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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1813.
DISPROVED BY THE FACTS.
Mr. Wheelwright's argument against
National preparedness is simply the
pacifist argument in new guise. Its
soundness is disproved by the entire
military history of the United States,
and by the history of Europe during
the last forty years, not excepting the
events immediately leading up to the
present war or of the war itself.
Unpreparedness does not procure
immunity from war; it invites war. It
does not diminish, but aggravates and
prolongs war's horrors.
This is our own experience. In yie
Revolutionary War the Colonies put
in the field nearly 400,000 untrained
men, but Washington could never mus
ter more than 20,000 at one "point. In
consequence the war continued seven
years, though it should have ended in
one year. Our losses of men were
increased by their lack of training,
and Washington condemned the send
ing of such men to the field as send
ing them to slaughter.
In the war of 1812 we put 527,000
men in the field, while the British
had only about 16,800 regulars at the
most at one time; yet the capital was
abandoned to the invaders by an army
almost double their number, and we
were defeated in every field until the
battle of New Orleans was fought
after peace had been made.'
" The Civil War employed over 2,600,
000 Union soldiers and lasted four
yen. With an adequate army it could
have been prevented or could have
been decided by the first battle of Bull
Run, or very soon thereafter. The
hundreds of thousands of lives lost,
the, billions of dollars of money spent
and the misery endured were the price
which trfe Nation paid for unprepared
ness. .
Had the United States been amply
prepared, the Spanish war might have
been prevented. Spain presumed on
her nominally swifter cruisers to gain
control of the sea, but failed. The vic
tory was not one of American effi
ciency; it was one of American ineffi
ciency over greater inefficiency of
Spain.
Opponents of military preparedness
are fond of pointing to the present war
as evidence of its futility as a preven
tive of war. The facts point the other
way. By being prepared, the great
powers delayed war for forty years,
except in the Balkan peninsula, where
the chronic unreadiness of Turkey was
a standing invitation to attack. It
caused attacks by Russia in 1877, by
Greece in 1897, by Italy in 1911 and
by the Balkan League in 1912. On the
other hand, the spectacle of more or
less adequate preparation has pre
vented the great powers from flying
at each other's throats in many cri
ses during the last forty years. .
Mr. Wheelwright says that he does
not propose disarmament, but opposes
Increase 'of our armament. As our
present Navy is notoriously inadequate
to cope with the navies of any one of
at least two and probably three other
nations, and as our Army is utterly
Inadequate to overcome any invading
army 'Which any one of these nations
might send against us, Mr. Wheel
wright's position practically is that we
should maintain inadequate defenses.
The experience of Belgium proves that
this would be worse than no defense
at all. The resistance we could offer
would not save us from conquest, but
It would incense the invader, provoke
him to greater severity and prompt
him to' compel ua to. pay the cost of
our own defeat. The experience of
Switzerland, on the other hand, proves
that adequate, armed defense saves a
country from invasion and preserves
its peace. It proves that even univer
sal military service, against which
pacifists sew passionately declaim, can
bo adopted consistently with a peace
ful National policy and is not of itself
militarism.
Militarism has been magnified .Into
a great bogey with which to scare peo
ple who really favor proper defense
of the Nation, but who shudder at the
thought of being styled militarists. Any
measure of National defense is called
militarism by the pacifists, with the
purpose of alarming this class of peo
ple. Fortunately, Americans are be
coming daily less ready to shy at a
word. They see ex-President Taft sup
porting National defense and at the
ame time leading the League to En
force Peace, and they recognize in him
end in the millions who think with
him level-headed patriots, doing their
utmost to hasten the day of peaceful
settlement, but anxious that until that
day comes their country shall not be
defenseless.
Militarism does not consist in the
maintenance of a large Army -'arfu
Navy; it does not consist even in
universal and compulsory military
service. It is the state of mind which
directs that these Instruments shall
tie put to aggressive use. Both Ger
many and Switzerland enforce com
pulsory service, but the former . uses
it to conquer "a place in the sun," the
latter to prevent that place from be-
ing conquered within its borders. The
pacifist refuses to recognize the dis
tinction. He is as illogical as would
tie he who, because every highwavmah
has a gun, classed all men who have
guns as highwaymen, ills Ideal cousd
only be realized by the man who, from
love of peace, refused to have a
weapon in his bouse and exposed his
family to robbery, outrage and murder
without means of defense. . Had Swit
zerland put this idea in practice, al
the armies of Europe would have
inarched across it to attack each other
and, like Belgium, it would have been
trampled down in wars that were not
of its making.
The elder Rockefeller is not infalli
ble In his business judgment, after all.
He has just spent a total of $1,000,000
to attain a deiinite purpose, only to
wit mm
fail and suffer complete defeat. John
became imbued with the idea that he
wanted no business houses in the same
block with his home. He bought every
adjoining; house that might be put to
such use, only to have an art store,
which refuses to sell out, open for
business in one of the few buildings
he neglected to purchase. , He is out
a cool million to date, because of this
whim, and now he .faces the necessity
of doing what he should have thought
of in the first place move to a dis
trict that is given over strictly to resi
dence properties.
