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most sacred obligations If he but . embodies another .phase of the prin-l ports and that war was imminent,
chooses to regard these as an In-1 ciple that the federal government I To meet, the necessities of war a
cumbrance. It ia a jest of the j should aid In doing- that which the
streets, a flaw in the moral percep- states ought to have done but have
tions of our country. i neglected to do. Widespread de-
The concrete remedy is a tight- j mand for a federal divorce law and
ened divorce code everywhere. But
no. even such a code, however In
exorably administered, will. avail to
stamp out the causes of divorce un
less it Is aided by a sane and health
ful public viewpoint a belief In the
institution of marriage, a belief in
the home, a belief in country. These
are acquired from the crasiie up and
not bestowed by statute. Becauf
they have fallen into comparative
disuse divorce is gaining In America.
follow rr tot- bcdget ststzx.
Reconstruction of the government
would be only half accomplished if
it should be confined to re-organ.
nation of the bureaus and to adop
tion or a budget system. It should
extend to the methods by which the
budget is handled in congress and to
establishment of closer relations be
tween executive and legislative
branches of the government in con
sideration of revenue and tax bills.
The budget system cannot be
worked effectively unless all appro
priation bills originate in a single
committee of the house and a single
committee of the senate. Their total
can then be limited to the si mis
recommended by the president
through the budget director and to
the revenue available to meet them,
or it can be raised or lowered by
congress with full knowledge that
any increase of expenditures must
be met by increase of taxation.
Until the present congress as
sembled, appropriation bills for
-each department were prepared by
the committee having charge of
legislation for that department? The
consequence was that each commit
tee tried to provide for the needs
and desires of its department with
out due regard to those of other de
partments or to the revenue avail
able. A single committee respon
sible for all appropriations must cut
and trim each one, if necessary, to
keep the total within the revenue or
must propose new taxes to provide
more revenue. The house has made
the indicated change by entrusting
all appropriation bills to a single
committee, but the senate still fol
lows the old custom of dividing them
among several committees.
This may appear to be a detail of
legislative procedure that is of small
Interest to the public. In fact It di
rectly concerns the amount of
money in the shape of taxes which
the government takes out of the
pocket of each citizen. The people
have a direct interest In the prac
tice of economy by the government
that is, expenditure of their
money on things which they want
their government to do for them.
and no more than is necessary to do
those things well, (iertain functions
of government are indispensable, but
all waste should be eliminated from
them in order that the burden to the
taxpayer may be lessened or 'that
the money thus saved may be ex
pended for the general good in other
ways aid to highway construction,
ducation, health, for example.
Influences are always at work In
congress against this purpose. Com
mittees are jealous of power, and
cheir members wish to" make a rec
ord of achievement, for which they
must have power over money. Hence
the house committees which have
been shorn of much power by being
deprived of the Initiative in appro
priations are already striving to
have it restored. The corresponding
committees of the senate have so
far prevented all appropriations
from being entrusted to a single
committee, and may be expected to
continue their opposition.
We cannot expect the full meas
ure of economy that Is necessary in
the present condition of national
finances unless responsibility for ex
penditure and taxation is central
ized and fixed In single committees
of each hou of congress much as
It is fixed in the budget bureau, act
ing for the executive branch of the
government. That bureau recon
ciles with one another and with the
revenue" all requests for money from
those who are to spend It. The sub
ject should be handled In the same
manner by congress which must
provide the money and must decide
whether or to what extent requests
must be granted. Congress will be
more disposed to take the right
course if the people plainly Intimate
to their senators and representatives
that they expect promises of econ
omy made In party platforms to be
kept.
WILL Til FY DAREt
The arms conference has practi
cally completed its mighty work
and there Is renewed hone and pro
pect of peace for a long peridti
throughout the world.
iow let us see if there is any
American senator, or group of Amer.
lean senators. Irreconcilable. Incor
rigible, megacephalic, or otherwise
who will dare to set themselves
against the welfare of all the nations
by their opposition to ratification of
a treaty or treaties which are a prac
tical insurance against war among
the great powers, through limitation
of naval armament, which guaran
tee peace in the Pacific!, give the
oriental powers their rightful place
In the sun. abolish the deadly men
ace of the submarine and put the
ban of illegality on such lethal
weapons as poison gas?
PLENTY TO DO.
Mr. Baker will stay on the Job as
mayor and the people of Portland
will as a whole be glad of it. Not
that they did not in the main wish
him well in his supposed desire to be
governor a very commendable am
bition and not that they did not
think again in the main that the
city's loss would be the state's gain
Tet there Is a rather general opinion
that the state will make no mistake
If it shall choose for Its governor any
one among several available candi
dates and there Is a much less gen
eral thought that there is anyone
hardy to take the mayor's place.
The mayor gives as his reason for
staying where he Is that he was
called to that position and there is a
fair and reasonable expectation and
pledge that he will fill out his term.
Without finding any fault with him
for taking his present duties and re
sponsibilities so seriously, or for his
belief that he was formally called to
a definite service, let it also be ob
served that an election to the gov.
ernorshlp would have had the aspect
of, and would have been In fact, a
promotion by the whole peophr to
higher service. Why may not a
mayor aspire to be governor? Why
may not the sovereign people choose
him to be their chief executive?
