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10 THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, 3IARCII 21, 1023 KSTABLIMHKD BY HENRY L.TlTTOC K. '. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co. ; mo oixm street, forua.ua, Oregon. C. A. 1IORDEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso- ' ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex- ; clusively entitled to the use (or publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not - otherwise credited In this paper and also ; the local news published herein. All rights of publication ol special dispatches herein - are also reserved. ; Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) ' Dally. Sunday included, one year J8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months... 4.25 - Daily, Sunday Included, three months. 2.25 I Daily, Sunday Included, one month ... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 , Daily, without Sunday, six months.... 8.25 Dally, without Sunday, one month 60 ; Sunday, one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) ; Dally, Sunday included, one year $9.00 . 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By following presentation to the .", allies of our bill for maintenance of ' the American army on the Rhine t.' .'with the decision to withdraw all of - our troops from Germany before " July 1, the administration gives - practical effect to its opinion that we . have no direct interest in collection of the reparation indemnity or in any of the political purposes of al -'lied occupation of the Rhine bridge ' heads. The allies have already col lected from Germany far more than Z enough to pay our military expenses ,t in that quarter, and under the armis tice cost of the army of occupation I is a first charge on any payments by Germany. - Then we have no interest in future payments, and we have no cause to keep a sheriffs posse on the I Rhine, ready to go deeper into Ger- many and enforce payment. ; But it Is not to be inferred from the fact that Mr. Hughe3 has handed our bill to the allies that he intends - immediately to demand payment, - Though senators-may shout till they . are hoarse that the allies should be forced to pay, they know, or should ; know, that payment at the present ; time would do us more harm than good and would tend to defeat our most urgent purpose restoration of . prosperity in America by restoring it in Europe. We do not want pay . ment in gold, for we have too much ; and Europe has too little of that ; metal for our good. We do not want - payment in goods when our indus- tries are working short time. - It is safe to guess that Secretary Hughes wants an acknowledgment . that $241,000,000 of the sum in the hands of the reparation commission belongs to the United States and wants it set aside to be disposed of as our government shall direct. That would be a hint both to the allies and Germany that we have some slight interest in reparations. It would be a hint to our irreconcil ables that proper care for our In terests requires that we be repre sented on the reparation commis sion. Having that sum of money on deposit, we should have something before the eyes of Europe to make it more amenable to our views on economic reconstruction. If all po litical differences among European states should be ironed out and if they should reduce their armies so as to bring their expenses within their income, the United States might lend several of them slices-of that fund to be used in establish ing a gold-secured currency or in peaceful reconstruction of railroads, roads, bridges and other public - work. Thus used, it would make markets for many times its amount in the value of American goods sold to Europe. By hastening disarmament and financial adjustment, the demand for payment of our army cost would help to remove the worst obstacles to American participation in an economic conference, if not at Genoa in April, then at some other city later. Mr. Hughes is using tactful pressure to that end. He has passed a milestone on the road to Genoa. The first effect of the American withdrawal may be disappointment among the allies and joy among the Germans, but it has been anticipated and discounted by the complete agreement between Premiers Lloyd , George and Poincare in their recent conference at Boulogne. Nothing but the actual drafting of a treaty remained to effect a defensive alli ance against Germany. They know that they must pull together In order -to collect anything, and Lloyd ' George may be restrained from ' balking" by a well-founded belief I that, if driven to it. Poincare is . ready to send a French army into Germany to take all that It can get, - without British help and regardless of British protest. The first requisite - to settlement of reparation and of all political questions in Europe is that Great Britain and France work together. By so doing they can pave the way for economic reconstruc tion and for American assistance in that work. A QUESTION OF ETHICS. A nice question of ethics Is in volved in the refusal of a distin guished British scientist to co-operate with officials of the government in chemical warfare research. The ground of his declination is that he desires to have nothing to do with a work of Investigation that Is essen tially destructive in its character. If, we suppose he will argue, the Ger mans had not studied out poison gas, this instrument would not have been employed in the late war. But a point that the scientist seems to have missed is that if the nations which abhorred poison gas, and which would in all probability have refrained from using It if they had known about it, were materially handicapped by want of knowledge when the time came to offset it with counter inventions of their own. Poison gas is not all there Is to chemical warfare, but it serves as an example of a department of research in which it might have been wished that the allies