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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920
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TWO YEA RS A IT ETC.
"With what different feeling do
Americana celebrate the second an
niversary of Armistice day from
those with which they received the
news that the enemy had accepted
defeat and that the war was ended!
Then all was Joy that bloodshed was
over, that the evil reign of the Ho
henzollerns and Hapsburgs was past,
that a gToup of republics had risen
la Europe, that the world was to
enter upon an era of peace, and that
the soldiers and sailors would soon
return, to be cared for and rewarded
for their valor by a grateful country,
to be honored by their proud fami
lies and neighbors.
. Actually we see the old world still
torn by smaller wars, shaken by dis
cord among and within nations, and
still agonized by the sufferings which
the great war caused. Germany still
tries to evade the obligation to dis
arm and to make reparation to 'the
nations it has despoiled, still violates
the rights of its neighbors, still
reaches out for allies to aid in mak
ing waste paper of the treaty by
which it is bound. Poland has bare
ly escaped destruction by the bol
shevists, and the defeat of "Wrangel
has again postponed hope of redemp
tion for Russia. ' The incorrigible
Turks, defying their impotent gov
ernment. Join hands with the red
devils of Russia in stamping out
Armenia. At other points decisions
of the peace conference are ignored
by claimants to disputed territory.
These disturbances may be com
pared to the swell which, moves the
ocean after a storm
Disappointment at the course of
events in our own country has been
no less keen and would have dulled
the edge of our interest in foreign
affairs, even if events had not in
spired distaste for meddling with
them. When the soldiers returned,
they found no provision mad for
them by the government, and the
by no means easy transition from
military to civil life was made with
the aid of states, cities and volun
tary organizations. This was en
durable for those who were in good
health, but intense suffering and
hardship were inflicted on the 'sick,
wounded and disabled by the callous
indifference and the incompetence of
the government. Notwithstanding
generous provision by" congress, the
executive departments remain care
less of the nation's duty to these
men, who have the strongest moral
claim on it. Men suffering from
tuberculosis have been turned out of
hospitals, some of the disabled have
become inmates of poor farms and
many have either been denied the
compensation that congress voted or
have been granted cruelly inadequate
amounts after long delay.
The primary cause of these fall-
tires of the government to perform
its highest duty to the nation's de
fenders was total unpreparedness for
peace. The armistice was no sooner
in effect than President Wilson be
gan preparation to heal the wounds
of the world, paying no attention to
those of our own soldiers or to the
disturbed and disordered condition of
the country, and his subordinates
followed his example. Though pub
lic opinion has spurred the govern
ment into some show of effort, its
incompetence for the task is still
glaringly apparent. At the same
time the troubles of this and other
countries have been prolonged by
the obdurate insistence of trin nroi.
dent that the United States assume
international obligations to which
the result of the election has shown
it to be opposed. From being ab
sorbed in foreign affairs, the minds
of the people have turned almost to
aversion for them by the course of
the administration both at home and
abroad.
Two years have brought us from
en extreme of idealism, which raised
boD of the imrjosxihl a anri wViifVi
prompted attempts at much that
was unwise, to a calm realization of
what is Immediately necessary and to
a prudent regard for what is safe
and practicable. That does not im
ply abandonment of ideals; it does
imply recognition of the limit beyond
which they are not now practicable.
The disillusionments of those two
years are due to efforts of idealists
to accomplish more than was nossi-
ble. indeed much that was dangerous,
while the less spectacular but more
urgent duties that lay immediatelv
in sight were neglected. - The reac
tion marked by the election is not
from idealism to gross materialism,
as those say who most bitterly be
wail the result. It is a reaction
from Impractical to what Roosevelt
well called "practical idealism." He
was the greatest idealist of his time,
but die- owed his success to the fact
that he was eminently practical.
This brings us back to the thought
of the veterans who will march in
DiAmnrv et rrtA vlrinrimia art a
which they brought the war. sffhe
most urgent practical duty of the
nation is to prove' its gratitude to
those who fight f or( it. and it is a
poor quality of idealism that neg
lects that - duty. All the veterans
who are sick or disabled should re
ceive the tenderest care from the
government, without haggling or red
tape and, above all, without delay.
Alt who retain their health and
strength should be given the most
liberal opportunity to earn their liv
ing as self-supporting, independent
cation, with land or with other
means of a new start in life which
will repair the break that their ser
vice caused ip their careers. They
should be followed through, life by a
nation solicitous that, if their powers
fail, they shall never want necessa
ries and reasonable luxuries. That
is the pledge which should be re
newed as the boys march today and
which it will fall to the Harding
administration to keep.
SHOCKING.
A herd of cattle will be grazing in the
shade aliQ quiet in a pleasant pasture,
literally in clover, when suddenly some
steer will give a snort and bellow, stick
up his tail and dash wildly through a
fence with the herd madly following, end
ing up breathless miles away in a fallow,
barren, shadeless field. Just why the
stampede started will always remain a
mystery. Certainly nothing was gained
by it. They probably wanted s change
and they got it.
People are not so unlike cattle. Seized
by the mass Instinct, they also stampede
for a change--following some political
steer, just why they don't always know.
The recent election Is' a case in point.
Salem Capital . Journal.
We have fallen, alas! on upsetting
times. Here is a staunch champion
of the infallible people comparing
them to a herd of cattle in a panic.
