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8 THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAX. MONDAY, OCTOBER 0, ' 191G. ' Qfyt (Bvexwmn fOKTLAM), OBEGOS. Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflce as second-class mail matter. Subscription rate Invariably la advance. (By stall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ?'.? ratly, Sunday Included, six months . ... Dally. Sunday, included, three months .. S 5 TMly. Sunday included, one month ....'. . Paily, without Sunday, one year gfi Daily, without Stinaay, six months . .... Daily, without Sunday, three months ... Daily, without Sunaay. one month, ...... -! Weekly, one year - Sunday, one year i-Vr Sunday and WeeKly -so (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year ....... "J0 Daily, Sunday included, one month ' How to Kemlt Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at sender's risk. Give postofflce address In full. Including county and state. Postage Bates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent: 18 to 32 pages, 2 cants: 34 to 48 pages. 3 cents; PO to 6u pages, 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 5 cents; 78 to 82 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage, double rates. Eastern Business Off Ice Verree & Conk Jln, Brunswick building. New York; erree Conklln. Steger building, Chicago. San Krancieco representative, R- J. Bidwell, 74 Market street. PORTLAND, MONDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1916. CASUALTIES IN "PEACE" WITH MEXICO Colonel Roosevelt's statement In bis speech at Lewistop., Me., that more Americans have been killed In the ex pedition against Villa than In alj the fights of the Spanish War except at Santiago, is questioned by some apolo gists of President Wilson's blood stained peace. The records show that were all the lives of Americans lost in Mexico and along the border at the hands of Mexicans added together, the number would far exceed the total killed In battle- during the Spanish War. Colonel Roosevelt's statement was: On June 1 the official figures of the dead and wounded during this futile expedition were published, and they showed that the killed and wounded numbered 118 United 6tates' soldiers and 93 American civilians. Since then, the Mexicans have killed many more. . . I do not know the total num ber of these killings since June 1, but they include tha Carrizal massacre. However, even before June 1 In this futile expedition against Villa more Americans had been killed and wounded than In all Wie fights by land and sea during the Spanish war, save only the battle of Santiago itself. The number of American soldiers and sailors killed In action during the Spanish War was given by the Chi cago Daily News Annual of 1899 as 345. Of these, 231 were killed at Santiago, leaving 114 as the loss In other engagements. Colonel Roose velt's total of soldiers and civilians killed in the Pershing expedition is 211, or nearly double the latter total. But the Colonel's figures do not in clude the 14 American soldiers killed at Carrizal on June 21 nor the 19 killed at Vera Cruz nor the soldiers killed in various border raids, the number of which it is impossible to ascertain. In Secretary Lansing's so called ultimatum to Carranza several raids perpetrated in September, 1915, were enumerated. In these three American soldiers were slain. These additions swell the total to 247. Killing of American civilians in Mexico has, however, been a favorite sport since the outbreak of the Car ranza revolution. The Government has persistently refused to make public the number, much less the names, but Senator Fall, of New Mexico, said In the Senate that he had verified a list of 267 which he could safely vouch for, but he. added: It Is claimed by others, who have taken more pains possibly and had better oppor tunities to obtain the information, that there have been over 500 Americans killed. In order to be on the safe side, we will take Mr. Fall's total of 267 as correct. It may include the 95 civi lians mentioned by Colonel Roosevelt as killed between the Columbus raid and June 1, hence that number may be deducted, leaving 172. Add that number to the 247 soldiers killed and we have a grand total of 419 victims of Mr. Wilson's Mexican peace to set against 345 victims of the Spanish War. The total of 306 which The Oregonian has formerly given as the total deaths In battle during the Spanish War was taken from ordi narily reliable authority, but appears to have been incomplete. The figure given as the number of Americans lost does not include civilians killed on the American side of the border in raids prior to that on Columbus or by stray bullets in battles between Mexican armies. These would still further swell the ghastly results of Mr. Wilson's peace. Certainly this three years' peace has been more deadly than was the three month's war with Spain. PROSPERITY GROWS IN PORTLAND. Testimony of manufacturers In a variety of industries declares that prosperity has come to Portland. It has come both by healthy expansion of existing factories to supply a grow ing market and by establishment of new industries to which Oregon is peculiarly adapted. It is almost en tirely the direct or indirect result of that prosperity arising from the war which has flooded the East and Mid dle West and which was bound to overflow into the Pacific states. But the commodities which Portland is producing in growing volume are the natural products of the Oregon coun try, and that fact warrants confidence that with wise, enterprising manage ment and proper legislative encour agement, the impetus given by war will promote the firm, permanent establishment of these industries in times of peace. Portland's location at the head of navigation for ocean vessels, on a great system of