1922
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MT BROTHER'S KEEPER.
One week of endeavor for the com
munity chest. In the dual cause of
charity and philanthropy, ha
brought to that civic strongbox but
ft scant half of the sum required.
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.
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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.
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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.