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1918.
shows, dances and other public enter
tainments, but the law should reach
back to the parents who permit their
children to go and should punish
them. Certain picture dramas which
are safe for adults but are unfit for
young- eyes should be forbidden to
minors, but what of the mother who
permits a child to select such shows
for itself?
The parents are responsible, but
with increased need of control they
now exercise less. Atl the power and
influence of law and social influence
should be exerted to bring them back
to their duty. They are shirking it
at the cost of their own children's
morals and happiness, for vice brings
only misery.
being more than 8,000,000 miles and that political, industrial and military
their total travel approximating $250.- efficiency in which we are behind the
000. Court officials, witnesses and allies. Mr. Davenport truly says: "It
Jurors, even members of the Tennessee Is the spiritual reserve which is the
Legislature, were among the favored I final test of the-fitness of a people
ones. A communication was found in to survive.
the company's records from an agent I The Democratic parXy has proved Its
who wanted ' passes for the family of incapacity to call forth this spiritual
a certain Judge. It was pleaded that reserve in the Nation, for it has not
thi3 judge decided nearly all of the called forth that quality within itself.
companys cases favorably and that, I The coming convention and the cam
by doing him this favor, better jurors paign which will succeed it will prove
could be secured in the trial of future whether the Republican party pos-
cases. Needless to say, the Judge got sesses that capacity. Its traditions
ms passes, ana, no aouDt, tne com- ana acnievements incline us to look
pany continued to win its cases. there first and with the most hope
The pass evil was put to sleep near- 1 But it must cast aside old leaders who
ly a generation ago and its resurrec- are hold-overs from the strife of 1912
rARKXTS ARE RESPONSIBLE.
The greatest task before the Nation
today is the proper training of the
young for citizenship. The essence of
such training is development of moral
character in children so that, as their
minds discover more of the facts of
life, they may also learn how to apply
the knowledge they acquire. Recog
nition of this truth caused the dis
cussion in the Religious Education
Convention to turn to the evils which
beset the young in these days and to
the means to be given them of pro
tecting themselves. Religion was
rightly regarded as a most valuable
means to that end, but surely the com
munity as a whole has a duty to per
form, acting independently of, though
in sympathy and co-operation with,
religion. For lack of moral training,
the life of the Nation is in danger of
being poisoned at its source.
The most critical period in a child's
life is that during which it passes from
childhood through adolescence to
manhood and womanhood. Then its
mind learns the mystery of sex. That
knowledge, rightly acquired and right
ly used, gives rise to the highest as
pirations and the purest pleasure;
wrongly acquired and wrongly used, it.
leads to the deepest degradation and
the direst misery. Upon the bent
given to the child's thoughts and pas
sjons during this period of adolescence,
when the mind is in its most plastic
state, hangs the decision whether it
shall experience a normal, healthy de
velopment upward or shall descend
Into greater or less depth of mere
animalism.
In the days when schools were
scattered, communication slight and
pleasures few and simple, this instruc
tion and training were imparted by
the parents. Then, too, parental dis
cipline was strict often too strict
and parents only slightly shared con
trol with agencies outside of their
families. A gradual slackening of the
reins of Puritan discipline followed,
which was a salutary reaction from
too great severity. Had the change
stopped there, all might have' been
well. But modern means of communi
cation and greater- wealth enabled
many parents to send their children to
distant schools and enabled children
to travel miles for an evening's en
tertainment. The ban on theaters,
dancing and cards was lifted; well and
good, so long as the parents censored
the plays their children saw, so long
as the mother watched over her brood
at the dances and these dances were
of the harmless kind, and so long as
the card games were no more exciting
than a rubber of whist. But the drama
became so thoroughly commercial that
authors and managers rivaled one an
other in crowding the borders of de
cency; new dances were introduced
which threw off all restraint of our
mothers' sense of propriety; and no
card games were worth playing un
less money was starked. Girls went
where they would without a chap
eron, boys could no longer have fun in
'"the old man's" company, and the old
folks, become easygoing, abdicated.
Having thus gained their independ
ence, boys and girls have broadened
- it and exercised it without limit. At
the" same time, the need of its restric
tion has steadily grown. The old
style play has largely given place to
the musical comedy, to the problem
play, to vaudeville and finally to the
moving picture. Each strove to out
do the other in brevity of costume
and in broad suggestiveness of lan
guage. Anything goes which has any
chance to get by the censor, official
or unofficial. Intricate problems of
sex relationship are depicted before
audiences of immature youths, setting
their minds to puzzling and their blood
to tingling. Women try how much Of
their persons they may expose on the
stage without provoking police inter
ference. Girls copy their stage hero
ines in abbreviating their skirts and
in revealing their outlines by the style
of their costumes, to attract the boys,
who are nothing loath. The sexes go
to the extreme in physical display at
bathing beaches and girls are photo
graphed in bathing costumes which in
former days would have driven them
from decent society.
