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8 THE MOIiXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK Published by The Oregonian Pub. Co.. 135 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MOKDEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oregonian Is a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. AM rig-tits of publication of special dis patohea herein are also reserved. Subscription Rates-Invariubly in Advance. (By Mail, in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and northern California.) Tally, Sunday included, one year ....$8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months .. 4.2o Daily, Sunday included, three months 2.115 Daily, Sunday included, one month .. .73 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months .. 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New York; Verree & Confelm, Stager building, Chi cago; Verree & Conklin, Free Press bulld inc, Detroit, Mich.; Verree & Conklin, Monadnock building, San Francisco, Cal. SUBSIDY. BILL HEADED FOB ROCKS. Efforts to Jam the ship subsidy bill through the short session of a congress a large proportion of whose members have been rejected at the election seem doomed to fail ure. The radicals sbiock the way with the Norrls government mar keting bill, and the farm bloc, though divided on- that bill, uses it to prevent progress with the ship ping bill and will endeavor to give the farm creuit bill precedence as eoon as it is reported by committee. With the prospect that farm cred its will share with appropriation bills the remainder of the session, this leaves small chance for the subsidy bill or for any legislation on the merchant marine. For this situation we have to thank the obstinate adherence of the majority leaders in both house and senate to the bill as framed by the shipping board. An American merchant marine is necessary to national defense and tq extension of foreign trade, and to those who have without prejudice considered all the facts it is evident that it cannot be permanently . established without government aid, at least during the years of building up routes and forming trade connec tions in face of intense foreign competition. The experience of the war and of the four years that have passed since it ended has won many to this opinion who had formerly firmly opposed the mild est form of subsidy. The shipping board has overestimated the extent of this change in public opinion and has taken advantage of it to ask from congress a degree of arbitrary power that was never before given to an administative body power which, its past and present conduct clearly forecasts, would be used to aggrandize the great shipping com panies and to shut out new com petitors. If the board had acted with a sincere purpose to promote the na tional interest and with a true un derstanding of public opinion, it could have enlisted in support of the subsidy policy large numbers of those who now oppose its bill. Hav. ing on its hands a great fleet, of which it was operating less than one third at a loss to the people of $50,000,000 a year on bare running expenses exclusive of several im portant items of cost and maintain ing in idleness the othe two thirds, which steadily depreciate, it had good reason from the standpoint both of sound business and of na tional interest to propound a scheme which would have encour aged many persons to engage in the shipping business, which would thus have developed a broad mar ket for its fleet and have won sup port in quarters where it now has opposition. Overconfident in the new public interest in shipping, the board has played into the hands of the few big companies, which desire to buy up the emergency fleet, to shift out any new enterprises that would be independent and competitors, and thus to monopolize the merchant marine and the entire subsidy with it. The board offers a subsidy plan which should accomplish the na tional purpose if so administered as to induce new ventures and to stim ulate investment at porta which do not enjoy the favor of the big com. panies, but it asks arbitrary power in tne administration of this plan, and thus justifies the belief that it would continue to display the same partiality that it has practiced to those whose aim is monopoly. It has antagonized a large element in the ports against which it discrim inates and in the great producing area of the interior which revolts against favoritism to a few swollen shipping companies and a few con gested ports. In his efforts to secure such amendments by the senate com mittee on commerce as would com pel the board to transact public business openly instead of in the secrecy to which it clings, to give equal opportunity to buy and oper ate ships on the same terms to all who wish to engage in the business and to abandon the methods by which it has driven some com panies into bankruptcy, Senator McNary has encountered a ship ping bloc no less formidable than others into which congress is di viaeu. uniy one slight amendment has been made for the protection of ship operators from being driven out of business. Private sales of ships would be permitted, no nub lie hearing would be required on questions as to whether a particu lar line should receive government aid, as to which of two competing porta snouia buy particular ships, or any ships at all, or whether the rate of subsidy should be more or jess than that named in the bill. The bill still defines the entire Pa cific, the entire gulf, the entire south Atlantic and the entire north Atlantic coasts as single "domestic communities" with the apparent purpose of establishing a monopoly of all first class ships plying from each coast. Railroads would be permitted to own foreign-going ships and to make exclusive con tracts with shipping companies, im mune from prosecution under anti trust laws. The substitute for the unworkable section 28 of the Jones law still stands. The greatest clanger to the Amer ican merchant marine comes from the pretended friends who