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creditors, who claim it aa security ths republicans took control, con-
for bonds of the former imperial I gress did little better than provide
r .. ETHERIDGE ' AND HIS METHODS,
. ' The facts about failure of th
, Morris bond-sales firm are only half
' known; but they disclose clearly the
; reasons for Its downfall. The con
.'- cera was built around the person
M ality of John L. Etheridge- and its
'' '; methods were his methods: and his
, "I methods had their inspiration In his
.-. ! character, or lack of it. - . It is true
" ' ; that a. man who has been In prlfeon
t' may reform; but it is rarely true
' ! that one who has been several times
convicted of crime is, or can be,
' . other than a criminal. He may learn
,! prudence from experience, and he
. ' f may acquire a new respectability
' and new confidence through success
" i In apparently legitimate operations;
i '. 'i bat when the test comes between op-
'- portnnity to profit through a ques-
. i tionable transaction and the cer-
.' ; tainty of failure, or lack of progress,
. through, strict probity, there is too
. . seldom a doubt as to what will
. -happen. It la not necessary to sub-
".."V scribe to the hard doctrine that a
, . -i vlawbroaker can. never be other than
J i a lawbreaker to know and to de
'." , dare that honesty is inherent, and
. '. not acquired.
' - It is easy to see. now that It was a
colossal bravado which carried
i Ktheridg through foar spectacular
' rears of high finance In Portland
. . He had a certain unscrupulous dar-
ing which seemed somehow to fit in
' with the temper of the times; and
he developed a very large business
i along comparatively new lines
v'j through hi3 talent for reaching the
, common ear by rosy offers of sound
" i investments in securities guarantee
j ing large return He was not a
." , I banker, nor did he run a bank, or
' i pretend to run It: nor was his con-
4 cern a trust company. He did not
". j permit his operations to come at any
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time under supervision of the state.
Hut he nevertheless set himself up
to be a trustee of other people's
money a sacred function which
should never be committed to pri
vate hands without specific provision
for instant public accountability. Be
ing a private concern and not a
bank, nor a trust company, the Eth
eridger firm was able to do what it
pleased through him until the Inevi
table crash came. It was Inevitable
because there was an inevitability
about the Etheridge character and
the Etheridge methods. He used
trust funds as his own. High finance
ia nothing but low finance.
The key to the Etheridge opera
tions was the interim certificate.
Kecelving a sum of money from an
Investor for the purchase of a bond
not yet tn hand, he would give a re
ceipt guaranteeing delivery when
ever such a bond should be received
by him. This is a contract obliga
tion, and it is in itself a legitimate
practice, and is followed by all rep
utable bond houses; but it is cap
able! of illegitimate and even crim
inal perversion, as any other legiti
mate practice may he, by irrespon
sible concerns. It is quite clear that
the Intent of the buyer is not thus to
furnish any intermediary or sales
agent -with funds for specnlation, or
for rorkingr capital, or for diversion
tn any particular from the exact pur
pose of his Investment viz, to buy
a certain, bond, or series of bonds.
The duty of the receiver of his
clierrFa money is to buy the desired
hond, with it: and if it Is not avail
able as It may not be through de
lays In delivery caused by the print
ins; and other necessary details of
issue to hold It safe until the spe
cific transaction can be made com
plete. This is what responsible
houses do; it is what Etheridge did
not do. He used the money for his
own operations, and when the time
came, under pressure from many
quarters for an accounting, thep
was nothing left but failure and
flight
Obviously, the state should place
all corporations and firms dealing as
agents for investment moneys under
its direct supervision, as are banks
and trust companies; and it should
particularly define the status of in
terim certificates, so that their va
lidity and security may be assured,
and their holders may not be
swindled. The coming legislature
has a duty here. So far as Morris
Brothers, Inc is concerned, the
stable door will thus be locked after
the horse is stolen; but it will enable
the public hereafter to put a check
on any other possible Etheridge.
BED AGENT'S DEPORTATION.
The order for deportation of Mar
tens, the self-styled ambassador
from the soviet government of Rus
sia to. the United States, will end a
chapter which illustrates the ex
treme leniency of the labor depart
ment with men whose avowed pur
pose was to destroy this republic by
revolution. Though. Martens, in de
fault of diplomatic recognition, posed
as head of a commercial mission, his
activities consisted in. spreading bol
shevist propaganda. He had inti
mate relations with revolutionary
organizations, disbursing large sums
of money which were surreptitiously
sent from Russia.
Orders from Moscow to cancel aU
contracts In this country may be re
garded as the kind of bluster with
which the soviet covers a defeat. The
soviet has little in the way of com
modities to export, its railroads are
Irt such condition that it cannot
transport them to the coast and in
dustry Is so demoralized that it can
not manufacture enough for its own
people. If it should attempt to pay
gold for imports, the gold would be
subject to attachment by Russia's I
government. The present adminis
tration of this country has given ite
citizens freedom to trade with Rus
sia at their own risk, but they would
have no diplomatic protection, no
treaty rights, no postal or cable ser
vice, no banking system. Trade un
der such circumstances would be
beset with endless difficulty. The
same reasons which have guided the
present administration will hold with
that which is to follow.
Probably departure of 'Marteni
will be followed by renewed, propa
ganda of the third international. We
may expect bolshevist agents to come
to this country in all manner of dis
guises and to circulate red literature
id all languages among the foreign
born. Congress cannot act 'too
promptly in passing the bill suspend
ing immigration or in following It
with a new law which will effec
tively shut out those who aim to de
stroy our Institutions.
as much money as the departments
chose to spend, and, free from con
trol, the spenders have run wild.
