1922 s afttonmrg (Drrrrmtinn KTABI.tSWFT) BT HENRY I PITTOt K Published by The Orecoalan Publishing Co.. 14 b,x:A street. Peruana. Oregon. C A. MOSDEV, E. B. PIPER. Mur. Editor. Tba Oreronian Is a member of the Ar elatea Press. The Assoc. ated Prni La z c.uaiveljr entitled to the um ?nr puulicatiun of atl Diwi d.itca-. a credited to it or not :b.9rwia credited In thin paper and alno th.e local aewa p'jt!:ehed herein. A.i rights f publication of epecial diapalcb.es nerem ar alao reserved. Sobaortptlosi Bate lararisvblr in adnare (By Mail.) Pafly. Pundty Included, one year . .....Sa.00 lai-r. Sunday included. a:x months ... 4 IaIy, Sunday Included, tnre tnonlha ii.--! J-'aiiy. Sunilkr Included, one month .... .73 Ia.ly, without Sunday, one year OO I-atir. ri:r.out Sunday, six month ... ." Xai:y. without eundajr, on Month... v. eevly. one year ..................... fcunCay, one year 2 By Carrier.) T'ly. Sunday included, one year $9 00 nai.y. Sunday Included, three months. Z I'aity. 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The campaign has lagged, the cam paigners are wearied though reso lute, and rumor is preparing her lint that the chest has failed. It Is evident from the situation of this worthy project that, somehow, many thousands of Portland citltzens do not grasp the vital need of the drive, or fully comprehend its all-inclusive significance. For failure of the chest plan would be but the re flected failure of a public duty, a proof that spontaneously generous giving has lost vogue in the city, and that a majority no longer consider themselves their brother's keeper. This Is unthinkable and not to be brooked. It is believed that Port land people are as warm of heart and sturdy of conscience as those of any other city, as those of cities where the community chest plan has been uniformly successful and com pletely subscribed. It is bHieved that our citizens understand the principles and urgency of both char ity and philanthropy, and are as blithe to aid youth to better citizen ship as they are to give food to a foundling. If there is a weakness In the chest campaign It must exist In some neglect to make clear the na ture of its varied benefactions. The fault cannot rest entirely with the public. As to the charities, each of the sort that humanity will not deny. It Is assumed that subscribers do not cavil nor complain. With the work of these, the salvaging of bodies and souls, they are approvingly familiar. It is not difficult to visualize penni less age or helpless Infancy. The heart Is prompt to answer. The philanthropies of the che.st alone seem to suffer suspicion and dis trust, and of these at least one in particular Is the target of objections. Critics of the project should bear well in mind the fact that the chest Is representative not of individual desires or prejudices, but of com posite opinion and of the needs of many institutions, each most care fully weighed for merit before It en tered the budget. One cannot Imagine that an individual narrow ness of view will at the last Imperil the success of all. Represented among the contribu tors to the chest are those wealthier firms or Individuals who have al ways borne the greater share of the burden, and rightly. They have triven liberally, and If the critics but choose to view it that way through the lens of logic It will be seen trat their benefaction-, alone would far more than outweigh the sums allo cated In the budget to philanthropy. In other words, not only have they assumed again the duty of giving that was always theirs, but by their liberality have made more easy the charitable task or privilege of the freneral public. Indeed, it seems a paltry and unworthy excuse for any Individual, who can afford to con tribute, to profess a distaste for the entire project because of one or more personal antipathies. There are, as has been pointed out, forty-five beneficiaries of the community chest, to any of which the contributor may give as he chooses, and to the exclusion of all others. If his whim Inclines. Surely mong the number he will discover. If he consults his kindliness, some charity that calls to him not one. but many. If this be not true. If the appeal does not produce this re action, there is but a single permis sible conclusion. Opinion Is con strained to believe that such a critic Is essentially selfish, and seeks to Jude his failing behind the flimsiest of subterfuges. How else? It is not to be denied that abstract charity loses somewhat through or ganization, whereby it is deprived of a certain individual contact and de cision. Yet this defect is one of per sonal vision, and cannot affect any save those who refuse to widen their spiritual eyes to needs as real as though they themselves wept beside the sufferer. All who wish to see may see. thoush the goal of their gift Is in a score of institutions. And the loss, the purely temporary and always remediable loss, to abstract or organized charity is more than recompensed for by the comforting Insurance of efficiency. Kfficiency Itsetf Is a distasteful word In such a connection, but the results of ef ficiency cannot f.til to be pjeasing to those who benefit the poor, the friendless, the ill. Kfficiency in giv ing, such efficiency as the chest plan provides and guarantees, means that the money given shall be undimin ished in power to aid as it rasses between giver and recipient. Surely this is laudable and should inspire the contributor tohis privilege. That, cf course'. Is charity and naught else. Hut the same principle applies to those institutions which ore philanthropic in character, and are so included in the chest budget. We pride ourselves upon the high standard of American citizenship, and felicitate ourselves upon the even higher idealism with which American youth Is to be Imbued, upon the superior training and in telligence 't will bring to the tasks Of future decades, it were strangely, pathetically inconsistent if we while holdiDg these views should decline to bear our share of duty la the for- mat ion of youthful character