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& THE MORN1KG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1921 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co., 1S4 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C A. JIOKDEN. . B. PIFER. Manager. Editor. The Oreronian la a member of the Asso ciated Press. Tha Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to tbe use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights ot publication of special dispatches herein I are also reserved. Ewbacriptlon Bates Invariably la Advance. (By Mall.) xally,. Sunday Included, ona year. Daily. Sunday Included, six months. Daily, Sunday included, three montha Daily, Sunday included, one month... Dally, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, six montha... .18.00 2.2 .75 .00 8.25 xKny, wunouc Bunaav. one xnomu.... Weekly, one year 1.00 aunaay, one year ...... x.av (By Carrier.) Dally. 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BldwelL fully cultivated by propaganda that is do less active than during tbe war a fact which should lead us to be lieve that there is much merit in the treaty. Both Mr. Harding and Mr. Hughes may be traveling toward the conclusion that the best way out of the muddle is to cut out of the treaty by sweeping reservation the entire covenant and other parts which they consider bad, to make the declara tion in favor of an association of na tions, and to retain the good and ratify. The way would then be clear to united action on the question of reparations, which Is the key-log in the world's economic Jam, and to a new beginning at organization of the world for peace and disarmament. That would not please Germany, but what reason is there for soothing that nation's wounded sensibilities? PRIMARY OR CONVENTION. Two schools of political thought la the unenlightened state of New York have revived the controversy ever the convention and the direct primary. In common with other Mates which In recent times joined the grand march of reform. New Tork a few years ago adopted the primary. But it is agreed that it is a failure agreed by its friends and Itu foes. They all want to do some thing about it, and there are several bills In the legislature to do it. It will come as a shock to the ardent and undismayed friends of the pri mary in its original western home to know that the party convention is to be restored by New York. The enly question is as to the kind of convention. One faction wants to hold an offi cial primary and elect delegates to a convention, which shall make all nominations. The other faction pro poses that there shall be a conven tion made up of party committee men, named at a primary, and that Its nominations shall be submitted to a subsequent primary. This is much the same thing as the odious and wicked ."assembly" proposed some years ago in Oregon, and denounced with unceasing and horrified vigor by the advocates of the "Oregon system." What in Ore- KEEP GOIM1. The community' chest plan, once carried to a certain point, cannot be gracefully abandoned. A promise has been given to those who con tributed adequately of their means that the one drive would be all that would be conducted in the names of the chest beneficiaries during the year. There was the pretty definite promise also made to the benefi claries that if they would abandon Individual efforts they would get the quota agreed upon. If the chest shall be closed sev- eral hundred thousand, dollars short of the needs, either there will be subsequent Individual drives or the customary activities of the several beneficiaries will be restricted. In either case an implied pledge will be broken. There seems to be only -one way out. It is to continue the drive until the chest is filled. We have adopted a plan of campaign. It should be fought out "along this line if it takes all summer." TIDE OF IMMIGRATION Commissioner of Immigration Husband's estimate that the number of aliens reaching the United States in 1921 will be close to 800,000 pre sents anew the problem of their dis tribution. This is almost as impor tant as measures which are.' con templated to exclude undesirables. If the commissioner's prediction is made good, the number of arrivals will be too large for convenient ab sorption into our already excessive urban population. A suggestion offered by Mr. Hus band, however, seems worth consid eration. This is that tbe number of immigrants permitted to land at any one port be regulated by federal law, Since it is Impossible to control the movements of the immigrant .after he has landed lawfully, the method susrerested seems to offer definite ad gon Is regarded as reaction In New . vantages. It would tend automat- York is held to be progress. Can It be true that progress or reaction is to be determined by locality and not by the infallible rules of un changing principle? A WAY OCT OF THE MUDDLE. As Secretary of State Hughes digs deeper into the diplomatic mess which Mr. Colby left behind, he may find more serious objections arising to ending of the war by a peace reso lution followed by a separate treaty with Germany. By the treaty of Versailles a number of rights are secured to the United States in com Don with the allies which can be exercised only in Joint action with the allies. If we should seek those rights by separate treaty with Ger many without regard to the Ver Failles treaty, we should come in contact, probably in conflict, with corresponding rights of the allies, Whatever Garmany agreed to grant us would be subject to the prior con ditions of the Versailles treaty and could be finally secured only by sep arate treaty with the allies. Thus we should enter on a complicated negotiation, in which Germany would be given opportunity to cause dissension between us and the allies, and thereby to evade obligations to both them and us. As to reparations, for example, the treaty in effect gives the signatories a species of first mortgage on the assets of Germany, under which col lections are to be made by the repar - ation commission. We have already received