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WBTLAXD, FRIDAY, MAY B, 1916.
' PROTESTING TOO MUCH.
In Its current Issue, the . Saturday
Evening Post devotes a page to publi
cation of two interesting letters. One
Is from Mrs. Xina Von Below, Ameri
can wife of a German General; the
other from Owen Wister, the American
author.
Last July an article from Mr. Wis
ter's pen appeared in the Post. In
that article he repeated a theretofore
widely published statement that the
schools of the Rhine cities celebrated
the sinking of the Lusitania. Mrs. Von
Below disputes the statements with
affidavits signed by the school author
ities of nine Rhine cities. These school
authorities pronounce the charge "ab
solutely false," "malicious slander,"
and "a mischievous invention." Mr.
Wister replies to the effect that Ger
man affidavits are equivalent to scraps
Of paper.
It is not the purpose of The Orego
nian to express an opinion as to the
truth of Mr. Wlster's earlier statement.
It is rather to voice surprise at the
heat with which Mrs. Von Below and
the German school authorities repu
diate the charge. We had supposed
that in German opinion the Binking of
the L-usitania was a signal achieve
ment. Jvo official regret or disavowal
of the incident has been offered. The
German press or people have not con
demned those responsible for it.
From Berlin and other cities come
reports, whenever there has been im
portant prowess by German arms, of
flying flags and public rejoicing. These
reports have never been characterized
as slander. Is it the opinion of the
German General's wife and of the
royal boards of education of nine Ger
man cities, that the sending of 1000
ron-combatants to the bottom of the
sea was too dishonorable to be cele
brated? Prowess in war is always at the ex
pense of the enemy. Right-thinking
people may rejoice over victory or a
telling blow, but they do not fail to
give some thought of sorrow to the
vanquished. Yet we fancy that It Is pos.
sible for a government so to conduct
armed offense or defense that even
school children may with propriety
celebrate its everv deed and nrnm-
plishment.
1HMMAC" AND THE I'KOPLE'S WILL.
Those persons who denounce secret
diplomacy ignore the fact that modern
diplomacy is not so secret after all.
While the details of diplomatic nego
tiations are often kept secret until
their completion, the general drift be
comes known through the newspapers
from day to day. If the government
of a country which is under popular
rule takes a course of which the peo
ple disapprove, public opinion finds
prompt expression in newspapers,
speeches and the resolutions of public
gatherings, and the diplomats are apt
to change their course to suit the pub
lic will or to make known reasons
which will silence their critics.
In actual practice diplomats very
generally act in harmony with public
opinion, even in such a near-despotism
as Germany. While pursuing a policy
which has led up to the present war,
the Kaiser's government has carefully
cultivated public opinion to approve
Its policy. It has done so by a most
systematic propaganda. After Lord
Palmerston had practically said that
Great Britain would protect Denmark
from Austro-German aggression in
1866, popular opposition prevented
him from keeping his promise. So
careful was Sir Kdward Grey not to
commit Great Britain to anything
which the people might not approve
that, when the present war was im
pending, he refused to pledge British
aid to France and Russia, though by
so doing he would probably have de
layed, if not prevented, the war. That
is a case where deference to public
opinion actually hastened a war which
firm, independent action might have
averted. But when Belgium was in
vaded, Grey knew what the British
public would demand and did not hesi
tate to speak with decision. The Czar,
too, said with some reason that he
made war in response to his people's
demand, though he is supposed to be
all-powerful.
Xo man can complain of undue
secrecy in American diplomacy, and its
agents certainly strive to act as the
people wish, though they sometimes
misread public opinion. The course of
negotiations is usually followed so
closely by the newspapers and is ac
companied by such prompt publica
tion of important dispatches that other
nations have complained that our
statesmen do not observe diplomatic
etiquette. Indeed, it may be urged
that publicity makes a subject stale to
the public before the time arrives to
pass final judgment. Publicity also
gives those whose interests conflict
with the purpose of the Government
and the people an opportunity to cul
tivate a public opinion adverse to that
purpose. A conspicuous example is
the pro-German propaganda which
has- continued while the submarine
controversy drags on.
Though diplomacy makes wars, en
tire nations fight them in these days.
If diplomacy makes a war which the
nation is unwilling to fight, half
heartedness and internal dissension are
likely to paralyze the nation's arms
and to bring defeat upon it, Russia
had a sad experience of that kind in
the war with Japan. The diplomats
made that war, but the people had n
heart for it, rose up against its makers
and were in a fair way to overthrow
them when President Roosevelt of
fered his very welcome mediation. The
diplomats of nearly all the belligerent
nations took a bold course because
they knew it would be approved by the
people. Had any of them yielded that
for which the people desired to fight,
or provoked .a war for something
which the people did not consider
worth fighting for, they would have
been driven from office.
NOTHING TO IT BCD HUGHES.
By electing the regular Republican
delegates, California has completed the
destruction of the Roosevelt boom
which was begun by Massachusetts.
