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WHAT TIIE riGURES SHOW.
"Prejudiced men can make figures
say anything they please. Before the
count of votes in American colleges
had been completed a subscriber to
the Xcw York Evening Post wrote
to that paper quoting the total vote
and the vote for the Lodge reserva
tions at three Boston colleges, led by
Harvard, as evidence that "Senator
Lodge's campaign to Americanize the
treaty" had failed. He did not men
tion the vote cast for any of the
several other propositions.
The real contest was between ad
vocates' of the treaty without reser
vations and advocates of reservations
of one kind or another, and the re
flex of public opinion can be found
only by study of the vote on all prop
ositions submitted. In 410 colleges
the totals were:
Total vote 13S.7SS
l-'or ratification without resarvationa 4S.232
Kor Loilsn reservations 27,!70
l'or compromise reservations 49.00J
Against ratification with or with
out reservations 13.033
While there is a plurality of 20,
262 for unreserved ratification as
against the Lodge reservations, there
Is a plurality of 29,391 for reserva
tions of some kind, either Lodge's or
by compromise, over unreserved rati
fication, and there is a clear majority
of 7724 of all votes "cast for reserva
tions of some kind against no reser
vations. The death battalion, which
would kill the treaty outright, is in
the "also ran" class.
Omitting the death battalion, there
are 125,855 friends of the treaty in
some form. The Wilson and Lodge
positions are at the two extremes
with the compromisers between, and
less than two-fifths of the vote is for
Wilson. The only possibility that any
of them will get what they want
is that the compromisers should join
one of the two extremes. The figures
suggest that they should join Wilson,
and that Lodge should yield or ac
cept defeat, but the facts tend other
wise. The compromisers lean far
more toward Lodge than toward
Wilson, as was proved by the vote of
the compromise senators against rati
fication without reservations, and
their difference with Lodge is on one
of degree, while their difference with
Wilson is one of principle. ' Further,
Lodge has Indicated readiness to
make concessions, while Wilson re
fuses to yield a point, though reser
vations scored a clear majority. Ac
cording to American principles, Wil
son should accept the will of the ma
jority and yield.
ESSENTIALS OF A BTOGET rlAS.
Vigor with which congress wields
tlie knife on proposed appropriations
shows that politicians realize the inv
portance of national expenses as an
issue in the coming presidential cam
paign. When a public building bill
is denied consideration and when the
river and harbor bill is cut to about
512,000,000, congress has learned
that the people have their hands on
their pocketbooks and will demand
pood reasons for government drafts
on their funds. This bespeaks a
state of public opinion which makes
a budget system a live, not a purely
academic, subject of discussion and
awakens interest in an appeal to con
gress by Nicholas Murray Butler.
Me finds three essentials that re
sponsibility for preparation and sub
mission of the budget to congress
"should be directly fixed upon the
president"; that cabinet officers
should have the right to participate
in debates of senate and house, that
they may explain and defend appro
priations and may promptly answer
questions and criticisms by members;
that there should be an independent
audit of expenditures under control
cf congress.
As to preparation of the budget,
flifference of opinion has arisen in
congress wnetner tne bureau en
trusted with it should be attached to
the treasury department or should
be entirely separate and attached to
the president's executive offices. Dr.
Butler holds that it should be added
to the treasury department, as that
department collects and disburses
the revenue and as it is unwise to
add another wheel to the already
cumbersome machine of government.
He would transfer to other depart
ments the bureaus of the treasury
department which have no connec
tion with finance. The budget bu
reau would bo continuously at work
collating data obtained from an of
ficer of each department detailed
to work with it. Toward the close of
the year it would collect and collate
the estimates of the several depart
ments, examine and criticise them.
They would be finally revised by the
president and cabinet and submitted
to congress.
The functions of all the appropri
ation committees of each house
would then be summoned to attend
the sessions at the time set for con
eideration of appropriations for the!
own departments and would join in
debate. This plan was first proposed
by f-'enator Pendleton of Ohio in 186
and was again recommended in 188
try a. joint committee, the report of
which was signed by members of
both parties. By educing immediate
and exact information from the re
sponsible official on points in con
troversy, it would head off much ora
tory and invective. It would compel
cabinet officers tp keep well in
formed on the operations of their de
partments la order that they might
be eqwtjped to explain and defend
who 3iad been done, and it would
lea presidents to appoint men
capable of keeping: affairs well In
hand and of making a clear state
ment on demand. By this means the
executive could induce congress to
amend laws, in a manner to improve
administration and to eliminate lost
motion.
The audit office would be resrjon-
n , , .. .
SIDle to congress alone and would be
independent of the president. It
woujd ascertain whether money had
been expended for the purposes for
which it had been appropriated, but
would also criticize the manner of
expenditure and would suggest ways
in which economy might have been
practiced.
Dr. Butle. also suggests that the
Overman act, which gave the presi
dent authority to consolidate and co
ordinate the bureaus in the interest
of economy and more efficient con
centration, should be continued in
operation, "so that the president
would be free to propose in his
budget a complete, an effective and
modern reorganization of the ma
chinery." It seems that he could do
this without having the power to
carry out hs plans independent of
congress. That is a power which
was given only to meet a war emer
gency and is so great that it could
not be entrusted to any one man in
ordinary times. Recent experience
has taught the wisdom of limiting,
not extending, the executive power,
and of reviving those legislative
powers which a docile democratic
majority in congress left in abeyance.
