TITE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 8, 1922
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' MANY PROBLEMS OF THE DAY BRING OUT ASSORTMENT OF VIEWS
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I Questions Before City, State and National Governments Discussed by Various Writers Who Seek to Shed New Light on Situations.
l'ORTXAXD IS STATU ASSET
Those Promoting Antagonistic Feel
ing Are Ilclmkctl.
PORTLAND, Jan. 7. (To the Edi
tor.) There- seem to be forming
throughout the state a movement
antagonistic to Portland. Before this
goe. farther it would be well for
those behind this movement to con
aider what they arc doing. It would
be well for them to stop, look and
listen.
Portland, with its channel to the
aea and low-grade routes to the in
terior. Is one of the greatest natural
,.9sets of the commonwealth of Ore
gon. It is a natural asset just as an
agricultural valley is a natural asset,
or timber is an asset, or coal, or oil,
or mineral deposits. In fact. In per
; manency It may well outrank all but
the first named. Timber may be cut
away and disappear, mines and oil
wells may be worked out and aban
doned, but a commercial city located
at a natural vantage point will abide
as long as fields produce and man
remains to buy, to sell and to ex
change. The late General II. M. Chittenden
In 1913 prepared a paper on "The
Porta of the Pacific." This paper was
read before a meeting of the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers In New
York city, and may be found by those
Interested In the published transac
tlona of that body for the year
named. Speaking of Portland and
the Columbia river. General Chitten
den said:
Northward from San Francisco the flrat
location of high tralcs'io value Is the Co
lumbla river, the chief river of the Pa
cific slope which here breaks through the
'mountain barriers and opens & low-grade
route to th Interior country. It Is the
onlr point in the United States territory
where the great coaet-slerra-;acaae our
rler is completely traversed by a water
trad route. The main valley extends di
rectly back from the sea (or a distance
of 75 miles, where its tributaries begin to
spread out until they expand like an. enor
mous fan. rivina arterial highways to i
watershed of 2.0.000 square miles, with
routes across the continental divide to the
f ar-spreadlnc country beyond.
The map shows, to any trained eye,
the immenm advantage of the situation
at the Junction of the Columbia and Wil
lamette rivers. It is a great cross-roads.
To this points vessels once over the bar
ran safely ascend. Here rail and river
take up the route to the far interior.
Kouth Is the great Willamette valley, and
Nature's land route to California. North
la ths Cowlitz valley and the route to
Puget sound. The possibilities of the sit
uation are enormous and such as will
survive all competition.
Portland, thus situated at an inter
state crossroads, is supported by in
terstate trade, and Is a much larger
city than It would have become sup
ported by Oregon trade alone. This
has been of advantage to the remain
der of the state. It has given it a
better and more diversified market.
The recognition which Portland is
receiving as one of the great cities
of the country is bringing recognition
to Oregon that it would not otherwise
receive. It gives it a place among
the galaxy of states and a voice in
the shaping of the nation's courso
which otherwise it would not have.
Coming down to earth, Portland helps
pay the taxes and build the roads.
Great as are Portland's natural
advantages, as General Chittenden
has pointed out, yet much remained
for man to do, and the city has come
to be what It is only through the
efforts, labors and sacrifices of its
citizens now living and dead. There
Is an old saying to the effect that
"God seldom makes for men anything
just right." Some lands have to be
cleared before they will produce;
others have to be irrigated; others
drained. So it is with Portland. The
channel to the sea had to be opened
and trade routes made to function to
the upbuilding of the city. In this
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W Ul A I-UILIUIIU Il& UUIIC W 1 i. .HID
taxed itself for years to open and
maintain the channel to the sea, and j
its harbor, even when the prospect
seemed most discouraging, but now
ships come and go with a frequency
and tonnage which is making of this
a great world port. This is of ad
vantage to the state at large.
As the general manager of the
Chamber of Commerce has pointed
out, "Things are breaking well for
Portland now." Our overseas traffic
is growing, while that of almost all
other world ports is shrinking. On
every hand one hears favorable com
ment on Portland s growth and future
prospects. It requires no keen ob
server to deduce that "the tide in the
affairs of men that moves on to for
tune" is at our doors.
Will the citizens of the state at
large and of the city co-operate to
embrace the oportunity, or will bick
erings and contentions come In to
lead them to pass it up? There is a
greater question than that of the fair
at stakt Let that be settled on its
merits, but let no animosities arise
between city and state.
Those promoting this condition are
assuming a grave responsibility. The
state at large has a great asset In
the city of Portland.
ir. A. RANDS.
TAX CONSPIRACY IS CIIAKGEI)
Levies in Stuto Dccjarcd to He AI-
mo.st Unbearable.