obstin- j ately press this bill on congress. Their only hope of winning in tne end ia to Reconstruct the bill in a manner to cure the vices that we have pointed out. It may then win the support of those true friends of the merchant marine who have been driven into opposition. If they persist in their present course, the whole subject may be left as a legacy to the new congress. Then legislation may be attempted that will be so radical as to make them repent too late. CRIME KINO BUGABOOS. The notion that "crime rings" can flourish and grow more power ful than the agencies of govern ment itself is a popular one because it lends itself so readily to the purposes of sensational fiction. There are few of us who do not en joy reading a mystery story and there is nothing that so reeks with mystery as an underworld tale. whose characters are so crafty and so well organized that they are able to set all the forces of society at naught. The Machiavellian cun ning of the master criminal always exceeds all bounds. The skillful novelist, having his bread and but ter in mind, prudently contrives to give him the upper hand, if not for ever, to the end of the series, at least. Out of this has grown a bogie man who holds his minions in thrall. Certain recent developments give local color and an air of veri similitude to this very old pattern of tale. The rum-runner vies with the narcotic vendor as the up-to-date Mephistopheles in human at tire. If there is any advantage be tween them, the latter has a shade the better of it, by virtue of associ ation of insidious drugs with the orient, always a dark chapter to us. Publicity attending efforts to check the traffic in opium has helped the illusion along. There is no probability that any "ring" exists of which there is any need for law-abiding citizens to be afraid. Wholesale murder is com mitted only in books and every so called "ring" on exposure turns out to be an exceedingly primitive, sordid and commonplace affair. Orderly society is not yet in peril of, being wiped out by any group of users of devastating poisons, who too .commonly fall into their own pitfalls to be capable of sustained conspiracy. But there is some dan ger that we shall allow the bogie man to frighten us into a blue funk, when the thing that is most needed is a cool, determined campaign of extermination and a decimating series of sentences to long terms behind prison bars.- , WHAT IS AT STAKE AT LAUSANNE In claiming sovereignty over the Dardanelles and Bosphorus with the right to dictate what ships of war or commerce should pass through the straits, Turkey claims more than any other nation exer cising sovereignty over the shores of narrow waters connecting two seas. Naval powers have maintained maritime supremacy 'in time of war, but by virtue of their military control of the sea, not of their sov ereignty over the land. Possession of the coast may give a nation an opportunity to dominate a strait in war, but the whole trend has been away from claiming exclusive sov- ereingnty over straits with the right to bar them to ships of war or to merchant ships of any nation. If the Turkish doctrine were to be accepted, by the same rule Great Britain or Spain might close the entrance to the Mediterranean be cause they hold the shores of the straits of Gibraltar; Britain or France might forbid ships to pass the straits of Dover between the Atlantic ocean and the North sea; Denmark and Sweden might shut any vessel in-or out of the Baltic through their command of the sound and the Belts; the United States and Cuba might exert like power over the straits of Florida between the Atlantic and Caribbean sea; Chile might close the strait of Magellan and force ships to round the stormy Cape Horn. On the con trary, the Russian Baltic fleet passed freely through the sound in war with Japan, and both British and German ships did so in the world war, or were free to pass. The demand that the Turkish straits be closed against warships is put forward with more vigor by Russia than by Turkey, and the motive is plain. If foreign warships should be excluded, the Russian south coast would be Immune from sea attack, except by other Black sea states which are too weak navally to constitute a menace, Russia could then build a fleet these secure from attack by any great power, could dictate to Tur key, Bulgaria and Roumania and could make that sea a Russian lake. If It should make war on any Mediterranean power, it could coerce Turkey to permit its fleet to pass the straits In defiance of any international agreement and to bar the way to a hostile fleet. If suc cessful in imposing its rules in that quarter, Russia might make that a precedent for extending them to the Baltic straits. It would then have a lake at each end of its ter ritory, fn which to maintain a fleet ready to sally forth against its en emies. The soviet would not itself observe the rule made for other na tions; that would be contrary to its "principles." Thus the United States and the allies are contending at Lausanne for far more than freedom of the straits through Turkey; they con tend for a general principle for the whole world, abrogation of which would destroy freedom of the seas, The Rhodes scholarships have proved generally popular and have more than justified the plan of their originator, though it will hardly be claimed that they have as yet produced the world leaders in thought and action of which 1 Cecil Rhodes undoubtedly dreamed. Yet the movement is relatively young and it is a sign of its funda mental vitality that there is no dearth of acceptable candidates. The American committees on selec tion have just completed their list of thirty-two names of young Americans who will represent thirty-two states at Oxford, having chosen them from among a total of 344 candidates. Rhodes wisely stipulated that selection should not be made on the basis of scholarship alone but that character and per sonality, and .physical vigor should also be considered, but he left one item out of account. The true