This growing license and lack of
parental restraint have borne their
natural fruit in increase of Juvenile
vice and crime. Boys copy criminal
heroes of the drama and become
thieves and burglars. Girls copy their
heroines in dress and conduct and fall
a prey to the boys' unguarded pas
sions. Society in alarm organizes so
cieties and establishes Juvenile courts
and censorship boards to combat the
evil. It has good cause for alarm, but
has it struck at the root of the un
healthy tree?
This, after all. is the neglect of
parents to train and control their chil
dren. The juvenile courts, the so
cieties and all other agencies for
bringing erring youth back to the path
of right living are used as substitutes
for parental control. It is as true now
as ever that parents are responsible
before the law and society for the
conduct of their children- The courts
and the various civic agencies, by do
ing the parents' duty for them, weaken
their already weak sense of responsi
bility. They should do their utmost to
f restore and strengthen it. The
Juvenile Court should punish the par
ents of a delinquent child for their
neglect, and no morbid sympathy for
a remorseful distressed couple should
stay its handTThe civic societies formed
to redeem young sinners should reach
over the children's heads to the par
ents, who are really to blame, and
should strive for the right upbringing
of the young by instructing parents in
their duty. The churches should not
only combine moral with religious
teaching for the children, but should
impress the parents with their duty in
this respect. It is well enough for the
law to censor picture shows and bath
ing suits and to forbid minors, unac
crnpanied by adults, to visit these
, OREGON'S ISIXrEXCE.
Mr. Perkins, the Progressive, 'makes
a fair enough proposal. If you will
not take Roosevelt, he says in effect,
let us have some other candidate, and,
if he stands for Progressive principles
and is able to put them through, we'll
accept him.
There are such candidates before
the Republican convention. If the
Progressives will not accept Hughes,
or Cummins, or Burton, or McCall,
or any one of several others, it means
that they will not take anybody exoept
Roosevelt. Yet they say they will.
It happens that the name of Hughes
is on the Oregon ballot. The others
are Cummins and Burton. Here is
the only state where there will be a
real showing of the strength of
Hughes, and i is one of a few states
where the judgment of the voter as
to the availability of Cummins and
Burton is uninfluenced by favorite-son
or sectional considerations. It is an
opportunity the voter ought not to
neglect, for whatever benefit the Ore
gon verdict may be to the National
convention.
RAPPING HARRY LANK, TOO.
The nasty political plot to show that
somebody in Oregon and nobody much
at Washington is responsible for the
failure of Congress and the Federal
departments to consent to th "forty-
forty" division of expected land-grant
money finds the usual faithful support
in the Pendleton East Oregonian, al
though indeed the Pendleton cuckoo
concedes that there are a Senator and
a Representative who might have done
more for the school children. Its sum
mary of the reasons why the loud call
from Oregon, or the vocal part of
Oregon, was not heeded Is (according
to Pendleton):
in
MAKE THE MOST OF IT.
The Oregonian takes note of the
fact that Mr. McCue, who has elected
to become a candidate for District At
torney, has made an appeal for public
sympathy because he has been "sin
gled out for defeat by this paper.
There are also one or two client-hunt
ing and favor-seeking young lawyers
vv-ho have thought that they might
prejudice the voter in favor of McCue
by describing Mr. Evans as "The Ore-
gonian's candidate." Ah, yes.
We invite the group of disappointed
applicants for deputyshlps under Dis
trict Attorney Evans, and all others
who have for their own reasons iden
tified themselves with the McCue can
didacy, to make the most out of The
Oregonian's declared opposition to Mr.
McCue and support of Mr. Evans. Let
them go ahead and bluster and fus3
about The Oregonian seeking to dic
tate to the sovereign voter what he
should or should not do. Let them
juggle and distort and emasculate the
figures about the cost of the District
Attorney's office under Evans. Let
them show, if they can, that he has
been extravagant and careless about
public expenditure. Let them promise
with hand or heart and with tear in
eye that the good McCue, late attor
ney for Schultz, and friend at court
of the old sailor boarding-house ring,
will work by day and lie awake by
night devising ways to enforce the
law against all malefactors, including
some of his late clients; yet The Ore
gonian desires it known that, if all
they say about the Evans indifference
to economy and his lack of efficiency
were true, it would still protest against
the substitution of McCue for Evans;
aye, if it were true, twice and thrice
over which it is not. The balance
would yet be in Evans' favor.
How to Keep Well
Br W. A. Evana.
tion. should be prevented by such
drastic means as may be necessary.
There is no species of graft more al
luring or more iniquitous. Men who
could not be induced to accept a dis-
and must forget old animosities which
are hang-overs from that delirious
year. . It must reject favoritism to
any interest, pork and perversion of
patronage to personal and political
honest penny in cash have been known ends and must install social and in
to take passes freely and to be in- dustrial justice and Governmental ef-
fluenced from their sworn duty in ficiency'in their place. The former
consequence. The pass must pass.
vices are fatal and the latter virtues
are essential to that organization of
the material forces oC the Nation for
the attainment of its spiritual ends.
With policies shaped by the Nation's
spirit, with leaders inspired by that
spirit and with these forces organized
as the instruments for putting these
policies in effect, the American, peo
ple cannot fail to rise to the great
emergency.