NO JOKJ5. -
The Oregonian is asked to give its
opinion as to whether the candidacy,
actual . or secret, of ' Colonel James
Hamilton Lewis to be Vice-President
is to be taken seriously.
Inasmuch as James Hamilton Lewis
takes himself and his political ambi
tions seriously, it may he assumed
that the suggestion of his name -is
something more than a joke. It is no
novelty for Senator Lewis to be a can
didate not even for .the Vice-Presi
dency. The veracious chronicle of his
life in "Who's Who" records that he
was - indorsed by the .Pacific Coast
states for Vice-President at the Kan
sas City convention in 1900. Few per
sons will recall who was nominated
in that disastrous Democratic -year, but
all will remember .that Lewis was not.
But he may.be.
The Democrats,, are never very par
ticular about their Vice-Presidential
nominees; nor is any other party. Yet
when the tragic record of the past
fifty years is reviewed with three
Presidents assassinated the vast -im
portance of the office ought totbe
realized.
No man should be named for Vice-
President, of course, who is not fit
to be President. The Presidency calls
for something other than buffoonery
and sartorial sensationalism. Senator
Lewis has other qualities, to be sure;
but they are not so well known as
his frequent displays of oratorical py
rotechnics and demagogic acrobatics.
No mere clown could accomplish what
he has accomplished. There Is no
limit to his ambition or his assurance.
From the Senate to the Vice-Presi
dency is but a step; and then a mad
prank of fate--or fortune may make a
Vice-President President.
. SAX FRANCISCO IN19IS?
The Oregonian responds cheerfully
to the call of certain enthusiastic cit
izens of San Francisco to give pub
licity to the fact that an invitation has
been extended to the National Repub
lican convention of 1916 to meet in
that city. It Is willing also to sum
marize briefly the reasons given by
Congressman Kahn and others why
the Republicans should break prece
dent and for the first time assemble
to nominate a President somewhere
west of the Missouri River. . The ar
gument runs about as follows:
(1) San Francisco is the coolest
large city anywhere in July and Au
gust. (2) It has never had a National Re
publican convention.
(3) Great new auditorium has been
built.
(4) Republicans would thus be en
abled'to study at first hand Western
problems.
(5) Hotel accommodations unsur
passed.
(6) Railroads will make low rates.
(7) Republicans of the West have
been - going East to conventions for
half a -century. Turn about is fair
play.
(8) San Francisco will raise large
guaranty.
It is true enough, of course, that
California in recent years has not
done much for the Republican party;
but there, are signs of repentance. It
is undoubtedly a fact that no. other
city in America can give such safe
assurances of good weather in Sum
mer and hospitable entertainment at
all times. The great handicap is the
distance most of the delegates would
have to travel. But there is no help
for that; San Francisco is where it is.
and no one who knows it would have
it elsewhere.
It is not probable that San Fran
cisco has any serious idea that it will
get the convention. But the campaign
will do no harm. Besides, it will show
the world that, in the fateful vear
"after the fair," San Francisco ex
pects to be on the job.
CARE OF THE WOUNDED.
Althoueh volumes mv& Kn ..-.-;
corfceminu the fearful machines de
vised for taking human lives In the
European arena, attie has been re
ported on the subiect of
the wounded, on the firing line and
comforting them in their agonies.
" ""o me voiume or slaughter has
been greater than
past, it is probable that there has been
less actual individual suffering. This
is due not alone to th am a iu
more humane bullets and to the pre
cautions taken to prevent . Infection,
but to the thorough organization of
medical and sanitary troops which
worn in me immediate battle zone, re
moving wounded with the least possi.
ble delay.
In the French army particularly the
gathering of the wounded is attended
by very little delay. The victims are
picked up almost as rapidly as they
fall under the gory scythe of the Grim
Reaper. Accounts in French technical
journals describe operations of med
ical troops w ith the first advance line,
and establishment of first-aid stations
well ahead of the sunnnrrs i-h
soldier is wounded a surgeon or non
commissioned orncer crawls up to him
and makes a hurrtrt
tying flat at the same time to prevent
ueiug nit w-nue at this work. If the
wound is of a particularly painful
character, the victim is given a hypo
dermic injection and put to sleep. As
the tide of battle surges forward the
litter bearers and field
proach and .remove the injured man to
me uressmg station, where his wounds
are carefully dressed r.n.nSr,
removing him to the field hospital at
iue rear, tiere operations are per
formed ana the patient is sent to a
reserve nospital for sustained treat
ment and convalescence.
xn ere are times, of course, when
these tender minisrmrinno . .i
- ua-
sible. In those desperate hand-to-hand
i-iasnes over possession of trenches in
which cannon, marhina o-,,no -ifiAn
pistols and bayonets are brought to
"ct" a veritable hell of slaughter
the gathering of the wounded is de
layed by their large numbers, and
suffering of the most ur3iwn.
acter ensues. However, such conflicts
are not of frequent occurrence. Much
of the fighting is done in a much more
ut-uuerate lasnion and the hundreds
of wounded may be given succor by a
sufficiently large and well-organized
medical corps.
