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TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1920
EST.4BLI.4HKD BY HEVRY 1 PITTOCK.
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THE WESTS WEALTH RELEASED,
If the 66th congress were to ac-
;; complish nothing more, passage of
; the Sinnott hill for lease of coal,
oil and other mineral lands would
'.'J: make it memorable. This bill ends
a Ion? struggle in regard to conser-
vation and the rights of the public
land states. It ends a ten-year em-
bargo on development of the re-
L;; sources of those states. It releases
a reserve supply of fuel and ferti-
lizer at a juncture when the avail
able supply has become deficient.
The loss to the nation through the
tZ arrested development of the west
T while the conservation controversy
",Z has rased is incalculable. Demand
" for coal has grown, but addition to
- the supply through opening of new
mines has been blocked. The price
V of coal has thus been artificially en-
hanced and expansion of industry in
' the west has been checked. An un-
r, balanced development of manufac-
; tures in the east and south to the ex-
elusion of the west has resulted,
causing congestion of traffic on the
-- railroads and at the ports of the
east. The effects of this evil were
l especially felt during the war, when
Z the nation needed its full productive
-.- power and the full use of all lines of
. . transport and of ail ports. Indus-
". trially it was in the position of a man
?t who fights with one arm, mighty
" was that arm. Use of oil as fuel on
railroads, ships, automobiles, in fac
- tories and residences has created a
"IT demand exceeding the supply, and
Tt has made us partly dependent on
turbulent, grasping Mexico. Inten
sive cultivation of farms has in-
- creased demand for fertilizer at
time when the nitrate beds of Chile
- approach exhaustion and when the
reed of greater agricultural produc
'.: tion has become apparent. '
If the terms of lease should prove
- attractive, all the deficiencies
- question will be made good in a few
years. Cheaper fuel either coal
oil will stimulate manufacture of
? products of mine, forest and soil
Growth of towns in the sparsely
- settled country west of the Rocky
mountains and growth of trans
" Pacific commerce will result, a
" leading to more symmetrical de-
e velopment of the whole country in
duslrially and commercially.
r As 52 H per cent of the royalty
from leases is to be paid into th
; reclamation fund, irrigation of arid
' land will be hastened, the productive
area of the west will be enlarged
. population will become denser and
' there will be a wider market for the
products of industries consuming the
new supply of fuel. The states are
to receive 37 H per cent of the roy
altics, being thus assured of revenue
, in place of taxes a revenue which
; will increase as development pro
; gTesses. This fund may be devoted
to construction of highways or to
improvement of rural schools or to
. reclamation schemes which do no
fall within the scope of the govern-
; ment's plans.
Some skepticism may exist as to
the willingness of investors to de
velop and operate mines and oil
wells under lease, since they have
hitherto operated under outright
ownership of the land. The small
amount of work done in Alaska un
der the coal land leasing law is not
encouraging as to results at home.
but the Alaska experiment was made
in a remote territory, dependent al
most entirely on outside markets,
when the war had produced a labor
famine and before railroads to the
mines had been completed. The
coal and oil fields of the west have
a hungry home market and have
railroads close at hand or can be
reached by construction of shorl
branches. Adoption of the leasing
system at the end of many years'
discussion should convince mine and
oil operators that there is no chance
of return to the old policy and that
they must reconcile themselves to
the new dispensation. They will
learn to work under it as has been
cone In Australia and other coun
tries.
Neither party to the conservation
controversy has won a complete vie
tory. The conservationists have se
cured adoption of the leasing system,
but not the rich revenue for the fed
eral treasury with the prospect of
which they won support for th,eir
theory In the east and south. The
public land states have not secured
full sovereignty over the land in
question through patents to individ
ual owners, but they secure three-
eighths of the revenue without restriction-
as to its use, more than
half of the royalty Is to be expended
in their development, and the 10 per
cent which goes into the national
treasury will about suffice to pay ex
penses of administration. We are
to have conservation with develop
ment, for which the west has con
tended throughout, and the solid
benefits will accrue to the west.
This settlement Is a noteworthy
achievement of Representative Sin
nott of Oregon, for he brought about
the conyiromise between conflicting
views and piloted it through confer
ence to final enactment. He has
earned renewed confidence from his
fellow-citizens by constant work and
close attention to the interests of the
west.
concentration of business at one
1 port, which might result from rates
based on distance and cost of serv
ice.- On the contrary, the general in
terest is served by permitting traffic
to follow the line of least resistance
that is, of lowest cost. By that
rule each port would develop its
good points and set them against Its
bad points in the search for business.
and commerce would flow to the one
which could show the least cost of
handling when the net result was
worked out. Both producer and con
sumer profit by using the port which
has the lowest cost of transportation,
the best port facilities, the best ship
ping lines and the most extensive
and best mercantile and banking fa
cilities.
The pretense is made that pro
ducers and consumers profit by dis
persion of commerce among a num
ber of competing ports by parity of
-rates and that they would suffer by J clubs will, if they or prudent, keep
THE Pl'BLIC HAS A VOICE.
By providing for a national board
of appeal on railroad labor disputes.
on which the public should have
equal representation with employers
and workers, the conferees on the
railroad bill have made a decided
improvement on all former plans
for labor adjustments. This is the
first attempt to recognize the public
formally as a party to such disputes.
and that fact is fortified by the pro
vision that any decision must have
the support of at least one represen
tative of the public. That is a pro
tection against the possibility that
the companies and their employes
might agree on an advance of wages
which the public would have to pay
in the shape of higher rates.
