THE MORXIXG OREGOMAN", THURSDAY vMARCII 4, 1920 iHxrmttt0 (Snsnminn VSTABLISHED BY HESBY U PITTOCK. JPubllched by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. lZi Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. 5. UORSE.N. E. B. Manner. fcditor. The Orag-onlaa is a member of tba Asso ciated Presa. Tha Associated " exclusively entitled to the use tor P"0"": lion ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper ana also the local news published herein. u rights of republication of special aispatcnes herein are also reserved. . . .75 . 8.00 . S. . 80 . 1.00 . .oo . S 00 feabacription Katre Invariably In Ad ranee. tBy MaiL lairr. SundsT inrlndd. one year .-xy raily. Sunday Included, six montha ... lt.iv c...... thru mnnUI a. A.- Xaily, Sunday included, one month Ially. without Sunday, one yr. - - - -Daily, without Sunday, six months .. Dally, without Sunday, one month. Weekly, one year ...... Sunday, one year By Carrier.) laDy, Snnd&y Included, one year . -Daily. 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Printing employed, corresponding- to that huge I presses grind it out - In unlimited numBer of typewriters.- The smaller ' quantities and It Is so little regarded army of 316,700 officers and men that a Swiss mineral- water bottler proposed by the house committee -uses Austrian notes for labels because would need only to be temporarily j they are cheaper than any he could expanded to- care for the national guard of a maximum strength of 348,000 men and for young men dur ing their annual periods of training. Under the latter plan the work of the department could be done by far fewer men, with occasional tempo rary increase, than with a large reg ular army and no civilian training. HOW TO REDITCE PRICES. The address of A. L. Mills to the Rotary club contained advice which should be followed by everyone. . It Is to every man's and ""woman's in terest to follow that advice, for thus each one can help to reduce the cost of living, against which all protest. It is to buy only what is actually necessary. If we buy less and pro duce more, the cost of living must automatically fall. High cost of living fifteen months after war ceased is in large part the result of habits induced by the war. Because wages and profits were high, more was spent and high prices were paid, though the two reasons contra dict each other. People spent more because they had more money, yet they had no more spending power, because the purchasing power of their money was less in proportion. prices being higner. than before the war. Manufacturers and merchants have played on this popular error by raising prices further. The remedy is in our hands. It is to stop buying anything with which we can dispense until prices come down. During the war we were urged to . practice . . i - . - i r - , , CU11U1I1 111 uiun lu . luuu w, allies and to save money for Liberty bonds. Now is the time to practice economy in order to help ourselves and to defeat the present enemy high cost of living. That course would help the work ing of other means for adjustment of the world's disordered affairs. By restricting the volume of business it would aid deflation of the currency, which would increaA; the purchasing power of the dollar. By increasing the aggregate savings from the na tional income it would increase the amount of capital available for . leconstruotion of Kurope. Not till Europe is again at work with a full stomach and at peace will the pros perity of the United States rest on a secure foundation. Hence by economy we help the country as by economy we helped it during the war. This is one of many things which cau be done to repair the damage which war did to civilization, and it is one in which everybody can take a hand on his own initiative without action by government or-any organi zation. Another is early ratification of the peace treaty with reservations. A third is the conference of financial and commercial leaders of the great powers and of neutral nations to devise a plan of readjustment" for and among all nations, to which Mr. Mills referred. No matter how reluctant we may be to mix in the intrigues and wars of Europe, we are already entangled in its industrial and financial troubles. We have lent the allies 10, 000,000. 000 and may have to remit several years' interest and part of the prin cipal in order to save some countries from bankruptcy. In order that several countries of central Europe may work, they must be fed for a few months, and America must sell them the food on credit. Then they must be supplied with many things with which and upon which to work, again on credit, most of which America must furnish. In this work we cannot discriminate between friend and foe any more than we could in an epidemic. Economic AMERICANIZED SEATTLE. The campaign for the Americani zation of Seattle is making headway. Major Caldwell was elected mayor on Tuesday by a majority of more than 16,000 votes, and the candidates associated with the Utopian Duncan Were for the most part also beaten. But 34,000 men and women voted for Duncan. It Is a large number, but its significance is not so disquiet ing as it would be if the fifty-odd thousand who 'turned out and cast their ballots for Caldwell had stayed at home and let the minority rule. We have no notion that all the 34,000 had any wish or purpose to sovietize Seattle. Many of them were misled into the belief somehow that the era of the Golden Rule would be inaugurated through Duncan. But, if Duncan, had won, the country would have been ringing today with shouts from the reds and the half reds that the strike of a year ago was vindicated, and its suppression Vy Ole Hanson and the forces with him consequently repudiated, and that control of government had been turned over to the reformers by the act of the people themselves. Seattle would have embarked on new schemes of experimentation and revolution. Seattle has gone somewhat too fast in the past. Evidently it intends to slow up. It is time. have printed, and Russian peasants refuse to accept bolshevist rubles in payment for wheat. . They take old clothes, .old shoes, any old thing ex cept