After such a budget plan as Dr. But
ler has sketched had been in opera
tion for a year or two, congress
would have information necessary to
guide it in reorganization of the de
partments. The Overman act should
die with the proclamation of peace.
1873-1920.
The enthusiasm with which the
mention of Mr. Hoover's name as a
candidate for president is received by
some democrats is matched only by
the uproarious approval with which
it Is not received by other democrats.
The evidence accumulates that Mr.
Hoover is a republican, for it is now
discovered that be was a member in
good standing of the Republican club
of New York from 1909 to 1917. This
may or may not be conclusive as to
the present, but it is at least con
clusive as to what Mr. Hoover
thought he was up to the time he
joined his fortunes with the demo
cratic national administration's.
However, it is obvious that Mr."
Hoover is as good a democrat as
Horace Greeley was; and Horace was
good enough for the unterrified de
mocracy of 1872. It is recalled that
in that year, which men still living
vividly and poignantly remember,
the democrats were in sore straits
for a candidate and for a winning is
sue. The civil war was but recently
over, and the democracy had
emerged from that ordeal with an
impaired constitution. General Grant
had been president for four years
and many republicans were not
pleased with him. They stood for
reform" and "anything to beat
Grant." The latter slogan made a
powerful appeal to the disheartened
'democratic mind.
The disaffected republicans they
were by ungracious republicans re
ferred to as "soreheads" met and
adopted a platform in which Presi
dent Grant was severely arraigned
for various misdemeanors, and in
which support of the union and
equality before the law were pledged,
the civil service reform was rro
posed, resumption of specie payment
was urged and a single presidential
term was asKea. xne tariff, then a
burning question, was dodged by re
mission to the congressional dis
tricts "for discussion." But Horace
Greeley, a protectionist, was named
for president, and B. Gratz Brown
of Missouri, for vice-president.
The rest of the sad tale of 1872
not precisely the "crime of '72" is
easily told. The democrats endorsed
Greeley and his, platform Greeley
who had warred on democrats all his
fe, but who had gone on Jefferson
.Davis nail bond. There was a
heated election campaign, and Grant
was overwhelmingly successful over
the unnatural fusion. Greeley car
ried only Maryland, Kentucky, Mis
souri, Tennessee, Georgia and Texas,
Louisiana and Arkansas being
thrown out.
If there is a lesson in the sorrowful
experience of 1872, our democratic
friends are invited to con it.
BRYAN'S MODEL NEWSPAPER.
W. J. Bryan has probably had
more newspaper publicity than any
other man in the United States dur
ing the last twenty-five years, though
the ex-kaiser may have surpassed
him in the last five years; yet he
does not get enough. He gets all
that he can get free of cost, and can
get more only by paying for it, to
which he is constitutionally averse,
for he is a frugal soul. In his Jack
son day speech he unfolded a scheme
to get more at the cost of the government-
He indicts the newspapers as cor
rupt on the ground that they do not
print the news, his definition of news
doubtless being what he wants the
people to read, not what the people
want to read. To fill the void which
he has discovered he would have a
government newspaper, which should
publish "the issues as presented by
legislative and executive action, with
editorial space divided between the
two parties and used for the presen
tation of the arguments pro and con."
Such a paper would be much after
the style of the direct election pam
phlet published by the secretary of
state or Oregon, containing initiative
and referendum measures and argu
ments for and against them. How
many voters read those pamphlets
and how many go to the waste bas
ket or direct to the furnace? Would
Mr. Bryan's official newspaper have
any more readers? In view of the
shortage of print paper, none should
be used for any more publications
which the people do not read.
Of course the case would be differ
ent if the paper were embellished
with articles likely to excite public
interest. Many people would enjoy
reading companion articles by Wood
row Wilson and E. M. House on
"What we thought of each other in
1913 and what we think in 1920,
accompanied by descriptions from
their respective points of view of
their first and last interviews.
Piquancy would be added by two
articles in parallel columns by Sec
retary Daniels and Admiral Sims,
each telling "How I won the naval
war in spite of."
A cross between the substantial
matter of the treasury department's
report, the airy, fanciful style of
Secretary DanielB, the literary excel -
lence of Secretary Lane, the nour
ishing democratic food supplied by
the Commoner, with just a flavor of
Hearstism, should win the public
favor. Mr. Bryan's suggestion is
somewhat crude and unfinished, but
it has possibilities for a future dem
ocratic bureaucracy.
WHAT IS AUSTRALIAN BALLOT?
Reference by a correspondent to
day to voting methods in Iowa and
Missouri as embodying the Austra
lian ballot system is a reminder that
that term has come to be -loosely ap
plied to ballot systems that depart
materially from the system that
originated in south Australia. The
dictionaries now give the system
varying definitions but the more
elaborate discussions in the encyclo
pedias reveal that the distinguishing
feature of the true Australian ballot
system is the arrangement of the
names of all of the candidates for a
given office In order whether nom
inated by party organizations or in
dependent effort, thereby requiring
the voter to indicate his choice by
making a mark opposite the name of
his chosen candidate.
