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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. 1916.
THE INDICTMENT OK CARRANZA.
Secretary Lansing's note to General
Carranza is about as stern an indict
ment as one government ever ad
dressed to another. It makes a long
series of charges of bad. faith and hos
tility against the Mexican ruler. It
proves incontestably that Carranza and
liis officers have broken every promise
to run down bandits, have counten
anced the escape of Villa's band, have
obstructed our efforts at capture of
the murderers and have permitted the
organization of raiding parties under
their very noses without a move to
prevent Incursions Into our territory.
It proves that, while our Government
has afforded every facility to Carranza
for military operations against his
enemies and has shown unbounded
patience under great provocation, he
has requited us hy shielding the mur
derers and plunderers of our citizens
and the violators of our territory.
This dispatch fully justifies the
United States in using its entire mili
tary force to put an end to border
outlawry by running down every band
in the northern states of Mexico. If
Carranza and his Generals carry out
their threats to oppose these opera
tions, we shall be Justified in treating
them as the chiefs of all the bandits
and in making relentless war on them
until their power is completely de
stroyed. This implies like pursuit of
Zapata and all other chieftains who
have been marking a hell of Mexico un.
tier pretense of patriotism and reform.
The work cannot be completed until
Mexico is fully subdued. It will then
be our duty to do for Mexico what ne
have done for Cuba administer the
government until the people have been
able to form a government of their
own, and retain power to intervene
whenever disorder breaks out beyond
the power of its government to quell.
The indictment of Carranza is also
an indictment of President Wilson. The
main grounds for intervention which
he lays down could have been stated
just as truthfully at any time during
the last three years. He missed his
opportunity to help Mexico in estab
lishing peace and order when he re
fused to recognize Huerta. That act
brought upon the wretched country all
, the miseries which have followed. By
that act he began to intervene. His
failure to follow it up by armed inter
vention makes him an accessory to all
the bloodshed, rapine and starvation
which have followed. His plea that he
refrained out of respect for the rights
of Mexico, out of regard for humanity
or out of reluctance to cause blood
shed proves how utterly his judgment
was at fault. He watchfully waited
while Mexico not only destroyed itself
hut slew more Americans than are
likely to meet death in the hostilities
which now impend. He had abundant
cause three years ago for doing what
lie now seems about to do.
e say "seems about to do," for it
has become so habitual with him to
draw back from a task to which he
has set his hand that we can feel no
ronnaence in nis even now going
through with it. He sent troops to
era Cruz and scuttled. He sent war.
ships to Tamp i ct and scuttled, leaving
foreign warships to rescue our citizens
from a mob. He tried twice to shift
upon South American nations a part
ot the responsibility which rests on the
t nited States alone. He has so per
sistently shirked his plain duty and
drawn back from a distasteful task
which he had begun that we can. never
feel sure, when he begins, that he will
rinlsli.
There will doubtless be an attempt
to make political capital for Mr. Wil
son out of his belated burst of vigor.
lie cannot escape the damning con
elusion that the course which has now
been forced upon him by such irresisti
ble logic as even he cannot dispute is
it confession that his entire policy to
ward Mexico has utterly failed. If
that be political capital for him in his
amibition for a second term, let him
make the most of it.
RUSSIAN'S DRINKING MORE TEA.
Prohibition of the use of vodka in
Russia brings that country still nearer
1o our vision as a land dotted with
samovars. No traveler in Russia for
merly considered his description of
that country complete without a chap.
ter on the national habit of tea drink
ing. From now on. the picture will be
intensiifed, as is indicated by statistics,
Consumption of tea in 1913 amounted
to 4,251,000 poods (a pood is equal to
thirty-six pounds ten ounces). The
imperial decree of prohibition was
promulgated in 1914, and in 1915 tea
consumption was 4.698,000 poods. But
v analysis of the figures of imports gives
more encouragement to the advocates
- of temperance, since It shows that the
chief increase has been in the cheaper
grades, an additional evidence that the
peasants have changed their habits
- coincidental!- with abolition of the
dramshop.
Russians are heavy consumers of tea
Sn "tablet" form. These are small and
es hard as brickbats, being made of tea
dust and scraps of leaves, tightly com
pressed. They are not such, perhaps,
as our daintiest tea. drinkers would
fancy as a luxury, but to the moujik
they spell refreshment, sociability and
something -hot. Consumption of these
tea tablets alone has more than
doubled- in a single year.
The figures are more striking when
it is known that they represent far
more imbibition than would be the
case in America, since the Russian
customarily "drowns the miller" when
- lie makes his tea, drinking it extremely
. weak. It appears, too, that be is a
. tea, consumer for other reasons than
- for the stimulus or "kick" derived.
: He is a gregarious being, the average
" Russian more given than most other
' ieoples to seeking diversion in groups
and the samovar has taken the place
of the vodka barrel as a rallying point
for the socially Inclined.
Incidentally, Increase in the con-
cvamptioa pf oof'oe la noted to toaxm avt.
talned noteworthy proportions. This
is given as 500,000 poods in 1914, the
year ol the decree, -while in. 1915 it
was 574,000 poods. An increase of the
number of coffee shops in cities and
villages also is recorded.