As strikes would be forbidden prior
to decision of an appeal, the risk
of their occurring on railroads would
be reduced to a minimum. Occasions
would be few when decisions of the
appeal board would fail to satisfy
the employes. If the latter should
strike against a decision on which
the public's members agreed, public
opinion would be likely to support
its own agents by resisting demands
which they held unjust and which
would extract money from the peo
ple's pockets. The people then
would make the most of other means
of transport and would find means
of operating the railroads rather than
suffer imposition.
If the plan of the conferees should
prove ineffective in preventing
strikes, there would be a strong in-
lination to resort to the Kansas
plan of industrial courts to prevent
strikes by judicial decision on labor
questions. The Kansas law . is an
assertion of the public right to un
interrupted supply of the necessaries
of life and to require employers and
workmen to accept just awards In
place of what they can get by a trial
of strength.
the fact secret until they have laid
in their supplies.
A more promising, If not esthetic,
movement was that launched some
weeks ago in an eastern city by cer-
American people ana the allies take
of the obligations of league mem
bership. Though the United States
intervened to save European democ
racy from destruction, it did not do
tain thrifty Individuals who resolved so until - its own rights had been
to make patched clothing a badge
of distinction, but somehow it does
not seem to have taken the country
by storm; or, if it has, we have not
heard of it. There is the advantage,
of course, that the patch could be
come fashionable without skyrocket
ing the price of the clothing one has
already bought and paid for, and
there is nothing shameful, per se.
about a patched garment But
neither, for that matter, is there any
amusement in these times in wear
ing one. And we must have our di
version in one form or another. Plain
prudence is very prosaic, and un
likely ever to commend itself to any
one in quest of thrills.
There is a middle course, how
ever, which ought to lead out of the
wilderness, and that is a wider prac
tice of everyday common sense, not
only as to clothing, but in other mat
ters. We need neither to stampede
to some especial style of cloth nor
get into rags, nor go without plain,
nourishing food, nor boycott any
necessity to bring things back to
approximate normal. Careful con
sideration, before making any pur
chase, of whether the article is ac
tually needed will surmount a lot of
difficulties. There are a good many
frills and furbelows to be dispensed
with before taking up new fads that
are likely in the end to prove as
expensive as the old.
THE FATE OP HOG ISLAND.
Some consolation for seeing ship
yards on the Willamette river junked
may be found in the prospect that
no better fate seems to await the
great plant at Hog island, near Phila
delphia, which the government built
at a cost of $67,000,000. The ship
ping board has bought the site at
the cost price of $1,700,000 from the
American International corporation,
has arranged to cancel contracts for
5S ships and for completion of others
before August 1. It has had only one
offer to buy the plant, this being
from a firm which proposed to junk
the equipment and scatter it far and
wide.
That would be a sad end for what
was heralded as the greatest triumph
In application of the American sys
tem of quantity production to ship
building. The site of 927 acres was
redeemed from a swamp and was
covered with seven piers 1000 feet
long and 1000 feet wide, 26 wooden
and one concrete warehouses and 83
miles of railroad track. It was to
have built 180 ships, among which
wore the 58, for which contracts were
cancelled.
Philadelphia is greatly alarmed at
the prospect of losing this great
plant, and its chamber of commerce
Is trying to engineer a scheme for
its purchase by the city, the state of
Pennsylvania or some private inter
est, to be operated as combination
shipbuilding and repair plant and
water terminal. The shipping board
has promised co-operation in efforts
to save the plant from being dis
mantled.
It Is doubtful whether the plant
could be maintained at its present
size for building fabricated ships and
be made to pay. The fabricated plan
is only suited to building of large
numbers of vessels according to
standard designs to meet such an
emergency as that of the war. There
is no demand for such large num
bers of identical vessels in normal
times, for ships vary according to
the trade in which they are engaged
and the ports they visit. If the Hog
island ways could be adapted to ships
of various size, it is doubtful whether
all could be kept occupied, and the
verhoad charge of so large a plant
would be so enormous as to eat up
the profits, unless they were abnor
mal, or the ways were constantly
m ployed. Hog island was built to
meet an emergency, which was ex
pected to continue at least until the
end of 1919. and it would have justi
ficd itself if the war had lasted so
long. As affairs turned out, its cost
should be charged to the war.
PROFESSORS IN CORDl'BOY,
Members of the "white collar pro
fessions" including male high
school teachers in a California town
who propose to fight the high cost
of living by putting on corduroy
clothing will succeed in their laud-
ble attempt to reduce the cost of
living only if they regard corduroy
as a symbol, not to be too literally
interpreted. As for the cloth itself,
it may be, or may become, relatively
expensive. Once on a time it was
orn by royalty, as the name "corde
du roi." by which it was introduced
into England, signifies. More recent
ly It has connoted an almost inde
structible kind of cloth much in
favor with parents whose offspring
are given to sliding down cellar doors
Its. high durability, rather than its
royal ancestry, is its more modern
recommendation.
But the danger is that those pro
fessors will make corduroy the fash
ion, which being done we may as
well dismiss the idea that wearing it
ill be a measure of economy. We
pay a good deal more for being in
the style than we do for units of
wearing quality. It is a safe predic
tion that this particular kind of
fustian will advance as soon as a
large demand for it has been cre
ated. Cost of producing it may not
go up, but nowadays goods not only
respond to the law of supply and de
mand, but they anticipate it. Those
who contemplate joining corduroy
EMIGRATION, TO CANADA.
