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THE MOItXIXG OREGOMAN. SATURDAY, '-NOVEMBER 13, 1915. Km err 4 t Portland. Oruu, Jfoatofric m cord-cia matter. bubfecripUoa Kttiv Invariably In ail vane. (By Mail.) Iity. Sunday included, on yaar $3.00 liiy, tiunduy Included, mx. moatlia,.... 4.2o Luly, bunday included, tnre moniba.. X-i itii, fcunday Included, on muntU lJai.j, without Sunday, oue r l'aily, without fcunday, ix ruuiilha.... iJaily, without buiiday, three montha. I'aiiy. without buuuay ou inonila--.. V oiitj yjr, . . . ,' fcunday, on year Sunday aau Weekly, onu car tBy CarrUr.) I'aily, Sunday Included, on year Uaily, Sunday lucludd, one monio.... .(a 1.75 l.uu 2.0'-) 9.00 .IS Hew to vctnlt cent postoffice money or- exprtea uraer or paisoua.1 clieck on your lucal bank. fctumpt, coin or currency Are lull, including county aua state. root, pre ILate -J:: to Itl page. 1 cent; IS to iHge, cnt; i4 to 45 pages, a cenu; t'O to tJ duecm, 4 cents: 52 to ?to uaeea. o tents; 78 to pae, o cents. Jturvisn l-'03iMjc, double r-tlw. Kitern Buslnrt Office Verree & Confc--in, Brunswick building. New York; Verree A: Cenhlin. Steyur building, Chicago; tranciaco r prcacniauve, it. J. HmweH. 7- ,i iti K( .street. rORTUD, eATURUAV, NOV. IS, 1915. THE BAI.K1.N CAMI'AIGN. In its last phases the war will be decided in a struggle between a land monster, Germany, and a sea mon ster Great Britain. Germany and her ally, Austria, were well prepared on land, but ill prepared at sea. There fore they have been driven from the Eca, except that submarines make raids comparable to those of guerilla bands on land. Britain was well pre pared on sea, but unprepared on land, while her allies were not as well pre pared as were Germany und Austria. Hence the allies have 80 far endeav ored to hold the Teutons back, while they brought into service their unde veloped resources of men and war ma terial, Russia had sufficient men at the beginning to do her part, but ow ing to lack of material has lost a large proportion of them and is now train ing and equipping a new army of 3,000,000 men. France quickly rose to her maximum power, and upon her has fallen the largest share of the task of holding back the Teutons Britain has so far put in the field probably 2,000.000 men, including colonial and Indian troops, in all fields of operation, and has probably 750,000 men training at home, but she has available from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 more men of military age who have not yet been enrolled. Italy's army is far from being fully engaged. The task before the allies, therefore. is to hold back the Teutons until they have brought into- action the reserve resources available in Russia and Britain, in the meantime wearing down the enemy's strength as much as possible. The Teutons, having in sufficient domestic supplies of raw material for ammunition and of food, and being shut off from neutral sup plies, seize the opportunity of their present equality in numbers and supe riority in material to conquer addi tional supplies from the enemy. They have done this to a notable degree by the occupation of Belgium, Northeast ern France, Poland, Courland, and recently of Northern Serbia. They also have obtained reinforcements in men to the number of probably l.oOO.OOO by attaching Turkey and Bulgaria to their cause. If they can continue their advance through the uaiKan Peninsula, to a Junction with Turkey, they will probably intimidate Greece and Roumariia into permanent neutrality, if not into joining them and may cause a revival of Moslem s:eal which will rally the whole Mos lem world to the Turkish standard and cause serious rebellion in India and Egypt. Turkish supplies of food and raw material for munitions would then pass under German control and be used with the Germans' accus tomed energy. These possibilities show what a mo- mentous influence on the outcome has been exercised by the Turkish alliance with Germany and by the German success over Russia. Britain lost valuable point in the game when she failed to run down -the warships Goe- ben and Breslau before they entered the Dardanelles. Those two ships forced Turkey Into war on Germany's siae and created a strong- diversion in favor of the Teutons. Turkey's en mity caused the allies to divert a large part of their forces to the Dardanelles Egypt and Mesopotamia, and thus con tributed indirectly to the Teuton vie tory over Russia. That victory at traded Bulgaria to the Teuton alii ance and held Greece and Roumania neutral. Should the Teutons succeed in their design to effect a junction between their forces and those of Turkey, the allied army would be in imminent peril of being driven from the Dar danelles, Egypt would be in danger of new attack, and the whole Moslem world would be aflame. To cope with the forces thus let loose, and with the new strength which the Teutons would derive from Turkish supplies of mate rial, might occupy not only all the armies which the allies now have in the field, but all they can organize by arming every available man. Should the allies stop this drive before it reaches its goal, they will permanently cm off Turkey from German aid and will close the last gap in the long line which they have thrown around the central empires. The task before them would then be to crowd the Teutons back gradually into their own terri tory und to tighten their grip until they throttle Teuton power. These considerations illustrate the