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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1922
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ports as outlets In order to avoid
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MODEBATIOX OT INHIBITION
It may be that some pood has
coma out of the public upheaval
over school dances. If there shall re
suit from It a moderation in the di
versions and habits of the young
and an awakened responsibility
among- parents the discussion 11
not have been in vain. The thought
ful person, even though he may not
disapprove of dancing as fuch, will
not deny that dancing like every
other amusement may be carried to
an extreme and by extreme we do
not here mean indecency, but fre
quency. Trancing, any one must ad
mit, may be overdone, just a ath
letics, personal adornment, automo
bile riding, theater going, card
parties, and even class parties at
which there I neither dancing- nor
carda, may be overdone to the detri
ment of study.
Young folk lead a more exciting
life than did their fathers and moth
ers, and dancing, as a mania, is, as
we see It, but one of the several ex
travagances of youth for which the
tolerant spirit of parents is largely
to blame. A more moderate pace
would be of benefit to education, but
it is not to be attained by arbitrary
prohibition by public authority of
one or all of youth's several diver
siona. Ad has been said by the
young folk themselves, they 'will
dance elsewhere if not permitted to
dance In the school gymnasium.
The Oregonian is not one that be
lieves that If school dances were
prohibited the students would
promptly go to perdition through
the route of improper unsupervised
dances. There are many homes and
neighborhood clubhouses where
dancing is possible. And Inasmuch
as those who wish to dance and are
permitted by parents to dance would
dance anyway, the closing of the
school gymnasiums' to dancing
would not end the heartburns- or the
reputed social ostracism of those
who do not dance.
Old-fashioned parental authority
is the best cure yet devised for
school-age excesses. There are too
many secret ways of committing sin
for government to attempt to dis
cipline every movement of the thou
sands who make up each community.
but it is not beyond the power of
parents to know where their chil
dren go, what they do and whom
they asxociate with. There are fun
damentals of right and wrong, of
which government can properly take
cognizance. That is all.
There is hardly an amusement.
hardly a diversion, that does not
have so strong an appeal to some in
dividuals that it overwhelms duty
.and sober living. There are count
less persons who abstain from par
ticular ways that are harmful to
them but not to other.. There must
always be some reliance placed on
Individual and parental restraint else
every pleasure would have to be de
nied to all because hubit-forming to
some or abused by a few. The old
saying mat one man s meat Is an
other man's poison may as axio
maticalty be applied to amusemenus.
He who utterly condemns moderate
indulgence in a common pleasure
because of its injurious effect upon
himself, often needs introspection.
t,e!f-eamination. It may be that
his own fibre needs strengthening.
VINDICATED.
In the long watches of his uneasy
nights Tatty" Arbuckle can and
probably does trace his present
troubles to one certain woman.
Many women have played their part
dn the frequent amours of the olea
ginous comedian, but this particular
woman has no such unsavory place
In the screen of his disgusting per
formances. She Is not the unfortu
nate Virginia Rappe, nor any of her
kind; but she is the woman juror
whose outraged sense of the decen
cies, coupled with a discriminating
and Inexorable spirit of justice, not
complicated by any of the finer
judgments about the law's techni
calities, prevented the "vindication"
of Arbuckle at his first trial.
Her interpretation of the facts, as
disclosed by the testimony, was that
the comedian was not only the cen
tral figure In the scandalous de
bauch at the San Francisco hotel,
but that he was the responsible
cause of the Rappe woman's death,
whether by his direct act or by his
personal accountability for the orgy,
which led to her death. It was ail
Arbnckle's affair. Including the
tragic sequel. How can it be denied?
Now ten Jurors at the second trial
have refused to vindicate Arbuckle,
but they have vindicated that reso
lute woman Juror. In the neat trial,
twelve may be found possibly who
will vindicate the Judgment and
action of the ten .and the one.
aggregate a lot of things that might
be changed to the advantage of all
concerned. But being untrained and
undisciplined and not much given to
Inductive reasoning, they fail to em
ploy either logic or experience in
their search for a remedy. The pro
fessor hits the call on the head when
he says that "Instead of exerting
themselves to frame a coherent con
ception of the "good life,' they waste
themselves in puerile revolt for re
volt's sake, in behalf of a freedom
with no destination, in behalf of an
individuality without character.'
OITLKT FOR r.lNAPMN WHEAT,
twists which Agent-General Wade
or untisn t'oltimbia brought out in
an address before the Royal Society
of Arts In London In expatiating on
the merits of his province and of It
great port of Vancouver h;ve much
application to Fortland. Mr. 'Wade
showed that the Panama canal had
so reduced the distance by sea from
Vancouver to Liverpool that It had
made shipment of wheat from a
large part of the Canadian prairie
provinces by way of Vancouver
more economical than by way of
Montreal. The distance by Hnd from
the principal cities of the Canadian
wheat belt is less to Vancouver than
to Montreal, and the disadvantage in
distance by sea from Vancouver
"has been lessened more than two
thirfis, if it does not approximate to
three-fourths." Vancouver has the
further advantage of being open the
year around, while the Montreal
loute is c!oed by Ice In winter.
