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THE 3IORXIXG - OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, 3IARCII 1, 1920
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publicans" Adams, Jackson, Clay, overlooked, and after discussing ' the pre-war level and when a- swell
Crawford, Clinton and Calhoun. The wherein It consists they said:
election .of Adams .followed and for From this It appears that the wheat
four years the whole interest of the growers are more interested in a parity of
country was centered upon the rates than ln the amount thereof.
organized political effort to "vlndi- Irj Plain English, they maintain
cate" Jackson. Everybody belonged ' that It does not matter to the wheat
to the same party and a citizen was grower how much he pays, provided
known he was proud to call him- j he does not pay more for hauling to
self a Jackson man, a Clay man, an
Adams man and so on. It was a
condition which could not survive,
so long as there were momentous
questions of policy to be determined.
Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828
Without a platform, but there was
an immediate crystallization of senti
ment for and against the methods
and policies of his administration;
and new parties were formed.
Jackson meanwhile had proclaimed
himself a "democrat," and there has
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PARTY.
The Oregonlan is asked by a reader
to give reasons for the existence of
political parties. It is a time whe
there is doubt in many minds about
the utility of party, and when
there is a widespread propaganda
" that there is no substantial difference
! between the major parties and
that their organization is maintained
' merely for purposes of political con
trol by self-seeking leaders. A great
. newspaper, the New York World, has
. bluntlv declared its opinion tnai par
ties no longer stand for principle
and have degenerated into separate
masses of organized appetite, ana
that men and women who have here
tofore been Identified with party as
the only practical means of unitea
political action are justified in de
manding some other memoa oi gov
ernment, to be had, for example
through election of a president who
has no party allegiance, sucn as ait.
Hoover. It would be useless to deny-
that the appeal of the World has
made a deep impression upon tne
country, mainly, no doubt, among
those upon whom ties of party rest
lightly.
What is party? There is a famous
definition by Edmund Burke which
has not been excelled for terseness
or clarity or verity. It is:
A party Is a body of men united for
promoting by their joint endeavors tne
national interest upon some principle on
which they are all agreed.
In the early days of the republic,
after adoption of the federal consti
tution, there was a natural and in
evitable division over support and
- Interpretation of the organic law
n.ifVt cnAo.nl rofArcna to Its rp ntinn
. to the rights of the states. Men who
believed in centralized authority, in
" the growth and assertion of national
power, became known as federalists;
and in various forms their theory
of the governmental function has
nersisted through the federal, the
whig and the republican parties,
down to the present time. The other
general group has held to limitation
of the powers of the general govern
ment, strict construction, the rights
of the states, and the largest possible
measure of individual liberty. The
one idea is broadly represented by
authority, the other by personal
freedom or exemption from author
ity. In successive years the federal-tet-whig-republican
body has insisted
upon the supreme position in all
common concerns of the federal
government, beginning with the
financial projects of Hamilton ana
Including various large national
physical schemes, the excise, the pro
tective tariff, internal improvements,
maintenance of the union (which
Included opposition to slavery), con
gressional reconstruction and sound
money. The other group has placed
emphasis upon personal rights and
upon opposition to encroachments of
government, and has sought to pre
vent centralization, and to enhance
the power of the states, and as a
consequence it has vigorously resisted
all schemes for a national bank, or
for internal improvements, or for
doing for the states those things
which they declared it the right and
duty of the states to do for them
selves.
It la easy to see how one party,
lolding such principles, became the
party of the union and the other the
party of secession. It is easy also to
see how, ln view of the final triumph
of the union, or federal, principle
through, the civil war, there was
finally an acceptance of the decision
by all, so that in actual practice one
narty. still nominally professing an
adherence to the ancient doctrine of
state rights, when In control does
not hesitate to follow, the broader
ruleof federal domination, bo dil
ference in theory and in practice
has always indeed been more or less
hie. Thomas Jefferson, for
example, a strict constructionist, was
responsible for the Louisiana pur
chase, which he freely admitted was
not In consonance with his ideas of
the limited national duty, and oppo
sition to territorial aggrandizement;
but the end, he said, justified the
means. So it has always been. The
"lns" have acted as nationalists. They
could hardly have done otherwise.
ins I been a democratic party ever since.
The whig party arose, but, number
ing in its ranks both northerners and
southerners and consistently avoiding
any real stand on the underlying
moral issue of slavery, and endeavor
ing to settle it by political and terri
torial compromises, it gave way in
time to the republican party. That
party had its beginnings in the con
viction of its founders that it had a
moral service to perform. It gave
finer definition of the duties of citi
zenship and the function of party
than any other had given. Again in
1896 it espoused the cause of honest
money when it appeared probable
that defeat would be its reward; but
It responded to the dictates of con
viction, and it won.
In the great war of 1914-19 the
democratic party was in control. Let
us not say that it failed to rise to a
sense of its obligations- when the
crisis of 1917 came. It spoke then
the sound than to Columbia-river
ports. Though the price of wheat
on the farm is the Liverpool price
less freight and the cost of handling,
Seattle lawyers tell the wheat grow
era that it does not matter to them
how great a deduction is made for
freight to the1 coast even if it be
doubled provided that rates to the
Puget sound and . Columbia-river
ports are the same
Is that what Seattle propagandists
who are touring the wheat country
expect the farmers to believe? Is it
what the farmers want? Any man
who would say that to their faces
would get very little sympathy in the
fight for parity. It sounds too much
like the talk of railroad attorneys
when they sought excuses for charg
ing all that the traffic will bear. In
the days before rate regulation that
meant all that they could screw out
of the farmer and .still keep him
growing wheat. It would not suit
the Seattle merchants' purpose when
they ask for low rates on goods
Shipped to the interior.