There are other important features
of the original Australian ballot sys
tem, including printing of ballots by
the state, issuance of them officially
at the polls, and the preservation of
secrecy of voting.
The printing of the names of can
didates under separate-party head
ings, such as is th custom, in several
states and was -'proposed ' by the
vetoed bill of the recent legislature,
is a modified form, although it com
monly passes as the Australian svs-
tem. But a blanket ballot in some
form is still considered an essential
of the 'system. When the several
ballots are printed on separate sheets
there is a radical departure.
But name or origin is hardly a suf
ficient test of the worth of any sys
tem. Experience with it is a better
guide. The separation of the names
of candidates into party columns un
doubtedly makes voting easier for
the semi-illiterate, while arrange
ment of names under the office
title makes voting easier for the
independent voter. One may easily
drift into a long and profitless
argument as to which of the two
groups is the more entitled, to a con
cession.
FRUITS OF TOO MCCH HASTE.
Economic confusion in Europe re
quires at least another year of maxi
mum production in order to -make
the world's total supply of neces
saries equal the demand. This is a
consequence of delay in making
peace and of reluctance of the allies
to suppress the disturbances which
inevitably followed the big war. In
stead of setting to work, the small
nations continued to mill around, and
the big nations had serious internal
disturbances. Instead of accepting
the verdict of the" great powers.
backed, as it should have been, bv
military force, the little powers
fought out their differences and
some of them wrangled with the
peace conference like rebellious
schoolboys.
Most of this trouble could, and
probably would, have been avoided
if the allies had promptly set about
the task of making peace, had relied
on their own, force to compel ac
ceptance by the enemy, and had de
ferred organization of the league of
nations to another conference, which
could have been held this year. They
could have saved some time at the
peace conference and could have
averted the controversy over the
covenant in the senate. Two months
would have been a liberal allowance
of time for senators to unload their
oratory and the treaty should have
been ratified by the end of August.
Armies of disinterested powers could
have occupied disputed territory like
Fiume and could have put in posses
sion the state to which it was
awarded, backed by the great pow
ers. Financial arrangements to sup
ply seed, farm implements and fer
tilizer to Europe could then have
been made in time for the fall sow
ing, and the world could have been
well started toward settlement be
fore the end of 1919.
Events have proved how great an
error of judgment President Wilson
committed when he assumed that a
time of nervous reaction from war, a
time when suffering was acute and
when passions were still inflamed,
was appropriate for laying solid
foundations of permanent peace.
TilB BARRIER AGAINST BOLSHEVISM.
General Bernhardl's prediction
that the Hohenzollerns will come
back to power In Germany as heads
of a modernized monarchy and the
imminence of a bolshevist drive
against - Poland are subjects for
thought by Americans .who realize
how great a bearing events In Eu
rope must hereafter have on Ameri
can interests. Poland, weak as it is.
Is the strongest barrier which re
mains against the spread of bolshev
ist military power and propaganda
over central Europe, whence it might
swamp the democratic states front
ing on the Atlantic and Mediterra
nean seaboards. Americans have as
good reason to prevent this from
happening as they had to prevent
Germany from becoming supreme in
Europe. A victorious bolshevist host
directly confronting us across the
ocean would be as great a menace
to this republic as would have been
a victorious German host in the
same position.
The presence of this menace is a
direct consequence of the weak pol
icy adopted by President Wilson in
1918 and followed by the allies be
cause they could not do- otherwise
in the absence of American co-operation.
He and the allies should now
recognize that from the date of the
Russian revolution the Germans and
the- bolshevists were allies, each pur
suing their own ends. The Ger
mans aimed to break down Russian
resistance by employment of bol
shevist propaganda in order that
they might gain political and eco
nomic control of Russia, exploit it
for use in future conquests and
transfer their armies to the west for
defeat of the allies. Though Ameri
can intervention thwarted the last
part of this plan they have never
ceased to pursue the first part. The
bolshevists led Russia to accept de
feat by Germany in order to clear
the way for the civil war which was
to end in the triumph of communism.
Their plans included extermination
of all of the intelligentsia whom
they could not enslave or corrupt. In
order that the last vestige of a
chance to resist them might be de
stroyed. They thus made Russia a
huge, powerful body without a di
recting head. To supply a head they
have employed Germans, most of
their leaders being Germans and the
; army being trained and directed by
German officers. Each party doubt
less intends to get rid of the other by
the ruthless methods which they both j
employ, when the usefulness of that
other is past. Their plans'-run par
allel to a certain point, but the point
where they will conflict is near.
Lenin now wishes to consolidate
his conquests and the power of the
soviet, and to that end seeks peace
with the allies, offering to cease
propaganda for a world revolution,
though that revolution Is an essen
tial part of his programme and
though he regards no contract with
a capitalist country as binding. He
would . probably only suspend his
propaganda or continue it under
cover. The Germans wish to realize
on their Russian ' investment by
gaining possession of the country's
natural resources and developing
them for Germany's benefit. They
doubtless aim to control the soviet
government, that It may cease its
propaganda in Germany arid may
train Russian armies for German
use. Lenin Is a communist fanatic,
the most powerful man in Russia,
and would fight for his ideals
against Germany. Whichever should
win, there would be no peace.