had been readier than they were. Nor is it easy always to determine in advance just which agents of destruction are destructive only, and which may serve an even higher' purpose. Alfred Nobel, who gives a peace prize and who was es sentially peaceful in his aspirations, made his fortune from the invention amite, which is likely to prove ong run to have been more important in industry than it has been destructive in war. The scientist's conscience, of course, is a possession of his own. We may honor his consistency with out agreeing with him in his Inter pretation of duty. The National Union of Scientific Workers, which now has the matter under discus sion, has no one-sided problem to soie. - uunnr -a tuv wsv. """" lo WAX. Bastern Oregon people want lower taxeslem. It would be more Illuminating if nH aoam in ho fn vat-neat aKn, it. th.i. attitude is standing firmly against the fleece the taxpayers Is oretty good evi i Virr latin ,Ynn,ifmn r h o m a fxtwr aence ot tneir determination. W hether they will succeed in accomplishing any- tning is very aouotrut. since the same oia party workers will be elected to the legis- lature, pledged to economy in advance, and determined to vote lor any money-spend- i'JLnXf fui party workers who must be "taken eare ofu f thJi expense of tne people. That is vocated by papers like The Oregonian, means in tne nnai analysis. In the very r.ature of things it must in due course of time become a "government of the party, oy tne party and for tne party" Just wnat we nave in Oregon, with its tnous nd of salariert offirl.l. .11 f them whooping it up for the reoublican Darty ana arawing tneir salaries regularly. so you've got what you want? Eugene lj Uara. . Party government? It is not party government when there is no equal know what are the defects of a di balance, or anything near it, between 1 rect primary method of the people the parties, and when there is no party responsibility or accountability of any, kind. But let that pass. What system can be devised by the Guard, or by I their advice are back-room, gather those for whom it speaks, that will I ings, group conferences and class ssure better men in public office, and particularly more highly quail- fied men and women in the legisla- ture, and other tax-appropriating and tax-spending bodies, than are now elected? . - We seek light and guidance. When we find a better plan of popular election, through direct or repre- sentative expression of the will of the people, or the reasonable prom- ise of a better plan, The Oregonian will be for it. What is it? REVISING AX OLD PROVERB. ., j.ne scientists are rapiuiy recon - structing our ideas of what const!- tutes the impossible, reminding us, aS,-ana"t,;lty hemlstry said, that it is .only by overcoming nature that man can rise. "The history of civilization," said the philosopher Huxley, "details the fPw man ?f. ?ucceed in building up an artificial world within the cosmos." Tet even the term "artificial" is relative. Why is it that we should regard creative effort, in which the mind and the hand of man are employed in fash- I of the Pacific treaty driven for argu ioning articles of his desire from the I ments that Senator Johnson made articles which nature has provided for him in their raw- state, as more I 'artificial" than the shelter which he constructs from forest trees or the clothing that he weaves from the wool on the sheep's back?-' For if everything it artificial which is not as nature made it, then nothing but chaos is unartificlal, for chaos is a natural state. Unco-ordinated, the forces of nature are not particularly valuable to man. - I brochure issued by an eastern chem- cal concern in which is described the confoundine of the man who invented the phrase. Intended to describe the height of the impossible, which runs to the effect that "you can't make a silk purse out of a I sow's ear." The laboratorv pxnerts I of this company procured from a 1 packing house a consignment of carefullv selected ears of sows, which i were subjected to certain processes of chemical disintegration, and I finally of reconstruction, which presently resulted in the production of a fiber resembling silk, and from this a purse was woven. Now, no claim is made that it is a Darticularlv e-ood nurse, or that we shall no longer see purses of real silk on exhibition in the stores; but the Dolnt is that a nroverb meant to envision a futility has been rendered as naught because we are constantly narrowing the field of that which was formerly regarded as Impossible, Even though no man shall ever carrv monev in this novel creation of synthetic silk, it deserves a high nlac.fi in th mnsmim of our minds as a symbol of progress in the effort to widen the horizon of the human 1 race. 1 "Gradually then." says Edward E. Slosson in hi3 "Creative Chemistry, man will substitute for the natural world an artificial world, molded nearer to his heart's desire. Man the artifex will ultimately master nature ana reign supreme over his own creation until chaos shall come again. In the ancient drama it was deus ex machina that came in the end to solve the problems of the play. It is to the same supernatural agency, the divinity in machinery, that we must look for the salvation of society. It is by means of applied science that the earth can be made habitable and a decent- human life made possible. Creative evolution is at last becoming conscious." The precise extent in vwhlch we shall regard any of the accomplish- I mantoi nt man a a ' rt r-f fi rt 1 " -will I - - depend largely on the point of view I and the width of experience of individual Nature In a period of years refertilizes her temporarily exnaustea sous: men hasten the extraction of nitrogen from air byjveyed; vast and unnecessary waste cunning process, ana employ artificial" nitrates to speed up the same process of restoration. Oxidi-1 zation by chemical action In the j commercial laboratory would seem