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tion that the landholder owned which the burdens of war have borne
everything from the center of the most heavily.
earth to the sky abovehlm already There is strong opposition to Lloyd
has been upset. The aviation inter-, George among those who are equally
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Is that the states will act before
congress ventures to assert itself.
" FOOLISHNESS.
" The mystery as to the special
qualifications of the person Known
as Elwood Washington for the vice
presidency is being gradually cleared
Daily, Sunday included, three months. . --! away. The Oregonian has a cam
paign card with a picture of the can
didate and a brief biography, signed
by "M. G. Todd, chairman," and
dated at Oak Park, 111.
Elwood Washington was born In
Pennsylvania, was a newsboy, was
educated in the public schools, fol
lowed mercantile life, became a law
yer, entered the printing and pub
lishing business, traveled consider
ably, spent much time in bettering
the condition of his fellow men, and
knows his country's needs.
Doubtless his country also knows
its needs for a vice-president. It is
not sufficient that the Incumbent for
that high office shall have been a
merchant, a lawyer and a publisher,
and is obviously what is vulgarly
known as a "nut," who had enough
experience in the printing business
to learn the value of self-advertising.
Many jokes are made about trie vice
presidency, but the people have never
consciously played a joke on them
selves by calling an obscure notoriety-seeker
to the place.
But the primary system of Ore
gon lends itself admirably to the
schemes of such fellows. In 1916 a
crack-brained charlatan got the .en
dorsement of the republicans of Ore
gon for the vice-presidency.. The
party made itself ridiculous through
the absurd possibilities of the pri
mary law., Now the same political
quack is again seeking endorsement,
along with the modest Washington.
The farce of making either of
these men the choice of the primary
should be avoided. Why does not
some political club add to the rea
sons for its existence a mission to
save the republican party of Oregon
from such useless folly?
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".. GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
There is a widespread and almost
1 pathetic interest among war service
; men over the forthcoming opening
; of 360,000 acres of land in Oregon to
entry. On the face of the announce
ment, here are 360,000 acres of agri
V cultural land, enough for 2313
homes, to be thrown open and serv-
1 ice men are to have a preference
right and need pay down only 50
- cents an acre. Now they are writing
to Oregon from all parts of the coun
try and it is said many who have
, ,come to the state expecting to locate
" have hardly any means to carry them
through and find little prospect of
' acquiring land.
!' A bulletin issued by the Roseburg
I, . land office frankly announces that
a portion of the lands is not agri
Z cultural in fact, though classified as
such. The- further warning is issued
that men who squatted on quarter
sections prior to December 1, 1913,
.and have devoted a portion of the
. land to agricultural use, have a right
of entry prior to the preference right
of the service men. One official of
' the American Legion, who has ob
it tained reports from representatives
of that organization in the various
! counties in which the laad is located,
asserts that only about 10 per cent
of it is worth entering upon, exclu
" sive of the tracts already held by
I settlers.
T These lands are opened in pur
suance of a law passed in June, 1916,
providing for classification and dis
position of about 2,500,000 acres that
. -'. had been granted in early days to
the Oregon & California railroad
company. Under the provisions of
this law all land within the grant.
-.V other than lands chiefly valuable for
power sites or bearing a growth of
. timber not less than 300,000 feet to
TJT each 40-acre subdivision, are classi
. tied as agricultural lands. Thus
; .'"agricultural" lands in this instance
may in fact be grazing lands, or scab
lands, or mountain tops, or swamps.
Like the soldiers, the Oregon pub-
"lie has some right to feel pessimistic
over the disposition of the grant.
"SZ.: Steps to recover it from the railroad
-"--company were inaugurated by con
press twelve years ago. The supreme
i- court nearly five years ago upheld
. -J.' the right of the public to regain the
-land upon payment to the railroad
company of $2.50 an acre therefor.
The law providing for its recovery
on that general basis was passed
nearly four years ago. .
To date timber has been sold from
the lands by the government of the
total value of $474,161.99. Earlier
openings of "agricultural" lands
have aggregated 450,000 acres. By
the terms of the law the state of
Oregon and ,the several counties in
which the lands are situated have
a half interest in the proceeds from
the sales of the land. But before
there is any division, sums acquired
; through sales of land must be de
voted to payment of the $2.50 an
I ...'acre due the railroad company and
' ' to reimbursing the government
treasury for about $1,500,000 ad
vanced to pay taxes which the rail-
; road company failed to pay.
As "agricultural" lands may be
purchased for 50 cents an acre
down and the remainder ($2) after
- - seven years, the sum so far re
alized is not nearly sufficient to clean
up the back taxes alone. Meanwhile,
since the government regained the
land, taxes are not accruing against
the grant, except as regards timber
that has passed to private owner
ship and agricultural lands which
have gone to patent. The tax sum
thus relinquished amounted at the
time of the court decree to about
$500,000 annually.
We have been relying on great ex
pectations, so far at a total cost of
$1,500,000 in taxes. Some day we
may cash in on our one-half of the
surplus. There is value somewhere
in the grant, else the railroad com
pany would not have been willing to
pay vast sums in taxes during
, its undisturbed ownership. But we
suspect that It will be the grand-
children, perhaps the great-grand-
children, of the present generation
.-" who will have the Joy of realization.
Meanwhile so far as the soldiers are
concerned, the forthcoming open
ing promises to be but a tantalizer.
-.There is obviously a land hunger
-among the service men. It would
seem that congress could do more
for them than give them a question
able preference right to file on ques
tionable agricultural lands.
ations with a reunited party and to
contest the leadership with Asquith.
