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THE 5IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1922
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XLOYD GEORGE GOES DOWN FIGHT
ING. Fall of the Lloyd George coali
tion cabinet, in Great Britain sends
into retirement from office the
only remaining war premier of the
allies. The wonder is that- this
change has becn delayed so long,
not that it has come so soon. Lloyd
George in pre-war days said things
of the lords, who are the backbone
of the unionist party, which they
can never forgive; he was the chief
instrument in curtailing their
power in the house of lords, he has'
maneuvered them into granting do
minion government to Ireland,
rendering the very name of their
party obsolete. They had long
chafed at the bond which forced
them to accept him as their leader,
and one after another has broken
away until they have at last cut the
bond.
Only the supreme" necessity of
war Induced the lories, for such in
fact are the members of the union
ist party, to support Lloyd. George
as premier. His humble origin, po
litical opinions and ' record inspire
them with instinctive aversion for.
him, and as a .member of the As
quith cabinet he had heaped scorn
upon them, imposed new taxes on
them and reduced the influence of
the lords in the government to p.
shadow. But the proved incompe
tence of the Asquith coalition
brought their cosntry face to face
with the prospect of defeat by Ger
many. Lloyd George's ' splendid
record in organizing munition pro
duction and in keeping restless
labor at work pointed him out as
the one who could win victory, and
rather than submit , to a German
kaiser they chose to be ruled by a
Welsh radical. War perfected him
in the art of compromise, and the
tory leaders learned to. admire and
respect him, tinding him not so dif
ficult to work with after all. After
Germany was beaten the great task
of peacemaking and domestic re
construction was used as an argu
ment for continuing the coalition
and the prestige of victory gave it
a tremendous majority at the elec
tion in December, 1918.
From its formation two years
earlier, the coalition had been the
object of attack. Though Lord
Northcliffe had been one of the
chief engineers of the change from
Asquith to George, on the very
morrow of the latter's elevation he
betrayed enmity arising from some
quarrel connected with selection of
the new cabinet. Conduct. of the ot loK' KUKnarin and Aiexan
war was attacked bv the irreconcil- dra KolIont:t'. and the Germans
able tories and by the little group lflid much t0 'eak?n the national
of liberals that had stood by As-ispirit thr0l'Sh Rosika Sehwimmer.
riuith. After the armistice the peace ! the Pro-German' agent, during the
conference led to a protest against l)"r:ocl of neutrality. All of these
too great leniency to German-, wie I wcre admitted by the Wilson ad-
labor party upheld the attempts, of
the. labor unions to impose social
ism on the country, to retain war
Wages and to force recognition of
the Russian soviet. A strong de
mand for economy arose, and re
hellion in Mesopotamia. .Egypt and
India supplied the independent
liberals with political ammunition.
Ireland was in revolt, and the gov
ernment was accused by turns of
too great severity and too little
energy in fighting the Sinn Fein,
while the London Times and other
leading newspapers proposed
sweeping concessions to win peace.
Handling of Una, reparation nrob-
lem was condemned on the oge
hand as too harsh with Germany
and as injurious to trade, on the
other hand as alienating France
from the alliance which was con
sidered essential to fulfilment of
the Versailles treaty and to the
peace of Europe.
Lloyd George has come success
fully through a succession of crises,
thanks to his readiness in meeting
any situation without regard to
principles, as his critics have said.
He has staved off revolution at
home and has removed that danger.
He has given India, Mesopotamia
and Egypt home rule, he has re
organized the empire by making
the dominions equal partners, he
has improved relations with the
United States by joining in the
naval limitations treaty and by
ending the Japanese alliance, and
he has brought about at least a be
ginning of Industrial activity. But
the back of his coalition has been
broken on two rocks Ireland and
Turkey.
In Ireland he followed the policy
of force until the situation was re
garded as intolerable by both par
ties to the conflict, though he was
sure to have a remnant of die
hards to reckon with among both
the independence and the unionist
Irish parties. He then used the
logic of events to induce his union
ist colleagues to renounce their
principle by not only consenting to
but by actively promoting a settle
ment. The free state treaty Is
more liberal than any that Glad
stone dreamed of, but the son of
Joseph Chamberlain, who led the
' liberal unionist revolt against Glad
stone's home rule bill, was one of
the negotiators. Lloyd George
doubtless realized that the senti
ment for independence would re
main strong so long as British force
was used against it. By granting
the substance of Independence
while retaining Ireland as a mem
ber of the empire he made it to Ire
land's interest, to crush the Sinn
Fein die-hards and remove the
J cause of anti-British sentiment in (
the United States and the domin- ,
ions. But the Ulster die-hards
fought the treaty relentlessly, and
have worked without ceasing to
break up the coalition.
