TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1921
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transaction, and falls easily a prey
to swindlers. It Is easier to lecture
an Indian on the advantages of
thrift than It Is to make a competent
business man out of him. Indians
who have accumulated large prop
erty have usually been favored by
especial circumstances, such as dis
covery of oil on their lands, and they
are the ezoeption to the rule. It is
possible that the Indian contribution
to liberty loan funds during tbe war
may have created a false impression,
WORK FOR MB. BCGHE9.
Having accepted President-elect
Harding's promised appointment as
secretary of state, Charles E. Hughes
Jias beore him a greater number of
more important tasks than any other
vamhor nf the. future cabinet. His
labor will be nothing short of stu
nendous. made so by the two years
delay In deciding the relationship of
the I'nited States with the rest of
the world and by the complications
which that delay has produced.
First will come peace with Ger
many, bound up with which will be
the degree to which this country is
o co-operate with the allies in en
forcing disarmament and payment
of reparation by Germany.
Peace with Austria must follow,
and will raise the question whether
this country shall endorse the allies'
veto on union with Germany and to
what degree It shall aid the renarjin
r.Hnn nf that helpless nation.
Separate peace must be made with
Hungary, and it will be necessary to
decide whether we shall Interiere so
Xar with its internal affairs as to
forbid restoration of the Hapsburgs,
which Herbert Hoover warned the
peace conference would be a nre
Lrand setting central Europe aflame
With war.
Simultaneously doubtless will be
taken up preliminary negotiations
for American membership in an as
sociation of nations, either by aban
donment of the existing league and
cubstitution of a new one or by re
vision of the Versailles covenant. An
effort will probably be made to com
plete an agreement with the prin
cipal powers in time for submission
to the league assembly next fall.
Involved with these matters will
fce settlement of the allies' debt to
the United States and to one another,
with which the part to be played by
the United States in economic recon
struction of Europe is connected.
The United States must decide
whether to recognize the soviet gov
ernment and what precautions
should be taken against its revolu
tionary propaganda.
Demands from tne lacmc
will call for early action on Japan
. Immigration, for Mr. Harding
inna that if exclusion, is not ar
ranged through diplomacy by the
federal government, more states will
act and will thereby complicate the
problem and render action by him
imperative.
Mexico's call for recognition of
T-resident Obregon must be ans
wered. The answer will hinge on
the agreement that Obregon is will
ing to make for compensation for
injury done to Americans in the past
ten years and for security to lives
tnd property of Americans in mexicu
In future.
A dispute with Britain about ex
emption of American ships from
Panama canal tolls may be avoided
tv diplomacy. Otherwise the prom
ised law to that effect may lead
cither to arbitration at The Hague
or to perhaps the first international
lawsuit before the proposed world
court.
Certain politicians in Haiti and
Panto Domingo are pleading for
withdrawal of American troops and
for restoration of full independence
to those so-called republics. It will
fall to Mr. Hughes to consider
whether they are more capable of
self-government than they were six
years ago and, if so. what shall be
cur future relations with them.
AU in all. Mr. Hughes will be
a. fairly busy man during the next
four years. He has the opportunity
to make a brilliant success as a
statesman. Hitherto his only failure
has been as candidate for president,
CO the omens favor success.
haul across the continent and with
the economy in freight by using the
water line and the saving in time on
the whole trip, it may prove more
economical to use this route than
the canal route.
Another of those natural routes of
traffic to which the merchant ma
rine law refers is coming Into use.
and the high cost of transportation by omitting consideration for the
leads shippers to seek them with greater number who bought na
growing diligence. That fact prompts bonds and in the nature of their
railroad men to study the same sub- capacities for commerce and thrift
Ject closely with a view of adjusting never will be able to buy them
their rates and through traffic con- The bill pending in congress to
nectlons to them. If they should confer citizenship on Indians offers
rot they might discover that, while an Inestimable privilege, from the
their rate tariffs cave them a net viewpoint of white American cm
return of 6 per cent, it was. only on I zens, but it is worth while inquiring
paper, as the traffic that was to pro- whether "every Indian born witnin
duce it had faded away.
are conspiring to swindle Lo, but
only a few are enough. Carryin
with it the right to dispose of his
property as he sees fit, citizenship
may be Quite the reverse of a boon
to him.
the territorial limits of the United
States" will be as well served by the
mpasnrA an Tin would be bv more
a JIAItfi O -wr. I ilnql withdrawal r.T virntortlnn
The teachers' tenure law, it is L,c. t,. ,,, , ,,- -wnized
' " brethren. Not all whites, of course,
not passed oy tne nouse in a proper
manner. As might be expected, this
alarm is raised by opponents of the
bill.
But it appears that the defect, if
there is a defect, was the failure to
observe a mere rule of the house re-
oulrine that a bill shall be printed
and placed on the members' desks " capitalist"
at least three days before passage. when the air is full of denuncia
Let it be emphasized that this Is a tions of capital and capitalism by
house rule, not a constitutional re- I those who aver that all things arer
quirement The supreme court of I the product of labor alone and who
Oregon has held: I whoop it up for some form of social
Courts in Oregon will not aoestien the I ism and the dictatorship of the pro
enactment of an enrolled legislative bill, hetariat, much interest attaches to a
certain whether the records of the legis-1 discussion in the London Times of
lative bodies show that the constitutional i the question: What Is a capitalist?
n-uuirrineiim nave dui Di-rn luiiuieu; anu i , - , c ; - i-
unless It affirmatively appears that the question was asKea oy oir nuu
mandatory provisions of the constitution I ert W. Perks, who wrote that a fore
have been disregarded the law will be I -. i. . ui.i.
