THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY So. 1932
ESTABLISHED BK HENRY L. PITTOCK
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.THE DESIRED IMPOSSIBLE.
There was printed the other day
in a New York newspaper a picture
of one of the school houses newly
erected in Brooklyn. In the text
that went with the illustration there
was no description of the facilities
for study or recitation, such as
would have interested the public a
few years ago. The facts about the
building that most impressed the
writer were that It had an enormous
gymnasium and a model five-room
flat. The model flat, it appears, was
not for the convenience of the cus
todian but for use in teaching the
art of housekeeping.
The gymnasium, as an evidence of
modernity in school structures, is
familiar enough, but the model fiat
as a school appurtenance, so far. as
we know, has not yet got this far
west. I'robably ft is on its way. We
are unwisely prone to assume that
that which is demanded of schools
by the crowded conditions and
habits of life in a metropolis are in
themselves valuable additions to
schools anywhere.
A school gymnasium in a crowded
section of New York, or of Portland
for that matter, may be a valuable
inducement to health and in turn to
education. In a district where are
lawns for young folk to mow, flower
beds to spade, and vacant lots to
play on, a school gymnasium, while
nice to have, is more or less of a
public extravagance. But emulation
of city metropolitan schools has
gone beyond the city suburbs.
We have in mind a handsome
rural high school building, seventy
miles or so from Portland. It stands
on an eminence where it is conspicu
ous for its detachment even from
farm houses. P.olling meadows and
wooded hills stretch away as far as
the eye can see. There is all out
doors for -the pupils to play ball or
other games or run races in. The
homes are plainly so far away that
unless the energy of students is con
served by ure of automobiles, the
valuable exercise of walking is in
dulged in freely. Yet this rural high
school has an attached structure,
almost as large as the pretentious
building devoted to study, and this
addition bears the bold sign, "Gym
nasium." Quite likely this Is not the only
rural school which has a gymna
sium.
Of course there is nothing I
wrong about gymnasiums. The rural !
folk and the suburban folk are
wholly entitled to have them if
they are willing to pay for them.
But just now there is complaint of
high taxes. The tax Investigation
commission has compiled figures
which show that of the $41,000,000 1
raised in "Oregon by taxation yearly,
$18,000,000, or nearly one-half, goes
for education. In the state of Wash
ington a similar body has virtually
declared its purpose to combat in
creases in school taxes unless a new
and more economical method of ad
ministration is adopted.
Education ha"s an advantage over
any other public enterprise in its de
mand for support. It is so funda
mentally desirable that there is no
disposition to deny Its need. Yet the
public is often unmindful of the fact
that an apportionment of public
money to the most worthy of objects
may in its volume and in some of its
uses be extravagant. It is not the
intent herein to charge that school
extravagance exists only in the sub
urbs and rural districts. The con
veniences and appurtenances un
heard of and not thought of a gen
eration ago progress in elegance and
variety from the country school up
to the school in the congested city
district. It is not much of a step
from expensive playgrounds, swim
ming tanks and auditoriums to the
incorporation of model flats in out
city schools. But just as those of us
who are not permanent flat-dwellers
do not need model flats in our
school buildings, those others of us
who have all the opportunity in the
world for exercise in the open air do
not need school gymnasiums.
A correspondent the other day
wrote with a measure of truth that
part of the high cost of government
is due to our emulation of larger
communities of much greater total
wealth. We do things or have things
we do not really need because others
who do need them do them or have
them. "We are "keeping up with the
Joneses" in nearly every govern
mental activity, by no means ex
cluding the matters that go to make
up the other half of public expen
ditures not chargeable to schools.
And jt h e thing seemingly most
ardently wished for is a scheme
which, while reducing taxes, will
permit us to keep up the present
lick. It is a vain hope. That is why
tax supervising boards and tax in
vestigating commissions are not very
popular after they submit their re
ports. They cannot do the desired
' impossible.
The increase in population through
the arrival of aliens has been cut
from more than half a million in
1920- 1 to less than 45,000 for the
first six months of the fiscal year
1921- 2, a figure arrived at by de
ducting the number of out-going
from incoming aliens during the
years in question. With the exception
of a single year, It is the smallest
guin in population from this source
since the inception of the great im
migration movement in the decade
following the civil war, and it ought
to simplify somewhat the task of
Americanization which iasuperseding
the melting pot theory in the plans of
hard-headed and practical citizens.
Moreover, it is shown that for the
remainder of the present fiscal year,
at least, there will be no Immigra
tion problem of consequence. The
Quotas of sixteen countries have
already been exhausted- under 'the
new law and these are countries
from which immigration is heaviest.
It will be up to congress before
June 30 next to make possible a
continuance of the Rood work.
WHAT THE COUNTRY IS TIRED OF.
Senator Norris, who was elected
as a republican but seldom acts or.
talks as one, says: "There is no
doubt that the country Is already
tired of the republican party." On
the contrary the country is proud of
what the republican president and
his cabinet have accomplished and
of Mr. Harding's courageous stand
on the bonus. It is only tired of the
lack of leadership, party discipline
and nerve on the part of the re
publican majority in congress.