President Wilson has spoken as
though service to the Nation and serv
ice to humanity might part company
at some point in the work which the
war has set before us, but that can
not be. The duty of the Nation's
servants is to serve the United States,
but in so doing they cannot fail to
do the highest service to humanity.
Believing, as do all true Americans,
that American Democracy has brought
1. One Oregon Senator has not, been
line on this subject.
2. One Oresron Coneressman has been out
of line and talking for something entirely liberty, humanity and civilization to
airrerent- I th hie-hest nArfoptinn vor nttnlnori u
3. When the Oovernor of Or,?nn of- I
flcially asked by Congress to make a sue- lna-i it is Detter capame man any
gestlon aa to the disposal of the a-rant'lands.
Ialiea to respond.
4. Vvhen the Oregon Legislature passed
its midnight resolution " Imploring the Su
preme Court for a ruling favorable to the
railroad company, saying nothing about the
school Tuna.
t. when a so-called land grant con
ference held at the solicitation of the Gov
ernor, failed to say a 'word in favor of
lifting the grant lands to build up the school
fund.
The falsehoods that the Governor
of Oregon "failed to respond" and that
the "midnight" resolution favored the
railroad company, have been repeat
edly exploded. But the old adage
about a lie well stuck to finds firm
adherence in Pendleton.
The summary otherwise will do well
enough; but it is not complete. Why
not add that the school children of
Oregon would be generously and fair
ly treated, except for:
(1) Congress.
(2) Secretary of the Interior.
(3) Secretary of Agriculture.
(4) Land Commissioner. .
(5) The entire Federal bureaucracy.
Why the painstaking effort to ex
culpate an Administration which is
completely responsible and will not
deny its responsibility, and blame a
Governor and a few innocent bystand
ers who are not at all responsible?
Except Lane and Hawley, of course.
They are to be blamed, too.
The sad truth seems to be that the
ruling Democratic family in Oregon
has kicked Lane out of bed. Some
body else wants his job.
other organized force of bringing them
to still higher perfection, we believe
that the President's duty to humanity
is best performed by doing his duty
to the American Nation.
t
A voice from Monmouth--the Her
ald appears to have sounded the key
note of the whole Mexican trouble.
The Herald says:
Didn't It ever occur to you. gentle reader.
that this watchful waiting policy might
have a few disadvantages? To us th
actions of Mexico and Qerraany in regard
to the United States are distinctly re
mindful of the actions of an incorrigible
pupil in school who deliberately seta about
seeing how much the teacher will stand.
There are some teachers with whom It is
always self-evident that It does not do to
menkey. A more forceful executive would
not have kept this country constantly on
me ragged eage or trouble.
There may be limits to our pa
cificism. But, so far as an impatient
public can see, it is boundless.
A well-known man in Portland Is
dead. Kind and gentle in manner, his
greeting was always that of a friend
Rich and poor that he met in busi
ness received alike the courteous
treatment that went -with his great
good humor. He lived up to the
tenets of the Golden Rule and his am
bition was to do a good day's work
never counting the hours. He had
earned his reward long before he
heard the summons. The name is
Maurice Barryjnore Smith.
WOMKN' UNDER CANVAS.
An innovation that should attract
Nation-wide interest is the training
camp at Chevy Chase, near Washing
ton, where patriotic American women
are preparing themselves to lend in
telligent service to the country should
the hour of National necessity ever be
tolled. There is a small army of 500
of these patriots in skirts, an even
larger number than has been, noted at
some of the training camps rax em
bryonic male warriors. Accounts agree
that the women are entering into the
camp work with zeal, learning just
how to conduct themselves in the im
portant work of succoring the
wounded men from the firing line.
Women have always had an impor
tant part in shaping the fighting qual
ities of nations. The vomen of Sparta
were no less responsible for the virility
of their little country than the first
line fighting men. Now that the
necessity for preparedness has been
forced upon the country, now that an
awakened citizenry is struggling with
a problem that baffles ready solution,
there is no more hopeful sign in these
days of a poTk-barrel Congress than
that of 500 women training themselves
for emergency.
Intelligent Red Cross work requires
careful preparation. Those who en
gage in it must learn discipline, self
reliance and the technique of battle
field nursing. Such training in time
of peace is certain to save the many
lives added by incompetent nursing to
the toll always claimed by incompetent
leadership on the firing line. Trained
nurses would be able to render ef
fective service in the field with very
little special drilling, but If every
trained nurse in the country were
available the force would be inade
quate for the needs of a great de
fensive war.
So it remains for the women
to prepare themselves in large
numibers, even though they do this
in hope and confidence that their serv
ices will never be required. The Chevy
Chase camp should be repeated in
every section-of the country. It is
a far more valuable work than the
citizens' training camps in the prac
ticable possibilities that it offers.
FINDING A NATION'S ROIL.