sustained. 1111a.11 uii suuic wuin. in vmcii uo wo.a
inal capital, acquired by various
forms of robbery, is used to accumu
late more capital out ot part of the
product of labor which it does not
earn. This theory is more readily ac
cepted because capital is now gath
ered in great blocks by corporations,
which people see as units. Yet those
corporations are themselves proof
that that capital is the savings of
labor, for their stock Is held in com
It is not charged that any manda-
lr.terested was "much worried be-
tory requirement of the constitution cause his fellow-workmen called
h.i..: been disrvrardod. If ronrts tnnk hlnl a damned capitalist, and the
judicial knowledge of rules of con- foreman asked: "How much money
vt nience and procedure voluntarily ls a ""s nmn 10 De"
adopted by house and senate, and Iore "e can oe caiiea sucn a tning.'
rnnslrtorert fniihfnl nHhpronrft In Tnat brought to the front H. M.
them a condition precedent to the Hyndman. veteran leader of British
legal enactment of laws, courts socialists, who swept asiae as un
uoiild snerui most of their time worthy of notice the foreman's as-
searching behind the records and sumption that capital is the savings
manv laws would fail because some cl ,J-oor or- political economists
trifline formality had not been ob- defino stored up labor. He said
served I lnal a capitalist, economically
Th formn. lot . T.nfl Tt is speaKing, is a person who directly or
veil to abandon foolish pretense and '"directly employs workers and pays
make the best of it. L"m ""E " 'utr to prom.
out or tneir laDor. unis turned dis
cussion to the question: "What is
AX AFFAIR FOR TIIE NATIOX. capital?" General Ian Hamilton said
Sound judgment was exercised by Mr. Hyndman's definition of a caDi-
the uregon senate in rejecting the tallst "won't quite fit." for. he said:
d:h wnicn iorDicis aliens aisquaimea 1 own a farm; I directly employ ex
for Citizenship to own or lease land service men there and pay them wages: I
in Oregon. The bill was aimed at Bg wn.t ,ort hoDe7V ",um, .- " ,
the Japanese and was designed to sort of hope as I have of playing a golden
prevent their settlement in this state,
when in fact questions of immigra
tion are solely within federal juris
diction.
The only plausible excuse for ac-
ion by the state would be that a
harp and singing amongst the angeis.
Then came Arthur H. Balfour with
a distinction between capital and
other forms of wealth. He said that
when capital ls fixed in the form of
houses, machinery, tools or anything
pressing emergency existed and that hat cannot be consumed, "all that a
neglect or refusal of the government man can do is to transfer the use of
to act made it advisable for the state r-IS capital to another in exchange
tc goad the president into action, tcr consumable goods." The work-
hat excuse ls not valid at the pres- I man who called his foreman "a
ent time. Japanese are not coming damned capitalist would be aston-
n such numbers as to create a men- isnea to De told mat ne, as tne pos-
ace. President Jiardlng has given a sesaur ui mo tuuia ui w iia.ua nu
ubllc pledge to pursue a policy in the furniture of his house, was also
armony with the wishes of the a capitalist." He maintains that
ponsors of the bill, and the leaders only by tiie use of capital by labor
f congress are pledged to lesrislate can goods be produced which will
on immigration at the extra session Fay wages" and he concludes:
in accord with that policy. Oregon The worker and the capitalist or the
should rely on the new administra- I called wages for the one. profit for the
on to live up to those promises, I other, out of the use of capital.
and should give it reasonable time to I To the same general effect Sir
make good before acting indepen- George S. Gibb defined a capitalist
dcntly. as "a person who saves and in con-
In the present situation of this na- sideration of interest, either fixed or
t'on and of the world at large, it I variable (profit), uses his savings to
becomes us all. In connection with I employ labor on production by pay-
affairs of both the state and the na- I ing wages before the product can be
tion, to avoid friction and to cultl- realized or enter into consumption.1
vats good witt so rar as ls possible without capital there could be no
without injury to our interests. In employment except to the small ex-
the present instance this can be done tent that barter could provide, and
by trusting to the methods of diplo- even then a worker must have
r.iacy and to federal legislation on enough capital to maintain himself
which the president-elect will be in until the goods can be finished and
accord with congress. There is no exchanged for the necessaries of
question that the end sought by tho life." J. B. Sturgis said that "a capi-
house bill is to be desired; the only I talist docs not make his profit 'out
question Is by what road that end I of but 'with the assistance or the
shall be reached. The decision is, I labor of his employes," while "the
so far as Oregon is concerned, that I third element of successful produc
BY - PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS
Snakes Good Monsera, Bat Too Ckam
my for Kelshbor'a Llkjnf .
Arthur Alley, who is operatln&r a
placer prospect on Teepee creek, in
northern Humboldt county. Is an an
gry man because a neighbor has
killed his two snakes, which he kept
for mousers instead of a cat.
Allev hfln had the snakes tWO Or
parativeiy small diocks Dy men ana vears. and they were quite
women who have invested their sav- um Cn numerou occasions when
ings. , some prospector, rang rider or other
It ls doubtless true that much of wayfarer would 8t0p at AUey, camp
the capital existing before the pres- h( a meal or My
ent era of great Industries and great beea Urrortoed
. .... i,- -- o-,, i by the reptiles.