Turkey's victory over Greece and
its consequences gave them their
opportunity. Lloyd George massed
British forces in the IJardanelles
to retain the control of the straits
and to prevent war from spread
ing into the Balkan peninsula, j
He knew- that the Turks would
halt before superior force, but
.nothing else, and that France and
Italy would not be willing to
let Britain alone aequirg the credit
of having won freedom of the
straits. He guessed rightly, for
those two powers fell in line with
him and he won without firing a
shot. But the die-hards and the
pacifist liberals and laborites raised
the cry that he was involving the
country in a new war and provoked
a panic about more war taxes. Dis
integration of "the coalition pro
ceeded rapidly, Lloyd George's
Manchester speech failed to stay it,
and his enemies have triumphed.
It may prove to be a hollow tri
umph. The strongest men among
the unionists Balfour, Chamber
lain, Birkenhead andothers stand
by their former chief, thus forcing
Bonar Law to choose new material
for a cabinet where It does not
abound. The new premier's first
task will be to call an election for
a new parliament, and it is not in
good position to win a majority.
The ousted, premier excels on. the
offensive and may carry many
unionists with him to join his lib
eral followers in forming a new
party. The Asquith liberals are
under the shadow of their failure in
war, and the labor party is so
branded with socialism that the
brand will not come off. Lloyd
Georg'e may spring a new popular
cry like reform of the house of
lords to weaken the tories. If
Bonar Law should lack a major
ity, he would have to form a
new coalition in order to hold
power. The allies with whom his
party has just broken would be out
of the question, the Independent
liberals are averse to coalitions un
less they control, and only the so
cialist laborites would remain. The
latter are now second In strength in
parliament and may. return rein
forced. What combination will be
possible to form a working major
ity without including the laborites
is a puzzle for British politicians.
A"ll the world twill watch, for de
velopments in British politics will
deeply influence international affairs.-
That Lloyd George will fill
a large part in the drama is certain,
for he is never so happy as when
fighting and, being relieved of of
ficial responsibility, he will now
fight with a freedom that will leave
some scars.
SHIT OCT RED AGITATORS.
There are big gaps in the immi
gration net if Jean Longuet, leader
of the ' French communists and
grandson of Karl Marx, can get
into the United States. He is com
ing to reunite the revolutionary
forces in this country with those in
Europe, and he calls the bloody
tyranny that rules Russia "the first
great socialist government the
world has ever seen.". A protest
against the visa of his passport has
been made" by Miss Mary G. Kil
breth, of the Woman Patriot, who
says that his 'mastery -of English
and his relations with the reds of
England, Fiance and Russia would
enable him to accomplish much for
revolution in this country.
The same reasons that lend the
government to refuse recognition to
the soviet government should lead
it to exclude agitators who aim to
set up thut form of government in
America. Certainly the reds w6n
man' recrui,s through the activity
ministration, who put a radical in
charge of - the immigration station
at New York. The reds seem to
have scored on the present admin
istration when they admitted Isa
dora Duncan, for she talks of unit
ing the red blood of Russia with
the red blood of America as she
waves a red banner before her au
dience. The work of combating the revo
lutionary element and ot Ameri
canizing the immigrants will be
doubly difficult if red lecturers are
permitted to come from abroad fend
neutralize it. The new supply of
red sentiment from Europe should
be cut off, while we eliminate that
which -is already here..
BI DGET SYSTEM IX DANGER. .
Warning of , Charles G. Dawes
that attempts might be made by
cabinet officers to go over, the head
of the budget director and obtain
from congress larger appropria
tions than he had approved had a
sound basis, according to an article
by William F. Helm Jr. in The
Budget. He says that cabinet of
ficers and heads of independent
bureaus were told by President
Harding that, if they did not keep
their estimates for 19 24 within the
revenue, they would be cut. Never
theless their estimates exceeded
those for the present year. General
Lord, the budget director, then cut
them $600,000,000 by allocating a
certain sum to -each department
and each cabinet officer protested,
but to no purpose. They then re
vised their estimates to conform to
General, Lord's figures, but each of
them prepared a list of supple
mental estimate in the hope that
It would pass congress.
The situation proves the abso
lute necessity of a budget director
who has the unflinching support of
the president in order that govern
ment expenditures may be kept in
side the revenue. The budget di
rector being the agent of the presi
dent for control of expenditures, it
is inconceivable that the president's
cabinet would go to congress for
appropriations which ho had not
approved, for that would be insub
ordination in his official family.
But the habit of asking congress
for as .much money as they would
like to ipend Is bo strong with
heads of department and bureatis
that it seems hard to break, A
strong-willed president alone can
break it,
Uevenu for the next fiseal year
is expecUd to fall $609,000,080
short of expenditures for this year,
and expenses must be reduced by
that amount in order that the gov
ernment may live within its in-
come. - This is a new situation tp
which the spenders do not easily
adapt themselves. Formerly there
was a surplus of greater or less
amount for year after year; the
cost of th Panama canal was
largely paid with surplus revenue.
President Cleveland during . his
first term based his demand for re
duction of the tariff on the fact
that the government collected more
revenue than was necessary to meet
its expenses. . The years of surplus
revenue are gone. The time lor
happy-go-lucky methods of na
tional finance has also gone. t The
effort of each department should
be to retrench in order that the
government may not spend more
than, it Veceives; then again to re
trench in order that we may reduce
the national debt. If increased
prosperity should create a surplus,
it should be applied to reduction of
the debt. Interest each year is
now about equal in amount with
the principal of the pre-war debt.
