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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1020
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WHAT LINCOLN WOULD HAVB DONE.
Somehow, on this natal day of the
Greatest American, two paragraphs
from the addresses and- letters of
Abraham Lincoln - stand out more
clearly In memory than other of his
famous utterances. Perhaps it is be
cause they are more or less applic
able to current affairs; or perhaps, in
consideration of his services to his
country and to humanity, it is be
cause they give an infallible index to
his character and his method.
Can any one fail to see, in the fol
lowing sentence from Lincoln's cele
brated reference to the copperhead
Vallandigham, that it will serve as
an apt commentary on certain con
temporary events?
Most I shoot the simple-minded soldier
boy who deserts, while I must not touch
at hair of a wily agitator who induces him
to desert?
Debs is in prison, but Haywood
and Bcrger are still at large, though
under conviction. They encouraged
resistance to the draft and sowed in
the minds of many citizens the seeds
of sedition and disloyalty. We can
have no doubt that Lincoln would
have classed tbem with Vallandig-
ham, who sought to obstruct the mil
itary progress of the Union and was
court-martialed and sentenced to
prison, but who as an alternative was
deported, only ,to return and write
the plank of a great ' party that de
clared the war a failure.
Again: ' . " '
Sly paramount object Is to save the
Union, and not either to save or destroy
slavery. If I could save the Union with
out freeing any slave I would do It; it 1
could save It by freeing all the slaves. I
would do it: and if I could do it by free
ing some, and leaving others alone, 1
would also do-that. --
It may be assumed that Lincoln
would have sought to show the way
for America, in a troubled and dis
organised world, so that it would per-
form its paramount duty to promote
peace for all nations, with or without
a league of nations.
road brotherhoods. It shrank from
this course also. It appears, recently
to have aimed at delay of a settle
ment until after the roads were re
turned to their owners. Private op
eration would then be resumed un
der conditions of such confusion as
would play into the hands of the
radicals who wish to force the Plumb
plan on the country. Nothing could
better please the brotherhoods. .
The threat of a strike should in
fluence the decision of the conferees
who are shaping a compromise be
tween the Cummins and Esch rail
road bills. The majority of the house
has shown such lamentable lack of
courage in rejecting any anti-strike
clause that the senate conferees have
consented to eliminate that section of
the Cummins bill. Since fear pf
political penalties alone governs the
actions of the majority, popular in
dignation at .stoppage1 of traffic may
possibly prove more potent than fear
of the brotherhoods and may lead
them to legislate for protection of
the rights of the public, the railroad
men and the railroad owners in such
a way that all will be reconciled.
congress should display so much
courage, at least 90 per cent of the
people would approve, and the ad
ministration might then become im
bued with enough courage to enforce
the law. No harm can come to the
nation if the legislative and execu
tive powers provide effective means
of Justice as demanded by the mass
of the people without paying heed to
the selfish clamor of organized
minorities.
frequently set examples that the lat- Europe. The disputed succession
ter might profit by. gave Bismarck the desired pretext
The American boy is all right. He for annexation in 1864. and for con-
responds, as has been shown, to trust trol of the route of the Kiel canal.
and sympathy. He refutes the doc- That was the first step in making the
trine of original sin. He is still the Baltic a German lake, commanded
raw material for anything that we j by Kiel as the great naval base,
intelligently labor to make of him. The conditions bv which the -cit-
It would be absurd, of course, to wait izenship of the inhabitants was de
for the next war to giv him another cided after the annexation were
chance. The lesson of the past three marked by the same species of cruel-
years will not be ignored by parents I ty as was inflicted aq the people of
and others, who have the welfare of I Alsace-Lorraine in 1871. For six
the coming generation at heart.
WHERE THE BLAME WOULD I.IK.
If the railroads should be tied up
by a strike, responsibility must be
shared with the strikers by the ad
ministration. Whether the claims of
the maintenance of way and shop
men are just or not, a decision
whether to grant or refuse them
should have been reached long ago.
The demands were made last July,
but President Wilson asked the rail
road men to give him time to try the
alternative of forcing down prices,
or at least of preventing further ad
vance. He has been given time,
twice as much as he asked, but not
only has he failed to force prices
down; they have risen appreciably.
The best that can be said for Attorney-General
Palmer's anti-profiteer
ing campaign is that it has prevented
as great a rise as otherwise would
have occurred. At the . end of
seven months the railroad adminis
tration is confronted with the same
demands, supported by the same ar
guments, and those arguments have
been fortified by the failure of Mr.
Palmer's campaign.
The imminence of a strike which
would suspend rail transportation
drives home to the public mind the
fact that such a dispute is not be
tween the employers and employes
only, but Is between those two parties
combined and the public which it is
their duty to serve. It clinches the
case for legislation to prevent strikes
by bringing to the front the right of
the people to uninterrupted service
and the dire consequences of paralysis
of traffic. To say that such a disaster
is a necessary incident to settlement
of railroad labor disputes is an insult
to American intelligence. It implies
that we have made so little progress
in development of rational methods
of settling disputes that we must re
sort to the barbarous ordeal by
battle.
If anything could justify the tenac
ity with which railroad men cling to
the unrestricted right to strike, it
would be the policy of procrastina
tion pursued by the railroad admin
istration. It should be practicable
to determine within sixty days
whether the section men and shop
men are entitled to higher wages,
and what should be the amount of
the advance. Any delay beyond that
necessary to determine this question
is a practical denial of justice. It
gives plausibility to the plea of em
ployes that, if deprived of the strike
weapon, they could never enforce a
settlement. The plea is false, for it
implies the incapacity of democracy
to solve its most pressing problem.
