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10 THE 3IORXING OREGOXTATtf, TUTJESDAT, 3rARCH 16, 1923 Jttorniwt &xt$omnn ESTABLISHED BV UEXRV I- P1TTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co. 13 tilth street. Portland, Oregon. C.-'A. UORDEN, B. B. PIPER. Manager. - Editor. The OregoQian la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and, also news puoilsnea herein. Ail rignia ot publication or special dispatches herein - are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mali.) . Baily, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 - Daily, Sunday included, six months... Paily, Sunday included, three months. U.2.r I'aily, .Sunday included, one month ... .15 . Daily, Without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six montha. ... 3.23 Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 Sunday, one year 2-W (By Carrier.) 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Mich.; Verree & Conklln, Monadnock building, San Francisco, Cal. number of aliens held there awaiting deportation to the countries whence they came to the United States is a good sign of awakening activity on the part of officers who have an ef fective method of curbing a certain class of lawlessness. These aliens have had their chance and have for feited it and they deserve neither .sympathy nor other consideration. .Nothing in the form of punishment imposed upon them can grate on the feelings of the moat tender-hearted ieformer, and they will be placed quite beyond the reach of misguided pardons and paroles. As evidence of keener scrutiny by federal agents, the fact is particularly interesting, and it is a token, too, of greater care in future in admitting aliens to the country. The existing law re stricting immigration is working well and ought to be continued; coupled with a policy of vigilance in deporting undesirables" it ought to ligence rating is not because of that a failure as an executive; he prob ably has other strong qualities to offset the apparent discrepancy shown by the statistical report have been if she had completed dis charge at Portland, that la not Effi ciency and it does not make jobs for more men. When a ship is induced to go to a shaky dock, which collapses There can hardly be too much re-1 at a bump, and when she is libeled search, too much seeking or Detter i ror damages, that is small induce ways to do old things, too much en deavor . to save waste wherever it may occur. The objection is only to premature assumption of finality, and precipitate rejection of methods that in their own fashion have served us well for & long time.' The old way in which men found their "grooves," for example, . had some thing to recommend it. They began on the theory that they were masters of their own destinies and some of them learned by failure and finally won success by persistence and hard work. Incidentally, the process, oven though it may have been waste ful in individual instances, had a certain character-building value. simplify greatly the vexatious prob-IAny proposal to weigh and measure lem of the "melting pot." TIIK DEMOCRATS AND THE TREATY. The vote in the senate on the Rob inson and Walsh amendments to the Pacific treaty brings out i certain facts bearing on the fate- of the pact. The republicans stand almost as unit in. favor of ratification with, no other reservations than that of th foreign relations committee declar ing that the treaty involves no com mitments to use armed force. The four irreconcilables, who were so re garded frota the day when the pact was laid before the senate, have won no recruits. The democrats, with four excep tions, stand as a unit in favor of pay. ing the republicans back in their own coin by harrying them with res ervations and by conjuring up dan gers which do not exist. That is their revenge for republican treat ment of the "Versailles treaty. Democratic action at this stage is mere maneuver for party advantage, and is no index to the action of the . pal Ly nucii. tnuci upuu IU KMtyt, llitl rAoilVA vntA Tor- np flp-ainsr rallTiM- ; tion. Then with a mental eye to . future party success as well as from ; the viewpoint of the bearing of the ' treaty on their country's welfare, the - democrats will surely consider the . effect of their vote on their standing t in the eyes of the people. The ques ' tions before them will be: How shall we vote to serve best the United States? How shall we vote in order - to make our party stand well with xne eiiect oi mis consiaeration was apparent. 111 tne votes on tne Versailles treaty in March, 1920. The most important of the reservations . i i i v " . v. i - covenant, fourteen democrats voted fnr- if ffi QO-aincl it Tn fh final rc-llcall -1 democrats voted for rati fication with the reservations, 20 had voted "No" to the same propo sition in the preceding. November. When faced with the responsibility for killing the treaty by voting against it unaer the oniy possible conditions for ratification, seven more of them voted to ratify than had voted for the crucial reserva tion. They were moved to that course by thoughts of the standing of their party and -themselves in the public estimation as well as by thoughts of the consequence to their country if the treaty should be re jected. jrieaeiiL circuiiaL&iiut: i 11 u j r those actuating . motives far more powerful than were like motives two years ago. On the former occasion the irreconcilables had worked up strong opposition to the league among large elements of the popula tion, and were assisted by'public re sentment at President Wilson's en tire course in. the peace negotiations and in his relations with the senate Opponents of the Pacific treaty have won scarcely any support among the people; on the contrary, deniocratic speakers and newspapers vie with those of the opposite party in ap proval of the work of the Washing ten conference. The speeches of Senators Reed, Borah and Johnson hardly call forth an echo. Senator Poindexter, who has always been very watchful for his own political future, is notJ intimidated by the blasts of the Hearst newspapers but boldly defies them. President Harding and Secretary Hughes have so managed the