The sure way to relieve the peorjle
of the burden of taxation is to re
duce that interest charge by reduc
ing the principal of the debt.
''PERFECTLY
PROPER
TION."
TRAXSAC-
Will you, Mr. Pierce, as governor,
being chairman of the state land
board, approve of loans in similar
circumstances to the grant of a
loan to Walter Pierce in 1903 viz.:
through fake transfers of prope-tfy,
dummy ownerships, false affida
vits?
The Oregonian has so far been
unable to get an audible syllable
out of the fluent mouth of Mr.
Pfcarce on the above question. We
are left to assume that his notion
of his duties in the administration
of the school fund is to be as liberal
to his friends as to himself.
But we hear from the Portland
Journal that it was a "perfectly
proper transaction." Thus we see
that a "perfectly proper transac
tion." in the Journal's eyes,' is the
service its candidate for governor
performs for himself in false repre
sentations,' under oath, involving
several of his friends and relatives,
and designed to fatten his own
pocket with money borrowed from
the state on easy terms, in violation
of law. ' To the ' Oregonian this
"perfectly proper transaction" has
every aspect of a thoroughly dis
honest transaction.
Now that we have the Journal's
definition of a "perfectly proper
transaction," it may be well to so
licit further light as to that pure
newspaper's attitude on other ques
tions of state concern, and to that
end we respectfully address to the
Journal several questions:
When did you discover that taxes
in Oregon are too high?
What specific proposal to levy
taxes did you ever oppose on the
ground of its cost to the taxpayer?
When did you find out that the
administration of Governor Olcott
is not worthy of commendation, and
that Mr. Olcott is not a good ad
ministrator? - '
When, where and how did you
learn of the superior virtues of Mr
Pierce and the inferior virtues of
Mr. Olcott?
A SACRIFICE TO ALLIED DlSL'NIOjW.
The allies congratulate them
selves on a fine demonstration of
unanimity when they induce the
Turks to give the Greek army
fifteen days for .evacuation of
Thrace, the province to be policed
during; that period ; and another
month by Turkish gendarmerie.
That is a complimentary name for
the irregulars who do the dirty
work of rriass'acre and deportation
for the Turkish army, the officers
of which are taken into fellow
ship as polished gentlemen by the
of fleets cf. European armies. Seven
battalions probably 7000 men of
allied troops will occupy Thrace
during those six weeks to supervise
the transfer, but the number of
gendarmerie is to be unlimited.
Reduced to cold facts and to the
certainty of what will riappen, at
which we may arrive through
knowledge of past conduct of "the
Turks, what does all this mean?
Simply that Kemal may send over
a large body of troops under the
guise of gendarmes troops intoxi
cated with victory and fanaticism
and enraged at the devastation
wrought by the Greeks on their re
treat to Smyrna enough of them
to swamp the allied contingent. We
may expect these Asiatic barbari
ans to begin robbing and killing
Greeks. The allied troops will prob
ably have orders not to intercede
forcibly except on orders from
their governments, especially not to
shoot, and the French and Italians
may receive a secret order to look
another way if they see a Turk
killing a Greek, while the .British
may ' be warned to avoid any "un
toward incident." That is one of
the smooth phrases which diplo
mats use to describe civilized sol
diers killing a barbarian caught
redhanded in the act of murder.
Such interference is considered
highly indiscreet by the men who
call themselves statesmen and
whose bungling causes the victors
in the war to reinstate the van
quished in territory won'from the
Turk twice in ten years.
What this armistice means is
well understood by the Greek pop,
ulation of Thrace. Since the first
Balkan war began, the people of
Thrace have been on the move.
When the Bulgars took possession,
the Turks fled. .When the Turks
went badk during the second
Balkan war. they massacred, de
ported or terrified into flight about
300,000 Greeks, for, as a corre
spondent of the London Times puts
it, "it was by then realized by
those principally concerned that
racial minorities , were undesirable
in the Balkans and they settled
the country with Turkish refugees
from Macedonia," Thus the Turks
created the majority by virtue of
which they claim the territory as
theirs in accordance with the grand
principle of self-determination. In
1920 the allies handed the province
over to the Greeks, and the fugi
tives returned In swarms, taking
not. only their old homes but muuh
land that had been occupied for
centuries by Turk and Bulgars,
many of the latter having become
Mohammedans, So the), Greeks
know what to expect, Minorities
are "undesirable," the Turks will
secure unanimity by massaere and
deportation, which is merely an
other form of massacre, and the
retiring Greek army will be accom
panied py.a host of civilians, -old
and young with their goods and
their flocks, once more on the
move.
