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' Russia and Italy. They withheld aid
from Serbia, both In order to gratify
Italy's jealousy and to coerce Serbia
into concessions to Bulgaria with the
result that Bulgaria turned against
them and that their help to Serbia
came too late. By coldly calculating
to win a big ally by neglect c-t a little
one. they much prolonged the war
and ran grave risk of final defeat.
If Serbia, now expanded into Jugo
slavia, should get Its deserts, Italy
would profit in the end by removal
or a probable cause of war. - -
with authority, is destined to be the
scene of intense commercial rivalry
and of the next naval war.
In calculating where lies economy
as to expenditures on army and navy.
congress should set against the total
out sacrificing such organization as
it will . be conceded is necessary in
the conduct of large affairs. Many
teachers ought to be in other call
ings, not necessarily because they
are unfitted to teach, but because
WHO IS SAFE?
The sober and painful truth about
the Montesano trial 13 that it is a
grotesque miscarriage of justice.
The seven convicted men were either
guilty of wicked and wanton mur
der of other men who had offended
them not in the least, or committed
any provocative act at the time of
the tragedy or at any other time,
or they slew in self-defense, and
are guiltless and should have been
set free. There is no denial of the
act itself; only a vital dispute as to
the motive.
It was either outright assassina
tlon or it was a justifiable act of
self-protection. The jury seeks an
impossible middle-ground and in ef
feet denies that it was either mur
der or self-defense.
Sow already the over-eager prop
agandists of leniency for murderers
are saying that the jury did not con
vict of murder in the first degree
because it could not endure the
thought of hanging fellow-beings.
The explanation is not only disin
penuous; it is false. The law in
"Washington authorizes a Jury to fix
the penalty for first-degree murder
cither at execution or at life impris
onment. But the Montesano jury
by its verdict stipulated that the
convicted I. W. W. should neither
bo hanged nor soiit to-prison for the
remainder of their years. True, a
judge may sentence for life, but any
one sent up for second-degree mur
der is eligible for parole after the
period of the minimum sentence
ten years has expired.
The travesty of the Montesano
mistrial consists in the fact that it
is a judicial compromise with crime
In its blackest form. If not that,
it is conviction of innocent men.
Who pretends that the seven were
innocent men?
It is not at all a question as to
whether or not murderers shall be
hanged, or imprisoned for life. It
is a question of right or wrong, jus
tice or the failure of justice, law or
the breakdown of law.
Who is safe if the supremacy of
law is not to be maintained, if the
machinery of justice breaks down
or even slows down?
. SHINGLES. WORK AND MONET.
"Sawed shingles," chronicles the
authentic Twenty - Five - Tears - Ago
department of The Oregonian, "the
test in the market, are now to be
purchased for $1.10 a thousand. A
few years ago they sold for $2.75."
Shingles are symbolic of the times.
In those halcyon days everybody had
shingles, but nobody, alas! had any
money. That is the reason they
were cheap. Nowadays everybody
has money, but not everybody has
shingles. That is the reason the
price has gone ballooning until it is
$6.50 per thousand. Kven laths,
made out of lumber waste are
around $15 per thousand. Lumber
has increased four-fold in value, and
all building materials have gone up
in similar scale.
Nobody would go back to the times
when nobody could sell anything
because nobody else had the where
with to buy. But everybody knows
that the sky is not the limit and
that sooner or later there must be
a better balance between production
and consumption between the abil
ity and willingness to produce and
the wherewith to buy.
The sovereign remedy of economic
disorder Is work. Too many men
and women have been trying to find
a substitute, but there is none. When
the world settles down to work, full
time, other problems which plague
mankind now will tend to solve
themselves."
for a term of years the sum which j they have potential capacity for lead
would be spent in a war brought ership. Private industry is more
on by unpreparedness. If half the : likely to take the trouble to place
cost of the war had been expended tits employes in positions where they
In the twenty . preceding years on can do their best work and to pay
training the young men, providing
equipment for them and building a
navy superior to that of Germany,
it is highly probable that there would
have been no war and that the other
half of our war bill would not have
been incurred. 1
THE ADRIATIC AND THE LEAGCE.
By refusing his consent to with
drawal of the Adriatic agreement of
December 9 except to be replaced by
an agreement directly negotiated by
Italy and Jugo-Slavla. President Wil
son sets up that document in oppo
sition to the treaty of London.
F 'ranee, Britain and Italy offered the
treaty to Jugo-Slavia as the sole al
ternative to the plan upon which
they agreed on January 14 without
the co-operation of the United States,
but they are now called upon to
stand by their agreement of Decem
ber 9, which is now acceptable to
neither Italy nor Jugo-Slavia. With
the possibility that he may withdraw
the Versailles treaty from the sen
ate if his terms are not acceded to,
Mr. Wilson holds a strong hand as
against the allies.
But his position toward the senate
and the American people becomes
weaker. The Adriatic controversy
puts a new argument in the hands of
those senators who object to binding
this country to armed intervention
under article 10 without express
authority of congress, for it is a de
batable question whether this country
would wish to take either side in the
quarrel, if it should lead to war. Yet
there is clearly atwo-thirds majority
in the senate in favor of American
membership in the league, though
'those who compose the two-thirds
disagree as to reservations. They
arc supported by much more than
two-thirds of the people. A prac
tical declaration by the president
that the United States would have
nothing to do with the league unless
he could have his way about the
Adriatic disriute would show a dis-'
LET THE STATES BCILD THE ROADS,
The Townsend road bill is a typical
move for centralization on the part
of men from states which have the
most votes and which would there
fore get the largest share of the
benefits. The majority of a national
commisison of five would surely be
chosen from the thickly populated
states east of the Rocky mountains.
which have the most votes in con
gress, and the west would be lucky
to get one member. Road-building
would be distributed in the same
manner.