TO . DISCOURAGE CRIME.
The judge of a Boston criminal
court who says that if he had his
way he would sentence every man
convicted of robbery to prison for
life overstates only slightly one of
the seeming needs of the crime situ
ation in general. There are a con
siderable number of well-meaning.
though- sentimental, citizens, who
persistently ignore the truth in the
proverb concerning the gored ox.
Notwithstanding "the crime wave,
there are still some left who have
not been subjected to the ordeal. A
few of the latter are much more
deeply interested, apparently, in the
welfare of the criminal than in the
safety of the law-abiding citizen. But
if matters keep on as they are going
now, will not every citizen soon have
had his turn before the muzzle of the
weapon of the burglar or the hold
up man? Then what?
The good of society is not always
nicely balanced against sentiment
for the Individual, in the minds of
the non-philosophical. The piteous
plea of the caught criminal is too
apt to outweigh the right of citizens
in the mass to enjoy security In their
own homes and on the public streets.
The popular mind is too often di
verted from the main issue by an
Irrelevant fancy. The highwayman
with .a certain debonair manner is
apt to be pictured as a'Robin Hood.
the housebreaker who writes Impu
dent notes as a wit deserving a pen
sion from the state rather than a
cat o' nine tails across his back. It
is hard to restrain the wish that
some of these sentimentalists might
be treated with at least a moderate-
sized dose of the profound realities.
Maybe the Boston judge goes
bit too far. There still is something
though not everything1 to be said
in behalf of leniency for first of-
fendera But it would be worth
while to try the effect of punish
ment that really punishes as a cure
for the present epidemic. Certainty
of a long term when caught (and
practically every criminal is caught
sooner or later) ought to be an ef
fective deterrent; and it would ui
timately in any event reduce the
visible supply of lawbreakers.
WATCHDOG OVER THE SPENDERS.
The programme now is to pass the
budget bill at the present session of
congress as President Wilson wants
it, that is, giving the president power
to remove as well as appoint , the
controller-general and his assis
tant. then to amend it at the extra
session of the new congress by trans'
ferripg power of removal to congress
bv concurrent resolution. Represen
tative Good explanied to the house
that, unless this plan was followed,
the budget system could not be ap
plied to expenditures for the year
ending June 3, 1923. deferring its
operation for two and a half years,
A mass of information has been
obtained by Mr. Good from Mr. Col-
Fins, of the legislative reference li
brary, which throws light on the
point raised by the president in his
veto message. The supreme court
has divided federal officials into two
classes primary officers, named in
the constitution as to be appointed
by the president and confirmed by
the senate, and inferior officers,
hose appointment congress may
est in the president alone, in the
courts or In the heads of depart
ments. Mr. Collins holds that in
importance the controller would
rank with primary officers and that
in regulating his appointment con
gress would have to give a technical
meaning to the word "inferior." But
quotes Mr. Wilson's veto mes
sage as showing that the president
regards the office as "inferior." He
holds that congress may reserve
power to remove by concurrent reso
lution without the president's ap
proval, as It has done without ques
tion for a hundred years when deal
ing with non-legislative matters.
The importance of the point at is
sue between Mr. Wilson and con
gress is well brought out in Mr. Col
lins discussion of it ffora his dis
passionate viewpoint Present ma
chinery for audit of the expenditure
of billions of dollars "fails to give an
adequate protection to the taxpayer."
Congress is creating an office "un
der the direction of a controller
general who shall be absolutely in
dependent of the executive and at
the same time occupy a very close
and intimate relationship to congress
itself an official who will be able
without executive control or execu
tive removal to go into the executive
departments where the money is be
ing spent and to investigate and re
port his finding to the congress,"
which is responsible for all appropri
ations of money. He then says:
The president has no proper concern
either in the appointment or in the re
moval of this officer. The fact that he Is
appointed: by the president in the budget
bill is a concession to the constitutional
necessities or the occasion. If congress
eould constitutionally appoint such an of
ficer he would be so appointed. But as
to his removal it is absolutely vital that it
should rest with congress If thla officer la
to have any great independence to report
what he finds. Congress should have the
initiative in the removal. The concurrent
resolution preceded by notice and hearing
before the appropriate committee, as a
method of removal appears to be Justifiable
botn in iact ana in law. lr there are con
stitutional doubts they should be resolved
in favor of congress. .
The controller is thus to be the
watchdog over the people's money,
to insure that it is expended by the
executive departments as the peo
ple's representatives have provided.
There has been recent experience
of the need of a watchdog. Secre
tary of War Baker has expended
J76.000.000 more than congress ap
propriated for his department, and
boldly defends his action. He would
not have done it if a controller had
been watching him. A great part of
the appropriations made at each ses
sion is to meet deficiencies, and
heads of departments have found it
so easy to obtain them under the
present administration that the
limits fixed by congress have become
BUSINESS MEN TO VOTE ON TAXES.
The referendum on taxation which
has been called by the United Cham
ber of Commerce suggests thV rela
tive Importance attached by it to the
several propositions on which the
members are asked to vote. Most
significant is the fact that first place
is given to repeal of the excess profit
tax, and that next in order are placed
alternative propositions for substi
tutes. These are: further taxes on
incomes, excise taxes "on some ar
ticles of wide use -hut not of first
necessity"; a sales tax either Instead
of or in addition to the' last two,
either on general turn-over, limited
turnover qr retail sales; a moderate
but graduated undistributed earnings
tax on corporations. ' Important
among other proposals are that all
future government bonds be taxable
and that administration of the in
come tax be decentralized.