The voters of these states confirm the
correctness, as a reflection of Repub
lican sentiment, of a poll of Republi
can state legislators which has been
made by the Literary Digest.
Among 1500 replies, the Digest finds
758 for Hughes to only 2 75 for Roose
velt and 13 for Root. The favoritei
sons trail along with 84 for Cummins,
44 for Burton, 47 for Sherman, 24 for
Weeks and 41 for La Follette, while
there is a scattering vote for others.
Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado and
Wyoming are the only states which
give Roosevelt more votes than
Hughes.
Of equal significance is a poll by
the Chicago Tribune of Republican,
Progressive and Independent editors
in the five central states of Illinois,
Indiana, Idaho, Michigan and Wiscon.
sin. Although each of these states has
a favorite son in the field, Hughes and
Roosevelt each polls more votes In
the aggregate than any one of them.
Each favorite son leads in his own
state except Ford, who is distanced
by both Hughes and Roosevelt, but
in Wisconsin Hughes has sixty-three to
La Follette's sixty-five. Though these
are the states where Roosevelt was
strongest in 1912, Hughes leads in the
aggregate with 341 to Roosevelt's 2 98.
These polls are a fair reflection of
Republican sentiment. They strength
en The Oregonian's opinion that the
only man who can prevent the nomi
nation of Justice Hughes is Mr. Hughes
himself.
TEACHERS AND PRIVATE OPINIONS.
It is hardly pertinent to question a
man's fitness to instruct in manual
training on the ground that he is a
Socialist, pragmatist, evolutionist, athe
ist or sun worshiper, if he does not at
tempt to impress his beliefs upon his
pupils.
The School Board has before it a
clear-cut case in the trial of Mr.
Kerchen. There is no such thing con
templated in school laws or customs as
trial for religious or economic heresy.
The schools are not committed to a
particular cult or philosophy. Teachers
are employed mainly to teach facts,
or to drill the hand or mind in estab
lished and unquestioned particulars.
While a teacher may without Im
propriety entertain some belief not ac
cepted by the majority of people upon
matters not taught in the school, he
may still teach "with propriety if he
does not intrude his opinions upon the
accepted studies.
Plainly there is nothing more in
congruous than 'attempted guidance of
the mind by a teacher employed solely
to guide the hand. The sole question
at issue is whether Mr Kerchen has
been teaching something other than
manual training, not what his private
views are on extraneous subjects.
MUNICIPAL, GOLF LINKS.
Golf has so long been considered a
game exclusively for the well-to-do
that certain provincial citizens are
aghast at the proposal to estab
lish a municipal links. Golf is
not the game of the ordinary man
solely because of the need for extensive
grounds. The game is just as benefi
cial and just as enjoyable to the poor
as to the rich.
The expense to the players, if once
links are available, is not great. There
Is of course the ardent fan, who spends
much money on fancy clubs, just as
there are fishermen who spend an or
dinary month's wages for tackle and
get no more fish than the man with
a six-bit pole.
Municipal golf links, wherever es
tablished, have caused a remarkably
widespread interest in the game among
people of ordinary means. In San
Francisco they probably draw more
visitors than Golden Gate Park. Seat
tle's municipal links swarm with peo
ple on bright days.
The undertaking has unquestionable
virtues, but "whether the proposition
presented to the city is the best that
could be expected, were it determined
to establish a golf course, or whether
the city's funds now permit engaging
in the enterprise, are entirely'different
Platters. They are, in fact, the ones
that should control, not prejudice born
of ignorance.
MALIGNING r.KORGK WASHINGTON.
. It did not take a Taeoma jury very
long to convict a Socialist of libel for
having defamed the Father of the
Country. Evidence was introduced to
show that, according to history and
tradition, George Washington actually
did drink more freely than is consid
ered wise and that his language was
intemperate at times. But if the jury
credited such statements as trustwor
thy the evidence was not accepted as
justification for the offender's conduct
in seeking to wipe out great deeds and
lasting fame with a recitation of inci
dental frailties.
Whether or not George Washington
swore when aroused or drank when
thirsty is of no consequence. Certainly
these derelictions, if they occurred at
all, were not dominant traits in the
Washington makeup and did not di
minish the importance of his achieve
ments. Honesty, veracity, courage,
tenacity, unselfishness, lofty ideals of
service and government those were
the dominant traits of George Wash
ington. And they are traits that con
tributed to the foundation of the Re
public. Washington's day and age passed
upon his virtues and rated him with
the immortals. Posterity has ac
claimed him the National idol. The
character and stability of a people may
be gauged by their idols. There is
no mortal who has not had his small
personal weaknesses and idosyncrasies.
Washington was no exception to the
rule. But these were so trivial in con
trast with his virtues that it is a
craven person, indeed, who would seek
to besmirch this glorious name at this
late date.
All Americans will expect the sen
tencing judge to act with the same de
cision and firmness that was exercised
by the jury in dealing with Tacoma's
would-be idol-smasher.
WEEDING THE CONGREGATION.
