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POET1AXD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1918.
QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT WILSON.
This is the interrogatory period of
the campaign, so it may be well to
address a few questions to President
Wilson. Here are some:
How does he reconcile the necessity
of emergency taxes with the claim
that the Underwood tariff is a revenue
tariff?
If this necessity first arose from de
creased imports, how can it continue
after the volume of imports has
swollen beyond all precedent?
A protective tariff being unconsti
tutional, how can the renewal of the
protective duties on sugar and the
proposed protective duties on dye
stuffs be reconciled with the Consti
tution? Does the exclusion of large numbers
of Government employes from the civil
service law agree with the principles
of the Civil Service Reform League,
of which he was vice-president until
he became President of the United
States?
Are the pork-barrel river and har
bor bills his idea of fulfilling the
pledge given by the Baltimore plat
fdrm of "a liberal and comprehensive
plan for the development and improve
ment of our inland waterways with
economy and efficiency"?
How does he square the "pitiless
publicity" which he promised with the
secrecy which he encourages the Civil
Service Commission to practice?
If Mexico should be left to settle its
own affairs by bloodshed, why did he
send the Army and Navy to Vera Cruz
to oust Huerta?
What is the difference between
Mexico and Haiti, that he refused to
pacify the one but pacified the other
by force of arms?
Was it out of regard for humanity
that he lifted the embargo on arms
exports to Mexico, thereby providing
the Mexicans with dumdum bullets to
kill Americans?
wnv did he not hold (lermanv to
strict accountability immediately after
the Lusitania was sunk instead of
wasting a year in letter-writing?
If advocates of preparedness were
"nervous and excited" in December,
1914, what caused him to stump the
Middle West for preparedness in Feb
ruary, 1916?
Does he not wish Bryan had been
knocked into a cocked hat rather than
appointed Secretary of State?
Why has the cost of living gone up
since the tariff came down?
What are the special qualifications
of "deserving Democrats" for positions
or trust?
rXTENT TO LOOT.
As everybody knows, "stumpage" is
the term used to designate the mar
ket value of standing timber. Mere
reference to this common knowledge
ought to be sufficient answer to Mr.
U'Ren's explanation published yester
day of how timber would be taxed un
der his proposed single tax amend
ment. It would be sufficient were the
public fully conversant with the terms
of the amendment.
rue amendment aennes "land ' as
meaning the earth, including among
other things timber of natural growth.
For purposes of taxation, timber un
der this amendment ceases to be tim
ber and becomes land.
Later on the amendment provides
that there shall be no tax on the mar
ket value of land," but only on the
rental value. As timber, if this
amendment shall be adopted, will be
come land for purposes of taxation,
the stumpage value of the timber.
which is the market value, cannot be
taxed.
While the most ordinary under
standing cannot concede the accuracy
of Mr. U'Ren'3 construction of the
amendment, let us suppose for a mo
ment it is correct. AH the rental val
ue of land is to be taken in the form
of taxes. If the rental value of
tract of timber is its stumpage value,
the purpose of the amendment is to
require timber owners to pay to the
state, in the form of taxes, every dol
lar's worth of value in uncut timber.
The mill owner who has a reserve
supply of timber to keep his mill run
ning must give it to the state. Every
timber bond becomes a scrap of paper.
Every timber investment is wiped off
the owners books.
It is a bold confession of intent to
loot. If that is the correct intent of
the measure, and a majority of the
people are so dishonest as to approve
it. of course it will not stand a minute
in the courts. But it is impossible to
read that interpretation into the
amendment and preserve its sense.
Nor does Mr. U'Ren seem to under
stand the meaning of his own amend
xnent as regards taxation of railroad
rights of way any better. They would
not be taxed at the same rate as ad
joining farm or waste lands, he says.
Why not? Under the terms of the
amendment there must be no increase
of land rent because of additional im
provements made on, in or under the
land. Fills, cuts, tunnels, ballasting,
fences, tracks, bridges, depots are all
improvements and betterments of
railroad rights of way.
Remove all these improvements and
much of the railroad right of way in
Oregon is no more valuable for rail
way right of way than the land for
miles on either side of it. There are,
on the other hand, some defiles that
admit of the existence of only one
railroad through them, but such & de
file cannot be held exclusively. Any
other railroad. If it can get through In
no other way, can compel the occu
pant to give it common user privileges.
It would have to pay the occupant
something, of course, but that pay
ment would be measured largely by
the sums expended by the occupant
for improvements. ,
The chief value in railroad rights of
way consists of improvements which
may not be taxed under the amend
ment. , But, -says Mr, ITRen. if the timber
barons and the railroad magnates
would have their taxes reduced by the
amendment they would be supporting
it. Of course they would not. The
railroads and the timber owners do
not care to throw away money or ex
pend energy on hopeless effort. Mr.
U'Ren knows, and the railroads and
the timber owners know, that open
championship by the latter of an
amendment to relieve them from tax
ation would be the quickest and the
surest way to kill it. Besides, we
doubt that there is any timber owner
or railroad man in Oregon who hon
estly objects to contributing his just
share to the legitimate costs of govern
ment.
