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rORTMXD, SATURDAY. MAY 20, 1916.
XIXK IJE DEAD.
It is not a new speculation, that of
the cause of the high homicide rate
Jn America and the low rate of con
victions as compared with those of
other' countries. Generally thi3 un
favorable condition is blamed upon
peculiarities of our criminal jurispru
dence, the law's delays, the emotional
character of Juries. Undeniably these
are factors that contribute to a de
plorable state of affairs; But there is
another element that figures in the
statistics. It is the number of un
solved murder mysteries.
We are not now prepared to say
that Oregon contributes more murder
mysteries to the record than other
states, but certainly Oregon's record
is one that demands attention. A list
of the more important that have at
tracted public attention and dismay
within the last four or five years num
bers no less than six, if one be counted
a homicide where intent existed but
the victim recovered. All were pe
culiarly atrocious.
They include the murder of the en
tire Hill family at Ardenwald, four
persons; the murder of little Barbara
Holzman, in an East Portland room;
the murder of John Lind, in a Port
land rooming-house and whose body
was later found in a trunk; the mur
derous attack with an axe upon Mrs.
J. W. Moon, at La Grande, a year ago;
the murder of Mrs. J. R. Hinkle, at
Salem, last February by a fiend who
wielded a heavy chisel, and finally
the murder of Mrs. Helen Jennings at
the Gore farm k few days ago and
the supposed murder of Fred Ristman,
the Jitney driver.
It is not a pleasant thing to contem
plate this list of brutal assaults. But
here are nine persons who have met
death at the hands of inconceivable
demons. Justice has not touched the
murderers. Their identity, with one
exception, remains a mystery, and in
that exception the murderer has not
been apprehended.
Conceivably there is something
wrong with the criminal-detecting
agencies of Oregon that such a record
should exist. But we shall not con
tend that there is laxity here not
found in other states, nor incom
petence here in "greater extent than
elsewhere in the United States. The
defect almost certainly lies in the sys
tem, and it is encountered often in
other states. Outside of the largest
cities, little attention is paid to the
scientific side of criminology. There
is no trained corps of scientists and
investigators such as is found, in every
European country with Jurisdiction
extending into remotest hamlets. Our
Sheriffs are elected without consid
eration of their ability to ferret out
crimes. In fact, that is but an oc
casional function they are called upon
to perform. As for their other duties.
they are generally informed and capa
ble. It is not to their discredit to say
that they are not acute reasoners in
respect to hidden crimes. Crime de
tection is a business, a science. It
cannot be acquired in a day or without
practice and study.
.There will be repetitions of murder
mysteries and the homicide rate will
continue to be large in this country
until the system is changed. But in
the meantime Sheriffs and police of
ficers can do a little more in the
cause of Justice by admitting their
limitations. The country Sheriff is
usually jealous of his prerogatives. He
resents the interference, the advice,
even the presence of the more prac.
ttced detective or police officer, or
Sheriff of a metropolitan county.
It is also characteristic of him that
he throws as many obstacles as pos
slble in the way of the newspaper re
porter, whereas the wise city police
officer welcomes the presence of the
newspaper man, knowing that he is
often an Invaluable aid in unraveling
a Hivaicii, j-xio reporter is content to
let the glory of detective achievements
go to others. The prestige of getting
the true story first for his newspaper
is enough for him. So the seasoned
city detective does not fear loss of
possible laurels by admitting the re
porter to his confidence.
Possibly in time we shall awaken to
the shortcomings of the existing svs.
tern, or lack of system. Plainly our
form of Government does not invite
establishment of a Federal bureau
of criminology for work on crimes
other than those against Federal law
The state must deal with the main
problem. But some supervisory agency
reaay 10 tane cnarge of an investiga.
tion in any county an agency not so
ignorant that it scoffs at criminology,
out one mat win profit from the ma.'
ture investigations and the successful
methods of real students will some
day be established as a recognized
necessity.
COST OF COMMERCIAL DEPENDENCE.
The United States is paying for its
neglect to develop the chemical and
dye industries in higher prices for
paper as well as for drugs, medicines
and textile goods. Every time we
print a newspaper, .book or magazine,
write a letter or wrap a parcel we pay
for our dependence on a supply of
chemicals and drugs from a nation
with which communication is cut by
war. The extent to which this is tru
has been shown by a large paper mill
in a table of cost of materials in 191
and 1916, which it has sent to Its
customers in explanation of higher
prices for paper.
Bleach, of which this mill uses 150
tons yearly, has risen from 1 to
cents a pound and the price of alum
has multiplied four times. Anilin
lias risen from 40 cents to J20 a pound
and many tons are used very year.