Emigration from the United
States to Canada, which is described
by Canadian editors as a "return
movement," and which resulted in
the crossing of the border by some
52,000 persons in 1919, is perhaps a
manifestation of restlessness rather
than a definite outgoing current of
population. The proportions that it
may assume In the coming season
can hardly be forecast this early In
the season. But the figures given for
last year represent less than a third
of the number who crossed the bor
der going northward in the last year
before the war, and less than half
the average in the five years prior
to 1915. There is a considerable dis
tance to go before emigration from
the United States will equal that from
Canada to the United States in the
ears before the lands of the north
ern country were made available.
The pot of gold is always at the
end of the rainbow. There are rain
bow-chasers everywhere, and there
are others who, more securely an-
ored to their surroundings, see with
even clearer vision the opportunities
that lie right at hand. Not every
adventurer who travels far finds for
tune, and it is probably demonstrable
that more have achieved the goal of
their desires who spent their energies
in developing familiar fields. Many
have done so, in any event. Not all
the pioneering Is done far from the
railroad; there are virgin soils of op
portunity everywhere.
Those who are competent to make
a living from the soil and it will be
taken for granted that this is th
only motive that can be relied on
permanently to replenish the man
power of the farms need not, in all
probability, emigrate to find agricul
tural opportunity. In the nature of
the free land country, or the cheap
land country, there are definite com
pensating disadvantages. Relativ
inaccessibility to markets is one of
the chief of these. The crop pro
duced must be exceedingly portable,
and comparatively imperishable, and
choice is for this reason restricted
In the place and time of Abraham
Lincoln's boyhood, for illustration,
was unprofitable even to raise corn
beyond the immediate needs of the
farmer and his family, because
would have been necessary to cross
two states to reach a selling point
Existence on the distant prairies may
be the wild, free life that it is de
picted, but it has its drawbacks, too,
About the best that the early pio
neers could hope for was that they
would be able to create an estate for
their children. Those who now are
ambitious to become frontiersmen
will profit by studying the experi
ence of the men and women who
made farming the comparatively
comfortable business that it now is.
Land in Oregon undoubtedly sells
for more than It did in the fifties:
and it is worth a good deal more.
Those who contemplate emigrating,
and who are not moved by pure wan
derlust, will do we'll to consider all
the elements of cost. It is exceed
ingly improbable that any industri
ous, enterprising and steady-going
farmer will find that he needs to
leave the United States to find a way
to make a living.
directly attacked, that fact demon
strating that it had a common in
terest with the allies in defeat of
Germany. The danger having been
removed, this nation is not disposed
to become a general partner with
the allies in preserving European
peace by intervening in every Eu
ropean quarrel. It prefers to stand
aside until another definite occasion
for intervention is recognized not
only by the president but by con
gress. In this course, the United
States follows the example of Britain,
which has held aloof from conti
nental alliances but has often inter
vened when its safety was threatened
by disturbance of the balance of
power. The war has led Britain to
abandon its policy of isolation so
far as to form a general alliance
with France, and it may extend that
alliance to Italy, but it seeks to les
sen its own obligation by imposing
it also on all members of the league.
Britain hoped that American inter
vention in the war. would lead this
country to share that obligation, but
If we are not ready to go so far, it
will welcome us as a limited partner
in preserving peace.
Lord Grey's confidence that asso
ciation with other nations in the
work of the league would gradually
lead the United States to become a
full partner is founded on a fore
cast of growing American interest
in world affairs which is not yet jus
tified. A decidedly unfavorable im
pression has been made by the secret
treaties under which the allies un
dertook to parcel out the territories
of Austria and Turkey among them
selves, in some cases with scant re
gard for the wishes of the inhabit
ants. The American people are not
ready to give a general guaranty for
the execution of bargains in which
they had no part, and of some of
which they disapprove. The league
covenant contains a pledge against
any more secret treaties, but its ef
fect is buried under the bad impres
sion of those made during the war.
The United States has not been loath
to guarantee the independence of
other states, but they are in the
western hemisphere, in the American
sphere of influence. To guarantee
territorial conquests made in a Eu
ropean war is a very different mat
ter.
It may be that before the United
States will become a full partner in
the league." as Lord Grey hopes, it
will be necessary to Americanize the
European view of international re
lations and European diplomacy
BY - PRODUCTS OF THIS PRESS
Those Who Come and Go.
TWO KINDS OP LAW VIOLATORS.'
Que rest Exemption Claim Is That of
Champion Crnpnhooter.
In the records at Washington gath- , He wears several hundred sacks
ered by Provost Marshal General of potatoes in the shape of a cheese
Crowder-a department during the war ! knife on his coat and a few thousand
0acKs ot trpuas on ms necKue ng
A WAT TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
Aside from removing obstacles to
ratification with reservations of the
treaty of Versailles, Viscount Grey
has rendered a great service to both
parties by interpreting the mind of
the American people to the mind of
the British and other allied peoples.
Anxiety for American help in estab
lishing and maintaining peace made
the allies impatient for ratification
of the treaty by this country, and
the delay caused by the controversy
between president and senate caused
irritation in Europe which threat
ened serious disturbance of the
friendship which the war had made
closer.
