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LAST TBAB'S? OR NEXT TEAR'S?
A dissatisfied citizen protests in a
letter against the nomination of Jus
tice Hughes, because "nobody knows
where he stands on preparedness,
watchful waiting-, and the like," and
if he. is nominated "it would certainly
look as if the Republican party is
only after the offices and doesn't care
a cent for policies or principles."
The Oregonian has no warrant to
speak for Justice Hughes, but it is
quite ready to trust" his known Amer
icanism and high idealism to deliver
us from the perplexities and entangle
ments of watchful waiting and) unpre
paredness in which the country has
been involved by President "Wilson. Jus
tice Hughes, by the way, on January
31, 190 8, before the Republican Club
of New York, declared for adequate
preparedness, in a speech heretofore
printed by The Oregonian, For ob
vious reasons be has been silent since.
But where does President -Wilson
etand on anything?
A little over a year ago he publicly
sneered at preparedness; now he
etumips the country for large arma
ment and the greatest fleet in the
world.
Once he was for Panama tolls; later
he was against them.
Once he denounced secret diplo
macy; now he is a secret diplomat.
Once he was for a single term for
President; now he is for another term.
Once he was against a non-partisan
tariff commission; now he publicly
proposes it.
Once he was for free sugar and for
free trade; now he is for a tax on
sugar and for protection againstJ
dumping after the war.
Once he was for civil service; now
he is a principal in the greatest spoils
men's raids by his party since Jack
son's day.- .
Once he iwas against Bryan, then
he took him in with open arms; now
again he is arrayed against Bryan.
Once he was against pork-barrel
legislation; now he signs anything the
pork raiders are able to get through
Congress.
Often he has been against .inter
vention in Mexico, but he" has inter
vened twice; and now he declines to
withdraw the American Army in Mex
ico and will continue to decline, no
doubt, until after the National con
ventions, or a re-election.
President Wilson is for the rights
of Americans on the high seas, and
would go to war to protect them; but
he ignores utterly the just claims of
Americans In Mexico for protection.
and orders them to leave for fear of
war with Mexico.
He talks effusively and eloquently
of our duty to humanity, tout he does
nothing for humanity.
No doubt the Democratic party sup
ports President Wilson because of his
principles and policies.
But what principles and policies?
Last year's? Or this year's? Or next
year's? '
OCR CROWING FOREIGN COMMERCE.
The . course of foreign trade in
March , showed a decided decrease in
exports of crude material for manu
facture and partly manufactured, and
a decided increase in exports of crude
foodstuffs and of manufactures, both
ready for consumption and for fur
ther manufacture. Comparing March
with Fe'bruary in round millions, there
was a decrease from 59 to 41 in crude
materials, from 5 9 to 52 in partly
manufactured foodstuffs, while there
was an increase from 32 to 39 in crude
foodstuffs, from 59 to 64 in manu
factures for further use, and from 179
to 202 in completed manufactures.
The increase of 9 millons in total
domestic exports is due to an increase
in sales of manufactures which was
sufficient'to wipe out all decrease in
other items.
March, compared with February,
imports shows the effects of the war in
increases from 89 to 98 millions in
raw materials, and recovery from the
war's effects on industry is seen m
Increases from 2 8 to 32 in manufac
tured foodstuffs, from 30 to 33 !n
manufactures for further use, and
from 2 6 to 2 9 in finished manufac
tures, while crude foodstuffs show a
slight decrease. Our factories work
up increased quantities of foreign raw
material, but foreign factories increase
their sales to us, though, in a far less
measure than our factories increase
their sales abroad.
But a smaller proportion of our
imports came from Europe, Africa and
Oceania, and a larger proportion
from Asia and other parts of North
America in March than in February.
The total from Europe decreased from
60 to 51 Ms millions, from South Amer
ica from 32 to 31, from Oceania
from 14 to 13 millions, while there are
increases from 48 to 58 millions from
North America, from 32 to 4 4 millions
from Asia and from nearly 8 to nearly
10 millions from Africa. The bulk of
Asia's Increase is to the credit of the
British East Indies, their exports to
this country having swollen from 11
to 20 millions.
Our exports to Europe in March, as
compared with February, increased
nearly 9 millions, reaching the vast
total of over 292 millions, against 231
millions in March, 1915.. To North
America we made a gain of from 60 to
6 6V4 millions, to South America from
15.3 to 16.2, and to Africa Trom 3.8
to 4.5, but Asia shows a decrease from
31 to 24, and Oceania from 9.2 to 7.6
millions. The allies are still our best
customers, France having increased
purchases from 63 to 76 millions, Rus
sia from, 10.8 to 11.2, Italy from 16
to 18, but Britain shows a decrease
from 157.2 to 147.9, probably a conse
quence of government restrictions on
imports of luxuries. Among neutrals
which continue -dealings with Ger-
many, Denmark has a decrease from
5.3 to 4.8 millions, the Netherlands a
decrease from 11.7 to 10.3, Norway an
increase frorn 3.8 to 6.7, and Sweden
an increase irom. to minions
Direct sales to the central empires
have practically ceased, nothing hav
ing been , exported to Germany and
only $460 worth to Austria. Sales to
Spain almost held their own, having
almost doubled those of March, 1915.