That can be mended without sub
stituting a democratic majority. The
country needs only to change the
composition o'f the republican ma
jority by electing men who can read
the thoughts of the silent majority
among the people, who think with
them, and who cannot be terrorized
by the clamor of minorities. There
have been some shining examples of
men who won the support of that
majority by defying the noisy and
menacing few. Their success should
bring others to the front who would
show the game qualities.
To elect a cowardly democratic
majority in place of a cowardly re
publican majority would be no im
provement. Neither party has a
monopoly of moral courage or of its
opposite. The democratic party
proved that in 1916, when it passed
the Adamson law in a panic under
threat of a railroad strike. Such a
majority would have courage only
to obstruct the republican president
at every step. v That' would be a
bleak prospect to hold before the
country in the present critical state
of its affairs. With all its faults the
present congress, through being of
the same party as the president, has
done great things which could not
have been done if control of the gov
ernment had been divided.
TOO MANY LAWYERS. '
Because Senator Walsh of Mon
tana has doubts about the legality of
the appointment of Senator Smoot
and Representative Burton on the
allied debt refunding commission
while they retain their seats in con
gress, confirmation of the members
of tlje commission must be held up
for several days, perhaps weeks. Mr.
Smoot and Mr. Burton were no
doubt appointed by President Hard
ing to satisfy the evident desire of
congress to have a hand in the set
tlements to be made. Congressmen
have served on former commissions
established by congress, notably on
the monetary commission, which
laid the foundation for the federal
reserve system. But all proceedings
regarding the allied debt must wait
till Mr. Walsh's legal scruples are
removed.
Uncertainty as to the terms for
settlement of their debt to the
United States is one of the causes
of economic confusion in the Euro
pean states, and that in turn is the
main, cau.se of trade depression in
tha United States. Under the law
creating the commission, that body
has authority to defer payment of
the Austrian debt for reiief supplies
for a long period, as all of Austria's
other creditors have done. When
those debts are deferred, bankers are
ready to make a loan sufficient to
nut AllHtrin's finances In nrrlpp tft
enable it to export and import and
to develop its resources. A sorelv
distressed nation hovers on the brink
of ruin and may fall over while Mr.
Walsh's doubts are being removed.
This leads us to indorse the re
mark of Chief Justice Taft that "we
have all the lawyers we need now,
and there Is likely to be no dearth
of them." We have more lawyers in
congress than we need. Mr. Walsh
a lawyer as well as a senator, and j
would probably have been as good a
senator if he had not been a lawyer.
The slowness and prolixity of sena
tors and the fuss they make about
inconsequential things is due to the
fact that so many of them are law
yers, for they often lose sight of the
big thing to be done in their
scrupulosity about the precisely cor
rect mode of procedure. It is no
mere coincidence that of the .three
senators who see jokers in the plain
words of a treaty, who wish to de
fine exactly the meaning of termt
and w;ho are always ready with
reservations or objections Johnson,
Borah and Reed are lawyers. If
there were fewer lawyers In con
gress and more practical men of af
fairs who would cut their way
through the barbed" wire entangle
ments that lawyers set up, public
business would make better progress.
TACTFUL PRINCESS MARY.
Royalty seldom appears in a more
favorable light than that with which
Princess Mary has invested it in her
determination to reduce the list of
invitations to her forthcoming wed-
ding to its lowest possible terms.
For example, only sixty-seven peers
will be bidden to attend the cere
mony, although some seven hundred
would be eligible by reason of their
rank. Of the list of the bride
groom's acquaintances which was
recently submitted, it was found ex
pedient to cut out more than one
half, "all of whom," says a dispatch,
"w o u 1 d be considered welcome
guests at any other wedding." West
minster Abbey seems to have been
chosen deliberately as the place for
the ceremony because of its rela
tively small seating capacity. Mary
may be a princess, but she has a
real commoner's sense of proportion
and a truly democratic view of the
fitness of things.
It is desired, we are told, that as
few people as possible should be
placed in a position, through the
etiquette of the occasion, to spend
money unduly on dresses or clothes.
Aristocracy in Great Britain, as has
been made plain recently, is in pecu
niary straits; yet we know that noth
ing is quite so exacting as the re
quirements of noblesse oblige. The
princess seems to understand that
royal splendor would be but tawdry
show if, for example, it wee put on
at the enormous sacrifice which a
royal display would entail at this
time. Not so many tradesmen, per
haps, will receive orders for gew
gaws as if the old order prevailed,
but a greater proportion, no doubt.
will receive their money when it is
due. The loss will fall chiefly on. the
profiteers.
We voV not often associate econ
omy with a royal wedding. The ex
travagance of kings and queens,
perhaps as much as their gift for
misrule, has brought their own
houses tumbling about their heads.