By their vote the chambers of
commerce will fairly reflect the
opinion of the business men of the
whole country. People are recover
ing from that mistaken class con
sciousness which is cultivated with
the malign purpose of dividia the
nation and regard the interest of
business as apait from and antagon
istic to the interest of the work'ng
people. They are learning that bad
business is bad for everybody. They
are learning that the objection of
business men to the excess profit tax
is not that they pay it, for they pass
it on, but that it obstructs business
in many ways to the injury of the
whole population.
Frank recognition that the aim
must not be to reduce the amount of
taxation but must be to redistribute
the load more equitably and in juch
manner that it can be carried as
easily as possible, like a well ad
justed pack on a man's back, is evi
dent in the chamber's proposals. Ad
mission of business men that direct
taxes are unavoidable mark a great
change from their attitude during
Cleveland's second term, when the
income tax was first proposed in
peacetime and when they fought it
in the courts to a man. They now
concede its necessity and conside
plans which evince no disposition to
dodge it
Prominence to proposals for
sales tax should at least keep the
people alert on questions of taxation
and government expenditure and
will do much to insure that they get
a dollar's worth of government ser.
vice for every dollar that they pay.
a pensioner in the later years of his
life. For Sutter and Marshall, in
deed, the gold discovery did turn out
a curse.
Events which flowed from It de
serve a different designation', in all
probability. The tide of immigra
tion was definitely turned toward ths
Pacific coast. Elijah R. Kennedy, in
the book in which he tells "how
Colonel Baker saved the- Pacific
states to the union," remarks that
"the men . . who settled in
the northwest were the most enter
prising of the communities from
which they journeyed forth. The
ranch men of California were the
boldest of the enterprising." Call
fornia received from the earlier mi
gration to Oregon a valuable con
tribution of sturdy stock, combined.
with a great number of other ad
venturers. The most famous gold
rush in all the world's history fur
nished a directing motive, but noi
the only motive for the p'eopleing of ous appearance and edged away. In
BY-PRODUCTS OP THE PRESS
Actors Spend Last Bill to Keep Us
' Front In New York.
The disbanding of an unusually
large number of touring theatrical
shows,-due to the fact that business
has been poor on the road and that
the period just before Christmas is an
"off" time, Is leaving many actors
high, and; what is worse,, dry in
Broadway.'
This developed through the inquir
ies of the producing firm of Arthur
Hammerstein in connection with a
player who applied to them for an
engagement in one of their . plays
which Is about to set out and test he
temperature on the road. He paraded
into the Hammerstein office so crated
up with clothes of the latest musical
comedy cut that the office force sus
pected he might borrow a nickel car
fare on the strength of his prosper-
Those Who Come and Go.
the coast, and undoubtedly in the
end it helped to save the entire
western territory to the union. ,
LEAGUE WILLING TO REORGANIZE.
Any doubt that the league of na
tions will be in a receptive mood
toward any amendments in its cove
nant should he removed by the pro-
leaving his name he said that all mail
and communications for him should
be sent to one of the big hotels in
Forty-fourth street, and oozed away
to clutter up the sidewalks with the
other talent.
Hugh Grady, general manager for
Hammerstein, had occasion to parley
with this unrecognized genius and
telephoned to the hotel mentioned,
where lie learned, incredulously, the
ceedings of the assembly at Geneva.
Demand of Argentina for immediate actor waan.t , registered there and
amendment expressed an opinion wasn't even one of thlobby interior
that is shared by other members, and decorators. After the usual argument
was doubtless opposed by the great f and exchange of compliments with
powers lest amendments at that time I the hotel clerk, Grady became con-
a mere form, reducing that body's
control over money to a .farce. Until ision from the state. Sutter, too, was
LAST Or THE '48ERS.
Rodney C. Adams, now eighty-nine
years old, who lives at Hemet, Cal.,
and who is believed to be the last
person alive who saw the first gold
rained in California, is quoted by an
iifterviewer in the Dearborn Inde
pendent as saying that when the
gold was shown to John A. Sutter,
employer of the discoverer, James
W. Marshall, Sutter remarked: "Yes,
that's gold and it will be the curse
of ns." Probably this version is as
fanciful as the George Washington
cherry story invented by Parson
Weems, nor is its credibility height
ened by interpretation by Adams,
who suggests that Sutter alluded to
his plans for a big sawmill and flour
mill on the American river. There is
reason, on the other hand, to suppose
that Sutter, far more than Marshall,
realized the portent of the find, for
he. set out almost at once to develop
it. He tried to keep the matter
secret, but found this to be impos
sible. Then be sought an arrange
ment by which he could conserve his
own property against the human
tidal wave by which it was over,
whelmed, and failed in this. Some'
what later, no doubt, he began to
see that the gold discovery might
indeed be a disadvantage: but not
until he had impoverished himself
by litigation and Marshall had died
from the combined effects of vexa
tion and dissipation.
It will be recalled that Marshall
reached California by way of Oregon,
where he arrived in 1841, and where
he spent the winter of 1844-5.
