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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 19,.. 1922 T.IBI.I.SHKI BY 1IKNRY I.. FITTOCK. Iublished by The Oregonian Pub. Co., 130 Sixth street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MOHDEX, E. B. P1PKR. Manager, Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the As sociated pros. The Assoeiated Press is xrlusively entitled to the use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to 4l or not otherwise credited in this paper nd also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dis patches herein iire alno reserved. Kubsrription Kates-liivariably in Advance. iBy Wall, in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and northern California.) Tiaily, Sunday included, one year .. . .$S.0fl Tiaily. Sunrlav included, si months .. 4.25 Jaily, Sunday Included, three months 2.2.1 Xiaiiy, Sunday included, one month . . 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New York; Verree & Conklin. Steger Building. Chi cago; Verree & Conklin, Free Press build ing, Detroit. Mich.; Verree & Conklin. Monadnock building, San Francisco. Cal. NEW POLITICAL TENPE.Vt'VES. Those who are not carried away Ty the gloating of the winners or the gloom of the losers in the re rent congressional election will look behind the face of the returns for the political tendency that the result indicates. As the ties of party allegiance and the binding effect of platform pledges become weaker the terms "republican" arid "democrat" have less meaning, and we must look among the various elements composing the parties and to their declared purpose for signs cf the new political forces. The farm bloc, which dictated much legislation at the recent ses sion, will be stronger in numbers and more radical in policy when the new congress goes to wqrk. Those republicans who have hither, to composed it will be reinforced by Frazier of North Dakota and Brookhart of Iowa, though these, like La Follette and others, call themselves republicans only that they may take part in republican councils, influence republican pol icy and gain good committee places. They will vote on legislation with men of like mind who call them eelves ' democrats from the same motives. This element will hold the balance of power between those who remain true to the principles of the old parties. However, we shall see democrats voting with the farm bloc in order to put the re publicans in a hole and republicans occasionally voting the same way in order to hold their party to gether, or at least seem to do so. Legislation thus passed will ex press the will of the farmers, whose champions will hold the balance of power, not that of either party. Though not definitely organized as a bloc, there is in each branch of congress a number of members who habitually vote as the labor union leaders dictate, some pf them being also in the farm bloc. They will doubtless be reinforced by the newly elected radicals and by the socialist Berger, if. he should be, allowed to take his seat.' They oppose every limitation on the right to .strike and any defense of the right to work, and many of them favor government ownership of railroads and other socialist meas ures. The voting strength on which they most rely cultivates alliance with the farmers, and the extrem ists of beth elements compose the farmer-labor party. Distinguished from these political forces, which bestride old party lines and ignore them when par ticular interests are concerned, are the old-line republicans and the old-line democrats. The former op. pose .the radical demands of labor and have been indifferent to the legitimate claims of the farmers until forced by political pressure to recognize them. The democrats have been less firm in taking that stand, for they yielded abjectly to labor in 1916 arid have lately on occasion joined the farm bloc in extorting concessions from the reg ular republicans. These are the new political forces that "bore from within" the old parties in order to win control 'of them. The measure of success that they have had may seem to portend their permanent alliance and the disruption of one or both of the old parties, but that alliance could not be formed permanently in the ab sence of a basic cqmmunity of in terest between the two. That com munity of interest does not exist; on the contrary, there is a conflict of interest which the farmers will realize when they look beneath the surface of things. Being both a capitalist, whose in vestment is his farm, and a laborer, the farmer receives as wages for his labor and as interest on his capital the price at which he sells his produce. Every addition to the cost of placing his produce in the hands of the consumer is de ducted from that price; high freight rates and high wages cut his profits. All efforts of labor are applied to maintain the war rates of wages and conditions of work. The re sult is to keep up the cost of trans porting the farmer's produce, therefore to keep down the price, but to keep up the price of all that he buys. In such an alliance labor pets all the profit and the farmer (stands all the loss. Dire necessity drove the farmers to exert themselves in 1920, because until late years their needs had been neglected by both parties. Banking laws were passed without provision for the kind of credit that is needed to finance crops and livestock and the credit permitted by the federal reserve law is in adequate. Not until President Taft Initiated and President Wilson com pleted the farm loan system did any means exist for obtaining long term loans at reasonable interest and expense. Farm produce had been at the mercy of speculators, end the system for their distribu tion was costly and inefficient. The eastern business interests which until lately have been most influ ential in both of the old parties