THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 11)20
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sion by any small ktoup is against
public policy as a possible means of
oppression.
By not complying readily and in
full good faith with the order of the
court to divest themselves of control
of the stockyards, the packers weak
en their, position in Opposing the
plan to put them under the thumb
of a host of government inspectors
and agents. - Though the general de
sire is to reduce, not to expand, the
swollen bureaucracy, federal super
vision of corporations is in accord
with public opinion, and the people
will uphold the government and the
courts in exercising control.
GOOD TBOM ETttt
There will be an individual here
find there who will set down the
Santa Rosa lynching as another ad
dition to the promiscuity of lawless
ness with which the country has
been afflicted since the European
war. There will be others who will
look upon the incident with toler
ance as a forceful protest against
that same "wave of crime" which
newspapers and statistical authori
ties seem to agree is sweeping Amer
ica. We read that human life was
never as insecure in America as it
is today; that the homicide rate for
1S19 was higher than in any previous
year for which records were kept;
that 19 20 statistics promise no im
provement. 1
It is difficult for the average man
to looK upon xne lynciims ui
who plainly deserved to be hanged
as a type of pure lawlessness, for the
average man still possesses within
hinl some of the primitive instincts
of revenge. Even condonation ex
ists in spots, despite what moralists
may say, and it largely remains for
authorities, pulpit and .press to ex
press -the indignation that is to be
expected as a matter, of duty.
But Uiere are degrees of indigna
tion. It mas be doubted that indig
nation is sincere which implies sym
pathy for such as the Santa Rosa
murders and assaulters or women
It Is the indisrnity worked upon the
law that stintrs the moral sense. It
is the realization, also, that there is
no safe line at cleavage between the
lvnchine that can be condoned and
the lynching that can not be. To
approve one implies approval of any
or all, and lynch law when general
makes mockery of justice.
It is not recalled that California
in recent years has been given to
lynch law. Yet it has had its share
of murders and other atrocious
crimes. Nor is one recourse to lynch
law evidence that swift punishment
for crime in manner outside the law
will become prevalent. A lynching
in tho north is commonly a culmi
nation of circumstances which may
attend upon any state that is usually
well ordered in its consideration of
lawlessness. It is a throw-back a
resort to the elemental, always
alarming and sometimes harmful.
There have been recently in Call
fornia, as there have ,been in every
other community, an unusual number
of crimes of varying degrees. There
is because of them widespread ner
vous tension there and elsewhere. At
such times there arises a wide
spread impression of inadequacy of
courts of justice and or the American
jury system. Incidents of the law's
delays, of escapes from just punish
ment, of compromise verdicts, of ex
hibits of sentimentality toward cnm
lnals and of the dozen and one other
frailties of American court proc
esses unduly impress the mind and
discourage the ordinarily strict sup
porter of orderly justice.
At such times the primitive man
may break through the crust of civ
ilization, ignore the processes which
wisdom has laid down for his own
protection and take the law into his
own hands. Some wanton murder,
some organized and hideous attack
upon women's virtue, is the shatter
Ing force.
It is easier to explain the lynching
phenomenon than to suggest a rem
edy for it, except in the broadest
terms. An era in which swiftness
and certainty of capture, conviction
and punishment were the rule would
do that which condemnation of
lvnching in itself can never do
Greater energy by arresting officers
is-the least difficult of these to "at
tain. The others are hedged about
by long established legal rules, tra-
ditions and customs, which can be
broken down only by virtual revo
lution In criminal jurisprudence
Practice of criminal law is pretty
much of a game, a matching of wits
by lawyers for the state and lawyers
for the defense. .Professional sue
cess is too often the driving force in
stead of accomplishment of plain
justice. We may hope for an ulti
mate awakening to the need of re
forms, and possibly, indefensibl
though lynchings may be as an ap
proach toward real justice, lynch
ings may 'ultimately do that very
thing. Meanwhile, if any good may
be expected from evil, let us also
hope that persons inclined to cnm
lnal wave may learn from Santa
Rosa that the public patience is no
lmpregnaoie.
NOW FOR -FREE RIDES.
Before it came-to a more or less
complete halt in its rapid advance
toward sovietism a year or so ago,
Seattle determined to shake loose
from the grip of one grasping mo
nopoly, the streetcar company,
which was charging the public the
inconceivable sum of five cents for
individual fares, and at the same
time to undertake a great service for
the common good viz.. buy and op
erate the system as a municipal
project. If a public utility is a pub
lic utility, it is the public business to
make it so. That is logic. Anyway,
was Seattle logic. Now the city is
reaping the fruits of its grand idea.
Just the other day the city council
raided the sinking fund, created to
pay the semi-annuai interest on its
15.000,000 street railway bonds,
375,000 every six months and took
out $137,000 to meet the payroll.
The employes must be paid, it ap
pears, even under the most Utopian
conditions. It has also been decided
that the carfare shall be 8 1-3 cents.
provided one buys three tokens for
5 cents, or ten icents cash if one is
not willing to invest a quarter In
tokens. Nice arrangement.
Seattle paid $15,000,000 (in bonds)
for its street railway. A brainy city
councilman there has got the notion,
and he is agitating it continuously.
that the next step for Seattle to take
is to give the public free rides. Nice
idea,-too. But who, we wonder, will
pay for the free rides, since the
hated traction trust has sold out to
the city? Sold out is the right term.
have been, of course, a great service ' in cash profits which have not been
realized and may never be realized.