If liberals and conservatives should
break up their coalition, a three
cornered contest at the next election
might easily give the laborites a ma
jority over both other parties or at
least give them such a plurality as
would incline one of the other par
ties to go into alliance with it For
mer policies of the other parties in
dicate that the liberals rather than
the conservatives would form this
alliance, but recent events suggest
doubt. The main strength of the
conservatives has been the land
owning nobility, but it is selling its
estates to plutocrats at. great pace.
Landless aristocrats, many of whom
are highly altruist, may incline more
to make a deal with the socialist la
borites than would the liberal manu
facturers and merchants. .This is
rendered easier by the laborites, who
as they gain political power abandon
revolutionary methods. A sign of
this tendency was the rejection by
the trades union congress of a pro
posal to call a direct action- strike
for the purpose of compelling the
government to nationalize coal
mines. Direct action is the last hope
of a determined minority which de
spairs of becoming the majority. The
British labor party has such hope
of gaining power that it holds to
constitutional methods.
HOW TO FIND THE BWE BniD.
The public learns through the
ready medium of the newspapers
that there is a flesh-and-blood Mrs.
Charlie Chaplin, and that she wants
a divorce. The fact that Mary Pick
ford had a real husband became
generally known only in the same
interesting way, after the demure
Mary had shed copious tears about
her many trials in the uncongenial
role of a wife before .a sympalhizing,
but very remote, Nevada judge. An
other great film hero, Mr. Douglas
Fairbanks, appears to have been able
to surmount every barrier to happy
life see any Fairbanks picture
but the one of domestic infidelity.
There are doubtless others, but their
names and records just now escape
us. The three are enough.
What is there about the. role of a
great movie star that makes mar.
riage difficult and in many cases im
possible? One might say that they
fall into the habit of simulation of
all the virtues for the screen and au
tomatically transfer their viewpoint
to real life. But it would be true
only of some.
The real trouble lies in too much
money, too little restraint, too much
adulation, too great self-esteem.
They become spoiled. They lose their
perspective. They have everything
that most people covet and they lose
interest and a proper sense of duty
and responsibility and covet what
someone else has. They want it all.
If they got it, they would be as far
from real happiness as ever.
If Little Mary would rear a fam
ily, and keep house, and pose for
the screen only when her time and
service were needed, and for the pub
lic not at all between times: and if
Doug Fairbanks would use his well
developed muscles at spading the
garden for half a day six days per
week, and dispense his radiant smile
upon his wife and family and not
alone for the photographer: and if
Charlie -Chaplin would confine all
his stumbling habits to schemes of
amusement of others and not of
himself 4f they will all learn the
great fact that there is only one
safe rule of conduct for all alike,
and cease to look upon themselves
as something better and apart, it
will aid them to find and keep caged
the blue bird of happiness.
BOOKS AND RHEUMATISM.
The story of the Rhode Islander,
victim of the most recent manifes
tation of "old-fashioned winter" on
the Atlantic coast, who was immured
in a hut for several days until neigh
bors with four horses and a snow
plow broke a way to his door, prom
ises to become a classic because of
the aged man's reply to solicitous
inquiries as to how he had stood the
storm. "Pretty well," he said. "You
see, I had my books and my rheu
matisnt) and between them I had no
time to worry about anything." Both
reading and rheumatism. It will be
deduced, had become habitual, or
chronic, with this philosopher.
Given his choice between the two,
the normal man will prefer books
to aches and pains as an antidote to
loneliness, yet there is something to
be said in behalf of the latter In
cases of this kind. "A certain amount
of fleas," was David Harum's die
turn, "are good for a dog; they keep
him from worrying about being
dog." Sixteen years ago E. B. Lent
succeeded in weaving a best seller
out of materials furnished by a pain
ful experience with sciatica, and long
before him Dr. Franklin wrote
classic inspired by the gout, a mal
ady known as "rich man's rheuma
tism" in that time. The point is
found in the Harum aphorism. . The
individual with a good deal to think
about is less apt to worry thau the
idle-minded one. Rheumatism is not
to be recommended, but evidently it
can De made to serve a purpose in
the scheme of things. It is a lucky
fellow that can turn his misfortunes
to so good account.
"i-'For those not gifted with rheuma-
tram, and likely to be cut off from
the world by old-fashioned winter.
or marooned on a desert island, or
otherwise abandoned by Billiken,
there is always the book to fall back
on under otherwise favorable con
ditions. It' needs to be borne in
mind that for a good many persons
it is easier to acquire rheumatism
than the reading habit, which is un-
iortunaie m certain emergencies.
Not all, for illustration, will be snow
bound, but many will suffer the rel-
ative isolation of advanced age, for
wnom tne wisdom and the entertain
ment of all time are accessible if
they have cultivated aptitude in find
ing them. As has been suggested.
not everyone can have rheumatism,
but all may read books to tide them
through the vicissitudes that are
likely to come to any man.
as the translator comments, was like
that of Spadoni; "after a debauching
dream of an exhaustless supply of
wealth, they invariably awoke to the
cold reality of ruin." Psychiatrists
say that the gaming instinct is a
form of inadaptability to conditions
requiring that men shall give as well
as receive, conditions as old as time,
and to which the Anglo-Saxon peo
ples among all civilized nations of
the world have best conformed. It
is a commentary on the greater so
briety of the northern races that
they have not been so disturbed by
the recent war, which seems to have
worked a revolution in the tendency
of millions of people in Spain, arid in
lesser degree in some other coun
tries. It is a' curious manifestation of
the illogical that In a time when
only production can save a people
they should turn to the most non
productive of all possible sources
for realization of their dreams of
wealth. "Men and women," says a
recent. Madrid dispatch, "are pauper
ized in gambling houses which op
erate under government license and
are then turned out into the streets
to beg." If Blasco-Ibanez succeeds
in turning the tide he will perform a
service for Spain not inferior to that
of his famous prototype.
