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THE 3IORXING OREGOXTATtf, TUTJESDAT, 3rARCH 16, 1923
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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.