TTtt ta-ixg OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1913.
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I'OBTLAXD. TCTSD.lt. NOV. 18, IMS.
1 A UNITED WEST CAN WIN.
' The united efforts of all the states
In the Columbia Basin will be re
quired to procure the appropriation
of tl, 500,000 for construction of a
eea-golng dredge, 'Which Senator Lane
asks from Congress, In addition to
91,000,000 for the north Jetty. X)re
pon alone probably could not secure so
large a sum, nor could Washington
alone, tout Oregon, Washington,' Idaho
and Montana combined have good
prospects of success. If these states
unite their forces with those of other
IWestern states, their influence may
prove irresistible.
All the states named have an interT
est In the maintenance of a deep chan
nel Into the Columbia and up that wa
terway to the interior. Traffic natural
ly drains In the same direction as the
water, not excluding the smallest trib
utary, and every cent saved in the
cost of transportation by land or water
la either added to the producer's price
r, if taken from that price and given
to the consumer, broadens the market.
The market will be greatly broad
ened by the reduction in the cost of
transportation through the Panama
Canal to Europe, North, West and
South Africa and Western Asia. Grain,
lunlber, fruit, hops, livestock and all
manufactures of those products will
find Increasing demand in the old
iworld, when relieved from the high
freight rates "which render the price
wellnlgh prohibitive to the masses
of the people. Pacific Coast fruit is
now a luxury in which only the rich
In Europe can indulge, but the reduc
tion in freight rates due to the canal
Will bring down the price, so that it
will be within the means of millions.
Every foot added to the depth of the
bar channel and every mile added to
the navigable length of the Columbia
Elver will enable bigger ships to entei
and will enable river steamers to pen
etrate farther inland. This will fur
ther reduce the aggregate freight rate
between points of production and
points of consumption, will proportion
ately reduce the price and will add
more millions to the number of con
sumers of our products.
Thus the benefits of a deep channel
over the bar and of an open river are
not limited to the ports near the
mouth of the river, but extend up
ward to every man whose products are
or could be carried down the river
to the ocean. These benefits are not
limited to Oregon and Washington.
They extend to Idaho and beyond into
Montana as far eastward as it shall
prove cheaper to haul freight west
ward to the Pacific than eastward to
the Atlantic.
As to other National affairs of in
terest to the Columbia Basin, other
Western states have an equal interest.
This is true of reclamation, water pow
er, forestry and land legislation in gen
eral. These states have a community
of interest strong enough to impel
their representatives in Congress to
pull together and to demand that, as
regards affairs which concern the West
In particular, Western opinion shall
prevail so far as it Is consonant with
National interests.
Having such broad common inter
ests the Western delegations should
(work together for the interests of each
particular state and section of the
West. The states of the Northwest
should help those of the Southwest to
procure necessary provision to keep
the Colorado River within its banks,
and those of the Southwest should
reciprocate by helping along improve
ment of the Columbia. These are pe
culiarly Western problems, of which
the East knows little and in which the
East has little interest. Only the
massed voting strength of the West
can compel adequate attention to
them.
If the West thus combines. Congress
may as readily appropriate $2,500,000
In one year for the Columbia River
Jetty and dredges as it appropriates
millions for the Mississippi River. We
Want big things done, and we must
exert big power to get them done.
! MWD CAU, FOB WAR.
When President Wilson was reported
So have sent an ultimatum to Pro
Visional President Huerta, our blow-ket-and-blow-cold
neighbor, the Even
in Journal, had the following ringing
declaration of approval:
There seems no other way. The Mexi
can despot is oblivious to everything ra
tional. He has gone on In highhanded
ness until he has lost all sense of propriety
and abandoned all the canons of civiliza
tion. He has set up a throne at the Mexican
capital and there is nothing to do but to
pull It down. We were the means by which
Maximilian and his -brief empire were de
stroyed In 1S07. -We can do no leas now
than we did then except by Ignoring Amer
ican precedents and abandoning American
iraailiuiis.
Nothing to do ,but pull (not let)
Huerta down and do as we did with
Maximilian. So, in the language of
armed intervention, the warlike Jour
nal shouts for war when the Admin
lstratlon gives some faint sign of
threatening force through an .ulti
matum. Just as the peace-loving Jour
nal cries for patience, love, forbear
ance, toleration and good will toward
Mexico when it transpires that there is
no such thing as an ultimatum in the
entire vocabulary of Bryan-Wilson
diplomacy.
The threat of intervention in 1867
when the United States was on a war
footing and Federal troops were al
ready in Louisiana and Texas, caused
the withdrawal of the -French army
and the downfall of Maximilian. Not
an American soldier orossed the bor
der line. The assertion of the Ameri
can attitude, in the polite language of
diplomacy, was enough. A firm pol
icy toward Huerta, In place of a vacil
lating and ineffective course on our
part, is the need of the hour. It is
the only way, probably, to avoid Inter.
yentlon. It Is likely enough that it
must be the final outcome. Then wo
shall have, of course, a renewal of the
bellicose demand from, our hartL-
breathing contemporary, to tear down
Huerta's throne and to uphold the no
ble American traditions, just as It had
advised all along, etc., etc.
