THE HORXIXG- OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, DECE3IBER 7. 1922
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which it enters upon fulfilment of
its promises.
tention was called to the omission
it ordered that Portland and As
toria be shown. As it has been es
timated that the operation of no
passenger liners from Portland
caused diversion to Seattle of at
Effective working of the govern-f least 150,000 tons of export cargo
ment demands that the president
stand out more distinctly as head
of the government in a position as
closely analogous to that of a pre
mier as is compatible with "our sys- I
that would naturally go from Port
land, and as operation of liners
from here would certainly bring, in
creased imports, we may fairly at
tribute this port's small imports to
4em. As leader of the party charged the board's discrimination.
with conduct of the government, he
should have the principal part in
framing and carrying out the legis
lative programme, ana me mem
bers of his cabinet should have the
right to sit and speak and answer
questions in either senate or house..
To whatever extent direct voting
The tendency being to take - ex
port cargo from ports to which the
largest tonnage of imports is car
ried and to' give those ports the ad
vantage in freight rates, the excess
of Portland's export tonnage over
that of Seattle in spite of this tend
ency is a strong evidence of this
for president would advance this i port's position as a producer of for-
end, it would be an improvement.
but a decision by national total vote
in place of an aggregate of state
totals, each casting its quota of
electoral votes, would involve more
injury than gain.
; WAYS TO ELECT PRESIDENTS.
. If the proposed Norris amend
ment to the constitution of the
linited States is designed simply tc
do away with presidential electors
lis the medium through which the"
states cast their votes for president
and vice-president, it merits sup
port, and the proposal to change
the terms of president, vice-president
and congress, so that they will
begin early in January, is all tohe
good. That plan differs funda
mentally from one under which the
president and vice-president would
be elected directly by all the people
of the nation as a whole, the win
ners being those who had the larg
est national popular vote. The one
plan would preserve the individual
ity of the states as voting units, the
popular vote deciding for which
candidates the votes of the state
should be counted; the other would
further centralize the government
to the disparagement of the states,
; Although the presidential elec
tors may have served a useful pur
pose in the early years of the re
public, they have become a fifth
wheel to the coach under the con
ditions of this day. Originally they
were chosen by the , legislatures and
had actual discretion in elections.
The convention system of nomina
tion has made them mere dummies,
for their only function is to cast
their votes for candidates for whom
he popular vote has instructed
them to vote. The result of the
popular vote in each state could as
well be recorded by the president
or tne senate in congress, macn
state would still have as many votes
as senators and representatives in
congress, and we should adhere, to
the original constitutional purpose
that representation of the states as
a unit should be combined with
that of its people in proportion to
their numbers. 1
Direct election by which the
popular vote of all states combined
would decide is open to the strong
est objection. States of large popu
lation, like New York, Pennsyl
vania and Illinois, could swamp the
vote of a number of states with
small population, depriving them
vt the expression of their individual
will as states. The southern demo
crats might reverse their present
policy with regard to the negro
Vote. They might by intimidation
drive the negroes to the polls to
vote the democratic ticket, in order,
by means of this controlled vote,
to swell the party total and offset
the large republican majority of a
populous northern state. An or
ganization like Tammany could, by
alliance with the padrones who con
trol large blocks of votes among
ihe ignorant foreign-born, work
iwith the same effect in any state,
3ut particularly in those where for-
tign-born citizens congregate. The
presidency could be appropriated
by a few populous states or by a
group of states that voted as a
block, such as the solid south, and
the government would be rtomi-
, Jiatea in much the same way as
Prussia, with three-fifths of the
population, dominates Germany.
Centralization would go on apace
Imtil the nation would be converted
from a federal union of sovereign
fatates into a centralized republic
like France.
Direct nomination of candidates
for president by popular vote of the
Heveral parties would tend the same
way, and would be fraught with
other evils. There would be a num
ber of candidates for each party's
nomination, and the probability of
nomination by plurality instead of
majority would be great. The
democratic party in the south
would be tempted to seize fhe op
portunity to capture the presidency
by - concentrating on a southern
man, who might be picked from
the border states ;as a sop to the
north. For either nomination or
election particular sections, inter
ests or classes would concentrate
in order to put over their own man
or to make terms in a compromise.
The field would be thrown open to
iCcrop of new parties, which would
hope to snatch final victory by pre
venting any candidate from gaining
a-majority at the election and by
thus throwing the decision into the
Iiou.se. The necessity of a nation
wide canvass would enormously in
crease the cost of a primary cam
paign, though the radicals cease
Sessly inveigh against large cam
lliaign expenditures. '
Meeting of a new congress in the
January after its election and con
wequent abolition of the short ses
sion of the old congress is a reform
which The Oregonian has fre
Jiuently' urged and which Repre
sentative McArthur fathered in the
last congress and in the first session
of the present congress. We have
repetition every two years of the
ivils arising from legislation by a
iongress many of Whose members
Save been defeated and whose 'man.