and the moulding of youthful ambition. All that the chest requires of Its con tributors, with respecto those phil anthropic Institutions which are In the budget. Is that they approve the making of better citizens, approve the safeguarding of the American future, and hold the undeniable de mand of these to be second only to charity. What is there in such a re quest to waken the dudgeon of a bitter opposition? Is it something we cannot approve of. something that is not wisely and broadly planned? The community chest campaign enters its second week. Those who j support It are supporting their city ana tne ia-s oi unseiusa oenei olence. They are enlisted not only against Inefficient administration of inescapable public trusts, but against the woes of humanity. They are ad vocates of the kindliest, most prac tical plan of giving ever devised. The chest should and will be filled. FIGrRES TEIX THE STORY. Comparison of the value of Port land exports for the second half of 1921 with those for the second half of 1920 conveys no true impression of the increase of the port's com merce. In valu export increased from e35.487.558 to 911.617,289, a gain of 12,129,731, but In tonnage the Increase was from 510,154 to 1,194,076, a gain or 633,922 or 134 per cent. Notwithstanding the great fall In price of wheat, flour, lumber and other staple commodities, Portland so Increased the quantity exported as to offset the decrease In value and to show a net Increase of S2, 129.731. If prices should remain stable and if there should be a like increase in tonnage this year, we should be able to make a startling comparison in value a year hence. These figures, and the contrast they present to the heavy decreases In tonnage as well as value exported shown by other Pacific ports, ex plain why those ports are so anxious to draw Portland into a shipping pool. A big corporation does not seek to absorb a smaller competitor which it Is steadily driving to the wall; it reserves that attention for one that is strong and that makes a vigorous, successful fight to take business away from It. Portland Is Invited to enter the fold because It is winning, and the only purpose can be to prevent It from winning more and to recapture much of what it has already won. By such a deal we should stand to lose and other ports to gain. THAT SEff MOTOR FTEI Announcement In an' Associated Press dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, that chemists of the General Motors company have developed a gasoline compound that Increases automobile fuel mileage 100 per cent probably aroused the thought among pessi mists that there must be a catch in It somewhere. It was almost too good to be true. If one defines "catch" as a dis closure that one is not going to be able Immediately to go out and buy gasoline 100 per cent more efficient for the automobile he now possesses, the catch is there. A bulletin issued on the subject by the American Chemical society In forms us that the Improved gasoline Is obtained by addition of a tellu rium compound. Tellurium Is now a waste material and is recovered from the tank slimes obtained In the electric refining of copper and lead. Present refinery equipment has a capacity production of about 1500 pounds of tellurium annually, where as the addition of eo small an amount as one-hundredth of 1 per cent of tellurium to the total con sumption of gasoline would require about 3,000,000 pounds of tellurium annuaSy. Selenium Is also used in the compound but Its production also is at present totally Inadequate to meet the estimated demand. Use of the compound would also require that automobile engines be changed Into higher compression motors and that gear ratios be altered to suit. It need not be understood, how ever, that chemists are pessimistic over the practicability of the com pound. It is suggested that new sources of tellurium are not impos sible of discovery. Doubtless a new field of experimentation has been opened and those who have become morose over predictions of a gaso line shortage and prohibitive prices within the text twenty-five or thirty years have cause to be more cheer ful. The future, rather than the present, suggests a motor fuel, crisis, and the experiments at Dayton give encouragement to the thought that science, with a quarter of a century or more to work in, ought to be able to keep the wheels moving. A VICTORT FOR MORAL FORCE. One striking result of the" Wash ington conference has been that China has been raised to a new po sition among nations by an act fit renunciation on the part of the other nations represented there that is without parallel. For many years, especially during the last quarter of a century, that country has been the happy hunting ground of the territory-grabbing and concession-grabbing nations. Its weakness and its riches made it tempting prey, while its size, which should have given It strength for defense, merely added to the magnitude of the plunder. When Japan at the 'Paris confer ence held the allies to their bargain regarding the sacred province of Shantung and when Japan gave a merely oral promise to hand it back, the best that the Chinese delegates could do was to refuse to sign the Versailles treay. But the Chinese boycott of Japanese trade became more rigid and a campaign of pro test was started, especially in the United t-'fates. Japan became anx ious to get the province eff its hands and. to save its face, importuned China to negotiate, but China long denied that there was any subject for negotiation. In the eyes of the world Shantung became a symbol of the policy of spoliation that many cations had pursued toward China. That policy threatened to embroil the United States with Japan and stood In the way of President Hard ing's plans to reduce armament. But Japan alone could not fairly be asked to renounce It unless renunci ation was general and unless all na tions were pledged to the alternative policy. Nor would Japan yield at the bidding of a conference of na tions: that would have so much ap pearance of compulsion as