THE MORNING OREGONIAN,- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1020
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the Industry to which It is to be ap
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viewpoint Then too the cost to in
dustry would be lower and could be
kept within the narrow margin
which present economic conditions
permit. In that way Buropean in
dustry can be revived, Europe's ex
ports can swell and exchange can by
degrees recover the balance which
will indicate normal flow of trade.
Desire for this help and' recogni
tion that America alone can give it,
are evident in the expression by Vis
count Grey of Britain's readiness to
receive the United States into the
league of nations on our own terms.
6.oo Some of us have hesitated to support
3'jji the proposed reservations In expec-
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n. J. Bidwell." I another great catastrophe such as
has just befallen it, there should be
no further hesitation about respond
ng to the summons.. "With all its re
sources America should go to the
rescue as it did three years ago. It
should send Its best men in states
manship, economics and finance to
join those of Europe In the work of
rebuilding the economic life which
war has destroyed. Nor should the
glee displayed by Senator Borah and
others of the death battalion at Brit
ain's frank appeal through Viscount
proving the physical aspects of farm
ing. Better roads, rural free delivery,
improved schools, telephones, elec
tric lights, libraries and community
development generally may have
lightened labor by comparison with j
the day 01 me craaie ana nan, out
they have even more greatly height
ened agricultural morale. . But farm
era have noe. .won these concessions
to their comfort and convenience
without a good deal of resistance to
their efforts on the part of an urban
population that talked fluently of the
"independent life of the tiller of the
soil" but meanwhile begrudged him
the wherewithal to make improved
conditions possible. There are signs
that the city is beginning to under
stand better the farmer's problems,
and herein lies the prospect for bet
ter relations all around.
Secretary Meredith, who signal
ized his entry into the department of
Stars and Starmakers.
, By Leone Cans Baer.
I
FOB THE WORK OF REBUILDING.
The familiar cry of Wall street
manipulation will not serve to ex
plain the continued fall In the rates
of foreign exchange. This fall Is a
symptom of a world-wide economic
disease, which Wall street would not
propagate unless it had gone insane.
since the leaders of finance who are
commonly but carelessly lumped un
der the name "Wall street" are most
antics of a ghoul who jeers at the
cries of a stricken soldier for help
Such men speak not for America, but
healthy economic condition. Rates
of exchange are but the gauge which
oniy for an ignoble few.
in supply of one country's money in I "
another country above or below the
amount necessary to balance ac
counts, also which measures the sol-
BECAI SE HE 13 NOT A DEMOCRAT.
The Scio Tribune is the latest
vency of -one government by the I apostle of democratic light and lead
business standards of other coun- ing t0 announce that it "will be glad
tries. Wall street is as powerless to
control such matters as it is to con
trol the wind and tide.
to support Mr. Hoover (for presi
dent) no matter which party places
The money of Europe sells at a lni in tne running
discount in this country because it I The New York World has taken
consists of promises to pay a larger the same position of lofty indiffer-
amount than Europe can pay, and 1 ence to party, but of paramount in
because Europe is not products; terest in Mr. Hoover. The World is
enough useful goods to . make its I a democratic journal, which almost
promises good. The result is that I alone of all prominent American
Europe buys much more than it sells, papers has been able to find no flaw
pays in its depreciated currency and I in the seven years service of Fresi
by unloading more of that currency I dent Wilson, at home and abroad. Its
on the American market than the I admiration for Mr. Hoover is ex-
American market can absorb, Europe I ceeded only by its regard for Mr-
causes further depreciation. Thus Wilson. As to the one, .it has never
it adds constantly to the momentum I hesitated to show the most intense
with which, it slides down the tobog- I partisanship; toward . the other
gan to bankruptcy. Inow professes to be' inspired by the
If bankruptcy were to come, I most profound sentiments of non-
America and Europe would have to I partisanship.
get back to the primitive practice oil it may be a coincidence that the
barter, exchanging a cargo of this for I great idea of electing Mr. Hoover,
cargo of that of equal value. As I Who belongs to no party, to be presi-
Europe, outside of Russia, which fori dent has met with real enthusiasm
the present is outside the calcula-1 only among papers and politicians
tion, does not produce enough of the that support the. democratic admin
necessaries of life for its own people, istration. They are strong for non
it must produce other commodities partisanship just now. The notion
to exchange for enough necessaries of party in public affairs fehocks
to make up its shortage. To do this 1 them. It usually does, before an
it has abundant labor, but it does I election: they contrive to reconcile
not produce the requisite raw ma-1 themselves to the most continuous
terials, machinery and tools.' With- and discriminative displays of par-
out them its standard of living would (tisanship by any democrat after
steadily retrograde toward conditions lan election. They wtll(all be for Mr.
of barbarism. It would then con-1 Hoover as a non-partisan until he
stantly consume less American prod- takes his oath of office; and then
ucts until our exports to the old thev will expect him to forget it,
world would approach zero. But I Mr. Hoover would of course stand
having grown accustomed through not the slightest chance of the demo
centuries of civilization to a stand- cratic nomination -at any other time
ard of living equal to ours, Europe than now, when the democratic out-
would not willingly endure such a re- look is black aid when there is
lapse while America lived in its for- I promise through fcim of a half-vic-
mer luxury. As the wealth of Amer- tory. But what a sad commentary
ica and the Indies attracted the ad- on the democratic party's low status
venturers and buccaneers of the six- before the country it is that it con-
teenth and seventeenth centuries, so templates the nomination of a man
would tne luxury of America tempt for president who is not a democrat
Europe to go forth on plundering ex-(with an appeal for his election be-
pediuons to take by force what it I cause he is not a democrat
was unable to buy.
