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10 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1921 ESTABLISHED BY II I s in I.. PITTOCK. Published by The Orcgontan Fubliehing Co., 133 Sixth Street. forlland. Ortjun. IS. B. PIPER. Editor. C A. MUKDEN. Manager. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated 1'ress. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or nut otherwise credited in this paper and also the' local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dlapatcbis herein S)re also reserved. Subscription liutrs Invariably In Advance. tBy Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year f8.0n Daily. Sunday included, six month! ... 4. 2.1 Daily, Sunday Included, three month.. 2.25 Daily, Sunday Included, one month ... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 8.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months .... 8.23 Dally, without Sunday, one month so Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2.5(1 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday included, one year $9.00 Daily, Sunday included, three months. . 2.25 Dally, Sunday included, one month .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year 7.80 Dally, without Sunday, three months. . 1.U5 Dally, without Sunday, one munth 65 How to Kemit Spnd postoffica money or'ler, express or personal check on your Jo -h1 bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owners risk. Give postoffice addrea, m.i. including county and state. Postage Kates 1 to 16 pages. 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages, 2 centa; 34 to 48 pages. 3 cer.ts: 50 to'o pages. 4 cants: 06 to 60 rages, 5 cents: 82 to 116 pages, o centa Foreign P"stagr doubl rate. Eastern Business Office Vcrree at Conk 11 n . 300 Madison avenue. New York: Verree & Conklin. suger bu.tding. Chicasro: Ver ree A i . r Free Press building. De tro.'t, Mich.- Verree A Conklin, Selling building, Portland. TRANSPORTATION COST AND PROS PERITY. From most unexpected quarters comes testimony that high cost of transportation Is one great "obstacle to business revival. The National City bank is supposed to represent Wall street, which Is commonly credited with dominating the rail roads. Yet it gave the first place .In its November bulletin to letters which. It says, "set out graphically present relations between the prices tof farm products, prices of manu factured goods and transportation charges, and the effect of these ab normal relations upon business." It does not agree with the railroad of ficials who, at the time of the gen eral advance In rates, tried to delude people into the belief that freight was a negligible Item in the coat of commodities. A farmer near Culhertson, Neb., wrote to Deere & Co. that he wanted a wagon, but his dealer asked the price of 650 bushels of corn, though he could have bought It for 200 bushels before the war, and the harness man wants the price of a wagonload of hides for a No. 1 harness. Deere & Co. replied that their price fur the wagon at Moline, III., was 100 per cent higher than in 1914, but that they were selling it for 20 per cent below cost. To this price the Culhertson farmer must original transportation system which they tried to destroy. In the era of intense industrial competition which has opened, it Is more tnan evfer necessary that we should compensate for our great dis tances with the lowest possible cost of transportation. This can best be accomplished by treating the water ways and the sea as free, open high ways, improved and maintained at public expense, and the railroads and highways as complementary to them In part, competitive In part. Where railroads parallel waterways, they can abandon to the latter low-class frelght'and can successfully compete In speed for high-class freight. They have handicapped themselves for competition, especially with Inter coastal water lines, by attempting to monopolize the carrying business, for they have sacrificed their greatest advantage economy of time in sending goods across the continent as against a ship which carries them around a great half circle. Railroads should operate more profitably as connections between modern tug atid barge lines on waterways, especially as traffic becomes denser, than as their competitors, and where compe tition Is unavoidable, it should be used as a whip andspur to drive the railroads to practice the most intense economy. the slightest mercy. His business is conducted with deliberation and the law is not violated by him in the heat of passion. He depends upon the ruin of promising lives to create a market for his wares. His sole mo tive Is sordid. He is not the type of man who Is capable of being re formed, because he is morally de fective from the beginning. More over, the risk to society is too great to warrant the government in per mitting him to remain at large. The narcotic peddlers are not too numerous to justify hope that their power can be broken. But they are persistent and are spurred by the enormous profits of their trade, and the country will be better off when they are placed for long terms be hind prison bars. !E VAI.KRA'S RESPONSIBILITY. The Irish question Is a difficult one difficult for the Irish, difficult for the Knglish and difficult for the United. States, where, through in cessant agitation, the Irish question had become an American question. The aspiration of Sinn Fein, backed by a majority of the Irish people, has been for separation or independ ence, as It Is commonly called by Its advocates. The treaty between the British delegates and the Irish dele gates, signed, sealed aijd delivered, but not ratified. Is for an autonomous Irish government, a free state within the empire, a self-governing domin ion with full power to levy and col NATAL RATIOS ANI BASKS. As Japan is reported to make ac ceptance of the 5-5-3 naval ratio conditional on construction of no more naval ba.