Puget sound is caught in the
barbed-wire'entanglement of its own
inconsistency. It has forgotten the
J old, true saying that it is a poor rule
ity of rates is a beautiful thing in
the eyes of the Puget sound people
when it deprives Columbia-river
ports of the advantage of shorter
distance, and of the water grade, but
for America; but all parties (except j'18 charms fade and those of rates
uaocu uu uisuLuut? Buuueuiy uecume
overpowering when that rule works
in favor of the sound. By alternately
that does not work both ways. Par-1 ther increases for which they can
certain small disloyal groups) were
for America. It is reassuring to
reflect that, however men and women
may divide on domestic issues, they
will unite on any question of the
greater national interest.
Now it will be obvious that all the
great government policies in the past
have been established through party.
Jefferson would have got nowhere
with his ideal of triumphant democ
racy merely as an individual apostle
of liberty; nor would Lincoln, Sew
ard, Colfax, Greeley, and the other
noble figures of the late '50s have
succeeded if they had disclaimed the
uses of practical politics. In every
profound crisis of national concern,
in all great movements for the na
tional welfare, party has made vital
and effective the principles which its
members thought were important
and necessary for the government to
adopt.
Common political action is not pos
sible without party; and government
is not possible among men without
common political action. The prin
ciple is elemental; the duty of citi
zenship to act through party is
likewise elemental. Any other way
in a republic spells disintegration,
demoralization and anarchy or autocracy.
adopting first one principle, then the
other, the sound has forfeited claim
to serious attention for its pleas in
iavor or eiuier. Tne outcome is
likely to be that the commission will
determine for rfself which principle
is sound and will follow it.
ing volume of traffic makes yearly
additions to the demand for new
expenditure. Thus private operation
starts under a great handicap. Man
agers will have to call on the public
for patience and forbearance until
they catch up with these arrears.
But important ' factors will work
in the companies' favor. The people
realize that rates adequate to pay
reasonable return on the investment
are necessary to good service, that
good service is worth all that it costs,
and that the general rise in prices
necessarily raises its cost. In 1910
they rose in protest against a 10 per
cent advance in rates. There will be
no such uprising against the advance
which is soon to come, though it is
estimated to be at least 25 per cent.
The roads will also be assured of
standard return for two years, and
probably beyond that period, which
will fortify and stabilize their credit
and should enable them to borrow
the billions needed. Ten years ago
they had the ill will of the goven
ment and the people; they now have
good will. That is an asset which
they will value the more highly be
cause it is newly acquired, and they
will apply themselves to pleasing the
public which in a former generation
they damned.
Help in bearing the burden will
come from the consolidations which
the new law will encourage. Traffic
to tb,e seaboard will be more widely
dispersed, ana tne roaas to tne nortn
Atlantic coast will be relieved of fur-
There wls a period ln the national
history known a the "era of good
feeling." It is a singular fact that
all parties at the outset avoided the
designation "democrat" as implying
something cheap and ignoble. It is
true that the leadership of both the
federalists and anti-federalists was
with the aristocrats New England
or Virginia and everybody worth
while' looked upon himself as a
"republican." But the federalists
suffered from too many generals, and
finally became disorganized, and dis
appeared entirely before the sweep
of the attractive and correct idea
that government is for all the people.
Meanwhile, in the prevalence of the
common understanding of the real
function of the republic, opposing
-views of the constitution were tern
porarily put aside, and James Monroe
was re-elected president in 1820
by unanimous vote of the electoral
college.
Now here we see the sure result of
the disappearance of party. There
ensued immediately an excited and
distressing era of personal politics.
The election of 1824 was notable for
the bitter contest among the six
greatest men of the country all "re-
We do not defend here any par
ticular party; nor do we deny the
abuses of party. We have no use
for the "yellow dog" partisan or for
shrieking and unreasoning partisan
shipnot even single-track partisan
ship. It may be, and often is, neces
sary, if one shall retain a reasonable
freedom of conscience and judgment"
for him to abandon party; but it is
not expedient on that account to say
that party is useless and wrong and
hould be abolished. What is there
to take its place? The great men
of all time in America have belonged
to party, acknowledged their obliga
tion to party, sought to achieve-their
aims in common with others of the
ame general mind, and the fruits
of their united endeavor are all the
precious heritages of our history.
America has only rarely believed in
men and not in principle. When
men, not principle, shall be accepted
as the universal impulse and aim of
political action, the republic will be
grave danger. Principles, not
men, are the foundation pillars of
government.
The duty of political activity rests
with every citizen. It is not to be
effectively expressed except .through
party, which shall find for men and
women of mutual opinions a com
mon basis and method of endeavor.
The best service a citizen may ren
der his country is to seek to elevate
the standards of party; and he can
do it only by participation in its
counsels and purposes. America will
not realize its ideals by merely talk
ing about them. There must be ac
tion. There can be no action unless
men and women 'join with other men
and women.
TRYING TO RIDE TWO HORSES.
