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THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1920
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THE WAY BACK TO NORMALCY.
By the kind of remedies that they
propose for the country's economic
ills some republicans, of whom Sen
ators Kenyon and Capper are ex
amples, show that they have not
rightly conceived the true meaning
of Senator Harding's phrase "back
to normalcy," which means simply
return to the normal conditions un
der which the people lived and pros
pered before the war and democratic
economic experiment produced the
present abnormal conditions. The
Wilson administration dabbled in
socialism before it led us Into war;
then it led us, on the plea of military
necessity, to plunge in waist-deep.
The way out that is proposed would
lead deeper into the morass. Men
who, though calling themselves re
publicans, propose socialist schemes,
ask the nation to cure its ills by
taking not merely a hair but a whole
leg of the dog that bit it.
What Americans want, as the re
sult of the election proved,, is to
go, back to the firm ground of
Americanism, the foundation prin
ciple of which is the free play of
individual energy and enterprise. The
first requisite ia removal of the
artificial obstructions which the war
has interposed against working of
this principle. We must establish
peace with Germany, Austria and
Hungary and must remove restric
tions on trade with them. The
amount that they owe the allies and
this nation for reparation should be
definitely fixed and payment should
be provided on terms with which
they can comply. Then the whole
chapter of war laws should be swept
away. Having restored peace, the
United States should join other na
tions in an association to keep peace.
That would be a good beginning.
It would give Germany a basis for
credit in this and, other countries
for the vast amount of commodities
'that it wants to buy and would fur
nish an incentive to produce the
things with which it must pay. A
huge debt of uncertain amount
hanging over a nation is paralyzing
to the enengies, especially when that
nation 13 dispirited by defeat. The
free flow of commerce would then
be restored, the world markets,
which are now half closed, would
be reopened, a sudden fall in prices
for one country would be prevented
by the demand from another coun
try, and prices would gradually be
come stabilized at a level which,
though lower, would be safer as a
basis on which to produce and sell,
to lend and build, and by establish
ing a fair relation between values
of different commodities would yield
all producers a fair, living profit.
In domestic affairs the way back
to normal conditions is by taking
the government out of business, not
by leading it in deeper, for that
would mean more -such waste ' as
marked government production of
ships and munitions. It is not by
use of public credit to build houses
and market wheat. There was no
difficulty about obtaining money on
reasonable terms for these purposes
before conditions became abnormal;
it will be again available on such
terms when we get back to where
we stood jsix years ago, and will be
more abundant in consequence of
the federal reserve system and the
increase of wealth due to the war.
The way out is not by making "the
goat" of some men or some interests
who take advantage of opportunities
that present conditions create.
The way out is to remove the ob
stacles to private enterprise in all
these particulars. The worst of these
is a system of direct taxes which
adds to the cost of doing business,
to the price of all commodities and
therefore to the cost of living. It
takes and spends extravagantly on
the government -surplus, profits
which should be reinvested in in
creased production. The greatest
aid .to both agriculture and manu
facture would be a revision of the
tax system by which taxes would be
so distributed that all would pay
something directly, more as means
were larger, more on luxuries than
on necessaries, with no, opportunity
to pyramid taxes and pass them on.
yitn a budget system and greatly
reduced government expenditure, the
aggregate of taxes would be lower
and each citizen would be interested
in practice of economy. Men would
know how much they must pay, and
could plan their future with con
fidence. Government participation
in business should be limited to
operation of its ships until they can
be gradually sold to private opera
tors, to reclamation of land which
private enterprise cannot touch, to
improvement of waterways and to
regulation of business to prevent
abuses. It should show the way for
farmers and home-builders to help
themselves by mobilizing thr credit
in co-operation; there would then be
no call for use of the public credit.
Farmers would not talk of a strike
against growing wheat, for they
would know that a lower price was
offset by lower cost of production,
and stabilized' conditions would en
able them to make loans which
would carry their crop till it could
be profitably sold.
The fundamental objection to such
measures as are proposed by Sen
ators Kenyon and Capper is that
they treat symptoms instead of
causes and aggravate the disease
that they are designed to cure. Men
do not build houses because, so far
as they can foresee, a house on
which they would spend $4000 might
be worth only $3000 a fear hence.
With that uncertain prospect, it is
doubtful whether many men would
borrow government funds with
which to build. If farmers struck
against wheat-growing, they would
tempt those in other countries to
grow larger crops and therefore
might, fail to stabilize values. A
safer means to maintain the price
would be a wider market secured by
opening all the world to commerce
and lower cost of production due to
better, lower taxes and scaling' of
all prices to a lower level. Attacks
on speculators do not discriminate
between those who perform a use
ful function and those who are, gam
blers in commodities that they never;
see. The outcry about high interest
on call loans ignores the fact that
these loans are a surplus above the
sum lent on time, and that they are
made only for a few days, not being
available for the long time that
farmers ask.
An essential part of the return to
normalcy is that the people should
cease to call on the government for
help to get out of . trouble. We
might well take a hint from thrice
ravaged Poland. Twelve thousand
Polish-American workmen ' joined
several thousand men in Poland in
forming a co-operative company
which bought two big steel works,
several square miles of land and a
whole town, and set the members in
that country to work at industries
that are succeeding. They did not
run to their grandmother govern
ment to do it all for them, but
helped themselves. - Theirs was the
true American spirit. If reawakened
in this country and freed from tjhe
hindrances of war laws and socialist
laws, it will bring us through our
difficulties, as it has done many a
time.
