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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, XOVE3IBER 29, 1921
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? A (rood deal could be accomplished
; ' toward ameliorating: the condition of
;' - unemployment. Just now accentuated
; but nevertheless a problem with
which we have to deal every year, if
; a way could be found to reconstruct
our habits of seasonal employment.
The American Contractor, published
in the Interests of the building
j trades, points out that the "construe-
" tion season" ought to be abolished,
both in private and public building
operations and also in highway con
truction and public works. Better
distribution of the time of labor, it
goes without saying, would create
better times and increase the effl
clency of the workman in two ways.
In one instance it would keep up ln-
' dustrlal morale all along the line by
, maintaining the endless cycle of pur-
. chasing power, and in the other it
would make the laborer more con
w - tented by relieving him of the un
. j certainties of job-hunting in the so-
- called alack times.
There are reasons for believing
that steady employment is an In
, centive to thrift. It appears from
the savings banks statistics that the
recent period of prosperity, in which
there were Jobs for all, was reflected
not only in a larger iota! of deposits
but also in a marked increase in the
. " number of individual savings ac
counts. Indicating that the silk-shirt
spenders about whom so much was
said were not typical of the workers
; as a whole. There were signs, too,
; that the number of these was dimin
ishing even before the slump set in,
'showing that after the first orgy of
unaccustomed prosperity men and
women were beginning to settle
down. On the whole, steady em
ployment at moderate wages is
better than sporadic, or so-called
seasonal" work, at a higher wage.
It is this factor which the building
trades are now urged to take into
account.
It is possible that a good many of
our preconceived notions will need
crapping if the suggested plan pre
vails, yet there would seem to be in
theory no insurmountable obstacle
to this desirable reform. The most
seasonal of all trades not excepting
food production are those associ
ated with the manufacture of the
clothes we wear, and this Is truer of
women's garments than of men's.
Because it is regarded as necessary
that clothing shall be up to the mo
ment in style of cut and adornment,
tailors and milliners work at high
speed during a few months of the
year and are idle the rest of the time.
It would be dangerous to "over
stock" because a last year's hat or
cloak is no more useful in our
scheme of things than a last year's
blrd's nest would be to its former j
occupant. But even this might be
changed, as It was about to be dur
ing the war, without serious detri
ment to our character as a people.
" We say "might be" with due appre
ciation of the fact that it probably
will not be for a long time to come.
" Still, stranger things have come to
pass, and it is at least a thought to
revolve in one's mind while one is
" hunting a job.
We need the ability to think in
. terms of industry as a whole, and of
the prosperity of a people as a
vhole, and of good times and bad
tlme3 as the recurring phenomena,
rot of single seasons but of periods
of years. The prevailing argument
aside from the not altogether sus-
tained contention that the people
: themselves insist on having the
styles changed every year in sup
port of a kaleidoscope of modes, is
that it makes work for more work-
ers by compelling wearers to dis
card many garments before they
have outlived their real usefulness;
but those who reason thus are blind
to the fundamentals of thrift, by
which whole groups of people are
made prosperous. For every weaver
and spinner who would be deprived
of employment if people could wear
- out their clothing instead of banish
ing It at the behest of a style-monger,
there would be a worker in some
other field who would be employed
In some of the industries wherein the
; money thus saved would be spent.
It appears that In the long run
there is about as much complaint of
the evils of seasonal employment
which, by the way, ought to be called
seasonal unemployment in one
trade as in another, so that eventu
ally the score would be evened up.
The money saved by not buying an
unnecessary but up-to-the-minute
gewgaw would go Into a house or per
haps an automobile or a musical In
strument, so that these trades would
have more work to do, and their
workers in turn would have more
, , money to spend for clothing, utili
tarian and also ornate even If not
fabricated with an idea that things
must be different to be worth while.
This well-known economic cycle is
peculiar in the particular that it is
more widely understood in theory
and more generally disregarded in
practice than any other principle
governing the conduct of men in
their ordinary affairs.
There are, of course, certain days
and sometimes weeks in the winter
when outdoor building operations
re Inconvenient, expensive and even
dangerous. But this Is not nearly so
true as people have come to take for
granted. Undoubtedly there Is room
for a great reform here, to accom
plish which it is necessary only to
rid our minds of a tenacious super-
stition: but there are other phasea
of seasonal employment which have
nothing at all to do with weather
and which can be and will be altered
whenever the people make up their
minds that it shall be done. It
would be ideal if there were no
strictly seasonal workers if farm
work could be diversified, with Just
the right proportion of busy harvest
ing and more leisurely tiling and
draining; if more houses might be
inclosed in summer and autumn and
finished Inside in winter and spring;
if there were fewer recurrent styles
in garments and more warm cloth
ing for all the people all around; and
if the merry business of drawing
wages and spending them were about
evenly distributed through the year.
It would be ideal, we say, and al
though we have no notion that this
will become the rule for a century or
two, still something like it is being
done by Individuals in their own
ways and it is worth thinking about
as a general plan.
GOOD FAITH.
Now and then some back-tracker
rises to his feet, or writes a satiric
letter to the papers, to deny that the
good faith of Oregon is pledged to
the 1925 exposition, and to say that
if any self-elected group, or organ
ization, or committee undertook to
do it, it spoke and acted without au
thority frbm the people. The people
alone, we hear, may speak for Ore
gon.