FTSXY AT A DISTANCE.
It often requires perspective to re
veal the ridiculous. Some of our states
men and commentators are. quite se
rious In attempting to reinforce their
own opinion on Issues by citing policies
adopted or things said by Washing
ton, Jefferson or Lincoln on matters
that occupied the public mind in their
day.
These things seem to them solemnly
pat and consequential, although time
has since the day of these statesmen
wrought great changes in National
importance, duty, responsibility and
ability to perform.
Yet to these latter-day argufiers of
our own country, how senseless will
appear the grave discussion In Eng
land as to what would have been
Shakespeare's views on questions aris
ing out of the European war.
The Literary Digest, this week, pub
lishes several quotations from English
Journalists. One is convinced Shake
speare "would have been, bitterly op
posed to those who believe it right or
possible that Englishmen should have
any relations with Germans after the
war." Another believes Shakespeare
would have been "violently hostile to
the idea of an. inconclusive peace."
One writer gathers from Shakespeare's
works that he would have been an
"arch-conscriptionist"; another, on the
contrary, that he would have been an
"arch-conscientious objector." Henry
Arthur Jones, the English playwright.
has written a pamphlet in which he
argues that Shakespeare was a Ger
man-hater. And so the absurd dis
cussion runs on, with here and there a
word of admonition from other Eng
lish writers to observe common sense.
Probably to most Englishmen who
are familiar with American history the
efforts of writers to invoke the shades
of Washington and Lincoln to settle
our present-day problems appear just
as nonsensical and inconsequential as
English efforts to find political guid
ance or comfort in Shakespeare do to
us.
ET TU BRUTE?
German-Americans are doubtless
surprised to find themselves rebuked
in the Portland Journal because they
are not satisfied with the President's
brand of neutrality. Particularly must
they be surprised that dissatisfaction
among their numbers is ascribed by
the Journal to the President's Lusi
tania notes. What qualifies that news
paper to read their thoughts or pro
test against their thoughts after it
has once read them?
Possibly German-Americans who
oppose Wilson are not thinking of the
Lusitania but of Democratic Keynoter
Glynn's assumption of credit for the
Administration for the beef trust
agreement with Britain. That agree
ment to sell only in such way that
American beef could not possibly reach
the central empires is essentially un
neutral if it has color of Government
approval.
The Journal, too. has never until
now, when political exigencies demand.
given the President more than half
hearted support in the controversy
with Germany. Its editorials follow
ing the sinking of the Lusitania con
tained no protest against invasion of
American rights. They were amateur
theatrical exclamations over what it
described as a terrible incident of war.
'Ain't it awful, Mabel!" or words to
what effect, were its sole cry, repeated
over and over again.
Nor did the rebuke now adminis
tered to German-Americans for as
sumed dissatisfaction with the Lusi
tania notes fall on Bryan when that
idol of Democracy quit the Cabinet
for that identical reason. But the
Journal knew its Bryan. It knew he
would stay put as a good Democrat
We therefore take it that anybody has
a right to feel aggrieved by the Presi
dent's European policy so long as he
does not express it at the polls. It
is another illustration that he who
rTisses the Journal in politics cannot
expect to preserve a good reputation
WAR MAKES A NATION OVER.
Great Britain will emerge from the
war a country which has undergone
revolutionary social change. Military
necessity and patriotism are breaking
down social distinctions. The hard and
fast line between the commissioned of
ficer and the enlisted man in the army
is disappearing. The idea that man
ual labor is degrading to a gentleman
is fading. The prejudice among the
upper classes against letting their
women work has yielded to the wom
en's insistence that they fill the places
of men who go out to fight. Labor
union opposition to women as workers
in many callings, lest men be crowded
out of employment, has given way, for
there is work for all, both men and
women. The unions no longer Insist
that work which can be done by un.
skilled hands shall be reserved for the
skilled. They no longer oppose substi-
tution of machinery for hand labor,
for they find that it does not reduce
the number of hands employed. Manu
facturers take kindly to such machin
ery. High wages and demand for
maximum output have forced them to
adopt it, 'and they now find that it
vastly Increases output and reduces
cost.
A few paragraphs in the London
Times are evidence of these effects of
the war. Owing to scarcity of labor,
the vicar and curate of Bourne, Lin
colnshire, unloaded a carload of coal
and delivered it by handtruck to cus
tomers in the towm.
Soldiers billeted at Wycombe occupy
their spare time in cultivating the al
lotments on Lord Lincolnshire's estate
of between forty and fifty soldiers who
are at the front, their wages being
provided by public subscription.
Rev. John Cocker, curate of St.
George's Church, Hulme, Durham-
shire, was a private in the Sportsmen's
Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and
is probably the first English clergy
man serving in the ranks to fall at
the front, A 6hell struck him while
he was shaving outside his dug-out.
One issue of the London Gazette an
nounces that 71 warrant and non-com
missioned officers have received com
missions.
The London Hydraulic Power Com
pany employs nine women .as engi
neers and firemen, and they do well,
running over the engines like cats, but
cannot manage cranes.