Anyway, he has plenty to do as
mayor. A mayor's life is Just one
troublesome thing after another.
Take the little matter of that $900
worth of street-car tickets. It Is
discovered suddenly that they have
been kicking about in the city hall
for two or three years and nobody
missed them. The city is rich, of
course, and walking Is good and mu
nicipal automobiles are plentiful; but
they could have been used. They can
be used now. But why was there no
check on themT
Mayor Baker will find out. We
are confident of that. While he is
at it he might extend his inquiries
into a comprehensive survey of all
the city's properties to see what else
It has that It didn't know It had, or
mayhap what it has not that it
thought it had.
for another law making uniform
the conditions under which mar
riages may be entered into is the
product of weariness over waiting
for states to employ the rights about
which so much Is being said.
The Oklahoma case comes be
latedly. The records of many years
in which no lynchings were pun
ished stand out in public conscious
ness. Tet it Vs entirely possible that
the states in which these crimes
most frequently occur might even
now break the force of a federal
enactment by proceeding to break
up the practice on their own account.
THE INrtU".SK IN 1I1VORCKS.
A condition of public peril can be
Tie wed with satisfaction only when
Its power to harm is on the wane
and seems destined to return to a
minimum or disappear utterly. It Is
not so with divorce, which by the
statistics of the census bureau shows
an inrre:s of 10 per cent in ten
years and a total of 510.56$ divorced
persons In the I'r.ited States. Here
Is a peril to the happiness and effi
ciency of America that is growing
with the steady malignancy of a
cancer. In spite of all that has been
said a (ruins, the evil, despite the
pitiful proof that divorce is not the
road to human contentment, the
number of decrees mounts in direct
ratio to the loose living of the times.
It is apparent that, generally
speaking, the divorce laws of Amer
ica are t.xr too lax. too Instant In
their functioning, too foolishly in
clined. Here Is no denial that the
institution of divorce is necessary
nd that such legal separation, is not
sometimes required in simple Justice
to either husband, or wife. But
divorce as now administered In
America is the theme for sardonic
laughter and the instrument of whim
and caprice. It trifles with the in
stitution on which the state Is
founded rone other than the home.
It lends support to the sophistry that
life Is essentially selfish and the Indi
vidual privileged to cast away LU
4 ACTION AGAINST LYNCHING.
It is perhaps needless to say that a
few more incidents such as the
prompt sentencing of five lynchers
to life jterms in prison, which ac
tually came to pass in Oklahoma the
other day, would furnish the op
ponents of the Dyer bill with the
effective ammunition they so much
desire. Viewed by Itself, the con
viction of these men was a triumph
of justice which, if consistently pur
sued, would make federal interfer
ence unnecessary. Three of the five
men sentenced were white, the others
were negroes: all were accused of
participation In the hanging of a
negro packing-house worker at Okla
homa City on the night of January
14. They received their sentences
within two weeks of the commission
of the crime and within one week
of their arrest. The presiding judge.
moreover. In passing sentence, told
the defendants that they were guilty
of murder and that their crime war
ranted the electric chair.
But one swallow does not make a
summer and it is the contention of
the supporters of the Dyer bill that
the slates have 6lept .upon their
rights to rely on non-interference
by the federal government, and by
so doing have forfeited them. The
negative vote cast by 119 members
of the lower house of congress when
the Hyer bill passed that body repre
sented the sentiment of those who-
oppose, not the punishment of lynch
ing but the usurpation of power
which they believe should rest solely
with the states. In theory, and if
practice conformed to precept, no
fault could be found with the states'
rights principle. But the latter has
been reoeatedly found to be unwork
able. Not alone with reference to
lynching, but also In such matters as
the regulation of child labor, which
the federal government' has under
taken by indirection, it Is being dis
covered that the states left to them
selves do not always so conduct them
selves as to warrant the contention
that they can safely be left to their
own devices, the evil of interfer
ence, if It be an evil, is precipitated
by the states upon themselves. It is
interesting to recall that in the very
beginning of the era of established
government In the United States
many of our political leaders who
had been ardent In support of the
states' rights principle changed their
views, being moved thereto by
doubt as to the capacity of the states
to cotijjict certain of their affairs as
efficiently as the federal authority
would do. The prolonged contest
between the two principles and the
receding frontier of municipal au
thority have been coincident with
the failure of states to measure up
to the full extent of their respon
sibility. If lynchings had uniformly been
followed by prompt punishment, as
In Oklahoma, there would, of course,
have been no demand for a federal
antl-lynchlng law, for lynching it
self would not have attained the
THE BIGHT KIND OF RECEIVERSHIP.
- Liquidation of the debts of the
C009 Bay Lumber company and
preservation intact of the great In
dustry established by C. A. Smith
go to prove all in one the inherent
soundness of Oregon lumber enter
prises, the courage and good Judg
ment of Judge Wolverton in keeping
the business in operation and the
good business sense of the receivers
in operating and refinancing it.
To have scattered this great prop
erty among a number of holders bj
receivers' sale would have dismem
bered a, fine industry and would have
been a disaster to all of extreme
southwestern Oregon. It would also
have destroyed the splendid vision of
Mr. Smith when on the eve of re
alization. By completing the rail
road Into the Port Orford cedar belt
and by cutting and marketing a large
quantity of valuable timber the re
ceivers kept the great business In
operation and intact and raised
money to pay deferred claims, at the
same time employing 1200 men who
would otherwise have been thrown
Into Idleness In a time of severe de
pression. Thus the merit of Mr.
