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CRIME AND
The lecturer on art subjects was talking about the
effect of harmonious environment upon human charac-
ttn '
, ' "A man who had been in charge of five penal institu
tions said that never in his whole experience had he found
a criminal who came from a happy home."
The happy home from which a good man comes may
be most humble, but it contains elements of harmony
which make him desire to be a force in the creation of
harmony in life rather than discord. The home may not
satisfy him. But there are constructive forces working
there, making him desire improvement, giving him hope
rather than driving him dispairingly into ways of destruc
tion. , . .
It may seem absurd that bad wall paper can drive
people to crime. But there is some truth underlying the
statement. The chioce of -wall paper indicates the type
of mind. The person who chooses a badly designed wall
covering, full of big, ugly patterning sprawling over the
place, who half covers this with ill-chosen pictures, is
sure to make a mess of the rest of the room, and the room
reacts upon the character of those who live in it, helping
them make a mess of life. The mind of the chooser is
scatter-brained, full of wrong ideals. The clear-headed,
gentle-souled, spiritually minded person chooses an en
vironment which will contribute restfulness and comfort
rather than distraction. ,
"Have the room where you meet your friends otten
est so arranged that they will say 'How Beautiful!' not
'What did it cost?' " concluded the lecturer.
To keep one's home so restful and uncluttered that its
influence radiates without it into all the acts of life is the
duty of every citizen. If enough people hold themselves
to this ideal, the day may come when the squalor and dis
cord of poverty will give place forever to simplicity, com
fort and beauty.
The League of Nations idea seems to suit the British,
French, Italians and everybody else, except a few United
States senators like Lodge, Sherman Penrose and maybe
Geo! Chamberlain.
The lower house is taking the matter of legislation
so seriously that two representatives had a near-fight
yesterday.
RIPPLING
By Walt
HARBINGERS.
Be patient if you freeze your feet while trudging
through the slush and sleet; already Winter's growing
gray, and soon he'll bow and say "Good day !" I see some
Harbingers around; the grass shows greenish on the
ground; a bughouse bird is seen anon cavorting on the
frosted lawn. And in the grocer's moral store seed pack
ages are seen once more. When once the grocer digs up
seeds, to meet the garden grower's needs, wc wot that
Winter's on the wing, and that we're due to welcome
Spring. This morning as I went my way, I heard the vil
lage marshal say, "This year I'll hark to no excuse no
chickens must b erunning loose. The owners of all hun
gry hens must keep the blamed things in their pens, ac
cording to the statutes made, and which by all must be
obeyed." He says the same thing every year, when Win
ter's billed to disappear, and then forgets it in the spring,
when chickens scratch like everything. But it's a harbin
ger, all right ; it indicates that Spring's in sight. The mar
shal makes his yearly bluff, and then farewell to wintry
stuff, to foolish storms and silly gales, to biting wind that
shrieks and wails. The gentle Spring will soon return, for
there are harbingres to burn.
OEEGON
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WALL PAPER.
RHYMES
Mason
SHIP SUBSIDIES.
There are going to be some tall problems to settle
in American shipping before long. They are forced into
notice a bit prematurely by the sudden reduction of
ocean freight rates by the British.
We have a very respectable ocean fleet now, public
and private. It has been built up under the necessities of
war and the stimulus of war rates. The new ships have
been tremendously expensive to build. Many of the old
ones have been bought at huge figures. Our sailors' wages
are the highest in the world. It looks as if our ships will
be more expensive to operate than those of any other
nation.
This does not matter a
is a scarcity of tonnage and
cargo at reasonable rates.
forever. The emergency is
creasing, other maritime nations are trying to regain
their old trade.
It is very fine and very advantageous commercially,
for the United States to possess ships enough to handle
our own foreign trade under our own flag. But it may
prove costly.
We shall probably hear the plea soon that it cannot be
done without a liberal government subsidy for our pri
vate shipping, and that our government fleet will have to
operate at a loss. The American public has never yet been
tolerant of the ship subsidy idea. It is a question whether
it will tolerate subsidies now.