BY-PHODICTS OK .THE TIMES
Those Who Come and Go.
Battle of Wits Brlireea Best Batter
and Sam Randall Recalled.
Mervrlle E. -Stone who la wrltinjr
his reminiscences under the title of 'Although there has been more
.rphin. t,t building going on in Pendleton since
tell, an interest ory of "a "brief I LT&XZ
Confidence of airplane manufac
turers in the future of their industry
fwm(.is indicated by the campaign they
are waging for federal rather than
state regulation of flying. It will
surprise many to learn from a state-
ment recently issued by them that a
modern flying boat has already car-
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"') ' bTlnelr equivalent in freight, a fact
. j ""mentioned to show that it is already
S. . beginning to rival the'automobile as
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," '""added difference in favor of a policy
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.' V ; pilot crossing several states in a
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'! or twelve cities and more than that
. number of towns, for violation of
local laws. Determination of thel
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ASQUITH COMES BACK.
Election of H. H. Asquith to the
British parliament after a year in
retirement marks a disposition of the
people to restore old party lines and
to vote according to domestic ques
tions rather than those of the war.
As a war premier Asquith was. a dis
astrous failure. To his cabinets are
chiefly due the delay of increased
munition production, the Gallipoli
defeat, the German conquest, of
Serbia and- Roumania, the sham.
pro-German neutrality of Greece and
the surrender of Kut. To him is due
the fact that the submarine was
winning the war at sea in 1917 and
that the American army appeared at
the front in 1918 only just in time to
avert final defeat of the allies. Lloyd
George in 1917 repaired some of As
quith's blunders, but others were
irreparable and might easily have
proved disastrous but for American
intervention.
As a leader in dqmestic reform
Asquith was a success, and he re
turns to parliament to carry out such
a programme. He seeks to reunite
his party, the larger part of which
now supports the Lloyd George
coalition, and to renew the old fight
between liberal and conservative. He
has the support of the business men.
the middle class, the free traders,
the humanitarians and those who
favor an inactive foreign policy. His
followers would moderate the terms
dictated to Germany and would es
tablish relations with bolshevist
Russia.
His plans are obstructed by - the
growing strength of the labor patty
and by the disposition of its oppo
nents to coinbine in. support of the
coalition against it. While the coali
tion has tended to obliterate the line
between liberal and conservative pol
icy, the labor party has become
frankly socialist and defends the
Russian-soviet. All ottiers incline to
make no further compromise with
socialism and to combine for an open
fight between it and the degree of
individualism which remains after
many concessions to its opponents.
The labor or socialist party has made
right of states to control the air
above them will furnish plenty of I great gains recently, particularly
rwork for the lawyers. The old no- j among tho poorer middle class, on
A SKCONO CERVAXTESf
Cabled reports of a revival of
gambling in Spain on a scale sur
passing anything in previous history
synchronize with the appearance of
the latest novel, by Blasco-Ibanez,
whose "Four Horsemen of the Apoc
alypse" was a recent literary best
seller, and the coincidence suggests
a possible parallel between the,pres
ent Spanish author and his great pro
totype, Miguel de Cervantes. It is
said that the new Blasco-Ibanez tale,
which has not yet been published In
English, is, although it bears the
title, "The Enemies of Women," a
powerful and elaborate study of the
folly and futility of gambling. But
the parallel extends only to the vast
ness of the follies presented for cor
rection. Cervantes "laughed Spain's
chivalry away"; Blasco-Ibanez, ac
cording to the reviewers, treats his
topic with the gravity of melodrama.
One of the characters in "The. En
emies of Women" is a poverty
stricken musician, who believes that
he possesses the secret of all the err
rors ever committed at Monte Carlo,
that he has "dominated the hidden
laws of chance," and is about to be
come king of the world. The imag
ination of the novelist soars to lofty
heights in the chapter in which the
musician describes his victories over
the gamesters of the world. He has
dethroned them all but one, saving
his final coup for Monte Carlo, the
proprietors of which offered him,
first a check for a million, then fif
teen twenty-five forty seventy
five millions. He is cold to them all.
The emissary speaks:
Another word, Senor Spadoni. tho last.
We'll make a revolution; we'll dethrone
Albert and rive you Monaco. Tou can
marry tho daughter of an 'emperor if you
wish. Money accomplishes everything. . We
have it. You -shall have It."
t The musician will have none of it.
"vvnat l want is to go into the Ca.
sino, break the bank and carry the
keys off with me." The tale is rem
iniscent of a popular song that had
wide currency in this country not
many years ago. The rulers of
Monte Carlo at last foil him by fir
ing a mine containing all the ex
plosives left over from the war. .
"Stiff with terror, I rose up to the very
clouds, but I conld see Monte Carlo dls
app'esrrng, and even the rock of Monaco,
the sea. with a gigantic wave, occunvinc
the site of the disappearing land. And
when I came down again "
"You woke up," said Xovoa.
"Yes. "I woke up, lying on the floor. 1
had fallen out of bed. and I could hear
Castro out In hall Ineultttig ma for having
disturbed his sleep wits my shouting.
Don't laugh, professor. It's pretty hard
to have such a dream of wealth, as if
one had it in his very grasp, and then
to wake up and find himself as poor as
yesterday, as poor as ever and everlastingly
in the worst of luck."
