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J'OKTI-AXl, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1916.
rCDSIUl, OR STATE RURAL CREDIT?
The people of Oregon are asked to
vote at the coming election on an
amendment to the state constitution,
numbered 318 and 319 on the official
ballot, establishing a system of state
rural credit, for which the credit of
the state may be pledged to the ex
tent of two per cent of its assessed
valuation, or about $18,000,000. There
may have been some reason for such
a state system before the Federal
rural credit law was passed, and while
Its passage was still in doubt, but
with that law in operation any state
system covering the same ground
would be like sl fifth wheel to a
coach. . ' " . i
The Federal law is the result of ex
haustive inquiry into the practice of
other countries and of deliberation
by committees of Congress and of
Congress itself. It was adopted sub
stantially as proposed by a joint com
mittee of both houses, in which mem
bers of both parties united. It is not
perfect, but its defects are not fatal
to its usefulness, and they can be
remedied by amendment as experience
demonstrates the need.
The same reasons are good for
making the rural credit system Na
tional as have been found good for the
National bank system. The purpose
Is to mobilize the credit of the farmer
and to give him access to the great
money markets with a form of se
curity which is readily salable at low
Interest. He has the best security in
the country, namely, land, which is
steadily growing in value as his skill
and industry are applied to it. Mort
gages secured by farm land, properly
safeguarded and the terms of which
the farmer can easily meet, should be
highly acceptable, and bonds based on
these mortgages should be easily sold.
They will sell more readily and at
lower interest if backed by the credit
of the Nation rather than by that of
any one state, and if they are uni
form for the entire United States than
If they are issued in forty-eight dif
ferent forms by as many states under
as many diverse laws.
The National system should estab
lish such a market for farm loan bonds
that all will command practically the
same price, whether they are secured
by farms in Oregon or farms in
Florida. If each state had a different
form of bond issued under a distinct
law, prices would vary as the laws,
security and interest rate varied, and
it would be necessary to consult a
broker, who would refer to a table
of - values in order to ascertain the
value of a bond which one wished to
buy or sell. Under a Federal system,
a line in the market reports would
pive the desired information, and
bonds would sell over the counter as
readily as sugar or coffee. The con
ditions which would prevail under a
state system would resemble those
which prevailed in the days of state
bank currency, when a person looked
at the newspaper every morning to
learn how much his money was worth,
Under the Federal system, bonds se
cured on farms in one state would
sell as readily in other states as the
notes of an Iowa National bank are
accepted in any other state.
There is every reason to believe that,
when the Federal system gets into
smooth working order, its superiority
will obtain for borrowers loans at
lower interest and will make their
bonds more marketable than could be
the case under any state system. The
state system would then become in
operative and the proposed amend
ment, if adopted, would be so much
useless verbiage added to the con
stitution.
Even if It were advisable to estab
lish a state rural credit system it would
not be wise to adopt the amendment
submitted. It is a well established
rule that a constitution should be con
fined to a statement of the general
principles by which the government
of a state should be guided, an enu
meration of the officers of the state
and a definition of their duties and
powers. Application in detail of the
principles and powers thus laid down
is left to the Legislature or, where
the initiative prevails, to the people,
There have been -many departures
from this definition of a constitution
In recent years, but their results have
served only to prove the wisdom of
the old practice.
The proposed amendment contains
a mass of detail which should have
been left to the Legislature, such as
the board which is to administer the
fund, the denomination of the bonds,
the rate of interest, the limits and
" purposes of loans, the terms of loans
and of repayment and the disposal of
surplus funds. Circumstances may
arise requiring close inquiry and care
ful modification of many of these de
tails by a commission or a committee
of the Legislature, for they are open to
the influence of economic condi
tions, which vary greatly, particu
larly in war times. The amendment
comprises eleven sections, but all that
is appropriate to the constitution is
contained in sections 1, 10 and 11,
with possibly some slight additions
from other sections. The matter cow
ered by those other sections falls
within the province of the Legislature.
THE RIGHT TO LIVE ANYWHERE.
The question of securing permanent
prosperity is closely connected with
foreign policy. It requires expansion
of foreign trade and investment in
foreign countries, which necessitate
travel and residence abroad by many J
Americans. Competing nations give
their merchants and investors the aid
and support of diplomacy in obtaining
foreign business and protect them
against outrage and wrong wherever
they go.
The Pemocratis Party, denounces
diplomatic support of foreign investors
as "dollar diplomacy" and it condemns
those Americans who gro abroad on
business as exploiters and wandering
adventurers. It refuses them aid in
going and protection after they have
gone.
The Republican party holds its duty
to be giving of diplomatic aid to Amer
ican citizens who invest their capital
and extend their trade in foreign lands
by legitimate means. That party holds
that one of the first duties of the Gov
ernment is to protect the lives and
property of American citizens wher
ever, they may lawfully be. In no
other way can our commerce be ex
tended to find a market for our grow
ing production.
That policy does not mean war. It
is followed by other nations, and it
has not involved them in war. It did
not involve this country in war when
President Roosevelt said. "Perdicaris
alive or Raisuli dead." He got Perdi
caris alive without firing a shot.