Between the two stands Poland,
naturally rich but an economic
wreck, having little means of de
fense except the indomitable spirit
of its sons. It and the Baltic states
to the north and Roumania to the
south have conducted successful
campaigns against the reds, while
Yudenitch, Kolchak and Denikin
have gone down to defeat. Poland is
the main part of a barrier which
prevents bolshevism. from sweeping
westward over Europe, as centuries
ago it barred the way of the Tartars
and the Turks. The allies have sup
plied enoughfood to keep its people
alive, but have been most niggardly
with arms, ammunition and clothing
for its ragged, but victorious, army,
though it has been defending Eu
rope as truly as were the French
and Belgians. Poland is in as great
danger from the west as from the
east, for the Germans would surely
seize the first opportunity to recover
the rich provinces and the port of
Danzig, which the allies have taken
from them and given to the young
republic. Therefore Poland is be
tween two perils and can survive
them only with generous aid from
the allies, including America. Rou
mania and the chain of Baltic states
extending to the Arctic ocean have
an almost equal claim to aid on
grounds of both sentiment and self
interest, for they complete the bar
rier from sea to sea.
If the administration will grip the
realities of the situation it willfcee
that the revolutionary movement in
this country Is but the outer edge of
a gigantic conspiracy which has Its
heart and brains in Moscow. So long
as we attack only in this country we
hack at the fingers and toes of the
monster. We can kill it only by
striking at the heart. There is as
goof cause for attacking it as there
was in German propaganda and out
rage? for attacking Germany, for
bolshevism is as relentless a foe of
democracy as was kaiserism, and it
thrusts at ttie United States because
this is the greatest democracy and
the one most to be feared. The task
is well within our ability, for a power
built on terrorism is so artificial that
it cannot survive powerful, well
directed and repeated blows.
Governor McKelvie of Nebraska is
coming west and Portland ought to
get him for an address. He has or
iginai ideas on tne conduct of a
state. One time he took a vacation
and his understudy immediately par
aoned a notorious criminal doing
long time. Nebraska is a state of
ideas and ideals and McKelvie is its
prophet. A man named Bryan useM
to- be, but is no more.
Two voters in a Cleveland school
district election carried a $300,000
bond issue, all oxher voters remain
ing home because of a heavy storm.
The same thing could happen in Ore
gon. Looks as if there really should
be some kind of quorum rule for im
portant measures of this sort.
Congress has been asked to sus
pend the prohibition laws for ninety
days so sufferers from flu can get
whisky for medicinal purposes
Whereupon comes the depressing an
nouncement that there are 6000
cases of flu in Havana. .
Maine has been "dry" more than
fifty years, and now there are people
down there who ask for a referen
dum on national prohibition. There
is much of a joke in the half-century
of "dry" state, however, and they
feel the grip of the real thing.
The long arm of the law reached
to Johannesburg this week and took
a man who swindled a Chicago bank
or $3UU,oou. only aviation can pro
vide a refuge for a criminal now, and
he will find it difficult to stay up.
Chief Jenkins purposes to keep a
record of arrests by patrolmen in the
line of efficiency, all very good and
to the point; but many times the
wisest officer is the one who knows
when not to make a"n arrest.
The humbug of whisky being
cure of influenza appeared in the
house yesterday when an Illinois re
presentative introduced a bill to, bus
pend the law a few months. Whisky
never cured anything.
The .Boston wool men who have
just had to pay the government 91,
600,000 income taxes and penalties
would probably say, if pressed, that
this was shoddy treatment.
After temporary service as warden
for several months. Dr. Steiner
voices the need of a new penitentiary.
This can be taken as good advice by
a man who knows.
That "old-age" gag will be worked
to death first any one knows. An old
rascal of 64 got the benefit of it yes
terday in a, case of contributing to
delinquency.
Now comes Jack Dempsey's ex
wife and declares that he was, too, a
slacker. And it looks a lot as if hers
Is the last word in the case, at that.
Daniels might have saved a lot of
trouble by starting the medals in the
stoke hole, but that would not have
been aristocratically democratic.
Government reports show that
cabbage went up 36 per cent in price
in December alone. No wonder the
old nickel cigar is no more.
Rifling a husband's pockets is held
to be sufficient for a decree in Se
attle, where It had been supposed
"anything goes,"
BY-PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES.
Bootlegger's Cargo Passed mm Fallsk
Estot's Liquors.
One of the most adroit and success
ful cases of liquor smuggling into tne
Sacrosanct District of Columbia Is re- j
orted by the Washington correspond-
nt of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Just beforo Christmas Prince Casimar
Lubomirski, the Polish minister to the
United States, was to be the joyful
recipient of a cargo of assorted drink
ables from Europe. It is understood to
have consisted of 100 bottles of pre
war Scotch whisky and several dozen
cases of choice champagne.
On the shipment's arrival In ixew
York the Polish legation attempted to
have the wet goods forwarded to
Washington by the usual railroad
route.