INSIDE INFORMATION.
The Oregonian finds in its es
teemed contemporary, the Medford
Mail-Tribune, a communication from
an unnamed correspondent that
commands its particular interest.
Here it is:
I am one of those who voted for Stan
field from a sense of duty rather than
pleasure. I appreciated all Senator Cham
berlain had done, but I could not disregard
Senator Harding's own appeal to vote for
a republican congress. If I had known
he could have had a working majority
with Chamberlain, 1 would have voted for
Chamberlain. But I couldn't know that.
I didn't want to take a chance. ... I
have seen nothing la the Mail Tribune
about Senator Chamberlain being the se
lection of Harding for secretary of war..
I have Inside Information that this is to
be done. So you see the Stanfield appeal
was justified after all. For Oregon will
have greater power than would have been
possible with Chamberlain's election
Stanfield ana McNary In the senate and
Chamberlain in the cabinet.
This is not only a most revealing
description of the state of mind in
which . many Oregon republicans
found themselves before the recent
election, but it is an Important dis
closure as to President Harding's
Intentions in naming his secretary
of war: There are many who ill
hope that the "inside information"
at Medford has a sounder basis than
ordinary political gossip. For our
selves, being of a cautious temper,
growing out of sundry unhappy ex-'
periences with inside information,
we shall have to be- shown.
The Mail-Tribune offers comment
on the letter in a manner that like
wise interests us. For example:
Senator Chamberlain could not be sent
to the senate, because of . his party label,
but he can apparently be sent to a repub
lican president's cabinet a position 'of far
greater importance in spite'bf his party
label. . . . We can't follow that sort of
reasoning. If the reasons for keeping
Chamberlain tut of the senate were valid,
then the reasons for keeping him out of
Harding s cabinet are equally valid.
Well, hardly. Mr. Chamberlain
was defeated for the senate because
he was a supporter of Mr. Cox, and
would have been in the senate a unit
of the democratic organization. If
he shall be invited to the new
cabinet, it will be because he prom
ises, expressly or impliedly, to be a
supporter of President Harding and
a factor in formulating and making
effective the policies of his adminis
tration. JTDGING LIVESTOCK.
When it comes to be universally
regarded as a mark of higher dis
tinction to possess sound, educated
and discriminating judgment of es
sentials than to be a dilettante of the
non-requisite, the honor won by the
livestock Judging team of the Univer
sity of Idaho at the Portland livestock
show will mean even more than it
now does. Meanwhile there is rea
son for the ultimate consumer and
otherwise plain citizen to congratu
late himself that a competition of
that kind has been able to attract
so many serious contestants. By
comparison with the young man who
is critical of superfluities and super
ficialities, the catalogue of which the
reader may supply for himself ac
cording to his observation, that other
youth who knows the "points" of a
good hog. or the differences between
milk and beef types of cattle, or
the principles of line and cross
breeding, has an almost infinitely
more worth-while accomplishment.
One of the steps by which the
problem of the cost of living will be
solved will be .the broader under
standing of the economics of agri
culture. The margin between profit
and loss in food production is be
coming more and more a matter of
improving on nature, and scientific
stock-breeding is part of the process
of coaxing more food products from
a given area of soil. Where former
ly a few self-educated and observant
breeders succeeded exceptionally,
and were envied by their neighbors,
it is now hoped that their methods
may be standardized and communi
cated to others for the benefit of
all. The business of producing food
gains dignity by bning elevated to
a science at a time when there is a
marked tendency on the part of
young men to adopt so-called pro
fessional careers.. Now the "profes
sion" of food-p roduction gives
promise of proving attractive where
hit-or-miss husbandry is only
drudgery. The gain that has been
made is the intellectual stimulus and
the sense of pride in achievement
that are lacking in manual industry.
It is perhaps excellent in its way
to know the subtleties of oriental
rugs,- ceramics, tobaccos and im
ported cheese, but in the near future
the judge of cattle and swine is go
ing to loom larger in the good opin
ion of his associates.. There is no
longer monopoly of distinction in
the 1X..D. The degree of doctor
of husbandry is going to mark a new
aristocracy just now coming into- its
own.
If the German revolution should
wind up in the dictatorship of Hugo
Stinnes as the head of a national
trust, it would be a perfect anti-climax
to what the social revolutionists
began. Then the dictator of Ger
man capital could join hands with
Lenin, dictator of the Russian prole
tariat, and make a deal for develop
ment of Russia by German capital
with submissive Russian labor, and
we should have another anti-climax.
With the resources then in their
hands, these two apostles of progress
might then undertake the subjuga
tion of the bourgoise democracies of
western and southern Europe. The
suggestion of such things seems pre
posterous, but so would the sugges
tion of what now is in Europe seem
before August, 1911. Europe changes
more rapidly than South America
used to change, and events may
verify the most improbable predic
tion. ' THE REMEDY.
The sole compensation for the
tragic death 'of Policeman Palmer
is its demonstration that the quali
ties of courage and of high sense of
duty are still the impelling spirit of
the police department. Doubtless
there are grafters and idlers among
them, as we have lately heard. They
should be exposed, and punished;
and the public should lend alj en
couragement to the mayor's clean
up plans. The main body of the
police, having their good name at
stake, will do the same. We are
sure that there are many among
them who would have incurred ex
actly the risk the brave falmer
incurred, for it would have been all
in the day's work.