This irritation arose mainly from
failure to understand the difference
between the American and European
constitutions. Fixed terms for presi
dent and congress frequently place
control of congress in the hands of
one party, while the executive.
through the president, remains In
the hands of the other party. That
situation arose from the republican
victory in the election of 1918. In
the limited monarchies of Britain
and Italy and In the French repub
lic, a government holds office only
so long as it has the support or a
majority in parliament. Thus it can
negotiate treaties with assurance that
they will be ratified. Tne allies as
sumed that, when Mr. Wilson ap
neared at Paris to act for the Ameri
can people, his acts wouia De rati
fied as those of Premiers Lloyd
George, Clemenceau and Nitti were
sure of being ratified. When objec
tion was made in the senate to the
obligation which he had assumed,
many people in Europe were inclined
to regard the senate's action as re
pudiation. Lord Greys explanation
of the powers of the senate will re
move this impression and will set
the American people right In the eyes
of Europe.
He has also made clear the Olf-
texence between the view which the
When Edward E. Brodie a month
ago withdrew from a race that he
was not in except by the push of zeal
ous friends that for the nomination
for secretary of state he showed
sense of political acumen mat is
drawing interest. He has been fol
lowed by A. H. Lea, another "favor
ably mentioned," who will not for
sake his purpose of making each suc
cessive state fair the best ever.
This controversy about the amount
of pure wool in clothes really gets
us nowhere. To judge from the an
nual report of one big clothing
house, which disclosed that it made
more than 14 per cent clear profit
last year, there is more velvet than
wool in the clothes, anyway.
Players in the Boston symphony
orchestra have taken steps to join
the musicians' union, following de
nial of their demand for more pay
Their idea of the right scale prob
ably is about high C.
When Portland has a million in
habitants and the county outside
half as many may be time for con
solidation; but boards that duplicate
work and expense can as well be
joined now as then.
Two-thirds of a very dry month
have passed, and it will be well to
spade the potato patch now, for
February Is a time of uncertain
characteristics, and the skies may
weep any day now.
is to be found a claim for exemption
from the draft by the "champion ne
gro crapshooter" of South Carolina,
and perhaps of the world. And it was
because of this particular negro's
ability to "roll the ivories" that his
exemption from army service was de
manded. A. L. McCawley, attorney, of Kan
sas City, who was one of the 12 na
tional inspectors who worked out
of General Crowder"s office, tella th
Kansas City Post of the claim.
It was not the negro who desired
exemption on the grounds that he was
an "expert crapshooter," but his em
ployer, a big lumber company which
was working on government con
tracts. The president of the lumber
company, the general manager and
other officials filed affidavits to the
effect that the "expert crapshooter
was necessary to the conduct of the
company's business of filling govern
ment contracts.
"It appeared," said McCawley, "that
the company employed negro labor
almost exclusively. The affidavits set
forth that without the 'expert crap
shooter the company could not main
tain its force of negro laborers and
loggers.
"The theory of the contention was
that if this crapshooter on each pay
day did not win all the wages of the
other negro employes they would quit
work to spend their wages.
"It was duly set forth that, once
the crapshooter was arrested and put
to work on the country road gang
and that during his absence from the
lumber camp the negro laborers had
money and began leaving their work
until the efficiency of the organiza
tion was cut to 60 per cent.
"Officials of the company, hearing
of another touted crapshooter in the
neighborhood, employed him, staked
him to a 'roll' and instructed him to
'clean up.' Instead, the new crap
shooter lost his stakes and was fired
by the company. The company offi
cials then went to the'eounty authori
ties, paid their expert crapshooter's
fine and gave him his job back.
With his return and his ability with
the 'bones,' the camp soon had its
full quota of negro laborers back
at work all of them broke.
"The district board reluctantly dis
allowed the claim for exemption, and
it came up 'to General Crowder's of
fice for final disposition. Naturally
it was disallowed by the provost
marshal's office, but it was scheduled
as the queerest of all exemption claims
which came to Washington for ac
tion." Kansas City Post.
his neckti
uratively speaking, for the ornaments
are diamonds paid for by potatoes. He
is Ceorge L. Burtt ox ban Francisco
and is a partner of George Shima, the
Japanese potato king of California.
Mr. Burtt. with Mr. Shima, has bought
15,000 acres of sagebrush land at Red
mond. Or, and intends turning the
desert into a spud garden. "We will
spend about $500,000 getting water on
the land and clearing it." said Mr.
Burtt at the Imperial yesterday on
his arrival from Redmond. "We do not
intend colonizing Japanese laborers
on the acreage, for we havn't enough
labor in California to spare. Wre may
send a dozen foremen who understand
growing spuds, but there will be ro
colony nor anything like that. I'm a
native son of California, but I never
saw in California nor any other place
such good soil as we have bought near
Redmond. All it needs is to be cleared
and watered and we'll attend to that
And, by the way, S. T. Mustard of
Redmond is the champion potato
grower of America. That's a fact.
His spuds attracted me to Redmond."
