TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920
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favor only the consumer. He is of
fered a state system of fire insurance
an indefinite promise, which ma)
or may not be good, of a cut in the
price of one thing that has not kept
pace with the mounting cost ot
nearly everything eise. He is offered
governmental changes and public
ownership of this and that. By so
cialization, it is implied, everything
is to come, down in price without re
quiring those to speed up who are
responsible for decreasing production
of manufactured articles.
It is a great game. The initiative
and referendum were first proposed
in Oregon and the campaign for
adoption was fostered by men who
aimed solely at single tax and other
elements of socialism. They fancied
that with an easy method at hand of
obtaining a vote of the people on
isms it would be as easy to obtain
adoption of the isms. The wide-open
case for prohibition of strikes on rail
roads and other public utilities when
means of adjusting disputes by the
rule of reason are provided, as they
are in the railroad bill. It is a needed
assertion of the rights of the vast.'
unorganized majority against the
claims of well organized minorities
to special privilege. It draws no dis
tinction between the special privi
lege of the wealthy against which
the nation has successfully fought
and the special privilege claimed by
organized numbers. Both classes of
special privilege conflict with ma
jority rule and with equality of all
before the law, which are the foun
dation stones of democracy.
tNDEIt A NEW FLAG.
There is a definite familiarity in
the general programme of the new
land and labor party which has just
Jield its sessions at Salem, and there
is an equal familiarity in the names
of its leading spirits. Much of the
tentative platform, has heretofore
been submitted to vote of the people
of Oregon, and in. several such in
stances leaders of the new party ap
pear as sponsors.
In the tentative programme there
Is the plank advocating abolition of
all taxes from the products of labor
and the raising of all revenues from
the community made value in land
and other resources. In other words,
it is our old friend the single tax.
Single tax has been presented in
Oregon at numerous times and with
numerous embellishments. On one
occasion it had virtually unlimited
money behind it and the state was
flooded with propaganda. Its record
discloses a diminishing adherence to
the theory the affirmative votes
for single tax have not kept pace
with growth m voting population.
There is also public ownership of
public utilities in the new party's
platform, also the creation of a state
industrial commission and a system
of state marketing. , In 1914 there
was presented to the voters a consti
tutional amendment creating a de
partment of industry and public
works. The department was, by the
proposed amendment, authorized to
establish industries, systems of trans
portation, distributing stations and
public works, for the combined pur
pose of providing employment and'of
socializing public utilities and the
marketing of products. It was de
feated by a vote of more than two to
one.
Another plank in the new party's.
platform proposes abolishment of the
state senate. This proposal has also
been before the voters more than
once. In one election it stood vir-
tuallv on its merits nnrl was rlifntorl
In another it was coupled with proxy
voting and was otherwise embellished.
The people have recorded themselves
as overwhelmingly opposed to it.
These measures are the actual
foundation of the plaftorm of the
new party. Other planks are thrown
in for good measure and perhaps to
lend variety to the efforts of the
ready experimenters who are at
tempting to build up the new organ
ization. It is doubtful if by the new
frills they have helped their cause.
The proposal for proportional repre
sentation in school government in
evitably implies a return to partisan
ship in the choice of school directors.
This, coupled with a demand for
elimination of vocational training in
the schools, is sufficiently reaction
ary to deprive the party of any claim
to progress or reform.
And there is the appeal to the lazy
voter. His apathy and indifference
it is proposed to coddle by abolishing
the necessity for his going out of his
house to cast his vote. Ballots are to
be mailed-, if the new party has its
way. Herein would lie golden oppor
tunity for the corruption and manip
ulation that befouled elections be
fore adoption of the secret ballot.
The recent special session of the
legislature, if it did in truth attempt
to scuttle the Australian ballot sys
tem with a straight ballot provision,
was amateurish in comparison with
this new party of "progress and re
form."
But it must have been some hu
morist who brought in the plank pro
viding that each owner of land shall
be his own assessor and that the
state may buy the land at an advance
of 10 per cent over the assessment.
As a corollary of true single tax,
which is also advocated in the plat
form, it has weird possibilities. We
await with trembling anticipation an
authorized statement as to how the
two would work together. But per
haps the new party does not hope to
secure the adoption of both.
State insurance and a state bank
that would finance public improve
ments are two other proposals that
have not yet been voted on by the
people but presumably are offered as
a relief from economic ills. With
these and other measures to assuage
a general political and economic dis-
tress that is visible only to the imag-
iiiaLiYts eje ui juur cuiuirmeu law
giver, the new party proposes to go
before the people. They are set forth
as a common ground upon which the
industrial worker and the farmer
may unite.
The farmer, as indicated by reso
lutions of his representative organ
izations, is not yet convinced that the
way to a better living and easier
day's work is through adoption of
socialism. His organizations have
complained against the shortening of
hours in other industries and the
consequent curtailment of produc
tion. His hours have not been
shortened. Rather, because of the
higher pay and shorter hours in
other industries, he has found it
difficult to obtain farm help. His
hours have thereby been length
ened. He works harder and he
pays more for that which he must
buy. It is not strange that the farmer
has become convinced that the best
and quickest way to even things up
is for others to work as hard and
earnestly as he does.
