Morning Oregonian., November 10, 1916, Page 10, Image 10

THE 3IORXIXG OEEGOXIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1916.
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THE OUTCOME AND ITS CAUSES.
Whether Mr. Hughes is elected or
Rot, the result of the election is so
close and is full of so many unpleasant
nurprises for Republicans as to set
them studying how it happened. With
a party united on the face of things,
with a candidate whose personality
and official record inspired public
confidence and with a majority of
more than 1,300,000 in the two com
bined wings of the party at the last
election, why Is it that Mr. Hughes
has not been able to win? Why have
ko many Western states deserted the
party to which with few exceptions
they have adhered faithfully since
1896?
Many cross-currents have entered
Into this election to render all prece
dents valueless. The issues arising
from the European war have pro
foundly moved public opinion. The
practically solid Republican vote of
the Eastern states may be due to
their keener sense of the Importance
of those issues and of the wisdom of
Republican policy in dealing with
them. Such are the Mexican, the
submarine, the blockade, the pre
paredness and the tariff issues. The
Eastern seaboard was hit harder, per
haps, by the depression resulting from
the Underwood tariff and is more
alive than other sections to the fact
that' the present prosperity Is due
solely to the war.
As we come westward to states more
remote from the Atlantic seaboard, the
influence of these issues in favor of
the Republicans may have been less
and may have been overcome by other
considerations. Thus we may in part
explain Ohio's swing into the Demo
cratic column and the small Repub
lican majority in West Virginia,, also
in the granger. Rocky Mountain and
Pacific states, all of which except
South Dakota and Oregon seem to
have turned to the Democracy. Ohio's
action is exceptional, for a solid block
of states both east and west of it
have gone for Hughes.
Both in the Middle West and on the
Pacific Coast the Republicans have
carried the states where the reunion
of the party has been most complete
and cordial, and have lost where open
pores remained. In Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Da
kota and Oregon the formerly sun
dered forces fused completely, but in
Washington and California they re
mained at swords points.
In these two states the Republican
National Committee was guilty of a
disastrous blunder. Senator Folndex.
ter and Governor Johnson, the Pro
gressive leaders, had been recently
accepted as Republican leaders by
nomination for Senator, but the local
party managements refused to recog
nize them, and Mr. Hughes, guided by
etiquette instead of political instinct,
did not insist on meeting them and
appearing in public with them. The
Democrats were trying to pin the re
actionary tag on Mr. Hughes, and his
action seemed to justify them in so do
ing. Most significant Is the fact that,
while both Senator Poindexter and
Governor Johnson won decisive vie
tories, Mr. Hughes was as decisively
defeated in Washington, and in Cali
fornia has won by only a few hun
dreds, if at all. The treatment aa
corded the two state Progressive lead.
ers may have been taken, not only
in those but in adjoining states, as the
measure of his progressivism.
The "kept-us-out-of-war" fake seems
to have swung the votes of many un
thinking, emotional and ultra-pacifist
people to Mr. Wilson. This cry was
probably most potent In those states
which are most remote from either
coast, where party lines have been
most dimmed by the direct primary
and where women vote. Such a cry
appeals most strongly to the senti
ment of those women who cast their
first vote for President and lack edu
cation in the comparative merit of the
principles and practices of the two
parties.
The Adamson law and the manl
festo of Mr. Gompers in favor of Mr.
Wilson were to a large degree effect
ual in lining up union labor for the
President. In blind reaching after
merely superficial advantage for their
class, many labor unionists were
stampeded for Mr. Wilson without
consideration of Mr. Hughes' solid
achievements in their cause, or for
his devotion to the eight-hour system
and arbitration, or for the interests of
the whole Nation.
Prosperity, too, may easily have
thrown into the background of many
minds its ephemeral source and the
supreme importance of protection as
a means of insuring permanent pros.
parity after war shall have stopped
the flow of wealth which they now
enjoy. That may explain the action of
many farmers and miners of the West,
for whom peace under a Democratic
Administration would provide a rude
.awakening.
The women in the Western suffrage
states, who were deluded by the kept-us-out-of-war
issue or were attracted
by Mr. Wilson's pleasing personality
and mellifluous words, may find that
they have given a serious setback to
the cause of suffrage in the country
at large. Under a second Wilson Ad
ministration they could be confronted
by a stone wall of Southern opposition
to the Federal amendment. They have
incurred the hostility to their cause of
the great Eastern states, which
have ironbound ' constitutions but
whose representatives might have
been aligned by Mr. Hughes for a
Federal amendment. Trey are new
at the political game, and with ex
perience they will learn wisdom.
No greater sagacity was displayed by
those voters in Washington and Cali
fornia who have been deceived into
. discrediting Mr. Hughes' progressiv
ism, though it has been abundantly
proved by his entire official career.
In resentment for a slight to their
state leaders they have voted against
their own vital interests and In favor
r of that party which has thrown open
' the lumber, dairying and fruit Indus
tries to the competition of the world.