The risk -which the Puget sound
cities run in pursuing the false line
of reasoning whereby they defend
parity of rates with Portland to the
Inland Empire is that they may in
advertently adopt the line of sound
reasoning on which rates based on
distance are founded. Such a lapse
was made recently by Seattle inter
ests and has now risen up to plague
them when they contend for parity
in the pending case before the inter
state commerce commission.
Before the railroads were taken
over by the government Portland ap
plied for a joint through rate from
points in the Inland Empire on the
Milwaukee road over that road and
the O.-W. R. & N. to Portland which
would - have been the same as the
joint rates over the mountain roads
to the sound. Though the actual dis
tance is somewhat greater to Port
land than to the sound, the route is
direct by connection at Marengo and
other points and the extra cost of the
mountain haul offsets the extra dis
tance in calculating comparative cost
of service by the two routes, and
therefore justifies at least equal rates.
When the roads passed under gov
ernment control, the application was
renewed to the district freight rate
commrttee and all the sound ports
opposed the rule of parity which they
had till then upheld, while the Wash
ington commission for some reason
remained silent. The Puget sound
interests then advanced the argu
ment that parity of rates from Mil
waukee road points would disturb
the existing balance and that the dif
ference in favor of the sound was
justified by the difference in dis
tance, therefore was quite proper.
When the attorneys for all the Se
attle and Tacoma interests came to
prepare their brief in exception to
the report of Examiner Thurtell, thej
returned to their habitual line of ar
gument and they displayed a zeal
for the interest of the wheat growers
which had been absent from their
pleas in the Milwaukee case. They
said that this interest should not be
OOLRY LOYALTY.
Bainbridge Colby, whose mind
travels along with President Wilson's,
confounds the loyalty due to the
government with loyalty to the indi
viduals who compose the government
with the evident intent to lead people
to support those individuals in what
ever they may do, else he has not
made himself clear. His is a per
nicious doctrine which, if followed,
would make this a government of
men, not of laws. ,
Those whom he calls "chosen serv
ants" are chosen to carry out certain
principles and certain policies in ac
cord with those principles, but always
subject to the constitution, and sub
ject also to criticism by those citizens
who disapprove of those principles.
If they prove false to those princi
ples or err in execution of those
policies, no duty of loyalty obliges
citizens to refrain from criticism.
The only loyalty that can be invoked
to silence critics is that which is
given to party without regard to the
interests of the country. That is the
species of royalty to which President
Wilson appealed when fie asked for
election of a democratic congress in
October, 1918, and it is the kind to
which Mr. Colby appeal!.
Such loyalty often causes men to
act contrary to the loyalty due to
their country. By appeals to it Mr.
Wilson holds his followers in the
senate in line against ratification of
the Versailles treaty with reserva
tions, when without them it cannot
be ratified. The country wants peace
and membership in the league of na
tions, but the Colby brand of loyalty
stands in the way. In this Instance
the "chosen servants" to whom Mr.
Colby refers act contrary to the will
of the people as expressed in the
election of those other chosen serv
ants, the majority of the senate. As
the latter were chosen last, they more
truly express the popular will.
War is the one occasion when loy
alty to country requires some ap
proach to the species of loyalty which
Mr. Colby desires.
not provide track and terminal
without -making a greater invest
ment than the increased revenue
would justify. The nation has a large
merchant marine which will provide
intercoastal steamship lines to re
lieve transcontinental roads of traf
fic, to retain which they long opposed
an isthmian canal. Inland water
lines may take new life under 1m
proved conditions. Fully aware that
there is more traffic than they can
possibly carry, the railroads may rec
ognize that there is room enough for
all means of transportation and may
welcome competitors which they for
merly sought to destroy.
Surely the 'railroads should feel
relief from the constant menace of
strikes, which has hung over them
for years. The labor provisions of
the law render strikes highly improb
able and insure that, if they should
occur, they would incur public
condemnation. The managers will
doubtless see that their interest lies
in promoting the successful working
of these provisions and in cultivat
ing the good will of their employes.
That is an advantage in entering the
new era which they have not hitherto
enjoyed.
The appeal for co-operation and
patience on the part of the public
during the period of transition from
public to private, operation of the
railroads, which is made by President
Sproule of the Southern Pacific rail
road in another column, should have
ready response. The company re
gains possession of its lines with
insufficient equipment, with- repairs
in arrears and with its organization
somewhat disjointed. Some time
will be needed to remedy these con
ditiona. It also has to face serious
financial problems in connection with
purchase of equipment and improve
ment of its lines. These problems also
will take time to solve. It is in the
position of a family which has just
moved and has not yet put its be
longings in order. If it does not
immediately meet ail demands, give
it credit for doing the best that can
be done.
TltE NEW RAILROAD ERA.
The most remarkable fact about
the ending of government operation
of railroads is that it is received
with a general feeling of relief. For
more than a generation there had
been a growing clamor Hr govern
ment ownership. It grew so strong
that, when the government took
charge of the roads as a temporary
war measure, many opponents of
government ownership believed that
congress would never hand them
back to their owners. But the action
of congress in returning the roads
is the response to a public sentiment
in which all join except socialists and
the radicals among the employes'
unions.
