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A BBOADEB CIIKISTMAS BPIBIT.
Circumstance has robbed us of a
Christmas privilege. It is the priv
ilege of pointing a moral with re
vival of the tale of Ebenezer
Scrooge old Scrooge that "squeez
ing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
clutching, covetous old sinner," who
was changed to a worthy, kindly man
by Christmas eve experiences under
guidance of spirits.. Circumstance,
we say, has robbed us, for why
should one lecture on old Scrooge
when the unregenerated spirit of
Scrooge cannot be detected in our
midst?
Here we are in a time of unem
ployment, a time when there is un
doubted misery in many homes and
the hardly lesser misery in many
others, caused by des-pair over
whence shall come the small gifts
that a pleasing fancy ascribes to the
beneficence of Santa Claus. Such is.
or was, the time, the condition. But
a dozen organizations are at work to
provide that this shall be a Christ
mas without want, and it is whis
pered that, large though be the need,
the spirit of benevolence and good
will is larger. Some organizations
have made provision for their entire
list. Some are even taking the
names of willing givers with the plan
ot making of this more than a one
day Christmas. Doubtless there are
families who have wrapped them
selves In the pride of poverty and
will be forlorn because their condi
tion is unknown or because they
would not receive help if it were of
fered. But all who are known
and are receptive will partake of the
Christmas spirit.
Happy, happy circumstance that
has prevented an annual lecture on
the Joy of giving. Why, we know of
a man who has always said that
Christmas makes him tired. But yes
terday he gave $5 to" a shivering
small boy who wr.s ringing a bell
beside a Salvation Army kettle, and
he had to run away from a dog store
where he heard a little girl crying
for a puppy he had to run away for
fear he would buy one for her, and
he could tell by the mother's attitude
that she did not approve of puppies.
So it happens that our moral this
Christmas eve must be founded on
another tale than that of the squeez
ing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
clutching, covetous old Scrooge. But
we shall not have to seek another
author than Dickens to find it. There
Is the story of Gabriel Grubb. Gabriel
Grubb. if you remember your Pick
wick Papers, "was an ill-conditioned,
cross-grained, surly fellow, a morose
and lonely man, who consorted with
nobody but himself and an old
wicker bottle which fitted into his
large deep waistcoat pocket, and who
eyed each merry face with such a
deep scowl of malice and ill humor
as It was difficult to meet without
feeling something the worse for it."
Gabriel Grubb was the village sexton
and grave digger, no wealthy, grasp
ing miser, who shared not his means
with the unfortunate, but a morose
and melancholy man, who could
think of no better way to raise his
spirits than to dig a grave on Christ
mas eve. Laughter of the children
at their Christmas games brought no
reflected mirth to Gabriel, but onlj
the consoling thought of measles,
scarlet fever, thrush and whooping
cough.
It Is a long story, folks, but when
Gabriel paused in his work to "Ho!
Ho!" over the grim receptacle he
was preparing for a Christmas box,
the goblins got him. Ah, those gob
lins! Haw they jibed at him and
taunted him, played leap frog over
the tombstones until he shivered with
terror, and then plunged him down
through to the earth to their cavern!
The visions shown to Gabriel
Grubb were many, and after each
one all the goblins fell to kicking
him In the back. What these visions
revealed were that "men who worked
hard and earned their scanty bread
with lives of labor were cheerful and
happy, and that to the most Ignorant
the sweet face of nature was a never
falling source of cheerfulness and
Joy. He saw those who had been
delicately nurtured and tenderly
brought up cheerful under priva
tions and superior to suffering that
would have crushed many of a
rougher grain, because they bore
within their own bosoms the ma
terials for happiness, contentment
and peace. Above all, he saw that
men like himself, who snarled at
mirth and cheerfulness of others,
were the foulest weeds on the fair
surface of the earth; and, setting all
the good things of the world against
the evil, he came to the conclusion
that It was a very decent and re
spectable sort of world after all."
There were skeptical souls even in
those days of known witchcraft who
said that Gabriel Grubb had drunk
too deeply from the wicker bottle,
had fallen asleep on a cold tomb
stone and that the pains In his back
from which he always thereafter
suffered came not from the kicklngs
of goblins, but from rheumatism. In
short, that it was all a dream. But
Gabriel Grubb was a changed man.
The moral we would like to point
Is that Christmas is not alone a time
for the giving of material things, nor
a day solely conceived for the pleasure
of children: Our Gabriel Grubbs are
not only those who are sour of spirit,
but those wno are selfish in their
pleasures who, figuratively, drink
by themselvea ou Christmas eve !
without a thought of those who,
though not suffering for creature
comforts, are miserable for want of
companionship. There is no lone
liness so poignant as the loneliness of
Christmas. There are families whose
every member is a Gabriel Grubb,
whose doors are closed to all but
themselves, whose windows beam
forth no welcome to the ones who
are separated from kith and kin,
whose fires and radiant Christmas
trees convey no pleasure but to
themselves.
It is a very decent and respectable
sort of world wo are sure of that.
The response to the call of material
misfortune reveals that its heart Is
right even though its conception of
true benevolence may be restricted.
