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1- . : - " i - - :c.'.:.-:. .1 10 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAJT, THURSDAY, MARCH. 23, 190 t V: 1 '.-) - iltommcr (Ormitnn 1TABLI.SHED BY HENRY l PITTOCK. Published by The Orrgonian Publishing Co.. -. Mi Sixth Street, t'ortland, Oregon. nZZ.- C.-A. MOItDKN. E. B. PIPER. .,.-. Manner. - r-ditor. lT.!. The Oregonian Is a member of the. Asao--T. ' els ted Press. The Associated Pres Is exclusively entitled to the us for pubtica VT tion of all news dispatches credited to it .or not otherwise credited In this paper and 2.- "'so the local news published herein. All r valits of republication of special dispatches .r..'"". urmin are alv rr-wrved. --"' . . ? . . Subscription Kate Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) , Dally. Sunday Included, one year ;....$8.00 Dally. Sunday included, six months ... 4.25 C"' Dally, Sunday included, three months. . 2.25 Daily, Sunday included, one month ... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year ...... 6.00 J. 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Free Press building, De- troit, Mich. San Francisco representative. ZZi- K. J. Bldwell. i ' '.,'- SOCTH DAKOTA. '. South Dakota is a typical farming "r state of the Middle West. It is " , representative of sentiment through . : cut a great region, politically the V;. controlling section of the nation. ,-. ZJT As South Dakota goes, so likely will '; go many other states. Leonard Wood carries the pri J'f' marles in" South Dakota, but is ' ' ., : strongly pressed by Mr. I.owden. ,". ' r The outstanding fact as to Wood is .."' that he has in South Dakota main- ' tained the same leadership in the presidential race that he has con- " iistently shown elsewhere. But by .,' ; no means does it follow that Mr. ' ": .'Lowden is out of the race, though "' the loss of the state is more serious ,'.'-.. to him than it would have been to General Wood. He is strong in .-..'.' many other states, and is yet a .-. formidable contender for the nom- ' ' ination. The most significant fact about j South Dakota is that Senator John- :." son Is relegated to third place. He ' represented in his candidacy outright opposition to the league of nations. and doubtless he crystallized behind ! him all the forces which stand for a -.. ' -: policy of national isolation and which approve defeat of the treaty . ' . ,. nnd covenant. There are other ele 1 menUi, too, which find in the radi ' " calism, irreconcilability, and care . -;v free political insurgency of .Mr. John- j eon a candidate who pleases them. force. " In a broad way Wood and Lowden i"Z- made an appeal to the conservative '- members of the republican party and divided them. For the most pari T they are for a league of nations, T and so far as it was an issue they accepted it by their votes against ' Johnson. Altogether they outnum- i ber the Johnson following heavily; i but in a free-for-all contest it was easily' possible that Johnson might !' slip in between them. So is it pos - " sible In Oregon. The result in South Dakota is , practically to eliminate Johnson as a serious possibility and to leave Wood and Lowden as the leaders In 5 the race. If Johnson had won South ; Dakota, the first state where he has : really tested his strength, he might i have proved so formidable that the pro-leaguers, represented by Wood ; and Lowden, would , have found it , necessary to combine their forces on 3 one man. It has been shown, how j ever, that they can divide their 3 forces and still beat him. His star ;! is likely to fade and his rivals are 'I free to continue the contest with ' each other. :i i! OUT-OF-DATE REMKDIES. ' The financial letter of a i.os An geles bank supplements sound advice !i to produce more and spend less with " concrete recommendations for re- j storation of our equilibrium that are I startling. It proposes repeal of the 1 fiherman anti-trust law as "a blight J vpon American progress," which " "has rendered subterfuges a neces sity" and under which "the nation could not function in war times"; repeal of the Adamson eight-hour law, as "vicious class legislation": " repeal of the Clayton act, "also class 1 legislation"-; repeal of the federal 2 farm loan bank act, "also class legis lation, passed to catch votes, vicious .i in principle"; "legislation out of office 3; of the present interstate commerce commission, which has proved itself r- a partisan body." The one thing to be admired about this Bourbon is his frankness. The Sherman law has not prevented for mation of great business combina- tions. but it has prevented or dis solved the most vicious of them, has led others into paths where they are T useful instead, of harmful and has prevented trust-promoters from run ,ning wild, as they were apt to have it done but for the policy inaugurated I- by Roosevelt. The Clayton act is '. a mixture of good and bad, regulat- ing corporate abuses out of exist ;" ''. ence, but legalizing, some evils of I . labor disturbance. ! J", : The farm loan act was designed !,. to remove a recognized evil by ini ;; - tiating a co-operative loan system - enabling farmers to mobilize their I""" ' credit, which would gradually be- ' come their, own property. It was ; needed as a public policy to stimu I . late agriculture and to check migra- - tion of the rural population to the ' cities. It has been perverted from 5 the original plan by amendments Vr which deprive farmers of their part in managing, and of hope of owning, farm loan banks. It should not be j. repealed, but again amended to carry out its original purpose. X Z The Adamson act was a vote- catching piece of politics, but subse .r - quent events have established the - eight-hour day and later wage in- creases have made its wage feature unimportant. The worst sin of the ' interstate commerce commission was a disposition to compromise with popular-prejudice, but it has done a stupendous task fairly well and its judicial side will be strengthened by 5 , the cooling of public passion on the : Jt: railroad question. :' The