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THE MORNING OllEGONIAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920
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THE EXPELLED SOCIALISTS.
Expulsion from the New Tork
legislature of five socialist assembly
men Is notice to all men that they
will not be permitted to use office
in any state government as a means
to overthrow those governments or
the government of the United States.
They are expelled not for holding
socialist opinions but as members of
an organization which exists for the
purpose of destroying the state. As
members of the socialist party they
have given' pledges to use their
offices to tear up the state constitu
tion; as assemblymen they would
take an oath to uphold the constitu
tion. They cannot at the same time
be true to both of those obligations;
they must necessarily be false to one.
Neither the nation nor any of the
states can safely tolerate officials
who own a doubtful, much less a
double, allegiance. The duty of their
loyal servants, executive, legislative
or judicial, is to defend them against
enemies who would bore from within
as well as those who would attack
from without. For these reasons
expulsion of the five assemblymen is
justified.
Much has been said of the charges
against these five men as an attack
on the right of free speech and on
the right of minorities to represen
tation. Association of those rights
with the case betrays confusion of
thought, perhaps deliberate on the
part of some men. The right of free
speech carries with it responsibility
for abuse of that right. These men
abused that right during the war by
giving aid and comfort to the enemy
in almost any way consistent with
the safety of their own skins. Their
most flagrant acts of disloyalty were
to urge men at meetings and in
writing to evade the draft and not
to contribute funds to the war. They
did so as members of their party
which had adopted resolutions de
nouncing the war and urging its
members to oppose its prosecution,
if they did not do so individually.
No alien has a right t a voice
In the government of the United
States or of any of its states. The
socialist party of this country in
cludes thousands of aliens among its
members and it is closely affiliated
with similar organizations in other
countries which outspokenly advo
cate triumph of socialism by revolu
tion. Men who accept nominations
to office from the socialist party are
required, as a condition of their nom
1 inatton, to leave a written resignation
with the executive committee, which
is at liberty to make it effective at
any time when the official disobeys
the committee's orders. An official
thus pledged does not act on behal
p of all the people in his district, but
; of the socialist party alone. He rep
' resents not only those members of
the party who are legal voters but
many aliens who have no right to a
voice In our elections, also the for
' eign revolutionary societies with
which the party affiliates. To permit
' ; these men to have a part in making
; and executing the laws would re
' duce the representative system to a
i mockery.
No obstacle ha been or ever will
V be placed in the way of representa
tion of minorities, provided they ex
press or try to make their' opinions
effective by the means which the
constitution permits. Those means
-7- leave wide latitude and they get re-1
suits. Within seven years they have
procured adoption of three amend
ments to the federal constitution, and
a fourth is on the eve of adoption.
I ":: No minority advocating a principle
which appeals to the reason and
sense of justice of the people need
, . despair of winning a majority by
constitutional means, for every tri
1 ' umphant majority started as a
' minority. The socialists in New Tork
s have been barred, not because they
". are socialists nor because they are
a minority, but because they are not
content to win supremacy as a ma
; jority, by lawful means, aiming to
;- establish minority rule by means of
i revolution.
The voters of the districts which
" these men represent have been de
prived of no right, for they have no
, right to elect men who are disloyal
to the state. If the five truly repre
sent their opinions, then the voters
V.. themselves are disloyal and have no
right to a voice in the government;
If not, then the loyal have been
y: deprived of representation for the
V .. benefit of the disloyal. The five have
been branded as traitors by the
assembly, and it cannot be success-
- : fully maintained that such men are
qualified for office.
;" The New York assembly is to be
! . congratulated on having been deaf
to the clamor of all the noisy ele
ments of disruption and of their
- wall-meaning but misguided friends.
TTia work which it has begun at
Albany should be continued at Wash
ington, where the department of
labor sadly needs purging.
Talk of a third party to nominate
Hoover does not suggest much con
fidence on the part of his backers
that he can get the republican
nomination, but most significantly
such talk originates with democrats.
They would like to save their own
party from defeat by drawing the
ENOUGH IS TOO MICH.
AIIIEXA, Or.,, March 31. (To the Edi
tor.) In the editorial article, "Headed
Off,' you say: "It is beyond our present
resources for speculation as to the future
to hazard a guess as to what various
democratic shouters for Mr. Hoover will
do, when and if he gets the republican
nomination." Being one of the democrats
who circulated a Hoover petition, I will
say, should he get the republican nomina
tion I will still be shouting and voting
for Mr. Hoover, the man.
Will The Oregonlan be kind enough to
say what it will do if Mr. Hoover should
get the democratic nomination?
LOU HODGENS. '
The parallel is not exact, and the
inquiry is a non sequitur. The Qre
gonlan has circulated no Hoover pe
titions and has not been shouting for
Hoover as a candidate for president,
and it is not at all embarrassed by
his announcement that he will accept
the republican nomination if it is
"demanded." Certainly he will. We
have a notion that even . President
Wilson his health permitting
would not decline the republican
nomination if it were to be delivered
to him on terms of his making. Who
would?
We do not affirm that the political
status of the president and that of Mr.
Hoover are identical. Mr. Wilson is
a democrat and Mr. Hoover is not.
Mr. Hoover is a republican. He says
he is, and that settles it. A man be
longs to the party he thinks and says
he belongs to.
But we will answer the question.
