8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, APRIL G, 1920 iltm-mnjj()rtminn ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK- I'ubllshed "by The i)regonian Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan , a member o( the Asso ciated Press. The Ausoclated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) rlly. Sunday Included, one year .... .3800 rallv, Sunday Included, six months . . Dally, Sunday Included, three months. I'ally, Sunday included, one month . . lailv, without Sunday, one year Tallv, without Sunday, six months . - -TJai: v. without Sunday, one month "Weekly, one year ............ Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) Dsllv. r-unday Included, one year .... I'sily. 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It" will 'hardly be con tended by the thoughtful that there Ik not in many quarters a disposi tion to overdo amusements. A good as May is, ii7. we were still urging that ideal of time and money are spent battleships be sent to yards to have work , in rrivoIities that are entirely waste ful. But this is error of. ludsrment 4.25 2.25 .7S BOO 8.25 .60 l.OO 5.00 9.00 2.25 .75 7.80 1.85 .65 done that was essential to their efficiency. The navy was not ready when the tJnited States went to war. Daniels did not exert himself to make it ready, but obstructed the efforts, -of subordinates to mane it reaay. e deceived the people by saying that it was ready. By his obstruction he ran grave risk of German victory over the allies. If they had 'made a separate peace, probably at least part of their navies would have been added to the German navy, making it superior in material strength to ours. If we had continued to fight alone, our navy, its efficiency lim ited by- Daniels, would have had to fight the German fleet for 'control of the Atlantic. Defeat would - have cleared the way for Invasion. These are the risks which Daniels ran by the conduct described by -Admiral' Sims and Captain Laning. THE RISKS OF SLACKJERISM. Startling as were Admiral Sims' disclosures of the navy department's failure to prosecute the war at sea by furnishing him promptly with the ships and officers requested, the con dition revealed by Captain Harris Laning, former chief of operations, is even more startling. He gives the companion picture to that which Sims displayed. While Sims in Eu rope vainly called for ships, men and material during those critical months when the U-boats were winning the war, Laning and other bureau chiefs vainly tried to get authority from Secretary" Daniels to send them. They found Daniels too occupied with trifles to sign' the necessary orders, and Laning finally exceeded his au thority in order to comply with Sims' requests. The navy was unprepared. short of men and with ships out of repair and had made no plans, yet Daniels told congress and the people that it was "all right and entirely ready." " Sims begged often for more offi cers. Laning made it "one of the rules of the office" that he "was to get them, but always had great trouble getting such orders signed." Daniels said several times that "he didn't want any more officers sent abroad." "Of rourse," says Laning, "they had to go and we sent them by the simple process of assuming an authority we did not have. The navy began the war with no "broad and clearly defined plan' but with "merely a series of efforts exerted in several directions." Con sequently Admiral Benson was un able to 6end to Sims "the anti-sub marine craft" that were so badly needed on the other side" or to tell Sims "what forces were ultimately to be sent to the war zone." Daniels was so occupied with all matters of the department that, "he never had much time to give to us on the more important affairs." Offi clals could secure only a few mln utes to discuss an important paper, and would generally be told to leave the paper with him (Daniels) for "consideration." Then comes this word-picture of confusion: WET LOfiIC. In the recent literature of the Association Opposed to National Pro- ibition the statement is found, in support of the contention that.pro- ibition is a failure, that "if one knows how and where and has the price, he has little difficulty in -Ob taining his favorite tipple in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco or any of the other large cities." Yet it will be admitted by a good many who could, be persuaded to take a drink if the thing might be one easily that the "how" and the where" and the "price" especially ; the price "-do constitute real ob stacles. At $20 a quart, for illustra tion, it will not appear to the man in the street that whisky is as "easy to get" as it ever was. It is denied in the .same statement that prohibition has' resulted in a ecrease in crime. "The figures do show," says the association, that there is a pronounced falling off in the class of cases familiarly known n the police courts as drunks and isorderlies. On the other ' hand. rimes of the magnitude Of felonies have increased. The successful safe breaker or second-story man doesn't usually get drunk before he begins work." aJust what it was meant to prove by this appeal to statistics -we fail to understand. Is it meant to show that crimes of sobriety have been stimulated by the falling off in drunk and disorderly cases? Or what? Papers left for consideration were for the moat part not heard of again until the officer who presented the paper hunted It out. Frequently the paper could not be found. lr it was louna. there wouia usually be some reason for not approving It or for further delaying action. That was why Sims was kept wait ing for means of fighting submarines during those six months when they were sinking ships at the rate of 600,000 tons a month This condition was traced back to the pacifist policy of unpreparedness which Daniels pursued before the United States went to war. . Herrce "the fleet was not properly read when war was declared "When it Was apparent that war could not be avoided, the department did not do those things that ought to have been done to make the navy ready." "A carefully drawn-up plan was prepared, but was not approved, and as a result the navy did not have any