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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, APRIL G, 1920
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the truth and DanleW
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boasts:
About the time- war was declared, an
nouncement was made to the public that
the navy was entirely ready, but as late
members. 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
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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.