There is other cheer than food and
fuel and children's toys. It Is the
cheer of brotherly interest and com
panionship, a thing that many, many
miss and only admit in the seclusion
of four walls and with the tears that
recollections of the home that once
was bring forth with scalding rush.
WHAT If AYS IS DOIN'O.
"Postmaster-General Hays," re
marks an up-state democratic news
paper, "is about to quit politics, so it
is said, and become head of a motion
picture corporation at $100,000 a
year. Who will care for the faithful
party workers now?"
Not Hays' successor, if he follows
In the footsteps of the late national
republican chairman, become postmaster-general
and by some miracle
of new light and leading also be
come the most outspoken foe of the
spoils system and steadfast friend of
the deserving postal employe, what
ever his politics, the department has
yet seen. It is capable of proof by
the record that when Hays, the poli
tician, became postmaster-general,
politics was left outside the door.
Deserving republicans must take
their turn and show their fitness
before they can get anywhere with
Postmaster-General Hays. It is a sad
sfory, which any politician, anxious
to "turn the rascals out," will tell
with tears in his eyes.
Here is a paragraph from the postmaster-general's
annual report:
Thin more or less prevalent opinion mm to
the alleged perfect propriety of the proatl
tutlnn of the great postal service has ha
no geographical limits, either political or
physical. It haa been a long fight to go aa
far as we have In the elimination of poll
ttca In the classified service, the old fight
of proficiency against piunder. of service
Bgainst fcpolla. It may be a fight to keen
what has been accomplished. If so. It must
be made. It Is still a long pull before
there can be an entire elimination of poll,
tics In the appointment of presidential
postmasters.
Mr. Hays Is not one of that class
who "keep the word of promise to
our ear and break it to our hope,
He talks, but he acts.
WHERE THE SHRINKAGE IS.
We became so accustomed to read
ing big totals of foreign trade during
the boom war years that an apparent
decrease of three billion dollars in
the last fiscal year creates an lm
pression of calamity to our Indus
tries. Dr. Julius Klein of the com
merce department puts the facts In
their true proportion when he states
them in tons instead of dollars. In
weight, exports of raw materials in
creased 34 per cent and of food 37
per cent in 1921 over 1920, while
such part of manufactures as can be
shown In weight decreased only 4
per cent. As to articles forming 69
per cent in value of our exports,
there was an increase of 23 per cent
in quantity, though their value de
creased 19 per cent. Lower prices,
not diminished quantity, have de
creased the total of foreign trade.
Then why trade depression and
unemployment? Probably because
the fall of prices has been uneven.
has hit the farmer hardest of all and
has half paralyzed other entire in
dustries. It has thus enormously
decreased the purchasing power of
all the agricultural population and
of the people engaged in the other
industries affected. Bstimates of
foreign sales by economists range
from 7 to 10 per cent of total sales,
foreign and domestic combined, and
Dr. Klein tells us that this part of
the total has not decreased in vol
ume. Then we mus seek the main
cause of depression in shrinkage of
domestic sales. It must consist in
the decreased buying power of
farmers and other hard-hit indus
tries. The home market Is the mainstay
of our prosperity, and it will remain
good while the American people are
able to buy from one another In
normal quantises. If the fall of
prices in the last year had been sub
stantially equal for all commodities.
he buying power of the nation would
not have been sensibly diminished,
for cheaper sales would have been
compensated by cheaper purchases.
But when the products of practically
the entire agricultural industry, com
prising between 0 and 60 per cent
of our population, depreciate far
below the cost of production, and
when large parts of them are un
salable, while commodities that
farmers must buy are far less de
preciated, a great shrinkage in our
domestic consuming power Is created
which could be made good by no
Increase of sales abroad that can
reasonably be expected.
GIVING BAIL.
A moral Issue is Involved in the
request made by a New York judge
that professional bonding concerns
refrain from furnishing bonds for
applicants whose criminal records
clearly indicate that they are un
worthy of trust. The fact Is that,
although it is the design of the law
that the accused shall not be com
pelled to suffer undue restraint until
he has been convicted, in practice
the furnishing of bonds to well
known criminals by concerns which
have been previously "Indemnified'
operates only as a license to crime
by making a division of the offend
er's ill-gotten gains.
It can be said in behalf of some
of the bonding companies that they
are beginning to refuse bonds for re
peated offenders, but the obligation
rests upon others as well. The New
York Judge points out that the prac
tice frequently turns loose on society
men who already have proved a
menace to It, and that it not only
leaves them free to ply their trade,
but also gives them an incentive for
particularly active work. "So far as
this court Is able." saye the Judge,
'it will break up the practice of
bonding professional criminals to
carry on their occupations."
The recent crime wave, with its
large numbers of old offenders, has
shown that there Is still room for
reform in the system of punishing
yeggs, pickpockets and other unre
tormable professional dangerous
men. The parole, with Its laudable
design to furnish every man with a
chaneo to repent and start life over '
again. Is misapplied when it la ex- 1
tended to those who time after time
thow, their chances away, flout the
very tenderness to which they owe
their freedom and betray every trust
reposed In them. The sooner It it
understood that there is such a thing
as criminal-mindedness and that
citizens who do not have' criminal
minds are entitled to consideration,
the sooner a large factor in the crime
wave problem will be solved.