The other day, too, the Portland
Journal, in a moment of aberration,
credited the overwhelming Cox de
feat to the "fickle public." We are
too pained' for words, and refer the
sad case of the Journal to the Popu
lar Government league for investiga
tion. It is well remembered that this
admirable organization, whose spe
cialty is great and solemn referen
dums, was founded, and long main
tained, on the immortal principle
that the people make no mistakes.
However, it was very like a stam
pede. But they knew where they
wanted to go, and they went. Up at
Salem ' there may be a newspaper
which thinks a field plastered with
a $25,000,000,000 war debt, incurred
largely by methods of shameful
waste, inefficiency, extravagance and
even criminality, is clover; but the
"fickle" people have a different idea.
NO ONE SUFFICIENT TO HIMSELF.
President-elect Harding has been
modest enough to say that the
astounding results of the recent elec
tion were "not a personal victory."
It is the truth, and it is fine and
reassuring that Mr. Harding is led
by a real humility, and not by pride
or vainglory, to recognize it- He has
looked upon himself as Just an
every-day American citizen called to
a great task. He is no prodigy and
he knows it; and the country is
pleased to know that he knows it.
Being no genius, he will call to coun
sel the "best minds" of .America. He
does not say he will take their advice
always, but he wants the light, guid
ance, comfort and confidence that
come with good advice.
A story is told of Lincoln that,
after a cabinet conference on a grave
question, he asked' for a vote and
announced the result. "Ayes, seven;
noes, one," he said.- "The noes have
it." Needless to say Lincoln him
self was the solitary negative and
had his own way, after .considering
carefully what others had to say.
Whether President Harding will
stand out against his own cabinet
remains to be seen. A president
more recent than Lincoln has done
it regularly, but there is a justifiable
suspicion that he has called his cabi
net together when he does to tell
it what to do, and not to learn what
to do. Quite likely Mr. Harding
will desire to avoid the implication
that he will adopt the more recent
precedent.
No owe la great enough to stand
alone. President-elect Harding but
conforms to all knowledge and all
experience when he says so. Others
have said it before him, notably
Edmund Burke, great orator, great
philosopher, great statesman. On
one occasion he said:
I do not think it fit for anyone to rely
too much on his own understanding, or
to be filled with a presumption not be
coming a Christian man in his own per
sonal stability and rectitude. I hope I
am far from that vain confidence which
almost always fails in trial. I know my
weakness in all respects, as much as least
as any enemy I have, and I attempt to
take security against it. The only method
whichhao ever been found effectual to
preserve any man against the corruption
of nature and example is a habit of life
and .communication of council with the
most virtuous and public-spirited men of
the age you live in. Such a society can
not be kept without advantage or deserted
without shame. For this rule of conduct
I may be called In reproach a parry man,
but I am little affected with such asper
sions. In the way which they call party -I
worship the constitution of your fathers,
and I shall never blush for my political
company. - All reverence to honor, all Idea
of what it is, will be lost out of the world
before it can be imputed as a fault to any
man that he ha been closely connected
with those incomparable persona, living
and dead, with whom I have constantly
thought and acted. Where could any man.
conscious of his own inability to act alone,
and' willing to act as he ought to do, have
arranged himself better? If anyone thinks
this kind of society to be taken up as the
best method of gratifying low personal
pride or ambitious interests he is mis
taken and knows nothing of the world.
The best minds of America, should
counsel and control America. It is a
happy augury for the next four .years
that President Harding will rely on
them.
NAVAL BASES ON THE PACIFIC.
The approaching visit to Portland
of the joint congressional committee
on naval affairs and the board of
naval experts will afford Portland an
opportunity to make known the ad
vantages and needs of the Columbia
river which should not be neglected.
Following the report of the Helm
commission on Pacific naval bases
and consequent location of a sub
marine base at Tongue point, and
closely preceding the meeting of
congress, it will have great influence
on action with regard to the navy in
the Pacific.
All that the Helm commission said
of the need both of first class naval
bases and of secondary bases just be
fore the United States was drawn
into the war stands good ' today.
Force has been added to it 'by the
fact that half of the navy is now sta
tioned in the Pacific ocean, that the
entire fleet may soon maneuver in
that ocean and that Pacific com
merce under the American flag has
greatly grown and is still growing.
Naval authorities of both this coun
try and Great Britain have predicted
that the Pacific will be the future
field of commercial activity and
therefore of international rivalry. It
is necessary that this coast be
equipped with all the building and
repair facilities, all the docks and
dry docks and all the fuel and supply
stations, and with all the minor bases
that are needed at least for the Pa
cific fleet. Though there is no present
danger, nor any in early prospect,
we cannot tell how soon it may arise,
and recent experience warns that
when it comes it will come suddenly.
There may be urgent need of the en
tire Helm plan before It could be
completed.
Growth of the commerce of the
Columbia river In the last two years
is the measure of its importance 1n
naval war. This should be properly
impressed on the committee, with
due emphasis on the advisability of a
station midway of the long stretch of
coast between, Puget sound and San,
Francisco bay. The plans should not
stop at a submarine base, but should
extend to provision for larger ves
sels, even to occasional repair of a
battleship, and to an aviation base.
Opportunity should be taken to call
attention to the need of well armed
forts at the mouth of the river, with
ample accommodation not only for
the coast artillery but for a support
ing infantry force.
