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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDXESDlT, SEPTEMBER 27, 1916.
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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, SKPT. 27, 1916.
I .
pect him to be. With regard to Mex
ico, he would have done one of two
things. Either he would have recog
nized Huerta. and made a demand that
his government protect the persons
and property of Americans In Mexico,
or he would have put into Mexico a
military force sufficient to furnish
such protection; either one thing or
the other. It is clear that the present
policy of doing neither the one nor the
other finds little favor in his eyes.
The suggested programme of Dr.
Abbott is not bloodthirsty, nor mili
taristic, but it is American. Entered
into in time, it doubtless would have
commanded respect. Nor does it
necessarily follow that it would have
led us into war. Dr. Abbott, for all his
patriotism, is a man of peace, but the
course he tentatively has outlined he
believes is the one most likely to re
sult in the peace that would endure.
right to the protection of their Gov
ernment, but that is certainly not true
of all, or even of a majority. If any
have offended against. the laws of Mex
ico, that is cause for lawful trial 'and
punishment, not for summary execu
tion or confiscation by bandit chiefs.
Mr. Wilson's plans to promote for
eign trade by assisting exporters to co
operate, by providing banks and ships
and by other means will have only
limited success unless the United
States assures to its citizens abroad
protection for their lives and property.
That is the foundation on which his
structure should be built.
SPOTTED PKOSPER1TY.
Durinir the Winter of 114-1015 there was
much fiiscussion of the amount of employ
ment that existed throughout the country,
it was commonly believed that the amount
was abnormal and many conflicting state
ments were published from time to time
as to the numhers involved. No definite
conclusions could be drawn, however, as
there were not in existence at that time
any reliable statistics of unemployment in
the United States .to be used as a basis of
comparison. lhe conaitions oi unempioj
ment were reported to be most acute in
New York Citv. It was recognized that
more accurate information must be obtained
before the solution of tho problem could
be found.
The foregoing are the opening words
of a bulletin of the United States Bu
reau of Labor and Labor Statistics,
which reached The Oregonian this day
fresh from the Government printing
office. The bulletin contains the re
suits of a survey of unemployment
made in New York in January and
again in September, 1915; in sixteen
Eastern and Middle Western cities in
April, 1915, and in twelve Western
cities in June and July, 1915.
The bulletin is not a political cam-
paign document. It frankly attempts
to analyze the variations in unemploy
ment from city to city "on the as
sumption that hard times prevail in
general." The investigations revealed
unemployment among wage earners in
the sixteen Eastern and Middle West
ern cities, ranging from 4.3 per cent
in Bridgeport, Conn., to 20.3 per cent
in Duluth, Minn. Discussing this wide
range, the report says:
"While we cannot account fully for a low
or a high percentage of unemployment in
all of these cities, a ready explanation
presents itself for some of them. For
Instance, the very low percentage of unem
ployed reported for Bridgeport, Conn., is
accounted for by the very large increase
in the working force of the various estab
lishments manufacturing munitions of war.
There it is in a Government report.
The first stages of the munitions busi
ness disclosed a condition of prosper
ity as opposed to hard times in cities
that were not in the munitions manu
facturing business.
In all but three of the sixteen cities
the greatest languishing of employ
ment was disclosed in the building
trades. The exceptions were Toledo
and Pittsburg, where there was a
higher percentage of unemployment
among iron and steel workers, and
Wilkesbarre, a coal mining town. In
the three exceptions the unemploy
ment among the building trades stood
second.
The significance of this phase of the
report is its bearing upon business de
pression in the Pacific Northwest,
where the chief industry manufac
. ture of lumber is dependent upon
building enterprises. Discussing con
ditions in the West as the Bureau
found them, the report says:
The extent of unemployment, taking- into
consideration the part time workers, par
ticularly in the cities of the -Pacific Coast,
is very large and probably abnormal for
the Summer season.
The unemployed in the twelve Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Coast cities sur
. veyed averaged 12.9 and went as high
as 20 per cent.
The Democratic Administration had
been in power two years when tho
first investigation was made to aid
solution of the problem of unemploy
ment. The most favorable conditions
then found were credited to the manu
facture of war munitions. As the war
grew in intensity and as its demands
for manufactures and foodstuffs in
creased, prosperity slopped over from
the small caldrons of activity where
munitions were first made. The sec
ond survey in New York showed a fall
tng off of unemployment in that city
by September from the previous fig
ores of 16.2 per cent to 6.7 per cent.
On the same day that this Govern
ment report is received revealing a
condition of abnormal unemployment.
hardly more than one year ago we find
elsewhere this Democratic boast:
We are in the midst of the ereatest pros
perlty, the highest wages, the most broadly
diffused abundance of employment and
wages any nation in the world ever knew.
Can it be quite true that solution of
the unemployment problem was found
before the Bureau of Labor Statistics
could complete its report? Have we
acquired prosperity or has it been
thrust upon us? And is it really dif
fused or is it in spots as the Govern
ment report shows it was one year
ago?
A LITERARY COBB-LEB.
A large oblate star in the Wilson
literary firmament is Irvln Cobb, the
storywriter. Mr. Cobb thinks Mr. Wil
son ought to be re-elected, and he ven
tures to tell why. He kept us at peace
and thus he kept us out of war.
