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THE MORNING OR EG ONI AN. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920
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PROHIBITION CRITICS AND
CHAMPIONS.
No prophet may say how many
arid years will pass before the occa
sional citizen ceases to mourn his
bar and his bottle and to inveigh
bitterly against the majority who
decreed that grain and grape may
never again in America be lawfully
consecrated to the ambrosial Bac
chus. With the eighteenth constitu
tional amendment there entered an
era of embittered grumbling of
misrepresentation. t . -
Federal arrests of moonshiners
"under the national statute are indi
cated by the dissenters as proof that
prohibition Is conducive of law
breaking, and that the decent citizen
Is lured by his innocent and natural
thirst to the brewing or distilling of
the forbidden drink, or that this
thirst and its possibilities for profit
.cause other men to make liquor and
.. retail it under the moon at $15 the
: scant quart. Some even venture to
" assert that the moonshiner, at his
hidden still, is the champion of hu
'.' man liberties and that the stuff he
'. decants is the essence of personal
freedom. Thus we have, say the
dissenters, traded a happy state of
saloon and wine shop for a condi
' tion of stealth and lawlessness.
The truth is that arrests for Illicit
manufacture of liquor have In
creased but little since the dry law
became effective in Oregon at
least. Federal officials say that
moonshining was fully as prevalent
under wartime prohibition. They do
' not regard the situation as hopeless.
In the cours of time, they agree,
the violators will discover the fu
tility of trying to evade the law, will
shrink from the practical certainty
'of heavy sentences, and will become
good citizens perforce. Some few
escape ciction through the leni
" ency of juries but the majority who
are taken with the evidence find
that the federal, law is fanged and
inexorable. .
Remindful of all the specious ar
guments that have" been thrown by
print and oratory against the regime
... of prohibition, during the transition
.. period In America, is a criticism
recently uttered by an Englsh clergy
man, the Rev. B. G. Bourchier, vicar
" Of St. Jude's, who raises the old
warning: "Hands off the liberties of
the British people." This champion
from the pulpit asserts that his pa
triotism is shocked, his sense of free
dom outraged and his wrath aroused
by the proposal, absurd and impu-
oent, that Britain give up her beer
and brandy.
"I am convinced," he asseverated
"that any attempt of this kind to de
stroy one of the most cherished lib
erties of a free-born 'people would
do more than anything else to em
bitter and divide us. All should join
the army of common sense that is
r- arrayed against the forces of fanatt
' cism."
Nowhere in America is there evi
dence, worthy of consideration that
the land is being disrupted and em
bittered, to a critical degree, by the
passing of alcohol. Men who used
to take "three fingers" before the
muffin hour, with unfailing and un
flagging regularity, have almost for
gotten to grumble because the habit
Is slain. The suggestion of political
candidates that favor should be giv
en them because of attitudes agaius'
prohibition is met with good-
humored derision. Merchants and
butchers, and other dealers in fam
lly commodities, say that the month
ly bills are met more regularly.
Jones finds that his liver is. func
tioning properly again. Smith awak-
'' ens with a pink tongue and a clear
".. head. There are more shoes for the
children of the wage worker more
"movies," more new hair ribbons,
more happiness.
Just about the same. Dr. Bour-
chior, old bean with a few trifling
exceptions as when the Saturday
night souse was an honored and in
evitable ritualistic condition. Just
about the same, reverent sir, old
' clear with here and there an ap
' " parently immaterial change as
when the cashier at the bar, and not
the bank, always liquidated the' pay
check. It's a far cry from Oregon,
. where the prohibition experiment
-' began some years ago. to the minis
terial study of the Rev. B. G. Bour
chier, St. Jude's, Golden Green, Great
Britain, and it's altogether probable
that the doctor may never review
the evidence but his spleen should
be tempered by facts.
It is an uncontested fact that
crime in Oregon has appreciably de-
creased since the advent of prohibi
" tion. Figures and tabulations have
... been published repeatedly. The po
. -V lice court dockets, the desk ser
geant's record of arrests ranging
" irorn mashing to murder are testi
" . mony and evidence that prohibition
. pays a tremendous percentage on the
investment, in the decrease of crime.
The improved condition is not con
fined to Oregon, whose status is not
open to appraisal under the federal
; law, inasmuch asthe state prohibl-
tory law has been In effect since
'. 1916. It Is directly and plainly ob
' served in states that went arid with
the eighteenth amendment.
The Allegheny county, Pennsyl
vania, workhouse holds fewer pris-
. . oners than at any time in almost
- ' forty years, according to a Pitts
burg dispatch. The decline irf at
tendance, began with the enforce
? ment of the national prohibitory
',' low. In March last year there were
91 D prisoners In the workhouse. This
March found but 383 enjoying the
frugal and enforced comforts of the
institution.
In Bellevue hospital. New Tork,
tJIe number of alcoholic patients has
decreased 90 per cent on the last
year, and has given room and equip
ment for the care of 7000 additional
patients. Ambulance and police rec
ords followed the Identical line of
cleavage. This in the metropolis that
boasted its bacchanal gaiety, and
pledged its toast and its faith to
"the false friendship of the smart
saloon."
