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NOT A BOOB.
The Chicago Tribune, in a burst of
fury over the defeat of Mr. Hughes,
calls California the "champion boob
state of American republic." Califor
nia newspapers, while they may agree
on" nothing else whatsoever, unite in
the opinion that the Golden State Is
the one bright particular star in the
Union, and with one voice they resent
the offensive characterization of the
enraged Chicago newspaper.
Meanwhile they have room in their
.columns for the furious controversy
which has broken out between the
Progressives and Regulars over the
causes of Hughes' defeat in Califor
nia. Governor Johnson says that
Crocker and his crowd are responsible,
and Chester Rowell calls a certain
distinguished editor a liar, and Crock
er wants to know why Johnson was
able to roll up several hundred thou
sand majority for himself as a Sen
atorial candidate and nothing for Mr.
Hughes.
Evidently Mr. Hughes has been
sacrificed to the contentions and
prejudices of the warring California
politicians. They forgot the greater
cause in the satisfaction of their lesser
schemes, and the Nation pays the pen
alty. It is the California way. The
willingness of California to involve
the country in a war with Japan is
not forgotten: and now the leaders
of the dominant party wreck a Na
tional campaign because they are not
willing to stop fighting among them
selves when they ought to be united
for a common cause.
One may not agree with the Tribune
that California is a boob state. Cali
fornia usually knows what it wants
and goes after it. A certain . large
headedness, and a constant longing
for and seeking ofcthe NaticAhal lime
light, are chiefly what is the matter
with California.
HOW FAB 13 IT SAFE TO GOT
There are several evidences that the
submarine controversy between the
United States and Germany is about
to crop up in a new form. The sink
ing of the Marina, the driving of her
largely American crew to open boats
in a stormy. Winter sea and the hold
ing in oaptivity for several days of her
captain may be held to be a violation
of the principles of humanity laid
down in the first American note de
nouncing the submarine campaign.
Like treatment of the Columbian, an
American ship, may be held to have
violated the same principles "and to
have been in contravention of the
Prussian-American treaty, which was
discussed in the case of the Frye. The
raid of the U-53 on shipping off the
American coast appears to have been
undertaken both as a test of the feasi
bility of extending the campaign to the
American coast without incurring our
open enmity and as a means of ascer
taining how the American Government
and people would regard such opera
tions. The latter ' purpose is frankly ad
mitted .in a letter which the Provi
dence Journal says was written to a
member of the German embassy by
Captain Boy-ed, who is now directing
the submarine campaign off our coast.
He is quoted as saying:
It is vitally necessary for us to establish
soon a proper working basis which will be
satisfactory to President Wilson, and in or
der tj do that we must create conditions
"which will necessitate a ruling. ... In
order to ascertain where we stand, we must
force an issue and see to what extent Amer
ica is willing; to carry out her alleged hu
manitarian Ideals by helping us to save the
lives of those whose ships me destroy in the
coming campaign in the Western Atlantic.
After the U-53's raid Count von
Bernstorff was quoted as having said
at a conference of German interests:
We have at last established a working
basis which clears the way for our real
submarine activities on this side of the
ocean. We have observed President Wilson's
dictum exactly. Ho has shown as the way
to operate and we thank him for it. We now
have a precedent which makes it certain
that American vessels of war will not hesi
tate to save the lives of the passengers and
crews of ships that are destroyed by subma
rines, and as long as the physical conditions
of submarines are what they are, we are
very glad, not desiring to destroy non-combatant
life, to hand the humanitarian work
of saving men and women over to the
United States Navy.
Undoubtedly the Impulses iwhich atlrred
"United States destroyers on Sunday (speak
ing of Sunday, October 8) will continue.
In other words, what German submarines
cannot do by reason of their limitations the
United states Navy Is willing to do. This
In a good arrangement all around, and a very
satiutactory method of procedure.
By sending vessels of the Navy to
rescue those persons who had been
driven to their boats by the Germans
the United States Government is un
derstood by Germany to have consti
tuted the Navy a life-saving auxiliary
to the ships which destroy our com
merce with Europe. The Germans
assume that we will not only not ob
ject but that we will actually aid in
their operations. It remains to be
seen whether President Wilson will
consent to let our Navy play this part.
He has condemned as Inhuman the
practice of driving mariners to open
boats on a stormy sea. He will be
called upon to decide whether this
shall be permitted on a larger scale
than hitherto and off our own coast
among ships the greater proportion
of whose passengers and a large part
of whose crews are Americans.
Increased destruction of ships in
European waters and extension of sub
marine activities to the Western At
lantic indicate an effort of Germany
to win victory or at least escape defeat
.by cutting off its enemies' supply of
food and war material. Germany may
hope to make the allies feel the pinch
of hunger before the latter can win
decisive victory on land, and so to
restrict the allies' munition supply as
to prevent the latter from gaining the
superiority in that regard. Should
these plans meet with any degree of
success, the war may settle down into
a fight for food, each party trying by
different means lo prevent imports
from reaching the other until the first
party has fwon complete military su
premacy. British statesmen realize
their country's danger, for it has been
the eubject of grave discussion in
Parliament, and French statesmen
have guarded against it by offering
a bonus for the growing of wheat. The
people of those countries and Italy
may yet be put on rations, lest they be
starved out before they can have time
to win.