But here for his relief the farmer
is offered virtual expropriation of his
land, establishment of stato markets
which may be to his benefit but
more likely, if of benefit at ail, to
ity.
to get the results they wanted. Now
we have the same groups working
under a new flag. It is the bannet
of a political party.
Once we had "leagues" people's
power leagues, single tax leagues and
this and that sort of league. A league
does not nominate candidates for of
fice. That may be the reason for its
failures imthe past, but we doubt it.
Now the "league" flag is struck and
the political party with the same
mission is born. But after all the
same old electorate .will have the
final say. It has not yet been fooled
very much. '
PASSING OK THE rlCTURE BRIDE.
The Japanese government's deci
sion to suspend, on February 25, the
issuance of passports to picture
initiative gave them their opportun-1 Dr,des should remove another pos-
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" Reizea it ana iney laiteu v. . i iv. n.-n ueiweea i. wu
nduons. it also makes more effec
tive the "gentleman's agreement"
entered into in the Roosevelt admin
istration for restriction of immigra
tion of Japanese laborers. As the
picture brides stop coming, there will
be less to disturb the alarmists who
fear multiplication of Japanese fami
lies. As another corollary, it may
be supposed that Japanese laborers
now in the United States will be less
inclined to remain here. In any
event, immigration, under the double
curb now imposed on it. mav be ex
pected to be restrained.
The recent picture brides, about
whom so much has been written, do
not correspond to the correspondence
wives obtained by some of our own
people in the times when women
were scarce on the frontier and
courtships were sometimes conducted
between strangers who exchanged
photographs as evidence of good
faith and serious intent. In these
cases there remained a final resource
in the event that the oricinals were
disappointing. If is not so with the
Japanese, the marriage ceremony
performed by proxy in Japan being
regarded as legally binding on both
parties to the contract.
There are no available statistics to
show whether picture marriages have
uniformly resulted fortunately, but
Americans will be most interested in
the diplomatic and economic aspects
of Tokio's action. That government
appears to be acting in good faith
in its efforts to reduce the possibility
or motion to a minimum.
GRAMMAR AM) WASHIN0.
"But, Mrs. Wisslnffer." sonke un
teachers, "if
one
you
or the younir women
were to take in washing, you would get
$a a day, as airainst we teachers' J5," and
again mere was laughter.
We should think there would also
have been consternation, if the other
guides of the young mind and guar
dians of good English who heard the
remark were not wholly off duty.
The paragraph is from The Orego
nian's report of a meeting at Mil
waukie (Or.) between the school
board and the public school teachers.
It is interesting and even pleasing
to note that Milwaukie washerwo
men get $6 per day. It is somewhat
above the scale, we hear, in other
places, though there was an interest
ing story in the papers the other
day about the modern washer
woman's practice of going to her
work in her automobile. Incidentally,
a waitress her wage J 12 per week
was arrested in New York last week
for violating the traffic laws with her
motor car. It developed that she
was in a great hurry to get to her
place of employment, where her tips
averaged $80 per week. A waiter at
a fashionable New York hotel has
acquired the name of Ravioli, the
speed-demon, bestowed on him . for
merit, or demerit, because of his per
formances with his automobile.
But what we started out to say was
that the particular school teacher
quoted by The Oregonian would do
better, far better, on several ac
counts, to take up washing where no
questions will be asked about her
grammar. Or has the wicked re
porter put words in her mouth that
she did not use?
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RIGHT JTO PROHIBIT STRIKES.
The question whether railroad em
ployes shall be. forbidden by law to
strike will doubtless develop such ir
reconcilable disagreement among the
conferees on the railroad bill that it
will be referred to the senate and
house for settlement. All the influ
ence of the labor unions is exerted
against the provision, and their claim
to unrestricted right to strike is set
against the right of the people to un
interrupted railroad service.
Representative McArthur stated
the case for the public logically and
forcefully in a speech delivered on
January 17. He quoted the decision
of the supreme court on the Adam
son law as showing that congress has
constitutional authority to forbid
railroad strikes, the judges who filed
a dissenting opinion agreeing with
the majority on this point. He met
the charge that the anti-strike sec
tion would require "involuntary ser
vitude" from railroad employes by
showing that the section "expressly
provides that an individual may. quit
work whenever he pleases and for
any reason," but that "there Is
vast distinction between an individual
quitting work and a body of men en
gaging in a strike." A striker does
not terminate his services; "he joins
with others inrefusing to work and
in trying to prevent others from fill
ing his place until his demands are
granted." Mr. McArthur thus stated
the two opposing principles:
He expects to return to his work under
conaitions prescnDed oy mm and his as.
soclates and obtained by the rule of fore
rather than the rule of reason. He should
not oe permitted. In concert with his fel
lows, temporarily to quit work for th
purpose of penalizing transportation in or
der to advance his own interests at th
expense of and damage to the public.
Defining the position of the rail
road man, he quoted Justice Mc
Kenna as saying:
w nen one eniers into interstate com
merce. one enters into a service in which
the public has an interest and subjects
one s sen to ils uenests. Ana tnis is no
limitation of liberty; it is the consequence
of liberty exercised, the obligation of his
undertaking, and constrains no more than
any contract constrains.