Attention will doubtless be called
to elimination of the Columbia river
bar as an obstruction to navigation
and to the deep ship channel which
is maintained to Portland. The re
port of the committee will no doubt
convey this information to those of
ficials at Washington to whom it has
not yet penetrated. That should re
move objection to having transports
come to Portland and Vancouver to
land or embark troops, or to having
the larger ships of the navy and the
training ships come to Portland. All
the requisites of a port of the first
class are here; it remains only to
show them and to insist on corre
sponding action by congress, the
navy department and other officials
at Washington.
A TKIIMPH OF ROAT-Btm,DtNO.
Completion of the paved highway
from Portland to Astoria or from
Astoria to Portland, if you prefer
passes without special ceremony,
probably because the road has in
fact been open to travel for a year
or two. Yet it is the actual consum
mation of a' great enterprise.
Men have long dreamed of a high
way the entire length of the Colum
bia river in the state of Oregon, but
until the recent general movement
for good roads throughout the coun
try it was only a dream. About seven
years ago, energetic and far-seeing
citizens started in earnest the cam
paign for a highway through the
Columbia gorge; and about the same
time an equally active group in Clat
sop county joined hands with others
in Portland to build along the Co
lumbia between the two cities. Clat
sop was indeed a pioneer in better
road building in Oregon, and it un
dertook the Columbia project with
much enthusiasm.- There were diffi
culties both engineering and finan
cial, but they have been overcome,
and now one of the finest roads in
America a boulevard of fine con
struction traversing scenes of rare
beauty and a highway of commerce
and industry spans the one hundred
miles between Portland and Astoria.
An automobile can go the distance
easily in four hours, or even less, if
one is willing to take a chance with
the speed regulations.
It took six or seven years to build
the Lower Columbia highway, but It
will be there for all time.
A BEWILDERED P.1BENT WRITES.
British newspapers are engaged in
discussion of the precocity of mod
ern youth, comparing it with the
timid suppression of a generation
ago. Already the reader of these
lines will have guessed that the
general tenor of comment is that the
youngster of today is in a bad way.
It is the Calamity Janes of the world
who usually start these controversies.
Probably it has been so since the
earth was young. Putting grand
father's generation on a .pedestal Is
an ancient indoor sport.
The argument now .raging seems to
have been started by a writer sign
ing himself "Bewildered Parent,"
who tells the public through ' the
London Morning Post that parents
are facing the probability of a soviet
of youth, that their sons and daugh
ters have awakened from their
dreams and become loafers and
cynics, that there is no hope for
parental authority in the future, and
that the young have made up their
minds to run the world, taking little
heed of the direction in which they
are headed. He complains that this
sad state of affairs has not even
spared the nursery- His exhibit A in
the chamber of horrors is a little
miss, scarcely able to toddle, who ad
dresses her father, a most learned
man, as "Old Bean." Then there Is
the relatively lesser offense Vf a son.
who went home one day and care
lessly announced his marriage, as to
which he had consulted neither
father nor mother. Young women
are charged with being "determined
to have a good time, whatever the
price," and all youth is accused of
"being ruthless and of a calculated
egotism." Cynical and measured
worldliness is seen on every hand.
Yet it is pleasing to note that this
bewildered p a r e n t evidently &
father has evoked a number of re
plies that on the whole are an anti
dote for the gloom that his letter en-"
genders. There is a tendency to
agree with . him as to the precocity
of the modern youngster, although
it is not conceded that this is a bad
sign. A noblewoman feels that "the
present generation is in essentials an
improvement on our generation."
Why, she wants to know, should we
insist, on the "illusions of youth," as
if there were something peculiarly
sacred about illusions? She believes
that the truth is more wonderful and I
beautiful than any illusion can be,
and she scores rather heavily with
the reminder that age alone does not
always mean wisdom.
A young soldier explains that life
has been robbed of much of its mys
tery by close acquaintance with
death. Gilbert K. Chesterton, as we
would expect him to be, is vastly en
tertained by the tale of the young
lady who is so little in awe of her
male parent that she calls him "Old
Bean," which he regards as' nothing
more serious than "a vague move
ment of the mind loosely described
as a desire for liberty." He is in
clined to minimize the danger of
government by juvenile soviet and
bids the bewildered parent be calm.
The danger that he sees in such a
controversy as that now raging is
that those who stand out for tradi
tion may fail to make it clear that
they also stand for reason.
A few take sides with the bewil
dered one. They also are persuaded
that neither in veneration for their
elders, nor in sundry other sound
virtues not satisfactorily catalogued,
are the children of today worthy of-
comparison with those of another
time ourselves when we were young.
for example. Yet it will be noted by
those who have been able to pre
serve the open mind while growing
older that not many of the offenses
charged against the most recently
young are novel. There is by way of
illustration of the antiquity of ir
reverence a story that never grows
old, and that .Bewildered .Parent
will find by. turning to the twenty-
third verse of the' second chapter of
second Kings:
And he went op from thence unto Bethel;
and as he was going up by the way, there
came forth little children out of the city.
and mocked him, anil said-, unto him. Go
up, thou bald- headt; go up, thou bald head.
There is a good deal of thoughtless
disregard of history in the complain
ing of every generation that its sue
ceaaora are not what they ought to
be. For the bears of Elisha's" time
may be substituted, if the emergency
is thought sufficiently grave, the
modern spanking, though parents
with a sense of humor are hardly
likely to resort to even that. The
accusation of over-worldliness is not
as serious on reflection as at first
blush, and it will taka a "good deal
of sophistry to make plausible the
contention that evil is done by sub
stituting truth for a lie even one
euphemistically tagged "illusion" of
youth. Much is summed up in the
suggestion of one of the controver
sialists, that "what is respectable
will always be respected," in the
present generation, as in those to
come.
