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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1920
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK.
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HTPHESISM AGAIN.
No sooner did the house of repre
sentatives begin consideration of the
bill to suspend immigration than
hyphenism showed its head and
made its voice heard. 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.
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"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.
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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,
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