Los Angeles banker Is a sur " vivor of those who advocated the " " extreme doctrine of laissez falre, of n ...non-interference by the . government 4 t with relations between citizens ex cept when public safety Is concerned1. Such men fail to recognize that men combine their capital and numbers la jmch mass that cor binatioTi- tally affect the public. safetj-z A' com promise between individualism and paternalism has become essential to national pelf-preservation, and ex cludes total repeal of the laws to which he objects. The problem now is how' to reconcile the broadest lib erty of individuals, both alone and in combination, with the welfare of the whole ration, for the general welfare, is now held to be - the su preme consideration. NOT COMIC. The Oregonian will not refrain from expressing its pained surprise that the New York" Times should refer to a revered and very popular political institution of Oregon as the "comic primary." It is not comic. It is serious, most serious business and nothing comic ever happens 'through its perfect workings. The people get exactly what they want, and occasionally some things which they never thought of wanting.- w The Times is led to its jeering re marks by the spectacle of the Con test among certain obscurities over the vice-presidential nomination in Oregon. A person from the remote middle west named EFwood Wash ington and another person from the same broad region named Samuel Adams to say nothing of Dr. What's-Iiis-name from Chicago are offer ing themselves to the republican electorate of the state for the vice presidency. The Times is not im pressed by the claims of Washington and Adams that they are descendants of distinguished forbears. . It says: Any person who describes himself or is described as a descendant of George Wash ington is necessarily comic. Kerboo'j, nampd Adams is a member r.f the .rlain as likewise of the older Adam's family. It would have bs-en more rn'reshinK to in sotoloiii.sl or the ftmient of human nutu ti Samuel Adams of Oreffon had been de scribed as a depconriant of Sam ,lams of Massac nuacttF. who left only female de .iceni.ants: but perhaps su;h a flection is mere carping ami blip. The pret-s aeti of The Ortsoni.in Samuel Adams is less ro mantic than that of Mr. Elwuod Washing tnn. Is it curiouH or is it natural that th nominal ion in the primary or' c.mdniaiee for preniunt and viee-prenlunt should be reaarded by so many persons not serious duty, but as an irrenf!tibie oppoi"' lunity for a joke? It is not our understandiner that the present-day Samuel Adams il luminates the confines of Oregon by h.B permanent presence. We have forgotten where he hails from; but it is not from Oregon. All he wants from Oregon is to line the people of the state as a medium of personal notoriety. SIX-CEXT l-ARKS? OR MOIIK? A year or two ago, a candidate for the public utilities commission was elected on the slogan that a "6-cent fare is too much for a 5-c.ent ride." Doubtless it is; but a 6-ccnt fare is not too much for a 6-cent ride, nor a -10-cent fare for a 10-ccnt ride. If it costs 6 cents, or 8 cents, or 10 cents to give the service, it must be paid for. If 5 cents only is paid, the deficit must somehow be made up, either by an increase in fares, or by outright appropriation from the public or other moneys. Over at Seattle they have found that a 5-cent ride costs more than a nickel, and that the deficit created by operation of the municipal rail way is $500,000 or more per year. The public will pay the $500,000. Previously, the street railway com pany absorbed it; but it could, not be;ir the burden Indefinitely and sold out to the city for the sum of $15,000,000. Portland has a 6-cent fare, but there is no longer serious dispute that a ride costs more than 6 cents. If the street railway company must pay the excess, it is obvious now to the most casual judgment that it will go into bankruptcy. Possibly such a disaster would not disconcert certain promoters of municipal own ership who have no investment in the company's securities to lose; but it cannot be contemplated witli equanimity by the public. For it will be a genuine and very heavy public loss if it shall occur. Now it is proposed that the public shall 'determine what shall be done about the street railways. It will help to a solution of the problem one of the most vital in the exist ence of Portland if it shall be un derstood that the cost of service including operation, interest on in vestment, depreciation and all the other necessary factors of mainten ance of a necessary public enterprise must be paid in full, whether it is 5 cents or 8 cents or 10 cents for a single faro, SPRING GARDENING. It used' to be a widely accepted notion in agricultural circles that "dear seed means cheap potatoes," and that in other respects prices for food commodities might be expected to respond to a law of averages In a period of years. This was based, of course, on the common practice of farmers of planting heavily in the succeeding vear the croDS that had proved profitable toLheir foresighted neighbors. As to commodities which depended on a local market, the rule almost invariably held good. The consumer was able in" this way ..to alternate the benefits of low-priced food - with the exactions of high prices in other seasons. More recently it has not worked out that way. Potatoes, which serve as a good example because they are a staple, are easily' grown, are sold chiefly in local markets and ought to respond quickly to impulse, have been dear for a number of years, de spite the fact that they can be grown on a city lot as well as on a farm of a thousand acres, and require no more than ordinary knowledge of crop production. It is probably true that any man with a modicum of agricultural instinct, ordinary mus cular strength and moderate patience can grow a potato crop. Given a well-spaded bit of ground, fair seed and determination not to let the weeds take possession of the plot, and potatoes will be 'the result. The same is true in varying measure of most of the commoner vegetables. This was shown by our experience with town-lot farming during the war. The so-called war gardens, were on the whole a conspicuous success. Now there is a quite general ten dency to regard the emergency as over and the necessity for home gar dening as having passed. But the householder with a family of young sters who is confronted by the pre vailing price of the meek and lowly 'spud" is wishing that he had made I better use of his time and surplus energy last summer. But about the time that he ought to be. getting a lesson from his experience he wil be overtaken by a strange apathy. There is no disguising the fact that the home garden is again on the deciiui. 