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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1922
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THE FARMERS' SANE PHOOORAMME.
Any Idea that the acute distress
from which American farmers suf
fer would drive them to demand re
lief through radical, socialist or
paternal measures Is extinguished by
the course of the national agricul
tural conference. The most radical
proposal has been that the govern
ment guarantee minimum prices,
but the conference has gone no
farther than to ask for "careful In
vestigation." In proposing increased
credit and warehousing facilities,
wider and better defined rights of
co-operation for farmers and in ask
ing for information on world pro
duction and markets, the conference
advances along the line which the
republican platform marked out and
which congress has been following,
though at lower speed than the
farmers would like. To "re-establish
a fair exchange value for all
farm products with that of all other
commodities" Is the aim of the ad
ministration's policy, both domestic
and foreign, and of much pending
legislation.
Then there is no diversity of pur
pose between the . farmers and the
Harding administration, Mr. Hard
ing holds the welfare of agriculture
to be "truly a national Interest and
riot to be regarded as primarily the
concern of a class or a section or a
bloc." He has given proof that the
republican party accepts responsi
bility for doing whatever should be
done within the power of the gov
ernment to rescue agriculture from
the condition into which It was
thrown by deflation. The farmers'
bloc in congress did valuable service
by forcing to the front as of the first
Importance legislation for relief of
farmers at a time when the party
r leaders were disposed to give prece
dence to other pressing legislation.
It has succeeded In winning first
plate for the measures that it spon
sored and In getting the most vital
of them adopted as party measures!
The power and the rights of agricul
ture now being established, the
farmers can trust the republican
party hereafter to care for their In
terest as a national interest, and
need no longer rely on a non-parti-sun
bloc.
Division of legislative bodies into
blocs or groups Is occasionally nec
essary in order to force attention to
an emergency such as that which
has confronted the farmers for more
than a year, but if continued and
multiplied, blocs dissolve parties
Into groups upon which no definite
responsibility can be fixed and
. which obstruct rather than promote
legislation. In countries where an
adverse vote of the legislature ends
the life of a cabinet, they render
formation of a government possible
only by combining a number of
groups and they render it unstable
by the opportunity to change the
combination. Hence the frequent
changes of French and Italian cabi
net, and Brland's hurried trips
from Washington and Cannes to de
feat hostile combinations In Paris.
In this country, where an adminis
tration holds office for a fixed term,
a bloc cannot drive it out but di
vision Into blocs might prevent it
from carrying out any well con
ceived legislative programme. Hav
ing led the president and the leaders
In congress to recognize the agricul
tural Industry's power and its needs
as paramount, the farmers' bloc has
served Us purpose. If kept in full
activity. It could only weaken the
dominant -party by dividing It, thus
serving the ends of the opposition.
Most significant of the broad view
which farmers now take of their af
fairs are J. M. Anderson's proposal
that the I'nited States take part in
European adjustments and the rec
ommendation by the conference that
the government extend aid to Eu
rope for economic rehabilitation.
The farmers realize that stabilizing
of the price of their products and
general recovery from their state of
pear insolvency cannot be accom
plished within the United States
alone but Is contingent on the
world's economic reconstruction.
Their declarations point straight to
American participation In the work
of the reparation commission and of
the Genoa economic conference.
They see that they cannot prosper
while their customers in Europe are
bankrupt, and that restored pros
perity In Europe would bring pros
perity to them.
Slowly, reluctantly the American
reople are being driven by the ir
resistible logic of facts from the po
sition of isolation which they seemed
to take in the election of 1920. The
stagnation In which we find our
selves is being recognized by more
and mora of our people as the re
action from a far worse) condition in
Europe. We can pull ourselves out
of the slough by. helping Europe to
pull Itself out. The longer we delay
this help, the longer shall we delay
our own escape from depression.
The committee of the I'nited States
Chamber of Commerce which in
vestigated European conditions ad
vised that this nation should unite
with the allies In enforcing per
formance of the treaty terms by
Germany and in bringing about eco
nomic recovery of other nations.
The body wntch represents the great
agricultural Industry now proposes
that we take a hand In economic re
construction, with which the settle
ment with Germany la Inseparably
intertwined. Settlement of the al
lied debt Is tntlmately connected
with both thesQ problems, and our
own financial situation compels at
tention to it. All roads out of our
tangle of perplexities lead to Genoa.
OrO THE HIGHWAY.
If a great snow, ice and rain storm
should visit Portland with its de
vastating effects, and should, let us
say, envelop the courthouse with an
avalanche-like cloak of winter, and
block with chilling debris all ave
nues of approach, something would
be done about it; and it would not
be by the easy and dilatory method
of letting nature take its course. It
would be Intolerable, of course, that
public service could under any cir-
J cumstances be suspended.
The case with the Columbia River
highway Is not diffei-erfit in principle,
though It is different in degree.
Here is' a great artery of traffic,
built by the public, dedicated to
public use. and necessary to the
public convenience and welfare,
closed to travel for two entire
months, and no vigorous and intel
ligent effort has yet been made to
open It, though the chairman of the
county commission has called a
meeting to see what is to be done
about it.
