13 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Pobllshed bv The OreBonlan Publishing Co., 135 Sixth Street, Fortland, Oregon. C A. MORDEN. E. B. i"1;"- , Manager. Editor. The OreBonlan is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rignts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 'subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Pally, Sunday included, one year f-5? Daily, Sunday Included, six months. . . 4 - nally, Sunday included, three months, iia Dally, Sunday included, one month... . Taily, without Sunday, one year 6.UU Jailv. -without Sunday, six months.... iJally. without Sunday, -one monm Weekly, one year - Sunday, one year 1.00 6.00 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday included, one year 5'99 Daily, Sunday included, three months. 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Nor are the congressmen who speak for the hyphenates of foreign birth. They represent constituencies where the foreign-born predominate or are numerous. liosts of aliens or nat uralized citizens have relatives or friends whom they would have come to the "United States, and in view of after-war conditions in Europe they wish these immigrants to come soon. Their thoughts are of their families, not of the country which has re ceived them as citizens. If the evils accompanying immi gration are to be overcome, the congressmen who think of America first must overrule those who think first of the votes of their foreign born constituents. The best argu ment for restriction of immigration is the fact that men like Represen tative Mann and those whom they represent oppose such legislation. "When large bodies of naturalized citizens are so indifferent to the good of the country that they want the gate left open to hosts of alien revolutionists tind to cargoes of typhus-stricken people, and when a native-born American supports them in congress, the time has come to call a halt till plans are in effect to Americanize those already here and to select with great care those who shall hereafter be admitted. Elections and administration of the law are already too much in fluenced by quarrels which immi grants and their parents have im ported, but which are po affair of the United States. Our security from being drawn into a quarrel on behalf of some one foreign element against another consists in the fact that one alien nationality offsets an other, when it should consist in single-minded devotion of all to the United States. . Hyphenism is still a real danger. It can be made so slight as to be harmless only by Americanizing the aliens wo have and by selecting those whom we admit, so that all may be made Americans. Then they will not elect congressmen who put America second. THE SOVIET'S BID FOR RECOGNITION. The city of Moscow is the capital of a band of murderers and robbers who have stolen everything in Russia that is worsteng and basset jp a government supported by the rifles and bayonets of Chinese, Tar tar, German and Magyar mercen aries. They have about wrecked the country in gaining possession, and they cannot restore it without for eign aid. Foreign business men shrink from dealing with them, for everything they offer for sale or in exchange for imports was stolen and the gold that they offer in payment . was also stolen. They cannot give clear title to any property in Russia, for that was stolen. One thing can make the goods salable. That is recognition by the great powers of the soviet govern ment as the government which rules Russia of right as well as in fact. Recognition would establish the right of the soviet to all the prop erty to which it lays claim, would grant it immunity in all the courts of the world for all its acts of rob-, bery. Any claims of non-Russians to any part of that property would then be a matter of diplomatic nego tiation between their own govern ment and the soviet, and the soviet would be free to admit or deny the. validity of the claim. The bolshevist chiefs have been bending all their energies to secure recognition from the great powers They tried first to terrify the allies with attempts at world-revoiution by means of propaganda and red agents scattered over the world After they had defeated Kolchak and Denikin they also made overtures for trade relations and recognition, but they continued to use propaganda as a means of intimidation. Their efforts were directed particularly at Great Britain, because its many foreign possessions are so many points for attack, because it Is the greatest commercial nation, because the labor party favors the soviet and because its example in dealing with the soviet would probably soon be followed by other powers. Facing rebellion in Ireland and Egypt, and later in Mesopotamia, a widespread revolutionary agitation in India which the bolshevists fomented, in dustrial strife at home, and a huge debt, Britain agreed, against the opposition of France, to negotiate on condition that prisoners should be released, propaganda cease and warlike adventure in Asia stop. Th soviet has accepted the conditions. but has been slow to carry them out. Almost all the British prisoners have been sent home, but war in Armenia and agitation in India con tinue. Until they stop no agreement will be signed, though one is ready for signature. Bolshevist hopes turn next to the United States. This country has some men who are eager to buy an empire with a shoe string, and others of the same kind wait in other coun tries. The soviet uses 'them to cir culate reports or great trade oppor tunities going to waste in order to Influence business men to urge their governments to open trade with Russia and recognize its terrorist government. Washington D. Van derlip appears to be one of these. Probably confounding him with Frank A. Vanderlip, the soviet grants him a concession to the whole north eastern end of Siberia which was granted to a Russian twenty years ago. The American-Russian cham ber of commerce says that this ter ritory "on exploration proved to be of little or no commercial value," and it describes Mr. Vanderlip as ''an obscure American prospector who had wandered among the Eski mos of this region some fifteen years before." Of his concession it says: According to T-ouise 115-ant, the widow of John Reed, in her cable from Moscow, Vanderlip is to furnish 100 ocean steamers. 