Whst would be said at Salom if the Multnomah delegation in the legis
lature should seek to stipulato that no part of any Btate appropriation should
be expended in Marion countyf Yet it would be quito as proper as any com
plaint that the paved roads of Multnomah county connect with, tho paved
roads of tho state. Orcgonian, -
Well, we only get $120,000 out of the $6,000,000, pro
viding the Salem-Aurora job is completed. So far we
haven't had a dollar of the state road money. We prob
ably have 4,000 or 5,000 automobiles in the county paying
taxes and there are thousands more of the motor vehicles
in the adjoining counties of Polk, Linn and Benton, which
up to the present time have received no part of the $6,
000,000 road bond issue of two years ago. So if the Mult
nomah county delegation, carrying out the Oregonian's
threat, excluded Marion county, and all the other central
Willamette valley counties, from participation in dis
tribution of the proposed $10,000,000 bond issue, it would
leave them little worse off than they are now in the mat
ter of state road construction. And it is a safe wager
that when the Multnomah county delegation votes for a
road bond issue the members are fully assured that Port
land will come in for the greatest benefit to accrue from
the expenditure of the money.
The other day the Capital Journal took occasion to ex
press doubts as to the wisdom of the state attempting to
print state text books, Bearing out this view, the Cor
vallis Gazette-Times, whose editor came from Kansas,
and is familiar with conditions there, has" the following
to say: "Kansas has an investment of over $600,000 now
in its' fool scheme to publish state text books and there is
no return on the outlay except poorer text-books. At a
rotary club meeting the other day it was affirmed by a
well informed Topeka man that the state had already lost
$49,000 in the enterprise over the cost of the books under
the old law, and that the taxpayer was not getting his
poor" text-books for any less than the state could furnish
the same quality by contract from regular publishers and
without the $600,000 investment. There is a measure be-
fnvo tha lorrislntnrp whirh would tint Oregon into the
text-book business. Anybody
books should oppose it.
Some persons persist in writing to the newspapers
and do not give their name and address. Then they won
(pv whv t.hfi article or the news item thev send is not pub
lished, when they ought to know that publishers must
know the .real source of everything they print. The name
. P 1 1 i.1 . . i. .. stls. aa no Q.
OX uie auuior must tuxuuipany any aiutie ui trau ao
guarantee of trood faith, even though it is not intended to
be printed with the article or
The Oregonian is very much concerned lest the build
ing of good roads will be hampered by anti-trust legisla
tion. Well, if our development as a state depends upon
nlacatinfr or navin? a tribute to a combine based on trick
ery or corruption, let's settle
there. We never did believe mat real Americans couia
be co-erced into paying tribute to anybody under any cir
cumstances. v .
WHY A PAETY MAN?
(Woodburn Independent, Hop.)
Yby is one a Eepublican or a Dem
ocrat t There might havo been a lumi
nous nnswer to this a few years ago.
but now it is easier to toll why one is
nn Aniorionn. The only correct answer
nowaday is that one is a Republican
or Democrat because his views coincide
with tho principles enunciated by the
lending men in his party, who happen
to die and tho course of events reshapei
principles and changes one's mind as
to truths. ith some it is merely to
obtHin office, but with others it is pro
posed policies. With issues cMingnig
to fit new conditions some Bepublicaiis
temporarily become Democrats and vice
versa. Thousands in the I'nited States
are Kepnblicnns or Democrats because
their fathers were. Tariff and fre
trade formerlv solidified these political
organisations and these with sldo and
great deal as long as there
every ship can still' get a
But this situation will not last
passing, the tonnage is in
interested in- good text
news item.
down in the mud and stay
most important issuOf. may still keep
tho parties prominently before the pub
lio. OBAVEL FOR PA VINO.
It is understood that M. E. Phillips 01
Auroro has a contract with tho com
pany which will pave the Pacific high
way from Aurora to Salem, to take
gravel from Pudding river, at a point
easr or tne ririeger aros. rarm, pna nas
orders to begin operations on tne 15th
of this month. This gravel Is screened
ns it comes from tho river and then goes
to tho crusher and hauled to the mix
er in trucks. Operation can hardly be
gin until the bins -are rea-dy and this
i part of the work has been delayed.
Uuubard Enterprise.
Tho funeail of Private Lloyd O. Me
Catl, who died in a hospital in Wa-
I ington, was held in MeMinnville Sun
i day.
THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS
A HONEYMOON SPENT
AT ATLANTIC- CITY
CHAPTER VHL
For one glorious, happy week we were
at Atlantic City. I never hud, even seen
the ocean before, and at first 1 was iiio
a child with a new toy. I, recall, tho
first time we walked on the sand, I
'ran and dipped by hands in the water.
wemug my xeet tutu ue uuuuin 01 my
skirt in my enthusiasm.
