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THE MOKXIXG OREGONIAX, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1920
ESTABLISHED BV HENRY I- PITTOCK.
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iiu we got into the field. If we
alone had been fighting Germany
then, we could not have expected
that the enemy would have left us
unmolested from April 6, when we
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Editor. I registered men for the draft, or to
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draft, or to May 27, 1918, when our
troops made their first small attack
at Cantigny, or to July 1, 1918, when
our first million men were in France.
We have no reason to tempt fortune
by assuming that It will favor us
twice in . the same way. Nor dare
we rely on that "great army. Just
mustered out," for as years pass it
will shrink, and without annual
training of fresh levies, there will be
nothing to taka its place.
The question between the men who
would have us profit by the lessons
of the recent past by putting the
nation in a perfect state of defense
and the men who would have us
relapse into the same condition of
weakness which tempted the kaiser
to attack should be fought out at this
session of congress. The league of
nations may render such an elabor
ate system unnecessary, but It is yet
in embryo and we should be guided
by the realities of the present, not
by our hopes of the future. If those
hopes should be fulfilled, we can
easily change the programme tp lit
the new conditions.
DECIDE OX A MILITARY POLICY.
i A good working plan of universal
? military training not service has
been reported to the senate with the
support of both republicans and
' democrats, but is already confronted
with opposition from those two ob
' structlonists in the house. Represen
tatives Mondell and Mann, backed by
, all the forces of inertia which prior
; to 1917 confounded preparedness
with militarism. The bill provides
a regular army maintained by vol
untary enlistment, a national guard
r . of the United States recruited in the
',' same manner, and organized reserves
to be composed of men who have re
ceived compulsory training.
It is proposed that all qualified
men on completing their eighteenth
year shall, during any one of the next
three years which they shall elect.
be given four months' - continuous
training, shall then be assigned to a
local unit of the organized reserves
and shall remain members for five
years, and shall during that period
attend two annual maneuvers of not
over two weeks each. Men may elect
to take their training in the national
guard, extending, - over a period of
three years, but that force is to be
limited to 425,000 men. The reserve
army would be distributed about the
country, officered by reserve officers
and governed by regulations drawn
by committees of officers, a majority
of whom must have been officers in
the great war.
That sounds like a perfectly feas
ible way of providing against an
other such emergency as that ol
1917. It provides a moderate arm)
of 210,000 professional soldjers for
times of peace and for small military
expeditions. It provides the national
guard as a first reserve citizen army
for emergencies. It establishes a
second, reserve of trained citizens
who would be from 18 to 23 years
old, and behind that it provides a
great reservoir of trained citizens to
be drawn on in case of extreme need.
It is estimated that about 800,000
new men would come up for train
ing each year. After the first five
years the organized reserve would
therefore consist of about 4.000,000
men. The only men who would be
permanently withdrawn from civil
life would be those in the regular
army. The national guardsmen and
the reserves would pursue their, or
dinary vocations except during the
brief periods of training and maneu
vers and except in time of a great
war. A supply of arms, ammunition
and equipment would be provided for
the national guard and the reserves,
training camps would be maintained,
but they would entail no further an
nual expense except for the training
period and maneuvers. At minimum
cost the nation would be amply pre--pared
for rapid expansion of its
armed forces from the peace stand
" ard to the war standard. , -""""
This plan is opposed by the Mon-
dell-Mann type of man on the plea
of enormous expense, and they try
to make this plea good by proposing
-to raise the soldiers' pay. As an al
Z temative they propose a much larger
regular army,- to which they would
attract recruits by the offer of high
"" pay. The result would be a far
smaller number - of trained men at
:: higher cost per man than the senate
plan would provide, with no reserve
of trained citizens to fall back upon.
The senate plan is called milltar
'"" Ism by its critics. Which is mili
tarism a standing army of 500,000
highly paid professional soldiers serv-
ing for three years or a standing
T"army of two-fifths that size backed
by two reserves of citizen soldiers
who would serve only in time of
actual war? Militarism does not
consist in training for four months
citizens who return immediately
,. to civil life: men cannot be mlll
- tarized in so short a time. Men are
militarized by two or three years'
.'continuous service in an army of
. which the entire spirit and purpose
is conquest.
. Mr. Mondell says the senate plan
would cost a billion dollars the first
'H year. He arrives at that figure by
assuming that the men would be
;highly paid while training,' as he
would pay the regulars.. His plan
"seems to be to load down the scheme
' T.with heavy cost, and thus o con-
demn It. There is no mors reason
"" why young men should be paid while
--- training for their duty as citizens
than there Is why boys and girls
v. should be paid for going to school
and college. Military training would
be a part of their education, of great
i - value to them as citizens and as a
" means of Increasing their earnings,
but which the nation would give
them in consideration of their poten-
tial usefulness as soldiers.
Our old pacifist friend the New
r.'Tork Evening Post returns to Its
; old pre-war confidence that every -thing
would come out ill right some
how or other in case of another war,
even if we should not adopt uni
versal training, by saying: ,'-,.
That we really need compulsory training
for the national defense can be argued
only if we conjure up imaginary dangers
MM,and overtook the whole lesson of the last
few year.
HOW TO DO IT.
The Eugene Register is troubled
about the new county judgeship. It
says that the salary is low, the duties
important, and the vexations many;
and it makes an appeal for some
citizen, whose epidermis Is thick, In
telligence high, character good, and
concern for his own peace of mind
and personal welfare negligible, to
sacrifice himself on the altar of pub
lic need, and to run for the office.