FEEDING HUNGRY BCS8IANS.
The objection made by a corre
spondent to the appropriation for
relief of Russian famine sufferers,
that it Is "to feed a bunch of bol
sheviks," Is wide of the facts and
betrays lack of understanding of the
spirit In which the money is given.
It is to be expended by the American
Relief association in saving from
starvation the millions of people in
the famine area of Russia. The
funds of that association have been
raised by private subscription and
are so far short of the immense need
that the agents confine their minLs
trations to children. Not only that;
they are forced to choose those who
are likely to live through the win
ter, leaving the others to die. The
sum voted by congress will help to
save all the children and the adult?
as well. This is an act of simple
humanity, for which no right-
minded American would grudge a
dollar.
The people to be fed are not bol
shevlsts; they are victims of bolshev
ism in the first instance, then of a
calamity famine. The bolshevists
robbed them of their stock of food
last winter. Then followed the
drought which destroyed the crop
that they expected to reap last sum
mer. Americans who have visited
the Volga valley testify that the peo
ple detest Bolshevism and that not
more than one in four of those who
hold office under the soviet gov
ernment are actually bolshevists.
The Oregonlan does not believe
that a single ex-service man will be.
deprived of a meal by the gift of this
money to the Russian people. If it
should prove to be so, and if any
former soldier of the United States
should find himself called upon to
choose between eating a slice of
bread and giving it to a starving
Russian child, he would give it to
the child. That Is the spirit in which
Americans served in the war.
LIGHT ON BUSSIAN DARKNESS.
Though famine has been brought
to Russia by the murderous folly of
Its government, Americans forget
that and remember only that hun
dreds of thousands are dying, when
their congress votes money to send
food and seed to the Volga region.
Such a catastrophe forbids thought
of who is responsible and turns the
mind of every humane person to
saving of life. Voting of $20,000,000
by congress will be approved as a
proper display of the Christmas
spirit on behalf of the American
people. No doubt will be enter
tained that the fund will be well
administered by the American Relief
association under the direction of
Herbert Hoover.
Signs multiply that the Volga
famine marks tha darkest hour be
fore dawn for Russia. Lenin and
his associates fastened their hope of
success for their communist experi
ment on a general revolution which
should bolshevlze the world. Their
Invasion of Poland in 1920 was the
last effort to overthrow capitalism
by force of arms. The red army
had already been beaten when the
third international Issued the twen
ty-one demands to the socialist and
communist parties of ail countries.
acceptance of which would have en
rolled all of them in a great revolu
tionary conspiracy directed from
Moscow to overturn every existing
government. That plan also failed,
Though the reds won decisions In
conventions In France, Germany and
several smaller countries, this action
caused large secessions, and the
vigor of the police broke up their
organization. The danger of revolu
tion setting up a communist dictator
ship is past.
Bolshevism was thus driven back
on Russia itself to feed on a country
which it had wrecked. Revolt In a
new form appeared. Workmen de
manded that their unions be freed
from dictation of the Soviet's com
missars and Lenin's fanaticism
yielded to policy so far that he won
this freedom for them against the
opposition of Trotzky. Last winter
there was a great revival of religion,
hosts of people led by priests with
ikons marching through the cities
to the churches and forcing red
guards" to show respect for their
sacred symbols. The reds for a time
quailed before this display of defiant
misery. A last forced requisition of
food In the Volga region drove the
peasants to revolt, which was sup
pressed with the usual savagery, and
they were robbed even of seed grain
to feed the starving cities. Trotzky
and his red army never flinched be
fore revolt, for they crushed it ruth
lessly in Petrograd, Moscow and
Kronstadt.
But communism 'had to confess
that It could not produce food, fuel
or materials for manufacture, for it
could not drive peasants or workmen
to work. The soviet began an at
tempt to compromise with capitalism
by granting concessions, but it held
out for control of workmen for a
share of the product and for inter
ference with operations, and capital
did not take the bait. It made trade
agreements with Great Britain, Ger
many, Italy and other countries, but
little was Imported beyond clothing
for "the red army and locomotives
and cars. Unable to feed the people,
It restored freedom to buy and sell
In contravention of the basic prin
ciples of communism, and substi
tuted a food tax in kind for requisi
tions. Reaction to normal conditions of
life was thus begun, and the famine
gave it irresistible Impetus. Drought
in all southeastern provinces reduced
to starvation a population estimated
between 25,000.000 and 35,000,000,
whose grain bins had been emptied
by the red raiders during the win
ter. The wreck of the railroads
could not carry the surplus of other
provinces to the famine area, and
hungry miners ' could not mine
enough coal for the engines, while
the oil supply fell so low that Volga
steamers ran short of fuel. The only
hope of saving those millions lay in
foreign relief, which would be given
only under foreign control, with free
movement and communication for
relief agents. Nations would give
help on condition only that prisoners
of their nationality be released and
that revolutionary propaganda be
abandoned. While the third inter
national proclaimed that Its propa
ganda was suspended, not abandoned,
tha course of events tends bo atrnrie-lit
away from it as to render its re-
sumption impossible. ' Surrender of
communism is practically complete,
and the soviet survives only by re
turn to the economic system to
destroy which it has wrecked Russia,
How positive is the reaction is
indicated by the writer of a recent
letter from Petrograd, from which
excerpts are:
Business Is In the air: the cry Is "en
rfchlsses vous" (enrich yourself). Busi
ness is moving quickly, especially in Mob
cow. One enterprise after another Is re
vivtnf in the form of co-operative associa
tions. The peasants have Improved their
condition, they are building, they eat bet.
