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1Q THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, KfAECH 29, 1923 ESIABUSHED BY HEN8V L. FITTOCK. Published by The Oregon Ian Publishing- Co. 135 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOROE.V, K. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian Is a member of the Asso elated 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 ot publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. deterred by tradition, and also by the penalty of ridicule, from availing themselves of a privilege which the law accords them. "Heart balm" Is but an abstraction and a theory, so far as men are concerned; It is ques tionable, nevertheless, whether a constitutional amendment such as has been suggested would not result in a change in sentiment in this re spect which would be reflected in verdicts for which no man now dares to hope. The right of a woman to retain her maiden name after marriage Is probably not seriously contended for by many women and is unlikely to be regarded as worth fighting for in any event. Should demand for it at tain sufficient proportions, it could be conferred by statute, without a constitutional amendment. "We excuse to cover the real cause. It is hardly in line with the experience of all Intents and purposes, therefore, the history of Oregon has been that dealers in other lines, which pro- J of The Oregonian voked a British critic of our institu- The first volume of the newspaper Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday included, one year $8.00 Dally, Sunday Included, six months... 4.25 Daily, Sunday Included, three months. 2.25 Daily, Sunday included, one month. ... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months 3.23 Dally, without Sunday, one month 0 Sunday, one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday included. -on voar !).O0 . Dally. Sunday included, three months. 2.25 want jury service," says one of the Dally, Sunday included, one month... .75 wompn'o nartv lpaiipri nnrl this too Daily, without Sunday, one year 7.80 women s party leaders, ana mis, too, Daily, without Sunday, three months.. 1.95 is attainable without amending the Dally, without Sunday, one month 65 fejeral constitution, as is attested in or?er.iPreerLanarch0efclCeomyouyr Oregon, where women enjoy the local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are privilege of being drawn on jury fuSriSclu'airngkcouGntV; and"". in Panels th a Criminatory P- Poetae Rate 1 to 16 pages. 1 cent; 18 Vis they shall not be com- to 32 pages. 2 cents: 34 to 48 pages. 3 pelled to serve. The right to attend ? to ,64 A cents: to ? state universities with men is denied pages. 5 cents; 82 to 98 pages, 8 cents. , ,. . Foreign postage double rate. in so few states as to make the issue Eastern Business Office Verree & Conk- local and relatively negligible. - The Hn, 300 Madison avenue. New York; Verree general progress of .education and & Conklin. Steger building, Chicago; Ver- ,j j . ree & Conklin. Free Press buiiding. De- a more widespread enlightenment troit. Mich.; verree Conklin, Monadnock j than formerly prevailed have opened building, San Francisco. Cal. . ,, centinn to women. The sex is no IVOMAN'8 RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES, j longer discriminated against in the There is no cause for wonder that civil service; it has practically noth- women are divided over the proposal I ing to gain and perhaps has some- tions the other day to observe that indefensible as the principle of pro hibition was in his estimation, he believed that the women of the United States who were enjoying a larger share of their husbands' pay envelopes than ever would never permit it to be repealed, or even modified. Nor for that matter does there seem to be any drying up of the spirit of male generosity observ able in the feminine hats that are seen on the street. Not all the money that used to be spent in saloons is going into the savings banks, nor are the men putting it all on themselves. Those milliners, if they expect to toe believed, will have to try again. . of some of them, particularly a fac tion known as the National Woman's party, to institute a campaign for a further amendment to the federal constitution, supplementing the nine teenth amendment with a provision that no political, legal or civil dis abilities or other inequalities 'based on sex or on the fact of marriage shall exist in the United States un less they are applicable with equal force to both sexes. It is a fair guess that the proposed amendment has been inspired by the present status of American women who have become the wives of aliens. -These, as is well known, forfeit their Amer ican citizenship, a possession highly prized by some of them, while the same thing does not come. to pass in a reversed situation; that is to say, the American man who marries an alien thereby makes her a citizen of the United States and meanwhile re tains his own citizenship. It may be, too, that the proponents of the amendment have in mind something concerning jury duty which so long as it remains a novelty Is by some regarded as a privilege but we know that no amendment to the thng of value to lose by insisting on pushing the issue which the woman's party has raised. There is, as a. matter of fact, a mar-ked tendency among women to deprecate any movement calculated to create a line of cleavage based on sex. That both men and women should be chosen for public service, not because they are men or women but because they are the persons best qualified for the job, is con ceded to be an ideal to be sought, and that either when elected or ap pointed to office shall work for the interests of both in their relation ship to each other Is another de sideratum. The women who oppose the proposed amendment make a strong point against it in their con tention that, with the ballot in their hands and an equal voice with men in the election of candidates, women have sufficient warrant for counting on obtaining all the additional rights and privileges that are likely to serve the interests of the country as a whole, THE LOST