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PORTLAXD, WKDSESDAY, MAY 10, 191S.
WTLSOV AJIF.AI) OF K1S PARTY.
President Wilson's discussion with
the delegation from the union against
militarism indicates that his idealism
1-s becoming more practical. When the
delegates gave forth protests against
a great army and a great navy, he
called their attention to the distinction
between reasonable preparedness and
militarism and said:
A nation acquainted with arms Is not a
militaristic nation unless there is somebody
who can by ah order determine what they
hall do with that force.
When asked if the Navy had not
been "increased tremendously," he re
plied: "Our tasks have increased, tre
mendously." He reminded his hearers
that "a nation which, by the standards
of other nations, however mistaken
those standards may be, is regarded as
helpless is apt in general council to
be regarded as negligible." He told
them that, if the world, undertakes a
joint effort to keep the peace, it will
expect us to supply our share of the
necessary force, for "in the last an
alysis the peace of society is obtained
by force," saying further:
If you
say. "We shall not have any war."
you have got to have the force to make
that 'shall" bite,
Mr. Wilson has learned much more
through experience than his party has
learned, as shown by the proceedings
in Congress on the Army bill. Like
Cleveland, he has proved wiser than
his party and has not been able to
carry it with him. Nothing effective
in the shape of military defense can be
expected from a party thus divided,
the body of which will not follow the
leader. As the cause of sound money,
championed by Cleveland, was taken
up and carried to victory by his op
ponents, so must the cause of Na
tional defense with which is closely
bound up the maintenance of Amer
ican, rights in foreign lands and at
sea, be taken up by the united Re
publican party.
THE ROOSEVELT DIPLOMACY.
In contracting the foreign policy ad
vocated by ex-Presirlent Roosevelt with
that which has been followed by Presi
dent Wilson, many admirers of the lat
ter say: "If Roosevelt had been Presi
dent, he would have got us into war
long ago. They draw that conclu
slon from his utterances as a private
citizen. w e have a better basis on
which to found an opinion his policy
when in the White House, when he
was actually responsible for the peace
and safety of the Nation. He did not
get us into war throughout the seven
and one-half years he was President;
he made our territory and our inter
ests safe; he settled several dangerous
disputes amicably and when he left
the White House the relations of the
United States with other nations were
better than they had been in many
years, our influence in the world wa3
greater and his counsel was sought by
the nations of Europe in settling their
quarrels. He was awarded the Nobel
peace prize and 2o0 of the greatest
men In France presented him with ":
token of their recognition of the per
sistent initiative he has taken toward
gradually substituting friendly and ju
dicial for violent methods in case of
conflict between nations." How did
he do it?
His methods are admirably de
scribed by William Hard in an article
in the Metropolitan Magazine. In the
Alaska boundary dispute he rejected
arbitration because it admitted of no
compromise and because of "the fatal
tendency of arbitrators to compro
mise," to use John Hay's phrase. He
a rranged - settlement by a joint com
mission, equally divided between the
United States and Great Britain, rely
ing on one of the British commission
ers. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, to
seize this "last chance for an honor
able and graceful retreat from an ab
solutely untenable position." He won,
for Lord Alverstone voted with the
three American commissioners against
his two Canadian colleagues, but Brit
ain won the applause of the world
and the bonds of friendship between
the two nations were drawn tighter,
When Germany threatened tempo
rary acquisition of an island off the
coast of Venezuela, Roosevelt took
"temporary" to mean "while time
lasts," as has been the experience of
China. He wrote no notes, but in con.
versation with the German Ambassa
dor be said that, if Germany did not
offer to arbitrate within ten davs, he
would send the fleet under Dewey to
the point in question. Germany not
only yielded, but asked Roosevelt to
arbitrate. The Colonel wished to make
The Hague tribunal a reality by put
ting it to work. He had given it its
first case in settling the Pious Fund
dispute with Mexico. He now gave
that tribunal its second by inducing
Germany and enczuela to let it ad
just their dispute.
The decision in that case contained
the seeds of future wars, for the tri
bunal decided that the claims of the
blockading powers against Venezuela
should have preference over those of
powers which did not participate in
the blockade. His next act as pacifi
cator not only prevented European in
tervention in the estern Hemisphere,
hut it removed occasion for blockades.
He did not, as did the great pacifist.
Wilson, in Haiti, land marines and
shoot up Santo Domingo. He per
suaded the government .of that coun-
try to hand over the custom houses
to civil officials of the United States
for collection of revenue and for pay
ment of debts, "Which European na
tions threatened to collect by blockade.
The creditors get their money and
Santo Domingo gets more money out
of Its 45 per cent of the revenue than
jt formerly grot out of 100 per cent.
The republic also retains the sacred
right of revolution, of which Mr. Wil
son has deprived Haiti hut which he
has scrupulously preserved for Mex
ico at great cost of American life and
property. Mr. Wilson has gone far
beyond Colonel Roosevelt, for he has
killed many Haitians, W.ken the cus
tom houses by force, set up a stable
government under American protector
ate and organized a. constabulary un
der American officers.
