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THE MOliMxNG OltEtiOXiAX, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1022 ttornrnjof (Sxtgmxtm utab;isueo sv henry i pittock. Prbllshed by Tin i regonlsn Publishing; Co, lii feixth Kttier. 1'orUand. umua. C. A. Al'JRDEX, E. B. PlPltR. lluutt. Kuuor. The Orvsonla.i 1a a member of the Asso c'ated Press. Tib Associated Press la ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dlspatr.i.ea credited to It or not o'herwue credit-a In this paper and also he. local newa p-joitshed herein. All rights rf publication of fecial dispatches herein ara also reserve!. Subscription Kate Invariably in Advance. . . Mail. Pally, Sanday Induied, one year $S tin I'tlly, Sunday inciuled. six months ... 4 21 I" aily, dundy included, three months.. S.2S I'aily, jjr.day !n-juied. one month.. .73 I ally, w-thout S';cay. one year .O0 Jaily, wl-hout Sun-Uy. six months .... I.. J 'ally, wihout S jauay. one month 0 ekly, one yer 1.00 Sunday, 'l e year 2.3. (Bv Carrier. 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Many men women, too delight in encouraging violation of the pro hibition amendment to the federal constitution by buying liquor from men who make rich profits out of this unlawful traffic. They and many others treat the amendment and the Volstead law as good subjects for jest In cartoons, songs, smart say ings on the stage, in anecdotes of hoodwinking the law. Do these peo ple ever think of what they are actually doing, of the sure conse quences of their conduct to their country and themselves? Like it or not, the prohibition amendment is the supreme law of the land, made so in the manner provided by the people's chosen rep resentatives when they drew up the constitution. That amendment is as much a part of the constitution as any other of its articles, by which the sanctity of our lives, our homes and our liberties is secured. By setting it at naught in order that they may enjoy the exhilaration of a drink, with the added stimulus of having outwitted the law, men In effect tear a hole in the constitu tion and weaken the whole structure. They provide a plausible pretext for other men te defy other provisions which touch them far more nearly than does the ban on enjoyment of an occasional drink of hard liquor, to tear more holes until the consti tution might become a tattered rag, reduced to a scrap of paper, not by a rnilitary autocrat, but by the very people whose forefathers fought to establish It. Patrons of the bootlegger are usually men of means, for no other could habitually buy whisky at $10 a quart: therefore, by inference, they are men of standing in their respective communities and men o! property. To put the matter on no higher ground than that of personal material self-interest, they have a decided stake in general observance of and respect for the law to which they look for security if their lives and possessions: Yet by their con duct they have helped to build up a great criminal organization and have tempted to Join it many young men who would not think of breaking any other law, but who regard sur reptitious, unlawful traffic in liquor as a venial offense, made attractive by a spice of risk and adventure and by large profits. But descent into crime of all kinds Is easy after the first step is made. The bootlegger yields to the tempta tion to steal an automobile, if temptation offers. If an officer of the law pursues him he may shoot and lucome a murderer, though he oftener buys Immunity from arrest by bribery. His illicit trade throws him Into association with the under world, his respect for the law Is un dermined, his appetite for easy money Is whetted and he too often becomes an all-around criminal. His customers being in a sense his ac complices, they feel an obligation to help him In escaping punishment or getting off with a fine, and their protection may be claimed when the crime Is more serious than boot legging. 'Thus good, solid citizens who like their liquor become secret outposts of a criminal organization. Much has been said of the epi demic of crime that is attributed to the passions and disorders engen dered by war. It is the duty of every man and woman, by their own con duct, to combat this epidemic with an example of scrupulous respect for law, yet many whose education and Interests should make them its staunchest upholders spread this epidemic by swelling the profits of those who have the disease and who spread It. They should know that each citizen cannot be allowed to pick and choose which laws he will obey and which he will defy, for others will tear out of their self made code the laws against mur der, other forms of violence and all forms of robbery and will point to the example of men who think It a joke to buy the bootlegger's whisky. That way lies anarchy. The Oregonian feels the more free to make these observations be cause It opposed prohibition while the question was Mill open, denying its wisdom for reasons many of which have proved sound. But the rule of the majority is the essence of democracy and of the constitu tion In which that principle is em bodied. No course is open to the good citizen but to submit to that will In the case of prohibition. Many sincerely believe that this law Is unjust and unduly infringes on their personal liberty. If they are good Americans the only course open to them is to submit, in fact, to help enforcement of the law. If it be a bad law, as they believe, the results will be the most convincing argu ment for Its repeal or amendment. They are as free to urge that policy as the prohibitionists were to urge banishment of liquor; but unless and until they win they should refuse any aid to those 'who defy the pro hibition law, lest they destroy the laws which they most wish to pre serve. The Kvenlng Telegram, which was member of The Oregonian family from its birth In the '70s until It started out In life for Itself in 19H, about to have a new home. It ill be :i building on upper Wash- jngiou btrett, especially designed and constructed for the newspaper, and it will have all the facilities of a modern plant. Under the owner ship and management of Messrs. J. K. and U U. Wheeler, the Tele