IDEAL. There is an important truth in the letter from Mr. Davey published in The Oregonian, the other day, in which he charges convention system and direct primary with a common handicap the lethargy of the people. The serious consequences of this lethargy do not, however, grow only from the nonparticipation of so many good citizens in party caucus or party primary. In the latter, if all the candidates for nomination to a particular office are poor sticks, a 100 per cent turn-out by the party will not make good timber of the one chosen. Nor is the caucus helped by a representative attendance if the only ones who will permit, their names to be considered for delegate are those whose motives cannot be trusted. The fault goes back of the day on which candidates are chosen or dele gates elected. The need is for the old-time ideal, rarely realized, of the office seeking the man. We have not yet been able to devise a system under which the electorate' solicits the candidate. Always the candi date solicits the electorate. reflects the hopes and the aspira tions of an American community then only beginning to realize its latent power. The population was small it was less than 10,000 in 1849. Nearly the whole of the mo mentous tide of Immigration which flowed across the continent to alter the social outlook of a nation has occurred since The Oregonian was founded, and the tale of the coming of the pioneers, which is now seen as an epic, is set down in the com monplace but graphic detail of a current event. As we scan it page by page we see that nothing essential The Listening Post. By DeWItt Harry. Lew Wallace came "breezing into the office. He's not the one that wrote "Ben Hur." As Lew entered he sang, with appropriate gesture: "Three blind mice. See how they run. ' One ran after the farmer's wife She cut off his tail with & carving knife. Did you ever see euoh a eight In your life, As three blind mice?" Now what do you think of that?" said Lew in disgust. "What do you has been omitted. Week by week 1 think of that for a grown man?" and and day by day as incidents occurred, I no went on humming the simple little or in subsequent narratives ana rem-j refrajn to the Mother Goose rhyme. "Hear that? Can't stop It," and Lew looked dejected. "Haven't done a thing all day but sing that cussed song. Went out to visit a friend last night; has two little children three blind mice, see how they run and they played nursery rhymes on the phonograph and I adopted that one, She cut off their tails I can't think A PERNICIOUS ' COMBINATION. Some idea of the conditions that constitution is required to straighten would prevail if railroads were per 77 " " " " mltted to own or control foreign-go- states and has been done with es- I lBluuw"f proposea in pecial reservations in favor of tne subsidy bill of the shipping women here in Oregon. The need of board, may be formed from the pro- a federal amendment is not at all v'sions of one of the contracts which clear. I have been annulled by the interstate That there will be, serious division commerce commission, effective among women themselves is already JulY 1- lt ia between the Milwaukee apparent from various exDressions railroad ana tne Osaka bhosen Ka on the subject. It is likely to be bushlkl Kaisha steamship line, and more pronounced than the rift upon ! was renewed as recently as October the original issue of suffrage be- i9. i'i- cause in the very nature of events I This contract establishes the clos- women who did not want to vote est community of interest between were not militant in their opposition. the railroad and steamship linea But it is being seriously questioned Each party is pledged not to become even by former active suffragists I interested in any other competing whether the new amendment would I railroad or steamship line hadling not do more harm than good, by re- I freight via Puget sound ports or moving certain special privileges I any other port of the United States now enjoyed by women because they or the dominion of Canada on the are women but which have grown Pacific coast." Kach is to give pref- out of regard for the best interests erence to freight tendered by the of society as a whole. Fo illustra- other over that "tendered by any tion, in the eyes of the law of the other corporation or shipper" and most of the states the husband is the the Milwaukee road is to give expe- bread winner of the family and in dited service to silk, treasure, parcel the absence of definite mitigating and mail matter coming by the O. S. circumstances is required to support K- steamers. Through bills of lad- the family, under penalty of prison I trg are to be issued, quoting the sentence. Any such person who I same through rates as any corapet- shall fail or neglect to support his I Ing line, and the through rate be- wife, or female children under the tween the eastern railroad terminal - age of 15 years or male children and the Asiatic steamship terminal. . under the age of 16 years," says the after deducting the percentage due Oregon statute on the subject, "shall to connecting railroads, is divided be deemed guilty of a felony." 150-50 between railroad and steam- It will be observed that there is, I ship. This arrangement pays no re- too, a sex-discriminatory provision I gard to the railroad rates sanctioned as to the age to which the children by the interstate commerce commis- are regarded as entitled to paternal sion, and it leaves the railroad free support. But the son may be turned I to pay part of those rates to the out to hustle for himself two years I steamship company, which may in earlier than the daughter. Under turn rebate that sum to the shipper, the proposed amendment, we .sup-1 It is doubtful whether the commis- pose, this will be regarded as an "in- I sion would have any control over equality based on sex"; it is still an I the foreign steamship company's dis- open question in the minds of law- I position of its share of the earnings. yers whether the wife and mother I nor could a shipper or railroad suf will be required, in the new order, fering from discrimination main- to contribute to the support of her