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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1916.
SYMPATHETIC STRIKES.
Indefensible as it is, the sympathetic
strike has not been stamped out, as
Is shown by the situation in New York,
and as has been shown elsewhere in
the past. The sympathetic strike is
a form of sabotage. Its central, controlling-
idea is to make as much
trouble, of all kinds, as possible. It
takes no" account of actual grievances,
or of contractual relations, or of sol
emn promises. It is unbecoming the
free people of a democracy, and anti
social to the last degree.
Much of our civil law is based on
the keeping of contracts, or promises,
between men and groups of men in
order to insure stability and avoid in
dustrial chaos. Contracts are founded
on the principle at the outset that it
takes two to make a bargain, and that
when two have made that bargain it
should, if not incompatible with the
larger public interest, be kept. Other
wise bargaining would have no value
and bargains would not be made. The
man whose "word is as good as his
bond" always has commanded respect.
The same thing ought to be true
and it often is true, despite the ex
ceptions that are noted on occasions
like the present of the bargains en
tered into by groups pf men. It is
necessary that it should be so, if busi
ness is to prosper. The employer who
has treated his men with essential jus
tice has a right to expect protection;
he has a right to know that when in
good faith he has entered into other
contracts, relying on the sacredness of
the bond, he will be able to fulfill
them. We have not come to a pass
when the just shall be punished for
the omissions or commissions of the
unjust, even conceding that the cause
for which sympathy is sought to be
expressed is right.
Some labor unions recognize this
principle fully. An officer of the
International Typographical Union,
speaking of the situation in New York,
said recently: "The International
Typographical Union does not believe
in sympathetic strikes and typograph
ical union members in New York can
not strike." Other unions take the
same enlightened position, but not all
of them. Yet there is no doubt that
among the members of those unions
that are so breaking their relations
with employers against whom they
have no grievance there are many men
who would not break a personal prom
ise or violate a pledge. These men
are not doing labor a real service.
They are delaying the day of universal
mutual trust and of the best form of
collective bargaining. They ought to
realize that they cannot complain of
the broken promises of others if they
do not keep their own.
TrpprxG.
Ethics of the tip, or gratuity for
service for which the giver is sup
posed already to have paid, are to be
examined into critically and officially
in Boston, where municipal investi
gation has .been ordered. But those
who have hoped for an expose of the
deeper morals of the question are
doomed, we fear, to disappointment.
It seems that what the Hub wants to
know is not why the tip should be
given at all, but what finally becomes
of it. So far as the donor is con
cerned, it will be the same after the
Investigation has been concluded. He
will go right on tipping or being
snubbed because he does not give the
tip just as he always has been.
If it had been Philadelphia one
would not be so much surprised, but
it appears that Boston has only now
awakened to the fact that not all of
the tips given in hotels go to the em
ploye to whom the traveler desires to
show appreciation for some special
service rendered. As a matter of fact,
this has been the custom in a good
many cities almost, as modern days
are counted, from time immemorial.
"Captains" and head porters have
been arrogating these little profits to
themselves in New York for years,
and it long has been the prevailing
custom in Europe. Indeed, hotel and
restaurant proprietors themselves have
not been guiltless, as was shown in a
bankruptcy case in court some time
ago. There it was revealed that one
head porter had paid a Prince's ran
som to the Institution, that employed
him for the privilege of collecting all
the contributions an indulgent public
saw fit to make. Any man who has
traveled will recall the pocketless
coats of certain young men who served
him made that way so that by no
chance could the menial conceal the
smallest portion of the money given
him and convert It to his own account.
The industry is not only extensive, but
it is highly organized; and it has re
sisted every effort made to crush it.
The tip is the one abuse that every
body declaims against and that every
body at the same time is powerless
to reform.
Boston is under the impression, ac
cording to the Transcript, that if the
public learns that its tips are not go
ing to the person for whom they are
intended there will be a cessation of
the practice of tipping. If, it says,
the gratuity which a traveler gives to
a man who gives him good service is
at once appropriated by a man who
has done nothing for him, on pain
of the subordinate's loss of his job,
the traveler is likely to keep his silver
In his pocket.
On the contrary, we think, if past
experience is a reliable guide, the trav
eler is not likely to do anything of
the sort. The idea that the traveler
gives a tip out of the goodness of his
heart, because he appreciates the
pleasant smile of the waiter or the
bellboy or the wooden-faced youth
who seizes the hat the traveler would
much rather keep close at hand is
pure fiction. Tips are given ninety
nine times out of a hundred in sim
pie, abject fear of the consequences of
not giving them. Neglect, or worse,
we are taught to believe will be the
mete of the "tightwad," and some are
so constructed that they would rather
go hungry than be called stingy, even
by a man whom they never expect to
meet again. This is the phase of hu
man nature upon which the tip is
based. There is little or no pure gen
erosity about it. Those who compel
the giving of tips are themselves labor
ing under no delusions. They are
adepts in the study of human nature
and they make the most of what they
know about their fellow-men.