But Princess Mary and those who
are so wisely advising her propose
that the charge shall not be laid at
her door. Her trousseau a fairly
elaborate one, to be sure is only
relatively expensive and will serve
as the symbol of desire to set the
example of sane repression in mat
ters of that kind. It is noted too
that it has been purchased for the
most part from relatively incon
spicuous costumers, "who do- not
charge exorbitant prices for the ad
ventitious honor of being purveyors
to aristocracy" and who presumably
put value into their goods.
Here the princess sets an example
that goes rather more deeply to the
economic heart of things than a
mere pruning of expenditures would
do. Evidently the princess has been
"shopping around," perhaps even
pursuing a bargain here and there,
comparing qualities and asking about
prices. It is not easy to picture a
princess in this guise, but we hope
the story is true. The ancient prac
tice of insisting on one's money's
worth might profitably be revived.
, MARRIAGE IN SWITZERLAND:
The marriage of Mathilde McCor
mick to Max Oser, which it now
seems will come- to pass in due
course, will not in any event be a
hasty affair. Swiss law has no loop
holes fjr elopers. The news dis
patches from Zurich tell how "the
couple must have their full names,
ages, professions and residences
placed in large print on the wall of
the town hall facing the street for
three weeks before the ceremony."
The one opportunity that used to be
given to foreigners to take refuge
behind the laws of their own coun
tries under the flag of a consulate
is now denied them.
It is plain that the Swiss regard
marriage as a serious affair, as for
that matter all right-thinking people
do, although our faith Is sometimes
shaken by reading the very latest
statistics of divorce. Yet it is perti
nent to observe that the divorce rate
in Switzerland is somewhat less than
half that of the United States. We
wonder whether there may not be a
definite association between a low
divorce rate and the circumstance
that snap-judgment marriage is
made difficult by Swiss law. The
same general relation holds good' as
to other, countries in which the cus
tom of publishing the banns, or its
equivalent, prevails.
Not all ill-considered marriages
are hasty ones, by any means. The
impending Oser-McCormick affair,
which the public seems to refuse to
regard as a romance but onlyper
sists in viewing as a bit of rather
disgusting waywardness, is an ex
ample of this. But the bride-to-be
still has some three weeks in which
to reconsider and perhaps repent,
and with the helpful counsel of
wiser parents and grandparents it is
quite possible that she might even
now be led to see the error of her
ways. The Swiss system in any
event furnishes opportunity for re
flection upon the gravity and the
sanctity of the marriage relation and
in large proportion of cases, we
think, this would forestall the trag
edy that is apt to attend on alliance
of an emotional and badly consid
ered sort.
FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS VINDI
CATED. The adversity of, the farmers lias
been the opportunity of the political
demagogues. In order to Justify
their pose as the farmers' friends
and to make political capital tor
themselves these ' versatile but un
scrupulous fellows had to find some
institution which the farmers could
hold responsible for their misfor
tunes. The habit of thought sur
viving from the days when "the
crime of ;'73," "goldbugs of Wall
street", and "money trust" were cur
rent political -phrases caused them
to turn on the banking system. As
the federal reserve board now stands
jn the public eye for alI the banks,'
they turned their mud-batteries on
it. The most vociferous among them
are democrats, in whose minds
banks are identified with the re
publican party, therefore lawful po
litical targets, o such verbal gey
sers as Senators Heflin and Watson
of Georgia spouted away at the fed
eral reserve board.
They forgot that the federal re
serve system is the pride of the Wil
son administration and that Senator
Glass of Virginia, as chairman of the
house committee on banking, had
been its chief architect. They drew
fire from him, and for two days he
blazed away. When he ceased fir
ing, he had demolished their posi
tions. He showed that they had
been using against the federal re
serve system ammunition that had
been designed for use against the
very evils that it had cured, and he
exposed their whole campaign as
based on "misconceptions and mis
representations," branding them as
"restless political agitators."
Though claiming an undue share
of credit for the democratic 63rd
1 congress and not giving enough to
the Aidrich monetary commission,
on whose work the present law wis
founded, Mr. GISss completely vindi
cated the federal reserve system as
the financial savior of the country in
and since the war, and disproved the
charges made by agitators who ex
ploit the farmers' troubles for their
own political gain, that the federal
reserve board or banks precipitated
the fall of prices by refusing ;credit
to the farmers. He drew a faithful
picture of the pernicious working of
the old national bank system, and he
showed how the new system has
made the volume of credit and cur
rency responsive to the needs of
business. One by ode he exposed
the falsehoods of the agitators and
set forth the facts in contrast.
The federal reserve system makes
available $369,000,000 of bank funds
for loan on farm, mortgages up to
five years. Tl old law forbade
such loans.
Regional banks are self-governing,
operated in their own territory
by their boards of directors, owned
by the banks, the government hav
ing contributed not a dollar to their
capital. They make loans to the
member banks, but cannot loan a
dollar to any individual - or corpor
ation. Member banks make loans
to their customers, then borrow the
amount from the reserve bank.