Very well. Let us have it so. The
people speak, of course, with their
own voices through the referendum,
or through their duly elected offi
cials.
On-February 11, 1921, at Salem, a
most interesting and solemn cere
mony was celebrated. The formal
incorporation and organization of
the Atlantic-Pacific Highways and
Electrical (1925) Exposition brought
the two houses of the legislature to
gether in Joint session. President
Ritner was in the chair, and he was
supported on the platform by
speaker tsean. The governor was
there, and other officials and digni
taries besides, fhen and there the
legislature, with no dissenting vote,
from president and speaker through
the entire membership,. went on rec
ord for the exposition. It adopted a
joint memorial with a suitable pre
amble setting forth the advantages
of and reasons for the exposition,
and concluding with the resolution:
That the congress of the United States
Le and the same la hereby memorialized to
l.- vlte f irelgn nations to participate In the
i tlantlj Pacific H'ghways snd Electrical
exposition to be neia In the city or Port
land, stx-e of Oregon, In the year 1923.
A resolution to invite the co-operation
and participation of the vari
ous states of the union was also
adopted, and this too by unanimous
vote. (Congress has meanwhile au
thorized the president to ask the
world to Portland in 1925.)
There at Salem spoke the state of
Oregon. There spoke its legislature
the same legislature that is to
meet on December 19 to carry out
its pledge of February 11, 1921.
CHARLES AT ATLANTIS.
Charles of Austria has at least the
melancholy satisfaction in his exile
of knowing that the island on which
he is Imprisoned is believed by many
to be a surviving fragment of a con
tinent around which romantic specu
lation has revolved for more than
twenty-five centuries. If there ever
was a continent of Atlantis, as Plato
believed on the authority of the
Egyptian priests, it is quite probable
that the Madeira islands were part
of it. The peaks of the Canaries, the
Madeiras, the Azores and the Cape
Verdes'may plausibly be the tops of
mountains composing the backbone
of that fabled land. As a matter of
fact, ocean soundings in othe vicinity
of those islands have shown that
there are still other peaks which do
not arise above the surface. Ocean
ographers like the Due d'Abruzzl
have been able almost to reconstruct
the physiography of the lost Atlantis,
although they have found nothing
that would throw light on its history.
The Isles of the Blest, the Hespe-
rides, the Elysian fields, abodes of
the most fortunate who dwelt on
earth so ran the legends-now are
distinguished as the home of the
most lonely mortal on earth, who
would be a monarch when the world
was done with monarchs, and who
now in his solitude has plenty of
time to reflect on the ephemeral na
ture of the kingly office. For If the
tale that Plato credited, and which it
is impossible to disprove, be true,
there dwelt on Atlantis, 9000 years
before the birth of Solon, a people
governed by a mighty ruler who
swept all before them and who came
very near to conquering the .earth.
Only Athens, so the tradition runs,
was able to withstand them. It is
impossible to distinguish between
incidents which Plato may have in
vented and those which may have
been derived from authentic records
which have since been lost.
The dwelling place of,Charles Is
rich in legendry to atone for its pov
erty of history. Facts have not
hampered the imaginations of men
in writing of this earthly paradise, in
which may have originated many
of the myths with which the pre
Columbian historians of America
have had to deal. St. Brendan, the
fabled Wejsh Indians of the south
east and the middle west, the Aztecs
and the mound builders are inextric
ably woven into the thread of these
gauzy narratives. The similarity of
the legends concerning them, all of
which strangely resemble the Ho
merian accounts of the Phoenicians,
strongly indicates a common origin,
but mere similarity alone is not
proof of that.' The universal quality
of human experience In certain par
ticulars is sufficient to account for
many resemblances which well
meaning but misguided Inquirers
have been at unnecessary pains to
try to reconcile. .
There is another tradition that the
Atlantians were preparing to invade
and overrun Asia, Africa and Europe
when their country disappeared be
neath the waves. The remaining
fragment of the land of the Atlan
tians now, by an odd whim of fate,
receives the representative of a dy
nasty engulfed by a cataclysm not
much less momentous, as cataclysms
?-
The threat of a United States dis
trict attorney to bring suit in the
name of the United States against a
former Brooklyn dock hand, now a
prosperous bootlegger, for $1,653.
796.25 unpaid income tax, would
seem to contain new possibilities of
1 a w enforcement. We recently
though narrowly escaped the Inflic
tion of a drastic search and seizure
clause in the national prohibition
law, but the law which calls the citi
zen strictly to account for every
trifling error and omission in his in
come tax return stands unquestioned
on the statute books. All the fines
that this defendant may have paid
will seem small change beside these
Income tax exactions, with their pen
alties and all; and besides the prose
cutor will have the advantage of a
sympathetic public opinion. The re
luctance of a bootlegger's customers
to testify against him is easily un
derstood, but we have no idea that
they will throw any obstacles In the
way of the tax collector, when they
consider the quality of the stuff he
sold them and remember the price
they paid.
A WARNING TO CRIMINALS.
The other day a highwayman, the
one who was delivered into the
hands of the police by the woman he
robbed, was sentenced to a term of
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
It was a stiff sentence but a deserved
punishment. He had been in the
penitentiary before in another state
and knew what might be the result
when he resumed a crime course.
The sentence followed closely the
conviction and the sentence to death
of Dan Casey, who committed mur
der when detected in an attempt at
box-car robbery.