The President may soon be called
upon to choose between a firm stand
for close observance of the principles
for'which he has contended, with a
possibility of serious controversy with
Germany, and surrender of those prin
ciples in part, or at least toleration of
their violation. The care taken by
Germany to ascertain how far they
could safely go justifies hope that a
firm stand might cause that country to
abandon plans for further submarine
war in American waters.
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. PATRIOTISM.
The spirit of patriotism of this Nation Is
almost destroyed, and in some places the
flag is looked upon as simply a piece of
bunting, because one man with more money
than he knew what to do with has sent oat
lecturer over the United States to advo
cate peace, peace of any kind? In a mili
tary sense we are a Nation that Is laughed
at the world over.
We cannot maintain a standing Army.
The temperament of the people of this
country will not stand for it. The only way
is to have a trained citizenry which will put
us on a basis of preparation and enable us
to command the respect we need from the
first-class powers.
The only protection Is to he prepared to
fight if wo have to. I think the young men
and the young women, too, should be
trained. There is no reason why every young
man, rich or poor, should not be compelled
to serve his country in time of need. The
training would strengthen the college young
man physically. It would be regular exer
cise. It would cultivate the martial spirit
not the military spirit.
Senator Chamberlain, who is re
sponsible for the foregoing striking
utterances, is chairman of 'the mili
tary affairs of the United States Sen
ate, and has had exceptional oppor
tunity to study and understand the
problems of preparedness. He favors
universal military service, and the
sound Judgment of the Nation will in
time approve.
The place for the delivery of the
Senator's patriotic address was at the
Oregon State University. His hearers
were 900 bright young American men
and women. The state may well be
pleased that the Senator said what
he said where he said it.
COUNSEL FOB THE MARRIED.
Propinquity, they say, is the secret
of love. Or, rather, it is the explana
tion of what passes for love in the
world of everyone's dreams. It is well
to know something, but not too much,
in advance about the object of one's
adoration. If he, or she. passes the
acid test of exact and minute knowl
edge, he, or she, may be regarded
as perfect. But of course human per
fection, as everyone knows, is some
what rare except in Oregon.
A writer in a high-brow magazine
considers the sad subject of belated
knowledge after marriage. He warns
susceptible men against the lure of
the newest female acquaintance, and
lays down this rule:
Stand as close to your charmer as you can,
look at her well, very well, at every feature
watch her attitude, listen to every tone of
her voice then you will discover something
unpleasant, and you will be saved.
So, says the philosopher in effect,
you have a duty to know before mar
riage the things you are bound other
wise to discover afterwards. But, alas,
we fear that if this dangerous formula
is to be followed, marriages would be
reserved only for the heavenly elect.
Yet the state of the married man or
woman is not altogether helpless.
Here, for example, are tabloid direc
tions for those who look upon mar
riage as a permanent condition:
Vary your pursuits, your conversation and
your clothes.
If you absolutely must be sincere, let It
be in private.
Once a day say to a wife, "I love you"
to a husband, "How strong you are," or If
that is ridiculous, "How clever you are."
Forgive your partner seventy times seven
Then burn the ledger.
Old stuff, old stuff, but good. Every
married woman knows it. and many
married men. But not all of them
seem to think it worth while to be
happy, though married.
DEVOURING MEN A XI) MONET.
The war is devouring money as fast
as it devours men. The losses of all
the armies are estimated at 16,500,000
men, of whom about 4,00.000 men
were killed. The money cost of the
war is stated at $17,500,000,000 for the
first year and $28,000,000,000 for the
second, while tn"e cost for the third
year is estimated at $30,000,000,000.
A detailed estimate by the Mechanics
and Metals National Bank of New
York places the total for the entente
allies for the first three years at $48,
200,000,000 and that for the central
allies at $27,750,000,000, a grand total
of $75,050,000,000. Great Britain and
Germany are each expected to have
spent "$16,500,000,000.
The immensity of these totals is
shown by the bank quoted by means
of the statement that they are three
times the combined cost of the Na
poleonic War, the American Civil
War, the Franco-Prussian War, the
Boer War and the Russo-Japanese
War. They are twice the national
debt of all nations in 1914, 6even.imes
the deposits of all the National banks
in the United States, seven times the
world's supply of gold coin, five times
the cost of building and equipping all
the railroads in the United States, 200
times the cost of the Panama Canal.