THE STREETCAR MAN'S CRIME.
The Jitney drivers, who are not em
ployes, but proprietors, have organized
a labor union and have affiliated
themselves with the Central Labor
Council. It is a popular idea that la
bor unions are composed of wage
earners, but apparently there is no
bar to affiliation of proprietors' un
ions with labor unions at least under
certain conditions.
The certain condition that exists in
Portland is that the Jitney is a com
petitor' of the street railway and the
street railway employes are not union
ized. So the Central Labor Council, as its
spokesman told the Council the other
day, will fight for the jitneys "to the
last ditch." The fight for the jitneys
is for nonregulation. unfair compe
tition, indifference to public protec
tion. It apparently matters not to the
Central Labor Council how many men.
good citizens, may lose jobs with the
street railway. They have committed
the crime of failing to organize and
affiliate with the Central Labor Coun
cil.
It is as plain as daylight that if the
employes of the street railway were
unionized, the Central Labor Council
would not be fighting to the last ditch
for a rump union of Jitney pro
prietors. It would then be quite aware
that unfair competition toward the
street railway injures not only the cor
poration, but the humblest man with
in its employ.
We wonder how many streetcar men
will ' heed the admonition of profes
sional leaders to vote for this candi
date or that candidate because he is
the friend of union labor. What can
the streetcar man expect from union
labor or from candidates who trade
principle for union labor votes? Un
ion labor is doing its usmost to kick
the motorman and conductor off the
platform.
READING HIS MTXD.
The trust in Mr. Wilson sometimes
approaches the beautiful the sublime.
There is Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy, who
is quite firmly convinced that Mr. Wil
son, if elected, would best be affle to
secure the adoption of the Susan B.
Anthony amendment to the Federal
Constitution. So she told women vot
ers at a Democratic meeting the other
day.
Probably this faith may be traced
to the well-known celerity with which
the President changes his mind. Cer
tain it is that none of his promises or
assurances give hope that his convic
tions, however frail and delicate, now
turn toward a suffrage Constitutional
amendment. '
But even more superb is the faith
that he could accomplish anything in
that direction if his mind underwent
its customary revolution, and he tried
very hard. If the suffrage amend
ment passes Congress it will be in
spite, not with the aid, of the South.
It is most common knowledge that the
South is opposed to woman suffrage,
and cannot be swayed otherwise by
Mr. Wilson or by anybody else, or by
any influence except the will of the
other states.
Of course it may fee that Dr, Pohl-
Lovejoy has had later returns on the
Presidential attitude than the public
generally has enjoyed. But we will
do the best we can to say where the
President stood when he last said any
thing publicly on suffrage. For ex
ample, on June 16, 1816, he said, in a
letter to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt:
The (Democratic) plank received my en
tire approval and I shall support its prin
ciple with sincere pleasure. 1 wish to Join
my fellow Democrats in recommending to
the several states that they extend the suf
frage to women upon the same terms as
to men.
Back to the states, he says; back
crata. Fine outlook for suffrage, in
deed. Then to Mrs. E. D. Hooker,
June 21, 1916, the President said:
I Interpret It (the Democratic suffrage
plank) to mean Just what it says that ac
tion on suffrage should have Its inception
in the individual states and not in Con
gress. We cannot think of anything more
to say about .the matter just now. Per
haps some confiding follower of the
changing Presidential mind can give
his or her testimony.
- SllAUL WE GROW FLAX?
In The Sunday Oregonian an
interview with Mr. J. Sidney Star
ling was published, dealing with flax
conditions in this state. Mr. Starling
is president and treasurer of the
Flaxen Fiber Down Company, of Tona
wanda, N. Y. He is not only at the
head of the manufacturing plant be
longing to that company, but looks
after the growing of flax on its lands.
Usually the company has an area of
about 5000 acres planted to flax each
year.
As Tonawanda is in the heart of the
flax belt of York state, and as Mr.
Starling is engaged in growing flax
on a large scale, and is also engaged
on even a larger scale in working up
the staple into articles of commerce,
it must be conceded that his words
ought to bear a good deal of weight
with Oregon flax growers and intend
ing growers.
Mr. Starling has spent several weeks
investigating flax conditions in Ore
gon, and, as will be learned by perus
ing his interview, he thinks conditions
for growing flax in the Willamette
Valley are better than in the best flax
districts in York state. He believes
the Oregon grower can beat the York
state grower nearly a ton to the acre
a yield here of three tons as against
two tons in New York.
Mr. Starling points out the exeat
drawback the Willamette Valley farm
er is bound to encounter nearly every
year in retting his flax. It is about
the same as that with which the farm
ers have to contend in curing clover,
and is the continuous rains that are
likely to fall in the Valley in the
Autumn. But Mr. Starling shows that
retting is not necessary In utilizing
flax for manufacture of many house
hold articles. Not only does he show
tils he explaiaa that his. own factory
uses exclusively unretted flax. Flax
unretted is not worth as much by a
good many doars a ton as retted flax;
but Mr. Starling says that -when the
labor and risk of retting are taken into
consideration there is practically as
much profit in selling the straw un
retted as retted.