3Jata expires on a set day. Such
tnen are irresponsible and the
temptation to filibuster cannot be
jrSsisted. The new congress should
2e required to carry out the popu
;Jar will, as expressed at the Novem
ber election, without delay, not
ttfter the popular passion has had a
V"r to cool nor after new issues
.liui-e arisen to obliterate the mem
ory of those on which the, people
voted. "jThe most stable democratic
ACHIEVEMENTS IN ECONOMY.
When about two-thirds of the
government's expenditures are fixed
charges, it is no small achievement
in economy for the budget bureau
to make estimates for the next fis
cal year that are $500,000,000 less
than the expenditures for this year.
Though less than one-sixth of pres
ent expenditures, that sum is equal
to "the total for a year at the time
when a billion-dollar congress was
accused of wild extravagance.
The cost of the public debt, na
tional defense, pensions and world
war allowances cannot be further
reduced, and the people would
doubtless protest against with
drawal of federal aid for roads and
other forms of co-operation with
the states. The manner in which
fixed charges can be reduced is in
dicated by the decrease of interest
on the national debt by about $150,-
000,000 and by provision of $345,-
000,000 for reduction of the princi
pal during the next year.
In the programme of the bloc
which calls itself progressive, no
item is to be found which spells
progress in economy. On the con
trary, many spell more expense and
some by their certainly injurious ef
fects spell less prosperity, therefore
less revenue. Unfortunately the
public mind seizes more readily on
schemes of glittering promise than
on the laborious but matter of fact
and outwardly unattractive work of
saving money, which means lower
taxes and larger incomes for the
people.
eign traffic. Nothing but artificial
conditions could prevent the bulk
of imports to the north Pacific
coast from being carried to the
port that offers the largest tonnage
of .exports. Those conditions are
produced by the. action of the ship
ping board, and no effort should be
spared to secure such provisions in
new shipping legislation as will
compel the board to run its best
ships from the ports that supply
the most cargo.
cool their just anger. The result
was that the United States delayed
the declaration of war for two
years, during which Russia was i
ruined, Serbia and Roumania over
run, and millions more lives sacri
ficed. By not striking at the enemy
then, the United States gave Ger
many more chances to win, and al
most the turn -of a hair prevented
final German victory in the spring
of 1918. .
The war no sooner ended than
Germany resumed the old game of
propaganda in order to escape the
penalty of national crime. Denial
of guilt, the bolshevist scare, ex
ploitation of the misdeeds and dis
sensions of the allies, depreciation
of the mark, all have been used to
deceive the American people into
belief that the Versailles treaty is
wholly unjust and vicious. Ger
many has thus succeeded so far
in evading the two most essential
provisions' of that treaty those to
which the United States is made a
party by the separate treaty of Ber
lin namely payment of reparations
and disarmament. This evasion
THE ENGLISH WE READ.
The correspondent who, taking
his fellow-Americans to task be-
cause only too often after leaving
school they "confine their reading
to one kind only newspaper read
ing," obviously undertakes to prove
too much when he says that this
"adds nothing . new to our store
house of phrases and expressions.'
For it is precisely in this respect, if
in no other, that the "newspaper
holds a peculiar relationship to the
language in which it is printed. It
is in fact the "storehouse," as the
correspondent would call it, of the
vernacular. We venture to say that
there is neither a word nor a phrase
now approved by the lexicograph
ers, of a mintage less than half a
century old, which has not found its
way to the dictionaries through the
columns of the press.
'Still, this is the English we use,"
as the correspondent observes, "and
the only English, we know." It
comprises, by and large, about
all the English that the average
man needs. Holding no brief for
slipshod grammar or negligent syn
tax, we are yet able to say with
some confidence that "reportorial
English," disparagingly so charac
terized by some pedant, is on the
whole clear, wholesome, concise
and expressive, and sometimes pic
turesque. Its sins, often the product
of haste inseparable 'from the cir
cumstances of its creation, are apt
to be venial; they do not constitute
ground for indictment of all. The
discriminating reader, though- he
may have cafet his textbooks aside
on leaving the classroom, is likely
to agree that it is so. T
But if reporters added not a line
of description and editors no word
of comment or analysis to the ut
terances of statesmen and politi
cians, the writings of savants and
sages, to which the newspaper gives
space from time to time, our "store
house of phrases and expressions"
would always be full. President
Wilson was and is a master of Eng
lish. President Roosevelt was a
phrase-maker without peer. Presi
dent Harding has, we believe, given
encouragement to the excellent
habit, which the correspondent en-'
dorses, of looking words up in the
dictionary. The words of H. G.
Wells, and Conan Doyle, and Mar-
got Asquith, and Rudyard Kipling,
and George Bernard Shaw, and
Henry L. Mencken, not to mention
a great host of other masters and
mistresses of our language, are not
infrequently reported. We have
not mentioned the debates in con
gress, nor the speeches of our
statesmen at the hustings, nor the
sermons of ministers and the lec
tures by various noteworthies and
yet these not infrequently 'possess
true literary value and even oftener
add to the stock of new words and
phrases without which our English
would be static, and not the dyna
mic vehicle it is.
We commend the correspondent's
quest for the excellent in speech.