Upon this trite theme Cobb will be
able to draw on his abounding imagi
nation for barrels of stuff. He will
not make the mistake again of ven
turing from the limitless fields of
fiction as he did last June at the
National conventions of the Republi
can and Democratic parties.
The readers of The Oregonian will
perhaps recall that sad episode. Sur
rounded by a thousand facts and ten
thousand incidents interesting, pic
turesque, brilliant, colorful, sensation
al, epoch-making Mr. Cobb lost his
bearings, and was utterly unable to
tell where he was, who was there,
what it was all about, who did it, and
how or why. If by any chance a sin
gle happening worth noting lodged
in Mr. Cobb's consciousness, and was
duly recorded in his notebook, and
revealed to the public, it was through
inadvertence; for there never was in
all the history of Journalistic achieve
ment a more triumphant exhibition of
the effects of mind over matter, for by
diligent application of the absent treat
ment Mr. Cobb contrived to rls su
perior to his environment and chron
icle faithfully the trivialities of a mind
projected millions of miles away from
the supposed scene of its operations.
The Oregonian mentions thi3 mourn
ful subject more in sorrow than in
anger, for it printed the Cobb letters,
all of them, having brought them by
telegraph from Chicago and St. Louis.
Obviously, Mr. Cobb does not know
anything about politics, or affairs, or
men, or measures. His opinion is not
worth anything as to the current Pres
idential campaign or any other cam
paign. He is a storyteller, and he
should stick to his trade. He can pro
duce a lot of readable potboilers by
working eight hours a day.
another railroad's cars in its service.
How important is the latter point was
indicated by the statement of railroad
officials that, if the Southern Pacific
had on its own lines the 14 per cent of
it cars which are on other lines, its
traffic could be adequately handled.
The remedy is to make these practices
too costly to follow. If demurrage
charges were punitive and were inex
orably enforced, cars would be
promptly unloaded. If car rental at
least equaled the average earning
power, cars would soon be returned
to their own line. These are matters
which the Oregon Commission could
well bring before the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Behind all this is a broader ques
tion of public policy. The railroads
have Just come through a period of
starvation, during which they have
been driven by necessity to excessive
economy Jn buying equipment and in
improving track end terminals. A
flood of traffic has found them unpre
pared, and the loss falls not only upon
them, but upon the shippers and their
employes and all with whom they
deal: This experience proves it to be
as much to the interest of the people
in general as it is. to that of the rail
roads, that railroads should have rev
enue adequate for the maintenance
and improvement of their plant. The
railroads have paid dearly for damn
The people are now
It
CULTURE IX TTTE SAGEBRUSH.
The thoughtless denizen of a me
tropolis will doubtless commiserate the
lot of those Harney County children
who some of them had never seen
a railroad train until a few days ago.
Then a great adventure came their
way. They were invited to leave the
boundless plains, blue skies and bra
cing airs of Central Oregon and come
to Portland and to the State Fair at
Salem; for their fame had penetrated
the confines of the Inland Empire and
there was a, great curiosity abroad to
look upon them and to know them
and to hear them.
These young and energetic souls
were not merely the untutored prod
ucts of frontier crudeness and remote- Ing the public
ness. They were educated musicians, paying for damning the railroads.
They had shown in a remarkable way is now time for both parties to swear
that culture and art are not the ex- I off the practice and recognize their
community of interest.
elusive possessions of tho cities nor
of the older civilizations. They had.
under the direction of a competent I Not content with removing his own
and devoted instructor, organized a Chief of Staff when the latter fails to
symphony orchestra thirty of them I make good, the Kaiser has caused the
and they had made good music a part I removal of three Austrian Archdukes
of the life and thought of many peo- I who have failed as Generals. Among
pie who were supposedly far removed the many useless institutions in Aus
from such refinements. ... tria, the Archdukes are about the most
It is not pretended that the Burns useless. They are so obsessed with the
symphony orchestra is a body of fin- consciousness of their own "highborn-
ished musicians. They are children.
most of them, and they have only a
moderate instrumental skill, developed
through patience and sympathy and
understanding. But they have been
able to show what may be done in
community in any American com
munity, perhaps where there is in
telligence, and comfort, and neighbor
liness, and patriotism, and education.
A welcome to the Burns orchestral
We trust that what thev tret out of and luxury, while the soldiers who at-
their Journey to Portland and Salem tended them were almost fainting from
will be a fair exchange for tho fine nunger dux were not permitted to cat
and beautiful things they have to give. a "crap or Dreaa irom mo tame, ine
They may not have seen a locomotive Germans know well that, if a soldier is
before this eventful Journey, but they to iignt, ne muse eat. it is signmcan
had acouired a knowledges of some- that the best stand has been made by
thing else far more interesting and val- tne Austrians when German Generals
uable that something being an art nae Deen piacea over inem ana uer
which has had a great part in emanci- man soldiers have fought shoulder to I seek the light and when they alight on and that "I am doomed to labor on and
pating the human mind. shcmlder with them. I the window they will crawl up. A mad- I hear little but ciirslns and shooting."