The federal reserve 'board is a
supervisory board over the 12 re-
j gional reserve banks. Itcannot loan
a. dollar to anybody, for it has no
money to loan. It cannot order
regional banks to discount notes, nor
prohibit them to do so if rtiey have
eligible paper. It may in case of
necessity, by a vote of five to two,
order one regional bank to extend
aid to another. It may refuse to is- I
sue currency when requested by a
regional bank, but it has never done
so. It may tax federal reserve notes,
but has never levied a penny.
Never has the board "offered 'a
suggestion to a federal reserve bank
that it should or should not make
rediscounts or apply for currency."
Senator Jones of New Mexico said
the charge had been made that the
board "had made a direct request of
the regional banks in certain sec
tions of the country, as well aa mem
ber banks, that no more loans of a
certain character should be made;
for instance, upon livestock." Mr.
Glass replied:
I know' it is not true. The federal re
serve board at one time did what senator
after senator upon this, floor did. It sug
gested that there ought to be a cessation
of extravagance In- this country; that the
credits of the country should be devoted
to taking care of the necessities of the
people rather than the luxuries. The board
has never at any time Indicated to a bank
that it should not engage In lawful and
proper rediscount activities, and has never
denied the application of a regional bank
for one dollar of federal currency.
He proved that the exact reverse
was true. He quoted the prices of
cotton, wheat, corn and oats in each
month from July, 1919, to January,
1921, inclusive, showing that the fall
of,prices began in August, 1920. He
then quoted the amount of redis
counted paper held by federal re
serve banks on January, 1920, and
1921, respectively. This showed an
increase of $472,088,000, though
values had fallen about two-thirds
from the level of July, 1920. Circu
lation in the year 1920 increased
$328,403,000. Credit was expanded
in a period when prices were falling,
and the greatest increases were in
the agricultural regions, the regional
banks which serve the industrial
centers showing hardly any increase.
One reserve bank barely escaped
having its gold reserve wiped out
and had to borrow from another in
the north. So far was it from the
truth that loans on agricultural and
livestock paper were stopped when
deflation began that they continued
to grow from $56,905,000 in Jan
uary, 1 9 2 0, to $216,2.78,000 in
August, when prices began to
tumble, and still grew until in De
cember the total was $246,940,000,
Deflation was not caused by the
federal reserve system, but by the
fall in prices of commodities in all
countries, beginning with silk in
Japan in March, 1920; Down to that
month the oracles of discontent de
nounced profiteers for high prices.
"When the drop came," said Mr.
Glass, "these impatient souls de
nounced the federal reserve board."
Prices fell, not for lack of credit, but
for lack of markets for farm prod
ucts. The member banks which
borrowed most heavily are in the
agricultural states, and many bor
rowed far more than their quota
from the reserve banks. Some which
had exhausted their resources
falsely accused the federal reserve
banks of refusing to rediscount,
others "passed the buck" to the fed
eral reserve board, which exposed
the fraud.
As to the charge that usurious in
terest was extorted, Mr. Glass
showed that the foundation was the
provision for progressively rising
rates of discount for banks that ex
ceed their quota, which was adopted
by congress three years ago. This
extra charge was put in ieffect in
only four, of the twelve districts, and
was applied only to a few "incor
rigible offenders." One bank in the
Atlanta district which walled loudest
"exceeded its basic line of credit
nearly ten times and loaned 90 per
cent of its eapital on notes indorsed
by its. president."
Mr, Glass pointed out the true
way out of the farmers' troubles
when he said to their pretended
champions:
Why not tell the farmer the truth and
adviee him, If he would escape the con
sequences of another such disaster, he
should organize; organize not to be the
plaything or the instrument of designing
politicians, but organize for an intelligent
investigation and pursuit of economics;
organize for co-operative marketing of his
product: organize, if it may seem desir
able, for the co-operative purchase of hi
requirements: organise for an Intelligent
understanding or the source and volume
of demand for (arm products. .
When we consider what the fed
eral reserve system did to pull the
farmers through, and what might
have been their predicament if there
had been no such system, we can
only conclude that their worst ene
mies are their false friends and their
fool friends.
In all the treasury departments of
Europe there is great industry in
the manufacture, of excuses to the
debt collector from this side of the
Atlantic. President Harding might
send Dawes over 'to show the spend
thrift nations where they can cut
expenses. '
People In whose homes fire starts
can be charged generally with care
lessness not with criminal intent,
but due to thoughtlessness. The
damper in the pipe is the safety
valve if they use it.
Chief Justice Taft says the country
has about all the lawyers it needs.
Still, it requires a large supply of
them to keep up the membership of
congress and the various state legis
latures. A dealer who buys stolen property
is hard to convict on just the word
of the thief, but sometimes he is
caught and paroled. Then the po
lice blow off steam.
Officially Dr. Morrow makes
known his desire again to be demo
cratic national committeeman. Gen
erally the doctor gets what he wants
from his party.
Mr. Hays has the distinction of
being about the first politician who
ever resignea a jod voluntarily.
