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I . ,' EXACT JUSTICE.
. a . We shall probably, sooner or later,
' tear from the sentimental that
H usted A. Walters should not be
' '-hanged; that he did not intend to
.' .. kill Patrolman Palmer: that he was
. not himself because he had been
drinking. In support of this de
' v fiwise" we have the young man's
.- word for it: nothing more- But
2 ' "rhut Is nnnusrh for some, if it be
; ""'given with tears of self-pity, as
r..' VIS.
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'. ., But drunkenness was never a legal
defense against a criminal charge
.,' - Once, perhaps, alcoholic befuddle-
V ment appealed more or less to the
sympathies of jurors. - In that day
' " ' there was governmental licensing of
traffic in the beverages wntcn
cloud the intellect. Society, it could
be argued with some force, was re
; 'ji -sponsible for placing temptation in
the way of men who become beasts
when intoxicated. But the liquor
1 traffic is now thoroughly outlawed
He who would drink must
. " seek out liquor in back rooms jr
; ' 'dark alleys. He must first of all
"set out upon an unlawful enterprise.
. Drunkenness properly can no longer
have moral weight with a juror or
anybody else.
It is well, also, that it be made
on dear that the law holds that he
ZTHT-Who while committing or attempting
" to commit robbery kills another is
ST guilty of murder in the first degree.
Under the interpretation of the su
preme court it is not necessary that
the killing shall be at the precise
place and time of the act of robbery.
! It is murder in the first degree to
kill another when an effort is being
made to escape from the scene of
tile robbery with the goods stolen.
Deliberate and premeditated malice
in the ordinary meaning of the term
need not be proved. They are held
to be necessary elements when one
'"takes gun in hand, goes out to com
mit robbery and kills another. "1
didn't mean to do it" has neither
legal nor moral justification in such
instances. It is right that it should
.. not have.
j.' Walters was engaged in a series
of holdups. He was armed. He
(Hsplayed his weapon. While at
tempting to escape and in an other
otherwise uninterrupted prosecution
of his lesser crimes, he shot and
vltilled an officer of the law. From
t.that moment he had no right, to
expect lesser punishment than the
" punishment laid down in the law
which he violated.
At least temporarily, so far as our
juries are concerned, we have aban
doned sentiment for exact justice.
Undue prevalence of crime is not a
condition to be trifled with. There
fore, just now, courts and juries are
stern and unrelenting. It is a pity
that we do not realize that in Amer
ica a normal condition would be
considered one of crime prevalence
observers from other countries.
4ur homicide rate is 4.65 for every
100,000 of population. In Ireland
the rate is 1.02; in Kngland and
Wales it is .88, and in Scotland .41.
"We have nine times as many mur
ders per 100,000 of population as
Norway has. more than six times
as many as Germany and more than
seven times as many as Japan.
" By and large we have as much
respect for human life aa the other
countries named. Tet here is the
record. It is from governmental
statistics. It can hardly be doubted
-that they would become more favor
able to ourselves if exact, swift and
certain justice were made a perma
nent reform.
. ; IS THE BATHTUB A t.tTSrRCTT
It has been the belief of more than
one traveler that the attitude toward
bathtubs Is one of the distinguishing
features of life in other countries
as compared with that in the United
States, but it is something of a shock
to read that Holland, whose people
are supposed to have high regard
for the principle that cleanliness is
next to godliness, now seriously pro
poses to raise revenue by levying a
luxury tax on bathtubs. Not even
the English, with their Insistence on
the morning bath, could have sur-
prised us more.
Tet It will be recalled by com
' paratlvely few that the bathtub in
''.'America is a relatively recent in
vention and that less than a genera
,,,,tion ago there was a point to the
. widely current story of the congress
man who was so well pleased with
" the ablutory conveniences of his
"room and bath" in a Washington
a-Jiotel that he could hardly wait for
j the coming of Saturday night. The
Roman baths about which students
J thread so much were dingy and forbid-
ding affairs in the days of the em-
plre's highest glory, beside the hum
- blest bathroom in a two-family house
1 In an American factory town. The
' orient, for all its emphasis on bath-
' Z lag as a semi-religious rite, knows
2 nothing like the bath that is the
appurtenant of every American
liome. There are castles throughout
Europe that could be-made twice as
I ,Yt-Voomfortable as they are by a week's
. '-.--work by a crew of American plumb-
-. ers, but nothing is done to bring
""ttem up to date. Just why the
;- ' ., American conception that the bath
tub is a necessity did not long ago
take root all over the world is a fact
that no American can quite compre-
Tet, in the United States, as a
millionaire sociologist some time ago
pointed out, one of the reasons why
i ' h we have no real class distinctions is
that all men. are equal in a bathtub,
-nd there is s bathtub in every
home. We long ago passed the stage
where it could, by any possible pro
lection of ImaHnntinn. hA rpcsirriAd
(a8 anything else than a necesstty.
We may tax the Ice cream cones
that children eat, and the shoes that
we wea,r, and the umbrellas that
shelter us. when it rains, on .the
theory that these are luxuries, but
never the bathtub. We would like
to see how far a candidate for con
gress would run on-a platform advocating-
a luxury tax on this palla
dium of our democracy.
THE CO-MING CHANGE.
The astounding plurality of 7,
507,677 given to Mr. Harding in the
popular vote came from the states
of the north, west and the border.
Only Tennessee broke away from the
eleven states of the solid south, the
first voluntary defection since the
days of reconstruction. Tet a study
of the returns from the south shows
interesting features. The republican
ferment is working there, and the
explosion may come in due time.
Here are the figures for the solid
south:
Alabama .......
Arkansas ......