,a r.M One day a range rider, sitting a
k e,', w, t -nhha-r. the table. looked past Alley, who ea
u , stir,t;nn n . rirawn? opposite him. The rider looked hard,
Further, if there is to be wholesale suddenly pulled his gun. Alley
confiscation of capital because part ' "UB'-
nf It vm stolen, according to our 1 tended to shoot at and at the sami
nrevnt rnnrentton of rieht and I time he grabbed for the gun, and as
wrong, how is any person to know he etared to explain he reaiiaea now
that at 6ome future time some new I near he had come to being snot.
definition will not be made the I - The reptiles slept under the bed th
ground of a new confiscation? With j greater part of the daytime, but were
the Incentive to save withdrawn, so- allowed the liberty of the house, and
ciety might gradually revert to the at night they sallied forth In .quest of
condition where no part of the mice. Alley says the snakes are not
product of labor would be saved I poisonous, and that they are more
fronrone day to the next, and a man valuable as mousers than a cat.
would rise each morning naked with I The pets strayed over to a neigh
nothing tut the air to breathe, the I DOr's recently and, being used to a
earth to stand on and water to arms. hou. er.wled In and made them
Then men yould have, to begin again 6ejve8 at home. When the owner of
cn the principle that security in pos- the n0U3O found them he killed them.
session of what a man saves irom He advlsea Aney t0 keep a cat bere
one day to the next is essential to mo after. Sacramento Bee.
nrst step in progress 01 tinia"uu,
which, after all. ls tne underlying Greenwich Village has a new poet.
principle of the mucn aenounceu n;l RayTnond G. Carroll in his New
system of capitalism. I Y0rk letter. His name is Praxiteles
Smith and he has bangs and wears
Discovery within a week of thirty- I horn-rlmmed glasses and, gosh, but
five cases of typhus on ships arrlv- I he's soulful. He first appeared in the
Ing in the port of New Tork empha- I favor of the short-haired circles when
sizes the need of inspection of lm- I he wrote his "To a Mad Raindrop,"
migrants in the ports of embarka- which adorned the menu of the Whis
tion, a service which some European tllng Cow. Now it is announced that
nations seem either unwilling or un- he is to start a new magazine to be
able to perform, but which ought to caue(i -The Great Light!" He will
be made a condition precedent to feed starved braina with pedantic
permission to enter tne unitea nutriment.
States. The menace of typhus is not
imaginary, and tne possiouuy 01 unci0 Tom's Cabin" is holding the
controlling it by sufficiently arasuc boards at the clunle theater in Sac
Those Who Come and Go.
precautions was proved by the fact
tnat in returning the entire Ameri
can expeditionary forces from the in
fested districts not a single case was
permitted to slip through. Americans
cannot say that they were not
ramento. Cal., and the company, re
cruited from old "Tom Players," In
the parlance of the theater, is meet
ing with a great reception. This type
of show has taken a place along with
I""0', rJpeVr tA negro minstrel in lasting draw
the Red Cross has repeatedly called " r.I 7 ""i" '"V.-
attention to conditions In southern
Europe and health officials in the
United States have supplemented his
tell of the daily street parades when
Liza, Simon Legree and the blood
hounds make the circuit of the city
statement with other facts, also un- streets.
disputable. It would be better to
suspend immigration altogether than
to permit this post-war scourge to
gain a foothold In the country.
Dave Anderson, ' Petaluma, Cal.,
chicken rancher, has a trained Aire
dale whose performance exceeds the
famous exploits of the cleverest sheep
docs, savs the San Francisco Bulletin,
The legislature is to be com- when Dave discovers one of his
mended for having made reasonable eeB- lavers strayine from the home
provisions tor tne uregon national place w the road he whistles up his
Guard both through an adequate chicken hound. "Dash." and simply
support appropriation and the en- .ive, the following order:
actment of a new military code that
takes the Guard out of the reach of
politics. The legislature of 1911 took
the service out of politics and the
results were shown In the two mo
bilizations that have occurred since
that time. During the war period
the military code was changed to
meet home guard contingencies but
row that the nation has fallen back
upon the National Guard as its main
reliance in case of a national emer-
'Go get 'em. Dash.1
A streak of brown up the road or
Into the adjacent field and "Dash"
has the stray down with one Paw on
It, while he obtains a safe but secure
jaw hold on its two wings. Then he
trots back Into the chicken yard with
the fowl and deposits It, unharmed.
In its pen.
"Dash" Ms also an egg hound. If
one of Anderson's chickens lay an
gency. the service must be raised to eeg under the barn or in some other
the highest possible standards. From out-of-the-way place. "Dash", smells
a state point of view, the National out the white sphere, scoops it up
Guard is to be regarded, too, as a carefully in his moutn ana runs wim
payroll Industry which yields in pay- I it to his master.
the federal road Is better.
GIVING THE rNDIAN HIS RIGHTS.
Tuberculosis is increasing among
the Indians. It may be that aban
donment of tho tepee is largely re
tion is management.
"Common sense" contends that "a
workman's capital is his health" and
that when he joins a sick benefit
society which has a reserve fund he
becomes interested in capital. If he
r i.i- it to ...(.r --ii insures his life in a company with
auunaiuio iui 1111.7. i, to iiciij ti 1
known that the properly constructed sound assets, he at once becomes a
10. u iivfi.nii-oiiv nearlv iriAnl. It capitalist ; also when he joins a
is not a mere affair of poles covered building and loan society. Another
..UK V!r, hB nrnvision fnr rlr. writer noiua lllttt mo icmi Luynai-
culation of fresh air that is superior lst PPes to "everybody who has
to that of a good many modern 3aved and who use,s h,ls savings;
dwelling houses and it obviates both t0 the owner of a factory and
drafts. When Lo was persuaded to Jo' the widow or workman who has
m ". into a modern house he did bought a war saving certificate."
mli . iijuuiiiqu iciuincu lu
charge again by saying that savings
not thereby prolong his life, al
though in other respects modern hy
giene has done something for him.