It may be conceded that the job
will be costly and troublesome. It
may also be conceded that nature
may take a notion to undo, by a new
storm, what man shall havi done,
though It Is altogether unlikely. But
what of that? It cannot be agreed
that It Is a summer highway only,
nor that any let-'er-go policy should
be further pursued. If the public
had a duty to build the highway,
there is a similar duty to main
tain it.
The Oregonlan Intends no criti
cism upon any body or person in the
present situation. It complains of a
condition, a state of mind which has
apparently seized both officialdom'
and the public. It is to be hoped
that the meeting next Monday will
be attended by the representative of
every Interest concerned, that it will
be taken for granted that the high
way must be opened, and that meas
ures will be devised to do it at the
earliest practicable time.
THE COLLEGES AND ATHLETICS.
The discussion of the proper place
of lnter-instltutional athletics in cor
tege life, which has been provoked
by Dr. Lowell's report to the Har
vard overseers, has developed the
expected difference of opinion as to
details, but on the other hand has
developed a surprising unanimity as
to the desirability of such sports
upon the whole. Nor, as those who
recall Dr. Lowell's attitude will re
member, does the Harvard educator
condemn them without qualifica
tion. The fire of his criticism is di
rected at the abuse rather than the
use of healthy games as a means of
educational stimulus, and It is im
probable that he would abolish
them if he could.
The question then is whether
regulation, by which sports are em
ployed chiefly as a means of recrea
tion and In which intercollegiate
games are but an Incentive to in
terest, la feasible to an extent which
will preserve the good and eliminate
the bad. Football is the chief sub
ject of controversy because it is re
garded as the most nearly typical of
college sports, and because, more
than any other branch of sport, it has
been subject to abuses, but it Is sig
nificant that most college authori
ties seem to regard It as capable of
being directed to good use. "It
would be a great loss to our. higher
institutions of learning," says Dean
Randall of Brown, "to cut off any
of the agencies which bring our un
dergraduate bodies In the various
Institutions of learning into close re
lationships and healthy rivalry."
But he is careful to point out that
this must be attended by knowledge
on the part of the student that he
cannot play unless he has main
tained his scholastic standard and
unless he has answered all the re
quirements of the college as to char
acter. Thus employed, he finds from
experience that intercollegiate sports
may even have a positive influence
In stimulating high ideals. Ascer
tainment of the standing of the stu
dent In connection with his qualifi
cation as a player is of course a
matter of administrative detail. Not
even the college heads who frown on
intercollegiate games make the ob
jection that they cannot be regu
lated if the authorities deem regula
tion worth while.
The scholastic grades made by stu
dents who play football and by those
who do not play was recently made
the subject of research by the class
In educational psychology of the
Universitiy of South Carolina, With
results favoring the former. For the
purposes of comparison the law and
academic departments of the uni
versity were segregated; It was
found that the average standing of
the team men of the law school was
8,2.7 per cent, while that of non
team men was 84.6 per cent; that in
the academic department, however,
the team men outranked the non
team men, 83.6 to 79.5; and that the
latter condition held good as to the
university as a whole, the relative
standing of players and non-players
being as 83.1 to 82.1. The reason
for the discrepancy as lo law stu
dents is not explained, but they rep
resented a proportionately small
number and this may have been due
to , Individual reasons. The figures
for the whole group correspond
with others announced from time to
time by colleges in which football Is
a moderate Indulgence. The highest
type of regulation that is probably
possible In an American institution
of education is found at West Point
and Annapolis, at which what
amounts to military discipline is en
forced, and in neither of these insti
tutions are games permitted to In
terfere with the scholastic achieve
ments of the student. Both place a
definite restriction on the number of
games that may be played off the
academy grounds.
It being conceded that regulation
is possible, the Issue becomes one of
the value of athletics as such and of
Intercollegiate games as incidental
stimuli to athletic activity. It seems
to be the fact that competition is a
necessary concomitant of all sport,
and that emulation between institu
tions on the football or other athletic
field does not stop there, but extends
to other activities. There is no doubt
that it Is desirable to cultivate loy
alty to the Institution, which Is but a
concrete example of loyalty of every
other klnri; and neither Is there
doubt that the stimulation of gen
eral participation in healthful sports
Is a good thing. Both the--e results,
it is the opinion of college heads, are
obtained from Intercollegiate games
as they probably could not be pro
cured in any other way. It is a
question then of taking the easiest
and most practical way. .
The issue does not as a matter of
fact lie between sports and scholar
ship, but between sports and some
other form of diversion which may
conceivably have a less uplifting ef
fect. The moral benefits of clean
athletics are conceded on every side,
which cannot be said of every form
of recreation, and It is pretty well
understood that the hard-working
student must have some play. The
so-called "moral equivalent" of
which psychologists write must be
regarded as a factor in the account.
Conceding the value of sports as a
whole, it is necessary to concede also
the expediency of encouraging those
stimuli which accomplish the de
sired result at the smallest cost.
THE HF.ARSTIAN CRT OF WOE.