This state of public opinion has
deeper causes" than dissatisfaction
with the manner in which the gov
ernment operated the roads, Director-General
Hines has issued a state
ment in vindication of the govern
ment's management, and it may be
conceded that, with the consideration
of the difficulties with which he had
Twenty-six states have joined in
opposing the test suit brought by
Rhode Island to have the national
prohibition amendment declared un
constitutional. What a lot of trou
ble one little sawed-oft state can
stir up.
If, as frankly admitted by Barney
Baruch, "price-fixing saved the na
tion," we shudder to think what
would have happened without it.
These confessions, like occasional
showers, are refreshing.
Pessimists are romping around in
blue glasses over the prospect of a
dry summer; but who ever knew
when there was not enough rain in
Oregon? This is not Kansas.
BY-PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES
Small Philadelphia Boy Is Prodigy
la Mathematical.
Philadelphia has an extremely
youthful mathematical wizard, whose
prowess in calculations is told of by
the Public Ledger. He is Jeremiah
Kuntz, an 8-year-old boy, son of a
minister.
When "Jerry" was less than six years
old he could tell off-hand at any time
of the day how many hours, minutes
and seconds had elapsed since he left
bed in the morning. And with equally
amazing ease the lad would translate
the hours and minutes into the total
of seconds.
The boy's parents learned of "Jer
ry's" remarkable talent, for figures
before he was three years old. At
that time, when he could scarcely
speak, the baby was able to say with
precision how many men, women and
children were ln a room and how
many tassels there were to the table
cover.
Goes) to Psychological School.
As "Jerry" grew older, his mathe
matical ability developed with as
tounding rapidity. When he was five
the lad at the supper table would
cast a glance at his plate and would
exclaim the same instant:
'Jerry's' got 117 peas and daddy's
got 129. Caddy's got 12 peas more
than 'Jerry.' "
Clocks and watches began to exert
a great fascination upon the mind of
the little boy, who would intermin
ably figure the time in hours, min
utes and seconds. The five-year-old
boy, who had not learned arithmetic.
was far more proficient In the tables I
of multiplication, in addition, sub
traction and division than boys two
and three times bis age.
Without hesitation he would give
the correct answers to questions such
as these:
How many seconds are there In
140 minutes?" "How many hours in
three days?" "How many hours are
there in a week?" "There are three
feet ln a yard. How many in 26
yards" "What is one-half of 911?"
One-half of 8211?" "One-third of
101?" "One-half of 813?" "Seven
times 66 T' etc.
"Jerry" would sit silent and mo
tionless while the questions were put
to him and fairly yell out the
answers. Only once in a while he
would seek the aid of his fingers.
One day he accosted one of his
teachers and said without any Intro
duction: "I have onlv been bad 12
times. So I have only been bad once
every eleven days and six hours."
Jerry" Is now in a special school.
and he has learned to read and write.
But he still retains a passion for ev
erything numerical and mathematical.
Sir Harry Johnston complains to
the London Landmark of adoption of
the -eighteenth century spelling of
Mahomedan."
I hate even to write it on the
typewriter 'Mahomedan' instead of
Muhammadan,' " writes Sir Harrv.
We should be very much annoyed If
educated followers of Islam persisted
in their press and literature in tran
scribing the name of the founder of
Christianity: "Jests" or 'Jusas' or
Crust." Equally irritated are orien
tals when, following the obstinacy of
the Times, which still in places clings
to Its early nineteenth-century tradi
tions, we persist in disfiguring the
nama of the prophet of Arabia as
Mahomet,' "Mahomed' or even "Mo
hammed" (there is no recognized o or
in Arabic spelling). The Arabic
rendering of this name is literally
Muhammad' from the root
hammada''be praised," Muan agent;
Muhammad 'the plainer." Muham
mad, is, of course, the official Indian
government rendering of the word."
Those Who Cojne and Go.
"Billy" is a bellhop at one of the
leading hotels fronting along Broad
way. Billy has traveled much and has
seen about all there is to see of life
He was with the fleet back in 1908
when It took its cruise around the
world, and has spent months in Egypt,
India and other far-off lands. All
of which is by way of introducing
Billy in his role as dishwasher for
Hindu nobility. A party of Hindus
were guests at the hotel not so very
long ago. It didn't take Billy long
to get on good speaking terms with
the swarthy-vlsaged visitors, from the
far east. The result was they im
pressed him into service to wash their
dishes according to the sacred rites
of their home land. Billy was equal
to the occasion and graciously con
sented. But one evening when there
was an extra large number of dishes
and Billy had a "date" to take his
"lady friend" to the riovles, he for
got about his sacred dish washing
assignment and used a plebeian sink
for the purpose. The Hindus in some
unknown manner learned of Billy's
overt act and trouble was instantly
brewing. It is said that new dishes
had to be procured for the party and
a new dishwasher took up the task,
Billy was in decidedly bad for some
time and all the attaches of the hotel
breathed a sigh of relief for them
selves and for Billy when the Hindus
finally departed for the south.
Another chapter in a happy romance
of the war will be completed today
with the marriage in Portland of Her
bert C. Hamilton of Klamath Falls
and Miss Armance Lejeune of Ver-
viers, Belgium. Young Hamilton ar
rived from overseas last August with
a couple of service stripes and a de
termination to make the Belgian miss
his wife. Last week he received a
telegram from her saying she had ar
rived in New York, so he hastened to
Portland and met her when she ar
rived from the east last night. They
are stopping at the Imperial. Mr
Hamilton went overseas with a mo
tor transport division ln which he
served until the signing of the armi
stice. He was then sent on detached
service with the American arm.stiee
commission to Verviers, Belgium
where he met the young woman who
is to become Mrs. Hamilton. Follow
ing a brief honeymoon in Portland
they will proceed to Klamath Falls.
where Mr. Hamilton Is in business.
