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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MARCII 27, 192
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COMING OCT OF THE HERMITAGE.
There is much food for sober
thought in Mark Sullivan's com
ments on what a democratic leader
called "t h e economic effects of
hermitage." All of the sudden eco
nomic changes that have come over
the United States since Armistice
day have been the reaction from
events and conditions In other coun
tries. The feverish spending mania
and rise of prices which immedi
ately followed the war began and
were most marked in Europe, in the
countries which had suffered most
by the war. Peoples on that conti
nent spent easy money made in the
war on luxuries or on necessaries the
supply of which had been cut off or
restricted by the war. This caused
continued industrial and commercial
activity, high prices and a spending
mania in the United States which
tended half way through 1920. The
Industrial depression and fall in
prices did not begin in America; it
began with a panic following wild
speculation in' Japan. Thus waves
rolled across great oceans from con
tinent to continent, profoundly influ
encing the lives and fortunes of na
tions far remote from those on
whose shores they had first arisen.
Nothing -but mental blindness, in
duced by outworn tradition, by racial
and religious feuds or by partisan
passion, could have prevented the
nations from seeing that evils which
do injury to all must be combated by
all in close co-operation if they are
to be overcome," just as resort Is had
to quarantine against an epidemic of
disease. The nations are no more
able to combat separately such a
universal evil as economic and social
disorder than the allied armies could
win victory while each was fighting
independently. As in the war, vic
tory was won when the allied armies
fought as one under a single com
mander, so should the nations now
combine their forces to carry out in
accord an agreed plan to rescue the
world from economic decadence.
Blindness to this necessity has not
been confined to the United States.
After the war nominally ended,
white Russian fought red Russian,
Pole fought Russian and German by
turns, Greek fought Turk, Italian
wrangled with Serb, Arab fought
Frenchman and Briton, British and
' ri-ench policy conflicted in Germany
and the near east, revolt spread over
Ireland, India and Egypt, and bol
shevism lifted its ugly head even in
far South Africa. "When all the
diminished energy of a bleeding
world was needed to heal its wounds,
new wounds were inflicted by this
tragic folly. But the passions thus
given vent were too deeply ingrained
, by centuries of wars and feuds
among nations in close neighbor
hood to be calmed by any influence
in Europe, for all European nations
were so involved that distrust for
bade them to act as peacemakers.
The geographical isolation of the
United States, absence of national
interest in the triumph of any party
to any quarrel of old world peoples,
devotion to the principles of democ
racy which all profess to hold, and
great 'commercial interest in the
general welfare of the world made
this nation peculiarly qualified to
play that part. Being the greatest
in wealth and population of all white
nations and having no special inter
est in common with any one other
nation but having a broad common
interest with all, this naticfn was
fitted for leadership in the work of
world restoration.
When the war ended, the Ameri
can people were in the frame of
mind to play this part if given wise
direction. President Wilson aimed
to fulfil the mission for which the
people were ready, but he Invited
failure by two Initial errors. He
undertook to accomplish through
one political party a work which
should have been the joint task of
both parties. He also insisted that
this task should be performed in one
particular way by immediate for
mation of a league of nations which
should be the instrument for exe
cution of the peace treaties. He thus
gave provocation for partisan oppo
sition, which found ready to hand
plenty of campaign material in. the
traditional abstinence from foreign
entanglements and in the old-world
quarrels which foreign-born citizens
also gave an opening for European
diplomats to drive a bargain with
him as the price of adoption of his
league scheme. Persistence in those
errors in the face of many warnings
and pleadings made him the wrecker
of his own work and drove his op
ponents to greater extremes until
they utterly rejected the league
which they had been ready to join
him in forming if they had been in
vited to help him and if it had not
been interwoven with the peace
treaties.
President Harding has begun to
build anew amid the ruins which his
predecessor left behind. Unlike Mr.
Wilson, he made the senate a part
ner In the work and he called the
leaders of both parties to share in it.
He thus lifts foreign relations to
ftieir proper plane, above party, as
a matter demanding national conti
nuity of purpose, which is impossible
in affairs that are involved with the
changing fortunes of parties. In
calling the Washington conference
to limit armament, he struck at the
root of the world's present troubles,
and in providing that the conference
should, adjust far eastern and Pa
cific affairs he aimed both to remove
the obstacle to limitation of navies
and to make a new beginning at
American co-operation with other
nations, choosing for the purpose the
disputes in which we were directly
concerned, which were then upper
most in the people's minds and
which were an immediate source of
danger. In the treaty Of Berlin he
left the door wide open for Ameri
can co-operation with the allies in
the financial settlement with Ger
many and In all parts of the peace
terms except those relating to
strictly political and territorial ad
justments. He doubtless awaits only
ratification of all the Washington
treaties before proposing that the
Unite States take an active part In
the work of the, reparation commis
sion and he evidently is not averse to
participation in a world economic
conference after the European na
tions have freed the economic prob
lem from the political questions that
now remain open.
When this is the record of Mr.