There Is always great congestion of
traffic at eastern terminals, and
there Is an acute Struggle to export
half of the surptus wheat before the
St. l-awrer.ee river freezes for the
winter.
All these factors working in favor
of Vancouver, work In favor of
Portland also as a shipping point for
'.-idian wheat, whatever advan
tage Vancouver has in land distance
Is compensated by the shorter sea
distance and by the fact that the
lailroad to the Uritish Columbia port
crosses more ranges of mountains
than that to Portland. A railroad
from Alberta to a connection with
either the O.-W. R. & X. or the
N'orth Bank road crown the main
Kocky mountain divide and the
Hitter Root rang in order to reach
the water grade down the Columbia
river to Portland, while the road to
Vancouver crosses the Gold range
and the Cascades also. If cost of
service by the two routes were com
pared, that to Portland might prove
ONE WAT TO LOWER CAR FAKES.
It is not given to everyone to be
able to abstract comfort from bare
mathematics, but It is done over In
Seattle and in Seattle's most sensi
tive spot. Are we not Informed by
the Seattle chamber of commerce.
speaking through Harold Crary, di
rector of publicity, that the average
cost per streetcar ride in that city -Is
but 6.C& cents, and this though it
costs 10 cents for a single ride or
S 1-3 cents each for three rides when
bought in a bunch?
The Information is given us by Mr.
Crary In response to a guess printed
The Oregonian that the average
cost per ride in Seattle, must be
about 9 cents. It Is not. We my
again on the authority of the cham
ber of commerce that although some
pay 10 cents and the others pay
8 1-3 cents; the average cost per ride
per patron is but 6.65 cents.
For that matter, the average reve
nue per ride to the Portland street
railway company is only 5.68 cents.
But we shall not gloat over Seattle
about it except to remark that at
this lower figure the taxpayers are
not called on to help support the
system and that the system is able to
sell its securities and make extensive
improvements. But -it will not be
denied that there is an 8-cent fare
in Portland or that if one buys a
strip of six tickets they cost 45 cents.
The secret of the calculation in
Portland, and presumably in Seattle,
is that on the books of the street
railway the number of rides Is the
number shown by the registers in
the cars, and that these registers
record transfers, tickets, cash fares
and school tickets. For 8 cents in
Portland you may get two or more
rides counting the number of times
you transfer, or 4 .cents or less per
'ride."
What advantage thire may be In
putting forth the bare statement
that the average streetcar ride in
Seattle costs a. 65 cents when by
ride"- one means something other
I than the common understanding of
the word, is not apparent. But if it
will attract business and population
and admiration, the thing for all
Seattle folk to do Is to take more
cross-town rides and by thus in
creasing the number f transfers
bring back the 6-cent taret Why
get the advice of Peter Witt or any
other expensive expert when one
can jump over high s:ieetcar fares
by merely pulling on one's bootstraps?
NOT MERELY A "BAD COLO."
We stand to lose and not to gain
by minimizing the possible effects of
the latest epidemic which, seizing
the people of the Atlantic coast In
Its grip a few wee'ks ago, has passed
swiftly westward and is now re
ported as prevalent in all parts of
the country. It is regarded as bear
ing a relation to the epidemic of
1918-19 very similar to those recur
rences which followed the visitation
of 1889-90. which scientists in the
former period called a series of
"diminishing shocks." Yet, dimin
ishing or not, some fatalities are be
ing recorded and even a low mor
tality rate is sufficiently disquieting
to warrant every possible precau
tion. It is a poor solace for those
whose loved ones are numbered
among' even a relatively small num
ber of victims.
The New York heal til" authorities,
who are particularly active because
of the proximity of their city to the
European sources of infection, have
officially proclaimed the epidemic to
be true influenza, and whether this
Is true or not as to the malady else
where It is known that it is infec
tious, that it is contracted first by
those who are most in contact with
other cases, and that it is highly de
sirable that the usual measures
should be adopted for checking Its
spread. The tendeney to set down
every affection of the respiratory
organs as merely a "bad cold" is
invitation to carelessness which) is
likely to be costly now.
Influenza and a cold are not the
same thing, and the proportion of
the former, however small, is a con
stant warning against letting down
the bars to a visitor who can easily
outstay his welcome. The obvious
course is to keep always on the safe
side. The prophylaxis of influenza
Is quite well understood and it is
not so complicated as to leave aDy
excuse- for nesrlect.
posed of Frenchmen; that of Rus
sia is composed of foreign mer
cenaries who have sold themselves
for bread. The French revolution re
mained political to the end, and was
the work of the nation; the Russian
revolution began as a political up
heaval, but was turned by a small
minority to imposition of economic
principles which the people abhor.
Otherwise the Russians are hope
lessly divided, their aspirations
ranging all the way from socialism
without terrorism to czarlsm. In
such a situation we can only foresee
conflict, but cannot foresee its
course.
BKAINH AND THEIR Is KM.
The trouble with Ifie so-called
young intellectuals, says a college
professor in reviewing Harold
Stearns' "America and the Young
Intellectual," is not that they lack
brains, but that they do not use
them as they should. Want of what
the professor calls "critical discrim
ination" is at the bottom of the dis
torted conception" of life which ob
tains In certain circles. Destruction,
not construction, is the watch-word
of that miscellaneous group that is
so constantly vociferous yet appears
to have little or no influence on the
trend of events.