FOOL LA VP.
One of the most useless and sense-
ess laws Oregon possesses is that
known as the eugenic marriage law.
It requires a certificate of physical
fitness only of the male. If a Port
land man knows he is physically unfit
he goes to "Vancouver for his marriage
license. The trip costs 50 cents for
himself "and bride, and he not only
obtains the license without embar
rassing questions or examination, but
saves the difference between the 50
cents round-trip carfare and the $3.50
he would have paid in Oregon for ex
amination and notarial acknowledg
ment. Many persons, physically sound, go
to Vancouver for marriage licenses as
matter of economy. The cost to
Multnomah County of this pilgrimage
of both classes is about $4000 a year
in licenses that would be paid into its
treasury if it were not for the law.
There are, it is true, many county
seats from whence the thrifty or de
fective bridegroom may not get to a
neighboring state at small cost. There
he pays his fee to the physician and his
fee to the notary public. For this
grudged payment he gets nothing of
value to himself or the state. The
physician cannot make an accurate
test fT5r the prescribed legal fee. The
bridegroom pays for a casual inspec
tion, and the law is perfunctorily satis
fied.
The public grows impatient over the
frequency with which courts find con
flict between statutes and the consti
tution, but we sometimes think that
it would be a good thing if the courts
were as well empowered to set aside
laws that violate the fundamentals of
common sense.
MIMCir.VL PAUL PRYS.
When Mr. J. P. Jaeger contemplates
his vacant store and flat building, he
Is moved to reflect upon the marvels
of our ultra-modern municipal gov
ernment. The property brings no rev
enue, but it is subject to taxation and
to street assessments, sewer assess
ments and every other public charge
which the ingenuity of a tax-eating ad
ministration is able to bring against it.
Mr. Jaeger pays, and pays, and pays;
but the taxes increase in just about
the ratio that the prospect of a desir
able tenant decreases.
Meanwhile the vandals are busy.
They break windows, cut holes in
stairs and partitions, smash through
doors and leave about the place all
ljinds of litter and nasty reminders
of their presence. A lynx-eyed in
spector of some kind appears on the
scene and solemnly notifies Mr. Jaeger
that he must clean up the building.
This he does, only to have the per
formance repeated.
Now Mr. Jaeger has the strange no
tion that the same city government
which requires him to restore to a
semblance of order and cleanliness the
property defiled and defaced by "mis
creants and hoodlums should either
apprehend them in their lawless pas
times or should protect him altogether
from their practices. But that is only
notion. For it isn't done. He is
told at the City Hall that there are
not police enough to perform that
kind of service for an unfortunate
property owner and taxpayer. For
what is he but Just a property owner
and taxpayer?
But there are inspectors enough to
go around, and more. They are al
ways on the job. To be sure, the town
is over-inspected and under-protected,
as Mr. Jaeger surmises.
There are inspectors and then more
inspectors. There are sewer inspect
ors, water inspectors, health inspect
ors, milk inspectors, sidewalk inspect
ors, paving inspectors, meat inspectors.
kitchen inspectors, plumbing inspect
ors, motion-picture inspectors and a
long list of other inspectors, including
the moral squad. Their business is to
prevent somebody everybody from
doing something he or she ought
not to do. Altogether, there is a
great deal of worrying at the City
Hall about what people drink, or eat.
or do; but precious little thought is
given to means to get something to
eat, or drink, or wear. There is a
prevalent idea at the City Hall that
the chief function of government is
to find ways to spend the public mon
eys. One way is to keep the busy
body inspectors busy.
Some day, when our Utopian dreams
are realized, we shall have a municipal
government which will strive to light
en the Intolerable burdens of the tax
payer and to devise ways to stop the
unmitigated nuisance of needless cen
sors and prying inspectors.
Some day we shall have a govern
ment which seeks chiefly to protect
the taxpayer, and does not exploit
him.
Some day we shall have a City Com
mission which is troubled less about
the personal conduct of its citizens and
more about their depleted pocket
books.
Some day we shall have public of
ficials who will perform real service
toward the great end of having a city
substantial and give less attention to
the hot-air merchants who bombard
the City Hall with their schemes to
have a city beautiful. It is already
beautiful, quite beautiful; but there
are many thousands just now who are
thinking more about bread nd butter
man scenery, or street signs, or cut
corners.
REFLOATING A GREAT STEAMER.
The world has progressed in the in
dustrial sense as result of the efforts
of men with imagination, and they are
among the true poets of their time.
Probably a decade ago the Bear would
have been abandoned from the start
as a hopeless hulk, for a good propor
tion of the improvements in salvaging
operations have been made within a
few years. Twenty-five or thirty years
ago a ship not accessible to pontoons
was regarded as lost from the start.