The division of opinion and sent!
ment now existing among the Amerl
can people as to their duty in dealing
with other nations is well explained
by Frederick M. Davenport in the Out
look with thene sentence: "The soul
of the Nation is finding itself." The
action of the coming party conven
tions and the vote at the November
election will tell whether the Nation
is guided by its highest aspirations or
whether it has chosen the temporarily
easier but more ignoble way of facing
the issues raised by the war, by Mex
ico and by the Philippines. Shall we
Even though everything possible has
been done to satisfy the legitimate
demands of labor, strikes continue In
Great Britain. In March there were
forty-four trade disputes involving
58,000 workers, who lost over S27.000
working days, more than three tim
as many as In February. Wages of
nearly 459,000 workers -were raised
an aggregate of 35,200 a week. Of
these 377,000 were coal miners and
18,500 machinists and shipbuilders on
the Clyde. ,
Bishop Lawrence talks to the wrong
people in urging simple living. Those
who have adopted the higher mode
rise to the occasion and set duty above WU nt o back, anJ those vho are
ease and -luxury? Shall we prefer an in the simple class will not heed ad
honorable, enduring peace which may vice from a bishop, Every man wants
be won onlv bv struggle but which his son to have a better Job and every
shall hand down undiminished to our mother insists her daughter shall have
children our heritage of liberty and all the advantages she was denied
enlightenment, or shall we choose the Those two courses knock at simplicity
deceptive peace of duty shirked and
honor smirched which will merely
leave the problems of today to be
solved at terrible cost of blood, tears
and treasure by our children?
The American Nation is like a man
That disaster in Norfolk, Va.
wherein twenty-six people died in
fire in a movie house, emphasizes the
admonition to sit tight and wait for
the apparatus. Stampedes are deadly
Questions pertinent to hygiene, aanltation
and prevention of disease. If matters of gen
eral Interest, will be anawered in thla col
umn. Where apace will not permit or the
ubject Is not suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped, addressed en
velop is Inclosed. Dr. Kvans will not make
diagnosis or prescribe for Individual dis
eases. Kequests for such service cannot be
answered.
(Copyright. 1918, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
A Live Health Department.
ABOUT the livest health' department
operated by any city of 25,000 in
this country ia that of Montclair, X. J.
To read its annual report ia to find a
record of s number of activities that
might well be emulated, by health de
partments of other cities. The follow
ing were found In the report for 1915:
1. A number of cases have come to
the attention of the board in which
servants and nursemaids have been af
flicted with tuberculosis or with vene
real diseases without the knowledge of
the employer, and In order that the em
ployer may protect herself she now has
the privilege of sending her servant
to the office of the board, where, upon
the payment of a fee of 3, a careful
examination will be made of the serv
ant. The examination will be supple
mented by blood testa and by any other
teats that may be deemed advisable. If
the servant passes the examination she
(or he) will be given a certificate of
health.
2. Owners of peanut vending ma
chines were required to remove the cup
into which the peanuts fall. This ao
tion was necessary on account of vthe
dirt that accumulates in the cup and
on account of the manner in which
nuch cupa are handled by- children.
3. Proprietora of soda water foun
tains, ice cream parlors and saloons
were required to provide hot water fa
cilities for washing all utensils.
4. A large amount of time was spent
In the supervision of the ice cream
supply of the town. The plants were
rated for cleanliness on an ice cream
score card and the product was exam
ined bactenologically. The ice cream
produced by these firms had Ice cream
so pure that 100 per cent of the sam
ples had a bacterial count of less than
100.00O. Kvery firm had some sample.
as low as that. One hundred per cent
of the samples frr-m five firms had
counts lower than 500.000. I do not
think there Is another city in America
where, the Ice cream could make o
stood a showing
IComparing 1915 with 1914. we find
that the ice cream in Montclair has lm
proved very much in the year.)
5. All the milk sold In Montclair Is
fatm tuberculin tested cows or else it
i pasteurized. Forty-three per cent
of the .milk sold has a bacterial count
below 10.000. 2 per cent below 25,000,
86 per cent below 50.000 and 94 per cent
below 100.000. The milk of two firms
averaged less than 5000 bacteria for the
year. Montclair of all American cities
has the best-controlled milk budpIv
Aa to both milk and Ice cream, tne
health department gives the names, ad
dressea and record for cleanliness and
Bacteria of the milk dealers. Can we
wonder that Montclair has a baby death
rate of 65 about one-half the average
rate for the country?
6. All employes of bakeries must ,-sft
thorough physical examination every
three montha. The cleanliness of
bakeries la rated. Any citizen can get
tne record or any bakery, aa ho can of
his milk dealer and ice cream man.
7. The fly campaign has been vigor
ously conducted. "During the latter part
of Summer there waa rractlcaly no fly
hreedlng In town and. with the con
tinued co-operation of the stable own
ers, there, should be very ?w riles
town next Summer." The wort of fly
suppression was directed against fly
Breeding places, and especially manure
Doxes.