Responsibility os.this handing
back of the fruits of victory to the
race of wholesale murderers that
without cause attacked the allies in
1914, prolonged the war for at least
two years, did its worst tp exter
minate an entire, nation, added
millions to the wa's deathroll and
contributed to the ruin of Russia,
must be distributed among all the
allies. By their sordid intrigues for
territory and . concessions, they
broke the unity which alone could
have forced the Turk to submit to
proper terms. Bound in honor not
to make a separate peace, France
made a treaty with Kemal tn Oc
tober, 1921, which. In exchange for
commercial gains, abandoned Ar
menians in Cillcia, Greeks in
Anatolia, to Turkish fury. Italy
then dickered for a slice of Asia
Minor to be developed under Turk
ish rule. Britain had estranged
France by the Mosul oil deal and
b'y its course with regard to Ger
man 'reparation and, though op
posed to giving Thrace and Smyrna
back to the Turks, was embarrased
by the outspoken sympathy of its
Moslem subjects for the Turks, by
its heavy taxation and by Its
people's exhaustion. If its allies
had stood firmly with it, Britain
might have withstood the Turks
and have saved Thrace and Smyrna
for Greece, tout it would not fight
alone.
By their "success in enforcing the
neutral zone on the straights and
freedom of the straits, the allies
have proved that, when they stand
together, they can bring the Turk
to heel. Then they must tie held
culpable for dividing when the In
terest of civilization is at stake.
They are not establishing peace in
the Balkans, but a truce. Greece
has proved that it has great re
cuperative power and will bide its
time until the incompetence of the
Turk makes circumstances favor
able for recovery not only of
Thrace but of Constantinople. It
has learned the folly of devotion to
royalty and of estranging thereat
powers. If it places Venizelos at
the head of affairs, it will come
back.
AN ALIBI JOR SPEEDERS.
Formerly we supposed that the
temptation to travel at a high rate
of speed on a smooth highway to
which so many automobilists give
way was but one of the phenome
na of the fast age in which we
live, and which we are repeatedly
warned is taking us downhill as
fast as it is possible to go. Not so.
Men speed up at certain points
because of certain forces, which Just
naturally cause the motor to pick
up. So says the oracle in this in
stance the editor of an automobile
magazine.
Plants, this savant of the science
of alibi reminds us, give off oxygen.
Motors run more smoothly when
there is plenty of oxygen in the
air. No vast capacity for logic is
required to place these facts .in
their proper association. "The in
creased amount of oxygen diffused
in localities where vegetation Is
profuse" constitutes the reason for
increased speed. We gather that
the smoothness of a pavement and
the consequent decrease in tractive
resistance may have something to
do with it, though not much. Dense
vegetation, oxygen in the air, do
the trick. What a motorists' para
dise a road through the jungles of.
central Africa ought to be!
The theory, so we are told, has
been tested ouj; in the laboratory of
the physicist. Obviously this is the
wrong place for the most conclusive
of all tests. Let it by ull means be
tried first on some hardboiled speed;
cop or bucolic justice of the peace
If these accept it there are possi
bilities of value; otherwise we fear
that these neo-physlcists are wast
ing their time.
It is a significant fact that among
many of the persons appointed to bureau.
oi departmental omces during tne Olcott
administration men rormerly employed
on thrse newspapers have been given
such appointments. Marshfield News.
The- Oregonian knows of two
men only from Portland news
papers who have been appointed to
lucrative postitions under Governor
Olcott. One was from The Orego
nian, the other from another paper
now actively supporting Mr. Pierce.
It was no service to The Oregonian'
that a call to public employment
deprived it of an efficient corre
spondent. Does The News think
The Oregonian should not have
peniiiiieu it; aim, ii. su, uues it
know how ft could have made its
objection effective? .
Advice about, marriage is waste
of space. If she cannot cook and
wash, don't take her, says one. If
she does not have a child in two
years, divorce her, says another.
Very good when we become a na
tion of sheer dippers and- stock
breeders; but the boy and girl who
see themselves, in each other's eyes
will unite, if they never eat and
wash, and the per cent of phllo
progenitiveness will remain about
the same.
Wholesale arrests of clerks at
the Council Bluffs postal terminal
for stealing show a bad state of af
fairs in one spot of an otherwise
excellent service. Men who handle
mail are exposed to great tempta
tion and it is to their credit that so
few offenses occur
A burning liner on the Atlantic
from which passengers disembark
safely does not arouse as much in
terest as when it happens on the
r-aciric. rne Atlantic is much or a
shipping lane.
An ex-minister in Jail in Ohio ad
mits to having forty wives in thirty.
two ye-jrs. As his activities did not
extend to Oregon the ports of miss
ing men hold, hopes for some de
serted wives.
. . r
The upward movement of the
cost of living is not balanced by the
reduction in the price of f liwing,
though the latter figures are tempt
ing, even in the rainy season.
The goal ha been set at twenty
years' prolongation of life, in the
next fifty by an eastern health as-
soclatlon. Only real old fellows
will try for it, i
' J3oys of a neighborhood generally
know whom they can haze on Hal
loween and do so, Sometimes they
make a mistake.