"About 300,000 acres of agricultural
land in the Oregon & California iand
grant in the Rosebure land office
aistrict, win be opened for entry with
in a rew weeks," says W. H. Canon
of the Roseburg land office, who was
at tne Imperial yesterday. "Service
men will have a 60-day preferential
right. This means that after the land
is opened the service men will have
a couple of months to file before the
civilians get a chance at it. This rule
win apply, for the next two years on
anything opened for entry. Aside from
service men. the only persons having
prererrea claim are the settlers
who have been on the land since prior
to December, 1913, and have made
improvements." Mr. Canon is an ar
dent democrat and once was a candi
date for national committeeman in a
hotly-contested election.
"The first crop of the Warm Snrintcs
irrigation project will be fathered
this year," states Georee Huntinsrton
Curry, boss of the Malheur Enterprise,
wno was In FSrtland yesterday. "The
farmers are getting readv and the
big project will soon be a realitv. Tho
sheepmen up our way are doing well.
out tne cattlemen are not. The stock
men who have been winter-feeding
have been losing money and a good
many wno were feeding this last win
ter will sell early next fall and let
someone else do the feedinsr. The
sheepmen can afford to feed, but the
cattlemen cannot. Malheur county,
on the whole, is doing splendidly."
Mr. Curry is an his way to Eugene
to attena tne conference of newspaper
men.
The postmaster at Renton, Wash-.
has been made a knight by the king
of Italy. That's nothing. Our own
postmaster at Portland was turned
into the night by the postmaster-
general.
The bolshevik! are reported to have
shot a horse because It was con
sidered to be of bourgeois lineage.
To be safe in Russia even a horse
should have long ears and a bray.
The allies have decided to let the
sultan stay in Constantinople, but
have taken his army away from him.
This is more likely to be a relief to
the sultan than a cause for sorrow.
democratic headquarters for the
northwest will be located in Spokane,
but Oregon headquarters remain un
der Dr. Morrow's hat, to which the
really faithful are commended.
If local politics are beginning to
warm np in a temperature of 42
maximum, what will they be when
the sun brings out 80 or so in a few
months?
Every way It is considered, hon
esty is the best policy. Perhaps it
grinds at times, but there is comfort
in the peace it brings, here and here
after.
In reappointing Simon Benson on
the state highway commission. Gov
ernor Olcott did what was expected,
and the right thing.
The wild creatures in the zoos of
central Europe were among the first
to suffer when the allied blockade
enhanced the price of food. Through
out Germany and Austria at Ham
burg, where Hagenbeck, the famous
dealer, maintained his animal empo
rium; at Berlbi, Munich, Dresden,
Cologne, Hanover, Leipzig. Stuttgart,
Dusseldorf, Frankfort, at Vienna and
Budapest the zoos were rapidly an
nihilated with the twofold purpose
of saving what the animals might
eat and of placing on the market all
imported meats and game that human
stomachs could endure. And the
Britons, though not compelled to dine
upon this high-priced fare, were
forced to sacrifice the health or life
of many zoological specimens by
feeding them on inappropriate diet
The reptiles could no longer get fresh
eggs. Tropical birds could only peck
at disappointing substitutes for
oranges and bananas. Even the sea
lions perished because the fish on
which their race was reared had been
transformed into horseflesh dipped in
oil. -
An of the parks and municipal
zoos in the united States, William
Hornaday tells the New York
Evening Post, "have suffered, too, be
cause during the last three years very
few foreign animals have been
brought to this country. In the early
part of the war a certain number of
animals were imported. Later the im
ports fell to almost nothing owing to
the lack of shipping facilities and
the fact that many former collectors
had joined the armies. The chief need
in America is for the foreign hoofed
animals, especially the African ante
lopes, the wild goats, wild sheep and
deer from Asia.
The high eost of sport In Kansas is
thus told about by the White City
Register;
The coyote ronndnp ended rather
distressingly for a number of hunters
Saturday. Elwood Pitcher got shot in
the face, James Haun of the Parker-
ville neighborhood was standing with
the muzzle of hie shotgun resting on
his foot when he accidentally pulled
the trigger, blowing the middle toe
off and ripping his shoe to pieces.
Lloyd Ball jumped out of the car in
the road directly in front of "Shorty"
Hembrows little racer. Lloyd was
knocked down and run over. Fortu
nately hie injuries were not as se
vere as feared at first, tia was able
to attend school Monday. The front
of George Carson's new car was
riddled with shot and he raced back
to town before the water all leaked
out of his radiatoT. Several hunters
were hit with shot that failed to pene
trate the flesh, but which left black
and bine marks. At the roundup only
rabbits were in the ring, the one
coyote escaping the circle.
When A. S. Johnson goes after wa
ter he sticks with the hole until he
gets it. Mr. Johnson, who came to
Portland yesterday, operates a couple
of well-drill outfits in Sherman coun
ty. Up there the water-hunters have
to bore from 200 to 600 feet to get
what they want. It costs $5 a foot
to bore for water, so that the farmer
who contracts with Mr. Johnson hopes
that the water will soon be reached.
Mr. Johnson brought in water last
week on one ranch at 22S feet and
just before that he got water on an
other place at 425. There is plenty
of water in Sherman county, but it
is a long way from the surface.
"Beer is 70 cents a quart at Tijuana,
Mexico, and, people cannot go from
San Diego to Tijuana, 17 miles, fast
enough," declares Alvin E. Baer, who
arrived yesterday at the Multnomah.,
"The bars in the Mexican town are
doing a great business and there is
always a crowd trying to get close
enough to the brass rail to shout an 1
order. It is impossible to bring any
of the refreshments across the line
into the United States, however, ex
cept that which is already consumed."