Pi
who has been suddenly startled out of and modern fire-fighting efficiency
has reached such degree that there
is not occasion for fear.
a sound sleep by an earthquake. All
the lights which have hitherto guided
him are out and all landmarks are
destroyed. This Nation has regarded But a few years have elapsed since
the affairs of other nations as things Edward C. Sammons was office boy
which do not concern it except as mat- In The Oregonian editorial rooms. Now
ters of curiosity. Unwilling to study he is assistant cashier of a big local
them, it did not understand why na-1 bank and president of the banking
tions armed and why they fought. In-I chapter. The eighth floor Is a great
dulging a false sense of security from 1 training ground for the right mate
its supposed isolation, it called their rial.
conduct folly.
Suddenly awakened by a war which I After -a wait of thirty years, that
overspreads three continents, causes section of Malheur County for miles
turmoil and dissension in its midst and radiating from Vale is , likely to be
araws- it into acute controversy wun irrigated this year. Home of it now
the belligerents, this Nation finds its is under ditch, but the greater projects
isolation a delusion and feels that it will develop a small empire ot twenty
is being drawn into the whirlpool in and forty-acre homes.
spite of its struggle to keep out. Torn
paIsing 'oct PASSES.
It has been currently supposed that
the iniquitous railroad pass was a
thing of the past. Legislators, these
days of quickened public virtue and
vigilance, are supposed to travel to
and from their biennial wrangling con
clave equipped with regulation railway
tickets purchased on mileage allow
ances. Judges and other public of
ficials are pictured buying full-fare
tickets out of their own pockets -when
traveling abroad. But the illusion has
been shattered by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which appears to
have something of a Missouri tem
perament. The discoveries made by
agents of the Commission in Southern
states suggests that all communities
might well look closely at the fallen
monster of pass graft. Perhaps the
creature is only slumbering, possum
like, and prowls about with virile ac
tivity when not under surveillance by
an unsuspecting public.
Twenty thousand passes were is
sued by a single Southern road, it is
recorded. This was in the good year
1913, when no one was supposed to re
ceive a pass. These were not short
haul passes, either, their total mileage
Relative Humidity.
M. M. writes: "I have aften noted
your articles on relative humidity.
Have been unable to learn what Is the
relative humidity of 20 degrees. 40 de
grees. SO degrees, 80 degrees and 100
degree!". I cannot find It in my text
books.
REPLY.
There can be ni answer to vour Question.
By relative humidity of the air we mean the
dogTee of saturation with moisture. A cubic
foot of air holds, at 20 degrees. 1.5 grams of
moisture: at 40 decrees, a rrams: at HO de
-grees. 5.8 grams: SO degrees. 10 grams; loo
degrees. 10 1 grams. A relative humidity of
00 at these temperatures would mean tha
the nir held at -l degrees. .7 gram; at 40
agreea. 1.0 grams: ho degrees, grams
SO drgrees. 3 grams: at loo degrees, n t
grams. One and five-tenths grama of
water dissolved in a eublo foot of air would
give relative humtditina as follows: Twenty
degrees, loo per cent: 40 degrees. f0 per
cent: no degrees. IT per rent: SO degrees. 13
per cent; juo degrees, s per cent.
Chorea.
A. B. P. writes: "Boy 13 years of age
has chorea: has been circumcised: Is
fidgety, but the only other outward
sign is a twitching of eyes, especially
when very tired or excited. 1. Is he
curable? 2. Will he improve or get
over this nervousness after he has
passed age of puberty? 3. would you
recommend glasses? 4. Is there dan
ger of this eventually developing Into
a bad case of St. Vitus?""
REPLY.
1 Yes.
- By proper care he should ret over It
mis summer.
a Mis eyes should be examined.
4 Some.
The rule to employ none but native-
born citizens on mine-layers works a
hardship on good men and citizens.
The native born has no monopoly of
patriotism. It was not his kind wholly
Death is the alternative of accepting
Mexican money at Mazatlan. Death
Js also the penalty of having any
money on your person In bandit-rid
den Mexico. So the choice Is, not
pleasant one.
Think of what may come to North
Portland some day. There are 40,000
employes In the Chicago stockyards
district and each has just received an
increase in pay.
Short skirts are declared a menace
to good morals. Why not follow Ber
lin's example and prohibit them by
ordinance?
by the conflicting emotions of pro
German and pro-ally, pacifist and
champion of National honor and of
preparedness, it seeks new leaders and
new guiding lights. Those to whom
it naturally looks for leadership the tnat kept this Union Intact.
president ana uongress were cnosen
without any view to their fitness to
deal with such a crisis. The President
has halted and hesitated, obsessed
with the fallacies of Bryanism which
he only gradually and reluctantly dis
cards. His party Is much slower than
he to adjust its ideas to the new sit
uation. The wilful blindness to the
patent facts about . them which still
characterizes the great majority of its
members in Congress has extended
Into the Republican party, as evi
denced by the votes on the warning
resolution and on the Army bill. With
proof all about them that our Isola
tion has been destroyed 'by modern
Invention and with the spectacle of
weak, defenseless nations stamped out
of existence by armed hosts, these
provincial Congressmen ask why and
against whom we should prepare for
defense
Our preparation to cope with the
new perils which have been forced
upon us by the war and which will
continue to threaten us after the war
must begin, as Mr. Davenport says,
with "the mobilization of the spiritual
reserve of the people of the United
States, the revitalization of the coun
try through the breaking up of the
deeps of National consciousness by
the impulse of the terrible war." With
the allies this spiritual reserve came
to the aid of their "deplorable political Itest.
and industrial and military weak
nesses" and formed the rock against
which "Germany is beating her blind
efficiency out." With the United
States it must be called out first in I The strike of 500 "white wings'
order to choose new leaders, to shape I makes a flutter in Chicago.
new policies adapted to the changed
world, and to develop and organize I Down with the short skirt!
