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THE MOItXIN'G OKEGONIA2T. FRIDAY, APRIIj 21, 1916. "
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TORT-LAND. FRIDAY. APRIL SI.
PAS.1 PORTS, AND THEX ?
And if diplomatic relations with
Germany should be broken off, what
then? If the Kaiser is unwilling- to
suspend submarine warfare in re-t-ponse
to insistent demands, would
lie do so after Ambassador Gerard
had been recalled from Berlin and Von
Bernstorff had been handed pass
ports? If not, -what would be the
next step of the United States following-
inevitable repetition of subma
rine attacks?
Severance of diplomatic ties, fol
lowed by renewed attacks, .could re
sult in but one thing-, provided the
United States followed a consistent
course. Once that extreme had been
resorted to there could be no quibbling-
or halting- in the face of fresh
maritime disasters. And after that
next step declaration of war on Ger
many had been taken, what then?
Would the United States seek al
liance with the entente allies or un
dertake alone to handle Germany in
these days when nations squabble in
groups? Having- gotten into the fray,
what would be our part as a great,
powerful Nation of the first class?
Would we depend upon France and
Britain to do the fighting for us or
would we send an army into Flan
ders? If the psychology of the hour dic
tated an army for Flanders, where
would the army come from? Such
Armv as we now have would not
cover a ten-mile sector of the 1500
miles of allied front in Europe. It
would require two years for America
to raise, arm. eciuip and instruct a
real Army, and even this would not
be up to the standards of European
military efficiency.
Perhaps we would content our
selves by supplying the combatant na
tions with money and munitions. But
to do so would we not be compelled
to enter into an alliance with them?
"Would we not have to share with
them the fortunes of an uncertain
war? As for providing the muni
tions and money as a- disinterested
enemy of Germany would we be able
to furnish as great a volume of war
stores as we are selling them today?
Would we not require the whole out
put for ourselves, at least until we
had completed a defensive army?
The Impending break of diplomatic
relations, unless averted by a realiza
tion on Germany's part that America
is finalH" in earnest, teems with sober
potentialities. It need not be said
that the present embarrassing situa
tion might have been circumvented
by a firm and sound initial attitude
toward Germany. The hope will pre
vail throughout America that the
Kaiser will believe that this "final
note" is actually final and that Ger
many, in having misjudged the lim
its of a weak foreign policy, has not
heedlessly created a situation at
home from which it cannot recede at
this late hour.
PORTLAND'S GKKAT OPPORTUNITY.
The war has given to Portland an
unexampled opportunity to establish
the shipbuilding industry permanently
on the Columbia and Willamette rlv
ers. So great is the famine of ships
and so rich are the profits earned by
them that orders have been placed
wherever yards can be opened, not
only on any of our sea coasts but on
the Great Lakes and even in China.
Steel is in such demand that wooden
ships are again being built, and the
Pacific Coast, with the Nation's great
est timber belt fronting on deep wa
ter, comes into its own.
At the same time that the war has
Increased the demand for ships to
carry troops and supplies, it has
enormously reduced the tonnage avail
able. When 1915 opened, the world
had about 49.000.000 tons of ships of
over 100 tons. Nearly 6,000,000 tons
were put out of action when the Teu
ton empires were driven from the ea,
Uown to March 23 over 2.000,000 tons
of allied and neutral ships had been
destroyed, or more than Great Britain
has been able to build since August 1,
1914. One-sixth of the world's sup
ply is out of the market from those
causes and one-fourth of the British
20,000,000 tons, with a much larger
proportion of the shipping owned by
the other allies, has been diverted to
military service. It is estimated that
commerce is deprived of 4 0 per cent
of its normal supply of ocean tonnage.
Not only is normal growth in the
supply stopped but new tonnage fails
to keep pace with war's destruction.
The effect of this ,decrease in the
world's supply, combined with that of
war risks, is seen in the following
table of ocean freight lates:
Vrclclit
1 ucrease
for 101.;
over 1014.
bin'.
and
1011
to
to
POSc-c
Between which port!"
P-ombav to United Kingdom ,
An-Titlnc to I'nited Kingdom
t'nltfd HT-Mcg
.Atlantic ports of United states
frit'ed Ktrsdsm fcotton)
Atlantic ports of United Slates
United Kingdom (grain; ,
When ocean freights show such
enormous increases, the difference be
tween different countries in the cost
of shipbuilding becomes of no conse
quence for the time being. Rich profit
can be made on the operation of ships
built at high American costs. In a
few voyages a ship's earnings pay
for it.
This situation attracts many per
sons into the shipbuilding business
who would never think of it other
wise. It causes all neglected sites for
shipyard to be eagerly seized. It af
fords a new opportunity for various
sections to try out their respective
merits. The Columbia River basin
may come to the front and attain rank
with the Delaware River and Chesa
peake Bay and with the Maine and
Connecticut yards. The river may be
come as well lined with shipyards as
the Mersey, the Clyde, the Tyne and
the Tees in Great Britain. Whether
this shall be so depends on the peo
ple of Portland. If we g about the
Industry right, we may establish it
permanently; If not. It will die after
an ephemeral boom. One requisite t
success has already been complied
with by the McCormick Company i
building according: to standard plan
by which 25 per cent is saved on th
cost of building: each ship from special
designs. Permanent success hangs on
our ability to comply with the condi
tions which will prevail In peace. War
times merely enable the Industry to
pass the experimental stage withou
the loss which almost invariably ac
companies new ventures.