inland waterways and at the foot of a water-grade from a back country of great extent, wealth and variety of products may well make shipbuilding its leading industry. We have the timber for wooden ships. and we can manufacture the steel for steel ships, as The Oregonian showed a few days ago. Our leading ship, builder has informed us that the city is producing much of the machinery and many of the parts which enter into the construction of a ship. Our ability to do this will go far to fix the shipbuilding Industry here and to develop the various industries which are subsidiary to it. We have not only the materials, the skill, the loca tion, but we have the products to form the initial cargo of each vessel that is launched here. But while we may reasonably hope to make shipbuilding our leading in dustry, there is no probability that it will overshadow all others. Nor is this to be desired. A one-industry town is weak, for it stands on one pillar. A town of many industries stands on many pillars; if one were to fail, the others would sustain it. Port land is a city of the latter character. It will never depend on shipbuilding alone or even chiefly. ' When steel making begins here, it will have a market far broader than the ship yards, while the latter are simply a valuable addition to the market which timber already baa. Portland ia al- ready so Important as a furniture center that it has been fitly called the Grand Rapids of the Pacific Coast, and that industry grows apace. The city also grinds flour, packs fruit, vegetables and fish and packs meat in increasing quan tity. It has established Oregon's fame for manufacturing woolen goods, gathering the raw material from the Oregon country. Success of flax-grewing gives promise that linen manufacture will be added to its in dustries. Sugar refining from Oregon beets has already begun in Southern Oregon and may extend to Portland. Clay ware 'and cement are others of our products. These are the many pillars on which the prosperity of Portland rests. Their number and their strength give as, surance of its stability. They are be coming more numerous and stronger, supporting an ever broader, higher superstructure. As these industries grow, they will provide a broader market for the products ef the interior, furnishing the basis for denser settlement of the farming, lum, bering, mining and Btockgrowing regions and thereby stimulate settle ment. They wilj also provide a market for imported raw materials, stimulat ing commerce by giving ships a load both ways. The facts which The Oregonian has published from day to day about the growing output and number of em ployes in Portland's Industries and about the additions to the number of those industries should silence the croakers. There is no room for them here; their wailings will be drowned by the din of the workers. ON IDS DAT OFF, Evldently the "Golden Special" edi tor the lynx-eyed sleuth who sees the ominous figure of Wall street be hind every bush in the Hughes cam paign took a day off Saturday. Else how can anyone account for the ap pearance in the columns ef the non partisan Democratic Journal of the following United Press dispatch from Minneapolis on the doings and sayings of the women on the misnamed "Golden Special"'? Twenty-six women are In the party. One of them is a maid that attends to all the others. Eighteen in the Hughes party havs two sleeping-cars and one car is reserved for women newspaper correspondents. But they are not a fussy delegation. Neither is their visit a fashion show. Tha members of the women's special look more like pros perous business women in their tailored suits. 'I was a Wilson supporter four years ago said Miss Anne Peck the Miss Peck of mountain-climbing fame in her tit. Paul address today. "Just two months of this campaign convinced me he won't do. Our apeclal train is run by us merely to vlndi? cate the rights of women." "I am amused at the charge that ours is a luxurious train, financed bv millionaires.'1 said Miss Mary Antin tonight. "Why, we are sleeping 10 in a car end women's sub scriptions furnished the money. 1 gave $1. There is one maid for all of us. I think we are doing a great work for Hughes." Doubtless the "Golden Special" Nemesis will be back on the job bright and early today. His substi tute messed things up pretty badly. The truth has an annoying way of showing up in unexpected places. WHY DID THEY DESERT? The official primary returns from the state of Washington raise either one of two presumptions. The Demo cratic party has become sadly de pleted in that state in four years, or else many Democrats are temporarily sojourning within the Republican ranks for the purpose of interfering in Republican nominations. Either is a presumption that need net cause the loyal Democrat's heart to swell with pride. "The number of Republicans and Democrats who went to the polls lacked only two or three thousand of the number of members of those two parties and of Progressives who voted in the general election for President in 1912. Yet, whereas Washington gave Mr. Wilson a total vote of 86,840, the party mustered only 34,970 in the recent primaries. On the other hand Taft and Roose velt polled a total of 184,143 in 191Z and the reunited Republican party polled the other day, a total of 214,660. Whence came the gain of 30,000 He, publican votes? What caused the Democratic loss of 52,000? The population of Washington has admittedly increased in the four years. but comparison of the primary vote with the state and congressional totals of two years ago makes no better showing for the . Democrats as to diminished numbers or loss of honof as the case may be. Compared with the 1914 vote for Governor the primaries indicate a loss of 62,000 Democratic votes and a Re publican gain of 40,000. Compared with the