It compels a man to. estimate far in
advance of payment the tax which
will apply to each article he sells,
and to play safe by adding an
amount which is very likely to prove
too large. Every opening Is given
the men for whom Mr. Kitchin has
antipathy to evade the tax, to make
it the means of increasing profits
to Oregon if he . had been able to
make his bluff good about, the imml- I
nent invasion by California Investors
of a neighboring state.
'It is said in southern "Oregon,
where they are familiar with the de
tailed, progress of Crater Lake, or
lack of it, that during Director Ma
ther's administration not one single
constructive policy for the park has
been devised or carried out. He be
gan by showing irritation and dis
satisfaction with conditions, and has
contributed nothing but talk to im
prove them. The small proposed al
lotment for Crater Lake show that
he has no present interest in any
valuable plan of park Improvement.
It will' be well ,to exhibit the ap
propriations by the government for
national parks during the Mather
term (1917 to 1920 inclusive). They
are:
Tejlowstone JfWS.420
Yosemlte &40.OOU
Sequoia 162. S10
General Grant 14.500
Mount Rainier 102.100
Glacier SSO.0OO
Rocky Mountain ................. 4O.O0
Crater Lake 64.450
Thus it will be seen that the three
California parks have had a grand
total of $1, 117, 310 in four years,
while the single Oregon park has
had $64,450. What Director Mather
proposes for the next fiscal year is
disclosed by his recommendations, as
follows:
Yellowstone ... .. . $402.?.O0
Yosemlte ....... 57S.5.17
Sequoia 175.217
General Grant ..................... 10 000
Mount Rainier ................... 214400
Glacier 83.U0fl
Rocky Mountain 1S0.OOO
Crater Lake 26.400
' The wide disproportion between
Oregon and California is now to be
increased, for the total of the one is
to be a pitiful $26,400 and of the
otnei the comfortable sum of
$760,754.
The Tregon delegation at Wash
ington, it would seem, will find in
these proposals, and in the Mather
record generally, an opportunity for
special activity.
Newspaper Comments on Bine Lawi,
Politics andMany Other -Thin gra
nitic Lawi Inadequate.
The Dalles Chronicle.
We have no Quarrel with the Lord's
Day alliance, but we do say they are
wrong. They are trying to make men
and women good through legislation.
If the hearts of men and women are
not changed by the miracle of repent-
and to make others finally pay it nda.'t "r.ttln,ly "'L.?.?".'
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change. -
THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS.
In the statement that tuberculosis
is a controllable disease will be
found the measure of importance of
the campaign, which recurs with es
pecial energy at about -virus - time
every year, to obtain funds for its
prevention, through education of the
public and by providing care fdr in-
ipient cases. There is a significant
paragraph in the literature of the
National Tuberculosis association on
the subject. It is:
One of the chief benefits derived Is the
lowering of the death rate by prompt
reatment in the early staees. In the first
ear ol Lne demonstration, 41; per cent or
ne total nnmoer reported were advanced
ases. In the second year, because of the
consultation service, the advanced cases
reported were reduced to only 19 per cent.
The tragedy of the mortality rate
from this malady, now seriously prev
alent in Europe as an aftermath of
the war, and threatening this coun
try unless prompt action is taken, is
that It is so largely preventable. The
number of deaths from tuberculosis
annually in the United States is about
50,000, but for every death eight
open cases are reported. This means
that more than 1,200,000 individ
uals 'have the disease. The watch
word of the anti-tuberculosis cam
paign is prevention. Former Presi
dent Taft expressed the thought
when he said in a recent statement
indorsing the movement:
Its ravages In Europe have caused us to
view with consternation the stricken coun-
ries of the old world shattered in health.
Knowledge that a million cases exist In
America arouse in us a reeling akin
that which we felt when the submarine
war was begun against us. We must drive
it from the tenements, from the factories.
as we drove the submarine from the deep.
We can best do this by preventive and edu
cational measures. I hope that from the
platform, the pulpit, the teacher's desk, the
staire. ty address and ny rum. the lesson
of fresh air and nutritious food anil ot
proper care and rest tuberculosis preven
tion will be brought home to the people of
America.
Community responsibility for pre
vention or control of communicable
diseases is better understood than it
was a few years ago, and it is to this
sense of brotherhood that the appeal
is made. But even selfishness, if en
lightened, will find in the facts suf
ficient ground to support the move
ment. It is only by the broadest
possible co-operation that the men
ace to individuals can be abated.
DECREASING SnCIMS.
Conditions that viewed In the mass
stimulate suicide are not necessarily
tnose or excitement and unrest, as
appears from figures compiled by Dr.
v TeaericK L. rtofmann and published
in the New York Spectator, an in
surance journal. Dr. Hofmann, re
viewing statistics for twenty years in
iuu cities of the United States, finds
that the rate of self-destruction is
decreasing. Thus, in the four years
prior to the war, it was -20 Tier
100,000 of the population; in the four
years of war it was 18.2 and in 1919,
a year marked by an exceptionally
nign nomicide raie, it had declined
to 14.2.
High mark 21 per 100,000 was
reached during 1915, when the na
tions of Europe were at war, but
we had not yet entered the conflict.
