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that a mere matter of 25,000,000
miles is important to an ether wave
once launchecf into the infinite dis
tances, yet substitution of Venus, for
Mars will hardly cause a pang. Our
chief Interest now is in interpreting
whatever .message either planet may
have for us. It is a long way from
being established that we could keep
up our end of an interplanetary con
versation even though every physi
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JTRIES AND LAWYERS. -
One great difficulty about getting
satisfactory and intelligent juries is
the objection made by worth-while
' men and women to service. It is not
alone that such citizens are busy
with their own affairs, and -do not
- want to be taken away from them
even on a call to public duty; it is
also true that they have -a certain
repugnance to litigation and the
average litigant. Most cases should
never be taken 'to court; they could
be, and should be. settled by adjust
ment or compromise. Nothing is
won' as a rule by a lawsuit, which
could not have been gained other
wise out of court. A judgment in
money, which appears to be a sub
stantial victory, may be whittled
down by court costs and lawyers'
fees to nothing, or to an actual loss.
Henry Ford began suit; against a
Chicago paper for a million dollars
Carnages and got six cents. ' It was
not much of a victory for Ford. It
shows that there was but little, ' if
any, merit to his complaint. Ford
spent thousands of dollars In -the'
case and required the-newspaper to
do the same. This might be toler
able, so far as the public is con
cerned; but it is indefensible that
the public should also be called
upon to pay large sum mainly be
cause such a trial is projected to un
reasonable lengths by the technical
fencings and wordy wranglings of
the lawyers. We shall hear, no doubt,
that the trial costs are assessed to the
litigants; but they cover only a part
of the costs. Why should not every
dollar be charged against the un
successful party?
Over at Montesano two weeks
have been taken in getting a jury to
try the I. W. W.'s. accused of the
Centralia murder. Who pays for
court maintenance for all this weari
- some time? Not the prosecution, nor
the defense, but the public. Yet the
jury should have been chosen in a
day and the 'trial should not last
more than two weeks. It will drag
out its slow length for weeks,, and
even for months. It will cost many
thousand dollars and the taxpayer
will foot the bill. A more efficient
system would guarantee both justice
and economy.
The fault is not with any individ
ual lawyer or judge, but with the
system. They play the game accord
ing to the rules.- The game is to get
a juror who is not impartial, but par
tial. Too often it succeeds. - The
prosecution's definition of --a good
juror is one who convicts; the de
fense's, the other way. To that end
the highways and byways - are
searched for talesmen who are sus
1 ceptible to the persuasions of the one
tide or the other. x
. The best talent for a plastic or
vacant-minded juror is one who does
no read the papers. Starting from
"nowhere and with nothing, where
does be go, except along the lines of
least resistance defined by . the
smartest lawyer?
A scheme of justice based on Ig
norance or lack of information, if
you please and not on the enlight
enment which grows out of a lively
and intelligent interest in human af
- fairs, including the day's news, is
certain to score many deplorable
failures.
WHERE THE MONEY WENT.
From time to time congress has a
demonstration of where the money
went during the 'war, when it voted
billions without turning a hair,.when
any official vAo wanted anything
was free, to dive ' his arm in the
treasury up to the elbow, and when
any man questioned the propriety
of his doing so was silenced by a re
flection on his patriotism. Represen
tative Garland of Pennsylvania gave.
one of these demonstrations in the
house a few days ago.
He called attention to an official
price list of articles for sale in the
army quartermaster's retail stores
and showed "stocks and dies, new,
from a quarter of an inch to an inch.
at 123.50 a set," this being adver
tised as the original price. He bought
a set which he showed to the house.
Then he went to a hardware store
in Washington "and purchased iden
tically the same set of stocks and
dies made by the same people for
$1.25." He obtained a receipt in
which the merchant "stated that he
had never sold these articles before
in the history of his business, and
that is a good many years, for more
than J7.25."
Kither the manufacturer made 200
per cent more than his normal profit
or the price was mysteriously ex
panded after the goods left his
hands. . In either case the same
methods applied all along the line to
all the things which the government
Dougm during inose two necuc
years would go far to explain where
the money went.
' ', TEXTS OR MARS?
Scientists are proverbially unim
aginative, as we are reminded by
their rejection of the possibility that
Jdr. Marconi's wireless disturbances
come from Mars, on the ground that
Mars is incapable of sustaining life.
It probably is at least 100 degrees
colder on Mars than here on earth.
says Dr. 'Abbott, director of the
Smithsonian Institution's astrono
- mical laboratory, and there is
practically no water vapor surround
ing the planet, a fact that precludes
the possibility that Mars can sup
port vegetation or any other form of
food for living creatures. The
thought that there may be other
strange forms of beings which re
quire no water or vegetation or heat
is rejected incontinently. All living
. things, to the chemist's mind, are
made up. largely of compounds of
carbon, and as every chemist on this
earth knows, heat is an accelerant of
chemical union. So the scientists
of the Smithsonian have put Mars
out of the running.
Professor Lowell, who clings to
his theory of the existence of canals
on Mars, stands to win or lose more
than any other individual if his col
leagues are proved wrong. It will
be a vindication worth while for
this astronomer if 4t turns out that
it is Mars that is signaling us. But
the public, less concerned with per
sonal aspects, loses nothing of ro
mantic interest by the substitution of
Venus as oar possible loquaaious
neighbor. We have seen less of the
surface of Venus, owing to Its per
. sistently cloudy envelope, but this
may be only a further challenge to
the higher imagination. It is almost
as hard to believe that beings, and
vegetation necessary to sustain them,
can subsist without sunshine, as to
picture them in a perpetual iero tem
perature; yet since Professor Ein
stein has shown us that knowledge
- at best is only relative we are better
prepared than we were for complete
revision of all the basic facts of life.