Though the general public pays
the cost of a strike, it "has no strike
weapon and no rule of force to se
cure obedience to its demands," but
"must go to court and abide by the
decree of the court." Appeal to force
is denied to citizens in settling their
differences; only organized labor in
sists on applying "the rule of force."
If a citizen commits an offense, "he
is tried not by the rule of force but
by the rule of reason." Why should
not organized labor submit to the j
same authority? The Cummins bill
contains provision for tribunals for
fair and impartial settlement of
grievances without which the right
to strike could not be denied.
Concession of the right to strike to
railroad men under these circum
stances was denounced by Mr. Mc
Arthur as a special class privilege,
and he described the Adamson law
as an abdication oi tne function of
lawmaking to the four brother
hoods." He said that the machinists,
in threatening to strike if the anti
strike section should be adopted,
"maintain that their right to strike
is superior to the right of the people
to have uninterrupted railroad ser
vice." This was "nothing less than
a bold attempt of a minority to force
its will on the lawmaking power ot
the country under the threat of a nation-wide
disaster." If . congress
should succumb.'it Would be an invf
tation to other well organized groups
to coerce the legislature. He would
not credit the suggestion that the
anti-strike provision' could not be en
forced, for it "assumes the disloyalty
of the great body of railroad em
ployes a most violent assumption."
This is a forcible statement of the
from year to year. A further inten
sive examination of statistics ob
tained from a typical New York
draft board also revealed the fact
that elementary teachers in New
York where teachers' salaries are
relatively high receive virtually the
same wages as chauffeurs, clerks and
waiters, "almost none of whom re
quire special preparation for their
work."
The department's agent docs not
contend that any of the latter work
ers are not entitled to a generous
living, but addresses himself to the
"incentive which the average boy or
girl of the future will have to com
plete even a high school course."
Numerous examples are cited of
young people leaving high school for
BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES
Odd Wedding; Announcement by James
Gordon Bennett Recalled.
The recent sale of the New York
Herald has revived the gossip about
the temperamental oddities of the
original James Gordon Bennett, the
founder of that paper. One of the
most amusing of Bennett's whimsies,
a writer in the Philadelphia Pub
lic Ledger thinks, was the way In
which he announced his marriage in
the Herald. It ran thus:
To the Readers of the Herald neelara
tlon of love Caught at Iast Going to
Be Married New Movement in- Civiliza
tion. My ardent desire has heen through life
employments in which they received. coiience by the shortest possible cut. As
as beginners, higher average wages I sociatlon. night and day, in sickness and
than did the teachers in the schools ! l"i;eltn; J" arId ln PV'' w.'.,h
. uxmii i ma uiKiiefci oruer OI nut urmc
must produce some curious results In my
heart and feelings, and these results the
which they left. The contrast grows
more marked in employments requir
ing some manual skill, but consider
ably less systematic study than the
profession of teaching. Thus, in a geo
graphical district including Chicago
and Cleveland, and regarded as rep
resentative of industrial conditions,
bakers were shown to receive $363
more than elementary teachers,
blacksmiths $890 more and machin
ists $1138 more. Opportunities for
advancement are graphically com
pared in another analysis which
shows that a teacher's chances of re
ceiving $3000 or more would be one,
and a half times greater on' the stage,
three times greater in the clergy,
(nevertheless not considered a highly-paid
profession), nine times
greater in storekeeping, commercial
traveling or the real estate business,
and fourteen times greater in pub
lishing, medicine, military service
and insurance. The average in
crease of teachers' salaries from
1915 to 1918 was, of course, inade
quate in proportion to the Increase in
the cost of living.
There is especial need for continu
ing recruiting of teachers ranks, as
other students of education have
made clear. The estimate of 5,600,
000 persons in the country over the
age of ten years who can neither
read nor write is probably an under
estimate, and average school attend
ance is far below the level which
thoughtful citizens hope for. The
last general census, that of 1910,
showed the total number of individ
uals of school age (six to nineteen
years) to be . 27,750,599, but actual
attendance was only 17,300,704, or
only a fraction over 62 per cent. The
Those Who Come and Go. J
WASTE OF AMERICAN VALOR.
The same spirit moved the Ameri
can soldiers who captured an ar
mored train of General Semenoff in
Siberia as moved the men who beat
the best troops of Germany in
France, and it carried all before it.
The more cause is there to regret
that the battles and privations of the
American expedition in Siberia
should have been barren of practical
result. It was too small to have even
the steadying influence which was
originally contemplated, for it could
not impose American advice on Kol
chak and it was just large enough to
irritate the bolshevists but too small
to whip them. An army large enough.
in co-operation with the Japanese, to
have established peace and order
east of Lake Baikal might have se
cured Kolchak's rear sufficiently to
enable him to organize a popular
government andr-to win victory, but
General Graves' force was practical
ly lost in the great area of Siberia.
But the army should not leave
until it has rescued the captive Red
Cross party and has chastised their
captors. The deeds of the Red Cross
workers match those of the soldiers
in fortitude and devotion to a people
that is at present too demoralized to
appreciate their self-sacrifice. They
have the gratification of knowing
that they have saved some lives in a
land which has become a huge
slaughter house and pesthouse com
bined, and have brightened the lives
of some children who have been torn
from their parents. Their good deeds
will live in the memory of those
whom they served and will form an
invisible bond between the America
and Russia of the future.