The strongest equitable claim to
government aid In road-building is
that of the west. In the west the
government holds 'ast areas of land
exempt from taxation and, while
congress was making up its mind
what to do with the most valuable
of these lands, it has kept the west
in a state of arrested development.
In order to connect cities and set
tlements the states have had to build
roads across these broad tracts,
which contribute nothing to the cost.
Not till Jhe Shackleford bill was
passed did the government begin to
pay its fair share. Unless the Town-
send bill contained mandatory pro
vision for recognition of these equi
ties, the west would still have to bear
the whole or a disproportionate share
of the cost.
Highways are not a fit subject for
direct, federal control. In their de
velopment the state is the proper
unit, for their main use is for com
munication within areas no larger
than a western state, between the
chief centers and from all directions
to the state capital. The chief, in
terest of the nation is in having main
highways connect at state lines, and
this can be insured by the self-inter
est of the statesconcerned. The only
section where a well planned system
of local roads needs to cross state
lines is in the vest-pocket states of
New Kngland, but they can be trusted
to link up their roads.
Broad national policy dictates that
the government stimulate develop
ment of the west, both by encourag
ing use of the public domain -and by
extension of the highways system.
One of the chief causes of delay in
meeting the war emergency was con
centration of industry and congestion
of traffice in the country east of the
Mississippi river. A network of
highways through the west would go
far to remedy this condition. It can
best be built by the states with fed
eral aid. Power to withhold govern
ment funds is an ample preventive
of unwise schemes.
HELP FOR BRAVE POLAND.
The call for a fund to relieve Po
land should meet with a liberal re
sponse, first as a summons of hu
manity and second as aid to a nation
which Is making a valiant fight for
democracy under circumstances
which would appal a less dauntless.
When the Poles regained posses
sion of their country from the beaten
Germans and Austrians, two-thirds
of its rich agricultural land had been
laid waste, .its factories had been
gutted of machinery and material,
little rolling stock. For a year its
railroads were in bad repair with
little rolling stock. For ayear its
people have lived on very limited ra
tions, largely derived from the relief.
rund entrusted by congress to Her
bert Hoover, who has supplied milk
to keep a million babies alive. They
are so short of clothes that only one
fifth of the soldiers on the Russian
front have enough to withstand the
rigors of winter. An epidemic of
typhus has been brought in by Rus
sian refugees and has swept off
whole villages, the country having
few doctors and nurses and being al
most devoid of hospitals and medi
cines. .
With all these troubles to contend
against, Poland maintains an army
of 500.000 men on the Russian front,
has driven back the bolshevists 250
miles and still holds them at bay,
though the whole red army Is now
gathering against it It stands as a
barrier to prevent red Russia from
joining hands with militarist Ger
many in spreading its horrors over
western Europe and extinguishing a
thousand years of civilization.
Against almost insuperable obstacles
it is establishing a genuinely demo
cratic state in a land rescued from
the grip of three autocracies. Sucih
a nation should arouse the sympathy
and admiration of all Americans.
them accordingly. It seems to be
agreed by both these education ex
perts that rfo profession can compete
with business in the mere matter
of remuneration, where that is the
end sought.
There is for women, who largely
constitute the teaching force, a
wider choice than there used to be
both with reference to salary and
congeniality of employment. The
outlook would seem to be therefore
that the old type who taught because
there was nothing else to do will be
eliminated gradually, but it is not
so easy to solve the problem of re
placing them. All agree that sal
aries must obey the tre-nd of the
cost of living, but other adjustments
suggested are much harder to reduce
(to a formula. The appeal to women
to fit themselves as teachers on the
ground that child psychology and
teaching ought to be the part of
every woman's education in domes
ticity, made by some educators,
seems somehow futile. Such a re
organization of the school system
as would offer larger opportunities
for advancement, even if entrance
salaries were not much increased,
has possibilities of sorts, but would
need careful consideration by ex
perienced and far-sighted adminis
trators. It is clear only that the
salary issue is not the whole of the
teacher famine problem. .It is prob
ably true, as Dr. Davis suggests, that
the latter will never be solved until
it is studied from the point of view
of science and statesmanship, and
not as an exercise in local politics.
FALSE ECONOMY ON THE NAVTf.
As usual after war, difficulty is
experienced in enlisting men in the
navy and in securing repairs for con
struction and repair of warships.
Advances in naval pay have not kept
pace with those in the merchant
service, and- life on merchant ships
is more varied and under less dis
cipline than that in the navy. Con
sequently young men turn from the
navy to ships of trade. Secretary
Daniels has asked for higher pay,
but runs counter to the striving for
economy in congress,
The same difficulty is encountered
in obtaining money for repairs. As
CLERGYMEN SCIENTISTS.
The discovery by a New England
clergyman of two comets is a re
minder that it was also a clergyman.