A PICTURE! OF HARMONY.
i
The excellent Scio Tribune re
minds its readers that in November
of last year It selected Mr. Hoover as
a desirable candidate for the presi
dency. It then said that it would
support him regardless of the party
which placed him at the head of the
ticket. "We would like to see him
the candidate at Chicago and his
nomination ratified at San Fran
cisco," continues the Tribune. "Then
he would go into office free from
partisan bias, with a free hand to
take up reforms, and place the gov
ernment on a business basis."
A noble Idea, Indeed; but it isn't
done that way. We, too, would- like
to see the candidate nominated at
Chicago ratified at San Francisco,,
but we have no illusions about the
practical ways of practical politics.-
The Tribune ssts - an admirable
example for the other democratic
papers of the state. . It is the' only
original Hoover democratic booster,
so far as we know, tb,at was not
seized with a chilling attack of cold
feet when it was ascertained that
Hoover is a republican. It Is what
the boys call "game," and It pur
poses to see the thing through.
The picture of Hoover as a presi
dent of both parties is alluring. The
Tribune thinks that he would then
be free to work his wonders, while
he would have the support of both
democrats and republicans. Our
idea is different. The era.of perfect
amity would not last overnight., and
President Hoover, being alone In
Washington, would have a sad time.
THE COMMAND TO LABOR.
Representative Sisson of Missis
sippi offered, a suggestion pertinent to
our errort to reduce tne cost or living
when he remarked in congress the
other day that although the com
mandment, "Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy," had furnished
a good many preachers with sermon
topics, he had "never heard a minis
ter of the gospel preach a, "sermon
from the words following that- text.
Six days shalt thou labor." " ' He
does not maintain that too much Is
said on the first subject, but he in
sists that the second has been too.
much neglected. "
It is Mr. Sissson's view that con
gress can do little to reduce the high
cost of living, unless there is co-op-eratton
all along the line. We need
not enter into controversy over the
forms of Sabbath observance to real
ize that the injunction to labor six
days is also a commandment, and
that it is peculiarly applicable to the
present needs of the world. Six days
of labor each week by everybody who
is able to work would do more to
bring down prices by increasing, pro
duction than all the proposed pana
ceas for high prices combined.
If Representative Sisson will turn
to the nineteenth verse of the third
chapter of Genesis, he will find an
other text just as appropriate. It is:
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou
eat bread." In an early time the
great lawgiver recognized' the place
of work in the economic scheme.
Nothing that has since occurred has
changed the fundamental principle
involved. Nothing else than work
can restore the tillage of the fields.
the production of building materials,
the output of factories in which
clothing is made. Unless heed Is
given to the commandment it will
sooner or later become a question,
not of the high cost of necessities,
but of inability to obtain them at any
price.
BACK TO PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
One of the legacies of the war Is
the number of war industries in the
hands of the government which it
no longer needs but which it may
need again in time of war. They
must be kept alive and capable of
again producing at full capacity for
war, but some use must be found for
them in time of peace. . -
One of these industries is the great
nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala.,
which the government had just com
pleted at a cost of $70,000,000 when
the armistice ended Its present use
fulness for war. It should be kept
in readiness for another emergency
for the war proved the danger of
dependence on a foreign supply of
material for explosives.. That re
quires that it be kept in operation
and up to date, for in idleness it
would deteriorate land become obso
lete. There is as great need of ni
trates for fertilizer as for explosives,
and the farms offer a market for tin-
product. Frank I. Mann, an Illinois
farmer, writing to his brother. Rep
resentative James Ti. Mann, says that
each 100 pounds of corn take about
three and one-half pounds, of mate
rial from the soil and that "if the
same plants coma nave secured an
other three and one-half pounds of
soil material mostly phosphorus and
nitrogen they could have formed
another 100 pounds of corn without
any further effort on the part of the
grower. . .
The question is Mow to keep the
nitrate plant in operation m order to
increase far,m production. Arthur
CHasgow, the mechanical engineer,
recommends to the war department
that it be handed over to a govern
ment corporation, which the govern
ment shoulrl.supply with $3,000,000
for new construction, $6,600,000 for
working capital and $2,500,000 as a
5,-eneral purpose fund, a total of $12,-
100,000. .He submits estimates of
cost. of producing nitrates, but. they
include nothing for interest bn the
immense capital to be employed.
The government should not add more
than fair interest on- capital, but it.
should not supply at qost the 'means'
of doubling the farmers' .-crops, when
the capi il employed has been bor
rowed from the people a't 3 to 4 $i
1 ' cent. ' '
It should be practicable for the
srovernment to lease the nitrate plant
to some private enterprise, which
would pay a rental sufficient to pay
interest on its cost,-to establish a
sinking fund', to insure a supply of
fertilizer at .moderate, cost and to re
serve to the government a right, to
take the entire output in time of
war. -
The American people want the
government to withdraw from every i
industry In which it engaged during i
tne . war, but in such manner that
hey will retain the industries which
U has established and that those in
dustries will again be at the service
of the nation in case of another war.
Nitrates, . ships, spruce, aircraft are
all examples of business in which
private enterprise can operate better
than the' government.
PROSPECTING UNDER SALARY.
Senator Thomas scored a point
when -he objected to an appropria
tion , for explorations in search of
potash, nitrates and natural fertil
izers.' Mineral discoveries are not
made in that way. It is proposed in
effect to employ prospectors on sal
ary.: The . longer they are finding
what they are hired to seek, the
longer their jobs will last. The in
ducement to strive for success is not
present.