Their work at least was not wasted,
but the whole Siberian adventure is
a warning against half doing a great
task or against attempting it with in.
adequate force. Respect for the prin
ciplo of self-determination was an ab
surd fetish as applied to Russia by
the allies at the dictation of Presi
dent Wilson. What Russia needed
was the interposition of a powerful
friend to rescue it from the bolshe
vists and to give it a fair opportunity
to apply that principle under the
only possible conditions those of
peace and order, where force is
sternly repressed and individual opin
ion has fret play. Merely meddling
intervention h a made Russia
greater Mexico.
umber of absentees, thus shown to
be 10,450,395, is 37 per cent of the
whole. It is not expected that 100
per cent attendance will be attained
but reduction of non-enrolment to 10
per cent is regarded as a reasonable
goal. The nation-wide campaign to
bring this about is being conducted
ith practically universal approval
at a time when teaching staffs
throughout the country have been re-
uced bv 50,000 in about two years,
nd further Impaired by employment
f another 120,000 teachers whom
the federal commissioner of educa
tion rates as "inadequately" prepared
for their work
Immediate needs of education not
only are pressing, as will appear
from review of the statistics pre
sented, but the future calls even
more loudly for consideration. Prac
tical idealists will not rely too
strongly on the altruistic motive
alone to keep the ranks filled. The
ery considerable number of teachers
who have been diverted to more
gainful occupations recently is only
partial index of the number of
prospective teachers who are likely
to be lost to the profession before be
ginning preparatory work.
INCENTIVE FOR TEACHING.
The effect on the future of teach
ing as a profession of the tendency
of the wage level for teachers to fall
below the level of compensation for
unskilled labor is pointed out in an
article in the Monthly Labor Review
of the United States department of
labor. The author compares teach
ers' salaries throughout the country
with the remuneration of certain vo
cations, for which data are available
which are conceded to require little
or no special training. The federal
commissioner of education has es
timated that teachers' salaries were
increased on the average from $543.31
in 1915 to $630.64 in 1918, a gain of
about 16 per cent, making the aver
age salary about $53 a month. This
is the latest reliable estimate avail
able, and comparisons are therefore
based on statistics for the latter year.
These make out a strong case for th
claims of teachers as individuals, but
they are even more significant be
cause of their bearing on the public
interest in the future of the schools.
The makeshifts by which teaching
staffs are being temporarily main
tained will not' prove adequate in
definitely, and the point on which
the department of labor lays empha
sis is that if the incentive for pro
fessional preparation is permanently
excluded, the schools will be hope
lessly at a loss for teaching material
in the years to come.
A striking comparison is mad
with the recommendations of th
railroad wage commission, in which
only two classes of employes were
scheduled to receive less than $700
a year. These two classes were "mes
sengers and attendants," who were
rated at $56.17 a month, and "section
men," rated at $57.68 a month
These, requiring practically no edu
cation to fit them for their employ
ment, were booked to receive abou
$3.17 and $4.68 more, respectively
than teachers, of whom on an aver
age about six years of special school
ing is expected beyond the interme
diate grades, with additional study
"Once you get started in crime
ou can never stop, said Gordon
Fawcett Hamby, robber and mur
derer, just before his electrocution
Thursday in advising young men to
walk the straight and narrow path
He made one minor error. His own
career in crime did stop in the
electric chair.
The fourth assistant postmaster
general predicts lessened production
and increased cost of living this year,
due to dissatisfaction of farmers. A
new secretary of agriculture ought to
be able to make a better forecast.
When a juror wouldn't agree to a
verdict of murder against a negro,
mob at Monroe, La., whipped him
and dipped him in a mudhole until
he saw reason. One wonders why
they went to the trouble of holding
a trial at all. -
Excessive consumption of sugar to
fill the void in the system created by
prohibition may be cause of apparen
shortage, but the physical, financial
and moral balances are so great as
to offset a bit of discomfort.
The 4 25 hens on the Multnomah
county farm that laid 70,176 eggs In
a year did well on a county job, bu
were a long way from the hen and a
half that laid an egg and a half in
a day and a half.
Now they say that Venus, not
Mars, is calling to the earth in mys
terious wireless signals. Wants to
find out, we presume, if the price of
cold cream has gone up here, too,
Scientists say the temperature o
Mars never gets above zero. That
must be why so many of 'em get into
hot water when they discuss the pos
sibility of life on the planet.
The stuff they make in Hawaii on
which a man gets "paralyzed" with
out getting drunk will not appeal to
men of red blood. There 8 no joy ln
it, and Joy is what is sought.
Edwards and Bryan will say some
thing distressing about each other if
they keep it up. Edwards' "smug
is a sort of uppercut to the peerless
commoner.
future will develop in duo time in the
columns of the Herald. Meantime I re
turn my heartfelt thanks for the en
thusiastic patronage of the public, both of
Europe and of America. The holy estate
ot wedlock will only increase my desire
to be still more useful. tlod Almighty
bless you all. James Gordon Bennett.