Jeremiah Horrocks, who first ob
served the transit of Venus, and the
circumstances under which the ob
servation was made also suggest that
times have changed greatly since
the seventeenth century, in which
Horrocks lived. He almost aban
doned his attempt to verify what he
believed to be a scientific truth be
cause he found that it would require
him to use his telescope on a Sunday,
but 'at length compromised with his
conscience by working at his astron
omical task between church serv
ices, and science was enriched ac
cordingly. He was only 23 when he
died. j
Other ministers have from time
to time refuted the often - made
assertion that scientific research is
not compatible with a spiritual call
ing. Father George Mendel, the
Austrian monk, who- developed the
Mendelian theory of heredity in
plants and animals, was another con
spicuous example. A good many
others have inspired scientific work
ers, as Henslow did Darwin. Scien
tific research in modern days is both
a vocation and an avocation in which
all may engage.
regard of public opinion which 1 the navy grows, expenditures on this
would be without precedent even in , account necessarily increase unless
his administration.
The president is on firmer ground
in refusing to be bound by the treaty
of London, to which this country was
the money spent on building new
ships is to be wasted, yet congress
cut the regular appropriation from
$75,000,000 to $30,000,000 and with
not a party and of which he was not, reluctance voted an additional $3,
Xormally informed until the peace 000,000 to "keep work going for the
conference met. If the allies wanted
the United States to recognize that
treaty, they should have asked for
American endorsement of it at the
time when the United States declared
war on Germany, for from that date
our efforts contributed to defeat of
Austria, though we did not declare
war on that country till later. But it
was incumbent on Mr. Wilson before
ha led this country into partnership
with the allies to Inquire what con
tracts they had made among them
selves and to give adhesion to or de
clare his dissent from them. He
might easily have inferred from the
circumstances under which Italy
joined the allies that its part in the
ultimate settlement was arranged at
that time.
Unwilling as Americans would be
to takea hand in a war for Adriatic
territory in which they have no in
terest, those who have looked into
the merits of the case will be more
inclined to sympathize with Jugo-;
Slavia than with Italy.' In making
the treaty of London, the allies sacri
ficed Serbia to win Italy. They
might have saved Serbia from in
vasion by sending an army to help -it
In holding the line of the Danube
and Save rivers, but they sent it to
Gallipoli, in order to please both
rest of this fiscal year. Half the
ships on the Atlantic coast were
tied up and were depreciating at the
rate of 5 per cent a month, and the
organization of skilled workmen at
the navy-yards was breaking up.
With half of the enlarged navy on
the Pacific coast, additional bases
and repair facilities are needed, for
the power 'of a fleet is limited by
the capacity of facilities to supply
and repair it The additions to the
Mare Island, Bremerton and Pearl
Harbor yards and the proposed new
bases at Astoria. Port Angeles and
San Diego -for which Mr. Daniels
asks, will not exceed the navy's
needs, but his recent experience in
dicates that he will have difficulty
in getting the money.
In its effort at ecdnomy, congress
should study what is economy. To
leave ships, on which ens of millions
have been spent, rusting in yards for
lack of repairs or crews is not econ
omy: it is waste. To maintain a fleet
on the Pacific ocean which has not
sufficient bases and repair plants in
easy reach is not economy; it is
waste of a large proportion of' the
original expenditure. It is worse
than that; it is risking our safety
on the ocean which, by common con
sent of men of all nations who speak !
A TRAP SET FOR FARMERS' VOTES.
Members of the house from the
granger states, with an eye to the
farmer vote, are trying to get loans
for farmers from the federal farm
loan board without expense to the
farmer, and for that reason have
voted down the conference report
on an amendment of the rural credit
law. The conferees accepted an
amendment by the senate requiring
farm loan associations, when re
quired by the farm loan board, to
charge up to 1 per cent to appli
cants for loans, in order to provide
funds for the association's expenses.
This provision was attacked by the
granger members as a scheme to
cinch the borrower in order to pay
high salaries to the secretary-treasurer
and to make the way of private
loan agents easier.
If these members win, the rural
credit system is not likely to ex
pand, and its pretended champions
will be responsible. A farmer ap
plies for membership in a farm
loan association for the purpose of
getting a loan, which the associa
tion must guarantee. Before ac
cepting him as a member, it must
therefore examine his farm to de
termine whether the security is good.
That involves some expense, which
somebody must pay. As the new
member wants the loan, he should
pay. If the association had to pay,
it would want no new members and
would become a close corporation.
If the full 1 per cent were charged
which is not contemplated, it would
not be a burden for a loan to run for
thirty-six years. Private loan agents
charge at least as -much commission
plus expenses for a five-year loan
and charge it again every time th
loah is renewed. Having no induce
ment to accept new members and a
strong inducement not to accept
them, farm loan associations may
block granting of new loans.
Once more the vociferous friends
of the farmer seem to have done him
an injury and to have improved th
field for the private loan agent. That
is usually the way with politicians
who set a trap for votes by a speclou:
pretense of defending the cause of
some class or of swatting its en
emies. We have seen the game
played time and again with regard
to railroads, other public utilities,
taxes and other things. They lead
their' dupes to forget the rule that
no man can get something for noth
ing and that if he does not pay the
full value, he will get just as much
as he pays for, and no more.
BY-PRODI CTS OK THE TIMES
World Famous Beverage Starred1 la
Movie, "The Gift of Heaven.
