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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1922
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BEAUTIES OF BOLSHEVISM.
"Beauties of bolshevism" would
have been an appropriate title for
an article which William Z. Foster
contributed recently to the socialist
paper, the Appeal to Reason, He
lately returned from Russia, but was
unable to see what was; he could
see only what he wanted to see with
an imagination fired by socialism. '-
According to him, "every Russian
worker has the right to employment
In the industries at the prevailing
union wages." That may be since
communism was abandoned, but it
was not so while that principle
ruled. Then the worker in the
cities was compelled to work for
starvation rations. If he struck, the
forces of the Cheka picked out the
leaders and shot or clujbed them to
death. This is what the American
apostle of bolshevism calls "disci
pline." "With the Russians' right to work
goes the legal obligation that they
do so," says the red apostle, which
may be taken as a defense of sup
pression of strikes with bullets. He
quotes from the soviet' constitution
the words: "He who does not work,
neither shall he eat," which are a
misquotation from the Bible. But
the soviet has been accustomed to
compel men to work, though their
eating was mostly as theoretical as
communismi and it beat, tortured and
threw them in jail if they did not.
Having been robbed of seed,
horses and implements by the "iron
broom," as the red food requisition
parties were called, the peasants
last spring were able neither to
exercise the right nor to perform
the obligation to work. They were
Condemned to starve before the
drought struck them, and that
calamity only made famine last
longer and spread farther. Their
only remaining right was that to
starve, as they have done by millions
Inner the Volera.
When Mr. Poster speaks of
"exploiters of labor, those who
parasitically live from work of
others" as "a species of dangerous
criminal," he of course does not
refer to the red army and the
2,000,000 employes of the red
bureaucracy who live from the work
of the workers and peasants. They
are the "Russian labor militants . .
working for the establishment of a
pulsion of any sort will be unneces
sary," for with the communist as
with other Idealists the end of the
. rainbow is always just over the next
hill. At present "the people are
still afflicted with the ignorance,
selfishness and shortsightedness of
the old dog-eat-dog competitive
system" and "only a minority are
intellectually prepared" so the
"strong discipline" of bullets, tor
ture, the club and hunger must
educate them.
While this American apostle of
bolshevism preaches its beauties, its
high priest, Lenin, frankly returns
to the vile capitalist system. He
permits men to work anywhere at
any wages and for any "exploiter"
they please and,- when paid by
results, they produce twice as much
as under the communist system. He
invites capitalists to come and ex
ploit Russia and to employ the
workers under the vicious wage
system. He has abandoned the
chase for the end of the rainbow in
order that the people may eat.
Foster Is writing "old stuff."
WHY AMERICAN VALUATION?
Although importers make a great
outcry against the Fofdney plan of
basing duties in the new tariff bill
on the American value of 'imports,
it is not easy to dispute the argu
ments with which Representative
Fordney defends his policy. The
aim being to make the duty equal
the difference in cost of production
between this and other countries, if
we base the duty on the value in
the country where goods are pro
duced, we defeat our own purpose.
Cost of production is far lower in
some countries than others, conse
quently the difference which we aim
to offset is greater in the countries
of lowest than in those of highest
cost. But the foreign price being
least in countries of lowest cost, the
ad valorem duty will be least in the
precise case where it should be
.. .
xnougn it may oe impracticable
to vary the rate of duty in propor
tion to varying foreign cost' of pro
duction, .we can at least make it
uniform by basing it on the market
value in American ports. That would
greatly Increase the duty on imports I
from some countries, and importers
protest that the price to the con
sumer would suffer an equivalent
increase, but Mr. Fordney has given
an effective answer to that objec
tion. He tells of a knife which was
bought in Germany for 9.6 cents,
and of another just like it made in
the same German factory which was
bought In Chicago for $5. The im
porter, after paying freight and the
infinitesimal duty on 9.6 cents,
"absorbed" the difference. The
consumer got no benefit from the
low price, in Germany. The effect
of American valuation would not be
to raise prices in this country; it
would be to reduce importers'
profits.
The great variation ir value of
European currencies during this age
of wildcat money Is a further reason
fof American valuation. Foreign
values rise and fall erratically from
day to day with the price of foreign
money, and the actual rate of duty
would rise aDd fall with it. The
dollaF is the one stable measure, of
value for the whole world. It should
also be the measure of value for
our imports, consequently for the
duty we levy on them.
REMEMBER THE SUBSTITUTE.
Before coal miners and railroad
men form an alliance for a comr
bined strike in both industries they
would be wise to consider the weak-
ness of such an alliance, as be
trayed by the breakdown of the
British triple alliance in the coal
strike of last year. They should also
consider the amount of public re
sistance that they would provoke by
attempting to tie up the railroads
and to cut off the coal supply.
Under modern conditions the peo
ple would not be so helpless as some
may imagine, for they have learned
to us substitutes-..
If people could not get coal, they
would use more fuel oil to run trains
and stationary engines, more gas" to
heat and cook, more gasoline for
transportation.
If steam railroads were tied up,
more traffic would be carried by
automobiles, auto trucks, ocean ves
sels and river steamboats, on which
gasoline and crude oil tajce the place
of coal, or on electric cars, which
burn no coal.