But America could not remain
rich and prosperous in presence of
a bankrupt Europe sinking back to
barbarism. The prices of our staple
products are fixed by the price ob-
t-i innH fnr t Ti n narl u-hlph i vrrrtr1
and two-thirds of that part has been there really are three Einstein the
coing to Europe. If Europe should ries- we continue to agree with Pro
p to hnv thP nri-ps of oi.r An- lessor Einstein himself that there
EXPLAINING EINSTEIN.
Even after reading Morris Cohen's
explanation, in the New Republic,
that one reason why we cannot un
derstand the Einstein theory is that
tire output of staples would fall to a
level which would re'duce entire
classes to poverty wheat growers,
cattle growers, wool growers, fruit
growers, cotton growers, lumbermen,
metal miners. They could not sell
their entire product, and the price of
what they did sell would be barely
remunerative. Foreign demand for
American manufactures would also
fall off, prices would fall there, too,
and the home market for products
of the soil on the one hand and for
manufactures on the other hand
would shrink. Bankruptcy in Eu
rope would be reflected in wide
spread depression in America.
A world one half of which is
rich, prosperous and hard at work
while the other half is poor, growing
poorer and out of work can no more
endure than this republic could en
dure half slave, half free. The
wealth of the rich half must overflow
to fructify and employ the poor half
or it will dry up. The value of ac
cumulated wealth is derived from the
demand for what it can produce by
application of human labor of brain
and muscle. That demand exists in
Europe in incalculable volume.
American wealth can, by providing
the means to putEurope at work, set
that demand in motion, sustain the
value of American products and pre
vent shrinkage of our wealth. The
interests of America and Europe are
one; their prosperity is interdepen
dent: the one cannot go down with
out dragging the other with it. Self
interest dictates that America save
Europe in order to save America.
Salvation of Europe from eco
nomic ruin would but be completion
of the work which the United States
began in 1917. We had concentrated
our minds so completely on defeat of
autocracy that, when that was ac
complished, we thought the job was
finished. In fact, on Armistice day
we only stopped the work of destruc
tion; the work of rebuilding was
then to begin. America only came
In at the finish of the first half of
the task after the allies had borne
the burden and heat of the day; it is
for us to assume the greater part of
the latter half, both as an act of jus
tice to the allies and for our own sal
vation. The need is too great, too
immediate and too general to be met
by private agencies alone; it must be
met through the combined action of
all the governments concerned. Then
each demand for credit will be met
according to the common need for
are not more than a dozen perhaps
thirteen men in the world capable
of grasping the details of his momen
tous discovery.
Professor Einstein himself has told
us that, as Newton was led by ob
serving the fall of an apple to elab
orate his ideas about gravity, so he
himself was moved to amend them
after seeing a workman slip from a
roof. The workman testified that he
had felt nothing that he would re
gard as a force, like gravity, and the
professor began to figure on the ef
fect of substituting "difform motion"
for the law of gravity. This led to
various elaborations which were not
clarified for the lay mind by at
tempts to explain the fourth dimen
sion in its relation to space. Now
Mr. Cohen says in effect that people
have been trying to understand too
much. Professor Einstein has two
theories about relativity and one
about gravitation. The substance of
what he thinks about relativity is
that scientific "knowledge" has been
taking for granted things that require
further investigation, and that it can
be made more accurate than even
some scientists themselves suppose.
But Professor Einstein seems to
have known better than others the
absorption limit of the human mind.
Efforts to explain him only leave the
subject more muddled than before,
for example, Mr. Cohen says:
If you were armed with instruments to
hear the home clock ticking;, you would
find that as your distance from the house
Increased, the intervals between the suc
cessive ticks (i. e.. Its seconds) prow
longe", so that if you travel with the veloc
ity ol sound, the home, clock would seem
to slow down to a standstill you would
never hear the next tick. That which is
true of the clock Is, of course, also true of
time Intervals which it measures, so that
If yeu moved away from the earth with
the velocity of light, everything on It
would appear as still as on a painted can
vas. On the return journey, however,
everything would seem correspondingly
speeded up. so that when you reached
home you would find the sum of your time
account exactly the same as your home
clock. -
Six months ago, we were puzzled
by an expounder who said that in
order to understand Einstein it was
necessary to know that a hollow ball
could be turned wrong side out in
the fourth dimension. Now the lay
man is bidden to bear in mind that if
he were traveling with the velocity of
sound he would elude the clock tick.
But it still Isn't clear why this should
upset all our preconceived notions
about structure of the universe, as
MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE.
The Oregon State Editorial asso
ciation last year devised the ambi
tious project of taking the National
Editorial association in a body to
Crater Lake. As the .event turned
out, it was a proposal of a certain
measure of hazard, for the routs in
to the great scenic marvel from the
west side were not they never have
been in first-rate condition.
Besides, it was a rush excursion.