Only the Incompetence or timidity of
the men now in charge of the eov
ernment give it an appearance of
truth.
The government has let the con
troversy with railroad employes drag
on from month to month in apparent
Micawber-like hope that something
would turn up to save it from being
compelled to make a choice. On the
one hand it shrank from giving an
advance of wages which would vastly
increase the railroad deficit. On the
other hand it shrank from flatly ret
jecting the demands and thereby
causing a strike with all its political
consequences in a presidential year.
The third course was to throw its
support to a plan of fair and prompt
especially prompt adjudication of
labor disputes as an essential condi
tion of a law forbidding railroad
strikes. In fear of the anger of the
Federation of Labor and of the rail-
COXSCRIPTED.
Having decided for him that Mr.
Hoover Is a democrat, Mr. Oswald
West is arranging to place his
(Hoover's, not West's) name on the
ballot for the presidential primary
n Oregon. Evidently Mr. West has
also decided that he (Hoover, not
West) is a candidate.
It makes no difference that Mr.
Hoover has notified the people of
Oregon, through the accommodating
medium of the Jackson olub, that all
efforts in his behalf will bo "entirely
wrongly directed." Hoover ought to
know, but the West assumption is
that he doesn't When was Mr. West
ever mistaken about any great polit
ical enterprise?
But we do not complain, for we
freely concede that Mr. West is fol
lowing an-eminent precedent. Did
not certain republicans discover in
1916 that Mr. Hughes was a candi
date when he said and doubtless
thought he was not, and submit his
name against his wish for the sov
ereign decision of the republicans of
Oregon? Did they not light the po
litical fire that illuminated the en
tire national horizon, and changing
the metaphor put both Oregon and
Hughes on the map?. We'll say they
did. What happened in the follow
ing November is another story, and
a sad one.
It may be taken fof granted thai
the democrats of Oregon will accept
the tip of Mr. West and go fo
Hoover. They arej pretty well fed
up on the idea that no democrat can
be elected president this year, and
they will gratefully receive a candi
date who has not qualified for mem
bership in the party, but whom nev
ertheless Mr. West has elected by ac
clamation, after due suspension of
the rules. These are the days of
conscription,, to be sure; and Mr.
Hoover is of draft age for presidents,
But we shudder to think what will
happen if Mr. Hoover shall carry
Oregon, and he shall then announce
that he has decided to go republican
and to support the nominee of the
Chicago convention.
WHY WOKKTf
The public is fairly serene about
influenza and smallpox; and the
city commission, is entirely serene
It contrives somehow to find funds
to promote the hobbies of the
various members take the . city
paving plant, for example but
it will spend not a cent for a con
tagious hospital. It is highly desir
able, doubtless, to -put the wicked
paving contractors out of business,
while such comparatively trivial
matters as the public health can wait
Only a few hundred or perhaps a
thousand or so are sick with some
contagious disease.
The contagious hospital project
has been knocked from pillar to post
until nobody knows its exact status.
Suffice it to say that there are 270
cases of ft single epidemic disease
smallpox scattered about Portland,
and there is no place to, put them,
except a jail; and no place for vie
tims of other contagious diseases ex
cept through the indulgence and
charity of a private hospital which
does not want them, and threatens
to get rid of them.
ears after the treaty of Vienna in
1864 they had the right of "opting"
for Danish nationality and of remov
ing with their families and personal
Stars and Starmakera.
By Leone Casa Baer.
Those Who Come and Go.
The Billows
By Urnre V.. Hall.
More Truth Than Poetry.
H- Jhoipb J. Moaiaanr.
rNA CLAIRE Is married. It was a The port of Newport wants to lease
L secret affair and happened several ! from the government the railroad
months ago and is just now being
tdld. The husband of the young Be
Iasco star is James Whittaker, one of
the most brilliant newspaper men in
Chicago. He is at present a feature
writer on the Chicago Herald and
Examiner and was formerly musio
critic on" that sheet. Miss Claire is
starring in Belasco's "Gold Diggers'
At the Lyceum in New York.- She was
property to Denmark, still retaining j here last season in "Polly With
their landed property in the duchies,
By the treaty of Prague between
Prussia and Austria in 1866, it was
agreed that "the population of the
north of Schleswig shall be again
united with Denmark in the event of
their expressing a desire so to be by a
vote freely exercised" The right of
the indigenous was secured to all who
possessed it at the date of ratification
but optants lost that right. About
50,000 of the 150,000 Danes in
north Schleswig opted for Denmark
and migrated across the frontier to
await the promised plebiscite, but it
was never held, and the clause prom
ising it was formally abrogated with
Austria's consent in 1878. The op
tants had meanwhile begun to stream
back across the frontier into Schles
wig. They had already lost their
rights as Prussians by opting for
Denmark; they now also lost their
rights as Dan's by again migrating,
though their purpose had been to re
main Danes in their old homes. They
thus became the particular marks
i0" Y.?L CU' respond!ns Danish agitation, which did not abate
among Danes who had accepted
German nationality, for they were
pariahs having no right to protection
from either government, and their
children shared their . disabilities.
They were expelled from Prussia and
were forbidden to settle in Denmark
until their rights were restored, by
treaty in 1907.