tain a complaint, for they would not - children to the extent of her means, know how the through rate was dl but opponents of the amendment are vided. satisfied with present conditions and J-t railroads should be permitted 'to " would not change them. own steamship lines, the forms of "It is the legal duty of the father discrimination contained in this con to support his child in accordance tract could be practiced with greater with his ability," says an Oregon de- ease and secrecy. Rebates could be cision, which makes it plain that the concealed and other forms of dis fact that the wife has means of her crimination could be practiced own does not relieve him from re- against shippers by competing rail sponsibility. Not even the remar- roads or ships by denial of cargo riage of the mother shifts the bur- space, delay of shipment and expe den. Moreover, in actions both for diting of shipments carried by the alimony and for maintenance, the allied road or ocean line. Some de- husbsnd and father Is now debarred vices might be so cunning that they from pleading want of wilful intent could not be discovered or their use and the element of just and 6uffl- proved. Either shippers or rival cient cause is held also to be non- carriers would be in chronic litSga essentlal. The precise proportion of tion or there would be such minute women who would be willing to sur- supervision as would require the render these obvious and substantial services of a huge new bureau, advantages in exchange for the Quite recent history indicates shadow of technical "equality" is re- what would be the outcome. As the garded as highly problematical. . railroads drove traffic from the The laws of this and other states rivers and as the once railroad oft the subject df non-support are owned Pacific mail steamers drove strict and are rigidly enforced by rival shipping lines from the inter most communities. The recalcitrant I coastal route via Panama, so would husband can be, and often is, pur- the railroad-owned steamship lines suea to a distant point, arrested, ex- drive all other American lines from tradlted and on conviction put to I trans-oceanic routes, and the only wont on tne roads or other public protection of the shipper would foe works of the county for wages which foreign lines. These might combine are paid to his wife and children, with railroads, as the great British The industrial advance made bj and Japanese lines have done, in women in the past decade or two has joint ownership, closing any avenue not cnangea t n e l r fundamental l of escape. character, at least In law, of home- The American people have already maaer ana nomeKeeper. xne Dear- bought and paid dearly for their ei lng of the proposed constitutional perience of railroad control of ship amendment on this aspect of the sit- ping, and they have learned that uation of the family is already a safety lies only In keeping the two fruitful theme for speculation. Not means of transportation entirely in all, even of those who sincerely en- dependent of each other, every rail dorse the right of women to the road exchanging traffic on equal ballot, are prepared tj relieve hus- terms with all steamship lines run bands' and fathers of responsibilities ning to its ocean terminal and every so fundamentally in keeping with steamship line doing likewise with the spirit of a well-organized society, all connecting railroads. ; Let the We are inclined to regard less railroads keep off the sea. The see- gravely the objection also urged by I tion of the subsidy bill permitting one opponent of the proposed ! them to extend their orjeratlona across the ocean should be killed. SOME NUTS TO CKACK. Foreign trade reports for Feb ruary show that our so-called favor able balance of trade is shrinking toward the vanishing point. Our ex ports are decreasing and our imports increasing. The latter may soon ex ceed our exports, which would mean that Europe had begun to pay its debt to us in goods. Many people are clamoring to have Europe pay up, but when it begins to pay in the only possible form, our manufactur ers will begin to exclaim against ruinous foreign competition. There is further significance in the fact that Great Britain in February had cut its excess of imports to only 860,000 pounds, the totals being, ex ports 68,500,000, imports 69,360,000 pounds, though before the war the excess of imports was about 10,000, 000 pounds a month. When Great Britain begins to pay its debt to us. its exports to this country must largely exceed its imports from uc. What is to be done about it? Shall we impose a prohibitive tariff in order to stop British competition with our industries? If we should and if we should at the same time Insist on payment of the war debt, John Bull could only pay in gold or by carrying our goods on his ships and putting our merchant marine out of business. If he pays gold, he will add to the unemployed pile of gold in our banks, the idleness of which is largely responsible for the unemployment of many of our people. These are nuts for the economic geniuses in congress to crack. It seems impossible to satisfy both the people who want the war debt paid and those who want foreign goods shut out, but an American merchant marine to thrive. Possibly some master mind may devise a tariff which might be adjusted to admit unlimited imports of certain com modities in which Americans do not seriously compete while restricting imports of goods in which we do compete, thus creating an excess of Imports as payments on the debt. The American people are in a posi tion similar to that of a man who in sists that a debtor work twelve hours a day on his farm to pay the debt, but who protests, when the man begins to dig, that no work Is left for him to do. A creditor ought to be content to sit on the porch, smoke his pipe and watch the other fellow work, or to play golf or otherwise amuse him self. But the American people are not that kind of creditors. They want the other fellow to work and pay, and then accuse him for taking away their jobs. iniscences by the active participants. the entire story appears. We are re minded by the very