The itinerary called for a day from
Medford or Ashland, by motor car to
the lake, a stay over-night, and an
other day for -return. The editors.
inured to luxurious travel by Pull
man, were nevertheless wearied by narlr-nltnrA hv an address in which
ineir long journey rrom me east, anu ne discussed some of the fundamen
middle west; and ' the hardships of tal reasons for the high cost of liv
iraver over poor roads were not de- ln& indicated a fruitful cause of dis-
signed to prejudice them greatly In content when he said that "the
favor of Oregon's notions of hospi- farmer asks the laborers in the
tailty. But tne Supreme Deauty Ot nfnra tl fnr-tnr-ir and thfi mills, who
crater iaite, io say notning or tne are also reai producers along with
nearuness ana iioeranty oi Oregon s the farmArs. to make an effort com
welcome, more than compensated the parable with his to see that there is
juumaui.a ior me women just as little labor expense as pos
ana irouDjes or their journey. At .ihiA in Ah nrtir-lA rnmArl nut h
least they were gracious enough to their hands, thereby helping the
sayso. farmers of America, who in turn will
iiut it is a risk which should not hmln thA lahnrers." No one has tiro
again be taken with important vis- nosArl fivA-rl.iv week or a slx-hout
itors, until conditions are improved. aay for tne farmer, and the latter
Bceaoamy, everyooay wno nerves es not ask. them, knowing well
himself to the ordeal of visiWng enough tnat the people in the cities
crater ine must report mat us at- ivould starve if he insisted on so cur-
tractions are an tney are said to De, tailing production; but he does in
but the going is bad. It tends to dis- t that while he is 6peedin& up pro
courage others. Crater Lake, it the duction, his feiiow producers of es
popular mina, is a gem ot crystal sentiais shan do their Dart too. The
loveliness down in a hole on an in-
implication that city folks need not
accessible mountain. It is not quite espect cheaper food until they have
correct, perhaps; but it is too near shnwn hv Affm-ts 'Vnmnarahio tn th
the truth. I ..,,.,... a - ;.-
Crater Lake is a wonderful scenic ha.d nn .mnnnlip. Ahiiitv
iU uiD ua..c ii.emvay i - to make a "full and comfortable liv
gramme, it is reached by a road of frnrn th. ,arid... iniKtArl nn hv
secondary importance. This means vt,.v iiAr f 9i,it
that it cannot be completed until the rfor,onr hJ
Pacific highway, and some others, the controi of the farmer fcimself, as
are out of the way. There is no dis- the new secretary of agriculture has
position to have it otherwise; yet it poihted out. In 0the.r words, the in-
Is a fact that the people of Oregon 1llntin t ..-nTrt,l t
hope that the state highway commis- duce, , not falHy directed to farm
sion will give the Crater Lake road ers aIone but to a who labor and
the earliest practicable consideration. whA n,.nt (. ln w Tno farmr wnr
is beginning to -taste the advantages
THE chance FOR A dill boy. of better living has no mind to re-
The average boy will derive greater turn to ' his ancient deprivations
profit, if not comfort, from study of merely in order that his city neigh
the biography of the French states- bors shall obtain more food for less
man, Clemenceau, than from. the ex- work. It is a fair proposition that
amples of famous men whose youth- the farmer makes through Mr. Mere
ful precocity gave them a long run- dith that there shall be mutual
ning start in life's race. Clemenceau speeding up of production, a-11 around.
has said of his own early life that up
to the age of seventeen years he was The world is so unaccustomed to
"dull and backward" and had look to the orient for scientffic dis-
learned little. His efforts to obtain oovery that there will be two-fold in
an education seemed futile. He has terest in the announcement that Sir
written: ' Jagadis Chandra Bose. described as
I found that whatever I misht learn in an "eminent Indian scientist." has
tne daytime, at night I forgot it all. To nerfected an instrument hv whirh
get over this difficulty. I tied a string to Perreeiea an instrument Dy wnicn
a nail in the wall over mv bed and fas- motion can be multiplied by a prin-
,!ned IV1? my h,nd- holding it up in the ciple similar td that by which minute
night after night, 1 lay awake pondering objects are magnified through the
over what I had studied during the day, microscope. The "crescograph." as
it is called, will be valuable as an aid
in the pursuit of other sciences, as in
S THERE by any. chance an old
phonograph record of Jessie Bart-
lett Davie singing "Oh, Promise Me'
or "Genevieve" tucked away in some
American home?
win j. uavls of Chicago, son oil . ...,., ... iw, Paul.
the famous contralto of a generation Jonn anfl JameB and otherB who
ago. is searching for it. His mother walked wlth h(m ln those days when
BY-PRODUCTS OK THE TIMES
Chalice Discovered at Ant loch Bean
Only Truthful Likeness ot Christ.
After almost 2000 years of hope
and dessire the Christian world may
at last behold the featuros of Christ
as he actually appeared upon earth,
saye the New Era Magazine, official
medium of the Presbyterian church
was one of the first American singers
our religion was born.
to mate pnohograph records. They A vv WOI,derfui chalice, made
were imperfect and squeaked and durlng ti,a time when most of the
auritcnea, out it was the voice or his arosties were yet alive, has lately
motner. For years he has treasured been axcBVated in Antioch, Syria, and
me. records, They were recently waa. brought from Paris to this side
destroyed by fire. of the Atlantic as a loan to os, for
we used to sit by the fire at night Ita greater eafety, during the - late
and play our old records," said Davis war. it was dug from the soil by
to a reporter. "It was almost like some Arabs in the year 1910, and is
naving mother with us. Now they are believed to have been in the col
gone. They are out of date now" and lapsed treasury of some ancient
tne company Has destroyed the master church or basilica which Was de
records, but somewhere there may be stroved by earthquake or war long
some of my mother's songs for the before any modern language had been
Those Who Come and Go.
records."
born.
until it was ineffaceably fixed in my
mind, in that way I mastered my tasks.
