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THE HORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920
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DIVIDED LEGISLATIVE SESSION'S.
In connection with tlie proposal to
divide the legislative sessions in
Oregon, now advocated by Senator
Tierce, The Oregonian today presents
two letters received several weeks
ago relative to the working: of a sitni
lar plan in California. Mr. Jordan.
one of the writers, is secretary of
state of California; Mr. JlcClatchy
is editor of the Sacramento Bee, the
leading newspaper in the California
capital. Inquiries were addressed to
these two men because they were
deemed to have intimate knowledge
of the success or failure of the
system.
Notwithstanding that the letter
from Mr. Jordan condemns the plan,
and that of ilr. aicClatchy points
out defects therein and suggests pos
sible remedies for them, the letters
are not published with intent to fore
stall adoption of a simiLar plan in
Oregon. They are printed for the in
formation they contain and with the
Jiope that if the divided legislative
session shall be adopted in Oregon
they will aid the framing of a more
nearly perfect provision.
The Oregonian is fairly well con
vinced that Oregon has reached a
state of development where a forty
day session does not give sufficient
time for proper consideration of the
multifarious issues bound to be
presented to the legislative as
sembly. This conclusion has been
reached notwithstanding a conviction
obtained from observation of many
legislatures, in Oregon and elsewhere,
that they as a rule are procrastinat
ing bodies. Despite unpleasant ex
perience of preceding bodies, legis
latures delay consideration until late
in the session of the more important
measures. That which is pure dila
toriness is thereafter often described
as an ulterior purpose to "frame"
laws against the people or to "pul
something over" on a body of tired
lawmakers. Apparent cause for dis
trust is present, and legislatures come
to be flippantly mentioned as inflic
tions, necessary but deplorable.
But the fact does stand out that
due to accumulation of work toward
the close of the session, many laws
are passed without proper consider
ation and others are adopted without
opportunity to be heard being given
those whom such, laws materially
affect.
It is apparent that an ordinary ex
tension of the legislative session will
not overcome these defects in the
process of lawmaking. Midnight leg'
islation is enacted in states having
longer sessions than that of Oregon.
In Washington, where the legisla
ture sits sixty days, the two houses
consume a longer time in getting
down to business than they do in
Oregon, with the result that there is
a similar congestion of work in the
closing hours. Nor is it to be ex
pected that the divided session plan
will prevent the overcrowding of the
final calendar. ' But it possesses the
merit that it precludes by constitu
tional enaotmcnt the initiation ol
laws in the closing hours of the ses
sion. The public at least has oppor
tunity to ascertain the general char
acter and precise terms of measures
that are to be considered in the sec
ond half of the session. . .
We are told that in California,
where this opportunity is present, the
people do not avail themselves of it.
We do not know of any way of com
pelling the public to rise to its re
sponsibilities. About all that can be
done is to give it the opportunity.
If it neglects that opportunity the
public has at least shouldered more
of the responsibility for unmeritori
ous legislation than now falls upon it.
The situation in Oregon is that a
forty-day session, even though indus- 1
triously and energetically employed,
is not a session of suflicient length
for transacting the business that nor
mally comes before the legislature.
A change to a sixty-day continuous
session does not promise the full
measure of relief. The divided ses
sion presents possibilities of better
ment in lawmaking, and when the
criticisms of it are analyzed they
seem to be but those that may be
directed in larger measure at the
continuous session.
where he works shorter tours .and
has greater opportunity for privacy,
and the feeling of ownership, of
course, is wholly lacking. And few
farms are so adjusted that they can
be operated at all seasons by the
owner alone. In the average situa
tion, hired men are as necessary as
farm owners and at the present rate
of subsidence, there will be no more
hired men in six years.
The city has been competing with
the country for the man-power sup.
ply. But city folks as well as others
need to eat. Of what value will any
industry to the country when the
hired man s extermination brings
famine on the land?
PREVENTION OF L.TSC1HXQ.
An interesting revelation of the re
vival of the old-time idea of devo
tion to duty is made in the debate
now waxing warm in Kentucky over
the sufficiency of a pending bill de
signed to prevent lynching. Poth
tiie leading political parties were
committed in the campaign last fall
to the enactment of a law empower
ing the governor of the state to re
move a sheriff in whose jurisdiction
a lynching occurred.- Now the mat
ter has come before the state legis
lature, where an effort is being made
by some interests to emasculate it
of its automatic features. It is sig
nificant that there is strong demand
for a provision that upon establish
ment of the fact that a prisoner in
the custody of an officer has been un
lawfully killed a vacancy in the office
shall be created without more ado.
It is now recalled that the gov
ernor of Kentucky a few days ago,
on dispatching a force of soldiers
to Lexington, told the adjutant-gem-erat
in command that he "would not
expect to see him alive if the mob
should get the prisoner." It is the
spirit of "with or upon it" with which
the Roman mothers of old presented
shields to their soldier sons. Better
death than dishonor, with failure to
perform a sworn duty among the
specifications of dishonor, is the idea
embodied in the automatic removal
bill.
