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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1933 a ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK Published by The Oreg-onlan Pub. Co.. lao Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. ilQRDEN, E. B. tlPER. Alanairer. Editor. The Oregonlau is a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Prera is exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all ners dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and a-iso the local news puoiushed herein. All right of publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. Subscription Raten-Invariably in Advance. (By Ma.il. in Oregon. Washington, Idaho and northern California.) Bally, Sunday included, one year $8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months .. 4.1.'i Dally, Sunday Included, three months 2.25 Daily, Sunday included, one month .. ."5 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months .. 3.2o Daily, without Sunday, one month . . .60 Sunday, one year 2.o0 All other points In the United States: Dally. 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TWO KINDS OF ALOOFNESS. Though opposed to any American participation in the affairs of the rest of Europe, Senator Borah is very anxious that the United States help Russia by recognizing the soviet government. He foresees that the United States will not be able to keep out of the next European rmr, and he seems to believe that recognition of the soviet will pre vent war. Thus the real point of disagree ment between the senator and those who would have the United States join the allies in adjusting affairs with Germany relates to the part of Europe from which we should stand aloof. He would establish friendly relations with the soviet, which compelled Russia to desert us and the allies in war; his op ponents would have us help the allies, who were our comrades in war. The reason for refusal to recog nize the soviet has been clearly stated, both by the Wilson admin istration and by Secretary of State Hughes. The soviet has openly repudiated the principles on which relations between nations rest. It has repudiated the national debt, refuses to compensate foreigners for confiscated property and has declared that it will not be bound by treaties with capitalist nations. It uses the privileges extended to its agents by other governments to plot their overthrow. A merchant who finds that a man breaks his contracts and does not pay his bills refuses to have further dealings with him, especially if he finds that man intrigues to ruin the merch ant's business. That is the Ameri can attitude toward Russia. The better way to prevent an other war and to help Russia is to co-operate with the allies in en forcing observance by Germany of those parts of the Versailles treaty to which the Unite I States is made a party by our separate treaty. Ger many respects only superior force. If confronted with the combined force of the United States and the three principal allies and if con vinced that the indemnity would be reduced to a sum within its capacity to pay. Germany would pay, would stop the ghost dance of the militarists and would be toe busy setting its affairs in order to intrigue with the bolshevists. The Turks are ready to break away from them and settle down. Being isolated and having failed in its scheme for world revolution, the soviet might them recognize the principles upon which alone rela tions with it could be anything but a mockery. 1VE GROW MORE MUSICAL. It is possible to make an approxi mation of our esthetic and cultural improvement by reference to so un inspired and otherwise uninterest ing a document as the census re port on manufacturers, as John C. Freund, editor of Musical America, points out in a statement in which he directs attention to the official statistics in vindication of the as sertion ne made some years ago that the American people were spending 5600,000,000 a year for music. Now comes the belated census report to say that the value of the products of the music manu facturing industries in 1919. exclu sive of sheet music and books, was more than $500,000,000. These in dustries comprise more than 800 plants, employing 70,000 workmen and representing $300,000,000 of in vested capital. To make Mr. Freund's estimate good, it would be required that only $100,000,000 be accounted for by additional expenditures in great variety. In the sums expended for theatrical entertainment, for ex- ample, we should in fairness make due allowance for its musical fea tures, though it is impracticable to segregate them with the accuracy essential to an official report. Mu sic teachers multiply and continue to thrive. They are not enumerated in tho industrial census. Seven thousand supervisors of music In the public schools testify to the growing aspirations of the years. Mr. Freund estimates that between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 make a liv ing in whole or in part in some employment growing out of music. It is not a time to cavil over definitions, to make fine-spun se gregations, as, for example, thos6 would do who would contend that a considerable proportion of the musical instruments manufactured for Americans to play on never pro duce real music. Someone rises to protest that untold millions go in for jazz. He would subtract from trie total the sums expended for ukule les and saxophones. But he would be wrong.' We think that the humblest of them has its place in the cultural scheme. All contribute to the increasing volume not of mere noise, as the cynic would in sist, but of effort to achieve the melodies and harmonies of the higher life. Jazz, and folk music. and the popular song are steps on Abe way to symphony and grand opera. But Mr. Freund also views the matter critically, relying not wholly on what the census bureau says. "We lead," he says, "in our musical performances. We give the best French, German, Russian and Italian grand opera. We have the largest number of symphony or chestras and the best, and when it comes to the musical profession, our teachers can stand up against any the world