In settling the Japanese school dis
pute. Colonel Roosevelt avoided what
Mr. Hard calls "that porcupine, the
published diplomatic note, armed with
a thousand quills and every one of
them poisoned." He arranged matters
personally, but "it began to be thought
in Japan that the United States feared
Japan," so he inspired respect for our
country by sending the battle fleet on
a friendly visit, with, the result that
"the Americans were delighted; the
Japanese were more delighted."
In the Panama affair the alterna
tive to preventing the landing of Co
lombian troops was landing American
troops to keep transit open. If the
latter course had been adopted,
there .would have been three armies
on the isthmus American, Colombian
and Panamanian and there would
have been much bloodshed, ending in
Panama as an American protectorate.
He says: "As things were, it became
so without any bloodshed at all."
The fact is emphasized that only
once did Roosevelt send an ultimatum.
That was, "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli
dead." Mr. Hard thus tersely tells
the result: "It was sent on June 22.
On June 27 Perdicaris, released by
Raisuli, cabled his thanks."
The Roosevelt diplomacy yields no
rights nor territory, commits no act
of aggression, but, "while firmly pre
serving our rights, it inspires respect
abroad. Thence comes good feeling,
by which peace Is maintained. We
venture the assertion that, had Roose
velt diplomacy continued, Mexico
would have escaped five years of
agony and would not still have been
in agony; the Lusitania would not
have been sunk, or would have been
the last ship sunk by a submarine,
and there would have been much less
letter-writing between Washington
and Berlin.
THE CASE Or PROHIBITUM.
Last month Mr. M. H. Levin wrote
to The Oregonian from San Francisco
to inquire why it was that the Port
land bank clearings for the first quar
ter of the year showed a decrease of
54,000,000, compared with the first
quarter of 1915, while in wet San
Francisco bank clearings showed a
relative gain of J 100,000,000.
The Oregonian accounted for the
difference by citing a number of facts
and circumstances, probably the least
important of which was weather con
ditions. This moved a liquor trade
paper to refer to weather bureau lec
ords and it discovered that in the
first three months of 1916 the rain
fall in Portland was not so great as
that in San Francisco. Therefore, pish
tush and pooh pooh.
It is a pleasant reputation for Port
land that its extremes of Winter are
recorded in the number of inches of
rainfall. It is a reputation that usual
ly can be relied upon, and it is there
fore with regret that we recall the al
most unprecedented snows, the two
ice storms and the traffic blockade in
the early part of the year.
But that is merely incidental. What
we started out to inquire was, w-hy is
it that for the week ending May 4
1916, dry Portland's bank clearings
show an increase of 32 per cent over
the corresponding week of 1915, while
wet San Francisco's show an increase
of only 16 per cent?
CHARGES IX PLACE OF FACTS.
A libel suit begun by a candidate
for Congress against the superln
tendent of a political organization has
opened up unexpected and irrelevant
reservoirs of information or misin
formation about the recent political
history of Oregon. There is an alle
gation, for example, that a prominent
attorney of Portland received $15,000
for acting as lobbyist for the "inter.
ests" at the legislative session of 1913.
It is quite a tidy sum, and it is clear
that the service rendered if rendered
must have been timely and valuable.
But the attorney denies explicitly
that he received $15,000 or any other
sum for services as lobbyist at Sa
lem. Yet the charge is taken up bv
a contemporary, which invariably sub
stitutes allegation for fact. In its dis
cussions of representative government,
for a new and grave indictment
against the State Legislature. "It Is
a serious charge," it is declared. "It
cannot but direct attention of the pub
lic to reflection on what invisible gov
ernment must mean at a time when
new Legislature is to be chosen."
It happens to be not anything else
but a charge. The fact that it is
bluntly and vigorously denied is con
veniently ignored, and we venture to
say that no attempt, now or hereafter,
will be made in any way to substan
tiate it. It is sufficient that a scan
dalous and 'damaging story should be
repeated, without any kind of inquiry
as to its truth.
There are ninety men in the Oregon
Legislature, chosen through the direct
primary, the popular vehicle for selec
tion of public officials. Any statement
that the State Legislature is corrupt
and inefficient is a charge that the
direct primary is a failure. Yet the
campaign of detraction and defama
tion of the Legislature is conducted by
individuals and newspapers which re
pudiate any criticism of or attack on
the primary as an unwieldy and im
perfect instrument of popular expres
sion. Any protane hand laid upon
that sacred ark will be palsied.
If we cannot get good Legisla
tures through the primary it would be
interesting to know how they are to
be had. Or is the remedy no Legisla
ture no Government no nothing?
BENJAMIN FAY MILLS.
The death in a hospital at Grand
Rapids, Mich., a week ago., of Ben
jamin Fay Mills, the evangelist, ought
not to pass unnoticed. His career was
spread over a great part of the United
States, as it passed from one extreme
of religious belief to the other extreme
of intellectual liberalism or, rather,
around the circle of dogma from or
thodoxy to unorthodoxy and back
again.