Tho board walk, with its crowds of
beautifully gowned women and hand
some well-groomed men fascinated me.
The quaint shops with their gay win
dows beguiled me often to spend so long
a time gazing, that Neil would pull mo
away laughingly, and say:
"You can look in shop windows all
you want to in New York while I am
at the office. Come and tain w wc
now."
Occasionally we took a chair and
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spent an hour being rolled up and down
bv a grinning darky. ' 'Playing we were
millionaires, Neil called it. But most
ly we walked arm in arm, talking of
the future, our home together, and of
our love for each other which nothing
ever could possibly- change.
Wo wero staying at one of the large
hotels, and living on the American uuu.
I had asked no questions as to the
prico. I really did not think "of it. s
blissfully happy, without a care in the
world, the week of my honeymoon sped
all too swiftly by. Yet I was in a fever
of impatience to see tho "big town,"
as Neil always spoke of New York. It
was to be my home. I never had been
there, but had read and heard so much
of it that I was keen to get there.
Neil laughed at me. Yet ho looked
a bit anxious also.
"You'll be mighty lonely for a while
I am afraid. ' We shall not be able to
live in a part of town where I am at
all acquainted and New York people
aren't quick to take up strangers."
"Why can't we live somewhere near
your friends t"
''Becauso I don 't earn enough to pay
tho rent of an apartment in the locality
where they live."
"You mean they earn more than you
dot" It didn't seem possible. I sup
posed he of course referred to real
young people. I know there were many
wealthy men in the world, but supposed
thorn quito old before they amassed a
fortune. .. :
Open Forum
OCTOPUS NO. 3 THE ACK-
EEMAN SCHOOL TEUST
Mr. Editor: In 1918 by initiative pe
tition tho normal school was ngain au
thorized and with a milalgo tax of 1-26
mill which should provido all the neces
sary funds to finance and operat it.
This normal school's exclusive function
was to drill snd educate students at
tending the school and to dovelop tno
faculty and tact of teaching in, the com
mon schools of the state up to tho 8th
grudo students.
The theory pertained that a giiAiuato
of tho normal could go to county vil
lage or city and teach tho school up
t0 and inclusive o fthe 8th grade suc
cessfully. Well, tho growth oi iucuS,
association and organization growing
out of minds so qualified in our com
mon Bchools to think, to investigate and
educuto thomsclVcs directly growing out
of this system alarmed certain interests
and so wo have a diversion of our school
. . .Koni.liT vim ma nncrl
ylWHl Uiliuj i'uu. ."w j
of tho U. 8. Steel corporation, duage A.j
H. Gary. The federal educational bu-i
reuu at once took hold to educato thru
out the nation in the menial vocational I
and industrial lines t0 the dwarfing ondj
exclusion of genornl mind development
und power. Under the Gary plan is re-1
nuirod chenged conditions. Graduates
of our state normal school at Monmouth
cannot, are not now qualified to teach
in tho public schools, only in eertain
special classes of schools, in mi our
legislature cn6ted a law at the in
stance of one Prof. M. 8. Hitman, de
signating these schools ; Mountain
View, Oak Point and Elkins schools up
on which the normal students may in
vade and practice upon the pupils. Good
for the students but tough on the school
children. In the Portland Journal for
January 18, 1918, I read of Prof M.
S. Hitman head of the rural department
of tho normal school. Prof. Eitman's re
port in these schools for student prac
tice. Domestic art is being instituted
in rural schools. Much work is being
dono for Bed Cross. February 18 to
23 will be observed in commemoration
of Georgo Washington as a farmer.
Agnin the Portland Journal, January
10, 1918: Buxal school programs lis
tenwithout evaniple or pattern the ru
ral department of the Oregon normal
school eonduetiiiK the three training
schools. Program morning, trapping
moles and gophers; how to prepare a
plain lunch. Afternoon Substitutes:
management of a farm. Army of the
commissary and the mailed fist; fed
ing dairy cattle; devclopUf dslry herd;
cow judgirig; how t grow fat hogs and
make big men. Approval from state
of Oregon from Churihill 's office. Corn
and how to grow it. And this program
was adopted by Prof. M. B. Ritmsn,
head of the rural school department oi
the Oregon normal school, etc., ete.
I have thus given some of Prof Rit
nian's programs to show specialisation
snd departments in ohr state normal
school and to which its good pnrposes
"Thousands more!" he returned
again laughing at me.