general plan that was based on the peculiar conditions.' The consequence was that "the va rious parts of the department could make no co-ordinated effort, but each part was obliged to do what that part thought might be best.' "It was always difficult and fre quently impossible to obtain the de partment's approval of essential plans and policies.' This made it necessary for subordinate officers to go far beyond their authority to get things done." Daniels deceived the public as to the strength and condition of th navy. . He based his statements of its strength on the total number of ships, though "a ship alone "means nothing in readiness for war." There were "personnel difficulties on even the best-manned ships" and others "were laid up Immobile and there fore useless for lack of officers and men." No sufficient effort was made to remedy these conditions, and they were not remedied, yet Daniels said in his annual reports to congress an to the press that "the navy was all right and entirely ready. . A report of Admiral Mayo, com mander-in-chlef of the Atlantic flee showed that when war was declared conditions required "100 days to get all battleships of even the activ fleet materially ready for war." For months before February 1, 1917, the department had fairly accurate in formation . of Germany's submarin building programme and of its inten tion to carry on unrestricted subma rine war, but "failed to take steps to get the fleet ready for war. rather than, fundamental sin, and the remedy' is education, not banish ment from opportunity to learn through experience that more dur able satisfaction may be found in other ways. - The wholesomeness of a particular form of amusement en terprise is another question to be determined, as church people them selves recognize, by discriminating regulation rather than by condemna tion of a whole. It is not news that the attitude of church members toward amuse ments per se is more tolerant than it was a generation ago. But it is a curious manifestation of conserva tism that the movement to abolish a penalty that is to all intents and purposes a dead 'letter should gain headway. so slowly. It is too early to predict that the general conference- will- be governed by the advice of the New Jersey brethren, but it is pretty safe to venture a guess that it embodies the views of a large majority of the younger members of the church. it- might have taken more, we have this consolation that the demand for bituminous coal is about 600, 000,000 tans a year, while the pro ductive capacity 700,000.000 tons. That condition will stimulate com petition and force down prices, so that high profits will not long continue. ' TRADE WITH Rl'SSIA. The Portland Chamber of Com merce practically proposes that this country accept bolshevist rule as an accomplished fact and that it aban don any attempt to stand alone. in a position of non-intercourse with Russia since the allies are renewing intercourse. The time has long since passed when the United States could have intervened to save Russia from bolshevism without a degree of ef fort that the American people would not readily make "and without an appearance of wanton meddling in another nation's affairs. The time for effective, justifiable intervention was in the summer, or at the latest the fall, of 1918, when bolshevism was plainly an agency of Germany for assimilation of Russia, when it was desperately struggling for life against the social revolu tionists and the Czechs and before it had yet assumed the guise of a genuinely Russian government. In effective intervention has accom plished nothing except to aggravate the sufferings of Russia and to ren tier the. soviet more insolent and boastful. ' If the United States and MR. SCHWAB'S ADVICE, Charles M. Schwab, who is fairly entitled to be called an authority on success, told the undergraduates at Princeton Ahe other day that they could have a good time in life or they could have success, but they could not have both, and then he proceeded to prove that he was wrong by showing that the only pleasures worth having come from observance of certain rules of con duct which lead to success in its highest form. The seeming paradox arises, of course, from his failure to define "good time." Only the shallow-minded will insist that this consists in endless rounds of enter tainment. with no attendant obliga tions. Mr. Schwab himself believes that there is no, delight worthy of comparison with the sense of achieve ment of a worthy task. Most of the ingredients of the steel man's recipe for success would have an agreeable flavor if taken separ ately. He urges young men to be particularly assiduous in cultivating friendships. "You will be surprised," he says, "at the pleasantness that will surround you . when you have made friends instead of enemies." He says that loyalty to one's asso ciates is prerequisite to success and this, too, i will be conceded, is apt to bring its own reward. Unimpeach able integrity, another virtue on which he insists, is pretty sure to contribute" to the happiness of those who make it a rule of life. It is also the foundation of credit, without which material success is next to impossible. Imagination, singleness of purpose, doing one's very best. being unafraid to change from a distasteful occupation to one which on mature reflection promises to be more agreeable all, it would seem, contribute essentially to the "gooa time" that the young man who plays the game according to the rules is likely to have. In substance, Mr. Schwab's phil osophy is that the right way is the the allies did not intend to inter vene to the point of victory, they would better have done nothing. If we resume trade with Russia, we must have no illusions as to what it means. The pretense of the allies that in opening trade with the co operatives they do not deal with the soviet should deceive nobody. The soviet has brought the co-operatives completely under its control, has made them an instrument of its gov ernment and has appointed some of its high officials as their delegates to the allies. It will not waste the opportunity to spread, its insidious propaganda in other countries. As