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10 THE MORNING OBEGOJTIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 19S0 ESTABLISHED BY HUSKY 1 PITTOt'K. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co., IS Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN, B. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian la a member of the Asso , Ciated Press. The Associated Press la el eJuaiveiy entitled to the use for publication of all newa dispatches credited to It or not otherwixe credited In this paper and also - The local news published herein. All rights of, publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Rated Invariably In Advance, i- - (By Mail.) Pally, Sunday included, one year JS.OO liily. Sunday Included, six months... 4.2.ri Tlly, Sunday Included, three months. 2.2 lnily, Sumluy Included, one month... -7R IHily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Ts-ily, without Sunday, six months.... 3.2.1 Jiajly, without Sunday, one inunth.... .AO Weekly, one year 100 bunday, ooe year.. 6.O0 By Carrier.) . Daily. 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Undoubted ly there are such towns, especially here in the west. iBut also there are to the body of public opinion that is behind them, which is not small. If Mr. Wilson had paid regard to "the collective intelligence" of the thirty-seven senators who signed the towns about which .some of the' round robin, the incoming president criticisms leveled against ' old Ply- j and congress would not have been mouth would be as true. " ' ' I confronted with the duty of making peace and forming a league two Words beue acts. year tep Mr- Wilson undertook: the luose senators realized iiia-i work. The following words have some- the ,eaffue an(J tne treaty were ing of the spirit of what was writ- two disrtin-t thine. nd that, the at- thin ten and spoken by those who in vain I t ki i,-.m mi.ht advocated preparedness from August, dlsastrous to both. .So events have iir to me spring oi aaxi, aunns Droved much of- which time Secretary of War Baker was striving to thwart every effort to arm the nation It is apparent that while we do not need a great standing army, we must live the world as it is while we struggle Mr. Harding seeks the advice of the best minds both in and out of the senate, because he knows that he can accomplish nothing ; except by agreement with two-thirds of that to make it what it should be, and we must body, and by so doing he lays the for disaster.-' The only remedy was j BY . PRODUCTS OP THK PRESS to put above him and Petain "a sin ground work for this agreement. PILGRIM HOSPITALITY. "A woman of Pilgrim blood who -lives in Plymouth, very near the rfock on which her forefathers landed 'three hundred years ago today, ,writes in the Survey to warn her fellow descendants from that his toric group against "the danger of Ancestor worship, of living on tradi trons instead of making them." She '.takes as the text of an article of appraisal of the successors to the Pilgrims a recent call for volunteers 20 take part in a celebration of the -landings "volunteers who are not ."necesarily lineal descendants of the Pilgrims, but who are imbued with -the right spirit." Which ones of us, lebe inquires, are imbued with the right spirit? Are any of our genera tion so imbued? Just what does rhat spirit mean? she goes on, and Tthen proceeds to set down the re sult of a survey which she has re cently made on her own account- Typical dwellers of the native race no longer predominate in Plymouth "The old order changeth," quotes the writer, and . relates that four years ago there were only 2 per cent English speaking children in one of the Plymouth primary schools. Port uguese "are tilling our arid little farms." The mills are full of Italians and other "foreigners." Now the question, propounded from the point of view of one who Is sensible of the distinctions that subdivide peo ple yet who seriously wants to know whether the "old stock" is .measur ing up to Its responsibility, is how the newcomers are being made wel come, and what is being done for their befriending, ' their instruction and their recreation. - The writer first answers her own question whether the descendants of the Pilgrims are "progressive" or not. She thinks that on the whole - they "may be about as progressive as most New England towns," but " that in the old days they probably Were more so. She continues: I like to ' rf member those older the day when some of our citizens Joined tho Brook Farm movement, and when - iimerson and Thoreau were familiar vlsi ' tors in Plymouth. Mr, Emerson's second wife was a Plymouth woman. Wendell Phlhips and Garrison came often, too. There was a brave group that split off from the original orthodox faith to be come Uuitarlans. This exemplified change, growth, an Independent spirit. There were have a body of trained men, large enough in numbers to be an effective working model upon which great armies can be swiftly built In the event of emergency. THE DOWSER, uur rrKuiar army enoutu cxmini in i id , . ; t peace-time organization the combination. " is now proposed to commit in and co-ordinations which must be habitual vestigation of the- phenomena of to be eftactlve In war. The several services the divining rod to hands la which pirv""and1TustKhDT a7 tev are to " would seem logically to belong-to onerate with others. There must be In a mixed committee of psychologists the army a body of specialists abreast and geologists. The problem is not or tne developments in tne art, maamg altogether physical, but is one in f invention i. military uses, volving human credulity. familiar with the histories of arms and I A scientist who writes on the sub armies, and maintaining our army always, ject has been much impressed by 225 J? rn'nrtLniar watching a "dowser." as divining army may be relatively small, but both rod experts were anciently called, in its morale and in its effectiveness It who wore a massive gold chain and must be perfect A Justice-loving people 0lfl ring, while manipulating a may re rorcea oy tragic necessity to resort .. . . j:.j-j to war. but It has no right to ask its twiS that was supposed to disregard sons to fight its battles