gram has been and ts an active force in all community and state affairs a live and healthy newspaper. It has prospered according to its de serts, and its location in a building: all Its own is a renewed Bign that it is here to stay and the quality of permanence is the greatest asset of any newspaper. The Oregonian is heartily pleased with the Tele gram's evident success. FFKIFYIXO THE SENATE. The United States senate is jealous of its prestige, its dignity and its power so we were told the other day by Mark Sullivan. It ha9 lost nothing, but has gained, by the ac cession of the new senator from Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pep per, a lawyer of distinction, an emi nent citizen who takes his public duties seriously and performs them with great diligence and effective ness. Governor Sproul, who might have taken the place himself, and whose eligibility for It is generally recognized, gave a fine example of disinterested devotion to duty, and of detached understanding of the fitness of things, by naming another rather than himself. His time will come. But while Senator Pepper goes in, there is doubt about Senator New- ( berry. It may be, and probably is. true that Newberry is to a great ex tent the victim of circumstances. He had a fine record In the war, and before it. He was the only man In Michigan, probably, who could de feat Henry Ford, and it was alto gether proper, desirable and even necessary to beat him, if Michigan were not to be a joke In the senate. Xo one says that Newberry bought an individual voter, or that his too rich friends bought any one. He was wrongfully convicted, and the verdict was set aside by the United States supreme court. To that ex tent he has had a personal vindica tion. But if Newberry corrupted no elector, he did corrupt the electorate by his enormous expenditures. He bought the election. The United States senate cannot consistently or convincingly talk of its dignity and prestige and yet permit a seat in the senate to be sold to the highest bidder, even to save it from a Ford. TWO KTOKIES OF VESTEKDAV. There are lives lived selfishly and for the pleasure of the moment that are ever near to the verge of sorrow and tragedy, and there are lives lived most unselfishly, toward the goal of purpose, that attain the true measure of happiness and reward. No stranger, more significant con trast of these could be afforded than is found In two news stories of yes terday. Companion narratives of the day's events, the sermon they preach 19 unmistakable and con clusive. In one it is revealed that a splen did aspiration, that of a most womanly woman, has borne fruit age in the gift of a fortune to Mc. Minnville college. In the other is bared the sordid story of an uncon ventional escapade that carried a wife to the gates of death, wounded by her own hand. Quite as surely as we pay for our folly, as certainly as those who dance must fee the piper, it is shown that the quest of happiness lies not by strange paths and willful conduct, but by the high way of conscience and to a definite and worthy goal. For happiness is achieved and never stolen, and pur pose in life Is its guarantee. How clear and uncompromising is the contrast. There stand the stories in testimony. The woman who sought to take her own life, at the swift and inevitable transition from gaiety to the tragic, was of that modern cult who worship gods their mothers never knew. Her portion was public shame. She who en dowed the college. In the name of an old faith, and after long years of service and denial toward that end, has reared for herself a most endur ing monument. Which way lies hap piness? What cynic seeks to refute the truth and misdirect the traveler? The stories speak for themselves, to all who will listen. It has been said repeatedly that newspapers seek the sensational, the scandalous, the criminal, and exalt it above the rec ord of real achievement. Yet quite as a matter of course, and for no other reason than that the story of. virtue and accomplishment was the superior, the tragedy of yesterday received less space, and far less prominence, than that given to the McMinnville dispatch. Why? Es sential drama, humanity, and shin ing conquest were its Integers. NEW INTEREST IN PHILATELY. Confirmed postage stamp col lectors, who are not always students of history, will hail the coming year with joyous anticipation of the pleasures that it promises. The merit of the stamp to the philatelist lies chiefly in Its rarity, a fact so well known that small governments which cherish driblets of revenue have taken it into account. For illustration, Italy has issued a "lim ited edition" of its delayed stamp commemorative of the making of peace, and will allow only three sets to a single applicant, while Nica ragua placed on sale the other day for only ten minutes a new printing in honor of the centenary of free dom in the Central American repub lic These governments are deter mined to reap all the benefit pos sible from the collecting instinct, which is founded on no economic basis, yet upon which millions of dollars have been spent. The centennial issue of Mexico, a ten-centavo stamp showing the old leaders, Iturbide and Guerrero, in the act of embracing, recalls a charac teristic series of episodes In the his tory of that country. Guerrero and Iturbide were both valiant Mexican leaders in th movement for inde pendence in 1821, but quarreled, as Mexican leaders usually do. over the division of power, and Iturbide pro claimed himself emperor, to the dis satisfaction of the faction which Guerrero represented. The former was outlawed and forced to flee, and. returning in 1824 to organize a counter revolution, was tried and shot. But Guerrero himself fared little better, for he. too, was exe cuted by a. new party of revolution ists in 18S1. The new stamp, which official Mexico regards as the sym bol of freedom, also tells the un happy story of Mexico's inability to found and maintain a stable gov ernment. . Panama and Josta Kica arc also commemorating the centenary of the casting off of the Spanish yoke, and both countries need only to refer to their histories to find a parallel to the experience of Mexico. But. as has