As to his perception, we are not
able to say as much. It is to the
discriminating reader, heretofore
alluded to, that these observations
are particularly addressed.
JAZZ AS A CAUSATION.
So far as mortals are- concerned,
cause and effect are one. They are
the Siamese twins of logic, not to
be separated by the sharp edge of
specious . contention. Clearly, to
correct the effect one must first
minister to the cause, and it is this
point which Dr. Albert seemingly
overlooked in his address at Lincoln
auditorium. He regarded an deT
fended jazz, in its several phases, as
an inocuous phenomenon related to
BODular style, and assured his audi
ence that it was far less morally
reprehensible than the prudery of
forty years ago.
Dr. Albert, by these assertions,
made denial or facts that are held
by other students of social condi
tions to be self-evident. First and
most significant of these is that the
crime rosters of today are crowded
with the names of devotees of that
peculiar spiritual and moral aban
don known as jazz. So common is
this parallel of plight and predilec
tion that investigators pass it by
without comment. To them it is
the completed sum of the old prob
lem of cause and effect. ' The decay
of elder standards, the breaking
away from the tenets which Dr.
Albert is pleased to call prudish,
and the substitution therefor of a
false fetish of pleasure and cheap
philosophy have combined to bear
sorrow.
Jazz, as such alone, is not espe.
cially fearful, and so Dr. Albert
contends. But beyond that his de
fense fails, and beyond that the
tendency persists until it becomes.
as it is now, a grimacing thing of
unspeakable potentiality. Neither
he nor anyone else is competent to
dissociate the malign relationship,
When we are sensible of our own
welfare we do not confine our at
tack to the completed crime, to the
accomplished evil, but turn also to
the causation. If this is eradicated
we are aware of a diminished ef
fect, and until society turns to a
new folly, the line of lost endeavor
falters and shortens. To pose as
the defender of jazz may win for
one some praise asv an eccentric
fellow, but cannot contribute to the
solution of 'those problems which
arise from disregard of high per
sonal standards.
any talent, be it an ability to sing
proves the German people to be un- I or to dance, or to play a musical
repentant and malevolent, and to I instrument, or. to cook, or to sew a
remain a potential danger to tne . tine seam, or to nurse, or to gar
peace of the world. While not clos
ing their eyes to the shortcomings
of the allies, the American people
should keep in full view this omi
nous fact.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cass Bner.
Those Who Come and Go,
Tales ot Polks at the Hotels.
In a letter, triat interesting young
Portland singer, Harriet Le.ch,
says:
"May I have just an inch or two
of space in which to write an an
swer to some perfectly nice person
named Wright of Oregon City, who
wrote in a recently published letter
to The Oregonian, on that page
where they put letters from readers,
that he took exception to a state
ment I made in an interview printed
just before my recent concert at
the auditorium. I don't like to be
misunderstood, even by strangers,
and, Mr. Y"right writes so earnestly
and his opinion is -a valued and an
honest one, so will . you let me ex
plain just what I meant when I
said that 'too many, girls study
music
I .think with Mr. Wright that
A VICTORS' FOB PROPAGANDA.
Publication of the report on the
cargo of the Lusitania on her last
fatal voyage adds nothing to the
facts already kiown, but long after
the disaster has become a closed in
cident, as diplomats say, it fur
nishes corroborative evidence
against the Germans and destroys
the last vestige of their defense.
The defense (was that ' the ship
had guns and munitions aboard,
therefore the U boat was justified
in sinking her; that the munitions
contained explosives, which blew
up, causing the ship to sink rapidly
and over 1000 lives to be lost; that,
.but for the ignition of the explo
sives by a torpedo, all persons on
board could have escaped in boats,
therefore the fatalities were due to
presence of explosives, not to the
German torpedoes.
Germans have reiterated this
theory so often during and since
the war that they even convinced
some men who fought bravely in
the American army that the sink
ing of the Lusitania was a justifi
able act because she carried muni
tions, which was true so far as
small arms ammunition is con
cerned, and that those who traveled
on her after being warned of the
German intention recklessly took
their lives in their hands and were
themselves responsible for their
fate.
The whole German case was
founded on falsehood, both as to
the plain principles of international
law and as to the facts. The ship
was not armed, as they alleged, car
ried no explosives, as they alleged,
and the ammunition that she did
carry could not explode on impact
of a torpedo or on its explosion. The
Lusitania was a merchant ship of
an enemy nation, therefore subject
to capture. International law .re
quired the captors to put a prize
crew on board and sail or tow her
to one of their own ports. If they
could not do this without risking
loss of their own ships, they might
sink her, but they must first pro
vide for safety of the lives of all
passengers and crew. They com
plied with none of these conditions.
Some risk attending the emergence
of the U boats to the surface, they
did not show themselves, but dis
charged two torpedoes from a safe
distance, then made ,off, leaving
more than 2000 persons to their
fate.
The subject is of interest at this
CULTIVATE CHINA'S FRIENDSHIP.
Portland merchants and shipping
men who are interested in trade
with China will find worthy of con
sideration the suggestion of Mr.