MARTIAL LAW?
Governor West threatens martial
law for the town of Florence as a se
quel to the recent deportation of six
or seven I. W. W. agitators from that
place. We assume that it Is an Idle
threat, for it will be recalled that the
Governor was similarly enraged when
sundry undesirable citizens were made
to move on from Coos Bay; but, so far
as now appears, nobody has been put
in jail, nobody Impeached and no
body removed from office except
that Mayor Straw was incontinently
dismissed from one of the Governor's
boards.
Why martial law for Florence?- All
Is now peaceful there. The 1. W. W.
disturbers are gone and the ordinary
pursuits of the citizens have been re
sumed. The mills are running, the
stores and schools are open, the local
courts are dispensing justice and no
crisis of any kind confronts the sat
isfied population. Infractions of law,
if there were any, should be punished
by"""due process of law.
Martial law is the suspension of all
civil processes and the substitution of
military rule. The constitution Is su
perseded, the (writ of habeas corpus
Is suspended, statutory laws are ig
nored and the will of the executive
is supreme. lt Is the substitution of
force for civil law, the assertion of a
paramount physical tact over all the
forms and guarantees of established
government through civil law and
order.
No commander or executive is Jus
tified in Invoking martial law except
In the face of open rebellion and great
pubiic peril, or of general lawlessness
with which the civil authorities are
unable to cope. Obviously it is an extra-constitutional
expedient to pre
serve the constitution.
There is no such situation at Flor
ence and has been none at Coos Bay.
The Governor who Imposes military
law upon a community for doing some
thing not pleasing to him, or for any
reason . not obviously designed for the
protection of that commfcinity and the
safety of the state, commits an act
far more lawless than the populace
commits when It uses the implements
of coercion to rid Itself of citizens who
are there for no good.
last wobd Auotrr a cxtre.
The Oregonlan prints herewith for
the general benefit extracts from an
editorial article in the Journal of the
American Medical Association on the
Friedmann tuberculosis cure. It is ap
parent that the results are not only
disappointing but in some cases actual
harm has been done to the patients
who have been experimneting with
the cure. The Journal says:
Dr. Mannheimer reported on the results
of 18 cases In New York In which the Fried
mann treatment'' was used and stated that
In "not a single one of the 18 cases was
there definite Improvement to date that
could be ayxlbuted to the treatment."
A committee of some of the foremost phy
sicians of Canada was appointed to watch
tne patients inoculated by Dr. Friedmann
In the Canadian hospltalB. These physicians
made a similar unfavorable report.
Dr. Andorson, acting under the authority
of the United States Government, watched
the progress of the patients treated by Dr.
Friedmann In this country. He also cave
an unfavorable opinion as to the effect of the
treatment.
I report from the Rhode Inland State
Sanitarium on the results in 120 patients
treated by the Friedmann method states that
the patients have shown none of the im
mediate and wonderful results reported by
f riedmann. but that, "on the contrary, about
17 per cent of the cases' are worse than
they might have been expected to be under
ordinary sanitarium treatment.
It is difficult to measure the mis
chief wrought by the widespread ad
vertisement of the Friedmann cure.
Obtained through th sensational
methods of its original announcement
and exploitation in America by a so
called news agency and by the theat
rical Invasion of America by Dr.
Friedmann himself. The cure has
cured nobody, so far as the records
show, it is discredited and . con
demned ly the medical profession and
it is time that it be relegated to the
limbo of forgotten things.
NEW ERA IX CONSERVATION.
The Conservation ' Congress which
opens in Washington today gives
promise of doing more practical good
in the work it alms to promote than
have former gatherings of the kind.
It may be expected to be free from
fierce contentions like those provoked
by attacks on the Taft Administration.
Those who have distorted conservation
Into reservation will no longer have
the backing of the Interior Depart
ment, as In the days of Secretary Fish
er. We have in Mr. Lane a man who
knows the needs of the West and who
is in sympathy with Western aspira
tions, but no one can truthfully ques
tion that he Is as earnest in his pur
pose to conserve our resources as he
Is in his purpose to give the Bettler a
square deal. He Is surrounded by
Western men. well informed on the
West by personal knowledge and of
like mind with him.
No man dares assail Secretary Lane
as Secretary Balllnger was assailed a
few years ago. If any man should at
this Conservation Congress revamp the
slanders on the West, the charges
of fraud, monopoly and land-grabbing
whltfh were heard at previous sessions,
he will be confronted -with Mr. Lane
and his associates. They may be ex
pected to tell how honest settlers have
been bedeviled in the name of conser
vation and how the public domain has
been kept in chancery. They may be
expected to lay more stress on devel
opment in connection with conserva
tion. We shall look to hear the voice of
the West at this convention. It has
been drowned at former conventions
by the voice of the East.