The Times publishes protests from
fathers against the extravagances
which Colonels force on subaltern of
ficers in the army, preventing "the
brainy athletes of our universities"
from accepting permanent commis
sions. The War Office has appealed
to parents to send their sons into th
army as a profession, but one fathe
says:
Comparatively few can afford the add!
tlonal allowance of ilSO to 30O a year
whicn, -at subaltern xozmarljr. required to live
respectably In a Line regiment. The War
Office has obtained the pick of our publlo
school boys. Are the majority of the sur
vivors of this war to be sacrificed to the
Inordinate vanity of the regimental mess?
Are they to be compelled to resign because
their wealth la not commensurate with their
ability?
By breaking down the barriers of
caste, by making work and merit, not
wealth and birth, the basis of army
promotion, by reviving belief In the
dignity of labor and by cutting away
the obstacles which both capital and
labor have Interposed against the free
working of economic law, the war may
compensate Great Britain for its en
tire cost
NOT 'WHAT THEY ARE HIRED TO DO.
As Incident to the efforts to refloat
the steamship Bear, which met recent
ly with an unfortunate mishap off the
California Coast, the news dispatches
relate that certain members of the
crew declined to assist in lightering
the cargo, giving as their reason that
handling of cargo was not work they
"were hired to do." The picture pre
sented, then, is that of a group of men
wholly without enthusiasm for the ac
complishment of a task, lacking in the
very spirit of co-operation most help
ful to society as a whole, and un
moved even by the emergency before
them to relax the rule they have set
for themselves to work by. Doubtless
the number of men so refusing their
assistance in time of need is small in
this particular instance, but the possi
bility that it will grow, or that al
ready it is larger than it seems, makes
the occasion appropriate for homily on
the decline of the pride of the work
man, not only in the product of his
own hands, but in the success as a
whole of the enterprise with which he
is associated.
In the strict letter of the con
tract, it probably is true that
certain mien on shipboard were not
"hired to do" certain unforeseen
things; yet it wi'l not be e?sy for one
who ever has been stirred by the feel
ing of ordinary helpfulness and neigh-
borliness to understand the attitude
of aloofness adopted by these men.
Apparently the issue of wages is not
in dispute on this occasion, or the
question of the ability of the men. to
perform the requested task. No ex
ceptional perils are Involved, or if they
are they are not given as a more near
ly valid reason for declining duty. It
is simply this: That a great ship is
n trouble, and that certain men on
board of her would rather quibble
about the precise nature of the things
they are hired to do than to turn to
with a will and help in the worthy
work of restoring her to a life of use
fulness. Even the thought that afloat
she will give continual employment to
brother workers seems not to have en
tered into their calculations. Stranded
hopelessly on a rocky coast, she would
e wholly an economic loss; Just that
much of the product of the savings
and the labor of men rendered as
naught.
We are not concerned here so much
in the property loss which will be
large if the ship is not saved as in
the greater loss that must fall upon
the world if the spirit of co-operation
among its people shall be allowed to
die. It was said of the fire-fighters
of Constantinople a few years ago that
they were wont to bargain with the
owner of a shop on fire and if he
failed to meet the exactions put upon
him his property would be left to the
flames. What would be said, not alone
of a fireman of today but of a neigh
bor, who refused help when need was
urgent? One does not like to con
template the prospect of a community,
or a craft, or a family of workmen
sinking to the level of every man for
himself and no one for anyone else,
which is the logical conclusion of the
spirit of I won't do anything I wasn't
hired to do.
Yet the loss, after all, falls chiefly
on tlie one who harbors such a spirit.
The material cost of his refusal is by
comparison a bagatelle. The man who
finds no pleasure in being helpful is
missing a good deal of the joy of life.
The worker who never does anything
he is not specifically employed to do is
no more than an automaton, not vivi
fied by a spark of higher feeling. The
craftsman who feels no throbbing im
pulse to add the unpaid-for finishing
touch is no better than a machine.
Work is drudgery if It is not lightened
and heartened by some of the joy of
accomplishment and the pride that a
good craftsman takes in a task well
done.
Humanity is not helped toward any
desirable goal by those whose chief
fear is that they will do something
'out of their line." The real dignity
of labor suffers most from the drawing
of the artificial line. The crafts
man's own spiritual development is
retarded in equal measure.
WAR DUE TO WEAK I1T1XMACY.
The United States on the eve of
war with the de facto government of
Mexico is the climax of our three
years of watchful waiting for Mexico
to settle down, of our patient toler
ance of Mexican crimes and insults.
That waiting and tolerance have been
defended on the plea that we must try
to avoid the bloodshed and other hor
rors of war. During the interval those
horrors have been visited on hundreds
of Americans who have been mur
dered, outraged and robbed in Mex
ico, on thousands of Americans who
have fled from that country and on
hundreds of thousands of Mexicans
who have been killed In battle, massa.
cred or starved to death. The cost of
war In blood and money must still be
paid; all of this bloodshed and suffer
ing has been added' to the bill as in
terest paid in advance. It could have
been avoided. Firmness and decision
exercised wisely would have prevented
both the three years of bloodletting, at
least so far as Americans were con
cerned, and the war which la to be the
climax.