Arnold, the American commercial
attache, that they form some or
ganization to promote business rela
tions with the Chinese and to ac
quire and spread information about
Chinese trade. - China is of such
vast extent that we 'are apt to be
misled by reading of civil war.
banditry and political crises. While
one or two provinces may be in
volved in war, all the rest of the
country may be doing business in
perfect peace. Local government
is so complete, contact with the
central government so slight and
the capital so remote that a po
litical crisis in Pekin means little
to the mass of the people. Bandits
are not such terrible ruffians as the
word usually implies. Economic
conditions in China are so sound
and stable that throughout and
since the war its currency has re
mained on a specie basis.
American commerce with China
grows at such a pace and the pos
sibility of its further growth is so
good that it would be good business
to study the customs of its people.
that our merchants may know what
they buy and what they have to
sell. Chinese merchants and stu
dents frequently come to the Paci
fic coast. They are so confident of
kAmeriean friendship that they
would rather do business with
Americans, if fairly treated, than
with any other nation, and they
prefer to obtain western education
in American colleges. The most in
fluential men in the government
and in business are graduates of our
colleges, and have carried home
with them American ideas and a
partiality for this country which
should be cultivated and recipro
cated, by welcoming and enter
taining them, and by procuring and
providing means for obtaining
knowledge of their country. Port
land merchants would inspire good
will that would be reflected in their
volume of business. China is the
coming country for trans-Pacific
trade, and the port that most as
siduously cultivates good, relations
with its leadmg,men will derive the
.most benefit, both materially and
socially. .
The advantage of this policy has
been realized by other ports on the
Pacific coast and by New York, for
they have formed clubs or other so
cieties which are centers of inter
course between the highest type of
Chinese and Americans. Portland
should take a leaf out of their book.
den, or to write, should ' be de
veloped. If it is more than a mere
talent and turns out to be a gift
then it should be given even greater
development and freedom of ex
pression. There is after all less dif
ference ' of opinion between Mr.
Wright and me than appears on the
surface, for I, too, believe with him
that everybody who loves music
should learn to make it. But I do
think that girls should not study
for careers unless they are pecu
liarly gifted with musical ability,
and unless they have health and
patience and money to carry them
to the place they covet. .Too many
families of moderate means are
sacrificed to careers that never
eventuate. It seems to be a form
of selfishness.
"But to learn to play an instru
ment, or to sing, for the pure pleas
ure of making lovely music that is
an entirely different ' thing. The (
more people who take up some form
of musical study; the better for the
whole world. The study of music
broadens the mind and provides
pleasure that one can always share
with others. I am sure that Mr.
Wright will agree with this."
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Broadcasting is only in its infancy,
according to A. B. C. Scull ot me
Radio Corporation of America, who
is registered at the Multnomah. This
corporation is controlled by the
United Fruit company, General ElecT
trie and Westinghouse Electric &
Manufacturing company and is an
important factor in radio develop
ment. In the opinion of Mr. Scull
it will not be long before rural
communities will be able, through
large central broadcasting stations.
not only to hear concerts but to
take courses of lectures on art,
travel, cooking and health and lis
ten to the best operas. Two differ
ent sets of concerts are now being
broadcast ever the same wire into
the air in New York,; this being a
new development in wireless. "The
radio has been a great boon, to in
valids." says Mr. Scull, 'and I re
call the case, of a husband of
favorite actress on the vaudeville
stage who used to write the songs
for his wife and travel with her.
Now the husband is at home
paralytic, Life was blue to him
until he was fitted up with a radio
outfit and now. wherever his- wife
is appearing she looks up a broad
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
Cam You Answer These Questions f
1. Do horses have collar bones?
2. Bo water birds swim while
asleep on the water?
3. How much whita pine seed i
should be used to plant an acre ot j
ground? '
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
.--Answers
to Previous Questions.
1. Do eagles carry off young
children?
Certainly not habitually; and mod
ern ornithologists mention no cases
of child-stealing, though older
writers often do. The "bald" eagle
lives chiefly on fish, dead or alive,
and also preys on small rodents
like rabbits, squirrels, etc., even
carrion when pressed for food, oc
casional waterfowl, especially crip
pled speciments. and even lambs.
The golden eagle is carnivorous,
eating many small rodents, and
lartrer animals as fawns and lambs.
Turkeys, grouse and waterfowl are
taken. Possibly a very young baby
no heavier than a lamb might be
carried off if left where aft eagle
would dare attack.
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2. Where is asbestos mined in
this or any other country?
In North America it is mined in
casting station and sings so ' that Canada, Vermont Virginia. South
her husband, off on the Atlantic
coast, can hear her voice."
By April 1 the project -which is to
supply water to the- Tumalo system
will be completed. The contractors
say it will be finished by February
15, but Fred N. Wallace says cold
weather may delay the work, so he
sets April 1 as the outside date.
According to Mr. Wallace, it will
be the finest piece of . construct'on
in the irrigation line in Oregon and
will be a thing of beauty as well as
useful. The project is building' a
dam at Crescent lake and the water
will be led for 72 miles in the Des
chutes river to Bend, .where it will
be diverted. There are 12,000 feet
of metal flume to be -used, which
is the biggest installation of metal
flume in the United States. The
job is being done under the esti
mated cost. Weather permitting,
Mr. Wallace plans to return to Tu
malo , Saturday.