I said no more about money until the
day wo left Atlantic City. Neil had
asiccd to have tho bill scut up to the
room. When it came he had gono out
for uoinetlunj: and I looked at it. At
first 1 was tempted to call the boy back
.ml tnil ha lltwl mono Mi.Hm.A
But I was still timid with tho pert
( - j i i .1.- u..
pacs who swurmeu nuuut mu uig uu
ti'l, sulaid it ono the bureau until Neil
came up.
"lid that bill como upt We haven't
much time,'- ho said, Hiking at hit
watch. y
"Yes, but it isn't nngnt. It must
belong to someone clso."
"Bother! we will miss our train if
we are delayed very long." Ho picked
up the bill a:.d quickly ran it over.
viuy tnis is an u. rv., rmu. hum
msdo you think it wasn't!"
"Vou don't mean that it nns cos.
us over a hundred dollars VJr -mat a
rnnm nml what we have eaten!" I
gasped.
"Yes, dear, and wo got off mighty
cheap at that. I'll run down and pay
it. Then we'll hustle for tho train."
''One hundred dollars for one week,
and he didn't seem to think anything
of it," I said aloud. I had not idea
that a knowledge of price? brings a
sort of carelessness in its train. That
men and women accustomed to psl
rnmn hirh-nriced hotels and restau
rants, either have plenty of money, or
when they take an occasional "spreo"
na Neil called it .thev often hao! to
economize for some time to make it un.1
It wa nice to bo so careless or tne
ni.D. T aA lnvml flvnrv hit. of unac-
customed luxury. Once or twice I had
felt that my ciotnes weren't quite xii
tinn fnr onnh n wonderful nlace. Neil
and I had kept to ourselves, however,
not sitting about the big luxurious room
of the hotel, but, as soon es we fin
ished eating, finding our way to the
beach, or the board walk, that it was
not as obvious to me as it otherwise
might have been. Yet even so I had
thought that later, when Neil had an
other raise, I must have some different
clothes. More stylish, and of handsom
er material.
I had never heard that the "clothes
rock" was the one on which, many mar
riages had split.
Tomorrow Hunting an Apanmcnt
in New York. . .
have been prostituted
A student entering the normal school
to become a teacher must first decide
where ho will teach If in the rural
schools, then ho studies trapping, dairy
ing, plain cheap living c-iid how to hog
ize the children, and he is assigned to
the care and tutorship of Prof. Kitman.
Such teaehcr is not to acquire skill, de
velopment of the faculty and tho tcct)
of aiding the pupils to acquire the rudi
mcnts of an English education that will
qualify them to investigate, to inwrin
and educate themselves for the impor
tant duties of citizenship and for liio's
struggles.
But I' can only touch upon matters
in this brief expose. This segregation;
this rural department of our normal
school to which Prof. M. S. Kitman has
so generously devoted his life and ef
forts as set out in his letter to Chap
man's Voter (pedigreed by oui statu
supreme court) is an anomaly and an
outrage and voices his confidence in the
assurance that "more suckers wear
brooches thsa swim in the creek."
Abolitth the.Be departments; call in
these portable county rural normal
Bchools; cease. loiiger to abuso for such
venal purposes these rural training
schools; conduct the functions and op
erutiong of our state mmu at Mon
mouth educato and qualify studonts en
tering them for the laudable ambition
of teaching in the course and-curiculuni
of our public schools. Employ l roi . ju..
S. Eitmnn as an instructor in the nor
mrl at Monmouth or discharge him.
Prof. Eituian 's letter to the Votor from
the far east threatens to return to Ore
gon soon and take i.p this rural work
of further hogizing the children of tho
country schools.
Now, in Mr. Olcott's budget he lists
the needs of tho state normal as $11,
830. Drop and discontinue this rural
department and all other departments
and the 1-25 mill voted in 1908 upon
promise that no more would be asked
and that this provision would take the
normal out of politics will probEbly be
ample for the normal's financial needs.
But this system of hogizing (Garyiz
ing) our publie schools or or lowung
hogs from our pay rolls is expensive.
Hog feed ig very, very dear bow.
- Upon any reasonable tdjustment and
allowance the budget amount can be re
duced in the sum of $50,000 and thnf
would help pay the governor's guard.
The scope snd growth of this education
al diversion and operation is such that
in a brief expose one can only touch
upon the evils.
JAMES K. SEARS,
Citizen and taxpayer.