What those qualities can accomplish
was shown in the Virginius affair dur
ing President Grant's administration
Spain was then a republic and was
fighting three revolutions at the same
time, one of them in Cuba. The ship
Virginius, under American register and
ostensibly owned by Americans, was
captured in November, 18 3, by )
Spanish warship and taken to San
tlago, her passengers and crew num
bering 155. On November 4, three
Cubans and one British subject were
shot in cold blood and on November
7 and S fifty-three more persons, in
eluding eight Americans, were shot
without even a courtmartial. De
mands of the American Consul for
communication with the prisoners
were met with threats to withdraw
his exequatur. The American people,
whose sympathies were with Cuba, de
nounced the massacre and shouted for
war. The Spaniards, incensed at
American aid to the Cubans, exulted
and demanded expulsion of General
Sickles, United States Minister to Ma
drid.
On receiving news of the capture
President Castelar, of Spain, forbade
the death penalty on non-combatants
but ilia orderm did not arrive, until
after the massacres. He promptly de
nounced and disavowed them. Secre
tary Fish received news of the) second
massacre on November 12 and two
days later cabled to Minister Sickles:
"If Spain cannot redress the outrages
perpetrated in her name in Cuba, the
United States will." Sickles was in
structed to demand the return of the
Vlrginius to the United States with the
survivors, a salute to the American
flag, punishment of all who had part
in the executions and an indemnity.
Telling the story of the affair in
World's Work, Burton J. Hendrick
says Sickles on November 20 presented
the demands in a manner unnecessar
ily insulting and, when Spain did not
accede, demanded his passports. But
Fish, distrusting Sickles' brusqueness.
had already settled the affair with the
Spanish Minister at Washington. Spain
granted all the demands except the sa
lute and offered to give that if the
United States proved that our flag had
been insulted. The Spanish Minister
denied the right of the Virginius to
the American flag, saying she was
owned by Cubans, had been a filibus
ter for years and carried fraudulent
papers. He presented overwhelming
proof and the demand for a salute was
withdrawn. Fish's final dispatch was
dated December 22, ending the nego
tiations with full satisfaction of his
just demands in less than a month.
Spain yielded not only because its
ruler knew our demands to be Just but
because it was in no position'to fight
and we were. It knew Grant to be
no bluffer and that he had but to say
the word in order to put a million vet
eran soldiers of the Civil War in the
field. President 'Wilson has not only
hesltated to demand redress for out
rages committed in Mexico, but so long
as Mr. Bryan was Secretary of State
Mexico knew well that those demands
would not be backed by force and that
we should have difficulty in organizing
the necessary army.
The lesson is plain. Firm diplo
macy, supported by rorce, prevents
war. Weak diplomacy, unsupported
by force, causes war. The President,
by his lack of firmness, and by betray
ing his unwillingness to fight, has
brought upon his country the war
which strong words, backed by the
possession of physical force and by an
evident purpose to use it, could have
prevented.
Formerly wheat and other food
stuffs were our main reliance for the
maintenance of a favorable trade bal
ance. In the fiscal year ending June
30, 1915, all but one month of which
was wartime, our exports increased
$410,000,000, but $401,800,000 of this
increase was breadstuffs. In the ten
months ending April 30, 1916, our
exports increased $1,162,000,000, but
exports of crude foodstuffs decreased
$120,000,000, and of this latter de
crease, $108,000,000 was wheat The
increase was entirely in manufactures
of various kinds. This was large
enough, with miscellaneous exports,
to offset the decrease in crude food
stuffs and other classes and to have
this enormous net increase of $1,
162,000,000. If Russia conquers Bukowina, it will
have a tempting bait to offer Rou-
mania and may accompany the offer
with a threat to take Transylvania,
which Roumania also desires. But
the little kingdom is ioted for playing
for suro things and may hold off until
quite certain that another Russian re
treat 'would not expose It, to the wrath
of the Teuton powers.
Airmen will have an opportunity to
do good service in Mexico, and the
Government will now begin the prepa
ration which it should have begun
when the Wright brothers invented the
aeroplane.
The folly of long engagements is
shown in the case of the man who
died at a Tacoma hospital two hours
after marriage following an engage
ment of ten years.
Going to law is as much business
as luxury. In a case in a local court
involving $27.50, a firm of four law
yers and an extra attorney appear for
the defense.
In the Mexican "War of seventy years
ago most of the volunteers were from
the South. A few years later they
were the leaven In the Confederate
Army.
Married Guardsmen should not worry
about their families. The people will
not let them suffer through the hus
band and father's patriotism.
The boy not quite 18 will be for
given if he presses the limit He'll
be old enough when mustered out.
Some martial ardor will be required
to keep the Oregon Guardsmen warm
in a wet camp this weather.
Contemiplatlng the vote "Pat" Mc-
Arthur will get, ex-Governor West will
not run for Congress.
Democrats are laying plans for
vigorous campaign elsewhere than in
the War Department.
Maine cannot get along without
Hale for Senator, as Nebraska cannot
without a Hitchcock.
Give the boys out of school the
chance to fill temporarily some of the
Guardsmen's places.