The cost per capita of population is:
Great Britain $351, France $350, Rus
sia $67.10, Italy $108, Roumania
$59.30, Belgium and Serbia $133.40, for
all the entente allies $151.50, Germany
$242.60, Austria-Hungary $174.50,
Turkey and Bulgaria $75.50, all the
central allies $188.10, all belligerents
$163.30.
To the immense total of direct cost
must be added the vast destruction of
property of all kinds, the loss of use
ful production by the men engaged in
fighting and the men and women who
are making munitions. This total is
increasing day by day. Each advance
of any army implies the destruction
of captured towns and villages and
devastation of surrounding country.
There is no present prospect that
this destruction will end with the
third year; there is strong probability
that it will continue through a fourth
year. Premier Asquith has declared
that the entente will fight till its end
is attained that the war "cannot be
allowed to end in some patched-up,
precarious, dishonoring compromise
masquerading under the name of
peace."
The death of Dr. James R. Card
well removes a man of most lovable
character, who through a long life
actively but unobstrusively worked for
the scientific development of one of
the state's leading industries. A den
tist by profession, he was a horticul
turist by choice, and through his long
life he saw the fruit-growing industry
grow to its present importance, largely
through his unselfish efforts. A stu
dent of horticulture as a science, he
was "ungrudging in imparting his
knowledge and in encouraging and
aiding others to embark in the in
dustry. The fame of Oregon fruit is
his best monument.
TAMMANY LOSING ITS CRIP. '
When the unusually small plurality
of President Wilson in New York City
was published, the cry of treachery
went up against Tammany, but it is
now evident that even smaller plural
ities were given to some of Tammany's
favorite local candidates. The Presi
dent was given a plurality of 34,652 in
Manhattan and the Bronx, but Frank
L. Dowling, Tammany's candidate for
president of the Board of Aldermen,
which office carries with it the vice
Mayoralty and a place on the Board
of Estimate, got a plurality of only
34,190, and W. F. McCombs, for Sen
ator, got only 23,521. Robert L. Luce,
"for whom," says the New York Even
ing Post, "the organization had a pe
culiar affection," got only 105,282 for
Justice of the Supreme-Court, against
139,559 for George V. McMullan, Re
publican. There is no evidence of treachery
to the President in these figures. They
show that Tammany is losing its Isrip
on votes for local offices. The reason
is not far to seek. Tammany is hav
ing very "slim picking" these days.
It gets nothing from Mayor Mitchell,
who was elected on an anti-Tammany
fusion ticket, nor from the state ad
ministration, which is in the hands of
the Republicans, nor from the Fed
eral Government, which no sooner
considered giving Tammany the post
mastership than an uproar caused it
to reconsider. Mr. Wilson's re-election
without the aid of New York
State must hav lessened its impor
tance in Mr. Wilson's estimation, and
the only hold Tammany may have on
him may prove to be that its members
of the House might turn against the
Administration on some vital measure.
About all that Tammany has to feed
"the boys" is hope of etter times
with a new swing of the political pen
dulum, but that is very insubstantial
food. The Tiger's hangers-on, want
something solid and they want it now.
RELIEF FROM CAR SHORTAGE.
The principal fault to be found with
thn remedies for the car shortage
"which have been adopted by the Amer
ican Railway Association is that tney
were not adopted a year ago. At that
time the blockade on Eastern roads
was already becoming serious, and it
could have been foreseen that, as the
war dragged on and as shipments of
munitions increased, it would become
worse.
The railroads have at last taken the
surest means of forcing roads which
use other roads' cars to send them
home namely, by taking away the
profit derived from the use of "for
eign" cars. The first effect will be
to expedite movement and unloading
of cars and thus to get more service
out of them. This, however, will only
mitigate the evil. The cure will come
from purchase of additional cars by
those roads which have not enough
to carry their own traffic and which
make good their deficiency by poach
ing on their neighbors' supply. This
stimulation of the demand for new
cars will come at a time when steel
is at famine prices and when the en
tire output of the country is con
tracted far ahead. The roads will be
driven to buy or build wooden cars
in order to ensure prompt delivery. If
they insist on steel cars, they will suf
fer long -delay in relieving a situation
wljich admits of no delay and will jay
war prices.
The action of the railroads thus
promises relief to the lumbermen in
two directions. It creates a market
for much of their product and It holds
out prospects of getting the rest of
their output to market. In both re
spects shipbuilding will materially aid.
RUSSIA NEEDS RAH. ROAD ME.V.
Russia is awakening, as no other
country in the world ever did, to the
essential importance of transporta
tion in the scheme of civilization. The
approaching session of the duma will
bo devoted quite largely to discussion
of plans for improving communica
tions, but not, as one might suppose,
wholly or even principally from the
military point of view. Recent re
ported disturbances in the centers of
population are said to have been due
to the fact that food was scarce at
those points, though plentiful else
where: the vast resources of the great
empire simply lacked efficient means
of distribution, which any student of
primary economics knows is one of
the first needs. So, while a food cen
sus of the country probably would
show a vast surplus as a whole, the
actual situation is that in Moscow and
Petrograd and other populous districts
the people suffer, while on the steppes
there is an ample grain and cattle
harvest in the hands of farmers, who
are unable to exchange it for other
necessaries.