Among Latin-American countries,
Mexico increased purchases by $800,
000, Cuba by $1,500,000, Argentine by
nearly as much, Brazil by over $400,
000, but Chile showed a decrease from
3 to 1 millions.
For the nine months of the fiscal
year ending March, 1916, as compared
with the same period of the last fiscal
year, our exports to all grand divisions
show an enormous increase, Europe
from 1371 to 2096 millions. North
America from 347 to 509, South Amer
ica from 63 to 129, Asia from 76 to
157, Oceania from 53 to 74 and1 Africa
from 21 to 32 millions, while the grand
total has increased from 1931 to 2997
millions. If our total for each of the
three remaining months of the fiscal
year holds up to the March total, the
year's exports will approach 4 bil
lions, and the favorable balance of
trade will exceed two billions.
FOB THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE.
The School Board appears to have '
dismissed Manual Training Supervisor
Kerchen for the broad reason that it
was for the "good of the service."
Kerchen entertained and expressed
radical and unorthodox views on many
subjects. The charges ( against him
were that he was unpatriotic infidel,
Socialistic and altogether troublesome;
but they were not wholly sustained.
Yet it is not vigorously denied that, he
was not in accord with the accepted
views of theology, science and gov
ernment. .-
The Constitution of the United
States declares that "no 'religious test
shall ever be required as' a qualifica
tion to any office of public trust under
the United States"; and the constitu
tion of the state of Oregon has it that
no religious test shall be required as
a qualificalon for any office of trust
or profit." It would seem that the
people of Portland just now need to
be sharply reminded of the certain
rights and privileges of public office
holders. We do not assume that Kerchen has
been dismissed because as an individ
ual he had heretic religious opinions
or no opinions. He had lost the re
gard and confidence of teachers under
him, and he was not careful in his
classes to confine himself to the study
in hand. If he was not a capable in
structor, or if he permitted his private
opinions or special prejudices to in
trude themselves in his classes, he had
lost his usefulness. For the "good of
the service" he was released.
But we wonder if the teachers who
moved against Kerchen and other
teachers who sympathized with them
would be willing to have restored to
the School Board its former power
to remove any teacher . or principal
"for the good of the service," with
or without specific charges against
them?
RIDICULOUS CAJfDIDACr.
The Oregonian felicitates the peo
ple of Oregon upon the gratifying fact
that through the convenient medium
of its columns the great unknown who
is now the so-called popular choice of
the Republican primary for Vice
President at last reveals his identity.
It had -been known before that his
name, was William Grant Webster, of
Illinois; but that is all.
It appears that the Honorable Web
ster is a lawyer and a graduate of
Harvard, and that he is an indefat
igable seeker of public office, for
he has been three times a candidate
for United States Senator, with the
unvarying result that the people of
Illinois preferred some other. It was
not until he ventured to submit his
name in far-off Oregon to an unsus
pecting electorate that anything like
success crowned his unwearied efforts
There are other illuminating inci
dents of the Honorable Webster's ca
reer which we find mentioned in the
New York Evening Post. That vera
cious newspaper declared that, whilst
he was a candidate in Oregon, he of
fered himself for the Presidency in
Minnesota and Nebraska. "There were
other, candidates in those states, and
of course Webster was beaten. But
In Oregon, alas! no other name was
on the ballot for Vice-President and
he obtains the nomination by default.
Now the Oregon delegation at Chi
cago is under nominal instruction to
vote for Webster for Vice-President.
But it is a burlesque of a real instruc
tion; for no one will rise to say that
there is a genuine sentiment here for
the notoriety-hunter who sneaked his
way into a nomination.
A reasonable case that Webster is
not' the choice of Oregon could be
made in the face of the returns. In
Multnomah County, where there were
cast about 40,000 Republican votes,
the total for Webster is about 18,500,
or less than one-half. In other words,
the Chicago butter-in was defeated
here by the blank and scattering votes.
which exceed his total. In the state
at-large, when the official figures are
announced, the same situation will
substantially appear.
But it is upon no such technical
construction of the primary law that
The Oregonian bases its contention
that the cheeky stranger W ebster is
not entitled to any consideration from
Oregon. It is upon the unquestionable
facts. His Alleged nomination is a
travesty upon the law and a perver
sion of the real intent of the people,
for they cannot be said to have desired
his nomination or to have had any
interest to bring it about.