money. ; Of course Mr. Harvey may take refuge in the retort that all the money in Europe is backed by gold reserves, that there is hot enough gold in existence, and that if Europe had silver coinage at the sacred ratio of 16 to 1, everything would be ,all right. But the world's output of silver is - even farther below the de mand than is that of gold, so that bi-metalism would do little to mend matters, and might make them worse. All of this indicates that no really new ideas have entered Mr. Harvey's head since 1896, and that he would better stay in the Ozark mountains and keep quiet. PROPAGANDA. A correspondent of the Xew Tork Globe, by nameMary C. Trask, sends to that paper the "true story of the eleven men out in the northwest on trial for their lives." We may not. during the progress of the trial, run the risk of prejudicing the public mind, or by any chance the court, by any fit correction or exposition of the extraordinary tale told by Mary Trask. She bases her version on a speech by a lumberjack from Oregon, who affirmed that the "I. W. W. as an organization is a protest against murder and violence," and has suffered too much through long years, in the name o law and order." to practice or believe in that sort of thing. "We have been," said the great, strong, simple-minded, big-hearted, law-loving lumberjack, "tarred and feathered, beaten, maimed and jailed by our employers and thoir hirelings and here we stand as unalterably opposed to violence as we have been through all the years." As an illustration he told how eleven brave men brave, but unal terably opposed to violence were attacked in the I. W. W. hall at Centralia by a bloodthirsty mob of soldiers. Ttte members of the mob were armed, it appears, with their service uniforms and their bare hands, and in their helplessness, hopelessness and innocence the noble. I. W. W. were forced to prepare for attack and to shoot dead with rifle? the lawless and destroying marauders. That is the way conscious virtue, unalterably opposed to violence, pre vented violence by an unarmed but terrible mob. It was all very touching. But our chief interest is in the following paragraph from the o'er true report of the sympathetic lady: I ask, Is not the greatest offense aeainst law ard order in this terrible tragedy the constant stream of lies sent put from Cen tralia and Montesano In the effort to ac complish the legal murder of these eleven men (some of whom are ex-service men) who had used the only weapon for self defense that this country has ever placed In their hands? Awful, If true. One Illustration bf the constant stream of false propa ganda is the statement that any of the ten men now on trial are, or have been, American soldiers. Not one of them donned the uniform of his country whether it was America or Germany in the recent war. But the "greatest offense against law and order iiv this terrible busi ness" is the deliberate conspiracy, of which the Globe correspondent is a part, to show that the trial at Montesano is a base project of the citizens of a state to use the machinery of the country to achieve the legal murder of innocent men. WHOSE ENDS DO THEY SERVE? The senate adopts several of the Lodge., reservations to the Versailles treaty by majorities of more than two to one. It is natural to expect that the same senators who vote, for the reservations will . also vote for ratification with them attached, and that therefore ratification is assured. Yet we are told that a final deadlock is expected. How can this be? It is because the irreconcilables. who are determined to kill the treaty, vote for the reservations with the intention afterward to vote against ratification. By joining the last-ditch" opponents of reservation, who hold the opposite extreme of opinion from their own, they would diminish the majority below two-thirds and thus prevent ratification and kill the treaty. Such is their ultimate purpose. Whose ends would be served? Not those of the American people, who fought not only to defeat Germany but to establish peace. Not those of the allies, who want to put Ger many under bond to keep the peace. Only those of Germany, which signed and ratified the treaty with assertions that its terms could not-De executed, which immediately began to break it and which has since labored to promote division among the allies and to secure revision of the terms. Whatever may be the purpose of the death battalion's course, its. effect would be to promote the ends of Germany. If the treaty should now be tie feated, action on it would be deferred until after the election, and the pres ent disorganized state of Europe would be continued, Germany would gain time to continue intrigue for revision, to avoid reparation pay ments and disarmament, to organize a new army, to sow dissension among neighboring states and to lay wires for a new war. Already it has enlisted the aid of business interests In Britain, and has its lines laid in other countries. If ratification should be defeated by the combined votes -of the death battalion and the immovable demo crats, they will share a heavy respon sibility with President Wilson. The irreconcilable faction includes about one-fourth of the republican senators and four democrats. Three-fourths of the republicans stand solidly with Senator Lodge for ratification with reservations, while more than half the democrats stand by the Wilson policy. With that showing the main body of democrats and the repub lican irreconcilables cannot evade responsibility to the people. istence of such great industrial units as the steel corporation Without its aid and that of its largest competi tors the gqvernment could not as easily have satisfied the sudden great demand for steel in every shape, and it could not- as readily have under taken construction of the great gun and projectile plant at Neville island which was halted by the armistice. Similar service was rendered by other industrial combinations; enabling the government promptly to mobilize in dustry. - . The decision ends doubt that this country is to be a field for the opera tions of large units in every line of industry. That is "so obviously the tendency of the times that, we could resist it only at the cost of severe friction between the law and busi ness. Thus is vindicated tne judg ment of Theodore Roosevelt when he insisted that safety from oppres sive monopoly lay in regulation, not dissolution, of these large units. That policy is more than ever in accord with our true interest when our pros perity must be derived chiefly from foreign trade, where our manufac turers must compete with huge com binations of other nations encouraged by their governments. This pros pect enhances the importance of the federal trade commission and de mands that It be' composed of men free from prejudice or cranky theory, j men who will not persecute, but will regulate business and guide it in courses where it will serve the people. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Cass Baer. Those who think of the "old world" as a place already built, and as fixed as the ruins that people visit it to see, will be surprised by the news given out by the United States trade com missioner at Rome that the munici pal Authorities of that city have made provision for the immediate erection of two entirely new suburbs outside the present city limits, for which a type of small cottage has been selected that resembles the American design more than the Ital ian. It is admitted tnat wane Europe may excel us in art, we are ahead in matters of convenience, particu larly in housing, and old-world archi tects are beginning to think that the happiness of the people can be pro moted by attention to creature com forts. But the Italian designers, as was to have been expected, have not ignored the esthetic, and no house will ,be without Its garden, which will combine beauty with utility in the most economical way possible. The way in which war-worn Italy is meeting its housing problem is an inspiration to nations more fortunate than it is. Friends of Will Lloyd, who has been a Baker actor at various times in va rious eeasoris, will learn with pleasure that he Is on Broadway in a play called "The Unseen Hand," which was tried out successfully at Atlantic City a few weeks ago. Crane Wilbur wrote the piece and A. H. Woods is produc ing. Its plot is an ouija board and its theme Is spiritualism. In the re views given the performance especial praise is given Mr. Lloyd's, portrayal of an ex-crook, a comedy role. Willis' F. Goodhue is in Portland ahead of the Galloway English Opera company, which comes to the Helllg week .after next. He is accompanied by Mrs. Goodhue and during their stay here they are guests at the Port land. Although Lucille Cavanaugh of the "Ziegfeld Follies" fame, retired and -left the stage six months ago, upon her. marriage to Walter Leimbert, and is now living in Piedmont; Cal., the Cavanauhs will continue to be rep resented in the fields of art'. A younger sisterfJlarie Cavanaugh, has Joined the crew of "The Night Boat" at the Liberty theater in New York. Those Who Come and Go. It seems to be established that if aviation is to be developed in the United States reliance will have to be placed on private concerns to do it. There is reason for believing, however, that much can be accom plished in this way. Great Britain already has a large number of com mercial concerns in the aviation field, a conspicuous feature of whose operations has been their freedom from accidents. More than 21,000 passengers were carried in Eifgland last season on other than merely local excursions and more than 4000 flights were made, covering 303,000 miles, or an average of about seventy-five miles per flight. Air trips between London and Paris and be tween "London and Brussels are now made as routine, and the number of machines - "for hire" is increasing rapidly. The ' British government, however, is co-operating in the con struction of landing fields, which it appears will be left in this country either to private initiative or to mu nicipal enterprise. - One by one the thrills of city life are leaving.: " Who now wants to stand on the curb and watch a horse less fire engine go by? Even the -fillerman on a -truck is now a mere machinist where once he was an artist. The gentle practice of dragging profiteers through the streets of Bulgarian tles indicates that the Bulgars have learned something pro gressive from the war, after all. Its motto seems to be, "Treat 'em rough!" What have innocent men to fear breakdown is a disease which alike lanywhere in the courts of America ? afflicts our friends France, Italy and Toland and our former ene mies Germany and the fragments of the quondam Hapsburg monarchy. We must check the disease wherever it shows itself in order that it may not infect us. This will furnish useful and profit able employment for the money which Jones will save by not buying that new suit, which Mrs. Jones will save by not buying that new hat and which they will both save by having Johnny's shoes repaired instead of giving them to the garbage man and buying him a new pair. When slack times come, the Joneses will not miss the things they have gone without, and the income on the money will come very handy. TTTETVR ITERS FOR A BIG ARMY. Although the war department was driven by congress to sell to con sumers the vast surplus of food and clothing for the army which re mained from the war, it stfll clings tenaciously to its typewriters. It bought 200,000 of them and has sold only 85,000. The other 165,000 are stored in warehouses all over tha country, at great expense for ware house space, care and insurance. A committee of the house found 2500 of them stored in one building in Washington. " The only explanation which Repre sentative Wood Jf Indiana could find for the reluctance of the war depart ment to dispose of these machines is xnac it stui nopes to muuee congress to authorize a large standing army of 675,000 officers and men. and wants to nave typewriters ready for them. One would think that type writers were to-be one of the chief weapons for the army of the future, for there would be one for each three and a half men. Here is illustrated the fallacy of those men who oppose universal mil itary training qn the plea of econo