'let tkere. is no sound rem - lsoir - iDrheltBvlrisT that, as an eco nomic proposition, it is now as much called for aswt was during the war. The secretary of the Indianapolis Patriotic Gardeners' association, which put Indianapolis in first place in the war garden movement three years ago is quoted by the Indian apolis' News 'as saying that he can see no reason to believe that vege tables will be any cheaper in 1920 than they were in 1919. He directed in one season the planting of more than 60,000 gardens, and he" says that a mart with a plot no larger than. 8 - by 10 feet is justified in making an effort to grow something for home consumption. A whole city lot, wellf tilled, is capable of making a noticeable reduction in the family grocery bill. The whole scheme has an excellent foundation and those who are now urging that the gar dening movement be revived on a large scale are reasoning from sound premises.- There is plenty of time, beginning now. to make plans for home planting, and it ought not to be neglected. NO KEAR OF. PADDED VALUATION. There seems to be needless alarm on the part of state railroad commis sions lest the Interstate Commerce commission should adopt or seriously consider the investment accounts of the railroads in valuing the roads for rate-making purposes. The direc tions of the Esch-Cummins law are explicit that the commission must base rates on the. actual value f the property as determined under the valuation law. The railroad com panies' investment accounts may be used as evidence on their behalf, but ! rates are to be based on the present value of the roads as ascertained in dependency by the commission. The worst obstacle to smooth op eration of laws for regulation of rail roads is the persistence of habits of thought which became obsolete when the principle of public regulation was established in law. Formerly rail roads were public servants who de nied that fact .and who claimed the right to sell transportation at any prii e and on any terms they pleased, just as any merchant sells his goods. I3ecau.se they grossly discriminated, they came to be regarded as public enemies. Because they were over capitalized, their profits were often exorbitant and afforded a basis for speculation All of that relates to a past era; it is "old stuff." The law declares rail road companies to be public servants, treats them as such, and they have accepted the position. The law. through tho commission, fixes rates and forbids and punishes discrimlna tion and overcharges. The law says that rates shall be based, not on the amount of stock and bonds which a railroad company has issued, but on the present physical value of its property, as determined by detailed examination by. the commission's en gineers. The commission goes be hind the paper evidences of the com pany's property, pushes them aside. and judges by the property itself. As affairs now are, there is no further cause to regard railroad com panies as public enemies, for they have accepted the position of public servants, and the law holds them to faithful service. In the interest of those whom they serve, it is neces sary that they be paid such rates as will enable them to employ good, skilled men, to maintain their lines n good condition and to obtain cap ital for improvements and extensions, in order that they may serve' the people well. The alternative to gov ernment ownership, is no longer the condition which, prevailed before public regulation was established. The choice is between operation through the companies as agents for the people and operation by the gov ernment directly. After two years' trial of the latter plan, congress has decided on the former, and there is no probability that the decision will be reversed. GOVERNMENT SALARIES AND UNIONS. The cry formerly was, "Let the office seek the man," but the diffi culty with the government now is to make the office hold the man after it has found himl During the nine months ending January 31, sixty examiners in the patent office re signed to accept far better 'salaries in private employment. Three of them were principal examiners re ceiving $2740 a year. Two of these now receive $4500 a year from pri vate employers. So it goes down the line to fourth assistant examiner. The patent office cannot get enough qualified men to fill their places, and the house has passed a bill raising salaries and also increasing fees suf ficiently to cover the added expense and leave a good margin. Unfortunately an effort to exer cise business sense , in a particular case instantly raises the question of increasing salaries generally. A bill to grant flat increases of $240, $360 or $480 a year to all federal employes according to their present salary is being pushed by the National Fed eration of Federal Employes, and Representative Blanton made it the occasion for an attack on the patent office - bill. He read from the offi cial organ of that organization a statement bf the. political methods to which it resorts in order to coerce congressmen into voting the bonus.. The article says that "all employes in the government service will soon know just who are their friends or enemies In congress," because the federation "is busily engaged at pres ent card indexing every representa tive in the -capltol," that the "senti ment of congressmen on the legisla tive programme has been carefully followed," that the federation "will disseminate its voting information to every employe in the government service" and that it will also "sound out thoroughly each new aspirant to congress." It then makes this frank declaration: The .latlonal federation of federal em ploye! la massing' its full strength to pro cure a friendly congress. Not only will It blacklist certatn members of congress but every effort will be made to have every employe in the government service exer cise his full voting right. Representative Madden having said that there are now in Washington 40,000 "useless, - idle, unnecessary clerks," the opinion of Herbert D. Brown, chief of the bureau of effi ciency, was asked. He replied that he could not estimate the number, but that investigation had disclosed "the fact that there are very many superfluous clerks in Washington,' and that "it would be possible to re duce the number very greatly." He believed that affiliation with labor organizations "must of necessity re sult in a reduction of efficiency" and "has an unfortunate effect on the morale of the service." He held J that there was even more reason for tseparatlng . government employes than policemen and firemen from strike organizations, because- "a strike of government workers might involve practically the entire force In the government service" and ""would practcally result in the sus pension of all the functions of the federal government." Loss to the government of the services of highly valuable technical employes and the simultaneous at tempt of government employes in general to extort flat Increases In salary by threats to blacklist con gressmen are the result of a practice of congress the vices of which have been brought to light by conditions arising out of the war. Congress has preferred to authorize a large num ber of medioore men and women at mediocre salaries rather than a smaller number of well-paid em ployes of high efficiency. It has de ferred raising salaries to make them correspond with the higher cost of living, and has thus provoked federal employes to organize for the purpose of coercing it. There is a simple way to deal with the difficulty, but it requires courage, business sense and elimination of politics. By retiring the old and in efficient on pension and by requir ing a higher standard of efficiency for those who remain, congress would be able to pay as high salaries as could be obtained from private e'mployers without increase of cost and probably at less ultimate cost. No such condition as exists In tbe patent office could then arise, and there would be no excuse for govern ment employes to organize for the purpose of blacklisting congressmen. The field for criticism of the ad ministration is so wide that It was petty for Senators Smoot, Overman and Sherman to comment adversely on the mission of Miss Julia Lathrop chief Of the children's bureau, to Czecho-Slovakia. The Utah senator having read to the senate a letter calling this trip a junket. Senator Kenyon explained that that republic had asUed the state department for Miss Lathrop's assistance in solving some of Its problems affecting chil dren. She received ninety days' leave of absence to go there entirely at her own expense on this fraternal mission of aid to a young republic which is struggling to its feet. Criti cism of her action reacts on its makersl Oregon women who think them selves beautiful are advised to hesi tate about submitting their; photo graphs to a professor in Berlin for places In a book of ethnology. The motive may be all right, but the in timation that photographs ...in the nude will be accepted is not whole some. Besides, the Idea is I'russian and therefore suspicious. If there is danger of a shortage of potatoes in June, somebody must proceed to store thern now. Port land's thousands of visitors at that time must not find -us short of any thing not even the "spud," which can be served in fifty-seven ways. A man was arrested yesterday armed with a horse pistol and black jack and his other equipment com prised a bandanna handkerchief, sandbag, dagger and flashlight. Po lice think him a suspicious character. We wonder why. Ghosts of his victim have worried Salt .ake murderer into confes sion and police bureaus generally might add a 'department of ghogt- dlogy with profit. Imagine what a few ghosts could do around Second and Oak. In almost any other country Emma Goldman would long ago have faced a firing squad. Now she is said to be planning to aid a revo lution in America, but more than likely working for a meal ticket. Complementary to teaching the boys of Ockley Green school to cook, the girls should have a course in splitting wood and carrying it up stairs. There's no telling what may happen after marriage. The "unwritten law," peculiarly American, will get into British India, where a missionary from this coun try killed an officer at a small post tor reasons purely domestic. Dayton, O., a special industry city, Increased more than 30 per cent in population in ten years. Specializ ing in anything pays if the eggs in the basket are watched. Toledo on the Cowlitz puts in the first bid for celebrating the Fourth on completion of . the steel bridge. That's a good place for autolsts to get acquainted with. "It's no use to grumble and com plain," sang James Whitcomb Riley long ago. These rains are intended to prevent people from making gar den too early. For a wonder, a man has been acquitted in federal court of the charge of operating a still. Gener ally, indictment there is the first step to prison. We .may have a Japanese incident of our own, originating in Crook county, a good place in which to settle the matter. - It Is a little early to lay in next winter's fuel, but if the dealers can supply it buying now may mean a saving on coal. That was not a Spartan father in Chicago who shot his son to keep him from "the gang." He was just a crazy parent , Chicago chauffeurs keep pace with gasoline by demanding $2 more a day. The Chicago chauffeur is a swift fellow. Are you beating plenty of cabbage and onions these days? Both are fine spring food, after a winter of full meat diet. ' The bosses and sub-bosses of the civilian, .army of employes in the national capital must be purblind. Even the fortune tellers are rais- ini. V,at nwlnaa Title, cAmo Ka k.Mg lit 1 , IV.. A .1.