Notwithstanding encouragement of
German immigration and suppression
of everything Danish by all the op
pressive power of the government
Schleswig remained Danish. Of the
148,000 inhabitants of north Schles
wig in 1905, 139,000 spoke "Danish,
and more than a third of the Gorman-speaking
immigrants of the first
generation spoke Danish, though
German had been substituted in
schools, churches and even play
grounds.
MR. KDISOVS SUCCESS. The cruelty of enforced citizenship
Thomas A. Edison has made a "sue- in the country of a hated conqueror
to the appeal of the city commission
for more funds to meet the general
emergency, votad a two-mill special
tax. Already we are told that only
about $46,000 remains unappropriat
ed. About all the purjile can do
when an epidemic strikes the city is
to quarantine and pray. There is
practically no preparedness in behalf
of the public health, the vital asset
of every community and every in
dividual.
It is time that the commission
gave serious and favorable consid
eration to ways and means to secure
a contagious hospital. Two .hundred
and seventy cases of smallpox for
tunately mild are not many among
three hundred thousand people, of
course, but they should be enough
to cause worry, even at the city hull
AMERICAN BOYS. .
It will surprise a good many per
sons to learn that American boys, in
stead of being demoralized by the
war, conducted themselves on the
whole with greater circumspection in
the past year. It is the habit of a
certain type of pessimists to croak
continually about the declining mor
als of the younger generation. No
group of youths, in the view of the
Pharisee with a short memory, are
ever so well behaved as their grand
fathers were when the latter were
young. But there occurs every once
in a while an incident that puts these
gloomy prophets where they belong.
For illustration, the report of the
presiding Justice of the New York
Juvenile court for 1919 shows that
the number of cases of juvenile de
linquency in 1919 decreased by 358
by comparison with 1918. A some
what similar showing has been made
by other juvenile authorities. Not as
much can be said for other countries,
however. Complaints are general
that youthful hoodlumism has in
creased abroad, somewhat in propor
tion to the degree of demoralization
of the countries. It is said to have
reached its height in Germany, which
was precisely what would have been
expected. Perhaps it is even worse
in Russia, but as to that country re
ports are wanting.
A good turn was done for Amer
ican boys when they were taken
early into our war plans and given
work to do which not only kept them
busy but developed their sense of
responsibility. Notwithst andmg
physical difficulties attending organ
ization of the youths of a nation so
vast as the United States, such a de
gree of unity was accomplished as
must forever stand out as one of the
noteworthy achievements of the war.
Not only the Boy Scouts although
these did Important work but a
great number of other juvenile
agencies, big and little, gave the
youngsters outlet for the boundless
activities within them. One will hes
itate to go so far as to say that there
are no boys who are "naturally" bad,
but it is plain that there are many
whose seeming shortcomings are only
the result of misdirected, or undi
rected, energy. It Is not a novel the
ory; sincere and practical human
tarians for a' long time have been
seeking to adapt it to the "bad boy"
problem, with a good deal of success.
The reaction of juvenile court fig
ures to these facts was to have been
expected.
Some psychologists tell us that in
the career of a boy can be traced the
whole history of the development of j
man. However interesting the notion
may De and most parents at some
time have had experiences that al
most convinced them that it is true
it is not so important as the demon
stration that if a boy is given an out
let for the altogether admirable and
almost exhaustible energy within
him he is quite unlikely to employ it
harmfully. The demonstrable fact
that most men are sobered by re
sponsibility seems also to be true of
our youngsters. They bear any
thing better than neglect; taken Into
partnership with their elders, and
guided wisely but not too much, they
cess" of life because he has accom
plished what he primarily set out to
do, and that means not that he has
solved all the problems that he has
studied, but that he has found the
field in which he can work most
happily, and consequently with the
greatest promise of results. It is
also plain, from Mr. Edison's own ex
perience, that the quest may be quite
as absorbing as arrival at the goal,
But there is also another reason for
his success, and that is that ho has
kept constantly at work. It may not
be true that Mr. Edison is the most
Industrious man in America, but he
at least has kept busy during every
waking moment One must have
leisure .for discontent, and in the
Edison programme, there is no place
for idleness.
Some men are old at seventy-three,
the age that the inventor has just
attained, but his biographers seem to
agree that he hardly shows his years.
His value as an example to others
lies in the fact that he has accom
plished so much in his lifetime, and
has contrived while doing it to pre
serve a rare serenity. He has not
confused simplicity with primitive
ways of living. He shows that it is
possible to enjoy the benefits of
civilization, but to be temperate in
doing so. The great inventor of de
vices for making life more Interest-
was forcibly demonstrated in this
country during the war. Danes had
immigrated from Schleswig in order
to escape Prussian rulq, bringing
with them children born under the
Prussian yoke. If the father neglect
ed to complete his citizenship or lost
his naturalization certificate and
died, his children were still legally
subjects of Germany. They were
therefore required to register as alien
enemies, though devoted to tne
United States and though from in
fancy they had learned to hate Ger
many.
The vote of Schleswig will belated
ly undo these wrongs. It is the prin
ciple of self-determination in action.
It establishes as a rule in all future
relations between nations the right
of a people to cling to their national
home and to flock with their own
racial kin under a. government of
their own choice, using their mother
tongue and observing their own laws
and customs. The best result of the
great war is that it has brought
about many reunions of divided peo
nies. For them 1920 will be the
home-coming year.