WllTED SEPULCirERS.
The art of blackmail is as old as
civilization, and older, for it thrives
on the apprehensions of respectable
crookd or sneaking pleasure-seekers
who are aware of their own obliquities
or transgressions, and are willing to
pay to keep the public from knowing
them. Just how many men and worn
en have bought their way out of trou
ble, actual or threatened, say, in the
past year, will never be known. But
undoubtedly there have been many.
The blackmailing syndicate now in
the toils at Chicago and Philadelphia
is said to have cleaned up a million
dollars in a short time. Its favorite
instrument was the Mann act and its
chosen victims were sundry susceptible
men who were seeking adventure with
women. .
The success of the plotters has led
to a loud outcry against the Mann act.
That delectable law prevents the im
portation or exportation of any woman
across a 'state line "for immoral pur
poses." No distinction is made be
tween the white slaver who is a pro
curer of girls for purposes of commer
cialized vice and the gay blade who
takes a chance female acquaintance
on a journey across a state or two and
returns atone to the bosom of his fam
ily with the complete story of his do
ings untold. The Chicago-Philadel
phia plotters appear to have discovered
that no small percentage of men are
open to the lures of a comely young
woman. .These men paid handsomely
for theiifun before theV got entirely
out oi tne net.
Doubtless the blackmailers will be
sent to prison, where they belong. But
no great amount of sympathy need
be wasted on their victims. They can
not profess ignorance of the law, n,or
purity of motives. The humiliating part
of any disclosure as to them is that
their families too often learn that the
husband and father is more or less a
whited sepulcher.
cars on the Southern Pacific Railroad
has brought to light many facts, reali
zation of which cannot fail to aid ma
terially in remedying the evil. Most
II HE M ERE PRESIDENT.
Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the
Outlook, undertakes to say what he
would have done if he had been Presi
dent during the four years recently
past. His statement is remarkable for 1
its modesty, its vigor, its clarity and
its brevity. He explains in beginning
that no man can say more than what
he would have endeavored to do, since
the President is not an autocrat and
must depend upon Congress and the
people for support in any undertaking.
The President also is, or ought to be,
dependent to a certain extent upon the
counsel of wise and able advisers with
whom he should surround himself.
On this point, he says, he would have
chosen men who believed in the great
ness of the American people, men "all
of whom put not safety first, but duty
first." He would invite as counselors
only men who would advise him how
to fulfill the Nation's obligations, never
how to escape them.
As to conditions abroad, he would
have tried to acquaint himself thor
oughly with them, but, above all, he
. would have tried to obtain as diplo
mats and consular representatives men
of foresight and insight, of diplomatic
temperament and experience, and he
would have kept in touch with them.
; When he learned that there was reason
to believe that Germany was about to
violate the neutrality of Belgium he
would have informally caused the Ger
man government to understand that
the proposed action would have the ef
fect of alienating the sympathies of
; the American people at the outset of
' the war.
On other topics Mr. Abbott is vigor
ous,, asthose- jyho Juuhiin. .would ex-
How to Keep Well.
Br Dr. W. A. Evans.
Questions rertinent to. hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of disease, if matter of gen
eral interest, -will be answered in this col
umn. Where apace will not permit or the
subject la not suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addressed envelope
is Inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis
or prescribe for individual diseases. Re
quests for such services cannot bo answered.
(Copyright. 191S. b Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published -by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
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NOW THE TIME TO KILL FLIES.
To the occupant of a clean home Oc
tober is the worst fly month in the
year. The reason for this is easily un
derstood. During- the hot weather most
TROUBLES OF EARLY MISSIONARIES
Jason Lec'a Diary Telia of IHff cullies
That Bract Path.
The labors, privations and peril
which were endured by Rev. Jason Lee,
the first Methodist missionary who
came to Oregon, are impressed on one
most forcibly by reading of them In his
own diary of the Journey from Inde
pendence. Mo., which is published in
the Oregon Historical Society's Quar
terly. Lee had been commissioner! by
his church to teach the Flatheads after
four Nea Perces chiefs had gone to sJt.
Louis to ask for "the white man's
book, of heaven." He traveled with
Nathaniel Wyeth's second expedition,
taking with him his nephew. Daniel
Lee. and three laymen Cyrus Shepard,
P. L. Edwards and C. M. Walker. On
the Journey Milton Sublette's party of
In Other Days.
fur i 1 1 t t f1 r" f rnntnnt Ii- 4fitniri r-i i ri-i i -i t- v
ui iuo ines are out ot aoors. ins grasa i with the wyeth party.
Is full of them. They find plenty of I ' Lee had a mishap at the outlet, for a
Deer cow which he had bought es
caped into the woods when the party
started to swim the Kaw River and
was supposed to have been eaten by
the Indians, who were "in a state of
Starvation." Then cnm n nlnncrft into
threaten. Except when a rainstorm' the wilderness, with a rviish nhra.l tn
food, the nights are warm, and the dan
gers are few. Rain Is their worst en
emy. Therefore, they learn to get Into
the houses when a rainstorm begins "to
threatens a clean home has no attrac
tions for them. But with the oncoming
of the cool October nights the story is
different. Every fly, however wild,
tries to get into a Warm place and
dwelling houses fill the bilL Therefore
the late Fall is & season of fly-borne
typhoid. a ,
In order to prevent disease, to secure
comfort, and to fend, against making
one's home a Winter haven for flies
especial attention should be paid to
fly killing during the next month. The
October campaign should be a fly-kill
ing campaign. The effort earlier In
get clear of a band of thieving, beg
glng Pawnees. The trail is often
missed and the backtrack is often
struck In search of lost or stolen horses
and cattle. As to the commissary, it
is either a feast or a famine. Cattish
are caught In the rivers, antelopes are
shot and. when the Platte River ij
reached, thousands of buffalo are seen.