We wish Lane county well in its
quest for a man for a big job with
little pay; but we are not hopeful.
Or wfc might not be hopeful if the
matter of salary alone deterred effi
cient men from taking public place
It does not; but other considerations
do.
They are the troubles which con
stantly beset the official who deals
with the public and w-ho has import
ant decisions to make. He serves
always In the fierce light of publicity,
and criticism is free .and plentiful.
urten it is aeservea, ana orten it is
mistaken and unjust; it is rarely dis
criminative, or appreciative, or help
ful. When the public approves, it
seldom makes its approval manifest,
except at an election. In the interval
the fault-finders are busy. They
have no scruple about making them
selves heard. It is about all any
public officer hears during his in
cumbency. He must wait for his
vindication till the end of his term,
when he may try It again; and then
he may or may not receive a favor
able Judgment. It is a chanoe he
must take.
The Register knows, of course.
that under the present, beneficent
electoral system all schemes of can
didacy are self-elective. In other
words the candidate must advertise
that he wants a public job. There
Is no call, except from his own de
sires or needs. The convention is
gone; v the assembly s taboo. But
there are ways to do it.
. Let the Register wait until some
favoring night, when the shades of
darkness, have settled upon Eugene,
and then let it quietly summon a
body of good citizens, with a com
mand to meet at some obscure ren
dezvous. Let them then steal stealth
ily through the tree-shadowed streets
to the home of the unsuspecting ob
Ject of their worthy, but secret, de
signs. Let them seek entrance at the
back door of his home, beyond the
sight of any prying eyes. Let them
then eall the surprised tenant before
them and invite him to announce
himself for county judge. But let
them adjure him, on . penalty of
righteous general wrath, not to let
it be known that anybody but him
self ever thought of nominating him
for office.
That is the way to do it, under
the present dispensation.
endanger their new interests in Rus
sia. Those interests would be a
surety to Lenin against their oppos
ing his schemes of world-revolution.
The effort 'to bolshevize the world
would not be abandoned; it would
simply enter upon a new phase. " Its
goal would be establishment of
Soviets in Berlin, Washington, Paris
and London as the new year greet
ing says and as Napoleon followed
his victories by setting his brothers
and his son-in-law on the thrones of
Spain, Holland, Westphalia and
Naples. Lenin is a sincere fanatic
and could not abandon his, plan of
world-revolution without abandoning
the principle to which he has devoted
his life. He has been the directing
power of the soviet and the prestige
of victory has added to that power.
There will be no world peace while
he rules.
MAKING A DECISION.
The Oregonlan has no thought of
suggesting that the proposal to refer
the new zoning ordinance to the peo
pie has behind ,it any scheme of
evasion; yet it has the aspect of a
plan by which the' public is to be
made responsible as a whole, taking
the consequences upon itself. 'V'
The city commission is elected to
represent the people, and to act for
them; and it is not expected, . sor
desired, that it automatically sus
pend its function because any cer
tain matter under consideration has
great importance. That is exactly the
t nis when the commission should rise
to its responsibilities, and should,
after careful Investigation, make a
decision.
Far be it from us to say that the
people should be denied the privilege
of passing on the zoning ordinance,
or any other ordinance, if they de
sire. There is no evidence in this
Instance that they desire. It is a
perplexing and difficult matter, and
it is not easy to see ' or to, say what
is the solution without pafnstaking
inquiry. It is the business : of the
commission to make that Inquiry. Jf
it then shrinks from action, because
of the widespread interests involved,
and insists on a referendum, let it be
at least accompanied by a. recom
mendation from the commission.
It is said that the neighborhood
meetings called under the zoning
scheme' to determine the building
policy of the various districts are
poorly attended. If that Is so, it is
not a happy augury of a correct dis
position of the ordinance under any
eferendum. lThe reason of the lack
of interest is, probably; that the aver
age taxpayer has confidence that no
ordinance will be enacted which in
vades his rights. He passes it all
up to the commission. Why should
It be passed-back to him?
LEXIS'S FLANS FOB 192S.
Since -Its victories over all its en
emies the soviet government of Rus
sia has made overtures for peace
with the allies in all sorts of ways.
It has offered to stop its revolution
ary propaganda for overthrow of
other governments provided they
will cease attacks on it, will estab
lish relations with it and will per
mit trade with it. When the Italian
bolshevists had gained such . power
that the chamber of deputies de-
clared for recognition of all de facto
governments in .Russia, Including the
soviet, and when they prepared to
begin a revolution, Lenin sent them
a message begging them to desist
lest it interfere with his peace ma
neuvers.
That the policy of world-revolu
tion, is only deferred, not abandoned,
is made clear by the following new
year's greeting, which was sent tQ
the world by the Moscow Wireless
Press, controlled by the soviet gov
ernment:
1919 was t year of victory for the work
ing classes on the front and in the rear.
We have a great army. Just
mustered out. which for some yesra will
. be ready to furnish numerous trained or
partially trained reserves in an emergency.
' The success of the United States in rais
ing a great army In a few months, drill
ing It, and sending it overseas to victory,
... shows that men have Immensely over
- rated the necessity for the elaborate, la
borious and costly drilling of huge masses
of men.
We should be safe if we should
--'have the same combination of favor
able circumstances as in 1917
powerful allies to engage the enemy
It was a year of consolidation . for the
soviet authority. The Red army on the
field of battle Inflicted deadly decisive
blows against counter-revolution Under
the mighty blows of the Red army the
horde of Tsarist generals has melted away.