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Total
Women voted for the first time
in November, in the south, and there
was a natural increase in totals. But
it does not account for the fact that
the republican vote was aouDiea,
while the democratic vote showed
only a small relative increase.
Alabama, Florida, Louisiana,
Georgia and Texas, heretofore
thought to be hopelessly democratic.
showed remarkable republican gains.
while Tennessee actually broke the
chains of tradition. A curious con
trast is afforded by North Carolina
and South Carolina. One is relatively
free, the other is tied hard and fast
to the color line.
One swallow does not make a sum
mer, nor a potation; out it. may
show the direction of the wind.
WITH A HISTORICAX SETTTXG.
The idea of a great exposition at
Portland for 1925 has taken hold of
the public mind. It has in view the
celebration of a century of hydro
electric development, and it is
planned to join with it an appro
priate testimonial of the expected
completion of transcontinental high
ways. It is fitting enough that Fort-
land should be the central figure in
such an event. It has had experi
ence in expositions. It is one of
the coast termini of continental
highways. It has a vital relation to
water powers. It has the will, the
pride, and the means to produce
great results.
Vancouver, too. Is looking forward
to 1925. It was long the seat or
operations in the Far West for the
Hudson's Bay company, which
moved its headquarters from Astoria
to that location in 1825. Here was
the real beginning of Oregon his
tory, following the romantic record
of the earlier explorations. Though
It was then in British hands, under
the joint occupation, Vancouver was
the geographical objective of the
first missionaries and the early
tides of immigration. The relation
ship of Vancouver and the Hudson's
Bay company to all the great move
ments and developments of the rar
Northwest was vital and far-reach
ing.
An exposition with such a histori
cal background would, have an ap
peal to sentiment and interest in
Great Britain, Canada, and the
United States. If the promoters of
the 1925 celebration can find a suit
able part in the plan for Vancouver
and doubtless they can tt should
be invited to Join with them.
PERILS OF OTR PHILANTHROPISTS.
The effort of a student of sociol
ogy.to put himself in the place of
the down-and-out by merely empty
ing his pockets and faring forth in
search of adventure loses neither its
novelty nor Its inadequacy, so it
would seem .from the fact that it is
constantly repeated. Now a
writer named Edwin A. Brown has
tried It again and "Broke, the Auto
biography of a ' Man Without a
Dime," is the result. It is a story
of how he was received by the public
eleemosynary institutions of several
cities. These were not always as
cordial as they might have been.
The author deduces therefrom that
there ought to be immediate re
form, that poor houses ought to be
made more attractive, that agencies
of service, both from the point of
view of the community supporting
them and that of the recipient of
alms, should temper their methods
with a greater measure of humanity
than is sometimes apparent nowa
days. There is growing belief that the
souls of our flinty-hearted philan
thropists are in greater danger than
are the bodies of the able-bodied
wastrels such as the author in his
wanderings seemingly represented
himself to be. Even after making
reasonable allowance for unavoid
able misfortune, there is something
suspicious in the spectacle of a man
ithout dependents but in posses
sion of all his limbs and faculties
resorting to begging. This is pecu
liarly true where the beggar selects
as his field of operations a neigh
borhood in which work is not likely
to be offered to him, and it should
be understood, of course, that beg
ging does not include hunting work
in places where it probably will be
found. But it happens it is precise
ly the men who are willing to hustle
for jobs and willing to work at them
when they find them who do not get
the sympathy that they really de
serve, while those who seek charity
at the first rebuff of fortune are
the most querulous and complain
ing if it does not measure up to the
height of their desires.
Nevertheless the soup kitchen, by
whatever name, that flings Its
largess as a bone is tossed to a dog
a grave indictment of the so-
called benevolence that is content
with subscribing money and takes
interest in what becomes of it.
Thoughtless giving may be as dam
aging in its ultimate effects as giving
grudgingly or not giving enough. One
of the justifications for highly or
ganized charity is that it leaves more
for the deserving by weeding out Im
postors, but the tendency even here
to make it too convenient for the
giver to dismiss the subject from
his mind as soon as he has "signed a
check. In committing a great task
trained social workers, however
able, we have Immeasurably im
proved the temporal lot of th un
fortunate, but wo may hav taken
from the moneyed amateur a Job
on which his hope of heaven ulti
mately depends.
The point of view of a man with
out a dime may never be obtained
by any social .experimenter who. has
deliberately and, as he well knows.
but temporarily turned his pockets
inside out for the purpose of the
moment He Is buoyed of course by
knowledge that he can quit the life
whenever it becomes intolerable,
which is no mean sustainer of moral
valor. He has, too, a happy sense
of martyrdom, even if he is genu
inely hungry, that goes a long way
toward keeping him alive. But his
every thrill is factitious. He does
not know, and he has no means of
finding out, what it feels like to be
broke, and to be without pride or
ambition. He is mostly wasting his
time, as did the prison reformer who
thought that by entering a cell he
could enter into the spirit of the
condemned, or the sociologist who.
traveling ' for a short time with
gypsies, thought liimself qualified to
Interpret all that was in their minds.
It would seem not so difficult to
1920.
Hughes.
. .. l'J.809
. .. 47,148
... 14.C11
. .. 11,226
, . . 8.4S(i
. .. 4.2SS
. ..120.D8S
, .. 1,550
...110.223
. . . 04.090
, . . 49.336
Wilson.
99.400
112.148
. 55.984
125.843
79.875
80,422
G8,3i3
61.S4
158,282
288,514
102.824
Harding.
Cox.