If every southern governor should
be as thoroughly forearmed against
a lynching moo as was governor
Morrow of Kentucky, lynching
would soon lose its popularity as a
ing, and more complicated, does not Bport Success of lynching, mobs is
of course, believe that we should re
turn to the candle light and the ox
team, but he does advise modera
tion in all things. His counsel to
men to eat less, to seek employment
in which they are vitally interested,
generally due to the secrecy and sud
denness with which they gather, do
their work and disperse, but any
wide-awake governor or sheriff
should know when, there is danger.
A well-armed body of troops with a
Past"
See where an-actor says that "crit
les "who lower the standard of actors
deserve punishment and censure.
have noticed that it is usually the
actor himself who lowers or raises
the standard of his profession. If
critics printed one-half the inside
stuff they are forced to hear in the
ups and downs of their calling the
"standard" of some actors would re
ceive an awful wallop. As for critics
being punished, they are. The punish
ment lies in seeing some actors act
A letter from Peggy O'Neill, in Lon
don, carries the news that this young
Irish comedienne is to star In a new
production, "Paddy," which opens the
later part of this month in Manches
ter, England, and plays a short tour
before going into London.
Wanda Lyons, the little Salt Lake
beauty who joined Al Jolson's show
here when she was playing at Pan
tages and has since gone from one
success to another, is in London and
a favorite there. She is going to ap
pear soon in "The Kiss Burglar," a
play in which Fay Bainter starred in
New York. Wanda Lyon is a cousin
by marriage to Walter Gilbert, di
rector of the Baker Players. She and
the late Mrs. Gilbert (Ida Adair) were
cousins.
Fay Bainter"s mother, by the way.
has been so ill with pneumonia that
doctors had despaired of saving her.
but she is recovering now, a note from
Miss Bainter says. The mother Is
past 70 years old and lives with Fay
and another daughter in New York.
e
On the Orpheum bill in Seattle two
weeks ago, when Fay Courtney was
ill, Carl Roiter, the house manager.
substituted with a monologue. Carl
Relter used to be manager here at the
Orpheum and formerly was a vaudo
villian. I hope the manager substi
tuting for actors does not encourage
Frank McGettigan overmuch.
T. Roy Barnes (Barnes and Craw
ford) has been signed to play leading
comedy roles by Goldwyn Pictures and
will leave vaudeville at the end of this
week, as soon as he plays out his
present Orpheum booking contracts.
Barnes screen debut will be made
in "Scratch My Back," a Rupert
Hughes play.
Negotiations are In hand for Mme.
Sarah Bernhardt to appear in London
in the near future,
In spite of her infirmity, the great
actress is anxious to appear at her
own house in Paris once more, in a
classical drama, but she may be per
suaded to first visit London. If not,
she will probably go immediately
after her appearance at the Theatre
Sarah Bernhardt.
built for spruce purposes from Toledo
north to the Siletx. 16 miles in length.
C. S. Davis, secretary of the Newport
commercial club, C. O. Hawkins,
banker, and Ed Abbey are at the Ho
tel Oregon while negotiating with the
government for the lease. Timber
owners have agreed to sell on a rea
sonable basis, so the port commis
sioners figure If they can lease the
railroad, airti with the timber owners
willing to sell trees, there should be
many sawmill men willing to put in
mills down that way. The idea is to
offer every inducement for turning
some of the 14.000,000,000 feet of tim
ber between the Siletz and Newport
into lumber. If the plan works out,
Yaquina bay promises to be one of the
biggest lumber producing tenters in
the Pacific northwest and the port
commission is doing everything with
in its power to bring this about. The
railroad and the bay will afford a
choice of transportation facilities for
the prospective sawmills. The rail
road in question was constructed by
the spruce production division, but
the armistice came before the road
was utilized.
"Work is progressing on the south
jetty and work will start on ' the
north jetty at Yaquina bav in about
30 days," says Lester Martin of New
port, who is at the Hotel Oregon.
"Vessels drawing 18 feet can cross
the bar now at low water, but when
the jetty is completed the entrance
will be available every day In tne
year for larger vessels. Ships carry
ing 500,000 feet of lumbeV are going
in and out and one steamer went out
with 1,000,000 feet. The halibut bank
off Newport is one of the finest in
the world. The fish boats come in
carrying 30 or 40 tons when their
normal capacity is about half that
tonnage. The fish is iced or saiteu
and frequently the men work all night
putting the fish on ice for shipmen
and all this originates considerable
express business. In storms, however,
the fishboata have to run up to Seattle
to market their catch instead of tak
S them into Newport, but this will
be obviated when the bar disappears
under the action of the jetty."
Each person has his given Braces.
though they, too oft are not
displayed;
Each is distinct, like human facas,
though use of them be never
made;
But how the world would rain in
cheer if all our finer feelings
grew
Beneath our cultivation here, and each
one took a wholesome view!
If, when the Impulse comes to say an
unkind thing of someone s
deed,
We'd put it firmly by straightway
and to his better traits pay
heed;
If, when the fear of illness falls upon
the soul with sickening dread
We'd try to catch the hopeful calls
that nature proffers us Instead
If we would put aside those things
that weigh our spirits down
with gloom.
And use that energy to bring strong
battle gainst what we presume
These phantom terrors then would go
and leave the mind In peace to
rest.
For fully half our griefs and woe are
from the thoughts we've nour
ished best!
for sad the truth too many grasp
at evil thought and fearsome
doubt;
Glose to their bosom quickly clasp
each ill report that's started
out:
Sweet, wholesome things and hopeful
views wait at the door of every
brain.
But billons souls these thoughts re
fuse and go on mouthing tales
of pain!
O CAI'TAIM MV ('APT 4 I !