to be no less natural a process than the more tedious way that nature has of accomplishing a similar result. If a German chemist finds seventeen ways of making indigo, each employing the materials that nature has provided, ls the indigo less a product of nature because it as been synthesized by passing through the brain of man another of nature's own creations? I Etymologically, the artificial is that which is the result of the artl- fice of man; broadly considered,' it Is but the product of a hastening process devised by scientists who are weary of waiting oi nature's ancient ways and have improved upon them, Synthetic billiard balls, - already hailed as "better than real ivory," and synthetic rubber, already scien- tifically but not industrially accom- plished, testify, not to artificiality in a disparaging connotation, but to genuineness of human achievement quite as remarkable, we think, as th products tney are designed to I supplant. I By making a silk purse from a sow's ear the chemists have done J more than fabricate a useful recep-1 tacle for loose change. They have lem in which all the people are In gon a Jong way toward destroying j terested; the same thing is true of I the illusion that the ingenuity of man has limitations, and have called I attention to a new definition of the I term "artificial" and to a new con- I ception of the function of scientific 1 chemistry. For scientific achieve- - 1 ment in industry is after all but - I another step in the effort to control the forces which nature evidently Intended that man should shape to - j his own ends. I pure TYRirF.rvrS- It seems that The Oregonian believes in 1 restoring tne convention ayaLvm ,i u win correct errors in the direct primary sys- The Oresronian would inform its readers what there Is about the direct primary - 1 must be admitted, and it would be quite I Liiat neeus i tsiurmiiiK . 11 is uui ucucui. i. 1 i"i.cwi.iiis icaums, Ma ... I rom the editor of The Oregonian pointing l uul lv y-- I mary method of the people making I choice without advice from party conven J tiono. ouuuum luucpeuutju. 'While The Oregonian has neve been an admirer of the wide-open I direct primary it has never given oc- I casion for anybody to assume that It I wishes we might go back to the I ,,;. maT,r convention system as formerly con- ducted. In short, It Knows any DOSS - 1 - t-..j. s. t 1 rmeo. convention IS uai, uui .ii ' I not. llKe some others, so suriocatea hv ., -vi, nf ,one. H n that It can- I not breathe a word of protest about I tVi o. nhviniifi avila rf tllo nrpP!l t The Woodburn paper wants to making a choice without advice I from conventions. The main defect lis that they don't and that the con- ventions from which they are-taking I organizations, Oregon, for a very brief period had a primary convention system under which delegates were elected under direction and supervision of I law. The system was thrown over I board hardly before it had begun to I function, that we might have a per- eonal solicitation scheme, subject to I star-chamber, group-convention en I dorsement and manipulation. We created a system which, by and large, gives us less fit men for can didates, and we pay handsomely in election costs ror tne privilege or f .j. rimo ontororl th f,e,d a3 a fetlgh It ls stm a fetish f, w0 it i fotisr, r, for no other apparent reason, many are still content to pay with hard money and poor government. There Is a middle ground between the ex tremes of old-time convention and modern direct primary that would be an improvement on both. FIKDIXG MICROSCOPIC FACIT. To what straits are the opponents I much of the statement that the res- ervation to the United States of free- dom of action in regard to the man- dated islands was written at the same time as the treaty! Why was it not made part of the treaty? Was Secretary Hughes already in such doubt as to the meaning of the treaty which he had just drawn that he. found it necessary to clarify its meaning? Nor was he silenced when Senator Lodge said that Mr. I Hughes suggested the reservation. nl l remove any doubts enter-; tamea oy tne makers 01 me treaty but to guard against doubts that might be raised by others, probably having in mind Mr. Johnson and his Drotner irreconciiaDies. Tbe question why this reservation was maae ana wuy xi was uui uuuib Part of the body of the treaty is IS1""5 immaterial, xi is mere wra i quite as enecuve as a supplement as lt would have been in the body of tne treaty, ana it remuves yuosiuie douDt on one point. 10 anticipate ana remove in advance any douDt that might possibly arise in the minds of Mr. Johnson and his fel- low-irreconcilables would be impos- slble, for their thoughts are corn- pounaea 01 aouDt as to tne mem 01 any olner men 8 worn. Even the grammar displeased that great master of English, Senator Ashurst, for he said that the pact should have read "among," not -'be- tween," the four powers. Irrespec- Uve of tne certainty that it will lose no virtue tnrougn use or Between that use with relation to more than two objects is sanctioned by the Standard dictionary. But such petty picKing to pieces 01, we treaty umy serves to utsiray Lilt? cuiaiiueas ut iui opponents minds, WASTE rv dtdtjstry. a committee of the Federated American Eneineerincr Societies which has been making a study of the extent to which waste in industry is preventable finds that a tremen- dous burden is being carried by so- ciety as a whole which is due to the fact that we are still profoundly lacking in that high average degree 0f the mental and moral forces of management which alone make cer- tain the permanent prosperity of the economic life of a country. The striking feature Indeed of the report i9 its arraignment of management, whose shortcomings are held to be lartrplv inexcusable. As Frederick m. Davenports who reviews the re- , , . , J ,,xt port, in tne uuuuuit, a,ya, tne re- anonsibilitv of labor is real, but less in