The raising of the full-rigged ship
Penobscot, on the Southern California
coast, as recently as 1888, was hailed
as a great feat, though she lay in a
situation that enabled the salvagors
to work in deep water at her side. The
position of the Bear was almost that
of a ship on dry land, presenting a
problem of unprecedented difficulty.
Details of the plan for overcoming this
have been told in the news dispatches,
It is only a few years since a French
submarine failed to pome up evftex a
dive in relatively shallow water, and.
after many efforts to recover her, she
was perforce abandoned. Then, after
a lapse of time, came the accident to
the F-4, off Honolulu harbor, in deep
water, and that submarine was raised.
although unhappily not in time to save
her crew. Vast improvements in deep-
sea diving made the recovery of the
F-4 possible. Just as enormous in
crease in the capacity of recently con
structed dredging machinery is the
leading factor in the work on the
Bear. This same improvement in
pumping methods has been demon
strated quite unostentatiously for a
year past between Portland and Van
couver in filling in the approaches to
the interstate bridge. It is not many
years since that operation would have
required the employment of a great
army of men, dumpcarts, scrapers and
mules, instead of a few men and a set
of machinery of great power.
Veritably, we are living more and
more in an age of machinery. Also,
It is an age of big men, for the ma
chine would be powerless without the
minds that conceive opportunities for
it to be useful, and the direction that
is essential to all great accomplish
ments. Among all maritime feats on
this Coast the recovery of the Bear,
if it shall be accomplished, will de
serve a prominent place.
MUCH THUNDER, LITTIJC LIGHT.
The Oregonian is pleased to note
that its volatile and interesting con
temporary, the Bvening Telegram, aft
er a cogitative delay of several hesitat
ing days, has seen fit to respond in
part to The Oregonian's invitation to
define its latest and newest position
on the terminal rate question, by
squirming through a column or more
of ponderous discussion. If we under
stand our versatile neighbor correctly,
it is willing that 'Portland shall ask
a lower proportionate rate than Puget
Sound or Astoria "when it becomes
apparent that it is not only Just but
expedient for- us to demand all the fa
vors of advantageous position."
Not now, but at some future time,
Portland should be left free to assert
and obtain. If it can. its rights. That's
the stuff. It would be futile, no doubt,
to ask the Telegram when it thinks
that day the hazy and distant "some
time" will arrive?
The most unfortunate aspect of the
whole situation, so far as Portland
is concerned, is that the city has for
years talked about its rights, but has
done nothing more than talk. It has
seen and known that it was at the con
fluence of two great rivers, 100 miles
from the sea, on a down-grade haul,
with no mountains to climb going or
coming, and it has been happy in the
dream that somehow, at some time.
something would happen to force the
railroads to recognize its situation and
give lower rates than Puget Sound.
But it has been only a dream. The
awakening came with the Interstate
Commerce rate ruling which, in de
fiance of logic, or fact, or conditions,
sought to place Portla-id in a rate
group with Astoria and the Puget
Sound cities. The min i that can po:
ceive any advantage to Portland from
the decision can extract rhetorical figs
from thistles, and gather grapes from
thorns-. In that style of literary exer
cise, our friend, the Telegram, is a
real expert. Evidently it sees a bright
rainbow of promise for Portland in
the fact that the new rates will take
freight from the Inland Empire
through Portland to Astoria, and from
Astoria through Portland to the In
land Empire, for the Portland rate
the 100 miles excess distance each way
being an outright gift to Astoria.
Let us hear from the Telegram just
how Portland is benefited by this in
defensible and discriminatory rate
tariff.
WASTING TIME IN COLLEGE.
The declaration by President Wil
bur, of Stanford, that students who
are not actuated by serious purpose
are not wanted at that university,
is in line with the previously reported
policy of Stanford to insist upon cer
tain reforms, important among which,
it is said, will be that statistical vast
ness will be subordinated in the future
to educational results. The desire is
not peculiar in any sense, or even
new. It derives emphasis from the
fact that it is so plainly spoken. No
Intending student at Stanford will be
able to say next year that he went
there under a misapprehension. It is
noteworthy event in university an
nals, because in the past the competi
tion between schools of higher learn
ing has been admittedly keen; there
has been a manifest desire to add to
the numbers on the roll; it seemed
to be taken for granted that momen
turn was a good thing and the higher
the velocity it attained the better for
all concerned.
Now President Wilbur has made it
plain that his conception of a student
is one who studies. It is strange that
anyone ever should have thought oth
erwise, but it is painfully true that
there has been such a different be
lief. Warning to parents that in sup
plying their sons with funds for " or
chids and taxicab hire" they are not
advancing the real interests either of
the young men or of the school is
timely and symbolical. By "orchids
and taxicab hire" President Wilbur
evidently means to include the whole
list of absurd and Inconsequential "e
tras" that not only are a drain on
father's purse but involve worse than
a waste of the precious time of the
young student. The concluding words
of President Wilbur's announcement
are equally momentous. "The stu
dent," he says, "who cannot be con
tent to lead the simple, clean, indus
trious life expected on the Stanford
campus should go elsewhere.'