over." Nor need we accept the unsupported testimony of Mr. Freund. The campaign: in stituted by the last national recre ation congress, meeting at Atlantic City, to enlist the co-operation of American musicians and composers in giving American character to our musical aspirations, is significant of general desire. The very haste with which the public "turns from one bad song to another," said Professor Dykema, head of the new move ment, is but evidence of the "un conscious search for songs which will lastingly satisfy the musical hunger." Occasional cacophony is but a manifestation of esthetic growing pains. The tendency is up ward. A truly musical America is bound soon or late to arrive. ANOTHER WORD TO ASTORIA. The trouble which has over whelmed you has not crushed your fighting spirit. This is fine; and it means the regeneration of a better and greater Astoria. Mean while, time will be lost and head way greatly retarded if your fight ing spirit manifests itself In profit less ways, and there is to be a pro tracted debate over who shall direct the work. When the ship Is perious ly close to the rocks is no time for a game of grab-for-the-t'iller. It is easy to understand that the fire has got a little on Astoria's nerves. A great deal may be ex cused in view of the great com munity and individual losses. Tour outsider, fat and comfortable in view of his own prosperous condi tion, , finds a certain pleasure in telling Astoria what to do. It is tough job. It San be done. It will be done. The present flurry of distemper will pass. But to the end that it may pass, factions should be forgotten, personalities buried, the past ignored, the future only remembered. A pull altogether will serve and save Astoria. Nothing else will do it, no matter how helpful and sym pathetic others may be. A pull altogether means everybody. ROASTING THE ROAD HOG. The Hillsboro Independent makes comment so pointed and satisfying on one great cause of automobile accidents that it is given space herewith: Portls.nd is making a big fuss over the Increase In traffic accidents and about every cause except the right one Is ad vanced to account for it. If the big town really wants to know -what the trouble is and is not bluffing and scared stiff for fear it might stumble on the cause and be obliged to bump against someone with a pull, it can iearn easily enough. The trouble is the hard-boiled guy with a big car who drivles at a rapid pace past the short blocks and into in tersections without a thought of any but himself. He takes right of way from you with a "look-out-you-poor-fish" side glance and he keeps it up until someone Is not able to get out of his way quick enough. Everybody who drives a car in Portland has met this bird, and ii.ni- ally they regret they are not driving a steam roller so tney could take their time about dodging him. That's the road hog everybody curses and heartily wishes in jail. But wishes enforce no speed laws. He is still at large in Portland, in Hillsboro, and everywhere. He thinks with whatever it is he thinks with that nothing can hap pen to him, and he does not care if it happens to the other fellow. Usually it does. That will do for the maniacal jehu who flies into intersections. He deserves the worst. But he is not the sole cause of injury to limb. loss of life, destruction of property. The causes are so various as to defy definition. The greatest cure is care and competence in driving. We shall never have either care or competence until just penalties are fixed and enforced with emphasis on the enforced. GERMANY SHOWS TIP LUDENDORFF. Most cruel of all the misfortunes that have befallen General Luden dorff is official repudiation of him as a military leader by his own government After he had poured out his wrath on America, France and all others whom he even sus- pected of a part in the defeat of Germany and after he had threat ened a terrible revenge, a commit tee of the reichstag which had in vestigated Germany's military fail ure made a report which tears his reputation as a strategist to shreds and says in effect: "That boob! If we did make a war of revenge, we would not choose him to lead it, uind we have no better leader." ine great drives made by the Germans in 1918 are condemned as gigantic blunders for the reason that Germany had not the power to push them home to complete de feat of the allies. In the spring of 1918 the German forces in the west were very little, if any, su- perior to those of the allies and Prof. Hans Delbrueck, a member of the committee, kavs in sin particle tn the New York World that "the allies enormously surpassed us in all other implements of war, while the Germans were short of all essentials. Ludendorff should have learned from the failure of the allies to break through the German trench system between 1914 and 1917 the impossibility of victory by that means, for success by a narrow margin was always limited by the impossibility of es tablishing the great organization necessary to follow it up. Thus every advance on either side "sooner or later came to a stand still." Ludendorff knew he was too weak, that "he could not win final strategic- victory." He -at tacked too far south in order to turn the British flank, for the dis tance wastoo great to enable re inforcements of food and ammuni tion to follow in time. His army actually broke through and came within nine "miles of Amiens, but there "hunger and exhaustion checked them." The Germans' ef fort had been in vain and their great success "remained a victory of pure bluff." It was due not to Ludendorff's generalship but to the mistakes of Haig and Petain in disobeying Foch's order to estab lish a common reserve. It con tributed to ultimate victory for the allies, for it drove them and their generals to overcome their jealousy and, put Foch in a 11U1 I-UIJI ill VV1111- mand. Ludendorff could have in creased his forces by withdrawing troops from the Ukraine and by calling in Austrian troops, but he did not use these reserves, and he repeated his blunder by attacking again on the Lys and the Chemin des Dailies. Each attack failed to break through and all