Carolina and Staten island, N. Y,
Often asbestos is found in localities
where it is not abundant enough to
make mining worth while. In ear
lier days asbestos was chiefly taken
from Italy and Corsica, and is still
mined there. It has been found in
Hungary, Russia, New South Wales,
New Zealand and Cape Colony
3. How does the skunk throw or
distribute his flued and where is it
secreted?- i
Secreted from the glands near the
base of the tail. When the tail lifs
these glands are squeezed and the
flued' shot forth. It does not hit
the tail.
Mankind generally, knowing
woman generally, wonders how a
man could compel a woman to
travel with him hundreds of miles,
crossing a state line, even at the
"point" of a pistol, if she were not
disposed to go.
"Holiday liquor load seized."
says a headline. Those citizens who
were preparing for a wet Christmas
may have to look to the weather
bureau to get it.
Irvin Cobb has been appointed a
major in the officers' reserve. Be
ing a Kentuckian, he will be en
titled to be called colonel, nevertheless.
A few years ago the public of
ficial who advocated municipal golf
iinKS wouldn't have remained in of
fice long enough to rescue his hat.
Blackstone, the magician at Pan
tages, who is headlining'.Jn a novel
act of mystery and fun, will stage a
sensational ct to help out the Com
munity Chest. The act,, he says,
is a daring and dangerous one,
nothing less than allowing himself
to be tied in a sack weighted with
tons of iron, nailed into a packng
box and the- packing box tied and
bound and thrown into the Willam
ette river at noon on Saturday.
"If I am not free and at the sur
face of the water in three minutes
there will be no afternoon perform
ance," he says. "But if I come up
all right and I think I will, for I
always have done so then I shall
ask everyone in the crowd who wit
nesses the demonstration to give
whatever he can for the Community
Chest. I believe in constructive
charity, and it begins right here at
home. I do not advocate promiscu
ous giving, although I guess all of
us, especially theater folk, have
their share of pet charities and of
helping out in cases of need. My
wife has been Christmas shopping
every minute she could get away
from the theater and most of her
shopping is for children or old folks
whose Christmas would remain for
gotten if it wasn't for Mrs. Black-stone.
"I am always glad to help out in
a movement like the Community
Chest and I hope everyone in Port
land comes to the river tp see me
thrown into the water. The more
spectators the more dimes and dol
lars for the cause."
Blackstone is an American, a Chi
cago man of French and Scotch an
cestry, and he lays .no claim to
supernatural powers. He prefaces
many of his tricks by saying, "Now,
some folk say this can't be done,'
and then he proceeds to do it, smil
ing all the while. He has new tricks
and clever ones. He says that to
his way of thinking the man or
woman who goes about giving ex
poses or magic art is on a par With
those who tell children there is no
Santa Claus, or who tell little girls
that their dolls are stuffed with
sawdust.
ah or. us tiKe, to De rooted," says
Blackstone, "and we like to see the
other fellow fooled along with us.
It is just as unethical and unpro
fessional to expose the tricks of a
magician as it would be for a doc
tor or dentist or lawyer to tell pro
lessional secrets.
SEND SHIPS WHERE CARGO IS.
Gratifying as is the rise of Port
land to second place among Pacific
ports in total tonnage of, foreign
trade during the fiscal year ending
June SO, the disparity between im
ports and exports leaves much to I time as an example of the success
be desired. The percentage of inv
ports for the five principal ports is:
San Francisco 54, Portland 2.31,
Los Angeles 56.21, Seattle 23.83, Ta-
coma 46.03. Value of imports for
July and August implies a healthy
increase for Portland, but the port
has far to go in order to overtake
Seattle, which has the next lowest
ratio of Imports to exports.
The disparity between Portland's
percentage and that of other ports
may be directly attributed to the
lack of fast passenger-cargo ships
such as run from other ports and
to the advertising at public expense
which the shipping board gives to
its lines. Until recently the board
Portland on the maps contained in
of persistent, mendacious propa
ganda in muddling the minds of
people who are not informed of na
tional rights, also of the necessity
that those at the head of the gov
ernment should sharply define the
issue between this nation and any
other nation, in order that the
people may clearly understand
when a heinous crime has been
committed against them. In this
particular President Wilson signally
failed. The sinking of the Lusita
nia was such a flagrant breach of
international law as to constitute
just cause of war, and during the
immediately succeeding days the
nation was in the mood to fight, but
Several Seattle phone users are
suing for return of what they call
excess charges. Hope springs pe
rennially in the Seattle breast.
Clara Phillips evidently sub
scribes to the statement that stone
walls do not a prison make, nor
iron bars a cage.
In his refuge in far-off Siberia
Bill Haywood perhaps has leisure
to reflect that home was never any
thing like this.
This is the time of year when we
feel like lynching the prophets who
predicted that it would be a "light
winter."