vote of 1914 for Representa tive in Congress, the primary returns indicate a Democratic loss of 61,000 and a Republican gain of 20,000. FIGHTING IX THE DOBRUDJA. Not even excepting the sandy des erts of Egypt and Arabia, there is per haps no more unlovely region in any of the various war zones than that which is known as the Dobrudja, where the Roumanians and Russians are now fighting to throw out the Teutons and Bulgars, under the lead ership of the great strategist, Macken sen. Until four years ago it belonged to Bulgaria, which ceded it to Rou mania as part of the settlement of the second Balkan War. It Is deso late and pestilential, a veritable penin sula of woe. The Danube flows on two side of it, but it 1s not the beau tiful blue Danube over which song writers rave. The river along the lower reaches Is filled with sand bars and flanked by flats; floods make per manent occupation undesirable, .and troublous times have militated against permanent improvements. Still, the Dobrudja has a romantic history, like every other region in Central Europe. The Romans made an effort at improvement in their day, and there still are remains of the canal of Constantius, in digging which the workmen threw up the excavated dirt on one side in the form of a wall, which it is supposed was designed to serve for defense. That was in a day when nearly everything accomplished had at least a secondary military pur pose. .The embankment is still called "Trajan's wall" by the people of the country, and is one) of the links that Roumanians point to in support of their contention that their history is intimately connected with the Roman, rather than the Slav, empire. The Dobrudja illustrates the neces sity for stability of government if se rious development work is to be done. The problem of reclaiming the land is not particularly difficult, from an engineering viewpoint. The canal ef the Romans was built to connect the upper Danube with the Black Sea by avoiding the lower marshes, but it could be converted into a drainage enterprise. However, border lands are not favorable for enterprise, especially in a war-torn part of the world, and not much has been done in all the centuries. The Roumanians just be- fore the present war began had for mulated an ambitious programme. They were about to build dams for the control of the Danube floods and to drain the lagoons near the mouth of the river, making arabla a great area. What the Bulgars had failed to do the Roumanians were attempting in a spirit of far-sighted optimism. But even then there were military problems interwoven with the work of reclamation, for the Nomads, half Turks and half a little of everything else that is to be found in the Bal kans, were resentful of Invasion of their traditional grazing grounds, and they were a class that would fight, even if they would not pay taxes. Neither of the contending armies will find much to destroy. Most of the works of man that were there were laid low by the Russians during the Turkish-Russian War of 1827. But there may be an era of reconstruction when peace comes. THE BLIGHT OF CBENISM. It is' the season when the Eastern press elects te be funny at the expense of Oregon. In mock seriousness the New York Times chides us upon the "scandalous paucity of referendums" in this election year. On another day it commented upon the single tax measure derisively, describing it as "the nearest approach to perpetual motion and universal benevolence yet invented." It is not altogether surprising that some of Oregon's direct election meas ures provide amusement for onlook ers. , Freak proposals are always in the list. Some of us are, alas, com ing to regard their presence lightly- as something to be swatted incidentally as one would swat a stray fly. Even the publisher of a. somewhat Impor tant contemporary has announced that the single tax offering this year is too trivial to Invite comment in his newspaper. But continual repetition of Impos sible bills and amendments does cause harm to Oregon. The comment in such outside newspapers as notice them implies existence of a sort of radicalism among all' the people of Oregon. It is not explained, nor is explanation to be expected, with each article that appears that eight per cent of the voters have the power to initiate a bill and that a large pro portion of the signatures to freak bills are obtained by misrepresenting the bills' purposes to the ignorant among the voters. It is a matter for home pride that Oregon consistently and overwhelm ingly rejects hair-brained proposals. But actual harm is done Oregon by the fact that presentation of such measures gains more prominent no tice elsewhere than does their rejec tion. It is not enough that Oregon shall defeat and continue to defeat crazy notions that find expression in formal bills or proposed amendments. Grave injury is done the state by the toler ance with which we view the ease of initiating laws and the frauds and the misrepresentations that accentu ate that ease. We are inclined to agree with a correspondent, who wrote the other day that one thing the matter with Oregon is U'Renism. The term is here used not to signify the principle of direct legislation, but to identify that species of persistent, pestiferous, unsuccessful attack upon established forms and Institutions that charac terizes every election in Oregon and invites the ridicule of the journals that circulate most among the very people Oregon needs if it is to progress and develop. GIVING THE MULE HIS DUES. Controversy still rages in livestock circles over the relative merits of the horse and the mule. Many men are of many minds, but new light is thrown on the contentions of the par tisan contenders for the superiority of the horse by careful draft tests made recently. A writer in the Coun try Gentleman, who