pur pose of his foundation would have been better served, perhaps, if he had provided that half the ex change should be made in the other direction, by sending a quota 'tof British students to the colleges of the United States. SHIPS OS NO SHIPS. Senator Norris, the statesman from Nebraska, proposes that the government shall go into the busi ness of buying and selling farm products a startling socialistic in novation which would put the gov ernment waist-deep in business. It will hurt everybody, including the producer. If it would help, The Oregonian would be for it. It is a billion dollar experiment, involving many hazards, but Norris and his following are not dismayed by the size, of the investment nor by the dubious nature of the idea. But they are shocked and outraged at the other proposal to take the gov ernment out of business the ship subsidy and are doing all In their power to defeat it. The United States during the war invested $8,000,000,000 in a merch ant marine now marked down to $1,000,000,000 'or less. The ship ping board; .by various economies, has reduced' the deficit in opera tion from $100,000,000" per annum to $50,000,000, with nothing charged to depreciation. Under the present plan th'ere will in no great time be no government fleet, and the re maining $1,000,000,000 will be lost. Under the proposed plan if it succeeds the ships will be sold, the fleet rehabilitated, the flag of the United States will be on every sea, and its commerce enormously stimulated. Agriculture will re ceive its share of benefit. The cost to the United States government will run from $15,000,000 to $35, 000,000 per year. The subsidy plan at least pre sents a constructive thought; its opponents propose no satisfactory alternative. . The one is an effort to do something; the other is niere obstruction, negation, loss, ruin. WONDERS AT HOME. The national-gjark service is sup ported by facta known to all people who have had opportunity for mak ing comparisons in its assertion that natural attractions of beauty and moment may be found in greater profusion in this country than abroad. It is not so clear that Americans are aware of their own blessings, for the number of per sons recorded as having passed through the various national parks during 1922 which was 1,216,490 is only slightly larger than the number of Americans who in a normal year would be traveling in foreign countries. Among those who-saw our own wonders, it must be remembered, were numbers of aliens who would have traveled In Europe if conditions had been as they were before the war. The park service hopes, as we do, that the habit of seeing America first will grow. Better roads and increasing use of the automobile will speed the day when the Yel lowstone park, Crater lake, the Grand Canyon and the Yosemite will cease to be terra incognita to our own people. But a point that it overlooks is that there is a vast region worth seeing which is em braced in none of the formal gov ernment reserves. From the Rocky mountains westward, with the ex ception of certain areas of the great geologic basin between that r"ange and the Cascades, there oc cur innumerable attractions with out parallel in any locality easy of access to transportation. The tour ist not bent on setting a record for miles in a day will discover more scenes that will give pleasure to the artistic sense and satisfaction to the esthetic eye within the three states of the Pacific northwest than in any other similarly accessible region on the face of the globe. . In recommending that the gov ernment develop its scenic assets the park service performs an obvi ous public; duty. In calling atten tion to the desirability of extending the area of Crater lake park and improving its facilities it gives be lated recognition to one of the most delightful regions in the whole United States. It would protect against exploitation the forests lin ing the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, would guard the giant trees of California and pro vide more camp grounds in other reserves. These are essentials to the development of the national spirit. It would be impossible for a normal American, having seen his own country, to avoid the impression that it contains everything neces sary to make life worth living, In cluding mountains grander than tne cswiss Alps ana iaK.es more beautiful than those of the Austrian . Tyrol. HOW WISE ARE THE PLANTS? Man's dominion over his lesser kindred of the dust, a dominion enforced by the active intelligence of his species, has bred in him a certain smugness of attitude to ward thorn. Thus, he holds, men reason but other highly sensitized animals are motivated by instinct. As for plants, it were both heresy and an offense against the crown even to hint that they are mutely awire of thi strife of storm, the benison of sunshine, or the change of seasons. Yet Clifford H. Farr. writing in the Atlantic on "The Psychology of Plants," is embold ened, not only to assert that plants are conscious but that in divers re spects their conscious discrimina tion is superior to that of man. Such a theory will be gratifying to that persistent genre of dream- ers who seek to imbue flower and j bird pr beast with their own at tributes of well considered thought, but whose pleasing fancies are not shall we say? in the least log ical or scientific, its greater ap peal and interest, whether they find the theory acceptable or not, will be, however, to those practical seekers after truth who will not rest until they have read the last secret of the universe. At least they will be in communion with a seeker similarly minded, for Mr, Farr does not permit himself to rove fantastically. He, too, is in quest of facts. Psychic manifestations in the plant, he presents, are vastly more difficult of outward expression than In the animate forms of nature. Even assuming that the same impulses vibrate in a tree, deeply slashed by the ax, as would react in a warrior sticker! in battle, he tells us that the rigid cell-walls of the