.In the matter of caring for the
-uuuuva me war is not to be com
ko.cu, aw me battlefields of fifty
years ago, when antiseptics, sanitation j
and anesthetics were not yet well es
tablished. While man has lost none of
his ancient cruelty and ferocity, he
has grown far more solicitious in his
treatment of those who have fallen
victim to the lust of battle.
NONPARTISAN DODGE REJECTED.
. By rejecting the non-partisan elec
tion scheme of Governor Johnson, Cal
ifornia shows that it has seen through
the hollow sham of a device to con
tinue himself in office put for
ward by the leader of a minority
party. As Oregon has learned by re
cent experience, non-partisanship is
simply a trick by which a party too
weak to win on its merits lures away
enough voters from the majority party
to give it control. Nonpartisanship
never works both ways. Its apostles
no sooner win than they again become
strict partisans, divide the spoils
among themselves, give none to their
opponents and carry oiit'party policies.
In California Governor Johnson real
izes that he cannot hold together in
the Progressive party the votes by
which he has twice been elected, and
which were given to him as the cham
pion of a new movement to wrest the
state from corporate control. Seeing
that the trend among them is irresist
ibly back to their normal party affilia
tions, he seeks to retain them as a
personal following in state affairs for
the political profit of himself and his
clique. His defeat is both a rejection
of nonpartisanship and a sign of wear
iness with his grand programme of
social and industrial Justice, the fruits
of which are doubling and trebling
of taxes and much vexatious interfer
ence with industry and personal rights.
California realizes, as has . every
other state that has tried the non
partisan experiment, that efficient gov
ernment in a democratic country can
be secured only through the organized
action of bodies of voters holding the
same principles and advocating the
same measures. To obstruct the ac
tion of such men In party organiza
tion for the purpose of procuring the
adoption of their principles 'and the
opportunity to put them in effect is
to make politics a guerilla war among
the personal followers of. individual
leaders,' upon whom no responsibility
for their acts can be fastened. It is
also to -deny free men one of the fun
damental rights of free men the right
to meet and associate themselves for
a common end in connection with pub
lic affairs.
The American people prefer party
responsibility to the- non-partisan ir
responsibility of a number of chang
ing cliques. When a party, through
its chosen candidates, offends, the peo
ple punish it by defeat. When it serves
them well, they rew'ard it with a new
lease' of power. When both parties
become corrupt, the inactive mass be
comes active and either drives the cor
rupt from control of existing parties
or uses a new party to defeat them.
Thus the party system provides the
remedy for its own diseases, and there!
is no cause to kill the patient Jn or
der to effect a cure.
. DEVOTED AFFECTION.
Was there ever a more gallant or at
tentive beau than our own President
in his romantic courtship of Mrs. Gait?
Beauty will be served, and -certainly
the charming lineal descendant of Po
cahontas could not crave more con
siderate homage to her manifold
charms than is bestowed bv the
thoughtful and admiring Mr. Wilson.
There are those stolid observers of
human conduct who contend that no
man can ever be really and truly in
love more than once. Ah, but they do
not know, for if all the symptoms may
be taken as indicative of depth of feel
ing, then this National romance puts
all such observers to shame. If Mr.
Wilson is not wholly, thoroughly and
devotedly, in love, all signs .avail eth
not, and we may place no future de-'
pendence upon the evidence of our
eyes. ' -
Not the press of National and inter
national affairs, not the multitudinous
perplexities of approaching campaigns
and issues, not the weighty pressure of
National defence systems -can serve to
carry him into the barren Tealm of
neglect in this tenderest of all sub
jects. There la always time in the
busy day for a message of beautiful
flowers culled from the Presidential
gardens, mayhap, at times, by the
President's own hand. In those hours
that he can steal away from the cares
of state, a fragrant spin in the Presi
dential car, cupid at the wheel, is far
more delicious and refreshing than
mere idle rest. Those who have seen
the President in such moments say he
raaiates good numor and happiness.
Suci glimpses aa we have been per
mitted of him with his fiancee through
the medium of the camera reveal this
same lightness .of soul. Surely no one
wno has studied one of these photos
for an instant can say there is any
thing of simulation in the exDansivn
smile that illumines the countenance
of this distinguished suitor.
It is a smile, withal, that seems most
happily to have dispelled the heavy
gloom that hung over his features for
several long months, wringing from
the Nation many a sympathetic tear.
It is a smile that causes us, too, 'to
marvel at the transition. It is indeed
a remarkable power of adiustmnnt
which can throw off a heavy mood for
one so blithesome and gay almost over-
nignt. Most of us; it is to be feared,
take the solemn relatiOnshiDs of thin
sober old world far too seriously for
any such sudden readjustment of our
lives.