It will be said bv some, of course.
that the life of no degenerate pris
oner is worth the little finger of a
constable or a sheriff. But we sur
mise that tender regard for guilty
criminals is farthest from the minds;
of those for whom newspapers like
the Louisville Courier-Journal are
league which would be the best com
promise that could be made among
its friends in the senate and between
the United States and the allies. That
is the only possible way to peace
and to American participation in
making peace permanent. Mr. Wil
son has been steadfast only in in
sisting that peace shall be made hii
way, that the league shall be his
league as he framed it and wills it
to be, the only alternative being that
peace shall be indefinitely postponed
and that the United States be not
only isolated but estranged from the
world which looks to it for leader
ship.
The result of Mr. Wilson's singu
lar kind of consistency is that, though
his end is peace and a league, we
can have neither unless we take them
In the manner and form in which he
offers them. His way having proved
impracticable, we have no peace and
no league from this great champion
of both.
What a changed aspect the world's
affairs would have today if the presi
dent had performed his constitu
tional duty of seeking the advice and
consent of the senate.
THE SPIRIT OF THE PIONEER.
The proposal to make marriage
more attractive by government sub
sidy, made by certain British reform
ers and seriously indorsed in other
quarters, is a reminder of the cam
paign conducted some years ago
with the same underlying purpose
by Ellen Key, the noted Swedish
champion of the rights of women.
Because other phases of Miss Key's
doctrines brought a storm of opposi
tion this was overlooked by most of
her critics. But one of them, Horace
J. Bridges, lecturer and writer on
economic philosophy, paid his re
spects to the whole system in an
essay that will appeal with especial
force to the men and women of an
other day who were not always ask-
ng that a government work out their
own destinies for them. For ex
ample, he said:
spokesmen and who declare that
peace officer who is alive after the
lynching of a prisoner in his custody
should be removed automatically and
without the right of appeal." It is as
if a division of troops ordered to
storm an enemy redoubt should re
turn intact and report that the task
was impossible because the enemy
outnumbered them and "had the
drop." In practice it probably will
be found that mobs will become auto
matically fewer where automatic re
moval laws are in effect.
THE VANISHING HIRED MAN.
The New York State College of
Agriculture reports as the result of
a canvass of some thousands of farms
of that state that the number of peo
ple living on them decreased by 3
per cent and the number of hired
men decreased 17 per cent in 1919.
It the ratio holds good throughout
the state, it indicates that ,"5.000
men and boys quit farming to go into
other occupations. There are already
Z 4,000 abandoned farms in New York
abandoned because their owners
found they could not make a living
on tbrm. Tho chance that they will
ever be retenanted is smell in view
cf the growing scarcity of farm help.
The western states have not
reached tho abandoned fnrm stage,
but they are having a similar ex
perience as to the disappearance of
the hired man. This is one of the
most alarming features of the agri
cultural situation. A certain number
of farm owners can be counted on to
remain in the industry, even though
they earn little more than a living,
because of certain compensations of
tho life its so-called independence,
its hcalthfulness and, above all. the
reuse of ownership. But the farm
hand doubts that he is as independ
ent In the country as In tho city,
TWO KINDS OF CONSISTENCY,
Apparently wearied by the hope
less effort to find a .way to support
President Wilson and Senator Cham
berlain at the same time, the Pen
dleton East Oregonian turns for re
lief to an attempt to prove contradic
tion in The Oregonian's attitude at
different stages of the treaty contro
versy. It is a charge which troubles
The Oregonian very little. Let our
single-track friend make the most
of it. If true, it would not be im
portant nor unprecedented in the
record of newspapers or individuals
nor of statesmen. Shall one's point
of view not be altered to suit changed
circumstances or to meet new facts?
Shall one set out on a certain course
and hold to it, though chaos rules
and worlds are wrecked? Shall one
say that he will have his way, no
matter what the consequences to
others? Shall he refuse to accom
modate himself to situations which
are otherwise insuperable? Shall he
insist always on a whole loaf, or no
loaf, and reject a 90 per cent loaf?
It might be well enough if the wel
fare of only a single person, or na
tion, or even president, were con
cerned. But when one is in a great
or small sense the custodian of the
public interest, guardian of the
world's peace, and trustee of human
ity, he has no right to say that there
w,ll be no progress, no peace, except
on absolute conditions laid down by
him. Let us add that we refer here
not to The Oregonian but to Presi
dent Wilson.
Throughout the entire wearisome
struggle, the one design and desire
of The Oregonian has been to secure
an early, just and durable peace.
In the many phases through which
the controversy has passed, that sin
gle end has been kept In view. Be
fore the league covenant was adopt
ed at Paris, we said that a peace
treaty should be made first and that
the league should be organized aft
erward. When the peace conference
coupled the two. it was an accom
plished fact and The Oregonian urged
ratification of the treaty in the be
lief that early restoration of peace
was more urgent than present
amendment of any defects there
might be in the covenant, confident
also that the great power and pres
tige of the United States would en
able it to maintain its rights in the
league and to secure any amend
ments that proved desirable.
When the demand of many sen
ators for reservations proved that
ratification could not muster enough
votes to win without reservations.
The Oregonian urged a compromise
on such reservations as would unite
the necessary sixty-four votes with
out sending the treaty back to the
peace conference. The president
would not hear of such a compro
mise, and would consent to no reser
vations except such as would inter
pret the treaty as meaning what he
said it meant.