74,tsyu
69.874
44.553
41,081
38.538
11.576
232.806
2,682
219,829
115,640
87,458
163.254
105,618
90,515
107,162
87,519
69.277
305.447
63.940
206.558
289.688
141.670
..459.619 1,326,523 938,677 1.630,648
obtain at first hand the experience
of one who, possessing some money
and a large desire to do good, has
set out to render real service. It
has been done. It has commonly
been the discovery of those who did
it that the money accomplished the
smaller part of the good. We would
not deprecate giving as generously
as possible of money to any cause
which the donor regards as worthy,
but it is well to bear in mind the
peril we invite of mechanicalizing
our philanthropies. Opportunity for
benevolence serves a double pur
pose, and it is as literally true now
as it ever has been that it is more
blessed to give than to receive.
"THE OLD MAX."
He's an institution peculiarly
American. Every shop, factory, of
fice or other going concern has one
foreman, superintendent or man
ager; seldom proprietor, who is
Mister" to the bands. Mostly he
has grown among them, or In like
place elsewhere, and they know him
and depend on him for the square
deal and give him the same. "The
Old Man" does not essentially num
ber bis years as many; older men
are under him, have seen him grow
with the concern and hope be out
lasts them.
The title is one of affectionate
loyalty aTid the business that pos
sesses "The Old Man" has an asset
that will keep it abiding upon its
foundation of rock.
JUDICIAL DIVAGATION.
It may be as difficult for the aver
age man to understand the workings
of the mind of Judge Kenesaw
Mountain Landis as that jurist is
said to have said he found it to
fathom the mental process of Presi
dent Wilson. The president, it seems,
aroused the judge's ire by reducing
the sentence of a flagrant offender
against the law, a man who sold
tubercular cattle, who not . only
mulcted his victims of some thou
sands of dollars, but may have
menaced the health of whole com
munities.
It Is indeed sad miscarriage of
justice that permits such things to
be. It is as hard as Judge Landis
says it is to get at the President's
mental process in this instance. But
it is, on the other hand, not easy to
see how justice Is helped by letting
go free another -set of convicted
thieves, whose thefts for lack of
greater opportunity happened to ag
gregate a smaller amount that those
of the pardoned cattleman.
"If you do so-and-so, why 111 do
this-and-that" is the familiar token
of a peevish spirit frequently ob
served in children and not seldom
enough in the workings of the minds
of grownups, Once Judge Landis
achieved a reputation for indepen
dence, based on belief that he per
mitted nothing extraneous to in
fluence him in deciding a case in
hand. Now, whether he realizes it
or not, he is being swayed by con
siderations wholly ungermane to the
issue before him. Six thieves go
unpunished because another thief
failed to get his deserts. If every
judge on the bench should happen
to reason as Judge Kenesaw Moun
tain Landis does, lawlessness would
have a field day indeed.
CABLES IX COMMERCE AND POLITICS.
Cable communication has brought
each country into instant touch with
the markets of other countries. Be
fore the day of cables and steam
ships a merchant bought and sold
goods on information that was a
month or more old when he shipped
or received the goods. During that
Interval prices and exchange might
have risen or fallen to an extent
which would have changed profit
into loss or might have greatly In
creased profits. The merchant took
this risk, and had to provide against
it by obtaining higher prices on the
average, to be paid finally by the
consumer. Business then was large
ly speculation.
Since the nations have been united
by jcables, this element of specula
tion has been almost entirely elimi
nated. A man can buy or sell wheat
or wool in Portland with as full
knowledge of that day's quotations
on the London and Liverpool mar
kets as he has of the Portland quo
tations. He no longer gambles on
the probability that the London and
Liverpool quotations have not
changed since the last ship came in
with news by mall. Buying and
selling can therefore be done on a
closer margin,- and in the end the
consumer gains.
For the same or kindred reasons
quick, direct cable communication is
important in every phase bf com
munication- between nations com
mercial, political, news and family
intercourse. Quick communication
enables men to win contracts ahead
of foreign competitors, enables ship
owners to win charters for vessels,
diplomats to form combinations and
smooth away friction before an un
friendly power can gain advantage.
Direct cables protect the secrecy of
communication from the syping of
business rivals or of foreign govern
ments, and facilitate exchange of
news free from the obstruction and
coloring which foreign government
might give. They , also exclude
propaganda in foreign interest which
might be spread from a country con
trolling the cable by which two other
countries communicated.
The British government early rec
ognized the importance of cable
control, and has connected its scat
tered dominions with Britiah-owned
lines. A message can pass from one
part of the empire to another with
out touching foreign soil and there
fore without reaching a non-British
eye or ear. One company has direct
cables from western Europe, across
the Atlantic to the United States
and Canada, to the orient and to- all
points on the west African coast,
where the only rival is a French line
to French possessions Only. The
British also have four cables from
Europe to Brazil and Argentina and
a monopoly of the coastal traffic of
Brazil. Until a direct American
cable was laid, American messages
were sent to the Azores and then
back across the Atlantic to South
America. The British have a line
across the Pacific from Bamfield,
Vancouver island, to Brisbane, Aus
tralia, which by seizure of the .Ger
man Atlantic cable and a land line
across Canada completes an all
British line around the world. The
many islands and colonies of Britain
form convenient halfway stations
across the oceans which give that
country a great advantage in cable-
laying, and with control of the gutta
percha market and monopoly of
cable manufacture that country owns
more than half the world's cables.