Now the men who robbed the Lib
erty theater a short while ago have
been rounded up and all of them put
In Jail to await trial all but one,
whose permanent escape Is unlikely.
If the public has its way they too
will receive adequate sentences and
promptly too.
The surest deterrent of crime is
the speedy and certain application of
justice. The thing we call a crime
wave need not be accounted for as
reaction from cataclysm of war, or
prohibition, or as an indication of de
clining morality, or as the effect of
Industrial depression. Crime waves
occur without reference to these.
They follow periods of publio apathy
which express themselves In undue
sympathy for criminals, verdicts of
acquittal on unsubstantial grounds,
leniency of parole, indolence of po
lice. If an uncompromising attitude
toward crime were not intermittent
and dependent upon the prevalence
of crime, there would be nd such
thing as a crime wave.
The criminally disposed need to
know that the public is now aroused,
that this is an Inauspicious time to
execute deeds of violence, that the
likelihood of capture is great, and
that punishment is certain to be
severe.
TRIGGER PULLERS AND OTHERS.
It is a well-known principle of the
criminal law justified by long expe
rience with crime that the co-conspirators
in a felonious act are alike
responsible for the consequences
which flow from that which they
planned. The occasion for repeating
this time-worn truth, . which is ac
cepted without question by most peo
ple who think, is a protest, which we
print in another column, against the
execution of the law's penalty upon
one of the murderers of Sheriff Tay
lor on the ground that only one man
pulled the trigger of the weapon
which killed the sheriff,' and conse
quently only one ought to be pun
ished for the deed. .
It is often and almost generally
true that when men conspire to
commit a crime the one who fur
nishes 'the real inspiration, who is
what w-e call the "brains" of the
plot, leaves it to another to do the
most dangerous part of work. In
the case of the murder of Sheriff
Taylor in particular, which the cor
respondent employs as his text, the
man who sped the bullet into Tay
lor's body was but one of three not
who "would have" killed himfas the
correspondent suggests, but who ac
tually planned to do so. That the
scheme was hatched and matured in
Kathie's own cell and that Rathle
probably furnished the idea makes
him not less, but more, guilty than
was Hart, if there be any difference
at all in degree.
When would-be murderers learn
that there is practical certainty that
they will be punished, and that the
penalty of the law cannot be evaded
by one who craftily contrives that
another shall "pull the trigger," then
there will be fewer murders, and the
lives of all people, including that of
the correspondent, will be more
sacred than they are now. There is
need of stern justice, for wishy
washy measures have conspicuously
failed.
On the theory that it is only the
trigger-pullers who deserve punish
ment, the man Barney, watchman ac
the Liberty theater, ought to go free,
though it appears he concocted the
whole scheme of robbery. Or, since
Instead of taking -an even chance
with his fellow thieves he submitted
himself to being rapped on the head
by one of them as a blind, does the
correspondent think that he ought to
be pensioned by the state?
CORN ON THE HOOF.
Corn is away down in price In the
great states of the Mississippi valley,
where it is the staple crop, so cheap.
in fact, that it is reported that farm
ers burn it rather than pay $18 a
ton for coal. We may doubt that
corn is actually being used for fuel
in more than a few isolated instances
without ignoring the obvious lesson
to which the Incident calls atten
tion.
Corn the maize of former days
Is quoted around 45 cents a bushel in
Chicago and a bushel weighs sixty
pounds. Hogs in the same market
that quoted 45-cent corn were bring
ing $7.25 a hundred pounds. Port
land has no established corn market
In the sense tfiat Chicago and other
centers are corn market and little
Indian corn is sold here, but we have
hogs bringing $10 a hundred pounds,
which is a good measure of the value
of corn in Its most convenient of all
forms for marketing. There is some
difference of opinion as to the quan
tity of corn required to produce a
pound of pork, but It is safe to say
that nine bushels to the hundred
pounds is a conservative estimate.
That is 5.4 pounds of corn to the
pound of pork, and there are farm
ers who think they can get a pound
of pork for 4.5 pounds of corn. It is
true the latter employ a ration con
taining other Ingredients, but on the
whole the ratio, as to cost and every
thing, of nine bushels to the hun
dred pounds Is on the safe side.
The prime reason why the pio
neers of Oregon did not plant corn
was not that they couldn't find a
market for it, but that they believed
that it wouldn't grow here. The
early comers were from states fa
mous for their hot summer nights,
which produced cbrn that required
a long warm season to bring it to
maturity, and they brought- with
them seed not adapted to conditions
such as they found in Oregon.. So the
word went out that the Columbia
and Willamette valleys were "not a
corn country," and it was accepted
without much question until "Farm
er" Smith of the O. W. R. & N.
taught otherwise, by starting with
seed corn grown farther north,
where the season was shorter, and
developing upon that basis a variety
that does ripen in Oregon. " There is
not now, as a matter of fact, a single
county In the state in which some
corn is not grown. There are coun
ties in which it is a successful and
Important factor in agriculture.
Hogs at $10 a hundred, on the
basis of nine bushels of corn to a
hundred pounds of pork, are the
equivalent of $1.11 a bushel for corn.