ST. PAUL, Or.. Jan. 1. (To the Ed.
ltor.) In Tho Oregonian, December
30, you attempt to answer me, and
cast a doubt on my charge "that Port
land wanted the exposition election
In tho spring rather than in Novem
ber," and you ask if I saw any con
spiracy against the taxpayers in the
direct primary law?
This quetsion is a challenge that I
gladly accept.
I will say that I see no conspiracy
In the direct primary law, but I see
It In those parties that have, and
till do, pervert it from its purpose.
A quarter of a century ago the
voters of this state became disgusted
with the action of our legislature and
In response to a very Insistent de
mand the initiative and referendum
laws were passed, receiving 62,0114
votes; only 6668 votes being cast
against it on June 2, 1902.
Little did the voters of that time
think that this measure would become
a help to corruption and a cause of
inflicting tho heavy load of debt that
the taxpayers are laboring under now.
The question is not what you call
the election special or regular. The
fact remains that the taxeating and
bonding bills have a good deal better
chance to pass if voted on In May
than if voted on at the regular elec
tion in November.
In May the hard working farmer is
too busy to vote. He is too far from
the polls. When he gets through with
his 12 or 14 hours' work he is several
miles from the polls. When the eight
hour man of the city gets through
with his Bhort day he needs only go
around the corner of the block and
vote the money out of the taxpayers'
pocket, if he has any.
No. sir; 1 see no conspiracy In the
Initiative and referendum law, but I
see and have seen, a very plain one
for the last few years among those
that have comhined to make our taxes
almost unbearable and at the same
time have bonded us and our chil
dren almost beyond redemption.
These conspirators have been In
complete control of our state and
are so yet, and right here the voter
Is to blame.
All the voter has done was to see
If the candidate had a big letter "R"
branded on his hams and he was
sure of his election. No matter how
he conducted himself. If he could get
his name on the "It" (right) ticket
he was sure of his election.
There Is but one thing left for the
voter, that loves his home and family
to do. It Is to get out an opposition
ticket and vote it. Call it Independ
ent, democratic or taxpayers. Have
Such a ticket out In every county in
this state and elect It.
The Oregonian asked me a question
and I believe I have fully answered
it. I will now ask one and hope to
get an answer.
Does The Oregonian believe that it
Is good for the state that only one
party Is in control?
My claim, that the taxeaters' bills
have a better chance of winning in
the spring than if held in November
at a general election, is true.
JOHN F. THEO. B. BRENTANO.
The Oregonian has on more than
one occasion asserted that It is not
the best thing for the state for one
political party to be absolutely doml
nant. It believes that the party In
control will more closely serve the
public interest if It knows that It
will soon pay in defeat for derellc
tion.
TUMULTY VIEW APPRECIATED
But True Picture of Wilson Xot
Given, Thinks Correspondent.
WASHOUOAL, Wash., Jan. 6. (To
the Editor.) I wish to express my
appreciation of your publication of
Mr. Tumulty's book. Not having tne
good fortune of a personal intimacy
with Mr. Wilson and being therefore
dependent on books and newspapers
for whatever truth I can obtain con
cerning him, I appreciate the spirit
that prompted you to give us sucn a
close-up view of the ex-president as
Mr. Tumulty does.
The fact that Mr.. Tumulty's vanity
saw an opportunity in writing the
book to envelop his hero in the Tu
multy shadow must have been very
Irritating to those persons who ex
pected a clear picture of Mr. Wilson;
but to those who have learned to
make due allowance for man's van
ities, the picture Is satisfying enough
in Its revelation of the man. The bit
ter correspondence also gives one
hope that some day Mr. Tumulty will
realize that "the eyes of men, after a
well graced actor leaves the stage,
are idly bent on him who enters
next."
But all the evidence from every
source leads me to believe that Mr.
Tumulty is unable to give us a true
picture of the real Wilson. It takes
more than a few years for a great
man to understand himself; and In
numerable years for another man to
understand him objectively. Mr. Wil
son was declared a failure because he
took 14 points to Paris and lost them
there. Although he was an historian
and wise to all the tricks of old
world diplomacy, he was beaten, we
ere told, at every point. We are told
further that he was an Idealist. This
may explain why he failed. I would
ask: "Why expect an Idealist to play
tne roie or caesarr
Mr. Wilson must have known that
with the power of the United States
behind him he could play an invinc
ible game against the old-world dip
lomats. But he chose to play the
game according -to his own Ideals,
and he lost. When the American
people realized he had lost, their elec
tion of President Harding to succeed
him was not so much a repudiation
uf the Wilson ideal as an attempt to
match and forestall the cunning of
old-world diplomacy. The present
conference in Washington corrobor
ates this.
