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8 the aronxixG oregoxiatt, Tuesday, January 25. 1921 ESTABLISHED BV HEBT L. PITJOCK. '. . Fubllxhed by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. 13S Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDBN. & B. PIPER. Uauier. tailor. The Oregonisn la a member of the Aim- dated rresi. The .- ,r i - ...... nr mililication 1 turn . dusiveiy entitled to iu. -, , - of all new. dispatches credited to It or not sacrificing, public otherwise credited In this paper and also ,., ... , - the local new. published herein. All right, to those trusts W ;. of publication of ipecial dispaicne. oorviu Tr. are also reserved. , Subscription Bate Invariably In Advanoe. (By Mall.) Pally. Sunday Included, one year.. Ially. Sunday Included, six month. IR.an 4.23 fcaily, Sunday Included, three months. J.f- dally. Sunday Included, ana mon pally, wtthuut Sunday, one year.. -. Dally, without Sunday. six monthi X" Pally, without Sunday, one month "Weekly, one year. .......-- Sunday, one year. ........- 6 00 .25 .BO 1.00 2.60 form a trust, they -would better go outside their own ranks and hire some expert who has formed trusts that enrich their members. If they should do so, there would be some cause for the commission to become active. Meanwhile the commission might Its attention from this self- benefactor-trust which do all the nefarious things against which the Sherman law Is aimed. There are plenty of them to keep it busy. IB Carrier.) Tally. Sunday Included, one year. . . . . ni ' Fallv, Sunday Included, three monies. Tally. Sunday Included, one month... ". rt&llv. wlfhnnt ftundav. ona year.... 1-BU '. Dally, without Sunday, three months. l.M bally, without Sunday, one month 3 - How to Remit Send poatofflce money ordr, express or personal check on your - local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are '. at owner risk. Give poatofflce address in fuI. including county and state. Postage Kate. 1 to 1 pages, 1 cent: 18 to 22 pages. 2 cents; 84 to 4! pages. 3 cents; -. 10 to 04 pagss, 4 cents; 66 to 0 Pges. 5 cents; 82 to l pages, 6 cents, foreign X postage doubl. rate. Eastern Business Office Verree it Conk Kn, Brunswick building. New York; Verree .. Conklln, Steger building. Chicago; Verree & Conklin. Free I'resa building, Detroit, . alleh. Sao Francisco representative. K, J. ' fcidwell. .-. 8 AXE BOND LEGISLATION. The bond houses perform a dls- '. . tinctly valuable function in com :." munlty life. Without them county, X port, school district, drainage dis- trict, and irrigation district bonds would be dumped upon a restricted - market. The bond houses bring municipal securities to the attention . of Investors. The greater the num- -j ber of investors in the field the befter the price paid for the bonds. It should be fully recognized that -.- IHo f ) i 1 1 r-a nf nnn larpn hnn(i hmisA :. - Is not cause for enactment of re- pressive measures on all bond - r houses. The investor demands and la ttntitlarl tr TrntArtinn whirh rift ' has not fully had, but he is not demanding experiments in regula : tory legislation that go beyond the - plain mailer oi protection, iiitru is legislation proposed at Salem which ' would require a bond house which - issues interim cerimcaies to oeposu 'with the state treasurer $100,000 in cash or-trovernment bonds, but this ' legislation would exempt building " onA tnn OGcnMnlinnQ trllRt r-om canies and banks. u Such a law would close the doors - of some or tne responsioie oona JL. ouyers ana wouia xena xo conuue bond dealings to institutions not or- iranized primarily to deal in bonds. . leieu 111 tX lew luisu luoiuuuuus aim in a lew omers wnicn wouiu siv "'Ihom Knf inAffrctnt nttontinn na A niAra h.annh ntlvlV Sufficient security can be given investors wunoui anvins prosper u. live oona Diaaers oui 01 toe iieiu. a - statute requiring inspection ana re - ports, and confinement of interim . issues to tne aonuy 01 ine oroher io TIT V 'AllM OAATT1 tft hd Rllff!rlnt- MfA.j vv vv Another form of legislation in spired by the prominence recently given to bond transactions is found in a bill which would impose a high personal tax upon foreign securities jieia wunin me siaie. it is nut cicoi whether "forelEn securities" is in tended to cover only securities which originate outside of the ' United States or whether it includes as well securities originating out . side of Oregon. If the former, it . may be pointed out that the sale of " our surplus commodities depends upon tne creation 01 creuiis uuruau. ' Enactment of the law by all states would be disastrous to ourselves. If : all securities originating outside of Oregon are-involved, the law would have an effect like that of the pro posed deposit measure. Bond houses . would be driven out of business, " marketing conditions would be im paired and the purpose of the bill, which is to promote Investment in n.aimn caniirttioa urmilt liO fcated. f , r . t ; ! flnil fdlC W1C5VII DCVUIJUC3 IIWH ready sale here and In the east at prices that are not under the gen eral market for obligations that are as well secured. The tax is one that is easily avoided. It would affect only the inexperienced investor. The experienced investor would deposit his foreign securities with trust companies in other cities, remoe his balance to those cities and turn his business and the profits accru lng therefrom to dealers outside of the state. A similar tax exists in California but has never. been ef fective. It has even driven from the state some super-conscientious persons who live upon incomes in vested In foreign securities. There is no need for radical, or repressive or experimental bond legislation. There is likelihood of harm in It. The den-and and ne cessity are only that some ample form of Inspection and -regulation, each of which permitted the wreck ing of a Portland bond house, shall be provided. OXE INEFFICIENT "TRCST." For a combination in restraint of trade that was menacing to the public weal the lumber trust re cently discovered by the federal trade commission Is strangely ineffi cient. It was not able to raise the price of its product until the prices of all other