With Rod standards and a shout of victory
we shall break Into the new year of 1920.
In 1920 we shall attain a victorious end
to the civil war. In 'all Siberia, In the
Ukraine, on the Don. In the Caucasus- they
desire the Soviets. There will be soviet
In Berlin. Washington, fans ana ixMiaon.
The soviet authority will be throughout
the whole world.
Long live the new proletarian victories.
Long live -the world revolution.
Long' Uve our Red leaders Lenin and
Trotsky.
Long live the revolutionary year of 1920.
Lenin needs a breathing spell in
which to consolidate his power, to
complete the communist organiza
tion and to repair the wreck he has
made of Russia. For the last pur
pose he needs foreign capital and
brains, for he has killed off most of
the men of ability and education in
Russia. There were not too many
of these, and under the czar Russia
had been obliged to enlist the serv
ices of foreigners mostly Germans,
but with some British and Ameri
cans. - He needs more of them, and
there are men In America and the
allied countries eager for the oppor
tunities which Russia offers. Lenin
plans to get their aid In making peace
by offerlngjlch concessions. He has
already won the secret support of
foreign holders of imperial govern
ment bonds by offering to assume the
debts of former governments. -
If the allies should accept these
offers and make peace, the soviet
would have allies in the person of the
capitalists whom he .would have fa
vored. They would be inclined to
oppose in their own country a policy
hostile to the soviet, because It would
FIXING A STRAW VOTE.
A straw vote, now being taken by
Portland democratic newspaper.
the Evening Journal, is novel If noth
ing worse. On Its face it is for the
purpose of determining the prefer
ence of its readers for president.
Analyzed, It has the appearance of
being fixed to indicate a strong Ore
gon sentiment for a particular in
dividual. Twelve names are on the
newspaper's ballot, with no lines for
writing in other names. But the
straw voter is denied the privilege'
of voting for either Woodrow Wilson,
William Jennings Bryan or William
Howard Taft.
Mr. Taft is a favorite among re
publicans and, is. admired by demo
crats In Oregon. This Is admitted by
the Journal, i, but it eliminates him
from the running with the statement,
in effect, that nobody outside of Ore
gon wants him.
Mr. Wilson is eliminated because
he is too much of a favorite and
would therefore win the poll, but
would probably not accept if nomi
nated. Mr. Bryan, another Oregon favor
iteamong the democrats must not
be voted for because he has said he
is not a candidate.
In short the readers of our demo
cratic contemporary are asked whom
they would prefer for president if
three of their favorites were out of
consideration. '
Now it is not necessary to take a
poll of the readers of the Journal
to determine whom they want for
president if they can't have Taft,
Wilson or Bryan. It Is Hoover, of
course. Every democrat who cares
anything about the continuance of)
democrats in power recognizes the
necessity of nominating a candidate
for president who has not been polit
ically identified with the present ad
ministration or the democratic party.
And republicans who consistently
read a democratic newspaper gen
erally do Its bidding. The newspaper
that is conducting the straw vote is
for Hoover. Straws, It may be ad
mitted, show which way the wind
blows, but on a calm day one can
get behind a straw stack with a
bellows and. make quite a demonstra
tion of wind from any direction.
But the unkind discrimination to
ward Mr. Bryan, in particular, moves
us deeply. All the commoner did
at the Jackson day banquet toward
eliminating himself as a candidate
was to say that he came asking for
nothing, but speaking from gratitude
rather than expectation. "You will
therefore," he said, "not listen to me
with the thought that you are lis
tening to a candidate."
But at about the same time, in a
telegram to the promoters of a Jack
son . day dinner in Portland, ' Mr.
Hoover said: "I am not a candidate
for the presidency and a campaign
to that end from any party 'would
be entirely wrongly directed.".
Thus we have Bryan shyly saying,
"Now, you stop pushing me," and
Hoover declaring point blank. "I am
not a candidate." Bryan falls to
make the straw ballot and Hoover
gets on. It ain't right We call upon
the Jackson club to do something
about it.
manufactures and mines, while the
percentage is 13 for the whole coun
try. Both employers and workmen
opposed the bill, the latter in defense
of -the sacred right to strike, the
former In defense of their right to
run their business and in fear that
many emergencies would be found to
excuse state operation of industries.
which would start an easy descend
into socialism.
The law worked, however, the first
time it was Invoked. It became ef-
fective Saturday, January 24. On
Monday, January 26, the miners of
the Pittsburg coal district did not
go to work, and the attorney-general
sent an agent to inquire the cause
and, if necessary, to prosecute the
offenders. It proved that the miners
simply took the usual Monday off
after, pay day, and all except seven
were at work on the Tuesday. But
what will become of the solidarity
between labos unions and farmers,
of which we used to hear so much?
There Is evident incompatibility be
tween work from sun-up to sun
down and work for a 44-hour week,
and the only kind of class rule
known to Kansas is the rule of the
farming class. .
WHISKY FOB INFLUENZA.
There is at least some ground for
suspecting that the outcry in certain
quarters that people are perishing
from influenza because., whisky is
hard to get is not free from the
taint of dlslngenuousness. Dr. Wiley
has said that alcoholic liquors may
be positively harmful, even to- the
point of being fatal, in such cases.
The Chicago health department,
headed by Dr. John Dill Robertson,
thinks that whisky will kill Influenza
patients about as fast as knything
can. There is a good deal of sound
medical support for Its declaration
that Intoxicants have caused more
pneumonia than they have cured and
physicians quite generally have re
cently been excluding them from
their armamentarium.