The plain course for the Oregon
delegation at Chicago is to Ignore the
Webster candidacy in order that the
people of Oregon may not be made
ridiculous, just as Webster by his ab
surd candidacy has made the law ri
diculous. SAYING DAYLIGHT.
Saving daylight seems to be the
newest conservation fad held up as a
bait to set the people seriously about
the task of fooling themselves. Eng.
land has adopted the idea, not at all
new, of setting the clock ahead. Her
purpose was to get her people to work
earlier and .perhaps give them an ex
tra hour in the soft evening sunshine
for recreation, at a time when' the
nation's nerves were taut with the
stress of war. A deeper reason or ex-
cuse might have been, to synchronize
her days with those in the heart of
Europe where the war is fiercest, or
to minimize hours of danger from
Zeppelin raids. "The exigencies of the
occasion may be the valid excuse for
England saving at the spigot in order
to spend at the bunghole of the day
The valid excuse lor America, espe
cially Pacific Coast America, turning
the clock ahead is not so easily found
Vigilant Senators at Washington,
and not a few cities, Portland among
them, have undertaken to advance
time in one way or another for the
benefit of the common people. As a.
people, we do not get up early enough
Therefore we must be ousted artifi-
cially out of bed in the morning in
order that we may take our rest at
the other end of the day by sunlight.
We have become so lazy the common
people of us that scientific faddists
will now enable us to stir from bed
ust as we are getting our beauty
sleep, and will hustle us to sleep again
just when the quietness of evening
and the softening, shades of night
bring surcease from the busy day. If
we have recreation we must hurry it
nto the early evening hours by sun
light.
What a travesty this must be for
the millions of mothers who are up
now before the day dawns and who
cannot conscientiously go to their
couch until the daughters are in for
the night. The day Is not long enough,
for her. The shopgirl who now pokes
her way to work through the bright.
invigorating morn must arise an hour
earlier and poke her way through the
dark, advancing day, in order that she
may take her recreation earlier and
perhaps longer at night. She will feel
so like playing tennis when she is
through; or like taking a. hike through
the woods when her day's work is
done! Yes, indeed! Some way must
be devised so that she can get in these
hours of recreation on an advanced
scale. The farmer who now is up be
fore Dobbin has snatched his forty
winks and who does a good day's work
before the cock crows, is to be hur
ried into the field a few minutes after
midnight in order that he may sit on
his porch in the afternoon and drink
tea. At least, this must come to pass
if the advanced hourlsts have their
way.
We are told this artificial system of
iving an -hour ahead of ourselves will
save gas and electricity bills. If that
would be the result it would be one
argument in its favor, but the disad
vantages, the general confusion and
the moral effect would far outweigh
even that.
If there is any good reason why the
Pacific Coast, where our days are long
on light, should by any modification
advance the clock an hour, it is not
easily apparent. The benefit to the
few would be lost in the confusion to
the many. It is a sad commentary on
civilization if,- after twenty centuries,
we find ourselves spurred on to an ar
tificial alarm-clock system of arousing
ourselves from the morning lethargy.
DAXCEKS OF THE GOLF COURSE.
Beware of the golf course! A new
and frightful danger haunts the inno
cent expanses of green. Golfer's foot,
a distortion that makes one fretful
and unlovely, is the latest discovery
of medical science. A San Francisco
surgeon makes- the disclosure in the
New York Medical Journal. He finds
that the distortion comes from a
broken arch. The strain of turning as
one poses for a drive is more than
the pedal extremity can stand, espe
cially since many golfers fail to use
the entire front part of the foot. He
notes that some golfers turn on the
inside of the foot so as to rest the
weight on the anterior portions or the
fulcrum of the big toe. This is cer
tain to develop a large blister on the
inner side of the great toe. In play
ing or walking with the toes out the
metatarsal of the great toe is the only
one used as the fulcrum and hence
the others become weakened from
lack of employment.
It is hoped that the warning does
not come too late. No doubt many
golfers already suffer from golfer's
foot without knowing it. Some may
even be afflicted with golfer's feet.
At any rate, they can console them
selves tnat the symptoms, so far as
revealed, are not so serious as ath
lete's heart, smoker's nerves, office
worker s stomach or any of the mul
titudinous ailments that lurk in every
nook and cranny of the medical jour
nals. Moreover, the corrective and
cure are simple. Simply walk and play
with the toes straight to the front, we
are told, and make possible a proper
functioning of muscles and ligaments.
Then golf will ose the only menace
that has ever been discovered and be
come the staunch ally of sound health
FASHION AND FITNESS.
Fashion should not be reviled here
after by thoughtless moralists, for if
all that Dr. Dudley Sargent says is
true Dame Fashion is the greatest
guardian of National fiber in these
days when the tendency is towards
flabbiness of physical flimsiness. Dr,
Sargent is director of physical educa
tion at Harvard, and he attributes the
rising tide of physical fitness to the
influences of fashion more than to
any other force at work In the coun
-try today. People want to be thinl
because it is fashionable to be thin
The only way to become thin and stay
thin is through exercise. Hence the
Increasing popularity of physical exer
else.