is on record as having said that "so many mules are sold because It takes twice, as many to do the work," rises to amend his remarks. He now says that it has been shown that two spans of mules weighing 2400 pounds to the span, reduced to the basic unit of 1000 pounds live weight, exert a draft power comparing with that of horses on a similar basis as eighteen to twenty-three. In other words, if a mule of draft mare stock could start a load of nine tons on a level, the same weight of horseflesh would be able to start eleven tons and a half. We are struck also by the conten tion that feeding tests have failed to establish the popular contention that it "takes less to keep a mule." It is now declared instead that it takes about the same amount of feed to keep 1000 pounds of live weight in working condition, whether it is mule flesh or horseflesh. The writer quoted believed that if experiments were car ried far enqrffgh they would show that the rule also applies to men, birds, cat erpillars and microbes. But even the writer must admit that this phrase does not bear close analysis. All flesh may be grass, as some believe, but there are differences wide enough in the human family alone to point to the Importance of racial Idiosyncrasy as a factor in nourishment. The Mexican peon will work all day on a quarter of the ration that an Ameri can soldier requires when doing sen try duty; the Navajo Indian will run 100 miles on a handful of corn; and the Oriental workingman thrives on an allowance on which his white brother would starve. It Is forgotten that the mule has a distinct value, when the cost of feed ing him is taken into consideration, in the fact that he is utterly -devoid of finical notions about what he eats. While the horse is picking over his feed the mule goes ahead and eats It. All the mule demands Is calories, though he does not know them by name; the horse has his private views about the appetizing nature of what is put before him. The horse has got to be close to the starvation line be fore he will eat his bedding, which any muleskinner on a public work will testify is the common practice of his long-eared friend. It is not so much the quantity he requires to keep him in flesh, but the fact that he will almost "eat anything" that en dears the mule to those who keep ani mals under conditions difficult as to feed. Entire absence of any esthetic quality in his makeup contributes to his value from the economic point of view. A serious drawback to the mule Is the size of his feet. He is a poor help on boggy ground and consequently his usefulness is diminished for the farm er, who -has oecaaion frequently to get on the land In the Spring and finds the horse more useful for his purpose. Likewise there are those who will maintain that the mule has a more philosophical disposition, that even when be is running away be does not completely lose all sense of rea son, as does the horse, and that in the hands of a man who knows how to handle him he is more tractable and it is easier to teach him things that it Is useful for a work animal to know. Still, the misfortune of having little feet does militate against him. It is strange that breeders have not solved this problem, since they have done wonders in so many ether ways. A heavy mule with hoofs in proportion to those of a draft horse of .his size would be an animal to tie to as an investment, for it is contended in the face of all opposition that he is cheaper to keep, even if he does eat as much as a horse, and that he lives almost twice as long. COST OF UVIXO VP. HOT DOWN. The cost of living, as shown by the prices of fifteen principal articles of food, has increased one seventh under the Wilson Administration. A family which spent (300 a year on these foods under the Taft Administration spends $342 under President Wilson. Estimating five persons to a family, this is an increase of $8.40 for every man, woman and child in the country, or a total of over $800,000,000. The Baltimore platform attributed the high cost of living to the protec tive tariff and to the trusts which it was alleged to foster. That platform promised relief by reducing duties on the necessaries of life and by breaking up trusts. The Wilson Administra tion has reduced duties and has had ample time to break up trusts, but the cost of living is now 14 per cent higher than it was four years ago. The increase can at most be only partially duo to the war, for It was well advanced in June, 1913, and in June, 1914, before the war began. Democratic legislation had already failed to realize Democratic promises when war began to complicate mat ters. It Is some years since attention was first called to what was called the "servant-girl problem." There is no evidence of material progress to ward a solution. Schools of domestic science and other implements have failed to increase the supply of help in an appreciable degree. It would seem to be almost time to go about on another tack. If help cannot be obtained two alternatives are pre sented. It is up to the housewife either to do it herself or to find ways of getting along without its being done. The demand for houses and particularly for apartments equipped with the latest labor-saving devices is sure to increase as time goes on. More machinery must be employed. The aid of gas and electricity must be in voked to a greater extent. We are tending in that diroction, . although but slowly, owing, to the Innate con servatism ef women. Still, little at a time we are getting there, and it looks now as if we were on the threshhold of an era of machinery in the home, with possibly a large increase in the proportion of those who take their meals only in hotels and restaurants. Mother and the girls have a growing number of counter activities nowa days, while there always Is