-es on the islands ot the western side of the Pacific ocean by any of the five naval poworaj con cerned, let us consider what wotjld be the effect. The United States would be re sponsible for defense of the Philip pines without a naval base In those islands. A fleet for their defense would be based on Bremerton and Mare island, over 6000 miles distant. If some other nation were to occupy the Philippines, the fleet sent to re conquer them would have to be so far superior when It arrived there that it could take the offensive. It would require a liberal margin to replace ships disabled in action or otherwise while they were sent across the ocean for repair. It would need a great fleet of transports to' carry fuel, supplies and troops, and it would require strong squadrons to protect the line of communications. According to" a noted expert, a fleet based on Europe and crossing the Atlantic to attack the United States would have to be three or four times as strong as the defending fleet. By the same rule, an American fleet lect Its taxes, control its finances, make Its laws, raise its army, name crossing the Pacific to recover the its police, administer justice through Philippines should be six or eight time as strong as me neet it at tacked, if its base were on this coast. By comparison, the Japanese fleet would be right at home, well sup plied with bases on its own islands, the nearest of which are only a few hundred miles from the north end that governs. And this especially well Bethought and manly maxim from the Hebrew: "If your wife is little stoop to her." As for cynicisms barbed and launched against thoie who presume, as does our pundit, to dictate exact courses of husbandly procedure, founded in masculine arrogance, harken well to these: Bachelors' wives and maids' children are well taught. A shoemaker's wife and a smith's mare are always the worst shod. He that has no wife chastises her well. Indeed, there Is wisdom in i proverbs, and though it may be that our pundit has been at least once wedded he seems nevertheless a crabbed and dyspertic bachelor at heart, as wifeless as Ichabod Crane, as self-centered as any Rajput. These proverbs argue that it is the western view, as it has been for cen turies, that wives are helpmates and sweethearts and he is thrice fortu nate who has found him a partner and not a property; while the east ern viewpoint differs essentially and distastefully. Bluebeard, as we re call It, was an extreme but well mean'.ng exponent of the theory that wives are property, willy-nilly. Stars and Starmakers. By I. rone Cass Burr. Between the hours of 6:45 and 5:35 this morning Frederick Warde, actor, author and traveler, will be in Port land between trains, on his way to Los Angeles from the north. Mr. Warde la particularly well known in Port land among the early-day devotees of Shakespeare. He has not visited us professionally sine a brief Shake spearean engagement some 15 years ago. but he was in Portland a year ago on a visit, when he was the guest at a'dlnner and reunion of old friends at the Arlington club, at which Fred erick V. Holman was host. Merle Armitage, a New York news paper man. is in Portland ahead of "The Beggars' Opera, ' an old Lngnsn Those Who Come and Go. Talea of Folks at the Hotels. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, II otigf h t on-M 1 1 f 1 1 u Co. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jaairs J. Monlsgue. Savings banks show an Increase in deposits, discount rate is dostri and some of the victory loan- bonds are quoted above par and the pound ster ling is returning to normal. These are evidences of Improved conditions throughout the country discovered by J. G. Jones, sales manager of the' Can You Anmr Time d u. - Ion - : Slf;S OK IV PHOM'.M I VI 1. Do bob-whites or quail feed on A High Apostle of the Pure bugs. If grain or seeds to their Ilk- Quite recently has stated ing Is plentiful? That all our Kngllah litertoor 2. Can you tell me anything aboutl Has mu;n degenerated. a bee that cuts uniform shaped pieces " a" Mat fiction sts today from hon.vsncHt. leaves what it is ",c evii-iiimucu uue'i's", Alexander Hamilton Institute now t ! nd where 1 can read up about It the Multnomah. "in Pittsburg we Do bats and whales suckle their found several of the big blast fur- young? - races had been blown in the past few Answers In tomorrow's nature weeks and that the mills are rece'v- notes, ing Increased orders for structural! steeU" states Mr. Jones. "Our re- , Anascer. to - - o..ellona. search department secures reports from all over the country on busi ness conditions and these reports in dicate Increased building1' operations throughout the United States. We realize now what a great advantage 1. What bird has Its windpipe on the back of its neck? This inquiry came from a child, and was said to be from an examination paper. We canaot answer, beyond I nntlfm Soe If l V, a A Km.. production, which come, to the Hei.lg - - Its courts, fix Its customs tariffs. The English king is also to be the Irish king, and there are certain reserva tions as to coast control and harbor rights, designed for the protection and safety of England and Scotland and Ireland, too. It Is clear that aggression by any other power, with out even the express right or power to levy tribute upon Ireland for that purpose. Now President de Valera and a considerable faction of the Sinn Fein oppose the treaty because what they have been offered, and their dele gates have accepted, is les than had been demanded. The Sinn Fein is add $11.40 freight more than he divided, and the results are in doubt. would have paid before the war, "and the increased transportation onsts upon the materials that go into lJihe wagon arc even greater than this amount." Freight on the corn with which the farmer would pay for the wagon has increased from 14 to 2C ; cents a bushel since 11)14, or $78 on 650 bushels, therefore his "increased contribution to the railroad company In getting the wagon out there and shipping corn enough to Chicago to pay for it is $89.40." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace states the facts generally when he says In his annual report: The cost of getting farm products from the farm to the consumer's table has In creased tremendously during the past three years. The freight charge is very nearly doubled, and In some cases more than doubled. ... At the present time the cost of getting some farm products to market Is greater than the amount the farmer himself receives-in net return. Anil the heaviest freight burden naturally falls on those farmers who live In our great surplus-producing statas. The country has been developed on the low long haul. Land values, crops and farming practices In general have bean adjusted to this development. Large ad vances In freight rates therefore . . . are bound to involve a remaking of our agri cultural .map. Inasmuch as our heavy consuming popu lation is massed so largely near the eastern coast and our surplus Is produced long distances In the Interior, substantial ad vances In transportation costs have the enect oi imposing a differential against our own producers In favor of their com. petitors In foreign lands, especially to the south of us, who have the benefit of cheap water transportation and who In many oases can tay down their products on our eastern coast more cheaply, than our own people can ship their products to the same points by rail. Railroads, moved by the Instinct of self preservation, strive to reduce cost of operation in order that thej may reduce rates In general, and they ask permission to make low rates to coast terminals in order that they may compete with water lines. They realize that cost ,of transpor tation must be lower In order that they may have a volume of goods to transport that is large enough to yield un income on their investment. At the same time they seek to limit the Uegref to which water compe tition shall compel them to carry this reduction. For this reason they oppose exemption of Intercoastal ships from Panama canal tolls, and they cultivate the delusion that ex emption would tax the inland states for the benefit of the coast states. They readily accept the logic of their own argument by saying also that tolls should bo charged on ships passing through the Sault canal, then that the same rule should apply to navigation improvements on the Ohio river, and some go so far as to say that tolls should be levied on all Improved rivers and harbors suffi cient to pay interest on cost and to . maintain them. Thus after their own unrostralned competition has prac tically put the waterways out of business, railroads ask protection against revived water competition. This at a time when the necessities of the nation demand that cost of transportation be reduced to the lowest limit consistent with effi ciency, which Implies a fair return on invested private capital. In taking their present position railroad men read their transpor tation facts backwards. Rivers were used as highways before railroads were thought of, in many, sections before there were any roads, and such improvement as was made in early days was made at public ex pense. Roads were cross-country connections between waterways, and railroads should fill the same place. But in the rush to build railroads and develop the country, no govern mental policy for development of a transportation system was worked out. railroads were left free to build where they pleased and-to operate as they pleased. They paralleled water ways and put steamboat lines out of business. They took control of coast wiso steamship lines and stopped competition. Forbidden to pursue . these destructive tactics and forced to meet real coastwise competition on a route shortened by the canal, luey now seek protection from the Great Britain assumes the obligation of Luzon. For offensive purposes it and duty of defending Ireland against would be equal to far more than i to b as against an American rieei which had to cross the ocean in order either to defend or recover the Philippines. As the American "6" fleet would be reduced to one-sixth or one-eighth of its defensive strength by "crossing the ocean, Japan's "3" fleet would be strong enough for an offensive against it. In order to preserve the ratio for defense alone, the American fleet should have a base in the Philippines from which It could operate Inde pendently of its home base. But there can be no doubt of the deplorable consequences of rejection of the treaty. The world hopes for settlement, and impartial opinion is generally that Ireland should accept in its own interest. De Valera takes a heavy responsibility when he pro poses to continue the warfare. It will be hard for him to justify him self with his own people, with America, with the world. Kngland offers -peace, an honor able and secure relationship with the British empire, a guaranteed future for Ireland. But De Valera demands outright independence, a separate king, a different flag, a place atf alone in the sun and would keep up a hopeless fight. It is forgotten that the original" Issue between Kngland and the American colonies was. "taxation without representation" and not independence. Cl'RBING TI1K NARCOTIC TRAI I IC. The recent narcotic conference at Seattle, which was an anti-narcotic conference in every sense of the term, gave its Indorsement to a policy which is certain to grow in favor when It urged that the penalties of the Harrison law be increased, that judicial clemency be withdrawn from this class of offenders, and that a campaign of education be begun with a view to Impressing the necessity of stern and uncompromising suppres sion of offenders, not only upon law enforcement officers, but upon the general public as well. The subject discussed at the Seat tle conference is engaging the atten tion of many states, but it is par ticularly vital to those bordering on the Pacific ocean because of a flaw in present laws regulating the im portation of crude opium and the manufacture and exportation of Its derivatives from this country. The already enormous and constantly growing business of exporting nar cotics to Asia, especially China, is a fact of importance to all Americans, because It Is believed that fully half of such exports return to the Cnlted States almost immediately as smug gled goods and enter into consump tion through Illicit channels. Rep resenting an effort to check. If not wholly to control, this phase of the situation, a bill is now pending in congress which would regulate man ufitcture for export as well as for home use, and would also prohibit absolutely the shipment of finished narcotics abroad except for legiti mate therapeutic purposes. The bill also withdraws the privilege now en joyed by foreign manufacturers of shipping' their products through the United States, known as the In transit privilege. It is believed that this would in tlitle largely