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8 THE MORNIXG OREGOXTAX. THURSDAY, MARCTI 24, 1031 ESTABLISHED BY HENBY L. nTTOCK. Published by Th Oregonlan Publishing Co.. i eixtn street. ?orliana, Oregon. C A. MORDE.M, K. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. Th Oreconian la a member of th Asso ciated rres. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to tbe use (or publication ot all news diRDftfchM i.rdltd to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also tbe local newt published herein. All rights publication of special dispatches herein re aiso reserved. .Subscription Bates Inrarlably la Advance. (By Mall.) Ial!y. Sunday Included, one year 18.00 lially, Sunday Included, six months... 4.25 Dally, Sunday Included, three months. 2.26 Imily, Sunday Included, on month... .76 Daily, without Sunday, one year 00 l"aily, without Sunday, six months... 1.25 J'ajly, without Sunday, ona month BO Weekly, one year , 1-00 bunday, one yjar ..... .W By Carrier.) 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The statement of the superin tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New Tork (metropolitan district) that saloons are running: wide open and that their continued existence is evidence of the violation of law through defiance of prohibition is not surprising. Nor is it necessarily a source of new discouragement to the prohibitionists. They did not expect to turn a wet nation over night into a dry nation. Or, if they did, they had learned nothing from the lessons of experience. It is just as true as it ever was that prohibi tion is a fact only insofar as any state or community, by a large ma jority, desires it to be a fact. Undoubtedly many citizens ob serve the law because it is the law and to that extent the bona fide prohibitionists are automatically re inforced. Others have become con vinced by results that it is a good thin?. But great numbers make no disguise of their willingness and pur poso to defeat prohibition by their personal practices, ranging from an ardent and enthusiastic development of the science of home-brewing to the unblushing patronage of boot leggers and their kind. All these phenomena have been observable in the early stages of local and state prohibition; and for the most part they have slowly dis appeared, as the years passed on. Undoubtedly prohibition has been effective in many states and un doubtedly the consumption of liquor lias been vastly diminished in the nation since that fateful day in 191 when the great experiment for over 100,000,000 people was undertaken. But it is not known now, nor will it be definitely known for a long time, whether the nation Is to be permanently and effectively dry, of half-dry, or ultimately wot. The great cities, for example, are essentially cosmopolitan, having re cruited their inhabitants in great part from races and peoples whose instinct and habit run counter to ab stinence from liquor; and the pres ent generation of these adopted citi zens will not be reconciled to pro hibition. There are thousands and millions of others who regard pro hibition as an invasion of their per sonal rights and who will drink when they can get it and will get it however and wherever they can. It is true, of course, that one hears little or nothing about invasion of personal rights from those who re frain, from liquor as a matter of con science or preference; but the argu ment is made, and it serves, though it ignores the fact that freedom to make or drink liquor as an individ ual prerogative has been withdrawn by law. There is no such right now. Prohibition is a growth. What the states have done, the nation may do. But not at once. Perhaps not at all. But we do not expect the prohibitionists to give up the battle because New Tork and other great centers are doing what it was well known by them they would do. TERSraXCS TIMELY REBUKE. Ceneral Pershing was the right man to tell foreign-born citizens that the men who fought in the war ob ject if they attempt "to decide an American question for a foreign reason" and to denounce those who 6eek to weaken the ties of friendship between the United States and the allies. The immense gathering of the American Legion which he ad dressed and the speech that he made were the appropriate answer to the pro-German meeting which friends of the Hun had audacity to hold a few days earlier. That meeting of protest against "the Rhine horrors" served a good purpose, very different from that of its promoters. It reminded us that the Germans are unchanged and impenitent, and that their insidious propaganda is still at work. Since the war ended, the bond by which it drew all Americana into unity of purpose has become relaxed, and many incline to forget that the allies were our comrades in war, while they think of points on whjch we have disagreed with the allies as to the peace setlement. - The Germans seek to exploit these differences and to magnify them into cause of open quarrel in the hope that irritation against our friends will make us merciful to them. They have so far succeeded that tHey dared to speak openly in protest against seizure of a small part of the assets of a delin quent debtor by the creditors. This is a reminder to the Ameri can people that, whatever differences they may have with the allies about cables, Yap, oil and sundry other matters arising out of the war, are but trifles compared with the dif ference which we and the allies to gether have to settle with Germany. Pershing and his men, Sims and his men, put it in our power, acting with the allies, to enforce our terms. It would be a crime against those men to fritter away the fruits of their victory. It would be supreme folly to let Germany escape the penalty while France suffers and while all the allies pay the cost. The dis agreements among the allies are among friends, who remain friends in spit of them, and'ean and will be settled amicably. They should not be magnified into quarrels, for division among those who accomplished Ger- many's defeat is Its best hope of es caping the just consequences. Need of a