REPUBLICANS WILL HELP.
President Wilson appears to have
lined up the chairmen of committees
of Congress which deal with the Army
and Navy in favor of his defense nro-
gramme, but that does not imply that
the Democrats, or even a majority of
mem, win De with him. This is a
Democratic, not a Republican, opinion,
for it is expressed by the Brooklyn
t-agie.
That journal does not underrate the
influence of Mr. Bryan and his "mawk
ish peace-at-any-price propaganda.
and predicts that he will carry the war
on the Administration's plans into
Congress. He will be supported by
those Democrats "who have never
shied at a pork-barrel" and "who balk
whenever it is proposed to build more
than one battleship a year or to add a
company or two to the coast artillery."
A campaign on strictly party lines,
says the Eagle, might easily, result in
defeat for the Administration, and 4the
situation can be saved in one way
alone by the action of Republicans
patriotic enough to ignore the obliga
tions or party.
There need be no misgivings on that
score. Repeatedly since Mr. Wilson
became President Republicans have
supported him in great emergencies,
wherein patriotism called upon them
to rise above party advantage or to
sink criticism in the cause of National
unity. They helped materially in per
fecting the Federal 'reserve law, and
voted for it with few exceptions. They
supported him in the quarrel with
Huerta, and during the recent crisis
with Germany.
They have at times yielded their
own judgment raTher than let the Na
tion appear divided in face of a pos
sible enemy. While they must share
the blame for our present condition of
unpreparedness, they have taken the
lead in the present movement to Im
prove our defenses. The strongest and
most successful opposition to that im
provement has come from Democratic
obstructionists, who preferred to be
guided by altruistic theories rather
than by the teachings of history and of
the tremendous convulsion which is
now taking place before their eyes.
One of the obligations recognized by
members of the Republican party is to
support an executive of any party in
any proper action to make the Nation
safe against attack and to resist such
attack.
By giving the President this patri
otic support, however, the Republicans
will establish a valid claim to a part
In. shaping the defense programme.
The work in hand is National in its
scope and involves no questions ox
party policy unless some party should
choose by opposition to make it so.
Republicans can assist materially in
perfecting the programme, and their
aid should be frankly welcomed. No
pride of opinion or thought of party
advantage should be permitted to in
terfere with acceptance of any wise
suggestions they may make. There is
the more reason why the Administra
tion should treat the subject as non
partisan in the fact that it is laying out
a programme completion of which will
extend far beyond the present Presi
dential term.
Mr. Wilson cannot hope to bind a
future Administration, whether of his
own or the opposite party, to such an
extended programme unless it is the
joint product of the labors of both par
ties. -The opportunity is good for ap
plying the principle . of continuity
which should govern in matters of Na
tional defense and of foreign policy.
The hardships of those war corre
spondents wring our souls. Just think
of the terrible ordeals they must face
in order to gather the news, in the
eastern theater of operations. For
whole days they are confined to the
rough interior of a private car without
facilities for a morning bath. Occa
sionally they have nothing more re
freshing to drink than mineral water.
They are compelled to arise at the un
earthly hour of 6 by a rough guide who
breaks their rest with rough excla
mations of "guten morgen." As we
read the wracking narrative of their
adventures, it gives us a fresh zest for
their war tales. Surely war itself can
not be more harrowing than the life
of a correspondent on the eastern
front. We fancy that the censor has
deleted some of the worse hardships.
Who knovs but that their dinners may
be served without regular courses:
Perhaps, as London - excitedly re
ports, the Kaiser is anxious for peace.
But what is the price? What will he
ask for withdrawing his armies from
Belgium, from France and from Po
land? He is intrenched on the allies'
territory in every direction. The allies
have been unable to weaken his grip.
For their part the allies have taken a
few relatively undefended German col
onies. So, if the Kaiser wants peace,
we surmise that he will put a price on
that boon which will make London
gasp. However, we shall believe that
Germany is seeking peace when the
word comes from Berlin rather than
from London.
There have been many sex regula
tion schemes, but the only; one that
ever approximated success was that of
a crafty do'ctor who promised a son
to expectant parents with every assur
ance and Insisted from time to time
that he was certain he could not be
mistaken. If his promise materialized
he claimed full credit for the phe
nomenon. If his guess went wrong he
counted upon the confusion and joy-
ousness of the happy occasion to es
cape being called to task for his false
prediction.
An American citizen with a name
that spells and sounds decidedly Ger
manic is held in London on the charge
of trading with hostile interests. In
terference by Ambassador Page will
be logical.
Because her given name is Ora. the
jury commissioners of Baker County
placed her on the list and nobody was
wise until she sent word the baby was
sick and she could not serve. That
settled it. -
Now the allies want a banking
credit of a quarter-billion, which will
not be a loan with a bond issue. The
financial campaign seems . to' be but
beginning.