AS ABSURD LAW.
That primary law which denies on
the one hand the right of a Justice o
the Supreme Court of the United
States to avoid the possible humilta
tion of state defeat for an office which
he is not seeking, and on the other
hand permits a peanut politician like
Charley Lockwood to get his nam
on the Presidential ballot at hjs own
request, contains an absurdity and a
grievous wrong.
That is the Oregon law as con
strued by the Supreme Court. The
law permits the buffoon the pleas-
ure of his whim and denies the
National Jurist the full employment o
his conscientious scruples.
Observe this provision taken from
th original primary law of Oregon
and still in force:
Before or at the time of beginning to
circulate any petition for nomination to any
orilce under this law, the person who ii
to be a candidate for such a nomination
shall send by registered mail or otherwise
to the Secretary of Mate or the County
Cleric or City Cleric, Recorder or Auditor,
as the case may be, a copy of his petition
signed by himself, and such copy shall be
tiled and shall be conclusive evidence fo
the purposes of this law that said elector
has been a candidate for nomination by his
party.
The petition form set forth in the
law requires the candidate to pledge
himself to accept if nominated and
not withdraw.
It appears that a nominating peti
tion involving any office from Con
stable to Governor does not get the
name of the reputed candidate on the
ballot unless he files a signed ac
ceptance in advance.
Furthermore, there is in the Presi
dential primary law, as amended in
1915, the following provision:
The names of such candidates for Party
nominations for President and for Vice-Presi
dent of the United States shall be printed on
ine omciai naiiota for the primary nomlnat
Ing elections of their respective political
parties, . . .under toe same conditions,
aa xar as the same are applicable, as the
names of candidates for nomination for state
ana district offices.
It is a "condition" precedent to
printing the name of a candidate for
state or district office on the ballot
that he shall file an acceptance. The
names of candidates for President are
to be printed on the official ballot
under the same "conditions" that ap
ply to state and district nominations.
let the supreme Court apparently
rinds some provision in the Presl
dental primary law which overrides
tho provision quoted.
e shall await the court's -written
opinion with interest.
TirE OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT.
No bumper wheat crop need be ex
pected in the United States this year.
J ne April report of the Agricultural
Department shows the condition of
Winter wheat to have been 78.3 as
compared with 88.8 a year ago. The
acreage was reduced 11 per cent at
planting time and has since been re
duced by Winter-killing.
Subject to the latter deduction, the
narvest was estimated on April 1 at
49o,000.000 bushels, -which is 124.
000,000 less than a year ago and 125,
000,000 les3 than in 1914. The actual
crops of those years exceeded fore
casts by 36, 000, 000 and 64,000,000
bushels, but experts expect this year's
crop to fall 20,000,000 below the esti
mate. If the war' should continue through
the shipping season -without release
of the Russian surplus, high prices
may compensate the farmers for the
short crop. During the Napoleonic
War an English crop of only one
third the normal size in 1804 raised
the price from $1.55 to $3.12 and
short crops in the four years 1809-12
caused the price to reach $4.84 in
1812.
If the war should suddenly end
during or shortly after harvest, prices
might slump in consequence of the
dumping of Russia's surplus, although
Germany might absorb a large part
of that surplus.
But we cannot have bumper crops
every year. They helped us amazing
ly through the trying times of 1914
and early 1915. Other industries are
now so active that the adverse effect
of a short crop on general business
this year should scarcely be felt.
RUSSIA'S LATEST TRlr.MPH.
Russia's capture of Trebizond is a
remarkable feat of arms and strategy,
for the city occupies a defensive posi
tion which was held to be impreg
nable in medieval times. It stands on
table-land, sloping seaward, which
falls In steep, rocky precipices on two
sides to deep valleys, running parallel
with each other to the Black Sea.
The fortifications which crown the
summit of the cliffs and guard the
neck joining the ravines at the high
est point in the table-land are worth
less against modern artillery, but the
storming of the cliffs would be a dar
ing and difficult feat in the race cf
determined resistance. The Christian
quarter is east of the walled city and
beyond this a promontory juts north
ward into the sea. being the chief
center of commerce and, having the
harbor on its east side. The citv is
cut off from the rest of Asia Minor
by a barrier of rimed mountains
7000 to 8000 feet high and has little
communication with that country, but
is the sea terminus of a caravan route
via Erzerum to Persia.