deeree. Manae-ement has the ereater genius, the greater capacity. ht has also, therefore, the greater obligation." Six Industries were sur. was found in all of them; but the findings place over 50 per cent of the responsibility at the door of management and less than 25 per cent at the . door of labor. , It is well therefore when we are inclined to rest on our laurels as the most efficient industrial nation in the world, which has come to be a too - commonly accepted formula, to reflect that- the statement may not bear scrutiny. In any event, it seems to be a question whether we have adapted Industry to the chaner- iner needs of new times. In an an- cient dav. when individuals were more or less self-contained, when the distance between producer and consumer was not -as great as it Is now and when human wants were simple and easily fulfilled, waste was not as tragic in its consequences as it now is in the first place because those who permitted it were the pri- mary ones to suffer, and In the next, because mistakes of management did not react upon entirely innocent parties to the transaction. -But the grouping of industries, production on an enormous scale and other phenomena of the present century have produced a situation In which the victims of waste are powerless to help themselves. - High costs of liv- ing, so far as they are the product of unnecessary waste, create a prob- unnecessary unemployment. The spectacle of men who have spared no pains to fit themselves to do work of high grade unable to find a mar ket for their wares, only oecause the Industry of which they are a part .is badly organized, suggests that we still have much to learn. The typical industries Investigated included the building trades, men's ready - made clothing, " boots and shoes, printing, the metal trades and textiles. The principal sources of" waste are summarized as avoidable labor conflict, seasonal operation, unemployment, high labor turnover, speculative booms, and over-production. It is unreasonable to conclude that these can be prevented in all instances because they have bee eliminated in some instances, but the successes of certain exceptional types of management at least fur nishes us a high standard toward which to work and a foundation for future hope. Managers probably do not realize their moral responsibility to society as a. whole, which may be as great as the obligation they owe their employers to make a profit for them. - But the fact seems to be, as is il lustrated by a charge made against the shoe industry, that duty to SO' ciety and duty to dividend-expecting stockholders are not necessarily In consistent. The shoe manufacturers are accused directly of lacking a sys- tem, taking the business as a whole, for the economization , of leather, while the loss occasioned by waiting for work and material amounts to more than a third of the time. Of course it is understood by the veriest tyro that waste- of leather where widespread falls eventually upon the wearer of shoes, and that the loss in time also reacts upon the con Burner, although it also- works a hardship upon the workman. These latter wastes are matters in which the whole country is concerned, be cause they affect not only the price of shoes, but the purchasing power of men who make shoes, and so in a definite measure the general eco nomic situation of the nation as a whole. The same principle holds good as to other industries in which waste of material and labor time ap pear. The report of the committee is not an argument for compulsory standardization but rather for study of methods by which economies not affecting , quality of product ad versely may be brought about. It will surprise those who have the feeling of having been fed up on magazine articles on efficiency to "be told that in the majority of the plants studied by the committee there were no adequate methods of cost accounting, or of discovering waste, or detecting when improve ments are- necessary. Employment methods are still antiquated. Per sonal relations with employes are de fective, men being discharged and quitting without any responsible ex' ecutive knowing the reasons why. High labor turnover entails immense waste, "due to lack of human sense and human method on the part of gTeat sections of American manage ment." The building trades are con spicuous for having given almost no consideration to the problem of labor turnover. Low production due to , inefficient workmanship in all tne trades stuoiea is paruy uue tu failures of management to provide opportunities for training; it is by no means all due to lack of fundamen tal interest or pride on the part of the workers; as has been too gener ally assumed. About a million men are con stantly unemployed in the United States, even in normal times.- This is ' due to the seasonal character of certain trades, which seem not to have made sufficient effort to rem edy the defect, as well a to labor disturbances and irregularitv of de mand. And unemployment, as the report points out, is me most dis quieting phenomenon of our indus trial life, because it is a prolific cause of social unrest. The remedy suggested, "the employment of more brains and humanity on the part of American management, ' constitutes a call to the highest types of men in the country to realize the dual na ture of their stewardship and their responsibility not only toward stock' holders but to the entire people as well, We gather from the tone of re marks ms.de at the tax conference that the one thing on which there is complete unanimity is that taxes have about reached the limit. How to reduce them is a question calling for genuinely constructive states manship. To check crime in New Tork, all suspicious appearing persons are to be taken in for investigation. New Tork now is so cosmopolitan that only the native can be suspected at sight. - The successful candidate for post master of Halsey had a majority over all in a local