To the mind of the Seattle Post
Intelllgencer there is no peace on
earth or good will among men. at
least none can ever come out of the
Washington conference, and the
"good men and women" composing
church gatherings which endorse
the conference are helping a cause
which "is a brazen defiance of the'
whole Christian teaching."
For to the Hearstifled -vision all
treaties are alliances, and all alli
ances bring "conflict, slaughter and
conquest." This is how he applies
his doctrine to the Pacific treaty:
The United States agrees to
"maintain certain rights for Japan"
the right to despoil helpless Rus
sia and China, to spoil and oppress,
etc., etc. If Russia or China should
seek to take back what is stolen,
they would commit acts of aggres
sion on Japan, and the United States
would be obliged to hed American
blood in Japan's defense. There is
no difference between the Pacific
treaty and the triple alliance treaty.
They bind nations to fight for one
another, and they lead to war.
Therefore the purpose of the Wash
ington conference Is not to preserve
peace; it has been conducted "with
an eye toward war."
Our neighbor can see nothing in
the future but war! war! war! and
woe! woe! woe! for It can" see no
truth In any man (except Hearst)
and no good faith In any nation.
The only. safe course Is to read Bris
bane's editorials and rally to Hearst,
who bears the black flag of despair.
If that was to be the fate of the
nations, they might as well have let
the kaiser take the earth and have
saved themselves the trouble of van
quishing him. Even Prussian welt
macht could hardly be worse than
Hearst's abyss of -woe.
CIKCUMJiAVIliATINO THE GLOBE.
Nellie Bly gave a new air of
romance to travel by setting out in
1889 to outdo the fabulous perform
ance of , I'hileas Fogg In Jules
Verne's "Around the World in
Eighty Days." Verne, it will be re
membered, had all the advantages
of a writer of fiction In that he was
able to make conditions to suit
himself. Yet the tale caught the
fancy of millions and it was upper
most In their minds as they followed
the fortunes of the young newspaper
women confronted by realities which
could not be swept away with the
stroke of a pen. Her achievement
of 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes
was a triumph of resourcefulness
and pluck In its day.
. Yet the record has been reduced
bv more than half since then. Henrv
Frederick cut It to 54 days, 7 hours
and 20 minutes in 1903; Andre Jae
ger-Schmidt to 39 days, 42 minutes
and 38 seconds in 1911, and John H.
Mears made it 35 days, 21 hours and
36 minutes in 1913. Verne thought
he was describing a 'plausible impos
sibility, but his imagination was un
equal to the task. His "Around the
World in Eighty Days" was written
just half a century ago. Scientists
already are beginning to discuss
seriously the possibility of making
the Journey in a single day.
It Is no longer prudent to predict
that a given thing cannot be done by
man. It Is a curious reflection that
we are less skeptical as to the prom
ised one-day voyage than people
were concerning the Verne story in
1872. Scientific credulity knows no
bounds. We need only a -not im
possible device which will permit an
aviator to ascend to a height suffi
cient to obtain the advantage of
swift air currents to make "around
the world in twenty-four hours"
almost as easy as rolling off a log.
A BATTLE TOR GOVERNMENT
REFORM.
Much has been done by Budget
Director Daw'es to cut out waste in
administration of the government
and to bring the various bureaus
into co-ordination, but the real work
of bringing expenditure down to the
lowest point consistent with the
government's doing its work remains
to be done. It consists in complete
reconstruction of the governmental
machine which has been built up
piecemeal and In elimination of the
many duplications, overlappings and
incongruities which add to expense
at the same time that they take
from efficiency. A plan of reor
ganization will soon be reported by
the joint congressional committee
and will then be before congress for
action.
The real struggle for reorganiza
tion will then begin. The plan will
certainly involve transfer of many
bureaus from one department to an
other. As heads of departments love
power each will want to hold all that
he has and to gain all that he can
from the others. A highly diverting
political scrimmage, costly to the
people, would result unless some
powerful influence could prevent.
Reorganization would abolish many
offices and would transfer others
from one bureau or department to
another against the wish of the
holders. Each congressman would
surely receive appeals from a num
ber of officeholders to vote against
features of the scheme that affected
him. Those appeals wonld come
from citizens of the congressman's
state or district who had given him
political support. By allowing them
to be sacrificed to a sweeping re
form he would lose their support
and that of their friends and rela
tions. The great majority of his con
stituents would probably favor the
reorganization scheme, but they
would sit quietly at home, relying on
him to do his duty, while the small
minority whose Jobs were at stake
would be vociferous and' clamorous
at Washington. He would be in
clined to vote to pull out of the
schema the teeth which might bite
his pets and to trade his vote for
those of other members by voting to
save their pets. In the end the
amount of reorganization that would
be effected would not be visible to
the naked eye.