-All the mineral wealth of the west
has teen found by men who were
lured to the search by the offer of
the government to give them what
they found, provided they developed
mines. The prospector, working for
himself and his grubstaker, found
the gold and silver, copper and lead
of California, regon, Nevada; Idaho,
Montana, Colorado, Arizona. New
Mexico, by going - into wild, unex
plored regions and by enduring many
hardships, ever drawn on by confi
dence that. If he found a bonanza, it
wonld.be his. A prospector is guided
by the rule that gold is where it is
found; a government expert by the
rule that gold will be found in rooks
wherein it- has already been found.
A .prospector . scorns -precedent; a
hired expert takes precedent as his
guide, though- the greatest discover
ies have been made in defiance of
precedent. i -
. The next few years' erperience
will prove whether men will as
readily prospect for coal,- oil. gas.
and phosphate when- they must pay
a royalty to the government as they
did when whatever they found was
theirs within certain limits." There
Is a .great and ever increasing de
mand for oil. It will probably absorb-till
deposits that are discovered.
but without the incentive of absolute
ownership for the discoverer new
finds may not keep pace with de
mand, especially when , men's everj
act" is-.under the suspicious eye of a
government agent. .
.Senator' Thomas says that "therfc
is plenty of potash in the United
States," but that no incentive ex
ists to attract grivate investigation,
for "the government has ' segregated
these lands from private occupation
and does not permit them to be ex
ploited except under conditions that
are not attractive." He -recalled
that , "the great phosphorus beds of
Florida were not discovered by gov
ernment agency," but by "private
enterprise." He told of two or three
engineers and chemists who tested
the potash deposits of Wyoming and
located claims, but were turned down
at Washington under the Pinchot re
gime, with the result that "these
great potash beds have not been sub
jected to exploitation."
Public money spent , on govern
ment prospectors is worse than
wasted. It brings few discoveries
and it fosters the bureaucratic policy
of restriction and reservation which
drives real prospectors from the
field.
' BOLSHEVISM'S STRUGGLE TO
. SURVIVE.
Russian origin of the railroad
strike, as proved by evidence in the
hands of the department of justice,
brings home to the American people
what they have to contend against.
The revolutionary conspiracy in this
country is a branch of a conspiracy
having its center in Moscow under
the name of the third international.
It is jiirected by Zinovieff, a com
munist fanatic, formerly head of the
extraordinary commission which
practiced terrorism until all opposi
tion to the soviet was crushed.
Though ostensibly independent of
the' soviet government, the third in
ternational is actually supported by
it. That organization" is the ma
chine by which world revolution is
to be effected. Zinovieff has ad
mitted that, though triumphant in a
military sense, communism cannot
survive if confined to Russia alone.
Its only hope of survival lies in mak
ing itself universal. It has made
great gains in the distressed coun
tries of Europe, but the chief men
ace to its existence is the great
American republic.
Bolshevism and Americanism are
fundamentally antagonistic to each
other. The basic idea of American
ism is individualism the right of
the citizen to employ his own talents.
skill and industry for his own wel
fare and his right to enjoy the
wealth; much or little, which he
thereby produces, those rights be
ing limited only by the common in
terest of the state. Bolshevism dic
tates that each citizen must work
solely for the common good of the
state and as the state directs, and
mat nis products shall be the prop
erty of the state, to be distributed
as it chooses. Personal initiative is
thus crushed and incentive to effort
and efficiency is removed. The
tjnited States Is the greatest ex
ample of the soundness of the in-
nividtialist principle, and is the
strongest negation of communism.
Russia needs everything that the
United States has in the shape of
scientific knowledge, technical abil
tty. executive ability, skilled, edu
cated mechanics and large capital.
It needs also many things of which
tms country alone can at present
produce a surplus. But the men
whom Russia wants would not go to
Russia and work for that country
under communist conditions; they
know how to work successfully under
American ' conditions only. Russia
coud. not buy what it wants from
America without adding strength to
the American system. What Russia
wants can be obtained with safety to
the soviet if communism be made the
only condition under which men may
work in this or . any other country.
The soviet has undertaken to build up
an .industrial nation from the very
foundation, which must be laid
among the ruins of the old -system.
It cannot do so without foreign aid,
or at least its chiefs must recognize
that its progress amid a hostile world
would be so slow, painful and labor
ious that the people .would lose pa
tience and abandon the attempt be
fore success was achieved. That
would mean their downfall and the
dissipation of their vision.
Then, in order to save communism
from failure in Russia, the soviet
chiefs hold it necessary to b'olshevize
the United States. With those two!
countries in their power, they would
expect easily to overrun Europe and
the rest of the world. Men of brains
and skill would then have no re
course except to work for one of a
world-embracing federation of so-
viets, probably having its capital in
Moscow, and on the Soviet's terms.
Then the communist dream of the
bourgeois working as slaves of the
dominant proletariat would be re
alized. -
This plan is so wildly fantastic
that it seems impossible for any men
in their sober senses to attempt it.
So seemed the plan of Lenin and
his associates when they returned to
Russia in 1917, but they are masters
of that country. They have, suc
ceeded because they did not swerve
from their purpose and because they
did not hesitate to use any means,
however inhuman or perfidious,
while their enemies were divided,
hesitatingand restrained by scruples.