20O0 river steamers. 1000 airplanes. 13.000 locomotives. G0.0K cars. 2.000.0OO- tons of steel rails. 250,000 tons of rubber and other articles - too numerous to mention. The soviet government which cannot even sup ply the wants of Moscow with fuel and raw materials, is going to pay for this trifling "brder with exports, great quanti ties of which are alleged to be ready for immediate shipment to America. President Wilson has refused to be caught with such bait, and it is not to be expected that President elect Harding will be easier to catch. Americans are not so keen for trade that they will profit by the loot of a nation, won by one of the most gigantic crimes of all the ages. The government of this nation will not pander to any who have no scruples on that score, for the soviet .has proclaimed that it will be bound by no agreements and that it will not rest from revolutionizing the world, since by no other means can it live. DEAFENED EARS. Some there are among us who would have us turn our backs on the rest of the world and go our own way. Such persons are wearied of the long controversy over the league of nations, bored to extinc tion by the constant cries for Arme nia, deaf to the incessant appeals for the hungry, destitute, dying chil dren of southeastern Europe and actually exasperated by the latest revelations as to the Chinese famine horror. It is a sad world and none get out of it alive. None are to go through it these times without rec ognition of the fact that the Euro peans, the Near-Easterners and the Chinese ire our neighbors and what concerns them vitally affects us. If we assume that one could settle with his conscience by refusing to listen to the world-wide clamor for help, it still remains true that the easiest way does not lie in failure or neglect to do one's duty. Those chickens will come home to roost. The way to live peacefully in a world where there is no peaca is to help make it peaceable and livable. The United States has troubles of its own. But it is strong enough to care for them and to shoulder the troubles of others. It must do it, or run the risk eventually of going down in the common wreck. . NOBODY'S BUSINESS. The issue as regards the new county hospital is the illustration it offers of the leechlike tendency of new ventures to fasten themselves on the taxpayer. Enterprises are begun under mod erate estimates. It was planned at first by the county commissioners to expend about $750,000 on the hospital. It now appears that the first unit will cost between one and two millions of dollars, that a road costing several hundred thousand dollars will be needed and that calls for expenditure of money on other units are to be expected in time. The present need is that enter prises to be paid for by the public shall be presented with a' definite idea of their cost and that the esti mates shall be adhered to. The public has been led to indorse, or at least not protest against, nu merous enterprises by the withhold ing from it of knowledge of addi tional expenditures the initial en- rJld .ntalL We buy parks and playgrounds, for example, and then protest against high taxes caused in part by budget items for improvement, equipment and up keep. We engage in the paving re pair business and suddenly find that we are doing construction work and that money is being borrowed from the general fund to keep the plant going. We buy a flock of automo biles and then shudder over repair bills or the maintenance cost of a municipal garage. And so on. No private business is conducted like the public's business. It is per haps impossible to attain the exact ness of estimate and the foresight that are inspired within corpora tion heads by knowledge that from them there will be an exact ac counting expected. But private business procedure Can be much more nearly approached than is now done under our multiple system of tax-levying bodies, our failure to segregate the disbursing: from thfi assessing bodies and our neglect to establish comprehensive accounting systems. THE DIMINISHING PRESTIGE ALCOHOL. OF The action of Oregon druggists in demanding strict regulation or sale of alcoholic preparations, and in opposing relaxation of regulation such, for example, as might allow leeway in the filling of physicians' prescriptions for this formerly well known and popular medicament corresponds with the drift of pro fessional opinion in other parts of the country. The Oregon State Pharmaceutical association is not the first of its kind to reject the sug gestion that the bars be let down to liquor for so-called therapeutic pur poses. Organizations of druggists in other states and at least one na tional body have taken action similar- to that in Oregon. And only the other day it was announced on authority of an internal revenue offi cial in New York that of the 6131 physicians who this year hold per mits under the federal law to pre scribe alcohol for medicinal purposes in that state, only 985 have applied for renewal of this privilege in 1921. The stimulant alcohol, once in cluded in the armamentarium of nearly every physician, is losing its reputation as a panacea. The New York doctors who took out permits last year but refrained this year from doing so evidently have discovered that the emergency for which they evidently prepared did not occur often enough to warrant the trouble involved. Druggists meanwhile have found that legitimate use of alcoholic beverages in those states in which sale1 is governed only by the Vol stead act is so restricted as also not to be worth while. Two professions formerly having intimate contact with alcohol thus repudiate it. Neither is willing to risk the stigma of a discredited business. The quantity of liquors containing alcohol which have been used in hospitals. In treatment of disease lias diminished steadily ever since pro hibition went into effect. Now the doctors are refusing to avail them selves of the privilege of prescribing it, and the official spokesman of druggists is heard to characterize the beverage as a "nuisance," which they do not want around the store. Will indignities to Jbhn Barleycorn never cease? Repudiation by the last of his supposed friends would seem to be the last straw. SHALL THERE BE NO COMPROMISE? of