One force can prevent such a dis
aster; that is. an aroused public
opinion, speaking with such force
and volume that congress will recog
nize it as having many more votes
than have the men whose jobs are at
stake. The people must realize that
nothing Is so repugnant to a con
gressman as abolition of an office in
his district and that, when he is
threatened, other congressmen have
a fellow-feeling for him. The means
by which useless offices have been
abolished and great reforms accom
plished has been the constant pres
sure of public opinion, actively exer
cised and growing until it becomes
resistless. That pressure must be
organized on behalf of government
reorganization if it is to be accom
plished. Circumstances are now more fa
vorable than formerly to those who
would stir the people . to declare
themselves on reconstruction of the
government machine. When all
taxes were bidden in the price of
liquor, tobacco and imported goods,
merely passing Interest was taken in
such measures. We now get fre
quent reminders, that government
costs money and that we pay taxes,
for we pay Income tax and must use
revenue stamps and pay various di
rect imports. Without question re
organization of the machine would
materially reduce expenses and
would restrict the amount of our
taxes. A congressman who voted
against reform In order to keep a
few men In useless jobs would be
asked to explain by the many whose
pockets were affected, provided they
were awakened to their personal In
terest In the subject. The battle
must be fought this year if anything
is to be done and it will be a battle
between practically the whole of
Washington city and the rest of the
country.
BRYCE. EXPONENT OF DEMOCRACY.
Viscount Bryce did perhaps as
much as any other man to forge the
chain of mutual understanding be
tween the American and British na.
tions which has steadily grown
stronger under the influence of the
war and of the events which fol
lowed the war. For this work he
was fitted by being himself demo
cratic, both in conviction and tem
perament. To the philosophical judg
ment of the historian he added In
stinctive sympathy with democratic
Institutions. Hence he could enter
Into the spirit of American institu
tion? and could write of their fail
ures without arousing resentment
because he readily bore witness to
their excellent qualities. He was so
at one with Americans in spirit that
they came taregard him almost as
one of them and they adopted his
great book, "The American Com
monwealth," as a school textbook.
Already well known in America
as a member of Gladirtone's and
other liberal cabinets, as an advo
cate of Irish home rule and as the
author of the greatest work on
American democracy, he came to
the United States as ambassador
under the happiest auspices. He was
ambassador not merely to the gov
ernment but to the people of the
United States, for he went about the
country speaking to the people and
making his own people, their politi
cal ideas and aspirations, known.
He was a messenger of peace, friend
ship and understanding who put the
old political sport of twisting the
British lion's tail quite out of fash
ion. He was an early cfiampion of a
league of nations and he helped to
sow the seed which, despite the po
litical controversy that revolved
around the subject, is now bearing
fruit at the Washington conference.
The value of Lord Bryce's services
to the allies in the war can hardly
be overestimated. As chairman of
a commission which inquired Into
the German barbarities in Belgium,
he placed the facts beyond dispute
and demolished the German pre
tense that their massacres and burn
ings were reprisals for similar acts
on the part of the Belgians. Against
his report, embodying many direct
statements of victims amply veri
fied, German propaganda could not
prevail. He performed similarly
signal service by collecting and
publishing the hideous truth as to
Turkish massacre of Armenians and
as to German complicity. He de
nounced like savagery perpetrated
by Mustapha Kemal's nationalist
army on both Greeks and Armenians
and called without ceasing for
utter extinction of Turkish rule In
Europe or over other nations any
where. His voice was ever raised
in the cause of liberty and humanity.
Such men as Bryce, rising to po
sitions of power through the votes
of their countrymen, are the best
proof of the essential democracy of
the British people, for they express
its spirit. They do not belong to
Great Britain alone, for their devo
tion to free Institutions everywhere
makes them a possession of all free
peoples. America especially honors
him as one who knew it and loved
that which It prizes as a possession
held In common with his own
country.
Stocking up for hard times, prob
ably, a burglar the other night,
looted an Albina store of a load of
canned goods and general groceries,
not forgetting all the cigarettes he
could grab. He might be called a
good provider.
The health commissioner of Buf
falo was able to make "three-year-old"
whisky In three minutes, but
that should not Inspire the moon
shiner. He had everything ready.
It may be time for a new "re
ligion" developed by that young
woman who "talked with God" in
London, but it will need a better
basis than birth control.
The big lumber mill at Bend has
begun operating at full capacity
with a double shift. That is one
finger pointing toward prosperous
days that are coming.
Before he is elected every candi
date wants to lower the taxes, but
after he becomes an office-holder
his chief concern seems to be to in
crease them.
It means something when a utility
company discharges its war slackers
and aliens and replaces them with
citizens.
When Portland has an earthquake
she will be proud to let the world
know she Is in the seismic swim.
Better get the car ready for a ride
tomorrow. The forecaster says
"northwesterly winds."
SCHOOLGIRL ANSWERS COMMENT
Waaatnartoa High Stadeat Writes
A rata mm Reveals Identity.
PORTLAND. Jan. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) The answers to my letter on
dancing in the high schools have both
amused and Interested roe, especially
the idea one has that I am fictitious.
I am not; it seems to me that I am as
normal and as much alive as any of
my friends. That Is why I cannot
stand to hear the charges against
high school students In general.
In my letter I attempted to give
my honest opinion of things as I saw
them and as many others have seen
them. I realize fully that I am not
a woman of older years and that
many will not credit me with the
sense of any older person, in fact that
many are willing to think me disre
spectful to my elders, but my state
ments were honest and sincere and
It seems to me that that should be
considered.