"Strong as death, hot as h 1 and
sweet as the love of a woman" that
was the great Duke of Talleyrand's
idea of the right kind of coffee as he
expressed it after one of the Napol
eonic battles. Charles Dickens' ids of
American coffee, expressed after his
memorable visit was "A mess of
slops." But since the days of Dick
ens and Napoleon the world, includ
ing statesmen, war heroes and au
thors, has learned more about coffee,
good coffee, and how to make and
drink it.
"Coffee week" in the United States,
by mandate of the National Coffee
Roasters' association, the- joint cof
fee trade publicity committees, gro
cery associations and the general
public, has been fixed for the week
of March 29-April 4, when there will
be great doings. One of the prin
cipal features of the celebration will
be the exhibition tn the motion pic
ture theaters of the country of a. mo
tion picture entitled. "The Gift o
Heaven."
Months were spent by a corps o
directors and camera men In eecur
ing the proper scenes in South Amer
ica, and weeks were consumed In the
studio at Fort Lee. N. J.; the Balti
more hotel, old coffee houses through
out the country and other locations
in securing omer scenes lor ttie pit;
tures. Interwoven throughout the
picture is a romance in which Ruth
Dwyer plays the feminine lead. The
Hotel Baltimore's coffee room and
some of the oldest and quaintest cof
fee houses that could be found in
various parts of the country, as well
as other locations, figure in the pic
ture.
Those Who Come and Go.
To find four men for work on his
ranch, K. Gordon Shown of Twicken
ham has come to Portland and Is at
the Imperial. Mr. Shown is a large
land owner and has men on his plant,
but he needs four more, one of whom
must be a gardner, for Mr. Shown
wants six acres put into garden truck
for his family and staff This gives
some idea of the extent of his opera
tions. He is not the biggest sheep I rJ u ,ower jn the army than , clviI
ana lana owner in .
but there are not many who exceed
JIOItK COVl.(Ii THAS KSSAVSl
Kiperlence ia Training Camps More j
Reliable Tkaa Baeon and Kmeraoa.
. PORTLAND, March 13. (To the
B:ditor.) I have t confess that the
most of "Father's" letter in regard
to universal training ia over my head.
I do not understand it alk but I have
endeavored to get at the meat of it.
and I believe he puts forth the fol
lowing premises: -(1) That the army
medical reports of all the armies In
the world show that the moral stand-
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moatacae.
An interesting problem would be
to determine at what age a woman
ceases to be sane. In the Boise valley
last week a wife with grpwn children
desired to attend a pie social. The
husband, plowing all day, was too
tired to go; so the woman took
strychnine with fatal effect. There
fore arises the problem.
Byran will have a birthday Friday
and he's "going like sixty" for the
next few weeks. Portland is not on
his itinerary, but It looks like Hon
Milton A. Miller might entice him
this way.
The Bavarian monarchy, reported
re-established, was the best and most
decent of the bunch before the un
pleasantness. It was thoroughly
German, but not Prussian.
MORE FUNDAMENTAL THAN WAGES.
Dr. George S. Davis, president of
Hunter's college, most of the gradu
ates from which become teachers
in the schools of New York city,
has reached the conclusion that the
teacher shortage that exists through
out the country is due only in part
to inadequate salaries, although un
derpayment is a factor that must be
considered. The real reason for
present conditions, he holds, is much
more fundamental. It consists of a
number of elements, one being that
women are no longer compelled to
adopt teaching as a profession be
cause it is the .only thing they are
permitted to do. Even if salaries
were increased the drift into other
employments would continue, he
believes, so long as teaching re
mained otherwise as it now is. He
seems to believe that the public must
be aroused to realization that some
of its notions, such as that teaching
in itself is fascinating, are erroneous.
For example:
The claim that teaching ts more re
fined, has shorter hours, involves less
strain than office work is pretty well' ex
ploded. The mental strain of teaching
consists in adapting one's self to the
minds of the younR. preparing lessons.,
presenting a fresh subject every day. doing'
work that Is never finished. "With the
present conditions of some of our city
schools, teaching can hardly be called
refined or pleasant.
Another reason for the shortage
of teachers is that there is a short
age of every other kind of labor.
Education heretofore has always de
pended on women to qualify as
teachers, no matter what other pro
fessions called away the men. But
now women have been economically
as well as politically emancipated,
and see visions of service in which
individuality can count. It is per
haps significant that of the large
numbers who have resigned in the
past year from positions in the New
York schools, the greater proportion
had had experience of from four to
fifteen years. They were neither
the novices nor those who might
be supposed to have given up in
despair, but were in the period of
their greatest usefulness and prob
ably of greatest hopefulness. It would
be illuminating to ascertain how
many of them were attracted by the
prospect of greater recognition of
ability, or of better chances for ad
vancement, regardless of initial
salary.
Howard W. Nudd, director of the
Public Education association of
New York, also thinks that if wages
were immediately advanced all
around there would not be a much
greater supply of new teachers than
there now appears to be. He is in
clined to blame, - among other
things, the fact that members of
the profession "are tied down to a
system as rigid as a steel frame for
the methods of their teaching." It
will be an interesting problem so
to arrange matters that teachers
may have room to express Individ- Germany's-new chancellor may be
uality and to employ initiative, with-! said to Kapp the climax
The thief who stole 100 baby
chicks from an east side 'chicken
house steered away from the old
danger of counting his chickens be
fore they were hatched.