Smith's conception was proved, the
inherent soundness of a great Ore
gon lumber enterprise was estab
lished and Coos bay was saved from
an acute Industrial crisis.
In too many Instances receiver
ships have been Instruments of divi
sion and destruction. The story of
the Coos bay company gives an ex
ample of a receivership which pre
served and improved A great prop
erty. Credit is due alike to the
court, the receivers, the owners and
the reorganizerS.
GOOD MEDICINE FOR EUROPE.
By passing the bill for funding of
allied debts to the United States the
senate has taken a great stride to
ward American help In economic re
construction of Europe. The com
mission created by the bill will have
power .to fund for a period up to
twenty-five years debts which are
now represented by demand notes
to fix interest payments in proportion
to the rate which is paid on liberty
bonds, to defer payment of Interest
by nations which are not yet able to
begin making it and to adjust pay
ments of both interest and principal
to each nation's ability to pay. Thus
each debtor nation will know how
much It must pay and when it must
begin payment and will feel morally
compelled to set its finances in order
that it may meet this obligation.
That adjustment will exercise a
most powerful Influence toward res
toration of normal economic con
ditions. It will drive the several
governments to cut down expenses
and to increase revenue In order that
they may have the means of pay
ment. They will then stop issuing
paper money to meet deficits and
their money will acquire a stable
value, though far below Its par
value. In cutting expenses attention
should first be turned to cost of
armament and armies are likely to
be reduced. The commission will
doubtless regulate the degree of
leniency shown by the use that each
debtor nation makes of Its revenue
and will be able to force partial dis
armament by putting the screws on
those which are overarmed. A com
bination of severity with the wasters
and leniency with the helpless and
unfortunate will do much "to bring
the old world back to sanity.
Several of the distressed nations
have already done much to put their
affairs in order. Czecho-Slovakia
has almost balanced Its budget for
this year and will meet the deficit by
raising a loan, thus avoiding further
depreciation of its currency by print
ing of paper money. The Polish diet
has just Imposed new taxes suffi
cient to balance the budget for this
year and, a further deficit having
accrued during the two months oc
cupied In debate, has added more
taxes to meet it. Even bankrupt
Austria has abolished Its bread sub
sidy, trimmed down its civil service
and imposed new taxes. Germany,
the worst offender in the wildcat
money craze, has levied new taKes
to an immense sum, though It re
mains to be seen whether the new
crop of millionaires can be com
pelled to pay and whether the tax
collector can keep pace with the
ipenders.
Much can be accomplished toward
revival of trade by the debt commis
sion. By In effect dictating to each
debtor nation a policy "which will
give its currency a stable value the
commission can stimulate both buy
ing and selling, for both parties to
a bargain will feel more secure
against loss arising from changes in
the rates of exchange while a trans
action is being completed. Men will
feel safe In buying material, manu
facturing goods and contracting for
delivery months ahead, for they will
feel sure that the money in which
they are to be paid would not depre
ciate between the date of the" con
tract and delivery of the goods. ' In
short, the debt settlement will tend
to restore confidence, .lack of which
is the fundamental cause .of trade
depression on both sides of the At
lantic ocean.
great fleet was built and within a
few years the people found them
selves in possession of a potential
merchant marine second in tonnage
only to that" of Great Britain.
That fleet, combined with the. les
sons of the war, inspired the people
with a desir.e to maintain it as a mer.
chant marine and with a disposition
to approve government aid to that
end. There was a decided rever
sion of public opinion to support of
the subsidy Idea. But to the public
mind the new policy was not to hand
over the fleet to the few big con
panics that - survived and that had
joined foreign lines and transconti
nental railroads in concentrating our
shipping business at a fe"w large
ports. The people on and adjacent
to the seaboard visualized a number
of American lines operating from all
ports, many of them in active com
petition with one another, and de
veloping those ports to a capacity to
handle all the foreign commerce that
was naturally tributary to them.
The opinion of the interior popula
tion, while turned in favor of main
taining an American merchant ma
rine as essential to war emergencies
and as an instrument of foreign com
merce, was less decidedly favorable.
It can still be ripened into an active
force favorable to the new policy or
may again be turned against It.
In order that the cause of the
merchant marine may hold the favor
that it has won In the middle states
and may convert that favor into
positive force acting on congress, it
is essential that a scheme be put
forward which will attract the peo
ple. Any plan to hand over the
ships to a few great corporations
which would' concentrate ocean
traffic at a few ports having- the
strongest business pull would arouse
the opposition of the interior and of
those seaboard states which would
be consigned to neglect. It would be
regarded as an attempt to capitalize
for selfish ends the general senti
ment in favor of an American mer
Chant marine. It would not awaken
the direct interest in. the subject
that exists between each seaport and
its tributary back country. .
