La Grande evening observer., June 24, 1916, Image 9

SATURDAY, 3 UNE 24, 1916.
V& GR2NDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SERUMS
PROVE GOOD
GOVERN MKNT EXPERIMENTS
WITH SUCCESS ,
Eastern Oregon Hog Raisers Way
Some Day Make Use of
Advice
A now method of preparing anti-liog-eholeru
serum, which permits the
economical production of a clear steri
lized product, haR just been described
in the Journal of Agricultural (Re
search of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. The advantage claimed
for the new method is that it makes
possible the production of an anti-hog-cholera
serum which can be quick
ly sterilized by heat to a point that
will absolutely kill any germs of foot-and-mouth
disease and so yield a ser
um that is absolutely safe even if
taken from a hog which might har
bor foot-and-mouth disease and yet
give no indication of being infected.
This Locality Free
Hog cholera has flirted with East
ern Oregon, in time gone past, but
never became a serious menace. Not
withstanding this Union county hog
raisers should acquaint themselves
with the government's findings on this
subject.
The method, as described hy its
discoverers. Dr. Marion Dorset and
R. R. Henley, of the Biochemic Di
vision, Bureau of Animal Industry, in
a government paper, consists in add
ing a slight amount of an extract
from ordinary white navy beans to
the defibrinated hog-cholera-irmnune
blood' which has been the form of the
serum used in the past. The addition
of this bean extract causes the red
cells of the blood to agglutinate and
when the mixture is whirled on a cen
trifuge the red cells pack together
and form ti rather stiff jelly-like
mass. It is then possible to ipour off
a "lcar serum, leaving behind the red
cells which play no part in preventing
hog colcsra and which in fact simply
tend to dilute the serum and render
its sterilization by heat impracticable.
To increase the yield of clear serum
the discoverers added a small amount
of ordinary salt and found that they
obtained from 70 to 74 per cent of
clear serum. The clear serum thus
obtained it was found could be heated
for 80 minutes at a temperature of 60
degree Centigrade without changing
its consistency or lessening in any
way its effectiveness in preventing
hog cholera.. The heating to this point
for this time is more than sufficient
to kill any germs of foot-and-mouth
diseases which might accidentally be
present. Practical tests with hogs
show that probably all of the anti
bodies useful in combating hog chol
era were retained in the serum and
the red cells extracted contained so
few, if any, of these valuable bodies
as to make the residue of red cells
useless in (preventing the disease.
Before the clear serum was de
veloped, many attemlpts were made tq
sterilize by heat in a practicable way
the ordinary defibrinated blood. It
was found, however, that heating the
old product up to 60 degrees Centi
grade resulted in more or less com
plete coagulation of the defibrinated
blood and in the destruction of the
serum so far as its commercial worth
is concerned. It was found that the
highest temperature that could be
used was 50 degrees Centigrade and
it was necessary to keep the old serum
at this temperature for 12 hours to
make certain that the virus of foot-and-mouth
disease was killed. Heat
ing serum at a steady temperature
over this long period in ordinary prac
tice is difficult and too expensive.
Attempts also were made to make
a clear serum by eentrifugalizing. It
was found, however, that while the
centrifuge would separate to some ex
tent the red cells, they were in such
shape that it was difficult to sepa
rate the serum completely. An im
portant quantity of antibodies were
left behind in the red clot, and the re
sulting (product was a cloudy rather
than a clear serum. With this pro
cess, moreover, it was possible ordi
narily to secure only about 50 per cent
of serum. Under the now method it
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is possible to secure as high as 74
per cent of clear serum, which in
actual test has nmvuil In ia fulKr nnf.
ent. This clear serum, moreover, can
ua completely sterilized in 30 minutes,
whereas the old serum had to bu
heated steadily for 12 hours.
The new form of serum, as far as
the department knows is not yet 'be
ing made or put on sale by the com
mercial serum laboratories. As this
process was discovered by the Federal
government, any one in the United
States is free to use it.
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THE MENACE OF WAR
"ll.vv Will U Be rii-ttioyiv!? Asks
Omtribut .r.
La Grande, June 24. (To the Edi
tor) Truly the menace of war has
hung over us for many years; and
when war burst in all its dread real
ity upon us, it only gave a feverish
stir to war preparations such as went
far beyond the gigantic efforts that
already had beon made. In fact, all
the colossal piling up of armaments
seemed but a feeble thing as com
pared with what has come since then.