The United States is second in
cable mileage, though far . behind
Britain. It is connected with all its
island possessions and the canal zone
by American-owned cables and a
line has been laid this year to Rio
Janeiro and Santos, Brazil.. Ameri
can cables extend down the west
coast of South America to Santiago,
whence they reach Buenos Aires by
land line,, to Cuba and to Carta
gena, Colombia. An American cable
crosses the Pacific ocean from San
Francisco via Honolulu, Midway and
Guam to Manila. It connects at
Guam with the German-Netherland
line to Tap, thence to Shanghai,
Menado, Borneo, Java and othr
countries. This is the cable which
Japan claims to control at Tap
against opposition from the United
States. A branch of the American
line also runs from Guam to the
island of Bonin, where it connects
with the Japanese government line
to Toklo. The only government-
owned American cables run to
Alaska, from Key West to Dry
Tortugas and among the Philippine
islands.
France has two cables across the
Atlantic, one from Brest to Dakar
in West Africa, another from Dakar
to Pernambuco, Brazil, and several
connecting island colonies with the
mainland. Japan's cables merely
connect its various islands, Corea,
the Liaotung peninsula and north
ern porta of China.
Before the war Germany had
cables across the Atlantic to the
United States, down the coast of
western Europe to Teneriffe, the
Canary islands, Liberia and the then
German colonies of Togo and
Kamerun, and a third ran from
Monrovia, Liberia, to Pernambuco,
Brazil. The lines owned jointly by
Germany and Holland ' extending
from Tap have independent connec
tion with China, the Dutch East
Indies and India. By the treaty of
Versailles all German cables are sur
rendered to the allies, and their
allotment is now a subject of con
troversy.
American cables are only second
in importance to American ships in
extension of foreign trade. We are
engaging In competition with Britain
In every market, and shall not be on
equal terms so long as we are de
pendent on our rival's cables for
commercial intercourse. Use of the
cable has so increased In the last
few years that there is business for
more on the principal routes without
wasteful duplication. Cables are a
public utility which should be at the
.; iu . u i
ul " uuio nuim on eviua.i
terms and with freedom from espion
age and censorship, but Britain can
not be expected to give up its un
doubted advantage without a strug
gle. If the United States should
show determination to have its own
system to every continent, it would
influence Britain to join in an in
ternational agreement for cable con
trol, which would put all nations on
an equal footing and would prevent
useless duplication
The Fort Worth way of lynching
a man for killing a policeman is
more speedy but not equal to the
Portland way of sending him to the
gallows. Sometimes one dodges the
drop on appeal, but not often.
In the steady movement of time
the Lang Syne society will succeed
the Pioneers to keep alive the tradi
tions of Oregon. The Pioneers
carved the state and the Lang Syners
will do the polishing.
A soda man tainted with bootleg
ging says the newspapers will be held
strictly accountable" for what they
say in the case and one wonders if
that be threat or promise.
A Chicago county official wants
to increase the price of marriage
licenses to the same scale as dog
licenses. That's not fair. Dog li
censes are permanent.
A woman with $16,000 in bills
strapped to her thigh has been found
dead in New . York, where deputy
coroners become wealthy1! a remark
able Incident.
That Vermont man whose "in
nards" are all in the wrong places
has a good appetite regardless, and
what more does a man want?
Atlantic City, will next season em
ploy pretty women tp lure the
masher. They will be clothed with
authority and little else.
"Red population waning," says
headline. Unfortunately, though, it
relates to Indians in California, not
Soviets in Russia.
Last chance to get into jail for the
Christmas dinner. While the turkey
may be missed, the stew( may have
thickening. . .
A train robbery near Kelso ' was
amateur stuff and the robber now
is dodging every shadow.
However, lt'e better to do your
Christmas shopping late than not to
get it done at all.
Christmas should be a movable
feast, fixed immovably in the) middle
of the week. ,
Toyland
Portland.
is a seasonal name fori
This mostly will be candy day.
WAV TO PROTECT PHEASANTS
Writer Would Provide Closed Seaaom
and Abolish Gaaae Commisaloa.
PORTLAND. Dec 23. (To the Edi
tor.) In an editorial in The Orego
niaa you ask: "Where are the pheas
ants?" and then you proceed to dis
cuss the . subject-very interestingly,
but, to my mind, very far. from the
true reason. You state that "the
killing of males only has resulted in
too many infertile eggs; there are
too many automatics and pump guns
the out-of-soason shooter Is too
busy; and 'the automobile has made
the birds too easy of access.'
. The first reason Is partially correct.-
Males and females should be
included together In the bag limit,
the same as any other game bird. The
type of gun used has nothing to do
with the depletion of the' birds, as
that can be regulated through the
limits and seasons only; the out-of
season sheoter is more of an aggra
vation to the sportsman, and war
dens, than anything else. He kills a
few now and then on the sly, but not
enough In the least to affect the
total stock of pheasants. The auto
mobile is In the same class with the
type of gun used. Both can be taken
care of through the bag limits and
season.
You quote Mr. Finley as an author
ity that the inbreeding of the pheas
ants has depleted the numbers . by
softening 'the maternal instincts of
the mother and a reduction in size.
Absolutely tommy-rot. Why does not
the inbreeding of our native ruffed
and blue grouse reduce the size and
maternal instincts of those birds?
And, besides, the Chinese pheasants
of today that are fully grown are as
big and gamey as they were when
originally liberated. Mr. Finley, while
state game warden, did not contend
that Inbreeding had anything to do
with the m.jtter, but, like all the
others, . he was intent on creating
plausible conditions for the bigger
sale of game licenses as the first
requisite or a successful state game
warden.
It Is utter nonsense to raise Chi
nese pheasants at $3 , per and turn
them loose to be killed for $1.50 per
license The Simpson game farm at
Corvallis Is a good one, but should
be usdi only, to raise pheasants for
the purpose of stocking those sec
tions of the state that do not now
have such birds In abundance. Close
the season on Chinese pheasants
throughout the Willamette valley for
only one year and there will be more
pheasants raised In the wild than we
have ever had before and there won't
be any signs of softening of the brain
in the females by inbreedine." either.