It is more likely that tipping will
continue, regardless of what becomes
of the money. The traveling public, or
the resident public, for that matter,
never has parted with its coin in the
spirit of benevolence. There is. in
deed, a general, if not wholly accurate,
impression that the tippee often is
far richer in world's goods than the
tipper. Be that as it may, there is
a long row to hoe before any appre
ciable good will have been accom
plished, and at the present writing
there are no signs that even a prom
ising start has been made.
WHAT SIGN'S OF PEACE?
The prophecy of Mr. H. G. Wells,
English romancist and sociologist, that
the great war will end next June lacks
adequate detail. Mr. Wells, who is al
ways interesting and knows an im
mense lot of things the rest of us can
only surmise, undoubtedly knows "the
exact day in June, 1917, when the
British troops will enter Berlin in
triumph, Constantinople will raise the
Russian flag, France will take over
Alsace and Lorraine, and King Albert
will remount the throne of a restored
Belgium.- --,
Samuel Hill is back from the front
and other places, and he says that one
man's guess is as good as another's.
So it is. We will back Sam Hill's
opinion against Mr. Wells'.
Lord Kitchener said the war would
Mm three years. A distinguished Brit
ish officer last Spring said it would
all be over in June, 1916. Mr. Wells
is of the same opinion, except that he
picks another June.
There will be real signs of the close
of the war when Germany and its
allies are able to bring their enemies
to a realization either that they are
beaten or cannot beat Germany. Or it
will be when Great Britain and its
allies convince Germany that it is
beaten or cannot beat the allies. But
has anyone seen on the part of any
belligerent the faintest sign that it
is willing to accept the loser's role?
WARNING.
In the Australasian colonies the au
thorities have adopted an extremely
simple form of ballot title for refer
endum measures. If the single-tax
measure now before the Oregon electo
rate were submitted there its title
would read about as follows:
The purpose of this measure Is to levy
taxes only on land and at the full sum for
which land would rent In the open mar
ket If unimproved; to apply two-thirds of
the tax revenues to purposes of government
and lend one-third to persons having not
more than $2250 for use by them in improv
ing land.
But under the Oregon system here
is what we get as title to the amend
ment mentioned:
Full Value Land Tax and rTomem alters
Loan Fund Amendment (Purpose A consti
tutional amendment declaring and defining
a peoples power and right: (b) citizens
right to use of land; (c) public ownership
of land rent; (d) public policy of Oregon;
defining (e) the word "land," (f) method
of appraising land rent; (g) land Improve
ment; providing for (h) levy of permanent
land rent tax; (1) publication of assess
ment; (J) delinquent tax sale; (k) main
tenance of private property rights; (1) sep
arate assessment of land rent; (mi stand
ing timber; in) assessment and collection of
tax; (o) duty of Governor and State Land
Board; Cp) how personal property and land
improvements may be taxed by vote of the
people only: (q) distribution of revenue from
land rent tax; and (r) establishing home-
makers' loan fund.
The official title is uninformative
except to a person of analytical mind
or to one who has read and closely
studied the text of the amendment.
Probably not 10 per cent of the voters
read and study all the amendments
submitted. The greater percentage in
form themselves by perusing news
paper comment or listening to public
discussions.
For presenting complicated issues
to the lay mind we in Oregon adopt
the lawyer's technicality of expression.
It is meaningless to the ordinary voter
and in this instance he is likely to
confuse the single tax amendment
with the rural credits amendment or
with the tax limitation amendment.
The voters of Oregon should store
away for future use the information
that the "Full rental "value land tax
and homemakers' loan fund amend
ment" (307 no) is not a rural credits
amendment, but a land confiscation
and grab-bag amendment: that its in
tent is to loot the Haves for the bene
fit of the Havenots.
OPENTNG THE PORTLAND GATEWAY.
Much benefit will accrue to the Wil
lamette Valley lumbermen if the
Southern Pacific Railroad should suc
ceed in arranging with the northern
lines to throw open the Portland gate
way for interchange of lumber traffic.
The gateway is now open to other
commodities going East, but a ship
ment of lumber from a Willamette
Valley mill to points in Montana or
the Dakotas would be required to pay
the local rate to Portland in addition
to the through rate from Portland to
the destination, while mills in Wash
ington pay no more than the Portland
rate. Under the proposed plan the
Valley mills would pay only the Port
land rate and would gain entrance to
a lucrative trade territory which is
now closed to them.
A great stimulus would be given to
the lumber industry of the Valley by
this arrangement. It would be en
abled to compete on equal terms with
Portland and Washington mills for
trade in the great farming belt which
extends from Montana eastward and
southward. Valley mills are depend
ent solely on railroads for transporta
tion, while those of the Columbia
River and the Coast have the water
to help them. The future of the lum
ber industry of Oregon is mainly in
the Willamette Valley, which in turn
must look to that industry as a main
source of prosperity. Benefit from
the broadening of its market will ac
crue to all the Valley cities as well
as to Portland through the increase of
business in general. Through this in
crease the Southern Pacific will com
pensate itself for loss of the long haul
on lumber traffic which it turns over
to the northern lines and which it
might be able to haul to destination
itself. The traffic on business to
points which it cannot now reach will
be clear gain to it.