Any scheme of public support
must distribute the merchant marine
among all the ports of the country
in proportion to the potential traffic
that they can draw, each from its
own field, unhampered by restrictive
rates on railroads or by discrimina
tive contracts between railroads and
shipping lines. It must bring home
to the people of every port the Idea
that ships are the means of develop
ing the advantages of their natural
location and to the people of that
port's back country the idea that
ships are the means of delivering
their products to customers abroad.
in fact are merely extensions over
sea of the railroads which deliver
their gopds at the seaboard. Then
the Inland farmer, miner and manu
facturer will turn his eyes to the sea
and will get the smell of salt watel
into his nostrils. These are the
talking points" by which the mer
chant marine can be "sold" to the
American people.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leoae Casa Ban.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
. The man who uses "want ads"
td inveigle yoflng women and girls is
a scound-rel, generally too smooth to
be caught; but when one is uncov
ered he should get his deserts on
some charge that will stick.
Mail airplays are expected to . en
circle the world In seventeen days.
Somebody please page Mr. Burleson
and ask him to pose for a picture to
be entitled, "When a Feller Needs a
Friend."
Katie Putnam, star in many plays
years ago, among them Jules Bckert
Goodman's play "Mother, and who
has been in retirement on her farm
near Benton Harbor, Mich., is organ
izing a vaudeville act for an early
appearance.
Wlllard Mack's latest wife, his
fourth, is Beatrice Stone, called Bebe
by her friends. She isthe divorced
wife of J. A. Stone, a stock broker of
Salt Lake, and has two children. Mr.
Mack has known her for many-years.
They first became acquainted when
Mr. Mack and his, company appeared I firing." Mr. Linn, newly-elected presi-
ln salt LsKe in wnat is now ine I dent of the State Fair association, is
Wilkes theater. Mrs. Stone, then a on his way to Spokane where the
young girl, was a member of the temperature is 10 degrees below zero
1 Tn- nrrnnri eh onn fawann a ie nn
company, playing juvenile part!. I "r 7 I . r ,i.
uuuiucuuj i""- otuiio PPi conferenen tha DrmrrammB for all r.h
several times with Mr. Mack. Out- fairs on the circuit are mapped "but
side oi ner appearance in Salt Lake and approved.
Mrs. Stone nlaved the Pa.nta.ees time
last year, serving as accompanist for , Returning from a conference of tax
Olga Steck. former Salt Lake vocalist. .a at..,.a .tt
Portland vaataerlov nn iii. .. V. m a
.it n.i... " ' "
"- "..to. """ Hoseburs-. Mr. Brand, as a mem-
of "before the war" days. Is vice- Ker of the Orea-on tax investiiration
president and art director of the commission, was one of a committee
Players' Assembly, the latest co- of four who had a -two-day session
oneratlve ore-anizatton to be lncor- with the Investigators of Washington,
-mr. hrauo, wno 28 an apple grcnaruisi,
bany, N. T. that t h a nri.)., hnnlneaa fn Orp.srOTl
The members have already placed j s not a gold mine; that 90 per cent
their first play in rehearsal, although I of the orchards planted neVer become
Its title and the names of the cast self-supporting, but that the life of
have not yet been disclosed, but it I an orchardist has compensations other
is presumed the company will be lnf n ,I-na.ncalL . wn-c " ' ma? lL
drawn largely from the founders, .' ,.", ,v,,e
among wnom are numoerea neien nends more on the man than on any
Lowell, Galina Kopernak. Mabel Fren I thing else and he advocates quality,
year, Winifred Harris, Clarke Silver- I saying that a few cents extra
nail. Frank Doane, Brandon Hurst, I every box make a world of difference
Arthur Hohl. Mario Majeroni and in the revenue.
i n a -aa-I T Tt 1 t I
Dn"- Tf I. cm Mor8 American citizens . know
dent of the assembly, Clarke Silver- about Blaine. Wash., than they did
nail Is vice-president ana art airec- I a few years ago. 'Blaine is on th
tor. Frank Doane Is the secretaryand I paved highway in Washington, an
Rrandon Hurst, has been delegated I It is also on the international bound
i. v.- e tha funda I ary line. Blaine is the place where
John Brunton is to be the techni- . moto returning from
cal director. I British Columbia and search the ma
The objects of the Players' Assem- chines for contraband, such as
bly," the bulletin sets forth, "will be liquor. What the inspectors do with
t,,.., tiIotto nf rfiatinr-tlnn and the liquor they seize has nothing t
eventually to establish a permanent 1
players company in New York. vent Drohibition. which has made
Vancouver. B. C. such a noDuiar des.
Ethel uarrymore .is striKing out on i tlnation for coast residents, Biain
the long trail to the Pacific coast. She I was as unknown as Cherry Grove,
will Dlav about the middle west for a Or., but now .its name is as familiar
short time before starting the long " X,"'1,.
jumps i;ius iUD . arrivals at the Multnomah.
tains, sne is playing -ueciasseo m
the largest receipts In her career. Her I While lee nine Inches thick in
anagement denies the report that '5, -"""
she will act "As You Like It" next
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Honghton-MlffUn Co.