know. little of the needs of agri culture in these respects and care less, profiting by the inefficiency of the existing system. Instinctively the farmers held them responsible and took what allies they could find in order to strike a political blow. The radical labor element was al ways at hand, and its help was accepted without much thought of ultimate conflict of interests. Thus arose the farmers' alliance, the people's party and now the farmer labor party. Whatever transformation parties may undergo, it is impossible that farmers and labor can travel far together. The farmers' position as a capitalist on however small a scale and his dependence for an income on the sale of his produce make him conservative and in clined to oppose all devices to raise the cost of things artificially and to do business inefficiently, which are the effects of radical labor policies. The farmer's economic position places him in the middle ground between the provincial and selfish east, which formerly domi nated the republican party, and the radical laborites, whose policy would compel him to sell cheap and buy dear. A large proportion of the urban population, which has been victimized by men at both political extremes, would be attracted to the side of the farmers. But the United States is' poor soil in which to cultivate parties per manently established on the lines of class or occupation. Attempts in the past have been provoked by neglect to redress particular wrongs, to whichithey drew attention, and reforms were effected by the old parties. All that the farmer needs and asks is to be placed on an equality with men in other occu pations with regard to credit fa cilities, transportation cost and or ganization for sale of his products. He is in a fair way to obtain all of this. Precedent tells that his dis tinct political organization will then dissolve, 'that the farmers will di vide and that they will hold the balance between the conservatives, whose one idea is to conserve what they have accumulated, and the radicals, whose aim is to gratify the greed for money that has not been earned. If there is to be a reconstruction of parties it will not produce a farmers' party if old party leaders and those of the farmers are wise. GETTING THE ALIBI READY. The Portland Oregonlan seems to want the legislature to play peanut politics in an effort to handicap the new governor. That would be one way of strengthening Mr. Pierce in public favor and of. put ting the legislature in bad. But it is rotten advice. The people voted for tax reform and they are In no mood to stand for piffle. If The Oregonian edi tor has not yet read the election returns he should do so at once. Pendleton East Oregonian. The state of Oregon is suffering no more from peanut politics than from peanut journalism, tat Pendle ton and elsewhere. The Oregonian neither wants, nor seems to want, the legislature to handicap the new governor in any measure whatever for the benefit of the state; and it agrees that any practicable method to reduce taxes is for the general welfare. If the legislature em barks upon any scheme to em barrass the governor, it will find The Oregonian missing from the roster of its supporters; and if Governor Pierce sets out to put the legislature in a hole, The Oregonian is quite likely to have something to say. What, for example, should a legislature do if Governor Pierce should insist upon enactment of a measure such as he once intro duced in. the state senate, requiring the state to hire at a determined wage, everybody who asked for a job'? There is already fearful excite ment among the newspaper sup porters of Mr. Pierce, and among the hungry and expectant gentle men vho are looking for jobs, that the so-called "spoilsmen's act" may be repealed. The obvious - con sternation is quite equal to their indignation when it was enacted. It would be an awful thing to turn the tables on a democratic governor and the democratic newspapers in that way quite too awful for words. Already there are threats that if anything is started along that line, every republican office holder in the state will be fired instanter. A very pretty bluff, in dicating a bellicose willingness on the part of the democratic claque, which Jiopes it speaks for the governor-elect, to bulldoze the legislature. It is our recollection that Candi date Pierce, who single-handed elected himself, was going to re duce taxes all by himself, reduce therrf, some eager listeners are ready to testify, as much as one half. Quite a job for one man. We wish him well. The state needs a real tax-reducer at the helm. But it is evident that some of his ardent and anxious journalistic friends are preparing an alibi for him by showing how the legislature is determined to prevent it. SLANDER PROPERLY RESENTED. Secretary of War Weeks did well to permit John Fortescue, president of" the Royal Historical society of Great Britain, to address the West Point cadets on Armistice day. The following passages from this "historian's" book, "British States men of the Great War," are reason enough: . Americans esteem a good bargain, even if gained by dishonorable means, to mark the highest form of ability. The United States cannot engage- in any form of competition with us, from athletics to dipjomacy, without ' using foul play. They must win, if not by fair skill, then by prearranged, trickery or violence: if not by open negotiations,, then by garbled maps and forged docu ments. There is the fact. It may fee un pleasant, but it cannot be denied. What Mr. Fortescue says is not a fact, and it is denied, not only by Americans but by Britons who know Americans far better than he knows them. Inspired by prejudice which disqualifies him to be a historian, he evidently has been guilty of the common fault of basing general statements on par ticular instances. Some Americans