He is now protected against epl
demies, like those which exterml
nated some of the early tribes on the
came from profit realized and
added to the capital already invest
ed," and that such capital "was ac
cumulated In the first instance from
THE Mff TRAFFIC ROCTE.
Diversion of trans-Pacific traffic
destined for the Atlantic coast from
the all-rail route via Chicago to the
rall-and-water route via New Orleans
or Galveston is a development irom
the liberation of ships from railroad
control and from the recent advance
lr. railroad rates. In the days when
tulf shipping lines were few and
were subsidiary to railroads, some
kind of agreement would have pre
vented them from joining the west
ern railroads in making rates wnicn
would divert traffic from the cen
tral and eastern lines. There are
row plenty of ships, they are free
from railroad control and they make
rates which get the traffic, while
railroads are not free to change
rates without justifying their action
o the Interstate Commerce commis
eion. Adoption of the new route has
yrobably been encouraged by the
jiolicy of the eastern railroads in re
fusing to reduce import and export
rates for their part of the transcon
tinental hauL As this traffic passes
through two zones, the eastern roads
must take as a basis 35 per cent ad
vance on the rates existing prior to
August 26, but if the haul is entirely
within the eastern zone the basis ls
40 per cent advance on the old rates.
On goods carried by the rail-and-gulf
route they get the entire haul be
tween the Atlantic coast and points
i,i the eastern zone. The loss of
traffic falls on the roads between
Tiilling3 and Kansas City in the west
and the interior terminals of the
eastern roads.
There is an opening also for com
petition of the rail-and-gulf route
with steamers running between Uie
Pacific coast, and by discontinuing P' conquest, conveyance, usury
the use of the death-dealing "sweat- "a... c w.
house" he may have gained as much Profit or surplus value now being
as he lost when he gave up the tepee, au,BU- t"a" V " a "
but this result might have been ac- t0 the worman but from
complished as well without forcing abor-power advanced to the capi-
lim m.tr.iv t rlv on his oWn talist, the product being placed at
- , 1 the latter's disposal on credit." He
Economic independence is the
white man's dream, not, however,
valued as highly or understood in
the same sense by the Indian. When
disposed of the argument that every
person who saves is a capitalist by
srying that "a wage-earner has far
less chance of becoming a capitalist
the early fur traders appeared in the ' , ? '
Mandan villages a little before the
time of Lewis and Clark's sojourn
there, they found the tribesmen too
prosperous after their own manner
to be beguiled with otters ot tract
Owing to the immensely larger scale
upon which capitalist enterprises are
now conducted and that, even if a
workman could save $10 a week it
would take him fifty years to save
roll disbursements from the govern
ment among the various communi
ties having Guard units a total yearly
sum aggregating two dollars for
every dollar that the state is re
quired to expend.
Utilization of the lignite coal of
Oregon and Washington in the manu
facture of high-grade briquettes is
now contemplated by the Centralia
Briquetting company, according to its
representative R. F. Brown, well
known mining man of the coast, who
registered yesterday at the Seward.
The company now has its Centralia
plant operating for trial purposes and
expects to have machinery installed
for commercial manufacture by April
1. As soon as the Centralia plant is
in operation tbe company expects to
begin work at Marshfield on a plant
to utilize coal from the lignite mines
located there. A patented chemical
binder Is utilized In the manufacture
of the briquettes in place of the as
phalt or tar binder commonly used.
The formula utilizes a large quantity
of sulphite waste from paper mills
ana is largely confined to waste prod
ucts, according to Mr. Brown. Plans
for Marshfield include the erection of
a plant that will utilize the product
of several mines In that region. Ocean
transportation opens an extensive
market for the Oregon plant, and, ac
cording to present plans, the output
will be handled almost entirely by
water transportation. Future plans.
according to Mr. Brown, Include the
perfecting of a process to remove
byproducts of the lignite coal in the
manufacture of carbonized briquettes
suitable for use in smelter purposes.
This angle- of the industry will have
direct bearing on the exploitation of
the iron deposits of Columbia county
and other commercial deposits ot iron
in Oregon and Washington, according
to Mr. Brown.
"The present business degression
which has caused merchants prac
tically to cease buying in quantities
in almost every line has developed a
golden opportunity for Oregon and
wasnington manufacturers if the
will grasp it now," declared Emili
Marx of Seattle, veteran traveling
man or Oregon and Washington yes
terday. The peculiar conditions which
have practically brought about th
severing of business connections of
years standing between northwest
merchants and eastern manufacturers
presents an inviting opening for local
manufacturers to introduce thei
goods. Trade connections once es
tablished are practically oermanen
Mr. Marx says, so long as the prod
ucts are of standard quality and at
tractive price. Although merchant
are buying in limited Quantities now.
the local manufacturers can secure
their share of the trade if they will
go after It, Mr. Marx declares. The
local manufacturer that will put hi
goods on the shelves of merchants in
uregon and Washinirton now an
build up a demand among consumers
Dy judicious advertising will fin
when normal times return that h
has an established trade in the two
states of untold value to him. Mr.
Marx at present Is handling surnlu
army contract lines among the jobber
and wholesalers throughout the north
west. He has covered the Oregon
erritory wun one line or another to
he past 30 years or more. He came
o Portland last week to attend the
funeral of his brother. Daniel Marx
formerly of Marx and Joruensen. a
resident of Portland for the past 45
years. . air. Marx Is a native of
Alsace. During his stay in the city
ue is registered at the Oregon.