shut off foreign-manufactured narcotics from being shipped to the orient, and thus put an end to return shipments by the smugglers' route. Our interest in the welfare of China, which is also a sufferer from an evil which is being thrust upon her, Is more than .academic, for it goes to the heart of the present sit uation in this country. , The HaM son law, by which the sale and dis pensing of narcotics is strictly super vised, is ineffective, so far as It fails to take account of supplies illegally brought into the country. The measure now pending In congress, which is known as the Jones-Miller bill, supplements the law already on the statute books and is measurably capable of being enforced. The fact that in the first instance the stocks of forbidden drugs which are smug gled back to be used in making new habitues are created In this country is one of the anomalies which the framers of the Harrison law did not foresee. On the subject of increasing the penalties for violating the present law. the conference Is In line with the opinion of all who understand the nature of the practice which It i3 hoped to abate. There are no con ceivable circumstances under which a peddler of narcotics is entitled to THE PATENT OPFICE IN ARRKAR-. Not even the demand for economy in public expenditures is likely to de tract from the validity of the conten tion of the commissioner of patents that unless better provision Is made for competent scientific help In his department the Interests of the country as a whole are likely to suf fer. His figures sh-.w a distressing state of affairs. The office two years ago was lR.O'OO applications behind, nine months ago 42,000, now it Is more than 50,000 in arrears, and the arrearage grows constantly. The tenson is found in the figures con cerning the "turnover" in the em ploye column. Examination of patents entails a staff of experts now numbering 430 men, and in thirty two months there have been 231 esignations. In two-years no fewer than 163 trained men, who were also members of the bar, have left the service. The amazing talent for invention which characterizes the American people is reflected first in the patent office and later in our leadership in mechanical industries of almost every kind. The protection to In vention which was promised by the constitution of the United States, but which was not made effective until anout 1836, when the first effective1' patent laws were passed, has been the keystone" of our progress, by fur nishing the incentive of enlightened sslt-interest for patience, study and ingenuity. The enormous proportions which invention attained in less than a century wa indicated when, a few yoars ago, the number of patents is sued reached the million mark. It is true that niajiy of them were use less, but the total included virtually every important step in mechanical and chemical progress which we have made. The commissioner of patents has an uncommonly good case. The con siderable army of hopeful but by thlc time highly impatient geniuses comprising the fifty thousand whose applications are pending, and others, clamoring at the rate of some thous andjs a month at the patent office doors, will hope fervently that a way may be found for reducing patent effice "turnover" without too much delay. just before Christmas. Mr. Armltatre has a famous wife. She is Katherlne Ryan, pianist and composer. Her en gagements prevented her from making- this tour with her husband. the federal banks have been to thej guessing It may woofer to the s -. h :i p- : ninuipc Ul aucil U1IU3 BI in.: mwiu- hill crane, whooping crane or swan. Who far have wandered way Of sterling early writers. from the the worst financial panic in history. "All the wool In our parhjof Morrow county has been sold. Some of it went lor about 15 cents, when this same wool could not find a market several , , r .I,,- aau i .viiifl, naii us ni-ii- bopnie TucKtr ann net u.. drlcksen of Cecil, Morrow county, at the Hotel Oregon. Mr. Hendricksen is feeding 6000 lambs near his home syncopaters have gone ineir tiis ways after three years of harmony, and now Sophie is doing an act with a pianist. He is Ai Slaajel. who Is the husband of Bee Palmer, who bills herself as the "shimmy queen." Al is suing his busy little Beefor divorce, mentioning Jack Dempsey as having alienated the lady's affections. Demp sey denies ths allegation and says philosophically that he notices that it Is only since he began making money that he became a target for sundry suits and mcntionings. Una Abarbanell is being sued by the H. Robert Law studios for $550. alleged to be due the firm for scenery and costumes furnished Miss Abar banell during her short tour in vaude ville last season. Miss Abarbanell is new appearing In "The Grand Duke." By issuing certificates tor $25 and by linking the treasury department's borrowing with the postal savings banks. Secretary Mellon and Postmaster-General Hays convert the government Into a great school of thrift and extract good from the evil of national debt. The multitude of small sums contributed by many people of 9mall means are the source of the government's financial strength, as they were when Jay Cooke went to the people for money with which to carry on the civil war. When the Seattle city council re pealed the ordinance licensing cab. are ts, it seemed as though the city had joined the purity league, but the true Sttory is in the last paragraph. A new ordinance will license them again. Women sympathizers in the mine troubles at Pittsburg, Kan., pelted a sheriff with bread and b.utter. Johnnycake would have made a better missile and been more Kansas. The early Christmas shopper, of course, may need to use a littleNmore than ordinary ingenuity to keep those bundles out of sight of kids until Santa Claus comes. WIVES AS PROPERTY. A philosophical pundit of the east, whom one suspects of being a bach elor, has discussed with learned finatfty the subject of bolshevism in sex. He shall be nameless, as much for the convenience of these remarks as for a fear that too much publicity would hale him kicking to the stocks of feminine scorn. For, so he holds, all wonlenkind came into being for the delight and service of their over lords by marriage. It follows that he perceives in the feminist move