The Clemenceau-Harding chat
was cordial enough, but it didn't at
tain the "Georges" and "Warren'
stage. ' . "
Alice Robertson says politics is
not for woman. It surely is not
when the majority is against her.
Thought for the day: While
snow is on the ground, the street
car seldom skids. - -
Russia wants workers. Well,
there are I. W. W. she can have
for the asking.
did not even show the existence ofj Mr. Wilson,, by his note campaign,
actually helped Germany to confuse
its advertisements,, but when its at, ' the American people's minds and, to
Why an express rate on marks?
Bulky packages should be sent by
freight.
The earth came up and hit
heaven and Bill Klepper was be
tween.
The boy reared as a pet hogs two
seats when grown to man size.
"Dry" and cold are a seasonal
combination, " ' . . ,
Mrs. Blackstone travels with her
husband and is the pretty blonde
in the act who holds the umbrella
which he fills with magic flowers.
She also appears in a boudoir scene
which he calls up by magic. They
have two magnificent Russian wolf
hounds, one of which. Count Chara
de!, formerly was one of the kennel
belonging to the late czar of Rus
sia. Both dogs are docile creatures
and one appears in the act. Mrs,
Blackstone's professional name
Nourse and prior to her marriage
she was a headliner in vaudeville
in a banjo specialty.
John D. CHara is taking the role
of Lightnin', left vacant by the
death of Frank Bacon, in the play
of that name at the Blackstone the
ater in Chicago. In addition to this
company John Golden has two other
companies of "Lightnin' " on tour
in this country. They, are headed
by Milton Noble and Thomas Jeffer
son. The Chicago, tronpe has" one
week more to so in that city and
then will move to Boston.
.
That much-heralded and long-
promised successor t to "Irene,
James Montgomery's new musical
play, will open at' the Vanderbilt
theater on Christmas night. It will
be called "Glory."
This arrangement necessitates the
removal of "The Torch-Bearers,'
which has been coaxing in the pub
lie at that house for the last several
months, and, accordingly, the satire
on the little theater movement will
begin its last two weeks there on
Monday next.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles King have a
new son. The father is at present
with "Little Nelly Kelly." The
mother is professionally known as
Lelia Rhodes and is a cousin of
George Cohan, : Vj.. -
CHARACTER FIRST ESSENTIAL
Telling chiMren whv and how
they should care for their teeth is
the mission xn life of W. J. Brown-
lee, who is registered at the Hotel
rui-nana. .tie nas Been in every
mwn m tne united Ktates address
ing the school children and talking
in, language which they can under
stand. Dr. Browniee is sent out on
this educational work by the manu
facturer of a tooth paste. The idea
is that it the children are taught
to keep their teeth, clean they will
get the habit and help their own
health and when they are customers
tor tooth paste the concern employ
ing Dr. Browniee will get its share
of the business. This is one method
of developing a market and, while
rival concerns will also benefit, the
tactory backing the idea is willing
to take its chances.
Like the Pied Piper. George D.
Beaumont came to Portland at the
head of a miscellaneous assortment
of humanity. Mr. Beaumont is the
United States marshal of Alaska
and he brought down pupils for the
Indian school at Chemawa, Or.
patients for the Morningside hos
pital and Indian boys for the reform
school at Golden, Colo. Assisting
the marshal were a number of resi
dents of Alaska who were im
pressed into service ' as special
deputies for the occasion, and be
ing a special deputy, under the cir
cumstances, gives them a chance to
go outside" for a few weeks. The
marshal checked out of the Im
perial yesterday.
Manufacturing box shooks and
shipping them to the fruit growers
of .adjoining states is the business
of M. Frentzel, who is at the Mult
nomah from Nampa, Idaho. The
shooks are made of white pine.
Nampa is the place where people
going to Boise have to change cars,
for Boise is on a stub 20 miles
from Nampa. Once upon a time
former Governor Hawley of Idaho
was checking up. how old he was
and the total disclosed him five
years short. Mr. Hawley thought
moment and then expla'ned the
five years had: been spent in Nampa
waiting for trains.
There were eight inches of snow
at Bend when Ray Golden left the
central Oregon metropolis Tuesday
night. He arrived in Portland yes
terday morning and was surprised
to find there was almost none or
the white stuff here. The snow, ac
cording to Mr. Golden; is not deep
enough yet to interfere with' the
operation of the sawmills Bend
people do not worry much about
snow in the town, but they don't
like the idea of snow filling Des
chutes canyon to the extent that the
trains cannot get through.
Young's bay, near Astoria where
the railroad crosses on a wooden
trestle while nervous passengers
wonder about their insurance and
promise to live a better jife, was
named after the father of S. A.
Young, who is registered at the Im
perial. Mr. Young is a mining en
gineer who lives at Seaside., and
he was an unsuccessful candidate
for mayor a few months ago.
Lee B. Bouvy, M. D., of La Grande
is registered at the Imperial. He
reports that when he left home
there were six inches of snow on
the ground and the farmers were
happy. Since then the depth has
increased. The snow Is particularly
welcomed in Umatilla county, where
there was insufficient moisture.