Long terms in prison may check a
wave of crime, but they make nec
essary a larger penitentiary.
How many who do not own cars
ever take a ride around town to see
what a big city we have?
Mr. Oser says he has no relatives
in America. That saves wear on the
McCormick backdoor.
One pitcher will not go to the well
too often. Ruth Law has retired
from flying. ...
Many a girl is not half as bad as
she's painted.
An east wind is spring tonic for
the earth. . " , . ,
The Listening Post,
By UeWltt Harry-
T"S impossible to acknowledge all
the letters that have been received
from old friends of Paul Bunyan and i
we can only wish that Paul were here
with his famous clerk, who had the
fountain pen connected with a barrel
of ink by an inch hose, so that they
could attend to tne correspondence.
However, as some Of the regular read
ers have expressed a fear that Paul's
adventures all have been told we can
assure them that there are many
more to come and thank them for
their interest.
Now comes Hick Carlson of this
very city and questions some of the
alleged veracious accounts of Paul's
birthplace and of his childhood days.
Hick says:
Some of these wise guys get my
goat Paul Bunyan was not a Michi
gander, but a moss-back Oregonian.
I knew him well. - His grandfather
and my grandfather were little
grandfathers together.
'Paul came from an old and re
spected pioneer family that crossed
the plains In '49. On their arrival In
Oregon th6 Bunyans settled at the
foot of Onion peak, near Garlio river.
Twins were born to the new settlers.
Paul and Pauline. Paulina, an old
Crook county town, was named after
the twins. Not being prepared for
the double event and their quarters
being: limited, one of the babies had
to sleep on the ground in the log
hut. Now, the soil In Oregon being
the most fertile in the world and any
thing that touches it having an
astounding growth, little Paul, from
sleeping on the ground, grew to be
just twice the size of the ordinary
man. The blue ox slept on the ground
near Paul and had a similar growth.
"I have often heard Paul tell ot
one of his childrrood baseball games.
He was so strong that he broke all
the bats. In one game, a 2-2 tie af
fair, Paul came up in the 47th inning
and all he could find was an axe to
strike with. Paul swung at the first
ball, hit the pill square and the left
fielder caught one half of the ball, the
other half going over the fence. Paul
circled the bases and the umpire ruled
him half out and half safe and his
side won the game, 2 to 2.'.'
One of the banes of an editorial ex
istence is the embryo poet. Verse
seems to be a drug on the market. Of
course there are amateurs in every
line, but the mass of manuscript that
reaches the average editorial desk
would appall any ordinary man.
However, the versifiers seem to get a
more inflated idea of their talent and
ability "than do those who revel in
prose.
a week or so ago a contributor
to this column called attention to a
sonnet of more than ordinary merit,
appearing in a local trade magazine
and it was reprinted with a few lines
of explanation. The author, not
knowing it had appeared, was shown
the verse. The unassuming poet
Bays:
Recently a friend called my at
tention to a kind little notice which
ppearea in your column about a
verse that I had written. As it was
the first of its kind, you will pardon
my pride in it, and of course will
understand I am not pleading for
notice, as I know that the worst
thing a poet can receive is any notice
that is not actually deserved by his
product, and I have enough sense to
know that the writer of a verse is not
a good judge of its merits. All babies
are beautiful to their mother's eyes."
The downtown pigeons lose one
friend after another. First Joe Harty
was their boon companion, and then
a heartless police department ruled
that he was obstructing traffic and
forbade him to feed his pets. So the
pigeons went across the street, where
a red-headed girl worked 'In a candy
store and there they dined sumptu
ously from her hand and had plenty
ot unpopped popcorn. But the march
of progress forced the red-headed
girl and the candy store to move
and now the. pigeons sit each day,
disconsolate, and strut back and for
wards and try their hardest to talk,
but their coaxing fails. Their friend
is gone.
And right in the middle of the side
walk, near where the lonely pigeons
rested, was an Airedale lying on a
steel grating. Poor" fellow, bitter
cold day, yet he lay there and napped,
Then to cap the climax W. A. Van
Scoy, the man out on Simpson street
who has had the yellowhammer
boarder for three straight years past,
reports that hie bird has flown. The
steady boarder was somewhat dis
couraged during the December cold
snap, yet stuck around, but in Janu
ary he went away for a few days,
possibly trying to thaw out. This
last bit of weather must have been
the last straw, for Mr. Yellowhammer
has been absent from his roost in the
nook under the eaves and near tho
chimney for over a week now. If you
see a stray yellowhammer who is
making queer throaty noises, call Van
up, as he's lonesome.
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Appropos of changing conditions of
our modern civilization and the ad
vent of all manner of refinements
such as jazz, dancing with meals.
cabarets, "petting" parties, W. A. P,
wants to know if the home standards
for raising children have changed
materially. He says that street re
ligion is "put over" to the tune of
banjo and saxophone and churches
have actresses lecturing from the
pulpit and "snappy sermons" with the
old hymns so revamped to late or
chestration as hardly to be recog
nized. '
"When I was a child I went to
Sunday school," Is the ending of the
letter, "and every night I used to
say my prayers. I wonder how many
children of today are taught to say,
'Now I lay me down to sleep?' "
t
A correspondent writes:
''Please give us a little space in
Your Columns Regarding a Meeting.