this work has been placed in the hands of the third international which has been organized indepen dently of the soviet government, this can be done without apparent breach of any agreement to refrain from agitation which may be given to other nations. While permitting trade, the gov ernment of this .and the allied coun tries will need to establish a rigid quarantine "against bolshevism and at the same time will have to' stop attempts to destroy it in Russia. Its destruction must come from within, and may be hastened by cessation of danger from without and. by the proved superiority of the much de nounced, system of capitalism over communism. Rich trade is to be had in Russia, but care will be neces sary that It is not won at too high a price. PINNING DOWN MR. POST. By calling upon Acting Secretary of Labor Post to reverse his decision that mere membership in the I. W. W. is not ground for deporta tion, of aliens, Attorney-General Thompson of Washington may suc ceed In smoking out that eminent parlor bolshevist " and may compel him to come out In his true colors. Before the recent trials and convic tions of I. W. W. in Washington, Oregon and California, Mr. Post may have had some color of a legal excuse for the position which he took last December. He now has none. Organizations which advocate crim inal syndicalism have-been declared unlawful in all three .Pacific states, and membership in them has been declared a felony. The courts of Washington in twenty-one cases that have come to .trial have held that membership, in the absence of any overt act, comes within the definition of the crime, and in seventeen of those cases juries have convicted. Two trials in Oregon and apparently some in California have had the same result. The three states are as one in condemning the I. W. W. as a seditious conspiracy which ad vocates, destruction of property, in timidation of citizens and revolution by violent mass action, and to which the third international at Moscow and 'the communist part in America hold out. the hand of fellowship. If the conspiracy were confined to the Pacific coast, these three stater would have a valid claim to the sup port of the federal government in crushing it and In ridding themselves of the conspirators. But the I. W. W. extends throughout the country, and the government itself established its seditious character by securing the conviction or Haywood and more than a hundred other leaders. The federal law of Oclober 16, 1918, con demns such organizations in substan tially the same terms as the Oregon and Washington laws. It is properly the duty of the attorney-general of the United States to prosecute of fenders against thistlaw and of thi labor department to deport those of them who are aliens. "The ruling of Mr. Post has lm posed upon the states a task which should be performed by these of ficials. At great expense they prose cute under state law men who are actually offenders against ' federal law. They can only make themselves safe against activities of alien con spirators by imprisoning the guilty at further expense. While Mr. Post maintains. his present position, the states cannot desist from this policy with due regard to their own secur ity, for any aliens-whom they might hand over to the Immigration of ficials for deportation would be set free to resume their pernicious work. The only chance of securine ceportation would be by proving overt acts in pursuance of the con spiracy, which is practically impos sible. We know that the I. W. W. teaches sabotage; we know that it is practiced, but the members are careful to practice it when nobody is watching. To presecute, the I. W. W. in each county would be successful way. It is an agreeable thought that practice of the simple virtues is likely on the whole to re sult at once in material advance ment and in the inward satisfactions that go so far toward making life worth while. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE. The proposal of the "New Jersey conference of the Methodist Episco pal church, that the penalties of "a thoughtful and instructed con science" be substituted for expulsion for infraction of the church disci pline relating to forbidden amuse ments probably Interprets correctly the spirit of a large number of Methodists even in jurisdictions in which no formal action will be taken toward modification of the discipline itself. New Jersey Methodists view with , "deep concern" the great in crease . in participation - in ceYfain forms of amusements, but they are not willing to retain among the laws of the church a statute . that for years has been more widely honored in the breach than in the observ ance. Churches are few and far be tween in which the amusement pro hibitions are enforced Jn the spirit in which they were originally en acted. . The tendency toward leavingques tions of amusement to individual conscience is one of the signs of more liberal times, but perhaps even more largely a protest against hypocrisy. Not a large proportion of (rood The dreadnoughts did not go to Methodists- are willing , to -condemn the yards for overhauling for many ! the theater and the circus, the edu- weeks after the declaration of war, A report on the war situation pre pared by Laning three weeks before we entered the war showed "how ut terly unprepared we were at that time" for a war against submarines. "With the exception of 52 destroyers, of which only about 30 were manned cational value of both being widely conceded. The noteworthy pageant which was a feature of the church celebration at Cincinnati last year gave expression also to the feeling that the arts of the theater are not necessarily devices of Satan to se duce the children of earth from the for active service, the navy had prac- worship of God. Holding these views tically nothing with which to combat submarines." . . Before and after February 1. 