and some Britons are dishonorable in business, but they do not repre sent their respective nations and they rank low in the esteem of their fellow-countrymen. If we had been disposed to follow Mr. Fortescue's evil example we might have cited the case of the former editor of John Bull, a paper which was particularly abusive of the United States, who was convicted of fraud, but the British people showed their opinion of him by sentencing him to prison and .expelling him from parliament. Trickery in sport is held in as deep contempt in this country as 'in Britain, hence the severe measures to keep the great national game of baseball clean. Such slanders as those of Mr. Fortescue will not disturb the good4 opinion which Americans and Britons hold of one another in general, for he will be readtly rec ognized as one of a small, snobbish, prejudiced class which believes patriotism to consist in detraction of other nations. The need of friendship founded on mutual re spect between nations is too great to permit the good relations of two nations which understand one an other so well to be made less friendly by such as he. . . HOPE FOR A M1I.O WTNTER. We are entitled to such comfort as we are able to extract from the report of the American consul at Bergen, Norway, that the Arctic ocean is perceptibly warmer, this autumn than ever before in any year for which records have been kept, which coincides with the findings of British scientists that the gulf stream is not only warmer than usual but is changing , itq course to latitudes farther north. The interesting fact Is that meteo rologists conclude from these phe nomena that the winter now ap proaching will be unusually mild all over the world. We shall know more about it next 'spring than we do now, but there is some .reason for supposing that the long-distance weather prophets may be right this time It is well known that most storm cycles in this hemisphere originate far to the northwest of temperate North America and that the Arctic zone influences our climate and weather in an appreciable degree, The consul at Bergen reports that scarcely any ice has been encoun tered this season as far north as 82 degrees. Icebergs are melted be fore reaching their usual lanesin the north Atlantic. Well-known glaciers have disappeared. Accord ing to the consul, the northern waters usually frequented by wal ruses and seals have become too warm for these animals, who are migrating rapidly toward the pole. Either because of the departure of the seals or because the warm belt is extending northward, great shoals of fish have been met in latitudes in which they do not customarily appear. No explanation is offered for these radical departures from the rule, which do not correspond with any major weather cycle theory and for which no precedent has been found. The hope of the ex plorer Amundsen, however, that meteorological stations will be es tablished throughout the polar re gions, communicating . by radio with the outer world, is likely to be realized, with important effect on the accuracy and the timeliness of weather forecasting. To be of value the latter must be based on the larger natural phenomena rather than on local conditions of limited scope. We should approach the desired result very nearly if we were able to affirm that the entire Arctic has undergone the changes in temperature which Norwegians report. ITALY'S MASTERFUL PREMIER. Few more dramatic incidents have grown out of the war than the ap pearance before the Italian parlia ment as premier of Benito Musso lini. . He is not only premier; he is the accepted general of an army Of 300,000 men which for two years has kept Italy in a state of civil war with" the socialists, an army that was supported by an organized body composing a large mass of the civil population of all classes, which the government dared not combat. Though Mussolini is backed by a minority of deputies, other parties bow to him because he commands the strongest force in Italy, because he has met the physical force of the socialists with superior force and has overcome it In his own person Mussolini rep resents the conflict between na tionality and the international spirit of socialism. That new politico economic cult originated in Ger many, and its chief votaries, by in stilling in the minds of workmen the idea of the solidarity of labor of all nations without regard to boundaries inspired them with -anti-militarism. The German militarists exploited that sentiment among the workmen of other nations in order to prevent or weaken resistance to German aggression, but when the kaiser resolved on war all but the handful of radical socialists in the reichstag led by Liebknecht voted for war. Though their countries were invaded or threatened with invasion, an irreconcilable faction in each allied nation opposed the war. This was the attitude of Italian socialists during the ten months of their country's neutral ity. Mussolini was so active a leader among them that he was editor of their organ, -Avanti. and a conflict arose between his social ism and his patriotism. His coun try soon won and he left the Avanti to carry on a campaign in favor of war for Italy's "manifest destiny." To that end in January, 1915, he founded the " 'f asci' (clubs) of revolutionary action" out of which developed the present fasci of com bat after the war. Mussolini's accession to power may seem to be the triumph of a revolution which has overthrown the lawful government. In fact it is the triumph of a militant party defending the existing form of government against the assault of another militant party, which aimed at violent revolution and which the government was too weak to re sist. During the period of depres sion that followed the war the communist faction seized control of the socialist party, gathered to It all elements of discontent