ter and they are increasing their livestock
Their demand for manufactured goods li
rrowlnr. and for that reason they wll
have to produce more themselvea All
sorts of people have gone Into the country
from the towns, and they hsve brought
new interests and demands Into the vil
lage. The old patriarchal muzhik Is be
coming a modern farmer. Many govern
ment Institutions are being closed down
and conseauentlv there Is wide unemploy
ment, which creates a reserve army of
labor for the enterprises that are now aris
ing. Inequality Is Increasing: some are
automatically growing rich, others are au
tomatically growing poorer. There is
extraordinary demand for paper money In
the villages. The peasant prefers to spend
money as he thinks fit. and he knows
what he wants and where to get It. There
are faint slcna of a revival of lournalism.
There is a Process of movement and
change.
Russia's revolution has entered
on a phase parallel to that of the
first French revolution, when the
people, sickened with blood, executed
the terrorists and deposed the guillo
tine. It would be dangerous to at
tempt a prediction of its course, but
evidently the huge economic vacuum
has been opened and Russia has re
sumed intercourse with the world.
That is an indispensable step in eco
nomic restoration of Europe.
THE WOMAN CONGRESSMAN.
In many respects Miss Alice
Robertson, the only woman member
of congress, is a peculiar and force
ful character. Strangely enough
she was not a suffrage leader, but
was outspoken against the methods
of the suffrage extremists. In the
house she vigorously opposed the
Sheppard - Towner maternity bill,
which had the support of all the
leading women's organizations. She
said that the bill was an unwar
ranted infringement on state rights,
and that it would do a good deal less
to help the mothers of the country
than to make more jobs for bureau
crats In Washington. She declines
to support a bill permitting women
to retain their maiden names after
they are married. She says that she
was not elected to represent the
women of the second district of
Oklahoma, but all the people, and
she has aroused much opposition
among her own sex.
Now that she has announced her
candidacy for renomination we may
look for fireworks in Oklahoma
The Oklahoma suffrage organization
is more than ordinarily militant and
Miss- Robertson has drawn the fire
of those national organizations which
want to perpetuate the sex issue and
which assert that the fight for rights
of women has only begun. She In
tensified the opposition of the radi
cals the other day by asserting that
the country must look to the men,
rather than to the women, to end
war and that women are funda
mentally Just as belligerent as men.
and 89 likely to insist on their rights
to the point ot open conflict, in
this she is a,t least supported by the
by no means ancient example of the
militant suffragettes.
The situation In Oklahoma Is
therefore extremely likely to be
complicated by issues not heretofore
raised in party politics. It is already
plain that if she receives the nomi
nation it will not be as the candidate
of the women of the party. Will
the women of the state not included
in the women's organizations follow
her leadership or be guided by the
members of their own sex? Or will
the men rally to her support in
sufficient numbers to atone for the
disaffection in the women's ranks?
It seems that Oklahoma is in for a
campaign in which the question of
sex is going to be prominent either
way.
When Japan practically dares the
powers to question the validity of the
treaty of 1915 with China on the
ground that China signed under
compulsion, it has a strong position,
for everything that the powers have
obtained from China was extorted by
force or threats. The United States
is the only one with a clear record.
The sheriff of King county. Wash.
in which Seattle is situated, has
posted an order forbidding profanity
by his deputies. What the sheriff
doesn't seem to realize is that
conditions iu Seattle require a little
profanity.
Sometimes in peace the path of
duty leads to the grave. A lineman
patrolling a power wire in Nevada
died in a blizzard. Not a heroic
death, to be sure, but It records the
loss of a dependable man.
Jack Dempsey gives as a reason
for asking the cancellation of his
vaudeville contract that he's on the
verge of collapse. He's beginning to
get the same reaction as his audi
ences.
This astrologist who predicts such
dire' plagues for 1926 may have an
advance tip that William Jennings
Bryain will announce his candidacy
then for the 1928 election.
Does the modern boy with his
toys electrical get half the joy out
of them that the boy half a century
ago did with his monkey on a stick?
Tommy Swivel's Christmas tree
will be for children who otherwise
might not enjoy one. Mr. Swivel's
way of doing good is commendable.
Some men never will solve the
problem of what to give their wives.
An easy way out is to give her Xhe
money.
Federal and local courts are doing
some commendable cleaning up to
get the guilty into Jails before Christ
mas.
Let the rain do it, will be general
response to cniei J ennuis' sugges
tion to clear the walks.
Speaking of 'living" presents.
there's nothing exceeds the Christ
mas baby.
Chicago would enjoy fixing up a
Christmas tree for "Lucky Tommy"
O'Connor.
The man who knows nobody to
whom to give a present is hopeless.
One drink at Christmas Is worth
two at any other time.