"Wouldn't It be a fine thing If we
always thought of Oregon first, and
presented our best side instead of
calling attention to shortcomings?"
asked James Linn, In a philosophical
mood at the Imperial. "We have more
things to boast of than almost any
other state In the union, yet what at-
tempt are we making to advertise
these advantages and resources? You
never hear of a, California resident
knocking his state, "but on the con
trary he never overlooks an oppor
tunity to do a little bragging. Even
when they have an earthquake they
call It a fire or Insist that the earth
shocks are .caused by heav- gun
and store for summer.
cake 32 inches thick
Joha Gray's "The Beggar's Opera,'
which was at the Heilig this year,
to cut
Banff
deemed the right size for storing for
the Canadian Pacific railroad. Nine
of these cakes, each weighing 960
pounds, are loaded every half min
ute on sledges and every 12 minutes
is making its way back from th a freight car is loaded and ready for
Pacific coast to Chicago. It will stop shipment. It requires 22,000 ton3 of
at the Central theater to stay a little ice to take care of the demands of
while, and then proceeding eastward
will play New York, Boston and rhil-
adelphia before returning to Eng
ine railroad system and carry
through the summer. Such is the In
formation given by H. F. Beechman
of Battle Creek. Mich., who arrived
land. The company now singing this j at the Multnomah yesterday with his
Adam of all the musical shows began
its tour eome months ago in eastern
Canada, and then made
wife. They are touring the country
and find that there are a great many
It's hard to believe those stories
about unemployment In Chicago
after the news dispatches had led
one to believe that everybody there
had a good job bootlegging.
Portland people who have had' to
be dug out of drifts in California
will join In the chorus of "Never
again!" Really, "there's no place
like home" in winter.
Despite midwinter, January was a
good building month in Portland,
permits for dwellings numbering 203,
The fact is, any month is a good
month in Portland.
When the groundhog sees his
shadow and spring is delayed until
the middle of March the year Is good
for things that grow in and above the
ground.
Union hours and no "visiting" on
the rock pile after this.' The sheriff
Is in the crushed-rock trade and
will fill orders with lightning' dispatch.
American scenery Is to be shown
in France, a sort of reciprocity, as it
were. America Is pretty well fed
up "on French "scenery" of varying
kind. t
The highway may as well be
cleared full width and as much- as
possible by hand labor. That course
will relieve two situations at once.
Thanks to Mr. Hughes, the old
Oregon will not be scrapped. - We
shall have her floating in home
waters some day.
Russia declines to discuss her
debts by wireless, possibly fearing
that a request would follow to pay
them by wire.
A rOPCLAR SHIPPING POLICY.
One of the many changes In Amer
ican public opinion that have been
produced by the war concerns the
merchant marine. For many years
efforts had been made to pass
through congress bills granting sub
sidies for operation of American
built ships by American owners
under the American flag, but they
failed In consequence of popular op
position and at the advent of the
Wilson administration the effort
had been abandoned. A plan of that
administration that the government
build and own merchant ships was
It's getting so that half the men
with satchels are suspected and in
some cases suspicion is more than
half right.
That ten or twenty you are feeling
In a trousers pocket belongs in the
chest. Why delay loosening up?
' J 1 J .. .. .- -, V. 11.. . , V. J
1 T A II . r li 1 11 c I JV, Ul ... I, DUUll ll 111 U 111 111UU Wl
jump uum "- 'handling the ice at Banff.
it has tnrivea in me west. i
xo get from wapinitia to Portland
Bdgar Selwyn has written a one-act now, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cantrell, at
dramatic playlet as a vaudeville ve- tne imperial, nave to mane a rounQ-
f- fln,.nn. Bno.1 legitimate ouuui. i"li, B"'"B " auu
' i down the Holumbia. A mrr rtirent
star, wnu i -. ppi I route is being promoted with the as
circuit. The piece is 'Tne itoyai I sistance of the United States forest
Rendezvous." Miss Reed will have a service. This bureau has eet aside a
supporting company of four. After a I large sum of money to build a road
preliminary season out of New York om Wapinitia to connect with the
the offering will be seen In the K, 1th - posSle thl"t
two-a-day house starting the latter the work will be advertised, let and
part of February. I started in the current year. The state
highway commission will co-onerate
Kav Laurel, artists' model ana ror- I in the undertaking. The Wapinitia
mer Ziegfeld professional beauty, will cutoff will connect with The Dalles-
make her Broadway vaudeville debut -mi"ia u.B -.
at Keith's Colonial theater, this week. Nine miles from Pasco, Wash., there
She will appear in a comedy orama 19 an Ice jam several miles long and
w.. T7iFAa T,.Vann "The MflllchtV lPOm to fieet th.ick. reiOorts J TT.
Wife." Miss Laurel will be supported 1 o ocstiuc, unmwiv 01
by a company of four, including Sid
ney Booth.
a
The Selwyns have decided to ex
tend the engagement of Madame Pe-
trova in "The White Peacock" at the
Idaho, who is registered at the Mult
noLh. The Ice jam is threatening
tne ondge trom fsisao to Kennewick,
which spans the Columbia, river. This
bridige, according to -Mr. McPherson,
will be or great value to Portland,
as it will be possible to reach Spokane
Comedy theater indefinitely. It was hajj ,n part finan:ed Pusfet
originally planned to send thj pro- soudoin tltue theory that the traffic
duction on tour for the spring en- wan go direct to Seattle instead of
gagement, but since its opening on coming drawn the Columbia river high
Christmas eve the """-medy theate. way to Portland. ,
oox onice nas snown u; fa at)eoiuteIy necessary that no
crease of business as to justiry an I time be and th woi-k be pushed
indefinite extension- of the New York j aa rapidly ad poasibie if we are to
run. I have an exposition In 1925," stated
ufarlama Petravn'. exnerience in redencK vining mslier 01 Idaho,
Th. White P.arock" has been some- ""V "l U"-K"8 lur '
--' " I lUOE Tin a,T, aav . li nrinnln I
what similar to that of "A Bit of Di- rton ,ast r ..Ttbe dlferen; plans
vorcement," the latter play - being should be carefully oomsidered and all
builded from the first two weeks of get together utider one definite pro-
a verv small business to patronage gramme aaid make every dollar and
J . . . . . . rr.1. ... , ..1 1 n
which taxed the capacity of the l; - .".- a 110
Times Square theater thereafter. - , r,? . - -
The White Peacock" has done the!