Harding's first year and when two
thirds of the democratic senators
vote to destroy his work from
plainly partisan motives after he has
deprived them of all the provocation
predate the value of Its older men ' example, who gave his name to the
when the armistice was signed. Nev- I first apple to be extensively culti
ertheless a public that was taking a ! vated south of the Mason and Dixon
deep sentimental interest in Miss Mine? And who was (Grimes, for
Law's work will be glad on the whole j whom a splendid golden pome was
that she has removed herself from
active contact with a branch of a
vocation that soon or late brings its
devotees to an untimely end.
licans, the democrats will find them
selves seriously embarrassed If they
adopt as a slogan at the coming elec
tion "the economic effects of heri
tage." Mr. Harding is not striving
to keep the American people in their
hermitage: he is leading them out of
it, and the democrats try to frighten
them back. The economic effects
which they have felt during the last
three years have Impressed them
deeply with the penalties of national
isolation and have brought home to
them the conviction that all nations
are members of one family, so
closely bound together by all the ties
of modern intercourse that any nation
which tries to play the hermit sacri
fices far more than it gains by deny
ing its obligations to and its com
munity of interest with the family.
They have made great progress since
the election of 1920 In their educa
tion in world affairs, and they will
not be easily led astray by appeals
to fear and to alien racial hatreds
that emanate from either democratic
or republican irreconcilables.
PORTLAND'S FCTCHE ON THE SEA.
Portland has suffered less from
the business depression of the last
year and a half than any other city
In the country, even than any other
on the Pacific coast, and the reason
may be found in the report of the
public dock commission for the year
1921. When business the country
over was shrinking, when the ship
ping business of other Pacific ports
showed large decreases, the tonnage
of Portland exports and imports
doubled and the tonnage carried by
sea between this port and the At
lantic coast increased ninefold.
Portland no longer has to beg for
ships; they come without calling,
drawn by the magnet of full cargoes
and the best facilities for handling.
This is the fruit of the people's in
vestment in modern docks and in an
that Mr. Wilson gave to the repub- Umproved harbor and channel. The
THE BREAKING POINT.
It is not likely that a great many
persons in Portland object on prin
ciple to the teaching of music, cook
ing, sewing and manual training and
the maintenance of two swimming
pools in the public schools. Some
may, and a greater number may be
lieve we cannot afford them. But if
it came to an Issue as to whether
some children should have to do
without the fundamentals of educa
tion unless these things were elimi
nated, there is -no doubt as to what
the preponderant attitude would be.
It is now tentatively proposed by
the school board that these things
frills, some persons call them for
want of a better comprehensive term
shall be done away with at least
temporarily. Quite naturally there
is a protest. The school board un
doubtedly is in accord with informed
public opinion. It, too, does not ob
ject to these activities on principle.
It is striving only to solve a serious
financial problem, not of its own
making, but one for which the peo
ple themselves are chief lyy respon
sible. It has been pointed out heretofore,
and it will bear repetition, that the
school district levy is now at the
maximum permitted by law. The
same levy applied this year produces
less money than last year because
the total property valuation re
turned by the assessor and equalized
by the county board is lower than
last year. But while revenues are
less than last year, school enroll
ment is larger. The school popula
tion is growing faster than the
school plant, and the people in the
last election refused to continue an
extra tax levy for building purposes.
The breaking point is reached. It
is inescapable that if the people will
not provide sufficient money to
maintain the schools at the existing
standard, that standard will have to
be reduced.
direct revenue from the public docks
has grown to the point where they
are almost self-supporting and will
soon begin to earn interest on' the
bonds issued for their cost. But far
greater is the indirect revenue which
the city as a whole derives from the
increased business which ships bring
to our merchants, manufacturers,
banks, workmen and all. other ac
tivities. This business is already
roughly estimated at $18,000,000 a
year paid out by the ships them
selves, and it grows. It is in addi
tion to the greater volume of busi
ness made possible by the existence
of cheap water transportation to the
Atlantic coast and toy the operation
of shipping lines to foreign ports,
which open new markets to our
products.
The docks as one main factor In
the development of our shipping
business have abundantly justified
the investment which the people
have made in them, r They and the
ships which use them and the great
cargoes which pass over them prove
that the future of Portland is on the
sea, not in the military -sense in
which that phrase was used by a
certain fallen despot, but in the
sense that means prosperity and
happiness to ourselves and all the
people with whom we trade. .
called? The Rambo family have
left only a still highly regarded but
too much neglected variety to attest
their fame. Standards like the
Esopus Spitzenberg and the New
towns, green and yellow, have a geo
graphical nomenclature. There used
to be a long list of "pippins" and
"seedlings," more particularly des
ignated by the names of ambitious
propagators, but it diminishes as
time runs on.
Most of our best apples as a matter
of fact originated as seedlings. The
European staples did not often thrive
in the soil and climate of their new
home. A good many of the better
varieties were accidental discoveries,
taking their names from local fancy.
The ' Red June, Golden Sweet, Pall
The Listening Post.
By DeWItt Harry.
CAN'T HAPPEN.
So comprehensive Is the Oregon
corrupt practices act that, though
adopted before the era of woman's
suffrage, under its beneficent pro
visions our young men are bound to
be spared the humiliation that twen
ty-five Iowa maidens are inflicting
upon their sweethearts, were Oregon
maidens similarly minded which,
of course, they are not. For if the
woman's ticket in Charlotte, Iowa
be not elected then no swain may
thereafter spend Wednesday evening
by the side of his adored.