All the Oregon boys will have "In
definite leave of absence" from their
employment.
If the company cook i3 not as good
as wlfie, make comparisons. He'll like
them.
Tou raised your boy to be a soldier
and the country is much obliged.
Funston wants Pacific Coast troops
first. Funston knows a fighter.
Portland Is one ahead of big Chicago
in the number of war brides.
They are coming. Uncle Woodrow
a. hundred thousand strong.
American civilians not out of Mex
ico soon may stay forever.
This weather could not be improved
(Throw on another stick.)
The Boy Scouts wish they could push
ahead the calendar.
They'll be tenting tonight on. the
old campground.
Carranza knows better, but must
save his face.
Up-to-date millinery must be mili
tary.
Hold the Jobs fox th koya.
How to Keep Well
Br Dr. W. A Erus,
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
and 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 not suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addressed en
velope Is inclosed. Dr. Evans wilt not make
diagnosis or prescribe for Individual dis
eases. Requests for such service cannot be
answered.
(Copyright, 1916, by Dr. "W. A. Inm
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune. )
ARRESTED GROWTH.
BOY who is not so tall
wants to be, and who hi
as he
.a not
grown for three years, although he la I
only is years old, wants to know If
there is any possibility that he will or I
can grow taller, and, if there is, what I
he can do to help on the process. I
Osborne and Mendel have recently
studied the Doaslbilitiea of caualns- .1
resumption of arrested growth. Theyu"day morning, when she begged to
took voune- whlta rata and lTn1 arrested in their places, admitting
their growth by changing their food.
in some growth was stopped by feed -
ing insufficient food. In others the
food given was not of a quality which
romotea growth. Alter these animals
ad been thoroughly runted and had
been kerjt ther fnr ir.no- tiir,.th.
s. a longtime in the growing life of a
rat feeding them properly caused them
to grow to full size. A rat usuallv at-
tains its growth within the firat
davs of Ufa. On nf ttiAl. t,in-A1
rats resumed growth and grew until ha
as 550 days old.
Some of their conclusions are as f ol- I
lows:
It is reasonable to ask whether the!
capacity to grow can ever be loat,un
ies it is exercised, m ney round that I
animals in whom growth had been ar
rested when fed right and given
chance to grow grew rapidly until they
reacnea ineir growth. This was true 1
regardless of the size and aea of the I
anima.s when growth was stopped or I
ow long it had been stopper".. In some
cases the renewed growth was more
, nij , . n l
- ....... iuaii -! " iiuillltll KIUWLn. J IlfV I
; ui. .iiuuiis irou UMUI-
whrTnt JioZZ.. lmproIer food can be
Tk. 1 a. J 1 - I
i no iuuub uesi uuuea to croauc
rhm:etrarhd frrh mli tte
eggs, meat and bread, vegetables tid
fruit These foods rank in value in the
. uU .uu .jcv.iiu,n mt
pi uLema. caroonyarates. I .us and
salts are necessary for growth, and
ttuultlull tcriain accessory su D i
tances. one water soluble and one fat
oluble. are necessary. Yeast and but-
lff on bread, meat, and sugars will 1
ul buuu, xicau xuiiiviots and ridiculous to please a private
S best Of all. I secretarv who has Tnrniiemnriinn l,Us
row. what does this mean? It means
that when growth has been stopped be-
cause of lack of food or poor food,
eiuKcr iuuu win cause it to resume. I
And that is all that it means. If a boy
has stopped growing from any other
cause, change in food, in quality, or In
Quantity win not cause him to begin
growing again. If a boy stops growing
at 5 feet 5 inches because some ances-
or was short he cannot change his
food and thereby increase his stature. I
And it is Inheritance that determines
tature in most cases. The ancestor
that the boy takes after may not be
his father or mother. It may be a grand-
parent or even a great-grandparent
There Is not much that a boy can do to
increase nis neignt wno stops growing some greater nope In the world. I be
because it is in his stock for him to lieve it is better to Interfere with
top. He should get plenty of exercise
the open air and eat abundantly,
He should have plenty of good
fresh milk and butter and plenty of
meat Perhaps he should eat some dried
yeast. This policy may help some, but
he chance is against it
Llqaor Care,
J. V. P. writes: "I find a great deal
of valuable information in health notes.
out am particularly Interested In i
liquor cure. Would you mind publish
Ing a reliable remedy for the drink
habit that can be administered at
home? I know thousands would bless
you for it
KEPLT.
1 xrish I could. A liquor cure consists of
two parts. The first is to rid the system
ff alcohol and its products. That can be
done by very free purgation. Calomel, blue
mass- or some other form or mercury usu
ally Is given, but probably any other power
ful puree- would do as well. It an nlcohol
subject has been pickled for a Ion time or
by large mnounts. he will require some sup-
portinc. bracins treatment while he Is to be
dealcoTinllzed.