When men . with authority in
their own lines of endeavor become
reckless drivers, what can be ex
pected? ' - ' -
An ex-president should be al
lowed to vote anywhere. He gets
little enough honor as it is,
POSE OUGHT TO BE ABAXDOXED
Pierces as Tax-Reducer la Incongru
ous, Says Correspondent.
PORTLAND. " Oct. 20. '(To the
Editor.) The explanatory telegram
which ex-Governor Chamberlain
sent to the manager of the Pierce
campaign in which he sets forth the
method employed to circumvent the
rules of the state land board reg
ulating loans from the irreducible
school fund does not in the least
degree exonerate Pierce but plainly
yokes up. Chamberlain in what was
plainly a. confessed conspiracy.'
Chamberlain says he "arranged
with Pierce and four or five rel
atives and friends to loan $5000 to
each if title to the lands was in
these parties individually." It fol
lows, then, that the governor knew
that a transfer of title was a part
of the programme to be followed,
though it may be claimed he did
not know that it was the under
standing between "Pierce and his
relatives and friends" that the lands
involved were to be re-transferred
to Pierce within the following two
weeks. That was what was ac
tually done and a large part of the
money thus fraudulently secured
from the school fund at 6 per cent
was re-loaned, not -by his relatives
and friends, but by Pierce to his
fellow dirt farmers at 8 per cent
interest.
This is not . merely a campaign
charge but is what the records of
the state land board show happened
as a result of this "arrangement
with Pierce and his relatives and
friends."
If Chamberlain didn't know that
this land was to be transferred
back to Pierce it would lessen his
direct culpability b.ut swould in no
degree excuse Pierce from his suc
cessful effort at plain fraud.
Incidentally It might be re
marked that this is the only in
stance on record of Mr. Pierce's
undertaking to" reduce .taxes his
own taxes.
Taking this raid on the irre
ducible school fund in connection
with his legislative record which
shows his support of every effort to
increase the tax burden of the dirt
farmers, one is amazed that he con
tinues his appearance before the
Oregon public in his pose as a tax
reducer. The farce would only be
paralleled by the vigorous cam
paigning of the state by W. S.
U'Ren asking for the immediate re
peal of the Initiative and referen
dum laws and the restoration of the
"old convention system."
By the way, Mr. Pierce has not
yet answered the question, twice
asked by him in The Oregonian,
whether, if as governor of Oregon,
he would approve loans from the
school fund under the same circum
stances as those which character-.
ized his raid In 1903. The people
of Oregon would like to know if, be
tween weeps, he finds time to give
the information.
- . INQUIRER.
FIRTHER BANS ARE ADVOCATED
Public Welfare Would Abolish To
bacco, High Heels and Corsets.
COVE, Or., Oct. 19. (To the Edi
tor.) If some one kills another in
stantly or slowly poisons him he is
convicted of murder. If a manufac
turer puts poison on the market it
is' labeled "Poison" with cross bones
xcept the tobacco poison. Tobacco
goes unlabeled and any one or every
one who wants it can have it, al
though use of it slowlv but surely
undermines body and mind. The use
of it soon calls for moonshine and
other vice. He who deals in the
tobacco drug goes. not only unpun
ished but encouraged.
Why does an intelligent nation
permit manufacturers to put out
shoes with high heel and to induce
people to buy them? It is slowly
and surely injuring woman's phys
ical health for they are directly the
cause of many spinal troubles and
other illnesses.
Why. does an intelligent nation
permit manufacture and sale of cor
sets with tight waist lines, which
are slowly and surely killing
mothers, sisters, wives, daughters
and sweethearts. Women will fol
low style and every intelligent per
son knows what tight lacing does
to lungs, heart, stomach. All are
hampered and pushed out of place
and motherhood becomes more dif
ficult than ever.
Some of these things look like
ours is not an intelligent nation or
it would not allow and encourage
the output of such things which it,
Knows will Injure mind and body
and slowly but surely kill.
Let there be a ban put on the
manufacture, tale and use of the
tobacco drug, also of high-heel
shoes, tight corsets and long skirts.
Let women be able to develop as
God intended and save the hospital
bills as well. Let us spend more
time developing our minds.
MRS. LOGAN K. ANDERSON.
Xurse Commends St. Vincent's.
PORTLAND. Oct. 19. (To- the
Editor.) It is with mortification
and indignation that I read the vi
cious harangues by one Elizabeth
Schofifen against St. Vincent's hos
pital. I am a nurse and, though not
a Catholic, have been doing special
for several years at St. Vincent's,
so cannot but feel that those slan
derous allegations are a reflection
upon myself.
I most certainly would not seek
or continue to work in such an in
stitution as St. Vincent's is de
picted by that Schoffen woman. To
the best of my knowledge the
iharges are absolutely false. I have
worked In many hospitals in several
states and in all fairness must say
mat i una tne conditions in every
way ar. st. Vincent s s good as or
better than in any other hospital I
have worked In." ,
As to the sisters in charge it
seems to me that their vears and
years of faithful, efficient service
should render them immune from
any such unwarranted ' attack and
I'm quite sure that all right-thinking
people will frown upon such
maleyolent propaganda as is being
carried on oy tnat so-called ex-nun
EMMA A. MILLER, R. N
84 Glisan street.
4 Living; Costs In Unman;, -
SALEM, Or., Oct. 19. (To the Ed
itor.) A says the German mark in
Germany is equal to the American
22 cents In buying power. "B says
the German- mark is not worth any
more in Germany than In the United
States In proportion.