Legislators, lobbyists and others of
the fraternity who attended the 1919
session of the legislature at Salem
remember "Doug" Fuller, night clerk
at the Marion hotel during the ses
sion. "Doug" was one of the regu
lars at the nightly meetings of the
"fish and game" committee. And
those who attended these sessions
will vouch for the fact that he ac
quitted himself with high honors at
all these sessions. Following the ses
sion Mr. Fuller entered the service of
the quartermaster department . and
went to Siberia. He has just returned
and is now selling automobiles for a
Portland firm. Mr. Fuller was cater
er to Theodore Roosevelt when the
latter was president of the United
States. . .
We are informed that French offi
cials are very anxious Indeed to assist
American tourists. Exactly, and
each tourist is expected to bring
along plenty of greenbacks.
Unofficial complaints that dealers
are destroying fish and other foods
lead to nothing. They contend the
stuff Is spoiled, and investigation
generally proves it so to be.
Growers of loganberries hope to
get 18 cents this year and do not
consider the offer of 12 cents, which
dims the hope of the consumer for
cheap berries of any kind.
The Jackson club of Portland will
not celebate Bryan's birthday "be
cause he is alive." The Jackson club
to contend and which, in view of the j surely does not refer to his status
could Tiot overcome, he has .made a
fairly good case. If the affairs of
the world had followed their normal,
peaceful course, the people might
have inclined to the five-year test
-proposed by Mr. McAdoo. But they
were called upon to decide at a junc
ture when communism the extreme
of socialism challenged the foun
dation principle of America individ
ualism to death combat. That
challenge came from Russia, a coun
try only half civilized, deeply igno
rant, which no sooner escaped the
tyranny of the czars than it fell
under that of the bolsheviats and is
now reduced to abject misery amid
plenty. This challenge struck Amer
icans as unparalleled impudence. It
came, too, when 2,000,000 Americans
had had the opportunity to observe
the working of government owner
ship ln other European countries,
and they wanted none of it. It came
when attempts were being made to
impose communism on this country
by revolution. Americans want noth
ing which even points that way.
Railroad .companies resume opera
tion of their property under difficul
ties which some persons deem insur
mountable. Hence follow statements
that private operation is entering
upon its last trial, that it will fail
and. that public ownership will be
adopted as the only way out Rail
roads have to make good arrears
of improvement and equipment ex
tending back for ten years, at a time
when the whole world calls on the
United States for capital, when inter
est is hlshf when prices are double
A republican congressional conven
tion in Missouri Saturday protested
national prohibition, but it was ln St
Louis, where the water Is bad, and
allowance is made.
Hood River demonstrates that
spray kills bees, and that ought to
settle the question. Not all sprays
do so, but one that is fatal to them
is enough.
'It is- a fine record for a boy to
have, that of never tardy or absent;
but the other kind of fellows grow
up to be politicians and grab the
goods.
In common decency candidates for
city offices should put their desires
on ice for a long time. Primary
politics will be full of thriils without
them. I
Judging from prices quoted, the
clothiers, spoke truly last fall when
predicting they would be double in
the spring.
Third-term hope is vain. There Is
nothing he can keep us out of this
time.
Dr. Wood's "lid" goes into the ring
in a classical way. .
Come on, March!
rain and bluster!
Blow in with
Toot! Toot!
America's smallest craft the "But
terfly" monoplane of the L. W. F.
Engineering corporation, took the air
ln a successful trial flight at College
Point Long Island, the afternoon of
February 18.
The aerial flivver weighs 595
pounds two husky men can lift it
from the ground. It is 29 feet and 9
inches wide and 19 feet long. The
otor is smaller and weighs less than
the motors in even the lowest powered
automobiles yet it develops 68 to 70
horsepower. The maximum carrying
capacity is 383 pounds.
The Butterfly was designed to sat
isfy the desires of sportsmen for a
machine of low first cost, low oper
ating expenses and low garage cost
The harried milkman left two bot
tles of milk where one had been or
dered. The man of the house waa called
away for a couple of days.
The lady of the house sent for the
gentleman who removes trash, she
having decided that the cellar simply
must be cleaned out
The gentleman who removes trash
appeared at an hour gratifyingly near
that called for In the contract
With gifted professional eye he sur
veyed the condemned contents of the
cellar and with consummate skill pro
ceeded to make the odds and ends
allotted to him fill as many barrels
as possible, hie compensation depend
ing on the number of barrels moved,
containers to be packed by himself.
The lady of the house considered
the trash man and her mind reverted
to the unnecessary bottle of milk. Her
soul etirred with neighborllness; the
Impulse to do a kind and friendly
deed inspired her.
"Here." she said to the trash man,
"is a bottle of milk fresh milk I
cannot use. Don't you want to take
it home?"
Injured dignity, resentfnlness and
withering contempt marked the trash
man's swarthy countenance.
Plainly his ire was stirred.
"What you pay me for taking him
away?" he demanded with scorn.
"Why, nothing!" replied the lady.