Declaration from authoritative Brit
ish and French sources that the al
lies would accept the Lodge reserva
tions removed the objection that they
would throw the treaty back Into
conference, and proved that early
peace with the United States a mem
ber of the league could be obtained
by their adoption. The allies were
willing to accept us as a member of
the league on our own terms. The
main ground of Mr. Wilson's oppo
sition to the lxdge reservations was
destroyed. Enough democratic sen
ators wore ready to accept those res-,
crvations to insure ratification with1
them. They were restrained from
voting in accord with that opinion
only by Mr. Wilson and by his hold
on them through party sentiment.
By insisting on unconditional ratifi
cation he brings it about that we
have no peace and are outside the
lea gue.
The Oregonian has been steadfast
in its advocacy of the treaty which
seems the best compromise that
could be made at Paris and of a
It is astonishing how sneeiTily the raisins;
of social standards In this country has
sapped the boasted spirit of the pioneer.
Men and women whose grandparents were
ready to defy hardships which were al
most unimaginable are unwilling today
to face the possibility of having to sub
stitute the pipe for the cigar or to dis
pense with supernumerary garments. At
time when even artisans have at their
command comforts and conveniences Im
possible to the European- monarchs of a
century ago. we find men and wemea
afraid to marry, even where there is.
practical;- speaking, no reasonable ground
for fear that they ever will be in want of
the necessaries of life. The removal of
this fantastic nightmare and of the
hypnosis begotten of it is at least as
necessary as tho reform of economic con
ditions. Practically every news item that
tells of the "golden wedding" anni
versary of a couple living in this
country, and more particularly in
the western part of it, contains be
tween its lines the story of two peo
pie who would have spurned the
notion that they needed help fro
the state to set them up in life.
There were hardships to be endured
compared with which life of the
present is a flowery bed of ease, but
marriage was even then a quite
popular institution. A young man
with a job, and sometimes with only
the prospect of one, and a youn
woman whose hope chest held little
except homely but durable necessities
felt themselves quite rich enough to
make the venture. As almost any
pioneer out this way can testify, these
unions were as a rule as happy as
they possibly could have been if they
had been subsidized. We are almost
prepared to say that they averaged
better, in all the values worth count
ing, than those of the present day,
which pessimists are constantly tell
lng us are widely restrained by super
caution.
The spirit of the pioneer, of which
the marriages of half a century ago
were but a symbol, was the motive
power behind a good many note
worthy achievements. It was not
spirit that regarded social conditions
as incapable of improvement, or that
refused to try to better them, but it
was a kind of independence that ac
cepted an individual share of respon
sibility and was ready to take the
consequences. It will be suspected
that the kind of people who want to
be hired to marry will make about
the poorest material we have, geneti
cally speaking, out of which to create
mothers and fathers for future gen
erations.
motive power roads became a neces
sity and a way was forrad to pay for
them.
Ohio, whose per capita ownership
of automobiles, 13.1, is not far from
the average for the entire United
States, cow has one mile of passable
roads (suitable for automobile
travel) for each 0.9 of its popula
tion, and a mile of "Improved roads"
for each 168 of the population. If
the people of China ever reach this
proportionate stage of road improve
ment, as they will if the automobile
becomes established among them,
they will have 5,000,000 miles of
passable roads, of which 2,000,000
will be well improved, instead of a
few hundreds of miles, as at present
The extent to which western civili
zation, with especial reference to its
scientific and economic aspects, will
be facilitated in its march through
the orient by this eventuality can be
left to the imagination. j
NOT AU THAT "WAS EX PEC ED
CaUfonrta Legislative Plsm Kes'
Csmasea to Give Beat Results. j
SACRAMENTO, Cat. Feb. 27. (To
the Editor.) This answers The. Ore
gonian's letter asking for informa
tion as to our experience with the
bifurcated plan of legislative session.
The plan as devised is an excellent
one, and if carried out along the lines
of the original intent ' would un
doubtedly be productive or good re
sults. Like many other things in our
form of government, it depends upon
the men who handle it and upon the
sincerity with which the original Idea
is carried out. As a matter of fact, it
has net been fairly operated, and it
has not produced the results desired
or possible, with us.
As planned, the bifurcated session
occupies SO days during which bills
are introduced, then a recess of 30
days during which it was assumed
that these bills would be given care-
Road-building is one of the world's - pb'in VrnUeTeHbera.
tions, and finally, a session of 30 days
during which no further blls could
be introduced save by unanimous con
sent, the time being devoted entirely
to consideration of, and action on, the
bills already introduced.
Those Who Come and Go.
coming industries. It promises to
engage the productive energies of
men of many lands for a long time
to come. It is one of the most con
spicuous social developments of the
time in which we live. The automo
bile must be credited with a large
share in this achievement. There
are few who would willingly return
to the universal road conditions of
even ten years ago.
The democratic national commit
tee mourns over failure of congress
to provide for improvement of riv
ers in the middle west by the lump
sum rivers and harbors bill. It is
discreetly silent about the creeks of
the south, but it is safe to say that
neglect of them is the real cause of
its sorrow. Every democratic bill
contained appropriations for twenty
or thirty small streams in North
Carolina, the home of Secretary Dan
iels, Representative Kitchin and other
Bourbon leaders. Those streams ma;
run dry for lack of irrigation bv
congress.