From the fact that the Russian
bulletin announcing the capture of
the city followed on the same day a
bulletin proclaiming that the coastal
army had occupied a village ten
miles eastward, it may be inferred
that a rapid dash was made over
these ten miles and that the army
made the attack on the upper city
simultaneously with the landing of
troops in the lower city and the bom
bardment of fortifications by the
fleet. AVhile the resistance of the
Turks may have been fierce, as the
later bulletin says, it must soon have
broken down before the combined
land and sea attack, or one day's
fighting could not have been decisive
The importance of Trebizond as the
Black Sea port of Armenia and North
ern Persia has been diminished by
the construction of the Russian rail
road from Batum by way of Tiflis,
the capital of Transcaucasia, to Baku,
center of the oil region on the Cas
pian Sea. It forms a valuable base
for Russian conquest of the Black
Pea coast and for the landinsr of
armies to advance inland against
Sivas. where the Turks are prepared
to make a stand. The latter city is
distant about 300 miles from Angora,
the terminus of the railroad whence.
the Turks reinforce and supply their
Asiatic army. The Russians now have
an unbroken front extending from
Trebizond on the northwest to Bitli
on the southeust and through Uruml
and Tabriz in Persia to the Caspian
Sea. South of this line they occupy
several important Persian towns to
within about 150 miles of Bagdad
but a range of high mountains wit
well-fortified passes separates them
from that city.
This Russian success may greatly
lessen the pressure on the British
army which is struggling against
Turks and floods to relieve General
Townshend's army at Kut-el-Amara.
Success of this operation is a neces-
sary preliminary to a combined
Russo-Britlsh sweep across Asia
Minor and Syria, which would isolate
Constantinople from its supply of men
and material. Having failed at Galli
poll, the allies may go the long -way
around to the Turkish capital.
AX lyrxCDIBERED GENIUS.
Word that Congress plans the early
purchase of the Hammond Inventions
brings attention to one of the most
picturesque young geniuses on rec
ord. John. Hays Hammond, Jr.
whose radio-directed submarine pro
jectiles promise to revolutionize naval
warfare and add vast security to
American shores, is a youth of 28
years. He has been out of college
six years and in that time has per
fected the inventions, covered by 128
patents, -which are approved by naval
experts as highly practicable and val
uable. The achievement is one that
rivals the greatest works of leading
inventors, men who have devoted de
cades to study and struggle to their
ideas.
But if young Hammond has suc
ceeded immediately in work of
magnitude which ordinarily might
have required a lifetime, perhaps the
explanation is not found entirely in
the quality of his splendid genius,
The young man is the son of John
Hays Hammond, mining engineer of
world-wide reputation and ' great
wealth. When the son left college
no obstacles confronted his ambition
other than his own limitations. A
splendid laboratory was available. He
was not put to the necessity of earn
ing a livelihood. The principles in
volved in the new torpedo had been
discovered already by Tesla. So he
was able to devote his whole time and
energy to its development. Father's
pocketbook was available and it is
related that $300,000 has been ex
pended by the elder Hammond in the
brilliant son's experiments.
Another man of equal genius, pos
sessed of the same idea, might have
been compelled to -wait long years be
fore he could afford the luxury of
experimentation; in the meantime de
voting himself to mere money-making
inventions. One is led to wonder how
much more Edison could have done
but for the delays of his early strug
gles against adversity.
WHAT WILL. GERMANY DO?
The mind of every American citi
zen who is concerned for his coun
try's welfare will now be occupied
with the question: What will be the
consequence of President Wilson's de
mand upon Germany? Although no
definite time was set when Germany
must comply or diplomatic relations
will be severed, the demand iwas in
effect an ultimatum. It requires "im
mediate" compliance. The President
assumes the right to define the mean-
ng of that word "Immediate" as ap
plied to the present case.
We are given to understand from
Washington that, unless vrtthin three
r four days Germany shall not only
declare" but "effect" an abandon
ment of those methods of warfare
which the President denounces as law
less and inhuman. Ambassador Gerard
will be recalled from Berlin and Am
bassador von Bernstorff will be dis
missed from Washington. Diplomatic
intercourse between the two govern
ments would then cease.
Whatever is to be done to prevent
breach must be done within those
three or four days. Germany may
inform, the United States that certain
rders have boon given to the sub
marines which will bring their oper
ations within the limits of law as the
President has defined it. Events may
prove that those orders have been put
in effect by the submarine command-
rs. In that case the breach would
be postponed until a new violation of
law had been committed. That might
be indefinitely or even to the close of
the war. In which case it would never
occur.
But the first time that a submarine
hich the President had good reason
o suspect of being German attacked
without warning a merchant ship
carrying Americans or without pro-
sion for the safety of those on
board, no further word would be
written to Germany; as soon as the
President was convinced of the facts,
e would recall our Ambassador and
ismiss the German Ambassador.
What is the prospect that Germany
ill satisfy the President's demands?
Although the President has not de
manded total cessation of submarine
attacks on commerce, he has ex
pressed the opinion that it is impossi
ble to make them and at the same
me to comply with the conditions
hich he has laid down. He has
ractically left Germany free to prove
he contrary, with a plain intimation
that attempt to do so followed by fail-
re will bring about a breach between
he two nations.