If Americans unite and apply all
their forces to the contest, they can
easily crush the revolutionists. The
latter can be dangerous if we re
main divided, if we hesitate to pass
sedition and treason laws and to en
force them, if we fall to distinguish
between revolutionary strikes and
labor strikes, if we keep men in high
office who are in sympathy with the
reds, if we strike soft blows. While
a revolution directed from Moscow
is attempted in this country, it would
be folly, to renew intercourse with
Russia, for every ship that came
from Russia would bring red agents
and their propaganda. By doing all
in our power, in Europe as well as
in America, to confine the disease
to us original breeding place, we
may insure that it will soon die out.
But the quarantine line should be
on the borders of Russia itself, for
our safety demands that we protect
Europe as well as .America against
spread of the disease.
Scarcity of a given commodity in
variably stimulates search for sub
stitutes, as is illustrated by the in
vention in a region of northern
Canada, where fuel is hard to get, of
a cold-proof house. . Tested during
a winter In which the thermometer
not "infrequently went to . forty de
grees below zero, it is said to have
stood the test well, being heated by
a moderate quantity of electricity
even in the coldest weather. The
house is built on the theory of pre
venting the movement of warmed air
toward a cold surface, which Is ac
complished by insulation according
to principles familiar to refrigera
tion engineers. Though designed for
theprairies of northern Saskatoon, it
has. attained wider importance in
view of higher prices and scarcity of
fuel in other places, and it is likely
that greater attention will be given
to this form of fuel conservation in
the future.
As a first sign of Interest in popu
lar government, the Mexicans have
begun killing one another in election
rows. Yet so long as they will re
frain rrom killing Americans we
shall be content to let them work out
their salvation'in their own way.
There are 20,000 people in this
city, big and little, yourtg and old.
male and female, who can crowd into
the -ball park tomorrow afternoon
and make a name for Portland. Isn't
the Old Spinster entitled to that
much?
The name of Henry Ford has been
placed on the presidential primary
ballot in Vermont. Must have been
a mistake somewhere. The eminent
inventor of the fliwer would never
consent to become a mere dark
horse..
Judge Oary of the United States
Steel corporation should be com
mended for his efforts to keep down
the price of steel. However, not
many, of us are in the market for
steel "rails or skyscraper frames, at
that.
The government dropped $904.-
000,000 on the railroads in the
twenty-six months they were under
federal control. We'd have sworn
the dining-car profits would wipe
out any deficit short of a billion.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the new
British ambassador, says there is no
quarrel between England and Ire
land. We should like to have Sir
Auckland's idea as to what 'really
constitutes a quarrel.
Butte is in the throes of the same
old trouble. "Under the leadership
of men of foreign birth," the dis
patch begins, there is a strike of
miners, and a little bloodletting has
begun.
The cost of federal control of more
than a billion dollars can be charged
off to profit and loss. This is not a
piker nation. "Experience was costly,
but we had to have'it.
A snow-bound train got into Al
liance, Neb., forty-nine hours late
yesterday, but a boy baby born-on
the train was on schedule.
There are 700 pickets guarding the
Butte mines and It's a wise strike
breaker who knows when he Is well
off.
Attorney-General Palmer's idea of
a profiteer seems to be a man who
doesn't vote the democratic ticket
Landlords, being human, are not
hard-hearted; but agents are adam
ant, else they would not be agents.
Now that overalls are coming into
style again, perhaps an honest day's
work will be more fashionable.
Are you putting in fuel these days,
or are you declaring you will buy a
cellarful of potatoes next fall?
If you do a big day's work before
2 o'clock, you can make a sneak to
Twenty-fourth and Vaughn.
The Kentucky "Klick is going to do
some hand picking for its ticket,
though the picking is slim.
It is not a crtme for a man to take
his stenographer into the grandstand
for the opening game.
Sid is the lad who has not
grandmother ill this afternoon.
When about to appear In overalls,
let the other fellow do It first.
A chorus in coveralls would stam
pede the house outward.
Light frost and westerly winds this
, morning. Play ball!
OF
THE TIMES
Joseph Conrad Pays) Tribtste to Vousf
Amrrlras Koveltat.
Shortly before his death, Stephen
Crane, the young American novelist. I
autnor or ine Ked Badge 01 Lour- j
age." went to England, where Joseph
Conrad met him by appointment. The
older writer, as he tells in the Book
man, was greatly impressed by the
ill-starred American and recognized
in him a budding genius.
He had, indeed, a wonderful power
of vision," Conrad writes, "which "he
applied to the things of this earth and
,,. . " ,, ..,h -
of our mortal humanity 1th a Pen-
i. ....., m.i v
witnin lire s appearance, ana torrn
the very spirit of their truth. His ig- !
norance of the world at large he had
seen very little of it did not seem to
stand in the w:.y of his imaginative
grasp of facts, events and picturesque
men.
"I saw Stephen Crane a few days
after his first arrival in London. I
saw him for the last time on his last
day in England. - It was In Dover, in
a big hotel, in . a bedroom with a
large window looking onto the sea.
He had been very ill and Mrs. Crane
was taking him to some place In Ger
many; but one glance at that wasted
face was enough to tell me that it
was the. most forlorn of all hopes.
The last words he breathed out to
me were: T am tired. Give my love to
your wife and child.' When I stopped
at the door for another look, I saw
that he had turned his head on the
pillow and was staring wistfully out
of the window at the sails of a cutter
yacht that glided slowly across the
frame, like a dim ghostly shadow
against a gray sky.