to wound national pride. Secretary Hughes met the difficulty by opening the conference with an offer cf naval limitation on the part of this coun try and by later pledging the great powers to restore leased territory to China and to respect that country's integrity hereafter. He thus created an atmosphere of renunciation in which Japan could do. with a show of magnanimity, an act of justice that it would not do under coercion. He then brought China and Japan together to negotiate directly, he and Mr. Balfour acting as mediators, A species of compulsion was exer cised, for the negotiations were con ducted before the eyes of a world whose opinion was arrayed on the side of China. Thus China won on appeal to moral force which Japan found Irresistible. Yet Japan stands inestimably higher in the eyes of the nations for having yielded to that force. TROUT F1STHTXG IX TOWN". They are saying, back in the east ern states, that trout must Inevitably be displaced by the small-mouth bass. Not that anglers desire this transition, for much as they admire the little bronze aldermen of swift water they would retain their trout. They believe, or many of them do, that trout fishing cannot withstand the attrition of constant angling, whereas the small-mouth bass will always be his plentiful and pugna cious self. These speculations are cf Interest to Pacific coast anglers as a forecast, a debatable one, of the future. Though we sensibly give protection to our trout, they are yet so plentiful that no fear of their dis appearance plagues us. From the local point of view It is difficult to comprehend the eastern logic. Trout fishing. It would appear. Is something that always has been and ever will be. If it were foreordained that the silver fighters must vanish before man's demands, certainly destiny is a long time in drawing up the decree. Intensive protection has preserved trout fisliing in England despite centuries of angling. And though we counter with the argu ment that fishing for trout is there the sport of the landed, the favored, we must also admit that the vast system of rivers and creeks and lakes In North America hould make It far more easy to retain a similar heritage for all our citizens. For that matter, even the English have determined that the finest thrill of angling shall not be re served for the few. Gentle envy will permeate the spirit of any fisherman who learns that the ancient town of Bristol affords its clerks and artisans some very wonderful trout fishing. Such is the fact. By stocking a city reservoir or so it Is not only pos sible, but permissible and frequent for Bristol anglers to take trout that weigh up to nine pounds, and to bring to creel daily catches ranging from forty to fifty pounda Extraor dinary, we call it even with the knowledge that our own wild waters are unequaled. Sixty English cities have stocked their reservoirs and opened them to the public, at a small license fee. Nature needs only a hint, a trifle of assistance, to turn to any task of replenishment. Sometimes even this Is not required by the good old dame. In the reservoirs of Portland this very hour are trout, lusty big cut-throat and rainbow, such as any sportsman would travel miles' to hook. They came through the con duits from distant Bull Run as lively little fingerlings unantici pated and uninvited. One cannot angle in the Portland reservoirs, nor is there need of the privilege. Lrossip has it that the care-takers once in a while succumb to the arrogant blandishments before them, and wet surreptitious fly. Who has the heart to blame them? Haply the day will never come when Portland's city water supply will serve a recre ational purpose as well. Yet it Is comforting to know that they are there. THE CRY PTOG R A M M ATI C SPIRITS. Tie curious habit the spirits have of couching their messages in com plex and intricate language, when it would seem that if communication had been established the simpler forms would serve the purpose bet ter, is brought out in a report of the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research printed in tne Fortnightly Review and an article by Edwin E. Slosson In a recent number of the Independent. The society in question has been develop ing a new form of evidence, which consists of getting the spirit to describe a passage in a certain book in a distant place. The psychical researchers triumphantly make the claim that telepathy and mind-reading here are out of the question, because no one present, or probably anywhere else, knows what is on the page. The case reported by the Fort nightly Review writer is one in which the late Colonel Beadon told his widow through a medium that "in a squarish room on the top shelf, running by a wall to the win dow, but not quite in the corner, of a row of books the fifth book, count ing from right to left, contains on Its page 71a message. On the same shelf are a book in dlrtyish brown cover and a reddish book and an old-fashioned book." The message, said the spirit, was In the second paragraph and "will not be so beau tiful as he would like to make it," but It Is distinguished by seven char acteristics. These characteristics are: (1) It refers to a past condition: (2) but it has an application to tae present: 3) It refers to a thought which was much more in your mind at one time than It is now: 4) on the opposite page is a reference to fire, and a reference to (5) light and a reference to 6) olden times, and (7) on the same page or opposite page or perhaps over the leaf a very important word be ginning with S. We are able without any strain on the imagination to share the widow's amazement when, upon go ing to the room In question, she found a book that answered the de scription thus cryptogrammatically conveyed from the world beyond and on opening It turned to a pas sage that could be fairly construed as previously described by the me dium. But it occurred to Mr. Slosson to test the matter further and to apply it to his own case, upon which he "found It worked, which for a pragmatist Is proof enough for