Tho experience of other players,
THE 19S0 BUDGET FOB RELIGION.
The statement tnat thirty Prot
estant denominations have got to
gether on the framing of a budget
for religions work in 1920 is impor
tant largely because It is another
step in the direction of co-operation
in church management. The state
ment of a member of a special budg
et committee of the Interchurch
World movement. Professor Ernest
DeWitt Burton, of the University of
Chicago, that "every possible dollar
was squeezed out," and that the
budget was reduced to an amount
sufficient only for bare necessities
for the current year, indicates an ef
fort so far as possible to eliminate
duplication and overlapping. It is
not a part of the "movement toward
denominational consolidation, per
haps, but it has a significant bearing
,on the latter. It will be discoverea
sooner or later that elimination of
overlapping is so sound In principle
that it will bear rather extensive ap
plication, and the weight of experi
ence will be added to arguments al
ready made for ceasing production
of theological non-essentials.
The "budget" itself calls fom ex
penditure of $336,777,572 in the cur
rent year an amount that would
have Impressed us only a few years
ago as being enormous, but which to
a world accustomed to thinking of
billions will not appear extravagant
in proportion to religious needs. It
is, moreover, only a trifle over $3
per capita of- the population of the
country, only about .$25 per capita
of the membership of the Protestant
churches, and on an average only
about $1400 for each Protestant
church In the United States. The
greater part of the fund has not yet
been raised, but leaders of the move
ment are represented as confident
that this part of the programme will
be put through. Confidence is'based
on assurance that the budget is not
the result of guesswork, that rela
tive imperative needs have been
carefully appraised, and that for per
haps the first time in the history of
organized evangelism there is rea
sonable assurance that a dollar's
worth of results will be produced
for each dollar expended.
Hope for 100 per cent efficiency,
even in a religious undertaking, may
be based on excessive optimism, but
it is something to have achieved a
co-operative budget at all. It would
be interesting to know how much
has been saved by the pruning knives
of the budget committee. Undoubt
edly the sum is very large. Perhaps
it alone has been -sufficient to per
mit allowance of $78,837,431 for
American education, a noteworthy
forward step in church work. There
is liberal allowance $109,949,037
for home missions, and almost as
much $107,661,486 for foreign
missionary work, a department in
which overlapping and duplication
have been particularly prevalent in
the past. To American religious ed
ucation $5,931,925 has been allotted;
to American hospitals and homes,
$5,116,465; to ministerial pensions
and relief, $20,510,299. A balance
somewhat in excess of $13,000,000
will not seem excessive for unclassi
fied activities.
The religious budget co-operative
ly arrived at marks the beginning of
the end of expensive religious rival
ry, it crystaiizes sentiment for
united action in other directions at
the same time, and voices in a large
way the spirit evinced by more or
less isolated communities which have
gone ahead with church union on
their own accounts. It will be easier,
too, to raise the stupendous sum
asked for, with the accompanying
assurance that a sincere and compe
tent effort has been made to elim
inate waste.
battle of wits between Ben Butler and
Sam Randall. It is:
General Butler was the leader of the
house and Samuel J. Randall leader of
the democratic side. As the forty-
third congress was about to close 1
was with Randall when Butler came
up. and Randall asked him to hold
a Sunday ' seasioi. Butler said ns
he would not consent to It; he never
would do any work on Sunday that
was not necessary. Randall turned
and chafflngly said: "On, that is
your New England Puritanism, I sup
pose. That serves you to good pur
pose, and I expect to meet you some
day, Butler, in another and bAter
wcrld."
Butler replied in a flash: "Oh. no,
Sam, you will be there, as you are
here, a member of the lower house "
a
Bozeman Bulger at the Dutch Treat
club in New York city the other day
told a story illustrating the irrepres
sible humor of the Americans in the
war. In one of the final engage
ments when the Canadians retook
lions and the Canadians and Ameri
cans fought side by side, the ar
tillery was rolling a barage at the
enemy.
Every 'eo often the Germans were
dodging under it and scampering to
ward their enemies to surrender. A
bunch of some 35 attempted this trick,
but the barrage backed up 50 yards
instead of advancing, caught the
fugitives and wiped them out, all ex
cept one man.
He flung himself Into an American
trench at the feet of a big American. I
This chap looked him over and sang
out: "Why, you lucky son of a gun!"
then stuck a bayonet through him.
David Starr Jordan, former presi
dent of Leland Stanford Jr. uni
versity, worked his way through col
lege a fact which he makes no
secret, but rather of which he is ex
tremely proud. He had little money
when he joined the first class that
entered Cornell university in 1868. By
taking care of lawns, waiting on
table, digging ditches, doing odd jobs
for professors, working on the college
farm and tutoring he managed to pay
his way through his four years'
course. Speaking of the manner in
which he financed himself, Jordan
once said: "A young man is not
worth educating who cannot work
through college that way."
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The . pther day an Indiana city
school superintendent promoted a
grade teacher to the English depart
ment in the high school, says the
New York Globe. He was discussing
the work with her when she sud
denly said: "Oh, Mr. , it's go
ing to be so hard for me. You see,
I've always used so much slang, and
now when I teach English I won
dare use any more."
blang, ejaculated the supe'rin
tendent. "Well, believe me, Alice,
you'll have to cut that out now,
The largest single shipment of
eggs from Petaluma, Cal., to eastern
points In the history of the poultry
industry was made recently when
dealers shipped 15 carloads of faqcy
eggs direct to New York city. This
was the first time a special trainload
of eggs ever was sent across the con
tinent. The shipments ran 600 cases
to the car, or a total of 9000 cases,
and with 30 dozen eggs) to the case
aggregated 270.000 dozen, or '3, 240,000
eggs. The value was in excess of
$100,000.