refuge for father and the boys in tha healthful joys of the simple life. The New York labor unions won a great victory over the would-be labor leaders when they refused to go on a sympathetic strike. Many have en tered into contracts for a definite time and could not strike without vio lating them. These unions are win ing friends for organized labor among employers by proving their fidelity to their agreements. Participation in the sympathetic strike would have lost for them all the ground which they have gained. They resisted the be- guilements of an enemy and have vin dicated unionism from the oft-repeated slander that it does not re gard the sanctity of a contract. King Constantino Is now tackling the hardest Job of his life how to form a cabinet which will satisfy his people without putting at the head of it the one man the people want there, namely, Venizelos. The people of the Danish West In dies want the United States to own the islands, if the vote of the Legis latures is an indication of opinion. The United States returns the com pliment. If the farm and orchard exhibits from Oregon at the Seattle Land Show do not win first prizes it will be because Washington has produced something better, a possibility full of doubt, A Chicago judge has sentenced a man not to speak to his wife for six months, but what inducement is there for the wife to talk when the hus band says nothing to keep her at it? Simple solution of the Jamaica ginger trouble is to let the fellows who drink it have all they want. The funeral directors will soon spot them. Professional baseball wound up the season in Portland in a glorious fin ish yesterday, instilling in the hearts of the fans great hope for next year. ' A Cottage Grove woman has a hen that lays an egg and a half in a day and a half and Is getting great profit from the fowl. It's hard to convict a woman of bootlegging for the simple reason that man is chivalrous and charitable. It Is unneccessary for Berlin to deny rumors of peace while she can send submersibles across the Atlantic. Chicago went on the Insurance map forty-five years ago today. Strive to keep Portland off. China knows' where to call for honesty and integrity when she has a big job on hand. John Bull is rubbing his eyes In amazement at the audacity of the "bloody beggars." An Oregonian will be military in structor at Corvallis, which is proper. Republicans get into line the last week of the campaign. June days for weddings, but October days for love-making. "You can't beat the Dutch!" Con. slder the U-53. Summer is disposed to linger and nobody objects. Trim the frills in the city budgets. Off for Coos Bay on business I How to Keep Well By Dr. W. A. Evans. Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation and prevention of disease, if matters of gen eral interest, will ba answered in this col umn. Where space will not permit or the subject is not suitable, letter Kill be per sonally answered, subject to proper limita tions and where stamped addressed envelope Is inclosed. Dr. Kvann will not make diagnosis or prescribe for Individual diseases. Re Quests for such servtcca-.cannot be answered. (Copyright, lai. by Dr. W. A. Rvans. Published by arrangement with tha Chicago Tribune. I GETTING GOOD TEETH. DR. GIBBS, of England, tells us that 85 per cent of the teeth are cari ous, at least in highly civilized coun tries. Tha percentage among native races Is only 6 per cent, while the Maoris of New Zealand have only 1 per cent carious teeth. Decay in teeth la not exaetly new. Occasionally a tooth showing decay la dug up in some prehistoric ruin. While this is trua enough, we find that among the earlier peoples decayed teeth were the exception and sound teeth the rule. Among present-day people tha rule Is reversed. It Is the opinion of most experts that not all tha brushing and washing will serve to reverse our rule. They help, but they do not go far enough. The same criticism applies to school dental clinics. Dr. Ottolengln. of New York, Insists upon that point. He says that there are not enough dentists in any city to clean and fill all the teeth of school children of that city. even thoujh each dentist gave to it all of his time. Tha far-reaching remedy which Dr. Gibbs proposes and I think most physicians and dentists agree with him is that decay is due to improper diet, and the remedy is to change the diet. The time to begin la in the first few days of life. The baby must be breast fed. since breast-fed babies develop better jaws and teeth than bottle-fed babies. The next time for a change from present methods is weaning time, or the time of the prepare-to-wean. The size and shape of the teeth sug gest that the baby should pnaw and tear. Comparative anatomy shows that the shape of the jaw and teeth is a most accurate index to the, food of an animal. The plain teaching of a com parative anatomy Is that a baby should gnaw bones and bite on hard toast, zweiback and such foods. The instinct of the baby points In the same direc tion. When the child gets a little older he should have meat, both lean and fat, and hard foods which require much biting, gnawing and chewing. "The pan-fed child quickly becomes a bolter and will grumble if he has to eat a crust." More Important than what to eat Is what not to eat. .Above all. children must not be allowed to develop a sweet tooth. The less candy they eat the bet ter teeth they will have. It is vary much better for them to eat hard baked 'oatmeal cakes and hard cooked cereals without cream or sugar than to eat the porridge, gruel and other soft kinds. Children need either sweets or fata, but the need, as between the two. Is interchangeable. If a child over 15 months and older Is given rlenty of butter, gravy and fat meat ho will not crave sweets. To clean the teeth of a child chewing hard