been raid, this is not the chief concern of stamp collectors, although It it a by-product of the avocation upon ..hich we would lay more stress if we had the directing of it. In the desire to make "col lections" the average human being is a veritable woodrat. There are kings, queens, presidents and men of affairs among the leading stamp collectors of the world, and fortunes have been spent by them in pursuit of their hobby. There are many pri vate collections in the United States said to be worth $100,000 or more, and there is a still-remembered be quest to the British museum, con taining more than 100,000 specimens of stamps and postal stationery, val ued at more than $500,000. It Is the best In Kngland and the third in value in all the world, yet It consists of tokens that have lost all their commercial value and that are in trinsically worth only a very few cents. It represents achievement, for its completeness is remarkable: it is a testimonial to the persistence of man in a quest that cannot be said to have had any material end. Perhaps a million collectors, little and big, will be stimulated to new enthusiasm by the recent Issues tc which allusion has been made, while the promise of still others as the new governments of Europe perfect their organizations will give fillip to adventure so long as the passion for collecting persists. TOO BAD. The Oregonian hears today from a lady democrat that the "Jackson day banquet was in reality a notable gathering of representative demo crats of Oregon." Oh, to be sure! She was one of the committee on arrangements, and she was there and she knows, or she should know. She is grieved that the several articles in The Oregonian bearing on the subject may have given a differ ent and entirely wrong impression. So is The Oregonian grieved grieved that good and true demo crats do not dwell together in har mony, and grieved that its plain duty as a journal of all the people, including many democrats, requires it to disclose the facts, pleasant and unpleasant, about all pertinent democratic family matters. Undoubtedly there was harmony at the banquet harmony and then some more harmony. We are unable to find a syllable in The Oregonian'9 account of the affair, last Sunday, that even intimates that the demon discord had so much as taken a peep at the well-loaded banquet table. (Times are good under a re publican administration, after all, despite the sarcastic intimations of our correspondent. Wasn't the hall crowded?) But there were numerous con spicuous democrats who stayed away. That is the reason there was harmony. The article in The Ore gonian Monday was a veracious record of the names of prominent absentees, with sundry accurate ob servations as to their motives in staying away. Not any one of the eminent gentlemen who were men tioned has even intimated to The Oregonian that It was mistaken about them. They revere Andrew Jackson and they love and honor Woodrow Wilson, but their senti ments as to democratic leadership, which spells anti-Chamberlainism and has something of a stranglehold on the local democratic organization, cannot be put in language which would pass the censorship of the mails. It is a pity that it is true; but 'tis true. The Oregonian deplores the sit uation. As an unfaltering friend and wholesome critic of the democ racy it would like to see it changed. It knows what is the matter. There are too many democratic leaders, actual and would-be, and too few followers. The party in Oregon is too small. That it is small because of Its own acts putting things over, such as the miscellaneous and open doored primary is aside from the question. There can be no efficient, worthy and united republican party until there is an alert and re spectable democratic party. ri'TIRE OF RAILROAD RATES. The interstate commerce commis sion has been conducting an inquiry as to what further reductions in railroad rates are justified. It seeks to ascertain to what extent help can be given to all Industry, espe cially agriculture, by lowering cost of transportation and at the same time Increasing the prosperity of railroads. Opinions vary all the way from that of Senator La Follette, that a conference between repre sentatives of all classes of shippers and railroad executives as to how the fnte rests of both parties can be served in this manner is a "secret, unholy conspiracy," to that of Sam uel O. Dunn, editor of the Railway Age, that for several years1 before the war rates were below a re munerative basis and that, even if prices and wages should fall to the pre-war level, freight rates sllould permanently remain above that level In order to be fairly proportionate to the price and wage level. Be tween these extremes are the opin- ions of Howard Elliott, president ci I the Northern Pacific railroad, speak, ing for the railroads, and Walker D. Hines, former head of the United States railroad administration, speak ing for the public. Mr. Elliott says that the rail roads have already displayed a help ful spirit by making reductions which for his road alone fill 106 pages of tariffs and by making a 10 per cent reduction on certain agri cultural products. He said that President Hardinjr had asked the railroads if they could not "take a first step to bring down the cost of living, help bring down wages and help start our industrial army on a new and forward march," and that they had done that, but they needed co-operation. Livestock men "said nobody else was reducing, but they wanted the railroads to reduce." Yakima .apples for which the grower got a cent each and on which he paid the railroads half to three quarters of a cent freight sold at New York groceries for 6, 10 and lb cents each. "So it is not all in the freight rate." said Mr. Elliott. . He recalled that farmers and manufacturers had made large profits during the war, which much Improved their position, but the railroads "got a scanty living through payments from the government," and their properties were returned to them in a deteriorated condition and with many difficulties imposed on them. The farmers had already 1 felt the full force of deflation, man ufacturers were deflating, as waa the Jobbing and distributing busi