and began a revolution by committing all manner of acts of violence, in cluding murder, torture, destruc tion of property and seizure of factories, veterans of the war being particular objects of hatred. Far from suppressing these red guer rillas, Nitti swelled their ranks by wholesale amnesty to criminals, and Giolitti surrendered to them by passing a law for syndicalism in industry. When the government made no effort to save Italy from the reds, the fasclsti rallied to them the veterans, the middle -' class, the peasants and the loyal workmen and combated revolution with direct action by . violence. They wrecked the office of the Avanti, of which their chief had once been editor, and retaliated for commun ist outrages by? wrecking the red headquarters in the cities. When political strikes were called, the fascisti took the places of the strikers and routed them. When Premier Facta, who had quailed before the reds, asked the king to decree martial law against a fas cist! march on Rome, the king, seeing that he was offered the choice between two warring fac tions, refused, and entrusted the government to that one which fought to save Italy from the one which aimed to make it another Russia. A result of this victory for na tionalism over the wreckers is that Italy asserts itself in equality with the other allies. That thought runs through the new premier's master ful speech. It refuses to take sec ond pMace to Britain and France or to indorse their prior agreements. Its claim to naval supremacy in the Mediterranean may prove to be a swing of the pendulum from the extreme of weakness in foreign policy. The equality with France that is guaranteed by the naval limitation treaty should make Italy secure and should satisfy national pride. If Italy should refuse to ratify that ""compact, it would chill the gratification which all liberty loving Americans feel at the crush ing of the red menace. Under the guidance of Mussolini Italy should rank with the other great nations, and should be content to use its power in the service of peace. NO MILK FOR BABIES. If one test of a social system is its capacity -for fostering the wel fare of infant life on which its perpetuity depends,' the Russian ex periment can be said completely to have failed. The story that Dr. H. C. Walker, supervisor of Ameri can Relief Administration in the Petrograd district, sends from London will sound almost incred ible to American ears. Milk, In all countries the natural food of the young, is practically unobtainable in the larger Russian cities, distribution having abso lutely broken down. . Only in the rural regions is it procurable at alL and here the slaughter of cattle for food has reduced the supply to a point far below minimum needs. Inadequate diet of nursing mothers at the same time has al most cut off the normal supply of nourishment for the very young. Americans who take for granted the furnishing of milk to children even in the remotest localities and who understand the value of milk as food will find it difficult to pic ture the situation revealed by Dr. Walker's statement that "90 per cent of all the babies in Russia have never tasted milk in any form." The situation, however, contains both an appeal to the spirit of humanity and a warning against the blandishments of those who would fasten on our own country a system that has so signally failed to function In a funda mentally important particular. SHIFTING CIVIC FORTUNES. The ups and down In the desti nies of towns and cities suggested by i present contention over the location of the county seat of Cowlitz county in our neighboring state of Washington are among the commonest of civic phenomena in the rapidly growing west. They have been peculiarly characteristic of the Oregon country since the very inception, of the town-building era, which closely coincides with the resolution of the northwest boundary . question in ' 1846, and they have known no cessation. This year, too, marked the beginning of settlement of tlie portion of Oregon north of the Columbia river. But the route by which men traveled in the preceding fur-trading period lay through a region now rich in historic memories. The name Kalama, for example, is probably associated with the Indian Ions of a period before the Chinook jargon was born and the Cowlitz farms of the Hudson's Bay company repre sented an early and significant venture in agriculture in the Pa cific northwest. Prior to the com ing of the first permanent settlers the region was an important sta tion on the way from the Columbia river to Puget sound. It was here, too, that the foundation was laid for the present separate common wealth of Washington. Just half a 'century ago The Oregonian related in. its news col umns that the steamer Kannie Troup had "carried to Kalama yesterday some very ponderous ma chinery which will be used in the car shops at that place." "This machinery," declared the veracious chronicler, "is for the purpose of pressing car wheels on the shafts." The item is a reminder of one of the first great town booms north of the Columbia. Kalama, indeed, enjoyed the benefits of railroad connection with the - north some years before Portland was simi larly favored. Ground was broken at the present site of the first named city for the western ter minus of the. Northern Pacific rail road in May, 1870, only a few weeks after work had been begun at the eastern terminus near Duluth. In these circumstances, having regard of the universal desire of the people for railroad connection with the eastern states, the reader of history will not wonder at what may now seem to be the extrava gant hopes of the "city builders of that time. Some two years before Portland had obtained connection with St. . Joseph, on the Yamhill river, its first railroad connection. the Northern Pacific had pushed north from Kalama