"Then me no take away!" pro
claimed the trash man with finality.
The moral is that in these days
charity should look before it leaps.
New York Sun.
Drinleing motor car drivers under
go a fierce test in London. A London
newspaper reports this incident:
'Dr. Dobeil, police surgeon, reply
ing to Solicitor Pierron, admitted the
defendant walked a straight line,
heel and toe, but swayed. He also
picked up a piece of paper while
standing on one leg. (
"The magistrate: 'Both very diffi
cult tasks. I could not do them!'
"Dr. Dobell also agreed that the de
fendant said the words 'tonsilitis.' 'ar
tillery' and "British constitution'
plainly, but not satisfactorily.
"The magistrate: 'Then, really he
did all the gymnastics you put him
through and said everything? Dis
charged.
"Somebody put a baby buggy in our
room, but were here to confess and
insist we don't need it," declared
J. E. Elklns and wife ln unison as
they approached the desk clerk at the
Benson yesterday afternoon. Mr.
Elklns, who Is ln the automobile, busi
ness at Pendleton, was here with Mrs.
Elklns for the automobile show last
week. He says Pendleton is to have
an auto show of Its own next week,
from March 11 to 13, inclusive, and
about 40 motor cars will be on dis
play for prospective purchasers of
Umatilla county. Mr. Elklns pro
cured several cars at the Portland
show which he will exhibit at Pendleton.
"Salem is going ahead ln a most
admirable manner," says Will E
Purdy, real estate dealer of the capi
tal city, who is registered at the
Oregon. "With the fruit juice con
cerns In full operation the farmers
are utilizing every inch of their land
and this industry, together with the
canning enterprise. The paper mill
which is now in the building, and
general trend upward ln all lines of
endeavor, Salem is coming to the
front as she never did before."
"Being a high school principal these
days isn't like it was 12 and 15 years
ago, declares L. R. Traver of Se
attle, who is stopping at the Port
land. Mr. Traver formerly was pnn
cipal of the Salem high school. In
fact, he was the first principal of the
first high school the capital city had.
That was in 1906. He later gave up
the teaching profession and took to
selling school books and supplies, and
travels throughout the northwest ter
ritory. Judge R. W. Marsters of Roseburg.
member of the state fair board and
one of the leading figures in Douglas
county, is registered at the Benson
on a business trip to Portland. With
the other directors and Secretary Lea,
Judge Marsters is planning a big
state fair for this September and ar
rangements have almost been com
pleted for auto races and auto polo as
major attractions at the forthcoming
fair.
AID NEEDED TO II K STORE WORLD
America Aloofness May Impose An
other Cataclysm oa Postrrity.
PORTLAND. Feb. 29. (To the Edl
itor.) It is to be regretted that more
people did not hear Lieutenant ton
Ingsby Dawson Friday night in his
splendid presentation of very vital
facts facts gathered by an Intclll
gent observer who has had unusual
opportunities and who has the rare
vision to Interpret those facts with
a prophetic eye. He did not speak
as an alarmist but as one who would
forewarn. He appealed to your sanity
through the heart and made it clear
that forces were at work which, if
not curbed or properly directed, would
lead the world Inevitably to disaster.
He appealed for unity of effort on the
part of the allies toward winning the
peace of the world as they had done
in winning the war. He showed con
vincingly, and he Is supported by
many other evidences, that time may
prove that Germany In effect really
won the war. He minced no words
and pointed to German activities al
ready far advanced in Russia. A
bolshevik victory is a German vic
tory, for Germany knows that a dis
tracted Russia means opportunity for
German efficiency to step ln and
establish order.
Mr. Dawson appealed to a hotter
understanding between the English
speaking people, not as one spread
ing British propaganda, but as one
enlightened to the opportunity of such
understanding. Nor did he limit this
to Britain. France, Belgium, Great
Britain and America must continue
the same united front, must show the
same spirit of sacrifice that made vic
tory possible, if this victory Is to be
come permanent
Selfishness, apathy and Indiffer
ence are sowing the seeds of future
disaster. Demagogues are filling us
with Ideas of selfish opportunity.
America first! Isolation! independ
ent asslnlnity! America today might
be likened to the portly gentleman
whose body contains many early
symptoms of cancer. He is consid
erably flus-hed with the wine of pros
perity and looks about him with much
satisfaction. He ignores the advice
of wise diagnosticians until some day
he is confronted with Irrefutable
facts. Now is the time to treat these
symptoms. It Is not too late.
Let us take seriously the message
of Mr. Dawson; let us help reduce the
national blood pressure; let us show
Intelligent and whole-hearted co
operation In international affairs.
Posterity may be spared another
world cataclysm.
CHARLES S. HOLBROOK.
More Iruth Then Poetry.
By James J. Moataaae.
COMtXQ BACK.
Do they come back In different raise
Long after we are torn ssuodorf
In other forms do they aria
And whisper of the past? I wonderf
Two years ago we mattered. "Scatl"
The word waa playfully Intended
Bnt Tabby, our devoted cat.
Departed from our nililnt, offended.
We put thick cream outsldo the doon,
By every means did we endeavor
To lure her to our boms once more.
But she has gone, alas, forever.
Yet Tuesday week a neighbor's child,
A well Intentloned little fellow.
Was murdering to put It mild
The Barcarole upon the cello.