'Ten years in the tropics is not
worth the money they pay you to stay
Professional Bootlrirser Coatrastesl
W Its Maker of Wise (or Osi l ie.
PORTLAND. Feb. 19. (To the Edi
tor.) In view of the fact that a con
stant succession of arrests for viola
tions of the prohbition law have bean
chronicled in your paper for the past
few weeks, I am writing you with
the view of throwing some light on
the manner In which the "dry" law Is
enforced in Portland.
There are In our city two kinds of
violators of the prohibition law the
professional bootleggers, many of
whom operate In groups and whose
sole object is to make money by the
illicit sale of alcoholic
some of which are adulterated to a
degree that endangers health, and a
second class, consisting of residents
who manufacture in their own homes
beer and wine in insignificant quan
tities and solely for home consump
tion. In the latter case, the wine or
beer is neither sold nor given away.
Instead of making a distinction be
tween the above two classes, the police
have of late been giving the sume sort
of treatment to the harmless home
producer that they visit on the hard
ened bootlegger. Summary arrest, po
lice court hearing and fine have been
meted out to the former with the same
severity and regularity that has been
observed in the case of the boot
leggers. The effect of this policy on
the two classes of offenders is, how
ever, widely dissimilar.
With the professional bootlegger,
the matter of arrest and fine Is some
thing that he expects to encounter
and be is always prepared to meet it
Consequently the punishment which
he thus receives has not the deterrent
effect which the law seeks to accom
plish. As soon as he is permitted to
leave the court room, the bootlegger
starts his nefarious practices over
again, a little more circumspectly,
perhaps, but nevertheless with all bis
former greed and activity.
Here Is a typical case of this kind:
Three months ago the police seized
locally about 1500 gallons of wine and
liquors owned by a group of boot
leggers. Just a few days ago the
police seized, in the very same place,
1000 gallons of alcoholic beverages
manufactured and owned by the self
same bootleggers.
How different" is the case of, say, an
Industrious workingman, the father ot
family, who prepares In his own
home, and for his own personal use
only, a few gallons of wine that form
for him one, and perhaps not the
least, of the few pleasures of life fo
him, especially when a habit acquired
in early youth. For such a man an
his family an arrest, with the acconi
panying arraignment and publicity, 1:
disgrace that is hard to get ove
I know personally of instances where
the humiliation attendant upon sue
experiences has resulted in loss of
health.
I am not seeking to condone viola
tions of the law where there is crim
inal intent. But I do say.emphatlca
ly that a distinction should be mad
in the treatment accorded bootleggeri
on the one hand and old citizens an
heads of families on the other. Th
way In which the law is enforced at
present has lead many to conclude
that the police are being misled Into
making arrests, in some cases, by In
formants who have anything but dl
interested motives in spying on the!'
neighbors. A. LIMA.
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I more i ruth lu.n foetry, I
I I By Jss.es J. Mositasr . . . j
PCTTIXG I'EP IXTO TIIKU,
They're modernizing Gilbert'! plays
to brighten them a bit -And
make them sparkle, so to speak.
with 1S20 wlu
They find, they say, it much lmprovea
his late Victorian chalf
To put a little rough stuff tn, which
always gets a launn;
And doubtless when they play the
bard, as now and then they do.
They II try to bring him up to dale
and gag his dramas, too.
For Instance, when th Jealous Moor
fair Deademona -j-naL
beverages, '"""" vumray renet ne'll say. "I
King Lear at Mistress GonerU will
shake his frosty locks.
And, winking at the audience, smirk.
iiaij use a tox ;
While Richard will corns charging In,
cast down his broken sword.
Lift up his hands to heaven and shout,
"My kingdom for a Kordi"
"This Denmark." Hamlet will observe,
"is more than I can brook
It thinks that I am dippy yet It fall
for Dr. Cook.
Ophelia, I'm not mad at you, although,
of course. I'm mad;
Horatio, brlnir the ouija board, I want
to talk to dad."
And when he gazes at th ghost, in
anger he will cry:
"I can t have spirits in the house th
country has son dry!"
When Portia sits to hear th cos of
Shylock's ancient crude.
The aged money king will rise and
say. "Good morning. Judge!"
And when she says his pound of flesh
Is held a bit too high.
"It Isn't half so high as beef," old
Shylock will reply.
And thus, with merry quip and Jest,
up to date and clever.
They'll give old Shakespeare's plsva
such pep that they'll ndur for
ever. I"rT tar It.
What w need most of all la a
shortage of shortages.
Natural Faeiiak.
Maybe Mars is niaklnir a bid on th
contents of our bonded warehouses.
However Ike now (.'nines Out.
Well, anyway, the navv did a mM
Job, didn't It?
"LUMBERJACKS" KNJOV RUADIVG
3las;aslnes Appreciated In Out-of-the-
way Places Fnr from News Stands.
PORTLAND, Feb. 19. (To the Kdi
tor.) Answering Mr. Hudson of Drain
regarding lumberjacks being able to
buy bonds, and therefore not in
class to accept free magazine service,
I think Mr. Hudson must be lacking
in knowledge of conditions in the
average logging camp.
When one stops to think that these
logging camps are usually a good
many miles from news stands and the
usual camp commissary does not nan
die magazines, perhaps it is not alto
gether so "queer" that these lumber-
there," is the verdict of W. Everson, . Jacks are willing and glad to take
"Buildings cost billions, " remarks
headline. After pricing a few
bungalow plans, we somehow get the
same impression.