But the Simpson farm at Corvallis,
together with a political game farm
in every county in the state, cannot
raise enough birds to keen ud the
supply at the Prices Quoted above.
Of course, during the closed-season
year tho state game wardn might
have to worry along on a little less
license money, but then he could cut
down the salaries of the deDutlea in
the field and make that deficit un.
They don't need money, but can live
on glory.
But a closed season is the only
way to build up the supply of any
kind of game or game bird. That fact
has been fully demonstrated) by the
closed seasons fixed by the federal
government on certain migratory
s oiras. j a every instance such
birds have increased In phenomenal
numoers. These matters can be all
Drougnt about by absolutely divorc
Ing the commercial fishing interests
irom me game interests as now cam
ouriagea. and then abolishing the
game commission entirely and author
ising tne governor to aDDOlnt the
state game warden, who should be
mg enougn and brave enough to han-
aie sucn matters for the best Inter
ests or the game, and the sportsmen
win in time reao the benefit n.
ioia over present conditiona
under the present form. of commis
sion government the "buck" Is passed
until it becomes so 'frazzled that by
the time It reaches the original passer
it has lost its identity. Make the irnv-
ernor absolutely- responsible for the
Dinty and acts of his statu .ram.
." you win come as near re
moving tne game Interests from poll
tics as it Is humanly possible. Unti
.... .. " - t-i"c. uiiui
mat time We shall be cursed hv nnlit.
same squaooies, deals and trades
iur me purpose or feathrin. ih.
nests of political roustabouts, hut m
me detriment of the game and the
interests or good sportsmanship.
nave Deen intimately concpm.i
mis matter for several vonr. snn
mess are a few of- mv unhig,. h
auctions. r r.ravivfi
UNEHPLOVED ARB NOT VAGRANTS
users t ion ror Teraoorarr n-ll-f
Pending Opportunity for Work.
PORTLAND, Dec. 23. (To the Ed
iwr.j ,ht attention to the unem
ployed has first been called by the
statement that the municipal judge
nad over 100 men on his hands. The
question arises what will he do with
them? If they are let out of Jail and
have no money, food or shelter, when
night comes the. same condition, exists
and jail is again tho only, refuge.
It has been suggested that Kelly
Butte might relieve the congestion.
Is it just or fair for us to treat these
men as criminals? ' Judge Rostman
says these men ought not to be sent
to jail as vagrants. Most of them are
young men or mere boys from respec
table and decent homes and many of
them help to provide for their fami
lies, some even contributing all that
they can earn, so that when hard
times come on they tind themselves
destitute. . Many of these men left
their homes to find employment and.
failing to tind the work that they
sought, found themselves destitute
and therefore treated as vagrants.
Jails and rock.pl les for suoh men
as these will not Improve the situation
any. . It is true that they will be
housed and fed, but the humiliation
of having been "jail birds" will not
improve their morale and such degra
dation will not soon be forgotten. The
harvest will be more undesirable cit-
isens. Why would it not be better to
let these men go to Plsgah home and
bo fed by the city there rather than
to be fed by the city at the rock pile?
Every right-minded man will surely
be willing to do work enough to main
tain himself at the ranch and there
all would have a home instead of a
jail.
The judge will be more competent
than anyone else to decide who should
be permitted to live at the ranch and
who should be treated as vagrants
and It will be an easy matter to ar
range for a branch employment office
to be there maintained free of cost
to furnish these men, with work aa
soon aa work can be found for them.
PISQ AH MOTHER.
Millions Starvlms; In China.
WILBUR. Or.. Dec. 2J. (To tho Ed
itor.) If there are millions of people
starving in China, why cannot we do
something about It? Why cannot the
world the Christian world turn its
energies, for the time being, to the
relief of this emergency? There are
Canada and Australia and Argentine
and the United States and other
places, no doubt, where food Is plenti
ful. - It would have to be quick work,
but what are wireless telegraphy and
swift steamers for? Wo might for
get tho high cost of living andl high
taxes for a little, wniie we put over
this one big thing. Neither ' would
anyono bo poorer next year this time
for having helped.
Those Who Come and Go.
"I think that additions to the state
road map should be made by tho high
way commission, when changes are
made, and there appears to be a gen
eral belief that the road map should
not be tampered with by tho legisla
ture," observed William O. Hare,
state senator for Washington county.
"But," continued Senator Hare, "If
any changes are made by the leglsla
ture. I will try to have placed o
the state map a rosd from Portland to
Astoria through Cedar Mill. North
Plains. Banks. Buxton, Scofield. Ver
nonla. Berkenfeld. Mist. Jewel an
Olney. There is quite a demand for
such a road. nd if Luilt tt wiU Up
and make available a body of timber
In Columbia. Clatsop and a part of
Washington county which will excel
the belt of timber near Bend. It will
also, in time, develop a great dairy
Industry, all tributary to Portland
I do not know of another section in
Oregon which can be so greatly de
veloped by tho building of a state
highway as the one I speak of
Senator Hare says that he Intend
trying to get a little pleasure out of
the 1921 session. "I've decided that
I can't reform the world," he con
fessed. while in Portland yesterday.
"and the few thinks which I would
like to remedy are administrative
rather than legislative, anyway.
look for a largo mass of littre bills
in the coming oeselon with only
few measures of large Importance.