the differences between the school I board and the federated teachers' council over the amended tenure act seems to be hopeless. It is to be regretted. The teachers appear to think that any suggestion of change in the present plan is inspired by a desire to return to the discredited and mischievous spoils system, and decline to accept any assurances to the contrary. They are not moved from their position by the disclaim ers of the board, by the appeals of independent and friendly voices, nor, indeed, by the text of the new bill itself. They purpose to hold on. if they can, to the independent trial commission, notwithstanding the tes timony of its chairman that the bet ter policy would be to lodge author ity over the teachers with the school board under suitable safeguards. It Is to be observed in this connec tion that one of the compromises emanating from the board was that the right to dismiss as well as to employ all teachers should be vested in the city superintendent subject to review by the board upon appeal. This, it seems to The Oregonian, was a decided advance in the direction of school control in the hands of appropriate authority. The teachers say with emphasis that the tenure- of a teacher, whose attainments are professional, should not be subject to the authority of any board of business men. They quote with . approval the report of the Carnegie Foundation to the Na tional Education' association, where the point Is clearly elucidated. An extract from the report is thus quoted in the teachers" pamphlet: Since most of the causes for dismissal are professional, the present practice in .a majority of states Is open to serious ob jection, for a LAY BOARD cannot be ex pected to be sufficiently competent to pass upon the professional services of teachers. 'The capitals are the teacher's. Unfortunately, a further paragraph in the Carnegie report is overlooked by the teachers. It throws quite a little more light on the subject: The professional sunervisor Is et miali. fied to discriminate between the com petent and Incompetent teacher. Just as there is a move to secure the co-operation of such officials in the final arpoinlment of teachers, so the dismissal of tea ners should be decided only on his recom mendation with the right of appeal to the HIGHEST EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITY' in the state. "The capitals are ours. We venture to inquire if a com promise vesting with the highest ed ucational authority of the state the right to determine finally the status of a dismissed teacher would not be acceptable to the teachers? MAKING SIN T7N CONSTITUTIONAL. Mr. Bryan, casting about for an other issue, tells the members of the Ail-American Conference on Social Diseases that he intends to press his iignt ror tne single standard of morality for men and women" and that he intends to help make it the next great issue before the American people. Putting aside the American idiom that designates- as social a pathological condition that is in reality highly anti-social, one is tempted to inquire what it is that the great commoner proposes to do about it that is not already being attempted though, it will be ad mitted, with not too great succesa by appeal to the enlightened con sciences of people. It is proposed. we learn from reading Mr. Bryan's further remarks, "to write into the constitution of the state of Nebraska a provision for the 'single stand ard." " Thus, -what undoubterllv i a great evil will be abated (if the Bryan plan does not go agley) by """"s it unconstitutional. Noth ing, to the passionate reformer, could be more simple: and vet the severely practical, versed in the world s affairs, are likely to have their doubts. There is not now lackinc a. hnri of intelligent' opinion that regards the so-called double stnnrloi-H f morality with the abhorrence that it deserves. Whatever may be the se cret, tnougnts and desires of a good many others, there is visibly increas ing reluctance to condone male vice, or to keep up the pretense that certain looseners of conduct is the rovai privilege or men. That much can be conceded without violence to the fact itself that in practice we are still far from the ideal. The medie val "wild oats" theory persists In unexpected quarters. A formidable social hygiene propaganda has failed to disturb all the foundations of established custom. Still, some ground is being gained. It is unfair to judge the drift of moral sentiment by Isolated instances such as, for example, that an Oregon law requir ing a physician's certificate as a con, dition of obtaining a marriage license is widely evaded . without inviting stigma on the evaders, that soma parents continue to condone their daughters' marriages to young men of questionable purity and that young women almost never insist on tne standard ror men that they are expected to maintain themselves. Certainly there ought not to be one standard, for men and another for women in a matter of this kind. There is not much disagreement among thoughtful m'en and women as to the principle involved. But since the shortcomings at which Mr. Bryan strikes already are theoreti cally unlawful, so far as statutes can regulate them, they can be regarded as disposed of, so far as law can ac complish anything. It is hardly con ceivable that a way can be found by law to compel social ostracism of the male whom common rumor has associated with certain more or less romantic adventures in his youth. yet who has been legally convicted of nothing under laws which at pres ent would sufficiently cover the ground if competent evidence were not lacking. Women have a remedy in their own hands if they desire to employ It. It would hardly take more than a generation to straighten out our gay young blade if his lapses dis qualified him for marriage with the only kind of young woman he would consider for a life companion. That much can be accepted with a good deal more confidence than Mr. Bryan's scheme to "write into the constitution" that which depends for enforcement on social conscience and on nothing else on earth. The ' National Child Labor com mittee points out, as the result of its own investigation and on the au thority of writers on education, that tie child, who goes tot work, at ouj teen years old has a prospective earning