The desperado who shot and
killed Palmer was about 24 years
old; and his companion and accom
plice was 18 or 19. It is nearly
always true that the most reckless
ventures in outlawry are by very
young men. Heedlessness of youth,
lust for excitement, defiance of
authority, immaturity of experience,
desire to live without .work, lead
them Into exploits which older men
avoid. The youth walks into the
bank and holds up the cashier at
the point of a pistol In broad day
light, or he boards and robs a train,
or he intercepts a wayfarer on a
dark street and takes his money, or
he commits other crimes which are
attended by immediate and deadly
danger; the older man usually does
not take the instant chance.
Back of it all is lack of primary
education, right influences, and, too
often, good parentage. Back of it,
too, is failure to punish adequately
for lesser crimes. . There is too much
contempt for law and too much
hatred for the visible arms of the
law.
The young fellow with a pistol is
always a menace. The remedy is
not merely to take the weapon from
him it -Is impossible but to take
him in hand at the right time, show
him the right way, and correct and
penalize him for his performances
along the wrong way.
THE TV AT WOMEN DRESS.
President Emeritus Eliot of Har
vard is frankly shocked by the way
the women of 1920 dress. "We can
see it." lie told an assemblage of
Unitarian women of Boston the
other day, "on any Boston street. Our
mothers would call it an indecent
way." He absolves modern young
women, however, from the desire to
be immodest, and credits them with
yielding to folly only because they
want to be "fashionable and pretty."
Tet "the clothes are Immodest. And
they have a psychological effect.
They tend toward Immodesty in
manner."
Precisely the same jeremiad is
to be ' discovered- in the annals of
everyj period. The beginning of the
nineteenth century was no more free
than- the present from opportunities
for fault - finding, and gloomy
prophecies that women would lose
their spiritual fineness because they
fashioned their garments after a
novel pattern are recorded in nearly
eyery period. It seems to be for
gotten that where the ruling motive
is to "be fashionable," as Dr. Eliot
probably is right in supposing it is,
the fact of modishness is a contra
diction of immodesty. In fashion,
as in law, judgment must be predi
cated on intent.
There is in fact some reason-why
the student of sartorial history will
doubt that "our mothers" would
have called it an Indecent way. Dr.
Eliot, as we discover by reference
to a convenient copy of . "Who's
Who," was born in 1834. ' Thirty
one years before that, in 1803,
Jerome Bonaparte wedded an Ameri
can girl, Frances Mathilda Abbott,
who-writes interestingly in the cur
rent North American Review of the
reaction produced in her girlhood
by contemplation of the fashions of
an earlier past, observes, that it was
a never-falling wonderment to her
that any human being could ever
have worn the garments "that en
cased the female form at the be
ginning of the nineteenth century."
"With the single exception of the
poke-bonnet over which a perpen
dicular feather waved, the garb was
almost precisely what we see around
us today.". There were ,"the low
shoes; . . . the bare arms and
necks in street attire; the big muffs
and loose scarfs; the gowns that
outlined every movement of the
wearer.'i She was astonished when
she saw,. 'among the costumes-exhibited
among the family relics in
the Longfellow house, "limp crepe
gowns which could have been passed
through let us say, a bracelet." And
there is this light on the mode in
the time of the Bonaparte-Patterson
nuptials:
I believe that It Is a well-attested his
torical fact, though I blushed when I; read
It, that Betsy Patterson, after she had
Intrigued Jerome Bonaparte Into marriage,
went to the altar clad In a single garment
of loose muslin. .
The manner in' which women
adorned themselves in the period of
the Directory was not even then new,
but had been borrowed from a more
ancient time. The Review .writer,
whom comparison has not made
pessimistic, philosophizes further:
It made me think of one of Kipling's
stories, where an Englishman, stationed
In a remote South sea island, with no com
panion but a native, finally went mad on
account of the solitude and tore off all
bis clothes. He -ial been in this -condition
two years when 'a. ship arrived and
the men were shocked to find him raving
In his nudity. His companion, being a
native, had noticed nothing amiss
There are action and reaction in
the frivolities and the gravities of
the fashions, from which the only
possible deduction is that the "psy
chology," either of wearers or spec
tators, does not change much. The
writer has forgotten "how many
centuries back that deformed
princess introduced the side-saddle,"
but she thinks that it was not more
than' ten years ago that fashion was
still arguing over divided skirts. She
continues: :: f-
I remember that one sedate woman's
magazine said that perhaps the divided
skirt would not be so noticeable when yon
were on .the horse; but how about when
you were setting on and off? Which' re
minds me of the remark attributed by
the Phillips Andover boys to Mis Phllena
MacKeen, when the waltz waa first coming
into fashion; "What it 'the music should
stopl"
- She finds it difficult to imagine
"sane" parents allowing their daugh
ter to drive -in a runabout with a
young man between midnight and
4 A. M" yet her elderly readers
with rural antecedents "must have
heard their mothers speak of going
to balls and not getting back till 5
in the morning." There were no
chaperons "in those" ; days nights,
rather." She is indignant, when she
sees girls walking on icy sidewalks
in low shoes and silk -stockings "un
til I remember the heavily fringed
black silk vislte that formed a part
of my mother's wedding, outfit, and
she was a winter bride." The "truth
is, that there never was a time when
it was possible to dress rationally
with so little opposition as now."
Girls cannot play tennis in the cos
tume of the croquet era. .