The pastor of a Xew York church
has hit upon a rather drastic means
of securing attendance of a larger per
centage of his flock at Sunday serv
ices. With one stroke of his pen he
has reduced the membership from
2330 to 999- This by dropping 1331
pon-effectives. The action savors of
martial severity, and yet it may lead
to an improved condition in his con
gregation and point the way for others
to follow.
Obviously he has lost nothing. The
non-effectives were dead timber, the
same sort of useless material that is
carried on the rolls of the average
church. Before dropping them the
pastor sent out notices to all hi3 delin
quents and, he reports, 1331 back
sliders in question failed to respond.
Inasmuch as they contributed nothing
to the maintenance of the church, and
since they failed to attend services,
whai earthly good were they? In fact,
were they not a hindrance, since they
represented a paper organization
which gave a false Impression of the
magnitude of the congregation? Nat
urally, the active members would feel
that they were carrying more than
their share of the burden.
A better idea of the progress of
churches might be had if all pastors
would report attendance percentages,
rather than congregation totals, in
their annual statements. A church
with 2000 members might easily have
a smaller active membership than a
church of 1000 members. Besides,
realization that neglect of church ob
ligations would result in dismissal
might have a stimulating effect on
some of the delinquents. "Dropped
for the good of the church" is a
phrase that few reputable persons
would care to have "written after their
names on the church rolls. It would
not be a savory record to leave for
the scrutiny of later generations.
THE UNTRAINED GIRL,.
The tragedy of the educated but un
trained girl who is suddenly thrown
upon her own resources is one to make
angels weep. Had she been reared
differently she might join the un
trained girls who grind their lives
away In factories and sweatshops. But
early refinements render such an en
vironment untenable. Had a fraction
of the time she devoted to Greek clas
sics or music been given to stenog
raphy, bookkeeping or some other or
der of vocational training, she might
readily find acceptable employment.
But early surroundings and early neg
lect of vocational training are both
against her. What is the poor girl
to do?
The daughter of a Southern family
has presented her case to the newspa
pers for solution after seeking vainly
to adjust herself to a poverty that was
thrust upon her suddenly and unex
pectedly. She was too proud to re
main among her Southern friends, so
she borrowed money enough to take
her to New York and there began mak.
ing the rounds. What could she do?
Prospective employers were thought
less and heartless enough to inquire
into this detail. She could do nothing,
but was willing- to learn. But employ
ers were not in the business of train
ing their help, particularly when the
supply of trained employes was with
out limit. There was nothing, and Is
nothing. New York can do for her
unless some philanthropist interests
himself in her case which has not
occurred to date.
This girl, and others of her kind,
make two mistakes which land them
in such predicament. The first and
most vital is in failing to equip them
selves to earn --livelihood should fate
cuvii ii r.rai i . email allot
ment of the time expended in adding
finishing touches to a classical educa
tion would equip them against such
emergencies. The second mistake is in
fleeing from the haunts of friends.
Surely If she is to receive sympathetic
assistance, if anyone is to take the
trouble of giving her a chance to pre
pare herself, such a benefactor must
be found among her friends. Strangers
n a strange city cannot .be expected
to show much interest, unless impelled
by motives of a dangerous kind.
SHIPPING BILL DOOMED,
Another defeat seems to be in store
for the Administration, the occasion
being the Government shipping bill.
The same elements among the Democ
racy which refused consent to aban
donment of the Philippines to anarchy
and consequent risk of foreign occu
pation are now in revolt against the
proposal that the Government, with
a deficit staring it in the face, invest
150,000,000 in merchant ships.
The American people have been
awakened to the need of ships to carry
their commerce by the extraordinary
conditions produced by the war. lixlst
ing shipyards are swamped with con
tracts and new shipyards are being
opened on all our coasts to supply the
need. This boom is largely artificial.
being produced by abnormal conditions
which enable a ship to pay for Itself
in a year's traffic. It has absorbed
the entire producing capacity of oil
our shipyards, present and prospect
ive. Private capital, responding to the
lure of war profits, is doing the very
thing which the Administration says
can be done only by the Government's
engaging in the shipping business. The
emergency is being met, so far as pro
vision of merchant vessels is con
cerned. Naval auxiliaries can be provided
without Government construction and
ownership. The United i-Jtates need
only do as other nations do contract
with shipping companies to build ships
of the required type and to man them
with naval reserves. It need only pay
an'-annual sum sufficient to compen
sate for the additional cost of con
struction and operation and for the
right to take Ahem into naval service
on demand. These ships would then
be engaged in commerce during peace,
but would be available for military
service during war.
In order to restore the merchant
marine to its former greatness, the
United States needs more than a tem
porary boom in the shipping business
resulting from war conditions. This
country needs a permanent equaliza
tion of the cost of construction and
operation between this and other coun
tries. Much, if not all, that is neces
sary to equalize construction cost has
been done by the war. It has raised
cost of material and labor abroad to
figures close to those prevailing In the
United States, and there is good reason
to doubt whether the former discrep
ancy in this respect will be restored
after the war. It has enabled Ameri
cans to builtt-ships in such numbers
according to standard designs that the
overhead charge is materially reduced.