I-or the 2000 tons of casein used. 2
cents a pound Is paid instead of 6 H
cents. Dry satin white, of which 200
tons are used, costs 9 instead of
cents a pound. Ten carloads of sod
ash cost J1.03 instead of 65 cents
Xundredweight. Bleached sulphite
costs $4 instead of 12.65 a hundred
weight, and 25.000 tons are used every
year.
Had the United States -fostered
ome industries so consistently that
the -Nation would have been Inde
pendent of foreign supply for all nec
essary commodities, it would have
upplied its paper mills with these
hemieals at lower prices which would
still have paid a large profit to the
manufacturers and it might have had
surplus for export. But our pro
tective system was weak at that point
and we went farther in, the wrong di
rection by putting in power a party
which assumed that we would better
let other nations supply us than sup
ply ourselves and that there was no
anger of our foreign supply being
stopped. All of its assumptions have
been falsified by the events of the
last two years.
HOLDING THE ESTRAYS.
The statement of Brother Crim,
Prohibitionist, that the old parties
have adopted the direct primary as a
means of holding their respective or
ganizations together "keeping the
estrays in line," he said may be re
garded as interesting if true. . Evi-
ently the reverend orator .has not
studied the history of the primary
with profit. The primary does not
work the way he says it does. All the
estrays from everywhere except the
unperjured ones have been gathered
in by only one of the parties.
Brother Crim seems to have some
lingering scruple about adopting the
easy method of controlling Republican
nominations followed by thousands
and publicly recommended by the
practical-minded Hutton, of the Anti-
Saloon League. The way for dry In
dependents to do, says Brother Hut
ton, is to register as Republicans, al
though, as he says, "we are not Re
publicans." Perjury is no crime If
committed in a good cause, accord
ing to the Hutron ethical code.
'It is," says Dr. Crim, "one of the
most detestable things in our Govern
ment that if you or I want to vote to
place a man's name on the Republican
ballot we have to declare our affilia
tion with that party."
Well, why not register as a Repub
lican? Hutton did. He openly advo
cated false registration in order "to
crack booze." Yet we thought that
King Booze had expired in Oregon
on January 1, 1916.
PACK AXDS APPLE-GROWER.
Isaac Russell, marketing expert for
the New York Evening Mail, has writ
ten a story, very complimentary to
Oregon, concerning packing methods
used by the fruit growers of the coun
try. In the story Mr. Russell says:
The trip of Inspection revealed one fact
that was sad to contemplate. This waa that
he very worst goods, from the standpoint
of packing, came rom New Tors State,
whose tax roll depreciates every time a
New York product Is kept out the New
York City market. Oregon, California, even
Hawaii and Porto Rico, far excelled New
York State in the development of the art of
packing gooda invitingly.
In his review of conditions, Mr. Rus
sell comments freely on filthy condi
tions at the New York docks, and
points out that bad packing methods
are proving a further handicap to the
New York State competitor of the
Oregon fruitman. m
While New York City is making
commendable efforts to remedy sani
tary conditions at the docks, and will
probably succeed in doing so, the
statement by Mr. Russell should bring
cheer to the breast of the Oregon
fruitgrower, who is this year to at
tempt to market the largest apple crop
n the history of the state, and it
should encourage all growers to enter
nto the spirit of the selling movement
that is being fostered by the market
ing bureau of the United States Gov
ernment, the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege and the Chamber of Commerce.
Pack will always aid the Oregonian
in holdirfg the Eastern market for
his product.
POSSIBILITIES OF PEACE.
Rumors that Pope Benedict plans
co-operation with President Wilson in
mediation between the belligerents
turn discussion once more to the pos
sibility of early peace. It is well for
Pope and President to prepare for the
psychological moment when their
friendly overtures will be welcome.
but that moment appears not to be
at hand. It will not come until one
party to the war realizes the impos-
sibility of attaining its end and the
probability that by continuing the
struggle it will bring upon Itself utter
defeat and prostration. Neither party
has yet reached that point. Should
either now seek mediation, it would
confess its inability to win and would
give the other an undeniable advan
tage in the negotiation of peace terms.
The central empires have everything
to gain and nothing to lose by making
peace at this time. Germany at least
realizes that the possibility of further
conquests is extremely dubious and
that a settlement on the basis of the
present military situation would gain
for it better terms than could prob
ably be obtained after prolonging the
struggle. Germ-any is credited with
having begun the war with a convic
tion of the superiority of the Teuton
bver all other races and with a deter
mination to establish that superiority
beyond the power of its enemies to
dispute. Being in possession of hostile
territory on the east, west and south
east, it is in a position to recover some
of its colonies by giving up some of its
European gains, yet to retain so much
as would be an admission in some
measure of its claimed superiority.