ness. Labor should recognize that this deflation was going on by allow ing a lower unit of wages, "not only on the railroads, but in the mines and building trades," thus reducing the cost of living. Railroads could then buy more materials, "the cost of which is made up so largely ol labor." He said that rates were now higher than before the war, "they were then far too low for safety, and we are comparing today with an indefensible basis" if private operation is to continue. Inadequate rates meant deterioration of the properties, which meant inadequate service. Nor would a sweeping re duction of rates at this time increase business, for many other things must contribute to complete revival. Mr. Dunn shows by comparison of price levels and rates that, before the war, prices had been rising while rates had been falling; that in 1913 the average rate was IS per cent less than in 1890-99, while average prices were 35 pe cent higher, and the latter advance caused the rail roads to raise wages. The railroads asked for higher rates in 1910, when they were refused, and again later, but in 1917 the average rate was 15 per cent lower than in 1890-99, while the average wholesale price had in- creased 138 per cent. Not till 1918. when wholesale prices had risen 165 per cent, was the first general advance in rates made, but in July, 1921, the average rate was up 49 per cent, while wholesale prices were up 100 per cent, as compared with 1890-99. Conceding that horizontal advances have made some rates too high and that there ought to be some general reduction if operating costs can . be correspondingly re duced, he says: Taken as a whole, the present scale of freight rates Is relatively low compared with the present general scale of com modity prices and. taking rates as a whole, there is absolutely no Justification for contending that they are too high in pro portion to prices in general. Mr. Hines, in an address to the American Economic association at Pittsburg, showed that, comparing the first ten months of 1921 with the same period of 1920, net oper ating income had increased from $6,000,000 to $496,800,000, but that almost the entire increase was ef fected by a decrease of $473,200,000 in cost of maintenance of way and equipment. Thus the railroads are' made to show a small profit by per mitting their property to deteriorate by postponing expenditure that must be made. Confessing that the effort to forecast the future is 'almost hopelessly baffling," he finds one cause of the railroads' plight to be shrinkage in the volume of traffic, which in 1921 was 12 to 14 per cent. and he says that "a return of rail road prosperity cannot be expected until there shall be a substantial in crease in the volume of traffic." He then makes pointed sugges tions as to the remedy to be found in reducing cost of operation. While wages and the cost of fuel and other materials will' be reduced, they "will still be very much above the pre war level," and "new ways to re duce the cost of operation" must be found. The heavy increase in labor cost being in maintenance and ter minal work, which he estimates at 65 per cent of total operating cost. he says: I believe that the present railroad sit nation demands, especially In view of the substantial increase in the cost of labor, that there should be concentrated upon terminal work and upon maintenance work an amount of attention correspond ing to that which has been concentrated in the past on increasing the trainload. both In ascertaining and analyzing the facts as to existing methods and results and in devising ways and means to cure improved results. He also believes that "the people will insist on additional economies through greater unification of rail road facilities": that they will not pay the price of "so many different railroad companies, so many dif ferent terminal organizations and so many different ownerships of rail road equipment." The railroads would do well to study ways of following these sug gestions. Competition between rail and water lines in this country, be tween American and foreign pro ducers in foreign markets, promises to be so intense that railroads will not be able to obtain a permanent scale of rates that would compensate for the advances which they should have had, but did not get, between 1910 and 1918. Competitive condi tions are likely to compel them, after effecting all the economy pos sible in cost of labor, fuel and ma terial, to turn to the further econ omy suggested by Mr. Hines in order that they may get back to the pre war level. They have to compete with ships running through the Panama canal, with motor trucks on highways, and express companies will soon compete with aircraft. These are new conditions which did not exist in 1910. The deficiency in revenue that accrued between that year and the first war advance in rates Is lost beyond recall, and the conditions of 1922 imply that the railroads will be. fortunate if they should not be compelled to haul traffic cheaper than in 1914. A new rule of city hotels says that gentlemen who entertain ladies in guest rooms must be accompanied by their wives, "and vice versa." In which event all "hardware" should be left at the desk. Alas for the poor hotel "dick"! His troubles begin. A New Jersey woman twelve days ago became the mother of her twenty-first, and remarks like, "Well, the idea!" are in order. If this is a result of habit, habit is a powerful master. The first official business of the Irish Free State should be to run down and exterminate the bombers. The bomb is not a natural Irish weapon. McMinnville had an honored place in the column of fresh water col leges, and, as I.lnfield,' it will be all the more noted. Mr. McArthur is "not backward in coming forward" to declare his candidacy for re-election. A use has been found for "Junked" submarines in smuggling liquor. They can land on signal. Naturally Seattle opposes develop ment of the Columbia basin. It's down hill to Portland. In this matter of marital infeldcity, let him who does not "chase" heave the first brick. ' Got your new dollar? Stars and Starmakera. By Leone Caaa Bur, Ben Dillon, popular Irish comedian. Is back under the banner of the Lyric, where