united front with the allies against Germany has not passed. It will not' pass until Ger many has ceased to resist the just demands on which we shall agree with the allies, and lives up to tbe letter and spirit of the treaties that it has signed and will sign. THE CITY'S GOOD NAME. The community chest is a com munity enterprise, to which the good faith of Portland has been committed by leaders of community effort in charity and various forms of practi cal benevolence. There are some people who are doubtful of Its effi cacy or wisdom. But the time is past when doubts may fairly or Justly be expressed or felt. The hour for action is here. All the charities and allied projects of Portland are represented in the chest and failure means utter collapse for them, or something like it. . It is unthinkable that it should happen. It must not be permitted to happen. The imperative need now, when the canvass is about to begin, is for the workers in charity all of them to be mobilized for the great serv ice to be performed. It is necessary, too, that the organizations which have fathered this or that or the other Individual institution dedicate themselves to the united plan. Un less there is conversion to the chest idea of the stimulus of personal in terest, which has made a success of separate drives, the combined drive will be lacking in the one great thing it must have enthusiasm. What the worker has heretofore done for one, he must now do for all; what the giver has given for one, he must now give for all, for the reason if he has no better reason that his one favored charity will suffer through his indifference or neglect. An appeal may rightly be directed to all the men and women who have always responded in work or in money, or in both, to make the cause of the community chest their cause. Their service is indispensable. Let the captains of past campaigns be the captains of the present cam paign; and let the workers in the ranks again enlist. A great duty is Imposed on them. They must not falter nor fall. EAGER TO REE FAIIXRE. Taking aa a text the prediction of Secretary Mellon that the appropria tions required for the next fiscal year would be "only a little more" than the total for this year, the New Tork Times jeers that "it would appear that the way to reduce the abnormal expenditures is to increase them." , Except for the army and navy, appropriations for the next fiscal year have already been made. They were necessarily based on estimates from democratic department heads, who have not even a speaking ac quaintance with economy. As it was, congress cut more than a billion dol lars from the estimates; which was doing fairly well. But the depart ment heads are not obliged to spend all the money appropriated and may effect considerable economy by cut ting off dead wood and making drones work. Their predecessors spent all that congress gave and more too. Opportunity for reduction of ex penses on any large scale will 'not come until congress makes appro priations for the year beginning July 1, 1922. By that time a budget luw will surely be in operation, a plan of department reorganization will have been adopted and the admin istration will have got fairly into its stride. Foreign complications should then be out of the way and the government should know with fair accuracy what liabilities it will have to meet. The special session will be occupied in disposing of emergency legislation and in laying a good foundation for that which is to be done at the regular session, when the next annual appropriations must be made. If the administration should not make good then, the Times will have , a good case for jeers. At present it is rather pre vious and over-eager. FA3MNO OF AN HISTORIC FERRY. Decision of the present owners of the Olds ferry across Snake river, reported In the Ontario Argus, to go out of business, will be regretted by pioneers who have a sentimental interest in the early landmarks of Oregon. Established in 1858 by J. P. Olds, then an em ploye of the Hudson's Bay company, which still had a few trappers in the country, the ferry long "served the wants of travelers from all parts of the union. It was a famous station during the rush to the Idaho gold mines in 1862. The first wire cable used by its owners was brought to Oregon by way of Cape Horn. In an earlier time the ferry consisted of a raft. The extreme difficulty with which logs of the first rude boat to be constructed were floated down the Burnt river and the primi tive tools with which they were con verted to the use of men are remi niscent of the many obstacles that were overcome by the pioneers in opening transportation routes in the west. The district in which the ferry was situated in 1864 was part of Baker county. There is on record an order of the county court of that county, dated March 7, 1JUS5, granting to Olds a license for a ferry at Fare well bend, tolls of which were to be the same as those charged by the Boise ferry. The schedule of charges was fixed at 25 cents for footmen, 50 cents for pack animals, 25 cents for loose animals, $2 for a wagon, two horses and a ton of freight, with $1 additional for each ton of freight. People appreciated this service for a time, but there were numerous man ifestations of hostility when the owners of the Burnt river toll road and the Olds ferry consolidated their interests under the name Burnt Kiver Toll Road, Bridge & Ferry company. Memories of the old hard ships were soon dimmed and new comers objected on principle to pay ing tolls. A good deal of money nevertheless was expended in main taining the road and ferry, though the word "bridge" in the company title never represented anything but an aspiration. The ferry was not al ways a money .maker and profits of boom years were seldom available to tide over the lean ones. Olds ferry is associated in memory with the Blue Bucket, or Lost River, diggings. Search for the Blue Bucket attracted not only miners who had been disappointed in their quest in Idaho, but also made con siderable Inroads on the population of the Willamette valley. Robert B. Gibbs, who