Sutter, often miscalled "General,"
though Adams accords him the title
of "Captain," which he had won in
the French army before emigrating
to the United States, made the first
tests that showed Marshall's nuggets
to be true gold and not pyrites or
some other deceptively glittering
base metal, as Marshall greatly mis
doubted. It was on the afternoon of
January 24, 1S48, that Marshall first
noticed the yellow particles that were
to change the current of history of
the Pacific coast but it was nob until
four days later that he was assured
by Sutter that these were what he
imagined them to be. Until "that
time gold-mining -was a subject as
far as possible from the thoughts of
the pioneers of the west. Sutter had
been a roving adventurer with a
taste for industrial development and
merchandising. He was a trapper
and trader when in about 1838 he
ventured as far north as Fort Van
couver, in the Oregon country. The
colony which he sought to establish
on his land grant at the present site
of Sacramento was mainly engaged
in farming and stockraislng. Mar
shall, a millwright from New Jersey,
was employed, with a partnership
interest, to locate a site and build a
sawmill, and he found gold while
overseeing the excavation of a tail
race for the mill;
a Bancroft tells of the rude methods
by which- Sutter and Marshall as
sured themselves that they were in
the actual presence of the precious
metal. The acid test alone did not
satisfy them. They put $3 in silver
in one pan of a small scales that
Sutter happened to have and bal
anced It with gold dust in the other
pan. Both were then immersed in
water, when the gold dust went
down and the silver went up. With
out any delay Sutter proceeded to
prospect his ground, but the tragic
feature of It all was that neither he
nor Marshall gained any substantial
advantage from it- Prospectors and
miners began to flock in within a
few weeks and issues speedily arose
between them and the original claim
holders regarding their respective
rights. Parton says: "Sutter's har
vest was never gathered. His oxen,
hogs and sheep were stolen by
hungry men and devoured. No hands
could be procured to run the mills.
His lands were squatted on and dug
over and he wasted his remaining
substance In fruitless litigation to re
cover them." For counsel fees ami
legal expenses alone in ten years ho
expended $125,000. Marshall mean
while shouldered his pack and wan
dered over the country in response
to spirltualistio beckonings, became
restive . and . embittered under en
croachment on his property, and for
some years was dependent on a pen
embarrass the league in considering
proposals from the United States to
be made after Mr. Harding becomes
president. Protest from Canada
against article X arose from the
same sentiment which has led the
British dominions to demand a voice
in the foreign policy of the British
empire, lest they again be called 'on
to fight in a situation which they
had no part in producing. Desire
was apparent that the league, not the
mandatory power, draw up man
dates. Throughout the session the
smaller nations showed a determina
tion that all nations, big and little,
should be on an equality and that
the assembly should be the real
source of power, material or moral,
that the league possesses.
These subjects of controversy
spring from the cardinal error of
making the league an adjunct of the
treaty with Germany. By so doing,
in order to gratify President Wilson,
the allies made the league an instru
ment of the victors for enforcing
their terms on Germany and they
perverted their invitation to neutrals
to join the league into an invitation
to aid them in enforcing those terms.
In orderthat the league might carry
out this purpose, they had to vest
virtual control in the council and to
insure that they should control the
council with five members in nine.
In order to square their natural de
sire to keep the territory that they
had conquered with the pcinciples of
the league, they had to invent the
mandate, yet to insure that they
should distribute mandates as vic
tors in the war and should decide
what restrictions should be placed
on themselves for protection of the
people they were to rule and protect,
then ask the league for its approval.
These inconsistencies between the
league that they formed and that
which the public opinion of the
world desires spring from the linking hatlds at present time, one com
vinced the actor only had his mail
sent there, and discovered that other
troupers, fresh from the road, slipped
almost their last five-dollar bill to
hotel clerks. In order to appear as if
registered at a first-class hostelry
and hypnotize the managers into
thinking they were first-rate players
for that reason. New York Herald.
Although it Is a proved fact that
the game now designated baseball is
of modern and purely American or
igin, the use of a ball in ceremonies
ant games goes back many centuries.
Four thousand years ago, in the
twelfth Egyptian dynasty, a Coptic
artist sculptured on the temple Bam
Hassan human figures throwing and
catching balls. A leather-covered ball
used in games played on the Nile over
forty centuries ago has a place among
the many archaeological specimens in
the British museum. It has a sewed
cover and is in a remarkable state of
preservation.
The game of ball was prized by the
Greeks as giving grace and elasticity
to the human figure, and they erected
statue to one Aristonicus for his
proficiency In it. Ancient medical
practitioners were wont to prescribe
a course of hall playing where the
modern doctor would order a diet of
pills.
The Chinese have played ball In va
rious ways from times of remote an
tiquity. For centuries games of ball
have been known and played in
Japan. Ethiopian and East Indian tra
ditions refer to games with balls
played many centuries ago. Kansas
City Star.
A chew from another man's plug
ii responsible for a case of smallpox
which has been lodged in the pest
houate. The city has two cases on its
of the covenant with the treaty.
The tragedy of it all is that, by
making the league a weapon to dis
cipline Germany, the allies sacrificed
much of their own power that might
have been used for that purpose
more effectually, and they weakened
the league for performance of its
proper work. By provoking contro
versy on the subject in the United
States, they deprived themselves of
the aid of this country in enforcing
the treaty and thus encouraged Ger
many to obstruct enforcement. They
frittered away the power that they
might have used to protect Poland
to settle the Fiume affair, to crush
Mustapha Kemal and make an early
ing in oil the tram on weanesaay,
and the other having been isolated
yesterday.
One of these cases came from Man
itoba on the train. He took a bite
from a plug of tobacco which he bor
rowed from another man in the prov
ince to the east. After he had taken
a chew he was told by his associate
that he had been released from quar
antine two- days previously. Reglna,
Sask., Leader.
