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t FnblUbr.1 Evrry Tburwlar at l^nl*. Orr*on by A. H. HARRIS. Manager Enter« I k > »ecouJ cl»» mail matter Febru ary It, IVI4, at the post «Ihre al Penta,Orvfoii. ander act ol CongMS», March * 1*7» Subscription price - *1 su » yrur, tn •<!<slice I wosss: Tsixts 7KM. P tt. This paper has erdisted with the government in the cause of America for the period of the war ••••••• LIMITATIONS OF MAN. Men tire c'-ajuiu the ........... of ef fect to cause, but tbeir «vinclitsbuts ar> in disagreement. Unsatisfactory to th generality of mankind. If not even t> those who indulge in them. The world 1* suffering ns It has not befer«» suffer ed Since the flood recordwl in the Ge nesis of revelation; but what was said by our American Eater tt is recalled: “It is the finite that h..s wrought un i suffered; the influite lies stretched In smiling repose.” Omteniporaneou> events are marching along, clothed in habilaiuents of blood; a part of com mon earth that but a short four years ago was teeming with busy millions engaged in the business of busy lives, seems to be hungering human graves. All this may appear clearer tv coming generations than to the present, just as we of the present in the light of history have a clearer understanding of past causes than was enjoyed by those who have lived when history was being made, says Knoxville Journal Tribune. The finite works and suffers; “the infinite lies stretched In smiling repose.” The finite reckons time by years, days and hours; with the in finite a thousand years are but as a day. UNCLE SAM’S ADVICE ON FLU , U. S. Public Health Service Issues Official Health Bulletin on Influenza. I I that In thl* discs«» the number of I whit«' corpuscles show* little or no In crease above the nornial. It Is possi ble Him the laboratory inveaUgatlona now being mndt» through the Nt..local Research t'ouuell ami the United States Hygienic Laboratory will fur nish a more certain way in which Indi vidual cits«»* of lilts dlaeaso cau be recognised.” . «'RRStMUUUtRW a » » When You Want to Move a k Call Tabor _____ 77*7 K _________ “Ordinarily, the fever lasts from a three to four days and the patient re covers But while th«> proportion of t LATEST WORD ON SUBJECT, «baths In th«' present epidemic has generally been low. in some places the f outbreak ha* Keen severe am! deaths Epidemic Probably Not Spanish In have been numervua When «h'ath oo Origin—Germ Still Unknown—Peo curs It I* usually the result of a com plication." ple Should Guard Against "Droplet Infection”—Surgeon General Blue Make* Authoritative Statement. Washington. D. fl—(Special.)—Al though King Alphonso of Spain was one of the victims of the Intluenaa epi demic In 1893 and again this summer, i Spanish auth«.rilles repudiate any claim to Influenza as a “Siatnlsh" dis ease. If the people of this country do not take care the epidemic will be come so whlesprea«! throughout the l’ulte«l States that soon we shall hear the disease railed “American'' Influ enza. tn response to a rvspiest for definite Information con«-ernlng Spanish Influ- ei.-¡i. Surgeon General Kt»(X’rt Blue of ti.e 0. S. Public Health Service has authorised the following official Inter- view: la It What Is Spanish Influenza? something new? Does it come from Spain? 'The «iisease now occurring In this country and calle«l 'S|»an -h Influen ts resembles n very contagious kind of 'cold- accompanied by fever, pains Coughs and Sneezes Our most potent contribution to win ning the war in the year has been in loans, amounting to over $¿>.000.000,000 and the flow of muniUons and supplies As Dangerous as rtnson Gas Shells from our industries, factories and fields. to the head, eyes, ears. back or other The nation has respt>n«led nobly to the parrs of the body and a feeling of se call for sacrifice'and service. Notwith vere sickness. In most of the cases the standing offi ial aud semiofficial mis symptoms disappear after three or four calculations and muddling that possi days, the patient then rapidly recover bly could not be avoided, the people, ing. Some o* the patients, however, as a whole, have overlooked these mis develop pne- ion fa, or inflammation chances or grimly resolved to make of the ear, o. nenlngitls, and many of the best of them, and have submitted these complicated cases die. Whether with good grace In a single purposed this so-called 'Spanish' Influenza Is determination to get on with the war. identical with the epidemics of influen This voluntary disciplining Is the most za of earlier years is not yet known. convincing evidence of the national at “Epidemics of Influenza have visited titude toward the war, the most com this country since 1647. It is interest plete answer to the occasional com ing to know that this first epidemic plaint of popular Indifference or the was brought here