INDIAN SUMMER.
Indian summer, brief, glorious and
widely prevailing at about this time
of year, was not always a season of
Joy, as a citizen with a taste for re
search has taken pains to discover.
It is well in the interest of historical
accuracy to set the encyclopedias
right on that important point. Pop
ular belief that the term originated
in weather predictions made by In
dians in conversation with the first
white settlers of America finds no
archival confirmation, and the notion
that it is of aboriginal origin is ex
ploded by the fact that neither it nor
anything closely corresponding to it
is found in the languages of Ameri
can Indians. It is pretty well estab
lished, however, that it was intro
duced into England from this coun
try. Other theories are refuted by
recent inquiry. There was a long-existing
impression among the pioneers
that the season took its name from
the fact that Indians at about this
'time were accustomed to set fire to
the undergrowth of forests, thus fill
ing the air with smoke, creating a
peculiar "Indian summer" haze.
, The phrase was on the tongues of
the earliest pioneers of America,
though it has been shown that it
does not occur in books or manu
scripts printed prior to 1794. The
secret seems to be revealed' in "Dod
dridge's Notes," recently unearthed
in the Congressional library at Wash
ington. This volume, written by a
pioneer born on the extreme western
frontier of Pennsvlvmia in ' 1783.
shows that the Indian sifmnyr of
our forefathers was the reverse'-of
the season of good feeling 'that it is
toaay. unaouDtedly it originated In
the circumstance that "during the
long-continued Indian wars, sus
tained by the first settlers they en-
Joyed no peace excepting in the win
ter season, when the Indians were
unable to make their incursions into
the settlements." The onset of win
ter, therefore, as Doddridge points
out, was a time of comparative joy.
But it sometimes happened that the
apparent advent of winter was fol
lowed by a season of warm, pleasant
weather. This was the "Indian sum
mer" because it gave the savages an
other opportunity to reap a harvest
in the settlements. "The melting of
the snows," says Doddridge, "sad
dened every heart and the genial
warmth of the sun chilled every
heart with horror."
It is worth while to recall the true
meaning of the term because it is a
reminder of the sacrifices by which
the present generation has been en
abled to enjoy Indian summers pos
sessing a far pleasanter significance.
h ar less eloquent is the name given
the season in central Europe, where
it is called old woman's summer,"
or in Britain, where the American
description is varied with "All Hal
lows summer," or "St. Martin's
summer, according to the month in
which it occurs. In the further in
terest of precision it is also necessary
to remind those who employ the ap
pellation indiscriminately that it does
not properly designate the first days
of autumn. The prerequisite of true
Indian summer is that it shall be a
recurrence of pleasant weather after
winter apparently has set in. To
moderns this brings only joy; to the
pioneers, as Doddridge has shown, it
was fraught with tragedy.
When firemen responded to an
alarm in South Portland the other
night, they found three barrels of
corn mash in the basement of a
burning house. Looks as if this par
ticular moonshiner had the recipe
for a stout brand of firewater.
The "big baked petato" of Hazen
J. Titus has been restored to the
Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern -will specialize on the Red
mond potato. The traveling appetite
must be spurred with the best to be
had.
A young woman with a case diag
nosed as smallpox has broken quar
antine and is loose. This will not
cause every man to sidestep when he
sees a young woman approaching,
but such action may save his face.
Average families are small nowa
days and one loaf a day may suffice.
Reduction of a cent a loaf is not
much, but will run to over $3.50 a
year, which is the way to figure
household expense.
Anyway, this tarpon fishing epi
sode" will-give President-elect Hard
ing some good experience against
the time when he throws the harpoon
into Burleson, Baker, Colby, Gray
son, et al.
The chief orders the men to bring
in the burglars and citizens can help
by keeping off the streets at night.
That will give officers free range for
target practice.
"Wanton" waste hardly expresses
the exuberant extravagance of the
administration's shipping board. It
was typical of democracy, drunk
with power.
Philadelphia, the real Portland of
the east, wants a million and, a half
to stop hold-ups and burglars. Here
a simple admonition is enough.
There should be a graded curfew
for septuagenariee, octagenaries and
other "young fellers" whose habits
cannot be broken.
There may be some connection
between thai; " supposed earthquake
and Mayor Baker's shakeup of the
police force.
If they ever catch 'em, those east
side burglars should be 'severely dis
ciplined for working after "hours.
Keep those winds "easterly," Mr.
Forcaster, for 10 days more, when
the stock show ends.
But what's one escaped tarpon to
Senator Harding after he has landed
the presidency?
.Well, thank goodness, Article X
is no longer in the list of the six
best sellers.
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES
Extermination of Rats by TJ. 9. Coats
38 Cents Each.
Every little while one reads in the
papers an earnest bit of propaganda
urging the extermination of all rats,
writes F. H. Collins in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat. Some painstaking
person has found out exactly how
many rats there are in' the country,
and the number in the statistics
seldom varies.
For your own edification you may
essay a similar enumeration by simply
setting down a numeral and add fig
ure naughts as long as you can hold
your breath.
On studying the figures, you see
that it will take a long time to ex
terminate them, for they multiply on
the face of the earth almost as fast
as you can on a sheet of paper with a
lead pencil. Nor Is that the worst of
the proposed massacre.