Mr. Starling predicts that Oregon is
to become one of the great American
flax fields of the future and that
manufactories, especially those like his
own that use the unretted staple, are
bound to spring up here and prosper
equally with the Oregon growers. He
speaks in high praise of the work be
ing done by the state officials and the
officers of the Oregon Agricultural
College, and believes that the work
now being done to encourage flax
growing is sure to redound in great
good to our agricultural interests.
GLITTERING PROMISES.
The Oregonian does not admit that
which the preponents of the single tax
measure claim, as Mr. McKenzie en
deavors to infer in a letter published
today. They argue that $18,000 ground
rent plums for private owners of land
now exist because other land is held
out of use; that by adopting their
measure the land held out of use
will be put to use. Still they maintain
that after removing the cause of high
ground rents, the state will be able
to collect the high , ground rents that
are now going to individuals. They
promise that the single tax bill will
kill speculative values, but that the
state will still take for itself the
speculative values that have been
killed.
In fact, speculative values are only
one reason why vacant dock sites, fac
tory sites, wholesale house sites and
terminal property are not used and
sometimes are no reason at all.
The use of each depends on what
is going on not only in Oregon,
but in other states, and in the Nation
at large. If the lumber business is
paralyzed by free trade and Panama
Canal tolls, lumber mills will not seek
factory Bites no matter how cheaply
they may be obtained. If commerce
is destroyed by a foreign war, dock
sites, even if free, will not be in de
mand. Wholesale houses do not es
tablish themselves unless there is trade
to be served. Extension of terminal
property depends on the state of com
merce, trade, manufacturing and
other elements.
Such sites might be put to use un
der the operation of the single tax
amendment, but it would not be to the
use for which they are best adapted.
They might become a shack town, for
example, but as such they would pay
very little ground rent to the state,
probably less than they now pay in
taxes.
As stated in the article from which
Mr. McKenzie quotes, market rental
fixed under the amendment for tax
purposes would bo on a purely theo
retical basis. The assessor, if he
obeyed the law, would have to
Imagine a city site without im
provements of any character,
then conceive that it was built
up virtually in uniformity with
stores, factories, docks, residences.
and terminals capable only of supply
ing the normal demand for such
structures: then estimate what each
lot would -bring in the open market
in rent for the purpose to which in
theory it would be devoted.
This is the plain mandate of the
measure. Whether it woulrf be
obeyed or what would be done is, of
course, a matter of pure speculation.
Assessors are now instructed by law
to value property for tax purposes at
its full value but they do not do it.
HOW TO KEEP PBOSPEKITT,
One of the great beneficiaries by the
present war trade of the United States
is Charles M. Schwab, president of
the Bethlehem Steel Company, but he
neither under nor overestimates its
importance as a source of our present
prosperity. In an article in System,
entitled "After All, It's Peace Orders
That Count Most," Mr. Schwab denies
that "the major portion of our busi
ness is war-order business or that the
war-order business has called for
manufacturing which Is far outside
the usual run of our peace-time trade.
He disposes of the pacifist argument
that munition manufacturers support
the preparedness movement in order
to keep their plants busy after the
war demand ceases by saying that the
bulk of our larger exports of manu
factures "is drawn from the ordinary
course of business" and that "at pres
ent prices domestic business Is as prof
itable as foreign munitions business.
He denies also that plants designed
specialI: , for munition making "will
peace
and that "American business will sud
denly be disrupted by the stopping of
the war." So far as the steel trade is
concerned, "peace will bring no sud
den change" and there will be ample
time to change "purely munition
plants Into ordinary machine fac
tories" and every conservatively man
aged plant has already charged off all
extensions which cannot be used- for
peace work."
The preparation really needed to
avoid disaster Is that, as war contracts
begin to expire six months to a year
after the close of the war, "we should
have a new market to absorb the
enormous production that the war or
ders and their consequent prosperity
have engendered," for "our trade to
day Is the result solely of the Impetus
given by war orders." That opinion
should silence those Democrats who
boast that prosperity is the result of
the Wilson Administration
As JJr. Schwab forecasts conditions
after the war, they will be peculiarly
favorable for a flood of foreign im-
rports. Wages are high, the standard
of living is becoming higher and the
luxuries of yesterday are the neces
sities of tomorrow, while factories are
running to the limit and conditions
discourage new construction. Hence
"we are a splendid market for any
man who has goods and needs money.'
Europe will be in that position. Labor
there will be abundant, therefore
cheap, and prices will be low "because
the nations will be poor in gold, which
we shall have plentifully."
If we permit Europe to undersell us
in our own market, "she will secure
our gold and therefore be able to
finance her own reconstruction," but
if we protect our home market, we
shall be able not only to supply that
home market but also to sell to Europe
on credit." The main feature "should
be to conserve our gold and thus be
able to lend to other nations to enable
them to buy our goods on credit." This
is important "if we hope to have
good share in the reconstruction." We
must also lend ia order to extend our
trade in the Orient and South America.