Austria would be able not only to
retain It3 original territory intact but
to obtain domination in the Balkan
peninsula and on the Adriatic Sea
and to, set at rest for many years the
claims of Italy. Turkey, if free from
the dictation of Germany and of the
Young Turk leaders, would have been
glad at any time to make peace, for.
whichever party wins, it is threatened
with destruction or with economic
subjection. Bulgaria has gained all
that it sought in Macedonia and has
good cause to fear the vengeance of
the allies, should they continue the
war and prove victorious.
The allies, on the other hand, have
not gained any of the ends for which
they entered the war. Russia went
in to save Serbia from subjugation,
but both that country and Montenegro
are in the power of the enemy and a
large part of Russia's own territory
Is occupied by hostile forces. When
Turkey Joined the Teutons, Russia
seized the opportunity to annex much
territory in Asia and to gratify the
long-cherished desire for Constanti
nople. Such good progress is being
made in the latter direction that Rus
sia would only abandon it if over
whelming defeat threatened oh the
front from Riga to Czernowltz. France
has sworn to fight until every enemy
is driven from French soil and until
Alsace and Lorraine are recovered.
Britain is pledged not to sheathe the
sword untfl Belgium, Serbia and Mon
tenegro are restored to liberty nor
until the military domination of Prus
sia is destroyed.' Italy has vowed to
rescue unredeemed Italy from the
Austrians. None of these purposes
could" be abandoned without confes
sion of defeat.
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL.
Safety-first appliances and prop
aganda have reduced the number of
automobile accidents to a minimum in
the past five years. The fatal joyride
is now almost as infrequent as train
wrecks, and in the majority of cases
is the result of speeding, carelessness
or intoxication. Yet an occasional
mishap is noted wherein the causes
baffle all efforts to place the reason.
They-are not of the joy-riding variety.
w omen and children, driven by an ex
perienced chauffeur, are hurled into
an abutment or over an embankment
to serious injury or death. The usual
explanation is that the steering gear
gave way. How else account for such
an incident.
A new and probable theory has been
advanced, one well worth repeating as
a warning to auto drivers. Hitherto
baffling mishaps are laid to drowsi
ness on the part of the driver. Not
drowsiness brought on by lack of
sleep. The victim may have arisen
after a dozen hours in bed only to fall
victim to that species of sleepiness
which attacks indoor workers after
several hours, in the open air. The
hum of the machinery with its dull
monotony is calculated to heighten the
tendency toward sleep. Who has not
felt the symptoms? It is not an over,
whelming drowsiness. If the symp
toms were pronounced one would be
warned to shake them off and main
tain a safe alertness. But they creep
over the victim with a subtleness
barely discernible. Gradually the
fingers slip from the wheel. Sud
denly the driver comes to his senses
In the midst of a tragedy which he
cannot prevent. Or if he ls more for
tunate he rights the machine before
it has had time to turn into an abyss
or hillside.
Those who have caught themselves
in the act of dropping a book, or who
have "nodded" in the saddle while
riding in the open air, will accept this
new warning as one to be taken
seriously. Forewarned is forearmed,
and drivers who recognize the possible
danger of being lulled into a moment's
loss of consciousness can be on their
guard against the lurking monster of
unbidden slumber which, no doubt.
has caused many a disaster inside and
outside the realms of automobiling.
BUILDERS Or SHIPS.
The organization of the Peninsula
Shipbuilding Company is one of the
most significant steps in the develop
ment of Oregon, and of Portland in
particular, for several reasons. It
marks an important advance in ex
tending tne lumoer Industry from a
mere sawing up of logs to manufac
ture of lumber into the many finished
shapes in which it reaches the con.
sumer. It means establishment in
Portland of the shipbuilding industry.
which has been' the foundation of the
prosperity of many cities in ancient
as well as modern times. It provides
ships to carry other products of the
sawmills and products of other fac
tories to other ports on both coasts
of the United States and in foreign
countries, and to bring return cargoes
at low transportation cost. '
It is a good beginning at making
Portland a ship-owning center, where
the merchants and bankers profit
both by the earnings and the supply
ing of ships as well as by the com
merce they develop. It marks the
enlistment of the city's principal
bankers and capitalists in the exten
sion of Its industries by direct invest
ment 01 tneir own money. It is a
definite step In making Portland more
than ever an actual seaport and in
making a profitable asset of the mil
lions which the taxpayers have spent
In opening the Columbia and Willam
ette rivers to navigation.
Although Oregon has 20 per cent
of the standing timber of the United
States, and although 65 per cent of
its payroll is distributed among work
era in wood, the lumber industry is
inherently weak through failure to
carry the process of manufacture be
yond its initial stage, except in a few
instances. Shipbuilding will strength
en it at this weak point. It will take
the raw material from the mill close
beside the shipyard and work it into a
finished shape. That principle ap
plied throughout would make the Co
lumbia Basin the center of all manu
facturers of forest products and of a
large population of highly skilled
well paid workmen. It would drive
home to the minds of our people the
central idea that 80 per cent of the
prosperity of this state for at least
fifty years to come depends on
conversion of the trees of Oregon into
a finished product in their home
Shipbuilding is one great link in the
chain of industries which will result
from putting that idea in practice.
