect you When you ve got a cold head. Jan. 13, 1920. ' RUSSELL SHAVER. erful and deadening effect on legis lation having for Its purpose the restriction of Immigration that noth ing can be done by a few patriotic congressmen. I was informed that the newspapers and many of the men in congress are so Influenced that they will not whole-heartedly in your I oppose immigration. They also state that some labor unions are in favor of not restricting Immigration. J. L. CL'IIRIE.