Mills was a student and exponent
of theology, a philosopher, a lecturer,
an orator, and a mystic. But he ap
pears to have had no steadfast convic.
tlons except that all his life he was
a preacher and a teacher, and he was
guided by sound and decent moral
precepts. He welcomed change, and
he practiced it. It is said that he had
examined the Christian Science faith,
and that his exposition was so clear
and fair that It was acceptable to ad
herents and non-adherents alike.
In his early youth. Mills, who was
born in New Jersey, started for Aus-
tralia. He lost his savings In gam
bling at San Francisco, and deter
mined on suicide, but was deterred by
the chance reading of a Bible verse.
He returned to the East, fitted him
self Tor the ministry, was pastor of
a Congregational church at Rutland
Vt., and then of a Presbyterian church
in Albany, N. T. He withdrew from
orthodox fellowship In. 1897, and later
was in charge of the First Unitarian
Church in Oakland. Cal. The Los An
geles Fellowship, which he founded,
was a New Thought movement. He
was in New Tork 1n 1915, and drew
great crowds to the Evangel Tent,
where he explained fully his reasons
for returning to evangelical orthodoxy.
In the course of his evangelistic
tours, Benjamin Fay 'Mills visited
Portland; and he was here when his
ardor had cooled and he was of dif
ferent mind about orthodoxy and con
version. He waa a brilliant and In
teresting man, 'and he made an im
pression upon those who came In con
tact with him which will not be for
gotten by them.
A WARNING FROM IU I.I, BCS.
The most convincing lesson of the
folly shown by a nation which neglects
to maintain a sufficient, well-trained,
disciplined and equipped army and
which relies for defense on green, un
trained and undisciplined troops, was
furnished to the American people by
the first battle of Bull Run. This bat
tle, fought on July 21, 1861, "was the
first serious engagement of the Civil
War. Had the Union troops won, the
rebellion might have proved a mere
insurrection and might -have been sup
pressed in a few months. Their defeat
gave the Confederates opportunity to
organize thoroughly and was a prime
cause of the bitter four-years' con
flict. When the rebellion broke out, the
Government was practically without
an Army to suppress it. The Army
then comprised 16,367 officers and
men, of whom nearly all were in the
west, and the Government had only
five companies to garrison the nine
forts on the southern coast. President
Lincoln's first step was to call out
the District of Columbia militia of ten
companies, but many members were
disloyal and refused to be sworn and
others stipulated that they should not
go outside the District. Upton com
ments on these facts: "It Is only raw
troops which presume to dictate to
their lawful commanders." The first
step of the Confederacy was to call
for 100,000 volunteers to enlist for one
j-ear, and by the middle of April it
had 35,000 men equipped, had seized
the arsenals and besieged the forts.
By fixing the term at one year the
South ensured some degree of discip
line for its men.
How greatly President Lincoln at
first underestimated his task is shown
by the fact that on April 15 he called
for 76,000 militia for a term of three
months "to repossess the forts, places
and property which have been seized
from the Union." Rebel troops poured
Into Virginia and instead of the Union
forces repossessing the Southern forts
the National Capital was in danger of
capture. Lincoln, therefore, on May 3
usurped the powers of Congress by is
suing a decree increasing the regular
Army to 22.714 men, adding 18,000
men to the Navy and calling for 4 3,,
000 more volunteers. He further vio.
lated the Constitution by advancing
money from the Treasury without se
curity to private citizens whom he
employed to raise and equip troops
and buy ships. Congress validated all
his illegal acts when it met on July 4
and the response to the call for troops
was so prompt that by that date the
Government had accepted 220,000 reg.
ulars and volunteers in addition to
80,000 three months' men. Simon
Cameron, the Secretary of War, was so
elated that he expressed his sentiments
in terms which aroused a suspicion
of plagiarism against W. J. Bryan's
famous deliverance about a million
armed men. Cameron said:
I cannot forbear to speak favorably of
the volunteer aystem aa a substitute for th
cumbrous and dangerous standing army. A
government whose every citizen stands ready
lo march to its defense can never be over
thrown, for none is so strong as that whose
foundations rest immovably in the hearts of
the people.
Cameron had learned nothing by
the demoralization of the militia, for
he proposed that it be reorganized
though both North and South had re
sorted to volunteers. He was bo over.
whelmed with the work of arming the
75,000 volunteers that he handed over
to Secretary of the Treasury Chase the
duties connected with those who an
swered the second call for 300,000
men. The latter wisely took the ad
vice of two regular officers in fixing
the term at three years, "thus giving
the volunteers time to become vet
erans," in Upton's words, but he fool
ishly overruled them in permitting the
state Governors to name the officers.