We could fairly decline to answer on
the ground that the hypothesis is
unsound and impossible. Mr. Hoover
will not be nominated at San Fran
Cisco, unless the democratic party
has lost its senses, and is willing to
admit it. But if he should be in
the remote and inconceivable con
tingency that he should be The
Oreg&nian has no present idea that it
could or would support him. It has
had enough, and more, or the demo
cratic party and its presidents.
unavailing effort to induce China to
enter upon negotiations, Japan has
secured removal of the chief obsta
cles at Pekin through forced resig
nation of the minister and vice-minister
of foreign affairs, who had re
fused to negotiate but had preferred
to submit the matter to the league,
and the Pekin government . is now
said to contemplate negotiation.
Japan is no doubt eager to get the
job done before a new president of
the United States is inaugurated.
Of what avail are all the crocodile
tears which have been shed in the
senate over the wrongs of China?
GOVERNOR LOWDES AS A CANDIDATE
Mr.- Lowden emphasizes in his
platform filed at Salem the salient
features of his record as governor of
Illinois. It is natural and proper.
He would do for the nation what
he has done for-a state replace in
efficiency with efficiency, eliminate
waste, require work, abolish sine
cures, co-ordinate departments, make
economy a reality and not a word,
impose bearable taxes, have a budget
system, give the nation a breathing
spell. He is for the league of nations
with reservations and otherwise he
is in accord with the dominant senti
ment of his party.
The real merit of the Lowden can
didacy is that it is based on achieve
ment. He faced difficult problems as
governor, and he solved them, over
the opposition of the organized ap
petite of the job-holders and the
politicians who gave them their
places. It was formidable in Illinois,
as it is everywhere in America. Few
governors have the nerve to with
stand it and even fewer have the
capacity to devise and make effective
a constructive policy of administra
tion -as substitute for the kind of
public service it stands for. What
Mr. Lowden could do at Washington
is indicated not so much by his
pledges as by his performances.
A president must, of course, give
more than a business administration
The demand, chiefly from the voices
or business, big and little, for a
business man for president has little
to commend it, if that is all the
country is to have through him. It
is just as much a mistake to elect
a business man for that reason as it
is a college president for an identical
reason. If business is vital to 1
nation, so is education. ' The presi
dent should be something more ;
great deal more. There is a stand
ard of statesmanship which must be
measured up to by a president if he
shall give a wise administration, and
it includes business, education and
many other. things. .
What Governor LowcTen has done
he has done well; what he would do
in the larger sphere can only be
determined by actual test; but he
promises well.
CHEAPER MILK. -
Milk consumers, who are the pub
lic, have gained something through
the reduction, awarded by the may
or's commission of two cents a quart,
but they will do well to bear In mind
that nothing permanent is to. be
gained through the demoralization
of a necessary industry. Ther is
somewhere a line below which con
sumers would not ask that the price
be driven, since this would inevitably
react against future supply. Milk
men now say that, owing to the
closing of certain markets notably
the exporting condenseries to their
product, they are left with large
supplies on their bands, which the
public do not consume. ' .We are
not yet so accustomed to being told
that there is a sufficient supply of
anything that we cannot react
to so important a statement. It is
good news that, at least, there Is
promise of milk for all who want it.
But it may be well to inquire what
would be the result of ruthless invo-
cation of the law of supply and
demand. To insist that because
there is a surplus which may be
local and temporary of milk, the
way should be opened to unbridled
competition, leading to prices that
admittedly would not pay cost of
production, would be to ignore the
imperative necessities of tomorrow
Not only in the present, but in the
future, a milk supply must be pro
vided for. Producers undoubtedly
have their problems. It is true that
feed is scarce and expensive and
competent help not only much more
costly than it was a few years ago
but hard to get at any wage. It also
s true that milk has not advanced
in price in proportion with a good
many other necessities, or in propor
tion to the diminishing purchasing
power of the dollar. For these rea
sons, among others the public is not
warranted, under present conditions,
in expecting early restoration of any
thing like pre-war prices in the milk
industry.
Yet there is a sense in which the
milk interests are still on trial
Though consumers may concede the
right of producers and distributors
to a fair reward for their services.
they are not ready to tolerate
unnecessary items of expense, o
long-continued wasteful methods of
production or delivery. The Dairy
men's league, for example, has de
clared Its policy to be one of fai
play for the milk-user. In fact, all
sides profess to be animated by the
same feeling of concern for th
people. Very well; presently we
hall see what is being done about it.
If, happily, production costs shall be
reduced later on, we shall expect to
see the change reflected in a revised
schedule. And if some of the e
pensive absurdities of duplication in
distribution, which are admitted on
all sides to exist, can be eliminated
we shall expect the public to derive
some of the benefit' there, as well
Everyone, we take it, wants "fai
play," But there ought to be a com
petent as well as a well-meaning
effort to see that ,there is fair play
cnougn to go around.
poses to leave the - Turk this last
foothold in Europe.
These fears are supported by a
tissue of fact and fiction woven by
Turkish agitators. Constantinople
Is not the holy city of Islam; Mecca
and Medina are sacred to Mahomet.