con- . ference and so shaped the treaties as to disarm opposition. Mr. Harding associated the senate in the work, and called the democratic leader to share it with the republican leader. Mr. Hughes Conducted the confer ence with a degree of publicity never before known in diplomacy. He avoided all Hie objections to the treaties that proved fatal to the one signed at Versailles; The cherished prerogatives of the senate have been scrupulously respected. If the sen ate should reject the Pacific treaty, which is the key to the whole group, it would be open to a charge that '.t has exercised power in an arbitrary manner, and the democrats would Those senators who oppose tha Pacific treaty have made a pecu liarly -weak case, the contentious Reed exposing himself to ridicule by his ignorance that the treaty ex pressly annuls the Anglo-Japansse alliance. " The case for the treaty has been strengthened by the arguments of some of the severest critics of the league covenant. Senator New, for example, made a review of our for eign relations showing that the United States has frequently made compacts binding itself far more than it Is bound in the present case, also showing that none of the points raised against the league covenant can be raised against the four-power pact. ' Being confident of ratification by a small margin at this stage of the proceedings, the friends of the -treaty have cause to be confident that that margin will grow until on the final rollcall it may be quite considerable. They may expect to see many demo crats, who now merely find fault in order not to admit that any repub lican work is above criticism, yield to the weight of public opinion. They may protest to the . last, but they will yield, for if no higher motive controls, they would fear to lace the people. the youngster and hand him through ticket to his ultimate desti nation will be viewed with reserv by those who remember the-htetory of the many fads that have com and gone. lRRECOJiCILABILITY. Senator Johnson, Senator Borah, Senator France and Senator La Fol- lette the irreconcilable four, recon- cneo. Dy tneir irreconcuauuuy to WHY jx, elect THEMf stand together for one reconciled I Neither the republican nor the demo mnment voted for the Robinson I cratio party Is acting according to the . . . . , . ,.- . . 1 desires and needs of the rank and file, amendment, in order to destroy the jand it may be that tHey cannot carry ou trualv nnt tn amend it. Tint to Tut a I all reauests. but they could do better ana ,i T- ,i j I not diaplay such a fear of the influence mere reservation on it. If It had ot tne, big iBtereBts. on aome- questions been adopted they Would in turn I there is no middle course, our congress . , , . . I men must stand on one aide or the other, nave voiea against me auieuuCu K u recognlaed that the big Interests treaty. They would have done it be- I have Immense funds for legislative pur cause they are the Irreconcilables. SJ 5fiLtSi toK.00SSSKwSi!5: It Is useless perhaps to ask why I ever, have the most votes at the polls, but trie-o- lira irreconcilable. Aa well ask unfortunately they are unorganized. . . Woo,iDurn independent. i;ilt3 LU CJkyita.111 1. CJ jjjyioi y or of the creation, or of evil, or man. or woman, or ghosts. They are lr reconcilables because they are Ir reconcilables. What Harding is for. they are against. What Hughes is for, they are against. What the re- miViltiAn nol-tiT to fftP t Vl OX.' O rfl against. What the decent opinion of nlin. institution and individual lnriA oiTl Viae, foith 1 n Ti1 niT 1 -l r tm r mankind is for, they are against. i& secure wiieu i uo uigcuuiteu jiutta Why are they unorganized? Let our complaining Woodburn neighbo: tell us. Who should organize the unorganized masses? We should like to know that, too. How can they be organized? All of us every newspaper, every citizen, every or in Idaho and in California. Undoubt- I , 6 " , : idly these states would endorse the eTrr"T XT "1 pact and thus by their votes repudi ate Borah and Johnson. Nor have we any doubt that in any election these states would endorse Borah and Johnson. More irreconcilability. They want the 'treaty, which meana peace in the Pacific and for. Amer ica, and they want Borah and John son, which means war in the senate, and great difficulty in getting for Idaho and California, in common If it be true that parties are not serving the people, and that con gressmen are serving the "big inter ests," something should be done about it. That something is to re quire parties to be representative and responsive and congressmen to serve their constituents and all of them. If parties will not do it, let us change our system and get some thing better. But what? It is not -"'""i " 1 11 K ,r -till with all the other states, what Idaho w " and California do their utmost to '."""V " J7 " ' . prevent by sending Borah and. John- iJ16 "ouoie " p ng a oet,er son to the senate. But Idaho and congress- is more simple, or should . vv e uave puui vuugieaoiucu California, by ratification of the treaty in thev senate, will get what they want, in spite of themselves. CLAIMING TOO MUCH. cause we elect poor congressmen If we should elect better congress men, we would have a better con gress. So it looks to us. Most men are elected to congress, It is unnecessary to reject the ob- and . to all public offices, because vious benefits of some of the modern I they solicit election, and for no other systems of measuring the innate ca- I reason. When we elect men because pacities of men, both for intellectual I they are fit for election, and for no performance and for resistance to disease, hi order to see the nesirabil- ity of rejecting the extravagant claims of those who undoubtedly are promising more than they can per form. The recent organization of a society having for its purpose- the propagation of understanding of psychology is a reminder that men's other reason, we shall have gone far toward the ideal of" a triumphant democracy. THE NEW MiDDLE EUROPE, f Out of the ruins' of the Hapsbufg empire has grown a new confeder ation of independent states, less minds run much on the subject of closely knit but more powerful in