out-armed and out- I the gold so near at hand but to turn shielded by an , adversary. That is an extract from the an nual report of Secretary Baker, sub mitted to congress in December, 1920, Mr. Baker has thus renounced pacifism and has become a belated convert to preparedness. But only at indication of $5 a ton dirt some where below the surface of the ground. The fact that struok; this scientist was that a lawyer", versed in the rules of evidence, and a bank er, supposedly immune to impracti cal suggestions, were unmoved by two or three weeks ago Mr. Baker the greater phenomenon. caused release of another batch of conscientious objectors a term un known to the law and sent them away rejoicing with pay and new civilian clothes, and they were dined by his br6ther-paclfists in New York. Though Mr. Baker's words are those of one who believes in be ing ready to fight, his acts are still those of the pacifist. The proposal that inquiry into the psychology of the divining rod be extended to those who believe in it opens a new and humanly interest ing field of research. gle chief whose orders they would both have to obey." As far as he was concerned, he would willingly act under the orders of Foch. Pe tain promptly consented, and the agreement to put Foch in supreme command was written and signed In pencil on a half sheet of note paper. . So near to disaster were the allies brought by the delay in putting the American army in the field and by the attempt to overcome one army under single command with two armies under separate command, Foch immediately began placing his seals by hurrying fresh French di visions to the points of weakness and danger. The (Sermans made no more progress toward Amiens, other ad vances stopped short of their object ives and, when they reached the Marne, American troops sealed the road to Paris. From the day when the American's held them at Chateau Thierry there was no longer question of evacuating Paris. When dire need of every man that the allies could muster arose only a handful of American divisions had been In the front line and Pershing's only way to give further help was to send single regiments to fight in French and British brigades under British and French officers. By be ing unprepared when the war could be staved- off no longer, we took the closest risk of being carried down to general destruction with the allies. The selection of Foch for supreme "Uncle Joe" Cannon Declares Work . and Health Greatest Blessings. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, ex-speaker of the house of representatives, and still member of that body, is in his 85th Those Who Come and Go. Anyway, Cal Robinson ef Lone Rock, Or., wilt never become bald headed. Mr. Robinson, who is a farmer, Tear and if he lives to March 4 next, is registered at the Imperial. He will take his seat in the 67th congress 1 ambles around the streets of Portland of this reriublic for a 23d term. He I just as he does around the field at began to represent the 18th district home, hatlesa. So far as known, sir. of Illlnoi. 48 year, ago and hi. serv- '" l b" lep has been continuous with the ex. it, f h . , tbe victn- ception of the 62d and 63d congresses. I ity 0f Heppner and. the only descrip Four congresses have elected him as t ion they had of the fellow was that speaker. On his 84th birthday he he was bareheaded. On hearing this wrote the following: PI .u ' K;n"on. Men wiser than I long ago said h"T .nr. Vn-hs? noes. Wt tnai me iirsi Diessing oi sarin the man it wanted. But returning to toil; and the second blessing health, the original statement, it is said to be which wealth cannot buy. I accept a scientific fact that hats-produce a both, and believe that the first con' tributes much to the second. "At 84 I can wish no greater bless. lnirs to the Dresent and coming gen erations than those or wore ant health. They are the two things is this life that make It attractive and contribute to longevity and happiness. The dream of idleness or lack of necessity for labor Is an idle dream. pressure on certain small veins which feed the roots of the hair and this pressure cuts off the food supply. with baldness as a result. In- other words, hats are poor cultivators for a crop of halj, As the train rolled along through eastern Oreigon, along the ede of the river, there was nothing in sight but an expanse ef sand. There were no trees; nothing but rock and sand, with e e la little sagebrush. A. E. Btewart To belt the world with a chain of gased sadly and mournfully out of friendship clubs as a memorial of - wtnoow anet contrastea it wun .. . . , . ... - ,., tne veraure or Mountain Liiy, jenn. w. 8ri war Is in .u.i..u ,rhich he had left. "If I find a blade Florence Parbury, English artlsl, au- of rras, ln thls country h6 threat- thor and aviator, who Is In New xoraiened ln his disgust, "I'll pull it up to put her idea into action, writes I by the roots." Then Mr. Stewart left all. swt in h. tc.w York World, the train at Arlington and staged it command and his partial Buccess ln I , phr wn.ilrf tit thlnes so over to Condon, where he settled noldiner th hoche where he stood I .. . I down among the coloney of Mountain " rj " "i.v -in.. tnat none ot us neeo ever oe lonesome Cit f ,k . . . nion,.r-d ror sympathetic inenas in ay ia.rK i way there before him. This was 22 city In the world. I years ago. Now Mr. Stewart lives at She was enthusiastic about this I btiverton, where he Is in the real kind of a war memorial before she "'. ' registered at came to isew iorK, out in' tne wcen-o saved us together with the allies. It was a risk that no nation should have taken. ORCA AT ASTORIA. UNLOADED. "No surgical appliances (for the new million dollar county hospital) have been bought and none are con- .MR. BURLESON'S LAMENT. Postmaster General Burleson deeply aggrieved that his efforts to make his department show a profit have failed, and he takes eongress to task for having produced a deficit by voting an increase of salaries to employes. According to him, if con gress had left re-adjustment of sal aries to him, everybody would have got his just due, though he might templated at this time," so writes County Commissioner Holman to the not haV8 been satisfied, and the dc vregon voler. I oartment would have made money; Mr. Burleson's Idea of economy But he continues: wnen tne electric wiring was lain out , h lllrIBrt hv hi. nT.ptirK of was found - necessary to also lay the I - r , . ... X-ray equipment, the sUent call system unuerpaying experienced men until and the clocks, as . the conduits for all I they desert the service and of filling these are buried In the concrete slab. Jt their places with green temporary was mereiore mouKiii ueai iu niuiuue n i . , . . , T . , electric eaulnment In the one contract, so empiuves at turner aa.inea. ne uiuo as to simplify the installation. The county gives poor service at added expense. was assured by the different material men I He must share with other members that It would be impossible to snip oraers rt- tVtn jmi;..