made "the German battle-line the worst think able bends and curves and open flanks, all of which offered the allies the greatest opportunity for a series of flanking attacks," while the allies' position was growing stronger -and they were concen trating large reserves. Ludendorff is denied credit for planning the great victory over the Russians at Tannenburg, for "the strategic idea- was the common property of the German general staff," each officer knew what to. do, and when Hindenburg and Ludendorff arrived "General Hof mann already had' prepared a plan for immediate action on these prin ciples." Ludendorff and Hinden burg are given credit for execution of the plan and no more. Finally Ludendorff is accused of having played a double game In the peace move "for the sake of his personal ambition." His own rep resentative testified that "he nego tiated at the foreign office under Ludendorff's instructions, while to the German people Ludendorff had proclaimed the knockout policy," His present following is declared "much too small and insignificant to serve as a basis for political or military leadership" and the world is assured that "there is no real danger threatening from him." This is a most effective way to destroy the militarist illusion in the minds of the German people. Wrecking of the myth of Luden dorff's genius, exposure of his double dealing, will end his career as a military idol, and there is none to replace him. Weaning of the German people from militarism was bound to be no easy task. It can probably be done best by their own government by exposing the stupidity and selfishness of their supposed supermen. ' TARIFF AND SHIP SUBSIDV. Referring to The Oregonian's comment on the disparity between imports and exports at Portland, the Eugene Guard thus delivers it self: . Naturally The Oregonian should be happy over the showing made by the 1-ort or Portland, it does not believe m importing goods Into this country, fav oring rather a high protective tariff which would shut out foreign products anu wares, it would have this country sell to other nations but buy nothing of them. Naturally, too. It would have our merchant vessels return to home ports In ballast, the deficiency in oper ating expenses to be made up by sub sidies paid from the national treasury. The Oregonian has a splendid lesson in tne practical working of the trust-protecting tariff system It has so long ad vocated m the showing made by the port or Portland. The only ' meritorious feature which The Oregonian has found in the new tariff is the provision that the tariff commission shall ascer tain the difference in cost of pro duction between this and competing countries and that the president shall reduce or raise duties within a range of 50 per cent each way in order to make the tariff conform to that difference. That provision does not shut out foreign imports; it admits them on an equal com petitive basis. It treats the tariff as not a political but as an econ omic question, as it is. Under that provision American ships could carry full cargoes of imports as well as exports under normal conditions of commerce. The cost of building and operating American ships being higher than for foreign ships, we would have this difference divided among all the people in the form of a sub sidy. The cost would be about $35,000,000 a year, which is about 35 cents per head of the popula tion. That is not an excessive price to pay for having our own ships to serve as a delivery system for our commerce in peace and as an auxiliary to our army and navy in war. The pretense of the democrats that they are opposed to a protec tive tariff is false. Merely calling it "for revenue only" does not pre vent a. tariff from being protective. Any tariff on a commodity that competes with American goods is protective, no matter what may be its purpose. It could not be other wise. THE VANQUISHED MODOCS. Fifty years ago this month a paramount topic in the news in Oregon was the threatened war with the Klamath and Modoc In dians, which assumed a menacing aspect in December, 1872. ""The intense fever to march upon the Modocs instantly," said a Salem dispatch to The Oregonian at that time, "has much abated since Mon day." . But prudent caution had not extinguished patriotic fervor wholly, as we surmise from the statement that "perhaps not more than 600 volunteers could now be raised in Salem." Six hundred would have been a considerable number, having regard for the pop ulation of Salem in that early time. As a matter of fact, Governor Gro ver was earnestly besought to ex ercise the full power of the state in suppressing the uprising and sev eral companies of Oregon volun teers, besides a number of citizens of the infested localities in south ern Oregon, took an active part in the stirring events of the ensuing winter and spring. The unparalleled success of a comparatively small body of ragged and badly accoutered savages in waging a contest which cost the lives of more white men than there were Indians engaged makes the Modoc war a classic in the annals of the long struggle for peace on the frontier. It is now possible in the perspective of history to un derstand that the events which led up to it constituted a tragecly of errors, but there was sufficient precedent in the want of co-operation between state and nation, in mutual misunderstandings between regulars and volunteers and be tween settlers and natives which had characterized the campaigns of twenty years before. In the Klam ath lake region, where the Modocs held forth, military and civil au thorities were constantly at outs. At Washington fhere was lack of unity of purpose between the war and interior departments. Pacifist Indian agents, holding too fine spun theories of the psychology of savages who interpreted humani tarian motives as Indications'" of fear, were impediments to a firm policy which, if it had been adopted at the outset, might have averted the war. President Grant was in clined to give the theorists their chance, though Sherman would have taken vigorous action. Vac illation was the order of the day, while Captain Jack and his handful