The tabulation doSs not furnish suf
ficient data to warrant conclusion
but it is possible that the total was
increased in that year by unsettle-
ment of the minds of former citizens
of the belligerents, in some of whose
countries there is an avesage suicide
rate much higher than that of the
Lmted States. The totals alone do
not illuminate the racial aspect of
the question. However, it is shown
that as we came nearer to actual
participation, as in 1916, a year dis
tinguished by growing belief that our
affairs were approaching a crisis, the
rate fell to 18 per 100,000. In 1917.
with the United States actually in
the war, the rate was 16.9. By this
time, perhaps, a considerable num
ber of -potential "suicides had sum
marily disposed of themselves, for
the figure drops sharply to 14.6 in
1918 and further to 14.2 in 19l9.
Only with knowledge of a vastly
greater number of factors than ap
pear in a tabulated summary can we
hope to generalize as to the causes
of suicide or the means of preven
tion. That it is not due to physical
discomfort is indicated by the fact
that the rate is three times as high
in Los Angeles and San Diego, with
supposedly ideal climate, as in
cities on the Atlantic coast. The
panic" year of 1907 was not char
acterized by an increased rate, al
though a good many persons suf
fered heavy financial losses in that
year. The figures sustain none of
several theories of suicide cause. We
must be content with the showing
that it is actually falling off.
with additions made each time that
it is passed on.
Mr. Houston's proposal of a uni
form tax, of 20.. per cent on corpor
ation profits is' an Improvement, but
it is in less degree open to ihe same
objections. That tax would still be
added to the price, and would be
passed on and would be of uncertain
amount till a year's business was
wound up. Probably the government
would get only one dollar out of each
two dollars additional that the con
sumer paid. We want taxes which
go all to the government and impose
no additional burden for some cor
poration to appropriate. As doing
business in corporate form is a priv
ilege granted by government, a tax
on exercise of that privilege should
suffice. As corporation profits go to
the " stockholders they should be
taxed as part of individual incomes,
a special tax being Imposed on un
divided profits in order to prevent
evasion of personal income tax.
Mr. Houston puts his finger on the
weak point in the income surtaxes
when he says that they cannot be
successfully collected. Their effect
is not to bring revenue to the treas
ury, but to drive capital Into invest
ment in exempt securities, of which
there is abundance, growing daily.
His revised schedule of rates would
go high enough by taxing 50 per cent
the income over $100,000 that was
spent, and it would conduce to pro
ductive investment by taxing at 20
per cent income that was saved and
invested
Either a uniform tax of 1 per cent
on gross turn-over of business or a
consumption tax at the same rate
would yield so much revenue that it
could replace all other forms of tax
ation, but, unless graduated both as
to size and character or purcnases, it
would fall with undue weight on
people of small means. If made
much higher on luxuries than on
necessaries, it would bear so heavily
on the rich that it might serve as a
substitute for the surtax on incomes
spent and for the various taxes on
specific luxuries which Mr. Houston
proposes,
The several plans of reform that
have been proposed by men who
have carefully studied the- subject
tend all to the general conclusion
that the present income and profits
taxes are vicious, fail actually to ta;
the rich, put an excessive load on the
poor and set the brakes on industrial
expansion. They vary greatly in the
substitutes they offer. If the pres
ent congress were to attempt any
change in' the short time at its dis
posal, it could only tinker at the job
and might make a bad matter worse.
Its committees would better spend
the time in preparing a well consid
ered plan for action by the new con
gress. We cannot hope for a new
law to take effect before January 1
1922, but "excess profits may shrink
so in the meantime that a stoppage
measure may be needed to supply
necessary revenue
There is a man in the county jail
alleged to be crazy because he holds
the idea that a woman should be al
lowed as many husbands as she can
list and that man be given like priv
ilege as to wives. Ordinary man,
who has to siep lively just now, will
not agree, while as for the woman
with one if all men are alike, ex-
cuse her.
The soft-drink place that develops
Into a "kicte- joint" has no standing
n this community that the most vio
lent twisting of the law can sustain.
The campaign of Acting-Mayor Bige-
low to put it out of business will be
watched with hope.
riTTLNG THEMSELVES IX WRONG.
Lfforts are to be renewed at this
esession of congress for passage of
the KLenyon-Anderson bill to estab
lish a most drastic system of regu
lation for the packing and livestock
industry. In order to remove the
abuses which exist in that industry,
" it would add greatly to the vast bu
reaucracy that already exists and of
which the people have plainly indi
cated their desire to be relieved.
But there is an equal determina
tion on the part of the people that
their meat supply shall not be in the
hands of a monopoly. They are
properly apprehensive, when they
find the stockyards, packing houses,
livestock market papers, refrigerator
cars and wholesale meat business in
the hands of a small group of men
who seem to act in close concert.
When these men are,ordered by the
.court to submit a plan by which the
stockyards shall become independent
of .them and when they submit a
plan that would continue their con
trol, they add to public distrust of
their intentions. Though their great
paw ex may not actually have been
XECLKCT OI' CRATER LAKE.
Crater Lake park is a beautiful
jewel . in the setting of America's
playgrounds. It is one of a scattered
company of distinctive natural won
ders which the United States, in its
great concern for the welfare of its
people, has reserved for their bene
fit, a permanent resource of pleasure
and recreation. It is visited annual
ly by thousands of travelers, despite
the fact that it is remote from cen
ters of population and that it must
be approached over difficult roads.