"The reason that they don't get
what they want," says the reviewer.
is that they don't know what it Is."
They are united only by the bond of
protest, which causes them to wel
come as friend and brother any and
every individual who is 'against the
existing order, but which is apt to
lead them into troubled waters. For
example, being committed to the
policy of protest, they attribute none
but unworthy motives to those who
disagree with their methods. They
ascribe sobriety and domestic
decency to timidity and hypocrisy.
There Is a great deal of talk about
the imperfection of "man - made
laws." which, coupled with the re
volting srlrit, leads eventually to de
fiance of al! laws indiscriminately.
When one sets out to tilt at the ex
isting order. It is hard to tell Just'
where to stop. A movement com
posed of a heterogeneous group of
grouches can always find plenty cf
ammunition but seldom agrees on
he kind of weapon to use or on the
target at which to shoot,
The professor implies that brains
are not everything a fact of which
he is not the discoverer but which
emphasizes a need In modern educa
tion. Without the faculty of assort
ing facts as well as committing them
to memory, the student Is as likely
as not to be disadvantaged by his
schooling. The recent popularity of
the miscellaneous "questionnaire" is
an indication of the undue emphasis
put in some quarters on the acqui
sition of disconnected Information,
rather than on the power to think.
The great virtue of the disciplinary
studies. Including the classics, was
that they Imposed upon the under
as economical as that to Vancouver.
Full development of the route ; eraduate the necessitv for nalv
owina reiiection ana introduced him
down the Columbia
NO ALTERNATIVE TO THE SOVIET.
Much as Alexander Kerensky, the
deposed socialist premier of Russia
detests bolshevlsm, he has come
around to the opinion that the col
lapse of the soviet government is
neither probable nor desirable. In
opposition to friends who consider its
collapse imminent he thinks the
famine will fortify soviet power. He
says the famine and international
relief "will naturally lead to the
necessity of negotiations between
the soviet and the states peacefully
Intervening in Russia and that.
"when governments negotiate.
dustrial Interests are not far in the
rear." Therefore Lenin's desire "for
the consolidation of his power and
his relations with the outer world
will soon be gratified." Kerensky
also expresses this opinion, which
sounds paradoxical coming from
him:
I have also said that the collapse was
undesirable, because if destructive forces
are exi&tina- in Russia, they are much tco
divided amont tremselves ever to become
a constructive force. The forces existing
outside of Russia are In a still wurse
phsht. We must come to the stranre and
desperate conclusion that the soviet aov
ernment la the only government capable
at the present moment of governing soviet
Kuasia.
Then the escape of Russia from
bolshevism can only be effected by
a process of transition working
through division in the ranks of its
adherents. The lines of this division
have 'already appeared. Though
originally Lenin was the fanatic,
ready by any means to put his
theory into practice, he now leads
the party which sacrifices theory by
employing capitalism to rebuild the
Industrial system which communism
has wrecked, and thus to fortify the
soviet government.
Trotzky, whom Lenin himself for
merly denounced as an opportunist
having no convictions In favor of
communism, now leads the irrecon
cilable fanatics who would yield no
point of the communist creed. Lenin
has won the victory in the soviet
congress hy pretending that restor
ation of individual rights is but a
temporary expedient by which capi
talism becomes the slave of com
munism, to be cast off when it has
done the desired work. He Is sup
ported by the hungry masses.
Trotzky is backed by the red army
and the terrorist Cheka, directed by
the multi-murderer Dzerjinsky, but
famine seems to have compelled
even them to hold their hands.
We may risk a guess as to the
future course of the struggle. Free
trade Is bringing supplies of food
and other necessities to 'which the
masses have for several years been
strangers, with the right to buy and
sell and to enjoy the fruits of their
labor. They will want to continue
and to enlarge that freedom, and as
they become better fed, they will
acquire the spirit to demand and
fight for it.
Trotzky's power over the red
army arose from the fact that, who
ever else went hungry, the soldiers
were well fed and clothed. When
anybody can get food, that power
will be undermined. The Cheka de
rived vast profit from practice of
the speculation, as private trade was
called, which it was required to sup
press. When trade Is free, the
source of this profit is dried up.
Therefore the Cheka will oppose ex
tension of freedom. An Influence
which may hold the red army to
gether and obedient to Trotzky is
that It is largely, if not mainly, com
posed of foreigners Germans. Mag
yars, Chinese and Tartars w:ho are
so hated by 95 per cent of the popu
lation that their only safety consists
in retaining their arms and organ
ization, for singly they Vould be ex
terminated. The French revolution passed
from the Jacobin terror to the direc
tory, then to the consulate and em
pire and at last to the Bourbons
under a limited monarchy. Possibly
Russia may pass through parallel
phases. But there are many points
of difference. The Russians are
very unlike the French in character,
and other nations have at last Inter
vened to feed them, while the allies
fought the French to a finish. Also The whitewash In a ten to two dis-
the red army of France was com- agreement spreads mighty thin.
NCT CXLTIRI ECONOMICS.