part payment in the form of ships and dyes under the treaty. Any agreement we might make for further reparation would be subject to the rights already established by the powers which have ratified the treaty, and would be in the nature of a second mortgage. We should want to be on an equality with the allies In our lien, on Germany's assets, but could only gain that position by agreement with them to throw all into one fund, to co-operate In col lection and to divide in agreed pro portions. Other rights are granted by the treaty which can be far better secured to this nation if it joins the other beneficiaries in securing them than if it should make the arrange ment three-sided. Irreconcilable senators are so bit ter against the league covenant that they overlook the greater part of the treaty to which they have found no serious objection. They condemn the Shantung articles, but a reser- j vtrtion can relieve the United States of responsibility for them. Some have condemned the British protec torate over Egypt but Britain Is now negotiating to substitute an alliance, to which no fair criticism can be of fered if Egypt Is a free agent. Amer ican representatives on many com missions are provided, but those bodies can function without them. The present disposition is to have no part in the league as now consti tuted. That can be accomplished by a reservation against the entire cove nant, accomplished by a declaration of American readiness to participate in an association of nations on the lines laid down by President Harding and the republican platform. Much opposition was expressed to the labor section, but that has no direct relation to peace with Germany. Eliminate all these parts of the treaty to which serious exception has been taken, and we shall have the great body of the terms of peace with Germany, to which no excep tion has been taken and enforcement of which jointly with the allies would be much to our advantage ex cept that in certain particulars the league acts for the allies. Probably Jf we were to make a separate treaty, it would consist in the main of the Versailles instrument rewritten. One of the unfortunate results of the controversy that has raged for two years is that a distorted view of the treaty has been formed by those who oppose the covenant or some particular provision, and certain sen ators depict It as a hideous-thing which should be utterly destroyed. That Is the German view of it, care- ically to divert a considerable num ber from the congested centers, and if the arrangement were carried out in good faith between officials of the government and local immigrant welfare agencies it ought to be help ful in obtaining recruits for the farming districts, where they are now most needed. The reasons for opposition on the part of New York to- the proposal are obvious. "Yet even the metropo lis may be made to see that its larger interests lie in the direction of avoiding further congestion. Un der certain conditions an immigrant otherwise a potential asset may be come a liability. The process of Americanization is not alone a mat tcr of schools and books. THE TURK COMES BACK. Defeat of the Greeks by the Turks Is a startling reversal of form. When the Greeks set out last June to drive the Nationalist Turks from the vicin ity of Smyrna and the shore of the sea of Marmora and the straits, their victory seemed absurdly easy and Mustapha Kemal's army figured as an undisciplined rabble of unwilling conscripts mixed with cowardly brigands routed by a well organized army of good morale. The Turks now fight as the Greeks then fought and the Greeks flee as the Turks then fled. Neither army is the same as It was last summer. The best troops of the Nationalists were then ' mar shaled against Armenia farther east ward and have since overcome that republic. They made direct contact with the bolshevlsts, who have also overrun Georgia and captured the railroad from Baku to Batum and the branch to Erivan. By treaty the soviet agreed to give military aid to the Turks, .even to the extent of sending several divisions of troops. It is probable that some of the best German officers in the Soviet's serv ice reorganized the Turkish army and injected discipline into It and that much heavy artillery and am munition was given to the Turks. The tactics of the Turks In the battle of Eski-Shehr were peculiarly Ger man the deluge of artillery fire and the mass attack in wave after wave and the Greeks, probably made rash by their former easy victories, were surprised and soon -stricken with panic. But the Greeks seem to have dete riorated as much as the Turks have improved. Last summer they were realizing the hope of centuries and avenging the wrongs of their breth ren under the direction of their great btatesman, Venizelos, and were backed by the allies. British troops fought on their left flank on the Ismid peninsula and British trans ports carried their troops, while an allied loan financed them. However the stay-at-home Greeks may have felt, the army believed in Venizelos and, when the people voted to re store Constantine and when Venizelos resigned and went into exile, many of the most ardent patriots- among the officers resigned. Then the army began to lose its fighting spirit. Demoralization of the Greeks was seemingly completed by the hostility of the allies. They withdrew finan cial support and proposed at the London conference to revise the treaty of Sevres to the. disadvantage of Greece and greatly to the benefit of Turkey. They put forward a plan to have an International commission inquire into the racial composition of the population of the Smyrna vilayet and Thrace ' and decide whether Greeks or Turks were In the majority and they asked the two governments to agree in advance- to accept the result. The Turks agreed, but the Greeks demanded the treaty as it stood. The Nationalists . had shouldered aside the sultan's dele gates and assumed to speak-for Turkey. They were heartened by an offer of the allies to modify the treaty in Turkey's favor in several particulars if