In Oregon, a political campaign is
a period of uplift. It is a corrupt
practice, made so by asseveration of
the sovereign people, to attempt to
influence voters by treating, by co
ercion, by certain appeals to reli
gious beliefs, by undue campaign ex
penditures, by libel of candidates, by
anonymous publication or by dozens
of other things. All in all, elections
are pure and polite. Nobody is ever
convicted of violating the law. Skep
tics will note that the word is "con
victed." "
Oregon maids will note that it is
against the law to inflict or to at
tempt to inflict spiritual injury in
order to compel a person to vote or
refrain from voting for any candi
date, or to influence the course of an
election by providing meat, drink or
other entertainment. What greater
spiritual injury to a young man than
to deprive him of the presence of his
sweetheart? What greater enter
tainment than to admit him to her
presence?
Of course, no warning is needed.
Oregon young men are true and Ore
gon maidens know it. They need not
threaten. Any favor, even so trivial
a one as a vote for a candidate for
office, is of course granted without
expectation of more "than the cus
tomary rewards for obedience. '
Ruth Law has decided wisely in
determining that she will fly no
more. Ten years of performing
aviation stunts have put the patience
of Providence to a severe test. Few,
if any, other aviators in her class
have lasted so long, and the law of
averages is against her continued
immunity from accident. Yet it is a
mistake to assume that she is less
valuable as an "air pilot because of
her Increasing age. The experience
of the nations at war, except the
United States, which did not put the
issue to a full test, was that the flyer
tended to improve with age, provided
"he had the qualifications of an avi
ator to begin with. France had its
aces who were 40 years -old or more
and England was beginning to ap-
POMOLOGICAL MEMORIES.
The unveiling at Proctorville, Ohio,'
of a monument to the Rome Beauty
apple furnished a convenient peg on
which to hang reminiscences of the
apples of early days. "A few like the
Rome Beauty have survived, it is
true, but much larger is the host
about which we hear little or noth
ing nowadays. A careful survey was
made in 1901 by a Cornell professor
which revealed some 1857 varieties
of apple trees in New York state
alone; more than seven hundred
were still listed in 3 nursery
man's catalogue; a few hundred at
least were regarded as important in
a commercial sense. , Tastes differ,
In nothing more conspicuously than
in matters of food, although there
are people who will tell you that
every apple tastes like every other
apple.- Not only do tastes differ, but
styles change as well. A list of the
common varieties of a century ago
makes unfamiliar reading today.
Several important apple centen
aries are scheduled for about this
time. Just about a hundred years
ago there was great activity in apple
culture in the east and northeast.
It is commonly believed that the
Gravensteln apple, for example, was
then brought to the United States, to
be followed soon afterward by the
Oldenberg, the Alexander and the
Telefsky. The Rome Beauty, which
has just been honored with a monu
ment, probably dates back to 1817.
The Red Astrachan, still our staple
early variety, was brought from Rus
sia about 1816. Some of these names
are reminders of the debt we owe to
Russia for potnological contributions.
The Alexander, named after Alex
ander, the reforming czar, came to
us by way of England; the name
Astrachan carries its own geograph
ical suggestion; Oldenberg seems
more Russian to those who know
that it used to be called Charlemow
ski and also Borowskl.
The Gravensteln, to which allusion
has been made and which deserves
a monument if any appl; ever did,
is rich enough in tradition to furnish
the material for a Graustark novel.
One account says that it was orig
inated in the gardens of a nobleman
at Gravenstein, in Holstein. Another
has It that.it was found in the or
chard of the Count Grafensteln, in
Sleswick, and in this version there is
a pretty love story to explain how it
became known to the outside world.
But still another historian puts the
locus of its origin in Italy, and it is
pretty well known to have been
highly esteemed in Germany and
Sweden for some time prior to the
beginning of the nineteenth century.
In all probability It was brought to
the United States from Denmark
about 1825.
Nature had its way of adapting
the new fruits to their unaccustomed
surroundings, and in the process a
good many of them were measurably
changed. It is said that these im
portations do not now ' much re
semble the originals. Many of them,
like the Baldwin, have thrived in
some localities and degenerated in
others. One of the few members of
the apple family ..which was in
digenous to America is the wild Ore
gon crab the pyrus rivularis of the
botanist Douglas, who found it here
in 1825 which wasn t much of an
apple in itself, but which pointed to
the suitability of conditions in the
Oregon country for apple culture.
The apple, as a matter of fact, has
been slow to become naturalized in
other parts of the United States; It
is produced spontaneously as a seed
ling in only a few parts of the coun
try, such as New York, where It now
grows wild in large thickets; but it
has done well under artificial tend
ing .over a pretty wide area. But, as
has been said, a good many hundred
kinds have been created in the effort
to preserve the few score that are
now found in the markets of the
towns.
The Gloria Mundi. 'too, is due for
a centenary -celebration soon. The
folks who chose the name for It must
have been real pomological enthu
siasts of their day.. The Ortley also
Is almost exactly a century old, and
Is still a success in many places, no
tably in Oregon. We are reminded
that the names of some of our estab
lished favorites are still shrouded in
mystery.