The place of nut culture in the
solution of America's' future, food
problem Is indicated as an important
one by Robert T. Morris, who has
recently written a book on the sub
ject. The question will be particu
larly interesting to Oregonians, since
this state was one of the pioneers
in nut culture on the Pacific coast,
although it has not pursued its
natural advantages as enthusiasts
believe that it should have done.
But the author points out that the
value of nuts as food has long been
Well known, that in a dietic sense
they fill the place of meat and may
well be used to supplement meat in
furnishing the protein requirements
of the body, and that in the respect
that they represent economy of both
labor and tillable land rfiey are
probably destined to be recognized
more generally in the future than
they are today. . ,
Pound foitpound, says the author.
the average food value of six prin
cipal flesh foods is about a fourth
of that of nuts. Moreover, when
laor expenditure is considered they
constitute a particularly economical
crop, and in addition to that can be
raised on lands commonly classified
as untillable. About 40 per cent of
the land in the United States not
included in the permanently arid
wastes is regarded as non-arable in
the sense that It is unfit for plowing,
and a large proportion of this can
be utilized for the planting of trees,
nuts among them. "Each acre of
walnut trees in bearing." says' Mr.
Morris, "will produce every year
food approximating 2500 pounds of
beef." This is considerably more
than pasture land devoted .to the
grazing of livestock will do, as all
students of fqod economics know.
Nevertheless nut growers do not
suggest that beefsteaks and lamb
chops be stricken from the menu.
They point out that this would be
expecting too much of a people
committed to flTh as a diet, who
might, nevertheless, welcome an
addition thereto which would not
only give variety but perhaps in the
future exert a marked Influence In
keeping" the pi-ice of meat within
bounds.
Nuts constitute the probable third
stage, in the author's opinion, in the
augmentation of the nation's meat
supply. The first noteworthy im
provement is likely tp come when
ever men choose to dispose of the
natural enemies of the reindeer,
uskox and bison ofthe far north.
An immense addition to the fioh
supply can be had whenever we
ish to "unlock the floodgates and
Bay 'Us: to the nsn Dreeaer ana
the fish protector." These two and
still another source stand between
us and the world famine that the
Malthusians are fpreover prating
about. "In this twentieth century
of ours extensive studies have shown
that nut trees of many kinds are
capable of furnishing all the pro
teins, oils and vitamines belonging
to the -meat group of foods. This
does not mean that we are to sub
stitute nut cakes for lamb chops.
It means only that practically limit
less additions are to be made to that
particular group of foods."
It is unfortunate that youth is
not a time of tree planting and that
on the contrary men do not usually
acquire a fondness for arboriculture
until they have reached an age when
It .seems Improbable that they will
ive to enjoy the fruit of their labors.
This fart has discouraged nut plant
ing especially, since, there is a pre
valent belief that nut trees do not
come Into bearing until they have
reached a relatively gTeat age. But
Mr. Morris says that modern culture
has measurably overcome this
handicap. "Nuts, in their , presant
mproved forms and on- grafted
rees should be planted as freely as
apple trees and with this in mind
great nut industries can be developed
almost all parts of the country.
The curious historical fact that
famine usually occurs in grain
regions rather than in tree regions
In all parts of the world furnishes
in this connection considerable addi
tional food for thought.
WORKING WIFE POOR COMPANION
Gtrls Tarmed From Natural Inclina
tions kr Baabseae -World.
PORTLAND, Feb.- 2. (To the Edi
tor.) In answer to the article, "Why
Shouldn't Woman Work?" which ap
peared in The Oregonian January 28,
signed by a man who "loves 'em all,"
may I be permitted' to say - just a
little more about girls working after
they are married? To vbegin with, I
will grant there are cases where mar
ried women must work. Those who
are working must be willing to take
the criticism to which they are, sub
jected and if they feel they are in the
right they will not mind at all what
we have to say.
The chief argument is why take a
woman away from work she likap?
That is not hard to refute, for the
women who are so attached to their
work are in the minority, and most
of them will say It is because they
need the extra money. What rhan is
there who would not be slow to admit
thzft he cannot make a living for him
self and wife? If he cannot, -there
is something wrong and I believe
much of it is .due to the fact that so
many women are working. Don't
put the "six-foot hearty" at pounding
tyepwriter keys or being a doctor's
office girl; there are enough unmar
ried girls who must work who can
fill these lighter positions without
having to harness any men into them.
The conditions have to be adjusted
right through. But women are work
ing right beside men in positions that
are not necessarily effeminate as
bookkeepers, salesmen, postal clerks,
etc. There are always men who pre
fer inside work but who must now
handle the pick and shovel and take
the work away from the "six-foot
hearty."
I believe every girl has enough
womanliness about her to cook, sew
or to be a mother, and if not, I should
think she would be without feminine
charm. A girl may appear to be all
business and entirely uninterested in
a home, but you'd be surprised at the
interest she would take if she were
given a chance at a home all her own
and see how skillful she could become
In the culinary art. She herseli
might not think she would like it,
but if she were not given so much
encouragement to stay in the busi
ness world she would soon feel out
of place there. True enough, the em
ployer will always employ those who
serve him best, but if women were
rot 'on the market" they couldn't
very well employ them.