The necond anfl more Important part of
the treatment consists In strengthening the
ml!r,7n7,,1!;!.SJ;.?",",0mo.,ltaI,.BI?
of the above statement, you see the ioliy of
Plfll'lnir Tttltri hnma r-nrn. fn W lt..-.
habit. There is none such. The patient
must know what Is holntr done: hn m nf
lend Bome sort of an assent In th earlier
cally so. Medicine to be put into the coffee
and other cures to be administered to unsus-
pectlnjr patients do not meet these reaulre-
mcnts.
i sins in Chest.
n. E. P. writes: "1. For the last two
years I have been troubled by pains In
tne chest, fevers, chills, and small quan-
titles of blood in my sputum. Have
been examined bv two lnntr siuri,ii,i.
who tell mo my troubles are due to a
deflected septum in the nose. Can the
nose artect the chest in the manner de
scribed above? My sputum is negative.
a. uutsiaa or a regular physical ex-
amination. what is a positive test for
tuberculosis in the incipient stage? Are
tne -v-ray ana tuberculin tests reliable
ior aetecting the disease in the earlv
TIE PLY.
l. It seems Improbable. However, there
seems to be no doubt that you are not
tu oercuiar.
Tuberculin is when clven hVTMdfirmln.
ln tb dfye i i, acpenlabl, " dUignos-
"Hell Has No Fury," Etc.
o it, v c.xu.i, wasn., June is. tioiiui public will not Boon forget
the Editor.) Who was the author of
the following: "There Is no fury like
woman scorned?" Is the quotation
worded correctly? COOLER CLUB.
The quotation Is:
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred
turned.
Nor hell a fury- like a woman scorned.
It occurs in Act ill. scene i. of "The
Mourning Bride," the author of which
Is William Congreve.
Sfatnpc of Ben Thompson Case.
PORTLAND, June 20. (To the Edi
tor.) When is Ben Thompson to be
tried for murder? Where?
C. T. BENNETT.
No charge of murder has yet been
placed against Bennett Thompson. His
case Is before the grand jury of Wash
ington County now and some action Is
expected this week. If indicted fori
the murders at Tualatin, he will be
tried in Hillsboro.
Collection of rromlftiory Note,
PORTLAND. June 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Can. a promissory note given ten
years ago in Montana be collected?
READER.
It depends on the date of maturity
and whether same has been extended
by payments on principal or interest
In Montana the statute of limitations
on promissory notes expires eignt. years
after maturity of the note.
-Cnllonsl Holidays! by Law.
PORTLAND. June :0. (To the Edi
tor.) Have we any National holidays,
and If bo what are they? J. G.
There is no National holiday fixed by
Federal legislation.
PORTLAND MORAL OR RIDICTLOrSt
Colonel Wood Makes Aircsta of Pam
phlet Seller Basle of lnqalry.
PORTLAND. Or, June 0. (To the
Editor.) Is Portland more moral or
more ridiculous than the rest of the
world? Margaret Sanger gave her lec
ture on "Birth Control'' Monday evening
at the Hell'.g, at the close of which
some volunteers sold in the lobby of
the theater the pamphlet, "Family
Limitation," the proceeds of sale being
for the printing of pamphlets and
other expenses. The pamphlet is only
a translation of what is put out In
public clinics In France and Holland.
Thoto gentlemen who have the city's
morals in charge not the clergy, but
the so-called "moral squad" arrested
three men for selling the pamphlets,
but refused to arrest Mnrrnrt Sanger
in thia they were not only chivalrous
toward women, but hospitable to th
stranger within oar gates. Morals were
Preserved but the traveler was not
inconvenienced, except that Margaret
Sanger naa to go to tne jail with, the
"rested men Monday night and also
that they were only her agents. i?he
nM lo return irom c-poxane ior tne
tr'al next week, and is robbed of
Fourth of July at home with her two
cut w" tneso exceptions ne
na nt suiterea at tne nanus oi fort
lands "majesty of the law" or what
lna moral squau cnooses to ininK is
majesty and law. The City Attorney's
"ll"-" nuininK or tne arrtai.
they aro better Judges of the law than
Judge Catena, who threw the Emma
Goldman case out of court. That a
rest was "personally conducted" by
Mr. Will Warren, the Mayors pri
vate secretary, to whom Mayor Albee
(as he informed me) turned over the
morals of the ciiy, not I presume, be
cause Mr. Warren is a better judge of
morals than his honor, but because
uneasy lies the head that wears
crovn.
"ever mind who directed the ar
rest Our morals have been preserved
and Portland or ce more stand out as
the most ridiculous of cities. I worked
aniu 1 1' I lilt, I.UII1 II11?Z1UI1 1U1 III OL eTUV'
. 1 . T 1 . i .
nutt.., nt t unrlnmentnl wi-on the.
other Commissioners were going to sit
I K 1 IPnt anrl ofin acMin t
uawuwuw
t .
.r doctor. s
,wi.i.. w... .v..