Their prosperity lies on the sea, but
they have turned against the party
which can promote it by permanent
revival of the merchant marine.
The 'loss of almost the whole of the
West to the Republican party is partly
due to the provincialism of Chairman
Willcox, of the National committee.
As is customary with New York poli
ticians, he regarded the winning of
the West as secondary to that of New
York and Indiana, or thought that the
West would fall in line with the East
by force of habit, as is becoming in
a tributary province. Neither he nor
Mr. Hughes seems to have had any
genuinely Western advisers of high
ability, and by drawing his aides from
and concentrating on the East to the
almost total neglect of the West, Mr.
Willcox has given color to the Demo
cratic charge that the Old Guard was
conducting the campaign. Should Mr.
Hughes be defeated, it may be a
salutary lesson that a Republican can
didate can win the traditionally pivotal
states of New York and Indiana and
still lose, and that the actually pivotal
states are in the West. The spectacle
of a solid South joined by an almost
solid West is not pleasant for Repub
licans to contemplate.
Amid the break-up of the once solid
Republican West, Oregon still remains
steadfast and holds high the banner
of the old party. As in 1896, when its
neighbors were led away by the free-
silver vagary, Oregon remains un
shaken in its allegiance to the party
whiph stands for Nationalism, for the
maintenance of the Nation's honor
abroad and of the Nation's integrity
and prosperity at home.
18!6-101R.
For the second time in its history.
Oregon stands like a rock for the Re
publican Presidential candidate and
for Republican principles against a
tide of unwise and mistaken Demo
cratic sentiment. Twenty years ago
it was for sound money and against
the ruinous and popular heresy of
free silver. Now it is for Nationalism
and the vindication of American
rights; and the Democracy is not.
The county of Multnomah in 1896
saved the state for McKlnley and
from Bryan. The total Republican
vote in Oregon was 48,779; Demo
cratic, 46,662; a Republican majority
of 2117. The Bryan majority outside
of Multnomah was 3261, but Mult
nomah County came through with
5 3 78 and saved the day. Yet there
were other stalwart Republican coun
ties then, such as Clatsop, Benton,
Columbia, Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Lin
coln, Marion, Morrow, Sherman, Tilla
mook, Wasco, Washington and Yam
hill.
All the states in the Far West, ex
cept Oregon and California, were
swept away by the fiat money con
tagion, and declared for Bryan. In
California the result was close, and
one Bryan elector was successful.
Now, again, Oregon and probably
California stand alone. Oregon has
resisted the sweep of the Democratic
wave as it did in 189 6. Then The
Oregonian served as best It could the
great cause, which demanded that
America pay its Just debts in money
worth 100 cents on the dollar; now it
Is demanded that America fulfill all
its National and international obliga
tions in a 100 per cent patriotism.
LEANDER II. WELLS.
In grief. The Oregonian announces
the death of Leander H. Wells. For a
quarter century and more he "cov
ered" the East Side for this news
paper. He was a faithful, painstak
ing, conscientious worker. He missed
nothing of news and fact in his large
field. Before the city grew to size
he had personal acquaintance and
friendship with all residents of that
large section. No other man could
do that work as Mr. Wells did it, for
he had grown with its growth day by
day. His personality was that of the
decent citizen and Christian gentle
man.
It is well for the world that men
like Leander H. Wells live in it.
Though tliey seldom sense it, " their
everyday lives are example to youth
and age of the value of steadfast pur
pose and acts well done. They are
not looking for reward, though they
get it in cherished memory.
CHARLESES AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Although Charles is by no means an
uncommon name in the United States,
men of that name have had uncom
morf difficulties in their efforts to
become President. Not including Mr.
Hughes, there have been six Charleses
who aspired to sit in the White House.
One of them was a persistent candi
date, and another was also voted for
In the electoral college. As for Vice
Presidents, we have had only one
named Charles the recent Republi
can nominee and only two others
ever have been nominated for the of
fice.
The first Charles in our Presidential
campaign history was Charles B.
Plnckney, who received sixty-four
votes as a Federalist in 1800, at the
time when Thomas Jefferson, Repub
lican, was subsequently. elected by the
House of Representatives. Jefferson
and Aaron Burr received seventy-three
votes each, and Pinckney was not a I
bad third with sixty-five. This was
In the day when the voters did not
designate their choice for President
and Vice-President separately and the
Vice-Presidency was a sort of consola
tion prize. Then In 1804 Plnckney
was voted for again, receiving four
teen votes to 162 for Jefferson; and
he had more votes but just as poor
luck as to results in 1808, when he
received forty-seven votes to 122 cast
for James Madison for President,
Plnckney was one of Washington's
aides, a hero -of Brandywine and once
Minister from the United States to
the French republic. Now he is
known to fame chiefly as the author
of the memorable phrase, "Millions for
defense; not one cent for tribute."