There is small prospect that Ger
many will totally abandon submarine
arfare. It is the Kaiser's only effec.
ve naval weapon against his enemies.
t has not prevented transportation of
their troops and supplies by sea, but
haj been a serious obstruction, has
inflicted much loss upon them, has
sensibly diminished their available
onnage, has greatly increased the
ost of all commodities which they
onsume and has materially damaged
heir commerce.
Were submarine war on merchant
ships abandoned, an uninterrupted
flow of munitions from America to
urope and from one allied country'
another would be permitted, the
normal increase of allied tonnage
would be renewed and the pretense
that the allied blockade is reducing
Germany to starvation would perforce
e abandoned. German and Austrian
resources would be steadily reduced,
while those of their allies would be
constantly replenished by imports of
munitions and by commerce. Those
submarines -which operated against
.-arships and transports would be
compelled to expose themselves in or-
er to assure themselves that they
ere not attacking merchant ships,
and would thus lose much 'of the im
munity from attack which they owe
to their character.
These are the military considera
tions which would deter Germany
from yielding totally. There are po
litical considerations also. The Ger
man people have been led by their
government to believe that the sub
marines were working great havoc
among allied ships and might bring
Britain to terms by cutting off the
British food supply. They have been
informed that submarine war was
provoked by the British blockade
which was designed to starve them
Into submission and which has caused
the shortage of many articles of food
and clothing, and that submarine at
tacks are therefore amply Justified as
reprisals.
In the same breath that German
officials have given the people this
explanation of strict food regulation
and. have excused their metheds of
naval war by the starvation theory
they have proclaimed to the world
that Germany has enough food and
cannot be starved. Abandonment of
submarine war would require dam
aging admissions -which might inflame
the population against the govern
ment. Buoyed up by reports of many
victories, the people would not easily
tolerate submission -without a blow to
American demands. This would im
press them as a cowardly surrender,
dooming them to a continuance of
privations without effort at relief.
The German government does not
wish to abandon its only available
naval weapon, nor does it wish to
bear the stigma of backing down to
one almost unarmed Nation after suc
cessfully -withstanding half of Eu
rope, nor to arouse the fury of the
German people against it. Yet it does
not wish to add the United States
to the number of its enemies. It
knows that the United States could
add little to the allies' strength at
sea and that that little would but
slightly affect the naval odds against
it. Germany knows that no Amer
ican army could take the field against
it short of two years and that the
task of transportation and supply
would, be so stupendous as not to be
lightly undertaken.
But Germany knows that the United
States could reinforce its enemies
with great sums of money from our
practically unlimited financial re
sources and with great and constant
ly increasing supplies of munitions,
It knows that -we can in this manner
supply the allies with precisely those
things in which they are deficient. It
will, therefore, probably attempt
means short of complete yielding to
Mr. Wilson's demands for avoiding a
breach.
Yet the President's note makes an
open breach the alternative to
full compliance with his demands,
Full compliance - is utterly irrecon
cilable with the necessities of Ger
many's position. We may expect an
attempt to continue the same tactics
which have enabled Germany to
stand off the United States while con
tinuing the illegal methods of warfare
for a full year, though ostensibly
agreeing to observe the law as Mr.
Wilson construes it. If the President
stands his ground, that will inevitably
cause a diplomatic breach, but the en
tire pressure of German propaganda
will be expected to prevent it from lead
ing to war.
All the pro-Germans, pacifists' and
others whose one idea is to keep out
of war on any terms, no matter how
shameful, will bombard Congress
with pleas against drastic action. If
those people have their way, the
United States will present the unique
spectacle of a Nation submitting to
acts of war upon its citizens without
triking a blow in return. We can
not believe that the American peo
ple will permit them to have their
way. The great body of the Nation
will endorse the demand of the Presi
dent that these outrages stop and
will be prepared to fight against the
nation which perpetrates them.
The Oregonian notes that there is
a plan to have the -children's parade
of the Rose Festival for the current
year on the west side of .the river.
The result is more or less disturbance
on the East Side, where the parades
have always been held, with a single
exception. No doubt the Festival
management has given the matter
full consideration and has reached
its decision for reasons satisfactory
to it. But it seems proper, neverthe-
ess. to say that the Festival has not
uffered heretofore from the fact
that one of its most interesting fea-
ures has had Grand avenue for its
oeation. The children's parade had
its origin there, as a separate attrac-
ion, and was a success; and it has
been one means of keeping up the en
thusiasm of great numbers of people
for the celebration in its entirety.
There are sound diplomatic reasons
why the claims of the East Side
hould be considered reasons so ob
vious that they need not be men
tioned. It is to be hoped that the Fes
tival board will reconsider its decision.
Some of these tricks of the sharp
ers would make the ghost of old-time
Canada Bill turn pale. The latest is
taking Canadian money from easy
passengers in and out of Chicago on
the bluff that it is unlawful to carry
British money in the United States.
The real name of Montavilla Is
Mount Tabor Villa. It was shortened
o save breath during the hard times
of the second Cleveland term. Most
f the residents used all their wind
n the campaign preceding and never
got it back.
Richard Harding Davis inherited a
wad" and did not have to write to
eep the pot boiling. He wrote good
stuff, to be sure, but no better than
Kipling and Kyne and many others
who began on wages.