supreme importance to the allied cause of the campaign which they have undertaken in Macedonia. It is necessary, in order to prevent a German-Turkish junction, that a strong enouerh army be thrown into the Bal kan Peninsula to block the way south eastward, to overpower the German, Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish armies and to drive the Teutons out of Serbia. If the allies could accom plish this, the two remaining Balkan States would probably join them, they could besiege Constantinople from the Thracian side, and the fate of Turkey would be sealed. They could then close in on the central empires. Should the allies fail in their Balkan campaign, the central empires might wear them out on land and force Rus sia. France and Italy to. make peace. Britain might continue the war with a naval blockade, as she did against Napoleon from 1S09 to 1812. after he had reduced every other nation to sub. mission, but Germany would control Belgium, the northeast coast of France and the Baltic, and could use the war indemnities she had collected In build, ing- up her navy to a superiority over that of her arch-enemy. The British Empire, discredited in the eves or Mohammedans by defeat on land, would face Tevolt in India and Egvpt,' and possible war with Moslem Afghan istan and Persia. Then would come the final struggle on the sea between the two monsters. .. 2&eie -considerations .probably; 1 - - . . . . . in sending a steady stream of troops to Saloniki. and of Italy in sending luivus to AiDama for the aid of -rbia. They explain also the sending of Earl Kitchener to the near Eastern scene of operations and then to India. He Knows the Moslems better, probably, than any other man in the British army, rrom his long service in Pales tine, Egypt and India, and is, there f , . . . . , 1 i , . ucoi. cquippea io comDat Moslem fanaticism through his acquaintance among the chiefs. With him will prob ably rest the decision- whether the attack on Constantinople shall be con tinued at the Dardanelles or shall ho transferred to the mainland. That it wm De abandoned is highly improb able, unless the allies should be hope lessly defeated, for the moral effect on jiostemism would be disastrous. TUB lOST JKVOJL OF PATRIOTISM. In Portland:. Or., the peace craze has Fonc t,1, "t0 ask that school children shall a,on out tw'o nd 'o to the music o Th. M.-r'Hr".'0"' .. P7- JTlVf1!! our ennn tpv ::.. ,. .... . but demoralized and VJ;iyVdtr1ofl.SA The above paragraph from the Des Moines (la.) Capital appears to bo the most definite impression 'taken away dj- its editor. La Fayette Young, who recently made a visit to the Pacific Northwest. He came here, bearing a message of sturdy patriotism, and Dreathing . a spirit of loyalty to his country that captivated every one who met. ana heard him. "Here," it w !am' 18 ,a real American. Too bad there are not more like him." it is indeed too bad. It is true that me -need of the country is not so much uonicsuius. more soldiers, more guns, more forts. It is a more stal wart and aggressive patriotism, a more outspoken Americanism, a more grate ful appreciation of the duties and obligations of citizenship. The country is Indolent with the fat 113 ow corrupting and swollen opu lence. It does not deserve what it has, for it doubts whether it is worth keep ing if the keeping. costs anything in el fort and sacrifice. All we have, our fathers fought and died for; but their sons, like all sons and daughters reared in ease and guarded from hard ship, think so little of the inheritance that they will yield it to the first alien who demands surrender, subservience and subjection. I-RIKJiDS AT AVAR. The sharp issue between Mr. Wil son and Mr. Bryan is thus stated by our peace-loving and peace-seeking contemporary, tlfe Christian Science Monitor: ,T.lle country is to see two great leaders oi the Democratic party, each the friend of the other enBaBed in a. struggle to secure, by methods directly opposed, the same end. ... assuranco of permanent pence. One would accomplish this end by stron armaments. The other would accomplish it fi, one would ward of pos sible war by a formidable array of battle, ships on the sea and a vast armv. The other would prevent war by the exercise toward other nations by the United States of the same qualities that one individual man uses 1" keeping out of trouble with another man The peaceable man docs not carry a re- ys. ine peaceable nation need not carry arms.'" Mr. Wilson says he is a friend of jvtr. urj-an and Mr. Bryan savs he is a friend of Mr. Wilson. But Mr. Bryan could not stay in the Cabinet witn him, or support his Administra tion, and he quit at a timn n,-hon , affairs of the Nation were in crisis. and when a blow in the back might nuve Deen. uisastrous. If the Presi dent and his late Secretary are pleased to keep up the fiction of friendship, we suppose the Nation ought not to object. One may well wonder why Mr. Bryan has persuaded himssif that there is a real analoev hot nation Dearing arms and an Individ ual bearing arms. The reason why an American citi- t?n ueea not carry a pistol or a big 't any wen-DOUcerl cnmm.mit-.- is so obvious that - it need not ho uaiea. A proposal by the peace fad dists to disarm the police and wreck 11 Jiis WtiUia HP in npnia-i w..