The sage who runs the school de
partment of the Indianapolis Star re
marks:
In ten years you and the best stu
dent in your class will both have for
gotten most of what you are learning
in school now.
But, if you are forming hablta or
laziness and he is forming habits of
hard work, you will likely find your
self working for him.
According to the dispatch from
Abo, Finland, John ' Reed claims to
be the editor of two Oregon news
papers. The dispatch carried a com
plete alibi for the former Portland
man, however, for it stated he had
diamonds and money aggregating a
large sum. That proves he isn't an
Oregon editor.
An applicant for divorce charges
that her husband, even two years
after their marriage, denied that he
was married, but told other women
he was living with his mother. It
ould be a very remarkable woman
indeed who did not apply for divorce
after that
The Methodist church plans to
spend $15,000,000 on Its pensioned
ministers this year and thus good
men who have spent a lifetime lay
ing up treasures in heaven exclusive
ly will have a bit of mundane pleas
ure for a change.
Lady Diana Bridgeman, 12-year-old
daughter of Lord and Lady Bradford,
is causing much discussion in England
with her book of "Poems and Paint
ings." Critics pay her the compli
ment of judging her verse by adult
standards.
She began to draw and to write
verse on scraps of paper at 6 years
old. Fairies and fairyland are her
favorite themes. Her sense of rhythm
is illustrated throughout the book.
Here is a specimen, "Babies," which
belongs to her "later period":
I think that the stars we see In the skies
Are nabier eyes;
I think that the sparkling drops from the
wires
Are babies tears;
1 think that the sunbeams we see at whiles
Are babies' smiles;
1 think that ths yellow leaves- which the
wind whirls
Are babies' "curls."
of the city, the housing problem is
serious." declares C. K. Cranston, sec
retary of the commercial association
of that town, who is at the Imperial.
"If a man starts to build a home sev
eral people' come to him and tiav to get
the place he 1$ 'leaving. An apart
menthouse is being erected that will
have 20-odd apartments. More than
50" applications have been received
and those, who were fortunate enough
to obtain one of- the apartments al
ready have paid a - month's rent in
advance, although the building will
not be finished for some time, as only
the first floor has been built thus far.
I know of a man who sold a home for
$6000 which did not cost him half that
sum when he built it years ago. I
know of another who was offered
$10,000 for a home which he has used
lJ years and which cost, about $5000
when new. There is no limit to the
demand for homes and they cannot be
erected fast enough."
"The old Owyhee Irrigation project
may soon become a reality," predicts
P. 8. Gallagher of Ontario, Or, at
the Hotel Portland. This project was
Planned to embrace 130,000 acres ana
for a long time efforts have been
made to have - the government do
something with It. Now private
money may develop it Most of th
acreage is in Malheur county, but
there are approximately 45.000 acre
in the Gem district of Jdaho. Pro
fessor-W. L. Powers, soil expert for
the Oregon Agricultural college, ha
made an examination and declares the
soil first-class. In the district af
fected many people are pumpln
water from the Owyhee river with
electric pumps, but the rate for powe
has increased to what Is practically
prohibitive price for the high lifts,
increasing the necessity for a gravity
system.1
'Thousands of eastern tourists had
to leave Los Angeles this winter be
cause they could not find accommo
dations, sars J. snenocn, wn
with Mrs. Sherlock and Miss E.
Wagle, are tt the Multnomah on their
homeward way. o london, untario,
"An elderly couple, wno ownea ai
apartment, give this apartment to u
and moved to two irooms over thel
garage. This apartment two years
ago rented for $65 a month, which
was a good, stiff price, but it cost
me 1250 a month. That s going some
Los Angeles is gplng ahead by leaps
and bounds and I venture the preaic
tion that in five years it will be the
third ' largest city in the United
States; in fact the entire "Pacific
coast is destined for wonderful de
veroprnent in the next few years.
It was 2:15 A. M. yesterday when
the mayor of Seaside and one of the
leading citizens ambled into the Ho
tel Oregon and beseught a room.
Mayor E. N. Hurd and E. L. Prouty
undertook to drive from Seaside to
Portland by automobile. They made
splendid progress until just before
arriving at St. Helens, when some
thing went wrong with the median
Isra possibly the carburetor heard
of the advanced price of gasoline or
something. Anyway, after much tin
kering with the apparatus and fool
ing around aria' loss of much valuable
time, the automobile was finally in
duced again to move ahead through
the darkness to the bright lights of
Broadway.
Phoenix. Or., is very much inter
ested in Fern valley Just now, the
valley being about two miles from
the town. In Fern valley an attempt
is being made to find oil and the drill
Is now down about 500 reet. ir 011
is found, Phoenix hopes to be a regu
lar oil town, like those in Texas and
Oklahoma, where money Is spent like
water and everybody is rolling In
wealth and automobiles and wearing
greasy overalls. Henry Gordren of
Phoenix Is among the arrivals at the
Hotel Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stokes of Cal
gary. Alberta, arrived at the Imperial
yesterday on tnelr way home from
Mexico. .They have been at TIajuana,
where they were watching the ponies.
Mr. Stokes was proprietor of a hotel
at Calgary, but the- place was de
stroyed by fire. H. H. Trowbridge,
a horseman of John Day, Or., has
also been across the line looking at
the races and Is on his way back to
Grant county.