Twenty-seven Princeton seniors
have confessed that they never
kissed a girl. Evidently they stand
in need of something more than a
college education.
And now Mr. Hearst may run for
president. We hope he is in good
training, for he will have to run a
long distance.
The ex-katser, when he heard the
news, grabbed his hat (metaphor
ically speaking) 'and ran to and fro
in nervous tension. Sic 'em, Kaise!
Hoover still is talking food, but
better would talk politics if he
would know "where he is at
"This has been notoriously the town
for quick returns lately," writes Her
bert Corey from New York. "Ever
since the stock market began to boil
the streets have been so full of new
made millionaires that the traffic
cops had to make rules .bout their
crossing tne streets, brokers usea
to compare notes on the millionaire
population In their front offices. At
night the hotel corridors were filled
with men swapping tips. The odd part
was that almost any tip at all made
good.
"But the players remained players.
None, so far as I have heard, de
veloped into real operators. Conse
quently they overstayed their mar
ket, and consequently the millionaire
colony has been squeezed 4ike a
lemon. There are men downtown who
still wear the fur coats they bought
in their days of opulence, but who
nowadays panhandle their friends for
dinner money. One man moved hiB
family of 12 from upper east side
flat to a house he had purchased,
completely furnished, on the upper
west side. Now he has sold nis
house and moved back again to the
flat.
'He made the complete circuit in
just 0 days."
Lord Fisher writes even more letters
than Admiral SimB. An issue of the
London Times is incomplete without
a few snappy words from him. His
latest comments deal with bolshe
vism. Do they truly explain the
phenomenon?
"Newton saw an apple fall and de
duced gravitation. You and I might
have seen millions of apples fall and
only deduced pig-feeding. It's the
same story about bolshevism. We
want some Newtonian Cromwell to
enunciate that bolshevism ts the re
action from repressed Freedom. Ar
menian end Georgian republics are
going to be suppressed, and thus bol
shevism propagated by perpetuating
Turkish misrule in Asia. Englan
herself is not free, so bolshevism
rears its head. A threat to dissolv
parliament makes its recalcitran
members feed out of the prime min
isters' hand. Did not some hundreds
of them send a telegram "to Faris
They can't save Armenia and Georgi
If they want to. They don't repre
sent the masses of this nation. It'
the baldest, richest, effetest lious
of commons we ever had. Look at th
untrammeled, unparalleled, wanton
waste everywhere In every depart
ment. And business men fettered by
unbusiness fools. Innumerable tons
of shipping now in our harbors wait
ing to be unloaded. Who loaded
them?"
him. He arrived in Wheeler county
With his pack on his back and made
good by hard work, the same as scores
of others have in that country. Mr.
Shown is another of the fellows who
came from Mountain City. Tenn.,
Wheeler and adjacent counties being
well sprinkled with them. Mr. Shown
has 4000 sheep, the government regu
lations on range limiting his activi
ties as well as others. Four hundred
acres he irrigates with a 12-inch
pump from the John Day river, rais
ing alfalfa, mostly, for his sheep. The
sheepman says he intends remaining
In Portland .until he gets the four
men he'needs so badly.
He has been a member of the leg
islature, the mayor of Newport and
now he is a councilman there. Such
is the record of Sam '5. Irvln. who is
taking a look-see in Portland at
present. Mr. Irvln says the Port of
NewDort and the government may
come to terms by which the govern
ment will dispose of the spruce rail
road, north from there. The road
cost about $1,500,000 and. it is said,
the government might agree to take
$400,000 from the'port commission. It
was in the vicinity of Newport that
government geologists, last summer,
thought they we're about to find ideal
conditions for oil. They found the
oil-making shale in the cliffs but
the strata, or whatever they call it,
dipped out toward the sea, and, con
sequently. It was impossible to ascer
tain whether the oil making shale
had the necessary sandstone above
it with an impervious skin of other
formation above It. The geologists
admitted that there may be a splendid
oil field about ten miles off the coast
at that spot, but If so, It isn't likely
to do anyone much good.
City School Superintendent Hug of
Mc.Minnville who was at the Im
perial yesterday, broke the weight
throwing record once. Ills rival was
Dow V. Walker. Mr. Hug Is a small
lsh man who would not be suspected
as a weight tosscr, while Mr. Walker
s about as big as the side or a Darn
Mr. Walker had Just about cleaned up
the contest when he turned to mi
Hayward. his trainer, and said: "I've
got the little fellow beat." Mr. Hug
overheard the remark and it mado
him mad. so determined to beat Mr.
Walker at all costs, he threw tne
weight with such mighty force that
wnen it. lannea ne nau uioiw-u
record. Mr. Hug is a familiar figure
in the lobby at the legislature, for
he takes a keen Interest in educa
tional legislation and Just now he is
putting in a few kind words for the
millage amendment for the university,
state college and state normal school.
Free from the cares of office. Judge
William D. Barnes of Bend was
the Imperial yesterday. Judge Barnes
is an exception to the rule of public
officials, for he resigned office a fetv
days ago. While In office, the judge
nagged the state highway commission
to do something in Deschutes county
faster than the commission was
moving, but this did not satisfy some
of the. Deschutes people, even wnen
the Judge had got action on location
of The Dalles-California ntgnway
from Bnd to the Jefferson county
line; arranged for contract for grad
ing and graveling the same; got a
promise for a survey from Redmond
to Sisters and some more cinder sur
facing for The Dalles-California high
way south. 'Anyway, the Judge wont
have to appeal before the commls-
ion when it meets next week.