That charge was the most important
factor among those which formerly
put the American shipbuilder at a dis
advantage. Hereafter we are likely to
find that the cost of building in this
country will be reduced permanently
almost, if not quite, to the Kuropean
scale.
But the war has only temporarily
suspended the effect of those laws
which make American cost of operat
ing ships 50 per cent higher than
European cost. The American law of
manning and the higher wage scale
make the labor cost 40 per cent higher
than that of Great Britain, and the
laws as to inspection of rSulls and
boilers also add to cost. The seamen's
law has materially added to expense.
the requirements as to qualifications
having caused such difficulty in man
ning that one ship recently lay three
weeks in Portland harbor awaiting a
crew.
Unless the entire shipping and sea
men's laws are so amended as to equal
iiie cost of efperation under the.Amer
ican flag with that under other flags,
the war "Will no sooner be ended than
the adverse influence of these laws
will again be felt. Without wholesale
reform in the direction mentioned, the
present additions to American tonnage
are likely to drift to foreign flags, and
the volume of this tonnage ten years
after the war ends may be no greater
than it was when war began.
The Wilson policy of Government
ownership of ships, to be leased' to
private operating companies, or, in
case this proves impracticable, to be
operated by a Government-controlled
company, is offered as an alternative
to subsidies.. If private capital refuses
to lease, the reason will be that the
ships cannot be operated at a profit.
Then the Government would operate
them at a loss. That loss would be as
fully a subsidy to the shipper thus
favored as would be a direct payment
to a shipowner. . All the arguments
which have been used to defeat sub
sidies to shipowners apply with equal
force to subsidies to shippers.
But Government operation would
deter capital from entering the
shipping business. If the Government
ships competed with private ships in
existing lines and ships already ply
on every profitable route in the world
they would depress freights. Were
they to run on new routes, they would
cause a greater loss and would make
greater drafts on the Treasury. Their
presence in the market would also de
press freights in general. On the
whole, they would probably keep much
more capital out of the shipping busi
ness than the Government -would in
vest. The deficiency of tonnage would
then be used as an argument for fur
ther Government investment, and we
might soon see that entire field of en
terprise abandoned to the Federal
power.
This course of reasoning has doubt
less induced many Democratic Repre
sentatives from the Atlantic seaboard
to desert their party in this con
troversy. The men of Boston, Xew
York and Philadelphia, whose business
familiarizes them with shipping prob
lems, have been able to convince these
Democrats which way the interest of
the Atlantic seaboard lies. They have
probably removed all danger that a
ship-purchase bill will pass this Con
gress. It will then devolve upon the
new Congress to establish a commis
sion which will inquire into the entire
subject and -will recommend a shipping
code under which capital can be profit
ably invested in ships and the Navy
can be provided with auxiliaries.
Colonel Joab has established the
principle that it is unlawful to defame
a dead man, even though he has been
dead more than a quarter of a cen
tury. Those who defame Shakespeare
as a drunken ignoramus would do
well to take warning. But where will
the application of the new principle
stop? Some person may try to vindi
cate the reputations of Cain. Potiphar's
wife, Ahab, Absalom, Judas and other
persons of bad repute.
The failure of Augustine Birrell's
policy in Ireland is one more example
of the danger that lies in being guided
by one's conception of what the facts
should be instead of by the facts as
they are. That is a mistake common
among scholarly humanitarians like
Mr. Birrell and President Wilson.
There is as much comfort to the
man of small means in owning a used
car as there is in a brand new and
shiny affair. There is less trouble to
keep it up, for a man may turn it
out to roll on the lawn where he would
be compelled to curry and brush the
new affair daily.
The eight-hour strike in the Pitts
burg district followed as many ad
vances in wages as to suggest applica
tion to the strikers of the Scriptural
phrase: "They wax fat and kick."
Sullivan, who was bounced out of
Santo Domingo, is held as a rebel in
Dublin, with more or less cause, for
any Irishman from this country is
looked upon with suspicion.
The Federal Trade Cnmmiaalon takes
the rational view in holding that by
applying the anti-trust law to foreign
trade, the United States injures Itself
and benefits foreign trusts.
Vow that American troops are to
leave Mexico slowly, it is said, what
was the use of going in? Prom the
day John Lind went down there, re
sults have been the same.
Xo more can the cherry-tree episode
be disputed. Finding guilty the Ta
eoma Socialist who libeled the memory
of Georgo Washington establishes the
precedent.
A boom -tnr Vice-President is a
pleasaht'tliough meaningless, compli
ment, and doubtless Representative
Humphrey will so regard it.
The maximum penalty that can be
imposed on. the Swifts recalls that
given by Judge Land Is a few years
ago.
The Society for Uplift is doing good
work. In a row of negroes at Pasco
they used guns instead of razors.
The late Irish republic was prepared
in little things like postage stamps,
but not In the things that win.