ALCOHOI, ASH EAtB SnilDE,
In reference to Mr. Pendell's letter.
which is printed today, The Oregonlan
does not for an Instant deny that al
cohol may under certain conditions be
come a factor in "race suicide." This
truth was brought out long ago by
Dr. Saleeby in his excellent .work on
"Parenthood." Alcohol, like the virus
of syphilis, according to this authority.
actually poisons the germ plasm and
either destroys offspring utterly or
renders It defective. Epilepsy, Idiocy,
Insanity are some of the known con
sequences to children of alcoholism in
their parents.
These facts are probably beyond all
dispute and Mr. Pendell expends some
superfluous energy, perhaps. In de
fending them. We know of no rep
utable medical authority which does
not substantially agree upon them.
Physicians more and more incline to
cease the use of alcohol in medicine,
not only because other fluids serve the
same purpose better, but also because
of Its deleterious effects on the pres
ent and the coming generations. All
this Is admitted, but It is not exactly
the point in controversy.
Mr. Pendell stated explicitly, as we
understood him, that the low French
birth rate was caused by alcohol. Two
hostile facts confront him. In the first
place, the French peasants, among
whom race suicide Is most dishearten
ing, are not excessive users of alco
hol. In the second place, they are no
torious practlcers of preventive de
vices. Mr. Pendell seems to question
this. He says that "preventive devices
are not particularly prevalent in
France or other countries among the
poor." The truth is that they are ex
tremely prevalent among the French
peasants.
Nobody who has read Zola s novels
would think of doubting this circum
stance. Indeed, it is one of the mam
cries through all French reformatory
literature and has been for twenty
years. State and church have, com
bined their influence in vain to induce
the thrifty but obstinate peasants to
cease their preventive measures. Our
purpose in differing from Mr. Pendens
statement is not by any means to en
courage the use of alcohol, but merely
to set him straight upon a well-known
fact of current history.
Another attempt to hit the target
at long range with the usual miss is
observed in the revered New York Sun.
After reproducing a'brief dispatch re
citing that the entire Hood River
County Court had been recalled on
charges that the court appointed a
road supervisor at exorbitant salary
and "performed other acts in an un
satisfactory manner," the Sun makes
this sage comment:
An object lesson to all Judges in Oregon.
The people make and unmake them, and
discretion Is surely the better part of Justice
in the Wetofoot State.
Oregon's Judiciary will fall to ob
serve a warning or lesson in the Hood
River recall, because the "County
Court" in Oregon in the inclusive way
the expression is used in the dispatch
is not a court of-Justlce. In its essen
tials it Is what some states term a
Board of County Commissioners,"
others a "Board of Supervisors."
In the smaller counties of Oregon
the County Judge, who has Jurisdiction
over probate .proceedings, also trans
acts ordinary county business. In
some counties one or two Commission
ers are elected to sit as members of
the "County Court" in performing ad
ministrative duties. The acts com
plained of in Hood River County had
no connection with Judialal procedure.
The Judicial recall has never been in
voked in Oregon.
y VACATION' WORK.
There is a fabulous notion afloat in
the world that the city high schools at
tract only pupils whose muscles are
flabby and whose minds are steeped in
effeminate dreams of high society and
luxurious gayety. Nobody who really
knows what American boys and girls
are has ever believed this piece of Ac
tion, but stlil It is well enough to have
a supply of facts at hand to contradict
It when necessary. Facts of this kind
have come to light abundantly in The
Oregonlan essay contest. Competing
for the prizes offered,, a large number
of young people have described the
avocations they fallowed during the
Summer to replenish their purses for
the following year's study. Their em
ployments were as varied as human
taste and ingenuity, and the determi
nation they manifested in undertaking
disagreeable tasks and carrying them
through to the end proves that the
American fiber is as tough as it ever
was, and that we still have young peo
ple who are ready to make stern sac
rifices for the sake of attaining their
ambitions. Their stories prove also
another fact which ought to, be en
couraging to those who wish well to
the country. .
This fact is that a spirit of genuine
democracy pervades the student body
of the high schools. Girls who are
willing to "do housework" during
their Summer vacations to provide
funds for the coming school year are
not likely to be carried away with silly
aristoeratic longings. They possess
that sturdy mental and bodily energy
which Is characteristic of the genuine
American and which it is hoped the
youth of this Nation will never ex
change for any quality more decadent.
The young woman who took up house
work for her vacation task was fortu
nate enough to have two positions of
fered her, both of which paid fairly
well. The first paid $40 a month, the
other only $35. But at the head of
the first household was one of those
women who make the life of a domes
tic unbearable. It was not that she
was proud merely, for pride is not of
fensive when it is based on merit; nor
that she did not herself take a hand
in the work, for many housewives
have duties outside their families
which fully occupy them. The trouble
with this dame was that she despised
domestic vocations and despised her
"help" for taking them off her hands.