Control of Negative Emotions Is
Step Toward Cure of Crime,
PORTLAND, Dec. 6. (To the
Editor.) J. J. Sanders of the Ari
zona state prison writing in the
Specialty Salesman magazine says
If the men's forward and religious
movement would insist on everyone
being efficient In the science of
psychology what a character-build
ing movement it would be! If the
children in the Sur.day schools of
America were taught how to over
come each and every negative emo
tion, what impregnable Gibraltars of
character they would become! Any
one who has acquired self-control
and self-mastery cannot be said to
be a potential criminal. Nothing
can swerve such a character from
the path of rectitude.
This man has handled criminals
long time and should be given
credit for knowing at least some
thing concerning the real cause of
crime and its remedy.
The accumulation of character is
of vaster importance to the growth
and well-being .of a nation than
the accumulation of wealth. Our
nation has been scientifically ac
cumulating wealth while character
has been allowed to rustle and
hustle for itself as best it can with
out the aid of science. - It is all
very well to accumulate wealth, but
why not apply scientific principles
to the building of character as well?
Character, should be the first
thought of a people striving for a
fixed place -in the race of nations.
Character of a constructive quality
cannot be builded upon anger, fear,
jealousy, worry or despondency. If
these things are allowed to rule and
there is no scientific way by which
the individual can eliminate them,
then crime will increase and the
emotions these things cause will re
main as one of the chief reasons
for wrong doing. Ignorance of
psychic laws governing emotions is
tnore to be blamed than anything
and everything combined.
Can impregnable characters be
built through education of the
power of will? Science says they
can, and science speaks from ex
perience. Love and courage are
the positive emotions and Christ
ian virtues. No person can truth
fully say he is a Christian who is
ignorant of the law governing these
virtues.
No person can hope to have a
real impregnable character who
yields to any negative emotions, and
no person can possess a strong
character who gives way to anger,
fear, jealousy, worry or despondency.
Fear is a habit formed in early
youth, and parents who teach their
children fear, even of the slightest
degree, are buildang in that child
the very thing that will in time
cause the grown-up to be one of
the many who are struggling
through life just getting by be
cause of the fear that is impressed
upon their minds in their early
childhood unfitting them for the
real fight of life and placing them
in a mental condition where will
power -is irrjiossible in the con-
THE WISER COURSE.
So humbly the populace worshipped
the crown
In the days'of the Ottoman rule,
That a man who'd suggest that the
sultan step down
Was fed to the dogs of Stamboul.
When the dogs- had consumed half a
hundred of such.
And uolished each traitorous bon.
No person whose prudence amounted
to much
Made wanton attacks on the
throne.
Whenever the sultan was -pleased
with a maid
(Which he was, every fortnight or
two).
To his glittering palace she straight
was conveyed
And the wedding bells jangled
anew.
And though her young man and her
parents might feel
That such things were not all for
the best.
All show of annoyance they strove
to conceal.
For they knew what it meant to
protest.
But now when a citizen says with
frown
To his dinner companions som
night
'It's time that the sultan was run
out of town!"
The others cry fiercely, "That"
right!"
And the sultan, as soon as he hears
the bad news.
Cuts his twentieth honeymoon
short.
And promptly embarks on an aeTO-
plane cruise
For a Mediterranean port.
For the sultan, despite of the gem
aji his fez,
Is a. cautious and sensible lad.
And he knows that the folks to th
north of Suez
Are a murderous lot when they'rs
mad.
He may hate to go off to some meaa
little town
For all of the rest of his days
Without any harem or sceptre or
crown,
But he knows he'll be dead if it
s tay s-.
Any State Will Do.
Perhaps one reason why so many
women kill their husbands is that if
they tried to divorce them instead
they would have to go all the way to
Reno.
Spoken in Haste
Senator McCormick's observation
that in this country "there is a job
for every man" was made before the
last election separated a number of
gentlemen from their positions with
Uncle Sam.
-
A Large Order.
As far as we are able to gather,
we will not be able to satisfy M.
Clemanceau unless .we send an army
over, to annihilate' what is left of
Germany.
(Copyright, 1022. by Bell Syndicate. Inc;)
In Other Days.
Cy Bingham, high sheriff of Grant
county, is at the Imperial, regis
tering from Canyon City, the cele
brated one-street town of central
Oregon. The sheriff, who is ac
companied by H. L. Kuhl as first
assistant, has been escorting a
prisoner to the hoosegow at Salem.
J. W. Bixby of Idaville, which
used to be a whistling station on the
Tillamook railroad, is registered at
the Perkins. Idaville Is now grow
ing, thanks to the activity, of the
Whitney Lumber company operating
in that vicinity.
There was plenty of snow in The
Dalles yesterday morning when F. F.
Warmoth left, coming to Portland
and registering at the Hotel Oregon.
Deep snow, even, doesn't Interfere
much at The Dalles and silver thaw
Is unknown.
William J. McGinley, supreme sec
retary of the Knights of Columbus,
is registered at the Hotel Portland
from New York. Mr. McGinlay is
making an official tour of the coun
cils throughout the country.