1917, y and even after April 6. authority was asked to get the ships, particularly the heavy ships, ready to fight, "but the authority to get the heavy ships ready was long coming." Laning made this statement of contradiction. as individuals, churchmen are in creasingly disinclined to permit the church to retain penalties which are practically incapable of enforcement. In submitting the issue to the "thoughtful and instructed con sciences" of Methodists, the Ne Jersey conference gives wide, hut not undesirably wide, latitude . to . its THOSE BIO COAL PROFITS. The degree of truth contained in W. G. McAdoo's charge that coal operators made profits running up to hundreds and even thousands per cent during the war is indicated by the majority report of the bitumin ous coal commission. Mr. McAdoo's statement referred to the year 1916, before the war income and excess profits taxes had been imposed, but the public was left to infer that equal profits had been made in 1917 and 1918, after the imposition of those taxes. In an effort to approximate the facts, the commission compiled table from reports made by coal operators to the internal revenue bureau, representing about one-third of the production in 1918. and it was assured by the geological survey "that therelative figures would not be greatly different if all the oper ators were included." It shows that about one-ninth of the tonnage was produce at a loss or at a profit o less than 5 per cent on invested capital, about 48 per cent "at profits of between 6 and 25 per cent, about 40 per cent at over 25 per cent. Of the latter total only about 6,000,000 tons out of a total under considera tion of about 18O.o6o.O0O tons was produced at a profit of 100 per cent or -more, and of this the commission says: , , . - The-companies reporting very high rates of return upon Investment are all small concerns with Investments of only a few thousand- dollars, whose net income repre sents, to a large extent, the earnings of the owners lor their own labor and man agement. In his minority report John P. White attempts to discredit these figures by assuming that the per centages are calculated on paper capitalization, not upon actual in vested capital. To illustrate the fic titious character of the former, he says that practically all of the com mon stock of the Pittsburg Coal company was given as a bonus and that of its $68,000,000 capitalization "little more than half represents actual Investment of money or of property." But the majority's cal culations are based on returns to the Internal revenue bureau, which de mands reports of actual invested capital, hence criticism based on fic titious capital falls to the ground. The high scale of profits, which was under 50 per cent on 86 per cent of the tonnage, was abnormal andr-j was one of the unavoidable conse quences of the necessities of the war. There was need of all the coal that could be produced at any cost. It was impossible to vary the price at Individual mines in proportion to cost of production, hence a price had to be fixed which would induce a man' to produce whose cost was high, and the result was excessive profit to the man whose cost was low. The government took as much as it thought wise of -the latter"s excess by way of taxation. Though B Y-r It OUl CTS OF" THE TIMES How Animals Lraro Euct Methods In ' Acquiring; Food. Started on & train of thought and reminiscence by the question: "Does a 'coon have to "be taught to suck eggs?" a correspondent of the Spring field Republican mentions several cu rious incident of animal instinct or wisdom: "In the Smithsonian institution in Washington, there is a model of a vulture in Australia in the act of killing a sheep, digging into its back to get at the kidneys, which are ap parently a favorite food for the bird. The attached label tells that the bird was not originally a sheep-killer, but having learned the state and location of the kidneys,- the bird now does great damage to the flocks of sheep In Australia- The new generations of these birds undoubtedly learn the method of obtaining and location of the food which they seem to enjoy, by observation. "At Palatka. on the St- Johns river, where shad are taken in gill nets from December to April, I once saw a number of large shad which looked very lank. Inquiry in regard to thera revealed the fact that when the shad becomes enmeshed in the gill-net, and is helpless, and probably dead after its exertions to escape, the eels, which apparently enjoy shad-roe as much as do some epicurians, will -force an en trance through the mouth or gills into the shad's interior and eat the roe. Of course, this method may have been "discovered" by some wise old eel after man had also discovered how to capture the shad, and so the eel family are profiting by the explor ing investigations of 'the first eel. which told, or showed, how to do it. "When having a winter home on the west coast of Florida, our visiting friends used to enjoy wandering along the shore of the gulf, where there was a large windrow of shells of many varieties, some of them very handsome and attractive. One was called the 'calico clarrwT with plaid markings, from which its name was derived. The shell is rather thin, and none were ever found that did not have a perfectly drilled hole as if done with a twist drill, directly over the place of the strong closing muscle in side of the clam. The creature boring the hole was perfectly aware of the exact location of the closing muscle and after boring the hole of course the muscle was destroyed, the clam had to give up, and the at tacking creature, which was appar estly created with special apparatus to prey upon the clams of that kind had a regular 'clam dinner.' If not by instinct, how did the first attacking creature know how and where to begin its boring operations?" Those Who Come and Go. 