he directed chows and played leads for nearly four year before his temporary retirement less than a year ago. With his old comedy partner, Al Franks, he will begin an engage ment Sunday afternoon on the stage which he tried to desert forever. Like many other show folk who have attempted to retire, Dillon be lieved he could resist the lure of the footlights. He admits he was wrong. With a comfortable little fortune saved from many successful seasons. Dillon built a beautiful home In Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. He started a garden and chicken ranch and prepared to spend his days as a gentleman farmer. But he, wasn't completely happy away from the theater In the com parative idleness of the farm. Just to pass the time in the evenings, he collected scripts for musical comedies, wrote a few plays himself and made tabloid versions of others. A week ago, with SO new plays in his trunk, he started for Portland. "They always come back," re marked Tommy Castle, veteran chief of the Lyric stage crew, when Dillon arrived. Tommy is wise in the lore of show business. When Dillon first announced his retirement. Tommy pre dicted the date of his return with amazing accuracy. According to Augustus Thomas, at the conclusion of the tour of "De classee" Ethel Barrymore will appear in the role of Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy, "As You Like It." Marguerite Sylva is booked for a tour In vaudeville which may include the Pacific coast. This season has established a record in the number of revivals put on and the list is constantly growing. The latest to be added is "Within the Law." which the Selwyns will pro duce again. The Bayard Velller drama will not be offered until March, but it will be presented with the original cast. In the show will be Jane Cowl. Orme Calders, Florence Nash, William B. Mack, Kenneth Hill and Dodson Mitchell. The show was tried by W. A. Brady first, the Selwyns then taking the show and putting it on as the first attraction in the Eltlnge in the fall of 1912. Lester Lonegan will play a part in "The Squaw Man" with William Faversham. The part was played in the original production by William S. Hart, and is that of Cash Hawkins. Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, a New York society leader, is to play the leading femi nine role opposite Mr. Faversham. She will be known professionally as Julia Hoyt. Others in the cast will include Rose Coghlan, Burr Mcin tosh, Riley Hatch and H. Cooper Cliff. "There can never be a successor to Caruso. Why should anyone let him self be suggested as one? Not me." In Italian for he does not speak a word of English and a secretary has- to stand right alongside him to put his views into good American Beniamino Qigli. the tenor, said this very posi tively, surrounded by his babies, with Mrs. Gigil, who has not a word of English at her command, either. Just inside the doorway. "Only one Caruta." he said. "That is all. And it is not right for anyone to use Caruso's name to advertise himself. Why should he? The second Caruso, he can never be. Me? For myself I have quite another ambition, to make Gigll a great name." He took Erxo. the 2-year-old boy, on h's knee and threw an arm around S-year-old Rina, drawing her close to him. Slgnora Uigli beamed down on her family. Gigll did not seem at the moment at all the bohemian young poet of 1830 of the night before when he had sung "La Boheme," making im passioned love to Frances Alda, who was his romantic Miml. "That, I think, is the feeling of the American people," went on Gigll. "They want their Caruso to stand alone. They resent talk of a succes sor. But they have no objection, they want any man to come up, not to fill the place of anyone else, but to be great himself. I have not been la America very long. It is only a year since I came here. I have been very fortunate lucky, you call it. I had the good fortune to please 'the opera administration' and the people from the beginning. Now it is only a matter of work. But I am going to be myself and not stand in anyone else's shoes. Years from now I want to leave my children as an inheritance that their father was 'the great Gigll.'" Mrs. Sydney Drew, popular on the stage and screen, has gone into vaudeville in a domestic comedv. Predestination," by Edwin Burke. Thomas Carrigan plays opposite Mrs. Drew and Mary Alden is also in the cast. After her engagement at the Palace theater In New York, Mrs. Drew and her company will present their comedy In Boston and other theaters affiliated with the Keith vaudeville exchange, including the Pacific coast Orpheums. Since the death of her husband. with whom she was so long asso ciated in motion picture production. Mrs. Drew has maintained her Inter est in the stage and motion pictures. She has devoted much of her time to work for ex-soldiers In connection with tha S. Rankin Drew post of the American Legion, named for her stepson, who was killed in France. Julia Arthur, distinguished dra matic actress, is to return to Keith vaudeville. She will be supported bv company of six. and will present big scenes from great plays, show ing the evolution of the drama from Shakespeare up to the present day. Miss Arthur will appear in New York houses early In the year, later going on tour. 'The heights of Thespian egotism," writes Frank Monroe, of "Thank U" t the Longacre, In the current issue of the Friars paper, "are reached when an actor cornea to believe bla own press agent. Hot It la la 122. Teacher What . is meant by the and saying. "He smote him hip thigh "T Little Bobby I reckon it means he fanned him for a flask. Those Who Coma and Go. Talea of Folks at the Hotels. "More than 6,000,000 copies of our maps have been distributed by hotels and civic bureaus west of the Missis sippi and more than 100.000 have been given out In Portland alone," says P. S. Avery, manager of the Pulver Map company of Seattle, who Is registered at the Multnomah. "Unless a person Is In a business closely connected with the tourist travel it is Impossible to have an Idea of how many people travel through the northwest in a year by automobile. On account of road con struction and changing of highways, it keeps a great many busy logging the roads and correcting our maps. When you think of the number of companies publishing road maps you realize that map making furnishes employment to a great many people. Reports from our men logging the roads show that there is a greater Improvement in the west than In the middle west. While it Is true thnt many tourists of wealth may make the experiment once of touring and camping and then return to the use of hotels, yet a large number of those who tour continue to make use of the camping grounds." The maps which Mr. Avery represents are those which are distributed free in hotels and at bureaus In Portland and throughout the state. In some manufacturing lines the tide has turned and the west is ship ping products east, according to S. H. Ralston, district sales manager of the Best Tractor company of San Leandro, Cal. 