a distance of twenty miles, fUong the trail over which Michael T. Simmons and James R. Jackson had traveled nearly a quarter of a century be fore. The region north of the Co lumbia tlten seemed favored of fortune above all others. The whistle of the locomotive was now heard," says a diarist of th4 period, "in a locality which but twenty-five years earlier had never known the pressure of a wheel." The contagious optimism of Jay Cooke had penetrated to the farthest west. When the literature of the promot ers took notice of the "banana belt" through which the railroad was scheduled to pass all western Washington recognized in the allu sion a tribute to the suavity of its climate and the productivity of its soil. The historian says: The owner of a claim on the Columhia where the Railroad managers wished to locate the river terminus and begin building their line northward, had been offered $10,000 and ten lots in the new town for his claim, but he refused it; he wanted $50,000. The river terminus was then located at another point four miles away. As soon as road building was begun speculation in town lots, both at the river terminus and at prospective stations along the line, became active. Prices advanced with every sale and the most surprising expectations were enter tained. Kalama was soon to outstrip Portland, it was said; it was surao b the chief city of the Columbia; it might even excel New York and Chicago and be the chief city of the coast and per haps of the country. All this stimulated the expectations of. other settlera, par ticularly in the hopeful towns on the sound. The Cowlitz country had pre viously, in the early sixties, been inoculated with the railroad build ing virus, which led to an effort to build a railroad by private initia tive a task, clearly in advance of the time in which it was under taken. But the last spike of the line between Kalama and Tacoma was driven on December 16, 1873, the road narrowly escaping the devastating consequences of the panic of 1873, and for ten years before connection was established between Portland and the east Kalama was an important, busy and always hopeful community, characterized by high civic spirit and" confident that destiny had marked it .for distinction. Town building proceeded far in advance of the fundamental resources of the territory, but was nevertheless marked by a not wholly unhealthy competition, for which sympathetic allowance will be made by those who comprehend the individualistic spirit of the pioneers. It is now recalled that in an only slightly earlier time Milton, St. Helens, Milwaukie, Linnton had looked forward with confidence to becoming th,e metropolis of the western coast. It was a simpler matter to demonstrate to the first town boomers that the country did not need as many cities as had then been laid out than to persuade them to abandon the race. No one realized that better than they. The forces which shaped the in dividual destinies of cities were natural and spontaneous and in all probability beyond the prophetic ken of even the wisest men. FREE MAIL DELIVERY. The thirty-third anniversary of the extension of free delivery of mail in cities of less than 6000 population brings home again the reflection that the luxuries of but yesterday are the necessities of to day. Many persons now living can remember a time when delivery of mail even to the business houses of the big cities was regarded as too far beyond the proper field of government to be even contem plated. The daily gathering at the postoffice was a social function in towns of considerable size within the memories of men still in middle age. Gradually the system was expanded, as befits a democracy in which the best is none too good for the humblest and most remote inhabitant. It was foreordained, once the experiment had proved its worth in the big cities, that similar service should be demanded ljy the smallest communities in the land. The population limit for free de livery was reduced to 20,000 just half a century ago, when there were riot nearly so many cities of 20,000 as there are now; it was further cut down to 10,000 in 1887, with the proviso that other cities might demand it whose postal receipts were $10,000 a year or more. Im mediate delivery on payment of a special fee is well within the recol lection of a still younger genera tion, having been instituted i-n 1885 We have come to take rural de livery of mail so much for" granted that most of us do not realize that it was first tried experimentally as recently as 1896. Already there are more than 50,000 rural mail routes, which, together with towns and cities, enjoy, the convenience of that most recent of all impor tant postal innovations, the parcel post. . i Nor is the army of employes re quired to maintain this now impera. tive service in any real sense an economic burden. At the bottom of every movement of the kind there is an essential .striving for greater efficiency through greater wisdom in the division of time. Without our present mail delivery facilities a good share of our 105, 000,000 inhabitants would devote from half an hour twice a week to an hour a day to the business of going for the mail." We are justified in assuming that they are now more productively if not more agreeably employed while a much smaller number of specialists in industry are engaged in bringing the mail to their doors. Machinery has not done it all. Only the super ficial observer will hold that the hours thus saved have gone for naught. A myriad of industries which did not exist half a century ago. now turning out the luxuries of yester day which also have become the universal necessities of today, bor row their meed from the common fund of time that men once con sumed in traveling to and from the postoffice. We may not be happier than we were then, but we have a greater variety