What has become of the old-style
nomenclature unuer wnicn uoain were
named AJax and Bjax?
Repeated disasters do not stop other
omen from doing at home the work
of the glove cleaner.
That Chicago doctor should worry
who finds Americans too salty. Better
that than too fresh.
If Great Britain has 6,000,00 men
in the field, her news censors are earn
ning their pay.
Charley Moores finds somebody who
knows him wherever - he goes, and
that's enough.
Lorimer says he is going back in
politics, but "on" is the better word
for his case.
Long ago Zach Chandler was the
bis man of Michigan. H. r ord is now,
Hood River Valley in full bloom
must outrival the Garden of Eden.
The rising mercury sends thoughts
toward the vacation at the beach.
Hugh C. Wallace Is as big as he was
rti politics in the years far back.
Only a foolish man will argue with
a barber while in the chair.
How to Keep Well
Br AV. A. Etui,'
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of disease, if matters of gen
eral interest, will be answered In this col
umn, where space win not permit or the
subject Is not suitable, letter will e-e per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped, addressed en
velope Is inclosed. Dr. Evans will not moke
diagnosis or prescribe for Individual dis
eases. Requests for such service cannot be
answered.
(Copyright. 11. r.y Dr. . A. Evana.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
Eirrallrea (.sort I.lrt4
To be a President. Vice-President,
Senator or Congressman is to die be
fore one's time Is the opinion of Pro
fessor Irving Fisher, of Yale. He is
the author of the following table:
Age Tra. from Expecta- Pet. or
w-nen in- inaug. tion ot expicy.
Name augurated. to death, life. lived.
Washing-ton ..r.7 11 IS
J. Adams 1 ! 3:1 -"-l
Jefferson .",- "5 3 5 17
Madison fi IT 1". IS)
Monroe 14 !. w.t
J. Q. Adams .... L'.-t 1.1 13:1
Jackson IX 11 12.1
Van Fturen. .. .." 2.1 1 133
Harrison s 1-1 2 i
Tyler .".7 II 50 jnr,
Folk 4 4 S2 18
Tsvlor 4 1 l-j H
Fillmore .". 1 24 L'i , 12u
IMerce 4H 1ft 2- 7"t
Buchanan ....fid 11 11 I'M)
Lincoln .VJ 4 ill 21
Johnson r.t lo 17 R!
Grant 47 1ft 21 70
Hayes .',4 ' 1 1 '
Garfield 4 S 22 2
Arthur St S 2 2.1
Cleveland ....4 2:t 22 1".-.
II. Harrison ...1ft 12 17 71
MeKlnley r4 4 IS 12
Roosevelt ....40 Living. Living. Living.
Tsft M Living. Living. Living.
Wilson 69 Living. Living. Living.
Omitting the President and the ex-
Presidents now living and those that
were assassinated, we find the Presi
dents only live out S3 per cent of their
expected lives. They started as men
of unusual vitality, but the duties of
the office are so strenuous that a
proper regard for personal hygiene is
impossible and in consequence they
suffer an average loss of 7 per cent
of the years to which they are entitled
according to the law of averages.
The tendency to curtailment of life
among the v ice-Presidents . is even
more marked, while they do not work
ao hard, worry so much, or carry so
much reeponsibllily, they" must feast
and wine and banquet and discharge
social duties.
By contrast. Professor Fisher shows
that a man gains 37 per cent over his
expectancy of, life by being a president
of Yale University.
Averaging the Congressmen n 30
Congresses, it was found that the aver
age Congressman only lives out 12 per
cent of his expectancy, Going to Con
gress on the average shortens a man s
life IS per cent.
While the strenuous life Is respon
sible for some of the shortening- of the
Ives of Presidents, ice-Presidents
Senators and Congressmen, bad
hysriene Is a larger factor. The chief
causes emphasized by Professor Fisher
are: Indoor and sedentary living: a
crouching, cramping posture, late din
ners, overeating especially of meat,
eggs and rich foods; overconcentratlon
or lack of bulk in diet, hasty eating,
constipation. Irregular hours, lack of
Bleep, worry and the use of drugs, es
pecially narcotics, like alcohol and to
bacco. These errors in personal hygiene
also shorten the lives of those in
humbler walks of life. -
Seems; to Thrive.
Mrs. H. J. A. writes: "My baby boy
weighed seven pounds at birth, but lost
during the first two weeks on account
of poor breast milk. I then put him
on the bottle and now at almost 3
months of age his weight is ten and
three-quarters pounds- I prepare his
food as follows for every 20 ounces:
'One tablespoon arrowroot cooked in
eight ounces of water. When cooled
add 13 ounces of milk. I feed him four
ounces of this formula every two and
one-half hours. Am I feeding him
right and do you think he weighs
enough for his age? He is also slightly
constipated, but for this I have been
giving him prune and orange juice,
with an occasional glycerin injection."
REPLY.
Taii are overfeeding: him. but he seems to
be thriving on It. That Is the best sign. In
create the Interval to three hours, and after
a month mitke It lour rours. i ,o not in
crease the strength of your mixture during
the next month, or. better gtill, two.