Judging by the scarcity of the pest
this year, the swat-the-fly activities
of recent years must be bearing re
sults. -
Americans are being called out of
Mexico. That has been go Wig on for
three years.
Henry Ford is an aggressive peace
candidate in seeking the Pennsylvania
preference.
The dog pound in Kenton! Never!
Let the eaters of "dog" unite in pro-
Whaleskin shoes for women Is the
latest. So they can be In the swim.
Pleurisy.
F. W. S. writes: "I am Interested 1
your reply to A. M. about pleurisy and
tuberculosis, will you please tell me
f a person who had pleurisy last
Spring and two months ago foun
tubercle bacilli in her sputum would
effect a cure sooner in a sanitarium.
fclie haa now been away In a high alti
tude in ermont for eix months. I
which time she has gained 15 pound
despite a setback from the grippe,
whlcn she had two months ago. He
sputum was tested when recoverln
from the grippe. v
REPLY.
Tea,
Not Advisable.
Mrs. J. E. W. writes: "From, you
long experience will you tell me what
you think of the advisability of tu
berculosis patients returning East
after a residence of some years In th
West? I do not mean to reside in th
East but to return for a visit or for
the Summer montha I have been We
five yeara. My case is chronle fibroid
tuberculosis, no fever, and apparently
strong and well, except that I cough
and expectorate yet. Do you thin
that a visit home this Fummer (near
Chicago) will injure me?"
REPLY.
Generally speaking, it Is bad judgment.
have known of ecses In which tha disease
lightened up during the visit.
WHO WANTS HltillESf THE PEOPLE
Before? Sa Strlktag: mm Kxaaaple
f the Office Seekias the Mask
(George Harvey In The North American
lievttw.)
Nobody wants Hughes nobody but
the people, la not that so? You know
It. We know it. They. whom we have
mentioned (Barnes. Davison. Perkins,
Root, Roosevelt, Arch bold. Wilson, etc)
know it. Even Hughes may know it.
though we have our doubts. But why
la it? That ia the question. We can
understand why many who are Repub
licans want Root, why many who are
not Republicans want Roosevelt, and
why the great body of Democrats,
headed by a small body of office-holders
and pacifists, want Wilson..
Mr. Josgph 11. Choate, for example,
after enumerating Mr. Root's excep
tional qualifications and denouncing
Mr. Roosevelt for having "deliberately
ttempted to destroy the Republican
party to gratify his own selfish alms,"
says:
It should, aa 1 think." be regarded as a
fatal drawback to Justice Hughes nomlna-
un that he is a Justice of the "supreme
Court, a court which must be kept forever
inviolate from wllhr.ut or within. Its spot-
ess ermine should never be smirched In tne
muddy turmoil of politics ...
To this the people say:
We. too. wish to keep the Supreme
Court Inviolate and in ordinary times
we would not nominate a Justice for
President. But there is no law against
ur doing so, and we deny the
validity of the precedent cited by Mr.
Choate. Justice Story did not decline
to become a candidate because he was
member of the court- . . Nor ob-
iously was such a consideration held
to be binding by Justice McLean
. in 1856. nor by Chief Justice
Chase, who was an avowed candidate
in 1S68. nor by Justice David Davis, for
whom three electoral votes were cast
1S72.
It is our Inalienable right at
this most critical juncture in our coun-
ry's progress to put at the bead of the
atlon any citizen who most adequately
satisfies all requlremefits. and it Is no
less the bounden duty of that citizen
to answer such a calf. Incidentally we
re convinced that the election of Jus
tice Hughes as President would be far
more likely to clarify "the muddy tur
moil of politics" than to bespatter the
Judicial ermine.
Is It quite accurate to any that
no man knows what justice Hughes"
iews are on this or any other of the
uestions which now agitate the peo-
le of the Lnited States'? Does not
is work as Governor of the State of
New York, hia "perfect judicial record"
nd his many utterances in published
documents and before constitute as
omplete a portrayal as one could de
ire 'for his attitude toward all funda
mental questions related to popular
government?
More significant than these or many
other utterances (which are detailed)
which might be cited is the living fact
f Mr. Hughes' undoubted sincerity and
perfect rectitude. We, the people, care
more for what a man la than for what
he lays. If we know a man through
and through and believe in him aa we
believed In Washington, in Lincoln and
Cleveland, we do not need to be in
formed of hia opinion upon every sub
ject that may come up. from peonage in
Mexico to ruffled birds in the West
ndies. We do not think Mr. Hughes is
a better American than Mr. Roosevelt,
but we think he is Just aa good, twice
as aound and many times aa trust
worthy. . .