' ' . ' A SUBSCRIBER.
According to Thursday's quotation
you; could buy 100 marks for 3
cents. The par value of 100 marks
is $23.81. Although' living costs are
much cheaper in Germany than here,
you cannot take 3 cents, exchange
It for German mark and then buy
in Germali y commodities that would
cost you $23.81 in the United States.
The difference In living costs Is va
riously estimated by returned trav
elers whose observations extend pri
marily to commodities and services
purchased ;by tourists,. Their esti
mates are that last summer an
American dollar would buy two to
four times as much in living necessi
ties in Germany as in the United
States.
tioed Measure. .
Life.
Tait As yeu didn't' catch any
thing f suppose your fishing trip
was a terrible disappointment? Bait
r Not by a. jugful)
Those Who Come and Go.
Talcs of Folks at the Hotels.
"Alaska hit bedrock during the
war but is now coming back," says
C. H. Flory of the forest service,
now in Portland. "The days of the
stampede saw placer miners skim
ming the cream in the creeks. Now
there are gold dredgers which are
recovering , every particle of gold
under the most approved methods.
The railroad between Seward and
Fairbanks is a gre&t help. There is
a 24-hour train now between those
points which is operated all the year
ves. winter included. Formerly it
required two weeks to makve the trip
in dog sleds. The railroad also en
ables coal to be shipped into Fair
banks. 'Heretofore wood was used
for fuel and it cost from $12 to $20
a cord. -The coal is laid down in
Falrbanks-for $4.50 a ton. The rail
road has made possible the sending i
in of heavy mining machinery and
furnishing fuel for the plants. This
coal comes from Healy, about SO
miles from Nenana, and is virtually
on the railroad, for a three-mile
track has been built "from the line
to Healy. There is plenty of coal
and it isn't necessary to dig for it.
There is one seam (exposed which is
46 feet and 6 inches thick. Drilling
for oil is progressing at Gold Bay on
the Alaska peninsula and they'll get
oil there, too, some day." Mr. Flory
has the direction of selling logs for
the forest department to the con
sumers on the Alaskan coast. All of
the timber used along the coast is
supplied by this bureau of the fed
eral government.'
Stranded in Death Valley, with
night approaching and nothing to
eat and no water bags. Such was
the adventure of Phil Metschan, who
returned to Portland yesterday. The
car in which he was traveling ran
out of gasoline, the car getting but
four miles on a gallon, which upset
the calculations of the driver, who
suDDosed he had enough to cross the
desert. Mr. Metschan got out and
started walking and after 200O steps
he counted them he found an old
timer carhDed near a little spring.
The "desert rat" was frying bacon
and cooking coffee and he cordially
invited the Portlander to share the
meal. Mr. Metschan being large and
hungry and other companions of the
hotelman being in a similar conn
tion, the 40 pounds of bacon carried
by the old-timer looked sick, when
all had had supper and breakfast.
Before leaving Barstow to cross the
desert, Mr. Metschan had told the
superintendent of the works there
that if the Metschan caravan wasn't
heard from in 24 hours to send out
a searching party. Sending relief
expeditions is a common occurrence
at Barstow, where desert men bring
in the dead and dying desert victims
every once in a while. Well, the
superintendent made good, for the
Metschan outfit was overdue re
porting and the relief car swung up
with flashlights and six-shooters
about the time the Portlanders had
been salvaged by another car.
To buy 64 miles of 2 by 6 and 32
miles of 6 by 8, W. B. Grant is in
Portland from the' edge of Death
Valley. He is at the Multnomah.
Mr. Grant is chief engineer of the
American Magnesia company and
the lumber is required for that con
cern, which is building a monorail
railroad and erecting a reducing
plant. The California market drawB
its supply of lumber from Oregon,
chiefly, so instead of going to the
California market, Mr. Grant came
direct to the source of supply. He
says that the magnesia company is
building the - first freight mono
rail railway in the United States.
This is an easy type of road when
grades are considered, for the mono
rail road has a grade ranging from
1 to 14 per cent. The steepest grade
on any Oregon state highway is S
ner cent. On this monorail will be
operated trains consisting of a motor
and five trailers. These cars are to
carry the material which the com
pany is to refine. The monorail ex
tends from Searles to Wingate Pass,
on the edge of Death Valley, and the
company has secured mountains of
the crystals used in its production
plant, which will be moved over this
unique transportation system.