Prolapse of Memarh.
Mrs R. M. R. writes: "I have a
fallen utonraoh. It has fallen four
inches. Can this condition be remedied?
If fo, how?
"The stomach has spasms when food
s eaten and great nervousness con
tinues until food has left stomach. Does
the fallen stomach causa this discom
fort? What can be done?
"I have also detached kidneys both.
Should this condition cause extreme
backache all the time? What remedy
would be advisable?"
TFtEPLT.
rtv,.lunBA ..r tli tmnst'h ran pause neu-
rulgia ot the stomach after eating, as well
as other avmptnir.s. You van be certain of
this vol are a sub.letjt for rinse, careful.
...... t in,, -4 ineilicsl ritre. 1 Ilrt llefl Ion. neu
ralgia of the stomach and staging of th
maCh Ulnae a rninniiminiu nnicn juu
cannot overcome wmioui neip.
Forget your kldne)S. Moable kidneys are
not uf any imporian-e.
Hirthmarka.
IT. W. S. writes: "My sister lias
birthmark covering half of her face
nd is sensitive in regard to it. I read
somewhere 01 DirtnniarKs oeinp; re
moved by the use of liquid air. Please
tell me: tl What is me memoa or
removing? 2) Is It practical?- U) is
it dangerous? (4) Is It expensive!
REPLY.
1 Carbonic acid snow la applied to tha af
fected ares. Perhaps liquid air is used for
the same purpose. If so. it is applied la
tne same way.
2. Kor smsll marks, yes; for ona covering
halt tha face, no. -
3. No.
4. I cannot say.
'
IF.
iwith anoloKies to Rudyard Kipling.)
If you can keep your bead when all
about you
You read and hear ot things that men
have done:
Who seek their re-election to an office
That they from their opponents Just
lv won.
If you can sit and listen to the charges
That candidates or their lieutenants
make.
And calmly seek to know the truths
from falsehoods.
Not for your own, but for the other's
sake.
If you can see the good they've done
in on ice
And give them credit where they
have Been juat.
If you have borne with them in their
endeavors
To earnestly fulfill their public trust;
If you can realize that none are fault
less.
And none more safe than they who
have been tried;
That even it the Christ had run for
office
Some would his character have Tin
ned.
If you will seek to knew the men In
office, '
Go read the records they are not
untrue;
And having read, you'll cast your ballo;
wisely
And counsel right your friend and
neighbor, too.
Tou'll know tha man that's worthy of
his hire:
You'll vote for him unswayed by any
creed;
And. what is more, you will have done
your uty
And proved yourself a ratriot Indeed.
J. A. urtsiA.-x.
SLOWNESS OF MORRISON SPAN"
Complete wlngr Would Save Mack
Time is Vehicles an Bridge.
PORTLAND. May . (To the Edi
tor.) Having recently been held up
by the operation of the Morrison-street
drawbridge, and having noticed the un
necessary losa of time in its operation.
1 should like to make Inquiry why
something: is not done to cheer up the
traffic situation and save the East
Elders about one-third of the time lost
in the operntion of the drawspan men
tioned. The draw should be closed by the
time it is now started to close. As it
Is now operated the draw is opened
and then reversed and brought to place
and therefore must wait until the
passing boat has entirely passed the
bridge before it can be closed.
The fastening:!- at either end of the
drawspan should be interchangeable
so that the span could be revolved a
half around each time a boat passes
instead of quarter way around and
buck again. One end of the draw-
span could then follow after the piu
Ing boat and the draw be safely closed
by the time the boat had passed the
abutments, or as stated in the be
ginning, at the time closing of the
draw as now operated Is begun.
Someone said that all there is to pre
vent the bridge being operated -in a
mure efficient manner is some fasten
ings being three or four inches out of
line, rendering- the interchanging of
the ends of the draw an impossibility
at present
Can Portland fix It?
ROBERT IL GEtLATLT.
CALLS BOSK KKSTIVAL PKOVlCIAL
Thomas) Duncan Soya Ttleney Should Be
Spent In Maritime Development.
I -A GHAXDK. Or.. May 2. (To the
Kdttor. Kor several ears past as the
Rose Festival season draws near I
have felt a keen desiro to express my
mpressinns ot it from the Viewpoint
of a comparative outsider. As a sales
man whose constant efforts are direct
ed toward the maintenance and up
building of Portland's commerce. 1
cannot but think that the energy and
cost of the annual enterprise are mis
directed. My information is you are
spending somewhere about S100.000 an
nually, but be that as it may, it is cost
ing a goodly sum. And to what pur
pose? To advertise the fact that Port
land Is still provincial enough to be
In the rose garden stage. The idea, is
a beautiful one (or 1'asndena or some
such small towns, but Portland should
have outgrown It. The impression
crested abroad is that it is still but a
village larger grown.