election to decide the appointment. That plan Is so simple as almost to be democratic. Waterfront rehabilitation, to cost $10,000,000, has been shelved to await conclusion of more' important affairs. A ten-million propdsition is not to be treated hurriedly. Vhat we need is co-ordination, so that the bait-digger will leave the ground in condition to plant the spring garden in. ) . - Miss Tarbell objects to superop- timism." Anyway it is better than superpessimism, and a good deal scarcer, too. ' The spring flood is running off the Mississippi in time to clear the way for the Missouri rise. To make a moonshiner drink his product is to administer cruel and inhuman punishment. Prominent men are known by the enemies they make; others by their foolishness. Radio yet may transmit the cur tain lectures some men hear far into the night. If a dbg is worth while, it Is worth the price of a license. Most dpgs are. British supremacy on Wrangel island is not worth a wrangle. Tex Rlckard's trial will shade the third Arbuckle affair. Citizenship is valuable when one is in danger of losing it. '-. A Maine election is a light-weight preliminary, SCfENCB APPROACHES SOLUTION Phenomena of Thought Waves) and Subconscious Acta to Be Understood. PORTLAND, March 20. (To the Editor.) The Oregonian's account of Dr. Walter Franklin Prince's Investi gation of the so-called "Canada ghosts" with signal success, is highly interesting, especially to those who are not- novices in the field of psy chology. I am deeply interested in this report from the fact that upward of 25 years ago I predicted (and I have many living witnesses among some of first business people who will readily bear me out) that the day would come when all these pe culiar phenomena, would be properly ana correctly explained on scien tif ic principles." My daily experiences for the last 25 or 30 years in that peculiar sphere seem to bear out many, if not all, the conclusions of Dr. Prince in many respects. But one of his statements appealed most strongly to my mind, 1. e that consequent upon, and con sistent with an experiment with Mr. Whidden, he arrived at the conclusion that the ensuing volcanic and sudden outburst of automatic writing was clearly traceable to a source of either spirit-communication, or telepathy, which embraces the world like a sys tem of telegraph wires. Whether or not the- fires, in this instance, were set by the girl in the family is of little consequence, except insofar as the insurance companies may be in terested, but the best conclusions drawn therein, to my mind, are the theories of non-culpability on her part, showing an undoubted con viction that whatever mischief she might have done under the spell, or whatever you may call it, in the trance state, her actions were invol untary and dictated by an influence or agency of which she knew nothing. As for the slaps that Harold Whid den, Halifax Herald reporter, and P. C. Carroll, detective, seem to have suffered from a ghostly hand, the doctor's explanation is anything but intelligible to the average mind, and in this connection, I speak from ex perience, when I state that Whiden and Carroll did not slap each other, but were impelled by an irresistible power to slap themselves. It is a terrible punishment a person can in flict upon one's self, under such a compulsion, and it requires an heroic effort of the objective consciousness to. unloosen the fist, ready to strike at one's self, after the intention has been objectively anticipated. Nothing can be gained by scoffing and science demands naught but the truth. In one thing, however, I must take issue with Dr. Prince, and that is the statement that he has dis proved the wireless wave theory unless they are endowed with Intelli gence, for I hold with Marconi and others that naught else is account-1 able for these phenomena. It is also accepted as Bishop's explanation of his, mind-reading proclivities, that the mind-waves emanate from the human brain. Let us have the truth and nothing but the truth about these matters and the day will come when humanity at large, accepting the verified accounts of acknowledged scientists, will change its ways and viewpoints and live a more decent and moral life for the sake of its future happiness. JULIUS ADLER. Congressional Committee Assig-nments SALEM, Or., March 19. (To the Editor.) Please tell me to what com mittees in congress our United States senators and representatives have been assigned. MAIDA CALDWELL, Senator McNary is chairman of the committee on irrigation ar.d reclama tion and a member of the committees on agriculture and forestry; com merce; Indian affairs; manufactures. Senator Stanfield Is a member of the committees on civil service: claims; post offices and posF roads; public "lands and survey Representative McArthur is a mem ber of the committee on" naval affairs; Representative Hawley of ways and means; Representave Sinnott chair man of the committee on public lands and member of the committee on irri gation of arid lands. Realty Agents' Contract. PORTLAND, March 20. (To th-5 Editor.) If a person gives a real estate agent the privilege of selling a piece of property without a written and signed contract, can that agent legally or by any state law collect a commission if the property is sold by owner or any other party? INFORMATION. A real estate agent's contract must be in writing and must express the consideration. Unless he holds such written authority he cannot recover by legal action. - No Old Age Pensions. PORTLAND," March 20. (To the Editor.) Is there any pension for old people or a widows' pension for a widow past 70 years old, having her own home but no income and not able to work? OLD SUBSCRIBER. There is no old-age pension; there is no widows' pension except the pen- B1UU Ol WJlilW 111 I.MU VH YClCiailU, ; a i .1 .. -n 1 ... ............... widows of other war veterans under j certain conditions and the state pen- of widows having dependent ' minor children. 