Lee saying: "The bottom lands along
the river are black with them for
miles." At other times meat is scarce
and the travelers fall back on corn and
flour and the milk of their cows. Trav
eling along the Tlatte the wind is so
stfong "that it was with great diffi
culty that I could make headway when
on foot," and "the bottom of the ves-
nalf a Century Aao.
From The Oregonian of September 27. 1
Toronto, Sept. 25. Orders have been
given to tho volunteer force of the city
to muster at given points on the fir.-t
alarm of the fire bells, with 40 rounds
of ball cartridges. An attempt to burn
or capture the city is feared and latvw
quantities of military stores are arriv
ing here.
We see numbers of teams are arriv
ing in this city loaded with bacon from
the Vmpqua Valley. Thirty thousand
pounds is now on the road for the city.
Umpqua is the great hog-raising sec
tion of the state and this is but a be
ginning. The attorneys of the city met at the
Courthouse yesterday at 4 o'clock.
Judge Wait presiding, and resolved, as
a token of respect to the memory of
Amory Holbrook. deceased, to attend
the funeral in a. body.
The Gazette says the Corvallis Col
lege has Just opened under favorable
auspices. About TO pupils are in at
tendance and the number is increasing.
Judge Underwood expresses the opin
ion, from what he has seen and heard
in Richmond, that the rebel citizens of
that locality will have become so loyal
by next October that they will not
allow the United States Court to assem
ble to try Jeff Davis.
Pan Francisco, Sept. 2S. H. Callt
han. a lodger at the What Cheer House,
was found dead in bed yesterday. He
is supposed to have died of heart disease.
the year should be-directed against fly sel which contained our dinner wad
ncss that they cannot see the wise
policy of caring for the welfare of
their own soldiers. Their callous in
difference extends to the "well-born"
Generals next in rank and reacts upon
the soldiers, who become indifferent
whether they win battles or are taken
prisoners. It is related . bj prisoners
that
of
trian
breeding.
To keep flies out of the house when
the outside is cold requires good screen
ing. Halfway screening will answer in
July, but to keep flies out now screens
without holes are required. If there
are very few flies, fly-swatting will ac
complish the end sought. If the num
ber is somewhat larger fly paper will
be effective enough.
covered with sand and those who eat
meet dinner cat most sand." Wood be
comes scarce and buffalo dung is at
times used as fuel.
Grass and vfater are often not ob
tainable. One night Lee and. his com
pany camped on a dry creek after
traveling until 10 o'clock. They cooked
no supper, both because of the labor
and time necessary and because they
were in the "most dangerous part of
the Indian country." so. he says: "Wo
Crumbine, of Kansas, tells his people tied our horses, milked the cows and
during the last days of the siege lna-1 lney can maI8 tneir own ny paper ....... .., u w , .--
Przemysl by the -Russians, the Aus- "y mixing two pounds of rosin and one ?"-p " "it ,nd Door
an officers feasted on abundance P"" P castor oil. heating It until It 5'aJ tav"Vone even ?n
11KO moiasses. ana men spreading v Enelan.l eat a rr,nr r,alatabl or
it on old newspaper or any other paper, wholesoir.o meal. We feel not want of
When the number of flies is large bread and I have been more healthy
some, form of fly trap must be used. Khan I have been for years."
The best form of fly trap for a clean The pious missionary, however, was
home or a clean store in October is the traveling in most uncongenial com
Hodgo "window trap. The Hodge win- Pfn - tor ana cuoictie s men
dow trap Is based on the observation K... . ,,; ji. ...' ...i,-
that tlu Hies in a darkened room will Urlvileirea of the ttnnctuarv of God
THE CAB SHORTAGE.
There may be some explanation of
tho reluctance of Greece to enter tho
The inquiry into the shortage of war offhand in the fact that, as the
King has said, there are a million
Greeks on Turkish soil. Some of these
are in the capital. Constantinople, and
others are scattered through Smyrna,
ification of the original Hodge trap has
fly inlets on the outside as well as on
the inside. This double acting fly trap
s especially adapted to restaurants and
kitchens where the odors attract flics.
Next in value is the ordinary baited
trap, sometimes known as the conical
hoop trap. ' bchool children are now
best bait for a trap Is wasto beer. On I
dairy farms soured, milk is a good bait.
a mixture u I tnree parts water ana one
part black strap molasses ranks sec
ond to beer?