To Inspect the Zig-Zag section of
the Mount Hood loop, Herbert Nunn,
state highway engineer, sallied fojth
In his automobile yesterday morning.
When he departed he was not sure
that he would arrive at his destina
tion. The zig-zag section is one or
the important links In the loop proj
ect and considerable work was done
on it last year. This season tne sec
tion may all be graded.
For the love of Mike, reserve me
a room, or a lounge or a chair for
Saturday night." telegraphs Joe Pat
terson to the Hotel Oregon. "I have
been unable to get a berth on the
train and am coming north by steam
er. Mr. Patterson, who was for
merly a member of the Oregonian
staff, saw war service and used to
hunt and fish down around Newport,
Or., has been away from these haunts
for many moons.
W. H. Daugherty, president of the
Newport Lumbef company at New
port, Or., is at the Multnomah. The
But the wild dogrose la its soft sweetness
Is a baby's kiss.
Lionel Bariymore, one of the most
distinguished of American players,
has original views.
"Will the publio stand for Shakes
peare?" he was asked in New York.
"If the commentators will let them
alone, they will. I do not mean the
dramatic critics, for I think, of all
critics, these are the only ones worth
while, who really do some good and
know what they are 'driving at But
I mean the pestilential prigs who
keep harping on the fact that Shakes
peare is highbrow stuff. It isn't at
all. Shakespeare is the most human
of all dramatics. All of the modern
melodramas and many of the dramas,
cans be found in the folios of dear old
Will. Some of the managers who 1 nied by D. D. Phelps of Pendleton,
main resource of Newport and viQln- I
Ity is the timber, and it Is the hope
of the business men of that section
that the spruce railroad will soon be
operated so that logs can be brought
out of the woods and turned into
lumber. There" are billions of feet of
standing timber in Lincoln county
waiting for the ax and saw of the
lumberjack. -
Edward C. Jenkins, assistant Pa
cific coast manager of the Founda
tion companjV, with headquarters at
Victoria, B. C, is registered at the
Multnomah. The Victoria shipyard
eveloped as the Foundation yard at
Portland was disbanded because of
the policy of the government relative
to shipbuilding contracts.
'Umatilla county Is known as a
wheat country, but there Is a large
body of timber in Umatilla which
oesn t get as much advertising as it
deserves. A. H. Cox, president of the
Oregon Lumber dompany, accompa-
I OBSERVATIONS OF WOMAN-HATER
C-Ela ICxprct Uaabaad Be Oaly
laefal Member mt Cosnsact.
EUGENE, "Or, March 17. (To the
Editor.) In the ' Oregonian 'Sunday
appeared a story in which the senior
co-eds. of ths University of Oregon
st forth the qualifications essential
for marriage with those high and
mighty damsels. In short a man
must to the notion of the majority.
have an income of at least $250 per
month before these young ladies
would even consider taking him for
better or worse. Now what advant
ages accrue to a man who having
passed the censorship of these edu
cated maidens, finally takes the fatal
step and binds himself to her for aye?
First He usually gets one who can
sing "At Dawning" beautifully and
who can likewise accompany herself
on the piano.
Second She can rti"ciissthe philoso
phy of 'Wells anV f nnett until even
those worthies 1 selves would be
surprised. ' v
Third Art?; .Man she eats It She
can find more' tilings wrong with a
painting than can an ordinary critic.
Fourth She'd be handy when it
came time to make out a statement
for the income tax, for she's a whizz
at higher math.
Fifth As an ornament she's a
wonder. , The way she wears clothes
can't be surpassed.- It's a fine art,
and a man walking beside br as she
majestically sailed down the street
would be justly proud of her.
Sixth The arrangement of pictures
holds no terrors- for her. She's' a
whizz at that also. '
Seventh She can outline a policy
for the betterment of society which
would make ' the average social re
former green with Jealousy. But
She can't cook a meal.
She can't" sew. -
She has no more notion about how
to care for a baby than the average
human being has about feeding a
python.
She couldn't buy food for her house
hold to save her life.'
Yet she Insists upon a man doing
it all. The co-ed of today Is not
willing to meet a man half way and
help him along. A man roust do It
all and drag her after him. Instead
of being a stimulus she's a brake.
People- wonder why young men
don't marry; why they stick around
clubs. The older folks call us selfish
say that we aren't willing to take re
sponslbility upon our"shoulder. Yet
we have these specimens before us
every day, discouraging us with wom-
enklnd and driving us Into bachelor
hood iuy nlily,
I wondered why the doughboy
liked the French maiden and why
some of my friends married when
they were "over." Somehow I didn't
care much for the mademoiselles, but
now well I have an extremely tender
spot in ray heart for them. They are
willing to do half of the work, and
will stick by a man and help him
along. . , A MERE MAN.
More'Truth Than Poetry.
By Jasaea J. Moataarae.
TarJlalcar aad Ike rrefKfWtn,
Although ths brutal B ulnar
, Is neither good nor kind,
Although he's somewhat vulgar,
And rather unrefined, .,
Though lacking in compassion.
And low above the ears.
We quite applaud his fashion
Of swatting profiteers.
1
When gouged for lard or butter.
Whan typed for cod or shad.
The Uuigar doesn't mutter.
"Now Isn't that toe bad?"
With vengeance rough and hearty
Applied with brutal force.
He grabs the guilty party,
And Justice takes Ha course.
The person who advances
The price of bread or beef.
To suit his grasping fancies, .
Is held to be a thief.
With heavy chains they tie him
In some convenient place,
"Whore fople passing by him
Can punch him in the fare. 0
This punishment suffices
(As food quotations show)
To keep prevailing prices ,
Astonishingly low.