Rich as is Russia In what are termed
"natural resources," the problem of
transportation is gravely complicated
by the human element. It is one thing
to vote money for the construction of
a railroad, or even to collect the
money, and quite another to complete
the technical part of the task. There
is said to be an actual shortage of
railway engineers throughout the
country: there is also a serious scarcity
of administrative officials. Men who
have even a rudimentary conception
of the commercial side of railroad
operation are few in proportion to the
new demand. Russians foresee that
they will be unable, in all probability,
to count on other nationalities for
help in the near future, since all coun
tries will have work of their own
to do.
The result is that work must wait,
or be greatly delayed, while the coun
try pauses to train a corps of tech
nicians of its own. The Minister of
Ways and Communication has Just ap
proved a project for railway technical
education involving an expenditure of
25,000,000 roubles that is said to be
the most ambitious plan of the kind
ever undertaken in the world. Insti
tutes of railway engineers are co-operating
with, the government. Schools
are to be established in every part of
the empire. Municipalities are to be
called upon for donations of land and
funds for maintenance. Odessa, Kiev
and Khartov are taking the lead al
ready. The training of all classes of
subordinates for railroad work is to
be undertaken. Twenty secondary
schools and forty lower schools are to
be organized at once, and a large num
ber of railroad commercial schools.
The whole scheme is stupendous in its
magnitude, and it serves to show the
vast possibilities of the Russian em
pire. Apart from the fact that other coun
tries are expected to have plenty of
work for their own trained men, ex
perience has shown that it is espe
cially difficult to fill subordinate posi
tions satisfactorily from abroad. High
executives are eubject to a rigid
process of selection, which is not feasi
ble for the minor places. The result
is said to have been that calls for
foreign help have been answered by
men of relatively mediocre ability.
They are the men who have not suc
ceeded any too well at home and are
inclined to blame "conditions" .rather
than themselves for their failure. They
are apt to learn too late that they are
not qualified to succeed anywhere.
Meanwhile their new employers lose
valuable time. Russia proposes to go
to theroot of the matter by training
its own men in every department.
. Opportunities for, education of pros
pective citizens of the United States
are to be extended to the rural school
districts, according to a plan being
developed by the Federal Bureau of
Naturalization. County School Super
intendents throughout the country are
being urged to throw open the doors
of county schoolhouses at night in all
those communities where there is a
demand for their use, and co-operation
is promised in the way of outlined
courses of instruction suitable for ap
plicants. There being many districts
in which it is impracticable to gather
would-be citizens together at con
venient times, it is proposed to prepare
courses of instruction adopted to home
study under the direction of the teach
ers in the respective districts. Espe
cial attention is to be given to ..in
struction in English and civics. The
courses contemplated are not voca
tional in their nature, being designed
wholly to instruct the pupil in the ob
ligations of citizenship and to enlight
en him as to the system of government
of the country he proposes to adopt
as his own. The Federal Government
does not provide funds, relying on the
states to do this when their Interest
has been awakened to the Importance
of the work.
So much Is said about the depend
ence of the world upon the coal-tar
dyes that the older preparations which
the world employed for many years
have been lost to sight, but interest in
them is being revived. An investi
gator has summarized the resources of
the United States in this regard. He
says there are in this country fourteen
plants and trees yielding black dyes,
that the peat bogs of the South fur
nish good khaki and heather gray,
that there are eleven plants yielding
blue of various shades, twenty-four
supplying yellows and many others
from which dependable reds can be
made. This opens , a field of study
that does not necessarily Involve much
original research, since technical lit
erature on the subject is already quite
extensive. It is not widely known that
the indigo plant was at one time gen
erally found in some of the southern
states, and it is believed it would now
bear cultivation at a profit, while the
long list of other plants offers oppor
tunities for fascinating study with
some - prospect of becoming valuable
if the war continues much longer.
An undertaking hardly second in
importance to the great tunnel just
completed in the south of France is
the new canal in Sweden, which is. now
open, despite the peculiar harassments
to which that country has been sub
jected on account of the war. The
canal connects Lake Wener with the
Kattegat, and consequently with the
North Sea. It is some twenty miles
long and has taken seven years to
build. The lake itself has an area
of 2400 square miles, is the third
largest in Europe and is 150 feet above
the level of the sea. It has long had
an outlet by canal and through a chain
of smaller lakes to the Baltic, but this
has involved a comparatively round
about voyage and the Kattegat always
has seemed to bo the more natural
outlet. "Vast Btores of iron and cop
per, as well as forests of timber, are
thus placed much nearer to the out
side world, and those who have fig
ured the financial details of the project
predict that it will Justify its cost
within a few years.