My opinion is that a man marries
a woman for a home he leaves
home with his mother and surely does
not want to be without one when he
marries. Which woman would he be
more proud of, the one whom he
would find at home evenings in
neat, cozy home, with a warm meal
awaiting him and call her his "wife
or the one he would meet at the of
fice and take his "wage-earner" out
to a hotel and pick fnam the menu
restaurant meals day after day
tnrough the years? Work is bring
ing the woman to the same sphere
aj a man, is making her masculine-1
and independent; her mind runs on
business and consequently their con
versation is the same as that he
meets all day at his work and there
are no home ties, no children to
change the monotony of the business
world. Surely a man would rather
Peel that he has a wife at home de
pending upon him than that she is
entirely Independent of him. and that
were it not for the "undyiner love
that holds them together he could
just as well go his own way. When
were divorces more numerous, before
women started working or now?
A WORKING GIRL.
Those-Who Come and Go.
Tales of Kolka at the Hotels.
CARD ROOMS GAMBLING PLACES
There are five million men and
Women in the United States who can
neither read nor write. It's a, safe
guess all of them can count money.
They need a different kind of
"primer."
Intermarriages of Chinese and
whites are objectionable, but if they
must happen it is well the brides are
widows. "John, he get plenty boss
you bet, bimeby!"
Commander MacNider refuged ap
pointment to succeed Senator Ken
yorf, preferring J.o remain head ol
the legion. There's a real patriot.
Let it be hoped that the new gastJ
line compound for which it is
claimed that it will double the mile
age will not also double the speed.
Some cares that get into the
courts might be called "contribu
tory" negligence on the part of
parents.
Investigation follows casualty. In.
spection is supposed to precede. Too
many hold their Jobs lightly.
Do not depend on the "rich" to do
it all. Many with less money are far
richer and more able.
An elevator may be ."dead," but
one who stands partly in and partly
out flirts with death.
No need of a scare when smallpox
appears In a school. Vaccination is
the thing.
First reporfs to the contrary. New
Jersey is still within the three-mile
limit.
This weather is normal eomt
chill, some rain, some wind, all Oregon.
Writer CharKes They Are Hangrouta
for Bootlessrerg and Criminals.
PORTLAND, Feb. 2. (To the Edi
tor.) The article in The Oregonian
January 28 under the headline "Card
Room Menace Assailed hv Mayor,"
contains only an infinitesimal part
of the truth as to the real menace
of the card rooms in Portland.
The Portland card room is a cheap
gambling joint where men and boys
are openly permitted to gamble for
"checks" that are issued by the pro
prietor, of the card room and these
checks are redeemable in merchan
dise or receivable in payment of
patrons' debts by the same cardroom
proprietors.
It would be much better to permit
gambling for money instead of
checks, as a winner would get some
thing of real value, because if his
wWuings were paid in money it would
buy milk and shoes for the kiddies.
But as the cardrooms are now con
ducted the winner's checks are only
good for cigars, tobacco or like junk,
unless he Js willing to take about
50 cents on the dollar in cash for
his checks. In some cardrooms there
are boosters circulating around
among the card players, buying- their
checks at a discount for cash. The
best conducted cardrooms permit the
winner to take the "boodle."
I d&Cs-anyone to name a cardrooro
In Portland that does not permit the
winner of a game of rummy to take
the "boodle." The "boodle" is the
checks issued by the proprietor of
tne cardroom for each game of cards
played, and the winner tal3s the.
checks, and the low man pays for the
cnecKs issued for the game.
The mayor's theory of a high
license and restriction of the number
of cardrooms would only make a bad
matter worse, as it would give the
favored rew a monopoly, and then
they' would run their strongarm graft
tne stronger.
The cardrooms of Portland are
rotten and the police force cannot
keep them within the bounds of the
law the mayor practically says this.
If cardrooms are a good thing, why
not take off the license and let any
body start one?a If cardrooms are
bad things, theirxvhy not do away
with the bad things or convert the
bad things into good things?
Portland's cardrooms are the club-
rooms of bootleggers, gamblers,
criminals, and the breeding grounds
for young criminals. The most effi
cient measure to eliminate the most
vicious evils of the cardrooms is to
enact a law that would prohibit the
proprietor of a cardroom from issu
ing checks redeemable by him and
prohibit the proprietor from extend
ing credit for the payment of card
games. Man's natural . instinct Is to
gamble, and the proprietors of Port
land's cardrooms sre capitalizing that
instinct. O. C. FENLASON,
476 East Forty-eighth street.
"Syrup," said John Rickaby, presi
dent -and originator of the Uncle
John's Syrup company of Boston, who
is at the Multnomah with his west
coast manager, Roy C. Powers, of San
Francisco, "syrup is one of the most
interesting studies in the commercial
world today. The maple season will
soon be on now it comes when the
frost 'is going out of the ground.
The warm days and cold nights cause
he sap to rise, which means busy
times for the sugar camps. Maple is
produced tn roerchandisable quanti
ties in only three states of the Union
Vermont and northern New Hamp
shire make the best, then Ohio,
though maple is made in small quan
tities in about 35 states. The entire
production of maple sugar in the
Lnited States is only 80,000,000
pounds a year. Therefore, only a
small proportion of the pure sugar
is or good quality for table use.