No one who otherwise would have
been saved Is likely to die because
of - the enforcement of prohibition
laws regardless of the Influenza epl
demic- The cases in which a littl
whisky might add to" the patient
gratification, especially If he has
been a non-abstainer, probably would
be more than overbalanced, if it were
universally accessible, by the number
of patients who would rely on it to
cure them, neglecting saner methods
and sounder precautions. The old
days in which it was so easy to lift
down the .bottle from the cupboard
shelf were conducive to a good deal
of tragic reliance on this sovereign
medicine," even in Instances when
a more obvious poison would have
been more merciful. Whatever may
be 6aid for stimulants, their inexpert
use in complicated heart conditions
is to be condemned.
The good faith of some of those
who still maintain that whisky is
an indispensable medicine may not
be Questioned, whatever is said of
their judgment; but it probably will
be found on close examination that
there are fewer physicians -behind
the movement than individuals who,
for one reason or another, would
like to knock a prop from under the
18th amendment to the constitution
of the United States.
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES
Hellen Taft Elaborates Her Ideas oh
Unionizing: of Professors. -
Helen Herron Taft, daughter of for
mer President William Howard Taft
and now acting president of Bryn
Mawr college, stands by her recent
speeches, In which she was quoted ai
saying she advocated a strike by pro
fessors, although, she added her re
marks were not Intended to be
wholly serious.
"I should not really like to see col
lege . professors use precisely the
methods of labor unions," she said In
a statement given out by the Bryn
Mawr endowment committee, . which
is seeking an endowment of 12,000,000
to increase salaries of professors,
"because the position of the teacher
or professor' Is rather different from
that of the laboring man.
"I believe, however. It would be
better for college professors to unite
to demand higher pay and even, per
haps as a body rather than that they
should strike individually by leaving
the profession."
Miss Taft explained that by an in
dividual strike she meant that pro
fessors were resigning rapidly to en
ter business because they could not
get large enough salaries in their
profession. She cited the case of Dr.
Virgil Prettyman, former head master
of Horace Mann school in New Tork
city, who has resigned that position
to enter the business world.
The only real record of a "soldier
vote" in an American presidential
election the only Instance, that is,
In which the soldiers' ballots were
counted separately from the civilian
ballots was tabulated In the Lln-
coln-McClellan contest In 1884. Sol
diers In 12 states who were permitted
to vote In the field cast 116,887 bal
lots for Lincoln and 33,748 for Mc
Clellan, a ratio of more than three to
one against the soldier candidate. In
the same 12 states the civilian vote
was: Lincoln, 1,072,282; McClellan.
874,671 a ratio of less than ten to
eighL The Home Sector.
Those Who Come and Go.
AX ANTI-STBXKK LAW THAT WORKS.
Kansas lives up to its record by
passing drastic laws to put an end
to strikes. While congress shrinks
from adopting the anti-strike section
of the Cummins railroad bill, Kansas
has passed a law which practically
forbids strikes by providing that all
disputes as to wages, hours and work
ing conditions snau De adjusted oy
industrial courts with power, to en
force their decisions. Unions must
be incorporated, and their heads are
held responsible for the acts of their
members. The courts may also' fix
prices and regulate Industrial man
agement and In case of emergency
arising from labor troubles or con
spiracy to restrict output or limit
prices, the state may take over the
industry and operate it.
Kansas is in a good position to do
these things, for it is almost exclu
sively a farming state, onjy 4 per
cent of Its population dependent on I
The federal census bureau has rea
son for the pride it takes in the
facility with which its enumerators
have employed every modern agency
of transportation in making the
count. If points out that airplanes
have been used in reaching remote
places in the everglades and Islands
of Florida, yachts and rowboats in
various harbors all over the coun
try, native canoes In Hawaii and the
PhiliDDlnes. mule teams In the
deserts and snowshoes In the north
ern states and Alaska. About the
only craft or vehicle to which resort
has not been had Is the submarine.
The automobile, which was not em
ployed at all In the census of 1900,
has proved indispensable in tnis one,
and has iustlfled itself both on
grounds of speed and economy, be
sides Insuring a count the complete'
ness of which the officials probably
are justified in believing will surpass
any ever made by any country In
the world.
The expected European demand
for American eggs did not develop
n.nd the storage egg drops in con
sequence. Just'as well it did not.
Great rtitv if Europe can eat Amerl
can eggs and Americans go without!
The German cabinet says fatal
consequences would .ensue if the de
mands of the allies for extradition
be allowed, and there's no doubt of
it. That's what the world, awaits a
few "fatalities." .
Constantino - has broken relations
with his brother Chnis, who has just
married Bill Leeds' widow. Foolish
Unir. Ha mav need to borrow a
century" some day.
The president's idea on the treaty
seems to be that Great Britain has
no 1 business making treaty conces
sions 'to safeguard the, interests of
the United States.
Grayson should take the president
on a sea voyage and give him a
chance to get well away from the
troubles of Frank Myers, Earl Grey
and others.
There would be .a lot more milk
bottles If the milk men could ever
get over the habit of breaking them
on the pavement for automobiles to
run over.
If the people have opportunity of
voting on the zoning plan, the gen
eral run of them may learn what
it is, which few now understand
at all.
An illiterate Austrian laboring on
the Holland canal earned $5527 last
year, and what, by the way, are they
paying the professors in McGill over
there? . . 7
With 8-cent carfare, 25-cent gas
oline and shoes at 820 a pair, there's
nothing left for a poor devil to do
but gS to heaven and learn to fly.