The result was, to quote Professor
Johnston's "Bull Run, It's Strategy
and Tactics," that "political considera
tions outweighed military, the regi
ments were mostly given to prominen
politicians"; that "very few indeed o
these officers were fit for their post
and some were hopelessly unfit." A
In the Mexican iar, difficulty was
encountered in recruiting regulars in
competition with volunteers. Senator
Wilson wisely proposed to abolish th
regular Army and to use all its offi
cers in organizing volunteers, wh
were anxious for trained conrmande
but the heads of the Army opposed
this step. Hence, to quote Upton, "of
fleers already in command of regi
ments and brigades were ordered back
to companies to serve in obscurity
while officers of little or no educatio
at once leaped to command of di
visions and armies" and "volunteers
began to feel themselves soldiers re.
quiring no trained officers to lead
them." Even when Grant "first offered
his services, "no notice was taken
his application," and his return to th
Army was due to Governor Yates, o
Illinois. About three-fourths of th
West Point graduates remained loyal
but insufficient use was made of them
n training volunteers.
Although, as Johnston says, "most
of the regiments were nearly two
months old and still lacking in tactical
skill and mobility, clamor arose for
battle before the three months' men
term had expired and the cry, "On to
Richmond!" went up. Nothing was
ready and Johnston's story of the
twenty-five-mile march to Manassas
reads like the story of a mob's prog'
ress. It took McDowell five hours to
advance seven miles, his men strag.
gllng for water and blackberries. "So
great was the lassitude, disorder an
straggling" that McDowell postponed
for another day the final march to
Centerville.
This advance had been begun
against McDowell's protest under what
Upton calls "the fatal delusion that
an army animated by patriotism
needed neither instruction nor disci
pline to prepare it for battle." Mc
Dowell had no such delusion, for he
said:
I had no opportunity to test my ma
chinery, to move It around and see whether
It would work smoothly or not. In fact,
such was the feeling that, when I had one
body of eight regiments of troops reviewed
together, the General censured me for it,
as if I was trying lo make some show. I
did not think so. There was not a man
there who had ever maneuvered troops
In large bodies. There wss not one In
. th army. 1 did not believe there waa one
In the whola country. At least I knew
there was not one who had bandied. 30.000
troops.
Upton says of this protest:
To hia representations that th-e troops
were green and unlnatructed, the ready reply
was;
"You are green. It Is true, but they are
creen also; you are au green alike.
This was the army, composed of 29,-
000 men, only 800 of whom were regu
lars, which attacked the 2 8,000 equally
green Confederates at Bull Run. The
Federals had won the disputed ground
and held it for an hour when John
ston with. Confederate reinforcements
suddenly attacked and drove the Fed
erals in great confusion from, the field.
The only troops "which did not yield
to
panic was the battalion of regu
lars, which, Upton says, "covered the
retreat and was the last to leave the
field, checked the enemy's pursuit and
retired in perfect order." He attrib-
tes the disaster entirely to the un
trained, undisciplined volunteers, for
e says:
The plan was all that could have been I
anticipated from an able and Judicious com
mander, but when he sought to execute It I
found that discipline, the only sure bond
of
cohesion, waa entirely wanting.
Lack of courage had no part in the
defeat, for Upton says:
As a skirmish line from some of The I
regiment, of volunteer, which participated
pute the advance of the enemy In line of I
ttie. it is Diain that the loss or tne battle i
as due more to the lack of discipline than
to the want of individual courage.
The only serious obstacle to an im
mediate advance of the victors on
Washington was their own equal de
moralization, for Johnston quotes one
of them, as saying:
All the military conditlona we knew for.
ade an attempt on Washington. The
Confederate army was more disorganized by
Ictory than that of the. United. States by
efeat. Many (volunteers), in Ignorance
of their army obligations, left the fleld.-
It requires no great stretch of the
maglnation to conceive what .would
have happened had the victors been
such an army as a European invader
would now put in the field and had
the vanquished been such a mob as
Mr. Bryan's sudJen levy of 1.000.000
men would have been. Bull Run
would have been a repetition of Bla-
ensburg, with this difference, that
the victors wouM not have returned
to their ships. They would have ad
vanced from Washington and confin
ed their conquests.
The opening of the south half of
the Colville Indian Reservation re
moves the last barrier to the complete
development of Washington. The
north half, opened twenty years ago.
has yielded millions In gold and cat
tle and has been opened, by railroads.
while the south half has slept. It is
land of mountains rich in mineral
and timber, and of uplands waving
with bunchgrass.
If some of the National Guardsmen
In the border states should stray
across the line in pursuit of some red
handed bandit. General Funston
hould look the other way. The more I
that is done in making the border un
healthy for raiders the better for bor
der peace.
This so-called band of "Radiators"
seeks to control the patronage of
county road and bridge work through
defeat of Mr. Lightner. It would be
edifying to learn the name of the man
upon whom they depend, for help in
case of success.
It may interest people not keeping
track of casualties to learn that Italy I
has lost 3000 officers in the war. Pop- I
ular idea of Italy's participation was
that her soldiers have been doing a
kind of goat act getting over the Alps.
The war may yet do that which
Bryan tried in vain to do restore sil-
ver to a ratio of 16 to 1 but what
divinity is ther about a ratio which
can only be established, by such
means t
The Controller of the Currency
should worry about Portland bank
people who do not take vacations. It
is a sight to watch them go, once the
season has begun. The implication is
odious.
The House has millions for roads, to
build which is the duty of the states
and counties, but has a spasm of econ
omy when money is needed for de
fense, which is the Nation s duty.