commodities, whether or not controlled by trusts, had risen. It displayed utter Incapacity to-pre-vent the price of lumber from to bogganing forty-five per cent from the peak of 1920 in a few months. So far was" there from being a com bination among the several lumber sections that the southern pine men actually taunted the Douglas fir men with their excessive modera tion in raising prices. In view of the achievements of this trust in delaying advance and hastening fall in the price of lum ber, we suggest that the federal trade commission should have ap plauded, not condemned it. The only rational explanation of the com mission's censure is that it was dis gusted with the failure of the lum bermen's combination to perform the primary function of a trust, which is to boost prices and cinch the public. The lumbermen seem to be utterly devoid of ability to organize, a trust which will accomplish this end. The only result of their efforts sd far xtas been to impoverish them. They persist in this course till they are now selling lumber as low as $8 be low, cost, If they really wisk to rtltE BUNK. Mayor Baker and Commissioner Mann retain a satisfying composure over the proposition before the legls lature for a tax-reviewing commis sion for Multnomah county. But the three other commissioners have permitted themselves to become greatly excited about It. The county commissioners view the plan as an invasion of their exclusive privilege of taxing a helpless people as they see fit within the law, of course. The school board, however, has de cided to keep hands off. It is well. Thus we see that there is no help to be had from some officials to stop the spending madness which has seized nearly all public bodies in the past decade. Power is a dan gerous thing. Give it to the aver age man, and he lets go with reluc tance and with loud shouts of dis pleasure. Usually he finds some thing to say that will ring unpleas antly in the ears of the citizens who are trying to find a remedy for the cure of a sick public, burdened by a miscellaneous and too . numerous officialdom. This time the bogey of a vast "political machine" has been in vented. It is all bunk. But it will serve as well as anything else for those who had nothing worth-while to say, but who felt that they had to say something. What they should say, or be able to say, is that they are willing to submit their action as public officers. In the making of their respective budgets, to any representative body, created after mature deliberation by the legislature and appointed by a governor responsible on his oath and his conscience to the state. But no, sir, they will have nothing of the kind. They want nobody to interfere, to adjust, to revise, to trim, to cut, to veto, to tell them what to do. Not on your Ufa. What are they afraid of? It is easy to answer, ihey are arraia that their authority to spend all the public revenues they can lawfully get hold of will be curtailed. would rive n. the Dosslblllty and I whn tpaITv want tn laArn ha 4 mflda lutTon "r"al 01 . " inevitable the choice between-cull lng the raw material and permitting Thus the connection is traced be tween the communist, party of the United States and the third inter national, between that body and the soviet government, between that government and Martens, its "am bassador," and between him and the commonists ia Portland who de nounce his deportation. Yet these people exclaim that pro hibltlon of their meeting violates the right of free speech. They would bring the American constitu- educational workmanship to deterl orate, Princeton's example is especially significant because it is Vplcal in a number of ways. All of the colleges are beginning to find themselves taxed to the utmost by unexpected demands on them. Only a short while ago it was estimated on the basis of progress then -being made that about ten years from now Princeton would have 2000 students, and plans were made accordingly. tion to ridicule by pretending that, War reduced enrollment, but peace the right which it guarantees to those who obey the law may be used to overthrow the government which it has established. They have to learn that a constitutional right may not be used for an unlawful end. A gathering ceases to exercise the right of free assembly and begins to commit the crime of treason or sedi tion at the point where it turns from peaceful advocacy of change by con stltuttonal means to advocacy of revolution by violence. All com munists, I. W. W. and other revolu tionists will do well to take notice that this is the sense in which the law will be enforced m rortiana. i LACKS SYMPATHY FOB EX-SEKYICE MEN. In opposing validation of the war risk insurance -that the ex-soldiers murdered at Centralia had permitted to lapse. Secretary of the Treasury Houston takes a narrow, legal view that has characterized the attitude of the Wilson administration gener ally toward ex-service men. If the murdered men had lived, they would have hd the same opportunity as others to reinstate their, policies. Murder deprived them of this op portunity. There. are therefore spe cial circumstances about their "case which justify the action provided by the Johnson bill. There is no cause for surprise that Mr. Houston falls to give weight to these circumstances. His unsympa thetic attitude is of a piece with the action of the administration In bring ing the soldiers home and dumping them on the shore without any pro vision for their welfare at and after demobilization. Its sympathy was reserved for conscientious objectors anil it studiously sought grounds for not deporting the reds who would have overturned the government that the soldiers had saved. The people are impatient to be rid of a pacifist administration which had to be clubbed into war, and which abandoned the fighting men as excess baggage as soon as the fighting stopped. They look fot a decided contrast in tne treatmem that the Harding administration will accord to veterans. EZRA I SMITH, PIONEER. No person who came to Oregon after admission of the territory is entitled to the official or formal- designation as a pioneer. This is Aho rule made by the Oregon Pio