The caliph is the successor or repre
sentative of the prophet and the
title was ceded to Sultan Selim I by
the last of the Abbasid caliphs when
e captured the latter with Cairo in
517. The sultan's claim to the title
is denied by the Sunnites, who com
pose half of Islam, and Agha Khan,
religious chief of the Indian Moslem,
pays so little respect to it that, when
the sultan proclaimed a holy war in
914, he-told his followers to pay-
no attention to it and to remain loyal
to Great Britain. " Whenever Turkey
has been in ,danger of losings terri
tory, the cry about the sanctity of
the caliph and his domain has been
raised, with threats of a world-wide j
Mohammedan uprising, but it died
down when ignored. The one thing
which Asiatic races respect is force,
and they quickly take advantage of
weakness. The feelings of the Mos
lem, would be- wounded by loss of
St. Sofia, but so were those of the
Christians - when Mohammed the
Great took it. He won It by force,
and the Christians have as good a
right to recover . it by the same
means, especially since they built it.
It is unfortunate that the United
States did not win a clear right to
a voice in the Turkish settlement by
making war on Turkey. It is still
more unfortunate that the president
should have impaired his influence
with the allies by engaging in a quar
rel with the senate. The fact that
they have asked his opinion is evi
dence of their desire for American
approval of their decision and of
their expectation that the United
States will ultimately join the league
of nations and thus acquire a- right
to question the justice of their action
toward Turkey.
BV-PHODICTS OP THE TIMES
Cptoo Sinclair's Adnstare With As
Ambitious, I'ssif rcrssry Reporter.
However, we began with the Idea of
establishing the fact that Upton Sin
clair Is not devoid of a sense of hu
mor, says Heywood Brown in the New
York Tribune, and in evidence we
offer the following extract from
chapter 34, In which Sinclair tells
how a young woman reporter from
the Los Angeles Record came to him
to get an Interview about "free love":
"In reply I explained to this young
lady that as a result of previous pain
ful experience I had made an Iron
clad rule on the subject of the sex
question. I would not trust any news
paper . reporter, not even the most
amiable, to Interpret my views on
that delicate subject. . .
"'Well, said the young lady, 'will
ou write an article on "free love
for "the Record"?!
' 'Certainly I will," said I 'if "the
Record" will pay my price.'
" 'What is your price?,
" "Ten cents a word."
"The young lady looked troubled.
I don't know if "the Record" could
pay that,' said she, 'but this is my
position I will explain frankly and
hope you won't mind. I've Just
started to be a newspaper woman and
I'm very anxious to make good. I
don't have to earn my living because
my parents have money. What I
want to do is to have a career. If I
Those Who Come and Go.
TAX REFORM IP TO LEGISLATURE
Mr.
It cost Sam DeHass several thou
sand dollars when he flipped a nickel
in the Benson lobby yesterday. Sam's
boy, -who goes to a high school in
Boston and Is captain of the baseball
team and is the catcher, wants a par
ticularly expensive automobile, in
stead of the high-priced six-cylinder
car which was bought for the family
several months ago. He has been
pestering his dad to sell the little old
last year's car which has run 4000
miles and buy the Juggernaut. The
boy wanted a reply by wire last night
so Sam tossed a nickel to see whether
he should wire that the new car could
be had or the old car retained. The
boy won, for the nickel came up heads,
and with a sigh Sam reached for a
telegraph blank. "And business," ex
plained Mr. DeHass, "isn't any too
rood, except in pecial lines." In the
mail yesterday Mr. DeHass received a
letter from his boy saying that the
youngster has bought and charged to
his father's- account a 14 catcher's
glove.
1
For 37 years E. Kelly of Eugene
has been scaling logs. He started in
this technical branch in the forests
of Michigan and continued In it when
he arrived in Oregon. For the past
two years he has been working in the
Siletz basin, where a company is op
erating in the big burn. There is
enough down timber from the fire of
a dozen years ago to keep the com
pany operating for two years more.
A sawmill with 125.000 feet a day ca.
go back to "the Record" and report 1 pacity is now being constructed and
that I failed to get an Interview I there Is a dam lor lours co "
, ,, . ... f. , ,. few hundred acres and 40 feet deep.
wont keep this job. So wont you . . h . . naVB b -hipped
please . write an article for me and let , t h-bii r-itv for cuttina- tin hereto
fore. Accompanying Mr. Kelly to the
Hotel Oregon is Mrs. Kelly, who is a
student at the University of Oregon
Wlttt
me pay for it at the rate of 10 cents
a word V
"Tou may share a smile over this
.;t,ii t -..,.- I and will graduate next year.
inem are ineir l w u bviiq. ridw
Mestfre Calls for Eleetlom af ,
Candidates Fled-ed to Act.
PORTLAND. Or., April 1. (To I
the Editor.) I have read with deep
interest and concern the comprehen
sive article bv Assessor Henry E.
Reed in The Oregonlan March 21 and 1
28, recommending tax reform, and
have also studied carefully the re
port of the tax supervising and con
servation commission of Multnomah
county as published in full in The
Oregonlan February 1. Both artlcl"".
If read by property owners, should
awaken them to the necessity of
taking action ere It is too late and
their property has been confiscated
by taxation.
As the remedy lies with the legis
lature, if the taxpayers would for
their own and the community's in
terest see to it that none but the best
fitted, sincere and determined men
are erected to the next session of the
legislature, unquestionably such leg
islation can be enacted as will accom
plish the end desired. It is high time
that those who should have the real
interests of the community at heart
take an interest in matters political,
as through this channel, and this
alone, can at least a check be put
on extravagance and waste of our
tax moneys. Let no man go to the
next session who has not pledged
himself to fight for such legislation
as is called for by the report of the
tax supervising commission and As
sessor Reed, herein referred to. Let's
all take an oar and pull together
and the result is easy of accomplish
ment. Let no one go to the incoming ses
sion who is not broad enough to look
after the taxpayers" interests and who
will treat with the usual "log-rolling
as a secondary consideration. v e
certainly have such men here and
they should be asked to serve and be
backed up by the taxpayers.