YY hat shipbuilding means to a city
we can conceive by looking back into
history. Ancient Tyre owed its great
ness to th ships built from the tim
ber, of Lebanon, on which the Phoeni
cians carried colonists and extended
commerce throughout the Mediter
ranean Sea and along the Atlantic
Coast of Europe to Spain, England
and Ireland. Maine and the other
New England states built ships of
their pine trees and established that
merchant marine which for many
years carried the bulk of our com
merce. Oregon can do what Tyre did
in ancient times and what Bath did
in modern times, for the wooden ship
has come back. Reduction in the
woria s tonnage, estimated at 3 0 per
cent, which has been caused by the
war, has combined with the great de
mand and high price of steel to ren-
der wooden ships necessary. Pert ec
tion of internal combustion engines
for the use of cheap fuel oil has ren
dered feasible the use of these en
gines as auxiliary to sails.
Readiness of the most broad
minded and successful ' business men
of Portland to embark in this Indus
try is proor that it can succeed, not
merely temporarily under the abnor
mal conditions caused by the war, but
permanently after peace has restored
normal conditions. It will succeed
because the greatest forest state is th
logical center of shipbuilding. The
fact that this enterprise was con
ceived by F. C. Knapp, a successful
lumberman, and has been taken up
by the heads of three of Portland
largest banks W. M. Ladd, A. L.
Mills and J. C. Ainsworth; by tw
of the leading manufacturers T. B
Wilcox and Peter Autzen, and bv- on
of Portland's ablest lawyers James
B. Kerr is proof, that it is feasibl
from a business standpoint. It also
clears Portland's financial leaders of
the charge, frequently made, that they
are haraneartea ana ciosensted.
Portland will give new life to
decaying Industry through the enerev
and enterprise of Mr. Knapp and his
associates. The men who are skilled
in building wooden ships are mostly
la the evening of life, but a force will
be assembled here which will revive
the craft. Men skilled in wood
working will be attracted here not
only by the advantages for their in
dustry which Portland will afford,
but by the equable climate, beauti
ful scenery, pure water and all those
civic advantages which make the city
homebuilders' paradise a place
where a man can rear his family in
such surroundings as help to develop
men and women who are a credit to
the city and state.
From ship-building to ship-owning
Is an easy step for the city, and it
should soon be made. The fortunes
of the merchant princes of the middle
ages, of colonial times and of the
early years of the republic were
founded on ship-owning. The busi.
ness leaders of the towns clubbed to
gether to build a ship, each owning
one-fourth, one-eighth or one-sixteenth.
They equipped and supplied
It from their stores and loaded it with
their wares to be sold in foreign ports.
The captain was not only a naviga
tor, but a trader, who sold his cargo
and bought a return cargo. That sys
tem, adapted to modern conditions,
could be followed here by following
Mr. Knapp's suggestion of a regular
line of communication between Port
land and such a port as Philadelphia.
San Francisco merchants pursue that
policy with success and owe to it a
large measure of the port's com
merce.
By building ships here and oper
ating them from here, we can remove
the reproach that we do not use the
great harbor of the Columbia which
nature made in the rough and which
has been improved by the Joint efforts
of the Nation and of its own people,
until it now has facilities for naviga
tion not excelled by New York, Ham
burg or London. All that it needs in
order to become a great port, in fact,
is the commerce to use it on a larger
scale. Mr. Knapp and his associates
are going the right way about sup.
plying what it lacks. One successful
enterprise like theirs will attract
others with little effort on our part,
for the best recommendation of any
Industry is achieved success.
While Controller "Williams has been
slashing at bankers for charging more
than legal rates of interest, another
branch of the same Government has
been charging a poor farmer 1 per
cent a month and threatening prac
tically to ruin him if he did not pay.
The farmer leased irrigated land on
a reservation in the Northwest, but his
crop was entirely destroyed in 1914.
In 1915 he recovered to some extent
and with the aid of local merchants
eased other land, but the United
States Reclamation Service refused to
turn the water into his ditches until
he had paid for the water used in
1914. The merchants advanced the
money, and when the bill was exam
ined they found that the Government
had charged 1 per cent a month from
December 1, 1914, to March 31, 1916.
A rebuke ,from Mr. Williams to the
Reclamation Service is in order.
In view of the imposing evidence of
prosperity presented by the lumber in
dustry, the banks, the shipyards and
the stockyards, any person who men
tions hard times again should be sen
tenced to a term on an island where
he has nobody to talk to except him
self.' That would fit the punishment
to the crime.