Venus at least, as Dr. Abbott
points out, has a distinct advantage
in her relative proximity. At her
nearest approach to earth, she is
A FORWARD-LOOKING MAN.
In the passing of E. P. Ripley,
president of the. Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, whose death occurred at
Santa Barbara Wednesday, one of
the stalwart figures of transportation
development in this country is re
moved. Twenty years ago, when rail
road officials generally held, to the
conviction that the railroads were
obliged to dabble in politics for pro
tection of the industry, it was Presi
dent Ripley who came out firmly
against further expenditures of funds
of the Sante Fe for political pur
poses. , .
It was a radical departure from es
tablished practice. The Santa Fe
controlled the affairs at the capitals
of several states and it was alleged
and popularly Tjelieved that lobbies
maintained by the railroads had
more influence in framing legisla
tion than public interest. - In the
states of Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma
and territories of New Mexico and
Arizona, it was said that the first
move of prospective candidates was
to gain approval of counsel fpr the
railroad. t -
President Ripley by his order re
moved this cause bf antagonism to
the railroads co far as the Santa Fe
was concerned and the example was
followed by other railroad executives.
Likewise, he was one of the first to
recognize the power for good of rail
roads and the public in a proper ad
ministration of the interstate com
merce commission. Always aggres
sive, with excepVional ability of pro
gressive character, he was a great
constructive force, 'from whose work
the country will continue to derive
benefit.
to be saved, but the task is not for
them alone; it is for the league.
If a. war which began with class
propaganda should end in national
conquest, it . would , but be a repeti
tion of. the history of the French
revolution. . In .1793 ' Prussia' and
Austria undertook, to crush, French
republicanism and were beaten, and
the propaganda was tarried by force
of arms into all adjoining countries.
The republics then established were
mere dummies ruled by French
satraps. So it may be if Russia':
red armies push westward.
' ONE AID TO PROFITEERING.
If the United States railroad ad
ministration got its deserts, it would
be prosecuted by the attorney-gen
eral for at least being an accessory
to profiteering. Shortage of " oars
makes demand for lumber so keen
among dealers in the middle west
that they offer manufacturers
bonus for delivery, and any .dealer
who actually receives a carload can
sell it several times; . . ,
The Mississippi. Valley . Lumber
man tells how.it works. -A Minne
apolis wholesaler had a ' carload of
100,000 lath, and sold it to a retailer.
Next day the buyer sold" 'it again at
a profit of 1100. The third day the
second buyer sold it for another
bonus of $100, and before the week
ended the car bad changed bands
four times, each time at a profit of
3100. . . - '
This sort of thing promises to con
tinue ell Into this year, for the
number of empty cars .promised is
less than half the shortage, and per
formance never keeps up with prom
ise. The best way put- of the pre
aicament would be to load every
available ship and send it througli
the canal. ' .
anlv 25.000.000 miles away: Mars is
f 0.90 00 00. One will hardly suppose Beresina and Dniester if Europe is
HEREDITARY POE. FAfE TO FACE.
If the Russian red army should
now be thrown against Poland the
war would no longer be between the
bolshevists and those parties of Rus
sians which seek to establish democ
racy in place of terrorism. It would
be a war between Russia and a
hereditary enemy, which in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
contended with the czars of Muscovy
for rich tracts of border land and
whose king at one time was a candi
date for the vacant Russian throne,
to which the Romanoffs were finally
elected by the nobles. Though the
remnants of thearmies of Tudenitch
and Denikin might join the Poles,
the war would be presented to the
Russian people as a struggle with
foreign invaders.
Although bolshevism is' outright
negation of nationalism, and . pro
fessedly seeks to unite the proletariat
of all nations against all other classes
of all nations, Trotzky has not
shrunk from the inconsistency of ap
peal to national sentiment when, it
could be used to advantage. Making
use of the fact that Denikin's troops
wore, discarded Britistuunifornis and
were armed and equipped by the
British, he hurled denunciations at
British invaders. He has formed
alliances with the nationalists . of
India, Egypt, Persia and Afghanis
tan, promising aid in delivering them
from the British yoiae. By placing
Brusiloff at the head of the red army
he hopes to stir the pride of Russia,
for Brusiloff won Russia's last vic
tories over Germany and Austria.,, '
This policy implies that the- Ger
man officers, who have been all
powerful in direction of the red
armies, according to reports brought
from- Moscow by enemies of the
soviet, have, either lost their influ
ence or have fallen in with Trotzky's
new plans, though by so doing they
expose their own country to danger
of a red invasion. Thence may
spring another paradox aid by Ger
many to Poland In repelling the reds,
since Poland is the barrier between
Russia and Germany though Ger
many is as desirous of absorbing
Poland as it was in 1915. , .As Ger
man troops, once admitted to Poland,
would not readily .depart, the latter
may rather dispense with their aid
than accept the risk it would imply.