The Tellephone Employees Associa
tion will Entertain Us with Their
Practical Demonstration of how to
use the Tellephone and so on and
after Refreshment we will Proceed
to Dance the rest of the evening the
Entertainment is Free to anny one
that belives in a higher Education
for our rising Generation as this is
our aim and we have a Educational
Memorial Foundation and granted 20
Schollarshipa las Year and expect
to grant at least that manny this
Year."
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The prize brewer of Albina says
he attributes the success of his last
batch to a recent discovery. He ex
plains, "I now strain my beer through
an I. W. W. sock so that it will not
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Those Who Come and Go.
Tale of Folks at the Hotels.
According to William (Bill) Johns
tone of The Dalles, there was no
excitement when the principal bank
there closed its - doors Thursday.
People read- the notice) on the door
and passed on, firm in the belief
that the bank will come out all right.
There are two or three residents
of The Dalles who planned to be
initiated Into the Shrine in Portland
tonight and these decided they would
have to postpone the journey across
the hot sands because their checking
accounts were in the -French bank.
Mr. Johnstone, however, says that
the neophites will not miss the ex
perience of their lives, for good
Shriners In The Dalles have advanced
the necessary funds for the candi
dates. Harry L. Kuck. the fiehtinfr editor
of the Pendleton Tribune, is at the
Hotel Oregon. Mr.' Kuck has stirred
up the animals tn Pendleton in the
past three months, going after offi
cials and others. Now, as a result of
his crusade, he is the defendant in
libel suit or two, which are not
causing him any loss of sleep, for
when the libel suit is tried he can
then present a quantity of material in
justification of the articles he has
written and the animals will be more
stirred up than ever, he says. ' Mr.
Kuckr is a young man, member of the
American Legion and the way he is
fighting in Pendleton gives the im
pression that he doesn't think the ,
war is over yet.
Murray Wade of Salem, breezed
through town yesterday with a pole
of new arrangement. On the pole,
about a foot from the base, is a
small arm, upon which to rest the
feet. These arms are connected with
spring. The idea is to get upon
the foot rests, hold onto the handle
of the pole and then jump. By the
exercise of skill and control of the
equilibrium, the person on the pole
can jump along the sidewalk faster
than an individual can walk. Mur
ray had a lot of fun watching people
try to work the device. The general
impression is that of a person stand
ing on a broom, hanging onto the
handle and going crazy.
'Since 1658 there have been decided
in the United States in the courts of
last resort 1,250,000, and with an ad
dition of about 25,000 each year the
problem of finding cases to substan
tiate a case being tried is often hard,
so we find it necessary to have ex
perts visit the law colleges to lecture
on the most modern way of finding
cases," says L. S. Mercer of the West
Publishing company of St. Faul, who
is at the Multnomah. "If we could
only have uniform laws in the states
of the union millions of dollars would
be saved and trial cases would be
speeded up and litigation be reduced."
P. D. Ott of Hebo, Tillamook county.
is at the Imperial. There is now
under way a road from Hebo to
Neskowin, on the coast, being con
structed by the county, and a quarry
tias been opened and the county, is
about ready to take another bite' at
the road. The plan is to extend this
road to the Lincoln county line and
then from that point the road will
be carried on to Salmon river, on the
ooast. The stretch from Hebo to
Salmon river will be part of the
P.oosevelt Highway. Money is now
available for building a section south
of Salmon river toward Newport;
Members of the state highway com
mission, R. A. Booth, John B. Yeon
and W. B. Barratt, have gone to
Albany to attend a hearing for the
creation of a road district. This dis
trict is intended to raise funds for
the Improvement of a highway from
Albany, through Lebanon as far as
Cascadia. Some of the Linn county
people want the district enlarged so
that the road can be built not only
to Cascadia, but on to the Deschutes
County line, through Hogg pass, mak
ing a connection near bisters.
"Now that we have found how to
cook products in glass jars the same
as in tin cans, canners are putting up
a finer article than ever," said H. Q.
Mills, representing a glass concern in
San Francisco. "By forcing com
pressed air into the container where
the products are being cooked mak
ing the pressure equal to the pressure
Inside the glass container, we find the
jar will not crack and a good operator
can prepare about 45 jars a minute.
Jordan Valley, from where J. B.
Duncan comes to the Perkins, is one
of the little-known sections of Ore
gon. It is on the eastern edge and
Idaho has been bidding for the Jor
dan Valley trade for years. With the
Improvement ot roada toward Ontario,
the volume of business of Jordan, Val
ley is steadily increasing.
St. Peter's business Is so good that
he needs more rooms. No, he isn't the
St. Peter you have in mind, but
George St. Peter, proprietor of the
New York hotel, at Hoquiam, Wash.,
wno is registered at tne iviuitnoiiiH.n.