It makes no difference what the Chi
cago quotations on cash corn may
be, with this Indication of the value
of corn on the hoof to go by. It is
true that corn exclusively does not
produce the whole hog under present
conditions of husbandry in this state,
but it is not necessary to the logic
of the proposition that It should do
so. -Shoals are not hard to raise,
they fit the scheme of diversified
farming, other feed l plentiful and
corn remains the beet grain in the
world for the finishing of prime
pork. It would seem that those who
are reported to be burning corn'
made a mistake when they failed to
provide themselves with hogs. Even
at the Chicago price for hogs of
$7.25 a hundred, Kansas corn would
fetch 80 cents a bushel. The obvious
omission of those Mississippi valley
growers is mentioned because it
seems to contain a moral for farmers
In this part of the country.
WORKING AT CROSS PURPOSES.
The most serious defect in the
Esch-Cummins transportation act.
as brought out by the present dis
cussion of rates and wages, is the
fact that the labor board is not
specifically required " to consider
rates in deciding wage questions.
Ben W. Hooper, a public member of
the labor board, said In an address
at Chicago: "The fixing of wages
-cannot be made to depend upon
freight rates" and that when wages
have been fixed "the interstate com
merce commission will know as well
what the railways are paying in
wages as if they established the
wages."
In contrast with this, Mr. Potter,
a member of the interstate com
merce commission, said in deciding
the grain rate case:
In considering what railway employes
should receive, regard ahould be had for
what the ahtppera can afford to pay. If
the broad economic question as to how
much shippers can afford to pay la a ques
tion to be determined by ua when we fix
fair and reasonable rates. It will follow
that the labor board In considering wages
would regard our finding aa one of the
relevant ctrcumstsnces to be taken into
ccnsideratlon in fixing wagea.
Here we have one body claiming
authority to decide how much a rail
road shall pay for labor without
regard to the amount that It-receives
for the service to which labor con
tributes. If the Hooper theory pre
vailed, rates, would be raised suffi
ciently to pay any wages that the
labor board might award; the com
mission would have no alternative.
According to the Potter theory, the
commission must fix rates that the
shipper not the railroad can af
ford to pay. The employe must be
paid out of those rates and the com
mission must adjust them so that
after all expenses are paid, the
standard return remains for the rail
road company.
The sharp division of authority be
tween the labor board and the com
mission should not exist. Evidently
"what the shipper can afford to pay"
Is the sound basis for rates, for if
they are higher, he will not ship and
traffic for the road and employment
for its men will shrink. Then rates
should first be decided, and the same
authority that fixes them should ap
portion them among labor, other ex
penses and the investor. Either the
labor board should become a sub
ordinate division of the commission
or its wage decisions should be gov
erned by those of the commission as
to rates.
The strike of the milk-wagon
drivers of New York is of size and
duration; ,2200 reserve policewomen
have been called out to replace the
2200 regular officers detailed to pro
tect wagons and distributors. The
big city is getting its milk and that
Is of first importance.
Two under arrest and the two who
got away deserve something more
than unusual for brutally beating
and kicking the officer. A citizen, if
he had It, might have used a gun;
Officer Meacham prefers to bring
them in alive. ' '
That's right, Mr. Grout. Let out
the scholars to see Foch. If a sug
gestion is In order, bring them in
from the outlying schools In mass
formation In special cars. Much
money Is worse spent.
Now it's said that some disciple of
Buddha really discovered Amercia
hundreds of years befone Columbus
came along. Just think of the real
estate opportunities that man passed
up.
Judge Rossman gave a stiff sen
tence to a man who sold liquor to
high-school boys; but the offender
has taken appeal and the course of
his case will be watched.
Burglars stole $7000 worth of silk
stockings from a store, in Colorado
Springs. For once the police will be
right if they 400k for the woman in
the case.
With a river that can float the
navies of the world, this port is do
ing well In handling all the "for
eign" that ts coming and going daily.
The master mind on the Liberty
theater job took in too many part
ners and wanted the chief pirate's
share; therefore he Is undone.
The women seem to have taken up
cigarettes, but thank heaven, not
many of them as yet have developed
pipe smokers' breaths!
New Tork will try women traffic
cops for a change. It will certainly
go hard with any motorist who tries
to talk back.
Signs begin to point to prolonged
peace that is, some signs. Triplets
in a Portland family and all girls!
The considerate storekeeper will
call "Time!" Just before the Foch
parade nears his place.
It seems to be the German idea to
declare a-moratoriuai on war indemnities.
BY - PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS
Crooka Pictured aa Real Enemlrs of
Society.
Some writers delight to picture
crooks as lovable, adventurous char
acters who, by their wit, make laugh
ing stock of policemen. These writers
make crime attractive, and by sug
gestlon keep creating new crooks
The crook in real life, regardless of
his 1 particular line of criminal en
deavor, is anything but pleasing. A
crook Is a lower animal who lives a
parasitic life. He attacks you, like a
mosquito, at night. He steals your
chickens like a skunk. He takes ad
vantage of your women folks like
savage, and he hides in dark places
and prowls around at night like a rat
Running down' the scale of crooks
we find at the bottom the cracksmen,
who are known In the parlance of the
underworld as the "yeggs." Of all
crooka the yeggs are the most brutal,
merciless, murderous and crueL They
have been known to commit murder
ithout provocation.
Yeggs are nomadic and migratory.
They move In packs or "mobs" of
from five to ten members under a
leader or "highmobsman." Like all
crooks, they lrop their real name for
a "moniker" or nickname. They take
these names from a physical peculi
arity, usually, and attach the name
of the town In which they went "on
the gun" xr became a thief.