And now, as never before, all are
looking forward to the time when
they hope the menace of war shall
be destroyed. .England and France,
for example, see that the only hope of
peace is to crush Germany so com
pletely that she will not be able to
threaten them again for a generation
to come at least. This is one means
that is put forth to secure world peace
and to destroy the world menace of
war.
David Starr Jordan and others have
another way. It is a world court of
arbitration, the supreme court of the
nations, where every question ordinar
ily settled by war shall be settled
once and for all by the supreme dic
tators of world affairs. Hitherto all
their efforts have been but a fulfill
ment of the old prophecy, "Saying,
Peace, Peace, when there is no Peace"
in other words, talking peace and
making war. The socialists, bound in
a world coalition, promised that there
would be no more wars. They had
enough men in every nation pledged
to stand as socialists against war.
Socialists were brothers. Brothers
must not fight. They all were a
mighty union; and if any nation de
clared war, they would declare a
strike on the war, and make it im
possible. When war's alarms sound
ed, the German socialists rallied to
war, forgot socialism to fight Eng
lish, French and Russian socialists.
The big strike was never declared.
Shall we blame them for love of coun
try? We are not desirous of saying
anything here except to show the fail
ure of socialism to destroy the men
ace of war.
In the United States, the hope of
destroying the menace of war is, "to
be thoroughly prepared." This is not
new. A prominent ruler of one of
the nations of Europe is credited with
having said, not long ago, that after
this war, the nations will prepare
more thoroughly than ever for war's
eventualities. He is reported as say
ing that the nations will not forget
the lesson of Belgium; that it is
Switzerland's and Holland's effective
soldiery that saves them from the
war; that the only safeguard is, to be
prepared. This has beer: the talk for
a generation; and when war comes,
we find that preparation, instead of
preventing war, makes war a thou
sandfold more terrible. The only log
ical way of destroying the menace of
war, is to gel at the cause of it. Re
moving the cause, you no longer
have the effect. What is the cause 0
war? There is but one authority tiiut
can tell us finally and fully.
"Whence comes wars and whence
come fightings among jou? Car.:
they not hence, even of your pleasures
that war in your members? Ye lust,
and have not: ye kill, and covet, and
cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye
have not, because ye ask not. Ye a$k,
and reive not, because ye ask amiss,
that ye may spend it 111 your pleas
ures." James 4:1-3.
There are things that the nations
want badly enough to spend treasure
and blood to obtain them. That makes
war. Now the remedy is this: "Who
is wise and understanding among
you ? Let him show by his good life
his works in meekness of wisdom
For where jealously and faction are,
there is confusion and every vile deed.
But the wisdom that is from above
is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
easy to be entreated, full of mercy
and good fruits, without variance,
without hypocrisy. And the fruit of
righteousness is sown in peace for
them that make peace." James
3:13-18.
Remember the words of Jesus,
"Blessed are the peacemakers; for
thev shall be called sons of God."
There may be what are considered
righteous wars, or wars of self-defense:
but always there is some one
who is invading, else there would be
no need of self-defense. And why the
invasion? We must go back to the
scripture we have quoted. There is
only one means of destroying the
menace of war, and that is, to accept
the principles of righteousness as re
vealed in the Bible. This the world
refuses to do. Every other means is
but a subterfuge-, and will fail. By
none of the means that the world is
using, will the menace of war be de
stroyed. Armageddon will be the
ultimate clash, and then will come the
end.
Verv sincerely yours.
GEORGE W. PEACH,
(Of t'ne local Seventh-day Adventist
church.)
Mr. Oliver Is Heard.
U Grande. June 21. (To the Editor
rlWrveri I have just beon in
formed that the City Commission
ondravorine to forestall any
the Warren C
...imnflnv and me cit'. m
South Fourth sucei unj
IN THESE DAYS OF HIGH PRICES
YOU WILL APPRECIATE THESE
REMARKABLE VALUES
Davenports
$25.00
$32.50
$39.00 :
$42-50
$18.00
$80.00
$110.00
$125.00
Dining Room
Tables
$10.00
$12.50
$17.50
$25.00
$30.00
$42.50
$75.00
1
u:.,inro:ir'H.
v' , J'.l?,li'A,. I 1 .)' "WO
Buffetts
$10.00
$12.50
$25.00
$35.00
$42.50
$48.50
$7500
Rang
SPECIAL UNIVERSAL
$35.00
$50.00
$65.00
Ranges that we have
g taken in exchange for
new ranges
$12.50
$18.00
$21.00
CARR FURNITURE CO.