came to Oregon from California in 1861, says that one of the searchers for this fabulous de positary of natural treasure was Henry Comstook, discoverer of the Comstock lode in Nevada. Every event associated with Blue Bucket has peculiar interest for oldtime miners. . It was the Gibbs party that was reported to have "shoveled its way" through the Blue mountains with a party of seventy-five Portland adventurers in the spring of 1862, which seems to have been a late spring even for those parts. Mem bers of the party wearied of the search after a time and threatened to hang their guide, whom they ac cused of leading them on a boot less chase. Gold was found, but no Blue Bucket Some of the pros pectors took the road into Idaho by way of Olds ferry, where they met others coming out. The heavy move ment In both directions made ' the ferry highly profitable in the years prior to formal licensing of the ferry company. Many families coming overland to Oregon in the sixties set foot for the first time on Oregon soil from the Olds ferry and it conveyed federal troops across the river In the Ban nack campaign. It and Glenn's ferry were long on the best-traveled routes in that part of the territory. Its passing marks another stage In high way development and in the gradual disappearance of the landmarks of pioneer times. X-RAY AND DISEASE PRETENTION. The twenty-six years since Wil helm Konrad Roentgen announced his discovery of the mysterious ray that bears his name may have been the most significant period In the progress of the healing art that the modern world has evef known. When scientists announced early in the present century that the ray had made possible the discovery of for eign substances imbedded in the hu man body it was thought that the summit of human ingenuity had been reached. Next to discovery of anesthesia, which was in a primitive stage even as recently as the civil war, it was believed that the so called X-ray was the most important advance in surgery of all time. If it bad done nothing more than obviate necessity of probing of wounds, long an unavoidable procedure, it would have justified every claim made for it. Its discovery twenty years earlier in all probability would have saved the life of President Garfield; it un doubtedly saved many lives during the recent world war. Announcement of the invention by another scientist of an accessory which eliminates secondary rays is also a matter of moment to suffering humanity because it indicates a larger use of the X-ray In the field of medicine. It is explained that secondary rays are those which have heretofore stood as obstacles to em ployment of the Roentgen ray. in photography of tissues which are not in themselves densely opaque. A New To-k experimenter has shown that the new technic will jrnake it possible to disclose, certain condi tions of Ill-health in their incipiency. Importance of this phase of the dis covery, if proved true, will be un derstood by those who know that a good many maladies which now defy the physician In their later stages are curable if attacked in time. This Is particularly true of tuberculosis and of a group of tumors thought to be non-malignant in their beginning. A large opportunity for usefulness Is indicated in this field alone. It has been the belief of serious medical scientists that future hope of humanity lies in preventive rather than solely curative measures. , If the newly announced X-ray dia phragm, fulfills expectations it will be another step toward disease pre vention and will emphasize the new aspect of social hygiene that Is so conspicuous a development of the present scientific era. THE SOVIET'S CASE FOR RECOGNITION Foreign complications crowd each other for attention from Jresiaent Hardiwg. While ex-Premier Viviani is on the ocean, coming to plead for American co-operation with the al lies in behalf of France, the soviet government of Russia appeals for re sumption of trade relations. It re lies on the prestige won by the trade agreement with Britain and on the visions of profitable business which its agents have held before the eyes of Americans to Induce Mr. Harding to make a similar agreement. The cases of the United States and Britain are not parallel, for Britain has reasons of both domestic and foreign policy for conciliating the bolshevists such as do not exist in this country. The bolshevists con duct a ceaseless propaganda through out Asia, especially India, to stir up revolt and to array the whole Mahom medan world against Britain. This enemy is of a kind which cannot be met bv military force and any re sort to force would be opposed by the labor party, which nas declared for full recognition of the soviet, and by the taxpayer, who clamors for re duction of government expense. The soviet knows these things, therefore demands that it be bought off with a trade agreement. No substantial results are- to be expected, for Russia has little to sell and it no sooner at tempts to pay gold than its title to the gold is attacked In British courts. The United states nas no counter part to the Indian empire or to Britain s other Asiatic possessions to pacify, no powerful socialist laDor party to placate. The two great parties are praencauy oi one mina that nothing is to be gained, much to be risked, by establishing relations of any kind -with the soviet. Then the considerations which weighed with Lloyd George need have no weight with Mr. Harding. Though disgust at the means by which the soviet has established its power inspires aversion to inter course with it, that is not a con trolling reason for refusing it any degree of recognition. It is only a degree less tyrannical and cruel than the czar's government and it is no less so than that of Turkey, which by turns has massacred Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians, but we main tained full diplomatic "intercourse with them. They respected our na tional rights, lived up to interna tional obligations and observed con tracts with our citizena The soviet govsrnment has made good Its claim to recognition in none of these re spects. It