A fat yegg from Omaha would be
dome "Omaha Fatty," a thin man
from Cincinnati became "Clncy Slim,'
a red-haired man from Denver is
known as "Denver Pink, the bundle
bum," because when he first started
out he used to carry one clean shirt.
as he liked a change now and then.
He later became less fastidious about
his toilet. "Goat Hinch" was the
leader of a notorious band of yeggs
and "Tea" was his right-hand bower.
"Tea" was called Tea because he
steeped tea at the "smudge" or camp
fire while the others brewed "Java"
or coffee. The yeggs have a language
all their own. Punk is bread. Soup
is nitroglycerine. Jail is Jug, prison
is stir, a gun is a rod. a freight train
a rattler, a safe is a gopher. To snuff
a gopher means to blow a safe. To
Jump ball Is to lam, and so on. Sci
entitle American.
A jay walker Is a relic of the
ancient times when the highways
were used by oxen, pedestrians and
horse-drawn vehicles whose greatest
speed could not exceed 15 miles per
hour, avers the American Mutual
Magazine. A Jay walker is an incor
rigible descendant of that carefree
individual of olden days and rural
places who ambled from chores to
postofflce on the right, left or in the
middle of the road, with little thought
of any other than he having the right
of way. A jay walker is a foolish
person. He is much in evidence on
the streets of most any American
city. A jay walker is one who crosses
a city street from any point he may
desire to any other point he may
desire. He is one who forgets that
crosswalks are provided for pedes
trians, who thinks It clever maneu
vering to dodge in and out between
bits of downtown traffic and who is
the first- to cry out loud If he is
struck by a vehicle' on whose right
of way he is trespassing.
Not every automobile and pedes
trian accident is caused by careless
ness on the part of the motor car
driver. These accidents are to a great
degree due to the dam-foolishness of
the Jay walker.
Educate the pedestrian as well as
the motorist. Legislate him into using
the sidewalks and crosswalks exclu
sively, and punish him for an in
fringement upon such law. Get it into
his head that if he is hit and hurt
It's apt to be pretty much his fault.
and that he alone will be the loser
thereby.
.
Witness the tumbling living cOBt.
Chicago advertisements feature a
real innovation in luncheons all you
can eat for a dollar. The fact of this
low price is thought worth quarter-
page ads and they are being run by
a hotel.
At the same rate, figuring break
fast equal to luncheon and dinner
as a better meal it would likely cost
$4 daily to eat there, not to speak of
other costs. Just recently a survey
of American hotel, service) disclosed
that there was more duplication and
unnecessary service in our hostelries
than in any other modern business.
But the dollar lunch Is featured as a
saving, with simple service and no
elaborate kitchen but from a sort
of cafeteria table. The natural won
der would be what would be the
worth of the meal under other con
ditions prior to the new departure.
Foreign paper money differs ma
terially "from United States bills.
often printed on flimsy stock and
lacking the "feel" of banknote paper.
Some members of the French dele
gation believed cigar store coupons
were money when they first arrived
In Washington; or did until they
tried to spend 'em. Buying cigars
and cigarettes, several delegates paid
for them In large bills. Change they
received In one and two-dollar bills,
silver and coupons for the amount of
the purchase.
They picked It all up together and
crammed it in their pockets. A little
while later, paying for a bottle of
apple Juice, they proffered a "green
certificate" believing it to be col
lateral. "There's no use saving up a million
ooupons to get an automobile, we
won't be here long enough," said
one of the delegates laughingly, when
the matter was explained to him.
Pearling has fallen on evil days be
cause of unsettled conditions through
out the world, James Clarke of Bris
bane, known as the "Australian pearl
king," told the royal commission in
vestigating the pearling at Sydney,
Australia. He added that a con
tributing cause of the slump is the
discovery by Japanese of the secret
of growing pearls.
All pearling boats are laid up at
Thursday island, while at Broome,
West Australia, only 100 boats out of
400 are working, says a correspondent
of the Dally Mai!.
A young theatrical booking agent
was testifying in a separation suit
brought by his wife, a chorus girl,
who was known as a fast spender.
"Were you In a position to provide
the ordinary comforts?- asked th
judge.
"Why, your - honor," snorted the
husband, "I wasn't even able to keep
her in hair nets." Atlanta Constitu
tion. 1
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
Burial of the unknown soldier was
the most impressive sight that Arno
B. Cammerer ever witnessed. Mr.
Cammerer. who Is assistant superin
tendent of national parks, Washing
ton, D. C, is registered at the Mult
nomah. He is making a tour through
the west to lay plans to have the
parks in readiness for the great
throngs of tourists who will visit
them en route to the Oregon 1925 fair.
Speaking of the parade and cere
monies for the unknown soldier,
which were held In Washington on
Armistice dy, Mr. Cammerer de
scribed them as very Impressive.
"Living as I do in Washington," said
he, "one, in a way, becomes accus
tomed to spectacular and important
events and parades, but never in my
Nife was 1 so stirred, as when the
parade of the unknown soldier passed
by. A the president, cabinet officers
and dignitaries of other nations
marched by on foot, there was not
a person in that great mass of hu
manity watching the procession who
did not feel awed, and In his heart
paid tribute to the soldier whose body
rested in the flag-draped casket es
corted by those famous men. On the
eve of Armistice day my wife and I
Joined the great crowd of people and
stood in line many hours In order
to pass the casket of the unknown
and from 8 to 11 o'clock in the eve
ning we waited in line, and then there
were thousands back of us who were
unable even to enter the building. It
was a day that Washington will never
forget."