neer association, and we have no thought of finding fault with it. There are still living, it is pleasing to recall, many hundreds and even thousands of those early and ven turesome emigrants who made their heroic way to the distant northwest. and laid the foundations of a great American commonwealth. It would be a proposal suggestive of profana tion if it were to be asked that the bars be lowered so that other useful citizens whose coming was later be entitled also to the distinction which exclusively belongs to those who came to Oregon when it was a ter ritory. Yet it will not be amiss to say that the late Ezra L. Smith had the stature, the spirit, and the record of a pioneer. It was impossible to think of him in other aspects. He was literally a pioneer in Hood River valley and was a great factor in Its early development as a prosperous horticultural district. Yet he went there as late as 1876, but a genera tion and a half ago. In pioneer parlance, forty-four years is not long; but in the life of the individ ual and the growth of a community it may be, 'and it usually is, epochal It Is only within the past twenty years, or even less, that Hood Kiver acquired national fame for Us fruit. Mr. Smith had much to do with it. Ezra L. Smith's time goes back to Lincoln in Illinois, to civil war times In California, almost to the political beginnings of Washington territory, and to what might be termed the late middle period of Oregon history. So after all he was a good deal of a pioneer. He was conspicuous in civic affairs, and long a prominent figure in the political activities of the state". He had the esteem of his neighbors and the confidence of the public in an uncommon degree. It will not be easy to think of Hood River without Ezra L. Smith. enormously increased it. The 2000 limit has almost been reached. Pub lic and private colleges everywhere are having the same experience. In the largest, personal contact between instructors and undergraduates al ready is suffering. Perhaps the time will never come when any youth determinedly bent on educating' himself will be ex cluded from opportunity to do so, but the day seems to be dawning when contributors to endowment funds on one hand and taxpayers on the other will demand a quid pro quo. The time-waster will lose no privilege of value to him, and the student who is willing to pay the price in easiest labor will be all the better served. NO RIGHT or FREE RKVOIXTIOX. When a number of men meet for the purpose of protesting against the deportation of L. C. A. K. Martens, they are certainly in sym pathy with his purpose. As pre tended ambassador of the soviet government, he was in this country to promote its ends, among which is' revolution to overthrow the exist ing government. He was deported as a member or ana aninatea witn an organization advocating the over throw of the government of the United States by force." Then Mayor Baker simply did his duty in pre venting a meet:ng to protest against Martens' deportation and in arrest- ng persons in possession of litera- tire advocating revolution. The revolutionary purpose of those who attempted to hold the meeting is apparent from a pamphlet found on some of them, for one passage reads: Two point are open to you proleta rian revolution or wage slavery. The first halns of capitalism with all its evil. poverty. Unemployment, hunger, insecurity misery, war and establishing a workers' will administer government and Industry I compared with the Capable training by, and for the workers and against the I of a smaller number. The effect on GREAT BATHER THA?f BIO. Announcement by President Hib- ben of Princeton that he has ap pointed a committee of the faculty to devise a plan for restricting en rollment, "that it may be fair to all applicants and secure for us the most desirable body of students," makes concrete the growing desire of authorities on higher education to reserve the facilities of colleges for those who' regard them seriously. The rich and idle young men who go to school because it is the fashion, and because it .is as good a place as any other in which to spend a cer tain amount of time, will be ex cluded under the proposed system though it is possible that this will not relieve the pressure as much as some suppose, for the proportion of gilded youths in any given univer sity probably has been greatly ex aggerated. But every little helps, and. as the pressure increases, it is found necessary at least to eliminate waste, and all of those who do not understand and appreciate the priv ilege of advanced education are going to be eliminated to make room for those who do. No intimation is given of inten tion to introduce the widely her alded "psychology test" which an other university, numerically' larger than Princeton, Is trying out and which is said to have yielded results advantageous mutually to student and school. Perhaps it will be con cluded that this is too crude for the purpose, and it will be well if a better way is hit upon. But the fact remains that Dr. Hibben has let It be known that it is more to the honor of an institution of learning that it should be "great" than that it should beonly "big," and in this he has made plain his view of the college's duty to society. Merely to turn out some thousands of gradu ates is an achievement not to be THE LATEST CABINET FORECAST. 