matter-of-fact, ness of the record that it is a phe nomenon common to all times that people in the act of making history seldom realize their own Importance or the momentous consequences that are likely to flow from their acts Ypt enrlv lack nf Tfir.mAOtive is atoned for in later and fuller printed f anything else. Gosh, it's awfuL' accounts, and we are made to realize Music ' has its haunting melodies, that the essential verities are con-1 refrains that capture the mind and tained in those early news reports. persist in staying there. Some slm There were few towns and no Pie little strain will find a secure cities in Oregon in the beginning- of I place and intrench itself in the hu the period to which the memoranda I man sense of rhythm. A lively little relate, wherefore the whole history I harmony heard in the early morning of urban growth. Is to be found in I often makes the whole day bright,and these pages. Transportation was in I on the other hand, a sad or pathetic a primitive state, the territory was I gong may convert even, the brightest of without roads, the United States mail I ,jaya into a period of gloom. Our was not yet estaDiisnea, stage com- i canarv usuallv streets the first stray munlcation with the outside world I beama of the S11tl or even the first was long delayed. The ox team was I h. h, liirht ,th ,nvn,la. of ail ilb lie vuev ill j. uu v. 1 ccuuiau a . .r i n j i j truiB unu iiuuiu, gurgies turn uno-u. the first telegraph an innovation tolr . . nn. aa . tJ, the be tentatively tried and cast aside by day Jn many hm68 t&ey start the VT , k M rZrt one that will add a tine of wished for, but involving vastly too . ' . .... many complexities to be easily at- . -"""""T tained. Every step in the develop- Promises to jbe dull. The human mind mont nf railroad travel in the north- 1H o" mmuoynuio w iUui-, even tnree mm mice. With the recent rise to popularity of the teazel, along with many other weeds, a market has been developed for a plant that at one time was of west is recorded in some issue of The Oregonian. Other industries have followed, and they, too, have been set down, one by one. The merest outline only is possible which Lieutenani Abbot had forecast value' but tha5 of Jat0 in 1849, and of gold, which had been waa a wasce srowm. o moa presaged by the romantic and tragic home ia considered complete unless Rlno Rur.kAt incident of 1845. and i " "c more significant than either in their I display. However, the teazel in for- bearinir unon the future of the re- I mer years was not an ornament, it gion the efforts of men to pursue I was cast in a useful role. and profit bv their discoveries are I Manufacturers of woolen cloth also recorded as matters of news. I would 'have been at an absolute lo Several hundred entries attest the if they could not have had teazels, activities of the people during the The barbed spikes of the plant were railroad-building era; It is possible used to raise the nap on the finished now to observe the play and counter- Moth and for manv vears no mechan play of human interests which at- icai substitute could be found, for the tended such epochal movements as I llttie natural hooks on the teazel this was; but the same has been I The r h hinnm. r Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folk at the Hotels. "More than $4,000,000 was sent east last year for hogs which should have been raised in this territory," says Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian, who passed through Portland yester day. "In 1916 the northwest states raised 821,000 hogs and in 1921 only 98,000 were produced. In 1916 there were brought into this territory only 897 hogs, yet last year 61,000 were brought in from the east. It can be seen that millions of dollars from Oregon and Washington are sent to the middle states. The best feed for hogs is corn and barley. After the United States got into the war farmers ceased raisinsr barley and began in creasing their acreage and growing wheat, because there was a big de mand for wheat and the prices were high. Since then the farmers have not returned to an extensive produc tion of barley and, in consequence, the production of hogs has fallen off and the middle west is looked to for the needs of the northwest. On the 40, 000 farms in Oregon there are only 11,000 purebred hogs. There should be at least two brood sows on every farm, which would give 80,000 In this state. A farmer can make easy money with a couple of sows, but he shouldn't go in much deeper than that. In eastern Oregon the alfalfa farmers are preparing to raise hogs on alfalfa until they are about 70 pounds and then sell them to the wheat farmers. About $200 can be cleared on every 160 acres of stubble. with 10 to 15 hogs to the quarter sec tion. This alfalfa plan is now being undertaken in Hermiston." "I believe a hotel man has a better chance to be a perpetual reception committee for his city than any other business man and few people realize what It means to a city to have hotel- men and clerks who have sold their town to themselves," says Wallace F. "Vail, controller of the Fairmont and Whitcomb hotels, who is visiting Portland and is at the Multnomah. Frequently men who seek places to invest their capital judge a town by the people they meet around the ho tels. I watched the force of the Multnomah handle the members of the Chicago Grand Opera company and know that they had a part in sending them away boosters for Port land. A closer relationship among hotelmen along the Pacific coast will be a great aid in bringing and keep ing tourists in the west for a longer period." . Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, IIonehtOB-Mlf flln Co. Can Yoa Answer These Questional 1. How do crabs hibernate? 2. Can cats be taught not to kill birds? 