The British press is manifesting a
lot of concern over Germany's reply
to Wilson. The United States is not
ready Just now to Join in the chorus
of "God Save the King."
There are thousands of good people
in this city who would have extended
a helping hand to Miss Harris, but Bhe
did not find them, and she was Inde
pendent and proud.
Explosions in munitions factories do
not stop the work. New sheds are
built and new men hired if needed.
Nobody worries about the next ex
plosion.
The German submarine is not spit
ing Portland by sinking a grain ship
loaded here. The stuff had been paid
for before starting.
What the border state troops will
do to the Mexicans who cross over will
make business lively about meal time
in Inferno.
Did the submarine which, sank the
Cymric know there were no Ameri
cans on board or did it Just take a
chance?
Never fear about Summer this year.
It will be along on time, hotter than
usual, to make up the caloric defi
ciency.
The sun shines In. an aggravating
way toward the close of day. when
it's too late to "doll up" and go to
town.
A city Job cannot be so delightful
with the Mayor and bureau heads
watching an employe's.moral conduct.
That 15-knot steamer from Port.
land to Alaska will set the pace for
some competitors.
Isn't there something more than city
wood and city gasoline suffering; detri
tion?
The American Legion will doubtless
fight as well under any other name.
Is the sinking of the Cymric an an
swer to Wilson?
Carranzistas are after the bandits
-a. long way.
How to Keep Well
Br Dr. W. A. Evana.
Questions pertinent to hrirlene. sanitation
and prevention of disease. If matters of gen
eral interest, win be answered In this col
umn. Where apace 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 be
answered.
(Copyright, lflie. by Dr. w. A. ETvana.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
Medicinal Fallacies
rr. Horatio C. Wood occasionally
tells against some drugs in common
use. Recently he buckled on his armor,
adjusted his lance and bowled over a
few old comrades In arm a.
One of them was compound sirup of
hypophosphltes, a medicine Ions; in use
for ordinary coughs. An ordinary cough
tends to get wclL It gets well about as
quickly and about as comfortably when
one takes no medicine as when one
does. The best cough medicine is sun
light and air. Therefore, when a man
w't cough takes syrup of hypo-
phosphites he Is almost certain to get
welL When Via sretn well he aava the
w 1 w. j . j . .
" """""hT H, .b f
syrup of hypophosphttea a long; time
ago naa a very elaborate tneory as to
how -it acted and why it should be of
benefit. The theory was knocked into
cocked hat a few years later, but
the people had gotten the bait and the
use of the syrup continued. Dr. wood
gives it aa his conclusion that the
only virtue in compound syrup of hypo-
phosphites is due to the sugar it con
tains,
Next he tackles lithia and llthla
waters for cout In the first place.
few people who drink lithia water as
a cure for gout have gout- In the
second place. the ordinary dose of
lithia dissolved In water in the
strengths used will not dissolve aa
much uric acid , as will plain water. The
theory Is that gout is due to uric acid
n the blood and tissues and that this
la dissolved by the lithia. The theory
is wrong at nearly every point. In
order to get five grains of lithium In
dose of ordinary lithia water a per
son would need to drink 30 gallons of
water.
And then he bowls over our old
Spring - time standby. sarsaparllla.
Sarsaparllla is used as a blood purifier
on the theory that the cause of some
diseases Is chemical impurity of the
blood. In the first pluce. In the sense
that people understand the term the
blood is never impure. Certain skin
eruptions are held to be due to lm
purities In the blood. They are not.
The trouble is in the skin itself. And
if the blood needed purifying sarsa
parllla would not help, as It is In no
sense a blood purifier, or anything
else.
When the weather opens up in the
Spring and the people get out of doors.
when the Spring fruits and vegetables
become available and the people live
less on meat and canned goods, the
skin clears and there comes a feeling
of well .being. Sarsaparllla has been
filching some of that credit.
Next he knocks out viDurnum or
black haw. Men know little about
black haw, but women have brewed it
as a remedy lor painful menstruation
for a long time. It has no merit. If
the argument is advanced that it must
be good else it would have fallen into
disuse a long time ago. Dr. W ood
counters by citing drugs used for 2000
years, but abandoned, now oecause
known to be worthless. One-half the
drugs in accepted use when the first
United States pharmacopeia was writ
ten In 1S20 have since been abandoned
And finally, he takes a fall out of
lead and onlum wash. "The improve
ment which follows local applications
"if lnfl water and laudanum la due In
to the lint and bandages which
hold it In place, but chiefly to the
action of time which passes By while
the application Is left in place
See Nose Specialist.
O. B. writes: "Will you kindly ad
isa mi ah, r will .ton mouth breath
inIr? When 1 make an effort to breathe
I through my nose and hold my mouth
I closed I seem to choke. I am very
susceptible to colds and believe mis
to De lno cause.
HKP1.I.
Von bave an obstruction In your nose.
think a nose specialist will find that you
need an operation.
Pasteurise Milk.