any thing." f First, Mr. Slosson's own library was "squarish." The bookshelf ran by a wall to the window and on it were "a book in dirtyish brown" (a rubbed and soiled copy of Balzac's "Conates Drolatlques") and "a red dish book" (a whole set of them. Shakespeare In morocco), as well as "an old-fashioned book" (the -Old Yellow Book" of Browning-r-date 169 7). Between these vol umes was tie fifth book Thomp son's "City of Dreadful Night," on page 71 of which the writer read this message: The war waa over for the timet and men Returned to heal its wound, repair its waate. And thus grow strong and rich to light again. Here, then, was a reference to a "past condition" the war. It had an "application to the present." On the opposite page appeared a "refer ence to fire, light and olden, times." It was: Whence Hassan sang his audden daring ode Of Beauty revelling In the atorm of flight: Tor If the warriors into battle rode. Their hearts were kindled by her living light; Either as sun that In pure asure glowed. Or baleful star In deep despair's black night: And whether by despair or joy n lit Intenser fires perplexed the poet'a wit. On looking further the writer at once found the "very important word beginning, with S" which had been promised a feat not so mys terious as it may seem at first thought in view of the predominance of the letter "S" on any page of Eng lish print. The wido'w of the de parted had only come upon the word ctcamhnat wrliich mie-ht have been regarded as important or not, ac cording to the way one felt about it. but Mr. Slosson was rewarded with " rortainlv more significant in rouirinn in th Tiarticular inquiry "Seek," too. was repeated several times, so that there ought not to have been any question about it. The na-ssssre ran: Seek not tho captalna whera the steed Ciouus inunuer. Seek not the elders In the council hall But seek the chamber where some shim ng wonder Of delicate beauty nestles, far from all. The writer ' reminds us of the cynicism of Shaw, that the art of fortune-telling ought to be taught in all the schools, since nothing else gives so convincing a demonstration of the common characteristics and fates of the human race. There is a story of a chief of police In pursuit nf a fu e-itive who sent out five pho tographs of the man in various Dosas and received a telegram irom a sheriff saying: "I have four of them in Jail and know where I can find the fifth." The principle Is Amrlr,v Y.v rri writers of nostrum advertisements with such effect that those who read them find they have all the symptoms described, and it is pretty well known that young medical students are apt to discover themselves to be the victims of most of the maladies they are studying. "The patent medicine man and the medium," says Mr. Slosson, "make their money in the same way be cause a given shoe fits so many people." What the Society for Psychical Research a serious-minded body, by the way does not explain is why a spirit, having established a line of communication over which he can transmit a message containing seven conditions fourteen, counting the description of the room and books could not have conveyed in even fewer words a message that no one could possibly have misunderstood. But the spirits still cling to their odd preference for the enigmatic and the riddle of the ages is brought no nearer to a solution than it ever wa The cheerful liberal giver nevef loses. In some way he is repaid; perhaps in good health or other "free dom from affliction. There is no destiny "to shape his ends rough," no matter how he hews. The little bit of superstition in almost every man ought to fill that chest. Tho New ersev court of errors and appeals has declared that state's prohibition enforcement law uncon stitutional. And yet with the Demp-aAv-narrientler fight still fresh in memory we would have thought the state's constitution could stand any thing. Enormous concessions are to be granted the Krupps in Russia for making agricultural implements and kindred stuff. Krupps is so system atized the output can be changed overnight if necessary, according to popular belief. That young "society" malefactor whose flight through courts, prison and asylum was meteoric and who was paroied with the understanding he would leave the state, got back into an Oregon jail with celerity and dispatch. Completion of the Alaska railway will allow tourists this summer to "do" much more of the territory than has been possible with steam ship transportation. It will be the great end of a tour to "see America first." A federal Judge at Tacoma rules that liquor illegally seized is not ad missible as evidence. Yet the boot legger and moonshiner get into jail despite the help of technicalities. A wreck that overturned a loco motive and baggage car and injured nobody was a fortunate incident the other day, considering that wrecks must happen about so often. The new evening dress in Paris has a high neck, but is slit from armpit to waist or not, as the wearer prefers. Little longitude but much latitude, as it were. Now comes the governor of Ar kansas and .attributes most of the evils of the world to tobacco. If that is so it ought to be easy to smoke out the facts. The. German government says it will be all right if only it can get credit. Well, it gets that now for a good many things it started but could not finish. A man . is under arrest charged with having stolen 26 Ford cars. That looks like one case where in sanity would be the legitimate de fense. Some possible women jurors re fuse to serve before giving the job the once over. Some did better vot ing: they went to the polls at least once. Weather is so cold in Germany as to delay burials; but the tempera ture that prevents interment "keeps" the corpse. We presume it is also in Brother Vollva's theory of a flat earth that backsliders from ZIon will fall over the edge. The man who was" hungry one time does not slight the chest; he BY-PRODUCTS OP THE: PRESS Small Boy's Health Roles Differ From Physicians'. Life gives an object lesson on health from