psychoanalysis nowadays. "Tests of one kind .and another are being devised to take the place of the old fashioned methods of separating the fit" from the "unfit." The society in question holds out the prospect that some day we shall be able so to catalogue human beings that they will be placed with unerring cer tainty right in the grooves in which they belong. But the point to be borne in mind Is that the whole bus! ness, in its popular aspects, is ex ceedingly new, that we are only in the experimental stage as yet, and that if we take too much for granted we shall presently discover that we have much to unlearn. Only the other day some twenty- four college presidents were sub jected to an intelligence test such as the freshmen in a certain university would be called upon to undergo. We are not much surprised to learn that the college, presidents made rather poor showing by compari son with the freshmen, it tne stu population, in geographical position and in economic resources than the old empire. Omitting but encircling the pitiful remnants of the once dominant states of Austria and Hun gary, it comprises Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia and Roumania, ruling the greater part of the Danube's course, and Poland, whose great river is the Vistula, In addition to much of Austria's old sea frontage on the Adriatic, it reaches the Baltic at Danzig on the north and the Black sea at the Danube's mouths on the east. By drawing closer the ties with Greece, it will gain more coast on the Adriatic and the main Mediterranean seas and will com mand the Aegean sea. With a total of about 70,000,000 people, it will overmatch Germany's 60,000,000. If the feud between Poland and Lithuania can be healed, another confederation bids fair to grow up with Poland as the principal mem ber. Including Finland, . Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, it will extend to ents had been sophomores we dread the. Arctic ocean, will command the the thought of what the outcome entire east coast of the Baltic sea and by inclusion of Roumania will extend to the Black sea on the south As Poland and Roumania will be members of both confederations, they are likely to work to" the same general ends and will swing the power of between 80,000,000 and 90,000,000 people. They will form a barrier against Russian aggression from the east or German aggression from the west and north. This is the new middle Europe of quite so brilliant taking brilliant in lac or eany prooaouny mat taxes its modern sense of speedy as they J"4" oi uiam m used to be. Nor shall we question might have been. But there is. nevertheless, no concerted movement in the country to oust all the heads of colleges and put young under graduates in their places. Some where and somehow there is a screw oose in the process by which the quotients were arrived at. One col- ege official explains it by saying that, quite naturally, older men are more "set in their ways," and slower in reaching conclusions and not The fact that Ellis island recently broke all recent records ior (he the value of an intelligence test for freshmen, even though a professor s made to flunk. The test is relative. and probably quite fitted to students. so far as it goes. Similarly, a writer in a medical journal warns his fellows against being too ready to accept the ver- icts of modern instruments of so- called precision. Too many people, says, submit to "tests" of one kind and another, and then jump at conclusions as to what they really ean. "The thermometer, the blood pressure machine ana chemical analysis," he says, "have given rise to much unnecessary unhappiness." The same can be said of a lot of other modern fancy devices which are only being tried out. Many of them will be discarded before a dec ade has passed, if not sooner. A good deal was being made not long ago of an instrument by which the operator could measure with accur acy the millionth of an inch. As tronomers now tell us that the North Pole has shifted some sixty feet, and they produce the figures to show that it is so. "Precision" and "mea surement" are words to juggle with. But the human body, and particu larly the mind encased within it, may not yet lend themselves to determi nation within the millionth of an inch, or even sixty feet. In order to know anything about the state of health, says the medical writer to whom allusion has been made, a vast number of factors must be taken into account, with not all of which the trained scientist, to say nothing of the tyro, is familiar. A good many people have lived long and comfortably while suffering from some chronic ailment or other, because the rest of the body was strong enough to carry them through. The college president who fails below a f cestui aa. ja, tola n.tel- middle Europe that was to have ex tended from the North sea to the Persian gulf and that was to have Included all the territory of the two new confederations with the addi tion of Bulgaria and Tfirkey. Em bracing a great variety of peoples and climates, from the Finns of the north to the Roumanians and Greeks of the south, it has great potentiali ties for either good or evil. The best hope lies in the democratic spirit of the peoples. WAYS TO PORT EFFICIENCY. The conference of shipping men and of men in all lines of business that have to do with shipping, which was held by the Port of Portland commission on Tuesday, was just the right way to clear the air of a num ber of complaints. It disposed of the great majority by proving that they had no foundation in fact. By showing the true basis of others, it opened the way to a remedy. It was the kind of a showdown that will be useful from time to time as the business of the Port grows. When the efforts of all should be directed to attracting more ships to the Port by the offer of cargo and by the opportunity to handle both ship and cargo at minimum cost, there should be the closest co-operation among owners, agents, ship pers, pilots, towboatmen, stevedores and longshoremen to give a ship quick dispatch at the lowest possible cost. By that means we shall at tract more cargo, and more ships to discharge and receive it here, and there will be