tree forbid an active expres sion of Its agony. It cannot "ex press internal- experiences, either physical or psychical, by move ments of its body." Though such a premise is simplicity itself, it is of such manifest importance that the defender of plant psychology is fully entitled to establish the fact. He proceeds thence to show that the roots of plants are equipped with motor organs, which respond to any disarrangement of the highly sensitized tips, so that a root which has been diverted by an exterior agency from its' downward path in fallibly will swerve and resume the vertical. He bids us observe the conduct, incomprehensible if we refuse to admit the attribute of consciousness, of certain plant folk who have formed the very proper habit of tucking in their leafage for slumber. , Thus the dainty oxalis, which sleeps as dearly as any child, will refuse to forego its rest if placed at night in a brightly lighted room. If it marks the phenomenon so rudely thrust upon it, the plant gives no heed for that one night. Habit holds it in fairy chains the fixed custom of countless genera tions. Yet if the practice be con tinued for a week, friend oxalis gradually will adapt itself, until it is metaphorically wiae-eyea oy night and drowsy by day In a darkened room. Mr. Farr does not rest his case with this Instance, but cites a score of others, equally disturbing to accepted thought. In the process of -metabolism, he contends, the plant selects from the soil those elements, in exact proportion, that are required for its well-being, each plant selecting from the miracu lous menu different proportions and often different substances. The baneful is rejected with unerring discrimination, and only that which nurtures and gratifies is claimed. Where, queries the defender of plants, is our boasted superiority? Where is the proud sagacity of man, that it cannot cope with the problem of sustenance as sanely as does the garden hawthorne? Indeed, as Mr. Farr progresses with his theme, he discovers again and again the analogy between man and the creatures of his do main. It seems not so preposter ous to nominate plants as creatures when one has read Mr. Farr's brief for the plant soul. It is rather a terrifying thought to imagine that, on a jaunt through the woods, the shy flower folk are laughing in their silken sleeves at the com placent master. Yet the seas of scientific speculation and proof, for that matter upon which Mr. Farr has launched his venturesome bark, abound in unexplored prov inces of nature and marvels beyond our present ken. One can but wish him bon voyage, for at least he preaches the essential harmony of life. DO BUSINESS WITH SOUTH AMERICA In qrder that Portland may de rive its full share of benefit from the passenger-cargo steamship line which the shipping board will estab lish between the Pacific coast and the east coast of South America, each important business house should be represented among the passengers who will sail on the first voyage south. If possible, heads of firms would do well to go and ex amine the new field of trade that will be opened to them, to see what and where they can sell and buy and to establish personal business rela tions in the ports of central Amer ica, Para, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. There is a market in tropical countries for Oregon lumber, flour. fruit, furniture, machinery and other manufactures. Our merchants could buy at first hand coffee, sugar, ,rubber, hardwood, bananas and other fruits, cacao, gums, raw cotton and cotton goods, hair, fur, feathers, hides and skins, rice, tap ioca, castor seeds, palm nuts, oils, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, wools suitable to blend with those of Ore gon, and mate, which is the South ern American substitute for tea. The raw products offer an oppor tunity to expand our manufactures as well as our mercantile business and to provide return cargo for the ships. This will help materially to make the line profitable and to demonstrate that Portland is a log ical port for passenger as well as freight lines. Central and South America will also be found an agreeable field to those who travel for pleasure, rest and information. It offers con trast in climate, sceneryand people, and Americans are heartily wel come in Brazil and Argentina, not for the money they spend but for community of ideas. A visit to the southern continent would have no such depressing effect as is left by a tour of Europe in its present for lorn state. Four instructors in the North Carolina agricultural college have been asked to resign fbr making home brew." They must be slow wltted. The offense might -be called "laboratory experiments." An Omaha woman has secured a court order restraining her ex-husband from marrying "a" girl in her teens." Omaha judges must be ac commodating fellows. Properly they jail a man who fakes a hold-up story. The Hold ups' Beneficial association gets its wires crossed by the fake details. One so associates O. A. C. and Corvallis that mention . of a high school football team there to play eastern visitors is real news. The man who wants appointment by a governor should take a brass band along when applying. Then he will make an impression. Before Fatty Arbuckle comes back he should study Harold Lloyd and absorb clean humor. Trouble with these Hollywood stars is that they don't confine their bad actiner to the screen. The sun sines bright above all this high fog and will break through first anyone knows. Watch the semaphore when crossing a crowded business street, The onion is as versatile as the egg. Let's have an onion week. Three days more. Make the buy. ing snappy but not snippy! Southerly sough! winds. " Let them The Listening Post. By DeWitt Harry. JOHN B. YEON volunteered ana was appointed to act as roadmas- ter of Multnomah county in 1912. No compensation was asked for or received by Mr. Yeon, and he paid his own expenses. During his in cumbency the Columbia River high way was constructed and with its completion