-.J with their impossible notion as to na tions. WHY THIS WATCHFUL WAITING? i ne snorter, water-grade route will oe no snorter snould Astoria, ho Hvon ine ttonunon point) rate, so why not ni.iii.uLe sucn a suit at this time?" asks an Astoria correspondent, whose tetter is printed in another rniirv,n The Oregonian does not Dretend to oyiMit tor tnose who are supporting the Astoria contention that is, those who have an idea that the erantins- of the common rate will enable Port land later to deprive not onlv Astoria of its expected advantages but acquire 'er advantages in addition. But the Basis for their position is not harrl to discern. Portland does not now have a nar- ticularly strong argument in respect " """tier ,naui irom many of the competitive points where grain ship ments originate. For example, from Pasco, the common junction point of the Northern Pacific main line, the North Bank and the Northern Paci fic's Eewiston branch, the riistan Tacoma is only twenty miles farther than it is to Portland. Rate-making- on the basis of irrades. so far as we are aware, has never been required by the Interstate Com merce Commission. There is a clause in the interstate commerce law, how ever, relative to lon and short hauls. if Astoria secures a grain rate com mon with Puget Sound, wheat that is hauled to Astoria will be carried a longer distance for the common rate than 'that which is hauled to either xacoma or Seattle. This is c-eneraiiv speaking; there may be a few minor exceptions. For example, the direct route from Colfax via the O.-W T? N. to Portland, thence via the North Bank to Astoria is 450 miles lr.no- The Great Northern can haul wheat irom t-onax 7 6.7 miles north to Spokane and over its main line to Seattle and cover a distance rc ni 415 miles. From Lewiston to Astoria by the most direct rail route it is.-4 61 miles. From Lewiston to Tacoma via tne Northern Pacific it is S91 miles. it is clear that if Astoria is granted a common rate it it-ill be through specific admission by the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads can haul freight the longer distance over a wuter grade as cheaply as they can haul it the shorter distance over a mountain grade and that the grade factor should enter into rate-making. Not only would Portland's unofficial contention concerning the advantages of a water grade be officially t, lished but it would in effect be 100 miles nearer the point of origin of freight that can be laid down at the farthest port at the common rate. ints may be considered a nrettv good argument why Portland should aid Astoria in obtaining a common rate. It would be. perhaps, were it not for the fact that a litisrant tn re tain recognition must come into court with, clean hands. Besides, it is not mc& to jprctejiiii cenerositx wbea oro, i""'" ion oi iintam and 1-ranee is actuated solely by selfish interests! But a much broader and mnr r. ious proposal has been made in Port land than an endorsement of Astoria's position in its pending case before the Interstate Commerce Commission. That case involves only a parity of rates -as to Astoria and 5uget Sound. The other proposal is- that Portland announce that Astoria is entitled to a rate common with Portland. That would be tantamount to an announce ment that Portland, Astoria and Pu get Sound should be on rate parity. To adopt such a position would be to surrender every advantage that the shorter distance on a ovater grade should give this port. UNGRATEFUL AMERICANS. When tiie outbreak of the war in Europe caught thousands of Amer icans in its whirlwind of mobilization, the American Government at once nurrled to the rescue. After having lent a deaf ear to harried Americans in Mexico, who pleaded in vain for protection and rescue, the Administra tion, in a burst of tender-heartedness, lost no time in loading down a cruiser with chests of gold and sending it on . money-lending tour to countries where stranded Americans might be iouna. Difficulty in securing Amer ican money through the exchanges caused some distress for a short time in some sections of Europe, but long before the relief cruiser reached its several destinations of mercy, the at mosphere had cleared and most of the stranded tourists were on their way to ports of departure for home. However, the expedition was under the direction of Government official and when your avell-trained Govern ment officer sets out on a mission, he loiiows instructions. These agents headed by the juvenile Breckenridge, wno is serving for tho time being us assistant secretary of War, visited th wnoie or Europe seekins: stranded tourists. Frightful cases of distress were encountered. Women who had on to Europe with fifteen trunks naa lost all but fourteen of them in tho turmoil. Men. of wealth had so much difficulty cashing checks that they could not have chamcaime with vneir oinners. Several hundred of mese sufferers were given financial loans, with the understanding that the money should be paid back after the war zone had been left behind. Hun dreds of thousands of dollars were dis pensed in sums of -from II to sr.on. uiiiueuiauj, mr. jsrecKenndge and a coterie of assistants had an enjoyable tour. Now another problem has nresenterl itself in connection with the incident. Alter repeated duns, the Treasury D partment is at its wits' ends to get back the money. The rescued feel not tne sngntest gratitufle. Nor do they recognize any obligation in the mattpr. The Treasury Department has just puDiisnea their names in such papers as could give the necessary space for the expose. The list shows scores of people who are quite well to do in their own