It Is ' not possible to indict the
present without also accusing the
past. That which has been lived
through can be survived again.
Whatever may be said in depreca
tion of present fashions for women,
they are not evidence of decadence.
Morals of today, as every careful
student of history probably will
agree, will bear comparison with
those of any earlier time.
In every family there must be a
head; that is fundamental. Whether
it be the man or the woman is im
material. Naturally that is . man's
position and he holds in by brute
force sometimes and other times by
diplomacy. When .woman is head,
everybody knows; she tells the
world. In these days of equal rights
such must happen... But this may
be said, that man is more forbearing
and considerate than woman on the
job.
A ' Canadian woman says the
"meanest, ugliest, lowest, most re
pulsive is the hard-cider drunkard."
Nobody ever stuck that combination
of cussedness on the beer or whisky
drinker. Maybe she knows. She
lives where they have a way of freez
ing a- barrel of cider solid and it
makes clear ice of all but a pint in
the center; that pint has been called
the "essence ot hell," but it's worse;
it's the quintessence.
Gold production has fallen more
than 60 per cent in five years in this
country. Time may come when the
dentists will need all of it and golden
jewelry be too expensive. Silver and
greenbacks make pretty good money.
as it were, and nobody but - the
hoarder misses the gold. New fields
may be discovered. It is not Ameri
can to worry.
Malheur corn was the best in the
corn show. .Winter stays late in the
spring and comes early in the fall in
Malheur, but there are great grow
ing days between, with a hot sun
shining a corn sun and the water
that tickles the roots does the rest.
Better a forty in Malheur than a
township in Cathay.
According to a speaker at the Anti
Saloon league conference, "bootleg
gers have some sort of underground
means of conveying information a
subterranean source." But he failed
to tell what a lot of people would
give Tnoney to know, where this sub
terranean passage is and how to get
there.
Tear iafter year the man down at
the custom house who makes the
weather notes a deficiency in rain
fall and grieves, probably, for Ore
gon's absurd reputation; but at last
there is an excess, enough, sufficient
and plenty, and will he please cease?
Nobody knows when his time is
coming. For example: Judge Landis.
He kept the even, tenor of his way
at $7500 a year, imposing magnifi
cent sentences, and along comes an
offer of -a $60,000 salary, which he
can earn nights and Sundays.
Walters . is a Texan and shot
straight, as Texans do. That he is
a soldier ismerely Incidental. Bad
men get into the army as into other
organizations. The main thing is to
make them "good" as the Indian
once was said to be handled.
Commissioner Benson leaves some
good monuments to his labors on
the highway commission. To him
more than to any other one person
are due the Columbia river highway
and the soon-to-be-completed Pa
cific highway.
Ever " consider what the cattle
think of the people that pass by
them? There is expression in the
snort of the" bull and the moo of
the cow, but only .the - man who
"knows cows" can interpret.
"Soviet orders Russian women to
ply needle for red army," ' says a
head line. Better have 'em ply it
for General Wrangel. He needs a
shot in the arm, more than the red
army does.
Upstate folk have done very well
in patronage of the livestock show.
The rest is up to Portland folk
during today and tomorrow. Make
them tag days- and let the ticket be
the tag.
It makes a difference who does
the hazing. Secretary Daniels be
comes indignant when the midship
men try out on lower classmen what
he did to some of the admirals.
Ice cream is deslared to be an
ideal food for anemic children. If
you leave it to the children it's an
ideal food for the red-blooded ones,
too.- ' .
Man fs not prone to give away a
dollar, but responds quickly when
asked. ; Therein is the initiative for
the local Red Cross drive. Ask him.
The man who. grafts will be un
covered, never fear. Whether in
official or unofficial life. It comes
out in unexpected places.
The fiasco of the boys who robbed
the Burlington fast mail will put a
crimp in the industry. Robbing a
mail train is a man's job.
There is a judge in Winnipeg wise
in his day. He gave four men eighty
lashes for crimes against women. He
knows the cure.
Noah was the only man who did
not have trouble over rival breeds.
His pair probably were muleys, to
save space.
A turkey pool that will benefit the
growers will be considered, but not
one that profits excessively . the
dealers.
The reign of a grand champion
steer is brier and not so very glori
ous. Some men are like that.
Two days only to think in terms
of livestock. Attend the show ahd
bone up. ; -
BY-PRODUCTS OB THE TIMES
Story of Rud ynrd Kipling- Illustrates
Author's Kindly Nature.
I heard a Kipling story the other
day. writes Bishop McDowell in the
Central Christian Advocate. I was
driving with one of the ministers in
the Washington area from Washing
ton to Mountain Lake park. Daring
the long and really wonderful drive
I . was reading aloud a half dozen
chapters from a volume of char
acter sketches. One of the sketches
was of Rudyard Kipling. Quite Jo my
surprise, the minister said at the end
of the reading, "I met Mr. Kipling
once," and proceeded to tell me about
it in substantially the following
language:
"I was a student at Mount Harmon
way back in the days) when Mr.
Kipling was living at Brattleboro,
Vermont, for a time. Like many an
other student, I was trying to earn
some money by selling books. In
selecting customers I naturally aimed
high. So one morning I rang the
bell at Mr. Kipling's residence. An
old negro man came to the door, as
sured me that Mr. Kipling was in,
and took me in to where he was. Then
my fright began. . Really, I hardly
thought I would be admitted to his
presence at all.