What the bride may have thought
of this ardent personal publicity Is
not known to the present commen
On his recent voyage to Europe,
George McManus. the gifted Hiberian
comicker, became seasick. In the
midst of his suffering his wife laid
er hand on his shoulder, as he leaned
over the rail, and said, "Dear, do me
favor, will you?"
Feebly the cartooner nodded.
"What?" he asked.
"Don't give up the ship." Indian-
polls Star.
Where will the "Close to the Feople"
tuff come from, always so entertaln-
ng to city readers, if the source of
upply, the country newspapers, la
cut off by the news-print famine?
It's the cort of humor the funny men
cannot possibly make up out of their
own heads.
Where would the colyumlsts of our
city papers be? asks the Detroit
News,'' and from where would come
the smiles of city readers, were it
not'' for those occasional gracious
gleanings concerning how "John Jones
was shot on his back porch,"' and "if
any man's or woman's cow is caught
on Mr. Smith's premises, his or her
tail will be cut off. as the case may
be?" The city, evidently, will be
without humor, and the city colyum
1st will be without a job. This also
s a lugubrious topic.
The Butte Creek Land. Livestock &
Lumber company is preparing for
lambing from 7300 ewes, according to
Frank Sankey, who looks after the
sheep end of the company in the Fos
sil country. The company gets the
top price for wool and each sheep
produces 11 pounds. The cleaner the
wool the better the price In these
days. Time was when sheepmen
wanted grease and dirt to give weight
and a sheep wrinkled flown to Its tall
was considered a Kreat asset. Now
a clean place for the sheep to bed and
fleece as free from grease as possible,
and lone-, straight wool are sought.
The Butte Creek outfit shears with
machinery and 225 sheep can be ehorn
in a day with a machine, but some
of the hand experts have done as well.
Time was when a shearer was paid
5 and 6 cents per sheep, while last
year the shearers were paid 17 and
20 cents. As the price of wool Is now
much higher than when the nickel a
head was naid for shearing, the sheep
shearing is less costly now than for-J health. Any soldier who would make
merly in proportion. I Bucn a scaiement euner must nave
i uci-ii a t-ric-CL specimen Deiore no
The oldest traveling man in the took this training, or else he doesn't
world carries the lightest safliple case know what he is talking; about. No
and he will arrive with it at the Hotel one who saw the round-shouldered
Portland today. This veteran is is. . I hollow-chested pot-bellied, aenemio
Flaisier and he is 87 years old. rot conglomeration who entererl our train
the past 65 years he has been on the I jug camps in the fall of 1317. and who
road taking orders for needles, manu- sw this Fame aggregation six months
TRAINING WILL BKNEHT BOYS
No Dancer That Two WecUa Year
ill Impair Health.
PORTLAND. Jan. 30. (To the Edi
tor. ) J. O. Farmer of Bancroft Is
evidently laboring under a misconcep
tion of the plan for universal train
ing. He need have no fears that his
boys will be taken away from him
"for six months a year." Under the
plan proposed his boys will be given
only one period of training for six
months (nbich the senate committee
lias reduced to four months), and
thereafter for two weeks a year.
The physical benefits which the
farmer boy will receive from this
training will of course not be as preat
as those of the city boy, but there
need he no fear that any boy's health
will be Impaired by it. There is a
vast difference between the inten
sive physical training which will be
given in the training camps and the
hardships and vicissitudes of army
service in Siberia, or even in France.
Mr. Farmer states that the soldiers he
has talked with claim that their mili
tary training has) not benefitted their
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamra J. Mostane,
factured bv a concern In Kngland.
Mr. Flaisig can put his entire line of
samples In a pocket wallet. The Hotel j
Portland is crowded today, but Mr.
Flaisig can have any room In the
house that he wants. Some day. when
the octogenarian retires, which may
be when he is a nonocenarian. he will
sit down with a flock of adding ma
chines to figure out how many mil
lions of needles he has sold during
his career.
P. J. flallagher. who succeeded
having the special session of the
legislature pass a bill designating as
tate highway a road from uniario
to McDermot. in Malheur county, is
at the Hotel Portland. Before Repre
tentative Gallagher returned to his
home in Eastern Oregon the governor
had vetoed the bill, much to Mr. Gal
lagher's disgust and indignation. 1 he
bill might have "got by" but for the
fact that -as eoon as Mr. Gallagher
paved the way for his measure a
dozen other similar bills were rushed
through the senate and house, th
later, would ever say that the train
ing had not benefitted their health.
There is no doubt that in the past
we have been able, as Mr. rarmer
says, to assemble and train our armies
faster than we could equip them, but
a part of the present plan is to have
both the equipment and the men ready
in case we are drawn into another
war, Mr. Farmer says that he and
his boys are ready to answer the
call in time of war, hut are unwilling
to prepare for war in time of peace.
He might as well say that he is will
ing to help in case his or his neigh
bors" house should catch fire, but is
unwilling to dig a welt or provide a
water supply as long as there is no
fire. A. BARNES.
IWKRSK RATIO LAW PROPOSKO
In Chicago the "white collar" men
are not marrying as fast as the real
workmen. Easy explanation is that
salaries do not equal wages.
Wilson is recommended in Norway
as a candidate for the Nobel peace
prize and what peace does that
mean, by the way?
Look for an epidemic in Detroit,
where physicians can get all the
whisky they want for treatment of
influenza.