J. P. ME.N'EFEE.
More Truth Than Poetry,
Br James J. Honligsc.
JAPAN GRASPS OPPORTUNITY.
In what position does failure to
ratify the treaty of Versailles leave
Shantung? Clauses regarding Shanf
tung were one of the chief reasons
given by the death battalion for kill
ing the treaty. China is not a party
to it, therefore has not recognized the
rights which it gives to Japan and
has not consented to negotiate with j
that country for return of the prov
ince. The United States is not a
party, therefore is in no position to
enforce the pledge to return Shan
tung, which President Wilson ex
torted from Japan at Paris. The
United States is not a member of
the league, therefore cannot set it
in motion on China's behalf. The
treaties by which the allies agreed
that Japan should retain German
rights without restriction are still
in force and are executed by the Ver
sailles treaty. What backing has
China in holding out for return of
what Germany stole and Japan took
from the thief?
If President Wilson had assented
to ratification with the reservation
which withholds American consent
to the Shantung deal and with the
other Lodge reservations, the United
States would now have been a mem
ber of the league and would have
been able to use its powerful In
fluence on behalf of China. It would
doubtless have been supported by
other American nations and by some
European states. Senator Borah said
that Japan agreed to return only
the shell sovereignty and intended
to Keep tne Kernel economic con
trol; but the United States could
have insisted on return of the kernel
with the shell. In a position of isola
tion, this country can do little, if
anything. I
Mr. Wilson, so anxious for the
rights of China, has lost the power
to help that country by his policy of
"all or nothing." The irreconcil
abies, who were so indignant about
the. wrongs of China, have joined
him in destroying the most effective
means by which he might have
b.Clped. The force now exerted on
behalf of China is the passive re
sistance of its own citizens, to which
is added Japan's expectation that the
United States will yet become a
member of the league.
Time has been gained by japan
to bring China to terms directly be
fore the United States will acquire
the right to intervene as a member
of the league. At least a year must
elapse before that right can be ac
quired. Japan is making good use
Hooverites away from the republi
can party on the pretense that it is of this interval lo force China to a
nther too radical or too reactionary, I settlement. After four months of
THE PATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
American public opinion will In
stinctively endorse President Wilson's
protest against the plan of the allies
to leave Constantinople in the hands
of the Turks. In the minds of Amer
icans, Turkish rule is associated with
everything that is detestable in gov
ernment massacre, tyranny, extor
tion, corruption, fanaticism, social
and industrial decadence. Some con
quering nations have justified their
presence in the conquered land by
amalgamation with the subject race,
by admitting its members to an equal
part in the government, by enacting
beneficent laws and by promoting
progress in every field. The Turks
have done none of these things.
They remain, as when they first en
tered Europe, a race apart, claiming
the right of - might to rule, and
dwelling there only for purposes of
murder, plunder 'and oppression,
By that fact they - justify their ex
pulsion.
Constantinople in particular should
be delivered from the Turkish blight.
It stands guard over -the gateway
between Europe and Asia by both
land and water and is the outlet to
the ocean for Russia's only Icefree
ports In the south, but the Turks
have used its possession to blackmail
the nations that must use the land
and sea highways passing through it.
By closing this gateway in 1914 Tur
key hastened the ruin of Russia, ag
gravated - the scarcity of food in
Europe and probably added a mil
lion to the number of lives sacrificed
in the war. This splendid city of
Constantine, which for.centures was
adorned with masterpieces of sculp
ture and architecture and was the
center of Greek learning, has been
defaced and made foul by the gang
of robbers miscalling themselves a
government who have made it their
haunt. '
The reasons given for permitting
the sultan to retain the city as his
capital are of a piece with those which
have restrained the European powers
from ending Ottoman rule long
ago. They are the reasons of short
sighted, : shifty policy unredeemed
by any decent motive. One, though
not ncknowledcred. is that n naiinn
will yield fhe prize to any other and
that each fears to seize it because
war would result. It is also held
that the sultan is caliph, or religious
head, of the Mohammedan faith
and that therefore his expulsion and
the restoration of the mosque of St.
Sofia to the Christian church would
wound the religious sensibilities of
every Moslem in the world and pro
voke them to- revolt against non
Moslem rulers. The British flag
waves over mat)' more Moslem than
Christians, and John Bull is intimi
dated by protests from India and by
days of prayer in Bombay. France
has Moslem subjects In her north
African colonies, Italy has some in
Tripoli and Eritrea. The Turkish
nationalists and the Russian soviet
are conducting widespread propa
ganda and threaten to unite all Mo
hammedan nations for overthrow of
British power in Asia and Africa
In fear of such "a league Britain pro
' FARM SUPERSTITIONS.
It will not be surprising if the
experts of the department of agri
culture discover that there Is sound
reasoning behind some so-called
farm superstitions. Agriculture Is
deprived of the quality of exact
science chiefly by the variability of
seasons. It would be possible to pre
diet how a certain system of plant
ing would result if due allowance
could be made for a number of con
ditions, wnich, however, are never
successively the same. The diffi
culty always has been to lay down
rules in which scientific allowance
was made for all the factors neces
8a ry to its operation.