Do you know that it costs 28 cents
to exterminate a rat? We are speak
ing from a scientific , and wholesale
standpoint. It .has been tried at some
of our southern ports, where the rat
is more cordially abhorred than any
where else. Port Arthur, Texas,
found that each rat removed from
this life set back Uncle Sam's public
health service, which did the work.
Just 3& cents. When some 9000 had
been annihilated it was found that
that was the least that it could be
done for. .
Where oil deposits are, there states
men of a commercial type gather to
day to get possession of the "key"
fuel of the hour and of tomorrow. But
all phases of oil distribution are not
as grim as the processes of its ac
quisition. We have long known of
the uses to which the Chinese peas
antry and urban dwellers have put
the tin cans that the Standard Oil
company's agents have sent through
out the empire with petroleum for
the illumination of the house and
shops of the people. Many of these
substitutions have been comical; but
we have not heard before of the dis
ciples of Confucius using the tin cans
for roofing of their temples. In Sa
lonica, however, the Mohammedans
have been using the "containers" to
replate the surface of their rotting
moscfue minarets. Now when the call
to prayer goes forth, it not only Sum
mons the faithful to think of Allah,
but also to remember the generosity
of the managers of the Red Cross
garages. Advocate of Peace.
A well-known packing firm is ad
vertising a number of brands of
canned meats, among them hamburger
steak .and onions. It is noted that,
complying with the pure food law,
the cans containing the hamburger
carry the legend: "With cereal
added." Just why it should be neces
sary to add oatmeal to hamburger is
one of the mysteries of the age. We
can forgive a butcher for putting it
in sausage; it is so much cheaper
than pork and quite as filling, if not
so tasty, but in hamburger! Stars
and garters! When we figure out
what hamburger is made of, we mar
vel that expensive oatmeal should be
added. C. M. Jackson in San Fran
cisco Bulletin. ,
Surgeon-General Cumming of the
United States public health service
has just issued a fresh warning
against the use of horse-hair shaving
brushes, to which not a .few cases of
anthrax have been traced.
He says: "The public health service
has made every effort possible under
existing laws and regulations to pre
vent the occurrence of anthrax due to
Infected shaving brushes, but in spite
of its efforts anthrax cases occur and
will continue to occur unless the pub
lie ceases to buy and use horse-hair
brushes for shaving.
Xt is the consensus of expert
opinion that shaving-brush anthrax
Is contracted only when the shaving
brush is made of horse hair; and con
gress at the next session will be asked
to prohibit the use of horse hair for
that purpose. It is doubtful, how
ever, if any effective measures can be
taken by health officials to curtail
the use of , the horse-hair shaving
brushes now in trade channels, some
of which are presumably infected, ex
cept a direct warning to the public
not to buy or use such brushes."
Dr. Cumming strongly urges the
issue of such an appeal by state
health officials and its widest pub
licity, as the only way. pending add I
tional legislation, to obviate their po
tential danger.
. a
A New Yorker, one of the native-
born type,- who rarely leaves the con
fines of the greater city, took a vaca
tion this summer and went with one
of the New York ball clubs on its trip
west. He saw many strange sights.
On the return trip the club stopped
off at Buffalo and, never having seen
Niagara falls, as is the case with
most New Yorkers, the players per
suaded , their fellow traveler not to
miss the opportunity.
He looked the falls over very care
fully and returned to his hotel.
"Well, what do you think of it for
a wonderful sight?" asked one of the
ballplayers.
"I'll say," said the New Yorker
without undue enthusiasm, "that she
certainly throws a mean leap." Sat
urday Evening Post.
The path of love was not lined! with
rose leaves for Reginald, and he was
getting tired of it.
He felt it was time to give his
imitation of the worm that turned
when the maiden asked) for the thou
sandth time:
"Are you sure you love me, dear?"
Reginald drew a deep breath.
"Do I . Look here, my darling!"
he gasped. "I've missed my last train
home for the third time this week;
you've been sitting on my knees for
three hours til I've got a cramp; your
little brother has torn the brim off
my straw bat; your father made me
smoke one of his cheap cigars this
evening; I've spent my last dollar
on thoe chocolates you've just eaten,
and I've never grumbled once. Do
you think I hate your Houston
Post.
The bald-headed hotel clerk handed
out his register for one of the first
teachers arriving at his place for the
teachers'' convention. She was not
exactly young, but decidedly full of
pep and very much up to date in ap
pearance and manner. "So it's teach
ers week again," he said Jokingly.
"I do hope there'll be a lot of young
ones this. year. New faces are always
welcomes to us hotel men."
She looked at him a minute' and
I then retorted. "So are they .'to us
teacher women." Indianapolis News.
Those Who Come and Go.
"Portland is going right ahead, but
something has happenedto Seattle. I
don't know what it is, but there is
something wrong with Seattle and
there isn't any second Klondike to
bring it back. San Francisco Is also
slipping. Los Angeles is growing
fast." says Seneca Curtis Beach, now
of Los Angeles, but formerly a- rep
resentative and state senator from
Multnomah in the Oregon legislature.
Mr. Beach came to Oregon, to make a
visit to Astoria and is on his way
home. He declares that Los Angeles
U the greatest industrial center in the
cvest; has 34 steamship lines and is
now building a concrete highway for
ruck transDortation between San
Pedro and Los Aneeles. It will be a
10-inch concrete road, 24 feet in-j
width. Mr. Beach is a printer audi
learned his trade in Nebraska. Years
ago he came to Oregon and settled
in Lakeview, ran a paper there, and
subsequently shifted to Portland. For
years ne was one oi tne musi
republicans in the state, but since
going to California his politics have
been academic.