I look apon the Kulaar
With awe and reverenre.
Although bis ways are vulgar.
He's got good co nun on sense.
If Yao Know What We Mean.
We should say that William Jen
nings Kryan was suffering from acute
obsolescence. -
Traveling- la llnarhea.
' South hound trains are putting on
extra secrlorai in order to arcninmo-
date the bank messengers hurrying
out of New Viyk.
Nowaday.
It's a m-lfe president who known his
own cabinet.
' Draasllf erase.
No wonder Percy McK.ayp's play
shout Washington didn't make a hit.
He omitted, the cros-tlng the Delaware
scene.
(Copyrla-M. liKO. by rioll ffrndlrsta In.-.)
,
AMKDOTB OF JVIIIST TOI.II
How Late Judge Galloway and Others
Whfled Time When Marooned.
PORTLAND, March 18 (To the Ed
itorsThe recent death of Judge
William Galloway removes one of the
best known of Oregon'a pioneers, a
man who was always loyal to the
good name of the state and well to the
front In all movements looking to Its
advancement. I first met him when
we were members of the Oregon house
of representatives In tho session of
1880 and our association has been
along the liaes of unbroken friend
ship since. This reference reminds
me that of the sixty members of the
house during that session but fouf are
living, so far as I' know. Senator
Chamberlain, JisJue Martin L Pipes,
Penumbra Kelly and the writer. There
may. be others, but, if so, I do no
know of it.
The newspaper accounts of the death
of Judge Galloway have said thnt be
ginning with the session of 1876 h
served three terms from Yamhill
county, but this Is an error. In 187
the members of the house from Yam
hltl county were W. D. Fenton, J
Ferguson and J. J. Henderson. Judge
Galloway did, however, serve three
terms, his first experience bolng
1874 and again in 1878 and in 1880,
from which date he has been a famll
lar figure In public affairs In Oregon,
In 1894 he was the democratic can
didate for governor against William
P. Lord and Just before the close 01
that campaign the very high Wate
In May of that year washed away the
racks of the O. R. & N. company and
left Mr. Galloway. W. H. Holmes, dern
lcrattc candidate for attorney-general
nd many other nominees of lesser
prominence Btranded at Umatilla. 1
was at that time actively canvassing
the state for Judge Lord and his as-
ociates and was similarly left help
less at Arlington. After two days' ef
fort which Included a !0-mile walk
to Umatilla, I joined the unfortunates
t that place and a Joint debate was
rranged and for four hours (he den
izens of Umatilla county a former
capital were treated to a sort of love
feast or frolic In which about a dozen
of us engaged merely for the fan
which It. afforded, Mr. Galloway being
at his best
Since his entrance Into public life
In 1874 Judge Galloway has served the
people of Oregon most of the time
nd his friends everywhere will unite
In saying that he lived the life of an
pright man. T. T. (JEER.
In Otier Day.
Charlie Chaplin's wife threatens to
sue him for divorce because he
hasn't been home in two weeks. Oh,
pshaw! She ought to have seen
enough of Charlie to appreciate his
peculiar type of humor.
Prince Faisal has been proclaimed
king of Syria and Abdulla king of
Irak, including the vilayet of Bag
dad. Thank goodness, that's settled!
The kaiser is reported to be saw
ing wood again. But President Ebert
seems to have been sawing wood,
too, and to be'tter advantage.
The price of ice has dropped $2 a
ton in Chicago. A few more like
this will knock the high cost of liv
ing cold.
produce them may not know it, but
their authors do. Leave the public
alone and It will love Shakespeare
properly presented.. But they don't
want to be highbrows, and shun any
thing they think would make them
highbrows." r .
It is not difficull to get the "style"
of writing Juvenile novels such as
"The Young Visitors," as Oliver Her
ford points out in quoting a youthful
novelist he knew, who began: "Char
ley Peabody's mother died before he
was born and ever since his father
had been delicate." ' -
.
. "Now that we are settled In our new
home," said, the bride, "don't you
think it would be a good Idea to give
a little dinner to some of our friends?
I'll ceok the dinner myself." .
"Yes," replied her husband, look-
North Powder, and past president of
the hardware dealers' association. Is
at the Imperial.,
lng up from his plate. "1 think that ; G. H. Mattlngly, examiner for the
would be a good way to -test their ; interstate commerce commission, is
I. IKK I.OYAU
Nothing to do but sit all day
And dream the gladsome hours away.
Nothing to do but sit and smile, .
And think of yeu, only, all the while.
Happy the bird and happy the flowers.
Vh could but be gajt in this world of
ours?
Ripples the brook to the vast blue sea.
Singeth the bird, and hummeth the
bee.
Over the meadow and over the sand
We too, together, go hand In hand.
Life Is a pleasure, life is a Joy "
We sail Its seas with a "Ho, ship
ahoy!"
For even In the wild desert's gloom
Somewhere a lily is sure to bloom.
And going through life In search of
its face,.
Beauty and perfume are -every place'.
Searching for happiness everywhere,
You will find it and plenty to spare.
So take up my happy, caroling lay.
Fling It abroad and far away.
Some weary one may hear Its ring.
And his winter be changed tomlrth-
ful spring.
Happy the heart and pure th voice
That ruaketh some lonely one rejoice.
GLADES RAMSAY,
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Administration ef Estate. -
CARLISLE, Wa-sh., March AI (To
the EdUor.) Does property have to
be administered where a man dies
without a will, where the children,
all of legal age, deed their interests
to the mother? There are no debts
against the estate, which consists of
land. ' ; . A.