It is believed possible, however, so
to co-relate observations of the be
havlor of the natural flora of a lo
cality as to permit practical general
Izatlon. Our pioneers attempted this
in their own way a good many years
ago, the product being a collection
of maxims the value of which de
pends on the completeness of the
natural data of the original ob
servers. If the department can es
tablish, as an example, that the
leaves of the oak tree are always
the size of a squirrel's ear in a given
neighborhood at the particular time
when soil and season are best for
corn-planting, it will have elevated
an adage to the rank of scientific
statement. Early gardening, said
our forefathers, might safely be be
gun when the catkins were about
half formed on the maple trees.
There was something in the old lore
about the relation between time to
plant beans and development of wild
blackberries. It varied, however, in
different places and it will be part
of the department experts' task to
discover the truth in it.
It is not unreasonable' to suppose
that some tree or shrub in each com
munity may hold the secret of the
best time to begin some farm opera
tion. But since the ordinary run of
untrained observers are wont to re
member the exceptional and to for
get the unimpressively obvious, and
since data of this kind depend for
their value on elimination of mere
coincidence, tne department has a
huge job on its hands. Yet it will
be worth while. Maxims are exceed-
ngly easy to remember, a fact that
accounts for the vitality of those
that experience has discredited, as
well as those that have borne the
test of time.
ment; I argued with the young lady
that I couldn't possibly take her'
money. But she argued back very
charmingly; she said she would be
heart-broken if I did not consent. . So
at last I said: 'All right, I will write
you an article. How many words do
you want?" v
"The young lady meditated; she
figured for a while on the back of
her notebook and finally she said: T
think I'd like 60 words, please."
Doughnuts are paying the expenses
of eight Kansas boys, students at the
Kansas State agricultural college at
Manhattan. These young men were
organized February 10. 1920, as a
corporation called "The Perfect
Bakery," with a capital of $15,000
150 shares at J100 each. Their bakery
turns out all kinds of bread, small
cakes and cookies, but the specialty is
doughnuts.
The bakery is situated close to the
college campus and the best buyers
are the students, going to and from
classes. They simply can't resist the
sight of the crisp, brown doughnuts,
and the biggest sales come in the
afternoon, when the hungry students
are going home from afternoon
classes.
This business venture has the un
usual feature that all the corporation
members are fraternity men. Some
of the boys are sons of wealthy par
ents, but prefer to make their own
way in college, rather than be de
pendent on their fathers.
Doughnuts are sold at 3a cents a
dozen. Since they are cheaper than
chocolate, it is becoming quite proper
for Aggie men to buy a sack of
doughnuts to appease the appetites of
co-eds. Kansas City Times.
HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUST
BEE?
A busy insect is the bee:
A thousand bards, I guess, havs
said it.
But just the same, we cannot see
That he deserves especial credit.
Xor shall we waste our readers' time
With fulsome and enraptured
phruM
And make of them a fawning rhyme
To sing the small imposter's praises.
The bee does work: that's true
enough;
He violates all union hours
In batting round the fields to stuff
Himself with honey, culled from
flowers.
But if he paused upon a limb
To rest, or gossip, or palaver
His fellow bees would light on him
And he'd be left a cold cadaver.
He never quits or goes on strikes
Or visits with his idle neighbors.
But that is not because he likes
To be engaged on toilsome labors.
He never loafs, but that's because
The craven creature is afraid to.
He knows the Apiarian laws
And only works because he's
made to.
So often he's been sung about
That, in his silly little noodle.
He hasn't got the slightest doubt
That he) ia an industrial model.
We'll never praise the priggish bug;
The industry he makes such show of
Reminds us of a lot of smug,
Vain glorious people tha we
know of!
A aother Rejected Article.
No doubt Mr.. Lansing's candidacy
is also marked "Not acceptable.
W. W."
Mississippi is true to that peculiar
brand of southern chivalry which
cannot tolerate woman suffrage.
Some enlightened northern state
should be given a mandate to bring
such backward states up to the
American standard.
Lloyd George and Sir Edward
Carson show that John Bull can
make a vigorous kick back at the
senators who tacked the pro-Sinn
Fein reservation to the treaty, and
the trans-Atlantic debate warms up.
The Mississippi state senator who
declared passionately in the course
of the debate on woman suffrage
that he would rather die than vote
for it may get his wish when he goes
back home.
Federal reserve bank officials say
high prices have reached their crest
ana mat gradual relief, may be ex
pected. Very gradual, from present
indications.
There's one great merit in the
four-wheel "phaetons" on some of
the city lines. They cannot be
hopped" while In motion.
Harvard university reports the dis
covery of a new planet. Interesting,
indeed, but it doesn't reduce- the
price of shoes.
Even the stork must have a grouch
on Oshkosh, which made a gain of
only three-tenths of 1 per cent in ten
years.
"Occasional rains," quotes Mr.
Wells, who makes the weather. He
is disposed to give the sun a chance.
Good plan to bunch all the "drives"
Into one week, and still better to
make that week in vacation time.
Representative John H. Gardner of
Uvalde. Tex., has again risen to deny
that he is a "goat king." Moreover,
"the leading Texas congressman," as
he is known, says that he does not
understand how that story keeps bob
bing up. The late Sereno E. Payne,
when handling his famous tariff bill,
made a speech in which he said there
were 3,000,000 goats in this country,
and J:hat 2, 999, 999 were owned by
Garner.