"Those who have read his little
tale. "Horses,' and the story, 'The
Open Boat,' In the volume of that
name, know with what fine under
standing he loved horses and the sea.
And his passage on this earth was
like that of a horseman riding swift
ly In the dawn of a day fated to be
short and without sunshine."
The marquis of Hartington tells an
episode from the war days when the
spy scare was at its height, according
to a writer in the Halifax Chronicle.
Certain confidential information that
the military authorities wanted to
keep absolutely secret was sent round
by trusted couriers In locked dispatch
boxes, with elaborate precautions o(
signing and -counter: Igning and
checking every stage. No one below
the rank of major-general was en
trusted with the knowledge, and even
these were bound by tremendous
oaths of secrecy. After a time It was
found that these weighty documents,
which were circulated In printed form,
were being set by ordinary printers,
who were under no obligation to pre
serve secrecy, and, in fact, took no
precautions whatever against leak
age. However, nothing did leak out,
but the military mandarins, it is said,
fchuddered when they realized the risk
that had been run.
Three phrases born of the war,
which will last long, are thus sum
marized b- the Stp- id Stripes:
"They shall not pass," said the des
perate Frenchman.
The boche tide beat against him. He
prevailed.
"Carry on." said the dogged Briton.
He held, and history will say there
was no telling how.
"Let's go," said the exuberant
Tank.
And go he did, over and through
and beyond.
It took all three phrases in Clem
enceau's phrase, to "make the war"
and win it.
The spirit that was In those
phrases, and in the men poilu. Tom
my and doughboy who said them,
did the business.
It is reported on good authority by
a correspondent in Glasgow, Scot
land, that an unnamed American art
collector has offered the German gov
ernment $5,000,000 for the famous-fif
teenth century painting by Hubert
and John Van Lyck
Adoration of
the Lamb."' from the Ghent cathedral.
The offer, it is further reported, has
been declined, slne the work is a
part of the war booty that, under the
peace treaty, must be returned to
Belgium.
The painting is in the fo.-m of six
panels and was executed about 1432.
The most cosily map in the world is
one of France, arul it is In the Louvre.
The groundwork is of polished Jasper.
The principal cities and towns are
represented by precious stones, and
their names are inscribed In gold.
The rivers are shown by strips of pol
ished -platinum and Lhe 87 depart-,
ments are set forth in a wonderful
scheme of blazing gems. This extraor
dinary map was made In Russia and
presented to France by the then czar
when the Franco-Russian alliance
was consummated. It is valued at
ono and one-quarter million dollars.
A Londoner made a wager that he
could cook a plum pudding 10 feet be.
neath the surface of the Thames, and
won the bet by placing the pudding
in a tin case and putting the whole
in -- sack of lime. The heat of the
lime, slacking when It came in con
tact with the water, was enough to
cook the pudding In two hours.
Strike anC the world strikes with
you; work and you work alone. New
Tork Globe.
Recently while on an extended au
tomobile tour a party of men came
to grief through engine trouble and.
after two hours tinkering with the
motor and several thousand sugges
tions, the owner of the car decided
the trip at an end.
His friends, with the promise to
send a team of horses from the near
est farm, commenced their hike to the
railroad station, eight miles distant.
They had traversed less than a mile
when they were startled to'hear the
welcome honk of an auto and beheld
their friend m-ith his car behind them.
With a smile he said: "Jump In. fel
lows. She's all right now. I had a
fellow fix It up. Smart man. too. He
found the trouble In- less than a min
ute, but wouldn't take a cent. I
promised to send him a box of smokes
and he gave me his card. Here it is."
"No wonder he fixed it quickly
He ought to," exclaimed one of the
party.
"Why?" asked the owner with sur
prise. 'He-was only a farmer."
"Well." answered the first. "hSlnay
be-taking. a little vacation, but he Is
the chief engineer of the V Motor
company, the" people who built your
car." Wall Street Journal. -
BY-PRODUCTS
Those Who Ccme and Go.
c . . l,,m.
ber find thejr way to the eastern
markets every year, originating in .
, the yards of the Modoc Lumber com-
lpany. J. O. Goldthwaite, president of i
the company, is in tne city irom
Chiloquin. which same is a mill town
in Klamath eountv. not too far from I
Klamath Falls. The cheaper quality
of lumber is sent to California, but
the best grade goes to the eastern
dealers. While the trees grow in
Oregon and are made into lumber at 1
Chiloquin. it is known as California
whlteine jurnber . Californtans have
never hesitated to apply tneir name i
to things in Oregon, from fruit and
lumber to squirrels. Mr. Goldthwaite
reports that the contractors are al
ready working on, the state highway
near Klamath Falls, this being a sec
tion of The Dalles-California high
way. At present the construction
work is In the blasting stage.
Manager Richard Childs of the
Hotel Portland has a little souvenir
which he distributes occasionally to
guests. He calls it the lucky dog
and it is a freaky looKing nog sdoui
half an inch long. Yesterday, when
the April weather was distressing
the tourists. Mr. Childs busied him
self handing the lucky dogs around,
with a personal guarantee that today
the weather will be of the usual
genial Oregon variety. If the weather
man doesn't stand In and make good
weather today. Mr. Childs Intends
cremating the rest of the dogs and
hiding out in the hills for a time.