communities, and -who ac cepted various sums from the treasure cruiser. But, while a species of re venge, it cannot be seen where this exposure is going to help matters. Why nui setio young tsrectenridge and h coterie or assistants on a -collection tour or the United States to gather in vne money they passed out in their monei-ienaing joy ride over Europe? nOlCHMTS AXB DISTEMflSR. The notion that a relationship exists Detween poorly-cooked viands and do mestic infelicity has been fairly well ostdDiisnea as having a foundation in fact. The idea lends itself to proof. poorly cooked foods are' not readily digested. They set up fermentation and yield poisons which cause brain irritation. Brain irritation and cranki ness are first cousins. Hence the hus- pand who is improperly nourished is inclined to be highly irritable. Irrita bility and domestic infelicity go hand in hand. Moral: The wife who would preserve the angelic disposition "which manifested itself in her king and lord during courtship should exercise every precaution against improperly pre pared foods on the family table. It has remained for a Chicago cul inary expert and observer of human nature to elaborate on this theory. She sees in tne ordinary variety of dough nut a great stimulus to crime. Since so many poor men have doughnuts and coffee as a regular diet, the menace of the doughnut assumes serious nro- portions should it be cooked in a manner such as to render it indigesti ble. Indigestion, she assumes, causes morbidity and low spirits which, when there is no luckless wife to cajole, may tase tne torm of crime. Hence she urges tnat particular care be exercised in preparing the lowly doughnut. The ordinary doughnut manufacturer is charged with adding the ingredient of sugar in granulated form. It does not melt until dipped into hot fat,- and then the tiny holes left vacant by the sugur are filled in by fat. Doughnuts made in this wise have but one part which may be considered wholesome, and that is the interior section repre sented by the hole. To .offset this offense we are ad vised to dissolve the sugar thoroughly. One cup of sugarshould be reduced in a cup of sweet milk, to which should be aided the beaten yolks of three eggs, together with salt and nutmee- sufficient for flavoring the mixture After this the ordinary processes may be followed out and adoughnut pro duced which will tickle the nalato stimulate the digestion and soothe the soul. Happiness, success and a keener rensn of me are said to be hidden in this nourishing recipe. It is not alto gether improbable that if we would direct less attention to sociological in vestigations in seeking to solve prob lems of crime and distress and oav more attention to the culinary aspects of mortal distemDe a mnr snhstar.. tial progress might be made. LANGUAGE TEST f.UIg UNDER FIRK." The defenses set up by the Admin istration for the objectionable sections of the seamen's law are effectually destroyed by the letter of Julius Krutt schnitt, chairman of the Southern Pacific, to Secretary Redfield, and by the statements of - William F. Mc Combs, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Krutt schnitt dispo.es of the theory that the Pacific Mail Company withdrew from trans-Pacific trade because that trade was unprofitable and because the Panama Canal law put the com pany out of Mexico and Central Amer ican coast trade. The Canal law did not interfere with trans-Pacific busi ness, and that business had become profitable within the last year and promised to continue so. The conclu sion is therefor reasonable that the company retired from trans-Pacific business because the new restrictions of the seamen's law imposed impossi ble burdens. The fact that the com pany., received, arood jrico Sag its ships was due to the accident of war: but for that accident, the seamen's law would have caused it to suffer serious loss. The quotations which Mr. Krutt schnitt makes, from statements of Seamen's Union officials before the House committee. d.nd or Senator Fletcher, reveal that the purpose of the language was not to secure com petent crews, but to drive out Chinese crews, as The Oregonian has already shown by quotations from Andrew Furuseth. Senator Burton foresaw the actual result, which has been the ex pulsion of American ships from Pacific commerce instead of the expulsion of Chinese crews from American ships on the Pacific. The truth of Mr. Kruttechnitfs ex planation for the Pacific Mail's action is confirmed by the action of Robert Dollar and J. J. Hill in withdrawing their ships from the Paciric or from the American flacr. Mr. Redfiohi self admits by implication that the language test is injurious to Amerlr-an thips when he complains that ship owners did not wait to see how he would construe it and -when he shows decided laxity in enforcing it. But Mr. Kruttsehnitt plainly demonstrates mat ivtr. iiedrield is powerless not to eniorce it, for any member of the Seamen's Union can prevent departure of a ship by affidavit that the law is not ooserved. " T f r ,.i - i . , . . .. . . ""-"' tens us tnat tne law is condemned, not only by ship-own- out Dy --seamen of all ranks." The latter have no dnnht- iimv.j that, instead of giving them better conditions on American ships, the law us tncir jods over to Chinese. Jan. anese and Lascars. It diminishes their opportunity of getting jobs bv causing ship-owners to take refuge under other nags ana hy discouraging capital from engaging in that