Commissioner Daly cannot have his
way in letting jitneys run where they
are not needed, therefore he opposes
a franchise for jitneys to run as a
feeder to an electric railway, where
they would do good service to the
public. His opposition to a proposed
franchise for an interurban line is
simply factious.
It is to be hoped that the Navy De
partment will not delay execution of
the naval programme by insisting on
requirements with which shipbuilders
cannot comply. Congress made that
mistake in regard to one class of ves
sels, and they have not yet been built.
If people who must dine on turkey
Thanksgiving day would be content
with a smaller bird well cleaned up
on the festal occasion, their purses and
digestive machinery would be the
gainers. A big turkey is prone to
hang on too long.
A protracted cold spell has great
advantage over a heated term. In
one there is no limit to the quantity
of clothing a man may don; in the
other, law and sense of decency have
him.
If women were failures on Chicago
election boards, according to the as
sistant corporation counsel, it was due
to inexperience. Men are rather
green the first time.
The one relay in the wireless be
tween this country and Japan recalls
the advice to Ole to make the depart
ing ferry-boat "in two yumps."
It may be true that many people
are of record as receiving "booze"
who do not know the more or less
fragrant scent of the article.
A photograph of yourself is a hand
somer Christmas present than a por
trait of a dead man on a piece of
currency.
The Native Sons will be throwing
native language at each ether before
the row Is over.
The Columbia River may become
ambitious and go very low, but it can
not go dry.
When England needs the raw mate
rials for food, she will cease making
liquor.
The brewers expense of the amend
ment was $7962.46 159,249 beers.
Wow!
Should the Adamson law be declared
unconstitutional, on whom will be the
joke?
The American Federation has Ig
nored negro labor until it is a menace.
How would you like to own a $16,
000,000 mine like the Hercules?
Potatoes are like gold nuggets this
year. .
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 be answered in this col
umn. Where space will not permit or the
subject is not suitable, letter will be per
sonally answered, subject to proper limita
tions and where stamped addressed envelope
is inclosed. xr. Evani will not make diagnosis
or prescribe for individual diseases. Re
quests for such services cannot bs answered.
(Copyright. 1918, by Dr. W. A. Evans.
Published by arrangement with the Chicago
Tribune.
SCARLET FEVER.
Scarlet fever is at Its lowest In Sep
tember. The number of cases of the
disease Increases slowly month by
month until May. and then slowly de
clines, according to a study made by
Dublin, of the Metropolitan Life. The
number of cases in December is three
times the number in September, and the
number in May is one and one-
half times that in December. Country
places which have been free from the
disease during the Summer and Fall
will have outbreaks during the next
four months.
The seasonal prevalance of the di
sease indicates that the open-air life
of the hot weather is a better de
terrent of scarlet fever than are the
activities of the health departments.
The probable reason why scarlet fever
la so nearly uncontrollable in Winter
is that so small a percentage of the
cases of scarlet fever are reported at
the health department. Henderson
found that in London. Ontario, only 38
out of 244 cases of. scarlet fever were
reported.
The disease is spread by the mild,
hidden cases. Taking these mild cases
into account, Henderson found that not
one child in each hundred sick with
scarlet fever died. That only the se
vere cases are reported is shown by the
death rates of reported 6.3 per cent, ac
cording to Henderson; 7.81 per cent, ac
cording to Dublin.
Dublin tells us that the death rate
from scarlet fever among negro chil
dren Is only one-fourth as great as that
among white chlldrtsh.
As to the age at which scarlet fever
is most prevalent Dublin gives 3 to 7
years; more than half of Dublin's cases
were in those five years. Somewhat
less than half the cases were between
2 and 5 years of age. The highest
.single year was the fourth. Henderson
gives the greatest prevalence of the
disease as in the fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh years. The disease is most
fatal in children in the second year of
life. The severity of the disease de
creases steadily as age advances. Grown
people are about four times as liable to
recover from scarlet fever as are chil
dren under two.
The plain teachings of these studies
"by Dublin and Henderson are that chil
dren should be protected against scar
let fever. A large proportion of chil
dren never have it. The older a child
gets the less his chance of contracting
it.. If he does contract It the older he
gets the better his chance of getting
well from it. From 90 to 93 per cent
of all deaths from scarlet fever are In
children under 10 years of age.
If a child gets scarlet fever the pa
rent must do everything possible to
prevent complications. Of the 90 deaths
in Dublin's study, 62 were cases with
complications. Of the 62, 11 had
Bright's disease, 13 had pneumonia,
seven had heart disease, and one had
suppuration of the ears. Of tho 1063
survivors. 31 had Bright's disease. 31
had suppuration of the ears. 22 had err
larged glands in the neck and 11 had
pneumonia. Evidently then the kid
neys, lungs, ears, glands and heart are
to be guarded in scarlet fever.
The 1063 children who survived were
kept under observation for four years.
The expectation Is that a little more
than IS children will die out of a group.