Those persons who cry for the ex
termination of dogs because a few be
come infected with rabies should take
note of the service rendered by one
which summoned help to two men dis
abled In the woods near Eugene.
If British Columbia should go dry,
the man who travels along the coast
by land will find it a long way be
tween drinks all the way from the
Oregon-California line to the southern
point of Alaska.
The question of peace Is now a ques
tion of who wants it badly enough to
ask for it first. Each party is wishing
the other would make the request,
being only too eager to grant It.
If the Kaiser can only hold his sub
marines in check, he will now have.
the pleasure of sitting back and seeing
his cousin George V bombarded with
notes by Uncle Sam.
It Is now Germany's turn to protest
against submarine war, if the sink-on-sight
plan should be followed by Brit
ish and Russians in the Baltic Sea.
What is the allied Mediterranean
fleet doing that the Austrians make
bold to send an army by sea from
Flume to Avlona?
Lynch did not belong in Ireland and
cannot become an international inci
dent. Yet his life might be spared.
One important point was settled yes.
terday. Washington County papers
now can devote more space to news.
The dog pound is on the way and
why not locate it at Kelly Butte? The
animals could clean up the scraps.
Olives may be an acceptable gift
from California to Governor Withy-
combe, but no lemons, thank you.
Seattle unionists oppose a prepared
ness parade; nevertheless, in case of
war they would go fast enough.
Mexico Is all settled again. All but
taking Villa, stopping border raids and
establishing law and order.
Business is so good in the Pacific
Northwest that silk-stockinged pas
senger trains are in order.
The men who took themselves se
riously were taken the same way by
the voters and canned.
The war has cost Great Britain
twelve billions, and she has eighty
eight more to spend.
Defeated candidates ought to Join
In a big consolation banquet and swear
allegiance.
Humane week is not over yet. Be
kind today to the gentlemen who' also
ran.
Just whisper to the fairies that the
Rose Show will be due In a few weeks.
Hood River is calling for berry
pickers at pay higher than usual.
The wise candidate went home early
and got a good rest.
An active step -is needed in a pre
paredness parade.
The roses are fragrant and a little
bit rare. ,
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. Kvana.
Questions pertinent to hrilene. sanitation
and prevention of disease, if mattera of sen-
eral Interest, will be answered in thle col
umn, where space will not permit or the
subject is not suitable, letter will be per
aonally answered, subject to proper llmita,
tlona and where stamped, addressed en
velope Is inclosed. Dr. Evans win not make -diagnosis
'or prescribe for Individual dis
eases. Bequests for such aervlce cannot be
answered.
tCopyrlght. 1916. by Dr. W. A. Kvana.
Published by arrangement with the Chlcao
Tribune.)
Spitting- Blood and Consumption.
G. W. had noticed for some time that
he was below par. He felt pretty good
in the morning, but in the afternoon, he
grew tired. listless and perhaps a little
feverish. For a few months he had
noticed a little obugh. not enough,
though, to call for any medicine or for
any attention of any sort, for that
matter. Yesterday afternoon he noticed
a feeling of warmth behind his breast
bone. At the same time he had a salty
taate in his mouth. Then he felt a
tickling In his throat. He coughed
and brought up a few teaspoonaful of
bright red. frothy blood.
This frightened him ao much that ha
turned pale, his handa got cold and
cold perspiration appeared on hia fore
head. Somebody sent for a physician.
The physician examined his nose and
the back of his mouth and told him
the blood came from his chest.
" G. W. was placed in a prone position
and told to keep quiet and he would
be all right. The physician declned to
Klve him any medicine, but told him
to put a few grains of salt on his
tongue several times during the after
noon. Today the physician took a.
sample of sputum for analysis and ex
amined G. W.'s chest carefully. He
exDects. when his examination la
finished, to find that U. W. has fon
sumption. And why? In nine cases out
of ten of spitting of blood, consump
tion is the cause.
The cases of spitting of blood from
the lungs not due to consumption are
divided between pneumonia, congea-
tlon, bronchitis, heart disease, aneur
ism, menstrual trouble and scurvy
Plainly G. W. ia not suffering from
pneumonia, congestion, bronchitis or
scurvy. Examination shows that ne
haa no aneurism. On the other hand
G. W.'s symptoms are exactly those of
earlv consumption.
One out of every 25 cases or con
sumption starts with a silent tern
orrhage. In one out of every six cases
there Is no other symptom. Twice out
of every three cases there Is nothing
to bring on a hemorrhage. The patient
when quiet notices a salty taste, a tick
ling, coughs and up comes a little
blood. The probability is that when
the rhysiclan examined G. w. today he
found that he had some fever, some
ralea were heard In hia chest, and
tubercle bacilli were In his sputum.
So far as the hemorrhage ia con
cerned. he la already over- that. Such
hemorrhagea are never fatal. In fact,
even the copious hemorrhages which
come late In the course of consump
tion are far less dangerous than they
appear.