Farmers' bulletin No. "3 on
Traps and Their Operation"
important, it has been brought homo where they are engaged in farming taught how to make heso traps. The
to an concerned mat provision -or and fruit growing. The Asia Minor
enough cars to carry traffic promptly coast 13 dotted with Greek villages, in
is as essential to good railroad service which the Turkish population is ncgll-
as are good tracks, reasonable rates gible. If the Turkish administrators
and frequent trains. I should decide upon such a campaign
Hitherto, attention of both rail- as was waged against tho Armenians.
roads and shippers has been so con- I the lot of these million Greeks would
centrated on questions of rates that be sad indeed. It appears, however.
the question of cars which should that the mischief alreadv has been
earn those rate3 for the railroads done, and unless- tho allies furnish
by carrying goods for the shippers means of transportation out of the
has been, at best, subordinated. Con- country and forces sufficient to guar-
trol and distribution of cars seems to nnteo protection, thero Is not much
have been anybody's business, extend- chance for tho Greeks In Turkey to
Ing down the line of officials to brake- ect away. Some have already been de-
men. It-is now recognized as so im- ported in pursuance of the Turkish
portant that the president of the road policy of making the country all-
Has devoted several days to a public I Moslem.
inquiry Into defects In the system.
Although the Oregon Public Serv- Chairman McCormlck. of the Demo-
ice Commission's inquiry cannot fall Cratic National Committee, is weak in
to ao good Dy Dringing to lig;it all tne mathematics. So have been most
elements of the problem, those ele- Democratic chairmen, but their mis-
ments extend lar beyond its jurisdic- calculations have usuallv been safe
tion. They are as varied and far- from erimsure at least until after elec-
reacmng in their way as the factors tion. while Mr. McCormick's latest
which enter into the balance of for- I error can be exnosed now bv anv ner-
He says: "Very few of tho company
know when the Sabbath rolls around."
but on v one Sunday confesses having
himself "forgotten tho day of tho
week," saying: "It was not until we had
traveled nomo miles that I found out
it was Sabbath, an. I I could s'-arce
make it beem like Sabbath all day."
When Wyeth's expedition reached
tho trappers' rendezvous on Green
Hiver, Wyoming, ho warned Lee tKat
'sorno of the companies threatened
that, when we came, they would give
them missionaries "hell." " Wyeth told
him to be on his guard, to give no of
fense and to t?how no fear, promisini
Fly pYotection Lee met tho danger by go-
says tnati.. . , rf,.ivfi with irmtlemanlv
gutslimes and blood tankage are the I politeness, was introduce! to those who
nest naits tor diow nies. risn scrap had threatened us and sient some time
is fairly good for house flics, as well as
blow flics.
Thero is no more effective trap than
the Hodge garbage can trap. This con
sists of an ordinary small baloon trap
fastened to the top of the garbage can
cover. Tho flies enter the can through
a hole
pass through the hole in the can top
into the trap. An excellent trap for use
earlier In the season Is Swaim manure
box fly trap.
Twenty-five Tears A so.
From The Oregonian of September 27, 11.
Washington. Sept. :6. Crrus X.
Dolph today sent a letter to Attorney
General Miller declining the office of
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Judicial
District.
There is no improvement In tho con
dition of Robert Beck, who was run
over by the Portland and Vancouver
motor. His injuries ore fatal and th
hospital physicians are considerably
surprised at his surviving so lon. Ha
is resting easily.
Hillsboro will soon have direct tele
graph connection with Portland and
will no longer depend upon tha rail
road wire. The Western Union is nojv
puitincr in nn office and will perma
nently locate an operator there. .
fcalem. Sept. 24. Harvest th.rouchr.ut
the Willainetto Valley is practically
over. Tho gram was secured In good
shape. The estimate of tho year's crop
is only approximate, but it is prohsble
that we have a grand total of 7,500.009
bushels of wheat for tha Willamette
Valley for this year.
Washington. Sept. 10. Senator
Mitchell was the first of the Oregon
delegation to put In an appearance at
Washington. Ho says the Oregon dele
gation, as at the last Congress, will
use every e!Tort to secure appropria
tions looking to tha opening of the
Columbia Hiver.
eign trade. Oregon lumbermen are
short of cars because Europe is buy
ing war munitions in tho United
States and becauso Kastern roads
are using Southern Pacinc cars to
haul munitions to Atlantic ports. The
Eastern roads do so because they
son who is willing to give the time t
it. After the Maine election he pre
dieted Wilson's election on the ground
that the President, would receive 15
per cent of the Progressive vote of
1912 and that this would be .mply
sufficient for success. Adding to the
make a good profit after paying the Kvilson vote of 1912 15 per cent of tho vrlca m fat froOT 10 pcr ccnt to 40 por
airreed rental lor tne cars. The u ..i n.mi... tho 1'utr ""- "
In conversation with them, and niada
such a favorable .impression on them
that I came away fully satisfied that
they would neither molest us them
selves nor suffer their men to do so
without cause." What manner of men
these were is indicated by thitt passage:
Tha alcohol was handed out freely by tha
t tho si do and. having eaten, captain, which soon mado some of the crow
qulto merry, faomo quarreieu in tno nmui
throuKh the effecta ot it. noma to ooa
that ths time may come soon when its) use
shall be entirely abandoned except as a med
icine.