'Not only do we ship tractors to the east," says Mr. Ralston, who is registered at the Multnomah, "but the American-made tractor ls finding its way to foreign countries. A certain number of our tractors are shipped to Cuba every month, as well as Into South Amer ica and even to Formosa. On large plantations, for road work and the lumber industry, the rich planters and contractors have found that much more can be accomplished with tractors and with less labor and cost." Coming from Detroit, Mr. Ralston knows Henry Ford and says that Mr. Ford has the distinction of being the first billionaire in Amer ica. Yet in spite of this great wealth the citizens of Detroit find Mr. Ford a democratic citizen, taking an active interest in civic affairs and. through his immense hospital, which covers several blocks, the families of his employes receive the best of med ical attention and the services of a large staff of visiting nurses. Preparation of men for executive positions in the commercial world is the business of one of the depart ments of Harvard. Donald K. Davis, assistant professor of marketing and assistant dean of the university, ar rived at the Benson yesterday, while on a swing around the west. The school teaches the higher branches of accounting, trains the mind for executive work and inculcates prin ciples of economics. With these three fundamentals grounded into the 145 students now enrolled, the graduates are equipped to go into the industrial field and quickly acquire the details of the particular line they are to fol low. Only graduates from other col leges are taken Into this school, which has students from 14 different coun tries outside of the United States When a student finishes at this school In Harvard he has a general knowledge of the high lights of busi ness from financing to distribution. Business problems, which have been gathered from a search throughout the country among business houses, are submitted to the students and they are asked for solutions. The main idea is to train the students to think. Dr. Wilson D. McNary, superin tendent of the eastern Oregon branch asylum, at Pendleton, is at the Im perial, having arrived from the round-up town yesterday. He reports that the weather there is about the same as in Portland, warm during the day and cold at night. There are a few inches of snow which have melted and froaen so often that the streets and sidewalks are a sheet of ice, making walking disagreeable. Dr. McNary says that his institution is now taking the overflow from Multnomah county and is about at capacity. The doctor admits that there is quite a current of feeling over the Umatilla-Wallula cut-off in Pendleton, not because the town might lose business but because traf fic would go through one of the most desolate sections in Oregon. Pendle ton Is proud of the wheat fields and doesn't want tourists to motor through sand and sagebrush and think they are seeing Umatilla county. Hotels have posted a letter under the glass cover on the dresser an nouncing that "parties" are no longer to be tolerated, nor can visiting be carried on in the rooms. Men must entertain their women friends in the public parlor and women cannot re ceive male friends In their rooms. Any patron who is disturbed by of fensive drinking parties or the abuse of privileges granted by the hotel ls requested to make a report promptly to the office. A special house officer is on duty, clothed with police au thority, and he is to put the kibosh on parties. The hotel men took this action following a letter from the prohibition enforcement officer that hotels will be held to a strict ac countability for alcoholic disturb ances within the establishments. Archie McCleod of Spokane Is quite elated. He ls a merchant tailor and one of his creations in the style show at the Multnomah won first prize. When the dividends come in from the mines in the Coeur d'Alene district and the wheat price is good in the Palouse. Mr. McCleod lays in a stock of expensive fabrics and waits, but not in vain. E. H. Flagg. editor of the Warren ton News, is registered at the Per kins. Years ago Mr. Flagg was a resident of Salem and served in the house of representatives from Mar ion county. He has also been chief clerk of the state senate. George P. Cheney, editor of the Record Chieftain, published at En terprise, Or., is at the Hotel Oregon. The publication has been serving the people in that vicinity for 38 years, having been established in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Klpp of Spokane are registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Kipp formerly owned the Palm candy house in Spokane and is mov ing to Portland to make this his permanent home. Beatrice Sweetman, In the adver tising business at Honolulu, is regis tered at the Benson. She Is making a tour or tne racinc coast stuaying the advertising situation. H. C. Schuppel and R. H. Musser, In surance men of Boise, Idaho, are reg istered at the Hotel Portland. C. T. McDaniel, cashier of the bank at Wallowa town, ls in the city on business. Natlve-Born Are Cltlxrna. PORTLAND, Jan. 11 (To the Edi tor.) Please answer in your paper the following question: Are foreign ers' children born In this country citi zens of the United States? DAILY READER. I Yes. I Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co. Can Yon Annwn These Questions? 