The estate should be administered.
' ' '
Dr. Wltatoa la at 8aa Jaclnle. '
SEASIDE, Or., March 18 (To the
W. A. Huddleson, hardware man of Editor.) -will you please give me the
are at the Multnomah.
When E. Schradieck arrived yester
day from the Escolta. Manila. P. I.
and was comparing the Lunetta with I.
Washington street, he met at the
Hotel Perkins Mrs. H. Schradieck. who
arrived from New York, to greet him,
and Mrs. S. N. Kilgor, a sister, who
came in from Estacada. . - .
Everything is moving along nicely
at Enterprise, Or., according to Dr.
Charles A. Ault, who is health officer
of the town. : Preparations are going
on for extensive road work in that
vicinity in the immediate future.
' R. F. Wadeck, secretary, .treasurer
and manager of the Crossett Western
Lumber company at Wauna, Or., Is a
Multnomah arrival.
Ti-enty-five lears Aao.
(from The Oreronlan ef March 18, le )
From private advices It Is learned
thut A. 11. Hammond, one of the buy
ers tt the Oretron I'arlfle road, with
his pari nor, Mr. Itonnir, contractor
for building Iks rond to Astoria, left
New York Saturday for the west.
Mayor Frank Is expected to return
home from his Sun Kranelsro trip to
morrow. Chief of Police Minto, as ex-officlo
health officer, lias the regulnr spring
back-yard ' cleanup well under way
over the city.
Notleclslon will be rendered today
In the Short Une receivership rase.
Judge Gilbert being compelled to
postpnne his decision because of 111
nes of his daughter.
Fifty Yearn And.'
(From The Oregonian of March Is, mil
Washington. n the senate the res
olution giving a ear's salary of Jus
tice of the supreme court to Mrs.
Stanton was passed. '
The southern unil was obstructed
by a .landslide south of Oregon City
Wednesday.
Fifteen cases of new machinery fnr
the Willamette Woolen Mills was re
ceived on t lie steamer AJax.
The first annual ball (liven last
night at 1'hllliartnonir hall lor the
benefit of the CunKresatlon Aliavai
Sliolom wan well atleiMmi.
. in n.ic ation i i.umi mtitK.
Community Sertlre Works Thronah
V. W. C. A. aad Kindred llodlra.
!'ORTI..M. M-ircli 18. (To the Ed
itor.) At least one mitahlo result of
the ret wiir anl Its dniiuiii'ts upon
our nation tins been the iilckcntng
ol the public conscience In all matters
relating to the well-being of the
young, mer. and women of our lamL
OtHanlzutinns having to do with
this work whlcn In the ysais preced
ing the war maintained their exist
eiico by much patient effort and often
utitlcr adverse conditions, found In
tho needs of some 4.iou,00 young
men and" women an avenue to the
hearts, vision and purses of untold
thousands, and of all of these organ
izations none can claim a greater
hcurtfelt Interest than the Young
Women's Christian Association.
Its present appeal rises from the
practical needs of thousands of yon tin
women who have to do with tho city's
Industrial and civic progress. On all
occasions through the stress of pence
and war. Its tasks have lieen well
done, and Its appeal new to the hearts
and sympathies of the public should
be generously mt There are many
who may sur.nlje that community
service, the outgrowth of wsr ramp
work, anil which is now taking so
Imge a place 'n public thought In
somo ways, diiffrTcates tile V. W. C. A.
and other orninUatlons founded and
evls'lng alontr similar Hues for young
men and yntmx women. Much, how
ever, in not the cncnnd there should
be a very cl-ar i'i;derlatiilln that
community service Is a supplementary
activity nVirklnii wholly with and
through these existing social agen
cies. . It does not duplicate., tins no
physical properties. It stimulates and -Inspires
ami brings tnaether the vast
army of worker", young men and
omen whose lives are detached.
whose social needs are too often
starved or perverted.
Community service Is the comple
ment and the aid of every existing
organization which has to do with the
well-lielrrf of the -uimntiiilty. W ith
out the Y. W. C. A. and kindred
bodLesa there would Indeed be lit tin
place or opportunity for community
service to fill Its pnrt. It matches up
by Inspirational effort the work that
s being done, and so well, by those
which hf-fore existed and now truly
live and grow.
It should be reznrdod as a biessei
privilege by every citizen In our com
munity to aid In the helpful task
which the women of the Y. w. C. A.
are performing. Indeed th true value
of a city rests upon such a fabric as
well as upon It Industries.
1 A. 8. W.
address of Dr. Wilson In California,
who was principal of the. Portland
academy? '.'
MRS. HARRISON MT OGDEN.
Answer His addresa la simply
friendship." Edlnburg Scotsman- , j an. arrival at the Hotel Portland. ' j Ban Jacinto, CaX
Oa Drawing- Will.
HAMMOND, Or., March 18. tTo the
Editor.) M A will drawn up between
husbaad and wife (they writing It
themselves), but having it witnessed
nd acknowledged before a notary ,
nubllo legal, in tbls starts or wouid It.
hTstobe drawn up In legal form by
a lawyer and recorded?
IGNORANT.
The fact that a will was not drawn
by a lawyer does not render It void.'
Aa to whether the husband ami wife
now enough about the law on wills
to enable them to prepare a legal will
we are unable to say. Legal assist
ance In roost oases Is .advisable.
Definition ef a Bnrbelor.
New York un.
Pnylon vA ba-helor Is a man who '
has been crossed in love.
Parker Tes. and a married man
has been double-crossed.
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