Pippin, Twenty Ounce and Ximbe
Twig were such. Their names de
scribe . them. Jonathan took the
name of one Jonathan Hasbrouck,
New Yorker, who was not, however,
an apple grower, but only a con
noisseur, who first called the apple
to public attention. Almost a cen
tury ago it was known as the "New
Spitizenberg." Oregonians who know
the merits of his find will be inclined
to erect a monument to him in rec
ognitlon of his real service to man
kind
The older generation will look in
vain In the modern orchard for most
of their favorites. From an old
catalogue we cull these names at
random: Putnam Russet, Seek-No
Further, Early Chandler, Gilliflower,
Pound Royal, Natural, Yellow Green
ing, Prolific Beauty, Baptist and the
Pearmains. The Baptist, curiously,
was grown without irrigation. The
Pearmains represented a large class,
and th6 term was originally intended
to mean "mighty pear." Pear-shaped
apples went out of style with the de
velopment of a new taste in fruits,
and the pearmains are scarcer than
they used to be. If they begin build
ing monuments to apples it 13 going
to be hard to find a place to stop. Or
writing the romance of the develop
ment of apple culture. A chapter
might be devoted, for illustration,
to the Northern Spy, the original of
which never bore a single fruit, but
perished in its early youth, after
contributing scions from which have
been propagated great orchards of
one of the finest apples -that nature
and manever conspired to give to the
apple-eating millions of the world.
Important as export trade has be
come to our prosperity, we should
never lose sight of the fact that the
main source of our national eco
nomic strength is the fact that our
farm industry is so great as in the
aggregate to produce enough food
ror our own people and to leave a
surplus for export, and with the rest
of our population to consume almost
nine-tenths of the product of all our
industry. By contrast Great Britain
produces only about one-fifth of its
food supply and must sell the great
bulk of its manufactures abroad in
order to pay for the other four-fifths
and for raw materials; such as we
produce mostly at home. That coun
try's present distress with 2,000,000
unemployed is due to its inability to
sell its surplus abroad, though it has
the most complete world-marketing
organization of all nations. A well
adjusted balance between the output
of agriculture and of manufacturing
and other industries is a sure basis
of national prosperity. That balance
needs to be restored, and that can
best be done by making productive
the land which is now worthless.
The peril of congestion is one of
the new perils of unrestricted im
migration. It explains why congress
is confronted with an entirely new
issue, rather than an old issue in a
new form. Our hospitality to immi
grants must in cJear self defense be
tempered by considerations of
whether they are likely to be adap
table to economic conditions as they
exist in the United States today not
as they existed in some former time.
The opponents of prohibition who
are discussing a new amendment to
the constitution seem to forget that
they will need also a new way of
gettingtheamendmentacross. Three
fourths of the states are a good many
more than can be reasonably ex
pected to join in a retrograde move
ment in this or any other time.
T T WOULD not do to mention the
X name of the girl who told thl
story, but she has. a glorious crop of
red hair and works for a big bank
that is- quartered in a marble build
ing. She was returning to Portland
from a visit to Canada and took the
Sponkane route via Kingsgate and
Eastport. She and her chum were in
the parlor car, the only two women
the other occupants, seven men. The
men were well-dressed arrd their
manners Irreproachable when the
girls entered the car. As the train
neared Kingsgate the American cus
toms' officers began their inspection
and a prohibition agent entered the
car.
The prohi agent was a burly, capable-looking
man, one who would per
mit no foolishness. He asked the
man nearest the door, to all appear
ances a retired capitalist or tourist.
if he had any liquor and received
negative answer and got the same
from the man in the next upholstered
chair. However the booze detective
decided to search the third man-and
asked him to stand up. No liquor was
in his clothes but the searcher puLled
a big bottle from under the seat cush
ions and another from his traveling
bag and a smaller one from a parcel
in the rack above.
"And then he began to get mad,"
the girl continued. "He went on to
the next man and got three more bot
tles and, then went back to the first
and second ones, those who had de
nied they had any and got five be
tween the two. Every man in that car
had from two to four "bottles and the
American agent had a big pile of
them when he got tnrough. The bot
ties were hidden every place possible
and he asked the tirst two why they
had denied having it and they said
they thought they might get by. Our
fellow-passengers were a sheepish
looking lot, I don't thlnkany of them
had known each other before but
from that time on they had some
thing in common and got exceedingly
chummy. As the prohibition agent
left he turned at the door and looked
them over and said, 'Weli, you're
fine bunch ain't you?'"
Not a whit chastened by a letter
taking exception to the glossary of
modern slang that we have been com
piling we hasten to offer yet an
other installment. In explanation of
modern slang a '"cake-eater" is the
masculine of flapper in other days
known as a sissy. He is the sort of
chap, who wore Lord Fauntleroy suits
when a' child and later affected a
passion for purple sox and a handker
chief displayed in the breast pocket.
Inasmuch as this slang is being used
more and more, every day sees a
fresh crop of it wafted in.
Egg hard-boiled cake-eater who
lets a Jane pay herway. Thus "egg
harbor" would be a free entertain
ment of any kind.
Strike breaker a girl taking the
place of any fellow's regular girl
when she is away.
Punk an undesirable person of
either sex. i
Jane a girl who meets you at the
corner or on the street.
Nice girl one who takes yqu in
and introduces you to the family.
Hot-dog joyous expression of ap
proval. "Did I was?" means the
same.
Finagler a young man who stalls
until some one else pays the bill.
Wind sucker a boaster.