Automobiles abandoned on the Co
lumbia highway when the sleet storm
swept the Columbia gorge have, lp
many instances, been looted by
thieves. The car of Mrs. Margaret
Buller of Prlnevilrfc escaped such at
tentions from the robbers, but a car
which was standing next to hers was
completely stripped of everything
movable from the spotlight to the
tattery. It Is said that thousands
of dollars' worth of accessories were
stripped from the marooned motor ve
hicles. Mrs. Fuller and Mrs. Jay
Upton drove from Prlneville to Port
land and were starting for home the
Saturday that the storm was un
leashed. ' They worked their way as
far as Multnomah falls when they
were compelled to leave the car to
Its fate, and they returned to Port
land on the .last train that fought
its way through the storm to this
city. Since then the women, --who
are at the Benson, have been worry
ing about the car and also about
getting word through from home.
There have been no wires working
Into Prlneville. The Fuller cay will
be returned to Portland by train.
The car was found In fairly good
condition by a friend of Mrs. Fuller,
who gave an account of the looting
of other machines. Mrs. Fuller is the
wife of Alfalfa Rex, of the Crook
county Irrigators.
Dozens of people from Hood River
and The Dalles flocked into Portland
in the past 48 hours, coming here
on the first available trains. It is
said that in The Dalles the snow
was so deep that the roofs of many
houses caved In. This was especially
true of bungalows which have been
constructed in the past 'couple of
years. It is also reported that there
is hardly a barn standing in Wasco
county and in The Dalles the roof of
the Elks' building sank several feet
under the .weight of snow.
E. D. Cusick, banker of Albany,
is registered at the Hotel Oregon.
Mr. Cusick came here to attend the
meeting of the special committee ap
pointed by Governor Olcott to gather
information for the special session
of the legislature relative to regula
tion of Jitneys and freight trucks on
state highways. Mr. Cusick rode to
lortland on a jitney bus, this being
his first experience with that charac
ter of transportation.
Storms in Tillamook of late have
been frequent and severe, reports
Frei D. Small, who. with Mrs. Small,
has arrived at the Hotel Oreeon. Mr.
Small is connected with a cannery in
Tillamook and says that the storm
caused considerable damage to the
plant. Floods have been extensive
and one of the bridges leading Into
the town, over which traffic from
Portland flows, has been put out of
commission.
Horace M. Albright, superintendent
of Tellowstone park, is registered at
the Multnomah and will confer with
officers of the Crater Lake Park com
pany regarding future plans. Mr.
Albright expressed himself as well
pleased with the management of
Crater lake for the past season and
states that with the exposition In Ore
. .. .
gon In 1925 the facilities of the na-1
tional parks will be taxfcd to ca
pacity.
In a round-about way, F. Hilbert
has been bringing a shipment of cat
tle to the Portland market from
Uklah. Or. In order to get the cattle
to the North Portland yards, the car
load had to be sent to Spokane, then
over the mountains to Puget sound
and through Seattle and Tacoma. As
the cattle were signed for Portland
Mr. Hilbert could not sell them in
the Seattle yards.
It was a rather expensive football
game that Ir. J. 11. Rosenberg of
Prlneville witnessed at Eugene, ten
days ago. The doctor went to the
college town to see the .contest and
since then he has been unable to re
turn to Prlneville because the Des
chutes canyon has been so full of
snow that trains could not move
through it.' Dr. Rosenberg is city
health officer at Prinevllle.
Thft first man to rearh Portland I
from Prlneville since the storm is
Nell Betransas, who is the field sec
retary of the Blue Mountains Gas &
Oil company. Mr. Betransas drove
from Prinevllle to Shanlko and took
the train at that point, arriving in
this city yesterday.
For the past two years H. H. Clou
tier has been living In St. Paul. He
was formerly manager of the Multno
mah and Is registered there. Mr. Clou
tier says It feels good to be back In
the west again and he plans to make
his home on the Pacific coast.
Jo Lyons, hardware dealer of
Reedsport, Or., Is at the Imperial. Mr.
Lyons went into Reedsport when
there wasn't anything there, but an
inviting townsite and after he made
a bunch of money in real estate he
opened up a hardware establishment.
Returning to Montesano, Wash., C.
H. Clemens passed through Port
land yesterday, registering at the
Imperial. Mr. Clemens has an Interest
in Wyoming oil fields and has been
down that way looking over the prop
erty. Pave Robinson, hotel man of Cen
tralla. Wash., is at the Hotel Oregon.
He' says that the storms which have
been ravaging the northwest did not
overlook his home town.
Judge J. W. Hamilton of Roseburg
arrived at the Imperial yesterday and
will remain here for three weeks
while he helps out the circuit judges
in Multnomah county.
George Kleiser, the billboard man,
who shifted his base of operations
from Portland to San Francisco sev
eral years ago, is registered at the
Benson.
STATE PRESS OX EXPOSITION
Comment la Renewed by Portland
Vote and Call, of Legislature.
Astoria Budget.