Life seems to be one murder trial
alter another, ,
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE PBESS
Cornet Farm Form Outlined As la
Film riays,
Leslie's Weekly, visualizes life on
a farm as the movies would have it,
as follows:
Sitting on back ' porch watching
cows come home.
Going to well for drink from
bucket.
Laughing at stray pig stepping in
milk pan.
Keeping time to strains of "Old
Dan Tucker," played by hired man.
Frowning at city stranger, sus
pected of loving daughter.
Sitting on back porch, watching
mother feed a million chickens.
Stroking collie.
Going to well for drink from
bucket.
Warning city stranger (in side
boards, puttees and riding crop) to
"leave my little gal alone."
Sleeping In tipped arm-chair under
apple tree In full blossom.
Winding worsted muffler about
throat (optional).
Unwinding muffler (optional).
Ordering daughter out into the
storm.
Cursing city stranger.
Ignore crops, with possible excep
tion of hayi Bring in one load of
latter.
Go to well "for drink from bucket.
Mop brow with back of hand.
.
Now that aluminum has become
available In any desired quantity. Its
use in electric installations, especially
for long distance conductors of elec
tric power, is rapidly increasing.
This is particularly true In the United
States, according to the Kansas City
Star. It Is a kind of poetic Justice,
so one expert points out, that it
should render this service, for it
owes its own rapid advance in ine
Industrial world to electric , methods
of production.
For equal conductivity only half
the weight of aluminum Is required
that would be required if copper
were used. The price of aluminum.
Just before the war, fell to about the
same rate per ton as that of copper.
When copper only was used, the
average span between poles support
ing conductors was 75 feet. This has
been extended since the adoption of
aluminum to 11214 feet. The maxi
mum span of an aluminum conductor
is across the Niagara river 2192
feet. Experiments have been under
way for some time to increase the
tensile strength of aluminum conduc
tors by alloying the metal with a
little copper.
WInfleld R. Sheehan, a star reporter
on Park Row, who Is now the busi
ness executive head of the Fox film
organization, has started a fad among
executives who work at top speed
that threatens to put a crimp In the
New York luncheon business, says
the Atlanta Constitution. Sheehan
recently installed a shower bath In
his spacious offices. Instead of
dashing out and gulping down a
luncheon he takes a refreshing
shower, and is full of vim for the
remainder' of the day's grind. Down
In Wall street plumbers are now in
stalling shower baths in the offices
of eight big financiers. No man can
work on a newspaper very long with
out having Ideas. The man without
Ideas simply doesn't last.
"What do you think of American
speed?" a newspaper correspondent
asked a member of the French, dele
gation. "Does It live up to Its repu
tation?" "Ah yes!" was the answer.
"Eet Iss all eet lss said to be. Ze
prayer of Mistaire Abernathy, for
eenstance, opening ze conference
Eet was printed and geeven out een
advance, so zat It reeched ze news
papers eeven before eet reeched
God!" Capper's Weekly.
Nearly S000 cars of California
grapes were shipped to New York
during October, finds tha Los Angeles
Times. Most of these brought around
$15 a hundred pounds and were pur- j
chased for wine-making in the home.
There were many profits between the
producer and consumer, but. at that,
the grower received about $100 a ton.
In the old days If he got $25 a ton
from the neighboring winery he was
In great luck. It is estimated that
the California grapes sent to New
York during October alone will make
6,000,000 gallons of the mild wines
used at the table by the foreign popu
lation of the great city. The grape
growers of the Pacific coast will be
able to hold out for a few seasons
longer at the present rate.
A perfectly serious attack has
lately been made on nursery rhymes
In general and "Hey-diddle-dlddle the
cat and the fiddle" in particular. Ap
parently they are too silly for the
modern nursery. As a matter of fact.
many nursery rhymes have quite a
serious origin as political squibs. And
they survive precisely on account of
the Jingling qualities to which the re
formers object. It is a pity the re
formers themselves do not try to pro
duce verses that show an equal
genius for rhyme and rhythm instead
of crusading against nonsense. Im
agine a nursery without nursery
rhymes or fairy stories or only with
fairy stories rewritten according to
communism, as.. the bolsheviks have
proposed! Imagine a world without
nonsense! No Edmund Lear! No
Alice in Wonderland!" .Nothing but
blue books and moral tales for chil
dren and grown-ups! An intolerable
prospect. London Daily Express.
The occupants of the parlor car of
the limited were startled by the
abrupt entrance of two masked ban
dits. "T'row up yer hands," com
manded the bigger of the two. "We're
gonna rob all the gents and kiss all
the gals."
No, pardner," responded the small
er one gallantly, "We'll rob all" the
gents but we'll leave the ladies
alone."
'Mind your own business, young
fellow," snapped a female passenger
of uncertain age. "The big man's
robbing this train." Argonaut.
9 ,
Current Fare.
Had your iron?
Had your yeast?
Had your sulphur?
Quite a feast.