"Hampie" Moore, now mayor of
Philadelphia, who was the "poet lau
reate of the house," took the cue and
wrote some verse about the "Garner
Goat of Texas." which was embalmed
in the congressional record as a part
of the tariff history. Mr. Garner
awoke his muse and replied in kind,
to the effect that "Hampie Moore is
a heleva pote. He don't know a sheep
from a goat."
As a matter of fact, Mr. Garner
solemnly avers that he never owned
a real goat in his life, but he admits
an extensive knowledge of "angoras."
Mr. Garner is the democrat "whip"
of the bouse, and there have been
numerous occasions when this agile
legislative acrobat and politically pre
cocious Texan has owned the "goats"
of Frank Mondell, Jim Mann. Nick
Longworth, Joe Fordney and other
republican leaders.
The (ashion of eating typically
English meals is steadily growing in
Paris says the continental edition of
the London Mall, and nothing is more
common than to see in the big busi
ness restaurants at lunch time
Frenchmen enjoying what is known
as the "asiette anglai.se." This is a
generous helping of assorted cold
meats, and with a salad and cheese is
Immensely popular as a practical
business man's lunch. In several
quarters the French taste for mutton
chops and underdone steaks is stead
ily increasing, not only in Paris but
especially In the commercial towns
where English habits have taken hold
during the war. While in London
tbe taste grows for luncheons on
French lines, with omelettes and sev
eral light dishes, in France exactly
the reverse is the case.
"Yes," said the traveler. "I had
an amusing journey up to town.
There were two Scotsmen in the carriage."
'How do you know they were
Scotsmen," asked the cashier curious
ly. "By their accent, I suppose?"
"No; you see, they both happened
to take their pipes out together.
Well, they filled them, and then each
calmly waited for the other to strike
a match."
"Well, what happened?" -
"Oh, I brought out my pipe, so
both of them waited for my match."
London Answers.
dents at the university. Since the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly some
27 years ago, this is the first trip
they have been able to take together
from home.
There are fewer Fords and more
high-priced cars in Pendleton and
Umatilla than in any otner city or
county in the state, the number of
automobiles in use considered,r- de
clares W. P. E. Pruitt of Pendleton,
who is at the Seward with Mrs. Pruitt
and daughter. "Umatilla county is
wealthy and the prosperity or tne
people is evidenced by the class of
cars thev use. The bitr. hisrh-Driced
cars are most common, for the wheat
ranchers can afford them." A Port
lander who visited Pendleton a few
davs aero says that in a tour around
Umatilla county he saw only two of
the tin Lizzies, and all the other ma
chines were the costly ones. Mr.
Pruitt says that while there has not
been much snow in the mountains,
there is ample moisture in the soil
and everything looks good for a fine
crop this year.
Motoring in California is delightful
at this season, the golden state ap
pearing at its best following spring
rains that were most welcome after a
long-period drouth, according to J. C.
Ainsworth, president of the United
States National bank, who has just
returned from a -acation trip south.
Accompanied by Mrs. Ainsworth. he
made the trip south- from San Fran
cisco over the coast route, returning
via the new highway through the in
terior, by which a mountain pass is
crossed at 51000 feet elevation and
attained over a paved roadway with
maximum grade of 6 per cent.
There is a vast amount of differ
ence between Portland. Me., and Port
land, Or., as E. R. Baxter, at the Mult
nomah, will attest. Mr. Baxter is
head of the Portland Packing corn
nan v. which has canned goods of all
sorts. While Portland, Or., was named
after Portland. Me., it has far out
stripped the latter. And. if the his
toric coin had flipped the other side
up. the Rose City would now be Bos
ton, Or.
Among the Hotel Oregon arrivals is
E. L Masterton of Molalla, named
after th Molalla Indians. The price of
civilized colonization at Molalla was
the extermination of the aborigines.
The Molallas, which were not a very
strong tribe, are supposed to have
been an offshoot of the Cayuse In
dians, who crossed the mountains and
preferred the Willamette valley to the
desert country.
Robert A. Booth, member of the
state highway commission, is regis
tered at the Imperial. Mr. Booth, since
his former visit to Portland, has
swung around to Chicago and then
down to Lk Angeies. tie nas jusi
completed making a trip over the Pa
cific hisrhway from the state .line to
get a personal idea of the condition of
the roads and the progress 01 me
highway work.
SERGE A XT PUSS ALSO HONORED
Retirement of Gersias-kors Soldier Is
Occasion of Sissial Ce-rensooy.
CAMP LEWIS, Wash., March SI.
(To the Editor.) The Oregonian's ar
ticle describing the high honor paid
a retiring sergeant by the first United
States infantry impressed me greatly
because the preceding afternoon the
55th artillery, C A C, also stationed
at Camp Lewis, Washington, had paid
a like honor to a retiring member.
First Sergeant Wilhelm Pluss, of
the headquarters company.
First Sergeant Pluss was born in
Kiel. Germany, on October 8. 1871. and
started his American army career in
company A, 16th United States in
fantry, on March 29. 1898. He was
credited with double time toward re
tirement for more than eight years'
service in the Philippine islands.
With their army savings, this faith
ful soldier and his wife have pur
chased a ranch at Tuckwila. near Se
attle, and have entered the chicken
business.