3. Are all young birds fed with insects? Answers In tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Pre-lous Questions t 1. Do pines drop their cones every year? Not all kinds do. The prickly-cone pine of the California coast region, pinus muricata, holds its cones many years, as much as 15 or more; lu fact, sometimes during the whoie life of the tree. These cones are several years in opening. They are very hard, with sharp spines developed from the middle of each scale, and about impossible to pick with the hand. 2k How do orioles work in weav ing their nests? Strings to make framework are at tached to forked twigs In such a way that the fork forms a mouth at the top of the nest. After sufficient string has been looped from this sup port, bits of bark fiber, grasses and similar fllexible stuff are drawn through the roughly netted loops to make a sort of fabric. The inside layer, a fine one, is placed first, and the walls gradually thickened with rougher material. An inner padding of hair, etc., goes In last. 3. Can a savage that does not wear shoes use his foot as monkeys do? No. The bones of his foot are much like those of an ape, but he has a special small muscle, called "per oneus. tertlus" lacking In apes which helps man to keep his feet turned sole down. This prevents us ing the foot "handily" as apes do. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montaarse. true In varying degree of the de velopment of every industry stimu lated by the spirit of growth and change. The gradual emergence of territory and state from the prim- cut off and placed In rotating drums. where the tiny hooks would engage the surface of the cloth and raise the soft nap and give the cloth the itlve conditions which enveloped the pro,p.,f,inin'' ' - A , , first comers, the steps by which pres- xu 1111 la "eeM lr .nt eminence has bnen achieved, are were 5lrleu ln various wKuuns i all recorded, one by one. In no agel the country, one of the largest in this has so full a record of current events 1 district Deing near moiana. leazeis been preserved as has 'been made thrive in Oregon and in many loca- possible by the newspapers of the I tions there are great fields of wiw nineteenth and twentieth centuries; ones. However, they outlived their no period of seven decades or there- 1 usefulness or ever-active human in- abouts, we think, has been so fraught I genuity finally succeeded in perfecting with happenings of genuine conse-1 an artificial substitute that is now quence as that which has been cov- universally employed. The result is ered by the uninterrupted publica- that there Is an abundance of teazels tlon of The Oregonian. for the home and lt is not necessary Nor is the record confined to the I for any lover of weeds to be without history of the political subdivision , now known as Oregon. We are re minded by an entry which refers to a good-sized; bunch. . The old matrimonial lottery seems change, that present penalties for seduction would be nullified, or at least that women would also be sub ject to them. There is now substantial equality before the law in the po sition of the sexes with relation to damages for breach of promise of marriage, though this is at present nominal, We realize that men are The reason which an internationally-known firm of man millin ers gives for Its recent business fail ure that "men of means today are not so liberal with their women folk as they were before the dry days" has the earmarks of a. hatched-u HISTORY IN THE MAKING. That those who have consistently read The Oregonian during the life time of this newspaper have been rather fully Informed concerning the history of the northwest country is a fact again impressed on us by careful examination of the typewrit ten "Memoranda of Files of The Ore gonian, 1850-1910," prepared by Leslie M. Scott, as an incident in the compilation and annotation of the historical writings of his father, the late Harvey W. Scott, for many years editor of The Oregonian. The mem oranda, which constitute in substance an Index of the flies of The Ore gonian, so far as they relate to the history of the Oregon Country, make a .formidable volume of more than 700 pages. The Oregonian acknowl edges with much satisfaction the re. ceipt of a copy of this index, which has been presented to it by Mr. Scott. Interest in them, however, will not be confined to the professional his tory writer. Episodic though the treatment of history by contempora neous annalists may seem when ob. served in perspective, it is Impressed on us that very little of real value has escaped the journalist. This record covering a period of sixty years Is complete. From practically the beginning of the existence of Oregon as a territory of the United States, down to the present, nothing has occurred that has had any bear ing upon the social, political or In dustrial development of the com monwealth which has not been set down with much wealth of detail and with substantial accuracy, as events have proved in that com pendium of history which The Ore gonian is thus shown to have been. Final adjudication of the con troversy between the United States and Great Britain over the north west boundary of the United States, by which title to the region now em braced in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and western Montana was confirmed in the United States antedated by only four years, and formal creation of Oregon territory preceded by less than two years the founding of The Oregoni&n on December 4, 1850, Xo , the Cowlitz convention of 1851 that to be going strong. A recent circular, The'Oregonian antedates the begin- red-Inked on gay yellow paper, guar- nlng of the movement for a separate antees a good wife for $12. In his territorial government for Washing- naive appeal the manager says: "I'd ton, and by others that the present love to be your friend. I'll treat you state of Idaho was a part of Ore-1 like you were my own brother. This gon, all in The Oregonlan's time. The ts such a big, beautiful world that I noteworthy landmarks appear in can't see why dishonest people have these pages as a matter of course, to live In it at all, can you? I have but the record contains a good deal so many splendid lady members more tnan tnat. A nose siaengnts I ..illv some of the eirls and ladies of incident and personality which wn beiong to the club are so nice and good and sweet that I almost Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Whitney and son, from Detroit, Mich., are