1 Much more can be said for than against the latest forecast of the Harding cabinet. It shows the president-elect still true to his first choice as to most of the places, and the addition of Governor Lowden and ex-Senator Sutherland to the list is a welcome sign that political and personal friendship has given way to consideration of (.he quality of men. But the name of Herbert Hoover Is still missing,' and the omission detracts from the public approval which would otherwise ' greet Mr.. Harding's selections. Mr. Hoover's proved administrative ability and high-minded public service are re garded by the people in general as a national asset which should be used by the new administration, and if, as is suspected, he is to be left out In deference to the enmity of a factional leader, ninety per cent of the people will be intensely disap pointed, and the new administration will lose far more than it will gain by conciliating a factional leader who continually requires to be con ciliated anew. Gratification will be felt that Mr. Lowden is to be in the cabinet, but many will wonder- why he, being from the interior, should head the navy department, and why Mr. Weeks, who is specially informed on the navy, should take charge of the war department. , The west will be pleased that Mr. Sutherland Is selected for the in terior department, and his great legal ability will be of value to the administration, while his known de fense of exemption of -coastwise ships from canal tolls will be a pledge that the administration will stand firm for that policy. But the opinion will persist that Mr. Harding would better have left out Mr. Daugherty, his personal political manager, and have placed Mr. Suth erland at the head of the depart ment of justice. Many will regret that Leonard Wood is not to head the war de partment, for which position he is peculiarly well equipped, but rea sons of both policy and politics no doubt Interfere. Traces of the antagonism aroused at the conven tion seem to survive, and opponents of universal military training, of which he is the foremost champion, would enter protest. But Mr. Hard ing would strengthen his hold ton the people If he were to find for General Wood public office suited to his talents as a soldier and executive. The Listening Post. General ' DwltTery Clerk Joggle' Fate With -Many Letters. Those Who Come and Go. Coroner Smith's report calls at tention to a fact that many have wondered about very much, why a traffic officer quits, a busy corner when the clock strikes 6, just as traffic of all kinds is homeward bound 'and heavy. There may be excuse for it when 6 is a daylight hour, but not In the dark months. According to the new Internal revenue regulations, Jamaica ginger Is intoxicating in law as well as in fact, and wine of pepsin is to be taken from the list of permitted medicines. Pretty soon there won't be anything that a fellow can take for his stomach's sake. t N A perfunctory manner the gen X era! delivery clerks art the main pestoffice ehuffle and Jug-pie let ters as If they were tne most ordi nary things in the world and not the most important to the dally throng jWho haunt the corridors waiting for some Important message. One letter to the clerks is no' different from Its mates, and what matters, if they con tain checks, a rejected manuscript, a proposal of marriage, a bribe, a dun. a threat of blackmail or an appeal to return home? Hour after hour the line persists, some have long faces, some are im patient and rail at fate, others emile and shrug their shoulders when they are not successful, and all the gamut of emotions is run as the clerks hand out the precious missive or announce: "Nothing for youtoday." The first person in line yesterday morning was "Miss Regina St. Clair," well-colored blonde in a gaudy hat who did some little jazz steps as she approached the window. "Nothing for you" was the, greeting, but Miss St. Clair did not seem perturbed as she stepped into the next line and at the window gave her name as Mrs. Regina Brown and got a letter. One little woman nearly broke Into tears when she got a letter. She seized it with every indication of great Joy and there was moisture in her eyes as she carefully slit the en velope with a hairpin and read as if starved, all the while laughing and nodding her head in utter abandon to the emotions it aroused and paying no attention to passersby. Most peo ple who get their letters at general delivery cannot wait to get them away from the buildlag, so read them on the spot. Behind the happy little woman came a ch with long locks and flowing tie. who took a couple of long .envelopes that possibly con tained rejected manuscript with a resigned air. Behind him a "hard boiled guy" w;ith a cap hurled an oath as he received no letter, and be hind him a girl, evidently a foreigner. handed in a card with her name to the clerk. They will be there In Just as great numbers today. Jim Meeks of Cornucopia, Or., saved up for over a year to bring Mrs. Meeks to Portland for a week's trip. (This is not their right name.) They arrived Sunday, hungry, and went to an Alder-street restaurant. Seated at the next table was a sedate old professor in evening clothes with a gay little, sloe-eyed minx who .wore exceedingly "short skirts hidden by a cloak. Big city stuff, thought Jim. as he looked them over; the wicked world, thought Mrs. Meeks, as she remembered the discussions of the perils girls must meej at the Cornu copia sewing guild. No sooner had their meal been served than in came a quartet of beauties, rouged and camouflaged to the limit, and took another table. It was nearly too much for Jim, who couldn't keep his eyes quiet, there was so much to watch. Despite fre quent nudges from his better half. Ire Just couldn't seem to pay the proper attention to his meal or life partner, especially when he discov ered that a 14 of the girls there seemed to be more coming In every minute were garbed in exceedingly short and diaphanous costumes. Sev eral young fellows in tuxedos made their appearance and mingled -with the hungry crowd, seating themselves just as they wished and talking to the girls, seemingly without an in troduction. The chances are that Mr. and Mrs. Meeks did not learn that they 'had seen the cast from the Lyric at their Sunday supper. The restaurant the visitors picked for their first meal is near the etage door; and here it is that the principals and chorus girls rush for their bite during the afternoon intermission in their con tinuous bill. Contrary to the belief tljat chorus girls get plenty of lob ster and other dainties, the most of the girls here seem to prefer beans and Java- While Portland children were re joicing yesterday morning in a'eprin kling of snow and squealing "I knew it would snow, mother," two men of the Portland office of the United States forest service were returning from a trip on snowshoes to a place where the white blanket lay four feet deep. They were R. E. Smith forest