The government has committed it
self to a policy of road construction
within the park area, and has invited
the state to build to its boundaries
improved highways, on the express
understanding that development at
Crater Lake would constitute an
available asset of beauty and con
venience well worth while. The
state and the several southern Ore
gon counties have done, and are do
ing, their share of the necessary
work: but what is the government
doing?
A Washington dispatch to The Ore
gonian December 6 gave a list of ap
propriations recommended to con
gress by Stephen T. Mather, direc
tor of the national -park service, to
taling $2,473,594, of which there is
assigned to Crater Lake the meager
sum of $26,400. Yet there is listed
for the three California parks the
generous aggregate of $760,754. Mr.
Mather is from California. That for
tunate state' will not suffer at his
hands.
It might appear ungracious to in
timate that the director of the na
tional park service has a warped
view of his duty to look upon the na
tional parks from the standpoint of
the whole public, ' and not with the
eyes of a loyal Californian, except
for the fact that he has disclosed
heretofore a severely critical attitude
toward Crater Lake. It will be re
called that he complained bitterly
about the hotel accommodations
there, and threatened to eject the
proprietor, Mr. Parkhurst, In two
weeks. He had no authority to put
him out or to confiscate his property,
and it was not done. It may be re
membered also that, several years
ago. Director Mather informed the
Portland Chamber of Commerce
that if it did not furnish $200,000 to
handle concessions at Crater Lake,
he would get it from San Francisco.
He did not get it. What reason
should any one in Portland have for
objection to an investment of $200,
000 or ay other sum in a tourist ho-
WAYS TO REFORM TAXATION'.
The best possible recommendation
of Secretary Houston's suggested tax
reforms is Representative Kitchin's
condemnation of them. In the state
ment from Mr. Kitchin that Mr.
Houston's plans would "relieve the
corporate interests and millionaires'
of taxes and place them "upon the
backs of the people" we hear the
voice of the typical Bourbon, of one
who has learned nothing from the
practical working of the pernicious
law of which he was. the chief
framer. The high prices that the
people now pay are produced by the
passing on to the consumer of pyra
mided taxes which Mr. Kitchin still
insists are paid by corporate inter
ests and millionaires, notwithstand
ing a mountain of evidence that he is
wrong.
About the only good resulting from
the tax law which Mr. Kitchin had
the principal part in drawing is that
it has forced the people to think
about taxes and governmental econ
omy, and to study the effect of taxes
especially with a view of learning
who ultimately pays them. They
have learned at great cost that the
man from whom the government
collects the money is rarely the man
who ultimately pays the tax; that he
collects it with a profit on. its
amount from the man to Tthom he
sells his goods, and that this opera
tion is repeated until the goods reach
the consumer. They have also
learned that when a rich man is not
only the jjrst but the final payer of
a tax the people often lose byTiaving 1
that money taken by the government
and spent, when otherwise it would
be Invested in increasing production,
enlarging the supply of goods and
consequently lowering their cost to
the consumer. -The people thus learn
what shallow twaddle Mr. Kitchin
talks and how unfit he is to lead in
legislation. He may be qualified for
city councilman of Scotland Neck,
but he is not competent' to make
laws for a nation. The people voted
the republican party into power be
cause they want to get rid of the
Kitchins.
The excess profits tax combines
more vices than almost any other
that could be devised. It makes the
government dependent, for a large
part offits revenue, on excess profits,
which ere made only under the ab
normal conditions of war, but shrink
to little or nothing when normal con
ditions return. It drives the manu
facturer and merchant to add still
more excess profits to prices in order
that their net profit after paying the
Inconsistent California.
McMlnnville Telephone-Register.
California first encouraged Japan
ese immigration, even shoving Amer
icans aside to do so. Now, there is
threat -of a war between the United
States and Japan. If California wishes
to be consistent,- let her discharge
her Japanese help and the idle Japs
would discourage residents of Japan
from emigrating to America. Califor
nlans give preference to Jap employes
and at the same time howl at the
Japanese menace. They don't want
more Japs, but hang on to those t'tey
have as servants like grim death.
Sam HufihrK, Pessimist
Heppner Herald.
Sam Hughes, who sells groceries as
a vocation, and gives away good old
democratic doctrine as. a matter ox
principle, advises the lie raid that the
new word, normalcy, recently coined
by Senator Harding, means a return
to good old republican hard times
that will make most all of us weep
bitter tears. "Sixty-ceut wool and
12.80 wheat may not appear again
for some considerable time." said Mr.
Hughes, as he fumbled around among
a lot of papers on his file, which was
labeled "Bills Collectable."
How Indians Conserred Forests.
Blue Mountain Eagle.
Now 1r the RfHRfin for fores fires.
If the forest service would go Into the
timber at this season and scatter fire
It would consume the undergrowth
and thus protect the forests from the
fire menace in the dry season. But
of course, this Idea la not In the book
and would not be approved. But
when we remember that the Indians
grew these -wonderful forests and
that they scattered fire until there
was no such thing as underbry.su.,
the fire plan recommends itself.
Talking; Turkey.
Gresham Outlook.
The Oregonian thinks the great
American bird should have a better
name than turkey, which is too sug
gestive of a nation in Europe. He
might be called kingbird (or qucen-
lilrd), but that would hardly do In
America. Highbird would be quite
appropriate at present. We vote for
joyblrd. There can be devout thanks
giving with chicken or roast pork, but
the Joybird makes the feast replete.