of blessings to enjoy. WHAT REGULATION CANNOT DO. The project of Armour & Co. to absorb Morris & Co. "has put jthe government between the horns of dilemma. As congress has passed a law placing the packers under strict regulation, forbidding them to create a monopoly or to fix prices and giving the federal trade commission power to investi gate their operations, it is con tended that the public is amply protected, no matter how big-combinations the packers form. Then why object to a little matter like a half-billion dollar merger? Mr. Armour does not wish to go ahead with his pjans until they have the okey of the commission and the agricultural department; but the commission has refused to okey anything in advance and has re served freedom to prosecute, even after a combination has laid all its cards on the table. It took that position with regard to the Douglas Fir company, but is now proceeding againsf it. In the recent investigation of the packing business 'by the commis sion and by congress the fact was brought out that many independent companies live and prosper side by side with the big five and would rather take chances with their com petition than be hampered with rigid regulation. Yet congress legislated in order to hold in check the great power for evil which the big five would possess, though they might not use it. If that regula tion is effective, -it may be argued, no harm can result to the public, even if one of the five should swallow all the other four. ' But there is potential evil in such huge combinations which no regu lation could, reach. It arises from the atrophy of individual initiative and enterprise that results from limitation of opportunity for men to. engage in business for them selves rather than as executives of a big combination. Such a man can hardly throw into his work for a huge corporation, for which he manages one department on salary, the same energy .nd enthusiasm that he would exercise in a far smaller business which was en tirely his own. Nor is it possible for the owners of a combination to keep touch personally with the men and the details as would the owner of a smaller enterprise whose directing mind could reach all his employes down to foremen, ejen to the workmen. Such a man of the right type can win a loyalty that it is impossible to feel toward a vast, impersonal corporation. In general, a business must lose effi ciency in proportion as it grows beyond the capaoity of the man who is most interested to oversee it personally. These are the imponderables of big business, which it is impossible to measure irf money, but the value of which is no less real. Their value is distributed among the men who do business in relatively small units and among the whole nation that enjoys the combined product of the inventive genius, personal initiative, enterprise and. mental industry of a number of independent owners as distinguished from the many heads of departments in a half billion dollar combine. Government regulation cannot supply these things; nothing1 but the action and interaction of men in competition j can do it. Germany wants 6,000,000 tons of wheat from the United States to feed it through the winter, but esti mates that it will cost 800,000,000, 000 marks. That must be almost as many marks as there are grains in 6,000,000 tons of wheat. Any way, it is double the entire number of marks in Germany and all the rests of the world, where suckers have bought them. As the presses have been running double shift for about four years to print the ex isting supply, it is plain that they cannot print as much more in time to buy the wheat before Germany starves. Germany has done the world at least one service since the war by proving the utter absurdity of the flat money theo&y. . The young woman who left her California home because her guar dian spanked her and came to Oregon, where her young escort was sentenced to prison by an un feeling judge, evidently had a guardian who did not begin spank ing early enough. If "Tiger" Clemenceau wants to draw a crowd he should, arrange a joint debate with Senator Reed of Missouri on the comparative purity of French and American politics, the Missourian giving exhibits from his recent vituperative campaign speeches. Now that earrings are coming into fashion again it is not un reasonable to suppose that there will be a change in the style of coiffure, it being alien to the desire of woman to hide "her ornaments under a bushel, as it were. Having had her fling at politics, Miss Alice Robertson now says that they are a good thing for women to keep out of. A good many men, aided by the verdict of the polls, came to the same conclusion after the same election. A court holds that there is some justification for a jilted lover who goes on a spree. Les justification of the soundness of his judgment, however, considering the quality iit the material furnished now adays. The jury found the Phillips woman, "hammer" killer, guilty of murder in the second degree, al though the three women on the jury favored the death ' penalty. Women are about right; aren't they? In proposing to get out of Syria France indicates that exploitation of the orient, however tempting to the casual observer, carried with it burdens that make it hardly worth its cost. The male jurors, according to one account, were deeply impressed by Clara Phillips' smile. It used to work, before women on juries began to discount the purely sex appeal. A San Francisco man is reported to have bought 100,000,000 Russian roubles for $60 in gold and no re port of an application for a guar dian for him has yet come over the wires. Armour asks right to buy. Headline. If J. Ogden really is willing to buy for once, a little matter like the Volstead act should never be permitted to dissuade him. A woman is lecturing in the east on "things that money