ranger of the Oregon national forest, and George L. Drake of the department of forest management. They made a 32-mile trip on snow ehoes out from Dee, Or., where they were cruising timber. "We got pretty tired on the 16-mile trip back, said Mr. Smith yesterday. "I felt that if we had another mile to go that wouldn't have tried to make it.' men carried heavy packs. The Oregon scenery is being advertised In many parts of the world by means of various screen news services, and now Oregon . industries are being filmed to let the world know that this is a growing country and not a wild forest, where Indians still roam. Alex ander Singelow, northwest represent ative of the Fox News service, with head-quarters in Seattle, is at the Oregon while scouting for suitable subjects to put before the screen loving public. He has just taken some pictures at Bridal Veil, showing the mill there and the chute which carriea lumber from the mountain to the mill. At Kelso, Wash., he recently finished scenes of smelt fishing by means of the dip net. He will be here for a few days. Hardware and implement dealers from all over the state began arriving in Portland yesterday to attend the 15th annual convention of the Oregon Retail Hardware and Implement Deal ers' association, which opens today at the Imperial. A. J. Jameson of McMinnville, president of the associa tion, was one of the first Arrivals yesterday at the Imperial. One of the speakers will be Herbert P. Sheets of Argos, lnd., secretary of the National Retail Hardware association. This will be the first time that a national secretary has ever attended a con vention west of the Rocky mountains. The convention will close Friday. Joe Blakeley of Pendleton is in Portland after a visit with relatives in Linn county, his old home. B lane ley has just left the sheriff's office in Pendleton after a service there uf more than 20 years, most of that time under Til Taylor. When he first joined the sheriff's office staff his brother, William Blakeley, was sher iff. He is a brother of Judge George Blakeley of The Dalles and a member of a pioneer Oregon family. He is at the Imperial. He was sheriff of Gil liam county 30 years ago, when Ar lington was the county seat. "A good actor can always get a Jod In pictures," says Bogart Rogers, spe cial press representative of the Thomas H. Ince company in Los An geles, who is at the Benson. "The studios are flooded, however, with inexperienced persons who desire to get on the screen. The motion-picture industry is returning to normal along with other industries. The tendency now is toward stabilization." Mr. Rogers is visiting all the motion picture editors in the west. He is en route to. Seattle and will go from there to New York. Mrs. W. F. Jewett and her daugh ter, Mrs. Carl G. Washburn, both of Eugene, are in Portland for a short visit. Mrs. Washburn was Miss Nar cissa Jewett until last summer, when she .was married to one of the lead ing business men of Eugene. Mrs. Jewett is interested in civic and phil anthropic movements and has beep liberal in her support of worthy causes. She was one of the large Conors for the University of Oregon woman's building, which will be com pleted soon. John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Can Voa Answer These Questions f 1. Is the woodchuck protectively colored? 2. Do any butterflies hibernate, and where? 3. Is the cuckoo a cheerful bird? Answers in tomorrow's nature notoa. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Which melts first, the under or upper side of ice on a body of water? Melting no doubt begins at the up per surface, but the sun's rays strike through ice to a depth of a foot or more and are then reflected upward. This melts the under surface, which is also acted on by the expansion of air bubbles both upward and downward. These honeycomb the ice, soon mak ing air tubes through which the sun's neat easily passes. 2. Do, stijl or moving objects alarm a chipmunk most? How furtive and nervous my chip munk is, rushing about by little Jerks incessantly, not stopping for anything! Apparently he does not know me from a stump or a clothes-horse. His cold paws on my warm hand, on my arm or on my head give him no hint of danger; no odors from my body or look from my eyes disturb him; the sound of my voice does not alarm him; ,but any movement on my part and he is off. It is moving things that mean danger to him odors and still objects concern him little. v - 3. Has a catbird good manners? I hardly know whether I am more annoyed or pleased by the catbird. If you are listening for the note of an other bird she is sure to be promoted to the most loud and protracted sing ing, drowning all other sounds; if you sit down to observe a favorite or study a newcomer her curiosity knows no Bounds and you are scanned and ridiculed from every point of obser vation. J. E. Montgomery, president of the bank of Southwestern Oregon, was In Portland yesterday, visiting banks here. He was elected recently to the presidency of the bank in Marshfield to succeed State Senator Charles Hall, who has transferred his banking op erations to Klamath Falls. During the war he was with the spruce di vision in an executive position. Lv W. Thornton, who has a ranch near Asti, Cal., is at the Multnomah for a few days. He says that although grape raising for wines was curtailed when prohibition went into effect,-the growers are not idle now, but are selling their crops for manufacture of lighter beverages. The yards of the Tipo Chianti wine makers were famous the world over and were vis ited by tourists from many lands. The Begum of Bhopal has bought 4000 silver watches to take back to her people jn central India. We suspect that along with the watches the begum will introduce time pay ments in Bhopal. capitalists In the transition period from capitalism to communism. The communist party of America, of which many of those attempting to attend the meeting are members, is affiliated with tne third or com munist international. At a joint session of the all-Russian central executive committee and the Mos cow soviet of workmeh's and red army deputies sitting with the Mos cow committee