The jury found extenuating circum
stances in the case of Porter Charlton
which is better luck than vouchsafed
most wife-murderers.
Death of 170 in the typhoon In the
Philippines does not seem appalling
since the casualty lists began coming
from Europe.
A Chicago man was - sent to jail
while on his honeymoon. Out of one
prison into another, as the cynic would
With the municipal budget session
and Dan Kellaher'a trial, Portland has
continuous vaudeville a-plenty.
Austria has recognized
There is always an affinity
birds of a feather.
Mexico.
between
Harney County girls know how to
refuse too ardent wooers, even if they
have to kill them.
That Idaho girl asleep for a week in
Illinois simply misses the "ginger" of
the Gem state.
Gasoline is costing more and it may
be John D. is needing Christmas
money.
Senator Chamberlain goes up to see
the President today "by royal com'
mand."
The pound sterling bumped the bot
tom in New Tork again yesterday.
Henry Ford did not use a can opener
in cutting the big melon.
Toung people who elope In an auto
mobile get a good start.
The Dock Commission refuses to
have its budget docked.
Serbia is the squeezed lemon.
How to Keep Well.
By Dr. "VV. A. Evans.
(Questions pertinent to hygiene, san
itation and prevention of disease, if
matters of general interest, will' be
answered in this column. Where space
will not permit or the subject is not
suitable, letters will be personally an
swered, subject to proper limitations
and where a stamped, addressed envel
ope is inclosed. Dr. Evans will not
make diagnoses or prescribe for indi
vidual diseases. Requests for Such
service cannot be answered.)
(Copyright, 1915. by Dr. W. A. Evjns.
Published by arrangement with Chi
cago Tribune.)
Locomotor Ataxia.
When one physician Is asked, is lo
comotor ataxia curable, he replies no.
When the next one is asked the same
question he replies yes. whereupon the
questioner gets the Idea that the phy
sicians disagree radically. The fact is
they do not disagree. The physician
now replied that the disease was cura
ble meant that tho patient could train
a new set of muscles and nerves to de
the work of those that had been thrown
out of commission, so that he might
get about with fair ease. The other
meant that the diseased parts could not
be made whole.
Both physicians would have agreed
that it was very Important that the
man with locomotor ataxia should
know the nature of his disease in the
very early stages. The possibility of
Knowing locomotor ataxia, rests with
the man who is affected. He Is the
scout; he is on the Picket line, where
as the family physician is in the first
trench and the locomotor specialist is
among the reserves.
In a recent meetinsr of nerve special
ists Dr. C. F. Neu recited five cases
where patients had locomotor ataxia
for several years without knowing It,
The first case, a man 50 years of age,
for 12 years had had dull, aching pains
in hiB legs about his knees. The pains
were worse at night, got better when
he took hot baths. Sometimes they
left him for several weeks. Naturally
ne tnought he bad muscular rheuma
tlsm. After the pains had lasted for
eight years he had a nervous break
down and a new pain across the arch
of his foot started up and grew worse
for several years. This pain also was
w-orse at night. He thoirght this was
due to falling arches. Ten years after
ne naa a careful, thorough examina
tion and found out the nature of hid
trouDie.
Another man, 45 years of age. suf
fered for three years with a pain In the
pit of his stomach. The pain came and
went. It was very severe at times. In
some attacks the sharp, sudden pain
would cause him to vomit. It was so
plain that he had gallstones that he
was operated on, but no stones were
found. He had locomotor ataxia.
A third case was a woman, 45 years
of age. She had shingles, which "got
well, but .left a feeling of a band
around the body which never ceased.
About a year later she began to have
pains In her heels. The pain extended
from her heels up her legs. Ten year3
after the time her locomotor ataxia
started as shingles it was plain that
the disease was in her spinal cord.
A man 28 years of age got cross
eyed all of a sudden. He went to a shop
ana got glasses and then another set,
and so on- Over two years later he
noticed that he could not see well with
his left eye and a few months later
still the right eye was noted to be
failing. . A complete examination
showed locomotor ataxia.
The fifth case was a man 52 vears
of age, who suffered from what seemed
to be an ordinary stomach trouble for
about a year. He thought It was In
digestion until other symptoms began
to develop, and when he sought medi
cal advice found that he had locomotor
ataxia. v .
Pains in the limbs without swelling.
which continue for a long time, getting
worse ai mgnt ana cnanglng with the
weather, should excite suspicion of
locomotor ataxia. Pains in the pit of
the stomach may mean indigestion,
ulcer, cancer, or gallstones, but if thev
continue to recur without cause and in
spite or careful dieting should make
one investigate carefully.
Treatment of Asthma.
W. H., of Maine, writes: "I am a
great sufferer from asthma and find
that remedies and change of climate
have little effect. I am told that In
oculation with a serum of sputum and
the pollen of flowers is 'Efficacious.
Is this correct .in bronchial asthma?
Would such- a treatment be injurious
to' the patient?"
REPLY.