Keeps one busy
When he dines
, Picking up his
Vitamines.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Considered In dollars, Germany's
financial deficit is staggering to the
ordinary man, but written In paper
marks It would almost overwhelm an
astronomer.- Chicago Daily Newav
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
The habit of buying bonds was
formed by thousands of Americans
of modest Income during the period
of the world war with its liberty loan
drives. Through these patriotic cam
paigns a tomall avrmy of men and
women, anj even boys and girls, be
came Interested and educated In mat
ters of bonds and finance. As a re
sult of the present financial con
ditions existing throughout the coun
try, there is a great demand for
both foreign and domestic bonds, ac
cording to Guy L V. Emerson, repre
sentative of a large bond house in
Chicago. "Outside of the farming
states money conditions are Improv
ing," said Mr. Emerson yesterday.
"Another encouraging sign is the
noticeable revival in the building
Industry, and greater activity In this
line by spring is generally predicted
in the east. Industrial plants of all
sorts are slowly but surely recover
ing from the long depression of the
reconstruction period after the war.
In the last three months there has
been a decided increase in the de
mand for good foreign bonds as Invest
ments. This shows confidence in other
nations, and may be based somewhat
on the success of the conference on
limitation of armaments, which has
demonstrated that the great powers
can get together and discuss tre
mendous problems in harmony." Mr
Emerson is registered at the Mult
nomah.
People do not go to the movies as
often as they used to. and as a result
a period of depression now grips the
box offices of motion picture theaters
in all parts of Oregon and Wash
ington, according to Lou Rosenberg.
Junior partner of the DeLuxe Film
company of Seattle, who returned to
Portland a few days ago from an ex
tensive tour of the northwest terri
tory. "Business Is poor nearly every
where for the theater men." he said
yesterday. "It has been a bad season
not only for the film houses but for
the touring road companies. Even the
stauncheet film fans seem to have
cut down on this form, of amusement.
Most people haven't much money now.
and those who have It are somewhat
cautious about spending. Film exhibi
tors are unable to spend much money
for pictures, which makes things un
pleasant for the film salesmen who
are stocked up with a line of feature
productions. The present slump eeetns
worse than It really Is because It fol
lows a period of great prosperity,
when huge profits were made in all
branches of the moving picture indus
try. Theater men feel that good times
will return In the spring, not later
than April, and are making every ef
fort to last through the winter." Mr.
Rosenberg is registered at the Mult
nomah. From a tiny flour mill In Stockton.
Cal., In 1832, built to supply pioneer
miners and ranchers with their flour,
the Sperry Milling company has de
veloped Into one of the largest group
of flouring mills In the United States
and is strictly a Pacific coast industry,
according to Arthur Denny, manager
of the feed department, who is reg
istered at the Multnomah. In the early
days of the little Stockton mill, 15
years before the lure of gold brought
the "49ers to California, the old-fash
ioned French buhr stones were used
for a-rindlng. Now the various plants
of the company are furnished with
the most modern equipment and ma
chinery. The purpose of Denn's visit
Is to make a study of Oregon farm
districts. Ha Is enthusiastic over the
opportunities for the dairy Industry
and the feeding of beef cattle in this
stafe. "I have seen in Oregon some
of the finest dairy cattle and beef
cattle that can be found anywhere on
the Pacific coast," he said yesterday.
"Oregon should be proud of these
eplendid resources, and should not hes.
ltate to develop them."
The weather man Is decidedly "In
bad" with golf enthusiasts of the
northwest. He spoiled the biggest
treat In many years for followers of
the ancient Scottish pastime by pre
senting a brand of weather that made
playing out of the question for Jim
Barnes, open champion of the United
States, and Jock Hutchison, open
champion of Great Britain, who are
touring the country giving exhibi
tions. The champions were forced to
keep their clubs in the golf bags In
Seattle and Tacoma, where the links
were covered with snow. The snowy
greens and fairways of Portland
courses have also made It necessary
to cancel the appearance of the cham
pions In exhibitions here. Ray Mc
Carthy, golf writer of the New York
Tribune, who is managing the tour
of the two great players, arrived in
Portland yesterday. He reported that
golf was growing more popular In all
sections of the United States.
( To many an easterner the far west
is a. wild and woolly land inhabited
principally by cowboys, Indians and
all the other characters of early
western history. The easterner who
holds this weird impression also
speaks of Chicago as "way out west,"
and believes that the scenes in west
ern movie dramas are duplicated in
any Pacific coast city. Once a year
the progressive city of Pendleton be
comes a western town of the old iyj.
This is done through the Round-up,
which has become a big event In the
years affairs. H. W. Collins, presi
dent of the Pendleton Round-up asso
ciation. Is one of the workers behind
the Round-up and a prominent grain
man of eastern Oregon. Mr. Collins
registered at the Benson yesterday.
The modern version of the ancient
sport of wrestling is coming back
into popularity on the Pacific coast,
according to Walter Miller, wrestling
instructor of the Los Angeles Ath
letic club and recognized by most au
thorities as mlddlelweight champion
of the world. "The better class of
fans, wrestlers and promoters are
making every effort to rid wrestling
of the crooked element that killed in
terest In the sport," he said yester
day on his arrival at the Oregon from
Spokane, where he took part in a
match.
Condon, Or., was well represented
on the register of the Oregon yester
day by an expeditionary force of
Christmas shoppers attracted by the
holiday wares of Portland stores. The
list included G. W. Parman. W. B.