Turkey would ask no further changes. Greece then under took to dispose of the Nationalists singlehanded and thus to remove the cause for these concessions. They have failed and the Turk is more in solent than ever. The net result of Greece's folly In xecalling Constantine is that , it stands alone, deserted and distrusted by the allies, which had fulfilled all its hopes of expansion and had made it one of the nine leading powers of the league so long as Venizelos was at the helm, but which now suspect treachery like that of 1915. Old Greece, which voted Constantine in again, wants peace and did not bar gain foe new war to carry out veni zelos' policy. New Greece, of Mace donia, Thrace and Smyrna, swears ty tb,e old Cretan and does not trust the new men in control. , Greece is & nation divided and isolated. Once more the hope that the civil ized world was to be rid of the un speakable Turk seems doomed. Only stubbornlv resisting does he retire to his ancestral home In the heart of Asia Minor and, having Joined hands with the bolshevlsts, he may again come forth to plague Europe, A TRIBUTE TO PORTLAND AS TRAFFIC CENTER. . It is no small tribute to the value of Portland as a traffic-producer that when nearly all the railroads In the country are losing money, the roads centering here select this city for early expenditure of $500,000 on terminals. In their present impov erished condition they would not contemplate expending such a sum unless they expected to get It back very soon in either greater economy of operation or increased traffic or both. '. Their readiness to spend the money under such circumstances Droves the need of the improvement and the' wisdom of clearing the way for them. The high place which Portland has won as a center of railroad traf fic is largely the consequence of the growth of its ocean commerce. A great funnel extends from here with its mouth In the Interior, and through it goods pour Into Portland for loading on board ship. Another funnel receives imports and dis charges them in the interior. Water traffic thus brings tratric to me railroads and by increasing its aen slty reduces the unit cost of handling it. Ships are taking from tne ran roads much of the long-haul traffic, hut they compensate by giving back much short-haul traffic. The best Interests of the roads are served by giving quick, cheap dispatch to ship ments at this transfer point between rail and ship, for they add to the volume handled by inducing ships to come here. We are at the transition pom from the epoch in which practically all traffic was carried by rail to that in which it will be divided between rail and ship. We may now expect to see rapid growth in density of traffic between the Pacific ocean ana the Rocky mountains, while trans continental rail traffic will gradually become restricted to those commodi ties which require quick transit and which can bear high cost of trans portation. That will bring density of Dotmlation comparable with that of the Atlantic coast, and growth of Pacific coast ports which will make them rank with those of the eastern coast. tions of war and armed forces, which was not provided for in the Hays Pauncefote treaty, and discriminated as to canal .tolls against other Latin- American - countries and our own ships, even in coastwise trade. The: treaty remained before the senate without action from March 14, 1917, to August 13, 1919, when it was again referred to the foreign relations committee. This action was prompted by a decree of Presi- The Listening Post. Extensive Wardrobes Available. Those Who Come and Go. Tale of Folk at tbe Hotels. MERE men as a rule buy Ir wan - clothes, not for adornment, but co " J31? L f T.? , " I ot the wilds, or domestic animal., die IILO VllCt a J va-wsuwuJwi "- Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Houghton-Mlfflln Co. Cam Yon Answer Theae Qnentlonaf for wear. However most married men realize that a woman's wardrobe must be replenished frequently as dent Suarez of Colombia practically I once garment is worn It loses a nationalizing the oil properties of great deal of its desirability. Espe the republic, whether in national, I dally is this the case with evening state or private land. Senator Fall or party gowns. Just let the woman then proposed an amendment to the I appear at several functions in the treaty by which the signatories agree I aamj garments and both her reputa- npt to nullify the rights of each tlon and hubby's is on the wane. "She other's citizens in "real estate, I never has any new clothes' remarks mines, petroleum deposits or any on, eattv creature an the flavine other like property" in their terri- I tory acquirea prior io me treaty, ana Tnj, hag made pogalble a nnique a subcommittee was appointed to deveiopment ln modern merchandia- consider the amendment. The full committee proposed to strike out the apology and the words "even in case of war between Colombia and an- otheffjuntry" as applied to trans port of troops and war materials through the canal,' for these gave a special right that might be used against us. Colombia objected strongly to this and other amend Ing apparel exchanges. " They exist in most big cities. In Portland there are three of them, one on the west side in a' private home, another operated ln an east side residence and the third in a downtown office build ing. One of the stores is managed by two partners who also have a branch in San Francisccf. This place is favored ments, and Suarez, according to the I by many for the reason that the two Fall subcommittee, "expressed very I storos exchange wares, the dresses great fear that they would be ex I from Portland being sold in the south tremely disastrous to ratification by I and those from San Francisco coming Colombia. The subcommittee finally here. By thIs means much embar received "reliable information" that, L-simnst i. a vniA At recent tea at the Hotel Port land matron attended garbed in a tasty green afternoon gown. Doubt less she shed mort'fled tears after wards for she was a comparative newcomer to the city and the