To Prince Lubomirski's chagrin It
proved impossible to send them by
rail, as no transportation company
was willing to undertake a guarantee
of delivery. It was represented to the
distinguished and thirsty Pole that
liquor shipments nowadays are more
often stolen than delivered. He was
told of the reported disappearance of
two gross of champagne consigned to
his colleague. Baron do Cartier, the
Belgian ambassador, and of the story
that a whole trainload of gin "was
lost" en route to the Atlantic seaboard
from the middle west.
Prince Lubomirski was advised to
send his priceless consignments out
by special motortruck and decided to
do so. Before he could arrange mat
ters word of his intentions myste
riously got about. A oouple of days
later a motor truck, loaded with goods
answering in general to the descrip
tion above mentioned,, duly arrived at
the district frontier. Bills of lading
and other documents were found to be
n order, as well as other documents
attesting that the truck was on its
way to 3147 Sixteenth street, home
of the Polish legation.
The excise and police officials on
duty were suspicious and declined to
permit the truck to cross the boundary
line. The truckmen, unperturbed sug
gested that if the 9th precinct police
would communicate with the Polish
legation they would find that every
thing was In order. This was done.
Prince Liiborirski's officials replied
in accents of undisguised joy that
they were expecting some perishable
freight of the sort, whereupon the
authorities decided to admit it with
out further quibble or question.
But it was not the Polish legation's
liquor. It had been cunningly smug
gled in by bootleggers anf presum
ably was sold at fancy prices to
Wa;hingtonians imbued with a de
termination to enjoy one more old
fashioned Christmas and New Year's.
Although the calendars 'of nearly-
all nations now make January 1 New
Year's day, there are many races who
do not consider that the year begins
at that time. The Natchez Indians,
for instance, begin their year with
March, which they consider "Deer
month," while January, coming In the
middle of cold weather, has the
gloomy title, "Cold Meal month." It
is, however, a turkey month, too,
sometimes, though, October is the real
Turkey month," and in both seasons
wrestling matches are held with tur
keys as prizes. The turkey does not
figure at Thanksgiving, Christmas or
New Tear's, but they have regular
turkey feasts In October and often in
January.
These same Indians have 13 months
to their year, beginning with "Deer
month," in March, and running
follows:
"Strawberry month." "Little Corn
month," "Watermelon month," "Peace
month," "Mulberry month," "Great
Corn or Maize month." "Turkey
month," "Bison month," "Bear month,
"Cold Meal month," "Chestnut month,
and "Nut month," which, coming in
midwinter, signifies, as does the "Cold
Meal" month, that food is difficult to
procure. Detroit News.
Edith. Wharton, the writer. Is noted
in Paris for her caustic wit.
Mrs. Wharton was recently engag
ing maids for her apartment. One ap
plicant was very difficult.
"Or course, madam," she said, "you
won't expect me to clean windows?'
"Oh. no; of course not," said Mrs.
Wharton.
"Nor to sweep?"
"Certainly not."
"Nor answer the doorbell?"
"No, indeed."
"Nor"
"No, no," Mrs. Wharton interrupted
graciously. "I expect none of those
things from my parlor maid. I only
want her to look at and for that you
are too plain." Washington" Star.
The New York Evening Post de
duces from the super-illustrated ad
vertisements In the current magazines
that the leisure classes no longer ex
ist. These are among the Post's de
ductions: "Behold this 22-room' Tudor mansion
standing four blocks back from the
road in its own grounds. Does the
mistress of this mansion spend her
time on bridge, amateur theatricals
and' beauty parlors? Not at all. Sha
is here right in front of the house,
rapturously thanking her husband for
the gift of an electric washing ma
chine which will make her Mondays
so much easier. Behold the magnifi
cent young couple on the way to the
opera, he In full raglia of open-facs
clothes, silk hat and fur coat, she In
a 12000 cloak. How do they manage
it? .By introducing a double-entry
system of household accounts, with
special reference to casserole cooking.
Behold this handsome living room
with well-groomed father and fashionably-dressed
mother looking up
cheerily from their newspaper by the
lamp to greet daughter entering in
furs and high spirits. Where does she
come from the executive committee
of the junior debutantes? No, she has
just got a job with the telephone com
pany. There are no leisure classes."
Dr. Alsberg, chief of the United
States bureau of chemistry, takes the
position that the use of saccharin
tablets instead of sugar in coffee,
tea or cocoa is moderately harmful.
Other scientists hold that In such
small doses It is harmless, or nearly
so. This matter was a source of
controversy between President Roose
velt and Harvey W. Wiley, then head
of the United States bureau of
chemistry. The president used
saccharin Instead of sugar, by advice
of his physician (Dr. Leonard Wood?)
asserted stoutly that It was harmless
and Dr. Wiley with customary blunt
ness is said to have declared that
any one who talked like that was a
fool. Not long afterward Dr.
Wiley resigned bio official position.
Those Who Come and Go.
"Henry McCall has on of the most
celebrated Holsteln herds In Oregon.
I've been visiting him for the past
threa months at his ranch on Crooked
river, between Redmond and Prine
ville, and It is a wonderful estab
lishment, in which he has put a for
tune," says H. C. Parker, a mining
engineer, who has been living In
Alaska for several years. "Mr. Mc
Call Is a son of Congressman McCall
and a grandson of former Governor
VcCall of Massachusetts. Unlike
Thomas A. Lawson, who has a ranch
the other side of Prineville, which is
used as a sort of summer home, Mr.