This recognition and the courageous
meeting of the existing situation may
inspire other colleges and universities
to follow the example set. It is not
true, perhaps, that all or even most
students in the higher branches are
inspired by a primary desire to get all
the social pleasure possible out of the
college life, to the exclusion, if neces
sary, of their studies that is to say,
it is not true at the time the young
man first conceives the ambition to
"go to college." But example has a
powerful effect, and it takes excep
tional sturdiness of character to with
stand temptation. There are some
universities in which the "grind" has
no standing among his fellow-students
worth mentioning, while the "good fel
low" has things pretty much his own
way. Some professors have been in
clined to take the course of least re
sistance, on the theory that If they
fought the tendency the young blood
would only go elsewhere, while the
serious young man would gain no par
ticular benefit. This spirit has been
that the university and its facilities
were there, and it was not the concern
of the instructors If there were failure
or neglect to take advantage of them.
But the time-wasting student does.
as a matter of fact, do harm extending
beyond his own circle. Consciously
i or unconsciously,
he sets a . wrong
i standard. It is futile to argue that no
I one need follow, in, hia path, Most
young people dread being called
"stingy," and few like to be left out
of Important activities, in which, from
the nature of things, the money
spenders set the pace. The practical
result is not only that those with more
modest incomes are constrained to live
beyond their means, but that they are
distracted from the serious purpose
hat inspired them when they began.
The few exceptions do not vitiate the
rule. Keeping up with the other fel
low is a vice as common in college life
as it is too common In our everyday
affairs.
Suffering parents will welcome the
new dispensation. Some students will
admit that it is a good thing. No harm
will have been done to the cause of
higher education if a certain class who
now go to college take President Wil
bur at his word and "go elsewhere."
These young fellows are not bad; they
are only extremely thoughtless, and
college was not made for their especial
benefit. It Is even possible that in a
field better suited to their talents they
would develop a serious outlook on
life. Touth is the time for study and
for forming the habits of Btudy; it is
the age of receptiveness. Middle life
may continue habits well begun, but
It is slow to form new ones. Youth is
too precious to be wasted a fact that
seems to be gaining formal recognition
in our colleges at last.
Despite the enormous destruction of
shipping occasioned by the war, it
still anDears that Great Britain, the
heaviest loser of all the nations, has I
uffered to the extent of less than one-I
tenth of the tonnage known to exist
when the war broke out. Figures I
made up to the end of May show that I
the number of ships sunk that were
under the British flag was 743 and the
tonnage 1,623,766, while the total ton
nage under that flag before the war
began was 19,541.364. France has
suffered peculiarly in her larger craft.
having lost about a fourth of her to
tal tonnage, but only about a twen
tieth of the total number of her ships.
The large number, relatively, of Brit
ish trawlers and boats engaged in pa
trol duty in the waters between the
British coast and that of Germany ac
counts in part for the difference. The
total number of ships of all nations
lost at the end of May has been esti
mated at 1276 and their tonnage at
585,362.
Mr. Hughes has met with prompt
proof the denial of Secretary Redfield
that E. Dana Durand was forced out
f office as Director of the Census.
The proof is Professor Durand's direct
statement. He also proves to be dis
ingenuous the denial that "an eminent
scientist" was displaced as Chief of
the Coast and Geodetic Survey to make I
room for L Lester Jones, "an excel-
lent stockbreeder and veterinary sur-
geon." It now appears that Mr. Jones
reached that office by way of the
Deputy Commissionership of Fisher
ies. What training for coast survey
work he could derive from the breed
ing of stock, from practice as a vet
erinarian or from study and culture
of fish is not revealed.
In criticising Mr. Hughes' "mental
attitude" toward labor, Mr. Gompers
confuses his attitude as a judge with
his attitude as a statesman. In his
capacity as judge, , Mr. Hughes was
called upon only to say what the law
is; as a statesman he tells what he
thinks the law should be and what he
will try to make it His fitness for
President must be judged by his atti
tude in the latter capacity.
'Although a bomb burst in the
midst of his ambulance section, Mr.
Monagle remained calmly at work,'
says a Paris dispatch of an American
whom France has decorated. His name
suggests Irish blood, and a character
istic of Irish courage is that it keeps
a man calm when others would be
come "rattled."
Sound sense dictated President Wil-
son's act in amending the civil service
rules to permit a paroled prisoner to
remain in prison as an employe after
spending half a lifetime there. It
would have been cruel to turn such a
man loose on a world to which he had
become a stranger.
Most of the victims of heat in Chi
cago were buried at the expense of
the county. In a measure, that ex
plains the cause of death. They were
poor, and ill-nourished bodies could
not withstand the effect of tempera
ture.
Ex-Ambassador Herrlck's experience
as a diplomat would make his services
valuable in the Senate, for foreign re
lations will occupy a most Important
place in the deliberations of that body
during the next few years.