Mr. Yeon. retired, con vinced that everything in connec tion with his office had been ad- Justed. The following self-explanatory correspondence would indicate that Mr. Yeon finds that some things return to plague the inventor." Though the account has run coun ter to the statute of limitations, Mr. Yeon.evidently considered that since the interest on the original amount was not compounded it was advisa ble to effect a settlement. BRIDAL VEIL, nr.. Nov. IS. 1052 Dear jar. yeon: I am writing you to re mind you of the obligation to me when the Columbia river highway was under way, wnen you engaged myself and team to come to Crown Point anrt tuba you and a party over the hie-nivai, vrt said not to charge it to the county, that you wpuld pay the bill. Well, I ' have never received any comnensatinn m tar The amount was J5, but there would be some interest in the number of years it has run. I took a party for Mr. Benson from Warrendale to Latourelle. He paid when he left the rig. Very truly yours, V. AMEND. PORTLAND. Nov. 20. 1025 n nr.. Amend: Yours of the 18th inst. at hand regarding your bill of 5. I am sorry this bill was not paid and assure you that it was not intentional on my part. I don't recall the incident, however, I don't Question your claim. 11 you wilt send the data of the hill. so that I may figure the interest, as you memioneu in your letter, l will forward you my check. Very truly yours, J. B. YEON. BRIDAL VEIL Or.. Nov. 23. 1922. Dear Mr. Yeon: Your letter received. The time o this trip was September, 1912, on Sunday, as I was not accustomed to work on that day. I did not keeD the date of month. Very truly yours. V. AMEND. PORTLAND,' Nov. 28, 1922. Dear Mr. Amend: Incljsed please find my check for $8.05, balancing your bill, as follows: Taking party over highway with team, Sept., 1912 J5.00 Int. from Oct. 1, 1912, to Nov. 30. 1922, (10 yru., 2 mo.) 6 8.05 Total - J8.05 Very truly yours, J. B. YEON. ' Our office strategist and military expert sees the end of the volun teer or draft system of obtaining soldiers. He holds that war is get ting too commercial. Human life has a value, he holds, and soldiers are worth at least what they could earn in civil life. Then death in the new wars Is so certain, with the involved methods of warfare and the many new hybrid poisons and gases, that it will take more than patriotism to make men pay an almost certain sacrifice. So, according to this tactician, the world will see the birth of the mer cenary army. Nations will hire soli diers and pay their market value. and will fight their battles with human material, bought and paid for at prevailing rates. Now we wonder if this chap is not, well. just a little right? Dear Sir: Doubtless you have heard of what happened to the man from "White haimon who visited Loose Ana-els. Cal and wished to get into communication with an old friend by telephone. They use the color system there, and he called for 812 Green. A new maid from Min neapolis answered the phone. The ' tol lowing conversation ensued: "Hay-lo, veil?" "812 Green?" "lss det so? Ay tank vuh better call da doctor den, mister, if yuh ate vun too green. Mebby it gir yuh collicks." . A reminder of this story came to me yesterday. I called central and asked the little lady for E. A. Street 0179. She said: "Wha prefix, please?" "He's a plumber," I replied. Then the chief operator got on the wire. I told her what I wanted. She gurgled: "E. A. Street is not listed." Poor me, from the country, no savvy your system here until a kind neighbor explained to me that the call should have been placed as EAst 0179. BILL YUSS. In a recent vaudeville show the comedy team who were the hit of the bill got off one Joke that con vulsed the house. The man, angry at some remark, threatened to go to the club and stay all night. "Can I depend on that?" asked his part ner. A similar case recently came up in a divorce court. The wife, fight ing the case, was on the stand and, under cross-examination, was asked if she had not deceived her hus band. "No, your honors he deceived me. He said he was going out of town and he didn't go." Unquestionably the happiest peo ple last week were the kids who rambled through the toy shops. Youngsters are observing and imi tative. One mother and little daugh ter were looking at dolls and the girl found one that cried "mamma." We don't want that one, mother. It .will keep us awake nights," she said. Charley Berg wis rather non plussed the other day when one of his saleswomen brought a male customer to him. Charley rather prides himself on, his feminine wares and specializes in their care ful selection. The man, rather out of his element in the Berg shop, an nounced that he wanted'' to buy a pair of pants. We do not have trousers for sale," suavely and politely stated Berg while the embarrassed sales women stood in the background. Why, you have them advertised in the show window," said the man And when Charley went out to be shown his would-be customer point ed to a sign that read "A Bargain in Trousseaus." For centuries we have been told that "a prophet is without honor in his own country." Last week a man called the Pa cific Telephone & Telegraph' com pany s head office and asked for H. D. Pillsbury. "What department does he work in, please?" asked central. And Pillsbury is vice-president and general attorney for the great corporation. On a crowded Broadway car the other night a young man sat read ing a book on etiquette, while eight woman stood In the aisle. In the same car wers five negro men also seated. They used to refer to Mrs. Clara Phillips, aa the "Hammer Slayer," but yesterday we heard her called the "Saw Fugitive." . Those Who Come and Go. Tale of Folks at the Hotels. "Not knowing when the money will lose its value, people are spend ing it recklessly," states M. Jules Pradel of Verncuil, Marne, France, who has arrived at the Multnomah and Intends making Portland his permanent residence. "I never saw so many picture shows, fine clothes and other signs of -extravagance as