at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Whitney is the head of the Whitney Lumber com pany, which has extensive Interests in Oregon. The Whitney concern owns the big sawmill at Garibaldi, on the Tillamook coast, with about 12 miles of railroad running up from Idaville into a heavy stand of timber owned by the company. Logging operations will be started within a short time and the mill, which now employs a few score men, will be in active oper ation in a couple of months. Mr. Whitney is here on a trip of inspec tion and will go to Garibaldi in a few days to look over the situation. "It Is great sport killing sharks off Honolulu." said Colonel Ayres of Baker, who hasreturned from a visit to the paradise of the Pacific. The colonel is an old resident of Baker, having been in the cattle business for years, then became a capitalist and ts now taking things easy. "There are no sharks where the bathing Is, of course, but out to sea a few miles the sharks can be found. The method Is to take the carcass of a horse or something of the sort, disembowel it and drop it overboard into the sea When the sharks appear they are harpooned. Shark hunting has plenty of thrills." ANTI-DA-jVCE TALK SUGGESTIVE mean so much to tne true in terpreter of events and which are furnished only by the modern news paper, and, in a few rare instances, by the intimate diaries of the par ticipants in them, Illuminate these pages from the beginning to the present time. It is with considerable and, we think, pardonable pride that The Oregonian is able to say that its love them myself. I wouldn't stay single for a million dollars if I were you, when I could get a dear little wife to love me. Isn't the fee asked very small. Indeed, compared with your future happiness?" It's alluring, says a friend, but then you see he's already married. But now you know how they do it, how they nnpAa nnstitute n oomTilete and on the whole accurate history of the Set their prospects? The circular of- region with which for almost three- rers servant giris, scnooi gins, ciems, miartora nf a fnntnrv it haa main, i StenOETaPherS, nurses, musicians, tained a peculiarly intimate -relation- teachers, housewives, business or pro ship. I fessional women, maids, bachelor girls or widows, "and there is no Teaching- farmlner bv motion nlc- reason way you snouia not marry a ture is to be staged in Clackamas, wealthy lady If you wish to.' Every farmer with a houseful of I For a finale cast your eyes on this: boys should attend with them. If 'Women are by nature romantic. they see just one wrinkle that will j which is intensified with age and lighten their labor or make it more wealth. Far-off pastures look green' productive, they will be repaid. The is a part df their philosophy. Your little things count in the day's farm I chances are much better, sinoe there work. i are more wealthy ladles than a year or so ago. The spirit of unrest in the The best guide to the -opinion of land quickens the romantic spirit of the American people on the Eard- the ladies and there Is a widespread ing administration is the price of desire to correspond, get acquainted liberty bonds. It is steadily going up, I to marry. Now Is the time to act and victory bonds are above par, and all I success is sure to crown your efforts. other issues promise soon to- reach I And It might get by If it were not par or above. One rather hates to hear of a deer being captured while struggling to swim a wide river, to be confined for the rest of its life. The animal be longs in the wilds until taken by the sportsman in the customary way. I for that word "green" There's an -old bachelor who lives on Alnsworth avenue who has fine-working, big heart. The domestic affairs of his household are under the efficient care of a widow with two young children. The pride of her lit tle girl's heart was a big white kitten andi the child was nearly overcome when it strayed away a few days ago. This disaster affected the old bach elor and he tackled the problem of filling the void in the little woman's W o-s r Mr ti J I c M n it- tA dffl n f a nimAr A masher allowed to go on his I A lnv f .hAi Th uwu recognisance aniuiu ut wary ui sidestepping the husband of the In sulted woman. Roy Hannenkraft, a Tillamook schoolboy, has 315 gophers to hla credit and beats all the "jaw" farm ers in the state. A horse thief in Klamath was con victed in four minutes, but an auto theft can hang fire a year anywhere. The man who died and left to the heirs ten times what they thought he had was a prince of providers. They figure that the first straw berries can retail at 35 cents the pint. Dream on! Women "who ride with a drunken driver are flirting with a hearse. The man fool enough to smoke in Bed always awakes too soon. March weather. April showers. Indeed! J ut farmer ploked out a cute little lamb and, after it was washed snowy white. garnished its neck with a bow of bright red ribbon and) drove to Alns worth avenue. Ts the young lady home who lost a white kitten?" he asked; and when she came to the door, "I have some thing in my wagon that I think be longs to you," and went out and brought in the long-legged little lamb. The story goes that the child was frightened when she first saw the baby lamb, but the new white visitor soon wormed its way into the place in her affections formerly occupied by the kitten. Now the lamib has all the privileges of the kitten and more be sides. It occupies the warmest nook behind the stove and eats its meals from a milk bottle, just like any baby would. The oldi bachelor, as usual, must carry around a warm feeling in jsihai. .. .... . - i Curtis A. Tom of the North Star ranch, near Rufus, Sherman county, was in town yesterday with a long petition, to the effect that the people In Sherman county want the Sherman highway, a state road, run to Rufus instead of going to Biggs, on the Columbia river. There is now a good road to Rufus and tho petitioners think this road should be a state highway rather than running down the canyon to Biggs. The matter may come up at the next meeting of the state highway commission. The apple blossoms will be late in appearing this year, in