ment, even in suffrage, a revolt that should have been suppressed at Its first feeble stirrings sternly, if need be. Says he, with rare temerity: The wife Is unavoidably ttje property of her husband, no malter what she or the law may say about it;, for this la a fact oi naturalilife, a condition .inherent in the human being. Our pundit is in error. First, be cause of the fact that this condition is not though we admit it to debate only for the fact's sake without ex ception. There arc happy isles where the untutored savage yields in all matters to the feminine will. There are In the houses all round us in stances where this presumptions generality is reer:--d for the greater glory of woman. Second, because it simply isn't so. outside the harem, and both sense and gallantry demand a denial. The exceptions, It may easily and truthfully be said, but prove the rule. He shall be convicted by proverb. Therein as all must admit rests the wisdom and sagacity of the ages, sharpened into adages that form the contrasts between our civilization, orientalism and stark savagery. Ah, many hundreds of maxims there are that have been coined from the watching of wives sourly, dearly, bitterly, fondly, brutally and lov ingly. And though we find that those of English speech will at times have their jest, it is significant that they deal with wives as mates and equals as Francois Villon sang a bride long, long ago. Princesa. give ear to thia my summary; That heart of mine your heart's love hould forget. Shall never be: like trust In you put I: Thia Is the and for which we twain art mea- In the court of proverbs ont finds the pundit in hearty accord with suck acknowledged wife, managers as the Chinese, the RoumanlarfS and the Esquimaux. Here the sticks fall, and the tears, for the chastisement of her body and the improvement of her manners. Thus runs the Chinese maxim, "A husband who fearer his wife is foolish, but a woman who does not fear her husband. ,a thousand times more foolish." And echo the Esquimaux, who may, indeed, have crossed the bitter Ice from Asia, "A man's best friend Is his dog, better even than his wife." How wisely and self-rlghteously runs the Rou manian proverb, "An unscolded wife is like an uncut millstone, and does not go easily." Whereupon some slant-eyed mandarin, as definite as fate, pronounces, "A young wife should be In her house but a shadow and an echo." ' Would not these worthies nod instant approval of the opinion that a wife is unavoidably and irrevocably tha property of her husband? Nod and yammer in three languages? Thank heaven and the felicities there are kinder, finer, more worthy maxims than these, born of folk who speak our tongue, or whose culture is as liberal and sincere as ours. No, need to name them. If you were to sound a bugle for civilization each land would answer. Nor is there need to. hedge their proverbs round with formal quotation marks. They are fact. A good wife Is worth gold. A faithful wife becomes the truest and tenderest friend. The fingers of the housewife do more than a yoke of oxen. Observe the face of a wife After all, there's no'hlng like, a to know the husbands character. I diamond for a Christmas present if The buband reigns, but it Is tho wiX it Lu the right finger, When It comes to applying the principles of the disarmament con ference to the Balkans. Serbia will always be willing to make Oreece and Bulgaria disarm. The premier liar must have moved to Mexico and signalized his advent by sending a report of the birth of eight children. He "saves his face by saying all died. Probably war will not come, but If it should the United States will be prepared to cope with anything be tween the top of the sky and the bot tom of the ocean. Mail 'em early. Posoffice people prefer being overworked the week before to being ewaraped Christmas week. Put on the little sticker, too, anywhere. When both a democratic and a re publican administration agree on Mr. Jones for Portland postmaster, he must be the man for the job. The boy who gets a Bible for Christmas when he wanted a gun "or something" will not necessarily be come a missionary. This, the last day to pay the in stallment on last year's income tax, is a fine time to consider what to pay for this year. There is hope for the bolshevists yet. They do use soap of a kind. If they would also shave, hope would be stronger. When Mrs. Alexander Pafctages. who has been visiting In SarT Francisco city for several days, left for Los Angeles on Tuesday night she took with her a live "teddy bear." The little animal, a genuine ant eating bear from Singapore, was pur chased by Mrs, Pantages from an im porter who recently came from the orient. The bear, according to Mrs. Pantages, will be a Christinas present foi her three small children and will bo the companion of an East Indian monkey, which is now enjoying the hospitality of the Pantages' Ls An geles home. A trained animal aoT of a new kind will come into existence at the next session of the parliament In Canada if the mobilized efforts of humane societies and their friends are successful J. B. Wilson, manager ot the Toronto Humane society, said at a general meeting that a campaign "Twill be launched to get public opinion behind a bill prohibiting the exhibi tion at theaters or other public places or performance of all trained ani mals. The bill will be modeled along the lines of the one now before the Brit ish house of commons, wtth the ex ception that the latter's provision for th issuance of licenses would be de leted. Bert Williams is being starred In a musical show called "Under the Bam boo Tree." Williams has the role of. a hotel porter, which Is said to fit him wonderfully well. He sings two new numbers, 'Ttujipy Dog" and Bravltation." which give promise of big things In the popular song field. "Ui.der the Bamboo Tree" will open an indefinite engagement in Chica.ro next week at the Great Northern, and may later cqjme to the Pacific coast. The revival of "Erminie." which is on tour, is handicagpd by the absence of Francis Wilson, co-star with De Wolf Hopper, and Primrose CaryU one of the principals In the comic opera. Miss Caryll was called to New York on account of the death of heri lamer, ivan t,arj u, wuicu uv.upwo., and will rejoin the company this wevk in