Timely Wall.
Condon Globe-Times.
It appears that a man Is never done
with hia return. The collector rna
jucept and check it over, and tike
the money, but then there may be
another fellow along In a few days
with a different view on how the
matter should be handled, and he
takes another crack at the taxpayer,
And so on, apparently Indefinitely,
Some of the boys are going to have
hard time borrowing the moey
that is claimed for income tax.
Mr. Harding;, Attend.
Lebanon Criterion.
Without intentionally usurping th
rights of any other cabinet maker in
Oregon, the Criterion suggests that
Oregon endorse Judge Wallace Mc
Camant as a member of Presiden
Harding's official family. He has th
necessary qualifications, which, cou
pled with the ability to do the righ
thing at the right time, would mak
I him an invaluable advisor to the nex
president.
Those Who Come and Go.
Promiscuous osculation received a
setback a colored people's church
in the other Kansas City when an
elder threw a lamp at the preacher
about to embrace the elder's wife.
Privileges and rights seem to con
flict everywhere.
As eacn person moved she was
given a candy kiss by the hostess,
wrapped in pink paper," we glean
from a current news item. We ven
ture the remark that the hostess
must have been in the pink of con
dition.
With .two boxing affairs scheduled
for New Year's day and no back
down in sight, the boxing commis
sioners might put on the gloves
themselves for solution. The change
would be spectacular and refreshing.
Thirty Moros were killed by Phil
ippine constabulary the other day In
a battle growing out of the Moros'
efforts to resist education. Their
education in grammar progressed
only to the future tense.
There have been stormy days
worse than yesterday, but one forgets
them in the pleasant weather that
follows. Fortunately this is not the
week before Christmas.
We d be greatly obliged to the
weather forecaster if he would vary
these storm warnings with a few
warnings that fair weather is com
ing.
Tbe Bottle tn Baker.
Baker Demoorat.
There is hardly one of us who has
not the capacity for enthusian. Th
trouble is that we do not cultivate it.
Don't be , a bump on a log. Tr j
little enthusiasm. Develop It and you
will not only be more and more of a
success in your niche, you will not
only be a joy to all the people around
you. but y cm will be totally surprised
with yourself and also everlastlr gly
pleased with yourBelf.
Reatlna- Time of tbe Firmer,
Amity Standard.
This is the time of the year when
the frost is on the pumpkin and tbe
fodder is stpposcd to be in the shock.
It is sure a great feeling for the
larmer, especially, to have his apples
picked, taters all dug, wood hauled
and work caught up, he sure can feel
like a king in his own realm.
-Albany Business Healthy.
Albany Democrat. "
Business in the Willamette valley.
where warranted at alL, and where
conducted efficiently, is almost bound
to thrive. The remarkable numbei of
successful retailers In Albany attists
to the healthy business soil of the
community.
Seismoa-raphlc and Climatolog-ical.
Eugene Register.
A miniature earthquake was re
ported in Portland a few days ago.
and now comes news of a toy cyclone
near Beaverton. The weather man
can't produce any thrillers alone that
line in Oregon, bo he might as well
quit trying.
".Miller's Hoes Are Fat."
Dallas Observer.
It is a noticeable fact that it is the
road leading from Dallas to Indepen
dence that is getting most of the
gravel. The fact that the Judge's
car makes almost daily trips over this
road has nothing to do with this.
Improving on tbe Old Man.
m Scio Tribune.
Tho old-fashioned man who used
to have a spare room in his ho
now has a son who Is content if he
has a spare tire for his flivver.
About 45 wer cent of the wheat in
Umatilla county is still unsold, but
the growers are hoping for better
prices," says Tom Thompson ot ren-
dleton, where he is a wheat man and
In the banking business as well.
Growers wish they had sold when
wheat was quoted at $2.60," continued
Mr. Thompson, "and some of them
id, but not everyone had a chance
a sell at that figure. The millers
and the exporters who bought at
2.40 have lost monev and many of
the mills still have this high-priced
wheat on their hands. In view ot
hanged conditions, there will have
to be some readjustments In the
wheatgrowlng belt. These readjust
ments will be In the way or laDor
and cost of operation. Last year
when seeding time arrived It was al
most impossible to get men to work,
and when they were found they
wanted $6 or 7 a day and board.
and anyone who buys foodstuffs
knows what board means. Then
there is the tractor proposition. At
irst It was cheaper to run a tractor
than to use stock, for more work
could be done and quicker. Later,
for a couple of years. . the costs of
using tractor or stock were about
equal. Then, as the tractors became
worn out and- parts had to be bought,
and the price of gasoline advanced,
the traccor operation became more
costly than using tock. Many trac
tor farmers would like to go ba:k
to tbe use of horses, but they haven t
any stock, because they sold me
horses when they bought the ma
chinery."
Here's a schema which a Seattle
man explained to me for beating the
war tax and the increased cost of
traveling In the -United States," said
H. H. Corey of the Oregon Public
Service commission yesterday. "I met
this chap on a- train. He said that
he went over to Vancouver, B. C and
bought a round trip ticket through
Seattle. Portland, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, around by way of the south.
to Chicago and New York, and back
again. He paid for the ticket in
Canadian money. The saving he ef
fected by going to British Columbia
to purchase the transportation was
$80. He traveled every mile of bis
Journey In the United States. If that
scheme becomes generally known in
Seattle, a large number of people in
tending to make an extensive trip
will ride over to Vancouver and buy
their tickets." Mr. Corey arrived yes
terday from Tillamook Head, where
he was looking over a logging road
property. At Seaside the storm was
so severe, declared the commissioner,
that several large waves went over
the seawall. The wind was blowing
hard and there was a heavy rain and
in this pleasant storm, Mr. Corey
walked 12 miles.