Your readers may decide what oc
cupation he could have entered that
would ha?e more thoroughly Amer
icanized this good citizen than the j flickered out
ui:i:upi)un lie Uliut. scrvufl ill vu
American army.
JAMES S. DUSENBURT,
Colonel. 55th Artillery. C. A. C.
Simplicity Itself.
The reason the price of milk is
advanced in the spring is because it
costs so much to throw away the
over supply.
(Copyright. 19I0. the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Storm Pictures.
By Grace E. Hall.
It was a fierce, wild day. The
snow, each flake a sharpened pellet
stinging like a whirling lash, scur
ried before a frenzied gale which
seemed to blow from all directions at
the same time and from which there
was no escape.
On such a day I saw a dog crouched
beneath a tumble-down shed as the
icy wind swept by; a dog unclaimed
of man and recent target of untaught
and unheeding youth broken and
bruised and hungry, alone in the
storm with less of shelter than had
the rabbit yonder in the bleak field.
I saw him crawl forth and from be
neath the sifting snow dig out a
frozen bone and gnaw it intermit
tently, too nearly paralyzed to greatly
care whether the life-spark kindled or
Looks as if the democrats will
have to Hooverize o n . Hoover
whether they want to or not.
specials in .Hosiery, quotes a
store ad, and most men have theirs.
for a fact.
The frek spelers hav dropt thair
noshun to reform the English lang-
widg.
Quite a bit of gun play locally
these days, but it clears some situa
tions.
"Rastus. how Is it you have given
up going to church?" asked Pastor
Brown.
"Well, sah," replied Rastus, "it's dis
way. I likes to take an active part,
an' I used to pass de collection
basket, but dey's give de job to Brot
hah Green, who jest returned from
Ovah Thaiah."
"In recognition of his heroic serv
ice, I suppose 7"
"No. sah, 1 reckon he got dat job in
reco'nition of his having lost one o"
his hands." San Francisco Argonant.
Hoaglin blossomed on the register
at the Imperial. T. H. Hill is respon
sible for putting it there. A search
of the regular maps failed to show
Hniclln anvwhere in sijrht. but the
postal guide proved a. better source of
information. Hoaglin, be it known, is
a postoffice in Douglas county, on the
Umpqua river, 24 miles northeast of
Roseburg, with plenty of mountains
in the vicinity 3000 and 4000 feet
high. The country is adapted for
stock.
Salesmen for cloaks and suits who
are in Portland hotels visiting the
trade complain that business isn't as
good as it was. They haven't decided
whether the dealers stocked up too
much and haven't got rid of the mer
chandise or whether the prices arc too
hisrh. Anyway, they say they are not
selling anywhere near the. goods they
did on their former trips.
S. Saburl. first assistant secretary
to the Japanese embassy at ash
ington. D. C, is registered at the
Multnomah with Mrs. Saburi. They
are beinsr entertained by T. Suge-
muri. Japanese consul, who gave a
luncheon for them in the gold room
yesterday and later took the visitors
for a drive over the Columbia high
way.
One of the best known citizens in
the state is William Hanley of Bums,
who is an arrival at the Multnomah
Mr. Hanlay Is not likely to attend the
democratic convention In San Fran
cisco because there is a strong re
semblance between Mr. Hanley and
William Jennings Bryan, but the re
semblance is facial, not political.
From John Day comes A. A. Dean,
on business bent, to the Imperial
Grant county hasn't an extensive
population, but It has an active one,
judging from the number of people
from that county wno are arriving
In Portland every weeK.
Frank Creasey. president of the
Kiawanis club of Astoria, is at the
Benson on club business. In the City
by the Sea he is a hardware dealer,
a line he followed when in Portland.
Mrs. J. M. Murray, wife of the man
ager of the O. & W. hotel at Hunting
ton, Or., is registered at the Mult
nomah. Before the days of the rail
road. Huntington was a station on the
stage line.
State Highway Engineer Herbert
Kunn arrived yesterday to attend the
meeting of the commission. He has
been touring eastern Oregon road
work.
F. M. Skillern. a merchant of Boise.
Idaho, is registered at the Hotel
Portland.
Bis; Mas 'Wasted for Vlcc-Presideot.
KELSO. Wash., March 31. (To the
Editor.) There appeared In your pa
per a letter written by Charles 1L
Carey of Portland regarding the nom
ination of vice-president, I concur
with Mr. Carey in every particular.
It might be added that we need a
man for vice-president who is big
enough for the presidency, and it
might be further added that the con
stitution should be amended to the
effect that if the president became
Incapacitated from sickness or dis
ability to perform the duties of his
office the vice-president should im
mediately perform the duties of president.
In nominating a president and vice-
president men should be nominated I
who are philosophers, politicians,
statesmen and diplomats, especially
t this time of reconstruction and
economic unrest. We have just been
through a period that has demon
strated the lameness of our constitu
tion, especially on the above point.
Whoever is nominated for president
at the republican convention, and
whichever candidate receives the sec
ond majority vote, should be declared
nominated for vice-president.
REPUBLICAN.
Llnrola Critics Shame-less.
ILWACO, Wash., March 31. (To
the Editor.) Please permit me a few
lines commending The Oregonlan for
its defense of Abraham Lincoln as an
emancipator.
Whoever wrote that article, man or
woman, was in small business. Every
school pupil of a reasonable age
knows the character of Honest Abe.