business at a time when, if the laws were favorable, it .vouiu De a tempting field of invest ment. Mr. McCombs places himself in uirect opposition to tha Adminis tration by condemning the seamen's iw and oy advocating thn f.t,.lnh ment of a National board to revise L"e cupping laws, as proposed by the United States Chamber of Commerce. In an effort to create a fictitious claim to sympathy on behalf of tho seamen's law, an attemDt is mr,rio deceive the public as to the purpose of its critics. It is represented that, tho attack is directed at the sections abol ishing imprisonment for desertion, im proving seamen's working condition. and providing for safety at sea. Those provisions or the law are not attacked Repeal of the entire law is not im posed. Congress is asked to repeal the language test and a few other provi sions which nut a tiremiim. n j. tion and permit delay of a ship on any flimsy pretext. The dererttinn at. tempted on this subject proves how conscious are the law's thick and thin defenders that their case is weak as to the points that are reallv under fire John Bull dailv n-m-a mno . less in washing the dirty linen of hia army in public. Now iwe are informed that his generals are incompetent and that the chief of his naval air service is deficient. But actual war air.no can reveal who are the real warriors and who al-e the painted laths. Colonel Roosevelt's action with -To ga rd to the New Have n rnad'c coam- ship line appears to hv. hon prompted by an opinion that there are both good and bad trusts. He thought that the New Haven's was to be preferred to Morse's. The young aboris-inal nndon fluence of the surroundings of the training school, naturally ni. abstain from tobacco, but when, in the course of reversion ho rfor,-'i, blanket and gets into the wickiup, he may chanere his mind. -. There ia something bean market locally. Californias are ruling high, and the North Idaho ar ticle is supplanting them, quality be ing as good. The Idalio bean is pretty near a home product, too. .. The suggestion that tho Ktato at large should have a voice in the man agement of . the next Manufacturers' & Land Products Show is good. The farmers and fruitgrowers can give many valuable hints. If Italian troops go to help Serhia at this late day, they may be in time to witness the capture of the last rem nant of the main Serbian" army. Who can Diame Greece for askine- to ho shown? It is bad enouerh to have tho nnd. takers refuse to bury a man on Sun day, but worse will come if the drug gists refuse to. keep open and compel a person to stay sick until Monday. The Diiponts have an order $65,000,000 more powder for the en tente allies, and an explosion in their shop will be an accident, of course. Expenditure of tl. 700.000 hv -tho O.-W. R. & N. Com looks like a step in resumption of lo cal prosperity. Gresham visitors thronerins- th Land Show yesterday showed by their presence in numbers they belong in a live nt ue city. As the Austrian censorship becomes stricter, it may become illes-ai oon to mention the fact that ono i. hungry. Postmaster-General Burleson ha made jobs as postmaster so undesir able that even Democrats don't want them. That school district' near Aberdeen proves that the movie has charms to soothe the savage schoolboy's breast. The lines of conflict between tho National Guard and the Continental Army are already being drawn. The simple-minded thieves who looted the mail on the Santa Clara are due for a lesson in honesty. Mr.. Wilson is still in the mind to marry, although little is being said just now. The children will enjoy the Land Show this afternoon, and so will their mothers. Last day of the Land Show, a big one and worth while. It is Tale scored on Harvard at San Pe dro. Make the last day a rr.user. ffhej Mutg have it J-oaislit.. . Half Century Ago. From The Oregonian of November 13. 1SU3. The coninuteo on streets and public property has postponed the letting of contracts for the improvement of "rst street one week. This is done as the property holders on that street, by the'r petition presented at the late meeting of the Board of Councilmen, intimated their preference for the Nich olson pavement. Saturday was the liveliest "steamer &ay we have witnessed in Portland for many months. We have no more reliable means than personal observa tion to base the statement for the num ber of passengers upon, that took their departure, but it is safe to place the estimate at 600. On Saturday last as the steamer General Grant wns cominc: to this city from Monticello she was hailed at Cof fin Rock by the steamer Harvest Queen hoisting a sisnal of distress. vvnen tne urant went alongside of tne vessel Captain Kerns was asked tcT take a man on board who wished to nave medical eitention. After nieht the steamer came in collision with a skiff and in tho excitement of the col lision the sick man was forcottn until the etfamer reached Portland, when he was missed and a search instituted for him as it was feared he had fallen overboard. He was fourfd later in a secluded part of the vessel dead. The shipments of treasure bv the steamer Orizaba on Saturday evening if it were possible to take the whole amount into town, would show an ag gregate export of gold for the trip of nearly ? 