It is too early to form any opinion
as to what are G. W.'a chances for
cure. He must be watched for a month
or more before an opinion on tn
noint can be formed. However, the
fact that his first symptom was
hemorrhage does not mean that hia
disease will be severe. After this hem
orrhage bis disease will spread notice
ably for a few days, but then 11 win
settle down.
The spitting of blood which comes
on late in the course of some cases la
mora threatening. It indicates that
there are cavities in the lungs. A per
son who has such a hemorrhage is to
be kept quiet and calm. A bit of salt
on hi tongue may help. He should
not be given whisky, aromatic splriti
of ammonia, or any other medicine. It
he is verv much frightened or shocked
a hypodermic of, morphine will quiet
him. If he knows which aide la bleed
ing he should He on that side.
Golfer.
L. B. writes: "I have a large goiter
and have been told that mineral oil la
fine for it and so before trying I want
your advice.. Also, if I have It operated
on. will I have a acar? My doctor says
not to worry about it. but It looKa ter
rible, so please advise me what can be
done. It Is loose and seems to move
around like a ball."
REPLY.
t a think the oil will heln J eu. An
operation will result in a scar. Whether or
not you should be operated on depends on
how nervous you are. how much tremble
you have in your bands, how much jour
heart Is disturbed.
Bran Bread and Genua.
A. Y. writes: "I notice that you rec
ommend the eating of bran bread. Will
you please publish a recipe lor bran
bread and bran gems;
REPLf.
Health bread: One quart bran, one pint of
white flour, one-nair cup moia. oo
. dissolved in a little of tn,
molassrs. one teaspoonful salt, one pint of
good buttermilk. Mix all the Ingredients
well together. Bake in a square or oblong
Bran aoms: Mix a teaspoonful of baking
soda In one-half pint of flour witn inree
quarters teaspoonful salt. Add one pin
coarse bran. Mix six tsblespoonf uls of ino
lu,n In one. half Dint of milk. Stir all to
gether and bake In gem pans In a moderate
oven for -o minutes.
Persistent Sneeslnsr.
St. L. J. writes: "What causes sneez
ing? I mean persistent sneezing.
think I cannot be alone in this expert
ence. An attack will last throughout a
day as many as a dozen or a score o
sneezes In an hour, and has occasion
ally gone into a second day arter
night's rest. The glands flow copiousl
until the head becomes dry and fever
ish. An occasional hot flash will go
over the body at the height or finis
rf thn unell.
"A little dust or sudden change ot
temperature, like frOBty air on going
out of doors, or extra pressure of th
blood about the nose and head, as from
stooping or lifting, or merely tn
change of' bodily position and actlvit
on rising In the morning, is liable t
start the sneezing. After such a epell
there may not be a recurrence for two
or three months. It seems to exhaus
Itself and dry up."
p.Ert-T.
Infection with some of the bacteria whlc
... .Alli, it l trobable that underlyln
the symptom in your rio Is a nasal polyp.
or some oiner oiwmo i j u ui
Toe Many Sex Plays.
rORTLAXD. May 19. (To the Ed
Itor.i I cannot refrain from addln
my word of protest to the already nu
merous ones againat tne ciass ot se
plays we are viewing dally at the
movies. They are undoubtedly a stron
force in educating the young, Inocul
ing new ideas, fostering good or bad
principles in the multitudes that are
drinking them in day by day.
Why. oh. why. therefore, put un
ceasingly these lessons of immoral con
duct before them? Why cannot we In
culcate through this medium the meth
ods whereby the best and lasting hap
piness In life can be obtained?
SUBSCRIBER,
Coat of Killing Tank.
PORTLAND, May 19. (To the Edi
tor.) If I fill a tank 8 feet deep and 9
feet across from a city meter, how
many feet will it hold and how much do
I have to pay the city?
SUBSCRIBER.
If the tank is circular in shape and
Is 8 feet deep and 9 feet In diameter, it
will hold 50S-3 cubic' feet of water and
at the city's TUler rates, would cost 61
cents to fill.
If it is a square tank the answer
cannot be grven because ono of the
dimensions of the tank is not stated in
the inquiry.
OLD FAVORITE OK Ml'SIC LOVERS
Death of Clara Louise Kellers' Moaned
by Many.
PORTLAND. May 19. (To the Edi
tor.) A brief dispatch in The Orego
nian last Sunday Informs the fast-
anlshlng music lovers of last century
c tne aeath ot Clara lxulae iveliogg.
he whose .winsome ways, clear and
sweet voice and correct stage delinea-
ion for many years won and held the
carta of the muslo lovers of Chicago
as did no other singer.