Irene Sarli. a young St. Louis (Mo.)
girl, has been having a round of fun
during her brief stay in Portland as
a part of one of the headline acts on
the Orpheum bill. Miss Sarll plays
the role of the small-town belle in
the "drayma," "For Pity's Sake," in
which Tom Duray plays the opry
house manager. Miss Sarli says that
no one looks at any of the "Pity's
Sake" actors while the manager Is
n sight but that she doesn't mind,
for she enjoys watching Duray's com
edy quite as much as if she was In
the audience. Miss Sarli is a dancer
and a singer and appeared with Mabel
Wilber in musical stock in St. Louis.
She was out here a season ago in
"Have a Heart." She is very youthful
and strikingly attractive.
and then to keep everlastingly at it is) machine gun should be able to dis
not Inconsistent with their enjoyment Pose or most moos wllu a
of all the blessings that civilization 'ev- but relntorcements witnin easy
has bestowed upon them. call snouia maae aDsoiuieiy sure mat
There is a point on which, however, tne law win mumpn.
a good many will take issue with
him, and that is his deprecation of When the -police bureau shall have
friendships as an aid to individual identified the victim of a murder dis-
success. "I had no such friends," he closed by" finding many parts of a j aternoon at the Orpheu
toiu an interviewer. iney were ooay it w in uvuc
not necessary. In fact they are dis-1 when it lands the murderer in jail it
advantageous." We suspect that Mr. will have done better. The task is
Edison is here indulging himself, not heavy.
very seriously, in riding a hobby. We
would not advise any boy, starting Lack of juniper berries is alleged
out in life, to avoid making as many as the reason why robins and blue
friends as he can. Mr. Edison means birds are shunning Deschutes county
to say, of course, that too much re- this season. But we. don't hear any
liance on friendships may- lead to hodv e-ivine that as cause for the ab-
relaxation of personal effort, but rf mil rrow.
irienasmps are valuable for other
reasons, and they are part of every
well-regulated life. Mr. Edison him
self, if his early biographers are not
mistaken, once made a friend of a
station-master whose child he saved
from the wheels of an approaching
car, and as a result of this was re
ceived as a pupil at a telegraph
office, where he learned to become
an operator. We do not say that he
would not otherwise have been suc
cessful, but it may have helped. Boys
will not go amiss if they take. this
part of Mr. Edison's counsel with
the proverbial grain of salt.
THE HOME-COMING OF THE DANES.
The overwhelming majority by
which the. people of northern Schles
wig have voted for union with Den
mark, from which they have been
separated since 1864, demonstrates
the tenacity of the sentiment of na
tionality in successful resistance to
every effort of arbitrary power to
extinguish it. The people of the twin
duchies of Schleswig and Holstein
have been by turns under Danish, and
German rulers, but in spite of all
dynastic changes those of Schleswig
and at least of northern Holstein
have persisted in remaining Danes in
defiance of the great, ruthless power
of Prussia.
From the time of Charlemagne
the two duchies were debatable land
between the Danes and Saxons. Early
in the thirteenth century first one,
then the other, became separate
principalities of the kings of Den
mark and a century later were united
under one ruler, still as distinct sov
ereignties. But Holstein was a mem
ber of the German confederation, and
on that fact Germany founded a
claim to direct the succession to
Schleswig also. Thus the duchies
became a frequent subject of contro
versy, in which their strategic posi
tion commanding the isthmus which
divided the Baltic and North seas in
volved all the great powers " of
The ex-crown prince professes
willingness .to be the goat if the allies
will relinquish their demands for
Hindenberg, Ludendorff and the rest
No doubt with certain ifs and strong
buts.
A glad welcome from soldier com
rades awaits Val Marconi of the team
of Marconi and FItzglbbon when he
arrives in town to open next Sunday
Val served
in France with base hospital 8, piay
ing his educated piano accordion for
the sick and wounded In ffce hospital
center at Bazoiles-sur-Meuse, whe
base hospital 46, from these parts,
was also located. Val later toured
France on the A. E. F. entertainment
circuit with a musical show, which
carried Charles Bauer, Portland tenor,
When Val makes his bow next Sun
day night, Charlie Bauer, Linn Davies
and other veterans of base 46 will be
in a box ready to "sound off for
Val and his partner.
The threatened railroad strike is
affecting travel, although the pro
posed strike Is not due for several
days. People in Portland hotelswho
should De on tneir way. are aerpiug
their rooms to await developments,
explaining that they prefer being In
Portland if the transportation lines
are tied up, rainer tnan ue oucnen
n some loss attractive place. At one
hotel yesterday only seven patrons
left and there were 40 people who
hail made reservations, praying for
someone to get out. nonunions were
ust as serious at two other loading
establishments.
Neither The Dalles nor Hood River
s going- to lane away irom oiecu-
son, Wash., tlio proposed ton unime
arross the Columbia river, which
bridge is designed to make a ton
neition between the Columbia high
way and the corresponding highway
which is being built on the Washing
ton aide of the stream. Une ot tne uio
neer advocates of this bridge is E. P.
Ash, a banker and merchant of Ste
venson, who is at the Multnomah.
Being a retail lumber dealer in the
middle west is not all what it
cracked up to bo these days, because
the demand far exceeds the supply,
Andrew Grande, who conducts a yard
at Virginia, Minn., is in Portland try
lug to stock up. Ha has been bcusing
for lumber with the manufacturers
in this district to keep his business
at home moving. Mr. Grande is regis
tered at the Hotel Oregon.