Sentiments of this kind always cre
ate an Impossible situation in a house
hold if the domestic is intelligent and
capable. A girl who does her work
well and knows it will not be satisfied
with scornful toleration from her em
ployer. She demands at least, a little
appreciation. With thoughts of this
nature in her mind, our ambitious high
school girl declined the better-paying
situation, with its supercilious mis
tress, and accepted the $35" place.
where the matron of the house was
sympathetic and civilized. But this
place. In spite of its kindly mistress,
was no sinecure. The domestic fresh
from her Cicero and algebra had to
cook, wash, scrub, bake and clean, to
say nothing of the thousand minor
tasks which fall to the lot of the "gen
eral" in such an establishment. The
chaotic condition of housework with
out system, regular hours or much
consideration for the welfare of work
ers illustrates the primitive state of
our. domestic arrangements. While
every other form bf industry has been
transformed in the last fifty years,
housework stillPmains the same ser
vile drudgery that it was in the Middle
Ages.
The charm of this tale is that the
high school girl persevered through all
her hardships and discouragements
and came off victor at the close of her
vacation with a pleasant rojl of sub
stantial .dollars In her purse. The
money will be Just as helpful to her In
her future career as if it had been do
nated by a kind uncle or left as a leg
acy by a departfng grandmother, per
haps more so. Housework was not the
only occupation into which the high
school girls found their way during the
Summer vacation. One made a neat
sum of money carrying newspapers.
She reduced the business to a system
and even enlarged it to wholesale pro
portions in the brief term of her con
nection .with it. It seems pretty cer
tain that this young woman with her
remarkable gift will achieve dis
tinguished commercial success later In
life unless something diverts her en
ergies into other directions. Still an
other girl replenished her means bjM
teaching English to a class of foreign
ers. This was not only a comparatlve
' ly agreeable resource, but It paid well.
Her monthly income during the vaca
tion was $30.
The boys were as ingenious and
courageous as the girls. One of them.
whose essay has already been pub
lished in The Oregonlan, undertook a
road-building contract. A woman
homesteader, who lived two miles
frqm his father's place, was cut off
from the outer world by a high moun
tain. This high school boy, with a
companion, agreed to build a road
around the obstacle. Their soft mus
cles at first made the task painful, but
work quickly hardened them and they
found real pleasure in circumventing
the difficulties which nature had
placed in their way. Of course, the
value of these experiences lies quite
as much in the pluck they developed
as in the cash they yielded. Young
people who want an education keenly
enough to do hard physical work in or
der to pay for It are not likely to
waste their opportunities. They are
not the ones who cause disciplinary
troubles in school nor is it necessary
to prod them to their studies. Best of
all these stern experiences of their
youth will prepare them admirably
for the duties of mature life.
In' a letter to the Brooklyn Eagle
Samuel S. Fairish says four-fifths of
the people of Mexico are nearly equally
divided between pure-blooded Indians
and people of mixed blood, all In a
state of peonage. He then says:
In other words, political conditions In
Mexico can be likened to what they would
be In our own country If about four-fifths
of our population consisted of a combina
tion of North American Indiana and half
breeds, ruthlessly rnled from New York City,
so far as great distances would permit, by
a military Tammany Hall, with the "Chief"
not only In command of our Federal Army,
but also In a position, as shown lately,
through aheer decree, to Increase that army
to any extent that his necessities might re.
quire and his enforced exchequer pay for.
We all know what prospect there
would be of a constitutional election if
Tammany had an unlimited army and
could impose any taxes It pleased, even
with four - fifths of the people free
and Intelligent instead of in peonage.
Then what chance is there that any
boss who gets control of Mexico's
military Tammany will permit a fair
election? If Huerta should resign, we
should have the same difficulty again
with the new boss.
Mr. Hearst proposes the Oregon sys
tem as the best and surest means by
which New York can destroy Tarn
many ana an other machines. In a
signed editorial in the New York
American he offers direct nomina
tions, the Massachusetts ballot, the
Initiative, referendum and recall as his
programme. The new Legislature Is
practically sure to call a constitutional
convention, the delegates to which will
be elected on the main issue of the
Oregon system.
Apples are delicious, no matter how
you cook them. . Their sapidity Is in
destructible and persists through a
thousand disguises. But the fruit is
best of a Winter night along toward
Christmas, served in a big pan with
a basket of hickory nuts, a flat iron
and a hammer, before a roaring fire
with father reading the paper in the
background and mother knitting. For
this function Roxbury russets are pre
ferred, but any apples will do.
The Minnesota Development Asso
elation has taken a step that similar
societies in other states might well
Imitate. It is preparing to have a
soil survey of the state made, so that
it can give accurate information to
settlers about the proper crops to grow
in the sections where they wish to lo
cate. No work aould be more val
uable. A soli survey is needed as
much in Oregon as in Minnesota.
Sharpers in Chicago are always on
the lookout for game, and ..the Polk
County man who lost $80 pitching pen
nies had a run for hi3 money, at
least. The Oregonlan abroad would
better limit his sporting activity to
pitching horseshoes.
England reciprocates for our kind
ness in not returning Mrs. Pankhurst
by permitting Harry Kemp to stay on
the other side. Both seem compara
tively docile, when out of their native
element.
An anonymous gift of $4,850,000 has
been made to Cornell medical school.
All users of gasoline will hope that
John D. Isn't behind the donation.
In seeking to Impress the world with
our fairness we have merely gained
international fame as spineless and
stupid.
In Chicago dancers must remain
four Inches apart by order of the pub
lic morals censors. Are they trying to
kill the dancing game?