1. Do sea gulls use nests? .2. Do eels have jaws? 3. Of what country Is the common house cat native? Why do we find no reference to cats in the Bible? Weren't they known in Bible times? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Do all birds have air chambers In their bones? No, ostriches do not, as they do not fly. Grebes and many aquatic birds are extremely pneumatio (alr-f tiled ). and many non-aquatic birds, like vul tures, are wall equipped with air chambers. But on the other hand, swifts and terns, which spend most of their time flying, do not have these body air chambers. 2. What makes butterflies shut their wings together when they settle on anything? The theory Is that by so doing they hide the upper surface of the wings, which usually are more brilliant than the under side. Moths fold their wings on the same plane as the body, hut by folding the front wing over the hind wing they cover the latter, usually the gaily hued one. There are exceptions to this rule, however. s 3. How long has bubonic plague been known? Possibly prehistoric anyway, the oldest known disease. Present scien tific knowledge of the rat's ehare in spreading plague throws light on Bible passages mentioning rats and sudden epHemics such as destroyed SennacherlL army, etc. The last great bubonic plague was In the 17th century, in England, remaining active for 14 years. WILL NEXT GEXEHATIOV PAY f Comment on Reported Menace nt I'ae of Tobacco by W omen. PORTLAND. Jan. 10. To the Edi tor.) In line with your recent edito rial paragraph, "If the smoking ol black cigars by New ork women be comes general, the next gem-ration, if there is any, will pay for It mentally and physically . ..." I wish to say that if many of the girls or women who now are profaning their womanhood by tobacco smoke or alcoholic liquor could see a few of the idiotic and mentally deficient off spring of alcoholic or nicotine saturated fathers or mothers in our feeble-minded institutions, they might at least begin to do a little thinking. As an officer of the county court for several years, it became my prov ince to Investigate many uses and abuses of social customs and, among other duties, to be present often and assist with patients during examina tion for commitment to the insane asylum or home for feeble-minded. Having previously had reaon to believe that tobacco, as well as alcohol, was often a factor in pro ducing mental as well as physical weaklings. I frequently made in quiries of friends or relatives of patients along lines interesting to me. and almost Invariably learned that tobacco not only was a pastime, but also was a constant companion, not to say an article of diet, with the fathers and grandfathers of the help less victims before me. Ono pitiful hulk cf livid human flesh, ghastly enough to bring tears to the eyes of court attaches, sat drooling and weeping Inanely wliiie the alienists questioned her tester concerning pre-natal conditions. In reply to one qtrestion Invariably asked as to whether or not either parent was an alcoholic, the normal woman replied: "l'es, pa drank, and he used to give it to us children whi n we were littlo and could not help ourselves. Smoked and chewed all the time, too; fairly ate tobacco. Mother never touched the stuff and tried to get him to let It alone." At another time we In the office were startled by a sudden unearthly bellowing originating somewhere in the building and apparently re echoing and coming nearer. In a moment a woman advanced upon us leading her two idiot sons, aired about 6 and 8 years. Huge-headed, hid eously ugly, utterly witless, they roared like young bulls of Bashan till deputies from adjoining courts appeared to learn the cause of the riot. Thoreupon, I volunteered to herd the two in a email room by the jail elevator s-haft, where we could shut the door and keep down ns much noise as possible. Never, to my dying day, shall 1 forget the hour spent with those two monstrosities. "Yes. their pa took a drink when he wanted it, but never got roarin' drunk. Smoke? Oh, yes, he's always drawin on an old rll'e. Even takes it to bed with him. Our fathers smoke, too? Oh, yes, and our grandpas, both of 'em on each side, moot likely. I got one more boy, bigger and smnrter than these two, but he ain't able to go to school," were a few of the answers 1 received from the mother of three defectives, who ought never j to have been born. Another 6-year-old possessed a head as large and a Intellectual as a pumpkin, and during the examina tion continually bumped It against the furniture and on the floor or pulled at the forms and clothing of those present. No insanity, epilepsy or alcoholism In the family on either side, so far as the distressed parents knew, but the men nad, smoked. I discovered. It ls not for me to say that nicotine alone was the cause in this or any other case, but why put into our unborn children any poison that the beasts of the field know bet ter than to accept? No one need go far to discover many children, and adults as well, who are living victims of tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchial and heart trou bles and Intense nervousn, due to the use of tobacco or alcohol by their fathers, and now if the mothers of the race are to desecrate their souls and bodies by the samo means. God knows what the result will be on the next generation "if there ls any." There is nothing clever about it. It simply isn't intelligent. MARY AUNES KELLY. The Woman In the Forties. PORTLAND, Jan. 11. (To the Edi tor.) I, too, sit by the fire because I have no companions to go out with, and as I am in my forties, I urge "Mary" to make her Bupreme effort to find her "pal" now, for when a woman gets to the 40-mlle post the men usually look for a younger face, and the road ahead looks lonely. I have been one of those to mix In the busy world and I find that one has very little time or inclination to be pleasant or sociable after a hard day's work. I tried the fraternal or ders as a social lead, the Eastern Star and others, and failed. Yes, I, too, have thought the fault might be mine. Nevertheless I have failed in finding good wholesome companionship in the Portland men. LONELY WIDOW. procedure In Probate Caae. McMINNVILLE, Or., Jan. 9. (To the Editor.) 