1 No Confession In Murder Case. PORTLAND, March 20. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly publish the circum stances of the Durant murder and whether or not any one ever con fessed to the killing of the two girls in the belfry of a church. W. T. M. Neither Durant nor anybody else onfessed to the murders of which he was accused. Persons interested in the case should consult the newspaper files at the public library, beginning April 15, 1895. Bryan's Next Move. OORVALLIS. Or., March 19. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonion. March 14 you discuss Mr. Jiryan s next move. On that point permit me to suggest that the one and only logical next move for William Jennings Bryan is n ioin forces with WilDer Ulenn vo- liva in his educational activities and ecome a prophet of Lion. Then he will present to an admiring (?) world perfectly rounaeo, consistent, men tal and spiritual complex. H. M. WOOLMAN. . Real Moonshine ls Defined. Judge. First Motorist I had a drink of real moonshine the other day. Second Motorist How was it? "I find that I can get about the same result if 'I kiss a ' spark-plug when my motor is running." . Average Weight of Women. HUSUM, Wash., March 19. (To the Editor.) Please tell me the correct weight for a woman 5 feet 3 inches tall, 36 years old. DAILY READER. About 134 pounds is the average. Wasted Energy Is Shown. Judge. Chauffeur Harry Let's hold up that week-end party. Strong-arm Mike Whats the use? Mrs. Skinnem always trims her guests at bridge. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Voiles at the Hotels. "Bootleggers are taking up a good deal of our time in Cilliam county," says T. A. Weinke, district attorney. "We have prosecuted a large number and have won every case with a single exception. The bootleggers are soaked from J200 to $500 as a fine and are being sent to jail for 30, 60 and 90 days. It used to be that fellows would chip in and pay the fine, but now the fines are heavy and there is no way of chipping in to help a man with a jail sentence. The bootleggers, are not doing a rushing business, for money isn't very free. There is a fellow who boasted that he has a still out in the country and he even took a man in the yicinity several times and defied him t discover it. The plaee is said to be concealed in the sagebrush and is so arranged that even the smoke cannot be seen. That fellow will yet be caught." Filled to the-brim with arguments why -only people owning property should be permitted to vote on meas ures involving finances, - Senator Strayer of Baker is at the Imperial. The senator has not yet announced himself as a candidate for re-election but will probably do so shortly. If he had more confidence in his health he would take a shot at the demo cratic nomination for governor. Senator Strayer is, perhaps, the most ardent advocate in the state of a property . qualification for voters In all matters where money ls involved. his contention being that much o the tax burden now complained was saddled on the taxpayers by voters who pay no tax. He wants to see an initiative measure along that line submitted at the November general election. "There are so many roads now opening for. tourists and so much tourist travel to attract that the old Commercial club at Condon has been revived," says James Burns, former mayor of Condon and president of the club. "It will be a real live organisation and we expect to show results this year. The way to attract the tourists and get our share of the business which they create is to advertise and all the advantages of Condon and the surrounding country will be made known to tourists on the main traveled roads this season Dr. I. U. Temple of Pendleton, prospective candidate for the legis lature from Umatilla county, is i Portland visitor, bein one of the delegation attending the tax reduc tion convention. Dr. Temple is an advocate of the state income tax and thinks about $10,000,000 can be raised that way. The doctor favors a rebate to the counties somewhat similar to the rebate which counties receive from the motor vehicle tax. Accord ing to his views, everyone should pay some tax so as to contribute something toward the maintenance of government and give everyone a sense of responsibility for expend! tures. "The dike across Nehalem bay is about finished and ready to have the roadway built on top of it," reports O. E. Effenberger of Nehalem, Or. who is here attending the tax meet ing. The dike, which will reclaim several hundred acres of delta soil will be broad' enough for a wide road and the dike owners and county court have made an arrangement by means of which this can be dene. Mr. Effenberger was formerly a saw mill man at Nehalem but the mill was destroyed by fire. J. T. Lleuallen, a dirt farmer of Adams, Or., is in the city for a few days. . Mr. Lieuallen has been raising grain in Umatilla county for a long number of years. He is most elo quent when the subject of taxes is mentioned as his own taxes have in creased 100 per cent in the past five years, and in his opinion every dollar should pay its share of taxes, and therefore he wants an income tax, contending that it will not drive money out of the state. - Marion Jack, former member of the state game and fish commission. prominent republican and well-known wheat grower of Umatilla county, is a Portland visitor. He is a member of the Umatilla delegation to the tax reduction league conference at the central library. R. E. Cherrick of Barlow, Marion county, is in town talking about high taxes. Mr. Cherrick, who has been active in the non-partisan league movement In Oregon, ls a candidate for nomination as representative In Marion county on the republican ticket. He is, the man who, several months ago when the non-partisan league held a mass meeting in Port land, proposed that the league bring out Charles E. Spence, master of the state grange, for