It mighc be a good I die to refer
the teachers' tenure bill, for ex
ample, to the voters t - Portland,
rather than have the legislature try
to adjust this matter,
"No more duck business for me.
sold all I had for tl.50 a head and
I've figured out since that each duck
cost me t& in feed," announced Henry
Pies of Salmonberry at the Hotel
Portland. "They were mallards. If
the easiest thing in the world to raise
mallards. They won't fly away. All
you have to do Is to treat them right,
and as for fun, a duck is the mos
comical pet a person can have. Did
vou ever raise ducks with chickens?
A duck eats and then takes a drink
eats ana takes another drink. In I
mighty short time a duck with chick
ens discovers that when ne leaves
the food to get a- drink his share of
the food Is gone when he returns, for
the chickens have remained on the
Job. So, very quickly, the duck gets
into the habit of taking a bit of food.
reaching quick for water and turning
back just as quickly for more food
to head off the chickens. Then the
ducks, when they go to the river, are
as playful as a bunch of boys, diving,
swimming and running on the bank
and having a bully time. A duck
tastes better, however. If it is kept
away from the water, although water
Is supposed to be Its natural element.
Mr. Pies reports that the steelhead
fishing in the Salmonberry and Ne
halem is now fine, the water being
good for the first time In a couple of
weeks.
If every sefhe. setnet and driftnet
in the Rogue river could be taken
from the stream and destroyed and
commercial fishlnc forever banished
in the Rogtre, Wilford Allen would
be perfectly satisfied. Mr. Allen, an
arrival at the Multnomah from Grants
Pass, is head of the Josephine County
Sportsmen's league, which comprises
about everyone who lives in the
county and likes to fish for pleasure.
Mr. Allen is in favor of closing the
Rogue river to commercial fishing for
at least four years. He contends that
the Rogue Is a great attraction to
tourists and that people come from
many states Just on account of the
fishing in that river. As a stream
for sportsmen, Mr. Allen is of the
opinion that it , would bring more
money into the stale than the river
now produces through the commer
cial fishing interests at the lower end.
where the Rogue empties into the Fa
cific ocean. ,
Oil is coming so fast out of a new
well 20 miles south of Tulsa, Okla.,
that the company can't get enough
tanks to take care of It. according to
Dr. S. W. Scott, one of the principals
of the company, who has arrived
the Benson to spend the holidays with
relatives in Portland. "Wo are only
three feet in the sand." says lr. Scott,
and the well Is producing 2500 barrels
of oil daily. Dr. Scott says he was
the first man to open an oil well In
old Mexico, an event which occurred
In 1894. Tho land whore tho new well
near Tulsa has been found' Is owned
by an aged negro. Tho land has been
leased from tho colored: man on a roy
alty basis and he Is now deriving an
income of 1SOO0 a day, which places
him beyond the dreams of avarice.
Each Christmas for the past 20
years Lester G. Kent of Philadelphia
has been in a different place. This
time he will be in Portland at the
Multnomah. A year ago ho spent
Christmas at Shepearda hotel. In
Cairo, Egypt, with some Britishers
who were wishing they were in mer
rie England. A year before he was in
Cape Town, South Africa. Mr. Kent
Is constantly on the road, traveling
for an importing and exporting firm
which has offices in most of the large
seaports of the globe.
John Walker, well-known Canadian
resident and voyager, arrived at one
of tho hotels fronting on Broadway
late Wednesday night, but in his
hurry to get from the lobby to ar room
above, in some manner lost hit equi
librium and feu to tne noor, oreaKing
his neck. There wit a lobby filled
with people who mourned his untime
ly taking away, although it was
qulclky decided, to be a case for tbe
swamper rather man me coroner.
Ducks and geese are plentiful in the
upper Willamette vaney ana so are
hunters, according to E. S. Hawker of
Albany. Mr. Hawker, who Is district
a-ame gjarden for Linn, Lane and Ben
ton counties. IS in town witn tne
news that there are bird In ample
quantities for anyone.
Alfred Smith and H. W. Whlmme of
Rallinsrham. who wera held up by a
robber on the Great Northern as they
were coming to Portland, are regis
tered at the Hotel-Oregon. Messrs
Smith and Whlmme were standing on
the nlatform of the observation car
when the robber poked a gun at them
and relieved tbem of their money.
Luke Goodrich, in the banking busi
ness at KUgene ana once . nuicu
football player, waa at the Imperial
yesterday with his ion Don, who is
six-footer.. Mr. uooancn was Dis
cussing football with some or tne
present generation of p Layers.
Ravmond P. Richardson," newspaper
publisher of Dayton. Wash., arrived in
the eitv yesterday to visit with rel
atives during the Christmas holiday.
He is accompanied by Mrs. tiicnara-
son and two children.
Mr. A. L. Ball, wife of a well-
known Eugene contractor, waa among
the arrivals yesterday to spend the
Christmas holidays with Portland
friends and relatives.
Having bought a press for his
newspaper at Salem, George Putnam
was In Portland yesterday making
arrangements for shipping the ap
paratus. G. W. Fischer, wholesale grocery
.lAtal nf KsattlA. Is at the Multnomah.
coming here for a conference wttib !
other wholesalers. ',
RKMARKS BY STATIC MCWSFAPERS
Salvation Araar's Charily and Other
Sabjrcu Arc Ulacnaard.
Marshfleld News.
The Salvation Army has won II
way Into the heart of many people
because It comes between the higher
spiritual and praotlcai etvlo agency
with just that wise mingling of re
ligion that does not repel the Ig
norant and immoral and of helpful
ness that Is comprehensible to th
feeble and emotional. Tho old senti
mental, undiacrimlnatlng charity, with
all Its waste and Injury to acir-re
llance, did reach aoma whom neither
scientific! charity nor religious appeal
could rescue. The mission of the Hal
vatlon Army is to organise this sen
timentality so as to get the good In
it w'lbout tho evil.