The reported disagreement be
tween France and Britain as to the
wisdom of allied help to .Poland in
a campaign against the reds creates
an emergency to meet which com
pletion of the league of nations
should be hastened. France would
help Poland, Britain refuses, though
the new republic could hardly with
stand the bolshevist rush. The reds
now have the largest standing army
in Europe, and captures from Deni
kin and Kolchak must have left It
well Vequipped. with artillery and
tanks. If it should sweep over
Poland, the smoldering spartaclst
spirit in Germany would take fire,
and the conflagration might easily
spread southward through Czecho
slovakia, Hungary and Austria and
westward into France. It behooves
the allies to keep- it .west "of the
HONORS FOB SONG WRITERS;
The French government takes a
long step toward official recognition
of the psychological element in
morale which, 'indeed, is perhaps
9 per cent psychology by its award
of a cross of the Legion of Honor to
Louis Bosquet, author of the song,
Quand Madelon,". which it is ad
mitted by officers of all branches of
the ' service had a strong held on
the men of the army during the dark
days of the war, and led them to re
double their efforts', when failure
seemed to confront them.. Yet "Made
lon" was no more a "war. song," in
the heroio sense t)f the. term, than
was our own "Hot Time" of the
Spanish war. Half a dozen songs of
the Civil war had as much right to
the definition. "Tipperary," .which
fired the English in the sad, early
days of the war, owed its popularity
to the same indefinable quality not
to exalted poetry, or even to a noble
musical strain. The literary Oritic.
and the master composer alike would
have agreed that none of the.sfings
mentioned including "Madelon" -was
worth a straw. Yet all served a
high purpose;' "Maryland" did not
win the Civil war for the Confeder
ates, and neither did "Dixie," but
they made it harder for the. other
side to win, and they buoyed tip the
fighting men. Yet one was indif
ferent verse and the other was
frankly designed as just a "coon
song" when it was written. ' ,.
If the United States government,
which Is not inclined to bestow
military honors for non-military per
formances, were asked to match the
action of the French, it might be
forced to hesitate a moment, but it
would not need to rail in a jury of
highbrows to help It to decide. Its
hesitation would be due wholly to
some slight difference of opinion
whether "Over There," or "Hail,
Hail, the Gang's All Here!" did the
most to cheer up the boys from this
side of the water while they -were
making the world safe for democ
racy. "The Star Spangled Banner"
itself did no more than either one
of these in the way of maintaining
morale." The point as to a morale-
sustaining song ia that it must catch
the fancy of the men, and if he does
that, nothing else matters. The sol
dier, who in a great war is the best
possible specimen of the average of
all the men of the nation, may not
be a critic, but he knows what he
likes. The song writer to deserve a
war cross must meet this test only.
Incidentally, it is a curious fact
that few of the soldiers of the A. E. F.
who learned to whistle the refrain
of "Madelon" brought, home with
them a very clear idea of what the
song was all about. There is a
singular lack of adequate transla
tions in geneaal circulation. Prob
ably the same thing was true of the
French when they took up "Tippe
rary" at the point where the .Brit
ish all but dropped it.' But the of
ficial anthems of the nations were
feeble by comparison , with a few
chance compositions in their power
to arouse the 'fighting spirit or save
the weary marcher front fatigue.
tlat his whole course during the last
year was iounded on a grievous error
of judgment and thus surrender to
his political opponents with an elec
tion at hand. . It has now become
impossible for him to use the treaty
as a campaign issue: on the contrarv.
political necessity compels him to.
aeprive the republicans of the op
portunity so to use it , -Yet
Lord Grey, cannot . be held
guilty of any breach of diplomatic
propriety in writing a letter to the
leading newspaper of his own coun
try calmly analyzing the attitude of
the two countries toward the treaty'
ana eacn other. He is surely free
to discuss American politics with
Britons, and if his writings are cabled
across the ocean and republished in
American newspapers, that is no af
fair of his; it is merely a piece of
newspaper enterprise. If the cir
cumstances .had been different.
thought of the political embarrass
ment he might cause Mr. Wilson
might have restrained him, 'but after
having cdoled his heels for three
months on the doorstep of the White
House he may be excused for having
Deen a little thoughtless.
Moreover. Mr. Wilson himself sup-
ptiea iora . urey with a precedent
When the president found the ItSilian
delegates at the peace conference un
yielding on the subject of Fiume and
Dalmatia, he appealed over their
heads to the Italian people. He thus
aroused the indignation of Premier
Orlando, .who went straight home.
called upon the chamber of deputies
tor a vote of confidence and got it
with a vim. On that occasion Mr.
Wilson flung all to the winds except
the one purpose of gaining his point.
Lord Grey did not appeal over the
presidents head to the American
people. He addressed himself to his
own people, but through a medium
which would surely reach Americans.
Far more weighty considerations
than Mr. Wilson's feelings or polit
ical exigencies may well have decided
Lord Grey, if any breach of etiquette
were involved, to take the risk. He
saw Europe slipping into chaos for
lack of .the aid. which America could
and was willing to give. He' saw the
good relations between the two coun
tries which must be the mainstay
of the league endangered by con
troversy in which many harsh things
were said. He knew that a candid,
friendly -definition of the real posi
tion of each country toward the other
would remove all -basis for misun
derstanding and would open the way
for- American participation in the
treaty and membership in the league
and would bring the two nations Into
harmonious Working. He cared more
for these things than for the wound
ed vanity or for the anger at a
thwarted apurpose of an obstinate
man. ' Confident in the approval of
future generations in both countries.
he could safely brave that one man's
wrath. " . ;
IS THE JURY SYSTEM A FAILURE T
A. woman is seeking her decree' be
cause her husband has a habit of ex
pressing himself too freely about the
quality of her folks, dead and alive.
There are times, probably, in the
lives of most, husbands when they
want to do just that, and do it, and
if their wives are not' equal to the
proper come back they ought to get
their divorces. Lack of statistics,
Why Are Mem 'Ckoiei Because They
Are Merely Ignorant?