same thing, playing now to capacity w0 "rm on the water-wagon," ad-
business at the Comedy theater after J mltted a man at the Hotel Portland
i small beginning in that playhouse yesterday. "I was one of a crowd of
e ' m 1 live wno were mizea up witn mo-on-
The register kept In the Blackstone shine in Seattle) a year ago. Maybe
theater in Chicago, where Frank ' im ." 1 m ;
These earthquakes must be ex
pected from time to time until pro
hibition actually prohibits. '
Poland has decided for per
cent beer. That ought to keep the
Polish force busy.
Nobody seems to have guessed the
late earthquake was due to heavy
submarine firing.
The rules of international cour
tesy require the weaker nation to
tip its hat first.
The best time to start a law-enforcement
crusade is just before an
election.
The reduction in the price of footv
stuffs hasn't yet reached eating to-
Kinr-lrcd in Rpveral KP-Ssinno Kt monv
proportions of a national disgrace. ! democrats as well as republicans bacco.
The recent pas-sage of the Towner- and was finally adopted or? the I "
Sterling bill for federal aid In edu- ground that ships were needed as Don't "let the other fellow do it"
cation, while in no sense punitive, J uaal auxiliaries and as army trans- all.
m , ,iT 1 , . , .f I UiX UCI 9 O- L 1 1 111 O. A t-V J Wa. a.ll-C all Cal
Bacon performs in Llghtmn , now m th6 becam6 wjnd and anotiner
snows moro man imiuca ui 1 paralyzed. The blind men are
ont-of-town visioners of the drama I nt HI Ri-hitlesn and tha man who was
since October. paralyzed ha,sn't been able to move
finger snnoe. lm tnonougn, De-
Here's the latest angle on the neve me.
Kitty Gordon-Ralph Ranlet romance. . , r. '.,.,
rf T. s -iL,.. i-it. i A W. WheeWiouse of Arlington, Or.,
In Des; Moines, where Kitty is play- wjMjre he ,g the current mayor jg
lng, she said she had received a mes- registered at the Imperial. He re
sage from the broker which read: ports that winter conditions are still
All my love. I prevalent in tha.t eection and that in
H InTM ma I can't understand the (Columbia river tnere is an amina-
why he holds out on me," said Kitty "" of ioe foT vrhich 110 ono has
on receipt of the telegram. "I am go-
ing to talk to him, on long distance Mrs. R. T. Parker and children
tonight, and believe me, he will be arrived at the Perkins last evening
glad to affirm our engagement when from Reliance, where Mr. Parker was
x .. i,.nn toiwiTi with hin killed Tuesday afternoon when a
In Tnrlt Vr -Ranlet xt-hr, la '"66'6 "6"' " "
... - , ' trestle. Reliance is a losrfirlne- sta-
oroiter. says. I tion on the Tillamook railroad.
"A gentleman dislikes to contradict f -
i.t n.Minni,riT tha l.j. jj j.-TOiana, wno nas uvea, dov
, . ......,. .. . . I auu ixiiMi, . i .. J t. ti i . v.., .a leisiB-
ua "s"";u. tered at the Imperial from . that
mm. Dut tnere are times wnen it must French prairie sown, which was set
be done." ' I tied by the pioneers.
Mr. Ranlet admitted the embarrass- I
ment of this situation when shown jp de a'n 'Unsuccessful
dispatches from Des Moines in which attempt to short change the cashier
Cam Yon Answer These Questions'
1. Is there such a thing as a mer-
maiQ-
2. Do barn pigeons ever alight on
a ience7
S. Why do some fishes have more
bones than others?
Answers In- tomorrow's nature
notes..
Answer a to Previous Questions.
1. Do insects breathe?
Yes, but not the way most animals
do, taking air into lungs through
mouth or nostrils, and In the lunge
exchanging oxygen for carbondiox
lde through the blood. Jnsects have
tiny breathing tubes like hairs,
reaching to openings in the sides of
the body. Muscles in the body ex
pand and contract these tubes.
2. What makes milk "ropy"T
This condition Is due to the action
of certain bacteria which are sup
posed normally to live in water. They
may be . communicated to the milk
through washing utensils in water
thus contaminated; or they may be ia
a brook or pond in which the cow
wades. If the latter, they dron from
the cow's body at milking time, and'l
start growing, forming a slimy viscid,
stringy condition in the milk.
8. Is It unkind or any harm to
take a bird's egg from a nest If you
intend it for museum specimen?