McCall is making the ranch his per
manent headquarters." Mr. Parker
was browsing around Prlnevillf. and
the Deschutes looking for prospects.
but came to the conclusion that ore
must be more to the eastward, be
tween Prineville and Baker, and he
expects to investigate the mining re
gion within a thort time. He is at
the Perkins.
Colonel J. A. Panting of Baker, La
Grande and other points in that sec
tion of Oregon, and habitue of the
Imperial when in town,has a strong
desire to go to Armenia. He has been
commandeered for the near east re
lief campaign and Is in town receiv
ing Instructions. The colonel Is in
terested in Texas oil fields and has
heard that in Armenia some of the
world's richest oil deposits are locat
ed. The Turks, however, object to
having holes sunk for oil, contending
that the center of the earth is Inhab
tied by genii, and if an oil well is
bored these spirits will come up
through the hola and devastate the
land. Judging from the relief needed
In Armenia, however, an invasion of
diabolical spirits from the bowels of
the earth coull scarcely have any
thing on the Turks. If the colonel
gets half a Chinese he intends going
to Armenia with the relief workers.
"I'm opposed to building a dock
larger than will meet the require
ments of the next few years," says
C. I- McKnight of Coos Bay, in disr
cussing the proposed improvement.
Four or five sites have been offered
for the. dock I have submitted a site
myself, but since making the price I
have been ottered $10 a foot more for
the property. It doesn't matter
whether the dock Is located at Marsh
field, North Bend or anywhere else
in that vicinity, is it will help Coos
Bay." Mr. McKnight says that there
Is nothing new in the talk or con
solidating North Bend and Marshfield.
as this has ben under discussion for
years. He says there is no reason
why there should be two towns, with
a duplication of municipal machinery
and expense, but consolidation is still
a long way off."
The prospective Shrine Initiation is
making Portland a Mecca for noviti
ates from all parts of Oregon, ap
parently, judging from the looks ot
the hotel lobbies. Five women arrived
at the Imperial Thursday night to see
what the Shrine does to their hus
bands, and yesterday the five hus
bands arrived, ready to take the gaff
t the ceremonial today. The hus
bands and wives, all from Moro. are
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ragsdale. Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. McKean, Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
P.elshe, Mr. and Mrs. Hockman and
Mr. and Mrs. George Hennagin.
It makes G. B. Weatherly boil to
hear hotel clerks and others refer to
San Francisco as Frisco, lhis he con
slders is only equaled as an incentive
to rebuke by a casual reference to
the ''quake" when "fire" should bo
mentioned. No. Mr. Weatherly is not
a native son, but he Is a thorough San
Franciscan, having lived there for the
past two years. He is domiciled at
the Benson.
After serving as representative of
Mitsui & Co. at San Francisco for
several years, N. Nagashiwa has been
appointed manager of the company's
London office. Mr. Nagashiwa ar
rived at the Benson yesterday from
California on his way to England. He
will go to London via Japan, the
straits, Aden and Suez, and will make
almost a circle of the globe. Accom
panying him are his wife and chil
dren. David H. Nelson of Pendleton, who
is registered at the Hotel Portland
while on his way home from San
Francisco, has the reputation of being
willing to experiment on his wheat
ranch in Umatilla county with any
piece of modern farm machinery. If
it is a good thing on a wheat ranch
Mr. Nelson wants it.
Page after page of the register at
the Multnomah yesterday contained
names of salesmen who have been
brought to Portland by Swift Sc. Co.
for a conference. These salesmen
come from many Oregon and Wash
ington towns and about a carload of
delegates arrived from Seattle.
After the snow that Portlanders ex
perienced last month, they are not
likely to become excited over the re
port of George Steinhause of Hood
River that there is a shortage of snow
rn the foothills of Mount Hood. The
orchardist Is at the Benson.
Roads in Oregon are not so bad in
winter. A party motored down from
Bend without trouble and registered
at the Nortonia. The group consisted
of Dr. and Mrs. J. Shelly Saurman
and Mr. and Mrs. C. Luckey.
The Misses Katherine and M. Fisher
of Cannon Ferry, Mont., who are at
the Hotel Washington, are hoping to
locate in Portland because they have
heard so much of the Rose City and
like what they have seen of it
Albert Wilson of Paradise, Or., is
at the Imperial and Mr. and Mrs. R
A. Young of Devils Lake, N. D.. are
at the Hotel Oregon, which shows
that extremes meet in Portland.
Getting 'out logs is the outdoor
sport of Ed Lark In of Blind Slough,
Clatsop county. Mr. Lark in is head
of the logging concern at that place.
He is at the Hotel Oregon.
George J. Stearns, one of the gen
tlemen who buy and ship turkeys
from Oakland, Cal to all the other
towns on the Pacific coast, is an ar
rival at the Imperial.
Since 1SS2, John Medler has been
a resident of Wasco and he has seen
the country grow up. Now more or
less retired, Mr. Medler is on a trip
to Portland and is at the Perkins.
Harry E. Bickers, who was once at
the home for the feeble minded as the
superintendent, is at the Imperial. Mr.
Bickers -is in the insurance business
at Pendleton.