"Number eight" was the fastest
eastbound train on one of the great
trunk lines. Nothing is more annoy
ing to the authorities of the road
than to have this train delayed, even
for five minutes, by inferior trains.
But it happened that it was once de
tained for fifteen minutes at Friend
ship, New York, a little town on tin
Allegheny division, by a westbound
freight.
The dolay was, of course, reported
by the conductor of number eight to
the superintendent at Horncllsville,
and the superintendent telegraphed
the guilty freight eonductor, asking
for an explanation, as to why the
flier' had been detained. The freight
conductor, a man with a turn for
rhyme. Bent back the following re
ply:
The wind was high; the pteam was low;
The train was heavy and hard to tow;
The coat was poor, 'twas mostly slate-
Hence the detention of "Number Eight.'
But the conductor's "poem" did
not save him from doing penance, ten
days off duty, without pay.
The Montesano verdict reminds
of the time Haywood and others were
acquitted at Boise-
Hoover and Hearst or Hearst and
Hoover! Gadzooks! That would
catch 'em!
A Portland man the handsomest
senior at Princeton! Oh, baby!
When William Gibbs McAdoo ap
peared recently before John Barton
Payne, the new secretary of the in
terior, to argue a shipping case, he
referred several times to an opinion
by a learned jurist which, he inti
mated, was the view of Judge Payne
apd himself. Finally, Mr. Payne in
Mr. McAdoo, did you ever hearthe
tory of Henry Watterson, Henry
Grady and Chauncey Depew?"
"No," Mr. McAdoo replied, some
what nonplussed.
It was this way," Mr. Payne ex
plained. "Watterson was walking
down Pennsylvania avenue one day
with Mr. Depew and he chanced to
remark that he, Depew and Henry
Grady were the only living really
great American orators."
- "Why mention Grady, he's not
here!" Depew Interrupted.
A sad story reaches us from south
west London. It appears that a girl
of 20 attempted suicide because she
Wallowa county isn't getting a
square deal, contends S. L. Burnaush.
representative from waiiowa ana
Union counties in the legislature. He
points out th.it Wallowa county is
almost as rich as Washington county,
but while Washington county has
thfee representatives in the legisla
ture. Wallowa county has only hr.lf
a representative, since it has to Join
forces with Union county. At the
1921 session the representation of the
state will have to be reapportioned,
based on new census figures, and if
he is In the legislature, ns he hopes
to be, for he is a candidate for re
election, Mr. Burnaugh is going to
make a holler to see that Wallowa
Isn't overlooked. Mr. Burnaugh is a
democrat and a druggist and his
postoffice is at Enterprise, a town
which lives up to its name.
life; (2) that Emerson and Bacon
say that we must have good com
panions or our morals will suffer;
(3) that If we have a trained civilian
army the nations of Europe will seek
a war with us and we will be "en
gulfed In the vortex of European
militarism"; (4) that If we continue
In our chronic state of unprepared
ness the nations of Europe will take
pity on un and will not attack us. and
(5) that I think that anyone who se
lects his associates is a snob.
I do not know what the army
medical reports of all the armies In
the world will show, but T do know
that the medical reports of our army
show that the number of our soldiers
who entered our army during 1917
with venereal diseases was over Is
per cant and that the number who
had these diseases In France was only
slightly over 1 per cent: 1 also know
that a drunken soldier In our recent
army was almost an unknown quan
tity, and that gambling in our na
tional army camps was very rare.
I have taken this army training
twice, and have helped to train hun
dreds of young men under the same
system, and in the face of this prac
tical experience I decline to accept
as an authority Emerson, Bacon or
any other theorist of the' past cen
tury or centuries. I also think so
well of It that 1 am determined that
my two boys shall take It if they
have to serve an enlistment in the
army to get it. I intend to give them
such a good moral foundation before
hand, however, that I shall have no
fear that they will he contaminated
by the few evil associates they w ill
meet.
I am unable to see that our state of
preparedness will In any way affect
the actions of the nations of Htirope.
It is very evident that none of them
take the league of nations seriously,
and ail of them are even now pre
paring for the next war. It is my
opinion that the greatest controlling
factor of our entering the last war
was our state of unpreparedness and
Germany's consequent contempt for
our ability to affect the flnnl result,
and furthermore I firmly believe that
if we had had an army of a million
trained soldiers Germany would have
treated us with far more respect.
Whether we enter the league of na
tions or not we shall always be In
danger of war. and the, only fair and
democratic way to prepare for such
an emergency Is to see that all our
potential soldiers have somo degree
of training.
There is no doubt that every hu
man being in some manner chooses
his sssoclates, and it Is human na
ture to seek congenial companions
and avoid uncongenial ones. Yet the
fact remains that he who .adopts a
"holler-than-thqu" attitude in making
his choice Is usually a grand snob.
"Father" very glibly cites the ex
ample of "the purest life that ever
lived" in choosing his companions,
but seems to forget that he chose to
associate with "publicans and sin
ners" and lowly fishermen.
A. BARNES.
T II K.N AMI Mm.
If all the good old tales are truo. the
cave man. when he went to woo"
Would grab a rail, ami club his frail
I mil Khe learned to love him.