Dayton, O. The time of Mr. W.l son's return is problematical, due to illness. He Is In St. John's hospital, St. Louis, suffering from a cold which, it Is feared -by attending physicians, may develop sjeriously and necessitate an operation. Mr. Wilson was taken sick at the American theater in the Mound Clly after the matinee performance No vember 23. He expressed fear of pneumonia. A doctor was summoned and adviaed the Immediate transfer of Mr. Wilson to a hospital. The star's wife and family were notified and came on quickly from - New York. Though Francis Wilson is 67 years old. he has preserved his age wen oy an athletic routine, in which golf played a large factor. Alexander Clark substituted for Mr. Wilson and has filled the part well, having played it for almost a year on a previous ocoaslon. Miss Caryll'j place was taken by Ethel Ellery, a member of the chorus. Selling wood short measure easily may become a habit. The protester Is a benefactor, though he evokes a grin. It's about time for the kaiser to announce that he will eat his Christ mas dinner in Holland. Comstock & Gest announce the re vival of "Experience" for the first week in January. The cast will be drawn largely from prominent film players made idle by the current de pression' in the theaters. If plans carry all right the revival will play four weeks on Broadway, after -which It will be taken on tour, playing week stands in the larger cities only. Myrtle Stcdman, the picture girl, Is going into vaudeville in a single turn. So. is Kathlyn Wiluams. r ... Bessie Barrlscale Is another film actress who Is going to try vaudeville. She failed In a play, "The Skirt," and so she is having "The Skirt" remod eled and cut down to fit the two-a- day. A lawyer, acting for Betty Bond, has sent out a letter stating that as Miss Bond is tietlring from the' stage and owes many p'eople. she would Ilka to know If her creditors will accept 15 cents on the dollar for their claims. ... Walter Regan, a former Baker play. er, is appearing In "Irene" In Boston. Pattl Harrold, who is a daughter of Orville Harrold, Is singing the title role, i , . William A Brady has offered to give a benefit with the help of theatrical friends for Sergeant Alvln York, whom Marshall 7"och described as the greatest single hero of the war. Sergeant York has a mortgage on his farm, which he has to meet QUO. which he bought when lambs were lower than they are quoted today. The aheap Industry is picking up, added Mr. Hondricksen, but the sheep men owe so much money that it will be several years before they get on their feet. Their main worry now is to meet the interest charges on their papsr in the-banks. Mr. Hendricksen opines that a poll tax might be a satisfactory way of financing the 126 fair, but says that he supposes the labor unions would fight Buch a proposition. Speaking of troubles: A woman patron of the Multnomah yesterday torn the string of beads which formed the pocket In her dress and lost $1. She wanted to visit a friend in a hos pital and in running to catch a Tweri-ty-lhlrd-street car she lost her change purse. The loss was discovered whin she was on the car platform. She asked the conductor If he intended putting her off when she lost her money running for the car, and he decided she could remain aboard. Then the car started with a Jerk and the woman sat on a pumpkin pie which a fat man waa holding In his lap. The stout gentleman became wroth, opened a window and hurled the ruined pie into Washington street. Next the fat man jumped up. stopped the ear and. aaying unkindly thlnsrs about the haptens woman, left to buy another pie. The woman managed to get fcack to the Multnomah and went to bed. deciding that was the safest place for her. In order to study forestry methods In America. Professor Harold Lynum of Chrlatlanla, Norway, obtained a leave of absence for two years and has spent the time in the ramps and with the government forestry offi cials of the United States. "The American methods of forestry are en tirely different from ours," Mr. Lynum observed at the Multnomah, "and trees that you would leave standing as being too snaatl out in this country, we cut down and use for lumber. It has been very Inter esting to go Into the logging camps anu learn to do some of the actual work of logging and also to discuss matters with your foresters. Tha United States is a wonderful country and I am enthusiastic about It." George Parman and others are In town to see about the construction of the Oregon-Washington highway near Willow creek, where this road will connect with the Columbia rlvjr highway. The Gilliam county dele gation will also urge on the highway commission the completion of the John Day highway between Condon and Arlington, so that thia northern end will be ready for travel by the end of the 1922 working seasoji. The northern end of the Oregon-Washington highway has been hanging In the air for the past three years. "Jackson county has spent $250,000 on the road between Trail and Pros pect going to Crater lake," explained Judge Oardntr. "The standards of road building have been improved and there should be some relocation In spots and rofck surface. The high way commission will advertise at this meeting for work on the Agate-Mod ford section. The Agate-Trail section has been developed, so that gradually the highway to the lake Is being Im proved on standard lines. Our one ambition Is to complete this road as quictciy as possible. G. L. Gillette and J. L. Record of Minneapolis, are here registered at the Multnomah. According to Mr. Gillette, who is connected with a stee macninery company, that concern during the war built Immense steel barges for the government to test out shipping Immense quantities of sup plies from the middle west down the Mississippi to the seaboard. The barges proved such a success that a large umber were constructed and these boats became a common sight as they were towed down stream. Frank Fulton, of Ftalton Hollow, Sherman county, arrived yesterday from Puget sound. He says that Kent, Chehalis and other towns were flooded with water when his train pulled through and that near Tacoma a construction train was sent over the tracks ahead of the passenger train to ascertain whether the roadbed had become too soft from the rains. Con tinued rainstorms are responsible for the flood conditions. These birds have a seml-coll In the windpipe, but this coll is partly with in the breastbone, not "on tho back of the neck." Possibly the upper turn of the coil might be meant. ... 