Pendleton Tribune.
The jury system, as a system, is
safeguard of liberty, but its operation
is sometimes both a farce and a sham.
If any person of ordinary sense can
give any reason why the law should
permit the- qualification or men wno
do not read the newspapers and who
are either so stupid or so ignorant
.as to know nothing of such a crime
as that which occurred at Centralia
on armistice day, the explanation, will
be orsrinal if not interesting.
In any important trial, especially
of a criminal nature, the object of
the lawyers seems to. be' not to secure
Intelligent man with sound judgment
and a broad sense of justice, . but to
secure men who are of lethargic mind
and who profess to know nothing of
the matter to be tried,
Such men are never good jurymen
for either the state or the defendant.
In most instances they will be led by-
some mentally alert man on the panel
and who is there ' because there
seemed no way to prevent his sitting.
It. is the clear-minded jurymen who
are keen In conception, who read the
papers and who think, who dominate
substantially every panel of jurymen
Invariably a few such men are ac
cepted by both sides or they are called
at a period of the examination when
challenges have been exhausted and
the lawyers are helpless.
The performance now in ' progress
at Montesano, Wash., where the court
is endeavoring to secure 12 men to
try the men accused of the, Centralia
crime, is a case in point, crreat num
bars of jurymen have been called, ex
amined and either . excused or chal
lenged. Probably both the state and
the defendant would have been quite
as well off to have taken the first 12
men who entered the jury box. The
more intelligent a man is the fairer
he, will be, under, most conditions. If
widely read, and highly intelligent,
he will be. able to weigh evidence
find reach a just verdict more easily
than a man who is accustomed to
loose thinking nd who finds it diffi
cult to carry the facts deduced in a
trjaV to the end.
The .hackneyed questions propound
ed by lawyers really reach only the
surface. Fifty questions might be
asked without touching the real sen
tlment.of the juryman under exam
ination. If he has read nothing of an
important and much-discussed crime,
he ought to be rejected. If he has
read of It, the only vital question is
whether or not .Bis reading and con
versation has brought a. fixed opinion
to. his mind. If he still possesses an
open mind he is a good juryman, re
rerardless of what he may have heard
or read, and probably ar better one
than as though he had never heard of
the case.
i The most reasonable question com
monly asked jurymen is this; If you
were on trial at this time, and a man
were called to the jury box whose
mind was in the same state as your
mind is now.' would you feel that you
would secure a fair hearing, a just
verdict at his hands?" If the answer
iB'"yes," and the man under examina
tion is known to be an upright man,
he will be- a fair juryman, and the
state and defendant may properly
accept him. .' -
The habit of long examination and
of endeavor to badger talesmen into
some statement which can be used to
eliminate them from the jury is caus
ing the best men to hesitate and to
seek excuse from jury duty. The best.
the most capatle, the most thoughtful
of citizens ought to be in the courts
to assist in arriving at justice.
The state. will be compelled to act
soon to protect itself.. The jury sys
however, shows they are few or they m's J"erinff- " mnst be
suiter in sueiiue. .
Oregon's prize blooded dairy cattle
and great dairy farms obtain recog
nition of their merits through an ar
ticle by Sydney B. Vincent, of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, In
the Western Milk Dealer and Dairy
man. In fact, Oregon is shown to
have gone beyond the point of being
a great butter and cheese state; it
breeds blooded dairy cattle for sale
all over the country. - -
Alleging an enormous waste of
print paper by executive departments
of the government. Senator Smoot
declares the treasury department
alone used 758,896 pounds of paper
for printing and distributing 25, 066,
000 copies of democratic speeches.
The senator is too severe. It was
only trying to. keep the home fires
burning. k :.
WAS LORD GREY JUSTIFIED?
If President Wilson wanted to cut
off any possibility .that Viscount
Grey would write a letter depriving
him of any excuse to accept the
Lodge reservations to the German
treaty, all that he need have done
was to- receive Grey and thus for
mally recognize .him as British am
bassador. . " Grey would then have
been bound by all the restraints of
diplomatic usage. He would have
been debarred from discussing the
relations of the two countries with-
any persons except the president and
secretary of state,: and would have
been obliged to keep his communi
cations with them secret until they
consented to publication. Grey might
then have informed the president
that the British government did not
object to the reservations, but the
president might have withheld that
Information from the senate, and
might have held the democratic sen
ators in line by cultivating their hon
est belief that reservations would be
death to the treaty. .'-,
The president's Inability to re
ceive Grey kept the latter in Wash
ington, ostensibly doing nothing,, but
actually by no means idle. As an
unreceived ambassador, he was free
to mix with the people, and to learn
the opinions of leading statesmen on
the relations of this country to his
own." He evidently made good use
of the opportunity to convey an ac
curate statement of the condition of
public opinion to his government.
He also remained- free, subject to the
approval of his government, to en
lighten British public opinion through
th newspapers, of his own country.
Mr. Wilson's anger on reading
Grey's letter to the London Times
was natural, for it wiped out his
whole case for opposing reservations
and left him in the impossible posi
tion of the one obstacle to the peace
for which he had been most earnest- j
ly striving. But the only possible!
escape from that position is to admit j
There is a man lying critically ill
If he is not dead in a local hospital
from a shot in the back while run
ning from a policeman. Comment is
unnecessary except to advise ' that
when a policeman cries "Halt!" one
would better stop right there. .
Robbing Standard Oil company
filling stations seems to have become
a popular sport with the holdup men.