Jessie Wilson's fiance presents his
views of public morals. Let's see.
what's the young man's name?
The boy who tries to shoot himself
to avoid school will live to kick him
self for having missed school. .
American tars on shore leave in
Italy are showing the natives they are
not dead ones, by any means.
Unsettled weather is forecasted in
the weekly forecast from Washington,
Aren't they the real wizards?
The figure au naturel Is announced
as the new rule in fashion. . That rule
Is as old as Eve.
Now. Jupiter Pluvius. if you have
any patriotism, cork the spott for this
afternoon.
Naples is tiring of the visit of Amer-
lean sailors. Their money must be
gone.
Some men get married so often that
you never know whether it's again or
yet- -
' Another bjg strike ended by media
tion. The strike has had its day.
The Wilson-Bryan Mexican policy
would make good in comic opera.
The price of the Thanksgiving
turkey is the vital Issue now...
We don't see how Huerta
make himself any clearer.
could
Checkers have replaced poker at the
police club. What stakes?
The cook who makes an apple pie
Just right is a Jewel.
Be sure to tickle your Adam's apple
with apples today.
Just for a change:
Alamo!"
Remember the
Order a box by telephone.
Do not forget the cider.
EVTI IS GRKATLY EXAGGERATED 1
Commercialised Exposure Feeds om
Commercialized Vice, Writer Asserts,
PORTLAND, Nov. 18. (To the Edi
tor.) One begins to grow- somewhat
weary of hearing about this over
exposed evil called "white slavery."
The business of uncovering it Is com
ing to have a suspicious look. Its
exposure" and denunciation Is too
regular. One begins to question the
existence of the evil In anything like
the proportions claimed by certain
self-styled investigators. The conclu
sion is being more and more forced
on the thinking citizen that while
commercialized vice is undoubtedly
highly profitable, the ''exposure" of vice
also has its substantial pecuniary re
wards. It furnishes material for wri
ters of lurid and hysterical articles
and books which sell by the thousand
and enrich Troth authors and publish
ers. It has been found to be a good
field for playwrights and theatrical
managers to exploit with excellent re
turns. It keeps a small army of "in
vestigators" and "rescue workers" in
Jobs that pay fairly good salaries. It
furnishes a topic for sensational lec
turers who attract large audiences of
the inquisitive and curious, and who
succeed in drawing down a snug sti
pend for a couple of hours' talk, with
lantern slides, nightly. Thus out of
commercialized vice has grown another
paying business, namely, commercial
ized exposure.
What is meant by "white slavery"?
The only legitimate definition of the
term is the abduction or luring of girls
and women and their forcible deten
tion in houses of Ill-fame in order to
make profits for the proprietors there
of. To identify ail forms of the social
evil with "white slavery," as some peo
ple do. Is stupid when Indeed It does
not happen to be deliberately mer
cenary. In order to promote the sale
of a book, hold a Job, advertise a se
ries of overdrawn illustrated lectures
or Increase patronage at a playhouse.
Those who have looked into the al
leged white slave trade most thor
oughly declare it to be largely a myth.
Such gross exaggerations as that of
Mrs. Kate W. Barrett, National presi
dent of the Florence Crlttenton Mis
sion, as to the extent of the white'
slave traffic discredit themselves by
their inherent absurdity. Mrs. Barrett
claims that this traffic Includes more
than 350,000 women in the United
States today, and that over 20,000 new
victims are added yearly.
Against this grotesque statement
may be placed that of A, W. Elliott,
president of the Southern Rescue Mis
sion, and editor of the Young Woman's
Magazine, who says in the latest num
ber of that publication:
We frankly say there never was a Joke of
more huge proportions perpetrated upon the
American publlo tnan this white slave JoKe.
I surely do not believe that there are
dozen girls in America today that are In
houses of Ill-fame that could not walk out
If they wanted to. Tney love that kind of
life and will scoff at the reformer and even
kick him out If he does not set out when
asked to.
1 could go into detail, writing hundreds
of pages of my various efforts to redeem
them, but it would be useless waste of time;
It Is only necessary to tell you that women
of the underworld will not reform, and
there Is positively no use In wasting your
money on them. I have positively entered
at least 2000 houses of ill-repute and have
talked face to face with possibly 15,000 of
these women, and I pledge you truthfully
that I know them Just alxyou know your
own little children, and I do not hesitate
to tell you that they are wedded to tnelr
ways and that they laugh at and make fun
of those who try to help them.
Mr. Elliott sensibly holds that it is
betted to concentrate attention upon
girls and women who have not yet
fallen into the ways of. the under
world. His reliance is on education,
training and the creation of opportu
nity for employment at adequate
wages. In order to prevent recruits
from voluntarily entering the ranks of
these unfortunates. Mere repressive
or punitive legislation accomplishes
nothing. And he especially denounces
those who indulge in reckless exag
geration of the fictitious white slave
trade in order selfishly to exploit the
uninformed but sympathetic public.
If he can restore some of the shriek
ing professional "exposers" and their
hysterical followers to something like
sense and reason, he will have ren
dered a real public service.