-.i ...nftnoiwi!i before next spring, but ln the case of the K".y X-ray equipment the manufacturers caught for the waste that results from send- up with their orders sooner than they ex pected and shipped the material. How. ever. If funds were present in sufficient quantity to rush construction this one piece of equipment now on hand could soon be placed. So the county has bought no surgi cal appliances? Yet according to ing through the mails, a growing mass of official reports and other public documents, most of which go directly to the waste basket. Under the Wilson, administration the pro lixity of official reports has reached a point where many tons' of paper Mr. Holman it has contracted for and much labor are wasted in bury- an X-ray equipment through an ing under a mountain of words that electrical supply house, and the which the people want to know equipment has been delivered. Is about their government. This goes this not a purchase, or is it Mr. Hoi- far to make the deficit which Mr, man's idea that an X-ray. machine I Burleson bewails. Is a chandelier, or a reading lamp or the dingus that makes the eleva tor run? Everybody else calls it an appliance for the surgery and it is ordinarily handled by surgical The eminent Texan has failed to learn that what the people want from the postal department is not profit but good service. For several years he gave them profit at the cost supply houses, not by dealers in I of service.jHe approaches the end electrical equipment. Mr. Holman I of his term with a combination of grieves that The Oregonian should I deficit with bad service. This Is the publish editorials without first as certaining the facts." : Either The Oregonian knows more than he climax of democratic incompetence. ardent abolitionists later and many ne- about that X-ray equipment or Mr. Holman Is not taking the public fully into his- confidence.' The Ore- groe9 came through by underground rail road and settled there. 1 believe that there is not a town in the country where a considerable group of colored eitizens has been better treated. I have always been protM of the fact that the precedent of my olass ax the high school was a eolored boy. But Plymouth is no more the Plymouth of the times of Emerson and Thoreau, but a polyglot indus trial village, making cordage and woolen cloth. Discussing the native attitude toward the newcomers, the writer is moved to inquire whether the Pilgrims themselves were es sentially hospitable, and finds: They were not cordial to outsiders fwit sees their treatment of Roger Williams t 0 and Anne Hutchdnenn), nor were they to! verant of those within their own fold who '--eroke their laws. No doubt in exctimnging " th-elr Intolerance for our open-mindednes , (i we have given up something precious, for .'with their intolerance went the inspira- . tlon of -great moral paselon and he con '.'Vlctlon that produces results. We do not want their intolerance, but we need their impassioned sense of right and wrong. We need their conviction, for we, too, have an immensely Important task, in the slrtw building 'toward humaji freedom. The j Pilgrims hsd a strong family feeling; they were strongly democratic within their own group. But perhaps we have to make their f contribution universal. From .the time when they coldly sent Roger Williams on his way, the writer believes, Plymouth has hardly been quite right in its attitude to ward strangers. She has been told ""that there was no very cordial wel come when the Irish first came . ..many of them driven from home by the famine. In her own life she re members "much unfortunate and , unnecessary aloofness the Unitar- tans felt separated from the Baptists and. both from the Roman Catholics." The people who lived in .the south " .-.J , 1 f II 1 H, II UIUUH I f I I MriHrHii'ii , from those on the north. There was nothing to bring folks together, and j never an adequate assembly hall, j Vhen, at length, the Woman's club was organised, "it Is sad to remem- j ber that some of the women who are proudest of their Pilgrim blood did not join at ficst, but stayed aloof." "'" They saw no necessity for such a group. , -They did not help. They felt, it would . seem, no responsibility toward women of fewer advantages than -they had enjoyed themselves. - - These questions, frankly pro pounded by a descendant of Pil grims, are likely to set a train of thought in motion in more than one American community. It is of course UIVL iiiui & ' o iui unuacu fitlu no hospitable reception on these shores, unless a shower of arrows be evidence of cordiality. Some of the spirit that not Infrequently 1m---teues pioneers who .have won their ' battles unaided and have small toler ance for the weaklings who lost them, would appear, from the Survey ac count, to exist in the modern pil grim, ' who is not, , however, the pioneer, . but only a descendant. There is, it will, seem to many, less reason for groupings founded on in-; 11 CI IUVIIV.Q vtttj ,..,. .f. ivuau ul VilO satural castes into which society is apt to divide' itself, such as mutual tastes and Inclinations. The writer speaks not only for her own town, "but of 'all the other industrial' cen- ters oi xsew ti-ngiana, wnne the roariar who hannens to know a town in' any other part of the country can Answer for himself ' whether the problem is not wider than New Eng land alone. THE ALLIES' DARKEST HOUR. Bit by bit the truth comes out