food is superior to the tooth brush and dental flosa. Eating fruit. and especially apples, furnishes needed sugar in a wholesome form and cleans the teeth very satisfactorily. tspe cially is it advisable to f lose the even ing meal with some mouth cleansing food rather than a porridge wnicn soils It. N Cause (er Serlona Worry. Mrs. R..P. M. write: "My baby Is now two months old and Is a natural fed baby. I am a stronsr. healthy wom an; have plenty of milk and it aeems very rich. Put baby's stomach has never been rlsht. It is sour and the milk passes off In waste in curds. My doctor tells me there ia nothing to be alarmed about; that my baby's stomach must grow accustomed to the milk. He also advises me not to nurse her of tener than every two hours, and only ten minutes at a time. I have been very careful to follow his directions. I give her a drink of water containing some lime water between every nurse. She has gained about seven ounces per week since two weeks old. But she la bothered with colic a good deal. "I am careful about my own diet. I take coffee for breakfast, cocoa for lunch, and milk for dinner. I also take lime water. I do not eat any vege tables that I think could affect her In any way. Baby has seldom over two or three passages a day. sfhtl mora Ire quently only one. I give her Fletcher's Castorla. REPLT, I cannot see that yon have anything to wnrrv .haul. Your child Is thriving. I think you can safely Increase the intervals between nursing to tnres noun ana Detere long to four. When you nurse her less fre. ouently she will spit up her food less and have less colic I do not think you should give her llmewater nor that you should drink It. Plain -water is better. I think you can overcome her consMpatlon with orange Jules and, therefore, that you should not give her so much castorla. lou can eat about any vegetables you wish. Probably Not Neuritis. E. N. Writes: "What Is the cause of neuritis? Is It a blood or nerve trouble? I have it all over ma, first one plaee and then another. My feet have been troubling me, the pain extending to ankles, heels, and toes. I have been a great sufferer from colitis also for three years, although now much better. I have been told by beat physicians it was a neurotic condition also. I thought perhaps my neuritis might ba due to intestinal absorption. I do not take dope" for pain; only mineral oil. which has dona a great deal for my neuritis." REPLY. Neuritis is due to Infection. It Is not a blood disease. It Is an inflammation of a nerve and in that sense is a nerve disease. I do not think you have neuritis. In neuritis the pain sticks In one nan e. Your pain Jumps arouna. i ou may nave neuralgia. Neuralgia and colitis are often associated. SANCTUARY. What a comfort after chatter. After noise and paved-street clatter. Is a quiet room. After sights and lights of splendor. After staring eyes how tender Seems Its greeting gloom! Have you longed for, watched and waited. As the bustle has abated. Peace that shall atone Have you felt a warmth embracing. Known a Bilence. all-effacing. Where you claim your own? Does the breath of welcome meat you. Or an arm-chair yawn to greet you. As the home sights charm Do the waiting sTiadows, winging. Wrap you in a mantle clinging. Like a clasping arm? Then, perchance, tha shade-sprites chasing One another fall to tracing Legends on the wall. Which, as you alt lost in dreaming. Stir again in blessed seeming Hopes beyond recall. Then once more ring ' songs and laughter. Tears and prayers, which, coming after. Prove the Inner cost As your weaving thought shall borrow From the past as from tomorrow What today has lost. Oh! how soothing after chatter. After din and paved-street clatter. Is the whispering gloom When its spell shall wrap and hold you. Tenderly Its dusk enfold you There In your own room! i HORKEL DEAN HALE. PLEA IS MADE FOR DFMB BRl'TES Mrs. Nina Lsrant Joins Protests Against Ronnd-nps. PORTLAND, Oct, I. (To the Editor ) I desire to offer thanks to Mrs. H. M. Smith and Mr. John Edwards, who have, through The Oregnonian. raised their voices in protest against tha Pen dleton Round-up and all other small town Round-ups that may follow In its wake, and who have so efficiently performed tha task. I have been burn ing with Indignation for come time, but had been prevented by stress of other affairs from trying to start tha ball of protest rolling. Poor crated creatures driven around a ring; caught by a whiuing lariat. roped and thrown In the dust with bleeding horns and with aides torn by sharp piercing spurs. How delightful it must be to tha animal to have horns twisted by a man until the neck Is broken unless the animal yields and falls to tha ground! But worse and worse to have an Inhuman creature, called a man, grasp tha stears lip with his teeth and hang on while' tha mad dened beast races around the ring amid tha cheers of thoughtless, surely not intentionally cruel people. Thia elegant amusement is called bulldogging. Refined name! Refined performance! ASo elevating! Such higher education to tha onlookers! Can we any . longer censure Spain for Its bull fights when we so nearly approach them In character? Where is a 'censor or censors for the Pendleton Round-up? Let him or them come forth. Do they not nag the mov ing picture manager nearly all the time? Are they not sometimes a little over severe? Do they not endlessly talk to him of the Injury to the child If his pictures show a burglar, a bank robber, a ditched train? Do they not censor until one would think the mov ing pictures were made only for chil dren, and older people would better stay away? Now let the persecuted movie manager rest awhile and turn the full fight of censorship on the Pen dleton Round-up. Let It make known tha far greater evil that will cotne to children through