more business and work for all. When longshoremen do not exert themselves to finish discharge of a cargo in the regular working day and when a ship takes nine tons of its inward cargo back to Astqria and discharges it there be cause the rail freight back to Port land is less than, overtime nay -would j , ment for her owners to send her here again. There is no efficiency in inspecting lumber after it has been loaded and in then unloading the culls, when inspection could be made before loading. These are a few ex amples- of the ways in which cost could be reduced and movement ex pedited to the general good of the Port. There "are other respects, of broader aspect, in which the bus! ness of the port could be conducted to better advantage. One is to go ahead with consolidation of the Port of Portland and the city "dock com missions. The objection to placing the municipal docks under control of a body appointed by the leigslature has already been removed, for the legislature passed a law vesting the appointive power in the governor, referred it to the voters of the Port and they ratified it. There is no ground for apprehension lest the governor should make appointments against the protest of the people whose property the commission is to administer. In any case the people have given their verdict, and noth ing remains but to give it effect- Neither commission is legislated out of office; the two are simply to be consolidated and the membership reduced as terms -expire. Their functions are so closely akin that there Is -certainly waste effort and excessive overhead cost in dividing them between two bodies. Since the people entrust management of the large investment held by the Port commission to a body appointed by the governor, they can . surely trust the same body with their investment in docks. The business of the Port has become-too big to be hampered by artificial obstructions. The ad ministrative machine should be made one, in order that it may do the big things required of it. Ocean traffic has reached -such proportions as to demand classifica tion at the several municipal docks. General cargo has almost outgrown the capacity of the uptown docks, and needless expense is incurred in transferring it to terminal No 4. Traffic in grain and other bulk com modities is growing at such' a pace that it will soon require the entire facilities of the latter terminal. That situation points straight to construc tion of more docks adjacent to the wholesale houses and factories. It leaves no escape from early execu tion of the whole plan for reclama tion of Swan island, Guilds lake and Mock's bottom, of which the first unit is under way by filling of the terminal ground and dredging of the west channel to 35 feet, for that is the logical location for new docks. Divided authority would be a serious obstacle to that great project. It should be in the bands of a single commission composed of the best business brains of the Port. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. Besiege-d by thousands of affec tionate women and. 'girls, all imbued with vast eagerness to become his bride, or perhaps to become any man's bride. Mischa Elman, the famous Russian violinist, has gone into seclusion, at his -hotel ire London, receiving only a few male visitors. He rides ire a' thoroughly closed motor car when he dares to venture abroad. ,Elmaii. was quoted as say ing he was searching England) for a bride, the ideal of his 20 .years of lonely singleness, the double of. a beautiful, sympathetic, aesthetic jxjung person he knew here 17 years since. INCOMES ARB HEAV1JLY TAXED Neither Profit", Salary or Dividends Now Escape In Oregon. ' PORTLAND, March IS. (To the Editor.) Oregon already pays an in come tax, a very heavy income tax. It amounted to $23,000,000 in the year 1921. Portland people paid two-thirds or some $18,000,000, of that sum. This tax was laid upon salaries, profits, dividends and the revenues of "money, notes and accounts." It is known as the federal Income tax. So that. incomes in Oregon are not escaping taxes. In many cases this Income tax amounts to 0 and 60 per cent of the incomes. It Is a cumu lative tax; it bears upon corporations and upon individuals with "progress ive" rates; a stockholder's dividend pays cumulative rates a secon-a time i Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folk at the Hotels. The man who comp-Iain."" about the wet weather in Portland gets no sym pathy from John Isenliaue-r of Ienni 6D11, Tex., who is at the Multnomah hotel. Mr. Isennhauer Is from that section of the country where a cy clone cellar is as important In the well-being" of each household as the spare bedroom. "Give me rain." said Mr. Isenhauor yesterday. "I've seen enough cyclones. When the town of Snyder, Okla., was started, the Indians told the white men not to build there, as it was a favorite spot for.cyclones. The builders did not take the warning. and four times during the last 20 years Snyder has been blown away. Sometimes tornadoes cut a narrow path across the country, apparently -rising and falling as thoy go. Ore tornado cut a path 200 feet wide, swooped down between two houses and. uprooted a tree, "swooped down again and took off a smokestack swooped! down again- and took a house MODERN DAN t K OM LOW PLANE comes the inheritance tax, both state But now Elman insists he issued I and federal, with cumulative rates. no erenera.1 invifi.tlnn t im. I iNolody' who receives profit or married females f V.A t -"ry or aivmenos is escaping tax and be looked- over. I never invited wooers to bom- certainly is due chiefly to the federal containing a number of pople and bard me at my home in. person, by Income tax. It stifles Initiative, dis- carried it several rods. A house on telephone, toy post or -telegraph, or courages ventures in business. When the opposite eide of the street was un to bid. for my-hand at the concert nln! years af? Vy congress toucnea. a imie cnuo was carneu .nail, ne said. In. a rash moment the promise was given that it would bank. Twenty-five years ago near the JUBt wisneoi to marry soma continue be an easy tax. But one town, of Sherman a tornado occurred. nice, fresh