of the all-Russian communist party, held, according to the Severnaya Communa of March 7, 919, "on the historic day of the founding of the communist interna tional," greeting was extended to the representatives of the communist party of the United States among other countries, and this declaration as adopted: The session welcomes the communist In ternational as the leader and organiser of I the fighting forces of tne world proleta rian revolution and expresses the firm conviction that under Its leadership thi Ictatorshlp of capital will be overthrown by the dictatorship 01 the proletariat. The close relation between the soviet government of Russia and the alms of the third international and the purpose of both to stir up world revolution are further proved by these words of rvicholas Lenin, the soviet premier, at the Moscow con vention of the communist party on November 23, 1920: education as a whole, if the same policy were adopted by other Insti tutions, would be to impress young students with the Idea that education is a grave business, and that when the college has furnished a costly physical plant and has been staffed with teachers' who on their part take their calling seriously, it is not too much to expect that the student will do his part. There being a probable limit to advantageous growth, it is proposed to restrict quantity of out put in favor of. yield of better quality. The privately endowed institutions of higher learning are in a situation somewhat - different from those which derive their support from public funds, but their problem is the same la the respect that both deal with a considerable number of youths who take too much for granted. Going to college only two or three generations ago meant almost invariable hard work and frequent sacrifice. Now any boy who has the will can find the way, or have it found for him, and a good many who have not the will are permitted to encumber the en rollment books. "The principle of a little field well tilled, newly recog nized In agriculture, is an apt meta phor in education. Colleges are under little or no obligation to fur nish a convenient four-year loafing place for anyone. Enormous pres- An iconoclastic department may dismantle Kearsarge No. 2, but while the American boy studies history nobody will forget the original that put up the great fight with the Alabama. . It is refreshing to learn that we used eighty-four million gallons less whisky last year than three years before. This, of course, does not consider moonshine, which is not whisky. There is a prisoner In the Linn county jail who is cheating the world. He has eaten nothing for several days, to give his stomach a rest, he says. That man should start a cult. If Oregon's electoral vote is. not counted through a technicality, there is the comfort of knowing it isnot needed. Yet it would be jueer If any state should be disfranchised. The anti-saloon league says 84, 000,000 fewer gallons of whisky were drunk up in the United States last year. However, the hair tonlo market is still brisk. The world revolution, by whose aid alone e can win, does not mature with the na.il which we honed for In th. heirln- ning. We axe tshung lor such condition cur exerted by Increasing numbers lor importers 01 tnose ucinese eggs,. 101 Iguana, Sometimes they work quickly in Seattle. The man who killed a policeman Friday was arraigned yesterday and goes to trial Thurs- them what aid he can by his counsel Toddling is the latest on local dance floors. A bas la shimmie, on with the new, it's really enjoyable despite the furore of objections that have followed its progress west from the place of its birth near placid Philadelphia. Reforms may etart, but in the matter of dancing the young seem to be determined to invent their own steps and syncepated move ments. Just what is the "toddle"? It is a sort of an abbreviated "ehimmy." If it is danced according to the rules only the feet are shaken. The instep rises and falls to the syncopated beat and the body lighuly bobs up and down somewhat in the manner of a cork when an inquisitive fish Is sam pling the bait. Tne effect is some what like that of a young child essaying its first steps and the result is really enjoyable. Though minia ture wars have been started against this new up-and-down series of steps, it seems to have many advocates who are firm for it. According to dancing masters the objectionable feature is when too strenuous dancers essay a combina tion of - the "toddle" and "shimmy." They hold that the "toddle" is really the proper step for syncopation. It was noticeable last week that the girls were yet shedding them, that new converts had been made to the free-from-restraint movement. "We never wear them In the gym, so why should we wear them when at any other kind of exercise?" was the remark attributed to one fair advo cate in a dressing-room argument. Neal Zimmerman's father formerly was a protestant minister. He raised a big family, the most of them boys, and is proud of them, as all fathers are. He took their part during their childhood quarrels and difficulties and has fostered in all of them a manly spirit, and even now gives H. R. Ahalt, who lives now at Cecil, Or., is at the Oregon for a few days. Mr. Ahalt had an enviable service record during the war. He was in France for two years and won dis tinction In several of the big battles. He has not decided just what he will undertake in Oregon. I. N. Gabrielson of the department of predatory animals of the United States biological survey, left Port land yesterday for a week's trip to Dallas. While there he will organize ground-squirrel work among the farmers and will talk with' the count agricultural agents. D. W. Twohy, R. E. Strickland and J. J. Finucane, all connected witn the Twohy, Bros.'