A patron of one of the hotels almost
lost his temper yesteiday. This is
how It happened: The visitor stepped
out of a store with an umbrella in
hand and wearing a stiff hat. A capful
of wind lifted hia hat from his head
and in reaching to save the hat, he
tilted the umbrella and the wind took
it out of his hand and sent it sailing
into the street, following the hat,
which was trolling merrily along.
Then the umbrella got on the car
track In time to have a street car
run over it and at the same time an
automobile crushed the hat to death.
Damage, $25; total loss. Another
puff of wind tore a large light globe
from the roof of the Benson and
hurled It to the pavement. Halfway
in the air, however, the globe broke,
shattering the way glass balls used
to do when Dr. Carver, sharpshooter,
used to blaze away at them in W. W.
Cole's circus, in the 80s.
"No. the concrete road between
Coquilie a ritd Marshfield isn't finished"
yet. said C. S. McCulroch, as he reg
istered at the Imperial. "The rains
have interfered so frequently that
little progress could be made and
only a comparatively small part of
the road was constructed this year."
This cement road has been ia course
of construction for two years and will
probably not be completed before next
ummer at the present rate. the
ritrinal contractors had to throw up
the job and the state highway com
mission's forces have had to take it
over.
John Burroughs' Nature
Notes.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jmra J. Hutiroe,
Can Yon Answer Tbese Questions!
1. Is a nest in a hole safer than one
in the open?
2. Of what are limestone rock and
chalk formed?
Z. Do animals respect property
rights?
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to I'revfous Questions s
1. Where do quail and partridge
nest?
Both the quail and the partridge, In
settled countries, are very likely to
nest along roads and paths, away
from thick jungles and tangles that
would afford cover to thetr enemies.
It is their eggs and their newly
hatched young that they are so
licitous about. Their wings afford
security to themselves.
2. How does Hawaiian vegetation
compare with ours?
The vegetation In Hawaii is all
novel, but It has that barbaric rank
ness of all tropical woods, with noth
ing or the sylvan sweetness and sim
plicity of our home woods. There are
no fine,, towering trees, but low,
gnarled, and tortuous ones, which,
with .their - hanging- vines, like the
broken ropes of a ship's ringing, and
their parasitic srrowths, present a
riotous, disheveled appearance.
3. Do woodchucks spend much time
under ground?
I know of no other hibernating- ani
mal than the woodchuck that retires
from the light of day so early in the
season. His active life stretches from
the vernal equinox to the autumnal
equinox, and that is about all. Half
the year he is -under ground, and at
least half of each summer day.
(Rights reserved by Hougliton Mif
flin company.)
Anything that helps make brighter
the declining years is worthyl That
is why there- is another tag day be
ginning early this stormy morning.
Anyone who has seen motorcycle
riders traveling at a pretty fast rate
is not surprised to read of one being
hurt in a collision.
Along with the bottle of Milwau
kee beer preserved In a museum
should be exhibited an old-time five-
cent cigar.
Be it said to the credit of the legal
profession that San Francisco attor
neys refused to defend the gangsters.
The Knockout In Coos. '
Powers- Patriot.
Try getting an old time kick by
chewing up about a cubic inch of gar
lie? Not only will it give you a kick
but u your friends with whom you
i com in contact tnd you'll -have to
resort to cloves before calling on
your besgiri about a quart of them.
Turkey Dream,
Gold Hill News.
All indications point to 30-cent tur
key before the first of the year, when
the price or 4o cents that was offered
this week will look like a fortune. 1
doesn't pay to hold onto produce too
long.
' Luna's Joy or DiMsrust.
Silverton Tribune.
Even the moon gets full . when H
sees what's going on in the good old
U. S. A. these days.
"Blessed are the peace makers"
somehow doesn't seem to apply to
framers of peace treaties.
Very likely there are no gangsters
in Portland, but if there be, nonerwill
show his head Just now.
It begins to look as if the allies
would have to do without their
Christmas Turkey.
The observing- man knows why the
manufacturers make such- elegant
hosiery.
More "weather" today.
Any Old Price for Wheat.
Wasco News-Enterprise.
The expectation of $3 wheat has
long ago gone Into the discard and
price of 1.0 would be welcomed by
many. rom present indications even
that price is an iridescent dream.
One-Half of One Per Cent.
Joseph Herald.
'"What we need In this country 1
something that will Induce us to mak
the best of what we nave.
Burleson's Hide. -
Dufnr Dispatch.
If leathe were as tough as Burle
son's hide, one pair of shoes would
lat a lifetime.
I.OXC AN ADMIRER OP RECORD
Writer DeXends ConR-resslonal Publi
cation From Flippant Comment.
CENTRAL POINT, Or., Dec. 10.