Millions of people are engaged in
trying to keep their avoirdupois to a
minimum, and all because of fashion
So the doctor tells us, and he adds
that exercise is the only hope of those
who would be . reasonably thin and
syipn-nne. casting may take off a
few pounds, but it injures the health.
Besides, the moment one renews a
normal diet layers of fat reappear.
Exercise, constant exercise, burns the
fat, and so is gradually adopted as
their own salvation by v those who
would escape rotundity and excess
weight. If it happened to be fashion
able for one to appear beefy, Dr. Sar
gent confesses that people would be
trying Just as hard to take on weight,
out lasnion turns to leanness with a
persistence that gives promise of per
manence.
In the earlier and more hardy days
of the country there was less swivel-
chair activity and more use of brawn
in forests and frontier. The result was
a manly, vigorous people, who were
fit mentally, physically and morally
But with the changing course of civil!
zation the securing of a livelihood has
become easier, and millions of people
work with their brains rather - than
with their brawn. What influence, in
deed, would force people to keep their
bodies fit and lean unless some such
vanity as fashion? All homage to
Dame Fashion, guardian and cos to
dian of firm biceps and trim waist
lines, which are at the foundation of
strength tin any race of people!
BEEF AS A LCXfRV.
While Germans are on a restricted
beef diet by governmental edict, Amer
ica Is faced by the same emergency as
a matter of necessity. Beef is becom
ing-. a rich man's luxury, and unless
there is a readjustment of supply and
demand meat bids fair to become i
once-a-week luxury for people of or
dinary means. lake the price per
hundredweight of live cattle at the
Chicago stockyards. Today it' is
little more than-$9, as compared with
$6 in 1911. The packer's profit is
approximately $2.50 on each beef crit.
ter slaughtered, and when it is dellv-
ered to the local middleman at J.5
cents a pound, with waste to. come
out, he must. charge a stiff retail price
order to make ends meet.
Who is getting the profit? The
farmer denies the impeachment. He
must pay more for his feed. The oth
ers' likewise enter denial. Each in
turn must pay a higher price, begin-1
ning "with the , packers and ending
with the ultimate consumer. The high
price of meat must be due to the
disappearance of the vast grazing
grounds of a dozen years ago which
have been claimed by agriculture. Cat
tle no longer graze a thousand hills
in one vast herd. They must be fed
on hay and alfalfa. Inasmuch as the
Anglo-Saxon civilization has been
built up by meat-fed beings, the pros
pect of a non-resisting, dreamy race
of vegetarians is not pleasant to con
template. Perhaps a solution for the beef
problem can be found in intensive
stockraising. Intensive agriculture has
done wond-ers in increasing the food
supply of a rising human tide. Al
falfa, six tons to the acre, grown on
stock farms which specialize in stock
raising, may ultimately reduce meat
to the diet of the common people.
A man named Fiske, postmaster at
Dallas after years of superhuman ef
fort to land a Federal Job, or any job
with good pay and little work, (writes
down from Dallas to say that some
years ago The Oregonian made a gross
blunder in its election returns by an
nouncing "with big headlines" the de
feat of Frank Benson to be Secretary
of State. -"A few of us," writes Fiske.
'were spending the evening (of pri
mary election day) at Keith's restau
rant. . . . By 2 o'clock the next
morning -we went home satisfied by
our figures that Benson had carried
the state." Keith was a great caterer.
No gentleman who partook of his
bountiful hospitality ever went away
unrefreshed. Politicians iwho lingered
until after midnight never failed to
leave with the benignant feeling not
only that they had carried the state
but the entire earth. On the cold,
gray dawn of the morning after, when
they read The Oregonian, they may
have had to modify their claims; but
no one ever felt like blaming the at
tentive Keith. Incidentally, it may be
remarked that The Oregonian made
no such, statement" about Mr. Benson,
in big headlines or otherwise.
The Irrigation project voted into
existence in Malheur County last weekJ
will put 25,000 acres under cultiva
tion in the Malheur Valley. WitX" men
like Mallett and Halliday in control
it will succeed. These'men have given
thirty years to practical work in that
region and can avoid the mistakes
that swamp these projects.
Old Statistics at Washington figures
that foodstuffs Increased 1 per cent
during a month" awhile back, but
"eggs, milk, flour and. potatoes were
cheaper. With those staples, and
salt to season them, what more can
a body want?
Carranza has decided not to send a
note to the United States demanding
withdrawal of American troops. Prob
ably feels that it is unwise to take any
chances of precipitating trouble these
arduous days of political campaigning.