TRUTH SEEKER.
ALCOHOL AND XI I1C BIRTH RATE
a
Use of Intoxicants and Its Bearing on
Rnce Suicide Discussed.
PORTLAND, Nov. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) On November 7 The Oregonlan
published a communication from me,
discussing: the relation of alcohol to
race suicide, with an editorial criti
cism softly denying my conclusions.
I agree with you, of course, that
technically the word "suicide" means
Intentional self-destruction, but in dis
cussing the question of "race suicide"
the word has assumed a broader mean
ing to apply to those various elements
which from any angle contribute to
the destruction of the race. Therefore,
the application of the term "race sui
cide" to the sterilizing effects of
alcohol does not at all strain the mean,
ing of the word, in the mind of the
layman.
Your statement that France's low
birth rate Is caused "by well-known
preventive devices" is only partially
true. It Is true, mainly, among the
rich in France, and other countries as
well. Including America. Preventive
practices are admittedly more prevalent
Ln France than in most countries, but
they are not particularly prevalent ln
France or other countries among the
poor.
The scientific fact that alcohol is' a
sterilizing agency ln every grade of
animal life cannot fail to have a strong
bearing on the question of "race sui
cide" ' ln the broad meaning of the
term. The use of alcohol by genera
tions of the past is now developing
its final results ln the sterilization of a
large portion of the civilized world.
K The "loss or l.ooir.ooo names a year"
$s not a reference to the death of
oaDies max nave Deen Dorn, dux rep
resents the loss of babies that ought
to be born and are not.
Dr. T. Alexander MacNlcholl, whom I
quoted before, explains the process of
deterloratloaUfr sterilization ln the fol.
lowing language:
The germ cell that is to be evolved Into
another being is the most highly organized
of all the oells ln the body. In Its pro
toplasm lies the material and pattern of
the perfected organism. Should such poi
son as alephol lessen the nutrition of the
cell or impair the quality of the proto
plasmic material and deface the pattern,
these shortcomings and defects would be
manifested in the subsequent stages of de
velopment. A defective germ cell cannot
evolve a normal Dody the degenerate fac
tor becomes more potent with each trans
mission and renders posterity, more and
more susceptible to disease.
Still using the term "race suicide"
broadly, the effects of alcohol ln pro
ducing and promoting conditions of
disease w hich ln turn contribute to the
destruction of the race, are so mani
fest that there is practically none to
dispute the "logic of events."
The present generation Is reaping the
results of the "sins of our fathers,"
aggravated and increased by the almost
wholesale Indulgence in the use of the
alcoholic drug in our own day. Most
of us are ready to admit the deteriorat
ing effects of opium, morphine, cocaine,
arsenlo and even nicotine. Why are
we so loath to accept the conclusions
of science ln Its condemnation of
alcohol, the "poisoner general" of the
race? GEORGE G. PENDELL.
Question fn G
PORTLAND, Nov. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Please tell me which expression
is correct, "A rise, ln salary" or !'A
raise ln salary," and why?
A READER.
"A rise ln salary" is preferable. The
other expression, formerly considered
Incorrect, has through persistent
usage, become acceptable and is not
objected to by many critics.
BIO SMOKE FROM LITTLE FIRE
Writer Objects to Manner In Which
East Side Clubs Are "Pot on Record.'
PORTLAND, Nov. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) It would Beam a proper time
after reading the "extracts" from a
communication from the "head of East
Side Clubs" criticising the city's ad
ministration ln The Oregonlan Sunday,
to arise and remark a remark or two.
In the first place there appear in the
list of booster organizations given as
making up the "Greater East Side
United Improvement Clubs Associa
tion," 43 clubs, nine associations, two
Boards of Trade and two leagues a
total of 66 organizations as being rep
resented by and indorsing the promul
gations of the writer or the aforesaid
communication. From this array it
would seem that Portland is well
boosterized and if all these organiza
tions were as formidable as their
names appear our city officials might
well tremble on receipt of such a
chokebore charge as this last fulmina-
tlon.
But let the Commissioners be not
afraid for the powder behind this
charge is the good old-fashioned black
variety that makes lots of smoke. I
venture a guess that there were not
over 10 or 15 people present when the
Q. E. S. U. L C. A. loaded its blunder
buss this last time, and I doubt very
much if the records of these various
organizations will show more than ten
who have regularly elected delegates
who regularly attend the business
meetings of the "Gesulca." I am not
finding fault with the principle of
neighborhood organizations the idea
Is right, but it can be carried too far
and lose its force and this is a case ln
Doint.
It Is all wrong for a little bunch of
people, no matter how well meaning
they may be to attempt to speaK ror
the whole community or ror bo Dooster
clubs, unless their authority to do so is
unquestioned, for eventually they get
Into bad hands and the real welfare of
their several neighborhoods suffers.
Attacks on the city government, the
streetcar company, etc of ill-advlsed
and Ill-digested character written and
inaugurated by a few disgruntled per
sons put the improvement organiza
tion in a bad light ln its own field
which it does not fairly represent, for
the bulk of the citizens will stay away
from it and leave it alone.