"The Grants Pass district has ex
perienced the best mining: season in
years, and everyone is expecting to
maice a good cleanup, said Dr. W. II
fianagan, well-known Physician ot
tnai city, yesterday. Other lines.
aside from the lumber industry, have
iiKewise been active, according to Dr.
lanagan. iteal estate, especially
ranch property, has been in demand.
nd much selling and trading- has
een taKlnc Place duriner thn naat
few months. New people have been
arriving to locate in the district and
Dusiness conditions in (reneral have
shown a hopeful trend. Dr. Flanagan
minus. -ruit prospects for the ra
ng year are good in practically every
ne so rar as crops are concerned if
prices ana market conditions adlnst
themselves by the time the season is
H. C. I,. VERSUS SYBIL THE COAT
Old Hi Wins Oat In Animated Contest
for Supremacy.
PORTLAND, Feb. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) My neighbor has a milk goat.
He bought her with the avowed pur
pose of butting the H. C. of L. Into
the fnhadowy past, figuratively speak
ing of course. But the goat has not
landed yet and old HI Is romping
around there something awful. I have
been watching the fight as a biased
referee, hoping that H. C. of L. thing
was going to get properly siammea
so I could do likewise with another
goat. And if I did I wanted to get
used to a goats cunning ways and try
if possible to love one. Folks say I
am an affectionate man but my love
for a goat has not dethroned my rea
son. I am still cool and calculating
and I calculate I don't want a goat.
Tbe trouble with a goat is they don't
ponder enough on the milk business.
Now a cow ls different. I have seeu
a cow stand and think by the hour,
her noble sweep of brow puckered
in thought, her eyes nearly closed In
extreme concentration and her Jawa
slowly but surely working on the
milk business. Now a goat spends all
her time looking for human sympathy
and companionship.
There's the rub, a goat Is too
mushy. I like being loved as well as
anyone. I can assimilate great gobs
of love, but I like some let up in its
application. One does not want it
following one about in the shape of a
g
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
much early garden work on hand.
The man who plants peas on Wash
ington's birthday and potatoes on
St. Patrick's day usually has some
thing good to eat ahead of his neigh
bors who do not.
the programme. He said: "When in
New Tork there is nothing that stirs
the emotions like the unexpected ap-
A tour of the outskirts shows Prance of a favorite son The cur-
tain naa gono up wnu ou--j v,-
vin Coolldge, vice-President-elect, en.
tered the lower right-hand box. His
clean-cut look and friendly nod
thrilled a number of Massachusetts
men in the front of the orchestra.
They became quite agitated. So much
Pittsburg women have formed a so that one of them accidentally un-
plstol club for defense acainst bur- corked a flask carried on the hip.
glars. Of course, if one of them Instantly the atmosphere became, sur
happened to hit her husband by mis- charged with a dark-brown 100-proof
take any jury would hold that it
served him right for coming home I "It was agonizing to sit there in
so late. I the knowledge of the waste. Leon
Errol. who wa3 singing and dancing,
An Ohio Judge has had "ankle I c-nt one whiff and he quit his lines.
.-.intno" V. . . J 1 . ln enn4. . J I .... . . . , - .
;ii mm;? uuui in iiunt ui iua July I jjg walked to tne edge oi nio iuui
b6x in his courtroom for the protec- jeht9 and. searching the first rows
tion of wouien voters. Judging from wUh hlg eye3i liftea an angry finger
Arnold Pope of Boston tells of a
recent amusing Incident at the mu
sical show "Sally" which was not on' at hand. Building In Grants Pass, In
common with other places through
out the state, has not yet assumed the
proportions that conditions warrant.
ur. lanagan is registered at the Im
periai.
current styles the suggestion cer
tainly didn't come from the women
jurors,
and remarked: "One or you cnaps
down there ought to get 20 years,
It brought down the front of th
hnnsA. even 'our Cal' Joining In the
a HLiiiiyiii& contractor was canea I laughter "
to testify in a recent graft invest!-
cation in New York and seventeen Mrs. J. R. Forbes, the well-know
pr.ragraphers to date have been im- woman traveler, who lately returned
pressed by the fact that he did so , England after wandering for sev
without first going back for his erai months from Moscow to Syria,
tools.
that kings and cabbages "are iden
tical and made of the same sub
stance." Despite this assurance,
we'll lay our bets on the superior
brain power of the cabbage.
beaver skins. They had all v25-000
for
they wanted and saw no reason why
they should go trapping at the be-
A reply came from Mr. Balfour to
the effect that industry is controlled,
r -onr mastera. This rpnrp. nul w"
sented the height of economic inde- a"d "d"ced " fu"
pendence. and no Indian so situated Jhe
' .,, .' i... .ifT, result of saving By saying:
imnin ltf, .h- In- If the product of every days work were
uaicuiLv mnnu.,.. i eonaumed and none 01 it aavea or turnea
dian, to be self-sustaining according into capital, man would start each day
. .v,itA nmn'q dpfinition mimf naked, with nothing; but the air to breathe.
to the white mans aetinition, must the eartn t0 atan4 upon and water to
toil methodically, and lay something drink.
by for the proverbial rainy day, and Tt could hardly be said that a
accumulate property that a few gen- capitalist is "a pirate or a thief," for
erations ago would only have fur- "every workingman is nowadays a
nished a motive for a potlatch. capitalist."