Not being, a regular politician.
Charles Hall, president of the Oregon
state chamber of commerce, isn't
sure whether he must go on and
make a campaign to be elected state
senator or Just await developments.
Mr Hall, who filed for Joint senator
for Coos and Curry counties finds
that he has no opponent In the re
publican primaries, being, as it were,
something like Robinson Crnsoe.
monarch of all h surveys In the
primaries. Mr. Hall, who 1 In Port
land on business, expressed his sur
prise at being all alone In the pri
maries for this particular nomination.
"People sometimes complain about
the hotel rates." sighed a local man
ager. "Thev never stop to think
that wages have gone up ana every
sort of supply that we use has gone
double or more. A man kicked at
paving $8 for a room today, so I
thought I'd explain. 'That room. I
said, 'was rented for $ up to two
vears ago and the rent bought 60
cents worth. Now a dollar is worth
40 cents, and with tne room rait i
$S w can buv 32'cents worth with
it. Doe that look like profiteer
ing The patron admitted that it
didn't."
Portland may think that Its streets
are lively, but they are sedate and
conservative compared with the thor
oughfares In Wichita Falls. Tex. Be
inr on of the booming oil towns.
v,., -rv one is a millionaire or
, inrl where tons - of
.... ninir are made Into oil
,i, ,ri int-atea. Wichita Falls Is
some burg, as J. S- Mabry of that
place will tell the world. Mr. and
f- Mabrv are among the Benson
arrivals.
Uotl men sav there will be an In
vasion of baseball enthusiasts from
the Willamette valley towns tonay.
because of the openlnsr srnme. Each
year when the season onens in Port
land there are several hundred men
who come to the city to he on hand
for the Initial game, and they 'gen
erally remain In town over nieht.
which Is where the hotels benefit
from the ball season.
Comes now W. H. Wagner of Sa
im and pens on the register of the
Hotel Oreeon "City of Cherries." and
then, thinking the identification may
not be sufficiently explicit and In
dicative of his town, he had added
"It's the fruit." "It Is gcttlrg so that
a number of towns are trying to
be identified by a slogan rather than
their name, and among the offenders
pre "The Roundup" and "It's the
Climate."
A brace of candidates for secre
tarv of state loitered in the hotel
lobbies yesterday. E. L. Coburn of
Grants Pass was demonstrating by
charts and statistics just how he Is
crolng to capture the coveted nom
ination at the Imperial. M. Vernon
Parsons of Eugene had It all doped
out at the Perkins what outfit he
I h9 to beat and he ,s considering
niring a nan to ao h. nine c&iiui,ii.
H. V. Alley, one of the commis
sioners of Tillamook county who Is
giving that county a system of good
roads, is registered at the Imperial.
Mr. Alley, whose address Is Nehalem.
says that the plan of the commission
l. to locate a road right In the first
Ljjlare for then whatever money is
spent on It win not oe wastea.
A few months ago Ms. Carrie
Tuthill came to the Hotel Washington
from New York and rambled around
Portland. Then she returned home.
The winter in the east has been so
severe that Mrs. Tuthill is back at
the Washington, content to live here
permanently.
April storms, with Intermingling of
sunshine, rain and hail, did not pre
vent Mr. nd Mrs. R. Wember from
motoring up from Astoria. Mr; Wem
ber. who Is a produce merchant, is
registered at the Hotel Washington.
The two republican contenders for
the nomination for United States
senator met in Portland yesterday.
Albert Abraham of Roseburg came
into town Just as Ft. N. Stanfleld waa
about to depart for eastern Oregon.
G. H. Parmele of Cornelius is at
the Perkins. The subject uppermost
In the conversation of Mr. Parmele is
the prospect of discovering oil gushers
In his vicinity.
One of the Coos Bay lumbermen, of
whom there are many. Is C. T. Me
George, registered at the Multnomah,
while in town from Marshfield on
business.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Walker of Se
attle are registered at the Multnomah.
Mr. Walker is secretary of the NortrT-
west Fuel & Supply company when at
home.
' Frank E. Crews, formerly manager
of a hotel In Denver. Is at the Mult
nomah with J,rs. Crews. They ex
pect to make the Pacific northwest
tUeir home.
Judge A. C. Hough of Grants Pass
arrived at the Hotel Portland yester
day on his way home from a trip
to the east
Mrs. A. J. While, who is in the
millinery business st Kelso. Wash., is
at the 'Hotel Washington while recup
erating. F. W. Rummell of the Rummell
Arms company of Toledo. O.. is at the
Multnomah while on business bent
In Portland.
E. H. Thompson, manager of the
Bridal Veil Lumber company, is at the
Multnomah.
Cook, or Ilnafcsssf
Boston Transcript.
A. I am going to get a di-
Mrs.
vorce.
.Mrs. B Can't you get along
with your husband? Mrs. A Yes, but
the cook can't.
PATROXAGE IN CLIl E'S CONTROL.
1 Girl War Clerks Is Washington tn
Worried A bout Jobrc
WASHIXfiTOX Anril 15. (To the !
pji.. i Win i.. h favor
for the girls from Oregon who came j
to the capital at the call of patriot-j
Ism. breaking the ties with wni.-n I
they were connected with the busl-j
ness world to ao so, who are tnreai-
ened with being turned out of a job
without having been able to save
enough to get back west on. for no I
better reason than to make room for
local girls?