He was writing, but looked up at
once when 1 entered, and said rather
sharply, "What can I do for you?"
"Not knowing 'what else to say, 1
replfed, Tou can buy a book from
me.'
"He evidently entered at once into
the spirit of the game, and asked me
emphatically, "Why should 17 And
I promptly recited my well learned
story.
- "Though my heart was hammering,
I did not slip a word. I had the
lesson well learned, and recited , it
without a, break, and was rewarded
at the conclusion by having Mr. Kip
ling say that, upon the whole, he
thought he ought to buy a book,
which he did. '
"Then I asked him if I might say
that he had subscribed. He promptly
replied that I might say it and that
he would give me the names of a lot
of people In Brattleboro to whom he
would be glad to have me say that he
had bought one of my books. He
made a list of 22 names. I sold 22
books in consequence, and went out
of Brattleboro financially richer by
the commission on' 22 volumes, but
personally richer by the recollection
of a genuinely cordial treatment ac
corded by & great big man to a stu
dent boy, who might easily have been
dismissed with a word."
For several years it has been mildly
amusing to watch the sentimentaliz
ing of "house" into "home" in our
architectural and popular journals,
writes B. B. in the Boston Herald.
'We have in turn been exhorted to
"shingle your home with cypress
shingles." "Buy a reddibuilt home!"
"Make your home w?iter-tlght!"
Paint your home red!" etcetera, ad
nauseum. "Home wrecicers un-
blushingly advertise their services.
and (supposedly to defeat their ne
farious de-signs) others agree to
purge your home of vermin." I am
told it all pays. Now a fresh perver
sion of the word appears in the wide
spread advertisement of an oil com
pany, wherein an illustration of one
of the Alcott houses in Concord is
labeled "Old Orchard Home!"
It will soon be as indelicate to
mention a house as it used to be to
say "leg," and before long we may
perhaps expect to see new editions of
"The Home of Seven Gables," or of
"Bleak Home," to say nothing of
"The Home That Jack Built." "Lime-
home Nights." "The Home ot a Thou
sand Candles" and "A Home Boat on
the Styx." The executive mansion at
Washington will become the "White
Home" and we may yet speak of the
Bulfinch front of the "state home."
see
A certain clergyman always felt
it his duty to give each couple a little
serious advice before he performed
the marriage ceremony.
He usually took them aside one at
a time, and talked very soberly to
each regarding the great -importance
of the step they were about to take,
and the new responsibilities they
were to assume.
One day he talked in hia most
earnest manner for several minutes
to a young woman who had come to
be married.
"And now," he said, in closing, "I
hope you fully realize the extreme
importance of the step you are taking
and that you are prepared for it.'
"Prepared!" replied the bride, in
nocently. "Well, if I ain't prepared
I don't know who is. I've got four
common quilts and two nice ones and
four brand new feather beds, ten
sheets and 12 pairs of pillow slips;
four linen table cloths, a dozen spoons
and a new six-quart kettle, and lots
of other things." Houston Post.
Asked tovname the lonesomest place
in the world, a traveler once answered,
"The island of Tristan d'Acunha, far
off the cost of South America. Its
population Is 76, and it is visited by
a vessel only once in two years."
But the traveler was all wrong.
Lsolated, remote, limited in society,
the - island may be. . But why lone
some? The last thing we heard from
it was that all the inhabitants were
working together to fight a dangerous
plague of rats. When people can get
together for a common purpose they
aren't lonesome. "
A man told us the other day that
the lonesomest place he ever found
was New Tork City, where he didn't
know a soul and his being there did
not matter to anyone. And be was
right, but he set about changing that
condition, and he didn't find even
New Tork lonesome very long. For
the lonesomest place is no question of
geography or population or economics.
The lonesomest. place is always the
human heart which hasn't learned
how to reach "out to other human
hearts in the sure knowledge that
there will be something in common,
that it it has affection to spend, and
loyalty and. truth and friendliness,
there are these things In return wait
ing to welcome it. Milwaukee
Journal. .
"Hiram," , said Mrs. Corntossel,
"what band wagon are you going to
ride on?" .
. "Mehitable," was the reply. "I
know how I am goln' to vote, but
won't be f lourishln' on any .band
wagon. ,-
' "I am not sufficiently prominent to
have a seat and be examined by the
admirln populace. I'm only one ot
the fellers that are supposed to be
proud and happy if they are invited
to climb down every now and then
and crank up the car." Washington
Those. Who Come and Go.
"All of the relics excavated from
the mounds near the Big Eddy, on the
Columbia river highway east of The
Dalles have been saved and collected
through the agency of the state high
way department," said Herbert Nunn.
state highway engineer, who was in
Portland yesterday. "The relics will
fill a box car, there is such a quantity
of them. All of these Bouvenlrs -of
dead Indians will be turned over to
the Oregon Historical society. Practi
cally all of the articles recovered are
common, and similar ones have been
found all over the country, but there
were a few copper souvenirs. Chief
interest centers in these copper arti
cles, for Oregon is not a copper coun
try and they give food for speculation
as to where they came from."
With a box of candy under his arm.
Louis Lachmund returned to Salem
yesterday. Senator Lachmund, who
has been opposing Roy Ritner for
president of the senate, came to town
to assure Senator Ritner that his
arm is too weak to polish the cannon
on the lawn in front of the statehouse
and that he would much prefer being
a member of trie senate ways and
means committee. Senator Ritner in
formed his colleague from Marion
county that the committee on foreign
relations might be what Senator Lach
mund will draw.