Just possible that they are philan
thropically trying to reduce the
amount of John D.'s income tax.
Labor purposes to go into the cam
paign officially and in the open this
year. Yet individuals in the sacred
enclosures of the' ballot booths will
vote as usual as they see fit.
Portland looks good to eastern
concerns seeking more business. It's
like adding drops to a bucket already
full, but the? Portland business
bucket never slops over.
"Foch joins Immortals,"; H&d
line. Not so serious as it sounds.
The allied generalissimo is still In
good health, but has been admitted
to the French academy.
New York city is now to institute
one-way traffic in Fifth avenue. ' If
they can stand It in Fifth avenue, we
ought to be able to stand it in Alder
and Stark streets. .
The usual'' contesting .delegations
will go to Chicago from South Car
olina this year, with the distinction
that both are of mixed colors. .
Two days will .be' enough for -the
rose festival this" year, if there, are
any flowers left after the bouquets
are showered on the Shrlners.- -t
A Eugene bootblack has returned
to Greece with a. fortune of, 310,000
gained by shining shoes. - He should-
cut quite a shine back home. .
LACK OF TRAINING IS COSTLY
Hiatory Full of -Incident to Show
Value of Military Preparedness.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) A, B. Cousins in his letter of
January 31 lauding the untrained sol
dier has evidently never read the his
tory of our wars.-. George -Washington-
Bald after the disastrous battle
of "Camden "What we need is a good
army, not a large one." Our military
historian, General Upton, says that
the untrained -soldier has caused an
enormous- and unnecessary loss of
life and treasure in all our armed
struggles. " " , '
Upton says -"that statesmen often
fall into the error that numbers con
stitute1 strength and points to the
war of 1812, when we employed 527,
654 troops against 82,502 for the
British.- Upton again says that 6000
well trained British troops baffled all
our attempts at the, invasion of
Canada and destroyed our plans of
conquest of that country. We would
have ended the civil war In six months
with a well trained army and have
saved thousand of lives and millions
in money.- ..
Well trained American troops can
not be excelled by the best armies in
Europe, but in all our wars victory
has been almost snatched away by
the conduct of untrained troops. The
faithful Upton reminds us that in all
our wars we have outnumbered the
enemy, but that battles are not always
lost on the field of battle, but more
often beneath the dome of the capltol.
If I am right I believ.e General Persh
ing said that .he hopes no American
general would be compelled, to lead
untrained soldiers into battle again.
Mr. Cousins is wrong about the
ability of the 'untrained soldier be
he American or of any other nation
ality. John Adams said that "national
defense is one of the cardinal duties
of a statesman, and if England had
listened to General Roberts and we
had listened to Theodore Roosevelt
there might have been no blood bath
In Europe. J. E. R.
Those Who Come and Go.
"In a few weeks we will begin our
Investigation of the feasibility ol re
moving one of the railroad tracks
from the Deschutes canyon and using
the material to build a railroad from
Bend into the Klamath country,
states Roy W. Ritner. With I. N.
Day of Portland and Denton Bnrdick
of Redmond. Mr. Ritner composes
special commission appointed by the
legislature to make a study of this
scheme for developing southeastern
Oregon. The idea? Is said to have had
Its inceDtion with Mr. Day, who was
appointed by Governor Olcott on the
commission. Mr. Ritner being tne ap
pointee of W T. Vinton, president of
the senate, and Mr. BurdicK tne ap
pointee of Speaker Jones of the house.
This commission, which will devote
considerable time during the spring
and summer to investigation, is ai
rected to submit a report of Us find
lngs to' the 1921 session of the legis
lature. ' There are now two railroads
in the canyon and negotiations have
been on for several months between
them concerning the abandonment of
one of the lines:
"It was reported that the thermom
eter showed 67 degrees below zero at
Madras, but that was guesswork it
was only about 40 degrees below,
states J..M. King, the new judge of
Jefferson county, who was in Port
land yesterday. Also .we- had 40
inches of snow, so the intense cold
couldn't do much damage to what
was in the ground. The snow insures
good crops and it looks like a bumper
year for us. -There' is every reason to
believe that The Dalles-California
highway will .be completed across
Jefferson connty this year, a matter
of 60 miles. -A contract will soon be
let from Madras to the Deschutes
county line, and from Madras north
to the county line the highway route
will be surveyed and contracts let
within a few months. The entire
highway work should be finished be
fore the end of the year. We've lost
all this winter on road work for, with
the exception of two weeks, there
could have been construction going
on all the time had contracts been
let. We will spend about J22,000 on
market roads in 1920. . ,
As a taxpayer. I'll be hit with our
proposed $500,000 road bond issue in
Jackson county," confesses W. H.
Gore, banker and orchardist, of Med-
ford, "but good roads are a real in
vestment. Anticipating that the bonds
will carry at the May election, prepa
rations are now being made for put-
mg s.100,000 of it on the road from
Medford to Jacksonville, the county
seat, and then on into the Applegate
country and, with the assistance of
the forestry people,- we hope to see
the road built to the California line.
This road would tie in with the road
along the Klamath river, which the
government wants, and for which
California will spend a few million
dollars when that state is able to
ell Its road bonds. Jackson county
will put another big chunk of money
on the Green Mountain road to Klam
ath Falls, and a. quarter of a million
on the Crater Lake road."