As the hotel 'business is good In that
town, Mr. St. Peter plans the erection
of a six-story hotel.
A cheese maker is A. M. Myer of
Clatskanie, Or., who is registered at
the Hotel Oregon. The cheese In
dustry in Columbia county is rapidly
developing in importance and the
makers are giving more attention to
quality than to quantity production.
Evidently the postmaster of one
Oregon town hasn't much faith in the
future of his community, for upon a
letter returned to the Multnomah ad
dressed to the president of the bank
in that town the postmaster wrote:
"No bank here never was never
will be. See?"
Thomas Jones, register of the
United States land office at Vale, the
most active land office in the state
because of the desert land entries,
has returned home after attending
sessions of the federal grand Jury as
a witness.
Frederick T. Boles of Chicago Is at
the Hotel Portland. Mr. Boles has
been associated with the legal pro
ceedings involving the Smith Lumber
company in Coos county.
Harry Sackett, . county clerk of
Malheur county, who has been in
Portland as a witness before the fed
eral grand Jury, has checked out for
home.
Harry C. Betz, a locomotive engi
neer of The Dalles, is among the ar
rivals at the Imperial.
T. P. Fahey, a clothing merchant
of Seattle and Portland, is at the
Hotel Oregon from Puget sound.
n Regarding; Income Tax.
NORTH BEND, Or., Feb 23. (To
the Editor.) (1) How is a man rated
who his been divorced but is paying
alimony? (2) When a man is getting,
say $1000 per year and found (board),
how is he compared to a man getting
$1200 per year and paying his own
board? (31 Are enlisted men in the
naval or military service subjected
to income tax, even though they
make the required amount and over?
ROBERT CROUCH.
1. Alimony cannot be deducted from
Income. A man paying alimony is on
the same status as a single man.
2. The value of board received in
lieu of wages or salary must be In
cluded in your tax statement.
3. Men in military or naval service
must pay income taxes on the same
basis as civilians. -
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jaaei J. Blontaztie.
A DIRGE OF LIFE.
(By a Flu Victim,)
Tell us not, in Joyful ditties,
That our luck Is going to mend.
In life's poker game, the kitties
Get the winnings in the end.
Life is glum and life is cheerless.
Crooks succeed and good men fail.
And if you're the least bit keerless
You will finish it in jail.
Christmas may be far behind! you,
But, within a day or two,
Mr. Mellon will remind you
That your income tax is due.
If a pleasant thought you harbor .
As an antidote to care, '
You're admonished by your barber
That you're losing all your hair.
Though the war at last has ended
You're aware that in your heart
For a year you've apprehended
That another's going to start.
Though the balmy spring-like breezes
Tend to make your spirit glad,
They are laden with diseases.
Some of which you haven't had.
Lives of other men alarm you.
For they amply illustrate
How the years are bound to harm you
And how terrible is fate.
So you sit here, steeped in sorrow
And irradiating gloom.
Knowing: well that each tomorrow
Brings you nearer to the tomb!
The Exceptions.
Lenine and Trotzky decline to go to
Genoa on the ground that they don't
want to leave Russia. In this re
spect they are unique among their
rellow countrymen.
But This Wl Written Some Time
Ago.
Up to the hour of submitting this
paragraph to the editor, no movie
concern has offered a job to Presi
dent Harding.
He Helped.
The ex - German crown prince has
written a book explaining how the
war was lost, a subject upon which
he is a real authority.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Con You Answer These Questional
1. Why does milk turn sour?
2. Are a colt's legs as long at birth
as at full growth?
3. What is the difference between
a pigeon and a dove?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Why do canaries want cuttle
bone?
They need it for the salt and lime it
contains. All birds require some min
eral substance to form the shell of
their eggs. Bigger breeds can take
coarser material, as oyster shell, rock
salt, charcoal, etc., or even coarse
mortar. The cuttle bone is a refined
form of mineral well adapted to the
canary's bill.
2. What makes a bird dog gun-shy
and how can it be cured?
We hardly consider this a fair na
ture question. Most likely the dog
while being trained got hit by some
of the shot and was frightened' and
slightly hurt. He quickly learned to
associate the hurt with the gun and
'dodged at the sight of the latter. The
only cure we can suggest Is petting
and kindness, showing him the gun
and trying to overcome his dread.
3. ' I have a collared lizard. How
can I keep it?
This lizard lives naturally in. hot,
dry country, and should have a box
of warm, dry sand. Do not .put other
varieties of small life In the same
pen, except as food, for this lizard is
cannibal and will eat specimens al
most as large as Itself, even taking
young snakes. Grasshoppers, crickets
and: mealworms may be -used to help
out the diet. Oddly enough, a favorite
tidbit is flowers. Red clover and dan
delion are liked.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of February 2B, 188T.
Salem Mitchell has quit. His con
tingent assumed to adjourn the legis
lature yesterday and the senator has
altogether abandoned his fight.