A reader asserts that the reason I
have not had any direct knowledge
of evil Is possibly because I was not
looking for it. This may be true and,
I admit, logical people always find
evil if they are looking for it- They
find good If they look for that. too.
There can be and is, most likely, a
bit of evil in everything, but be
cause some girls blame their down
fall on the dance, are we all to be
deprived of this pleasure? Why de
prive a goodmajorlty of dancing be
cause of the misdemeanors of a mi
nority? The charges the ministers
made have been extremely slander
ous; they have reflected on the char
acter of every single high school boy
and girl. I believe we have a right
to protest. The things tbey have
brought up before the public are in
excusable and they have proved
nothing.
One day they charged that the
dances were not properly chaperoned
and the very next day, because the
fallacy of this statement was proved,
they asserted that a dance that need
ed these chaperones was of an evil
character. I must say that some cf
these statements are most convinc
ing! Why don't they back up their
statements? They will most likely
endeavor to do this by making publio
the delinquencies of a1 few, but is
that just proof? No, a hundred times
no!
A short time ago there was a most
disgusting story in the newspaper
regarding the escapades of a- certain
Rev. Mr. Royston. I believe almost
every one read It. But did the public
Immediately condemn the ministers
as a whole because of the crime com
mitted by one of their cloth? No, It
certainly did not. It would have re
vealed a most narrow-minded public
if it had.
If we can't dance we will want
some other form of amusement. Hap
piness is the birthright of all al
though some seem to think that mis
ery Is a stronger builder of character
and we acknowledge that birth
right. There is as much danger (if
any) In going to the theater, to
church, or anywhere else so why
start on the dances? Those who have
ascribed their downfall to the dance
are the ones, who most likely would
have gone wrong any other place.
We young folks, as a whole, have
good common sense, although many
don't seem to give us credit for anv.
These high schools of today are the
developers of common sense and high
character and it is those who lack
these attributes tfho fall to keep the
name of the younger generation
clean.
You mothers and fathers of today.
I make an appeal to you. Be broad
minded look at the question from
all points of view, and then condemn
us. If you must. But can't you count
in your mind as many reallv good
boys and girls as you can bad ones
if not many, many more? Remem
ber your own. school days. I have
never talked to an older man or wo
man who has not expressed the wish
that he or she were back In school,
where they spent the happiest days
of their lives and who have advised
us to make these the happiest days
of our lives.
The Oregonlan. If it wishes, may
publish the real name of the girl
who signed herself "A High School
Girl." She is going to Washington
High school In the city of Portland,
and has tried to be honest and to
convey her message to the older gen
eration in a thoughtful way.
ELAINE BENNETT.
WHY SHOII.DXT WOMAN WORK f
Aad Why Should Man P for Job
That Woman Could Fin as Weill
PORTLAND, Jan. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Billy Baxter, writing "m your
columns strenuously objects to the
employment of women in commercial
and professional vocations. A frreat
deal has been said on this subject
Many seem to think that a married
woman or girl with one to support
her has no moral right to hold a Job.
It seems to me as unjust to expect
a girl to give up a Job she wants or
likes merely because a man or other
girls need it as to expect a rich
man to give his entire income to
charity. Of course, it Is Just as un
reasonable to expect all women to fol
low housework as a vocation as to
expect all men to do mechanical work.
"Billy" complains because doctors
and lawyers and the like hire "seme
little Flossie" for office girl Instead
of a man. To me It is more dissruet
ing to see some big six-foot hearty
pounding the keys of a typewriter
than It is to see women wash win
dows in a public building.
Personally, I could never pine for
a Job- that "some little Flosoie" could
do as well as I. It would seem to
me more disgraceful for a man to
want a Job that a slip of girl could
do than for a girl to want a Job a
man should do.
It seems to me that the man who
would work for the wages cf an ordi
nary office girl would not be the
type of mentality wanted In any
of fee.
The race of life Is free for all. Let
not us men cry to the women,
"Walt for me." Women must be the
guardian of their own self-respect.
If women take more "guff from the
boss that Is their funeral, not ours.
Jtetrardless of what Is said or done,
the world will move on in Its accus
tomed groove and employers will al
ways hire those who serve them best.
In the meantime, hail to the girls. I
love "em all. P. A. LINSCOTT.
FROG IS HARBI'VGIR OP SPRING
Midnight Serenade Tells of Winter
That la ow In the Past.
PORTLAND. Jan. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Last night about midnight I
was sitting in front of the fireplace
enjoying a good magazine. I was
startled by a queer grating noes
which seemed to come from an out
side window In a back room.
The thought of a burglar or a mis
chievous boy with a tick-tack flashed
through my mind.
"R-r-rh, r-r-rh," the noise sounded
again.
Quickly and quietly supping into
the dark back room I peered cau
tiously out of the window, but could
see neither burglar nor bad boy.
"H-r-rh. r-r-rh. It sounded again.
and I had Just decided that it was
coming from under the eavea above
the window, when all of a audden
A froggy, sounded the drowsy
voice of a little girl who was sleep-
ng In a bed near the window.