my. The only alternative. If the country is to be"well defended, is a milch larger regular army than would suffice if all civilians of mil itary age were trained ready for an emergency. A large -regular army A VOICE r'RO.U THE PAST SPEAKS. Memories of the great free silver campaign of 1S96 are revived by receipt of a pamphlet entitled "Com mon Sense; or, The riot on the Brain of the Body Politic, by A Hermit in the Ozark Mountains. Publisher, Wm. H. Coin Harvey." This effusion contains evidence that Mr. Harvey is not only its publisher but also its author, the hermit in question. Who that was of voting age in 1896 does not remember the excite ment that was caused by a - book" entitled 'Coin." by Mr. Harvey, which was considered the last word In favor of free silver? It had a prodigious sale and was held to prove the case of the Bryanitcs beyond dis pute. Since that year Harvey has been forgotten and was supposed to be politically dead, but he has risen from the political graveyard in these times when many new nostrums are offered and many old ones are fur bished tip as cures for all the ills of the world. . The Harvey brand of common sense is much like that of twenty-four years ago. In his opinion everything would be all right if everybody who had money were compelled to lend it without interest, and that everything is all wrong because those who have money are allowed to hoard it when they should keep it circulating by lending it without interest, which he calls usury, to those who need it. He quotes laws against usury begin ning with most ancient times, tells of the surrender of congress to the money power during the civil war and thus leads down to the present debt-ridden Condition of the world. His only explanation of the failure of all . laws against interest is the money power, and he fails to explain how this power has become supreme. Nor does he reveal how a man can be compelled to part with his money without interest. . But Mr. Harvey is behind the times; in the vernacular he is talking "old stuff." The source of our pres ent trouble is not that people hoard money; it is that money has become a drug on the market and that Those Omaha grocers who propose to offer cheaper goods when custom ers ask for high-priced articles do not know present-day buyers. , It is not a question of ethics or economy. The buyer may go elsewhere. These governors put up a bold front for a while, but in the end they all" back down before the women. Povernor Hart, too, has called a special session of the Washington legislature. THE NEW VIEW OF GREAT CORPORATIONS. t In the judgment of the Unite'd States supreme court, the United States Steel corporation, commonly called the steel trust, is not a trust within the meaning of the Sherman law, though it control almost half of the steel industry, Including sources of supply of raw .material and many means of transportation. The decision marks an epoch in the relations of the law to great corpora tions. 'We had, first, under Presi dents Cleveland and McKinley some decisions which seemed to render the law inoperative. -We had under Roosevelt the Northern Securities decision, which proved that the law had "teeth," followed by proceedings against a number of other corpora tions. Then we had an intensive campaign under Taft, which led to dissolution of the oil and tobacco trusts, a decree against the harvester trust and tha suit against the steel corporation. This campaign was continued under' Wilson and pro duced many voluntary submissions to the demands of the government, but the war imposed a truce which has not yet ended. Throughout all these changes In the attitude of the government toward great corporations, there has come a change in the attitude of such corporations toward competitors and the public, and there has come a cor responding change in the attitude vf the public toward them. These changes find expression in the ma jority decision of the supreme court. The steel corporation is given a clean bill of health because it has not used the power which it'may originally have possessed to crush competitors and to practice extortion on con sumers. On the contrary, competi tors have arisen and grown strong around it until it now controls a smaller proportion of the steel indus try than it controlled when the suit was brought. Whatever unlawful practices formerly marred the record of the steel corporation have long been - abandoned. It stands distin guished from other corporations en gaged in the ' steel industry by its size alone, and the court endorses the- dictum of ex-President. Taft, already approved by the public, that mere size does not constitute a crime. The only danger arising from size is that it conveys power-to do injury, and for that reason it has been held by many that mere possession of this power by any private institution is an evil, though it may never be ex ercised. The court rejects that con struction of the law and holds that exercise of this power to public in- The democratic party is" in the jury must be shwn in order to bring unmaking with Edwards on a "wet" condemnation. Its conclusion, may platform and Bryan vigorously "dry." be accepted without apprehension ' "Shortage" of roses looms" has a familiar sound. Yes, there will be the usual rose shortage until rose season next June, when the bushes will come through in the usual profusion. Political meetings this year will lack the "ginger" of other days. There are not enough "good stories" to go around, with audiences of mixed voters. Good thing, too. In a New. Tork theatrical publica tion in a department devoted to print ing complaints of various sorts is the following which may interest local folk. Inasmuch a its writer, an In dian girl, is an Oregonian. Her letter says: "For the benefit of a number of persons who are taking an unkind and untruthful Interest in my na tivity, I would like to state, through your columns, a few facts connected therewith. "It seems that there are a number of acts, who, knowing that I speak Spanish, refer to me as 'that Mexican harpite.' Others, knowing that my father's name was of French extrac tion, declare that I am French, a few think that I am pure 'wop' and I, my self, heard one refer to me as 'that Kike-Indian. If I were really of all the nationalities that I am said to be, I would be more mixed than I am! "It is quite true that my father was French-Irish, but it is also true that my mother, who, stilliving, Is more Indian than French. "Until I was about eight years old. I had not seen more than six all white children. Those early years were spent in Oregon, ranging from the vicinity of Castle Rpck, on the Colum bia, to the vicinity of Pendleton. "I do speak Spanish, also Chjnook, and for the benefit of those who have a smattering of the latter, I will say that 'Kla-how-ya' and not 'kla-wah-ya' means 'how do you do?' 