It may be more difficult to con
vince the people over the state that
they should tax themselves for the
support of the exposition than It was
to convince the Portland people that
they should pay two-thirds of the
cost. The Budget believes, however,
that the benefits to the whole state
from an exposition such aa projected
will be vlsioned by a majority of the
cltiiens and predicts that their in
dorsement will be forthcoming when
asked.
Colombia County to Benefit.
St. Helens Mist.
The Indorsement given the propo
sition by those who will bear the
heaviest part of the tax burden will
have a far-reaching Influence
throughout the state and- the Mist
predicts that the state will follow
Portland's example and Indorse the
fair.' Certainly, Columbia county
should, for being almost adjacent to
the proposed alte of the fair, It will
leap the benefits of the fair and the
thousands who will come to Portland
to attend the fair will visit or pass
through this county. If the fair
will benefit Portland, likewise will
it benefit this county.
Exposition la Certain.
Eugene Register.
. The people of Oregon are hosplt
able, and they like the thought of
extending an invitation to their
friends to visit them in 1925. They
are proud of their state and they
welcome the opportunity to show it
to the thousands who will come to
Portland if an exposition is held.
These considerations, we think, will
be strong enough to overcome what
ever reluctance there may be to in
crease the tax rate. .It Is probably
safe enough to go ahffTd now on th
assumption that there will be a fair
In 1925.
Past Fairs Provide Argument.
Oregon City Banner-Courier.
That there are objections honestly
urged must be admitted. Nothing
will be gained by the most sincere
enthusiasts claiming the unreasonable
or by denying the "honest-to-good-xiess'
objections.
The beneficent results of past fairs
are a potent argument for this one.
And the momentum gained through the
activities of this great event will
not cease with the closing of the
gates. It will continue in the growth
and development of a better, greater
commonwealth.
Something Else la Better.
North Bend Bee.
What this state needs is reduction
in taxes. That will bring more peo
ple here than all the big doings in
the world. We have the climate, we
have the land and we have everything
to make this the greatest state In
the union. Let's reduce taxes snd
see what will happen. A reduction
In taxes and a continuation of good
road building more economically ad
ministered will work uo an upheaval
in this state that nothing will stop
till we reach the top. And the world
will know it.
Individual Coat Is Small.
Lebanon Criterion.
Portland set the pace for the state
of Oregon on Saturday when it voted
the fair tax by fully four to one.
This question Is now due to come" be
fore the electorate of the state for
authority to levy a stale tax to assist
in financing the great world's fair
In 1925. Sentiment Is In favor of
the fair and the means of financing
It is a state problem of ro small pro
portion. The best way to solve it is
for every one to do his part and U
will mean , but little Individually.
Oregon Meed, Population.
Dallas Observer.
Oregon needs something to attract
settlers. The population Is not suf
ficient to build and maintain the ab
solutely necessary roads But there
are many who believe that Portland
will receive the entire benefit from
such an exposition, and therefore
take the position that Portland should
bear the entire expense. This news
paper is firmly convinced that the
entire state will benefit, but concedes
that the other fellow is entitled to
his opinion.
Special Session Condemned.
Salem Capital-Journal.
There may have been rawer deals
pulled off but never before In the
exposition line. Just why the gov
ernor should oblige the boomers by
forcing the unnecessary expense of a
special session on the people In these
nara limes is oeyunu i-uiiiiicntiiiuii.
Tho eXp0Slton Is not an emergency,
hard times Is beyond comprenension.
not even a necessity, and the taxpay
ers can get along without 11.
Fair la ood Investment.
Amity Standard.
The fair for 1925 carried In Port
land by a vote of 4 to 1; it speaks
well for that city. Now It will be up
to the state, and no doubt when in
dividuals figure the cost, they will
realize that the tourists and homu
seekers at the fair will bring much
more money to the state than the
slight increase in taxes amounts to.
5
Missionary Work Needed.
Eatacada News.
The fair promoters have won the
first round, as Portland voted 4 to 1
In favor of the tax. But it will be a
more difficult matter to persuado the
state at large that the fair will be a
good business Investment enough to
offset the additional tax. Consider
able missionary work will have to be
done In the eastern, southern and cen
tral portions of the state.
Popular Will rtrhlnd Fair.
Albany .Herald.
It Is rlesrly the duty of every coun
ty to stand solidly behind the 1925
exposition. Public sentiment In each
should be so overwhelming In its
favor that Its senators and repre
sentatives should have no cause to
mistake the popular will. For the
1925 exposition is a good businesl
proposition for Oregon.
Success la Forecaat.
Scio Tribune. '
Portland voted 4 to 1 in favor of
the tax to' stage an exposition for
1925. There is no doubt but that
the. state will follow suit when the
proposition Is properly put Defore
the voters.
Gratitude Due Portland.
Eugene Guard.
Portland has voted by a large ma
jority to allow the people of Oregon
to finance its 1925 exposition. We
should all feel extremely grateful for
the magnanimity shown by the peo
ple of that city.
Benefits to Re State-Wide.
Aurora Observer.
The 1925 world's fair election In
Portland Saturday carried by a 4 to
1 majority. Everybody will be bene
fited by the fair.
Interest la Astonishing;,
Marshfleld News.
Portland passed the 1925 exposition
tax by a vote estimated at four to
one. The funny part Is that more
than four people voted.
Rugal Oregon to lleneflt.
Woodburn Independent.