A point that friends of the Indians Next "an old working man"
seek to emphasize is that in their showed that by saving $10 a week
efforts to impose new conditions on for fifty years at compound interest
their former wards the whites may a man would accumulate $100,000,
not have taken sufficient account of
desires of the Indians themselves.
Safeguards have been withdrawn
without compensating substitutes.
The-average Indian has not yet fully
absorbed the commercial spirit of
the white man; he ls apt to be pru
dent only in small matters of trade
and wholly incapable in larger af
fairs. It is contended that he is
mostly no match for a crafty and
greedy white man 1a buaiuiess
not $25,000, and he said: "I know,
for I have -tried it." He had been
working for fifty-five years, and he
added:
Such success as I have achieved has not
been accomplished .by working the smallest
possible number of hours nor by producing
the smallest possible value la the hours
I work.
Discussions such as this are need
ed for socialists have had too much
of , their own way. Their case is
founded on the asscrtioA that oris-
. , - '
tells a story of her discovery of a
tribe of women who live under-
An osteopathic expert declares g-round. They are to be found in th
eaves of the Tripoli mountains ana
come up, says Mrs. Forbes, only once
in the course of their lives. That Is
when they marry and change their
abode for that of their husband. Be-
in? continually in their underground
caves, a remarkable change takes
nlaee in their appearance. They be
come very white In the face, and their
eyes become dark and brilliant. As
they grow older they are seizea witn
Luther Burbank's latest achieve- Psion fr dyel"f Ahe'r h"r With
ment Is beardless barley.. The world Benna- ln ln" ay"" "
may now live in hope of some day are almo51 D""u' "'JJ ,lB
seeing a whiskerless bolshevik. ger aooui as mougn uu
ence or drinic. uneir nouses wo &yo
Marion growers, who live in the oious enough for them to Keep an
center of the small-fruit industry, their livestock underground. Includ
have set the season's price a little ing Ueir camels. London Opinion.
nign uul witinu reason
The lunatic who shot Patrolman
Nolan has gone back where he be
longs and a decent idea of the mean
ing of "safety first" requires that he
re kept there.
The most popular system of boule
vards that can be devised will give
everybody a front lot. Otherwise It
cannot be popular.
Tom T. Bennett, who Is In the leg
islature at Salem, has an opportunity
to do something of infinite value for
Coos county, eays the Bandon West
ern World. He can undo a bit of
unintentional harm brought about by
his grandfather, the late Lord Ben-
do Corvains: X couTs Tin boiling 1 'Jl
something in the pottery is more to
the point.
Lord Bennett had visions of trans
planting from his native town, Ban
don, Ireland, a bit of scenery that
DisnatrhPS sav that Caruso to a snouia DB a constant remiiiuer 01 mc
dish of oatmeal with evident relish. land of h's youth' eo he brought from
He must be a very sick man indeed.
Old Erin the evergreen Irish fune
and planted around bis home place
T.lovd Georee's man won in a nar- overlooking the sea, a hedge. Only
llamoitary election in Wales, natur- too well did his plans succeed. The
UfUJJD utba D111VO uiaa.l tu, U-L
the Irish fune. So adaptable to the
Members defend the Oregon sys- I propagation of this plant was the
tern' knowing they never could be local soil that it has spread and
elected otherwise.
If all the prunes were not cleaned
up, do not stop eating them.
A long, long winter will coma to
as. end March ix t
spread until now it has become a
serious menace.
It is only right and proper that
those suffering from the handiwork
of that beloved old gentleman, whose
heritage thty now enjoy, should look
to his grandson Xot relief,
Reorganization of the work of the
Archaeological Institute of America
throughout the northwest ls the ob
ject of Professor Louis F. Anderson
of Walla Walla, who arrived in Port
land with Mrs. Anderson Saturday.
Mr. Anderson is vice-president of
Whitman college and Professor of
Greek. He is secretary of the
Archaeological society there and has
recently been elected district secre
tary of the national organisation. Mr.
Anderson will assist In the reorgani
zation of the Portland Archaeoloirleal
society while here. He is also ar
ranging for lectures to be held here
by leading men of the country. Dr.
Charles Peabody, director of the Pea
body museum. Harvard university,
will appear before the local society
on March 9. Professor Joseph Clarke
Hoppin. formerly of Bryn Mawr col
lege, will lecture here on March 18.
Mr. Anderson will visit Seattle. Van
couver and .Victoria, B. C, Tacoma
and Spokane In the Interests of the
Institute before returning to Walla
Walla. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are at
the Benson.
J. A. Talbot of Fan Francisco and
W. B. Simpson of Chicago spent Sat
urday and Sunday in Portland on a
tour of the northwest, in which they
are visiting business connections. Mr.
Talbot is president of the Southwest
ern Shipbuilding company, Schaw-
Batcher Pipe works and the Western
Pipe A Steel company. He ls also a
prominent ban Francisco clubman.
Mr. Simpson Is president of A. M.
Castle & Co. of Chicago and A. M.
Castle & Co. of Washington. He Is a
member of the Chicago Athletic club.
Both men were greatly Impressed
with the Columbia highway scenery.
They left yesterday for San Francisco.
yellow eyed goat with a bleatln
of furtive feeling to have a goat mtk
ing playful demonstrations directly
the rear. I don't care how well di
posed a goat may be or what exce
lent family connections a goat ma
have, that Inherent curse is apt to
crop out when you least expect it.
can Imagine a tempting surface in
jumping range as tantalizing to
goat as moonshine to the semi-re
formed drunkard.