power just half as great as the child who stays In school until he is eighteen, in addition to which (though the figures probably do not apply to the rural districts) the for mer is t-vftce as liable to sickness and disability as the latter. The loss to the nation, as well as to the individ ual, however, will be conceded to be almost incalculable. Recent com pilation of data on the subject has been inspired by discovery that in fourteen states an Increase of child labor is reported for 1920 by com- Parison with 1919, increase being ac- companied by decrease in adult em ployment which obviates the excuse that youths are necessary in order to keep industries running. Increased child labor Is not confined to indus trial centers: the chiefly agricultural state of Minnesota reports a gain of 193 per cent. WATERPOWEK AN I KGKNT NEED. One of the first acts of congress at the present session should be to make an adequate appropriation for the national waterpower commis sion. Through neglect to provide money at the last session, the com mission has been unable to complete the rules for leasing powersites for lack of the necessary expert help and many applications for leases lie waiting action. With enough money to employ a sufficient staff the com mission should put a number of com panies in a position to start pre liminary work and to finance their enterprises during the next year. The question is fast becoming one of developing hydro-electric power In order to keep the industries of the Pacific coast moving. Oil is the only other source of power that exists in sufficient quantity to be worth considering, and consumption al ready exceeds production, the dif ference being made up from reserve stocks. Production is increased only by drilling many new wells, while production per well has decreased over 25 per cent in five years. After providing for the oil industry's own use and for refineries, which make gasoline, lubricants and distillate, 75 per cent of the production remains for fuel oil, but the Industries using it require 85 per cent. Chief among these are railroads, ships and public utilities. The navy s demand is imperative and the merchant ma rine must have it in order to com pete with other nations. Shipping consumed 18.000,000 barrels in 1919 and will consume 30,000,000 barrels in 1920 and probably 40,000,000 in 1921. Consumption of gasoline rap idly grows and nothing but a tem porary condition prevents large ex ports. Already tank ships are build ing to bring oil from Tampico to the Pacific coast. There is not enough oil on the Pa cific coast to supply existing needs. No other fuel can hereafter be con sidered for the navy and merchant' fleet and the latter will rapidly in crease its demands. Railroads can turn to electric power, but only by degrees after supply is assured. The only opportunity of expanding indus try and extending railroads is by development of hydro-electric power and this should be carried to the point where it will supplant oil as a source of power In all enterprises except those which can use nothing but oil. Oil would then be reserved exclusively foe ships, automobiles, making of gas and lubricants. The industrial future of the Pa cific coast depends on the power of its streams, but is limited only by their capacity. With half the popu lation of the world facing us across the Pacific, with a short sea route through the canal to Atlantic coast markets" and with the same route open for direct immigration from Europe, the industrial development of this coast will in a generation be sufficient to use all the power that can be produced. If any further reminder were needed of the approach of Christ mas it would be furnished by the arrival of the annual number of the Seattle Argus. As ever, it abounds in beautiful halftone engravings of Seattle buildings and scenes, but this year it has many pictures of Mt. Rainier in its winter garb, besides others of the Olympic mountains and of the San Juan islands. There are a number of articles telling of the progress and enterprise of the Puget sound metropolis. Mr. Wells showed " Monday what he could do in weather and it was plenty. Now if he will jam back the freeze stop, Portland will be it self again. Three inmates of the state insane asylum are to be deported to Mex ico. Down there probably npbody will consider them razy. "Women's activities" just now are confined to discovering what things the head of the house is smuggling in and their hiding places. ' . The New Yorker who bit a dia mond while regaling himself on a pound of sausage didn't consider it such hard luck. King Constantine takes 220 trunks and boxes with him to Athens. He wants the Greeks to know he's no carpetbaggers Sugar dropped again yesterday, but too late to affect the cost of Christmas candies unless made home. at "Constantine to start," says headline. What interests us more than that is whether he will finish. There is no employment for drift ers in Portland. (Papers in sur rounding states, please copy.) The thief who steals from the Sal vation Army will get his in due time. Just leave it to the Lord. Last day to call on Collector Miller with that installment. Drop in early to avoid the rush. Shipbuilding continues good in this district. A 12,000-tonner will be launched today. The world will be invited to Port land's A. P. H. E. E. and the world will come. Bricks .have dropped $5 a thou sand in Omaha. Special rates on bats. - -. There is joy in reading of arrest and punishment of a road hog. "Lots of folks wonder rides in a Ford. if Henry Going to buy the dog a new collar igi Christmas? BIRTHDAY GREETINGS EXTENDED The Oregonian la Congratulated by Newapnpera of North west. Hillsboro Independent. Men reach a good old age because they live sanely and wisely, and the same is true of newspapers. The Or egonian has Just celebrated its 70th birthday, and people to whom it has been a daily visitor will concede that It has been sane, and as wise as it Is possible for a newspaper to be. This being the case, the dally visit . was S fnrt t .nnThl .nnDr Lfr-"? iZtlt tJ?.,"ef,PSJ I became a part of the daily lives of its readers a friend whose friendship could only be interrupted by grave cause and the cause has never been given. The' writer confesses that when e came to Oregon