LACK OP MILK MEANS STUNTED
GROWTH.
To the Editor:
Nmr wis the value of milk ami
butter fat in the child's diet brought
out more forcefully than the story of
the Rhoten twins as told by the father
E. A. Rhoten, daring the recent Rearing
on oleomargarine before the joint legis
lative committee appointed to Investi
gate tho dairy industry.
Mr. Rhoten, who is advertising me-na-eer
of the Pacific Homestead of Pa
lem and well known Rmang the stock
men and farmers of the state, told how
Senator Robert L. Owen
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COPVRIOHT CLINKOINIT, WAtH.'
Who Is to so to Europe to study
the efforts of the French and Eng
lish financier In the work of recon.
structlcu end to aid In restoring as
equitable foreign exchange between
this ?c .ntry and Spain and with
other foreign nations.
League Of Nations Congress
Opsns Tomorrow In Portland
-Portland, Or., Feb. 15. Ono of the
most important conventions ever hold in
Portland, with 1000 delegates in tt
tendance, is the Northwestern congress
fi-i a League of Nations, which will be
jpened at tho public auditorium to
morrow evening.
This congress is one of nine that
wero anaigcd by tho lecgue to en
force peace. Starting at New York ost
February 5, men and women of interna
tional reputation commenced a nction
wido speaking tour to nrouso puouo son
timent in favor of a leaguo of nations.
Tho congress here is the fifth tu be
held. Tho othor western conventions
will bo the Pacific coaBt congress a
San Francisco February 19 and 20 and
tho mountain congress at Halt Lake
City Februsry 21 and 22.
Former President William H. Taft,
president of tho League to Enforce
Peace, heads the list- ok speaKers tour
ing the country.
Pclegates to the congress from all
parts of the northwest commenced ar
riving in Portland eE-rly this morning.
Sessions of tho convention will be held
here Sunday evening, Monday morning,
afternoon and evening. ' .
Prosidcut A. Lawreirco Lowell of Har
vard University and Dr. Charles R.
Brown, dean of the Yale law school,
will reach .Portland this evening. The
other mcmbors of the party will arrive
Sunday.
The program subjects for the meot
ings of tho northwestern congrossare:
"Religion, Social Progress and a
League of Nations."
' ' Tho Plain Necessity for a League of
Nations."
"American Interests and Ideals and
8- Loague of Nations."
"Labor's Demand for a League of
Nations."
GERVAIS NEWS.
Brs. Adam Wciscz, who underwont an
operation at tho Willamette Sanitarium
rccontly, has been very ill but is im
proving. Adam Yachter,' aged 24, and Sabina
Rwttaz, aged 19, both of Gcrv&ia, fit.
1, wero married at St. Mary's church
in Mt. Angel, Tuesday, Feb. 11. They
will live on- the farm east of Gorvais.
John Cutsforth has been reappointed
road patrolman for this district by the
county court, with an increase in sal
ary. Ho wag opposed by tho same ele
ment that have tried for the past yearn
to oust him, but their complaints to the
judge were not" sken seriously. Star.
King Emmanuel of Italy has appoint
ed Otto H. Kahn, the New York bank
er, a commander of the Order of the
Crown. . . I
their home was blessed six years
with a pair of twin boys, how it be
came necessary to substitute eow's milk
for mother's milk, and the difficulty ia
getting one of the boys to continue the
use of milk as soon as he wss old
tnough to take other food
As a result of his refusal to drink
milk and cat butter Rex failed to keep
pace with his brother Ray who was -t
all times a glutton for milk and butter,
Ray has grown into a rugged lad while.
Rrx plainly show, the stunting effect
of tho r.bscncq of the cital element of
ur.trition fmnd only in butter fat, fat
of eggs and i i the leafy vegetables.
At birth they were the mine weight
Today, at a few days past six yes-rs Ray
weight 58 pounds while Rex tips the
scales at 47 or 11 younds less.
Up to the age of 5 years the general
apper.runcc of Rex showed plainly tea
effects of malnutrition and caused the
parents no end of grief. It was thea
that they discivered that Rex eould be
induced to eat tottage cheese. This wot
supplied and was. seasoned with cream
which has resulted in a marked improve
mcnt in the boy's appearance and
growth. This is in exact accord with
the experiments of Dr. E. V. McCbltnm,
the noted scientist on nutrition.
OREGON DAIRYMEN'S LEAGUE.