The arrangement under negotiation
illustrates the truth which railroads
are gradually realizing that the most
liberal service to the public by mu
tual interchange of traffic is mora
profitable to them in the end than is
the drawing of hard and fast com
petitive lines. The growth in the gen
eral volume of traffic', in which all
roads share, amply compensates each
road for any small amounts of traffic
which it may lose in particular localities.
A STRAW FROM NEW YORK.
The vote in the New York Pro
gressive primary is a safe guide in
Judgment of the extent to which the
Progressives have returned to the Re
publican party. With 14 00 precincts
missing, the vote was 10,2 33 for Whit
man, 6889 for Seabury, a total of 17,
122. As the vote is running only
about four to a precinct from those re
ported, it is probable that no votes
were cast in many of the unreported
precincts, but if this ratio should hold
good throughout, there would remain
5600 votes to count, increasing the
total to 22,722. If the missing votes
should be divided in the same propor
tion as those already counted. Whit
man would get about 3350 and Sea
bury about 2250 of them. This would
bring Whitman's total to 13,583 and
Seaburys to 9139, a total of 22,722.
This total is about 27 per cent of
the Progressive vote of 1914 and about
5.8 per cent of that of 1912. By
voting for Whitman, the Republican
candidate, 13,583 of the Progressives
have indicated their readiness to join
the Republican party, while 9139 show
their inclination toward Democracy
by voting for Seabury. Less than 11
per ent of the Progressive voters of
1914, or 2.3 per cent of those of 1912,
still adhere to the third party or in
cline to Democracy, while nearly all
the remainder may fairly be presumed
to have rejoined the Republican party.
The Seabury vote probably was cast
almost entirely by men who were for
merly Democrats, or at least equals
their total number among the Pro
gressives. Probably it is exceeded by
the number of Republicans who voted
for Wilson in 1912 and is thus offset.
Its smallness shows how little ground
exists for the Democratic hope of
snatching victory out of the break-up
of the Progressive party. It proves
conclusively that that party was com
posed almost entirely of Republicans
and that, in dissolving, it is not divid
ing in anywhere near equal propor
tions between the two other parties,
but is again Republican, except for
an insignificant remnant in a state
polling more than 1.500,000 votes.
REFORM IX EXCESS.
It is a wise reformer that knows
when to stop reforming. Few of us
can foresee the impetus that a move
ment may acquire; to carry it beyond
the mark set for it in the beginning.
These reflections are inspired by a re
cent cry for help sent up by members
of the Rainy Day Club, which was or
ganized a few years ago for the pur
pose of persuading women to wear
shorter skirts. Mrs. A. M. Palmer was
its president and it had branches
throughout the country. It worked
with a will and, it'seems, with almost
too much success. There is talk in
some quarters of revising the declara
tion of purpose and continuing the
club as an organization to restore
some of the inches that have been
taken from skirts since the fight be
gan. The name Rainy Day Club conveys
its own explanation. The old-fashioned
long skirt was altogether too
long for rainy days and objectors as
serted that it was unnecessarily long
for any other sort of day. The cru
sade was quite strenuous while it
lasted. It was pointed out that trail
ing skirts were carriers of germs gath
ered from everywhere, and a positive
menace to the home. Besides that,
their weight alone was declared to
be wrecking the health of the wearers,
women being unhappily not provided
with "gallusses" to distribute the bur
den. Enough testimony of physicians
and scientists was adduced on the sub
ject to fill volumes. But Fashion has
little sympathy with Science and gave
ground slowly. Industrial necessity
helped some, for women who worked
began to shorten their skirts and to
spread the tidingsthat the innovation
had merit in it. The growing part
taken by women in outdoor life was
influential, also.
Any wayfarer may judge for him
self whether the fight has been won
or not. The constitution of the club
called for skirts that should be at
least four inches from the ground.
These have passed the mark set by
the rainy daisies, it is said by those
who observe such matters, and some
apprehension is felt lest the movement
shall not be checked in time. Hence
the call for the clubs either to disband
at once or make use of the machinery
of their organization to counteract in
part the effect of the work they have
done.
SENATOR STONE'S IEFESE.
Senator Stone's reply to Mr. Hughes'
denunciation of the Adamson eight
hour law is such as might be expected
from a man who wears the pseudonym
"Gumshoe Bill" and whose processes
of reasoning can fairly be compared
with that "street which is called
straight," whereof Mark Twain said:
"It is straighter than a corkscrew, but
not as straight as a rainbow."