E. J. Horgan of Rochester, who is
an assistant of the Mayo brothers, is
at the Hotel Portland while taking a
vacation trip throughout the United
Stat.es.
Charles H. Kops, who is secretary
and treasurer of the McMinnville col
lege, is among the arrivals at the
Hotel Washington.
S. S. Johnson, an attorney of Tilla
mook, is at the Seward with Mrs.
Johnson. .
State Labor Commissioner Charles
H. Gram is registered at the Seward
from Salem.
Ray W. Logan, a physician of La
Grande, is an arrval at the Hotel
Oregon.
F. H. Ryder, who manager a book
tore at Baker, is at the Perkins.
And Why the Haste.
By Grace Ii. Hall.
Too many voices bear the rasping
tone
That tells of Irritation nerves
. tight strung;
Too many, caught unguarded, will
alone
Bespeak the mind's turmoil. . The
truth is wrung
From lips that wear the too-well-
studied pose.
For from the heart comes music or
a dirge.
And unaware the vocal tones disclose
The hidden streams of thought that
ever surge.
O how the multitude goes dashing by!
Who takes a leisured pace and
slowly goes.
Must often pause to clean a smarting
eye
Of dust that more ambitious mortal
throws! "
f he smell of woods drenched in the
sweet spring rain.
The call of by-paths leading to the
. pea Its,
Are unknown charms: while man
counts up each gain
And boasts of even greater ones
be seeks!
There Is too much of fever in the ace.
The young have standards that an
strangely wrong;
They give but laughing comment to
the sage.
And scorn the vital note in Nature's
song;
They, too, the irritation oft betray.
mat tens of inner forces crowded
fast:
It seems there is no time for youth to
Piay .
In this swift age that hurries all
things past.
HACK IX STRAIGHT BALLOT n.VYS
Walter I'lcree Said to Have Rrr.
Klected in Republican Const).
MAPLETON. Or.. Jan. 22. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian January
21, a correspondent sitrninir himself
"Inquirer." asks why all this hysteria
over the straight-party ticket.
My opinion is this: The democratic
party, being In ar minority, its only
hope of election is by confusion of the
voters. Surely any intelligent voter
could vote for whom he pleased with
the present ballot or with a straight-
party ballot.
I remember under the old system
(before the Australian ballot), we had
straight-party tickets. Under this
system Walter Pierre ran for school
superintendent of Umatilla county
and was elected by a small majoritv.
Mr. Pierce at that time was a poor
boy and seemed very grateful to a
few republicans for their support,
among them the writer hereof, for
which I now beg pardon owing to the
stand taken recently by Mr. Pierce on
this straight-party measure.
This straight-party ticket was ad
vocated by some at the time this statt!
was instituting the-Australian ballot
system, proof of which can be found
In The Oregonian published at that
time.
Surely there is a "nigger in the
wood pile" about this straight ballot.
Governor Olcott is becoming noted
for the blunders he has made.
IN DF.PKNDENT.
STRAIGHT TICKET ELsGWHKHK
Republican Iovra and Dcmoerntlc MIn
ouri Satisfied With Plan.
PORTLAND. Jan. 23. (To the Edi
ltor.) A few lines about voting laws
of other states besides Oregon might
be of some interest to The Oregoniun's
readers at this time.
I lived many years in Missouri, near
the Iowa line, and am familiar with
the voting systems of both states.
Iowa has the identical law just passed
by the legislature of this state. In
Missouri, the voter, before entering
the voting booth, is given a separate
ballot for each party having nomi
nations to vote for, republican, demo
crat, socialist, etc. The voter returns
to the election judges the ballot he
wishes to vote, folded up, and the
others unfolded as he got them.
Should he not want to vote for any
candidate printed on his ballot, he
could erase the name he did noj want
to vote for and write in the names of
those for whom he wished to vote. I
heard no complaints from the voters
that their voting rights were in
fringed upon. Iowa is a strong re
publican state and Missouri a strong
democratic state. Both have the Aus
tralian ballot system. -
W. A. KING.
Kats and Carbohydrates in Food.
MONROK, Or., Jan. 20. (To the Kd
itor.) Do peas contain fats or car
bohydrates? Also cheese made from
separated milk, carrots and beans?
V. F.
The foods named contain approxi
mately the following percentages of
fats and carbohydrates: Dried peas,
fat, 1.0; carbohydrates, 62. Green
peas, fat, 0.5; carbohydrates, 16; skim
milk cheese, fat. 16.4; carbohydrates,
6. Carrots, J at, only a trace; carbohy
drates, 1.3. Beans, fat, 1.8; carbohy
drates. 59.6.
Why Not American Cooks in
Our Big Kitchens?
Why not, indeed ? Have the chefs of other nations we have even
borrowed the word patent rights on thing3 delectable to the inner
man? In the magazine section of the big Sunday issue, De Witt
Harry, free lance investigator, declares that cookery is one of the
neglected American opportunities, and that our huge hotels and
dapper restaurants must call on Europe for the talent that the dis
criminating public palate demands. Did you know that bub one of
this city's large hotels boasts an American-born chef? Read this
special feature for its informative value and your mental digestion.