"Wild geese start south from Ar
lington, and Mayor Donnelly gave
me that as another of his reasons
why the John Day highway should
come but to the Columbia highway
at Arlington from Condon." says Ed
E. Kiddle, state highway commis
sioner. These geese, declares Dr.
Donnelly, come from somewhere in
Alaska, cross British Columbia and
mobilize at Arlington. From that
point they fly to California and into
Mexico and then on into South Amer
ica. That is as much of their route
as the doctor has been able to dis
cover. Anyway, they come by hun
dreds of thousands, sometimes cloud
ing the sun, and this has been going
on since the days of the earliest in
habitant. There are good wheat fields
across the Columbia river in Wash
ington, but 2 geese land on the Ore
gon side to one that rests on the
Washington shore. A few years ago
the geese were so hungry that they
became a nuisance and tbe legislature
was appealed to by farmers who
didn't want their immature crop to
go south as ballast for wild geese.
A professional sportsman went to
None can dispute the wisdom of
Judge McCourt in sending to the
penitentiary for four years or less
an 18-year-old boy. The boy "never
had a chance" and probably he never
will with his record, but he will be
out of the way of doing harm for
while at an age when his talents
and instincts would incline him that
way.
The aboriginal is slow to imbibe
the white man's ideas, but he gets
there in the end. Chief Yumsumkin
of the Cayuses blew out the gas in
Chicago and has gone to the happy
hunting grounds. That trick in days
agone belonged to Oregon democrats
in touch with civilization and strange
fixtures.
AUTOMOBILES AND ROADS.
Everybody knows that a goed part
of China's .economic troubles are due
to lack of communication between
one part of the country and another,
and particularly to inadequate means
of getting goods to market, Conse
quently those who would like to see
the Chinese prosper in their own
country and enjoy the benefits of
occidental discovery and invention
will read with interest the news sent
by an attache of our consular service
that the automobile is gaining a foot
hold in Peking, where there are now
more Chinese owners of cars than
in any other city of China. The pas
senger cars in that city, it is true,
now number only 650, but it is a be
ginning. The true significance of
the fact is that it is a new era of
road building for China, no less than
of ownership of automobiles.
China's longest modern highway
is now in process of construction.
When completed it will be SO miles
long and will extend from Peking
to Tientsin. When it is remembered
that China is the most populous
country on the globe, and potentially
one of the most wealthy, it will seem
pitiful that it has taken three years
to construct the first 15 miles of this
highway, and that the mileage of
passable motor roads in the vicinity
to Peking is only about 51. Except
for the foreign concessions and
very few other localities there are
no roads worthy of the name in the
entire country. More than 300,000,
000 people depend on rivers for com
mercial transportation and on paths
and trails for intervillage. communi
cation. In the large sense automo
biling will be impossible in the re
public until the good roads move
ment has penetrated the country.
We never were at the Chinese level
of poor roads, although the first mail
carrier who took a letter from New
York to Boston required two weeks
for the journey because of the bad
condition of the trail, but it can
hardly be said that wo began to be
enthusiastic about spending money
for road improvements until the
automobile became a part of our
everyday life. But road development
in the United States in the past dec
ade and a half has been positively
a mazing, and it has been coincident
with standardization of manufactur
ing methods and quantity production
that, have made the moderate-priced
car possible. When practically all
the people took to gasoline as their
The Italian earthquake observer is
on his way to Mexico to try out the
inerviameter on that harried coun
try. Poor fellow! He could have
made the same experiments right at
home 1 with greater comfort and
safety by jumping into the crater of
Vesuvius.
If there is a member of the fac
ulty at Corvallis engaged in non
partisan league propaganda of any
brand, he should be invited to depart
in haste. Consider what might hap
pen to a republican proselytingin the
college, or a democrat.
as a matter or fact, bills were ln-1 ..i ,, ,..i the habits
troduced in great number in the first ot tne geese for a Week and then
30 days: no attention whatever was . , vnifl ka in a dav. This
pa.iu t.o lucil uunng me recess, unless I gatisfied him.
ijwooiuiy in newspaper comment, ana
the members came back after their I snme) dUB-hbov sold the statute of
recess, played for part of the SO days, liberty which has. been on guard at
and rushed bills through with little tne entrance of the Liberty Temple
consideration during the last few I. .h.t .fni ,vs h.iilt. The
aays or tne session. The session, by purchaser was E. O. Gentry, who reg-
ine way, coma ne continued indefl- istered at the Hotel Portland from
uilcuv at tne aesire oz tne two nouses, r, nr.t, -if- (?oni,v vn, nmhi.
but the members were paid only for j ing ar'0und the Liberty Temple and
the 60 days. stormed to admire the statue made of
The plan would give excellent
suits ii dv some pian tne numoer Of saeed Mr. Gentry in conversation
" ' iu liiv auoi DCS9IUI1 nrith V, a .A1, t li , th, fnritlPr an
A Legend.-
By Grace E. Baa
The legend Is that once upon a time
A master had great need of tested
men.