My neighbor says that privacy on
his place ls nil since Sybil has com
to live with them. He said he wa
taking a bath one day and goin
through antics reminicent of his boy
hood days In the old swimming hoi
Playful antics that would straight
way put him In the catagory of th
feeble minded if he had been see
by other eyes. But he knew he wa
alone. He said he was just trying to
see if he could still put his heel o
the back of his neck (He weighs 240
and is short) when a whiskered fac
appeared at the window. Of course
he did not know for a moment It wa
only Sybil with a toe hold on th
downspout but he said the shock an
the attempt to seek cover were very
genuine and very disconcerting.
He said his wife was putting th
finishing touches on a custard pi
one day, crimping the edge with a
hairpin or whatever they crimp th
edges with, when she saw a pair of
yellow eyes surmounted by horn
glaring at ber. His salanic majesty
himself would have been gratified by
the result. My neighbor says when a
woman is thoroughly frightened, sh
screams, the gum is swallowed,
squirm squirms up her spine and he
hands fly in the air. All this is done
simultaneously. All this was success
fully accomplished In this case, leav
ing the pie wholly abandoned In mid
air. A custard pie left to Its own
devices In mid air is a fearful thing.
My neighbor says that when he came
to the rescue his wife was also a fear
ful thing. He said a bath, a shampoo
and complete change of clothing re
moved all that droppy and jaundiced
appearance, while three weeks in
quiet nook at $75 per w eek completely
restored her poise.
WILLIAM VAN GROOS,
George O. Knowlea of Cottage
Grove, senior member of the hard
ware firm of Knowles & Graver of
that city, spent the week-end In Port
land. Mr. Knowles is active In civic
affairs In his home town and has had
a prominent part In development
projects there. He was instrumental
In securing a cannery for Cottapro
Grove a few years ago and is an of
ficer and stockholder in the concern.
C. T. Barr of Astoria, former secre
tary of the Chamber of Commerce
there, is registered at the Imperial.
Mr. B.irr recently accepted the posi
tion of secretary with the Pendleton
chamber of commirce. He expects to
move to Pendleton with his family
In a few days.
Business conditions in Hfllsboro are
promising, despite the present general
condition of trade everywhere, ac
cording to M. D. Well of the Well
department store yesterday. Mr. Weil
is registered at the Oregon on a
week-end buying trln.
R. A. Booth of Eugene, chairman
of the state highway commission.
pent the week end in Portland. Mr.
Booth ls accompanied by Mrs. Booth.
They are registered at the Imperial.
Flllai K of Tax Return.
PORTLAND, Feb. 20. (To the Edi-
or.) I inherited a house worth $1600
from which I receive $120 a year in
rent. My salary is $1600 a year. I
have had three dependents. I am a
ingle man. Do I have to make an in
come tax return?
A SUBSCRIBER. ,
'pu are required to. make a return.
JIASTKIl I'LlMBKnS DOUBT STORY
Hut They M ill KxprI Member If Job
Profiteering la Proved.
PORTLAND, Feb. 19 (To the Edi
tor.) Several weeks ago a letter was
published In Tne Oregonlan signed
A. Hint, in which the writer stated
n substance that a charge was made
by a local plumber of a sum in ex
cess of $200 for moving a sink from
one part of a certain dwelling to
another, ,th4 reasonable value of
which was $10, and that upon ob
ection to the bill the owner was
subjected to a threat of a lien against
his $3000 residence; that a prominent
attorney of the city was consulted
who Informed the owner he had little
recourse but to pay the bill.
The Portland Master Plumbers' as-
ociatton seriously questions the
ruth of the story and submits this
etter for publication with the hope
that whoever wrote the letter will
give to this association his name and
address. The Portland Master Plumb
ers' association can deal only with Its
wn members, but they embrace prac
tically all the master plumbers of
his city, and if any member has been
ullty of conduct which may even
approximate that of which "A. Hint"
harges, this association will see that
redress is made to the person who
as been unfairly dealt with, and the
ullty member kicked out of our as-
ociatlon.
The statement that any person en
gaged in business, or otherwise,
would make a charge of over $200
for services or wares which were of
o greater value than $10 and that
prominent or any other kind of a
awyer would advise the debtor that
he had better pay the claim Is so
palpably false that little thought pos-
luiy was given to the statement, but
that does not abate our desire to
learn who "A. Hint" is and see that
the public gets the truth concerning
the matter, be it ravorabie or unfa
vorable to this association or other
wise. PORTLAND MASTER
PLUMBERS' ASSOCIATION.
Room 201 Worcester BIdg., City.
TUB HABTVHS.
With private and personal business
Our statesmen are always en
grossed; They don't give a cuss for the pomp
and tbe fuse
That go with a cabinet post.
They haven't the money; they haven't
the time.
They cry, with a heart-breaking
-sob,
And then, with a sacrifice, high and
sublime.
They gallantly go on the Job.
Take Jones, who receives al a lawyer
Ten thousand or so for a case;
Just look what ho d lose If he did not
refuse
To serve In a cabinet place!
Against all such honors he firmly 1
set
And sternly refuses to swerve.
But take it from us, and get down
a good bet.
That Jones If he's asked to will
serve.
And Brown though his friends have
Insisted
That no one can possibly be
So thoroughly fit in an arm-chair
to sit
And help Mr. Harding as he,
Declares) that he cannot afford to
accept-
In fact he declines In advance
And yet for a fortnight he hardly
has slept
For fear that he'll not get the
chance.
In praise of American statesmen
There always ls this to be cald.
They don't want to shine In the
atatesmancraft line;
They'd rather live private Instead.
But while they will tell all the world
how they hate
To loll in a cabinet chair.
Though the cost be as great as they
frequently state
When the call comes along, they
re there.