dress was well known to most of those present, often having been worn by a OIL COLOMBIAN PERFUMES THE TREATY. In his desire to establish firm riendship with all the Latin-Ameri can states. President Harding has asked the senate to ratify the treaty by which President Wilson agreed to apologize to Colombia for some sup posed wrong done by this country and to pay it $25,000,000 in satisfac tion of some alleged claims. The republican party opposed ratification when the treaty was laid before the Senate. What new conditions have arisen as a reason for changing. that decision? The present treaty is the last oi several that were negotiated arter the secession of Panama - by the Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson admin Istrations. On March 14, 1917, on the eve of war with Germany, the democratic majority of 'the foreign relations reported in favor of ratifi cation with amendments substituting mutual expression of regret by the two nations at past differences for the like expression by this nation lone and inserting recognition by Colombia of the absolute title of the United States In the Panama canal. Senator Knox, who had been Presi dent Taft's secretary of state, recom mended ratification as a matter of policy and because by the former proposed treaties "it was contem plated that Colombia should profit financially and otherwise on account of her former Interest In the isth mus." The other republican members of the committee opposed ratification with the statement that for the $25. 000,000 the United States would re ceive "absolutely nothing, either cor poreal .or Incorporeal; Colombia grants nothing, parts with nothing which she possesses." The report then said: tv. i. n.vment then can only be predl- rested upon the assumption that we are in debted to COlomoia. euner mnniiy or in sally, and no combination of words, no niceties of diplomatic language, can hide the naked truth that this.treaty Is an ad mission that the conduct of this country in ornnlrlnir the rlEht to construct a canal across the isthmus of Panama waa a wrong committed against Colombia. The minority quotes these words from the majority report: In all of these treaties the United States, out of the desire to settle the con troversy, has offered to make recompense to Colombia by way of satisfaction for her claim to damages. The minority then comments: There la a clear admission that we .are paying this sum to settle a claim for damages 'By making the payment we admit the claim. ' The treaty 'was described as "a plea of guilty to the charge made against us by Colombia." Colombia had agreed to accept $10,000,000 for the canal rights when it owned them. After Panama seceded on November S. 1902, General Reyes on November 8 offered to procure election of a new Colombian -congress which would ratify the $10,000,000 treaty "if the government of the United States will land troops to preserve Colombian sovereignty and the tran sit." Then the additional $15,000, 000 must be Intended to compensate Colombia for our not having recon quered Panama for her, or as the minority of the committee expressed it, "as exemplary damages." Its re port continued: Nor can we avoid this conclusion by de-. daring to the world that we are paying this vast sum, two and a half times greater than we paid Panama for her right of way, "to establish cordial relations of amity.'. We cannot afford to purchase cordial relatione with any country. We cannot afford to answer a blackmail de mand. Once respond to such a demand and we shall be held up for every fancied wrong by other countries. Objection was also made that the treaty granted Colombia free transit through the canal for ships, muni- if the senate should ratify at an early day, Colombia would accept the amendments. But ttit Colombian oil decree caused trouble. - It was an imitation of the decision of Mexico to nation alize oil land, against which the United States had entered most vig- nrntlR TirntustB It WAR held to bp. in lolatlon of the treaty of 1846 and i"re oeiure uno uiio5 ui the subcommittee said, referring to 't at tne exenange, the Mexican law: I Reports are that business is brisk The committee felt that ratification of ln tnla "ne and that the proprietors the pending Colombian treaty in the face I earn a tidy bit of side money. "But I of the Colombian petroleum decree re- I wollj wari to hav thA clothes well ferred to. In its terms almost exactly lml- I woul want to nave tne Clotnes well lar to the decrees of Mexico then being I fumigated, one sweet, but cautious i!m?tom2 to.'aau th,n ""served when informed mentioned protests, and much feared that I of the possibilities of the plan and !Zlnt??rJ&3 aSE opportunity of displaying a varied can citizens ln the republic of Colombia I wardrobe at a minimum expense. - Having thus alarmed the senators, Colombia proceeded to calm them. Almost immediately after issuing the decree Suarez suspended it, but leg islation on the same line was still The principle is all right but the Interest is too strong." is the remark attr'buted to an observing old fellow when first shown the well-known before the Colombian congress. Then sketch of the girl and "the First Na- a test case was taken before the tionai oanK. visual demonstration Colombian supreme court, which on of the above came one day last week November 19, 1919, declared the de- when a dainty miss blithely tripped -cree and proposed law unconstitu- I down Broadway, the "cynosure of all tionai and null and void, particularly eyes." with reference to private land. gne WOre cream-colored spats that Then, says" the subcommittee, "the served to draw attention to her tiny Colombian congress adopted petro- teeU and then her Bk1rt was rather leum legislation amply safeguarding br,ef an4 that he,pedi and her nose the interests of owners of private w(!re ,acy and ,nat neiped BOme property and yet liberal in its terms .traction waa a as inviting Americans and other cap- i ital to develop the petroleum indus try on the national lands of Colom bia. Therefore the committee recom mends that the