Then the thought dawned upon me
that this little harbinger of spring
was giving us a midnight serenade to
let us know that spring Is now at
hand, READER,
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
John Hammersly, famed through
out the Pacific northwest as a woods
man and big game hunter, is in Port
land as the guest of his brother. Dep
uty District Attorney Hammersly.
and Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Horton Bee
man, who used to live In John's home
town. Gold Hill. "I apent last win
ter and part of this," said Mr. Ham
mersly, "60 miles out from Elk City,
Idaho. Greatest game country I ever
saw. I and the dogs got 17 cougar
up until this spring, and four 'before
I left a few days ago. No. Nothing
exciting. Just located 'em and treed
'em and killed 'em. That was on the
Selway fork of the Clearwater. I
use cross-bred dogs, bloodhound and
foxhound, and have found them much
more reliable than Airedales. Ted,
Mutt and Joe three of the best
hounds anywhere. There's lots of
bear back there, and a few of the big
fellows srlssliea. We got any num
ber of browns and blacks, but never
one of the others, as they're pretty
scarce and mighty wise. But the fish
ing! I thought I'd seen fishing on
the Rogue river, but the sort of flaw
ing they have on the Clearwater beats
anything I ever tackled. Not tor sixe,
mind you, but for average trout. The
rivers are alive with "em, and they
run from a pound to three or four.
The natives call them rainbow, but
they're only the cut-throat, such as
we have here. There's a big run of
Rocky mountain whiteflsh, too. Why
did 1 leave? The doctor said I had a
cough and ought not jo spend another
winter in the timber. So I'm going
back to Grants Pass and Gold Hill for
a few months." During his visit to
Portland, Mr. Hammersly hat made
a trip to Newberg, where another
brother, Tom. formerly of the detec
tive bureau, has a ranch.
"Lambing has started around Cecil,
in Morrow county," states W. B. Bar
ratt, highway commissioner, who ar
rived from Hoppner yesterday and is
registered at the Imperial. "For
weeks the weather has been disagree
able moderating in the days and
freezing at night until there was ice
everywhere. However, when I left
home a Chinook had appeared and
this should soon clear out the snow
and Ice. The winter has not been
severe, but has been' prolonged. This
has been a life-saver for the hay
farmers, for until the cold spell came
there had been little demand for hay.
Now about 75 per cent of the hay on
hand has been disposed of and unless
there is another storm in February
there will not be more than 5 per
cent of the hay to carry over. The
demand has, naturally, caused an in
crease in the price. Recently 1 bought
some hay on Butter creek and there
were 511)0 sheep feeding there. A few
days ago I was there and 16.000 sheep
were feeding."
Los- Angeles residents have been
suffering from the cold more than
the people of Portland, according to
Iot Swetland, owner of the Perkins
hotel, who arrived from the south
and left for the east last night. The
houses in Los Angeles are not
equipped with heating plants, like
those in this section, and they depend
on gas for such little beat and cook
ing as they require. The sudden
drop in temperature caused an
equally sudden desire to use gas for
heating, with the result that there
was not enough gas pressure In many
homes to supply enough flame for
cooking purposes, to Bay nothing of
heating a room. Mr. Swetlund de
votes so much time to California of
recent years that he is so loyal to
Los Angeles that he didn't mention
the recent earthquake shocks In that
city.
For several mornings a patron of
the Multnomah found his copy of Tho
Oregonlan missing from his door, eo
he decided to investigate. Getting
up extra early yesterday he found
the paper and fastened a fish hook
Into it. The other end of the fish line
he tied to his wrist and returned to
bed. leaving the paper In the hall
way. The patron was dozing off to
sleep when he felt a tug at his wrist
and Jumping out of bed he rushed
to the door, opened it and saw an
other patron sneaking down the hall
with the Btolen newspaper. The
fisherman told the petty thief what
he thought of him, and recovered his
Oregonlan. "I never got more of a
thrill catching a 10-pound bass on
my line than I did when I felt that
tug of the line on my wrist," he ex
plained later.
Golf balls may have been Invented
in Scotland, but the largest plant In
the world for the manufacture of
those things Is located in the United
States at Newark, O., according to
William Burke, president of the
Burke Golf company. So popular is
the game in this country that the
dhily output of this one factory is
1250 clubs. "We are often asked."
said Mr. Burke at the Multnomah,
"what makes the golf ball lively.
This is due to the fact that over a
solid rubber core is wound, partly by
hand, and partly by machinery, 12,000
feet of stretched rubber tape; an out
side shell of rubber and gutta-percha
is placed over the ball ot rubber,
and it is then vulcanized."
Good prices paid for wool at the
recent sale in Portland did much to
make the citizens of Boise. Idaho,
and surrounding country feel that
better times are on the way, in the
opinion of Ira E. High of Boise, who
Is registered at the Multnomah.
"Boise has weathered the financial
strain that has been holding its grip
on the country," said he, "and with
the loans made by the government
to the banks and the stockmen, the
prospects for better times, in 1922 are
very good."
The greatest birthday party ever
pulled off in Salem was staged re
cently by Hal Patton. former state
senator of Marlon county. Mr. Pat
ton got together an army of old
timers and they had a celebration and
programme which Is without a par
allel in that district- It was some
thing like a reunion of pioneers, only
more so, if you get the idea. Mr.