Blended maple is the only way that
the maple taste can get, to the con
sumer." Mr. Rickaby is making a
study of the business conditions in
the states, and says that the impres
sion he ahas from the jobbers on the
Pacific coast is that they have not
been so badly hurt by the financial
stringency as the sections of the
middle west- and east. He reports
that business is making a pronounced
advance in all Darts of the nation.
-From Ashland to Portland on the
Pacific highway is about 340 miles.
The distance was covered Thursday
in 12 hours by an automobile party
consisting of Mr. .and Mrs. James D.
Esary and Mrs. G. A. Schaefer. The
party, all residents of Seattle, have
been touring California and were
driving home. At Ashland they tele
graphed to Mr. Schaefer at. Seattle
that they would leave Ashland at 9
A. M. and for him to come to Port
land and meet the party on Its arrival
in the evening. Mr. Schaefer arrived
at the Benson at 8:10 P. M., engaged
rooms and wondered how he would
kill time until the .Esarys and his
wife drove in. It is a long drive
from Ashland to Portland and is a
good day's run even in summer, when
all conditions are favorable. Figur
ing that the machine would' arrive
some time after midnight, Mr.. Schae
fer ambled off to a cinema palace to
kill the time. He had not been gone
from the hotel ten minutes when the
party arrived, somewhat weary, cold
and stiff from being cramped in the
car so long, but otherwise all right.
The 340 miles were made in 12 hours,
which also includes time for meals.
The car was pushed at the maximum
Bpeed limit the entiredistance.
George H. Graves Is well-known
In the Willamette valley, so this ex
perience of his -will be appreciated
by his acquaintances. For the past
six weeks he has been motoring in
California with a chauffeur. In a
small town, about the size of San
Louis Obispo, something went wrong
with the car and it was taken to
a garage. Mr. Graves explained that
the driver was a, mechanician and
could repair the trouble, but that the
work should be done in the garage.
The Salem man, Mr. Graves residing
there, asked what (the charge would
be and the garage man said the ear
could be there for four bits an hour.
This was satisfactory. After work
ing a couple of hours, the driver
knocked off until morning and re
sumed his task and finished at 10
o'clock. The garage man, however,
charged for all the time the car was
In the garage, even the 12 hours
during the night. Mr. Graves is reg
istered at the Hotel Oregon.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Cop rick t, Hoashton-Mifflla Co.
Can Yon Asian These Q,neatioaaf
1. Are turtles intelligent?
2. Do flies have a substance on
their legs to enable them to stay on
the ceiling?
3. At what age does a green male
canary acquire its full song, and how
old de they live to be?
Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes. . . -
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Answers to I'revlona (tueationa.
1. Does the milk snake drink milk?
No, but unfortunately there is a
popular belief that they do sreal milk
and hence are foes of the farmyard.
In captivity a large-sized snake will
take up orHy about two .teaspoonfuls
of water at a time-even if it did take
milk, this would hardly- be any loss.
This snake haunts barns for the rats
and mice that live there and is a val
uable check on pests.
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2. How far round can a bird turn
its head?
From front to back, or half a cir
cle. The bird's neck is made of many
bones, as can be seen in a chicken,
beautifully fitted together to give
flexibility. The topmost vertebra has
a single knob, on which the skull re
volves. A sleeping bird often shows
the ease with which the head can be
turped, the bill pointing over tht
shoulder in the feathers, of which b'll
And eyes are muffled.
3. Does the sea serpent exist? .
No, not - now. There used to be
great swimming reptiles In the Meso
zoic age, but they vanished forever
at. the end of that era. There is an
oarfish, regralecus. very lor.g and slen
der, with a body compressed from top
to bottom like a ribbon, found on
the California coast that is mistaken
for a "serpent." The frilled shark,
chlamydoselachus, first identified off
the Japanese coast, has -also been
wrongly called a "sea serpent."
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moatastae.
Tnralna- Obstructions in Streets.
PRIXEVILLE. Or., Feb. 1. (To the
Editor.) Kindly advise If concrete r
wood blocks or posts, placed at
street intersections by a city, is a
violation of any law governing state
higkways. SUBSCRIBER.
If the street in question is a city
street no violation . of state laws
would occur. If the street is a part
ol a state or county highway, permis
sion from the county court or state
highway commission would be necessary-
if any obstructions were placed
in Sues' roadway.
Big land owners in Oregon are
pikers compared with J. D. Hamilton,
who arrived at the Hotel Oregon
from Argentine republic. Mr. Hamil
ton has 800,000 acres, more than is
contained in Gilliam county and about
as much as" Benton ands Columbia
counties combined, and more than
Multnomah and Hood River counties
combined. Of the acreage, 10,000
acres are in wheat, which would be
a sizable wheat ranch in any country
on earth, and the remaining 790, Ouu
acres are used for grazing, Over
this vast range Mr. Hamilton has
a large quantity of stock. The hold
ing is situated near the Andes moun
tains, on the west coast, but the
nearest city is Buenos Aires, which,
by the way, ' is one of the most cos
mopolitan and modern cities in the
world..
Dr. J. C. Perry and Dr. Frieneh
Simpson of San Francisco are at the
Hotel Portland. . They are in the
United States health bureau. . Dr.