a small boy's actions as follows: Eat anything .and everything in prodigious quantities, especially candy, fresh baked pastry and other sweets. Get dirty hands and if possible a dirty face at least twice a day. Expose the body to the elements go barefoot whenever possible; rub- berless and hatless in winter; lie in the snow until the clothing is thor oughly soaked. Engage in violent exercise after a heavy meal, such as leapfrog, snow' balling and hitching on to fast-moving vehicles. Brush the teeth as superficially as possible and put off going to the dentist's as long as possible. Never take a bath, or at most stroke the water with the toes and then wet the towels. Disregard the "early to bed early to rise" rule as far as is in your power. , . Be sure to keep the bedroom win dow well shut on cold nights; pile up a mountain of covering using the extra pillow for the feet and get completely under. Shy at medicines. ' If you have met the man you want to marry "But," cries another of those trou blesome bachelor girls in her 30s. "I don't want to marry any man!" You should want to marry. If you don'tt you ought to learn why. Mar riage Is as normal and inevitable an event in life as cutting your teeth and learning to walk. If you really think that you don't want to marry. consult a doctor, a psychoanalyst or a clergyman. There's a screw loose in your body, brain or soul. Of course, many a self-supporting, self-sufficient woman, slightly intoxi cated with her success, insists that she would not marry the best man on earth. True! Who wants to live 365 days a year with a paragon? What this business cr professional woman knows In her heart is that her very success militates against her matrimonial chances. The man she would accept doesn't propose because he's afraid of her cleverness, while the man who does propose to her bores her to extinction. Admitting that some men pay less than a good job, there's no business triumph to1 compare with the satis faction of administering the William S. Hart treatment to a human bucB: ing broncho, and then watching him learn to eat out of your hand. Las soing, branding and feeding him sugar at the psychological moment! It's quite as fascinating in real life as watching it in the movies. Mc Call s Magazine. Thirty-five thousand churches In the United States are without pastors, says Leslie's Weekly, and only 1450 ,new ministers were graduated this year. This sum in arithmetic is not answerable in figures. We must think it out. Either the law of supply and demand is crumbling, or there is an unknown element uneasily awaiting elucidation. The church is not confounded. The age is not degenerate. Tearful pity need not yet sit with sorrow. Fat sinners are not eating the feast while lost souls nibble the scraps of divin ity. Nevertheless, pulpiteering is un popular because it is unprofitable. Fame and wealth, the two spurs to human action, are picked up else where. The influence of wages is in exorable, whether in philandering for pleasure or in grandmarshaling the processional through the sapphire gates. The saintliest men have earthly needs, and every altar should have an exchequer. . The sparking of the trolley wheel is not only annoying to the motor man and the passenger as well as to the inhabitants at night, but it is a cause of considerable wear In both trolley wheel and wire. The same statement is largely true of mining operatiens where trolleys are used According to the statement of an as sistant mine inspector of Kentucky, by greasing the trolley wire with a hard conducting cheap grade. oil, the wheel may be caused to operate without sparks or flashing without any considerable extra expense. The singing of the wheel can not be heard when the grease is used, and the prac tice also saves the wear on the trolley wheel. It is said that one new wheel on greased wire will outlast a dozen on dry wire. Furthermore, It gives perfect contact and so saves power, especially on a heavy grade, and pre vents sleet from accumulating on the wire. One greasing will serve under ordinary use for five or six months. Scientific American. a More than a year and a half ago, when the price of liberty bonds dropped to about 85, the Chicago Tribune urged their holders to cling to them, and whenever possible to buy more. It called attention to the absolutely unquestionable quality of the security, to the certainty that they would return to par, as the gov ernment of the United States was pledged to redeem them at par, and to the additional likelihood that not only the bonds but the money In vested in them would increase in value. Today the bonds are quoted above 97. Persons who bought them at 85 have made $12 on each J100 par value bond within a year. And' in the same period, according to recent govern ment statistics, the purchasing power of the dollar has just about doubled. Thus a person who bought a bond at 85 instead of buying a fur piece can now exchange it for more than twice as much food and clothing as he could have obtained with the J85 cash a year ago. And the fur piece is worth probably half what it was then. It is a simple lesson in the practical value of thrift. New Tork's food bill, according to estimates made last week by the ex perts of the port of New Tork au thority, is $1. 500,000,000 a year. In bulk our food supplies would fill 620,- 000 freight cars, or 4,500,000,000, food pounds yearly, or 10,000 freight cars. covering 65 miles, for one week's supply. Computations Dasea on nair a ton of food a year for the average man. show that New York eats Dgt.uuu.vuu pounds of meat a year, 456,000,000 Dounds of bread, 60.000,000 pounds ot cheese and 648,000,000 pounds of vege tables. The experts, in this holiday week summary, didn't bother with fruits, pies and cakes, candies and nuts, and the figures here set forth are called "conservative in the ex treme." New York World. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at the Hotels. J. A. MaGill of Anchorage, Alaska, known from one end of the country to the other as "Beluga Joe, the dry land whaler." was at' the Oregon hotel yesterday. He makes a busi ness of catching beluga whales. Sev eral miles above Anchorage there is a small Inlet. Here MaGill has a large net. which he operates through an air pumping system. He has a hose attached to the net. When tne tide is rising the whales come into the inlet and MaGill pumps air into the net. which therewith rises to the surface. When the tide goes down the whales find themselves unable to escape. With a launch MaGill's men go into the inlet and shoot the whales that have been captured. The car casses are then taken to a plant where the oil -is extracted and the bones saved. MaGill ships large quan tities of oil and whalebone and has grown wealthy through his opera tions. The new railroad which the government has built from Anchorage to Fairbanks is a great thing for tne country, according to Mr. MaGill. In the old days before the line was built it cost the citizens of the country 500-to make the trip by dog sleds. Now the same trip can be made by rail for $29. "Sourdoughs, who in other days made the trip only on great occasions now go quite often by train, spend their money for, moon shine and then return. A strange thinar about the railroad is that there is no traveling by night. Three days are required to make the journey from Anchorage to Fairbanks. When nicrhtfall comes the train stops and the passengers repair to hotels along the way for food and sleep. Great preparations are being made in Alaska for the welcoming of President Hard ing next summer, according to "Be luga Joe. One of the heaviest runs of salmon trout and steelhead that have entered the Columbia rjver in recent years is now in progress, according to angling adherents of the lowly salmon egg. Fair catches are being made daily by fishermen along the Columbia near Dn.tkn hm th lnwfp river is said to yield a full creel to whomever casts his line. Deputy Uame waraen jj-u Clark, returning from an official trip rt ciatciraniA famed in summer for its bass and croppie fishing, reported that anglers are catcning tne iiran m salmon trout near that town. "I met one old chap," said Warden Clark, "coming up from the creek who had a gunnv-sack a third filled with trout and one big steelhead, which he had caught in but a few hours' fishing. The fish are taking salmon egg bait eagerly, but many anglers say that they have the best luck with cut bait, or the white flesh of chubs and suckers." business man of Eugene, with his bride, formerly aiiss aianuii uiicj, registered at the Benson hotel Satur day night. Edwards was known to his comrades of the 364th ambulance company of the 91st division as "Pee- . tt .I Vi tlia TTnivp.r- w eo. ne citiiatcu t,,u v.. slty of Oregon unit early in the war and accompanied tne or5aaau" overseas. Upon his return to this country he engaged in business in Eugene. Following his wedding Ed wards went to the Benson hotel and pleaded with Harry Carroll, cashier and one of his wartime comrades, to keep his name off the register. "I j--. . w cxt thA old Powder River crowd to know where I am," he declared. China is becoming more and more modernized each day according to . N. Critchfield of Chicago, who Is the Pacific coast representative of a re frigerating machinery company with headquarters in Beloit, Wis. "Chinese have been coming to this country re cently and making investigations re garding the refrigerator business, said Mr. Critchfield yesterday at the Multnomah hotel. "When the Chinese take to purchasing such machines it is a sure sign of progress." Mr. Critchfield is preparing to go to China in June to put his machines n the oriental market. There was a arummms ii .u"" the city the other day. rising and waning anu paoBiub ---- "Listen to her," said the man in the street, "that's the first plane I've heard lor monins. ouuuu: ... good " His companion was equally "Ton know what that means, don't you?" he rejoined. "Means it's spring, tnat s wnai u mean. to depend on the robins, but now a very different sort of bird flies when the weather gets decent again. Look at her. would you?" The gleam of a far-off wing as the plane banked, the sudden wina-oorne oi.un.ci and spring's modern harbinger drifted Deyona nen. T, . A! ifta nrnnnii Cottaffe ousiucsa tuiiw..iu"o , Grove are improving with the revival t. imt,oi. huRiness. savs W. F. Johnson, who is at the Benson hotel. Mr Johnson is in tne lumner Ban. and has the firm belief that before months hive tassed the in dustry will be back on its feet bring ing prosperity to tnose parts, ui mc state where it is the principal means of livelihood for hundreds of people. si-- n.i.n- i,.mhornin Afr. Johnson is awaiting the entry of the railroads into the tie-purcnasing market. M. F. Hardesty, one of the leading -!t-tan. nr RARsido and one of-' the state officials of the Knights of n.-i-i,;.,,, ta in Portland attending to fraternal and private business. Mr. Hardesty conducts tne aancis un w Seaside and is interested in a number of other business enterprises there. He Is at the Imperial. ci nif.ronn ratile and stock man - u ro&ioor Triahri. country, came to Portland yesterday with several carloads of steers lor tne jromaiiu market. He is registered at the Im- i-i l.n,l Ann! her Idaho StOCk- man who came on a like mission is W. G. Shannon, also or weiser. tt. t Qipniitiiil business man of Seaview. Wash., came to Portland Saturday and his name appears on the register of the Imperial. t, tt ci.ailArn nf Asztnrla. is at. the XI.. VV . anai.i.' Portland. He is la the merchantile business. txt T7aT whri ennducts a nrint- ing business in Baker, is at the Im perial Tfnfn Neal. contractor of La Grande, is at the Imperial. n it Woodcock, banker of Cor- valfis, is at the Oregon hotel. Origin of Mousetrap Quotation. T , r-oivni? rt. fpK a. fTn the 1 .