He gives this warning:
If the foreign merchants can sell to
in exchange tpr our money, our gold supply
will not last long, our business will gradu
ally decrease, and we shaU find that we have
carelessly wasted the fortune which we now
enjoy. The .asy course is not to take an?
eonservlni steps, but merely to talk along I , , " . .
about our prosperity, and then suddenly, aodjeye Charm agalngt rneUBiaUsm,
without proper forethought to take soma
drastic business-overturning; step when th.
panic la on us.
What he thinks Is needed is "to
bring business and the Government
into a sane relation," for he sees no
hope ahead "it success In business is
to be taken as something sordid and
unclean." The Government can help
"by insuring the stability of legitimate
business and by guarding the home
market with a tariff, expertly devised,
on the basis of protection." He sug
gests treaties "to secure all possible
advantage for American traders," for
which "the time is now particularly
ripe, because all of Europe is busy"
with such arrangements. "The Indi
vidual and the organization," says he.
"must study the best and cheapest
methods" and the Government should
help by disseminating constructive in
formation. In foreign trade co-operative
buying and selling seem neces
sary to successful competition.
There is no hope that the work
which is thus mapped out as necessary
to maintain our prosperity after the
war can be done by the Democratic
party. That party still holds to the
free trade theory, which is about to
be abandoned by Great Britain, that
theory's most stalwart champion. Un
der the necessity of winning votes at
the election, it makes half-hearted and
ineffective departures from that prin
ciple. In an attempt to perform the
impossible feat of reconciling its
economic theory with the popular de
mand. It establishes"a Tariff Commis
sion of underpaid men, who may be
discredited politicians, and exposes the
Commission's life to sudden termina
tion by refusing a permanent appro
priation. Although the occasion re
quires foreign investment, travel and
residence abroad, these are regarded
as the act of disreputable exploiters
and adventurers who forfeit their
claim to the protection of their Gov
ernment. Men who have appealed for
such protection have been asked by
one member of the Cabinet, "What
were you doing in Mexico?" and have
been told by another that they had
no "business to be in Mexico," while
the President accuses them of plotting
to involve their country in war. At
home, too, every critic of the Govern
ment is vaguely accused of being in
eague with sinister interests and with
the forces of "invisible government."
The question whether the United
States is to enjoy prosperity or ad
versity after the war must be settled
during the next four years. It will
be settled by the decision of the people
as to the kind of Gorernment which
shall rule during that period. Under
the leadership of Mr. Hughes the Re
publican party offers a protective
tariff based on scientific principles,
which shall both stay the flood of
foreign Imports and shall expand for
eign trade, but which shall not be
marred by special favors. That party
would extend the protecting arm of
the Government over every citizen
wherever he might go on legitimate
business. It would establish sane re
lations between business and Govern
ment, making conduct, not size, the
standard of Judgment. It would do
these things efficiently because it be
lieves in them, while the Democratic
party does not believe in any of them
and has displayed its insincerity by
temporarily abandoning one of its car
dinal principles in the chase for votes.
"Boilerplate" appearing in the coun
try press on tho "women's special"
that toured Oregon recently sneering
ly refers to the members of the party
as 'clad in "silk stockings." Is that a
political crime? Is there a woman in
the land so poor she does not hope to
wear them? Silk stockings were made
for woman. It is only when the purse-
proud male Democrat wears them
that they become odious. Yet there
was not a rich woman on the train.
Most of them earn their own living.
Some of them, says one of the party,
have not $100 at the present mo
ment. They are on the train because
they prefer to do what they conceive
will make things better for all rather
than make money. No group of re
spectable, sincere women was ever so
grievously lied about as the women
of the Hughes special.
Friends- of the Indian and other de
pendent peoples seem to have their
doubts, too, as to the advantage of our
National policy of scuttle out of the
Philippines. It ought not to take a
Mohonk conference to see what will
be the result when American scien
tists and educators have left the is
lands and the native exploiters begin
to have their .way.
When asked his 'opinion of Presi
dent Wilson, William Dudley Foulke,
of Indiana, one of the foremost cham
pions of civil service reform, quoted
these lines, which the Earl of Roches
ter hung on the bedroom door of King
Charles II of England:
Here lits our sovereign lord, the king.
Whose word no man relies on;
He never says a foolish thing,
And never fines a wise one.
Alewives seems to be a rather
strange product for the prohibition
state of Maine, until one has looked
it up and found that the alewife is
a species of food fish.
France is grabbing Chinese terri
tory, and this other lifzy-golng Na
tion may look good to the grabbers
after the war. Mr. Hughes, however,
will disappoint them.
Potatoes are contracted at abova a
dollar a bushel In the Yakima country
In thousand-ton lots. That hints at $2
a bushel to the consumer before new
potatoes are dug next year.
The TJrrlted States Army does well
to recognize the value of aircraft In
war; the only trouble is it has been so
long getting around to it.
The answer to Sam Gompers' appeal
will be that all Democrats -will vote
for Wilson and all Republicans will
vote for Hughes.
Why, in relating details of a bur
glary, do people tell-of the things be
missed? Do they want him to return?
The contenders on the Somme front
need "Aggies" and "Cornhuskers" to
show how to make gains.