More rain is needed for its thera
peutic effect. Just "balmy" showers
of an inch or so.
. The man wjio gets behind on ali
mony must have a great time catch
ing up.
The one-way law seems to be on
the one way out. " .
Taylor Newman, one of the most
picturesque characters ever born in
Stone Mountain, alleges that he is
the champion bee hive hun(er of the
world. Mr. Newman says he has a'
trained bee whtch he uses in trapping
the wild bees of the swamp. He ties
a silk string to his pet and holds the
ball of silk in his hands. The bee
trails through the woods to the bee
hive and all he has to do Is follow the
string. Stone Mountain Correspond
ence Atlanta Constitution.
A direct descendant of David
Crockett, famous Indian fighter, .is
one of the 1800 students who are at
tending the University of Oklahoma.
Toung Crockett's given name also
is David and his home is at Cairo,
Ok la. He is a six-footer and served
n ensign in the navy' during the
world war.
Toung Crockett possesses as a relic
of his ancestor, tne butt of a long
rifle, which was presented to the In
dian fighter for his services in the
Mexican war.
After sir Oliver Lodge had delivered
his lecture ln Springfield, Mass., on a
recent evening, he drew a' chair to
the edge of the platform, a corre
spondent of the Springfield Republican
relates, and sat while informally re
ceiving the several hundred who
wished to shake hands with him.
Along about the middle of the line
came an earnest, middle-aged, bright-
eyed person who grasped the hand of
the giant and, holding the grasp, ex
claimed: j
Oh, Sir Oliver Lodge, will you ex
plain to me the new Einstein theory?"
Just like that. Just that sincerely;
and no consciousness of the long line
In waiting of 200 or 300, who merely
wished to pass and take the hand of
the renowned scientist who on this
first appearance in this country had
shown himself so kindly and human
a being. '
A half smile passed over Sir Oliver's
face and its light played ln his eyes
while he answered:
"Oh, I couldn't just now."
And the questioner passed on, ap
parently as pleased as though having
attained membership among the Ill
elect or is it 10? who alone, it is
reported, have the ability and the
knowledge to comprehend the demon
stration of the' Einstein theory, and
of whom the visitor is said to be one.
A Southern Pacific safety specialist
has figured out the signilcance of at
tempting to cross railroad tracks with
a train in sight: A passenger train
approaching a .crossing at full speed
and still a quarter ot a mile away
will cover the remaining distance in
18 seconds; if half a mile away, it
will flash past in 36 seconds. It re
quires a wait of only a fraction of a
minute to permit a train to pass. On
the other hand, 18 seconds allows too
small a margin to escape an accident
if in ehifting gears the engine stops
or anything goes wrong.
Forty-six people were killed. 173
people were injured and 152 automo
biles were damaged or destroyed at
grade crossings during the calendar
year just closed. Of these, 73 stalled
on the crossing and were struck by
trains; 263 attempted to cross almost
immediately in front of an approach
ing train; ui, or more man 2a per
cent of the total, ran into trains in
stead of trains into them; nine
skidded , into cars or trains ln at
tempting to avoid collision after real
izing the danger; 81 ran Into and
broke down crossing gates lowered
to protect them from passing trains
five" ran down and injured flagmen In
warning position; 14 were due to mis
cellaneoua causes.
The cook who left employment of a
prominent Louisville lawyer because
he could supply no garage for her
automobile was being sought yester
day by a resident of Upper river
road, says the Courier-Journal.
"I thought, of course, you had a
garage where I could keep my auto
mobile." was the objection which
lost the lawyer his biscuit maker.
The Upper river road resident was
said to be arranging important mat
ters in regard to gasoline, tires and
fines for speeding, in his quest of
the golden girl.
Let Public Salaries Come Pons aa
Living touts Rise, Says Writer.
PORTLAND. Jan. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) Some wise guy made the crack
whole outfit making radical changes! that we common people are indulging
in the present state road map. jn a "saturnalia of extravagance."
A little nonsense now and then is . -"
relished by the best of men and even cents tor a pair ot child s stockings
an associate justice of the Oregon of 25-cent value, and there's a war
supreme court can forget briefs long tax on every arop of physic you have
enough to take ln the movies, juoge to buy. when everything required in
Lawrence T. Harris, the youngest of the household is priced as though we
me justices, iounu iimo were all Rockefellers, there's little
heavily on his hands yesterday that left from r check to finance
any orgies of spending
TKSTEKDA1', TODAY AYD
KOREVKR.
I remember. I remember,
la eighteen ninety-six.
How Toung Bill Bryan shot acres
The skies of politics.
A callow youth he was. but t!U
I'll say for William J.
He had the U. O. P. scared stiff
Unty election d: .-.
I remember, I rememher.
That four years after that
The hope that swelled in WHIianV
breast
Apain was busted flat.
They thought they had him licked
for keeps.
But the eternal throb
Of yearning in his massive chest
Was still right on the job.
I remember, I remember,
Alons in nineteen eight.
How 'William stood aga'n outside
The presidential gate:
And how, when turned away once
more.
Smart guys like me and you
Observed with fino finality,
"At last Doe Bryan's through."
I remember. I remember,
A newsboy's recent cry.