1.000,000. We regret to announce the final de parture of our fellow citizen A. M. Starr, who has given. up his residence in Oregon and proes by the steamer Orizaba for the East. TOO MUCH COOKED FOOD E.ITEX Raw Kdll.lci. l l.areer Quantities F-romote Health and Longevity. BELL STATION. Or., Nov. 12. (To the Editor.) Organic mineral salts in foods are generally little reckoned with and yef they are the real build ers or the body. The strength and mo.niiiia. or tne tissues depend upon tnem absolutely. The United States iiediin commission, very recently found out of 3000 people only 2 per cent normal. Go into any schoolroom and you wills tind a like condition. Our detention houses, the mental and phys ical misfits waflting the streets and many others with all snrta or aiimsnlu a.11 tell one story; they are starving mi organic minerals in foods. Cooked foods lose as much as 50 per cent of their value, especially in the organic minerals: United States bulletins on foods admit this. The human system in its effort to maintain that mineral equilibrium -forcos n t eat two and three times as much as we need; that means overstimulation, overaccumulation of morbid matter and consequent overdrain on the vitality in the process of elimination. Let your blood stream become filled with rrftiu and you have high blood pressure, eat icss ana you reduce It. If we would eat more raw food, wc would hao i. trouble; high blood pressure, rheuma tism, hardening of the iriari.. many of the chronic diseases would not exist. The usual advice on health is uhm.t as follows: "Your system is run down you need plenty of nourishing food."' uicy ure nesny tney are told to eat less. The fact is both are already over nourished; if the thin nerson would oat proper foods he would carrv more weight, the fleshy one less. The digestive and iliniin,iiv must be manufactured principally from the mineral elements; eatinp- at least one-third, of our food raw will insure a better supply of mineral and co ordinate the entire functioning process Cooking foods is like tearing the links out of the chain of nature; we under mine our own source or strength and well being. 1 he modern bill-of-fare calls for too much protein and starch, acid-making foods, they have a tensing effect upon the organism and inhibit general func tion; a good portion of nervous trouhi. are due to overacid condition tv.- may be counteracted hv alkaline such as spinach. cahhae-e squash, figs, raisins nrunea and nee-.' Alkaline foods have a wonderful tonic cueci. upon tne system, they are the teat neutrauzers and eliminators of poisonous acids, thev should ho abundantly. Prevention is worth more than a cure; by giving our bodies a good supply of organic mineral through the foods nature gave us, we can become healthier mentally and physically be come more useful citizens and canter canny aiungsiae or iatner Time for ion years. DR. H. A. STOCKDALR Seriptnral I.avr as to Sabbath. PORTLAND. Nov. 12 rTn tho -c-di. tor.) There is a higher and better Pieceaem tor Sunday closing than Judge Gantenbein; indeed, higher than our Constitution. Book of Numbers, chapter iv: Verse 32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day. cioc po Aim tney tnat round him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congrega tion. , Verse 34 And they put him in ward because it was not declared what should be done with him. Verse 35 And the Lord said unto Moses: "The man shall be surely put to death;, all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp." Verse 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord commanded Moses. ' GEORGE GOING, A Sojourner in Portland. Why Thin Watcbfnl Walt In f ASTORIA. Or.. Nov. 11. (To the Edi tor.) The common point controversy has been under consideration for some time, and various views have been ex pressed for and against the propo sition, but I have yet to observe one feature that seems pertinent. Why, if in the event that the Puget Sound rate is extended to Astoria, Portland proposes to ask the Inter state Commerce Commission for a dif ferential in her favor, does she not do so now? The shorter, water-grade route will be no shorter should Astoria be given that rate, so why not institute such a suit at this time? On the face of the proposition it would seem that Portland will be satis fied, with her present rate as long as the mouth of the Columbia River' is forced to remain in its present handi capped condition. ARTHUR A. - FINCH. Preparedness and Indemnity. PORTLAND, Nov. 12 (To the Edi tor.) The millions paid by Enrland for the Alabama claims half a unturv win i iiikiKnlf leant in comparison with tha settle ment after the war. The Oresonlan. Maybe she will, and. again, maybe she won't. Vny did she pay us the (15,000,000 Alabama claims? The first indemnity she ever paid to any nation. She paid it simply because we had some of the best ironclads afloat and about 600.000 seasoned veterans to back up the demand. Suppose at the close of the present war that some one or more of the. belligerents send tis a bill for a couple of billions for monkeyins with their shipping when they dare not talk back. What will wo do about it? OLD, EBADER fflTH AltElIOBT, LIGHT OX FREEDOM OF THE SEAS Hoottil AVhi.