governor. J. T. Hinkle, one of the hest' known citizens of eastern Oregon, is at the Imperial. Mr. Hinkle is being men tioned as a possible candidate for the house or senate from Umatilla county. He is secretary of the tax payers league of ,that county. D, f T-Vllflll. n- nna f the 'prominent members of the state grange, is in Portland. Mr. Burtner wants to see the 6 per cent tax limitation reversed, so that this amount - or -cut win me , maae eacn year for the next five years. Mr. and ,Mn N. Bisslnger of San Francisco ' arrived at the Benson yesterday and were met by J. N. Heilner, an attorney of Baker, Or., a relative, who had arrived at the same time from eastern Oregon. Mr. Bisslnger is in the hide business. As a laddie George Hardle roamed about Blairgowrie, Scotland, but for the past 35 years he has been a sheep and wheat ' man in Crilliam county. Mr. Hardie is in the city from Condon, Mrs. A W. Walker, wife of an automobile dealer of Medford, ls registered at the Hotel Oregon. With her daughter she is here on a shop ping tour. , Joseph Keeber, banker of Mount Angel, Or., is attending the tax meeting. Pronunciation of Name. PORTLAND, March 20. (To the Editor.) Please give proper pronun ciation of the following words: 1. Bryn Mawr. 2. Galli-Curci. 3. Avon. , 4. A prospector finds a rich mine but on deeded ground. What.right3 has he in the mine? X. 1. Brin Mar T as in "it"; "a" as in "far"; accent on second word. 2. GaMe Koor-che "A" as in "far"; "e" as In "me"; accent on first syllable in both words. 3. Avon is the name of several rivers in the United Kingdom and of several towns in America. The usual pronunciation is A-von "a" as in "cane" jand accented. The English pronunciation in instances is E-ven and in some American towns the "a" takes the short sound as in "cat." 4. Ordinarily none. In a few in stances the original government pat ents reserved mineral rights' to the public Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Houghton-Mifflin Co. Cam You Answer These Questions I 1. Is milk good ao long as it does not sourT 2. What rabbit changes Its coat In winter! S. Should bird houses be built with a perch near the entrance? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Do we have any native silk worms in America? Yes, though not domesticated and used commercially tor -raising silk. The caterpillars of cecropia, prorae- thea, polyphemus and luna moths are strictly speaking-, all silk worms. Their cocoons are eaid to be capable of providing silk thread of good qual ity. 2. If, as you state, small frogs, fishes and lizards cannot be dropped from the clouds, how do you account for an occurrence where after a heavy summer rain the ground was found! covered with angleworms and a big milkpail on a platform snowed a I bunch of them coiled when the milk was poured out at the creamery? We do not know how such stories get circulated. We suggest that read ers who credit them read up on the habits of the earthworm. It lives underground practically all the time. breeds there and. being a heavier- SSfrdl.at .il.r1 paratory to being "rained down." Of course after a sudden very heavy rain these wormj do come to the surface at times, but they come from below, not from above! , - s 3. How do birds that gulp down a whole fish at a time, like kingfishers and seagulls, manage the bones and scales? They do practically what the owl does with bones and fur of his small- animal food digest the soft and nourishing portions of the meal and throw up, or regurgigate, anything too tough to be dissolved by the di gestive Juices. FLEETING THOUGHTS, Beside a bowered stream one day T t n .. 1 .-lan, Where woodsy things told tales tome, Ao T lav An ViA oartA Of Nymphs that dwelt within the wood And w&ter nnritea that knew Much more than what was known by men And all, they said, was true. They told of Mab the Fairy Queen Of Fib, and Guendolen; Of Griffin-feet, the tell-tale mark, That I'd not heard till then. Of Finetta, the cinder girl And Oberon, the fay, And Oberon, the fairy king. Who wed Titania. And how he sailed o'er seas with her, In shadow craft, full rigged. And when they reached old lands afar In moonshine danced and jigged. Oh, those were wondrous tales they told To me that lovely day! And then the Nymphs showed me their power Of spiriting away. And as I watched, the naiads rose From out the water blue, ' And into new fledged sprights were changed; Then into air they flew. Each one became a butterfly Of wonderous beauty, rare! And each before me paused a while. A tilt upon the air Ere fluttering away In space. Though I would fain have held Them all within my hand for aye, Or till delight was eld. It chanced that some I snared on wing. Which now with Memory dwell. But other gorgeous ones flew off Where only Nymphs can tell. When sated with the sight I asked What all this show had meant: The Nymphs replied that Butterflies, Were thoughta by fairies cent. And that they fly the live-long day Among us mortal men. And try to be of service, though They are beyond our ken. At length, when far from mystic stream The fairies' loved abode I thought again of all I'd seen. As homeward then. I trode. Are fleeting thoughts Naiads on wing That visit us each day?' Are they like gorgeous butterfli Illusive, furtive, gay? And must they be ensnared on wing If we would have them stay? That fly so far away? I Thus oft I've pondered o'er the sights progresses more men are being en Shown me that summer day, gaged. Until I've learned that Knowledge ls, - No other than the Fay! PEARL GREGORY CARTLIDGE. ( Fuel From Goverament l ands. HXLLSBORO, Or., March 19. (To the Editor.) Please tell me if it li legal to cut down and use any gov ernment tree for fuel, providing there is no waste and it is used for one's self, or must it be obstructing a roadway or a certain distance from it? C. L. & If the tree is in a national or state fn...t If In AMAMflrT to ret. a nArmit . 