Some senators are "stalling" the
Myers case, but it's safe to guess they
lower thef left eyelid when Chamber
lain looks up. '
Be it remembered that for one day
at least there if no whisky news of
sufficient value to deserve mention.
Great Britain, or Its ambassador,
butts into American politics at op
portune time.
Possibly it hasn't occurred to Mr.
Myers that the kaiser jilso declined
to resign.
Everything from aeroplanes to
snowshoes Is being used by the agents
of Uncle Sam In taking the 1920 cen
sus of the United States. About the
only ' modern method of transporta
tion either on, over, or below land or
water that has not been employed In
enumerating Uncle Sam's nieces and
nephews seems to be the submarine.
Aeroplanes have come in handy In
enumerating the dwellers on the Is
lands off the coast of Florida, yachts
and rowboats have been used In the
harbors of the country, native canoes
have been in demand among the Ha
waiian Islands, "flivvers' 'are being
used everywhere, the tried and trust?
mule team has carried the census tak
ers out on the desert regions and
snowshoes have become the trusted
aides of the census gatherers In the
northern states and Alaska.
In the central part of New Tork
state, near Oswego, a few days ago
an enumerator making his rounds on
snowshoes arrived at an Isolated farm
dwelling only to .find , that an able
bodied man was needed more than a
census gatherer, as the man of the
family had been sick in bed for sev
eral days and the farm animals were
suffering for lack of food and water.
The census man, like any good neigh
bor would, stopped long enough to do
the chores, dig out paths through the
deep snow and put things in ship
shape order before continuing hla
Journey. .
'
A correspondent of the Washing
ton Times relates his experience with
the sugar shortage thus:
At one of the. city's prominent
cafeterias, when I called for coffee,
the waiter asked: "Corn syrup or
New Orleans?" as he reached for the
handle of a ladle under the counter.
'Molasses! Anything so it's sweet,"
I answered, while he assured me that
a fellow could grow to it if given
time. Saturday night I was at dinner
at Wardman Park Inn, and after
bringing In a pot of coffee the
waiter said:
"I'll bring your sugar in a minute.
sir.
Tou still have some?" I said to
the head waiter, who was speaking
with me.
"Yes, In the gate," he said.
The waiter slid In a gold-band but
ter plate with a perforated paper
wheel in the center, on which reposed
a neat block of sugar, and I looked.
for I did not know whether to put It
In the oup or in my pocket as a sou
venir.
"They say," remarked the portly
man with several double chins on the
back of his neck, "that the duke is
over In the library."
"I wouldn't walk across the street
to see him," said a shabby individual.
helping himself to a cracker.
He's no better than any other!
man, said the bar boy.
I wouldn't look at him if they
brought him in to me," announced
an aggressive-looking character.
Now this was a remark rich In pic
torial suggestion. ' It was eloquent
with dramatio evocation. One in
stantly imagines the striking scene
the duke is dragged In; the aggressive-looking
character is called upon
to look at him; this he refuses to do.
He breathes the same kind of air
we do, don't he?" pointedly Inquired
the shabby Individual.
T guess that's -right enough, too
exclaimed the bar boy. "Peeps at
People" (Doran), by Robert Cortes
Holllday.
Twenty-five years ago, when rac
coon eoats were selling at 810, many
poorly paid workers possessed them,
but In the short interval of time
elapsed, they have risen in price to
$1000 for a coat of matched skins.
With the .coming of the motor car,
the raccoon climbed socially and a
coon coat became almost an indis
pensable part of the outfit of the
motorist. By 1914 the coats had risen
in price from $10 to $100 and $150,
and this winter the same coats are
easily being sold to dealers for $600.
Since It takes from 20 to 25. skins
for a coat of this kind, with prime-
skins selling at $18 a piece and fur
cutters demanding $100 a week, it is
no wonder that prices are so high.
"We, and I mean the county court,"
says H. V. Alley of Nehalem. a Tilla
mook county commissioner, "have
adopted the policy of locating a road
where It belongs and, once the right
location has been made, whatever is
done on that road is of a permanent
character. It is foolish for counties to
be patching here and there, spending
money on wrong grades and locations,
for such money is thrown away. Get
the right location and the big end of
the road problem is solved." Mr. Alley
says that this summer Tillamook
county may start building a road
from Seavlew, along by Lake Myrtle,
to the rock quarry. Mr. Alley wants
to work both ways from the quarry,
as this will simplify handling the
rock work. The county has secured
another big steam shovel and the dirt
will be flying fh the Nehalem coun
try within a short time. Resumption
of the new road work north from Bay
City will soon start and It may get
to Hobsonvllle this year.
"A contract has been let for grad
ing and graveling 1V miles between
Sunnyslde and Umaplne, in Umatilla
county," says Judge Marsh of Urns
tllla. "Sunnyslde Is on the paved high
way between Pendleton and Walla
Walla and Umaplne, named after an
old chief of the Umatilla Indians, is
in the hay and fruit region. The con
tract is for $49,000. We plan to grade
ana gravel the H miles between Ha
vana and Helix, which 1b in the wheat
country, and bids will soon be called
for improving the 15 miles between
Pendleton and Pilot Rock. We expect
to see all these roads finished this
year. The county is well provided
with funds and the road programme
is being pushed forward as rapidly as
weather conditions will permit."
R. C Bunnell, who is the judge of
Klamath county, "the finest county in
the world, sir," and C. F. Darley, who
is the county engineer, are registered
at the Hotel Oregon. Judge Bunnell
says that the new courthouse, which
was started about 1913, will probably
be ready for occupancy next year.