has organized conspiracy on our soil to overthrow our govern ment, has stirred up industrial strife and has conducted extensive propa ganda for that purpose. It has pro claimed Its purpose to revolutionize the world and has coupled this country with Britain as the main ob jects of attack. It regards no agree ment with a government not of its own kin', as binding. Its titular am bassador. Martens, was so perni ciously active that the government deported him, yet the soviet now proposes to send his secretary, Nuorteva. In exchange for these courtesies the soviet asks for trade and recognition, otherwise for facilU ties to promote revolution. Much would be gained by the so viet It already boasts of having forced Britain to recognize it. thus heightening its prestige and dis couraging the millions of Russians who long for its downfall. A trade agreement with the United States would be construed as recognition and would add further, prestige. Thus its grip on Russia would be strengthened just when signs abound that the whole rotten system is crumblipg. Notwithstanding the suppression of the Cronstadt revolt there are uprisings in widely sepa rated parts of Russia. Lenine, the fanatical believer in communism, has Deen driven by expediency to force through the soviet revival of private trade in food. He. was opposed by Trotzky, the opportunist, whose power is supported by the extraordi nary commissions, which grow rich by selling the food that they confis cate from speculators, as they call private traders, and which would lose their graft if private trade were made lawful. As Trotzky commands the red army, composed mainly of foreign mercenaries, there is possi bility of war within the bolshevist ranks. If any goods were sofd, loco motives, railroad cars and railroad material would go first and would be used to fortify red militarism. - What would the United States gain? Nothing beyond the very lim'ted amount of trade now possi ble. But it would lose the good will of those millions of Russians who look forward .to the rescue of their country from bolshevism'. That is the really important consideration, for bolshevism is but one phase of the Russian revolutionary epoch and when the Russian people establish a government which expresses their will, as they ultimately will, they will have no gratitude to the nations which have given their oppressors the moral support of trade and of even partial diplomatic intercourse. A BEST-SELLER OF FORTY YEARS AGO The death of John Habberton in a soldiers' home in New Jersey re calls that best-seller of more than a generation ago, "Helen's Babies," then hailed by general readers as a ray of light in the gloom of the tran sition period .from the New Tork Ledger style of literature to the modern school of higher and better written realism. It was, as the older generation will remember, a plain tale of the tribulations of a bachelor left to take care of the very human children tl his sister, with strict in structions as to what childfcn must do and must not do.- It not only was an amusing story but its success op ened the eyes of writers to the pos sibilities of unornamental treatment of commonplace topics. It was a complete answer to those who be lieved that material for literature was lacking In events that are con stantly going on around them. Habberton was a successful news paper man and also published a number of other books. Like the authors of "David Harum" and of "When Knighthood Was in Flower," however, he caught the public fancy with only a single one. The finan cial ups-and-downs of a literary career are illustrated by the circum stance that Habberton died, at the age of seventy-six, a dependent on the state. People laughed with him when he was. in. .his heyday but they soon forgot him when other books crowded "Helen's Babies" out of the market. His was nevertheless a good story, that ought to prove as enter taining now as when it was first published, in 1876. A woman, who met a nfan on a street corner two weeks ago and four days later went with him to "Van couver and was married is seeking help of the police to recover the money she gave him when she sold her property. Possibly she wants him, too. This would be a doleful world without women. i That was .indeed a thrilling expe rience of twenty nurses in an ele vator cage in a local hospital who dropped a few floors until the safety clutch caught just in time., A cage load of men might be yelling yet, but to the nurses it's all in the day's work. An apartment house of nine stories is no more dangerous than one of six. For that matter, twelve might be a limit. People must be housed and those who prefer the "cliff style of dwelling must be accommo dated. The custom of promoting a gen eral officer one grade when retiring should not be suspended in the case of Major-General Liggett. After delay of two years a real estate man who swindled a client has been taken to the penitentiary. The law does work occasionally. California theaters will bar the Clara Hamon moving picture. Per haps Oregon women will have some thing to say about the reel here. The scout cruiser Milwaukee will be christened with water from Lake Michigan, though it was not water that made Milwaukee famous. Testerday was payday, but the German ghost refused to walk. Ger many will refuse up to the point of compulsion and then pay. Spinach-fed babies will, after a few generations, produce a race of remaikable Americans. Leave it to the researchers. Salem sets April 10 as Blossom day on the chance that something will be in bloom. She. will not be disappointed. The idea of a community chest is to help the liberal man get it off his chest in one clatter, v If Neuf and Zimmer were British ers they would not stay in a German jail over night The ticket that shows a man a giver to the community chest will be a sort of card of honor. Time to change "occasional rain" to "showers." Make it April weather. Has anybody been "temporarily disconnected" this month? Alienist- can make a "crazy man" out of anybody. Stars and Starmaker. By Lceac Cass Baer. Winnie Lightner, the