of braves prepared to do battle to the death. I But the base treachery of the Modocs from the beginning for feited all claim to esteem. No war was ever more cruelly conducted by Indians or more noteworthy for violations of the canons which even barbarians are accustomed to re spect. Massacres of settlers were followed by repeated infractions of terms of parley and truce. Once a party of four white commissioners, arriving at an appointed rendezvous to which it had been agreed that only four unarmed Indians should be sent, were confronted by twenty nine savages in full panoply of war and escaped death only because the savages wished to assassinate Jesse Applegate, who had not attended the council. The culminating act of treachery of the campaign was the murder of General E. R. S. (Canby, on April 11, 1873, and a fellow commissioner under a flag of truce. Sherman, who knew Indians , and was familiar with the type of man who had settled theWest, would have made better work of the cam paign if he had been nearer the scene. Counseling patience while officials of the interior department dawdled in futile efforts to find a basis of compromise with outlaws who did not know the meaning of a treaty, he nevertheless tele graphed: "Should peaceful meas ures fail, and should the Modocs presume too far on the forbearance of the government, and again re sort to deceit and treachery, I trust that you will make such use of the militar force that no Indian tribe will imitate their example and that no reservation for them "will be nec essary except graves among their chosen lava-beds." Later, when the unwarranted ac cusation of the pioneers was rife among the pacifists of the east, Sherman wrote: "These people are the same kind that settled Ohio, Indiana and Iowa; they are as good as we are, and were we in their stead we would act just as they do. I know it because I have been one of them." His letter had been in spired by the act of exasperated citizens of southern Oregon, who had killed four Indian prisoner's known to be guilty of heinous crimes. It is now recalled that ex citement throughout Oregon and northern California was intense. As The Oregonian then recorded, "the funeral honors paid to General Canby at Portland were almost equal to those paid to Lincoln." Later, when Governor Grover in sisted that the murderers be sur rendered to the civil authorities for trial, no attention was paid to his demand. The news of the Modoc ringlead ers would have adorned the pages of any dime novel. Besides Cap tain Jack, whose true name was Kintpuash and who obtained his nickname from his habit of adding military ornaments to his everyday regalia, there were Sconchin, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Shacknasty Jim, Curly-headed Doctor, Hooker Jim, Scarface Charley, Bogus Char ley and Steamboat Frank. Only the first four were hanged. These ral lied about them a heterogeneous company which numbered perhaps sixty at the outset and never mus tered more than twenty others. To vanquish them required the unre mitting services of 985 regular troops, seventy-one Indian allies, three battalions of Oregon militia and a considerable number of vol unteer local irregulars. Casualties to the army numbered 100, of whom forty-one were killed, seven of the latter being commissioned officers. Including peace commis sioners, Indian allies and settlers, there were sixty-five killed, and sixty-three were wounded, some of whom died. In proportion to its duration' and the number of hos tiles engaged, it was the costliest Indian war the country ever knew. Advocates of a federal divorce law, if uniformity of the marriage bond cannot be attained in some other way, find sustaining argu ments in almost any day's news. A judge recently ruled that a hus band who left his wife to play golf was guilty of cruelty and granted a decree. In the same week another judge held that a husband was en titled t$ an occasional "day off" from family cares and declined to set the complaining wife free. In one state a wife was sustained ip her contention that a husband who persisted in wearing bolshevik whiskers against her wishes was unfit to be lived with; against which is placed a ruling that a man who expects his wife to be his barber is exceeding the bounds. Married life is getting to be a com plicated matter of legal interpreta tion, in which the wedded never know just how far they may ven ture until they have read up on the latest decisions of the courts. Pro-H ponents of the federal idea seem to think that the fewer decisions there are the more time married couples wilL have to compose their affairs. Washington saves three-quarters of a million in two years by return ing insane patients to where they belong. That niight.be a good plan with criminals; the home product is enough to contend against. There is an easy way of detect ing the deaf and dumb impostor. The man afflicted spells correctly, having learned by sight; the im postor misspells. : The ex-crown prince of Germany is planning to visit this country next summer and talk in German, He never will get past quarantine. The man who rolls out to start the kitchen fire and goes back- to bed is the fellow who makes trouble for the firemen. New. traffic danger in sight. A local man has invented roller skates on which twenty miles an hour can be made. Retail food prices are reported from Washington as higher In a score of cities, but that is a winter condition. Does the plumber smile? Not while crawling into an almost In accessible place to replace a cracked pipe. A worse condition would be two or three feet of sn6w. Let us be thankful. - The county that retains its agri cultural agent is banking on the future. In this cold spell watch the dampers and drafts. Let's talk about summer, SPOKEN AND WRITTEN ENGLISH 1 Two Forms in Common UseHow to Improve Vocabulary, : UNIVERSITY PARK, Or., Dec 11. (To the Editor.) May the writer add a few words to what has been said in The- Oregonian. editorially and by contributors, apropos of good tngnsh in our daily use? Is there not less exactness in our words in conversation than in writing books and for