When G. J. Gessling of Tacoma
registered at the Hotel Portland yes
terday afternoon he was Informed
that he would have to wait a few
hours before he could be accommo
dated. "I helped build this hotel."
declared Mr... Gessling, as an argu
ment for being taken care of. "Well."
replied Clerk John J. O'Brien, "why
didn't you build on a few more
rooms? We could use 'em." . .
When anyone starts talking of
eroplanes, D. E: Stewart of Knappa
becomes interested. Mr. Stewart, who
conducts a lumber mill in that town,
contends . that . the aeroplane la the
coming thing, and he has even gone
to the point of speculating how the
irships can be used in logging opera
tions in the forests of Oregon.
Monument, Or., from which point
Cecil Sweek registers at the Imperial,
asn t much population, but once
pon a time the vote from Monument
ecinct settled the election of a
United States senator. It turned the
tide for Jonathan Bourne wiren he
rst went before the people and en
abled him to nose out Harry M. Cake.
Harmony.
By Grut E. Hall.
Whence comes the wondrous harmony
thit trllla from human throats.
And whence the honeyed melody In
wild bird's thrilling notes?
Who taught the crystal brook to aing?
The eagle fierce to scream?
Who gave a language to each thing in
life's gigantic scheme?
The ruffed grouse has his special
drum, the coyote's call we hear.
The Bob-White s tone Is never glum
he speaks in accents dear;
O, who can doubt that angels sing In
choni3 of the sky, ,.. ,
Wlien we from every living thing
hear music passing by?
TRAILED MEN ARE PRO.TECTIOJS
Foe May Not AlwJ. Oblige by Walt-
Ins; Until Defease Is Perfected.
mr x-n Veb 6. (To the Ed
itor.) Mr. Cousins' sta"8"" '"..I"!
to military training that we
ntve won" ouwars with untrained
.n" and that "our volunteers have
Always delivered the goods'' reflect
He simrgly complaisant concep
tions of the average American. The
fact, are that our volunteer sys em
sul.. f.n.ir and we have had
fo resort to conscription in ou. thr
5 ,t that we were not able
o them until we put
trained men in the f ield
During our mmiuii""-' ---- --
. , phaMpn au over
untrainea arn..o "?"-r--r..n ,
the 13 colonies oy n.eio "-""--,
Rritish regulars, due to the short
Britisn "gum . -.:-,ai con-
igntea policy v..
gress OI eniisiniB --- -- -
months, which gave our officers in
sufficient time to train mthe men
There was not a year from 177 to
.! r rmv did not outnumber
the' British armies on this continent,
and during the whole war w actually
used 395. 31.8 men i
British.- The war of 1812 was won on
the sea. and our land operations were
one succession of disgraceful aeieai
for our untrained armies.
of the Mexican war was a glor ous
jne. due to tha ract mat our
...i... weri our mainstay, anu m
few volunteers who participated were
given a training of from four to
ight months on the border. The first
year of our civil war was another
record of defeats for .ourt .Vn.,,ri,?.",'!
armies, ana it was i ""''" . , V
Pope, HallecK ana uraui. imu
time to train their men that we Degun
to win battles. In the Spanish war
only three volunteer regiments par
ticipated in battle;' one of , these
ignomlnlously laid down under fire;
another was led into a trap by their
,,nir.inA colonel and might have
been annihilated but for the prompt
action of a squadron or regular
i..nni rovalrv: tne tnira uimin
guished-itself by doing what they
were'ordereo to ao.
Our last srreat war was certainly
nnt wnn with untrained men: a few
there were in the front Itnes, but the
7..if mnioritv were civen from four
to eight months of hard training be
fore being sent overseas.
Will our next war be with an enemy
nhllirln enoireh to irive us six or
eight months In which to train our
army, or will we have allies who are
prepared "to hold on until we can get
ready? Should we not give our men
this training In time of peace, and not
wait until we are hard pressed to do
what we should have done before
hand? A. BARNES.
Mom Truth Than Poetry.
r s J. Maatsraa,
PAY NOT CAVSE OP RETIREMENT
"Six in thousand lield weak-
minded," says a headline. Obviously
wrong. There are more democrats
in the country than that
At least one of the 170 rooms re
served at San,' Francisco will be
"sacred," else it, will not be a proper
headquarters.
Military statistics show that six in
a thousand are weak-minded, and
everybody knows his six.
Good news: Rain and increasing
southerlY winds.
As usual, April weather again here
in February, . ' ., ' ...
Asr" Limited In Application.
PORTLAND. Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) The Oregonian has had, occa
sion to mention Australia, and
Australian, several times recently,
and each time the wosd "Anzac" has
been used in the headline, giving the
erroneous impression that all Austra
lians are "Ansacs. it wouia De an-
surd to use the word "doughboy'
when referriner to all Americans, sol
diers and ordinary civilians alike, and
the nosition is exactly the same. The
word "Anzac coined from the capital
letters, "Australian, New Zealand
Army Corps" i3 revered In Aus
tralia, and its use is barred unless
reference is made to tne reai Anzacs
-the soldiers who rougni at uain-
poli. Even the troops that left Aus
tralia with the first contingent, the
third lot. and all after the third, are
never referred to as "Anzacs in Aus
tralia The use of the word is re
oorvfHl for those brave Australians
and New -Zealanders who made his
tnrv at "the landing" (April 25, 1915).
Australians are usually referred to as
"AuSSieS, "Uorn-siorKB, ana yio sui-
diers generally as "ootg '
Tiroihourne. Australia, but not an
"Anzac." '
Burar of Rare Coins. .
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Ed
itor ) I believe you have quit quoting
the value of old coins, but could you
kindly give the name of some reliable
coin collector? Have some old gold
dollars and half dollars, also 'silver
dollar of 1853. A READER.