And, as we beard the shrieks, somehow
They seemed to die awsy and soflea
Into that old persuasive meouw
That Tabby used to wail so often,
Yeirt're'en a lady came te call
Clad In a coat of furry beaver;
She hardly noticed me at all.
And yet my eyes refused to leave her.
That fur that velvet fur she wore
One patch a little rouRh anil shabby,
I'll swear that I had seen before.
Yes, many, many times on Tabby.
Do they come back to us aaaln
In other guises do they beckon,
For recognition now and then
When they have gone from osT I
reckon!
Duntne-aa Opportaallv.
Socretary Daniels says he knows
the name of the next president. Won
der If he wante to put up a little bot
on him.
iinileres Forever.
Mr. McAdoo says be won't seek the
nomination, and as the nomination
shows no disposition to seek Mr. Mo-
Adoo, It looks as if they might never
meet
e e
No Wonder.
Tt'lth so much good pnlp wood belnc
manufactured Into oulja boards, It Is
not surprising that print paper Is so
scarce.
(Cnprrlirht. !!?. by Bull Bmflleae. Ine
DANGER IX INPRODCCTIVK LABOR
Waste of Work-Time on Non-Eaaen-
tlals la Country's Peril.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Feb. 2S. (To
the Editor.) The Nation's Business,
organ of the United! Slates Chamber
of Commerce, warns us to look out for
financial equalls and breakers. This
because "Chicago workmen are buy
ing silk shirts on the installment
plan."
True It is tht a little knowledge Is
The Cup.
By Grace K. Halt
During the "flu" epidemic which
was general over the valley a week
or so ago. Dr. A. E. Wrightman of
Silverton was on the go both day
and night. But the epidemic having
subsided and normal health conditions
prevailing around the community
which was made famous by the late
Homer Davenport, cartoonist, Dr
Wrightman left his patients for a few
days in order to rest up in Portland
He is a guest at the Multnomah.
Assooiate Justices Benson, Bean,
Johns, Harris and Burnett of the Ore
gon supreme court, were over-Sunday
visitors in Portland from Salem. They
came down to attend the annual ban
auet of the Multnomah Bar assocla
tlon Saturday evening. Chief Justice
MoBride, who was to have delivered
the principal address, was unable' to
come because of illness.
Francisco Gomes, son of President
Gomez of Ecuador, South America,
was stopping at the Benson while In
Portland studying business conditions
generally with a view of attracting
more American trade to the country
of which his father is the chief ex
ecutive. He has left for San Fran
cisco but expects to return north ln
a couple of weeks.
Mrs. C. S. Hudson, whose husband Is
a leading banker of Bend, is in the
city and a guest at the Benson. She
is accompanied by her son.
Herbert Nunn, state highway engi
neer, is in the city from Salem and
13 registered at the Imperial. He is
accompanied by Mra Nunn.
E. T. Chapin and John Do ran are a
eouple of golfing enthusiasts of Spo
kane who wended their way to Port
land to participate in golf matches
yesterday. They are accompanied by
their wives and are guests at the
Multnomah.
J. L. Havens, chief of police of Ho
quiam, Wash., is in Portland on offi
cial business. He is registered at the
Benson.
a dangerousi thing, and that a half
truth may be a whol- falsehood. The
fact that money is being exchanged
for sliirta in no way concerns the
general public The merchant had the
shirts and the workman the money;
new the workman has the shirts and
the merchant the money. Why should
t concern the public wh Ich has which?
Still, it is true that squalls and break
ers threaten.
Invariably those Ignorant of scien
tific economies sense money rather
than work-time as basic to value. Pro
ductive work-time is the base and
bedrock of all true value. Probably
this argument may be irctsentd more
clearly through considering the pro
duction and exchange of diamond,
which are even of less utility than are
silk shirts. After the diamond Inn
been lined, cut and set It matters
not to the commonwealth whether It
becomes the property of a prince or s
pauper. The sin was committed prior
to Its changing hands as a finished
product.
The sin, and sin It Is. was wattle of
work-time. And this sin Is the squall
and the breaker which now threaten
our ship. The nations which were,
and now are not, committed suicide
through squandering work-time on
pyramids, temples and tombs. In like
manner we today are misapplying
work-time on non-utilltlcs. such as
silk shirts, diamonds and wrist
watches for dogs.
The law of economics Is no re
specter of persons, and as the nations
of old wont, so we must go yes.
must. If we continue to steer on
course directly toward the rock
which proved fatal to these ancients
Our legions now engaged in non
productive pursuits have been drafted
from the ranks of our producers: this
di-aft lias weakened our productive
force to such degree that, today, iup
Dly of life's necessities does nut mee
demand, hence the hlnh coft, and
hence the turmoil and chaos in soci
ety.
Idleness is the devil's most poten
agency ln raising hell upon earth, and
unproductive labor Is ten times more
devilish than is idleness, for the re a
son that it wastes both time and ma
terial. AMOS.
Each man must sometimes kneel bo
fore a gate
That closes on his hopes gone far
astray,
Each one must sometime learn to si
lent wait
And how his unaccustomed head to
pray.
Each one before his Jonrneylng la
done
Shall humbled be ln spirit;
shall win
That wondrous calm through victo
ries hard-won.
Unless the very lees are drained by
him.