i 1 o n T n r ITamillnn a h n w a
marked literary ability at twelve and the study of the life motion of plants,
auu jo aiiuiiici ui inuoc auvauues iij
made a momentous speech at seven
teen, the age at which M.. Clemen
ceau confessed that he was finding It
almost impossible to learn; George
Washington held an important pub
lic office at seventeen and was a
knowledge that keep the layman
busy studying in order to compre
hend them. It will not be easy for
the average man to understand how
the thing is done, even when an at-
major at nineteen; Daniel Webster tem,pt i"1(adin ter.cf scle"ct0
explain it to him. It takes a higher
education nowadays even to keep up
with the news.
had finished : college at nineteen;
these leaders and others like them
are not less deserving of their fame
because of their precocity, but their
biographies are likely to give the less lne Iat8 1 nomas Prince was "a
gifted boy the impression that his regular Yankee." He was thrifty.
case is hopeless. The young prodi
gies stand out because of an unwar-
because that is a New England habit;
he was . progressive, as witness his
ranted tendency of historians- to put walnut orchard that he set out thirty
undue emphasis on natural gifts and years ago as an experiment, which
to throw a mantle of misguided is another side of the New England
charitv over vouthful inaDtitude. naoit to leave nome and do some
James A. Garfield, subsisting on tnmg; ne visitea oacK nome" at
bread and milk in order to complete least once a vear and Kept in touch
his college course within his means, with the place of his birth; and all
is one of many examples of men who the other characteristics of the Yan-
overcame extrinsic difficulties to ac- Kee "e nad. in plenty. AH combined
comolish the purposes upon which to make him a good citizen of Ore
their minds were fixed. The passage son
quoted from M. Clemenceau's own
account of his early handicaps re- " Senate and house seem in a fair
veals another phase of self-mastery way to agree on the railroad -bill, but
of which not enough has been siid. will the president agree with them?
The biography of a "dull boy" grown His chance of saving the league of
to full intellectual stature contains nations for a campaign issue is fad
the elements of inspiration for a iiff. and he must have one. Will he
vastly greater number than those of try to save the railroad question as
hundreds of the so-called geniuses a means of rallying the Plumb plan
The heads possess every quality of
a. a. Woods has a play by Crane nortrait work and after a careful
Wilbur to which he has given the study all must be convinced that they
title of "Arabian Nighties." I must be truthful likenesses of the
riprsonares thev Were intended to
Vesta Tilly, the "Picadilly Johnny," reoresent. Such characteristics as
has been caught up in the political they reveal could never have been
wninpooi like many other English invented even by the greatest artists,
women. rnnld thev have been derived
It is a far cry back to the days from models, even In times when the
when she first delighted American picturesque was more common than
audiences . with her dapper, dandy it is now. Leonardo, in his Last
male attire, singing "What a Jolly Supper, found but four different types
Fine Chap Is Alie." In hose days to represent 14 men, and the not in-
she was Just. Vesta Tilly. Now she' different artist who carved the ivory
Lady Walter de Frece, and is putting table of Verona, where the same men
all her dash and pep into her hus- I are figured, made use of only three
bands electioneering campaign. She different faces in the whole group
is taking a month's vacation from the On the main face of the chalice we
stage in order to go to Ashton-Under- behold Christ as a "man, clad in toga.
Lyne, where Sir Walter de Frece has enthroned, almost, as in a scene of
been nominated coalition candidate. apotheosis. Above his head is the
ree star nf Rothlohem in a band of
Franklyn Underwood is general rosettes, which mav themselves rep-
manager for Oliver Morosco. Mr. Un- reSent years. Below this band and
derwood used to be a Baker .leading star descends the holy spirit in the
man. his wife, Frances Slosson, is no shape of a dove, as It did at the bap
longer known as Miss Slosson, but as 1 tism in the Kiver Jordan. The right
Frances Underwood. She played leads hand of Christ points to a plate with
here with him and later, ln Spokane, seven loaves, two fishes and a head
they headed a company for one sea- of wheat. Below him the eagle of
son. Mr. Underwood's offices are in the Roman empire partakes of the
New York, but he is in Chicago just blessings of the Christian religion
now making plans to establish a symbolized by the basket, full of
Morosco theater in that city for pro- spiritual as well as bodily food, as
ducing purposes. administered by Peter and Paul.
e e ' Peter sits to the right of Christ, ac
Gertrude Hoffman has a notice run- cording to the Greek custom, and his
ning in several theatrical and motion face recalls the well-known tradition
picture publications warning exhibi- of his appearance. Those, nearest
tors against us'ing her name in con- Christ in the upper row are the two
nection with a feature film entitled nearest relatives of Christ on earth,
A Perfect Model." . James the less and his brother Jude.
Miss Hofman says she is not ap- In the group of the evangelists,
pearing in any picture, has never id- I Mark is recognised by his peculiar
peared in person in connection with face and body and Luke is readily
any film and that her name has been revealed as a Greek. , Matthew is
used by George W. Stockton of Co- properly characterized as a man of
lumbus, O., and by other theaters business and John through the youth
without her consent. I ful sweetness of his face. The two
remaining figures on the chalice are
Gertrude Elliott (Lady Forbes Rob- Andrew, the brother of Peter (by far
ertson) is'to appear in a new play j the oldest member of the group on
in London called Peggy Primrose." the front face of tne cnaiicej, ana
It is an American comedy. Godfrey the outside .member of the reverse
Tearle will be her leading man. I srouv can be no one else than James,
the brother of John, the youngest on
inauae eaiy, who was married to th ohalice and the earliest to die
w..u vi auu last weeK, is appear- The. datA nf the chalire is now
lng in a new play under her new nroven bevnod doubt in various ways
ijapa-m-iaw management, it is called by its art. decorations, form and
The Fool's Game." Crane Wilbur nroDortions all reeoznizable in other
wrute It. I -hiAfta nf Ilia flret fAnrurv A D hilt
not found ln later ones, with the ex-
inurston Hull, once a Baker player, cention of the chairs. The latter-are.