of how near the allies were to complete gonian's investigations have led to I defeat during th German drive of the following conclusions: March, 1918. Another contribution That the X-ray equipment was' de- to the story Is made by Stephane livered not Decause tne manutacturr lauzanne, editor of the Paris Matin, ers unexpectedly caught up ith He says that on March 23, the third their orders, but because it wiUsMn . day of the drive, Clemenceau told Portland at the time the bids were Poincare that General Petain, the called for; -v . - 1 French commander-in-chief, had in That it Is an outfit that was formed him that things were groins shipped to ur. Kalpn J. Walker, and very badly and that he feared the rejected by him because it was not French government would have to specifically ordered and for the further reason that its frame is wood instead of steel and is therefore likely to warp in this climate and consider the evacuation of Paris. Poincare said there could be no question of that, but in the evening Clemenceau telephoned that Petain cause the machine not to rectify held to his oninion. Poincare asked properly: that decision be deferred until evac- That the specifications named only nation had been considered by a the type of machine sent to Dr. cabinet meeting. At that meeting Walker and rejected by him and that Clemenceau had recovered his nerve theabhaw bupply company, the larg- and suggested that judgment be sus- est dealers in the northwest, and pended till after a conference with Portland taxpayers were denied the the British representatives, which right to submit bids because they was to be held at Doullens on handled a different make of ma- March 26. chine; I It was Foch who decided France That the machine thus rejected by to stand and fight where the armies Dr. Walker was unloaded on the then stood, just as they had stood county and is now stored in the court and fought on the Marne in 1914. bouse; t Poincare. Clemenceau. Loucheur and That this machine will be out of Foch met at Doullens and awaited date by the time the county is ready the end of a conference between to use it and possibly warped and Halg and his army commanders, unworkable with an attendant loss Foch took Poincare aside and asked: of about S8000. "Do you know the orders that have The Oregonian Is further informed been given?" He did not. Lauzanne by responsible dealers that X-ray Isavs: equipment can be delivered within They consisted of almost the complete sixty days after receipt of order and that the probability Is that prices will come down before the county is ready for such apparatus. It is also informed by responsible dealers and by construction men that the ordering of such equipment so far in advance of completed build ing construction is wholly unneces sary and unprecedented. HARDING SEEKS AGREEMENT. Still holding to its opinion that through rejection of the Wilson lAasruA. the renublicans havA rlAs- troyed any hope of a league for the r&iFiJP&'vZZt to begin tne lasK. retreat of the army, and entailed at an early date the evacuation of Paris. He' then gives this criticism by Foch of Petain's orders; Paris has nothing to do with the matter. Paris is a long way off. This la where you ought to stop the boche. You .have only to say, "II ne paasera pas" and he will not pass.. You can always stop the boche; you have only to give the order, you have only to say, "No further retreat." And I guarantee you that three-quarters of your task Is done when It Is known that there is to be no more retreat. . . . Halg and Petain are two men who are trying to keep closed a double door, each pushing against his half. The doorway has been forced in the center, and both of them, each behind his own door, are watching United States, the New York World depicts President-elect Harding as consulting with "best minds" who cannot influence the senate, which "at times seems -to have no collec tive intelligence whatever, to say nothing of collective responsibility, The story continues: . "But how would you stop them?" asked M. Loucheur. who had come up. "Ah." an swered General Foch, "you know my meth od, I stick a seal there, another there, and yet another there. The boche can make but little neaaway. x stica yet another seal The statement that the wrttisn she haB v..n h.r(, he na turned into steamer urea came to fortiana, maae in The Sunday Oregonian, was er roneous. The Orca came into the Columbia river December 10 and is loading 565,000 bushels of wheat at Astoria, which will sinkvher to the 34-foot load line. The more reason why there should be no relaxation in improvement of the channel to Port land, that ships of this and greater size may come up the river. The American people will De re lieved that the marines are vindi cated from the charge of indiscrim inate slaugher of Haitians. It is not in the nature of the men who are first to fight to kill helpless people. But the question is still open what distinction was drawn between Haiti and Mexico that President - Wilson was so ready to. intervene in Haiti and to retain troops there, but so slow to intervene in Mexico and so ready to withdraw from there-. The Haitians were killing each other, but the Mexicans killed hundreds of Americans, many of them on Am erican territory. Mexico has re formed its methods since a change of administration in this country has been assured and thus has escaped being called to account, but Presi dent Harding will have occasion to consider our position in Haiti. Dr. William T. Watson of Balti more says that thin pumps and silk stockings worn by women in winter do not injure the health of the wear ers. Furs In summer are equally harmless, it is also observed, show ing that by being fashionable we also safeguard health. There is no vindictive suggestion in the statement that the negro who beat up a patrolman and frisked him will wish he was , down on the Su- wanee river before Portland is done with him. The good news from Brownsville is that the cannery which burned a week ago will be replaced at onc.e with a fireproof structure. A local cannery means local money for local people. Men in Chicago lured by a pretty girl pretending to be lost into a dwelling where they are robbed by