Of 1063 of this age in four years 18
died. There was nothing to show that
having had scarlet fever lessened the
chance of survivors, at least during the
first four years after the illness.
Some years ago Dublin found that the
death rate of people who had had ty
phoid fever was twice as great during
the next three years as was the case
among people who had not had typhoid.
The disease seemed to lower tlw resis
tance of consumption and heart disease.
Scarlet fever had no such effect, not at
least during the first four years.
May Be Heart Disease.
J. F. E. writes: "What is the cause
and remedy for a person becoming dizzy
when lying down suddenly or arisiDg
suddenly?
REPLY.
Have a thorough physical examination.
Tour heart must be examined, your blood
pressure taken, and your urine analyzed.
One cause is heart disease. Another Is high
blood pressure. .Hrisbt's disease is a third.
Symptoms Continue.
P. II. M. writes; "In an answer to
one of your correspondents I notice that
you said that the hot flushes and faint
spells attending the change of life
should be ended in about six months. I
have been subject to these symptoms
almost continually for more than five
years. They become almost unbearable
at times and I fear that my mind is be
coming affected. Will you kindly In
form me, first. If the long duration of
these symptoms is unusual; second. If
there is any treatment that would give
relief, and third, if the mind could be
affected by these condltionsT
REPLY.
Have your physician give yoa a few In
jections of lutein (hypodermlcally), say one
a week for a month, then two a month for
two months, then one a month.
Hlve.
Mrs. B. O. B. writes: "Please tell me
what causes babies to have hives. What
are hives and how can you tell when
babjes have hives? Also, what is the
treatment?
v REPLY.
Hives result from eating improperly. The
food which causes one person to have it may
agTee with you or others. It results from a
hypersensitlveness of the patient rather than
from any decomposition in the food Itself.
Hives, also known as urticaria. Is a localized
rcdm-ss and swelling of the skin character
ized by Intense Itching. The treatment con
sists in finding; out what food causes it and
withholding that food. Eggs sometimes
cause hives In children. It may be due to
milk, berries, buckwheat cakes, etc
Chamberlain's First Opponent.
MITCHELL. Or.. Nor. 15. (To the
Editor.) Did William M. Cake ever run
for IT.-iited States Senator at a general
election? If so. whom did he run
agninst?
Whom did George E. Chamberlain run
against the first time?
RILEY WATKINS.
H. M. Cake, not W. M. Cake, ran for
United States Senator against George
E. Chamberlain in 1908 and was defeated.
STATU PLAYS WITH SOCIALISM
Republican In Letter Discusses Re
Terssl in -North Dakota.
PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Ed
itor.) A Republican friend in North
Dakota writes and informs me why
North Dakota went for Wilson, and in
asmuch as there are a great many North
Dakota people residing In The Orego
nian'a circulation area, they might be
interested In what he says. He writes
as follows:
"For over a year the people of this
state have been fed rank Socialism
through the Non-Partisan League and
Its organ. The Republican party has
been abused for months, and even
though the non-partisan candidate for
Governor and a majority of the nom
inees on the Republican ticket came to
the support of Hughes, they could not
root out the seeds of distrust that had
been sown.
"The state is In the hands of a dan
gerous machine, a clique composed of
rank Socialists. Alex McKenzle in his
palmiest days never had the temerity
to pull what they have pulled. Even
the Supreme Court has been Juggled to
uphold anything they may attempt to
put across. The one hope Is In the re
fusal of the Legislature to follow blind
ly the mandates of the Socialist lead
ers, and In the Governor being stanch
enough to turn them aside. Modera
tion sometimes comes with responsi
bility, and we hope that with all
branches of the Government In their
hands, what they actually do will not
be half as bad as what they have
threatened.
"The Democratio party, which will
bear the burden when the readjustment
comes after the war, is pretty certain
to be retired for as long a time as It
was after McKinley's election. Another
thing pretty hard to combat In North
Dakota. Kansas, Nebraska and Minne
sota was 1 1.50 wheat and 12.50 flax.
This looked good to the farmers, many
of whom did not go Into the causes, but
were just smugly satisfied enough not
to want a change.
"R. M. TTJTTLE."
NAICIITV, XATGHTY FORDWORKEB
He Enlisted for err Ice on the Border
and Is Sow Oat of a Job.
PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) Mentioning Henry Ford and his
"peace talk," the writer wonders if he
knows that one of his employes who
gave up a $o-a-day job to go down to
the border and help protect the mil
lionaires' millions and American lives
and upon his return was Informed his
place was filled and that there was
no work for him.
This man has a family and he Is now
out on a farm doing work for $1.50 a
day to keep his family from facing
want- Tour readers know how much
you can get these good old Democratio
times for $1.50 per day In foodstuffs.
ALICE J. HARRIS.
377 East Fiftieth street.
Prohibition and Intolerance.