In some cases It Is possible to ab
etraot an egg without alarming the
parent birds or causing them to aban
don the nest; but more often they do
notice the "disturbance and refuse to
incubate what eggs are left. Quail
are particularly sensitive in this re
spect. The great harm is that in ap
proaching a nest a trail is uncon
sciously made, And this serves as a
signal to prowling skunks, weasels,
red squirrels, etc., where to find a
dinner.
KELSAY PAROLE STILL RANKLES
Inquiry Hade aa to Why Some Action
Ia Not Had Regarding Caae.
FOSSIL. Or., Jan. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) It is now several weeks since I
have seen anything in The Oregonlan
about the Sheriff Kelsay case. Every
day have I examined the pages of the
paper to see the explanation by Judge
Parker of his parole of Sheriff Kelsay,
but all in vain.
If it Is true that the Oregon law has
In It a proviso to the effect that no pa
role can be granted by a judge when
the sentence is for a longer time than
ten years, as stated in one of your edi
torials, let me ask, where did he eet
the power legally to parole Sheriff
jieisayr ir tne law is as you sav. can
he toss it into a scrap heap and treat
it HKe a scrap of paper, as the Ger
mans did when they violated Belgium,
or is he bound .to respct that law like
the rest of the people of Oregon? If
ne is not a Dove the law how can he
ignore it and become a law unto him
self? These are all very important
questions of grave public concern and
should be answered by Judge Parker
for the good of all law-and-order Deo-
ple.
It is beyond my powers of under
standing why this important mystery
Is not run down by the governor of
Oregon or some other officer of the
law who is charged with the dutv of
enforcing its criminal laws. There Is
something seriously wrong with our
laws when a trusted public official can
embezzle almost J20,000 of the peo
ple's money and that same official can
come before the court and say, "I am
guilty," then be sentenced for 15 years
in the pen and then, without serving a
single day of that time in prison, be
paroled at a time when only about five
people were in court. . It is, I say, very
unusual, to say the least.
Only a few months ago over in Gil
liam county a young man, a stranger
over there, stole a horse which I un
derstand was worth about J25. The
young man told the judge he was
guilty. Judge Parker sent him to the
pen for several years. He, also, was
entitled to some consideration because
he had seen service overseas and his
frail body, I am told, indicated that
he was not in the best of health. But
he was without any friends, so he is
now in the pen. Is that even justice
or consistency? TAXPAYER.
More Truth Than Poetry-
By James J. Montague.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Yeara Ago,.
Prom The Oregronlan February 2, ItSBT. -Washington,
D. C. The Nicaragua
canal bill occupied the senate most
of the day, but no progress was made
toward a vote.
. The Gold Hill mine, said to have
produced from $180,000 to $600,000 In
one pocket in early days, is being de
veloped by a cross-cut tunnel.
From $4 to $6 is being offered In
Coqullle valley for next season's.,
calves.
Carson, Nev. The woman suffrage
bill was a special order in the senate
last night.
The Oregonlan simply directed an
inquiry as to the meaning of the law
(Sec 1586 Oregon Laws) which limits
exercise! of parole by the circuit court
to first offenders sentenced for not to
exceed ten years. It is suggested by
some lawyers that sentences being in
determinate in this case 1 to 15 years
the court would have the necessary
parole authority. Others Insist that
inasmuch as length of time actually
served under an Indeterminate sen
tence is fixed by the parole board and
not by the court, an indeterminate
sentence of 15 years bars parole.
There is a question also as to
whether mandamus proceedings in this
case could be instituted until after
the expiration of the present term of
court. .
The Oregonlan is informed that cer
tain officials and responsible citizens
are investigating the law and the
facts and expect to take some action
as .soon as a proper course is decided
upon.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The OrefronJan, Februry 2, 1872.
Albany, N. Y. The trial of Tweed
will not take place until the March
term. It is probable that Tweed will
now take his seat.
News from The Dalles yesterday
was to the effect that the thermom
eter was 28 degrees and Ice was run
ning freely in the river.
A temperance rally and mass meet
ing will be held at he courthouse on
Wednesday evening. Come one, come
all!
At Salem the river Is within three
feet of being as low as it was las'. '
summer.
MOUNTAIN HAS STEAMED BEFORE
WHISKY PRESENTS WEAK CASE
Miss Gordon announced her deter
mination to wed him.
"I am, of course, highly compli
mented by the expressed esteem in
which Miss Gordon appears to hold
me," he said, "but honestly this is the
first time I have heard of It and I
should assume that I might have been
consulted on it before the Des Moines
announcement was made.
"Miss Gordon and I have been
friends for years. and I cannot but be
lieve that somebody has mistaken
Miss Gordon's casual expression of
friendship for something more serious."
of the Imperial out of $20.
A C. Marsters, former member of
the state senate and In the banking
business at Roseburg, is in the city
on business.
Profit on Poataffe Stamps.
ASHLAND, Or., Jan. SO. (To the
Editor.) Can a postmaster or anyone
else lawfully, sell government postage
stamps for more than their face
value? SUBSCRIBER.
More Evidence Is Cited Against Its
Value aa Medicine.
CORVALLIS, Or., Jan. 31. To the
Editor.) The Oregonian's editorial.
Physicians and Liquor," gives an
easily understood summary, and also
comments based on sound reasoning
concerning this questionnaire of tha
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation. As one of your readers.
wish to mention my appreciation
f it.