Who would not yield; with courage
most sublime
That might not full In service asked
of them. ,
And so at last a test of strength he
named
That should prove traits of charac
ter unguessed.
Declaring that one should be truly
famed
Who won the honor medal from the
rest.
were materially limited to bills of a
general nature, worthy of considera
tion, and if during the recess con
sideration of these bills were forced
ay Keeping committees In session.
with their meetings open to the
public.
In your letter yon mention that
Oregon's legislative sessions are for
dier offered to sell the statue at a
bargain and Mr, Gentry closed the
deal on the spot. The Olson Transfer
company received a letter of instruc
tions from Mr. Gentry directing the
concern to "take my statue of liberty
from in front of Liberty Temple, and
ship it to Fisher's landing." Mr.
Gentry bas been informed that the
.U?J, t? " nd, dar? or less Morrison-street bridge, the Wil-
speciai, ii Dy special sessions you
mean sessions called for special pur
poses by the governor, there could not
occur in such special sessions under
our law the jamming through of bills
to woicn you refer, since such ses
sions are confined to consideration
of such subjects as are included in
the special call. For Instance, a few
months ago, a special session was
called to consider the subject of the
woman suffrage amendment: it met
for one day, disposed of this sub
ject, and adjourned.
The bifurcated session with us was
inaugurated because it had become
lamette river and the courthouse will
be on the market at attractive prices
the next time he visits Portland.
"Trees along the creeks and tow
ground were damaged by the cold
weather, but on the higher ground
they do not appear to have suffered,"
reports former County Judge Gun
ning of The Dalles. He heard of
some old apple trees which were
killed by the cold, but on the whole,
there will be apples, peaches, cherries
and apricots as usual in wasco coun
ty. Judge Gunning looks for a water
to'oIuce b i E
session, and rush them through be
fore the public or those Intimately
concerned could learn anything about
sucn Dins. Tne bifurcated session, as
you will see, will successfully prevent
that, since during the 30 dava recess
all the bills Introduced can be care
fully scrutinized by those who find
it desirable to watch leeislation. lest
they be Injured.
I would say that the bifurcated ses
sion is a good plan if It is so safe
siders will be a serious matter unless
Warch and April produce rain In
larger quantities than January and
February have done.
They are referring to Bruce Dennis
as an oil king these days, albeit he IB
still a newspaper publisher. It ap
pears that Mr. Dennis has chipped in
on a live one in a Kansas oil field.
and if the enterprise works out as it
now indicates, Mr. Dennis, as an oil
A Portland murderer who escaped
from Salem a year ago has been re
captured in Oklahoma, which shows
the United States is not a very big
part of a small world. The main les
son in the news is that the man is
being brought back.
The town that has a cannery that
puts up a pack worth $25,000 or
more is a good place to loftite in.
That money is a sort of revolving
fund handled by many before it
leaves. One well-paying business at
tracts others.
Alex Donaldson saved the city last
year nearly a hundred thousand dol
lars in his street-cleaning depart
ment and the wonder is why not a
few more Alex Donaldsons for other
departments of the city.
- - ...til -. . wKaf X.I w. Tannic 0B
fif ,k ? , Peraton a publisher, has to pay for news print
along the lines contemplated bv the t- , i .
""" v. o. aiauniuil. klnao. hot HAaan't v,l verv far b-
cauHe nearly every man he meets Is
FIGURES TJURJf Ol'T EBRO.VGOCS from Eastern Oregon or Portland and
eacn one wants to stop, snaite nanus
and try to talk politics.
R. J. Carsner, a stockman of Spray,
Or., who is at the Imperial, is a pros
pective candidate for the legislature
for Gilliam. Sherman and Wheeler
Xewell Estimate ot Traction Deficit
toe Risk, Says Mr. Hopson.
PORTLAND, Feb. 27. -(To the Ed
itor.) J. P. Newel! contends I am
"entirely mistaken" in my references COUnties. to succeed James S. Stewart
to errors in a report prepared by him
for the city commission on the street
car situation. The matter is not per
sonal but of a very live public na
ture, or I would not trouble the Ore
fironian with thia rpsnnns.
The Newell report was commenced lv of being a candidate
last year when July figures were the
latest available. Subsequent events
have proved some of Mr. Newell's
conclusions based on these to be mls-
',r ": u passing a few days In the city con
supporT of unreasonable c'lalmT and I T"Jf lJ 1; !
it is only possible for the public to
Mr. Carsner visited the legislature
during tbe special session and tried
the chair which Reprsenetatlve Stew
art used, to see if it was comfortable.
The chair was a good fit, so Mr.
Carsner began thinking more serious-
One man who is doing his share in
the movement to secure a greater
forestry programme is E. J. Hanzlik,
forest examiner from Seattle, who is
Governor Edwards of New Jersey
is first in the straw vote for presi
dent conducted by the Portland
News. We suggest Augustus Busch
or ex-Mayor Harley of Astoria as a
good running mate.
However, Oregon should worry at
losing the ministry to Siam. The
chief duties of that official appear to
consist of sending home to collectors
large quantities of Siamese postage
stamps.
A "free gate" at the state fair is
of doubtful value as an attraction
What is worth seeing is worth pay
ing for, and Manager Lea can be
depended upon to produce it.