'iSK OF" NORTHWEST DONATIONS How Money Raised for Devastated Prance la Apportioned. PARIS. March 19. (To the Editor.) George Putnam. Salem editor, was The Portland committee for devas on his way to Spokane last night to I tated France have been so generous in attend a meeting of the Associated ; nelpins. to remstate the destitute Press when he met A. E. Reames of paasant ln tnat part of tn, Aisne un Medford in the Hotel Portland The American commit- resultant argument over the steel- . . head in the Rogue river became so in- tee. "t I hope The Oregonian will teresting that Mr. Putnam decided find space to publish the list of dona- I More Truth Than Poetry. j Br Juu J. Montacne. that he would rather talk fishing than newspaper press service. According to- Mr. Putnam, there should be a deadline established at tidewater in f the Rogue river and the weekly closed period should be 36 or 48 hours instead of 24 as at present. Mr. Reames wants to go further. He as serts that commercial fishing should be abolished in the Rogue at least un formidable undertaking, though the states are equal to it If no better remedy can be found. If they had the hearty co-operation of the fed eral government, the task- would be greatly simplified by deportation of the alien members. The anomaly of union "strike breakers" is seen in Chicago Just now, battling the outlaw switchmen. What It is that brings about these affairs is the wonder, but a contract is a contract and no union ever loses In abiding by its terms." This trou ble can better be settled with fists back of the roundhouse, and no doubt much of it will. ' If - wheat drops to supply and de mand basis when food control ex pires, tnat may oe the date of a general smash down the line; but anything may happen and the coun try would better go along with its buying and selling as usual and face trouble -when trouble comes. Carpenters at Butte returned to work yesterday under an agreement that is ideal and needs only to be lived up to to bring about condi tions of peace everlasting. Both Sides have made concessions and none of them will hurt. The result will be watched. If Senator Smoot never does more, he will have done plenty If he stops official waste of paper and printing by bureau officials in . Washington. To be sure, lots of people would be put out of work, but the call of pro duction is loud in necessary lines. A woman of the Bronx, who has been married three times, says bow legged men make the best husbands. Possibly; but if she goes to the movies she " knows the pigeon-toed fellows make love the best. About this time in the biennial term the best man in his neighbor hood is a candidate for something, to whom haif of the people point with pride and the other half prepare to knock. ' The Japanese general staff has decided "to remain in Siberia, after all. May want It to send" recalcitrant Japs to, if reports of recent .disturb ances against the x government are correct. The blizzard destroyed this year' apple crop in Missouri, according to J Reports, out sne nas tne rosy-cneekea girls left, no better in the Union- That was community of Interests with a vengeance that made a Lane county couple grandparents three times in one week. Eugene V. Debs Is one candidate for president who may be expected to object vigorously to a third term. The prairie states will forget their Easter blizzard when spring opens with a rush in a few days. Coast league ball is on today, but wait until it starts here! The fan is "hongry' for it. ' Felipe Salazar, until now virtually unknown, has acquired celebrity by writing the following letter to the Santa Fe New Mexican. "Editor, New Mexican: Being that ever since I had use of reason. It h pleased me to associate myself with persons who, in my conception, are my test friends, number of those who are members of some society, or political party; I have come to realize, during the 12 years that I have lived in the county of Santa Fe, and the 35 years of my life, that my best friends are to e found in the republican party, and it would be absurd for me to remain any longer in the democratic ranks. wherein I have been acting as a mem ber ever since I deposited my rirst ballot. - Now, therefore, I, the under signed, from henceforth, declare my self to be a republican, and with tXfe saroeloyalty that I served the demo cratic party, notwithstanding that my services wero never recognized by the leaders of the said democratic party, I will serve the republican party in order to help combat the democratic hordes, that without any doubt are now getting ready for tne political battle which will take place next November. In- making my political change, I will make it out of my spontaneous and voluntary will, with out any interest or promises from any member of the republican party, and without any personal affront against any of my democratic friends." A furious tempest rages at the seat of our national government. It dwarfs and subordinate article 10. the state of the president's health and even the appropriation bills. Mrs. Meredith, wife of the new secretary of agriculture. haB announced her self "at home" on Thursday rather than on Wednesdays. Now Wednes day has long been the day for the cabinet visitation. It has become fixed in the social tradition of Wash ington. The rumpus created by this innovation Is hardly less intense than the social disturbance made by President McKinley when he closed the White House on Thursday nights ln order that he might attend prayer meeting. Miss Mae Edgren of Milwaukee. Wis., has just come into an unusual inheritance.- When she was born in Dawson, - Alaska, in -December, 21 years ago, the first white baby in the gold mad country, the miners passed a hat and collected gold, dust and nuggets to the value of more than 3400. The mother died a few days after, the child's birth and Mae's father brought her to Madison, Wia., to her grandmother's home. The bag of gold duet and nuggets was placed ln a bank with instruc tions that It should be held for the girl until she was 21. Last December she ordered It sent to the mint at Washington to be converted into coins. The mint has just sent her the. coins. -Milwaukee Journal. As the man and the maid strolled through the picture gallery .the woman slopped before one exhibit. "Oh, how sweet!" she breathed. "I wtfrvder what it means?" ques tioned the young fellow, as he eyed the pictured pair .who clung to gether in an attitude of love and longing. "Oh, Charlie, don't you seeT the girl chided tenderly. "He has just asked her to marry him and she has consented. It's lovely! What does the artist call the picture?" The young man leaned nearer and eyed a little label on the frame. "I see!" he cried. "It's printed on this card here 'Sold!' " Houston Post. fc . ' til fish, and to that end he Is in the city trylngto get assistance in a plan to initiate a measure to place on the bal lot in November eliminating commer cial fishing interests. Mr. Putnam's favorite method of fishing in the i Rogue is to wade in until he is up to his shoulders. and use the rod with the right hand, while he holds onto the hand of a companion with his left. It's great sport, but very wet and cold. There has long been a controversy as to the hour when a patron's right to a room expires and when he should begin paying for the second day. 