2. What Is the difference between a mouse and a rat? There Is no great essential differ ence, except as to size, and choice of habitat. Both are supposed to havo originated In Asia, belong to rodents, genus Mus, and have very similar characters of body. Tails are long and practically without hairs and In cline to acallness, particularly in rats. Soles of the feet are bare. Mice com monly have softer fur. Among them selves mice vary somewhat In color, or as to certain members, as the large ears of the house mouse, and short tall of the field mouse. W t'o oysters grow on ins t acme roast ? Ye, on the American shores, both Washington and California, hut the variety differs from the east or At lantic coast oyster. Attempts to grow the latter In our Pacific waters asve not succeeded, for while the oyster will live. It will not reproduce In such cool water. There Is on tho Japanese coast a large, well flavored oyster also. Newman Moon, of Marshfleld, who graded several miles of the Coast highway (Roosevelt highway, If you prefer), in Curry county, near Port Orford, has arrived in the city to at tend the monthly meeting of the high way commission. One of the sections which Mr. Moon constructed Is along the edge of the I'aciflc ocean and It will be one of the moajt beautlfdl scenic spots in the state highway sys tem. When- J. L. Logan of Grants Pass exhibited a gold washer In the Im perial lobby yesterday the precious metal was the center of Interest for half an hour. The washer was about the size of a four-bit piece, but thick and heavy. Mr. Logan hag been a practical mining man in Josephine county for many years and at one time worked the big placer mine near Kirby. Oeorge R. Hicks, vice-president. and W. H. Bowman, treasurer of the Bowman-Hicks Lumber .company of Kansas city, arriced at the Hotel Portland last night. They are in Oregon on business. J. K. Shotwell, road contractor, whose residence is at Hermiston, Or., Is regis cered at the Perkins. The state highway commission which meets today is the magnet. E. F. Wenckebach of Astoria, regis tered at the Imperial, has recently returned from a visit to Germany. Hesjjent six months In the country, visiting every part of it. gHTMsUa MOIU AI.I1V it "l r. I.ow Kerr Institution t.lvea More Scientific ('are of Ipfants Than tvrragr Home. PORTLAND, Dec. 14 (To the Ed itor.) The learned gentleman from California who. In addressing a body of child welfare workers, recently de plored the fact that the Albcrtlna Kerr nursery should care for well babies and urged that It would be better turned Into a child hospital, doubtless has some fine theories, but anyone at all conversant with conditions In the nursery will take Issue with his conclusions. I am not In any sense officially connected with the nursery, though proud that as a friend I was able to help make the new building possible, so can speak without prejudice. Nor do I speak without some knowledge. since I have a fairly intimate ac quaintance with similar Institutions j and wish to say that for both equip ment and administration tne Aiuer J,ina nursery are unexcelled. -1 can well claim, also, to know something of homes, having for 30 years, as a representative of a great organiza tion, been the honored guest In thou sands of America's best and wealthiest homes In practically every state in the United Statas. From this experi ence I can safely say that not one home in one hundred is equipped td give to its own children such care as Is given to the wards of the Kerr nursery. To care for a normal child require ooth experience and equipment, but, for the most part, the wards of the nursery are (ar from, normal. Many have been ill nourished. Often the young mother has been unable to give her child the best of care. For rea sons apparent to anyone knowing the antecedents of many of these chil dren the prenatal Influence has been such as to Insure low vltallt x.4th i li many of the mothers are bur chil dren themselves and this of Itself spells low physical resistance for the child. With such children and the average home car the mortality would bs ap palling. Just what are thacondltlons in the nursery? Taklng'the entire history of the institution, the larger part of the time In th old building, with Its great limitations, the death rate has been astonishingly low lVi per cent while last year, with 17 babies under care, there was only one death. Sad as Is the recent mor tality It would require several such pldemlcs each year to raise the mor tality rate to that of the home-cared-for baby. To place a child for adoption In a home where the hearts arc hungry for the touch of baby fingers Is al ways desirable, and this policy Is pursued in the case' of adoptable children. To have them cared for In homes commercially, experience tells us, Is absolutely "the court of last resort" and should never be resorted to save as a dtre necessity. Many of the little wards sre being cared for only until the mothers can reclaim them and, as a result of this vise and humane policy of Rev. W. G. MacLaren, tho splendid and self-sacrificing superintendent, many a young mother finds her anchor to industry and honor In the dream of an humble I Yet In my youth I used to gloat (I blush now to admit It) Upon the tales that Chaucer wrote. Till father made mc quit It. A pen that was uncommon tough Was this nils-spelling tosser's. And while our fiction may be rough. It's not as rouBh as Chaucer's. The man who Shakcspearo's writings gleans With rigorous attention Will fall on sundry lines and scenes He later may not mention. And so. although this Purist lad May wall and prate and r ive on. Although we're bad, we're not as had As was tho bard of Avon. Though sometimes with excessive gest We make our novels torrid. Old Smollet. Fielding, and tho rest. Were absolutely horrid. We may offend the moral law, As CKrpIng critics chorus. But though we'ro raw, wo're not as if As those who wrote before us. ... I nnomy. The nations would save money by scrapping submarines because they arc able to sink themselves. Strnngr she Meter Thong-hf of It. Germany's greatest need right now Is a lot of ersatz marks. ... What Atf We CosnlnK Tof The Washington conference Is us ing so much space that none of us have yet heard how cold It Is at Medicine Hat. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Aaro. From The Oregonian of December 15. lAnn, Havana. The United States con sulate is under a special guard of po licemen because It is feared Spanish sympathizers may make an attack upon It. Washington. Postmaster-General Wilson has extended the house-to-house collection and delivery system to provide for the sale of postage stamps through orders handed to letter carriers. The board of directors of the Man ufacturers' Association of the North west has voted to retain E. C. Mas ten as secretary. School Clerk Allen announced Inst night that the school census Hats a total of 19,MC children, which Is less than last year's census by about 100. Fifty Yrnra Ako. Frem The Oregonian of Doc-mber 15. 1RT1. Detroit. At a convention held here It was voted to seek aid of the fed oral government for construction of a ship canal around Niagara Falls. It Is said that there Is now Iron enough at Kalama to finish laying the track of the Northern Pacific .railroad to Pumphrey's and no fur ther delay in this work is expected. The new locomotive just landed for the Oregon Central railroad is to re ceive the name Dallas. home with her baby by and by. suggest that anyone doubting the care of the babies In the nursery visit there the home Is always open to visitors and see the dainty, cooing babies cuddled close In the arms of the nurses or quietly sleeping In the cozy beds, or follow Mrs. R. E. Bon-U her rounds through tho wards and see the little ones cling to her skirts and gather In her big. motherly arms and so form another Idea of the care received. One of the by-products of this won. derful Institution Is the fact that each year dozens of young women, attract ed here because of their love for chil dren, go out equipped to care for their wn children and It Is no Idle prophecy that the Infant mortality in their future homes will be much lower because of the training here. Here, too, they will have learned much of the dignity and responsibility of motherhood. ADA WALLACE UNRUH. Here la n Golf Story. Edinburgh Scotsman. "Father." gald little Rollo, "what Is meant by 'a Sabbath day's journey'?" "I am afraid, my son, that in too many cat us it means twice arojud ttc golf uaks," When Coroner Acta Aa Sheriff. SCOTTS MILLS. Or.. Dee. 13 (To the Editor.) If the sheriff commits a murder the corcrner Is the person that arrests him. If he commits any other crime who can arrest him? GRACE DUNAGAN. When the sheriff is a party to any action, suit of proceeding, the process therein which It would otherwise be the duty of the sheriff to execute Is executed by the coroner, except In Instances where both are partners or the coroner Is absent, and in other similar instances the court may ap point a person denominated an elisor to perform such duties. CHII.DKKVS WISH IS FOR DOO I'.lKht Utile Ones Ak for I'lnjmntc to Take Place uf Poor Ilrnd Foxy. HILLSBt)RO, Or., Dec. 1. (To the Editor.) We are writing to you be cause you caught brumfllld and mam ma says your paper Is the best and Papa does to becaus he says it does things. Someboody polsend Foxy and Pearl and old sophle. Foxy Is our little dog and he was so smart pearl and old sophle were cats. We dont care so orfull much about the cats but It dont seem like we can live with out Foxy mamma saise matiy there was dogs In Portland fnal some one didn't want if we only know of them. So John said lets write to The Ore gonian we have got some money ws were going to get candy for Christ mas with It but we will give you half of it If you will print this and half we will give to some one that has a little dog they would send us wo want only a very little dog so mamma win let ua keep it In tha house and no one can poison it papa works for the Oregon Nursery Co and the other men are so nice to us they gave us a Christmas present and we would have been Just the happcy est If we only had Foxy. We will all give you what we have got and we will always be your frelnd and when we are big we will always take The Oregonian. n MAROAHKT K1HS. age 1J. KltNEST KIHS, age 10. JOHN" K I US, ( . ANNA KIHS, age 7. V. EDWARD KIHS, ago . HENRY K1HH. age I. MABEI. KIHS, ago 1, 11 m"S. ALFRED KIHS, age J-mo. R. No. 4. Box 125. cornAtK ii.v h uoi.ona. Any boat can leave the harbor With Its colors flying high. Sailing on the shining water Underneath a clear, blue aky. But the one that makeg tho voyage Weathering gules and tempests vile Mastering old Ocean's tantrums Is the only one worth while. And a boy can go from college With credentials by the mile, But the one that wins life's battles Is the one who proves worth while. OLIVE MABEL BALTIMORE. Sunday (.olf la Jiidtrcit. Birmingham Age-Herald. "Do you think it s'nful to play golf on Sunday?" "No," said Mr. Wadiclsh. "1 don't. But if a man only plays golf once a week his game is ap; to be a I erUaa," . Duty of Harder Board. PORTLAND, Det. 14. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly publish the names of the state board of barber examiners. Is It their duty to enforce the law regarding sanitary barber shops and see that all men who work at the trade as barbers have the proper cer tlflcatesT A READER. Lee Canfield, president. Salem; C. It. Kelly, treasurer,, and Roy Neer, sec retary, 86 Broadway, Portland. It i the duty Ot the board to prescribe the qualifications of barbers, lnspeot all barber shops, examine and license barbers, revoke licenses for cause. register barbers and apprentices and aejaist In enforcing the barber laws. I)ny of Enrlleat Sunset. PORTLAND, Dec. 14. (To the Edi tor.) Wlurt day In December, 1921, does the sun set tho earliest In Ore gon? This in order to settle a dis pute. E. D. December 3 to December 16, Inclu sive, are the days of earliest sunset, the time varying less than one minute throughout that period. On the short est day of the year the sun sets later by two to three minutes than during the first two Weeks of December. The day Is shorttned by the time of sunrise, which is If minules later on iDecvmber 21 than on December 2. i : i