won't buy." One of the things that real money will buy is a practically unlimited number of German marks. Near Fort Worth a man shot an other when caught kissing the former's wife, which was much nicer than killing the woman and mussing up the courts. Still there's, one consolation in the probability that Henry Ford will run for president at least we shall not be afflicted with the candidacy of Bdsel. The sultan of Turkey is not "ab dicating," but only seeking safety. That is what 'Wilhelm no doubt thought when he dropped in on the folks at Doom. The mistake some automobilists seem to make is in thinking that because they are taxed for building the roads nobody else has a right to travel on them. One of the advantages of football over baseball is that in the course of a Reason the fan doesn't have so many averages to carry in his head. The problem $f the city council is to discover a one-way traffic sys tem so that people can travel both ways in quicker time. Beginning now, the "do your shopping early week" should last for at least a month. . i : The Listening Post. By DrWItt Harry. COLLECTORS of rare manuscripts usually confine themselves to one fine. They may treasure hand tooled relics of centuries ago, or they may gather illuminated manu scripts made before the days of the printing press. But few of them make their, collections with any practical plan in view. Many diners (n a. local' cafe re mark on the excellence of the viands served. Some of the dishes cart be obtained no other place. They have a flavor and relish all' their own. The reason is because they are priceless treasures of the world's best chefs, recipes handed down from generation to generation by culinary experts real heirlooms. The chef in this restaurant is a collector one with a purpose. His selection of manuscripts, some of them dating back hundreds of years, make available for the diner of this day the good things reltshecj cen turies ago. It Is no novelty for him tlo make use of some tried trick of delicate seasoning invented by royal culinary expert several cen turies ago. The diners here marvel at the succulence of the dishes served. ,Some of the foods have a savor in describable, haunting and elusive. Women eating there have been driven to desperation in trying to puzzle out the ingredients in his sauces and relishes. The secret lies in that wonderful collection . of old manuscripts. kitchen tricks set down in hand , script, the priceless treasures of generations of royal cooks. The collection is kept in a safe deposit vault. A diner in a Huntington, Or., res taurant admired the succulent beef steak that was served. "You peo ple in the cattle country sure have the good meat," he observed, only to be met with a snort from the stockman across the table. "Juat shows what you know about It," said the cowman- as he crunched through a handful of "pom frit." "You get the best beef in Portland. Why, this meat you are eating was shipped out from there." Huntington is 57- miles from Portland one of the primary cat tle-s-hipping points for the district yet it, so it is said, obtains its beef from the packing companies operating here. An apple raiser in the Tualatin valley gave another instance of eco nomic violation in speaking of gar den crops. In a conversation with a friend the observation was made that he must have some fine gar dens there, and must relis.h the fresh vegetables he raised himself. "No, I don't r,aise any vegetables; it doesn't pay," said this man. "Why, nearby farmers were begging me to buy tomatoes at 3 cents a pound this summer and I couldn't begin to produce them for that price. Other garden truck was in- propor tion. The trouble seems to be that too many go into the same line. They do not specialize; they raise just what everyone else does, and the result is that the markets are glutted. I find it cheaper, even in the country, to buy my fresh vege tables." Baker and Union county society folks have a new drink, we are. told. It is said the new drink is made from an excellent grape juice which was peddled in this country last summer by two good looking Ohio girls who were work ing for a California grape Juice concern. The girls explained to purchasers that this was pure grarpe juice without a trace of alcohol. "And you must be careful," the salesladies said to prospective pur chasers, "not to knock out the bung and let the barrel stand ten days and then add a 'pound of sugar to the gallon, be cause that makes grape wine with about 25 per cent alcohol. And It Is against the federal law to make alcoholic drinks." Of course, they didn't miss many cus tomers. One La Grande man reports he is on his third barrel of the stuff and that It is a drink that speaks with authority. Uatnes Record. Flattery is an insidious dish; every human relishes it in some form. Contrary to most beliefs, women do not respond any more than do men. Of course, the obvious curse with the gentler sex is the appearance line, but big, brusk men get a great kick from the properly placed phrase. There are any number of people who owe a great deal of 4heir suc cess to flattery. They have made a fine study of this most potent method of self-advancement. Who can resist the person who asks a favor after making some well-considered remark that confirms one's own belief in some little personal virtue? Rock-Throwing Salmon Seen. SANDY, Or., Nov. IS. (Special.) It has just been ascertained that William Habernlcht, star fisherman of The Ore gonian composing room, bad a narrow escape from serious injury and possibly death whlie fishing In the Sandy river near here a few days ago. While wading about and attempting to lure the festive salmon trout to his nimble hook he noticed a. great commo tion up the river. Upon investigating he came upon a natural phenomenon which is best described in his own words: "Upon nearlng the