It seems to me with all due respect
to Mr. Lepper and whom we all love
for his disinterested and exceedingly
valuable work done for the East Side
and the cl i at large, and done with
out pay or kope of adequate reward
that this is a good time tor u ne orego
nlan to prepare a careful article on
boosteritis.
The city fe peculiarly ln the eye of
the country just at present and It Is
a poor time for attacks on our Com
missioners and1 their conduct of the
city's affairs ln the public press unless
absolutely, sure of the groumis on wnicn
the attacks are based. And even then
they come with bad grace fr"om one
who tried to get there out oia not.
As I said before I love Mr. Lepper,
but he can make a bigger showing
with seven or nine men in the base
ment of Hotel Clifford than any man
on the East Side, and we have some
others over here with vivid imagina
tions besides him. Would It not be
well for the 66 varieties and the
"Gesulca" to be a little more conserva.
tive. a little more studious and atten
tive to facts and be very sure that he
who does our publicity work for us
carries into It a sense of high dignity
and worth, and does not give expres
sion to his own unauthorized and un-
censored opinions ln such a way as to
cause the' city at large to think that
the sentiment expressed is the vox
popull? O. G. HUGHSO-N.
MAJiY BAD THIXGS ARB GOIXG OJI
Moralists and Physicians Most Amend
or Nation Will Go to Dogs.
HILLSBORO. Or., Nov. 15. (To the
Editor.) Every year we Innoculate our
school children with filthy serums, pro
ducing no one knows how much actual
disease and misery, as a preventive
against the largely-mythical dangers of
smallpox. Everywhere thinking people
are beginning to protest against this
infamous practice. But the crime
against the children perpetrated in the
name of medical science is insignificant
when compared to the crime committed
in the name of morality and purity by
the Purity Congress at Minneapolis the
other day, when the school children of
that city were lnnoculated with the
virus of Comstockitis vaccinated men
tally and spiritually with the most
deadly and filthy of moral Olsoraers
to-wit. a morbid pruriency and pro
pensity to meddle In the private affairs
of others against the mythical dangers
of nude art. comfortable swimming gar
ments, healthy frankness regarding sex
and, finally, against that stupendous
fabrication of the moralist's Imagina
tion, the white-slave trade.
The dimes contributed by the chil
dren to Anthony Comstock's moral cru
sade are of comparatively little impor
tance; but, with each dime contributed,
the child is made to feel himself an
active participant ln that crusade, a
co-worker with the most pernicious
meddler and most unclean-minded
enemy of art and freedom and beauty
of our day, if not of all time. If none
but the school children of Minneapolis
were ln danger of this loathsome In
fectlon, perhaps we should keep silent
regarding it; but the event is signifi
cant of the force and lnclusiveness of
the "moral wave" which Is sweeping
over the country.
With a National society for moral
education, with social hygiene societies
in many states entangling physiology,
hygiene and morals, with morals al
ways in the ascendency; with morality
courts, with official spies and guard
lans of our morality at every turn,
even to the police censoring the dress
of women, we are ln danger of becom
ing mentally the most Immoral and de
bauched nation the world has ever seen.
To the pure all things are pure. To
the moralist. Intent upon his crusade
of moral reform, all things are impure,
As a man thinks, so Is he. And the
moralist goes about propagating his
unclean Ideas about himself and about
his Imaginary or real discoveries con
cerning others, contaminating every
thing and everybody he comes in con
tact with.
It's bad enough for grown people
voluntarily to join such a ct Msade. But
to pervert the fine enthf ilasms and
desire for useful activity of children
to such bass ends is an unspeakable
crime. L. OLTVEREAu.
Why Boys Leave the Farm.
PORTLAND, .Nov. 16. (To the Edl
tor.) The average farmer treats his
hired man with due respect, pays hi
a fair wage and gives him his. room
and board.
On the other hand, his son, doing the
same work more thoroughly, working
for his father's interests, receives his
room and board with all the complaints.
He sees the hired man receive pay for
the same work which he (the son) does,
aid he asks for a nickel or a dime to
take in the show."
The boy's spending money is reluct
antly handed to him. He Is then told:
You receive your room and board; what
more do you want? He then reasons:
"If I go to the city and work I will
receive wages as does John, the hired
man, and be independent." He then
starts out to seek his fortune ln the
city.
Can you blame him? M. E. G.
Fore'en Fire Insurance.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
There are 17 British companies trans
acting fire insurance ln the United
States and the premiums received
amounted to $56,031.31)0. The losses
paid are given as 29.484,600. which is
equivalent to 52 per cent of the pre
miums. ,
Twentyfive Year Ago
V
From The Oregonlan of November 1SV8S.
Willamette Valley Edition.
Omaha. Nov. IT. Henry W. King.
Jr., of the firm of Browning. King &
Co., was shot dead by his former wife
this morning.
Olympla, Nov. 17. Lieutenant Mayo,
of the surveying schooner Earnest, has
been called East by the dangerous ill
ness of his mother.
December 5 has been set as the date
for the initiation of Mr. Moody's work
here.