Everybody should wear a tag to
day. Old folks are a charge upon
the young. Ever note how the Chi
nese protect their old; Let the
heathen teach the good lesson.
If it be true as reported that the
principal of a high school objects to
the noise made by a teacher when
she blows her nose, he is altogether
too esthetic for Oregon.
We trust that Banbridge Colby will
not consider that his former status
as a bull moose r gives him carte
blanche to make diplomatic bulls.
Bryan refuses to file in North Da
kota, as he is a receptive candidate
nd not an aggressive aspirant. Foxy
old dark horse!
Possibly George H. Himes can re
call other Februarys of just as pleas
ant weather, but the effort will strain
him. ' '
The high price of shoe leather does
not appear to have interfered greatlj
ith the profession of bootlegging.
However, there is no danger that
poison olives win ever become as
popular as wood alcohol.
The senate may be expected to
confirm the nomination of Mr. Colby
with reservations.
Our idea of an unquenchable opti
mist is a man who takes up the trade
of harnessmaker.
When all the old docks are torn
out, how can the old-timer find his
landmarks?
Any other gang but the railroad
ers would give a dance to celebrate
going back.
protect itself by refuting them.
reflection on the ability or Integrity
of Mr. Neveli is conveyed by these
acts of self-protection.
These conclusions in the Newell re
port which I have not hesitated to
style "serious efforts," indicate
present operating deficit of ft 32,000
annually. Actually the 1919 deficit
was only $136,484, a difference of
nearly $600,000. Even if allowance be
made for wage increases toward the
end of 1919 there would still be
discrepancy of 1234,000. This is
against the public and very serious.
Again the Newell report states that
has worked out a scheme for nan
J dling government and privately
owned timber on a sustained annua
yield basis and will try thlR out in
the Snoqualmie forest, where he is
stationed. v
Arriving from a voyage to the
orient, George K. Braher of the mer
chant marine Is at the Hotel Wash
ington, getting his land legs on.
Things are booming in the orient and
the towns patronized by Europeans
are thriving. Paris or San Francisco
in their best days, never had anything
on Shanghai or Hongkong. China is
still "wet."
The night is dark," he said; "my gar
den lies
In shadows deep beneath the slum
bering skies.
Tea thousand bushes flaunt their
roses there;
A million roses need your earnest
care.
Each petal must be plucked and laid
away.
Rare perfume to emit another day.
The task is one of patience and of
skill.
A prince's order I must promptly
fill.
And if one rose be missing, he will
know.
And to another garden quickly go."
Then fared the workers to the garden
wide.
Each to his task assigned. The sun
rise came.
The winds blew softly, 'til a gay
breese pried
A crimson Rambler rose from off Its
frame.
It whisked away and, carried swiftly
on
By teasing gale, soon disappeared
from view.
None marked Its absence in the blush
ing dawn.
As sunbeams stooped to drink the
crystal dew.
A faithful workman came to twisted
stem.
Knew that a rose was gone and
what It meant;
Remembered what the master said to
them
Ere they into the garden had been
sent.
With thought Intent upon the perfume
rare.
He hurried forth the truant bloom
to find;
He caught Its fragrance on the morn
ing air.
And satisfaction thrilled his hum
ble mind.
In Joy he bore it through the garden
gate.
With eager care tbe petals laid
away.
Mindful that each small atom had its
weight.
And that mere trifles make up life
each day.
Then lo! a gentle voice pronounced
nis name:
"Come forth! Obedience now shall
be repaid.
Yours is the honor medal of true fame.
For character Inherent you've dis
played!" GRACE E. HALL.
t
SYSTEM PROLONG!) AGITATION,
Divided Session of Legislature fiat In
Favor la California.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 27. (To
the Editor.) I have The Oregonian's
inquiry In regard to the divided legis
lative sessions. I must say I don't favor
the plan. We have found that it pro
longs agitations, that it does not bene
fit as we expected. Even members of
the legislature do not favor It. We find
too, that the people do not ask for
the bills; do not investigate as it was
supposed they would. Again, too, tho
legislators (very few of them) take
any interest In the measures Intro
duced during the interim only when
they come back.
It has been seriously proposed bv
many to take action to do away with
the divided sessions. I frankly say
that I have heard no one approve of
the plan on the contraray, a great
deal of criticism of the plan.
Ion will gain nothing, In my judg
ment, by Introducing it In Oregon.
FRANK C. JORDAN.
Secretary of state.
More 1 ruth Then Poetry.
By Jesses J. Moalaaae.
A BLOOVO'H SHAME!
It'a reported In the trusty Sunday
cables
That the little English children,
bless their hearts.
Are enamored of the glamor of the
substitute for grammar.
Which the trans-AUantlo movie
show Imparts.
In the titles of the Falrbanki-Chaplln
pictures,
There'a a certain brutal punch and
vulgar tang.
And the hapless little blighters
(they're all cinema first-nighters)
Are becoming too adept In Yankee
slang.
It is harmful to the adolescent Briton
To observe a giddy youth upon the
screen.
Who bestows his hard-earned tlilik
"una among female he call
chickens.
Over whom he says he's wild. In
stead of keen.