Another Charles was he of the pa
tronymic O'Conor of New York, who
in 1872 was the nominee of the anti
Greeley Democrats for President, but
did not make much headway against
the popular tide. He received 29,408
votes in the Presidential race, but none
in the electoral college. Charles J.
Jenkins, as an outcome of the same
campaign, was voted for in the elect
oral college, receiving two votes. The
death of Mr. Greeley caused a scat
tering of the Democratic vote, and
Jenkins, who was a Georgian, an
ardent champion of slavery as a divino
institution and a prominent jurist in
his Commonwealth, was among those
honored.
The other Charleses belonged to the
"smaller parties" and got few votes.
Charles H. Matchett, of New York,
was In 1896 the nominee of the Social-
1st-Labor party, and 36,274 of his
fellow-citizens cast their ballots for
him. Charles E. Bentley, of Nebraska,
ran as the candidate of the National
party in the same year, but got only
13,969 votes. Neither was mentioned
in the electoral college. Charles H.
Corregan, of New York, was the nomi
nee of the Socialist-Labor party in
1904, but ho received only 33,612 pop
ular votes and the electoral college
heard not the echo of his name.
The Vice-Presidential Charleses
were Charles Francis Adams, who in
1844 was the nominee of the Free Soil
party, and in 1892 the same Charles
H. Matchett, who four years later
was named for the head of the ticket
by the Socialist-Labor party. Charles
Warren Fairbanks had better fortune
than any of the others.
It is a curious fact that common
names do not seem to be a help in
winning the Presidency, on the whole.
James, William and-John are the only
ones that have repeated, there having
been five Jameses but only three and
two, respectively, of the others. The
unusual name has had the best of it.
and there have been several of these.
Zachary, Franklin. Ulysses, Grover and
Woodrow are all names one does not
encounter every day, while so common
a name as George occurs only once
in the list of Presidents, and then
at the head qX it. The rule holds good
in a general way "with our v ice-Presi
dents, Aaron, Elbridge, Daniel, Hanni
bal, Schuyler and Garret being con
spicuous among the not common
prefixes.
CURB THE CRAZY-HORSES.
The newly elected members of the
Legislature can perform no better
service for Oregon than to consider
and devise some means of protecting
the initiative and referendum from
fraud and abuse.
When damage done to business and
development by the recurring sub
mission of revolutionary measures is
so plainly apparent; when such meas
ures are invariably defeated and when
election costs continue to be great be
cause of such senseless resubmission,
and still their proponents do not de
sist, it Is time that something were
done to make them desist.
If there had been an adequate and
enforced law for protecting the purity
of petitions the land and loan meas
ure would probably not have got on
the ballot. The petitions which forced
it thereon were permeated with fraud.
They represent a riot of forgery and
misrepresentation. Their discovery
brings but mild condemnation from
the men who were back of the meas
ure. The disgrace which thus attaches
to them, whether they were aware of
the forgeries and misrepresentation or
not, is disregarded, while they plan
new attacks on Oregon's good name,
new assaults upon vested rights, new
means of confiscating property and
new brands of disorder. Instead of
turning their attention to the bring
ing to justice of those men who in
their name committed wholesale
crimes their thoughts lead to more
schemes to make Oregon the laughing
stock of other communities.
One measure effectually ending
petition pussy-footing will put direct
legislation in Oregon nearly. If not
quite, on an honest and dignified plane.
yet it would work no hardship upon
those who have measures of genuine
public concern to present.
The condition is a serious one. As
has been frequently pointed out by
The Oregonian, the news of presenta
tion of freakish and revolutionary
measures - reaches all parts of the
country. The news of their defeat is
lost in the greater Interest that else
where always pertains to state or Na
tional elections. The submission of the
measures sticks in the public mind
the public never bears of their defeat.
We are gaining reputation as an ex
periment station, as a happy hunting
ground for the wild eyed and the long
haired. We shall pretty nearly live
up to it. If we do not soon put a curb
on the crazy-horses of direct legisla
tion.
A TWO-POWER NAVY.
The American people appear so re
luctant to adopt a 6ystem of com
pulsory military training that there
seems to be no prospect of adequate
preparation for land defense until the
actual experience of war has brought
the necessity home to them. This
condition of public opinion leaves but
one alternative to those charged with
the duty of providing for the National
defense. This is to construct and man
a Navy of such strength that It could
successfully defend us from Invasion
by any probable combination of naval
powers until we had organized, trained
and equipped an Army great enough
for any land operations that might be
come necessary.
The course of Great Britain In the
present war shows that such a policy
may succeed. Though that country
entered the war with an army much
larger than that of the United States,
that army was utterly insufficient to
defend the country, much less to carry
on war on the continent. The navy,
however, was powerful enough to pro
tect the country against Invasion,
though the enemy Is much closer to
Its shores than is the United States
to any possible Invader. It not only
kept the country safe while a great
army was being prepared; It protected
that army and its supplies while they
were being transported to the con
tinent of Europe, it kept the sea safe
for great fleets to bring reinforce
ments from the colonies and India, it
kept the ocean highways open for
allied commerce and drove the ene
my's commerce from the sea. It has
enabled Britain after two years of
preparation to become a great mili
tary as well as naval power, to muni
tion its allies and to enter the field
comparatively fresh when Its allies'
resources are diminished and when Its
enemies' forces are also waning.