some 17 years ago nd became acquainted with The Ore gonian and was told it was the "fam ily bible" of the state, he was inclined to and did scoff but like that other scoffer he remained to pray, for he came to see that the "family b'ble" ribute was not jest. As with the man who reached three score ana en, there is a reason, and it is that during its long life The Oregonian has kept In touch with the people. (presenting- them during Ahe various stages of development untrr when the p'oneer village had developed into a great city it was found it had kept pace and was as truly representative of the city as It had been of the vil- age. Like all great successes, it was because it filled the niche it found, and Incidentally filled it so well that there was little room for eompetlt'on to creep In. One of Great Half Dozen. . Chehalis Bee-Nugget. The Portland Oregonian last week celebrated its 70th birthday anniver sary. The . Oregonian is an institu tion of the west, its influence being much wider than the city and state n which it lives. The Oregonian is conceded one of the five or six lead- ng newspapers of the United States, and the leading newspaper of the west. Its history is inextricably en- wined with the history of the Pacific northwest, and it has thousands of friends and admirers all over the country. The Oregonian is primarily an accurate and dependable newspa per. Secondarily, It is unusually well edited. Its editorial policy has been a standard for many years, and -ven those people who do not agree with t editorially give The Oregonian un grudging credit for sincerity and log- cal reasoning. The Oregonian is an unusually strong newspaper In every way, and hundreds of fellow pub lishers in the northwest hold a strong admiration for the elder brother. All oin in extending congratulations to The Oregonian for its 70 years of splendid - usefulness, and hope It will continue to do a guiaing ugnt in ouraallsm. Western Longevity- Record. Dufur Dispatch. Last Saturday The Oregonian cel ebrated its 70th birthday, it having been founded December 6. 1850. This Is a record unparalleled by any other newspaper west of the Rocky moun tains. Starting first as a weekly, a daily addition later was added, and both have been published continually ever since. Beginning its career when Portland was a struggling: pioneer city of 3000, with neither railroad nor telegraph, with Oregon not yet admitted to the union and with the entire northwest hardly out of the wilderness stage, the paper had to contend with ail the obstacles incidental to pioneer days. But it withstood all these and grew and developed as the country was settled and developed and stands to day not only the leading newspaper of the northwest, but among the leaders of the United States. Its great success is due to the joint labors of II. W. Scott and H. L. Pit tock, who for many years labored to gether to publish a paper that would be a credit to themselves and to the country it served. It la Family Necessity. Hood River Glacier. The Oregonian was 70 years old the other day. For three score and ten years it has pursued a steady, pro gressive, non-bombastic course. It has become a northwestern institu tion. The Oregonian is like one of the family In many homes. A recent incident here is probably typically in dicative of the way the great mass of newspaper readers or Oregon ana communities of other states feel to wards the great morning daily. A slide on the O.-W. R. & N. line pre vented the regular early morning de livery of the paper. The town was all out" of sorts until The Oregonian was on the front porches late in the afternoon. It is read with confidence, although the readers may hold a dif ferent opinion, and the influence that it wields is great Fills Need of Country. Wheeles Reporter. The Oregonian recently celebrated its 70th anniversary, which, in a new country. Is a long time for any busi ness, particularly a newspaper, to sur- vive the rapid cnanges mat nave taken place in the northwest during that time. It speaks well for this public meeting that the men. pioneers of foresight, vision and wisdom, who have guided its destinies, have been true to their convictions, have inces santly labored for the better things of life, and the permanent -upbuilding of this great empire. We hope that The Oregonian will survive another 70 years, ,or longer, as tho country needs such staunch and well-founded newspapers to. help in future battles. Loner Service Given. Portland Journal.'. The Morning Oregonian is. to be congratulated upon Its 70th anniver-i sary. Founded in 1850 aB a weekly newspaper, when Portland was a mere frontier town in the wilderness. The Oregonian- has been in contin uous existence ever since first as a weekly, and then as a daily. - It has witnessed the development of the Ore gon country to its present proportions and shares with its newspaper col leagues, of today the opportunity of service in the years to come. Chief Factor In State Building. Banks Herald. The Oregonian, that wonderful old reliable Oregonian you and your chil dren have read ever since you heard of Oregon, ended its three score and ten years of existence last week. To day, as always, it is the-first called for and the first in Oregon homes. Long live The Oregonian, and may she always keep her standard of per fection in newspaperdom. The Ore gonian has been the chief factor in the building of Oregon. Good Wishes for Continued Prosperity Estacada News. The Oregonian celebrated its 70th anniversary last week. We extend our heartiest felicitations to our em inent contemporary and wish it a long continued career of influence and prosperity. . No matter how long It may endure, there will be two names always connected with it, those of Pittock and Scott. Safe and Conservative. Baker Herald. Saturday The Morning Oregonian celebrated its 70th anniversary. With in the covers of its files is written to a very great extent the history of Oregon and The Oregonian has been no small factor in directing itB line Of progress, it is a great power, cun servaUye and isafe. . Those Who Come and Go. i i "I am surprised at the number of people who want positions at the leg islature." said Roy W. Ritner. as he departed for Pendleton last night. Mr. Ritner, who wi-ll be president of , the senate when