President Wilson's watchful waiting
cumstance for watchfulness nor wait-
L tv, nnxron National
Guard's vigilant lookout for the pay-
Airr, man would come across
when held up by a female bandit in
male attire if she be young, petite and
pretty. Chivalry is not dead nor sleep
ing.
The Kaiser needs more fighting sub
marines to keep in the procession. In
the United Kingdom 440 merchant ves-
scls are building.
Results from the joint commission
on Mexico depend on how the sessions
are opened and closed. A good mixer
would help.
The graingrower east of the moun
tains can select the finest kind of car
and have enough left toubuy a barrel
of gas.
Maize in four big corn states is re
ported to be 89,000,000 bushels short.
This will make the Fall pigs sell light.
The 20,000 Austrians captured at
Gorizia will know the taste of maca
roni and garlic ere they get home.
Lift the hat to John B. Teon. The
Columbia Highway opens tomorrow.
clear tnrougn.
Democrats have fixed September 1
for adjournment. Obsequies March. 6
this time.
This Is the weatherman's off year.
or his busy year, according to how one
views It.
Eh! What's the fare to Coos Bay?
A jag ship is scheduled from Calif or -
nia.
With dyes at $70 a pound, some men
prefer the run of the clippers.
Buyers are coming on every train.
and there's room for all.
The easier way to Increase) weight
Is tA try: to reduce) it.
How to Keep Well.
By Dr. W. A. Evans.
Questions pertinent to hytlene. 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 nut suitable, letter will be per
sonally answored, subject to proper limita
tions and Where stamnett adriru4 mviIam
Is inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis
w- prcsci.De tor inaiviaual diseases. Re
quests for such service cannot be answered.
(Copyright, 1818, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
a iiuuus;
Blood Pressure Diet.
In the Interstate Medical Journal
Dr. H. W. Soper gives hia opinions on
high blood pressure. He thinks that
eating too much meat is a large fac
tor in every case and the largest fac
tor, by far. in some cases.
He has been successful In reducing
blood pressure by dieting. A person
with a high blood pressure Is erven
the following diet list:
One glass of cold water upon arising.
Breakfast
Oranges or grapefruit.
Cereals with cream.
Eggs, soft boiled, poached, omelette.
Toast and butter.
One cup hot water flavored, with
cream.
11 A. M., one glass of cool water.
Lunch
Orange or grapefruit.
Cream vegetable soup (no mea
stock)
' wnue onions, oyster plant.
carrots, celery, spinach, asparagus,
string beans, well mashed squash,
broiled eggplant; okra, or corn.
Raw celery, onlona. tomatoes, olives,
lettuce, tomato or fruit salad with
French or mayonnaise dressing.
Custards, gelatins, cornstarch, tapi
oca.
Stewed fruits.
Whole wheat bread and butter.
Raw fruits.
Ono glass cool water.
4 P. M.. one glass cool water.
Dinner
Creamed vegetable soup (no meat
stock).
Roast beef, lamb, chicken or turkey
without -dressing, broiled lamb chops
or steak, baked fresh fish.
Potatoes well mashed or rice well
cooked. Other vegetables, choice from
same as at lunch.
Whole wheat bread and butter.
Stewed fruits, raw fruite.
One glass cool water.
Bedtime, one glass cool water.
Avoid all condiments, such as mus
tard, horseradish and catsup. Use little
sugar, little salt and no pepper. All
vegetables should be well cooked with
out the addition of meat, fat or sugar,
The keynote of the treatment is the
quantity of protein taken. In nine
cases out of 10 he restricts his patients
to 450 grains of meat a day a little
less than one ounce. A few took 600
graine and a very few 750 grains.
It is impossible to diet for high
blood pressure without weighing the
amount of m.-at eaten. The amount of
protein allowed was 900 grains in the
average case. One or two patients got
as high as 1500 grains. Besides the
meat and eggs, the foods in the above
dietary which are rich in proteins are
toast, cereals, bread and cream.
If the patient will weigh the amount
of bread, cereal and cream he can eat
about as freely as he wishes of the
articles on the above diet list-
Constipation must be overcome when
present.
Following this line of dieting some
70 persons were relieved of the!
symptoms and had an average fall of
40 in blood pressure.
Cleaning; Tonsils.
L. R. R. writes: "I often read In
your column about having one's tonsil
cleaned. What do you mean by that?
2 One of Tnv tonsils has a rjerfora-
tion from which once in a great while
a small, cneesey-llke particle comes,
which Is very offensive. What is th
cause?
"3 What would you advise?
"4 Is it serious?"
REPLY.
1. Throat specialists clean the tonsils of
Just such masses as you describe. They uso
for the purpose a small suction apparatus.
Sometimes It Is necessary to silt the crypts
In many cases the masses can be pressed
from the, tonsils with the end ot a spoon
handle or a wooden spatula.
2. The recesses of the tonsils cannot clea
themselves, in consequence, the pockets fill
up. with bacteria and decaying orsanlo mat
ter.