The United States could do what
Britain has done, had it a Navy suf
ficient to overcome any probable com
bination of adversaries. It could do
so more effectively, for modern In
vention has not destroyed distance by
sea as a defense. In modern war,
nations rarely fight singly; they form
alliances. Security from invasion
would require a Navy strong enough
to overcome the fleet of the greatest
European power, excluding Britain,
and of the strongest Asiatic power.
With a fleet well proportioned in all
its parts, with mines and coast forti
fications to hold off raiders, the bat
tle fleet could go to sea to meet and
destroy an enemy fleet.
Behind this naval shield the United
States would be In much better posi
tion than Britain to prepare for land
operations. We produce not only an
abundant fooQ supply, but can pro
duce war munitions of almost all kinds
within our own borders, and our ca
pacity in the latter respect has been
vastly increased during the last two
years. But the Navy would need to
be backed by a large merchant fleet,
both to serve as transports and to de
velop a seafaring population which
would supply recrultsj tor the Navy.
Having once gone through the -experience
of a great land war under
such circumstances, the Nation would
find the benefits of military training
so valuable for peace purposes and
the cost of preparing for war while
war was in progress so enormous that
it would make assurance doubly sure
by requiring every man to train.
LIBRARY OF HOME EOOXOjriCS.
There is promise- in a new move
ment Just started In New York to
establish libraries for the especial
benefit of students of home economics.
The purpose is first to select the books
that are of real value on the subject
of managing the home and there are
many and then to encourage the
reading of them. This Is to be done
by. organization of a society of home
economists, but the Idea lends itself
to other methods. Most public li
braries are provided with excellent
books of the kind desired and would
require only a special practical and
detailed catalogue to make them
doubly valuable.
It is not. It seems, to be the pur
pose of the originators of the plan to
confine the library to works on food,
although at present prices this sub
ject Is nearest the housewife's heart.
Such subjects as scientific manage
ment, time saving, house furnishing
and house cleaning will be Included.
But emphasis naturally will fall on
food. One idea will be to stimulate
the study of food values, knowledge
of which is essential to good buying.
A good deal is being said nowadays
about the calory as a standard of food
value, and It is probable this relatively
new factor will be even more promi
nent before we have heard the last
of it. The Federal Government is
taking the lead in teaching the rela
tion between price and nutritive val
ues of the foods we eat every day,
and detailed information is to be had
from many other books on kindred
topics. Not only what to buy, but how
to prepare It so that its nutritive value
will not be impaired, is another im
portant branch of home economics.
There are cooks who know these
things instinctively, but not so many,
probably, as there, were a few years
ago. before housekeeping became a
declining art.
There is a field for the new move
ment if it does nothing more than to
prepare an extensive bibliography on
household economics. Such a bibliog
raphy to be of greatest value would
comprise not only the titles of books
and articles on the subjects within Its
scope, but ample and analytical cross
Indices, which would stimulate inde
pendent reading by the army of home
makers, to whom the subject means
so much. The movement has been
characterized as part of "prepared
ness in peace," and one of its cardinal
principles Is: "To meet the high cost
of living, acquire a better knowledge
of what right living is. Make use of
all the helps to good housekeeping
that exist. Aid in counteracting the
Impression that American women are
extravagant housekeepers and igno
rant of the laws of nutrition."
Importance of the work of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey is Illustrated by
a recent report of the discovery In
Seymour Canal, In Alaska waters, of
another of the "pinnacle rocks" that
constitute one of the most serious
menaces to navigation in that region
The wire drag revealed the presence
of the rock sliver, although previous
soundings taken in the Immediate lo
cality had given from forty-eight to
fifty-four fathoms, which would In
other waters have been accepted as
conclusive evidence that navigation
was safe. This rock was found some
distance from the main channel, but
it was along a route constantly used
by steamers going to and from salmon
canneries in the neighborhood. Only
a lucky chance would have led to
finding It with a lead line. The neces
sity for continued wire-drag work is
thus clearly shown, if the coastal com
merce of the Pacific is to be made
absolutely safe, as it deserves to be,
In view of Its growing magnitude.
Don't forget to have your dollar
ready for the Armenian relief commit
tee today. What remains of the Ar
menian nation has neither food nor
clothing, except that which Is pro
vided by the world's philanthropy, and
thousands of them are in the desert
without shelter. A dollar will feed
ten of them for one day.
That is a terrible indictment which
two Philadelphia girls make against
the men of their 'city that they are
too slow as wooers. The Missourians
may show them a better type of man
hood, but why not try Oregon?