Idealists are so rare that they are
naturally considered to be out of
place in politics. But. perhaps, for
the progress of humanity, it is neces
sary ohce In a while to drop them
among politicians to dispel Caesarian
notions. Perhaps if Mr. Wilson did
not have that extensive knowledge
which Is always a great hindrance to
vigorous statements, he might lose
his silent modesty and tell us some
thing. Perhaps Archimedes might
have been able to lift the world If he
could have found something to stand
on, and perhaps Wilson might have
benefited humanity If he had had
someone to help him. Anyhow, we
know that he broke himself in trying
to help humanity and that will al
ways endear him to us.
JAMES O. CLARKSON.
FALSE SCIENTISTS REBUKED
Some Professors in Colleges Said
to Re Teaching Errors.
HOOD RIVER, Or.. Jan. 7. (To the
editor.) Perhaps I do not understand
Mr. Bryan's educational value of the
sciences as taught In our institutions
of higher learning, but if he Is an
tagonistic to them, save as to false
deductions at the hand of bad or de
signing instructors, I have all "along
misunderstood the utterances of this
consistently religious college-bred
man. Mr. Bryan knows the truth of
the saying that while figures do not
lie, figurers sometimes do, that while
science never errs, scientists have
often done so, even to the reversing
themselves, and that while the good
science has accomplished by advanc
ing the world greatly overbalances its
Inalienable evils, "science so-called"
has done Incalculable mischief.
Some of Mr. Bryan's critics are no
doubt justly making science the
handmaid of religion. It is easy to
see It in their friendly criticisms,
Others, I fear, through faulty pre
mises and false deductions, one per
verting or prostituting science Into
the handmaid of the devil. I do not
say they do so purposely. They have
eminent precedent air along the ages
among the almost forgotten devotees
of "science falsely so-called." -Now
a word as to what has been
taught in some of our colleges in re
cent years, too. I believe you will
find it lntonsely interesting to thou
sands of your readers if you will give
an editorial resume of an article en
titled "Blasting at the Rock of Ages,"
which appeared in Everybody's some
six or seven years ago. This writer,
you may recall, said he got his in
formation first-hand by visiting the
classrooms of instructors in Beveral
of our leading American colleges.
Pome of the revelations are amazing.
The pernicious stuff some of those
"professors" were teaching young
men, particularly, I recall, on the
divine Institution of marriage, was
most discreditable to such institu
tions; and yet it was passing unre
buked by their heads.
Let me here also call attention to
the number of Instances that rank
socialism almost bolshevlsm, broke
out in a number of our college insti
tutions during the world war In its
early days. No sane men would de
preciate the value of the science of
medicine, of law, the mission of the
gospel or the value of the sciences
correctly and revently taught In our
noble Institutions- for the higher
training of young minds, but when a
quack In medicine comes to the fore,
a Jack-leg In law. a wolf In sheep's
clothing in the pulpit or an erratic
mischief-making professor In the
chair of sciences well (excuse me for
quoting a friend more forceful than
eloquent of expression), "HeU'g to
pay and no pitch hot."
W. J. PEDDICORD.
LAWMAKERS WORK DEI'EXDEDt
Correspondent Approves Act to Val
idate Certain Marriages.
EUGENE. Or., Jan. 7. (To the Edi
tor.) In the Oregonian December 31,
speaking of the governor's recent
vetoes, you say that he disapproved
some bills that he would have ap
proved If the same had been passed
at a regular session. You rather ap
prove this attitude, and then proceed
to commend him and criticise the leg
islature by reason of action on the
measure to validate certain divorces.
I was a member of the legislature
in It but not exactly of It, and not
a candidate .for re-election. I have
no exalted opinion of the Oregon leg
islature. A state that pays its legis
lators $3 a day and expects them to
wade through the mass of legislative
projects that a growing state neces
sarily has, in a 40-day session held
once in two years ought not to ex
pect much. But even the much de
spised Oregon legislature ought to.
be fairly treated; for,
First, it Is, under the Oregon con
stitution, one of three co-ordinate de
partments of the state government,
lit fact, under that instrument it has,
both in the enumeration of depart
ments, and in the defining of powers,
precedence of the executive and Ju
dicial departments.
Second, the governor is nowhere in
that instrument given any authority
to direct or control Its discretion.
True, the governor is given author-
ltv to convene the legislature in extra
session and to inform tne lawmaicers
of the reasons which led him to call
them together, but they are left free
tj act upon such subjects as they
please, whether named by him or not.
Whether or not a subject of legisla
tion Is an emergency matter Is a leg
islative question. The governor can
not make it such. The legislature
alone can. True, he may veto any
act passed by the legislature and he
may assign a good reason or a poor
one for his act. When the governor
says directly or by inference that he
vetoed an act. proper In Itself, be
cause he differs with the legislature
as to the time of passing it, he as
signs a very poor reason. In fact, it
is no reason. He Is simply holding a
club over the legislature, to prevent
It from doing what the constitution
permits.