At the rendezvous the company fell
in with some of tho Indians who had
adopted the Christian religion. "As
Will you kindly give many as could enter our tent went to
of I learn tne ooject .i u-i-s tumms
on Deing snown tne niuiu an bviuo v
tho commandments "replied that it was
Cream and Butter.
L. W. writes:
through your column the value
cream and butter as food? Also which
is most nourishing, and whether theyl-n e-00(4 He. contracts the conduct of
the Indians in refusing to 6eii meat on
Sunrlnv with that of the whites who
are good for persons not nervously
strong and inclined to anemia?"
REPLY.
Butter la about 85 per cent fat. Th re
mainder is water, salt and milk. Cream
Roosevelt vote and giving Hughes the
Taft vote
gain possession of its cars is limited I Velt vote.
Snxihoi-n Pnr-ifia nnnnrt..nit to I . I cellent foods wnen usco. in connection witn
-ii j - . xait VUlo U.I1V1 o O ter oi cuo
the calculator would find . .........
hy irreat excess of east-bound over that Hughes would carry twenty-four would keep healthy, thrivo or grow. An
west-Dound iramc in Oregon. mis utates with 292 electoral votes, or Um-mio narson can taka them with ad-
excess is due to the small volume of twenty-six more than a majority. Mr. vantage, provided he win eat in addition
trans-Pacific commerce carried from I McCormick's claim was much blsrerer good meat, spinach, other a re on vegetables.
than th fact, but it was not biff "' ooa Dreaa.
enough for his purpose.
Oregon ports and to the fact that
lumber and other Oregon products
are sold after passing through the
first steps of manufacture.
Thus they have large bulk in pro
HE NEGLECTS THE FIRST ESSENTIAL.
President Wilson's dream of co-oper
ation between the Government and
business men in foreign trade is most
beautiful, but all the devices for mak
ing it a reality which he enumerated
in his Baltimore speech will be of
small effect unless the United States
gives to American citizens and their
property abroad that protection which
the Democratic party promised but
which the Wilson Administration has
failed to give.
Foreign trade requires that Amerl
cans shall travel and acquire property
in foreign lands. It requires that many
reside abroad for long periods, and it
prompts many to do so permanently.
It causes them to invest money in for
eign enterprises, in banks, mercantile
houses, warehouses, docks, plantations.
mines, farms, railroads, power plants,
street railways, gas and water plants.
Such investments are often made in
semibarbarous or turbulent countries.
where military dictators exercise ar
bitrary power. Citizens of other coun
tries have extended their trade in such
lands because they were confident that
their governments would protect their
lives, property and legal rights abroad.
Even amid revolution and civil war
their rights have been respected be
cause the contending factions knew
that the governments of these foreign
ers would enforce respect. Without
such confidence our citizens would not
venture their lives and fortunes in for
eign trade with the same freedom as is
shown by the British, French, Germans
and other nations.
Mr. Wilson has destroyed that con
fidence among his own people by re
fusing protection to Americans in Mex
ico. He has indiscriminately classed
them all as exploiters, and therefore
as having forfeited claim to the pro
tection of their own Government.
When their lives were in danger, the
most he has done for them is to bring
them to the .United States, land them
in American ports, many of them des
titute, and leave them to find their
way home as best they could. When
some have been rescued only by the
mercy of other nations. Secretary Dan
iels has told them they should thank
God they are alive. Some of these
Ajnericari3may;-Jiave-foreltL. t$lr
The latest case of fatality caused
bv a. bull is-renorted from Marciuam.
portion to tueir vaiue inu to tne moor The animal "was chained in the barn."
expended on them at home. If manu- Tnat caused the trouble. The "gentle
tacture were carried iorward to tne man of the herd" will become angry.
nnisned snape, mcy would nave less sunen and morose if kept chained.
Duik Dut Higher value, and, employ- There are many home-made devices
ing more Oregon labor, would je that can be used to work the animal
more nearly offset by the westbound out cf door for the betterment of his
traffic in goods to be consumed by that health and temper. Systematic exer-
labor. In that case relatively fewer clse win not impair his value as a
cars would do ueeuea to na.ui uregou i breeder, f
products east and relatively more cars
delivery to many sections as one item
of credit to be given President Wilson,
Postmaster Myers is "peddling the
bunk" to his hearers. Rural free de
livery is a Republican innovation that
would be needed to haul goods for
Oregon consumption west. Movement
of cars would then more nearly strike
a balance.
These conditions raise questions of
general policy which can only be
worked out gradually by co-operation
between the railroads and the people
of Oregon. While there should be no
delay about setting to work on them,
there are means of providing imme
diate relief, which indeed must be
provided 11 some uregon lumoermen ,;
are to be saved from serious loss, or pockct at Medf0rd poitita the way to
Operation Is Dangerous.
G. W. writes: "A personal friend of
mine fractured his femur about 16
months ago. He has been operated on
three or four times and Is now going
to have his patella and a few bones in
his ankle broken so he will be able to
use them. Do you consider this a very
serious operation? He is 15 years of
age and in very good health."
REPLY.