English maid." I congress after another increased the I and today straws can be seen that The little artist's bull voIca was a 1 tax to the very limit of the country's were forced1 through a two-by-four endurance, juet us not De aeco'vea I pian-R. Ismail tornadoes are not datt- in Oregon. Our state legislature may promise a light income tax Just as congress did, but the temptation to increase a state income tax to the limit of endurance will be too strong. The Oregon legislature Is probably not wiser nor stauncher than con gress roar of anguish. He thumped) his fist against a hummock of . photo graphs of young women. "They phone me In my bath and in my bed," he wailed. "I have had to Issue Instructions that no femala voice be connected with my phone. If I succeed in -escaping from the gerous, but they are ireaklsh. One came skipping along through out country not long ago, took the water bucket out of the -hands of one of the members of our family and took our chicken bouse andl raised It over a six-foot fence. So great is the euc- I. tion of some of the tornadoes that Besides, the income tax will surelv I entnnx have been rolled several note! l,wll-l do- my best to play, but I make our difficulties worse by driv- yards. There are other thines con suppose I am tharassedi at the concert fins' capital out of Oregon and by di- I siderably more uncomfortable than hall. If the girls make a demonstra tion. I shall just walk off the stage and refuse to play." A later report from London says that relieved; temporarily at least, from the ardent court of hundreds verting capital from Oregon. Every- I Oregon rain Dody who can escape the state income tax by sending money away and bv At the end of six months the bar- keeping It out of Oregon will surely I gains in foreign loans will have ended do so. Such is human nature, and it I for the United States, according to is useless to deny or. to resist the I the opinion of Hays- Matson, repre fundamentals of human nature. If sentatlve of Blair & Co., investment capital can escape an Oregon income I bankers and bond dealers of New tax by going to Idaho or Nevada or York, who is at the Benson hotel. of -women who responded' vigorously I Florida or elsewhere, it will go there I One of the reasons for this Is that when he casually announced his In tention or marrying some one, Mischa Elnian was able to play at his concert in Queen's -hall with his customary brilliance. There, was no rush of anxious Agneses to the platform, and nothing oocurred to disturb the artist's equa nimity. The women and girls who were so anxious to take Mischa. up on his matrimonial proposition, were in preference to Oregon. The way out of your tax troubles Is reduction of expenses and reduc : tion of taxes. There is no other rea sonable or safe way. Why should not expenses be reduced? When ex penses exceed available revenues, in a family or in a business firm, that Is the remedy. The same remedy is needed in the local and state adminis tration of Oregon government. And it is the only remedy that will avail. Inequities" of taxation can be apparently held dn check for the time largely cured by curtailment of taxes. Governor Davis of Idaho is ad vising return to simpler living. In the old days the territory reveled in On a diet of dry salt bacon and potatoes sturdy youth grew to man hood. Sometimes a' neighbor killed a steer or a dry cow and the town ship lived in luxury; but dependence mostly was on three kinds of meat ham, pork and- bacon, on which the "gem of the mountains": grew to statehood. Portland will charge a fee of 60 cents a day for use of its automobile camp this year, with a ten-day limit. This is not capitalizing hospitality. The self-respecting tourist does not seek something for nothing. A base from which to radiate in this beau tiful region is worth Its cost. The hunt for the Cocos island treasure is on again. ' The pot of gold at the rainbow's end is always alluring. Chances are ten to one that with equal energy and capital the hunters could find plenty ot ways to get larger returns nearer home. Paris has heard of our "Smile week" and goes us one better with 'Wine week." A lot of Americans would smile if they could have their wine,, but there, are others who are still able to smile.. without it. being by his warming that he would give np his concents and) leave town If they did not let him alone. Mr. and Mrs. Oiccolind have a new baby girl, their second ' daughter. Ciccolini is the tenor who visits us on the Orpheum. He is staging at But, really, the "inequities" are not so serious as the burden of taxes is England is getting into the game and will eventually outbid the financiers of the United States in an effort to gain control of the foreign bond mar ket, Mr. Matson said yesterday. "We have had some great bond bargains recently," declared Mr. Matson, "but soon these will be at an end. One reason for this is found In the fact that the exchange situation is ap proaching a more normal basis. The average English investor knows more about foreign investments than does the average bond house in the United States. They realize the value of foreign loans. Mr. Matson re heavy. Business and profits all over I cently handled the local sale of the the country are oppressed by taxes. I Argentine loan. instead of making the trouble heavier with more taxes, the Oregon I "Everyone pray for better weather' legislature should make it lighter I is the plea of Jay Dobbins, ' sheep with less taxes. Land is said to be raiser of Joseph, who was In Port 'taxed to death." But incomes and land yesterday. "The sheep men are profits in Multnomah county last I delighted with the advanced prices the Winter Garden in New York this I year paid more taxes than land did. and see themselves crawling out of Ina Claire will terminate her con tract with William Harris this season upon the completion, of her roadi tour in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," and will return to musical comedy next season mder the management of Charles Dil'limgham. Miss Claire is to be starred in the new Dillingham musical show "The The totals are: $18,000,000 Income taxes; $14,000,000 land taxes. LESLIE