from Valencia. need of arousing the country. Fam Spain. Since that time there have ilies and communities that have seen been numerous epidemics of the dis their nearest and dearest set out for ease. In 1889 and 1890 an epidemic the front, who have pinched and de of Influenza, starting somewhere in the nied themselves to buy Liberty bonds, Orient, spread first to Russia and war stamps, subscribe to the lied Cross thence over practically the entire civ and kindred campaigns, to save food ilized world. Three years later there and fuel, to sacrifice and serve, are was another flare-up of the disease. fully alive to what this struggle means Both times the epidemic spread wide ly over the United States. and why It must be won. “Although the present epidemic is called 'Spanish inll ienza,' there Is no The Rev. J. B. Kraemer, S. J., of reason to believe that it originated in Marquette university, furnishes an in- Spain. Some writ« its who have studied teresting explanation of why the shock the question believe that the epidemic resulting at ench discharge of th" Ger came from the Orient and they call at man “mystery gun” may be recorded tention to the fact that the Germans by seismograph at Buffalo, while much mention the disease as occurring along greater explosions occurring at muni the eastern front in the summer and tion plants have failed to register. The fall of 1917.” How can "Spanish Influenza" be rec factory explosions, he points out, ex ognized? pend their force in the air, while the “There is as yet no certain way in foundations of the German gun prob which a single case of ‘Spanish Influ ably are deeply imbedded in the earth, enza' can be recognized. On the oth its discharge imparting a concussion er hand, recognition Is easy where which causes tremors like those pro there is a group of cases Tn contrast duced by an earthquake. to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs and colds, which usually occur in the The Austrian army officer who was cold months, epidemics of thliuenza compelled by public sentiment to aban may occur at any s«-ason of the yetr. don a lucrative concert tour illustrates Thus the present epidemic raged most Intensely in Europe In May, June an«l the danger of versatility, No man can July. Moreover, In the ease of ordi be expected to maintain supreme pro- nary colds, the general symptoms ficiency with the sword and the vio- (fever, pain, depression) are by no lin bow both, at once. means as severe or as sudden In their onset as they are In Influenza. Final One fact cannot be erased, ripped, ly, ordinary colds do not spread raveled, or burnt out of existence, and through the rorun. inlty so rapidly or b « j extensively as does Influenza. it is this: Any able-bodied man or “In most cases a person taken sick woman who does not perform useful with influenza feels sick rather sud service every day fails of duty and denly. He f«*eis weak, has pains In the is a burden «pen a war-ridden coun eyes, ears, bead or back, and may be sore all over. Many patients feel try. dizzy, some vomit. Most of the pa- Write letters to the boys in France. tienta complain of feeling chilly, nnd They are in another quarter of the with this comes a fever In which the globe, under strange skies and in lone temperature rises to 100 to 104. In most cases the pulse remains relative some places. Don't begin “nothing ly slow. has happened this week out of the or “In appearance one is «truck by the dinary.” fact that the patient looks sick. His eyes and the Inner side of his eyelids After saying that there weren’t any may be slightly ‘bloodshot,’ or ‘con American soldiers in France, Germany gested,’ a* the doctors say. There announced that she had licked a lot of may be running from the nose, or there may be some cough. These signs American soldiers. It is probable that of a cold may not be marked; never- one statement is just as true as the theless the patient l«M>ks and feels very other. sick. "In addition to the appearance and Owing to the wai the poaching egg the symptoms ns already described, has almost disappeared from the mar examination of the patient’s blood may ket. The average egg now thinks it aid the physician In recognizing 'Span has done its full duty when it accu» ish influenza,' for It bus been found bl es. I What causes ths dissass and how Is It spread? “Bacteriologists who have studied In fluenza epidemics In the past have found In many of th«' eases a very »mall rod-shapttd germ cnlled, after Ila discoverer, Pfeiffer’» bacillus in other cases of apparently the same kind of disease there were found pneumococci, the germs of lobar pneumonia Still others have been caused by strepto cocci, and by others germs with long Li names. “No mailer what particular kind of gertn causes the epidemic. It Is now- believed that Inliuetiut Is always spread from person