male accomplices are not much to be blamed. Any man with a spark of chivalry will bite op .that. If you cannot be a descendant of Pilgrim father or mother, for membership is limited, you can wish you were and rejoice in living in a country on which they put their stamp. The time has gone when a man and his boy could go out near the end of the track and get a Christmas tree. Now it Is a day's undertaking for the Sunday before Christmas. Some Chicago aldermen are dis posed to regulate the style of doing up women's hair, especially to un cover the ears. They might look farther and see worse. Not many realise the Japanese number 77,000,000, and their crowded conditions demand expan sion; but not this way, if you please. Mr. Bourne, one time of Oregon, is disgusted with the award of the Nobel prize, to Mr. Wilson. Old stuff. ") People had begun to forget it. Anybody too thrifty to buy a turkey for Christmas can indulge ln rabbit, which tastes like chicken; but first put out. the cat. Purse-snatching is the -meanest of petty crimes. Sometimes the purse contains all the victim's money. The rockpile for the matcher. San Francisco toughs bound this way will be welcomed to hospitable cells. The police have their work cut out for awhile. "Forty years ago Allegheny, Pa., a sealous evangelist on the subject of I was the toughest too n in the United friendship clubs. That is partly be- States. said F. G. Weatherbee, of cause she almost perished of loneli- to lJs at the Multnomah. ness in her apartment at the Commo- wore chrllitian communItl6. com. dore hotel, where her maid was the pared to Allegheny, and a few other only person she had to talk to. coal towns In that part of Pennsyl The idea evolved from her work in vania. ine derelicts of the world t nnnn .!,. , Hi.nnrt hnni- w congregated there and the worn . ,7, " - , characters In' the world of cnlme pile tallty to more than 250.000 men from thel mhln6ere It was the ends of the earth in her Jacobean of the survival of the fittest and studios. She maintained open house I every man for himself. No one eve there, for several years during the 1 complained in a fight or a robbery war. Men from everywhere floated ..".T k assistance, noweve: Into that club, found their kind, had rhenv ona of th1 ,,. mnKt a gooa time ana went oacs. tu r unci i law-abiding cities in the state. or New Zealand or India. Then they O. P, Hoff, state treasurer, is regie tored at the Perkins. Mr. Hoff does not desire to carry the sole reaponsl bility of Investing funds in securities so he wants the legislature to enact a law creating a state bond commit sion, which shall consist of the gov ernor, treasurer and secretary of state. There is talk of a bill being Introduced in thn lApiclatnrn whirh phone. Sending pictures by telegraph wln authorize the state treasurer to has been accomplished with fair re- advertise for bonds. The idea Ib that suits. The photograph by telephone Is I this will cause competition among still more wonderful. Ever since the tona dealers ana. the state will Dene- telephone was introduced people have I 11 lnereDy- commented on tne joy tnat wou.a I john B. Teon. state hiehwav com come If the face as well as the voice I mlssioner, had a caller yesterday. It could be brought to them over the! was the ubiquitous mayor of Arllng- wir ThAv havA evnlnimeri hour flnetn, ur. j. v. Donnelly. "We have, , , v, ... , !, said the mayor, "$85, 0U0 In bonds In ... ,uiii l i..e i w. - our county to be molted n., the John cuuio oceii u wic, Dy hlehway between Arlington and greeting ana to iook, as it. were, into Condon. These are 6 per cent bonds. mirror and behold the features and! Will the highway coin-mission take hear the voice of a loved one, though these bonds and start bulldimg the mll. Thl Invention the roau 1 Mr. eon lOOKeQ QUI OI tne . v.l lsth story window of the Yeon build- Frenchman does not go that far, but ,ng. at Mount Hood resplendent with it is an important step and the trans- I a. new coat of snow, and said: "If we fer Of a photographic print over the I can do It. we will.' telephone seems to have been made would write letters to suggest that it would be splendid If hospitality centers like that of the studios could be carried over into peace times. e A Frenchman is in- this country I demonstrating an Invention by which I portraits can be transmitted by tele-l possibles If a girl can send ber picture by wire as an evidence of good faith it may help some. Los Angeles Times. . Earl Ennis, who writes "Ferry Talcs" daily for the San Francisco Bulletin hag discovered the most ab sent-minded man. He crossed, on the They say that John Straub. dean of men at the University of Oregon. gnows every -student who ha been there ln the- past 15 years, and that he not only keeps track of the stu dents, but of their children when they marry. On home-coming week at the university, no old student feels that , he or she has really re turned until Dean Straub has given them a handshake. Once on a time ferry from Oakland about noon ano Mr- straub had designs on the guber was reading a paper. In his pocket was an apple. Off Goat island, sit ting on the upper deck, he decided he wanted to eat the apple. With great precision he took the natorial nomination. tered at the Imperial. He is regis- A. Peterson, who is In the garage business at Toledo and whose corn- puny Is now building a fine bank apple from bis pocket and polished I building at that place, is among the t on his sleeve. Then he took out his knife, selected the best blade, and with utmost care peeled the apple from end to end,. turning out a lathe-perfect curl of peeling. This done he absend-mlndedly threw n,issioner. Is in the city bis knife overboard, put the nude ap- is a. sawmill man. pie in his pocket and with his paper propped up in front of him began Blowly to munch the peeling! arrivals at the Hotel Oregon. J. W Parrish, a prosperous farmer, whose postoffice address is also Toledo, Is likewise at the Hotel Oregon, They are members of the port of Toledo commission. Lee Wade, a third coin- Mr. Wude Not all sheepmen are pessimistic over that line of industry. A. W Fargher, who has lived ln the vicin ity of Maupln, Or., for a long while. To gain some