There Is certainly a definite policy
on the part of certain forces, that
seem powerful, to fill the federal
positions with clerks from favored
localities. Whether or not there is
any definite policy by congress to
allow it has not been demonstrated ;
yet. but they should be called on for
a showdown. For there are to be many j
thousands of clerks dismissed within
a short time. 1
I am secretary of the Washington
State and Alaska society, mother the I
girls from our state, and because
there was no one else seemingly in
clined to do so I have been taking
the girls of Idaho. Oregon and Mon
tana under my wing. We invite them
out to our state meeting and if the
other states do not organize we will
in time change our name to the North-
western States society. A state or-Nor
ganization Is needed here, not only
.-
as a welfare organization but for the
convenience of home people when
they come. We had two parties at
the community centers for some home
folks this last month.
One of the Oregon girls came to
me and asked what she could do
about her Job. She came here during
the war. has not been able to save
anything. Is studying nights. I told
her to go to Senator Chamberlain and
the other Oregon congressmen. She
told me this morning that the senator
waa very cool. He did not seem a bit
Interested. A Michigan girl told me
last night I was brought up in
Michigan that her congressman
wrote that he did not intend to do
anything about it. He was not con
cerned about his quota. I can promise
him that his district will concern it
self about it. though. These tens of
thousands of clerks who go 'back
home before the end of the liscal
year may concern themselves, too.
The three girls who sit neareet me
are District of Columbia girls. Daily
they get Jobs. Not one of the delega
tion from Oregon has been out to any
of the state meetings we have sent
them cards concerning.
Not an Oregon girl has a place to
go to In trouble with assurance of
being looked after by home-folks but
to us of Washington. Some of my
dearest girl friends are from Oregon.
We would like ie Oregon delegation
to wake up. give us a speaker once in
a while and the dollar dues for mem
bership, or to organize their own state
society as most other states have
done.
The chief clerk of the war depart
ment to whom a state of Washington
girl spoke of her district not having
its quota of clerks replied:
"The sooner you clerks forget about
that quota the better for you. for It
will never come back." You know
the restriction was lifted during the
war because tliay could not get
enough clerks. But now they should
dismiss from the over-full districts,
not Indiscriminately. Or it looks very
much like nice discrimination, though,
the way the thing is working out.
Better go back to the old "spoils sys
tem" we could call our congress
men to account than to allow a
clique in the government service to
build up the system they are work
ing on.
Insist on each congressional district
having Its share of federal patronage.
The'government can be best served if
people from all sections have ties
here, links by which they can le.irn
something of the ihside working of
the machine.
MRS. MARY P. SUTHERLAND.
RIBI.K OPPOSES
SPIRITUALISM
Consultation With Spirits Held to Re
Forbidden Iit Ctnotrd rrari.
PORTLAND, April 20. (To the Ed
itor.) The Bible critics who read
The Oregonian may be interested in
reading the little poem below, by Sir
Walter Scott,, and in the lines fol
lowing: THE BIBLE.
Within that awful volume 11
The mystery of mysteries:
Happiest they of human rs.ee
To whom God has - ranted craee
To read, to fear, to hope, to prsr.
To lift the latch, and force the way:
And better had they ne'er been born
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Now that Sir Oliver Lodge has como
and gone, would It not be a good time
to begin to clear the spiritual atmos
phere . and pray that the users of
curious arts bring together their
oulja boards and books and burn them
as did many converts after seeing the
mighty works of God in the time of
Paul? Acts of the Apostles. 19:19-20:
Msny of them !ao which used curious
arts brought their books- together and
burned them before alt men. and they
counted the price of .them and found it
fifty thousand pieces of silver.
The word of God plainly and abso
lutely forbids consulting with famil
iar spirits. Isiah 8:19 reads:
And when they shall say unto you seek
unto them that have familiar spirits and
unto wlsards that peep and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their Ood ?
for the living l the dead? To the ,aw
and to the testimony if thev speak not
aoeoi-dins to this word, it la because there
Is no light In them.
Look through the concordance In
the Bible and see what God says con
cerning witchcraft, soothsaying, divi
nation, sorcerers, necromancers, etc.
and what is the punishment for dis
obedience:
No prophecy of the scriptures Is of any
private interpretation. t-or the prophecv
ra me not in old time by the wl!T of man.
bur holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost. "d Petr --"--l
READLR.
rt'LKILLMET.
I knew that flowers sleeping
Within their winter's bed.
Safe in their hearts were keeping
Spring's blossoms gold and red.
And. too. I knew the singing
Of birds I'd hear again.
And April clouds come bringing
Their breath of glad'ning rain.
And underneath the sighing
Of gloomy branches bare.
Spring's greening buds were trying
To show their glories rare.
Just as my faith was singing
Last winter In the cold.
Here springtime now is bringing
Her richness manifold.
And so I'm still believing
That when sweet spring is spent
Fair summer will be weaving
Her golden blandishment.
MERRILL ARTHUR YOTHERS.
Meaning; of Dsnderlng.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 20. fTo
the Editor.) In an editorial on "Tick
ling an Idea to Death," The Orego
nian refers twice to banderlog. I
Judge It means ridicule, or Jesting
about something which should be
taken seriously a very contemptible
procedure in such times as these. But
T cannot find the word in Funk
Wagnall's standard dictionary, and
would be grateful for the exact mean
ing. A. H. THOMPSON.