The judge says that the structure,
which was Intended to be the court
house, isn't a courthouse, but is empty
and locked up. This structure is one
over which Klamath county voters
waged a fight for several years and
which, since its completion, has been
unoccupied. Because of this particular
building, Klamath has been called a
county with three courthouses, a
statement which the judge emphati
cally denies.
"It will be real hard work raising
more money for roads In Deschutes
county unless the people see some
thing being done," asserts Judge Will-
lam jj. ijarnes or send. He is particu
larly anxious to see work started on '
the road out of Bend toward Millican.
which leads onward to Burns. The
cinders which were placed on a sec
tion of The Dalles-California highway
were too light to stand up when wet
by snow, but the judge says that as
the cinders dry out and are rolled
they will make a good surface again
this summer. The cinders are taken
from a pile which was built lip by a
volcano when the Cascade range wag
in the process of formation. -
ERI !
.- Author or Familiar Lines,
PORTLOND, Feb. 5. (To the Edi
tor ) please publish the name of
the author of: "A little learning la
a dangerous thing, etc" .
v JAMES A. WILSON.
Alexander 'Pope, in his "Essay on
Criticism," wrote:
A little learning l a dangerous thing;
Crink deep, or tastenot the Pierian spring:
These shallow draughts Intoxicate the
brain.
Ana drinking largely sobers as agate.
"Harney oounty is at last getting
ready to move forward and will be
something more than a range for big
cattle companies," announces R. L.
Hass of Burns, one of the county
commissioners. "Three directors and a
board of commissioners have been
elected for the Silvies river irrigation
project, which will include about 125,
000 acres. There will be farms and
people where in the past there have
been nothing but range and cattle."
predicts Commissioner Hass. Never
since he entered Harney county years
ago have the prospects for its devel
opment looked so good.
Jay W. Dunn of Toledo, a commit
sloner of Lincoln county, registered
at the Imperial, was not very well
satisfied with his trip to Portland.
The officials of Benton and Lincoln
county had hoped to have the high
way commission help out on the Alsea
road, there being an agreement to
that effect a year ago by the com
missioners but Chairman S. Benson
has changed his mind.
"As the irrigators will get busy in
April, Union county wants to grade
the highway -between Union and Hot
Lake as soon as possible," states W.
J. Townley, commissioner of Union
county. "Unless contracts are called
for and the work put under way be
fore irrigation starts in the spring,
little can be done."
H. M. Farmer of Cloverdale. at the
Imperial, is in one of the main cheese
making districts of Oregon. The
dairymen want good roads to get their
milk to the cheese factories, and as
Mr. Farmer is a county commissioner,
it Is part of his job to see that the
dairymen are satisfied,
Irvine C. Keeler. who publishes a
weekly hotel periodical in California,
arrived at the Multnomah yesterday.
He says that he plans a page weekly
devoted to Portland hotels, and will
do the same thing for the Inns of Se
attle. R.' A. Booth, state highway commis
sioner, left last night for Chicago on
a business trip and will go from there
to Los' Angeles to join Mrs. Booth.
Louis E. Bean of Eugene, attorney
and legislator, stopped at the Imperial
yesterday on his way east to try a
case in a -federal court in Ohio.
E. E. Cleaver of Pendleton, manager
of the Cleaver Manufacturing com
pany, is at the Multnomah. The com
pany makes paints.
S. J. Simonson, president and man
ager of the Cascade Creamery com
pany of Yakima, Wash., Is at the
Multnomah.
Royal P. Root, a "rooter for the ap
ples of Hood River, is at the Multno
mah. At home he Is an orchardist.
G. L. Dunning of Stanfleld, 'a com
missioner of Umatilla county, is regis
tered at the Hotel Oregon.
D. W. Merrill of Albany Is at the
Multnomah. He Is a dealer in timber
lands. ,
ARCHITECTURE VERSUS SCEJf
Works of Nature Lose More la Repro
duction Than Those of Man.
PORTLAND, Feb. B.--(To the Edi
tor.) I wish to take occasion to ex
press an opinion of the recent alleged
action of the superintendent of Port
land city schools in regard to the con
troversy on the subject of architec
tural classics and famed reproduo
tions versus photographs of Orego
scenery, to be hung in the city
schools.
Is the statement attributed to him
true, that one of the famous Grecian
architraves is a "farce"? This archl
trave is embellished by the highest
type of sculpture and ornament, an
has proved its refinement of design
through its adaptability, covering
parallel period of the present Chris
tion world, by Its constant use In
architecture. The most cultured
architects of the past and presen
find no better; expression to cloak
their architectural necessities In a
mantle of beauty and refinement than
some modification of the ancient or
ders of architecture.
The influence of this masterful
architecture can be traced through
the different periods of history an
architecture, through the Marie An
toinotte series of French architecture
the Romanesque and English colonla
of both olden and modern days, th
Georgian and New Kngland colonial
of this country, and the modern re
productions of classic architecture
and style In which nearly all of our
monumental buildings in- this coun
trv and abroad are designed.
All lovers of nature enjoy and com
mend the wonderful scenery of Ore
gon and realize Us natural advan
tages, as well as the appeal to th
tourist, but reproductions of thl
same scenery lack the charm of th
original, because of their flatness an
lack of natural color, softened and
blended by our wonderful atmos
pheric conditions, which give depth
and absolute harmony of colo
through the purple haze of distance.
that cannot be reproduced by photo
graphy, and, when reproduced by th
artists's brush, his conception usually
lacks intensity of detail, multiplicity
of which makes for the natural
grande ensemble.