S. I would advise you to massage your
tonsils with the end of
spoon. If you can
not do that, you had better have a throat
specialist loolc after you.
4. It Is not very serious.
Drowsy and Sleepy.
J. V. M. writes: "I feel drowsy and
have no energy or vitality. Have a big
appetite and want to eat between
meals, especially sweets, fruits, etc.
Whenever I quit eating candy, etc..
it- Am working in a store, and when
reR1 or siuay x get arowsy ana
sleepy until I have to quit Have had
fllabetes in light form-
REPLY.
If you have had diabetes and are drowsy
and sleepy you are In urgent need of medi
cal attention. Diabetes often causes death
through producing coma. Corns Is a form ot
sleepiness and drowsiness. If you will go on
a diet and follow orders absolutely there may
be some hope for you. If you oat candy and
sweets aerd big meals there Is none.
Reducing Fat.
F. I writes: "Would appreciate If
you could tell me what would reduce
my weight, as I am entirely too fat.
I am 22 years old and weigh 230
I pounds."
REPLY.
Ko medicine will answer. You must work
more and eat less. Especially est less
starch, bread, potatoea, sugar, sweets, des
serts and milk.
Idea Not New.
PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (To the Ed
itor.) Referring to the telegram of
the Associated Press from the Royal
Testing Laboratory of Berlin, as pub
lished August 7, announcing a discov
ery that paper can be manufactured
from cotton stalks:
Paper has been manufactured since
scores of years from all kinds of tex
tiles, plants, grasses, hay. leaves. Af
rican alfa. stalks of peas, beans and
corn, from sage brush and so forth.
There is nothing new In the idea of
process. N. E.
Hia "Salad- Days.
Louisville Courier-JournaL
"Hubby, I've often heard you speak
about your salad days." "Yes. my dear.
Can t you help me make a salad for
I my reception? I must have one and I
I know
nothing about the dreadful
things.'
Exrase for Departure.
' Boston Transcript
Hostess (to departing- guest) Must
you go so early, Mr. Blank? Blank
I'm very sorry that I must leave, Mrs.
Park; the fact is, not expecting to have
such a pleasant time this evening, I
made another, engagement.
WILSOX AVIXG IS ALL A-FIVTTEH
Horrid Men Aersset of Raising; Storm
Im Enesa Political Club.
EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 9. (To the Ed
itor.) Did you ever hear of the Wood
row Wilson Wing? Well, first of all.
it's a sweet alliteration, and secondly,
and chiefly, it is an association of
women voters designed to further the
cauae of Woodrow Wilson, in the com
ing election. We have a feather of
the Wing here In-Eugene.
Now we wanted to stir up some . en
thusiasm and it was proposed to write
erses on aome Democratic hero or sub
ject, that would be suitable for singing
at meetings or In marching. It was
agreed that all contributions should
be in typewriting and unsigned. Mem
bers need not write unless they wanted
to, but they must at least deposit an
envelope with inclosed paper, so that
the real authors should not be known
and the contributions could be judged
strictly on their merits.
It was really quite exciting when the
envelopes were opened and the poems
read. All went well for a time, but
there were two productions, which the
judges have denominated as offenses
and 2, which raised a storm. Either
there is treachery in the Wing or the
husbands of two of the members, with
mischievous design, have substituted
effusions of their own in place of the
blank papers intended by their wives.
All efforts to expose the guilty parties
have failed. In the meantime the
Wing is all a-flutter. I inclose offenses
1 and 2. hoping that through publicity I
the guilty parties may be brought to
confess and thus relieve the distress in
the W ing.
HANNAH SMITE
OtTEXSE SO. 1.
Not Too Frond to right.
Old Hickory was a Democrat,
But not toe watchxul-walting kind.
He knew an Insult at first glance
And whacked It with a wUUng mind.
I thank my God." Old Hickory said.
""'He put me here In Freedom's Land;
An endless fight old Freedom has
But In her ranks I take my stand .
'I thank my God," Old Hickory ssld,
"He gave unto me such a heart,
can but love my native land.
Its glories, and Its meaner part!
Beyond compare. I prise Its name.
Its blood-bought banner, stripe and stsr
Touch It out ruaely. John Calhoun,
lou 11 Journey where the anceia are:
And many a bout Old Hickory had.
Itor fought so fiercely nor so long.
As when the odds against him plied
And he assailed respected wrong.
And so he lived and loved and dared.
And oroved the bbon of armed riant
He was Just plain American.
And not a bit too proud to fight!
OFFENSE NO. 2.
We Are Coming, Ioctor Wilson.
From Mississippi's winding stream and from
rew Lncland s shore
From Central plains, from where the West
ern billows rosr.
From Southern everglade and from the
Northern Sea.
From every spot where bravo Americans
may be
we are coming. Doctor Wilson, and we
anow it's not for war.
And the thing that bothers. Is, what tha
tieuce vers coming for!
We are coming. Doctor Wilson, three hun
dred thousand strong!
Are we on oid Mex's border Just to string
along.