Patrons of the Waldorf-Astoria in
New York pay about 60 cents for a
brace of apples. These particular ap
ples are all grown under the persoual
supervision of M. A. ilayer at Mayer
dale, which is skirted by the Columbia
highway between Hosier and Howena.
Of. course, there Is an awful lot or
overhead charged against tno apples
by the hotel, for it should be ex
plained that Mr. Mayer, who is at the
Benson, is not profiteering.
I
There will be 300 Guernsey cattle
imported from that Island by the
Guernsey Cattle club, which has been
holding a meeting at the imperial.
Guernsey is a small island off the
coast of England and It has probably
more churches per capita than most
places, but it is noted more for Its
breed o cattle and, for the sweater
named after it than for its devotion.
1 si;.-..
(Poem by Walt Wnlennn. written in
alter Lincoln death.)
O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful
trip Is done:
The ship has weather'd every rack,
the prize we sought is won:
The port Is near, the hells 1 hear,
the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel
the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
Oli, the bleeding drops of red.
Where on the deck my captain
lies.
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up ami
hcr tliH bells;
Uise up for you the flajr I flunc
for you the buulo trills:
For you bouquets and rlhhnu'il
wreaths fur you tlio shores
a-crowdlnsr:
For you they rail, the swaying mass,
their eager faces turning:
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on Ihc deck
You've fallen cold and dend.
My Captain does not answer, his Hps
are pa le anil still: .
My father does nut feel my arm,
has no pulse or will:
The ship Is anehor'd safe ami sound,
its voyage closed hum done:
From fearful trip the victor shi
comes in Willi object won:
Exult. O shores! and ring. O bells
Hut 1, with mournful tread.
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
They're bringing up the old 16-to-l
issue again. Some of the new gener
ation who never heard of free silver
imagines this refers to the increased
cost of living.
King George has come out fr
peace-time regulation of alcoholic
beverages. Those British may yet
dedicate a national hymn to Pussy
foot Johnson.
There are altogether too many
crimes against the person of late,
and courts might lessen the number
materially by imposing maximum
sentences.
Bend is to have a $50,000 picture
theater and Eugene's big hotel is
adding two more stories mere signs
of spring activities in Oregon.
Edison at seventy-three says grow
ing old is unnecessary, and all the
"old birds" going about on three legs
will hope to agree with him.
Not every ache or pain indicates
influenza; some of them may mean
smallpox. The fee of the physician
is small in comparison.
If France wants to trade her
American holdings to apply on the
debt, the United States might grab
the bargain.
Federal grand juries in the state
of Washington seem to be stirring
up the mud.
One of the latest recruits to the cast
of Charles Dillingham's "The Night
Boat," which goes Into the Liberty
theater on Monday night, is Lillian
Kemble Cooper. On Monday, when
Miss Cooper opens here, three of her
family will be playing in various
New York successes.
Her elder sister, Violet Kemble
Cooper, is a member of Ethel Barry
mart's company in "Declassee," while
her young sister, Greta Kemble Coop
er, has but recently made her debut
with Laurette Taylor in "One Night
in Rome." Miss Cooper's father, the
Frank Kemble Cooper, Is well re
membered as a sterling actor.
Eunice Burnham, at one time the
vaudeville partner of Charlotte Green
wood, prior to her elevation to musi
cal comedy stardom, and who later
worked with Charles Irwin in the
"two a day," returned last week from
the road, having been out with Oliver
Morosco's "So Long Letty" road com
pany. She plans a return to vaude
ville.
Daphne Pollard has sailed for Lon
don to appear in the new revue at the
Hippodrome. Miss Pollard and hus
band, Eck Bunch, spent several weeks
with relatives in Seattle. While in
New York recently Miss Pollard re
ceived both vaudeville and film offers.
MATEnlAI.IZATIO.XS AUK IIKHMN
fman la llereivlng Spirit unllat Mrdl
ants and Investigators.
PORTLAND. Feb. 10. (To the Kill
tor.) Sir Oliver IxJdgc, Eminent scicii
tlst and philosopher, is here to tell u
that the doctrine taught by tha
eminent scientist, philosopher, "wl
man" anil "preacher" of Iliblo times i
not true. He says: "I tell you with
all the strength of conviction that
can muster that they do persist, tha
they take an Interest in what is going
on here and they help us." Tlic Ore
gonian. February 1, 1920.
It will require the couiimI of the
deity to determine whether the spiri
of a man can return to this earth
after death. When man dies, "in that
very day his thoughts perish." Psalm
HH.i. Should the spirit of a man, o
the man himself, reappear after death
he would he without a mind, void
of "thoughts."
"The "wise man" who was Inspired
of God to speak on this question and
forestall any deceptive effect of such
eaching as Sir Oliver Lodge is ad
vanclng, said: "The living know tha
they shall die, but the dead know no
anything. . . . Also their love and
their hatred, and their envy. Is now
perished; neither have they any more
a portion forever In anything that Is
Bein an authority on fish culture,
David Starr Jordan of Stanford uni
versity spent a few hours at tha
Bonneville hatchery yesterday In com-
with T w ridntnn atatA fifth
warden. The Bonneville hatchery i , done under the sun." Eccl. lx:5-6
one of the most complete in the west,
and since the building of the Columbia
highway it is becoming one of the
points of interest for tourists.
A score or more of representatives
of the General Electric company have
secured reservations at the Hotel
Portland for today. They are coming
from Seattle, Spokane and San Fran
cisco for a conference.