W. S. writes: "Taking into con
slderation the uncertain quality of the
milk supply In a small town, what
treatment should be given milk fo
the use of a child IS months old and
what apparatus would be required?"
REPLT.
Pasteurise It. Get a domestic filter of th
Freeman type.
Hodgkln's Disease.
A. R. writes: "Kindly explain Hodg
kin's disease and the cause.
REPLT.
Hodgkln's diseaFe Is an enlargement of th
Ivmoli slanda. The c'.aads most frequent 1
enlarged are those of the neck and armpits.
Tho disease Is likely to involve any jyuipi
gland anywhere In the body. The disease ilf
fers from leukemia involving tne ijmii
eland in that It does not involve tne oioo
as does the latter disease. Hodgkln's lasts
two or three years about. It Is due to
bacillus. How the bacillus gets Into tn
h.ifiv I- not known. Treatment consists
using X.rays, radium, vaccines and arsenic
Due to Hot, Dry Air.
O. W. F. writes: "I have an Itch on
both legs almost constantly, yet there
are no pimples or eruptions of any
kind. Is this caused by poor blood cir
culation? Kindly advise through your
columns, also remedy."
REPLY.
It la not caused by poor circulation. Keep
In tho open air and it will disappear. It Is
due to staying In hot. dry air.
BPS READY TO RESPOND TO CALL
Writer Svllllna; to Serve Country In
Ranks and Take Chances.
PORTLAND. May 9. (To the Editor.)
I Everybody writes letters to The Ore-
gonlan. With reference to articles yes
terday and today on American patriot
ism and as to the questions, in case of
war. "Will one-tenth respond?" and
"Will you go?" I am moved by what
I may perhaps best express as a serene
sense of patriotism to assert that I
would "go.
I hone there is nothing hot -healed
in this statement, for in these days of
hotheads, cool heads are needed, not
ilone with the "leading class' of citi-
zenrv. but with tne "common people.
of which "common people" I suppose I
am one.
Doubtless were I called upon they
would uaa me as a "buck private" in the
military organization.. even as l am now
used as a "common woraing man in
the civil organization, and I would meet
with a long series of hard knocks, ex
periences, perhaps tortures, that would
try my soul or perhaps a short series.
Even so. I feel that it Is not alone a
matter of high-minded patriotism, but
a matter of common norse sense mat
moves me to state that I would "go.'
and were I to die. it seems to me "that
my one regret would be that I had but
one life to give to my country.
A.N A-M t-iiil A-N.
Xeaapspen Not Ordered.
PORTLAND. May 9. (To the Ed
jtor.) Is there a law compelling one
to pay for a paper that had been sub
scribed to for but one year, but which
had not stopped coming at expiration
of subscription? A Kfc.ADfc.R-
In Oregon there is a law which de
clares to be a gift any newspaper or
periodical sent to a person without his
order, even though that person accepts
It at the postoffice.
QlALIFICATIOS OK MR. MOORE8
Old Friend Declares Him F.zrellratlr
Kitted foe Secretary of Mate.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Mar 9. (To
the Editor.) Prompted by an experl-
nce of 16 years of active clerical serv
ice in the state departments at Salem,
permit me to refer to the peculiar fit
ness of Honorable Charles B. Moores
for the office of Secretary of State, for
which he is the Republican candidate.
have been intimately acquainted with
him for 45 ycara and know whereof 1
peak. I congratulate the Republicans
of Oregon on their choice of a candi
date. The name "Moores" is a svnonym of
rue-blue Republicanism. lie comes
from good old pioneer stock. He is a
self-made man. whose public and pri
vate life Is without spot or blemish.
He ha had a varied experience in the
upbuilding of Oregon and is thorough.
" familiar with its early history. Ilia
eglslative career has brought him
honor both a a clerical and presiding
officer, lie wields the pen of a ready
writer and hia contributions to the
press teem with Interest. His personal
knowledge of important eveni-s con
nected with the commercial, education
al and political history of Oregon has
added very materially to the archives
of IhA Ktnfe He i methodical ill hia
w'ork and thoroughly reliable in his J
business dealings.
As a graduate of the Willamette
University, hia loyallty to the Institu
tion and his third of a century service
as a member of its board of trustees,
have brought him into close touch with
thousands of its students now scat
tered throughout the Northwest. His
home life, his genial personality, his
conscientious discharge of public du
ties, his loyalty to his friends and his
unswerving adherence to Republican
ism as fathered and promulgated by
Lincoln, Grant and Mi-Kinlcy, have
made his name and reputation a house
hold word In Oregon. Ills Intricate
knowledge of law will prove a valua
ble aset to the office. ma unuorm
courtesy Is proverbial and he i what
the world calls a "good mixer." His
nomination and election to the office
of Secretary of State will redound to
the credit of the Republican party or
your commonwealth and Insure to ITS
citizens the services of a courteous, ef
ficient and economical officer.
The women of Oregon especially owe
him a debt of gratitude for services
he has rendered them in their struggle
for woman suffrage. A legion of
friends outside of your state will re
joice In his election.
FRANK E. HODM..
Serbia and Austrian I Itlmntum.