All Portland gets is the local dollars
and that Is what you hold the Festival
tor. It does not create any new busi
ness. Portland reminds me of the
country towns which, under the guise
or patriotism, "whoop er up" every
Fourth of July to shake the loose dol
lars out of the pockets of their rural
neighbors.
1 remember the effort nut forth sev
eral years ago to estnblUh a boat line
between Portland and Alaska. Were
the money expended in this or similar
directions you would be laying the
foundation . of real prosperity and
growth. l ou have your skyscrapers,
but what are you going to do with
them If you do not wake ud to the ne
cessity of maritime commerce? LooX
the world over and you will not find
a city of any real arreatness into whoae
arteries the energising blood of ocean
commerces-is hot being pumped.
THOMAS DUNCAN.
Fourth Dimension.
A COLT. W ash.. Mar 2. ITo the
Kditor.) Will you Dlease. through The
ureconian. give me some Idea of what
Is meant oy the Fourth Dimension?
riilL. S. CUSTKR.
The Fourth Dimension i t tvpe of
non-luuclidean geometry. In, "which It is
conceived that a solid has one dimen
sion more than the solids of experi
ence: that is. one dimension more than
length, breadth and thickness. It is
supposed or aasumed dimension
whose relation to the recognized di
mensions of length, breadth and thick
ness is analogous to that borne by any
one of these to the other two. Four-
dimensional space may be regarded as
a hypothetical conception to explain
equations of the fourth degree in ana
lytical geometry or as an entity be
yond the limltgtions of ordinary exis
tence. The treatment of the fourth and
higher dimensions belongs to the ca
ometry of hyper space or n-dimensional
geometry. The conception has been
used by some investigators to explain
certain superphysical phenomena which
seem otherwise Inexplicable.
Rarkentlne'a Several Names.
OSWKGO. Or, May a. (To the Edl
tor.) Could you inform mo through
The Oregonlan whether the barkentine
L. R. sterling:, which recently sailed
from Seattle foe Australia, was for
merly the Everett U. Griggs? The 1st
tor vessel. I understand, has been sold
and her name changed. She also bore
the distinction of beithg the only six-
masted barkentine in the world.
should also like to know the exact
destination of the K. It. Sterlinar.
GEORGE D. PHILIP,
The E. R. Sterling was formerly the
Everett G. Griggs. She was named
Lord Wolseley. and though later
known as the Columbia, was renamed
Lord Wolseley and then Everett G.
Griggs. The vessel sailed from Eagle
larbor for Sydney April 11.
Land Opralnsa In Sight.
SEASIDE, Or.. May 2. (To the Ed
Iter li Will vnu tell me Ihrnneh Th,
Oregonlan of any land openings In tin
near luture in euner urtgon. wash
lngton or Montana? C J. M.
Information as to what land is to be
thrown open to entry In Oregon
Washington and Montana can be best
obtained from the General Land Office
Commissioner, at Washington, D. C
The local Register of the Land Office
has jurisdiction only over his district.
There will be a diminishing in the Col
ville.. Wash., reservation soon. For
particulars, communicate with the Reg
ister at Spokane, Wash.
Middle Ago Stan A roses.
PORTLAND. May 4. (To tha Editor.)
If Kerchen is guilty of tha
crimes they accuse him of. let us burn
him at the stake on Council Crest, for
instance, where all may attend and
benelit from the performance. Whoever
heard ot such a thing- as a school teach
er having ideas of his'own? It is pre
posterous! And a heretic lives among
us! What would our forefathers say?
Let us follow their noble example. I
urge, and burn him burn him to a lit
tle black cinder. FORD TARPLEY.
sal Westover Road.
Electoral Vote.
MARQUAM. Or.. May 3. (To the Edi
tor.) How many electoral votes has
the state of Oregon? How many has
the United States? D. R. HUBBARD.
Under the reapportionment act of
1)11 Oregon lias five electoral votes:
the total for the United States is 531
of which ! ia necessary for a choice.
Rose Festival Sloaan.
KENNEWICK. Wash.. May 1. (To
the Editor. ) Please print the sloran
selected for the Rose Festival this
year. J. M. HAWKINS.
'For You a Rose In Portland Grows.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Year Aco.
From The Oregonlan of May o. ISM.
Salem. May a. It looks as if there
would be a serious clash between Gov
ernor Pennoyer and the citlsvns' re
ception committee to arrange for tha
welcome to President Harrison. The
latter maintains tbat if the Governor
takes part in the reception to the
President, he inuat do so as a private
citizen,
Taris, May 4. The work of isolating
Franco was commercially commrnM
by the German-Austrian commercial
treaty, which has Juat been signed
and whicn for the past II yeara has
been progressing In a manner satis
factory to the originators of the
scheme.
Charles H. Hoyt. the well-known
author and playright, in this city w ith
'"The Texas Steer" company last week.
gave a dinner in honor of K. L. Lomax.
of Omaha, g-neral passenger a-rent for
the Union Pacific. Saturday night at
the I'oruand Hotel.
Mayor DeUthmutt has issued an
order that tha city offices ba closed
totiay in honor of tha visit of Presi
dent Harrison to the city.