s enaing nis engagement in "Civilian however, also common on first cen
Clothes" this week under Morosco, tury objects as well as on others of
and transferring himself Into the much older date. An important proof
management of Gerald F. Bacon. of the date of the chalice is also found
niiiiA Rn-k. i - in the Greek symmetry, lately dis
--" -- j j.rv . . 1 1 B u new act
ing version of "The School for Scan
dal," prepared for her revival of
Sheridan's comedy in the spring. Miss
Burke has the prompt books used by
Sir Beerbohmn Tree and Augustine peopieSi lB looked upon as pure an-
covered by Hambidge.
Census-taking and the gathering of
statistics in' infinite variety, regarded
as a commendable habit by western
Daly, but she is anxious to have an
noyance in most parts of the orient.
of the world.
ners to the democratic standard?
WHAT THB FARMER WANTS.
If Clemenceau thinks that' by go-
... , . . . ing to Egypt he will have a nice,
Four things are required of a good L,af tlma ., ,.H 1
farmer, according to an inscription wU, be diSappointed. Egypt -has a
on the programme of last month's Ko1 ttot , t .
bad attack of self-determination and
does not stand still long enough for
Lord Milner's commission to vacci-
farm and home convention- of the
Kentucky College of "Agriculture, re
ported in the Louisville Courier-1 nate m
journal, inese are aoiuty to inane
..11 ...... v ....... 1. 1 .. I,..:
, , . . ., - ,, 1 France and the allies must get the
the land," "to rear a family carefully rlmo , . , .. . e"
. - , Germans wanted for high crimes
community," and "to leave the farm
more productive than when he took
if
The achievements of farmers' sons
and daughters in every walk of life.
and particularly in the cities, give
sufficient testimony to the solid
foundation of character built by par-
some way. Were the situations re
versed Germany would easily get all
the Frenchmen, and Belgians she de
sired, not to mention a few "Eng-Iishers."
When the workingman wins the
44-hour week, he thinks he has put
ents on the farms of the country, and . . .T ' ."uuu"
j,- r .k. fa - t,, tells him he will find the difference
IUO - 1 , 1 . 1. V . Lite ...VI L V. .111. V.. 1 , 1 1 1
niunity is pretty generally conceded,
although not always rewarded ac
cording to its deserts- But there are
signs of improvement in this respect.
added to the price of his next "new
suit. The same old vicious circle.
Hungary has had more kinds of
government since the revolution than
J ....!- . L . ,,, . . . t
"U'"'u'l,u" '"corporate more The seeker after facts In the east
of the original play. F. Ziegfeld Jr. neeas Uct and patience to get his in
has commissioned Percy Anderson to ,rmI1,!nn. ramnl r his dif-
design the costumes for Miss Burke's ficulties is Iound h, tna letter which
production and Joseph Urban will be the Boston Transcript recalls, written
responsible for the stage settings. hv . Turkish official In resoon.se to
nn Kntrlish srholar'n oupstinnnairp.
Thuriow Bergen is appearing in ,, la ouoted bv Sir A. Lavard in his
support of Otis Skinner in his new ..NlneVelr and Babyjon."
play, "Pletro." Jules Eskert Good- The tninit vou ask of me Is both diffl-
man collaborated with Mrs. Otis Skin-I cult and useless. Although I have passed
ner in "writing the play". La Grande, a" a!y.a!s in thls place- 1 ,hartve, n,elthr
Or., people remember Mrs. Skinner as number of the inhabitants; and as to
Maude Durban some 20 years ago. what one person leads on his mules and
anotner stows away in tne ooitom ot nis
shin, that is no business of mine. But.
Gaby Deslys is recuperating from a I above all, as to the previous history o(
relanue t fTirintmai lust n she clly- om,, "10" amount, ui
relapse at t-nnstmas, just as sne dirt and confusion- tlmt the inIldeis may
was mending after an almost fatal have eaten before the comma- of the sword
illness. The doctors in Paris have f' I?lam; It were unprofitable for us to
ordered her to the south of France. iamb: seek not after the things which con
cern thee not. Thou earnest with us and
Bryan Foy, oldest son of Eddie, will '"V'r'h.re fTS wWm
not return to the show game. He equal unto the-belief in God! He created
was in the navy during the war and the world, and shall we liken ourselves
. ... . - unto him In seeking to penetrate into the
now he has become the head of a mv..erie. f his creation. Shall we uv:
firm; Bryan Foy & Co., stock brokers, "Behold this star splnneth round that
. aet an nil Star, II1U 11113 ULI1CT SlUI Willi IB 1 1 BOCL11
in ino" . .t.w " and cometh ln so many years! Let it ko
Once npon a time Crook county was
pretty big, but chunks were chipped
off it here and there to make other
counties until finally it was confined
to Its present borders. The tough fea
ture was that as territory was pried
loose, the debt was left with Crook
county, and the population is so small
and the assessed valuation Is so small
that Crook county will never be ablo
to rafse enough money to get out of
debt unless something happens. There
is a way of salvation to Crook county,
and it rests with one of the measures
which will be submitted to the eleo
torate of the state at the special elec
tion in May. This measure !. the re
sult of a trip which County Judge
Wallace made to Salem during the
special session of the legislature.
Curry county, which Is about In the
same fix as Crook, will also benefit
If the measure is adopted by the peo
ple. Judge, Wallace came to Portland
yesterday wlth his wife on county
business. lie wants aid for roads.