As one new Paclflc-Coast-bullt mo-
torshlp after another takes out a load
of lumber, the embargo on exports is
raised, and the Coast proves its ability
to help Itself by adding a valuable
industry.
Why not Invite Carranza to come
and canvass the election returns? Our
President helped him by Intervening
In his little controversy with Huerta.
One good turn deserves another.
The voting machines were troublous
to men who did not know how. For
that matter, many do not mark all the
ballot for the same reason. It's all a
matter of education.
The cry of "fraud" from Wilson
headquarters is becoming and recalls
the Instructions wired broadcast in
1876 to "holler like hell and claim
everything!"
Mr. Bryan Is reported to be hope
ful. Just so. He has been in a "hope
ful" condition for twenty years of
blasted hope.
Heavy affairs rest lightly on big
men. Hughes took an auto ride yes
terday, while Wilson helped christen
a grandchild.
Chairman McCormlck was some
thing of a "sooner" In Instructing his
cohorts to burn red fire last night.
Mrs. George J. Gould might pose as
leading woman in a movie drama en
titled. "How the Idle Rich Live."
Queer fellows, those Canadians.
They will not handle the Hearst pa
pers, even with tongs.
If Missouri goes "dry" its next ef
fort must be against tobacco, after
which to the angels.
Canada considers quarantine on yel
low journals as Important as on other
deadly diseases.
Epicurus 2th was king locally yes
terday. He is a kinsman of Sweet
Tooth.
Husband and wife do not quarrel
over politics, He humors bar.
How to Keep Well.
By Dr. W. A. Evans.
Questions rertlnent to hygiene, sanitation
and prevention of disease. It matters of gen
eral Interest, wilt be answered In this col
umn. Where space will not permit or tbe
subject Is not suitable, letter will be per
sonally Answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addressed envelope
Is incloaod. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis
or prescribe for Individual diseases. Re
quests for sucb services cannot be answered.
(Copyright. 1916. b Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.)
CATCH1XO COLD.
DRS. MILLER and Noble kept a lot
of rabbits In a warm atmosphere
for some time. They then sprayed a
bacillus capable of causing colds Into
the noses of these rabbits. A part of
the rabbits were then placed in com
fortably warm and dry cages. A second
batch were exposed to cold for several
hours and then transferred to more
comfortable quarters. A third batch
were wet with cold water and then
kept In cold air for a few hours.
Some rabbits in each batch died and
many of them had colds, but the trou
bles of the first group were much less
than those of the last two.
The teaching of this experiment la
that exposure to cold and wet. and e
pecialy chilling of one part of the body,
the remainder being warm and dry.
causes that form of infection known as
cold. Another teaching Is that the
exposure of consumptives to open all
does harm unless the feet are, kent drv
and warm and the balance of the body
Is kept warm.
In other words, this very scientific
laboratory experiment proves the cor
rectness of the old woman's teaching
that to prevent catching cold the feet
must be kept warm and drv
There does not seem to be anv reason
for proving the obvious and the well
known. But the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association tell ua that ten
years ago Chodomsky exposed hla own
Doay to cold air and cold water, went
with wet feet and did other similar
stunts and came to the conclusion that
chilling and wetting of the akin did not
induce colds. Aa Chodomsky was a man
of standing hla opinion did much to
upset old-time opinions. At any rate, a
number of men, each Just aa much an
authority as Chodomsky. tried various
experiments. Something like a dozen
have now reported that Chodomsky waa
wrong and that the old women were
and are right.
That colds are due to Infection waa
claimed by Austin Flint just 30 years
ago. For a generation many people
were skeptical, but now the theory la
not rejected by any one with any fol
lowing. But the principal factor in
colds the bacteria Is not the only
factor worth considering. A man can
get the bacteria of colds in hla nose
and not become Infected therebv.
Whether he has over-eaten or not, is
constipated or not, has wet feet or not.
has been chilled through or not. haa
been wet or not, any one of these may
be a factor in determining whether the
bacteria on his nasal membranes will
Infect him or not.
A man should not continue to go
around wearing wet shoes. He should
not permit himself to be chilled. These
are household maxims which have
withstood the acid test applied by some
experimenters.
Diseased Tonsila.
F. C. T. asks: "At times partlclea
come from my throat which are of
fensive. (1) Are my tonsils diseased?
(2) If so, should they be removed? (3)
Would gargling with peroxide be of any
use7 (4) Could this condition have a
bad effect on any other part of the
DOay .
REPLY.
1. Yes. Thess masses are due to accu
mutation in the crypts of the tonsils, of de
caying food, and cells mixed with bacteria.
2. In most cases, yea. Some cases can be
cured by massaging and cleaning the ton
sils.
8. No.
4. Yes. It la a frequent cause of rheuma
tiam, neuralgia and neuritis.
Bright' DIaeaae and Diabetes.