Halt Century Abo.
From The Oregoman ot May S. lftS.
The old frame buildings at the cor
ner of Alder and Front atreets are
Deing removed to make room for the
Iiiiko three-story brick store. SO by loo
loet. ior J&uasra. T. J. and C. M. Carter.
A private letter states that the rich
est dirt-tings yet discovered In Mon
tana were ttruck about a month tco.
luo miles west of Helena.
We notice that the "Diamond Min
strel Troupe." late of New York City,
will give Iheir ftrrt entertainment thia
evening at the Willamette Theater.
A considerable portion et the town
ct Canyon City has been washed away
or setiously damaged by the late hich
water. The mln.-ra" claims along the
creek have been filled up.
The celebrated traaedian. Edw in For.
reft, arrived at San Francisco from the
I-.at on Thursday. Messra. Laorveus
& Knowlca have been telegraphed to
from San Francisco by parties who
wished to obtain Oro Flno hall for a
dramatic season with Kdwin Korrcsu
StrHMKR FLOOD IS 1 M PROBABI.F1
Pioneer 1-redleta That Kreikrt ill
Not He I nnanal.
PORTLAND. May 4. (To the Edi
tor.) Allow me to opine that the pre
dicted high water in the Columbia
River will not materialise thia Sum
mer. It is a fact generully admitted
that the extent of the Summer rise
depends more upon the weather than
the amount of snow in the mountains.
This was made plaid in 1907. when
there was a big snow with the great
Sliver thaw in January and in Sprir.g
an unusual amount of snow was lit
the mountains. Then the predictions
of extreme hijjh water were nlore un
reserved than at the present time, but
the' prophets were disappointed. The
height was about average, being 34.1
feet at The Dalles on June and 19.3
feet at Portland on June 6. 7 and S.
This year we had a greater snowfall
In the Winter but a lesa spectacular
silver thaw; since which time the rise
and fall of the water in the Columbia
Hiver has been very much like it was
In 1907. Therefore. I predict that the
coming Summer freshet will not reach.
Hi-ont street and will not be unusually
high. It will probably be less than
it was two years ago.
I remember that some who discussed
the matter after the high water of
107 concluded that the weather had
been so cold during the Summer that
much of the snow remained in the
mountains. OLD TIMER.
Numerous Devil's C'apa.
WHITE SALMON. Wash.. May S.
(To the Editor.) In answer to Mrs.
Schmidtmeier's query as to the loca
tion of the Devil's Gap I may say they
are extremely numerous in the West,
but the gap in Wyoming, through
which the Sweetwater River flows and
mentioned by Albert R. Greene, is by
far the most noted one.
The Devil's Gap In Nebraska men
tioned by Mrs. E. Van Dorn is no
doubt the one situated on the bluffs on
the south side of the Platte. The
stage road from Plum Creek (now I,ex
Ington) to Arapahoe in the Republican
Valley used to pass through this sama
gap. While it is quite a peculiar
formation in a prairie country it would
hardly be recognised or considered
worthy of mention in thia mountainous
country. .
I have seen two other "caps," but
none can compare with the Devil's Gap
on the Sweetwater. JIM WHITE.
Americana In Kuropean War.
PORTLAND, Slay 4. (To the Edi
tor.) Have Americans, who leave the
United States to Join the alliea in the
war against Germany, the lesal right,
to return here as Americana, or have
they lost their citixeiishlp and lience
catk bo denied admission for same rea
sons as other aliens? SUBSCRIBER.
The majority of Americans who have
entered into the European War have
done so under a special oath and have
not renounced their citizenship and
consequently will not. unless other
conditions arise, be denied admittance
to the country on their return. If you
contemplate taking such action it
would be safer to Interview the near
est United States Immigration Depart
ment representative. In Portland he
Is II. B. Hazard and can be found at
the Customs building.
Henry ford'a Addreaa.
PORTLAND. May 3. (To the Edi
tor.) Would you please publish in The
Oregonlan the home or private resi
dence adjress of Henry Ford, the au
tomobile manufacturer?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Henry Ford's residence address Is
Dearborn. Mich. His office address Is
Woodward avenue. Highland Park (De
troit). Micb
4Vemeua fcirhssge.
FALL CREEK. Or.. May 2. (To the
Editor.) Is there a state assay office
at Salem? Also what la the aeldresa of
the Women's Exchange in Portland?
11. P.
Write to H. M. Parks, director ef
Oregon Bureau of Mines and Geology,
at Corvallis, Or. The address of the
Women's Exchange in Portland la lit
Fifth street.
Facts That Everyone
Wants
The information that you need In
rersrd to your purchase w-111 prob
ably be found in the advertising
columns today.
Every line therein Is a message
to someone. It is written with a
helpful purpose.
It la definite and to Tho point. It
will profit tha man who puta in the
advertisement only as it profits you
remember that.
To your question as to what or
where to select, the advertising col
umns contain the answer.
It's here help yourself.
It's up-o Wilson, anyway.
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