'The proposition was submitted to a com mittee at the hotel men's association yesterday afternoon. The committee decided thai visitors should inform the office at noon whether they in tend checking out or remaining, and ln the larger hotels patrons will be permitted until 7 o'clock P. M. to check out, and in the smaller hotels they must check out at 2 o clock P. M. The report of the committee has not been adopted yet. The association was requested by the Shrine commit tee to decorate inside and out during the convention and the G. A. R. has requested that the American flag not be used for decorations and that the flag be displayed only, on the pole. The request of the better business bureau of the Ad club to Install infor mation booths in the lobbies during the Shrine convention was granted. When S. Benson next appears ln Portland it will be enshrined in a spiffy new car about the size of a young locomotive and with enough power under the hood to operate an electric-light plant in a one-horse town. Mr. Benson, chairman of the state highway commission," will have his car delivered to him in California and he has gone south to try it out. He Intends spinning around oyer some of the asphalt-coated concrete roads in California before heading home ward and. incidentally. Mr. Benson says that it is costing California about 33.000.000 a year to maintain these concrete roads. When Mr. Ben son drives home he will be met at the state line by Ed E. Kiddle of Island City, one of his colleagues on the highway commission, and they will make an inspection of the Pacific highway for its complete length ln Oregon. tions designated for special objects. Under the industrious leadership of Mrs. Robert Piatt, Mrs. Sidney Bene dict of the woman's club, Mrs. P. L. Campbell of the University of Oregon. Mrs. William Skene. Mrs. Richard Cartwright of Salem, Or.; Miss Louise Fitch of Eugene, Or.: the helping hand club of Metolius, Or.; Miss Cornelia Marvin of Salem. Or., and many more the stream is repopulated with Oregonians, with the assistance of SHIRTSLEEVES TO SHIRTSLEEVES. Old Shiftless Smith wore overalls and fed the cows and shoats. And took the milk cans to the pump. ' and cut the hay and oats. And sat around the crossroads store on stormy winter nights. And said that lawyers were all crooks and farmers had no rights. Old Shiftless had a son named Bill the sort that folks call smart Who saved and scraped till by and by he got a little start. And what with chattel mortgages and banking on the side. Was worth a hundred thousand may be twice that when he died. "Two weeks of actual Work will finish rocking the Columbia highway between Hood River and Mosler." re ports C. C. Kelly of the state highway engineering department, who has charge of that district. "But for the unsuitable weather, which has caused delays, the rocking would have been completed by April 10. A few cars' have tried to get over the new grade, but have been turned back. The pav ing of the section from Shell Rock to Hood River has. been held up by rain." Speaking of operations in the Deschutes country. Engineer Kelly says that surveyors are starting to survey for The Dalles-California highway from Madras, in Jefferson county, north to the county line. Forest protection week is now on full tilt in Seattle and J. D. Guthrie, publicity director in the district 'for ester's office here, has gone north to represent headquarters. Mr. Guthrie, who looks and talks like New Mexico splendid organizations in the state of Washington such as the national league for woman's service, which In terested every city in the state the American committee is now able to support the following social service work. In Blerancourt the. committees of Washington and. Oregon will establish a "Cercle de Jeunesse". or club for young people. This Is an essential piece of work; for at Blerancourt 582 people have now returned and the youth of the village has no form of amusement, nor any meeting place whatsoever. There is always a "buvette" open. where cheap red wine is Bold and dice throwing encouraged; but the effort of the American committee is to keep the boys away from this place and give- them a better substitute. " The cost of a "cercle" is 30,000 francs, which Includes buying the wooden barrack and erecting it, equip ping it, heating and lighting it. and payinsr the running expenses. iames. books, phonographs, magazines and the personal present of a piano will form the nucleus of a club, and our ownvtraveling motion picture machine will draw large crowds of old and vounsr. At Crouy, one of the most destroyed of the villages in the district near Soissons. 30.000 francs will establish another "cercle." In the canton of Anizy, where con dltions are worse than ln other parts 10,000 francs have bought fruit trees and 10.000 francs have gone into the child hygiene work at Coucy-le-Cha-teau, and the salary of two visiting children's nurses for a year has been paid. Also 40.000 francs for general child welfare work, and 10,000 francs is designated for use at Anizy. At Vic-sur-Aisne another 30.000 francs will be put into a tractor and a reaper and used by the agricultural syndicate formed for the benefit of small farmers who have no possibility of securing farm implements for themselves. Already 21 carloads of grain have been planted in one part of the district in charge of the Amer ican committee, and the fall harvest will doubtless bring a good return. The trees which have been planted In Anizy. and the work done for chil dren at Coucy, are the direct result of the effort of Mrs. Allison Barry of Wenatchee. encouraged by Mrs. Rob ert Blatt of