C. R. Carner of the Grants Pass
Lumber company is at the Multno
mah. Oriirinally the townsite of
Grants Pass was covered with timber
of the pine variety, but now logging
operations have had to move out
ways.
E. B. Fitts. expert in dairy husband
ry of the dairy department of the Ore
gon Agricultural college, was at the
Multnomah yesterday en route from
Gresham to Hillsboro to attend a
dairy extension meeting.
Three well-known Bend residents
signed the Hotel Portland register
vesterdav. They were Hugh O Kane
the biggest man In Bend, per pound;
J. Ryan, a merchant, and W. B. Doug
las, a sheepman.
Humptulips has a logging company
and a driving company, and the presi
dent of these companies is H. f.
Brown, who registered at the Multno
mah from Aberdeen, and not from
Humptulips.
Mark Riekard. who is boss of the
biggest garage in Corvallis. or any of
that section of the Willamette valley,
is at the Hotel Oregon, having been
giving the roads a tryout.
An active member' of the gun club
and an all-around public-spirited citi
zen of Seaside is M. F. Hardesty, who
is at the Imperial with his wife.
Arrangements have now been def
initely completed for a production of
"East Is West" in London this spring.
J. L. Sacks will produce "Irene" at
the Gaiety about March 1, and im
mediately after this will begin re
hearsals of "East Is West." Fay
Bainter is not to go to London, despite
rumors to the contrary, but will re
in other words. Secretary Daniels j main at the Astor theater throughout
hopes to make a simian out of Sims. tne remainder of this season.
R. A. Wernich, from fertile Coqullle,
is at the Benson. He is president of
the Coqullle Lumber company, which
is the successor to the Sitka Spruce
company.
Owner of one of the largest wheat
ranches In eastern Oregon is David
H. Nelson, who arrived at the Hotel
Portland yesterday from Pendleton.
J. W. Bailey, cashier of one of the
banking concerns at Spokane, Is at
the Benson, accompanied by Mrs.
Bailey.
J. J. Kaufman of the Kaufman-
Leonard Lumber company of Aber
deen, a large furniture house, Is at
the Multnomah.
George A. Parker,' one of Bend's
young business men. Is at the Per
kins, while leaving orders with local
wholesalers.
God said man should dio if he dis
obeyed him. Satan said he should
not die. Who is right? "He tli
hath the son hath life; and he that
hath not the Fan of God hath not
life." I John v-12. There Is no way
to enter heaven the spirit world
but through the name of our divine
lord. "There is none other name un
der heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved." Acts i v : 1 2
Spiritualism is the world's last
great deception. Believe not that
these are the returned, spirits of your
friends, for it is a fake. There Is
vast deal of trickery connected with
the performances at spiritualist
seances; nevertheless they do perform
real miracles, and he who thinks they
do not Is an easy subject for their
deceptive snares. Surely there do ar
pear In their seances spiritual bodies
and bodiless spirits claiming to be
the returned spirit of grandmother,
the soldier son, the deceased wife or
husband; but even though the spirit
conserses with one, and the conversa
tion Is upon a topic concerning which
no other human being ever had Infor
mation, yet that is not evidence that
such spirit Is that of a deceased
friend. Then who does appear, since
God says the deceased cannot take
part in seances?
The science In these humanly
speaking unexplainable, phenomenal
acts is explained by the word of God
as follows: "And no marvel; for Sa
tan himself is transformed Into an
angel of light. Therefore It Is no
great thing If his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of right
eousness, whose end shall be accord
ing to their works." II Cor. xi-14-lS.
Viewing the miraculous workings of
seances from the biblical angle, the
mystery is explained. The spirits that
manifest themselves with messages
for the survivors are. according to
God's word, the spirits of demons, bent
on deceiving both the medium and in
quirer.
This spiritualistic cult will yet do
great wonders, so that he mahtth
fire come down from heaven (from
above) on the earth in the sight of
men. And deceiveth them that dwell
on the earth by means of those mira
cles which he had power to do." Rev.
xlil:13-14. Jesus foresaw our day and
said: "There shall arise false Christs,
and false prophets, and shall show
great signs and wonders, insomuch
that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect." Matt. xxlv:24.
If the theory of Sir Oliver Lodge, or
any of his adherents, pertaining to
the Inherent Immortality of the soul
is correct, will he give definite Infor
mation, with unquestionable proofs,
where he wa. hat his occupation
and standing was, before he his im
mortal soul entered his present
body? We consider this a furr and
reasonable request.
H. W. COTTKELL.
A HAKl'l.ivt; Mtoni.l'-.M.
In the days before the unlnst t urted
redman
Was acquainted with the nunsmt
paleface drink.
lie was a.-:?mnted solely by a mni'd as
meek and low ly
As the spirit of the inoffen'lve
Chink.
lie was friendly with bis I".nruKan
neighbor;
Through the forrsts both cou'.d
freely ro and conn-:
William Suiilli and Kuelii readier
lived like little pals tocither
Till the former broached a ki g of
Mrdford rum.
But the Indian, when he felt the lung
of liquor
Rising slowly to his unrnllv hi ened
head.
Grimly muttered. "Goodness grs' lous!
I am fcclinc quite ihiu'mchh
I must go and kill some uhlie in no
kood and dead ! "
So his tried and trusty tomahawk h
sharpened.
Gave his birch canoe a reeling
drunken shove
And went paddlii Ktos vllliigi . hers,
w ith butchery and piliae.
He disposed of the Inhabitants
thereof.
