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CHARLES H. TISHEB
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MONDAY EVENING
February 17. 1919
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CABINET SEATS IN CONGRESS.
There is considerable discussion nowadays as to the
advisability of giving cabinet members seats in cnogress.
This would be a distinct innovation for the United States,
though it is customary elsewhere. In England, and in
nearly every other country using the English parliamen
tary system, on which our government was largely mod
eled in the beginning, the cabinet members have access to
the legislature, though they are not permitted to vote.
This arrangement is found mutually advantageous
to the administrative and legislative branches. It enables
the cabinet to keep in touch with legislation, and enables
the legislature to get necessary information on pending
measures easily and directly. It is natural, with the grow
ing tendency to have bills shaped by the executive depart
ments before their introduction, this plan should receive
serious consideration. The .increasing complexity and
scope of government make it necessary for experts to pre
pare and explain matters. Congress and the cabinet would
probably get along better, ordinarily, and make more pro
gress, if they worked together in this way.
Reading the Oregonian arid some other anti-government
newspapers we begin to wonder if wereally won the
war. We were so poorly armed and equipped, our sol
diers so grossly abused, starved and scantily clothed,
that they died of their privations by tens of thousands,
and of course, could not be expected to make anything
like a showing against the crack Prussian armies. There
has been a general impression prevalent throughout the
world that the Yanks showed up pretty well when they
faced the enemy, but it was evidently all a big mistake.
The Oregonian tells us every day that this was all an er
ror: that our army was a joke and our soldiers handi
capped by lack of food, clothing and arms, were really ob
jects of pity, the story of whose suffering makes the tales
of Belgian horrors nale into insignificance. And of
course, the Oregonian would never misrepresent or color
facts in any circumstances or for any purpose, partisan
or otherwise.
During the past week the circulation of the Daily
Capital Journal held up well above the 5000 mark, and
made an average record a little higher than ever before.
The records kept in accordance with membership in the
Audit Bureau of Circulations, to which all the principal
daily newspapers and leading periodicals belong, shows
the following daily totals for the past week:
Monday, February 10 ....5154
Tuesday, February 11 .5165
Wednesday, February 12 5133
" . Thursday, February 13, 5125
Friday, February 14 5120
Saturday, February 15 5301
These figures would indicate that the Daily Capital
Journal now possesses a very good-sized family of regular
readers, the number probably exceeding 25,000, based on
the accepted estimate that a newspaper has five readers
for every subscriber. The reports of the Audit Bureau
of Circulation show that the Capital Journal now has a
circulation exceeding that of any other daily newspaper in
Oregon (outside the city of Portland) by many hundreds,
And it is growing larger every day.
AN IMMIGRATION LOOPHOLE.
It is So easy to accommodate our
selves to the things which others do
so hard to stand-alone.
Wo furnished our home slowly and
Alabama claims related to a principle
of international law and international
safety that was of the highest import
ance. The arbitration of the Alaskan
carefully. Slowly because I would buy bouc.de ry was another. The arbitration
nothing without consulting Neil, al-!of eor rights in the Bering sea and
taough lie had told me to go anead jia tne seal herd of the l'rlbyloff Is-
that I had good taste, and he would
bo satisfied with what I did. Careful
ly, because I soon found that if Neil
did not like anything he tossed it aside
with as little thought as he had shown
in paying more rent than be naa de
clared ho could afford.
We had hired a general housework
girl, but when I had objected to pay
ing such large wages, Neil had silenced
mo by saying:
"Well take what we can get now.
If & deal I have on goes through, we'll
have a cook and waitress."
A certain feeling of well being was
engendered by such remarks a feel
ing that no matter how much I spent,
'it was all right, or in some way would
De ail right, it was a continual dis
counting of the future, with no thought.
lands was another. In this arbitration
we submitted to the decision u n im
partial tribunal the question whether
we had the rights or not which wo
claimed. The assumption that either
the court of arbitration or the executive
council of the league by unanimous
judgment would seek to take away the
sovereignty or the liberty or the inde
pendence of the United States, is utter
ly gratuitous. It is so extreme a view.
6 Bell-ans
Hot water
Sure Relief
ELL-AN S
"FOR INDIGESTION
MATSONIA ARRIVES.
New York, Feb. 17. After braving
heavy seas. Hhe transport Matsonia.
that it ought not to he given any weight ! whidl from Bordeaux February
as an objection t0 machinery for the:, hag ftrrivcd in the harbor here. She
docked at Hoboken Sunday morning.
There are 3.345 officers and men on
peaceful adjustment of differences !y
decision of international courts.