idea of the splendor! does not share the gloomy feelings ef of EomA of the world's moth and tne average eneep owner. in iact. butterflies, one- should glance over a!:fher: V"? ,obb of nearly complete collections of themjtnat tne outiook is pretty good and from the tropics as they occur in he recommended picking up. a few South America, Asia, Africa and the thousand head of sheep while prices great eastern and western archipel- are down. ago. with certain part, of Australia. w B of WaItsbur,. WaBn- says the American Forestry magazine M L. Watts and F. S. LeQrow of of Washington, D. C. Such collections Athena. -Or., are registered at th are to be found in the United States Benson. They are all wheat raisers national museum in the reserve and 1" the Inland empire and Interested in tne aecision oe tne interstate com merce commission, which gives them an inducement to ship their wheat to Portland rather than to Puget sound. duplicate series. There is a superb species that comes from Africa, wherein the "tails" to the hinder pair of wings are over 8 inches in length. Then we have the gorgeous Atlas moth Of the East Indies that measures a foot across from tip to Up of Its- upper wings. "Sunday la a pill for traveling men on the road," confessed 1Z. C. Wallace ef Gotham at the Multnomah. "Be fore noon all the newspapers have been read; a walk has been taken; An Irishman recently went beforel lunch eaten, and there is nothing else LINCOLN'S 8AYIVG ELABORATED. Fasaoaa Tariff Remark April' Wheat, Beef, Wool mni HUee. HOOD RIVER. Or., Deo. 1. (To the Editor.) One of the best and most unanswerable arguments for protective tariff was given by Abra ham Lincoln. He said, "If I buy a suit ef clothes from England at t-0 England gets ruy 130 and I get th suit of clothes', If I buy the suit In America th United States gets my 130 and I get the suit of olothes; and whatever benefit there is ln th transaction this country gets It." Will not th same argument apply otherwise? If I buy a quarter ef beef from Argentina, Argentina will ffl my tl& and I will get Argentina heet; but if I buy a quarter of beef from my own dealer here the money remains here. The profit in the transaction remains te benefit me further be cause of the rltisen relationship. The same will apply to wheat from Canada, wool from Australia, hides from Argentina. Just to the extent that America buys products from other countries will our own growers sell less. Jf we raise our own grain, meats, fruits, wool and hides in sufficient quantity for our own consumption, and some for exportation, why should we allow foreign produots to glut our mar ketsT - We need to put up th bars tin we sell our own to save our selves. If I raise enough vegetables and fruits In my garden for my family wants why should I buy the same products from some other grower? Unless our Industries and growers have protection we will be building up foreign countries. They can manufacture and grow products by cheap labor and If we open our mar kets to them without revenue they will level us down to their condition and standard of living. Christ was one time appealed to to pay taxes. He asked his disciples, "Of whom do men exact tribute, ot th children or of strangers?" They answered. "Of strangers." "Then." said he. "we are free. Hut," said he to Peter, "lest they should blame us go down to the lake and cast In hook and find money for the tax In the mouth of th fish." The idea of 'the foreigner paying the tax seems to have divine approval. - Uod has mad of one blood all na tlons to dwell on all the earth. And has appointed their bounds and habi tatlons." That is, God has provlden tlally surveyed th national Hues o the various nations. If on nation wills to extend its oommerce over the dlvin survey I should be willing to pay for the prlv liege, the democratic party to the contrary, notwithstanding. J, H. LISTER. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jasaea J. Moatagsj. ill It K.I Six New Yorkers visit th Aetisrlum for every on who visits th Metro politan museum of art. I gas upon a work of art Without the flutter of the heart That comes to cultured men, Rut ah! the free untrsmmrli-d swish And wiry wriggling of a fish Is something els again. A Leonardo on a wall- A picture Is to me that's all; A Michelangelo Might ha the work of Horace Urowa, Who runs the art shop in our town. Fur all I'd ever know. Itut when I see a school of trout. With speckled bodies, dart about. No hankerliiK hav I For Titian, liubrna, ot Van Dyok; I only think how much I'd lis To try ona with a fly. And thouch. soma times, my wife to pleaie I wander round through galloriaa, Indifferent and glum. When I'm alone on pleasure bent My Idle hours are always spent At th Aquarium. Uoo4 Praspeeta far Old Meh. Ktrlt-t enforcement of the blue la will make It still Ices difficult for Satan to find work fur Idle hands to do. Rad Raslneaa. Shipping heard Invrstlxatlons ouiht to mak Uncle slam, who hired all those dollar a year men, ashnmed of himself for employing cheap laUor. e I'reparedaeea. Apparently all th members of the league took along black balls In rase Germany should apply for admission to membership. (Copyright li0 by th Bell Syndl cat, lno.) B'FOKAMu FAVOH "-5 EX lOSlTIO Good Words for fori land Eaterprlse From Inland Empire. Spokane Spokesman-Review. With praiseworthy enterprise I'ort land Is the firm western city In the lists with a post-bellum exposition The show contemplated by Portland cannot with accuracy be styled i world's fair, since lis scope is na tlonal and not International. Tli's is natural, the world In general being in anything but suitable condition for exhibition purposes. However, Portland alms to put m a displsy that will be lsrger and more splendid than many of the displays that have called themselves world s fairs. It will be held, the initial prosprc tus states, In J925. The underlying Idea will be "the completion of high ways linking the eajt with the wext and the north with the south on the Pacific coast." To harmonist! with this motive the exposit'on will fea ture highway development, hydroclec trie power utilization, the growth of the automobile industry and varioux related subjects yet to be determined The