The Dalles has so much money
and business that another bank i
needed. Pretty good recommenda
tion for a city.
The moonshiner who married the
chief witness against him may live
to allude to love as all moonshine.
The movies have nothing on the
latest sensations in married life, as
revealed by testimony.
The robbers will have to go back to
the Monmouth bank for the money
they overlooked.
After all, ifs reasonable enough to
call the man who "kites" checks a
"high Oyer." '
For a spring tonic, try the smelts
that are getting plenty.
Boys ot the United States make the
best wireless telegraph operators In
the world. In no other country besides
does the average boy know so much
about wireless or take so keen an in
terest in it. Before the war the United
States contained 175,000 wireless sta
tions, large and small, scattered
throughout every section of the land.
The most of these were amateur wire
less stations built and operated en
tirely by boys. No country in. Europe
nas anything like as many stations.
During the war it became necessary
for the government to close most of
these wireless stations and regulate
the others very rigidly to prevent any
enemy nsing them for hist own ends.
Now that the war is happily over the
government hae removed these re
strictions and any American boy Is
free once more to equip and operate
a station of his own. The interest in
wireless telegraphy is reviving by
leaps and bounds and in a short time
we will see more wireless stations
in operation than ever before. Boys
! Life for February.
who arrived from Shanghai, Chin
yesterday and registered at the Ben
son. "It is no place for a white man
and a white man should stay in the
tropics only a short time." Mr. Ever
son is in America on business and also
to have himself tinkered with by doc
tors. His long sojourn in China un
dermined his constitution.
Dan Kirby of McMinnville, owner of
one of the finest farms in that lo
cality, was in Portland yesterday.
Mr. Kirby lives in a township which
has an association and the purpose of
the association is to keep the town
ship up to snuff. Among other things
the association has done is to
that every building within its limits
is neatly painted and the farms made
snappy In appearance.
When E. Shinkal found ther were
no rooms vacant at the Benson and
that he would have to wait until
night before securing accommoda
tions he showed his judgment and
appreciation of putting idle time to
good account by chartering a ma
chine and making the Columbia high
way trip. Mr. Shlnkai la a Japanese
commercial representative who has
been located at New York.
The cost accounting system in
printing offices will be explained by
R. W. Sawyer to the newspaper men
at Eugene. Mr. Sawyer, who is the
chief of one of the Bend newspapers,
is at the Hotel Portland with Mrs.
Sawyer. He is a Harvard graduate,
too. but after satisfying himself that
he didn't care particularly for the law
business, he slipped over to Bend and
became a newspaper proprietor.
"Gold production in our district has
dropped from $3,000,000 In 1914 to leas
than $400,000 in 1919," explained Her
man Hers of Goldfield. who la 'reg
istered at the Multnomah. The price
of silver is such that this metal is
attracting the attention of the min
ing fraternity more than the yellow
stuff. Incidentally, the boom days of
Goldfield have departed.
"The port haj been the making of
Astoria," asserted" a. v in gate at tne
Hotel Oregon. "The port has, provided
th warehouses and transportation
facilities and having this equipment
ati demonstrating that It is capable
of doing things. Astoria has received
a rate. Astoria would never have got
ten anywhere but for the establish
ment of the port"
The fashionable set of Castle Rock,
Wash., will soon be wearing hats im
ported from Portland. Mrs. E. L.
Drew, milliner of Castle Rock, was at
the Perkins yesterday while placing
order for a new line of Easter crea
tions. J. A. Harding of Ean Claire, who
registered at the Benson, is reported
as the prospective manager of the
new hotel that Keller & Boyd will
have in that city. Keller & Boyd are
the owners of the Benson.
A. C. Dutton, head of the Dutton
Lumber company, with offices In
Portland, arrived at the Benson yes
terday from bis home in Springfield,
Mass.
Suffering with a bad eye, F. E.
Brosius of Prineville came to Port
land yesterday to have some treat
ment at the hands of a specialist. He
is at the Perkins.
this reading matter placed at their
disposal. Also I think if Mr. Hudson
had ever worked in any of these log
ging camps, day after day, he would
realize that these same lumberjacks
(regardless of wages) are human
enough to enjoy a magazine, no mat
ter whether it be given to them or
bought with the wages they earn.
Having lived in and close to some
of these logging camps, I can truth
fully say these men and their families
are glad to get reading matter. I
have yet to find any one that through
false pride will refuse amagazlne or
book, regardless of Its newness or
oldness.
I think Mr. Anderson's plan 1b a
long step toward a remedy of condi
tions one is apt to find tn places
where there is no reading matter.
Instead of persons condemning It. if
one is really looking to better condi
tions for mankind, he will "boost"
whenever opportunity offers, and not
"knock."
ONE WHO HAS SEEN LOGGING
CAMPS.
KEFLECTIOKS ON F.INSTIOlN IDKA
What a Crooked Thins; (he Tawllae of
Gravity Must Be.
VANCOUVER. Wash, Feb. 1. (To
the Editor.) Verily Dr. Einstein has
awakened the sleepers and they are
now asking. "Where are we at?" One
Is confronted by a sphinx which he
here attempts to outline. On the
equator the periphery of tlie earth
revolve nt an approximate speed of
1000 miles an hour. There, imagln
a gun, elevated (laid) to an ahsolut
perpendicular, discharging a projec
tile into space. Let the time occupied
the ascent and descent of the pro
jectile be exactly one hour.