"The benefits of good roads re ap
parent to anyone," declares L. M. Gra
ham 6t Forest Grove, at the Multno
mah. "Since the new cement high
way has been built at Hillsboro and
on toward Forest Grove, land Is being
cleared which never before was
touched nor any attempt made to
make it productive. What is going
on along thnt road is being duplicated
on every other good road that has
been or is being constructed. air.
Graham is one of a delegation from
Washington county which arrived
last night to confer with the highway
commission. The delegation wants
the commission to order under con
tract the road from Forest Grove to
Gaston, a distance of six miles. In
the delegation was the county court,
J. A. Thornburg, president of the For
est Grove bank; A. E. Scott, editor of
the News-Times, and W. H. Hollis,
president of the Commercial club, f
E. V. Carter, banker of Ashland,
who likes to hunt and fish. Is at the
Imperial. Mr. Carter is the chairman
of the newly-created state board of
fish and game commissioners. He is
the man who presides over the meet
ings, but doesn't vote unless the game
commissioners and the fish commis
sioners fail to agree, and then Mr.
Carter steps in. He hasn't had to do
that yet, but the chairmanship is de
signed especially as thS place for a
mediator or arbitrator between the
two sets of commisisoners when they
are at loggerheads. Mr. Carter comes
from Jackson county, w.here the
Rogue river fish fight Is ever being
stirred up, and where the commercial
fishermen at the mouth of the Rogue
and the sportsmen along the upper
reaches have never been able to tol
erate each other.
When it cornea to sheep, XI. J. Fln-
iayson of Antelope knows more about
those animals than most men. H'
has been managing flocks around
Antelope since the days when a
sheepherder considered himself well
paid to receive 30 a month and
"found." Now a sheepherder Is fed on
the fat of the land. Including t lie best
brands of canned goods, und drag"
down his little old $100 a month.
which is about 9.50 clear velvet. If
a sheepherder undertook to duplicate
in a cafeteria his meal on the ratme
it would set hlin back about the price
that the pound sterling reached yesterday.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janes J. Mnntarae.
AS WK EAT, KAT. KT.
Chorus for a mimical comedy nf today.
The candlrs glow, the Jaxsrr Jasi,
The trombones blare and loom;
Behind our chairs. In glnvterlns pairs.
The waiters stand and doom.
And there we'll alt, as the moments
flit.
Peliglufnlly tete-a-tete. '
And a eonir we'll sing, as our knives
w swing
And we Joyfully matrtlrete.
We will eat, rat. eat,
From the caviar cans pay
Till we've made a wreck
Ut the pottt l'cveoue
And finished the small cafe.
There are books In salads and aer
mons in sauce
And poems ln fish and meat.
And we'll feast our souls on the bil
lowy rolls
As we eat, eat. eat!
The lad who follows the useful plrnsj.
The sailor who sweeps the main.
Can grab their share of a bill of fur
When the same Is rude and plain.
But they lack the art fur the a la
carte,
For they run to benns and prw-k.
And they'd soon drop out of an eatlnjr
bout
Like the dinners In old New Tock.
So we'll ent. eat. eat.
Through' tho oysters and soup and
f It-ti.
With a glad surprise In our shining
eyes
When the chef springs a brand-new
dish.
The hermit may say he prefers re
pray
And starve In a dim retreat.
Rut we ask the Kates
To refill our plates
As we eat, eat, eat!
e e
What Dora lie Mean, -"ould'l"f
After hurling a D. S. C. twek In the
teeth of J. Daniels, Admiral Kims
blandly tells the senate that he ac
cepted decorations from the foreign
countries because he couldn't refuse
them.
see
BmlsrsH !ceael4iea.
At the present rate for work per
hour, no working man can afford to
own a car that will make loss than U)
miles an hour on the way to the Job.
see
A Pussier.
Life still holds mnny mysteries,
chief among them being what the
dickens the Dutch want to keep the
kaiser for?
(Copyright. lff'-'O, hv The Bell Syndicate,
Inc.)
Woodcraft.
By (.race l' Hall.
Two residents of Bandon, K. D.
Webb and M. W. Treadgold. are reg
istered at the Imperial while in town
on business. Bandon at present Is de
sirous of having a hotter road than
the "Seven levih" to travel between
that town and Marslif u-ld. and if tun
proposed new bond Issue goes
through there will be not only a good
road between Bandon and Marsh-field.
but also between Bandon and t'o
qullle.' Bandon is the main niarko
for the overland travel ln Curry coun
ty to the- south.
Mrs. K. W. TwlJia of Mecca is an ar
rival at the Imperial. During the
cold spell of Inst December Mecca
had the distinction of being the cold
est place in Oregon. The thermome
ter dropped so low In Mecca that no
one likes to mention the degrees no
low zero which were registered there
But the law of compensation always
works, for In summer Mecca Ls ho
enougti ior anyone.
company.
He from whose hand It came will guide
and direct it."
..inon.nnf - .i,,i J my other European country, and
"ability to make a full and comfort- j?,"""?8 l mp'fte e circn t by
able living" from the land. There is,
too, more general adoption of .agri
cultural practices that avoid soil-depletion,
and these will be further ex
tended by provisions for education in
agriculture and by encouragement of
electing a king. Its cure of bolshe-
vism was sudden and complete.