other prints? If a person talks as he writes they say he is a dook. indeed when we depart from the conversational way as a basis of expressing ourselves even In print and in public address we are called stiff and stately. Lincoln did not suffer in his printed words because he talked to the people with marvelous sim plicity, making clearness. It is not necessary to reread Lincoln to un derstand him. Jesus talked, and his talk makes the highest type of lit erature. Contact with persons of culture makes ua better in our Eng lish. Listening to our best preach ers enlarges our vocabulary. The public libraries and magazines like the Atlantic Monthly are merciful of the needy vocabulary. Beading a paper - like The Oregonian from start to finish, from editorials to re ports of fires and criminal auto mobiles, following the syndicate writers and the sermons in full or in part adds to the fund of good English. The great modern news paper has no back door for English to sneak through on limping feet. Easy access to an unabridged and aiso to an aDridged English diction ary the lover of good English does "la'y peoPie who own. feuvsu jiiiisiiou uicuonaries neglect using them from' the fact that it is so Inconvenient to open them. All English literature is in that one book the English dictionary, i To avoid slang is a task when so many even college, students are its captives. That slang should to any extent be a badge of student-hood- many of us deplore. Tet some slang words refuse to die, and after a long probation enter into correct use. The word "enthuse" is a wretched word, yet it expresses what no other word holds, and it has won a place with correct words. There are words like' "splendid," used so often that everything is "splendid" or awful. "I expect it is so" often displaces the correct "I think it is so." The English which people use be forcible Without nrnfane can words or words that border on pro fanity. A starving man is excused when stealing food, but there is no excuse to use the name of God in vain. Such -use indicates an impov erished vocabulary. - . - B. J. HOADLET. NO ONE WANTS WAR WITH ITS Need of Military Preparedness Is Denied by Correspondent. WOLF CREEK, Or., Dec 10. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian De cember 4 is an . article entitled "Strength of Army Rated Inade quate by the Secretary of War." The secretary is asking for more money for the army for national defense. I believe it is the opinion of all military officers and manu facturers of munitions of war that we need more money for the army and navy to make the United States safe against invasion by our imagi nary foreign enemies. If we allowed our statesmen to follow the dictates ot our fancy-priced military men, how long would it be before our country would be as thoroughly Prussianized as ever Germany was Prussianized and that 75 per cent oi our resources would he nut to the support of a huee armv anil a big navy? Militarism is an institution with. OUt a SOUl. Without llldirmont nnl without economy. It is based on vanity and waste of human onero-w and the sooner pnvemmpnts themselves of militarism the better for the human race. Vanity is what attracts men to the army and navy, and the prospect of an easy living, with little or -no work to do. Our army and navy officers, with the aid of big shipbuilders and manu facturers of war supplies, keep be- iu.c mc people a standing propa ganda for preparedness anrt tho finger of another war, yet anv person with a grain of common sense knows that there is no nation on earth that wants to a war with the United States. Even ..uiuuiuauoa ot nations would not undertake it when we consider he condition that the nations of Eu rope will be in for a score of years to come. Mr. Weeks says that he has 18,000 officers for the army, but that is not enough to suit him, and that it will require more than that to insure our safety. Ho also wants more money and men to develop more air power, and in addition he wants the citizens trained in mili tary tactics. One would conclude an. weeks- article that the country is in imminent danger of another war. If we give militar ism in this country half a chance IU not iik-e it did -in Ger many and Austria, and plunge thi country mto waj, whether the peo pie like it or not. A. W. ZOELLNER. Soldiers and Expatriation. - INDEPENDENT. rr rv (To the Editor.)In what states are the referendum, initiative and recall in etfect? i-2;,. SnouId an American citizen, as ttft! rC?nt war' ieave th9 United States to join an army, such as the Canadian army, does he have to be UM?erfs?a3tes?Pn t0 the Pnrrl.n71"? 'I PPhltiOn Of Portland, Los Angeles and Seattle? CHARLES MERRILL. 1. Complete information may be had by writing Judson King, secre- tary Popular Government league, Munsey building, Washington, D C -tl lllisen or TMft llnitaA Cl-nl-nn MLaino oes expatriate himself when he takea.the oath of allegiance to any foreign country. However, on his return he may regain his citizenship by appearing before a judge of the federal court and taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. If in a foreign country, he may ap pear before a diplomatic agent of the United States and take the oath. After this country entered the late war, there was a special provision made, whereby a citizen entering the army of one of the allies did not ex patriate himself. We were then fighting a common enemy. ' 3. Portland, 258,288; Los Angeles, 576,673; Seattle, 315,312. Question of Ages. PORTLAND, Dec. 11. To the Edi tor.) James Smith was born at 5 minutes to 12 (midnight) December 31, 1877. Ten minutes later Will Black was born. What is the dif ference in their ages? How old will James be December 31 at 5 minutes to 12 (midnight), 1922, and how old is Will at 5 min utes past 12, 1923? One claims James will be 45 and one claims he will end his 44th year going on 45; others say he will end 45 and go into 46. SUBSCRIBER. There is a difference of ten min utes in their ages. At five minutes past 12, December 31, 1922. James Smith will have com pleted Ilia 45th year, . Those Who Come and Go Tales ot Folks at the Hotels. "Devil's