The maiden, o the stories say. when
t-ouried in this curious way
Wna quite content to wed the gent.
And thought the whole world of
him.
If we could woo In such s style, our
courtships would be well worth
while;
We needn't slave and scrimp and save
For candy, shows and flowers.
It wouldn't need a ring or pin. a
charming lady's heart to win.
We'd take a rock and tap her block.
And lo! She would be ours!
But if we tried to win a maid as did
the cave man. we're afraid
She'd turn on u and fume and fuss
And make thing-, unite unplciifant.
This theory of courtship may lie
suited to an elder day.
But Just the same, li s not a same.
That's safe to play at present.
And we suspect. If truth were told.
that ricti In the days of obi.
When cave men tried tn win a bride.
By bending saplings double
Across her preny little head, that he
Instead of (totting wed
More often got an awful lot
Of beating for his trouble.
ftlaadln Pal.
Meat Trices I rcltnlns I lea il line
Declining to decline, apparently.
After tar Itee.rd
Mr. Colby has been secretary of
stats for four weeks, which Is. In the
present rahlnet. practically perma
nent tenure.
Merely a t-'la l.ealure.
I'nless New J.-r-ey Intends to secede
from the t'nion. it would seem thai
that 3.60 per cent beer law was large
ly rhetorical.
(Copyright, 10?rt. T.y the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
Our Boys.
Ily (.race I- Hall
O, some inarched away with a Jaunt
t rend
When the drums of the war were
sounr' ig.
And some marched, too. with hiRh
I'lutiK head.
And hearts thnt were llcht ami
bounding:
But the drum. drum, drum heal l'
"I 'nine. Come. Come"
fn I lie souls of a million brave.
Who marched In step to the hep, hrp.
hep.
With a solemn nieln. and true
COURT RILIXG IS QIESTIOXED
J. H. Fenn comes from the town
which is the worry of the rum run
ners on the Pacific highway. Mr.
Fenn is at the Imperial from Canyon
vllle. At this town there Is a-bridge
where all the north and southbound
traffic must pass on California trips.
On this bridge there Is a regular
man-trap by which automobiles can
be stopped and sea raited, and there
have been more spectacular arrests
and attempted "escapes of bootleggers
at the Canyonville bridge in Douglas
county than at any other point In the
state. Officers there da not hesitate
to shoot and a few people have been
plugged, not to mention the perfora
tions of tirs.
Registered frorre. Powers at the Im
perial is Mrs. Myrtle Bcstrel and
child. Powers is unique In several re
spects and one of the reasons Is that
logging operations are conducted
there 3000 feet above sea level, al
though Powers ts in Coos county and
is not many miles from the Pacific
ocean. No other logging operations in
Oregon are conducted at such an alti
tude. It Is said, and certainly there
are no others along the coast. The
logs are railroaded down to the mills
at Coos bay.
W. C. Barber,. who Is an attorney at
Culver, Or., Is registered at the Per
kins. Yesterday his brother parked
his machine at the entrance, walked
in and inquired of Clerk Thompson If
Mr. Barber was in. Then he walked
out and found a card on his auto
mobile announcing that he had vio
lated the traffic ordinance and must
report at police headquarters this
morning. rne roruana xnr. uarDer.
according to Mr. Thompson, couldn't
have been absent from the machine
two minutes.
Tvgh valley was a hole In the
ground when A. A. Bonney first ar
rived there, but the valley loked good
and he decided to remain. That was
ears ago and he still ranches In the
valley. Mr. Bonney came to the Per
kins yesterday to see how Portland
has grown since his former visit.
In Tillamook county many of the
natives get confused when they dis
cuss Mr. Edmunds, for there are two
him. One is G. A Edmunds of
Tillamook city and the other is D. T.
Edmunds of Pacific City. The Ed
munds are registered at the Hotel
Oregon.
Major R. J. Vaughan of Heppner
nd H.A. Cohn of the same place ar
rived in town yesterday to look after
little matter of particular Import
ance to the town of Heppner. They
registered at the Imperial.
i E. Pederson manager of the Willapa
Governor and Secretary of State Of
fices Held la Mliup.
SALEM, Or., March 12. To the
Editor.) According to the opinion
handed down by the Oregon supreme
court, written by Justice Johns and
concurred In by Justice Bennett,
Bean and McBride, Mr. Olcott will be
governor In fact for two years longer
than the term for which he was elect
ed as secretary of state, notwith
standing the section quoted below.
which plHlnly says. "In case of the
removal of the governor from office,
his death, reals-nation, 'or Inability to
discharge the duties of the office, the
same shall devolve on the secretary
of state."
Why, then, will not the duties of
governor devolve upon -Mr. uicoua
successor as secretary of state? Then
there would be no more of a vacancy
than at the present time.
Why could not the supreme court
have selected any qualified elector
to perform the duties of governor?
Why name Mr. Olcott. as he ceases
to be secretary of state when Ins
successor Is elected and qnaliiied?
Why pass the election of governor
over the regular election of and
not fill the office by a vote of the
people?
If Mr. Olcott should resign the of
fice of secretary of state before his
term expires, could he continue to per
form the duties as governor, under
the section quoted, or would the
president of the senate become gov
ernor? ARTICLE V.