A. W. writes: "Will you please state
difference. If any. between Bright's dls
ease and diabetes? This woman is S8
years old, single, and baa had good
health. About eight years ago, after
an attack of grip, she became slightly
deaf In one ear and deafness now in
that ear is pronounced.
"Are casta. In urine and high blood
pressure bad symptoms and what would
they indicate? If a person has Bright's
disease, can life be lengthened by diet
ing and proper exercise? If it Is taken
in first stages, can It not be cured, or
at least health improved, so that one
would live some, years? What is best
to do In a case of Bright's disease to
prolong life? How can one tell Bright's
disease If the symptoms are like dia
betes?
"lou mentioned diabetes insipidus
caused by a diseased gland in the head
nn casts ana nign blood pressure,
considering the deafness, do you think
this woman could have diabetes in
sipidus? The last test showed no casts
or sugar, but she has headache a good
part of each day. which seems a beat
ing In the head, which the doctor saya
Is caused by high blood pressure,"
REPLY.
In true diabetes the urine contains sugar.
The kidneys are not necessarily affected.
The disease results from the eating of more
sugar and starch than the person can burn.
Some of the excess Is excreted by the kid
ncya.
A TRIBUTE TO THE RAINS.
The rains are descending, the
heavens are gray, the sun only squints
an occasional ray; there's. music when
raindrops are spanking the roof, bu
not In the sloshlness down underhoof.
The home bosses feed the old furnace
with wood or keep the room heaters
in genial mood, and umbrella owners
with care never stand their rain roofs
in reach of the non-owner's hand. But
sweet is the newly washed air we in
hale, a sweetness that never, no neve
will fall to give added vigor and
strength above par to limbs that we
ride on, when not In the car. It
brightens the eyes and enlivens the
brain, from Hps coaxes out a most joy
ful refrain, while the pulsing heart
dances with glee in Its nest inside of
the midst of the rib-armored chest.
Then hall to the dampness straight
down and oblique that falls on the
just and the unjust alike and while
Eastern poets endeavor to show their
love in rapt song for the beautiful
snow, Northwesterners sing In a happy
refrain the heart-spoken praise of the
health-giving rain.
JAMBS BARTON ADAMS.
Gold In Doable Easrle.
MULTNOMAH FARM. Nov. 9 (To
the Editor.) A claims there is $20
worth of gold in a J20 United States
gold coin and the face value in gold in
all United States gold coins indepen
dent of the alloy.
B claims tliere is not. Who Is rtirht?
SUBSCRIBER.
The commercial value of the pure
gold In a 20 gold piece la a trifle more
than S19.SS&,
FOOTPATH OX THE HIGHWAY.
Way Not Let Pedestrians Enjoy tbe
Great Driver
PEXDLETOX. Or- Nov. S. (To the
Editor.) I heartily Indorse Mr. Charles
Coopey's sugzestlor. to construct a
foot and bridle path along the Colum
bia River Highway.
At present the highway Is beneficial
only to motorists. If anyone ventures
on It either afoot or on horseback he
takes his life in his hands, regardless
of the fact that he may have contribu
ted more towards the making of It
than some of the occuoanta of the cars
he la compelled to dodge.
Aa Mr. Cooney says. It would be an
ideal route for pedestrians and eques
trians, and I venture to say there are
many of us now prevented from enjoy
ing the scenic beauties of the highway
who are Just as capable of appreciat
ing them as are our more fortunate
brothers.
By all means let us boost for such
a walk and help to revive what are
becoming lost arts amongst us pedes-
trlanlsm and equestrianism. What
could be better for us. physically or
mentally, than such an excursion Into
God's great out-of-doors, either afoot
or astride man's noblest friend, the
horse? J. T. D.
Preatdeat for a Day!
PORTLAND. Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) A says Secretary of State. Rob
ert Lansing. Washington. D. C. will
be the next President of the United
States for 24 hours. March 4. 1917. B
says not. Which Is right?
CONSTANT READER.
PORTLAND. Nov. 8. (To the Edi
tor.) Will the Secretary of the United
States preside as President for the In
tercourse of 24 hours at the next
Presidential Inauguration?
MRS. M. G.
If- the next President does not take
the oath of office until March 5 Mr.
Lansing might technically claim the
distinction of being President for a
day. but there is no obstacle to the
next President's taking the oath on
March 3. March 4 has In the past
fallen on Sunday in a Presidential In
auguration year, but no history or
book of reference records the Secre
tary of State of that time In Its list of
Presidents.
Geerg Washington.
ASTORIA. Or.. Nov. 8. (To the Ed
Itor.) Please tell me what nation
ality George Washington was. and set
tle a dispute. J. II. ELLIS.
George Washington was born la Vir
ginia. If the correspondent desires to
settle a hair-splitting argument as to
whether Washington was an English
man, because Virginia at the time of
his birth was a British colony, he will
have to seek elsewhere.
Questions of Citizenship.
MMINNVILLE. Or.. Nov. 7. (To the
Editor.) (1) Can a child born of
American parents In Germany return to
America and vote under the present
law?