'Kla-war- na' means clear water, the name of the Columbia river. So much for my name, which seems to have given some con cern. Out west, in my .school days, one did not advertise one's Indian blood, for father hardly relished the appellation of 'squaw-man,' but in these days and especially in theieast, one seldom hears that word. "Just why Indian acts n vaude ville should carry on a species of tri bal feud, such as used to exist be tween the different Indian nationst is hard to say. Our government is sup posed to have educated us out of primitive things. Perhaps it is only"professlonal jeal ously after all a disease that is not confined to Indians! "KATHLEEN KLA-WAH-NA." a Reply to Edna: Cliff Lancaster Is appearing with the Fred Siegel Stock company, now touring this coast. Grace La Rue, Orpheum headliner, la'said to be the plaintiff in a divorce action started against Byron D. Chand ler in Westchester county, New Tork. Chandler is a non-professional, once known as "The Millionaire Kid'.' through his free spending habits. When Myrtle Tannehill-Hamilton, wife of Hale Hamilton, named Miss La Rue as the defendant in an action for $100,000 damages, alleging alienation of Hale Hamilton's affections, the other side lines" of the Hamilton- "In manufacturing and commercial lines, business in San Francisco is no better than in Portland, but San Fran cisco is exceeding us through its tour ist crop," says Ira F. Powers, who has returned from California. "Oregon people cannot understand what this tourist business means ana ana wnen our roads are open so that the tour ists can come north, we will be swamped with them. California has never had such a winter for tourists tha recent one. ' There are little hamlets which have been dead for years; now they are thriving. A hotel opposite a mission in a small town had not been whitewashed in a gen eration. Now an addition rs being built and a new hotel Is under con struction a block distant. The pro prietor told me his father went broke trying to run the little old hotel, but he himself is now making big money. The cars covered with dust and cov ered with luggage may look unpre sentable, but the tourists of such a car are liberal spenders. Oregon will get its share of this tourist money In the near future, for the tourist does not care where he goes, providing the roads are good and we are building good roads." "Two million dollars' worth of bonds for road purposer. will be voted on by the people of Lane county on May 21," says E. J. Adams of Eugene, who left for Jiome yesterday after spending a few days in Portland. "A committee consisting of over 80 mem bers, and representing every section of the county, has. approvea ot me Dona measure and the sentiment in favor of the enterprise is constantly In creasing. The bonds will give the county about 400 miles of roads, a most complete and comprehensive road system within Lank county. Tne surfacing will be of macadam, with gravel for the laterals. The 'roads, as planned, will be 30 feet wide, save in the mountains, where they will be 24 feet, lane codnty has a good road system now, but with these bonds the county will have a system Becond to none in Oregon. At first when It was suggested that a bond Issue be floated there was considerable opposition, but this has been eliminated to a large extent end I hope that Jhe measure will meet with the approval of the people at the election." Mr. Adams, by the way, is a candidate for repre sentative from Lane county." i "I'm offering 14.50 a day, with meals at 40 cents. It would cost a workman $1.20 a day to- live out of his $4.50, as I furnish the sleeping accommodations. Notwithstanding tlrfs, two employment offices in Port land have been unable to Engage a solitary man for me," states C. L. Grutze, district engineer of the state highway department, who is in the city from Tillamook and registered at the Imperial. "The problem of getting labor promises to be serious this sum mer. In Tillamook' the county is pre paring to do a lot of work and is get ting its steam shovels In place. The contractor who will rock the Grand Ronde section of the road to Tilla mook is fixing the crusher and ar ranging for' an early start. There Is considerable bridge work going on, one project being on Three Rivers, and the county is working at Kilchis. It is possible to drive from Portland to Tillamook now in six hours, al though it wouldn't be considered a pleasure trip, as some of it is rough going." Decision of the allied, supreme council prohibiting Turkey from hav ing a navy puts the Turks in the same boat as the Swiss, so to speak. Quen Wan Pang has resigned as premier of China. At least nobody can say of him that it cost him a pang to quit. Getting a man for . minister to Siam seems to "be difficult now. Surely not all democrats have bad records. Fifteen In the Newberry case have been discharged, but the eighty-five left ought to keep court going .until fall. ' . - ' . Somehow, we have a sort of burn ing desire to know whether Brother A. Mitchell Palmer also wears spats. because the law has demonstrated its power to prevent and punish harmful exercise of this power and because in the federal trade commis sion there exists a public agency that is ever ready to discipline any corporations which transgress. Heads of great corporations realize this fact and therefore they act circum spectly. ' War has in fact convinced the ob serving that there are great, positive