From one point of view, it Is an
ther illustration of how easy it is
to gather a mass of figures, while
' it is quite another matter to inter
pret the significance of those figures.
Three items have come to my mind
that might influence a person's in
terpretation, but which I believe
your editorial did not mention. One,
that several years ago, the American
Medical association officially with
drew its approval of "whisky as a
medicine," by removing whisky from
the American pharmacopeia. It is
my impression that this action took
place before the advent of national
prohibition, and that the action was
supported by a large majority.
Two That, according to a state
ment of the National W. C. T. TJ., un
der national prohibition. In 24 out
of our 48 states, not even one physi
cian took out a license to prescribe
alcoholics.
Three That, according to statement
clipped from the Telegram, some of
the physicians who attributed "un
necessary suffering or death" to tha
enforcement of prohibition were al
luding to cases of poisoning from
moonshine and wood alcohol.
If such answers put a fair Inter
pretation on the question, it should
be clearly explained that such is their
interpretation. Otherwise some read
ers might suppose that in the opin
ion of those physicians wnisKy was
No, except in the case of stamp
vending machines which operate un-i necessary to relieve suffering, or was
der a special permit irom the de- i indispensable to maintain life,
partment. J ' . M. R.
Correspondent Tells of Viewing: Phe
nomenon Several Yeara Ago.
PORTLAND, Feb. 1. (To the Edi
tor.) There still seems to be more
or less mystery about the smoke or
steam occasionally reported to have
been seen rising from Mount Hood.
I will add my testimony to others of
similar character.
About six or seven years ago, while,'
living on my place at Cherryville, my
family and I witnessed this spectacle
under peculiarly favorable circum
stances. My place, which is on the
high bench to the north of the post
office at Cherryville, commands a
perfect view of practically the whole
of the mountain and is far enough
away to give a natural horizontal
perspective of it.
Toward evening of a clear, calm
day I observed a column arising from
the depression to the southwest and
considerably below the top of the
mountain. I have a powerful field
glass, with which we viewed the spec
tacle for an hour or so until dusk
came on. Coming, as the column did,
from the depression mentioned, we
saw it against a background of the
higher ridge beyond.
It had the appearance of a column
of steam, and the glass clearly showed
the rolling, ascending, motion, such
as steam would have in a perfectly
still atmosphere. It had color enough
to make a contrast with the white
snow background, but was not dark
enough to indicate much, if any,
3moke. It ascended in an almost ver
tical direction and the slight varia
tion from this position during the
hour or so that we observed it re
moved from our minds any possibility
that it was the resujjys of wind-blown
snow. I think it was nearer spring
than this date, but the mountain was
still completely covered with snow
and the air so clear that every detail
of the surface was brought out by the
glass. GEO. B. COUPER.
CHRISTMAS AFTERMATH.
X saxophone he longed to play
She gave him one on Christmas day.
And he is learning, 'cross the way
My neiaThbor.
He plays staccato notes, off time.
While I am struggling with rhyme;
He strikes them mgii, he hits them
low.
He whines and moans them fast and
slow-
But never does he cease to blow
My neighbor.
a
He's at it mow. He never Jtops
He's syncopating skips and hops.
And now and then a note he Tlrops ?
My neighbor.
I hear it beating In my brain;
It sounds as if he were in pain.
Yet more and more he seems to gain
Momentum.
I think, I dream, of bombs and things
Attached bo. slowly burning strings.
And if the mail a package brings-
He'll never know wh,6 sent 'era,
MICKEY.
Woman's Reason Ia Given.
Judge.
"Why did you go and tell your
chum I am giving a party?"
"Because I knew she wasn't asked."
THE WROKO METHOD.
No longer the criminal expert of
France,
With a fierce and Svengalio ex
pression. Can put a poor crook In a hypnotlo
trance
And thereby extort a confession.
No longer, whenever he happens to
think
That a man would be ' willing to
burgle,
Can he cow with wink after bulldoz
ing wink, -Till
his weakness he owns with a
gurgle.
Time was when a man who was
thought to hae done
A plain or a fancy garroting.
Who an Illicit wine shop had braz
enly run
Or was summonsed for Illegal
""voting.
Was clamped in a chair, while another
man's eye t
Was fixed on his face, till, all wilty
And shrunken and droopy and ready
to die.
He wearily owned himself guilty.
The'scheme was a good one wherever
applied
Wherever a crime was committed;
The prisoner owned It before he was
tried.
And no one was ever acquitted.
However, it's lately been put to the
test.
And a doubt of Its worth has arisen. '
For they find that the innocent only
confessed
While the guilty all kept out of
prison.
Fo only a person who Isn't a crook
Will submit to the hypnotio power;
A rascal will stare at each withering
look
With never a cringe or a cower.
The experts declare the new method
today
Is foolish and futile and silly,
So they seek for confessions the old
fashioned way
By knocking 'em down with a billy,
s
Supererogatory.
We can think of nothing more fool
ish than to say that people who drink
wood alcohol ought to die.. They al
ways do.
a a -
Boosting Home Iadnatry.
The elevation -of Will Hays to the
movie chieftainship ought to be a big
thing for all those Indiana writers,
ass
Judging By Resolts.
Among the new Idle rich may be
numbered prohibition enforcement of
ficers. (Copyright by the Bell Srnfli-'ats, Trie.)
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