-1 ottui, U UG 18. clear case of propheteering. Russia needs 32,000,000,000 rubles gold to restore herself and she'll have to dig it up to get it. The Dutch government has located the ex-crown prjnce on an island, and - there be can run wild. , Star and Starmakcrs. By Leone Cass Baer. The Great Lover, in' which Leo Dltrichetein starred several seasons ago and of which be was part author, will open In London Easter Monday. The English producers are Grosamith Se Laurillard, and Arthur Bouchler will play the role created here by Mr. Dltrichetein. As a matter of fact, the original plan , called for Mr. Ditrica stein's appearance in the play In Lon don, but due to the phenomenal suc cess' of "The Purple Mask," in which he is now playing at the Booth the ater, this proved to be out of the question..- However, Mr. Dltrlohsteln has chosen many of the cast for the English production. In thla connection it may interest patrons of the Baker theater to learn that Lee Millar of that company re ceived a telegraphlo offer from Mr. Dltrichetein to be a member of the London company. Mr. Millar had been with Dltrlohsteln In other plays and had created a role In "The Great Lover." Bcmi Mr Millar did not want to go to London at this time he telegraphed a refusal of the offer to Mr. Ditrichsteln. Sarah Bernhardt, now in her 76th year, has cabled from Paris to the Keith booking office In New Tork her acceDtanea of a vaudeville ' encaae - ment on our aide, commenoing in the fall. Madame Bernhardt has been continuously appearing in London and Paris and apparently thinks nothing of making another trip to America. Her engagement opens on October It and continues 20 weeks at a salary of $2300 a week. - Mclntyre and Heath are negotiating with the Keith offices for a summer engagement in vaudeville, asking $2500. Previously the largest salary they received was $2000. Bert Saoy of Savoy and Brennan, who come to. us on the. Orpheum, is wifeless now, A judge in Chicago has divorced him from Anna Kremper, his actress wife. Savoy's testimony was amusing, and among other ac tuations he charged Mrs. Savoy with wearing his stage wardrobe. Savoy, if you remember him, is a female impersonator and has several trunk t'uls of feminine trappings. Phil Baker, who was here at the Orpheum last week with his accor dion, had a breach of promise suit, brought against him by a non-profes-siojial named Belle Bereford, dis missed in Chicago the other day. Loretta Wilson, a youthful and tal ented Portlander, who has been In pictures In Los Angeles, in musical stock at the Alcazar and more re cently in stock at Tacoma with the Allen stock company, has gone to Boise, Idaho, to play ingenue roles with Majestic stock there. This Is the company in which Katharine Graham was playing leads when May Kobson telegraphed her an offer to b her leading support in 'Tish." Miss Graham Is receiving excellent notices everywhere 'Tish plays. This week the company is in Dos Moines. When the tour ends in June n Chicago Miss Graham will go to New York for the summer, opening next fall again in Miss Kobson's company. . We shall see Marjorie Kambeau this season in "The Sign on the Door. - Singer's Midgets are coming over the Orpheum next season. Josle Heather, the English co medienne, will leave New York in May to go to London to appear in a production. m w Haroer Brothers are to issue a novelizatlon of the Winchell Smith Frank Bacon success, "Lightnin . Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, niece of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robert son, haB filed in the New York county Clerk's office summons In a suit for divorce against Swinburne Hale. Th latter is an attorney and was a cap tain in the intelligence service of the general staff of the army. They were married In 110 and are the parents of twins. Additions to the cast of "What's in a Name?" John Murray Anderson's new revue, are Herbert Williams and Hilda Wolfus, known in vaudeville as the team of Williams and Wolfus. .Williams is the Orpheum funster who Wears his yellow shoes on the wrong feet, and gets "em all tangled up with the piano stool. He is the lad who says, "Hark-hark!" . Georgette E. Cohan, daughter of George M. Cohan, has come back to this country "for an indefinite stay" on board the Adriatic for the first time In seven years. Miss Cohan left the United States in short skirts and with her hair down her back and she returned nearly a grown-up woman and a stage star as well. She played in "Peter Pan" in England a,nd ha just finished a season in Mr. Pem Passes By" in. London. . Miss Cohan was met on the pier by her father. She was afraid at first that they would not know her, as she had grown up, but she was mistaken on that part, for her father grabbed her in his arms as she came -ff the angplank. The noted actor and play wright could not help exclaiming with admiration: "She's some girl!" "We've a number of good things for her," Mr. Cohan said after several photographers had taken pictures ol father and daughter. It is rumorei that her father is to write his besl play for her to star in. In Reading Pennsylvania, Rev. L. Grlswold Williams, pastor of the Universalist Church of Our Father, has shocked some of the more austere ministers of the city by reading sex plays from his pulpit on three succes sive Sunday nights. Last Sunday he read "Damaged Goods." The church service, well ad vertised by the two former readings, was filled to the doors. Many people could not get inside. The other min isters, while viewing the effect in ap parent silence, have discussed the matter at the weekly meetings ot their association, where none but the clergy could gain admittance. Mr. Williams, in his own delense, says he sees nothing so exceptional I in reading a play instead of preaching I a sermon on Sunday nights. "If the I play