Now, there is in the popular mind
an entire misapprehension of the ef
fect of the passage of these vetoed
bills on the length of the session. Ad
mittedly there were two pre-eminent
subjects before the legislature, the
fair hill and the road bills. The gov
ernor very kindly had these bills pre
pared by outside parties of his own
selection, and all the legislature
really had to do was to rubber-stamp
them. But there was the constitution
that had many provisions requiring
deliberate action and allowing the
fool legislators to discuss acts; there
were the rules of the houses that re
quired bills to be printed, that sent
thetn to committees; there was the
immemorial custom that allowed in
terested parties to be heard upon
them, and so it took about three days
to get them through the house and
more than two to get them through
the senate. Then there had to be a
conference to iron out some differ
ences. But the moment work was
completed on those measures the leg
islature adjourned
But while those bills were being I
printed, while one house had them
and the other could not have them,
what were the Idle legislators to do?
Sit still and twirl their thumbs? The
governor's plans did not cover those
Idle moments, and being the legisla
tors of the state, and supreme in
their own sphere, they went on to
pass some legislative measures, ad
mittedly proper. And the governor
vetoed those acts because they were
not suggested by him, were not
deomed by him urgent.
Now, about the divorce law. I be
lieve exactly as you do. The pro
vision of law that a divorce suit shall
bo brought in the county or residence
of one of the parties is of first im
portance. The state is a party to
every divorce suit. The district at
torney must be served. It Is his busi
ness to see that the cause of divorce
Is real and the suit not collusive.
When a motor bus of divorce seekers
ana their witnesses are taken from
Salem to Oregon City (no motor bus
would hold those from Portland) and
a half-dozen divorce decrees are
ground out in an hour, or an hour
and a half, we may well believe that
the district attorney of Clackamas
county will not know so much about
the merits of the cases as would the
district attorney of Marion i-mmiv
where the plaintiffs lived and were
known. Still, the custom of granting
divorces in non-residence counties
has not grown up in open defiance of
law, but because many trial judges
have deemed It legal. Thousands of
parties so divorced have remarried.
Thousands of children have resulted
irom these remarriages, and manv es
tates have been distributed on the
strengtn of such decrees
Since the regular legislative ses
sion a single trial judge has held di
vorce decrees of the kind mentioned
Illegal. I hope his decision will be
affirmed in the supreme court. As a
lawyer I believe the chief obstacle to
sucn arnrmatlon will be the effects
ana consequences of such affirmation
The court will rightly hestitate to
mane Digamists of the parties who
have remarried on the strength of a
decree of court that has become quite
common, or to render illegitimate so
many children. My object, and I am
nure mat or otner legislators, in vot
mg tor tne bill In question was to
make It easy for the court to affirm
Judge Tucker's decision. The supreme
court will probably act before an
other session of our legislature. I
submit that under all the circum
stance of the case, the act legalizing
these divorces and remarriages was
reasonable and proper. Very respect-
& U. ALLEN.
FAIR DECLARED GREAT THING
Event Held Too Widely Advertised
to Be Abandoned Now,
SILETZ. Or.. Jan. K rr . t.-ji
tor.) Lincoln county stands for the
world exposition to be held in Fort-
lanu in 193.
It has been so well advertised and
has gone so far that it a k -
disgrace to the state to crawfish now
.u me Biaie win snare in the bene
fits. I flnn'r RAA II-ti I, .. V. . . I ., .
- ....j ,v Dimuiu nor
bear some of the expense. This Is a lis
erm view or tne question. Oregon
Is a wonderful state when we con
sider her great wealth, her matchless
scenery, her exhaustion t-oan,... t
timber, water power, climate, fields of
waving grain, ner Dig red apples, her
thousand hills and valleys covered
with some of tho finest dairy herds
in the world. The fair would adver
tise this to the world and would bring
thousands of people to Oregon and to
the Pacific coast. Hundreds of these
tourists would buy land, locate in
Oregon and would help develop our
resources, fill our schools, churches
and make Oregon one of the finest
states in the union. Let us cut out
notifies and let ua all wnplr tnrr.tu.-
for the good of the whole state. Port
land has been very fair in offering to
bear the major part of the expense of
t h a prnnnitinn. If ft fa nnt r n-v. A
tax the property to pay the 13,000,000
vide it and put half on the property
ana nan on tne gasoline, mis wouiu
make it easy on all of us. By all
means let us have the fair and not
turn down the best thing that has
ever come to Oregon and the golden
west. It seems the best thing that
could have been done under the cir
cumstances was for the president of
tne senate and the speaker of the
house to have signed the bill, and if
there was any kick made let the
courts settle the matter. The house
voted nearly three to one for the fair
and the senate blocked it. The state
of Washington will be greatly bene
fited. Why -not let them help finance
the fair? F. M. CARTER-
LEAGUE REJECTION SCORED
Refusal of United States to Enter
Called Colossal Blunder.