the Mosier district, according to C. A Macrum, apple grower, who Is at the Hotel Portland. The weather conditions have been such this winter, explains Dr. Macrum, that the blossoms will not be on display as early as usual. One of the most gorgeous sights in Oregon Is when the orchards of Mosier and Hood River valley are in bloom. The new auditorium at The Dalles will be ready for dedication cere monies on April 1. It will be a real civic center as it contains, beside the auditorium, a theater, gymna- j sium, a fine dance floor and Amer lean Legion headquarters. Mayor Stadelman. at the Multnomah, Is in Portland to arrange for a band to participate in the dedication. More Harm Done By It Than By Dance Itself, Says Grandmother. PORTLAND, March '28. (To the Ed itor.) I wonder if Mrs. M. A. Albin knows what a real thrill Is. By her own statement in a letter in The Ore gonian she does not know the pleas ure of dancing. This sex question is disgusting to most decent people. I realize that many people are honestly opposed to dancing in our public school buildings, and I am one of them. I come of a family of teachers; was one myself in one of the most pro gressive states for higher education in the middle west. My own daugh ter was an eighth-grade teacher for six years, and Is now and for several years past has been connected with one of the largest high schools in an adjoining state. Her husband, a pro fessor of English, Is also In the high school. They both dance. Their young son has been given the opportunity of learning to dance correctly, but he is too busy with his school work this year in high school to spend much of his time dancing. My other daughter is one of the school board in a pro gressive town. She and her husband both dance, as does their young daughter, a high school student. But she does not go to public dances, and they do not use the school buildings for dance halls. Now I have admitted that I am a grandmother; I am a club woman and a church worker, and I honestly con fess there is no greater pleasure for one than to attend a nice dancing party and dance to the strains ot real music not jazz. The first time I met my husband, my second mar riage, ho was introduced to me, and asked me to dance; we both enjoy dancing. I absolutely deny that people cannot dance and be pure in thoughts and actions. No girl or woman needs to continue to dance with a man who takes liberties, and she need not make a scene, either. I am tired of all this sex question. More Impure thoughts are put into the minds of our young people of the decent class than all the dancing they may do. The writer is defeating her own aims by making the unqualified statements she does, and is doing more harm than good. If more parents would accompany their children (I have often seen a father go with his daughter) they would then know whom they meet. and with whom they are, after the dance. Even young people who have the right home environment are In fluenced by their companions. I won der how many people notice that many young girls and boys who have had the lines of restriction held too tight at home are the first ones to fall when they do get out Into the world. "Shall our public school buildings be used for dancing?" is a legitimate question and entitles an honest opin ion on both sides;, and I really be lieve a debate by the high school stu dents themselves would be handled in better manner than all of these letters. They certainly would not be so suggestive. E. B. L. . WHAT'S THIS tSKI It's rather comforting to read. When work grows long, and pay grows shorter And many, many things we nred. That ev -ry dollar's up a quarter. This unexpected Increment, So shrewd economists advise us. Will add Juat twenty-five per cent To what a long green dollar buys us. However at th corner store. To which I lately took a dollar And tried to make it purcnaae mora. You should have heard the grocer holler! The butcher seemed well pleased to take Tho dollar, but the fellow told me That It would buy the same sized stenk That for the last three years he's sold me. The Income tax collector said (And looked the while extremely sour) That, up to date, he hadn't read About this added paying power. I thought lie rnlKht reduce my tax; My arguments were Ions; and many. But simply nothing would relax His greed to take my utmost penny. It's nice to know, as I've explained Now work grows lonir and pa grows shorter That every dollar bill has gained The added value of a quarter. But that can hardly satlafy An over-worked and hunttry poet When all the folks from whom I buy The things I need refuse to know it. Form Tour Own Opinion. The shortage of a billion dollars hi Income tax receipts proves either that the people are making less money or doing more dodging. Just a Point of View. We don't wan't to be invidious, but we hope Englishmen will net thrlr Idea of this country from the works of Lord Bryce rather than from the jazz bands now touring that tight little island. Lo ve. By Grace IS. Hall, Take this word upon ths Hps Reverently, as one who sips From the sacramental bowl. With a hush upon the soul. Mystic word that fans the fires Of tho world's sublime desires. Speak It not with careless breath- Symbol both of life and death. In Other Days. Twenty-fivs Years Abo. From Tho Orejtonlan ot March 20, 1KI7. Austin, Texas. A terrific cyclone swept over thi part of the stato to day, destroying many buildings and killing a number of people. Washington Three more days will spo the end of the struKKln over the Dino-ley tariff bill In the hou A final vote will be taken Wednesday. The Blyth scratch medal to be com peted for by the Portland (Jolf club at the spring tourney arrived In Port lands from Scotland last Wentaemlny. At the mciPtlng of the Mate equal suffrage association last nlKht lt was decided to mark time until thi n-xt legislature meets, when the bill for equal suffrage will be introduced again. Attention is now bein directed in the Clatskanie district toward the growing of spinach on the diked lands in that vicinity. A consider able acreage is being put out to these "greens" and a cannery has already contracted