va k nnticH n "Paris and other sect'ons of France today," continued j M. Pradel, who left D'rance two weeks ago. "There is plenty of money but nothing back of it. Be fore the war a franc was worth so much and people saved, knowing what they put aside was substan tial. Now the currency is so elastic that no one knows when the money will be as worthless as that of Po land or Russia or Germany. This being the case, instead of 6aving the money it is being spent as fast aa possible before the shrinkage comes. There is no unemployment In France, for the country is being rebuilt and the towns which were partly destroyed are being built bet ter than before with concrete houses. England, however, has a great army of unemnloved. Not so long ago Enerland was the manufacturing 'country, but now it has competitors in Germany and the united otates. Germany has all the raw materials, coal and iron ore, it requlre9, while England, although well supplied with coal, has to import us u ore. M. praaei comeuus mat i" white race must get togetner for future self-protection. The fast steamers, fast trains, aeroplanes, telegraph, telephone and radio have brought nations close together. Na tions, formerly strangers, are uu intimate neighbors, thanks to the modern means of transportation and communication. It didn't make so much difference years ago when a o-iir, carried a shot a mile ana news took weeks to travel, but now with guns shooting 70 miles ana news flashing in an instant, things have undergone a transformation. xne white peoples must unite aguau the yellow and black races, he as serts. M. Pradel served long in the war, was in several battles and never received a scratch. He llices Portland so well that he has de cided to remain here. The tourist crop in the Pacific northwest for 1923 will be better than ever, according to advance re ports sent in to the office of W. H. Snell, general passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific railway, who is visiting Portland and is regis tered at the Multnomah. "The best indication we have of the amount of tourist business we will have," saya Mr. Snell, "is that these re ports from all over the United States are coming in much earlier than usual, showing that the people have already made up their minds as to where they are going. More and more people are realizing that this great Pacific northwest has a great deal to offer In the way of varied scenery equal and in some respects more atractlvs than any other part of the world. All the summer resorts of Canada expect a big 1923 business. Last year west ern Canada was fortunate in having fine crops, which helped many a farmer to pay off part of his indebt edness, and from present Indications tho croo in 1923 will be large. which will mean an important thing for Canadian agricultural districts Fog was too much for X. Neal of La Grande, when he attemptea to drive his automobile to Salem on Wednesday night. Until he reached Milwaukee Mr. Neal trailed a car, but at that point the fog was so thick that the pacemaker quit, ana not wishinc to try the trip alone, the man from La Grande abandoned his car on the road and returned to the Hotel Portland by street car. He reported seeing several cars wrecked in the foe. John O'Brien, Portland clerk, was in a somewhat similar predicament going home, and was the unconscious pilot of a sec ond machine. Mr. O'Brien was ready tn call a halt when the machine behind him aided by aiming the snntlitrht on the pavement neneatn O'Brien's car. By this arrangement the hotel man was able to see his way and the man in the second car retained his pilot. Piling over the crest of the Cas cade mountains, a Chinook came sweeping into Bend, combatting the low temperature and vanquishing the east wind. After several days of intense cold, the Chinook arrived rescuing the metropolis of central Oresron when Mr. and Mrs. J. w at son left Bend for the Perkins. The fuel sunnly of Bend consists chiefly of wood, slabwood at that, and it requires plenty of wood to main tain heat when the weather is fluttering around zero and a cold wind is blowing. On government business, John C. Gotwals, major, United States army, is at the Multnomah from Juneau, Alaska, and must return there im mediately. He doesn't relish spend ing his Christmas on a steamer headed north. Major Gotwals says that mining is again In the ascend ancy in Alaska and that there are some properties, using only 200 or 300 men, which are turning out large amounts of gold. Buying a bundle of magazines to read on the train, Maurice Lehey of Seattle left for that town yesterday afternoon, having arrived from Medford a few hours before. Mr. Lehey, who has been representing some oil well drillers in litigation at Medford. says that there are several outfits boring for oil in Alaska, two of the projects being in Cold bay, There is always a lull In the hotel business a few days prior to the holiday season, but this year the lull started earlier and became more acute. There . are comparatively few people traveling for pleasure and the salesmen "on the road" are not numerous for this is the time when the big houses generally call the men in for a conference. "If you see Colonel Bush, prom inent citizen and taxpayer of Bull Run." observed Clarence L. Reames of Seattle, Wash., "tell him that the people in the Tuget sound country are disgusted with him for permit ting Andy Gump to be counted out for congress. We had high expec tations. of Mr. Gump as a repre sentative of the people.' Portland looks good to George C. Luders of Vancouver, B. C, for this is his old home town.. Whenever he can slip away from the Simmonds Manufacturing company convention at the Multnomah, he goes out and looks up ,some of his old friends. To pass the holidays in Portland ratner man at aPP u'c lower Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. W. A Erwih and daughter have come to the city and are registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Crawford of Walla Walla, Wash., are at the Ho tel Portland. Mr. Crawford is in the lumber business. R. J. Kepfield of the Long-Bell company is registered with Mrs. Kepfield from Kelso, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Kammermeyer, from Yellowstone National Park, are arrivals at tho Benson, Burroughs Nature Club. Coprrfsrat, HonsMon-MlffllB Co. Cast Too Answer These Questions 1. How do they get asbestos out of rock? 2. What is the life of a flea with out food? 3. Why do the birds go so much more freely at times to one side of the grounds than the other, when the plants are about, the same, as far as I can see? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. - Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Have walruses any commercial value? Yes, particularly in their own Arctic regions, as the skin, teeth, tusks and oil and even intestines are all made into domestic articles, as fish hooks, nets, and various im plements. The hide is tremendously tough and is exported to some ex tent to Europe where it is manu factured into leather suitable for parts of harness, etc. The walrus tribe has been greatly reduced by hunting, owing to the value of its yield. 2. Is there a large black snake in this country called chicken snake? Is it the same as the black racer? The pilot blacksnake is called a chicken snake in the south, and like the four-handed coluber, or banded chicken snake, does prey on chickens. It is not the same as the black snake that belongs to the racer group, zamenis constrictor. Both the "chicken" snakes referred to above are colubers. . 3. Where do water birds nest? Many do not nest at all, but lay one or two eggs on sand, in hollows in rocks, entirely uncovered, but protected by their coloring which blends with their surroundings. Oc casionally a bedding of seaweed is used. Most gulls nest on the beach, but some make a rough nest, in trees. Ducks generally prefer marshy land near water, making a matted nest out of marsh grass, etc. Grebes use a little raft of reeds tangled into aquatic grasses for anchorage and cover the eggs with damp, decayed leaves, or whatnot NEW DRIVE FOR CHEST NEEDED Campaign Tactics of Other Cities Should Be Studied Next Year. PORTLAND, Dec. 20. (To the Ed itor.) The Community Chest must not collapse. Neither is it right and just to force the charitable and philanthropic organizations of Port land to curtail their activities be cause of a reduction in allotment made necessary by faulty organiza f tion ior soliciting suDscriptions. The people of Portland are "sold on the Community Chest idea that is evident and Portland people are willing to subscribe the full amount needed for adequate support of worthy organizations if. properly solicited. There are many offices and in dustrial plants as well as resi dences that have not been thor oughly canvassed. There should be 10,000 additional subscribers in stead of 15,000 less than last year, and I believe these could be ob tained by careful and systematic work. To. raise the $150,000 still needed I suggest that the solicitors be re organized for a supplementary drive at an early date to complete the quota for this year, which can be done. Before next year's drive is put on I suggest the executive commit tee should make an early selection of a general manager for the drive and send him east so that he can learn from other cities, such as Rochester, N. Y., which has been most successful, the technique of managing a campaign so that the Portland Community Chest may be a permanent success instead of a near failure, due to faulty manage ment of the annual drive. An alter native to this plan would be to en gage a professional campaign man ager as some other cities have done. A. B. BROWN. Law on Taxation. LEBANON, Or., Dec. 19. (To the Editor.) A owns personal property, building and merchandise; does not own lot. Is assessed with said bu'ld ing and merchandise. Later A sells building and moves merchandise out of county. 1. Can sheriff of that county collect A's tax from new owner of building and can he levy upon said building? 2. Can he col lect from A on his real estate in another county in state? OLD SUBSCRIBER. A could not be assessed with the building, and not with the land. (Sec. 4233.) 1. If any of the stock or mer chandise is on hand the sheriff can levy upon such personal property regardless of who may have title. (Sec. 4325). The building cannot be levied upon as it is not "personal property" but "land." (Sec. 4233.) 2. Sec. 4324. "The tax collector of any county of this state shall have the power, to certify a statement of taxes and delinquencies of any per son, firm, company or corporation or of any tax on personal property together with all penalties and de linquencies, which statement shall contain a transcript of the warrant of cancellation (collection) and so much of the tax roll as shall affect the firm, person, company or corpo ration or personal property to the tax collector of any other county in this state wherein any such per son, firm, company or corporation has any real or personal property. The tax collector of any county in this state receiving the certified statement provided for in this act shall have the same power to col lect the taxes, penalties and delin quencies so certified as he has to collect personal taxes levied on per sonal property in his own county." California Workman Compensation. LEBANON, Or., Dec. 19. (To the Editor.) What insurance, if any, against accident or death does the law of the state of California guar antee its workmen? The following case, for example: An employe of ferryboat com pany at Martinez whiie in discharge of his duty accidentally falls over board and is drowned. In the above case is there any ineiivonfA riim Tiifi rinirs from Ruiri company, and if not has not the state of California a workmen s compensation law similar to our own? A SUBSCRIBER. There is a workmen's compensa tion law in California, but no com pensation other than a reasonable outlay for funeral expenses is paid to heirs of a workman unless they are wholly or partly dependent upon his earnings for their support. For full information write to indus trial accident commission of Cali-fornlar-San Francisco. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Ilontaane. A HUMAN WRECK rV THE MAKING. He's sure to be a nervous wreck. He always is suppressed. His diril pre-Freudian parents check Each impulse in his breast. He cannot squash a worm or ant. When on the walk they crawL Or chase the hens in fact, he can't Express himself at all. It's always inhibition this. Or inhibition that; They cry: "No! no!" If he should throw A stove lid at the cat. And when for years and years they're banned The things that he enjoyed. Too late they'll find his brilliant mind It totally destroyed. He cannot smear himself with coal Or stick pins in the pup These small desires, that move his soul Are always bottled up. He's told that eating half a pie Is sure to make him ill; His stupid parents always try To thwart his childish will. It's always inhibition here And inhibition there. Life is for him but stern and grim A record of despair. With all his impulses repressed He'll grow up glum and sad, And in d,ue time hell turn to crime Or go stark staring mad! Bis Saving: in Time. The retirement of Newberry ought to give the senate at least 50 more talking days in the next session. The Side Line. ' Nowadays your bootlegger also gives you figures on coal by the case. ' A Bust. It's about time the league of na tions asked for waivers on the man who is assigned to the job of keep ing Europe out of war. (Copyright. 1922. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) TO REDUCE JUVENILE CRIME Prevent Marriage of Unfit Is Dr. Owens-Adair's Remedy. PORTLAND, Dec. 20. (To the Editor.) Thousands read the large headlines in The Oregonian, "Juve nile Crime Wave Appalling." Many will ask, "What does this signify?" I will say that it is the greatest problem to be solved by our coun try. When that wise senator said to me, "I realize that we are letting the degenerate populate our coun try," I said, "And what does that mean?" It means death to our nation unless we stop it." This is the "appalling crime wave that is gathering momentous strength every day and hour. And what are we going to So about it? To my mind there is but one triing to do cut it out. Are our "reform schools jail-recruiting offices"? Yes, in many resoests. Do I believe in segregation? Yes. But, above all, I believe in preventing tne propaga tion of such children. The great majority of those boys and girls are degenerates, and are competent to reproduce their kind, and they are adding to this great crime wave every day and hour. Unless con trolled they will become a tidal wave that will sweep us off. I am glad that our people are beginning to realize this terrible condition. I noticed a few dais ago that several bishops of the great Episcopal church were advocating the enactment of laws to regulate marriages. That is a step in the right direction. If we had laws to control marriages the divorce ques tion would be easily solved. Two years ago a judge on the Bupreme bench said that in the large per centage of all the divorce cases that came before him either one or both were feeble-minded. Last February, at my birthday banquet, there were five ministers a the tables. I said: "I am glad to have the opportunity to taik to ministers, for you are the power behind the throne. You have the power to marshal all your great armies of, Christian people into this great purifying work and thereby save our nation." The next day the most prominent minister called and said: "Doctor, your little talk yesterday was very opportune; we all enjoyed it, and we learned something." I said: "Don't you believe you are the power behind the throne, and you can bring your churches into this work and save our country?" Ho said: "Yes, I do, and I will tell you now that up to this time we have done nothing but we will." That promise has given me great hope. I have faith that the time will soon come. DR. OWENS-ADAIR. PHYSICAL RESULTS OF PRAYER Why Not, if Spiritual nesults, Which Are Greater, Are Attained f UNIVERSITY PARK, Dec. 20. (To the Editor.) Recently a mes sage worthy a place in The Orego nian seemed to carry the thought that prayer is concerned rather with spiritual results than physical in deed, it is confined to the former alone. It seems to the writer that if prayer has to do with the greater the spiritual that it may expect answers also in the phys ical realm, the less. God is a power .able to govern nature and man is able to move God, who is not hopelessly ex cluded fi;om his works. Nature has an order upon which we happily depend, but we do not fully know all the forces within the universe, and that these forces possess re ciprocal action is a comfort to cherish in human belief. If miracles are not longer demanded for pur poses of moral government, we sing with Tennyson "More things arc wrought by prayer than this world dreamsof." The falling of flakes of snow de molished Napoleon and his army at Moscow, and winds and formidable rocks dashed the Spanish armada ' into scattered pieces. Many prayers were offered for that welcome re sult. Instead of limiting the effi cacy of prayer by the reign of law we do well to regard God above antl independent of law. which we rightfully hold in friendliness in stead of antagonism with prayer and give it larger sweep. God in his word says, "Ask and it shail be given you." Our God is rur Father, who is not asleep, but awake to the needs of human beings expressed in daily cries. R. J. HOADLEY. Example of Split Infinitive. ON ALASKA, Wash., Dec. 18. (To the Editor.) Referring to the split infinitiVe question again, please give sentence in which the error appears and its correction. "He was asked to promptly remit" contains a split infinitive. It should be: "He was asked to remit promptly." Get Better RrnlU. Washington Star. "A wise candidate." said Unci Eben, "keeps on shakin' hands in de off years, same as when he's actually runnin' foh office." ( i