The Kaiser has missed a lot by wait
ing until late in life for his first ride
on a streetcar. He might now be a
different man if he had ridden much
on the front end and obtained ad
vanced views from "the mote." "
There are Americans in the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and they are for prepared
ness. So. too, there are In other unions
and they will be in the parade. If they
nave to iaii in as individuals.
Get the woodpiles off the curbs.
When the roses come out and the
crowds arrive for the Festival the
general effect will be better if there
are no cordwood blotches here and
there.
White House employes will march
in a preparedness parade. A division,
no doubt, could be recruited for a
whlte-reather parade of peace prop
agandists as well.
'" Advice to British Consuls to keep
out of American politics is not needed.
The lesson of long ago, when the Am
bassador put in both feet, Js not for
gotten.
v hat is a little delay in receiving
mail to missing a parade of the car
riers? Everybody in favor, hold up
his hand! That's right; the ayes have
it!
It is planned to nominate Mr,
Hughes first. Mere matter of de
tail. ''Hughes is the man, regardless
of the order of his nomination.
A Municipal Judge in Chicago ad
vises pedestrians not to cross a street
"in front of or behind a car." Just
sidestep, as it were.
If there's anything in autogastron,
omy, the half-million . rabbits from
New Zealand ought -to put the Brit
ishers on tha run.
An all-woman Jury reached a ver
dict after three hours. Must have
been some strong counter attraction
for that evening.
A little objection to the prepared
ness parade will serve merely to swell
the ranks of that popular demonstra
tion.
It was not a disgraceto be captured
by Mosby, for he was" a. raider who
took the long chance and generally
won.
It is inhumane to kill a burglar in
ordinary time, but there is an open
season during the Rose Festival.
Greek-Bulgarian pact started, says
a headline. Impact is the word that
seems to meet the facts.
Are there enough flowers in the
world to decorate the graves in Eu
rope? Don't talk about rare days in June
Give them to us well done by a broiling
sun.
A few days of sunshine and Port
land will be one great bower of roses.
Parents whose children play with
matches are generally the, sufferers.
As the great week draws nigh the
weather promises to relent.
' Now, 'Mr. Beals, nothing but "fair
and warmer will satisfy.
Does the Spirit of '61 revive?
watch it Saturday night.
Just
Now for the Rose Festival.
Hew "straight to Hughes!
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. Evans.
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
nd prevention of disease, if matters of gen
eral Interest, will be answered in this col
umn. Where space 'will not permit or the
subject Is rot suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped, addressed en
velope is inclosed. fr. Evans win not maks
diagnosis or prescribe tor 'individual dis
eases. - Requests for such service cannot be
answered.
(Copyright. lf16. by Dr. "VT A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
Cancer Signs,
IN the "Mortality From Cancer
Throughout the World," by Fred
erick L. Hoffman, we find reproduction
of a notice in regard to cancer issued
by the health department of Forts-
mouth, England:
First Cancer in its early stage gives
rise to no pain or symptom of ill health
whatever. (At the time when shooting
pains manifest themselves in a cancer
the disease is moderately advanced.)
Second Nevertheless, in its common
est situations, the signs of it in Its
early stages are conspicuously manifest.
To witness:
Third In case of any swelling occur
ring in the breast of a woman after 40
years of age a medical man should be
at once consulted. A large proportion
of such swellings are cancer.
f ourthjr Any wart or sore occurring
spontaneously on the lower lip of a man
over 45 years of age is almost certain
ly cancer. If removed at once cure is
certain. If neglected the result is in
evitably fatal.
Fifth Any sore or swelling occur-
lng on the tongue or inside of the
mouth in a man over 45 years of age
should be submitted to investigation
without a moment's delay and the de
cision at once arrived at by an expert
microscopical examination whether it
is cancer or not. A very large propor
tion of such sores or swellings occur
ring at this time of life are cancer and
if neglected for only a few weeks the
result is almost Inevitably fatal. If re
moved at once the prospect of cure is
good.
Sixth Any bleeding occurring from
the bowel after. 45 years of age, com
monly supposed by the public to be
piles, should be submitted to investiga
tion at once. A large proportion of
such cases are cancer, which at this
stage is perfectly curable.
Seventh when warts, moles or other
growths on the skin are exposed to con
stant irritation they should be immedi
ately removed. A large number of
them, if neglected, terminate In cancer.
Eighth Avoid Irritations of the
tongue and cheeks by broken., jagged
teeth and of lower lip by clay pipes.
Many of these irritations, if neglected.
r terminate in cancer.
Ninth Although there is no evi
dence that cancer Is communicated un
der ordinary circumstances, it-is desir
able that rooms occupied bya person
suffering from cancer should be cleaned
and disinfected from time to time.
Dr. Eugene R- Kelly, of the Massa
chusetts Board of Health, thinks that
by educating on six points we can re
duce the cancer rate 83 per cent. The
points are:
First Early cancer Is curaoie.
Second Pain is a late symptom.