The fact that he owns a buried city
where a prehistoric race lived- doesn't
excite Frank Seufert, of The Dalles,
a particle. Mr. Seufert owns the land
where the highway construction crews
have been digging up graves ana
skeletons and implements of war and
the chase. "It is just an old burying
ground of the Indians," explained Mr.
Seufert yesterday. "It was used be
fore the white man came, possibly
used several centuries ago, but what
of it? We've been plowing up dead
Indians for many years. Our peach
orchard was once an Indian grave
yard. The Indians knew a good place
when they saw it, so they selected
the ground near the Big Eddy. When
I went into that country years ago, I
followed the example of the Indians
and located there, too. So far as these
relics are concerned, the high water
of 1894 washed out many graves, such
as are now being uncovered, and we
picked up stone cups, with squirrels
carved for handles, and things of that
sort, but they didn't make very good
jobs at carving."
To buy furniture to equip the new
hotel building at Heppner, Pat Foley
is in town and is registered at the
Imperial. Mr. Foley is running a hotel
at The Dalles, "but decided that he had
some time to spare, so he leased the
new re-enforced concrete hotel build
ing in Heppner and will have James
Hart, formerly of the Imperial, as
resident manager. It was in Heppner
that Phil Metschan, of the Imperial,
made his start as a hotel man. He
used to give a man all he could eat
for two bits, but the patrons had such
healthy, open-air appetites that Phil
lost meney every time he served a
meal.
For 18 years James McKinney of
Aledo, 111., held public office. He
served eight years in congress, and
was there when James Cox, late demo
cratic nominee for president, was in
the house, and for 10 years Mr. Mc
Kinney was a railroad and warehouse
commissioner. Mr. McKinney, who is
registered at the Multnomah, puts in
his winters in California and is
headed for the golf links of Pasadena
now. For 15 years' Mr.- McKinney was
a member of the republican state com
mittee of Illinois.
Sheepmen are not feeling skookum
in eastern Oregon, Idaho and Wash
ington, judging from the reports
brought back by James Keeney, who
has returned from a tour of inspec
tion. Having been long in the sheep
game, with headquarters at Pilot
Rock, Mr. Keeney is interested in
noting conditions of the industry in
adjacent states and hops a train every
now and then to see how things are
going. He says that the sheepmen
cannot be blamed for having their
wool on their hands, as they didn't
have a chance to sell.
D. D. Coulson, one of the city
fathers of Newberg, Or., was at the
Hotel Portland yesterday. Aside from
being a councilman, he is also a real
estater and an insurance man, and
he has a friend who has promised to
sell him all the Newberg-grown wal
nuts that he wants for 28 cents -a
pound, which is one of the advantages
of being a member of the council.
The candy business has increased
1000 per cent since the prohibition
amendment became effective, accord
ing to A A. Mendes of Seattle, who is
at the Multnomah. A few years ago,
candy making was a side issue on the
Pacific coast but now it is developing
into an Important industry. The in
crease in the consumption of sweets is
attributed to the elimination of al
cohol. To try out the new pavement on the
lower Columbia river highway, Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Stewart and Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Erwin-of Knappa drove to
the Hotel Portland yesterday. Also
testing out the completed road was
D. A. Stokes of Astoria and C. H.
Watzek of Wauna. The completed
nignway has not placed Portland in
the backyard for every hamlet be
tween Linnton and Svenson.
She diidn't look nor act like a small
town girl, but' she gave herself away
at the Hotel Portland yesterday after
noon when she inquired of the clerk:
"What's on at the opera house to
night?" She was informed that the
attraction was a boxing tournament.
Only in the small places is la theater
still known as "the op'ry house."
Eminently satisfied with the result
of the national election last week is
Bertha S. Newlands of BoiS"?, Idaho.
Miss Newlands, who is at the Hotel
Portland, was an agent of the re
publican national committee and her
specialty during the recent campaign
was to stir up republican sentiment
among women voters.
G-eorge E. Chamberlain. United
States senator, accompanied by Mrs.
Chamberlain, left last night 'for San
Francisco, where they will visit their
daughter, Mrs. R. Gaither. . The sen
ator will go to Washington from San
Francisco and will remain there until
his term expires on March 4.
Although holding court in Van
couver, Wash., Judge B. Blake of Spo
kane, is registered at the Multnomah.
He is an old friend of Manager A. B.
Campbell, as they were together 10
years- ago when Mr. Campbell was
chief auditor for a smelting company.
"We're experiencing summer weath
er at Redmond," reports Denton Bur
dick of Deschutes county. "The com
mon people still prevail," he trium
phantly commented on the recent
election, in which he -was once more
elected to the legislature.
Sentor W. T. Vinton Is getting his
affairs in shape so that be can sit at
Salem for 40 days. He confessed that
he voted to extend the session to 60
days, but is just as well satisfied that
the measure was defeated.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. McKay
drove from Seaside and are at the
Nortonia. They report that Seaside
was crowded with visitors last Sun
day, people who motored over the
newlycompleted highway.
C. A Brantlrng of Riverton, -Wyo..
is at the Perkins and is talking about
the wonderful future of Wyoming as
an oil producing section.