(2) And what natlonalitv would the
child be? SUBSCRIBER.
1. Yes.
2. American.
Foreign War Primer.
By National Geographic Society.
When the daily press cf America
published the brief announcement re
cently that a great battle had been
fought in Abyssinia 2i miles outside
the capital, resulting in a complete
victory for the new government, the
average reader did not realize that this
battle affected 8.000.000 people living
in a country larger than the combined
areas of France, Holland, Belgium,
England, Scotland. Ireland and Wales.
And inasmuch as the dispatches failed
to give the name of the capital, few
Americans could recall it Adis Ababa,
the city founded by that remarkable
black monarch. Menellk II, In 1S32, the
third year of his eventful reign which
extended over a period of nearly a
quarter of a century.
Abyssinia 1st a wholly Inland nation,
being cut off from the Red Sea and the
Gulf of Aden by French and Italian
possessions varying in width from 40
to 250 miles. To the north Is the Ital
ian possession of Eritrea, to the east
British. French and Italian Somaliland
territories, to the south British East
Africa, and to the west the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan. The whole empire,
which waa formerly known as Ethio
pia, lies within the tropics, although
most of tbe interior has such a high
elevation that the climate is temperate
and healthful.
Adis Ababa has an elevation of more
than a mile and a quarter above sea
level, so that although it Is in the same
latitude as the Isthmian seaport of
Panama, it enjoys a most salubrious
climate.
Except for its royal residence and
grounds, which occupy a hill command
ing a view of the country in all direc
tions, the city resembles a temporary
military camp more closely than the
capital of a vast kingdom, for white
tents and mean huts cover the country
in a circle whose diameter is about
three miles. No railroad connects this
city of 40-.000 inhabitants with the out
side world, while the "highways" of the
country are scarcely more than narrow
trails traveled by pack mules and
donkeys.
When Menellk II died In December.
1913. he was succeeded by his 17-year-old
grandson LI J Yasu (also spelled
LtdJ Eyassu). the monarch whose party
the "new government" will have dis
placed If the reported battle should
prove to have been decisive.
A striking picture of the multiplicity
of details handled by the old sovereign
Is given by A. Henry Savage Landor
in his account of a year's journey across
"Widest Africa." Mr. Landor says:
"Everything in Adis Ababa is re
ferred to the Emperor. It la quite
amazing what an amount of mental
work Menellk must go through daily.
While attending to most Important po
litical affairs, matters of the most
trivial character are brought to him
for assent. This Is practically what
happens every minute of the day at
the palace? Menelik. with his head ban
daged In a white shash (a sort of silk
handkerchief) and with a cheap French
felt hat far back upon his skull. Is
pondering with some minister over
some political problem of great im
portance let us say. the projected rail
way between the sea and Adla Ababa,
The Emperor Is deeply absorbed In
thought.
"Enters a servant who whispers In
the Emperor's ear. regardless of the
presence of the foreign representative
of a great European country: 'Your
Majesty, the carpenter wants some more
nails to mend the veranda.'
"'Here are the keys. Give him 20
nails.' says the Emperor. 'If he needs
more, come again to tell me.'
"The Emperor is again In deep
thought. Intruder No. 2 comes up and
whispers that a mule has escaped from
the palace.
"The Emperor jumps down from his
throne a high packing case covered
with Oriental carpets slips quickly
Into the shoes which he has discarded.
and hastens to his telescope, scanning
the country all around with it. In order
to see whether the missing animal can
be detected upon the hills near Adis
Ababa. The escaped mule is much more
Important to the Emreror than all the
railroads in the world.
"The foreign representative vainly
attempt to drive the Emperor again
to his throne. The Emperor, on his
side, endeavors to Induce the minister
to coma and look for the mule,"
In Other Days.
Twentr-nve Year Ago.
From the Morning Oregonian. Nov. 10. 1S1.
New iorK, Nov. tf. Major William
McKinley. Jr.. Governor-elect of Ohio.
and Mrs. MrKlnley are in the city. He
Has recently made more than 13s
speeches and visited more than SO
counties In the Buckeye slate.
Salem, Or.. Nov. 0. Having waited
more than the allotted time for Presi
dent Harrison to issue his Thanksgiv
ing proclamation. Governor Pcnnoyer
today Issued a proclamation.
Wheat shippers find that the crop
has been overestimated. Karly in the
season It was thought that it would
equal last season's crop, which crave
a surplus for export of 650,000 tons, or
little over lS.OOiT.000 bushels, but it
is now found, notwithstanding many
statements purporting to be accurate.
to be not over SO pt-r cent of what it
was last jrer. In the Willamette Val
ley there has been a full crop, and an
increase of 10 per cent.
Albany, Or. Linn County has let the
contract to Glass & Prudhomrae. of
Portland, to furnish ballots to the elec
tion booths to bo used under the new
Australian ballot law. in effect next
June.
Wheat today took
cents to Sia cents.