clever young comedienne who comes occasionally to the Orpheum, along with her sister and their partner, in tbe act known as the Lightner Sisters and Alexander, is suing her husband, Richard Pyle, for divorce on the grounds of de sertion. Mr. Pyle is appearing in the eastern "Mary" company. Tbe suit Is being staged in Chicago. m ' Ina Claire is retiring temporarily from the - stage because growths on her vocal chords threaten total de struction of her voice. She has been under the care of , specialists for months, she says, and intends to rest a full year, maybe longer. She and her husband sail for Europe in May. Blossom Seeley was married in Du luth last week to Bennle Fields, her principal vaudeville assistant Miss Seeley was recently divorced from Rube Marquard, pitcher. Fields' right name proved to be Benjamin Gelsenfeld. Maggie Teyte, the diminutive prima donna formerly with the Metropoli tan, was married in London March 12 to W. S. Cottlngham, formerly ot Cleveland, Ohio. Jan Rublni, the violinist, who ap pears here occasionally In vaudeville, has been sued, along with his wife, Diane Rublni, for $457.50 for salary, by Margaret L. Smeltzer and Ray Stewart. The plaintiffs alleged that they were engaged to stage a vaude ville act without compensation dur ing the rehearsal period, but were to receive half salary during the time after two weeks of rehearsals until the act was booked. Lyslane Bernhardt, daughter of Maurice and a granddaughter of the famous Sarah, was married on Fri day, March 11, to Louis Verneuil, the author of "Daniel," in which the great Sarah is to appear during her tour of England in April. Mme. Bernhardt is listed for 15 performances of this play in London and 15 in the other large English cities, opening April 4. Lysiane Bernhardt accompanied Madame Bernhardt to America on her last tour, and was with her at the Orpheum here. - Under her private name of "Mrs. Virgil Montanl," Evelyn Nesbit has been ordered to pay a judgment of $3244 to Frances & Co., modistes. Montanl is the name of Jack Clifford, whom Miss Nesbit is now suing for divorce. Laurette Taylor is to do "Humor, esque," by Fannie Hurst, next season She will play the mother. David Belasco has accepted a plaj by Arthur Hornblow, with Lucrezia Borgia as the heroine. Theodore Kosloff and his wife, sep arated for seven years because the war intervened after he came to this country, were reunited in Los An geles during the past week. Otis Skinner, in "At the Villa Rose," was forced to cancel several engage ments because the wardrobe and scenery of the ehow were destroyed In a fire which burned up a baggage car at Louisville. The chocolate eclair actress, Ruth Chatterton, is coming to this coast this summer in "Mary Rose." Rose Coghlan celebrated the 70th anniversary of her birth one day last week. She Is playing in "Deburau" at the Belmont in New Tork. Miss Coghlan has been on the stage 52 years. She made her debut as one of the witches Jn "Macbeth" In Lon don In 1869. Her first appearance in. America was in "A Happy Pair" 'at Wallack's In 1872, and later she was with the elder Sothern in "An Ameri can Cousin," "Dundreary," eta Her career is a history of characters created for some of the most notable successes of the . English-speaking stage. Oliver Morosco has accepted a play of the early days of California and Mexico called "The Madonna of Monterey." Clara Older is Its author. Particular interest attaches to this play because Mrs. Older is a west erner and the wife of Fremont Older, editor of the San Francisco Call. The Shuberts have acquired "Main Street," the Sinclair Lewis novel of small-town American life, which is to be made into a play by Harvey O'Higgins and Harriet Ford. a John Considine, who has spent the entire winter in New Orleans, is pro moting an automobile engine, in vented by a workman in a machine shop. The machine is said to operate with crude oil as well as with gaso line. Practically the entire theatrical contingent of New Orleans is "aboard" for a gambling chance. CLOSED. Its curtains have not stirred. Still faithfully they hold. Left by her gentle hand. The sou Indentured fold. Since when upon the turn A mistiness there crept Into her backward glance. Its windows have not slept The moonbeams enter there. And find no answering glow; No smoke wreath frets the air. The hearth is dark below. Birds house beneath its porch; upon tne window sill The yellow-hammer clings. And boldly pecks at will. Within, upon a bench, Safe sheltered from the wind, Her drooping flowers stand And. wait the band so kind. So through the long, long days. And through the wintry rains, The house and I keep watch Until she comes again. MART ALICE OGDEN. Lumber Rate, still Tea Hia-h. TENINO, Wash., March 21. (To the Editor.) In the editorial "Better Times for Lumbermen," do you mean to eive the impression that the raw question is solved? It will not be solved until the rail roads make a rate of 70 cents per hundredweight from the coast to the Atlantic. What the coast needs at present is lumbermen with a vision to see that the only solution for us is to ship most of our product via Panama canal to eastern and foreign ports and thereny get into the mar kets of the world. At least 60 per cent of the cut In Oregon and Wash ington should be shipped via water route, and a good many of us are fak ing advantage of this now and more Will. ALBERT t . COOK. Those Who Come and Go. "I'm now working on a story that is terrible," confessed Dr. .Linto, the Jules Verne of Waldport, Or., who is at the Imperial. "The earth doesn't shoot through space at its terrific rate without some motive power. Well, I have my hero discover this energy and after that these planets you see swinging around in the sky become mere whistling posts. Yes, there is a little love interwoven in the plot has to be. My books haven't had a great circulation, but I know that when people read them they like 'em. Just as I was leaving Waldport I received a letter from an old, man in Washington state who said that he had picked up one of my books early in the evening and that it was now 4 o'clock in the morning and he was just pausing to write to me to say how absorbed he was. I've received about 600 letters from people all in that strain, so I know that those who do read the books enjoy them. At Waldport Dr. Linton is the town phy sician, the mayor, the police depart ment, the fire department and its leading literary light. "Wallowa is an Indian word mean ing well, people will give you a dozen different meanings for it," said Jay Dobbin of . Enterprise, who is at the Imperial. " 'Wallowa,' as near as I can make It ont, means a paradise for hunting and fishing, a sort of happy hunting ground, where the In dians could enjoy themselves without having to die first." Mr. Dobbin was offered an appointment as a member of the state highway commission a few months ago, but declined. He is in the sheep and banking business. Mr. Dobbin thinks that conditions are getting a trifle better and explains that there baa been a general re trenchment among the producers to cut down the costs. "Things will be better when there-is a profit," added Mr. Dobbin, "no matter how small the profit and no matter what the market quotations are. The producers are taking the first step toward trying to restore a profit by curtailing expen ditures." Dr. Embody of the fisheries school at the University of Washington will arrive in Portland today and will be taken to Herman creek and Bonneville ..to see the 17,000,000 fish impounded there. If the professor doesn t be lieve there are tl.t number he will be given the privilege of counting them. R. E. Clanton, firu culturist for Oregon, arrived at the Imperial yesterday to escort Dr. Embody to the hatchery. The purpose of the inspec tion is to look over the 2,000.000 sockeyes which are now five inches long and 16 months old. The eggs for the sockeyes were imported from Yes Bay, Alaska. The success of the Oregon hatchery in holding fish be yond the usual period has been so great that the leading fish culturista of the country have been going to Bonneville during recent months. Among others was the chief fish cul turist of Ottawa, Can. E. M. Rands is an old resident of Oregon, although he now calls a log cabin near Stjvenson, Was,.., his home. In 1887 Mr. Rands and his father started from Oregon City with a team of horses and wagon and made their way over the tortuous roads through Tillamoon. county tp Netarts. wh'eh is now a popular summer beach. In those uays the clams were very thiok in the sands. For some time past Mr. Rands has b:en spend ing his leisure fishing in the pleas ant waters, of Lake Wauna and sev eral other smaller enclosed bodies of water near his home. Due to Mr. Rand's efforts and his desire to fish the lakes have bee i stocked with trout, sturgeon and fresh water sal mon and a fish'ns club stands on the bank of Lake Wauna. Mr. Rands Is registered at the Multnomah. Seventy-five Shriners belong to and pay dues in the Hood River Shrine club. Saturday evening the club will give its seasonal dance. George H. McMullin, president of the Hood River Shriners, is at the Multnomah. "Hood River has been hit rather :-.ari by the price declines and general adjust ment," h,e sdys. "When foreign ex change is normal we ship many apples to Great Britain, but now foreign shipments there are nil. Of course the apple growers are hopeful for the fu ture. Apple boxes have omo down about 50 per c nt in price, which will be a help. The fame of Hood River is widespread, ''""her in the cast be fore coming to Hood River tne name of the famous apples and their orisln vfere ..iown to me, while many other cities far larger were not impressed in my memory. I believe that con structive and non-exaggerative boost ing pays. Oil well drilling Is proceeding day and night at Warrenton, Or., and the- down-river folk are anxiously await ing the outcome of the enterprise. So far, according to John McBride, regis tered at the Multnomah, a large amount of surface oil has risen and the prospects appear bright that oil will be struck in paying quantities. The rotary drill has pierced the earth 1400 feet and already has encoun tered a strong strata of oil-bearing sand. Geologists have said that the vioinity of Warrenton looked rtjod for oil. Already the prospects for oil have caused a brisk purchasing of property "for waterfront purposes," but the citizens of Warrtnton sur mise that waterfront property will not be valuable as such if the well comes in. This summer there will be a ferry plying across the Columbia river be tween Astoria and Megler. The ferry will accommodate 15 automobiles and will give motorists an opportunity to cross from one state to the other. A good automobile road is planned from Megler To Chinook so mat tourists can get down to the beach settlements. This is the information brought to town by VP. L. Sinclair, a banker of Ilwaco. The-state of Washington re cently appropriated more than a mil lion dollars for highway work in southwestern Washington and some of this money is to be used In devel oping the road to Ilwaco. Mr. Sin clair .is registered at the Hotel Port land. He doesn't own a single tree or a sawmill, yet W.'R. Kivette. registered at the Imperial, :s a mighty impor tant factor In tho lumber business in La Grande. Mr. Kivette is a lumber broker; he buys the outp-t of a mill and disposes of it. He has" "een op erating in the La Grande territory for about 20 ye.-.ra. From the earliest dawn of civiliza tion until Robei'. Withycombe got busy barley grew with whiskers. Mr. Withycombe has experimented at the station at Union until he has evolved a beardless barley and this has been such a revolutionary step and the bar ley is In such demand that the supply is inadequate. Fred G. Buchtel of the public serv ice commission, Which is now under fire on account of the telephone rates, is an'arrival at the Hotel Ore gon frorh. Salem. Mrs. George F. Kelley, formerly of Prineville, .registers at the Hotel Portland from New York City. Mrs. Kelley is now in the motion picture industry. Walter S. Crane, oui of the Warren Construction company of Boston, Is an arrival at the Benson. Boston is the general headquarters of the big paving concern. John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Can Yon Answer Tkeae Questions! 1. Why do green corn and peas lose much of their freshness and sweetness if pulled a night or a day before using? 2. Why does a horse turn his tail to the storm while the cow turns her head? 3. What birds' bones are hollow and filled with air? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. How do wingless seeds that are heavy, like nuts, get spread? Chestnuts, acorns, hickory nuts and butternuts, etc., which fall and would by themselves stay Immediately near the parent trees are spread through the agency of birds and small rodents like chipmunks, etc., and are thus able to reproduce their species at a distance. 2. I have Just started a globe of gold fishes and want to know what you consider a properly equipped aquarium. A medium large aquar'um will hold two or three small fishea to each gallon ot water. It should have about two inches 'of clean sand at the bottom, and some easily grown water plants, like milfoil, hornwort, water weed, tape grass, or similar varieties sold by the aquarium supply dealer, to absorb carbonic gas and give out oxygen. Water need be added only to replace evaporation in an aquarium where plants keep the balance of gases correct. Crumbs of uneaten food must be picked out daily to prevent decay. A few snails will act as scavengers and assist cleanli ness. The temperature should be kepi aa near to 60 to 60 degrees as pos- I Bible. . 8. Why was the English sparrow Introduced Into North America? Does It serve any useful purpose? Is it harmful to native birds? The date of this sparrow's Introduc tion is given as from 1851 to into the early '60s. In the old world it has enemies sufficient to keep it in check, and is not known as a pest such aa it becomes here. It eats weed seeds and sometimes combats insect pests. Pre sumably its sponsors believed the bird an industrious and desirable addition to our native bird population. But freed from its natural checks, the English sparrow proved alarmingly prolific -and hardy, and it "has out numbered and out-fought native and more desirable birds in any neigh borhood where it has penetrated, pre empting their nesting sites, or act ually ousting nesting birds already beginning to make a home. SALOONS ARE HUN WIDE OPEN No Effort Enforce Prohibit! la New York. NEW YORK. March 17. (To the Editor.) The anti-saloon league of New York after trying In vain fr months to get accurate figures as to the number of saloons that have gone out of business and the number that are still continuing to sell liquor in New Y'ork city, had Robert E. Cor radinl, in charge of the league's Ital ian work, make a saloon-to-saloon canvass in certain sections of the city, after tabulating every former saloon in Manhattan. The results so far of this still continuing survey are so striking that the league gives out the figures for First, Second and Third avenues and will give out those for other districts when they are com pleted. On First avenue 150 properties which carried licenses in 1918 were visited; 37 have goive out of business; 107 are still open without having camouflaged their appearance and 6 liquor stores are selling bottle goods. On Second avenue, of 184 places, only 31 have gone out of business; 134 saloons are open at their old stands, 19 liquor stores are selling liquor, while only 31 have been changed into establishments doing legitimate business. On Third avenue, out of 227 places holding licenses in 1918, only 63 have gone out of business; 152 saloons are still open and two places are liquor stores, 6 sell malt and hops for home brew and 5 are beverage stores which claim to sell soft drinks. This means that out of 661 saloons on these three avenues, only 131 have gone out of business, or less than 25 per cent, while 893 out of the 661 saloons are today making no pretense of being anything else than wide-open saloons. The very continued existence of these places is prima facie evidence of violation of the law. They can he closed up whenever the city authori ties honestly wish them closed and move in that direction, because the city officials have authority directly under the Volstead act, entirely inde pendent of any state enforcement leg islation, to apply for an injunction under the federal law. SAMUEL, L. HAMILTON. Superintendent Metropolitan District, Anti-Saloon League of New York. CONSIDERATION NOT DESERVED Allies Criticised for Proposing Return of Territory to Turks. ILWACO, Wash., March 21. (To the Editor.) The allies have mt in London to pacify the world, and as a beginning they are considering the return to Turkey of Thrace and Smyrna which were liberated at a great cost of life and money after 600 years of slavery and which were ceded to Greece by the treaty of Sevres. In order that this action of theirs may not be used as precedent for revising other treaties later on, which, of course, might be against their own interests, they have decided to leave out the word revision and use the word adjustment Instead. Oh, the greatness of hypocrisy! Can they call adjustment the return of hundreds of thousands of Christians Into the most barbarous slavery? Can they call adjustment the per mission of the unspeakable Turk to walk into a Christian home, drag put an innocent girl of 14 years of age? Can they call adjustment letting the Turk go on masacreing Christians regardless of age, sex or social posi tion. M. Briand is quoted as saying: "If America were to take the position now ,for right and justice that she took during the war we would be able to arrange the future easily." Is all the above this gentleman's con ception of right and justice? If so, his conceptive powers are sadly underdeveloped. More likely, how ever, it is not so. M. Briand rec ognizes and does right when right is In rue wltn tne rrencn interests, but when it is not I believe he whis pers Just what old Bill shouted, that is, 'to hell with the right." But, as the great American said, "yon may fool anma Deople some of the time and some people all of the time, but can not fool all tne people an or me time. -AUGUST CH1USTV. Authority to Raise nates. ASTORIA, Or., March 22. (To the Editor.) Who had the authority to allow the 8-cent street-car fare after the voters of Portland voted down the 7-cent rare.- Did the Interstate commerce com mission have Jurisdiction? A SUBSCRIBER. .The people of Portland have never voted on the 7-cen fare or on any other increase in fares. Authority to regulate rates within Oregon Is vested by law In the Oregon public service commission. , More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Blontasrue. CHILDREN, BE Ql IUT! When Europe suddenly went mad, And brother walloped brother. We couldn't do a thing w 3 had To let 'em soak each other. And while the Germans Belgium stole. And fought all over Flanders, For three whole years we played the role Of innocent' bystanders. But when wee Panama upsets The bellicose paprika. And, as she quite expected, gets A rise from Costa Rica, And both an eagerness display The dove of peace to trammel. Without a moment of delay They hear from Uncle Sam'l. 'This row," he says, "has got to atop. Get back to peace and quiet." And sends a gunboat for a cop To quell the rising riot. And Instantly the guns are still That roared along the border. As both the nations gulp the pill That's known as law and order. Big nations still may break the peace. As In the days departed. And we've no power to bid 'era cease When they get good and started. But with the. world fed up on gore And tragic situations. At least we're going to say that war Is not for baby nations! Rightful Recognition. Having made his physician a brigadier-general, the president ought in ..11 fairness to make at least a colonel of his caddy. Strange. Tbe woolen manufacturers refuse to quote prices for next falKtill they hear about the prospects of the cotton crop. Just Habit. Mr. Ford even makes a flivver out of his newspaper. (Copyright, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Inspiration. By Grace E. Hall. All the harmony of ages thrills within my soul today. As J. stand upon the mountain where the blue sky drops away. Echo-songs of vanished voices, throb bing notes of lutes long still. In a medley madly mingle and this earth-cathedral 111, And my soul takes up the high notsa in the universal strain. And repeats the tender pathos of each broken past refrain. Yea! The harmony of ages lives within my throbbing heart. And the .Master's baton signals: "Sfnsr! The world demands your part!" So I tune my harp to gladness and In joy 1 touch the strings, And behold! There is an answer and my notes are vital thinxs; Out upon the narrow pathway that is- rugged, hard and lone, I would send my song of cheering in my truest, kindest tone; For the harmony of ages in my sonl, comes from above. And the Teacher bids ine practice on the arias of love. In Other Da.ys. Twenty-five Year Aga. Krnm The Oregonlan of March 24. 1R!. Madrid La Kpocha, the leading Spanish paper, says that "the real is sue, setting aside hypocrisy, as some senators point out, is whether the United States can take possession of Cuba by force or not." J. P. Keefe, who has spent nearly 40 of the 51 years of his life en the stage and is now stage manager for W. A. Brady, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Weber, in this city. - The Multnomah club has decided to put a'lacrosse team in the field this year. W. L. Bull, president of the Minne apolis & St. Louis railroad, is in the city, accompanied by Mrs. Bull. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of March 23. 1H7I. Walla Walla The sum of S1635 has been raised here to be spent in mak ing a survey of a railroad route from the Columbia river to Walla AValla. The contracts for building the Ma sonic temple at the corner of Third and Alder streets having been let, the work of clearing the ground has been started. Deputy United States Marshal John Dolan has returned from Salem, where he delivered a prisoner. Drafted Men and Illiteracy. BEND, Or., March 22. (To tho Edi tor.) 1. Kindly state the number of men who registered for the draft un der the selective service system of tho United States. 2. What per cent of this number were illiterate, that is. unable to read or to recognize their names in print when they saw them? F. C. SCHAFER. 1. The total number registered for the draft was 23,908.576. Of these 6,319,728 were not classified. On the -day of the armistice 2.75S.S42 men were in the military service who had been furnished by the selective draft organization. " 2. No one knows the number ot drafted men who were unable to rec ognize their names in print when they saw them, because no tests were made on that basis. According to the office of the surgeon-general of the army, 1,552.256 drafted recruits were subjected to what was known as tho "alpha" test, and 386,196, or 24.9 per cent, failed to pass and were put in the "beta" class. To make the "alphV" grade it was necessary for the soldier to be able to read a newspaper un derstanding and to write a letter home. This is the only basis for literacy on which any extensive fig ures have ever been compiled. Effect of Trade Agrremrot. VANCOUVER Wash. .March 22. (To the Editor.) (1) Is not the re cent trade agreement between Great Britain and soviet Russia practically a recognition of the latter as a do facto government? (2) If so, has not Britain violated her obligations- to the league of nations? ENQUIRER. 1. Yes. Though the agreement re lates only to trade, not to diplomatic Intercourse, the soviet is tho only party in Ruesia with which Briti.sli subjects can trade, consequently agents of the British government in, Russia caring for their interests must deal with the soviet. This constitutes limited recognition and as the eoviet's governmental functions are inextrica bly mixed with its trade functions ultimate full recognition can, scarcely be avoided. 2. Nothing in the league forbids a momber government to recognize a non-member government. Germany is a non-member, but the allies have full diplomatic intercourse with its government,