1L.WACO. Wash.. May 8. (To the
Editor.) (1) la there any tide in Nor
way, eitner south or north?
2 What is the difference In sea
level botween the Atlantic and the Fa
ciflc oceans?
(3) What demands by Austria did the
Serbian Diet refuse in forming the trib
unal to try and convict the murderers
of the Austrian heir-apparent, evenm
ally lending to war?
I may draw your attention to an ar
tide (report) from London on the first
page of the May 3 Oregonian saying
that the entire output of animal ana
fish oils In Norway had hern sold to
England. I have in my possession re
ports direct from Norway to the effect
that an embargo has been put on Doth
animal fat and fish oils.
DISTANT READER.
(1) Yes. Tides of extreme range oc
cur in some oi tne noras oi -Norway,
due to their V shape.
(2) None.
(3) Serbia gave way to all of Aus
tria's demands except the one that .Scr
bia "accept the collaboration of Aus
trian officlaln in the suppression of
the Fan-Serbian movement in Serbia.
In other words, Serbia denied Austria's
right to exercise Judicial authority in
Serbia.
Military S trenails of V. S.
PORTLAND, May 9. (To the Editor.)
(1) What Is the present population of
the I'nitevl States?
(2) What part are foreisn-born or
foreigners?
(3) In case of a war with any foreign
nation how many men could I'nclo Sam
place in the flelJ. all told, taking all
the men from the ages of 17 up?
A SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Census of 1910 gives population
of United States as 91.972.266.
(2) Foreign-born in United states In
April. 1910. numbered 13.alS.856.
(3) In the United States all male cit
izens 18 tn 44 years of ace (including
males of foreign birth who have de
clared Intention to becomec!tlzens) arc
members of the unorganized militia.
The number of males of those ages in
the United States In 1910 was 20,:,38.
347. In addition there are In the or
ganized militia 132.208, and in the regu
lar Army about 80.000.
C,ender of .enps and Subs.
TILLAMOOK, Or.. May 8.-e-(To the
Editor.) Now that you have cudgeled
your editorial self over the question of
the tense of the intense Zeppelin and
submarine and tho gender engendered
bv the British all of whichia an honest
effort to give us the "Who's Who and
Whv" without entire success, may I
handle the spotlight for a moment?
Perhaps tlio "he of Zeppelin was
suggested by police records. So many
fall at nlg.it when "up In the air' and
away from home.
Ttie "she of submarine? Deep down
women are all right, but when they
come to the surface! Ain't it orfui.
Mabel?
(Tears. "Back to mother." "Brute
Rolling pin zirp. bang. Curtain.)
Well, what are you going to do about
it? They have always insisted that
they are a novelty and not amenable to
any rules. Just have to stand for it so
long as we are "too proud to fight
and continue to argue from the wood-
hed, don t you think? Oet me, Steve?
FORD E. SHAW,
Nominate Teddy, and Wilson Will Win
OREGON CITY. Or.. May 8. (To the
Editor.) I- read many articles in The
Oregonian that coincide with my opin
ion of Roosevelt.
I cast my first vote for Grant on his
second term, and since then have voted
for every Republican President.
The dissensions caused by Roosevelt
in the Republican party four years ago
were for his own seltish ends and pur
pose, and to elevate himself, regardless
of what waa for the good of the Re
publican party, only that "he must be
the whole show." I cannot vote for
Roosevelt under any consideration, and
know of many other Republicans in this
city who will not vote for him. but are
anxious to vote for some other good
Republican.
If the Republicans want four years
more of W'llson and watchful waiting,
let the Roosevelt people force his nom
inatlon on the party and they surely
will have it. JOHN C. BRADLEY.
Portland Saloons In Past.
CATHLAilET. Wash.. May 8. (To
the Editor.) (1) What was the great
est number of saloons In operation in
the city of Portland at one time?
(2) What was the number when pro
hibition won? MISS E. B.
(1) Maximum. 45S saloons in 1909.
(2) Three hundred even.
W ater by Meter.
PORTLAND. May 9. (To the Editor.)
What is the number of gallons of
water allowed each consumer on the
50 cents a month rate by meter?
A READER.
Five hundred cubic feet, 3730 gallons.
In Other Day.
Twraty-flve Year. A so.
From The Oregonian of May lO. ISM.
The campaign for the consolidation
of Portland and East Portland began
last night. A Consolidation League was
formed and John McCraken waa nulled
its president and John Olil secretary'
Alfred Fnhrman. of San Francisco,
president of the Federated Trades of
the Pacific Coast, spoke in the city
last night.
Two large blocks of coal were taken
out at Roslyn for the Presidential arch,
at Taconia that weighed more than six
tons each.
Congressman Wilson and rarty. of
Weat VIrElnia. will arrive In Portland
this afternoon at o'clock.
This is the day of the second annual
picnic of the Italian Maxalnl Society,
which win be held at Gambrlnus l ark.
Interest In tho fabulous "Blue
Bucket" mine has again been revived
In the southern part of Harney County.