Section 8. In Case of Vacancy or
Disability
"In cafe of the removal of the gov
ernor from office, of his death, resig
nation, or Inability to discharge the
duties of the office, the same shall
devolve on the secretary of state; and
In case of the removal from office,
death, resignation, or Inability, both
of the governor and secretary of
I state, the president of the senate
shall act as governor, until the dis
ability be removed, or a governor
elected."
In reading the above section of
the constitution of the state of Ore
gon, you will note this wording is
used. "The duties of the office, the
same shall devolve on the secretary
of state."
The definition of "devolve" as given
by Webster:
1. To roll onward or downward, to
pass on.
2. To transfer from one person to
another. A passing or devolving
upon a successor.
3. To pass by transmission or suc
cession; to be handed over or down
ward. -
It Is to be understood by this, that
the duties of the office not the of
fice. Is handed down to the secretary
of state.
From the above you can see the
secretary of state is not tor go up.
but the duties of the governor to
be performed by an officer below.
Why Is It that the governor and
secretary of state are not elected at
the same time? It is owing to the
dea'th of Secretary Benson, whom Ol
cott succeeded. Previous to thst
time both officers, governor and c-
fetary, were elected at ths same time,
now the .election of governor and
secretary of state Is two years apart.
O,
anil thej
they marched away
fought as men
When death and defeat seemed near.
And the stories thrill with the
strength of them -Great
souls that were free from
fear;
O, the "Come, Come, Come" of the
the rattling drum
Has beat out the Klad refrain.
As they marched In step to the hrp.
hep. hep,
While the whole world smiled
again.
Yea, smiled again for the lads re
turned. But they march with their deed-,
untold.
Save as we note on the modest coat
An emblem of hronse or gold;
They pass today in the turgid sway
Of the world's unresting marts.
And the only boast from this loyal
host
la the emblems nbovc their hearts.
In Other Days.
Twealy-r'lte Ti ears s.
Fro-n Tbe Oeeironisn. Mnr h M. tti'5.
Washington. Secretary of Hate
fin-sham has demanded an apolocv
from the Spanih-h government because
a gunboat fired on Ihe I'nited Stale"
mall ship Alliance while it was pass
ing Cuba in the Windward l'a-ace
that is the regular route for steamers.
Washington. Secretary Smith h
overruled the commissioner of th'
general land office In granting lam!
selections made hy the state of Idaho
where tracts are less than liio acres
In area, but adjacent to other pultlic
land that is Included to comprise that
or greater area.
Arguments In the Short Line re
ceivership c.i e hi fore Jmlces Hcll-
Inccr and Gilbert were finished yes
terday and the decision will be mada
by the court In a few days.
An exciting game of basketball wa
played last nluht In the gymnasium
of the Young Men's Christian associa
tion. This Is a new- game that ha
Just been introduced here.
realized she was too old to write Harbor Fish company at South Bend,
either a popular novel or a dook or I wash- is registered at tne Muitnoman
poems. -London Puncbi. with Mrs. Pederson. -
If the same rule In election of gov
ernor is followed, a new governor
would be elected In 1920. otherwise,
following strictly, should not ths
duties of governor devolve upon the
secretary of state elected in 1920,
the same provisions obtained in th
election of both officers? Why pass
a general election when a vacancy
in the office of governor exists?
Would It not be wise to follow
the recommendations of the special
session of the legislature and amend
section 8, article S, of the constitu
tion? It might aleo be proper for all
legislative candidates at the coming
election to announce their position
upon this question.
COLONEL A, FARM Eft. .
Klft.T tears Ago.
Tem Tli Orrgonlsn, March lit. IfTiO.
Washington. The supreme nujit
today decided that the proxl; ions I
courts r isi a hi isln d hy I'rceidctii firsnl
in Louisiana and clt-rwhcr wereli-Kal
t rllinna Is. Judge Stronc look the
oath of office ntid was Installed a"
associate Just ice.
Madrid. The funeral of Prince
Henri de Bourbon occurred today. Il l
was killed InMantly In a duel wlt:i
tbe fluke de PenMer. In which each
of the duelists fired three shots.
Ws.ihlns.ton. General Buller's hill
to remove political disabilities. Juft
passed by both housi s of congress, has
been signed hy the president and re
stores about 3000 porsona to full citi
zenship. March 12 the members and officers
of Multnomah "Engine company No 2
celebrated the 13th anniversary of It
organization. ,
Kl I.FII.I.Mi:T.
I can forgive forgUe
When comes my hour to live;
When from the dregs the new wine
flows
And hopes defeat attainment knows,
I con forgive.
I can forget forget
When ail the past Is set
Beneath my feet, a stepping stotie
By which I rise and stand alone,
I can forget.
Forgive forget rejnlca
When promise of a voire
That urges ever be fulfilled.
Then, every anguished moment stillel
f can rejoice.
JANKTTE MARTIN
PLKASK f'LOKK THK DOOR.
I'd never want to versify.
For my best friend might testify
'Twas Just because I'm good for noth
ing mora.
But when the thoughts that crowd
the most
Are rushing ip, an eager host.
What can I do, but pasa them through
that door?
Good. ' bad. Indifferent, they come!
Welcomed few, many wearisome:
So, kind Fate, w hen metres, measuies.
Taking wing, like earthly treasure--.
Shall leave me stranded ni the short,
I'm btaded for I'll clin-e that dm .
1ALCULM.