M. SCOTT. GOVERNOR'S SALARY IS COVETED Taxpayer Sees Scramble for Fat Pay J in Race for Office. " ROSEBTJRG, Or., March 14. To the Editor.) The writer has noticed that several senators, members of the 1921 the hole and getting back on firm financial ground." declared Mr. Dob bins yesterday, "but lambing season will be here in a few days and what we need is good weather." For the past three years the situation that has confronted the sheep men of the entire country has been bad. Many of them have gone bankrupt and others have gono the limit of their credit Recently an improvement was made in the market that gave hopes to the men who are engaged in the legislature. contemplate becoming Bunch and, Judy," recently completed candidates for governor, and at least sheep and wool industries. The pros- by Anne Caldwell andi Jerome Kern. The piece is slated as the initial Dillingham production of the new season. . Mclntyre and! Heatfi. are booked, for a spring and summer run in. Chicago in "Red Pepper,'.' their new vehicle, The name of the theater is not yet announced. After a tour of 21 weeks in. the alleged sunny south In 'Tombardi, Ltd.," Leo Carrillo 4s back in New one member of the 1921 house of rep- Pects are good for a continued ad resentatives intends to get into the vance m the market and the men race. are hoping for better weather, so It is probable that the great In- that the spring Iambs will be saved. crease of salarv voted the eove'rnnr by the 1921 legislature, of which all xno misfortunes or war, despite the these prospective candidates were fact that they were exceedingly severe members, has stimulated them to seek in his case, have not broken the spirit the governorship. As taxes are very high and bid fair -to grow still higher, and times are dull and business some what depressed, the temptation to ob- of Lester Albert, assistant adjutant of the state department of the American Legion of Idaho, who was at the Multnomah hotel yesterday. When at tain a salary of $7500 a year is hard the front in Prance Mr. Albert's legs to withstand and it Is a handsome were blown off by high explosives. salary. Prompt work on the part of friends An' examination of the salaries paid ana comrades saved his lire. for in the different states will disclose months he was in various hospitals. York and he - will probably busy th"t lr "o state whose population and receiving the attention of the army's ian, was not always thus, having started! on his career as a cartoonist on- the San Francisco Examiner. - Next at the. Ritz In New York, as the old-time repertoire announce- best surgeons. He was fitted out with artificial legs and now walks about without great difficulty. He has been one of the most active boosters for the American Legion in Idaho. f American Legion men of Washing ton are making the same fight for the adjusted compensation measure that ing the governor $7500 salary each f tneir neighDors and comrades In Ore- year, holding that the constitution son mamns, atcoroing io jame of the state cannot be amended or re-1 - mrr oeame, who is in roniana riealed bv a simDle act of the lee-isla- Mr- Barr has been an enthusiastic le ture; and it Is possible that the court g'onnaire since the organization was ror tne next lew wee-Ks, awaiting tne And in tnat connection it is possi- completion of a new play by Fred- ble that as public expenses and taxe erick and Fanny Hatton, in, which he continue to mount, some plain, ordi- wlll be starred under the manaee- nary citizen may, in -view or the ln- m,,,! of OMve, Morns. creased taxes he is required, to pay. . i v, ... ... . -.. Btrain the state treasurer from pay Evil Lies la Lark of Inntmrlloo la Melody and Rhythm, PAYETTE, Idaho. March 12 (To the Editor.) It Is an ack nowlcdecfl fact that dancing has deteriorated during the last few yearn. When the two-step was first introduced it was claimed by good dancers to have spoiled the waltz, as it whh commonly confused with the waltz step. Lntrr the one-step practically annihilated the two-step. Few people rrallzo these days that it Is nec-exaary to learn how to dance, simply because some succeed In stepping around on the floor and keeping fairly good time to the music. The school authorities would never dream of putting on a bnrkrtball game without Riving the students proper coaching and practice. let. Invariably, the game Is followed by an hour or more of dancing. If dancing, were properly taught In the schools It would do more to annihilate the Jazz music and danc ing than anything else that could h cone. There is no better physical exercise to be had than proper dunn ing, because it Is a natural swing ing of the body without the over exertion and strenuosity that go with athletics. There Is no doubt in my mind thiit the dance Is on aa low. If not lower, plane at the present time than It hn.i been for many years. A few yearn ago there were more dancing acad emies and good teachers and the young people did more real dancing. Today all that Is necessary, accord ing to the young person's opinion. Is to be able to move around on the floor, frequently out of time to the music. This is not the Intellectual side, but only the sensuous. A d.inoer should know the meaning of a phrite! n music; he should be taught to be gin dancing on the first best of the first measure of a phrase, which gen erally consists of eight measures, or any number of measures which can be divided by four. Music Is as def inite a language as English. Who would think of beginning to talk In tha middle of a sentence? If pupils were taught thin distinc tion and If they knew the beauty of the dance, they couldn't stand the dancing or musio that Is general at the present time. They would de mand good music and their naturally rhythmic sense would revolt against anything else. If the school authorities recognize the need of dancing at. their social functions, why not give the young people a chance to learn how to dance correctly and therefore develop them physically and Incidentally develop a little more chivalry among the young men? The real Ballroom cour tesies seem to be almost a thing of the past. Of course, many taxpayers would object to this, but