to person, the germs being carried with the air nlong with th«' very small droplets of mucus, r expelled by coughing or sneezing, forceful talking, and the like by one who already has the germs of the dls- easts. They tuny also be carried about in the air In the form of dost coming from drbs! mucus, from coughing ami sneezing, or from careless people w ho spit on the floor and on the sidewalk, As tn most other catching diseases, a person who has only a mild attack of the disease himself may give a very severe attack to others.” What should be done by those who catch the disease? “It la very Important that every |>er- son who becomes sick with tnfluenza should go home nt once and go to bed. This will help keep away dangerous complications and will, at the same time, keep the patient from «►tittering the disease* far and wide, It Is highly desirable that no one be allowed to sleep tn the same room with the pa tient. In fact, no one but the nurse should be allowe«! In the mom. “if there Is cough und sputum or running of the ey«>s and nos«', car«» should be taken that all such dis charges are collect*1«! on bits of gauze or rag or paper napkins am! burned. If the patient complains of fever and headache, he should be given water tt> drink, a cold compress to the forehead and a light sponge. Only such medi cine should be given as Is pr«jscritH-«l by the doctor. It Is foolish to ask the druggist to prescribe and may be tlan- gerous to take the so-cali«*d 'safe, sure and harmless' remedies advertised by patent medicine manufacturers. “If the patient is so situated that he can be attend«»«! only by some one who must also look after others in the fam ily, it is advisable that such attendant wear a wrapper, apron or gown over the ordinary house clothes while in the sick room and slip this off when leav ing to look after the others. “Nurses an«! attendants will do well to guard against breathing In danger ous disease germs by wearing a simple fold of gauze or mask while near the patient” MUUUUUUUUUUtHM LENTS MERCANTILE COMPANY Ì FETTY’S TRANSFER What Is the course of the dlssassf Do people die of it? 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The |>eople lend the money to the Government, the Gov ernment lends some of it to our Allies, and our Government and our Allies straightway spend the money, or the greater portion of it, among the people of the United States, in some instances the money paid in by wage earners on one installment of liberty Bonds is paid by the Government to their employers, • and by their employers paid back to them in the way of wages before the next install ment is due. B uy L iberty B onds . A Multnomah State Bank Lents Station Portland, Oregon 7 « Will a person who has had Influenza before catch the disease again? “It Is well known that an attack of measles or scarlet fever or smallpox usually protects a person against an other attack of the same disease. This appears not to be true of ’Spanish In fluenza.' According to newspaper re ports the King of Spain suffered an attiu-k of influenza during the epl- Jemlc thirty years ago, and was again stricken during the recent outbreak in Spain.” How can one guard against influ enza? “In guarding against disease of ail kinds, it Is Important that the body be kept strong and able to fight off dis ease germs. This can be done by hav ing a proper proportion of work, play and rest, by keeping the body well clothed, and by eating sufficient whole some and pr«>j>erly selected food. In connection with diet, It Is well to re member thaj milk Is one of the best all-around foods obtainable for adults as well as children. So far as a dis ease like tnfluenza la concerned, health authorities everywhere recognlz«.- the very close relation between its spread and overcrowded homes. While It Is not always possible, especially In tlmes llke the present, to avoid such overcrowding, people should consider the health danger and make every effort to reduce the home overcrowd ing to a minimum. The value of fresh air through open windows cannot be over emphasized. "When crowding is unavoidable, an to street cars, care should be taken to keep the face so turned as not to In- hale directly the air breathed out by another person. “Tt Is especially Important to I l>e- ware of the person who coughs or sneezes without covering his mouth and nose. It also follows that one should keep out of crowds and stuffy places as much ns possible, keep homes, offices ami workshops well nlr- ed, spend some time out of doors each day, walk to work If nt all practicable —In short, make every poMible effort to breathe as m«ich pure air as pos sible. "In al! health matters follow the ad vice of your doctor an«l ol«ey th<> regti- lotions of your local and state health officera." a 4 “Cover up each cough and sneeze, If you don’t you’ll spread diseaaq^ 4