On his way home from attending
the bankers' convention in Califor
nia. H. H. Bemis arrived in Portland
yesterday. Before proceeding to
Boston, Mass., his headquarters, Mr
Bemis was taken to the lower har
bor and shown the terminals of the
port. Although an I. W. W. strike
is In progress on the waterfront, the
Boston bond broker saw nothing ex
citing, but he was impressed, with
the modern facilities which have
been provided by the port author!
j ties for water-borne traffic. Mr,
Bemis is registered at the Mult
nomah.
"Moonshiners are as thick as dan
delions in Baker county and ti ike
dandelions, when you get rid of
one, two more spring up," observed
George Herbert, sheriff of" Baker,
who is at the Imperial. Baker county
is mountainous so that 1t offers- a
wealth of concealment for the op
erators of forbidden stills
Mrs. J. E. Beekman amd Miss
Carrie C. Beekman are at the Hotel
Portland from Jacksonville, Or. The
name of Beekman is Interwoven
with the history of Jacksonville
from Jibe early days when that was
a goldrcamp and the Beekman bank
was one of the strongest institu
tions in the Oregon country.
Tears ago Clay Shown migrated
from Liftle Doe, Tenn., and came
to Oregon, settling ast of the
mountains. Mr. Shown is a stock
man with a ranch on Mountain creek
near Waterman flat. He is at the
Imperial for a few days.
Mrs. George Streeter and chil
dren are at the Multnomah from
Bunker, Wash., where Mr. Streeter
is looking after the interests of the
Hill Lumber company.
Josephine Corliss Preston, super
intendent of the department of edu
cation for the state of Washing
ton, is registered at the Hotel Port
land from Olympia
Postmaster Bolton of The Dalles
was in Portland yesterday bringing
news of the accidental shooting of
Judge Adkisson while the latter was
hunting
"'Leslie Butler, banker emeritus of
Hood River and one of Oregon's
original good roads advocatesi is
resistered at the Benson from the
apple country.
W. M. Peare of La Grande ar
rived in Portland yesterday 'to at
tend a special meeting of the state
board of optometry, of which he is
a member.
F. J. Griffin; a tennis -player of
San Francisco, is at, the Hotel Port
land,
Ford Hendricks, attorney . of Fos
sll, Or., is In Portland on business.
.A Touckins; Recital.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
'Are those fish fresh?" asked the
young wife. "Less than 24 hours
ago, mum." replied the veracious
dealer, "themfiah. were playing
about in the water, just as happy
and full of Uf4 as any fish you
ever saw." "Dear me," exclaimed
the young wife with a shudder,
"Don't talk about them that way.
You'll make me so sorry for the
poor things J. won't be able to eat
one,
Mora Truth Than Poetry.
By Juimes J. Montngne.
Something SCust Have Happened to
Him.
Time was when . a Persian who
wanted va fight
Had no weary distance to seek;
He sailed to the westward and
turned to the right
And picked an the slumbering
Greek.
A number -of armSes from points to
9 - the south
At this tough liutle land took a
crack.
And returned badly beaten and
down in the movith
If indeed they could ever get back.
The centuries passed, amd the coun
tries around,
Whenever they wearfed of peace.
Conspired with each other until they
had found
An excuse for a, raid upon Greece.
They wildly swooped dowtn on the
little domain
With savage -and horrid acclaim.
But they presently hied themselves
homeward again-
Exceedingly sorry they came.
And even the Turk, when he crossed
the divide.
Announced he would soon name
the date
When he'd lightly run over and I
humble the pride i
That had .puffed Alexander the i
Great. j
He started this project with several
wars '
But as soon as the battle was
done '
What Turks there were left on the
enemy's shores
Were headed for home on the run.
But now when the Turk., or when
anyone else, .
Throws a couple of bellicose fits
And lands on the Greek a few wal
. lops and- belts
The Greek puts his hands up and
. quits. -The
poets proclaim that the Greek
still can fight .
With his oldtime belligerent jazz.
And for -all we can tell they may
have the dope right,
But we do not observe that he
has!
.
Too DrVary.
It is suggested that telephone
booths be made more atractive. In
asmuch as the average man spends
about a quarter of his time in them
this suggestion ought to receive a
warm welcome.
A Literary Secret.
Any book that makes one-half of
the. people look down contemptuous
ly on the other half is bound to be
successful.
For Obvious Reasons.
Women's skirts will be ' worn
longer this winter. o will men's
suits.
(Copyright, 1922. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyrlst, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Con You Answer These Questions?
1. Why do they always put the
green turtles in marKet upside
down?
2. We have a nice oak tree on
our lawn that seems healthy, but it
has a lot of dead branches at the
top. What ails it?
3. How long have starlings been
in North America?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
' - ,
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Is the Canada goose a brant?
I thought the brant was a different
bird.
The Canada goose's Latin name,
Branta canadensis, is taken from a
Greek word signifying indefinitely
water bird. The one you call
"brant" is probably Branta bernicla,
25 inches or less, against the Can
ada's 36 inches or more. The black
neck of Canada ends abruptly like a
stock collar; the brant's dark neck
extends into breast and shoulders.
Canadahas a sharp white mark
under chin and on cheeks, like a
bandage. Brant has a white striped
patch on the sides of the neck.