"Bill Bryan's going to run asa.n:
He k ;pt the country dry:"
And I could not help but think.
With wild, unholy joy.
That he is farther from the job
Than when he was a boy!
The Iteal Stuff.
You can't keep an American ad
miral at peace. If he has nobody else
to fipht. he will start a row with the
secretary of the navy.
A I.onsr, Lose Time.
1 ;rhaps the prohibitionists "mould
consent t epealing th ? dry law when
the treaty is ratified.
Thick Ice la So Hard te Cut.
Now the severe winter is cited as
cause for an ice famine next summer!
(Copyricht. 1320. ty tho Bell
Syndicate, Inc. I
he slipped into a cinema palace to
pass Judgment on a vamp fillum.
Dr. and Mrs. T. C. Avary of Stev
enson. Wash., are at the Nortonia
Just now the residents of Stevenson
are mainly interested in the prospect
of seeing a toll bridge constructed
across the Columbia river so that they
can come to Portland on the highway.
The officials at Washington. D. C-
have given approval of the project.
J. V. Kuhn of Suplee is with S. S.
Brown of Prineville, at the Imperial.
Suplee is just a postoffice in Crook
county, with the Buck mountains
straggling off to the southeast
Suplee is within an ace of being in
Grant county, as it is almost on the
line, and Harney county is only
tew miles to the south. Suplee is in
the cattle country.
The high cost of movies has taken
from that amusement of the great
unwashed whatever little pleasure
the board of censors may have over
looked. Now. I can't speak for the
rest of the masses, but for myself can
testify that I never had a "saturnalia"
in my life and never expect to have
one. Seems to me, however, as though
out; price boards and public "ser
vants" are "indulging in a saturnalia
of bull." So far as results are con
cerned, they are, like Wilhelm. in
complete seclusion, without any hope
of extradition.
We should have a law by which
salaries of men in public office are
reduced proportionately to the in
crease in the cost of living, and then,
heaven above us. watch the cost of
living depress.
RUSSELL SHAVER.
Ray Filloon, district forest ranger
In the Snoaualmle forest, passed
through Portland yesterday on his
wav to Trout lake to visit relatives.
Mr. Filloon was once on a time in the
The Cabinet As It Now In.
BUKXA VISTA. Or.. Jan. 29. (To
the Kditor.) Will you please tell me
who are the members of President
photographic business In Portland ana Wilson's cabinet up to date?
he has quite a reputation for his out-
in-the-open pictures.
For five days George Jennings ol
White Salmon. Wash., has been hic
coughing without a stop. All the old
familiar remedies, such as shock and
surprise, having failed. Mr. Jennings
came to Portland yesterday for medi
cal treatment and his wife went to
the Perkins.
A. C. Ruddick, Canadian dairy and
cold storage commissioner, was in
Portland yesterday, having arrived
from Tillamook, where he made a per
sonal inspection of the cheese and
dairy Industry. Commissioner Rud
dick plans visiting all the cheese sec
tions of the state.
John L. Rand, one of Baker's best
known citizens, is at the Hotel Port
land. Mr. Rand is in the city in con
nection with the litigation over the
Warm Springs irrigation project,
which occupied the time of the federal
court for ten days a couple of months
ago.
Railroad men who have reserva
tions at the Hotel Portland today are
C. R. Gray, L. B. Gild. E. K. Calvin
Paul Rigdon. H. M. Adams. P. F.
Eschele. J. L. Haugh. E. E. Adams,
R. L. Huntley, C. L. Candlin, K. B.
Robertson and J. D. Carter.
CHESTER O. STARR.
Secretary of state, Robert Lansing.
Secretary of the treasury, David F.
Houston.
Secretary of war, Newton D. Baker.
Secretary of the navy, Josephus
Daniels.
Secretary of agriculture, Edwin L.
Meredith.
Secretar " the interior Franklin
K. La :.e.
Secretary of co mere , Joshu- V.
Alexander.
Secretary of labor, William B. Wil
son.
Postmaster-general, Albert S. Burle
son.
Attorney-general, A. Mitchell Pal
mer.
To Bloom in Time.
By tirace K. Hall.
There are smil that h not really
turned to sunshine
On the faces that are passing by.
your way.
Just because you have not put enough
of heart-shine
Into words that you alone perhaps
could say;
There are hearts : " covered over
with a frost-crust
That they only wear to hide a burn
ing pain.
And they'd thaw and shid a glow
everywhere that they might go.
If a little light were offered thea
again.
Even though simetimes i pleasant
word is wasted
On some one who will not let the
sunshine in.
It i.s well tlict sweeter impulse to
have tasted.
And it helps to keep your own heart
warm within:
There are many barren garden spots
unlovely.
Where the weeds might be replaced
'th vely bloom.
But no seed becomes a flower 'til
it has fruition hour
Leave your helpful words deep
planted in the gloom!
In Other Days.
Native Born Are (Illness.
PORTLAND, Jan. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly advise whether
or not a child born in this country
of foreign parents is a citizen, irre
spective of whether the father has
taken out his first papers?
A READER.
All children born in this country
become citizens, unless they elect
otherwise, irrespective of their
parents' citizenship.