London The powers have agreed to
give Crete extensive autonomy. Turk
ish troops and administration will be
withdrawn and Greece will be re
quired to evacuate and withdraw all
ships.
Washington The senate is aroused
over the Cuban situation and three
resolutions were passed yesterday
aiming to check Spanish inhumanities
and protect Americans on the island.
Little Mildred will appear at the
Marquam Grand theater next week in
"Little Lord Fauntleroy."
SWEEPING BOMJS IS OPPOSED
Volunteer In War With Spain Says
Help Only the Disabled.
VANCOUVER. Wash., Feb. 23.
(To the Editor.) 1 believe quite a
number of the states of the union
have granted a bonus sum to the
veterans of the late world war, and
now we notice some agitation on the
part of the ex-service men for a gov
ernment bonus. In the event that
the United States government "comes
through," we suppose that it will not
be long ere the service men will be
demanding a county bonus and then
a precinct bonus. As far as some of
us are concerned, we should raise no
objection to the United State making
adequate provisions for the care and
maintenance of those who returned
from foreign shores maimed and
physically incapacitated for making
a livelihood, but when it comes to
a proposition of burdening the people
of this country with a cumbersome
tax in order to donate a fixed sum
to young men who returned safe and
sound from the war and who are as
capable of battling life's problems as
we older- ones, then the thing re
solves Itself Into another question.
I am one of those who, almost a
quarter of a century ago, answered
our president's call for volunteers for
two years, or more, or until the end
of the conflict with Spain. In those
days there was not even a suggestion
of a draft. Men volunteered through
a sense of duty to their country, and
as far as a monetary consideration
was concerned, we received $15.60
per month, as compared with a sum
almost double that amount, paid to
soldiers in the late war. Those of
us who returned home from the fields
of strife physically fit have, in the
intervening years, been engaged in
earning ouf own way unassisted by
such things as bonuses.
Quite a number of the veterans ol
long ago have made good on their
own initiative. We are aging, grow
ing gray, etc., yet. speaking for my
eelf, I will state that I have never
expected, or do I ever expect any
further remembrance from the United
States. People who worked and
strove on this side of the pond during
the late world war to maintain the
American forces overseas are en
titled to as much consideration as
members of the American Legion.
VETERAN OF '$.
High LigntS
The Sunday Oregonian
Tomorrow
- IN THE MAGAZINE
A College Degree
Won by Vamping
The' potency of the powder
puff and the coy glances in
winning high marks for co
eds. '
Embarrassment of
Being Prize Beauty
One thousand men propose
to California girl, but she
still awaits the right one.
Brand-New Story by
Elizabeth Jordan
"Their Treasures Here Be
low" is fascinating tale. AH
of The Oregonian fiction is
"first run."
The Movie Face
Is Now Charted
This article tells what tests
the screen beauty must meet
to be found perfect.
Uncle Sam After
Income Tax Dodger
Elmer E. Dover, who su
pervises collections, tells of
tricks adopted by the artful
citizen.
Experts Who Fix
Value of Forests
Picturesque work of tim
ber cruisers, on whose word
great transactions depend.
Page of Sketches
From Pen of W. E. Hill
This is the best page of its
kind in America, "Around
the Hotel Switchboard" is
this week's subject.
OTHER FEATURES
Radio Oregonian's
New Department
Gossip of this interesting
method o f communication.
Also the latest news and
helps for amateurs.
New Masonic Home
at Forest Grove
Tire completion of this insti
tution and what it means
to Oregon Masonry related
with illustrations of the
' home.
Usual Sermon
by Dr. Bowman
Eeligion cannot close door
to science, declares pastor,
who disagrees with Bryan.
Robert Edgren Now
on Sport Pages
This writer's illustrated
fight stories are without
equal. The Oregonian's
sport department is recog
nized as the best on tho
Pacific coast.
Flowers for the
Home and Garden
This special department on
gardening questions is han
dled by an expert and gives
the amateur gardener just
the information he needs.
Darling's Cartoons
on Topics of Day
Darling is America's leading
cartoonist. He treats with
his pen some of the live
questions now confronting
the country.
Many Dressmaking
Problems Answered
Madam Richet, Portland au
thority on practical dress
making, is now answering
about 100 letters a week
from readers of The Ore
gonian. Lillian Tingle's
Question Department
Questions ranging from how
to make different varieties
of cakes to matters no per
taining to cooking are an
swered in this department,
Latest Styles Shown
in Fashion Columns
The latest in dress from
Parisian and New YoTk style
centers is portrayed. Beau
tifully colored illustrations.
Supreme in
Business News
The Oregonian's new Wall
street letters, used daily,
and supplemented with ex
haustive reports, give it
leadership in this field.
AND MANY OTHERS
No Sunday Paper
in the West
has a greater variety of fea
tures and of news. Society,
women's clubs, real estate,
automobiles, churches,
schools, markets, marine are
all found in complete de
partments. All the news of all the world
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