W V
2. How old do elephants live to
be?
Supposed , to be very long lived,
and statistics of captive specimens
seem to bear out this theory. West-
all, an- English naturalist, states at
least one captive is known to have
lived a century, and hie believes that
under favorable conditions avoid
ance of accident and hunters a wild
one might live longer.
3. Do the trees in sections where
climate is mild all the year round.
lose their leaves in autjimn the same
as elsewhere;
It depends on the kind of tree.
Some broad-leaved trees, like live
oak, shed gradually; but other
broad-leaved trees (as opposed to
the "needled" trees, like pine, etc.)
sheit nnrmallv when fullv ripe. An
"absciss layer" forms at thebase,of
the stem, cutting off the sap, and
they then fall. The white pine keeps
its needles a yeaT and a half they
come out in spring, persist in good
trim for a year, and gradually, get
ready to fall, dropping their second
November. Certain evergreens keep
their needles 20 years.
In Other Days.
Fifty Years Ao.
From The Oregonian of October 21. 1872.
The locomotive James P. Stephens,
the first locomotive which awoke
the slumbering echoes of our hills
and valleys with its shrill whistle
will soon be able to take the road
again. This locomotive was badly
damaged by the rrvcent collision near
Roseburg.
Thirty years ago the place where
Portland now stands was a wilder
ness. Now It is -a city of nearly
12,000 inhabitants.
Three new street cars will -soon
arrive. The city is badly In need of
them and also of several sturdy
horses to draw them.
Paris. Sumner visited Gambetta
yesterday and expressed the warm
est sympathy with the new French
republic Gambetta was deeply im
pressed by the interview.
Twenty-five Years Ago,
From The Oregonian of October 21. ISO 7.
Madrid. Marshal Blanco made a
violent verbal attack upon the
United States, published In the Mad
rid Journals today, based on the al
leged departure from American ports
recently of filibustering expeditions
for Cuba. Blanco urged the Spanish
government to ask explanations of
the United States.
Wiesbaden. The czar arrived here
this -afternoon on a visit to Emperor
William. They met at the railroad
depot. The emperors cordially em
braced and kissed each other.
Shanghai. Reports from Corea
Indicate that there is not much
doubt but that Japan and Russia are
preparing for a war in the near fu
ture. The Japanese are surveying
the southern coasts of Corea, while
the Russians have obtained a small
island off Fusan as a naval coaling
station.
Is the Glider
Coming Into
Its Own?
Remarkable records made Avith
these motorles3 editions of the
aeroplane at recent meet told
of in 'illustrated article to ap
pear in The Sunday Oregonian.
Oregonian's New
Radio Under Way
Work started on higrh-power
station, which it is hoped to
have completed in fime for
election day, says article in
tomorrow's paper.
IN THE MAGAZINE
Beauty Peril of
Playing With Fire
How romance, which began
to thrill Anna Q. Njlsson
when she was child star, took
calamitous turn that inter
rupted her career.
Rabbit Hordes
Strip Ranches
How thousands of pests are
slaughtered in drives and by
poison to stop heavy losses.
Why Pick
on Jazz?
Correspondent bobs up with
defense of kingdom of syn
copation. News of World
as Seen by Camera
Persons and events in the
news illustrated in full page
of pictures.
Intensely Human
Sketches of People
"Strictly Business Men" is
. title of full page by W. E.
Hill, famous artist.
Love Code .
of the Fan
How gay dons and charming
senoritas are proficient in
unspoken language of the
heart. ,
"Self-Assembled
Edward Bangs"
. Fiction feature tells how a
leopard, if he is college bred,
- may change his spots.
Flying Sea Serpent
Appears Once More
Officers of Greek liner tell
story of monster hunted with
rapid-fire guns by men in
motorboats.
Painter of Princesses
Comes to America
Man made famous by paint
ing of "The Sleeping Venus"
to interpret the American
beauty.
OTHER FEATURES
Even Flappers
Don Long Skirts
New silhouette is burning
question now with all femin
ity, says illustrated fashion
department.
M ethodist Ministers
to Exchange Pulpits '
Forceful message of Willam
ette university campaign to
be presented to all congrega
' tions of that denomination.
Dramatic Critic
Writes Clever Book
Publication is echo of a thour.
sand and one first nights
Alexander Woollcott has at
tended.
Shrimps and Oysters
Hold High Place
How tasty dishes may be pre
pared told by Evelene Spen
cer, fish cookery expert.
May Carry Voice
Across Oceans
Giant vacuum tube, recently
developed, is expected to rev
olutionize radio telephony.
Franklin High
to Stage Concert
"Karnival" at Lincoln high is
ereat success. Benson June
class organizes.
Afow Is Time
to Plant Gardens
Information on planting
many beautiful flowers and
shrubs told m garden depart-
ment.
Husband's Pajamas
Soaked in Storm
Another installment of inter
esting series, ""The Married
Life of Helen and Warren."
Following Byways
From Highway -
Many beauties discovered ad
jacent to Columbia river drive
in trip of motorist.
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