Mr. Stone denies that Congress
yielded to force and then gives a re
cital of the facts in which he skill
fully but vainly endeavors to prove
his contention. He says: "Nobody
threatened the President: nobody de
manded anything of them," but a lit
tle further on he says:
Hundreds of thousands of men were on
the verge of a strike; they -were about to
quit -work and thus leave the entire ralfe
road transportation of the country tied up
for an Indefinite period.
He admits that the threatened strike
produced a "crisis" and would have
been a "catastrophe," the disastrous
effects of which on the country's in
dustries he describes. He finally
speaks of it as "the very threat of this
Nation-wide lock-up" and as a "ca
lamity." He likens the President's ac
tion to putting out a fire first and
then investigating the cause. .
Mr. Stone knows that, had this ca
lamity befallen the Nation, it would
have had momentous effects on the
fortunes of his party. Mr. Wilson and
all of his party knew it and the men
who made the threat knew that they
knew it. These being the circum
stances, it is idle to pretend that the
calling of a ptrike was not a threat or
that this threat was not aimed at
Congress. The threat was not even
implied, it was actually made. The
brotherhood chiefs said that if the
Adamson bill was not passed and
signed before Monday, September 4,
the strike would begin on that day.
With this threat hanging over their
heads. Congress rushed the bill
through bo September 2 and the Pres
ident signed it on September 3. It
was a clear case of fright yielding to
might. Mr. Stone's simile of the
house on fire does not apply. The
house was not on fire. An incendiary
with a flaming torch threatened to
set it on fire unless he was bought off,
and Congress gave him his price. Mr.
Stone's entire plea is so weak and so
full of falsehood as to be a reflection
upon the intelligence of the American
people.
Nor is It true that the crisis came
so suddenly that no time for Inquiry
or for arbitration remained. For
months the subject had been under
discussion not only between the rail
roads and the brotherhoods but in
every newspaper of any consequence
in the country. The brotherhoods had
declared the existing arbitration and
mediation law unsatisfactory and had
announced that they would not submit
their demands to arbitration under
that law., The Oregonian and other
newspapers urged that the Govern
ment ascertain in what respects it was
unsatisfactory and that Congress
amend the law to meet the objections,
but nothing was done. Not a move
was made to avert the catastrophe
which had impended for many months
until it was close at hand. Then un
der a threat Congress yielded and
pleads in its defense that there was
no time for inquiry. There had been
ample time for inquiry and for de
liberate action, but it had been frit
tered away.
In mentioning Mr. Hughes and Mr.
Roosevelt in the same category with
J. P. Morgan, George W. Perkins and
Senators Penrose and Crane as con
demning the action of the President
and Congress, Mr. Stone simply ap
peals to political and class prejudice
in the hope that it will blind many
people to the weakness of his case. As
well might Mr. Hughes throw Mr. Wil
son and Mr. Stone into the same cate
gory as Charles F. Murphy, Roger C.
Sullivan, Senator Taggart and other
Democratic bosses for the purpose of
creating prejudice against the policy
which the President and the Senator
support. Mr. Stone knows as well as
everybody else who is familiar with
current political history that the Re
publican bosses and the big capital
ists tried their utmost to prevent Mr.
Hughes' nomination; that he fought
the bosses when Governor of New
York and was utterly independent of
the capitalists and is now under no
obligations to them. Above all. he
knows that Mr. Hughes has always
been a steadfast champion of labor
and that the Republican candidate's
condemnation of the -Adamson law is
inspired not by enmity to the cause
of labor but by devotion to the Amer
ican form of government, which is
gravely imperiled by surrender to
force brought to bear by any group,
no matter what interest it represents.
With the militia on the border. New
York is in a poor position to combat
strike riots. If the militia were at
home, it would be called upon to sup
press the riots, thus intensifying the
antagonism of labor unions and in
juring its chance of being recruited
up to the strength required by the
Hay law. As it at present exists, it
is doubly handicapped. It cannot be
come an efficient arm of National de
fense until placed under complete
Federal control, and it cannot grow
to the required strength while sub
ject to strike duty. Either it should
be thoroughly Federalized and re
lieved of strike duty by organization
of a state constabulary or it should
be left in state service and its place
as the second line of National defense
filled by a new organization. At pres
ent it is not wholly either a Federal or
a state force, a military body or a po
lice body. In trying to make it serve
all purposes, state and Nation have
unfitted it adequately to serve any.
A Norwegian inventor has devised a
concrete ship, the vessel being made
on the principle of a reinforced con
crete building, with ribs of steel to
give it added rigidity. This vessel is
in actual operation, but it is not the
first concrete hull ever built, as many
have supposed. Two barges were
built of this material by a sand and
gravel company in Baltimore in. 1912
and 1913. The barge that was launched
in the latter year has been abandoned,
but the older one is still in use and is
said to be giving good service. Argu
ments in favor, of concrete are both
its relative cheapness when steel is at
a high price level and freedom from
certain destructive influences of sea
water.