Garden is covered with six inches of snow, so the riding over the rocky road is better now than In summer," says E. H. Smith of Lakeview, where he is a physi cian, county judge and banker. Judge Smith came to Portland to attend the annual mobilization of county Judges and county commis sioners, who will be in session to day. The Devil's Garden is an area of boulders through which passes the road between Lakeview and Klamath Palls, and the going is as tough as anyone wants. Judge Smith says that the road work did not get ahead very fast in Lake county this season, for -there was little surfacing done near Chewau can and the' grading near Drew's valley was just enough to cut up some .of the old road. Snow has covered most of Lake county and the judge traveled through snow from home to Klamath Falls, in which town there was several inches. There is plenty of hay, but out in the Warner valley, east of Lakeview, the stockmen will not have to staijt feeding for sometime yet, as that section appears to be more sheltered than some other parts of the county. Judge Smith, who is a wild driver, left his own car at Lakeview and used the stage to Klamath Falls, fearing that a heavy snow might come during his ghmtna 1t Tn,-t 1 a n ami lift rmili1 have to store the car in Klamath Falls until spring. Mr. Volstead has completely transformed San Francisco. The city by the Golden Gate, which was famous the world over for its Bo hemian atmosphere, 1.3 now as tame and commonplace as any middle western town. The cafes- and res taurants around which centered much of the life of, the city are now but memories. The character of San Francisco has undergone a change. Such is the report brought back to Portland by Frank Warren, chairman of the Port of Portland commission. Anyone familiar with the old San Francisco who drops into the place ' now immediately notices the change. The wind still blows down Market street at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the fog still comes up late in the day, but the pep and camaraderie among the people have departed. "Busi ness is not so good in San Fran cisco," observes Mr. Warren, "but they tell me that things are boom ing down in Los Angeles." Mr. War ren has been in San Francisco" for a number of weeks looking after the refitting of a steamer bought for the Warren salmon interests in Alaskan waters. "It's a bit crimpy down our way, and. it isn't sweltering in Portland," declared E. V. Carter, banker ot Ashland, former member of the game commission, and one of the best-known citizens of southern Oregon. Mr. Carter bought a new sedan automobile and expected to drive it to his Ashland home, but the weather, he considers, is too chilly even for an enclosed car dur ing such a long ride. It is the in tention of Mr. Carter to visit Cali fornia this winter, but before going he wants to look around the lobby of the state house during the legis lature. Mr. Carter was formerly a member of the state senate and he has been speaker oi the house and the trip to the legislature would be just to see how the old place looks- Mrs. Mary A. Davis, who -has the hotel and restaurant which is all there is of the place at Ritter, Or., is registered at the Multnomah. Ritter. is the place where there is a celebrated warm spring, where the water emerges at a temperature of 120, but it is considerably cooler by the time it is sloshed into wooden tubs for the rheumatic victims who negotiate the terrible roads to Rit ter. The spring at Ritter has been known from the days of the early pioneers and the waters were sparingly patronized by the In dians long before the coming of the white man. It is the water from this spring which is said to pTOVoke the tongue to utterances other than the truth. When Carl Weigalt, salesman for a millinery firm, was in Centralia, Wash., a little kitten insisted on playing among the frames and arti ficial flowers, the tissue paper and "the odds and ends among the drum mer's samples. When Mr. Weigalt left Centralia he had to pack in a hurry but he saw nothing of the kitten. When the salesman secured his sampie room in the Benson yes terday and unpacked, setting out his display on tables, he unearthed the cat in a wad of tissue paper. The kitten came out purring like a six-cylinder motor, tickeled to death at getting out of confinement. Al though the animal had been in the trunk for more than 24 hours it, ap parently, was not Inconvenienced. Around the Caldwell, Idaho, coun try , thousands of sheep are being fed and it looks as though .all the hay in that section will be used up during the winter, according to J. H. Gue, registered at the Multno mah. Last year many hay farmers decided that potatoes would be a better crop, so they planted spuds. They secured a good crop, but the market went to pieces. The farm ers who stuck to their hay Instead of changing are now smiling at their prospects, which are decidedly good. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, and William Spencer, secretary of the Building Trades, are at the MultnO mal, frnr, TS7a all l n o-t nr, T mi,n j secretaries, who are among the most important leaders In organized . lO-UUl, n o ,11 a ut uailll ku MllttUKO wr i . ,, j . me uaL-uiiiti convention to do neia here next year. ."There has been a series of tragic deaths in Eugene,' says Louis E. Bean, "in the past few days, so the community Is depressed and low spirited." Mr. Bean, speaker of the 1921 legislature, is in Portland to attend the meeting of the state game commission, of which he is a member. Frank, C Hesse Isn't exactly a refugee from Astoria, although he was one of the sufferers from the conflagration. Mr. Hesse's law of fice, one of the most elaborate in Astoria, was wiped out slick as a whistle. The attorney is registered at the Hotel Portland. J. Vinton, Scott, who is an Ameri can dentist, from Shanghai, China, arrived at the Hotel Portland yes terday. American dentists In the orient have played an important part in governmental affairs as well as in the tooth business. Not So Bad! Youth's Companion. "I see you've got a new hoss, Zeph," the mail carrier in a small town said to one of the inhabitants who was brushing a chestnut mare. "Te-up," replied Zeph. , "Do you trade often?" "Te-up; Sat-day I swapped three times." "You. must be doing pretty well." . "Ye-np, pretty good; generally come out second best that isn't doing very ..bad, is Itn Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Hoogrhton-Mifflts Co. Can Yon Answer These Questions? 