advantages to the nation in the ex- O. A. C. girls are reported to be making over their old dresses. Later in life that Is domestic science. - That clears the decks' for Prince Palmer and Heir Apparent McAdoo, with Hoover still running. Wood and Lowden will fight for Illinois (main event), with Hoover in a preliminary. Mary does not need the advertising. La Rue-Chandler affairs came out Miss La Rue and Mr. Hamilton are co starring in John Golden's "Oh, My Dear." Mrs. Hamilton is the daughter of Frank Tannehill. Within the past few months, when Mr. Hamilton and Miss La Rue were on the Pacific coast, a report of their contemplated marriage crept into print without either entering any denial, though Mrs. Hamilton on the New York end at the time said she thought it wdild be peculiar if it could be done. Dur ing the friendly married life of the Chandlers, when Bryon D. once men tioned he thought he would go to New Haven to see a football game, Mrs. La Rue-Chandler, It was reported at that time aoquiesced, and then engaged a chair In the same car. to walk into the stateroo.m occupied by her husband and several others. That started something internally at the time, but Chandler was said to have squared it through inheriting more money Just about then from an other New England relative Rennold Wolf in his theatrical col umn . in the .New Tork Telegraph prints the following, which is a fair sample of the usifhl publicity para graphs that find their way to a dra matic department on a newspaper. Say Wolf: "A rather confusing statement con cerning some grievance or other of Horace Goldin, the magician, which his representative, Arthur S. Ross, has typewritten, is left to the more patient reader to picture .puzzle the plot of It. Here it is verbatim: "Just to contradict an impression and an unaccountable .rumor that, Horace Goldin, the illusionist and magician of world-wide fame. Is not the same and" is not as good as ever, has accepted an engagement at Fox's Star theater -at One Huifdred and Seventh street and Lexington avenue, March 4, 5, 6 and 7, to prove that the- man who played "before more crowned heads than any, other per former is Just as good as ever and is Justly entitled to his title of king of. all magicians and illusionists. John Cort has arranged to send "Just-a Minute," the musical comedy by Harry L. Cort, George E. Stod dard tund Harold Orlob to the Cort thiter In Chicago for a long engage ment. Tom Dingle, lately seen as a dan cer in "Fiddlers Three," and Mabel Withee ' will head the cast. Mabel Withee was here three years ago with Al Jolson's company. Fred Tash, councilman of Heppner. has returned home aftef attending conferences in Portland with railroad officials. The Oregon and Washing ton highway from Heppner to the Gilliam county line is under contract for B-radins; and the highway makes a number of encroachments on the right of wav of the railroad. J. P. O'Brien approved of the encroachment and has telegraphed headquarters of the railroad corporation announcing that fact Heppner. which is experiencing a revival of community interest and Is booming, is desirous of pushing the highway to completion as rapidly as possible. The contract calls for com pletion next month, but will require more time. "I can't get warm up here, although the people In Portland look comfort able," confessed George L. Hutchin, who arrived yesterday from Los An geles. "I have been living in southern California so long that my blood Is probably too thin for Portland tem perature." Mr. Hutchin was formerly a well-known resident of Portland and was identified for several years with the annual rose festival. He went to California and became interested In the motion-picture business. Mr. Hutchin was the scenario writer for a picture dealing with the revolution TO STRIKK NOT INIIKKKJIT BIfiHT Bat One May Chance Vocation Vt ll sp oilt Inipnlrins; lnduatry. PORTLAVD, March S. (To the Edi tor.) Outside of the so-called "hear says" there are hearsays -more damn able. if possible, to community Inter ests and civil government activities than the colored minister foresaw, In his soul-savlna; theology. Chief among these is selfishness, manifested indi vidually or oriranii'Hlly; differing only in degree. If I could wield a facile pen and portray in truthful verbiage the misdemeanors, 'wastes, crimes, un rest and woe following-In the wake of organized selfishness, inferno would be discounted. -It snpa the foundation of civil liberty: It de moralizes domestic felicity; It IncUen crimes and misdemennors; It ravages virtue; it spells poverty and orphan age, despondency and self-destruction. It assumes many forms and floats In many channels; it foments hellbroth In dens of Infamy; it seeks power by enforced legislation and it concocts riots and revolutions. But enough of generalizations. 'To be specific: True Americanism, the purest and best In the world's history since the passing of the patri archlal rule to governmental func tions, is primarily founded upon the fundamental declaration. "Freedom for ail. special prtvileKes to none." Freedom for all specifically implies freedom to do right, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. on lines of honest endeavor, strictly barring wrong by act or speech. Spe cial privilege specifically forbids the granting to any person, class, organ! zation or community any riglit or privilege not granted to every other person, class, organization or com munlty, individually and collectively their heirs and assiitns forever. Industrial activities have a broader meaning than simply the pleasure and profit of the promoters and employes Community interests are all-pervad ing. Stagnation or -Impairment of industrial activities affect the gen eral public and in this day and age no Industrial class or organization has the right to run counter to pub lie welfare. Individual yberty im plies the right to change vocation at will, if made for personal benoflt or of necessity, provided it does not Involve personal hatred and intent to impair or destroy useful industry le gitlmately conducted. It Implies pro tection in all lines of honest endeavor In act and speech, but