We are all familiar with his Gettys
burg address. Read his letter to the
mother who sacrificed her sons in
battle; also, remember his debates and
still he was always broad enough to
hear and admit of constructive criticism.
Let the writer who wrote condem
natory of his emancipation principles
hie themselves to Rhode Island or
New Jersey, for probably rhey still
believe in secession. Shame upon
them! As you say in your closing
phrase, "The test of greatness of mind
is greatness of performance. By these
tests Lincoln lives in the hearts of
mankind." MRS. ED HAWKINS.
And 1 said In my heart that this
was the saddest sight on which my
eyes had ever rested.
But on another day 1 saw a woman,
gray of head and sad of face, going
out Into life in her early winter sur
rounded by the fragments of her shat
tered faith, a sacred thing which once
despoiled is never again made whole.
I saw the merciless winds of gossip
and scandal and censure sweep madly
about, though not against her; saw
her crawl forth alone, figuratively
bruised and beaten and maltreated,
into a world which has but too often
only a gibe for the victimized;
Saw her hesitate in choosing be
tween the frozen bits of sustenance of
an occasional friendly word and the
oblivion so near at hand in the river's
sweep
And then I knew truly that this was
the most pathetic thing which I had
ever witnessed.
And then I saw a spirit of divine
healing steal softly over her sick
ened brain; saw hope revive within
her tortured soul: saw the daily
growth of a great and touching sym
pathy for those in sorrow, and her
merciful understading of humanity's
frailtie!?.
I watched the ministrations of her
gentle hands in new-found tasks of
mercy; saw the transformation of a
human soul as it stood forth purified,
refined and made strong and tri
umphant through suffering:
And. having seen, I realized that
only through having followed the path
which leads through a Gethsemane
are we made broad and fine and firm,
capable of a great and tender under
standing and of a perfect sympathy
for our fellow men.
In Other Days.
Meaning: of Megalomaniac.
ILWACO, Wash.. March 30. (To
the Editor.) What is the meaning of
the word "meglomaniac?" 1 cannot
find it in the dictionary. Is it a
word coined during the war?
READER.
The- word, correctly spelled "mega
lomaniac," is derived from the Greek
"megalo" (greatness), and "mania,"
and is defined as one possessed by a
mania for doing great things, or
laboring, under grandiose delusions
concerning himself.
Let Each. Salt Himself.
CORNELIUS. Or., March 81. (To
the Editor.) You are right. There is
altogether too much telling the other
fellow bow to do it. If the old gen
tleman of 80 wants to get up at 3
A. M- and the lady, who, naturally.
does not state her age. wishes to
have her breakfast at 10. let them
suit themselves. Why is it necessary
to do the silly, make-believe baby
act of putting on the clock to pull a
man out of bed at a A. M. when be
does not want to get up until 6?
READER.
Tweaty-FlTe Years Ago.
From The Oreironlan of April 2, lSt5.
Aberdeen. Hegular train service
was started yesterday morning on the
extension of the Northern Pacific into
this city, a consummation for which
citizens here have long labored.
Major B. B. Tuttle of Portlana
was yesterday appointed adjutant
general of the Oregon National guard
by Governor Lord, succeeding Colonsl
K. W. Mitchell.
The annual commencement exer
cises of the medical department of the
University of Oregon were held last
evening in the high school assembly
room, six young men receiving
diplomas.
J. T. Hayne. editor of the Port
lander, will not be school clerk of
district No. 1. b"r he was unable to
file the required bond and resigned
at yesterday's meeting of the board.
PREJUDICE.
It has no eyes, no ears, no heart.
No brain, no soul this thing called
Prejudice
But heavy-lipped and with obdurate
Jiw
And eyes obfuscate it walks the round
Of martyrs' pyres. Nor obsecrate
hands
Which plead for pity its dark breast
may move. "
To it there Is no beauty, truth or love;
No praise for virtue and no pride in
worth ;
But, dead to these and dead to God
and 'right.
With brutal brow and squalid shuf
flings. It hovers at the van of all progres
sion And with ape arms and fist of wick
edness Strikes every angel of Advancement
down.
GUY FITCH PHELPS.
Fifty Tears Ago.
From The Oreffonlsn of April 2. 1S70.
Washington. The president. Gen
eral Sherman and several members of
the cabinet attended the funeral of
General Thomas at Troy, N. Y.
One hundred and fifty students are
now enrolled in the Portland acad
emy. 10 of whom entered in the past
week, the term being just half ended.
It is reported that one of the wood
en tenements being removed from
First street will be taken to Third,
between Alder and Morrison,, and
fitted up as the German school.
Hon. A, B. Meacham arrived in the
city last evening from east of the
mountains and will, it is said, bring
bis family to Salem.
WHITHER AWAY OX THE
WANDERING ROAD f
Road's end Is the hut in the
wilderness, where all trails
grow faint and cease to run. It
lies at the end of a thousand
roads, broidered with leaf and
turf, and laced with laughing
streams.
And that's why it's fun to be
a motorist to slip away some
morning on a road your car has
never taken. In quest of road's
end and wayside adventure.
And all roads. In their mcan
derings, are sometime subject
to discussion in the columns of
the automobile section of The
Sunday Oregonian. where Lair
H. Gregory holds forth for
many an interesting paragraph
and page.
You'll find the road you're
looking for. with data invalu
able, somewhere in the Sunday
auto department.