-h. May Have Bear- inc on Moolrd Question. SEASIDE. Or.. Nov. 11. (To the Edi- f.r:' After reading Leon Yankwich'a r VL uresonian re Freedom or the Seas," I came across a piece in a paper which I received from Scot land in yesterday's mail. "British Rights at Sea." It may be of interest to some of your readers, especially the latter half- PETER MKELLAR. Tho essential part of the article fol lows: Tha main principls of action upon which neinscrcnts proceeded, from the time of t.ronus. roughly, until tha end of tho istii century, whs that you could capture, vour enenvj m soods wherever you .could find litem; la other words, the rlKht to capture private property at sea was practically un limited. This doctrine, however. was strougly contested by the Dutch, who a the sreat neutral carriers, were not un naturally Interested In the sreatest latitude beinp obtained for their commercial deal In practice. Great Britain had aban doned th seizure of enemy goods on neutral vessels by the end of the lsth century- .ip that her signature of the Declaration of 1 aria In 1S..4, one article of which rendered enemy goods exempt from capture under such circumstances, was no violent depar ture from tho existing practice. This pro vision of tho declaration, however, did not touch the more fundamental claim, made and acted upon by almost .every belligerent in sea warfare, to capture vessels owned oy citizens of the enemy state, as well as enemy eoods on hoard such vessels, a claim which is torlifted by so continuous and widespread a practice as to entitle it to be regarded as a settled rule of law. Such i.ttempui as have been made to abrogate of nodify it have- met with little success," or have been, at any rate, confined to a lim ited area, Tho Treaty of Friendship mado Inl7$3 be tween Prussia and the United States con tained a clauso providlne that in the event war belw"!" the two states neither should capture merchantmen owned by sub jects of the other; and a similar provision is to bo found in the Treaty of 1S71 betw-een tua United states and Italy, an exception beina- made in the case of vessels carrying contraband or breaking blockade. In 3Ki6 the llnitxsd States, which has alwavs tended to Identify itself with this principle, made tha abolition ot the rlKht to seize private property at sea a condition of It ir-nuKinn to tho Declaration of l'aris, but unsuccess fully; and to this dav the i-,,tt.a remains outside tho Declaration. Asaln. at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of IS 70. Prussia proposed tha non-seizure ot enemy merchantmen, provided that Franoa accorded reciprocal treatment a proposal wnicii proved abortive. The leanlns of the Lnited states to the doctrine of non-suizure " " luimer illustrated by her vigorous, though unsuccessful, attempt at The Hague conferences both ot 1S99 and 1007 to carry a proposal of exemption. Lastlv. it Is of in terest to recall the attempt of Lord Lore burn, made -some two years ago, to press a similar view on the ground that the re tention of tho doctrine of Great Britain would, on balance, incline more to her dis advantage than not. However this may be. there can be no question that, aa a rule of law, the right of seizure is still ot undis puted validity, and has, bevond doubt, proved a powerful weapon In the hands of the strong naval states. Sheep la Multnomah. PORTLAND. Nov. 12. (To the Edi-tor- Is 't permissible in Multnomah County to let sheep or cattle graze at large and whether you can order them off your premises, said premises not being enclosed by fence? SUBSCRIBER. West of the Sandy River, in Mult nomah County, sheep and cattle are prohibited from running at large. The owner of any property may "order" livestock off his premises. Where stock Is permitted to run at large, however, as in the eastern end or Multnomah County, a property owner would have considerable difficulty keeping the stock ofr without fences. "That Reminds Me." E. S. Rolfe in Eugene Register. Did you read that Oregonian account J the recent lurid tilt between Mrs. M- L. T. Hidden, and Mrs. Mary F. Stev ens, the president of the Women's Political Science Club? It brought to mind the noted scran between m,. O'Flaherty and her neighbor, Bridget 1 innegan. Here's Bridget for it: "Phwat have you in the market bas ket?" sez Bhe. "Fish from the market," sez I. "They stink," sez she. "You lie," sez I. "To hell," sez she. ' "And that's tho- way the fight began." Intimate Views of White House Mistresses In the Sunday Oregonian Inasmuch as the White House soon is to have a new mistress in the person of the present Mrs. Gait, interest among Americans again centers on the women who have held that honored and en viable position in the past. What have they looked like, who were their ancestors, what were their social activities and what impres sion did they leave upon the lives of the persons with whom they came in contact? These are natural questions these days and these are questions that a correspondent of The Oregonian has undertaken to answer. In tomorrow's big Sunday issue will be presented a review of the White House mistresses. UNCLE SAM TO BUILD BATTLE CRUISERS included among the Nations extensive plans for defensive preparedness is provision for fix giant battle cruisers, a type of-naval vessel entirely new to this country, although successfully used by Germany and some of the other nations now at war in Europe. In tomorrow's Ore gonian this type of vessel will be fully described. COMPANY G REUNION Every resident of Portland, almost, knows one or more members of Company G, a popular militia organization that flourished here a decade or so ago. It was not only one of the most successful military bodies of its time, but it became one of the most prominent social groups of its day In tomorrow's Oregonian, will be printed old photographs of all the members of Company G, together with a sketch of the organization