forbids assault on individual rights and public utlll ties. Each individual is an Integral part of the commonwealth and has not the right of his own free will 'or choice to become a burden or a nuisance Industry is the Inexorable law of cre ation. By divine injunction, "In sweat"! of thy face Shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground." Even the honey bee makes an annual clear ance and the wont-work drones are stung t death. If any have grievances, real or as sumed, the remedy Is not in boycotting and picketing. These engender only hatred arid strife. But if of Vf flcient gravity, real or presumed, lo require action, the matter should be submit ted to an impartial court of-equity and when all the facts and conditions are fully set forth and verdict . en forced, the whole matter should be come a closed incident. Only savaees and barbarians hold to the right to deal damnation around the land in defense of real . or assumed criev ances. W. 11. ODKLU More Truth Than Poetry. By -Jamra 'J. Montana. meeting fo:. opi-: nun sio Mr KHMV XIMi. When In elderly atork-hmk Inr gent Declares ha would trade all he'a got For the beautiful pea-e and content That one finds In a lowly thatched cot; When he yearns for (he freedom from trouble and rare That a dear little home will tup. ply ona, I can't understand why ha don't go somewhere. ' And buy on. When a man with a barrel of wealth Observes, with a r' lef-nrlrkm sob. That he pines for tha full flush of health That one get with a laborer's Job; When he dwells on the Jnyg and pleasures that luik In the worklngman'a neatly swept hovel, I am always surprised that h don't go to work With a shovel. When' the city man speaks of ths charm That he knew In the fi-iyt that are fled. When he lived on the little old farm. And the skies were so blut over head; When he talKs of the brook, with Its agile young trout And tho lovely spring flowers that blow there, I can't comprehend why ha doesn't sell out And go there. Ths poor, though they fain would be ru-h. Can always put up the (sens For getting luxuries which To come by are hard as tha a euro. But the rich when they want to b dreadfully poor Don't need to be futllrly sighing, And whenever they do ao, w !tml , rather sure , They are lying. F.asy. It doesn't take any Hnurflnl to get out of Mr. Wlif;n's cabinet. Fiperlenre. Who Is so well qualified as a demo cratic candidate as Mr. Bryan, who has been one, man and boy, for nearly 30 years? ' .' Xot aarnrlalan-. The paekers have stopped sendlnr met to Kurope. They can get money for It over here. (Oopyrlsht. lWO. br The Hell Svnn leata ) Self-Interest. Ily Grara I", Hall. Jary war. which the government didn't like during the war Because ii was feared It might be offensive to the British associates of the United States. Health Officer C. L. Poley, M. D., of Moro, is at the Imperial. Moro is the county seat of Sherman county. The people of the county are desir ous of having the highway commis sion locate and build The DalliB-Cali. fornla highway from Shanlko to Moro as soon as possible. The locaMon has not been determined, however, so a delegation from the county bureau in tends Invading Portland the latter part of March, when tne commission Is In session, to urge action. One aiure-pstion Is that the road be con tinned on throueh Spanish Hollow to the folnmbla hitrhway instead of rrnsslnsr the Deschutes over into Wasco ounty. E. B. Tuttle of Imbler, accompanied by Mrs. Tuttle. Is at the Benson on a KhoDninBr expedition. Imbler Is In the Grand Ronde valley in Union county and hundreds of cars of grain and apples are shipped out of there every year. It Is not uncommon for a season to produce 500 cars of grain, which is more than 20 trains of cereal alone, while the apple crop Is also good for half a doxen trains. Hogs, hay and lumber also are shipped in large quantities. When the Union county road programme is put through Im bler will be connected b- a hard-surfaced highway with all the other com munities of the county. Having experienced the California climate and seen all the scenery In that state worth mentioning, a party of easterners at the Hotel Oregon agree that Portland's climate is much superior and that the scenery they have viewed In Oregon Is consider- ablv better than anything found in California. The tourists are Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Collinsrs and Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Ott of Rockvllle, Ind.. and Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Beckmqnt . of Ogden. A. A. Frisbie, a traveling man from San Francisco, and Ed Miller, porter at the Hotel Oregon, met yesterday for the first time since the San Fran cisco quake. They were then working together in San Francisco. They as sembled at their place of employment In the forenoon, an hour after Mr. Miller's home burned to the ground, and from that day until yesterday Mr. Frisbie and Mr. Miller nevef'laid eyes on each other. Most people imagine that Mosier Is only an apple country because of the extensive orchards In that section, but Mosier Is also a shipping point for stock. George- A. Helms, a stockman of that place, is registered at tha Imperial. I.ininf'n Vlrna Knnni nnd He Yaa Asked lo Address Snlaa. POHTLANK. March S (To (he Editor.) Tle mass meeting at the Swiss hall lust Sunday was called for the purpose of arouai-nt ing our Swiss people with the new foreiKn-lancuag law. Mr. H. J. Langoe, pulilislior of the Pacific Siandii.avln.i, thv Norwegian-Danish weekly In this city, was purposely Invited to speak on this law because we knew lie held 'differ ent views on It. We felt that this far-reaching radical and partly un just foreign-language law, hastily drawn at the last special session of the legislature, should he presented to our people from different ankles. Mr. Langoe did not throw a bomh Into the audience, as The Oregonian writer seemed to have gotten the Impres sion. But his talks on "Americanism and "The World Within a World" were, certainly very Instructive and well rerelved. The meeting was conducted In the American language; not one Swiss or German word was spoken. It cer tainty speaks