Portland, whose energies obtained fro,m the apple growers of Washington the donation of a carload of apples. These apples were sold at auction at a ball in New York, by Mr. David Bispham. th opera singer. Thus the fruit trees of Washington are bearing fruit in devastated France and the money raised by the efforts of the northwest for this work is a tremendous factor in the food-raising problem for the destitute people ruined by war's complete destruction. ELIZABETH PERKINS. Bill's son was educated fond of. get ting, like his dad And made ten times the fortune that his thrifty parent had. His family lived ln Paris and his son - named William Third Used very spiffy English slang, like Bally!" and "My word!" Young Smith, the lad from Paris, blew. his dad and grand-dad's cash. And then came home and married when his luck had gone to smash. He sold the farms and homestead everything he did went wrong And died, played out and busted, when the baby came along. The kid is wearing overalls, he feeds the cows and shoats. And takes the milk cans to the pump, and cuts the hay and oats. To him the family fortunes are noth ing but a myth. And at the crossroads grocery store -they call him Shiftless Smith. It Will Be X to the Courts. The clamor of the cities for the Dempsey-Carpentier fight may b ended by the necessity for holding it in the Leavenworth or Atlanta federal penitentiaries. mm Jnet Try It. Prohibition Will nvnr etmi.kf1 In i Wales. A sober man couldn't possibly spe&K the language. As the Headline Writers Say. The treaty was another gas victim. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate.) In Other Days. and used to live in that state, is tak- j Patchwork of politics. An I lug a breathing spell after preparing tt"? Ptfu P"?1'": not. a few reams of copy on the beauties of Mount Hood and Rainier national park to go ln two new booklets the forest service will put out ln Wash ington. Dr. Abraham Flexner of New York and Wallace Buttrick of Scarsdale, N. Y are at the Hotel Portland. Dr. Flexner was formerly secretary of the Carnegie foundation. The visitors are in Portland In behalf of. the gen eral educational board of New York, and are making an inspection of the institutions of higher learning. Mrs. Glen Frltcher of Buhl. Idaho, arrived at the Hotel Portland yester day. Buhl is a lively little place, but it has big aspirations. If the Brunea irrigation project is ever started and completed. Buhl believes that It will be as big as Spokane, for it will be come a great shipping point for the crops raised on -the project. J. W. Harrison, bond man for one of the large banks in San Francisco, is at the Benson. Mr. Harrison ar rived in Oregon a few months ago. went into the interior and returned, and nhortly thereafter there was an announcement that the bonds needed to float a large irrigation project in central Oregon had been floated. Wearing a straw hat, a man regis tering from North Dakota, arrived at the Perkins last night. He explained that it is not customary to wear straw lids in North Dakota for several months to come, but he used it while In the south and it appeared to be the only hat in his posseseion. Monday is generally a good day for bankers to come to Portland, for rea. sons best known to the profession, apparently, for Monday usually pees a number of these financiers in the city. Among the visitors yesterday was George McCroskey of Pullman, Wash., who is at the Multnomah. Eugene Farve, a banker of Spokane, is also at the Multnomah, accompanied by Mrs. Farve. NO COWARDLY INDECISION HIS Mr. Hosnr't Effort to Kind Himself Held to Have Been Proper. CANBY. Or.. April 4. (To th Edi tor.) The Oregonian's editorial of April 1. "Mr. Hoover Finds Himself," Is very far from a fool's day joke. I rate it one of the sanest, fairest and most clear-cut and logically loyal press utterances made in the eddying whir and whirl in the week's crazy An intelligent soon for get the service you render a befooled and bewildered populace in Its publi cation. In the interests of an un settled and troubled humanity, I thank you. No sane, sincere and serious mortal will find room for criticism of Mr. Hoover, having found himself. It Is a great and laudable thing for any man really to find himmelf. Compar atively few men are great enough to do it. Its need, however, is one of the greatest of human kind. If the people as such were all to find their real selves heaven would have well begun on earth. It was only when he came to, or round nimseir. mat tne prodigal son was at all able to rea son clearly and profitably in his own and others' interests. So far as we have record it was the most brilliant and reasonable act of his life. Mr. Hoover, during the late world war. showed himself an extraordi narily capable man. some good proof of which- is seen in his finding and aligning himself with the now domi nant party of the American common wealth. Some carping, would-be crit ic is already crying that once upon a time Mr. Hoover really did advise the election of a democratic adminis tration. Well! What of it? Docs not the good and great book include us all in sin, and among sinners in some way or another? Who but has sinned or erred in life sorrrewhere. sometime? Someone has said that wise men do sometimes change their opinions, fools never.' Twice blest Is he who finds him self, and immediately heeding the gospel according to Davy Crockett, makes sure he is right and goes ahead. Mr. Hoover's seeming tardi ness in pronouncing himself upon the political questions of the hour was not the result of cowardly Indecision, but a brave and dignified purpose to know his duty and proper course therein amidst the cross currents of human need and ambition and should be reckoned with accordingly. A. J. JOSLYN. Twenty-five Years Ago. . From The Oregonlan. April 6, 1885. Washington. Reports that the Brit ish warship Royal Arthur has touched at Panama on her way to Nicaraugna to enforce British demands caused some apprehension among officials and diplomats here. Salt Lake Otyf The woman suf frage article, which was passed to a third reading several days ago, came up again today with instructions to present the question to the people in a separate article. Ten carloads of lambs, about 2000 head, are being shipped from Pendle ton to Chicago. Baker City. A rich strike in the Virtue mine is confirmed by parties coming in from the property. It is stated that gold nuggets ranging in value from $100 to 3S00 have been taken out, and many smaller ones. Looks as if Seattle were out win the wild west championship. - One reason is about as good as an other when works) of art are to je tampered with. When Massenet's "Manon" is produced at Monte Carlo, the gambling scene is cut out and a ballet is substituted, because there is a suggestion of cheating at the card table. And that would be highly Im proper for 'the stage in Monte Carlo. O.