A. E. Stewart, a timber operator of
Silver ton. Or, is registered at. the
Perkins.
OUR DUTl TO WAR WOCXDED
Rehabilitation Is for All, Not Official
Agencies Alone.
PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Ed
itor.) The news item in The Ore
gonlan of November 9. headed, "Poor
Farm Houses U. S. War Wounded,"
ought to be a trumpet call awaken
ing us to a communal sense of shame
at the inhumanity shown our war
wounded.
To those of our fighting men who
somehow weathered war's inferno to
return crippled of body aye, and of
soul, too!- to the supposedly tenderer
usages of peace, we owe whatever
there is in us of gratitude and devo
tion. Not charity, though banal
word but the service of helpfulness
toward rehabilitation of each injured
soldier in his natural armor of sturdy
self-respect. Certainly this end can
not be arrived) at by the incarceration
of these now defenseless heroes in
side the cheerless walls of the alms
house, nor yet within the soul-sapping
atmosphere of the tubercular hos
pital. They are not merely "cases" to
come under the impersonal eye of
even the-most expert medical science;
not "sheaves of paper" as Mr. Gal
braith has so aptly said to be casu
ally pigeonholed by incompetent gov
ernment bureaus. They are souls to
be set right again -by normal con
tact with the warm loving heart of
humanity that same sane and lov
ing heart wh'ch so willingly endeav
ored to back them "over there"
through the ministration of the Red
Cross and kindred agencies.
Perhaps this can best be made to
function throirgh the efforts of the
American Legion and the govern
ment working together single-minded-ly
for the winning back to personal
independence of each and every in
jured soldier.
But we must not leave the work to
these agencies alone. It is the heart
of America that is functioning
toward her wounded sons, and we
are that heart.
In the name of justice and decency
let us keep the subject before the
public eye and win through to a fair
solution of it in time to avert irrep
arable wrong to these heroic men.
All honor to them now and for
everl ANN LAZENBT.
PARALLEL STREET FOR AUTOS
Woman Suggests Simple Way of Re
lieving; Congestion on Hawthorne.
PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) I think it is about time that
someone solved the traffic problem
on Hawthorneavenue.
Every carline should have a street
parallel to it for automobiles, as Bel
mont is to East Morrison. East Clay
street is almost a nuisance, for the
motorist scarcely gets on it than he
needs jnust turn back to Hawthorne
avenue. Further, it ia obvious that
East Clay can never be extended be
yond Twelfth street.
Has no one yet thought of using
East Madison street?
If the city fathers would only pave
the two blocks between First and
Third streets on East Madison that
would solve the whole-problem of the
dangerous congestion on Hawthorne
from Grand avenue down and do
away with "dead man's crossing" at
Seventh street, and the temptation
of the motormen to race with autoists.
East Madison is paved to Twentieth
street and is cut through to Thirtieth
street.
I strongly urge the paving of these
two blocks on lower East Madison
street. The money paid out in dam
age suits would more than cover the
cost; then, too, it would speed up
schedules; there would be fewer de
lays, and consequently better service.
LUCIA STAMPER.
HIGH WAGES WILL BAR StRSES
Mother In Nerd of One Predicts They
Will Lose in I.oiifC Hun.
PORTLAND. Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) I think the new rates and
hours for nursing are outrageous.
Nurse No. 1 says 10 years of service
is the limit. Yet one of the first
graduates of Good Samaritan is still
nursing. And as for practical nurses
overcharging In San Francisco, dur
ing the "flu" epidemic the registered
nurse demanded and received $20 a
day.
At the present time I would be glad
to have a nurse could I afford it. I
have a sick child, not seriously ill,
but sick enough to require very care
ful nursing, which together with
housework is a very great strain.
But even at the present rates I must
struggle along without. Nurses for
get that doctors in very many cases
most at present, when salaries are
low in comparison to living costs
have to wait long for their money
and have many unpaid bills. ' A nurse
gets hers surely, though, and she gets
her food too, and at present with a
shortage of nurses the nation over,
need not talk of unemployment.
I for one am resolved to do without
as long as possible and I think the
nurses will find in the long run, as
business is doing now, that when the
dear public Is exasperated beyond a
certain point, confidence will be hard
to restore.
ONE EXASPERATED MOTHER.
Examination for Public Accountant.
PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Where is the examination for
certified public accountant held, and
what are the requirements?
Is there a school in Portland giving
aid in preparation?
What other course may be followed
satisfactorily?
CONSTANT READER.
1. The next certified public ac
countants" examination in Oregon will
be held November 16 and 17 at the
central library. Application for the
examination should be filed 30 days
before, with the secretary of the state
board of accounting, Arthur Berrldge,
Worcester building, Portland.
2. The Y. M. C. A. and the Univer
sity of Oregon extension division give
training.
3. Detailed information can be ob
tained from Mr. Berridge.
Law -Questions Answered.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 8. (To
the Editor.) Please answer the fol
lowing: 1. To contest a will, must
action be taken before probate is
begun?
Would the judge who presided
at final settlement have power to set
aside a provision of the w'll that -an
heir could not sell or encumber land,
providing he could show it was to
his and his family's best interest to
do so?
3. When are bills outlawed?
4. What is the smallest r-m for
which a person may sue? Is it not $5?
OLD SUBSCRIBER.
1. No.
2. It depends on circumstances in
individual cases.