PORTLAND. Jan. 7. (To the Edi
tor.) The present conference for the
limitation of armaments is proving
conclusively that the United States
made one of the' most colossal blun
ders in history when it refused, or.
account of partisan politics, to go
Into the league of nations. And if
America is not thoroughly ashamed
of the ignoble, pusillanimous part that
It has played. It can be accounted for
only through the fact that the people
are not yet aware of the enormity of
Americas offense to civilization
The present conference Is demon
strating its own futility. A league of
nations In the Pacific limited to four
great powers is nothing less than a
combination against the rest of the
world. It is the old balance of power
proposition, and as such, It must be
doomed to failure. It develops that
we have practically agreed to protect
the empire of Japan against invasion
on the part of Russia, Germany, or
any other nation .and If this is not the
limit, may we ask, What is? Com
pared to the Versailles treaty, this is
Pandora's box raised to the nth de
gree. What the United States Is at
tempting to do is to scrap the league
of nations and to substitute therefor
various combinations of nations
handling particular propositions. In
stead of having the world get to
gether in one big family that will
'have some influence and power, we
are setting up, or trying to set up,
several minor leagues, which will, to
a certain extent be pitted against
each other. And if there ever was a
descent from the sublime to the ridic
ulous, this is It. -
Woodrow Wilson was the one man
who saw the possibility of something
big resulting from the great world
war. He had the vision. But the people
BCorned their prophet at the behest
of the lowest kind of partisan politics
and overwhelmingly defeated the ideal
that civilization must attain, or else
be wiped from the face of the earth
In the next war. A good many have
thought it stylish and smart to be
little this great man. But when we do,
we only show how far America has
been false to the allies, and to the
real ideals of our forefathers.
We cannot complain if France
knocks down the small minor league
pins that we are trying to set up. We
spoiled the whole situation for France
and made her future Insecure from a
retaliatory attack from Germany.
which will be made some day if there
are Germans In Germany. The league
of nations was the only thing that
could have protected France, and if
France does not feel very bitter
against the United States, then human
nature must have suffered a tremen- !
dous change. 1
We have made our bed. It is not ai
comfortable one even for the man who'
is blindly partisan, because even he I
Is beginning to see some light. We
have done the very worst for our
selves and the world that we pos
sibly could, and God only known how
we can get out of this great 6lough
of despond.
WILLIAM BITTLE WELLS.
FAIR HELD OREGON ISSUE
State to Share in Accruing Pros
perity, Is View.
PORTLAND, Jan. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) Unfortunately, Pendleton is not
the only town In the state of Oregon
that has a Roy W. Ritner. There are
several Roy W. Ritners in the city
of Portland, as well as various other
sections of the state who ought each
and every one for the sake of capi
tal. Industry, labor, business, unity,
good fellowship and the genuine
prosperity of Oregon go out Into the
sage brush and lie down so that no
one would ever see them or hear of
them. These fellows have mussed
things up a little bit but they are not
of a very dangerous nature.
Remember Oregon, not Portland, is
going to have a .1325 fair because the
people of Oregon want it and their
unity and ties of sincere friendship
cannot be severed by anything lame.
Remember Oregon Is the nation's
capital of mind where everything Is
produced under uoa s sunshine. lie
member Oregon is the capital of i
bountiful clime where nature and
beauty and friendship are really di
vine. Remember the Maine and what
America did to Spain. Remember the
kaiser and what the Yanks did to the
autocrat's name. Remember all the
Roy W. Ritners and their stand
against Oregon's fair, prosperity and
fame. Remember Oregon watchful
thoughtful, considerate and sane, will
not forget their names. Remember
that the state, not Portland, will have
the 1925 fair, which means Oregon's
prosperity and world-wide fame.
RICHARD P. O'CONNQR,
E45 Thurman street.
LOGIC WIN'S OUT EVENTUALLY
Ridicule of Ijcaguc of Nations Wil!
Cease, Says Writer.
ELLENSBURG, Wash.. Jan. 6. (To
the Editor.) If I were a member of
the United States senate 1 should
strongly resent the implication that
still goes the rounds to the effect
that the senate was justified In re
lecting the league of nations becausi
the one who proposed it had slighted
the senate. Surely a senator of this
wonderful country is big enough tf
act upon the merits of a proposition,
rather than upon the basis of any
slight, supposed or actual, from the
man who proposes a measure.