-v vr . i-j - ' ' . , . Editor.) Kindly print the name of a,,hn- nf the followinar Quotation and tell me where it can be found: If a man can preach a better sermon, L..n t..nli- mnlra a hAtter write a uenw " , ---- mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ti,a author of the foregoing has never been identified so far as we are aware. It appears in a volume en titled "Borrowings," published In San Francisco in 1889 and compiled by the ladies of the First Unitarian v,mh of Oakland. It is therein credited to Emerson, but search of Emerson's works has not revealed it. Others have credited authorship to Elbert Hubbard. He was questioned about it at one time, but gave an in- WHAT WORRIES SENATOR REED Writer Thinks Missourlan Cares Little About Newberry Expenditures. HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb: 4. (To the Editor.) I note that Righteous Reed (United States senator, democrat, from Missouri), is still chewing the Newberry rag. Reed et al. are sore, not because cf fraud in the Newberry campaign, but because Ford, a demo crat, and a real menace to American ism, failed to butt into the United States senate. Righteous Reed, however, has this consolation: If over-much money was spent by Newberry's friends on his election, it was spent for demo cratic votes making a heap of dif ference whose bull got hooked. One thing is dead certain Senator New berry is a better, safer senator and citizen, than Henry" Ford. If, however. Senator Newberry had hid out and helped others to do likewise, had made disrespectful re marks about a certain flag that all true Americans will fight for pronto, Instead of getting busy over there, and of course were he a democrat, Righteous Reed would rest easy. The unfavorable comment going the rounds of some republican newspa pers on the Newberry case does not represent anything like a majority of our American people, it being a safe bet that said newspapers failed to make connection with the so-called dewberry election roll. For my part, I thank our Oregon senatorial delega tions for voting with the majority in seating Senator Newberry, who made a good" soldier and will make a good senator. The majority in the United States senate, representing a majority of us United States voters, were on the ground and weighed all the evi dence. . W. R. WINANS. Dates Bridges Were Built. PORTLAND, Feb. 4. (To the Edi tor.) 1. Please give date of the first railroad bridge across the Willam ette at Portland, also of the next one to be built, which I think was the old Madison bridge. 2. Please give a comparative as sessed valuation ofrultnomah county with that of the balance of the state. 3. Please state if it is necessary to make income tax return if there is no tax liable this year, providing the person had a tax the previous year. CONSTANT READER. 1. The old O. R. & N. steel bridge, built just below the present steel bridge by George S. Morrison in 1888, was the first railroad bridge. The old Morrison bridge (not railroad) was built in 1887 and was the firsf bridge across the river. The old steel bridge, the old Morrison, the Burn side and the old. Madison bridge were all built within a four-year period from 1887 on. 2. According to the 1920 tax rolls, the assessed valuations were: State, $1.040, 839, 049;" Multnomah county, $338,190,784. 3. It is not necessary but proba bly best to make returns, as the col lector of internal revenue will ask for an explanation if no return ia filed. If your 1921 income was $2000 or over for a married man or $1000 or over for a single man, you must file return, although the modified ruling gives a larger exemption. Depth, Density and Pressure of Water. PROSSER, Wash., Feb. 4. (To the Editor.) 1. Will a ship or any ob ject that sinks go to the bottom, no matter-show deep the water? 2. Is there an instrument which will meas ure the depth of water without let ting the instrument to the bottom? For example, by lowering the instru ment. 200 feet, it would tell how much deeper the water was? SUBSCRIBER. 1. Density of water increases very slightly with depth. At 2000 fathoms the density of sea water is less than three-tenths of 1 per cent greater than at the surface. Theoretically an object might be so near the specific gravity of sea water that it would not go to the bottom at extreme depth, but practically any sinkable object goes. to the bottom. Some per sons confuse pressure of water with density,. Pressure is increased by depth, but water pressure is exerted on every side and surface of a sunken object and does not counteract the force of gravitation. 2. Deep sea soundings are taken by a device which is let down to the bottom, where it records the pressure of the water. Depth is determined from the pressure thus recorded and Independently of the amount of line utilized. i Inventors of Airbrake and Steamboat. PORTLAND, Feb. 4. (To the Ed itor.) 1. Where, when and by whom was the first airbrake for trains in vented? 2. Where was the first steamboat built? SUBSCRIBE R. 1. The'airbrake in its first form was invented by George Westing house, an American engineer, in 1869 2. A Spanish captain, named Blasco de Garay, is reputed to have shown in the harbor of Barcelona in 1543 a steamboat of his own invention. Al though Robert Fulton's "Clermont," launched on the Hudson in 1807, was preceded by several steam vessels, he was the first to apply steam to navi gation with any degree of success. Duty on Wools and Furs. MILWAUKIE, Or., Feb. 3. (To the Editor.) Kindly publish the duty paid on furs and wool dress goods from Germany to America. A SUBSCRIBER. Manufacturers of wool pay a duty of 45 cents a pound and, in addition to the pound rate, pay an ad valorem (percentage of value) rate as follows: Women's and children's dress goods, 35 per cent; plushes, velvets and other pile fabrics and alpacas, 45 per cent. Dressed furs pay 10 to 40 per cent ad valorem; fur wearing apparel. 