exposition Is planned for the 0th anniversary of Portlands first fair, the Lewis and Clark exposition of 1905. By 1925 there Is every rea son to believe that any economic or social unsettlemeiit such as might to day make the outlook for a fair un propitious will have largely disap peared. Also by 19-5 the transconti nental highways will presumably be so far advanced that Portland ahouln be able to attract a very large ruin ber of visitors touring across the country by automobile. Another strong Portland asset I" that city's excellent reputation for attractiveness and hospitality. The natural beauties of the city and Its surrounding country, and the reputa tion earned through the Lev. Is and t'lark fair, the Khrlnera' convention of 1920 and many lesser events, make people from other parts of the country glad to go to Portland when some special occasion exists. LAW DOKS IMPAIR KFFICIHXC'Y who tried to I only to "reveal a party that is hope- I there and the boche is pinned down, you lessly divided." It describes Mr. ean I,IH UDCn Harding as groping in the dark, "left Though Clemenceau did not like to wander around in the fog" created Foch he assented to the latter's bv republican party's abandonment opinion. 'The British generals "nrincinles of foreie-n nolirv that headed by Haig then entered and it has sustained for more than Poincare told them in his view "they twenty years." This picture the World calls tragedy. ' . It would be sad, if true, but it is not true, and truth is the element of tragedy that It lacks. Mr. Hard ing has a clearly defined policy as described in the republican platform, and he consults the best minds for the purpose of shaping it so that two-thirds of the senate will ap prove. Mr. Wilson failed because he took for granted that his own was the only best mind worth consulting and disregarded the fact that, though the senate may have lacked intellig ence, it had power. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Root and Mr. Hoover can' influence the senate in proportion to the in- could make no other decision than to stop the boches where they ware and nowhere else." Haig said ha was ready to defend Amiens, from which the Germans were nine miles distant upon which Foch, striking the table, exclaimed: No, Field Marshal. No. There Is no question of Amiens at all. We must con quer before Amiens. We must conquer where we are. Lord Milner, representing the Brlt tsh cabinet, then held a whispered conversation with Clemenceau, in which he several times repeated, "There Is the man." Haig joined them and admitted that there was not always agreement between the two armies and that, if they -went " Is tiers, generally speaking, "a ' trinalc merit of their auggecUona and ca thus they were mrchtm; straight Prices of meat have- fallen, but the turkey trust rules the roost at Rose- burg and keeps up the cost of cele brating Christmas. Oregon's per capita for the Euro pean relief fund is about 30 cents. Do not make Jt look like that. The limit is off. The ferry strike at San Francisco was lost in the start. That is the better way- win or lose quickly, N Revive the inaugural ball If for nothing else than to discover the new crop of millionaires. No use getting Into jail for a Christmas dinner, Turkey is too high ftg'"- , Wagner, . escaped convict, closed his incident expeditiously and satisfactorily. Do not put off until tomorrow what you can buy today. The fat boy, or girl, gets th most In tho stockings, . -- ' ' - : a recruiting sergeant kid" him. "Have you read the Declaration of Independence?'' the sergeant, asked. '1 hov not," said Pat. "Have you read the constitution of the United States?" "I hov not, sir." The sergeant looked sternly at the I year. applicant, and asked: "What have you read?" Patrick hesitated but. the fraction of a second before replying: "I hov red haira on ma neck."- American Legion Bulletin. Hundreds of thousands of people believe that if they put their fingers on. a heart-shaped piece of plank running on three wheels that St. Peter will at once unlock the pearly gates and aend spirits flocking down through endless, space to gather around that 6-Inch piece of board and answer all th foolish questions which intellectual misfits ask pf them. What Is the answer to anything like that? aaks the Richmond (Va.) News, -... - . "I think that I came of a reading race which has always loved litera ture In g way and in spite of varying fortunes and many changes," chron icles Howells in "My Literary Pas sions." "From a letter of my great grandmother's written to a stubborn daughter upon some unfillal behavior, like running away to be married, J suspect that she was fond of the high colored fiction of her day, for she tells the willful ehild that ha has 'planted . a dagger in her . mother's heart.'"- . to do for the rest of the day hang around the hotel.' but S. S. Schell, highway contraotor, is at the Imperial. Mr. Schell had the job for the hard surface from Grants Fass to the Jackson county line and Is in on th contract now near Gold Hill, a job which has been moving with snail speed during the past Mr. and Mrs. S. Guy HIrsch of Coles, Wash., are at tha Hotel Wash ington, brought here on account of an accident to Mr. HIrsch a mother, the latter having slipped -tn a side walk and sustained a fractured arm. J. L. Beckley of Klamath Falls ar rived In Portland yesterday to spend the winter. Mr. Beckley la a large dealer in cattle and ranges his stock all over Klamath county and markets the stuff In California. To afford their Invalid baby special treatment, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Teal Of Stanfield, Or., are at tha Hotel Washington, and . Mr. and Mrs, L. Waugh of Toledo, grandparents of the baby, are also at th hotel. Captain of the Newport Transpor tation company, which has the boats which ply on Yaqulna bay and vicin ity, 6. F. Jacobson, Is in Portland on business connected with the port development.- Among the stockmen at the Perkins, having brought shipments to th mar ket, are "Shorty" Feller of Olex, A. H. Chambers of Olympla and Thomas Murphy of Bend. Mrs. Florence Hogoboom, whose husband is well knowa on all the racetracks of the west, la registered at. the Hotel Washington from Walla Walla, .Waaav .