(To the Editor.) As a long-time
reader of The Oregonian, and one who
has come to regard It as being easily
the leading newspaper of the great
norinwesr, wnose edntonal utterances
as a general rule, evince erudition and
scnoiarsnip excelled by none, I feel
Impelled to voice a protest against
the rather flippant manner in which
you treat that mighty palladium of
userui lniormation. the much con
temned and seeminirlv little under
stood Congressional Record, when
you, in order to point a moral, refer
to it in the language generally em
ployed Dy tne Illy Informed and un
thinking as. among other things de
rogatory being a publication which
noooay reaas wno can escape the
oraeai.
Now, T have been a constant reader
or tne congressional Record for manv
hmany years and, for one who would
KeeD fullv ahrpat nf ntrr.nt aff.i..
I have come to regard it as beina- the
peer of the combined publications of
the country. True, it contains much
which is of no Interest to the great
majority of the people, but all of its
contents are of vital interest to some
body. To be properly enjoyed it must
be read discriminatingly, and when
so perused it proves to be a veritable
mine of not only valuable but highly
interesting information. In it, from
time to time, is to be found the very
cream of ancient and modern litera
ture, from the Lord's prayer to ex
tracts from the rhymes of Mother
Goose, as well as an exact record of
the official words and acts of our na
tional legislators. complete, un
abridged, undistorted and uncensored
by the pencil of partisan newswriters
and editors.
Refuse to read it if you will, con
sign it unopened to the wastebasket
if you must, but as you value your
reputation tor irutn and fairness do
not mangn tne one American publica
tion the contents of which Is at all
times like unto Caesar's wife above
suspicion. H. H. LAMPMAN.
Paint and Enamel Remover.
PORTLAND, Dec. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly tell me what wilt re-
THEY I.EAJCV ttllCKLY.
Th new winner of the Nobel prize was,
for some years a tramp In America.
A gentleman called at my kitchen door
To apply for a modest loan,
The sketchiest kind of a coat he
wore
And his voice was a mumbling
moan.
And he said as my scowl grew stern
and black.
While I looked at his bleary eyes,
"I ain't de bum wot I looks like. Jack,
I am out fer de Nobel prize."
Another man with a mildewed face,
And arrayed in a fashion strange.
Accosted me In a public place
And desired a piece of change.
He .explained, when he read In my
mocking eyes.
That I didn't approve his looks:
'I am .studyin" up fer de Nobel prixe
An needs de cusn fer books."
A portly man with a halting gait.
And in somebody else s coat.
Stepped at my house One day to state
l hat he wanted a five casa nnt..
And he s'aid, I kin see you has sot
me wrong
So I'm roln' to put tou wise.
You'll be glad that you helped dis
guy along
When he. cops de Nobel prise.
And the self-same day. a battered
wreclc.
Whom I met by the merest ehanc.
Threw his greasy arms around my
neck
And asked for a small advance.
And he cried, in a thin, falsetto whine.
Dis ain't no touch, you know.
De Nobel prize is as good as mine
An 1 11 split when I wins It. Bo."
Sbe Sees What Slue Lost.
Every time Spain looks over at
Cuba nowadays she gets madder and
madder at the United States for tak
ing that gold mine away from her.
-A
1 Tovrh Lock.
The football hero is compelled re
luctantly to put his glory In moth
balls till next fall.
Simply Ignores Htm.
It would appear that Mr. Wilson
is no more disposed to take Mr.
Bryan's advice now that he was when
Mr. Bryan v.as in the cabinet
CopyriBht. Wlo. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.
In Other Days.
i
Twenty-five Years Aaro.
From The Oregonian of December 11.
Washington After a hard fight be
tween St. Louis and San Francisco
the former won the national repub
lican convention of next year on the
fifth ballot.
Direct from Europe the Western
Packing compary, engaged in the
business of slaughtering horses for
meat has, learned' that there will be
very little demand for the product
over there.
The Boys andi Girls' Aid society is
taking steps toward erection of a
building on the land donated for the
purpose by Mrs. Rachael Hawthorne.
The time in which applications for
saloon licenses for next year were
to be received expired yesterday.
There are 14S applications oa file.
Washington Bonus Law.
PORTLAND, Dec. 9. .(To the Edi
tor) With further reference to the
article in the Oregonian December 8,
regarding the Washington state
bonus, the meaning of your answer
is not exactly clear to me.
Would a man enlisted in the navy,
who received the regular navy pay
for the raiing held, and who received
the regular navy rate for commuta
tion and quarters while serving
ashore be entitled to the bonus? Or
does your answer refer only to those
enlisted men who received greater
pay than the regular service Pay. such
as the spruce division men?
- ED PERRY.
The answer was in the exact words
move old paint or enamel and rust ' ne law- As we understand It, the
from iron.
K. A.
Sixes Is a dot on the map In Curry
ounty and in its time the election
returns from Sixes had an important
nfluence on the state. Sixes is named
rom Sixes river, which flows into the
Pacific ocean about a mile or less
north of Cape Blanco. Chauncey
Zumwalt of Sixes was at the Imperial
yesterday with W. J. Sweet of Ban-
on. Near Zumwalt s home Is one oi
the largest barns in the state and it
looks to be as large as, or larger, than
the municipal auditorium in Pqrtlaiid.
J. H. Blodel of the Blodel-Donovan
Lumber company of Seattle Is regis
tered at the Benson. He is here to at-
erra the confererkce of lumber export
ers. The lumbermen alt Know tnat
he market is bad, so they are assem
bling in Portland in the hope that
someone of them may show himself
a prophet and give them a straight tip
on what to do ana now to ao it lu
save the situation.