Concannon, Beatrice Weed, Elmer
Montague and Donald Weed. Life was
one wonderful thrill after another for
Elmer and Donald, a pair of lively
youngsters, who did their Christmas
shopping like veterans.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bledsoe, who
formerly owned and published the
Wallowa Sun, are at the Imperial
hotel. The Bledsoes have sold the
Sun and are planning to enter some
other line of business, but as both
are enthusiastic newspaper folk they
may get back into the old line before
long. They are In Portland for the
holidays.
William G. Tait, a banker of Med-
ford, and W. R La Londe. a lumber
man of Falls City, Or., were among
arrivals at the Portland yesterday.
Milton Mast of Missoula, Mont.,
marched merrily into the Benson yes
terday. Secret of Popularity Disclosed.
Life.
The trial of M. Landru, "the French
Bluebeard," discloses the fact that he
has had 283 fiances.
He must be one of those boys you
set. around summer resorts.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Ifonchton-Mlf flla to.
Can You Answer These Questions f
1. I have a small frog and am
making a pet of it. What shall I
feed it during the winter?
2. What Is the period of the cur
culio, and appearance of this beetle?
3. Will martins build where there
are three or four boxes close to
gether? Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. In what order do birds migrate
when going back south?
This is a point still being studied.
It Is believed that the birds whose
arrival comes latest in sprinsr. start
back earliest; while those that come
earliest in spring are the last to
start for the south. One of the full
est publications on migration is U. S.
department of agriculture bulletin.
No. 183, by W. W. Cooke.
2. When a bee stings, why does It
always leave Its sting in the flesh?
Practically always, because the
victim involuntarily Jerks back from
sudden pain, and snaps off the stinger
which is causht in the wound by the
barbed lancets that have pierced tlie
flesh. Experiments have been made
where a bee was allowed to sttng a
voluntary victim, who watched the
bee move carefully around until It
succeeded In withdrawing the, sting
ing apparatus.
3. How can I stop the leaves of my
Boston fern from turning brown at
the edges?
We fear you can't. Better cut them
out. and try to Improve the general
health of the plant. Hut this fern
is at Its best when young, and in
purchasing, a younu. prowing plant
will give better siitinfactlon than a
big more mature one. If fertilizer Is
used, feed it in snarinclv. for it burns
the roots. Keep the pot damp but not
soaking. Avoid sudden drops in
temperature. Keep a bowl of water
In the room to supply moisture to
air that Is constantly dried out by
artificial heating.
TILLAMOOK IIAIRYMKV PHOSPF.U
Organization Not Involved In Troubles
of Lraarue or frying Hard Tlmea.
TILLAMOOK. Or., Dec. 22. (To the
Editor.) We notice that In editorials
and In news items The Oregonlan
often speaks of the organized dairy
men of Oregon and the Oregon Dairy
men's league as being the same thing.
We wish you would except from such
statements the dairymen of Tillamook
county. We feel that Tillamook has
brought considerable fame to Oregon
on account of the reputation we have
made for Tillamook cheese. All this
has been done under organization. It
Is true that' we have worked in our
own way, but on the other hand we
would not care to have statements go
out all the time that all the organ
ized dairymen of Oregon have been
hard hit. We do not feci that way
about it at all.
Our production this year will show
an Increase of nearly half a million
pounds of cheese over lli0, whilo the
value of the cheese will be close to
$2,000,000. I might state that we have
paid our farmers around Tillamook
an average of 60 cents for October
butter fat. So we are not crying
hard times.
I might add that we get fine co
operation from the farmnrs here, as
nil realize that bet(er milk means still
better cheese. We have brought
every economy possible to bear in
manufacturing, selling cosls. etc.
hence our pepole obtain returns that
will permit the Industry to grow.
CAUL 11ABEIIUCI1, Secretary.
Worda and Knerary Are Wanted.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Is the boss In?" asked the vl.-ltor.
The office boy, with his chair tilted
back and his legs stretched out on a
desk, made no reply.
"I asked If the boss Is In," said the
Isltor.
The office boy g'nnced at him, but
remained silent. "Din't you hear im"'
snapped the visitor. '
"Of course. I heard you." answero"1
the boy scornfully.
"Then why the dickens didn't you
tell me if the boss is in?"
"Now, I ask you," retorted the hoy,
as he recrossed his legs on the desk,
"does it look like It?"
On Earth Peace, Good Will
Toward Men
A Yule-tide feature, for Christmas morning;, is a comprehensive
and interesting discussion of the great holiday and its origin, appear
ing on the title page of the Sunday magazine, with a beautiful
photographic illustration in colors. The history of Christmas is
ancient beyond the computations of the Christian era, for to this
festival in its observance have been drawn the customs and rites
of many peoples in the very dawn of history. An exceptionally
instructive article, that cannot fail to please and inform the reader.
Women Wlio Earn $10,000 a Year Her place in the home?
