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THE MOIiXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933
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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.
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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."
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