Fall amendment be abandoned and the treaty is ready bright new $20 bill wrapped about the shapely limb. If the effect was de liberate and planned she deserved a great deal of credit for she certainly exacted a glorious tribute of wistful foi action as amended by the whole and other glances as she calmly committee. I Pursueq ner way. meeaiess io state Thus it seems that, when Colom- she accumulated quite a following. bia's chance f getting the money I And this reminds us of the young looked dubious. It took, a leaf out of chap who approached a winsome Carranza's book and made a show I friend as she waited on a downtown of confiscating American-owned oil I corner for a car. To say the least land. When the senate showed a this fellow is original. He approached. disposition to make ratification of I was greeted with a cordial smile, the treaty conditional on respect for which turned to scorn when, instead oil rights, it recalled the oil decree f tn9 customary greeting, he ob and Decame generous io on meu. erved miiantlvi. "What charminir. iiut Its congress ana courts are so shapely legs you have, Miss Lovely." casuy inuueiiceu mat n.cj- ...,,..,, 6vpn thoueh Lachmund of Salem, who was a Portland visitor yesterday. "The blossoms are out now in the lowlands, but next Sunday the trees on the hills vll be beautiful." Speaking" of crop conditions. Senator Lachmund is pes simistic "Onions at two-bits a sack and spuds at 40 cents a bushel," he said, "areMliscouraglng. There are tons of potatoes in the ground and they will never be dug up. I don't know what will happen in the berry Industry. There are immense stocks left over from last season with no purchasers. California packers J chopped their prices in half in the hope of moving the stored stocks and still the people are not buying. Prices will certainly be low for the growers of fruit, and there won't be much home canning. Crops will be large enough, but there won't be much money in them." Senator Lach mund, since adjournment of the leg islature, has been appointed a mem ber of the state parole board by Governor Olcott. The senator at tended his first session of the board Saturday and half a dozen short-timers, ln on their first offenses, were paroled. The senator says he likes the new work. "No road is more of a commercial road than one which is scenic," de clares George C. Sabln of Grants Pass. Mr. Sabln is interested in the building of a road to the Oregon caves in Josephine county. "These marble hall-; of Oregon are marvel ous," describes Mr. Sabin, "yet very few people have visited them. It is now a long, hard trip to reach them, and many people after they have hiked there over the trail are too tired to enter the caves. If there was a good automobile road scores of tourists would be willing to make the trip. Oregon should develop its scenic features. We have a large number, but we have never capital ized them like Europe, or even like California. A scenic road brings in visitors and visitors leave money. Colorado gathers about $40,000,000 a year from Its tourist trade, and Cal ifornia probably does twice as much. It is time for Oregon to get some of this outside money." a tragic or a peaceful death? 2. How can I protect oak trees around my summer home infested by a dark caterpillar With yellowish stripes running around its body? Z. What American birds as a class sing sweetly at twilight? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. - ' Answers to Prevlona Qneatlona. 1. How long does a common land turtle live? I marked one ln 1S54 and have met the old fellow almost every year, smart as ever. This is not an Impossible statement Of course finding a turtle whose his tory one does not know, with a date cut into its shell, is no proof of the creature's longevity. But there, are authentic instances of turtles marked and recorded by one family and seen by later generations at Intervals reaching easily through 60 years. The box turtle, strictly terrestrial, often lives to' an old age. e , s 2. Why does the great willow herb grow more abundantly on burnt-over areas in the forest than elsewhere? This wild flower, a member of the evening primrose family, is also called wild fire, or fireweed, from its well known habit of springing up quickly over charred tracts. This is partly because its seeds - are tipped wltb silky fibers that make them float great distances on the wind, so that they easily settle on districts -opened up by fire, and partly because the soil enriched by wood ashes is favor able for germination. 3. At what season does the yellow hammer, or flicker, become musical? In the spring all birds are would be songsters. The flicker responds tc this tendency, and his April call Is his finest touch, his most musical ex pression. A week or two before the nesting season begins, a group of these birds may be sometimes seen, gamboling and courting in a decayed tree. Sometimes only a gentle per suasive cooing is 'heard, or a quiet, confidential chattering, interrupted by a long, loud call, a sort of wild, rollicking laughter, intermingled with cries,- yelps and squeals. readily reverse their last action If policy required. In order to . head off any such drive against American enterprise, the - senate committee proposes that we pay the money, os- he persisted ln cordiality and he drew the chilly shoulder when he made an other misplaced effort like this: "Well you never used to get mad when I tenaibly to salve the wound caused tld vou wha glorious brown eyes bv loss of Panama but actually to " nruy mem induce Colombia to be kind to oil now, or when I praised your pink, men. shell-like ears, that have been in re- This Is not a creditable way to tirement for several years, and now settle affairs with Colombia. We j when I can see more, of your legs ewe nothing for the canal riglfts: we than anything else you treat me like contended that they were owned by this." Panama, and we paid that repulbic The brute. - for them. To pay Colombia $25,- 000,000 by a treaty which deals At a recent amateur theatrical per- solely with the canal