teaches a lesson it ooes tne same i thing a sermon is supposed to do,' he says. "The monks originated the play after it had been almost forgot ten. Thev traveled to nearby towns during the dark ages and told theirj lesson by means of plays. They kept! the play alive. So why shouldn't a i clergyman today teach his lessons in the same way?" J ' " . ' ' T :-' . , ... .. i .. Those Who Come and Go. ! Two pioneer atockmen of Silver he ImDerial. One Is A. B. Schroeder and the other T. J. LaBrie. He was a wild buckaroo when he first went Into Lake county, was Mr. LaBrie, and because of his ad venturous spirit, be undertook trans porting treasure. In those days there were no banks nor express compa nies In Lake county, but Mr. LaBrie transported $9000 in gold in a strong box in a freight wagon from Rose burg. In 1885 he entered the stock game. Mr. Schroeder began pioneer ing in Lake county about 182, when it wae a real range country and be fore the farmers began moving in and everyone was a neighbor within 100 miles. Mr. Schroeder i now in terested in making two blades of grass grow where none grew before. He has made and lost fortunes in the stock business and is now one of the main push behind the Silver Lake irrigation project. Accompany ing Messrs. Schroeder and LaBrie i O. OEmundsen, a dry farming expert, who Is on the irritation board. Mr. Osmundsen is comparatively a new I comer, having been in Silver Lake only some ten years. j "There is a prospect of a resumption of the plan to build a rauroaa irom Grants Pass to Crescent City, Cal," says Frank Bramwell at the Hotel 1 Oregon. "The line has been built out 1 of Grant Paae about 14 miles and during the war progress stopped. Ap proval to carry on the project was received from everyone, including a promise from W. G. McAdoo, then railroad director, but when the time came Mr. McAdoo put the kibosh on it. There is a water grade that can be followed from Grants Pass to Crescent City and from thera on the road can follow the coast, with San Francisco as the ultimate destina tion. Such a road would do away with hauling heavy freight trains over the Siskiyou mountains." Mr. Bramwell has been mentioned as a possible can didate for the state senate on the republican ticket from Josephine county. He is not expected to rtin, however, if the veteran solon. Dr. C. J. Smith, wants to be returned to j Salem. 'wk.n wo were hnv.i we used to say of some fellow that "he has a lot of braes." That Is what a friend of his remarkkJ yesterday of James Blair Cassell of San Francisco, who is at the Hotel Portland. The brass referred to is in the form of valves and fittings for steam engines and power plants and heavv machinery. Brass Is almost as valuable as gold these days and the buyers of equipment and ma chinery for ships are seeking the manufacturers who can promptly mi their orders and in some cases it is about art even exchange of the money metals for the brass in manufactured form. Once in a while someone comes to Portland from Gold Beach, in remote Curry county, and the latest to make the venture is A. V. uougnui. Al though Gold Beach is the county scat, it is not Incorporated; in fact there is not an incorporated town in tho county. Gold Beach is situated on a beautiful strand, littered with drift wood, and nearby is the mouth of the Rogue river, which at the point where it enters the Bea is only a few jumps wide, but through this narrow iraD the famous steolhead salmon enter from the sea and make the Rogue one of the best streams tor sportsmen in .North America. Think of a watch running 92 years and still keerrins as good time as ttie Hnv it was turned out bv the maker. That is the sort of tlmenjece that H. W. Hamlin, of Underwood, Wash carries. He was showing it at tne Se Ward, where he is registered, re turning home to the White halmon country from a trip east. The watch Has presented to one of his ancestors in 1822, on the occasion of tho an cestor's graduation from West Point The watch has been handed down from owner to owner and the proof that it is a feood timepiece is the fact that it is running today without los ing or gaining a second. Geologists who have made, the ex amination assert that one of the finest beds of coal in the west is near Powers. Coos county, the town E. J. Loney registers from at the Im perial. There are three layers of coal within six miles of Powers, and the lowest strata Is the best. Also, near by, there Is said to be a mountain of iron ore, although there is more ques tion about the ore than about the coal. Some enthusiasts predict that with the iron ore and the coal, Coos Bay will some day. become a second Pittsburg, but that happy time is so far in the future that the average citizen doesn't expect to see it. The only safe way to have a place to live in at La Grande is to buy a home," declares J. H. Peare, jeweler, who is on a trip to Portland. There is not only a scarcity ot houses, but even a scarcity of rooms.. Anyone who Is renting a house is likely to have bad luck, for there Is no telling when someone will come along and buy It and Mr. Renter will be out in the street. This condition, however, appears to prevail in every town. La Grande has always been a cood and nroBperous town and it is continuing to be in that happy state." Mr. Peare is one of the entnusiaiua road boosters of Union county. A. M. Standish, of The Dallea, ac companied by Mrs. Standish, Is at the Imperial. Mr. Standish is awarding contracts for several buildings which are to be erected In Eastern Oregon, the plans for which he has recently comDleted. He reports business ex ceptionally good. Mrs. Standish Is havins: a visit from ner latner, j. r. Conroy, of Colorado, where he is in the cattle business. Mr. Conroy drove to Portland by auto and reports the nmta in AAtlsfectorv condition. Mr. Conroy contemplates locating east of the Cascades. The neonle in the east and middle west who have holdings of Oregon timber are legion. Some of them are always bobbing up at the hotels in Portland and then get out into the forests to see how the trees