The expression "hard liquor" must
have been coined with prohibition in
mind, and the man who must have a
individual ownership rather than ?.rink wiH rind U harder than ever as
good deal has been accomplished in
some time ago it waa predicted that this direction in thd past two decades
tie Eiasteia. theory would do, A I not exclusively in tno way or 1m-
tenancy, such as is aimed at through tlme goes on
farm loan laws. .
Farmers have succeeded some- In spite Of Representative Blan-
what better in the past in rearing ton' tJhe 'abor conciliators are Well
.mcri fumiiiM than in "mnkino- ,,ii named. They conciliate labor, though
and comfortable living from the tney may not conciliate capital.
land." The lives of our pioneers in ' ' " "
agriculture have been largely lives 11 aijitors snouia succeed in locat
of sacrifice to the coming generation. lng f,sh under water, there will be
It was long a truism that the most a no escape ior tne nsn except to hire
farmer who established his home in camouflage.. painters.
the new country could hope to do was
to leave his children a good home.
The latter, less minded to repeat his
experience, recruited the ranks of
city workers and left the farms to get
along as best they could. Increasing
tenancy, more than any other single
cause, has been responsible for in
creasing poverty of the soil.-
The back-to-thc-land movement
has wisely given place- to the stay-
on-the-land movement, a much more
effective way, all things considered.
of getting results in agriculture. A
xaKing no siock. ui iuo umucny The Parisian paper LAvenlr an-
thlrteen," Theda Bara is going to nounces that all subscribers will be
make- her debut on the dramatic allowed to purchase ten pounds of
speaking stage on February 13 at Far SUgar at cost price, and since sugar
Rockaway. The piece is called The is about the scarcest commodity at
Blue Flame." . Might know any play present in Paris, it is likely that the
Theda Bara had anything to do with I proprietors are doing , well. Papers
would have a warm title. . I have resorted to all sorts of curious
devices in order to increase their cir
In San Jose the big elephants here cuIatlon. At one time the Paris Petit
recently oh Pantages circuit almost Blue then in low water, was nur-
caused a panic at the theater, when chasea Dy Henri Deutsch, who an-
the stage floor broke under tne com- nnunced that he would give away
bined weight of the four huge pachy
derms.
"The Spring -Maid" is being con
densed for vaudeville presentation,
e
Mabel Jones of the Greenwich Vil-
100,000 copies a day, so and so many
to members of various professions,
2000 to dressmakers,. 1000 to butch
ers, 500 to dentists and so on. Editors
in less 'civilized lands have been
known to announce that they will
in
The 65-cent haicput and the 35
cent shave having arrived, we begin
to see certain advantages la. bolshe
vism, after all.
Kxchahge is a wrong name for the
European money market. It's de
veloping more into a game of give
away.
The pound sterling appears to be
suffering rrom a severe case of lost
weight. '
, irll!, hn-r.hin--ed th Mabel to ' Buuscriynoiw in eciianSe ior
vH,i and the Jones to JaunaV and food or other necessities.
, hrfiadnast. Greenland has a newspaper pub
lished at -God-Haabt, called the Kalo
David Belasco'B production of "The rikmik. It is a monthly periodical
Son-Daughter," by George Scarbor- printed in the Eskimo language. The
ough and David Belasco, Is to find its subscription is one seal for a year,
way to the grand opera stage. The two eider ducks for three Tnonths,
opera is to be written by Giaccomo I while single copies cost a dabchick
Puccini. This will be the second work apiece, the latter being a small edible
that has passed through Belasco's seabird.
hands to reach the grand opera stage
via the Puccini route. Gatti-Casazza
has forwarded a script of the play to
the Italian composer with a request
that he-adapt the- work for the Met
ropolitan. t
Arthur Hopkins will shortly place a
dramatization of Mary Roberts Rhine
hart's stories, "Bab," Into rehearsal
tir spring production. Edward Childs
Carpenter made the adaptation.
'
The play "The Woman in Room 13,"
recently at the Baker has been sold
by its owner, ' A. H. Woods, to the
Goldwyn firm for a picture version
Lieutenant Spiker has a vastly ac- with Pauline Frederick in the lead
commodating brother. ' ing role. .
Tou can't believe everything you
find in a catalogue, always. As an
instance, at a recent book sale in
London, where the leading American
collector was represented by his best
informed agent, there came up for
the bidding a 16th century anthology
with the pretty ttle, "Paradice of
Dainty Deuises," about wmch the cat
alogue said: Apparently only one
other complete copy known, that, in
the British museum."
There was keen bidding, but the
American eecured the treasure for
680. . After the auctioneer ., hammer
had fallen John Burns was heard to
exclaim vln a stage whisper: - "Well,
I've sot two at home."
Salt Lake City's commissioners, are
well represented at the Henson. The
commissioners registered yesterday
were C. I). Stillman.'J. P. Dunn. W. B,
Hughes and George U. Bywater. Mr.
Hughes, on his arrival, received
wire that his brother had died sud
denly and took the first train tor the
east.
F. T. Francis, who operates a gen
eral merchandise store at Yacolt
Wash., is visiting local wholesulcrs
and is at the Multnomah. Yacolt Is
a mill town and has been enjoying
nrosDerity for several years, past
Most of the out-of-town business is
transacted with Portland.
T. R. Pollock, one of the settlers of
Tidewater, is at the Imperial. Tide
water is a dot on the map in lienton
county and is situated on the road to
Waldport, not far from the salmon
hatchery maintained by the slate
C. B. McCullough of the bridge de
partment of the highway department
is at the Imperial, lie nas oeen ncs
Ignated as one of the men to go to
Washington to urge a liberal road
appropriation from congress.
There being a session of the state
highway commission today, C i
Miller of Redmond arrived in town
last night to make his cuntomury
appearance before the road men.