Patton. while in Portland yesterday,
ran across several Salemltes who re
newed their congratulations on the
big celebration.
E. C. Hurlbert, secretary and treas
urer of the National Lumber company,
is registered at the Multnomah. He
is co-operating with Charles Collard,
president of the company, In arrang
ing details for the opening of a re
tall lumber yard In Los Angeles. Mr.
Hurlbert Is a resident of the south
ern California town and says that
business there Is splendid. The com
pany owns a large tract of timber
and a mill In Oregon and will supply
its own Los Angeles yard.
The critical time for the stockmen
Is about over, in the Judgment of C. J.
Brown, vice-president of the First
National bank of Weiser. Idaho, reg
istered at the Multnomah. A notice
able change has taken place among
the stockmen and there Is less of
the feeling of depression that has
existed. From three sources money
has been coming Into that section
from the government and the good ef
fect of this la already being felt.
Whatever pessimists may think of
general conditions, 8am Koser, sec
retary of state. Is firm In the belief
that 1922 will see a great Increase
in motor vehicle registrations over
the number In 1921. As compared
with the same time last year, there
are mora machines registered now
than then.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Conyrutht, Hoog-htoa-Mlf flla Co.
Can You Answer These QuestionaT
1. Do fish have eyelids?
1. How do oysters stick to their
support?
I. What can I feed a pet owl?
Answers In tomorrow's nature note
Answer to Previous Questions,
1. Why do some birds have bristles
at their mouths?
Probably as an aid to catching fine
Insect prey. The wbipvoorwlll has
them, and to some extent the night
hawk. The redstart, a warbler, also
has bristles. All these birds eat tiny
insects, which are more readily en
meshed where the bill is reinforced
with this fringe.
I. What Is a whale, a fish or an
animal?
It is an aquatic mammal, of the
order Cete. to which belong also dol
phins and porpoises. It brings forth
living young. Has the back limbs so
undeveloped they do not show ex
ternally, and front limbs turned Into
paddles. They are gregarious, swim
ming in schools.
3. Who discovered how to hatch
eggs in an Incubator?
We don't know. Records show the
Egyptians and Chinese knew this
trick thousands of years ago. The
Egyptians used bake ovens. Prob
ably this gave the Idea to a French
man, Reamur, who began experiment
ing early In the 18th century. He
tried waste heat from ovens, and also
beds of decomposing manure, prac
tically the snakes' methodk Later an
Englishman tried a wire sieve filled
with cotton, held over a charcoal fire
It took 3 weeks of oonstant watching
to hatch out the chicks!
LIBRARY FOR WHOLE PENINSULA
Co-operation of Three Communities
and Central Location Are Suggested.
PORTLAND, Jan. 27. (To the Ed
itor.) The Portsmouth faction and
the University park faction should co
ordinate and co-operafe with the Pen
insula people In presenting to the
library board a strong coherent plan
for a library that would bring about
a building In a central location that
would be a community center where
many attendant would be present
every day with the facilities that exist
at St. Johns, at Piedmont and Walnut
park, at Alberta, at Mount Scott, at
South Portland. There should be an
assembly hall as well.
Instead of being a community or
civic asset the library at Peninsula
and at University park are make
shifts, being open only three days a
week.
Why not get the triangular piece
of property belonging to the city at
Lomhsrd and Woolsey .streets. Just
opposite the Columbia park, which is
approximately midway between the
Peninsula and Portsmouth schools and
unite as a Peninsula community to
have such a library as a combined
population of about 10,000 people
should have.
The Peninsula district comprises
about 5!00 people and the Portsmouth
and University park district about
4500 people. J. 11. F.
Mall Trips In Early Days.
BEAVERTON, Or., Jan. 26. (To the
Editor.) I should like to correct the
statements in The Oregonlan about
mail carried between The Dalles and
Portland before railroad times. It was
carried weekly at least, If not oftener,
In packs on men's backs. Henry
Wilmer usually had tfe contract,
with other helpers. The coming
of the mail carriers always was
considered quite Important by we
children, as they always spent one
of the nights at our house; their
packs would form a great heap
in the corner of our sitting room when
thrown from the shoulders of the
almost exhausted men. One of them
had his feet frozen badly and staid
for many weeks in my father's home.
It seems only fair that it should be
known what efforts were put forth
to take the mail from place to placo.
as the roads were very rough and
almost 'mpassable in places, even In
the summer time.
MRS. F. O T A YTATt
Was Roy Gardner Haunted
by an Evil Spirit?
Now that he is behind bars again, the spectacular bandit and
jail-breaker asserts that for years he has been dominated by evil
"controls" from beyond the border, and that these have counseled
and urped him to his deeds. "Spirits made me a bandit," calmly con
tends the penitent Roy, thereby enlistinff himself in the faith that is
espoused by Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodpre and other eminent believ
ers in the material afterworld. In the Sunday issue, with illustra
tions, is the narrative of this latest sensationalism of the Gardner,
character, which seems many phased and always capable of evolving
the unexpected.