1. Is it necessary In a quiet title suit to notify heirs out aide of state? 2. What would hap pen in case of minor heirs? Would it be possible for them to hold a claim if estate had been sold to set tle debts of deceased? READER. 1. Yes. 2. If the property Is etold by ordtr of the court in the regular course of probate proceedings to pay debts, the UUe ol the minor heirs is cut oL More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Bfontagne. A DRKADFIL F.RROR. (According to the last census there are 300 poets in Indiana.) In Indiana, favored clime. Where rolls the wlmpling Wabash river, Each minute middle western time) A poet passes in his flivver. You'll find a hard on every farm Engaged in epics and In tillage; A hundred lend a classic charm To every Indiana village. Since simple rustic songs were mailo Some years ago by Ole Jim Riley That prince of bards the poet trade Has been esteemed around there highly. Cleorue Ade has very lately sworn (And wants, he sayj, the world to know It) That he's tho only lloosier born Who isn't more or less a poet. At ni;ht these songsters' write their rhymes On water-marked domestic vellum; And even in the worst of times They truck 'em into town and pell 'em. A child that cannot pen an ode, When three or tour, to I'an or Cupid. Is. In the Indiana code. Regarded as extremely stupid. The hired girls and hired men. In time not needed for their slum bers, Are always handy with the pen, And turn out smooth and rhythmlo numbers. And when the census men declare That pnets total but three hun dred In Indiana, we will swear. And loudly, that they've badly blundered. No Longer nn Issue. Now that Debs is out of Jail he 1.1 bound to lose csste with tho socialists. The Point of View. An easterner who lately saw the Yellowstone geysers, observed that somebody had been putting too many raisins in tht-ni. Where It Doesn't Work. can't expect so many law? You to pass If you install a bloc system io conpress. In Other Days. Tnenly-fltr Irsn Ago. From The Orfsonlan of .Innuary 12. taT. Tumpa. Kla. A schoolboy of 10 years was killed in fSunnabncon, Cuba, yesterday by a Spanish patrol be cause he refused to hurrah for Spain. Denver. 11. V. Debs, tho labor loader, arrived here hi morning to make n series of a'ldresses for tho Leadville striking miners. F. J. Crouch, a Portland man, has invented a perpetual n-otlon machine, which gets Its motive power by air pressure under water. Oscar Wilde, whose term of Impris onment will soon expire, inlouds to come to America with tho idea of settling In the west and growing UK with the country. Fifty Wnrs Alio. From The Oreuonlan of jHnusry 1", 1S72. Railroad surveyors are said to lie sighting, squinting and pegging all over the country beyond Forest Urove. The new style of collars is eco nomical, as with an extra long pair of pantaloons they do away with the necessity of wearing a shirt. Oormany, under tho new military organization. w;ll be enabled in cane of war to put in the field within five days an army of 1,300,000 men. OeorgA Sand has purchased all the copies of her book against Alfred de MtiHset. her first love, that could be tound In France and destroyed them. IIARMO.W ri.tS AT THAT IIAMU i:T Democrat, Who Wna There, Kiplalna About Thnae IVot I'rernl. PORTLAND, Jan. ll.(To the Ed itor.) The Orrgonlan's "much-headed" gossipy article of January 9, rep resenting the Jackson day banquet as an Inharmonious affair is mislead, ing. to Fay the least. The banquet was boycotted, you say, though the capacity of the large er.vxial room In the Henson hotel was taxed to tne utmost to accommodate tho guests. Moreover, !t is possible that those' who were missed from the "festive board" may have had reasons for their absence other than the fact that Frank Stott Myers was to bo one of the speakers. At least one of the number conspicuously mentioned gave an entirely different reason. Some others not catalogued may possibly have exhausted their savings from the last democratic administration and consequently in thete "ubnormal" re publican days may not have been able to "indulge." Indeed, an extensive Investigation of tho matter might prove embarrassing to the present ad m'nlstra tion. The so-called "strained relations" were not evident in the ex. presslons of hospitality, the generous applause and tther evidences of ex uberant democratic spirit. -Mr. Mer's appearance on tho pro gramme may not have been pleasing to some persons, but evidently few uuemed it a sufficient reason for stay, ing away from the annual Jacksonlan event, nor did Mr. Myers owe the dis tinction given him to tho suggestion of the president of the Jackson club, As to Klton Watkltis' heated stale ment. It will not give serious offense to the large body of broad-minded democrats throughout the state. Our absent guest made a costly sacrifice in denying himself the truly soul etirrlng experience that transpired among his brethren last Saturday eve ning. Tho featuring of Mr. Starkweather as the "implacable enemy of people and things Chamberlain" would evoke comment were it not such an evident example of cheap political phrase making. Moro serious are the re marks bearing upon the attitude of democrats toward the Wilson founda. tion. The statement that tho Jack son club refused to contribute $100 to the foundation Is untrue. At the an nual meeting a gift of $100 to the memorial was authorized and alsu the sum of $100 was contributed toward the deficit of the democratlo national committee. The Jackson banquet was In real ity a notable gathering of representa tive democrats of Oregon. Tho en thusiasm was irresistible, centering with significant Intensity around the personality and Ideals of Woodrow Wilson as expressed in tho league of nations, the living force of the world. ONE OF TUB COMMITTEE. If Vice-President Dies. PORTLAND. Jan. 11. (To the Edi tor.) If the vice-president ls unable to erve his full term, does the presi dent appoint a fiticcessor or is a special election held? MRS. N. J. K. Neither. The president pro tern of the senate fills the vice-presidents place as presiding officer of tho sen ate s,n4 otherwise, no axrtlon. U taken. 1 i