Perry, who lived in Portland 15 years
ago, was assistant surgeon-general
of the public health service before
coming to the coast- recently and he
is now in charge of the 12th regional
district of the public health serv
ice. Dr. Simpson is chief quarantine
officer of the port of San Francisco.
Dr. Perry says that Portland shows
a wonderful growth since he was last
here.
Evidently the Gideon society has
left an impression on some of the
traveling public, judging from a dis
cussion on a Portland-Seattle tram.
According to a patron at the Mult
nomah, he was sitting in the smoker
,of the train when the subject of
discussion a man asked: "Well, who!
wrote the Bible ?"' To this another
passenger replied, "I think it was a
man by the name of Gideon. I've seen
his name on all the. Bibles in the
hotels I have stopped at."
A B. "Sandy" Robertson of Con
don was at the Imperial yesterday.
When Mr. Robertson went to Scot
land on a visit a couple of years ago
he hit on the plan of serving his
friends in Gilliam county. All of the
old country people wanted to be re
membered to their friends and rela
tives. When Mr. Robertson got back
to Glengowrie, or some other town,
he put an advertisement 'in the news
paper announcing his arrival and that
he had news of former Scotsmen who
are in pregon. Then- followed the
big reception.
A. S. Bennett, former member of
the 'Oregon supreme court, is in the
city and is registered at the Imperial.
Judge Bennett is also a farmer, hav
ing a large ranch in the Antelope
country. f
D. T. McNabb of Chicago, who has
been here assisting in the refinancing
of the Smith mill at Marshfield,
checked out t the Hotel Portland
yesterday forTiome.
DELAY HOBS IT OF BENEFITS
Federal Bonns to Be of Value Must
Come Before Service Man la Old. '
INDEPENDENCE, Or., Feb. 2. (To
the Editor.) The Oregonian for Tues
day in an article explains the opposi
tion which exists regarding the bonus
bill, and a few of the whys and
wherefores connected therewith.
One of the outsta-nding arguments
again-st seems to be this: That this
is not the opportune time for the
bonus bill because the government is
now overburdened and a drain on the
treasury at this time would alace the
treasury in a grave state of .affairs
and possibly later result in a finan
cial crisis in the United States.
With the continuance of high taxes,
which end is not in view, arid yearly
govern.me.ntal appropriations for edu
cation, hospitals, highways, etc.,
which have to be made, may I ask
this question: Is the time near when
this government will be better able
to assume the obligation than it is
today?
The ex-service man, if he Is to re-J
ceive a bonus or its, equivalent of an
education, home or land' grant, will
be faj" more greatly benefited by it
now than 25 years from now, when he
is on the other side of the hill.
EX-SE-RVICE MAN.
IT NEVER WORKS.
When Bertram' observed at the
movies,
A husky, arrayed in a h:dr
Seize a Jane by the arm. hush her
cries ot alarif;,
And make her his loving young
bride.
He sought to do likewise with Ethel;
But Ethel emitted a wail.
And Bertram today whiles dull hours
away
In a lone little, stone little Jail.
When Clarence saw Harold, the hero.
Knock a prize fighter out, on the
screen.
With a blow on the nose, strike a
beautiful pose,
And languidly stroll from the scene.
He went out and walloped Mike
Murphy,
A champ in an amateur way;
There followed a scrap, and Clarence,
. poor chap,
Was out for the rest of the day.
When Willie saw young Jackie
Coogan
Hit a cop in the faoe with a pie,
He murmured at onco, "If that kid
does them stunts
And never gets hurt, so can I."
So forth on his mischievous mission.
With a pie in his pocket, he set;
But something went wrong and
through all his life long
He will think of that stunt with
regret.
There's a thrill to the rtel that we
all of us feel;
We are filled, as we lean in our
chair
And gaze at each scene that is shown
on the screen,
With a longing to do and to dare.
We yearn to step out and to swagger
about.
And put our wild blood to the test;
But it's wiser by far to stay right
where we are,
With our longings most sternly
suppressed.
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Sure to Be a Flop.
Mr. Hoover says the stage is set for
a soft-coal strike, but we are certain
that nobody but critics will come to
the performance.
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Jenlousy, Perhaps.'
.We can't" understand why Mr. An
derson, the prohibition leader, should
denounce the bootleggers. They are
doing far more to discourage drink
ing than he ever did.
Fnlly Equivalent.
Apparently Germany's word
good as her mark.
Is as
In Other Days.
- Low Cost of Seattle Car "Rides."
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. S. (To the
Editor.) The Oregonian published an
editorial captioned "Unloaded Dismal
Failure," and the subject matter con
cerned Seattle's municipally operated
railroad. The editorial contained
this: "The present single fare is 10
cents, but one may buy three tickets.
each good for one ride, for 25 cents.
. . . On a rough guess, one may
say that tbe street railway receives
9 cents for eacn ride on tne aver
age. .. ."
This communication is sent to you
in the hope that you will publish the
information that the Seattle street
car patron does not pay on an aver
age of 9 cents for each ride, but 6.65
cents, for the latter figure is the
average revenue received from the
total passengers using street cars at
this time.