-'. Contracting com pany, were at tne -ortiana yester day. They left last night for Cali fornia. , Two visitors from northern New York are Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hatha way hi Oriskany Falls', N. Y., who are making a tour of the Pacific coast. They are registered at the Multno mah, C. H. Cusick, banker of Albany, Or., Is in Portland to visit his wife, who is recovering from an operation. He is at the Seward. I,. A McClintock of Pendleton is one of the many hardware merchants here to attend the convention. He is at the Imperial. W. J. Haberly and C D. Hartman of Silverton are here to act on the grand Jury. They are registered at the Imperial. J. C. Ballinger, president of the Ballinger Lumber Company of Ore gon, Is In Portland on business. He is at the Seward. OXE TOXCl'E IS COXCRETI2 IDEAL Single Language IOnongh for Ameri can Secondary Schools. UNIVERSITY PARK, Jan. 23. (To the Editor.) My capable student friend of Reed college again takes me to task for what fhave said In The Oregonlan concerning our Eng lish. Permit me to say that our English language is young compared with many other tongues, and has from Chaucer unVjl now been busy In tne removal of troublesome obstruc tions to secure simplicity. The Italian has not gone beyond where Dante left it in his matchless poem, one of the great four of time, the other three great poets being Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. The English noun is not declined and English words, as words, avoid the item of sex to a remarkable degree. The Italian having no neuter ender, we need not be surprised when an Italian hitting his head against the upper part of a door. scolds her in good manner. Our lan guage, in the main, lets go the matter of gender in the nouns. In our regular verbs we have but four different forms, and even the verb, to be, has but eight changes. The conjugation of our verb is the summit of ease. The enrichment of the English lan guage from foreign sources cannot be passed by in silence. The writer is not smrfluous In looking at English translations of the classics,' for from them we may learn how to express Cicero and others in good mother tongue, and avoid spoil ing our English by following idioms other than our own. True, we miss some niceties in Dante, but gain upon the whole. Many Hebrew and Greek experts can catch some beauties not found in our versions of the Bible, but even the authorized verslen Is a cred itable rendering of tne original. , . I shall not try to teach foreigners our English, but, to be concrete, 1 would have it alone in our secondary schools. How would it do for my student friend to teach us Americans the Hajian. if it is so much in advance of English. One flag over our ten thousand school houses, and one language taught within is not an abstraction, but a splendid concrete. . B. J. HOADLET. More Truth Than Poetry. 11 y James J. Montague. DISCII'LIXE. (Some of the preparatory schools are teaching tha pupils to settle their little disputes with eiKhi-ounce toxlng gloves.) When Willie came from prep school, A blue contusion dyed His youthful cheek, and Willie's beak Was half an inch off side. But though his doting mother With horror and dismay , Was nearly mad, the gallant lad Had learned to fight his way. When Willie came from college To boast the Christmas cheer. With mirth and song he brought along A cauliflower ear, And various abrasions Were sprinkled on his ran, Which he hud earned the while he learned To be a gentleman. When Willie graduated, A manly husky chap. The baby yelled when it beheld His corrugated map. But though three teeth were missing, And thoiiBh his ear was tin, The duBhty grad four years had had Of splordid discipline. When Willie wanders townward With that strange face of his, A passing cop will always stop And ask him who he is. They've pinched him on suspicion Till its begun to cloy. But any way, no one can say That he's a eiay boy! Unaccountable, The only parallel for Mexico we can think of is the behavior of a small boy for the two weeks Just preceding Christmas. e Business aa I'snaL It looks as if the Washington hotels during inauguration week would have to be content with the regular 1000 per cent profit, m m m Instead of Commuted. A president, sentenced t four years. can get his term extended for good Denavior. tCopyright, 1021, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc. Personality. By Grace K. Hall. most elusive thing of vital force Is personality, the charm we feel In touching other lives that cross our. course, And sensing quick distaste or ewift appeal; Intangible as scent of rare perfume. It reaches us and wakens sure reply. Though no one would with details e'er presume To analyze its strength or answer why. Is It the fragrance of the kindred things That, dormant or developed. In us live? The spirit force that from the eplrit springs, And sheds a glow th;at nothing else can give? Is It the finer, sweeter self below The surface, that is pleading to be known, That somehow calls to us, that we may know The spirit's voices, strangely llko out own? We and new with ELYSIAX WEATHER "BACK EAST" day. -Admiral Sims says we need one" big naval base and suggests Narra- gansett bay. Make it two, admiral, and include Astoria. Dr. Eliot says we are afflicted with the "herd Impulse." They must have picture houses back in that classical country. Trouble appears to be hatching Neal fought last Friday night at the armory, as a professional pugilist, and his father, the former minister, was right in his corner, giving his boy whatever assistance he could from his st-o'e of knowledge. The elder Zimmerman has perfected him self as a trainer and his assistance seemed invaluable, for Neal won the decision after a slashing eight-round bout. Doubtless many of the lessons learned in his pulpit have been of assistance to the Rev. Zimmerman In training his battling son to th en viable place be occupies In the realm THIS SCOUT, When Fence EstnbllMhea Line. PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 22. (To the Editor.) If a fence Is established and maintained between two half sections of land for more than 26 years and found not to be on the true line after that time, would.,that fence legally hold by prescription title, taking into account that the fence was not at any time completed the full length be tween each half section, or would it hold as far as it was built? SLISSCIUBER. The fence would establish the le gal division line as far as it was constructed. Foods Named for Distribution. Indianapolis