Comstock of the Department of Public
a,,,,!, to annoy and impede the dis
i-,...inn ...v.; . .i.iv. v. i,
upon books are being published by the
scientists of the world, it is time for
other members of the City Council to
sit tin nH th. i. f -i,., a
we object to "being made tyrants, big-
li,ni - .. r r.r ,v. .
th Council rtr. annrnv. nr h,u n.,--
secutions and intend their silence to
give consent
There are sincere people who believe
that birth control la no-a innt th. iw f
God or against Nature. So there were
sincere people who believed the best
way to save a soul was to burn the
body that held it In fact, those
ascetics in India and eiswhsro u-hn
refuxc all sex relations are in the same
sense against the law of God nnri rf
Nature. Ther reftiae to lnrru nH
multiply and replenish the workera
Cutting out a cancer is interfering
with Nature. And for myself until
God or Nature gives the working class
Mature than to have broken-down.
dragged-out women breeding like rab-
I bits, defectives and degenerates or
those who will die early of insufficient
nutrition, who can never be educated.
out. win crowd each other to death In
tne struggle ior even mtlful trnr
Tf we could havo a declaration from
Cod if he be a God worthy of human
respect it would be, I am sure, better
oirtn control" than the thousands and
hundreds of thousands of a Eon I zed
deaths from eelf-inf licted abortions by
working women, who dread death itself
less than more misery for themselves
and their wretched children. 9, 10, 11,
u in a iamiiy and J12 a week.
C. E. S. WOOD.
TRIBUTE TO DIRECTOR MrXLT
Sir. Cllne Says Grateful Public V1II et
Soon Forget Service.
FORTVUAND. June 20. (To the Edi-
tor.) Without any one knowing of
. h , , " . ol
w hat Is herein written. I wish by your
permission to say a word of apprecia-
tion of a worthy and faithful servant
of the public the last five years
Hon- M- G- aimly. retiring member
an5 P"sident Of the city School Board
I ---- v - a ouno. it 13 UCllVCU. M. no w
of tho loss of time, mental worry and
I exacting toil ont.-.iln-i ur.r.n thu
chosen to administer the interests of
Proportions.
rm trustworthy data of the schools
of other cities throughout the LTnite.i
States
ana tne cnaracter ol the work aeenm-
I pushed, the result of good manacre-
I ment y such men as I. X. Kleischner,
I " sabin. Jr- t. Munly and tho pres-
cnc incumbents ot the Board. For 28
' 8 1 nave oeen lamiliar with the
schools of our city, educating- here mv
oWn children. During- this time we have
been fortunate in City Superintendents
empracing such persons as Professor
Warrel. EIla C- Sabin. I. W. Pratt. Frank
" " pisent niuumueni
Rlert and cnstructive. I R. Alderman.
being as he is ably assisted by Pro
fessors Grout and Rice. - Nor la it ex
travagant speech to say that the several
principals now retained are a-cuarantee
of continued excellence and satisfactory
results.
In declining to be a candidate for
re-election. Judge Munly lays down the
ffntlpq nf illmptn, with 4, I .. .
shattered nervous system, the result
devotion tO thB hpot Intnru.ti. A . K
schools of our citv and which ct..
C. E. CLINE.
BRILLIANT EXASTPLE FOR YOUTH
Late W. A. Gardner Rise From Ranks
Proof off Opportunity.
From the Milwaukee Journal
The late W. A Gardner, president ot
tne XMortnwestern Railroad, waa a bril
llant example of the young man who,
unassisted, fights his way to the top.
from operator at the key to the presi
dent of a 9000-mile railroad is a far
cry. But Mr. Gardner covered the long
road by sheer ability and dogged de
termination
The man who rises from the ranks is
likely to prove a far better employer
than he who has the reins of business
handed him through inheritance. His
own experience helped to make Mr.
Gardner democratic and aftable, thor
oughly conversant With tho needa of
his army of employes and deeply sym-
Pathetic
Rising from the ranks, he recognized
his responsibility to the millions of
persons compelled to buy railroad serv
ice. Persistent in meeting the desires
of railroad patrons, Mr. Gardner did
much to popularize railroads. Through
his personal attention to the traveler
and the shipper, patrons of the North
western learned that there are souls
behind some corporations.
The Gardners, the captains of Indus-
1 try who rise from the ranks to their
commanding positions, are constantly
affording Inspiration to milliona of
young Americans, too many of whom
have somehow imbibed tne idea
that "puil" is needful to rise to heights
of business success. .Mr. uaraner b suc
cessful life Is a book filled with con
sistent diligence and perseverence
From these qualities and his active ere
alive mind came the driving: power of
his ambition.
In Other Days.
Half a Cntnrr Axo.
From The Orefonlnn of June 21. 1S6.
Preparations for celebrating the
Fourth of July have become quite gen
eral. Washington Countv will rrin.
brate at Centerville. We learn that
the people of Salem have resolved to
celebrate and have secured the serv
ices of the Aurora Brass Band.
J. N. Dolph. who has acted ss Cit-r
Attorney for the past two years, ten
dered his resignation last evening at
the meeting of the Board of Council
men. Wnshincton. June IS. In the Senate,
the Pacific Railroa.l bill is under dis
cussion, authorizing the ITnion Fariflo
Railroad. -Kith the consent and ap
proval of the Secretary of the Interior,
to locate and construct their road
from Omaha westward, following the
most practicable route.
Senator Bidwell. of California, has
Introduced into the Senate a bill to
encourage the construction of a tele
graph line between California and
Idaho.