A Boston youth ran twenty-five
miles in two hours and twenty-seven
minutes. He'd make an excellent
man for the Army if we should ever
get into a fight with a first-class
power.
Mr.1 Burton blames the President
for the present diplomatic mess. We
all know where the fault lies, but be
lieve in giving Mr. Wilson a clear
field.
Between keeping track of Mr. Wil
son's multitudinous note3 and the
changing baseball scores, these be
arduous days.
Von Bernstorff cabled Berlin that
America is in earnest this time.
Otherwise the Kaiser might not have
been certain.
That Hood River dog that chews
almost everything lacks the one hu
man trait of using plug or fine cut.
Doubtless in Berlin the crisis is
merely an incident of the day's de
velopments. The Villa chase might be called off
during the excitement.
British Cabinet members should be
sent to the front.
Almost time for a dip in, the tirine.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. L'vini.
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of disease. If matters of gen
eral interest, will be answered In this col
umn. Where space will not permit or the
subject is not suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped, addressed en
velope is Inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for individual dis
eases. Requests for such service cannot bo
answered.
(Copyright. 1916. by PT, XV". A. Kvans.
Published by arrangement with Chicago
TTibune.
Croup.
The most important point to get
about croup is that it is likely, to be
confused with diphtheria. Therefore
the most Important thins to -do when
a child gets sick with croup is to look
in the throat for a membrane. If there
Is a membrane, or any suspicion of one,
a culture should be made at once. If,
instead of being croup, the disease is
diphtheria, the parent should know it
as soon as possible.
Ordinary croup is a common cold af
fecting the bronchial tubes and larynx,
plus an element of spasm. The germs
which cause it are the ordinary germs
which cause cold. The spasm feature is
due to the makeup of the child.
A common history of croup is as fol
lows: A child catches cold. For a day
or more there is a mild fever. The nose
runs. There is a little cough. Toward
night it i3 noticed that the cough
tightens up. It sounds croupy. Prob
ably the child is put to bed at night
feeling fairly well. An hour or two
later he awakens with a developed at
tack of croup. The cough is croupy.
The child breathes with difficulty. In
spiration produces a crowing sound. As
day comes the croup loosens up. Toward
night the cough again becomes more
croupy and a second attack of difficult
breathing develops during the night.
The young mother witnessing the
first attack of croup will be very much
alarmed unless some one has told her
that the disease is not so dangerous as
it seems. There is no danger of death
in an ordinary croup. A dose of ipecac
will bring relief in most cases.
Some children never have croup.
Others have it frequently. It depends
on the child. Children with large thy
mus glands are subject to croup. The
children who are especially liable to it
are those with what is called the spas
mophilic diathesis. This means that
they are liable to develop spasms of
one sort or another whenever anything
goes wrong. When they get ordinary
colds .they develop a spasm of the up
per part of thebreathing apparatus.
Many of them are recognizable as
nervous children.
Furthermore, croup runs in families.
Some mothers know nothing of it.
Their chiMren never have it.
These facts mean that when a child
is subject to croup the time to work
against the disease Is between attacks.
Something can be done by training.
More can be done by regulating the
diet. If the children are old enough
for a mixed diet they should live largely
on cereals, bread, fruits and vegetables.
The cereals and breads should be made
from whole wheat grains, else some
bran as a cereal should be used from
time to time. Eggs are particularly
objectionable. Some meat may be
given, but not much. Some of these
children do very much better if they
are given no milk.
Baby la Overfed.
Mrs. E. P. S. writes: "My baby is S
months old, weighs 16- pounds and is
gaining very slowly. He has no teeth,
and no signs of any coming. He has
been bottle fed since birth. At present
am giving him seven ounces of the
following formula, at intervals of three
hours. This makes seven feedings, but
I generally have one feeding left over
n 24 hours, sometimes he wakens for
this extra feeding during the night,
but more often he gets the 42 ounces
n 24 hours:
"Ten oz. from pint bottle (top milk),
6 or., from quart bottle (top milk), 6
oz. Robertsons barley water, 16 oz.
water, 1 oz. lime water, 1 oz. sugar of
milk, teaspoon granulated sugar, 1
teaspoon milk of magnesia.
He sleeps well at night, has never
been sick, but seems to me to be gain-
ng very slowly. His bowels are in per
fect condition when I add the milk of
magnesia, but he seems a little consti
pated if I do not add this to his daily
feeding. I give him the juice of half
an orange once a day, and have just
begun to give bjm about two teaspoons
of baked potato with cream. Is this
a good food for him? If my formula
s not correct, w-ill you please give me
a suitable one for a child of this age in
general good health?"
REPI.T.
I think you are overfeerlinir the baby. Tie
should not eat oftener than once every four
lour during- tho day. Tie should not be fed
at night. Your mixture is a little too rich.
Instead of some of Iho milk, give him meat
broth and a veiy finely chopped vegetable.
such as spinach. T.et him rhew on a hard
rar-ker or piece of zweibaeh. Babies some-
imos fall to grow because they are overfed.