"JN0 reasonable and patriotic and, hoard, iiw.ludini? the fi8th coast artil
properly self respecting citizen of the .lory corps, complete; 152nd field artil
t'nitcd States can claim that our sov-jlery; casual companies numbers 257
ercignty should be more than a right 1 and 36, casual companies 355 and 365;
to freedom of action within the llmita- i casual comnanios numbers 35(3. 358.
toatthat future might bring denands tiona of international law, international , 300, 361, 364, 367 and 27; Bordeaux
for its own, demands hard to meet. I morality and a due regard for the rights j convalescent detachment numbors 360
Mamma." meant nothing but good of other nations. The only sovereignty and 8o.
The bill pending in congress to restrict immigration
during the reconstruction period provides that the exclu
sion clause shall not apply to immigrants fleeing from
"religious persecution." According to this provision, it
does not matter whether such persecution is evidenced
"by overt acts or by laws or government regulations that
discriminate against the alien or the race to which he
belongs, because of his religious faith."
Superficially this looks all right, and in harmony
with American ideals. Closer inspection arouses a sus
picion voiced by the New York World as follows.
"If this clause is to remain in the proposed act, its
author might more appropriately have said that it was in
tended to keep out everybody except revolutionists and
Bolshevists. There is hardly a person in all the world sub
ject to one or the other of those classifications who can
not prove that he is the victim of 'overt acts' or of persecu
tion because of his religious faith." ,
It is not likely that the American public wants to
discriminate against the Russian Jews, to whom America
has long been a refuge from religious persecution. It
is well known, h6wever, that many of the most dangerous
agitators in America in recent years slipped in unobserv
ed among the honest and well-meaning refugees for
whom the welcome was intended. Trotsky is a good example.
It may be wiser, if immigration is to be prohibited
for two or three or four years, to make it absolute, there
by playing safe and also causing no hard feelings by in
vidious discrimination.
to Neil. Ig it surprising tha soon, very
soon, it meant nothing but good to mc?
Our moto was: "Live for today. Tomor
row will take care of itself."
which we ought to claim is sovereignty
regulnted by these limitations.
Doesn't Restrict Sovereignty.
"Now the league docs not propose
Tomorrow At First Barbara Thinks in any Way further t0 restrict that sor
rier Home Wonderful.
NORTHWBTCONCRESS
(Continued from page one)
The best speech made in the United States senate this
winter.was made by Senator Bankhead. Here it is: "Mr.
President, I am wondering if the senate is not now will
ing to consider for awhile the business that is before the
senate," This splendid speech is respectfully submitted
to the members of the Oregon legislature for their care
ful consideration. '
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
EATING TOO MUCH.
We eat too much, the doc insists; we're chewing things
all day; we must reform, he wots and wists, or there'll be
Hank to pay. Some times I read him as I run, he throws
in me a scare, and I remark, "I'll have to shun the gor
geous bill of fare. I doubt me not the doc is right, his
words are spiced with truth; and now, like some anchor
ite, I'll live awhile, in sooth." I cut out all the juicy steaks,
the rich imported cheese, I sidestep luscious pies and
cakes and live on bran and peas. My waist I measure
every morn to see if I have shrunk; and then I laugh the
doc to scorn, and call his wisdom bunk. For I am bigger
than I was, my girth is simply great; the sickly mashes,
soups and slaws have added to my weight. And I am feel
ing like an owl that's moulted out of time; I lean against
the ence and howl, and call the doc a crime. .It may be
dieting is good for those it doesn't harm; but I am' done
with shredded wood and hayseed from the farm. I'll eat
good grub and if I die the coroner will find my system
full of cake and pie, not hay and pumpkin rind.
A man up in Washington, who .was? getting (not
earning) $12.75 a day in the shipyards, has confessed to
the murder of his wife and two children. Probably it will
be shown during his trial that he was unable to properly
support his loved ones on his meagre earnings.
The League to Enforce Peace really means a world
organization so strongly against war that it will fight
for peace.
The good roads germ seems to have infected almost
everybody in Marion county.
before venturing on either approval or,
eoiuicinnanon
"Congress, under the eonslftution de
termines what our armament shall be;
and therefore it is quite true that ev
en if we made an agreement, congress
would retain the constitution M .er
of violating that agreement and in
creasing the armament beyond the lim
it set; but that does not prevent the
treaty making power from entering in
to the obligation. It is not a transfer
of sovereignty it is only as agree
ment to limit our fortifications and our
means of attack in consideration of oth
er nations doing the same thing. The
most famous agreement that we have
mado on this point is tho agreement
we have with Great Britain, by whicn
we agree not to fortify the boundary
between Canada and tho United Sta-tcs
or to place war vessels on the laces.
Is old Agreement.