1. Please let me know why my gold fishes are turning white. They seem to be perfectly well and lively. 2. Please identify a lizard seven inches long, smooth, glossy black with two rows of yellow dots from neck-to end of tail. Snout broader than long, body fat; was found in a wood pile apparently eating grubs. 3. Does the bluebird have any enemies among the other birds? Answers In tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. How much do naturalists pay for zebra swallowtail butterflies? Do you know of any reliable person who buys entomological specimens? We are sorry to disappoint this correspondent, but we cannot quote prices or give business addresses in this column. The salability of a specimen depends a good deal tn how difficult the specimen iB to se cure and how badly some collector wants it. A common custom with collectors is to exchange specimens, thus accommodating each other and saving expenditure, t 2. The Baltimore oriole troubles me this year stealing my young peas. I hate to shoot a? such handsome bird, but this stealing habit was a nuisance. Can I scare them off In any effective way? It is true orioles steal peas, but economic ornithologists and entom ologists tell us they are in searcn of the pea weavll, a troublesome pest which they check. Thi3 may not always be the temptation, and if your vines Vre healthy we can only suggest stringing up some dangling bits, say rags and bits of shiny tin, to startle the birds. You might try using a beanshooter and children's Fourth-of-July torpedoes if there is any hard surface to shoot against and explode the torpedo. . 3. Why is the eye tooth so called? It is more properly called a canine. but the root is rather long and in the upper jaw reaches further to ward tne eye than the roots of the. other teeth. The name is said to have been given on this account. FOR CHRISTMAS OF SACRIFICE Near East Relief Contributions Urged in Place of Useless Giving. PORTLAND, Dec. 11. (To the Ed itor.) A recent suggestion from a pulpit in this city offers a happy solution of the ever recurring holi day problem of how best to observe a genuine Christmis spirit at that season of good chjer. It is a fact to which most of ns can bear Wit ness -that the gifts we exchange with our friends and- acquaintances, and sometimes even within the fam ily circle, are largely conventional, often ill-chosen and unappreciated, and at best afford but a momentary pleasure. To a sensible person a cheery note expressive of the good will and affection of the writer would go quite as far in furthering the traditions of the holiday season as these more or less useless gifts. Think then what could be accom plished by using the money so saved toward the relief of the hungry. cold and desolate sufferers of. the near 'east. The aggregate value of these unbought gifts if directed into that channel would bring untold joy to many a grief stricken mother and her sad and hungry children. Doc6.it mean a little sacrifice? Why certt..ny, and there is the beauty of it. A true act of generosity must involve sacrifice. Whoever felt tile cockles of his heart glow with gen erous warmth" through making i gift from no other motive than that of complying with a custom? There are thousands of generous hearts in this favored city of Port land, hearts which would gladly re spond to a plea of poverty and want coming within their immediate ob servation. but which are strangely careless in their response to the cry of anguished need rising from those stricken and desolate regions across the sea. What wonders could be ac complished in dispelling gloom and despair- from countless saddened lives if at this gracious season of the year someone endowed with the gift of initiative and leadership would start a movement to this end! We are about to celebrate the birthday of bim who promised a blessing to those who give but a cup of cold water to his little ones in his name, and here is an oppor tunity to do still greater things and doubtless the reward will be cor respondingly greater, the reward of a great inward peace at the cost oi a very small sacrifice. A. E. DIEFENDORF. NO LIMIT TO FUTURE OF RADIO Let Storms Come and Go, all World Can Keep In Touch. Bend Bulletin. In the past few weeks many have recalled the storm of a year ago that tied up the railroads, stopped mall service for nearly two weeks, and put telephone and telegraph wires out of commission. In the first week after the storm, it will be re membered, the only news from the outside where the storm had been most, severe was a few items re ceived by the Bulletin by way of Klamath Falls, Lakeview, Sliver Lake and Millican, and the bit taken out of tre air by the wireless sta tion that was set up for the Bulle tin In an effort to get in communi cation with Portland. In the short year that elapsed how conditions have changed. Given the same conditions again. It is doubtful If there would be the least difficulty in receiving news because of the development of radio commu nication and the setting up of many receiving stations here In Bend. A similar storm might put the Port land sending stations out of com mission temporarily, but news could still come in from the many more distant points whose broadcasting has been received in Bend. The future of radio communica tion as a day to day affair cannot yet be foretold. At present the craze for this new development of science seems to be dying down and the chief interest to be taken by "fans'' and boys with a mechanical turn of mind. Later it may settle down to something with a real commercial value and Importance. In the mean time it is interesting to remembeT than in certain sorts of emergency it is ready to serve as a means of communication that cannot be af fected, unless for very