Tes, It is a serious operation. Operations
I are advised on the theory that they are tha
uv no recard to tho Sabbath,'" and he
adds:
Thoush we mlsht have a conRresatlon of
some hundreds of whites to preach to today
it they were disposed to hear. t wo have
no doubt if we were to propose such a
thing that it would bo rejected with dis
dain and perhaps with abuse, for all hands
nearly are employed In trading, drinking
or some such innocent amusement.
Devoted as was Leo to his work, he
soon became a thorough frontiersman.
He was a good'shot. a, good scout,
could shoe a horse and turned his hand
rr-mlllv to anv of the many odd Jobs
which come up In the emergencies of
pioneer life. Probably the discovery
that ho was no "sissy" calmed the hos
tile spirits of Sublette's men.
In citing the extension of rural mail lesser ot evils. Unless operations on tha
knee, and other Joints are done with proper
regard lor asepsis harm results.
Hotel Are Small.
J. T. F. writes: "I am 16 years of
grows and prospers regardless of the I age and my bones are very small, and
political distinction of the Adminls- 1 1 wish you would tell me of what food
tratlon. Its sole danger lies in the I I should eat to increase the size -of my
fear-that a Democratic Congress might I bones, or In what other way can I make
trim the pay of the carriers.
even bankruptcy. There seems to have
been a happy-go-lucky system when
one mill has no cars and another has
more than it needs; when there seems
to be no definite system of car distri
bution; when, as Mr. Dixon said, "it is
hard to understand who is responsi
ble," as one day the brakeman. next
day the conductor and the third day
the station agent
them larger?"
. - REPLY.
There la no food which you can eat to In
crease the size of your bones. That Is
matter of Inheritance. Eat enough meat.
is the handy receptacle for everything I milk, bread, vegetables and fruit to sustain
from fishhooks to dead bugs. Some you while you are growing. If you want to
boys do not lose the habit before they I have your physician experiment on you with
die of old aee I ductless gland medicines go to aee him.
the mothers of Oregon. The pocket
Tomorrow is Portland day at the
State Fair. The fair is more or less a
Depends on Quantity.
L. F. writes: "Are oranges, eggs, and
luuu uijr i S , Institution in that Salem Deo- I w j ,
seems to be in li, . i TV ..7 --TV- - i. i,. ur"-V ' . water i
cnarge and wnen me oest. results are - . .n . -
obtained by going outside the regular I I Speaking practically, though, not with
channels. Oregon mills are compelled
to transfer orders to Washington com-
Venlzelos, having used Greece to
close correctness, oranges, eggs and. water
are not. It Is easy to eat enough bran
petitors, at a loss not only "to them- emancipate Crete, now proposes to use brei to cause the weight to Increase, Quan
selves but to the railroad which loses 'n revolutionizing Greece. tlty u more Important than quality when It
The man who persuades a girl to
traffic. One man Is compelled, for
he would otherwise ship to Portland elop' must keep the pace of a per-
and which Portland would gladly buy .'""
as fuel. .
The most immediate remedy is the
appointment of one man in the rail-
" Pretty much . everybody who rides
over the Columbia Highway is glad
road's service with full authority over reSa 13 "dry."
car distribution. Mr. Sproule prom
ised this remedy when he said that
is a matter of tat.
Diet of Egs.
W. E. T. writes: "I shall be pleased
to have you advise me whether or not
one or two eggs a day is a proper diet
for boys 3 to 6 years of age?"
REPLY.
Tea Of course vegetables, bread, fruit.
milk, butter and meat are to be eaten la
addition.
Old Sol is struggling with General
the situation that does not nermit Precipitation and wins most of the
shippers to know with whom to deal I rounus,
in cAttiner cars will be correctprl nt I
nnno" Snob n official wnnlri nnnnr. At Princeton yesterday Wilson, of
tion available cars according to the course, did not vote a nonpartisan
amount and urgency of each shioDer's I ticket.
mAAe T5i,4- It i ronifio i-Vi 5 V. molraa
it cheaper for a shipper to use a car Pendleton has begun on next year's tribute the cause to something else?
Nervona.
It. P. writes: "Does dictaphone work
tend to make a somewhat nervous ste
nographer more so, or should she at
OVER THE JI1LLS TO roOItHOlSE
No Other Road for Old Folks on Fsnni
If Slniile Tax Carrie.
SPRINGFIELD. Or.. Sept. 15. (To
the Editor.) By the full rent single
tax bill, on official ballot Xos. 306 and
307. Initiated by Oregon btate r eaera
tion of Labor. It is proposed to place a
tax on each and every farmer in the
state to the full rent value ot nis
farm. As a rule, for the past 50 years
it has been considered a fair rate to
charge one-third of all tho products
that could be produced on the farm
where the renter furnished the seed
and performed all tho labor and paid
all expenses, the owner or tne lanu
paying all taxes and keeping the
necessary Improvements on the prem
ises. According to this rule. a laraj
er should raise 3000 bushels of wheat
he would have to pay 1000 bushels for
taxes, or rather' the money value
thereof: he would also have to pay this
proportional rate on all his garden
stuff, or anything that ho would pro
duce on the land.
This bill means to say to every tarrn-
er in tha state that by a voto of the
people we have decoided to confiscate
all your property rights in your farm.