Charles LaBar has struck oil on
his land."
When a group of ,25 men strolled
about the LaBar farm, near Piper.
peace with Turkey, to save Armenia ! t j,-,-; ,i.irvnvir,o. h in
hold bolshevism in check. They also
chilled the ardor with which the
American people were ready two
years ago to assist in adjusting the
tangled affairs of the old world.
Haste in forming the league before
the legacies of the war had been ad
ministered, and the attempt to make
it the administrator, gained nothing
the grounds it gave rise to the fore
going rumor. Investigation dispelled
the rumor and developed the fact that
the eroup Tf men were students
in a gopher poisoning demonstration
conducted by Professor P. L. DePuy
of the Kansas State Agricultural
college.
Technique of the course embraces
for either the allies or the league and I the.study of various systems of holes
lost mucn. ior Dotn.
The situation thus created for Mr,
Harding is far more favorable to
success of his announced plans than
the mortified defenders of the league
as Mr. Wilson made it are willing to
admit. The" absolute need of this
country's aid as the big, disinterested
friend of all nations has been proved,
The soundness of some American
criticisms has been conceded. ' This
nation may prove the arbiter be
tween the small nations, which pro
test against absolute domination,
and the great powers, upon which
the league must rely chiefly for
moral influence and, in the last re
sort, for material force. Mr. Hard-
and tunnels gophers make; how the
rodents steal the roots of farm prod
ucts end carry them away for winter
use, and how susceptible the little
animals are to partaking of saccha
rine. When the student knows the
gopher system of tunnels and mounds
he is taught how to treat oats with
strychnine and saccharine and place
the poison in underground runways
where the rodents will get it. Kan
sas City Star.
A recent ruling of the postofflce de
partment is that children do not come
within the classification of harmless
wild animals, which do not require
ing may well prove to be the master food or shelter while in transit and.
builder of a leauge which will at- therefore, they may not be shipped
tempt less but will accomplish far I parcel post
more than that which was prema- I This will sad news to such par-
turely born at Versailles. . eats as desired to paste a few stamps
on the brows of their angels and send
A man is held in Vancouver. B. C. them by mail to grandma or grandpa
on the charge of retaining $82,000 in vacation time or other troublesome
advanced by Chicago saloon men to period of the year.
buy Christmas liquor in the province I There may be dispute as to whether
and the aid of the law is invoked to the department is correct technically,
take him back to the vengeance of but from the point of expediencey
the tentative lawbreakers. "Law" is there can be no question. Considering
a queer mess. I now long It takes w, Burleson to
transport' first-class mall, a schoolboy
If that debonair burglar will heed sent fourth class, which Is parcel
a suggestion and quit right now, he post, might be grown up and almost
will stop burgling while the stopping forgetful of home and mother by the
is good. Otherwise, it's the dead time the postman got receipt for him
wagon for him early some morning, delivered in a distant, city. Richard
Spillane, in the Philadelphia Public
Due to proximity, dwellers in cer
tain sections of Clackamas county
believe in annexation to Multnomah.
The same may be said of parts of
Washington county.
A man quits smoking New Year's
to please his wife and resumes three
days later to please himself.
The job showed much bluff, fi
nesse and lots of front, and was well
done for a job of the kind.
The S o'clock burglar evidently
consults Dun's and Bradstreet's.
Really, nobody knows, his neigh
bor Unless he's of long standing.
Three days left before the annual
swear-off. Burn 'em.1 ..',..
One bond broker Is nor a sample
of all.- ; ' - - " '
-"Whoa,OIe!-
Ledger.
Between 3000 and 4000. deer are
within a radius of four or five miles
of the Campbell place, on Salt creek
in the McCloud river basin, east of
Antler. This ia according to Charles
Smith and Boy Gregory, who ware
driving cattle in that region.
It is nothing unusual, they say.
to see bands of 150 and 200 deer.
The like of It was never known
before, according to Smith and Greg
ory, who have lived along the Mc
Cloud river all their lives.
' Indians say that when so many
deer ,flock together low down out
of the mountains,!! is a sure sign of
a hard winter. Sacramento Bee.
- .
Uncle Sam's money-makers in the
San Francisco mint are working six
teen hours a day trying to keep
abreast of the demand for silver
coinage, which seems to be preferred
everywhere now to paper money. This
preference, it is said. Is particularly
noticeable in Philadelphia and San
Francisco. ,. . -
An old-time Thespian is Thomas L.
Caverly, who stopped at the Multno
mah on his way to Los Angeles, and
attended-the Christmas tree festivi
ties staged by E. V. Hauser. "Forty
years ago," said Mr. Caverly, "I
played with Lester Wallack on Broad
way, and Mrs. Gilbert, the grand old
lady of the stage, was In her prime.
Richard Mansfield was a ham actor
and unrecognised. In the company at
Wallack's was the elder Drew, father
of John. McKee Rankin, was in the
cast. Later I was with Fanny Daven
port In "Ingomar,' when Melbourne
McDowell was her husband and prom
inent on the stage. He Is now In pic
tures. The motion pictures have been
a great blessing to the theatrical
profession. Before the movies came
actors worked only part of the year
and were 'at liberty' during the sum
mer months, so that when the time for
rehearsals arrived they had to draw
advances on their salaries. In the
circumstances It was difficult for a
member of the theatrical profession
to save enough to provide for old age
unless particularly thrifty. Fortu
nately I saved1 enough to buy a small
farm In New York state,- which I
still own. I am how going to Los
Angeles to play 'old men' In the
films."