If your asthma is hay fever you may set
relief from the use of pollen vaccines; other
wise, not. Jf your asthma Is the result of
heart or kidney trouble treatment should
be directed to 'the underlying disease. If
your asthma is not due to either of these
conditions you may set relief from vaccina
made from sputum. If these fall let m
suKgest that you try living- on a diet In
which there is no histldin. Among foods
to be eaten are bouillon, potatoes, rice, breail
and sugar, cereals, lemon and grapejulce.
Among foods to be avoided are milk, eggs,
cheese, meat.
Treating; Cinder In the Ere.
T. G. D. writes: "When a cinder gets
into the eye shut the lids quietly and
hold them closed for one minute. If a
trembling of the lids indicates that
the cinder is still In the eye keep the
lids closed for at least two minutes
longer. By all means refrain from
rubbing the eye, also from clamping
the lids firmly together. A combina
tion of a washing action by the tears
and a gentle muscular movement car
ries the cinder to the inner corner of
the eye and down the tear duct. Is
the method known to and advised by
eye specialists;
REPLY.
Tes. It is free from- objection and ia
enective in many cases.
Killing Bacteria on Floor.
J. W. G. writes: "In. a tubercular
case we are following directions given
in your recent article, except that we
use concentrated lye to clean up in
case of accident, instead of carbolic
acid. If this Is not safe, we would be
glad to know. How long is it neces
sary to leave lye on the spot? Doesnt
it bum everything right up? We use
it slightly damp.
REPLY.'
Lye will kill bacteria satisfactorily, but it
is harder on the floor. For that reason one
of the coal-tar preparations is better. A fi
per cent solution of any of the coal-tar
oisinrectanta win Kin bacteria. it used in
conjunction with ordinary soap it will be
easier on mo iioor man a strong lye soap.
Diseased Tonsils.
R. L. B. writes: "Can diseased ton
sils be cured? Is it always necessary
to nave tnem removed :
REPLY.
Many cases can be cured by massage and
Cleaning. Many can only Da cured or opera,
tion.
Blood Pressare.
W. W. E. writes: "Is 160 blood pres
sure too high for a woman 43 years
old?"
REPLY.
It la.
Arresting- Offlcer'a Rights.
CLATSKANIE, Or.. Oct. 26. (To the
Editor.) Has a City Marshal a right
to go into a rooming-house and arrest
and jail an intoxicated man without
notifying the landlord or without serv
ing a warrant? SUBSCRIBER.
According to the District Attorney's
Interpretation of the law an officer
may not legally enter a house and take
a drunken may from his room and place
him under arrest without a search war
rant, unless the man is disorderly and
is disturbing either inmates of the
house or people outside. If the man
is disorderly the officer may make the
arrest without a warrant.
M ALLOW KKN PRANKS AND PARKNTS
Cltlsem Who Salttrtil Last Tear Cites
Responsibilities Akead of Fatkeraw
PORTLAND. Oct. 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Halloween approaches and the
average citizen with his lares and
Penates views the occasion with
mingled apprehension and wrath. Whv?
Let the writer cite last year's experi
ence, one of many.
A children's party was given on this
particular evening and father engaged
in reciting fairy stories or other more
athletic stunts, while a group of half
grown youths Invaded the dooryaid. cut
through the screen door and removed
from the back porch a live-gallon
freezer of ice cream; ate part, sprinkled
some on the lawn and bombarded
neighbors' front doors with . the re
mainder. The freezer never was
locatcd.
Nor was this all. Back porch larders
in the neighborhood were similarly as
saulted. Steaks, roasts and vegetables
were scattered about lawns and streets.
One taxpayer had the felicity of re
finishing two of the upper rooms of his
house, into which, through the open
windows, eggs had been shied. Milder
forms of amusement consisted in car
rying to indifferent distances, lawn
mowers, garden hose, wheelbarrows,
garden tools and the like, uprooting
shrubbery and upsetting wood piles. A
telephone message went from one irate
householder to the police station from
a man whose 'taxes go a long way
toward paying the salaries of these
guardians, but it brought forth the
reply that conditions described were
not confined to any one block or sec
tion of the city: that from St, Johns
to Sellwood. Mount Tabor to Kings
Heights, similar complaints were being
made; that it would take a force many
times larger to care for the situa
tion. The writer is not a pessimist. He
believes boys are potentially just as
good today as they ever were; they are
struggling against rather hard con
ditions, however: Our playgrounds have
been dismantled, our public swimming
pools closed. The good old bucksaw
has met the gasoline woodsaw and
fallen In the trenches. Grass cutting is
done by the hour at so much per; the
kitchen garden has made - but slight
headway; the "chores" of old no longer
exist. Outlets for the activities of the
average boy after school lie on the
streets, hard-paved and inviting, picture
shows, automobiles, cigarettes, with
that gregarious spirit which actuates
all human beings. Couple this with
the indifference and apathy of the
parent and there is -proper cause lor
anxiety.