"Tliis agreement is of one hundred
yoars' standing, and has beon praised
by every statosman Who hag referred to
it.
. 'JTlie most extreme posfTTbn- of Sen
ator Poindexter is that the n United
States cannot consent to arbitration of
issues between it and othor countries
because it might effect the vital inter
ests of the nation. There have been
ono hundred arbitration botween tho
United States and other countries,
many of them of very 'great concern.
The quostion of the payment of -the
creignty but only through tho joint I
compulsion of all nations to keep a I
would-be outlaw nation within the
proper and existing limitation. The
league is not a super-sovereign. It is
only a partnership. Its power Is in
joint agreement not in the establish-1 ;
mcnt of a government. The BcnayirsBy Taking Lydia E. Pink
objoction is fundamental. If it were i !,.,. Vocrkla CnmnnimA
loped, it is V- r .
DRESSMAKER
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OPERATION
analyzed and logically developt
oi reactionary doctrine that belongs to
the German view of the stnto and its
needs and its Tights. It is nc conso
nant with any hopo by international no
tion of settling differences othor than
by the power of the sword. It lends
directly to the proposal that 'might
makes right.' It is based on a doctrino
of supreme national selfishness. . It is
tho pessimistic and despairing view of;
any possibiliy of restricting war. It!
contemplates with entire acsuiesccncej
the prospect of another war through
which we have passed, in the next ten
or twenty years. It perverts the glor
ious idea of a national sovereignty to
kcop it from helping tho family of na
tions. It perverts our granu jeaeral
constitution to render helpless for the
good of the world what under the prov
idence of God has become' the world's
greatest power.
,5.' Will the American people tequiesce
in such a small view of our responsi
bilities for' mankind and of onr govern
mental capacity for international ben
of it? We may be confident they will
not."
Judge J. A. Taylor, a Portland pio
neer of 1852, and pioneer member of
Orgon, and Washington legislatures,
died at Walla Walla Wednesday.
in Time.
Ithaca, N.Y. " Three years ago I
Buffered from pains in my right side, so
severe that I could
not raise my feet
from the floor. Pains -wouldshootdown
my
limbs and through
my back, and tie
doctor said I had
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an ioebag on my side
and expected any
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have to go to a hos
pital for an opera
tion. A friend came '
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THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS
HUNTING AN APARTMENT IN '
NEW YORK
CHAPTER IX.
I was so bewildered by" New York,
its size, tho height of its buildings, that
Neil considered it a great joko and
laughed heartily at my funny remarks.
We went to a Biuall hotel quite a waj)
uptown.
'Wo will start from hero 10 look for
an apartment," he had said. "I snail
bo able to go with you only tomorrow
mid Sunday. If we find nothing by
Sunday night, you will have to keep up
the search next wok."
"Oh, we'll surely find something by
then." The very thought of going
ubout Now York tlono fritrhteuod nic.
"We'll certainly try," Neil said, ap-:
preemting my feeling.
The next morning, as soon as we had
eaten breakfast, Neil took the morning
paper and marked several advertise
ments. Then ho took the addresses of
several real-estate men further up
town.
"Wo shall have to go further than
this to find somethiug that sufls nty
pocket book," he said.
"How much rent shall we ray.
Neilt"
"We must find something for seventy-five
or a hundred dollar) at the
most. We can't afford to go higher
than that now."
'Wo will surely find something very
nice for that" I exclaimed. "Why.
Mrs, Chamberlain only pays twelve dol
lars a month for that lovely place you
so admired."
"That Is Huntingdon, this is New
York. And we must live in a decent
place. It looks badly for a man to live
in ft cheap locality."
There is a common belief that wo
men are invariably to blame for a
man's living beyond his means. That
it is not always so at least in the
beginning, I am positive. I loved Neil
so dearly, at this time, that I would
have been happy had we Iiveu m v.-tti
room so long as we could bo together.
Had wo duue so, it might have beon
better for us both. Noil had a free
way of spending, of handling money,
that amazed me. He did not appear
to think himself at all wasteful, how
ever, or that ho bought anything we
did not need.
Wo tramped all day Saturday. 1'i
nally wo found a perfectly charming
little aparemont of five rooms for (12 j
dollars a month.
"We'll take this," Neil told the
agent.
"But Neil, you said"
"I know, but one sometimes chang
es his mind. We '11 save the diltereuew
in some way."
That was Neil's way. Ho hated to
deny himself; but he always excused
his extravagances by saying he "would
save it some other way." As that way
never seemed to arrive, I at first felt
seriously worried. But, as I hive said,
I had no slightest' idea of the real val
ue of money. Where mother had been
saving, I saved too. Now". that I was
where it was freely spent, I too soon
learned to spend lavishly.
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