Lens louse one who monopolizes
the conversation.
His tempo's bad anyone off color
any way.
Grease ball a foreign cake-eater.
Bun duster another term for cake-
eater.
Rug hopper parlor hound. A young
man who never takes a girl out.
One of our steady customers from
way back in Lincoln, Neb., writes that
he could read about Paul Bunyan for
the next ten years, and then goes on
on to tell of Paul's feat of putting up
a new north pole arter the old one
had been rubbed down by polar
bears scratching themselves on it.
E. J.'s tale runs like this:
Paul, on securing the contract,
went to Alaska, where the pole was
cut and ready. He took with him, in
addition to the big Swede, his fa
mous cook, who had been with Paul
ever since he built the Alps, and his
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folk at the Hotels
Ben Dorris, "filbert king" of Lane
county, was in Portland for the week
end, and left last night for his home
in Eugene. "If a man wants to make
a comfortable living In his old age
the best method I know of is to raise
filberts," declared Mr. Dorris at the
Portland hotel yesterday. "It takes
a number of years for the trees to
start bearing so that they will be
profitable but once they have their
growth and start producing the
grower has a substantial income on
small acreage." Before the war Mr.
Dorris was in the railroad business in
Eugene. He went to the officer's
training camp, was made a lieutenant
and was assigned to the 91st division.
He served with that organization
through the Meuse-Argonne and then
went with the outfit to Belgium.
There on the first day pf the fighting
he was struck by a shell and wounded
so badly that he was in various hos
pitals of the country In the hands of
the army's most skilled surgeons for
more than a year. Once back in civil
life, he found that he could not follow
his old pursuits and accepted the In
vitation of his uncle George Dorris to
try the growing of filberts. He has
been specializing in the culture of
nuts of various kinds and has de
veloped an extensive nursery busi
ness. He is prominent in American
Legion affairs and is being consid
ered by many of his friends to fill
one of the state offices of the veter
an's organization at the next conven
tion.
After having spent 16 years in the
wilderness of Alaska. Sam- Dubln,
merchant of Bettles. is back in civil
ization fcr the purpose of saking
things easy for a while and noting
the progress of the country. Mr. Dur
bin, with his partners, English and
Fagan, has stores and trading posts
In Bettles, Koyukuk, Wiseman and
Alotuna, Alaska. These points -are
located north of the Yukon river on
tributary known as "St. John s in
the Wilderness," due to the fact that
It is almost shut off from civilization
and Is lnhabitated only by a rew
prospectors, miners and Indians. Dur
ing the long winters of this country
transportation, except by dog sleds,
ceases.- Men, to make their way from
one point to another must mush it.
Srow remains very deep all winter.
Gold has not been discovered near
Alotuna and prospectors are waiting
until the opening of spring so tnat
they may go into the country and
stake claims. When Mr. Dubin ar
rived in Seattle, after having been
absent for 16 years he was astounded
to note the modern improvements. He
is now at the Multnomah hotel and
declares that he is 'having the time
of his life." He is going to take a
lonar vacation to make up for the
years he has spent in the remote parts
of Alaska.
Preparation are being made to
drill for oil in Kodiac island, accord
ing to J. W. McCord, who is a guest
at the Portland. Kecent lnvesuga
ions on the island, which is located
off the coast of Alaska, have con
vinced rjrosoectors that there are
great quantities of oil to be found.
Surveys have been made and engineers
are now at work preparing for the
sinking or the wens. ivir. jyicvora
says that If oil is discovered on the
island there will be no great diffi
culty in shipping the crude product,
as ships can easily land at several
points.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
More Truth Than. Poetry.
By Jimfi J. Montague.
i-w noms tne waruen responsible four uaU well-know French-Cana-for
thft men awaitin? execution flnrl ' . .
provides a place to keep them. The
crimes they committed show them
to be desperate men the kind that
take the slightest chance for free
dom. There is no problem in it.
A steamship moving slowly
through the draws arouses the ire of
delayed passengers, ' but they must
remember they might not be work
ing here if there was not a river to
make a big city.
Perhaps there may be "no fool
like an old fool," meaning man; but
sometimes an old widow trespasses
over the border under hallucination.
It is ungallant to say so, but it is a
fact.
That man who is going to live
with 200 skunks in California will
get along because he will be more
considerate of their rights than he
might be of those of human neigh
bors.
There will be an election today in
a little town in Iowa in which
women align against men. This Is a
trouble breeder, no matter the way
it results.
A recent raid was on a house said
to be "very old-fashlpned," but the
officials found 350 gallons of wine,
showing the, inside was strictly up-to-date.
Old potatoes are likely to last into
the season of new ones, at prices sat
isfactory to the consumer. Oregon
onions, however, are attaining war
prices.
Of course "flu" is spread by kiss
ing; but the man who will not take
a chance hardly 'is worth being
kissed back by the party with the
"flu."
Grand opera more than broke
even in profits as well as pleasure
for Portland and the city is on the
music map of the world.
Help! Strawberries will be-on the
market this week at approximately
Who was Ben Davis, for I a dollar a bite.
dian river men. With the help of the
blue ox everything went well and the
pole was set up in good shape. The
worst difficulty encountered was the
intense cold, which caused the north
side of the kettles containing the peal
soup for the Frenchmen and the beans
for the rest of the crew to freeze
solid while the south side, was bo'l-
ing.