place where I had seen the water greatly agitated I saw a salmon threshing about In water prob ably 18 Inches deep. In the fish's mOuth was a rock as big as my fist, with which she (?) was digging a hole in the mud, presumably in which to lay her eggs." Although Mr. Habernlcht did not so state. It is surmised that the fish, be coming enraged at this unwarranted in terference, threw the rock at him and then "beat It" for the deepest hole. V. M. Wasson, who was deeply inter ested in the recital of the tale, sug gested that the county commissioners should attempt to catch that fish for use in road-building operations in Mult nomah county. Not so long ago" they used to make fun of the old-style man who wore a factory-made tie. The man ufactured, machine-tied article was ranked along with celluloid collars, chin whiskers and dickies. But what do we see quarter-page ads announcing the return of the fac tory tie! ! Merely another example of how things move in cycles. It'll be no time until the girls are wearing bustles and pompadours and patent leather shoes are certain. All it seems to take is a clever advertising man these days to put anything over. A statistical knutt figures out the average man s lire as ioiiows: Twenty-three years asleep, 19 years 8 months at work, 10 years 2 months at play and in church, 6 years 10 montahs eating and drinking. 6 years traveling. 4 years sick in bed and 2 years dressing. But he says noth- ng about the four months a man spends hunting a match - 1 A Man to His Pipe. By Grace E. Hall. 'Tis shadow, time again, old pal of And somehow they seem grayer than before: The mantel clock has beaten out the tlmo And moonbeams lie aslant the open door; Your odor drifts like incense on the air. My nostrils take your breath with keen delight, Til in your aura glints a woman's hair. Soft spreading on the breeze that stirs the night, A woman's hair! Pal, can I not for get? Why do you seek to tantalize me now? , You share my every confidence, and yet You weave tonight a nimbus for her brow; Well, make a golden halo, if you will, While we go back along: the trail of years, And linger o'er the story and its thrill Yea, and the sad finale and the tears. I never asked if there were vital powers Behind that face so beautfiul and fair, To meet life in its darker, sterner hours In truth l did not even pause to care; With passion's fever beating In the brain. With youth and love and spring time all about. Why ask what attributes are truly gain? Why tease the heart with ques tioning and doubt? And so 1 brought her here. You must- recall " How seldom then I sought your silent balm; How, when the twilight gray began to fall, I found in her my soul's long needed calm; And then one night ah, you re member, too! A tiny babe lay cold upon her breast. - Her white lids hid those merry eyes of blue. And both her tender hands lay still, at rest. I never had a pal like her before Who seemed to always rouse the best in me. I never tired of striving o'er and o'er To climb to heights she somehow seemed to see; And if they both had lived But why go on? You know the rest; it's only life's queer way: A little patch of sunshine, just at dawn, ' That often turns by noon-time into gray. Old pal. my lips caress you as of old, For you have never failed to soothe and cheer; You've known ten thousand things 1 never' told. Have comforted when no one else was near; And with your vapor drifting on the air. You bring me tender memory of her grace; You weave a magic glory of her hair. And paint tonight cloud-pictures of her face. HE STRUCK IT men. "He struck it rich," we hear them say. This wide world o'er and o'er; But when we ask what this may mean. They laugh, and boast the more. "He struek it rich" for whom and how? What has he done, I cry, That he should claim this word of gold That paints the sun and sky? "He struck it rich" in things for self. From first and on till now. He is not rich, but poor and low. And shame Is written on his brow. Who made him rich? His gold? His lands? What in a desert wild Could he alone, alone then do Apart from man or child? What could he do with all his gold If none with him would share Their toll, their cheer, their very life. But leave him then and there? When Linco'n died a martyr's death, He set the captives free. "He struck it rich" a thousand times For blacks, and you and me. When Frances Willard spoke and fought To free this world from drink, "She struck it rich" for all mankind, And saved us from the brink. When Jesus Christ the Savior died. To set the whole world free, "He struck it rich" for all the race. And that means you and me. Yes, every man and boy and girl, Who golden deeds bestrew, To help another in his need. "Has struck it rich," 'tis true. -- FRANK H. WINTER. Hoquiam, Wash. AUTUMN EVENING IN CORVALLIS. A church bell tolled at evening's pallid glow; Purple clouds lay on the moun tains' backs; The city pulsed with people down below As I looked from my window in a flat And watched the changing clouds above the crest Of fair Mount Mary, prfle against the sky That seemed to cower in her hazy nest ' And draw the curtain from the valley's eye. The fragrance from a garden wan dered through My open window as the sun went down: Students' voices as the evening grew Intensified the drouine- of the town, And while up in my little room I sat 1 felt that God gives pleasure Even to one living in a flat. WILLIAM CHELCIE STRIKER. FAIRY MAGIC. When I am sitting by myself. And all the world Is lost around, Then I can hear the fairy-bells. They make a little tinkling sound. And I can see the tiny folk. Not one of them is watching me. Across the grass, and up and down. Beneath the little crooked trees. While 1 am sitting very still. They skip their toes and gayly sins, My heart is going like their feet, I cannot tell you everything. t HELEN. CUAWiFOHD. ,