SALEM. Or.. Nov. 15. (To the Ed
itor.) The man who abstains from any
form of self-indulgence from motives
of temperance and as a matter of choice
Is to De respected, but the man who ab
stains only because he is compelled to
do so has little opportunity to strength
en his character or develop his will
power, which, according to many of our
teachers, forms the main purpose for
which we are placed on earth.
The man who himself abstains from
conviction but seeks not to compel
others to adopt his views commands
respect even from the most confirmed
drunkard, but the man who tries to
force others in such matters to con
form to his personal views Is, as a rule,
intolerant, narrow minded and tyran
nical. From such men proceeded the
tortures of the Spanish Inquisition and
the burnings of men and women for
witchcraft in our own country.
Is this the type of citizen which pro
hibition tends to create and. if so. is it
tbu type which. In tie best interests of
humanity, lc is desirable to multiply?
These are questions which those who
have recently voted for a "bone dry"
state might well ask themselves.
STUART MORROW.
What Scientist Know.
Scientific American.
Persia's first railway has been
opened to traffic. It runs from Jhulfa,
on the frontier of Russian Transcau
casia, to the ancient Persian city of Ta
briz, a distunce of 93 miles. peed, ap
parently. Is not a specialty. Commer
cial Attache Henry D. Baker, of the
American legation at Petrograd, who
has the dlsrtmf ion of being the first
regular passenger, says that It took 12
hours for the train to travel from one
end to tho other of the line. By car
riage, however, the trip would have
taken three days, he adds.
Sir Robert Hadfield. the noted Eng
lish maker of projectiles, is authority
for the statement that the useful life
of a modern high-velocity gun is about
three seconds. Which Is to say that
the time taken by the shell In travel
ing through the gun, from powder
chamber to muzzle, multiplied by the
total number of rounds that can be
fired before the rifling is so worn as
to Impair the sccuracy, give a total
useful life of only three seconds. Rath
er a short life. let us say, a 12-inch gun
costing from $50,000 to $60,000.
Votlnsr Away From Home.
DOTH AN. Or.. Nov. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) My home address Is In Eugene.
Or., but on election day as an unregis
tered voter I am in Westfork precinct
and appear with two freeholders of
Douglas County, but the Judge of elec
tion refuses to swear my vote In. Was
I allowed to vote for state and district
offices? Eugene and Westfork are in
the same Congressional rHstrlct.
AN ARDENT VOTER.
You were entitled to vote, and the
Judge erred In denying you the right.
Metropolis r the World.
CHEHALIS, Wash.. Nov. 15. (To the
Editor.) Please state which city is the
largest In the world. SALLY.
New York. Its population, according
to the police census of 1915, was 5,006.
484, making the estimated population
of the metropolitan area. Including
suburbs, 7,500,000. London's population
In 1911 was 4,522.964, and with metro
politan and city police districts, 7,252,
963. Jurisdiction Over Soldiers.
EUGENE, Or.. Nov. 15. (To the Ed
itor.) Do the civil authorities have
Jurisdiction over crimes committed by
an eulisted regular of the United
States Army, or Is he turned ovef to
the Army officials for court-martial?
II. D. RODE.NBERGEK.
Civil authorities have Jurisdiction in
the trial of enlisted men accused of
crimes committed elsewhere than on a
military reservation.
Clvtl Service Information.
PORTLAND. Nov. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) Can you give me the address of
some one from whom I. may obtain in
formation concerning Civil Service ex
aminations. W. M. W.
Civil Service Commission. City Hall,
for information pertaining to city posi
tions: M. K. Wlgton. Postofflce build
ing. Portland, for Information on Gov
ernment positions.
Meaning; of "Vod."
6ALEM. Or.. Nov. 15. (To Uie Ed
itor.) What rs the meaning of the
word "von" before some German
names? H. N.
The meaning of "von" is "of."
In Other Days.
Twesir-fUe Years Ago.
From The Oregonlan November 17. 1591.
Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. 16. Con
gressman Jerry Simpson spoke at a
great National meeting of farmers' or
ganisations here today. The organiza
tions are to be merged into a great
farmers' alliance.
Salem. Or. M. Wllkins. one of Ore
gon's World Fair Commissioners, re
ports that officials at Chicago are
elated with the specimens of Oregon
grain that have arrived.
Thomas W. Keene. who must be
ranked among the very first of the
legitimate actors, opened a week n
engagement at the ilarquara Grand
last night in 'Richelieu.'
F. R. Alexander, of Island City, and
Miss Mollie Young, of Oak Point, were
married at the Esmond yesterday.
The work of laying the bituminous
pavement around the Skidmore foun
tain will be begun today.
At Cordray's Theater Inst night Mrs.
George Weber, 412 Fifth street, was
presented with a beautiful watch and
chain in the presence oC a packed
bouse.
Half at Century Ago.
From Tha Oregonlan November IT, 1SS6.
A. H. Sanderson and A- Bemus have
arrived In town with specimens of gold
taken from the Don Juan ledge, Wash
ington district. Warrens diggings. The
assay is upwards of (10,000 a ton.