Last Stronghold of Slavery. With tomorrow's issue of-the
big Sunday paper begins a tremendous serial of fact, written by
Mary Symons, and exposing the existence of chattel slavery in the
harems of Turkey. By bribery arid intrigue this daring writer
gained entrance to many harems and brought thence such stories as
stir us to hatred of an old evil an evil that lingers in backward and
degenerate Turkey. Chapter by chapter this serial will lay bare the
infamy of a custom that civilization should abolish. Follow it from
the first.
Pig in the Poke. Here's another exceptional short story, one of
the many that the Sunday editor procured for original publication
in The Oregonian. Written by Ethel Storm, it treats of the troubles
of Angelina, who took everybody's woe for her own and then,
calamity of calamities, was wedded to a man who had no troubles at
all! One imagines that a gifted storyteller, with such a situation,
could contrive pleasure and laughter and interest for any reader.
And this Miss Storm has done most adroitly. Page 7, magazine
section.
World Owes Health to Oregon. When we think of the vast store
of drugs and remedies that equip a pharmacist's shop, we uncon
sciously yield tribute to far lands as the source of this mysterious
supply. DeWitt Harry, with a flair for advancing the hidden com
monplace, tells in the Sunday issue the story of Oregon's medicinal
contributions, the authentic account of an industry that seeks its
materials in the forests of our own state, where nature grows rem
edies on her own account. Illustrated.
Spanish Spark That Started Beauty War-The English are con
fident, as a people, that no other land attains such feminine beauty,
such classic perfection of maidenhood, as their own. Dancing into
London came the mysterious senorita from Seville, to be acclaimed
by many "the world's most beautiful woman." Why are Britain's
prettiest daughters thus thrust aside? The English want to know,
and so it is that a beauty war is on because of Trim's dark eyes,
red lips and smoothly rounded cheeks. Illustrated, in the Sunday
magazine.
Indian Boy Who Became Senate Leader. Oliver Optic himself,
when feeling entirely in the mood, could have dreamed no dream
quite as remarkable as this story of fact the rise of Charles Curtis,
a national ward on an Indian reservation, to eminence in the upper
house of congress. William4 Atherton DuPu whose interviews with
American statesmen have appeared for some months in the Sunday
Issue, writes most interestingly of Senator Curtis. Illustrated.
All the News of AH the World '
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
Just Five Cents
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Mli.
PLA1 I.U SAFE.
W have what wa require.
And with it we make shift;
We ask not nor desire
A million-dollar gift.
A fortune so colossal
Might lead us far astray
With Idleness and wassail
To waste our Ufa away.
And yet, should soma on hand us
This large amount of cash
We'd take it, understand us,
And take It like a flash.
We trust that you'll belleva us
Whm firmly we declare
That It would sorely grieve us
To be a millionaire.
The simple truth ws utter
When we aver that health
Plus clothes and bread and butter
Are more to us than wealth.
Yet avidly we'd seise on
The wealth that we disdain,
For a sufficient reason
Which wo shall now explain.
For, if we stood up proudly
Our features hard and cold
And ululated loudly
"Take back your tainted gold!
We are as fate has made us.
We're poor, but quite content.
And nothing can persuade us
To take a single cent!"
If all attempts to budge us
Proved futile and In vain,
A Jury would adjudge us
Quite hopelessly insane!
Ills One Chance.
There seems to bo nothing left for
De Valera but to come over here and
sign on as an understudy for Tom
V atson.
s
Prudent.
Bill Haywood apparently does not
Intend .to come home to serva out that
sentence until It ha expired.
There'll Soon He a Senatorial! Rlectlon.
We wonder If Mr. Bryan has ac
quired a logal residence in Florida
' - .
(fopyrlitht by iie Pell Syndlrate, ine t
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From Ths Oregonlan cf January 28, 189?.
Salem John Mitchell Is making a
last-ditch fight. The belief Is prev
alent' that he is defeated. One of
Mitchell's leaders today endeavored
to "have a conference with Jonathan
Bourne.
Floating Ice has blockaded Cascade
Locks so they cannot be operated.
Reports are that they will be la
operation in a short time.
Among those who are being men
tioned for school director are W. P.
Fenton, R. r. Inman, J. D. Lee and
George H. Hill.
Judge McDevItt yesterday fined a
wife-beater $10 in the jualice court.
Way to Wheatland.
PORTLAND. Jan. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) I would like to know whera
Wheatland Is and how to get there.
A READER,
Wheatland Is on the weBt side of
the Willamette river about 13 miles
below Salem. It can be reached by
for-hlre cars from Dayton, McMinn
vlllo or Amity, which are on ths
Southern Pacific electric or by for
hlre cars from Salem. It Is about
two miles off the main McMlnnvlllo
Salem highway, lying due east of
Hopewell.
List of Went Coast Ships.
DEER ISLAND. Or., Jan. 28. (To
the Editor.) Could you tell me where
it would be possible to secure a list"
of all the vessels registered from tha
west coat ports?
A list of vessals owned on the
United States Taclflc coast Is pub
lished yearly by the Firemen's Fund
Insurance company and a copy may
be obtained free of charge from any
marine agency or at the home office
of the company. The Portland offlc
is in the Board "f Traile building.
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