IVot the Only Invalid.
Turkey may be the lck man of
Europe, but we notice that the 2S5.
000 bottles of champagne that were
exported from France last year were
sent to America for medicinal pur
poses. s
A (tarrr Lapse.
A Louisiana sheriff forirot to hanr
a man on the day he was sentenced to
die. and the man. curiously enough,
neglected to mention the matter.
a a
A Really C hristian Nation.
England is wlliinar to fomlv. hee
debtors if Uncle Sam will forgive her
debts.
'npyrlnht. by th. Bell Syndicate. Tne )
John Burroughs' Nature
Notes.
Can Yon Aaavt er These Questions r
1. Is there any scientific collection
of disease germsT
t. What weather slirn mav foretell
the character of a cominir winter
storm ?
3. Can quail be raised like domes
tic fowl?
Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes.
e
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Is the humming bird of any use?
Because of Its fredinir habits, thn
humming bird 1 not only ornamental.
but serviceable In a practical way. In
hunting among the blossoms for nec-
ar and tiny Insects for It nweila both
kinds of food the hummer checks a
good many gnals, little npiders, etc.,
and at the same time carries pollen
rom Ilower to flower, in this wav
bri-glng about cross fertilization just
as Dues do.
a
2. Will a chipmunk experiment with
new kinds of food?
My chipmunk knows several foods
at sight, but peach pits, hickory nuls,
dried sweet corn, he at first passed
by, and peanuts I could not tempt
him to touch at all. He was at first
mlifferent to rice, but finding It
oothvome, began to stuff bis pockets
with it. Amid the rice I scatlereo
puffed wheat. This he repeatedly
hipped Into, but finding it iinsuh-
stantiul. he quickly dropped It. Ill
Iso stripped choke cherries of their
kins and pulp and filled his pockets
with the pits.
3. How can a beaver move a log
rom the place where It is cut to the
ite of a dam?
Tho beaver's Instinct for engineer-
ng is nowhere better shown titan In
Is methods of moving trees from
their natural Bites to any appointed
pot. If the tree stands near water it
s cut to fall into the pond, stream or
anal. Small floating trees can easily
be guided butt foremost over their
route: larger ones are often stripped
t their branches; and the latter only
towed to the dam. But If the tree
ust travel part way over land, it Is
smembrrea ana tne iruiiK cut mm
sections 'that can bo pushed toward
he nearest water route.
In Other Day.
IXCIDKXT NOT I.V GOOD TASTE
Japanese Would Scratch Oat Part of
Play at Local Theater.
PORTLAND. Feb. 19. (To the Edl
tor.) I was one of visitors to the
Lyric last night and glad to say that
1 enjoyed the play wonderfully.
However. I call your attention to
the fact that the following article
which I would like to scratch out en
tirely from the writing or play In
future, as long as these two nations
are a good friendship.
"We declared the war with Japan"
was announced by a telegram in their
play as a part of the aots. I, of
course, realize that it is only the play.
but such descriptions should not be
performed, and at same time, do not
at all welcomed by at least such
Portlanders as Messrs. Wheelwright
and Callan, and the Governor Olcott
as well, for they are the atmost lovers
and respect the liberty, the Justice,
and the world-peace Moreover espe
cially "Greater Portland" business
with Japan.
Submitting these for your Informa
tion, as I consider The Oregonlan is
always standing still at the justice.
Sincerely trusting that such a slm
pie article will, however. Interest you
to Insert on your paper so that the
public enable to take notice of what
one of the aliens nations said about it.
A NIPPONESE.
Right to Own Property.
VADER, Wash., Feb. 19. (To the
Editor.) (1) Can a man with a dis
honorable discharge from the United
State army be a legal prcperty holder
In this country? (2) Can he be de
ported If born in America? (3) Which
Is correct. Tijuana or Tla Juana,
Mexioo? JOHN MARTIN.
1. " Yes.
2. No.
3. The common spelling is Tla
Juana, ,
Twenty-Five tears Aao.
From The Oresonlan of Feb. lxi
Washington The bill requesting
Spain to recognize Cuban Independ
ence came before the senate today
for definite and final action and an
early vote is expected.
Aoheville. N. C The condition of
Bill Nye shows no appreciable chance
and the great humorist appears to bt
sinking rapidly.
Portland's movement to regain the
Alaska trade, lost through the more
energetic efforts of the I'ugct sound
cities, ls attracting much attention In
Seattle.
Undeterred by the fate ccoriled
Coxey, Debs will accept the populist
nomination for governor of Indiana,
according to a political announcement
yesterday.
Flfiy Yeara Aao.
From The Orcionian of r'eb. SI. ISTI.
Several new buildings are in proc
ess of construction at Corvaills and
tbe town ls growing rapidly.
Oregon stands highest among states
for the yield of wheat per acre and
California is second, according to a
recent report of the department of
agriculture. The average yield in
Oregon is given as 19. t bushels.
The Willamette river has been ris
ing for the last few days and has
flooded the wharves.
Bnalneas Address hy Mall.
UNION, Or., Feb. 19. (To the Ed
itor.) Please advise me through the
columns of The Oregonlan of a firm
where I could procure supplies and
machinery for the manufacture of
vinegar.
20 TEARS A SUBSCRIBER.
. Subscribers desiring business ad
dresses should enclose self-addressed
stamped envelope for reply by mail.
Seaaloa of Congress.
PORTLAND, Feb. 19. (To the Ed
itor.) Will you kindly tell me what
the number of the present session of
congress Is? GEO. H. UAMEUiS.
Sixty-sixth.
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