Probably many farmers do not know
exactly where Roumania is, yet the
value of their wheat crop fluctuates
from day to day as victory in battle
swings to one side or the other in
that remote country. The telegraph
cable and the steamship have linked
the world in one great nervous system,
so that when Teuton or Roumanian
strikes a blow, the American jumps in
response.
The country editor is resourceful,
as he must be. The editor of the
Bandon Western World is good ex
ample. His paper was off the press
when he received news of the disaster
to the Congress. He printed a bulle
tin in red ink on the ample margin
of the first page and thus his readers
received the news.
Crete has long been prolific of revo
lutions. It repeatedly rebelled against
Turkey in the desire to join Greece.
It now rebels against King Constan
tino in the effort to run Greece
through that Cretan statesman, Veni
zelos. It is the turbulent isle of the
Aegean.
Downtown streets at night are not
the best places for cHildren, and ar
rest of parents for violation of the
Curfew law by their offspring Is right.
One arrest in a neighborhood ought
to be enough to call attention to the
law.
Because China is a long way off,
Americans are prone to dismiss
thoughts of suffering by floods with
a momentary expression of sorrow,
something that never relieves the ach
ing pains of hunger.
Kansas is not in the black belt, but
Ivan sans acted as if they were yes
terday when they took a man from
jail at Olathe and lynched him.
Will the wonders of science ever
cease? A California doctor has de
termined the age of a gypsy girl by
an X-ray examination.
A "round-up" at a county fair is
an innovation, but people will tire
of it and want to get back to racing
and big pumpkins.
It is said few Democrats are regis
tering. The stimulus died after the
Republican primary.
The heartless driver who runs down
a child and speeds away will do so
once too often.
A circus parade never grows old
and the calliope has trie same old
tooty charm.
Portland visitors get a welcome at
all the fairs roundabout.
Did you hear the dollars rattle yesterday?
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A. Evans.
Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of disease, if ma-.ters of gen
eral Interest, will be answered in this col
umn. Where space will not permit or the
subject Is n'Jt suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addressed envelope
is included. lr. Evans will not make diagnosis
or prescribe for individual diseases. Re
quests for such services cannot be answered.
(Copyright. 1HH1. by Lr. W. A. Evans.
Publlsned by arrangement with the Chicago
Trlbune-
SIRUP OF" THE HVPOPHOSPHITES.
PEOPLE who thought themselves "a
little run down" or that "they did
not feel right and needed a tonic" for
a generation have been in the habit of
taking sirup of hypophosphites. After
a while they got worse and went to
see a doctor or they got better and
gave the hypophosphites the credit of
curing them. In some Instances they
rested a little more or ate a little more
sanely or got a. little more) exercise) in
the open air, and these changes cured
the indisposition, for which cure they
gave the credit to the hypophosphites.
Or they were cured by the) natural ten
dency of the human body to be healthy
what the old philosophers called vis
medacatrix naturae, or the curative
powers of nature.
The theory on which the curative
power of hypophosphites was based
was that much disease was due to a
lack of phosphorus in the) system, that
h yphophosphites was tho best method
of getting phosphorus into the system
and that, therefore, one could cure him
self of many different diseases by tak
ing phosphites.
The human body does contain a small
quantity of phosphorus. When this
quantity falls below what it should be,
if it ever does, probably some harm
does come. But no scientist has ever
been able to put his finger on a single
disease and say this disease is due to
phosphorus starvation.
In order to maintain, the tissues In
proper chemical balance it is necessary
that they should have the proper
amount of phosphorus, even though no
disease due to phosphorus starvation
has ever been discovered. The best way
to feed phosphorus to the tissues is to
eat foods rich in phosphorus.
The foods richest in phosphorus are
eggs, whole wheat, almonds, peanuts,
walnuts, oatmeal, lean meat and milk.
Sirup of hypophosphites is. in compari
son, a very poor way of feeding phos
phorus. In the first place, the amount of
phosphorus In a te&spoonful of sirup
of hypophosphites is very small. In the
second place, 85 per cent of what 18
there Is passed out by the system with
out being absorbed. Half a glass of
milk contains more phosphorus than 45
grains of hypophosphites and very
much more than the ordinary amount
of sirup of hypophosphites taken in a
day. In the third place, the phospho
rus in hypophosphites Is not in a very
usable form so far as the tissues are
concerned. The phosphorus In milk is
In the form of phospho-protein casein
a very usable form. That of egg yel
low Is in the form Of phosphorized fat,
another very usable form. Probably the
phosphorus in phytic acid in wheat
bran is also very usable.
The hypophosphites do not rank with
any of these in the readiness with
which the tissues can use phosphorus
for purposes of repair. For these rea
sons the council on pharmacy and
chemistry of the American Medical As
sociation holds that it is a waste of
time and money to use sirup of hypo
phosphites. Baby's Pood,
Worried mother writes: "Baby weighs
17 pounds; is 6 months and 1 week old;
no teeth. Has had four breast feedings
and two bottle feedings for last two
months, bottle feeding consisting ol
modified cow's milk (milk, water and
granulated sugar, boiled), as baby had
tendency to loose bowels. Present time
breast milk very scarce; have been fin
ishing each feeding with bottle of
boiled mixture, as described.