"One of the heavy storms-'' this
season picked up the floating can
nery near the mouth of Rogue river
and left It high and -dry, on the
Island." said Colonel B. K. Lawson
of Wedderburn, who is at the Benson
with Mrs. Lawson. "Aside from this,
there has been little damage by the
storms." Colcfnel Lawson' says that
the commercial fishing industry at
the mouth of Rogue river has been
very successful the past year, because
Of the exceptionally large run of fish.
The money paid out for salmon by
the company with which he is con
nected ran far into six figures. . The
colonel says that he hopes the con
troversy over fiehinp; in this stream
will be ended, as there is now a
compromise pending in which the
commercial interests have surrend
ered the right to use set-nets and
seines and have given up the month
in which they get their best fish.
One of the measures in which T. B.
Kay will take a great interest dur
ing the coming session of the legis
lature will be the revised workmen's
compensation bill. Mr. Kay is a
member of the committee of fifteen
which has been laboring with the
measure for several months past.
The report will be completed in
time to submit to the legislature and
when it is finally drafted It will con
tain the views of representatives of
labor, the employers and the general
public. Mr. Kay is registered at the
imperial. .
George Flagg, .who runs one of I
the best papers in Oregon, is in town
from Condon. He has the Globe-
Times. Once upon a time Condon
had two papers, the Globe and the
Times. They were always carrying
on a feud and represented different
factions. Along came Mr. Flagg.
bought both papers, consolidated
them and is giving his readers
newsy publication. And frequently
Mr. Flagg lifts the interviews in
"Those Who Come and Go" column
to show the people at home what
their townspeople have to say when
they get to Portland.
James C. Cunningham, president of
the Union Trust company of Walla
Walla. Wash., arrived at the Hotel
Portland yesterday. Mr. Cunningham
came here for the purpose of looking
after the interests of some of his
company's clients, who had dealings
with Morris Bros., Inc. Mr. Cunning
ham was present when the receiver
was appointed lata yi-sterday after
noon, and will return home today.
George H. Mansfield of Medford
Is at the Imperial. Mr. Mansfield is
engaged in doing educational -work
among the farmers and as a side line
he is very much interested in the
fish of the Rogue river. Last sum
mer he camped a couple of wei ks at
the. mouth of the stream, and now
thinks that the anglers and "the com
merclal interests should get togeth
er on a compromise.
All of the old-timers in and around
Spokane, particularly those who were
interested In the mining business,
know Jake Goetz. owner of the Coeur
d'Alene hotel In Spokane. Mr. Goets
is in town looking around, and is
registered at the Hotel Portland He
Is one of the oldest hotel men in
Eastern Washington.
Conditions In Vancouver, B. C, are
very satisfactory these days, reports
Charles C. Campbell of that place.
who is among the arrivals at the
Multnomah. There are elaborate
plans for development of the harbor
and there is a good demand for real
estate in the select residence district.
PRODUCT BETTER THAN PRAISE
Results Are What Ceist In Determ
ining School Efficiency.
PORTLAND. Dec. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Debates on the teachers' tenure
law wax warm as the curtain ia about
to rise at Salem. The Sunday article
of Mr. Green, bearing official stamp
as a composite utterance of the teach
ers, asserts:
First A denial that permanency of
tenure will deprive a teacher of In
centive and ambition. But, continues
a proviso, there must be adequate and
competent professional supervision.
Aye, there's the rub.
Second That teaching Is a public
service in which efforts and result!
are given th community.
Third The success of the law Is Its
chief defense. ,
Fourth A lay board cannot be ex
pected to be sufficiently competent to
pass on professional services of
teachers, followed by a service halo
bestowed upon our lay trial board.
This is rather bewildering. The
writer holds no brief for teachers or
school board. His ambition Is to be
an advocate for the unfortunate "kid,"
whose voice is not heard directly or
by proxy. Early In 1920 the writer
began a work long planned and stole
time from business to look Into our
school Bystem. His observations were
placed in an article entitled, "The
Human Product of Our Schools." It
is constructive and might aid In solv
ing some present troubles. Its view
point is that of a humble taxpayer
and citizen seeking light as a "lay-,
man."
It Is sincerely believed that where
a teacher should retire because of age
or temperamental unfitness, but has
the backing of the sob brigade, no
"supervislon'V will tackle the Job and
the lay trial board will fall. Paeans
of praise, because our schools appear
to be better than others, are not con
vincing that their product Is stan
dard. Efforts may have been made
and yet results be below par. Tax
payers are liberal, but when they pay
for public service they want real, not
apparent results. The writer con
cluded that something is wrong with
our school system, and based It large
ly upon a decided failure In grade
arithmetic. Limited space allowed
communications precludes details of
facts to support this statement.
ROBERT C. WRIGHT.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jesses J. Meatagne.
When J. J. Carr arrived In Portland
and registered at the Benson, he went
out to look around and found that
there was considerable slashing of
prices among local furniture dealers.
This was of interest to Mr. Carr. for
at La Grande he Is in the furniture
business. ,
F. S. Bramwell, vice-president of
the state chamber of commerce, is at
the Hotel Oregon.. At home, Mr.
Bramwell is in the hardware busi
ness. He is the father of the newly
appointed state superintendent of
banks. The Bramwells are residents
of Grants Pass.
Geqrge H. Russell, one of the best-
known men In central Oregon, is at
the Benson. Mr. Russell is the owner
of a big ranch In Crook county and
used to have a fondness for raising
mules and he was in the mule busi
ness on Puget sound for a time.