the 121 session as sembles in January, has been on a business trip to Salem and was regis tered yesterday at the Hotel Portland. There is a big demand for Jobs ana i flnn't apa Vi w oil uVin want them can cr f- 1 had no idea that ! there were so many anxious for em- ployment at the legislature." Senator 1 Ritner savs that he has not made up his committee appointments, but that he has given the subject considerable thought. His Job, he contend isn't as bad as that of L. E. Bean, who will be speaker of t'.e house, because Mr. Bean has 60 people, to plae and Mr. Ritner has only 30. It is the plan of Mr. Ritner to drive his machine from Pendleton to the legislature and keep it at Salem for short trips to Portland on the week-end adjournments. "Mexico City is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and has had more bloodshed than any other I know of," declared A. L. Tudor, who was at the Multnomah yesterday on his way to California. For several stormy years Mr. Hudor was a hotel manager In Mexico City, but after go ing through the constant excitement he- finally concluded to leave, on ac count of the unsettled business condi tions due to Internal dissensions and strife. "Vast opportunities of attract ing tourists have been thrown away bv the revolutionists," said Mr. Tudor. "In the days of Diaz, when it was safe for Americans to travel anywhere in Mexico, the capital was a little Paris. Cafes and hotels were always crowded and there was prodigal spending of money. Prosperity was general and there were comparatively few idlers, for everyone who wanted work had the opportunity of employ ment. Until recently Mexico City has been like a deserted city. There is little activity on the streets, the stores are deserted and many of the places which held shops are vacant. Many of the residences are unoccupied and the cafes have gone to 6eed and look shabbv. Beggars are a common nuisance. With the coming of Obre- gon there is a prospect oi oiu. wmeo being restored." There isn't much use in my com- ine- to Portland to sit as arbitrator between the state fish and game de partments." confessed K. v. carter ui Ashland, yesterday. "I have held an ornamental position thus tar. ana x will admit that I have been some ornament. The legislature should di vorce the commission and restore the aoDointlve cower . to the governor. The appointing power was takert from the governor and Invested In tne leg islature because a certain exigency arose, and I tnink tnis situation uaa been taken care of." Senator C. J. Edwards of Tillamook. managed to get through to Portland yesterday by stage. benaior .co wards said the road 'wasn't so bad save in the vicinity ' of Willamina, where the operation of a logging rail road has chopped up the motor road and made the going mushy and slop py. According to Senator Edwards, there was an exceedingly heavy wind in Tillamook during the storm a few days ago. but no damage was done along the beach, so far as he could learn. Last month Mr. Edwards was elected the state senator for Tilla mook. Washington, Lincoln and Yam hill counties. Judge G. A. Gardner of "'Jackson ville, and James Owens of Medford, are registered at the Imperial. The former is the county judge and the latter a county commissioner of Jack son county. Judge Gardner Is look ing forward to considerable construc tion work on the Crater Lake road during the coming year. The county has spent a great sum of money in trying to open the road and is now having the assistance of the state highway commission. Edward Dorgan, real estate opera tor of Albany, is at the Hotel Oregon and has been comparing the prices of lots in Laurelhurst, as they sold at auction, with the" prices of resi dential sites in the Linn county met ropolis. A few years ago garages were -as scarce in Tillamook as green lawns at the North Pole. Now there are garages scattered all over the town because the county is filled with pros perous dalrymem and the roads are being constantly improved. J. A. Neilson, one of the garage men of Tillamook, is at the Hotel Oregon with Mrs. Neilson. George Hagney, who is county judge for Grant county, is in town from Canyon City, the ancient mining town to attend the meeting of county offi cials now mobilized in Portland. There is no prospect of the concrete road being, built between the Mult nomah county line and Oswego this winter, according to W. D. Clarke of the highway engineering force. It was hoped when the contract was let that this concrete might be built during the winter, but Engineer Clarke explains that there has been too much rain. .."We're used to storms on the coast, so the recent blow wasn't much dif ferent from others we have expe rienced," says H. V. Alley of Nehalem at the Imperial. "There was some wind, but no great amount of dam age, and not a large number of trees were blown down. There has been, however, a vast amount of rain in our country for many weeks.' - W. H. Pemberton, superior judge of Whatcom county, Washington, up near the Canadian- line, is registered at the Imperial. It was before Judge Pemberton of Bellingham that Clar ence L. Reames, former United States district attorney for Oregon,, tried his damage suit when Mr. Reames endeavored to reoover damages for being hjt by an automobile. By coin cidence, Mr. Reames is also in Port land from Seattle-and is at the Im perial. When the British channel fleet was browsing around and hoping for the German enemy ships to show up so that there would be an engagement Charles B. Sellington was busy with brush and paint. Mr. Sellington, who was at the Multnomah on his way to British Columbia, achieved consider able distinction as a marine artist during the war. Some of the most striking sea pictures which were pro duced during the late unpleasantness came from the brush of Mr. Selling ton, for in the British channel there was enough action to , provide an abundance of material. - t J.r W. McArthur and J. R. McKy of Eugene are in the city on profes eional business. Mr. McKy is the roadmaster of Lane county and Mr. McArthur is the bridge builder for the same county. Business is good, is the assurance of Arthur D. Madge, an official of Montgomery, Ward & Co., who is at the Multnomah from Chicago. J. L. Tipton of the International Harvester company is registered