This exposition will prove as much
It not more of a salvation to rural
Oregon than to the metropolis.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. Houahton-Mlfflla Co.
Can Ton Answer These Questions f
1. Will minks attack poultry?
2 What relationship is the rattle
snake pilot to the rattlesnake?
3. Are all birds' eggs edible.
Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes.
a
Answer to Previous Questions.
1. Where did the gipsy moth come
irom.7
fom the old world. As far back
as 1720 Porthetrla dixpar was recog
nised as a forest pest. It is found In
temperate parts of Asia as far east
as Japan, and in Africa Is known in
Algeria. It is troublesome In France,
uermany and Russia, and is known.
out rare. In England.
l. What are the brown spots on the
under side of fern leaves?
These are the seed vessels TCvAm-
Inid under a reading class, they show
as rather thick shaped crescents.wlth
a Dright rusty brown fringe. They
stick close to the leaf like the cover
of a box. When fully ripe, they
spring back a crack and allow the
seeds, or spores that have been ma
turing within, to escape and be sown
oy the wind.
S. I have recently read that moaf
owls build nests of sticks, or adopt
nests of thaw sort, built for other
birds. Is this true? I thought they
uvea in noies.
Many owls do use nests of sticks.
The long-eared owl always prefers
an open nest, and the srreat-hornad
owl usually does, often taking that of
hawk or crow. The barred owl may
lane an open nest of sticks, but more
commonly uses a tree hole. Screech
and barn owls use holes, and make
no nest. The short-eared owl lays
ecrtrs on the ground.
In Other Days.
Fifty Tears Ago.
From The Oregonlan of November I!. 18T1.
New York. The Grand Duke Alexis
of Russia and suite attended the
opera at the Academy of Music and
were enthusiastically received by the
audience last night.
Miss Carrie A. Moore of Boston who
has been the sensation In California
upon velocipedes and roller skates.
arrived In Portland on the Ajax yes
terday morning.
The grand Jury of Tima county.
Arizona territory, after deliberating
nine days returned 111 Indictments,
of which three were for misde
meanors and 108 for murder.
Rome. For the first time since the
occupation of Rome the Italian parlia
ment today met In this city, opening
with a speech by King Victor
Emanuel.
Tnenty-Klve Years Ago.
From The Oregonlan of November 29. loe.
St. Taul. Human beings have been
frozen to death, and cattle have been
smothered In drifts of snow norms
that are sweeping Minnesota and
North Dakota.
New Orleans Lilian Rufscll broke
down while singing here last night
and her company had to present "The
American Beauty" without her.
Cold weather Is making serious
trouble for steamboats plying the Co
lumbia above the mouth of the Wil
lamette.
Will' PI.MSII CO-COSIMHATOKf
Correspondent Protests Penalty for
Asaorlntca in Sheriff's Murder.
PORTLAND, Nov. 28 (To the VAX
tor.) I speak In regard to the two
young men who have been sentenced
to be hanged on December 2. I know
many people who are greatly opposed
to this. We feci that the people who
have condemned and sentenced these
boys to be hanged have done so
through the spirit of vengeance and
not Justice.
Someone said "If Hart had not
killed the sheriff, those boys would.
Who could he so wiee as to dare to
make such an assertion? Who but
God knows what they would have
done? The fact Is, they did not kill
tho sheriff, and yet they are sentenced
to be hanged for a deed which they
did not do. If such Injustice Is prac
ticed In the name of the law, how
can we expect to have law-abiding
citizens? We believe that our gov
ernor should not try to wash hl
hands of this affair, for tho lives
of these young men are in his hands.
When Judces and jurymen do not
deal justice, then we look to our
governor.
Why should they not be fair and
try these young men for that which
they have actually done and sentence
them accordingly?
M. F. FERGUSON.
rertsln leeal aspects, as well as
facts, of this case, concerning which
tho correspondent seems to be unin
formed, are discussed In another col
umn on this page.
Recovery of Estate.
DATTON, Or., Nov. 25. Eo the Ed
itor.) An estate was sold In 1915 by
the county court and administrator
and a lawyer for $12,000. There was
a $3000 mortgaKe against the
place. They sold It and the
heirs never received a cent. Four of
the heirs were minors, two being very
small, and are now dependent on
charity. One, a boy of 15, is trying to
earn a living and is not In school.
Has It been outlawed, or who could
we get to take this up and see that
Justice Is done? Most everyone In
that county said it was the rawest
deal that had ever been pulled off
there.
2. What is the Fnlted States dis
trict attorncVs address?
ONE OF THE HEIRS.
1. Chance of recovery could he de
termined only by a lawyer who de
voted time to an examination of the
complete record.
2. The office of the United States
district attorney Is In the federal
building. Portland. It Is not his prov
ince to advise on matters of this kind.
WHICH SUM. I, IT BE f
Death sits upon the throne of sav
agery. And signals Mars, the god of seeth
ing hates,
To hasten to the great world confer
ence And stir dissension 'mongst the del
egates. God sits upon the throne amidst the
spheres,
Imparting Truth to all who have the
will,
And signals through the Spirit his de
sire That wars shall cease and youth
taught not to kill.
Which shall it be? Oh Lord, thou art
the fount
And faith grows In us that all will
be well;
That we'll no longer stand our sons
In rows
To be mown down by Instruments oi
hell.
W. R. McCRACKEN.
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