Furthermore, he know, that ir. as
many believe, we will eventually drift
Into the league, though it be in the
manner that some women get off
street cars, we shall arrive there not
because Mr. Wilson has more friend.
than Mr. Lodge but because we have
reached the conclusion that It Is the
best way to attain certain objects
which we are all seeking.
The recent contributions to these
columns tending to befog the issue by
sarcasm and ridicule will win the
guffaw of biased minds and senseless
people temporarily, but good sound
logic will win out eventually.
We are not attempting to sav how
long it will take, though it is all too
long, but at last the average citizen
arrives. Then at his hands the league
and the various proposed treaties will
receive whatever action the merits of
each jne actually demand.
I GOOD TIME REQUIRES EFFORT
I
Suggestion Offered for Mary Who
Sits by Fire.
PORTLAND, Jan. S. (To the Edi
tor.) I want to ans-wer the questions
asked by "Mary by the Fire Sits."
Whether or not Portland men are
good mixers, no matter if Portland is
the worst place on the coast to have a
good time, the fact will remain that
the person who wants a good time
will have to get out and seek It him
self. A girl cannot expect that the
young fellows go from house to house
to find out If there Is here or there a
good girl who would like to get in on
a good time. The man worth while is
careful in selecting his company and
the girl who would be his pal must
give him a chance to observe her.
There is no question that the
"spooner" Is popular. But is mere
popularity a point worth striving for?
Mary PIckford is popular, go is Emma
Goldman, and both have their fol
lowers, each In her class. The girl
"spooner" is only popular among
"male spooners" and Mary may Join
them and be also popular any time
she chooses. It's easy to get In and
hard to get out. But if she prefers
to sit by the fire it cannot be helped
and she will remain unnoticed In her
shady corner like any other violet.
Naturally it is the butterfly which
flutters around in the sunlight that Is
most noticed. And it has always been
more fun for the boya to chase but
terflies than leisurely seek violets.
There are, however, boys who do the
latter, and while their number may
not seem as great as the others there
are, nevertheless, many of them. Only
being more conservative, they are
likewise not so well noticed. Since
no decent cnap will "mash In" on a
girl on the street and girls like Mary
sit home by the fire, how can the
latter class expect those young men
to find them?
It has been my experience as a 30
year young bachelor that girls expect
the young man who takes them home
to sit for hours on the front porch
with them. I have found on many oc
casions that most girls are eager to
arrange a "party for two." Whether
they do that because they like that or
because they believe thus to make a
"hit" with a fellow I do not know.
To the self-respecting young man this
is, however. Just as disgusting as it
must be for the young woman who
looks for a pal and not for a mere
male.
And I am satisfied that this con
dition exists in other cities as well as
here. There is nothing wrong with
Portland, nor with Portland men. I
will admit that I find it hard myself
to enjoy suitable companions and am
rather doing without girl friends than
with the wrong kind. But this Is
only due to the fact that I have paid
more attention to my work and
studies. At no time did I think there
were not many girls In this town who
are as good as they make them. And
this is true of the "fellows."
If Mary will leave her fireside now
and then, perhaps to go out for a stiff
hike with the Trails club or Mazamas.
or attend a party given by this or
that lodge, invite her thus gained
friends to a plain house party and
later go to theirs, she will soon widen
her circle to a number among whom
she will in due time find a real good
pal.
As soon as her "good metal"
Is noticed she will be surprised to
find that the Portland boy is a good
mixer after all and not half as slow
as she now thinks he is. and that he
does prefer a regular girl in place of
the nuisance that calls him up contin
ually. M. F. GOHRE.
PRAISE IS GIVEN OLD AGE
Charity Is Recommended in Judg
ment of Others.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Or., Jan. 7.
(To the Editor.) We glided over the
boundary line separating 1921 and
1922 with no jolt, so noiselessly it was
done. But hold! There is no such
boundary line, as all the years make
but one period. We speak of the
flight of time, but "we fly instead of j
time. This going on in time, a mere
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word to express relation, makes us
proud of our years, and women as
well as men may be brave enough to
declare how old they are to those who
care to know our age. We have made
too much of three score and ten, and
have seen too Indistinctly the fact
that man can pay Interest on bor
rowed time. We think enough of the
service of worthy years we live, as to
credit properly the length of their
stay with ust We know the good old
gray heads that have been beaten by
the storms and made to sweat under
hot suns.
If we are silently looking backward
over the years, we shout In facing
the future, and as we gathering up
the threads of the past bow our heads,
looking ahead we hold them up. This
Is hope. But there is a progress
backwards, and one forward.
Alone we step onward, for no others
knew us, though they may look Into
our eyes and study our faces.