short periods, by local and occasional weather con ditions. - Wealth of Mr. Hoover. SALEM, Or., Dec. 10. (To the Edi tor.) A claims that Secretary Her bert Hoover is rated at $60,000,000. B claims that his rating is $2,000,000. Will you kindly give us the facts? CONSTANT READER. There is rto public rating -of mil lionaires, only Mr. Hoover himself could say what he Is worth. He has been engaged In public service since 1914 and has himself said that his fortune has been greatly depleted in jconsejuence, More Truth Than Poetry. Br James J. Montague. THE BETTER. WAY. Time was when college presidents Were worried day and night About the hideous expense Of making people bright. They spent their time in begging calls On gentlemen with rolls. To get the cash for lecture halls And stadiums and bowls. Sometimes in golden smiles they basked And didn't have to wait To get the money that they asked Anon they got the gate. They labored till their hair was gray And they were stooped and thin, Tet never found an easy way To make the cash roll in. But now they get some wealthy grouch To make a mournful yelp. And tightly grip his money pouch When they apply for help. And to declare his keen desire To tour the land around. And set all colleges on fire And burn 'em to the ground! And lo! the tidings get about; Folks hear it everywhere. And all the populace shells out What cash it has to snare. This seems to show us, quite despite An adage old and wise. That vinegar, if handled right. win eaten a lot of flies! Fitting Graduates for Life. If Sing Sing prison wants to- do something practical it will give each discharged convict a taxi in stead of a suit of clothes. " Still a Little Kick. Lame ducks are never so lame that they cannot fly in the face of an impending majority. Slow to Learn. If, as M. Cleraenceau assures usi Germany wants another war, she must be a glutton for punishment. mopyrisnt, l23. by Bell Syndicate, Inc In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian. Dec 12, 1897. In a recent conversation with Buelow the Emperor William is re ported as saying, "This American meddlesome policy must cease or we will be obliged to teach them man ners, and pointing out the neces sity of a joint naval war against the United States. Lightship No. 70 was successfully launched from the ways at Wolff & Zwicker's yard yesterday morning and is now moored at the wharf waiting to receive her boiler. Three thousand people standing on the East Water street elevation saw the .launching. There is strong probability that the coming year will see a new rail road stretching across Oregon from the Snake river to the coast. A branch of the new road will traverse the country between Prineville and Pendleton. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oreeonian. Dec. 12. 1872. It is remarked, and correctly, too, that the new street cars move too slowly. The horses show a regret table lack of energy and ambition, and seem averse to starting off again after having been stopped to let on passengers. Yesterday as the Oneonta was steaming up toward this city a large deer suddenly leaped from the bank and swam quickly in the direc tion of the steamer, eausing great excitement among the passengers. Purser Ingalls, however, seized a rifle and made short work of the animal. It was brought into the city. It is reported that the Modocs engaged in the Klamath lake war. are aided by the Pitt river Indians from California and have also for some time been trying to induce the Snakes to join them, having had messengers among that tribe for some time. ROOM FOR ONE MORE SOCIETY Writer Would Be Charter Member of One to Cheer Women on Farms. PORTLAND, Dec. 11. (To the Editor.) Referring to an article, "Women Leaving the Farm," on the editorial page of The Oregonian De cember 9, may I be permitted space for comment? It is all true, and more. Not only census figures are available from which conclusions may be drawn, but social and economical tragedies are frequently recognized to be di rect results from conditions of life on the farm for the women-folk. Observation of concrete cases, which are not lacking, is a prolific source of convincing argument. With no constructive diversion, no incentive for mental activity, no leisure for self-development along any line, is it any wonder that ani mal propensities only survive the isolation and drudgery incident to homemaking "on a piece of land"? For the woman on the farm one of two things happens In due course of time retrogression In manners, personal appearance, social ability and mental agility, else she moves back to town. There are exceptions Just enough exceptions to prove the rule. Cling ing to the ashes of her own shat tered Ideals and sacrificing self on the altar of devotion to a high pur pose, once In a while a mother brings the daughters Into posses sion of their rightful heritage, not because they were raised on a farm, but in spite of it. The Oregonian says: "The prob lem is even now in process of a gradual solution." Let us hope so. "Matters have a way of adjusting themselves." Let us help along that adjustment. Among the many or ganizations for humanity's better ment these days, can we not make room for one that has for its object the relief of our sisters on the farm? I want to be a charter mem ber. L.K.G. y . British Troops in Ireland. BORING, Or., Dec 10. (To the Editor.) Has England any soldiers, troops or military police In Ireland at the present time to keep order or ' stationed there In barracks? This Is to settle an argument be tween two friends. J. J. D. The Irish treaty names certain coast points at which England may maintain air and naval stations for defense of the empire. Pending rat ification of the treaty a small de tachment of troops was held in Dublin. We are unable to inform you whether this land force has yet been withdrawn. Office of Insurance Company, PORTLAND, Dec. 11. (To the Editor.) Kindly tell me through your columns If the Equitable Life' Insurance company Is still in op eration. If so, the mafn office ad dress. SUBSCRIBER.. It is, and the headquarters are located at 120 Broadway. New York I city. ;