We have erected juvenile courts with
costly machinery, detention and in
dustrial homes, reform schools, with
the Idea that in some -blind way so
ciety, through these agencies, can take
over the responsibilities and duties
properly resting upon the parents and
today neglected by many who seem to
feel that after the fundamental act of
bringing their children into the world,
society should do the rest.
Halloween, like other occasions, may
properly be devoted to harmless
diversions, but what actual good can
be conserved by unbridled license, de
struction of property, invasion of the
rights of others? All the Sunday
schools and juvenile courts in the
world cannot cope with this spirit. It
must be met within the home by the
parents, and above all. by the father,
upon whose shoulders the responsibility
for the boy's coming, growing and
being, fairly rests. CITIZEN.
SIR. WHEELWRIGHT OS HIS TALK.
Report Accepted aa Intelligently Ac
curate Is Clarified In One Particular.
PORTLAND. Oct, 27. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you allow me to correct an
error In what was otherwise a fair
report of the address delivered by me
last night at the banauet of the Navv
The following was almost the nnpn-
lng sentence of the speech: "That it is
the duty of the United States to main
tain a Wavy at any and all times can
not be questioned." Yet The Oregonian
reporter represents me as "pleading for
action by the United States In leading
the way by example to world-wide dis
armament." My only use of that word
was in the following paragraph:
Ana now snail it be with us when
the afflicted and war-torn nations of
Europe, whom a long conflict has
forced to gather together in a con
vention or congress to devise a modus
Vivendi, the very basis of which must
be disarmament, if some one. points to
this country and says: 'There is a Na
tion that has always stood for peace
and limited armament, which is now
giving up its policy of 132 years and
adopting the one that has brought us
to this passr What effect would this
have upon those nations? Might It not
even turn the scale in favor of mili
tarism as against disarmament? Rather
than run the risk of helping the world
to another cycle of militarism I should
prefer to take the infinitesimal risk
that we should incur by going on as
we are for a time."
I may also add that your reporter,
intelligent and generally accurate as
he undoubtedly was, failed to observe
that Mr. Cookingham's remarks about
not having had an advance copy of my
speech were in the nature of a
pleasantry.
WILLIAM D. WHEELWRIGHT.
Cabinet Officers.
EAGLE CLIFF, Wash., Oct.' 24. (To
the Editor.) Will you kindly gave the
names of the United States Pahinct
officers? What men represent the
btate of Washington In the House and
Senate? AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State:
W. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treas
ury; Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary
of War; Thomas W. Gregory. Attorney-
General; A. S. Burleson. Postmaster
General; Josephus Daniels. Secretary of
the Navy; F. K. Lane, Secretary of In
terior; David F. Houston, Secretary of
Agriculture; W. C. Redfield, Secretary
of Commerce;. W. C. Wilson, Secretary
of Labor.
Senators from Washington are Wes
ley L. Jones and Miles Poindexter.
Representatives in Congress are W. E.
Humphrey, L. H. Hadley, Albert John
son, W. L. LaFollette and C. C. DHL
Comptroller or Controller.
TOPPEN'ISH. Wash., Oct. 25 (To the
Editor.) Being a pretty close reader
of your paper for some time, I notice
every time you have reference to anv
thing pertaining to the Comptroller of
the Currency you use the word "con
troller." All the correspondence we
have with his office we note he signs
himself comptroller, and I would
thank you to answer through the col
umnf of your paper which Is the cor
rect word. F. S. REINHART.
i
TMthpr is correct, but inasmuch as
"comptroller" is pronounced as if it
were spelled controller, "controller"
is frequently chosen for apparent
reason.
Emden'a Captain Reported Dead.
ORENCO, Or., Oct. 27 (To the Ed
itor.) Can you tell me what has ever
become of the captain of the German
ship Emden? Is Colonel Roosevelt the
author of the much-used phrase in
visible government"?
JAMES SHEEHAN.
It was recently reported that the
captain of the Emden died in Edin
burgh, wnere he had been taken by the
English. -
Roosevelt is generally credited with
having first used the term in its mod
ern application, although there is some
doubt e to whether it was original
with htSa. '
Twenty-five Years Ago
From The Oregonian of October SS. 1S90.
Boston. Oct. 27 Commander-in-Chief
Veaiy. of the G. A. R.. announces
the appointment of William Lochrlen.
of Minneapolis, as Judsre Advor.
General.
Keokuk, Iowa. Oct, 17. Mrs. Jane
Clemens, mother of Samuel L. Clemen.-. -better
known as "Mark Twain,- died
this evening, aged 87 years.
Spokane Falls, Oct. 27. D. M. Drum
heller, one of the most prominent
bankers in this city, was dangerously
injured In a runaway accident today.
Paris. Oct, 27. Lieutenant Wyse tel
egraphed La France from Bogota that
the Panama Canal negotiations are
certain to be beset with difficulties.
Brussels. Oct, 27. King Leopold has
started for Berlin to visit the Emperor
of -Germany.