When tne people become accus
tomed to these substitute fuels and
means of transportation, many
might be so well satisfied as to con
tinue their new habits. When the
strike ended, there would toe less
traffic on steam railroads, less de
mand for coal, so there would be
work for fewer railroad men and
miners, and some of them would
have to learn new trades.. '
These are times of transition to
new means of transportation, new
fuel, new sources of power. There
is danger in driving people to try
them. It is less than twenty years
since the automobile came Into gen
eral use. Only within a generation
have petroleum and gasoline become
popular as fuels, and extensive use
of hydro-electric power dates little
farther back. Are men whose living
depends oft older methods wise to
hasten the change by depriving
people of any alternative to the new
thines r
THE REAL DAWES.
Charles G. Dawes' outburst of
profanity before a committee of con-1
gress that was investigating war ex
penditures has created an Impres
sion that he is a sort of land equiva
lent to a bucko mate, whose every
other word is a "cussword" and is
accompanied by a blow. Of course
the incident referred to warrants no
such impression, for it was only a
momentary ebullition from a man
who feels strongly and says what he
feels, but Mr. Dawes' "Journal of
the Great War" gives us a picture of
a very different sort of man. It is
a day-to-day record, or as nearly
day-to-day as his exacting duties
would permit, of events in a most
stirring time, of impressions of men
and their acts, and of the sentiments
that they aroused.
The Dawes thus revealed is a man
of intense devotion to his country
and to the cause of the United States
and the allies, of deep sentiment and
sympathy, of strong, lifelong friend
ships and of readiness to make
friends and hold them, and withal a
fiend for work. He and Pershing
had been friends from youth, and
he several times refers tohe 15
cent meals that they ate together at
a lunch counter at Lincoln, Neb., in
their young days. John, as he calls
the general, practicaiiy comman
deered him for the laborious and by
no means spectacular task of buying
supplies in Europe for the American
forces in order to save precious ton
nage, and later for the more delicate
task of acting with British and
French officers on a joint board for
pooling of supplies among the three
armies. In the latter work he had
great difficulties to overcome, but
he brought about full co-operation.
He made such firm friends of his
associates that the British general,
Travers-Clarke, traveled half w?i
across France to see him decorated.
The French member of the board.
General Payot, knew no English and
Dawes knew no French, but they be
came so attached to one another
that Dawes says of their last eve
ning alone together in Paris:
We couldn't talk to each other, having
no interpreter, hut we just sat around to
gether and felt bad about separating.
The book abounds in keen but
kindly judgments of men. . It shows
readiness to admire men in whom
stern trials brought out the best. . It
contains many expressions of pity
and admiration for France and Bel
gium and of scorn for their small
minded detractors. Pershing is his
hero, though he protests that:
My love and admiration for John is not
interfering with my cold Judgment when
I say that I consider htm the ablest man
in both action and reason in time of emer
gency that I have ever known or shall
ever Know.
He makes known that the demand
for unconditional surrender of Ger
many was not a mere ebullition of
militarism among stay-at-home
patriots that Wilson apologists like
Tumulty would have us believe
When called to a conference of al
lied commanders-in-chief on Oc
tober 28, 1918, to consider the mili
tary terms of the armistice, Pershing
talked the matter over with Dawes,
-who says:
He Is convinced that. If civilization Is
to eteceive the full benefit of this terrible
war, it must end only with the uncon
ditional surrender of Germany. The mili
tary situation is such that in his Judgment
there can, be no excuse for not- obtaining
unconditional surrender. .
How much of the subsequent mis
ery and chaos might have been
spared if Pershing's advice had been
taken is-a fruitful subject for specu
lation.
That ther,e was method in Dawes'
brusque manners an,d occasional
strong language is shown by this
comment on inter-allied conferences
in which he took part: ,
I soon came to employ certain methods
to secure early decision. Where the con
ference was confronted with the necessity
of agreement on something Involving a
sacrifice to one of the parties and a bit
ter difference was inevitable, I always en
deavored to precipitate immediately the
issue in the clearest and most distinct
way. By smoking cigars, by great empha
sis, by occasional profanity, no matter
how dignified the gathering or Impressive
the surroundings I generally got every
body earnestly in discussion of the very
crux ot the question in the first half hour.
My disregard for the conventions was
studied and with a purpose. It was not
only to save precious time by dissipating
that atmosphere of seif-consciousness in
which men so often commence their nego
tiations, but by having the session start
in comparative acrimony the foundation
was laid for a natural reaction to good
feeling later in the session, which would
cause every one to leave the conference in
comparatively better humor than if the
fight occurred Just before the ending.
The Dawes whom this book re-
veals is a man of great energy, all of
which he throws into the work in
hand, of single devotion to his
country, of unswerving loyalty to his
friends, impatient of form and cere
mony, yet realizing their value. This
was the type of man that the war
summoned from many a humdrum
grind. Having discovered Dawes
during the war, the country con
tinues to demand his services in
peace, for it needs such men, though
they do let a, "damn" slip now and
then.
THE NEW PATERNALISM.
It has been decided to "regulate"
dancing in the schools, which is well,
although it may not meet the wishes
of those who believe that all dancing
Is wrong. But the school' board was
confronted with a most difficult
situation, which it has met, in all
probability, in accordance with the
desires of a majority of the patrons
of the schools.
We are even more impressed,
however, with the paragraph in the
regulations which reads: "Parents
shall be requested to notify the dean
of any tardy arrivals at home after
attending' high school dances." It
will be observed that about all that
seems to be expected of parents
nowadays Is that they shall notify
some proper authority, which proper
authority, it is implied, will immed
iately set the wheels of government
in motion, and see to it that what
ever, is wrong shall be made right.
But we can still recall a not very
distant time when a parent, instead
of notifying the government that iis
child was unaccountably absent
from under the parental roof, would
go hotfoot down the street and hunt
until the delinquent was found.' But
those were old-fashioned times
still called the "good old times" by
some and their ways w.ere not the
ways of today. '
We still incline to the opinion
that parents who are content with
notifying the dean," if there is
occasion for notifying anybody, are
lacking some way. Yet; after all!
it is but another manifestation of
the trend of the times. Letting the
government do it gets to be a habit.
But when we leave it to the govern
ment to chase around nights after
Youngsters whose parents ought to
know where they are every hour in
the twenty-four, it may well be
asked whether the limit of paternal
ism has not been reached.
NATURE'S BOUNTIES.
The wonder is, as Walter Pritchard
Eaton points out in a recent article
in Harper's, that out of the multi
fold products of nature, man has
selected relatively so few articles for
food. Mountain, plain and marsh
teem with nutritious plants. That
these now seem less fitted for con
sumption by men than the common
vegetables of the table is not an
argument against them when It is
considered that neither, for that
matter, was the potato a little. more
than three centuries ago. The
tomato, another of America's con
tributions to the food supply of the
world, was long regarded as inedible.
The squash underwent a long series
of changes before it won recognition.
The old world was presumably no
less rich in variety of resources in
a primitive time. But for one reason
and another a few species were
selected for domestication and many
were rejected or neglected, and until
Burbank entered the field of experi
ment and discovery nothing new
was added to the comparatively
short list which had sufficed for
untold centuries.
Hundreds upon hundreds of edible
plants were - discovered by man in
his travels over the habitable globe,
the author observes, "yet Cato him
self would not feel lost in my
garden, although the corn and pota
toes would puzzle him." These,
though they had been introduced
into Europe from the western hemi
sphere, .were not wild at the time
of their introduction, but were them
selves the products of selection.
The Ineas probably had potatoes in
prehistoric times; there is, indeed, a
tradition that they produced varieties
superior to those now in use, but the
story lacks confirmation. Neverthe
less, it is known that the potato in
its original form bore little resem
blance to the present most nearly
universally eaten vegetables in the
world. It was not in its wild state
as good eating as the Jerusalem
artichoke now is, and the latter
tuber is far more prolific than the
potato and for all we know may be
as amenable to Improvement by
cultivation and selection. Its starch
content is nearly the same as the
potato's, and its range of habitat is
as extensive.
It would be Interesting to know
by what process of reasoning the
early inhabitants chose the potato
and concentrated their efforts upon
it and abandoned the artichoke to
its fate. The reasons could hardly
have been wholly economic, and
probably they were not gastronomic.
The Europeans who first ate the
potato found it bitter and unpalat
able; the artichoke was always sweet
and it cropped enormously. If a
Burbank had lived in the sixteenth
century and had taken a fancy to
the artichoke, it is entirely possible
that the food history of the world
would be different from the account
we have today.
How far we are from famine is
suggested by Mi-. Eaton's account of
how the Indians used the cattails of
the marshes for food, and how the
Don Cossacks still eat and relish
them. Only recently experiments
have been made by scientists which
have shown that the bulbous roots
are actually, highly nutritious, with
a core of pure starch, and can be
made into a flour which contains
the same amount of protein as rice
or corn flour,' though slightly less
fats. This suggests that the . vast
areas of marshes now given over to
them, and where they prosper with
out care, could . therefore become,
under necessity, of great value to
mankind. Nor is there reason to
suppose that the modern agricul
turalist would fail to improve them
vastly.
i The young stems of bracken or
fern, which are already beginning
to thrust themselves above ' the
ground, were once esteemed as a
substitute for asparagus, as some of
the Oregon pioneers will remember,
and moreover they' were rich- in
nutriment as well as in the vita
mines about which we have recently
heard so much. Solomon's seal
sends up young shoots which also
can be boiled and eaten like aspara
gus, but it is not so well known that
the root stock yields a starchy sub
stance on masceration that can be
made to sustain life a long time.
The Indians of North America ate f
it and Francis Parkman tells how !
the French pioneers used it to tide ,
them over their short crop years. I
The fate of the camass (camassia
esculentia of the botanists) is an
other singular example of probable
negleet to ' cultivate a useful plant
and thereby add variety if not neces
sary substance to the diet. It-was
highly esteemed by all northwest
Indians and indeed -the privilege of
digging it on non-reservation
grounds was one of the points in
sisted on by the redmen in the early
treaty negotiations with the tribes
in what is now the state of Wash
ington. But there was a time, too,
when it Was esteemed by white
people so much so that increased
demand caused its virtual disappear
ance some time before the camass
fields were encroached upon by the I
plow. Even now it is common,
though as a wild flower rather than
an article of food. It occupied an
important place in the ration and
required no cultivated taste.
But in discussing might-have-been
possibilities, it would be unfair to
compare the wild camass with the
improved and cultivated potato of
today. The fact to be kept in mind
is that it is in all probability even
now superior to the first potato that
was planted in New England, after
having traveled in a. roundabout way
from Virginia to Londonderry and
then across the Atlantic again to
New England. At least an' interest
ing and perhaps an important food
was lost to us when camass culture
was neglected by the pioneers, for
it is true as a general principle that
indigenous plants, under scientific
management, are apt to be more
worth While in a given locality -than
imported varieties, lant develop
ment is slow work, however, and
men who are busy reclaiming a
wilderness have no time for Jits
tedious processes. For that reason
principally, since time immemorial,
the avant couriers of civilization
have carried their foodstuffs with
them, and this answers' Mr. Eaton's
question why it is that out of the
hundreds of potential esculents so
few have been permitted to survive.
Wives who consider their lots
hard might contemplate that of the
woman in Windsor, Conn., who was
held on the track by her husband
until a car ran over her leg, neces
sitating amputation. The dispatch
states the man merely is in jail,
when all women will agree he ought
to have been drawn and quartered at
once.
Quebec proposes to encourage lit
erature by offering annual prizes of
$2500 for the best books written dur
ing each preceding year. The ques
tion whether this will stimulate the
production of better books or onlj
make the same old kind a little more
profitable remains, however, to be
determined by events. .
Commander Booth Is unduly
alarmed over the tendency of women
to "deceive the world" by powdering
their noses and using cosmetic's. In
the long run the world is not so
easily fooled.
If those scopolamin experiments
succeed, the men who administer the
"third degree" will have easy work
and all the plain-clothes men will
confine their activity to running in
suspects.
The Pennsylvania bureau of animal
industry is 'putting monkey glands
into cows, and every old hooker
when she comes from under mooswhat?" asked teacher.
f, mi, t cc. if w ,,.; osl "The sage of the age,
for a mirror to see if her horns are
on right.'
Tou never find in the divorce
lists the name of a woman who
makes good corned-beef hash, good
hot cakes or -cooks an egg just right;
but the angel food darlings are
common.
The government having simpli
fied the details of making returns on
the income tax, nothing more remains
to be done except to simplify the
method of raising the . m'oney to
pay it.
- Mr. Bryan will not be a candi
date for the senate from Florida un
less convinced the party, country and
state need him in Washington.
Strange things happen in politics.
The federation of. Central Ameri
can republics has collapsed, as it
would naturally do, being a federa
tion of republics that had not yet
learned to govern themselves.
Now it is jazz that is "threatenln
civilization." If civilization had sur
cumbed every time it was threatened
there would be even less of it left
than there is now.
As General Goethals arrived at
7:45 last night and left at 1 this
morning, his "impressions" mostly
are in cushioned chairs and cannot
be recorded.
When the disturbing element of a
"triangle" is a man the affair Is al
most unimportant; but when the in
truder is a woman the case becomes
interesting.
One official with a bag .of money
and a fountain pen ought to be able
to cash time checks for the tempor
arily employed at convenient time
and place.
Japanese on the Deschutes "are
hiring Indians to clear land. Alas,
the poor Indian! It Is time the last
of- the Mohicans shrilled his death
chant.
if
Lloyd George will in time resign,
for -his task has been herc'urean:
but not until Ireland is running as
smoothly as mortal can make it.
London's most' exclusive claim to
have invented a cocktail. They do
not know the cocktail is inspired,
not Invented.
Mr. Wells continues his weather
programme today delightful be
cause it is real weather and to the
manor born.
What do game wardens and com
missioners eat at a banquet during
the closed season?
Mr. Cannon has earned the
congressional distinguished service
mcdaU, .,..''.
The big store ads show the pur-i
chasing value of the dollqr these
days. ' "
The Los Angeles affair occurred
In a fortunate time for Tex Rickard,
The Listening Post.
By DeWltt Harry.
-r-
Paul Bunyon is far from lost as a
favorite, if we may judge from the
typical yarn received from Culver,
Or., this week. Our correspondent
says: -
"Have you ever heard how Paul
Bunyoa went freighting up in Har
ney county, after he went busted on
The Dalles job?
"Well, he took the old blue ox and
went up to Harney and got a Job
freighting, but that country is about
tlike the Palouse. It is pretty rough
and he could not do much with the
old blue ox alone,' so he bought 20
yoke of oxen and used the old blue
ox for a leader.
"Well, one morning he left Harney
City for Fort Bidwell, CaU with nine
wagons loaded with postage stamps.
Everything went pretty well until he
got to Rawhide canyon, which Is
pretty deep, but Very wide; the road
goes straight down and straight up.
"When Paul saw how it was he
knew his brakes would not hold the
wagons. Wljen the old blue ox got to
the top. of the far side the wagons
were on top of the other side; so
Paul went back behind the last wag
on to hold back. He got a good hold
and dug his heels into the solid rock,
but he held back too hard. With him
pulling one way and the old blue ox
the other, they swung the 20 yoke
of oxen up into the air and choked
them all to death. Then he did go
out of business."
s .". '
Anecdotes of the proper type are
rare. In a recent letter to a college
instructor in Portland Professor
Frederick J. Turner of Harvard cuts
loose with a couple that are above
the Ordinary. One Concerns the Maine
guide who was given a Watch by a
friend and admirer. At the end of
the season the guide wrote:
"That was the best watch I ever
had. Gained enough time during the
season to pay all my expenses."
Another is about a Mr. Gilkin, Who
was indorsed for governor of Colo
rado in an off year.. In the letter oi
recommendation Gllkin's friend said:
"Mr. Gilkin is by far the best man
for the position. He was the dis
coverer of Pike's peak."
"-
Poets seem to materialize from the
most unexpected places. Just yes
terday morning in came August
Westerman, ' silver-badge man of
Kitchener's army, one of those few
Americans who went to England in
1915 and became soldiers of the king.
The silver badge was given those who
suffered severely at the front, a token
of serious disability. Westerman
brought several samples of his verse,
of which this is a fair average:
v The River of - Life.
How much like a river is life in its
course,
In places a rapid resplendent' with
force,
Again in a calm where the waters
run deep,
A soul in a dream when all passion's
asleep. . .
And then rushing onward in passion
ate play,
It roars and it thunders along on
its way.
Then suddenly still as the hush of
the night.
It loses, itself in the great Infinite.
. .
New pupils in the schools are put
through a test. This governs in the
case of newcomers from other cities.
"President Jefferson was known as
volleyed
back the answer.
Then came up a hand.
"Miss Thompson, what does sage
mean?" aBked another pupil.
"Sage means wise," said teacher.
"Then a sage hen is a wise chick
en," vblunteered the smallest pupil.
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Our language varies. Take the
waitress in nearly any regular eat
ing place:
"Scrambled eggs," says a patron.
"Milk toast,", volunteered his friend.
"Scramble two and a graveyard
stew," shouts the waitress with the
Titian locks.
The patrons decided to frame on
the girl. "Bring us a bottle of milk
and a cup of coffee without cream."
"Chalk one and a dipper of ink,"
and the girl did not even mar her
smile.
'
We hear of the vanity of sex, via
the east-side woman who likeS to
have her face look right. .She, the
mother of eight and rather com
fortable in girth, had her eyebrows
shaved to a thin line. Then came
tragedy. The rest of the hair fell
out, with the result that she was
left bald front the eyes up.
Now, seemingly, this would have
been the end of things for any aver
age person. For her No! She
chuckles with glee even now as she
tells of her sad catastrophe.
' FORGET-ME-NOTS.
I know of a place. Oh so long ago.
W here often I watched for the sun
set glow; ,
I wanted to capture, in baby fingers.
The goldien light where it dying
lingers.
But when twilight came, shadow
bringing, I ran for home and I heard mother
singing.
I know of a place. Oh so far away,
Where waves laughed merrily in the
- bay;
And father put white, woolly lambs
to bed.
And the apples hung "way," way up
overhead,
Where, tired! of playing the trees
among, jr
I slept and woks by the meadow
lark's sohg.
I know of a place, a house mossy
green, With weather-warped shingles and
lintels that lean.
But Oh what a wonderful castle it
seemed
.When bright on its roof the white
enow-stars gleamed;
And winter was gladsome with sleigh
bell chime.
And Christmas lasted a long, long
time.
I know of & place, where I some
times go s
To meet a child that I used to know,
Who. smiling, brings me the treasures
I flung
So lightly aside, when my world was
young;
And blithesome of spirit, hand' In
hantt.
We roam in my childhood's fairy
; land.
-,. CHARLES O. OLSEN.
1920 Population of Cities.
ST. BENEDICT, Or., Feb. IB. (To
the Editor. )--Please print the latest
census figures for Portland, Seattle,
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
PETE CAMEL.
'Portland, 458,288; Seattle, 815,312;
tSan Francisco, 605,676; Los Angeles,
678,73.
Those Who Come and Go.
Talea f Folia at tne Hotels.
"Any price is all right with me," '
announced & man from McMinnyiile,
as he registered for himself and wife
at 'the Benson yesterday. The remark
was unusual, for the average person
on registering inquires the price of
rooms and does not give the clerk
cart blanche to hand him the highest
priced room in the establishment.
There is the man, however, who when
he brings his wife on a trip asks for
a very nice room, but h is generally
careful not to inform the wife the
price to be paid and if he does refer
to the cost, says it is two or three
dollars cheaper than what he is ac
tually paying, so the wife will not
have her day spoilt. The average
person doesn't know much about ho
tel rooms. Recently a man was as
signed to one of the best and highest
priced rooms In a local hotel. He
returned to the desk and complained,
saying he wanted something better
ahd didn't care what the cost Was.
.The clerk simply shifted hirn to an
other room exactly like the one he
was originally assigned to, charged
him i more fcnd the man was pre
fectly satisfied.
As skirts get lower, so will the cost
of stockings to the buyer, as women
will reason there is small use in
wearing silk stockings when cotton
will do and not be seen. This is the
opinion of many manufacturers, ac
cording to F. H. Smiley, of the Bur
son Knitting company of Rockford,
111, who is at the Multnomah. Stock
ings, like other wearing apparel, are
influenced by changes in style and
whether 'a. manufacturer wins or
loses depends in a great measure on
his ability to judge what the people
will want. Whether the manufac
turers have consulted the women as
to silk and cotton stockings, when
stockings are concealed by long
skirts is not stated, but so many
have become accustomed to the feel
of the silk that they are likely to
cling to the silken things, anyway
as long as street-car steps are as
high as they are. Mr. Smiley reports
tnat merchants everywhere are show
ing a feeling of optimism.
In order to be better acquainted
with business conditions in the Pacific
northwest, C. a Cunningham, presi
dent of the Commercial Bulletin com
pany, is making a trip of several
weeks through this section and is ac
companied by his wife. The company
publishes the Northwest Commercial
Bulletin and the Hardware Trade.
Mr. Cunningham, who is registered at
tne Multnomah, is visiting James C.
Cunningham, president of the Union
Trust company of Walla Walla, Wash.,
and of Morris Bros, corporation of
Portland.
One mill is running three shifts and
another mill is operating to shifts.
so this gives some idea how things are
in uend at present," reports T. H.
Foley, former president of the com
mercial Club of that city. "The mills
apparently have enough orders to take
all of the material they are cutting,
for there is little stock being accumu
lated in the yards. Bend is a payroll
town and the prosperity is, naturally,
reflected by the number employed, so
that when the two big mills are run
ning the entire community feels the
benefit."
"In the past ten years the popula
tion of Woodburn has increased 25
people," observed John Hunt, who was
in Portland yesterday. In the same
period the bank deposits have greatly
increased; there has been considerable
building'Rnd the town hag made sub
stantial progress. The loss in the pop
ulation is due to the coming of pro
hibition, which caused the' abolish
ment of several- saloons. Mr. Hunt
for many years has been one of the
desk crew of the state senate and he
now occupies the position of chief
clerk of the senate.
After skirmishing around on enow
shoes in central Oregon for a few
days K. B. Miller of Mansfield, O., ar
rived in Portland yesterday. Mr. Mil
ler is one oi the stockholders and di
rectors of the Bend Power & Light
company. This company supplies
Juice in Deschutes county. Recently
the water board at Salem Is said to
have acknowledged the water rights
of the company, but at the same time
hag apportioned the water to others.
Mr. Miller is going to Salem to find
out, if possible, what's what.
Recently this editorial appeared In
the Daily News of Marshfield: "After
watching the Portland hotels news in
vain for the names of Coos Bay
visitors to the metropolis, we have
come to the conclusion that all of
the local tourists have friends in
Portland or else sleep In the depot or
the jaiu." For the benefit of the
News editor be it known that Charles
D. Snyder of North Bend, Or., is reg
istered at the Imperial.
E. F. B. Ridgeway, erstwhile county
prohibition officer of Umatilla coun
ty, and recently the subject of grand
jury investigation, is among the ar
rivals at the Imperial. "Jinks" Tay
lor, who was also under the probe,
has checked out and returned to Pen
dleton, where "Jinks" has started a
lawsuit as a result of the investiga
tion. Mr. Ridgeway says that the
grand jury cleared him.
Having come to Portland to Insure
a quorum for the meeting of the state
game commission, Bert Anderson has
checked out of the Imperial and re
turned to Medford. One of the things
the commission did was to break it
gently to the deputy game wardens
that salaries are to be reduced.
Between Helix and Pendleton Carl
Engdahl has his wheat ranch. Helix
is a small town, surrounded by wheat
lands and it is said that the per capita
of wealth .in Helix is higher than in
any other place in the state. Mr.
Engdahl is among the arrivals at
the Benson.
L. L. Nomchester of Bend, who deals
in furs and furniture in central Ore
gon, is .registered at the Hotel Oregon.
ine iraae in pelts in tne Interior of
the state is quite an industry.
Ira Hutchings, proprietor of the
Corvallia Canning company, is at the
Multnomah. He has been in the east
for several weeks and says he is glad
to get back to Oregon.
H. . B. Warner of Alderdale is in
town on business and is registered at
the Imperial. Alderdale is in the
eastern part: of Klickitat county,
Washington. x
Julius Aim, merchant of Sllverton,
Or., is registered at the Hotel Ore
gon. The town still shows traces of
the snow which arrived this week.
J. W. Mackintosh, who operates a
large sawmill at Reedsport, on the
Oregon coast, Is among the arrivals
at the Imperial, -
S. D.. McLain, a business man of
Nampa, Idaho, is at the Hotel Port
land, accompanied by Mrs. McLain.
They are on their way to California
for a vacation. ,
James Edwards, of the Edwards
Hinkle company of Dayton, Wash.,
is registered at the Hotel Portland.
Mayor, postmaster and merchant of
Estacada, Or., H. C. Stephens, Is at
the Imperial. '
W. Lewis Rose, hop grower, whose
ranch is near Independence, Or., is
at the Hotel Portland.
Dr. J. E. Reedy, a veterinarian of
Tillamook, Is at the Hotel Oregon.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Can You Answer These Questions?
1. ro horned toads lay eggs?
2. When the turkey gobbler struts
with his wings oh the ground, does
the sound come from the wings scrap
ing the ground, or his mouth?
3. Why will blossoms on pumpkin
or squash vines fail to set and bear
fruit? The vines appear to be healthy.
Answers-in tomorrow's nature notes.
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Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Please inform me if any male
birds relieve the female by sitting on
the eggs, and also if the gander does
this?
Grosbeaks, pigeons, ostriches, oc
casionally bluebirds, gulls and (some
authorities claim) cedarbirds all help
with incubating duties, apparently the
purpose being to Jet the female feed
and take a little exercise. The gander
dees assist.
2. Is the soft shell crab a special
variety?
No, but it is a special stage of exis
tence. The common blue, or edible
crab, Callinectes sapiduS, which may
be distinguished not only by its color,
but by the sharp spines projecting
one from each -side of its body, sheds
Its shell at least onCe a summer. The
male then hides in some crevice for
a little time, to allow the new shell
to" harden, but the female is protected
by a male crab still In its hard shell,
who clings to her.
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3. Ie there any truth In astrology?
No scientific truth in the notion
that the stars influence . human
destiny, . Sut the study of astrology
Is of very ancient origin, and un
doubtedly fhe attention it got from
thoughtful men ad students paved
the way to real study of the stars as
to their motion, etc, with the aid of
mathematics. Thus astronomy was
developed.
ALADDIN IS RIGHT IV PORTLAND
He Would Issue Draw Bills Agntnst
Land Taxes to Pay Bonus.
PORTLAND. Feb. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) I can tell what can be done to
pay the Boldiers' bonus, as asked in
The Oregonian, and I will not expect
the title of some life-saving Alad
din," either.
It should be remembered in the
first place that this is no pauper
land we are living in. Hundreds of
millions of bushels of wheat come
out of the ground every year; over a
billion bushels of corn; there is cotton
and wool and lumber and what not
all the basic necessities, in fact.
There is plenty plenty for all. Like
the heat and power of the sun, there's
plenty without bothering about esti
mating it. To assemble these prod
ucts in form for human needs is only
a question of production and labor.
All we have to do is intelligently
to draw on our labor and resources,
both actual and potential, and the
-thing is done. Here is a sample way:
First Divide the necessary sum to
be raised- into ten parts and provide
that each one-tenth shall be paid into
the public treasury every year for
ten years.
Second Make this tax collectible
from a sur-tax placed on all land
values, irrespective of improvements,
in the United States and possessions.
This is to keep the burden from in
dustry and prevent land speculation
as much as possible.
Third Set printing presses to work
and print full legal tender bills for
the full amounts necessary to meet
the bonus payments as may be pro
vided. These will be draw bills on
the natural resources of the country,
which, as we have seen, are ample.
It would be necessary to print only
sufficient to meet the installment
payments from year to year, if that
should be the arrangement; and, of
course, the taxes coming in would
partly meet the payments. It would
not be necessary to have these draw
bills or legal tender credits all
printed, either. I'art of the payments
could be arranged through simple
banking exchange.
In ten years the bonus would be
fully paid with the government's 10
per cent yearly tax income. It is
just the other way around from what
you have been thinking of. Instead
of taxing first or running to a
money-lender for fundH, this plan is
to Day first and tax afterwards cut
the money-lender out altogether and
so save the interest.
Now. as I feel very certain that
congress will not adopt my plan, it
will not be necessary to patent it.
I simDiy wanted to show that we
are not altogether helpless in this
emergency, except as we Insist on
being so by tying our Hands ana
staying under fhe feet of the money
lenders. H. DENLINGER.
NO BEGINNING FOR EVOLUTION
Science Itself Gives Theoretical Proc
ess No Starting Point, Snys Writer
PORTLAND, Feb. 15. (To the Edi
rnr In The Oregonian, under the
caption of "Evolution Accepted a3 a
Fact, Mr. Geo. 1. ureer oi uuuucc
Or., would have us believe that 'fhe
best thought of the scientific world"
supports the theory, whatever that
may. be. .
It is not my intention to criticise
Mr. Greer's authorities, but I wish to
say a few words as to the facts now
demonstrated in regard to the theory
of evolution, commonly so-called.
In the first place, if the theory of
evolution is a fact and not a false
theory, then the theory of spontaneous
generation is a real fact. If sponta
neous generation is not a fact, then
evolution as commonly understood is
a false theory and a delusion, no mat
ter how many so-called learned men
of the past and of today believe in
and support it. It seema to me this
must be admitted.
To say that an organic cell from
elsewhere came to our Inorganio
planet of long ago. begs the question.
If it is impossible for organic matter
to evolve from Inorganic matter,
then evolution as a theory is -false.
To arrive at certain and definite
knowledge In this is not in the pro
vince or purview of the politician nor
the statesman, nor even a university
-president, - not even a theologian
orthodox or unorthodox. Not even
the miscroscopist is able to pass upon
the subject. The problem is one for
the chemist alone to solve. Hence
let us turn to the eminent chemists
of our own country and day and have
their dictum.
John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins,
Carl G. Alsberg of Stanford, Raymond
F. Bacon of Pittsburg, F. R. Eldred
of Indiana-po-lis, Reid Hunt of Boston,
Treat B. Johnson of Tale, Julius
Steiglits of Chicago, F. O. Taylor of
Detroit and- Charles H. Hertz of New
York tell us that "spontaneous gen
eration is an exploded theory" abso
lutely demonstrated. I will not be
gin to quote European chemists. They
discarded the evolution theory some
years ago. It is the universal con
clusion of all real chemists the world
over today that spontaneous genera
tion is a myth a poetical fantasy if
you will, impossible of realization.
- As to the cave man, I think it Is
not much of a stretch of the imagina
tion to find him a product of devolu
tion, and if some of the pabulum of
our atheistic professors be followed
to practical conclusions It will not
take many generations to devolve
this peculiar sui generis or even
something more startling.
, J. H. BLACK.
3U Fifth Street
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
A LITTLE THICK.
We never would venture to question
The ways of maid, widow, or wife,
Nor offer a single suggestion
Concerning their manner of life.
We never have made an occasion
To ask 'em to alter their course.
They are proof against guile or per-
suasion ,
And laugh if we talk about force.
But when Daphne and Dot and Diana
Declare that they really can get
More kick in a fragrant Havana,
Than they can in a slim cigarette.
When golfing or automobiling
A large brown perfecto they pufr,
We cannot get over the feeling
That they're growing a little bit
rough.
Cigars were not fashioned for ladles.
They clash with the feminine pose,
Ljo matter how husky a maid is
They look out of place 'neath her
nose.
Her fingers, slim, stainless and taper.
Admittedly beautiful are.
When rolling a cigarette paper.
But hot lighting up a cigar.
We do not set up for a censor
It women's caprices it suits.
No law that we know of prevents 'er
From smoking cigars or cheroots.
But if more aroma and flavor
In brevas and stogies she's found.
The lady will do us a favor,
By smoking when we're not around.
The Farm Bloc.
The country is getting so agricul
tural that the very senators and con
gressmen are beating their words into
ploughshares.
Keep Him on the Job.
The next time Mr. Harding appoints
a cabinet member he will do well to
get a three-year contract with him.
No Plenains; 'Km All.
Every nation represented at the
arms conference seems to be satisfied
that every other nation got all It
wanted out of it.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.
Tears.
By Grace E. Hall.
They may not fall like dew at twi
light hour.
To glisten and in actual truth be
seen;
They may not touch the lash in
drenching shower.
As fall the, crystal drops upon the
green.
The eye may be a cloudleBS sunlit
plain.
Where sweet and gentle thoughts
reflect their glow.
While on the heart there falls a
ceaseless rain
Of burning tears that blister as
they flow.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Orep-onlan of February 17, IRftT.
Olympia. Washington state seems
on the verge of wiping out all saloons
by adopting the dispensary law, such
as in effect now in South Carolina
Funeral services' for the late Ed
ward Smith Kearney, who served four
years as United States marshal of
Oregon, will be held this afternoon
at Calvary Presbyterian church.
At a little gathering last night. In
the First Presbyterian church a group
of persons started a movement to
have the neglected grave of Dr. Mar
cus Whitman properly marked.
Among the sporting fraternity of
the city Corbett is a favorite over
. Fitzslmmons lor tneir coming Dout at
.Carson, Nev.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of February 17, 1872.
Madrid. The Official Gazette pub
lishes the text of the armistice be
tween Spain and the South American
republics, agreed to in Washington.
On or about February 20 The Ore
gonian will move to its new office
on the southeast corner of Front and
Stark streets.
Since the late thaw began the
O. S. N. company has been having
trouble with slides that keep blocking
its Cascades railroad track.
General Tilton, the mayor of
Kalama, is in town hobnobbing with
our dignitaries.
NOT PARTY TO POLITICAL PACT
Colonel "White Denies Submission ol
Name to Any Group for Indorsement,
SALEM, Or., Feb. 16. (To the Edi-
tor.) Will you please allow mespace
in. which to correct a statement which
has been recurring in political arti
cles during the paBt week, in which
I am misrepresented as being one ot
several citizens said to have entered
an agreement or pact to remain out
of the coming primary campaign for
governor?
In justice to any and all concerned
I want to say at the outset that no
one at any time has ever approached
me, directly or indirectly, with any
such plan, proposition or suggestion.
No one at any time, either directly
or indirectly, has ever asked me for
support or requested or suggested
that I remain out of the race. I have
never submitted my name to any
group of voters or to any organiza
tion for consideration or indorsement
as a candidate and have never been a
candidate for any'office in any sense
of the word, although reserving all
of my constitutional rights in the
jnatter. GEOROE A. WHITE.
DREAMS OF A DOL'GIIBOY.
In the after years we shall sit and tell
Tale after wondrous tale;
Deeds of valor by flood and fell
. In the sea and the windy gale.
And children gathering round at night
By the ingle-fire blaze.
To tales of many a stubborn fight
Shall listen in amaze.
Oh, the years are slow, but the years
are sure,
And the longest wars must cease;
Battles cannot forever endure.
Like Bun after rain is peace.
And we who marched to the wars
shall tell
Tale after wondrous tale
Of desperate fight by flood and fell
In the eea and the windy gale.
EVERETT EARLE STANARD.
Location or School Districts.
PORTLAND, Feb. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) Would like to know where
school district No. 40 is, also its
boundaries; also the same for school
district No. 1. A. SUBSCRIBER.
School district No. 40 in Multnomah
county embraces the Russellville
community, a short distance east of
Montavilla. School district No. 1 em
braces the city of Portland and cer
tain contiguous territory. It Is im
practicable to give you metes and
bounds.