well for the Americani zation of our Swiss people when suro , a meeting can be fully understood In the American language. The doors were wide open and nobody was re fused admission. No resolution was prepared, In'.oduced or offered. .Tha. meeting was orderly, American, In structive and timely , It Is a fact that criticism was of fered by- opponent! Pnt tho measure and of those members or the lesrlsla ture who seek the enactment of ex treme rfstrlctlve laws. We feel tkat either the leKlsture of the state of uregon snouia ie anousnea or r pian adopted -for a to-se:slon legislature as proposed by Waller Pierce of La Grande one session lo draw up legis lative measures and one to enact the laws. This will he a Vast Improve ment and soon the people of tha United States will have no more or caslon to point the finger st us for the enactment of "freak laws." This meeting at the Swiss hall gave food for thought. Our people were urged to tako their duties as Ameri can citizens more seriously than" In the past. They were iira-ed to study the measures to be voted upon more carefully and to he fully Informed about their value for the welfare of the commonwealth. Let us hope there will be more such meetings of Information and discussion and that other organizations do likewise,- This will lead to better Anierh-nnizat Ion. A. KKU.KR. President United Societies' of Oregon. IVOXE BUT FOOL DKRIDH ' LAW" Those Who Kail Force That the People Are the Government. VANCOUVER. Wash., March 2. (To the Editor ! I liked Tha Ore gonian edftorlal on taxation. Give us more of Its kind. We tall onr na tional upkeep "revenue" and we refer to the middleman's upkeep as "prnflrr" Each Is a tax and In the final analy sis "tho consume- pays it. The middleman, whether he stands between labor and production or he twlxt product and consumer, is' ever In position to collect his tax (profit . It Is follv to attempt to tax him: he i passes all taxes along to the consum- jne er and adds to them a nice fat com- j "' h When the world goes wrong there Is Mama soma place And we cavil al systems and klncs. Each error we flout, yet we f.ill to trace To the source of the trouble, thesa thipRs: For under each art that forever In trudes On the rlshts and. tha welfare of men, An Impulse Is urging that pflen pre cludes j The spirit of fairness from them. Self .Interest -that rovcts the best It ' can pain, T!ejEardIe,s of others who strive. Is tha force that la urging the clever est bruin 'Tti the motive that seems best to thrive; There Is net ennuuh thouKht for the - brother who fails, Tho' compassion in pMms niay , ,uitke, r tut we irlve scanty heed lo his heart broken wails, Vol" e p-UII have our o n gunl to make. S.i, w ith man hs a unit anil king as a . class. There would seem to- be one sorry fx ult: , And 'selfishness surely mut finally pass. , Ere tlija era of (:reed feels a halt; If there's one sis sir Motive that's mostly to blame For the world-woes so bitter to bear, It Is greedy self-interest: Its blister ' lug flame Is bearing men's souls everywhere. In Othe.- Days. TfU-Hn enra Aaa. Frm Tlie Orennlsn of Varrh 4. 11S,. The 'odd Vfllows of Porflnnd ara gelling ready to organize on employ ment bureau for the benefit of un employed members of their order. Art-anpemejita have been completed f.ir the sluing meeting of tha Parlfln Northwast Association of the Amateur Athletic Cntnn. which will take place in Portland next, Saturday. Ptrmor has It that Andrew Gilbert, ex-potmster at Salem, will be ap pointed superintendent of tha atuta penitentiary. A preliminary examination of ap plicant for promotion to the rank of rerond lieutenant In the reBular srmv will take place al Vancouver barracks . March 15. , Fifty Years Ago From-Ths Orelonlsn if Msrrh 4. 1T MeMlnnvllle. The a vers, are prlre of land sold near here diirlna- the paat yrnr was 'I2 50 per acre and smooth prairie land In the vicinity of town will easily bring I'D. There Is soma talk among mer chants of organizing a hoard of Irade or chamber of commerce, such as ex ist In large commercial cities in tho east. ' Oovernor Wood Is announced to he the next lecturer before the T. M. C. A. A temperance meeting wsa heM at tha courthouse Saturday, and an or ganisation was formed with W . . Page s president; William Masters, treasurer, and Jacob Stilxet, secretary. 1 .aj Where to Find 14 I'olnla. El'OEXE, Or.. March I. (To tha Editor.) 1. If spare will permit, please publish President Wilson's 14 points In The Oregonian. Also approximate nnnnoaries or the three Oregon conaresslnnad dis mission for collecting. X In view of this som i deride our government and rail at. our laws. Such are, but fools. We are our gov ernment and we make our laws. God could do no more for us than did the founders of our government and au thors of onr Constitution. Ignorance and Indolence are our present-day curse. Intellle-ence would lead to '-creased production and in creased products Is all that may or can remove existing burdens UTILITY. President oa Forelaa Soil. BANKS. Or.. March 1. (To tha Edi tor.) Did any president of the United States other than AVHson put foot on foreign soil during his term of office? SUFSCRlBKIt. f In November, 190ii. President Ttoose- F. C. Oxman of Baker, who was I velt. while on an Inspection of tha awarded a contract last month for Panama canal, visited the cities of work on the Baker-Cornucopia high-I Panama and Colon, neither of which way, is at the Imperial. is under the American flag. " are a law In Oregon pro hibiting people from taklnt" children (3 to 8 years old) Into a public build ing without reserving seats for them so they must be held on tha lspT A SUBSCRIBER. . 1. Consult the ISIS World Almanac. Tou will douhtles: find It In some1 other work containing the 14 point! In your public librae- 2. The first district comprises west, ern Oregon, exclusive of Multnomah county; the second district comprises eastern Oregon; the third, Multnomah county. S. No. Pronaaelalloa of ame. MILTON'. Or., Match 1. To the Editor, Please Inform me how Mr. Clllext. sraker of the house, pro nounces bla name? 1', K A D l U. Soft sound of ond tyllahla. accent on sac-