New York Stamp, & Coin Co., New
York City. J
Common Feminine Pursuit '
Kansas City Journal'
'In ' Borneo," ' remarked Georgette,
"women do the pearl fishing."
"Don't-they everywhere?" demanded
Tricotitie, ,v
A slip of a girl is Miss Helen A.
Courtney, but she knows more about
fire-fighting apparatus than the
average fireman, for It is her busi
ness to sell engines, chemicals, hook
and ladders and the rest of the equip
ment to cities. She is at the Multnomah.
P. E. Larson, a merchant of Alle
gheny, in Coos county, is at the Mult-
omah with his family. Allegheny is
on Millicoma- river, about a score of
miles northeast of Marshfield. There
is good fishing and hunting in the
vicinity and it is a dandy summer
camping place.
Coming "outside" to shop ate Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. .Wheeler and family of
PeterBberg, Alaska. . Mr. Wheeler Ib
a business man- and will return north
in a few days while the family re
mains in Portland for a few weeks.
They are at the Hotel Washington.
To attend the millinery openings in
Portland and get an idea of what will
be the mode in headgear for Easter,
Mrs. Lissa Hanna of Kelso, Wash., ia
registered at the- Hotel Washington.
Mrs. Hanna is in . the business at
Kelso.
Having brought her husband to a
local hospital for treatment. . Mrs.
David A. Broughel of Walla Walla.
Wash., is registered at the Hotel
Washington. With Mrs. Broughel Is
her sister. Miss Anna Fitzgerald, also
ofthe metropolisof the wheat belt.
Ben Kuppenbender of Tillamook,
sometimes known as "the big cheeHe"
of that locality, because he is the
president of the association and is
better than six feet tall, is at Jhe
Multnomah for a few days. ..
Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. Mayhew
of the British forces registered at the
Benson yesterday from London. Eng
land, where the. pound sterling Is
much more highly esteemed than In
Wall street.
Leo J. Falk. manager of the Owyhee
hotel, at Boise, Is -visiting at the Hotel
Portland. The hotel takes its name
from the river, ind the river Is more
In Oregon than in Idaho.
One of the mainstays of Seaside,
aside from the summer tourist crop,
in th local box factory which E. S.
Prouty directs. Mr. Prauty Is regis
tered at the Hotel Oregon.
J. S. Delaney, president of the War-
renton Investment company or As
toria, motored to the Multnomah yes
terday, showing that the lower Co
lumbia river highway is giving
service.
Genre-e McKay, well-known retired
stockman of Fossil, has been ill at
the Perkins, but is now on the mend.
He was threatened with pneumonia.
Leslie E. Wood, who'edrts a dairy
magazine and does aavemsmg ior
some of the Important interests or
Puget sound, is at the Multnomah.
A C. Peterson, who manages the
California Packing corporation of
Dallas, Or., is at the Multnomah.
Manufacturer of berry boxes an
veneer boxes is O. L. Zentner of Ban
don, who arrived at the Multnomah
yesterday.'
J. H. Dunlap, who Vuns a big mill at
Llttell, Wash., is at the Hotel Port
land. - f' , . I
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Cyrua Townucnd Drady Sueoessful as
Writer Before Leaving Priesthood.
PORTLAND, Feb. 8. (To the Edl-
or.) In an editorial appreciation ot
the late Cyrus Townsend Brady The
Oregonian says "He resigned from the
hurch . . . because he louna it
mpossible as a clergyman to earn a
ufficient salary to support a family."
Mav I call your attention to tne
fact that nearly all of his bookH were
written while he was still acting as
priest in the performance, of his
parish duties? During the time he
wrote most of tho books which sland
to his credit he was rector of Trinity
church, Toledo, O.; St. George's church,
Kansas City, and Ascension church,
Mount Vernon, N. Y. The reason for
his resignation at Mount Vernon, his
last parish, was wholly different from
the one you ascribe.
During alj this time we were ac
quaintances and friends. Dr. Brady
held, his priesthood in too high an
estimation ever to lay it aside. And
during the last five years of non
parochial life he was constantly In
the church's service preaching and
ministering where overburdened
clergy needed assistance.
THOMAS JENKINS.-
cocexsATiosr
Aa Ylew4 a Marln.
Stationing marine. In Uealltlr rrf
outside the dry zone h. hae a big
Increase in re-enlistments.
They don't cotton to ua TsnViw
down In Haytl.
If you go to spend yrmr Hherty
ashore.
Yon had bettr take along a hwky
ma tey.
Or you'll finish (as the Frenrfc aa'
a la mora.
But when ence you've fnn-
t way arrows the pla7.
An the exercise has pot yon kins'
het.
And you want to aay. "TTre hipin.!
there'll be some Hodden, open.
For tho Demon ain't bean raasnd
from Haytl yet! ,
It Is mlrtty dull around the CVna'
station.
You will soon get awful weanr of
the sights.
And it ain't a very prudent oerupa.
tlon
To go batHn" 'round the baaeh
on darkish nlchts.
But when In the shado If ninety ar
hundred
Which will happen every other nnsr
and then
An it keeps on getrfn' hotter, an'
you do not care for water.
There's a chance to get a drink, or
elfcht or ten. a
I don't hanker for a home In Pntr
Guinna,
VHiefe you stumtle over Unman oa
the street.
Where your three-a-day consist of
friod banant,
And the cr-ntlpedr-s are fr-lsleta
'round your fret.