Is plainly to I formance one of the Multnomah club- cay for them again, this time to Co- men. who resides in the buildlner. lm iombia, wnose tme we aeniea, ana personated a gay young thing and the price is two ana a nan times made qulte a hit looking every bit that which we paid the rightful the flapper , his costume. Early In the evening a few days later the owner. If Colombia must De paia to give fair treatment to Ameri can oil men, let the treaty say so. As the matter stands, it seems to be proposed to buy off Colombia from robbing our oil men. by paying it $25,000,000 for canal rights which It night was to be a social one at the club he stumbled across his costume in the closet of his room and was seized- with an inspiration that almost caused several of his fellow merrl- r:naa nnt nwn and baa not owned 1 lc la"ul' ainr 1903. If that Is the only way Waiting for the physiological mo to win the friendship of Colombia, ment when the volleyball experts it i not worth havinz at the Drice. were having one of their hardest games ln tne showers, he made his Tt, man whr, oults too soon la not "-T down a side flight of stairs and always a quitter from choice. Neces- wandered intq, the bathroom. Sev sity may cause loss of hope. Take eral of the occupants were badly the case of the well digger near bruised in falling on the wet floor is Prosser who gave up at 400 feet they rushed for the door exit, but this ears ago. Recently ln an attempt was not enough for the adventurous to find oil the drill went down just sprite. His next visit, after emptying one foot and struck the artesian flow I the showers, was to the locker rooms the first digger despaired of finding, and a number of the men there, caught It may be luck and it may not. in varying stages of dishabille, went right over the top of the steel lock A man of past 28, earning an I era and escaped. honest livelihood on a logging train, I With a girlish scream or two the lost his life the other day in an acci- I cute young thing gathered up his dent. Had he lived to be 30 he skirts and scampered for the side would receive a quarter million by I stairs. Just half a Jump ahead of a the will or an uncle wnicn specified barrage of shoes and furniture and the age. This is an instance of the a horde of pursuers, and made a suc- nardsmp oi rate, out mai is me way i cea.fUi escape. He changed clothes 1110 IS maae up. 1 and with th skirt over his arm in nroof took ud Dosition at the head of yery llKeiy w. rt. jonnson, presi- th iocker room stairs and collected dent of the- defunct Jacksonville toll ln sm0kes from those who had bank"dates nis days ot peace to nis h.A fHricd. There win ha suit entry of his cell Sunday. He knows able reward paid for the person who now wnat is in siuro anu iuo un certainty of suspense is at end.. He - "The only difference between Seat tle and a graveyard is that in Seattle they're walking around," said J. P. Oiler of San Francisco, registered at the Multnomah hotel from San Francisco, who has just completed a sales Journey to the Puget sound metropolis. "There isn't any kind of business there that is good. Sev eral conditions have helped to push Seattle down. One is that she has lost a great portion of her shipping, and that shipping has come to Portland. Bolshevik policies pervaded the Seat tle labor unions. Seattle has not the natural territory back of her to drain from that Portland has and, with the water-grade haul through the Co lumbia river gorge, cannot compete. Seattle has been overboomed and is now suffering the consequences, but I don't think she will ever recover her former supremacy." MoIIne, Illinois, is the home of two of America's largest implement fac tories, the John Deere Plow company and the Moline Plow company, both of which maintain large - branch houses in Portland. Charlea N. Kessler is registered at the Multno- i man notel from Moiine. He has been on a three months' tour of the United States and reports that business is improving generally. "As far as I can tell, there is a greater shortage ui money on ' the raclfic coast than ln the east. I haven't been home for three months and can't say just how conditions are there now, but imag ine that Moline keeps pace with the rest of the country. -We have a non- ulation of about 35,004 persons and manage to keep busy most of the time." . "I don't believe that business con ditions ln Seattle are any worse than they are ln Portland." defended Steve L. Dalton, at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. Dalton is manager of the St. Regis hotel in Seattle. "The way I figure it, Seattle had a great boom, which Portland never experienced, and that, now we are feeling the reaction, we feel it more keenly than the neo- ple of Portland feel conditions here. i rices were inflated in Seattle and properties which were held t linn. 080 a yar ago have sold recently for $50,000. The Japanese, who have been neavuy interested in Seattle enter prises, are very downcast." For reasons best known to hlmnif Henry Hershberg never likes to regis ter irom nis home town in Polk county. So at the Seward the town iiicno is written after, his name. Mr. Hershberg is one of the most wealthy men in t-oiK county and he has taken an active part in the controversy be tween that county and the state high way commission over whether the west side highway should go south irom independence or south from Monmouth. Mr. Hershberg favored Independence, which is his head quarters. One of the oldest engineers at tending the mining convention was ii. wingate or Astoria. In 1872 Mr. WIngate arrived in Oregon, going to toos say, wnere he opened up a coal mine and had charge of it for several years. Later he went to Astoria and he has been Identified as a booster for the city by the sea more than as an engineer or anything else. Seme of the visions which Mr. Win gate had for Astoria years ago have materialized and he expects to see the rest of his dreams come true. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. O'Brien of As toria are arrivals at the Benson. Mr O'Brien is manager of the Astoria box factory, one of the sawmills on the Columbia which doesn't shut down. WHICH CLASS ARB PESSIMISTS t had his day of influence and is able to answer the question: Does it pay? can suggest any means of evening up the score. o True love's course is. Indeed, clr- riiitoua and uneven about an ftDart- Faithful to the last, James Jones. m.nt non,. Tak th. tai .ot m h negro, died wunout revealing wnere and H jf related by one of the dwellers in their barracks. lies buried the great seal of the Con federacy. It is more than likely that with advancing years he had lost the sense of locality. Somebody ln time will turn it up to become a historical relic of the Lost Cause. Both M. and H. are young, attrac- tlce, et and have, their attendant swains. Now In any average apart ment, unless the lessees are real pluto crats, tbe space is constricted. Parlors that went off a bridge In Lane 80 8sentlal to the exchange of small county with the owner and wife and talk f'St with immense posslblll- three children, fell fifteen feet into lie ana u,e TO'U"" caress, a slough with one turn over, all es- lacking. The result is that M. and K. caping unhurt. Once again on the Bit out, entertain their company on road, the farmer cranked her and the stairs, M. on the flight in one drove off. What an advertisement! end of the building and K. opposite, taking a position near the top and If Haywood does not go to Jail tor thus out of the path of most traffic one offense he will for another. Jus- And the Informant goes further and tice ' moves on slow gear, but gets says that he is never mixed -up in there. - I the days of the week as he can tell them .accurately by the suitor who ,is Emma Goldman is not sufferins- In favored mat. evening as tne gins Russia. She is living on the "fat of have a different one for almost every the land," as fat goes ever there, night and they show up with regular- Depend on Emma, . ; . . . I . TaJS BCOUT- To attend the meeting of the state game commission, Bert Anderson is in town from Medford and Blaine Hal lock is here from Baker. This is their second meeting as commissioners. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Campbell of Tillamook are at the Imperial. Mr. Campbell was formerly sheriff of the county. v Walter McDougal of Hood River Is registered at the Hotel Portland. Like about 90 per' cent of the people of Hood River, he is an orchardist. H. W. Collins of Pendleton, one of the leading grain men of that seo tlon. Is at the Benson with Mrs. Col lins. Lee Lawler, who is a stockman from the Echo district, Is ln town on busi ness and is at the Perkins. F. R. Beals, representative for Til lamook and Lincoln counties. Is regis tered at the imperial. - M. R. Yokel, a wrestler from Salt Lake City, is an arrival at the Hotel Oregon. Francis J. Carney, former post master of Astoria, is in the city. Writer Discusses Division of Bible Followers on World's Fate. McEWEN, Or., April 10. (To the Editor.) Referring to a recent edi torial ln The Oregonian under the caption "From Herod to the Present," permit me to say that while I agree In the main with the editorial, I want to protest that "pessimism" and "optimism" are relative terms. What one would call one, another from a different angle would call the other. Whether "Utopia seems nearer than ever before" may be true, but whether it "is" nearer is the point needing proof. Whether the barbarities committed in the world war that is not nearly over at this time, are worse or bet ter than were committed by Xerxes In his conquests is a matter for de cision that would puzzle the deepest student of human progress. That the world as a whole has improved ln matters of education, will be conceded by all who have given the matter any thought,- but whether real moraljty has made much progress. Is flatly dis puted by many thoughtful students of human history. However, leaving this question undecided, let us return to our two words pessimism and optl mlsm. Taking the followers of the Bible as a whole they divide themselves in to two great groups each claiming to be optimists and charging the other party with being pessimists. One party takes the view of your edl torial that the world is getting bet ter, and that given time enough, the Christian influences brought to bear upon society will fir.ally cure all the evils that at present afflict the race, and bring an era of universal neacb. How many centuries this will take Is not even guessed at, but the prospect of thousands of years of war, famine, pestilence, nation striving against na tion, it would seem to an ordinary layman as the reverse of optimism. And judging from the experiences of the world war, there has been no progress made in 5000 years, the ques tion naturally arises, how long will It take to accomplish the pacification oi tne woria r The second class, who are branded as ranic pessimists by the former, teacn mar. ine present human Aci..tv and particularly what they term the cnurcn age," is near ne its and The believe that the Bible plainly teaches that the second coming of Chrl.-at is imminent, inat the present "age" not the "world" as commonly understood will end with Christ coming back to his own world, and after seven years of the worst times the world ever saw, will end in the battle Armaged don, and that Christ himself will take the throne of David, and reign for 1000 years. This 1000 years will be a time of perfect peace. In this mil lennium period all the beautiful promises of the Old Testament, as well as the New will be fulfilled and that earth shall be full of knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. And they shall not hurt nnr rir In all my holy mountain. These people contend '.nat 95 per cent of the prom ises or the1 whole Bible are reserved TOT in It ''Ir-lwt irAn . More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague LIVIG WHILE WE LIVE. Andre Tridon. French psycho analyst, says that Americans are belns hurried to their graves by corn beof and cabbaga and mince pies. Corn beef and cabbage born to meet and mingle. Predestined