"Is it advisable to continue boiled
milk during hot months? (2) If nec
essary to wean, should boiled milk be
continued exclusively? (3) What would
symptoms be if boiled milk disagrees?
(4) Would stools be formed if it does
agree? (5) Some advise boiling milk
three minutes. Is this necessary, or
would bringing to the boiling point be
sufficient?
Reply.
1. Tes.
2. Give some orange juice to prevent the
baby from developing scurvy. After Sep-
temoer aaa some other articles to the diet.
3. Bowel trouble, pallor of the skin, flab
blness of the muscles, tendency of the gums
to bleed. Sometimes pains in the Joints.
4. Partly so.
5. Bringing to the boiling point is suffi
cient. Several Questions.
. A. B. C. writes: "I wIbd. you would
answer the following questions: (1) Is
there any cure for hay fever? (2) Is
there any cure for catarrh? (3) Is there
a serum for either one of these diseases
that will cure or help them? If so,
where can it be obtained 6r adminis
tered? (4) Is there any immunizing
serum for rattlesnake bites? (5) What
is the best thing to do for rattlesnake
bite that an individual can do at the
time of the bite?"
Reply.
1. There are a multitude of cures. There
are vaccines from pollen of plants and vac
cines from bacteria. Some cases are cured
by operations on the nose and sinuses.
2. In catarrh the nose should be exam
ined and the seat of the trouble located and
treated. The term catarrh is applied to
several nose conditions. The treatment de
pends on which condition Is present.
8. There are both immunising and cura
tive sera and vaccines. Your druggist --"
get these from the manufacturers.
4. .o. There are sera for the bites of
some other snakes, but they are not exactly
suited to rattlesnake cases.
5. Cut the wound open and let It bleed
freely. If you have It at band, wash with a
solution of permanganate of potash or salt
brine. Do not take whisky. It does more
harm than good. Snake bite Is seldom fatal.
The danger of serious consequences is small.
Dog Killed by Carelessness.
PORTLAND, Sept. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) A little incident took place Mon
day evening on F-ast Thirty-second
street near Hawthorne avenue, which
I would like to call to attention. A
friend of mine, exercising his thor
oughbred Airedale, lost sight of her
for a few moments, only to hear her
howling with pain a few hundred feet
away. Rushing In the direction of the
noise, he found that some autolst,
pleasure bent, had run directly over her
body. A man near the scene warned
the motorist to look out for the dog,
but no attention was paid to him, nor
did the machine stop even after run
ning over the dog and crushing out her
life.
1 wonder how he wouTd have felt had
the dog been his? Why should he de
liberately run over the luckless animal
when It would have been just as easy
to avoid it? Cruelty to animals in
this day smacks of barbarism.
FRIEND OS1 THE DUMB BRUTES.
MAINE AS POLITICAL BAROMETER'
Recent Republican Majority Exceeds
Average for Ten Tears.
PORTLAND. Sept. 21 (To the Edi
tor.) The Democratic genius who can
explain away the Maine election has
not yet arisen. , Doc Anderson and
Milt Miller have both been much absent
from their accustomed haunts in the
Imperial Hotel lobby working on the
Job. The Jackson Club has a detail out
studying the problem. The powerful
brain of ex-Governor Glynn, of New
York, evolved an explanation in Indian
apolis recently that well illustrates
how little difference there is in candor
and reliability between an ordinary
ward boss and a Democratic ex-Governor.
He tells us that "the average Re
publican majority in the last five Na
tional elections in Maine has been 33,164,
and yet on Monday last the Republicans
carried it by only 13.000." Why does
he compare the average Presidential
majority with the recent majority for
Governor? Simply because, according
to the tables given in the World's
Almanac, which ought to be good
Democratic authority, the average Re
publican majority in the last 20 years
on Governor has been only 11.656 and
that doesn't look well by the side of
13.000. If an average Republican ma
jority of 11.656 on Governor during the
last 20 years has been coincident with
an average Presidential majority of
33.164, which is nearly three times as
much, then a, majority of 13.000 for
Governor this year ought to mean near
ly 40,000 for Hughes in November.
E. C. Protzman has also been out
in the Democratic cucumber patch
looking for sunbeams. In The Oreiro
nian he expresses a desire to say, "for
the encouragement of your Democratic
readers and also the Republicans and
Progressives who are going to vote for
Wilson, that the proportionate vote of
the two parties in the election in, Maine
on Monday indicates the election of
Wilson by a large majority of the elec
toral college." This is certainly good
news, but possibly not very authentic.
He probably bases his prophecy on the
Maine election results in 1908. In that
year the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor had a majority in September of
7653. which was followed in November
by a majority for Taft of 30.684. If
the same proportion holds this year
Hughes will have a majority of about
62,000.