"Paul, however, got around this by
hiring a gang of Esquimaux, giving
them peavies, ' pike-poles and calk
shoes and teaching them to ride the
beans and pea-soup teebergs to the
south end of the kettles. The beans
were, needless to say, specially grown
for Paul, and measured from 10 to 15
feet in length."
One of the character of the old
New Hampshire parish from which
an Oregon minister has just returned
was a woman who celebrated 'her
100th anniversary during his stay
there. She was very bright and came
from one of the best famille and her
mmory went back to the days when
American history was in the making.
She was a cousin of Franklin Pierce
and was one of the little girls who
strewed flowers before Lafayette on
his second visit to this country.
On the first call made on this old
woman by the minister ehe asked him
how old he thought she was and he
wished to be very complimentary. So
the minister said what was the truth,
that she seemed about 85. The old
woman was quite put out and said:
"Do you think I am a young girl"
At that time she was 98.
"Hello," called out my companion
to a passing roadster and the young
fellow Inside waved his hand. It was
a fine-looking car, radiated comfort
and prosperity as did the occupants.
The man was well-garbed and the
girl, if rather too elaborately, right
up to the present-day standards.
"Know him?" asked my companion.
"He's so-and-so, gets a high salary
and a royalty on an invention. He is
paying $600 a month alimony, has
been divorced three times and pays
his ex-wives $200 monthly each. Ha.
mor has it that the fair charmer that
was riding with' him la to be number
four'
George Wilbur, attorney of Hood
River, drove down the Columbia
River highway to Portland Saturday
and spent a few hours transacting
business in the cut. Mr. wiiDur was
member of the upper house In the
1917 cession of the state legislature.
He is a veteran of the war and is
now prominent in the affairs of the
American Legion, having served as a
member of the state executive com
mittee for some time. Many of his
friends are urging him to seek a
higher office in the Legion at the
election to beheld in The Dalles In
July.
Howard C. Glldea, attorney of Mc
Minnville, was In Portland yesterday
and put up at the Multnomah. Mr.
Gildea is one of the most popular
young men in his city. He has been
active In the affairs of the American
Legion since that organization was
started in his town. He has several
times been a contender for the po
sition of adjutant of the state de
partment. The music-loving citizens who failed
to witness the performances of the
Chicago opera lost a great deal, ac
cording to W. A. Akin, rancher of
Hood River. Mr. Akin, with his wife,
came down from Hood River Saturday
and attended the evening opera at
the auditorium. They were registered
at the Multnomah.
Can Yon Answer These Questions?
1. Is it true that guinea pigs are
of no use to man? If so, why are
they raised In large numbers?
2. Do young paj-trldges leave the
nest just after they are hatched, and
how long does it take them to learn
to fly?
3. How does a jelly fish sting?
Answered In tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Why are wisdom teeth usually
Inferior to the rest of the teeth?
Because no longer useful. In the
process of evolution the Jaw in civ
ilized races has become modified and
as the altered food habit probably re
quired less vigorous use of the Jaw,
the back pairs of teeth, "wisdom"
teeth, were not needed for grinding,
and deteriorated. In low races these
teeth still persist and are useful and
full ize. probably because the food
habit requires their help.
s
2. Is the Gila monster polsonousl
Yes, very. In a wild state it is
vicious and a good fighter, snapping
its powerful jaws at the foe and fas
tening on with unmistakable grip.
The saliva Is highly poisonous and
passes through grooves in the teeth
into the victim's flesh.
3. Are catbirds helpful around a
farm?
On the whole, yes. They are ac
cused of stealing bird's eggs, but In
vestigation of stomach contents does
not prove this charge. Catbirds eat
some beneficial Insects, but the major
part of their food la harmful Insects,
as cutworms, tent caterpillars, etc.
In brown-tall and gypsy moth regions
they eat both caterpillar and winged
forms f these, even feeding them to
the nestlings. Catbirds steal much
small fruit and are often a pest in
gardens and orchards, but are esti
mated to check insect depradations to
an extent that more than covers their
fruit thefts.
THE HOI SE PARTY OF TOMORROW.
The license is posted for public In
spection ;
The censor has taken his place on
the floor.
61x sleuths, with rough neck and a
ruddy complexion.
And large locust night sticks are
guarding the door.
On all of the programmes the statute
Is printed
The penalties one may observe at a
glance:
So striks up the band and let Joy flow
unstinted!
On .with the dance, people, on with
the dance!
To whom Is the censor so brutally
speaking?
It's Millleent Murkle, the maiden In
blue;
He sternly declares he detected her
cheeking;
She's sent to her seat for an hour
or two.
Who is it he now Is regarding
morosely?
It's Mrs. McMoney, the matron In
white;
She hugged young Bill FlippK a little
too closely.
And can't have a partner the rest
of the night.
Still
and grows
orchestra
Joy's unconfined
gayer and gayer;
A Jazzier number the
moans.
But suddenly stops when the saxo
phone player
Who pulled a cadenza is fined seven
bones.
But look at the radiant Annabel
Meyers
She's held by the censor, and turns
deadly pale,
Her skirt's not as long as the statute
requires.
He calls for the wagon and sends
her to Jail.