at the Benson. A Malheur Idea. Jordan Valley Express. j The Oregonian is casting about for - j a cure tor me evils oi me initiative. IThcre is iust one remedy iili it. LAW CONDUCIVE TO BAD EYES Schoolhouse Window Statute Danger ously A bsurtl, Says Teacher. OREGON CITY. Dec. 14. (To the Editor.) Since the Oregon legisla ture will soon meet again in biennial session, when measures of reconstruct tlon will receive th attention of our lawmaking body, it will- not be .con sidered out of place. I trust, to call attention to the law nojv existing with reference to building public schoolhouses. The law as it now is. compels districts building a new schoolhouse. to place the all on one side a law wl windows hich is an absurdity when compared with nat ural law and an outrage upon our children. ' It has been my fortune to teach the pa-st five years in such a building. For 22 years I taught in natural houses and I have found more pupils with eye trouble in one year in a one sided building than in all the years put together in natural houses. When you strip the modern (7) one-sided idea of Its theoretical nonsense there Is nothing left but eye tragedy and misery for children. There are more pupils today using glasses than ever before. Any man or woman who thinks windows all on one side is ideal should visit any rural schoolhouse of that type on a cloudy day In parti cular. I wish our legislators could find the time to do this ond for one half hour sit on the dark side of the room and read. If they did, I know, as conscientious men they would unanimously blot out this disastrous Power given to visionary incom petents by a past legislature. It does not require much thinking to figure that your eye on the "offside must be strained to equal its power of getting light equal with the other eye. If it is too far to visit such an unnatural building try it in your own nome. If a lesson from nature is desired place a growing plant in a box pro portional in size, place the "window on one side and at the end of the year note the shape of your plant. Also examine the stem and other parti and note which side is the stronger ana tne general, inclination. ROBERT GINTHEE. XOMISTATED TO IIAXL OF FAME Aatoundlng Career of Mr. Boehrlngrer la Recited by Colonel Hofer. SALEM. Or., Dec. 13. (To the Ed itor.) A word should be said for one John Bochrlnger, who has come from Eugene to live at Salem the rest of his days. He is up In the 70s and with his good wife has worked hard all his life and raised a family of sons and daughters. For many years he fired nd ran the engine in the Eugene woolen mills. Ho i3 not a socialist and has never belonged to any union or drawn money from the public treasury. He nas just worked and lived within his means and saved a competence for his old age. He did not move to Eugene to give his children a college education at public expense, but taught his chil dren to work, and they are all well settled in life and prosperous and not liable to come upon the public in the way of charity or that near-charity on the public payrolls. Ills sons own a farm apiece and have them all paid for, and each daughter is at the head of a family or sustaining herself at useful work. Mr. Boehringer has no Dolitical theories as to what the state or the city should do for him and is well satisfied with our government and American institutions generally. ne nas never knowingly added t the burdens of others or run for office in the pretended interest of the people. There are a few such persons left who are not engaged in the great adventure of dividing up what the other fellow has accumulated, in the name ot governmental activities. As a self-sustaining, self-resnect- ing citizen Mr. Boehringer deserves a wora. COLONEL E. HOFER. HOW TO MAKE BEST OF LIFE Widow Avoids Loneliness br Keen- ins; Busy and Seeking God's Blesalns;. FORTLAND, Dec. 14. (To the Edi tor.) I have been much interested and amused in reading letters from the "lonely." The one Friday by "Wldower" expresses the case more fully than any of the rest. The rare self conceit expressed here is just what explains many of the evils of our civilization. We read and hear much about women shirking their duty as wives and as mothers. They fear the wrinkle in the face, that it may lose for them tne admiration of men. I too, am alone, but happen to have been left with a little home of my own, and a little business by which I can make a decent honest living, and which takes up so much or my time that I give very little thought to being lonesome. Nor am I too selfish to share this with another. But why invite more trouble into your life than is necessary? Soon the man would get tired of looking at the wrinkle, and be out seeking the "well cooked chicken," I would be passing my eve nings alone, only with an added care and a new heart ache. So why wish on ones-self more care? My books in winter, my flowers in summer, my kind friends and neighbors, my church, my clubs, what more could I have? I truly realize that the way God made all human beings to live is by pairs, not singly. But if that is not possible, make the best of life where and how you find it, make compan ions of people of your own sex, try to do your bit of good as you travel life's path and at the end of the line you will receive God's blessing, which is worth more than all the earthly pleas ures you couia gain. ANOTHER WIDOW. Q.TTAX.LFICATION FOR CITIZEXSHIP Willingness to Fight for Country Propoaed as Condition, GOLD HILL. Or., Dec. 13. (To the Editor.) While the action of Secre tary Baker, in releasing his . pals, "conscientious objectors," from pris on, while retaining the many who fought, in prison for some small in fraction of military discipline. Is still fresh in our minds, would it not be well to revise our laws governing ad mission to citizenship, so as to dis qualify such men therefor? The man who has, or claims to have "conscientious objection to serving his country in the time when its life is in jeopardy,- ought not to be j grauieu ci LKseusiup, a.nu loose wno have shirked such duty on such pre tense ought to have their, citizenship taken away from them. The examination touching the ap plicant's qualification for citizenship ought to be extended to bring out this fact, which when shown ought to be an absolute disqualification. C. B. WATSON. and those who Fee for Drawing Will. ORENCO, Or., Dec. 13. (To the Ed itor.) 1. Must a man employ a law yer in writing a will in order to make it legal? 