Third Any irritation in the body Is
worthy of investigation.
Fourth Any lump In the breast and
any discharge from the pelvic organs
after the menopause.
Fifth Any external sore, especially
on the Up. should be examined.
Sixth Delayed surgery, not surgery.
is the risk.
Fain In Backbone.
A. D. A. writes: "I am a boy 19 years
of age and am well only for a continu
ous pain in the bottom or ray back.
Now, I take good care of myself and
am worried as to what causes it. I
sell papers for a living and get up at
4 and work till 11, then I have a nap
from 12 to 3, and work again from 4
till 7. I am usually in bed by 9 at
niirht. Am 5 feet 2 inches tall and
would also like to grow a little. Would
like to know what causes the pain and
what to do for it."
REPLY.
Pain at the end of the backbone In most
cases is a sign of fatigue. You work seven
hours in the morning, rest, then work four
in the afternoon, then rest nine. You havs
11 hours of work. In the remaining; 13
hours you must set in your sleep, toilet.
meals, play, and perhaps some little chores
and other work. That Is too mucn lor a
19-year-old boy. You need shorter working
hours and more hours for recreation. When
you set them your pain will stop. There is
not much you can do to increase your height.
Exercise and plenty of sood food are about
the only helpful agents.
Sweaty Feet.
K. K. writes: "Am on my feet 12 hours
a day working Indoors and am bothered
with sweaty feet. At the end of the
day my stockings are soaked with
sweat and my feet have a foul odor. I
have heard It was injurious to stop it.
1. Do you think so? 2. If not. can
you please advise something for me to
do?"
REPLY.
1. No. -
2. Alcohol, one quart: sallcylio acid, on
tablespoonful. Mix. Wash the feet night
and morning. Iry well. Then apply the
above solution.
Moles.
Miss M. IT. writes "Will you-kindly
tell me the cause of mole or liver spots
on the face, and if there is arfytbing
that will remove them without Injuring
the skin?"
RBPL.Y.
Nobody knows the cans of either moles or
liver spots. Moles should be removed com
pletely by the knife or else they should be
left alone. Halfway treatments are danger
ous. Liver spots should not be treated.
Nothing can be done for them.
Negative Test.
E. D. L. writes: "Kindly publish:
When one's blood is said to be negative
can party have disease of man?"
REPLY..
I judge you titv had a Wasserman teat of
your blood and the result is negative. You
then aek if this means that yon are free
from syphilis. It means that probably you
have not syphilis. There is a possibility that
you have the disease, but it is Inactive If
it Is present.
No Good.
A F. M. writes: "Kindly give your
opinion of sulphur and cream of tartar
as a Spring tonic."
REPLY.
No good.
- TWO CITIES.
(Lone Kir Cemetery.)
There's a silent city yonder
Just beyond the busy street.
Friends come oft with roses laden
. Oft they come, but. none can greet.
Here they sleep, the high and lowly.
Rich and poor here equal mate.
Hushed are all their stone-built
dwellings.
Vines o'ergrow each bolted gate.
S,hips sail past this silent city.
But their masters quiet lie.
Heeding not the call or signal
Floating 'neath the glowing sky.
Here, the maiden long has slumbered.
Garbed in simple snow-white dress;
Tresses flowing free, unheeded
None come hither to caress.
There are flowers blooming e?er,
Near their marble mansions white.
And the bells of near-by city.
Peal out softly thVough the night.
Tet they waken not these sleepers
They who're gathered In this fold
While the river flows between them.
These two cities growing old.
JUNE MMILLAN ORE) WAT.
VICE-PRESIDENCY SEEKER WRITES
William Grant Webster, Thsaking Ore
gon. Voters. Tells here He Stands.
William Grant Webster, of Chicago,
whose name, at his own request, was
placed on the ballot for the Oregon
primary election May 19. and who ac
cordingly received the. vote of many
Republicans and. because there was no
other name on the ballot for the ofifce.
became the nominal Republican choice
for Vice-President, has sent to The
Oregonian a statement with the re
quest that it be published. Mr. Web
ster says the statement was prepared
for the official pamphlet, but was re
called when it became known that he
had r.o rival for the nomination. The
statement is:
"To thn People of Oregon: My feel
ing toward the people of Oregon and
of the Pacific Coast is one of deep
gratitude and thankfulness. The whole
Nation owes you a debt that will in
crease with the coming years. But for
your sturdy stand and that of all the
people of the Pacific Coast against
Asiatic Immigration, the western third
of this Republic would today be peo
pled cr lefly by men of the Mongolian
and not of the Caucasian race. It would
have an Oriental and not a Western
civilization. Not because of any sup
posed inferiority to the Anglo-Saxon
should the Chinese and the Japanese
be excluded. They are not Inferior.