On with the dance, follow forth after
pleasure.
No sleep till the milk cans are rat
ting outside!
But always remember to step to the
measure
The men at the capital make and
provide.
No neck-to-neck stuff, or unseemly
gyrations,
No steps that the lawmakers look
at askance;
Be joyful; but always observe regu
lations: Conform to the statutes and on
with the dance!
The Wrong Clement.
At the New York assay office they
are seeking a method to get gold out
l.of alr. The usual practice In the
neighborhood Is to get it out of water.
Insatiable.
De Valera is organizing a new po
litical party. The man must have
something to he president of or he
will perish of disappointment.
K-ery body's Oolng It.
If it were against the law to suspect
your neighbor of holding- out on his
income tax. we'd have to build a. lot of
new jails.
(CiipyrlKht by the Bxll Syndicate, trw. )
In Other Days.
APATHY FAULT OF BOTH PLAXS
Convention and Primary Fall Because
Manses Let Few Run Them. '
SALEM, Or., March 25. (To the
Editor.) My friend, the editor of the
Woodburn Independent, asks the Ore
gonlan to tell "what there is about
the direct primary that needs reform
ing," and The Oregonian illustrates
several of its defects in its results,
but it seems to me that the cause of
such poor results may be stated in a
very simple manner. ,
The cause of defects in primary
election results is the same which
made the convention system faulty
the failure of the masses to do their
full duty in taking an interest in the
public affairs pf theirounty, their
state and their nation and expressing
their choice fearlessly as to the men
and measures presented for their consideration.
I do not believe there could be a
better system devised for the choice
of officials or the expression of pub
lic policies than the caucus and con
vention system if the people around
the firesides would take the proper
interest and sacrifice a little of their
time for the public good.
There is no place in which men are
so well known as in the immediate
neighborhood In which they live.
There is no other place from which
so reliable a representative of com
munity desires can be chosen. If.
then, the members of each political
party in each precinct would all come
together in caucus, or town meeting.
the best men or women of that pre
cinct would be in most cases chosen
to attend the county meeting or con
vention, which in turn would send-
some of those men or women to the
district and statfe conventions, and
nominations would be made from
similar material, based upon individ
ual merit and usefulness.
Every objection to that system. Is
based upon the fact that not always
under it were those results accom
plished. But why? Simply because
at the 'very foundation the masses
failed to do their duty. Miny of thos !
calling thenfselves the very beat
people in every precinct failtd to at
tend their caucuses. They left tii.
manipulation of those meetings to the
interested few; to the hirelings and i
self-seekers, thus permitting the con- ltv church on hlock 69 was let yew-
duct of public affairs to drift Into the terrlay to Mr. Turkllson for $17,000,
hands of professional politicians, exclusive of windows and Inside fin-
And even with the defects thus cuiti- ' ishlng.
vated, it is quite generally admitted
that the old convention system elimi- L A request will be made to the city
nated a whole lot of undesirables and i . uin il to build a fire cistern at Third
usually placed a premium upon brains i- nd - streets, the fire on Monday
iiignt having demonstrated tne need
of one there.
Twenty-f Ive Y"nrs Ago.
From The Oregonian of Marrh -'7. li!T.
Portland railroad officials say th-re
will be no rate war on account of the
decision of the supreme court of th
United States against the Trans-Missouri
Fn-ight association.
Constantinople Germany ha Joined
France and Knglnnd In refusing to
assist in the blockade of Greek ports.
It was announced here today.
I'assengt-rs and crew of the steamer
Wlllapa. which wns wrecked opposite
the lower end of Queen Charlotte is
lands, reached Seattle yeeterday.
Frederick Booth-Tucker, commamliT
of the United States forces of the Sal
vation army, arrived in Portland es
f. rdnv fir three-day visit.
Mfly Years Ago.
From The Orogonlan of March 27. 1S72
The contract to build the new Trin.
Harry Yundt, ledgerwood foreman
for the C. H. Wheeler Lumber com
pnay of Cochran, Or, is at the Mult
nomah. He is returning to the camps
to prepare for their opening. The
snowe of the winter months have
made logging impossible and the
crews have been idle. Now that the
weather Is clearing the camps are to
be opened.
W. F. Isaacs of Medford never loses
an opportunity to advertise Rogue
river apples. Saturday night from
the Multnomah hotel he sent a tele
gram to Medford asking that several
boxes of apples be prepared and placed
on the train carrying the Chicago
grand opera singers when it pased
through the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hayter of Dallas
were in Portland Saturday night for
the purpose or hearing grand opera.
Mr. Hayter is one of the leading at
torneys of the Willamette valley.
William J. Fraser of Pierre, S. D.,
Is a guest at the Multnomah. The
town from which Mr. Fraser registers
is the capital of the state and is per
haps the oldest settlement in that
section of the country.
J. H. Koke. who conducts a printing
and book binding establishment at
Eugene, accompanied by Mrs. Koke,
attended grand opera at the audi
torium Saturday night. They were
at the Imperial hotel. -
i J. E. Turnbill, secretary of the Elks
lodge of Eugene, was one of the few
out of town people in Portland for
the week end who did not come to
hear grand opera. He was registered
at the Portland. ;
A. B. Shelley, garage man and au
tomobile dealer of The Dalleswas In
Portland Saturday night, for the pur
pose of attending the meeting of Al
Kader temple of the Shrine. He reg
istered at the Impfrial hotel.