Building greater barns with more
and larger bins to hold our plans,
ambitions, and nerve, we can build
them large enough to let God In to
stay.
Charity can underlie our judgments
of others. A gifted preacher up
braided his richly endowed organist
for being so lazy in the use of his
musical ability. One day the bril
liant organist died very suddenly,
from heart irregularity. The preacher
after that event' was less Intolerant
In passing Judgment upon others.
We may be unable to catch the re
lations within a mathematical demon
stration, or the turns of a Greek'root,
but quick can be our sight of our re-,
lations with others, whose very multi
tude of infirmities and even wrong
doings our charity covers
B. J. HOADLEY.
BRYAN'S STAND CHALLENGED
Conflict Between True Science and
True Religion Is Denied.
WILLAMINA, Or.. Jan. 7. (To the
Editor.) There are some interesting
features developed from Mr. Bryan's
assertion that the teaching of sci
ence in the colleges Is producing a
generation of atheists. I notice that
Rev. H. H. Griffis of the First Chris
tian church. Portland, says that:
"True science taught in a scientific
manner and with prope-r value given
to proved facts could have no effect
on the spiritual beliefs of the stu
dent"; and Dr. Edward H. Pence of
the Westminster Presbyterian church
says: "I cannot see how science of
itself would lead anyone from true
religion."
It seems to me, a layman of more
than half a century's observation,
that right there is where the whole
question rests. True religion and
true science! Isn't science always
true? Until the Investigator has
worked out his theory to a demon
stration it lies within the realm of
philosophy and only becomes a sci
ence when it is a proved fact. We
should not confound science with
philosophy, which is the investiga
tion necessary to establish a hypothe
sis as a fact.
The words "true religion," as used
by Rev. Mr. Pence,- to a certain ex
tent clear up the situation. True re
ligion has never conflicted with sci
ence and cannot. True religion is the
application of science as proved by
final analysis of the investigator,
whether in the physical or spiritual
line of research, and I challenge any
one to draw an infallible line of de
marcation between the physical and
spiritual. Whenever there is an ap
parent conflict between science and
religion, is it not rather between sci
ence and theology, which is "-nan-made"
and is applicable to every
known religion of the world? Sci
ence and true religion emanate from
the infinite and can never be in con
flict. Theology and science have con
flicted ever since history began to
be written and there Is no instance
whore theology was not obliged later
to accept science and the theologians
have usually contended they knew it
all the time. Fortunately science and
true religion are the products of the
same Infallible mind that can view
with composure the attacks of the
ologians. S. W. PAXSON.
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LAND CLEARING IS DISCUSSED
A. F. FIcgel Thinks t'roblem Is One
for Government Action.
TORTLAND, Jan. 6. (To the
Editor.) The Oregonian's editorial,
"Ge-ttlng Rid of the (Stumps." raises a
very important question for the state
of Oregon. Some thoughtful consid
eration ought to be given this sub
ject and an attempt made to solve
it, and It will require the co-operation
of many departments of government'
and commercial agencies.
There ought to be a survey of all
logged-off lands to determine
whether they are more valuable for
agriculture or reforestation, and only
those most valuable for agriculture
should be cleared, and those most val
uable for reforestation should be ac
quired by the national government
and reforested.
This first step requires serious
questions of taxation. First, to ac
quire by the government lands to be
reforested, as such lands will be per
manently withdrawn from taxation,
throwing a greater burden upon the
remainder, unless some plan may be
reached whereby the government will
pay a sum In lieu tf tax to equalize
the burden.
But what we are most interested
in is the land moat valuable for agri
culture. We now have a law which
permits the organization of land
clearing dlatricts, the same as
dyking and drainage districts, which
enables a district of valuable agri
cultural land to bond itself for the
purpose of clearing the land and
putting It under cultivation. The
trouble with this is that moHt logged
off land Is not commercially worth
the cost of clearing It. It has always
been my hope that some engineer
would devise means powerful enough
to do this to that the cleared land
would be worth the cost. Until this
Is done It would be well to have the
Chamber of Commerce appoint a per
manent committee to consider the
subject and devise ways and mean
to bring It about.
It would seem to me that It would
be wise to exempt all newly-clearedl
land from taxation for a period of
five or ten years. This would en
courage clearing of land and even
tually Increased revenues would be
received on account of the enhanced
value of the land when it was again
taxed.
The great value to the state would
bo in the production of foodstuffs.
Stump land can hardly be considered
an asset. The tax received is hardly
sufficient to overcome the disad
vantage of the unsettled condition of
the country, while if the land were
cleared it would be a perpetual source
of supply, and in addition would sup
port a dense population, 40 acres
being ample to support an ordinary
family, and have a surplus to sell.