SEATTLE CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
By Harold Crary, Director of Pub
licity. The revenue per "ride" In Portland
is 5.68 cents, but a "ride" on street
railway books may be a transfer, or
a school ticket. The single adult fare
in Seattle is still 10 cents; three for
25 cents.
, Twenty-five Years Asro.
From The Oreg-onlan of February 4, 1807.
Admirers of pugilism n Portland
are arranging to get a special round
trip rate to see the Corbett-Fitzsim-mons
fight.
Frankfort-on-the-Maln. The Ber
lin committee of the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation company 5 per cent
bondholders have declared the sale
of the stock perfected.
Salem. The deadlock In the house
was weakened yesterday when Sena
tor Mitchell made a valiant effort to
get the required 46 backers and only
39 reported for him.
Salt Lake. J. L. Rawlins was.
elected United States senator from
Utah today on the 63d ballot.
Seat Tax on Hotel Basses.
PORTLAND, Feb. 3. (To the Ed
itor.) Do the Portland busses oper
ating from the depot to the hotels
pay for seating capacity Just the
same as the auto busses that operate
on the hisrhway, or are they handled
separate from the state by a city tax?
ONE WHO WAJNTB IU HSUW,
Yes, they pay ?4 for every 20 Inches
of seat space.
Remembrance Cornea With Verse.
Wayside Tales.
I once wrote a verse to my lady's
eyebrow.
It was beautirui, a onarnmis uu vl
poetic fancy. Everybody admired it.
Now, five years later, this little
poem has grown enormously in value.
My lady herself treasures It a sort
of memento, I suppose, because
She has no eyebrows to speaK ol
Correct 'Card Game Expreaaioni
PORTLAND, Feb. 2. (To the Edi
tor.) Which Of the following ex
pressions is correct?
1. Hearts are trumps.
2. Hearts is trump.
F. A. C
Hearts are trumps.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Gill of Wood
burn are at the Hotel Oregon. Mr.
Gill is the editor of the Independent,
which has been" published there for a
grat many years.
H. J. McCracken" inspector of
boilers for the Southern Pacific rail
road company, stationed at Sacra
mento, Cal., is an arrival at the Per
kins. Mrs. J. A Cooper, who has been In
Seattle, is registered at the Hotel
Oregon on her way back to Shaniko,
where the Coopers have a ranch.
W. E. Newton, a stockman of Sher
man county, with headquarters at
Moro, is at the Perkins.
Thomas Crawley and A. F. Ma-
honey, shipping men of San Francisco.
are arrivals at the Benson.
H. A. Connor, an orchardist of Hood
River, Is at th Hotel Portland.
The Very Modern Situation of
the Drexel Prodigal Daughter
This is the very veracious narrative of an episode of the bon ton,
wherein Mrs. Alice Drexel Barrett is to resume her social position
on Fifth avenue when she casts away her husband s name. Such is
the condition of her return, after suffering desertion in Europe,
where Captain Barrett, former Oregon boy, left the famous society
beauty amid the wreckage of their-rjomance. Told by Betty Van
Benthuysen, in, the big Sunday issue, with several illustrations from
photographs, it is the modern version of the prodigal's reception by
the old home folks. '
You'd Better Not Jest at Red Hair That's almost axiomatic, and
this Sunday story of the Fiery Forty-five admits of no exception,
though the titian-tressedi beauties of Goucher college permit them
selves merriment at their own expense.- Goucher has the unusual
distinction of assembling more girls whose hair is er red, than any
other educational institution in the country. There it is that a vigor
ous campaign has been set on foot against the briefly descriptive but
objectionable color -term. The story of the Fiery Forty-five appears
in the magazine section, The Sunday Oregonian, in special corre
spondence. Illustrated with photos.
Marriage Plus Divorce Equals What? Here is a De Witt Harry
story of fact that delves searchingly into one of the greatest and
most significant problems of 'the day not from a distant viewpoint,
but from statistics and records of the Portland1 courts. Both bench
and bar claim that public sentiment is with easy separations. The
reader will weigh at least some portion of the outward evidence
when he has read this narrative. What do you think of divorce ?
The Looters When Percival Gibbon faces his typewriter and
thumps the keys there is always a remarkably fine short story in
the process of birth. One of the best that this popular author has
written, and hitherto unpublished, will appear in the Sunday issue,,
magazine section, page 3. The story, of a thrilling night in Paris
and its bizarre aftermath.
Last Strongholds of Slavery Unspeakable Turkey, with its de
basing institution, the harem, is portrayed vividly by an American
investigator, Miss Symons, in the series of special Sunday articles
now appearing. The 'harem is, indeed, slavery's last stronghold,
where girls are bought and sold as chattels. And of the harem Miss
Symons writes as one who has witnessed its infamies, for her clever
and fearless quest for the truth led her by " stealth into many
harems, where she- talked with the pitiful inmates. Illustrated with
photographs. . -
The Self -Made Cinderella Her name was Sally Hunter, and she
found her prince. Wherefore, though only incidentally, her fortune
is the theme for one of the brightest and most interesting stories of
real life ever printed By the way, she wedded Herbert M. Harri
man, and was raised overnight to riches- all because she was a
clever and resolute Cinderella and made ready for her bridal.
All the News of All the World ,
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