San Francisco. June 10. The Vet
eran Corps will be escorted by the Na
tional Guards on the Fourth of July
and will carry, among other battle
flags, that under which Colonel Baker
was killed at Ball's Bluff, which has
been tendered by the Fionoers for the
occasion.
Twenty-five Years A-o.
From The OreKonlan of June 21, ISM.
Washington, June 20. The country
may have to ficht Enjrland for Vene
zuela yet. All the hopes of a commer
cial union In tho new world may be
rendered unavailing by the presence
and control of such a naval power as
England.
Tacoma. June 20. All arrangements
hav.j been completed for a fluht be
tween the brint'.le bullilotr. Irlth Jtck
ana the cinnamon bep-, Jo-Jo, tomor
row. The steamer Otio has been char
tered and will leave here tomorrow
morninar with the bear and Tacoma
sports on board. A stop will be made
at Seattle for the doir and more sports
and then the boat will po into another
county, where the fight will take place.
A gentleman who lives in the west
end complains of the recklessness of
bicyclists. He says that during the
past week several children have been
run down and seriously hurt There Is
a law against the runninsr of bicycles
on the sidewalks but it is not enforced.
Complaint Is beinsr made about
Washing-ton street near First belnc
used as a hor.se market. Nearly every
day the street is blocked up with a
band of horses, thus converting it Into
a stable-yard.
Hon. W. r. Fenton. of Portland, will
bo the Fourth of July orator at Forest
Grove this year.
BETTER IMMIGRANTS AKTKH WAR
Voansrer Men Xbw In the Trenches Ex
pected to Come to America,
New light upon tho much-discussed
question of immigration from Europe
after the war, comes from Alexander
Jackson, general immigration agent of
the Rock Island lines, who has just re
turned to America after nearly ten
years' residence In London, where he
served thia company us general Euro
pcan ageiit- liu is of the opinion that
there will ba a large influx of for
eigners at the close of the war; that
Great Britain will contribute many of
these new arrivals and that these will
be largely cf a desirable class, from
among the younger m-Mi now in the
trenches. Writins particularly of this
class. Mr. Jackson says:
"These yotin men com largely from
inside employment. from stores or
shops, where they have been lorded
over by petty borses, who rule them
wit tyrannical hand. ow these young
men a.-e at the front where, in spite of
military discipline, there is a freedom
to which they have not been accus
tomed in London or Manchester. They
breathe the outdoor air; they are part
of the great British army, defending
the empire. Their martial spirit
arousc-1. they hnva become men. sure of
themselves for the first time, free from
the tyranny of the petty boss and the
confining life of the shop. Then and
there they decided that, after the war,
they will never go back to the cities.
but will go abroad to a land that is
fre from tho antagonisms aroused by
the conflict and not subject to the
burden of war taxes. There is only one.
nation that measures up to this ideal
and that is our own. '
'Even if this were not the case, eco
nomic pressure will force these young
men to migrate. Their employment has
been taken by women, who are better
fitted for it, and it is self-evident that
the women will not give up these places
when peace is restored."
Mr. Jackson also utters a note of
warning in regard fo the need for pre
venting the influx of undesirable
classes from all the nations of Europe,
and the desirability of encouraging
'people worth while" to come and
settle.
X ATT" RE HAS PROVIDF-D PEDESTAL
Tonriat Sucgcsts TIcrolc Statue to
Cap Grandeur of Highway Scenery.
PORTLAND, June 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Permit a visitor to your state
to express through your columns his
deep appreciation of the enchanting
scenery that Oregon enterprise has
made it so easy to come in close con
tact with. I refer particularly to the
Columbia River Highway. When one
endeavors to transfer the emotions to
paper after traversing that wonder
way. words are a weak medium to de
scribe the majesty of it all. It requires
a Wagner or a Beethoven to set it to
music.
.Soon tho pictures of the Columbia
River Highway are to take possession
of the screens in the principal cities
of the world and vast audiences will
behold the natural glories of the great
scenic way, while listening to music of
Beethoven and other masters by the
orchestras. For the time being rag
time will fro jinglv1? down the bottom
less pit and tho.-e audiences will realize
that they are being drawn very near
to the celestial. Oregon has provided
the greatest show on earth, fcshe has
builded better than she knew.
May the writer venture a suggestion.
At almost the center of the channel
of the Columbia River off Cape Horn a
massive rock shaped like a pedestal
rises from the depths, as though nature
had prepared it to accommodate a
statue of heroic proportions Bay a
replica of the statue of Sacajawea
and "The Coming of the White Man.
Citizens who are able could doubtless
be prevailed upon to provide the where
withal to place the absent statue upon
the pedestal that nature with her
wonderful forethought has provided.
TOURIST.
Former Trsnsport Rosecrass Loat
PORTLAND, Juno 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Was the steamer Rosecrans, lost
off the mouth of the Columbia in 1913,
formerly the transport of the same
came? JAMES FORBES.
Yes.
An Infant Industry.
RalLimore American.
"This firm claims it ought to have
protection for its business, as it is an
Infant industry."
"What is it?'
"Manufacturing baby rfbbon."