While the notes fly thickly, couched In lan
guage truly fine,
And the Grchr hunts his torch, to fire
your house and mine.
while he cleans his murderous gun and
sharpens up his knife.
To use them when our backs are turned on
children and on wife?
We
are coming. Doctor Wilson.
and we
know there'll be no scrap
What Jar could wake us from our peace-
loving nspT
All unavenged. Americana strew thick old
ocean s floor!
In dusty chaparsl. for carrion birds. He
thousands more!
But party needs are pressing, "He kept us
out of war!'
So we're coming. Doctor Wilson, but what
are we coming for?
HOP CROP IS MILLIONAIRE, TOO
Yield in Oregron This Year Will
93,000,000, Says Mr. Bents.
Be
AURORA Or., Aug. 8. (To the Ed
ltor. I wish to comment briefly on
article in today's issue on "Six Oregon
t-Tops Are .Millionaires." you name
wheat, oats, spuds, apples, barley and
corn. I fail to see why you exclude
"hops." This crop, as you are well
aware, has brought into our state an
nually for years from 12,500.000 to $11
000,000. The hop crop has averaged
more value than any other Oregon
farm crop except wheat and oats. This
season, with every adverse condition
to contend with, the hop crop will
Drlng approximately 13.000,000
The hopgrowers wi
gathering crop alone
000. This sum is paid in large part
to women and children of your citv.
They at least have cause to know that
Oregon produces more hops than any
other state In the Union
When and where is it possible for a
family to net from $50 to 1250 in two
weeks, besides enjoying an outing, as
uiey can ana ao in hopplcklng?
It will soon be time to gather in this
season s nop crop, a crop
monar the
most valuable grown in this state. W'e
nro sruins more nops man any otner
state. We grow the best hop in the
world. We spend a large part of the
value of our crop for harvesting. Yet
you seem to give us the "go-by." Our
crop brings into our state nearly all
outside money new money to helD
mane prosperity for dear old Oregon,
wnen mentioning the principal agri
cultural crops of Oregon please place
tne nop crop tnira: that is where It bei
longs. HENRY L. BENTS.
Descent ot Property.
PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Edl
tor.) Husband and wife have no chil
dren. .
II Tn a a wl ill-. 111
what r ...- -;-
previous to her marriaa-e?
(2) W hat becomes of same property
in case she makes will? Does one-half
go to husband's relatives In any event?
(3) If husband dies without will,
what becomes of real estate accumu
lated after marriage?
(4) What becomes of same property
provlded he makes will? Does one-
half go to huohand s relatives In any
event? PUZZLED SUBSCRIBER.
(1) All goes to husband.
(S) To whomsoever she will!" it. ex
cept the husband's curtesy. No part
goes to relatives unless bo willed.
(3) It goes to widow if there are no
children.
T.4) The wife has a dower interest.
The rest goes as willed.
Meaning of "La Creole."
SHERIDAN. Or, Aug. 8. (To the
Editor.) Have been in Oregon only 12
years and cannot say as to origin of
the name "Rickreall." but a French
man would tell you tnat the word
"Creole" means "native" and Is genera-
llv used In Louisiana. South Carolina
and the West Indies to designate those I in the State of Washington by a young
born there, though of pure French orliady, not yet 21 when contracted, col
Spanish descent, most of whom speak I lectlble after she marries and goes to
French or Spanish.
For Instance, the Creole French of
New Orleans are of pure French blood.
but native of New Orleans, and they
are of a high type, being quiet, cour
teous and polished and worthy of the
names they Dear.
It seems to raeit would take lots of
English, to twist La Creole Into Rick
realL JEAN IBERVILLE.
One Year.
PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (To the Ed
itor.) If a mother of a minor is de
serted by her husband, how loug a time
must elapse Defore she can obtain
divorce on that ground?
"DESERTED."
In Other Daya.
Twenty-flvo Years Ako.
From The Orofontan August 11. 1S9L
George W. Hazen. the popular as
sistant cashier of the United States
National Bank of Portland, was bath
In? at Clatsop Beach Sunday when
Mrs.- P. W. Parker was drowned, and
he made a heroic effort to save her.
He and Mr. J. W. Hayes were about
40 feet from the scene but the under
tow carried her away.
James Russell Lowell, the eminent
poet, diplomat and scholar, is danger
ously ill at his residence at Cambridge.
Mass. It is felt he will not recover
from this general breakdown of hia
vital forces.
The contract for a handsome five-
story brick and stone building to be
erected at Morrison and East Park
streets, was let yesterday by Justus
Krumbeln.
E. C. Miehener. of the Paclfle Ele
vator Company, returned yesterday
from a visit to Walla Walla.
Peter Essen. Oregon's first State
Pood Commissioner, appointed under
the new law by Governor Pennoyer.
died at his home in this city last night.
John A. Riley, brother of Jamea
Whitcomb Riley, has been appointed
superintendent of the Bradstreet Com-
pany for the Pacific coast ana win
have headquarters at Los Angeles.