L. M. Addington. neater in oil lands
and farms in the Judith Basin of Mon
tanais at the Imperial. He is regis
tered from Winnett, located in the
heart of the Montana oil country.
Roy Bohler, member of the famous
family of athletic coaches, rs a guest
at the Imperial. He is director of
athletics at Willamette university.
E. M. Duffy, who is connected with
Oregon Agriculture college at Cor
vallis, was registered at the Oregon
hotel yesteiduy.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hay of Astoria
were at the Imperial yesterday after
having attended grand opera Satur
day nigh .
Sherman Miles, banker of St. Hel
ens, was at the Benson yesterday.
and popularity at least.
The primary system suffers from
the same lethargy on the part oi
the average citizen. In proof of this.
we have only to study the figures of
our primary elections, which disclose
the absence from the polls of usually
more than 50 per cent of the voting
population. Even at a general elec
tion it is surprising the numbers of
voters who fail to exercise the right
of franchise. In Oregon in 1920 there
were 364,469 registered voters before
the November election, which involved
county, state and national officers,
including the president, yet of that
number only 247, S99 cast their, bal
lots, leaving 116.670 or 34 per cent,
wno stayed at home.
So long as this state of don't-give
a-euissedness continues, any political
system, convention or primary, will
have its serious defects and failures,
and if that could be cured either sys
tem could be made a success, though
more easily with caucus and conven
tion than with the primary.
FRANK DAVE V.
Tiie Commodore Perry and the
.itark-street ferry are laying the oabla
for the use of the latter and expect
to finish the Job today.
Madrid. The doors of the last Pro
testant church were closed here yesterday.
Selective Belief In Science.
DALLAS, Or., March 25. (To the
Editor.) The following excerpt is
copied from an editorial in a recent
issue of the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal:
Assaying- the role of sclentlat with no
less alacrity than he so often has qualified
as a candidate, William Jennina-s Bryan
declares with utmost self-confidence that
the earth Is hardly more than 4O0O years
old.
That, should have settled the matter
once for ail, according to the Bryanesque
mode ofxhougrht, which has its ready Ipse
dljfit on every question in the heavens
above and the earth benea-th and the
waters undep the earth.
This is quite enough to make one
wonder if the "Peerless One." also
discredits the facts of electricity,
wireless telegraphy and the law of
gravitation. If not, why hot?
Why accept what the scientists
have to say about these matters, and
reject what they have to say about
the age of the earth? The Bryans of
Sir Isaac Newton's time fought the
theory of gravitation with the same
degree of infatuous ignorance that
they do the theory of evolution today.
"They can't make a monkey out of
me," indignantly exclaims Mr. Bryan.
Well, the evolutionists don't have to
do that. J. T. FORD.
Wreck of Brother Jonathan.
SPRINGFIELD, Or., March 25. (To
the Editor.) When did the Brother
Jonathan sink, the ship that found
ered off the coast near Port Orford,
Or. HENRY SMITHFIELD.
P. S. Would like a few particulars
of same. How many were lost on
board, etc.
The Brother Jonathan, bound from
San Francisco to Portland, foundered
near Crescent City, Cal., July 30, 1865,
after striking a sunken reef. Nineteen
persons were saved and about 150
drowned.
COLLF.CJK HAS KARXED ITS COST
Profit" on Wheats Introduced la Ore
gon Would Pay lis Way.
SALEM, Or., March 25. (To the
F.ditor.) At th's time of general dis
cussion of the millag tax system
a pro and con matter which involves
more or less ill-informed attacks
upon the cost, management and effi
ciency of our state institutions, and
in particular, the state asrricultural
college the following reminder may
be pertinent to the taxpayers'of at
least the eastern portion of the state,
and suggestive of the scope of the
actual practical benefit to the people
of the entire state derived from the
multifold other departments and sc
tivitles of the college.
I refer to the introduction of the
improved turkey red and marquis
wheats in the semi-arid regions of
eastern Oregon. This was through
the experiment station conducted by
the college at Moro In Sherman
county. And it Is from the viewpoint
of a wheat grower of 20 years' ex
perience In that region that I say that
section O-' Orfgon owes to the offices
of the state agricultural collpge an In
crease in yield netting yearly profits
fully double the entire annual run
ning expenses of the college. This
point is worthy of consideration. This
is from an angle altogether utilitar
ian. As to the other functions of the
state college and their relation to the
bette;.-nent of the interests of thn
people of Oregon, I leave the field
to other friends of this Institution
which, building upon results, has In
recent years attained a place of In-,
ternational repute as among the three i
foremost agricultural colleges In thin'
or any other country.
C. C. KI NKY.
Qualifications of Jurors.
FOSSIL, Or., March 25. (To the
Editor.) Does a woman have to be
a taxpayer or be the wife of a tax
payer in order to be drawn for Jury
service? Does a man have to be a
taxpayer to be drawn for Jury servu :
Jurors need not be taxpayers They
must be citizens, over 21 yesrs of ai-.
and have been residents of the county
for one year or more. Persons who
are subnormnl mentally or who have
been convicted "of a felony or of a
miedemeanor involving moral turpi
tude are disqualified. .