Jay Upton, who intends being a can
didate for the state senate from
Crook and several other counties, bus
arrived at the Benton from rrlnc
villc. One of the best-known ranchers in
the Yamhill section is T. D. Kuy
kendall. who arrived at the Perkins
yesterduy to see the siu,hts.
Al F. Coats, owner of extensive
timber interests in Oregon, Is an ar
rival at the Multnomah on ono of his
periodical trips to Portland.
W. T. McDonald, livestock Inspector
ot the province of British Columbia,
is at the Multnomah from Victoria,
B. C.
BringiiTfc a shipment to Portland.
W. H. LeCham, a stockman of the
Bend country, is at the Perkins.
J. C. Flora, a timber man from the
lumber town of Kerry, or., in at tne
Multnomah for a couple of days.
Among' the Hood Ulver arrivals at
the Multnomah Is M. esunuay, an
orcnardist from the valley.
C. A. Dore of Chicago, conected with
Swift & Co., is at the Imperial with
Mrs. Dore.
Citv Councilman A. H. Harris of
Tillamook Is at the Imperial.
No Lat-e raetltriea l.inira in irrrsnisi.
PORTLAND. Feb. 4 (To the Kiil-
tor.) Will o kindly tell me
through the columns of your paper If
there are any lace factories In-Oregon
and. if so, where?
Hl'BSCIUBKIl.
ln the woods where the wild flo ers
are Bleeping,
Awaiting the urge of the prln.
There are workers whose dclt hands
are keeping
The shuttles on wee looms a-swinr,
As they weave from the ehailows and
sunbeams
In patterns cast down through the
leaves
Most wonilcrful lace that no rival can
trace.
Anil they hang It to bleach en the
trees.
There are torchon designs most ar
tistic. Ami Valenrlennes) dainty and nrat:
Filet that Is priceless thnuch mystic
A network of figures complete;
There Is but a short length for your
viewing.
As though It were gathered In hnsie.
Into clusters to dry In the wind blow
ing by.
Though each sample Is fashioned
with taste.
These forest folks ever are working
In the heart of the woodland serene,
No artist his duly Is shirking.
He gives a skilled touch tn enah
scene ;
The lace that the weavers rJI'loil,
Anil drapu on tho oak trees to
bleach,
He paints a pale gray, then hurtles
away
To hang a gold leaf out of reach!
In Other Day.
No lace factories arc listed li the
new directory ot Oregon manufac
tures or in any olhor Oregon directories.
T-renly-l-'le era Ao..
From The Oreuonlnn or February S. I"HV
Tomorrow Is the dale set fur the
Joint nssi-inblase "f the Northwest
Fruitgrowers' Voclal Ion ami th
State Horticultural society, to he held
In the Chamber of Commerce hall.
Eleven ballots lor 1'nitcii Slalui
senator have been taki n at Sal' i
and on the last the vote stood: Dolpli
S.r, Hare 10. Williams . Wcalherforil
7, absent 16, with the remainder
scattered.
People who have an Incmc ou
which to pay taxes over J-tnnO will
he Interested to know that all the
necessary blanks fur the returns hav.i
been received by Collector I'.lai-kmait
and must be filed before .March 1.
William Hume, the well-known
pioneer cantn-rymun, arrived hero
yesterday from a month's pleasurii
trip to ciati Francisco.
Fifty lrarn -t.
Krom Ths f)ree-niilan nf February ' Is'"
Albany. N. Y. The canul hoard re
port the complcllon of the Oswego
and Champlain canals, accorHIng to
estimate. $:i,in,iiiio. of which tho
k'.rie retiirires ll'.fiOO.Onn, the work to
be completed in three years.
The agricultural Ktmlcnts' list at
the Corvallls college Is now full ZJ
students In all.
Multnomah county will pay a stale
tax this year of nearly Sjii.uun. Marion
county pays I19.11H.
Fully 5000 liusht is nf win at. morn
than :ioilll sacks of flour ami jonn
boxes of apples were received by the
boats of the People's Tra ttspnrlat ion
company rrom the upper IHamettv
yesterday.
Amendment tn l lt nf Porta.
LEBANON". Or.. Feb. 3 I To the Kd-
tor.) In The Oreuonlnn. umli-r "Hy-
Produete of the Times" appears n list
if 1.1 "best" American p'ets seleileil
ty the New York Glohn. or by a puh
isher and. printed In Ihnl paper
Without stopping to iirnrrel over I he
J selected, let me slale that 1 believe
some Important omissions have been
made In compiling these names. What
shall we say of Kdwln MarkhamT
lis three volumes of puhliNhcii verse
ontala some of the most notable re
cent American poetry. In this list
must alKO be Included C. I-:. S. Woo-i.
whose "Poet In the Desert" must be
Included In considering our beet lit
orary work.
Then there Is Ezra F'out.il, author
of "Lustra." We can hardly omit
that. It seems to me.
ROBERT H. DOWN.
Outlet for Urala-asr.
HEAVEKTON, Or.. Feb. J. (To the
Editor) A Is tllit'U .his land snrl
the water naturally drains serosa
H"s fa ml. Can B pre. ent A from din
ging a ditch deep enough to drain the,
water from the tiling, which Is down
three ferl? Sl'HSCIH IfElt.
A Is entitled to a natural outlet for
drainage vvaiw, "Tom his lnnd,- but
would be responsible for actual dam
age done In entering on ICk lattn a
construe! ilia or nialnlalnliiii continue,
tiou of his uraiuuiiu cysuin.