seeing tha brutalities of the Round-up ring than could come to them from tha most refined moving picture. I do not know as yet. to whom It be longs to put a stop to these .Incipient bull fights. But I do know tht public opinion thoroughly aroused Is a power- iui weapon, i now urge to the utmost every man and woman who has In his or her breast a spark of love for ani mals to do their utmost to free these creatures from the domination of the human bulldogging. lassooing. spur digglng, steer-roping cruel tyrant. It Is not alone the performance that is so dreadful, but tha many rehearsals to bring the poor non-comprehending animals up to tha proficiency exacted by tha human brute who trains them. Let tha Humana Society, all tender hearted men. and animal-pitying women, give the Round-up opposition ball a shove and a thrust that shall causa full alteration to this huge evil spreading blot upon our state. MKS. NINA LAKOWE. PROHIBITION STATUTE ILLOGICAL If We May Sblp In Why Mar We not Make and Milp Dill TORTLAND, Oct. 7. (To the Editor.) Walking up Broadway the other day my memory waa carried back to the days of the wet and dry campaign of 1315. I remembered some of tha prom ises the "drys" made, and one of them was that all the saloon buildings made vacant by prohibition would be occu pied by legitimate business people. I distinctly remember, but I rind that not only soma former saloon buildings are vacant, but many other stores as well. Ia it possible that these stores have gone out of business of their own accord? I have tried for a long time to figure out Just what effect prohi bition has on a state, and whila I am not able to answer the question, the fact remains that it has Just the same. Where is all the prosperity wa were going to have? Where are all the fly-by-night agitators who told us every thing would ba lovely under prohibi tion? , I am in favor of tha proposed brew ery amendment. I believe it la a atep in the right direction. I believe it will do more to reduce the consumption of strong drinks and the use of alcohol than anything else. Why not give It a trial? If It Is legitimate for brew eries In California to manufacture beer and ship It Into Oregon, why shouldn't It te legitimate to make beer In Oregon and ship It to California? The Cal ifornia breweries pay no taxes In Ore gon, yet the Gainbrlnua brewery, which has been Idle since the first of the year, will bava to pay taxes whether It operates or not. I think this is the most unjust law I have ever heard of. In The Oregonian I read that the po lice Judge advises alcohol drunks to drink buttermilk. Something must be wrong. Prohibition is not helping the weaker brother, it is making him weaker than ever. Ha Is now drinking alcohol to make himself feel strong. I for one will support thla bill, and I am strongly in favor of equal rights. The saloon is gone. That was the target. I hope to see a model liquor state. tt me saloons stay gone. T. C. ALBERT. 1060 Cleveland Avenue. NECKTIES FOR SUSPECTED TIIl'GS Not Hemp Ones, bat Real Ones, Recom mended With the Iteaxon. PORTLAND, Oct, 7. (To the Editor.) There has appeared In the news papers a picture of a man charged with murder. The remarkable thing about the picture to me is that the man wears no necktie, and I think It ia a fact that newspaper pictures of sus pects generally show them as necktie lens. Several explanations are possible: (1) that the prisoner lost his necktie while In flight: 2) that tha kind of man who gets himself arrested goes habitually without a necktie; (J) or that tha police have removed thnt article of clothing which so contributes to In dividuality. But whatever the true explanation Is, It is a fact that most men. shorn of their neckties, look Ilka murderers, or worse, and the public takes one looa: at the suspect's picture and says con fidently "He looks bad enough to have done it." Ir the name of Justice and humanity let the great state of Oregon provide neckties for accused persons sitting for their rogues' gallery pictures. To those who object that these are times of re trenchment I may s.ty that one neck tie would do for a thousand sitters. THOMAS V. WJLUAM8. Several Significant Questions. PORTLAND. Oct, 6. (To the Editor.) Referring to the recent Interview of Lloyd-George: To whom were his re marks addressed? If to Uncle bam, whv? -T Was the rapltol at Washington burned In 1812? If so, what number of enemy troops were employed to cap ture our capital city? Has England 375.000 men In Canada now not needed In France? If ao. why? Could 375.000 Canadian veterans fully "prepared" take the 13 colonies in three weeks and burn our capital again? Some people affect to believe that when the European war closes, no Na tion could ba influenced to fight else where. If oo, why did the French troops leave Mexico after the blood shed of our War of the Rebellion? If England or Germany should Issue an ultimatum to us at the close of this war will we Imitate England and pay an "Alabama" claim? If so, how many millions, and for what? ANDREW LIVINGSTON. 1291 Woodstock Avenue. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years At. From Tha Oregonian ef October . 