H. T. Scott and wife and L. B. Bent
ley, of San Francisco, are at the Hol
ton. The city and school tax roll is now
completed, so H. S. Allen, the school
clerk, Informs The Oregonfan.
John M. Breeb, Jr, lies dead at his
home, 231 Main street, from an over
dose of morphine.
Consolidation of Portland and East
Portland was discussed at a meeting at
Hall & Stotfs Hall last night. Speeches
ln favor of the movement were made
by A. H. Breyman. Mayor Wheeler, Cy
rus Buckman. Mr. Warner, Mr. Wyn
coop, Judge Mayo, Captain Kerns,
Judge Woodward, William Dalton, E.
Shannon and Mr. Wittenberg. A mo
tion to Indorse consolidation was car
ried, 60 to 13.
The School Board decided to stand
by Its determination to make vaccina
tion compulsory.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan of November 18, 1868.
Eugene City, Nov. 14. Captain
Pease's new steamer, which Is Just
about to take its place on the river
and is partially owned at this place. Is
expected to make regular trips here.
Stockholders of the California &
Columbia River Railroad Company met
at Jacksonville on November 7 and
elected the following directors: Hon.
George H. Williams and Hon. Amory
Holbrook, of Portland; C. P. Crandall,
of Salem; Hon. F. A. Chenoweth, of
Corvallis; B. Underwood, of Eugene;
John Kelly, of Roseburg, and J. C.
Tolman, of Ashland. Officers were
elected as follows: President, Amory
tolbrook; vice-president, J. C. Tolman;
secretary, J. Gaston, of Jacksonville; 1
chief engineer, S. G. Elliott; local en
gineer, C. W. Burrage, of Portland;
consulting engineer. Colonel I. R.
Moores, of Portland.
Warrenlon, Nov. 8. Upon the lifting
of the fog o-ur forces commenced cross
ing and found little or no opposition.
They are pressing forward to Culpep
per. General Kilpatrlck occupied the
city and heights of Fredericksburg
yesterday.
M. Turley will deliver an address
this evening at the Courthouse upon
the subject of. the Pacific railroad.
William Grooms has received the
appointment of assistant assessor of
Internal revenue for District No. 3,
which embraces Multnomah County,
vice H. C. Coulson, resigned.
Tonight "Robbers of the Forest of
Bohemia" will be presented at the
Willamette Theater. s
Minimum Wage Coats Position.
PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you please Inform me what
disposition is going to be made of girls
like myself by the Welfare Commis
sion? I am working near home as a clerk
and receive S7 a week. I go home for
lunch and have no carfare to pay. If
I am any Judge of my own welfare, I
think I am a great deal better off than
girls who work downtown for the
Commission's minimum wage.
I am satisfied with my wages and I
think my employer is satisfied with
me. I have been working at my pres
ent position one year, and have had no
occasion to think of looking for an
other position.
I received notice yesterday that I
would have to look for another position
after the new law goes into effect. I
fail to see where my condition is im
proved any'. I am going to be without
a position at a time when I need one
badly. CATHERINE TYLER.
Substitutes for Tobacco.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Almost innumerable substitutes for
tobacco have been devised by thrifty
or experimental souls, from the brown
paper and cabbage leaves smoked by
small boys, to dried lavender. A favor
ite substitute Is dry tea, which many
people seem to think has medicinal
value, whereas it Is pooltlvely harmful.
Liszt was a dry smoker of a peculiar
type. Massenet, who knew him well
in his later years, reports that Liszt
could not play unless he had a cigar
in his mouth, which he never troubled
to light. ( He would sit down to the
piano with a cigar between his teeth
and keep munching It all the time he
played. When the cigar was quite
eaten up the abbe would rise from the
Instrument exhausted.
THE LAST ROSE.
" 'Tis the last rose of Summer,"
All withered and lone.
Who lingers thus sadly.
The others have gone.
All faded we see her
And note with a sigh.
That the twilight of Summer
And roses is nigh.
Oh, fair was the beauty
That bloomed on the hour.
In the sunlight of Summer
So queenly a flower.
All vanished her glories.
Her triumphs are o'er;
She must follow the Summer
To life's other shore.
Oh, sad are the breezes.
And gone is the charm.
Where the lonely are sighTng
Forsaken, forlorn.
But beauty must perish
And withered be torn.
From the conquest and glories
Of life's early morn.
GEORGE H. SANDS.
The Arfr of Giving
Have you ever received a gift
that somehow seemed to lack the
personality that a gift between
friends should have?
To be a real and satisfactory
gift It should carry with It the
personality of the giver and show
the thought and care used in its
selection.
A real gift is one that .Is warm
with the friendship that prompts it.
The Christmas season approaches
with swift foot we hardly realize
It! It Is therefore 'a wise person
who begins now to pick and choose
and consider ln order that the gifts
selected may represent a great deal
more than so many dollars' worth of
merchandise.
Each day advertisers In The Ore
gonlan are suggesting and calling
to your attention countless articles
of every price, kind and description.
If you will begin now to take ad
vantage' of these daily offerings
your shopping will be made easier
and your gifts will be more than
mere presents. Adv.