These random figures are simply
thrown out as suggestions that if the
other states don't do better work for,
the Democratic party than Maine has.
that party will not make even a per
ceivable dent in the 1.300.000 majority
that Taft and Roosevelt had over Wil
son in 1912. CHARLES B. MOORES.
HOW NEGRO BILL WAS FRAMED
Some Sections Omitted, bat Repeal of
Present Law Is Trged.
PORTLAND, Sept. 21 (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregonian recently there
appeared an article written by Mc
Cants Stewart, "Why One But Not the
Other?" In this article he asks sev
eral questions concerning the "negro
and mulatto suffrage amendment,"
which is one of the measures to be
voted on at the November election.
"Why one but not tho other?" "Who
started this and why?" "Was the Leg
islature flirting with the Colored Wom
en's Republican Club or the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People?"
Being one of those who was instru
mental in the introduction of that bill
fn the state Legislature I take the
liberty to try to explain. D. C. Lewis,
a member of the lower house who had
been asked by some of the members of
my race to see what he could do toward
having those objectionable clauses elim
inated from the state constitution, in
troduced a so-called "negro" bill
(which, I am told, covered the entir
"black laws"), in the House, where it
was summarily killed. Being in touch
almost daily with members in both
House and Senate, I asked Dr. Andrew
C. Smith if he would introduce a
similar bill. If we got it to him in
time. He consented to do so. Arthur I.
Moulton, a member of our Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, willingly gave us his time and
drew up another bill covering the
"black laws" and we, sent it to Dr.
Smith, but it got there too late to be
introduced in the House so we wired
him to give it to Senator George M.
McBride.
Unfortunately, several pieces of paper
were used in drawing up this bill
where one possibly would have been
enough and with so much handling by
the time it reached Mr. McBride the
manuscript had become separated. So
Mr. McBride simply introduced what
was given to him, not taking the time
to see what was omitted. That is why
all the sections do not appear in the
bill.
Mr. McBride introduced the bill on
Lincoln's birthday and it passed the
Senate without any trouble and was
returned to the House, where it was
also passed.
Like The Oregonian we say that all
the objectionable sections, even though
they are already abrogated by the 14th
amendment to the United States con
stitution, should be eliminated from
the state constitution. But because
some have been omitted from the bill
is no reason that the law as it is
shduld not be repealed.
We hope that the other publications
throughout the state will take up the
question and put it before the voters in
the right light. We earnestly hope
that the voters will do their duty by
voting "304, yes."
MRS. E. D. CANNADT.
COl'JfTf JUDGES HIP IS IMPORTANT
Reasons Why George McBride Should
Receive Vetes of People.
PORTLAND. Sept. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) The office of County Judge for
Multnomah County should be held by
the best man to be found in our
county who is qualified to hold this
high position of honor and trust. He
should be a man in the prime of life,
of strong personality, conscientious,
trustworthy, vigorous, of proved ability
and integrity, a man of broad sym
pathy who understands human nature,
who loves his fellow men and against
whose record there is not tho slightest
suolcion.
This is the most important office in
Multnomah County and the man who
fills it creditably must be one in whom
all have confidence as he is the peo
ple's trustee. He must be a careful and
competent business man, as it will be
his duty to administer estates judici
ously and economically so that widows
and children shall receive the full
measure of the bequests to which they
are entitled. This work alone Involves
the handling of over $6,500,000 an
nually. The County Judge is also judge of
the Juvenile Court, having to do with
the care and handling of dependent
and erring children, and it will be his
duty to see that these unfortunate
children receive the kindly care and
consideration to which they are prop
erly entitled, to the end that they may
grow up into respectable and useful
men and women instead of a menace to
society. This work calls for the high
est type of a man and George McBride.
who is a candidate for Judge of Mult
nomah County, will honorably fill this
high office.
Mr. McBride has the ability and all
of the qualifications necessary to
qualify him to hold this exalted posi
tion. He is an Oregonian, having been
born in this city, and his father, who
Is Justice McBride. now of the Oregon
Supreme Court, is also a native Orego
nian. To all who have lived in this
state for any length of time, the name
McBride is synonymous with the
state's best manhood. George Mc
Bride should, therefore, be elected to
the office of County Judge for Mult
nomah County at the election to be
held on November 7 next.
JOHN PEARSON.
1119 Spalding Building.
In Other Days.
TnratT-Dve Years Ago.
Prom The Oregonian of September 22, 1S9L
Guthrie. Oklahoma Territory. Sept. 21.
About 1,101.595 acres of the land of
the Sacs, the Poxes, the lowas and the
Pottawatomies will be opened for set
tlement tomorrow noon.
Newport, Or.. Sept. 21. Government
work on the Jetty is going forward,
with about JSO.OuO to carry it to the
next appropriation.