Following the election, Wilson
thinks he must "get down to business
again." Sure thing. Prof.
It is not the long dry spell as much
as It Is the unparalleled record of
pleasant days.
The Bremen may be. "some where on
the bottom," but there are others to
follow.
You must arrive early to gather the
dropping chestnuts these frosty morn
ings.
How to Keep Well
By Dr. W. A Erani.
Question pertinent to by1en, sanitation
and prevention of disease, it matters of sen
nl Interest, will be answered In this col
umn. Where space will not permit or the
subject Is D7t euitable. letter will be per
sonal answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addrenafd,, envelope
Is Inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis
or prescribe for Individual diseases. Re
quests for such services cannot be answered.
Cfpyrlht. 1916, b ir. W. A, Eana.
Publlaned by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
TO PRETEXT APOFLEXT.
B. W. writes: "A little over a
year ago my father, aged 71. had
c.
a hemorrhage of the brain, as the
doctor called It. He soon recovered
and was apparently the same as before.
He now has the same beating and
throbbing In his head he iad before
getting the stroke. He is fleshy and
inclined to costlveness. Although not
very active, he has always lived a tem
perate life; never had a doctor and no
illnesses. His father died of a stroke.
(Will you f)e kind enough to tell me
what treatment you would advise?
"1. Don't you " think epsom Belts
should be usedT And how oftenT
2. Should he be examined for blood
pressure?
'3. Would you advise his taking
medicine for blood pressure ?"
' ' REPLY.
Tour grandfather had apoplexy and bow
your father, 73 years of n has had ana
stroke and has tt. symptoms which pre-
ceueu in. stroxe. you ar. right In appre
hending that h. Is In danger of a stroke.
Tou should have the blood pressure taken
not once, but periodically. Either you should
have him go to a physician" at regular In
tervals for a blood pressure test, or els. you
should purchase a blood Dreasura aDDaratua
and have your physician teach you how to
use it.
Apoplexy often gives warning before It
strikes. A. considerable rise In blood pres
sure In a person with high blood pressure,
particularly If the person Is of the apoplexy
age and physical type and belongs to an
apoplectla family should b. accepted as a
warning. Heating and throbbing In th.
head, headaches and depression and vomit
ing in persons of the apoplexy age and type
are also warning signs. When either of
these warnings Is noted action must b.
ciulck.
As you suggest, epsom salts Is In order.
Any other saline, such as a teaspoonful of
soda or a dose of pluto will do Just as well.
Rises In blood pressure can be reduced
by diet. The diet for the first day should
consist of fruit and bran food. After this
has been kept up for a few days It will
be necessary to take more food In order to
maintain the strength. The amount of meat
eaten should be very small. Bread, sugar,
starches, fruits and vegetables should form
the mainstay of the menu. ,
Apoplexy as a cause of death Is of In
creasing importance. The reports of the
vital statistics division of the census office
for 1014 shows apoplexy ranking fifth among
the causes of death. Organic heart diseas.
was first, tuberculosis second, pneumonia'
third, Brlght's dlseaa fourth and apoplexy
fifth.
Furthermore, It Is of Increasing Impor
tance. In llf It was seventh In rank. Ita
deathrate was 70, as compared with the
tuberculosis rate of 200. la 114 th. apo
plexy rat. waa 77.7 and that of tuberculo
sis Htf.S.
Apoplexy la due to the breaking of a Mood
vessel In the brain. Normal, healthy blood
vessels do not break under tho pressure
of the blood. Therefore, back of apoplexy
ther. lies diseased blood vessels. Back of
diseased blood vessels there 11a th. causes
of atheromas AmoLf such are chronic in
fections, syphlllts, leud poisoning- the use of
tobacco, of alcohol, chronic constipation
and perhaps the habitual drinking of bard
water.
Possibly Wisdom Teeth.
K. M. writes: "1. I am a young lady
20 years old and had my tonsils and
adenoids removed this Spring. There
always seems as if there is something
In my throat, and it bothers me when
I swallow. I am getting two wisdom
teeth. Would this have anything to
do with it?
"2. I work in an office where-1 have
to run up and down stairs several
times a day. and have ten told this is
very ba ". because I could ery easily
get falling of the womb, . lao heart
trouble."
1. Probably the Irritation Is from th.
wisdom teeth. If your physician flmla no
trouble In your throat try not to notice the
Irritation.
2. You hav. been badly advised. Going tip
and down stairs causes neither falling of
the womb nor heart trouble. On the other
hand, it develops the muscles, strengthens
the arch of the foot and builds up the
strenxm of th. heart. It can b. overdone.
Menopause.
K. G. B. writes: "(1) What does
change of life mean? (!) Is it possible
for a woman to become pregnant after
wards, or ias change of life anything
to do With it?"
REPLY.
1. At CO years or thereabouts menstrua
tion stops. The process Is a slow. one. re
quiring a year or more. During the change
there are flushes of heat In the head and
sensations of cold. There is a tendency to
emotionalism. This Is called change of life,
or menopause. Subsequent to the meno
pause the bony undergoes some changes.
Th'-Te is a tendency to put on fat. There Is
some t.r.dency for hair to grow on th. face.