I have seen a lot o' countries nn my
crulxes.
And them Is Jimt about the very
worst.
Hut I wish that T wrs hound (here, for
I nxvor yet hnve fnumt there
Any lin-k o' hsndv mnns to Mink a
thirst!
s s
lie el It.
.Maybe Sir Oliver Lorfce hm mm
over hern to brine some sort or super,
natural help to his senatorial nimiw
sake.
as
Tlie I.eirlMnllve Mmlf.
There will he no pork barrel thl.
year, and no wnnder, with baron at a
dollar a pound!
s
An Awful Trmptatlan.
We fear that tho axsertlon timt
ahlsky may he Inxueil to flu" pa
tients will not ilo a great deal toanrd
cherklnor the pren,l of the epidemic
(l opyrlsht hT The Hell MM,r1l.-nt. In- )
In Other Days.
Overlooked by Enumerator.
HOLY ROSARY HOSPITAL, Onta
rio, Or., Feb. 4. (To the Editor.)
No census taker has approached me
or my roommate, Mr. Brown, and 1
don't believe there has been one at
the hospital. There are 22 sisters
here and the hospital is full of pa
tients. J. J. CART WRIGHT.
Twenty-five Years Aan.
From Ths Orrgnnlsn of Fohrusry 7.
Rev. James C. Head, ex -Ta pi 1st
preacher, was yesterday rancht In tlia
net of robbing the First National bank
of East Portland, lie had hound and
taetted the cashier and only the time
ly arrival of a citizen thwarted lha
robbery.
The State Hortlrultur.il society ses
sion opened yesterday In peppery
fashion, with a lot of discussion over
reorganization.
The S2d aemi-annual commencement
exercises of the Porthind high m h"ol
will be held in the assembly hall Fri
day afternoon and evening.
The first meeting of ttie council In
ita new elccant quarters tonk plaea
yesterday under depresNlni; circum
stances, as Mayor Frank was (oo III
to be present
Fifty Years Abo.
Frem The Oreffotilsn of ! lrtiarv 17.
Chicago Omaha dinpHtchrs ay re
ports from Forts Fettrrnmn and l.nr
smle Indicate that Indians to tha
number of about 400 are assembling
on the Powder river.
A resident In the northern part of
the city reports that the Indians liv
ing there, maddened by bad whisky,
have become a serious annoyance.
Receipts of the Portland Library as
sociation for the year were $:i;in.R5
and expenditures ;i !)?!. There ara
31X0 volumes of which 57 were add
ed during the year.
Colonel T. J. Dyer has received ap
pointment from Governor Wood us
pilot commissioner to succeed Captain
John H. Couch, deceased.
Poor But Proud Hrfrnee.
London ltllBhty.
The Judge "So you claim ou
robbed that dolicatesaen store because
you were starving? Why didn't you
take something to eat, Instead of
stealing all the rash out of tho retls-
ter"?
The Accused "'Cause Im a proua
man. Judce. an'. I make It a rule to
pay for everything I rat."
Today's Dances "Frightful' Say
Teachers of Bygone Art
The rustling of crinoline blended with the soft strains of waltz
music when the Washington Guards, Company B of the OrcRon
.volunteer militia, gave a Fourth of July bail in Oro Fino hall, on
July 4, 1867, in old Portland. The beaux and bellfs of another gen
eration followed the steps of the lancers and the waltz. Nowadays
most of the dancing is done in hotel dining rooms.
"Modern dancing? - Painful," say Mrs. Nina C. Larowe, "AP C.
Carter, and other dancing mentors of a generation ago. "Now,
in oua day ." . .
Tomorrow's Sunday Oregonian tells their opinions in a story
by De Witt Harry.
Portia Come to Judgment There was the woman with hair
bleached to conceal its grayness and face rouged and powdered to
fill in the wrinkles; there was the colored girl, charged with stealing
a coat fpom a department store; there were the two -women in fine
fur coats whose eyes were bright and hard. Case by case the magis
trate disposed of them, showing that quality of mercy for which the
first Portia pleaded. Her name is Jean Norris, and she i the first
woman magistrate. In a court room that echoes testimony of guilt,
she still holds' faith in womankind, says H. C. Norris in the Sun
day Oregonian. ,...,
"AaPart I Can't Play; Getting Old So says Clara Morris, whose
Camille and Miss Multon caused men to raise their hats and thehr
canes and women to wave their handkerchiefs aloft when the curtain
rose for the call. Clara Morris is 72, but she is sure she will never
grow old. Her reminiscencces are related by Ada Patterson for the
benefit of readers of tomorrow's big Sunday Oregonian.
The Dunraven and the Santce "Can I take my boots off, cap
tain?" The seaman came of a respectable family,' and he didn't want
to die with hie boots on. But he and his comrades pulled through,
though the Dunraven was lost Practically all of the American offi
cers and men at Queenstown volunteered for the Santee when she
was fitted out as the Yank "mystery ship.".. They torpedoed her, the
Germans did; but she got back to Queenstown, afur belligerently
cruising around for a periscope that never came up.
Did Lincoln's Assassin Really Escape? R. D. Craig and J.
Harley Craig of Oklahoma City, Okla., say they lived with him in
El Keno. A story by Clive Marshall, with a rare old painting and
masterpiece of a cartoon, discuss the death of Booth in the Sun
day Oregonian. -
The Very Young. Girl-e-W. E. Hill is at it again. And the very
young girl, when she reads the back page of the magazine section
of The Sunday Oregonian, is going to find something that hits her
or some of her friends.
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