they would not If they realized that In five years at the most the jazz could be prac tically eliminated, as the younger generation would be taught to ap preciate and love the dance for the sake of the dance and the beautiful music that goes with It. I know this meaning and all I can ssy to the one who finds fault In real danc Inir to real music Is, "As a man thinketh in his heart so Is he." Rhythm Is natural to us all. Kvery- thing In the world Is rhythmical. Every wind that blows, blows a rhythm to us. The waves in I he ocean are continuously ncminK rhythm to us. The primitive man developed rhythm as he developed civilization. The clapping of tha hands was the first step, and then the feet, and then the drum, on up to the church bell, which rings out rhythm ; to us on the Sabbatn. I have had the sweet privilege of teaching the grade children rhythm through singing and through folk dancing. We sing a mimical sen tence eight measures. We dance a musical sentence. We write a musi cal sentence. And then to watch the Joy on these children's faces and also watch their feet become more graceful, together with their whole bodies; and to see the sixth grade boys really become graceful enough not to worry about where they rut their feet and hands, but to walk, dance and skip gracefully. It Is enough to know what It would mean to the high school pupil If ho had the same opportunity to learn to dance as he has to learn basket ball and football. Thus the roiiRh of the athletic games would i. iioi,,.H in the dance and he thereby become a gentleman. A SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC. would sustain this contention, and that It would be held that it Is not A New Yorker who donned a bullet-proof" vest and defied death is dying with a bullet in the ab domen. He had theVourage" of hia convictions, if he did lack sense. Michigan small towns this year prefer women treasurers and not all the menfolk are Jiggses, either.- Once she masters the books and system, money is safe' in woman's hands. A college professor predicts that women will rule tha country half a century hence. The reader may guess for himself whether the pro fessor is a married man or not The "human side of the immigra- on problem" js to be studied by American agents sent abroad for the purpose. i What other side is there to the Immigration problem? That Patagonian amphibian now is said to date back only a million years instead of ten million. There may be found in Africa a monkey to match that. ments would have it, will be Marjorie the proper way to amend the con T?,m.Kei, t, ' nAnr -i.h,ie,i "tt- stitution that the law prescribes the I waw thot tihot inotr-lirmin if vi.n V a xms iLy w irom- me adapting pen ch!,ned and that th olan nre- of Gladys Unger and1 is taken from scribed by law would have to be the French. adopted. That would be unfortunate for thi Ethel Levy and! Sam Bernard are member of the 1921 legislature, if h tn rvl.n-11- the loads in, "Th -Rlnft "-"I'""' " 6"'uv' TAXPAYER. Months from now some of the de inquents will, be sore when visited by a revenue official . and requested to call at Collector Huntley s office and explain. It was a wise bandit who got in his work, before the citizen paid his Income tax. The picking will hardly be so good for. a few days afterward. In spite of a Chicago expert's find ing, girls in small towns are not worse than city- girls, nor are either as bad as some would paint them. A' woman of 100 Is dead in New Jersey of her first illness. She missed much in not having had at least one operation to tell about. Chicago is spectacular or nothing. A fire yesterday did $15,000,000 damage to "fireproof" and other buildings. Most filling stations are orna ments to their localities. Rivalry, of employes does it. The example is good. Eggs are going into storage, Sure siffa h -bottom is near, Kitten" when Arthur Hamimerstein opens that production in London next season. The piece is now running in New York. " Countess Elizabeth Girenko, whose claims to nobility, ancient estates and social prestige in the czarist regime In Russia are declared authentic by attorneys of repute who have exam ined her credentials, is working as a manicurist in a Chicago hotel barber shop, pending the unveiling of an international romance in court. The countess Is about to sue a widely known and rich St. Paul man, who, it is charged, made violent love to her in Berlin, Paris and othe European capitals. She .came to America to marry him, she says, and was left as penniless and deserted by her "American prince" as she was on the day the bolshevik! killeu her one upon Christ and one upon man. husband and confiscated their estates. I Our differences in matters of gov- The suit i-s expected to be filed in a I ernment or policy, ana In theology. f . i mase us prove our agreements. I T 1 . . .1 1 nalkAJ. .. ' .. ...... rr.1.- C! T..i . I "J oiuiiiui.uii o c iuo "u i"-B- able to secure undenominational re- to mention to the countess that he suits, and bodies differing in things THREE SPHERES OF THEOLOGt Denominational Church Divisions Are Largely Superficial. UNIVERSITY PARK. Or., March 16. -(To the Editor.) In hearing the Rev. Dr. Cadman at our auditorium, the writer, while moved in his emo tions by the eloquent appeal made by the speaker to bid good-by to de nominational bodies in blending them into one body, .was not convinced in his judgment to favor such a result. The various denominations of the Christian church use but three dif ferent forms of government, viz., the independent, the presbyterial and the episcopal. That the different Chris tian bodies come under these, we dis cern by a study searching in na ture. , All the theologies in substance can be put within three spheres, one where the emphasis is put on God, started. He attended a meeting of the local voiture of the 40 hommes et 8 chevaux Tuesday night, Advocating good roads for Eastern Oregon is the main hobby of W. E. Meacham, who Is at the Imperial. Mr. Meacham is secretary of the Bake chamber of commerce and has long been an active worker in behalf of better roads measures. "Give us few more good highways and Eastern Oregon will be the best part of the