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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAY, FEBRUAET 13, 1922
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BT THE H.IKD1M. MKTHOI).
In his address to the senate pre
senting the Washington conference
treaties, I'res'uent Harding laid
stress on the fact that he had done
all things that the senate had said
that I're.siilent "Wilson rhould have
dona with regard to the treaties
inade'at Paris. In calling a con-
Iwrence on naval limitation he com -
Dlied with a recommendation of
t ongress, and action on far eastern population and much of its foreign
questions logically grew ont of that born element has been of recent ac-
ut-ject. He appointed leaders of
l.oth parties on the conference dele-
ration, and may fairly say that
through them the treaties were ne
gotiated with the senate's advice
and consent. He thus complies with
the most extreme view of the sen
ate's prerogative that is practicable.
for it would obviously be imprac
ticable to obtain the senate's ap
proval of each" step in the confer
ence proceedings as it was made.
If, after such scrupulous care has
fceen taken to act in harmony with
Its known opinions and to respect its
constitutional powers, the senate
were to reject any of the pivotal
treaties among the group, there
would be cause to despair of making
the constitutional provisions In re
gard to treaties work except in the
extremely iinprohahle event that one
party had a two-thirds majority that
would vote as a unit. Other nations
would then consider useless any at
tempt to make any such formal
compart with the I'nited States as
required ratification by the senate.
They could make nt more than a
working arrangement by conference
and correspondence with the execu
tie branch of the government, to
expire with Its terra of office. For
rign poiicy would become an ac
cepted party issue, and the other na
tions af Ceded would be tempted to
Interfere with our poliiics by means
of propaganda.
The reception given to the treaties
and to Mr. Harding's most able plea
in their behalf asnurcs this) and the j
other nations Interested that no euch i
disaster Is at hand. The care taken
by .Mr. Harding, in the light of his !
own experience as a senator, prom-
Ises to result In approval of the
treaties after the usual amount of
speech-making. Some senators be
sides the group which delights In
dissent might be inclined to oppose
from partisan motives, but they will
be restrained by the pressure of
public opinion. The people are
I'eeply gratified that the armament
race is to end. that the war cloud
which hung over the Pacific ocean
pnd the far east Is to be dissipated,
I hat China Is to le open to all and
free from danger of dismemberment.
and that the I'nited States is aarain
active co-operation with other
Iowers for the peace of the world.
When this Is the state of public
opinion, the senators whl vote
against the treaty are likciy to find
themselves in as complete isolation
b they profess to dessre for this re
public. The bright prospects before the
Washington treaties convoy an idea
.f what might have beon the fate of
the Parts treaties if President Wil-
eon had pursued the conciliatory.
considerate course that his surces-
nor adapted. So strong was the popu
lar tirsire? tor n rariy. jum peace, tu j
Ve followed by formation of a league, j
that by acting In harmony with the
senate, hv assoi-i.il,nz both rarliis
arainst him In the work and bv
omewhat modifying his pro- i
gramme. Mr. Wilson micht have se
cured its approval. His triumph
would then have been the greater
because he shared it with the sen
ate. Kven be may now admit, at
least to himself, that the Harding
method Is the better.
WHY WIRTH HOIJts ON.
The demand of Chancellor Wirth
for an affirmative vote of confidence
from the relchstag In place of the
merely negative rejection of resolu
tions of censure which came from
ell opposition parties sheds light on
the parlou l ite of German politics
and. affairs general!-. Wirth no
sooner threatened to reslen than the
hitherto In.ictive government parties
In' great trepidation prepared to give
him what he asked, while the oppo
sition was scared by the prospect of
its own success.
At the present Juncture the parties
cf the extreme ngtt and left mon-
nrchis:s oa the one hand, commti-
iiiats on the other delight to heckle
the gov eminent, but they desire
nothing les than to take Its place.
If either should take control and
should attempt to put its policy in
effect, there would be either revolu
tion or allied intervention or both.
There is a larce enough element op
posed to monarchy to resist its re-
.lval as forcibly as the Kapp putsch
was resisted, and dread of foreign
occupation would bring accessions
to the republican ranks from those
who are otherwise favorable to
monarchy. As the declared purpose
of the monarchists is "to nullify the
reparation and disarmament clauses
of the Versailles treaty, the allies
would have no alternative to force
In upholding that compact. As no
other party would form a coalition
with the communists, they coi!l
rule only bv revolution, w hich would
put reparation payments oat of the
question, and again allied occupation
would loom ahead. If Great Brit-
in and Italy hung back. Krance un-
der Polncare would act alone, or so
Oerrnany fears.
Thus the main source of Wlrtb's
strength is his opponents fear of
the couaeqnen res of his overthrow.
lie is kept in his place because no
other wants to take it, because all
know that his policy alone can pre
vent the allies from putting the
screws on without mercy. Yet the
parties of the rlrrht, in whose bands
is the wealth by which alone that
policy can be carried out, block his
I efforts to obtain the necessary reve
I rue. and the communists road the
combatants on in the hope that dire
? ' confusion will bring the opportunity
- for revolution. All wish to keep
the Wirth cabinet in office because
it Is a good target for their political
ire anf because they can thus shirk
i responsibility.
I Germany in defeat does not com
??pare well with Krance. It lacks a
great national leaaer nice loiera,
I who guided Franc out of humilia
te i i:oQ to ine inmnpaaQi aiscnarge
i the war maemnity in i(a, ana 11
seems to lack the moral quality to
follow such a leader.
ONE WAT TO Ki.Df.CE CRIME.
Of the several reasons for the un
favorable character of criminal sta
tistics in this country when com
pared with those of other countries,
there is one that has recently been
rli-n tnarial nnftlrl AratioQ in the
! minds of rriminoloffaitSi It is the
delay and uncertainty of justice In
American courts. So it is interesting
to read in the Journal of the Ameri
can Judicature Society of the actual
effect of a simplification of court
procedure with its attendant speed
in the trial of cases.
The experiment. If It may be
i called such.a was made in Detroit.
Mixed population is often cited as
I one of the causes of crimes preva-
lence. Detroit has a very large mixed
ojilsition. Crime was rapidly in-
creasing.
Detroit had the , usual separate
police courts for trials of misde
meanors, and for preliminary- hear
ings in felony cares. The reform con
sisted of unifying the police court
and the higher criminal court, thus
eliminating appeal from conviction
for misdemfinor and also eliminat
ing preliminary hearings in felony
cases.
Probably some of the good results
have been obtained from the enthu
siasm which commonly attends the
first operation of a reform. The new
judges were earnest. They frowned
on shyster lawyers, they established
a night court and they seem to have
had some co-operation from the
public in obtaining competent Juries.
At any rate, prior to the reform only
6 per cent of the felony cases were
disposed of in six weeks, but the
new court disposes of SS per cent In
six weeks. Conviction of the guilty
is almost certain, but the rights of
the Innocent are said to be protected
better than before.
During the first seven months of
1921. during which the new court
was In full swing, there was a re
markable reduction in crime, as
compared with the first seven
months of five preceding years. In
the preceding years the number of
burglaries, larcenies and robberies
ranged from 1939 to 2682, and the
number during the first seven
months of 1920 when the old system
was in use. was 251S. During the
first seven months of 1921. after the
new court had been In operation for
four months, the number of crimes
leu to ioreoer. in neisnoor-
ing cities the number of similar
crimes increased auring me period
when crimes In Detroit fell off mora
than one-half.
So far os statistics go, they seem
to prove the case against delay and
uncertainty In criminal procedure.
-Ol'R BITV TO Rrs:-i.
The tragedy' of Russia is heigh
tened by the fact that it comes at
the end of sn long a chapter of
tragedy as to make only a momen
tary impression. If we had been
told in the midst f a long period of
peace that f5. 000. 000 white people.
Christians, were doomed to die of
starvation before winter ended, a
shudder of horror would have gone
through all civilized mankind and
all would have exerted themselves to
some extent to save I'fe. For more
than seven years horror has suc
ceeded horror of such enornjity that
our capacity for being moved to pity
and to help seems to have become
exhausted.
Yet the hundreds of thousands of
shriveled, frozen bodies which strew
the Volga valley and the millions
" mm i-i.,.- m "CBUI a
"r "r cuu-
sciences to Inquire if we have
not
some share of responsibility. Earlier
Intervention in the war or earlier
preparation to intervene or more ef
fective Intervention might have
saved these millions. We knew that
holshevisui was an Instrument of
Germany to destroy the Russian
army, but we refused to treat It as
such and to stamp It out In Its In
fancy. When the Czechs were fight
ing their way across Russia In 1918,
a small American or allied army
could have enabled them to crush
the red' army and set Russia free.
All IJussia cried for rescue, but In
deluded devotion to the idealist
theory of self determination was left
to work out its own salvation. Rus
sia had a valid moral claim to this
help, for it sftcrtficed more than
three million lives and more millions
crippled to save the allies. Without
that sacrifice Germany would have
triumphed before the United States
could have Intervened to good effect
and. when our turn came, we should
have had to fight a power that had
all Utirope at its command. Russia
saved not only Kurope but America.
America should feed Russia In
payment of a debt of gratitude as
well as In simple humanity. The
famine i the result of bolshevism.
for that delusion has wrought such
ruin that the people of the drought
stricken region could not be fed
with the surplus of other parts of
Russia. Few provinces had a sur
plus of food, and those few could not
transport It to the famine area. But
the famine is the latest in .a chain of
events that began with Russia's part
in the war. The most plausible ob
jection to relief is that It may fortify
the soviet government by relieving
It of the necessity of providing food
for the people and thus leaving- It
free to keep the red army and the
huge bureaucracy In relative plenty.
j But food will fortify the people to
j transform or overthrow the soviet
land will remove a strong incentive
for men to remain In the red army
the assurance that they will be fed.
For Its own preservation the soviet
! has restored freedom of trade and
I the workman's right to his earnings
I and to payment by results, thus sur-
rendering one great source of power
the power to dictate whether a
man should eat, be half fed or
starve.
One beneficial result of outside re
lief is that it brings to the Russian
people knowledge of events in the
outside world which the soviet has
excluded or has colored with a mass
of falsehood and propaganda. They
are learning that other nations are
not seething with revolt, ripe for the
world revolution. They realise that
capitalist nations do not seek to con
quer, but send them food, while
communism starves them. As they
enjoy the recovered right to work
where and for whom they please, at
what wages they can secure, to buy
and sell, and to spend the fruits of
their labor, their physical strength
will revive and with it their moral
force. If Russia's salvation from
bolshevlat tyranny is to come from
within, there must be means to bring
it about.
All motives of mercy, duty and
policy combine to lead America to
giva the most generous help to Rus
sia. Since the soviet has Deen ariven
to abandon communism, . it is In
evitable that the forces opposed to
that theory will grow stronger, and
that the moderate element In the
soviet government will gain fuller
control and will continue to lead the
country back to sanity. American
help to the people should reinforce
this element for Us final struggle
with the incurable reds.
WHAT rOlNDEXTER fllLL DO.
The Oreaonlart Mil It will be amazed .
Senator poindexter does not aupport the
u-eatiea of the arn:a conference. The sen
ior, la abort, can choose between tne
aupport of the Seattle Hearst paper or
tne Portland oregonian. Trulh to teil the
support of The Orenonian. though it ia
printed in Oregon. Is more valuable to a
political asprant in this mate than the
uDDort of the Seattle P.-I. under its pres
ent control. Not only can the senate's
canon Kl,,"B l u V i ' u . . . o ii auu- on
P.-I.. but If ha followa the P.-l.. If he al
lows himaelf to become a Hearst man. he
will have no newspaper support In this
atata worth mentioning. Mr. Potndexter,
scute And capable, probably understands
that as well as any one. You may not like
him or his attitude, but we doubt thut
he will le-tve this atate very Ions; in sus
pense as to his stand on the )a4ue raiaea
by the P.-I. Aberdeen Wah.) V. ond.
This appears to call for explana
tion. The Oregonian is not a parti
san of Senator Poindexter and has
never been. It is not seeking to make
issue between itself and the Se
attle paper through any interest in
the political fortunes of Senator
Poindexter or to demonstrate any
thing whatsoever as to the influ
ence of The Oregonian. or the lack
of Influence of the Post-Intelligen
cer, in Washington. All that may
ake care of itself.
But the Oregonian has a vital and
mmediate concern in the treaties
negotiated by the armament confer
ence, for the same reason that they
a're of vital and immediate concern
to the United States ajid to the
world, and of intimate and tremen
dous concern to the states of the Pa
cific coast. What Mr. Poindexter
does as senator about the treaties is
of personal moment to every citizen
of Washington and Oregon; what
Mr. Poindexter does as a candidate
s chiefly of concern to him and his
mmediate following. hen a bold
attempt Is made to dragoon Mr.
Poindexter as senator into a position
antagonistic to the public welfare,
with the plain implication that he
can thus best serve his own interest
as a candidate. The Oregonian will
have something to say.
Is Mr. Poindexter Mr. Hearst's
man or his own? Is he the senator
for the Hearst press or for the pub
lic? That is the question. The Ore
gonian has no doubt as to the an
swer he will make must make In
the public interest. That his answer
for the public will best serve hl own
interest is a fact that may be recog
nized; but The Oregonian has no
thought of suggesting that it should,
or will, determine his course. -
UTI'DV OF A Pl'LLARD.
A corollary of- the proposal that
the colleges shall make better pro
vision for the particularly bright
student is. of course, that the way
shall be cleared for the effort by
eliminating the Hnfit. The latter
course is made necessary by the dis
tinct limitations put upon institu
tions of higher learning by mounting
costs and by increasing numbers of
young men and women pleading for
admission. Since the line must be
drawn somewhere. It is obviously
the less promising who must go by
the board.
Professor Lewis Terman of Stan
ford University tells in a recent
number of the Scientific Monthly of
the processes by which a student
who had somehow passed the requi
site high sichool examinations and
had been admitted to college, al
though in reality most unpromising
material, was subjected to various
tests to determine beyond doubt
what his mental status was, and
finally dismissed after an unsuccess
ful effort to do the work of the
freshman year. This youth was 20
years old on entering college. It
had taken him five years to com
plete his high school course in It
self a suspicious circumstance but
his credentials werj regular and
notwithstanding a rather obvious
backwardness he was taken In hand
with the Idea of helping him to
make the most of himself. He re
ceived some especial Instruction In
note-taking and methods of study
and developed a dogged persistence
quite creditable to his good inten
tions. He even refrained from sun
dry freshman frivolities In order to
study.
Physically he was prepossessing;
he carried himself well, had a pleas
ant smile and expressive eyes, wore
good clothes, possessed excellent
manners and drove a high-powered
automobile. The guest at a dinner
of a professor of .psychology who
was frankly studying him. he an
swered questions with a knowing
smile, or with a soft-spoken "Yes"
or "No" that was quite engaging.
"There was something in both voice
and smile, says the writer, "that
tended to disarm suspicion, if sus
picion should arise." His attitude
was one of child-like trustfuir.ess.
Yet the student was shown upon
arhaustive examination to nossaaai a
mentality of about 12V, years. His Kdison at 75 expects to work fif
vocabuiary was that of a 12-year teen years more and probably will.
old. Subjected to the claswic series
of questions In similarities, he found
the onlv point of resemblance be-
tween ship and automobile to be in i
the "propeller.' Iron and silver spring.
were alike only as to weight; as to !
the apple ar.d peach, he said, after I The governor makes today a holi
some reflection, that "the skin was" ! day to save much mix-up in many
about the same." He defined ! affairs.
"shrewd" as
conservative,
"irony" !
as "strong," and "mosaic" as "per- i
laming u architecture la a foreign
( country." On most word definitions,
, however, he failed wholly. He was
i
unaoie to give a royms ior uay iu
three minutes and it took him fifty
seconds to find a rhyme for "pill."
In the test in which he was required
to speak at random whatever words
came to mind, he gave in successive
half minutes nineteen, fifteen, ten,
eleven, seven and seven words re
spectively, hls mental process com
ing almost to a standstill at the con
clusion of the test. v
One of the questions was: "Ton
are hauling a load of lumber, the
horses get stuck in the mud. and
there Is no help to be had. What
would you do?" "Go for help." was
his reply. "Why should women and
children be rescued from shipwreck
first?" was asked, and the answer
sras: "There isn't any reason." " His
tory had been his favorite topic dur
ing his five years at high school, but
he said that Alexander Hamilton
had been president of the United
States and that Louisiana had been
purchased subsequently to the Dred
Scott decision.
Yet, says Professor Terman, the
student was "only moderately duller
than the average man." His percep
tion and general intelligence in all
probability, adds the writer, are not
quailed or exceeded by 70 per cent
of the whifte voters of the country.
It has been pointed out by various
authorities that the large majority
of high school graduates are drawn
from the best 2 5 per cent ef the
population and that universHty grad
uates are representative of the top
10 Tiea- cant Th'a student was thus
painstakingly studied chiefly as ttT
contrast. It Is only occasionally.
Professor Terman makes plain, that
an individual of so moderate ability
Is graduated from high school and
admitted to college.
Tet It must not be concluded that
th9 young man's case is hopeless
from the broadly social point of
view. He was not deficient in the
sensorial, perceptual and sensori
motor processes1. In visional acuity.
he probably excelled the average
savant. He was Jess In danger of
being run over by an automobile
than the average college professor,
a fact which suggests the reflec
tion that he is more likely to sur
vive the dangers of the modern
order than a professor would be.
He caff"drive an automobile as well
as the average doctor, lawyer or
minister with equal experience, his
handwriting is better than the aver
age statesman's, and his spelling 1
better than George Washingtons
was. But his memory and reasoning
powers are poor. His "reports" on
glibly read passages' from news
papers were childish, his summaries
of abstract paragraphs were rated at
zero. He was able to carry out com
mands given in fifteen-word sen
tences but those requiring thirty to
forty words were met with a .blank
stare. He was unable to detect the
absurdity In the statement that a
road ran down hill in both direc
tions, and his habitual associations
were so strojig that he found noth
ing wrong in the .sentence, "The
stars and stripes will shine tonight."
The probable fate of the young
man furnishes, an interesting theme
for speculation, particularly if we
accept the professor's conclusions
that there are many like him in the
world. "His usual life will never be
integrated by principles of action
derived from experience," yet he
may make an efficient clerk, under
direction, in his father's store. He
"may learn how to buy bonds and
clip them, but will never know what
a bond is. On the other hand,
there are a hundred varieties of
skilled and semi-skilled- work at
which he may do well. The writer
suggests that If he married a cap
able wife he might even succeed in
business. With' no moral inhibitions,
he may become a citizen of average
respectability, although he is not
likely to be elected to. office or at
tain a position of leadership. As a
voter he will never get a glimpse of
the fundamental problems of tax
ation, tariff, government ownership,
credit, education labor and capital
or similar problems. ,
If Airs. Roy Gardner appears on
her merit as an actress she should
be allowed to show herself; but if
her appearance is in response to
morbid desire to see the wife of a
bandit and hear her defend his
deeds, her date should be canceled.
The most hopeful sign of all from
Russia is the news that the soviet
government has ordered its dele
gates to the Genoa conference to
have their hair cut. Now if they'll
add a weekly bath the allies may
recognize Kusvia yet.
That Pullman car seized in Idaho
-because its porter carried liquor has
been released, the department of
justice holding It Is not in the class
of rum-running automobiles. It is a
fine distinction, but with solid basis.
Why not tax matches to raise the
bonus money? Everybody uses them
and the tax would spread fair. Even
in cities, with their electric lights,
the cigarette smokers would perfect
the balance.
i
A republican president cannot ap
point a postmaster of his home
town" without violating a, law, ac
cording to a democratic senator.
This is, indeed, sad.
The Russia of today is not the
friendly Russia of sixty years ago;
but starving children are the same
at any time.
Ievelopments In the Taylor case
have reached the point where every
body tells the same story and tella
it straight. v
A Spaniard has invented a gun
that fires 3500 shots a minute, just
as disarmament is to begin. Still, it
will keep.
The third party in Idaho is getting
ready to put on t"-.e coat of the best
bidder, as is usual with third parties.
Send a comic valentine today to
the meanest man you Know. Life
for him -may be getting stale.
only ceatn win rgmc mm.
Each Sunday now. better than the
preceding.
is
fine "first day of
Third . week of community chest
work. Snap into itJTor a finish.
BY'-PRODITCTS OF THE PRESS
Rubber-Heel BIyatery Solved by Shoe
Magazine,
A printer had sore feet, says the
Boot and Shoe Recorder. He had to
stand fy long hours at his case, set
ting up type and then distributing it
back again from the forms. The
floor became pretty hard after five
or six hours of this, so he got hold of
a rubber mat to stand on and put
this in front of the case.
But the printer's devil was full of
mischief and would hldehe mat dur
ing the soon hour or before the print
er in question came to work.
So in order- to fool the printer's
devil the printer-with-the-sore-feet
worked out a scheme which, accord
ing to the traditions of the Industry,
laid the foundation for the whole bus
iness of rubber heels, now one of the
considerable industries of the country
running into millions of dollars.
For the printer took his rubber
mat and cut out soles and heels from
it, tacked them on to his shoes and
thusequipped, went about his work
in peace in utter defiance of
printer's devils and oblivious of the
fact that he was founding a new in
dustry. The business of making rubber
heels now has world-wide connections
and systems of distribution, and
skilled engineers and scientists have
been at work for several years in in
dustrial laboratories, working out
compounds of rubber that will meet
the needs of the business most
exactly.
As an example of tfia almost univer
sal use of the rubber heel, conserva
tive figures prepared by the rubber
association of America. show that
125.000,000 pairs of rubber heels were
sold in this country during 1920. From
Brook ton, Massachusetts, one of the
great shoe centers, comes the in
formation that 84 per cent of all shoes
made there go out equipped with rub
ber heels. In one day recently one
factory in Akron turned out 203,138
pairs of rubber heels.
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A Chicago wholesale coal dealer, ac
cording to the Tribune, quoted a price
of 2. 5 a ton at the mine -in western
Pennsylvania for a certain grade of
coal. When he learned that the pros
pective purchaser was not a retailer
he withdrew the quotation. A local
retailer was asked for a price. He
said $10.20 a ton delivered. The
freight rate on the coal from the mine
to Chicago is $3.43 a ton. That would
make the price to the retailer here
$6.18. He asked J10.20. That would
give him $4.02 for overhead, local de
livery and profit on an item costing
$2.75.
Write your own explanation of why
the lack of demand has. reduced the
year's output of coal, and the supply
in storage in Chicago, eo that the
coal committee of the Chicago Asso
ciation of -Commerce warns us of a
prospective coal shortage in this city
this winter.
And see how much good that ex
planation will do you when you are
told that the coal cars, now Idle, are
unable to keep pace with the demand
and that therefore the price is neces
sarily high -or higher. Coal opera
tors and dealers will then prove, to
their own complete satisfaction, that
it Is the fault of the consumer.
Don't be surprised if you hear some
ine laying claims one of these days to
having seen some atoms, or even elec
trons, says the Columbus Dispatch.
We are ready for anything since a
prominent Columbus business man
has asserted that he saw some vita
mines at play tfie other day. He was
Leating lunch at a prominent club and
during the course of the meal some
Camembert cheese was placed before
him. Suddenly his attention was cap
tured by movements of some tiny or
ganisms on the cheese.
"Hey. waiter!" he called. "Come
here."
"Did you ever see any vitamines?
he asked when the waiter came to his
table.
"No, sah, boss; nevah did," answered
the waiter.
"Well, look there," said the man,
pointing to the cheese. "Them's
them."
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A committee of engineers headed by
Herber Hoover has prepared a report
on the elimination of waste in Amer
ican industry which contains startling
facts about eyes, finds the "Seattle
Post-In telllgencer.
The workman whose eyes are inef
ficient is doing inefficient work, no
matter how conscientious he may be.
That is a proper premise. On this is
piled the fact, according to this sur
vey, that 25,000.000 American workers
have subnormal vision. This is esti
mated to be half of all the men and
women engaged In gainful occupa
tions. This is a clear case of industrial
waste through ignorance and neglect.
It can be corrected by proper co
operation between Industrial mana
gers and workers.
This national report says one thing
clearly: Get your eyes examined,
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The weather men have been trying
to answer the question, "How does It
rain?" It Is a hard question, says Dr.
IVeJ. Humphreys of the United States
weather bureau.
"Lots of people are content to say
that the .droplets at the top of the
cloud pick up others on their way
down and come out at the bottom full"
sized raindrops," he said. "That
sounds nice, but those who give this
explanation seem to overlook the fact
that clouds can float in the sky for
days without giving a drop of rain."
He has calculated how big a dj-op j
would result from such a fall, and it J
turns out that a cloud particle falling i
from top to bottom of a dense cloud a
mile thick and picking up every other
dropiet in Its way would come out
only one-sixteenth of an inch In dia
meter, much smaller than an ordinary
raindrop. Kansas City Star.
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The old librarian listened with
much interest to a paper on "The
Classification of Readers." The read
ers were classified according to the
natural method
The readers who read through,
The readers who read at.
The readers who read In,
The readers who read roundabout.
And the well-beloved readers who
read between the lines. Christian
Science Monitor.
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The woman who used to do her own
marketing has a daughter who would
starve if telephone connections be
tween her fiat and a delicatessen store
should be Interrupted for a month.
ZSew York Telegraph.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales af Folks at the Hotels.
Walter L. Tooze Jr one of the lead
ing young attorneys of the Willam
ette valley, was in Portland Saturday
and SDOke at Lha T.innnln (lav hanntiet
jn the Chamber of Commerce. Some
republicans are urging Mr. Tooze to
run for congress against W. C. Haw
ley. Recently a delegation visited
him in MeMinnville and urged that
he get Into the race. "I made no an
swer one way or the other." declared
Mr. Tooze at the Imperial. "I have
been urged to run for congress but on
every occasion I have stated that
under no circumstances would I run
Mr. Tooze is a veteran of the world
war, is active In the affairs of the
American" Legion and is well known
up and down the valley. When a can
didate for' delegate to the republican
national convention in Chicago . in
the primaries of 1920 Mr. Tooze,
against a field of five candidates
emerged a victor by 7000 majority
Not always hrougn genius does the
inventor make a discovery that brings
him wealth, according to J. X. Ken
nerly of Los Angeles, who is engaged
in the tire business and is now at the
Multnomart. "We had perhaps 20O0
condemned tire tubes in our plant
said Mr. Kennerly yesterday. "We
were uncertain what to dt with them
and they seemed to be a dead loss to
us. One day I decided to go in bath
ing and took along one of the tubes
I took it out In the surf and thought
I would use it as a life preserver. I
placed myself upon It and Immedi
ately it started for shore with' me. A
man who had Watched the tube and
me preform wanted to purchase the
thing from me. After that inflated
rubber tubes became quite the ra1
with the bathers and we sold every
one of the condemned stock we had
on hand."
,Lamont Rowland, Facific coast rep
resentative of the C. A. Goodyear
Lumber company of Chicago, is at the
Portland hotel. Mr. Rowland asserts
that within a very few years the Pa
cific coast will be the last source of
lumber supply in the country. His
company operates in pine in the south,
redwood in California and fir around
Puget sound. "Within a few years
all of our operations will come here,"
said Mr. Rowland yesterday. "The
big southern pine men are already
making ready to bring their opera
tions here. The state of Oregon will
benefit greatly by new lumber opera
tions before very long."
Farmers throughout Idaho are
pleased with the price advances of
wheat that have been made within
the past few weeks, according to W.
M. Duthie of Troy, Idaho, who is reg
istered at the Multnomah. Mr. Duthie
Is on the way to California, where he
plans to spend reveral weeks. The
advance In wheat, he declares, has
been due to the fact that the specu
lators are anticipating a short crop
in the middle west this year and are
buying heavily of the crop of last
season still on hand. Prospects for a
good crop and fair prices are good in
Idaho he says.
When in Portland during the days
following the big storms that cut
central Oregon from rail transporta
tion, E. P. "Pat" Mahaffey of Bend
contracted a severe cold. He has been
unable to divorcee himself from the
ailment and has returned to Portland
for treatment. He is' at" the Benson
hotel. A number of Mr. Mahaffey's
-friends h'xve been urging him to run
for state treasurer, but "Pat" is not
ready to commit himself. His chief
concern now' is not politics, he says,
but how he is going to get rid of his
ecld.
Boise is a city of luncheon clubs,
according to R. G. Spaulding, secre
tary of the ad club of that city, who
is at the Multnomah. "We found that
by having so many luncheon clubs
there was a great duplication of ef
fort and little co-operation," said Mr.
Spaulding yesterday. "Finally we
started the plan of holding a joint
luncheon once every two weeks. At
this time all of the clubs .attend and
each one takes its turn at staging a
programme. Since this innovation
much more good Is being accom
plished for the city of Boise."
C. A. Adams is convinced that as
soon as people of the state take a
greater interest in the development of
arid lands through irrigation an ad
vancement in Oregon's prosperity and
wealth will be taken. Mr. -Ada'ms.
who is a cattle man, comes from Red
mond where steps are being taken to
reclaim thousands of aeres of land
through irrigation. He is stopping at
the Imperial hotel.
With the idea in mind of escaping
the cold and snow of Wisconsin, A. P.
Felton and F. A. Drerschlaz, sporting
goods dealers of Madison, have been
making a tour of the west and are
registered at the Imperial hotel. They
will remain here a few days, visit the
Columbia river highway and other
points of scenic interest around Port
land and then go to California for a
few week.
No young man of eastern Oregon Is
more widely known than I. R. Hazel
tine of Cssnyon City, who is registered
at the Imperial. Mr. Hazeltine is
deputy state game warden of his dis
trict and is engaged in business in his
city. He is active in republican poli
tics. He will remain here" several
aays before returning to Canyon City.
A. B. Shelly and Paul W. Childers,
business men of The Dalles, are in the
city and are . registered at the Im
perial. Like most everyone else they
are hoping for the time when the
snow drifts and ice are removed from
the Columbia river highway and the
road again can be used by the auto
mobilist. E. W. Gates, superintendent of the
Coos & Curry Telephone company of
Marshfield, is registered at the Ben
son. Mr. Gates Is vice-president of
the state Independent telephone asso
ciation and yesterday was in confer
ence with Charles E. Wells of Hills-
boro, who is president of .the state or
ganization. F. Klevenhausen, canneryman ot
Altoona, Wash., is spending .a few
days in Portland and his name shows
up on the register of the Oregon. Mr.
Klevenhausen is president of the Co
lr.mbia Northern Canneries of Astoria
and Altoona.
W. A. Marshall of the state indus-
tria accident commission, was at the
Multnomah yesterday after having at
tended the conference of the water
front employers' organization.
G. W. Lancaster, one of the officials
of the Oregon Trunk, who makes his
headquarters in Bend is at- the
Oregon.
Farts aa to Consreaaional Record.
PORTLAND, Feb. 11. (To the Edi
trr.) (1) How often is the Congres
sional Record published? (2) Can an
individual secure a copy? If so, how?
(3) How can one discover In wha:
issue a certain senator's speech is
published? A VOTER
1. It Is published dally while con
gress Is in session.
2. Yes. Single copy costs 3 cents,
provided It has 24 pages or less; each
additional eight pages 1 cent extra.
Apply to superintendent of ducu
ments, government, printing office,
Washington, D. C.
S. An index is published periodic
ally. You can consult the index and
the file of the Congressional Record
at the public library.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. Moashton-MIf f lia Co.
' Yoal Aanrer These Questions f
1. Is the ladybird a harmful In
sect? 2. Is milk more likely to get ropy
in warm weather?
3. Is it true that at night one can
see owls sitting beside prairie dogs,
near the prairie dog's home?
Answers will appear in tomorrow's
nature notes.
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Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Are all white cat deaf, and
why?
Not necessarily, though deafness Is
frequently a character, so that many
persons draw, a general conclusion
from certain particular instances. A
cat breeder might own a deaf white
cat, and being more concerned with
reproducing the white coat than any
thing else, might allow this deaf
specimen to have numerous progeny
some of which, anyway, would be
likely to inherit the deafness. Albino
specimens frequently show some de
feet in physical equipment, and very
likely imperfect hearing might be a
leuueuuy.
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2. Is there a plant growing on the
island of Hawaii called "silver
sword"?
Yes, you will find It mentioned in
Burroughs' "Time and Change." It
is related to the yuccas, but is more
beautiful and not so prickly. The
leaves are like curved swords and
frosted silver in color. The blossom
Is on a stalk reaching high above the
leaves, which grow close to the
ground.
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3. Why do hens lay so many more
eggs than song birds?
It is the nature of this class,
Gallinae, in which fowls, grouse, etc..
belong, to lay big clutches of eggs.
Qual lay as many as 20 sometimes.
T he point Is that their young are
born with down on, get their eyes
open at once and can run and pick up
their own food almost from birth
so this type of bird can afford, so to
speak, to have a large family. The
femaSe lays as many eggs as she can
cover; the female songbird only as
many as she can feed.
ALL BLAMED FOR SIXS OF FEW
Dance Opponents Charged with Lack
of Proper Discrimination,
PORTLAND, Feb. 11. CTo the Edi
tor.) Certain ministers of this ity
have stirred up bad blood between
those persons who believe in dancing
and those who do not so believe by
making statements concerning the
morals of dancers. These statements
are believed by the dance antagonists
nd disbelieved by the dance en
thusiasts.
These ministers seem to be all
from one sect which has the reputa
tion of being against all pursuits
other than long-faced, mourning
clothed religion. Now, the writer's
parents are members of that division
of the churches of God, and yet they
dance. They see nothing wrong in
the wholesome exercise correctly
taken'. Furthermore, the writer be
lieves his parents to be as good Chris
tians as any other boy's parents.- .
It is, using the words of one of the
ministers who spoke of the fiddle,
just another case of the old saw, "the
devil is in the fiddle.' The devil is
not in the fiddle, but in the con
scienceless player. So the devil is
' not in dancing but In the conscience
less dancer, and very, very few
dancers attending the school dances
are low enough to be classed as those
ministers have dared to class them
all.
In the second place, no one ought to
brand an entire social groupi with In
famy because of those five-in-one-hundred
who do abuse the privileges
of dancing. If the writer chose this
course of action in remarking to
others about the Sunday schools and
Epworth League he would brand
them as evil institutions, because the
usual 5 per cent delinquents are the
more conspicuous and noisy. .These
ministers seem to have ears only for
that noise.
The writer thinks there should be
some regulation of dancing, but he
alsft believes , the ministers have
chosen the wrong way bf regulating
the dance by requesting its prohibi
tion. The 95 per cent of boys and
girls whose moral ideals are higrh
should not ' be punished by being de
prived of anaexercise lending grace
to the body and charm to the mind
because a mere 5 per cent dance in
such a way that no such benefit is
derived by them; i. e., by the 5 per
cent. It would be much better to
teach our erring brothers and sisters
to use correctly that healthful pleas
ure. Remember, prohibition of danc
ing will not benefit the city, for, al
though the 95 per cent of upright
youths may be restrained from danc
ing, the erring 5 per cent will fre
quent the music halls. On the other
hand, it will benefit our city greatly
to allow the carefully supervised
school dances to continue, and to
supervise more carefully those ques
tionable halls. But by no means close
the dance halls, either school or pub
lic. Supervise all.
FKAIN WALKER,
A Washington High School Student.
OWNERSHIP.
This world is mine all its green hills
and vales,
(Yet there's not a rood of land that
I do own).
The winds that run, the flowers in
the dales.
The birds that sing, the fields,
sown and unsown.
My brooklets talk all day to my tall
trees;
Down- the sky-meadow go my cloud
sheep, snowy white;
My winey winds blow all day over
seas; All night on the milky-way my
stars shine bright.
Mine are the waves that lip the
golden sand;
Mine the enchanted peaks aloft,
alone
This world is mine, yea, even its
farthest land.
Though there's not a rood of earth
that I do own.
VERNE BRIGHT.
His Life Ambition Illustrated.
"You do not pine for riches?"
"Not enormous wealth," said the im
pecunious citizen, "but I'd like to own
a private car."
"What would you do with It?"
"I would park it in the little town
where I was born and wear an air of
studied indifference when the natives
pointed me out as Bill Smithers' boy,
who, the village wiseacres eaid, never
would amount to anything."
Soldier' Aid in Utah.
WESTIMBER, Or., Feb. 9. (To the
Editor.) Please let me know if the
state of Utah has ever passed a bonus
law for world war veterans who en
listed in that state.
A VETERAN.
A system of educational aid, only,
has been provided in Utah.
Teachers and Income Tax.
DAYTON, Wash., Feb. 10. (To the
Editor.) Do school teachers have to
pay income tax on their salaries?
J. HARMON.
fri-
Public school teachers donot.
vate teachers do.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J MontaaTue,
PEOPLE: DIFFERENT,
When Hasheesh, the Turk, to the
boom of the drum
'Round the floor of the kiosk would
carom.
Or would shimmy a bit when the
hookah w-as lit,
In the hall in his lowly thatched
harem,
The people from Raymond Whit
comb's and Cook's,
Who such exhibitions attended.
Cried out In delight "What a won
derful sight!
These dances are certainly splen
did J"
So Hasheesh, the Turk, came to dance
In New York,
But the uplifters promptly pro
tested, "This dance is too Warm," said these
sons of reform.
And Hasheesh forthwith was ar
rested. And back to Stamboul went the shim
mying Turk.
Observing: "Those ' folks are the
oddest;
They have canceled my dates In their
prudish old stales.
On the ground that my dance was
immodest."
When Tottie, the traveling queen of
the jazz,
Was taken to Turkey on tour.
They swarmed in delgiht on the open
ing night.
Paying 60 piastres to view 'er.
But when she appeared in her filmy
attire,
The sultan arose and gave orders.
That Tottie be dressed In real clothes
and expressed
Outside of his majesty's borders.
Which all goes to show that a dance
which will go
In the land of the lordly pasha.
If shown over here, will conclude its
career.
Being counter to custom and law.
While the shimmy we prize and extoll
to the Bkies
Will be yanked off the stage with a
jerk.
The minute it's seen in the moral
demesne
That is bossed by the terrible Turk,
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More as Plenty.
One thing Is certain. There Isn't
going to be any shortage of confer
ences this year.
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" Rank Injustice.
And you don't even get exemption
for the money you could make In the
time you lose In fussing over your
Income tax blank.
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Waiting for a Real Opportunity.
Mr. Bonaparte has declined the Al
banian crown. He Is nrobablv ex
pecting some sort of "an offer from a
movie concern.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Tne.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
Prom The Oregonian of February 13, 1807.
ine argument for a protective
tariff on lumber was presented in a
memorial to congress by the national
lumber convention in session at Wash
ington last week.
There was no enecial observance of
the birthday of Abraham Lincoln in
Portland yesterday and the usual cel
ebrations were omitted.
George Brown, John Burns and
James Conley, arrested for burglary,
sawed their way out of the city Sail
early yesterday morning.
The dispute over the battleship Ore
gon s eilver service set seems to be
not over the cost, but the name "punch
uuwi ana toaay set."
Fifty Years Ago,
From The Oregonian of Februaryl 13, 1ST2.
ine Hibernian Benevolent soeietv
will celebrate St. Patrick's day witii
a ball in the Washington Guard ar
mory.
A movement is on foot in this city
to petition the next legislature to
license gambling.
At The Dalles hay ls selling for J5
a ton, oats cost tl.BO a bushel and
wheat and barley are at $2.
Great excitement is reported at
Canyon City over the discovery of a
rich mine 300 yards from the court
house. RAIX FOR FOG IS POOR TRADE
Former Oregonian Sends Back Plain
tive Resrrets in Verse.
ALAMEDA, Cal., Feb. S. (To the
Editor.) Forty years' residence In
Portland is no sign of imbecility. Ore
gon's genial clime cannot be charged
with the crime of causing dementia.
However, as I sit by San Francisco's
fireplace burning wood at t2i per '
cord and my eyes make vain at
tempts to bore through the fog, out
side the window, my brain blushes
lest some one questions my sanity for
being allured by the advertisement
"Sunny California."
To swap gentle rains and good
friends for noxious fogs and fulsome
words of the passenger agent is a
story best witjiheld from my asso
ciates in the Rose City. -'
But as my name has not been erased
from the registration books, I will
tell ''you, in verse, how a disgusted
Oregonian feels in a blanket of fog.
San Francisco in a Fog.
What the devii alls the distant view?
What doth make the visions all askew
Before my glaring eyes, so red?
Drat the fog: The siren's woful whoo
Was no slumber song for me,' as
through
The chilly night it raised the dead.
"Sunny California," where they brew
Frisco fogs, of melancholy hue.
In stills and oh, the morning head:
The postman, comes with bills long
overdue.
The rotten press tells nothing that Is
new;
" But harps on subjects seldom read. '
The coffee pot gives me the horrors,
too.
The cook, it seems, awakes a feeling
blue.
And what I think should not be said..
I wish I were a bankrupt Jew;
I'd flee to Palestine a-choo!
I'm just a long-eared quadnuped,
To swap the rains for fogs, instead.
G. J. FOSTER. '
"Another Mousetrap Clue.
PORTLAND, Feb. 1U. (To the Edi
tor.) I have seei no answer to the
request for the authorship of the
following quotation: -
"If a man preach a better sermon,
write a better book or build a better
mousetrap than his neighbor, though
he builds his house In the woods the
world will make a beaten path to his
door."
Some years -ago Lulu M. Smith of
Baker sent the following to The Ore
gonian :
"The following from the library
DUbllcation, Public Libraries. for
tdli (a ..if a Tnl, not,.,
A Long-Sought Clue.
A recent statement of Mr. Geo. P. Brett,
of the MacMiiian Co.. speaks of the au
thor of the "mouse-trap" quotation ps
Dr. John B. Fa-xton, pastor of the West
Presbyterian church of New York city.
used in his sermon, "He CauM
Not Be Hid." C. W. HALIt.