K. L. Goulter of Hwaco, Wash,
who recently was awarded a rail
rofi.6. construction contract in the
middle west, is at the Hotel Port-
and, with W. J. Mumford, also of
Hwaco. .
Albert Hodge of Hood River
brought Mrs. Hodge to Portland for
treatment in a hospital yesterday.
Mr. Hodge is registered at the Per
kins. Postmaster Bradford of Juneau,
Alaska, Is in Portland for a few
days. Mrs. Bradford is spending
toe winter in Potlas,d, . .
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian, December 7, 1S07.
Statistics which have been pre
pared for the annual number of The,
Oregonian, which will be . issued
January 1, show that Oregon will
produce more gold this year than
the Klondike produced during the
working season of 1896-1897.
Of all the flour shipped from ths
Pacific coast . to Asia.. Portland
ships 40 per cent. San Francisco 40
per cent, and all others, including
British Columbia, 20 per cent.
There is now urgent need for in
creased shipping facilities for Port
land's Chinese trade.
Berlin. Imperial Chancellor Ho
henloe stated in the reichstag to
day:. "We absolutely require a mors
efficient navy to maintain the posi
tion created for us by the army."
structive decree.
DR. INNES V. BRENT.
REASONS FOR POOR ENGLISH
Correspondent Suggests Habit of
Reading; Newspapers Is One.
PORTLAND, Dec. 6. (To the
Editor.) I find three reasons why
we do not use better English: Lazi
ness, narrow reading and a limited
vocabulary! I shall say a few words
about each of these points.
To many of us education ends
when we leave school. The text
books are either taken to a second
hand store to be sold for a "song,"
or else they are put away in the at
tic to be forgot. W"e are, apparently,
so full of knowledge (when we
leave school) that there is abso
lutely no room for more. If we were
not so - self-satisfied, and if we
would refer to our grammar and
composition books and do some
reading from time to time, we
would improve our English every
day. ,
We all read, and read a good deal;
yet or English does not improve.
What then is the matter? Tlrat can
easily be answered. We confine our
reading to one kind only, newspaper-reading.
The English that the
daily papers presents to us is not
the best. Still, this is the English
we use, and the only English we
know. Then, too, this reading adds
nothing new to our storehouse of
phrases and expressions. We sim
ply stagnate, as doea the water In a
tarn when no fresh water is added.
But the reading of many different
books will not be such a wonderful
help to us in improving our lan
guage, if we skip, over all the big
words. We seem to feel that it is
entirely too much trouble to look
the words up in a dictionary. If
we do add.a new word, we. are too
timid to use it, for fear we will be
criticised. We content ourselves,
then, with the few words at our
command, and shun all new words,
as we would shun something e-vli.
These, then, are the main reasons
why we do not use better English;
heedlessness, newspaper-reading and
very few words at our command.
. SlfiUiEO. WESTRiEEIil,
Fifty Years Ago. i
Prom The Oregonian, December 7, 1872.
For the first 'time in the history
of Portland street cars were yester
day run over the first section of the
completed street railway, from the
intersection of F street, along Front
to Carruthers street in the southern
portion of the city.
Hon. D. Logan of Yamhill county
lately went on a hunt in the Coast
range mountains and captured sevea
large elk.
Sickness and death have made an
especial mark of eminent Americans
during the last months. Seward
and Greeley have died; Vice-Presi
dent Colfax and General Frank P.
Blair have had strokes of paralysis,
and now word comes that Charles
Sumner is severely attacked! by
heart disease.
With the exception of a few modi
fications the plans for Willamette
bridge have been approved by the
board of engineers of the Pacific
coast. The conditions of the ap
proval are that the bridge is to be
ten feet above high-water mark,
and the eastern terminus be located
two blocks above or below Asylum
street.
FIRST SNOW O' WINTER.
First snow o' winter is fallin' today.
See how it whitens the hours;
And I just out o' the gardens o'
May
Laden with honey and flowers.
Heart stop your -beatin', be silent,
be still,
Sleep little heart o' my breast;
Winter, old robber, must plunder
and kill
All o' the things I love best.
Seems like a flutter o' blossoms in
spring,
A shower o' peach and o' cherry;
Heart you must laugh, you must
dance and sing.
You must be mad and be merry.
These are not petals o' snow that
you see,
Summer has only come in:
If I am dreamin', let me still be
Ever the dreamer I've been.
First snow o' winter is fallin' today.
Winter, you surly old schemer,
Seems like a gardened mornin' o'
May
To warm the heart o' a dreamer.
Heart we are happy for all o' our
pains,
Catchin' the petals that fall;
Blossom time's come again down in
the lanes, ,
It isn't winter at all.
FRANK ANTHONY ROTH.
Privileged Utterances In Court.
PORTLAND, Dec. 6. (To the Ed
itor.) An attorney while arguing
a case to the jury stated that a cer
tain witness was a liar. Has the
witness an action against the ;
attorney? ELLIS LUNDSTROM.
Whatever is eaid by counsel in a,
legal proceeding, pertinent and ma
terial to the matter in controversy,
is absolutely privileged and. no ac
ti6n can be maintained upon It. (2S
Cyc. 383. Answer by Northwester
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