In a word and this may be taken as
fact if not as law and gospel this old
fashioned man holds firmly to the old-
fashioned idea that the responsibilities
of the Presidency are so great that it
ought not to be aought and must not
be declined.
Never since the Republic de
manded that George Washington be
come ita first President haa there ap
pearcd so striking an instance of the
office seeking the man. . . Rightly
or wrongly, wisely or not, the will of
the people will prevail, and Charlea
Kvan Hughes will be the next Republl
can candidate for President of the
United States.
Hughes or Wilson? That will be all.
When the lively wedding lie Chicago
shall have been supplemented by the
sedate funeral in St. Louis, patriotism
must dictate a choice between the two.
Oh Lord, save thy people!
In Other Days,
i Twealy.Flve Tears Aa.
From Tha Oregonian of May 12. 1M1.
, San Diego. Mar 11. United -States
Solidltor-General Taft today received a
dispatch from President Harrison di
recting him to go to Lo Angeles and
take charge of the Robert and Minnie
case for the Government.
San Francisco, May 11. The fact is
no longer concealed, even in "official
Naval circles, that the swift United
States cruiser Charleston Is off on a
hot chase after the Chilean transport
Itata, which left San Diego laat
Wednesday while under arrest and car
rying off a deputy United States Mar
shal. Ignatius Donnelly announces that
within a year he will publish a book
that will cause his bitterest opponents)
to deny Bacon's authorship of the
Shakespearean plays.
The Oregon Pioneer and Historical
Society of Astoria held a meeting today
to arrange for the celebration in honor
of the 100th anniversary of the dis
covery of the Columbia by Captain Rob
ert Gray.
The store of Lipman & Co. will be
closed today because of the death of
Goeta Wolfe in Hohenxollern. Ger
many. Mr. Wolfe, who lived many
years in Portland, was the lather ot
Adolphe and Henry G. Wolfe and Mrs.
H. Metzger. Mr. Wolfe died April is
at the age of SO years-
Half a Century Ago.
From The Oregonian of May 12. ISftd.
The Oregon Centenary convention of
the Methodist Church will be held In
Salem on May 16. This is merely aj
celebration of the one hundredth an
niversary of American Methodism.
Dr. Hawthorne, who is at prcser
traveling in the Kast, has visited aev
eral asylums, and his accounts of the i
management present quite an interest!
ing theme.
The Washington Guards. Captai'
Mills, was out on parade last evening
and its membera seem to have lo:
none of their energy to keep up th
organisation under the militia la
of the state, although the law In itsel?
presents little Inducement to them. ,
We are informed by passengers just
returned from &fan Francisco that the
recent earthquakes have caused a radi
cal change in the architecture ot the
city's buildings.
Rush Mendenhnil has announced
himself as a candidate for the Pouse
of Representatives of the Oregon lr
islative assembly.
R If. EvA
Treason.
PORTLAND. May 11. (To the Kd
Itor.) In view of certain articles
have recently read and of statements
heard expressed on the street, will you
kindly publish a short synopsis of what
constitutes treason against the Lnlted
States and the penalties therefor?
LNyiiKEK.
In the United States treason against
the United States is defined by the Con
stitution (Article 3, section 3) to con
sist "only In levying war against them
or In adhering to their enemies, giving
aid and comfort to them." In general
treason consists In attempting by overt
act to overthrow the government to
which the offender owes allegiance.
The penalty is put, by the Constitution.
in the hands of Congress. The modern
penalty is death or imprisonment generally.
COXCERMti WALTE
W. Thornton, Whs Haa Known D
trlct Attorney S3 Years, A riles.
WILSO.YV1LLK. Or., May 10. (To
Editor. More than 25 years ago
made the acquaintance of Waller
Evan?. Me as young and ambitio
and a teacher in the public achools
Illinois and was satisfactory to a
Hia ambition to master the law led
him to other fields and I lost sight of
him. Ten years ago we went West to
Oregon to make our home. Wo must
rind a substitute for the ChicaKO Trih
une and naturally took tip The Ore
gonian. as 1 ani an Abraham Lincoln
Republican and not ashamed of it. Mr.
Kvans' portrait there allraclej our at
tention. We found unaijed he had I
made hia goal and was an - ', "
under Mr. McCourt Then came
election In Multnomah County us Pre . ssv
ruling Attorney. Haa be maritv pond.
He has been there long enntiirli to be
tried out; it is no longer an experi
ment as to ability, or honesty or ms
to the supremacy of the, law. His of
fice is one that deals largely with those,
who respect no law and they ami tli
friends are tradueers an.! againft
unless he is remiss and fails a
force the la-.
The officer who studies bis own eat-
we do not want. Mr. Kvans has com
manded the respect of those he prose
cuted. An inefficient officer Is dear
any price.