state, he declared yesterday was already married. It is charged that after the St. Paul man won the countess and got her consent to . come to America, he deserted her and attempted to have her deported. . The countess confided, to the Chi cago reporters that her heart is broken by the denouement of her romance, which started, ' she says, with such princely glitter in Berlin; but much is being done to assuage her grief by sympathetic drummers and fastidious clerks, who have never before been manicured by no bility. ' As the hotel barber shop is a cos mopolitan placfc, and as ' the countes3 speaks seven languages fluently, she is doing a land office business with ac! buffer. fIt '.i doubtful if the Min nesotan can settle with her on the basis of her present receipts. Five dollar bills drop Into her lap as little comforters. Hallroom boys clamor for her professional attention and tip her with such careless generosity that they will be of necessity on a bean diet for the rest of the week. of preference arising from judgment, temperament and association make telling blows in co-operation for the general welfare. True, . there are many little churches, but little churches do more good than big ones. The late great editor of the Oregonlan preferred helping financially little churches to big. The speaker said Christianity is g r e a t e r than denominationalism. True, but are not Baptists, Congrega tionalists, Presbyterians and Metho dists Christians? These people are not denorainatlonallzing society but Christianizing it from center to cir cumference. B. J. HOAX) LEY. ORCHIDS. In the hidden nooks and crannies Of an ordinary town There are dwelling men of vision, Sterling worth and great renown. L'ke the orchids of the tropics, Rare and precious 'mid the green, They are born to bloom unnoticed. They, are born to blush unseen. Saving when some little action Suddenly reveals their might. Then the whole world hears and mar vels. ' They .grow famous overnight. e AUGUST W-ESTilAjN; For the purpose of raising funds for the aid of tubercular Italian soldiers, 3. Prodrecca of Rome, Italy, Is In Portland and is at the Multnomah hotel. He said yesterday that Italians In 'Portland had contributed liberally to the funds for the aid of their un fortunate countrymen and that sev eral thousand dollars had been raised here. John W. Blodgett of Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the largest individual owners of valuable timber lands in Oregon, is in. Portland. Mr. Blodgett owns large tracts of pine timber in central Oregon and has large holdings Irf the Aehalem and Wilson river dis trict. He is here for the purpose of looking over his properties, Governor D. W. Davis of Idaho was at the Multnomah hotel for a short time yesterday. He stopped herewhils waiting between trains. He had been in Aberdeen. Wash., and was on the return trip to the seat of hfs official duties in Boise. The cattlemen of the Klamath Falls district are in better spirits since prices have advanced and given a bet ter tone to the market, according to R. S. Dixon, cattleman of Fort Klam ath. Mr. Dixon Is in Portland for a few days and he is at the Imperial. C. B. McCul lough, bridge engineer for the state highway commission, is at the Imperial. He is the engineer who drew the plans for the proposed Willamette river bridge that boosters are urging be constructed at Sellwood. Fred Veal, of the Veal Chair com pany of Albany, is at the Multnomah hotel. He declares that products from his factory are now finding a nation wide distribution. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards of PrineviUe are at the Imperial. They came here yesterday with the body of Mrs. Edwards' mother, who died re cently. M. C. Meyers, one of the pioneer merchantsaf Salem, was in town yes terday and his name appeared on the register at the Imperial. I F. M. Morley, hop grower of Sll- In Other Day. Twenty-Five Vearn Aao. From The Oreironlan of March 1, 1SDT. St. Petersburg All admirals ex cept, the French and Italian com manders have been ordered to block ade the principal Greek ports. St. Louis. A streetcar was burled by a falling wall, a fireman was killed and damage estimated at $1,600,000 was caused by a fire in the) downtown district. Memphis The Mississippi haa over, flowed and broken down the levee, resulting In the death of seven per sons so far and a heavy property loss. l The superintendent of streets re ports to the council mat mum in convenience is arising from the fa'-t that several etreets which have re cently been taken into the city limits bear similar names, and suggests that a new system ot street naming o in Fifty Years Ago. From The Orciconlan of March 1U. 1R7J. Providence, R. I. Resolutions wi rs adopted at the republican etate con vention recommending the renomlna tion of President Grant and Vice President ionax. Oregon Encampment, Xo. C, of Odd- followst was instituted at Albany las', week. The steamship AJax of San Fran cisco brought in one of the larirert cargoes or doming, arygooa groceries ever brought to this city. While returning from a fire lust night members of two rival h.n companies became Involved In an argument. One of them was wrucii over the head with a fire trumpet. Two Famous Lrgrnda. PORTLAND, March 15. (To the Editor.) (1) Kindly Inform me f the origin of the story about Gcoree Washington and the cherry tree. IMcl he really cut It down and then con fess to his father? (2) Is there any truth to the a-tory of William Tell and the apple? LONG TIME SUBSCRIBER. (1) The cherry tree story about Washington has long been generally discredited by historians. It first ap pears In the ruin erimon ot tne i.iio of Washington (1S06) written by M,ason Locke Weems, an author who? work was characterized by profusion of anecdotes and inaccuracy of statement. (2) The Swiss story of William Tell is Biniply a localization of a letri-nd. common In its main features io all verton, was in the city yesterday, at 'Aryan peoples, but apparently of ilrr tne imperial nowi. man c.riein. There urn Iceland!. P. C. Garrison of Prineville the Portland. hoLAi. man oriKin. is at I L ,anlHn' Mfiisn. I'craian ana oinur versions of the myui.