3. Six years.
4. Any sum can be sued for.
Paper Mill In Alaska.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Can you give me' any informa
tion about the paper mill, or mills,
in Alaska? And what the names of
the companies are. if there are any,
making news print? S. H.
The Alaska Pulp & Paper company,
a San Francisco firm, has started
construction of a large pulp and paper
mill, which will make news print
paper. The mill is still in process of
construction and wiLJ not bo com
pleted for a year. For further infor
mation, write to John D. Guthrie,
United, States forest service, Portland.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
THE TRAGEDY.
When Phyllis left this morning
To drive to town for tea.
The radiance adorning
Her face was fine to eee.
Her hat and costume, blending
In soft harmonious tune.
Assured the maid of spending
A perfect afternoon.
But Phyllis, on returning
Went straight up to her room;
Her cheeks were hot and burning
She radiated gloom
I served no whit to cheer her
To praise her clothes and hat.
In fact if we came near her
She bristled like a cat.
For after what befell her
This afternoon at tea.
In vain it was to tell her
" That no one else could be
fao modish and so trim in
Her autumn frock and funs.
She'd seen two other women
Who had on hats like hers.
m
They're Iron.
In one particular we envy the
horse. His shoes are good for a
couple of months, anyway. .
Cherries Kot Jirnlrd for Corlrtnlls.
Maybe Washington cut down that
cherry tree because he had a premo
nition that prohibition was coming.
Nothing; On tin.
Italian reds who seized a railroad
and tried to run it have given it
back, in which respects they imitated
the United States of America.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndi
cate, Inc.)
John Burroughs' Nature
' h'otes.
Can Yon Answer These Questions f
1. Which is the most adaptive, th
goose or the duck?
2. How should a threatening dog be
met?
3. Is the world approaching bank
ruptcy? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Has the domestication of fowls
reduced their instinct of fear?
The instinct 6f fear of some enemy
in the air above has apparently not
oecn diminished in the barnyard fowls
by countless generations of domesti
cation. Let a boy shy a rusty pie-tin
or his .old straw hat across the hen
yard, and behold what a screaming
and a rushing to cover there is!
2. When is an animal trainer in
most danger?
The pre-eminent danger of the ani
mal trainer comes when he stumbles
or falls. In such a case, the lion or
tisrer is verv ant tn ,nr!i. wi
Those beasts seem to know that a
man is less formidable when down
than when standing; when prone upon
the ground, his power has departed
They also often seize the opportunity
for an attack upon him when his back
is turned.
3 How are abnormalities on trees
formed?
An insect stings a leaf or a stem,
and instantly all the forces and fluids
that were building the. leaf turn to
building a home for the young of the
infect; the leaf is forgotten, and only
the needs of the insect remembered,
and we thus have the oak gall and the
hickory gall and other like abnor
malities. (Rights reserved by Houghton Mlffllp Co.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
rrAm J"e 0r?R?nlan ot November 11. 1S!5
Andrew F. Burleigh, receiver of the
Northern Pacific Railroad company
arrived here by special train over
the O.-W K. & N. last night.
Tom Parrott, who is with the Cin
cinnati National league team, and
Jiggs Parrott, with Chicago, have
returned here. These brothers were
raised, in Portland.
The Oregon State Poultry associa
tion will hold Its annual poultry and
pet stock exhibition January 13-18
General John H. Dickinson, in earlv
days a resident here, now a promi
nent lawyer in San Francisco, is in
the city on a visit.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonlan of November 11 1870
Governor L. F. Grover has issued'
a proclamation for the observance of
Thanksgiving day on Thursday, No
vember 24.
Hen Hayden. speaker of the house,
Is here on a visit from Polk county.
Rev. E. C. Anderson, pastor of the
First Baptist church and superin
tendent of schools in Multnomah
county, will arrive here from his
eastern trip by the next boat.
The Washington guard and Emmett
guard will both have a muster and
inspection this evening under direc
tion of Brigadier-General O. F. Bell
of the Oregon militia.
Prices of Airplanes.
ASTORIA, Or.', Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Where are the aviation schools
located? Must one be a graduate from
one of these schools before receiving
a license to operate a "for hir-e" ma
chine In Alaska? About what is the
price of a machine and how much
time is required to take a course?
V. E. GRAY.
1. There are three aviation schools
located at Portland, the Dudrey school
of aeronautics conducted on the
Broomfield flying field, the Oregon,
Washington and Idaho school on the
Guild Lake field and the Adcox school.
2. So far as known here there are
no regulations in Alaska governing
the operation of a "for hire" air
plane in Alaska.
3. The price of machines range
from $750 for the smallest type, a
250-pound machine for carrying one
man, to several thousand dollars, de
pending on the size and type of craft.
If President-Elect Should Die.
PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) If the president-elect should die
before March 4, would the vice-president-elect
become president?
INQUIRER.
If the death occurred before ths
meeting of the electoral college,
either the electors would choose a
president or fail to cast a majority
vote for any one person. In the latter
event the house of representatives
would choose, as president, one df
the three persons having the greatest
number of electoral votes. If the
president-elect died after the electoral
vote had been certified the vice-president
would become president.
Pronunciation of Author's Name.
RAINIER. Or, Nov. 9. (To the
Editor.) Kindly give the correct
pronunciation of the name of the
author of the book, "Fifty-Four Forty
or Fight," Emerson Houirh.
FRED W. HERMAN.
Pronounce it as if it wcre spelled
'Huff,"