Bar.dcrlog is an East Indian word for
monkey-folk, and was introduced into
English literature by Rudyard Kip
ling. As used in The Oregonian It
I was intended to convey the meaning
Jot ape-like mimicry.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montsstse.
Cl'TTIN'G Ol'T THE COMKDY.
No longer the cook in the movies.
Giving vent to her anser and grier.
At tne Duller s emorace raps nun
over the face.
u i moi ui .
No longer when kissed by the foot-
man
(In her rather irascible way)
She scorches his bean with a smoking
tureen r
Of hot vermicelli puree.
No more does the comedy waiter
A filip of humor supply.
By pasting the vest of a corpulent
guest
With a segment of blackberry pie :
Or slam, with a Long Island duckling,
The rube with the wicker work
grip.
Who bolts for the door when he's set-
tied the score.
And doesn't kick in with the tip.
No more does the photoplay house
wife. Whose husband comes home after
two.
Lie in wait on the stair and bend over
his hair.
A kettle containing beef stew.
does she. to further upbraid him.
Come down 11W a hnttprlnp mm
(Like they formerly did) on the err
ing one's lid
With a seven-pound leg of boiled
ham.
These movie productions are costly.
The actors, although they don't
speak.
When hits they have made are quite
frequently paid
Some thousands of dollars a week.
And when you have added the money
Kor sfenery. fillums and such.
You will see that real food must be
strictly tabooed-1
It costs altogether too much.
A Shame to Waste It.
Let us hope that somebody Is mak
ing white paper pulp out of that wood
tne ex-kaiser is chopping.
Merely a Hist.
Perhaps if the Germans were oc
cupied with Industry. Oermany
wouldn't be occupied so often by the
French.
t'lrrumstastial Evldeser.
Judging by the conversation of the
average undergraduate one would
think that the college text books on
English were all written by Ueorge
Ade.
(Copyright. 1920, by the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
r
The Threnody of Years.
II T Unce E. Hall.
0 women of (ny l.ln. as ye are claused.
From out that further land you
beckon me.
Telling in wordless language of the
past.
Hinting of lessons learned so pain
fully: Yet am I heedless, deaf to what you
know. '
For mine is not the page of long ago.
Though that same pain and Joy and
love and grief
1 too shrill find upon my journev
brief;
1 sense the myriad things you long
to toll.
But though I follow on the trails you
made.
I walk as one bcncatB a magi's spell
Meeting my life alone and unafraid
O. women of my kin. rest you and feel
Ye left as accurate guide-posts o, the
way
As women might; I sense your strong
appeal.
But I luust live and plan my given
day:
The paths so soon divide! Our babies
trying
To keep in step, eoon leave us Oh.
the pain!
No longer may we lead; the years are
flying.
And soon shall we be calling, too iu
vain.
It is the plan: so when the trails
must sever.
Let us go on nor sadden us with
tears.
Your own must find their way 'tis
thus forever.
We hear It in the threnody of years:
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
(From The Oreg-onlan of April 21. 1SS.-..1
St. Petersburg. A semi-official
statement has been issued here to the
effect that the Russian government is
In no wise satisfied with' the Chino
Japanese treaty.
Pendleton. Jade Switzler yester
day sold 5i00 horses to a Portland
syndicate and the animals, it Is said,
will be slaughtered and packed for
meat purposes.
Forty-two men and two women re
sponded yesterday to a call for the
organization of a free-silver league.
Orohyateka. full-blooded Sioux In
dian, who is supreme chief ranger of
the Independent Order of Foresters,
is now in California and from there
will come to Portland.
Fifty Tears Ago.
From The Oreconlan of April 21, 1570.)
New York. The coming of immi
grants at this port, is unprecedented,
a total of 5032 having arrived on vari
our boats yesterday.
The ordinance authorizing the may
or and committee on police and health
to purchase a jte for a public park
waa laid over at the council meeting
yesterday
At Vaughn's mill the otherday 14".
barrels of flour were ground in 12
hours. the entire amount beln
sacked and s-.wed by a Mr. McGavetu
The train from Oregon City last
night brought 11.000 pounds of paper
to H. L. Pittock & company.
Defect In Port Plsn.
PORTLAND. April 20. (To the Lcli
tor.) The citizens of Portland have
accepted the port commission's plan
for Swan island as final and definite.
It Is. therefore, gratifying to have
Mr. Abbott, an engineer, sound a note
rf warning to use Judgment, and to
recommend that the people of Port
land insist on outside experience and
advice being called Into consultation
before proceeding to spend $10,000,000
of public money.
Mr. Abbott has hi.nted at two faults
in the present plan. As a matter of
fact there are several vital defects
In the plan submlUc-d. and the public,
through the Chamber of Commerce,
real estate board, or other public
body, should seek the opinion of sev
eral port-planning experts, either on
the Pacific coast, or from eastern
states, before committing themselves
to a hastily considered plan.
If $10,000,000 Is to be spent, it
should be spent to the best advan
tage. AN ENGINEER.
Liability of W Ife.
SUTHERLIN. Or.. April 1,. , To the
Editor.) If B's wife owns properts- in,
her own right is she responsible for a
promlfcory note given by B. not in
dorsed by wife? READER.
Not unless the debt was for family
expenses.
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