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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1921
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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.
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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.
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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.
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