and the present whereabouts of the members. The company soon is to have a reunion. MOVING-PICTURE NEWS As usual, the Sunday issue will be brim ful of late moving-picture news, including a full page of general interest from all parts of the film world and the latest reports from the motion-picture houses of Portland. WALLINGFORD TURNS A NEW TRICK J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw still are in their philanthropic moods. Tomorrow will be described their latest success in relieving one of their victims of his ill-gotten goods and turning it over to the rightful owners whom he had swindled. It is a typical Wallingford story, written by George Randolph Chester. LESSON IN GOLF Are you reading John J. Kernan's weekly in structions on golf? Whether you are a golf player or not, you will be interested in these instructive stories. They are illustrated. NEW SALMON- FISHING FEATS Some of the biggest salmon in Oregon streams can be taken out of the water successfully with ordinary light tackle. It takes an expert to do it, but it has fre quently been done. In tomorrow's Oregonian will appear a story written by one who has had the experience. It should be of interest to every fisherman. HOW TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL NECK Of interest to those who are seeking health and beauty, or either, 'will be the story tomorrow by a well-known beauty expert on how to preserve the beautiful lines of the neck. Other hints on beauty and answers to questions also will be printed. . FOR THE CHILDREN Among the attractions for the little folks will be the half page of short stories, jokes, poems, puzzles and pic tures, and the full page, on the back cover, presenting Donahey's fairy tales, illustrated. DR. LOVELAND'S SERMON The Sunday paper also will contain a complete sermon by Dr. Frank L. Loveland, pastor of the First Methodist Church. AND ADDITIONAL ATTRACTIONS Among the other features will be the usual section of sports, the automobile,' dramatic, religious, real estate and building news and the section devoted to society' women's activities and a full page of school news. ' Twenty-five Years Ago. From Tho Oregonian of November 13. lltH. Denver. Nov. i;. The Fenver & Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland man agement today announced the opening of the bioad-sausc line for business on Sunday. Arrangements are com pleted to run thiousrh cars between San Francisco and Denver. London, Nov. II. Advices from Buenos Ayres represent a serious condi tion of affairs at the capital, and that another attempt of the revolutionists Is apprehended. The deposed president. Cclman. has many, supporters in the provinces who wish to seo him restored. John P. Wager, ex-editor of the East Oregonian, has located "in Burns. Har ney County, for the practice of law. The Sumpter Valley Railroad will soon commence the erection of a new . sawmill at Baker City, with a capacity of 100.000 fect of lumber per day. The company also will erect a box factory and planing mills. Brush land alonj- the Santiam be tween Albany and Scio is selling for $;.0 per acre. Two weeks ago a gentle man paid $.0 an a-re for an unimproved farm on the Santiam. A few days ago he sold it for $r.o an acre. Mr. llorsfall, ,of Bandoiv has deeded a quarter block of property in that city to the Episcopal Society for the erec tion of a church. Bishop Morris will contribute liberally out of a fund at his disposal for church buildlns pur poses. Mrs. Carl Luderman and her sister, residents of Baker City, were stopped on their way home by two men who seized them and demanded their purses. The ladies screamed for assistance atvd setscral men appearing, the highway men took to their heels, lakinar with tliheni Mrs. Ludcimau's muff. This has been a banner year for farmers in this state. They have had good crops and good prices for liearlv everything they have produced. With onions at 2 to 2 Mi cents a pound, po tatoes at tl to IX.IO per hundred Don ntis and apples at 60 to 65 cents a box there are a great number of farmers who are receiving reward for their labors. Hon- Washington la Governed. PORTLAND. Nov. 12. (To thn Edi tor.) What is the government of Washington, p. c? What is the gov ernment of District of Columbia? Do the men in charge of these change with each successive President? A. II. J. There is no civil distinction between the Thistrict of Columbia and the City of Washington. Their areas are con terminous. The municipal government of the District of Columbia Is vested by act of Congress in three Commissioners, two of whom are appointed, by the President from citizens of the district havinsr had three years' residence therein immediately preceding their appointment and confirmed by the Senate. The other Commissioner is detailed by the President of the CJnited States from the United States Army Corps or Engineers and must have lineal rank senior to Captain or he a Captain who has served at least 15 years in the Engineers Corps. The Commissioners, appoint nearly all the subordinate officials, except the Board of Education, which is appointed by the Supreme Court of the District ot Columbia. I'm. PORTLAND, Nov., 12. (To the Edi tor.) In a game of crilibage A holds three treys and one nine, and claims 12 for his count. Is he risht? CONSTANT READER. Xo. PORTLAND. Nov. 12. (To the Edi tor.) Is there a premium on a half dollar of 1829, spread eagle on one side. Liberty on the other? A. P. O'l-TANLKY.