It Is not my intention in any way
to depreciate the photographs of Ore
gon scenery, but feel that architec
ture is one of the world's greatest
necessities, to aid In the developmen
of refinement, art and culture, at the
same time shape these accomplish
ments into real practical necessities,
which will ultimately make America
the most beautiful and picturesque
country In the world, at the same
time developing her industries and
business, and raising working and
living conditions to the standard that
has long been pictured in the minds
of the worlds greatest philanthrop
lsta.
Is it not better to exhibit before the
young mind works of masterful char
acter, the expression and detail of
which they may become accustomed
to. and gradually cultivate the feel
Ing of refinement for their futun
education and benefit?
LEWIS IRVINE THOMPSOX.
PROF. BAILEY ON "DEMOCRACY"
Famons Horticultural Educator Also
Illuminates Another Topic.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor.). L. H. Bailey of New York state
speaks here this week on hortlcul
tural topics. A well known author
ity in that specialty, Mr. Bailey has,
I believe, in the east a reputation for
effective thought, writing and speech
not confined in range to the life of
plants.
It is too bad, and our distinct loss,
that we are not to hear Mr. Bailey
upon ajiothcr subject wherein he has
shown power and clearness of inplght,
with precision and charm of expres
sion. That happens to be a subject
which vllally affects every one of us
right now, holding every living issue
In its folds and leaving the dead and
spurious outside. It also happens to
Include a question too few Americans
ask themselves, which rigidly de
mands an answer that none of us can
give: "What Is democracy"? Yet If
we lose the road, good by to goal. We
shall get the same Impartial hook of
fate that downed the dismal crowd of
phantom peoples strung along the
line of time through the deserts of
the past.
We may serve some future race, as
they do ours, to "point a moral or
adorn a tale" after we've "gone glim
mering to the things that were;" but
Is It not rather our will and better
ambition to win tout and make the
final touchdown In ths world's great
game?
In our publlo library, one day, I
chanced across a modest little book
looking quietly out, "half hidden
from the eye," in a maze of more lm
posing leafage, and as lover of the
violet claimed my find. The choice
was Justified, for it proved to be
masterpiece. It was Mr. Bailey's
slender volume dealing With that
question about something not so trite
nor simple as we who have grown
up In this great republic lazily regard
It What meaning has "democracy"
for us? Do not all speak at once.
Just what Is It, and where? Inci
dentally, what is It not? Is there a
touchstone that can test It. or a spear
to pierce its counterfeit disguises?
I have known nothing like or equal
to Mr. Bailey s handling of this mat
ter. and so, with all due regard for
horticultural values. I am sorry he
does not talk to us now of our own
more turbulent selves, who mould
and are moulded in, grace and at
times disgrace, the animal kingdom.
C. S. It.
Dairymen Not Drawn to New Party.
HILLSBORO. Or.. Feb. 4 (To the
Editor.) I have read , with Interest
The Oregonian's account of the con
vention now meeting In Salem for the
purpose of forming a land and labor
party. From the vigor and unanim
ity with which the Dairymen's
league recently turned down such a
proposition, I do not fear that the
farmers of our state will allow the
wool to be pulled over their eyes'to
any great extent. . In comment upon
this subject I should like to quote a
few sentences from a recent letter of
a North Dakota friend, the wife of a
prosperous farmer:
"Mr. C. has sold our bank stock and
severed all connection with the bank
where he has been an officer for
nearly 18 years. He does not like the
non-partisan politics of this state and
got out while the getting was good.
We feel that land is the only safe In
vestment, but under this rule the
taxes are more than donbled on our
farms, while railroads, telephone and
telegraph companies pay less taxes
than they have for years. But I must
not let myself get started on this sub
Jeot, so will say no more."
MRS. E. E. WATTS,
Jersey Jewel Dairy Farm.
Tax on Admission to Da are.
EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) la there ariy la'w that
women compelled to pay 10 cents
war tax to be admitted to a dance?
Also la these a tax of 10 cents to
spectators?
(2) To whom should a person write
regarding soda fountains and public
places that are faking in their war
tax rsturns? READER.
(1) Dances, as well as other places
of amusqment, are classed as luxuries
and the tax is assessed in proportion
to the price of admission.
(2) Inquiries and reports should be
addressed to the Collector of Internal
Revenue. Customs House. I'ortiand,
who will supply you with more de
tailed information.
With a Kick in It.
By Linton L. Da vies.
TWA8 EVER THUS.
There was a green worm,
A littl green worm,
Who dwelt all alone.
By the side of the berm
'Neath a dandelion root
That mild little coot
Lay curled In a cute little squUm.
There was a brown wren,
A little brown wren.
Who kept open house
By the edge of the sou
By a thornapple tree
As snug as could be
Ha snoozed at a quarter to ten.
One day the green worm.
The little green worm.
He wandered too far
From the edge of ths barm.
And the little brown wren
Who lives in the glen
Says, "Yea, 'twas a tasty llttls
worm!"
BEXVOLJO.
e o.e
Example, Leans of Halloas Text.
Dear L. L. D.: Here's one: Teach
er What are the three kinds of sen
tences? Schoolboy Simple, ooroplex
and indeterminate.
-Donald acrraocc.
Insnss Pi'oetdnro.
you think I can tv on
the
Do
stags?"
"Yes, If you'll get a pass frsra As
box office."
see
he SlornS.