C. P. A. Lonergan of Pendleton
where he has an Ice plant, a laundry,
Is engaged in the contracting busi
ness and has several other Irons in
the fire, arrived at the Hotel Port
land yesterday.
Boyd Mendenhall, manager for Hal-
ton's department store In Tillamook,
Is at the Hotel Oregon resting up
after the pre-Chtistmas rush of shop
ping in the cheese metropolis.
K. Nakashlma, a business man of
Japan, registered at the Benson yes
terday. Mr. Nakashlma is looking
over the Industrial field in the United
States.
F. H. Anderson of Boise, Idaho, Is
an arrival at the Multnomah. He is
the Idaho representative of a big vtL
per manufacturing concern. f.
Boardman, Or., had a great - time
Christmas, so after It was over M. B.
Sighs left and registered yesterday
at the Multnomah.
Guy Lafolette, newspaper publisher
of Prineville, is on one of his frequent
trips to the rose city and Is at the
Hotel Portland. .
W1IV WOME.V AGES MORE! QUICKLY
Care They Give te Childrra Would
Make Nervous Wrecks of Men.
SIXPROVG. Wash.. Dec. 26. (To
the Editor.) I have rend with a great
aeai or interest the "Widowers
complaint that women show their ace
younger than men. I don't believe
they do unless there are chlldrem
Then how could It be otherwise? It
is the mother who has the constant
care of them day and night, sick or
well, she must be with them alwHvo.
Unless she is like the "Grandmother"
thinks more of looking young and
gay than she does of her children.
I knew of a case where the mother
had "grippe" and there were three or
four little children, all with bad colds.
Consequently they cried and fussed
a great deal. Bo the father poor
man, that he should be so abuxedl
went every day to a sheep camp and
spent the day to get away from the
noise. It was too much for his nerv
ous system. He might age under the
strain. As for his wife oh, well,
that was what he married her fo,
to take care of the children.
You may say this la an extrem
case, but the fact still remains that
it is the woman who has to be with
the children at all times. It couldn't
be different. sln-e man has to work
to provide the living for them all
But If the thing were turned around
and the woman went forth and made
the living and the man stayed home
with the children all the time, "Wid
ower" would then find men looked
older than women according to their
age.
for fear you are not convinced that
men shirk in their part of the care
of their children. I will repeat a part
of "a conversation I heard, bet-ween
two men. One was a father and hi
cniiaren were ciimuing over him as
children will when the father Is
home. He asked the other, who wan
a bachelor, "What would you do It
you had a bunch of kids to climb over
you every time you came in the
house?
T would get out and away from
them part of the time. Just as others
do, i suppose.
I wonder If "Widower" ever did
that? In all probability he went to
the extreme, since he Is well pre
served. A.N OH.-iKKVEK.
Torr.H i-icK.
Seme ef the eeMersi refuse t psemH
mule students to attend dances unless their
amudinss ars acct-pisble.
Farewell to the lure of the daace
For many a lovely co-ed;
Farewell to the rythmlo romance
Now utterly faded and fled:
For th faculty aolds that an under
grad'a marks
Mean mora than the light tripping
lasses, ,
And he cannot go out open any more
lark a
Unless ha keeps up with his olasses.
The damsels are low In their minds.
When they think of a prom er a
ball.
For they've rot to go e ut with th
srlnds.
Or they can't go to parties at all.
And a grind, though, of course, ha la
likely to be '
Of a praiseworthy, studious habit.
Has a terrible draw-back, and that is -that
he
Can't dance any mora than a rabbit.
The youths who are graceful and
sum.
And dreams of delight on the floor.
Are always remarkably dim
In their grasp of collegiate lore.
And therefore the girls have com
puted the chance
As Just about one In a million.
That any. young student who knows
how to dance
Can ever attend a cotillion.
Alas, for the lovely co-ed.
8he wears a disconsolate frown
And thinks aha hud better be dead
Or bark in her little old town
Where the bovs keot the baaa up till
ong a'ter two.
And nobody ever Inquired
How much mathematics of physics
they knew
As long aa their feet were Insairea.
e e
WklrM
Lord Bryce aays the world la at the
brink of an abyss, and Mr. Harding
is advising It to step out.
ess
Ose (laving.
Even In boom times a president
elect never has to use the help wanted
columns in order to fill hla cabinet.
s
The Days of Denoerary,
Until the Constantine incident, wa
never knew that men were elected to
the purplti.
(Cnpyrlaui. 1fi?0. bv Fl! Syndicate. Ine
John Burroughs' Nnture
Note.
WIFE EM1M.OVF.IM NO IIOMIi LfFH
Mother of Married Woman Worker
Would Have Han Krected.
PORTLAND, Pec. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) I have been reading of the
number of men and women out of em.
ployment in Portland and call to mind
the drive one of oirr neighbor cities
is making agalntft the employment of
married women who have husbands
working and earning enough to sup
port thorn nicely. Why can't we do
the same here?
We know there are any number of
positions held by such married women
that could be filled by deserving un
employed. The efficiency of a mar
ried woman la not sa good as that of
an unmarried one, because they say,
Well, if my employer doean t like the
way I do, he can get someone else: I
don't have to work."
I feel I am In a position to speak of
this, because I have a married daugh
ter working. Her husband earns a
good salary. She works only for the
unnecessary luxuries the money will
buy. My son-in-law. like all loving
husbands, objects to his wife's work
ing and being closeted all day In an
office with another man. He is afraid
It is going to lead to the divorce
court, like many other cases. She ia
not a good companion because she
tired and Irritable at night. There is
no home life and there are no bablea.