are grow ing, or watching the general develop ment of the lumber industry. One of these outside taxpayers is Frank Tloutin, of Minneapolis, who is at the Multnomah. Tourists in Southern California are going home about as fast as they can. A party of 15 men and women from various parts of Canada arrived at the Perkins yesterday, having spent the winter and a great deal of money in Los Angeles and vicinity. Postmaster and owner of a general store at Warrenton, Or., is O. Clif ford Barlow.. Also he Is a member of the executive boar of the state chamber of commerce, and It Is in this capacity that he Is now In Port land and Is registered at the Im perial. - High-power explosives are the par- ticular fad of A P. Van Gelder, who lg at the Multnomah with Mrs. Van Geider. He is the general superln- tendent for a concern wnich manu factures explosives. The couple is making-a tour or tne -acuic coast from Wilmington. Del. , Tew-people in. Portland know that Seattle has a cut glass company, but it is a tact, nevertneiess, ana j. v. Prosser, manager and treasurer of the concern, is at the Multnomah. s ,'-:'. .. " '- . 8AYETR THE OREGON JiEWSPATER ! Meoteaaao Verdict Generally Cob j demaed Other Commit. Baker Democrat. The Montesa.no affair was a farce according to seeming universal opin ion. The Armistice day murderers were either guilty or not guilty. There was no middle ground upon which to base the verdict rendered by the jury. Mack Law, Mark Lawlesraras. Athena .Press. The Montesano verdict Is Just an other reason why America, with so much law, has also mo much lawless ness. "Sop to Hot a Sides." Union Republican. The verdict is generally considered a "cowardly compromise," making goats of some of the accused men and freeing others. To the outsider it would appear that the men were either guilty of first-degree murder or nothing, and that all were in the same boat. Can Happen Mrbhe So. Tillamook Headlight. The verdict In the Centralis I. W. W. case was disappointing and dis couraging, and It goes to prove "what is often said of trial by Jury one never knows what a Jury mill do. The trial of the men on the other charge for murder must be prosecut ed with renewed vigor, for It is plain to most people who followed the evi dence carefully that appeared In the newspapers that it was a caae of pre meditated murder and that Is the only verdict that should have been brought in. Jurj PonaeT Wasting. Wheeler Reporter. Held In contempt by the convicted, by the attorneys for both defense and prosecution, and by everyone aire Is the Jury who by some strange line of reasoning compromised on the ver dict In the recent I. W. W. case at Montesano, Wash. The defendants were either Innocent or guilty of first-degree murder. The Jury evi dently thoucht. them guilty, but either through fear or from some other motive, were afraid to face their plain duty, rolnler Heed. Scio Tribune. The Tribune Is not an alarmist, but thinks our nation Is too cloae to na tional danger to be at all comfort able. It is time to quit the mealy mouth business and Ret sternly down to meet the crisis which undoubtedly Is nenr. All organizations whose pur pose la to destroy the government, are traitors. "The penalty of treason Is death," says the, G. A. R. ritual and it Is our national duty to scotch this danger before It gathers force. The Unjustified leniency of the Mon tesano verdict Is a pointer we should heed. "Fat Sauce." Sheridan Sun. The trial Just ended was for the murder of Grimm only and now they will have to defend themselves In the charges of the assassination of the others who fell cm that fateful day. Let us hope justice will then be meted out to the guilty. qneatlnn of Moral Ciullt. Marshflcld Record. If one. with malice, inspires an other.to shoot n particular Individual we suppose that without doubt he could be convicted of murder. If with' malice to organised society in general, and not to any individual, one inspires by speech or writing arts leading to injury to persons or prop erty, or to the overthrow of lawful government, or contributes to a so ciety avowedly promoting such pur poses, he or she is morally guilty of whatever happens as a result. The question Is as to how far one can go without committing a statutory crime. Insult to I.alMr. Corvallla Gnaetie-Tlmes. Labor unions are making no friends for themselves In their verdict of ac quittal for the Centralis murderers. Organised labor constantly complains of the attempt to hook It up with I. W. W.lsm. yet It never loses an op portunity to condone I. W, W.lsm. This special labor Jury was Itself an Insult to American institutions and the acquittal of these dastardly crim inals by the labor Jury Is an Insult to the Intelligent majority of labor itself. "You Caa Kever Tell." Rainier Review. The verdict Is a conipromlae ver dict, aa most Jury verdicts are. The old saying that "you can never tell what a Jury will do" h.iB been strong ly reaffirmed by the Montesano Jury. who. personalty, are all good fellows and good citizens. Una Weakened Labor. Oregon City Knterprlae. The open-shop principle has progresaod farther in Washington ; than In Oreiron. bt the battle for tho American plan of dealing with farm laborers was f: a month wlth lahor is onlv lust becinnlnir to arrive out board, or 114.00 with board. In Orecon. The division In the ranks of organized labor between the radi cal and middle groups has weakened labor to a marked degree. Hnnariaa Necessary to Reform. Estacada News. In first degree murder, the writer Is of the opinion that the safety of society and the reformation of the criminal are best secured by the in fliction of capital punishment. The latter point may seem dubious, but he gives It advisedly, for he Is con vinced that however faulty human Judgments ma be, the Judge of all the earth will do right, and that di vine Justice regards the reformation of the criminal. Voters Want to Kite. Union Republican. There Is a noticeable dearth of po litical announcements In Union county just at present, and the voter is anxious to know Just who will he In