Little children quickly catch these
horrid phrases.
Never thinking how debased It It
and wrong.
When the lady with the poodle,
doesn't murmur, 'Toortle-
oodle!"
When she waves her harrd at pait
ing, but: "So long!"
How It pains the proud and prsvtr
British parent
When his son and heir, a tonpy
little chap.
Quarrelling with his brother Willie.
rather than remark, "You
silly!"
Substitutes the awful expletive.
"You sap!''
How the British mother shudders In
amazement i
When her daughter, with disgusting
Yankee pep,
Doesn't say. "My word, old topper.
you will come a blooming
cropper!"
But observes with blunt directness:
"W atch yer step!"
And the elegant, soft-spoken British
nursemaid.
How she suffers when the ehildrca
in her rare.
At they munch their morning klppersv
spraK ot Kids instead of nip
pers, And, when meaning "Awl Gawan!,"
say. "Get the air"
We should really ask our motion-plc-
iure maa-natea
If they won't put more refinement
in their game.
Introducing slang expressions In Hit
Majesty's possessions,
Is a blighted, bally, bloomf..,.
bloody shame!"
Just Like II Ins.
Mr. Bryan has gone to Florida,
probably to say, "Good-bye and God
bless you." to the Demon, as It em
barks for Havana.
Only of Slatesmra.
Anyway, there Is no- shortage of
candidates.
In OtiW Day.
Twety-Flve Years Age,
From The Oreconlan, February 28. 1K1I5.
It is said on good authority that
Governor Lord proposes to appoint a
new board of railroad commissioners,
displacing tbe holdover members.
Coi-valUs The school census here
shows there are 3.",: females and 316
males, a total of 663.
The commission authorised by the
legislature to act In the purchase of
the Morrison-street bridge has or
ganized with Solomon ilirsch as
president and J. V.i Beach a clerk.
N. K. West is the third member.
Wallowa valley has
wonderful
1319 traffic was only 6 per cent great
er than 1913 traffic. Actually it was future, predicts A. C. Miller of Enter
13.7 per cent greater. A difference prise wno ig at the Hotel Washing
or 4,474,000 revenue passengers, equiv- ton wlth Mrs. Miller. The valley is
alent to a revenue of 3277,000 in a just getting started, he declares, and
year. This also is against the public, although Mr. Miller arrived" there
The report, moreover, goes on to , bout 1SS4. he wishes he had landed
snow mat unaer traiiio cunumuns to there even earlier.
be expected an s-cent tare is essen
tlal. and that with the present fare "Fortunately. I have sold off nearly
continued In effect there will be an aii of my cattle and sheep," said Herb
annual deficit of 31,000,000. In this Anfell of Prineville. as he checked
conclusion the tratric increases or tne out of the Hotel Orea-on for home. I
past few years are ignored. These began last year and just about cleaned
have averaged 12 per cent per an- up. The fellows who held on and
num. An estimate based on a rea- have been selling lately have been
iBformatloa on Mining I.svta.
PORTLAND, Feb. 27 (To the Edi
tor.) Please tell me if the rule for
locating and staking quartz and placer
claims is the same In one state as
another, and also advise me the lawful
way to proceed in either case, as I am
figuring on going prospecting In th
spring. SUBSCRIBER.
The laws are the same In all states,
for they are federal laws. Buy a few
mineral location blanks at any good
stationery store and inquire at United
States land office, postoffice building,
city, as to legal way to locate a claim-
Fifty Year Ago.
from The Oreeonlsn, February 21. l;o.
Chicago W. K. Story, editor-in-
chief and one of the owners of the
Times, was horsewhipped yesterclny
by Lydla Thompson and 1'aulin
Mark hum of the Lydla Thompson
troupe of players.
Washington Mr. Corhett of the
senate committee on commerce lias
Introduced a bill to encourage the
laying of a Pacific cable from Cape
San Juan, Washington territory, lo
Japan and Asiatic Russia.
The ceremony of dedicating the Odd
fellows' hall will take place tomor
row, with a big ball In the evening.
W. Dalton. clerk of school district
No. 21, embracing East Portland, re
ports that there are 109 legal volets
In the district. The total number of
chool children Is 188, an Increase of
47 over last year.
sonable business expectation will in
dicate that the 31,000,000 deficit is ex-
aa-e-erated by at least 3700,000.
The first two of these are obvloua
heavy losers."
James G. Horning of Corvallis Is
at the Hotel Washington. The Horn
errors in tne lignt oi recent tacts, ing lamuy are oia settlers in mat
The third is a matter involving a de- section and the father of James G.
erree of personal Judgment, but ap-1 was a well-known wagonmaker
parently constitutes an omission of a j the days when it was one of the most
very important element. All conclu- essential industries in the Willamette
sions bear heavily against the public I valley.
int.r.ai n nri there Ir no other course I
v,n nn.niv to combat them. From Little Blue, Mo.. Mr. and Mrs.
t. i mistaken in statins W. B. Frey are at the Hotel Portland
these matters were not brought to the as guests of Mrs. W. F. Tucker, who
attention Of the public service com- resides mere permanently, mro. iucis
,!;.. T did so personally, with er is the widow of Colonel Tucker,
Mr Newell Sitting by and asKing wno, alter renring iram im service,
Questions from time to time. They went to Mount Hood.