I state our case as only an example
of many others Just the same.
Lt'a force the married women to
quit work, have happier homes, more
babies, fewer davorccs, less crime for
the lack of work and have more posi
tlons open for the unemployed.
READER.
Can lou Answer Tfcear Qeratleaf
1. Are there different varieties of
the wild field strawberry?
2. How dots the drumming of the
woodpecker vary In sound?
S. What ia the "sweat bee"?
Answers In tomorrow's nature
nctca.
e s e
Answers to Previous Quest Inn,
1. Do birds of different species
flock together In winter?
In severe weather, when the snow
Ilea deep on the ground. I frequently
see a loose, heterogenous troop of
birds pass my door, engaged In the
common search for food. Theao birds
are probably not drawn togeiher,
even thua loosely, by any sorlal In
Ktinrta, but by a common want; all
are hungry, and the activity of one
sfeciea attracts and .draws after it
unother and another.
s
S Do animals ever eat dirt lu win
ter? Humboldt aaya wolves eat earth,
especially clay, during winter, and
I'liny makes a similar observation. In
Greenland the dog cuts seaweed when
Lther food falls. In tropical countries,
during tho tropical winter, maty sav
age trlliea eat clay. It distends their
ntomarhs, and in a measure atltlea
tlu craving of hunger.
s e
3. Doea a man's housa reflect hla
character?
Every man's houe la In soma sort
an effigy of himself. It Is not the
snalla and shell-fish alone that ex
crete their tenements, hut mnn as
well. When you Kcrlously build a
Niune, you make public proclamation
of your taste and manners, or your
want of these.
(Rights reserved by Houghton, .Mif
fllYt Co.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Veara Age.
Krem The Orrgnnlan, iHCMnber l.'. Jsi.
Chicago, Dec. 27 I no Deny or
Harry Hayward, recently encrutrd at
Minneapolis for the murder of I'eth-
rine Glng, arrlvrd In Chicago today
for cremation.
The aei'ond annual meeting- of the
Xorthwestern Ornlt holitglcal associa
tion waa held yexterday in thla city.
The robust growth of republicanism
In Kentucky, says the I'ts Moines
Leader, la Indicated by the fact that
Governor-elect Bradley has alrcadv
Dunn applications on file for .the 21
offices at hia disposal.
Ouida. the authoress, wears what,
at ail events, looka like a reddish wig.
John M. Dorph, a wheat rancher of
Umatilla county. Is 'among the Ben-
rson arrivals, registered from Pendle
ton.
Bert Newberger, connecfed with t.
large department store at Baker, is
an arrival at the Benson.
O. L. Evenson, In the logging In
dustry at Clatskanle, Or"rs at the
Benson while here on business.
C. I. Barr, secretary of the cham
ber of commerce of Astoria, is at the
Benson, , . : ..
Pllcrrtra Half Dollar.
NEWPORT. Or., Dee. 26. (To the
Editor.) Please tell me where and
at what- price the Pilgrim and the
Mayflower half dollars can be ob
tained. SUBSCRIBER.
Portland banks obtained their Sup
plies of Pilgrim half dollars by pur-
chase, at l each plus express
charges, from National banks In
Boston. The coins were minted by
the government tor the Pilgrim Me
morial commission-, and the charga of
$1 covers 60 cents for coin value and
60 cents to be used by the commis
sion In erecting a memorial. Tht
Portland supply .was quickly ex
hausted. Whether any - can be ob
tained now can be ascertained by
writing to the Pilgrim Memorial com
mission, Boston, Mais.
' Value of Liberty Bends.
WHEELER, Or Dec 26. (To the
Editor.) Do liberty bondi depreciate
in value? D. L, MORGAN.
Market prices of 'the aevera'l Issues
of liberty bonds are quoted dally on
the financial page of The Oregonlan.
If you sell liberty bonds now to some
other Investor you will receive less
than par.. If you hold them until
they mature the government will pay
you full face value for them. i
Till: M'.W VKAK AMI THK Ol.ll.
While the new year's dawn Is bring
ing Sounds of greeting full of cheer,
I can hear the precepts ringing
Of the old departing year.
Aa we glean from hours of learning
Lessins needful to retain.
Thus unto the old year turning
We may count Its lexsons, gain;
And applying them In klndnesa
From experience tried andrue
Wa may free from error's blindness
As we Journey on anew.
Thus each year will mark progression,
Onward, upward, souls have trod.
Learning slowly through transgres
sion. Laws immutable of God.
Janette Martin.
Meaning ef Shadow Boxing.
ALBANY. Or.. Dec. 26 (To the Ed
itor:) In speaking about a pugilists
training for a match, they sometimes
speak of them doing ahadow boxing.
What is meant by shadow boxing?
J. B.
It Is a conditioning or wannlng-as
exercise in which the boxer combats
an imaginary roe, singing into me
atr and shifting about to bring all
muscles into play.
Way a Multnomah Couatyf
Portland. Deo. 27. (To the Editor.)
Referring to the county hoapltal
controversy, what Is the use of a
county of Multnomah anyhow?
If It had been dispensed with long
ago. there would nave neen no con
troversy and poialbly no spilled milk.
JN. U.
Prohibition Plunk,
PORTLAND, Dee, 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Pleaae advise what the last
democratic platform rontalned re
garding prohibition or the wet nu
tion. A HEADLR.
Th subject was ignored.
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