Brownsville, Tex.. Sept. 21. Garcia s
force of revolutionists in Mexico is re
ceiving daily reinforcements from 'this
side of the river. The United States
troops are all in the field watching the
crossings. All available men are out.
and they number hardly more than a
corporal's guard.
Plans for the dike for closing the
channel on tne west side of Swan
Island have been approved and Major
Handbury has advertised for bids for
the work.
The public is anxiously inquiring why
no steps are being taken toward the
electrifying of the Third-Street Rail
way. There seems to be want of en
ergy or enterprise on the part of the
management, who apparently deem tho
old horsecars good enough, and will
continue to run them until, like the
person's one-horse shay, they fall to
pieces.
Half a Century Ago.
From The Oreftonian of September 22. I860.
Chicago. Sept. 21 Since July 20 it
has rained here and throughout the
Northwest for 31 days. The amount of
water that has fallen has been un
precedented, being 20 tj Inches. The
corn crop is greatly damaged.
The boatmen on the Upper Wil
lamette complain of the water on Math
eney's bar and in other places on the
river. They say the water is very thin
in spots.
The name of the Chinese doctor on
Washington street is See Fan.
The meeting of the pioneers was well
attended last night and the playing
good.
It is said that J. C. Freemont will be
a candidate for the United States Sen
ate in Missouri.
A large shipment of rags from Japan,
on account of the California paper mill,
is noticed In a San Francisco paper of
late date. The demand for rags by one
mill is considerably in excess of the'
supply in that state. People should
save their rags In Oregon, not only
for the profits to accrue from the sale
of them, but from a sense of duty to
keep the supply as near the demand as
possible.
DOCTOR COMPARED WITH EI REM AX
Physician's Right to Speed to Bedside
of Patient Defended.
FORTLAXD. Sept. 21. (To the Ed
itor.) It is a sad commentary on the
life of an American community, and
we might even say of the American
people, that the protection and conser
vation of human life are deemed of less
importance than the protection of prop
erty. In The Oregonian of this data
appears an editorial comment on the
arrest and fining of a certain physician
who was exceeding the speed limit on
a little-frequented street
It is possible that the certain gain In
minutes which the doctor wished to ac
complish in this burst of speed may
have been hazardous to other lives, but
that it was done because of a sincere
desire to alleviate suffering can scarce
ly be doubted. Has the editor ever
been at the point of death wherein a
single moment of delay might mean
death? Many of us have and remem
brance is keen. Were we Justified in
wishing to have all speed exercised by
our physician whom we believed to be
a man of decisive judgment and not
merely a "speed maniac" or a "Joy
rider?" Laws are made to be enforced and
this letter does not seek a fault in the
decision of a Judge who insists upon
unbiased enforcement, but wo do most
earnestly believe that if all haste is
demanded in the protection of our
dwellings from the hazard of fire and
the right of way demanded for the
safeguarding firemen, that we also,
have a right to demand assistance rath
er than hindrance from traffic ordi
nances when our physician hustens to
save our lives. P. A. SMITH.
THE ANSWER.
Sweet maiden, tell me what you seek.
As you deck your hair with a bright
red rose.
Why do you smile whene'er you speak?
I have questioned many, but not one
know 8.
"I seek." she answered, "the fairest
thing
That life can give to any maid;
I look each day for my heart's king
And long for love ere my charms
shall fade."
Old woman, tell me why those tears.
And why do you sit and sadly moan?
Do you long for wealth, or vanished
years.
Or weep because you are left alone?
T weep," she said, "for love sublime.
Not youth or pleasure, nor yet gold;
For my heart is young, though tho
hand of time
Has touched my body and made it
old."
And what seek you. creature bold.
As you walk the streets with your
brand of shame?
When you find a man who Will give
you gold.
Are you happy then? Do you like the
game?
"1 seek for love, which died In youth.
And buried lies within my heart;
I cannot live and face the truth.
And so I smile and play my part."
And what, O prisoner at the bar.
What seek you. as you steal and slay?
Do you like the road that leads you far
From the sweet, fresh air and the
light of day?
"I seek," said he, "for some vague good.
Tho" I know not where it may be
found.
I yearn for love and brotherhood;
Think you it dwells a-top the
ground?"
And so. I thought, the world wants
love;
One man there was who understood
That sinner, saint below, above.
Are blindly seeking out their good.
MARY H. FORCE.
John D. Rockefeller's Address.
M'MINNVILLE. Or., Sept. 20. (To
the Editor.) Please publish the address
of John D. Rockefeller.
A 25-YEAR SUBSCRD3ER.
ilr. Rockefeller has homes at Pocan
tico Hills. Taxrytown. N. Y.; Cleveland.
O.; 4 West Fifty-fourth street. New
York, and at Lakewood. N. J.
"o.
ILWACO. Wash.. Sept. 20. (To tha
Editor.) Is the town council of the
fourth class in the State of Washington
personally liable for all illegal war
rants issued? Yours very truly.
L. R. WILLIAMS.
We are adviseM by reputable legal
authority that they are not.