Washday In Weston.
Weston Leader,
About 7 o'olock Monday morning
this vicinity was visited by a blind
ing dust storm. Housewives who had
arisen early to hang out family wash
ings were obliged (o summon their
courage, remove clothes from the
line and repeat a portion of their la
bors. Ivory enameled woodwork
quickly acquired an ebony hue. Vac
uum cleaners were hastily employed
to remove tho grimy coverings from
ruga, curtains and upholstery. Inas
much as the storm followed a period
of very wet weather, It waa regarded
as rather unuaual.
Old
Starr, No Argnment,
Salem Journal.
U Is not the men as a rule who re
fuse toleration and forgiveness. It Is
the women who never forget or for
give the erring of their sex and do
for get and forgive the erring of the
opposite sex, and Just how govern
ment ukase can change their attitude
Is beyond mere man. Most effort to
place the sexes upon the same moral
plane result in lowering women to
man s level instead of raising man to
women s level and work toward the
destruction of the home. However,
the men are quite willing to let tbe
women decide the Issue.
Nothing "Codas" Aboat O. t.
Oregon City Enterprise.
The people of Oregon City are a
homey" people. The town is large
enough to have aocial advantages and
at the same time It in too small to
possess a purse-proud circle. If it baa
a silk-stockinged class, they are al
mighty quiet about It and certain. y
inoffensive. Oregon City residents
are friendly, with the warm hand'!
clasp to newcomers. They are also
a neighborly lot of folks and main
tain exceptionally strong organlza
tlona along religious, fraternal and
social lines.
Keep the Dollar Taralaa-
Etnerprlee Record Chieftain.
For a purely seltlsh reason, men
should pay promptly in hard times.
They can buy cheaper for cash than
In normal times. If they pay for
what they get tbey will b out of debt
when business turns for tha better
and others will owe them. But if
they bury their money, for fear the
country is going to the dogs, they
miss tho chance to turn it to prom
and also they contribute to the gen
eral financial distress.
Discriminate AsTalaat the Brewer.
Woodburn Independent.
It is no wonder that, the price of
hops has declined when there I a re
striction on the sale of hops to con
sumers, whether they desire to use
them fur beer or other purposes. Those
who wish to make hop pillows cannot
do so. Un the other hand, other In
gredients for the manufacture of
home-made beer are permitted to be
sold to consumers. Why the discrim
ination?
IXva-ttnt-cess In Sheep.
.Ontario Argus.
What haa happened hura in the
sheep and cattle game has and will
happen In other communities and m
other lines of endeavor. The men
who are well grounded In a business.
who know Ita possibilities for trouble
as well aa Its avenuea for profit, and
are governed by that knowledge and
strictly attend to their affairs will
undoubtedly, sucueed In the long run.
Advertising aa Calendars.
Pino Valley Herald.
The advertising of calendar la al
most nil. Tbe pictures so tar out-
sbiue tbe priuting on tha calendars
that it la iw; ver aeen. When tha cal
endar is hung on tbo wall tbe picture
alone gets the eye. It may be greatly
aamlredh but that la of no advantage
to tha donor unless It I cunneutud
with bis business in some way.
When Nercasary ta Whip, Coaaldcr.
Tbe Dalles Chronicle.
For tho love of all that la human,
remember when whipping children
that they are little human bulng with
souls. Consider that tbey will leui
time that you, big amd atroug,
manifest bruto angur toward tbetn
and- tuit In turn ovory bit of mean
ness and vilenoas la their matures will
bo developed.
Criminal Path a Rocky Highway.
Sheridan Sun.
There Is no easy road to wealth
and the ona who seek mo criminal
path la on a rocky highway that lead
tha onossito way Irom tnal w men
Ufa ho. os doarest a clean conscience,
honesty and reaped. No, crime does
not pay.
Alaa, Poor Clarence Trart
Corvallis Uazette-Timc.
Tho skull of two of the Pilgrim
FaLhers wero exhumed tor a snort
period the u-lher day. There used to
be three of these dlighttui reiics, out
it
is understood tlu.t mo uev. nar
enca Truo WUson la woarlng ona
of
them.
Short Cropa Meat Year.
Powers Patriot.
With, prices goua to amaah this tall
after several years of unusually bigb
nirures. there will be scant, encour
airumant for 'enthusiastic production
next year, and sum essential crops
ar quite likely to bo short at lb
next harvest.
Oae "Funny Thlag" la Oregoa.
Gold Hill News.
eem funny, so much wood around
here and atili fuel la ao scarce and ao
expensive when it can o naa mat on
burners are becoming quits popular.
Friend Kellogg baa on burners in
both his house and office.
Sana Galaea la "Sore."
Sclo Tribune.
Sam Gaines of th Santlam farm
complain bitterly that someone on
Halloween stole hi ax and a sack of
potatoes. Bam doesn't care ao much
about the spuds, but hi wife needs
the ax. for exercise.
W Irked" Wornea.
Dufur Dispatch.
A preacher la reported to bav said
that th women are taking up to
vlcea discarded by tne men. ji tney
confine themselves to tho vices which
tb men havs diacardodi tney win get
to heaven aura.
Bold Oa to the Job.
Turner Tribune,
Back to normalcy, boy, la th
present trend over th country. In a
vaar from now wages will be a low
as S per day and hundreds after the
Job. Hold your Job, boys, fraes on
to It.
More Truth Than Poetrj.
By damva J. Montncaa.
CAS Mtpr-Kf.
6ltr Irlmi tho Christmas tree.