She sleeps. One careless arm up
thrown
Incurved- as Circe's was and round
her mouth
Lingers a smile as for some doar oik
known Who late has kissed her and stratgnt
headed south.
My lady sleeps.
BILL.
see
What the Waitress Hears.
The spinster: "The menu, pleasa"
The railroad man: "What's the
schedule?"
The theater manager: 'Ylot a pro
grammer
The contractor: TJhoot ms a blue
print."
The er-oervlee lad: "Call ths roll
on ths pies."
e e
Another Demorratle Administration.
Dear L L, D.t The country Is suf
fering from "flu." hlrh prices, wood
alcohol and soctal unrest.
What could be worse?
MAJOR R.
see
Qalfk. Hsne, Ike Amino!
"School Ilnads Split on Art Fries."
reports a headline In an evening
newspaper.
In Other Days.
Twraty-flve Years Ago.
From The Oregonlan of February , IMS.
The question of opening the dalles
of ths Columbia In some manner to
commerce Is before the legislature at
Salem in two bills, one by Senator
R.iley and one by Representative
Uoothhy.
The prevalence of srarlet fever.
scarleMna and diphtheria In this city
has been the cause of renewed agita
tion concern'ng ths present sanitary
arrangements at the public schools.
News has been received tht Dr.
Arthur J. Brown, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, has been elected
one of the corresponding secretaries
of the Presbyterian board nf foreign
missions, wlih headquarters In New
York.
The taking of ths census for ths '
stale of Oregon has been started In
some sections. According to the stale
laws this Is one of the duties the as
sessors must perform every ten ears.
Early History of Virginia.
ESTACADA, Or., Feb. 4. (To the
Editor.) (1) Is there a history of the
early settlement of Virginia, and if
there la, where could I get such a
history?
(2) Does the bill that has Just been
Dassed providing a pension for all
classes of Civil war Veterans Include
the southern veterans, too.
SUBSCRIBER,
(1) There are numerous histories
of the early settlement of Virginia,
available In most public libraries.
Write to the Oregon State library,
Salem, If' you are unable to consult
reference library nearer home, and
copy will be mailed to you.
(2) No national pension bill to In
clude ex-confederates has been passed.
Flattening Her Out.
' London Tit-Bits.
Mabel "Oh. Nellie, I'm so glad to
meet you. I haven't seen you for
such a long time. Where are you
boarding now"?
Nellie (loftily) "I don't board. I
am married, and have taken a flat."
Mabel "You don't say so? What
fs bis name?"
WICKKD IIEPOBTFR MISQUOTED
Tearhrr Not Kulltr of Lapse of Gram
mar Commented Us-ou.
PORTLAND. Feb. S (To the Kill-
tor.) In The Oregonlan Feturdar
there Is an artlcls entitled "Grammar
and Wsshlns" in which the recom
mendation Is made that the teacher
who made the remark "If you were to
take In washing, you would get $ a
av. as agnlnst we teachers' lo would
do better to take In washing herself
han to tesch, and so avoid any ques
lon of her grammar.
The writer fully screes with Ths
Oregonlnn. No teacher has any busi
ness teaching If the above quotation
Is s sample of her grammar. In this
case the wicneu rnmrirr inn vtin
In her mouth that she did not use'
and never would n.
As It happens, the teacner quoted is
not one of the regular teaohers, but
special teacher. Her work nss
nothing to do with the teaching or
grammar. Before, coming west she
lmht her special sunje'i in i
astern colleges and also In a state
normal school. Her use or corre. i
English was never questioned at any
Of these places.
Tha solicitude of The uregonian in
behalf of the school children is mott
nr.laworthv. All will admit the ne
cessity of their hearing only the very
best of English. ly I suugesi mv
the same solicitude be shown toward
the general public: A repon.r ....
uses the expression
teachers' o" In his account of an
occurrence would do well, in the ir-
-sts of the reHiitig punuc
he rules or grammar in..i. ..
hus uphold the stnndard of as exrel-
ent a paper as me . -..
CANDIDATE r OK iwuiu.i
WASH-WOMAN.
Flirting With Rndlestlsm.
rriRTl.AND Feb. 5 (To ths Edi-
r.) Times are changing. If ths
country wants to - - ------
aid the golden earcs. uemoi-ri
republicans may have to ojsc.rn ......
wo old cnestnui p.u.. - -----
ands. In order to maae .
safe for democracy" accora.ng to
pompous motto they may have W con-
der only one nan""
ther name) party, ss against in m
new one "red," "soviet or r......
. whom DOlltlcans and
MCI' 111 lini -
labor agitators have promised
Such union or
parties has been found necessary In
other countries. iu.j
The democratic party has looKea
for and found support and votes f..r
the last few years with the more
radical element but It may not be
long before there will be no mors
"pic. goose, or eggs" If the same po
lev Is kept on. The danger sign IS
,h. rennhllcan side but on the
red with woom aemocrauy
been flirting dangerously. JAXcg
the
old
he
February Wllh Five Sundays.
BOYD. Or., Feb. 2 (To the Editor.)
Did February ever have five Sun
days If so, when before 1:n?
' ' A SUBSCRIBER.
Sines ths Introduction of the new
stylo calendar February has hid five.
Sundays In ths years I7i. 1784, 1S24.
1862 and 1RS0.
What Venue Is Trying; Kar.
KnE'BOWER,Or.,rb. 4 (To ths
Editor.) The Incessant thumping ths
wireless keys have received of hits
are "supposedly from Venus." Khs. Vl
is on. Is Imploring us to shut off ths
gas. - J. W. TOLLMAN.
A