2. If so what should the fee be? C. E. E. 1. Employment of a lawyer Is not a legal requirement, but. it is advis able inasmuch as the layman 13 likely to overlook technical essentials. 2. In Portland the bar association's min imum is J15. The sum above the min imum which may be charged depends on the amount of work involved, the value of the estate and the worth of tho time o the lawyer cmnloyecl. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamea J. Montague. THE WISE BIRD. When all my friends were hni-in a- etotk That seemed a wlnninc ramhu I tried to put my house in hock And Join their eager scramble. I had a giddy, reeling dream -r wnat tne deal would net me: And yet I didn't Join the scheme -My missus wouldn't let me. The stock, a fleeting week or two. Ascended like a rocket; But when, one chilly dav. It blew. My friends were out of norket And then with jarring worrin and rough Their simolenew I chidpit Said I: "i'ou should have known enough To duck that stock, like I did:" When from a broker I got word - i nat tnere might he a flurry, tried to sell my Fur preferred And sell it in n iirrv. But to my great distress of mind And hidoous disquiet. In all the street I couldn't find A broker who would bnv It- Then lo! the stock began to soar i in its aviations; Exceeded, in a week or more. My wildest exrectn.tion And then, with an expanding chest I took my friends to dinner. And said: "Whenever I invest i always pick a winner!" The Silver Lining. In the midst of their troubles the, British can pause to give thanks that Mr. D'Annunzio isn't located in Cork. Nothinc to Bras About. Kara Taken European cable. It happens right along 'n America, too. . Practically Impossible. The scientist who has captured a prize for measuring the heat of the stars is wise enough not to try It on a ton or zurnace coal. (Copyriglit, 1920, by the Bell Syn dicate, Inc.) John Burroughs Nature Notes. Can Yon Answer These Questions? 1. Does the white-footed mouse lay up winter stores? 2. What is the secret of a successful fisherman,? 3. What Is the aDDearance of the shrike? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Anwsers to Pre v ions Questional 1. Is a fox easily caught in a trap? Reynard is usually caught very lightly, seldom more than the ends of his toes being caught between the Jaws. He sometimes works bo cau tiously as to spring the trap without injury even to his toes, or may remove the cheese night after night without even springing it. 2. Are trees uniform in their color ings? Thoreau. I believe, was the first to remark upon the individuality ot trees of the same species with respect to their foliage some maples ripen ing their leaves early and some late. and some being of one tint and some of another; and, moreover, that each tree held to the same characteristics, year after year. 3. What American bird corresponds with the English robin redbreast? The English robin redbreast is tal lied in this country by the bluebird which was called by the early settlers of New England the blue robin. The song of the British bird is bright and animated, that of our bird soft and plaintive. (Rights reserved by Houghton Mif flin Co.) In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From' The Oregonian of December 13. 1S9.. Tacoma About 1200 people attend ed last night's mass meeting, which was called by the anti-Chinese com mittee of 15. The gathering was com posed largely of populists. Vancouver. Wash. The Portland university football team defeated the Vancouver barracks team in a hotly contested game on the garrison field yesterday by a score of 6 to 0. The first issue of the Oregon Poul try Journal, published at Salem by George E. Goodhue, is full of news of interest to all poultry raisers. The report that the Southern Pa cific is" making a strong pull to se cure control of the old O. R. & N. company created a great deal of talk in local railroad and business circles yesterday. Fifty Years A so. From Tlie Oregonian of December 1.1. 1S70. "The states of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas have been restored to rep resentation in our national councils, and Georgia, the only state now with out representation, may confidently be expected to take her place there, at the beginning of the new year." said President Grant in his message published today. Rogue river fishermen have from three to six thousand at one haul. The Right Reverend Archbishop Blanchet, who represented this arch diocese in the Ecumenicial council ac Rome, reached this city per steamer California yesterday, and was re ceived by clergy and parishioners. Eggs are worth $1.50 per dozes ia Boise city. Soldiera Let Go Hungry. FORT WORDEN, Wash., Dec. 13. (To the Editor.) I just noticed on the first page of The Oregonian, Fri day, December 10, an account of 14 hungry soldiers who asked aid of the Portland police. The 14 soldiers would be very much obliged to you if you would make a few corrections as to the accommoda tions we received.. In the first place, we all slept on the floor of the old Southern Pacific waiting room, as we did not get ac commodated by the recruiting office to go to sleep anywhere. Second, I, personally, and Private Frank Murphy went to the recruiting office on Thursaay morning to gee SOmetUing to eat, anu we were auau lutely turned down by the sergeant who was in charge of the office. We did not have anything to eat until we ran into Mr. Kirby of the welfare board at the Y. M. C. A. in Seattle Thursday night, who fixed us up with something to eat and a place to sleep until we left for Port Town send Friday morning. We will be much obliged to you if you will publish this correction, that the world may know how some re cruiting sergeants treat United States soldiers. PRIVATE ROBERT S. MUNITZ. Not First to Leave American Soil. HILLSDALE, Or., Dec. 13. (To the Editor.) A says President Wilson was the first president to leave the United States while holding execu tive office. B says he was not. Which is correct? G. H. LUND. President Roosevelt spent a short time on foreign soil on a visit of In spection, to the Panama canal, A A t 4