But because they are of an alien race
and of another civilization they should
not be permitted to make a home in
this country, to take root in our soil,
to participate in our Government or to
intermarry with our people. Rigid ex
clusion of Asiatics should continue to
be our policy; and on this you can
count with confidence upon my sup
port. "I stand for National preparedness.
Neither dislike of Germany nor dread
of militarism should deter us from
profiting by the example of German
efficiency, or from avoiding the mis
takes of British neglect. We should
have r, standing Army strong enough
for all ordinary requirements but
capable of qsick expansion to meet
any emergency that may arise. To se
cure these, universal military service,
with the burden of service divided
equally among all. is preferable to the
slow process of voluntary enlistment
in time of peace or the violent con
scription of wartime. Armament and
munitions must be provided, and the
means for making them in unlimited
quantities, and of transporting men
and materials rap'dly to any point Of
danger. Our Navy, called our first
line of defense, should equal that of
our strongest rival; and our aviation
corps, wholly inadequate, should be in
creased and trained to the highest
efficiency.
"American citizenship abroad has
never before fallen to such low es
tate In a weak neighboring country
our citizens are wantonly murdered,
and Into the harbors of another our
ships are taken and searched, with
scarcely a-protest from our Govern
ment "Ifavor full interventionvin Meilco
and its control by the United States
until completely pacified, and until the
lives and property of American citi
zens and of other foreigners are ren
dered safe. Our implied duty under
the Monroe Doctrine will not be ful
filled by a mere punitive expedition
against the- individual Villa.
"I favor every reasonable encour
agement to the development of our
merchant marine, to the end that we
may be put in more direct communi
cation with distant markets for the
disposal of our surplus products. At
the present time we should permanent
ly extend our commerce with neutrals
in preference to a transitory trade
with bellige.ents which must abruptly
end with the return of peace.
"I favor a permanent, non-partisan
tariff commission, with authority to
investigate differences in the cost of
production at home and abroad, and to
report its findings to Congress.
"I an. first and last an American. I
have lived nearly 300 years in America,
I and my ancestors. I am descended
in the ninth generation from Governor
John Webster, who came over from
England in 1632, and four years later
became one of the seven founders of
Hartford, Connecticut. Twenty years
later, in Cromwell's time, he became
Governor of the colony. My mother was
also of English descent. I was born
in Kingston. Illinois, where my father
was a minister of the Methodist Epis
copal Church. My parents wore both
Dorn in (Jhto. I ant a graduate fro
Harvard University and from the Co
lumbia Law School. Later I became
associated with the law office of
Robert T. Lincoln, in Chicago, shortly
after . Mr. Lincoln's retirement as
Minist-r to Great Britain.
"I am well known in Illinois, where
I have been three times a candidate
for Lnited States Senator, and where,
in the primary of 1914. as a candidate
for Congressman-at-Large I carried
Chicago and Cook County, with its ten
Congressional Districts. If elected
Vice-President I promise to preside
with fairness over the deliberations of
the United States Senate, and if I be
come President I will not be afraid to
act.
"I have long been a great admirer of
Justice Hughes. I have known him for
a number of years.
"WILLIAM GRANT WEBSTER."
RESULTS AT COXVEXTIOX FIRST
Defeated Candidate t.ooka to Work Col
Out for Chosen Delegates.
DETROIT, Mich., May 21. (To the
Editor.)! have a copy of The Orego
nian of May 21. I today" learned the
results of the Oregon primaries.
rwlsh to thank most kindly the many
friends who so loyally supported me in
my absence from the state and whose
efforts in my behalf could not have
been more sincerely appreciated had
I been elected. With ten in the race
all could not hope for election. Natur
ally, I should have preferred being
one of the two to being one of the
larger family of eight, but It seems
a majority of the voters of the Third
District could not get alphabetically
beyond "H," or had in a measure ex
hausted themselves, and little is the
wonder, before reaching "M." Be that
as it may, I wish heartily to congratu
late Messrs. Hoyt and Hotchklss on be
ing the successful two-tenths or the
field. May these two gentlemen, aided
by the Oregon delegation as a unit, be
the means of nominating for Presi
dent a Republican who will carry the
united party to a decisive victory in
November one who will safely guide
the affairs of our glorious country
through the threatening crisis to
honored peace and a tranquil prosper
ity. I promise allegiance to the choice
of the convention.
I have visited many cities since leav
lng Portland April 24. but for life and
activity this city (Detroit) is far In
the lead. The mad rush for the mighty
dollar throughout fairly makes one's
head whirl, and the query arises?-How
long can it last? Machinery that sold
for $700 in normal times is now being
eagerly contracted for on IS months'
delivery at $2700. It surely looks like
an awful bump for many. When the
change comes, which it must. Uncle
Sam will require a cool, collected busi
ness head, free from politics.
A. LINCOLN MACLEOD.
Proposing and Marrying.
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Vine Do you favor women pro
posing? Mrs. Oaks Certainly not.