Someone else must be filling it, for the modern American business
woman asks no odds of the world of commerce and has proved,
indisputably, that her place is in the office. In the Sunday paper,
with illustrations, is a story by Hannah Mitchell. It tells of the
women who have succeeded, in almost every line of commercial
endeavor, from advertising to banking; of those feminine captains
of industry who have met their brothers in the tilting yard of
business and carried off the trophy. The magazine section, page 7w
Bare Your Back to Have It Beautiful Thus does science flirt
with fashion, for it is the solemnly asserted conviction of scientists
that you must bare your back to have it straight and beautiful. The
advice, of course, is directed to the feminine world. Moreover, to
help the cause of health and beautiful backs there is offered a reward
of ?1000 for the prettiest back, with scientists named as judges. We
shall see what we shall see, and pending the award must content
ourselves with a chatty article on health and bare backs, as told in
the Sunday issue.
"Dead," Divorced and Doesn't Remember It was in Corelli's
"Vendetta," wasn't it, that the dead husband returned in the flesh ?
Truth is as strange as fiction. There's a story from real life, in the
Sunday magazine section, of the most extraordinary experience
that of George L. Fish, capitalist, on whom fate played a weird
prank. Now he is honeymooning with his fiancee of the days before
the "cloud," and the story of his singular mishaps and their happy
termination is told.
Snow in the Pass A short story by Georgia Wood Panghorn, of
the bizarre Christmas that was borne in on the wings of storm and
peril the sort of story that one lingers over and reads again.
Hitherto unpublished, this eight-column masterpiece of fiction is
but one of the many procured by the Sunday editor for the maga
zine section.
Mystery of Our Missing Girls Presenting the second article,
complete in itself, of Mrs. Grace Humiston's narrative of lost girls,
who leave the old home town for the allure of the large cities and
never return. Mrs. Humiston, an attorney of national reputation,
is considered the highest authority on this baffling phase of Ameri
can life, and her narrative not only serves to discover the causes but
to declare the remedy. Serially in the Sunday issue.
AH the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGON IAN
Just Five Cents
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montastie.
PHILOSOPHIC DOI BT.
I wasn't good the whole year 'round;
1 did Just what I wanted to!
I'm eight years old now, and I've
found
Thnt Santa Claus ain't really true.
I'm pretty sorry for the boys
That think they won't get baseball
bats
Or 'lectrlc trains, or sleds and to"ys
Unless they're little sissy-cats.
I passed my teacher Just last week.
An' lost a bran nw big league ball;
I slapped my sister on the cheek.
Hut that don't worry me at all.
If I'd been bad a year ago.
My colly! I'd be in a fright.
I'd net to thinking, and I know
I'd never go to sleep all night.
It's nice to feel that what you've
done
Ain't held acainst you any more.
And you can have all kinds uf fun
"Without nobody siettin' sore.
It makes no difference to me
If I've not acted like a saint.
For Santa Claus ain't hero to
Or anyhow I hope he ain't.
see
But golly! now It's Christmas eve,
An' I am up here wldo awako,
I'm not so Hiiro that 1 believe
That Santa Claus is just a fale.
The things I've done if ho just
knew !
I'm awful worried Oh, Gee Whlzll
I want to think he isn't truo . . .
But I'm a goner If he Is!
The HootleKB-rr'a Slogan.
Business as Boosouall.
Excellent C hoice.
We hope Postmaster General Hays
accepts that movie offer. The photo
play business needs more men of
letters in it.
Needful.
A good many peoplo want an open
j l",'' r l,is country meaning
an onen cellar door.
(C'oi'jriBht by the Hull Syndicate, Inc.)
Four Lorarest Stntea.
GRESIIAM. Or., Pec. 22. (To the
Editor.) Could you give me the pop
ulation of the four largest states in
the union, and also the population of
Oklahoma City. Okla?
Fit El) V. ZIMMERMAN.
New York, 10.S84.144; Pennsylvania,
8,720,150; Illinois, 6,485,098; Ohio,
5.750.36S. Oklahoma City, 81,258.
That llnaalan Hrllrf Fund.
DOR EN A, Or., Dec. 21. (To the
Editor.) Our congress must have a
queer Idea of the fitness of things,
voting JJO.OOU.OflO to feed a bunch of
hnlsheviks. and thousands of ex-serv
ice men and their families in need of J
aid. It Is to be hoped they will re
member when It comes time to vote.
FRANK MclNTYRE.
I.orstlnn of Revolver Factory.
YAKIMA. Dec. 21. (To the Editor.)
Please Inform me what state and
town the United States Revolver cora
puny factory is in. E. S. TAYLOR.
Fitchhurg, Mass.
OI.O-T1MK KIIIEMW.
As Christmas Joys como and the Tuls
logs burn,
Llchtlnir mi the walls of holly and
fern,
I turn back the leaves of time's rapid
flight
And think of my good old-time friends
tonight;
Many are gono whom memory holds
dear
And the thought of their love adds to
in y cheer,
Those who remain have my love and
good will.
With kindness and love they beckon
me still.
All hall to my friends, "yc auld lang 4
sync,"
Who gave to my heart a world ot
sunshine.
Warm grasp of the hand, kind glance
, of the eye,
Tho smile of the lips and the fond
"good-bye."
With my old-time friends I never will
Part,
Their laughter and smiles go direct
to my heart;
All golden their lives in Christ, tha
divine.
My choicest friends, theso old-time
friends of mine.
D. A. WATTERS.