A neat and commodious waiting-roam
has been erected at the end of the ap
proach to the Steel Bridge for the ac
commodation of the passengers over
the Third-street and Albinar" railways.
It will be very comfortable for waiting
passengers on rainy days.
The addition to the Good Samaritan
Hospital will soon be completed and
then a number more erf nurses will be
required there. They have a training
school for nurses and there is an op
portunity for more to enter.
The Board of United States Engi
neers . consisting of Colonel Mendel.
Major Handbury and Captain Symons,
who went down to examine Port Or
ford and to. prepare a minimized
project and estimate for a harbor of
refuge there, completed the work in
less time than they expected and ar
rived back in Roseburg last Saturday.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of October 2S. 1S.".
According to official reports. Mis
souri furnished 1S4.757 soldiers for the -war.
. St. Louis sent more than one
third of that number.
Mace and Wormald. two ruffians of
hard skulls and brutish instincts, are
to bruise each other for the champion
belt of England on the first" of No
vember. The distance now reached In the
Chicago Lake tunnel for- the water
works is 3500 feet, and the work is
progressing at the rate of 17 feet a day.
The authorities confidently expect the
completion of this gigantic labor of
tunneling the lake for two miles and
the accompanying works by the clon
of next year. The city has over 129
miles of water pipe laid and in opera
tion. New Tork, Oct. 25. The atate con
ventions of Florida and Georgia meet
today in extra session. Texas is the
only Southern State, lately in rebellion
which has not elected members or
called a convention for the purpose of
reconstruction under the proclamation
of the President.
The steamer Celilo is now employed
a considerable portion of her '.ins In
towinf. stone barges, loaded for the
street Improvement, between this city
and Milwaukie.
The weather . hereabouts yesterday
was more fluctuating than gold on
Wall street in the halcyon days of the
Confederacy. Up and down, all day.
closing with a chatter of the teeth and
a shiver of the human frame, the night
was lovely moonlight, . .
Some further discoveries of quartz on "'
the west side of the Cascade Range
east of Ulympla have been made.
There has been no run of salmon on
the Upper San Joaquin River and the
Indians there are left In a state of
starvation In consequence.
POISOX EATIXG NATIONAL DESTI.W
Willful Childlessness Condemned asi
Crest Social Sin In United States.
PORTLAND, Oct. 26. (To the Edi
tor.) Allow me to add a word or two
with reference to your editorial on
"Willful Childlessness," in which you
properly castigate a social sin all too
common nowadays.
The situation is such as calls for the
most prayerful thought. Generally we
do not stop to think how widespread
is the practice of deliberately restrict
ing families. Professor J. McKeen Cat
tell, of Columbia University, New York,
writing a few weeks ago in the Inde
pendent, declared that all available
figures showed the American birth rate '
to be the lowest in the world. The evil
has become so pronounced that It has
even come to be regarded as something
of a virtue, supposedly reflecting pru
dence and foresight. Thia semi-public
approval of a wholly vicious custom is
the worst feature of the situation.
We who are patriotic Americans,
holding to a high idealism in indi
vidual and collective conduct, cannot
overlook the baneful results of arti
ficially restricting the birth rate. We .
cannot fulfill our glorious National
destiny with such a poison eating its
way into our social life..
Let me, therefore, lay down the
proposition that any healthy married
couple that does not have at least five
or six children is not discharging its "
duty to the Caucasian race or to the
United States of America.
How can we as a Nation hope to com
pete in the world if our mature men
and women shirk the responsibilities of
parenthood? Consider the strong, virile
races which are not afraid to breed,
entering the battle of life full of lusty
vigor, ready to take their chances of
defeat or victory. Then reflect on a
race so lacking in ambition and .vital
energy, so timorous of the stress and
struggle inseparable from life, that it
quite voluntarily sinks into nothing
ness by refusing to perpetuate itself.
Are we Americans ready to concede
that we belong to a dying race? The'
pity of it is that there Is altogether
too much evidence pointing in this di
rection. We must change all that op
we shall perish. A, P. CROTHERS.
As the Innocent Bystander.
Washington, D. C. Star.
"Are you going to give any parties
this Winter?" "No." replied Mr. Cumrox
"Mother and the girls will give the
parties; I'll figure, as usual, as the
innocent bystander."
Excuse of a Wife.
Boston Transcript,
He (annoyed) It's 8 o'clock and you
said you would be here at 6. She Did
I say 6? I thought I said 7
The Satisfied
' Customer
Every- successful retail business
has been founded on the rock of
the satisfied customer.
For that reason the shrewd mer
chant seeks to anticipate the needs
of his possible patrons.
If a standard article is adver
tised In the newspapers of his city
he knows Interest in that article
will be shown by bis customers.
He puts the newspaper . adver
tised goods In his window.
When people ask for an article
by name he has it ready for them.
He sees in each person who en
ters the store a possible regular
patron and acts accordingly.