from the earliest day of time To make the true born Yankee's pal ate tingle And titllate with ecstasy sublime! Corn beef and cabbage when the words are spoken The son of this republic licks his lip. And never shall he suffer to be broken That classic culinary partnership! We all must die, and who would lift a finger To live beyond his time, or who would wish Upon the stage superfluous to linger Too frail to eat his country's noblest dish? What though these twain partaken of together. Our rugired constitutions undermine And premnturcly part our vital tether. At least while they are blent we live and dine! They scent the air from Tamp to Se attle, From Portland (Maine) to San Diego bay. When knives and forks and dishes blithely rattle And dinner's in the middle of the day. And when they're served, delighted diners greet them With grateful cries, and shoutings and acclaim And presently they fall upon and eat them And hasten forth to larger life and fame. Corn beef and cabbage never shall disquiet Or apprehension stir within my breast. E'en though I know that such a solid diet May speed the day I take my final rest. For me. at least these two shall never sever For, though I'm In no frantic rush to die. I haven't any hope to live forever. Corn beef and cabbage, walterl Then mlnce pie! e a a A l.Ktle Rnond Abont. Wo should like Mr. Lansing's book better If he didn't call a spado a srml metalic Instrument fur excavating alluvium. see Surface Injuries. We keen hearing that prices have been cut, but those which come under our observation haven't been cvon abraded. e An the Kaiser Did. Lenlne has at last discovered that you can't rule all of the people all of the tlmo. (Copyright. 1921, by The Bell SynJI I cate, Inc.) A Message in Marble. By firaoe K. Hall. Upon a chapel wall a marble screed ContaJns a message, penned by one who died; And crowds In silence pass and pause to read And take, perhaps, the lesson that she tried To tearh mankind, and, knowing that 'twas true, Left on the table for me and you. It simply says that were men's bur dens made In bundle form and placed In one great heap Their cares and worries Ills of every shade And man were privileged then to choose and keep One for his very own, would It not be The same he cast aside? For who fares best? And when the weight of others he could see. He would assume the one he first possessed. I pondered long upon that chiseled thought, And analyzed and measured In my mind: Would I indeed exchange my own, pain-fraught. For any other's bundle I might find? Comparing every life I know today. Would I exchange and take theirs If I could? Ah, no! I would pass by and take away The one I'd left as life had mnt J should. In Other Days. Twraty-flve Years Ago. From The OreRnlan of April 12, 196. The betrothal is announced of Prince Albert of Flanders to the sera end daughter of Archduke Carl Lud wig of Austria, The Interest and attendance at the Equal Rights club keeps pace with the general political excitement of the times. Financial Hint Given. N London Mall. Wife Ta-ta, dearie: I'll write be fore the end of the week. Husband Good gracious, Alice, you must make that 'check last longer thaa that! . , , for this "kingdom aire. These people make claim tn v. .u . only real optimists, and as between the two schools, weighing all the pros " " 11 ii w u u ki seem Th. ovA citizen, tired of the turmoil and strife ""i mucn Hesitation, cast ... win, me jatter division. B. ANDERSON. Pronnneiatlon ot It I ver 'a Name. TOLEDO. Or.. Anrll 1H(T. .... Editor.)-l. Please give the correct pronunciation of Rio Grande, as our uiiicr, . Wi!I you eP'a'n bicameral leg islation? Do we have It ln Oregon t. Ana now long was the Utiltei States capital at New York city? READER. 1. The Spanish or Mexican m-o nunclation is "Reo Gran-da." Amer leans commonly pronounce It "Reo Grand." 2. A bicameral legislature Is one having two houses or branches and Is the form of legislature ln all states of the union. J. Officially from January 11, 1785, to September 28, 1787. Location of Magnetic Pole. STABLER. Wash., April 9. (To the Editor.) To settle an argument please answer: 1. Where is the mag netic pole? 2. Will the compass needle point down or east at the north pole? D. F. COLEMAN. i . The magnetic poles are not station ary. In 1831 the north magnetic pole was located by Sir James Ross at practically 70 degrees 5 minutes north. 96 degrees 46 minutes west, a spot about 1200 miles from the geographi cal pole and oft the northern limits of the North American continent. 2 The needle would point toward the magnetic pole. At the exact geo graphical pole there Is no east or west or north. Every direction Is south. A steam ferry Is to be established across Young's river, from Daggett's Point to Case's Astoria. Grants r.tss. It is learned that the financial difficulties of the Hammers ley Mining company have been set tled and that the mine will again be put ln operation. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oresonlsn of April 12, 1971. Chicago has got to look to Its laurels, as Duluth. a new town up In the pineries, is taking away Ch!cano people rapidly. Out of ten men ar rested In Duluth for burglary, nine gave their residence as Chicago. Great quantities of whisky have been put upon the market ln New Orleans at 75 cents a gallon, or 13 cents less than the price at Cincin nati. Oulte a population Is flocking Into Stevens county, W. T, above Walla Walla. B. Herman, Esq., has entered upon his duties as receiver at the Roseburg land office. President of Mexico. GOLDENDALE. Wash., April 10. (To the Editor.) 1. I'lease inform me who the president of Mexico IsT !. How did Carranza 'meet hie death? A READER. 1. Alvaro Obregon. 2. Carranza, while fleeing from Mexico City to Vera Cruz, was cap tured by revolutionary forces and lm. prisoned In a hut. That night he was slain by bin guard. Address of Officer. TILLAMOOK. Or., April 10. (To the Editor.) Please give me the ad dress of the adjutant-general of tbe state of Washington. EX-SOLDIER. . Olympla, Washington. , , , t