"Considering their late start, the
counties hsve made good progress
with the development of market
roads,'.' stated C. H. Whitmore of the
highway engineering department, who
has been assigned to look after mar
ket road matters. "In some counties
there was a labor shortage, so not
much oould be accomplished, but with
the groundwork laid this year, a big
showing should be made in 1921. It
should be remembered that the mar
ket road law Is in the pioneering
stage."
Two members of the state highway
commission R. A. Booth and' Ed E.
Kiddie arrived ih Portland last
night. Mr. Booth has been hunting
coyotes in Douglas county for the
past, lu days. For years Mr. Booth
maintained a pack of dogs for the
express purpose of maklncr life mis
erable for the coyotes. Mr. Kiddle is
figuring on going over some of the
highways In the state of Washington
to see .how the concrete Davcments
Until January 1. 1921. R. P. Ander
son will continue to be sheriff of
Baker county. Then he will turn over
a new leaf and his office a: the same
time, as a sort of New Year resolu
tion. Sheriff Anderson, who has been
on an official visit to Salem, to dis
cuss delicate matters with the peni
tentiary omciais touching on and
appertaining to residents of Baker
county, is registered at the Imperial.
It is some five years since L. H.
Hazard has trod the pavements of
Portland, but the livestock show
proved irresistible and so he left Co-
quille for a few days and breezed into
town. Mr. Hazard is banker at
Coqullle, which is situated on Coqul'.le
river and overlooks one of the most
beautiful valleys in the state of Ore
gon. What the peop'e of Coquille
want is e. good road from that place
to Bandon, at the mouth of the river.
In the old days John Donnelly and
George Small ueed to stick type to
gether. Later Mr. Donnelly was for
'i5 vears cashier of the First National
bank at Baker, where Mr.' Small was
a newspaper publisher. Teste: day
they met up in Portland and agreed
that they can still stick type faster
than any of these new-fangled type
setting machines can do the trick.
As a breeder of Poland China hogs.
A. L. Swaggart Is interested in the
stock show. For 20 years Mr. Swag
gart has been in the hog husbandry
business and if all the hogs he has
raised in that length of time were
turned into "weinies" the links would
extend for miles. Mr. Swaggart is
registered from Athena at the Im
perial. A. E. Reames, the same man who
knows practically all of the fish in
the Rogue river by their first names,
is registered at the Hotel Portland
from Medford. There is a movement
on foot to see if the fish and game
controversy cannot be settled amic
ably before the legislature assembles,
and Mr. Reames is Interested in the
subject.
Mathew Slush, president of a medi
cal bath company and a hotel at
Mount Clemens, Mich., is an arrival
at the Multnomah. The Mount Clemens
Is the oldest mineral spring resort
in the country and the springs are
about the same as those which are
scattered along the Columbia river
and in various parts of Oregon.
William (Bill) McCarthy of Baker
is among the eastern Oregon delega
tion in town for the time being. The
hotels are crowded and when Mr. Mc
Carthy went to his room he found his
bed occupied by a couple of Baker
men "who refused to roll out,, so Mr.
McCarthy sat on a' chair in the hall
all night.
Charles Thomas of Medford, who
has issued a platform of eight poinus
which he has informed his constitu
ents he will fight for during the leg
islature, is in Portland on matters
political. Mr. Thomas is a hold-over
state senator for Jackson county and
has been accused of having congres
sional aspirations.
Governor Ben W. Olcott was a'Port-
land visitor last, night. ' Secretary of
State Kozer left for Salem yesterday
morning and State Treasurer Hoff ar
rived here yesterday afternoon, so
that the staee board of control is
being well represented in the me
tropolis. 'Herbert Chandler of Baker regis
tered at the Imperial yesterday. He
is a son of George Chandler, who
had the first .Hereford cattle in
Baker county. The stock show is
responsible for Mr. Chandler's trip
to Portland.
John B. Ball, the state senator for
Lane and Linn counties, is enrolled
at the Hotel Portland, being one of
the many out-of-town memibers of
the legislature Who have drifted In
to talk things over.
Herman Offenbacher is at the Hotel
Oregon from Applegate. a village on
the Applegate river, which rambles
through the mountains in -Josephine
and Jackson county. There are al
most SO people at Applegate.
Bankers were rather thick in Port
land yesterday and among others
present was P. H. Bell, who is the
banker tor Ridgefield, Wash. Mr.
Bell and Mrs. Bell were registered
at the Imperial.
Eugene France, formerly mayor of
Aberdeen, is an arrival at the- Per
kins. Mr. France is heavily inter
ested In timber in Oregon and Wash
ington. R. B. Stanfield, who is a banker
at Echo, Umatilla county, is at the
Imperial. Mr. Stanfield is a cousin of
the newly elected United States sen
ator. .
To attend the livestock show, Her
bert P. Welch and J. F. Hanson have
traveled to Portland from Lakeview.
They are at the Hotel Portland.
F. E. Nlckell of BendV where he Is
a stockman, is registered at the Per
kins, and is a livestock visitor. - .
ASKING TOO MITCH OF PREACHER
Writer Wfco Wants Minister to Be,
Experienced Would Keep Him
Too Busy.
OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 17. (To
the Editor.) Mr. "Outsider." who
wrote to The Oregonian recently, crit
icises the "average minister" as (1)
sinless. (2) inexperienced and (3) a
poor reader. The "average minister"
would be loath to attempt to convince
Mr. Outsider, on the first count, that
the facts were against him! Mr. Out
sider leaves the impression that he :s
a "business man." How would he set
about to teach honesty to his clerks?
By confessing that he. himself, had
been a crook?
He seems to assume that business
men are the only sinners that the
preacher has in his audiences. He
argues that the minister should have
indulged in the vices peculiar to busi
ness men in order to be qualified to
preach to business men.. We wonder
what about the sins or the doctor, the
plumber, the blacksmith, the hod
carrier, the dressmaker, the scrub
woman, the lawyer (!), the chauffeur,
the policeman, the politician. Why,
poor Rev. Average Minister would be
as full of "sin" as a pup is of fleas!
He would have to keep them fresh
and up to date. "Our grandfatheis
knew nothing of the temptations of
today." I suppose "the fresher the
better" would be Brother Outsider's
demand. The poor parson would be
sadly put to to collect enough sins
early Sunday morning to go around
his congregation!
Try this on your cash register. Mr.
Outsider: "My dear fellow sinner If
you are a harlot, or an absconder, a
lioertine, degenerate, grafter, adul
terer, liar, embezzler, thief, cutthroat,
blasphemer or an atheist, do not de
spair! Since yonder sun last set in
a blaze of glory In the golden west
and the blackness of night stole out
from the east and engulfed this rot
ten and sin-cursed. God-forsaken
planet In its putrid tide. I have expe
rienced more of sin that you can ever
know. I have, even during the past
night, wallowed in the cesspool of
Iniquity," etc. But let me continue:
"Your execrable careers will espe
cially fit you to become ideal parents
and preachers, for Christian parent
age Is a handicap, disqualifying one
for giving good council to the young
and Particularly for svmoathizinir
"with business men."
I would like to sit down with Mr.
Outsider and stumble through that
same 27th Psalm to which he refers.
I should judge that this is one of the
favorite scriptures. I, too, would re
sent its being read in a slipshod, care
less manner. It commends Mr. Out
sider that his preference inclines him
to such exalted verse.
But I am sure It is the matter
rather than the form that gives its
exaltation, though the latter is un
approachable. I mould rather hear
that Inspiring song from pure lips, be
they ever so halting, than to hear it
declaimed ever so artistically by one
whose character is sodden with in
iquity. Apply I Coninthians 13:1.
H. G. EDGAR,
Pastor First Presbyterian Church.
DIVISION HELD TO BE SINFUL
writer Criticises Teaching That
Church Union Is Impossible.
NAHCOTTA. Wash., Nov. 16. (To
the Editor.) One of The Oregonian's
correspondents seems to think that
because the average preacher lacks
experience in sin he is thereby dis
qualified to sympathize with the
world. This conclusion surely is illog
ical, since the more free one is from
sin the greater are his sympathies
with mankind. ,
Our Saviour was the only sinless
man to live in the world since the
fall, and he objected to being called
good from a human viewpoint only.
He had no fine church buildings, no
renowned singers nor immense or
gans to draw the people to him. The
common people, however, enjoyed the
gracious words which he spoke. He
often ministered to the multitudes at
great personal sacrifice. It's true
that the "loaves and fishes" and bod
ily healings attracted many for mate
rial reasons, but this kind of adver
tising was helpful to the perfecting
of the apostles' faith.
Undoubtedly people disagree as to
what constitutes sin. However, we
are told that "sin is a transgression
of the law." Preachers know that
Christ and his apostles taught that
divisions were sinful. Nevertheless
for centuries they have been teaching
that church unity Is an impossibility.
Quite true, so long as they Insist in
violating divine law in this matter.
Is It any wonder that such preach
ers will undertake to make improve
ments on the word of God by impos
ing an interchurch movement in the
name of unity on an unthinking or
credulous church and the world?
This sin of division is flagrant. It
deprives the world of the proof of
the father's love for the church and
of the son sharing his glory with it.
Too often the Lord's money is not
rightly appropriated. This alo hin
ders the proper demonstration to the
world, which can be made only
through a united church. A. B. M.
NURSES' SIDE OF CONTROVERSY
Doctors' Services Broadly Distributed,
Nnrses Are Concentrated.
PORTLAND. Nov. 18. (To .the Edi
tor.) I take this opportunity to ex
press the opinion o the average,
and undoubtedly of the thinking, puo
lic on a question which seems to
be drawing considerable attention,
namely, nursing.
At the present time I have two
nurses in my own home, and neither
charges $7.50 a day. Should one care
to investigate one would find that
all nurses charge only $6 for nursing
services and $1.50 for board, which
is only just to nurses doing hospital
work where they are compelled to
take all meals out at their own ex
pense. . Nurses at all times must have a
comfortable room, plenty of profes
sional clothes and street clothes, and
they certainly have enormous laun
dry bills. Even an "Exasperated
Mother" knows these cannot be main
tained today for a mere nothing.
As to nurses forgetting that
physicians must wait or even lose
money, we must not forge -that the
physician gives only a few minutes'
time, while one patient demands all
the nurse's time. Again, nurses very
often lose money, unjust as It may
seem.
We give the care and life of our
sick to the mercy of these nurses,
and it seems to me that the highest
we can speak of them is none too
high. A good nurse Is worth our
last penny and when nurses feel that
their cervices are worth more (so
they won't have to work over their
allotted ten years to provide for
later life) I shall be one of the first
to boost for them.