Jump from "3H
lenna, Nov. ?. A dispatch from
Llvldla says that the silver wedding of
the Czar Is being celebrated without
much display. There are several rea
sons. The Russian famine is under
stood to be the chief. Another reason
Is the hopeless condition of the Ciar's
second son. the Grand Duke George, of
whose recovery there Is no expectation,
and the recent death of the Grand
Duchess Alexandria. Observances of
the wedding were held at Nice. Cher
bourg. Vienna. Berlin. Wiesbaden.
Weimar. Belgrade and Copenhagen.
The Salvation Army, of Portland. In
preparing one of the greatest events
in lis history. Colonil McKie. fresh
from a soul-saving trip to Great Brit
ain. South Africa. Australia and New
Zealand, with his ald-de-camp. Staff
Captain Plant, and Staff Captain and
Mrs. llalpin will be in charge.
Unit m Century Ajro.
From the M.-vrnlng Oregonian. Nov. 10. IS.
The match game between the Pioneer
Baseball Club of this city and the
Clackamas Bxse Ball Club of Oregon
City was set for today, and accordingly
the Steamer Senator will go to Oregon
City today at S o"clock to bring the
club down.
From Big Bend Mr. W. I.. Wade, of
Walla Walla, who has spent the Sum
mer In the Big Bend mines aJTived in
this city last nijrht and says that about
1000 men are at work In the mines of
French Creek, MeCulloch's Creek.
Carnes' Creek and on the bars of the
Columbia between Gold and Career
Creek. Very few men are making ex
penses, on account of deep rock and
lack of protection against the water.
There Is a report circulating that
Captain Meedoreiu Crawford has been
removed from the revenue collector
ship and that J. K. Kel'.y has been ap
pointed in his place. There la also a
report that Milton Shannon, of Salem,
has been appointed to one of the land
offices at Oregon City.
Paris. Nov. 8.
to bring the
Mexico.
Transports are ready
French troops from
London. Nov. 8. The case of rebel
steamers seized at Liverpool which
was brought before the Admiralty
Court, has been allowed to stand over
and it Is believed will be privately ad
Justed. PORTLAND MINE!
Hello Portland: How I love you!
There's no other town above you;
No city half so golden.
In story new or olden.
Can I name I
Your beauty fo enthralls me.
The lure of you so calls me.
That, whatever fate befalls me.
In life's game.
I can stand my share of sorrow.
If I know that each tomorrow.
I shall of your mountains borrow.
Strength to climb.
Onward! upward! Though but slowly.
I progress through path ways lowly.
You. my source or inspiration.
To me, queen of all creation.
Portland Mine:
KATHLEEN MACNEIL DURHAM.
ACTCMV.
Look out upon God's bright world and
forget
There was ever such thing as an
unkind word.
You will see no frown on the face of
a flower.
There Is no false note In the song of
a bird.
Out in the sunshine, where Autumn's
rich foliage
Rivals in color the blush of the rose.
Summer In passing is strewing her
pathway
With beauties that Springtime would
never disclose.
JUANITA PENROSE.
Cold Facts.
Exchange.
What la said to be the larcest ladder
dredging unit ever constructed has re
cently been launched at Hammontin,
CaL As described in the Engineering
Record. It Is equipped with an endless
chain of 100 buckets and excavates,
washes and stacks 300.000 cubic yards
of gravel a month. It will be operated
by the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields,
along the Yuba River.
Captain David Doughty, age 73, of
Bailey's Island. Casco Bay. Me., recent
ly went to his lobster car to accommo
date a woman who desired two lob
sters. He capsized his punt and In get
ting on the lobster car was obliged to
abandon his rubber boots. Then he
happened to overturn the car and lose
about 25 worth of lobsters, and when
he got ashore he found that hla gold
watch was ruined.
Whoso Uncle?
A man learned cf the death of an
uncle in a distant state and employed
an attornev to get for him his share
of the estate. After much delay the
lawyer sent for his client and said:
"I have collected your share of your
uncle's property, and here Is a state
ment of our account,"
The account rendered showed many
Items of expenses, such as "taking
depositions." "notary's fees." "court
costs." "traveling expenses," etc. a
considerable charge in favor of the at
torney for his services, and only a
small balance for the nephew.
ftr examining and pondering over
the statement for quite a while, th
client looked up and said to the lawyer:
"Was that your uncle or mine that
died?" West's Docket.
Greek Names.
Exchange.
The Greek termination In the six and
seven-syllable patronymics with which
we have been made familiar by the fre
quent changes in the Cabinet, Is said
to Indicate descent. Thus M. Caloyero
poulas may count among his ancestors
a "caloycr," or at least in a collateral
line. A Vnloyer" Is said to be a monk
of the order cf St. Basil, an order that
exacts fuur ptrlods of fasting each
yenr. the longest of which Is of seven
weeks. The caloyers have in the
Orient the. same reputation for asceti
cism as the Benedictine la the Occident.