1
La Grande, Oregon.
(HOUSEFURNISHING IS OUR BUSINESSNOT A SIDE LINE)
suit
""icUon
m the
M .t by
circulating contracts und soliciting
signatures from the abutting proper
ty owners, by which such property
owners would agree to bond their
property for 10 years, and that the
city officials are representing to the
property owners that unless they sign
up such contract, they will be com
pelled to pay the whole amount at
once, which they know is an impossi
bility, and the ettort is tnus ceing
made to force the property owners to
pay an unjust price on a contract
that never existed.
The whole proceeding has bean held
to be void by the Circuit Court of
Union county and the Supreme Court
of the state, and the assessment re
cently made has no validity whatever
unless it is under and by virtue of the
charter which wus "put over" on the
people on the 13th day of last De
cember, and this charter expressly
provides, on page 14, that the assess
ments made for public improvements
"shall be due and payable annually
for 10 successive years, to the treas
urer of the city, by the owner of
each lot" in installments of 10 per
cent each year. Under this charter,
no part of the assessment made on
upper Fourth street is due or payable
until one year from the date the as
sessment was actually made, and then
10 per cent only would be due or de
linquent. This is expressly provided
for by the charter, and I submit that
it is unfair to the property owners for
the city officials to misrepresent to
them what their rights are and to
mislead and deceive them into con
racting away the few rights that are
guaranteed to them by the charter.
The property owners are about to be
gin another "suit in which they attack
the whole fraudulent transaction be
tween the old city ofiiciuls and the
Warren Construction company, and
will make the claim that nothing is
due or ever can become due to the
Wr.rren Construction company for
niiv work or alleged impiovemcnt
-lone on South Fourth street; that
su.h work was done in direct opposi
tion to the express provisions of the
c-itv charter in force p.t that time and
no' liability accrued either from the
citv or from ths property owners.
If anv of the property owners ac
tmllv desire to pay the Warren Con
st.uc'tion company. I have no fault to
find with such,, but I do register a
most emphatic pnotest against the
city officials solicting property owners
who are ignorant of their rights under
the charter to sign away such rights;
it is not fair, and it does not seom to
me to be done in spirit of good faith
and fair dealing.
Respectfully,
TURNER OLIVER.
WOMAN WEARS OVERALLS; PAINTS HOUSE
'i '""4Y
h '-.".J r, , ' 1 MR9 OILICK AT WORK.
Indian Hand at Pendleton.
Pendleton, Or., June 22. Pour
bands have beon engaged for the cele
bration here on the Fourth. They are
the Milton, Athena, Indian band and
the Roundup band, of this city. Music
by the Indian band, composed of In
dians from the reservation, will be one
of the features.
Expert
"Pop, what is a promoter?"
"A promoter, my son, is a man who
can make either a dollar or a penny
look like thirty cents." Life.
Reminiscent
"There is a real idea back of every
thing ho writes."1
"Yp nil rthft W51V frcm furrv f flv,-ni
thousand years back." Life.
Clad In overalls and a broad
brimmed bat Mrs. Wlltse Olllck ol
Kansas City, Mo.. Is painting her
bouse. Her buBband couldn't paint
It because he le a traveling man.
Mrs. Olllck didn't want to hlra
Dalnter because abe and her hus
band are paying for the house and I
in addition waut money to aoi
their ion to college.
Money to Loan
Have $50,000,00 7 per cent
in amounts from J2500.0O up, to
loan on Grande Ronde Valley
Farms.
Have $50,000.00 8 per cent
in amounts from $1000.00 up, to
loan on farms in Union County.
$ 250.00 10 Por Cent
$ 500.00 () 10 Psr Cent
$ 700.00 10 Per Cent
$1,500.00 8 Per Cent
To loan on Improved City Prop
erty. Also an unlimited amount of
capital to loan, on La Grnnle
property on monthly repayment
plan Building loans a spe
cialty. W. B. SARGENT,
President
LA GRANDE INVESTMENT
COMPANY
LA GRANDE, ORE.