News. Among the food crops brought from other lands to this country, tyid un dergoing development for genej-al dis tribution, one finds the - petsai, or Chinese cabbage; the udo and mitsuba, vegetables common in Japan as our celery and asparagus, and the chayote, a vegetable resembling a squash, brought from South, America, Cnnfea.lon That Auiruat, nt Least Deserves to Be Abolished. PORTLAND, Jan. 23. (To the Edi tor.) For the instruction and edifica tion of former residents of the empir state who have or think they hav good cause to regret that their line have been cast in this region an bitterly complain about Oregon weather, the following is submitted frr-m editorial page of-tho Sun ana New York Herald of August 19, 1S2U, urder the heading, "August the Nerve Smasher." "In that aflmost perfect state to which Don Marquis looks forward there will be no August. It will no bi necessary to have one, because there is no popular use for the month nceDt to take vacations i 1 and, of course, in the ideal state of humanity nobody will need holidays. All life will be a day off with double pay for idling overtime. "Aueust is netting worse and worse, Last year, after it had rained eight inches in July, persons who rely on averages figured that August would be dry. The upshot was that August broke every preci.itation record, bar one, that it hud made since 1&S4. And, to punish the seashore vacationist, it was cold. "This year August goes In for dampness. The weather man Insists that there have been rainless days since sweet July took to the woods of time. If that is true they slipped by in the fog. But the damp air that came in with August sticks in all Lenses of the verb. Thunder storms fail to dislodge it and are themselves converted by the miasma into demons of daily visitations. "Hay will not cure nor hair curL Salt cements Itself in its cellar. Crack ers are crackerless, matches squeak, sputter and die. Cigarettes are damp tubes of despair. Starched linen wilts like the league confronted with a war. Fobd is a mockery and drink folly. "Men and women summon doctors, saying that they have unmistakable symptoms of ptomaine poisoning, Asiatic cholera, 1 eiephantasis and senile dementia. All they have, how ever, is August, the accursed, the month that makes men mad. Nothing will cure it but old Doc Gale coining out of the northwest, at a 40-mile clip with a bagful of fresh dry air." GEORGE II. HIMES. meet with strangers faces scan. And touch an alien hand pleasant thrill. Some seem at once to fit our present plan As though 'twere meant that some niche they should fill; The smile on some strange face that we may greet Is like a wine that warms through every vein, Another chills us, and we would rc treat, Sensing a pall that almost equaU pain. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago, From The Ornonlan of January 2.1. ls:8 It is said that the Indians are mak ing a great slaughter of Jack rabblis at the mouth of the Snake river, cap- turing 7uu in one drive last week. New York Among the more interesting- exhibits at the bicycle Bhow it a splendid specimen of the sextuple road machine. The Dalles Chronicle is informed that the steamer Dalles City wjll b given the honor of being the first boat to pass through the locks when they are finished. Fifty Years Aro. From Th? OreBonlan of January 21. 1ST1. The African diamond fever still keeps up. The last English steamer that arrived from the cape brought diamonds estimated at ?40,ou0 in value. A movement has been started at Chicago to collect several cargoes of wheat and other seeds for the farmers of France. The census returns give the total population of the states and terri tories at 38,307,3'JO. This Bhows an Increase of only 6,461,078 over the population returned in I860. The German authorities have es tablished 74 postoffices in Alsace since October 1. More About Snakes. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 21. (To the Editor.) Rega.Yling viviparous and oviparous snal-es: All water snakes are viviparous. All non-poisonous land snakes are oviparous. All poisoncus snakes (viperdae), with one exception, are viviparous. The solitary exception Is the African atractaspis: It Is oviparous and Its bite is deadly. J. HAROLD. Location of McNeil's Island. - GARDINER, Or., Jan. 21. (To the Editor.) Please inform me 'of the location of McNeil's Island on which one of the federal penitentiaries is situated. CONSTANT READER. McNeil's island is situated near the southern extremity. g Puget sougd. Enforcement of Book Contract. PORTLAND, Or.. Jan. 22. (To the Editor.) Last October 1 bought a book (school plan), which was deliv ered later. But when I bought this book It was with the understanding with tho agent that If I did not ?et position as a teacher I could return the book. I received the book, but re turned it about a month later, as 1 did not get a position. Now the company refuses to accept the book, for its plea is, first, tiiat I kept it too long; next, that the book was not wrapped well and was slightly damaged in the mail. 1 wrapped it to the best of my ability. I would gladly pay if I had he money, but having been out of work since last spring I am forced to reside with ,my folks. Can they force n.e to pay, or- what can they ao? am 21, so they can t come hack on my father, can they? WORRIED. If it was an oral understanding and here Is no written contract to sub stantiate it, you have no recourse. The company can bring suit to collect the money due cn the book, if it desires. No action could be brought against your father. If 'you have nothing with which to pay they are not likely to sue. Indinn Warfare Echoes Recalled. Indianapolis News. General John Brown Kerr, who was born in Kentucky 72 years ago. was the hero of what the late General Miles declared to be the most daring exploit In the history of Indian war fare. In 1891 Kerr, at the head of a brave band of 20 men, found himself surrounded by more than 100 South Dakota Sioux Indians. Outnumbered five to one. Kerr and his men fought so valiantly and nanniea tneir guns w ...tK ,.nV. atfnt that mnnv ftf th. braves were killed and the remainder surrvfidercd. A