From 1S68 on for 20 years what a
transcendent era In dramatic art and
music with Olio Bull, Parepa and Carl
Rosa. Adelaide Phillips, Christine Nell-
on, Clara Louise Kellogg, Annie Lou
se Cary and Segulnn. with her won-
erful mezzo, and Pattl. in music; Ed-
in Adams. Booth. Barrett. Fechter,
alvina, Irving and others, on the stage
n era of precious memory in this
age ot cold-storage music and drama!
Others had greater range and volume
of voice than Kellogg, but none ex-
elled her In the charms that make a
lovable favorite, and she Justly mer-
ted the homage the Chicago people
gave her.
The memory of "Trovatore." as Miss
Kellogg raised It to an opera of su
preme gradeur, always brings solace
to a music-loving heart long bereft
of other songs than those sung by the
stars, as l.e wandered among the tow
ering helghta of the majestic Rockies
searching for the metal that glitters
and fades, while the beautiful singer
and the song fills his heart with tran
quillity and peace.
Chicago held to her heart. in those
days many brides, but none more
preciously than Clara Louise Kellogg,
the virgin bride of aong.
A. A. LATHROP.
ALL ADVISED TO SEE EXHIBIT
uregron rrednets and reale VIevra on
niaplay for Visitors.
PORTLAND. May 19. (To the Edi
tor.) I am surprised that our people
of Portland are not taking advantage
of the opportunity to see the exhibit
of Oregon's products and scenery main
tained by the state at 69 Fifth street.
one night a week, viz: Wednesday, from
7:30 to 9-.3Q o clock. 1 presume It has
not been sufficiently called to their at
tention. It furnishes a wonderful fund
of knowledge as well as pleasure.
school teachers and their pupils, en
gaged through the day. should embrace
the chance this open night offers.
T. Judd. the state exhibit agent.
Informs me that musical societies or
singing classes would also be welcome.
there being a splendid Oregon-made
piano for use, as well as the first piano
brought to Oregon, made in London 150
years ago.
Ihe exhibit of Oregon woods alone
beautiful myrtle, burl maple, etc. is
well worth a visit. Then, in addition
to the walls being hung with large
pictures of Oregon scenery, a series of
views, in albums, of the Columbia
Highway and other scenes are avail
able for visitors' use.
Messrs. Judd and Dennis take pleas
ure in showing and explaining to visi
tors the various exhibits, and I hope
this brief article may Induce readers
to go and see for themselves on these
open nights. C. B. P.
Ne Dsobt About Error.
Corvallls Gazette.
The reporter on this column made an
error yesterday In stating that Mrs.
Curtis went to Portland to have her
Jaw examined. She went with Vera
Cox to have the Portland specialist
examine Vera's Jaw. Rev. Ourtle aaya:
If you think there is anything wrong
with airs. Curtis' Jaw you would change
your mind very rapidly if you had
heard it work after that Item." We
are Inclined to take Mr. Curtis' word
for it and hereby retract the statement
in full.
Conaolatloa for Him.
New York Time.
Mabel So you asked papa for my
hand? Did he give you any encourage
ment? Arthur Well, no, but he gave
me a drink and a cigar, ao I had no
kick coming.
No Sfeond Time for Him.
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I had no idea she'd accept me the
first time I proposed." "Did you think
ahe "would the second time?" "There
would have been no second time."
May Festival Pictures
In The
SUNDAY OREGONIAN
Tomorrow The Oregonian will publish a double page of pictures
of the May Festival in which 6500 Portland school children par
ticipated last Wednesday on Multnomah Field. It was, perhaps,
the greatest school pageant ever staged in Portland. The Orego
nian. photographer took eome remarkable views of these beautiful
. drills. Don't fail to see them and mail copies of the paper con
taining them to your Eastern friends.
SANTIAGO EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER Eighteen yeara ao this
Summer the little city of Santiago de Cuba was much in the public
eye in these United States. It was there that one of the most im
portant battles of the Spanish-American War was fought. Now
18 years after the war a writer for The, Sunday Oregonian has
visited the place and noted its progress. He has just written a fresh
story of Santiago as it is today and has accompanied it with some
new pictures.
SOCIETY WOMEN'S FREAKISH CLOTHES This war in Europe
has had its effect on almost every human activity. Now it has af
fected society, too. The prevailing fad of society women is to drape
themselves in costumes modeled after the styles most common in
the various countries of Europe. Tomorrow's Oregonian will tell
all about it and show some colored pictures.
THE IRON CLAW Read the eighth episode of the Iron Claw in to
morrow's paper. This is the sensational drama by Arthur Stringer
that is running in The Oregonian in story form and appearing at
the theaters in pictures.
OLD PAINTINGS RESTORED Some of the most valuable paint
ings that the world's master artists have produced may be restored
to public view through a process recently put into use by an Ameri
can. Many pictures that long have been obscured by dust and decay
again are made valuable. Read about it tomorrow.