The whole problem is to make the
enterprise commercially profitable,
hence possible. This will require ex
periments and possibly failures. It
will require study and co-operation.
It may require the aid of both state
and national governments. It is a
governmental problem, as well as a
commercial one.
If The Oregonian could take the
lead in the consideration of the sub
ject and gather statistics and suc
ceed in getting the chambers of com
merce of tho state to appoint com
mittees to study the subject, it would
be a very valuable service. Yours
truly. A. F. FLEGEL.
MISUSE OF WORDS CHARGED
Correspondent Says Alibi" Is Not
Synonymous With Defense.
PORTLAND. Jan. 6 (To the Ed
itor.) I have read with some Inter-J
et. i 116 Ul tUllinil n
plaint of one Robert White, who
seems to be "out of sorts" because
of your frequent use of the words
"laud" and "lure" good enough
words in all conscience so far as line
age goes, but grown obnoxious to
Mr. White because of frequent use;
simply a question of preference, not
of correctness.
Kindly permit me to register a
Neuralgia
Lumbago
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question of literary taste, but of fla
grant misuse of words; I refer to the
frequent use of the word alibi as
synonymous with defense. As a mat
ter of fact there is no possible rela
tion between the two wordo. either in
derivation or in meaning, abili mean
ing briefly elsewhere. An alibi, if
made out, Is always a perfect de
tense, but there are many defenses
that are In no sense alibis. Insanity
is nearly always a good defense, but
11 's not an alibi. And consistently
used in the senso of persistently or
constantly; you and other Journals
In Portland constantly thus use it.
How about?
When tho world was younger than
it la today bankers never made mis
takes, but of later years they have
changed front. But editors seem to
fav' taken the place of the banker
in this respect; editors never that is
seldom make mistakes. It seems to
me "crab" has several feet to stand
cn, and has for many years been rec
ognized as of good parentage and
perfectly well behaved, both as a
noun and a verb; but frankly I don't
f.? ' c, uWord any better than our
friend White likes "lure" and "laud";
- . r eounts nor smells good to
me arui t j wera tQ eueas x wouM
venture that It has come up out of
the gutter.
at ,iioUsiy, why 8pem, tlma and
cnort to make respectable diction out
,.,-,. ' Pnraes and expressions
that are mere slang, that offend the
senses with odor of the gutter, when
tit... Ve pUnty of words that were
legit mate at birth and by proper use
and behavior Have remained rrspect-
slKilnr,'' S'nCe? 1 adn,lt bV Per
sistent (not consistent) use you may
n time force a. seeming respectabil
ity of mere slang, but why bother
when outside of new inventions, dls-
IVll f H"d the "rts aI,d science, we
have already ample words for all
uses. Possibly tho proofreader, or
copywriters might need a little at
tention. F.F. SMITH.
1039 Pacific Street.
NOT WO. DAIK TO WILSON FOLD.
Tumulty Articles Do !So Cure Drfec
tlou Front Admirer..
HLLLT, Or.. Jan. 4 (To the Edi
tor.) The writer, though ho realizes
that the conclusion of the tumultous
Wilson story Is but an ordinary Jour
nalistic episode, feels impelled to send
to Tho Oregonian his heartfelt thanks
that he (and. he thinks, th0 majority
6f the readerj of The Oregonian), are
no longer to be afflicted with the in
trusion, in the daily news, of this
effusion which, with Its attendant
controversy, was becoming ridiculous
Inscribed In the back of tho text
book oi a certain very obnoxious
study which the writer was compelled
to assimilate some years ago i,s this
Jingle, which, with the thango of one
word, very appropriately expresses
his sentiments:
Now cheer up nn.t ! thankful
Kor the MeHsinKfl Jod Uuth itrnd;
Though Satan ent the stury.
tlod at lust hath sent the eml!
Thinking people. Including many
Wilson pre-admlrers, are coming mora
and more to realize that Woodrow
Wilson at no point in his career rose
equal to the conditions with which he
was confronted. The Tumulty story
has had no appreciable effect on this
defection from the ranks if Wilson
admirers Especially is this so. since
the authenticity of many of the state
ments and possibly some of tho docu
ments (those known only to Wilson
and Tumulty), might he questioned.
VICTOR H. PAQUET.
Oil In Orciron.
INDEPENDENCE. Or.. Jan. . (To
the Editor.) Please tell nio it there
are any producing oil wells In Oregon
If so, where are they'.' Where can I
have some water analyzed that has
the appearance of having oil In it?
-MRS. G. II.
While there have heen many wells
drilled, oil in commercial quantities
has not been found. Water with a
petroleum appearance or odor can be
sent for analysis to .Smith, Emory &
Co.. Gul Howard street. San Francisco
Rheumatism
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