-B. Frank, president of the 'Doug las Light & Water company of Rose burg. Or., is at the Multnomah. Roee- Kifty Years Aco. From The Oresonlan. April 6, 1870. Victoria. The United Statex war steamer Mohican arrived at Esqui mau yesterday, 14 days from San Francisco, under siil. London. In the house, of lords the commons Were summoned to the bar. when a message was read announcing the royal assent to the bill for the enforcement of the laws and preser vation of peace in Ireland. Salem. The contract for furnish ing lumber for the Commercial hotel was awarded yesterday to the Cap ital Lumber company at 311.50 per thousand feet for rough lumber and 319.90 for flooring. The annual report of the school clerk shows that for the year end ing April 4, 1870, total receipts of the district were 323,332.98. Teachers were paid 312,417.31 and repairs, street Improvements and sundry ex penses brought the total expenditures up to 317.741.09. re President's Residence Qualification. ANTELOPE, Or.. April 3. (To the Editor.) As a non-partisan ln poli tics, and for the sake of the informal tion only. I propound the following as viding an attractive camping ground I amendeJ to permit of the seating of for motorists traveling tne aciric n-rYurt Hoover as president, in the burg is prepared to halt a large part Questlonrwhen, where, and how w of the tourist trade this year by pro- con8titution of the United Stat highway. Lee Doty, who operates the automobile-locomotive passenger car over the. spruce railroad fom Waldport to Yaquina bay, is at the Imperial, with G. O. Clement, alsp of Waldport- Traces- of oil have been found on the beach and Waldport is enter taining hopes. Looking decidedly prosperous, Sid ney S. Moss of Nampa. Idaho, arrived at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. Moss, who formerly lived in Portland, went into the furniture business at Nampa and make a killing. from sheep to cattle, is the business of Louis Sommer, who. with Mrs. Sommer, registered at the Hotel Port land yesterday from Chicago. ' Frank E. Gorrell. an official of the American Canners' association. is registered at the Multnomah from Washington, Dr- C." event of his election? See Article II, section. 1, paragraph 5, of said con stitution, with special attention to the word "within." WILL E. JOHNSTON. THE DIFFERENCE. Some lives, like ancient swamps. main Deep, dismal and indifferent still. What boots It If the day bring rain. What matter If the night be chill. Unknown the dateless- days go by: Unknown they live, unknown they die Without a vision or a crime, They slouch their lazy round of time. But there are those who fight alone. Imprisoned spirts fair of wing; And few there are who catch their moan. And fewer still who hear them sing. Like birds of burning breast they pine For some fair land of sun and vine. And waitiifg wither sweet of tongue With all their wildest song unsung. And some like lordly ships go out O'er boundless oceans wild and wide; And drive on foaming shoals of doubt. And strew their wreckage on the tide. For them no harbor light shall shine; For them shall rise no star divine. But lost In darkness far from shore. They voiceless sink to rise no more. While some like autumn leaves are blown. Hot spirits o'er a friendless earth; They follow paths unmapped, un known. Without a tie of land or birth. As restless as "a feverish dream. They pass by ruin, hill and stream. And where the moons of romance Play, They sigh their pensive breath away. O souls with opal sandals shod! O tempest driven, mast and spar! O wounded breasts which bleed to God. And glimpse fruition's lamps afar; Together on the tempest cast. Blown brothers of a mighty blast, T hear! I hear! I wake! I start! The gypsy's calling ln mv heart. GUY FITCH PHELPS. The paragraph of the constitution to which the correspondent refers reads as follows: No person, except a natural-born citi zen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitu tion, shall be eligible to the orfice of president: neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the Ag-e of S5 years, sod been 14 vears a resident within the United Breeder of various kinds of animals states. The residence requirement is con strued to mean legal residence, and legal residence is not forfeited by a sojourn abroad for purposes of busi ness or pleasure. Specifically the re striction was -designed to meet the case of forWign-born-cltizens who were citizens at the time of adoption of the constitution. They were made eligible for the presidency by this section, provided they had resided R. M. (Doc) Cromelln. manager of the new flour mill which has been erected at Pendleton, is among the Benson arrivals. Road Vsed (or 35 Years. UMATILLA. Or., April 4. (To the Editor.) A corporation owning lots and paying taxes on same, but land being constantly used first as a pub lic highway and later as a city street for over 3j years, has the public ac quired any road rights therebyT ESTAC1VDA. r 1 f you have stated all the facts the street has become a public highway by prescription. Criticism ma to Dreaa. Exchange. . Sol Sodbuster Wimern is certn'y inconsistent. Abe Orpington Whatsa matter? Sol Sodbuster My darter Sa,lly was right in the fight fer lib erty an' freedom from beginnin" t' end Abe Orpington Yes, yes Sol Sodbuster And then, the first thing she ,does when peace is de- plarpd Is tn fasten herself tin tiirhtAr'i I within the United States for 14 years. beeswax in a hobble skirt.