50 per cent; undressed furs, free. Authors of Play. ILWACO, Wash.. Feb. 2. (To the Editor.) Who wrote "Jim's Girl." name of the play played by the Allen stock company two years ago, and where could I get the copy of it? READER. The authors of "Jim's Girl" are Earl Carroll and Thomas Gray. The play is copyrighted. The Baker Stock company presented the play the week of January 29 and, possibly, a letter addressed to Lee Pearl, man ager Baker Players, will bring you the desired information. Joker tn Nullo. j . -. j w - - . . x In a 500 card game A plays a "nullo." A plays the 5 of spades; B , r. -noHac riit has the inker. Now A says "that B has to play the joker and take tne tricK. a says "s throw off any card ne pleases, wno js right? . - E- WILKINS. A commonly played, B is not com- naiid to nlav the ioker. It is ad visable to have a preliminary under standing as to tne variaDie ruies in card games. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamea J. Montague. - TOO LATE. Governor Miller ef New Tork says that crime is caused by the desire to occupy front seats In life's orchestra. When told that men are apt to be Garroters, thugs and cheats Because the show they fain would see From the expensive seats. We quit the race for sordid wealth. And .took to writing rhyme. We didn't want to risk our health In doing time for crime. "Far better," so we told ourself, "Plain, honest work to do Than sleep upon an iron shelf. And dine on prison stew. Far better never see the show And thrills of virtue feel. Than watch the evening sun sink low Through bars of phosphor steel." But now we read from time to time Of men who fortunes gain. And yet from all the forms of crime Concurrently abstain. Judge Gary, Schwab and old John D. Have piles of gold, and still We notice that they all are free To come and go at will. These thoughts are full of bitterness; We lack both cakes and ale Who might have made a fair success And still kept out of jail. And we are sure, as at these men We enviously glance. If we could live our lives again We well, we'd take a chance. Three of 'Em. Congress is now split pretty evenly between the republican party and the democratic party nd the bloo party, a Reasonably . Soft. .Every time a European statesman wants to get away for a little golf he organizes some sort of a peace conference on the Riviera. a Not Running Full Blast. They will have to speed up the peace conference before they reach a stage oi quantity production. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Burroughs Nature Club. Copyrlsht. Honarhton-SIUflin Co. Can You Answer These Queatlonaf 1. I was surprised to see you print the ' statement in giving a list of poisonous snakes of the south that the king snake is venomous. This Is contrary to nw experience. 2. Was the -Star of Bethlehem a real star? ' 3. What is a Gonus, or Goonea, a sea bird? . Answers In tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Are turtles Intelligent? "Intelligent" is a risky word to use, leading to arguments between intelli gence and instinct. However, some of the tortoises do show considerable liveliness of disposition, ability to reeognize their keepers and even af fection in some cases. The cold blooded creatures can hardly he ex pected to show as much mentality as warm-blooded ones. a 2. Do flies have a substance on their legs to enable them to stay on a ceiling? Yes. Each of the six feet has two claws, and besides these, each foot is supplied with two sticky pads which are called pulvilli. These pads are a light color, and their walking sur faces are covered with hairs from which a sticky fluid is secret-d. This makes walking upside down, or on a polisdd surface, perfectly practicable, a 3. At what age does a green male canary acquire its full song, and how old do they live to be? Not under one year. Some fancy singers are developed with training, especially those raised in the Harts district in Germany, and require time to learn vocal tricks. Span of life so varies with individuals we cannot give any rule. Under intelligent care, protected from changes of. weather and temperature, canaries have been known to live 18 years or longer. We recommend canary owners to farmers" bulletin 770, a government pamphlet on their care and management. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of February , 1897. Bombay. According to official fig ures compiled here there have been to date 5000 cases of bubonic plague and 3841 deaths. A colony of 50 Illinois families is preparing to migrate to the more pleasant Willamette valley and will arrive early in the spring. Washington. Senator Morrill yes terday made a futile effort to pass the bill forbidding the use of intox icants in the capitol building. Washington. Senator Aldrich and other friends of the Nicaragua canal bill have declared it will be abon doned next Monday. Details aa to Bonua. YAMHILL, Or., Feb. 4. (To the Ed itor.) 1. If the federal bonus law is passed, can we receive both state and federal money? Will it any way change the state land loan act If we receive a federal bonus? 2. Is there any lump sum limit as to how far the state can go In making loans and paying bonuses, or is the certain mill age tax the only limit? 3. What per cent of those entitled to the state bonus or loan have made application? AN OVERSEES VETERAN. i Wb cannot eive details of a bill before it has been prepared, but there is no way by which congress can change the Oregon bonus law. s Tho statn may eo in debt up to 3 per cent of the assessed valuation to provide cash and loans. There Is no legal obstacle to direct appropria tion of additional sums, except that in vir thn total amount raised by taxation cannot exceed by more than 6 per cent the total amount raisea in the preceeding year. t a little more than 50 per cent or the number inducted into the service from Oregon had applied up to Feb ruary 1. Pronunciation of Word. ST HELENS, Or., Feb. 4. (To the Editor.) Please tell me the correct Dronunciation of Dail Eireann, and also what it is? STUU1SM1 6UCW-l"tliiV. Tho word, according to the Infor mation deDartment of the Portland -..Kiln llhrarv. is pronounced as if the first part were "dial" (as In sun dial) and the second "El-re-ann, pro nouncing "el" as long "a" with slight ocnt. "re" with short "e" and "ann" as in the proper name "Anne" with full accent. if ia the Irish name for a repre sentative legislative body or Inde pendent parliament.