.11 vatrurl hcfnro tflA MtTttTlil1
a. I Hotel business In Nam pa Is just as
CIUI ... . -. nnrl am ths Hn aH n aaa im In Pnr-tlanrl
flir. ilCWCil oaj" .11 T7 T TA U -
an 8-cent fare. This may be tech- - -.rZTrT.
is being cared for at the Hotel Port
land, no matter who has to sleep on
a cot-
nioaitv correct. No direct statement
by him advocates an 8-cent fare or
any other fare, but his report makes
no other constructive solution of the
problem than the Imposition of that
,,, if he did not advocate it he
certainly disguised his intention so
well that I dOUDt wnetner anyone
reading the report had any other Im-
pressslon than that ne oia. i i
gratifying, however, to note he is not
advocating this impost, and my letter
..arroinlv has done good by bringing
... ii,ia Hiapialmer from him.
,11," .TrtTWAV
i. jw. nui cvw.
Onija Message From Bryan.
PORTLAND, Feb. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) The following was caygnt. on
our telepathic wireless yesterday:
W. J. B. to Hitchcock, senate cham
ber: "Tou re doing rat, oiu- man. s
to it Old single-track is getting
pretty cockey. but he-was just right
In firing that dub Lansing tor nis pre
sumption in exercising the preroga
tive belonging solely to the president
of the nnterrified ortter, after I had
resigned.
'And I am particularly dntmini
since I was responsioie tor securing
him his residence in the White House,
I must now obtain a vote of unquali
fied confidence and approval of his
administration at the hands of the
E. O. McCoy, one of the colony of
bankers at The Dalles, which is rap
idly Increasing, is an arrival at the
Hotel Portland. Bankers will soon be
more numerous in The Dalles than
policemen or councilmen, if they al
ready are not in a majority.
Recovering from a very serious op
eration. D. A. Broughel has left a
local hospital and Is registered at the
Hotel Washington. He will return
to his Walla Walla (Wash.) home in
a few days, where he is connected
with the O.-W. n. & N. company.
Rose Wilder Lane, magazine writer,
came to the Hotel Portland yesterday.
Miss Lane is a western literary prod
uct, who has had so many experiences
that she decided to write 'em out for
print, and they were accepted.
L. E. Bean passed through Portland
yesterday on his way., home from
Washington. D. C. where he went to
work for the big road programme
with other representatives from Ore
gon. E. J. Adams, former member of the
highway commission, In at the Imps-
national convention of the great un-I rial. Mr. Adams Is expected to be a
washed at San Francisco. More power candidate for the legislature from
C. J. O. lHYi 1S. Lane county, running tor the house.
to you.'
Footprints to Identify Babes
Surpasses Wisdom of Solomon
From the time of Solomon, and no doubt long before that, the
new mother and daddy have had their hearts wrung with anxiety
as they have seen their little pink darling taken by the nurse and
placed among a group of other new-born babes. What If the
cradles should be changed around, the nurse become careless, some
one play a practical joke? Modern science has risen to the occa
sion. The wisdom of Solomon has been replaced by what? Foot
prints and fingerprints. The little pink toes are made to leave an in
disputable record on the same sheet with the mother's thumb. Fond
parents all over the country will welcome this latest gift of science,
fully described in tomorrow's magazine section of The Sunday
Oregonian. .
Art Found in Oregon Woods. Not with the brush, the pen or the
instrument of music does the artist of Oregon wood labor, but with
the saw and the plane. How "inlaid chess boards, dainty chests,
bowls and little figures are carved from the western forests is a
story with the flavor of romance to it. This home industry, little
known but wider in its scope than most would realize, is the subject
of the latest article by DeWitt Harry. Out tomorrow, with illus-
trations.
Have War Weddings Failed? He was in uniform. The romance
of war clung around him. She was doing her little bit, too. They
met, the brief courtship followed, marriage and then off to the
front. But then came the armistice, civilian clothes, the return to
the humdrum of daily life. There is an aftermath of tragedy for
many of those who began the great adventure of married life during
the war so blithely and ofttimes so thoughtlessly. The divorce
courts are telling a story of divorces in numbers never before known.
It's a problem demanding an exhaustive study. Helen Hester Hill of
New York in a timely article tells what the problem is meuning to
the metropolis.
Why Did You Fail to Vote? In Czecho-Slovakia, new republic
carved from the heart of Europe, both men and women must tote
or they are summoned into court to answer why. This latest govern
ment, already establishing itself npon a stable foundation. Is carry
ing out many interesting experiments in democratic legislation. A
leading article on the subject, illustrated, is a feature of tomorrow's
edition.
Do You Enjoy Cartoons? If you do, and most of us do, dont
wait long after securing tomorrow's big Sunday issuo before turn
ing to section 5, page 7. "Wilson, That's All," is its caption, a
sidelight on the Lansing episode with the signature of J. N. Ding,
and one of the New York artist's cleverest works. Other cartoons
in the inimitable style of Briggs and Darling fill the page. Pic
tures and illustrations and articles of merit cram every section
of Oregon's greatest newspaper tomorrow.
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