There are othc. r changes soma physical,
some mentel.
2. Possible, but very Improbable.
Cold Bath for Frostbite.
M. M. writes: "I had my toes frost
bitten a year and a half ago: since then
I have considerable pain in them, eape-
clallr in Winter. Will you kindly give
some advice T
REPLY,
Tou have a tendency to chilblains. To not
wear woolen stockings. Do not toast your
feet. Bathe your feet In cold water, dry
and rub rather briskly. Do this several
times a neck. Should your discomfort be
come wore, and chllblaina develop In ad
dltlon to the above, paint with two coals
of tincture of Iodine and dust with talcum
powder.
Injurious.
Subscriber writes: "Please inform
E. H.- if one teaspoonful of bromide in
half a tumbler of water every nlgut for
one month to make one sleep Is inju
rious or not.
REPLY.
It Is.
WHAT OF1 PEHSHIXG'S SOLDIERSI
Is Our War With Mexico to Hark Time
Till After Election!
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Oct. II. (To
the Editor.) It seems to me that most
of the Wilson voters are working for
blm for no other reason than "He kept
us out of war." and signed the eight-
hour wage law. I wonder If they
think that is sufficient to cause good
times if the European war should end
soon. In the Mexico situation we are
exactly where we were when we
started. If not in worse position. He
doesn't dare bring the soldiers back
now, and he can't go any further south,
east or west, so is waiting until after
election before the next move.
Can any Democrat tell us what that
move will be? I don't think they can
possibly have any idea of what it will
be to get back out of Mexico without
the . osi of some more lives to add to a
long list of more now than we lost In
the war with Spain. And what have
we accomplished? Nothing.
Hughes will not get you Into war
any sooner than Wilson and he won't
wora you any longer hours. But when
be doci a thing it will be finished and
we won t have to do it all over again.
and you will be proud of the United
Utates. A. U. J.
Cubic Contents of BuaheL.
AZALEA. Or.. Oct. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) Please state trie value of one
cubio inch of a bushel the bushel to
be worth 40 cents. J: R. PICKETT.
Divide 40 cents by 2150.43. the num
ber of cubic Inches In a bushel. The
answer is fractional and a little less
than 2-10 of a mill.
NOW IT'S "OFFICE AT ANY TRICE"
Democrats Deliberately Attempt Deceit
With War Scare.
MONROE. Or.. Oct. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) I chanced to read an editorial
in the Journal of October IS entitled
"Peace or War? The Mothers." It is
an appeal to maternal sentimentality
which, is manifest from the lines 1 now
Quote:
Women suffer most from war. When a
boy Is blown up or shot to death in th.
tr.nchea tus agony is over. No so with
the mother; her agony begins with the call
for volunte.ra It increases until th. boy
enlists and when ahe tells him good-bye
in th. last embrace as he leaves for th.
front. It la terrible.
Is not the spirit of this article a
travesty on sincerity and an insult to
the heroism that we cherish as be
longing to our mothers? Is the spirit
of American motherhood to wear tre
iron mask of Ignominy to suit the
caprice of the political autocrat? Are
our mothers less noble, less patriotic
than the mothers of Carthage, who gave
their hair to make bows used in the
defense of the city? Are the maternal
Ideals or Sparta never to be realized
again? Must we be content with Cor
nelia, the mother of the Gracchi, as an
historic personage or look we for an
other? Are the mothers who gave us
a Washington, a Barry, a Grant to be
superseded by those of the Tories, who
sold their birthright to independence
for English patronage? Will our
mothers allow their weakness to be
eulogized as if In irony of the sterner
stuff we know they possess? Will they
allow this fulsome flattery to seduce
them from their National ideals carved
on the altar of freedom by mothers
who knew no son who would not dare
to fight for such a noble land?
Virgil wrote: "The noblest motive Is
the public good." Is not he who under
takes an occupation of great toil and
danger for the purpose of defending, cf
serving and protecting his country a
most valuable and respectable citizen?
Are we going to repudiate a Washing
ton and a Franklin? Are the men and
women who purchased life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness at the expense
of their own, the progenitors of a race
that.
Uvlng shall forfeit fair renown.
And doubly dying shall go down.
To th. vile dust from whence they sprung.
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Let the politician with his clap-trap
of a Republican war scare, a subter
fuge to induce the timorous voter, go
to the ancients for his code of honor.
Pliny wrote: "Let honor be to us as
strong an obligation as the necessity
of others." Had our honor as neutrals
been as strong as the necessity of the
belligerents of Europe. American ma
chinery would be harvesting Europe's
wheat and not her blood. While we
weep for the Imaginary bereavement
of the American mothers, we do not
hesitate for the blood-stained gold of
Europe to furnish munitions for the
decimation of other mother's sons. O
Tempora. O Mores. We pray for their
peace on Sunday and are accessories to
their dissensions through the remain
ing six days. "If I am bound to ry
for others in distress I am sure that I
am bound, so far as Is In my power, to
practice what I pray for."
The slogan Peace st any price hns
given way to "Ottice at any price," and
our Democratic Alexanders, will untie
the Gordlan knot of leadership, though
they do so at tbe expense of truth and
honor.