-. ,-. - . : School Directors Quale Maperlatend- ent on Tenure Trial Prorrsn. PORTLAND. Or., Dec. JO (To the Editor. ) The concluding paragraph of Judge Corlisa' letter of the 18th which summarizes the point that he raises, la as follows: "As the law has been ln force for over three years. It ought to be possible to com to a conclusion whether its effect has been to Impair the efficiency of th teaching staff In our public schools." In the opinion ef four of th five members of theex-hool board, the present law does have a tendency to keep on the teaching force teachers who are Inefficient. This opinion la onflrmed by not only the suporin- endent of schools, but most of the principals and supervisors. At a rfnt meeting of the board Director Woodward asked the super intendent of sen ol s If, in his opin ion,, the law prevented the removal of teachers who are not satisfactory. The reply was: "A trial such as Is required at present la too great a price to pay to remove a teacher. 1 We had better suffer him or her to remain ln the system, even If In efficient, than submit to the expense, trouble and publicity of such trlala." We are glad to give this Informa tion to settle the point raised by Judge Corliss and any others who are sincerely Interested In the subject. A. C. NEW ILL F. L, fa'HULU Committee of the board. John Bui-rough' Nature Notes. ' v" Answer These iuMlloaef 1. Ho cowa like apples? 1. Are the rivers slowly shrinking In sisc? . is the catbird an eggsucker? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Aaawrra to Pretlwna Qaestleaa. 1. Of what species is th prairie fox? The prilrie fox, the cross fox and tha bluck or silver gray foa seem only varieties of th red fox, as the black aqulrrsl breeds from ih (ray and the black wocrichuck Is foiiinl with the brown. There Is llnle to distinguish them from I ho red, ex cept (he color, though Hie prairie fox la said to be the larger of the two. J. What can nature offer to every one? To the aclrntlst nature Is a store house of facts, laws, processes; to th artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of Im ages, fancies, a source of Insplrstion; to the moralist she Is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all sh may be a source of knowledge and Joy. 3. Is the robin bothered by vermin? A robin's nest upon your porch or In your summer house. Mill occasion ally become an Intolerable nulsitm-s from the swarms upon swarms of minute vermin wllh which It Is filled. The parent birds stem the lido a long as they can, but are often com pelled to leave t: e young to their terrible fate. (Kight reserved by Houghton-Mifflin t.'o.) To a Lost Friend. Ily linen E. Hall. Impulses you have braught lo life Within my heart, are aenis lo ine; I'll count tliem o'rr 'mid grief and i rtfe A romiry, a rosary. Knell thought allvhl with new desire To lift my Ufa on whiter winua: To 'rouse my soul, and to Inxplio lo nobler, sweeter things. O tender, loyal, generous frienil! A silence falls 'Iween thee anil me: tint memory's Jewels shall er blend In my soul's rosary. And though our paths may iie no more. Still sIihII I hold your friendship gal ii I'll count my memnry-lreanuits o'er And smile rimplte my pain. In Other Days. Twemy-ri.e Ve.r Asa, Krom The Oregonian of Iecnnib.r j, .y Fred T. Merrill will give his second annual poor children's Christmas tree Tueaday night at the new blcycl store, Tho O. R. N. line was free from otxttrucllon from enow yesterday and the rotary snow plow, which left here Thurstkiy aflernoiyi, returned covered with sout and gloi. Hpeaker Heed's fondness for ama teur photography Is said lo have grown on Mm to such an rxli'itt, as to become his ruling hobby. Slate cone us returns from 14 coun ties show that of tha totiil arresu" of 4.1, :.'. 0T1 acres, but were cultivated laal year, ' Value ef Ola Coins. CORVALLI3, Or., Dec. It (To th Editor.) Please tell what old coins have any value. Ia It In th '40a or '50s. and why such coins have more Value than others? RKADKR. Certain coins can be sold for a pre mium because there are certain per sons who enjoy th possession of ar ticles possessed by. no ethers or by only a few rfthera. In other words, the market for them la among col lectors of rare coins and among firms that deal with collectors. The rarer colna are the higher, th price paid for them and the lesser the likeli hood that one will rece'va ona In th ordinary course of business. Pre miums run from a few cents up and are governed by denomination as well aa year of issue and aometlmea by an error in th Imprint or some other distinguishing feature. Coins that have a high premium value are not in cr'culatlon, but have all been ac cumulated by collector or dealers. The high value put en a rara coin la th price ene collector will pay another collector Tor the coin, or the price a dealer will pay for It r sell U tor. Klft tears Sn. from The Oresonlan of iet-enMor 21, IKTo Th government insist (hat lirlg ham Young must pay his Income-tax tha am as a Gentile. Th dials of the city clock were put In place yesterday without acrlilent. The flgurea ran be plainly distin guished for five or alx blocka. The ateamera from below are bring ing larg auppltea of rum for tha Christmas trade. Venison steaks ami ducka are plentiful la some of our markets. Tha steamer from Alaska brought in quit a number of army officers who are under order for a mora genial ulimate. Kubblag In Prohibition. Astoria Budget. The danger of any drastic campaign against tha home-brewer at this tltna Is that It will have a reaction which will be to tha detriment of the pro hibition cause which I not yet en trenched sufficiently In this country that lta official protectora can afford to "rub It In," There are stll many ardent "wets" and not bins: would better suit their hope and wishes than that th prohibit lonlsis make the enforcement of their laws ao onerous that many will revolt against them. Kara "entla and Newfoundland. DALLAM, Or., Pec. 1 (To the Kd Itor.) I'leasa tell ma If Newfoundland and Nova Boot la are unrier Kngllsli rule, and If not, state president and name. AKLYN I'KTKKNli.M. Nova Scotia Is a province of Can ada. Newfoundland la a ttrlllah ool-ay.