When a woman picks out a man she
should make him propose.
Saturday.
CONDON, Or., May 29. (To the Edi-tor.)-W'hat
day of the week was June
9. 1S94. D. DUTHIU.
In Other Days.
"Twenty-live Yearn Ago. -
From The Oregonian of slay SI, ISM.
Berlin. May 30. The Saale Zeltung
states that Von Moltke, just prior to
his death, concluded an exhaustive
study of European armaments, ending
with the assertion that France was
ready for war and Russia nearly as.
and that a great conflict could not be
delayed beyond 1892. -
Johnstown. Pa.. May 30. The day
here was doubly sad. being observed
both in honor of dead soldiers tis la
mourning for thousands lost In the
flood of two years ago.
The tight against consolidation la
solely the fight of municipal gangs.
backed by those who take toll at the
crossings of the river.
Victoria, B. C. May 30. Victoria seal
ers today cabled to Sir Charles Tupper
their protest against the passage of
the bill to close Behring Sea for a
year, now before the British House of
Commons.
Put an end to gang rule: vote for
consolidation.
Half a Ceat-nry Ago.
Prom The Oregonian of May SI. 1SS.
Only five daya now remain of this
campaign. The enemy have been
worsted In the argument everywhere.
Loyal men fought and soundly thrashed
the rebels who took up arms. Now to
the ballot box and soundly drub the
confederates or rebels who stared at
home.
The piledriver was employed yester
day in making improvements at the
Last Portland landing for the ferry
boat. The presentation of an Irish flag to
the Fenian Guard by the ladies of Port
land, which was to have taken place
this evening at Oro Flno Hall, has been
postponed till some time next week.
There is a message for John S. Meggs
at the telegraph office.
Councilman O. P. S. Plummer ten
dered his resignation as a member of
the Council at the regular weekly
meeting last night, which, on motion,
was laid on the table.
We are told that crickets are mak
ing their appearance in large numbers
in the Walla Walla Valley. The farm
ers fear they will greatly injure or
utterly destroy their crops.
MEMORIAL DAY MEMORIES.
JAMES BARTON ADAMS.
Aged and grizzled and gray he stands.
The old flag clasped la his loyal hands.
His eyes, no longer of youthful sight.
Seem burning again with the old war
light.
His thoughts wing back to the daya
when he
Marched beneath that banner to
victory. "
Tis the flag he followed amid the roar
And the fire and the crash and the
shock of war.
Again can he hear the wild rebel yell
Arise from the maw of a fire-fringed
hell.
Again does he hear the defiant notes
Of response from a legion of comrades'
thoats.
Again is he seeming to gasp and choke
In the vapory billows of powder smoke.
Again does he witness the plashing
blood
Spring forth from its fount in a
crimson flood.
Again is he gazing at cold dead eyes
And their sightless stare at the war
rent skies.
He sees grave trenches by which he
stood.
The dead piled "round them as corded
wood.
He sees the black buzzards soar over
head. Their greedy eyes on the ricks of dead.
No priest nor parson was there to pay
A tribute to heroes they laid away.
No flowers were laid on the soldiers
biers.
No loved ones hallowed the trench with
tears.
No kind hands coffined the forms that
fell
In the fiery breath from the lungs of
hell.
As their elbows touched In the bat
tle's blast.
So they touched In the trench as they
lay at rest.
And these were the comrades long
passed away
Whose memory hallows Memorial day.
For them do these grateful hands of
ours
Twine garlands of nature's fairest
flowers.
And for those who answered the
trumpet call
Since the days of battle our teardrops
fall.
They, too. were ready and willing to
yield
Their lives for the flag on the war
swept field.
Memorial day! 'Tis a sacred name
On the lips of heroes of war-won fame.
And till generations have come and
' gone.
Till time fades into eternity s dawn.
Till the last son of Freedom has passed
away. - , .
Twill be honored, revered, as It is to
day. Submarines and Mines.
NEWBERG. Or.. May 29. (To the
Editor.) Can" you give me through
vour paper the cost of modern sub
marines and mines? This is of course
in the United States.
LO YD W. EDWARDS.
Submarine craft cost from $235,000
to 1885.000, according to type and use
for which they are designed. Fleet
submarines cost between $600,000 and
$900,000; coast defense types between
$225.0)0 and $400,000 each. The cost
of mines varies from a few hundred
dollars up to $5000 or more. Some very
crude ones have been built at small
cost.
The Light in the
Window
Mr. Storekeeper, you can frequent
ly use newspaper advertised prod
ucts as the light by which to gulds
customers to your store.
When brands are newspaper ad
vertised that you carry in stock
put them in your window.
Put them there while the manu
facturers' newspaper advertising is
running.
This tiea your store up with the
newspapers and gives you an extra
pull on its readers.
It brings you business snd at the
same time encourages the manufac
turer to extend his newspaper advertising.