APPRECIATION.
Address of Cartoonist.
KENT. Or, Nov. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you please publish the ad
dress of George Briggs, the cartoon
ist, in your question and answer 'col
umns? Thank you. SUBSCRIBER.
We do not know of George Briggs.
Clare A. Briggs, cartoonist, may be
reached by addressing him in care of
the Tribune, New York.
Wife Tries Finance.
Baltimore American.
He "My dear. I have Just paid off
the mortgage on our home." She
"I'm so glad. Now you can put on
another and buy an automobile.'?
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Junes J. UoMagse,
THE WAY TO OFFICE".
. AY?m'n ha be-n elected to congress
in Oklahoma because she served good
meals. . ,
Oh. ladies. If so be your plan
To shine in halls ot ststs.
Aivd teach mere visjgar. common man
iiie nay to legislate.
You do not need with eager speech
To tax your slender throats.
Nor leave your fireside tr h.)
The men folks for their vnt-
No canvass you will need to make.
r'or if your skillful hand
Can turn out tempting pie and cake,
cannot. Ian to land.
Although your lovely eyes and hair
-maynap may win applause.
Men don't elect a baby stare
To make the nation's laws:
But If in making your appeals
Among good party men.
You vamp 'em with a few square
meals.
That's something else again.
Among the common run of.genta,
Who all are hungry critters.
Corn beef is more than eloquence
And logic less than fritters.
And rightly so. for charms may wane
(In fact they always do).
But cooking needs the sort of brain
That lasts a lifetime through.
Men, know the qualities that, make
A really gtfted cook.
And that the hand that broils the
steak
Can write a statute book.
And In the happy future years
If for great place you sigh.
You need not., care who gets men's
cheers
If you can bake their pie!
Listen to One, Sometime.
The oil stock salesman is always
more of a gusher than the well he ia
selling stock In.
,
Almost Too Much to Hone For.
We trust that Mr. Hard in ir will
have something to say in his inaugu
ral against jazz bands.
Only a Lull.
There is peace between Russia nil
Poland, but we are promised .that
normal conditions will soon be re-
siorea.
(Copyright, 1020. by the Bell Syndicate,
Inc.)
John Burroughs' Nature
Kotes.
Can You Answer These Questions? -
1. How can a lizard outwit a snake?
2. Do birds distinguish between cats
and dogs?
3. Is the cow a good pathfinder?
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to Previous Questions!
1. Is it the American rat which ia
so destructive in our houses?
The American rat is in the woods
and is rarely seen even by woodmen
and the native mouse barely hovers
upon the outskirts of civilization;
while the Old World species defy our
traps and our poison and have usurped
the land.
2. What
nests?
causes vermin in birds
. The vermin with which birds' nests
often swarm and which kill the young
before they are fledged is the curse of
civilization falling upon the birds
which come too near to man. The
vermin, or the germ of the vermin.
Is probably conveyed to the nest in
hen's feathers, or in straws and hairs
picked up about the barn or hen
house. -
3. Is the gun essent'al for bird
study?
It is true that the student of orni
thology often feels compelled to take
bird life. It Is not an easy matter to
"name all the- birds without a gun,"
though an opera glass will often ren
der identification entlt j-ly certain;
and leave the songster unharmed;
but, once having mastered the birds,
the true ornithologist leaves his gun
at home.
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flin Co.)
A Wireless.
By Grace E. Hall.
O, I would fly to you across the space.
For I am weary from the day's rou
tine; In fancy I can vision your dear face.
Far, far away in new and alien
scene;
I hold you in my thought, but dare
not call.
Lest you should somehow hear me
and be vexed
That I intrude, when duties thickly
fall
Upon your soul, to harass and per
plex. But if perchance you need a friendly
palm
A touch of love against your hand
tonight,
If there be just a tiny need of balm
To ease your soul and tune the
heart-strings right
Then I shall come on myctic speeding
wing,
To comfort with the sympathy you
need,
And though I sit alone, the love I
bring
Shall touch your heart and you will
know and heed.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago,
From The Oreeonian of November 10, 1805.
Colonel J. G. Day. who has the con
tract for constructing locks at the
Cascades, left today for Washington.
D. G. accompanied by his wife and
private secretary.
William O. Allen, well-known con
tractor, died suddenly last night at
his residence at North Sixth street.
The will of the late Simeon G. Reed,
admitted to probate yesterday, be
queaths the bulk of his property to his
wife, Amanda W. Reed, but suggests
that she devote some portion of it to
a benevolent object or development of
fine arts in the city of Portland.
Nellie Bigelow, aged 3 years and 3
months: will be started this afternoon
to travel all alone to her home in
Chicago.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oresronlan of November 19. 1870.
Lyons. George Francis Train has
been missing five days and there are
fears that he has been assassinated.
Oregon City. The railroad depot
being constructed near the old Metho
dist church is nearly completed.
A dissatisfied citizen of East Port
land complains that because his farm,
on which he says there is fine bear
hunting, has been included in the cor
porate limits.
There are great numbers of Juvenile
thieves in this city and petty thefts
have become numerous.
Msssger of Department 8ore,
COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. Nov. 17.
(To the Editor.) Kindly let me know
who the manager of the Meier &
Frank store is. A SUBSCRIBER.
Jullus L. Meier.