Not Ooort for Skin.
Mrs. A. writes: 'Will you kindly tell
me if Fowler a solution or arsenic is
harmful? It bn been recommended for
learing the skin."
REPLY.
Fowler's solution of arsenic is an excellent
onic for anemia, mlaria, and some other
diseases. Given in excess it is harmful. It
s not likely to clear your skin.
FORD XOT BRAINS OF INDUSTRY
Michigan ould Better Boost Hia Hired
Man for President.
VANCOUVER. Wash., April 20. (To
he Editor.) It is impossible to be-
ieve that the people of Michigan are
erious when they mention henry Ford
a Presidential possibility. Yet we
must acknowledge that Detroit is par
excellence a city of freaks.
Some 40 years ago the inimitable M.
Quad, of the Detroit Free Press,
launched a boom in favor of Crudder
Gardner, of the Lime Kiln Club, for the
Presidency. It was set forth among the
worthy Crudder's eminent achievements
that he was still alive after having
been twice bitten by rattlesnakes, once
by a mad dog and once run over by a
slieetcar. Later Hazen S. Pingree, of
potato fame, was boomed for President
by the people of Michigan. Although a
resident of Detroit at that time, I could
learn of no argument offered in sup
port of Mi'. Pingree's adaptability to
such a responsible position other than
that ho ate pie from a knife and reli
giously eschewed all napkins.
It was argued this was sufficient
proof that he was democratic in tastes
and habits and therefore a fit and
proper person to preside over our great
democracy.
Later a Detroiter, prominent among
pine barons and who had amassed
wealth through the ability of two of
his hired men, was boosted to the office
of Secretary of War. This was the
priori of Springfield, embalmed beef,
and henskin shoes the man having the
money was taken . Washington, but
the men possessed of the brains were
left in Grand Marais, Mich.
The present freak is Mr. Ford. It
comes to me from sources which I con
sider reliable that the brains of the
great industry which bears Mr. Ford's
name are furnished by one of his hired
men. This man, it is said, receives
quite modest wages, when the respon
sibility of his position is considered.
Now. why do the people of Michigan at
tempt an act which may prove as dis
astrous as their act of 1896, when for
the office of Secretary of War they
boomed an incapable? Why do they not
put forward Ford's hired man?
AMOS.
Got a Good Start.
Thomas A. Edison worked on the
trains running out of Detroit as a
newsboy, when he wu 12 years old.
XOT SCHOOL, SOR PRESS BUREAU
LrciHlatnre 3Vot Place to Kirt lixpe
rienre or AdvertlMinff.
PORTLAND, April 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Now that the agony of waiting
to sco who would be tho next victim to
offer himself as a. sacrifice on tho altar
of ruty has been passed, and all can
didates who seek nomination at the
hands of the people to represent us in
the Legislature have filed their peti
tions with the Secretary of State, it
becomes the duty of the voters to se
lect from the multiplicity of candidates
the requisite number required by law,
viz., 13 for the lower House and six
for the Senate, which includes one Joint
Representative from Clackamas and
Multnomah counties, and one Senator
to fill the unexpired term of Judge
Langguth. For this latter position John
Gill is the only applicant.
Out of the 37 candidates for the
lower House a majority are lawyers,
which is also true of the 12 who have
filed for the Senate.
On looking over the list of candidates
from districts outside of Multnomah
County we find practically the same
proportions.
At the last session of the Legislature
40 per cent of the House and 43 1-3 per
cent of the Senate were lawyers. Is it
any wonder that we complain of too
many laws?
It is natural to conclude that a young
and inexperienced lawyer would feel
that he was not doing his duty toward
his constituents unless he attempted to
have some law enacted, and, what is
more important to him, unless he did
so he would not get the advertising he
seeks.
Ask any -if the lawyers why he seeks
the nomination, and his reply will be:
"I want the advertising and the ex
perience"; or it is a stepping stone to
some higher political honor. Nothing
is said about his duty to the public.
some are honest enough to admit tha
they do not expect to be nominated,
but it is worth what it costs for th
advertising.
Speaking about this "experience,1
this lawmaking campaign is gettin;
to be a serious matter to the business
man and taxpayer.
The medical college turns out. say
oO to 100 young and inexperienced doc
tors each year. Suppose the lates
class should start a hospital and say
to the public: "Come in and let us op
erate on you. We need the experience
and the advertising." W ould you do
it? Hardly.
And yet you do not hesitate to do
this very thing when you send men
to the Legislature who seek experience
and advertising, or who go there to
further their own interest or the selfish
interest of some one else.
They experiment with the business
of the state at the expense of thir busi
nessman and taxpayer.
Look at the army of clerks and sten
ographeis employed, one-half of them
merely in the way of the others, yet i
is a "perquisite" of the office.
To sum it all up. the people would
be delighted to have one Legislature
that would enact no laws, but which
would devote its time to pruning ou
the obsolete and unnecessary laws and
commissions now burdening the people
of this state.