ALASKA'S RICHEST MINES Frank G. Carpenter now has reached
Cordova, Alaska, where some of the world's richest copper mines
are located. He will tell about them in tomorrow's paper also
show some pictures.
HERBERT KAUFMAN Oregonian readers in great number are tes
tifying to the pleasures and benefits they are getting from Herbert
Kaufman's page of humor and philosophy each Sunday. Are you
one of those who benefit? You can be. Try it tomorrow.
RARE ART WORK The usual standard of art work will prevail in
tomorrow's issue. There will be Donahey's page of Teenie Weenie
pictures, for instance. Then Temple's sketches will be in place again
and four whole pages will be given to the comic series.
MOTION PICTURE NEWS "Movie fans" are finding that The Sun
day Oregonian caters particularly to their wants. Four or five
pages of motion-picture news will be printed tomorrow.
BIRSKY AND ZAPP Montague Glass is up to date in the class of
subjects that he presents through his characters, Birsky and Zapp.
Tomorrow they will give their original views on the Irish revolution.
LATEST SCHOOL NEWS The present school year is drawing near
its close. These are times full of interest in the schoolroom. The
activities of pupils and teachers will be reflected in The Sunday
Oregonian's school page.
PAGE OF POEMS interest in the "old-poem" page is increasing.
People continue to send in their favorites by the score. Another
page will be devoted to their reproduction tomorrow.
DEPARTMENT NEWS All the regular features of the Sunday paper
will be preserved, such as sports, society, the drama, automobiles,
real estate, church news, women's activities, etc.
In Other Days.
Trrenty-flve Years Age.
From The Oregonian of May 20. ISM.
Colonel L. M. Dayton, a prominent
member of the Society of the Army of
the Tennessee, and who. perhaps, was
closest to General Sherman of all his
military family, died at Cincinnati
yesterday.
Colonel Kldredge, revenue agent, who
haa been in Portland for some time, has
left for San Francisco.
At the administrator's sale at the
Courthouse more ' than $70,000 worth
of property of the estate of William
Beck was sold at public auction.
The brick foundation of the new
Magdalen Home, at Hast Twentieth
and Oregon streets, is completed and
the superstructure is up.
Sidney Dillon, president, and S. IT. H.
Clark, general manager of the Union
Pacific, are expected la the city within
a few days.
George Brown, superintendent of the
Hawthorne Railway system, says the
iron for the line will be unloaded from
the ship and construction commenced
at once.
APATHETIC AS TO PREPAREDNESS
Senatorial Indifference aa to Naval Baa
Blamed on People.
PORTLAND, May 19. (To the Ed
itor.) I read wltn a great deal of in
terest an article in The Oregonian re
garding the apathy of the Oregon Sen
ators toward the naval base at Asto
ria. I do not see how one could have ex
pected much more from Senator Lane.
Senator Chamberlain Is the' chairman of
the military affairs committee and un
doubtedly in that capacity keeps in
touch with the actions of the whole
country, and especially of his own
state.
The War Department haa been giving
a series of lectures on "Preparedneaa"
In this city and, although we have over
200.000 inhabitants. 1 do not think that
there were ever more than 100 in the
audience at any of the lectures given
so far and most of these people came
out of curiosity or to create some dis
turbance). Under these circumstances, how could
one expect his Senator to think that
the people of his state really desired a
naval base at Aatoria for the purpose
of making the country better prepared
from a military point of view? Senator
Chamberlain probably thinks that the
people here want the naval base only
to see what money they can get from
the Federal Government. From his
actions of the past few. montha I should
Judge that he had the welfare of the
country decidedly at heart and ao did
not wish to waste any time on this
proposition. HENRT 6. MEARS.
Ballot la Secret.
PORTLAND, May 19. (To the Edi
tor.) A time-honored voter of this city
has Just given me a bit of information
that I sincerely hope Is incorrect. He
tells me that every ticket given out
to voters In an election booth Is num
bered, and that the number, together
with the name of the voter, is record
ed In a book; that this record Is open
to all persons employed In counting the
votes, and that they can ascertain ex
actly how any individual haa voted by
Imply watching for the ticket bear
ing his number. Is this true?
If so. what become! of the vaunted
privacy of the Australian system vt
voting? What prevents an employer,
with money and "pull," from finding
out how an employe has voted? What.
In short, becomes of the so-called free
dom and sacredness of the ballot?
A WOMAN VOTER.
Tour informant Is mistaken. Each
official ballot haa two perforated atube
and on the back of each Is written the
voter'a number. One of these stubs is
torn'off before the ballot is marked,
the other after ballot is marked by
voter, but before it is deposited in the
ballot box. There are no numbers er
distinguishing marks left on the ballot
by which the voter may be identified
thereafter.