the running, especially In the icounty. It is time for some of the candidates to say something. Old-Kashloned View. McMinnvllle Telephone Register. The Telephone-Register believes In woman suffrage and their holding of minor offices, but doesn't look with pleasure on their seeking activities in political turmoil such as nominating conventions and like occasions for mingling In the rougher political movements, and questions greatly whether they will enjoy It. The thought Is suggested by the smbitisns of certain women in the state to get Into the fray. The Price of I.alh. Bend Bulletin.. It is a tribute to the right public policy of the Shevlin interests that shortly after they Issued a statement to the lumber trade saying that the price of Jath waa indefensible the Weyerhaeuser Interests put the price ' down. .Comforting o tke Walker. Corvallis Gazette-Times. There are some compensations In not owning a motor car you don't have to lose any sleep everj- time gasoline takes a jump upward. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jaaira J, Mealaaae. ' DOCTOR BROWN. When children fell and broke their bones Folks always sent for Doctor Jones, When babiea got the tummy ache. Their parenta called in Dootor Blake. But not a family in town Would aver send for Doctor Brows. Adittle liquor now tod then Is relished by the beat of men, But Doctor Brown, alas, waa not Contented till he had a lot And folks who fear they're, going t die Prefer to have their doctors dry. But slnre that fatal July First. The well-known date that outlawed ' thirst. The gents who liked to have their fling Would give old Doctor Brown a ring. And to the druggists they would tot Prescriptions that the Doctpr wrote. Doc Brown has got three big new cars, He's smoking flfty-cent cigars. And swarms of peoplo who feel 111 Come dally to Invoke his lUtill. P. S. Our mnral indicates That all things coma to him who waits. Mle Tine lft. We trust the senate will do some thing derintte before all Its members go to Chicago and Han Kranclioo to be nominated for president. a Jast a llahlt. General Foch is now Jnmplnt through a hoop for exercise. It la fia longer convenient for bin to make Ludendort do It. Oallyl A Kew Tork boy of II ha needs T600 a year from his father's estate Mas the prlre of cigarettes gone op aa high as all that? (Copvriaht by the R-ll gynairatt. tne.) Little, Girl. Ity Mraee t Hall. Eighteen! You are a woman new. Life's outward trails are calling you: June weaves a roae-wreath for tour brow. All set with diamond-drops of dew, The birds are trilling of the spring, iou pause a moment In fir 1 Ik h t, . Before you spread the fledgling wln. And from the home nest take your flight. The greatest gift of life you came And twinrj your fingers round my heart. Ton kindled thst most sacred flame. Whose warmth shall nevermore de part; And when the way Is lone and drear And shadows settle dark and lew, A whispered prayer shall calm your fear. Breathed through the dusk of lon ago. Perchance another winsome maid Shall smile Into your eyea soma day. And you will tell of years that fade, And how life gives and takes away; Porhups her eyea shall sometimes hold A look like mine, then you at last Will compai's all my love untold. That speaks to you from out the past. 4 In Other Day. Twenty-five learn Ai. Frrm The Orrgonlan of March S3, tan.'. Kansas City. h'lre In the Held pa. king plant last night did dumiito amounting to mora than 1.00n,oo. Krnft Wyss, an Insane patient from Bay City, Tillamook county, rn route to the asylum, while emle.ivorlnK to escape from his guards, fill from the .Morrison-street bridgo and was drowned. United Mates engineers In a pre Mmlnary report on examination of the Tualatin river from ita mouth to Hlllxhoro say that It Is not worthy of Improvement. Fire Inst night did damage amount ing to 10,000 to the Longshore Print ing company. Front and Alder streets, John OVonner and H. K. Hattln & Co,, commission firms. Fifty Years Abo. From The Oregonlsn of March 2ft, UTO. Hacramonto A bill la pending in the legislature proposing to foster Iron manufacture In this state by a bounty of $11 a ton. The total amount paid to teachers In Marlon county for the year was l.'i.329.23. The average monthly sal ary was 140.20. Thomas Mountain has been ap pointed port warden at this port on application signed generally by lead ing business men. Washington. Statisticians of th department of sericulture show that In 1SI56 the average of waeea for Thirty years aero waires averaged Marriage I. lee nee Reqajlrt-meata. CAMAS, Wash., March 23. (To the Fdltor.) (1) To obtain a marriage license In Oregon or Washington la it absolutely necessary to have wit nesses to swear to age, etc.? (3) What must new arrivals do to obtain audi licenses when they have no witnesses with them? (3) When the partlea are Iwlra th required minimum are, are witnesses needed? JpH.M A. SMITH. (1) A witness la required In either state, but for full Information con cerning requirements In Washington write to the county clerk, Clarke county, at Vancouver. In Oregon one wltnesa muat accompany the peraon applying for the license and swear to the fact of residence of the bride In the state, that she la above legal age and that there la no known im pediment to the marriage. (2) Get a wltnesa ' (3) Yea. WITH T II K WHIM" OF CHASt'K Al TKKTI Of OKII.I.. There are three departmenta in The Sunday Oregonian that cater to comparatively small, but absolutely exacting, clien teles. A typographical error In any of these would attain the proportlona of tragedy, did It alter the meaning the leaat. They are: Auction bridge. Chess. Checkers. Auction bridge la analyied In Its many phnses and playa by Annie Blanche Shelby, who knows more about the game than the well known Mr. Hoyle. The chess and checkers columns are edited by E. H. Bryant, of tho Portland Chess and Checker club under whose printed tutelage hundreds of Oregonian readers have grown adept and formidable at two of the oldeat gamea of the race. I I ' r - i. A - . ivv- I " Y : .-VJe7 " 2. . v.' ,'' .V-'.Vw-