Mothers, be not deceived bv those
scheming politicians who would com
mercialize your sympathy and use it
as a stepping stone to climb into office.
Pule then. Mothers, rule the waves:
American mothers never will be slaves.
JOHN J. STRAND.
COMFORT KOOD IX EDITORIAL.
Slngle-Taxer Argues That The Ore-
KOnlan Admits Their Clalma.
PORTLAND. Oct. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) I have been studying and con
sidering your editorial of the 4th lnst.
In which you sv thnt a very larse part
of the land-rent of all city lots and lo
cations Is a monopoly-charge because
so-many of such locations are held va
cant or only partly used or Improved;
that if all land-rents were taken for
public taxes there would be a great de
crease in rental values. Let me quote
the language to which I refer.
Tn every city there is a fringe around the
business dtstrlrt, one around th. whol
sal. district, one around the factory dis
trict, on. around the shipping district, one
around the railway terminal district, that
have a high potential value a speculative
value. If you plftse which Is xaxed year In
and year out. But that potentlnl 4r specu
lative valne would not be taxed under the
proposed amendment.
There are dock sites. Tactory sites, whole
sale-house sites, terminal property In a
similar condition. Their value is strongly
potential, but that potential value Ls In
cident only to ownership. Their annual
rental value on a five years lease would b.
less than the present taxes.
What the outcome would be we shall not
attempt to say. but It ought to be ap
parent to the farmer that there are no
$1S.4.hm plums to b. shaken from fio-foot
city lots.
Of course, there ls a similar fringe
around the cities and towns and the
outskirts for farm lands. And beyond
that there is another fringe. And be
yond that still another fringe, so that
there is an Immense load of speculative
or "potential" land values in all the
lands of Orenon that are worth holding
at all. But the fact remains that $18.
000 plums are now shaken from city
lots into the pockets of private land
lords. As a member of the labor com
mittee on unemployment that author
ized and prepared the people's land
and loan law as a remedy lor unem
ployment. It seems to me very clear
that in the above language you have
admitted all we claim. If not. will you
kindly explain to me wherein I am In
error in my understanding of your edi
torlal.
How much of the land-rent now paid
fn Oregon is Based on the monopoly
privilege that enables men to hold land
and other natural resources either
without improvements, or only partial
ly improved? What would be the ef
feet on the business and labor of Ore
gon If a tax should be levied on land
values so high that It would be Im
practicable, or unprofitable for any one
to hold land for the "potential " or spec
ulatlve value that Is to come from the
increase of population, or from any
other cause? In other words, if there
were no possible chance for profit in
merely owning land to permit someone
else to use it, or owning land to pre
vent any one else from using It until
the price went up, what would be the
effect on business and labor in Oregon?
It seems to me very clear thai there
would be a very great rush both of
labor and capital to this state to de
velop Its natural resources. Am I
wrong in this, and If so why?
wm. Mckenzie.
A reply to this communication is
published in another column on this
page.
Naturalisation Hearing.
PORTLAND, Oct. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) As it is four months since I filed
application for naturalization papers,
I would like to know if there will be
another examination before election.
A SUBSCRIBER. '
The law prohibits the holding of
naturalization proceedings during the
period beginning SO days before elec
tion. Information on South Amerlen.
JEFFERSON. Or.. Oct. 21. (To the
Editor.) Where can I get information
and literature telling climatic, indus
trial, commercial, general business and
race conditions In Buenos Ayres and
other parts of Argentine Republic?
K. E. AL'PPERLE.
Write to Director General Pan
American Union, Washington, D. C,
In Other Days
Prom The Oregonian of Oct- 2S. 186S.
A Jordan Valley rancher informs us
that hay ls selling at $65 a ton deliv
ered at Ruby and Silver, in Idaho.
The first public message ever sent
by electric tlegraph went from Balti
more to Washington, dated June 14.
1844. addressed to Silas Wright, of New
York. It announced the nomination by
the Democratic convention of Mr. Polk
for the Presidency. A member of Con
gress was defeated In Indiana for re
election In consequence of his vote sus
taining an appropriation of $25,000 to
aid the enterprise on the ground that
"a man who could be made to believe
in such a humbug was too big a fool to
go to Congress."
Ben Holladay has taken the new
mail contract from Salt Lake City to
The Dalles. From Boise City to The
Dalles the mall will be carried by G. F.
Thomas & Co., to whom Holladay sub
let the contract.
The act to amend the city charter of
Portland so that the Council members
and Mayor would receive $300 a year
has failed In the Senate.
Salem. Or. At about 10 minutes be
fore II o'clock. October 20. the houses
of the Legislative Assembly adjourned,
sine die, having been. 41 days In ses
sion. The circus troune of Mmh t.. a.
R'an Will ETlVe an rntfrfnlnm.nt Va..
day evening for the benefit of Hook
ana jaaaer Company No. 1.
From The Oregonian of Oct. 28. 18S1.
Salem. Mass. The hearing In the will
case of Mrs. Searles. involving an
estate of millions, has been resumed.