Candles gleam and slow;
Children, helpful a ran be.
Darting to and fro;
Sister says. -brt go that limb."
Baby dlaobeya
Which la natural to him
L'p tho oandlr blase.
Hftserart Five and Knaina Two,
Hook and Ladder Kuur,
Drag a writhing pipe line throuli
A smashed-ln kilt-hen door.
That's about Ibe only nay
Home folks ever learn
That, although It's hOIMoias day.
Things Ilka tree will burn.
Father, playing Kant a Clau.
for the llttla folk.
Light a cigarette bivaun
He Just has ta amoks-
Let the blase run un the mstih.
Ix-npa a little hither.
Children cry a whisker catch:
'Santas all on fire!"
Father's hair and mustache gone.
Wrapped up In a aheat.
Fire laddies carry on
Till the flame are beat.
family ha but llttla caua
tor ita Chrlatma cheer
A sadder, wiser tiaola Claua
rameril be next year.
see
AddJa Inawlt to Inlarr.
In soma cltlea you have to hava a
doctor preacription to get a ton of
coal, which make the coal cost you
$2 a ton Instead of III.
Cheerful Tbooajht, '
If Mr. Bryan d oea aa much for fh.i
reformer as ha did for Mr. Cox there
won't be any blue law.
Nothing la Wasted.
Judging by aoma of tha slka tha
butchers are selling, the packer are
using tha leather that tb abo men
can't find a market for.
(Copyrlcht. lOl'O, by Bell Syndicate, 1st )
John Burroughs' Nature
Notes.
l'an Von Answer Then sarUonaf
1. Where docs the bobolink build
It nest?
S. Are tha blark fox and liver-
gray fox distinct aperies-?
3. How was maple sugar mad?
(Answers In tomorrow' nature
notes.)
Answer t Pretlona Qarollaaa,
I. What la the propolis of tha bt?
Tha bud scale of the poplars alnna-
the road, long brown scales ilka tha
beaks of birda, leave a rich gummy
odor in my hand that laata for hours
I fraqusiKly detect th same odir
about my hlvea when In b.es are
making all anur against the rains.
or against the millers When us1 by
bees, w call It pmpoll. Virgil rerers
to It aa a "glue more adhertvo than
blrd-llme and tho rltch of 1'hrtslaii
Ida."
see
t. From what lathe cnw-blrd named?
The rowblrd la o called bocauro It
walks about amid the iriilnc rain
and aelm-s the Insects w hirli their
heavy tread rets going. It dropn It
egg In the net of. the song sparrow,
tho social sparrow, tha snowbird, tbe
vlroo, and the wood-warl.trr, and aa a
rul It la the only rug In the nt
that Issue successfully.
s
2. Is tho red aqulrrrd h.irmful to
birds?
The red julrrel la a 0itrnver of
the egg and young of hlnla. I think
tho mischief It dors In this respect
can hardly be overestimated. Nearly
all bird look upon t a their nem.
and attack and annoy it when it ap
pears near their breeding haunts
Thus, I hava aeen many birds pur
suing It with angry vole ami
gesture .
HleMs reserved bv MniiaMoa Mlff'la r I
I Never Knew.
By Grace R. Hall.
never knew that tears could burn
Like acid 'til they left a s.-sr.
Nor that a heart might truly Irsrn
To hide the deep and painful mar:
Nor that tho aunrhlne oinetlm
turned
Into a fever fierce and hot
But those at last 1 v learned I've
learned.
Slnco you forgot.
That If r)uld seem a desert Main
Where caclua grow by crumbling
wall.
The winds a breath hard-drawn in
Pain,
Were truths I never guessed it at
all;.
But I've been taught by torture stow
That Joy and pain and love are one,
And that the world must novrr know
What love has dons.
In Other Days.
Tvtrnly-flve leara Ago.
From The Oreanntnn ef rerembee 24. 11.V
Now York. -Kleve-it hundred persona
assombled In I'ooprf union to con
demn President Clevi-lanil' artlm
over the Venesuela boundary dlKpute.
Fishermen are still angling for the
silvery steelhead trout or enlinon. an, I
although they receive I cents a pound
all they mak la poor pay fir being
out In such weather aa baa prevailed
of late.
C K. S. Wood and Charles l;. Ladd
havo returned to the rlly from Kan
Francisco, where they hava been tak
ing testimony In a law case.
Superintendent Jame O'Hrlen of
tb O. K. at N. company returned yes
terday from an Inspection, trip to
eastern Oregon, and he report no
troubl on the lln because of anow.
Fifty Tears Ago.
Prom The Oraconlaa of DscstnHer St, 170.
Tb La eompany la putting up a
great quantity of Ice, Intending to
bavo ooough for tbreo years.
Just aa everybody ha mad UP hi
mind that the river la to b closed by
an Ice oiockaae comes in cninooa
rind and softens th rigor of the
winter ao well that there now prob
ably will b no bar to navigation tbl
winter.
Onl two or thr lory rasss re
main on th circuit eourt docket.
Th militia organisation 10 b
known aa th Bell fa dots wa formttf
last evening. ' Th company has 41
members.
IWglaalag f Era.
OOBLE. Or, Dec. II. (To th Edi
tor.) Ar w now living In the lath
century or th 10th century, and how
do you count It I0V year from tne
birth of Christ or 1"0 year before Ih
birth of Chrlat? Kindly answer the
question, as I hav had some artu.
mental on thla. A RE AVI. H,
Th present era data roughly from
tho birth of Christ. Christ waa aboul
or T year old In the year 1. This
la th 10th century. In other words
100 full centuries and one-mth of
th lOth century bav paaeed.