Norman Lang of Vancouver, B. C,
is at The Benson.
ested in the jnanufacture of print
paper, which now is a matter of great
concern to every peraon conducting a
newspaper.
School for Disabled.
ALBANY, Or.. Jan. 29. (To the Kdt-
Mr. Lang is inter-1 tor.) Kindly tell me where I can
obtain iniormation concerning scnoois
(preferably eastern) which give voca
tional training to boys who are phys
ically disabled. A SUBSCRIBER.
Twenty-Five- iir Abo.
Fro-n The Oregonian. January 31. 18D5.
Salem. On tne seventh ballot fo
United States senator, taken yester
day, the vote was: Dolph 42. Her
mann 10, Hare 10, Weatherford 8,
Williams 5, Lord 5, remainder scat
tering. The steamer Cyclone, one of the
best known of the smaller craft on
the Willamette and Columbia rivers,
burned to the water's edge at La
Camas Tuesday,
Mrs. Sarah Kern, state superin
tendent of the W. C. T. U., stated
yesterday in an interview that a bill
prohibying the manufacture and sale
of cigarettes will be presented in the
legislature.
The new Otcgon Railway & Navi-.
gation company steamer Elmore will
be launched this morning.
The tug of grand opera reached out I Write to American Journal for Care
to Corvallis and found a response in I of Cripples, New York, for issue No.
C. E. Ingalls. who runs the news
paper there, so the editor and his
ire came to Portland, registered at
the Multnomah, and proceeded to revel
ln tunes.
W. E. Bennett of Casper. Wyo., is
at the Perkins, having brought a
shipment of stock all that distance for
the purpose of disposing of the crit
ters at the local yards.
M. B. O'Brien, who deals in farm
Implements at Grass Valley, Sherman
county. Or., Is at the Hotel Oregon.
having been attending the convention
of hardware dealers.
A. E. Ball of Ballston, is at the Ho
tel Oregon. Ballston consist of
blacksmith shop and a store and can
be found by motorists on their way
to Tillamook or Uallas.
C. E. Farnsworth of Seattle arrived
at the Benson yesterday to meet Mrs.
Farnsworth, wno was on her way
home from a trip to California.
C. E. Perringer and ijrs. I. E. Per-
rlnger arrived at the Beneon yester
day on their way home to Pendleton
after a visit to iauiornia.
Captain and Mrs. E. T. Jones of
Camp Lewis nave tanen permanent
apartments at the Multnomah.
M. M. Jones, superintendent of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Walla
Walla, Wash., is registered at the
Multnomah.
2, vol. 4, which contains
schools.
list of such
Fifty Years Acs.
Prom The Oreyonlnn, January 31. 1ST0.
Fort Shaw. Colonel Baker's expe
dition against the hostile Indians has
just returned and reports having
killed 173 of the warring tribesmen.
A weekly Journal to be known as
the Catholic Sentinel will probably
make its appearance in a few weeks.
J. C. Cartwright has returned from
an extended trip through the south
western part of the state.
The Montana, which came from San
Francisco with 150 passengers and
350 tons of freight, returned with
only 40 passengers and nearly 90
tons of freicht.
W. F. Johnson,
Cottage Grove, is.
a trip to Portland
a lumberman of
it the Benson on
with his wife.
W. E. Bellman, an official of the
Western Union, from New York, is an
arrival at the Benson.
W. O. Parker, who Is In the busi
ness of manufacturing furniture at
Tacoma. Is among the arrivals at the
Multnomah.
G. II. Dorbaugh. a hotel man of
Spokane, is at the Nortonia with Mrs.
Dorbaugh.
Have We Heard From Mars?
Gujrlielmo Marconi answers in the affirmative.
So does Thomas A. Edison.
So does Nicola Tesla.
The astounding announcement by Marconi of his belief that Mars
is talking to us has raised a storm of comment since its publica
tion a few days ago. The original statement of Marconi, with sup
plementary interviews with Edison and Tesla, reported by Edward
Marshall, is a feature of The Sunday Oregonian of tomorrow, Feb
ruary 1. Accompanying the fulUpage articles are photographs . of
the three wizards of the sciences, including a war-time picture of
Signor Marconi.
THE EXPLOIT OF THE DUX RAVEN Zigzagging across the Bay
of Biscay, the "merchant steamer" Dunraven, appeared to be no
more than a heavily-laden cargo vessel. But the unkempt master
on the quarter-deck was Captain Gordon Campbell of the Royal
navy, the most successful of all mystery ship commanders. The
exploit which the writer characterizes as the greatest of any of
the mystery ships is related by Admiral William S. Sims in to
morrow's Sunday Oregonian.
WHAT DID MADAME CAILLAUX SEEK? Minnie Tracey, Ameri
can singer, has a different explanation to that which appeared in
Paris newspapers when Madame Caillaux, wife of the French
minister of finance, shot and killed Gaston Calmette, editor of the
famous Paris newspaper, the Figaro.
THOSE THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE Super-optimists and kindred
spirits are pictured in W. E. Hill's page of drawings. Half a page
of Briggs makes a big total of pen sketches.
OVER THREE STATES ON W INGS The reality of aerial traveling
is proven in an article by Ben Hur Lampman, who writes of a
" Portland enterprise pioneering in the realm of the air.
All the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN