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THE MORNIXG OREGOXTAX. THURSDAY, MARCTI 24, 1031
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SALOONS AD CITIES.
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.
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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,