In the series of vv. coun I t rs u Mi li re
sulted All the r-'ilitien i i-e ari.ird
against the w biles;
Members of the warrina tace.-i t.:ised
each other to their f.ices
And Indulged In many miiiin;iiel
and fights.
Hut the Indian. Inivii g seizi il (ho
w hite ma if s I iqnor.
Had the will but l:i.k..l the skill
to make a scrii p.
Which reveals lo us the reason that
in due mid proiier se:ioo
He was lrien. hag sud biikCiic,
from Clio map.
Thus arises. In our mldsl, a vexing
qeesi ion ;
Which our consli enee rather rudely
agitates:
If the reds had hail no liquor would
they not be swarming thlclirr
Than the white imin In these great
United States?
If the I'uritans had practiced prohi
bition, Would they not have been severely
left alone?
I'on't we owi. it to the whisky that
niaile rrilmr-n fierce um! frl-l.y
Thai our grent and glorious hi rl
tnye we ow n?
'I lie Only Scientific l:itliiniitlon.
If II Is true thai fienl, il ing is
produced by sun mhis. the sun omsl.
at present be niffiring irom u viru
lent altsck of ine.isles
The Only Vj- to l.rl liul ,r Ibr Hole.
If I'ln-le Sinn wauls to get out of
debt, all he mods to ilo is to turn
Ills shipyards into ' Mi i j.-t hoard l.i'-.
lories.
t he 't rue ri.Mll. Inn.
Your l.Ioxd George refuses to tnlk
ahout prnh ilnl lun. which h.ili.-.il.
that he encts to get oaf ntniir.t d
and run for something or other
(Copyright. inj. by the I'.ell Syndi
cate. Jnc )
In Other Day..
Ttrtif-flYr Irarn ..
l-rom Tlio l i 'Human of I'Vlousrv 11V l!
Saleui. The Simon lull to lw a,
new charter lo Port la ml, reduce city
salarii s and t-ieate a IiommI of puh
lie works went through tlio seh.tt
yestel diiy.
A patty of 12 St Louis raplulirta,
a'l of i houi are seeking suil.ihln In
vestment opi'oi-iuuiiic.-,, arilveil lu the
ity last nilil.
V special delegation of hu-lnens
men will go to Salem tomorrow oit
speeisl IrHlll to 1 1 r K li the Inii'i-.'lg
of a hill for a port. me around t h
i-lisl ruel ions lu the t'oliimliia rier.
Il Is rumored that the Masonic
di-r will build lis new temple
Washington street this summer.
or
on
I'lflr Win tan.
Frrmi The l ire-ionlan. 1-vlirut-irv t'.V s0.
New York.--A letter from Hrinsela
s.iys pul'tles who Intend lu cimiio n
,'olutinn in l-'rauie meet rigulsrly
In rails ami have alrcmly luvnlxj
a birge number In the conspiracy.
A three-story brick will be erected
on i' irst street. Iictwcru asbingtoit
mill Alder, west side, this spi lug of
.Mr. Gorbett.
Snow covered the bills lu tho vicin
ity of Portland yesterday and lbs
day was cold and chilly.
Six boats belonging to the !' T.
company are running above the Tills,
and some of them go as far as lll
1 isburg.
woKi.ii iu;.i:i:mTi uivrw
ot Preordained for Thin (.opel Ills
peasntlon, Smym I 'orrrnpondmt.
POUTLAM). Feb. 9. (To the
or.) Mr. H. N. H. Anderson lias -.
excellent letter in the tireRonlan,
February in which he deplores tha
ondltion of the world and blamca the
social conditions, the unrest, etc. tn
a considerable extent upon the pulpit
of today. At least be Infers that a
regeneration of the clergy will bring
e regenerat loti of the world.
Mr. Anderson lo toy notion Is both
Ight and wrong. The regeneration
f the pulpit would have tho clergy
nd aid those who are seeking right
iths, but the regeneration of tho
hole world will not be accomplished
ust vet. Nowhere in the lllhle is It
stated that mankind In general will
convertod during this gnepel dis
pensation. This age Is for the selee-
on and development of the truo
hurch, the bride of Christ, and nit
1 til the great mediatorial khigooni Is
ully established In tlio earth will the
strong hearts" of men give way lo
earta of flesh.
In the New Testament (be church
spoken of as "wheat in the midst
tares." as "wise virgins" who aro
free from great systems of error
asting on "incut lu due season l. t
1 then neither praise nor blame the
opular clergy as they are neither
aking saints nor sinners ami evl-
ently the blessings and Joys of the
Messianic kingdom will be divine fa
vor, be established In the eirih In
spite of them. "Kphr.iim is joined to
Idols; leave him alone."
J. H. COY LB
Sketch (if Mrlihrti Phillip.
POrtTLAMl. Or., Feb. 9. 'To the
FIdltor.) Will you kindly print
brief outline of the life of Stephen
Phillips. l.VQl'lliKlt.
Stephen Philips, born In IS'lS, ne.ir
Oxford, Kngland. was a Shakespearean
player In esrly life, but later adopted
literature as a profession, lie Is bet
known for the poem, "t'hrl-rt In
Hades," and the verse trivcclirn,
"I'uola and Francesco" and "Herod
Consult any standard rmyclopedia
for further details.
The Mnld of llliil.
Detfolt Motor Press.
They used lo rail her the hired girt,
snd once In a while she bsd n day off.
Now they call her the muld. and she
gets the use of the family car any day
alia wants it.