We, the state, have become the pro
prietors of your homo and larm Dy
simple confiscation, but you win do
permitted to live on the property on the
same footing as any other renter pro
vided you pay your rent on time. But,
if by any misfortune or acciaent you
are unable to pay this rent for 24
months your property automatically
becomes the property or the state ana
you are ever after debarred from any
claim on your property whatsoever.
What, under those conditions, would
become of a large number of our peo
ple who have spent their lives on those
farms working H to 16 hours per day
like slaves and are now too old and
feeble to till the soil, but have up to
this time had the assurance that the
income of the farm' would furnish them
a support In their tottering old age?
If this single tax hill No. 306 and 307
carries, their property being confis
cated and they being too old and feeble
to work, they have the choice of beg
glng on the streets or going to the
poorhouse to spend their last remain
ing days. i
Vote 307 no.
MF.LVIN- FEXWICK.
as a warehouse bv paving S3 a dav I Round-up. Was ever the like?
demurrage than to unload it needs
amendment. So does the practice of It isn't like Greec to want pay ior
Her health seems fairly good otherwise.
Party uses the dictaphone dally
RIPLL
on&- lr-qa,aigdefljdtel4etaiu1ns tlghtlng.
CLOSED SEASON OX ll'LAM) BIRDS
Knrrrll Favors Sunpentloa of
Shootlnsr Privileae Thia Year.
PORTLAND, Sept. 26. (To the Editor-)
I want to ask tho people of the
state of Oregon what they propose to
do regarding the matter of the Mon
golian ring-necked pheasant?
One of the factors in making this
state famous all over the world was
the wiJe distribution throughout the
western part of the stato of these im
ported hirdrs. For many years tliev
wero to he scon on nil sides, in the sub
urbs of tho city, by tho country road
side and in the fields. They have been
a great asset to our state and produc
tive of much of the best sort of adver
tising, t nfortunately last Winter was
one of great severity. There can be no
question but that thousands, perhaps
hundreds of thousands, of pheasants
perished In the great storm.
There can be no question as to the
present great scarcity of tlifre birds.
I have driven an automobile this
Spring several thousand miles end I
can say that I have seen hardly more
than a pheasant for every thousand
miles. I have made many trips through
Sauvle's Island, where the birds were
formerly very numerous, and I don't
think I have seen more than three
pheasants.
Several thinirs combined acrainst
these birds, and all other upland bird-,
since last Fall. We had the unexam
pled Winter: we h;id a very wet tpi-ins.
and on the Columbia River bottoms the
water was very high and the flood was
unusually long continued. All these
factors combined against a crop of
birds this year, and they are without
question very, very scarce. I have
talked with many sportsmen and ob
servers and they all report as above
outlined.
Now, on October 1 the open season
begins on upland birds, as well as
those which are migratory. Ten thou
sand hunters are making their prepara
tions for an onslaught on the sadly
depleted coveys of pheasants and quail.
For the life of me I cannot see how
a bird is to escape. Doeis it not seem
as if an emergency has arisen? With
out question the legislature should
enact a law forbidding for a term of
years the killing of these birOs.
But in the meanwhile and before the
Legislature convenes, does it not tseem
wise that those who have the power, it
there exists such a power, do as was
done once during the open season on
deer shut down on the killing of these
birds. I believe tho Governor or the
head game warden liar this power, al
though I may be wrong as to this.
I want to say right here that i neve
no sellisn motive in ims tu5suun.
I like to shoot pheasants and quail
Just as well as the next one. but I don t
want to be in at tne iinjsn ot tnia
grand race of birds.
Cat-Fight Erhotn.
Exchange.
There Is some consolation in knowing
that a cat fight Is never as furious &s
Kconomr In Albee Plan.
PORTLAND. Sept. 26. (To the Edi
tor.) Under the heading "Let Congress
Adopt Albee Plan." dated fceptemoer -i.
Mr. Rcnithgton indulges tn some sar
casm that, of course, carries no weight.
But I cannot hefp thinking that it ne
had pencil and paper, ot if he cannot
figure, then if ho would wonder why
there are so many business cars in ue
if it does not pay. he would get a. dif
ferent view.
Citv employes are free to use tneir
private cars or may receive etreetcnr
tickets from the city, good on'.y in
working hours. By use of the latter
they would accomplish from 10 to 10
per cent less. Would this be economy?
If Mr. Remington imnis ne cu u"
bettor than the present incumbent. I
can tell him how to get his name on
the ballot for next election. He will
neel no one to tell him bow to get It
off again. ROSS NICHOLAS.
62 East Twenty-seventh Street.
California Teacher Honored.
Exchange.
The French Institute has awarded to
Professor C. G. Chinard. of the faculty
of the University of California, a spe
cial prize of $1500 as an honorarium
for his book. "L'Amerique a La Revue
Exotique dans La Literature Krancais
au Septieme et au Huitieme Siecles."
The prize is one of the highest honors
in French literary circles and Professor
Chinard is among the few- Americans
who have attained the distinction. His
book is a etudy of the influence of
stories of travel in Amtrica on the lit
erature and current ideas of France
during the seventeeth and eighteeth
centuries, ,.wx. .- -