The citizens of Lewiston and neigh
boring camps met Monday. November 5.
and appointed a committee to solicit
means for establishing a newspaper at
Lewiston. The first day the list was
circulated 11500 was subscribed.
Mrs. Loryea. the milliner, has taken
all the prizes at the fair for bonnets.
Vague rumors are being heard from
London that Maximilian has been of
fered the crown of Holland under cer
tain conditions.
Captain White's company of Oregon
cavalry is now at Fort Vancouver for
muster-out.
WAR ISSUE AOT SO EFFECTIVE
Another Writer Throws Democratio
Campaign Slogan Overboard.
PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) Permit me to say that I enjoyed
reading your editorial. "Four Years
More of Wilson." It was a matter of
gratification that t.o returns were
such that made your caption possible.
It Is to be feared the writer in ques
tion takes too narrow a view of two
points In his article. Adam-like, he is
inclined to blame the enfranchised
Eve of consummating sometning very
disagreeable at least to him.
"He kept ua out of war" was not the
sole idea possessed by the feminine
brains. We know the truth of Dr.
Eliot's statement, tttat more good leg
islation has been enacted In the last
four years than in the previous four
times five yearn. Tho female of the
species recognize the value of these
progressive laws and actually ender
stand them, too!
Bombast and abuse will never get
the Republican party anywhere. With
the "ono idea" women of the West,
you also class the people of the South.
You say they are controlled by "one
Idea. The people of the South have
demonstrated their ability to handle
the negro question and have plenty of
time left for the consideration of vital
questions that affect our republic.
It Is a dangeroos thing when we be
come so partisan as t think t lose who
differ from ti have only one Idea. The
"verdict of tho people"! How much it
means!
Meanwhile this very remarkable ed
itorial from one of our great dailies Is
sneedinsr to the heart of the South for
the edification and amusement of a
number of intelligent, p-yrtotlc liberal
people who happen to live there. VI!1
they see the other fallow's point of
view? A FEMALE OF THE SPECIES.
The vigor and unanimity with whlcli
Democrats deprecate the effect of their
most popular campaign slogan Is one
of the Interesting aftermaths of the
election. Didn't he keep us out of
war?
ELECTORAL COLLEGE AXTIQL'ATF.I)
Writer Thinks Presidential Election
System Oilly and at Times Unjust.
PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Ed
itor.) Regarding the electoral college
and Presidential electors, will you
please explain to me any supposed ad
vantages of the system, fjr electing a
President?
To save my life I cannot see any ad
vantages. It appears to me to be an
antiquated, round-about and silly sys
tem, affording many more opportuni-tk-3
for juggling and at the sunie nine
capable of great injustice.
A Presidential election is the one
election in which all citizens of the
country vote for the same candidate
and In a republic the majority is sup
posed to and should rule.
If the majority of the people of the
country vote for a certain man ha
should be President, and yet with this
silly "electoral college" system it can
happen and has actually happened that
the candidate receiving the smaller
number of votes has been elected.
Cleveland received more votes than
Harrison in lfiSS and yet Harrison was
elected.
Could It be possible to Imagine any
thing more foolish than to retain a
system that can produce a result exact
ly contrary to the expressed desire of
the majority?
With so many BO-called reformers
and progressives in sight, why Is It
that none consider this Important
enough to demand their attention?
JUSTICE.
HORSEPOWER IS OT HEST BAMS
Wright and Tonnase Capacity Should
Oovern Auto Llcesses.
PORTLAND, Nov. 16. (To the Ed
itor.) As a possible solution in the
tax limitation law it is suggested to
Increase the automobile license lu
based on the horsepower of the auto
mobile. Why consider the horcepov. er
as a basis for taxation? Why not
rather base the tax upon the tonnase?
A llrht machine in common use has a
motor of 23 horsepower and weighs les
than a ton. This same motor may be
geared on a truck capable of tarrylns
several tons.
Trucks of heavy tonnage are becom
ing more common on our highways. On
the Linnton road there is a stream of
heavy oil tank trucks that foliov.- ea ')i
other at intervals of about one-half
hour. On the Columbia Highway dur
ing the week days a large amount of
the traffic is of heavy trucks, and thfc
same is true of our other roads. A
license could be based on tonnage rat
ing of pleasure cars and tonnage ca
pacity of trucks governed by their rc
epecllve speed limitations. This appeals
to me as a fair means of distributing
the cost of wear and tear on our pub
lic highways among vsors of motor
driven vehicles. VERNON MACK.
By Weight.
PORTLAND. Nov. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) In the manufacture of explosives
are proportions measured by volume
or weight? For example. In the for
mula for black powder, which Ls com
posed of 75 parts nitre, 15 parts char
coal. 10 parts sulphur, woulii this mean
75 parts of nitre or 7i pounds of nitre?
SUBSCfcltfER.