Quite a number of responsible busi
ness men have filed for nomination
which is a most hopeful sign of return
ing Canity. These men, if elected
would bring to the Legislature practi
cal business knowledge and methods,
There would be no bickering and jug
gling, and laws would be enacted on
merit, and not for political prefer
ment.
Let us select the practical and re
sponsible business men for this session
It will, of course, be necessary to
have some lawyers, and some have
filed who have had legislative expe
rience. Select tho best of them to co
operate with the business men.
LEO FRIEDE
GLYNN'S QUOTATIONS GARBLED
False Basia fur Journal Article 01
Hoosevelt Lonf Since Exposed.
TORTLAND, April 20. (To the Edi
tor.) A short time ago the Portland
Journal published an editorial crlticis
ing Mr. Roosevelt for what is termed i
change of heart with regard to the
duty of this country to Belgium. This
was evidently based on ex-Governor
Glynn's speech in New York, in which
Mr. Glynn misrepresented Roosevelt's
position, and, while purporting to quote
from the latter s article in the Out
look" of September 23, 1914, really
garbled the article in such manner as
to make the Colonel appear to express
opinions which he did not have.
The "Outlook" of March 29 exposed
the rough work of the ex-Governor, and
reputable papers have, no doubt, dis
continued repeating the misrepresen
tations contained in his speech. Tho
local Democratic organ, however, prints
another editorial based on ex-Governor
Glynn's misstatements, among them
that Mr. Roosevelt has changed his
mind with regard to our responsibility
for what happened in Belgium, and is
now criticising President Wilson, while
in 3914 he stated that we had no re
sponsibility for what happened in that
unfortunate country.
The facts are so well stated In an
editorial from the Kansas City Star of
March 31 and repeated in the "Outlook"
that I am enclosing the editorial and
hope that you v.ill publish it, so that
those of your readers who have read
the "Journal" editorial may not be mis
informed. FAIR PLAY.
The editorial from tho Kansas City
Star follows: v
Nothing- given certain gentlemen more
pleasure tha;i to fool that they have "got
something on Koo.sevelt." The latest in
stance was the discovery by ex-LJovernor
(Jlynn, of New York, of an article by Colonel
rtoosevolt in Iho Outlook lor September
1014, on "The -World War: Its Tragedies
and Its T.eseons." Mr. Glynn, followed by
the anti-Roosevelt periodicals, called atten
tion to sentences in tho article which
pmed to indicate that at that time the
Colonel was not thinking' nf protesting
against the violation of Beician neutrality.
The inference was that he changed his views
later, and so had bjen criticising the Presi
dent for holding the same views that he
himself had held in September, 1014.
The matter is of no frrcat importance, for
only a small man takes pride in nevor
changing: his views. But it happens the evi
dence in thl case is against Mr. Glynn. In
the ruriKmt issue of tho Outiook Lawrence
I'1. Abbott, one of Its editors, points out
that the (ilynn quotations from the Roose
velt articlo omit some important qualifying
phrases. These phrasee make it evident
that Colonel Roosewit -was carefully refraining-
from expressing his opinion on the
duty of tho United States in the Holgian
matter.
In adidtion. Mr. Abbott adds his personal
testimony that at the time the article was
written Colonol Roosevelt had repeatedly
expressed the same views in private con
versations in the Outlook office that he has
been expressing publicly in recent months.
But ho had refrained at that time from
publishing them, so us not to seem to bo
criticising President Wilson without giving
the President time to act.
The Star can add confirmatory evidence.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke in Kansas City,
Kan., on September 21. 1014. To at least
one member of the Star's staff at that time
he expressed forcibly his views regarding
the duty of the united States toward Bel
gium, and added that he did not know how
much longer he was frolng to be able to
keep from speaklnpr out on this subject. A
tew weeks later he made his first publio
declaration in Qriticism of the Administra
tion's attitude.
Loving Memories Handed Down.
At the recent golden weeding re
ception of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel
Willard, of West Freeman, Me., Mrs.
Willard wore a brown skirt which her
mother wore at her own wedding 74
years before. Twenty-four years ago
Mrs. Willard's parents, Stephen and
Susan Rowe Peary, celebrated their
golden wedding in the same house in
which Mr. and Mrs. Willard's was held.
German IngenuttT Again.
Instruments invented by a German
to register the electricity produced by
the heart and its distribution enable
physicians to diagnose diseases of that
organ more accurately.
In Other Days.
Half a Century Ago.
From Tlic Oregoniaii of April -J1
Tho Idaho Citv World tells
of th-3
fI ui eirnt pac-K trains anrt two
wagon trains from Umatilla during
the week ending April, 7. One of the
trains, belonging to Frank Louder, had
70 animals. Thero- is a scarcity of men
in and around Idaho City and miners
are commanding good wages.
Kit Carson, the famous frontiersman,
is now a Colonel in the United State
Army. He served his country with
distinction during the rebellion and
now that the rebellion is crushed, hfl
devotes himself to fighting his old
enemies, the Indians.
The Oregon Central Military Roal
Company is preparing to send out
parties tor the Summer work upon the
road from Eugene City, intending to
have communication established over
the road this Summer.
Messrs. Ladd and Tilton have in a
frame at their banking house in thin
city a fine collection of "current funds"
of the early days of this country and
of Oregon when a territory, as well
as a few notes of the "C. S. A." These
latter are not worth half so much, as
a continental.
A letter from Galveston says that
city has become a rendezvous from
ell parts of the South. Such a thintr
as respect for law is not known. .Mur
ders are of almost daily occurrence.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
T-roni The Oregonian of April 111, Hill.
Washington. April 20. Secretary
Foster has issued orders for the ad
mission into the United States at Kl
Paso of the governor of Chihuahua
and his staff, together with a battcry
of artillery to fire a salute in, honcr
of President Harrison upon his arrival
at El Paso. The entrance of the Mexi
can soldiers into the United States I
quite an event, this being said to bo
the first time they have trod Ameri
can soil since the Mexican war.
New York. April 20. There were 11
cases of grip reported today. Of in
deaths, nine were of grip cases com
plicated with prjeumonia.
Astoria. April 20. The old tea clip
per Oberon, blew in from Yokahama
last night after the fastest passage on
record, being out but 24 days, which
is almost equal to steamship time.
Contracts were let yesterday for tho
foundations and the construction iron
work for the Frank Dekum building at.
the corner of Third and Washington
streets.
At a meeting of the directors of the,
Willamette Rowing Club, held in Gill's
book store last evening, the following
officers were elected for the coming
year: John Gill, president; J. Milner.
vice-president; Ed Werlein, secretary;
F. C. Braden, treasurer; P. .T. Bannon,
captain, and Joe Selliger, vice-captain.
NO TIMK FOR SERIOUS THOllillT
Interest in Amusements to Exrlunion
of Nntionnl DercDae Is Deplored.
PORTLAND. April 20. (To tho Ed
itor.) Here in Portland there has been
held recently, under the direction of
the AVar Department, a few of a scries
of lectures on our Army, being intend
ed as a preliminary training to those
who expect to attend the citizens' camp
at Vancouver this coming Summer. But
for the average citizen a great deal of
interesting information concerning our
Army can be had.
These lectures have not been sup
ported by tho citizens of this city.
whether it is because they are not
patriotic or because they do not appre
ciate what our country may be facing.
At a time like this every citizen of this
city should be behind anything that is
aimed at teaching us more concerning
what our country has in the way of
means at present for defense. When
the War Department holds a series of
lectures here the citizens of this city
should attend, not only because they
are interesting, but for the purpose of
showing the Government that we are
back of them and want to learn more,
concerning our Army than we know at
present. The ignorance of the average,
civilian on matters relating to our
Army and Navy is very gross.
Instead of the people being interest
ed, what happens? A very few of our
business men attend. The young men
who will be called to the colors in case
of trouble never attend. I think tho
lack of interest can best he shown by
an incident yesterday at the Portland
Ad Club. I requeste-d permission to
make an announcement of the lectures
of W. D. Whitcomb. of tho firm of
Whitfield. Whiteomh & ( "o.. account an t s.
The president of the club said he rl i I
not think he would have time to allow
me 30 seconds to announce this lecture.
given under the auspices of one of the
departments of our Government on a
subject of National defense, and he did
not find the time, lie, however, found
time to announce a picnic, a suffraffi
meeting and the fact that the Baseball
Boosters' parade would start at 1:20
p. jr.
I cannot understand in times like
these, how anyone can imagine that a
picnic, a suffrage meeting and base
ball boosters' parade should be of such
importance that they should crowd out
an announcement of a meeting relating
to our National defense. The Ad Club
no worse than the others of our
civic organizations, none of which
have taken proper interest in questions
relating to our National defense.
We who call Portland our home
should get tocother and show the rest
of the country that we are not alto
gether selfish, that baseball and picnics
are not of more importance than ques
tions of National tiofen. Let every
business man and professional man
make tip his mind that he will attend
the civilians' camp this Rummer. At.
least let those do so who take any va
cation. Attend the lectures whether
you care for them or not. for you onclil
to attend on account of the fait th:it
the Government is holding them if fur
no other reason. S. S. 1IUMPIIR F-: V.
Innocent Iookloe.
A penknife" capable of firing a
caliber cartridge and inflicting a mor
tal wound is the latest device used b.v
gunmen. It is so innocent looking
that it passes for an ordinary pocket
knife in the best police circles, and
the New York Police Commissioner has
ssued a word of warning to the force.
The new weapon, as described in tin:
police bulletin, has the appearance of
an ordinary German silver pocket
knife with two blades and a rather
heavy handle.
Have You Such a
Friend ?
The outside of the purse matters
little if it is full inside.
A crowded pocketbook is a. mighty
good friend to have and one that
can be acquired.
What you save counts as well as
what you make.
Thrift is spending to advantage
and spending to advantage means
spending with knowledge.
The wise man keeps posted on the
market and the best guide to that
Is the day-to-day advertising in a
live newspaper like The Oregonian.
Don't buy "haphazardly." Read the
advertising and compare the various
offerings then choose to your best
advantage.
You arc working for your own
-pocketbook when you follow this
programme.