I write thla unknown to Mr. Kvans
hut I feci it Is due the voter to have
all the knowledge that ia possible from
the disinterested witnesses as to lh:
character of the one seeking their suf
frage. A man self-made who ia honest
and fair, who enforces the law but does
not persecute, the man who is perfectly
fearless In prosecuting the lawbreaker
for arson, murder or lesser crimes,
should command the votes of every
good citizen. And 1 feel that in the
future his efficiency will command a
higher compliment.
J. W. THORNTON.
Chevy Chase Training Camp.
PORTLAND. May 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly Inform me the
exact purpose of the Chevy Chase girls'
training camp near Washington?
SUBSCRIBER.
The training camp is a volunteer or
ganization where patriotic American
women are training preparing them
selves to lend intelligent service to the
country should the United States be
come involved In war. The principal
object sought is to teach the women
how to succor the wounded and to train
them to be fit for work of this kind
In the field. Discipline, self-reliance
and the science of battlefield nursing
are taught them.,
PolUklag Marble.
PORTLAND. Or.. May M. (To the
Editor.) tl) How Is marble polished?
(2) How many years la tha life of a
patent In the United States'
SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Marble is first polished by the
application of different grades of grit
over the surface. It Is then rubbed
with pumice stone and the final gloss
la put on by an application of putty and
acid.
(2) Every patent contains a grant to
the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for
the term of 17 years.
Look t p Reed Operation.
Mrs. J. V. writes: "I will consider it
a great favor if you will enlighten me
about my troubles. I have for the last
15 years been afflicted with some nerv
ous affliction. I get some kind of
spasms, generally at night. I am al
ways 'inconscious at the time, but the
next morning 1 suffer from- a aevere
headache in the back of my head. I am
very nervous and have a very poor
appetite. I am the mother of nine
children."
r.EPi.T.
You. have epilepsy. Ask Tour physician as
to the advisability of tbe Heed operation for
your case, is there a colony for epileptics
in your state? If so, consider the advisabil
ity of some there.
t-'ort McKlnley.
JUNCTION CITY. Or.. May 10. (To
the Editor.) Will you please tell me
where Fot McKinley is and how should
a letter be addressed to reach it?
MRS. I. N. H. .
Fort McKlnley is near Portland.
Maine, and a letter addressed to Fort
McKlnley. Portland. Me., should be
properly delivered.
(lueatlon In Astronomy.
PORTLAND. May 10. (To the Edi
tor.) According to the latest viaia.
which is the second brightest star? I
have seen Arcturus. Canopus. Vega, Ca
pella and another, all rated as such.
How many planets can we see now?
Is any comet visible in the sky now?
T. L. N.
Canopus is given by W. F. Adams.
astronomer, aa the second brightest
star. Its light is estimated as being
equivalent to that ot E5.000 suns. As
seen from the earth Sirius is the bright
est. Venus, we understand, is visible
with the naked eye at this time. Wc
know ot no comet visible now.
Dark of the Moon.
KINGS VALLEY, Or.. May 9. (To the
Editor.) Wefehave The Oregonian in
our schoolroom and prize It very hich
ly for its current events. Now and then
questions arise which we canot decide
on. We have two at present. They are:
1. What time of the moon is termed
'the dark oi the moon"?
2. Could Alaska. Porto Rico and
Hawaii become states?
INEZ NYMAN.
1. The dark of the moon Is that
period after the moon Is full, and on
the decrease; particularly after the last,
quarter sets in.
2. Yes.
"Kirty-Konr Kerry or Flshi.-
REEDSPORT. Or.. May 10. (To the
Editor.) There has been a discussion
in our engineering camp over the
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight" slogan
and campaign. Will you Inform us
whether we suceeded in having the
boundary set at 64-40?
E. G. DiNSMORE.
The boundary waa set at 49 degrees.
The agreement with Great Britain was
made during James K. Polk's Adminis
tration. Hia party slogan wars "Fifty
Four. Forty or Ficht-"
Quotation Fram Longfellow,
TORTLAND. May 11. (To the Ed
itor.) The Information regarding quo
tation asked for by Elisabeth Raker In
The Oregonian May is from Longfel
low's "The Masque of Pandora." Prome
theus argues with Epimetheus. when
the latter ays: "Whom the gods love
they honor with such guests." Prome
theus answers. "Whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad." V. L. H.
. " No.
TYGH VALLEY. Or., May 10. (To
the Editor.) Is Madame Sarah Bern
hardt dead? If so. where and when
did she die? HARPER, & HOUSEK.
t
"The Most Imitated
Sauce"
Makers of a certain well-known
sauce are proud of the fact that it is
the most Imitated article of that
kind in the world.
Tbey regard the imitations as
tributes to their brand's merit yet
none are "just as good" in quality.
Advertising haa made the sauce's
name a household word. Just as
quality has made It a household
favorite.
These Imitations, like every other
Imitation, are Injurious to well-intending
cubtomers.
They get an inferior article be
cause they allow a storekeeper to
persuade them to accept something
else.
It pays to ask for an advertised
article by name and Insist on get
ting what you ask for.