The Grant County News man says that
when he visited Burns recently he was
informed that a man had Just been
In town wno claimed to have found
the hoops and
Bucket."
bail of the old "Blue
Half m t'eatury A so.
FVom The Oregomaa of May lO, lsaa.
General Sheridan, after hia recent
Texas tour, stated his oplrdon succinct
ly and forcibly, as follows: "If I owned
hell and Texas. I would rent Texas
and live in the other place."
Messrs. Dolrh and Upton. Union, and
Messrs. Grover and Frodenrich. Demo
crats, will speak at the East Portland
schoolhouse on Saturday evening next.
The Mechanics' brass band will be in
attendance and all who desire to at
tend from the West JSlrte. will be
brought back by a special trip of tho
ferryboat.
Tho Frush steamed up yesterday
morning and cut down rlvor at the
top of her speed to some locality un
known to our reporter.
We publish today two Interesting
communications on the subjects of
routes to Montana. Their Judgment.
It will be seen. Is decidedly in favor
of the Pend d'Oreiile route. It has
long been evident that If we are to
reach Montana at all. so as to compete
with those who trade, by way of the
Missouri River, the Pend d'Oreiile route
must ho adopted.
BRITISH
SE1ZURF.S
OK
MAIL,
letters Only Are Exempt Parcels
Treated aa Merebandlae.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., May 8. (To
the Editor.) Will you kindly explain
by what right England refuses to let
postal packages go through from here
to Holland? I should think that postal
matters from one neutral country to
another should not be tolerated to be
interfered with by rotne order in coun
cil (whatever that Is) of some foreign
nation. It seems that even first-class
mail is being held up, for I have been
without any answer to several letters I
have written to that country for sev
eral months. If we have to bow to
any arbitrary ruling or order Just be
cause England makes use of her naval
Ism, it is time that we build a bicger
Navy to enforce our own orders in
council. K. VAN ST RA AT EN.
By one of The Hague conventions of
1907 postal correspondence of the ene
my was exempt from search and scir-
ure In time of war until the present
war began, but this exemption only ap
plies to mail steamers when there is a
special treaty to that effect between
the nations concerned: that la. the
steamers may be searched for contra
band, but the mallbags arc Inviolable.
Tho exemption does not extend to par
cel post, and shipment of food to tier-
many from the t'nited States by first-
class mail seems to havo been construed
by Great Britain as a violation of the
spirit of the law rendering correspon
dence inviolable. Britain defends its
tion In treating parcels as merchan
dise subject to seizure by the like ac
tion of the German cruiser Prince Eitel
Friedrlch.
Search and seizure of mall consigned
to Holland seems to he an application
of the doctrine of continuous voyage to
pare-! having Germany as their ulti
mate destination. The legality of this
procedure l8 extremely doubtful and
the I'nltcd States Government is un
derstood to have entered a protest. Al
though The Hague convention forbids
nuro oi mail, it does not become
biniiinir on nations at war until all
belligerents have rati nod it. This con
vention has not been ratilicd by Russia
or Italy among present hellis:eren.iN
The I Hited Slates and Holland may.
however, haso their Joint protests on
the principles generally recognized
prior to The Hague convention. Those
protests would undoubtedly have more
cight If the United States had a great
er Navy to enforce them.
LET BAR HAVE ADVISORY BALLOT
Public Needs Lawyera Aid In Chseslnc
Candidate, for Bench.
PORTLAND. May 9. (To the Editor.)
The voters of Portland are again con
fronted with the difficult task of choos
ing from among a number of lawyers
for the most part unknown to them.
candidates for the important office of
Circuit Judge. From the mere fact that
the candidates are lawyers, their char
acter and ability are much more likely
to be known to the lawyer than to the
layman.
In many cases the well-intentioned
voter, having no reliable Information as
to the fitness of the candidates, shrugs
his shoulders, so to speak, and votes
for so-and-so. for one of several Indif
ferent reasons, as, for instance, that a
friend has asked him to do so. because
the candidate is from his native state,
or is a graduate of "Old Siwash." or
belongs to his own church, etc
It seems to me that the legal profes
sion ought to bestir Itself hereafter
and acquaint the public as far as pos
sible with the ctualif lratlons of the can
didates for Judicial offices. This might
be done by conducting a straw vote
among attorneys before they have been
"lined up" for tho respective aspirants.
Votes could be mailed to a committee
of the Bar Association and results an
nounced showing how many votes were
actually cast and how many, respect
ively for the several candidates. The
public should also be informed as to
how -many lawyers did not cast votes.
My idea Is that this straw vote. should
not in any sense carry with It the offi
cial indorsement, for any candidate, of
the Bar Association.
THOMAS V. WILLIAMS.
Keep Pound in 5!
Wellington, on being congratulat
ed after Waterloo, said:
"I did nothing wonderful. I Just
kept pounding till I pounded harder
than he did."
And Isn't that Just what the men
who have won great advertising vic
tories have done?
They have Just kept on pounding.
They have not been fair-weather
fighters. They kept everlastingly at
It. knowing results would come.
Today with business booming more
advertisera are coming In to the
newspapers than ever before.