Edward F. Searles. the husband, waa
on the stand and told of the co-part-
iicrsmp arrangement with his wife.
Pendleton. Or. D. B. Richardson Is
now the husband of Mrs. Henry C
Scott, of Greenfield X. T.. who came
West to meet Mr. Richardson, whom
she had never seen. It is reported that
Mr. Richardson picked Mrs. Scott from
a list of TO with whom he correspond
ed. Mrs. Scott arrived last night and
Mr. Richardson recognized her through
the car window from the photographs
he had. They were married last night
at Mr. Richardson's residence.
Chicago. 111. Pat Klllen. th note
heavyweight prizefighter, died last
night.
Mrs. John Wilson and J. H. Olds, who
were seriously injured In the Metro
politan Electric Line accident, are still
confined to St. Vincent's Hospital. -
A. J. Kane, formerlv of v Tnrtc
but a resident of Philadelphia for the
past year, has' srrlved in Portland. Ho
expects to make his permanent home in
Oregon. During the war Mr. Kane was
a regular correspondent of the New
York Herald.
T. J. Ludwlg. the blsr Santa Rosa
architect, has been asked to run a
race with Portland's champion fat man.
Mr. Jsck Roberts. Mr. Ludwlg said
yesterday that he could run faster and
kick higher than Mr. Roberts.
L1XCOLX COCXTV IS FOR nCGREI
Correspondent Predicts Oort Majority
for Republican Ticket.
NEWPORT. Or.. Oct. 19. (Tn th.
Editor.) As President of the Hughes
Alliance Club of this place I would like
to state that the sentiment of Lincoln
County ls decidedly in favor of Mr.
Hughes. Several straw-votea have been
taken, and In every Instance Hughes
came out two to one In the lead. A
straw-vote was taken a few days asro
in a barbershop, and Hughes got 31
votes and Mr. Wilson IS an unlucky
number and this is about the average
inrougnout the county.
The vote for Congressman will ha
largely increased. The Incident spoken
of In last Snnday's Oregon Journal in
reference to Mr. Hawlev is about like
this: Mr. Hawlcy was to speak at New
port on October 12. but bv mistake or
oversight the notice did not get to the
ocai committee until the dav before the
spenkina waa scheduled to occur. This
will account for not having a large au
dience, but as It was. Mr. Hawlcy had
the clubroom filled with a very intelli
gent and attentive audience of busi
ness men. who were greatly pleased
with the address and especially with
that part of It that related to the im
provement of Yaqulna Harbor.
Mr. Hawlcy is always alive to the
best Interests of his constituents and
the State of Oregon. He has gradually
grown in Influence and power, until ha
Is one of the strongest and most popu
lar men in Congress. He has attained
hlsh positions on committees such as
Agricultural Rural Credits, etc.. where
he can be of great benefit not only to
his own district, but to the Slate of
Oregon at large.
Several requests have been sent to
Lester Martin, chairman of the countv
central committee, that Mr. Hawley
come and speak for them. Gus C. Moser
spoke at Toledo. Waldport and New
port, and at each place had big and en
thusiastic crowds. Lincoln County will
give Mr. Hughes at least 600 majority.
F. M. CARTER.
PORTLAND'S FAIR NAME STLLIED
Journal's Falsehoods About Women's
Train Inspires Slogan.
Tillamook Headlight.
"What's the matter with Portland?"
is a question frequently asked. The
answer was plainly given on Saturday
when the Portland Journal and a few
fanatics in the Democratic party re
sorted to rowdyism and attempted to
break up the large woman's meetings
which were being- held in that: city.
The speakers were some of the bright
est and most intelligent women of the
United States.
It was a diEgrace to Portland, for a
city that will not give polite and re
spectful hearing to women who have
made their mark In philanthropic and
educational work cannot hope to have
the respect of other parts of the coun
try, and it is plain there is something
the matter with Portland. That mat
ter Is yellow Journalism, and it ls giv
ing the fair name of Portland a bad
reputation, as was shown tn the scan
dalous falsehoods by the Portland
Journal about the women who made
up the party on the special train. It
might be as well to ask another ques-
tinn' ' " H t " th .. A with V.
. j . . . .. a . . . J 1 1 , ,1 1 . 1 I will . 1. .
Chamber of Commerce?"
That organization is engaged in pro
motion work and collecting thousands
of dollars every year and putting it
to good use, but the yellow Journals of
Portland are doing that city more harm
than the Chamber of Commerce is do
ing good. We will admit that Port
land needs a slogan and needs it bad.
Here It is and it will act as a cure to
some of its Ills: "Swat Portland's
Yellow Journals."
Rights of Land Owners.
AURORA. Or.. Oct. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) If A owns the land on both
sides of an unnavlgable stream, can he'
prevent B from hunting or fishing on
the stream as far as his land goes?
(2) Is It unlawful to hunt or shoot
on a navigable river?
SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Tes, If not navigable In fact. A
stream that will float logs ls held to
be navigable. (2) From an ordinary
rowboat. canoe, or raft. It la lawful.
It is unlawful to shoot from a rowboat
on which a "blind" has been arranged,
or from any mechanically propelled
boat.