4. . I iroilj mo from the government forest office. Homesteaders, settlers, farmers and others can procure such timber free of charge, but must first get the per mit. If the tree is on public land, but not In a national forest, then per mission to1 touch it must be procured from the land office. Collection of Money Due, KNAPPA, Or., March 19. To the Of TCriltor Please tell me whether thsre is any way to recover in the following case: Goods were ordered from an east- ern concern, and at their request ex press charges were added to remit- tance. xney Kept tne money, sent the goods collect and refuse to an- swer letters or make matters rignt. The amount Ooos not jusury suit, out it goes against the grain to be I erraf'ted like that. A. W-i-LiLiiAMS. Courts furnish the- only means of t enforcing collection of claims. Appraisal for Soldier's Loan. ARLINGTON, Or., March 19. (To the Editor.) Please advise if the sol- diers asking for soldier's loan must Dav transportation charges for ap- praisers, after paying the $5 allowed by law? It seems to be the opinion of some appraisers that the applicant must bear this extra expense, AN EX-SOLDIER. Appraisers must pay their own traveling expenses More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montasaa. A BACKWARD LOOK1M1 MAN. "I wanted my descendants To be bullfrogs." said the newt. "A frog ha independence. He's crafty and astute. He needn't dwell forever . In one unending groove But Mr. Bryan never Would approve." "The families Tve founded." Observed the Jellyfish, , "I hoped might be surrounded By all a fish could wish. But there ls no use tryln' To give the kids a lift For William Jennings Bryan Would be miffed." "I haven't the ambition," -The wombat usd to whins, "To better the condition Of progeny of mine. My soul It much embitters To think they have no chance But Bryan saya us critters Can't advance." And eo these timid creatures Emotionless and mute. Retained their ancient features And dld'nt evolute. The newt might be a lion. The jellyfish a trout But William Jennings Bryan Scared 'em out! see Too Late Now. It ls unfortunate that we can n twin's opinion of Bryan.sm. A Vanished Iasrltarlom. No longer ls there any honor among thieves. Bandits robbed a New York man who was on his way to a bucket shop. Admirably Suited. We suggest Donnybrook as the new capital for the Irish republic. (Copyrlsht by the Bell RyndLriLKt Ine.) Books. By Grace E. IlalL The wind tears at the window Like a frightened, walling thing That would seek the Inner shelter To escape the winter's sting; There are moans from twisted pins I L There .are strange and eerie sighs. While gay chariots, swiftly racing, Cross the speedway of the skies. Deep within the silent places Of man's nature hunger lives. And he senses all suggestions That the svorm-swept night time gives; Feels his soul torn by the tempest Of his own unworded crave. And the chariots seem like hear Hurrying onward towards the grave. Then he turns the thrilling page Of a book, the golden line Of another's thought la followed In Its weaving, deft and fine; Wearied thoughts, re-charged add eager, Sweep across unmeasured snace. Vital blood from alien source Stirs the color in his face. He may revel In the pictures That another mind has known. Adding figures, colors, lightings. From the paints that are hla own; He may rest In scented gardens Near the fountain's rainbow spray. Or across the glistening mountains Take his bold, unhindered way. The glow of life must change and fade. And old friends leave us. too. But mental Journeys we have made Are ours to linger through; The fabric woven Just from thought Is lasting cloth of gold. And books retain their magic charm Though we and life grow old. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Aso, From The Oregonian of March 21, 1807. Olympia. Wash. Governor Kogers today refused to sanction the capltol building project bill and vetoed the measure. Washington. Champ Clark kept the house In an uproar of laughter for. 15 minutes today when he took Jhe floor and signalized his return to congress In a characteristic speech. The people of Forest Grove, in 1 Tat too ro and Cornelius are agitating for a plank bicycle road between the first two towns. A Night In Bohemia" will be put on this week at the Marquam theater by local talent under the auspices of the Oregon Good Roads club. Fifty Years Ago. From The Ornronlan of March 2t. 173. Riaata. William Mullen, charged , h robbery of a ,tajf( c"OBCh w round guilty today. About 200 men are at worji on the locks at Orexon City.and as the work Tne unitea etaies treasurer nas sent to ?w Tork a coin check for $2,000,000 on account of the third call of the 1862 bonds. Ilalsey new hotel near the lower steamship landing will be completed some time in June, It is expected. WORDS. Nautilus. Words are the stones I use in bully ing, My house will be trtrong without fillet or gliding; I oik in me urj wi ui mo whiumini ,Lr.. IW ...lb I. .1.1, I. .kn.l.. T ,... ror WOrds in the Quarry of time; In the heart of the ancient bills for rhyme. There are veins of beauty the sages have known; Milton worked where the marnie shone. Our Lincoln found what he liked In the clay the common fields where the stpnes are gray. So every spirit must find a way And delve for the treasure that seerna its own But you; What are words, what are words to you! jjot stone nor metal precious and true. fjor blocks to serve in a hallowed ahrine nut seductive jewels cut subtle and fine. Spangles you wear to gutter ana shine: know the worth of your words to you! IneorrlKlhllHr aad the Movies. MCMINN VILLE. Or.. March 19. (To the Editor.) Can you tell me how many young people, boys and eirls. are brought before the Juve- nlle court or sent to the reform schools, the cause of whose being there is directly attributed to the modern motion picture Know 7 PLKAsr.l) St HS'-KIBliU. We know of no inviatlgation of or statistics oa the subject.