Now during this hour the gun has
been borne away practically 1100
miles from its original point or line
of fire. Its lay has been changed by
some 25 degrees. It is not pointing in
the same direction as when fired, ye
n falling the projectile will return to
the gun. Now when we confound this
already complex problem by consider.
Ing the tremendous speed of th earth
In Its annual oblique swing around
the sun it Is baffling to attempt to
see the form of the figure which
this imaginary projectile must de
scribe in order to overtake the fugl
tive gun from which it was dis
charged.
In thinking this, forget atmosphere
and its trends and currents and think
only of th flight of the projectll
through space, and I feel sure tha
you will like the writer, agree with
Einstein, and wlthont doubt you will
say: If spac Is an actuality, then
the towline of gravity must be
crooked as a dog's hind leg."
A BOMBARDIER.
A Fantasy.
By Urarc K. Hall.
On nlitht 1 strolled by th heaving
sea.
When the waves were washing high,
And the walls of th rock-bound
basin
Were splashed with the (horning
foam;
Th artists had spilled rti4r Palette
On the hem of the western sky.
And the tides spread their snowy
ruffles
On the sands, as'thsy hurried bom.
Ther was whimper and sob in th
voices
That ram from the surging hrine,
And cries that my soul re-echoed
With a throb that waa cold and
bleak;
There was pathos and ghostly whisper.
And often a smothered sigh.
A the wav brought its spirit
message
In tones that th sea-folk apeak.
Then I pictured th floor of th ocean
Gone dry as a sun-warped board.
Where the years have been storing
treasure
Deep down In th green raose) caves;
And where lost souls sleep nnwak-
Ing
Rich pelf In ths sea-gods' hoard
While only the curllnir coral
btands guard by their open graves.
Are there elves that carry th sorrow
Of th world to the ocean's rim.
And bury them In the night-time,
Deep under th restless blue?
O, I funcy the sleepers protest
At the tales of our grief snd sin.
And their voices moan In th break
ers
If wo of the land but knew!
In Other Day.
W. R- Mathems of Vancouver, B. C,
j senting a steel products company.
What Epidemics Fee Oa.
PORTLAND, Feb. 18. (To the Edi
tor.) I heartily Indorse Mrs. L. E. B.'i
letter in The Oregonian, February 16,
and her opinion as to why we.have
epidemics.
When Dr. Evans visited our city
some time ago he plainly told th peo
ple of Portland that they had a "dirty
city." What has been done to clean
It up? Let those who know answer.
We will continue to have epidemics as
long as people are allowed to keep
chickens, rabbits, goats, etc.. In back
yards, in the heart of the city.
Of what use is it to keep clean
premises when adjoining neighbors
keep a chicken yard which is nothing
but a filthy garbage dump that not
only "smells to heaven" but Is a fly
and disease breeding affliction of the
worst type? MRS. C. L. W.
Twesr.fhe l'eara Ago.
From Ths Oresnnlas of February 20, ISM.
Salem. Again the minority in the
legislature switched votes, this tlm
from Williams to Iowell, and the vote
tood: Li.ilph 40. Lowell liar 10,
others scattering or absent.
Managers of th Portland Free kin
dergarten met yesterday and aoccpt-
d th resignation of Mrs. Dudley
as principal of th kindergarten on
Sixteenth street.
Th constant lncrsns in tb num
ber of pupils attending the puhlio
schools has necessitated th building
of addition to several of the build
ings. Including the Chspmsn, Wood
lawn and Wllliams-avenu struc
tures.
A sudden boom In the realty market
looks as If It were her to stay, on
irm reporting salos Kgrcgllu-
100,000 for Uat week.
Repairs to the Willamette Steam
Mill and Lumbering plant, neci-aHtial-
d by the flood and fire, hav been
completed, and sawing was resumud
yesterday.
k; ok urnixtj.
With the lengthening of th days,
comrs the sun's more ardent
rays.
When the meadowlarks and robins
start to sing.
When the pussy willows gay, nod
and pass the time of day.
Tour safe In saying "These ar
signs of spring."
It la at this time of yenr, that a
young man's thoughts. I fear
Very often lighLly turu to thoughts
of love.
And bis lmpuls Is to rosm, or to
write a soft spring porm.
While the grieving skin woep
ceaselessly above.
When your ever loving spouse, starts
to clean the bloomln' house
Then you almost starv, and cannot
find a thing.
It's the old spring cleaning fever. Just
be patient It will leave her.
For It Is just another sign of
spring.
Rhubarb! Onions! How you v miner d
'em, they r a tonlo for your
system.
When the kids hunt out their mar
bles and Hi kite.
Don't b worried 'cause you'r laxy.
and your thoughts ars sort
hazy.
Drink sassafras you'll soon b
feeling bright.
When you find yourself a wishing
for a restful day of fishing.
And your appetite for work begins
to poll.
When the balmy southern breeta
makes you think of It. V. li.'a.
Why that's about th surest sign
of alL
R. E. CRE.
Location of flwarthmore tolleae,
KALAMA. Wash.. Fob
Editor.) Please Inform m
dress of Swarthmor coils
RALPH HARPOLE,
Swarthmore college Is at Swarth-
mora, Fa.
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ic of the ad-
are.