Mrs. L. R. Had ley of Lamonta, Or..
is at the Imperial. Her husband was
for years with the B. 6z o. T. company
n Portland, but sold out and became
rancher in the Deschutes country.
The Hadleys had a fine wheat crop
this year, and they have it yet. They
paid big wages for help in the harvest
field and at present quotations on
the grain there isn't a very attractive
margin of prorit.
Among the lumbermen at the Ben
son who are here to attend the con
ference of exporters of Douglas fir
are W. M. Dalcom of Seattle, Nell
Cooney of Cosmopolis. Thorpe Bab-
cock of Aberdeen, W. S. Cram ot
Raymond, A. S, Payne of Hpquiam
and A. W. Middleton ot Aberdeen.
Their total lumber busmeS Is enor-
ous, when there is a selling market.
J. T. Nevins of Bay City is at the
Perkins. He Is in the timber business.
Tributary" to Tillamook bay, where
Bay City is located, Is situated, there
are billions of feet of the finest tim
ber In America and some day it la ex
pected .o all be shlpred by water.
Tom -Brown, former representative
at Marion county, drove to Portland
yesterday and admitted that the auto
mobile ride was not a pleasant one
with the storm raging.
E. K. Piaseckl of Dallas, who was
recently the democratic candidate of
Polk county for district attorney, is
in town on business and is aUthe Im
perial. Captain J. P. Ubil o the steamer
West Apaum is docked at the Perkins.
The West Apaum is In the trans-Pacific
service and will soon clear from
Portland for the orient. "'
W. J. Conrad and family are at the
Benson from Coos Bay. Mr. Conrad
is an attorney and specializes in tim
ber on the side and has put across
some goo.d deals in the past year.
Alex Gilbert Jr., a well-known resi
dent of Seaside, who lived there when
the shell road was the only pavement
in the place, is registered at the Hotel
Oregon.
T. W. Robinson, a timberman of
Forest Grove, who used to be located
at Olney, is at the Perkins for a few
days. -
Joseph Blethen of Seattle, connected
with the Times newspaper there, was
'at the Multnomah yesterday.
AAswer At any paint house may
be secured preparations for the re
"rival of paint and enamrl.
exception from benefits of the act re
lates to those such as spruce division
men who received compensation
greater than the regular service pay
rind rnmnt!taion.
George Ade Back Again With
Modern Fables
Know Ade? Of course you do and his "Sultan of Sulu" and th
"College Widow." Bub most of all you know him for his "Modern
Fables," and now he is releasing them for publication again, revised
and brought strictly up to date. You cannot afford to miss these
fables. Ade has come back funnier than ever and a host of admirers
will follow his humor as it appears each week in The Sunday Ore
gonian, beginning tomorrow.
Days of Rambling Horse Car Those were the good old days, indeed
but they had their drawbacks. The genie of electricity had not
been harnessed, and the old gray mare was relietl upon for rapid
transport throughout the city. The horse cars symbols of the
first serious attempt to solve the traffic problems of lusty young
town. De Witt Harry, in a special illustrated Sunday article,
brings them back to us through the reminiscences of men who
drove them more than two decades ago.
The Man With the Marrying Jag The wedding altar lured him as
bright lights summon the moth. He couldn't stay single. Nor,
for that matTer, could he stay double or triple he was the man
with the marrying jag Ensign Aldrich, with his heart on his
sleeve and a world of pretty girls to choose. Retribution over
took him, of course, but the story of the ensign's araours is an
ineffaceable page in the "jazz" period' a horrible example of the
tendency to live gaily, come what may. Told in the Sunday issue,
with pictures.
Here's a New Profession American trade abroad, in ports where
the Stars and Stripes has just begun to drift back at the mast
head Of great ships, is the field that will call, and Is calling, for
thousands of young men and women to advance the outposts of
national commerce. The possibilities, scarcely touched at present,
are vast and fraught with certain preferment for those who will
take up the task. Rene Bache, special correspondent to The Sun
day Oregonian, chats of the broadened and uncrowded field in an
illuminating article of tomorrow' issue. Read it.
Men Who Have Served as Presidential Secretaries When one
accepts the post of secretary to the president he becomes a sort
of super-shock absorber, and' duties deluge him. Yet there is no
official position which lends to the individual a closer knowledge
of national affairs, or that more speedily fits him for important
place in the service 'of the government. In the Sunday magazine
section there is an article which chronicles the careers of ex-secretaries.
Theirs was the highway to the cabinet, in certain instances,
and always their future pointed toward advancement.
Beating Sarita Claus at His Own Trade Toys are what the heart
. puts into them, neither more nor less. And if it gives abundantly
of inspiration, then you deck the Christmas tree with something
more than a gift. Certain American parents discovered this truth
in their own homes, through the delight of their own children, and
the American toy industry rests upon the principle thus proved.
A timely toy story in the Sunday mazagine section, with pictures
of craftsmen at work, narrates the story of the toy industry.
Talks With T. R- This serial of an American hero, from the diaries
of his friend, John J. Leary Jr., is one to pick up at any time, con
fident that trenchant, humorous, thoughtful Americanisms will
spring fromthe printed page. It is Roosevelt himself, epeaking
across the great divide.
ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE WORLD ,
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