for the entire crop. C. H. Stockwell of Clatskanie, Or., is reg istered at the Hotel Oregon. Ben Wood, secretary of the Idaho State Life Insurance company, is registered at the Multnomah from Boise. He states that conditions In Idaho are improving. j C. H. Coffin, formerly a banker of Boise, Idaho, but now in the hard ware business, is among the arrivals at the Multnomah. F. V. Fisher of Boise, Idaho, is registered at the Multnomah, en route to Berkeley, CaL, where he will make his home. Mrs. D. M. Davidson, manager of a hotel at Hood River, is registered at the Multnomah. W; P. Myers, an attorney of Bend. Or., ia registered at the Perkins. Coast livestock Ratings. PORTLAND, March 28. (To the Editor.) Please state the relative size and Importance of the stock yard receipts and packing Industries of the Pacific coast cities. a .W. HOPKINS. Livestock receipts for February at Pacific coast points were as follows: Pronunciation of Karnes. ' BARTON. Or, March 27. (To the Editor.) 1. What are Hawaiian bees? 2. Is the drink made from them alcoholic? 3. Give the correct pronunciation Of Goethals and Cbaulmoogra oil. SUBSCRIBER. 1. So far as we know, nobody has taken the pains to analyze the sub stance. It is probably one of several forms of budding fungi, whose active agent Is known as an enzyme, which hastens alcoholic fermentation. 2. Yes. 3. Goethals Go-thalz, accent on the first syllable; chaulmoogra chai- moo-gra; first "a" as In "all"; accent on second syllable. Fifty Years A so. From The OreKonlan of March 20, lf72. A pig made entirely of copper and weighing 70 pounds was placed on display yesterday In the wlrvodw of the Ladd & Tilton bank. The nvtal came from S00 pounds of ore found la a ledge In, Baker county. Parties at Walla Walla are offer ing 40 cents a pound for the spring clip of wooL Mrs. Carrio F. Young, the able mntL talented temperance lecturer, deliv ered, a public address Wed ne.rliy eve ning at Loe's chapel on the Michlgsjj temperance law. The city 'dog killer Is taking- ht iluties very seriously, on Tuesday hav ing captured and sent on their way 20 stray dogs. MERELY REPORT OF COMMITTEE) Everybody WU1 Want to Be Mayor. PORTLAND, March 28. (To the Editor.) Judging from the expres sions made by nearly all the men of one's acquaintance since the recent well-known incident consequent upon the mayor's reception duties, lt is reasonable to believe the number of candidates for the chief executive office of the city will be practically the census figures for Portland's adult male population. It is astonishing, however, that there are, as yet, no hats of the flower garden or vineyard variety cast Into the ring. Surely, there Is a possibility that Wallie Reid will have to be welcomed here some day. ONE THAT MARY MISSED. Bar Association Has Not Yet Votes on Tightening of Admission. PORTLAND. March IS. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian last Bun day in a report by your correspond ent on the proceedings of the ad journed meeting of the Oregon Bar association, lt was made to appear that the association had gone on rec ord as advocating two years' prelim inary college work and three years of full time legal work In a law school as a prerequisite to admis sion to the bar. The committee appointed for this purpose did make such a recom mendation to the association, but the matter did not coma up before the association for a vote, as the com mittee itself requested that consid eration of its report be put over until the next meeting of the asso ciation, whluh, according to the seo retary, will not be called before No vember of the present year. While this standard Is considered very desirable as an ideal, it Is th opinion of many lawyers who art conversant with the status of legal education In Oregon that such a re quirement should not be Imposed until Portland is prepared to finance a full-time day law school. J. HUNT HENDKICKSON. Dean, Northwestern College of Law. amrs of Commissioners. PORTLAND, March 28. (To the Editor.) Would like to know the name and address of each of the Portland, 4-0,013; Seattle, 21,848; commissioners who have the raising Emeryville. 16.880; Tacoma. 9425; f grates -" - Fee for Bonus Appraisal. j KELSO, Wash.. March 28. (To ths Editor.) Kindly tell me what Is ths regular fee for making appraisal of an ex-soldier's property who has made application to the state for a loan. My son was one of the first to make application, but the appraiser refused to come and appraise his property for less than $15. Can It be possible that such a fee can be allowed for less than IS minutes work? The property Is In the city of Portland. SUBSCRIBER. The maximum fee allowed by law for appraisal Is $5 for each appraiser, but three appraisers examine each tract. SDOkane. 6920. Emeryville, near Oakland, is the principal livestook center of California No Market for Lungwort. MONMOUTH, Or.. March 27. (To the Editor.) Please tell me if there Is any sale for lungwort. It grows on oak trees. It is highly recom mended for all lung troubles. A READER. There is no market for lungwort. It is no longer credited with thera peutic properties of any value and baa fallen Into disuse, way and power company. A READER. The public service commissioner has regulatqry power over the rates of both utilities. The commissioners are Fred A Williams, Fred G. Buchtel and H. H. Corey, Salem, Or. "Harding as Town Name. PORTLAND. March 2a. (To the Ed itor.) I respectfully suggest the name "Harding," In honor of our pres ident, for the name of the postoffice to be located at West Salem, Or. MRS. HF.I.F.N PARRY. Location of 44th Infantry. TAQUINA, Or., March 27. (To the Editor.) Can you tell me whether the 44th United States infantry Is still In the service? I read where several of the regiments had been put on re serve. If the 44th Is still in exist ence, can you tell me where It Is stationed? LOUIE BAIN. The latest record we have shows that all but a company of the 44th infantry ts at Schofleld barracks, Hon olulu. A company is at Fort Shaftor, Honolulu, according to the same re port. The regiment has never been disbanded. It Is one of the old regu lar army nxUta.