1891. London The death of Parnell. tha Irish leader, has mystified all Great Britain. It is reported he committed suicide Nelson Bennett has become the sola owner of tha Tacoma Hotel at Tacoma, H. B. Miller. Congressman Hermann's opponent in the coming election, is in town at the Perkins. As C. T. Batelle. commission mer chant, and B. H. Garland, agent for the Wabash railroad, were walking along First street near the New York restaurant yesterday, a sidewalk door on which they stepped gave way and they were precipitated. They sustained slight Injuries. Homer Huntley and Miss Bertha Petley, and J. P. Highlander and Julia Fonss. were the two couples united in marriage before am audience of 12.000 at the Portland Exposition Wednesday. T. J. Markley. ef Cottage Grove, was In town yesterday with samples of gold quurti from that district. Half a Century A so. From The Oregonian -of October lst. P. W. Seward. Assistant Secretary of State, has been appointed Secretary of State ad interim owing to Uie illness of his father. Wo take pleasure In noting that there seems to be a general anxletr on the part of the people to take hold of gome means to develop tha resource of the Interior of the state. The most hopeful prospect Is that of the Oregon Central Railway. The Clackamas baseball club has chosen K. Charman. 1. T. Barrlsv, George Brldsers. t. Pope. S. Kundell. C. F. Mason, George Sheppard. J. L. Barlow and George Harding to play the pioneers Saturday. Tha New Tork Times comes out firmly for Governor Fenton and tha Republican candidates, and aya tha Democrats as they deserve, will get a severe drubbing. Eustls Btifsley made a balloon ascen sion before 1500 people at Albanv re cently. It was a success In every par ticular. rnirii.KGB that built natiox Riant to Owa Land Bronsjfct Fore fatbera to Ansericaa Shores. PORTLAND. Oct. . (To the Editor My attention was railed a few days since to a most delightful book. It was written hy an American farmer before and during the d.-tya of the American Revolution. It expresses th life and point of view of the American of that period as I have never known any other publication to do. After having been out of print for perhaps half a century It-has recently been printed in Everyman's Library and Its title Is "Letters From an American Farmer." by Hector St. John Creve coeur. Perhaps no one has ever expressed more delightfully tha land hunger that Is native in the human heart, the de sire to own and tha satisfaction In pos sessing a farm or home of one's own To the advocate of single tax. involv ing, as Henry George straightforwardly declares the abolition of all privata property in land. I should recommend the following Quotation for profitable perusal: The Instant I enter on my own land, the bright Idea of property, of exeluslv rlirht. of Independence exalt my mind. Preeioua soil. I ssy to myself, by what singular cus tom of law Is It that thou wast mad to constitute the riches of the freeholder? What should wa American farmers be with out the distinct possession of that soil? It feeds. It clothes us. from It we draw even a great exuberancy, our hest meat, our richest drink the very honey of our bees comes from this privileged spot. No won der we should thus cherish its possession, no wonder that so many r'urnpeana who have never fceen able to say that such por tion or land waa theirs, cross the Atlantle te realise that happiness. Thla formerlr rude soil has been converted by my father Into a pleasant farm, and In return It has established all our rights: on It la founded, our rank, our freedom, our power as citi zens. The feeling thus so splendidly ex pressed has had much to do with the making of all that ia best In American citizenship. We may well think sev eral times before We ruhstltute for it tha confiscatory sentiments of tha single taxer. ARTHUR M. CHURCHILL. SIGNIFICANCE IX DRAPING FLAG "Hloe DewB" Considered Sin of Dis loyalty In Civil War Day a. PORTLAND, Oct. 7. (To the Editor. I have Just read the communication "Blue Up in Bunting." by an "Old Glory" enthusiast. It recalls to mind ant Incident on Puget Sound during the Civil War. A young man was dele gated to run up a flag on tha town flagpole and. through ignorance, as It was afterwards learned, he ran It up Union down. In less time than it would take to tell It he waa surrounded by a crowd, with the cry of "traitor, traitor," and had not a friend come to hia rescue he most certainly would have fared badly. Always blue up. The blue field, wltn its union of stars, designating union of states always up never down with a loyal American citizen. I am sorry to say that many times In the decora tions of our rlty for gala-day occasions has the writer seen our flags draped union down, but where notified of the disloyal meaning those responsible im mediately draped tha flags properly. These serious blunders may be attrib uted to ignorance of the persons al lotted to do the work. I suggest In structions through the press of the sig nificance of, and honor due our flag. MRS. L. B. DOWNE Y-BARTLETT. Of flee- Tenure of County Jvdae. BAN DON, Or... Oct. 4. (To the Ed itor.) 'Did not the Fupreme Court rule that the County Judges cf certain coun ties in Oregon were holdovers? If so. was not Coos County among them? In other words, was not the Judge holding office two years ago to hold until thia Fall? SUBSCR1BER. The Supremo Court did not hold that any Judges were "holdovers." but it did rule that those elected County Judges in 1910 only held their positions for four years, except in the coun ties in which there was no election for County Judge In 1914. If there was no election the County Judge remained in office until this Fall, which would be tba case in Coos County if there was no County Judge elected In 1314. A Spin la the Car. Brooklyn Times. With gasoline at 13 cents a gallon: "Coma and take a-spin with us. oki man. We're not going far; Just a luO miles or so. if the roads are good." With gasoline at IS cents: "Be glad to have you In the car with us Sun day. We're going out for a little 50 mile Jog." With gasoline at 21 cents: "Got time to go down to the island and back with ua in the machine? Glad to have you. If you'll come." With gasoline at 20 cents: "Like to ride around the) bloek a couple of tiinea In the car? Jump In. We won't be gone over 10 minutes." With gasoline at 40 cents and tip: We're going to roll the car out to tha curb and sit In It for the air a while. Will you Join ur