Has "Undressing" Reached the Limit?" Now, gossips all, there's
a pertinent question for you to mull. It is beyond dispute that Dame
Fashion, in her strife to attain startling originality, has revealed
more of the original garb of nature than grandmother ever thought
proper a great deal more. Milady's back, so they gay, can't be
displayed much more completely, and . . . but what's the use?
There are mutterings of rebellion. In a special Sunday feature story,
with illustrations, you will find a discussion of the mode, pro and con,
and it ought to attract your fancy.
Why Uncle Sam Has More Girls Than Boys With the census all
but completed, every one who has been enumerated and that
includes all of us ought to feel a personal interest in the interest
ingly told story of census trove that appears in the magazine section
of the Sunday paper. A number of more or less moot matters are
there made clear. F'rinstance, are you aware that New Mexico is
the most pious state in the Union ? We thought not. You got your
notions from the "movies."
The American Artist Is Back in Montmartre! Montmartre! Magic
name to those who woo the elusive color and the stroke that will
bring line and life to insensate canvas. War exiled the devotees of
the famous shrine but they are back again. Batty Van, special
contributor, in the Sunday magazine section, chats cheerily and with
understanding of the reawakened Montmartre and the return of
American artists.
A Girlish Jekyll and Hyde In the Sunday issue read the amazing
but true story of a petite accountant, in a position of trust, who took
funds to keep a private business on its feet, so that she might live
in luxury and whose peculations totaled $110,000.
All the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
More Truth Than Poetry.
' By James J. Slontagce.
TO A SPHIVG HAT.
Oh filmy bit of plaited straw
Suggestive of a bloomy May day
And costing more than wo shall draw
Upon our next ensuing pay day.
Except for you we shouldn't know
While still the bitter winds are
humming.
If winter ever means to go
Or spring is really ever coming.
Before the ground-hog leaves his hole,
Remarks his monumental blunder.
And murmurs hoarsely, "Bless my
soul!
What can bo keeping spring, I
wonder!"
You blossom In the city ways
- A radiant, bud-embowered Jewel
To prophecy of happier rfuyw
When thoughts no longer dwell on
fuel.
Above Belinda's coat of fur
Which still she wears when days
are airy.
Yon prove that this is spring to her
Although to us it's January.
And though we often times object
To what Belinda spends her cash on
When she's so charmingly bedacke.i.
We haven't any quarrel with
fashion.
For spring seems still a long way off;
Each day the winter skies seem
clearer
And we are not the man to scoff
At anything that brings her nearer.
With fires of hope our heart are lit
Tue world again seems bright and
merry.
When we behold this witching hit
Of optimistic millinery!
Canur and Kffcpt.
Ploominilnn Man Makes Alcohol of
Potatoes. Chicago Examiner.
Fig Potato Shortage in Chicago.
Chicago Tribune.
Where lenomnrr Isn't Rlism.
When the New York legisi? ure
passed the' dry amendment it evi
dently didn't know it was Ioaded.
They'd Nfvrr llothrr A lion t Cold.
If the old alchemists were alive to
day they'd be trying to find a method
of making whisky out of kerosene.
(Copyright, 1920. by The Bell Syn
dicate. Inc.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-five- Years Ago.
Prom The Orprnnian ot January 24. 1RI5.
;Halem. Senator Dolph received 44
votes in the joint session of the legis
lature yesterday, or one short of the
number to re-elect him. Moore ranked
next with 17 votes.
The city officials yesterday aban
doned their old quarters and moved
into the new city hall.
Christian Kndeavorers-of the north
west will hold a convention at the
First Christian church Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.
There was no school session yes
terday at the Failing school 'out of
respect for Mrs. Florence K. Martin,
the vice-principal, who died on Tues
day. Fifty Years A-o.
From The OreKonian of January 24. 1RT0.
Salem. Articles of incorporation of
the Asftjria. and Salem Railroad com
pany were filed Saturday, the capitali
zation being -placed at $3,000,000.
From the new city directory we
glean that Fast Portland has a popu
lation of 5o and that property values
o- !ho city have increased since the
previous year ?C31,.u.
Rates of passne from European
points cO San Francisco have just
been announced as follows: Liver
pool and QueenMown, $210: Hamburg,
Amsterdam and Rotterdam, $224;
t'openhaeen, Gothenburg. Paris and
Havre, $230. The steerage rate is
little more than one-rhird as much.
The Columbia river above The
Dalles is filled with ice and boat
schedules there have been suspended
for two or three days.
PoMMible to Save on JtiriOO.
LA GRANDK. Or, Jan. 22. (To the
Kditor.) "Yearly family bill esti
mated at $2334" is a spendthrift esti
mate. Such people never will own or
look for a home and neither with they
lay any money away for colder days.
Usually - they spend just as much as
they can get on credit.
1 consider $1500 a fair income under
present conditions. From that you
can save $100 for cold days.
J. L MARS.
Hound o Hit It Some Time.
CASTLK ROCK. Wash., Jan. 22.
(To the Kditor.) This is the fifth day
of the third week that the weather
man at Washington. I. C, has pre
dicted rainy weather for this north
west. So far it is still dry.
Would it nt be well to tell him not
to be discouraged, but to keep on
guessirtg as we are sure to have a
rainy week sometime before the dry
season sets in in July?
T. M. MR1KI.I1;.
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