Half a Century Ago.
From The Oregonian August 11.
A very welcome shower, something
to boast of in this country at this sea
son of ;he year, visited the region
about Portland last evening.
Joseph Oppenhelraer, of this city.
yesterday exhibited a piece of ROld
worth JQO an ounce. Tho specimen
wei-.bfd 11 ounces It is on exhibition
at the banking house of Ladd & Tilton.
The machinery of the Oregon City
Manufacturing Co.. is now being
placed in proper position, and it is ex
pected that the plant will be in opera
tion in a few weeks.
General Rufus Inpalls and Stan, ac-
Ieoinpanied by Colonel Babcock and
Colonel Sackett. returned yesterday
from Pugtt Sound and proceeded to
Fort Vancouver on the steamer Kescue.
The woods on fire in the vicinity of
fie farm of Mr. Miller near Mllwaukie
yesterday attracted great attention.
We are "informed that no damage was!
done by the firs.
The Zouave cadets were out in full
uniform last evening parading on the
stre- ts. They make a very creditable)
appt-arance under the direction of Cap-"
tain Snodgrrass.
FIRST WHITE CHILD OF OREGOS
She Is Still Hale and Hearty. Although
TO Years Old.
KEWBERG, Or., Aug. 9. (To tha
I Editor.) The first baby girl born in
Oreg'm of wnlte parents was found in
this city today shelling peas for dinner
at tho iiome of her daughter. Mrs.
Annie McDonald, wife of M. McDonald.
Of course she Is no longer a girl, for
she was born August 1. 1840. on an
island below Portland. Her parents
came from England.
There was sent to The Oregonian .
last we?k by the Kewberg correspond
ent cf "he paper the announcement ot
the niarriagre of the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. McDonald in whlcn mention
was made of the fact that ti-.e Drioe
wis the granddaughter or tno nrss -
white B-irl born in Oregon. In The
I Oregonian today is an interesting letter1
from Ed C. Ross In wnicn no wamsi
more information on the subject. He
says that when he was in school in
Forest Grove in lb54 there was a girl
in '.He school who was said to have .
been the first white girl baby born in
this state and he wondered if the
grandmother of this Newberg bride
was he "very pleasant young lady, a
favorite among her friends, whom he -knew
at Forest Grove and whose name
was Jane Baldra." Tho conclusion he
rt ached was correct. When sue saw
the article today, the former Jana
Baldra (now Mrs. Wiley-Edwards,
having been twice married) was much
pleased and wanted to know '-'what is
Ed Ross doing now?" His reference to
her as being a "very pleasant young?
ladv" brought a flush to her face.
That Mrs. Edwards was the first
s-lrl habv native of Oregon is borne out
11 exnenrl tcir bv her possession of a large silver gob
lose to J1.500.- let which was presented to her. wit
clety of Oree-on 80 years ago. Though
she is now 76 years old she is hale and
hearty. Her husband Is still llvina- ana
the family home Is at Orenco. Wash
ington County. JOHN T. BELU
Jews In China.
PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Edi-
tor.) Is there a tribe of Chinamen In
phin. Ken rinf Jewish characteristics?
js it true that China is the only nation
1 that has been able to sDsorD tne jewt
CLARENCE W. COOKE.
The correspondent probably has In
mind the remnants of a colony of Jewa
who settled at K'al-feng Fu. 450 milea
southwest of Pekin. In 1163. They
once had a fine synagogue, but it and
its successors were destroyed by the
numerous disasters which have over
taken the city.
The city has been overwhelmed 14
times by flood, nine times by earth
quake, six times by fire and has been
taken 11 times by assault- Descendants
of these Jews are now scarcely dlstln-
Kuishable from the Chinese. They are
known as the Tiao Kin Hwug (the
I sect which plucks out the sinewj in
allusion to the method of preparing
meat to make it kosher.
The sect was visited by a Protestant
mission in 1S50. who obtained from
them Hebrew rolls of part of the
Pentateach. It had Been supposed mas
the remaining stragglers since then
had become merged with the Chinese
population and were entirely Ignorant
of everything connected with their
faith, but a traveler asserts that in
1 1909 he found a community still re-
I mainlng -vho worshiped in secret, pre
serving tho ancient Jewish ritual and
formulary.
This isolated case is not considered
an Indication tnat tne racial unity vi.
the Jews does not or would not exist
in China to the same extent as else
where under ordinary circumstances.
Bills of Vn married Woman.
T.A GRANDE.'' Or.. Aus. 8. (To the
I TTrfttnrl la a drv goods bill, contracted
the State of
Oregon to live?
SUBSCRIBER.
Yes, if she was over 18 years old at
time bill was contracted, but It Is not
collectible from the husband.
where to Apply.
CONDON1, Aug. 8. (To the Editor.)
Please tell me to whom one should ap
ply in order to secure a position In the
Portland telephone offices. E. E.
Address application to Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph Company or to
Home Telephone Company. It will
reach proper person.
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