There is a potion measured In life's
cup
For each who follows onward
throuith the vale,
His given share shall each man taste
and stip,
Thoueh earthly courage falter aye,
and fail!
F.ut he who measures In the vial. Fate,
The hitter rirmiKht, shall nlge what
Is the bent.
Within the gardi'n he munt sorely
wait
To crown the victors who have stood
the test.
In Oth. r Day.
CENSORSHIP NOT RIGID CXOl'GH
H. W. Collins, 'Well-known grain
operator of eastern Oregon, is regis
tered at the Benson while here from
his home at Pendleton.
Robert Jordan of Heppner, Or., is
one of the week-end Portland vis-
( itors stopping at the Perkins.
Brutal Fights or Snxgeaflvenens Said
to Permeate Film Productions.
PORTLAND, Feb. 28. (To the Edi
tor.) Mr. Hunter refers to our city
as a "cow pasture," and to Its rule
as "tank" rule, and Bays that "Port
land" does not want censorship
Sneak for yourself, John."
Because a few more people of Mr
Hunter's peculiar frame of mind have
expressed a desire for the rococco
style of movies Is no indication that
It is the desire of all. Portland does
need censorship, not only In the mov
ies but in the legitimate drama. Not
the movies alone need cleansing
One of the beautiful things about
Portland Is that it Is a clean city,
both ln its streets and its ideals. We
have heard the cry, "Let us make
America safe for democracy." Let us
also hear the cry, "Let us make Port
land safe for Its youth."
Recently one of our supposedly
good class vaudeville houses had a
young woman entertainer on Its bill
whom the newspapers lauded as doing
so much "good" for our soldiers by
singing to them In France. She sang
five songs, each one norriDiy sug
gestlve of the things Indecent to be
mentioned and the queRtlon Is just
what "kind" of "good" she did those
bovs over there.
We have children and many of our
friends have children who come home
and tell us they were ashamed to be
with young men when certain pictures
were being shown. Nearly everyone
knows that most of the life depleted
in the movies is not real, excepting
perhaps with a questionable class of
people.
Married men tail in love witn gins:
wives fall in love with other men;
the marriage vow is a thing of little
sacredness and easily set aside. Thank
God. in one of our new judges, Mr.
McCourt. we have a real man one
who will not grant divorces on the
slightest breach of etiquette or dif
ference In opinion. We need more such
men in our "cow p:ture."
A woman with a child of 4 years a
hoy said she must keep him away
from the movies, that Be would get
so excited when a fight appeared on
the screen that he, would scra?n out
"Kill him! Kill hlin!" Half of the
pictures shown are filled with brutal
fights or BUggestivencss. which do
not contribute to the high Ideals we
hold and wish our children to
maintain. I
"JUST ONE OF LEGION."
Twratr-rite tears A so.
Prom The Orenn!n of March 1, l?.
Washington. The prcnlnVnt today
nominated Itopresenlai ive W. L Wil
son of West Virginia to bn postman-ter-gencral
to succeed w. 8. Him,;l.
Among the bills approved by Gov
ernor Lord since adjournment of the
legislature la that providing for the
creation of the offlcs of county audi
tor in Multnomah county and this
appointment Is to bo made at once.
Collector of Internal Revenue
Blackmail has received Inntrucllonl
from Washington authorizing exten
sion of the time for filing Income tax
returns for ism to April 15.
James May, a man about 4H years
of age. who was employed on a mow,
was drowned In the Columbia rlvrr
Wednesday nltliL, Just this side of M.
Helens.
Fifty Yean A so.
Prom The OreconrU of March 1. 1H70.
New York. The board of n.
neers, headed by General McClellan,
held a meeting Saturday to dcvla
means for more rapid transit through
Manhattan Island.
Milwaukee. A mass meeting at
which several legislators were pres
ent last night dlscuHwed the proponed
removal of the state capital from
Madison to Milwaukee.
From the register of weather condi
tions kept at the library It is t-liown
that 4.30 Inches of rain fell during
February and that the maximum tem
perature was (8 degrees, with a mini
mum of 33.
The number of patients In the
asylum at East Portland on 1).ii.
ber 1 was 11Z. since then 11 have
been admitted and nine discharKed,
died or escaped.
srni.io PllfK.
The yearly time for singing of spring
draws nigh to view,
And I elect to spring a song of spring
ing spring on you!
Now doth the gentle poet spring fell
perennial song;
Spring hats adorn shop windows and
prices spring along.
Weak spring In worn umbrella now
mended Reeds to be.
For gentle, warm, spring showers
spring oft and easily.
From wesr and tear ef winter Oie
gutter springs a leak;
The tinner springs a bill on you that
makes your bankbook weak.
Spring1 robin wakens you at four and
you spring out or ced.
But ere you spring a brick-bat the
miscreant has fled.
Yes, everything It springing, and
with you i agree
That I have sprung enough of spring.
for you mlKht-spring at m.
JANETTE MARTIN.
Hupervtalon of Water a,
WOODBURN. Or., Feb. ill (To the
Editor.) is there a commission or
body ln this rtato that rules on legal
boundary lines, particularly as re
gards river boundaries?
A KT.ADKR.
There is a state water board which
has supervision of the appropriation,
dlstrlbntlon and diversion of the wa- i
ters of the state end of the adjudi
cation of water rights. Addrers llojr
W. Potter, Secretary bUle Water
Board, Sal cm, Or. .